WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.360 Kat r H garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:11.320 advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Skiff Richter. 3 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:28.039 It's crazy gas trip. Just watch him as so many good things to 4 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:38.039 sept Bazy, Well, good morning. We are glad you are listening to 5 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:42.840 garden Line this morning. We always are. This show is about what are 6 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.079 you interested in? What are your questions You're struggling with trying to get seeds 7 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:51.719 to come up, or maybe a plant outside turning yellow leaves falling up. 8 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.200 What what kind of questions do you have? Let's talk about those today our 9 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.960 phone number. You know, it's easy, It's really easy. 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We're also available, by the way, 20 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.760 We're also available if you are interested in listening live from your computer. That's 21 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:46.840 another option as well. Well, let's head out. We're going to start 22 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.400 right off at the phones. Today we're going to go out to sugar Land 23 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.480 and talk to Patty. Hello, Patty, good morning, Skip. How 24 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:56.519 are you. I'm doing well? Thank you? What can we do today? 25 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.040 Okay, my lemon tree, I've had it about a year. It's 26 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:06.519 about three feet tall. It was green and doing really good, and it 27 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:13.400 seemed like after the rain, I started noticing yellow leaves and I mean it 28 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.840 looks like it has good drainage. We got it up on some you know 29 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:21.199 rocks, I mean, you know, to keep it off the ground. 30 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:25.719 So it was out in the weather with the rain. So I'm thinking something 31 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.919 happened. I don't know what. Well, it probably water issues with a 32 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:35.719 lot of different kinds of plants can cause the yellowing and drop of the leaves, 33 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:39.199 typically after it gets moisture. I don't know. Most people have had 34 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:44.400 Apothus ivy indoors at some point in their life. If you let those get 35 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.240 dry and then you water them, suddenly the plant perks up, but the 36 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:51.360 old leaves turn yellow, I want to fall off. So I think that's 37 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:53.479 probably related to the water. It could have been too wet, could have 38 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:59.000 been too dry, poorly drained. I don't know the exact situation where that 39 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:05.280 plant is growing, but I think it's a water related Yeah, it seemed 40 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.199 that way because my high biscus, all the leaves are the tips of them 41 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:14.000 are all black, and it was all green until the rain, and so 42 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:17.560 it's kind of we're hoping we'll just dry it out and it'll be okay. 43 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:21.520 Yeah, yeah, the hibiscus sounds like some sort of a city mold has 44 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.840 grown on those. I don't you know. Just check it over real good. 45 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.360 Make sure you don't have a whole lot of aphids or scale or some 46 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:31.879 other sort of insect that's affecting. Okay, all right, okay, all 47 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:37.560 right, thank you you you as well, Patty, thank you very much. 48 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.280 If you are looking for a tree, and you should be looking for 49 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.319 a tree, this is the season to plant trees and shrubs and woody vines, 50 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.240 a lot of other things too, but it gives them the biggest head 51 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.960 start. And Verdant Tree Farm can help you do just that. They have 52 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.960 a wide variety of trees, a huge, huge farm, lots of different 53 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:00.520 species, so you can pick the one that suits you best. Can visit 54 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.039 with them too, kind of get a consultation, maybe take some pictures of 55 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:05.919 your property in just to show, hey, what do you think would do 56 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.680 well right here? And they can help you. The website's Verdant Treefarm dot 57 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.120 com. They have locations all over the place. There's one in Paarland on 58 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:19.560 Broadway Street in West Houston. Out on Barker, Cyprus. There's also a 59 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:28.240 Verdant Tree Farm in the Heights where Yale comes into it in. One of 60 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.839 the things I like about the Verdant is you go there and you walk through 61 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.319 and pick the tree you want. They'll tag it and they'll bring it to 62 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:38.240 your house and it's a turnkey deal. They'll plant it for you. And 63 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:42.639 they do offer a one year warranty on the trees that they plant. For 64 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.600 sure, you can understand why they wouldn't want to warranty the trees. Maybe 65 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.839 you or I plant, but anyway, that's a good deal too. It's 66 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:53.000 kind of a little bit of a good guarantee that things are going to go 67 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:57.360 well. Planning it right's important, and Verdant Tree Farm knows exactly how to 68 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.279 do that. Whether whether you want a palm tree or citrus tree or whatever 69 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:05.319 burden is. It's easy, easy place, easy place to find what you're 70 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:12.720 looking for and to have a good turnkey job. I was putting up Christmas 71 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:17.480 lights the other day. Well actually I and my wife put a garland up 72 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:21.360 over the fireplace and some you know, had some lighting in that and lighted 73 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.879 light, a wreath that's been let and some other things. And every year, 74 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.199 you know, I go in and I'm tangling around trying to get lights 75 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:31.759 at work or fine lights and things like that. If you've ever been in 76 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.600 that situation, I want to suggest that you consider Ace Hardware stores and a 77 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:41.879 little feature that they have. They have before they have Christmas lights and boxes 78 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.639 of all sizes and colors and everything, but they also have something called custom 79 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:47.720 lights by the foot and you just have to go in there and talk to 80 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:53.240 them about how that works. But what I need to get now is one 81 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.240 that goes across the eaves of the house. We put some lights up there 82 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.000 and that way because I always find myself, you know, trying to I 83 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.560 can't. I don't have a light the right necessarily the right length or size 84 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.839 to cover what I'm looking for. You do the lights by the foot and 85 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.519 you got what you need. It's real easy. Now. They have all 86 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:14.560 the other things, garland, wreaths, anything you want to decorate for Christmas. 87 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.879 You could say that ACE is a place now also for Christmas lighting and 88 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.560 decoration needs. And of course while you're in there you want to grab some 89 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.759 things for your lawn and your garden. They've got every kind of supply you 90 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:30.519 would need, from fertilizers to insect disease, weed management issues, all that 91 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:33.480 kind of stuff is covered there at ACE Harbor. And by the way, 92 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.800 they're all over forty of them now in the greater Houston area. Just go 93 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:43.720 to Acehardware dot com and do the store locator find your location. There's a 94 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.360 lot of ways that you can get into an ACE without having to drive very 95 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:51.160 far. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 96 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:57.120 and we're here on a Sunday morning to talk about the things that would be 97 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.600 of interest to you and me as well. I'm going to do a little 98 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.160 bit of that. I always like to offer a few little things maybe you 99 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:09.079 hadn't thought about, or that you might find interesting. The cool season flowers 100 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:15.279 are still just growing really, really well. We've got such mild temperatures that 101 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.800 everything is doing well right now. It's easy, easy to grow this time 102 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:23.720 of year compared to what we just came through. And I think people don't 103 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:28.759 try enough of the cool season color in their beds. It really brights the 104 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.279 landscape up. You know, winter can get a little bit bleak, trees 105 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.399 have lost their leaves, and I don't know if there's just a different look. 106 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:41.480 The lighting is even a little different. If you bright brighten those areas 107 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.839 up with annual color, that is a fast and easy way to do it. 108 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.920 Everybody knows about pansies. Those are nice in a container or maybe viewed 109 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.439 up close, we can see all the different colors. Then they are the 110 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:57.759 violas, which gives you some really unique color ranges. I actually like the 111 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.160 viola a little more than the pansy. And here's why. Pansies have bigger 112 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.279 blooms, but when you get a rain on them, they don't tend to 113 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.319 hold up as well as Viola's do. That's that's one thing. And Viola's 114 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:13.839 I can pick some solid faced blooms, solid color face blooms. So if 115 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.480 I wanted to mix and say, use a light blue with a yellow, 116 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:22.879 or you know whatever combination maroon with a white, there's one whatever combination you 117 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.800 want, you you you have more colored options to be able to do that. 118 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.720 I'll talk a little bit more about cool season color when we come back. 119 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.879 In the meantime. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 120 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.440 five eight seven four. Welcome back to garden Line. Give us a call 121 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.360 if you got a question. That's what we're here to talk about. Seven 122 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:46.279 one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two 123 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.679 kt r H. That's another way you can dial it. I was talking 124 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.360 about cool season color, and uh I mentioned pansies and violas. Of course, 125 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.399 those are like one of the most common famous I guess, if you 126 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.919 want to put it that way, plants for the cool season in a wide 127 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:07.120 swasp of America because they're so cold, hardy. Other good plants, though, 128 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.759 Dusty Miller is a silver foliaged plant that really sets off especially colors like 129 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.879 blue, and it really works well with that, And that's an option there 130 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.919 are. There's something called stock. Most people have not grown or heard of 131 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:26.360 stock before, but stock has a faint fragrance. Would it be a baby 132 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.360 powder. It's a real faint kind of fragrance like that that I think is 133 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:35.240 kind of nice. Stock does quite well in moderately cold weather. You know, 134 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.360 we go down to the teens and it's kind of a little bit of 135 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.679 trouble probably. Let's see. Another example would be snapdragons. Boy, they 136 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:43.919 come in so many colors and types. I mean, you talk about the 137 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:50.840 rainbow snapdragons have got it. You can buy short bedding plant size snapdragons. 138 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.159 You can buy very tall cuckflower type snapdragons. That works well. I like 139 00:09:54.200 --> 00:10:00.799 a listen. It's a white blooming plant that looks I describe it like a 140 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.440 lava flow. Is it a vine, No, it's not a vine. 141 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.799 Is it a bush? No, of course not. But it spreads out 142 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.519 slowly, kind of like a lava flow, you know, and it goes 143 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:13.399 It'll go right over a container and it's just a solid wall of white flowers. 144 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:18.000 There's a pink version, kind of a lavendery version out there. White 145 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:22.759 is the most common color, and it works so well in a container, 146 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.000 and that's that is just a must to have something trailing over the sides, 147 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:31.639 like a really beautiful, beautiful cool season container. But I do like a 148 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.000 list of a lot, so it's another one that attracts or it provides nourishment 149 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:41.759 for beneficial insects like little parasitoid wasps and others. So those blooms are serving 150 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:45.480 more than one purpose. And its fragrance is a little bit like honey. 151 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.080 I think, I know you need quite a bit of it around. I 152 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.679 mean, it's not one of those things that just fills the air and knocks 153 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.840 you down with fragrance, but it does have a nice, nice, pleasant 154 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:58.519 fragrance. Other things, you know, when we get into the cool season, 155 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:05.600 we have our ornamental cabbage and kale. Those are both really foundational because 156 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.080 it almost doesn't matter how cold it gets. There about as cold heart as 157 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.960 you can get. And they do really well. If you have ornamental kale, 158 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.240 especially the kale, I like to let it stay in the spring for 159 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:20.399 a while and send up its tall bloomstalks. You know, with little air, 160 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:24.799 a little small yellow blooms all over the place, hanging in the air. 161 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.879 It's a really beautiful, beautiful little feature of the plant. And those 162 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:31.360 are some examples of cool seasoned color plants that we have. There are other 163 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:37.080 plants out there. Cycloman is one being used a lot as an indoor decorating 164 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.000 plant now during the holidays. But you want to keep it out in bright 165 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.519 light, not full sun, just bright light, maybe a little morning sun. 166 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:52.039 It does exceptionally well in that way. I think Cyclomans are beautiful red 167 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.360 and pink and the white blooms that they have, So just take care of 168 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.519 make sure they don't dry out. But on the other hand, don't stay 169 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:05.919 soggy. They're not very big fun fans of that wet feet. Very few 170 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.759 plants are. Those are some examples of cool season color. Go to your 171 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:13.240 you know, mom and pop garden center and ask them about what they have, 172 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:16.639 because they're going to have a bunch of things that I ain't gotten to 173 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.919 on the on the air here today. But make your outdoors bright. You 174 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:24.960 can do it. You can line beds with these. Just to remember this 175 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:31.960 when you're dealing with a dark area such as maybe you've got a some shade 176 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.320 or just the lower lower winter light levels that we sometimes are experiencing just because 177 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.159 the sun's traveling lower. But anyway, if you put white in a in 178 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.720 a white in a dark area, it brightens it up. So some white 179 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.000 flowers along a bed in front of shrubs where it's just not a whole lot 180 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.399 of light there, it brightens it up. Aztec grass, this is not 181 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.399 a holiday plant, I mean a cool season plant. But aztec grass has 182 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:03.159 its white striped foliage and you can put it down a pathway and it's just 183 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.559 like runway lights. It just takes the eye right down that pathway. Really 184 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.559 cool. So don't forget don't forget white, especially in areas that are a 185 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:13.879 little darker that you can use, but why not brighten it up. Another 186 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:18.840 thing to the eye just thinks of must is some cool seasoned containers, beautiful 187 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.960 containers. I talked about a list of spilling over the side of a container. 188 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.080 We can also if we can protect it a little bit, we can 189 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:31.039 grow the ornamental charts and they make a nice upright plant in the middle of 190 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:35.639 a container as well, the one that they call rhubarb. It's red veins 191 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.200 and red petiols. And then there's the bright lights that just has a range 192 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:46.799 of different very subtle light colors of blooms, not real bold in the color, 193 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:50.960 but still beautiful. Nonetheless, there are other foliage plants I mentioned Dusty 194 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:56.200 Miller that does well. But just create. Create some containers where you can 195 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.480 just decorate and if they don't look good, just roll them around to another 196 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.559 location, do what you need to do to them while they're recovering, put 197 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.279 something else in their place. It makes it easy to keep those what can 198 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.919 be sometimes a dreary winter day bright. Anyway, just some things to think 199 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.919 about. You know, the Star of Hope. You've heard me talk about 200 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:24.759 them before, and I just so believe in what they do that I cannot 201 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:31.399 think of a better way to provide funds that are helping somebody in a way 202 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.440 that changes their life and their children's life long, long term. And Star 203 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.799 of Hope is all about that. With your support, we're talking about hundreds 204 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:43.960 and hundreds of Houston homeless people will call Star of Hope home for this Christmas. 205 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:48.679 In addition to they have the long term recovery programs that helps with employment, 206 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.639 education and life skills. For example, they serve more than five thousand 207 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.320 meals a week, so for two dollars and eighty cents you can provide a 208 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:01.279 meal, and I cannot think of a better way to provide your money. 209 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.480 To put your compassion to work, because I know that you want to help 210 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.720 people and sometimes you wonder, well is this a good cause or not. 211 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.039 I'll tell you this Star of Hope is an absolute good cause, no moment 212 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:16.919 of hesitation on that. I've seen the work they do. I've I've talked 213 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:22.039 to them in depth about the different projects and things. It is is a 214 00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:28.519 great place. Shmission dot org. Shmission dot org. You should give You 215 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.000 should really give them a call and see you can volunteer there. But you 216 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:35.039 also just provide them funds to help them do what they do, and boy 217 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:39.679 did they ever do a lot. You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, 218 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.080 skip Rickter. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty 219 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:50.159 eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I 220 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.600 knowe Buchanans had their big shin dig yesterday, the holiday open house. I 221 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:56.720 hope you all had a good time. I was by there the day before 222 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:03.000 just watching all the prep going on getting ready for that. But Buchanans is, 223 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:06.399 as you know, those of you who went to this shindig yesterday. 224 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.120 It is just absolute. By the way they call it holiday open house. 225 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:15.240 I just like the words INDI. But they are loaded up with great Christmas 226 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.879 trees, beautiful trees, absolutely beautiful beautiful. If you want color, you 227 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.799 know point sett as I mentioned cyclo in a minute ago. If you want 228 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.000 decorations, you know, something from their gift shop. Oh my gosh, 229 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.759 that is you just need to walk in and just see what I'm talking about. 230 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:33.039 All kinds of good things there at the gift shop at Buchanans. You 231 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:37.720 know, they're located on Eleventh Street in the Heights and their website Buchanansplants dot 232 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.799 com. When you go to their website, you need to check out some 233 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:47.279 of the things that they offer. They have a text club where they will 234 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:52.480 provide information of things coming up and going on. You can sign up to 235 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:57.480 be a Buchanan's VIP Insider, but at least make sure and get that newsletter 236 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:02.399 and check it out because it's very very educational and you'll always know what's going 237 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:07.039 on if you can. It's plants. We are talking about different kinds of 238 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:14.000 things related to gardening this morning, and I was out the other day. 239 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:21.920 I have two golden retrievers, and they have discovered squirrels and birds they have 240 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:29.079 and their happy place is sitting at the window basically trembling, waiting to go 241 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:32.920 out and chase that squirrel that just taunts them running across the fence. But 242 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:36.079 anyway, we were out there, I was taking care of some of the 243 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:38.519 bird feeders that I have, and my favorite feeder, by the way of 244 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:42.160 all is wild Birds Unlimited. It's a squirrel proof feeder. Just to ask 245 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:48.160 them about their squirrel excluding feeder, and it works really really well. Of 246 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.759 course I have several different projects or products like that, but taking care of 247 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.400 the birds getting them fed, and I always when I'm doing that, I 248 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.440 always think about the fact that when someone sells you a bag of bird seed 249 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:04.519 that's full of red bebes, that's just some generic thing that most of which 250 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.599 is probably going to go on the ground. The birds are not going to 251 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:11.480 eat it. And it's just true. When you buy wild bird seed, 252 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.599 you get seed the birds eat. They even have special blends for different groups 253 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.960 of birds maybe or different times of the year, like suet when we're entering 254 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.559 the cool season now, so it's easy to find what you need there and 255 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:26.319 I can tell you this. Every time I go in. It's like a 256 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.759 kid in a candy store. There is so many wonderful things like feeders and 257 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:36.640 houses and just on and on. Just go in ask them your questions. 258 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:41.160 They are excellent, excellent at helping you find a way to have success. 259 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:45.319 And the beauty and the enjoyment of birds in the backyard. I know I 260 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:49.160 enjoy I enjoy ours a lot. We have a mocking bird. We used 261 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:53.799 to have one when we lived in Conroe, that was Conroe Willis area. 262 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:59.200 It was like the mocking bird was on crack at about six in the morning, 263 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.839 before there was a day light anywhere. This bird would sing. In 264 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:07.160 fact, the one when we lived up there would even in the night start 265 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.680 singing. And I don't know what was wrong with that bird, but boy, 266 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:12.720 he serenaded us, whether we liked it or not, day and night. 267 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.039 We had one at the house. The other day in the morning, 268 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.759 is still dark outside and he's just singing like crazy. So someone's got to 269 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.519 explain that one to me. But anyway, I guess he wants to be 270 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:29.079 earlier than the early bird to get the worm. 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Glad you're with us today and we hope you will give 280 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.200 us a call. Let's talk about the things that interest you at seven one 281 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:25.400 three two one two five eight seven four. The folks at Microlife Fertilizers have 282 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:29.880 created such a great blend of I mean a blend, such a great mix 283 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:34.359 of different product options from drig granular materials to liquid materials. Just an example 284 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:40.759 of that is there. I call it Blue plus Blue. It's the fertilizer, 285 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:45.319 the dry fertilizer that is is a very excellent product for use in any 286 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.119 kind of situation. But now that we're in planting season. It's one that 287 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:53.079 you can utilize with your transplanting. It's called Microlife Ultimate eight four six, 288 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.880 and again that's the blue bag. They also have Microlife Ocean Harvest, the 289 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:03.559 Blue bottle. That is a fish based fertilizer stuff that you can apply as 290 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.720 a folier feed if you'd like to do that. You can apply it as 291 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:10.920 a drench to the roots. But when you're doing planting, consider this Microlife 292 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:15.279 Ultimate eight four six. And the reason I mentioned that is you're not going 293 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.680 to burn the roots with it. It's not salt based and it is going 294 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:22.079 to naturally decompose. You do not have to put it right around the roof. 295 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:26.279 Just mix it in with the soil and the bed you're making and then 296 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.480 dig the home plant. It's really easy to do and plants will respond to 297 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.759 that kind of nutrition and being organic, it's going to be released as microbial 298 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:38.759 activity works on the particles and turns them into the wonderful nutrients that that plant 299 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:45.519 is wanting to grow. You can find Microlife information at Microlife Fertilizer dot com. 300 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.960 I'll tell you where you can find it, and also more about these 301 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.880 products I'm talking about We're going to go now to friends would and talk to 302 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.240 Charle. Hello, Charle, Hey, good morning. We've got a couple 303 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:00.799 of acres that used to be a citrus orchard until the last two winners, 304 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:06.799 and so now we have just empty space and I'm thinking about turning it into 305 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:11.559 grass or a filler, such as the hay that you see with the large 306 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:17.240 bales of hay or I just read in the paper yesterday about a new grass 307 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:22.759 that's called Southeast Texas Native Seed Mix that's supposed to be able to go with 308 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:26.279 the drought or the flooding. Yes, well, someone called about that and 309 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:30.880 I'm not familiar with it, but I'm trying to look into it. Okay, 310 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.440 Okay, you said it was Southeast Texas Native right, uh huh, 311 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.400 Okay, that's what it says, Southeast Texas Native Seed Mix. Okay, 312 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:42.799 Okay. So when you're saying bales, you said, this is just like 313 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:45.920 two or three acres, I believe uh huh huh. It's going to be 314 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.839 a little small to do hay bailing on for someone to come in with the 315 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:56.079 equipment and all that. It's not worth it on that size. What kind 316 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:57.640 of seed do they put for that kind of hay. Well, that's a 317 00:22:57.640 --> 00:23:03.440 bermuda grass. Often it can be there are many other grasses that can be 318 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:08.160 even planted and bailed for hey, around here, bermuda is a really common 319 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:14.240 one. So okay, So do you have a way to mow this? 320 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:18.240 Probably we do. Okay, Well, if you if you're able to mow 321 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:21.720 it, you can do a bermuda field. But I don't know if that's 322 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.680 really what you are looking for. When I'm kind of trying to picture this 323 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:29.400 situation, maybe some of the native grasses would be a better way for you 324 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:33.000 to go. And there's there's a number of companies that will sell native grass 325 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.759 seed for various regions, and you may want to try establishing that. Then 326 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.079 it's more of a natural prairie look. It just kind of depends on the 327 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:44.960 aesthetics and if there are any rules in the neighborhood is to what you mean? 328 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.319 Right, No, not here. What I'd like is to make it 329 00:23:48.359 --> 00:23:52.759 a native looking it used to have natives in there also, So just do 330 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.640 you have a name of a grass, well a name of a company, 331 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.000 because you're going to want to blend, Yeah, you want to blend native 332 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:06.240 American seed. Native American seed is in Junction, Texas, Okay, other 333 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:08.920 side of San Antonio, and just go online. They have a catalog and 334 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.400 you can talk to them and say, hey, I live in this region, 335 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.519 what would you recommend and talking about any pros and cons and stuff. 336 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:19.319 Okay, Charlee, And as far as as far as the Southeast Texas native 337 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:22.359 seed mix, that may very well be a good one. I just I 338 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.759 just don't know, So I'm not going to comm out until I feel better 339 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:29.400 about what I learned about it. Okay. Yeah, I just saw it 340 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:32.119 yesterday and I thought, oh, maybe this is something we could do. 341 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:37.759 All right, all right, thank you, thank you you too. You're 342 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.880 listening to garden Line and our phone number is seven one three two one two 343 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:47.559 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 344 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.079 If your landscape has really suffered through this year and you just really need some 345 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.240 renovation done, or maybe you're just looking at your landscape going, you know 346 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.240 what I'd like to I like to spruce things up a bit around here. 347 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:06.000 I like a different look. The folks at Pierce Pierce Scapes, they absolutely 348 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:11.880 have the ability, the training, the certifications, everything from designing to installations 349 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:17.279 to I mean what do you need. Do you need an area that drains 350 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:21.960 poorly drained better? Do you need landscape lighting? Do you want some hardescape 351 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.160 and a patio type thing or a walkway for example. They can do all 352 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:29.599 of that. They can make sure your irrigation system is working properly, and 353 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.960 that's important, very important. Whatever you need, I mean, they do 354 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:37.559 it all. It's really amazing and the kind of work they do is also 355 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.960 amazing. If you want to see it, just go to piercescapes dot com 356 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:47.759 piercescapes dot com or call them two eight one three seven oh five zero six 357 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.880 zero. Easy to get a hold of them and take some pictures of the 358 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.440 place, your place, you know, some different angles and things. Make 359 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:57.640 sure you know it's framed well so they can kind of get an idea what 360 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:02.440 it looks like, and they can make suggestions as to what you may want 361 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:04.319 to do. Maybe it's a simple addition of some beds, maybe it's a 362 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:10.119 total backyard makeover. Priscapes can handle it. They can do it. I 363 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:14.480 was talking about cool seasoned color a little bit earlier and the importance of containers. 364 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:18.839 Remember with containers in the winter time, we don't have the water as 365 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.160 much because it's not so hot, the demands are down, but we do 366 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:27.400 have to water. But when you make a container larger number one, you're 367 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:30.880 able to put more plants in it. So you can create that combo container 368 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:37.119 that is so so attractive if you make it a little bit larger like that. 369 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:40.279 Also, when you need to move them in, you can just slip 370 00:26:40.319 --> 00:26:44.160 a dolly under the lip of the pot, put a strap around the pot 371 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:47.079 tied to the dolly on each side, so when you tilt back, the 372 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:51.440 pot stays with you. And it's very easy to transport things like that. 373 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:53.599 So maybe I have citrus in a container. Maybe it is a color container 374 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:57.559 of some flowers I mentioned charred earlier. It's going to get down in the 375 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:03.680 low twenties charts and truck so you can you can easily just take it into 376 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.559 the garage. I think that's a great way to go, and it allows 377 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:11.880 you to have versatile beauty and the cool season we need that those days can 378 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:17.079 get a little bit dreary. Remember that. One little last thought is when 379 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.480 you have these houseplants that want to be outside, like rosemary, and it's 380 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:25.079 a little Christmas tree inside, now just remember to put it out as often 381 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:29.640 as you can, as much as you can because it needs the sunlight to 382 00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:33.079 stay healthy and strong. We're going to take a break. Our phone number 383 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:41.119 is seven one three two one two KTRH. Well, good morning on a 384 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.079 good Sunday morning. You're listening to garden Line and we're here to answer gardening 385 00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:48.359 questions. So if you'd like to give us a call, our number is 386 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.279 seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one 387 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:59.200 two fifty eight seventy four Quality Feed. But they're located in kind of a 388 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:03.519 north central part of downtown Houston. That's a lot of directions. They're on 389 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:10.480 Luzon Street eighteen thirteen Louson that's near the intersection of Equipment and Alesion. They're 390 00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:14.599 open Monday through Friday nine to six, Saturday nine to four, and today 391 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:18.759 from eleven thirty to four pm. Qualityfeedco dot com is the website and you 392 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:23.599 want to check them out. I think that it's one of the great old 393 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:30.200 time feed stores been around along as it's like nineteen twenty eight and Ken and 394 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.440 Chris they've been I think over thirty years now. They've been actually running the 395 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.519 place. I used to go to it when it's in the other location, 396 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:40.680 and now that it's on Luzon Street, it's still just as cool as it 397 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:45.200 ever was. They have really created a place where anything you need for your 398 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:49.279 lawn and garden, they got the supplies for it there, like fertilizers, 399 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:55.839 insecticides, fungicides, pesticides, things like that great old time seed rack back 400 00:28:55.880 --> 00:29:00.319 from the day's early days of the store nineteen twenty eight, heirloom seeds stocked 401 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.559 in it. So that's kind of cool. Do you need backyard chickens? 402 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:08.319 Do you need things to feed your backyard chickens or watering or other equipment? 403 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.519 Kind of they've got it all and they get chickens in all the time. 404 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.200 So anyone thinking about doing that, quality feed is a place you need to 405 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:21.160 go. They really have everything that you need quality feed. You know. 406 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:25.559 I love old time feed stores and it's just I don't know, there's just 407 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:30.640 something about it that's just kind of cool. And when you when you walk 408 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.079 into a place like that, it's almost like you want the floor to creek 409 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.400 or you want there to be I just every time I go into an old 410 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:41.680 time feed store, you know, it's just it's I love the setting. 411 00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:45.480 It's a lot of fun, A lot of fun to check out. You're 412 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.400 listening to Guardenline and we're here to answer your question. So if you like 413 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.839 to give us a call it seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 414 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.240 four. We'll be glad to visit with you about that. I want to 415 00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:03.400 remind those of you that the Oba yule Ball is that's a fundraiser that's coming 416 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:06.559 up soon and if you want to go, you gotta get tickets ahead of 417 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.480 time. You get your tickets at OBA online dot org slash register. That's 418 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:15.680 OHBA online dot org slash register. It'll be Thursday, by the way, 419 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:21.559 this Thursday, December seventh, from five thirty to nine thirty pm. There'll 420 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:23.960 be a lot going on. They're going to have a magician and a fortune 421 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.640 telling and a little string group called the v C Strings. There'll be cocktails, 422 00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:33.839 a delicious dinner, and they'll do their slident auction. Because this is 423 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:40.400 a fundraiser. OBA presents the Old the Mule the Lone Star yule Ball. 424 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:45.200 Why is that our Lone Star Yu'll Ball fundraiser? And so the to cap 425 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.720 off the day or the evening, Shake Russell, legendary Texas singer songwriter is 426 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:53.279 going to perform and you don't want to mess that. That is excellent again 427 00:30:53.359 --> 00:31:02.480 OBA online dot org slash register if you would like to sign up discussing the 428 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:07.920 colors and containers and you know the winter, what does best and and what 429 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.319 are some options that we have. I just I just am trying to inspire 430 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.720 you a little bit. Something I was thinking about. Another option is, 431 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:21.039 you know, Vego makes some small rolling containers that you could plant a like 432 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:25.000 a citrus tree or something else that may be a little coal tender and and 433 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.839 then just move it in, wroll it right in into the garage or wherever 434 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:34.720 you have that's protected. So that's that's another way to do our containers. 435 00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:40.680 As a county agerlife Extension agent, I get a lot of phone calls about 436 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:42.680 whatever is happening at that time of year. People, you know, they 437 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:47.359 call in and they want to know, you know, why is this dying 438 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:49.359 or what's going on? It's the lawn and I have to think about what 439 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:53.000 time of year it is. And that's why I made the chart that I 440 00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:57.839 have, the lawn care chart. It's my lawn care guide that talks about 441 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:04.160 fertilizing all the options, tells you exactly when. Also I have a pest 442 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:08.000 disease and weed management for the same reason. And for example, you wouldn't 443 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:13.240 need to treat for chinchbugs now. They're not going to be a chinchbug problem 444 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.720 in the weather we're having right now, but there's times a year when we 445 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.920 do. And that's on that chart and it's free. It's going online to 446 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:24.559 my website. It's gardening with Skip dot com and you can find them there 447 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:30.039 along with other updated information. I hope that you will check that out because 448 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:35.200 we put it together hoping that it just makes it easier for you. You 449 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.039 know. I know not everybody listens to garden Line every hour of every show, 450 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:42.920 and you can miss things, but when you print those out, you've 451 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:45.599 got your answer right there in front of you. Makes it makes it really 452 00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:51.359 really easy. You are listening to Guardline, I'm your host, Skip Richter, 453 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:52.920 and if you want to call in, our phone number is seven one 454 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:59.079 three two one two five eight seven four. We're coming out pretty quick here 455 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:01.319 on a another break for the news. At the top of the hour, 456 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:12.759 I did some water dry Anyway, what I want to have you thinking about 457 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.480 because in two hours from now, in the eight o'clock hour, we're going 458 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:23.880 to have someone from the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Foundation of America PTSD Foundation of 459 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:27.720 America, and I want you to just be thinking about what do you know 460 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:31.440 about PTSD. Just kind of ponder that a little bit. And when you 461 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:37.680 hear about what the Camp Hope program the PTSD Foundation of America has done and 462 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.960 accomplished, it is absolutely amazing. And so we're going to take the eight 463 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.160 to nine hour and talk about that. If you'd like to give us a 464 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:51.559 call about anything related to that that you want to ask a question, then 465 00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:57.440 just please dive right in, because we were here to kind of shed some 466 00:33:57.599 --> 00:34:01.799 light on something that I think is extremely extremely important. And when you see 467 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:08.039 programs that are doing a great job of helping people, that is inspiring and 468 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:10.960 it makes you just want to be part of it, that's for sure. 469 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.679 The RCW nurseries are there still going. I was looking at some of the 470 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:22.840 social media stuff the other day that is pretty hilarious. At RCW Nursery dot 471 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.000 com. That's the website you can find out more about them, but it's 472 00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:30.280 the nursery at Tombo Parkway in about a eight They are open Monday through Saturday 473 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.320 eight to five and Sunday ten to five and they have a selection of all 474 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:37.239 kinds of plants. But when I think of RCW, I think about the 475 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:42.039 fact that they grow their own trees up in Plannersville, and they have a 476 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.559 great selection of trees and again, cool season, gotta plant those woodies. 477 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.639 They have one of the biggest selections of roses you ever find. I mean, 478 00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.480 it's amazingly long list. But anything you need is going to be there, 479 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.800 and if they don't have it, they'll find a way to get it 480 00:34:54.880 --> 00:35:00.559 for you, and that is really important. Knowledgeable staff, friendly folks at 481 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:09.280 RCW Nurseries RCW nurseries dot com. We we're about to take a break here 482 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:14.599 to make way for the news. If you'd like to give me a call 483 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:19.280 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four when we come back, 484 00:35:19.360 --> 00:36:23.760 Kyle, you're gonna be the first one up. Katie r H. Garden 485 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:30.559 Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. 486 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:39.960 Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor It's crazy you 487 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:50.960 watch Trip just watch him as well. Welcome to garden Line. Thanks, 488 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:54.440 We're glad you're with us this morning talking about the things that interest you. 489 00:36:54.519 --> 00:37:00.000 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 490 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:04.599 Now when the weather gets cooler, varmints like to move into our house. 491 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:08.599 We used to live in a house in another city. We had squirrels and 492 00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:12.280 rats both that got up in the roof. It's like, how do they 493 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.159 get up there? Well, they got they got up there and they're doing 494 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:20.599 significant damage. McGrath Pest Control can handle that. It doesn't have to have 495 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.920 six legs. Mike can handle things with four legs or Scott excuse me, 496 00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:29.639 Scott can handle things with four legs very very well. Also, you can 497 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:34.880 go to the website metgrafpestcontrol dot com or just call Scott two eight one four 498 00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:38.719 six' nine eighty two forty. What do you need? If it's termites, 499 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:44.480 if it's mosquitoes outside, if it's cockroaches in the house, whatever it 500 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:47.599 is, that's what McGrath pest controls about, and you're going to appreciate the 501 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:52.920 service. They schedule a time and they show up on that time. That's 502 00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:58.079 why they're so highly related rated excuse me on the different review sites. With 503 00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:01.960 McGrath, it's kind of a modern technologlogy and technique with old fashioned customer service, 504 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:07.000 and that is what we're looking for in any kind of a service industry. 505 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.199 Right, you want people to show up, you want them to do 506 00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:12.599 it right, you want a fair price, you want them to know what 507 00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.559 they're doing. Well. I just describe McGrath pest Control. It's one of 508 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:21.639 the reasons they were a curator's pick for the best pest control companies in Houston. 509 00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:24.719 Congratulations Mike on that. By the way, I'm going to head out 510 00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:30.079 now to Kyle in Port and hus Hey, Kyle, Hi, good morning. 511 00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:35.599 How are you doing. I'm well, thank you terrific. I'm calling 512 00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:39.000 the phone behalf of my mother. She has a very large old oak tree 513 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:44.920 approximately twenty feet away from her house, right in front of her front door. 514 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:51.480 We need to put a sidewalk in. We need to make well me 515 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:57.639 back up. The roots of the tree are growing near the surface and have 516 00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:04.559 spread and in so much that we can't put a sidewalk in for guts, 517 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:08.239 and we're concerned that our foundation might get cracked, okay eventually, So how 518 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:15.360 do we cut the roots back without killing this beautiful tree? You know? 519 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:17.920 And when the stakes are that high, Kyle, I'd bring someone in to 520 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:22.320 do it because they can assess it. There's a lot of factors. Roots 521 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:27.400 go out in all directions, but not always the same amount of the root 522 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.719 zone is in any is in all the different directions. In other words, 523 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:36.320 roots could be growing primarily developing in an area where there is more dependable moisture 524 00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:38.599 or whatever it is. And so when you look at the tree and you 525 00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:40.639 think, well, I'm going to cut this root or that root, and 526 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:45.000 how many can I cut, it's very gray. It's a very gray area, 527 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:47.119 and that's where you need a professional arbist to be to be able to 528 00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:52.760 do it. I always tell people if you're going to do anything around a 529 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.519 nice valuable tree, get an arbust in there to take a look first before 530 00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:00.800 any damage gets done, and they tell you what you can can cut the 531 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:01.920 In fact, they can do it for you if you want the job done. 532 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:07.519 But even just a consultation, I would recommend you heard me talk about 533 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:12.119 Affordable Tree Service before Martin Spoon Moore, that's probably the one that I would 534 00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:15.079 call. Just have them come out and take a look and see his number. 535 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.360 His number, by the way, Cole is uh seven to one three 536 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:24.239 six nine twenty six sixty three I think I would go that route if were 537 00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:30.920 you. And what is his name? Martin spoon More And it's affordable tree 538 00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:35.480 service. While you're right, yeah, while you're writing it down. The 539 00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:39.800 website is a f ftree service, dot Com a f f tree service. 540 00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:44.480 You know, even if I were out there looking at it, I would 541 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.199 be, well, you know, let's bring in a sort of or you 542 00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:52.400 know, somebody really is is more scheduled, Yeah, because uh, you 543 00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:58.400 know, though you can do permanent damage to a tree just by not really 544 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:04.239 knowing what you're doing. I took one look at it and realized it was 545 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.000 above my pay grade. Yeah, that's a smart that's a smart man. 546 00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:13.599 I agree with you, and I appreciate your advice very much. I have 547 00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:16.159 a wonderful day. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, bye bye 548 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:24.280 bye bye. That's funny. Yeah, when it comes to jobs where you 549 00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:30.239 yeah, it's over your head, recognize that and just get somebody in there 550 00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:32.280 to do it. Somebody knows what they're doing. And you know, when 551 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:36.559 when you're looking at a valuable tree like that, you just don't want to 552 00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:42.360 mess around with it. Speaking of trees, tree hugger sprinklers are the best 553 00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:45.920 insurance you can buy for a young tree you've just put in or in its 554 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.760 first five, six, seven years of life even uh. And the reason 555 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.400 is you put them around the tree, and if you've got that first hot 556 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.440 summer coming, you can water right there where the roots are when you when 557 00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:00.960 you've planted real close to there, that's where the roots still are, and 558 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.880 then gradually turn it up more and more to water a larger area as the 559 00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:07.320 tree gets older and older. And then when we go into a summer drought, 560 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.519 you don't have to waste water by running the whole system to water your 561 00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.320 tree. You can just focus on rescuing those trees with a tree hugger sprinkler. 562 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.320 And it's as simple as that. Tree Hugger Sprinkler dot Com is the 563 00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:23.119 website. You're going to find them all over the place, everywhere. It 564 00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:27.199 seems like every time I walk into a nursery or feed store or wherever, 565 00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.920 they're going to have a tree hugger sprinkler on hand. And that's a good 566 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:35.320 thing, be a good gift to you. I would say stocking stuffer, 567 00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:38.360 but that would be a very unusual stocking to hold a tree hugger sprinkler. 568 00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:44.719 You're listening to Garden Line our phone number seven one three two one two five 569 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:50.199 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four give us 570 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:53.320 call. Let's talk about the things that are of interest of interest to you 571 00:42:54.159 --> 00:43:00.519 if you are interested in tomato growing and pretty much any vegetable gardener. Tomatoes 572 00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.519 is kind of like the it's the big queen of the garden. I guess 573 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:12.320 people always are calling about tomatoes compared to green beans or squash or co robbie 574 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:16.519 or something else, and it's just a passionate deal for people to see if 575 00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:21.639 they can grow the perfect tastiest tomato. Well, if that's you, the 576 00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:25.400 Texas Tomato Lover's Conference, you need to check this out now. The Tomato 577 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:29.920 Lover's Conference is going to be at the Anti Grows Imporium up in Independence, 578 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:35.760 Texas on Saturday, January thirteenth, right in the big middle of January. 579 00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:40.239 Saturday, January thirteenth, there's going to be talks on growing tomatoes with the 580 00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:49.039 young family, mastering container grown tomatoes, the best varieties for twenty twenty four. 581 00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:53.079 That's one worth here in too, and then eight step to success in 582 00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:58.480 grafting a tomato. I'll also give a talk on the ten Commandments of Tomato 583 00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:02.159 Success at the Texas to meatal Overs conference. You need to call them to 584 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:08.280 get registered because it is a limited space two five four eight four eight ninety 585 00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:15.119 three ninety three, or just email Sally at Texasgardener dot com. Sally at 586 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:20.199 Texas Gardener dot com. I hope to see you there. I'm looking forward 587 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:23.239 to it, that is for sure. We're going to take a little break 588 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:27.360 here and we will be back in just a moment. The phone number is 589 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:34.320 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden 590 00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.440 Line. We are glad you're with us this morning talking about things related to 591 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:42.079 gardening. Uh. You know, gardening goes indoors too. If you have 592 00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:45.760 a house plant, I would say, I'm going to call that gardening because 593 00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:49.559 you're taking care of it, you are finding the right conditions for it to 594 00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:55.920 thrive in. And when COVID hit houseplants suggest it's like people became crazy over 595 00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:01.559 houseplants. I mean everybody, everybody. It seemed like, was you know, 596 00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:05.960 buying this or that kind or here's some new thing you've never had, 597 00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:09.599 And boy, did plants get kind of weird. And expensive in some of 598 00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:15.280 these online forums, like the string of plants, string of pearl, string 599 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:16.800 of dolphin, string of heart, string of turtles, all those kind of 600 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:21.639 things. They just it was nuts. I saw a little cutting and it 601 00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:25.239 had a little pearl. It was a string of pearls. I want one 602 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:30.719 little two little nodes actually with one little pearl on them, and it was 603 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.480 going for like nineteen dollars. It's like you have to root it yourself. 604 00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:38.639 And that was kind of crazy. And the more obscure a plant was, 605 00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:44.679 the more unknown, the more valuable it is. And that has continued even 606 00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:50.199 after even after we kind of got past the brunt of the COVID issues, 607 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:57.000 it just seems to keep going. We continue to see interest in house plants, 608 00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:59.920 and we got a lot of great places where you can get good house 609 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.880 plants around here. But I just want to remind you that to have success 610 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:07.199 with them, what you want is to put them in the conditions that they 611 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:13.199 like. So how much light do they like, how much what temperatures do 612 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.880 they like, and what about watering and the soil mix and whatnot. It's 613 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:22.280 easy to have success if you take care of light, the soil moisture, 614 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.760 not too much, not too little, and the temperature being within the range 615 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:30.800 of that particular plant. So mine go outside sometimes during the summer. Certain 616 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:39.639 houseplants the Thanksgiving Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus, those two definitely are spending their 617 00:46:39.639 --> 00:46:45.199 time outside just rejuvenating a little bit during the summertime. They're inside now with 618 00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:49.039 their bloom buds. But it's not that hard to have success with houseplants. 619 00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.599 You can do it. You just take it a step at a time. 620 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:57.039 Buy your houseplant from one of our great mom and pop nurseries that know what 621 00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.559 they're talking about, that can direct you to plants based on your description of 622 00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:04.960 where you want to put them. They'll have the best chance of being successful. 623 00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:07.800 And then when you have issues, you go back to that nursing and 624 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:09.599 talk to them about can you help me with this? That's what they're there 625 00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:14.880 for. That's what they're there for. We love feed stores here on Garden 626 00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:19.480 Line and League City Feed. That is a real easy win right there. 627 00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.039 I mean, we're talking about a place that's been around for forty years. 628 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.800 Remember what I said about liking the old time feed stores. It's been around 629 00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:32.400 for forty years and it's now run by Wes and Madison. The Thunderberg family 630 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:37.199 started it again forty years ago in an Okra patch for crying out loud. 631 00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.440 It's on Highway three, a few blocks south of ninety six. So all 632 00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:45.159 of you and all those neighborhoods down there from Elkamina, Reale, League City, 633 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:49.519 Lamark all through the region, this is your hometown feed store. And 634 00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:53.440 they carry the best products that you need, premium premium products for your pets 635 00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:58.559 as well as backyard chicken needs, and then the fertilizers I talk about, 636 00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:02.039 as well as a great selection of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. Here's the 637 00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:08.239 phone number for League City Feed two eight one three three two one six one 638 00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:14.599 two. Now they're open until six pm on Monday through Saturday, so you 639 00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:17.320 have time after work to swing by there, check it out or grab some 640 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:23.880 feed for the critters around your place. When I was talking about earlier, 641 00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:30.599 we had these two golden retrievers and there they now are very What is it 642 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.880 obsessed with squirrels, I guess is what they like the thing about I mean, 643 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:37.800 I've put this in social media before, but think about my goldens. 644 00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:44.519 They don't understand what to retrieve and what not to retrieve. When Ellie was 645 00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:49.119 a pretty young puppy, she went with me out in the backyard and tagged 646 00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:52.280 along as I planted plants, little four inch pots along side of a bed. 647 00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:55.440 I'm going to decide to get drink of water, whatever. And came 648 00:48:55.480 --> 00:49:00.920 back out and there was a little four inch pot on my back doorstep, 649 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:06.159 four inch plant rather that she had retrieved. And so I think we need 650 00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.480 to know how the dog shows have all these different groups of dogs, the 651 00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:14.639 hunting group, the whatever. We need a gardening group. But first we 652 00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:19.119 need to train some people, some dogs, how to garden and help us. 653 00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:22.079 They sure could help dig a hole, but this retrieving thing, I 654 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:27.400 need to give them a good talking to. That's not working out very well. 655 00:49:28.199 --> 00:49:30.079 If you're planting plants, and I hope you are this fall, because 656 00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:35.559 fall is the best season for planting, always remember when you're going to water 657 00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:39.960 them in, put a fertilizer solution around the roots, and if you want 658 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:44.239 to take it up. A notch has to grow six twelve six. That's 659 00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:46.719 got the nutrients in it, but it also has seaweed extract, it's got 660 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:52.039 humic acid, and it has a medinosol activator all in there. I mix 661 00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:53.800 it in water and just drench it over the plant when I plant it. 662 00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:58.039 And when I say a plant, it could be little four inch herb, 663 00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:01.760 it could be a tree, a big old tree that we're planting. It's 664 00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:06.639 got roots and it's trying to get established, and so we want to give 665 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:08.119 these plants a boost, and has to grow is a great way to do 666 00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:12.840 it. Has to grow six twelve six, do it when you plant, 667 00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:15.920 and do it twice more about a week apart, and that seems to be 668 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:19.880 a pretty good schedule. After that, you can kind of back up and 669 00:50:20.199 --> 00:50:24.280 do your other kinds of fertilizing to those plants to kind of build the soil 670 00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:29.400 and to carry them through season after season. Or you can just continue to 671 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:31.000 use a has to grow on them. You can use it as a folio 672 00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:36.679 feed and it won't won't burn your plants. Our phone number is seven one 673 00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:40.159 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm going to go out now 674 00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:45.599 to Spring Branch and we're going to talk to gud Hello, Judy, good 675 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:52.559 morning, good morning. I've planted some knockout roses back in March and they 676 00:50:52.559 --> 00:51:01.159 are growing tall, but hardly any roses on them. Wondering should I fertilize 677 00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:07.400 them, cut it back or what. Well, we do a winter pruning 678 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:12.559 on rose bushes in general, and then their biggest bloom season starts, you 679 00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:15.719 know, March April. The spring time carries on in waves like knockout or 680 00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:21.320 bloom continually in waves going through the summer, and then October is another big 681 00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:24.679 great time to get the roses going and looking good. As far as them 682 00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:29.039 not blooming yet, I think it's probably a combination. How long ago did 683 00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:35.880 you say you planted them about March March? That is a little bit strange. 684 00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:39.239 I think you probably need to beef up the feeding of the roses. 685 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:45.880 Are the plants looking fairly healthy right now? Yeah, they look healthy, 686 00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:51.760 they're just spiny looking. How much light? How many hours of sunlight do 687 00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:54.840 they get? Do you know? I would say about four? Okay, 688 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:59.119 Well, you're you're kind of on a low end there to get good bloom 689 00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:02.400 production. Fortunately. I don't know if there's anything you can do to add 690 00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:06.280 to that four hours, you know, cut off some limbs or something, 691 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.760 but four is a little low for good success with roses. You you may 692 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:15.719 get a few blooms on them, but that's just now the rose bush itself 693 00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:20.079 will grow, but as you said, in low light, they get a 694 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.119 little bit on the spinley side and twiggy side. Have you noticed any issues 695 00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:30.079 on the foliage of the plant any just colored? They look fine? Yeah. 696 00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:36.199 I did hit them, yes, when they bloom, follow the bloom 697 00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:40.719 back to the first leaflet with five first leaf with five leaflets on it, 698 00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:44.760 and cut it back to about okay, that's called dead headings. Taken it 699 00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.320 out now. You don't have to. I mean people all the time they 700 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.320 don't. And on shrub roses when you're kind of just sort of shearing them 701 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:55.280 back a little bit, you're gonna end up cutting off the old dead blooms 702 00:52:55.320 --> 00:53:01.159 anyway. But that's a nice tidy way to go about it. And you 703 00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:07.519 recommend the fertilizer for that. Yeah, you know, a good quality balanced 704 00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:10.639 blend is going to be it's going to work. Well. We have rose 705 00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:17.079 type fertilizers, you know, the companies of Nelson's Nitropossa has like rose type 706 00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:21.960 fertilizers. And then you've got if you want to go organic, we've got 707 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.519 things like the Microlife fertilizer, and there's some other organics out there as well. 708 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:29.760 But you could put those down and water them in, and I like 709 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:32.280 to just use all my roses. I pretty much just use law fertilizer. 710 00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:37.199 To be honest, if your phosphorus is a little low, then you need 711 00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:42.840 something with more phosphorus than lawn fertilizer. But in general, we're just stimulating 712 00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:46.199 growth because when you have growth, then you have more terminals where you can 713 00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:50.960 have ballooms. So let me explain that if you have one shoot, you're 714 00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:53.880 going to have a bloom at the end of that shoot. But when as 715 00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:58.400 you prone, you get more terminals, and then as you fertilize and stimulate 716 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:04.519 more growth, then it's able to create more roses. And well that's some 717 00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:07.639 good information. Thank you so much. All right, Judy, thank you 718 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:10.480 very much. I appreciate I appreciate your call. If you're looking for where 719 00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:15.400 do I go to get a rose fertilizer, for example, we're just visiting 720 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:19.079 with Judy about that. Well, how about an ACE hardware store. They're 721 00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:22.159 all around you. I mean there's forty of them here in the Houston area. 722 00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:25.159 You can buy all your fertilizers and plant needs there. But right now 723 00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:30.480 you need to be considering the Christmas lighting because did you know that ACE is 724 00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:36.000 a place for all holiday decorations. We're talking about indoor and outdoor lights. 725 00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:39.800 We're talking about the swag, you know, the the garland and the wreaths 726 00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:43.400 and all the things like that. And when you're at an ACE Hardware, 727 00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:46.800 just ask them about custom lights by the foot. That is a really cool 728 00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:51.400 thing. They'll explain how it works and you will be thinking, why didn't 729 00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:57.239 somebody do this before? But Ace Hardware forty stores, acehardware dot Com find 730 00:54:57.239 --> 00:55:00.400 the store nearest to you at their store locator. Well, gosh, we're 731 00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:04.920 Nicky's already back in the rim. You just walked out by five minutes. 732 00:55:05.159 --> 00:55:08.719 It seems like it, doesn't It seemed like it. Absolutely. We're going 733 00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:12.880 fast this morning. Look how clear the skies are. We're in the front 734 00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:15.280 of a big window. Oh yeah, and it had been really kind of 735 00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:20.239 foggy very early, and now we can see all the buildings. Someone was 736 00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:22.039 complaining about the cold to me the other day, and it was like, 737 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:28.039 do you do you remember how many months of absolute hell we went through this 738 00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:30.960 summer? Yeah, I think I would like to freeze to death for a 739 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:34.880 little while, just to balance it out. I'd forgotten all about that. 740 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.320 Yes, we did go through very hot times, very brutal, very difficult, 741 00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:43.079 and our plants suffered a lot outdoor plants. But right now they're doing 742 00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:45.639 really good. Well. I tell you what. We're going to turn it 743 00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:49.000 over to Nicki in the news. Our phone number is seven one three two 744 00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.559 one two fifty eight seventy four. And when we come back, Donald, 745 00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:58.559 you'll be our first up. Welcome back to garden Line. We are talking 746 00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:01.519 gardening today and whatever the topic is is up to you. I mean, 747 00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:05.239 I'll come up with my own here. I got several things I still want 748 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:08.159 to go over and discuss, but you tell me what you want to talk 749 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:14.599 about. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Hey Greenpro 750 00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:19.679 greenpro dot net. That's the website. Green Pro is a company that I've 751 00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:22.199 talked about in the past. They come out and they do deep time aeration 752 00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:29.039 where they pull the core out of the soil properly. Very very good equipment 753 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.880 to do what you just can't do with a little rental operation. Uh you 754 00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:35.880 know, you go somewhere and try to do your own corporating. This does 755 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.639 a better job. It goes down deeper, it pulls the core out very 756 00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:40.519 well. And they know how to do it, and then they follow with 757 00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:44.679 a compost top dressing. They can do that now this time of the year. 758 00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:46.360 If you've lost some areas of lawn, if I've had a number of 759 00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:51.519 callers that are renovating their lawn, gonna have to replant some things. Do 760 00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:54.559 that? Have those have those folks come up from green Pro and they can 761 00:56:54.639 --> 00:57:00.440 also do kind of a spreading of a topsoil to fill in the low areas 762 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:05.039 so that you're ready to go when you're ready to plant your grass. And 763 00:57:05.079 --> 00:57:09.440 so that's another service that they can provide by Greenpro. Again it's greenpro dot 764 00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:14.719 net, greenpro dot net. Have them come out and take a look and 765 00:57:14.760 --> 00:57:17.280 tell you what they can do to make your lawn and landscape just much more 766 00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:22.320 successful. We're going to go now to Northwest Houston and talk to Donald. 767 00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:24.519 Hello, Donald, Hey, how are you. It's all logod morning, 768 00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:30.079 Good morning. I'd like to talk about pumpkins. I'd like to talk about 769 00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:36.039 tomatoes. However, I have a fifty foot pine tree thirty two years old. 770 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:40.599 It's been architecturally planted, thank goodness, about twenty five feet away from 771 00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:46.079 the house in the front lawn. It's straight up. It's really nice looking. 772 00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:51.920 I've had it cleared, you know, the branch is cleared for find 773 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:58.039 out. However, the roots that are growing, some of them are growing 774 00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:00.639 toward the house. We're two or three inches around, And I guess previous 775 00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:05.000 to me being there, somebody had cut a chunk out of it to stop 776 00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:07.679 it from growing, like a twelve or fourteen inch piece, just cut it 777 00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:10.559 out so wouldn't grow into the foundation. What didn't hurt the tree. But 778 00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:15.320 the roots are above ground all around the tree, and you can't walk across 779 00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:17.320 the front lawn without falling a trip and on them. And I don't know 780 00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:21.199 how lawn cutter guys even do it. Yeah, how do I get them 781 00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:27.119 top of those roots off? Well? First of all, when I'm talking 782 00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:30.440 on the phone to someone and I can't picture the tree in the exact setting 783 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:35.760 right. So just to want you to be extra careful when you start taking 784 00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:38.159 roots away from a tree. It affects the structural strength of the tree, 785 00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:43.719 first of all, but it can also take away a lot of that tree's 786 00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:46.840 ability when you overdo it to get water and nutrient. So don't take too 787 00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:51.000 much out if you're trying to take a root out you might want to have 788 00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:53.239 an arborist come out take a look at it and make the suggestions. But 789 00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:58.920 another alternative would be to bring some soil in and just an inch or two 790 00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:02.000 and here and there where you need it and kind of bring the soul level 791 00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:06.679 up around those roots just a little bit. Well, you don't want to 792 00:59:06.679 --> 00:59:10.039 put like four inches of soil over the whole thing that that'll damage the tree, 793 00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:15.119 but a little bit here and there could help. Does that sound I'm 794 00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:17.559 sorry, Go ahead. It's a fairly large area, and it's the whole 795 00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:22.119 circumference around the tree, and the roots extend above the ground. That's not 796 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:24.519 the whole root, it's just the top of it. I want. I 797 00:59:24.599 --> 00:59:29.920 thought about having a stump grinder guy come and just just clean the top of 798 00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:32.360 the root off. Don't dig the root out, clean it off, just 799 00:59:32.760 --> 00:59:37.280 smooth it off, like you know with the stump grinder. Yeah, the 800 00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:40.559 car run it or something so it wouldn't rot, and then it would be 801 00:59:40.599 --> 00:59:45.119 smooth and the root would still be there. Well, it will still rot 802 00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:52.159 and then over time again there's your your anchorage of the tree that's getting compromised. 803 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:55.199 Is that that would rots away? You know, I've seen people do 804 00:59:55.320 --> 01:00:00.119 that. The trees do survive it, but I don't know. I don't 805 01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:06.159 know that it's the solution of what you're looking for. Yeah, what about 806 01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:08.400 just taking off let's say the root is four inches around or five maybe I 807 01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:12.039 don't know. I'm not digging underneath them to find out, but they're pretty 808 01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:15.880 brown up on the above the ground. What about just taking like an inch 809 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:19.280 off the top just to smooth it off. See, you don't have this 810 01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.679 big lump that just step on a new trip over it. Right, You 811 01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:24.599 can't roll the trash can over it because it's all bumpy enough. Yeah, 812 01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:30.039 I see, So I picture what you're saying, and yes, that would 813 01:00:30.239 --> 01:00:34.920 that would make it a little smoother. But you're opening the interior wood up 814 01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:37.639 to decay. When you do any amount once you've gone past the dead outer 815 01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:43.280 bark, you're making a wound on the tree and the process. I don't 816 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:45.920 think an arborist would go for that. I mean, you could hire someone 817 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:50.719 to come out as a consultation and suggest some things that they see as options 818 01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:53.639 for you, but other than cutting a root or trimming down a root, 819 01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:58.639 as you said, which either one I'm not roll a big fan of, 820 01:00:58.679 --> 01:01:00.920 and especially as many as you're and have to do this too on that tree, 821 01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:07.119 it's just bringing in some soil. If I did cut just the high 822 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:08.519 part, just the top part, like you know, the nub of it 823 01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:13.320 off where it's where it's really sticking out, what would you suggest I could 824 01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:16.239 put on it? If I cut like a twelve inch slice and only a 825 01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:20.280 half inch just to smooth it off, what would I put on it too? 826 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:22.440 I know about tar, but what's the good thing to put on it 827 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:28.559 to seal it up? Yeah, we just don't recommend printing paints anymore in 828 01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:31.679 general. What happens is you put something over it, and yes, it 829 01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:37.119 coats it initially, but then those coatings crack or they peel back or something, 830 01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:42.639 and now you have moisture being held into the wood instead of being able 831 01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.639 to air dry, you know, after a rain, and that just increases 832 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:49.559 the problem. I never thought of this, But what about leaving it alone 833 01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:52.280 and putting the sod all around on top of it? Just cover it with 834 01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:57.840 sod squares and that would smooth out and the roots would be underneath the side. 835 01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:00.960 They still get water. It's going to be very hard to get sod 836 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.119 to grow there, just because the amount of wood in the soil, and 837 01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:07.960 I don't think that's going to be successful. And really, you know, 838 01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:13.639 sod just has about what a half inch of black play. It's got a 839 01:02:13.639 --> 01:02:15.039 lot of nerds, so it's not really going to raise the level. I 840 01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:17.320 mean it look like it because the grass is there, but you won't see 841 01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:21.840 what you're about to trip over, right, Yeah, anyway, that's that's 842 01:02:21.880 --> 01:02:24.719 my two cents worth. If you want to talk to Martin an Affordable Tree 843 01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:29.199 and see see if they'll come out and just do a lookover and give you 844 01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:32.400 some other options, maybe being on site, some other things come up. 845 01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:36.920 Would you tell me his phone number? Yeah, let me, It'll take 846 01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:42.639 me just one second here, sure. His phone number is seven one three 847 01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:50.239 six twenty six sixty three seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 848 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:53.920 Or the website is aff Tree Service dot com. Just tell him we 849 01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:58.280 spoke on the air and I feel like he might be able to do a 850 01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:04.280 better on site assessment. And the first name of the company again, Affordable 851 01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:07.000 Tree Serve. Yeah, okay, Martin Spoon Moore, All right, man, 852 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:09.679 well good luck with that. All right, Thank you so much, 853 01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:15.039 you bet, thank you. I appreciate that very much. Let's see your 854 01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:19.400 week. Gosh, we're at the end of another segment. Our phone number 855 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:22.920 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. 856 01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:30.079 Welcome back to Garden Line. So glad you're with us today. We 857 01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:32.199 are talking gardening, and of course that's what a gardening show does, right 858 01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:36.519 and but we talk about what you're interested in if you have a question and 859 01:03:36.599 --> 01:03:40.320 want to give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven 860 01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:45.280 four. Those of you in Kingwood know already you've got two of the best 861 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:49.800 garden centers in the world right out there by you, and that's Kingwood Garden 862 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:53.760 Center and Warren's Southern Garden. Kingwin is still having their twelve Days of Christmas. 863 01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:59.000 That's November twenty fifth through December sixth, so it's ending this week. 864 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:02.679 But their day where you get you know, thirty forty percent off. There 865 01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.519 are days where you buy one get one free. I mean, it's a 866 01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:09.760 really cool deal going on. And boy do they ever have a really good 867 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:13.880 gift shop. I love seeing just the amazing things that they have in the 868 01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:16.199 gift shop. A good place to go for your holiday gifts. By the 869 01:04:16.239 --> 01:04:20.159 way out at Warren's Garden Center full of color, lots of color out there 870 01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:24.960 that the Christmas trees are there. I mean, it's what you would expect 871 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:30.079 of a quality garden center. Now, on the sixteenth and seventeenth of December, 872 01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:34.400 they're going to have an event called Cookies with Santa. Yep, Santa's 873 01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:38.519 going to be out there. Go to there, follow them on Facebook. 874 01:04:38.679 --> 01:04:42.920 Just go find more in Southern Gardens on Facebook and there's a little code there 875 01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:47.599 where you can reserve your spot. And that's December sixteenth and seventeenth. We're 876 01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:51.719 going to head now out to Ashrab Forest and we're going to talk to Nick. 877 01:04:51.840 --> 01:04:58.960 Hello, Nick, here you good morning. Yes, so I sent 878 01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:04.119 my neighbor re had a pine tree cut down because of pine beetle I think 879 01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:09.039 was what it's called, did a number on his tree. He had it 880 01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:14.840 completely removed, and his consultants, while doing that looked across the street at 881 01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:20.920 one of mine and saw a branch that appeared dead and thought it might be 882 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:26.440 an indicator of the same issue. So far, it doesn't seem to have 883 01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:30.400 taken over any more of the tree. However, what makes this tree unique 884 01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:34.760 is that it is grown at the base together with an. I think it's 885 01:05:34.800 --> 01:05:42.199 an oak tree, and I thought if I were to have to remove this 886 01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:45.920 pine tree, and it's again about two three feet in diameter, the oak 887 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:51.960 tree is a good to three feet in diameter, how is it possible to 888 01:05:53.079 --> 01:05:59.199 remove? I mean they're conjoined literally at the final probably three feet of their 889 01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:05.840 base. Yeah, I don't know if they've grown together enough, it's going 890 01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:11.039 to be really difficult to get one out without injuring the other one. But 891 01:06:11.119 --> 01:06:15.360 that's where you get an arborist in there, like Martin spoon Moore that knows 892 01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:17.119 how to do it, and they know what the limitations are with the cannon 893 01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:21.199 can't be done U sounds like those are both big beautiful trees. By the 894 01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:25.719 way, your pine tree does not have beetles. If you're not seeing globs 895 01:06:25.719 --> 01:06:30.480 of sap up and down the bark and or or sawdust coming in and falling 896 01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:33.000 so you see it catching in the bark pieces as it falls down the trunk, 897 01:06:33.639 --> 01:06:36.440 you don't have You don't have pine bark beetles. But I don't see 898 01:06:36.480 --> 01:06:41.079 that now. Yeah. But but something to watch for is that big dead 899 01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:45.239 limb up there. We call those widow makers for a reason. When they 900 01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:47.280 come out. You don't know when they're going to fall out. That's a 901 01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:53.119 that is a hazard, a significant threat, and so I just want to 902 01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:56.599 watch for things like that and get somebody in there to take that out. 903 01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:00.960 If so, if I remove that, obviously I know it improved my safety. 904 01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:04.000 Does it help the health of the tree. No, it doesn't dead. 905 01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:10.039 When you remove dead I mean it's you, You're just you're not affecting 906 01:07:10.079 --> 01:07:12.840 the health the life of the tree. It's not clipping your fingernails, you 907 01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:15.559 know, it's not. It doesn't affect. It's not a wound on you. 908 01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:21.280 You're just taking the dead material off. And so, yes, it 909 01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:26.039 wouldn't help. No, I was gonna say, I how urgent it is, 910 01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:30.280 but I would I would be real careful with it. Yeah, yeah, 911 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:34.079 okay, well all right, well I appreciate this information. All right, 912 01:07:34.239 --> 01:07:38.679 thanks very much, good luck, Hi, thank you, take care 913 01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:44.599 lobby. Our feed store and tom Ball is D and D Feed. We 914 01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:46.800 love feed stores here on Garden Line, and D and D Feed is about 915 01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:50.599 three miles west of Highway two forty nine, So as you head out west 916 01:07:50.679 --> 01:07:54.920 on twenty nine to twenty about three miles, you'll see D and D there 917 01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:59.119 on the left. They've expanded this past summer a couple of times. They've 918 01:07:59.119 --> 01:08:01.400 gotten now bulks seed available where you have a little scoop and you can just 919 01:08:01.559 --> 01:08:04.840 scoop out the amount you want, real economical way to buy seed. By 920 01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:11.119 the way, they have quality dog food and quality livestock food. I mean, 921 01:08:11.199 --> 01:08:14.079 it's it's the kind of place where you go. Of course, it's 922 01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:15.840 a feed, so they're going to have feed, but it's also a place 923 01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:20.680 where you go for the fertilizers I recommend on garden Line for the pest control, 924 01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:25.439 pest management, weed management kinds of things. They've got all of that 925 01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:29.479 there at D and D Feed. Again, they're three miles west of Highway 926 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:33.720 two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty, just outside Tumble D and D 927 01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:38.000 Feed. I was driven by there the other day and looking they're always getting 928 01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:41.840 new plants into outside. They do a lot of that, and you can 929 01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.479 just see all of these, you know, top rank fertilizer before you even 930 01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:49.039 get in the door. They're there there. You're listening to garden Line and 931 01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:57.159 our phone number is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four 932 01:08:57.640 --> 01:09:01.680 seven one three two one two. That is the way you get a hold 933 01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:06.159 of us. Coming up next hour, we're going to have David Malsby from 934 01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:13.119 the PTSD Foundation of America and Camp Hope in and we're going to talk about 935 01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:18.239 the issue of PTSD and what the folks at the PTSD Foundation of America and 936 01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:26.840 Camp Hope are doing to help the veterans that have served our country. I'm 937 01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:30.000 looking forward to that. That'll be just a little bit around the corner here. 938 01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:38.560 I am always impressed when I go into Southwest Fertilizer, and the reason 939 01:09:38.680 --> 01:09:45.079 is you walk in and the amount of product that they carry and the variety 940 01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:48.319 of product that they carry is it's like none other. Like I say, 941 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:53.399 if Southwest doesn't carry it, you don't need it. And I'm serious. 942 01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:58.359 Any kind of fertilizer anything I recommend on garden Line and more are there at 943 01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:02.199 Southwest Fertilizer. They have an eighty foot wall of tools. If you need 944 01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:06.560 an insecticide, a fungicide, or a weed killer, and it could be 945 01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:11.279 synthetic organic, they have it all. They have it all there. You 946 01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:15.840 bring a problem in like a plant sample or a photo, they take a 947 01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:17.880 look at it and they point you at the right product. Just go to 948 01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:24.279 Southwest Fertilizer dot com. They're on the corner of Bissinet and Renwick and hey, 949 01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:27.680 it's gift buying season. And if you've got a gardener in your list 950 01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:30.760 it doesn't have a kneeling bench, go buy and ask Bob show me the 951 01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:36.920 kneeling benches, because that tool change my gardening life. Anyone north of forty 952 01:10:38.039 --> 01:10:42.039 for sure, needs to get a nice kneeling bench. It helps you get 953 01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:45.199 up and down, it flips over, and it is a bench you can 954 01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:47.199 sit on and work on in the garden. Is one of my favorite tools 955 01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:53.479 that I have. And I wake up not in the prenatal position the next 956 01:10:53.479 --> 01:10:56.680 morning because when you turn me loose to get up and down and up and 957 01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:00.760 down eight hundred times. Yeah, the next morning on a rough but not 958 01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:04.800 with my kneeling bench. So anyway, Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer dot com, 959 01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:10.319 you are listening to Garden Line. Our show is here to help you have 960 01:11:10.359 --> 01:11:13.680 a more successful garden. The way I like to put it is a more 961 01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:17.760 beautiful garden and a more bountiful landscape. And that is exactly what we are 962 01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:21.720 about here. If you are interested in giving us a call, we'll be 963 01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:25.640 coming back here in a minute from break seven one three, two, one 964 01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:30.000 two five eight seven four. Let's let Josh get you on the boards. 965 01:11:30.079 --> 01:11:33.439 But I want to remind you that the next hour we're visiting with David Malsby 966 01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:38.720 of the PTSD Foundation, and so we're going to take calls related to that. 967 01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:43.119 If you've got a gardening call, then just hold on and when we 968 01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:46.079 get to the nine to ten hour, we'll be back taking those kinds of 969 01:11:46.199 --> 01:11:54.359 gardening calls. I want to remind you that my lawn care schedule that is 970 01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:58.840 that is a schedule. It's a multicolor PDF. You can download it from 971 01:11:58.880 --> 01:12:05.039 my website skip Gardening with Skip dot com gardeningwith Skip dot Com. It tells 972 01:12:05.079 --> 01:12:09.479 you how to fertilize. It gives you organic options, and it gives you 973 01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:14.640 synthetic options. It talks about aer rating the soil using a trace mineral and 974 01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:16.800 when you might want to do that. It talks about mowing, how to 975 01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:21.159 properly mow, and that is one of the most important things in having a 976 01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:27.239 beautiful lawn is regular mowing with a sharp blade that is very helpful, makes 977 01:12:27.239 --> 01:12:31.720 it look so nice and uniform and makes good density. When sunlight hits a 978 01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:34.880 so on Nature Plants a week. When you create a dense lawn, you 979 01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:41.239 block the sunlight. It also talks about watering while you're there online look at 980 01:12:41.239 --> 01:12:43.960 some of the articles that I put up so far. We don't build a 981 01:12:44.079 --> 01:12:46.479 lot more up when we get past the first of the year. But also 982 01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:51.600 you'll find my lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule. So when do you 983 01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:56.319 treat for chinch bugs? When do you treat for soid web words? When 984 01:12:56.399 --> 01:13:00.520 might you want to be looking for gray leaf spot or large patch brown patch 985 01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:03.960 in the fall season? How about take all root rot? It's all on 986 01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:09.159 the schedule. When it comes to weeds, when would you apply a pre 987 01:13:09.239 --> 01:13:14.560 emergent and what are options that are synthetic or organic that might be helpful for 988 01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:16.560 managing weeds? When do you need to use a post emergent? When do 989 01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:19.439 you not want to use it? You see what I'm saying. One little 990 01:13:19.479 --> 01:13:24.239 schedule. Actually these are two sheets now that I'm talking about, and it 991 01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:30.119 just makes things so so much easier, and it's free. Katie R. 992 01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:34.039 H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 993 01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:41.079 on this program. Welcome to Katy r h Garden Line with Skip Ricter. 994 01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:58.199 It's so crazy just watch him as a world. Welcome to the garden Line. 995 01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:01.680 We're glad you're listening. We're back to talking about gardening topics right now. 996 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:04.119 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number if you'd like 997 01:14:04.199 --> 01:14:10.079 to call, is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 998 01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:15.840 If you're up in the Montgomery area, Ana Home, Ana Plants and Produce, 999 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:19.079 that's your hometown garden center. And boy do they ever have everything that 1000 01:14:19.119 --> 01:14:24.119 you might need for gardening. That's just what they do. Uh. They 1001 01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:29.039 have coming up today at coming up today, coming up at noon today the 1002 01:14:29.279 --> 01:14:34.000 annual free Santa Festival at the garden Center there in Montgomery. Now it's your 1003 01:14:34.039 --> 01:14:38.640 opportunity to get group photos. Bring the kids and do this. You can 1004 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:43.760 take them with Santa and Missus Clause out at the Ana Plants and Produce. 1005 01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:45.680 They also have a While you're there, you got to pick up some of 1006 01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:50.960 their holiday color. The point set is the ranges of colors are amazing. 1007 01:14:51.079 --> 01:14:56.279 That the Christmas cactus, Thanksgiving cactus thing, oh gosh, they look so 1008 01:14:56.399 --> 01:15:00.039 good. But also grab some of the fertilizers. We talk about some of 1009 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:04.319 the products that you might need for taking care of your landscape. They got 1010 01:15:04.359 --> 01:15:09.000 it all at a NA Plants and Produce. They're just on the east side 1011 01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:13.079 of Montgomery on one five. As you're heading toward Conroe. We're going to 1012 01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:16.520 go now out to League City and talk to Susan. Hello, Susan, 1013 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:21.920 good morning, Skip. Hey. Thank you for having that talk about PTSD. 1014 01:15:24.439 --> 01:15:28.079 I'm a big believer of Camp Hope. I donate to them regularly, 1015 01:15:28.119 --> 01:15:30.680 and my husband is a veteran, so we appreciate all the work. Well, 1016 01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:33.600 thank you for doing that, Susan. I appreciate that. I have 1017 01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:39.119 a question though. I have a dishwasher that we only use for like three 1018 01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:43.520 months, and we replace it because we want to upgrade it, and I 1019 01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:46.479 cannot give that thing to anybody. Do you think I can donate that to 1020 01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:50.640 any of the organizations? Yeah, I don't know. You would have to 1021 01:15:50.680 --> 01:15:57.119 contact them and ask them. He didn't go into anything like that, but 1022 01:15:58.960 --> 01:16:01.039 you're interested. He had a question and I have for you please is I 1023 01:16:01.079 --> 01:16:08.319 have two beautiful gardenia bushes. They are in container. They are about six 1024 01:16:08.319 --> 01:16:12.720 week tall. They were doing great the summer, dark green leaves, big 1025 01:16:12.760 --> 01:16:16.520 beautiful flowers. But within the last three four months, I mean weeks or 1026 01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:20.720 so, they start dropping leaves. They the leaves turn yellow, they dropping. 1027 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:27.199 Is that normal? It can be normal. Fluctuations in moisture and other 1028 01:16:27.319 --> 01:16:31.079 things can cause that. I don't if you've ever had apotheos ivy indoors and 1029 01:16:31.159 --> 01:16:34.279 you don't water it for a while and then you water it, the leaves 1030 01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:39.119 turn yellow and fall up, and it's like after you you rescued it with 1031 01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:43.880 water. But it's just part of the process on that plant. I suspect 1032 01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:46.520 i'd say ninety nine percent chance you're talking about older leaves, not the new 1033 01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:51.000 leaves at the end of the shoots, and correct that plant can it can 1034 01:16:51.079 --> 01:16:55.600 grow new leaves and they'll be okay. Just kind of watch the sow moisture 1035 01:16:55.640 --> 01:16:59.560 level. It needs the drain well, but it also needs to stay moist. 1036 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:03.199 Guarden are not a drought tolerant plan. And so that's what I mean. 1037 01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:08.039 Yeah, I wouldn't fertilize it right now though we're going into the cooler 1038 01:17:08.079 --> 01:17:11.960 season. Just hang on and you can do some fertilizing later coming out of 1039 01:17:11.960 --> 01:17:15.000 the season. If you want to do okay, you just answer my next 1040 01:17:15.039 --> 01:17:16.560 question. Thank you so much. I appreciate your help. All right, 1041 01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:19.880 Susan, thank you. I appreciate the call very much. Hey, do 1042 01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:24.960 you live out in Mount Bellevue. Your hometown feed stores Texas feed Stop. 1043 01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:28.079 That's right, it is there. It's easy to get to if you're on 1044 01:17:28.159 --> 01:17:31.039 Iten. You just go a few minutes north of Iten on Highway one forty 1045 01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:34.720 six and right on the right hand side there. They are right and it's 1046 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:40.680 a family oriented feeds are in the sense that they make you feel like family. 1047 01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:44.119 You walk in there, that you're greeted your help. Brian and Hope 1048 01:17:44.159 --> 01:17:48.560 Roads have created a really great environment there and they carry everything you'll need, 1049 01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:53.359 all the fertilizers. I talk about issues with pest, well, they've got 1050 01:17:53.399 --> 01:17:57.279 everything you can imagine, as well as diseases you can in summertime. We 1051 01:17:57.359 --> 01:18:00.319 got those mosquito dunks we need to get and protect and some mosquitoes they've got 1052 01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:04.720 that. They have lots and lots of products and they carry the bags out 1053 01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:09.279 for you in that old fashioned way. If you live in Baytown, this 1054 01:18:09.479 --> 01:18:13.000 is your hometown feature you just minutes away from Texas Feed Stop. Again, 1055 01:18:13.079 --> 01:18:17.439 it's a few minutes north of itown on Highway one forty six in mont Bellevue. 1056 01:18:17.720 --> 01:18:21.560 Let's now go out to Caro in spring am I saying your name right? 1057 01:18:23.439 --> 01:18:29.880 Yes? Thank you? Huh question. I got my eight twelve sixteen 1058 01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:33.960 furlizer the fung aside the barricade, didn't get it down. Okay, what 1059 01:18:34.039 --> 01:18:40.760 should I do? Well? If you walk out, Yeah, if you 1060 01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:44.359 walk out and look, you may see some little tiny weeds that are germinated 1061 01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:48.159 already and growing. You know, maybe that you kind of miss the boat 1062 01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:50.359 there. So you could do one or two things with it. You can 1063 01:18:50.359 --> 01:18:55.000 go ahead and put it down, knowing that additional weed seeds will be germinating 1064 01:18:55.039 --> 01:18:59.600 in the cool season and so you'd control that. Or you could wait and 1065 01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:01.239 at this point now just go ahead and put it on in early February, 1066 01:19:01.279 --> 01:19:06.640 early to mid February to protect against the warm season weeds that'll be germinating at 1067 01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:11.800 that point in time. You kind of now you're talking about the barricade. 1068 01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:15.079 Coreer. Yeah, the barricade. You've kind of caught me in between seasons 1069 01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:16.680 here, and you can really do it either way. I think of his 1070 01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:19.279 mind, I'd probably just wait and put it on in February because you're gonna 1071 01:19:19.279 --> 01:19:26.039 need it then anyway, okay. And then the fertilizer for the grass. 1072 01:19:26.359 --> 01:19:29.840 I'm just for the grass we're talking about, or is that right? Yes? 1073 01:19:29.960 --> 01:19:35.560 Okay, so that would be applied. Do not apply too much, 1074 01:19:35.680 --> 01:19:41.880 now you can. If you've got a fall type fertilizer lower nitrogen numbers than 1075 01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:45.720 our spring and summer fertilizers, you can apply it now. Just kind of 1076 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:49.159 go in a moderate level with it, not too much. If we have 1077 01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:54.039 some nice, decent, mild temperatures, your grass will continue to take up 1078 01:19:54.399 --> 01:19:59.039 moisture nutrients and it just helps it build strength in the winter and then coming 1079 01:19:59.119 --> 01:20:01.039 out of the winters. So yes, you could go ahead and do that 1080 01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:04.560 if you've got it on hand. Now, what I bought was the one 1081 01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:12.720 that's eight twelve sixteen. Yes, that's Nitrophoss's Fall Special and uh so that 1082 01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:15.640 would be fine to put down right now. Again, just don't don't overdo 1083 01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:18.680 it, and right, I got it. Yeah, okay. We're not 1084 01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:24.119 trying to make the grass grow, We're trying to strengthen it so it can 1085 01:20:24.159 --> 01:20:28.159 make carbohydrates basically, yes, sir, okay, Well, I appreciate it, 1086 01:20:28.520 --> 01:20:31.760 and I really enjoyed the program. On the Veterans program. Was wonderful. 1087 01:20:31.880 --> 01:20:34.319 Thank you, happy, thank you, bet, thank you, Carol. 1088 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:39.800 I appreciate that. Well, we're getting close to our first little break 1089 01:20:39.800 --> 01:20:44.960 here in this hour. I am going to be coming back and we'll get 1090 01:20:45.039 --> 01:20:46.760 right to your calls when we come back, and the number is seven one 1091 01:20:46.920 --> 01:20:51.079 three two one two five eight seven four. If you would like to give 1092 01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:56.680 Josh a call, we can certainly take care of that. Hey, if 1093 01:20:56.760 --> 01:21:01.439 you are interested in uh, hold on just a minute, I pulled up 1094 01:21:01.479 --> 01:21:04.600 the wrong thing here. Well, I tell you what, we're close enough 1095 01:21:04.640 --> 01:21:08.319 to break. I'm just going to wait and save that one until we come 1096 01:21:08.359 --> 01:21:13.199 back. I do want to talk about some of the things that are two 1097 01:21:13.319 --> 01:21:16.279 dues for now out in the garden and the landscape, and so in just 1098 01:21:16.319 --> 01:21:19.800 a moment we'll start doing that. If you have any gardening questions in the 1099 01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:25.520 meantime, seven one three two one two kat rh or if you want to 1100 01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:29.560 dial it out by number fifty eight seventy four. We look forward to talking 1101 01:21:29.560 --> 01:21:32.880 to you. Welcome back to Garden Line. We're glad you're listening today. 1102 01:21:32.920 --> 01:21:38.239 If you'd like to call phone number seven one three two one two five eight 1103 01:21:38.439 --> 01:21:42.720 seven four. Hey, last week I talked about Santa and Missus Claus coming 1104 01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:46.159 to the arbor Gate and due to incleminent inclement weather, they've had to move 1105 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:50.359 that forward. And so here we go. Here's your opportunity. Next Friday, 1106 01:21:50.960 --> 01:21:55.279 December eighth, from one thirty to five pm, they'll be there. 1107 01:21:55.399 --> 01:22:00.359 Come get your picture made. And hopefully you've behaved yourself way this year, 1108 01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:05.520 so there's not a bunch of coal, right and that how that works well 1109 01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:09.680 Arbigate. When you're there, you need to pick up all of the other 1110 01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:12.920 things that you need for your lawn and garden. And by the way, 1111 01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:17.119 if you grow vegetables, garlic is in there. They've got some onion bundles 1112 01:22:17.159 --> 01:22:19.640 still in there as well, and go ahead and get them in. Don't 1113 01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:24.479 wait any longer. While you're there, you are going to find so much 1114 01:22:24.560 --> 01:22:30.479 in the way of decorations, beautiful, beautiful wreaths and both. The gift 1115 01:22:30.479 --> 01:22:33.600 shop is just it's it's turned into Christmas time. For sure. You need 1116 01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:36.199 to go buy and check it out and then pick up their one two three 1117 01:22:36.199 --> 01:22:42.159 system. The soil, the compost, the molts, all organic and for 1118 01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:46.439 anything that has roots. The soil what I say, soil and compost, 1119 01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:50.600 not molts, soil and compost and fertilizer. Yeah, the organic four four 1120 01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:54.640 to three fertilizer. I forgot that one, but pick it up because when 1121 01:22:54.680 --> 01:22:58.000 you're going to plant, you need to use the brown stuff before in order 1122 01:22:58.079 --> 01:23:00.319 to make the green stuff happy. And so that's what we're talking about at 1123 01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:04.520 Arburgate. We're going to go now out to Brazoria and talk to Larry Hello. 1124 01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:12.640 Larry Hello. I have some p andy buds, they call them little 1125 01:23:12.680 --> 01:23:15.479 tiny things, and I was thinking, I was wondering if I could plant 1126 01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:20.640 them now. And I have a quantt hat I can put them in where 1127 01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:25.880 they would never freeze if it got down to freezing, and see if they 1128 01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:29.760 you know, I had to start on them so in the spring I could 1129 01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:32.840 transplant them where I want. And these are pa and ees like the flower 1130 01:23:32.920 --> 01:23:39.800 right, Yes, okay, well they don't do well here, but you 1131 01:23:39.880 --> 01:23:42.000 got them, and you ought to give them their best chance. And to 1132 01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:45.680 give them their best chance, you would put them in a very very bright 1133 01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:49.920 shade area, a little morning sun, but definitely not the hot, blazing 1134 01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:56.439 afternoon sun. P and E's are beautiful perennials in the midwest northern north of 1135 01:23:56.520 --> 01:24:01.479 us. Our heat is really difficult for them to cope with. Well, 1136 01:24:01.560 --> 01:24:08.159 I think I got a good place where it's partially shaded and they'd have the 1137 01:24:08.159 --> 01:24:13.000 best chance. All right, there you go, yep, do you think 1138 01:24:13.399 --> 01:24:16.439 do you think it's a good idea to plant them now and keep them from 1139 01:24:16.479 --> 01:24:23.479 freezing through the winter and then that have maybe a step head start on the 1140 01:24:23.520 --> 01:24:27.399 spring when I transplant them where I want them. That's worth that's worthwhile. 1141 01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:30.600 It's definitely worth a shot. See what you can do. Just don't don't 1142 01:24:30.039 --> 01:24:34.199 peonies can take freezing. I mean they again, they look further north. 1143 01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:38.560 They survive the winners every year. It's just yours are in a container, 1144 01:24:38.680 --> 01:24:44.399 right, and so you also don't want the top to die down. You're 1145 01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:45.960 saying you want to be able to keep it through the winner so it's stronger 1146 01:24:46.000 --> 01:24:49.800 coming out. And I think that makes sense. Okay, Well, thank 1147 01:24:49.840 --> 01:24:53.520 you very much. All right, Larry, thanks for the call. I 1148 01:24:53.560 --> 01:24:58.760 appreciate that very much. You know, Nelson Plant Food. Nelson Plant Food 1149 01:24:58.840 --> 01:25:02.199 is doing this thing I've talking about it where forever bag of carbo loads sold 1150 01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:06.680 this fall, they'll do a two dollars donation to Randy's memorial scholarship Randy Lemon 1151 01:25:06.720 --> 01:25:13.399 Memorial Scholarship for every bag now. Carbo Load is both a fertilizer designed for 1152 01:25:13.479 --> 01:25:16.800 the fall application to strengthen the plants in the winter and to make them come 1153 01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:20.560 out stronger in the spring. And it's also a pre emergent herbicide. So 1154 01:25:20.680 --> 01:25:24.960 put it down watered in with about a half inch of water, because you've 1155 01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:28.600 got to move the fertilizer into the soil, and you've got to move the 1156 01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:32.279 pre emergent herbicide down into the soil surface as well, because that's where it 1157 01:25:32.319 --> 01:25:39.000 does its work to prevent seeds. But Nelson's many places easy to find all 1158 01:25:39.119 --> 01:25:42.840 the great Nelson products. Carbo Load's the one I'm talking about now, though, 1159 01:25:42.920 --> 01:25:46.239 and that's the one that comes to that two dollars bag donation to Randy's 1160 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:51.000 scholarship. We're going to head now out to pair Land and talk to k 1161 01:25:51.279 --> 01:25:58.279 Hello. Okay, good morning Skip. I have just a comment really about 1162 01:25:58.960 --> 01:26:04.680 kudos to I went yesterday to check on I have. I purchased Craig Myrtle 1163 01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:10.920 back in the spring and they were doing work in our backyard in my subdivision 1164 01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:14.000 and I couldn't have it planned it then went by to kind of check on 1165 01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:16.479 it and to see if they I heard you say yesterday that they were having 1166 01:26:16.520 --> 01:26:21.239 a sale up to fifty percent off. So I went in to check because 1167 01:26:21.600 --> 01:26:26.760 I've been looking for a couple of Vitex trees there that I've had my eye 1168 01:26:26.800 --> 01:26:31.159 on. And they said, well, the sale ended yesterday the day before, 1169 01:26:31.760 --> 01:26:35.600 and I said, well, I heard it on the radio on the 1170 01:26:35.600 --> 01:26:40.359 Garden Line show. And he said, well, we have to honor that 1171 01:26:40.479 --> 01:26:45.600 if it was on the radio, and he called to the pit guy and 1172 01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:48.800 he said, yes, go ahead and do that. So I got two 1173 01:26:48.920 --> 01:26:57.199 Vitech trees at a very good sale price. And they checked Mike, who 1174 01:26:57.279 --> 01:27:01.119 was at the head that he talked to set call back, and he said, 1175 01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:04.119 I checked on her record, and you know, he said, I 1176 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:09.000 think we're going to go ahead and continue to sail through December. Oh wow. 1177 01:27:09.119 --> 01:27:15.079 So verdant is and I dealt with Trey very kind, very accommodating, 1178 01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:20.520 very very willing to do everything just right. So I got the two Vitecs 1179 01:27:20.600 --> 01:27:25.840 trees that I've been waiting for, and I'm going to get them all three 1180 01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:30.399 planted on December twelfth. There you go, well, that just sounds like 1181 01:27:30.439 --> 01:27:33.520 a happy ending for everybody. I really was. I'm always glad to hear 1182 01:27:33.600 --> 01:27:40.000 positive comments about these folks that are sponsors, because we chose our sponsors carefully 1183 01:27:40.079 --> 01:27:43.840 and we do want them to be the kind that provide the service and the 1184 01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:47.079 quality products and everything, and we know that that's verdant anyway. But yes, 1185 01:27:47.119 --> 01:27:50.359 it's good. The one other little thing, if I have a chance, 1186 01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:56.520 I went into Friendswood. I deal with Friendswood Hardware and Garden Center, 1187 01:27:56.680 --> 01:28:01.239 and they are no longer Friends with Hardware. They are garden Emporium okay, 1188 01:28:01.319 --> 01:28:05.640 and they have turned all into a garden center. It's beautiful. They have 1189 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:13.800 some of the neatest gift shop items and gardening things and decorations ever. Thank 1190 01:28:13.800 --> 01:28:17.359 you, thank you and your call, and thank you so much for your 1191 01:28:17.399 --> 01:28:23.199 program. I love it. You take care. It's the holiday season and 1192 01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:27.479 ACE is a place for all your Christmas lighting and decoration needs. It's indoor 1193 01:28:27.479 --> 01:28:30.640 stuff, outdoor stuff. Do you need some garland? Do you need wreath 1194 01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:33.760 to put on the door? Do you need lighting? Oh my gosh, 1195 01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:39.159 they've got box lighting and every kind you can imagine, the bulb sizes, 1196 01:28:39.319 --> 01:28:43.239 the shapes, the colors, the everything. And they also have something called 1197 01:28:43.520 --> 01:28:45.199 custom lights by the foot, and you just got to go by there to 1198 01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:48.680 see how this works. But it is what it sounds like. Custom lights 1199 01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:54.760 by the foot. You can create a lighting strand that fits your situation. 1200 01:28:54.920 --> 01:28:57.520 How long does it need to be and so on. Just go by and 1201 01:28:57.560 --> 01:29:00.279 ask the folks at Ace Hardware. Go to Ace Hardware, look at the 1202 01:29:00.319 --> 01:29:04.000 store locator and you can find one of the forty stores in the Greater Houst 1203 01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:09.520 scenario that is near you. We're gonna now go to Alvin and talk to 1204 01:29:09.560 --> 01:29:14.159 Frank. Hello, Frank, Hey, Skip, I'm calling about a live 1205 01:29:14.199 --> 01:29:17.920 oak tree that I have out front. It has some black meldew, like 1206 01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:24.000 a black mildew about midway up the trunk and going up into the branches of 1207 01:29:24.039 --> 01:29:28.760 the tree. Okay, No, the picker woods had been hitting that thing 1208 01:29:28.800 --> 01:29:32.439 and going after it above all the other trees. Okay, things like it's 1209 01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:36.760 sick. What do you recommend? Does the tree itself look okay from a 1210 01:29:36.800 --> 01:29:42.760 distance the amount of foliage and the color of the foliage. Yes, it 1211 01:29:42.840 --> 01:29:46.279 looks okay, but it's not. It's not progressing in growth as fast as 1212 01:29:46.279 --> 01:29:51.800 the other ones around it. Okay, Well, you know the black stuff 1213 01:29:51.880 --> 01:29:57.159 is just a sooty or material, or it could be a lichen of some 1214 01:29:57.199 --> 01:30:00.239 sort, just real dark. I would worry about either one of those. 1215 01:30:00.279 --> 01:30:04.680 That is not the problem. You might dig down around the base of the 1216 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:09.600 tree with a little hand trowel or get a water hose to blast out some 1217 01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:14.399 of the soil and look for a root going around the trunk that might be 1218 01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:18.039 embedded into the trunk. Sometimes this is underground, you don't really see it. 1219 01:30:18.119 --> 01:30:23.279 Sometimes it's right at the surface. But as that happens, the tree 1220 01:30:23.319 --> 01:30:28.439 will continue to declimb because it's being cut off from its root supply of water 1221 01:30:28.479 --> 01:30:31.079 and nutrients. I don't know that that's what's happening, but that's one thing 1222 01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:33.640 that could happen. Other than that, I would say, next spring, 1223 01:30:33.960 --> 01:30:39.079 let's get some fertilizer on it, wash it in really good, and just 1224 01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:44.279 see if it responds to that. Okay, wait to spring to fertilize. 1225 01:30:44.279 --> 01:30:45.520 Don't fertilize at this time for it. I mean, you can put a 1226 01:30:45.520 --> 01:30:49.359 little bit down now, but oak trees are not going to be actively growing 1227 01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:54.479 in the winter, and so would I would wait until the early spring and 1228 01:30:54.520 --> 01:31:00.520 get it done at that time. What about these fertilizer spikes. Yeah, 1229 01:31:00.560 --> 01:31:03.039 will you hammer around or do you recommend those at all? No? No, 1230 01:31:03.159 --> 01:31:08.359 I don't. That tree has a root system that goes way out beyond 1231 01:31:08.399 --> 01:31:12.000 the branches in all directions. And when you put a spike in, you're 1232 01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:16.119 putting a fertilizer in one tiny location spot. And yeah, some roots will 1233 01:31:16.119 --> 01:31:19.279 benefit from that. But if you want to make your tree healthier, fertilize 1234 01:31:19.279 --> 01:31:23.479 the whole area. If there's a lawn under it, when you fertilize your 1235 01:31:23.520 --> 01:31:27.600 lawn, it's helping that tree too, because there are roots all through the 1236 01:31:27.640 --> 01:31:30.760 soil, not just where you might put a spike. Plus plus spikes are 1237 01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:35.279 a somewhat expensive way to go about fertilizing. I got you, Okay, 1238 01:31:35.760 --> 01:31:40.039 thank you very much for your information. You're very informative. Thank you great. 1239 01:31:40.199 --> 01:31:45.279 I appreciate your call very much. Let's uh tell you what Let's go 1240 01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:49.840 now out to John in Santa Fe. Hey, John, good morning, 1241 01:31:49.880 --> 01:31:55.079 and thank you for your show. Sir. I have Russells sprouts that are 1242 01:31:55.119 --> 01:31:59.720 about a put in a half tall, and something's eating the leaves. What 1243 01:32:00.319 --> 01:32:05.640 put on it? Have you looked around the plant to see if you can 1244 01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:11.560 find the culprit I'm my best guess is that it's a caterpillar. That's the 1245 01:32:11.640 --> 01:32:15.199 most likely by far. When you turn a leaf over, you may see 1246 01:32:15.239 --> 01:32:17.680 them they kind of almost sure the color of the leaves sometimes, but you 1247 01:32:17.720 --> 01:32:23.640 may stand underneath. They'll eat holes in the leaves, and for small plants, 1248 01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:26.920 they'll even eat almost a whole leaf up when it's a little bitty leaf. 1249 01:32:28.239 --> 01:32:33.039 Bacillus thuringiensis is an organic spray. It's a disease of caterpillars. It's 1250 01:32:33.079 --> 01:32:39.079 a type of bacteria that doesn't hurt anything else, doesn't hurt ladybugs and grasshoppers 1251 01:32:39.119 --> 01:32:43.800 and other things, but it does kill the caterpillars. And you have to 1252 01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:46.720 spray it where they are feeding and because they have to eat it, and 1253 01:32:46.800 --> 01:32:50.840 so you kind of spray upward from underneath, and that'll do a pretty good 1254 01:32:50.960 --> 01:32:57.079 job of controlling the caterpillars. You might put just a few drops of soap 1255 01:32:57.119 --> 01:33:00.399 in it to kind of help that spray stick to the leaves, because Brussels 1256 01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:03.800 sprouts and other coal crops can be a little a little bit on the slick 1257 01:33:03.840 --> 01:33:09.760 side where water just boils up and or balls up and roll off. Yeah 1258 01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:15.039 s a fact exactly. There. You go huh, but check first, 1259 01:33:15.079 --> 01:33:17.000 just to make sure it's caterpillars. But that's what I would do. That's 1260 01:33:17.000 --> 01:33:23.279 about as low tox as you can get. All right, What about seven 1261 01:33:23.399 --> 01:33:27.520 dust? Seven dust will also kill them. You can get it on. 1262 01:33:27.680 --> 01:33:30.760 When they eat seven dust, it will kill them. It lasts quite a 1263 01:33:30.760 --> 01:33:33.840 while out in the environment, and so we always say wash your vegetables, 1264 01:33:33.960 --> 01:33:40.439 especially when you're using something that's so persistent as that. Okay, okay, 1265 01:33:40.840 --> 01:33:44.680 how long how long does the seven dust last? Okay, I'm trying to 1266 01:33:44.720 --> 01:33:49.680 calculate. Okay, some little Brussels sprouts. Yeah, oh no, no, 1267 01:33:49.479 --> 01:33:53.399 no, not that long. We're talking a week or two out there 1268 01:33:53.399 --> 01:33:56.199 in the garden. Yeah, it doesn't break down the BT. You're going 1269 01:33:56.239 --> 01:34:00.960 to need to spray it maybe twice a week until you've got those caterpillars shut 1270 01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:03.319 down. But anyway, don I'm gonna have to take a break here. 1271 01:34:03.520 --> 01:34:06.439 Thank you very much for the call. I appreciate that. Our phone number 1272 01:34:06.600 --> 01:34:14.399 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to garden 1273 01:34:14.399 --> 01:34:16.720 Line. Glad you're listening today, and here is a phone number if you'd 1274 01:34:16.760 --> 01:34:19.880 like to give us a call. This is the last half hour of the 1275 01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:24.319 show this weekend, and so this would be a good time to give us 1276 01:34:24.359 --> 01:34:28.600 a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four. If I 1277 01:34:28.600 --> 01:34:30.600 have any questions we can help with, We're more than happy to do that. 1278 01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:36.880 Uh. Star of Texas is one of the best causes that I can 1279 01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:42.600 think of in terms of where should your money go? Where? Where? 1280 01:34:42.760 --> 01:34:46.359 How do you help Star of Hope. Let's say Star of Texas. That's 1281 01:34:46.399 --> 01:34:48.720 a stock show. By the way, for those of you who live in 1282 01:34:48.720 --> 01:34:54.199 the Austin area, Star of Hope, thank you for Josh. Star of 1283 01:34:54.319 --> 01:35:00.840 Hope is doing just amazing work here. We're talking about huge numbers of people 1284 01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:05.359 that they bring in and they change your life. It's not just feeding them. 1285 01:35:05.399 --> 01:35:10.119 They do feed them, but how about training, how about caring for 1286 01:35:10.199 --> 01:35:14.079 the kids while mom is learning about things so she can go out and get 1287 01:35:14.079 --> 01:35:18.760 a job, or while dad is. Star Hope is absolutely the best organization 1288 01:35:18.880 --> 01:35:24.439 I know of when it comes to dealing with the homeless folks around Houston and 1289 01:35:24.520 --> 01:35:29.960 providing life change. Not just food for a day, but your donations can 1290 01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:33.520 help them serve more than five thousand meals a week to the residents for just 1291 01:35:33.600 --> 01:35:38.279 two dollars and eighty cents, you can provide a meal and that's pocket change. 1292 01:35:39.039 --> 01:35:42.399 Consider supporting Star Hope. My wife and I do, and I find 1293 01:35:42.800 --> 01:35:48.439 that it is one of the most worthy organizations of our funds because every dollar 1294 01:35:48.600 --> 01:35:56.840 you give changes somebody for the better. It's absolutely just the stories and the 1295 01:35:56.880 --> 01:36:00.199 stories you hear coming out of Star Hoarpe just amazing. And I've been there, 1296 01:36:00.640 --> 01:36:04.239 visited with residents before there, but it's just an amazing place. S 1297 01:36:04.359 --> 01:36:11.920 o Hmission dot org. S o hmission dot org. We're gonna go now 1298 01:36:11.960 --> 01:36:15.880 to pair Land and talk to Kevin Hellokevin, Hey, good morning, Skip. 1299 01:36:16.520 --> 01:36:20.000 I know this question has been asked many at times, and I'm sorry 1300 01:36:20.159 --> 01:36:25.199 for re asking it, but what is the deal this year with all of 1301 01:36:25.239 --> 01:36:31.760 the acorns there? It's kind of a perfect storm thing. Coven acorn oak 1302 01:36:31.800 --> 01:36:36.000 trees. They have a certain cycle that they produce acrons on, some some 1303 01:36:36.239 --> 01:36:41.560 just like every two years and some annually. Uh. And when you combine 1304 01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:45.760 that with the fact that certain years are just heavy mass years. The mast 1305 01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:50.359 is the term they use for the acorn production or just heavy mast years, 1306 01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:56.279 and this is one of them everywhere, and it's interesting. It's not just 1307 01:36:56.319 --> 01:36:59.720 here in Houston. I have a mother in law in the San Antonio area. 1308 01:37:00.439 --> 01:37:02.800 Driving up her driveway is like running over bubble wrap. I mean, 1309 01:37:03.479 --> 01:37:09.000 all the acorns that are on the driveway. It's just crazy, crazy amounts. 1310 01:37:10.439 --> 01:37:13.600 Yeah, it's it's not. It's not a sign of a problem though, 1311 01:37:13.640 --> 01:37:16.800 So don't worry. Don't worry about that. Just don't run. Don't 1312 01:37:16.840 --> 01:37:21.880 run barefoot through the yard for just a little while here. Okay, thank 1313 01:37:21.880 --> 01:37:27.159 you very much for the question. Yeah, we've we've had that one a 1314 01:37:27.199 --> 01:37:31.079 lot. But uh, you know, it's just part of what do we 1315 01:37:31.119 --> 01:37:35.159 call it, the vicissitudes of nature maybe affecting that. I think that's probably 1316 01:37:35.159 --> 01:37:41.319 a big part of it as well. Have you been out to enchanted forest 1317 01:37:41.920 --> 01:37:45.039 that's in the Richmond are In fact, if you're if you're in Richmond and 1318 01:37:45.079 --> 01:37:49.319 you're going on fifty nine towards sugar Land, it's going to be off to 1319 01:37:49.359 --> 01:37:54.640 the right, off to the right, and enchanted forest isn't enchanting place right 1320 01:37:54.680 --> 01:37:59.800 now. They've got their fresh Christmas greenery, and I'm talking about fresh wreaths 1321 01:37:59.840 --> 01:38:05.279 and swags and garland and really quality fresh cut Christmas trees, beautiful gargeous trees, 1322 01:38:05.439 --> 01:38:12.039 absolutely and feel that a wonderful pine type smell in your house. That 1323 01:38:12.119 --> 01:38:17.039 evergreen smells so so nice. Saturday yesterday was a great day out there. 1324 01:38:17.079 --> 01:38:23.479 Today is a great day out there again. Anytime you go out to Enchanted 1325 01:38:23.560 --> 01:38:28.720 Forest, you just you enter an enchanting world where they have everything, everything 1326 01:38:29.079 --> 01:38:33.359 that you possibly could need. The plants right now are outstanding. The decorations 1327 01:38:33.399 --> 01:38:39.000 for outdoors or outstanding. You know when I'm talking about house plants are holiday 1328 01:38:39.000 --> 01:38:43.319 plants. I usually am talking about points that is and Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas 1329 01:38:43.319 --> 01:38:46.520 cactus. I've forgotten to talk about one, and that's in theorium, and 1330 01:38:46.680 --> 01:38:50.840 theorium is it's a green leaf plant, but the top the spath where the 1331 01:38:51.680 --> 01:38:57.680 equivalent of the bloom up on top is beautiful red. And you just have 1332 01:38:57.760 --> 01:39:00.680 to go out and Enchanted for Us has got a great ply of them. 1333 01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:04.319 Check out the etherium. I should have included that in the holiday list as 1334 01:39:04.359 --> 01:39:09.800 well. We're going to go now out to Montgomery and talk to Jen. 1335 01:39:12.640 --> 01:39:18.359 Hey, Jen, hi, I have I just need some general information on 1336 01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:25.399 lawn cair for the winner. Okay, I do have some brown patch I 1337 01:39:25.520 --> 01:39:30.000 noticed I have I think I have a raccoon or somebody that is digging up. 1338 01:39:30.039 --> 01:39:35.600 I think I have moles. Okay, I'm I don't know what to 1339 01:39:35.640 --> 01:39:41.359 do for the winner. Yeah, well, the large patch of brown patch 1340 01:39:42.199 --> 01:39:45.119 if the if you've already got a bunch of circles, there's no spray that 1341 01:39:45.199 --> 01:39:48.640 makes the circle go away the spray. Wait a minute, it's not it's 1342 01:39:48.720 --> 01:39:55.359 not circles. It's just like a whole area of brown. We're kind of 1343 01:39:55.399 --> 01:39:59.840 like dead grass, don't I don't know that it's brown patches, brown patch. 1344 01:39:59.840 --> 01:40:03.760 I'll the circle circular, not always a perfect circle, but it tends 1345 01:40:03.800 --> 01:40:08.239 to be more circular than I think. What you're looking at is gress. 1346 01:40:08.279 --> 01:40:12.520 It just got stressed from summer drought. It could have been maybe killed outright 1347 01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:16.159 by drought, but it also could be a disease that often follows up stress 1348 01:40:16.239 --> 01:40:20.960 like drought in Saint Augustine lawns and some other species. And that's called take 1349 01:40:21.039 --> 01:40:25.720 all root rot, and it just kills the plant. As the name implies, 1350 01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:30.479 it takes all by killing the roots, and the plant just doesn't survive 1351 01:40:30.920 --> 01:40:34.680 that disease. Now is the time still when you can do some things about 1352 01:40:34.680 --> 01:40:40.000 it. But most importantly I think at this point in time would be a 1353 01:40:40.039 --> 01:40:47.119 spring application of something to prevent that disease from occurring. Diseases are always better 1354 01:40:47.159 --> 01:40:51.279 to prevent than to try to cure, and that would be the time. 1355 01:40:51.880 --> 01:40:55.239 Call me back in the spring, or just go online and look at my 1356 01:40:56.119 --> 01:41:00.760 schedules. If you go to gardening with skip dot com, the schedule is 1357 01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:05.479 there and it tells you for take all root rot when the application times ideally 1358 01:41:05.520 --> 01:41:10.359 would be Okay, okay, now this is this is what my neighbor told 1359 01:41:10.399 --> 01:41:15.359 me to wait. But in the meantime, should I be watering or you 1360 01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:19.680 should not have to water your lawn in the winter? Hardly after water that 1361 01:41:19.840 --> 01:41:25.560 demands are super low. We do get some rain, the evaporation has decreased 1362 01:41:25.600 --> 01:41:29.640 significantly, and I mean, if we go through I don't know, three 1363 01:41:29.680 --> 01:41:33.680 weeks no rain and we are getting some warmer temperatures, maybe a little a 1364 01:41:33.720 --> 01:41:36.920 little water would be fine. But in general I do not ever water in 1365 01:41:36.960 --> 01:41:41.479 the winter myself. You don't, okay, Okay, one more thing, 1366 01:41:41.600 --> 01:41:46.600 what about I have like I have moles or okay, hey, hey, 1367 01:41:46.680 --> 01:41:49.920 jan you got a bunch of questions and I'd like to help with them. 1368 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:51.960 I'm going to put you on hold. We're going to take a break and 1369 01:41:53.000 --> 01:41:56.600 when I come back, we'll continue this call. The phone number is seven 1370 01:41:56.680 --> 01:42:01.079 one three two one two five eight seven four. Be right back. Welcome 1371 01:42:01.119 --> 01:42:05.159 back to Garden Line. We're entering our last segment for the weekend. We're 1372 01:42:05.159 --> 01:42:11.000 here ever Saturday and every Sunday from six am to ten am, so you 1373 01:42:11.039 --> 01:42:14.159 can listen in if you'd like to give us a call. Our phone number 1374 01:42:14.239 --> 01:42:17.800 is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four. A while 1375 01:42:17.800 --> 01:42:24.840 ago, I was talking about Enchanted Forest and the ethereum and whatnot that they 1376 01:42:24.880 --> 01:42:27.720 have in You know, they also have a great supply of cycleman by the 1377 01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:30.840 way, and that is just whether it's putting it in containers, using it 1378 01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:33.760 to decorate indoors. You got to get it back out in the sun between 1379 01:42:34.079 --> 01:42:39.359 between activities. But it's a great plant too. And to get to Enchanted 1380 01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:44.239 Forest you just go out of Richmond northward sugar Land. But it's FM twenty 1381 01:42:44.239 --> 01:42:47.239 seven fifty nine. That's the road there on twenty seven fifty nine, and 1382 01:42:47.560 --> 01:42:51.560 really do go check it out because it is an enchanting place for sure. 1383 01:42:53.199 --> 01:42:56.880 We've been talking to Jen out of Montgomery and I think we're going to continue 1384 01:42:56.880 --> 01:43:00.640 that right now. Hello, Jen, Okay, Hi, I'm in my 1385 01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:05.520 car on my way to shirt so I'm fine. Okay, So I have 1386 01:43:05.760 --> 01:43:15.279 some I think you're grubs, and I've had some holes in my backyard and 1387 01:43:15.319 --> 01:43:17.720 my neighbors said, possibly I have her breadcold or something like that. So 1388 01:43:18.319 --> 01:43:24.600 okayot grub grub away or whatever it was. Okay, it says I only 1389 01:43:24.600 --> 01:43:28.119 put it down in the spring. Okay, so I should just wait on 1390 01:43:28.239 --> 01:43:30.039 that. Yes, yes, but here's what you need to do. My 1391 01:43:30.199 --> 01:43:36.720 schedule at gardeningw skip dot com tells you when the grub applications need to be 1392 01:43:36.840 --> 01:43:43.199 We do an earlier grub application for the young larvae near the surface that have 1393 01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:46.159 hatched out from the junebugs in our feeding, and then we can go a 1394 01:43:46.239 --> 01:43:49.520 little bit later and do one. But it's a little bit different product approach 1395 01:43:49.600 --> 01:43:53.560 when we go through those two. But it's all there on the schedule. 1396 01:43:53.600 --> 01:43:56.399 You don't have to remember it. You just go check it, check it 1397 01:43:56.439 --> 01:43:59.880 out, print it out for yourself and tell me. Tell me again what 1398 01:44:00.720 --> 01:44:10.800 skip gardening with skip that's me gardening with skip dot. Yeah, that's just 1399 01:44:10.920 --> 01:44:15.159 on my computer. Yes, And when you get there, you're going to 1400 01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:18.439 scroll down and you're going to see some really interesting articles that have dealt with 1401 01:44:18.479 --> 01:44:23.159 stuff through the year. But you're also going to see these two charts that 1402 01:44:23.199 --> 01:44:29.560 are multi colored for fertilizing and managing pest weeds and diseases. Okay, all 1403 01:44:29.640 --> 01:44:32.279 right, super well, I always listen to you, and I never all 1404 01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:35.359 of a sudden I'm realizing I've got some problems. All right, Well, 1405 01:44:35.359 --> 01:44:41.840 that's why we're here just so right now, I'm just gonna forget to do 1406 01:44:41.960 --> 01:44:45.439 anything, right, I think so. I think based on what we're seeing 1407 01:44:45.640 --> 01:44:49.119 the little holes in the yard, it could be just armadilla's pushing their noses 1408 01:44:49.159 --> 01:44:53.319 in around. It could be skunk. There's a lot of different critters that 1409 01:44:53.399 --> 01:44:56.640 can do that. Yeah, yeah, okay, I know what it is. 1410 01:44:56.680 --> 01:45:00.840 But okay, thank you very very much. All Right, you're welcome. 1411 01:45:00.880 --> 01:45:05.479 Thank you very much for your call. Jan Let's see, we have 1412 01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:09.840 got a clear board here. I'm going to get in close to kind of 1413 01:45:10.159 --> 01:45:13.399 time to go out, so I think we'll make a few more comments. 1414 01:45:13.399 --> 01:45:16.479 I've got some things I wanted to talk about that I didn't get to today, 1415 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:23.600 and one of them is gardening gifts. This is a perfect time to 1416 01:45:23.720 --> 01:45:26.199 get a gift for the gardener. In your life. In fact, I 1417 01:45:26.239 --> 01:45:29.640 would put it this way, this is the perfect time to give garden related 1418 01:45:29.680 --> 01:45:32.960 gifts to everybody that is around. And here's what I mean. Gardeners love 1419 01:45:33.039 --> 01:45:38.239 plants, right, Gardeners love tools. It's easy to shop for a gardener. 1420 01:45:38.960 --> 01:45:43.159 For some other folks that aren't into gardening, they probably would love to 1421 01:45:43.159 --> 01:45:45.000 have a house plant. You go to a gathering during the holidays and you 1422 01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:48.760 want to take a hostess gift, well, those ethereums I was talking about 1423 01:45:48.760 --> 01:45:53.319 would be a great choice, as would cyclemen for example. But there's a 1424 01:45:53.359 --> 01:45:57.520 lot of good options out there for that. And for people that you know 1425 01:45:57.680 --> 01:46:01.640 just aren't into plants at all, the bird feeders and the bird houses and 1426 01:46:01.680 --> 01:46:04.960 the different things they have at Walberts would be a great gift as well, 1427 01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:11.760 because who doesn't enjoy watching hummingbirds right on the outside. And I just think 1428 01:46:11.800 --> 01:46:16.199 that this season gives us so many opportunities to really provide some really cool stuff 1429 01:46:16.840 --> 01:46:19.920 to the folks in our life and help them be a better gardener. By 1430 01:46:19.920 --> 01:46:23.680 the way, remember when you give somebody a plant, like I say, 1431 01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:27.279 a rose bush, for the rest of the time they're there at that house, 1432 01:46:27.880 --> 01:46:30.600 they're going to remember you. Every time they see that rose bush, 1433 01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:32.920 that's the rose bush it So and So gave me. That means a lot. 1434 01:46:33.039 --> 01:46:38.359 If you've got an elderly person in your family or life and you also 1435 01:46:38.720 --> 01:46:43.640 go buy and plant it for them, that's just an extra gift. So 1436 01:46:44.159 --> 01:46:45.880 something to think about. Let's head out to Galveston. Now we're going to 1437 01:46:45.880 --> 01:46:50.159 talk to Bill. Hello. Bill, Hi, got a question for you 1438 01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:55.479 about citrus trees. I've got citrus trees that have curly leaves on on their 1439 01:46:55.520 --> 01:46:59.239 green but they're curly, and I'm trying to figure out what's causmic that is 1440 01:46:59.359 --> 01:47:03.880 caused by the citrus leaf miner. It's a little fly creature that lays an 1441 01:47:03.880 --> 01:47:09.319 egg in the leaf and a and not a caterpillar. A fly larvae, 1442 01:47:09.319 --> 01:47:14.239 which would be technically a maggot, eats through the insides of the leaf tissues 1443 01:47:14.279 --> 01:47:17.640 between the upper and lower surface. You'll see their little trails as well as 1444 01:47:17.680 --> 01:47:21.600 a little thin black line which is them pooping as they go along, thank 1445 01:47:21.640 --> 01:47:26.640 you very much. And the foliage curls up, it gets silvery looking, 1446 01:47:26.760 --> 01:47:30.359 white looking, it just curls up. It They they are focused on the 1447 01:47:30.439 --> 01:47:36.119 new tender leaf tissue, so the old leathery already fully developed leaves that that's 1448 01:47:36.159 --> 01:47:41.760 not what they go after. So you can use sprays for it. Sprays 1449 01:47:41.840 --> 01:47:47.800 containing spinosid s P I N O S A D. Spinosid soaks into the 1450 01:47:47.880 --> 01:47:54.479 leaf tissues. So oil won't help or not OLNM oil can help, but 1451 01:47:54.600 --> 01:47:59.079 I would rather than do a knem oil. I would do the asid direct 1452 01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:01.479 in form of name. When you go to a garden center and you see 1453 01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:06.000 name products, there's two forms. One is the oil and the other has 1454 01:48:06.039 --> 01:48:11.840 this long word as a direct and as the ingredient that is extracted from the 1455 01:48:11.920 --> 01:48:15.000 name plant, and that will soak into the tissues and do a very good 1456 01:48:15.079 --> 01:48:21.279 job against leaf feeding creatures as well. But one last thing about the leaf 1457 01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:26.960 miner. Once the tree is established and doing good, leaf miners just don't 1458 01:48:26.960 --> 01:48:30.239 really bother a lot. You have a young tree in every shoot that's trying 1459 01:48:30.279 --> 01:48:32.760 to grow is suffering from them. I get it, But in general, 1460 01:48:32.840 --> 01:48:36.000 you don't have to always spray citrus. If you can put up with it 1461 01:48:36.119 --> 01:48:41.199 not being quite as attractive, you're still going to have plenty of leaves that 1462 01:48:41.319 --> 01:48:45.880 come out and support the bloom production and fruit production. Can you spell that 1463 01:48:45.960 --> 01:48:54.880 thing? I'm supposed to get a Z A D R A C H T 1464 01:48:55.079 --> 01:48:59.960 I N yes, sir, that is it. Now, that's the en. 1465 01:49:00.479 --> 01:49:02.159 If you want to go the name way Spinosa, it is s P 1466 01:49:02.520 --> 01:49:08.560 I NO S A D. That's generally what I recommend. But I think 1467 01:49:08.600 --> 01:49:14.840 alternating between the two would be wise because some of these insectorcides you can get 1468 01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:18.880 bugs building up resistance to them. So it's always good to switch things out 1469 01:49:18.880 --> 01:49:23.439 a little bit. How often do you do it? What's the week and 1470 01:49:23.560 --> 01:49:28.840 switcher the switch? You could do that or you could I mean you switch 1471 01:49:28.880 --> 01:49:31.199 in seasons even if you want. But yeah, if you got them both 1472 01:49:31.199 --> 01:49:34.159 on hand and you switch out between the two, just remember all you got 1473 01:49:34.159 --> 01:49:39.279 to spray is a tender new growth. That's what's got the that's the target, 1474 01:49:39.840 --> 01:49:44.640 and so don't worry about spraying all the old leathery leaves. Okay, 1475 01:49:44.640 --> 01:49:46.000 thank you so much. All right, Bill, thank you. I appreciate 1476 01:49:46.079 --> 01:49:50.560 that very much. Well, here we are, end of another gardenline day. 1477 01:49:50.720 --> 01:49:55.399 Thank you for listening. Appreciate that. I hope you'll get out today. 1478 01:49:55.520 --> 01:49:59.880 The weather is awesome, it looks beautiful. Be a good day to 1479 01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:03.159 out and do some of that shopping for friends and family. It'd be a 1480 01:50:03.159 --> 01:50:05.960 good day to get out and just see some of the cool stuff that we 1481 01:50:06.039 --> 01:50:10.520 have at our local garden center. Some of our other suppliers we talk about 1482 01:50:11.199 --> 01:50:15.000 have the product maybe to get those Christmas lights you've been planning on getting up, 1483 01:50:15.159 --> 01:50:18.079 or the swag and the other decorations. It's a good time for all 1484 01:50:18.119 --> 01:50:23.000 of that, and I hope that you have a really blessed weekend. We 1485 01:50:23.039 --> 01:50:27.920 look forward to talking to you again. We are going to be continuing to 1486 01:50:28.000 --> 01:50:31.359 answer gardening questions and talk about things that are current with the season as we 1487 01:50:31.479 --> 01:50:35.960 go through week by week. That is really important, So anytime you have 1488 01:50:36.000 --> 01:50:41.520 a question, feel free to just give us a call. It's Saturday mornings 1489 01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:45.039 and Sunday mornings six to ten. I'll talk to you next week.