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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter.

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It's so crazy just watch him as
Welcome back to garden Line. I'm

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your host, Skip Richter, and
we are here to talk all kinds of

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things gardening. Now, you know, we love our feed stores on garden

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Line and down in the League City
area. League City Feed is your hometown

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feed store. The Thunderbergs began that
store over forty years ago. Wes and

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Madison still take care of the store
and it is it is just as good

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as it ever was. In fact, when you go in there, you

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know you're going to get quality feed. But you also can find all the

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fertilizers that we've recommended for a long
time on garden Line. You're going to

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find things to deal with pests,
weeds, fungicides, certain quality pet food.

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If you got backyard chickens, they
can take care of you. They

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still carry the bags out for you. I mean, this is the old

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time feed store. Feel for all
of you out there in San Leon and

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Baycliff and Webster, Santa fe el
kaminarea, League City that whole region League

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City Feed is your hometown feed store. Give them a call at two eight

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one three three two sixteen twelve.
Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.

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They're closed today, but they're open
Monday through Saturday, nine am to

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six pm. Seeking to swing by
right after work and pick up whatever you

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need. And you're gonna find what
you can need there too. By the

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way, we are fortunate this morning
to be able to have Martin Spoon Moore

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from Affordable Tree Care. Uh.
And he's in the studio or actually he's

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in my phone with me right now. Welcome Martin. Watch up Skip.

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How are you, buddy, I'm
I'm well. Some people say I'm barely

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tolerable, but I think I'm doing
better than that. How are you doing?

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I'm good. I'm sorry I couldn't
make you down to the radio station,

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but this is my weekend to set
up at church. So okay,

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I put all the chairs and tables
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say, you got your priorities right, So we're gonna We're gonna let that

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one go. Hold on skip home. My ladies at church want to say

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Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry, Christmas, Dollie, you too.

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How many of you does it take
to keep Martin in line? Over there?

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Are they already gone? Hold on, Jackie? How many keep me

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in line? What it takes the
village? Right? Well, the crazy

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Jackie? Yeah? Yeah, okay, all right, Well, hey,

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I appreciate I appreciate you being on. I've been promising listeners today that you're

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going to come in here and we're
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about keeping a tree healthy, uh, proper pruning, proper planning, just

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just kind of the whole nine yards. Martin, what are what are some

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of the things the mistakes you see
made as you drive around town, as

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you service people trees, people's trees
across the Houston area. What are some

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of the most common mistakes you see
made? What you wish you could go

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back in time and fix. You
know, the biggest thing for me,

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skip is the treatments of the trees, the deep rout feeding that's important to

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trees, especially here in our southern
climate. The more you feed the tree,

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the healthy the root system is going
to be, the better the tree

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is going to cycle. And when
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beautiful live oaks and water oaks and
something that is just going under so

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much stress because of the weapon we
have, and people just don't do anything

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to it. Just watch it die
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Right, Yeah, that's that's a
good point. What I've seen is

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just it'll blow your mind when some
of these people trim trees around here.

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It's range every time I see it. But yeah, you know, keeper

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is not always better. Skip what
is not always better. Cheaper is not

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always better. Oh my gosh,
is that not the truth or another way

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to put as you get what you
pay for, you get. Yeah,

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yeah, but I tell you driving
around and looking at pruning job there's a

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website I can't remember the name of
it, but it basically is horticulture pruning

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disasters. You look at it and
people that just create these crazy looking things.

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There's a I saw a tree one
time and it looked like a pac

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Man with the power lines going through
it. So they like cut a C

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shaped hole out of the side of
a tree so that the power lines could

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go through it. I always tell
people that, you know, if you

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don't plant the right tree under a
power line, the power line company will

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take care of a tree for you, but you won't like what they do.

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Yeah, we we dealt with that
just Friday, to be exact,

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big beautiful eyeboat and been there for
years and here, of course here comes

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the power line people and they take
the whole backside of it all for you,

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and there's not anything you can do
about it. You know, holler,

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but they don't listen. Yeah,
yeah, there's all there's all kinds

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of trees. When people top trees, it's like top crate myrtles. Yes,

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it's just bad. You don't do
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I was gonna say when and that's
for for life. When you screw

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up a tree bad enough. I
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but it's never going to be the
same. No, it'll never be

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the same. If you've got to, if you've got to cut the top

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off of it, you might as
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crate myrtles. And I you know, the crate myrtle massacres what we call

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it. Yeah, And when they
when they do those some of those trees

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that way, it's just it's just
horrible. There's no fixing it. There's

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nothing you can do to fix the
pace yep. Well, it's one of

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the one of the plants, one
of the tree type plants in our landscape

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that is beautiful in the winter time
because of that structure. And it could

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be a beautiful candelabra of branches,
or it could just be you know,

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chopped off. That's another one.
You know, you got a landscape crew

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nothing to do in the winter.
Here's some printers go cut everything about head

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high. And then that's how that
gets started. Along with the little volcano

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cones of maults that we see everywhere. Oh my god, that's another thing.

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These people build these big mounds of
malts and again these guys trying to

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give it away because they buy in
bolt. But it's actually bad for your

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trees. And you're crazy. You
keep pounding all that maltz around it like

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that you could act uppocate the tree. But you know, try to tell

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people, but they just sometimes it
goes in one ear and out the other.

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Brother, Yes, sir, I
understand that. Go ahead. When

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you host a radio show, I
know, I know you should, Randy

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crazy. You answer a question and
the very next question is the same question.

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But that's part of the deal.
That's part of the deal. That's

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Okay. The only time on that
radio, Yeah, the only time it

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bothers me is when someone tells me
what I said that I never said because

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they didn't quite hear it right,
So maybe I need to make more sense.

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Well, we'll see people hear what
they want to hear. There you

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go, well down that road.
Yeah, I got about a minute left

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here. So any other thing that
you know, driving around, you go,

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man, I wish you hadn't done
that. Here's one thing, skip

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You've got these people. You see
them pruning these trees the wrong time of

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the year. And if you're going
to prune the tree, oak trees,

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elm trees, maple trees up a
cons you got to just make sure they

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do it at the correct time of
the year. And you know yourself,

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we don't kick off our trune until
after October fifteenth through the February. You

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know. Now, the other scrub
trees, ash and talas, we can

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turn them a little bit later,
but we want to make sure that we

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prove them and deep root feed them
at the right time of the year to

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get the better canopies. The nicer
canopies, the healthier the tree. We

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want to make sure that you're doing
it correctly when the tree is in the

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state of dormancy. Yes, and
that's come October fifteenth to the end of

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February, and we just start.
That's our window, me and Randy,

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now you that's we live by that
rule, right, Okay? Good?

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Well, Hey, I got to
run. I got to run to a

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commercial. When we come back,
I want to continue that. But we

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got Becky with a maple tree question. We're going to come to her first.

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Anyone else wants to call and pick
Martin's brain. Seven to one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm

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your host, Skip Richter. We're
here talking with Martin Spoon Moore today.

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We're talking all kinds of trees and
apparently it has raised some interest. We've

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got a few calls coming in here
that are kind of loading up the boards.

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We're going to get to. I
just want to mention something before we

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do that, and that is a
Star of Hope mission. I know that

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the folks listening to me today have
a compassion. They want to be able

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to help people in ways that really
helped. They don't want to just give

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out a handout that does no good. They don't want to throw money away,

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but they want to provide not money, but in many cases your own

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time and being able to volunteer and
to make a difference in lives. And

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that's what Star Hope does. You
know, for two dollars and eighty cents,

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you can feed a person a meal. Star Hope gives housing for folks,

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They give job training, they give
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They help someone take a life that
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around and become self sustaining. And
think about the benefit of that to children

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and a family. When you do
something that turns a family around with little

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kids, you have made a lifetime
change. It's going to last for years.

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Shmission dot org, sohmission dot org. I hope you will enjoy that.

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You will join my wife and I
and being supporters on an ongoing basis

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of Star Hope. You're not going
to find a better cause than that.

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Well, we got Martin here on
the line with us today, and let's

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see. I'm gonna also, Martin, we got a bunch of calls.

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I think I better run do those
with you. Let's start off in San

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Leone talking to Becky Becky, how
can we help today? Yes, I

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have a baby maple tree that I
got from a big maple tree, and

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I wanted to know is it too
early to planet now or shall I wait

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till after the freeze? It's probably
about three feet tall. Why don't you

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take that one? Martin? Wait? Wait, I would probably wait till

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the end of February. That way, if we do have a hard freeze,

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you can still have in the container
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of weather. But I'd probably put
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Okay, any hard freezes. What
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Red maple? But the leaves don't
get read very often? Wrong, that's

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a good tree. After it was
a silver leaf, I would tell you

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to throw it the garbage. But
red maple, so yeah, it does

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well here. So wait till March
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Okay. And then one quick question
about my ugly pecan tree? How can

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I stop it from producing broughten copont
pacons? I don't want the pecans because

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the squirrels make a mess on my
patio. There you go. Well,

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unfortunately, you can't stop the con
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Yeah, I know. It's like
you can keep the tree with me and

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skip we're talking about. You can
deep feed the tree and try to put

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minerals back in the ground. The
tree needs to produce, and if you

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do that, then you start seeing
a healthier pecan. But with pecans,

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it's one year you get a good
batch, one year you don't, and

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then you get what the squirrels don't
want you to have. There you go,

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okay, So the best way to
solve the problem is remove the tree.

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I wish I could. Okay,
all right, y'all have a merry

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Christmas, and thank you so much. All right, Hey, Becky,

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thank you. I appreciate that that
call very much. Boys, you're welcome.

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Is that? Is that ever?
Is that ever true? What's that?

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I would I was just trying to
get out of the column. For

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some reason, I'm not able to
disconnect that. Josh, maybe thank you

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take care of that for me.
Uh yeah, Martin, we we we

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do get a lot of tree questions, and it just it's amazing how everyone

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is I don't know, trees,
turfing, tomatoes, the three t's,

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that's what makes the phone ring.
I know it did an extension office.

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It does in the radio too,
But everybody wants to take care of me

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and for good reason and so and
you know, Skip, I'll have to

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set it up after the holidays,
so I could come in there maybe on

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a Saturday or something. And Fundays
are hard for me because I do a

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lot of this stuff for the church
a brailer. So maybe after the holidays

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one Saturday in January, we can
come in just edit for all kinds of

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three questions for you, buddy,
Well we get we sure get them,

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and that would be that would be
very helpful. Well, I got I

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want to when Randy I had me
come in there on that show, then,

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man, the board would just light
up with tree questions. I know.

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Any Okay, what's happening. It's
happening right now. We're going to

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head now out to Wendy and Northwest
Houston. Hey, Wendy, welcome to

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Gardline. Good morning, it's nice
to talk to you. And Martin Welcome,

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Bavius. My question is I have
a Chinese pistachio tree that's about probably

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twenty three years old, and in
the very beginning my husband cut the top

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off of it when it was just
small, so it's pretty big and all

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the branches are you know, Uh, it's kind of like an umbrella,

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but underneath it there's not any green
leaves. All the leaves are like on

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the end of the branches. So
I didn't know how that it was supposed

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to be cut back now that it's
so big and you know, bunched out

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like an umbrella were. You're not
supposed to cut the tops off posassio pistachios,

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but some people do it because they
do get tall. As far as

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it underneath the canopy, you'd have
to send us a picture so we can

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look at it that way. But
the main things at the pistasio is to

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make sure you keep it fertilized every
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No, I don't think so.
I just thought that that was the

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name of it. I didn't know
it would produce. Uh, some will,

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some won't. I don't know that. Again, you just have to

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send me a picture of the tree
so I can tell you more about it.

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You don't see a lot of pisastios
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they don't. They just don't do
very well. I think I think Wendy

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probably is talking about a Chinese pistache
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Is that correct, Wendy, I
believe. Okay, there's those are

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separate male and female trees on the
Chinese pistache and so uh you may have

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one that produces the little clusters of
berries, uh and then one that doesn't.

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And uh those berries can be a
little bit messy. Yeah, without

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cedar berries. Okay, all right, but are are they supposed to be

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like that? You know, the
the branch is just like bear, and

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then all the green greenery is on
the ends. Is that the ones normal?

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I've got one of my yard and
it it just it does that.

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It has a very unusual branch and
angle pattern and stuff. Yeah, but

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you'll see that. You'll see bear
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end. The more the more you
feed it, the healthier it's going to

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be. Okay, Yeah, it's
healthy. It's just that I didn't know

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if it was supposed to be like
bear all underneath on the limbs and then

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just at the ends was the greenery. Mike. My intends to shade out

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the interior too. You know,
you get a good canopy, it's kind

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of like a live oak. In
a sense, and that you get this

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great canopy out there and the stuff
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Okay, okay, well, I
appreciate the call, and thank you for

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giving me the information. All right, thank you, appreciate that you both.

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Bye bye, yeah, Martin.
There there's so many types of trees

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around, and you're talking about the
Chinese pistache and pecans and things that have

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been called in today. What are
some If someone walks up and says,

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hey, I got a house out
here in a new division, don't have

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any trees in it? Or what
would you recommend to some species you like

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this area. I'm the big red
oak guy. Okay, I love the

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red oaks. I think they grow
fast. The shoe mark not alls will

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put on the big acorns, So
I recommend the more than anything. But

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if you want the probably the slowest
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be the live oat tree because one
that takes root, it grows very fast,

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very well, and it's love very
low maintenance. So well, Houston

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probably my favorite to the plant.
Yeah, I don't I really don't mess

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with maples and pecans and stuff like
that. There's too much, you know,

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the Mexican sycamore. It's very nice
tree. The green ash is still

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a nice tree if you want to
plant something grows pretty fast. But I'm

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a red oak, live oat guy. Okay, Well, and there's a

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reason Houston is a live oak forest. I'm telling you it is just solid

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live oaks. And there's a reason
I call me plant pine tree because it

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ain't gonna happen. Okay, no
pines, no pines, no maples.

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I just don't mess with that stuff. Okay, I'm big on the red

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oaks. All right, very very
good. Uh so. Uh. Our

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phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. If

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you'd like to give us a call
any kind of tree questions, We're happy

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to take him here. I'm going
to head out to Scott in Belleville.

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Now, Scott, how can we
help? Hey? Yeah, you kind

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of sort of touched on what I'm
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in Bellville, very very sandy soil
and a wonderful neighbor that we have just

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put up a little metal building that's
uh, he won't allow us to paint

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a mural on the back of it. So I need some trees that grow

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ass kind of fluffy to be able
to block that out. Okay, any

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thoughts on how you looking? I'm
sorry, we'll tree because all kinds of

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things you can plant back there that
you can get plants, trees, I

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mean, what are you trying to
Well, it's just right on our property

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line. He put he put up
his metal barn and which is fine.

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We just want to put something up
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couple of wax myrtle. If you
look at for privacy, you're not going

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to get that on the privacy out
of a tree. So stick along the

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lines of uh oh wait, the
Japanese blueberries they give you good coverage.

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The Texas wax myrtles, they give
you good coverage. Something that grows fast

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so you don't have to look at
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then that's going to be that's gonna
get expensive real quick. Scott,

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is this is this a country property
where you have some land or is it

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more of the typical residential lot size. No, We've got over two acres

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out there and our house is smack
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will be about one hundred feet away
from us. But it's a big bright

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white metal building. So we just
want to kind of yeah, you know,

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another another idea and you would have
to buy this, I tell you

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what, you know what, I'm
out of time here. Can you hang

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on until we come back from break
and Martin we'll be back. I'm all

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right, good, Well, we'll
put you on hold for now, Scott,

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and we will be right back.
Our phone number if you'd like to

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give us a call and ask Martin
a question seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four. Welcome back
to garden Line. We're glad you're listening

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today. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and we're here today with Martin

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Spoonmore from Affordable Tree Service talking all
kinds of thing trees. If you live

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up in the Montgomery area, your
hometown garden center is A and A plants

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and produce that whole region up there, Montgomery, Lake, Conroe. You

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know the divisions on there. There's
April Sound, and there's the Lago,

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Bentwater, Grand Harbor, all of
those. This is your local place and

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they've got everything you need. If
I talk about a fertilizer on guard Line,

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they've got it. Do you need
things like fungicides or pesticide herbicides.

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They've got it right now. They've
got their wire outdoor lighting. You know,

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you see the little creatures with the
white wires. It's bent wire and

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there's lights on it to look like
a Reindeers. They've got all of that

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twenty five percent off on sale right
now at A and A Plants and Produce

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here on Highway one to five on
the east side of Montgomery as you're heading

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toward Conor on one oh five.
And it's just easy to get there because,

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first of all, seven days a
week, nine to five. You

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can give them a call at nine
three, six five, nine seven fifty

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seventy. And while you're there,
you're going to find a lot of cool

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plants as well. They stay they
stay way stocked up all year long,

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and it's always fun to go in
and see the newest things that they've got.

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We're going to head now, Martin, We're going to go out to

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Belleville and talk to Scott. Hello, Scott, Hey, how you doing

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good? How can we help?
We were talking about you had me hold

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over on the break. Oh that's
wanting to get some because trees or something

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to camouflage s chark white metal barn. That's right, thank you. I

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just want to make a couple of
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closer you get to a screen,
however tall it is, the more it

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blocks. You Know. It's like
if you walk up to a ten foot

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wall, I mean, you can't
see anything, but if you back up

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one hundred feet from a ten foot
wall, you know, you can see

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something that's twelve feet high sticking above
it. So if you've got a building

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like that, do you say it
was two story now it's it's about fifty

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foot long and it's about one hundred
and fifty feet give or take from our

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place. It's just we want to
put something up there to kind of break

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it up. Okay, Well,
as you know, Martin ha mentioned the

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Southern wax myrtles of Possibility. Something
in the country that I often recommend to

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people where they're trying to cover a
long line that would require buying a whole

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lot of container grown trees, is
you can buy contrivation bundles. You usually

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have to order that, maybe even
in the summertime for a winter delivery.

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But it's bear root plants that may
be I don't know, three feet tall.

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They come in a pretty long box, and they're very inexpensive. You're

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talking about a few bucks for each
plant, sometimes two dollars sometimes, you

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know. And you can get Eastern
red cedar, which grows native through your

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area, you know, from Belleville
up through all the way up into the

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College Station area. It's a it's
a country tree, and it's very tough.

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It does well. They fast growing. They are pretty fast grown once

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you get them established. But when
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them, you know, six feet
apart, which is way too close.

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out the others and they're evergreen.
They get quite tall in time. Uh.

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if you're going to have to buy
like one hundred container grown plants of some

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size. But we kind of like
bi techs. I know, they don't

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have any leaves on them in the
winter time, and so I don't know

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about those. But again, we
just need something that's going to keep the

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leaves on it. Provide a canopy
or a kind of like a Texas breaks

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hit all this polage. Even through
the winter, mine are still pretty much

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in bloom. But they're not like
they are due in the summer. They

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grow very fast if you want something
to really grows this things grow foot two

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foot a year. But staying away
from trees and you know, big established

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trees because that's going to get real
expensive for you. But yeah, the

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theater skip just messioned that's used to
be by that in bulk. Yeah,

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somewhere I'm sure somebody has they just
you know, come probably let you dig

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them up or not a favorite tree, but you know they know they will

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grow for you. Yeah, that's
right now. I wouldn't recommend them to

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That's why I ask if you were
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them for that. But in the
countryside where you got this roadway and you

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want to block it from view and
the dust is coming off the dirt road

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and stuff. But they're a great
tree. If you want more information on

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those, scott if you'll stay on
hold, I'll have Josh pick up and

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get your email. Give you an
email and I will send you a list

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of two or three wholesalers in the
southeast US. But again, they are

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typically sold out by now. On
those trees and they're bare roots so you

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only plan them in the very cold
part of winter. Sounds good. I'll

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do that, Thank you, you
bet, thank you very much. I

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appreciate that. Oh Man Martin,
I ask you about some trees that you

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like and species. What about when
somebody's going to do some construction around maybe

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they're going to put in a sidewalk
or they have to do some trenching by

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a tree, A lot of damage
can get done. And how do you

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help people with that kind of situation? Well, s get we do at

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the consultation. If people got trees, the big fifty sixty year old live

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oaks that they're trying to preserve,
you have to put new sidewalks. It's

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doing foundations they do. They need
a contractors to come out and do a

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consultation to tell them which way they
can go, what they can cut,

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and how much they can trim on
it. You know, if it's worth

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even investing. It might be cheaper
just to get rid of the tree than

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try and spend the money on preserving
it. Yeah back times, Yeah that

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expensive, can't it? Another related
question is that I get as people say,

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I've got these roots up above the
surface, Now, how many can

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I cut? You know or questions
like that free per year. But the

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trick is that they don't fertilize do
the deep root feeding like we recommend,

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Skip, that that root system would
just keep coming to the surface. There's

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nothing you don't do about it.
But you can literally take one root per

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tree per year. But you've got
a deep root feed that tree to be

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able to do that. Okay,
but you know, and don't come in

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here and try to cover it up
with four or five, six, eight

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inches of dirt because you'll suffocate the
tree. The tree to out, yeah,

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over it, especially a large area
covering it up like that. Yeah,

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the role of thumb is one root
per tree per year. Deep root

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feed the tree every year. You
can't make the existing roots go down,

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but you can start removing them,
but you can keep more roots from coming

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to the surface. All right,
there you go. Hey, we're hitting

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a hard break, Albert. I
see you out there on the phones.

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You will be first when we come
back. Right now, I want to

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give you our phone number one more
time if you'd like to call in talk

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to Martin seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Welcome back

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to garden Line. I'm your host. Skip Richter. We're talking today with

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Martin from the Affordable Tree Service.
Martin Spoonmore has been doing this a long

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time and he's helping answer tree questions
today. So if you'd like to give

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us a call seven to one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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For those of you who live in
let's say central North central part of Houston,

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Quality Feed and Garden Center is really
your hometown feeds store there. I

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used to go to Quality Feed when
they were their other location, and now

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they've moved to Luzon Street, which
is near the intersection of Equipment and Alesion.

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They're open Monday through Friday, nine
to six, Saturday nine to four,

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today eleven thirty to four pm.
Now when you go into Quality Feed,

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you're going into a Houston tradition.
It's been around since nineteen twenty eight.

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Ken and Chris have owned the place
since it's been thirty two years now.

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But in there, you're going to
find all the fertilizers that I recommend,

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all the pest disease and weed products
that you might need. You're going

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to find bulk seats. In fact, they have an antique seed rack from

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nineteen twenty eight stocked with heirloom seeds, any kind of feed that you need,

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and if you're all thinking about backyard
chickens, you're not going to find

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a better place in quality feed.
They get shipments in all the time of

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new chicks into the store and they
have everything you need, all the things

409
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you need to set up a backyard
chicken, the feeders and the waters and

410
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everything else in a day to the
chicks. And then they even make their

411
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own special Granny's laying mix for chicks. So it is a fun place to

412
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visit. I always like going in
there and visiting with Cken and Chris.

413
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The website for more information qualityfeedcode dot
com. Qualityfeedcode dot Com. Again.

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They're on Luzon Street, near the
intersection of Equipment and Allsion. Well,

415
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Martin, we're back here. I've
got Albert out here in Montgomery. Let's

416
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go see what Albert has to say. Welcome Albert, Welcome, Welcome,

417
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.519
Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, I got two questions about

418
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some nut all oaks. I got
several of them. They're young trees,

419
00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:44.359
probably ten foot tall. And it
hasn't been raining much out here in Montgomery.

420
00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.920
How during the winter time? How
hot often do I water those trees.

421
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:52.440
Well, with the rain we're getting, you should be okay. But

422
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if we go into another drought period
you probably want to water them every other

423
00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:03.119
day then. But you just watering
the grass is not getting the moisture down

424
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into the root zone. So you
need to take you a little drill bit

425
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eighteen inches and make you some holes
around the drip line or where the tree

426
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.519
was planted, ten fifteen holes so
you know the moisture is getting down into

427
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the root zone. Okay, if
you get water in your grass, you're

428
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not getting nothing down into the root
ball at all. The waters the grass

429
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and dirts getting most of it.
So you god make sure you get water

430
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into that root ball. If they're
about ten years old, that root ball

431
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is probably going to be about eighteen
inches twenty inches down. Put you a

432
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bunch of holes around each one of
them. Start flying the water. Okay.

433
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:42.119
And my other question is, come
everywhere in march. What's your good

434
00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:48.240
fertilizer to you use to get them
going pretty good? There's all go ahead,

435
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.640
No go ahead, I say,
I know you do the injections,

436
00:30:51.640 --> 00:30:55.000
but do you ever do just a
top dressing of fertilizer. No, no,

437
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no, no, we only do
the injections, okay, And we

438
00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:02.079
love the Lasco products, the eight
eight sixteen and the man I can't think

439
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.240
of the numbers all in my head
right now, but we just we stick

440
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:07.279
to a lot of the less Co
stuff. It seems to be doing well

441
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:15.640
for us on the trees. Uh. But you can use anything as uh

442
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:19.200
uh man. Any nitro falls and
pertal home, any of that stuff makes

443
00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:23.680
good fertilized for trees. I don't
know, you know you can try those

444
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:29.599
people like that. I'm a good
roots stimulator. Any Medina products for us

445
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:33.839
works well, has to grow soil
activators, stuff like that. That's a

446
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.400
good, good point, Albert.
The good news is right now your tree

447
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.599
is going to go deciduous and you
don't have to worry about much hardly at

448
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.400
all about water till we get back
in Montgomery. That we you shouldn't have

449
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.880
to do a bunch of water at
all. But if we go through a

450
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.799
period like we did last year and
then get out there and me holes as

451
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:55.880
you can get down around that root
ball there you go. You know we

452
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:59.920
want to keep it. That's a
good point. And you know last year

453
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.519
that was so brutal that I mean, it was hard to keep up period.

454
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.680
Years ago. Years ago, I
saw a study in Stephenville, Texas

455
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:10.960
where they took a peach tree and
they planted it in a giant pot that

456
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.480
had a scale under it. So
it's kind of like where you used to

457
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:16.680
drive a truck across things and weigh
your truck when you were hauling in,

458
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:21.079
and weigh it again when you were
going out. Well, imagine a pot

459
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:24.480
with a peach tree. A mature
peach tree they found was pumping forty gallons

460
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:30.599
a day in the summer at its
leaves. Now you multiply that times a

461
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:35.519
big landscape tree and it's one hundred
degrees for days and days and days on

462
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.160
end no rain. I mean,
that's a lot of water, and it's

463
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:43.039
easy to go into pretty significant stress. And I know, Martin, I'll

464
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:46.000
tell you that when a tree gets
in that situation, you got to do

465
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:51.880
something for it. Yeah, dude. We kept all three of our machines

466
00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:55.960
running throughout the summer just doing deep
root water, not even deep retfeeding on

467
00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:00.799
some major eyeboaks and water oaks and
red oaks pecans. People wanted to keep

468
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:06.599
them healthy and throughout the year.
We probably didn't lose but maybe one through

469
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:09.039
the whole summer, which is not
bad. But yeah, we go into

470
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:13.400
those drought piers like that Skip.
It's the more water, more mort you

471
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.519
can get it down to that root
ball, the better off you're going to

472
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:19.400
be with them. That's a that's
a good trying to keep alive. Yeap,

473
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.559
Hey, Albert, thank you,
thank you. I appreciate that call

474
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.799
very much, Thank you, sir. Yeah, that's for sure. Yeah,

475
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:30.160
Martin was referring to the hash to
grow, the Medina hash to grow

476
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:35.119
six twelve six. I recommend it
for any kind of planting. I mean,

477
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.119
certainly you put in a tree watered
in with hasht to grow. It's

478
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:42.359
got the six twelve six, which
is a nutrient, the macro nutrient content.

479
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.519
It's got seaweed extract, it's got
humic acid in it, it's got

480
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.960
Medina soil activator. I even use
it when I'm planting like a tamato plant,

481
00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.240
or a flower in a flower bed, or a shrub like a rose,

482
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.240
or putting in a perennial plant.
Martin, what I always tell people

483
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.279
is you water it in when you
plant it, and then about five days

484
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:04.119
later I'll water those plant kind of
plants in again with it and about five

485
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.400
days later again. I guess with
a tree you could just keep going for

486
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.760
a while. But generally for most
small plants like tomatoes and flowers and perennials,

487
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:15.519
three times about a week apart is
a good way to give them a

488
00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:21.440
boost. Yeah, and I recommend
that the soil activator to pretty much anybody

489
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:27.000
that has the clay gumbos soil in
this southern climate. If you've got trees

490
00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:32.599
and plants and you've got just hard
clave yeah gumbo that you can't dig through

491
00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:37.559
it, the soil activator is going
to be your number one. Apply that

492
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:42.000
every sixty to ninety days, just
being I tell people, spray it on

493
00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.119
your sidewalk. It'll make that grow. You know. It's just to me

494
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:49.079
and Medina soil Activater is one of
the best out there. I wonder if

495
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.559
you finally get trees to grow.
Yeah, that's well, that's a good

496
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:57.079
one, well said, I appreciate
that. Well, we're running up here

497
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:00.920
against another top of the hour break. Are you able to hang around talk

498
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.639
a little bit after that? All
right? Yeah, I'm good to go.

499
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:07.639
Okay, do you need to do
I need to wait a minute while

500
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.960
you go make sure in it and
the ladies approve that. Oh no,

501
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.960
they are all they're they got cookies
and doughnuts putting out now, so all

502
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:22.280
right, I don't need them mad
at me. We're good. That sounds

503
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.119
fun. Well, we will come
back, and we will we will definitely

504
00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:30.159
do that. We're hitting our little
break time here in just a sec our

505
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:35.920
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Let

506
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:40.159
me say that again, seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

507
00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:44.159
If you will give Joshua call,
he will get you on the boards

508
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:47.920
and when we come back after the
top of the hour break, you will

509
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.239
be the first up. In the
meantime, I want to remind you that

510
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:55.599
if you're interested in tomato growing and
you haven't signed up for the Texas Tomato

511
00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:00.599
Lovers Conference that is coming up on
January thirteenth. Now, this is quite

512
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:04.079
a shind It gets an ol day
deal. You get breakfast, you get

513
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.360
lunch, and you get a lot
of talks. I'll be there talking about

514
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.679
the Ten Commandments of tomatoes. A
doctor ong from the State Disease lab as

515
00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.599
a talk and I love this.
Sounds like a pathologist the beauty of disease

516
00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:19.159
tomatoes. So I guess we'll have
to find out what that means. Patty

517
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:23.199
Leander, writer for Texas Gardener Magazine, Best Varieties for twenty twenty four plus

518
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:30.519
eight Steps to Tomato Grafting Success,
Destinoak, the Texas Garden guys can be

519
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.719
talking about mastering container grown tomatoes.
Rosanne Green growing tomatoes with and for the

520
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:38.199
young family. I mean, it's
a big deal, a big shindig.

521
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:44.039
It's limited space. It's going to
be out there at the Emporium Chapel at

522
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:47.880
the Anti gurosing Fororium. So sign
up soon the phone number two five four

523
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:53.039
eight four eight ninety three ninety three, or you can just email Sally at

524
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:59.519
Texas Gardener dot com Sally at Texas
Gardener dot com to sign up for the

525
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.639
Texas Tomato Lover's Conference. By the
way, if you've got a gardener in

526
00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:06.559
the list, that would be a
wonderful gift for them to be able to

527
00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:09.960
go out and just spend a whole
day learning about tomatoes in the beautiful setting

528
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.440
of the anti crosing program out there
in Independence, Texas. We'll be right

529
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:22.199
back, Katie r. H.
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of

530
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:28.960
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome to Katie r. H

531
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:45.679
Garden Line with Scipe Richt. It's
so crazy just watch him as well.

532
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:50.679
Welcome back to Garden Line. We're
glad you're listening and we're talking trees this

533
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:54.719
afternoon or this morning. I'm already
to the afternoon. We're talking with Martin

534
00:37:54.760 --> 00:38:00.440
Spoonboorf from Affordable Tree Service and a
lot of the things that you need to

535
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.800
know about in terms of how do
you care for your trees, the things

536
00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:07.360
we typically see done wrong, some
of the trees that do a little bit

537
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.360
better here than others. So it
just kind of wide open if you've got

538
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:15.079
a tree question. Dolls seven one
three, two, one two five eight

539
00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:20.000
seven four seven one three two fifty
eight seventy four. I actually have an

540
00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:22.719
open board right now. It'd be
a great time to get in and have

541
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:27.639
an opportunity to talk to Martin pick
his brain yourself right there off the bet.

542
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:30.519
If you live down in the Richmond
area, you need to know about

543
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.320
Enchanted Forest. If you've never been
there before, you really ought to go

544
00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:37.960
in. Chenned Forest is a wonderful
place. I always love going out there.

545
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.760
They have everything you could possibly need. Right now, there's some incredible

546
00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:45.400
holiday seals going on. They've got
forty percent off all the house plants,

547
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:51.159
succulents and cacti and cool season.
This is holiday season, I mean house

548
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.760
plant season. We are at our
house we I mean they've just got house

549
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:59.079
plants all over the place, taking
care of them, make moving things around,

550
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:01.159
making sure they have what they need. And it beautifies the indoor part

551
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:06.039
of the home. Well when you're
kind of honkered up inside because the weather

552
00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:07.000
gets a little cool, if you
don't want to be out in the garden,

553
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:13.800
take your house busy off forty percent
off holiday decor, or twenty five

554
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:17.440
percent off Christmas trees and wreaths and
holiday imrillas, even some of the smaller

555
00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:21.559
points that is on sale as well. Now when you go to Enchanted,

556
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:27.039
you're going to find everything. Their
vegetable section is packed with cool seasoned vegetables.

557
00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.960
Their herb section has a wonderful array, a wide array of herbs.

558
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:36.119
And this is a good season to
plant herbs. Anything that's perennial, whether

559
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:39.400
it's flowers or grasses, whether it's
a rose bush, whether it's a tree.

560
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:44.039
When you get it planted during this
season, it has a lot of

561
00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:47.840
time to get those roots spreading out
and starting to establish so that when the

562
00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:51.400
hot weather arrives, you got a
little bit of a head start. So

563
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.280
don't don't delay, go ahead and
take advantage of the sales that are going

564
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:58.639
on right now. Any Channing Forest
is a great, great place you can

565
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:01.119
go out FM twenty seven fifty nine
out of Richmond. So if you're heading

566
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:05.719
up toward sugar Land Way, it's
off to the right FM twenty seven fifty

567
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:09.519
nine. Enchanted Forests are you you
know what? You could just go straight

568
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:14.239
to the websites too, I I
you know, Enchanted Forest is uh.

569
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:17.079
They redid their website recently, and
I think I've talked about this before,

570
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:22.639
but it is outstanding. Go check
it out. It's Enchanted Forest, Richmond,

571
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:27.440
TX dot com. Simple as that. All right, we're gonna go

572
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:30.079
back. We got Martin here.
Still are you still there, Martin?

573
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.559
I'm still here. Okay, I've
been. I was a little worried that

574
00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:36.760
the ladies that put you to work
again doing something else. You know what,

575
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:43.280
These women at these church they'll find
a way to get me doing things

576
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:46.079
around here. Yes, no,
I know, but yeah, see it's

577
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:50.880
our Sunday to pull the trailer.
So okay, we're like to sit up

578
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:52.760
team for our church. That's good. Oh, that's that's very good.

579
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:58.639
Yeah. You know usually those kind
of conversations start with here, make yourself

580
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:02.920
useful, and then give you something
to do. That's good. Yeah,

581
00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:09.400
yeah, go ahead. No,
that's I just was saying hello to some

582
00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:14.360
of the church members. All right, good, yeah, I'm ready when

583
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:16.199
you are all right, good,
Well, I want to talk just talking

584
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:22.079
about trees again a little bit.
You know about proper tree training. A

585
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:24.440
lot of folks and you see this
all the time when you go to a

586
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:28.199
site, you see a tree that
was not trained properly, and now you've

587
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:32.239
got these really narrow branch angles or
something where the bark gets kind of included

588
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:37.039
and it's likely to split off during
a storm and stuff. I think early

589
00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:40.920
tree training is really important. Like
you to comment on some of that as

590
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.840
well, Yeah, it does.
It's a you know, if you get

591
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:50.159
trees where they're like you said on
the construction site and that things are just

592
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:55.039
hanging down everywhere, you want to
start training the tree to grow up and

593
00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.880
you glad lives will snap off of
it. You've got to be able to

594
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:04.280
straightened that up so the tree can
heal itself up. But you really want

595
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:07.920
to start doing this underneath? Can't
you work so you can't get the tree

596
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:12.079
to grow in the proper wayfore you
skip. That's that's that's a good point

597
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:15.679
when they just don't want to go
there to start cutting limbs off. Yeah,

598
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.599
one side the other. If you
can't don't know what you're doing,

599
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.239
then you're going to really mess the
tree up. So it's good to have

600
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:27.639
somebody like us who knows how to
somebody has an eye like I do for

601
00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:36.199
tree trimmy. Yep, all right, all right, we're good. Yeah.

602
00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:39.039
They just give us a call whenever
they needed They mentioned a guardline,

603
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:43.159
buddy, then we put them at
the top of our list. All right.

604
00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:45.559
Well, we tell them to do
that all the time, and not

605
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:49.280
to delay because when you do a
job right like you'll do, you tend

606
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:52.480
to stay busy. And so don't
wait till the end of winter to give

607
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.840
them a call. Yeah, get
on, I have to. I tell

608
00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:00.360
people they want to know when to
start calling me. I'll tell them already

609
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.760
in August to get on my schedule
for October to February. Yeah, because

610
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.880
after that. But after the fifteenth
of October, we just we get covered

611
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:14.039
up really really fast. And it's
all due to the garden Line. Thank

612
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:17.519
you. Skip you know, but
they are yearly just they know this time

613
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:22.719
to year to prove these trees out
when that tree is formant light. Now,

614
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:25.519
okay, well we staying busy.
All right? Well, good,

615
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:29.679
that's what you want to do.
I'm a run take a call. I

616
00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:31.280
don't think this is a tree related, but let me let me check on

617
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:37.239
this one. Steven from clear Lake. Welcome to garden Line, Thanks sir.

618
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:39.079
Actually, I do have a tree
that needs a lot of help.

619
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:42.800
I think it's dead, but it's
still green because all the weeds that are

620
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.679
growing up over it. So I'll
probably send Martin the picture. But what

621
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.880
I called you about. I sent
you a picture of a weed that's pervasive

622
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.480
in my yard and my significant other's
yard had little, tiny white flowers,

623
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:57.920
and just wondered if it had a
chance. You see that I got an

624
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:02.360
email from was that Mark? Yeah, okay, I use Stephen because I

625
00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:06.599
don't want my friends to know how
stupid I am when I'm on the air.

626
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.480
Well, don't worry about that.
We won't worry about that what your

627
00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:19.679
weed is. That's called slender ast
Slender astra sprouts during the warm season and

628
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:22.960
it grows unnoticed in your lawn unless
your lawn is drought stressed. A slender

629
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:27.480
astra has a bluish green leaf,
and it really shows up in a lawn

630
00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.559
that's dying from drought. But when
people really notice it in when the little

631
00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:37.199
dime size white, pink, lavenderish
color daisy like flowers start to bloom.

632
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:39.800
At this point, it's too late
to spray. It's already reproductive, it's

633
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:44.920
already got seeds viable on it.
Your best bet is to pull it out

634
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:49.159
as much as you can get out, because every flower's got fifty seeds and

635
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:52.480
a plant one hundred flowers. So
you pull one plant and you've done some

636
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:55.000
good. So maybe you can't put
it all out, But the more you

637
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:59.079
get out the better. It's a
taproot, so in moist soil, you

638
00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:01.679
just grab it where it goes in
the ground, kind of wiggle as you

639
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:06.119
pull, and it'll come right out. You can use a weeding fork if

640
00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:08.039
you want. But I've got a
patch next to a neighbor who doesn't take

641
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:13.679
care of their weeds ever, and
their slender aster comes in and I just

642
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:15.920
go out there with a five gallon
bucket on Saturday morning and spend a little

643
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:20.360
bit of time, fill the bucket
up, and do it again next Saturday.

644
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:22.000
Well, I've not used a weaeding
for it. Does that make it

645
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.960
easier than just grabbing it with your
fingers, because it comes up pretty easy

646
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:27.840
if they can get a good grip
on it. Yes, it does for

647
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.360
me too. Some people's hand strength
isn't enough to really hang on, and

648
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:36.320
some people, if the soil is
not moist enough, it'll just break off,

649
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:38.719
and so some people use a weeding
fork to help out. But that's

650
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:43.880
the best bet. You can use
a pre emergent next year to prevent the

651
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.920
seeds from getting established. But anyway, okay, all right, that's great,

652
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:52.320
thank you very much. And the
reason I use an alias is because

653
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.960
I once heard that there's no stupid
questions, there are only stupid people asking

654
00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:59.639
them. No, I say,
there's no stupid questions, there's stupid answers.

655
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:01.920
Although I have heard stupid questions,
I pretend that they're not. Uh,

656
00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:06.719
I'll worry about giving a stupid answer. You take care. Thank you

657
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:08.760
very much for that call. We're
gonna take a break here, Ed and

658
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:13.079
Marvel will be the first about two
up when we come back with Martin in

659
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:16.280
just a moment our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

660
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:22.400
four. Than all right, welcome
back to guarden Line. We're glad you

661
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.760
are here. We got Martin spoon
Moore from Affordable Tree Service helping with some

662
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:30.199
tree related questions today. And Martin, I'm gonna have to run right back

663
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:32.239
to the phones. We got them
lining up again here. We're going to

664
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:37.880
go to ed in cat Spring.
Hello, Ed, how you doing?

665
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.639
I got a quick question on a
red oak tree. All right, it's

666
00:46:39.639 --> 00:46:45.519
been planted about ten years and I'm
noticing the box splitting up pretty good around

667
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:49.840
the bottom area down there. I
don't see any green wood, you know

668
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:53.719
when I peek in there to look
at it. Uh, that's something about

669
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:58.119
find wise all right, Martin,
Martin, what do you think here?

670
00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:00.760
Have the questions? Kip? It
was cutting out? Okay, we've got

671
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.960
a yah it was. But I
think I believe that just Ed correct me

672
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:07.519
if I'm wrong. Was that he's
got a red oak and at the base

673
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:12.559
the bark is splitting that that show
is the tree still have foliage on it.

674
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:20.280
Yeah, I'm sorry. The song's
breaking up. Yeah, y yes,

675
00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:24.199
Uh, what it's turning from from? Uh the weather? Okay,

676
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:29.599
Well, that's showing signs of stress
on the bark. So the deep root

677
00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:31.440
feeling will help you with that.
But you also would want to put a

678
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:36.519
Freeni sealer on it. Uh,
you know, it's just to kind of

679
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:40.079
steal that wound. Uh. But
definitely get the tree on a feeding program

680
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:45.039
where you're supplying with what it needs
to cycle correctly. It's just showing signs

681
00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:50.159
of stress. Okay. The drought
weather this year, red oaks were one

682
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:53.239
of the hardest ones to keep alive
throughout the year, uh, with this

683
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:57.599
drought. So the more you can
deep root feed it, the better the

684
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:01.000
tree is going to be. Thank
you, all right, Well you take

685
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:04.280
care. Yeah. A lot of
times, you know, Martin, in

686
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.440
a yard, people will get the
lawnmower and the weed eater too close to

687
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:12.360
the trunk and out in a pasture
they got the brush hog banging up against

688
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.599
the trunk and you can do a
lot of damage down there. Oh yeah,

689
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:19.280
you just got to be careful around
expecting the red oaks. The bark

690
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.039
is very salt on it, and
it don't take much. And without putting

691
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:25.000
a pair of eyes on his skip, you know yourself, it's kind of

692
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:29.400
hard to see what it is.
But sure sounds like he's talking to stress.

693
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:31.679
But right again, we eat her
a lot more too. They just

694
00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:36.119
gotta be careful around the red oaks
and the maples, that is true.

695
00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:38.760
Something else, Martin that I've gotten
a number of calls on in the past

696
00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:45.280
year is what we call southwest injury. Where you've got the young like a

697
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.559
red oak that has very thin bark, it hadn't developed the thick bark yet,

698
00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:52.119
and the sun shines late in the
day, the warmest part of the

699
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.920
day about four PM, and the
cool season, it's baking down on that

700
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.199
southwest side of the trunk, and
the juices start to flow, and that

701
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:02.760
night the temper drops down and you
get these splits on the southwest side.

702
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:07.039
We've had a number of pictures come
in. Typically someone will call and I'll

703
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.559
say, is that on the southwest
side, And you hear the silence while

704
00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:13.440
they try to figure out which direction
it is, and then they're like,

705
00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:16.840
yeah, how would you what southwest? What? How how do you know

706
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:22.400
that? But you probably have seen
that before. You know, it's get

707
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:25.719
a lot of these nurseries, except
where you go buy them people planning their

708
00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:30.920
self, they don't. They don't
do a very good job at maintaining the

709
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.280
red oaks. And I mean said, whenever you apply one, you want

710
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:37.000
to make sure this it doesn't have
the splits in it, It don't have

711
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:40.480
any decayed spots in the trunk of
the tree. H You just got to

712
00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:44.280
look for those kind of things when
you're planting those red oaks. All right,

713
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:46.840
they are a beautiful tree and one
of my favorites to plant do well.

714
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:50.000
We just got to make sure you
get a good one. That's a

715
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.920
good point. Well, now we're
going to go out to Marv in Richmond.

716
00:49:52.960 --> 00:50:00.199
Hello, Marv, Howdy howdy,
good show there. I have a

717
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.559
live oak that I a Southern live
oak that I planned about two and a

718
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:07.360
half years ago, and I've been
trying to four feet it to get it

719
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:12.119
going. It was probably i don't
know, six feet tall something. I've

720
00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:17.440
got it like a twenty feet now
and it's about six feet a tree drip

721
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:24.480
line. Your customary lawn fertilizer is
three one two during the growing year,

722
00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:30.719
and then you usually put your lawn
to sleep with a one two three fertilizer?

723
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:34.880
Now, is it okay if I
take that one two three fertilizer and

724
00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.400
fertilize that tree with it at this
time of the year. And the way

725
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:43.119
I fertilize, I take a rod
and I poke it down into the ground

726
00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:49.360
about a tripe about twelve fourteen inches
deep around the drip line with about twenty

727
00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:52.280
holes, and I bet I put
probably close to twelve to fifteen pounds of

728
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:57.639
fertilizer in those holes. Is it
okay to do that again this time of

729
00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:02.079
the year with one two three fertilizer
force feed it. I don't understand that,

730
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:06.719
but yeah, I don't know.
I'm not familiar with that fertilized I

731
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:10.079
would tell you a smart play would
be go to if it's only two years

732
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:15.519
old, go to a Medina product
which is all organic Medina has to grow

733
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:17.760
and feeds your tree with that for
a few years. I don't think I'd

734
00:51:17.800 --> 00:51:23.440
be using any type of grass fertilize
on it. I'm not familiar what you're

735
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:28.599
using, but you gotta be careful
with some of that grass products because you

736
00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:32.000
start putting products down with that tresine
in it and then trees that will wind

737
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:37.079
up dying on him. Oh no, I'll be careful with that. I

738
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.119
do use the nicrofos stuff then,
you know, you know nineteen five nine

739
00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:45.239
or the six twelve sixteen. Yeah, you never we're gonna hear me say

740
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:50.360
anything bad about nitrofals, Yeah,
Marva, the nitroposs product that is used

741
00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:54.119
typically on lawns in the fall as
an eight twelve sixteen. Uh right,

742
00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:58.880
And then that we'd lower the nitrogen
because we're not trying to push the grass

743
00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:02.320
to grow, would trying to get
that potassium in it for cold heartiness and

744
00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:07.760
preparing it for coming into out in
the spring. And that is exactly the

745
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:09.880
one I'm using. That's why I'm
asking if it's okay on the tree.

746
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:15.679
Yeah, just make sure you're getting
the hold down about eighteen inches okay,

747
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:20.719
finally not that far, but it
is. Yeah, the rootball on that

748
00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.880
tree is gonna be about twelve to
eighteen inches deep. Okay. I'm going

749
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:27.960
to make sure you get all the
way around it. Okay, all right,

750
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:30.320
thank you, Okay, all right, Mark, thanks for call.

751
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:35.079
Appreciate that. I appreciate that very
much. Uh. You know, we're

752
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:37.920
talking all kinds of things trees today
here with Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree

753
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:43.599
Service, and uh, we've talked
a little bit about some different aspects of

754
00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:47.280
trees and whatnot. I was talking
to someone a while back, Martin about

755
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:52.760
the cypress trees. And I've got
a house up in College Station that has

756
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:57.519
three cypress trees in the yard and
they're the old ball cypress. So those

757
00:52:57.639 --> 00:53:01.360
darn darn knees are coming up everywhere, and that it's a clay soil stays

758
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:06.920
a little wet, and boy,
that is a lawnmower target that I just

759
00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:10.679
don't I could do without. But
I don't know what you Is there anything

760
00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:15.239
you do about that kind of problem. What we do for customers with them,

761
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:17.960
we show them that We tell them
to get your little pick axe because

762
00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:22.360
they're so soft. Skip you just
wing that pick axe one time. It'll

763
00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:27.519
take that whole right off for you. Yeah, that's what a lot of

764
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:31.000
customer customers, they love those trees. Falls Piper is a beautiful tree to

765
00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:36.079
me, but once those ds start, they don't stop. But man,

766
00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:39.840
it's such very soft. You could
take your little grubbing hole or a little

767
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:43.920
chopping eggs and just man, they'll
come right off. Nothing to them.

768
00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:46.840
Yeah, well that way. Someone
told me that a while back. And

769
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:51.519
you know what I found. If
you picture a tree leaving the trunk and

770
00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:55.280
going out into the yard and then
there's this bump sticking up the not I'll

771
00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:59.559
take my grubbing hoe and I'll hit
it on the tree side, and then

772
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:01.719
I'll hit it on the other side, and that whole section pops right out

773
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:06.480
real easy. I was surprised at
how easy that is. Yeah, we

774
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:09.559
have we have our little chopping picking
axe is what we carry on our trucks.

775
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:14.960
We take when we take roots out
for people and they'll ask us about

776
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.159
the knees and we'll show them,
Hey, we can get one or two

777
00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:21.920
for you, but you're gonna you'll
have a million before you know. It's

778
00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:25.039
a pekil grubbo and here's the way
to do it. They come right off.

779
00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:29.679
Yeah, but you're not gonna stop
it once it starts. Yeah,

780
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:34.199
that's a good point. There are
actually some types of cypress that don't do

781
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:37.840
that, like the manta zuma cypress. Isn't bad about that. Yeah,

782
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.480
I know a guy up at Steven
F. Austin University. Uh, he's

783
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:47.039
a horticulture professor. He uh has
gone to China and brought back germ plasm

784
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:52.800
from cypress trees there that don't have
knees, and he's been selecting seeds from

785
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:55.559
all those to find the best ones
to grow here. And I think that'd

786
00:54:55.599 --> 00:55:00.519
be a good service to just have
a cypress that doesn't do that people could

787
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.119
put in their yards, because it
does get old chopping those knees out,

788
00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:07.760
it does. But that cypress,
I tell you they're good. You got

789
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:14.199
standing water in your yard or property
somewhere that you just can't get rid of

790
00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:17.400
the water. Put you a bald
cypress or any cypress out there, give

791
00:55:17.440 --> 00:55:21.159
it, give it a year,
two years that water be gone. Well,

792
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:23.639
there you go. I got a
friend that did that in sugar Land.

793
00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:27.960
He's he put about eight of them
in there. He tried his backyard

794
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:32.840
completely up. Okay, that's a
that's a good approach, a good approach

795
00:55:34.239 --> 00:55:37.639
to it. So when when you
are out, you know, taking care

796
00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:43.360
of folks trees and stuff, do
y'all ever deal with insects and diseases and

797
00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:45.000
things like that or is that a
whole different area you don't mess with.

798
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:50.039
Now, we take care of anything
that consistent tree works. If we sprayed

799
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:53.199
for the insects, the pine mark, beetle, the wooden board, we

800
00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:59.440
treat for funguses, anything that consists
the tree work. You know. Me,

801
00:55:59.559 --> 00:56:02.280
I don't do grass and lawns and
fences and all that stuff. I'm

802
00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:06.880
strictly a tree. All right.
We're good. Yeah, we treat every

803
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:10.800
every tree. If if it can
be saved, we'll tell you. Let

804
00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:14.760
us see if we can save it. If it can't, I'll tell you

805
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.239
that too. I will not waste
the timer money on it. Well,

806
00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:19.760
and that's what I tell people on
the air, that you're not gonna sell

807
00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:22.320
them something that they don't need.
You know, one of the issues we're

808
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:25.960
having a lot lately is crape myrtle
bark scale. You know that the sooty

809
00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:30.320
mold just gets all over them,
and that that's not an easy one to

810
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:35.079
get rid of. No now,
but time they get it dust, they

811
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:37.760
done did the crap. They got
tired of looking at it. They do

812
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:42.280
the crepe myrtle mascar on it.
There you go, that's what people think

813
00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:45.360
here, let's just cut it off. Yeah, Well, no, we're

814
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:49.920
good, all right. Well,
I'm gonna I'm gonna have to take another

815
00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:52.199
break. Can you hang around for
the next time? All right, I'm

816
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:54.840
all everybody, all right, we'll
keep talking. Hey, if you want

817
00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:59.360
to ask Martin a question, give
us a call. It's three seven to

818
00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:05.119
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two

819
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:08.320
kt r H. If you like
to doll boy the letters and you can

820
00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:13.480
pick Martin's brain and I'll jump in
there and we will just see whatever kinds

821
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:15.159
of questions you have on trees,
We'll we'll dive right into it. So

822
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:17.719
feel free to do that. We're
going to take a break now and turn

823
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:22.920
it over to Nicky for the news. I can't go wrong with a sleep

824
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:25.000
at the wheel. There's that Western
swing. Hey, you're listening to garden

825
00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:29.920
Line and we're talking to Scott McGrath. Scott McGrath, I was just talking

826
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:32.559
to somebody about best control. A
minute ago. We're talking to Martin Spoon

827
00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:37.880
Moore. Martin, you don't you
don't spray for roaches? Do you see

828
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:40.400
there? Hold on just a second, let me get more there we go,

829
00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:45.280
get Martin up here. Martin,
I did you hear that? What?

830
00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:50.679
Oh? I was just saying.
We're here with Scott McGrath, and

831
00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:52.639
then I said, oh, I'm
just talking to somebody about pest control a

832
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:58.679
minute ago. You don't spray for
roaches, do you. Okay, you

833
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:01.079
got control work, You got plenty
you can do. Hey, I want

834
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:04.440
to ask you. I want to
ask you a little bit about tree removal.

835
00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:06.639
In fact, I have several things
I want to ask about, but

836
00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:10.119
tell me a little bit about the
tree removal process. I know that you

837
00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:14.400
were talking about you don't plant pines. Boy, I tell you, when

838
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:16.639
a pine dies and that bark starts
to come loose, that it's interesting to

839
00:58:16.679 --> 00:58:21.679
climb, doesn't it. Yeah,
it's very tricky. You really need to

840
00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:24.199
know what you're doing. But as
long as the tree is holding its needles,

841
00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:28.639
even if the bark has come off, it's still you can still get

842
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:30.960
up it pretty safely. Just got
to live it out and then block it

843
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:36.559
out slowly. Yeah, it says
you don't want to leave a pine tree

844
00:58:36.599 --> 00:58:39.639
standing too long after the bark and
once the needles drop off of it,

845
00:58:39.639 --> 00:58:45.159
it really gets dangerous. Okay,
as soon as they die, the stapess

846
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:47.280
they do is get the pine out
of there. Yeah. Well, somethings

847
00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:52.559
with water ropes too, if they
die, man, try to pull those

848
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:55.280
things out within a thirty or sixty
days, because the longer you let it

849
00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:59.840
stands, the mortals dry out,
and the more dangerous it is to climb.

850
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:04.119
Okay, and you know, I
know, I know that you guys

851
00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:08.159
are insured. And I joke a
lot about the what I call two jerks

852
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:13.239
on a chainsaw tree service. Basically, somebody owns a chainsaw and a pickup

853
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:17.719
and they drive around sticking business cards
in people's doors. When you start looking

854
00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:21.519
at somebody that doesn't have insurance,
a lot can go wrong. Even to

855
00:59:21.559 --> 00:59:24.800
a trained person, occasionally something can
go wrong, and insurance is essential.

856
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:30.639
Yeah, you want to have that
ability to cover their property, houses and

857
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:34.480
stuff. And you also want to
have that workman's comp to cover if somebody

858
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.280
does fall out of one of those
trees. Okay, you don't have those

859
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:42.039
two things, I would send them
on down the road. Yes, we

860
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:45.400
don't really a tree company. Don't
really need to be bonded. Everybody asked

861
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:50.920
us if we're bonded, but we
don't. That's only good for like test

862
00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:55.760
controls and somebody that's actually going inside
the home. We have no business inside

863
00:59:55.760 --> 01:00:00.800
your home or your garage. All
of our works outside, so we we

864
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:05.199
care the general liability and the workings
count. Well. I've watched uh,

865
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:07.760
let's just say, cheap tree companies. You know, people that come along

866
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:15.159
for some little bargain fee to fix
the take things out, and I've watched

867
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:19.519
the horror stories that come from that. Number one, bad bad workmanship.

868
01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:22.079
Number two leaving a mess when they
drive off. Now you just have this

869
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:25.960
huge mess in your yard that didn't
clean it up. And then the insurance

870
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:29.920
is another thing, and that's why
it's so important to go with someone that

871
01:00:29.960 --> 01:00:34.519
knows what they're doing and has taking
the professional responsibility of things like insurance,

872
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:38.280
which I know you guys do.
Yeah, it's just there's that chuck in

873
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:43.519
a truck is what we call them. Truck Yeah, chucking a truck.

874
01:00:43.559 --> 01:00:46.039
It goes down to home depot,
you get to a song. Next thing,

875
01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:49.360
you know, he's a tree man. There you go. Don't there

876
01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:52.280
anything about it? How hard can
it be? I mean, you just

877
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:57.639
put the song. It's pretty rough
sometimes, but I've been doing it for

878
01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:02.360
fifty six years. Yeah, about
fifty six years I've been doing treework,

879
01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:08.079
so I've seen it all. Well, I believe it or not. I've

880
01:01:08.079 --> 01:01:13.000
taken a few trees down in my
time, not commercially, not you know,

881
01:01:13.119 --> 01:01:16.000
right next to a six million dollar
house or anything like that, and

882
01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:19.920
just out in the field. And
with pines, you know, they grow

883
01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:22.719
and people probably don't realize this,
but they grow twisting like a barber pole,

884
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:27.519
and so you've got grain that's kind
of not just going up and down,

885
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:31.199
it's kind of spiraling and sometimes you
cut and it goes a weird direction

886
01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:37.719
you didn't see coming. Yeah,
you really be careful. We're making cuts

887
01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:40.880
on pines and even some of the
bigger oaks. You just gotta know where

888
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:44.440
to not know how to cut it, because it can get away from me

889
01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:51.039
quickly. There's a lot of fun
stuff on YouTube that I love to watch,

890
01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:53.280
Like somebody I saw one the other
day. It must have been like

891
01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:57.360
a Norfolk Cottumn pine down in the
tropics, but it's a very tall,

892
01:01:57.400 --> 01:02:01.320
skinny tree. The guy cut the
top off of it and it made lean

893
01:02:01.440 --> 01:02:07.440
to the side when the top fell, and luckily he was belted in because

894
01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:12.280
that tree came whipping up and I
mean it flung him around like I don't

895
01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:15.440
know how I hang under that tree, but it was it was scary looking.

896
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:17.960
Yeah, I've seen the one on
there there was a guy in the

897
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:23.280
palm tree and when it bent it
Ben shot him like a sling shot.

898
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:29.519
Yeah, change that kind of stuff, But that happens here in Houston every

899
01:02:29.599 --> 01:02:35.039
day. Oh my gosh. I
have a collection of videos or photos that

900
01:02:35.079 --> 01:02:38.320
are called why Women Live Longer Than
Men? And there's one, Martin where

901
01:02:38.360 --> 01:02:44.159
a guy has a forklift all the
way up to the top and there are

902
01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:49.159
two fifty five gallon drums on the
forklift and a guy standing on the top

903
01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:53.519
fifty five gallon drum to cut on
a tree. So what could go wrong

904
01:02:53.559 --> 01:02:58.519
with that? Yeah, it's like
if I did that, my wife would

905
01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:00.760
get on the phone and call the
insurance company really quick to try to get

906
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:05.280
me insure it up as possible,
because oh my god, that's not gonna

907
01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:08.119
end. Well, hey, Martin, I've got to go ahead. Uh

908
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:12.960
yeah. We love the people that
use the ladders. Those those get those

909
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.000
forty foot ladders out and go cut
top the three off and next thing you

910
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:19.639
know, they're laying on the ground
and so is the ladder. Oh boy,

911
01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:23.880
every day, I tell you that's
it's sad and scary, but it's

912
01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:27.880
true. Hey, We're gonna go
out to Dayton now and take a phone

913
01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.559
call from Marshall. Hey, Marshall, how are you doing? Hey?

914
01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:35.719
How are you doing? Skip good? Hey? I got a quick question.

915
01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:42.760
I was looking to order from a
nursery to Oklahoma red bud trees and

916
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:46.519
because they to me, they what
I've seen, they cluster out more on

917
01:03:46.599 --> 01:03:52.760
the flowers than Eastern red bud.
H what do you think of going with

918
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:59.239
something like an Oklahoma red bud?
Oklahoma's fine, It's it's kind of one

919
01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:01.320
of the standard varieties that everybody knows, you know, been around a long

920
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:04.920
time. There are a lot of
other good ones. There's there's some that

921
01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:09.760
have a very interesting color, kind
of a burgundy look to the foliage.

922
01:04:10.440 --> 01:04:14.960
There's some that one that is called
Sunrise or something like that that's kind of

923
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:20.559
got golden yellows and orange bronze the
oranges to the foliage. And but I

924
01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:25.800
tell you a lot, and it's
it's hard to find. But the true

925
01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:29.639
Texas red bud, not the Eastern
red bud with the heart shaped leaf with

926
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:32.719
a point at the bottom, but
the Texas it's got a more leathery leaf,

927
01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:38.079
a little bit shiny, uh and
it's more rounded without such a prominent

928
01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:42.039
point. I've seen one of those
growing outside a Lano, Texas, in

929
01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:45.679
a pasture between the highway. It
was right growing right in the fence line,

930
01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:49.239
and I mean it was green and
happy in the grass all around it.

931
01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:53.360
It turned brown from the heat of
summer, and that really impressed me.

932
01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:58.159
And So if you're looking for something
that's a little tougher for the tough,

933
01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:01.400
hot, full sun of exposures,
Texas red budd is also a good

934
01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:06.840
one. I can't seem to find
anything other than Eastern red bud around here.

935
01:05:11.159 --> 01:05:14.119
Yeah, you're gonna have to think
outside the box of red buds because

936
01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:17.840
they're hard to find, and if
you get some fine one, it's not

937
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:21.400
gonna be in that good a shape
because of the freezes a couple of years

938
01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:27.000
ago, the drought last year.
A lot of nurseries and that's all they'll

939
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:30.519
have. But you're gonna have to
go outside of the Houston area, like

940
01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:34.639
Skiff was saying, and search that
way for red buds, any de size

941
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:40.320
red bud, or any type of
good red budd, because these nurseries nowadays

942
01:05:40.360 --> 01:05:45.119
will tell you anything that's just chewed
up, being beat up and broken and

943
01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:47.440
that's not what you're looking for.
Hey, I'm gonna have to jump in

944
01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:49.599
here, Marshall. Can you hang
on just a little bit. I gotta

945
01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:53.800
go to a break and we can
come back to your be happy to continue

946
01:05:53.840 --> 01:05:57.400
this discussion. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

947
01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:00.159
to seventy four. We got fifty
minutes left on the show today. If

948
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:03.480
you want to call in, now's
the time to do it. Welcome back

949
01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:09.159
to Garden Line. We're glad you're
listening today. I wanted to tell you

950
01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:12.840
about a couple of things we were
talking about fertilizing trees and products and whatnot.

951
01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:16.559
Microlife Fertilizer has what I refer to
as their blue plus blue. Now

952
01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:21.800
that means a bag, a dry, dry fertilizer bag of Microlife Ultimate eight

953
01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:27.719
four six. It's an organic fertilizer. And then the liquid is Microlife Ocean

954
01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.199
Harvest. That's a fish based fertilizer. Those are used a lot of people

955
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:32.960
use them when they're planting their trees. A lot of people use them on

956
01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:36.079
all kinds of things that you mean, you use them anything from lawn to

957
01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:42.599
vegetables and whatnot. But those two
products can pack a really good punch.

958
01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:45.079
Being an organic, they're not salt
based, so you're not likely to burn

959
01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:48.559
roots or you're not gonna burn roots
with them. The Ocean harvest is even

960
01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:53.559
good as a foliar spray. And
you can find Microlife products everywhere. You

961
01:06:53.559 --> 01:06:58.119
can go online to Microlife Fertilizer dot
com find out locations, or you can

962
01:06:58.159 --> 01:07:01.239
just go to a place like south
Fertilizer. You know Bob Over at Southwest

963
01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:06.239
Fertilizer. He carries every fertilizer you
can imagine, and then some everything I

964
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:11.800
recommend here on guardline. And he's
in Southwest Houston, the corner of Bissinette

965
01:07:11.840 --> 01:07:15.079
and Runwick. You can go to
his website is Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

966
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:20.280
You're going to find the best selection
of herbicides and exercies and fungicides anywhere.

967
01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:25.000
At Southwest Fertilizer dot com. There's
an eighty foot wall of garden tools.

968
01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:29.440
There's a Christmas gift idea for you. And also he's got that kneeling bench

969
01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:31.760
I always talk about. It folds
up and you can use it as a

970
01:07:31.800 --> 01:07:34.800
sitting bench out when you're doing garden
work. You can flip it over and

971
01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:39.199
kneel down on it, and it's
got those those legs that serve as handles

972
01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:41.840
to get up and down. If
you're nowhere north of forty, you know

973
01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:46.760
how important that is. But Southwest
Fertilizer is it's been around since nineteen fifty

974
01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:50.280
five. It's an institution. And
the way I like to put it is,

975
01:07:50.519 --> 01:07:54.559
if they don't have it as Southwest
Fertilizer, you don't need it,

976
01:07:54.760 --> 01:07:57.960
because that's pretty much the way it
is. We're going to go back out

977
01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:00.800
now to Marshall and we were here
with Martin Spoon, Moore and Marshall.

978
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:03.280
You were talking about that red bud, and I want to give you a

979
01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:10.679
few places to try. You may
strike out on this, but we've got

980
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:15.199
the RCW Nursery that has Williamson Tree
Farm up in Plannersville, so they grow

981
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:18.840
a lot of different kinds of trees. You've got Verdant Tree Farms, got

982
01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:23.800
three different locations here in the Houston
area. They grow a lot of different

983
01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:28.399
kinds of trees. And then Buchanans
is a retail nursery done in the Heights.

984
01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:31.600
It specializes in natives and they might
be able to get that Texas red

985
01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:36.479
bud in for you. They'll reach
out to native nurseries over in the Austin

986
01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:42.079
area and whatnot. And then Arburgate
out in Tomball is another one that has

987
01:08:42.079 --> 01:08:45.680
a wide variety. So any of
those give them a call and see if

988
01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:47.000
they have it or if they can
get it, and I bet one of

989
01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:50.600
those or more will be able to
find that tree for you. Hey,

990
01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:54.359
I sure appreciate that, thank you. Okay, all right, Well that

991
01:08:54.920 --> 01:08:57.359
was a lot Martin. I didn't
know if you had anything else you wanted

992
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:02.000
to add to the gate. Uh
and Corney is probably be your best shots

993
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:05.439
if you're in town to order a
red bud like that. All right.

994
01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:10.520
I don't think for nant are those
are going to have those type of red

995
01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:15.680
buds. I'm not one hundred percent
sure. Yeah, Uh, Arbrogate or

996
01:09:15.039 --> 01:09:18.039
Cornelius to be able to get something
a lot quicker. Yeah, good point.

997
01:09:18.119 --> 01:09:21.399
Hey Marshall, thanks for the call. I appreciate that very much.

998
01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:25.800
Sometimes you just got to call around. You know, a lot of times

999
01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:30.600
those those plants that are really unique
and special are hard to find because people

1000
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:33.279
don't ask. They don't ask for
Nobody goes around asking for a Texas Red

1001
01:09:33.319 --> 01:09:36.560
Bud or or there are a lot
of other things that I wish we had

1002
01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:41.640
more of here, like those cypress
that don't produce these, but people don't

1003
01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:45.119
ask for them, so you're not
going to find them. Yeah, just

1004
01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:49.279
research to find it. Yeah,
okay, Hey, let me ask you

1005
01:09:49.319 --> 01:09:54.239
some more questions about stuff you guys
do that I know other people are interested

1006
01:09:54.239 --> 01:09:58.439
in. You do root barricading,
and a lot of times people and you

1007
01:09:58.560 --> 01:10:01.840
go into older parts of huon these
big beautiful trees and the sidewalks look like

1008
01:10:01.880 --> 01:10:05.600
the rocky mountains. I mean by
kill yourself trying to ride a bike done

1009
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:11.960
the sidewalk. Tell me about root
barricading, what's done and what it will

1010
01:10:11.960 --> 01:10:17.239
and won't accomplish. Root barricading is
expensive. It's just about cheaper to cut

1011
01:10:17.279 --> 01:10:21.359
the tree than it is to time
you buy the right material to put it

1012
01:10:21.439 --> 01:10:26.399
in. But what we do is
trench along the side of the home about

1013
01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:30.800
about a foot away from the home
if it can be done. If it

1014
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:35.079
can be you got room to get
in their work about twenty four inches deep,

1015
01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:41.359
and then we'll fly to Plexi glass
three eighths plexi glass, or if

1016
01:10:41.399 --> 01:10:44.640
you want to spend a little more
money, they make an actual root barricade,

1017
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:47.119
but we'd have to get it out
of trail out of North Carolina.

1018
01:10:47.399 --> 01:10:51.640
Okay, but it's lifetime warrant to
either one of those. I last a

1019
01:10:51.640 --> 01:10:56.760
lifetime. Then put it down twenty
four inches and make sure we cut the

1020
01:10:56.840 --> 01:11:00.560
roots. Steal the roots up after
you cut them, and then put the

1021
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:02.479
froot bear came in the deep root
feeds the tree. All right, it'll

1022
01:11:02.479 --> 01:11:06.399
beep that forever. Good. That's
good. A little work to get fruit.

1023
01:11:06.439 --> 01:11:10.880
Berri is the Sometimes it's it's easier
just to take the tree out.

1024
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:15.439
It's cheaper just to take the tree
out than it is because root berry about

1025
01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:20.760
about three grand every eight feet.
Holy molyh Okay, that's why you say

1026
01:11:20.760 --> 01:11:27.399
take on the flightway. Yeah,
just another example of how doing things right

1027
01:11:27.439 --> 01:11:31.279
to begin with can help avoid some
major expense down the line. Yeah.

1028
01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:36.399
I think the last one it was
right at three thousand, thirty five hundred

1029
01:11:36.560 --> 01:11:41.800
every eight feet. Okay, mark
off eight feet and there's thirty five hundred

1030
01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:45.640
bucks. That's material, labor and
to install it. Yeah. It's not

1031
01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:49.520
a simple thing, that's for sure. Hey. One other question is about

1032
01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:54.680
stump grinding. I know you guys
do that too, Yes, sir,

1033
01:11:54.119 --> 01:11:58.920
well, tell us a little bit
about what you do and what you know

1034
01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:02.560
what situations that's especially helpful. The
Well, if you got stumps that you're

1035
01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:08.439
trying to get out of your yard, what we do is have you get

1036
01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:12.600
called the four one one, have
them come out and market. If you've

1037
01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:16.399
got sprinklers and water lines and gas
lines, electrical lines. Before we can

1038
01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:23.279
grind that stump, all of that
has to be marked everything because that machine

1039
01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:27.319
will just tear it. It's designed
to tear the stump out, grind it

1040
01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:30.479
completely out, and it all depends
on how deep you want to go with

1041
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:33.199
it. Where's the stump. Our
machine has to have a thirty six inch

1042
01:12:33.279 --> 01:12:38.520
opening from the street to the stump
to be able to grind it. Okay,

1043
01:12:38.680 --> 01:12:42.119
and we'll grind it down about eight
or ten inches for you and then

1044
01:12:42.479 --> 01:12:45.840
watch your grass grow back over it. But yeah, we don't put that

1045
01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:49.399
grinder on anything unless everything is marked. Yes, you know, so we

1046
01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:54.319
know what's there. We don't dig
around transformer boxes and stuff like that.

1047
01:12:54.680 --> 01:12:57.439
You don't know what's there. Yeah, And well you have to get that

1048
01:12:57.520 --> 01:13:00.920
number out again because there's gonna be
people that are out there just doing some

1049
01:13:00.960 --> 01:13:04.640
other thing in the yard digging and
it's free to have them come market right.

1050
01:13:05.479 --> 01:13:10.640
Yeah, I think it was a
one one. That's what it is.

1051
01:13:10.199 --> 01:13:13.279
The call. Yeah, you come
to market for you. There have

1052
01:13:13.319 --> 01:13:15.199
been several numbers I've seen over the
years like that. But you, I

1053
01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:19.199
guess a little quick Google search would
find exactly what you want. You're just

1054
01:13:19.239 --> 01:13:25.079
trying to market your water lines and
electrical lines because you're gonna take a stump

1055
01:13:25.119 --> 01:13:28.279
out, Yeah, and they'll come
out and market for free for you.

1056
01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:30.800
Well, when you grind the stump, you got a lot of wood chips

1057
01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:32.880
mixed in with the soil there.
Uh, you want all of that haul

1058
01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:35.359
the way too? Yeah, every
been that that needs to be. That's

1059
01:13:35.399 --> 01:13:40.039
not good for anything. A lot
of people like to keep it. We

1060
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:42.800
tell them it's your choice, but
we haul a lot away because it's not

1061
01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:46.319
really it's not really good for flower
beds or if you've mayby got a lot

1062
01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:49.720
of properly with the low spots,
you can put it out there. But

1063
01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:53.520
for it to be any good,
it had to break it up, and

1064
01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:58.359
like compost, let it set up
for years and it's turned it into a

1065
01:13:58.399 --> 01:14:01.439
compost pile. Yeah, just cut
grinding stump, throwing the flower beds.

1066
01:14:01.800 --> 01:14:04.399
It's not really good for that.
Yeah. Well, and when you mix

1067
01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:08.840
all that wooden with soil, it's
gonna sink as it decays over time.

1068
01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:14.399
So what was level will become a
whole again. Yep, sure will do

1069
01:14:14.439 --> 01:14:17.680
you do you have any recommendations when
someone has a stump from a former tree?

1070
01:14:17.720 --> 01:14:21.359
How close do you recommend planting another
tree to that? Some people want

1071
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:24.920
to put them in the exact same
spot, or what do you say?

1072
01:14:25.079 --> 01:14:28.159
So a lot of people, when
they let me take down a tree,

1073
01:14:28.520 --> 01:14:30.920
we'll tell them a lot of a
lot of companies won't go back. You're

1074
01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:34.920
not supposed to go back in the
same spot for like two years after the

1075
01:14:34.920 --> 01:14:41.159
stump's been grinded. But you can
move it over a tree ten feet in

1076
01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:45.479
either direction if you got room to
work with away from the stop and plants

1077
01:14:45.520 --> 01:14:48.239
a new tree. That's good.
That is good information. I don't know

1078
01:14:48.279 --> 01:14:50.680
if you can hear it, go
back on top of old stump, all

1079
01:14:50.760 --> 01:14:54.279
right, Martin. I don't know
if you can hear the music, but

1080
01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:57.279
I can, and it's saying this
show is coming to an end. I

1081
01:14:57.439 --> 01:15:00.960
so appreciate you being on today.
Thank you, thank you. This is

1082
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:04.520
Martin spoon more. Go ahead it
with Missy and we'll set it up for

1083
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:08.159
a January. We could come me
in on a Saturday. Do the radio

1084
01:15:08.239 --> 01:15:13.600
show sounds like fun. The website
is afftree service dot com and the phone

1085
01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:17.479
number seven one three six' nine
nine twenty six sixty three. If you're

1086
01:15:17.479 --> 01:15:21.159
answered and having Martin do the work, don't delay. Get the call in

1087
01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:26.159
now because he's going to get booked
up here, and that with thirty years

1088
01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:29.000
of experience and doing things right,
that that's kind of how things go.

1089
01:15:29.359 --> 01:15:31.439
So please do that, Martin,
Thank you, and please tell the ladies

1090
01:15:31.479 --> 01:15:38.680
there that I so appreciate them them
allowing me to take away their worker today