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Katie 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 rictor

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It's crazy trip. You just watch
him as you got dasyas the club back

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not a sound gas. Well,
good morning, good Sunday morning. Matter

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of fact, you're looking outside the
door and your neighbors lights are off,

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Go bang on the door, tell
them they're missing garden Line and they will

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sew. So appreciate the kindness of
that reminder from coming from you. You

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know, if you uh, if
you are looking for an opportunity to garden,

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well, it's here. It is
absolutely here. This time of the

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year, it is just pleasant to
be outside. You know, occasionally we

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get some rain storms or maybe a
little on the cool side, but in

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general, any of us that lived
through last summer are very grateful to have

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kind of whether we're having now to
get outside and do things. Time plant

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vegetables, timeplant herbs, time to
plant flowers. It's time to plant shrubs

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and trees and ornamental grasses and perennial
flowers, on and on. It's just

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it's time. It is time to
plant. And if you want to have

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a beautiful landscape over the wintertime,
Now's the time to jump in with both

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feet and get that done. If
you are looking for an opportunity to get

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some beautiful plants and some soil and
some fertilizers to go with it, so

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you can get the whole package to
go home and turn your landscape into a

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showplace. And Chenan Gardens they've got
you covered. They're out there in Richmond.

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They're on FM three fifteen on the
Katie Fulsher side of Richmond. The

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website's easy Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com
in chenned Gardens Richmond dot com. When

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you go there, you're going to
find everything that you need. I was

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just looking at some of the stuff
they had on the lot the other day.

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It's it is really inspiring. Any
kind of color plant, you're going

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to be able to find it there. I mean, they it's just what

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they do. They just have everything
that you would need in stock. But

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I want to when I want to
suggest them if you're out in that area.

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Another reason worth going is they're gift
shops and all of the things they

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offer as gifts for gardeners and we're
about to enter that season so be thinking

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about people on your list that might
be, you know, interested in something

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beautiful for the home or for outside. They got a lot of gardening bling.

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It's just it's easy to find something
good at enchanted gardens. The color

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plants are just really eye popping right
now that they've got out there, and

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you know, one of the best
things when you go there you get good

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advice. I mean you do.
The Lennerman family, they've been doing this

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a long time. It's no news, no news to them. You know

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how to garden or what plants do
well. They know that they've lived here,

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they've done it, and all their
staff well well trained, and it

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just it's nice to be greeted by
bright faced folks who know what they're talking

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about and take you to write what
they're looking for to I noticed a while

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back there a good selection of bulbs, how you call them. See how

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that's holding up because they carry the
best bulbs in the world, the kind

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that you can really depend on out
there in chant Gardens in Richmond. I

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am in the process of doing a
vegetable garden renovation at the house. I've

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got my summer Okra trials of breeding
lines and stuff that I was doing,

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and we're transferring over our plant strawberries
earlier. I've got a bunch of cool

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season plants that I have not put
in yet, and I'm going to try

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starting some from sea out in the
garden. That would be things like lettuce

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and carrots. Those we just directly
plant those right out there. Remember when

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you're planting greens, think to yourself, how much greens do I eat in

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a week? And I think about
that. I'll let us if I doubt

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that you need a three foot wide
by ten foot long bed of lettuce unless

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you're feeding the neighborhood. But just
plant small amounts and do it over time.

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Remember, the bigger you make a
garden, the more you have to

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take care of. And I like
big gardens because I just love gardening.

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But you know, if you're just
kind of getting started and want to put

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some food on the table and enjoy
the process, make it easier on yourself.

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Ever square foot you plant is a
square foot you're dealing with weeds and

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other things. So start small and
then grow into it, and you'll find

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yourself Your garden gets bigger and bigger
as you enjoy it more, come up

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with new things and discover new plants
you can't live without. That's kind of

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how that works. Someone had asked
me something about the condition of our roof,

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and I was I was thinking about, you know, the last time

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that we had that roof redone was
a long time ago, and it's about

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time that I need I get somebody
to come out and take a good look

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at it. And Brickman is the
kind of company that they can do that.

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They've been here for a long time. And when you've been around,

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you know, for fifty years,
I think they're fifty years this year.

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You don't stay that long without taking
care of your customers. You don't stay

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that long by jumping up on a
roof and saying, oh, you need

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such and such when maybe you don't. You need somebody that's honest and somebody

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that knows what they're doing, somebody
that uses a top quality materials and top

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quality workmanship. And that's also how
you get yourself to the Better Business Bureau

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Pinnacle Award winning and that's what Brinkman
does. Now. They've got all kinds

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of roofs. You can do composite, if you want to do a metal

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roof, or if you want to
use their Brinkman's Timberline solar shingle is that

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cool? Your roof is your solar
energy generator, not a panel on top,

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but your roof is. Call them
up two eight one four eight oh

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seventy six sixty three, or go
to the website Brinkman Quality dot com.

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That's Brinkman with two ends at the
end, quality dot com, and they'll

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help you understand your options and just
what they can do for you. Don't

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wait, you know, until somebody
knocks on your door wants to get up

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there and fix your roof. Go
with someone who's been around for a long

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time. That's why we like Brinkman. Thinking about color out in the gardens,

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I was mentioning that this is the
time to plan everything. When you

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get into the cool season. Our
plant palette it gets a little smaller,

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but it's still a really broad and
good one. And that includes things like

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Johnny jump ups and violas and pansies. They're all closely related and they all

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like cold weather. They do just
fine in cold weather. It includes things

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that are the ornamental cabbages and ornamental
kales. Those are really attractive, they

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have the color in the foliage.
And also those I've noticed the ornamental kale.

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Especially if you leave it into the
spring season, it'll send up big

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beautiful bloomstalks that are also kind of
cool to look at. We've got snap

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dragons. We've got to listen.
We've got cycle cycloman or a very beautiful

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plant to put in. Maybe you
got some shady areas in the landscape,

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you could put some cyclemen out there
and they'll do just great. In those

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kind of locations, you can find
all kinds of good quality plants to make

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your place beautiful. We love to
brag about our feed stores here on garden

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Line. The Spring Creek Feed is
the feed store if you live anywhere near

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the Magnolia area. It's really it's
on FM twenty nine seventy eight, and

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it's really one of those stores where, first of all, you drive up

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and it's impressive there, and then
you walk in the door and the impression

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continues. Every kind of product you
could need for your lawn and garden,

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and certainly for hats and livestock and
so on. It's a feed store for

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crying out loud. But do you
need insecticides, fungicides herbicized, do you

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need fertilizers? What do you need
for your lawn and landscape. They're going

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to have it there at Spring Creek
Feed Center. If you're connected with Faight

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FFA four H. If you're a
senior citizen or maybe a military, they

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have a discount for you and they
also will special deliver. So check out

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Spring Creek Feed there again. They're
on Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight.

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Let's take a little break and we
will be right back if you would

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like to get on the boards and
visit seven to one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. Well,
good morning on a still early Sunday morning.

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By the way, thanks for getting
up and listening to garden Line.

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We enjoy talking to you about gardening
and we enjoy hearing from you as well.

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And to do that you would need
our phone number, and that's called

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four one three two on two

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KTRH. As simple as that.
Hey, if you haven't fertilized your lawn

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yet, it's time to go ahead
and get that done. Don't delay another

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day, because every day you give
that grass where we have mild temperatures and

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has good nutrients in the soil,
the grass gets stronger and stronger, and

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that's important. And so putting a
good fall fertilizer like Nitropoces fall special,

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that would be an excellent choice right
now because it helps that plant, the

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grass plant develop the carbohydrates to get
to become heartier and to come out stronger

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in the spring. Now, Nitrophos
has their Texas three step as a fall

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application trio. Another step of it
is an eagle turf fungicide. Eagle turf

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is a systemic It soaks into the
tissues. So when things like large patch

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or brown patch take all root rot
come in, you've got a fungicide there

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that's helping fight against them. Now, if you've been plagued by that every

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winter, you get the big circle
in there, you need to get ahead

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of it because once the circles appear, spraying is not a whole lot of

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good. I mean, you can
prevent some additional ones, but those circles

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are going to be brown all winter, so you kind of miss the boat

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there. So go ahead and get
that out if you've got a problem where

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you're always fighting the brown patch.
And then finally the barricade is the third

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step and barricade is a preventative herbicide. You put it down, you watered

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in. By the way, the
fertilizer and the barricade can be put down

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on the same day, separate applications
and then watered in with a half inch

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of water, and that's where they
go to work. Now you're gonna find

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nitrofoss at Katie Hardware. You can
find it to RCW Nursery. You can

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find it at the Arborgate up in
Tombole. You can find it in a

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lot of places. It's widespread,
and that trio is designed specifically for the

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fall season. I was taking care
of We've got this herb planter on the

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back patio and I was taking a
look at it. The other I was

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taking care of some other the things
and plants and whatnot. I've got my

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wheelbarrows there. They're waiting on me
to put in my fall color and vegetables

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in those. But the herb planner, we've had some chives that, let's

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just say they've receded, and it's
like the whole herb planner looks like sort

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of a wheat grass planting or something. We've got in the other day,

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my wife and I were cleaning all
the junk out of there and getting it,

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getting it ready to go. And
it's time to stick some more herbs

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in because remember perennial herbs. They
can be planted any time of the year,

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but this is a great time to
get them in. Get ahead,

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start with them. And hey,
if you I keep talking about giftings and

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stuff, because that's the time of
year we're in now. But if you

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have a friend who would like a
little herb in a pot, maybe a

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window sill herb or something like that, what a great gift. You plant

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it up, do all the stuff
for them, get it all pretty and

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ready to go, and every time
they look at that, they'll remember who

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gave that to them, with fond
memories. I think giving plants is a

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great idea. We're going to head
now out to the phones. By the

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way, the number is seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four,

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and we're going to talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, Hey,

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good mornings. Get Yesterday I had
email g regarding my weeds. Yes,

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my pool pump head BBC pipe he
had busted, Yes, and it had

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and I got your response back.
Okay, And but you see how many

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weeds I have, right, Yes, So if I pull all of them,

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do I when I get them out
of the ground, aren't they gonna

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aren't some of the wheat seed's gonna
fall? Well, they're all going to

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fall if you don't get them on
the ground. And so the one I

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suggested you pull is the fall or
slender aster, and it's it's a lawn

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weed that has little for those other
folks listening, a little dime size white

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to pinkish purple flower. People have
seen those in the yard. But each

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of those flowers has like fifty seeds
in it, and there's a lot of

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flowers. So if you can find
it's easy to find where it comes out

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of the ground and just kind of
wiggle it out, or use a printing

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for RS weeding for it to get
under it, and just kind of get

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it out of there with as much
of the blooms and whatnot as you can.

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And it's best if you catch it
early and the seeds haven't even developed

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yet. But that one, you're
pulling it just because you're saving yourself a

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bazillion weed seeds. Some of the
others you had are warm season, they're

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going to die anyway, and then
you had a couple of the gosh dollar

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weed that was in there, and
that's one you can treat now and you

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can treat it again in the spring
if you need to. So the dollar

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weed, I saw that. You
said that I could put some kind of

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stuff on it right now? Can
I get that at A Oh? Yeah,

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you can get anything. You can
get anything at ACE. Yeah.

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They So if you've got a couple
of yeah, more than one great Ace

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Hardware stores up there in the Supers
area. How about celsius? Can I

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put celsius down? You could use
You could use that on the dollar weed,

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but it's it's more of a post
emergent product, so I didn't put

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that on the list. Generally it's
a little harder to find and certain weeds

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it's the one we need to.
We need to use celsius on other weeds.

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We can control them with other options
that are easier to find. But

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yes, that would also work.
So the do you recommend that I put

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down the post emergent? I got
the weed beater at uh. Yeah,

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spray spray those weeds that I talked
about in the email with it, uh

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And and that's it. Then don't
worry about anything else, go ahead and

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get into fall and in the spring
when things come back up and you're looking

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at stuff that that would be the
time to make some retreating decisions if you

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need to do that. Hey,
Sandy, go ahead, Okay, all

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right. I was gonna say,
I appreciate the call. I'm gonna I'm

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gonna need to run, but thank
you for that calling. Good luck with

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that that weed situation. Yes,
mab bye bye. I was taking care

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of the the rose I have on
the back patio. It's it's going up

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a pillar and it is just beautiful. It's the Peggy Martin. That's a

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rose they found after Katrina flooded,
and it was under salt water for I

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don't know how long. It's a
vining type growth habit, but it just

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loads up with little pink flower clusters
and I was getting them up in the

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air. I have these dogs that
think anything I plant is dog food to

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chew on, dig up, pull
out, tear apart, fold, spindle,

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mutilate, and I was taking care
of those and it just reminded me

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of the antique rosing for him.
If you maybe you don't have roses,

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or maybe you have a rose bush
or two But if you thought about like

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some of the other forms, like
a nearly thornless type of rose like Marie

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Pavier, that you put it right
by the door, you can walk by.

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It's not going to rip your legs
open. Maybe a small shrub rose

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or a large shrub rose. How
about a climber we climb. They have

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climbers that bloom once in the spring, and then they have climbers that repeat

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bloom. They have all kinds of
roses out there. In fact, they've

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developed some of their own, what
they call the pioneer roses. They bred

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the showiest and toughest of the antiques
shrubs and species roses. And you should

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see the collection of those. I
guess those are the new antiques, is

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another way to think about them.
But they are very, very cool and

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antiqu roseen Borium is really easy to
find. I mean it's up there in

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the Independence area. I'd suggest this, write these down. I'm gona give

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you a phone number and a website
phone number nine seven nine eight three six

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fifty five forty eight website Antique rose
Emporium dot com, Antiqurosimporium dot com.

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When you go, you will love
it. It is a really really cool

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place to go. I always enjoy
heading out to the antiqu Rosenpoium. Sandy

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was talking about Ace Hardware's and there
are there are some. I used to

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live in Cypers and so I went
to the Ace Hardware's up there in that

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area, and it's just there's so
many that no matter where you live around

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the area, there's gonna be an
Ace pretty close to you have not right

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across the street. And Ace Hardware
now has forty stores, and we think

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about them. When I think of
ACE, I think about gardening first,

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because they have everything you need for
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think about all the things they have
for home, beautiful indoor decorations and features,

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just everything you can imagine and then
some. That's kind of how Ace

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Hardware is. But if you thought
about Aces a place for your Christmas lighting

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and decorations, well they are.
They got every kind of light you can

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imagine. Everything you would think or
need, They've got it. You need

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a wreath, do you need a
garland? Do you want to decorate?

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Yes? Ace is a place for
all of that and it's easy to find

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the Ace. Just go to Acehardware
dot com and find their store. Locator,

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and that's how you get to the
ones closest to you. And when

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you go in, ask them to
see their lights by the foot. I'll

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just leave that mystery kind of hanging
in the air. Ask them to see

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what the lights by the foot system
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also to be pretty cool. So
I was talking about taking care of my

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rose bush and keeping it out of
the way of the dogs. I had

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to put a cage around it by
the post to keep them from they literally,

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by the way, I'm very impressed
with Peggy Martin, because this rose

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grew, the dogs chewed it off
at the ground, it grew again,

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they chewed it off at the ground
again, and then this thick headed gardener

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finally said, you know what,
I gotta put some hardware class. I

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had to put this little collar or
cylinder of hardware cloth around the rose up

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high enough to keep their little chewy
mouths off of it. And now it's

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doing just great, and I'm hoping
out of appreciation this spring it loads up

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with blooms, and I can tell
you it will, because that's that's that

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Peggy. Peggy Martin rose a pretty
cool deal. Uh, If you haven't

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been to Ana plants and produce that
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Ana is just on the east side
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Ana, the first thing that comes
to my mind is all the landscape,

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bling and decorations and everything they have. But every time I drive up to

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Ana, the first thing I see
is color, color, color, And

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boy do they ever have a lot
seven days a week, nine to five

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three acres filled with every kind of
plant you would want to grow and everything

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you need for your patio. Ooh
that rhymes Ana plants and produce. If

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you live up in that area,
you definitely need to check it out.

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Well, we're going to go to
the NIKY News Network and it is seven

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one three two fifty eight seventy four. If you would like to give Josh

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a call. Well, good morning, good Sunday morning, Welcome back garden

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Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and we're here to answer your

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gardening questions if you'd like to give
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two k t rh simple as that. I was talking to a person the

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other day who was replacing some trees
and they were, you know, we

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were discussing what are some species that
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so on. And I remember going
into the planting process and the success and

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you know, there are a number
of things that are part of making a

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successful tree planting and a thriving tree
in your yard. But some that come

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to mind, and this is more
in the area of mistakes I see people

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make. But the first is the
planting hole. If you dig a little

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straight sided cylinder planting hole that's about
the size of the root ball, the

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root cylinder that you have not loosened
the soil at all on the sides.

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Your shovel made that clay slick sided, and it just becomes an underground bathtub.

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It literally does. So think of
the aquarium at your house. Here,

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you've got this, you know,
this thing holding water. It's got

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gravel in the bottom. And people
always ask me, well, what if

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I put some gravel in the bottom
for drainage, Well, would that work

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in a bathtub or an aquarium?
Of course not, that doesn't make it

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drain So making a hole that's larger
maybe two two and a half three times

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at least the size of that roots
cylinder, that's helpful because it loosens that

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soil. The second thing that is
when people pull the container out, they

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won't cut the roots going around the
container. And if you have a round

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container, you probably have some roots
going around the container. Cut them three

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or four places I need, you
know, around the cylinder. Just make

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a vertical cut. I use a
little box blade about a one inch blade

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on those. You can also use
pointers if it's a little bit bigger root,

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but cut it it will sprout.
And I one time I was up

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at Arburgate and Beverly allowed me to
take some root balls out of a pot

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of a tree, lift them up
and do a cutting on a couple of

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them, and then put them right
back in the ground and came back two

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weeks later, and those cut INDs
all had fresh roots about two inches long

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or inch to two inches long growing
out of those cut ends. It helps

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the plant establish, especially if you've
got that circling root problem, which is

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only going to be a worst problem
over time. Third thing is people put

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junk in the planning hole that doesn't
need to be there. That tree has

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to grow in the site you planted
it. It's going to have roots two

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and a half times or more the
branch spread in all directions. So what

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you do to a little one two
three foot hole. It's not going to

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matter. In fact, it'll work
against you. Putting a bunch of compost

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in the hole. Again we go
back to the bathtub of soggy, wet

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conditions, and that compost just decomposes
anaerobically. I went to a site in

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Houston one time that had a whole
row of shrubs that was dying and they

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were just going downhill. Grab one
and pulled on it, and it came

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right out of the ground and that
root system had that black goo, swamp

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gas smell of decomposing organic matter.
Again, the hole was the bathtub.

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The organic matter now rotted anaerobically,
and that those shrubs were just dying left

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and right. And so you can
avoid all that. Dig a big area,

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put the hole you dug out from
the planting hole back in when you

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plant it, watered a little bit
after you've filled it about halfway, and

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then fill it up. Put some
sort of a berm around it if you

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want. But I think that two
tools that you need to have when you're

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planning. This is true a tree, is true of every kind of plant,

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really, But well, the first
one is just trees. That's the

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tree Hugger sprinklers, and I talk
about them all the time because you hook

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them to a hose, you put
them around the trunk, and when you

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want to water, you can water
where you want to water. With those.

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You don't have to turn on the
whole yard to have your trees watered.

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And the first year, now's the
time to plant. But the first

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year is going to be the cool
one. And really the first five years

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you don't want that tree to ever
lack for water or the shrub, and

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tree Hugger takes care of that.
If you want to know more about them,

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they're sold all over town. You
go to Treehgger Sprinkler, treehuggersprinkler dot

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com find out more. But that
is your insurance going in through the next

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summer season anytime you're going to plant
any tree or shrub. Now, the

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other tool that I would say you
need is not really a tool probably in

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your thinking, but in mine is
it has to grow six twelve six.

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That's the one I keep telling you
that I use every time I plant something,

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whether it's a perennial or a shrub
or a tree, ornamental grass,

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is all of that. Mix it
up in water, water, it in,

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do it again a week later,
again a week later, so three

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times those roots are being drenched with
seaweed extracts, with the six twelve six

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nutrients, with the medino soil activator, and you can use it as a

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folier spray too. But if you
would just do that with it, that

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gets them off on their chance to
a good success. And those are just

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some base sick tips on things where
I see people go wrong. Uh,

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you know, the whole the cutting
the roots and then what you put back

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in the hole, and those those
are common mistakes people make. There's some

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others and we can talk about those
sometime. But I was just thinking through

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this after that conversation this past week, and and I just think that will

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really will really help get your plants
off to a much much better start.

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Well, our phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four, and we're going to go
out here to Marene in Lakeside of States.

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Hello marine, good morning. I
hope I have a simple question and

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I have my own remedy, but
of course you have more experience. So

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here I go. We had the
drought and we were told to limit our

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water and then all of a sudden, I saw there were bad spots,

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so I figured, well, it's
my day a better water. So what

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has happened is as my lawn person
comes when he gets here, so it's

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hard for me to well, it's
just tell him the truth. He arrives

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or he doesn't. So any way, I've got I've got what I think

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is uh the wheel tracks from his
lawn mower. Okay, And so I

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do have worm castings just to sort
of maybe eating it out a little bit,

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and I wanted to check, a
is that okay? Or is it

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a real bad Are you trying to
use the worm castings to fill in the

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tracking? Right, it's not really
terrible. It's just that that's not the

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way my lawn looks. So they're
not trenches. It's just yeah, I

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wouldn't do that, just to cut
to the check, and I wouldn't.

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What's going to happen is you're going
to have prettier grass in those little straight

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lines of the tracks, and that
that kind of gets interesting looking. So

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I would avoid that. Uh there, But wormcastings are you know, a

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prize possession, and I would save
them and use them, you know,

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for your container plants and any special
plants you're wanting to put around fertilize a

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little bit when they're young. But
as far as those tracks, I would

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just fill in with a good quality
topsoil mix. The number of places can

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get you set up on that,
and uh, that's probably the best thing

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you need to do there. And
he needs to quit. He needs to

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quit tracking up your yard like that. That's discussing well, you know,

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yes, I tried to figure out
what it was. It's just everybody's lawn

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around me looks just perfect. They
don't have any of this. And so

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I do walk the dog, and
I started noticing there was another lawn that

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sort of looked like mine. And
so we'll go from there. I do

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a question. I'm going to have
me. I have to go to a

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break. If you want to hang
on, I'll take you when I come

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back. Our phone number or can
you talk about me one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two k t R H.

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Well, good Sunday morning. You
are listening to garden Line and we're

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here to talk gardening. If you'd
like to give us a call, our

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phone number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven, one

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three, two one two, fifty
eight, seventy four. I have talked

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about this before, about fall season, the best time to plant, blah

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blah blah, all that kind of
stuff. You know. In spring,

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everybody's a gardener. It just seems
like, you know, it's something about

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coming out of the winter, even
though we really don't have a winner here,

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something about coming out of that winter
season. It just inspires people to

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grow. That's a good thing.
But what about fall. We need to

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get some of the gardening fever,
and we need to catch that in the

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fall, because this is a great
time to plant. It's been since even

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back in September it was hot,
but it was time to get in a

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lot of the warm season fall garden
things. And it just each month keeps

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going like that. And with our
winter that we have here, we can

406
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:15.920
grow things all through the winter and
occasionally, depending on how tender the plant

407
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:17.960
is, you're going to probably have
to go out there and cover it or

408
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:19.759
something like that. But it's not
like, you know, we have a

409
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:25.119
week of just horrible hard freezes and
things like that. It's easier, it's

410
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:29.839
easier to take care of and we
need to be doing that because the fall

411
00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:33.640
season is when so much good can
happen. You know, the cool season

412
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.880
garden really is one of the easiest
and most nutritious gardens of the year.

413
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:41.839
And the reason I say that is
we have all the blue leaf vegetables,

414
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:48.119
the cruciferous crops also called coal crops, and it's the blue leafed vegetables.

415
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.720
If you want to use that way
of looking at it. It could be

416
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:56.079
broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, collars, kabbie, I don't know,

417
00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.759
I left some out, the Brussels
sprouts. All of those vegetables packed

418
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:04.680
full of things that are nutritious,
and I don't mean just like vitamins and

419
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:10.240
whatnot. I mean things that like
fight cancer, things that have other effects

420
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:15.680
on our bodies that are just absolutely
health enhancing. And then we have the

421
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:21.039
greens, the leafy greens I mentioned
kale and collars in that first group.

422
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:23.160
We have lettuce, We have spinach, and we have a regula all of

423
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.480
those. And you know, a
lot of people a salad, and I

424
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:33.680
grew up this way. A salad
was like this gnarly hard thing, watery

425
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.559
called iceberg, lettuce and a couple
of tomato chunks. Well, now,

426
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.640
oh, slathered in tons of salad
dressing. Well, Now we can grow

427
00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:45.440
a lot of greens to flavor our
salads. For example, I mentioned arugula

428
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:49.839
I picked young. It's kind of
a nutty type flavor. We have sorrel

429
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:52.880
which has a lemony flavor. You
can drop, chop up some chives and

430
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:56.319
put it in there. There's a
lot of things you can do to enhance

431
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.839
your salads without just slathering them with
some things. Probably that great for you

432
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:03.880
anyway, But cool season is a
great great time to garden. Now,

433
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.160
if you're thinking about putting a garden
in, you need to have good soil.

434
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.200
That is first first the bronze stuff, then the green stuff. And

435
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.920
one place that you can find that
kind of soil is Ciena Moltz that's down

436
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:18.359
in Roach Sharon. I was there
for an appearance this year. Some of

437
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.240
you came down for that. Thank
you for that, by the way,

438
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:23.799
I enjoyed visiting with you and meeting
you. But they're on FM five twenty

439
00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:29.519
one. Their website is cienamlts dot
com and they have everything they've got.

440
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.279
If you need soil, if you
need compost, if you need mulches,

441
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:34.359
do you want them in a bag? Do you want them bulk. They

442
00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:40.880
deliver within twenty miles of their location
for a small delivery fee, and then

443
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:44.400
they have all the fertilizers that I
talk about on garden Line, so it's

444
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.240
a one stop shop. It's easy
to do. Monday through Friday seven to

445
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.200
thirty to five and Saturday seven thirty
to two. They're closed today, but

446
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.480
they'll be back open tomorrow morning,
and it's time to get things settled in

447
00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:01.319
as the soil preparation work is done
so that you can get those beautiful plants

448
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:06.880
in and growing so that they do
really, really well. I want to

449
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.240
remind you guys that if you have
not checked out my website, Gardening with

450
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:16.079
Skip dot com, it's a new
site in its early stages, but we've

451
00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:20.799
got a lot of good information up
there. The lawn care schedule is up

452
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:22.680
there, tells you what to do
when it comes to fertilizing, mowing,

453
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.960
and watering through the year, and
it tells you all the different products if

454
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.000
you're an organic gardener, if you
grow use synthetic products either way, there's

455
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:35.680
a list of the fertilizers that you
can use on there. Then there's the

456
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:40.519
lawn pest Disease and weed management schedule, so it guides you on insects from

457
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:47.079
January to December, diseases January to
December, weed activity January to December,

458
00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:52.599
and again it lists your product options, both synthetic and organic. And that's

459
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.160
all on gardening with skip dot com. Right now. There's also up there

460
00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:01.359
an article on protecting plants from frosts
and freezes, and I would just say

461
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:05.680
get it, download it, print
it out if you want, save it

462
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:08.599
on your computer so that you have
it as a reference, because there's coming

463
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.119
a day when here comes that weather
and now we're trying to figure out what's

464
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.039
the best way to protect this.
And don't always look at what your neighbors

465
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:21.279
do, because I see a lot
of people protecting plants the wrong way,

466
00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.319
such as wrapping the top and tying
it to the trunk, and it looks

467
00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:30.720
like a landscape lollipop that is not
helping. The drapes over the plant need

468
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:32.799
to go all the way to the
ground and be sealed around the edges so

469
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.440
wind doesn't blow up underneath them.
It's as simple as that. You know.

470
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:44.279
I was talking yesterday about the RCW
fall Fling that's next Saturday, and

471
00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:46.799
I'll be there from eleven thirty to
one thirty. They're gonna have a barbecue

472
00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:51.880
sandwich lunch. They're going to have
a sail on all their shrubs and select

473
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:55.480
trees as well. And the folks
at RCW they grow their own trees and

474
00:33:55.519 --> 00:34:00.759
they have a wide selection of species
that do very very well here. They're

475
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.839
going to be given away seedlings of
lace bark elm Mexican white oak which is

476
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:08.840
also called Monterey oak, and live
oaks. Seedlings. All three of those

477
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:13.159
will be available. They're going to
give away fertilizers. They're going to give

478
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.840
away frost cloth, which that will
definitely come in handy, right, we

479
00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:21.280
need we're going to need frostcloth before
this is done. And then they're going

480
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.559
to have some sales like the San
Philippe red maple fifteen gallons. Normally it's

481
00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:30.719
one hundred and fifty bucks for fifteen
gallon San Philippi ninety nine ninety nine for

482
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.480
a San Philippe fifteen gallons, so
you know that's a huge sale. Live

483
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:38.239
oaks normally one hundred and fifty on
sale for ninety nine ninety nine. So

484
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:44.159
while you're out there, just plan
on picking up some of the plants that

485
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.039
you're going to want to put in. Now. At RCW you're going to

486
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:52.679
find oh, not just trees,
I mean vegetables, flowers, herbs.

487
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:57.079
Just if you plant it in your
yard, they probably got some of their

488
00:34:57.159 --> 00:34:59.960
and they can get them in and
boy, they have a great selection,

489
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.760
an excellent selection of roses too.
So you just have to call them and

490
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:07.159
see what they have in stock because
their normal selection is huge. You can

491
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:10.239
go to RCW nurseres dot com if
you want to find out more like where

492
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:15.119
it's located. By the way,
it's on two forty nine Tombo Parkway where

493
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:19.280
it comes into belt Way eight.
But I will be there next Saturday from

494
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.199
eleven thirty to one thirty, so
I hope you'll come out and see me.

495
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.360
Bring me some plant samples in a
bag, we'll take a look at

496
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.320
them. If you've got a bug, throw it in the bag, we'll

497
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:30.639
take a look at that. If
you want to bring pictures on your phone,

498
00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:35.400
maybe you're thinking about doing some landscape
work and you have some questions.

499
00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:37.119
You know, what will grow back
in this area or what could I use

500
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:42.360
to I don't know, it's your
questions. You bring them and we will

501
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.480
talk. It's a chance to sit
down eye to eye and visit about,

502
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:52.079
you know, whatever kinds of gardening
questions you have, and I enjoy that.

503
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:53.880
You know, here on the on
the air, I have a short

504
00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:58.559
time with people to kind of go
back and forth and answer some things.

505
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:00.960
But when we go to these appearances, I mean, it's eye to eye

506
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:05.000
time. You can come up and
we can talk. We can figure out

507
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.800
what it is that you need to
do. Who wants you to have success.

508
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:13.440
That's the bottom line. When someone
says I tried to grow plants,

509
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:15.239
I tried to garden, I got
a brown thumb. That just breaks my

510
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:20.239
heart. You don't have a brown
thumb. You have an uninformed thumb.

511
00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:23.119
And that's what we're here for.
And when you start getting information, the

512
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:29.079
thumb starts getting greener, if you
will, and we do that every Saturday

513
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.400
from six to ten, every Sunday
from six to ten. You can listen

514
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:35.199
to past shows on podcasts too.
If you miss a show, go back

515
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:38.639
listen to it on podcasts. Follow
us on Facebook, Follow us garden Line

516
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:43.400
on Facebook page. We have a
very active Facebook page, a lot of

517
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:45.440
information going on there. You can
follow me on Instagram. All that's on

518
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.360
my website gardening with skip dot com. There's a link to Facebook and the

519
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:55.360
links to Instagram on there, but
hey, come join us. Let's continue

520
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:00.920
the conversation, and let's make sure
that you have a more beautiful garden and

521
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.519
a more bountiful landscape and, by
the way, in the process, more

522
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:08.400
fun. You know, sometimes when
I hear about landscaping, and you know,

523
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:10.719
you're listening to a lecture, reading
a book, it's like, there's

524
00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:13.760
all these rules. You have to
do this, you have to do that,

525
00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:15.320
you have to do this, and
people just get overwhelmed and they think

526
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.440
I don't know how to do that. I remember the first time someone called

527
00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:22.159
me they bought a salvia GREGGYI and
they were like, I don't know how

528
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:22.639
to take care of it. And
I was just thinking, what do you

529
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.519
mean you? I wan't have to
take care of it. Just there.

530
00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:30.960
It's not that difficult. There are
rules, are things that are aesthetically prettier

531
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:37.480
than other things, but have fun. It's your yard, it's your palette.

532
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:39.400
What makes you happy, Grow that, what do you like to eat?

533
00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:45.920
Grow that? Gardening should be fun
and hopefully we help make it that

534
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:47.800
way. Well, I'm going to
run away for a minute. Seven one

535
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:54.760
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily

536
00:37:54.840 --> 00:38:00.639
endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to kt

537
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:14.199
r H Garden Line with Skip Rict. It's crazy Trim. Just watch him

538
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:29.079
as sept Day. Well, good
morning, and welcome to garden Line.

539
00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:32.840
Good Sunday morning. It be specific. We are glad you're listening. Our

540
00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:36.960
phone number if you would like to
give us a call is seven one three

541
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:42.480
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

542
00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:46.320
seventy four. I have some Christmas
cactus. In fact, I have a

543
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:52.719
lent Easter cactus and a Christmas cactus
and a Thanksgiving cactus. That they're just

544
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.400
fun to grow. And they're easy
to grow. I mean, believe me,

545
00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:00.880
I'm I can neglect plants like the
best of them. These things.

546
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.119
If they get a little on the
dry side, they're okay, but they

547
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:06.280
want to be moist, not soggy
wet. But I put them in a

548
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.719
bright spot. Sometimes they go outside
during the summertime in a real shady spot

549
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:14.320
and they love that. But I
just enjoy them, and mine are one

550
00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:17.519
of them. Starting set buds,
the other one isn't setting buds yet because

551
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:22.039
I think it's a It probably is
more of the Christmas cactus end of how

552
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:24.960
long it takes to get buds set
on a plant when the day link starts

553
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.559
to get shorter and shorter. But
they're beautiful and if you don't have one,

554
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:32.199
you need you need to get one. They make great plant gifts too,

555
00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:37.360
by the way. But out at
Enchanted Forest at in Richmond, boy

556
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:42.480
they have a stock of those in
and it is unbelievable, and they'll tell

557
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:45.840
you how to take care of it
too. That's important knowing how to take

558
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.199
care of them, because you let
them get too dry and other sorts of

559
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:53.360
environmental changes around them, and those
buds will just drop right off, And

560
00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:58.639
so you can avoid that. And
if you got to Enchanted Forest there,

561
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:01.559
it's just easy to find plants that
do well there. By the way,

562
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:07.000
they are stocked up on vegetables and
herbs as well as every other plant.

563
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:10.280
But I was talking earlier about,
you know, vegetable gardens and healthy herbs

564
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:15.039
and all of that. Well,
just go out to Enchanted this afternoon be

565
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:17.599
a good time to head out there. They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine

566
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:22.239
outside of Richmond. So if you're
in Richmond going towards sugar Land direction,

567
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:25.800
it'll be way off to the right. FM twenty seven fifty nine is the

568
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:30.639
intended Forest. That's the road you're
looking for now. Clay and Danny,

569
00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:37.000
they are part of the team that
runs that place that absolutely knows what they're

570
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.440
talking about. And again, when
you go to a garden center and they

571
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:44.360
know their stuff, it helps you
have success. Another thing they have I

572
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:49.400
forgot to mention this the holiday Amarillis. Oh my gosh, forced Amarillis bulbs

573
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:53.679
are just so beautiful, and this
would be a great gift. Maybe you

574
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:59.239
go visit somebody and you want to
kind of have a hostess gift for visiting.

575
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:04.679
Be better in a holiday amillas or
a Christmas cactus. Two good options

576
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:07.440
out there in the chanet for us. We're going to head now over to

577
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.280
Bear Creek and talk to Bill.
Hello, Bill, Good, Good morning.

578
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:19.199
Rick Say. I did some tree
pruning about two weeks ago and we

579
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.159
installed saw it. I know it
was a little bit late, but needed

580
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:30.000
to be done. My live oaks
are dropping eggcorns like I've never seen before.

581
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:34.760
In fact, I don't recall they
ever did it. Before in an

582
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.800
old house that I had used to
get hundreds. But this is the first

583
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:45.960
year that live oaks are dropping egcorns. We prune them just a little over

584
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:50.679
two weeks ago, and of course
they went to the stress is the Is

585
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:55.000
that a sign of stress on the
tree? Your plants can do things like

586
00:41:55.039 --> 00:42:00.400
that when they are stressed. It's
almost like keep the species alive, thing,

587
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:02.960
like let's make lots of babies here. But I don't think that's the

588
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.400
whole reason. On your live oaks, they have a cycle and they some

589
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:13.280
years the acorn production is just a
lot higher than others, and so I

590
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:15.559
think I wouldn't worry about it.
It's not a sign the plant's dying or

591
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:20.199
any Okay, this is the first
time I've seen any at all, and

592
00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:23.559
it's there a lot compared to my
neighbors trees. The other thing is with

593
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:29.159
the sod with all those acorns dropping, I can see what goes on the

594
00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:34.800
sidewalk, but I'm wondering how many
of being embedded in the lawn. Yeah,

595
00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:38.639
can I expect some sprouting in the
spring. You know, you generally

596
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:42.880
don't see that, and you really
don't notice it because you're mowing your lawn

597
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.480
and there's this little green ceiling trying
to come up and as you're chopping okay,

598
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:51.119
okay, pregnant from getting going.
Yeah, I's a little concerned.

599
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:58.199
It's never concerned with the old trees
at the old house. But well,

600
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:01.400
you know, I guess you can
check that off the worry list and get

601
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:04.800
home with the other things you want
to get done out. Okay. Yeah,

602
00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.000
there's plenty, plenty of other things
besides the goud and need to worry

603
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.880
about about the power. Yes,
that's right, Bill, Thank you.

604
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:14.800
I appreciate that call very much.
Yeah, taking care of the lawn is

605
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:16.760
important. And by the way,
if you haven't fertilized your lawn for fall,

606
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:20.800
you still can. I know.
On my schedule it says October because

607
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:22.800
that's when we want you to fertilize. But if you miss it, it's

608
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:27.960
not like, you know, there's
this alarm goes off and oh you can't

609
00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:30.920
fertilize anymore. Go ahead and get
it done. If you miss this thing,

610
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.559
go ahead and get it done.
Nelson Plant Food makes a carbo load

611
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:39.000
that is an excellent example of what
we call a fall fertilization. Fall fertilizer,

612
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:43.280
a winter fertilizer, whatever word you
want to put on it. All

613
00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:46.280
we're saying is the nitrogen's lower and
we got good potassium. The third number

614
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:51.320
and carbo load is that. Plus
it has a pre emergent herbicide in it.

615
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:52.960
So when you put it down you
want to ride away, go ahead

616
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.000
and water it in. Unless you
know it's going to rain that day.

617
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.800
Just go ahead and water it in
just a half inch of water, and

618
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:05.719
that way the fertilizer dissolves and gets
into the root system and the pre emergent

619
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:08.480
moves to the soil surface where it
stops weeds. So you need it.

620
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:13.000
We call that incorporating it. But
go ahead and water it in with a

621
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:17.480
half inch. Now, ever bag
you buy this fall of Nelson's plant food

622
00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:22.880
carbo load two dollars. Dean is
donating two dollars to the Randy Lemon Memorial

623
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:27.840
Scholarship up at A and M for
horticulture students. What a great cause,

624
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:30.800
y'all know, if you listen to
Randy, you know how much he loved

625
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.800
A and M. And how proud
he would be to know that there is

626
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:39.480
a scholarship in his name carrying on
his legacy. And each bag now's the

627
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:45.400
time to get him two dollars a
bag on carbo load by Nelson's. Let's

628
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:49.960
see, we are gonna go here. You know, I want to talk

629
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:55.760
about something for just a minute.
Star a Hope is one of those places

630
00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:01.519
that you just can't adequately explain in
a short time. And I've asked Scott

631
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:05.480
Arthur from Star of Hope to come
by the show. He's going to be

632
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.000
here in the eight o'clock hour and
we're going to talk all kinds of things

633
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:12.880
that I think you will be really
surprised you did not know about Star of

634
00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:15.519
Hope and how important it is.
And I've bragged on them before. I've

635
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:21.599
talked about how what they do makes
a difference. It's not a meal.

636
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:23.840
Now you're back on the street,
good luck, It's okay, Come on

637
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:28.320
in. We're going to do the
things necessary to turn your life around,

638
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:31.599
whether you're dealing with drugs, whether
you need the education on how to get

639
00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:36.639
a job, whether you need just
a place to get on your feet so

640
00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:38.239
you can save up some money to
be able to get a car to get

641
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:40.840
to work. You see what I'm
talking about. That's Star of Hope and

642
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:45.599
Scott's going to be in here from
eight to nine o'clock to day, and

643
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.000
we're going to talk about it.
And I would ask that you take some

644
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.480
time to really listen to that segment
because you know, as a compassionate person,

645
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:59.199
this is a way to put your
compassion into action in a way.

646
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.320
You know, money well spent,
and that money that makes a difference not

647
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.079
only in the lives of individuals,
but in our community as a whole.

648
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.280
That's shmission dot org. But just
stay tuned for that. I'm going to

649
00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:14.360
take a break here. The number
is seven one three two one two fifty

650
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:16.159
eight seventy four. When I come
back, Marty, you'll be the first

651
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:22.559
up. Well, good morning on
a beautiful Sunday to come. It is

652
00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:24.000
going to get a little rainy later
in the day, but we got some

653
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:28.280
time to get outside and get a
little bit of work done. And boys,

654
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:31.480
at ever an important time to do
that. When we put down our

655
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:37.159
fall fertilization, we strengthen our grass
plants. We get the roots ready to

656
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.119
go by by putting the nutrients they
need. The plant takes it up,

657
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:45.199
it makes carbohydrates and there we go
into fall and we know that we're going

658
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:47.079
to have a good, strong grass
plant that is important. There's a lot

659
00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:52.480
of activities to be doing out there, around and about on the landscape.

660
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:57.239
One thing though, I would suggest, if you don't make the call right

661
00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:00.480
away, that you write this down
so that you can, and that is

662
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:04.960
the Affordable Tree Service. Have them
come out, have them look at your

663
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:08.559
property, do an assessment of your
trees, or just get in line to

664
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:12.920
go ahead and get those trees pruned. Now, tell them you're a garden

665
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:15.000
line listener, because that puts you
at the front of the line. But

666
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:21.559
a tree pruning season is on us. And Martin stays busy because he does

667
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:24.280
things right, takes care of his
customers, he does good work. He

668
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:29.920
absolutely has that reputation. It has
for a long time here in town.

669
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His phone number is seven one three
six nine nine twenty six sixty three.

670
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:38.679
Seven one three, six nine nine
twenty six sixty three. Maybe some pruning

671
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:42.360
is needed, maybe it's not.
He'll tell you if it is or not.

672
00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:47.239
What kinds of activities are you planning
as far as changes in your landscape.

673
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:51.719
You're going to put in a new
water line or maybe a driveway or

674
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:55.320
anything like that that affects your trees, and have Martin come out and take

675
00:47:55.360 --> 00:48:00.599
a look at it so you don't
make a mistake and do Damn. That

676
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:06.519
is really difficult to completely recover from. That is so important. Go to

677
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:09.360
you can call them again seven one, three, six nine nine twenty six

678
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:15.639
sixty three, or go to the
website afftree Service dot com. We're going

679
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:21.400
to go now out to Marty and
Fairfield. Hello Marty, good morning.

680
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:24.840
Get a question. I was out
working in the yar yesterday and found that

681
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:30.000
my avocado tree, for the first
time in two years, is blooming.

682
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:36.119
It has little blooms on it,
and I don't know what to do with

683
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:38.039
it. Nothing. You can do, nothing you need to do. Just

684
00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:43.039
wait and watch and we'll see how
that turns out. How when you say

685
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:47.880
little, how tall is it?
It's about a few and a half three

686
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:54.800
feet tall. Oh my, it
really is a little Yeah. If it

687
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:59.559
were mine, I would just take
those off and let the tree put its

688
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.360
energy into making a bigger tree.
Now. I know that's hard to hear

689
00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:07.519
because you planted it so you could
eat avocados, But sometimes implant for that

690
00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:12.519
small carrying for fruit. Carrying a
load of fruit is tough because a lot

691
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:16.239
of energy goes into making that wonderful
avocado, and that energy could go into

692
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:22.840
growing branches to developing cold heartiness by
making carbohydrates. And so I think I

693
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:29.159
would would take that cluster off a
tree that size. Well, it's not

694
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:31.639
just one or two, it's a
buns Okay, Well, all the more

695
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:36.000
reasons, Yeah, all the more
reason because I mean, if it tried

696
00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:37.760
to set all those fruit number one, I'm not sure it would, but

697
00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:45.280
that that's just too much. That's
asking too much of that tree at this

698
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:47.440
time. So you know, you
don't have to be neurotic about oh I

699
00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:51.199
got to get everyone, but just
as you see them, just snip them

700
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.920
out of there. This year.
Let's get that tree during the coming season

701
00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.119
twenty twenty four. Let's get it
up growing and healthy and big, and

702
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:04.199
then have some branches to hang avocados
on and maybe feed it in Fevary or

703
00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:09.280
March a little bit later coming out. Yeah, March is probably fine for

704
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:15.039
that. It's gonna benefit from the
adequate supply of nutrients in the soil.

705
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:20.559
So small applications. If you use
an organic product, they gradually release.

706
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:23.119
They're not salt based. You can
put a little more down at one time.

707
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:28.880
But with most fertilizers. It just
think about the tree. It takes

708
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:34.599
up nutrients every day over time.
So to use an extreme example, if

709
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.800
you were to go out to a
plant and give it its whole twelve month

710
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.360
supply of nutrient at one time,
well, what's going to happen eleven months

711
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:45.119
from now? Those nutrients Some of
them are not going to be there.

712
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.679
They're gonna be gone, and so
it's better to gradually feed over time.

713
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.320
So there's different ways we do that, slow release fertilizers or just small applications.

714
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:57.519
Yeah, well, there you go. And they have several products that

715
00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.599
would work great on an avocado for
sure. They have the like the citrus

716
00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:05.199
product that would be fine for avocado. Even the green bag the six two

717
00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:08.920
four would be great for your avoca. Green bag. Yeah, because at

718
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:15.519
this point in time, we're wanting
to stimulate and support good growth and that

719
00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:20.679
all their products can do that.
But there's not a specific one you have

720
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:25.360
to use on an avocado. I
have the red bag out, Yeah,

721
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:30.760
is that the one for acid plants
or I'm trying to okay, yeah,

722
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:35.199
that one to be fine. It's
not going to suddenly drop the pH to

723
00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:37.559
two points down. I mean it's
a very gradual thing. You could use

724
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.039
that. If your pH is a
little high, you could use that.

725
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:45.400
But again, I just just get
some down next spring and then do it

726
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:52.639
several times over the course of the
season and small amounts and stop about sometime

727
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:57.599
in August early to mid August,
Stephen. And here's why those fertilizers are

728
00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:00.400
releasing over time, and we don't
want to push a lot of tender fall

729
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:06.440
growth going into winter with an avocado
tree. Okay, that was good,

730
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:09.960
Thank you so much. Thanks you
take care. Yeah, Microlife has a

731
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:15.360
number of great products for that,
you know right now for the lawns.

732
00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:19.039
By the way, Microlife brown Patch
it's a five to one three which,

733
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:21.840
by the way, you could fertilize
an avocado tree with that. You just

734
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.239
could. I mean, it's a
good product and it'll work very well.

735
00:52:24.679 --> 00:52:28.480
But you get your five to one
three down as soon as possible, that's

736
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:31.000
the one that's going to help it
go into the winter time. Be a

737
00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:37.639
stronger grass plant if you have regarding
it a new area, especially, I

738
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.519
encourage you to do the purple bag, which is the micro grow by an

739
00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:45.000
inoculant that you don't put much of
it down all you're doing is inoculating the

740
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:47.280
soil. It's kind of like you're
going to bake bread and you need a

741
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:51.800
sour dough starter. Remember though some
of you know what that is. Well,

742
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:57.679
you're just inoculating with that and that
really enhances and microbes rule the world.

743
00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:00.599
They make your plants healthy. So
it's a good time to do humates

744
00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:02.760
plus. And I should have mentioned
this to Marty, but you could do

745
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.239
the the blue bag hum Mats plus. It's a zero zero four and it

746
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:12.199
would be another one that could be
done now really on your avocado tree as

747
00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:15.679
well as on your lawn. Go
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. I'll quit

748
00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:20.519
trying to explain everything they got.
Just go there and read about these things

749
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.599
and also find out where you can
get Microlife products. They're very widely available,

750
00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:29.079
easy to come by here in the
Greater Houston area. Well, our

751
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phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one

752
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:40.360
three two one two five eight seven
four. Uh. The the importance of

753
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:47.840
soil is something I always am harping
on because I see so many plants plopped

754
00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:52.880
in an unprepared plot. That's my
Peter Piper horticulture version. I guess.

755
00:53:53.400 --> 00:54:00.000
But when you PLoP a plant in
an unprepared plot, it it made up,

756
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:02.840
have the drainage it needs, It
may not have the nutrients that it

757
00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:08.199
needs. The soil may be,
for whatever reason, pour in microbial content

758
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:12.639
or some other thing that's part of
enhancing the root system. And so you

759
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:16.159
start with good, good bed preparation. I don't care. That's true if

760
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:20.159
you're planning, you know, like
a vego bed up on top of the

761
00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.440
ground for whatever you would grow in
a vego bed or any kind of raised

762
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:27.320
bed. It's true for certainly the
soils out in your garden. It's true

763
00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:32.199
for container plants. Soil is everything, and that's why we we brag on

764
00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:37.840
a Nature's Way. For example,
Nature's Way produces a number of different soil

765
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:44.320
blends. They have just a wide
variety of options, from compost type materials

766
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:49.280
to actual bed mixes, to the
different kinds of things you would use to

767
00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:52.960
enhance your soil. You know,
maybe you're adding some micronutrients, or maybe

768
00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:55.199
you're looking for a malts to go
on top. They've got it all their

769
00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:59.920
numbers nine three, six, three, two, one sixty nine ninety.

770
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Now you can have them deliver,
or you can drive out there and pick

771
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:05.079
it up yourself. You can pick
up bags, or if you got a

772
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.800
little trailer, go out and get
some and while you're there, leave a

773
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:10.840
little room because they also have a
nice little plant nursery with a lot of

774
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:15.519
very interesting thing many native plants too, out there at Nature's Way. Hey,

775
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:19.960
by the way, every Friday is
Fungal Friday. Ten percent off.

776
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They're bagged fungal based products twenty percent
off their bulk products. So you definitely

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want to take advantage of that because
that's a really really good deal for a

778
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really really good product. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

779
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fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

780
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:45.920
I was texting with Jay from Texas
Gardener the other day. We're trying to

781
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.119
get together to have a couple of
conversations we need to have and it seems

782
00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:52.960
like one of us or the others
always going in a different direction at the

783
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:57.360
time. But Texas Jay's putting out
Texas Gardener and Jay are putting on the

784
00:55:57.480 --> 00:56:01.599
Texas Tomato Leverage Conference that's in in
January on the thirteenth, that's a Saturday,

785
00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:09.880
January the thirteenth of twenty twenty four. So the Texas Tomato Lovers Conference

786
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:14.280
has a bunch of great speakers.
I know these guys that I know they'll

787
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:17.679
do a good job. They're gonna
have topics on growing tomatoes with and you

788
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:23.039
know for a young family, mastering
container grown tomatoes, and then the best

789
00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:28.280
varieties for twenty twenty four plus eight
steps to grafting success. Do you know

790
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.480
you could graft the tomato plant.
I'm going to be there. There's also

791
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.800
one on tomato diseases by doctor Oong, the pathologist from Texas A and M.

792
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:39.639
I'm going to be there talking about
the ten Commandments of tomatoes. Aren't

793
00:56:39.679 --> 00:56:44.039
you wondering what that's going to be, Well come see. If you want

794
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:47.639
more information, just call them at
two five four eight four eight ninety three

795
00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:51.719
ninety three. It's gonna be up
at the Anti Grosenporian, by the way,

796
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:54.039
And this is a limited space thing. You know, the building only

797
00:56:54.039 --> 00:56:57.960
hosts so many people, and last
time I did this it was packed.

798
00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:01.280
It was very popular event. So
if you're interested, don't delay two five

799
00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:07.960
four eight four eight ninety three ninety
three for the Texas Tomato lover conference.

800
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If you are have been dealing with
brown patch every year and you get the

801
00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:17.000
big circles in your lawn. If
you're always fighting weeds in the cool season

802
00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:22.960
or in spring your garden, your
lawn is just overrun with weeds. Ninety

803
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:25.519
fives has a three step system.
The first step is the fall fertilizer,

804
00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:30.599
and we've talked about that before and
the importance of why that blend of nutrients

805
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:35.360
is the best for promoting winter hardiness
and ensuring strong growth in the spring.

806
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.000
The barricade is their pre emergent.
Now, whether it's a grassy weed or

807
00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:40.880
a broad leaf weed, if you
put it down for the weed sprouts,

808
00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:45.119
it doesn't let them sprout, doesn't
let them establish. They try to and

809
00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:47.719
they just die. They can't make
it. And that is much easier than

810
00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:52.000
waiting until spring when the weeds areney
high, trying to figure out how to

811
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:54.239
kill them. By the way,
it's too late at that time, but

812
00:57:54.679 --> 00:58:00.119
barricade will prevent it. And then
the eagle tour fungicide is the thing we

813
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.000
put down to get ahead of the
brown patch. It's all at nitrofoss.

814
00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:06.519
And where do you get nitrofoss?
Oh, my gosh everywhere, bearings hardware

815
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.400
on Bissinet, allspawls, hardware in
the woodlands, plants of things in Brunham,

816
00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:13.800
they all carry nitrofoss. Well,
let's take a break our phone number

817
00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:20.039
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Good morning. You

818
00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:23.320
are listening to Guardenline on a Sunday
morning and we are here to talk about

819
00:58:23.440 --> 00:58:27.400
gardening with you. What's your question? What are you interested in? What

820
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.119
are you trying to do? What
would like to do? What's going wrong

821
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:34.400
in the in the landscape. I
know a lot of times things don't go

822
00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:38.880
as we planted, and that is
called the vicissitudes of nature. That's one

823
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:43.280
of the things that does it.
You know, sometimes nature throws us a

824
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:47.519
curve, and it threw us a
horrible curve this summer with that drought and

825
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:51.320
heat, and our plants, you
know, certainly struggled with that, and

826
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:55.679
some of them are still struggling with
that kind of stress. I was thinking

827
00:58:55.719 --> 00:59:00.400
the other day about some container plantings
and I've got a bunch of can in

828
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:06.039
the backyard and thanks to the dynamic
duo of Ellie and Text, the plant

829
00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:14.599
destroying golden retrievers at my house.
They pretty well unplanted my containers for me,

830
00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:15.800
at least a couple of them that
they could get to. I need

831
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:19.760
to put some things back in there, and I'm planning on putting some cool

832
00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:24.360
season color in. I just love
putting a lissom spilling over the sides.

833
00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:29.920
Of course, I love violas.
That's that's one of my favorite cool season

834
00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:34.360
flowers. Very very cold, hardy. Some cycleman's up in there in the

835
00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:37.440
top two. In fact, you
know you can do that. Three stages

836
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:42.079
of plant growth, a thriller,
filler, spiller, something tall in the

837
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:45.320
middle, that's a thriller, something
that fills in around the sides, and

838
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:47.320
then something that spills over the side. So for a cool season planner,

839
00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:52.760
that would be something like snap dragons
in the middle, some violas or pansies

840
00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:57.760
around the side, and then a
lissom just draping over the edge of the

841
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:00.199
pot. Works really good. By
the way. Great fertilizer for that is

842
01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:06.760
nature's creation, all natural bedding plant
food. It has micro hizal fungiant.

843
01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:10.199
It's made from things like alfalfa meal, cottonseed meal, humates, molasses,

844
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:15.960
composted poultry and calmaner and on and
on. A lot of other things,

845
01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:20.599
including the micro hizal fungi. So
if you need your cool seasoned plants to

846
01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:23.480
really pop with color, this would
be a good one to put in when

847
01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:28.639
you're getting those things established, mix
it into the soil or put it on

848
01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:31.679
afterwards. You can find it at
Quality Feed. That's the feed store we

849
01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:37.239
like to brag on up on Luzon
Street, MOUs Nursery down in Seabrook RCW

850
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:39.840
up on two forty nine, which
is where I'll be next Saturday. And

851
01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:46.920
all Houston Garden centers carry Nature's Creation, all natural bedding plant food. I

852
01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:52.960
was in the backyard the other day
refilling a bird feeder. I've got one

853
01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:59.119
of Wildbird's unlimited. They're squirrel excluding
feeders, and I got to talk more

854
01:00:59.119 --> 01:01:02.119
about that some of the time,
but that is a really really cool feeder.

855
01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:07.039
I don't dislike squirrels, but I
don't want to buy them food.

856
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:10.440
That's just how I feel. I
mean that some people feed the squirrels,

857
01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:15.119
you know, but that's not where
I am. So the scroll excluding feeder

858
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:17.360
is a good choice for me.
But filling it up, and then when

859
01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:22.079
I went back in watching the birds
that were coming to it, and feeding

860
01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:25.119
on it, and I noticed that
when they when they're there, they're also

861
01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:29.159
going to the water. I have
water for them outside, and I know

862
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:32.159
we're about to get some rain,
But in general, I don't think we

863
01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:37.039
remember that the birds we want to
attract need water, and that that is

864
01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:39.800
really important. So I always keep
some water out there that birds can get

865
01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:45.679
to, and that will really help
in drawing them into your landscape because we

866
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:49.840
love to we love to have birds
and take care of our birds. Let's

867
01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:52.639
go out to Magnolia. We're going
to talk to LP. Hello, LP,

868
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:58.000
how are you doing well? Thank
you? Oh great, great?

869
01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:02.719
My question. I have a lot
of clay in the soil, and I

870
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:09.320
was wondering what's the best method of
trying to fix that soil. And then

871
01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:16.239
second second that I have some Virginia
button weed okay, and how to how

872
01:02:16.239 --> 01:02:19.599
to fight that? Yeah, well, let's do both of those. First,

873
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:22.320
of soil, what are you growing
and going to grow in this area?

874
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:28.920
That of soil, well, I
have just a just a kind of

875
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:31.679
quick big picture. Yeah, yeah, a little flower bed okay, it's

876
01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:36.960
one okay, so it's along the
house, all right. And then just

877
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:42.280
that the regular oak trees Okay,
there it's newly planted, all right,

878
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:45.280
olpie. So what I would do
is I would get some expanded shale and

879
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:49.440
mix it in, and you can
put up to like three inches of it

880
01:02:49.480 --> 01:02:52.440
in to get a good volume into
the clay soil that you have. I

881
01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:58.239
would also put down some compost or
a bedmex like a rose soil for example,

882
01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:00.239
would be a good choice. Now
you can buy that. A lot

883
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:06.519
of our folks will produce a product
that has composts mixed with the potting mix

884
01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:12.920
or with the composted material. But
whether you do them separately or together,

885
01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:16.320
the expanded shale lasts a long long
time and keeps the soil open, but

886
01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:20.480
you got to use a quantity of
it to get the full effect. And

887
01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:23.039
then the bed mixes mixing them in. That's the best thing. Now that

888
01:03:23.159 --> 01:03:25.880
when to do it is the key. When our soil is wet, which

889
01:03:25.920 --> 01:03:30.960
it is going to be very wet
here in the next few days, let

890
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:34.320
it dry out a little bit,
because when you try to work stuff into

891
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:37.599
wet soil, it just destroys the
clay structure that it might already have.

892
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:42.880
And it's better to work it when
it's moist, not too wet. As

893
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.880
far as the Virginia button weed,
you know, I would just tell you

894
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.159
what let me. I'm gonna get
real closer. I'm gonna have to take

895
01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:51.639
a break here in a second,
but I'll most start an answer to it,

896
01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:54.280
and we may come back to it. Virginia button weed is controlled by

897
01:03:54.840 --> 01:04:00.480
some of the broad leaf post emergent
weed control products, and Celsia is one

898
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.039
I usually recommend for that. There
are others that will knock it back,

899
01:04:03.119 --> 01:04:06.199
but any of them you're going to
probably have to do twice. And you

900
01:04:06.280 --> 01:04:10.360
got to do it while it's growing. Now it's about to go into winter,

901
01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:13.679
the growth on it is shut down
to almost nothing. So at this

902
01:04:13.880 --> 01:04:16.199
point, the more of it you
can pull out, just to get those

903
01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:19.840
little pods out of there and out
of your lawn, that will help.

904
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:24.119
It's not going to kill the weed, but it prevents the additional seeds in

905
01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:28.519
the ground that is really important.
And then in the spring when it starts

906
01:04:28.519 --> 01:04:30.440
to grow, when you start to
see it, that is when you would

907
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:35.840
begin to treat for that. I'm
going to have to run LP four A

908
01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:40.320
the break here coming up, but
I thank you very much for your question.

909
01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:44.079
You know, if you're looking for
products like where do you get celsius?

910
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:47.239
That's not a super common one.
Well, Southwest Fertilizer is an excellent

911
01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:50.960
place to get anything you need,
whether it's a fertilizer. They have more

912
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:56.159
fertilizers than I can even name.
They have every kind of product for insects,

913
01:04:56.199 --> 01:05:00.239
diseases, and weeds, and just
a wide variety, both synthetic and

914
01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:04.800
organic. I mean that no matter
how you garden, Southwest Fertilizer can put

915
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:09.760
the right products in your hand.
They just know how to do things.

916
01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:13.840
There at the corner of Bysinette and
Renwick in Southwest Houston. Or go to

917
01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:19.760
the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
That's Southwest Fertilizer dot com. And when

918
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:24.079
you go in there you will see
why it's the place I go when I'm

919
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:26.960
wanting to look at, Hey,
what's new on the market, because they're

920
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:29.519
gonna be the first to have it. We're going to take a break now.

921
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:32.639
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

922
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:38.159
Well, good morning, and welcome
back to garden Line. I'm your

923
01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:41.159
host, Skip Richter. We're here
to answer your gardening questions. Seven one

924
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:45.280
three two one two KTRH if you
would like to give us a call.

925
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:49.400
Uh. The folks out at Buchanan's
Nursery that's on eleven Street and the Heights.

926
01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:54.199
They've gotten a new shipment of citrus
in and they have a wide variety.

927
01:05:54.199 --> 01:05:57.400
I mean they have like Clementine mandarins, They've got carracarra, oranges,

928
01:05:58.239 --> 01:06:03.039
Buddha hand citron that is a it
imagine if a lemon had fingers and it

929
01:06:03.119 --> 01:06:08.840
was really big. That's a boot
ant citron. They have Frost's Eureka lemon,

930
01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:11.360
Mexican key lime, and others.
And they have a lot of good

931
01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.159
information online too. By the way, you need to go to their website.

932
01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:20.800
The website's Buchananplants dot com Buchanansplants dot
com and there's information on how to

933
01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:24.400
plant citrus in a pot. Do
you know you can grow in containers.

934
01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:27.199
The nice thing about that is you
can roll it into the garage when it's

935
01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:31.119
going to get too cold. They
have information on organic citrus care as well.

936
01:06:31.239 --> 01:06:36.440
They always have information online Buchanans Plants
dot com. They're in the Heights

937
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:41.039
in East eleventh Street and by the
way, when you're by there, stick

938
01:06:41.039 --> 01:06:45.280
your head in the gift shop.
It is unbelievable the amount of things and

939
01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:50.239
the really cool gifts and last but
not least, right down on your calendar,

940
01:06:51.079 --> 01:06:57.239
Saturday, December second, ten am
to three pm is their holiday open

941
01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:59.679
house. Now, this is a
big deal. It's a free event.

942
01:07:00.039 --> 01:07:03.199
But I'm talking about live music,
beer and wine, food senna kids,

943
01:07:03.280 --> 01:07:06.320
crafts, local vendors. I mean, it's, as I like to say,

944
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:12.639
quite the shindig holiday open house if
Buchanan's on Saturday December second, from

945
01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.480
ten am to three pm. We're
going to go now to the phones and

946
01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:20.079
talk to Jenny in Cyprus. Hello
Jenny, Hi, how are you?

947
01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:24.880
I'm doing well? Thank you?
Right, So, I have a big

948
01:07:24.920 --> 01:07:29.719
problem with asters, little astra flowers
that are just invading my launch. Yes,

949
01:07:30.679 --> 01:07:34.119
okay, it is too late to
spray them and do any good at

950
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:38.880
all, And you probably don't want
to hear this, but that you can

951
01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:42.360
hand pull them and it's not that
difficult each astra. I mean you may

952
01:07:42.400 --> 01:07:45.360
have one that's spreading out three feet
across and you don't know it, but

953
01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:48.039
it's all one plant. You know
it when you start pulling, it has

954
01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:53.000
a tap root comes out of one
spot and if you can grab that and

955
01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:55.800
the soil is moist, you can
wiggle it and pull it right up,

956
01:07:55.880 --> 01:07:58.760
or use a weeding fork to do
it. And when you do that,

957
01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:03.199
you're taking hundred flowers with fifty seeds
each out of your lawn. That'll be

958
01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:06.519
next year's fall asters and you don't
want to have to deal with it.

959
01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:12.239
So right now, every plant you
can pull out is just helping you.

960
01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.400
I go out on a Saturday mornings. I used to go on Saturday mornings

961
01:08:15.400 --> 01:08:17.720
before I starting this radio show.
But I'll go out in the morning and

962
01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:21.079
just get a five gallon bucket and
just kind of kneel down, do a

963
01:08:21.079 --> 01:08:24.119
little bit of work. Get it
done. You have to do it all

964
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:27.880
in a day, but just know
that everyone you get out, that's the

965
01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:30.399
best thing you can do. And
then we could talk next spring and summer

966
01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:34.880
about stuff to do then to help
them ahead of time. Yeah, like

967
01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:39.199
a pre emergent or something. Yeah, like a pre emergence things like that

968
01:08:39.479 --> 01:08:42.920
would be something we would talk about
at that time. But you don't see

969
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:45.840
them in your yard. They kind
of blend in and they stay low.

970
01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:48.840
You're more make them go sideways rather
than up, and then all of a

971
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:53.119
sudden in fall when they bloom,
boy, you see them then. But

972
01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:57.640
that's right, that's the quick answer
on the aster. Jenny, thank you

973
01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:03.640
very much for the call. Appreciate
that. That's the Lensdown Moody is the

974
01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:08.479
tractor company I keep telling you you
need to know about. And it's because

975
01:09:08.520 --> 01:09:13.079
Lansdown Moody and Caboda have put together
an incredible deal. And here's the deal.

976
01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:15.479
First of all, you pick the
Cabota that you want. I would

977
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:19.920
highly recommend the L twenty five oh
two. That's the workhorse for the Komota

978
01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:26.279
group. Then you pick out your
tractor package at tractorpackage dot com. And

979
01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:29.279
by package I mean what do you
need to go with your tractor, Like

980
01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:31.520
do you need a rotary cutter or
a front end loader whatever. They've got

981
01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:35.279
a bunch of things to choose from. Then finally you go orange with their

982
01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:42.359
great finance plan. Lansdown Caboda have
extended this deal that is really I don't

983
01:09:42.399 --> 01:09:45.119
know how they do this, but
no money down and no interest for up

984
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:49.439
to eighty four months. So we're
talking about what is that seven years?

985
01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:54.119
According to my Agi math I believe
that is that no interest on it?

986
01:09:54.199 --> 01:09:57.279
You know, Lansdown. They're a
hometown company. They've been here since nineteen

987
01:09:57.359 --> 01:10:02.399
thirty six nine locations around the Texas
Gulf Coast. Just go to lmtractor dot

988
01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:06.159
com or drive by and go in
and say I want to sit up there

989
01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:10.960
on one of those L twenty five
O two's and you'll see what I'm talking

990
01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:15.119
about about it being a very sweet
ride. Well, you're listening to garden

991
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:17.079
Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richtor, and we're here to answer your

992
01:10:17.119 --> 01:10:23.079
gardening question. So I'm going to
go now to Liz in Paarland. Hello,

993
01:10:23.239 --> 01:10:26.720
Liz, Yes, Hi, good
morning, Skip, Good morning.

994
01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:32.319
I just tuned in. But I
do have a question regarding the fall fertilizer,

995
01:10:32.359 --> 01:10:36.920
which I'm we're planning to put down
today, but due to the rain.

996
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:42.560
There's moderate rain today in our well
I suppose in our area we're going

997
01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:46.119
to get moderate rain, but tomorrow
it's like the ninety percent rain over Houston

998
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:50.000
areas and so forth. So I
didn't know if it's better to put it

999
01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:56.640
down after the ninety percent rain tomorrow. Yeah, how does that? Okay?

1000
01:10:57.199 --> 01:11:00.119
Well that work? You know,
you don't know how much it's in

1001
01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:01.880
a rain, And if I had
that predictor. I could tell you exactly,

1002
01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:04.720
but uh, you don't want a
gully washer. What kind of fertilizer

1003
01:11:04.720 --> 01:11:10.560
are you planning on putting out?
Do you have a brand fertilizer? Well,

1004
01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:15.640
you could put it out now if
you feel like in your area you're

1005
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:17.760
going to get you know, over
an inch of rain, then I think

1006
01:11:17.840 --> 01:11:20.880
I would I would hold off until
after, but it needs to be watered

1007
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:24.960
in, so it's be kind of
weird going out after a rain and then

1008
01:11:25.079 --> 01:11:28.880
watering again to get the fertilizer down
in there. So, however you want

1009
01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:31.119
to juggle that. The goal is
to get about a half inch of water

1010
01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:34.760
if you at least at least to
move it down in the soil. Uh,

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01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:39.479
and that's where I can go to
work. Okay, yes, yeah,

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01:11:39.479 --> 01:11:41.800
I wanted to make sure if I
do put it, it's not a

1013
01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:46.239
super wash out putting that fertilizer out. Yeah, that's the roll of the

1014
01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:49.039
dice. If you want all things
to be in your control, just wait,

1015
01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:53.239
put it down and then and then
water a little bit. Okay,

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01:11:53.319 --> 01:11:56.359
okay, all right, thank you
so much. Hey, thanks Liz,

1017
01:11:56.399 --> 01:11:59.520
I appreciate that call. Have you
thought about getting a new roof? Do

1018
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:02.920
you need an roof. Have you
thought about putting solar panels on your roof?

1019
01:12:03.119 --> 01:12:06.960
Well, I have a better idea. Brinckman Roofing has something called the

1020
01:12:08.039 --> 01:12:11.800
timberline solar shingle. So you don't
have a panel on your roof. It

1021
01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:15.880
is your roof. Your roof is
making energy. Boy, I think I

1022
01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:18.840
could have made a mint this summer
with a whole lot sunny days that we

1023
01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:24.319
had. But Brinckman's been doing this
for fifty years, the Better Business Bureau

1024
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:27.680
Pinnacle Award winner. I mean,
that's the kind of company you want.

1025
01:12:27.720 --> 01:12:30.399
Someone was telling me the other day
they were waiting wondering when the landscape care

1026
01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:33.079
guy was going to come out.
That's the way it is with service often,

1027
01:12:33.159 --> 01:12:36.760
unfortunately not with Brinkman. They show
up when they tell you they're going

1028
01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:40.800
to show up, and they do
the job right. They warranty for twenty

1029
01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:44.760
five years. So go to Brinkman
Quality dot com. That's b ri I

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01:12:44.920 --> 01:12:48.000
n K M A n N quality
dot com. Or you can give them

1031
01:12:48.039 --> 01:12:53.880
a call two eight one four eight
oho seventy six sixty three and when you

1032
01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:59.960
do that you'll find out why there
is a significant Brinkman difference don't trust them.

1033
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.239
Company that knocks on your door tries
to get you to fall acclaim for

1034
01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:06.479
some storm damage or whatever, have
a professional look at it so they can

1035
01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:12.199
tell you like it is. That's
the kind of customer service that is so

1036
01:13:12.439 --> 01:13:15.760
important. And any time you're hiring
somebody to come out and do anything,

1037
01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:17.399
wouldn't it be nice if they told
you when they were going to show up

1038
01:13:17.399 --> 01:13:21.399
and actually showed up at that time
instead of asking you to, you know,

1039
01:13:21.640 --> 01:13:26.279
hold your whole day in case they
might come out. Not with Brickman

1040
01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:31.159
two eight one four eight zero seventy
six sixty three. Well, I mentioned

1041
01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:36.119
this earlier, but I am about
to have a whole hour with Scott author

1042
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:43.119
from the Gosh. I just went
blank, Star of Hope. My brain

1043
01:13:43.239 --> 01:13:47.720
just went sideways there. Scott's already
here in the studio. But you've heard

1044
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:50.520
me talk about and brag about Star
Hope a lot of times. My wife

1045
01:13:50.520 --> 01:13:55.159
and I personally support Star of Hope
because we know that every time we give

1046
01:13:55.159 --> 01:13:59.079
a dollar, it's actually going to
go to making a difference in people's lives.

1047
01:13:59.119 --> 01:14:01.960
And I know you're compacted it too, and you know money doesn't come

1048
01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:05.800
easy, and when you part with
it to help somebody. You want it

1049
01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:11.199
to help somebody, and you know, I know, you know, you

1050
01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:14.720
drive up to an intersection and there's
people there all the time asking for money.

1051
01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:15.840
I'm not going to go into all
of that, but I can just

1052
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.479
tell you this. If you want
to make a live, a difference in

1053
01:14:18.520 --> 01:14:23.880
someone like that's life, Star Hope's
the reason and the way. And let

1054
01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:27.600
me just ask you hang around for
the next hour because you're going to really

1055
01:14:27.640 --> 01:14:30.880
want to hear what Scott has to
say as we visit about Star of Hope

1056
01:14:31.039 --> 01:14:35.039
and the difference that they make in
people's lives. Our phone number is seven

1057
01:14:35.119 --> 01:14:40.640
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two

1058
01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:44.920
k t r H. If you'd
like to go that route next hour.

1059
01:14:44.960 --> 01:14:46.840
We're not going to be taking plant
calls. We're just going to visit with

1060
01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:49.880
Scott and Star Hope. If you
happen to have a question about Star of

1061
01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:54.239
Hope, uh, please do call
in Josh. We'll get you on the

1062
01:14:54.239 --> 01:14:58.199
boards. But in the meantime,
hang on because it's gonna be really good.

1063
01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:01.880
Don't forget that. I have an
new website, Gardening with Skip dot

1064
01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:06.720
com. Gardening with Skip dot com. You can find my lawn care schedule

1065
01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:14.079
and my lawn pest disease and weed
management schedule both on that website. I

1066
01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:18.039
will be next Saturday out at RCW
Nurseries from eleven thirty to one thirty.

1067
01:15:18.359 --> 01:15:21.960
That's the eleventh of November, so
make plans to come out and see me.

1068
01:15:23.079 --> 01:15:27.119
They are having their super duper Shindig
out at RCW. They call it

1069
01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:30.439
the Fall Flag. You can grab
a barbecue sandwich while you're out there.

1070
01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:34.239
They're gonna be giving away lace bark
elm Mexican white oak and live oaks seedlings

1071
01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:39.640
fifteen percent off all their shrubs and
a lot of the trees too, by

1072
01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:44.840
the way, and then giveaways like
fertilizers and frostcloth and everything else. Bring

1073
01:15:44.880 --> 01:15:47.439
your samples in a bag, let's
look at them to identify and to diagnose,

1074
01:15:47.720 --> 01:15:54.239
and I'll be looking forward to that. We'll be right back. KTRH

1075
01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:58.199
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

1076
01:15:58.239 --> 01:16:03.439
program. Welcome to Katie r H
garden Line with Skip Richt. It's so

1077
01:16:05.279 --> 01:16:25.000
crazy, Trim, just watching as
many battasy. Welcome back to garden Line.

1078
01:16:25.199 --> 01:16:28.840
We're glad you're listening today. Hey, you got some gardening questions,

1079
01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:34.039
Give us a call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four and

1080
01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:39.039
we will be glad to see how
we can help. We are in the

1081
01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:43.800
big, beautiful, wonderful fall season, the greatest time in the whole year

1082
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:47.199
to get things planted, and here
we are, so let's take advantage of

1083
01:16:47.199 --> 01:16:50.640
that and get some good things done. If you haven't fertilized your lawn,

1084
01:16:51.079 --> 01:16:55.439
it's time to get that done.
And Nitroposs has got you set up.

1085
01:16:55.479 --> 01:17:00.760
They've got that fall special that's their
fall fertilization product that is designed for our

1086
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:03.800
soils and for this time of the
year. Normally, during the year we

1087
01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:08.800
have high nitrogen fertilizers, we drop
the nitrogen for fall. Make sure the

1088
01:17:08.800 --> 01:17:13.560
potassium is still in there because that
is what gives hardiness in the winter and

1089
01:17:13.960 --> 01:17:18.079
strong spring growth in the spring.
Second step of the Nitrofoss three step is

1090
01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:25.279
barricade. Barricade's a pre emergent weed
prevent So what that does is you put

1091
01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:28.880
it down, you water it in, and it soaks into the top surface

1092
01:17:28.880 --> 01:17:31.159
of the soil, ties up right
there and it prevents the weeds from getting

1093
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:34.079
through and getting established. That's just
how it works. That's why it's called

1094
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:39.119
barricade. So I'd put down the
fertilizer, the nitropuss fall special, and

1095
01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:41.760
then the barricade and then put a
half inch of water on it to get

1096
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:44.479
them done in the soil. That
last part is important. You got to

1097
01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:48.760
incorporate them done into the soil.
Then finally, nitrofoss eagle urf fungicide is

1098
01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:53.039
a systemic. You put it down, it soaks in, and when the

1099
01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:57.079
disease shows up, it helps prevent
it. And so like with large patches

1100
01:17:57.239 --> 01:18:00.159
or the brown patch, those big
circles don't into the circles of there.

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01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:03.199
They're gonna be brown all winter no
matter what you do once they appear.

1102
01:18:03.680 --> 01:18:06.039
But if you do it ahead of
timing, prevent that. And if your

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01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:11.319
lawn has been plagued by that year
after year after year, we need to

1104
01:18:11.319 --> 01:18:15.600
talk about some cultural practices to help
get yourself out of that situation. But

1105
01:18:15.720 --> 01:18:19.840
in the meantime, in knowing that
that's probably coming this fall, then you've

1106
01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:24.680
got to get those things down to
protect against them. And you can find

1107
01:18:24.880 --> 01:18:29.479
nitrofossis three step in a lot of
different places. They're really available everywhere.

1108
01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:31.920
Warren Southern Gardens has it out in
Sinco Ranch. They have it at the

1109
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:36.239
Ash Hardware store there you go up
to Willis and Grower's outlet. It supplies

1110
01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:43.279
the nitrofoss Texas three step. Really
easy to find and it works really well.

1111
01:18:43.359 --> 01:18:47.000
It's as simple as that. Our
phone number is seven one three two

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01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:54.600
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1113
01:18:54.600 --> 01:18:58.399
four. I get a lot of
calls on weeds in the lawn. I've

1114
01:18:58.399 --> 01:19:02.039
been getting them both at the Agrolife
Extension Office is a horticultures there and also

1115
01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:08.560
here on Guardline, you know,
answering your gardening questions. And when people

1116
01:19:08.680 --> 01:19:13.920
see weeds at the end of their
life, they become most alarmed. And

1117
01:19:14.199 --> 01:19:18.119
here's an example. Fall aster has
been growing in lawns all year and you

1118
01:19:18.159 --> 01:19:23.279
don't notice it. You're mowing and
re seeing that it's there, and then

1119
01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:28.199
all of a sudden in the fall
it's making its reproductive stage. It's blooming

1120
01:19:28.239 --> 01:19:30.479
and setting seeds. Then we all
notice it. Do the same with the

1121
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:35.359
winter weed, for example, handbit
chickweed cleavers a lot of the cool season

1122
01:19:35.399 --> 01:19:40.960
weeds they sprout this time of the
year, they kind of sit there through

1123
01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:44.039
winter, they don't do much growing, and then in the spring they take

1124
01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:47.880
off and grow and bloom and they're
suddenly they're big plants. Our blue bonnet

1125
01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:51.720
is the prime example of one of
those kinds of plants. It does that

1126
01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:56.800
exact same cycle. You just don't
notice the blue bonnets so much during the

1127
01:19:56.840 --> 01:20:00.680
wintertime, but boy you do in
the spring. Well what do we do

1128
01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:03.119
about those things? Well, if
a weed is really putting on as show

1129
01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:08.439
right now, that's a warm season
weed. And all you can do about

1130
01:20:08.439 --> 01:20:13.159
those is either pull them up to
get the seeds off. That's the main

1131
01:20:13.279 --> 01:20:16.039
reason we pull them up, to
get the seeds off right now. Or

1132
01:20:16.479 --> 01:20:20.960
in some cases you can treat with
a post emergent broadly weed killer, But

1133
01:20:21.239 --> 01:20:26.560
in general it's something that you want
to put on your calendar. Hey,

1134
01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:29.880
next year, I'd like to prevent
those. And best way to prevent a

1135
01:20:29.920 --> 01:20:33.920
weed is mow water and fertilized regularly. The denser your lawn gets, the

1136
01:20:33.960 --> 01:20:38.800
fewer weeds you have. It's just
as simple as that. Cool season and

1137
01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:43.479
warm season. The dense lawn is
the best weed control you can have.

1138
01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:46.800
Now. In a dense lawn you're
still going to have Virginia button weed,

1139
01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:50.760
You're still going to have a dollar
weed, You're still going to have probably

1140
01:20:50.840 --> 01:20:55.199
dichondra in there as well. There
are weeds that can grow, but they're

1141
01:20:55.199 --> 01:21:00.520
the exceptions. So start by culturally
growing a lawn that helps fight its own

1142
01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:04.479
weeds. And then secondly, for
those weeds we have to escape, We

1143
01:21:04.560 --> 01:21:08.880
take those one at a time and
talk about the seasons and when to do

1144
01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:13.800
what in order to get them under
control. And that is really really important.

1145
01:21:14.920 --> 01:21:19.359
The folks at Microlife, for example, they've put together some quality products

1146
01:21:19.399 --> 01:21:24.520
for taking care of all your plants. And you know, I think about

1147
01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:27.880
these products like, for example,
right now we're talking about put on the

1148
01:21:27.920 --> 01:21:32.640
Microlife brown patch the five to one
three That is an organic fertilizer that you

1149
01:21:32.680 --> 01:21:36.359
put out in the fall and it
helps the grass become stronger, which is

1150
01:21:36.359 --> 01:21:40.319
part of the way that it helps
fight the brown patches is by becoming a

1151
01:21:40.359 --> 01:21:44.920
stronger plan and having lots of microbial
activity there on the plant. But you

1152
01:21:44.920 --> 01:21:48.279
could use that in any time of
the year. It's okay to use anytime

1153
01:21:48.279 --> 01:21:51.720
of the year. It's just that's
the one we focus on here in the

1154
01:21:51.760 --> 01:21:57.840
fall. I would also consider if
you're planting anything, go ahead and grab

1155
01:21:57.880 --> 01:22:00.000
you some Microlife Ultimate. That's an
eight to four cents, that's a blue

1156
01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:03.960
bag and you just you know,
normally I say don't put stuff in the

1157
01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:08.760
planting hole of trees and shrubs.
Well, that's true of a synthetic salt

1158
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:14.279
based fertilizer unless it's a coated slow
release product. But Microlife organic fertilizer isn't

1159
01:22:14.279 --> 01:22:16.239
going to burn the roots, and
so you can mix it into the black

1160
01:22:16.520 --> 01:22:20.600
backfill, but you're also going to
apply it to the top. That is

1161
01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:25.720
just the way you want to go
about it. Everybody should have on hand

1162
01:22:25.840 --> 01:22:30.560
Microlife's Ocean harvests. That's the blue
jug liquid. It is a fish based

1163
01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:34.359
fertilizer that you can use drenching into
plants when you plant them. You can

1164
01:22:34.439 --> 01:22:40.199
use it as a folier spray.
It just has a lot of compounds in

1165
01:22:40.239 --> 01:22:43.880
it that help plants remain strong,
in addition to the fact that it's got

1166
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:51.399
good nutrient content and good microbial content
also, those are very important. We

1167
01:22:51.479 --> 01:22:55.560
are going to be taking a break
here and just a little bit, but

1168
01:22:55.640 --> 01:22:59.680
I did want to I want to
mention something again before before we go.

1169
01:22:59.720 --> 01:23:02.399
I know, people listen and for
different periods of time, you know,

1170
01:23:02.439 --> 01:23:06.720
and I'm always surprised when someone hadn't
heard my website because I say it all

1171
01:23:06.760 --> 01:23:11.239
the time. But here we're going
to say it again. Gardening with Skip

1172
01:23:11.319 --> 01:23:15.560
dot Com is the website. I
would encourage you to bookmark it because I'm

1173
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:18.000
constantly updating things that are up there, like the lawn care schedule, the

1174
01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:23.479
weed management schedule, the disease weed
and pest management schedule. I should say,

1175
01:23:23.880 --> 01:23:25.960
uh, those are up there,
They're free. You can look at

1176
01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:27.960
them. They tell you what you
need to know and when you need to

1177
01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:31.640
do it. But also up there
is my frost and freeze protection publication that

1178
01:23:31.720 --> 01:23:35.560
I co authored with one of our
A and M horticulture specialists, and it

1179
01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:40.960
is nine pages of color pictures and
it's everything you need to know about preventing

1180
01:23:40.960 --> 01:23:44.319
them. So bookmark that. I'm
going to be building it once I get

1181
01:23:44.319 --> 01:23:47.000
into next spring. The website,
We've got a lot of plans for expanding

1182
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:50.000
it a lot, but I appreciate
those of you who are going to it

1183
01:23:50.079 --> 01:23:55.159
now and taking advantage of the educational
stuff we put up there. Time for

1184
01:23:55.199 --> 01:23:59.079
a break seven one three two one
two KTRH. When we come back,

1185
01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:03.720
Rajer, you'll be the first stuff. Welcome back to Gardenline. We are

1186
01:24:03.720 --> 01:24:08.880
glad you're listening. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two kt

1187
01:24:09.399 --> 01:24:12.079
r H. Now I got a
quiz for you. If you've been listening

1188
01:24:12.119 --> 01:24:14.920
to garden Line any length of time, what's the most important thing you do

1189
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:17.600
before you plant the plant? It's
fix the soil. What comes first?

1190
01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:21.319
Green or brown? Brown? Right? Brown stuff before the green stuff.

1191
01:24:21.600 --> 01:24:25.439
Airloom Soil is going to make that
easy for you. This fall. They

1192
01:24:25.439 --> 01:24:30.640
have got a big fall special.
They're Veggie and Herb mix, wonderful blend

1193
01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:32.840
for not just veggies and herbs,
but flowers and a lot of other things

1194
01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:36.479
too. One hundred nineteen dollars bulk
or one hundred and forty eight for the

1195
01:24:36.479 --> 01:24:41.720
supersac. That's a qbicard that they
deliver to your place. Rose soil that

1196
01:24:41.880 --> 01:24:45.279
is like the universal soil for planning
all kinds of things. Seventy dollars bulk,

1197
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:48.600
ninety nine dollars for a supersack.
Hey, it's not going to get

1198
01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:51.359
any better than that. You need
to take advantage of it. Just go

1199
01:24:51.439 --> 01:24:58.840
to Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com and that's where
you can find out more information and give

1200
01:24:58.880 --> 01:25:02.119
them a call. Make your works
really really well. Hey, we're going

1201
01:25:02.199 --> 01:25:06.239
to go to Cyprus now and talk
to Raj Hello, Raj Hi, good

1202
01:25:06.279 --> 01:25:11.520
morning. I question. We had
a lot of satin gros grass growing in

1203
01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:15.720
our bermuda lawn this summer, so
what should we do going forward? So

1204
01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:18.520
that's when the summer comes, will
have more only bermuda, only Bermuda.

1205
01:25:18.680 --> 01:25:23.439
Saint Augustine just lives on the ground, on top of the ground. So

1206
01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:27.560
you can grab a runner and literally
pull it up and you've gotten rid of

1207
01:25:27.560 --> 01:25:30.880
that area. It's not like bermuda
that's coming up from underground, even if

1208
01:25:30.920 --> 01:25:33.520
you scrape the whole top off.
So that that is one thing that you

1209
01:25:33.560 --> 01:25:39.319
can do. There are products that
are very damaging to Saint Augustine but don't

1210
01:25:39.399 --> 01:25:43.880
damage bermuda, like they're labeled for
weed control, but only in Bermuda lawns,

1211
01:25:43.960 --> 01:25:47.439
not Saint Augustine lawns. You could
also do something like that that would

1212
01:25:47.479 --> 01:25:50.680
work. Can you name some of
them? Uh? You know what,

1213
01:25:50.720 --> 01:25:54.640
I would have to go hard to
find them. Yeah, I would have

1214
01:25:54.680 --> 01:25:57.840
to go look let me do this. Okay, I'm going to make a

1215
01:25:57.880 --> 01:26:00.359
note here. I'm going to put
you on hold in a matter and Josh,

1216
01:26:00.640 --> 01:26:03.960
we'll give you an email if you
will email me that question, then

1217
01:26:04.079 --> 01:26:08.880
I can I can send you those
rather than me trap and read them off

1218
01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:13.479
on the air. I think that
would be best. Another well, let's

1219
01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:15.920
just leave it at that. Let
me send you some information on that.

1220
01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:18.079
Okay, rush, all right,
I'm putting on all right now, just

1221
01:26:18.119 --> 01:26:24.319
hang on, you know. Yeah, that is a challenge and I probably

1222
01:26:24.359 --> 01:26:26.600
need to make a list of things
like that. We don't get that question

1223
01:26:26.600 --> 01:26:29.359
a lot. Usually it's how do
I get bermute out of my Saint Augustine.

1224
01:26:29.680 --> 01:26:32.800
If you're out in Kingwood, you
know your local garden centers Kingwood Garden

1225
01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:36.479
Center and Warren Southern Garden. Boy, they've got some good stuff going on.

1226
01:26:36.520 --> 01:26:41.199
First of all, the plan of
the month Texas Beauty Berry wonderful native

1227
01:26:41.239 --> 01:26:45.960
with purple berries, makes good arrangement
material for indoor arrangements as well. Super

1228
01:26:46.039 --> 01:26:51.600
super tough grows in shade still does
well even in a shady soil. They're

1229
01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:58.359
heirloom soil's age leaf compost three bags
for thirty bucks now that's good this whole

1230
01:26:58.359 --> 01:27:00.920
month of November, but only this
month the November. They've got some extra

1231
01:27:00.960 --> 01:27:04.760
bulbs left over. Buy two,
get one free. That's included. That's

1232
01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:10.840
the packaged bulbs except for the amberillas
bulb. And so it's still time to

1233
01:27:10.840 --> 01:27:13.640
plant bulbs. We talked to Chris
Weisinger just the other day about that.

1234
01:27:14.439 --> 01:27:17.520
And then fall decre and accessories are
on sale. The Christmas cactus is in,

1235
01:27:17.680 --> 01:27:20.560
the Christmas trees are coming. I
want tell you about a couple of

1236
01:27:20.560 --> 01:27:28.880
events. First of all, at
Warren Southern Gardens on November, let's see

1237
01:27:28.920 --> 01:27:32.680
November eighteenth, Saturday, at a
ten am they're going to do a festive

1238
01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:40.039
container planting class. D Malley will
be there giving that class and you'll learn

1239
01:27:40.079 --> 01:27:44.279
how to create the beautiful winter color
container. And what a good deal.

1240
01:27:44.319 --> 01:27:46.279
It's free to go out and learn
how to do that at ten am,

1241
01:27:46.399 --> 01:27:49.920
but give them a call at Warren
Southern Gardens and so you can sign up

1242
01:27:49.920 --> 01:27:54.479
for it. That's on Saturday the
eighteenth. On Thursday the sixteenth, this

1243
01:27:54.640 --> 01:27:58.800
Ladies Weekend at Kingwood Garden Center.
Yep, that's right. They call it

1244
01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:02.399
sip Shop and Sparkle. So there's
going to be door prizes given and other

1245
01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:06.079
kind of giveaways. It's Ladies Weekend. They have a special sale up to

1246
01:28:06.199 --> 01:28:12.880
forty percent off things at Kingwood's Garden
Center. And believe me, their garden

1247
01:28:12.920 --> 01:28:17.119
shop there is just loaded with beautiful
things. Something you definitely do not want

1248
01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:23.880
to miss. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two five eight

1249
01:28:24.279 --> 01:28:26.640
seven four. If you'd like to
give us a call, now's a good

1250
01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:30.119
time to get on. We actually
have an open board, so no waiting.

1251
01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:32.359
That's your little tip to the day. If if you're in shouldn't call

1252
01:28:32.399 --> 01:28:38.039
in garden line, Now's a good
time to do that. Someone was talking

1253
01:28:38.079 --> 01:28:40.199
to me the other day about what
am I going to do about my law

1254
01:28:40.199 --> 01:28:42.239
and half of it's dead. In
fact, I had a call like that

1255
01:28:42.359 --> 01:28:45.239
yesterday and other people. I drive
by and I see these shrubs that are

1256
01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:48.600
completely dead in the lawn, just
the whole thing turned round, And what

1257
01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:51.640
do you do? Well, what
I would do, I'd suggest you call

1258
01:28:51.760 --> 01:28:59.319
Peerscapes, wose Purescapes. They have
everything you need for your outdoor enhancement.

1259
01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:02.680
And by that what I'm talking about
is they can redo your irrigation, they

1260
01:29:02.680 --> 01:29:05.840
can improve the drain. You got
a poorly drained area. They can fix

1261
01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:10.399
that. They know how to do
that. They can create rockways and hard

1262
01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:14.640
escapes and rock borders. They can
put in a new garden for you,

1263
01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:17.800
you know, landscape lighting. Oh
my gosh, that makes the outside so

1264
01:29:17.960 --> 01:29:21.279
much more enhancing for going out and
enjoying the outdoors. They can do that.

1265
01:29:21.680 --> 01:29:29.279
They've got their certifications and licenses and
expecial and experienced folks that just professionals.

1266
01:29:29.319 --> 01:29:31.359
That's basically what you think of when
you think of pier Scapes. You

1267
01:29:31.399 --> 01:29:35.520
can call them at two eight one
three seven oh fifty sixty, or just

1268
01:29:35.600 --> 01:29:42.119
go to the website Piercescapes dot com. At piercecapes dot com. Look around

1269
01:29:42.199 --> 01:29:45.399
and check out some of the jobs
that they've done and it'll be inspirational.

1270
01:29:45.399 --> 01:29:47.720
If I was looking at one of
the garden fountains that they had and oh

1271
01:29:47.760 --> 01:29:51.000
my gosh, it was like a
waterfall thing, Oh gosh. They do

1272
01:29:51.079 --> 01:29:55.000
such good work. And whether you
need just a little bit of work done

1273
01:29:55.079 --> 01:29:58.680
or whether you want to revamp everything, Pierce Scapes can handle that. So

1274
01:29:58.800 --> 01:30:02.800
don't delay them a call. If
you would like to visit with me about

1275
01:30:02.800 --> 01:30:08.560
a gardening question, you can call
seven one three two on two fifty six

1276
01:30:08.840 --> 01:30:15.000
seventy four seven win three two on
two five six seven four. Uh.

1277
01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:16.479
We We've talked about a lot of
different things, and one thing I haven't

1278
01:30:16.520 --> 01:30:19.600
mentioned is Christmas gift plants, and
I'd like to talk to you a little

1279
01:30:19.600 --> 01:30:24.680
bit about that. Christmas gift plants
are you know, the the ones we

1280
01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:28.560
think of most and I say Christmas
gift the holiday gift plants in general for

1281
01:30:28.640 --> 01:30:35.279
the whole group. I guess probably
Thanksgiving cactus Christmas cactus would probably be two

1282
01:30:35.319 --> 01:30:39.880
of the more common ones. But
the one that rules the roost this point

1283
01:30:39.920 --> 01:30:44.399
settus and point SETI is do you
know that point setus I should have I

1284
01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:45.880
should have done this the other way? And not giving you the hint,

1285
01:30:46.039 --> 01:30:49.439
do you know point settas are the
number one plants sold in the whole country?

1286
01:30:50.319 --> 01:30:53.920
You know, you say, what
what plant? What? What plant?

1287
01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:57.600
Has bought more than any other plant
in all of America. People are

1288
01:30:57.640 --> 01:31:00.239
gonna be thinking, well, maybe
it's a rosebush or maybe no point sets

1289
01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:03.239
that's it. And they're also at
one time of the year, Wow,

1290
01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:06.439
it's getting a lot done quick.
How do you take care of them?

1291
01:31:06.479 --> 01:31:10.439
Well, you make sure they don't
dry out, if they dry out,

1292
01:31:10.600 --> 01:31:13.960
the leaves are going to curl up
and fall off, and that just is

1293
01:31:13.960 --> 01:31:16.880
what happens. So keep the sol
moist but not soggy wet. I take

1294
01:31:16.960 --> 01:31:19.640
mine out of the sleeve, put
them in the container and the sink.

1295
01:31:20.079 --> 01:31:24.920
Run some water on them, or
pour water on whatever you're using and let

1296
01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:27.640
it drain out fully, and then
put it back in the sleeve and put

1297
01:31:27.640 --> 01:31:29.800
it back in its spot. If
you can, keep them out of a

1298
01:31:29.800 --> 01:31:33.840
heat vent area where you know it's
blowing hot air on them when we get

1299
01:31:33.880 --> 01:31:38.840
cold weather outside, keep them away
from a real chilly window. Maybe that's

1300
01:31:38.840 --> 01:31:41.600
not a big deal, but it
helps a little bit. You can help

1301
01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:46.359
them last longer for your Thanksgiving and
Christmas cactus. Those two need to not

1302
01:31:46.600 --> 01:31:50.640
dry out. They will drop their
buds if they do that. Sudden changes

1303
01:31:51.239 --> 01:31:57.640
in light intensity or especially in temperature, so sudden changes like that can also

1304
01:31:57.840 --> 01:32:00.840
cause the buds to abort and to
fall off fun those so you just want

1305
01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:03.920
to keep them, you know,
in their happy place. They need a

1306
01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:08.239
lot of light if you can give
that to them. But it's okay to

1307
01:32:08.279 --> 01:32:12.279
bring them in and set them for
decorations, maybe during an evening gathering but

1308
01:32:12.319 --> 01:32:14.560
then get them back to a spot
where they have a lot of light,

1309
01:32:14.720 --> 01:32:17.600
not direct sunlight, but plenty of
light for them to do good. Some

1310
01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:23.479
of you purchase the little topiary rosemary
trees. They look like a like a

1311
01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:27.279
Christmas tree kind of shape. Those
are good too, but they really need

1312
01:32:27.399 --> 01:32:30.159
light. They'll survive inside, but
you're starting to get you'll start to get

1313
01:32:30.199 --> 01:32:34.239
spindley growth, and they just get
weaker sitting inside. So get them outside

1314
01:32:34.279 --> 01:32:38.159
during the day. They can take
a freeze if they need to. They're

1315
01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:43.800
okay outside. But that's a beautiful
plant. Our family likes to decorate them

1316
01:32:43.800 --> 01:32:47.920
with little ornaments and things like that. I think that's pretty cool. You

1317
01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:51.760
know, I've talked about generators before
here, and you can find generators in

1318
01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:57.800
a lot of places, but generic
generators that is a high quality generator.

1319
01:32:58.119 --> 01:33:02.600
And the folks at Quality Home,
of course they sell generators. But it

1320
01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:08.680
goes beyond just a good generator.
It goes to customer service. And here's

1321
01:33:08.680 --> 01:33:12.920
what I'm talking about. How much
of your How much of a generator do

1322
01:33:12.960 --> 01:33:16.359
you need to take care of the
parts of your home that are essential for

1323
01:33:16.439 --> 01:33:20.119
you? Is it just freezer refrigerator? Do you need to make sure that

1324
01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:24.439
the electricity stays on so you can
be on the internet. Maybe you have

1325
01:33:24.479 --> 01:33:28.920
to part of your job as being
online. Well, they can sit down

1326
01:33:29.039 --> 01:33:30.880
and get you in the right size. They won't oversell you a generator,

1327
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:33.920
but they'll find one that'll do what
you need to do. They'll work with

1328
01:33:34.000 --> 01:33:39.720
your HOA, with your electric company, with the gas company, whatever is

1329
01:33:39.840 --> 01:33:43.239
needed to get the permits and everything. Okay, to set up the generator.

1330
01:33:43.279 --> 01:33:45.039
They pour the slab, they set
the generator. This is a turn

1331
01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:48.119
key deal and I don't know anybody
else in the business it's doing it this

1332
01:33:48.159 --> 01:33:57.359
way. Their customers are thrilled seventy
seven thousand established satisfied customers over fourteen thousand

1333
01:33:57.399 --> 01:34:00.920
and now five star reviews. When
it comes to a war eight times,

1334
01:34:00.079 --> 01:34:06.039
no nine Now they've won the Better
Business Award winner for the distinction of customer

1335
01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:09.439
service. A word, no,
it's a time. Excuse me a time.

1336
01:34:09.840 --> 01:34:12.359
They have so many dang awards I
can keep up with them. Seven

1337
01:34:12.399 --> 01:34:15.920
times. They've won the Pinnacle Award
from Better Business Bureau. They've been family

1338
01:34:15.960 --> 01:34:21.079
owned and operated since nineteen eighty nine. Their customer service when can you call

1339
01:34:21.119 --> 01:34:25.880
them? Twenty four seven three sixty
five. Simple as that. Right now,

1340
01:34:25.920 --> 01:34:30.479
there's a deal ten percent off of
what you purchase up to twenty five

1341
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:34.399
hundred dollars off in savings, So
ten percent off. It's a great time

1342
01:34:34.439 --> 01:34:38.760
to do it. And it's it's
true. That deal is true for only

1343
01:34:38.840 --> 01:34:44.399
for new Generat customers and it cannot
be combined with any other promotional activities.

1344
01:34:44.680 --> 01:34:50.760
Go to Quality Texas, QUALITYTX dot
com, QUALITYTX dot com, or just

1345
01:34:50.840 --> 01:34:58.680
call them seven one three quality.
That's it. And I'm telling you you

1346
01:34:58.720 --> 01:35:03.680
can buy generations, and a lot
of places you cannot get the service and

1347
01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:08.199
the help which goes after the sale. Yes, after the sale, they're

1348
01:35:08.199 --> 01:35:10.600
coming out a couple of times a
year to take care of that generator.

1349
01:35:10.800 --> 01:35:16.479
You can't get that whole package anywhere
else except Quality Home Products of Texas.

1350
01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:23.079
We take a little break here for
the news coming up. I do want

1351
01:35:23.119 --> 01:35:29.960
to remind you that if you have
not purchased your cool season plants, your

1352
01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:34.119
beautiful pansies and violas and all of
that, you got to give Arburgate a

1353
01:35:34.199 --> 01:35:38.119
visit. Arburgate is out there in
Tomball, just about a mile and a

1354
01:35:38.159 --> 01:35:44.399
half west of two forty nine on
Highway twenty nine. They've got a wonderful

1355
01:35:44.399 --> 01:35:47.520
selection of all the cool season color
plants, and so they can even help

1356
01:35:47.560 --> 01:35:51.279
you and suggesting which ones would go
in which locations, or maybe you want

1357
01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:55.720
to combine them for a plant or
something like that. But when you're there,

1358
01:35:55.760 --> 01:36:00.760
make sure and pick up their one
two three completely easy system that it's

1359
01:36:00.760 --> 01:36:04.640
a food, a fertilizer, organic
four four three plus calcium feeds, anything

1360
01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:10.279
that's got roots. It's a soil
for any application. It's got some expanded

1361
01:36:10.279 --> 01:36:13.279
shale. I was talking about that
earlier. It's got expanded shale in it.

1362
01:36:13.359 --> 01:36:16.319
And then they have a compost Complete, which is a blend of quality

1363
01:36:16.359 --> 01:36:21.680
composts together and it also has the
expanded shale. So when you do those

1364
01:36:21.840 --> 01:36:26.279
three the plants you're coming home with, you got the brown stuff to go

1365
01:36:26.319 --> 01:36:30.439
with your green stuff, and you
can have success. And the helpful folks,

1366
01:36:30.640 --> 01:36:34.920
the knowledgeable folks at arbor Gate are
just icing on that cake because they

1367
01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:39.239
will make sure you are not pointed
to a plant that is not going to

1368
01:36:39.319 --> 01:36:43.560
do well here in this area or
in the location that you need help with.

1369
01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:46.840
Go to Arborgate dot com and check
out while you're there, the new

1370
01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:50.319
parking lot out back. You turn
in before or after the nursery a down

1371
01:36:50.399 --> 01:36:55.760
Trishel Road and it'll take you right
back to that all weather parking lot.

1372
01:36:55.840 --> 01:36:59.720
That is pretty cool stuff. Well, Nikki, I guess it's time for

1373
01:37:00.279 --> 01:37:02.880
news again, and I'm running out
of breath here. I think I'm gonna

1374
01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:06.159
have to pass the baton to Well. I'll go ahead and I will grab

1375
01:37:06.199 --> 01:37:12.560
that baton. But we're kind of
waiting with baited brass okay for an announcement

1376
01:37:12.640 --> 01:37:18.079
this morning. Uh oh, the
news all right, here comes the news.

1377
01:37:18.159 --> 01:37:20.439
Hey, if you want to call
us seven one three two one two

1378
01:37:20.520 --> 01:37:27.199
fifty eight seventy four, we'll get
you on the boards. Welcome back to

1379
01:37:27.279 --> 01:37:30.880
Guarden Line. Thanks for being a
listener, and if you have any questions,

1380
01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:33.800
give us a call. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven

1381
01:37:34.000 --> 01:37:39.079
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Uh. You

1382
01:37:39.079 --> 01:37:41.840
know, this is kind of the
last call for law and fertilizing. We

1383
01:37:41.920 --> 01:37:45.479
need to get that done because grass
growth is going to be slowing down a

1384
01:37:45.520 --> 01:37:48.119
lot as we move into the cool
season. And if you get the fertilizer

1385
01:37:48.159 --> 01:37:51.359
down sooner rather than later, you
get more of it into the plants and

1386
01:37:51.520 --> 01:37:56.479
I've talked about carbo Load from nelson
before, but that's just a prime example

1387
01:37:56.600 --> 01:38:00.000
of a fertilizer designed for fall.
And in addition to that, they put

1388
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:03.600
a pre emergent herbicide in it,
So when you apply the fertilizer, you're

1389
01:38:03.640 --> 01:38:09.760
also applying something to stop weed seeds
from establishing. So therefore, when you

1390
01:38:09.800 --> 01:38:13.840
put it down, you need to
incorporate the fertilizer and the weed control that's

1391
01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:16.199
in it, So that means about
a half inch of water that'll get them

1392
01:38:16.199 --> 01:38:19.000
both into the ground where they can
do the good that they're going to do.

1393
01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:25.319
By the way, this fall,
Nelson's is giving a two dollars donation

1394
01:38:25.560 --> 01:38:29.520
per bag that they sell. Each
bag a two dollars donation to Randy Lemon's

1395
01:38:29.520 --> 01:38:34.399
Memorial Scholarship for horticulture students. Randy
would be so proud to know that his

1396
01:38:34.560 --> 01:38:39.680
legacy is remembered in that way.
But in the meantime, just know that

1397
01:38:39.720 --> 01:38:43.239
if you're going to get this done, you gotta get it done now.

1398
01:38:43.760 --> 01:38:47.079
Every day is important, Certainly every
week is important. Sooner is better than

1399
01:38:47.159 --> 01:38:51.399
later. So go ahead and grab
you some Nelson's carbo Load and get it

1400
01:38:51.439 --> 01:38:56.000
applied, and get it watered in
as soon as you can. We're going

1401
01:38:56.039 --> 01:39:01.399
to head out now to Cyprus and
talk to Tom. Hello Tom board Skip.

1402
01:39:02.039 --> 01:39:05.079
I just you mentioned a few minutes
ago that you didn't have many people

1403
01:39:05.079 --> 01:39:08.359
on the line, so I thought
i'd give you a buzz and ask you

1404
01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:13.520
about something kind of fun. I
referred to as an extremist gardeners extreme,

1405
01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:17.359
which is, yeah, people that
grow those twenty seven hundred pound pumpkins.

1406
01:39:17.399 --> 01:39:21.840
Oh my gosh. Yeah. Is
there a place in the Houston area where

1407
01:39:21.960 --> 01:39:26.760
where people put those on display and
have a contest. It seemed like that

1408
01:39:26.800 --> 01:39:28.600
would be a fun thing to go. Look at me. You know,

1409
01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:32.560
I don't know, I've not heard
of that. Somebody listening knows. Let

1410
01:39:32.600 --> 01:39:36.039
me know, I'd be curious.
Yeah, people go crazy they get the

1411
01:39:36.479 --> 01:39:40.800
pumpkins. And number one, the
pumpkins have genetics that gives them the ability

1412
01:39:40.840 --> 01:39:44.680
to get bigger than most pumpkins.
But then yeah, I just ordered some

1413
01:39:45.159 --> 01:39:47.399
ordered some seeds that were some I
forget the name, some kind of giant

1414
01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:49.960
pumpkins. I didn't do anything special, and I had one that was like

1415
01:39:50.079 --> 01:39:55.279
forty five pounds, Oh my gosh. Yeah. And it's crazy that as

1416
01:39:55.319 --> 01:39:58.159
people go through I mean, they're
just about have ivs and the plants,

1417
01:39:58.199 --> 01:40:00.840
you know, to make them grow. It's crazy. Yeah, well,

1418
01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:02.760
let's sound. Was curious if you'd
had any contact with those kind of people.

1419
01:40:02.760 --> 01:40:06.720
I've heard that. The one I
heard a short news story about it.

1420
01:40:06.840 --> 01:40:11.640
The guy said he was ordered watering
it six times a day and that

1421
01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:15.159
they put on like fifty pounds of
weight each day. Oh my gosh,

1422
01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:18.720
it would be amazing. Yeah,
you want them to hit the ground running

1423
01:40:18.760 --> 01:40:21.880
and never look back, because even
a few days of yeah there's not much

1424
01:40:21.920 --> 01:40:27.079
water, I'm going to hold off
growing. Well, you just but anyway,

1425
01:40:27.960 --> 01:40:30.960
that's just a fun thing I've heard
about a few times, and I

1426
01:40:30.960 --> 01:40:35.000
would guess that they do that at
county fairs, which I think are done

1427
01:40:35.000 --> 01:40:39.319
for this year. Well, you
know, I guess we need to start

1428
01:40:39.359 --> 01:40:45.319
a unusual plant event where people can
bring the uglist tomato you've got. I

1429
01:40:45.359 --> 01:40:48.840
had a contest one time where we
had the largest and the smallest tomatoes that

1430
01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:54.119
you could grow, and people competed
for all the categories. So anyway,

1431
01:40:54.159 --> 01:40:57.279
thanks for that reminder, John,
and I appreciate your call very much.

1432
01:40:57.520 --> 01:41:02.319
You take care, all right,
I'm gonna got to John and sugar land

1433
01:41:02.399 --> 01:41:06.439
now, and how's it going,
John? How can we help? Hey?

1434
01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:12.000
Yeah, I just planted about a
month ago a fan tex ash tree.

1435
01:41:12.319 --> 01:41:17.680
Yes, I'm worried about doing the
fertilization with barricade or anything like that.

1436
01:41:17.840 --> 01:41:21.119
It's been in the ground about a
month. Can I go ahead and

1437
01:41:21.439 --> 01:41:26.359
you know, fertilize and do the
barricade without arming the tree? Yeah,

1438
01:41:26.399 --> 01:41:30.159
you can. When did you plant
that? You said you just planted it

1439
01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:32.840
about a month ago, about a
month ago. I would keep them.

1440
01:41:33.960 --> 01:41:36.359
It's not going to hurt. I
mean, you put barricade on your lawn

1441
01:41:36.359 --> 01:41:41.079
and tree roots are under that lawn, so it's not not going to be

1442
01:41:41.119 --> 01:41:45.000
an issue. But don't over don't
double up on it. The barricade and

1443
01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:46.840
your your long grass. You shouldn't
double up on it for that either.

1444
01:41:47.319 --> 01:41:53.039
It has a label for a reason. And don't overdo products. When you

1445
01:41:53.039 --> 01:41:55.960
put them out, it'll be okay. I mean, if you wanted to

1446
01:41:56.039 --> 01:42:00.520
kind of keep it away right or
right right where that cylinder is above the

1447
01:42:00.600 --> 01:42:02.880
limited root system, since they're all
confined right there. I guess if you

1448
01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:05.920
dumped a bunch and had it go
down in the ground, it might have

1449
01:42:06.000 --> 01:42:11.760
some effect. But basically, I
wouldn't worry about it. Okay, Well,

1450
01:42:11.800 --> 01:42:15.439
I appreciate it. More is not
better always, it is not.

1451
01:42:15.680 --> 01:42:18.479
And I'm telling you, if you
want to mess up a lawn, you

1452
01:42:18.560 --> 01:42:25.279
start misusing weed control products and you
know, ignoring the label and stuff,

1453
01:42:25.319 --> 01:42:28.520
and you can do that. I
mean, there's a label for a reason.

1454
01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:31.359
So anyway, thank you, John, appreciate that. Yes, sir,

1455
01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:35.079
bye bye. We're going to go
now to a leaf and talk to

1456
01:42:35.159 --> 01:42:42.720
Ralph. Hello, Ralph Hill.
One time you talked about leaves covering the

1457
01:42:42.800 --> 01:42:46.520
grass and that was okay, yes, And I didn't quite understand that because

1458
01:42:46.560 --> 01:42:50.560
we got a lot of leaves from
the neighbor's yard covering the grass. Yes,

1459
01:42:50.600 --> 01:42:54.359
and we don't want to rake them
up all the time because we're getting

1460
01:42:54.359 --> 01:42:59.359
too old to do that. Yes, okay, So it's not okay to

1461
01:42:59.560 --> 01:43:03.920
leave the leaves on top of the
lawn shading the lawn for long periods of

1462
01:43:03.960 --> 01:43:08.199
time, you know, for a
little while a week or so, that's

1463
01:43:08.199 --> 01:43:12.520
fine, But that lawn, especially
after what we've been through this summer,

1464
01:43:12.840 --> 01:43:15.920
you want to get the leaves off
of the lawn. Now. There's different

1465
01:43:15.920 --> 01:43:18.560
ways to do it. I mow
in a circle, going towards the center

1466
01:43:18.680 --> 01:43:23.880
like a spiral pattern, and just
blow the leaves with my mower all to

1467
01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:27.119
the middle, and then you can
just easily rake them up on a tarp

1468
01:43:27.520 --> 01:43:30.680
where you're not trying to shove them
in plastic bags and things, and just

1469
01:43:30.760 --> 01:43:33.640
drag that tarp over to melt your
shrubs and other things with. That's one

1470
01:43:33.680 --> 01:43:38.520
option for a light the layer of
leaves. If you've got a good multing

1471
01:43:38.600 --> 01:43:41.520
more, you can just grind them
right back out and go into the soil

1472
01:43:41.920 --> 01:43:45.640
with that. Those are two options. But yeah, sitting on top where

1473
01:43:45.640 --> 01:43:50.760
they block light, don't leave them
there for too long. Do you sit

1474
01:43:51.159 --> 01:43:55.760
on your mower and do the round
circles? No, I push. I

1475
01:43:55.840 --> 01:44:00.920
have a push mower, and you
actually go in circles and go that way

1476
01:44:00.199 --> 01:44:03.159
I mean I go. You know, you got a discharge shoot on your

1477
01:44:03.159 --> 01:44:06.239
mower. I say circles. It's
truly a square because my long square.

1478
01:44:06.439 --> 01:44:11.199
But I just go as I'm mowing
around, I start on the outside and

1479
01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:15.720
mowing my way toward the center.
But the shoot is always pointing toward the

1480
01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:17.560
center. And you know, right
at the very end, you you've got

1481
01:44:17.600 --> 01:44:21.640
a lot of chopped up leaves right
there. That are easy to just rake

1482
01:44:21.680 --> 01:44:25.920
onto a tarp and with one hand
you can drag that tarp anywhere you want

1483
01:44:25.960 --> 01:44:29.199
to go. Okay, great sounds, good bye bye. All right,

1484
01:44:29.359 --> 01:44:31.239
hopefully we saved you a little bit
of trouble there, Rolf. All right,

1485
01:44:31.279 --> 01:44:33.760
we're going to take a break right
now, our phone number seven one

1486
01:44:33.800 --> 01:44:39.359
three two one two five eight seven
four. When we come back, John,

1487
01:44:39.840 --> 01:44:45.000
Bill Dell, you'll be the first
ones up. Welcome back to garden

1488
01:44:45.000 --> 01:44:47.600
Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and we're about to close things

1489
01:44:47.640 --> 01:44:51.039
down here for the day. We'll
be back next weekend. Every day on

1490
01:44:51.239 --> 01:44:56.960
Saturday and Sunday from six to ten
six to ten Saturdays and Sundays, you

1491
01:44:56.960 --> 01:45:00.000
can listen to garden Line. Let's
head out to West Houston and we're gonna

1492
01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:02.760
talk to Dell. Hello Dell.
Oh hi there. I didn't know I

1493
01:45:02.840 --> 01:45:05.720
was first up on the call,
but I want you to know that I

1494
01:45:05.760 --> 01:45:10.319
had a really hard time finding the
car beload. Ok. I finally ended

1495
01:45:10.399 --> 01:45:13.600
up driving to Katie to get it. Am I too late putting it down

1496
01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:15.560
in the next day or no,
just go ahead and get it down and

1497
01:45:15.840 --> 01:45:21.479
just remember that neither the fertilizer nor
that we prevented product in it will do

1498
01:45:21.520 --> 01:45:25.680
any good until it gets a little
water on it and moves down into the

1499
01:45:25.720 --> 01:45:30.119
soil. So, okay, one
way or another, go ahead. How

1500
01:45:30.239 --> 01:45:32.880
soon can I put some asami down? Oh? You can do that anytime

1501
01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:35.880
you want. You could do it
at the same day. Just don't put

1502
01:45:35.920 --> 01:45:41.119
them in the same fertilizer hopper because
they are different particle sizes. So do

1503
01:45:41.279 --> 01:45:44.520
one and then change your setting to
do the other one and you'll be good.

1504
01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:47.279
Oh okay, okay, thank you
so much. All right, Dell,

1505
01:45:47.399 --> 01:45:53.800
that was fast and easy. Yeah. Bye bye bye bye. Yeah.

1506
01:45:53.920 --> 01:45:56.199
Let's see where are we going to
go? Now? We're going to

1507
01:45:56.279 --> 01:46:00.159
go to Bill in Livingston? Hello? Bill? Hey, Hell, how

1508
01:46:00.199 --> 01:46:04.920
are you doing today? I'm good, I'm good. I got two questions.

1509
01:46:04.960 --> 01:46:12.359
I got based on a pot and
tomato plants, and I got other

1510
01:46:12.479 --> 01:46:15.359
plants for flowering plants in pots.
But I keep getting a lot of those

1511
01:46:15.399 --> 01:46:18.880
little red ants in them and chewing
up my plants here anyway, No,

1512
01:46:19.000 --> 01:46:23.640
I got chicken, so I don't
want to put down grain. You're not

1513
01:46:23.640 --> 01:46:28.279
talking about fire ants, right,
I don't know if the fire answer would

1514
01:46:28.800 --> 01:46:35.359
they answer? Do they bite you? Yeah? Okay, well, kind

1515
01:46:35.359 --> 01:46:39.119
of depends on which what we're dealing
with it. I'm trying to figure out

1516
01:46:39.399 --> 01:46:44.079
which way we're going. You can
drench an insecticide down in the pot and

1517
01:46:44.159 --> 01:46:47.000
kill any any insects that are in
that pot, and that would be a

1518
01:46:47.039 --> 01:46:51.760
liquid application. There are a number
of insecticides. You're mixing water. Pretty

1519
01:46:51.800 --> 01:46:56.399
much anything that's an insecticide is going
to kill ants for the most part.

1520
01:46:57.640 --> 01:46:59.840
You know, if we knew,
if we knew whether there were fire ants

1521
01:46:59.880 --> 01:47:02.800
for sure or not, then I
might recommend some different options. But I

1522
01:47:02.800 --> 01:47:06.279
think that's probably what I would do. Just keep it simple like that.

1523
01:47:06.359 --> 01:47:12.439
But I tell you, fire ants
bite us and they can do a little

1524
01:47:12.600 --> 01:47:17.439
damage on some kinds of plants,
like okra, But in general, ants

1525
01:47:17.479 --> 01:47:20.840
are not a pest of the plant. They just help the plant. They

1526
01:47:21.399 --> 01:47:25.560
farm aphids and they call them up
on the plant, and you have more

1527
01:47:25.600 --> 01:47:29.760
aphids when you have ants around.
That's the only negative of them. Okay,

1528
01:47:29.760 --> 01:47:32.119
Well, they're kind of kill them
on pulley basel that I got,

1529
01:47:32.199 --> 01:47:35.720
you know, they're draining them and
they're getting all brown and at least they're

1530
01:47:35.760 --> 01:47:40.359
real light brown and stuff. Yeah, I don't know that that's probably something

1531
01:47:40.399 --> 01:47:44.239
else that's actually causing that. But
anyway, do the insecticide drench on the

1532
01:47:44.239 --> 01:47:46.359
pot, and I think that's probably
the best, the best way to go

1533
01:47:46.439 --> 01:47:53.520
about it. Okay. Also,
I have I also have some lemon trees,

1534
01:47:53.800 --> 01:47:56.279
yes, and they're in pots,
and I want to plan them on

1535
01:47:56.279 --> 01:47:58.800
the ground. Can I plan them
this time in the year. You can,

1536
01:47:58.880 --> 01:48:00.000
but you know what, we're so
close to winter and we never know

1537
01:48:00.000 --> 01:48:03.199
what kind of winter we're going to
have, and lemons are not fully hearty.

1538
01:48:03.560 --> 01:48:06.439
I'd hold on to them and I'd
get them through this winter. Move

1539
01:48:06.479 --> 01:48:10.720
them in the garage when you have
to. Let's get into spring, past

1540
01:48:10.760 --> 01:48:15.000
the danger of freeze, and then
put them in I think that hedges your

1541
01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:17.000
bet just a little bit. All
right, Fine, Can I prune them

1542
01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:20.479
at all or not if needed?
But they probably don't need a whole lot.

1543
01:48:20.560 --> 01:48:26.479
There's no special technique for printing them, just removing low hanging and crossing

1544
01:48:26.520 --> 01:48:30.279
and broken branches and stuff like that. But yeah, you go ahead.

1545
01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:33.239
These are kind of getting long and
leggy and I just wanted to pun the

1546
01:48:33.279 --> 01:48:35.119
tops of them. Yeah, you
could do that. You could do some

1547
01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:40.800
of that pruning. I again,
unless it's a space thing. I would

1548
01:48:40.800 --> 01:48:45.199
hold off on pruning until the spring
because pruning stimulates new growth, and new

1549
01:48:45.239 --> 01:48:47.479
growth is more coal tender. All
right, okay, well I can move

1550
01:48:47.520 --> 01:48:50.560
them in a house. Want to
get your that will do it? Hey,

1551
01:48:50.560 --> 01:48:54.319
thanks for the call, Bill,
Have fun with that centrus up there

1552
01:48:54.319 --> 01:48:58.279
in Livingston. I've talked about ACE
Hardware before, but you know we're talking

1553
01:48:58.279 --> 01:49:00.680
about all these products. You need
this, you need that. Here's a

1554
01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:04.880
fertilizer, pest control, all that. ACE Hardware has everything you need for

1555
01:49:04.920 --> 01:49:10.439
your lawn. It has everything you
need for your outdoor living, the patio

1556
01:49:10.560 --> 01:49:13.039
you enjoy sitting on, all that
kind of stuff. But did you know

1557
01:49:13.119 --> 01:49:15.279
that ACE is a place for Christmas
lighting? It is? It? Sure

1558
01:49:15.399 --> 01:49:19.079
is. Christmas lights of all types, all sizes, all colors, all

1559
01:49:19.119 --> 01:49:24.279
shapes. They have it. They
have everything you need there. They have

1560
01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:27.520
everything you need for the decorations,
like a wreath for the front door or

1561
01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:31.720
garland to hang around. ACE is
the place for that. So whenever you're

1562
01:49:31.800 --> 01:49:35.840
at ACE, you know you're going
to find plenty of things that you need

1563
01:49:35.920 --> 01:49:40.479
for your garden, for your home, and in this case, for holiday

1564
01:49:40.520 --> 01:49:45.680
decorating. ACE is the place you
can go to Ace Hardware dot Com slash

1565
01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:48.560
store dash Locator, or just go
to Acehardware dot com and find the store

1566
01:49:48.680 --> 01:49:53.560
locator. It'll tell you all the
Ace Hardware's in your area. Makes it

1567
01:49:53.600 --> 01:49:57.319
really easy to find one. Let's
see, I'm going to go now out

1568
01:49:57.359 --> 01:50:00.720
to Marine and Marine is it's as
Port of Texas. There you go.

1569
01:50:02.399 --> 01:50:08.279
Oh, hello, Skip. I
enjoyed the show first time. And my

1570
01:50:08.399 --> 01:50:12.279
quick question for you, I know
you're closing up for the for the morning,

1571
01:50:13.119 --> 01:50:15.840
is is it too soon to move
roses? Roses? I have some

1572
01:50:16.039 --> 01:50:20.680
rose bushes. No, it's ideal
to move rose bushes. Do you have

1573
01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:25.479
a plan for how you're going to
do that. Well, I'm gonna dig

1574
01:50:25.520 --> 01:50:30.119
around, take as much root system, not to disturb any of the anything

1575
01:50:30.279 --> 01:50:35.760
too close to the bush. But
these are these are Fortunately gave me the

1576
01:50:35.760 --> 01:50:40.159
wrong rose bushes. I thought I
had shrubs, but they gave me climbers.

1577
01:50:40.199 --> 01:50:44.880
And I put them in the front
of the house and they're like too

1578
01:50:44.920 --> 01:50:49.399
long. Yeah, like the little
shop of horrors out front. That's right,

1579
01:50:49.439 --> 01:50:53.680
And then when you try to read, it's the real problems. So

1580
01:50:53.720 --> 01:50:57.119
I wanted to move them to a
wall. All let me take it back,

1581
01:50:57.399 --> 01:50:59.640
let me give you a couple of
tips and take them or leave them

1582
01:50:59.720 --> 01:51:01.199
of it. This is how I've
moved rose bushes before, and this is

1583
01:51:01.199 --> 01:51:05.600
what I do. You go out
and I don't know how big they are

1584
01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:09.720
bushes are, but you may go
a foot or two out from the plant,

1585
01:51:09.920 --> 01:51:14.319
all around the plant and dig down
and then have your shovel go underneath

1586
01:51:14.479 --> 01:51:16.960
and cut the roots on one side
so you can lean the bush a little

1587
01:51:16.960 --> 01:51:20.439
bit away, slide a tarp under
it, and then go to the other

1588
01:51:20.479 --> 01:51:24.119
side and do the same thing.
Cut the roots and you can slide it

1589
01:51:24.239 --> 01:51:28.840
right onto the tarp and nobody has
to lift lift anything. Your cai practuor's

1590
01:51:28.880 --> 01:51:30.800
going to have to find another way
to put a skids through college. You

1591
01:51:31.399 --> 01:51:34.000
just put the bush on the tarp
and drag it to where you want to

1592
01:51:34.039 --> 01:51:36.560
plant it and slide it right off. It doesn't get easier than that.

1593
01:51:36.680 --> 01:51:43.800
One final tip is if you'll pull
all those gangly branches together above the bush

1594
01:51:43.920 --> 01:51:46.720
or have somebody help you with that, and then wrap it jute, twine,

1595
01:51:46.880 --> 01:51:49.760
whatever you want to do, just
sort of to bundle it. You

1596
01:51:49.800 --> 01:51:53.520
know, have a yeah, you
know how when you buy a Christmas tree,

1597
01:51:53.560 --> 01:51:56.760
they shove it through that netting to
bring it all together. You're basically

1598
01:51:56.800 --> 01:51:59.960
doing that to your rose bush,
which just a couple of pieces of twine.

1599
01:52:00.239 --> 01:52:02.199
It's easy to work around it and
all the digging that I was talking

1600
01:52:02.239 --> 01:52:08.079
about, and it just it saves
a lot of trouble. That's a very

1601
01:52:08.079 --> 01:52:11.880
good idea. I didn't think about
put the vope around them, but that

1602
01:52:11.920 --> 01:52:15.039
would really save a lot. All
right, well, I'll hope that he'll

1603
01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:17.439
thank you for your thank you.
I appreciate that. Thanks. And hey,

1604
01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:20.279
this is the first time to call. Don't be so long next time,

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Okay, all right, by bye. Yeah, Well we're having fun

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on Guardline today. I hope you
are. This is a call in show

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for answering your gardening questions. And
if you missed a show, all you

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have to do is go to your
favorite podcast app and you're going to find

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guard Line there. You can listen
to past shows that way, if you

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want to listen online, and if
you know somebody that lives out of town.

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We had a caller from Florida yesterday
and I had one another day from

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Indiana. Actually listens to garden Line
live Indiana or Illinois, one of those

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two. Anyway you can do that
on the computer. So if you got

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friends and family that live outside the
listening area, tell them about garden lightning,

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01:53:02.199 --> 01:53:06.319
listen in on the computer if they
like to. That's why we're here.

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I just want to remind you as
we wind the day up that next

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Saturday, November eleventh, I'm going
to be at RCW for their fall sling.

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It was going to be this Saturday, and when they had to make

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the decision, the weather was still
looking like I better not have it,

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so they bumped it to next Saturday, and that'll be November eighteenth, from

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eleven thirty in the morning till one
thirty. Now you can go there other

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times. That's when I'm going to
be there. They're going to have a

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01:53:32.319 --> 01:53:38.960
barbecue sandwich lunch or giving away really
nice robust seedlings of live oak and Monterey

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01:53:39.000 --> 01:53:44.239
oak and lace bark elm. They're
going to be given away fertilizer, flowers

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01:53:44.279 --> 01:53:46.840
and frost cloth and all kinds of
stuff like that. They're going to have

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a sail on all their shrubs and
select trees fifteen percent off. So it's

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time to plan them. Get ready. Come out next Saturday, Grab what

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you need because they have a good
supply out there of all kinds of things.

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They have a special cell on two
tree deals by the way, first

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is a Send Philippi red maple.
Instead of one hundred and fifty bucks,

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it's one hundred bucks. And that
is that's a lot off the live oak,

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same thing, one hundred fifty bucks. One hundred bucks for a fifteen

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gallon plant. That's the size you
can plant yourself. By the way,

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RCW will come out and plant for
you if you purchase a plant for them,

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So that's that's another option for those
of you who don't want to do

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it yourself. Hey, thanks for
listening to Guardenline. We'll be back next Saturday.