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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Skip Richter. Soz trip.

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Well, good Sunday morning, on
a good day for gardener. You are

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listening to garden Line and I'm your
host, Skip Richter. Hey, here's

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a number. Write this down so
you can give us a call this morning.

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Our number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Well, this is usually

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the time where I do a little
bit of soap boxing or ranting or hopefully

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just describing, educating. I don't
know what, but yesterday's talking a lot

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about turf and the things we need
to be doing now to our turf and

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some of the y to that.
And one of the common questions that I

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get in the show and working as
Agrilife extension agent, I always received questions

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about turf, and a common one
being what's a good turf from my area?

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What turf do you recommend? What's
the best turf? That's the one

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that the question that needs a little
The question itself needs a little bit of

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help there. And the reason is
that there's not a best turf. There

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may be a best turf for a
certain situation, but overall, every turf

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species has its pros and its cons, Isn't it kind of like people people,

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you know, they think that about
you. So anyway, so you

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take a turf grash like Saint Augustine, nothing is going to do better in

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when the light becomes more and more
limited than Saint Augustine. It is the

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most shade tolerant of our southern turf
grasses, the ones that would grow here

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as a perennial grass, Saint Augustine. It's one of its drawbacks or one

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of the things people don't care for
about it is they say it needs more

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water. Well it does. It
does require more irrigation, and it's because

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Saint Augustine kind of lives on top
of the ground. It's got a root

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system in the ground, and of
course, but the runners are all up

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on top. They don't have the
underground runners where if the top you know,

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just we have blazing hot, dry
weather and it just sort of fries

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everything above ground with something like Bermuda
as Lasia. You've got underground runners,

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but we'll get to those in a
minute. So that's that is that in

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the genetics of Saint Augustine are such
that it does require more irrigation, typically

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over the course of a season,
a hot season, when it comes to

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you know, how much do you
put on your lawn a week for your

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lawn to look good? That pretty
much the grasses are all the same,

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in my opinion, they're they're really
close to all the same. They use

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and about the same amount of grass
and so on. It's just that Saint

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Augustine has the habit of not looking
to the future, so when it gets

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dry, it just uses its water
until you know, there's like there's no

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tomorrow. And then when it gets
too dry, there's no water, it

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has no reserves to speak of,
and we begin to see the drought damage

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to it. And I mentioned the
others having the underground runners that helps them.

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And then there's buffalo, which do
not plant. But if you can

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hear my voice, do not plant
buffalo, And I'm talking all the way

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over to I thirty five westward.
Buffalo is an extremely drought laurent grass that

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does well in further western areas where
drought and typical normal dry conditions help keep

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the weeds out of it. If
you come over to Houston. In fact

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I did when I was in Conro
many years ago as county Agrilife Extension horticulturist

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in the Montgomery County Office. We
planted patches of all the different common turf

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species, and the buffalo it was
overrun with weeds. And it's because the

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weeds in our climate here and the
minor rainfall we get, they just proliferate.

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And buffalo is not a competitor with
weeds, and so, plus it

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has a very fine texture and weed
show up like a neon billboard and the

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buffalo lawn. But you go far
enough west where you can allow it to

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go completely dry, everything turns tawny
colored. And when that happens, and

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then you get a rain, buffalo
bounces back. And so that's where it

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belongs. Way out well and up
you know some of the some of the

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planes a little further north of us
and um, you know, going up

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through New Mexico excuse me, Oklahoma. But so we're gonna throw a buffalo

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out of the discussion. But that's
the that's Saint Augustine's deal. It's very

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available. Some people don't like the
broad leaves. If you came from the

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Midwest or someplace where you can grow
blue grass and fescue and some of those

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grasses, well, Saint Augustine looks
like a big, fat weed, probably

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to you. But it's a it's
a soft grass. It's good for the

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kids, you know, rolling around
playing in the grass. And by the

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way it's it is not particularly a
host of chiggers. If anybody has never

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had chiggers, go find a bermuda
grass lawn, roll around in it a

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while and you will know then later
that day what chiggers are. But Saint

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Augustine doesn't have that problem. And
so that's another plus of Saint Augustine.

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Also, we say it uses water, but in the shade it doesn't use

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hardly anywater. I mean, any
plant as you move it into shade requires

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less water, and Saint Augustine can
tolerate a considerable amount of shade. And

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so I have a picture that I
use when I give talks. But it

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is a lawn in Austin under stage
two water restrictions, meaning they could whatever

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stage they where, they could not
water their lawn, and it had been

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weeks and weeks without water, and
everywhere the sun shone outside, the Saint

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Augustine was dead. I'm just completely
brown gone. Underneath some live oak trees

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it was still green. And it's
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tree. It's because in significantly less
water is required. Well, let me

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see you're listening to garden Line.
Our phone number is seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you'd like to give us a call,

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we can talk stuff. If not, I'm gonna keep talking about grass.

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So anyway, that's some Saint Augustine
pluses. So these ill conceived laws

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that say we're gonna in our city
not have saying Saint Augustine allow. That

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doesn't quite fix the problem. I
understand what they're aiming for, But there

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are places where Saint Augustine is the
best grass and where it takes almost no

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water. And in fact, over
here in Houston, you should be able

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to grow it with no water just
because we get so much, so much

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rainfall unless we go into one of
these unusually long drought periods. So that

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was Saint Augustine. Now, that
was a lot to talk about We're going

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to talk about some of the other
grass species as we go through the day.

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But if you're thinking about putting in
a lawn, hopefully with this discussion

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you would get a little bit of
ideas on what might be a good choice

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for you, saying Augustine by far
as the most common turf that we have.

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Well, you're listening to garden Line
our phone number seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
All right, good Sunday morning. We're

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gonna get down to the nitty gritty
here, and we're gonna start off by

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going to the phones. By the
way, our number is seven one three

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two one two five eight seven four. We're gonna head over to Montgomery and

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talk to Albert this morning. Good
morning, Albert, Good morning, Skip

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morning. I've kind of got two
questions. Ones about pear trees. What's

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one or two good variety of pear
trees I can plan in my yard?

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And do I gotta plant two or
more so they pollinate the boy? There

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there are a lot of good pear
trees, and it's best if you plant

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two or more. There are there
is some self pollination, but in general

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it's just better to have that cross
pollination for them. Um, there's a

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pair I like called Warren. It's
it's kind of hard to find around,

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but it's pretty good. It takes
a little while to come into production,

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but it has more of that buddy
buttery quality texture. I grew up eating

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Keefer, which is the old hard, gritty pairs that that maybe Grandma canned

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if you go back that far.
But Keefer's, you know, a good

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old tough pair and good for canning
and things. But if you want a

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survivor, it's a survivor. Uh. There are let's see ten t E

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n N is a good one for
this area. Um. Some people are

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really fond of airs ay rs.
Uh. Let's see. There's a couple

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of others. Um Acres Home.
Acres Home is another one that that might

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be popular. But I'll tell you
what I would do. You're you're out

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of Montgomery, I'd go out to
a NA and see what they might have

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on hand out there. Uh.
And they they can certainly get you fixed

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up, depending on where in the
area are. You may be close to

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Arburgate coming down into the Tomball area
and they and they sell fruit trees,

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you know, all you all year
long so they get they can get you

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plugged in. Maybe, you know, when I recommend varieties, I'm always

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thinking, Okay, is that available
here locally? And that's always the you

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know, the challenges. One place
may carry it, one may not,

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or maybe nobody has it. So
I don't want to send you out looking

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for something you can't find. Okay, that's a lot of good info,

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thank you. Yeah, what else? What was your other question? A

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second question? I got probably a
good good good Saint Augustine. It's pretty

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good, uh, and a normal
weather pattern. Do I set my sprinklers

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to water one good time or two
good times during the week? Okay,

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that's a great question. I'm glad
you asked that. If your lawn is

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struggling, if it hasn't developed a
good deep root system, if a disease

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is messing with it or whatever,
you might do twice a week just to

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kind of help it along. But
you don't water the same amount you water

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a little bit less. Overall,
about an inch of water a week is

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needed for a lawn, but that
varies, you know, in the spring

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and in the fall. No,
you don't need an inch. A half

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inch is plenty in the summer,
when it's hot in the sun. Yes,

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an inch in the shade, not
an inch a week is needed.

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The key, you know, Albert, is when you water, you want

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to soak it all into the ground. And our heavy clay soils, I

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don't know what you're specifically is there, but in general there's a lot of

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clay soils here that just can't take
water in as fast as our sprinklers put

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it out. And so if I
told you I want you to soak an

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inch into the ground, well you
would get about a third of the way

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there or less, and it starts
to run off. And so what we

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do is call cycle and soak,
meaning you water and then you wait.

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You water and then you wait.
So if you put on let's say you

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could water a third of an inch
and before it starts to run off,

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you run it for until that amount
of time and then have it go off

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for forty five minutes and then come
back on again and do it again and

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again. That way you put that
bank account of water in the soil and

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it is available all all season,
I mean, Elsie, and all week

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long. It just carries it forward. All right. That's a lot of

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good information. Thank you, skip, Yeah, thank you, Albert,

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I appreciate, appreciate that call.
Uh we I'm going to continue on that

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a little bit more because I think
there's there's some more to be said there.

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When I say an inch a week, I'm talking about under ideal conditions,

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what a plant, what a grass
plant you know, would like to

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have. But it rains here.
It rains here a lot. And a

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number of years ago I got a
hold of the ET data from the weather

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stations of the region. So what
is ET data. Well, the nerd

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word is a vapo transpiration. So
remember that. Write it down and you

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can be the Cliff Clayven at the
next garden party. So a vapo transporation

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is how much I'm gonna just super
simplified and say it's how much water it

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does the grass you use? How
much water is lost during a period of

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time. So on a hot,
sunny day, it's gonna be more than

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on an overcast, cooler day.
Uh you know. So there's a lot

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of factors. In fact, they
have computer that takes all the data from

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the weather station, including windspeed,
humidity, temperature, solar radiation and so

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on. It crunches it all together
and it tells you what and you can

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go online. There is a place
called watermyard dot com. You can go

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online and watermyard dot com you can
sign up and depending on which community you

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live in. It's not all over
the state, but depending on which community,

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you can sign up to get a
weekly email telling you when it's time

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to water. And when I did
this, when I when I looked at

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the data for on average in Houston, how much water is used in April,

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And I don't mean irrigation, I
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in April, how much in May? How much? See what I'm saying

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and how? And then I overlaid
that with on the average, how much

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rain falls. And there was just
like two or three weeks of summer where

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you'd need to water. Well,
we know that that's probably not true,

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that just two or three weeks,
but it may be true because every year

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is not the same. I mean, we could go through forty days without

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rain, which is not normal.
And it's one hundred degrees okay, which

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is a little high for normal.
But we in general are way over watering

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our yard. And as we water
well and allow that soil to drain out,

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as the soil drains out, its
water. Then that would be water

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taken out by the plant. That
would be water evaporating from the surface.

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Oxygen comes back down in the soil. So think of it this way.

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If you if you take if you
say you've got a glass of tea and

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you a straw, and you take
a sip. When you take your mouth

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off the straw, what happens to
the tea in the straw? It falls

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down because of gravity, and air
moves in behind it in the straw.

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So as your water level and the
soil dries out, you know from top

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and down, what is filling that
space that the water had, Well,

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it's air, and that is a
stimulating That's one of the reasons we airate

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soil. Now it's on a microscopic
scale, but it helps your plant's rood

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system. If you constantly water,
which people do, and they just keep

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it wet up at the surface,
then you're not going to have good oxygenation

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download You're gonna have a very irrigation
dependent grass plant. You're going to have

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a plant where most of its root
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top, and so when grubs come
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resilient. So watering smarter, and
I'll talk about that more as we get

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into the heat of summer, but
that is something that I think is worth

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mentioning. Our phone number is seven
one three, two one two five eight

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seven four seven one three two and
two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd

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like to give us a call,
Joshua gets you up on the board and

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we can we can visit with you
about whatever is of interest to you.

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In the meantime, I'm I'm still
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turf, so let's get let's keep
going on that one. I was talking

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about the species of turf, and
I meant I talked about Saint Augustine.

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The next one I want to talk
about is bermuda grass. Bermuda grass is

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one of the more drought tolerant grasses
that we have. So if you have

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a place that you cannot water and
you need it to survive, bermuda grass

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would be a choice for that reason. For that reason I already mentioned that.

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You know, if you've got a
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in and the kids play in it, does you will have chiggers of the

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bermuda But you don't with Saint Augustine, uh, not as much. Bermuda

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needs a lot of sunlight. It
is not shade tolerant, and it comes

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in many sizes. So you can
get the coastal bermuda that the farmer bills

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Hey with. You can get the
semi dwarf mudas that you see on golf

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course greens on football fields and soccer
fields and things like that. Or you

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can get a super dwarf tommuda that
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I said green, while ago I
met fairway on a golf course green

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the real super dwarf. And so
you have a wide variety of options.

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But with bermuda grass, the more
frequently you mow the better. And that

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is more so true than Saint Augustine
was saying. Augustine, you forget to

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moan, and you come back and
back a little bit, it still looks

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pretty good. With bermuda. It's
almost like a forest where you know,

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if you walk through the forest,
it's all dead twigs and tree trunks down

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there and up on top as the
green. So at bermuda. If you

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have an infrequent mowing schedule, when
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going to have a twiggie looking grass
until the green's back up again. Well,

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you're listening to Garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and

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our phone number is two one two
five eight seven four. Give us a

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call and get on the boards when
we come back from the news News with

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Nikki. That's our game today.
We're gonna play News with Nikki. We

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will talk to you about your question. Well, good morning on a good

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Sunday morning for gardening. This is
gonna be a good day for gardening.

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I hope this afternoon you can get
out there and enjoy the garden, enjoy

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the landscape. Maybe go visit a
garden center at the same time. Well,

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our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven

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one three two one two ktrh And
we are going to go now out to

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Huffman and talk to Mike this morning. Good morning, Mike morning. How

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y'all doing? Man, We're well? All right. Listen, I've got

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a nightshade plant in my wallflower.
Gordon, Dude, I don't know how

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I got there. He just came
up, and I want to know the

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safest way to dispose of it.
Am I gonna am I gonna have to

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get a bottle suit or something or
one. No, not at all.

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It's just a standard nightshade weed.
Um. I don't know, because a

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friend of mine had the app on
his phone and he took a picture of

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it, you know, And then
I'm telling you it was exactly like what

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I had, the little white flowers
and the green berries and the blackberries on

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it. So it was exactly the
same thing, okay, And it didn't

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say what it was other than a
nightshade. Oh. You shouldn't have to

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do anything. Just pull it up
and thought in the trash, get rid

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of it along with the seeds and
stuff that are on it, and don't

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eat it. You know that would
be the concern. No, No,

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I'm gonna feed it to my neighbor
and see a bad action. You know.

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I've wondered that since you're talking about
that. You know, you know

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what polk salad is, Yes,
yes, so so. Poke weed is

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a weed around here and in the
South. It's well known that you can

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eat it. But to eat it, you got to boil it and pour

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off the water. Maybe boil it
again and pour off the water, and

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you get all the toxins out,
and I wondered, how did they figure

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that out? With somebody trying to
poison their son and larks something one time

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and they spill the water coming from
the kitchen to the dining table land is

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years ago. It's guy named Ug
and they say, U eat you know,

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we eat that? No, like
you know? All right? The

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caveman taster for the king, Um, that's that's funny, you know.

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The night shades fine, just they
are poisonous. I don't know how terribly

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toxic they are. I'm sure they'd
be very unpalatable, horrible to taste,

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but anyway, yeah, just you
can just pull it out and get rid

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of it all. Roger, thank
you very much. I appreciate that.

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Thanks for the call, Mike,
appreciate that. Huh. All right,

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let's see you. Let's go by
the way the phone number seven one three

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two to fifty eight seventy four,
and we're going to now go out to

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catch spring and talk to Ed.
Good morning Ed, Good morning, Skip.

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Hey, I got a quick question
for you. Here. I'll purchase

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all the fertilize you you can do
fertilize day. But I'm reading up and

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seeing all the weather for cans the
next two weeks. But a bunch of

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rain hitting the area, is it
good to go ahead and put it down.

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You're gonna hear two things on that
question, two answers from people.

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One is you put it down before
a rain because the rain washes it in

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the Other and this is what I
would say, is if you know that

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it's not going to rain a lot, that's fine. But if there's any

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question on the amount of rain we're
going to get, I would wait,

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and I would you just need about
an you know, half inch of irrigation

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to put to walk, you know, move it down into the soil and

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start getting things going with the fertilizer. And I would rather water it in

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and be in control of that.
That all land drains to somebody of water,

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and if you dump it, you
drink it, and just think of

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it that way. If it's if
it's an underground aquifer supply or and there's

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some parts of the state where you
know it's very sensitive underground water supply quality

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issue. But it's also true of
ponds and washes off into pond and you

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get alogae bloom and fish to death
and so on. So I guess what

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I'm just trying to say is the
most efficient thing would be the watered in

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yourself. But if you're real careful
about it, you can put it down

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before a rain. I got some
TVA on that. I heard a couple

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of callars a couple of weeks ago
on the habit algae problem in their pods

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of having some expertise in that if
they would get them some Mosambique telapia,

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that they can get it any fish
hancheries that will solve the problem. I

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did not know that is that a
fish that's you don't have to have a

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license or no permit. No,
no, you do not. No,

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you do not have to have a
permit for the Mozambiak telapia that is the

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grass carp But the mosambek. Yeah, the only drawback with them is when

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the wintertime hits in, if the
water gets real cold, they're gonna die.

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But okay, you know I've had
them in my pond now for all

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eight plus years and I do not
have a problem by ponds about an acre

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out there, and I don't have
an algae problem at all. Very interesting.

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Well, thanks for that tip,
Ed. I appreciate that we're gonna

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head now out to Silbee and salesby
and talked to Sandra. Hello, Sandra,

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good morning. How are you doing
today? I'm well, how are

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you doing? Excellent? My question
is I have a friend of mine and

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I've been going over there and helped
her do George workers. She's been piling

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up leaves around the base of all
of her trees. Will those leaves kill

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her tree? Oh? Absolutely not. Think about the forest. That's what

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nature does, Okay. You know, first I told her I thought it

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might because I know, if you
can only put a certain amount of dirt

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against the bottom of tree right every
year, Yes, but dirt will a

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tree? Well, dirt is the
trunk. Basically, the trunk is not

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made to have dirt piled up against
it, and you end up with issues.

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Without going into detail on him,
you end up with issues for the

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tree. They're just a bunch of
leaves, is fine, now, I

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wouldn't you know, she said,
pile them up against I'm thinking these things

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are going to settle down and be
kind of pulled back and make more of

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a natural mulch. But if they
you know, they got like five foot

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pile of leaves up against the trunk, well that's not gonna do it any

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good. I'm not as worried about
it as that they'd been dirt, because

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they're going to decompose down to nothing. Okay, okay, And I have

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another question. I have a place
at the lake, and my neighbor has

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cinipede grass, and that cinipede is
coming over and get into my Saint August

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thing. Is there anything I can
do to slow that down or stop it?

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All? Right? Tell you what, Sandra, I'm gonna have to

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take a break for time. Let
me come back and enter that yet the

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entwer is gonna be Yes, Sandy
and Cyprus, you're next. Right after

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we get back from break, our
phone number seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four, he'd have
a fall in mind. Let's see.

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Well, good Sunday morning, on
a good day for gardening, as all

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days are good for gardening. We're
going to go back out to Silsby and

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continue our discussion with Sandra. And
Sandra, I think you were wanting to

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keep the centipede from creeping in.
Is that right into my say long sing?

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Yes, he's already coming over.
Yeah. Uh so centipede is also

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quite shade tolerant, so you know, the shade doesn't set it back as

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much as something like Bermuda would be. The centipede, though, doesn't really

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like the US A lot of nitrogen, a lot of fertilizing. It does

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better in a poorer, slow condition. So as you do the regular care

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of your Saint Augustine that we talk
about here on the show, it gives

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it the advantage over centipede. Uh. There's not a herbicide that kills centipede

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but not Saint Augustine. That does
not exist. And so it's going to

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be a matter of uh, you
know, either doing some hand pulling,

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you know, getting getting a line
there between the you and the neighbor where

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you kind of manage it right there. Cinipede, you know, turns twenty

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colored in the in the cool season, where Saint Augustine remains a low green,

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so it's easy to tell them apart
at that time. But that's going

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to be what your options are is
just trying to culturally fertilize this and give

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this the Saint Augustine the edge or
hand pulling it. What color do you

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say it turned tawny color when when
we have really cold weather. Now,

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maybe if you don't have a coal
warner. It turns a kind of a

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tan color compared to Saint Augustine.
And when we have coal weather, especially

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as you get further north up Tyler
Way, I mean it just you know,

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browns out in the in the cool
season. Okay, well, I

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appreciate so much. Thank you for
your time, Thank you for your call,

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Sandra. I appreciate that. Let's
head out to Cyprus and we're going

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to talk to Sape. Got another
sandy, A sander and a sandy.

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What's up hi? This get?
Good morning, Good morning. I called

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you last weekend and I told you
about my uh my Saint Augustine. That

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I've lived here twenty years and that
the first fifteen I didn't take care of

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it, and I started this past
year and a half and we're four to

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five years, and so I put
out. I went to eighth and they

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told me to get They told me
to buy this uh weed beater complete and

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because I showed him the pictures like
you told me too, and I put

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that down. I'd say about thirty
of my Saint Augustine's coming through twenty five

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to thirty. But there's still lots
of wheats since I put it out last

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Tuesday, just not even a week
ago. When can I put it again?

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Can I? When I try something
new, you definitely do not want

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to do it again. It is
a it is a pre emergent product.

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The prodiamine in it at least is
a pre emergent and when you double up

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on pro diamine, that is going
to inhibit your root growth on your Saint

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Augustine. And so I would I
would definitely not redo it. I would

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give it at least probably sixty days
before I came back and did that again.

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Okay, And um, so I
should put on that nineteen for eleven

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or whatever. I forgot what the
weed and the fertilizer nitro both. I

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think it started with nineteen and I
think the number yes, the super turf,

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Yes, Um, I can go
ahead and put that out now,

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Yes, absolutely you can. I'm
gonna go back to that we beat or

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complete just for a moment. I
was talking about the pre emergent part of

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it, and that's why especially I
don't want to reuse it right now if

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you've already used it. But it
does have the post emergent too, which

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kills existing weeds. But I'm more
worried about I see problems when people double

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up on prodiamine type products used according
to the label. That's okay, but

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you know how we are tea spoons
good at tablespoon's better. I did it

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last week. I'm gonna do it
this week and kill it deader than dead,

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you know. And so yeah,
just just don't do that. Follow

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the label will tell you too,
don't. I always follow the label?

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Okay? And also do you have
somebody else? Wait? Can I ask

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you another question? You can.
We were heading to break in a minute,

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but let's see if we can get
that done. Okay, my oak

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grass, that I plan it.
They got pretty tall. There's the Clemson

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Spinelists. But I gave some of
them. Came up too close together,

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so I gave them to my sister
yesterday. I think they got too big,

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and I they're drooping down? Is
it because their stress? Should I

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wait a little bit? Are they
in pots or where are they? Put

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them in a bright shady area.
Keep them watered and they'll bounce back.

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They will recover, but they need
just a break, maybe a morning sun,

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but afternoon shade would be good,
just for a little while. Once

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they get their feet under them,
you know oak Rack and live in the

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full blazing sun. Okay, that
don't have the time to read do that

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root system you bet, Sandy,
Thank you for the call. Thank you.

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Okay. You're listening to garden Line
and I'm your host, Skip Richter,

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and our phone number if you'd like
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on the board or about to take
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two fifty eight seventy four. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. We've been talking about out
turf species. That's morn. I'm it's

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going to continue to do that through
I guess today's gonna be turf Species Day.

419
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But when we get back, I'm
going to continue on with Bermuda grass

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and Zoysia will be on the way. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse

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any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden

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Line with Skip Richter. So just
watch him as so many well, good

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Sunday morning, on a good day
for guard Day. You were listening to

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garden Line and I'm your host,
Skip Richter. We are here all more

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until ten am, answering your phone
calls and questions seven one three, two,

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one two five eight seven four if
you'd like to ask a question seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Roses are a popular popular

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00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:22.480
plant around here, and I was
visiting Buchanan's nursery the other day and looking

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at some of the color plants.
By the way, Oh my gosh,

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they they have got like for Mother's
Day. If your mom doesn't just want

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flowers that you put in a vase
and then after a week they're kind of

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00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:37.440
gone. They have these florist quality
looming plants, you know, the daisies,

433
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:43.960
the beautiful multicolored daisies, the bagonias
and calancho or calanchoe however you want

434
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:46.079
to put it, calla lilies and
things. It's just beautiful and it'll be

435
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flowers at last. A good while
I was, I was thinking about that.

436
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That makes a lot of sense,
more than a cut to do that.

437
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.759
But anyway, Roses Cinco de Mayo. I saw some of those out

438
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.160
there, and that is one of
my favorite roses. It was introduced back

439
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:04.240
in two thousand and nine. It's
an all America rose selection. I can't

440
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:07.640
describe the color to you, but
it is a it is in the orange

441
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:13.440
coral range, orange coral, pink
range and through and not in Pink's probably

442
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:16.359
not the right word to throw into
that sentence. Highly disease resistant and it

443
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:21.039
gets about maybe three feet tall a
little bit more. You can keep it

444
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.160
smaller if you want. As an
amazing rose. Anyway, I saw some

445
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of those at Buchanans. They're they're
in the Heights at leven Street. In

446
00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:30.039
the Heights. You can go to
Buchanans Plants dot com. You ought to

447
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:35.079
sign up for their newsletter. You
just get a lot of good information on

448
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:39.599
what's going on at Buchanans Plants.
I think that's pretty cool. You know

449
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:45.680
that when it comes to Mother's Day, all of our nurseries have just so

450
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:51.200
many good products. You know,
these quality local independent garden centers, the

451
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:53.720
mom and pops. They don't just
put plants in the nursery. I mean

452
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:58.960
they have gift shops. They've got
all kinds of bling and stuff that your

453
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.799
mom would enjoy. And I would
encourage you thinking about that maybe she's not

454
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:06.720
a gardener. It's okay. They've
got stuff that's just beautiful. You know,

455
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:07.920
it's not like they have to take
care of a plant. But if

456
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.480
she is a gardener, can you
ever get it set up better than that?

457
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:15.400
And I know she would appreciate that. And you know what, I'm

458
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just gonna give you one more idea
or thought when it comes to Mother's Day,

459
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why not take your mom with you? If she's here and you're able

460
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.280
to do that, take her with
you to a garden center. So instead

461
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:30.039
of showing up with this wonderful gift
and plant, it's time spent together,

462
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:36.039
which I know is always important to
mom's And so just another little twist on

463
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:40.760
things. We've got some wonderful garden
centers and some great opportunities to take mom

464
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out and get them something nice,
but also have that memorable time together.

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

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00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:53.920
Let's go ahead and go to the
phones. We're gonna go and now let's

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see we're gonna talk to Dwayne.
Good morning, Dwayne, good MORNINGSID for

468
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:05.000
taking my call. Right yesterday,
I sent you a picture of a red

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00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:09.199
oak. It came from d dot
Set Snyder, and I transplanted it last

470
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week and the leaves are turning brown
and I water it every day, and

471
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I would just wandering if it's just
from normal shock, or if I need

472
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.480
to add something else to it.
I put roots stimulator when I did transplant

473
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:29.840
and let it soak in there for
a while. If I filled up the

474
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.719
water to hold water and everything,
so it's getting plenty of water, I

475
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.840
just don't mow. If maybe I'm
putting too much water, I think you

476
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:42.079
may be. I just was getting
back to my emails and trying to take

477
00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.559
a look at that. It's a
red oak, and you've got some tip

478
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:50.679
burn on the leaves, which is
a sign of a root problem. It

479
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.840
could be physical damage to the root. It could be a root rot.

480
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:58.519
It could be a lack of water. It could be putting a bunch of

481
00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:01.920
salt based fertilile as are in the
planting hole and burning roots. All of

482
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:07.559
those kinds of things can cause a
symptom similar to what I see on this

483
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.159
plant. So I would just kind
of think through them. I'll tell you

484
00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:16.760
it really foliage almost has a kind
of a scorched look too. I would

485
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:22.599
definitely hold back on the water for
now, but dig down around that plant

486
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:28.320
and feel the soil about four inches
deep or three inches deep even, and

487
00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:31.800
if it's not moist to the touch
water, but otherwise let's hold off because

488
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.559
I think it has what it needs
it but it looks like it's been through

489
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quite a shock. Okay, all
right, well i'll try that. I

490
00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:45.960
just want to make sure I didn't
kill it by overwater. Well hopefully not,

491
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:50.039
but those kind of symptoms aren't good
on the top. That means something's

492
00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:53.280
wrong underground, and so let's just
back off. If you think you might

493
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:58.159
have overwatered, then I'm sure it's
more than wet enough. So let's just

494
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:02.840
back off of the water, all
right, Okay, I'll try to Thanks

495
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:07.079
a wat skip, Yeah, thanks, right, appreciate that call. Uh,

496
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:12.519
they're you know, talking about water
and trees and stuff like that.

497
00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:19.199
The red oak called the nut tall
oak, and you I'm gonna always misspelled

498
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:22.480
this inn you t t a L
I believe as a spelling. But nutall

499
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is a type of red oak that
it's native here in southeast Texas, and

500
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you'll find it growing in kind of
wet areas, you know, swampy ish

501
00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:35.119
areas, and it can take that
kind It doesn't want to be underwater,

502
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:40.320
but it's more tolerant of overwatering than
than something like a Schumart would be.

503
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.760
For example, just a little bit
more geared for that. It's just as

504
00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.280
beautiful as a Schumart too. So
when you're looking for a red oak,

505
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:52.639
that that is one you may want
to ask about, especially if your drainage

506
00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:59.000
is anywhere anywhere in the in question. I'll tell you. We are going

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00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:04.679
to go back to the phones here, talk to Lisa and League City.

508
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:07.960
Hello, Lisa, we got we
got I'm sorry, Linda. We got

509
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.039
one minute, and if we have
to hold over after break, we will.

510
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:15.880
So let's let's start. Let's start
real fast. Um. I about

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a year ago or two years ago, Randy Lemon diagnosed my tree is having

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00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:27.519
twigs sturdling, okay, which you
know they cut a little branches. Um,

513
00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.679
I keep seeing little tiny branches all
over my yard. Do I really

514
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.000
need to get rid of those?
Because I need to get a trombone prayer

515
00:38:35.119 --> 00:38:37.639
I believe to reach up at the
very top of my oak tree. Yeah.

516
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.800
Well, it sounds like you're kind
of moving around there on your phone,

517
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:45.039
so we're kind of getting a little
garble. And so what I would

518
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.519
do is pick up every branch that
falls, burn it, bury it though

519
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:51.840
it in the trash, and do
something to get it off your property.

520
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.079
And I would not bother with spraying, with going to the trouble to try

521
00:38:55.119 --> 00:39:00.320
to spray a big tree. Just
the end those branches that fall is egg

522
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.599
than the larva that is going to
create new twig gurglers. And so if

523
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:08.119
you pick them up and faithfully do
that, you'll find that we can cut

524
00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:12.440
way back on them. All right, okay, perfectly, by the way,

525
00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:13.960
I know we have just a little
bit of time, but like I

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way tell you how wonderful you are. Yeah, you have added so much

527
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:22.039
to this show, and we just
appreciate your knowledge and your time. Well,

528
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:23.719
that is very kind. I appreciate
that. Thank you, Linda.

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00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:27.719
You're listening to Garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Rictor. Our phone

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00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.639
number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. We'll be right

531
00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:53.599
back. Well, good morning,
on a good Sunday morning. We are

532
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:57.880
here to talk gardening. You listen
in the Garden Line. I am your

533
00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:01.079
host, Skip Rictor, and our
phone number is seven one three two one

534
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:07.880
two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

535
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.840
We're going to head out now to
Southwest Houston and talk to Anthony.

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Good morning, Anthony, good morning, sir. I'll have Saint Augustine lawn

537
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:20.960
and it's pretty much healthy. However, this one section, I'll say about

538
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:27.079
ten by ten out of the whole
backyard, I cutty's real cute. It

539
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:32.400
all lily pad looking things, but
there it's in golfing my Saint Augustine.

540
00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:36.519
Okay, what can I take care
of that? Well, that's what they

541
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.360
call dollar weed and dollar weed it
looks like a little umbrella. The little

542
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:43.440
stem comes up in the middle of
the leaf, a little round, wavy

543
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:47.639
edge leaf on top. That's what
you're dealing with. And you number one,

544
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:52.039
the weather you keep the lawn,
the happier the dollar weed is gonna

545
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:58.039
be. So let that grass get
a little on the thirsty side before you

546
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.320
rewater. That's just good for the
grass any way, to not stay soggy

547
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.800
all the time. But yeah,
just culturally cutting back, that's not going

548
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.000
to kill the dollar weed. It's
just gonna if you don't do that.

549
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:12.199
I mean, it's like you're just
given the dollar weed. The rocket fuel

550
00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:15.800
at wants to take over everything.
But there are products that are pretty effective

551
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:21.039
against that. One that just comes
to mind would be weed free zone.

552
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:27.400
It's a Fertiloam product. Weed Free
Zone has four different broad leaf weed control

553
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:30.440
post emergent products in it. You
want to use it, though, follow

554
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:34.599
the label, the labels the law. Even if I tell you something that's

555
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.840
not on the label, follow the
label. That's the law. And what

556
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:40.880
it'll tell you is when it gets
up about ninety degrees, it can damage

557
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.719
your Saint Augustine. So get it
done. Now we're about to enter a

558
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:50.199
season where you're not gonna be able
to use this stuff anymore until it cools

559
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:53.239
off again. And so get that
product and put it down. Do a

560
00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:58.480
good job. Follow the label in
how strong you make it? You don't.

561
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:00.920
You can't spray this a lot of
times a year. You can do

562
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.079
it in the spring, you can
do it in the fall. That's about

563
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.360
end. And so that would be
the way I would get rid of it.

564
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:09.320
Well, all right, thank you, all right, thank you,

565
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:14.840
Anthony. I appreciate that call very
much. You are listening to garden Line.

566
00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:20.079
Our number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four.

567
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.400
Hey. By the way, next
Saturday, that is the thirteenth, I'm

568
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:27.719
going to be out at the Arburgate
Nursery for a couple hours. Actually a

569
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:31.719
little longer than that. Eleven thirty
am to one thirty pm. That's a

570
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.360
day before Mother's Day. Bring your
mom. I'd like to beat your mom

571
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:38.400
too. I'd love to meet you. If you want to come in and

572
00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:43.119
ask some questions. You can bring
me some samples. Please put them in

573
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:47.480
plastic bags so we don't turn everything
loose over there, and I'll be glad

574
00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:52.039
to diagnose or identify if you would, if you've got photos on your phone,

575
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:55.760
or if you could take photos and
put them on your phone of landscape

576
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:59.400
questions you have. You know,
what is this plan? How do I

577
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:01.599
what might I do in this area? Back here, I just seemed to

578
00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:05.599
have trouble. I'm looking for something
that's color. You get the idea,

579
00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:10.079
But well focused photos. Make sure
sometimes when you hold up a little like

580
00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:14.400
a plan or a flower and you
take a picture of it, your phone

581
00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:19.119
focuses on the background rather than the
foreground. Right, Just check your pictures,

582
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:22.559
make sure that that they're well focused, so we can do our best.

583
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:24.440
But that's the Arburgate. But they're
gonna have a little shindy going.

584
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:30.480
I mean they're gonna have a peach
Balini's I mean, wow, that's that's

585
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.800
cool. Uh, they know how
to throw a party at the arburg Gate.

586
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.159
They just are stocked up on all
kinds of things. I mean the

587
00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:43.960
yard art, the plants, that
just the gifts for mom and the and

588
00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:49.079
their gift shops. You will not
have trouble shopping for Mother's Day next Saturday

589
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:53.239
at the arbor Gate. Well well
worth the visit. I've been talking about

590
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:57.920
turf this morning, and I got
into I finished in Augustly you start talking

591
00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:01.960
about bermuda bermuda grass, the three
hypes or three general groupings. Is the

592
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.519
wild coastal bermuda, the actually I'm
gonna make it for of course, that's

593
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:13.280
the pasture grass. The common bermuda
is just playing cheap old common bermuda.

594
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:15.880
You can make a decent lawn out
of it if you very regularly and fertilize

595
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:22.079
it very regularly. But what most
people get is a semi compact type of

596
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:24.280
buna, semi dwarf type of bermuda. And that's what you'll find on a

597
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:29.639
golf course screen, that's what you'll
find on a high school football field or

598
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:36.159
a soccer field or things like that. That the biggest advantage of bermuda is

599
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:40.159
its wear and terribility. Now,
if you put Saint Augustine out there and

600
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:45.400
you had, you know, fifty
ten year olds playing soccer four games a

601
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:49.239
week on it, I mean it
would pound it to dirt and that'd be

602
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:52.159
it. Bermuda has the ability,
because of its underground rhizomes, to be

603
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:57.440
able to recuperate and come back.
It can take the wear and tear,

604
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:00.679
and if you're fertilizing it and narrating
it, take care of it well.

605
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:04.039
It can take that wear and tear. And that's why we choose it for

606
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:09.360
athletic fields. The medium heights bermudas
the semi dwarfs are a good way to

607
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:13.480
go as you get smaller and smaller, Like if you want to make a

608
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:19.519
backyard golf course green, you could
Wow, that's a complicated thing to be

609
00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:22.159
successful. So I'd advise against it
unless you have somebody knows what they're doing.

610
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:30.400
But the shorter you keep the bermuda, the more often you're going to

611
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.800
have to mow, because with bermuda, you don't let it grow a long

612
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.480
time and then cut it way back, or it looks terrible until it regreens.

613
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.440
You want to look good all the
time, So frequent sharing just a

614
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:44.800
light sharing frequently. Like on a
golf course green, they mow it every

615
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:49.679
day. Do you know that?
Every day? On a fairway they're probably

616
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:52.840
mowing it definitely more than once a
week. But on your home lawns,

617
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:55.079
if you can at least get about
a five day mowing schedule, seven day

618
00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:59.880
mowing schedule at the most, you
can have a beautiful lawn. The shorter

619
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:01.039
you cut it, the more often
you have to mow, because we're only

620
00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:06.000
wanting to cut off a third of
the height every time we mow, And

621
00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:09.480
the shorter you mow it, you
need to get a real type mower,

622
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:13.440
not the big propeller blades. So
if you're going to try to go down

623
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:16.280
and have a one inch high Bermuda
grass, which you could, the old

624
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:20.840
propeller is just that mower goes off
the bumps in the yard. I mean,

625
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.679
it's just gouging and cutting. The
real type mowers. That's why golf

626
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:28.000
course green looks like it does.
But that kind of mower is available and

627
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:34.000
you can certainly do that the Bermuda
grass. I guess the other thing that

628
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:36.920
last thing that I would say about
Bermuda I mentioned that it does have the

629
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:40.559
drought tolerance and so on, but
you want to make sure and fertilize it

630
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:46.440
regularly. It needs. It is
a heavy feeder, and especially with wear

631
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:50.800
and tear, you're going to need
to add a lot to it. Now,

632
00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:53.199
you want to fertilize it regularly,
but you don't want to over fertilize

633
00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:59.199
it because bermuda, unlike Saint august
well, both can grow thatch, but

634
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:04.119
bermuda and especially grow a thick thatch
when you're pushing it and over fertilizing it,

635
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.679
So I would avoid that. Last
one we're going to talk about is

636
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:15.239
Zoysia. Zosia grass is a wonderful
grass for a lawn. It is mostly

637
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:19.719
shade tolerant, not as much as
Saint Augustine, but more than bermuda.

638
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:24.280
The fine textured and the course textured
types, that's the distinction we should make.

639
00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:30.039
The fine texture types are even more
tolerant of shade than the course textured.

640
00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:34.840
Not a huge difference, but a
little bit. The issue as zoysia

641
00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:38.239
is it is a tough grass and
it grows dense and if you don't keep

642
00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:44.519
it mode pretty low, it gets
lumpy and your propeller blade because it's tough,

643
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:46.559
if your blade isn't sharp, it
tends to kind of knock it over

644
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:51.880
and you end up with a lumpy
lawn. So sharp blade mow lower.

645
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:57.559
A real type mower is good to
R E E L R E L reel

646
00:47:58.079 --> 00:48:04.199
as opposed to propeller blade. But
the more often you mow and the sharp

647
00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:08.519
blade, that's the secret to a
quality zoysia because it can really really get

648
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:12.960
dense, and there's a lot of
good varieties. I would recommend getting the

649
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:17.840
broad leaf types of Zoisia. There
the species of Japonica Zoisia japonica, those

650
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:22.039
types, and we say broad leaf, it's you know what a third of

651
00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:27.480
the width of a bermuda of a
Saint augustine leaf. But anyway, those

652
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:30.519
kind some of the most beautiful lawns
I've seen, or Zoisia lawns. That's

653
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:36.119
that's the trade off with some of
these grasses. Zoysia does crawling underground as

654
00:48:36.159 --> 00:48:42.039
well, so it can invade an
area from like bermuda grass does in your

655
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.400
flower beds. You know, you're
chopping the cutting the top off with Saint

656
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.679
augustine and centipede, it's all on
top of the ground. With bermuda and

657
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.360
Zoysia, it sends the submarines in
under the flower bed, and here they

658
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:58.559
pop up inside your flower bed,
and that is an ongoing problem to have

659
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:01.239
to deal with. It'd be nice
if these grasses knew exactly where we want

660
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:05.400
them to stop. We want them
to fill in fast, but we want

661
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:08.320
them to stop where they're supposed to
stop, and they tend to have a

662
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:14.800
way to not do that. You
know what, I was talking about feed

663
00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:17.639
stores yesterday, and I was just
thinking about League City feed today this morning.

664
00:49:19.039 --> 00:49:22.880
League City Feed down in League City
area. If you are in Santa

665
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:27.400
Fe Dickinson all that you're you know
you're in League City area. They're in

666
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.199
Highway three, a few blocks south
of Highway ninety six, and it's the

667
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:35.079
traditional feed store. You know.
They they take care of you. They

668
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:38.639
carry your stuff out to the car
for you. They carry the fertilizers and

669
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:43.519
the saw products that we recommend on
here, premium pet food, everything you

670
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:45.960
need for your chickens, your backyard
chickens. And while you're there, maybe

671
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:50.760
you even get a chance to meet
Madison's Dalmatian Rorshak, which I still think

672
00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:54.199
is the best name for a Dalmatian
Nikki. I think you could probably sit

673
00:49:54.320 --> 00:50:00.239
there and stare at rorshak and say
I in that one, I see what

674
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.119
a banana? Yes, there's a
squirrel chasing a rabbit on the side or

675
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:07.920
something that's like looking at clouds.
So instead of it, you know,

676
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:13.599
maybe I wonder I need to tell
Wes and Madison they need to just offer

677
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:17.119
like a psychological service. So instead
of going to see a paying one for

678
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:21.840
it, you can just go study
rush act, tell them what you see

679
00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:24.679
and they would tell you what your
issues are. That's great. I don't

680
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:28.920
think it works that way, but
it would be a good idea. Maybe

681
00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:34.400
maybe someone, maybe someone should should
create dogs with spots for that reason.

682
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:37.960
Okay, anyway, League City Feed
here's the phone number two eight one three

683
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:44.440
three two one six one two Monday
through Saturday six to nine or so nine

684
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.639
to six and closed on Sundays.
Check out the thunderbirds down at League City

685
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:54.800
Feed. I joke about that rush
a thing, but now every time I

686
00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:59.159
see a dog with spots, I
start looking and seeing what I'm seeing.

687
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.559
Hey, our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

688
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:20.199
Give us a call. Well,
good morning on a good morning for

689
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.679
gardening, which every morn is a
good morning for gardening. It's gonna be

690
00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.840
a wonderful afternoon to get out and
get some stuff done, go see some

691
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.159
garden centers. Like I said,
I gotta go pick up that that aunt

692
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:36.159
control product, because they are actually
just crawling all over the place. I

693
00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:38.679
uh, you know, if you
if you are not from the South and

694
00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:44.480
you moved down here, the first
experience with fire ants is an eye opening

695
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:49.880
experience, is it not. I
remember many times, you know, growing

696
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:54.920
up as a kid, if you
stepped in something soft out on the farm,

697
00:51:55.159 --> 00:52:00.599
you knew what had just happened,
right, a cow by something along

698
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:02.639
those lines. And then fire ants, of course they come in. When

699
00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:07.000
I grew up, they were already
here, but fire ants come in.

700
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.719
And so now when you're walking through
the yard and you step and something soft,

701
00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:14.280
it's like, oh, we just
have this natural reaction that we've learned.

702
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:16.239
I need to get my foot out
of there quick and then start checking

703
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:21.159
my shoes and socks and ankles and
everything else, because I probably just have

704
00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:22.440
a whole bunch of mad ones.
I think they sit up there at the

705
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:25.679
top of the mound, just ticked
off all the angry ones. They make

706
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:29.159
them go sit at the top of
the mount and wait for somebody to mess

707
00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:34.199
with them, because they sure are
faster reacts, especially when the weather's warm.

708
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.559
Well, our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy

709
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:39.840
four. Let's go take some calls
here. We're going to go to Port

710
00:52:39.880 --> 00:52:45.039
Natchez and talk to Jenet this morning. Good morning Janet, Good morning scamp.

711
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:50.320
How are you. I'm well,
thanks, I'm only good. Thank

712
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:55.519
you for mentioning the flower angelonia.
I've never heard of that before, and

713
00:52:55.639 --> 00:53:00.800
when you said it was also referred
to as the summers an Act dragon.

714
00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:05.039
Yes, I went and I finally
found them and I'm playing it the whole

715
00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:08.599
bed of them, and they're absolutely
gorgeous. So I wanted to thank you

716
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:12.679
for that. Well, that's wonderful
to hear it. I'm gonna give you

717
00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:16.519
a tip, you know, keep
them adequately watered and infertilize them. If

718
00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:21.079
you don't have a good slow release
in the bed, get one, because

719
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:24.039
those things we'll just about bloom themselves
to death. I mean, they are

720
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:29.280
beautiful blooms if they have water and
fertilizer, and so you want to have

721
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:31.679
both on them. Yes, and
they're beautiful. Good because I want them

722
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:36.760
to look just like this in June
and July for you. Yeah. So

723
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:38.760
I'm taking good care of them.
I'm doing all that to them, and

724
00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:42.840
thank you so much. Well good, I'm glad you enjoyed them. They

725
00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:46.800
are they are, thank you for
the Okay, bye bye, happy,

726
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:52.239
all right, take care. We're
gonna go to Missouri City now and talk

727
00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:59.239
to Ruben. Hello Rubon, good
morning, Yes, good morning. Quick

728
00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.519
question on greenhouses. I want to
build a small one, but how do

729
00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:12.159
you pollinate or how do greenhouses?
How the plants pollinated? So you have

730
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:16.079
it's just about growing for production in
a greenhouse, not just starting some transplants

731
00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:21.800
to go outside, right for production? Yeah, well, if the plant

732
00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:25.559
has to be pollinated, it's not
going to be pollinated in a greenhouse unless

733
00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:30.079
you come up with some way to
do it. The big professional growers.

734
00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:35.440
There's actually some growers, and this
just amazes me. You can buy bumblebees,

735
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:38.639
a little box of bumble bees and
put it in a greenhouse for pollinating

736
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:43.800
a big greenhouse. Now that's not
your backyard greenhouse, Rubbon, but I

737
00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:47.199
just found that to be interesting.
That's one way that growers with huge greenhouse

738
00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:52.079
ranges deal with it. With things
like tomatoes, they don't need a bee

739
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:55.880
to pollinate them, but they need
to boom the bloom to shake, so

740
00:54:57.039 --> 00:55:00.760
the pollen falls within the bloom and
it pollinates. It's health. So what

741
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:05.559
they'll do is they'll vibrate the wires
that the tomatoes are growing on. Or

742
00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:07.880
if you had, let's say in
your greenhouse, you're growing them in beds

743
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:10.760
on the ground, you could just
kind of rattle the cage and shake them

744
00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:15.519
a little bit every day, just
briefly, and that would do that.

745
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.039
That would accomplish the pollination for you
on that. Otherwise you're gonna have to

746
00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:22.000
have some insects in there doing that, okay, because I know that's a

747
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:27.719
black mason bee. So they'll pollinate
about thirty times more than a regular honey

748
00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:31.320
bee. Yep. It just don't
create money. Yeah, yeah, there's

749
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:35.800
another Maybe I don't think you can
get those though for the greenhouse. Maybe

750
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:38.480
you can. I'd have to look
into that, okay. And then one

751
00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:44.320
more question. There was a gentleman
that just to live at the Randy Lemon

752
00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:50.199
show that had a organization down in
Freeport that needed grounds heres. I don't

753
00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:52.719
remember his name. I thought I
had put it down on my own.

754
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:54.800
I don't know. Maybe some of
your listeners or maybe you might know the

755
00:55:54.920 --> 00:56:00.079
name of that individuality. I guess
it was like a charrib type organization,

756
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:06.880
but needed volunteers and or materials.
Okay, And if anyone does know,

757
00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:09.559
or you know, I'll be listening. Maybe I could get a phone number

758
00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:14.639
and location of it about tell me, tell me again, what kind of

759
00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:19.239
what were they? What was the
group doing? Well, there were one

760
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:23.760
thing, that's just I don't he
seeing a moment. I don't remember what

761
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:28.719
you're doing. But he was helping
out. He had a lot of food

762
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:34.079
for the community. Let's say it
was not in Freeport, but I know

763
00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:38.480
that he wanted volunteers, needed volumne
heres here. He was building buildings and

764
00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:46.119
head greenhouses for one thing. And
and uh, just I just don't remember

765
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:51.480
the name of that individual. Okay, it's not occurring to me. But

766
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:54.760
if any listeners are aware, then
give us a call. We'll maybe So,

767
00:56:55.760 --> 00:56:58.599
yeah, I know Randy has a
lot of the Oh, I know

768
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.760
what it is. You're talking about
out Harvest for the Hungry. Go go

769
00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:05.960
online and look for Harvest for the
Hungry. And that's the one that's the

770
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:09.079
one you're referring to that's it all
right, all right, great, thank

771
00:57:09.119 --> 00:57:13.480
you. I appreciate that call,
and uh, Lee, I see you

772
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:15.719
out there in Conro when we get
back from break. You'll be first if

773
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:21.039
you'd like to call in. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

774
00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:31.519
four. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I can't

775
00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:49.000
well, good morning on a good
Sunday morning. This is gonna be a

776
00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:52.280
great day for gardening. We can't. I can't wait to get out and

777
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:54.159
visit a garden center this afternoon.
I got I gotta get some of that

778
00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:58.039
done today. There's a couple of
things I was picking up yesterday, and

779
00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:00.559
I forgot to get a certain kind
of pop that I need for a house

780
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:04.760
plant that needs bumping up and just
kind of looking at it and thinking,

781
00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:07.360
you know, that needs a bigger
container so I can take off and grow

782
00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:10.079
some more. But anyway, I'll
be getting that done a little bit later.

783
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:13.559
Let's head to the phones. By
the way, the phone number is

784
00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:16.920
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four, and we are going

785
00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:22.400
to go talk to Lee in Conro. Good morning, Lee, good morning,

786
00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:25.559
Skip. Appreciate you taking my call
this morning. Yes, sir.

787
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:32.239
My question of you is some feedback
and guidance. We've got a potted lemon

788
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:38.320
tree and a potted mandarin orange tree
that we're given to us a couple of

789
00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:43.960
years ago by one of our sons, and I think both of them are

790
00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:51.519
doing well. On the lemon plant, we've gotten four or five very nice

791
00:58:51.760 --> 00:59:00.599
lemon's prior years, and we haven't
had any sign of plant of on the

792
00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:08.159
mandarin orange until this year. And
this year we've got probably the lemon plant

793
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:14.880
is gone on nuts, and we've
got twenty or more little lemons, and

794
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:17.800
I've pruned some of those back because
I think there's too much for the lembs

795
00:59:17.880 --> 00:59:22.320
to hold. We want to transplant
those into a bigger pot. And my

796
00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:29.920
question of you is if you have
a recommendation on the type of soil and

797
00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:34.840
the time of year we best we
okay to make a transplant now or should

798
00:59:34.920 --> 00:59:40.079
we wait till fall before winter.
That's that's a good question. And the

799
00:59:40.199 --> 00:59:43.840
inches now, it's fine. Now
it's a good time to do it.

800
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:47.400
How big is the pot that they're
in now? Is it like a five

801
00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:54.639
gallon pot or is it much larger
than that? Fourteen inches tall by fifteen

802
00:59:54.719 --> 01:00:00.760
inches across at the top. Okay, well, definitely want to get into

803
01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:04.119
a bigger container, especially that mandarin
and needs a little more room. But

804
01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:07.480
the lemon as well will appreciate it. So get up a bigger sol volume

805
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:13.320
and find a rose soil. There's
rose soil available from uh you know,

806
01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:15.800
you get it from Nature's Way,
you can get it from heirloom soils.

807
01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:21.880
Quality rose saw mix is going to
be exactly what you need for that kind

808
01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:27.360
of container. So that answers both
of my questions. And I appreciate your

809
01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:30.440
guidance. And I'm quite familiar with
Nature's Way. I've gotten a lot of

810
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:37.000
their leak mold composts or since we're
yeah, we'll be you know, being

811
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:39.559
up in Caro, you're kind of
like the perfect spot. You're almost in

812
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:43.679
between the two. Uh you know. But while we're a mile north of

813
01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:45.920
Spring, we got an all star
race that I've gotten some stuff too,

814
01:00:46.119 --> 01:00:51.559
but I didn't are the different soils
I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure.

815
01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:58.159
Yeah, Well that that answered what
which is the royal rose soil and the

816
01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:04.440
wire? And I'm I'll probably give
them the Nature's way of try. Thank

817
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:07.360
you, thank you, thank you
for your g You bet well, I

818
01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:10.800
appreciate that. I appreciate your call. Our phone number. I got time

819
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:14.880
for one more call. If you
call quick, it's seven one three two

820
01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:19.679
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two and two fifty eight seventy

821
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:22.519
four. You gotta have fast fingers
on this when we're running out of the

822
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:25.599
hour, but even if we don't
get finished, we can talk to you

823
01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:31.519
the next hour seven one three two
one two five eight seven four R two

824
01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:35.280
on two KTR eight. That's another
easy way. By the way, if

825
01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:38.840
this morning I've been talking about lawns
and went through each of the grass types

826
01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:43.239
with the pros and cons, are
some information you might need to know about

827
01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:46.039
the kind of mowing and whatnot that
you do for them. If you miss

828
01:01:46.119 --> 01:01:51.000
stuff like that, you can go
listen to us on podcast. We're available

829
01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:55.119
on podcasts through an iHeart system.
The podcasts, you can go back and

830
01:01:55.199 --> 01:01:59.840
listen to pass shows, or you
can also tell your friends about it.

831
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:04.920
They come. People that don't live
here can listen a live online all the

832
01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:07.480
time, and you can also listen
to pass shows to the podcast. We

833
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:13.760
have folks a surprisingly far area that
listen to Garden Line a lot of Houston

834
01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:16.920
transplants that moved halfway across the country
and they still listen, and so we

835
01:02:17.079 --> 01:02:22.280
welcome that as well. It's it's
enjoyable doing a garden show, and it's

836
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:27.320
enjoyable helping people with gardening, and
that that's what we really want to is

837
01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:30.440
we want you to have success.
If you're one of the folks that says

838
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:32.199
I can't garden, I tried it. I killed a plant, killed ten

839
01:02:32.280 --> 01:02:37.440
plants. I have a brown thumb. Here here's my answer. Number one.

840
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:38.920
To be a good gardener, you
got to kill a lot of plants.

841
01:02:39.239 --> 01:02:43.840
That that's first. You gotta kill
a lot of plants. And that's

842
01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:46.840
how we learn. And there is
no try it once, you know,

843
01:02:47.239 --> 01:02:52.400
I mean you can. You can
try it again and again and we can

844
01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:55.559
learn and we can do better.
I still kill plants. I still try

845
01:02:55.639 --> 01:02:59.679
things, right, I neglect something
or I try something to see if it

846
01:02:59.719 --> 01:03:02.119
works, it doesn't work, and
so on. That's okay. Gardening is

847
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:07.039
fun. There's no rules. Now, I know the neighborhood Association has rules,

848
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.920
right, but really in guardening at
your yard, what do you want

849
01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:13.599
to do? Do you ent your
backyard to be a big vegetable garden,

850
01:03:13.840 --> 01:03:15.599
we'll do that. You want to
put in a pond and have a golf

851
01:03:15.679 --> 01:03:19.639
course green though the rest of the
yard, you can do that. I

852
01:03:19.719 --> 01:03:22.480
mean every you know. You learn
how to do stuff and just enjoy doing

853
01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:25.119
it. And maybe you don't have
room for a big dig in the dirt

854
01:03:25.199 --> 01:03:30.800
garden, you can just deal with
houseplants. You can start plants inside.

855
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:35.679
You can grow plants. Now we
have lighting that's such high quality. You

856
01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:39.519
can grow a tomato plant all the
way through fruiting indoors with not a drop

857
01:03:39.639 --> 01:03:45.039
of natural light at all. And
if those kinds of systems, if those

858
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:46.719
kinds of things are of interest to
you, I encourage you to do that.

859
01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:52.000
Expand your gardening. Learn how to
propagate plants, learn how to start

860
01:03:52.119 --> 01:03:55.000
seeds, learn how to root cuttings, learn how to divide your perennials.

861
01:03:55.519 --> 01:04:00.239
And with each little bit of knowledge, your thumb gets greener and greener and

862
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:04.280
greener. Because there's no such thing
as a brown thumb, but there are

863
01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:11.639
uninformed thumbs. And our goal here
on Garden Line is to inform your thumb.

864
01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:15.119
If you will give us a call
week and talk you walk you through

865
01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:20.119
it. Just give it a shot. If you've got kids, grandkids,

866
01:04:20.599 --> 01:04:25.360
kids are your own, I encourage
you to get them involved in gardening.

867
01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:30.039
I'm telling you, I know I'm
biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

868
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:35.920
It affects mental development, it affects
physical health. It changes the way

869
01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:42.239
you eat when you grow healthy food
and enjoy it yourself. That's our number

870
01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:45.280
one health problem in this world is
in this country, is the way we

871
01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:50.440
eat and what it does to our
body. With gardening, I mean you

872
01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:54.480
can grow what you want. If
you want to have a herb garden.

873
01:04:54.599 --> 01:04:58.360
If you won't have hanging baskets of
color, what is of interest to you?

874
01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:01.320
Now is the day get out to
buy some of those products, to

875
01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:04.880
go home and try them and plan
them. Any questions If you go to

876
01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:09.119
the nurseries we're talking about, they're
gonna tell you everything you need to know.

877
01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:12.519
But if you got questions, give
us a call here at Garden Line.

878
01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:16.920
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised

879
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:32.440
on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Skip rictor just watch him

880
01:05:38.679 --> 01:05:42.400
well. Good Sunday morning, the
sun has come out. We get a

881
01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:45.880
little bit of sunshine. Shining through
the clouds here. Still kind of hazy

882
01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:48.039
overhead, but hey, it's going
to get better. This is a day

883
01:05:48.239 --> 01:05:50.880
to get out there, get some
things done in the garden. We've been

884
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:54.559
talking about lawns this morning. We
can talk about trees. If you'd like,

885
01:05:55.239 --> 01:06:00.360
give us a call the phone number
seven one three two one two eight

886
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:05.239
seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I was

887
01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:10.719
in my backyard the other day and
it was I don't know, going around

888
01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:14.119
looking at some things and taking care
of this plan or that, and I

889
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:17.880
passed by this little pail that was
full of rainwater, and it was sitting

890
01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:21.719
there and I don't know I'd forgotten
I guess I set it down with the

891
01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:27.519
you know, opening up and the
rainwater coach of rains. It just got

892
01:06:27.599 --> 01:06:30.920
in it and hello, mosquito larvae, wrigglers wriggling around in there. And

893
01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:34.280
it just reminded me I am breeding
mosquitoes, and we don't need to breed

894
01:06:34.360 --> 01:06:39.079
mosquitoes. I have a news flash
for you. I have to tell Nikki

895
01:06:39.119 --> 01:06:43.880
about this one for the next news
flash. There are enough mosquitoes in the

896
01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:46.760
Houston area that we were full.
We have enough. We don't need to

897
01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:49.039
breed more so, how do we
not breed them? Well, we go

898
01:06:49.159 --> 01:06:54.400
around and we make sure that our
gutters are draining well so they don't sag

899
01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:58.079
in whole water. It does not
take a mosquit along to lay eggs,

900
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.760
go through the larval stage and be
out as an adult. I mean they

901
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:05.360
are fast at that. Anywhere they're
stagnant water. The catch basins underneath your

902
01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:10.960
pots can breed mosquitoes. The bird
bath out there, well, what do

903
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:13.960
you do. Well, one thing
you can do is just dump them.

904
01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:17.119
But like me, I had one
I didn't even know about and it was

905
01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:20.400
there. So we try to do
that. But if you've got an area

906
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:24.719
that you need to it needs the
water needs to stay. Maybe it's a

907
01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:28.320
little pond, maybe it is a
bird bath and you just you're not going

908
01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:30.360
to get out there and you know, dump it out twice a week.

909
01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:35.840
And to get fresh water in there. You need to know about mosquito dunks.

910
01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:40.320
Mosquito dunks are a natural product.
They float on the water. They're

911
01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:44.920
a little donut like beige donut like
things floating on the water. They slowly

912
01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:50.039
dissolve and they they release a disease
of mosquitoes. It is not a disease

913
01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:54.920
of lady beetles, it is not
a disease of afids. It's not a

914
01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:57.920
going to hurt the family, cat, the dog, the birds that get

915
01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:00.599
a drink out of the water.
It completely safe organic product. It's a

916
01:08:00.679 --> 01:08:04.400
type of BT different than the caterpillar
BT. But when you do that,

917
01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:11.239
you got a month of protection against
mosquito larva in that spot. So anywhere

918
01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:15.039
you've got water that you just can't
drain out, you need a mosquito dunk.

919
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:19.800
Maybe there's some other kind of stagnant
pond in the back, mosquito dunk.

920
01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:23.359
Put them in there. You're going
to find them everywhere there. All

921
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:27.439
the independent nurseries and feed stores we
talk about carry mosquito dunks. Ace hardware

922
01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:30.079
stores carry mosquito dunks. It's just
it just makes sense. I mean,

923
01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:34.720
there are very few problems that we
deal with out in the lawn and garden

924
01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:40.279
where it is such a simple solution
as us. It's safe, it's naturally

925
01:08:40.479 --> 01:08:43.319
organic, Throw it in walk away, it takes care of it for a

926
01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:46.680
month. You can't get simpler than
that. Cannot get simpler than that.

927
01:08:46.920 --> 01:08:49.960
Well, you're listening to garden line, and I am your host, Skip

928
01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:54.600
Richter. We are here to talk
to you about whatever is of interest to

929
01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:58.960
you of gardening. So give us
a call at seven one three, two,

930
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:02.119
one two and five eight seven four. I just went blank there.

931
01:09:02.159 --> 01:09:06.279
You know I've said that eight hundred
times seven three, two and two fifty

932
01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:12.000
eight seventy four would be glad to
visit about the things that are of interest

933
01:09:12.079 --> 01:09:16.079
to you. Kind of went through
the lawns today, the different species of

934
01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:20.439
long grasses and things like that that
are in the soil. I want to

935
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:24.800
talk a little bit about the trees. This is a This is an important

936
01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:30.359
time. If you have planted trees
this past fall and winter and spring,

937
01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:33.560
or if you're planting them now.
When that tree goes in the ground,

938
01:09:34.199 --> 01:09:38.279
all of its roots are still in
the cylinder that you pulled out of the

939
01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:42.720
pot. Right. So when that
tree is a stabbed head, it grown

940
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:45.119
from a seed in that spot,
it would have roots twice as high as

941
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:49.680
the tree in all directions that the
seed would have had time to have created

942
01:09:50.079 --> 01:09:55.439
that kind of a root system.
But when you're taking a plant that was

943
01:09:55.560 --> 01:09:59.359
bought from a nursery and putting it
in the ground, the roots are not

944
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:02.119
where they will be. They're just
where they still, you know, where

945
01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:05.159
they were in the pot you bought
them, in that pot in the nursery.

946
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:09.600
Especially when it gets the summertime.
Their water in those things twice a

947
01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:13.560
day to keep those trees alive at
least once a day, depending on the

948
01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:16.399
weather. So what happens when it
goes in the ground, Well, you've

949
01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:23.279
got wet soil, but it pumps
that root ball dry that the foliage the

950
01:10:23.439 --> 01:10:28.840
top of that tree has an abnormally
small root area because that's the only way

951
01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:30.560
we can grow them is you know, in a pot, we're always going

952
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:34.199
to have a restricted root system when
we grow it. So when you get

953
01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:38.680
it established, you're gonna in that
period of time, you're gonna need to

954
01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:42.159
keep that root ball moist. Now
you don't drown it, you don't water

955
01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:45.920
log it, you know that's deadly, but you do have to keep it

956
01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:49.000
moist. And we talk about tree
hugger sprinklers earlier as a way to do

957
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:53.439
that. Because it wets that area. You can build a berm of soil

958
01:10:53.520 --> 01:10:56.439
around a tree you just planted and
fill that berm up with water and it

959
01:10:56.520 --> 01:10:59.760
all has to soak right down in
there. That's fine if you wanna take

960
01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:05.000
that up roach, but you have
it's touching go this first summer because the

961
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:10.039
roots are slowly moving out into the
soil, which is good, and so

962
01:11:10.199 --> 01:11:15.640
we're gradually wetting a wider and wider
area, which is good. But you

963
01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:17.520
know, I can't say you need
five gallons of water a day. I

964
01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:20.039
mean we can give you these rules
of thumb. You know, if this

965
01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:25.239
mini gallon container, here's how you
water it. But in general the idea

966
01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:29.880
is you keep that container root ball
moist all the time, and that requires

967
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:33.439
regular watering and then in time we
can back off where we're not watering the

968
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:36.600
base of the tree. You know, if you've got existing trees in your

969
01:11:36.720 --> 01:11:41.359
landscape, they're roots your way out
of the way out in all directions.

970
01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:46.159
The tech Sager life extension scientists did
a study where they took pecan tree and

971
01:11:46.239 --> 01:11:49.119
they washed out a route. They
you know, followed it with washing out

972
01:11:49.159 --> 01:11:54.960
a route to see how far away
from a tree is a pecan root,

973
01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:57.760
and they got out two and a
half times the height of a pochondry.

974
01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:00.880
You know how big a pecan tree
is huge, Well, think about two

975
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.319
and a half times at height That
tree has roots out there. So your

976
01:12:04.359 --> 01:12:09.119
neighbors three or four houses down their
tree roots are in your yard probably,

977
01:12:09.359 --> 01:12:13.760
which is another reason why we don't
use certain products that can be damaging.

978
01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:17.159
We control products canna be damaging to
trees because your trees roots are all through

979
01:12:17.239 --> 01:12:21.399
your yard. Your neighbor's trees roots
are all through your yard. So it's

980
01:12:21.439 --> 01:12:25.079
just a tip on getting your planets
started. By the way, if you

981
01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:27.800
buy a new tree and you're gonna
planet, cut the roots that are going

982
01:12:27.880 --> 01:12:31.359
around the outside. You know,
we don't want to do that because we

983
01:12:31.439 --> 01:12:34.199
think we're gonna hurt the tree if
we cut that root. But if you

984
01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:39.119
cut them, trust me, they
will resprout and grow out. One time,

985
01:12:39.159 --> 01:12:42.319
out Arbigate, working with Beverly,
I pulled a tree out, I

986
01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:44.680
cut the roots, put it back
in, came back two weeks later,

987
01:12:44.760 --> 01:12:47.000
pulled it out in fresh, new
white roots growing in all directions from that

988
01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:51.000
cut. Don't be afraid to cut
the roots on the outside. Circling roots

989
01:12:51.039 --> 01:12:55.039
to a tree no good. That's
just a little tip for the day.

990
01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:57.840
We're going to take a break now. Our phone number seven one three,

991
01:12:57.960 --> 01:13:00.560
two, one two five eight seven
for Ruth out in spring. I see.

992
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.239
You'll be first up called Josh,
and you can get on the board

993
01:13:03.239 --> 01:13:18.600
as well. Well. Good morning. It's a good, good Sunday morning.

994
01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:21.199
We're looking forward to a day this
afternoon, get a little bit of

995
01:13:21.239 --> 01:13:24.840
gardening done. I see some kind
of clouds growing out there, but I'm

996
01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:27.560
gonna go worry about those. I
think that we need to get those to

997
01:13:27.640 --> 01:13:30.119
blow away and not worry about them. It's always it's always good to get

998
01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:34.199
out and enjoy the weather. I
get the week coming up here, it's

999
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:39.680
a good time to get out and
get some I would call it therapy and

1000
01:13:39.920 --> 01:13:44.880
health enhancing time out among the plants
in the garden. Our phone number is

1001
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:48.600
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. You're listening to Garden

1002
01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:53.039
Line and we are going to head
out now to spring and talk to Ruth.

1003
01:13:53.560 --> 01:13:58.239
Good morning Ruth, Good morning Skip. I have a question along the

1004
01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:01.119
same line as what you're talking about. Um. We've I've got some new

1005
01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:06.439
fruit trees and I'm putting them in
pots, and I'm noticing all the circular

1006
01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:12.800
roots grown around. Do I break
those up somewhat and then put them in

1007
01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:15.479
the new pot or just plant them
just like they are? How big is

1008
01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:21.640
the pot across the top. How
how wide is the pot? Yeah,

1009
01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:28.880
I would just cut those circling roots
in the container so that they branch.

1010
01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:32.399
You know, with fruit trees,
it's not as important as it is with

1011
01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:38.159
large landscape trees, because a landscape
tree, you know, an eight we're

1012
01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:41.800
going to call this an eight inch
circle root going around, right, that's

1013
01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:45.359
an eight inch As it gets bigger
and bigger, maybe it starts off the

1014
01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:47.359
size of a spaghetti and the next
thing you know, it's the size of

1015
01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:51.319
your finger. And as it gets
bigger and the trunk gets bigger, the

1016
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:56.319
two come together and the root ends
up years down the line, strangling the

1017
01:14:56.439 --> 01:14:59.800
trunk of the tree. And by
the time you see the problems above and

1018
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.279
the foliage of the tree, it's
a little late to try to get that

1019
01:15:02.439 --> 01:15:05.960
embedded root out of the trunk that's
strangling it. Now, in a fruit

1020
01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:11.199
tree, we don't end up with
eight inch trunks usually, so you're probably

1021
01:15:11.279 --> 01:15:14.720
gonna be okay not cutting it.
But I on an eight inch I still

1022
01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:17.399
would. I still would. Okay, just a couple on the bottom,

1023
01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:20.920
just no anything when you when you
pull it out of the pot. Anything

1024
01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:26.680
going around that you see apply especially
though down on the bottom it's not as

1025
01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:30.439
important, but I usually will cut
some roots down there as well. Just

1026
01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:32.560
get a fresh start, and believe
me that it won't set them back much.

1027
01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:38.159
They'll take off. Awesome, good
hunt. Thank you so much.

1028
01:15:38.319 --> 01:15:41.079
Yep, yep, you bet,
you bet. Okay, thank you for

1029
01:15:41.159 --> 01:15:45.600
the call. Yeah, planting,
planting trees is it's a long term investment,

1030
01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:49.880
of course it is. So what
you want is you want something that's

1031
01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:55.439
going to last a long time and
be better with the years. When I

1032
01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:59.000
was living in Conrow, and actually
I lived up in the Willis area,

1033
01:15:59.279 --> 01:16:01.840
and a friend of mine up in
Willis, older gentleman at that time,

1034
01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:08.560
showed me a picture of his house
when they first built it. And then

1035
01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:12.600
he showed me a picture of the
house now. And they'd moved on,

1036
01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:15.840
gone to a different house, but
showed me the house now. And in

1037
01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:18.319
that old picture, and it's like
a forty year old picture, there was

1038
01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:23.439
this little scrawny tree in the front
yard and it looked basically like a broom

1039
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:26.479
handle sticking up out of the ground, I mean a one inch trunk or

1040
01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:30.960
something. And then in the second
picture, this thing is I mean,

1041
01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:36.079
it is the home. I mean
it is just beautiful spreading tree. That

1042
01:16:36.319 --> 01:16:40.479
just I mean, I don't know
how many thousand dollars it's worth in the

1043
01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:43.479
value of that property, but it's
worth a lot. Now. Why is

1044
01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:46.880
that? Well, they picked a
good variety and speak or a good species

1045
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:49.560
to plant for the area, a
tree that was going to be happy there,

1046
01:16:50.319 --> 01:16:55.159
and then they took good care of
it over the years. They took

1047
01:16:55.239 --> 01:16:58.680
good care of they planted it properly
and got it started. But the other,

1048
01:16:59.359 --> 01:17:01.920
the other thing in that secret sauce
as they did it, he didn't

1049
01:17:01.960 --> 01:17:04.680
wait twenty years to plant the tree. The best time to plant a tree

1050
01:17:04.760 --> 01:17:09.119
is the day before yesterday, right
or not? Actually the best time is

1051
01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:11.960
forty years ago. Then the second
best time is the day before yesterday.

1052
01:17:11.960 --> 01:17:15.199
And then we'll call today the third
best time. But let's get it done,

1053
01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:21.720
because they add value to your home. That combination quality species, quality

1054
01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:30.279
grown tree, and quality planting that
adds up to a long term, very

1055
01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:34.199
valuable investment. Before you just go
out and grab whatever's for sale, let's

1056
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:39.119
figure out what tree you need.
Let's do a little research. Do you

1057
01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:43.039
want evergreen or deciduous? Would you
like a tree that flowers or not?

1058
01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:47.079
Is it mainly for shade that you
want it. Those are all factors in

1059
01:17:47.199 --> 01:17:54.039
deciding. And when you know,
we talk about places you know like Verdant

1060
01:17:54.079 --> 01:17:59.680
Tree Farm for example. Vernant Tree
Farm is an excellent place to purchase your

1061
01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:02.399
plan, your trees and things.
They do a great job of growing them.

1062
01:18:02.760 --> 01:18:06.960
They know how to produce a quality
tree. And when you go out

1063
01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:11.279
and you get a tree at a
place like that, you're going to end

1064
01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:16.960
up with a quality tree, one
that's gonna last. The folks at RCW

1065
01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:21.319
Nurseries will sell you a good quality
tree as well, and you just have

1066
01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:26.199
to start with that because what most
people say is they want a fast growing

1067
01:18:26.279 --> 01:18:29.039
tree. I want I want,
I want to grow fast like I'm planet

1068
01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:32.479
today, hang a hammock tomorrow.
Right, Well, go back. Remember

1069
01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:38.039
some of you who are old enough
remember the nineteen sixties when Arizona Ash was

1070
01:18:38.159 --> 01:18:42.239
so popular, and then there's the
nineteen seventies and eighties, and by the

1071
01:18:42.359 --> 01:18:47.920
nineteen nineties whole neighborhoods of Arizona Ash
look like hat racks. They had fallen

1072
01:18:47.960 --> 01:18:51.800
apart, they'd prune limbs off,
it was butchered, it was horrible,

1073
01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:57.159
and so thirty forty years down the
line they are pulling these trees out and

1074
01:18:57.359 --> 01:19:00.680
starting over with the broomstick. What
if seat of an Arizona ash they plant

1075
01:19:00.720 --> 01:19:04.920
it a quality tree, so fast
is not the most important thing. There

1076
01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:09.479
are some species that are faster than
others, and we got we got some

1077
01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:12.840
good quality trees. But the way
you care for it has to do with

1078
01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:16.720
fast too. Right. Plant a
quality tree that's a reasonable growth right,

1079
01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:20.319
take care of it right, and
you will be way ahead in the long

1080
01:19:20.439 --> 01:19:27.560
run. Don't be duped. It's
I cringe when I see these advertisements for

1081
01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:30.960
some tree that grows ten feet a
year. You know it's it's some fast

1082
01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:33.880
growing tree. Put these words in
your head, grow fast, die young.

1083
01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:40.359
That's that's pretty much the case for
those kind of trash trees. They

1084
01:19:40.520 --> 01:19:44.760
just aren't going to give you the
quality that you want. So anyway,

1085
01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:47.119
I'm ranting and raving, but I
like to do that. I think it's

1086
01:19:47.359 --> 01:19:51.680
a topic worth renting and raving because
if I if I talk one person into

1087
01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:57.199
planning a good quality tree that has
been grown right from someone that knows what

1088
01:19:57.239 --> 01:20:00.800
they're doing, the right species at
the right time, I'm the right way.

1089
01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:06.800
I think we have accomplished something that
It's an honorable thing to plant a

1090
01:20:06.920 --> 01:20:13.039
tree under whose shade you will never
set, but your kids and your grandkids

1091
01:20:13.119 --> 01:20:15.239
will, and if you ever sell
the house, it's going to be a

1092
01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:21.520
valuable asset to your home as well
well. Our phone number is seven one

1093
01:20:21.680 --> 01:20:28.840
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1094
01:20:28.880 --> 01:20:30.880
eight seventy four. You can give
us a call here on garden line.

1095
01:20:31.359 --> 01:20:34.399
If you don't follow us on Facebook, encourage you to follow us on Facebook.

1096
01:20:34.439 --> 01:20:40.199
Two. We have regular postings up
there where you can see things that

1097
01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:45.600
are going on in the community.
I'm a little neglecting doing more of the

1098
01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:47.800
educational postings on there, and I'm
going to try to get that fixed because

1099
01:20:47.840 --> 01:20:51.760
we need to be putting those up
as well. Little tips that you can

1100
01:20:51.800 --> 01:20:57.159
share with your friends, things to
give you success or maybe explain a problem

1101
01:20:57.159 --> 01:21:00.279
a little bit better so you can
understand exactly what you need to do for

1102
01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:06.640
it. That's that's kind of the
whole deal right there. So back on

1103
01:21:06.760 --> 01:21:11.640
the tree on the tree comments.
First of all, we got some calls

1104
01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:15.439
coming in. I'm gonna Randy and
North Houston. I'm gonna let you hold

1105
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:16.359
just for a second here. We're
about to go to break, and I

1106
01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:20.720
want to be able to have enough
time to do service to your questions or

1107
01:21:20.720 --> 01:21:25.640
a couple of others coming on.
If you'd like to get online, it's

1108
01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:29.760
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. If you give Josh

1109
01:21:29.800 --> 01:21:32.359
a call, he will get you
on the board and we will be able

1110
01:21:32.399 --> 01:21:35.520
to visit with you when we when
we come back from break. So,

1111
01:21:36.079 --> 01:21:40.079
uh, today's a good day to
go out shopping for a tree to go

1112
01:21:40.279 --> 01:21:43.119
visit. Go buy one of those
places, pick a tree out, get

1113
01:21:43.159 --> 01:21:45.319
it ordered, get it planted.
If it's a little bitty, If it's

1114
01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:48.520
a little a small tree you can
pick up and carry, that's fine,

1115
01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:51.079
you can do it yourself. But
if it's getting bigger, I say,

1116
01:21:51.119 --> 01:21:55.600
even thirty gallons is kind of hard
to manage. You need to get a

1117
01:21:55.640 --> 01:21:58.199
professional to take care of that.
You know what, Randy, I think

1118
01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:00.159
I am going to have time to
get your call. I'm gonna go ahead

1119
01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:03.600
and head out to North Houston and
we're gonna talk to Randy. Hello,

1120
01:22:03.720 --> 01:22:08.159
guy, how are you doing.
Hey, I'm good. Good talking to

1121
01:22:08.239 --> 01:22:10.279
you. Skip. Yes, Hey, I've got a question. Um,

1122
01:22:10.359 --> 01:22:15.840
I was planning on planting a magnolia
tree out in the front part of my

1123
01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:21.920
yard between my drive, between my
driveway and my neighbors, it's a strip

1124
01:22:23.039 --> 01:22:28.560
of about probably about eight feet wide, okay, and uh just wanted to

1125
01:22:28.760 --> 01:22:34.840
know if that's an okay place full
fun to plan a magnolia tree. Well,

1126
01:22:34.880 --> 01:22:39.720
the sun is good. Eight foot
is kind of minimal. I would

1127
01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:45.239
definitely go with a magnolia that's a
more compact growing form. Uh. There

1128
01:22:45.399 --> 01:22:48.960
is little gem there is uh is
it called teddy Bear? I believe is

1129
01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:51.119
one. There's several of them out
there. And when you go to a

1130
01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:55.720
good tree tree place, you're gonna
they're gonna tell you what selections they carry

1131
01:22:56.159 --> 01:22:59.800
that If it's only eight feet though, that only gives it four feet to

1132
01:22:59.880 --> 01:23:03.600
either sidewalk right and and that right
that worries me a little bit. There

1133
01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:08.840
are things you can put in the
ground to direct the roots downward so they

1134
01:23:08.920 --> 01:23:12.520
don't go right under the sidewalk,
because that's how they do damage. A

1135
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:15.319
little route grows bigger in time and
the sidewalk lifts up, and so we

1136
01:23:15.399 --> 01:23:19.119
want to avoid that. So I'm
I'm kind of on the fence for even

1137
01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:25.239
a dwarf type magnolia in that area. But it is possible, but you

1138
01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:29.840
might want to look into some kind
of special uh you know, work to

1139
01:23:29.960 --> 01:23:34.119
have done to direct those roots down. How would I how would I direct

1140
01:23:34.119 --> 01:23:38.079
the roots down? Skift? Well, it's a barrier they put underground.

1141
01:23:38.119 --> 01:23:41.359
It's they don't trans and put a
vertical barrier in it. It's it's a

1142
01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:45.159
little bit of a job to do
that. But anyway, that's my thinking

1143
01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:46.920
for a long time. You won't
have a problem. I'm just thinking twenty

1144
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:51.279
years down the line, thirty years. I'm just not sure. Okay,

1145
01:23:53.359 --> 01:23:57.640
gotcha? Would would a cypress tree
be a bed of choice? Definitely?

1146
01:23:57.720 --> 01:24:00.800
Not No, not not a cypress
and location. Hey, I'm gonna have

1147
01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.720
to run to an ad Okay,
but thank you for the question. Uh

1148
01:24:05.039 --> 01:24:10.279
Mario, clear Lake Mark, clear
Lake City. We will be there very

1149
01:24:10.359 --> 01:24:28.079
soon when we come back here.
First stop, don't you cry? Well,

1150
01:24:28.159 --> 01:24:31.279
good Sunday morning, on a good
day and a great day for gardening

1151
01:24:31.760 --> 01:24:36.199
this afternoon. Get out there and
do a little bit of the things you're

1152
01:24:36.279 --> 01:24:40.720
planning. Look out the window,
where do you need some color? Stand

1153
01:24:40.800 --> 01:24:43.439
in front of the lawn or in
front of the house, look around and

1154
01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:46.239
and just assess your your landscape.
Just take a look at it. You

1155
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:50.359
know, when I drive around town, I always look at landscapes and notice

1156
01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:54.920
things like, oh, that's an
interesting way they created that bed. Or

1157
01:24:55.000 --> 01:24:58.600
I like the way they decorated you
know the bed borders with that. Or

1158
01:24:58.880 --> 01:25:03.039
you know this plant that they've used
that's a unique feature. Learn from that

1159
01:25:03.199 --> 01:25:06.239
and take it home, put it
into practice in your yard. You're listening

1160
01:25:06.279 --> 01:25:10.600
to garden Line. I'm the host, Skip Ricter seven one three two one

1161
01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:14.920
two five eight seven four, and
we're going to go to clear Lake City

1162
01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:17.720
and talk to Mark. Hello.
Mark, Hello, sir. I thought

1163
01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:20.359
it was going to be the second
one from Clearly Well, I don't know.

1164
01:25:20.520 --> 01:25:25.039
Somehow I grabbed you first, So
that's okay. I hope it don't

1165
01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:29.119
offend a guy that should have been
first before I ask my questions. The

1166
01:25:29.920 --> 01:25:33.720
caller back was talking about magnolia between
driveways. Yes, and I have called

1167
01:25:33.760 --> 01:25:38.399
you about magnolia leaves before. I
would hardly recommend that he gets one of

1168
01:25:38.439 --> 01:25:43.760
the best leaf vacuums he can find
on the market. Okay, that's a

1169
01:25:43.800 --> 01:25:47.119
good point. They do have the
seasonal drop, don't they. Well,

1170
01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:50.039
yeah, and for me, it's
three hundred and sixty five days a year.

1171
01:25:50.319 --> 01:25:57.439
It's incredible. For years now,
I've been confused by the units of

1172
01:25:57.560 --> 01:26:01.800
measure for pots from bags of soil, fertilizer, stuff like that. They

1173
01:26:01.880 --> 01:26:09.479
have, for instance, an eight
inch pot. You have quartz and gallons

1174
01:26:09.960 --> 01:26:14.640
in bags of soil and fertilizer,
and I don't know how to make the

1175
01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:17.720
conversion. I can take a tapered
pot and I can figure out based on

1176
01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:23.119
the measure of the top in the
bottom and if slungs it straight sides,

1177
01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:29.560
calculate how many cubic inches or cubic
feet that pot will hold. But quartz

1178
01:26:29.800 --> 01:26:33.520
and gallons, you know how,
I'm at a loss. Where can I

1179
01:26:33.600 --> 01:26:40.279
go to get a conversion table or
a way of making that version. There

1180
01:26:40.359 --> 01:26:45.680
are some of those online, and
a ball seed company used to have one

1181
01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:49.239
online. I'm sure there's others.
Now. I would do a Google search

1182
01:26:49.800 --> 01:26:59.279
for container plant container conversions and see
you may try putting ball seed in there.

1183
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:02.479
But there there are charts like that, And yes, it is confusing,

1184
01:27:02.920 --> 01:27:05.840
and one at one point we're talking
about how many inches and the next

1185
01:27:05.880 --> 01:27:10.720
point we're talking about quartz and uh, and then sometimes they throw in the

1186
01:27:10.800 --> 01:27:14.920
number that's a number two pot or
whatever, and so if ye too,

1187
01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:18.079
Yeah, so that that's what I
would do. You know, I don't.

1188
01:27:18.399 --> 01:27:23.199
I can't talk and Google at the
same time, but if I could,

1189
01:27:23.239 --> 01:27:26.800
i'd look for one for you.
But they are there. You might

1190
01:27:27.159 --> 01:27:30.600
if you don't have success, you
might try. Well, I would just

1191
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:33.840
do it that way. I would
do plant plant container sizes conversions. Now,

1192
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:36.800
well, I've tried. I've tried
doing that, but apparently I'm used

1193
01:27:36.840 --> 01:27:41.880
to write keywords. I haven't found
something that says if if I can find

1194
01:27:41.960 --> 01:27:44.640
something, I will post it to
our Facebook page. How about that,

1195
01:27:45.760 --> 01:27:46.800
you say you'll do? What would
it? If I find it, I

1196
01:27:46.840 --> 01:27:51.800
will post it to the garden Line
Facebook page. Oh, I'm not a

1197
01:27:51.840 --> 01:27:56.520
Facebook user or any other place you
can put it. Let's see. I

1198
01:27:56.680 --> 01:27:59.159
will mention it next week on the
air. How about that? If I

1199
01:27:59.359 --> 01:28:02.600
find You're going to be in clear
Lake on the twenty seventh, is that?

1200
01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:05.720
What time is it going to start? At? Eleven thirty to one

1201
01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:09.960
thirty, And I'll be at wild
Birds Unlimited. It's a new wild Birds

1202
01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:12.279
store down there. I'm really excited
to go see it. I haven't been

1203
01:28:12.319 --> 01:28:15.560
down to the clear Lake store yet. They haven't been opened that long.

1204
01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:18.000
But no, it's just not in
his grand opening is the week before you

1205
01:28:18.319 --> 01:28:20.560
Yes, you go, he said, it's soft opening. Now. Yeah,

1206
01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:24.600
we'll be talking about that a lot
going forward as we get a little

1207
01:28:24.600 --> 01:28:27.560
closer to her. Thank you very
much, sir, Thank you Mark.

1208
01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:30.840
I appreciate the call. Thank here. All right, let's now I'll talk

1209
01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:35.279
to Mario and clear Lake. Hey
Mario, actually Mark had called in about

1210
01:28:35.279 --> 01:28:41.199
a minute and a half before you
did, so that's no problem on the

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01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:45.039
skip. I have really two questions. The second one occurred to me after

1212
01:28:45.159 --> 01:28:50.000
I spoke to your producer. First
question is I have what I believe to

1213
01:28:50.199 --> 01:28:57.239
be mildew on some knockdown roses.
And I noticed it in early April,

1214
01:28:57.399 --> 01:29:00.239
and I thought my garden folks had
treated it, but apparently they didn't.

1215
01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:05.039
And I'm wondering, given the length
of time, whether it's too late to

1216
01:29:05.119 --> 01:29:11.000
do anything about it. Is it
like a white material on the leaf surface,

1217
01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:15.079
and are or the leaves kind of
twisted and their growth has Yeah,

1218
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:21.600
they kind of shriveled up and it's
a knockout rose. Yeah, I did

1219
01:29:21.640 --> 01:29:27.119
not know knockouts had that kind of
a problem with powdery mildew. Well,

1220
01:29:27.239 --> 01:29:30.399
I could be a mistakes. Maybe
they're not knockout, but I thought they

1221
01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:32.399
were. Yeah, okay, well
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if

1222
01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:35.560
you use. If you use kneem
oil, just don't do it on a

1223
01:29:35.640 --> 01:29:39.920
hot sunny day baking down to the
leaves. But kneem oil is a very

1224
01:29:39.960 --> 01:29:44.800
good powdery mildew control spread spread on
the plants, and you just have to

1225
01:29:44.960 --> 01:29:47.800
coat them because it only kills the
pot of mildew if you fully coat the

1226
01:29:47.880 --> 01:29:54.600
leaf, otherwise the spots that remain
unaffected. Also, you can use a

1227
01:29:54.640 --> 01:30:00.920
product containing bailaton bay L E T
O N. And we are hitting a

1228
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:03.680
hard, hard break here. Do
you want to hang on to continue the

1229
01:30:03.800 --> 01:30:08.439
discussion or did that cover it?
That covers it? But real quickly.

1230
01:30:08.520 --> 01:30:12.039
I had a Japanese maple that got
hit real hard and to freeze, and

1231
01:30:12.239 --> 01:30:15.119
my gardener's cut it down, actually
cut off the top of the thing,

1232
01:30:15.319 --> 01:30:18.720
well more than the top, about
two thirds of it, and it's growing

1233
01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:21.840
up like a bush. What what
can you tell me about? So when

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01:30:21.880 --> 01:30:25.520
I come back from break, I
will I will answer that one for you.

1235
01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:29.560
Mario. We let's say you're listening
to the garden line seven one three

1236
01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:32.800
two one two fifty eight seventy four, and we'll be right back from a

1237
01:30:32.920 --> 01:30:47.199
break. Good morning on a good
day for gardening. We are going to

1238
01:30:47.319 --> 01:30:51.520
head back out. I believe Mario
is still there from a clear lake and

1239
01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:58.520
go ahead. And you were saying
you had a Japanese that was now a

1240
01:30:58.560 --> 01:31:02.319
bush right now, I said maple
mistakenly. It was a blueberry. Japanese

1241
01:31:02.359 --> 01:31:06.119
blueberry, definitely. Yeah, it
was that body feet tall. It was

1242
01:31:06.159 --> 01:31:10.720
beautiful, and then the freeze really
hit it. Yeah, that's a problem

1243
01:31:10.760 --> 01:31:15.399
with that. My gardeners cut it
the top off, actually two thirds of

1244
01:31:15.479 --> 01:31:19.600
it, and so I have a
kind of like a free foot dub and

1245
01:31:19.720 --> 01:31:24.600
the leaves are growing now. Yeah. So and I expect you can kind

1246
01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:26.319
of do what you want to do. I mean you can, you can

1247
01:31:26.399 --> 01:31:30.119
do some sharing to try to reform
it into what you want. It sounds

1248
01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:32.279
like you still have one trunk coming
out of the ground and then there's a

1249
01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:36.119
lot of branching going on from where
they cut it off. Yes, that's

1250
01:31:36.239 --> 01:31:39.640
right. Yeah, So I would
just say shape it like you want.

1251
01:31:39.720 --> 01:31:41.720
It kind of is what it is, you know. I mean, we

1252
01:31:41.840 --> 01:31:45.880
wish that that hadn't happened and died
back, but you could pick a branch

1253
01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:47.960
or two or three to go up
and kind of form the center again.

1254
01:31:48.359 --> 01:31:55.239
But by doing some frequent sharing you
can help form that shape that you're looking

1255
01:31:55.319 --> 01:31:58.359
for and get it back back in
shape. Otherwise it's gonna be pretty rangy

1256
01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:02.439
going in all directions right now,
Kim, Will it grow as tall as

1257
01:32:02.479 --> 01:32:08.239
it was when I had that trunk
that went up, like I say about

1258
01:32:08.279 --> 01:32:13.039
eight eat or so, well,
yeah, yes it will. But as

1259
01:32:13.079 --> 01:32:16.800
you spread the growth out over multiple
trunks, it's gonna want to it's going

1260
01:32:16.880 --> 01:32:23.079
to be more of a wider rather
than taller bush, just because you know

1261
01:32:23.159 --> 01:32:26.960
the top tall part has been lost
and now you've got multiple branches sprouting.

1262
01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:30.800
But if you shaped it, you
could theoretically get it back up to where

1263
01:32:30.840 --> 01:32:33.439
it was, as long as we
don't have enough cold hard winterer. Oh

1264
01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:36.399
great, that's good dude. All
right, Well, yep, looking forward

1265
01:32:36.439 --> 01:32:41.399
to seeing you over it in clear
Lake when you come up on the twenty

1266
01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:44.359
seventh. We've been over to that
store to don't like a little location.

1267
01:32:44.560 --> 01:32:46.960
They all are. I love I
love Wahlberg. I appreciate that, and

1268
01:32:47.079 --> 01:32:49.760
thank you, thank you for the
call. I'm looking forward Saturday to twenty

1269
01:32:49.840 --> 01:32:55.840
seventh. Being out there, let
me ask you a question, speaking to

1270
01:32:55.920 --> 01:33:00.680
you everybody listening, or do you
consider yourself a compassionate person? I would

1271
01:33:00.720 --> 01:33:03.920
think you do. I drive through
Houston and I see people that are on

1272
01:33:04.039 --> 01:33:10.159
street corners asking for help. I
know there's a significant homeless problem, in

1273
01:33:10.239 --> 01:33:15.239
the nearly homeless problem in a community, But I don't think that the face

1274
01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:19.840
of homelessness is what you may think
it is. The face of homelessness may

1275
01:33:19.880 --> 01:33:24.399
be a mom living in a car
with her kids. For whatever horrible reason,

1276
01:33:24.520 --> 01:33:28.720
She's found herself in that situation and
she just needs to get on her

1277
01:33:28.760 --> 01:33:32.119
feet and get a job. The
face of homelessness may be a man who

1278
01:33:32.279 --> 01:33:38.000
had a really well paying job,
and you know, sometimes we tend to

1279
01:33:38.039 --> 01:33:42.600
be a paycheck or two away from
broke and lose a job, a couple

1280
01:33:42.680 --> 01:33:45.840
of strokes of hard luck, and
now you've got a person that once had

1281
01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:47.119
it all together, and now he's
just trying to put her all back to

1282
01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:51.159
piece, all the pieces back in
place. Star of Hope. Does that

1283
01:33:51.479 --> 01:33:56.960
Star of Hope mission serves Harris Fort
Ben, Brazoria, Montgomery County. Do

1284
01:33:57.039 --> 01:34:00.800
you know they feed almost a thousand
people a day They have vans. Their

1285
01:34:00.880 --> 01:34:04.319
Love and Action vans go out and
they're reaching out to people with prayer and

1286
01:34:04.399 --> 01:34:09.560
shelter and recovery programs giving them a
hope of a future out on the street.

1287
01:34:10.079 --> 01:34:14.720
People can come in to both the
homeless men, women and children.

1288
01:34:15.039 --> 01:34:18.319
They can stay up to a year
as they focus on having their life changed,

1289
01:34:18.680 --> 01:34:24.119
education, employment, spiritual growth,
how to manage life and money,

1290
01:34:24.279 --> 01:34:28.560
substance abuse. This is life changing
stuff. If you want to give a

1291
01:34:28.680 --> 01:34:30.800
dollar, don't just hand it to
a person on a corner. That's a

1292
01:34:30.840 --> 01:34:34.720
whole new set of stories as to
where that usually ends up. Give it

1293
01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:40.119
to a place like Star of Hope, where there's true training, true hope,

1294
01:34:40.199 --> 01:34:44.000
true accountability and a chance for a
new a new life. Do you

1295
01:34:44.079 --> 01:34:46.800
know they feed more than six thousand
meals a week. For two dollars and

1296
01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:50.399
eighty cents, you can provide a
meal that's the cost of a cup of

1297
01:34:50.439 --> 01:34:57.880
coffee. Go to Shmission dot org
Store of Hopemission, do sh mission dot

1298
01:34:57.960 --> 01:35:02.760
org and learn more. I urge
you to support Star of Hope. I

1299
01:35:03.000 --> 01:35:08.000
uh you know years ago, we
my wife and I with our church used

1300
01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:11.840
to come and work with Starvhope downtown
and the last time I visited. The

1301
01:35:11.920 --> 01:35:16.039
new facilities are like, oh,
my goodness, this makes the difference,

1302
01:35:16.239 --> 01:35:19.399
you know, instead of just a
here's here's lunch for a day, good

1303
01:35:19.479 --> 01:35:23.760
luck, I feel better now.
I gave something. You're part of a

1304
01:35:23.880 --> 01:35:28.039
partnership that is changing lives and truly
giving people hope. And I think that

1305
01:35:28.159 --> 01:35:30.439
kind of compassion is in all of
us. Uh And I just can't I

1306
01:35:30.520 --> 01:35:34.199
can't say enough for what I believe
in, and that is a star of

1307
01:35:34.239 --> 01:35:39.119
hope. Mission. Well, my
goodness, we've talked about all kinds of

1308
01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:44.039
flamp stuff today here on garden Line. I want to remind you that next

1309
01:35:44.119 --> 01:35:46.399
Saturday, from eleven thirty to one
thirty, I will be at Arbourgate,

1310
01:35:46.479 --> 01:35:49.800
the day before Mother's Day. Bring
your mom. I want to meet you.

1311
01:35:49.920 --> 01:35:53.960
I want to meet your mom too. You can find out more information

1312
01:35:54.159 --> 01:35:57.880
if you if you want to type
in info at start at Arburgate dot com.

1313
01:35:58.079 --> 01:36:02.560
Info at Arburgate dot com for more
information. But just go online to

1314
01:36:02.720 --> 01:36:08.560
Arburgate dot com. You can see
the amazing stuff they have to offer.

1315
01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:13.119
And I promise when you go and
shop with your mom, it's gonna be

1316
01:36:13.159 --> 01:36:16.399
the greatest Christmas gift you can imagine
if she's a gardener, Oh my goodness.

1317
01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:20.800
In fact, there's no limit to
what you can do if she doesn't

1318
01:36:20.840 --> 01:36:26.119
care about plants but just likes pretty
things, fragrances for inside the home,

1319
01:36:26.479 --> 01:36:30.239
you know, some beautiful art,
something to put in the yard. It

1320
01:36:30.399 --> 01:36:33.640
just goes on and on. And
that's Arburgate that that's who they've always been

1321
01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:39.159
out there. It's a show place. So next Saturday, eleven thirty to

1322
01:36:39.239 --> 01:36:42.239
one thirty, and urge you to
come out. If you've got some plant

1323
01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:44.560
samples, bring them in a bag. Please keep them in a bag.

1324
01:36:44.800 --> 01:36:47.199
If your insects and plants, I'll
take a look at them. Take pictures

1325
01:36:47.239 --> 01:36:51.119
on your phone of things. Want
to identify this. I want to diagnose

1326
01:36:51.239 --> 01:36:54.479
that. Here's an area of my
lawn. I want to I want to

1327
01:36:54.560 --> 01:36:57.840
do something different in look at these
garden plants are not doing good? What

1328
01:36:57.960 --> 01:37:01.399
can we do? Just good,
sharp focused pictures and we can help.

1329
01:37:01.760 --> 01:37:05.560
We can provide that kind of advice. And I always love getting out and

1330
01:37:05.720 --> 01:37:10.520
meeting the folks. So everybody way
up north, you know, conro the

1331
01:37:11.279 --> 01:37:16.800
over and can't even say tomball,
thank you. I got the word tomball

1332
01:37:16.800 --> 01:37:19.359
and stuck out of my head further
north. Other than that, I know

1333
01:37:19.439 --> 01:37:24.760
we have people drive down from Brian
Collers stationery even to come down to arbigrate

1334
01:37:24.840 --> 01:37:27.720
the shop. I hope you'll come
out and see me there. Look forward

1335
01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:31.000
to visiting with you. In the
meantime, we got one more hour in

1336
01:37:31.079 --> 01:37:33.680
the books, so if you'd like
to be on the air, here's your

1337
01:37:33.760 --> 01:37:39.520
last shot for a week seven one
three, two, one two fifty eight

1338
01:37:39.800 --> 01:37:42.960
seventy four. Give Josh your call. All you gotta tell him your name

1339
01:37:43.359 --> 01:37:45.479
and basically what it is you're calling
about. You know that he doesn't need

1340
01:37:45.560 --> 01:37:48.159
to have the whole description. He
can't type all that in for me,

1341
01:37:48.520 --> 01:37:55.119
so just the basic one phrase,
one one set of words is to what

1342
01:37:55.239 --> 01:37:58.119
it is that you're curious about.
He'll get you on the board and when

1343
01:37:58.159 --> 01:38:01.199
we come back from break then you
and I can visit at that time.

1344
01:38:14.000 --> 01:38:17.479
Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

1345
01:38:17.479 --> 01:38:25.079
on this program. Welcome to ktr
H Garden Line with Scarre Rictord. So

1346
01:38:32.399 --> 01:38:47.159
just watching as well. Good morning, nice Sunday morning. It's not a

1347
01:38:47.239 --> 01:38:50.800
little rain passing through, but I'm
still gonna be able to get outside some

1348
01:38:53.000 --> 01:39:00.359
I enjoy enjoy days like this such
balmy nice weather. Hey're let's into the

1349
01:39:00.359 --> 01:39:02.600
Garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and our phone number if

1350
01:39:02.640 --> 01:39:08.279
you would like to call in is
seven one three two one two five eight

1351
01:39:08.560 --> 01:39:12.680
seven four. We're entering our last
hour for this morning. Be back again

1352
01:39:13.279 --> 01:39:15.399
next Saturday. By the way,
we're every Saturday, every Sunday. If

1353
01:39:15.399 --> 01:39:19.920
you're not familiar with Garden Line from
six am to ten am, so you

1354
01:39:20.039 --> 01:39:23.960
can tell your neighbors about it.
You know that neighbor that doesn't take care

1355
01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:28.520
of their yard. Maybe just kind
of subtle hint, just a interesting radio

1356
01:39:28.560 --> 01:39:31.399
show you might like. And once
they start listening, we'll tell them to

1357
01:39:31.479 --> 01:39:34.039
straighten up and get everything going in
the yard. Take care of that yard,

1358
01:39:34.119 --> 01:39:39.439
right so it looks good. You
get the idea well, talking about

1359
01:39:39.840 --> 01:39:45.319
gardening and stuff that the vegetable garden. Our vegetable gardens are really zooming along

1360
01:39:45.439 --> 01:39:49.479
right now, tomatoes or producing and
things are looking pretty good. I'm getting

1361
01:39:49.520 --> 01:39:56.560
quite a few emails and calls at
the Agri Live Extension office. But also

1362
01:39:56.720 --> 01:40:00.439
you know here on Garden Line,
we get these kinds of questions that where

1363
01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:03.239
tomato leaves are twisting up you know, the new growth up at the top

1364
01:40:03.279 --> 01:40:08.279
of the plant is just abnormal looking. It's not growing right, and the

1365
01:40:08.359 --> 01:40:11.119
question is what's doing that and what
I do about it? Well, there's

1366
01:40:11.479 --> 01:40:15.880
two typical common causes for that.
One of them is that the plant has

1367
01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:19.239
a virus, and a virus is
incurable and a tomato, so once you

1368
01:40:19.359 --> 01:40:21.920
have it, you get rid of
the tomato quickly, pull it up,

1369
01:40:23.000 --> 01:40:27.119
get rid of it, because an
insect will feed on that plant, ingest

1370
01:40:27.239 --> 01:40:30.960
the virus and then go feed on
other plants of tomatoes that don't have that

1371
01:40:31.159 --> 01:40:34.960
virus and inject it into them,
and so it spreads that way, so

1372
01:40:35.119 --> 01:40:41.319
you rogue those out. The other
thing is broad leaf herbicide damage. If

1373
01:40:41.439 --> 01:40:45.720
you use a broad leaf herbicide and
get some on those plants, or in

1374
01:40:45.800 --> 01:40:49.680
the real warm summertime as the weather
there's some of those products can volatilize and

1375
01:40:49.760 --> 01:40:55.960
just drift and that drift have an
effect on them. But what typically happens

1376
01:40:56.199 --> 01:41:00.880
is people use manure from pastures that
we're treated with brush killer products. Certain

1377
01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:03.880
ones are so persistent they go through
the cow, they sit there in the

1378
01:41:03.960 --> 01:41:08.359
parlia maneure for months, and then
you put it on your garden, and

1379
01:41:08.439 --> 01:41:12.920
they still affect your garden, especially
sensitive plants like a tomato. Another way

1380
01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:15.479
we get that is through hay.
The same thing a pastures treated to kill

1381
01:41:15.520 --> 01:41:20.239
the brush on that hay now as
that ingredient, and so you multure tomatoes

1382
01:41:20.239 --> 01:41:24.279
and you get it that way.
So those are the two common causes.

1383
01:41:24.479 --> 01:41:26.800
Neither one of them has a cure. Both of them. You pull it

1384
01:41:26.920 --> 01:41:30.479
up and you move on. Well, our phone number seven one three two

1385
01:41:30.560 --> 01:41:34.640
one two five eight seven four,
and we're going to head right out to

1386
01:41:34.760 --> 01:41:40.800
Passadena and talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, good morning. How are

1387
01:41:40.880 --> 01:41:44.279
you this morning? Well? Thank
you? How could we help? I

1388
01:41:44.479 --> 01:41:50.399
definitely need help. About three weeks
ago I put image all in one long

1389
01:41:50.800 --> 01:41:57.840
weed killer on my front yard,
which happens to be San Augustine with weeds,

1390
01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:03.600
won't harm lawns, kills one hundred
plus weeds. Well, my front

1391
01:42:03.680 --> 01:42:09.520
yard is dying. And I look
on the back in very small print,

1392
01:42:10.880 --> 01:42:18.439
not even under directions, and it
says not for Saint Augustine grass. So

1393
01:42:18.600 --> 01:42:26.880
I'm just wondering what I can do. I can see that it's killed.

1394
01:42:27.439 --> 01:42:33.840
Part of the lawn on top it's
yellow. But when we go out and

1395
01:42:34.000 --> 01:42:41.720
we pull we still have roots.
So I'm just not sure what to do.

1396
01:42:42.279 --> 01:42:45.319
I don't know if there's anything I
can do except just sit by and

1397
01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:51.079
wait. Yeah, the I think
it's a Quinn Clark in that product that

1398
01:42:51.319 --> 01:42:55.720
is so so damaging to the Saint
Augustine's. Some'm turf can take it,

1399
01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:59.079
but Saint Augustine kent. But you
know, it takes us back to here

1400
01:42:59.119 --> 01:43:00.880
we go. The label, you
know, you always have to check it

1401
01:43:01.000 --> 01:43:10.079
carefully because the right absolutely enough.
I'm so sorry I call myself reading the

1402
01:43:10.159 --> 01:43:15.640
whole thing, um, you know, but but in very small print.

1403
01:43:15.760 --> 01:43:17.760
I mean, it's the last thing
that you see on this Yeah, and

1404
01:43:17.920 --> 01:43:24.640
I can't it's so small. I
can't see dis ingredient. Um. It

1405
01:43:24.800 --> 01:43:29.720
begins with them as it looks like
sulf or something self Intrizona and Quinnclorac or

1406
01:43:29.760 --> 01:43:33.279
the ingredients and image all in one. Uh. And I've grapped about this

1407
01:43:33.439 --> 01:43:36.960
before. But these companies that have
a product that's well known, then they

1408
01:43:38.239 --> 01:43:42.039
make other products with different ingredients and
they put the same name on it.

1409
01:43:42.520 --> 01:43:46.760
Like not all images are these two
ingredients. The standard image was a completely

1410
01:43:46.800 --> 01:43:50.479
different ingredient. The same thing as
a roundup. There's a roundup that you

1411
01:43:50.560 --> 01:43:54.920
spray on your lawn for broad leaf
wheat. Well, roundup kills everything,

1412
01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:57.520
right, Well, not this one. It's a different mix. And I

1413
01:43:57.560 --> 01:44:00.640
don't know why they put the same
name on them. I can't believe they

1414
01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:03.399
don't have a lot of issues with
people doing like you're describing. Can I

1415
01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:10.960
like a big box or something,
or were tractors supply? Okay, well

1416
01:44:11.119 --> 01:44:14.640
you know this is I'll just give
you, give me just a soapbox moment.

1417
01:44:15.039 --> 01:44:18.800
This is why we love those independent
home garden centers because that would they

1418
01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:23.159
would not have sent you home with
this product. They know what they're talking

1419
01:44:23.199 --> 01:44:26.039
about. So anyway, but what
do you do now? What you do

1420
01:44:26.199 --> 01:44:30.439
now is rake up the dead materials
best you can. I'd give it a

1421
01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:32.239
little bit of time, you know, a few weeks before you reside,

1422
01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:34.760
But go ahead, and then you're
going to have to reside. Now,

1423
01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:39.920
if you've got living sprigs of grass
every foot or so, you can coax

1424
01:44:40.000 --> 01:44:43.640
it back in to refill. But
I suspect you got much bigger areas than

1425
01:44:43.720 --> 01:44:47.000
that. I think we do.
In part of it, we can see

1426
01:44:47.039 --> 01:44:51.119
that some of it looks like it's
going to survive. I didn't I didn't

1427
01:44:51.159 --> 01:44:56.199
get it down to the route or
whatever. Okay, But I'm just wonder

1428
01:44:56.239 --> 01:45:00.680
if there's anything else that I should
you know, as m there anything else

1429
01:45:00.760 --> 01:45:02.720
that I should do. None of
it out, Yeah, none of the

1430
01:45:02.800 --> 01:45:09.159
good lawn and garden fertilizers and nutrient
things are going to fix what's there now,

1431
01:45:09.680 --> 01:45:13.680
once it's covers what is able to
recover and start to grow. Yes,

1432
01:45:13.840 --> 01:45:17.199
those products are helpful now. It
probably wouldn't hurt if you could do

1433
01:45:17.439 --> 01:45:23.159
a compost top dressing if you feel
like you have enough soil to be I

1434
01:45:23.239 --> 01:45:27.680
mean enough living grass to be worth
trying to recover, well, putting all

1435
01:45:27.720 --> 01:45:31.640
that microbial activity up there at the
surface and kind of helping that grass as

1436
01:45:31.720 --> 01:45:35.520
it tries to recover to be able
to get going. And the compost top

1437
01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:41.399
dressing also would would shade the bare
areas of the lawn a little bit to

1438
01:45:41.479 --> 01:45:45.600
cut down on weeds. Obviously weeds
are already a problem. But I don't

1439
01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:49.680
want to say that like that top
dressing is going to fix the chemical damage

1440
01:45:49.800 --> 01:45:54.319
to your turf gress. It's not. We're just trying to get it going,

1441
01:45:54.359 --> 01:46:00.000
and I suspect you're probably gonna need
to do some resotting and at least

1442
01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:04.920
parts of it, I think so. And watering really is not going to

1443
01:46:05.119 --> 01:46:08.960
make the chemical bull away, No
it's not. It's just going to be

1444
01:46:09.000 --> 01:46:11.800
a matter of time. And Mary, I appreciate that call, and I

1445
01:46:11.840 --> 01:46:13.920
have to take a break, but
thank you for the call, and I

1446
01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:17.039
wish you well with the lawn.
For other folks that are listening. Another

1447
01:46:17.159 --> 01:46:21.359
reason why we go to a quality
garden center and knows what they're talking about,

1448
01:46:21.439 --> 01:46:26.680
so that we don't have to be
the chemical expert knowing everything. They

1449
01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:30.039
guide us and the label guides us, and we avoid situations like this.

1450
01:46:44.880 --> 01:46:47.880
Well, good morning, it's gonna
be a good Sunday morning, and it

1451
01:46:48.079 --> 01:46:51.000
is a good day to be outside
once we get past this little rain.

1452
01:46:51.359 --> 01:46:57.199
A little cloudy right now, but
it's the temperature just perfect to be out

1453
01:46:57.239 --> 01:47:00.560
there. Hey, you're listening to
garden Line, don't you give us a

1454
01:47:00.560 --> 01:47:03.600
call? Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. This is

1455
01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:09.439
our last hour for today. We'll
be back till next Saturday, So here's

1456
01:47:09.479 --> 01:47:12.520
a good time to ask those questions. I just want to remind you that

1457
01:47:12.800 --> 01:47:16.640
on Saturday, next Saturday, I
will be at Arbor Gate from eleven thirty

1458
01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:19.840
to one thirty. I hope you'll
come out. Beverley and the folks out

1459
01:47:19.840 --> 01:47:25.039
at Arbourgates. They're gonna have some
peach Bellini's available. That's worth the price

1460
01:47:25.079 --> 01:47:27.880
of admission right there. Hey,
it's a day before Mother's Day, so

1461
01:47:28.159 --> 01:47:31.000
you want to pick out a beautiful
flowering plant for your mom, or perhaps

1462
01:47:31.600 --> 01:47:39.119
something for an inside decoration or a
garden decoration. They have an unending supply

1463
01:47:39.319 --> 01:47:42.439
of everything you can imagine you might
need out there. Now, that's the

1464
01:47:42.520 --> 01:47:45.920
day before Mother's Day, May fourteenth, next Saturday, I hope you'll come

1465
01:47:45.960 --> 01:47:48.920
out. Bring some plants samples,
put them in a plastic bag so nothing

1466
01:47:49.079 --> 01:47:54.560
escapes, take a look at them, identify, diagnose whatever kinds of questions

1467
01:47:54.600 --> 01:47:57.920
you might have. Take some pictures
on your phone and make sure they're in

1468
01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:00.760
good sharp focus and bring them.
I'd love to meet you. Bring your

1469
01:48:00.800 --> 01:48:03.560
mom to Hey. Why not buy
your mom her Mother's Day gift when you're

1470
01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:06.720
out with her. I know it's
not the surprise the next day, but

1471
01:48:08.119 --> 01:48:11.720
wouldn't that time of shopping and mom
getting to pick something out be kind of

1472
01:48:11.760 --> 01:48:15.399
cool too? That works for you? Bring your mom out there and love

1473
01:48:15.479 --> 01:48:18.239
to meet her as well. We've
talked about a lot of different things today.

1474
01:48:18.359 --> 01:48:23.039
Spend a lot of time on turf, which is always appropriate because turf

1475
01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:27.199
is one of the three teas that
makes the phone ring. Trees, turf,

1476
01:48:27.359 --> 01:48:30.359
and tomatoes. No one ever calls
me about their Cole Robbie. One

1477
01:48:30.399 --> 01:48:32.479
of these days, I'm going to
get a Cole Robbie call. But I

1478
01:48:32.479 --> 01:48:36.880
have so far in many years of
doing this, I'm mad well and yet.

1479
01:48:38.800 --> 01:48:43.560
But tomatoes, everybody loves to vetas. It's kind of like the obsession

1480
01:48:43.640 --> 01:48:47.439
of the vegetable garden. Just fresh
green, quality tomatoes that you grew yourself

1481
01:48:48.399 --> 01:48:50.640
in the vegetable garden. By the
way, now is it time to move

1482
01:48:50.680 --> 01:48:56.399
into those hot weather plants If you
want to grow sweet potatoes, we got

1483
01:48:56.479 --> 01:48:59.800
to get those in because we need
They need a long time to grow and

1484
01:49:00.000 --> 01:49:03.359
developed their roots. The secrets to
success with them. One of the secrets

1485
01:49:03.399 --> 01:49:05.760
to success with them, by the
way, in addition to a good sunny

1486
01:49:05.800 --> 01:49:10.279
spot, is you want good quality
slips that you put in the ground.

1487
01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:15.680
Get them rooted quickly and get them
growing quickly and keep them going and healthy.

1488
01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:20.439
They need to have a good start
to develop the good quality storage roots.

1489
01:49:20.479 --> 01:49:24.479
If you go through drought stress,
if you go through other kinds of

1490
01:49:24.520 --> 01:49:28.640
stresses, you have a little spindley
slip. You don't plant it deep enough,

1491
01:49:28.720 --> 01:49:31.279
getting several nodes down there in the
ground, you're not going to have

1492
01:49:31.960 --> 01:49:34.960
the full development of the kind of
roots that you would like to have on

1493
01:49:35.000 --> 01:49:40.800
a sweet potato. Other things in
the summertime, southern peas, black eyed

1494
01:49:40.840 --> 01:49:45.520
peas, purple whole peas, crowder
peas, zephor cream peas. We use

1495
01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:47.119
the word peas for all of them. I wish we would use the word

1496
01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:50.800
beans, because that's pretty much what
they are as a bean. But you

1497
01:49:51.119 --> 01:49:57.039
cannot get a better quality homegrown vegetable
than that. There are a lot of

1498
01:49:57.119 --> 01:50:00.439
things, you know. I know
we talk about homegrown tomatoes or better store

1499
01:50:00.520 --> 01:50:02.520
bought and I agree with that.
I agree with that. That's you know,

1500
01:50:02.640 --> 01:50:06.880
green beans and so on. But
when you have fresh shell peas,

1501
01:50:08.880 --> 01:50:11.960
if you've only eaten black eyed peas
out of a can, you have not

1502
01:50:12.119 --> 01:50:14.880
eaten black eyed peas. I don't
know what they do to those things to

1503
01:50:15.000 --> 01:50:18.439
make them taste so bad in the
can. When fresh they are so good.

1504
01:50:18.960 --> 01:50:23.640
And in the South, everybody knows
that you have got to have.

1505
01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:27.920
You got to cook some southern peas. You know, everybody's got their recipe.

1506
01:50:28.119 --> 01:50:30.600
A little bit of bacon, a
little bit of onion put in there,

1507
01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:34.680
whatever, And when you're done that
that juice. In the South we

1508
01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:40.800
call that the pot liquor. The
pot liquor juice from cooking fresh black eyed

1509
01:50:40.880 --> 01:50:44.479
peas, southern peas. That is
good for a lot of things. Some

1510
01:50:44.560 --> 01:50:46.920
people just like to drink it.
And it's that good. So if you

1511
01:50:46.960 --> 01:50:49.800
don't have room in a garden to
do these. When you go shopping,

1512
01:50:49.960 --> 01:50:57.199
go to farmer's market, support one
of our local farmer's markets and buy some

1513
01:50:57.760 --> 01:51:01.960
fresh shelled black eyed peas. If
you can find those locally, get those

1514
01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:06.199
and try them out. Sometimes grocery
stores have frozen ones, and that's that's

1515
01:51:06.239 --> 01:51:11.319
good. I mean, that's a
second best I guess to at least get

1516
01:51:11.359 --> 01:51:14.680
that fresh taste. But man,
so good, so good in the vegetable

1517
01:51:14.720 --> 01:51:19.840
garden. Our phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1518
01:51:19.960 --> 01:51:25.359
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. I was talking about

1519
01:51:25.359 --> 01:51:29.199
being at at Arbourgate on next Saturday. But you don't need to wait till

1520
01:51:29.239 --> 01:51:32.359
next Saturday. I'd encourage you to
get out there today. Arburgate is that

1521
01:51:32.640 --> 01:51:38.479
kind of nursery that is a destination
garden center. You can go online to

1522
01:51:38.800 --> 01:51:43.920
Arborgate dot com Arburgate dot com find
out more about the place. But it's

1523
01:51:43.920 --> 01:51:46.079
a mile and a half west of
two forty nine. On twenty nine twenty

1524
01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:50.199
they've got their one two three easy
system. I like the way they set

1525
01:51:50.279 --> 01:51:54.479
that up, so it's three different
products. It's a one two three step.

1526
01:51:54.960 --> 01:51:58.720
Number one there's a food that feeds
anythings with roots. Number two is

1527
01:51:58.720 --> 01:52:01.520
a soil for any application that you
might need. And number three as a

1528
01:52:01.600 --> 01:52:05.479
compost. It's going to improve any
and all soil. All of this completely

1529
01:52:05.600 --> 01:52:11.560
organic, completely easy. When you're
at at Arbogate, the folks that work

1530
01:52:11.680 --> 01:52:16.079
there are well trained and knowledgeable and
they can help you. Like maybe you

1531
01:52:16.119 --> 01:52:20.840
want to put in a pollinator garden, or you would like to plant fruit

1532
01:52:20.880 --> 01:52:25.479
trees. They've got those. They
can tell you that I need two plums

1533
01:52:25.520 --> 01:52:27.880
to pollinate each other. Go oheat
and ask them. They'll tell you.

1534
01:52:28.279 --> 01:52:30.279
They'll direct you to the plants you
need. They'll give you the advice you

1535
01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:34.600
need to have success with those plants. And that's important you know, it's

1536
01:52:34.640 --> 01:52:38.720
one thing just to take a plant
home, but you need to have somebody

1537
01:52:39.039 --> 01:52:45.479
that can help. And our good
quality retail independent mom and pop. There's

1538
01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:48.439
a lot of adjectives on there.
Those garden centers are the ones that can

1539
01:52:48.479 --> 01:52:51.279
direct you to that kind of thing. Well, that's enough for me.

1540
01:52:51.520 --> 01:52:57.760
Let's go to the phones seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1541
01:52:57.920 --> 01:53:01.479
We're gonna go downtown Houston and talk
to Ray about crape myrtles. I

1542
01:53:01.560 --> 01:53:04.680
believe is that right? Ray?
That is correct? Good morning? How

1543
01:53:04.720 --> 01:53:10.720
are you well? Well? Thank
you? So I plant. I planted

1544
01:53:10.760 --> 01:53:14.560
a crepe myrtle a year ago and
it was blooming. It was fine at

1545
01:53:14.600 --> 01:53:18.680
that point, Um, early spring
or winter. We trimmed it back to

1546
01:53:18.800 --> 01:53:21.760
cut out the dead that was on
it. And now it's just not blooming

1547
01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:26.640
at all. And unless it's too
early, I don't know what. It's

1548
01:53:26.640 --> 01:53:30.560
a little early. Um. The
The other thing is how's the sunlight ray

1549
01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:34.960
on that plant? Perfect? I
need it gets at least six seven hours

1550
01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:39.039
of sun Okay, got a minimum? Good? Then then you should be

1551
01:53:39.079 --> 01:53:40.960
in good shape there. Yeah,
I think I'd just give it a little

1552
01:53:41.000 --> 01:53:44.720
bit more time. Uh, you
know, the crepes bloom on the new

1553
01:53:44.800 --> 01:53:48.079
growth, and so they've got to
have the strength and energy of the plant,

1554
01:53:48.119 --> 01:53:53.680
plenty of foliage to you know,
create the carbohydrates necessary to make the

1555
01:53:53.760 --> 01:53:57.720
blooms to look so good. And
so I think, just do everything you

1556
01:53:57.760 --> 01:54:00.239
can to keep it as healthy as
you can, and it should start blooming

1557
01:54:00.279 --> 01:54:03.119
for you pretty soon. Do you
remember what variety it was? Any chance?

1558
01:54:04.319 --> 01:54:08.479
You know? I don't remember?
Um. I know the leaves are

1559
01:54:08.600 --> 01:54:12.560
kind of like a oval shaped,
which is probably typical of a great myrtle

1560
01:54:12.600 --> 01:54:17.159
anyway, but this was a pinkish
color for this great myrtle. Okay it

1561
01:54:17.239 --> 01:54:21.359
did you know? You know,
several different branches from the bottom, so

1562
01:54:21.760 --> 01:54:25.359
which makes sense. Yeah, Well, and you can choose, you know,

1563
01:54:25.399 --> 01:54:27.680
with great myrtles, you can have
a one trunk tree or you can

1564
01:54:27.720 --> 01:54:30.760
have a multi trunk tree. That's
what it is. It is a multi

1565
01:54:30.800 --> 01:54:33.039
trunk that is correct. That's good. Well. The main thing on those

1566
01:54:33.239 --> 01:54:36.479
is just when you do pruning,
if you do prunting, and you don't

1567
01:54:36.520 --> 01:54:40.880
have to do prunting, just make
sure and don't do that butcher job that

1568
01:54:41.000 --> 01:54:45.079
you see all over town that that
just now ruins the beauty. Yeah,

1569
01:54:45.199 --> 01:54:50.199
now, I basically was just cutting
the little bed apart from last year where

1570
01:54:50.199 --> 01:54:54.560
they bloomed and turned to pods.
Yea, So it was just basically cutting

1571
01:54:54.600 --> 01:54:58.000
that stuff out. Yeah, I
didn't do a hack job. Yeah,

1572
01:54:58.039 --> 01:55:00.479
we used to. We used to
say, don't prunting anything bigger than a

1573
01:55:00.520 --> 01:55:04.199
pencil. Yeah, that's about what
we did there. You go, well,

1574
01:55:04.239 --> 01:55:06.680
and you know, but there's times, there's times when you need to

1575
01:55:06.760 --> 01:55:10.279
train it. And that's the thing
when you when you kind of have the

1576
01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:13.279
vision of what you want your tree
to be when you buy it and plant

1577
01:55:13.319 --> 01:55:15.840
it, then as a branch starts
to grow, it's like, yeah,

1578
01:55:15.960 --> 01:55:20.039
that's not the right direction, that's
not what I want here. And you

1579
01:55:20.119 --> 01:55:25.319
take it off when it's real small
and there's no no ugly there. You

1580
01:55:25.439 --> 01:55:28.760
know, if you wait until you
got to get a saw to take it

1581
01:55:28.880 --> 01:55:31.079
off, now you got a big
wound. And so you know, we

1582
01:55:31.159 --> 01:55:35.159
start to get in that that thing
of detracting from the beauty of the plant.

1583
01:55:36.199 --> 01:55:39.600
Yeah. I've been trying to keep
a lot of the bugs off.

1584
01:55:39.640 --> 01:55:45.399
Everything I got willows in the backyard
got bugs. But buy it advanced stuff

1585
01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:48.199
seemed to clean that up pretty quick. So that was nice. Yeah,

1586
01:55:48.279 --> 01:55:51.199
but you know, other than that, I really haven't seen any kind of

1587
01:55:51.239 --> 01:55:55.000
bugs on the great myrtles or anything. So I was just curious if it

1588
01:55:55.159 --> 01:55:57.399
was just too early or just give
it some time. Yeah, give it.

1589
01:55:57.520 --> 01:56:00.079
I'd give it some time. That
we got a couple of insects that

1590
01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:01.720
can bug him a little bit,
but I want to bug him a lot.

1591
01:56:01.840 --> 01:56:04.039
But I think right now, I
just give it some time and call

1592
01:56:04.079 --> 01:56:06.720
back if you don't have good blooms
going on it in another month or so,

1593
01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:11.840
we'll be glad to visit with you
more. Thanks, thank you,

1594
01:56:12.399 --> 01:56:15.720
thank you. You take care.
We are going to head to break here

1595
01:56:15.760 --> 01:56:18.439
in just a second. So John
in League City, I want to give

1596
01:56:18.520 --> 01:56:23.039
plenty of time for you to be
able to talk about your question. You

1597
01:56:23.199 --> 01:56:27.600
will be first when we come up
in the meantime, if you will give

1598
01:56:27.720 --> 01:56:31.159
Josh a call at seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1599
01:56:31.680 --> 01:56:35.359
All he needs to know is your
name and basically what your question is.

1600
01:56:35.439 --> 01:56:41.319
Three or four words that just describe
the question. I know, other than

1601
01:56:41.399 --> 01:56:43.479
all the details, he's not going
to help with that. He's going to

1602
01:56:43.520 --> 01:56:45.840
send the call to me. So
so just give him the basics and we'll

1603
01:56:45.880 --> 01:56:49.039
get going here. We're about to
head to the news and talk to Nikki.

1604
01:56:49.079 --> 01:56:53.600
So I'm just going to talk to
Nikki now about that. I'm doing

1605
01:56:53.680 --> 01:56:56.720
well. How are you doing?
Any horticultural emergencies out there? I heard

1606
01:56:56.760 --> 01:56:59.920
that there were mosquite decided in Houston, so I didn't know if that was

1607
01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:03.239
breaking news or we already knew that. We kind of knew that was coming.

1608
01:57:03.359 --> 01:57:08.800
Just be really careful with that standing
water. There you go, goodby,

1609
01:57:11.680 --> 01:57:26.479
good my friend up below run I'll
get to well. Good morning on

1610
01:57:26.560 --> 01:57:30.279
a Sunday morning, it's gonna be
a day to do some kind of gardening,

1611
01:57:30.359 --> 01:57:32.279
maybe house plant gardening when this rain
goes through. And then after that

1612
01:57:32.319 --> 01:57:35.359
we'll get outside a little bit.
Well, we're going to head out to

1613
01:57:35.640 --> 01:57:40.079
Plantersville, by the way. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

1614
01:57:40.199 --> 01:57:44.399
two fifty eight seventy four. We're
gonna talk to Aaron. Good morning,

1615
01:57:44.439 --> 01:57:46.920
Aaron, Good morning, scop.
How are you. I'm well? Thank

1616
01:57:46.960 --> 01:57:50.279
you? How can I help?
Well? We bought a power to sob

1617
01:57:50.359 --> 01:57:55.039
this weekend and filled in our bare
spots and had some leftover. So my

1618
01:57:55.159 --> 01:57:58.800
husband just laid on top of the
cut grass and like some advice on how

1619
01:57:58.840 --> 01:58:01.560
to get it to thrive even take
and if it will grow on top of

1620
01:58:01.600 --> 01:58:05.359
the grass it was already there.
Yeah, probably not, Probably not good

1621
01:58:05.399 --> 01:58:10.840
to set top side on grass.
You want good contact with that little thin

1622
01:58:10.960 --> 01:58:14.680
lera soil that comes in with your
side. You wanted to contact the soil

1623
01:58:14.760 --> 01:58:17.000
in your yard, and that's why
they do rollers. That's why you know,

1624
01:58:17.000 --> 01:58:19.359
if you don't want to run a
big roller just stepping on it and

1625
01:58:19.880 --> 01:58:24.720
mashing it down, making sure get
that side to soil contact. So if

1626
01:58:24.720 --> 01:58:27.880
you've got a whole bunch of organic
material in between it, like the grass,

1627
01:58:28.399 --> 01:58:31.720
it's not going to root down as
well. Now if you continue to

1628
01:58:31.760 --> 01:58:36.520
just kind of roll it and that
grass underneath is going to decompose and sync

1629
01:58:36.640 --> 01:58:40.239
down. So you you know,
you may get by if you've already laid

1630
01:58:40.239 --> 01:58:44.039
the whole lawn lawn out like that, but generally we try to get good

1631
01:58:44.079 --> 01:58:49.800
side soil contact. Okay, and
any fertilizer suggestions recommendation. After a couple

1632
01:58:49.840 --> 01:58:53.159
of weeks, you want to get
it to water, water it and get

1633
01:58:53.199 --> 01:58:57.239
it to root in really well.
So early on we water regularly because think

1634
01:58:57.239 --> 01:58:59.840
about it, that grass can't have
more than about a half inch of a

1635
01:59:00.039 --> 01:59:02.600
route, because that's about how thick
that side is underneath. The soil is

1636
01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:06.199
underneath, and so we got to
get those roots from the grass down and

1637
01:59:06.359 --> 01:59:11.800
once they're into the ground, then
they're there they can take up the nutrients

1638
01:59:11.920 --> 01:59:15.000
and benefit the plant. So we
wait to put our fertilizer on for a

1639
01:59:15.079 --> 01:59:16.920
couple of weeks just to kind of
get it going a little bit, and

1640
01:59:17.000 --> 01:59:20.760
then do a very light fertilization.
Maybe wait about six weeks and do another

1641
01:59:20.840 --> 01:59:27.479
light fertilization. Okay, in any
soil activator you can do that. I

1642
01:59:27.560 --> 01:59:32.479
don't know specifically on side that's a
usually pretty a large area. Probably not

1643
01:59:32.760 --> 01:59:38.560
essential that you do that on the
side, but the adequate watering frequently.

1644
01:59:38.680 --> 01:59:43.079
That may mean water every day if
it's sunny and warm for a few days,

1645
01:59:43.159 --> 01:59:45.039
and then go to every other day
and you know, eventually get it

1646
01:59:45.119 --> 01:59:49.840
onto the once a week schedule.
Okay, well that's great. I appreciate

1647
01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:53.159
your time. All right, Aaron, thank you for the call. I

1648
01:59:53.239 --> 01:59:56.439
appreciate that. Let's see, we
got some time here. We're going to

1649
01:59:56.520 --> 01:59:59.119
go to John in League City.
John, I got a minute or so,

1650
01:59:59.520 --> 02:00:03.840
how can we help hiriy uh?
So I've got a large flower bed

1651
02:00:03.920 --> 02:00:10.239
that's been neglected. It's essentially starting
from scratch, and so I need to

1652
02:00:10.359 --> 02:00:15.319
get some good um you know,
I don't need the Cadillac of top soil

1653
02:00:15.760 --> 02:00:19.560
or anything, but just some good
quality soil for a large, large area.

1654
02:00:19.880 --> 02:00:24.800
And I'm just gonna be putting some
bushes and flowers and and you know,

1655
02:00:25.359 --> 02:00:29.399
no no fruits or vegetables in there. So what would you recommend for

1656
02:00:29.560 --> 02:00:33.319
that? How big of a bed
is this, John? I mean,

1657
02:00:33.479 --> 02:00:36.960
is this a large large area or
just a fairly small I mean it's gonna

1658
02:00:38.039 --> 02:00:44.199
it's probably gonna be several yards of
top soil. Okay. Uh? And

1659
02:00:44.680 --> 02:00:46.399
what do you when you say flowers, you talk about like annuals or perennial

1660
02:00:46.439 --> 02:00:48.800
flowers, or we talk about rose
bushes or what are you going to?

1661
02:00:50.319 --> 02:00:53.840
Um? Well, I'd like to
do a little of both, but it'll

1662
02:00:53.840 --> 02:00:58.199
be annuals and perennial mostly. But
probably most cost effective for you would be

1663
02:00:58.239 --> 02:01:01.359
to get a good quality compost it
down about three inches deep and mix it

1664
02:01:01.479 --> 02:01:04.920
in as deeply as you can.
Now, if you want just I'd already

1665
02:01:05.000 --> 02:01:10.279
ready to go bed mix. Then
a raise saw mix or rose saw mix

1666
02:01:10.399 --> 02:01:14.279
is probably the way to go where
you already got something blended up. But

1667
02:01:14.359 --> 02:01:16.039
if you just want to work with
the soil you have, is it a

1668
02:01:16.119 --> 02:01:23.159
heavy clay? Yeah? Okay,
Well you're talking about economy here, and

1669
02:01:23.319 --> 02:01:28.399
so I would just do the the
compost if you if you could go a

1670
02:01:28.479 --> 02:01:31.960
little further, then I would do
expanded shale. And I know Airlom Sails

1671
02:01:32.039 --> 02:01:43.880
makes an expanded shaw compost combination that
you can put down because the expanded shale

1672
02:01:44.159 --> 02:01:47.239
helps that clay stay open for a
longer period of time. The compost will

1673
02:01:47.359 --> 02:01:51.279
break down, but with the shale
in there, it gives you a little

1674
02:01:51.319 --> 02:01:59.319
bit longer benefit in terms of keeping
that clay loose. All Right, thank

1675
02:01:59.359 --> 02:02:01.159
you, thank you very much.
I appreciate the call. We're going ahead

1676
02:02:01.199 --> 02:02:03.920
to break. If you'd like to
be on the air next when we come

1677
02:02:03.960 --> 02:02:08.920
back, give Josh a call at
seven one three two one two five eight

1678
02:02:09.520 --> 02:02:36.680
seven four. Well, good Sunday
morning. I hope you're enjoying this morning

1679
02:02:36.760 --> 02:02:40.880
so far, it's a good one. Every morning is a good one.

1680
02:02:42.039 --> 02:02:45.199
You're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we're

1681
02:02:45.279 --> 02:02:47.039
here to answer your gardening question.
So if you'd like to give us a

1682
02:02:47.079 --> 02:02:51.479
call. We have a few minutes
left in today, and so now it

1683
02:02:51.520 --> 02:02:54.359
would be the time to call.
If you want to get on the air,

1684
02:02:54.359 --> 02:02:58.439
I probably could take one more call. You can dial seven one three

1685
02:02:58.560 --> 02:03:03.159
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1686
02:03:03.720 --> 02:03:06.720
seventy four. You know, I
was talking about Star Hope a little bit

1687
02:03:06.760 --> 02:03:10.239
earlier, and I just want to
say a few more words about them,

1688
02:03:10.479 --> 02:03:14.399
Star of Hope. If you want
to make a difference in people's lives now,

1689
02:03:14.479 --> 02:03:18.079
you can certainly donate. I mean
absolutely donate. It takes a lot

1690
02:03:18.279 --> 02:03:23.800
to do all the things that they
do, to provide six thousand meals a

1691
02:03:23.920 --> 02:03:27.399
week, to have a shelter where
people can live, to have the training,

1692
02:03:27.479 --> 02:03:31.479
the education, the employment, all
of that. It's free for them

1693
02:03:31.560 --> 02:03:33.800
there by the way. They mean. They have to follow the rules and

1694
02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:38.399
they have to participate, but it
gives them a chance to make a different

1695
02:03:38.479 --> 02:03:44.039
life. And I've been there.
I've seen the face of homelessness and almost

1696
02:03:44.239 --> 02:03:48.119
homelessness, nearly homeless people that are
on the last string. These are folks

1697
02:03:48.159 --> 02:03:53.000
that want to make something out of
their lives. They're not out just looking

1698
02:03:53.039 --> 02:03:56.760
to freeload on society. They they
want a chance to turn it around.

1699
02:03:56.880 --> 02:04:00.439
And you know you've probably heard the
raised there but for the grace of God

1700
02:04:00.560 --> 02:04:03.560
go I and I kind of see
it that way too. I mean,

1701
02:04:03.960 --> 02:04:08.840
we all are in places where with
the right things happening in our lives,

1702
02:04:08.920 --> 02:04:13.199
we can find things very different.
And wouldn't you want someone who comes along

1703
02:04:13.560 --> 02:04:17.159
and just provide you the opportunity,
not just a handout, not just you

1704
02:04:17.239 --> 02:04:20.399
know, I don't want to work, so here's some money. We're talking

1705
02:04:20.439 --> 02:04:26.039
about a change in life, a
huge change and a difference in people's lives.

1706
02:04:26.399 --> 02:04:31.760
Star of Hope Mission sh mission dot
orgh mission dot org. You can

1707
02:04:31.840 --> 02:04:35.199
find out information on how to donate, but you can also find out how

1708
02:04:35.279 --> 02:04:39.640
to volunteer. Maybe you'd like to
be a volunteer at Star of Hope.

1709
02:04:39.680 --> 02:04:43.720
There are many a wide range of
different kinds of opportunities for that. I

1710
02:04:43.880 --> 02:04:45.640
hope that you will give them a
call, and I hope that you will

1711
02:04:45.640 --> 02:04:53.159
become a supporter and be part of
making a really significant difference in people's lives.

1712
02:04:54.760 --> 02:04:58.359
We've been talking about gardening today and
as we kind of draw things to

1713
02:04:58.520 --> 02:05:04.279
a close with the Gardening show,
the calls that we've had all of this,

1714
02:05:05.079 --> 02:05:11.239
I just want to remind you that
when you are wanting to make a

1715
02:05:11.560 --> 02:05:16.439
beautiful improvement in your landscape, that
getting the right plants, the right soil,

1716
02:05:16.520 --> 02:05:19.920
the right place, that is all
the difference in the world. You

1717
02:05:19.960 --> 02:05:21.720
know, it could be the best
plant in the world, but if it's

1718
02:05:21.800 --> 02:05:26.199
wants sun and it's in shade,
not going to do well. If you

1719
02:05:26.319 --> 02:05:30.760
just want instant zip, I mean, you can't beat annuals. Annuals give

1720
02:05:30.800 --> 02:05:33.439
you a quick color, but annuals
run their course in the season, and

1721
02:05:33.600 --> 02:05:38.760
that's why we bring in perennials.
Perennials play a part in the annual cycle.

1722
02:05:39.479 --> 02:05:42.680
Many perennials are just pretty for a
short time of the year, but

1723
02:05:42.800 --> 02:05:46.079
the plants live here after year,
so they kind of enter center stage when

1724
02:05:46.119 --> 02:05:49.640
it's their time and then they leave
center stage. And that is a good

1725
02:05:49.680 --> 02:05:55.239
part of a mixed landscape. Some
perennials last a long long time, a

1726
02:05:55.359 --> 02:05:59.479
gold star Esperanza, for example.
They just blooms and blooms and blooms all

1727
02:05:59.560 --> 02:06:02.840
year long, just about. But
annuals and perennials is a combination a good

1728
02:06:02.880 --> 02:06:05.359
way to do that. We're about
to enter the warm season, when things

1729
02:06:05.439 --> 02:06:11.359
get really hot, and when things
get hot, our blooming options are limited.

1730
02:06:11.520 --> 02:06:15.840
If you go to a garden center
now, it is a riot of

1731
02:06:15.960 --> 02:06:18.920
color wall to wall, all these
plants that you can plant. When summertime

1732
02:06:19.000 --> 02:06:21.800
comes, there's not as many options. There are some that will do good,

1733
02:06:23.079 --> 02:06:28.880
but not as many. So with
summertime we look to foliage for our

1734
02:06:28.960 --> 02:06:32.800
color. We have cannas with beautiful
color foliage to the leaves like I like

1735
02:06:32.920 --> 02:06:36.199
tropicana. I think that one's just
there's a lot going on in the colors

1736
02:06:36.239 --> 02:06:42.600
of the leaf of tropicana. There's
copper plant that has beautiful foliage. Persian

1737
02:06:42.760 --> 02:06:45.960
shield for bright shady areas does well. And I see we got a call

1738
02:06:46.000 --> 02:06:49.640
come in. I'm gonna jump over
there. Hey Gary and garden Oaks.

1739
02:06:49.680 --> 02:06:53.199
I wanted to get you for the
show's over and it's about to be over.

1740
02:06:53.399 --> 02:06:59.800
Jerry, Okay. Well, I
had planted a cutoff from a romane

1741
02:07:00.039 --> 02:07:02.199
lettuce to bottom point. They said
it part if. They said it would

1742
02:07:02.239 --> 02:07:05.039
grow if you put it in a
saw. Well, a plant did come

1743
02:07:05.159 --> 02:07:11.159
up, but it wasn't a romaine. Oh really yeah, some weird looking

1744
02:07:11.239 --> 02:07:14.920
plant look with a stock on it. And I wondered if a Romaine's a

1745
02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:16.680
hybrid. I see what you're saying. No, No, if it was

1746
02:07:16.720 --> 02:07:21.359
a hybrid using a vegetative propagated piece, which is what you did, you

1747
02:07:21.399 --> 02:07:25.680
would still have the original plant.
It would just be so I don't know

1748
02:07:25.760 --> 02:07:29.800
what came up. Well, what
probably happened is it probably bolted. You

1749
02:07:29.880 --> 02:07:32.640
probably have a bloom stock kind of
thing coming up because our days are getting

1750
02:07:32.880 --> 02:07:36.560
what now, our days are getting
long enough to where those plants are kicking

1751
02:07:36.600 --> 02:07:43.640
into bloom. The lettuces, the
spinaches, the arugula, you know those

1752
02:07:43.760 --> 02:07:46.680
kinds of things. Celantro, those
are all bolting. So that that's what

1753
02:07:47.560 --> 02:07:51.239
Okay, I know it so sure
was bitter. Yeah, well that's another

1754
02:07:51.319 --> 02:07:55.359
thing. As it gets warm,
it gets bitter. Now, if you

1755
02:07:55.479 --> 02:07:59.760
have lettuce that hasn't bolted, if
anybody's listening, you can kind of pull

1756
02:07:59.800 --> 02:08:03.359
it up and leave it just a
few of the roots at the bottom and

1757
02:08:03.439 --> 02:08:05.159
put it in the fridge, in
a glass of waters, a jar or

1758
02:08:05.199 --> 02:08:09.560
something, just to kind of keep
it perky where it dudn't will And a

1759
02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:13.880
night or two in the refrigerator helps
a little bit on that bitterness. Not

1760
02:08:13.960 --> 02:08:16.800
a lot, but a little bit. Okay, I'll give it a try,

1761
02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:20.439
all right, Thank you, Jerry, appreciate the call. Well,

1762
02:08:20.800 --> 02:08:24.720
here we are at the end talking
about color and foliage color being so important

1763
02:08:24.760 --> 02:08:28.840
in the warm season. Get out
there and as you're planting, don't just

1764
02:08:28.039 --> 02:08:31.720
plant things that are pretty now,
but get ready for summer by putting in

1765
02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:37.439
some beautiful foliage color. I named
a few of those plants in the shady

1766
02:08:37.520 --> 02:08:43.479
areas. We have colias and so
many colors. Coalis awesome plant, awesome

1767
02:08:43.520 --> 02:08:46.359
plant for the shade. Beef steak
plant. It's kind of got a blood

1768
02:08:46.439 --> 02:08:50.279
red color, which is where it
gets its name. Beef steak pant plant

1769
02:08:50.520 --> 02:08:54.039
looks good in the shade. And
remember that white is a color too.

1770
02:08:54.399 --> 02:08:58.800
And if you've got shady beds,
to line them with something like an astac

1771
02:09:00.039 --> 02:09:03.439
ass that is white. It just
delineates the bed. If it's a pathway,

1772
02:09:03.479 --> 02:09:09.239
it draws your eyes down the pathway. There are other white foliage plants

1773
02:09:09.680 --> 02:09:13.000
or law a lot of white in
the foliots that you can put in shady

1774
02:09:13.079 --> 02:09:18.039
areas. So don't just think spring, but also think summer as you're getting

1775
02:09:18.119 --> 02:09:24.039
ready to do your landscaping. We
want your place to look good all year

1776
02:09:24.199 --> 02:09:28.600
round. So the combination of annuals
and perennials mixed together, the use of

1777
02:09:28.680 --> 02:09:33.960
foliage in the summertime, and then
also some really well chosen shrubs and trees

1778
02:09:35.520 --> 02:09:41.800
that just or absolute turn your place
into an absolute show place. There's a

1779
02:09:41.880 --> 02:09:45.960
lot of good tree options too,
by the way, that are smaller.

1780
02:09:46.079 --> 02:09:48.399
One of my favorite trees. I
know we're run out of time, but

1781
02:09:48.399 --> 02:09:52.600
I just gotta say one of my
favorite trees is Chinese fringe tree. And

1782
02:09:52.640 --> 02:09:56.520
now there's a native fringe. It's
fine. If you love native plants,

1783
02:09:56.560 --> 02:10:00.680
that's a great one. Grand Sea
graybeard native fringe. Chinese fringe is much

1784
02:10:00.760 --> 02:10:05.680
more showy, and it just has
a wonderful I don't know how to describe

1785
02:10:05.720 --> 02:10:09.399
it for you, kind of a
honey like fragrance in the spring when the

1786
02:10:09.479 --> 02:10:13.359
little shaggy white blooms come out.
It didn't get too big. And you

1787
02:10:13.439 --> 02:10:15.720
know, as it used to be
in the old days, lots were like

1788
02:10:15.800 --> 02:10:18.840
a third of an acre or bigger. Now lots are so small you can

1789
02:10:18.920 --> 02:10:22.399
reach out your window and close your
neighbor's blinds. And so when we pick

1790
02:10:22.479 --> 02:10:26.880
trees, we don't need. We
don't need a live oak that's going to

1791
02:10:26.960 --> 02:10:30.479
cover three yards right at maturity.
I don't need something a little bit smaller,

1792
02:10:30.680 --> 02:10:33.000
so just a few ideas for you. Hey, it's been good talking

1793
02:10:33.039 --> 02:10:35.279
to you and look forward to talking
again next Saturday.