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Ktr H Garden Line. It's not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with skin directors. So

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they just watching as so many goods
chicken, but they're not well. Good

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Sunday morning. I hope you're a
bright eyed and bushy tailed, got a

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cup of coffee, ready to talk
gardening or certainly listen gardening. By the

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way, those of you who listen
and are afraid to talk on the air,

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don't worry about it. It's easy, man. All you gotta do

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is talk to me. It's just
showing me. There's nobody else to listen

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to. Maybe one or two people. That's it. And so let's just

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talk about whatever you're interested in.
If you've got questions, it's a good

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time for us to go back and
forth to do a little figuring out what's

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wrong with something, figuring out what
might fit in a good spot, what's

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a good plant, how do you
go about this? All that kind of

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thing. That's why we're here on
Guarden Line our phone number seven one three

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

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seven four. We are we are
entering the cooler time coming up here.

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It's been kind of, you know, nice to know that we're not going

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to have this brutal heat for a
while. It seemed like that's all we're

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gonna ever deal with is the incredible
amount of heat that we've been We've been

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having to deal with so unseasonal for
this time of the year. But the

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break is on the way, and
from a gardening standpoint, we are so

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so glad to be able to see
that. I was just looking that.

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I think, well, today's about
ninety seven according to one service, and

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then at ninety six, ninety six, ninety three, ninety four. There

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we go. Now'sk getting a little
bit better than ninety three and four.

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We can handle that with quite a
few rain clouds. And so it looks

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like from Monday through Saturday we got
a lot of a lot of clouds in

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the sky. That's a good thing. Get out in the sun, or

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get out in the garden without the
sun. Get a lot done. I

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have to, you know, at
my house that you know, what do

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they say, the cobbler's kids go
barefoot. So I need to get out

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in my garden. And I started
a renovation project out there, pulling out

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a bunch of old things and putting
in some new stuff, kind of fixing

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up the beds, getting the soil
ready reworked. Every time I get a

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chance, you know, I'm going
I add some composts here and there,

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some fertilizer here and there, getting
ready for another planting. And this summer,

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I've got several things that I have
started planting, and I just need

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to continue going out in the garden. If you've got a vegetable garden or

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thinking about having a vegetable garden,
I encourage you to give it a shot.

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Some of our summer vegetables tend to
be i'll say, more space heavy

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in our space. What occupying like
it takes something like sweet potatoes and it

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sprawls around those vines. So you
just don't put sweet potatoes in a little

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tiny corner of the yard. I
mean they need a little room to spread

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out. It is time to plant
your pumpkins. If you want pumpkins for

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fall. Now, it's a good
time to get those things in. That

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gives them plenty of time to grow, to mature, to hit that stage

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where we can pick them and expect
them to come inside and store for us

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really really well, and so we
get the months of storage that we were

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hoping to get out of them.
What else in the summer, Okra,

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Yeah, you can't just have one
okra plant. I mean the reason for

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that is, you know, with
some things, you can harvest a few,

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put them in the fridge, harvest
a few more, put them in

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the fridge, and just keep going
like that until you have enough to cook.

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Well, oaker does not like being
in the refrigerator, and you can

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keep it for maybe three days or
so, and I know something you've stretched

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that beyond that, but I'm just
saying, reasonably speaking, you leave it

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in there very long and you start
to get the dark sunken spots on it.

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And so it's one of those you
gotta plan enough of so at any

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point in time where you want okra, you can go out and pick a

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batch. Maybe after over a day
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good batch together. So that's what
I mean by taking up space a little

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bit more in the summer. And
there are exceptions to anything you say,

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but that that would be one of
the reasons why it'd be good to have

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a nice garden bed, something that
you can spread out in and do a

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little bit more. But anyway,
I've got plenty of that stuff to do

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back at the house. Let's think
we're gonna go to the phones. We're

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gonna go out and talk to DC
in Titusville, Florida. Well, good

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morning, DC, Welcome to garden
Line. Hey your skip, How you

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doing your day? Well I'm good, but you're cheating. See you didn't.

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You didn't have to get up as
early garden Line as everybody run here

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does. Well, remember I'm one
hour ahead of you. So when I

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get up at five o'clock, it's
it's four. Oh, I'm backward.

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I should be saying that's somebody from
California or something. I got it.

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I got my my son coming up
in the wrong side of the world here,

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Well spit it the other way anyway. Yeah, I got the grass

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clippings. I like to, like
mow my lawn every other week, you

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know, wall between front and back, and so it gets high and it's

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really healthy. But I'd like to
know, can I take those grass clippings

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and throw them in like a flower
bed and use it as mult you can

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d C with two cap caveats number
one, I want to make sure those

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clippings have not had like a two
four D or other hormone type herboside sprayed

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on them because there are some sensitive
plants ap petunias, green beans, to

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mate as. All those we'll twist
up if you if you get that around.

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The other thing is don't put them
too deep at one time. I

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don't know if you've ever had a
bag of grass kip clippings at the curb

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or something, or seeing some that
you open it up and it's like,

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whoa, that is a ripe odor. And so we don't want to make

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them so thick that they get anaerobically
decomposing or that they get slimys. You

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know, you want them to dry
out and be a dry mulch like other

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mulches would be. Okay, so
don't so you don't water them at all

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till after we've red your water and
patterned. Right. Yeah, if you

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just want to, you know,
if you just want to spread some out,

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I would just spread a thin layer. Maybe if you put an inch

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or two down, it's going to
shrink down to a little or nothing when

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it dries, and then you can
add a little bit more and let it

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shrink down. But yeah, there's
a lot of good nutrient on them.

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A lot. Oh that's what I
need to know. Yeah, well,

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good. Hey, how are you
listening to Gardenline? Are you? Are

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you listen? I guess you're listening
on your computer? No, I'm actually

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walking you listening to you on my
heart radio. App Ah, good,

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that's good. Hey, I used
to live in Texas out there in clear

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Lake, like twenty three, twenty
four years. I guess then my job

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and I've been listening to garden Line
since. Bows and Zach rawness Wow,

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okay, well, hey, thank
You've always enjoyed it. I'm always listening

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to him. Well. I thank
you for being a listener, and thank

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you for giving us to Carl.
I wish you well out there. Thank

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you, Yes, thank you.
Having a good day. Thank you too,

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bye bye bye. Well. Our
phone number is seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four seven
one three two and two fifty eight seventy

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four. Yeah. Clippings, Uh, clippings are valuable. I'm I'm actually

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working on a new fertilizing schedule,
on the new edition of the Fertilizing Schedule.

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I've been doing a lot of re
search on you know, what's the

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latest from researchers on plants, grass
plants and lawns and just all the issues

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that go into putting together fertilizn schedule. Just to make sure we're as up

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to date as we can be.
And one of the things I noticed I

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was reading a textbook by doctor Richard
Double. He's a professor. He wrote

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a textbook on southern turf grasses many
years ago, and this was a long

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time ago. I want to tell
you a little bit about some of the

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things that I noticed in there that
I thought was quite interesting. Well,

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let's first take a break our phone
number seven one, three, two and

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two fifty eight seventy four. We
will be right back, said just Jame

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style. It's not a hot dag
NAXI Y be good Sunday morning. It's

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still mostly dark out there, but
I see a little bit of glow in

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the eastern sky. By the way, DC, I do understand now the

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sun comes up in the east.
Hey, if your neighbor's lights are off,

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go bang on the door. Tell
them they're missing garden line. They

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will so appreciate that if they keep
listening to guard line for a while.

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Maybe not this morning, but not
anyway. You know, you gotta be

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a good neighbor. Do what you
can. Well, we were talking about

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some different things going on, and
I want to talk a little bit about

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lawns. But something occurred to me
the other day. A lot of you

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would like to hire lawn services to
take care of your lawn. A lot

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of you would like to do it
yourself. Well, I actually know a

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company that you need to call for
both of them, and that is is

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formally green Pro. You've heard me
talk about green Pro many times or it's

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been on KTRH for a good while
now. That would include things like deep

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root, air raiding and you know
the compost top dressing and whatnot. Well,

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organ is same company as that,
and Orglon offers things like lawn care

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services. So if you would like
to have a organic lawn care service or

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maybe a hybrid lawn care service,
they can do it both ways. They

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are having a special this summer to
garden Line special. So it's the first

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application of whatever recommended liquid that they
feel like you need most. For example,

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maybe you haven't fertilizable, they would
suggest you put on a fertilizer or

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a micronutrient, or maybe it's an
insect prevention product. That's most needed at

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the time in your lawn. Either
way you go twenty ninety nine plus tax.

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That is a really really good deal. Now they are they're putting out

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seaweed, they're putting out bug protection
right now. There is a lot of

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opportunities for you to have a better
lawn with someone like orgallon. If you're

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aduit yourself, or they also offer
consultation services, you can actually hire them

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to come out and look over your
lawn, make the suggestions that you need

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and so on, and you can
be the lawn ranger every weekend and do

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that yourself under they're expert guidance.
So either way you go, you can't

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lose. It's ORG Lawn, org
lawn dot com or eight three two six

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excuse me, three five one zero
zero three two. Let's do that again.

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Eight three two three five one zero
zero three two the best looking lawn

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on the block. We are going
to head out now to Montgomery and talk

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to Albert. Hello Albert, Hello, Skip, how you doing this morning?

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I'm well, thank you. I've
got like two questions. One,

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I gotta not all oak tree,
pretty young tree about six seven feet tall,

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spinning the ground about a year a
year and a half and I don't

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know if I'm water in it too
much or not enough water, but the

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leaves are turning the brown on the
tips. Okay, all right, yeah,

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that's probably it's probably a lack of
water. But there's different ways we

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can create similar symptoms. One is, if you over fertilize with a salt

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based fertilizer, you can burn roots. I'm assuming you haven't done that,

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but that is a possibility. If
you overwater and that absolutely cannot get oxygen

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to the roots, roots can die. And then when roots die, it's

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as if you have dry soil because
there's no they can't take a water.

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But I don't think that's the case. Nutall. One reason I love Nutall,

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especially over Schumart in some locations,
is that it does put up with

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saggy soil conditions pretty well. So
okay, I'm gonna go ahead and say

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this is probably not enough water,
but to be sure, you could dig

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down maybe six inches, get a
little trowel or shovel or something, just

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feel the soil and see what you
think, and that'll kind of give you

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a guide, so you kind of
know going for you don't have to dig

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down every time you water. But
you know what I'm saying, you kind

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of get a feel literally a feel
for the soil. Okay, all right,

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I'll try that, and I'm falling. Randy's the lawn fertilization schedule.

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Who's now the time? I think
now is the time to put down the

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night your flaffs nine four ten,
nineteen four ten in the summer, and

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I mean you could have put it
down even back in April, you know,

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or May or June, but yeah, we want you want to go

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ahead and do that because it's going
to carry you on into when it's time

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to do your fall fertilization. Okay, all right, all right, thank

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you sir, Well, thank you
appreciate the call. Thanks for being a

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listener or gardenline. You know,
if you are if you're looking to put

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in a tree, now is the
time to do it. If you have

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somebody who knows what they're doing.
You know, we have our winter tree

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planning and fall tree planning, spring
tree planning, but when you plant in

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the summer, you need somebody knows
what they're doing. And the folks that

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know what they're doing or Verdant Verdant
tree Farm, you can go to Verdant

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Treefarm dot com find out more about
them. They've got the West Houston location

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on Barker, Cyprus. They have
one down in parallel on Broadway Street and

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one up in the Heights area where
I and Yale come together as well.

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Verdant Tree Farm is having a Christmas
in July cell all three locations. Ten

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to fifty percent off the trees you
purchase if you purchase the installation with them.

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If you're gonna take them off the
plant them yourself, that's not the

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case, but I suggest you don't
do that, especially with the summer planting.

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You need folks that know what they're
really doing. So ten to fifty

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percent off of the tree when you
hire them then to come out and do

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the install Now, this is for
the trees that they have on site,

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and you know ninety special orders bringing
in in things, but the trees they

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have on site is not limiting at
all. I mean they have a bazillion

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things that you can choose from that
all do well. They will guide you

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if you want advice on what's a
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pictures, sit down a little bit, talk about it, pick the tree

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you want out and then they'll tag
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and it'll be planted right with advice
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going forward. Can't beat that.
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talk did Joe, Good morning,
Skip, Good morning. I had a

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question for you warned your device on
how to store a lot of the products

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that you recommend, whether like liquid
herbicides and insecticides. Most of them say,

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you know, keeping a cool,
dry place out of extreme temperatures and

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now the sunlight. And I've been
just storing them in the garage, which

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right now gets pretty hot in the
summer and in winter can get pretty cold.

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Or are there any products that you
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You know, my garage gets blistering
hot by the end of the day,

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and so I don't put any of
my pesticides out there because that that

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affects the effective life of them.
I put mine in a washroom that's kind

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of an off to the side,
you know, not in the house kind

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of thing. Why it's in the
house, but you know what I'm saying,

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it's it's the side, and put
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and that's where I keep them,
and it's because it's cooler in there,

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and they're just gonna last longer.
It's dark. They're in a cabinet,

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you know, they're not out or
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The worst place to be a shed
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I would move them out of the
garage. So it's things like Medina soil

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activator. Medina has to grow.
Do you you keep those inside too?

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Yeah? Absolutely. If anything's gonna
have microbes in it and stuff, they're

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going to be in a dormant state
in that product. But they can't take

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a blistering hot That's why we solarize
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up, because it kills all those
things. And so you don't want to

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you don't want to have those out
there where it's hot. So any any

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liquid type product, how about the
granular like the nitrofoss rose and in high

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discus food that are in the four
pound jugs or Nelson's color Star things like

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that. Yeah, I you know, on those, I do keep them

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in the garage. I haven't thought
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know, there's got to be certain
temperatures where certain forms of nitrogen might be

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more subject to issues, but I'd
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really worried about it myself. Now, if I had something that I did

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have microbes and things, and I
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what I'm going to use and then
use it. That would be the ideal,

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you know, not just to have
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But when I'm talking about fertilizers now, Joe, but I would think

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anything microbial, I just don't know
that i'd want to leave it out there.

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I didn't just get in really hot
conditions. Great, all right,

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thank you again for your help.
All right, well, Joe, thank

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you for the call, and good
luck with all that. Thanks bye bye.

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Talking about fertilizers and things, he
mentioned Medina products and you know hast

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Grow six twelve six is one that
it comes in a bottle or a quart

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bottle that you can put a hose
in spray or and spray with it.

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I like to get the one that
just has a little plastic cup. It's

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like formed into the bottle, so
it's real easy to measure out exactly what

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you want. And I use it
my favorite use of it, and it

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can be used for anything. It's
a fertilizer that has Medina's sole activator in

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it for biological activity. It's got
humates humic acid in it. It's got

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seaweed extract in it, so it's
got a you can use it for a

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lot of things. I love it
to put in new transplants because we're constantly

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planning, whether it's vegetable transplants,
flour transplants, or maybe something got planted

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and you just kind of wanted to
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I'll do it when I plant something, I'll do it again a week

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later, and then a week later
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if I need to. But generally
three applications that a new transplant gets them

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off to a really good start.
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anything like that, and or in
chemicals on the soil. It does promote

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biological activity. But Medina's hast Grow
six twelve six is an outstand any product

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for getting a good boost to new
plants that you're putting out there in the

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ground. I was talking about lawns. I meant to go in doctor Duble's

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book, and I just kind of
want to get back to that. In

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fact, I may come back to
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But I was reading and back in
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of good research was done that now
is like in the past, and so

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people don't continue to look at it. But we I guess one way to

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look at it, as we forget
more than we know sometimes. But they

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did studies back in the day where
they took the clippings from a lawn and

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they did a nutrient and a weight
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over the course of a mowing season
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you will be in your clippings.
If you never let a clipping return,

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you will be taking over two pounds
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I guess the easy thing, easy
question there. So why do we return

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our clippings? Well, the easy
answer because they return the nutrients We paid

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part of the soil. If you
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Think of it that way. It's
your money. What do you want to

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do? Plus, when you return
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nitrogen, phosphorus potassium. You get
every nutrient that the grass plant needs to

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grow. That's what's in the clipping
because that's what it took to grow the

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grass blade. So think about it
as the most complete, balanced fertilizer for

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your lawn is put out by your
lawn mower. Now that doesn't mean you

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don't need to fertilize. It just
means that if you don't, if you

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bag your clippings, you are wasting
money. We won't take a break seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four, and Josh will get you

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on the board. You'll be first
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Well, good Sunday morning. You're
listening to garden Line. Oh Josh,

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it's hilarious. You're listening to guard
Line. And we are here to talk

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about whatever you want to talk about
regarding gardening. So give us call seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

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central kind of downtown Houston, does
that make any sense at all? I

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don't know inside the loop, but
north wide town that area you need to

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know about quality feed. That's your
hometown feed store, and I've gone to

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Quality Feed for years off and on
through the years. I went when they're

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in their own location. Now they're
on Lozon Street, eighteen thirteen, Luzon.

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It's near the intersection of Equipment and
Illusion. But Quality Feed is open

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a mon through Friday, six am
to six pm. No, excuse me,

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nine am to six pm. Excuse
me? Sure about that, Chris

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has got about to make You have
to get up earlier nine am to six

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pm. And Saturday's nine am to
four pm. Sundays today eleven thirty am

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to four pm. Now, anything
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Of course it's a great old fashioned
feed store. But they also have

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ever product that we talk about when
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when it comes to fertilizers. They've
got an excellent selection of anything you

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need. If you're into backyard chickens, you have to check out Quality Feed.

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I mean they're getting shipments to chickens
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call them find out when the next
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I think it's kind of cool.
You can buy seeds there, local honey

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there. I mean, it's just
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feel like you're part of the thing
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stopping in visiting, finding out what's
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coo dot com. Find out more
information. We're listening, well, you're

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listening to Gardenine. This morning,
I was talking about fertilizers and I was

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talking about grass clippings. And the
point that I'm really wanting to make with

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everyone is unless it is rain for
two weeks straight and you can't cut the

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grass and now there are lions,
tigers and bears coming out of the out

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of your lawn, I would always
return my grass clippings. Even sometimes when

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I get a little behind, I'll
set the mower up as high as I

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can mow over it. I'll drop
it down to the level I want to

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mow and mow again and mulch those
clippings into the surface. But if you

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got giant clip things, I understand
you need to rake those up, but

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don't throw them away. Remember they
contain the nutrients that you just put out

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to grow grass, and so use
them as a mulch, you know,

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mix them into the soil. DCN
Titus. What's talking about mulching with clippings.

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I'll let them drive a little bit, mix them into thought. You

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can mix them into the soil green. That's fine too. Lots of nutrient

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they're available. But when you return
your clippings, you're recycling that fertilizer in

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an organic form. So think about
this grass clippings and tree leaves or nature's

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own free organic fertilizer and free organic
mulch. And when you look at what

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it takes to grow a plant,
it's a mix of nutrients. It's not

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just three nutrients. And so when
you consider the fact that in that clipping,

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in that tree leaf, there are
all the things in the perfect ratio

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to grow a plant, then why
throw that away? Compost it, use

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it as mulch, mix it in
the soil, however you want to do

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it. Just keep it on your
property. I mean, that's what makes

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the meadows and the forests thrive is
they return their own organic matter, They

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build their own soil slowly over time. Now, fortunately we have great organic

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fertilizers. We have all kinds of
great fertilizers, and we can grow grass,

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you know, without having to wait
eighty years for nature to build the

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soil in that spot and give us
some good top soil and so on.

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It just doesn't make sense though,
to get rid of your clippings. That

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is the foundation for your lawn fertilization. Now we have when the current fertilizing

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schedule, the new one is going
to come out, it is going to

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include when you fertilize in with what
like it always has. But those are

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the additions that allow us to have
increased density, to allow us to have

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even better health and better green,
better beauty to the lawn. But if

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you take clippings and get rid of
them, then you we're gonna start doubling

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up on fertilizers the ones we put
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So now we got to add even
more back instead of recycling those And that's

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the foundation for your fertilization. Schedule, and then the fertilization is done on

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top of that. It's a huge
difference. It's a big difference. Thing

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about two pounds of nitrogen for thousand
square feet for clippings. I'll tell you

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what. We are going to go
to Brennam now and we're going to talk

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to Mike. Hello Mike, Hello, sir, how are you? And

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well? Thanks? What's up?
I have a question, actually two questions.

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So I have a burn pile.
I live out in the country.

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If I distribute those ashes, and
those ashes are mostly from tree trimmings and

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stuff like that, okay, would
that be beneficial to distribute that through the

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lawn. It depends. It depends
on what. Like, if your lawn

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was a little high pH, ashes
would help excuse me, low pH Acidic

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ashes would help bring the pH a
little up a little bit. If your

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lawn was needing certain nutrient ingredients potassium, phosphors and things, you're going to

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have that uh in wood ashes that
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of anything, it's not good.
And so I would just say in moderation,

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and you know, look, if
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a good guide. You can look
at the nutrient value and ashes. You

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can go online look it up and
things like that. You know, most

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of the fireplace ashes from most woods
are going to be well, they can

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be anywhere from about four percent to
even eight or nine percent potassium. They're

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going to have some soluble salts in
them, and the pH is going to

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be way up there. I mean
we're talking about eleven or twelve pH.

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So overdoing it is a big mistake. You may have noticed on farm sometime

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a big burn pile where they just
burned all the time. It's hard to

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get anything to row. But when
you have just like a little burn,

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even like when a pasture burns,
you get a real fresh new growth and

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stuff that a little bit of ashes
or a good thing. So I would

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say, oh probably I probably wouldn't
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feet or so on the lawn.
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it up from the hip. So
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yes, sir, Now you will
talking about grass clippings. Is there

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any amendment or anything that I could
add to that mix, if you will,

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to increase the breakdown of that organic
matter, if you if you can

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put the clippings down in the lawn
by chopping them up, so they'll get

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down in the thatchy area where that's
moist. They'll decompose fast, and there's

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no need for addition. They will
decompose fast enough. When I come back

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from break, I may talk a
little bit about different parts of the grass

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plant and white clippings don't make thatch. But I'm gonna have to take a

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break here. But I appreciate your
call very much, and I'll just hang

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on. I'm gonna be talking,
or you can hang up, but I

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keep listening. I'm gonna be talking
about that a little bit more. Okay,

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Yes, all right, thank you. Well, here we go to

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is the number to call, Joshua. Get you on the board and tell

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you good Sunday morning. The light
has broken out through the skies. By

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looking outside, it's just that time
of the morning where I don't know,

408
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.279
it's just I need a cup of
coffee and lawn chair or something. It's

409
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so beautiful out there. It's just
quiet and peaceful. Gives your brain time

410
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to kind of kick into gear.
Love it, love it, love it,

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love it. Well, you're listening
to garden Line. I'm your host,

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Skip Richter, and we're here to
answer gardening questions. If you'd like

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to give us a call, it's
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. I am working with
the folks with Dellweb at a new community.

415
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They have to put in a community
garden there. Now, if you

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can't get better than dell Web,
but if you had dell Weeb plus the

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Dellweb quality of homes, plus the
Dellweb living lifestyle programs, just that whole

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experience, the dell Weeb experience,
and then throw a community garden into it.

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Oh don't. I don't know where
you go from them. If you're

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If you're a listener to garden Line, you must be interested in gardening.

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If you're thinking about retirement active adults
fifty five and better, Dell Web has

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been building communities for you for over
seventy years. You can go to dellweb

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dot com slash Houston for more information
or give them a call two eight one

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00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.599
four five nine zero six zero nine
and check out this new community less than

425
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two miles from downtown full on FM
three fifty nine. Really really cool.

426
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You know I'm talking about rain this
week. I keep looking at the different

427
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.559
apps to see how much is it
going to rain and when it's going to

428
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rain. But I do know one
thing. When it rains, our soil

429
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:19.359
moves. If you're not if you
haven't been here long in the Houston area.

430
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:25.359
The reasons that streets are like driving
down the Rocky Mountains downtown some of

431
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:27.759
the areas is because the soil shifts. When it gets wet, it swells,

432
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.640
when it gets dry, it shrinks. So what happens, well,

433
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.759
it messes up our streets. It
breaks our water lines, the city water

434
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:38.119
lines underground. But for your home, it affects the foundation. It affects

435
00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:44.440
your driveways, It affects your sidewalks
and so on. The brick of the

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00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:49.079
of your home as well as the
foundation. Now a company called Fix My

437
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:56.200
Slab Foundation Repair, Fix my Slab
Foundation Repair, Tie Stricklands the owner.

438
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.759
They're the ones you need to call
because they know how to handle these things.

439
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.599
They've been working here for twenty three
years. They know how to do

440
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:07.799
it. The phone number, by
the way is two eight one two five

441
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:13.319
five forty ninety nine two eight one
two five nine forty nine. If you

442
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:15.079
tell them you're a guardline listener.
They'll give you a free estimate, and

443
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:19.799
they are committed to a fair price, and listen to this. They're committed

444
00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:23.880
to show up on time. So
if you want on time, if you

445
00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:29.200
want a fair price, and if
you want the job done right and fixed,

446
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:34.119
that is fix my slab, foundation
repair again. Two eight one,

447
00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.640
two five, five, four nine, four nine. Don't just think foundation.

448
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:39.920
Think about that driveway that's cracked,
Think about your sidewalks. They can

449
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:44.559
take all of that and put it
back in really good shape for you.

450
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.440
That's kind of nice. Everything is
always just shifting around. Sometimes the soil

451
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:52.960
drives out. The cracks are so
big. I mean, you know,

452
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:54.480
if the little family dog ran out
there, they might fall down in the

453
00:32:54.559 --> 00:33:04.200
crack and you lose them in the
backyard. I love clay soils because they

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00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.359
will hold water, they hold lots
of nutrients. They have that benefit to

455
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:12.599
them. But the negative is that
shrinks well. The negative is poor water

456
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:16.079
in infiltration, and so we just
have to deal with that. If it

457
00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:20.359
was a sandy soil, we would
be going. It drains great, but

458
00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:23.720
it won't hold water and it won't
hold nutrients. And I'm fertilizing and watering

459
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:28.960
constantly, trying to keep the plants
going well. We always have something we

460
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:30.720
can grap about, and we always
have something we can be happy about.

461
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.359
And what I say is be happy. Clay soils have their pluses, as

462
00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:40.160
do sandy soils and loam soils.
We always wish we had something other than

463
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:44.400
we have, at least that's what
it seems like to me. Hey,

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it's fourth of July weekend. I
hope you guys have great plans for really

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let's go back to the lawns a
little bit and and talk about the lawns.

481
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:07.920
Our goal when we fertilize is to
provide a supplement to encourage good growth

482
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:12.760
on our lawn. We don't overdo
it. And some people think, well,

483
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.679
here's that teaspoon is good, tablespoons
better? Mentality that is always almost

484
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:22.079
always wrong when it comes to horticulture, gardening lawns, things like that.

485
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:27.679
But you put the right amount down
and you gradually feed that lawn over time.

486
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.400
Think about yourself. I keep using
these human analogies, but they fit.

487
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:37.239
Are you gonna today eat all the
food for all next week and then

488
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:39.960
not eat all week? Of course, not you eat each day what you

489
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.519
need to eat when you need to
eat it. While our lawns are taking

490
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:50.239
up nutrients to support growth, to
support the development of the compounds in the

491
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:53.599
plant that support growth and vigor and
health. And they do it day by

492
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:59.400
day. Water flows into the roots
with nutrients and it builds grass and so

493
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.840
on. Of fertilizers. We want
our fertilizers to fertilize that way. If

494
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.079
we use something fast release, break
it up into more than one application,

495
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:12.000
but better Yeah, use a slow
release and one good product for taking care

496
00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:14.400
of your lawn. Or is the
whole Microlife line. I mean, they've

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00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:17.039
got the green bag, the sixty
four, the Purple bag, the Humates

498
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:22.719
zero zero four. But Microlife also
has a liquid line and their liquid line

499
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.239
again, wide variety of options there. I just want to tell you about

500
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:31.039
two. The Microlife Biomatrix. That's
the orange label. I love it when

501
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:35.400
they color code these things. That
makes it so easy. Orange label.

502
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:37.760
It's a seven one three fertilizers,
got plenty of nitrogen in it. It

503
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:44.360
has beneficial microbes too, and I
use it on my houseplants. They thrive

504
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.320
with that. In fact, I
put a little bit in every time I'll

505
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:51.880
water, just a gradual feed over
time. They also have the Microlife Ocean

506
00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:55.480
Harvest blue label that's a four two
three and I use that outside. It's

507
00:36:55.480 --> 00:37:00.599
a fish emulsion based fertilizer, and
I use it as a drench on the

508
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.119
plants, but you can also dilute
it down, spray it upward from underneath

509
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.559
the plant. Spray it in the
morning for best results because the stone mates

510
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:12.440
on the leaves are open, and
you just get better fully your feeding effects

511
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.119
at that time. It's not the
only time, but it's the best time.

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00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.840
It's not going to burn your plants. You want to learn more about

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00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:24.519
Biomatrix orange label or Ocean Harvest Blue
label, go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com

514
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:30.280
Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find out
about these and the many many other Microlife

515
00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:35.119
products, as well as where you
can buy Microlife near you. And trust

516
00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:38.599
me, you probably can throw a
rock to the nearest place with microlife in

517
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:46.079
your area. Traveling through Tomball away, I sometimes come down through that way

518
00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:51.639
when I'm heading from College station down
this way. But D and D Feed

519
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.920
is out on the west side of
Tomball and I tell you the Dover family,

520
00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:59.280
it just keeps getting better out there. In D and D Feed.

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00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:05.000
They just add a new expanded area
this summer, and it's of course been

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00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.760
open for a while now. Lots
more products. They've got fertilizers, they've

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00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:14.360
got vegetable seeds and vegetable plants and
other kinds of plants. They've got everything.

524
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.639
A feed store would have high end
lines like Origin, Diamond, victor

525
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:21.280
Starpro. For your pets, they've
got livestock feed. Of course, you

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00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:22.840
need to control rodents. They can
take care of that. Do you have

527
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:27.760
a pool you need cleaner for they
can take care of that. D and

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00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:32.119
D Feed absolutely great place to visit. Three miles west of two forty nine

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00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:38.840
on twenty nine twenty out in tumble
Well, here we go. It is

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00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:43.559
time to put an hour in the
books. Wow, that went fast this

531
00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:45.960
morning. We're gonna be back next
hour. I hope you hang around.

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Let me give you a phone number. Write this down seven one three two

533
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:54.960
one two fifty eight seventy four.
What's going on around your place that you've

534
00:38:54.960 --> 00:39:00.400
been wondering about. Maybe it's a
problem, but I enjoy not tuck about

535
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:04.480
problems too. Maybe it's just,
Hey, I got a flower bed and

536
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:07.440
I really like some color. But
I don't know. Can I plant now?

537
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:09.119
I mean, for crying out loud, it's already July. Well,

538
00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:13.679
the answer she asked, let's talk
about what maybe you put in that flower

539
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:15.840
bed, any kind of questions you
have. Trees and turf, those are

540
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:20.639
the big two. That's what makes
the tone ring most. But if you've

541
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:23.360
got a question about Cole Robbie for
next fall, I'll answer that one too.

542
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:28.320
You know, I don't think I've
ever gotten a Cole Robbie question the

543
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:32.199
whole time I've been doing gardening and
being an extension agent. Hey, we'll

544
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:40.320
be right back. Stick around.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

545
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:46.719
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line

546
00:39:46.960 --> 00:40:09.280
with Skin Director. So just what
goub mourning? Wow, beautiful outside,

547
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:13.159
Take a look, it's gonna be
a nice day. I'm looking forward to

548
00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:16.440
getting out there myself a little bit
after the show here today, okay,

549
00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:20.920
a little bit still slight breeze going
on. I'd be a good day right

550
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.320
now to be setting outside in the
garden, getting a few things done before

551
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.440
the sun comes up and makes things
a little bit interesting. You know,

552
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.079
one of my One of my favorite
things to do is to go visit garden

553
00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:37.320
centers and nurseries around the Greater Houston
area. And you hear me brag all

554
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:44.119
the time on this region. This
area has unbelievable garden centers, I mean

555
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:47.440
mom and pops where you get service, you get care, you get amazing

556
00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:51.960
selection of plants that grow here.
You get people that know what they're talking

557
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.880
about so they don't lead you wrong. Well. An example of just that

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00:40:55.039 --> 00:41:00.639
is Arburgate. If you're up anywhere
near the Tomball area, you've got to

559
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:02.519
see Arburgate. If you have them
already, I mean, have you been

560
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:06.840
living under a gardening rock? If
you don't, haven't been to Arburgate yet.

561
00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.159
Www dot Arbergate dot com. They're
about a mile and a half west

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00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.440
of two forty nine on twenty nine
twenty in Tumball and Arburgate is one of

563
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.599
those destination garden centers. It's just
and it's always changing. If you went

564
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.440
last week, come back this week, there's gonna be something new, something

565
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.719
you haven't seen, something different while
you're there. Look into their one,

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00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:30.119
two three, completely easy system.
It's a system that's so easy you can't

567
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.360
mess it up. Number one,
it's a food that feeds anything with plants.

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00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:38.159
We're talking about organic food complete.
It's a four four three plus ten

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00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:45.320
percent calcium one organic food and of
course it has the organic matter. You

570
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.199
get all the nutrients. They're going
to give you a gradual release. It's

571
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:51.440
not going to burn your plants.
Anything with roots, you're going to do

572
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:55.519
well with the arburgates organic food complete. Now, secondly, we've got the

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00:41:55.880 --> 00:42:02.119
organic soil complete, and that includes
not just the soil blend itself, but

574
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:07.199
it also has large particles of sand
and expanded shale. We have a problem

575
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:12.119
with clay soils not draining well.
I talked about that earlier. This is

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00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:15.480
one of the steps that you take
to start to loosen that soil. Every

577
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:19.280
time you amend it. And you
had a little expanded shale, you had

578
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.400
a little compost, you had a
little large particle sand. It just gets

579
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:24.719
better and better. And then finally
there's their compost or get it, compost

580
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:30.239
complete. So this would include two
different kinds of composts that are blended together,

581
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:36.280
packed with beneficial insects. It's got
a nice balance of macro and micronutrients.

582
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.840
And then again the expanded shale that
helps take it up to the next

583
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:44.440
level. All of that you're going
to find it Arburgate along with by the

584
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:46.920
way, empty out your trunk,
your pick up, whatever, because you

585
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:51.280
need a lot of room for plants
when you're heading out there as well.

586
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:55.559
Arburgate and tumble. Let's go talk
to John V in League City. Now,

587
00:42:55.719 --> 00:43:01.360
Good morning, John V. Good
morning Skip and garden Line. Yes,

588
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:07.519
my question this morning is on irises, okay, and I wanted to

589
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:12.679
see if you if you start the
seedling and a pod and then transfer it

590
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.960
to the yard, because they can
grow pretty tall, like three to four

591
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:20.320
feet to five feet. Yeah,
if you want to do it from seed,

592
00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:22.199
that's a challenge, but I bet
you could do it. Yeah you

593
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:27.000
would. I would just start it
in a container, really bright area,

594
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:29.400
but out of the direct sun.
You don't want it to be one hundred

595
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:32.000
and twenty degrees where that seed is
trying to sprout. In fact, I

596
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:37.039
might even get it started inside just
to get it up and sprouted and then

597
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:42.800
move it into you know, an
outdoor location that's maybe a little morning sun.

598
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:45.840
But as it gets older and older
and stronger and stronger, it's gonna

599
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:50.079
be it's gonna be fine. But
irises or they survived through the summer,

600
00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:52.599
but they're not real happy about it, you know, So I would think

601
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:58.800
seed would be even less happy.
Okay, because I was thinking about our

602
00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:01.920
neighbors have a whole line of the
bright orange yellow and then I've seen the

603
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:07.920
red. It's striking with the dark
maroon leaves. Okay, but I'm partial

604
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:09.280
to purple. So I'm thinking,
I'm just going to do a ceiling of

605
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:14.719
each one of those and three different
containers, and what soil do I use.

606
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:19.519
Oh gosh, You've got lots of
options for soil. Anything that is

607
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.840
you know, a good quality container
mix. I would I should just thinking

608
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:27.400
about all the different options out there. The Airloom Soils has some really good

609
00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:31.000
quality stuff that I know. The
Nature's Way also has a really good you

610
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:34.800
know, the rose soils. You're
not going to go wrong with those,

611
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.280
and that would be just fun.
If you just wanted to use more of

612
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:43.280
a container potting type mix, that
would be fine too. There is a

613
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:47.159
number of products. I know.
Heirloom has a couple of soils potting mixes

614
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:52.639
that they put together that work really
well. Okay, I'm going to just

615
00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:57.400
stick with the rose soil because I
need it for the chacinum containious. I

616
00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:00.440
can't go wrong. You know.
I understand roses in the name, but

617
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:06.559
it otto say rose pretty much everything
else too. All right, well,

618
00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:10.199
wonderful, Well y'all have a blench
of wonderful and safe fourth of July weekend,

619
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:14.320
and I look forward to talking with
yond next week. Thank you so

620
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:19.599
much, wonderful time. Thank you
appreciate that call. You know, Dean

621
00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:23.760
Nelson started Nelson Plant foodback in nineteen
eighty three, and the goal was to

622
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:29.440
create a professional grade horticulture fertilizure for
the green industry. And they've done just

623
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:34.400
that. They started selling color Star
and Nutristar. They've now got the turf

624
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:38.360
Star and the Nature Stars, an
organic line. So many options with Nelson

625
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:42.719
Plant Food. If you want synthetic, if you want organic, they're going

626
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.239
to have both of those. In
the summertime, it's time to make sure

627
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:50.159
we give our lawns that gradual feed
that I keep talking about like a broken

628
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:52.800
record, slow and easy as how
you want them to feed. Guess what?

629
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:58.360
There is a product called Slow and
Easy twenty two two ten from Nelson

630
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:01.480
Plant Food that will gradually feed.
You're going to cut down on that.

631
00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:05.039
You're going to cut down on mowing. You're going to have a deeper root

632
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:08.559
system instead of all top growth like
an immediate release might give you. You're

633
00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:12.719
not going to do better than Slow
and Easy. It's a very high quality

634
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:16.199
product that will help your build your
lawn into a beautiful lawn. And remember

635
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:22.920
as you do this, keep returning
those clippings because that it not only does

636
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:24.400
it feed the soil. You know
what else returning clippings does. By the

637
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.800
way, you're putting like a mulch
on the soil just a little bit at

638
00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:31.639
a time. But the more you
block light from the soil surface, the

639
00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:37.920
less weed seeds germinate and establish weeds, and so just another reason to do

640
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:43.039
that. But combined feeding with the
clippings, feeding with a quality product like

641
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:45.719
Slow and Easy, you are going
to have a dense, beautiful, healthy

642
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.119
lawn as we go into fall.
And then we'll do a fall fertilization later

643
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:53.280
on, but for now you'll get
there just with that Slow and Easy.

644
00:46:54.639 --> 00:47:01.039
We have a a lot of activity
right now going on in the flower beds

645
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:06.000
at my house. We've got things
like there's angelonia that I've got. In

646
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.119
fact, I got to get some
planted. I've got some other plants I

647
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:12.280
picked up yesterday, some some perennials
that I want to put in the ground

648
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:15.840
to get those planted for summer.
And you know it. I know it's

649
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:20.519
hot outside, but the early morning
hours are a good time to get out

650
00:47:20.559 --> 00:47:22.559
and do something. Maybe one morning
you go out and you clear the area

651
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:25.880
out, and another morning you go
out and you throw some composts over the

652
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:30.199
surface and begin to work that in
to build that soil a little bit better.

653
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:32.000
Another day you go out and do
the planting and the watering and so

654
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:35.760
on. You don't have to get
it all done at once, but don't

655
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:38.800
let summer go by without adding color
to your landscape. And don't let summer

656
00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:45.760
go by without putting a quality,
a quality type of landscape plants and fertilizers

657
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:50.039
into your soil to make it better
and better. Well, we're gonna take

658
00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:52.920
a quick break here our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

659
00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:57.039
seventy four. Call Josh, get
on the board and you'll be first up

660
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:15.559
when we come back. Well,
good morning. You are listening to garden

661
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:21.440
Line on a beautiful Sunday morning.
Good time to talk about gardening. Good

662
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:23.960
time to be gardening. You know, if you we love we love our

663
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:30.920
feed stores on garden Line. Just
so many great mom and pop type feed

664
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.800
stores. And if you live down
in the League City area, maybe Webster,

665
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:37.639
Nassau Bay Bay Cliff, Chema,
League City, Dickinson, San Leone.

666
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:40.320
You get the idea. Anywhere down
there, down to Lamark, even

667
00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:45.599
League City feed is your mom and
pop hometown feed store. Wes and Madison

668
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:51.320
Thunderberg operate one of the one of
my favorite feed stores to go into.

669
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:53.760
It's got that old time feel,
you know, people that bring your feed

670
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:55.599
out for you. If you need
them to carry the feed out for you,

671
00:48:55.639 --> 00:48:59.719
they're happy to do that. They've
got everything a feed store would have.

672
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:04.360
And by the way, this was
this vista was built the building over

673
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.960
forty years ago in an Okra patching. My personal opinion is anything that starts

674
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:12.039
in an Okra patch is a good
deal. I'm just a biased Okra fan,

675
00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.440
but anyway, seriously, they've got
all the fertilizers we talk about.

676
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:19.760
You're going to find pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, quality pet food. If

677
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.960
you got backyard chickens or want to
have backyard chickens, all your chicken need

678
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:27.320
products are there. You're gonna find
everything you need, waters feed, betting,

679
00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:29.760
and on and on and on,
and they have local honey. You

680
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:34.239
get the idea. League City Feed
Monday through Saturday, nine am to six

681
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:37.000
pm, closed on Sunday. Here's
the number. Two eight one three three

682
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:44.079
two sixteen seventeen. Two eight one
three three two sixteen seventeen. We're gonna

683
00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:46.719
go out to Katie and we're going
to visit now with David. Hello,

684
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:51.280
David, Hello, share power?
Are you doing today? I'm well,

685
00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:55.440
thanks, Yeah, I just got
a question. In this really extreme heat

686
00:49:55.480 --> 00:50:00.719
that we've had, I'm a little
leery of fertilize. I think this time

687
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.639
was here at the lawn worried about
burning. Is that? Is it a

688
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.519
problem with the heat cyspan? Is
there something we should do differently? If

689
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:10.239
you now we fertilize a lot.
Yeah, that's a good point. So

690
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:14.599
if you if you fertilize according to
how I'm talking about, you will not

691
00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:17.000
have a problem. Now if you
took a bunch of salt based immediate release

692
00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:22.320
fertilizer and over applied it, yes, you can burn prop plants. It's

693
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:27.480
hot and it's a salt based product. I'm talking about using an organic product

694
00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:32.880
or using a synthetic slow release product
and there it just it's not like you

695
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:38.239
put water on it and it all
dissolves away. It stays like it is

696
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:42.320
and gradually breaks down over time.
So you're not going to burn with those,

697
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:45.480
and they're just fine. Now you
need to be returning your clippings for

698
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:49.400
sure, but if your lawn lacks
density, you need to keep it going.

699
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:53.320
Especially if it lacks density because as
we get into the September October season,

700
00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:58.159
then all the cool season weeds are
going to germinate if sunlight is hitting

701
00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:04.119
the soil. So now time to
get that density built so that next springs

702
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:07.960
weed problems are even affected by that. Okay, well that's good, then

703
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.960
I'm planning it. I was,
I was. I was scared. I

704
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.519
was going to burn my lawa.
But I use a slow release. I'll

705
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:19.880
just continue to follow the schedule like
I have. Yeah, and let it

706
00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.559
ride. Yeah, we're good and
being out there, and Katie, You've

707
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:27.599
got some great hardware stores. Ace
hardware stores out there in the Katie area.

708
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.800
They're going to have every kind of
product that I just talked about right

709
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:35.280
there, So it real easy easy
for you, easy for you to find.

710
00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:37.480
Thank you for the call, David. Okay, thank you. Skip.

711
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:39.599
Have a good day. You have
a good fourth of July, yes,

712
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:43.199
sir, and you as well.
Yeah, speaking of fourth of July,

713
00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:45.360
Ace Hardware ACE hardware dot Com is
where you need to go. Just

714
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.400
type it in ACE Hardware dot Com
find their store locator. There's only thirty

715
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:52.440
nine stores in the Greater Houston area. You think we could find three or

716
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:55.599
four near us? I bet you
could. I bet you could. They

717
00:51:55.639 --> 00:52:00.159
carry all the products we talk about. And you know, I love going

718
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:05.400
into a place that has that old
fashioned service, the helpful, friendly associates.

719
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:07.440
That's what you get with ACE.
Of course, here comes fourth of

720
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:10.320
July. My gosh, do you
need a webber, a trigger, a

721
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:15.639
tregger, a big green egg barbecue? Do you just need some supplies for

722
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:20.480
your barbecuing? Do you need outdoor
bling to help set up that beautiful outdoor

723
00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:23.840
setting where you have friends and family
and guests you know, coming and just

724
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:29.039
kicking back and enjoying it. ACE
has all of that and much much more.

725
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:31.920
Ace Hardware dot Com. Find the
one near you, and that will

726
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:37.960
not be hard to find because there
are so many of those. I was

727
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:40.360
talking about my vegetable garden. I've
got vegetable beds that I built a while

728
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:45.559
back, and I built my beds
at that time out of a treated timber,

729
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:50.239
and you know, they're doing okay. I know. The long term

730
00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:53.239
of that though, is they're not
going to last forever, and warping and

731
00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:57.880
twisting and things like that are a
concern. A lot of people don't like

732
00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:00.800
the treated timbers because they don't want
any kind of a chemical in the garden

733
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:06.079
that they can avoid. Well,
if you're like that, I tell you

734
00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:09.360
you need to know about the Vego
garden beds. That's a modular metal garden

735
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:14.920
bed. It's been super treated to
prevent rust and corrosion. It's been painted

736
00:53:14.920 --> 00:53:17.639
with a quality paint tested at Texas
and m by the way, that is

737
00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:22.719
safe to use. So you don't
have a treated timber now. I even

738
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:27.239
though I have a treated timber in
my garden, the next garden bed I

739
00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:30.519
put in will be a Vego bed. I'm just trying to make the space

740
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:35.599
right now to add those beds in
because that's the only thing holding me back.

741
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:38.400
I think it's the only way to
go for a quality raised bed.

742
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:43.119
They're modular. So do you want
to make a C shape? Do you

743
00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:46.039
want to make a square or rectangle? You get the idea. A long,

744
00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:49.760
skinny bed, a fat wide bed. You can do it all.

745
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:52.320
You just put it together. It's
like you're playing with legos, right,

746
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:54.880
I mean, except a little bit
different than legos. But you get the

747
00:53:54.960 --> 00:54:01.960
idea, super easy, supermodular.
If you are in any way thinking about

748
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:07.000
trying gardening, I would use the
vegobed because it'll make it easier and you

749
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:10.679
will have success. And it looks
good. And it's hard to find beds.

750
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:15.559
Railroad ties don't look good. Treated
lumber I don't think looks good.

751
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:20.760
The what is a center blocks don't
look good in my opinion, vegobeds are

752
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:22.920
beautiful. You get to pick your
color. And they're a Houston company right

753
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:29.519
here. Now, there's a lot
of impostors on the market selling metal modular

754
00:54:29.559 --> 00:54:32.079
beds. Don't be fooled by those. Vego was the original here in the

755
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:37.119
United States, and it is the
one you need. And besides, it's

756
00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:39.800
a local Houston company, And I
just don't think you're going to do better.

757
00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:43.559
You'll find Vego all over the place. You can go on Vegogarden dot

758
00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:45.760
com to find out more information,
find out where to get them. Some

759
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:50.039
of our our retail garden centers even
carry them. I was out at what

760
00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:53.719
was I yesterday in Chened Forrest and
I know both in Chened Forest and Chened

761
00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:59.840
Garden have vegot at their garden center. So try out a vegobed you will

762
00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:02.119
be very pleased with the results.
And check them out on line too.

763
00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:09.119
You know, we're in that season
of the year where the weather can turn

764
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:14.199
on us here and we end up
dealing with things like hurricanes and when the

765
00:55:14.199 --> 00:55:19.119
wind blows through that can be a
problem. That can be a for sure

766
00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:22.519
problem. You need to consider having
Affordable Tree. Come out and check out

767
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:27.119
your trees and see what's needed.
Do you have a dead limb? Is

768
00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:30.960
something rubbing your shingles? Do you
have a tree hanging over your house or

769
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:35.440
over something else valuable? Let the
folks from Affordable Tree and buy the folks

770
00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:38.559
I mean Martin Spoon Moore. Martin
and his wife Joe run Affordable Tree.

771
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:43.800
Give him a call. It's seven
one three, six nine twenty six sixty

772
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:47.440
three, or you can go online
aff Tree Service dot com. They put

773
00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:51.119
garden line listeners at the front of
the line, so let them know that.

774
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:54.159
But anything you need done, maybe
it's not removing trees, but I

775
00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:58.559
would have them take a look and
get them ready for the hurricane season we

776
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:01.239
are now in. Maybe you need
deep root feeding, maybe you just need

777
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:07.599
consultations. It is well worth having
a consultation done by them, especially if

778
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:12.639
you're going to do any kind of
tree work or trenching or building around a

779
00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:16.079
tree. Don't make the mistake of
waiting until it's too late and the damage

780
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:20.159
has been done. Get them out
ahead of time. By the way,

781
00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:27.559
I was talking about roofs and whatnot, I am interested in solar shingles and

782
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:30.239
I'm considering putting those on my house
right now. And here's your reason.

783
00:56:30.280 --> 00:56:32.320
I didn't even know they existed.
I thought you had to put the big

784
00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:37.559
solar panels on top of the roof. But Brinkman has these timberline solar shingles.

785
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:40.119
They are the roof. They're not
on the roof, they are the

786
00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:45.199
roof, fully guaranteed twenty five years
of service. Now. Brinkman has been

787
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:51.239
providing roofing in Houston for what fifty
years now. It's the largest, one

788
00:56:51.239 --> 00:56:54.239
of the largest investments in your home
that When you put on a roof,

789
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:59.400
you need quality workmanship, you need
a quality product, and you need a

790
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guarantee like that twenty five year guarantee, whether it's residential or commercial. If

791
00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:07.639
you want the solar shingles like I'm
interested in, or if you just want

792
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:12.559
to get a custom manufactured standing seam
metal roof on site, they built it

793
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795
00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:29.760
Let's head out to Southwest Houston now
and we're gonna talk to Anthony. Well,

796
00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:34.639
Hello, Anthony, Good morning,
sir. Um Medina has to grow?

797
00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:38.199
Yes, Um, I've got my
regular fertilizers organics for my tomato plants.

798
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:42.679
And in between, you know,
I follow the schedule on the bag,

799
00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:46.880
and in between I mixed out my
water, just watering with a bit

800
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.480
of medina. Is that messing up
the piece of pH? No? It

801
00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:53.840
is not. No, No,
you're not You're not mess up the pH

802
00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:58.519
with product like medina has to grow? Not at all. Okay, how

803
00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:06.039
about them our guardina, No,
they'll be fine. You know that we

804
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:09.239
mess up the pH when we put
things like calcium on that gets it too

805
00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:13.440
high when we use fireplace ashes.
We were talking about that before. Some

806
00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:16.079
of the some of the organic products
even can be a little higher in pH,

807
00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:20.159
like a mushroom compost of very high
in pH and can cause those kinds

808
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:25.760
of problems on your gardenias. But
just just fertilize within acidic fertilizer and you're

809
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:30.559
a you're every time you fertilize,
you're just helping keep it pushed down just

810
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:32.519
a little bit and they'll be fine. And if you're ever in doubt,

811
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:36.000
you can have a soul test and
then you find out if you need to

812
00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:40.400
make some bigger adjustment. Okay,
yeah, because I was thinking how the

813
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:45.400
medina is real good for micro organisms
yea, there, and then the fertilizer

814
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:49.559
is great for the pats. Yeah. Well, and then there's fertilizers that

815
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:52.800
have micro'sentum too. I mean,
we have some good organic fertilizers that are

816
00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:58.159
loaded with micro micro organisms and that
would just be discontinuing to help support and

817
00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:02.559
build out, keep the soul moist
and your microbes can thrive. Okay,

818
00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:06.760
Well, thank you for the call, Anthony. I appreciate that very much.

819
00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:10.519
It is It's great to talk to
you if you are interested maybe in

820
00:59:10.599 --> 00:59:15.639
retiring. You're looking at where do
I want to retire? Well, you

821
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:19.280
probably have heard of Dellweb. I
mean they've been building communities for active adults

822
00:59:19.400 --> 00:59:22.920
age fifty five and better what over
seventy years. Now, Well, the

823
00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:25.960
new community for Dellweb here is down
in full Scher. It's less than two

824
00:59:25.960 --> 00:59:30.880
miles from downtown Fulsher on FM three
fifty nine. Now, this community is

825
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:35.559
special to me because they've contacted me. They're putting in a community garden,

826
00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:38.760
and I'm helping them with that.
Now, I can't imagine a better combination

827
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:43.760
than the quality of a home in
a dell Weeb community, the quality of

828
00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:47.400
the lifestyle programs in a Dellweb community, and then having a community garden to

829
00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:52.320
boot on top. Go to dellweb
dot com slash Houston if you'd like more

830
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:57.920
information, or you can call two
eight one four five nine zero six zero

831
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:05.199
nine and find about that Dellweb difference
and that Fullshire community for yourself. Well,

832
01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:08.280
we're gonna take a break here get
some news and other information that we

833
01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:12.760
need to have a good day.
But in the meantime, give Josh a

834
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:15.880
call it's seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd

835
01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:21.239
like to talk and we will discuss
whatever you're interested in when we come back

836
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:24.320
from the break, Well, here
comes the news. I guess we're going

837
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:29.719
to find out everything exciting that's happening
in Houston, and maybe some not so

838
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:51.239
exciting that's happening. Let's go to
this successful good Sunday morning, on a

839
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:54.079
great day for gardening. You're listening
to garden Line, and we are happy

840
01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:59.599
to talk about whatever kinds of plant
stuff you're interested in. I've got some

841
01:00:59.639 --> 01:01:02.400
ideas about some things I want to
cover here in this segment, but if

842
01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:06.840
you'd like to give us a call
seven one three two one two fifty eight

843
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:13.760
seventy four. If you are anywhere
near the Heights, and even if you're

844
01:01:13.800 --> 01:01:16.840
not, you need to know about
Buchanans Native plants. Buchanans is in the

845
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:22.400
Heights on six or on eleventh Streets
excuse me, six eleven East eleventh Street.

846
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:27.719
You can go online to Buchanans Plants
dot com and find out more information.

847
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:29.800
By the way, when you're there, sign up for their newsletter.

848
01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:32.679
Lots of great information if you can
and specializes in natives. Of course,

849
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:36.320
they have every kind of plant you
can imagine. They've got herbs right now,

850
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:38.039
a nice selection. I saw the
other day some herbs in there.

851
01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:43.760
They always have vegetables and flowers.
And if you need plants for shady areas,

852
01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:45.320
you know you live in a neighborhood. The trees have gotten big.

853
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:50.280
That's a nice thing, cooler on
a summer day. But it's a little

854
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:53.239
challenging finding plants. Not at Buchanans. They've got all kinds of plants for

855
01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:58.159
shade areas. But they specialize in
natives, and they specialize in things that

856
01:01:58.320 --> 01:02:01.320
don't always have to be watered all
the time. So maybe African bull being

857
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:05.719
boy, there is a tough plant. I once had a bull being that

858
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:08.559
I planted on a little clay hill
out at the street by the curb.

859
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:12.000
I mean, it was just I
don't know how water even got in the

860
01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:15.039
soil around that thing. Two years
into the ground, two hundred blooms on

861
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:19.880
it. I counted, liberty.
I did accounted the next couple of years

862
01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:23.199
later. It just thrives in that
kind of location. Mexican Buckeyes. It

863
01:02:23.280 --> 01:02:28.480
drove by some of those the other
day in a parking lot island where there

864
01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:30.599
was no watering. I mean it
was actually a street island, not a

865
01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:36.119
parking lot. A Mexican buckeye can
thrive a good understory tree with a beautiful

866
01:02:36.119 --> 01:02:38.360
wet red blooms. You get the
idea of what I'm talking about. Maybe

867
01:02:38.360 --> 01:02:40.960
silver pony foot, that's a good
one. You know. It cascades over

868
01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:45.960
the sides of a container, forms
a little bit of a groundcover. Beautiful

869
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.760
ice plant. There's another one night. If you get to water it,

870
01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:52.320
it didn't care. It's just fine
without you. All of that and more.

871
01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:57.480
Buchanans Plants go to buchanans Plants dot
com and they will give you some

872
01:02:57.559 --> 01:03:01.360
inspiration for creating a landscape that isn't
a prima donna that you've got to sit

873
01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:05.800
there and you know, with a
watering can in each hand twenty four seven,

874
01:03:05.880 --> 01:03:07.719
trying to keep it alive. That's
the kind of plants we need.

875
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:10.280
Hey, let's go out to Tumball
and we're going to visit with John a

876
01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:14.920
little bit this morning. Hello,
John, good morning, how you doing.

877
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:17.880
I'm well, Thanks, thanks.
I got a question about aeration.

878
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:22.639
Is this a good time a year
to be aerating a yard. Yeah,

879
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:25.440
it's fine. Uh. Aeration,
we like to get the lawn up and

880
01:03:25.519 --> 01:03:29.519
growing in the spring, you know, get it going, get it moving,

881
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:35.519
because aeration is somewhat of a what's
the word, trying to find the

882
01:03:35.559 --> 01:03:37.840
right word, but I mean,
you're you're poking holes in the soil,

883
01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:40.519
You're you're messing with the grass,
and so we would like to have it

884
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:45.079
up and actively growing. So as
you aerate, it can just you know,

885
01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:49.199
take off and feel right back in. Be just fine. But once

886
01:03:49.239 --> 01:03:51.960
we get past that, you can
pretty much aerate on through the season.

887
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.800
I would probably wait and not aerate
in the fall. And the only other

888
01:03:54.840 --> 01:04:00.199
time I would narrate is if you
just put down a pre emergent weed control,

889
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:08.440
then I wouldn't aerate immediately after that
because the reed control barrier or force

890
01:04:08.519 --> 01:04:11.519
field or whatever that you've got on
the surface, now you're poking holes in

891
01:04:11.519 --> 01:04:15.440
it. And so so if you're
going to do a fall pre emergent,

892
01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:18.280
I would do the aerating, get
all that done prior to then anyway,

893
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:25.880
okay, well, and then one
quick they're talking about it hurting the grass

894
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:29.119
this time of year. I just
put out some fifteen five ten and mine

895
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:31.360
in trouble. Now I watered it
in. If you watered it in real

896
01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:34.800
well you're probably okay. If you
didn't just super overapply it, that'll be

897
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:38.960
just fine. Just know that you
know it's going to be immediate release.

898
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:42.519
You're going to be a fast growth
response. So going forward in time,

899
01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:46.719
either take if you're going to continue
to use a fast release, break that

900
01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:51.599
application up into two or three light
applications, or just go ahead and get

901
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:56.840
a slow release and go that route. It just overall for you and for

902
01:04:56.880 --> 01:04:59.480
the grass health and everything, it's
just a little bit better way to go,

903
01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:04.079
especially in the warm summer when things
can really be growing fast. Oh

904
01:05:04.119 --> 01:05:08.039
perfect, Thank you, Skip you
bet, Thank you for the calle John.

905
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:14.079
Good luck with that with that lawn
out there in Tomball. Here comes

906
01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:17.880
some rain this week. And what
follows rain, well, flowers and growth

907
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:21.280
and all that. Yeah, but
what else follows rain is a mosquitoes.

908
01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:26.920
Do you have saggy gutters? Do
you have an old hollow spot in a

909
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:30.480
tree where water gets in and stands. Maybe it's an old stump of the

910
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:33.960
ground where water stands. Do you
maybe have a pond. You need to

911
01:05:34.039 --> 01:05:39.920
protect yourself against the invasion of mosquitoes. It doesn't take them long. I

912
01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:43.320
mean, they just need a little
quarter inch of water and half inch of

913
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:45.519
water for a week or two,
and next thing you know, here comes

914
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:49.760
a new crop of mosquitoes. Check
those basins underneath your flower pots on the

915
01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:55.239
patio, for example, catch basins, great mosquito breeding area. They love

916
01:05:55.559 --> 01:06:00.480
still water, they love decomposing organic
matter and water, and it doesn't take

917
01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:03.360
them long to do that life cycle. Mosquito dunks is how you shut that

918
01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:06.599
down, well number one. Underneath
your containers, you just dump them out.

919
01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:10.159
If it's a big container and it's
too hard to pick it up and

920
01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:14.960
dump and everything. Get some mosquito
granules. The mosquito dunks. Folks have

921
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:17.400
also a granular product, and you
can just throw a handful of little small

922
01:06:17.440 --> 01:06:21.159
granules in there and do that too. But the dunks are like a doughnut

923
01:06:21.239 --> 01:06:27.599
that floats and dissolves, and that
donut gradually over about a month, will

924
01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:33.239
protect against mosquito larva because it's a
natural disease of mosquito larva. It won't

925
01:06:32.719 --> 01:06:36.360
harm people. It won't harm your
pets if they drink the water. You

926
01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:40.519
can have fish in the water.
It won't harm them, birds drink the

927
01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:45.639
water. Otherwildlife don't worry about it. It is a completely specific to mosquito

928
01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:48.719
larva product and it works super super
well. If you're going to go on

929
01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:53.360
a vacation, you definitely need to
toss some dunks before you head out the

930
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:56.960
door. Hey, you can find
them at all kinds of independent nurseries we

931
01:06:57.000 --> 01:06:59.800
talk about here are mom and pops
on garden Line, the feed stores we

932
01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:03.440
talk about on garden Line, and
of course ace hardware stores all over the

933
01:07:03.480 --> 01:07:11.639
place all carry those mosquito dunks.
Our phone number seven one three two one

934
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:16.519
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

935
01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:20.199
I was checking my app. I've
got an app on my phone.

936
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:24.679
A little camera thing tells me when
birds have come to see it. And

937
01:07:25.159 --> 01:07:28.400
I got to get back to the
house. There is a squirrel that is

938
01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:32.559
ravaging my bird feeder. I get
a little pictures of a little marauding tree

939
01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:38.400
rat. Hell my bird feeders.
Anyway, I know some of you love

940
01:07:38.440 --> 01:07:42.880
squirrels. Give me a break.
Hey, So if you are interested at

941
01:07:42.920 --> 01:07:46.440
all in birds, wah, Birds
Unlimited is the coolest place ever. I

942
01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:49.639
mean, the first time I walked
into one. I was like, oh

943
01:07:49.719 --> 01:07:54.119
my gosh, I now have a
great new hobby. And it's a hobby

944
01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:56.719
that goes good with gardening too.
By the way, you know we're talking.

945
01:07:56.760 --> 01:07:59.280
I was talking earlier about sitting out
early in the morning, cup of

946
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:03.400
coffee and enjoying add bird music and
that scene just gets a whole lot better.

947
01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:06.760
Hey, wah Birds. There's seven
of them here in the Houston area.

948
01:08:06.800 --> 01:08:11.880
There's one in Katie, there's one
in Kingwood up in Northeast, there's

949
01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:15.159
one in Cyprus, Northwest pair Land
down South Belair, West Houston and clear

950
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:20.159
Lake also has a brand new Wilbirds
Unlimited. You can go to WBU dot

951
01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:27.479
COMWBU dot com and you could find
excuse me, WBU dot com forward slash

952
01:08:27.560 --> 01:08:30.319
Houston that gets you the Houston group. You can find the wall birds near

953
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:35.000
you. It is hot and it
and they need water and so make sure

954
01:08:35.119 --> 01:08:40.159
your backyards have water. For wildlife, you need to be continuing to feed

955
01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:44.680
the birds. There's a nesting super
blend that Wilbirds makes that's perfect for summer

956
01:08:44.680 --> 01:08:48.960
feeding because the bluebirds are still nesting
through July. Cardinals, chickeneese wrens are

957
01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:53.640
all still nesting as well. Molting
is going to start later in the summer,

958
01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:56.640
and birds, of course they lose
their old feathers and get new ones

959
01:08:57.000 --> 01:09:00.600
and to keep in top condition,
nesting super blend all the way through August.

960
01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:04.359
We'll even support the birds when they
go through that molting period. Wild

961
01:09:04.359 --> 01:09:10.119
Birds Unlimited. Checkout one by the
way. It's a great place for gifts.

962
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:14.439
Uh yeah, one time I gave
my mother in law a bird hummingbird

963
01:09:14.479 --> 01:09:19.359
feeder. There's just a beautiful one
bird gift. Birding gifts are a great

964
01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:24.720
idea for the friends and family on
your list. We're gonna take a break

965
01:09:25.159 --> 01:09:29.000
seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four. Let's talk to

966
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:39.279
you when we come back. Fly
right, straighten up and fly right,

967
01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:44.640
coop down, pope, But don't
you blow you top. Ain't no using

968
01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:50.600
diving. I what's the use of
jiving? Straighten up and fly right,

969
01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:55.840
coop down, pope, But don't
you blow you tom. You're born in

970
01:09:56.680 --> 01:10:00.279
beautiful day. Oh my gosh,
look outside the clouds to float big.

971
01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:02.439
Got a little bit of breaks here
and there from the sun. Probably got

972
01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:05.840
some rain coming in this week too. Looking forward to that one for sure.

973
01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:10.199
Hey, if you live out in
the Kingwood area. You are fortunate

974
01:10:10.640 --> 01:10:14.319
to have two of the top garden
centers here in the Greater Houston area,

975
01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:17.960
and that is Warren's Southern Gardens,
which is on North Park Driving Kingwood.

976
01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:23.560
Kingwood Garden Centers just a little ways
over on Stone Hollow Driving Kingwood. Both

977
01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:27.640
of those are open seven days a
week. So these are your hometown mom

978
01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:31.439
and pop garden centers for New Caneyan
Valley Ranch, porter A, Tascaseda Humble

979
01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:36.439
Kingwood. Just cover a wide variety
or ride range of the area out there.

980
01:10:38.039 --> 01:10:41.119
They've got the Microlife, nitro FoST, turf Star, heirloom soils,

981
01:10:41.239 --> 01:10:45.159
Nelson plant food, you know the
different mosquito dunks we're just talking about.

982
01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:48.720
For example, they've got a filling
station for the jugs of Microlife and Nelson.

983
01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:53.479
So if you buy Microlife or Nelson
in the jug, just go in

984
01:10:53.520 --> 01:10:57.359
there and you just reach up and
pull down the handle and fill up your

985
01:10:57.439 --> 01:11:00.520
jug. It's an economical way to
do it, and you avoid extra plastic

986
01:11:00.520 --> 01:11:02.279
in the environment, which is always, of course a good thing. Both

987
01:11:02.279 --> 01:11:04.720
of those are open, I guess
I said seven days a week, so

988
01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:09.520
today would be a good day to
visit with them. They're loaded with quality

989
01:11:09.560 --> 01:11:13.319
products, and like all of our
good mom and pops, the folks that

990
01:11:13.399 --> 01:11:16.119
work there know what they're talking about. They can point you to a plant,

991
01:11:16.439 --> 01:11:19.680
they can discuss with you problems you've
been having and what you might need

992
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:25.359
to do to fix it. That
alone is worth a visit to these quality

993
01:11:25.399 --> 01:11:29.399
garden centers out there in Kingwood.
I'm going to head out now to friends.

994
01:11:29.439 --> 01:11:32.239
Would go the opposite direction, down
south, and we're going to talk

995
01:11:32.279 --> 01:11:38.079
to Wayne. Hello, Wayne,
Hey, good morning. Yeah, I

996
01:11:38.119 --> 01:11:45.479
have a question about these hot temperatures
and asperacas grows fundy and how shall we

997
01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:49.479
protect the plane. You know,
when you say gross funny, is it

998
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:56.199
looking abnormal or what are you seeing? They are not growing normal like the

999
01:11:56.319 --> 01:12:00.279
springtime of cool, weir that they
grow real, these small leaves and things

1000
01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:05.800
like that. Okay, yeah,
well, asparagus can take the heat.

1001
01:12:05.880 --> 01:12:10.239
We just have to give it adequate
water, not drowned it, but keep

1002
01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:15.079
it adequately moist and get it through
the summertime. I would hold off on

1003
01:12:15.600 --> 01:12:19.399
extra fertilizer. It does need nutrients, so if you haven't fertilized at all,

1004
01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:23.520
a light application would be a good
thing. Or you could just I

1005
01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:26.920
just like to add composts to the
surface. It becomes a mulch, but

1006
01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:31.199
it also breaks down and releases nutrients
into the soil. And they just got

1007
01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:34.399
to get through this hot summer weather
and then when we get toward fall,

1008
01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:38.000
we'll, of course in the cool
season cut them back so we can get

1009
01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:41.960
our harvest again next spring. But
I would I would just let them grow.

1010
01:12:42.079 --> 01:12:44.119
You know. If there's dead frounds, you can take those out,

1011
01:12:44.199 --> 01:12:47.000
but in general, it's a perennial
and we just need to keep it adequately

1012
01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:51.319
hydrated and it'll be all right.
Should I cut it down or just a

1013
01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:56.279
little bit grow like that? Oh
no, I wouldn't cut it down now.

1014
01:12:56.399 --> 01:12:59.960
I wouldn't force it to use stored
energy to regrow. I would leave

1015
01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:02.199
it. If you've got dead fronds, you know, they're not green,

1016
01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:06.720
they're tan like asparagus gets when it
dies. You can take those out,

1017
01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:12.279
but I wouldn't take anything living out
right now. Okay, I have a

1018
01:13:12.359 --> 01:13:17.760
second question about us directing fruit right
now, it grows normally, But I

1019
01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:21.760
want to change the soil. Should
I change in this summer time or not

1020
01:13:23.359 --> 01:13:27.680
this I'm using the flour part.
Yeah, Should I change the soil or

1021
01:13:27.800 --> 01:13:30.239
don't change the soil, to leave
it alone. If there's not a problem

1022
01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:34.439
with them the way they're looking.
I would not change the soil right now.

1023
01:13:35.439 --> 01:13:40.520
I mean next I don't know,
you know, you could you could

1024
01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:44.680
reapot them and stuff next spring,
if you want to go through that and

1025
01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:48.279
do it. But if I wouldn't
think there's a need to change the soil

1026
01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:53.560
if the plant's looking okay. Now, over time the soil and that container

1027
01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:57.760
sinks down because it oxidizes, it
decomposes away and you have to add fresh

1028
01:13:57.800 --> 01:13:59.960
soil. So that would be a
time to you know, you could live

1029
01:14:00.119 --> 01:14:02.520
them up, refill the soil level, and then put them back in there.

1030
01:14:03.239 --> 01:14:06.439
But I wouldn't do that right now. That's asking too much at this

1031
01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:12.079
time of the year. Okay.
Now, was the fertilizer rating for the

1032
01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:15.640
directing food? You know, you
know, I would anything that that's going

1033
01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:19.359
to do good for fruits and vegetables
will be just fine. For the dragon

1034
01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:28.000
fruit, there's not like a specific
dragon fruit fertilizer. Okay, all right,

1035
01:14:28.479 --> 01:14:30.960
I appreciate it, thanks a lot, yeah, Wayne. And if

1036
01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.600
you go with like an organic product, then you can just kind of sprinkle

1037
01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:36.399
it on the surface work it in
a little bit and it's just going to

1038
01:14:36.479 --> 01:14:41.319
gradually feed over time. So that's
another another good thing that you can do

1039
01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:45.600
out there. Hey, you're listening
to garden Line. Our number is seven

1040
01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:50.359
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. If you live in Mountain

1041
01:14:50.399 --> 01:14:56.960
Bellevue or if you live over maybe
in Baytown, I've got your hometown feed

1042
01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:00.680
store, and that is Texas Feedstop. It is on North Highway one forty

1043
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:05.199
six. It's just a few minutes
north of IT ten. So if you're

1044
01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:09.199
out on I ten and you go
up one forty six, a few minutes

1045
01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:13.359
up there on the right, there's
Texas Feed Stop. The Brian and Hope

1046
01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:16.640
Roads have created a really quality business
that's part of the community. You know,

1047
01:15:16.760 --> 01:15:23.520
local, local teenagers from the Mount
Bellevue community are going to be carrying

1048
01:15:23.520 --> 01:15:26.079
your bags at for you don't have
to lug your own bags out of the

1049
01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:28.680
car. They'll take care of that. It's that old fashioned service, you

1050
01:15:28.720 --> 01:15:32.159
know, remember being able to walk
into a place and being treated like family

1051
01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:36.680
and finding all the supplies you need, and you know, just that's the

1052
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:42.359
kind of place. Texas Feedstop is
all the fertilizers we talk about are there

1053
01:15:42.359 --> 01:15:46.680
things like the mosquito dunks. You're
going to find a Texas Feed Stop as

1054
01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:51.000
well. I think they probably even
have some of those tree hugger sprinklers there.

1055
01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:54.000
I'm pretty sure they do. If
not, but they can get them

1056
01:15:54.039 --> 01:15:58.800
for you. It's a one stop
shop, so anyone out in Bellevue,

1057
01:15:58.840 --> 01:16:02.560
they're your home town feed store and
even down to Baytown. I can't think

1058
01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:06.039
of a better trip up than to
take care of what you need, buy

1059
01:16:06.079 --> 01:16:09.800
the things you need for your lawn. They're going to have it all,

1060
01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:14.520
including the pesticides and sex sites,
fungicides, things like that, herbicides,

1061
01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:18.039
They've got it all Texas Feedstop and
you will be treated like family. Brian

1062
01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:24.439
and Hope Rhodes will make sure that
that happens. Very delightful couple love going

1063
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:32.640
by to visit the folks at Texas
Feedstop. In we were talking about earlier

1064
01:16:33.119 --> 01:16:36.760
lawns and things. I want to
talk just a little bit more about the

1065
01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:41.439
trees. If you've got a brand
new tree, you need to make sure

1066
01:16:41.479 --> 01:16:47.199
it's adequately watered through this summer heat. If you need to water any aspect

1067
01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:51.199
of your landscape, I would watch
the weather right now because maybe your lawn

1068
01:16:51.359 --> 01:16:56.039
is getting a little thirsty. That
didn't mean needed water right now, because

1069
01:16:56.119 --> 01:16:59.359
if it's going to rain in the
next day or two, why not use

1070
01:16:59.439 --> 01:17:02.520
the best water or on earth that
falls from the sky and save yourself spend

1071
01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:05.359
them money on drinking water to water
a long because then you just you know,

1072
01:17:05.399 --> 01:17:11.319
you got it wet at your own
expense with a chlorinated type of water

1073
01:17:11.600 --> 01:17:15.079
and then now here comes the good
stuff from the sky and it's already wood

1074
01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:16.640
water. So think about that a
little bit. Just makes sense. I

1075
01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:19.640
know it saves a little bit of
money, but it also it just makes

1076
01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:24.560
sense. And our trees that are
new need to get a good watering.

1077
01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:30.840
The more recently they've been planted,
the more often that they need to be

1078
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:31.920
watered. What do I mean by
that, Well, if you plant it

1079
01:17:32.039 --> 01:17:36.880
last fall, you're probably watering a
new tree now maybe about three times a

1080
01:17:36.920 --> 01:17:42.000
week something like that that was planted
last fall, because it still is putting

1081
01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:45.680
out really in the big middle of
establishing a root system from that little cylinder

1082
01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:49.359
that came out of the pot.
But if you planted it last week,

1083
01:17:49.479 --> 01:17:54.640
you better be watering them with a
light watering every day or two. And

1084
01:17:54.720 --> 01:17:59.319
I don't mean drowning them. I
just mean keeping that root cylinder moist,

1085
01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:02.600
because the soil may be boist around
them, but that doesn't change the fact

1086
01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:05.840
that all the roots are in this
little cylinder of soil, and they pump

1087
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:10.159
the soil dry, so it get's
kind of touching. Go to plant during

1088
01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:12.520
the summer, it can be done, but there's a little touch and go.

1089
01:18:12.680 --> 01:18:15.119
So take care of your plants,
and even those that were planted in

1090
01:18:15.159 --> 01:18:18.800
winter or last fall, take care
of them this first year is key because

1091
01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:21.840
think of it this way. You
don't just want them to survive. Of

1092
01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:26.159
course, we don't want them to
die. That's task number one, but

1093
01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:29.920
number two is you want them to
thrive. The faster they get out of

1094
01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:33.079
root system, the more they don't
have to stop because they're going through a

1095
01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:36.840
drought, stress or some other thing
like that, and they just keep growing

1096
01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:40.840
and keep growing. The faster you
get to hang a hammock in them.

1097
01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:43.119
If they're a fruit tree, the
bigger of a tree, you're going to

1098
01:18:43.199 --> 01:18:46.439
hang fruit on in year three or
four whenever you start harvesting that tree.

1099
01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:51.399
So it just makes sense to help
those plants along. Now, a little

1100
01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:56.319
fertilizer is okay, but you don't
need a lot, especially in this heat.

1101
01:18:56.600 --> 01:18:59.000
Just a little bit. We've got
a lot of quality. We've got

1102
01:18:59.039 --> 01:19:03.279
fruit tree foods from our fertilizer friends
here on garden Line. We have got

1103
01:19:04.279 --> 01:19:10.720
landscape food would eat, ornamental foods
that are good for shrubs and trees and

1104
01:19:10.840 --> 01:19:14.760
things. Lots of good options out
there. Moderate them out right now,

1105
01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:18.680
just gradually. The most important thing
is water. That is most important.

1106
01:19:19.079 --> 01:19:25.720
Nutrients are second most important, very
important, but water is the number one

1107
01:19:25.800 --> 01:19:29.319
thing. So don't just stop with
fertilizing. Make sure you're taking care of

1108
01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:33.119
your trees and making sure they get
watered, are really really well in order

1109
01:19:33.159 --> 01:19:35.279
for them to do their best.
And by the way, the tree hugger

1110
01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:39.920
sprinkler is probably the best way to
do that. Tree huggers wrap around the

1111
01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:43.680
tree. They have three sizes,
seven inch or eleven inch, fifteen inch.

1112
01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:45.439
You put them around the tree,
hook up the hose. They got

1113
01:19:45.439 --> 01:19:49.880
a valve, and go to tree
Hugger sprinkler dot com. You're going to

1114
01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:53.920
find out more about them. They'll
tell you the retailers that have them.

1115
01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:57.039
Pretty much. It's all the thing. The places we talk about the nurseries

1116
01:19:57.279 --> 01:20:02.720
that are independent the garden Center's hardware, so on TreeHugger, sprinkler dot com.

1117
01:20:02.840 --> 01:20:09.079
Well, here we go, another
hour in the books. You're listening

1118
01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:12.720
to garden Line and we will be
back to answer your gardening questions. When

1119
01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:15.880
we come back, we're going to
have doctor Guy Phipps. Guy is a

1120
01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:23.319
expert when it comes to all things
irrigation. Doctor Phipps is at Texas Aggerlife

1121
01:20:24.039 --> 01:20:28.920
Research and Extension up at Texas and
m the Department of agg Engineering. I

1122
01:20:28.920 --> 01:20:30.840
believe he's still in the department.
That's still the department they have may Man.

1123
01:20:31.399 --> 01:20:34.319
He is a creator or the Water
My Yard program, and we're going

1124
01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:42.399
to talk about scientific yard watering based
on data from local weather stations, so

1125
01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:45.840
you don't have to put a weather
station in the backyard. You can sign

1126
01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:51.319
up online and have a local weather
station guide you in how much water to

1127
01:20:51.479 --> 01:20:55.000
use. And I think it would
be very eye opening. I hope you'll

1128
01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:58.760
stick around. That's in the eight
o'clock hour. I'm really looking forward to

1129
01:20:58.840 --> 01:21:04.479
visiting within myself. We'll be right
back. Kt r H Garden Line does

1130
01:21:04.520 --> 01:21:11.720
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

1131
01:21:11.800 --> 01:21:24.479
to kt r H garden Line with
Scarp Ricter smells you trip. Just watch

1132
01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:40.319
him as woods. So many you
did clubs back ticking, but not a

1133
01:21:40.560 --> 01:22:29.079
sign between you did starting out of
tree you did well. Good morning.

1134
01:22:29.920 --> 01:22:32.920
It is a beautiful day outside.
We're about to get some wet stuff from

1135
01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:36.880
the skies, which is a welcome
break with the weather we've been having.

1136
01:22:36.920 --> 01:22:41.159
You're listening to garden Line and I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we

1137
01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:45.119
are fortunate today, as I was
telling you previous hour, to have doctor

1138
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:49.800
Guy Phipps as our guest guy.
Welcome, it's it's here. Yeah,

1139
01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:56.319
good, it's been it's been a
while since we talked, for since we

1140
01:22:56.439 --> 01:23:01.039
talked in person. Yes, it's
been a good Yeah, that's true.

1141
01:23:01.800 --> 01:23:05.840
You know, over the years,
I've kind of kept up with all the

1142
01:23:05.880 --> 01:23:10.479
different projects you're working on, at
least from a distance, but the one

1143
01:23:10.560 --> 01:23:15.199
when it comes to irrigation and water
conservation things like that, I just think

1144
01:23:15.239 --> 01:23:18.600
that's been the most fascinating thing in
the world. You know, it used

1145
01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:21.640
to be, and I guess to
some degree, we still do say things

1146
01:23:21.680 --> 01:23:25.720
like well, your lawn needs an
inch of water a week to do well,

1147
01:23:26.359 --> 01:23:30.800
but we forget about that. We
get water from the sky and we

1148
01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:33.800
don't have to apply all the water. Guy. I lived in Cyprus for

1149
01:23:33.840 --> 01:23:40.000
a number of years and I had
a neighbor whose sprinklers came on every other

1150
01:23:40.079 --> 01:23:44.760
day and the heads were so messaligned
that they sprayed my car and my driveway

1151
01:23:45.199 --> 01:23:47.920
and so I would park backwards on
some days to wash the other side of

1152
01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:53.319
the car. But it was just
here. It is the place where water.

1153
01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:56.399
It rains about as much as any
place in Texas, just about,

1154
01:23:56.439 --> 01:24:00.880
and yet people over water. It's
just a strange phenomenon. Yeah, but

1155
01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:06.239
you know, a lot of it
is that people have automatic controllers that control

1156
01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:12.359
their irrigations and a lot of people
just said it and forget it. There

1157
01:24:12.399 --> 01:24:15.000
you go, just just think this
little machine is smart enough to know,

1158
01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:18.760
yeah, when it rains and when
it doesn't rain. Yeah, that's true.

1159
01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:24.319
That is true. Well, I
would like to start off and just

1160
01:24:24.399 --> 01:24:29.439
talk a little bit about the concept
of a VAPO transpiration. That's one of

1161
01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:33.119
those big long words that people What
does that mean? What is the whole

1162
01:24:33.159 --> 01:24:39.399
idea of an EVAPO transporations based system. What's going on there? Okay,

1163
01:24:39.399 --> 01:24:46.720
Well, I can make it easier
et et Evapple transporation but it's easier just

1164
01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:56.560
to say ET. But what we're
talking about here is the science of irrigation,

1165
01:24:57.039 --> 01:25:02.560
okay, and there's a long history. Relative long history was like in

1166
01:25:02.640 --> 01:25:13.720
the starting in the nineteen fifties when
theories or theories began to be put forward

1167
01:25:14.079 --> 01:25:19.920
on how we could apply scientific principles
to figuring out how much water plant plants

1168
01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:26.800
need. Yeah, and so that
led to what scientists called ET right,

1169
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:32.079
which is how much water plants need
to grow as precisely what it means.

1170
01:25:32.479 --> 01:25:36.760
So the idea, and I think
everybody intuitively would know that a given plant,

1171
01:25:36.840 --> 01:25:41.119
you know, if it's seventy degrees
outside and cloudy, is not going

1172
01:25:41.159 --> 01:25:44.199
to need as much water as if
it's one hundred degrees outside and sunny.

1173
01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:47.399
You know, that's that's kind of
intuitive. But tell me what goes into

1174
01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:55.880
ET what? What? What is? How does how does science? What

1175
01:25:56.039 --> 01:26:00.239
data to science you use in order
to put together the water requirement? Like

1176
01:26:00.279 --> 01:26:01.760
I could go, well, it's
hot, you should water twice as much,

1177
01:26:01.800 --> 01:26:08.520
but that's not scientific. So well, it sort of is, as

1178
01:26:09.560 --> 01:26:15.960
engineers will say, it's not quantified. But the first scientists that came up

1179
01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:24.399
with the modern theory of irrigation.
He observed the same thing that climate influences

1180
01:26:24.479 --> 01:26:29.960
how much water plants need. And
there are some plant factors. There are

1181
01:26:30.000 --> 01:26:33.039
some differences among plants, so you
have to know something about the plant.

1182
01:26:33.600 --> 01:26:45.239
But the driving factors is the climate, specifically temperature, when relative humidity,

1183
01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:49.560
how weather or dry the area is, right, All of that affects how

1184
01:26:49.640 --> 01:26:55.800
much plants will use on any given
day. And then the big driver is

1185
01:26:55.880 --> 01:27:00.079
what we call solar radiation. Yeah, and solar radiation as a measurement of

1186
01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:05.720
how much energy from the sun we
receive. Yeah here at ground level.

1187
01:27:06.199 --> 01:27:11.479
So your grass uses a lot less
water under the shade of a tree than

1188
01:27:11.520 --> 01:27:15.439
it would out in the direct sun. I can tell that when I stretch

1189
01:27:15.560 --> 01:27:18.159
the watering a little bit and what
wilts first. In fact, by the

1190
01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:23.600
way, it's fun. Fact,
this past week I watered my lawn for

1191
01:27:23.640 --> 01:27:27.239
the first time this year. So
I've got a good root system. I've

1192
01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:30.520
taken care of it and everything.
And I wouldn't recommend somebody that's been watering

1193
01:27:30.520 --> 01:27:34.199
every day to suddenly go to once
ever three weeks or whatever. It'd be

1194
01:27:34.239 --> 01:27:40.279
a disaster. But you can wean
a lawn into a good deep root system

1195
01:27:40.399 --> 01:27:44.720
by watering properly. Yeah, by
watering properly, not too often, and

1196
01:27:44.840 --> 01:27:48.359
not putting on too many light applications. Yeah. But if you follow ET

1197
01:27:48.840 --> 01:27:54.399
watering, then that gets you there. Yeah, a little bit easier.

1198
01:27:54.640 --> 01:28:00.479
So there's my lawn, your lawn, the listener's lawn right now. The

1199
01:28:00.600 --> 01:28:03.600
sunshine, solar radiation, the wind, the humidity, and of course the

1200
01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:12.319
temperature are all being crunched together into
through a formula along with you mentioned I

1201
01:28:12.840 --> 01:28:15.279
don't know that you use the word
but like a coefficient, meaning will grass

1202
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:19.600
we need to apply this coefficient to
the formula so that it's for your lawn.

1203
01:28:19.640 --> 01:28:23.399
I mean they could do that for
a farmer with a cotton field or

1204
01:28:23.439 --> 01:28:30.960
something else. But what their little
weather stations around that gather this data to

1205
01:28:31.039 --> 01:28:38.720
make it more local. Well,
you need a local ET weather station.

1206
01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:45.439
The National Weather Service stations don't help
us because they do not measure solar radiation,

1207
01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:50.600
okay, and it's one of the
big drivers of ET. So yes,

1208
01:28:50.680 --> 01:28:57.560
you need a ET weather station and
then you need the software to do

1209
01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:00.720
all the crunching. These aren't calculation
as you'll be doing by hand, right

1210
01:29:01.039 --> 01:29:11.359
sort of thing. So your question
was, are there stations around. There

1211
01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:19.880
are some stations around and way back
nineteen ninety five, I started something it's

1212
01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:26.880
called the ET network Okay, Texas
ET Network, and I started working with

1213
01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:32.520
local sponsors and setting up ET stations
in different parts of the state, Okay,

1214
01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:38.439
so that we could have this information, uh, you know, for

1215
01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:42.079
their clientele. That's great. Well, we're gonna take a little break here

1216
01:29:42.159 --> 01:29:45.439
and when we come back, we're
going to continue this discussion and drill down

1217
01:29:45.479 --> 01:29:50.079
on how can you for free can
you believe that use ET to guide your

1218
01:29:50.119 --> 01:29:54.760
irrigation? Thank you, doctor Phipps. It's so great having you today.

1219
01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:58.000
Look forward to continue the conversation.
Hey, our phone number seven one three

1220
01:29:58.079 --> 01:30:00.039
two one two fifty eight seventy for
if you'd like to give us a call

1221
01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:03.960
ask doctor Phipps a question. I'm
sure he can answer anything you can throw

1222
01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:09.039
at him today, but we'll be
glad to visit with you about anything related

1223
01:30:09.079 --> 01:30:19.000
to watering as well. Good Bye, you gotta go o min me gotta

1224
01:30:19.119 --> 01:30:30.840
good pull a p rude down by
lane mile. And that's for all our

1225
01:30:30.880 --> 01:30:35.600
South Louisiana listeners today as well as
any other hooks over here that just enjoy

1226
01:30:36.399 --> 01:30:42.000
some good old South Louisiana type music. We're today having the privilege of being

1227
01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:45.600
able to talk to doctor Guy Phipps. Doctor Phipps is with Texas Agrilife Extension

1228
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:49.239
Service. In fact, I should
have started off this way, doctor Phipps.

1229
01:30:49.439 --> 01:30:54.479
But tell us a little bit about
your official title and basically your role

1230
01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:58.439
in duties and what you take care
of with Agrilife. Well, I SAT

1231
01:30:58.520 --> 01:31:02.000
extension, it's also research. Well, I actually have one hundred percent extension

1232
01:31:02.079 --> 01:31:06.159
the point, oh you do,
okay, I'm a professor and extension specialist.

1233
01:31:08.680 --> 01:31:15.920
My background is in agricultural engineering,
and so I for extension. I

1234
01:31:16.399 --> 01:31:24.199
one role I do is I'm the
State Extension agricultural Engineer, Okay. So

1235
01:31:24.279 --> 01:31:31.119
I kind of coordinate and interact with
other state agencies, you know, and

1236
01:31:31.199 --> 01:31:39.520
that sort of thing on issues related
to weather and irrigation and uh and then

1237
01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:45.960
uh and then like all extension specialists, my job is to take the latest

1238
01:31:46.079 --> 01:31:55.399
knowledge and information that's developed at the
universities or at UH from USDA research labs,

1239
01:31:55.119 --> 01:32:00.079
yes, and take it to the
people of Texas. And so I

1240
01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:05.359
work in both the urban sectors and
the act sectors on trying to do that,

1241
01:32:06.159 --> 01:32:13.920
and so I have short courses and
then I do applied research projects,

1242
01:32:15.640 --> 01:32:24.000
demonstration projects, and field demonstration projects, and I work with various clientele who

1243
01:32:24.960 --> 01:32:30.119
want to accomplish something but need help
in doing it. And that's how the

1244
01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:36.640
Weather my Yard program came out the
North Texas Municipal Weather District, which is

1245
01:32:36.680 --> 01:32:45.760
located up in the Dallas area.
They cover about a dozen cities around Dallas

1246
01:32:46.039 --> 01:32:54.640
to sell Weather Provider and they hadn't
been years trying to get homeowners to irrigate

1247
01:32:55.439 --> 01:33:01.239
using ET and it was hopeless because
you tell someone that they need an inch

1248
01:33:01.319 --> 01:33:04.560
of water, but what does that
mean? What does that mean? Yeah,

1249
01:33:05.319 --> 01:33:11.079
but they wanted a system that you, the user, wouldn't have to

1250
01:33:11.119 --> 01:33:15.600
know all this technical data. Okay, so that was the challenge and we

1251
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:24.039
worked with them and out of that
came the Water my Yard program. Okay,

1252
01:33:24.319 --> 01:33:28.560
Now you mentioned the texas et network
before and that that's a website.

1253
01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:33.479
If anybody's it shouldn't going. It's
texas et, dot TAMU, dot edu.

1254
01:33:33.640 --> 01:33:38.319
All the n M websites seem to
end in dot TMU, dot edu,

1255
01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:42.479
the texas et, So it looks
like you're writing Texas set t e

1256
01:33:42.720 --> 01:33:46.680
X a set and if you go
there you can see the stations across the

1257
01:33:46.800 --> 01:33:50.359
state and all of the different data
on it. I can tell you right

1258
01:33:50.359 --> 01:33:55.800
now what the maximum temperature and Corpus
Christi and the minimum temperature and Corpus Christie.

1259
01:33:56.079 --> 01:34:00.319
You know, it's all there recorded
in data. But I remember the

1260
01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:02.560
days where I'd try to go on
there and remember to check it, so

1261
01:34:02.600 --> 01:34:05.520
I know how much the water.
But the water my yard is a whole

1262
01:34:05.600 --> 01:34:11.199
new thing. Tell us about the
water my yard, how it came about

1263
01:34:11.239 --> 01:34:17.199
initially, and then how people could
use it today. So what North Texas

1264
01:34:17.279 --> 01:34:30.720
Municipal Wather District wanted was a ET
based irrigation recommendation and notification program to where

1265
01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:42.319
users would receive weekly recommendations on how
long to run they're sprinklers. They're sprinklers.

1266
01:34:42.399 --> 01:34:46.960
So it's taking it from ET telling
you how much like an inch of

1267
01:34:47.039 --> 01:34:54.720
wather you need to apply to how
long how many minutes you turn on each

1268
01:34:55.079 --> 01:35:02.920
of your sprinklers, okay, and
without anyone having have technical knowledge and not

1269
01:35:03.000 --> 01:35:08.119
having to know a lot about your
irrigation system okay. So it was quite

1270
01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:16.279
a challenge. So and then the
other thing, they wanted automatic notifications.

1271
01:35:16.279 --> 01:35:25.199
So we started this program in two
thousand and thirteen, and we hit,

1272
01:35:25.399 --> 01:35:32.960
well, it's not hidden, but
the things that the pieces of information that

1273
01:35:33.079 --> 01:35:40.640
we could pull together, we would
evaluate the area and we could decide on

1274
01:35:41.079 --> 01:35:47.479
certain information like soil type and other
technical stuff. We kind of hide all

1275
01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:54.920
of that from the user and we
set up a system where the user goes

1276
01:35:55.039 --> 01:36:00.760
to the website and they do need
to either enter the ear rigation system precipitation

1277
01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:04.880
rate, but most people don't know
what that is, right, And if

1278
01:36:05.399 --> 01:36:11.840
you don't know what it is,
then we have a little wizard that will

1279
01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:16.600
take you through a few steps to
where you identify the type of sprinkler you

1280
01:36:16.720 --> 01:36:23.720
have. We have photographs, yes, and then you and then you do

1281
01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:29.119
a few selection and that will set
up your irrigation system. That's that's nice.

1282
01:36:29.159 --> 01:36:31.039
I'm sitting here looking at it as
we speak right now, and I

1283
01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:36.760
just put in the address here for
the station and it shows that in this

1284
01:36:38.119 --> 01:36:41.920
we need point three nine inches of
water needed, which is one watering for

1285
01:36:41.920 --> 01:36:45.319
forty six minutes. It says if
you click on personalize, you get these

1286
01:36:45.359 --> 01:36:48.560
little pictures like you're describing doctor Phipps. There's the multi stream rotor that has

1287
01:36:48.600 --> 01:36:51.720
all the little fingers that drifts across
the lawn. There's the rotor that just

1288
01:36:51.760 --> 01:36:56.600
has a stream that drifts across the
pop up Solid States prays, which by

1289
01:36:56.640 --> 01:36:59.960
the way, put out water way
faster than our Houston black clays can absorb

1290
01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:02.720
a bit for sure, drip irrigation
and even a hose end. So you

1291
01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:08.399
click on that's my type of sprinkler, and so that's what takes it from.

1292
01:37:08.439 --> 01:37:11.840
Hey, you need point three nine
inches of water too, You need

1293
01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:14.800
to run your multi stream for this
long, You need to run your pop

1294
01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:17.840
up spray for this long, and
just makes it full proof. Yeah,

1295
01:37:17.920 --> 01:37:25.840
well as full proof as we can
make it without sacrificing the science. Yeah,

1296
01:37:25.880 --> 01:37:30.399
but you know the precipitation rate of
sprinklers, how fast irrigation systems put

1297
01:37:30.399 --> 01:37:39.600
out wather that varies tremendously hugely.
Yeah, So I would encourage users to

1298
01:37:39.760 --> 01:37:45.600
be sure to go through the Little
Wizard the personalize and personalize it to your

1299
01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:53.720
irrigation system. So that helps helps
me too, you know, because when

1300
01:37:53.760 --> 01:37:57.279
I get you need half an inch
of water, I don't want to do

1301
01:37:57.319 --> 01:38:02.039
calculations and figure out how many minutes
it could be or how many times a

1302
01:38:02.119 --> 01:38:08.079
week. Yes, that is yes, and so initially we set this up

1303
01:38:08.399 --> 01:38:16.359
that was seems like ancient Worldwide Web
days ago twenty thirteen. So we had

1304
01:38:16.359 --> 01:38:23.920
the website and we had choices of
text messages or emails. Uh. And

1305
01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:28.680
then a few years ago we developed
the app, the wather my Yard app.

1306
01:38:28.720 --> 01:38:32.640
And then with the app, you
know, I guess all young people,

1307
01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:36.720
I'm told they don't do websites.
It's all app. Everything has to

1308
01:38:36.760 --> 01:38:40.840
be app. But it's all in
the app. And that way you can

1309
01:38:40.880 --> 01:38:45.279
get your notification directly, Okay,
your mobile device if you prefer it that

1310
01:38:45.319 --> 01:38:47.920
way. Yeah, that is that
is nice. And I do get those

1311
01:38:47.960 --> 01:38:53.199
emails and it's really helpful to be
able to see that. Uh yeah that

1312
01:38:53.600 --> 01:38:57.560
you know, all these factors that
are really complex that would prevent people from

1313
01:38:57.560 --> 01:39:00.479
ever getting it done, are now
done for you. You've got a station

1314
01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:04.920
that's collecting all the data, that
understands the coefficient that grass needs, so

1315
01:39:05.000 --> 01:39:10.119
they tell you exactly what you need. You've got the ability to say,

1316
01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:12.880
this is what my system looks like. I got to pop up or this

1317
01:39:13.039 --> 01:39:15.399
or that, and then you have
the ability to get an email to just

1318
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:19.000
I say, make it makes it
full. But I mean if if you

1319
01:39:19.039 --> 01:39:23.479
can't get it done with all that
you've created in the water my Yard system,

1320
01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:27.479
then you're not trying at all because
it's a really simple, easy system.

1321
01:39:27.720 --> 01:39:33.239
Well, and a lot of people
are really puzzled by figuring out how

1322
01:39:33.239 --> 01:39:38.800
long do your gate their sprinkler?
A lot of people want to be responsible,

1323
01:39:39.319 --> 01:39:42.560
but you know, it's just so
tough. Yeah, that's true.

1324
01:39:43.319 --> 01:39:48.319
So we whether my Yard isn't everywhere. The way it works is we have

1325
01:39:49.079 --> 01:39:59.359
local sponsors who purchase the weather stations
and help cover the cost of the program.

1326
01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:02.479
That's good. I believe the Houston
Galison Subsidence District is one of the

1327
01:40:02.520 --> 01:40:09.840
sponsors in this area. Yes,
yes, so Houston Harris Galveston Subsidence District

1328
01:40:09.840 --> 01:40:15.239
and Court and Ben Subsidence District joined
the program a long time ago, okay

1329
01:40:15.319 --> 01:40:21.319
seven eight years ago, and the
newest member locally, they just joins the

1330
01:40:21.439 --> 01:40:28.239
City of Houston. Okay, Houston
Weather and they will be installing a ET

1331
01:40:28.520 --> 01:40:32.920
weather state. We have a hole
here in Harris County in the northeast where

1332
01:40:33.399 --> 01:40:39.239
we don't have good ET station coverage. Good, So their station is on

1333
01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:44.359
order, should be here soon and
it's going to be installed there. Okay,

1334
01:40:44.399 --> 01:40:47.159
that is great. Well, it
is simple, and we've got to

1335
01:40:47.199 --> 01:40:50.479
call Charyl. I see out there
on the call. We're gonna we're having

1336
01:40:50.560 --> 01:40:54.479
to take break here, but if
you'll hang on, we'll get a question

1337
01:40:54.760 --> 01:40:58.640
to doctor Phipps when we come back
from that break. We're speaking of doctor

1338
01:40:58.640 --> 01:41:03.920
Guy Phipps, Texas and University with
an agrilife extension about water conservation in the

1339
01:41:03.920 --> 01:41:09.159
home landscape and some waste to make
it easier and more doable. And I

1340
01:41:09.199 --> 01:41:12.800
just want to remind you it's more
than just well, we're wasting a precious

1341
01:41:12.840 --> 01:41:15.560
resource. It's more than just I'm
spending money. It's when you miss water,

1342
01:41:16.119 --> 01:41:20.000
you affect the health of your lawn. If you water too little too

1343
01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:25.359
often, which is way too common, you can increase disease problems. So

1344
01:41:25.479 --> 01:41:30.840
we're talking about when when when when
here with the water my yard system.

1345
01:41:30.039 --> 01:41:33.199
We're gonna take a break right now
our phone number seven one three two one

1346
01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:38.079
two five eight seven four. Sheryl, you'll be first when we come back

1347
01:41:38.119 --> 01:41:53.600
from break. Please starts and my
shoes and always smile. Well, good

1348
01:41:53.600 --> 01:41:57.520
Sunday morning. You are listening to
Garden Line and we are fortunate today to

1349
01:41:57.560 --> 01:42:02.119
have doctor Guy Phipps from Texas A
and m Agrilife Extension. Doctor Phipps is

1350
01:42:02.239 --> 01:42:08.079
a specialist when it comes to irrigating
all things water, water conservation, or

1351
01:42:08.159 --> 01:42:12.399
using water wisely and efficiently in our
landscapes, and that is what our talk

1352
01:42:12.479 --> 01:42:14.720
is all about. Today. We've
got a couple of calls on the line,

1353
01:42:14.760 --> 01:42:16.560
doctor Phipps, and I think we're
going to start off by going out

1354
01:42:16.600 --> 01:42:23.319
to pair Land and talking to Cheryl. Good morning, Cheryl, good morning.

1355
01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:27.680
Thank you for taking my call this
morning. You bet. I wanted

1356
01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:31.000
to first tell you I've really enjoyed
your show and the information you gave me

1357
01:42:31.039 --> 01:42:35.279
about my shrubs a few months ago. Okay, to check the water table

1358
01:42:35.399 --> 01:42:40.359
and stuff like that, and it
was giving way too much water. Yeah,

1359
01:42:40.399 --> 01:42:43.640
so I've killed two birds with one
stone because I was having these little

1360
01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:48.279
weeds coming up along with water.
Only waters like three or four my shrubs

1361
01:42:48.279 --> 01:42:53.800
too much, which brings me to
my point of the e t watering because

1362
01:42:54.159 --> 01:42:59.119
I have about forty I have about
fifty feet on one side of the yard

1363
01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:04.720
that I'm watering with top ups.
I'm watering all my flower beds and then

1364
01:43:04.760 --> 01:43:10.880
it goes about twenty feet past the
flower beds and waters the lawn, which

1365
01:43:10.920 --> 01:43:15.760
is great because my water my my
lot slopes down. So even though it's

1366
01:43:15.800 --> 01:43:19.520
not reaching the whole yard because we
have a pretty big backyard, um,

1367
01:43:19.720 --> 01:43:24.119
it's still getting out, you know, to the grass and keeping the grass

1368
01:43:24.159 --> 01:43:28.600
healthy. But I was watering it
way too by stuff cutback since our conversation

1369
01:43:28.640 --> 01:43:30.479
when you told me to check to
make sure it wasn't getting too much water.

1370
01:43:30.720 --> 01:43:34.000
Okay it was, So I turned
my sprinklers totally off, and I've

1371
01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:38.199
done what you did. I think
I'm using like three times since we had

1372
01:43:38.239 --> 01:43:43.199
our conversation, which is like two
months ago, and my irrigation guys that

1373
01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:46.640
put it in to I'm me to
use it every day. It's like crazy,

1374
01:43:46.760 --> 01:43:51.159
I know, right, And it's
it's hard to shere to generalize because

1375
01:43:51.359 --> 01:43:55.000
you know, if it was in
a live oak shade, the amount of

1376
01:43:55.000 --> 01:43:58.960
water it needs. When I lived
in Cyprus, I typically we had some

1377
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:01.359
live oaks and I would are the
lawn under them about three times this summer.

1378
01:44:01.840 --> 01:44:05.119
And if even yeah, and I
have one side that's like that,

1379
01:44:05.319 --> 01:44:10.239
yeah, information, but then sun
is totally different. So what is your

1380
01:44:10.319 --> 01:44:15.479
question for doctor Phipps. Yeah,
So with that in mind, I try.

1381
01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:20.560
I'm trying to grow tomatoes and vegetables
and herbs and some containers pretty large,

1382
01:44:21.319 --> 01:44:24.359
and I'm noticing, you know,
if I keep them out in the

1383
01:44:24.399 --> 01:44:29.039
full sun all day. I've been
fertilizing with some organ I've been doing its

1384
01:44:29.279 --> 01:44:32.199
organically as I can. It's amazing. I haven't had to use any pesticides

1385
01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:36.319
because I have all these wasps that
just take care of everything. It's just

1386
01:44:36.399 --> 01:44:41.880
amazing. So I have my own
little ecosystem going. But it's the watering

1387
01:44:41.960 --> 01:44:45.520
that I'm having the biggest issue with
wind and water. You know how much

1388
01:44:45.680 --> 01:44:50.159
is watering and giving them almost two
gallons a day? Does that sound normal

1389
01:44:53.439 --> 01:44:59.399
in the heat PEPs, Well,
if you're watering plants and containers them,

1390
01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:04.199
that's a whole different story, I
know. But but what you need to

1391
01:45:04.239 --> 01:45:11.800
do is you need to poke your
finger and the soil and see how wet

1392
01:45:12.000 --> 01:45:16.000
or dry the soil is. You
know, you water up the pot and

1393
01:45:16.039 --> 01:45:19.319
they're going to be real wet,
but you're gonna need to let that water

1394
01:45:20.119 --> 01:45:27.119
dry out some to where the soil
is just a little bit moist. And

1395
01:45:27.319 --> 01:45:31.960
that's my only advice. That's what
I do with my potted plants is Yeah,

1396
01:45:30.720 --> 01:45:38.079
that's a good point. So what
I've been trying to pay attention to

1397
01:45:38.079 --> 01:45:41.199
that. But would it be wise
me, like in the first thing in

1398
01:45:41.239 --> 01:45:45.159
the morning, to just water them
all the way and then and then go

1399
01:45:45.239 --> 01:45:47.159
from there. Well, there's there's
a lot of factors, you know,

1400
01:45:47.199 --> 01:45:50.439
we're talking about all the factors in
your lawn water. When it comes to

1401
01:45:50.520 --> 01:45:57.680
containers, I just doctor Phipps's point
about use use the water measuring devices on

1402
01:45:57.720 --> 01:46:00.800
the ends of your hands is the
best way to do it. And here's

1403
01:46:00.800 --> 01:46:04.720
why. Some soils drain well.
Some soils are mucky and soggy, have

1404
01:46:04.800 --> 01:46:12.239
a tendency toward that. Some containers, like plastic and glaze containers, they

1405
01:46:12.239 --> 01:46:16.399
don't allow moisture through the sides.
Terra Cotta literally will wick and evaporate moisture

1406
01:46:16.399 --> 01:46:20.840
away from the container. If you've
got a big plant and a small container,

1407
01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:24.199
or a small plant and a big
container. Do you see what I'm

1408
01:46:24.199 --> 01:46:28.199
saying that there's no way to just
say do this, but I would I

1409
01:46:28.239 --> 01:46:30.960
would make sure your container drains well. And I think your idea of giving

1410
01:46:30.960 --> 01:46:33.800
them a good soaking in the morning
is not a bad idea because if you've

1411
01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:38.399
got a good quality soil, you're
knocking to over water if the container drains

1412
01:46:38.439 --> 01:46:43.000
well. But what does happen in
the summer is with any size of a

1413
01:46:43.079 --> 01:46:45.880
plant at all compared to the container
size, it may pump it dry before

1414
01:46:45.920 --> 01:46:50.079
the end of the day. I
have tomatoes in buckets that are seven gallon

1415
01:46:50.239 --> 01:46:54.880
or even up to tin that I
may water more than once a day if

1416
01:46:54.920 --> 01:46:59.680
they're in the blazing hot sun,
and so we're getting all the event containers

1417
01:46:59.680 --> 01:47:02.600
are hotter because the sun now is
hitting all sides of the containers as opposed

1418
01:47:02.600 --> 01:47:09.840
to an inground plant. And there
are just so many factors that I feel

1419
01:47:09.880 --> 01:47:13.199
the soil like that gives me a
lot more confidence. That gives me so

1420
01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:17.399
much more confidence knowing that I'm not
overwatering them because it seems like but does

1421
01:47:17.439 --> 01:47:21.079
the water evaporate from the top down
or from the bottom up or both?

1422
01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:25.359
It evaporates from the top down.
But I think the analogy I like to

1423
01:47:25.439 --> 01:47:28.279
use this is I don't know how
effective this is for you, but when

1424
01:47:28.319 --> 01:47:30.199
you drink coke through a straw,
when you take your mouth off the straw,

1425
01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:33.960
the coke falls down in the straw
and air comes in behind it,

1426
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:38.840
right I mean that's what fills up
where there was coke. When our soils

1427
01:47:38.880 --> 01:47:42.520
start to dry out, there's gravity
that's pulling down, but there's plant roots

1428
01:47:42.600 --> 01:47:45.439
taking it out and it's evaporating off
of the surface, especially in a container.

1429
01:47:45.840 --> 01:47:49.039
And so if you were to do
a cross section, yeah, you

1430
01:47:49.039 --> 01:47:53.800
would see a water level go down
in there. But that's good because it

1431
01:47:53.840 --> 01:47:58.560
brings oxygen in behind it and then
you water again. And doctor pheps,

1432
01:47:58.800 --> 01:48:01.760
we need to talk about the the
good deep soaking followed by you know,

1433
01:48:01.800 --> 01:48:05.239
a good drying out period when it
comes to lawns as well. Yeah,

1434
01:48:05.319 --> 01:48:09.119
that's all right, Cheryl. Well, I hope that helped. Hey,

1435
01:48:09.199 --> 01:48:11.880
and I'm going to use all that
to measure my pop ups. I'm so

1436
01:48:12.079 --> 01:48:15.760
excited. Um, Doctor Phipps,
your information has been great. Thank you

1437
01:48:15.000 --> 01:48:18.840
for taking the time to educate all
of us this morning. You'll have a

1438
01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:23.119
great day. Hey, thanks,
thank you. We're going to now go

1439
01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:28.039
out to John V and League City. John V. I got one minute?

1440
01:48:28.039 --> 01:48:30.359
Can we do it in a minute? Oh gosh, I hope.

1441
01:48:30.359 --> 01:48:34.199
So. Good morning a skip and
doctor Phipps. My question is on the

1442
01:48:34.359 --> 01:48:41.600
rainwater. I'm collecting rainwater through the
rainwater barrels provided by City of League City

1443
01:48:41.600 --> 01:48:47.479
and other containers on our home and
our lawns here. Um with the with

1444
01:48:47.600 --> 01:48:54.199
the thunderstorms, lightning and ionization.
Um, that water is much more pure

1445
01:48:55.079 --> 01:49:00.000
than our regular water. And I
just wanted to make sure it's okay,

1446
01:49:00.000 --> 01:49:02.640
hey, for me to just continue
to use that water for everything under the

1447
01:49:02.720 --> 01:49:06.680
sun to water. It's better than
okay, it's mandatory. You must do

1448
01:49:06.720 --> 01:49:11.520
that. Your plants are screaming.
They've called me earlier and said tell her,

1449
01:49:11.560 --> 01:49:16.520
do not use, do not use
chlorinated drinking water on us anymore.

1450
01:49:17.039 --> 01:49:20.119
Still, we don't drink even that. We use the still to water and

1451
01:49:20.159 --> 01:49:26.039
then we use pH level water for
alkaline. And we were all water fanatics

1452
01:49:26.079 --> 01:49:30.520
and we actually, yeah, we
have a pure air from water systems that

1453
01:49:30.560 --> 01:49:35.239
we're marketing and that's part of my
parents quickly, yeah, very good.

1454
01:49:35.239 --> 01:49:38.880
Well, hey, we're gonna take
a break. I'll make a comment about

1455
01:49:38.960 --> 01:49:42.239
rainwater when we come back. Our
phone number seven one three two one two

1456
01:49:42.640 --> 01:49:53.520
five eight seven four and Katie in
the woodlands, you'll be first up to

1457
01:49:53.800 --> 01:50:08.279
the water. Good morning, beautiful
Sunday morning. Look outside, folks.

1458
01:50:08.319 --> 01:50:11.479
We got sunshine, but we had
enough clouds to kind of I don't know,

1459
01:50:11.560 --> 01:50:14.199
maybe a little easier on you getting
outside and doing a little work.

1460
01:50:14.239 --> 01:50:18.000
Today. We just we're talking on
the phone with a gen v about rainwater.

1461
01:50:18.119 --> 01:50:20.840
And for those of you who are
interested in rainwater, we're not going

1462
01:50:20.880 --> 01:50:25.560
to have time to get deep into
that today at all. But there is

1463
01:50:25.560 --> 01:50:30.880
a wonderful website that, like all
wonderful websites at the Mecca and College station,

1464
01:50:30.039 --> 01:50:34.840
ends in Tamu dot Du Tammu dot
Du, and it is easy to

1465
01:50:34.920 --> 01:50:43.199
remember rainwater harvesting. One word,
rainwater harvesting dot Tammu dot edu. When

1466
01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:46.680
you go there, there's video clips, there's publications, there's tons of information.

1467
01:50:47.119 --> 01:50:49.000
I mean, if you want to
put a rain barrel in the house,

1468
01:50:49.000 --> 01:50:51.319
if you want to do a whole
house system, if you want to

1469
01:50:51.319 --> 01:50:55.760
go out on your farm or ranch
and put in a little you know,

1470
01:50:55.880 --> 01:51:00.279
shed over the cattle area and capture
rainwater for deer and wildlife and all,

1471
01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:04.279
you can do it all rainwater harvesting
dot dot Du. Doctor Guy Phipps is

1472
01:51:04.319 --> 01:51:09.359
our guests today from Texas A and
m Agrilife Extension, and we are talking

1473
01:51:09.399 --> 01:51:13.359
about water conservation in the landscape,
efficient use of water in the landscape,

1474
01:51:13.520 --> 01:51:16.319
We're going to head now out to
the Woodlands and talk to Katie. Well,

1475
01:51:16.319 --> 01:51:20.479
good morning, Katie, good morning, thank you for taking my call.

1476
01:51:20.720 --> 01:51:26.359
I'm so excited about your program this
morning and the water my lawn out.

1477
01:51:27.039 --> 01:51:29.960
So I downloaded it, got ready, had my plan. I was

1478
01:51:30.000 --> 01:51:34.640
going to enter all my specific answers
to those questions and guess what, it

1479
01:51:34.720 --> 01:51:39.960
doesn't cover the woodlands, So how
do we get on board? And then

1480
01:51:40.000 --> 01:51:43.039
I read a little part of it
it said to go ahead and call the

1481
01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:45.720
local water authorities. Is one phone
call going to help me? Or what

1482
01:51:45.800 --> 01:51:50.479
do we need to do here in
the Woodlands. Well that's a good question.

1483
01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:58.520
Well, yeah, we rely on
local sponsors to help cover the cost

1484
01:51:58.880 --> 01:52:02.640
of the program, and that's the
only way we can deliver it. I

1485
01:52:02.720 --> 01:52:08.920
don't receive any state funding or funding
from A and M to do this.

1486
01:52:09.640 --> 01:52:16.760
So the types of sponsors that we
have, we have water districts, and

1487
01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:25.399
we have two types of water districts
that will sponsor areas. One our groundwater

1488
01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:36.159
conservation districts and the others are wholesale
or municipal wholesale water districts. And and

1489
01:52:36.279 --> 01:52:43.199
we do have one river authority.
But besides that, it's the local city

1490
01:52:43.319 --> 01:52:51.960
or the local water utility is the
sponsor. So and it's not an expensive

1491
01:52:53.159 --> 01:53:00.800
program for an organization like that to
sponsor. And then if you send us

1492
01:53:00.840 --> 01:53:08.479
an email, we can forward you
a information sheet more than my yard information

1493
01:53:08.600 --> 01:53:15.520
sheet that covers everything about the program
that you can share with your local utility,

1494
01:53:15.600 --> 01:53:20.840
city or district. That's awesome.
Yeah, maybe the Sane Center were

1495
01:53:21.000 --> 01:53:26.439
authority or the Woodlands Township would be
interested in sponsoring because I think this app

1496
01:53:26.560 --> 01:53:30.159
is going to be fantastic, especially
we have a lot of water restrictions in

1497
01:53:30.199 --> 01:53:32.600
the Woodlands were only allowed to water
twice a week for certain amounts of time.

1498
01:53:33.279 --> 01:53:38.479
So I think this program would be
which get like a glove. Oh

1499
01:53:38.560 --> 01:53:43.960
great. And the other thing that
we do in the emails is if there's

1500
01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:51.680
wathering restrictions in the local area and
then we put that information on the weekly

1501
01:53:51.880 --> 01:53:58.640
notifications and so some of the sponsors
really like that because it helps get out

1502
01:53:58.760 --> 01:54:05.319
the word when they go on drought
restrictions. Yeah, yeah, that's good.

1503
01:54:05.359 --> 01:54:10.000
I was trying to think about where
the nearest weather station to you from

1504
01:54:10.000 --> 01:54:15.119
our area, like the Houston the
Harris County subsidence district. Maybe ye kind

1505
01:54:15.159 --> 01:54:18.560
of close to the woodland. Yeah, we we have one and uh kind

1506
01:54:18.600 --> 01:54:26.119
of northwest Harris County. Uh,
and that's probably the closest station to the

1507
01:54:26.159 --> 01:54:30.199
woodlands. Uh. This new station
that the City of Houston will be putting

1508
01:54:30.239 --> 01:54:38.119
in is going to be just south
of the Intercontinental Airport. Okay, so

1509
01:54:38.159 --> 01:54:42.880
that one will be kind of loose, I mean kind of close. Uh

1510
01:54:43.000 --> 01:54:47.760
you know you can uh, you
know, you just need a zip code

1511
01:54:48.319 --> 01:54:54.880
to create an account on whether my
Yard. So, so some users will

1512
01:54:55.159 --> 01:55:00.119
find the closest station okay and use
that zip code. Uh. Just be

1513
01:55:00.239 --> 01:55:06.600
aware that it chances are that your
rainfall values will be different. You know

1514
01:55:06.720 --> 01:55:14.239
rainball that rainfall varies a lot over
short areas, so you'll probably need to

1515
01:55:14.439 --> 01:55:19.000
enter your own rainfall date. This
is really easy to do on the app

1516
01:55:19.920 --> 01:55:25.760
and adjust your watering recommendations. Uh. Yeah, you know, based on

1517
01:55:26.359 --> 01:55:29.239
that local rainfall. You know.
Another that's a very good idea. So

1518
01:55:29.279 --> 01:55:31.880
I can trick the system a little
bit close to me, you can get

1519
01:55:33.479 --> 01:55:38.359
yeah, okay, exactly, you
can get buy on that. Another thing

1520
01:55:38.399 --> 01:55:40.720
you might want to think about doing, too, is if you don't already

1521
01:55:40.760 --> 01:55:45.000
have a rain switch on your system. A rain switch is when it rains

1522
01:55:45.039 --> 01:55:48.760
at your house, it swells up, and your clock still runs and thinks

1523
01:55:48.760 --> 01:55:51.640
that it's in charge of everything.
But the rain switch won't let it talk

1524
01:55:51.680 --> 01:55:55.439
to the valves. That's a simple
way I like to put it. And

1525
01:55:55.520 --> 01:55:58.399
so you know, let's say you
went to a station that was a little

1526
01:55:58.439 --> 01:56:01.039
further away and it got rain there, but or maybe they didn't get rained

1527
01:56:01.039 --> 01:56:04.840
there, but you did. That
would prevent you from watering when you don't

1528
01:56:04.880 --> 01:56:09.039
need to a little bit more.
It bus to be one little other tweak

1529
01:56:09.119 --> 01:56:12.399
that might help a little bit.
Well, my my switch is my finger,

1530
01:56:12.479 --> 01:56:15.279
just like you told that last caller
about taking the meter. My meter

1531
01:56:15.439 --> 01:56:18.840
is my finger because we actually have
a manual system, so we have to

1532
01:56:18.880 --> 01:56:21.319
actually turn them on. Then I
put my timer on, and then I

1533
01:56:21.439 --> 01:56:26.119
walk and change his own. So
there you got an old school that's it.

1534
01:56:26.239 --> 01:56:28.640
Yeah, figure it out. Well, I know we're meant to be

1535
01:56:28.720 --> 01:56:32.079
gardeners because we all come equipped with
these falangis that are perfect. You know,

1536
01:56:32.119 --> 01:56:36.079
the first joint on your index swinger
is how deep you plan an onion

1537
01:56:36.119 --> 01:56:42.000
transplant? Say what, that's my
moisture meter, right, that's it.

1538
01:56:42.319 --> 01:56:45.119
You have moisture meters there, I
mean you just got it all right there.

1539
01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:46.880
You just have to figure out how
to put it to work. Okay,

1540
01:56:47.039 --> 01:56:49.560
thank you guys. You guys are
awesome. Love it all right,

1541
01:56:49.680 --> 01:56:54.520
thank you. Yeah, you know. I got to thinking one day about

1542
01:56:54.560 --> 01:56:57.840
all the things we can do.
We can use our hands for. Yeah,

1543
01:56:57.840 --> 01:57:00.279
the first joiner and your knick swinger
is about how deep if you put

1544
01:57:00.319 --> 01:57:03.359
an onion transplant. If you grab
a limb, the width across your hand

1545
01:57:03.439 --> 01:57:09.079
is how far part you thin plums. If you open up your hand,

1546
01:57:09.159 --> 01:57:11.760
the tip of your little finger to
the tip of your thumb is how far

1547
01:57:11.800 --> 01:57:15.960
apart you thin peaches. And I
mean, I could just go on and

1548
01:57:15.039 --> 01:57:18.479
on. It's really a wonderful little
tools we come equipped with. There.

1549
01:57:18.920 --> 01:57:23.920
Well, you're listening to the garden
Line Radio show, and we're glad you

1550
01:57:23.920 --> 01:57:28.159
are. We're visiting the doctor Guy
Phipps from Texas A and m Agrilife Extension

1551
01:57:28.199 --> 01:57:31.239
today about all things water. Now, folks that are interested can go into

1552
01:57:31.239 --> 01:57:34.640
the water my Yard app. It's
water my Yard. Excuse me, the

1553
01:57:34.640 --> 01:57:39.399
website water my Yard dot org.
I want you to tell us about the

1554
01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:42.520
apps. You don't have to be
sitting in a computer to do this.

1555
01:57:42.960 --> 01:57:49.960
Yeah, we Uh, the Galveston
Bay Foundation received a grant from the US

1556
01:57:50.279 --> 01:58:00.840
Environmental Protection Agency to further the Water
my Yard program in this area and that's

1557
01:58:00.920 --> 01:58:05.800
to help reduce runoff to protect the
goal of Mexico. And so with that

1558
01:58:05.880 --> 01:58:11.359
funding, we were able to develop
the Water in my Yard app, and

1559
01:58:11.479 --> 01:58:18.920
we have both versions, the iOS
version in the Apple Store and the Android

1560
01:58:19.039 --> 01:58:24.439
version and Google Play, so you
can just you don't have to go to

1561
01:58:24.439 --> 01:58:30.239
the website. You can just go
to those online stores, I mean the

1562
01:58:30.319 --> 01:58:36.920
Apple Google stores, download the app
and do everything there. And then the

1563
01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:43.680
other feature that the app has a
couple of vantages over the website, and

1564
01:58:43.840 --> 01:58:49.079
one is that you can get push
notifications directly to your mobile device if you

1565
01:58:49.319 --> 01:58:55.199
rather have that instead of email or
text messages. And then when you get

1566
01:58:55.319 --> 01:59:00.560
your wathering recommendation if something, if
you want to make a change, let's

1567
01:59:00.560 --> 01:59:06.159
say you got less rainfall at your
house, man the et station did you

1568
01:59:06.199 --> 01:59:12.119
can quickly and easily make that change. That's good. That is good.

1569
01:59:12.359 --> 01:59:16.399
Yeah, man, Can you make
it any simpler? You know? Could

1570
01:59:16.439 --> 01:59:20.000
we have doctor phips? Would you
come to people's yard and turn the water

1571
01:59:20.079 --> 01:59:27.319
on for them? I mean that
Hey, we got a call coming in

1572
01:59:27.359 --> 01:59:30.239
here for Thomas. I'm gonna have
to put you off to after break.

1573
01:59:30.239 --> 01:59:31.600
We were running out of time,
but I will come to you first when

1574
01:59:31.600 --> 01:59:35.319
we get back from break. Let's
see, I say, what, Let's

1575
01:59:35.319 --> 01:59:40.840
see if we can do this fast
Thomas. Thomas had a question Doctor Phipps

1576
01:59:40.960 --> 01:59:44.760
about sprinkler placement. So if we
can do that in the next maybe a

1577
01:59:44.840 --> 01:59:49.079
minute, we'll try to pull that
off. Cool sprinkler placement on a slope.

1578
01:59:50.399 --> 01:59:54.479
Where would you put your sprinklers on
a slope or how would you place

1579
01:59:54.520 --> 01:59:57.319
them? As that what you're asking, Yes, sir, I have a

1580
01:59:57.319 --> 02:00:00.439
couple of slopes, once twelve degrees, once about eight reef, and originally

1581
02:00:00.600 --> 02:00:03.119
we know I've got spunk is set
in the bottom and then a couple on

1582
02:00:03.199 --> 02:00:05.760
top. It's stupid. On the
bottom, it's green as can be.

1583
02:00:05.840 --> 02:00:14.119
The top is dry. Okay.
While the sprinkler placement you follow the same

1584
02:00:14.399 --> 02:00:23.920
procedure as you do. State regulations
require that you follow manufacturers recommendations on spacing,

1585
02:00:24.239 --> 02:00:27.560
so that means you're going to have
head to head coverage. But but

1586
02:00:27.640 --> 02:00:31.520
what you need to do is separate
those into two different zones. There you

1587
02:00:31.600 --> 02:00:39.399
go, because the wathering schedule is
different for slopes none it is for flat

1588
02:00:39.439 --> 02:00:43.239
ground. So if you're running them
off the same valve that they're all part

1589
02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:46.159
of same zone, and then it's
going to be very difficult to be able

1590
02:00:46.199 --> 02:00:58.000
to effectively irrigate your upslope areas.
Thank you so much. I'll tell you

1591
02:00:58.000 --> 02:01:00.319
what. Doctor PEPs is going to
hang round after break for a little bit

1592
02:01:00.319 --> 02:01:02.399
with us here. So if you
have a call you'd like to make,

1593
02:01:02.600 --> 02:01:06.279
give us a call seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1594
02:01:06.359 --> 02:01:10.359
We will continue this discussion. I've
got a couple more things I want to

1595
02:01:10.399 --> 02:01:15.800
ask about regarding water conservation in the
landscape, and so just hang on.

1596
02:01:15.880 --> 02:01:24.359
We'll be right back. Ktr H
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of

1597
02:01:24.359 --> 02:01:30.119
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with

1598
02:01:30.359 --> 02:02:02.800
Skip rictor so Smelly. Just watch
him as so many toy a s Well,

1599
02:02:02.840 --> 02:02:08.840
good morning on a beautiful Sunday morning. We are talking water today.

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02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:12.920
It's fixing to give us some water
from the skies this week, which is

1601
02:02:12.920 --> 02:02:16.680
a nice break. But when it
comes to our lawns and our landscapes,

1602
02:02:17.479 --> 02:02:23.640
miss watering is a huge mistake.
And here's the reason why. Number one,

1603
02:02:23.680 --> 02:02:26.840
it costs money. Number one,
it uses a precious resource. And

1604
02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:32.399
number that would be number two.
Number three, it can cause disease problems

1605
02:02:32.399 --> 02:02:36.439
to be worse than they normally would
be when we water that way. And

1606
02:02:36.600 --> 02:02:40.760
it just doesn't make sense. It's
just we have so much technology now,

1607
02:02:40.960 --> 02:02:45.680
like now the water my Yard system, that just makes technology easy. And

1608
02:02:45.159 --> 02:02:49.159
doctor Guy Phipps is visiting with us
today about about that. I wanted to

1609
02:02:49.680 --> 02:02:54.159
doctor Phipps, I'd like you to
comment a little bit about Earlier I talked

1610
02:02:54.159 --> 02:02:58.600
about watering with a good soaking on
an infrequent basis, and we elaborate a

1611
02:02:58.640 --> 02:03:00.960
little bit on why that's in order
and how that helps with saving water.

1612
02:03:01.800 --> 02:03:15.439
Um, yes, and deepen and
frequent. I don't tend to think of

1613
02:03:15.439 --> 02:03:23.159
it in those terms, you know. The way I think about it is

1614
02:03:23.239 --> 02:03:28.760
that you know, you have your
root zone of your plants, and there's

1615
02:03:28.840 --> 02:03:33.560
a lot of advantages to having a
deeper root zone than a shallower root zone.

1616
02:03:36.319 --> 02:03:42.119
Some of the advantages are it's a
more healthy plant, you know all

1617
02:03:42.159 --> 02:03:46.600
of that. But another reason is
if you have a deeper root zone and

1618
02:03:46.640 --> 02:03:56.039
then you have more storage for rainfall. Like think about it like the gas

1619
02:03:56.039 --> 02:04:00.760
tank in your car. How many
gallons can you put in your or gas

1620
02:04:00.800 --> 02:04:03.880
tank? How many can it hold? And how far can you try?

1621
02:04:04.319 --> 02:04:10.600
If your gas tank was twice as
big as it is now, you could

1622
02:04:10.600 --> 02:04:15.520
go twice as far before you would
need to fill up. So when we

1623
02:04:15.520 --> 02:04:19.199
look at the at the root zone
of soils, we want to be able

1624
02:04:19.199 --> 02:04:26.159
to store as much water as we
can and so we can go longer between

1625
02:04:26.439 --> 02:04:30.640
irrigations. And like I said,
it promotes plant health and all of that.

1626
02:04:30.119 --> 02:04:32.840
But in this area, you never
know when you're going to get a

1627
02:04:32.920 --> 02:04:39.439
rain shower, and so it's nice
to have the gas tank not all the

1628
02:04:39.479 --> 02:04:42.720
way full if you see what I
mean. For when we get a rain

1629
02:04:42.800 --> 02:04:47.840
shower, you can capture and hold
more of that rainfall. So there's a

1630
02:04:47.840 --> 02:04:54.279
lot of reasons that we go about
it, but but plant health is really

1631
02:04:54.319 --> 02:05:00.760
one of the primary driving factors.
And we have the scientific term. It's

1632
02:05:00.760 --> 02:05:06.439
a fun term, but it's called
mad uh uh and it means man it's

1633
02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:14.439
allowable depletion. But it's just mad
is is what it's called by scientists.

1634
02:05:14.439 --> 02:05:21.079
This okay, this idea of of
uh in frequent irrigations. Okay, well,

1635
02:05:21.119 --> 02:05:29.600
good one. One additional question.
If someone comes up to you and

1636
02:05:29.640 --> 02:05:34.760
says, hey, um, I
want to make my system more efficient,

1637
02:05:35.119 --> 02:05:41.399
what are some of the simple first
few things that would come like the low

1638
02:05:41.439 --> 02:05:45.680
hanging fruit if you will for answering
a question like that. And I'm kind

1639
02:05:45.680 --> 02:05:47.600
of leading here, I guess in
a sense, and that I'm thinking about

1640
02:05:47.920 --> 02:05:53.159
we haven't talked about like evaluating your
system or auditing your things. But what

1641
02:05:53.239 --> 02:05:56.079
are the things you think, like
two or three things that you need to

1642
02:05:56.119 --> 02:05:58.840
do? These two things first,
this is the easy well, well,

1643
02:05:58.880 --> 02:06:02.479
the first first thing you do is
go out and inspect the system, look

1644
02:06:02.520 --> 02:06:09.680
at the system when it's running,
and make notes of what kind of problems

1645
02:06:09.720 --> 02:06:16.239
you see. The most common problems
we see like we might have broken heads,

1646
02:06:16.760 --> 02:06:24.239
you know, kids or dogs or
people will walk over pop ups and

1647
02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:28.760
break them and they don't pop up
correctly, or when they do pop up

1648
02:06:28.800 --> 02:06:38.760
there look weird. And the other
common problem we see as sprinklers, particularly

1649
02:06:39.000 --> 02:06:44.720
roads rotating too far. You know, they don't stop at the driveway,

1650
02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:47.760
but they continue and what the driveway. It's hard to make asphalt grow even

1651
02:06:47.800 --> 02:06:55.079
if you water it and it turns
out that that fixing that problem is super

1652
02:06:55.560 --> 02:07:01.319
easy to do. Any just about
anyone can adjust the rotation. How you

1653
02:07:01.399 --> 02:07:08.840
do that varies a little bit by
type of sprinkler or manufacture, but you

1654
02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:15.960
can quickly find how to that.
It's a real easy adjustment, usually moving

1655
02:07:15.560 --> 02:07:20.560
a little spring or panel or something. And if you make that adjustment,

1656
02:07:20.640 --> 02:07:25.840
that will make a big difference.
You know, other types of problems you

1657
02:07:25.920 --> 02:07:31.640
have is like leaks or broken heads. If that's beyond your ability, which

1658
02:07:31.640 --> 02:07:39.560
it is of most homeowners. Keep
in mind that Texas has a irrigation license

1659
02:07:39.880 --> 02:07:45.119
program. People are supposed to have
licenses issued by the state to work on

1660
02:07:45.279 --> 02:07:53.239
landscape irrigation systems. So if you
have problems when you look for someone to

1661
02:07:53.399 --> 02:07:58.319
fix it, be sure that they're
a license irrigator because they've been through the

1662
02:07:58.399 --> 02:08:01.640
training and the license tests and stuff. Yeah, that's good. That's all

1663
02:08:01.680 --> 02:08:07.199
good advice for sure. Well,
I hope you've enjoyed visiting. I have

1664
02:08:07.479 --> 02:08:11.520
doctor phips today learning about things and
ways we can save water, ways we

1665
02:08:11.520 --> 02:08:16.880
can avoid overwatering. I tell you
we really do over water here and the

1666
02:08:18.000 --> 02:08:20.000
kinds of things you've done. Thank
you, by the way for the work

1667
02:08:20.000 --> 02:08:24.000
you've done. Over your career and
especially now this Water my Yard program that

1668
02:08:24.159 --> 02:08:28.119
is really a gift. I mean
to tell somebody, I can save you

1669
02:08:28.199 --> 02:08:31.720
money, I can make your yard
healthier, and I can make it so

1670
02:08:31.760 --> 02:08:33.039
easy that all you have to do
is look at your phone over now and

1671
02:08:33.079 --> 02:08:37.000
then, because it's telling you what
to do. I mean, and it's

1672
02:08:37.039 --> 02:08:39.520
free. Oh I forgot and it's
free. How much better can you do?

1673
02:08:39.560 --> 02:08:43.119
So if your water supplier doesn't do
the water mayor program, tell them

1674
02:08:43.159 --> 02:08:48.399
about it and look into maybe getting
them interested in it, because it's just

1675
02:08:48.439 --> 02:08:52.800
a win win for the whole community
in many many ways. There's a reason,

1676
02:08:52.880 --> 02:08:56.520
for example, that subsidence districts would
support a program like this. As

1677
02:08:56.600 --> 02:09:00.479
we pump a ton of water out
of the ground, it affect a lot

1678
02:09:00.520 --> 02:09:03.760
of things that we don't even think
about. And so this is a very

1679
02:09:03.800 --> 02:09:09.880
important program that has easy and immediate
results. So thank you so much.

1680
02:09:09.920 --> 02:09:13.720
I appreciate you stopping in and taking
care of that for a sure thing.

1681
02:09:13.760 --> 02:09:16.319
I enjoyed it. It's always good
to talk to you. Thank you so

1682
02:09:16.399 --> 02:09:20.640
much. You know I've talking to
about weather and roofs and things earlier.

1683
02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:28.760
If you are looking for a quality
solar system, to go on top of

1684
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:31.439
your house. You do not have
to put the panels on top of the

1685
02:09:31.520 --> 02:09:35.439
roof. You can buy a shingle
that actually is a solar shingle, and

1686
02:09:35.560 --> 02:09:41.159
Brinkman Roofing has their timberline solar shingles
that do just that. They've been doing

1687
02:09:41.199 --> 02:09:43.520
this for twenty five years. No
excuse me, they've been doing this for

1688
02:09:43.520 --> 02:09:48.399
fifty years. They warrant a roof
job they do for twenty five years because

1689
02:09:48.399 --> 02:09:52.640
they use the top quality equipment,
the top quality supplies. They know what

1690
02:09:52.680 --> 02:09:56.119
they're doing. They do top quality
workmanship, and when you put all that

1691
02:09:56.159 --> 02:09:58.000
together, you got a roof that's
gonna last and it's going to do what

1692
02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:01.600
it's supposed to do. Don't trust
a company that bangs on the door to

1693
02:10:03.000 --> 02:10:05.640
tell you you got store of damage
here. Let me help you out.

1694
02:10:05.920 --> 02:10:09.359
Go with someone who's been here for
fifty years. Twenty twenty two Better Business

1695
02:10:09.399 --> 02:10:15.319
Bureau Pinnacle Award winner. Go to
Brinkman Quality dot Com or just give him

1696
02:10:15.319 --> 02:10:18.960
a call to eight one four eight
zero seven six six three. We're gonna

1697
02:10:18.960 --> 02:10:24.399
take a break our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1698
02:10:24.399 --> 02:10:26.479
four and Sandy, I'll be going
to you first when we come back from

1699
02:10:26.520 --> 02:10:46.920
break. Well, we are about
to see some rain here for long,

1700
02:10:46.000 --> 02:10:50.279
I'm watching the clouds darker and darker, floating by good news, getting a

1701
02:10:50.279 --> 02:10:54.239
little bit of rain. Yeah,
that was good talking to doctor Guy Phipps,

1702
02:10:54.119 --> 02:10:58.680
spending some time learning about how we
can just how that win win win

1703
02:10:58.960 --> 02:11:01.239
on when it comes to watering our
lawn in an efficient way that takes care

1704
02:11:01.399 --> 02:11:07.199
of our lawn very much to avoid
some of the problems that we create a

1705
02:11:07.239 --> 02:11:11.520
lot of our plant problems are caused
by us. I have to admit that

1706
02:11:11.600 --> 02:11:15.800
myself. You know, if you
live out in the Fort Bend area,

1707
02:11:16.439 --> 02:11:18.439
you need to know about Enchanted Forest. You've probably already been there, you

1708
02:11:18.439 --> 02:11:24.079
probably know about it. But Enchanted
Forest is a wonderful nursery. I was

1709
02:11:24.119 --> 02:11:28.720
not just yesterday visiting, you know, with Danny and Clay out there,

1710
02:11:28.199 --> 02:11:31.800
just seeing all the new things that
they have in stock. And boy do

1711
02:11:31.880 --> 02:11:35.000
they ever have a lot of new
things in stock. One of the things

1712
02:11:35.039 --> 02:11:45.600
that really sets them apart from many
nurseries is the amount of beneficial attracting plants

1713
02:11:45.600 --> 02:11:48.880
that they sell, not just beneficial
insects, but butterflies. Butterfly larva supporting

1714
02:11:48.880 --> 02:11:54.399
plants. Their selection of milkweed is
incredible. It's unbelievable. And by the

1715
02:11:54.439 --> 02:11:58.039
way, you want to found out
yesterday. If you have some milkweed but

1716
02:11:58.079 --> 02:12:01.479
you don't have any caterpillars on it, monarchs, for example, you can

1717
02:12:01.520 --> 02:12:03.920
go buy there and if they got
some extra ones, they will give them

1718
02:12:03.920 --> 02:12:07.439
to you to take home, so
you can put someone your own and hey,

1719
02:12:07.520 --> 02:12:11.399
you grew up here and I'll come
back be a butterfly. Let's enjoy

1720
02:12:11.520 --> 02:12:13.920
things. Or if you buy a
plant and it doesn't come with one,

1721
02:12:15.119 --> 02:12:16.359
you can have them. Hey,
could you move that caterpillar over here?

1722
02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:18.720
I want to take that one home
with me. They'll do that too.

1723
02:12:18.760 --> 02:12:22.840
It's pretty cool stuff. Yeah,
the folks added Enchanted for us, Danny

1724
02:12:24.279 --> 02:12:26.800
and Clay and really all of them, they know what they're talking about.

1725
02:12:26.840 --> 02:12:31.920
They take time to help you.
They literally do. I mean, if

1726
02:12:31.000 --> 02:12:35.119
you need a little extra help picking
a plant, you need them to kind

1727
02:12:35.119 --> 02:12:39.760
of walk you around show they can
do that kind of thing. It's that

1728
02:12:39.840 --> 02:12:43.239
kind of service that makes our mom
and pop nursery so awesome, and Enchanted

1729
02:12:43.279 --> 02:12:48.159
Forest is just really the epitome of
that kind of service. They do exactly

1730
02:12:48.199 --> 02:12:52.600
that they know what they're talking about. You're gonna buy all the fertilizers we

1731
02:12:52.680 --> 02:12:56.239
talk about out there. You're gonna
buy lots of wonderful kinds of plants.

1732
02:12:56.479 --> 02:13:01.399
By the way, they're open Saturdays
from eight to five thirty and Sundays from

1733
02:13:01.399 --> 02:13:05.359
ten am to four pm. That's
Enchanted Forest. If you're in the Richmond

1734
02:13:05.399 --> 02:13:09.680
area and you head toward sugar Land, but a little south, that's where

1735
02:13:09.960 --> 02:13:15.840
Enchanted Forest is located. They're not
difficult to find at all. You can

1736
02:13:15.880 --> 02:13:20.199
just go online. The great social
media stuff too. If you don't go

1737
02:13:20.199 --> 02:13:24.359
on Facebook, for example, and
learn more about it, super super way

1738
02:13:24.399 --> 02:13:26.199
to find out. Let's head out
to Cyprus. Now we're going to talk

1739
02:13:26.239 --> 02:13:31.920
to Sandy A Good morning, Sandy, good morning, thanks for taking my

1740
02:13:33.000 --> 02:13:39.039
call. Sure I have a question
number one I wanted to see. Um,

1741
02:13:41.039 --> 02:13:45.439
Yes you can. They're not going
to produce a lot until we get

1742
02:13:45.439 --> 02:13:46.640
a little bit of a break from
the weather, but now would be a

1743
02:13:46.680 --> 02:13:50.479
good time. And here's why.
If you planted that little plant when it's

1744
02:13:50.479 --> 02:13:54.399
going to cool off a little bit
and they can produce better, you would

1745
02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:56.079
have a little plant to hang eggplant
on. If you plan it now and

1746
02:13:56.199 --> 02:14:01.840
water and fertilize it and get it
growing. Then when the weather breaks a

1747
02:14:01.840 --> 02:14:05.720
bit and the fruit set is improved, you're going to have even more eggplant.

1748
02:14:07.279 --> 02:14:13.399
Okay, and what I'm kind of
cool weather plant vegetables. Can I

1749
02:14:13.479 --> 02:14:18.680
start from seed by foot? Now? Nothing right now? For cool season?

1750
02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:22.319
Some people are starting some transplants for
a faul tomato crop now, or

1751
02:14:22.319 --> 02:14:28.039
peppers or eggplant or things like that. Now those are all warm season.

1752
02:14:28.439 --> 02:14:31.840
It'll be about September before we start
putting out the cool season things, the

1753
02:14:31.880 --> 02:14:37.039
transplants of broccoli and cabbage, cauliflower, and and then as we get into

1754
02:14:37.039 --> 02:14:41.760
October, we're seating lettuce and spinaches
and things going on in from October to

1755
02:14:41.880 --> 02:14:46.560
November and so on. Okay,
so those I can plant in a pot

1756
02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:50.600
or now you can grow anything in
a container that you can grow in the

1757
02:14:50.640 --> 02:14:54.199
ground as long as the container's big
enough. Sweetcorns a little bit of a

1758
02:14:54.279 --> 02:14:58.680
challenge, and some of the big
vining vegetables you need a really large container

1759
02:14:58.720 --> 02:15:03.319
to get away with it. But
container growing is yeah, pretty wide open.

1760
02:15:05.079 --> 02:15:07.840
Okay. Well, thank you very
much. Well, thank you for

1761
02:15:07.880 --> 02:15:13.279
I appreciate that. Thank you,
good to talk. You bet you bet

1762
02:15:13.920 --> 02:15:18.000
you know, I've talked about niro
Foss products a lot because they've got a

1763
02:15:18.039 --> 02:15:22.520
wonderful line of super quality products.
And one of the ones that I think

1764
02:15:24.039 --> 02:15:26.920
is something that you absolutely need to
know about right now, and that is

1765
02:15:26.960 --> 02:15:35.760
the nitrofist Superturf. Superturf is a
nineteen four ten nutrient fertilizer, so it's

1766
02:15:35.760 --> 02:15:39.000
got a good load of nitrogen,
but it's set up in a way that

1767
02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:43.600
that nitrogen gets gradually released over time. If you put out superturf now,

1768
02:15:43.840 --> 02:15:48.680
you don't need to fertilize again until
the fall season. Superturf is formulated for

1769
02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:52.560
the hot, humid southern climate we
deal with here. It'll cut down on

1770
02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:58.760
the frequency of mowing, the creation
of that on the encouraging things like chinch

1771
02:15:58.840 --> 02:16:01.720
bugs and brown pawn patch which we
now call large patch in the fall season.

1772
02:16:03.119 --> 02:16:05.479
It's part of that nitro FoST summer
essentialist program. And where do you

1773
02:16:05.479 --> 02:16:09.960
get nitro foss. Well, all
of our ice hardware stores, our mom

1774
02:16:09.960 --> 02:16:13.039
and pop garden centers typically they're going
to have an ice hardware as well.

1775
02:16:13.279 --> 02:16:16.079
I mean, it's not difficult to
find them at all. Many of our

1776
02:16:16.119 --> 02:16:18.239
feed stores as well, such as
DND feed up there in tom Ball,

1777
02:16:18.279 --> 02:16:22.399
for example, is going to have
the nitro FoST products. It's easy to

1778
02:16:22.439 --> 02:16:26.279
find and it works super super Well, we're gonna head out now. Let

1779
02:16:26.279 --> 02:16:31.079
me see, I'm gonna go to
Chapel Hill and we're gonna talk to Jean.

1780
02:16:31.720 --> 02:16:33.879
Oh. Hello, Jeane, good
morning, Hi, good morning,

1781
02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:39.600
Thank you for taking my call.
A question about crepe myrtles. We just

1782
02:16:39.680 --> 02:16:43.120
acquired some property and so I don't
know a lot of history about these fifteen

1783
02:16:43.319 --> 02:16:48.799
foot fairly old crepe myrtles. They
are not blooming, and they're not on

1784
02:16:48.840 --> 02:16:52.319
an irrigation system. Okay, but
you know they're pretty old trees. So

1785
02:16:52.399 --> 02:16:58.799
I'm assuming the beginning for water.
The other crepe myrtles that we actually tore

1786
02:17:00.200 --> 02:17:03.360
from around the house because they were
too close, they were already blooming.

1787
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:07.440
So is it a function of how
they were or were not trimmed maybe in

1788
02:17:07.440 --> 02:17:11.360
the past or fertilizer can you I'd
like to get them to bloom. That's

1789
02:17:11.399 --> 02:17:15.520
there the end of a long driveway, So yeah, it's probably it's probably

1790
02:17:16.040 --> 02:17:20.239
a cultural thing. So for example, crape myrtles need full sun, so

1791
02:17:20.280 --> 02:17:24.000
I'm assuming they're in good sun,
but they need leaves to capture that sun.

1792
02:17:24.120 --> 02:17:26.760
So if you have powdery mildew,
if you have aphids or crape myrtle

1793
02:17:26.799 --> 02:17:31.799
scale or other things that causes black
sooty mold, that's like shading out the

1794
02:17:31.879 --> 02:17:35.040
leaves. So it's cutting down on
the carbohydrate production that's needed for blooms.

1795
02:17:35.520 --> 02:17:39.920
If the plan is struggling with drought
and it's just struggling and you're not getting

1796
02:17:41.000 --> 02:17:45.520
vigor you're not going to have the
bloom production that you could have. Certainly

1797
02:17:45.520 --> 02:17:48.680
pruning is important, we don't want
to miss prune them. But the main

1798
02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:52.879
thing I think is going to be
something cultural going on out there, could

1799
02:17:52.920 --> 02:17:56.760
be the soil conditions in the soil. I would fertilize them if you have

1800
02:17:56.799 --> 02:18:00.440
any way getting water out to them
for a good deep soaking during summer droughts.

1801
02:18:00.479 --> 02:18:03.120
Don't worry about that now it's about
to rain. But you know,

1802
02:18:03.559 --> 02:18:07.760
just keep them as vigorous and healthy
as you can and they'll they'll reward you

1803
02:18:07.799 --> 02:18:13.239
with that blooming. Okay, do
you recommend a specific fertilizer or what an

1804
02:18:13.280 --> 02:18:16.920
all purpose fertilizer? Do you know? I would I would say anything you

1805
02:18:18.440 --> 02:18:20.239
put on them, it's going to
be helpful. I often will use a

1806
02:18:20.280 --> 02:18:24.559
turf type fertilizer on my crapes just
to get some bigger in them. But

1807
02:18:24.600 --> 02:18:28.120
there are some there are some crape
myrtle type foods. There are food's built

1808
02:18:28.159 --> 02:18:33.159
for that, food's built for blooming
plants. In general, they're they're all

1809
02:18:33.159 --> 02:18:35.680
going to work. Okay, so
may be a little better than others,

1810
02:18:35.760 --> 02:18:39.920
but the bottom line is just get
them something to get them a little vigor

1811
02:18:41.079 --> 02:18:46.360
and they will reward you with those
blooms. Okay, well, thank you

1812
02:18:46.399 --> 02:18:48.360
so much. I appreciate the help. All right, have fun out there

1813
02:18:48.360 --> 02:18:52.639
at Chapel Hill. Boy, that's
God's country, beautiful area out there.

1814
02:18:52.719 --> 02:18:56.399
Yes, it is all right,
we love it. Thank you, you

1815
02:18:56.520 --> 02:18:58.360
bet, thank you for the call. Uh. You know, if you

1816
02:18:58.399 --> 02:19:01.360
are looking to do a beautiful landscape, I mean you want to have a

1817
02:19:01.479 --> 02:19:05.680
show place, you need to contact
the folks at Peerscapes for that. And

1818
02:19:05.760 --> 02:19:09.920
here's why. Now, I'm a
plant guy. I know plants. I

1819
02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:13.239
love plants that you know, if
there's a plant I don't have, I

1820
02:19:13.360 --> 02:19:18.680
want it right. But when it
comes to coming home and making that homescape

1821
02:19:18.840 --> 02:19:22.239
a showplace, that's a different skill. And Peerscapes has that. They've got

1822
02:19:22.280 --> 02:19:28.639
the designers that know how to create
beautiful beds that are just gorgeous color.

1823
02:19:28.040 --> 02:19:31.079
They have the ability to do anything
you need to do in your landscape.

1824
02:19:31.120 --> 02:19:33.639
Do you need a new garden,
do you want a hardscape put in?

1825
02:19:33.920 --> 02:19:37.120
Do you need some walkways? Maybe
you need the drainage fixed. We're about

1826
02:19:37.159 --> 02:19:41.079
to find out if you do or
not with all this rain coming well,

1827
02:19:41.319 --> 02:19:46.040
Peerscapes can do that. You can
call them to eight one three seven zero

1828
02:19:46.319 --> 02:19:50.040
five oh six zero two eight one
three seven h five oh six or go

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02:19:50.120 --> 02:19:54.040
to pearscapes dot com and learn more
about what Peerscapes can do. They can

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02:19:54.120 --> 02:20:00.079
turn a beautiful place into a gorgeous
place. The beauty and the bounty the

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02:20:00.079 --> 02:20:03.840
they create is something to behold.
Let's head out now to sugar Land and

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02:20:03.840 --> 02:20:09.520
we're going to visit with Don.
Hello Don, Hi scoop, Good morning.

1833
02:20:09.079 --> 02:20:15.840
I got a question. I have
a celesque fig and it's several years

1834
02:20:15.840 --> 02:20:18.959
in The figs are pretty big and
they're developing. I've had it last year

1835
02:20:20.000 --> 02:20:24.239
or two. In the year before
you get brown spots on the kind of

1836
02:20:24.280 --> 02:20:28.639
the tip and around the fruit as
it ripens. And then also I have

1837
02:20:28.760 --> 02:20:33.000
some friends that have fig trees and
either the figs are either too small or

1838
02:20:33.040 --> 02:20:37.200
it doesn't bear. Is that just
the variety of the fig, or is

1839
02:20:37.239 --> 02:20:43.120
there something else they need to do
well? The variety is a factor.

1840
02:20:43.159 --> 02:20:50.000
Not all figs produce the same size
fruit. They're in general, figs are

1841
02:20:50.120 --> 02:20:52.799
if you give them moderate care,
they do well, and they do you

1842
02:20:52.840 --> 02:20:58.000
know they're going to produce well for
you. Figs are a little bit tolerant

1843
02:20:58.000 --> 02:20:58.879
of a little bit of shade.
They don't want to be in a lot

1844
02:20:58.920 --> 02:21:03.280
of shade. But for all our
fruit trees, they do better than some.

1845
02:21:03.559 --> 02:21:07.159
Most In fact, fruit trees do
with a little bit of a partial

1846
02:21:07.200 --> 02:21:09.920
shade. They like good moisture,
good sol moisture. They are prone to

1847
02:21:11.159 --> 02:21:15.360
nematodes. So if you have a
sandy soil and a fig just lacks vigor

1848
02:21:15.440 --> 02:21:18.319
and production, that may be one
of the reasons why nematodes that love to

1849
02:21:18.360 --> 02:21:22.600
attack the roots of a fig and
make them very inefficient, So that could

1850
02:21:22.600 --> 02:21:26.040
be a factor for some. In
general figs, we're just looking for a

1851
02:21:26.040 --> 02:21:30.000
fig that has a good closed eye. That's probably the most important thing,

1852
02:21:30.479 --> 02:21:33.639
because you don't want the bugs getting
in there and souring the fruit. That

1853
02:21:33.760 --> 02:21:35.600
eye is open and you're going to
have issues with that. So I don't

1854
02:21:35.600 --> 02:21:41.639
know if that fully answers your question. Or what about the brown spots that

1855
02:21:43.360 --> 02:21:46.200
is it on the leaves or on
the fig fruit? No, no,

1856
02:21:46.399 --> 02:21:50.559
just on the ripening fruit. Yeah, that's interesting. May think spots on

1857
02:21:50.639 --> 02:21:56.520
them the develop It doesn't affect the
taste of it, but it looks kind

1858
02:21:56.559 --> 02:22:01.760
of weird. Yeah, yeah,
it sounds spats. It sounds superficial,

1859
02:22:01.840 --> 02:22:03.319
you know what. I can guess
at some things. But don let's do

1860
02:22:03.360 --> 02:22:05.680
this. I'm gonna put you on
hold and have Josh pick it up,

1861
02:22:07.120 --> 02:22:11.040
and will you send Will you email
me some close up pictures, make sure

1862
02:22:11.079 --> 02:22:13.760
they're in sharp focus for you send
them of the spots that you're seeing.

1863
02:22:13.799 --> 02:22:16.040
Give me two or three pictures so
and kind of get a zoom in,

1864
02:22:16.120 --> 02:22:20.079
take a look at them, and
I'll just reply to you there with a

1865
02:22:20.120 --> 02:22:24.559
better answer than me imagining what I
think you're describing. Okay, okay,

1866
02:22:24.639 --> 02:22:28.239
all right, well this is it's
kind of fun. You're listening to garden

1867
02:22:28.280 --> 02:22:33.200
Line. We're sitting here talking all
kinds of things gardening. You know,

1868
02:22:33.280 --> 02:22:37.159
if you are interested in looking for
a place to build, to have a

1869
02:22:37.159 --> 02:22:41.760
beautiful place for retirement. You need
to consider the Dellweb community that's out there

1870
02:22:41.799 --> 02:22:45.360
in Fulsher. In fact, it's
less than two miles from downtown Fulsher On

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02:22:45.520 --> 02:22:50.799
FM three fifty nine, Dellweb creates
beautiful communities. We're not just at a

1872
02:22:50.879 --> 02:22:52.760
nice house. We're talking about the
whole community is beautiful. We're talking about

1873
02:22:52.799 --> 02:22:58.959
lifestyle programs designed around you. Active
adults age fifty five and better. Now

1874
02:22:58.079 --> 02:23:01.200
they have a community garden in this
new place that I'm helping them with,

1875
02:23:01.799 --> 02:23:07.239
and yet another reason for Garden Line
listeners to be interested in all web community.

1876
02:23:07.440 --> 02:23:13.639
You can go online to dellweb dot
com, slash Houston or dial two

1877
02:23:13.639 --> 02:23:18.840
eight one four five nine six o
nine find out about that Dellweb community in

1878
02:23:18.920 --> 02:23:24.520
Fulscher and the Dell Web difference for
yourself. Well, we're hitting here on

1879
02:23:24.559 --> 02:23:28.040
another break time, and so Sarah
out in Claire like you, will be

1880
02:23:28.079 --> 02:23:30.920
the first when we come up.
If you would like to give us a

1881
02:23:30.920 --> 02:23:35.600
call our phone number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

1882
02:23:50.239 --> 02:23:54.200
Well, good morning, you are
listening at the garden Line on a beautiful

1883
02:23:54.239 --> 02:23:58.200
Sunday morning. We look forward to
visiting with you as enjoy that, and

1884
02:23:58.200 --> 02:24:01.559
we're going to head right out to
the phones first and talk to Sarah out

1885
02:24:01.639 --> 02:24:03.719
in clear Lake. Sarah, how
are you today and how can we help?

1886
02:24:05.639 --> 02:24:09.920
Very good, thanks for taking my
call. Skip twenty one day years

1887
02:24:09.959 --> 02:24:15.799
ago. I had beautiful impatience and
then all of a sudden it started getting

1888
02:24:15.840 --> 02:24:18.239
hot. You had to water them
every day because they were just wilting.

1889
02:24:18.840 --> 02:24:24.479
And now they're all they don't have
spider mites. They have all yellowed and

1890
02:24:24.680 --> 02:24:30.879
have just black spots on them,
and they're dead. Do they die in

1891
02:24:30.920 --> 02:24:33.639
the heat like that? I've never
had them do I've never had them do

1892
02:24:33.760 --> 02:24:37.000
that. No, they don't want
to be in the brunt of the sun.

1893
02:24:37.120 --> 02:24:37.959
But if they've got a little bit
of a break from the heat of

1894
02:24:37.959 --> 02:24:41.840
the sun, they won't die.
Because it's hot. It sounds, you

1895
02:24:41.879 --> 02:24:45.520
know, it sounds like too much
water may be part of the thing.

1896
02:24:45.559 --> 02:24:50.120
Could that? Do you think that's
possible? Do they wilt in the middle

1897
02:24:50.120 --> 02:24:52.959
of the afternoon if it's hot,
they will not. Yes, the soil

1898
02:24:54.040 --> 02:24:56.799
can be moist and they literally can't
pump the water fast enough, and they

1899
02:24:56.840 --> 02:25:01.280
go through an afternoon wilt and then
they bound back. That is possible,

1900
02:25:01.520 --> 02:25:07.239
Yes, and so that that causes
us to kind of overwater sometimes. Well,

1901
02:25:07.280 --> 02:25:09.159
then maybe that's what I did,
because well they're just they were beautiful

1902
02:25:09.200 --> 02:25:13.559
and they are dead. Well,
they fighter mites nothing. Yeah, well,

1903
02:25:13.639 --> 02:25:18.479
there are some root rots that can
affect them, but certainly saggy wet

1904
02:25:18.559 --> 02:25:24.040
root conditions can affect them. And
here here's the thing that Sarah that makes

1905
02:25:24.079 --> 02:25:26.920
it makes it so tough. In
the heat of summer, that is the

1906
02:25:28.000 --> 02:25:30.520
worst time for them to get too
much water. And you think about it,

1907
02:25:30.520 --> 02:25:31.799
Well, the heat of summers when
they need the most water, and

1908
02:25:31.879 --> 02:25:37.559
it is. But when those roots
can't get oxygen and the demands are through

1909
02:25:37.639 --> 02:25:41.600
the roof on water pumping through the
plant, and the roots start shutting down,

1910
02:25:43.399 --> 02:25:46.280
they go down hell faster than any
other time of the year. If

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02:25:46.319 --> 02:25:48.600
you overwater them in the you know, in the late fall or early early

1912
02:25:48.639 --> 02:25:52.280
spring, you're not going to have
the same problem as if you do if

1913
02:25:52.280 --> 02:25:54.920
you overwater in the summer. It's
never good to overwater. But I'm just

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02:25:56.000 --> 02:26:01.200
saying the demands are so high that
they crash fast when the roots start to

1915
02:26:01.319 --> 02:26:03.760
lack good oxygen. So maybe that's
what's going on with her. I think

1916
02:26:03.799 --> 02:26:07.639
that's maybe what I did, because
I water them every day because they were

1917
02:26:07.680 --> 02:26:11.559
just yeah, drooping, you know, so I guess they're dry. Okay,

1918
02:26:11.639 --> 02:26:16.920
well that solves that mystery. Thanks
for the help. You appreciate it,

1919
02:26:16.120 --> 02:26:18.959
certainly, certainly I appreciate the call. Thank you very much. Yeah,

1920
02:26:20.000 --> 02:26:26.360
that is that is a common problem. I was driving through um Houston

1921
02:26:26.399 --> 02:26:30.600
the other day looking at some of
the flower beds and the plants, and

1922
02:26:30.680 --> 02:26:33.639
you know, just how things were
doing and stuff, and it just reminds

1923
02:26:33.680 --> 02:26:35.879
me that, you know that we
think in our minds, Okay, it's

1924
02:26:35.879 --> 02:26:39.479
a hundred degrees all week over now
for what three weeks? And so I

1925
02:26:39.520 --> 02:26:43.360
got a water water water. Well, the plants need water, but they

1926
02:26:43.479 --> 02:26:48.760
need oxygen in the root system,
and once the soil is moist, any

1927
02:26:48.799 --> 02:26:52.079
other water is not helping that plant
at all, and at some point it's

1928
02:26:52.120 --> 02:26:58.319
hurting the plant. So don't feel
like that. If a plant is wilting

1929
02:26:58.399 --> 02:27:01.159
during the day, you need to
water it. Understand why tomatoes do that.

1930
02:27:01.239 --> 02:27:05.600
If you have tomatoes and they're wilting
and you're thinking, I need to

1931
02:27:05.639 --> 02:27:09.360
water, and then by the end
of the day we get to about seven

1932
02:27:09.399 --> 02:27:13.440
o'clock or so and they're perking back
up again. They just couldn't pump the

1933
02:27:13.440 --> 02:27:16.920
water fast enough. That was the
problem. And it's not good that they're

1934
02:27:16.959 --> 02:27:20.520
wilting, but you can't control that. By adding more water, you can

1935
02:27:20.559 --> 02:27:22.600
just make it worse. And so
with a lot of our plants, be

1936
02:27:22.639 --> 02:27:26.920
real careful for that. Hey,
if you're looking for a place where you

1937
02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:31.239
can buy any kind of material that
you need to keep your lawn, your

1938
02:27:31.280 --> 02:27:35.639
garden healthy and happy, that would
be Southwest Fertilizer. Do you need an

1939
02:27:35.680 --> 02:27:39.399
insecticide, a fungicide. Do you
need an herbicide to kill some weeds?

1940
02:27:39.440 --> 02:27:43.719
Do you need a fertilizer that will
help plants grow? You will not find

1941
02:27:43.760 --> 02:27:50.120
a wider selection of all of those
anywhere than Southwest Fertilizer. Do you need

1942
02:27:50.159 --> 02:27:54.120
a tool, Well, wander down
an eighty foot long wall of tools and

1943
02:27:54.200 --> 02:27:56.280
you're going to find some quality tools
that fit the need that you have.

1944
02:27:56.680 --> 02:28:00.319
Do you need your law more blade
sharp under, a little bit of small

1945
02:28:00.319 --> 02:28:01.680
engine work done. There's a shop
in the back they can do that.

1946
02:28:03.120 --> 02:28:05.200
Do you have a problem and you
don't know what it is, take a

1947
02:28:05.280 --> 02:28:09.079
sample, take a picture in to
Southwest Fertilizer. By the way, go

1948
02:28:09.200 --> 02:28:13.120
to Southwest fertilizer dot com to learn
more. They're in what used to be

1949
02:28:13.159 --> 02:28:18.360
Southwest Houston. Now it's just kind
of inside Houston as we've grown wider and

1950
02:28:18.399 --> 02:28:22.799
wider over the decades. But corner
of Bissonette and Runwick to the southwest,

1951
02:28:22.920 --> 02:28:26.200
corner of Bissinette and run Wick.
Go by there and check it out.

1952
02:28:26.760 --> 02:28:30.879
You will be very impressed. If
you're an organic gardener, you're not going

1953
02:28:30.920 --> 02:28:35.920
to find a better selection of organic
gardening supplies than with Southwest Fertilizer. If

1954
02:28:35.959 --> 02:28:39.239
I talk about it on garden Line
and say it's a good product, they're

1955
02:28:39.280 --> 02:28:43.120
going to carry it at Southwest Fortilizer. That's just who they are, that's

1956
02:28:43.159 --> 02:28:46.040
what they do. That's why they've
been in business since nineteen fifty five.

1957
02:28:46.600 --> 02:28:50.280
Wow, what a great place to
have. We're fortunate to have that.

1958
02:28:50.879 --> 02:28:58.479
Their line of materials is just it's
just like none other. I was in

1959
02:28:58.520 --> 02:29:01.799
there the other day and visiting with
Bob and I go around. I actually

1960
02:29:01.879 --> 02:29:05.760
go there periodically just to walk the
whole store and see what the products are

1961
02:29:05.760 --> 02:29:07.760
because if there's something new on the
market, then maybe I haven't heard of

1962
02:29:07.879 --> 02:29:11.920
yet. It is probably in there
in Southwest Fertilizer I was walking through looking

1963
02:29:11.920 --> 02:29:16.280
at some of the Microlife products they
had, and they've got wide variety of

1964
02:29:16.280 --> 02:29:18.799
microlife, but they also have those
liquid products that I've been talking about more

1965
02:29:18.879 --> 02:29:24.479
lately. That would be Microlife's Biomatrix
Orange label. That's a seven one three

1966
02:29:24.520 --> 02:29:30.200
fertilizer. It is my go to
fertilizer for my houseplants. It's got the

1967
02:29:30.239 --> 02:29:33.559
microbes in it, yes, beneficial
microbes in the fertilizer, as well as

1968
02:29:33.639 --> 02:29:39.239
the seven one three ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and all the other

1969
02:29:39.280 --> 02:29:45.280
micronutrients that come along with a Microlife
organic fertilizer. It works really well.

1970
02:29:45.399 --> 02:29:50.399
They've also got the Ocean Harvest Blue
label Microlife's Ocean Harvest Blue label. So

1971
02:29:50.479 --> 02:29:54.520
think of a little round quart bottle. You've got an orange one for my

1972
02:29:54.559 --> 02:29:58.280
house plants, you've got a blue
one for the outdoor plants. It's a

1973
02:29:58.280 --> 02:30:03.120
fish based fertilizer. You can delete
it down and spray as a folier,

1974
02:30:03.319 --> 02:30:05.440
or you can drench it through a
watering can. Either way works. Go

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02:30:05.559 --> 02:30:13.040
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com, Microlife
Ferlisure dot com learn more about this Biomatrix

1976
02:30:13.120 --> 02:30:18.040
Orange label and Ocean Harvest Blue label
and find out where you can get the

1977
02:30:18.159 --> 02:30:24.440
Microlife has sold many many different places
around the Greater Houston area. That is

1978
02:30:24.520 --> 02:30:31.520
fortunate that we're able to purchase quality
products like that. We've talked about a

1979
02:30:31.559 --> 02:30:35.159
lot of things today. Spent a
lot of time on water with doctor Guy

1980
02:30:35.200 --> 02:30:39.719
Phipps. Thanks again to doctor Phipps
for coming by and for creating the water

1981
02:30:39.840 --> 02:30:43.360
my Yard app Boywater my Yard dot
org or go to the app supply.

1982
02:30:43.879 --> 02:30:50.200
You know you're an Apple io stored
you need an Android for your whatever Android

1983
02:30:50.280 --> 02:30:52.959
typhone. There's an app free for
all of that. Everything is free on

1984
02:30:52.959 --> 02:30:58.040
this You sign up, you get
free emails. I mean, you just

1985
02:30:58.120 --> 02:31:01.520
can't do much better than that.
Hey, I hope you guys have a

1986
02:31:01.600 --> 02:31:05.000
wonderful rest of your Fourth of July
weekend too. By the way, you

1987
02:31:05.040 --> 02:31:09.840
know what we got two more days
on Tuesday is the big day, fourth

1988
02:31:09.840 --> 02:31:15.360
of July. We celebrate our country's
independence. And if you need any kind

1989
02:31:15.360 --> 02:31:18.479
of supplies for that, you need
to find your local ace because they're going

1990
02:31:18.520 --> 02:31:22.000
to have them. So maybe you're
gonna get the lawn fertilized and do some

1991
02:31:22.079 --> 02:31:26.399
outdoor care. Maybe you need to
spray some things and take care of it.

1992
02:31:26.520 --> 02:31:28.200
All of that is an ace.
If I talk about a fertilizer on

1993
02:31:28.280 --> 02:31:33.000
garden Line, they're gonna have it
there. And they also have a wonderful

1994
02:31:33.040 --> 02:31:37.280
barbecue section. I mean when I
say wonderful, I mean from the Cadillacs

1995
02:31:37.319 --> 02:31:41.600
on down it. They've got it
all. They've got the big green egg,

1996
02:31:41.639 --> 02:31:45.479
the trigger, the webber. They've
got all the supplies and bling and

1997
02:31:45.600 --> 02:31:50.799
accessories that you need for a really
nice outdoor cookout. They've got it all.

1998
02:31:50.959 --> 02:31:56.600
If you need outdoor furniture maybe,
if you need some decor whatever you

1999
02:31:56.639 --> 02:32:01.000
need, they've got it. A
great season n Mexus too, By the

2000
02:32:01.040 --> 02:32:05.520
way, if you're a barbecue master, you should see the incredible seasoning mixes

2001
02:32:05.559 --> 02:32:07.559
they carry there. They carry things
for indoors. Of course, they're a

2002
02:32:07.559 --> 02:32:11.040
hardware store. They've got everything hardware
stores would have. Yeah, that's easy,

2003
02:32:11.319 --> 02:32:16.600
but they have the service like hardware
stores used to have and often now

2004
02:32:16.799 --> 02:32:20.920
don't have anymore. Just because you
go someplace to buy plumbing and wiring and

2005
02:32:22.399 --> 02:32:24.719
light bulbs and all that kind of
thing doesn't mean you're going to have someone

2006
02:32:24.799 --> 02:32:28.920
greet you when you walk in the
door, a friendly face that knows what

2007
02:32:28.959 --> 02:32:31.360
they're talking about. They turn around
and they take you to what you need

2008
02:32:31.559 --> 02:32:35.600
and they can assist you and the
how to to go along with the things

2009
02:32:35.600 --> 02:32:39.319
that you're purchasing. There another cool
thing about ACE Hardware. Go to ace

2010
02:32:39.399 --> 02:32:43.399
hardware dot com find one of the
thirty nine stores here in the house scen

2011
02:32:43.399 --> 02:32:46.639
area. Well, let's take a
break. We'll be back our phone number

2012
02:32:46.639 --> 02:33:20.239
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Sometimes I just love

2013
02:33:20.319 --> 02:33:22.239
to listen to the bump of news
that but that is a great song,

2014
02:33:22.600 --> 02:33:26.600
excellent song for summertime for sure.
Well you're listening to garden Line. Hey,

2015
02:33:26.639 --> 02:33:30.159
we're about to wrap this up for
the weekend. Just got a little

2016
02:33:30.159 --> 02:33:31.239
bit of time left. If you
would like to give me a call,

2017
02:33:31.360 --> 02:33:35.360
now would be the time to jump
on and do it. It's seven one

2018
02:33:35.520 --> 02:33:39.319
three two one two five eight seven
four. I actually got open phone lines

2019
02:33:39.360 --> 02:33:41.040
here if you would like to call
in, we will be able to get

2020
02:33:41.120 --> 02:33:45.959
right to you. Is if you're
the first one or two in at least

2021
02:33:46.120 --> 02:33:50.479
that way. We talked about a
lot of things today, certainly watering.

2022
02:33:50.479 --> 02:33:54.479
I talked about lawns and whatnot,
taking care of new trees, the importance

2023
02:33:54.520 --> 02:33:58.840
of that. I just want to
remind you that just because it's summer is

2024
02:33:58.879 --> 02:34:03.079
no reason to not have vegetables,
no reason to not have beautiful color.

2025
02:34:03.440 --> 02:34:07.840
There's no reason for your landscape to
become a sea of green. Lots of

2026
02:34:09.040 --> 02:34:13.559
wonderful plants out there. One of
my favorite for the heat is the red

2027
02:34:13.600 --> 02:34:18.520
bird of Paradise also called Pride of
Barbados. Side looking. It's some just

2028
02:34:18.799 --> 02:34:24.120
this past week around the Greater Houston
area, and boy, they are on

2029
02:34:24.280 --> 02:34:28.639
fire. I mean it's a it's
a bright orange with kind of a kind

2030
02:34:28.639 --> 02:34:31.879
of fades to a pinkish coral red
and it's the yellow in the bloom at

2031
02:34:31.879 --> 02:34:37.200
the same time. It is a
show stopper. It absolutely beautiful. It's

2032
02:34:37.200 --> 02:34:39.399
a wonderful plant for the heat.
We have so many plants that could take

2033
02:34:39.440 --> 02:34:43.719
the heat. Are hibiscus plants,
the tropical types and the perennial hibiscus.

2034
02:34:43.760 --> 02:34:48.600
We've got good beds of annuals.
Our garden centers are stocked with this stuff

2035
02:34:48.639 --> 02:34:52.239
now, I mean, you can
find everything that you need to keep the

2036
02:34:52.280 --> 02:34:56.040
color coming in the shade area.
What about impatience, what about colladiums.

2037
02:34:56.040 --> 02:35:01.680
Colladiums are awesome for the shade One
of my favorite right shade plants is Persian

2038
02:35:01.719 --> 02:35:05.639
shield because it has purple and silver
leaves. Now they get green in them

2039
02:35:05.639 --> 02:35:11.559
too, but purple and silver foliage. That is a rare thing to find

2040
02:35:11.600 --> 02:35:13.840
in plants, and yet here it
is. You give them a bright shade,

2041
02:35:13.879 --> 02:35:18.520
get them some good sunlight to develop
the full purple color that they can

2042
02:35:18.559 --> 02:35:22.000
develop, and they it's an excellent
little plant. You can pinch it back,

2043
02:35:22.120 --> 02:35:26.159
make a little kind of a shrub
like perennial out of it. And

2044
02:35:26.280 --> 02:35:28.280
by the way, Perny's, it
could be an annual or perennial depending on

2045
02:35:28.360 --> 02:35:31.200
the kind of winter we have.
Generally we think of it more of as

2046
02:35:31.200 --> 02:35:35.200
an annual, but gosh, what
a beautiful plant. Remember, foliage is

2047
02:35:35.239 --> 02:35:39.639
your friend when it comes to summertime. We're going to jump out here and

2048
02:35:39.680 --> 02:35:43.200
go to Hockley Hockley and talk to
Ruthie. Hey, Ruthy, how are

2049
02:35:43.200 --> 02:35:46.559
you this morning? Hey? Skip, I'm fine. I've got a question

2050
02:35:46.639 --> 02:35:50.200
about chinch bags. Okay, I
had done last year. I don't remember

2051
02:35:50.200 --> 02:35:52.360
what I should bray, but I
want to get on it as soon as

2052
02:35:52.360 --> 02:35:54.879
I see him this year. So
I was trying to find out what to

2053
02:35:54.920 --> 02:35:58.079
spree them to kill them. There
are a number of different insecticides that will

2054
02:35:58.120 --> 02:36:05.280
work on that, but nitro Fuss
makes one called bugout Max and thats like

2055
02:36:05.399 --> 02:36:09.280
over one hundred different kinds of insects, So that's gonna be one that'll also

2056
02:36:09.319 --> 02:36:13.079
be helpful if you should have the
sideweb worm show up. If you got

2057
02:36:13.120 --> 02:36:15.719
some bug out Max out there that's
working on them, it's it's going to

2058
02:36:15.799 --> 02:36:18.479
take care of that. But probably
that's the one I would use. It's

2059
02:36:18.479 --> 02:36:20.440
just simple and easy to get.
You can find it everywhere, like Nitrofuss

2060
02:36:20.639 --> 02:36:24.239
is, and I would try that, but just kind of watch for them.

2061
02:36:24.280 --> 02:36:28.440
Typically they're going to start next to
a sidewalk, a driveway, some

2062
02:36:28.559 --> 02:36:33.200
of your masonry structure in the sun. And when you start, yeah,

2063
02:36:33.239 --> 02:36:35.799
they do. When you see that
area and you know you water it,

2064
02:36:35.760 --> 02:36:37.799
it doesn't bounce back. Well,
that's pretty what you got. Time to

2065
02:36:37.840 --> 02:36:41.719
go ahead, Okay, perfect,
all right, perfect, Thank you so

2066
02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:43.920
much, you bet, thank you. I appreciate the call. We're gonna

2067
02:36:43.959 --> 02:36:48.600
run now out to Montgomery and talk
to Scott. Looks like we're moving fast

2068
02:36:48.639 --> 02:36:52.680
here, Scott. What's uppen?
Okay? I am my problem? While

2069
02:36:52.760 --> 02:36:56.319
I say I have am our limentry
and the container. Adam about June at

2070
02:36:56.360 --> 02:37:03.879
three years got fruit off of the
good last year and I had eight limbs

2071
02:37:03.920 --> 02:37:07.920
come out and start the bloom with
the green everything and end of the third

2072
02:37:07.000 --> 02:37:11.319
yellow. Well. I went out
to water my plants on my porch yesterday

2073
02:37:11.360 --> 02:37:16.920
with waters and I'm down to one
now. Yeah, and I can see

2074
02:37:16.000 --> 02:37:20.559
on the vine or the plant itself, did it look like something? Show

2075
02:37:20.639 --> 02:37:26.200
them all and I was expecting deer, well the vegetarians. Yeah, it

2076
02:37:26.239 --> 02:37:30.360
could be, you know, it
also could just be a stress. When

2077
02:37:30.440 --> 02:37:33.600
citrus has a little baby fruit during
a stress, they'll often cast that.

2078
02:37:33.719 --> 02:37:37.440
And so with the kind of weather
we're having, it's not hard for amar

2079
02:37:37.520 --> 02:37:41.040
lemon to dry out, you know, get a little too dry briefly,

2080
02:37:41.600 --> 02:37:46.200
or something along those lines. I
don't know any any insect, pest or

2081
02:37:46.239 --> 02:37:50.680
four legged critter that's going to do
that what you're describing. Yeah, well

2082
02:37:50.680 --> 02:37:54.319
that's okay, But I can't understand, like I say, I do see

2083
02:37:54.360 --> 02:37:58.840
on the end of the vines or
into the little limb where the it looked

2084
02:37:58.879 --> 02:38:01.159
like something gnauted off off. We've
got something chewed into it to get it

2085
02:38:01.239 --> 02:38:05.479
all. And when I went out
watered. There was no land sitting on

2086
02:38:05.520 --> 02:38:09.719
the ground or on the floor in
the pod or anything like. So you're

2087
02:38:09.760 --> 02:38:13.559
not talking about just the fruit falls
off. You're talking about a section of

2088
02:38:13.639 --> 02:38:18.280
branch gone. Yeah by me,
Yeah, branch called they not so they

2089
02:38:18.399 --> 02:38:22.200
gnawed them off with part of the
branch and like I say, they just

2090
02:38:22.399 --> 02:38:26.639
disappear. I'm down the one now
and said they well other than dear,

2091
02:38:28.040 --> 02:38:31.479
I don't know what would take a
branch off and not leave it land there.

2092
02:38:33.000 --> 02:38:37.280
You know, squirl sometimes get weird. They'll you know, they'll nip

2093
02:38:37.280 --> 02:38:41.959
our trees and drop the limbs,
just keeping their weird. I can't find

2094
02:38:41.799 --> 02:38:46.680
yeah, I can't find the limits
fell off or gotten off. So I'm

2095
02:38:46.719 --> 02:38:50.799
thinking it might be squirreled. But
I don't never see I've had a problem,

2096
02:38:50.879 --> 02:38:56.280
but this year I had problems.
Well that is very Yeah, I'll

2097
02:38:56.360 --> 02:38:58.399
keep an eye on it, and
you know, people get more to the

2098
02:38:58.440 --> 02:39:01.920
lot weekend s. Thank you listen
you show every weekend. Well I appreciate

2099
02:39:01.959 --> 02:39:05.879
that, and maybe need to get
you one of them wild game cameras out

2100
02:39:05.879 --> 02:39:11.239
there. I got a dog inside
of the house and he barks, you

2101
02:39:11.319 --> 02:39:15.719
know, when you know, he
walked up towards the front door and ring

2102
02:39:15.799 --> 02:39:18.280
the door rail. But uh,
that's all I am wo'll do, sir.

2103
02:39:18.879 --> 02:39:22.159
I cannot think. Yeah you two, thank you. I appreciate that.

2104
02:39:22.639 --> 02:39:26.559
Lest we we can all right,
you take care. We're gonna head

2105
02:39:26.159 --> 02:39:30.520
yeah, sir, We're gonna head
now out to Katie and we're gonna talk

2106
02:39:30.559 --> 02:39:35.639
to Jill. Hello, Jill.
Thanks Scott. I have a question about

2107
02:39:35.959 --> 02:39:39.000
crepe myrtles. Okay, and I
had about four crepe myrtles that are in

2108
02:39:39.079 --> 02:39:45.120
the strip between your sidewalk and the
street. And I've noticed on the base

2109
02:39:45.200 --> 02:39:48.920
for the crepe myrtles they've been whacked
up pretty good by a lead eader and

2110
02:39:50.079 --> 02:39:54.559
like almost halfway through. And they're
smaller trees. They're not a large crepe

2111
02:39:54.600 --> 02:40:00.520
myrtles O state there. I think
they're about maybe like eight feet okay,

2112
02:40:00.559 --> 02:40:03.879
so and um, but I know
there's also and I was going to fill

2113
02:40:03.920 --> 02:40:07.680
them in, but I thought i'd
better ask you because you would know what

2114
02:40:07.719 --> 02:40:13.680
I should do. Um, Underneath
the areas where they were wept, it's

2115
02:40:13.159 --> 02:40:18.600
it's always almost as though they're not
actually attached to the soil underneath. It's

2116
02:40:18.719 --> 02:40:24.799
very hollow and um, so there
isn't really a soil base. Now they

2117
02:40:24.840 --> 02:40:30.879
don't look like the suffering because they're
blooming like crazy, but I know that's

2118
02:40:30.879 --> 02:40:37.280
an issue well compost maybe I don't
know. So what percentage of the way

2119
02:40:37.319 --> 02:40:41.879
around the stem do you think the
weed eater took the bark off? Oh?

2120
02:40:41.920 --> 02:40:48.280
Like a like a almost like again
to half about half of it?

2121
02:40:48.319 --> 02:40:50.520
Okay, Well, well the first
thing I would do, and all of

2122
02:40:50.520 --> 02:40:54.399
them, Yeah, the first thing
I do is get out there and give

2123
02:40:54.440 --> 02:40:56.920
them a mulch bed, just so
that don't ever happen again. And they'll

2124
02:40:56.959 --> 02:41:00.959
just do better if they have a
mulch better around them than if the grass

2125
02:41:01.000 --> 02:41:03.959
gets up close or weeds get up
close. The mulch help helps prevent that.

2126
02:41:05.440 --> 02:41:07.719
So I would definitely do that.
As far as fixing it, it's

2127
02:41:07.719 --> 02:41:13.719
just going to be time and vigor
that it's going to take to close over

2128
02:41:13.840 --> 02:41:16.600
that loss of bark, you know, for the sides the callous to form

2129
02:41:16.600 --> 02:41:18.879
and close over, and it takes
time for that to happen. But the

2130
02:41:18.959 --> 02:41:22.360
sooner you get it going, the
better. So I would give them good

2131
02:41:22.399 --> 02:41:26.280
deep soakings in a wide area as
wide as a branch spread and a little

2132
02:41:26.280 --> 02:41:31.079
wider apply an inch or two of
water, and we're about to get rain

2133
02:41:31.159 --> 02:41:33.239
to help us out on that here. But I'd give them a good soaking

2134
02:41:33.319 --> 02:41:39.200
and that will get the vigor up
better than anything. Also some fertilizer,

2135
02:41:39.319 --> 02:41:43.040
and I would you know, we'd
got a lot of different kinds of fertilizer

2136
02:41:43.159 --> 02:41:45.920
right here. We're not worried about
the things not blooming. We're worried about

2137
02:41:45.959 --> 02:41:50.280
them needing vigor. So I might
even use one of the fertilizers I've been

2138
02:41:50.280 --> 02:41:52.079
talking about this morning. For lawns. It's a slow release, like the

2139
02:41:52.159 --> 02:41:58.920
slow and easy from Nelson's, the
super turf from nitrophosph for example, or

2140
02:41:58.920 --> 02:42:05.239
even a microlife six six two six
two four for example, and just start

2141
02:42:05.319 --> 02:42:09.760
pushing the nitrogen to them to get
some vigor going. But nitrogen without water

2142
02:42:09.799 --> 02:42:13.159
won't do it. You just they
need to never lack for water, because

2143
02:42:13.200 --> 02:42:16.799
your goal is going to be to
get those things to get vigor and then

2144
02:42:16.799 --> 02:42:20.639
to heal over as quickly as they
can. Yes and again, and will

2145
02:42:20.639 --> 02:42:24.680
embarrassed to say I'm much or how
long all this has taken place. It

2146
02:42:24.760 --> 02:42:28.040
happened, but since then I have
created a barrier, you know, around

2147
02:42:28.040 --> 02:42:33.200
them. When I goiced it a
few weeks ago, but that the underneath

2148
02:42:33.280 --> 02:42:39.000
it is okay to pack those those
spaces in between underneath them what you would

2149
02:42:39.120 --> 02:42:41.719
use, um, composts? Yeah, well, I mean you could.

2150
02:42:41.760 --> 02:42:46.159
I can't quite picture that that you're
describing. You know, they're being a

2151
02:42:46.200 --> 02:42:50.319
gap underneath below where the wet eaterhead. I'm and stuff that's kind of a

2152
02:42:50.479 --> 02:42:54.319
usual also like a like a animal, a dog got down there. But

2153
02:42:54.399 --> 02:42:58.559
it's not okay, what could be
that? I mean, it could it

2154
02:42:58.600 --> 02:43:01.959
could be water washing it. I
don't know. I mean, my mind's

2155
02:43:01.959 --> 02:43:05.680
eye is picturing, but I can't
quite get a clear picture. So I

2156
02:43:05.719 --> 02:43:07.079
would say, you know, put
a little soil in around them and water

2157
02:43:07.159 --> 02:43:09.360
it in real good. That'd be
fine. If you only use composts,

2158
02:43:09.360 --> 02:43:11.680
that's fine, but it's just going
to decompose. So where there was a

2159
02:43:11.719 --> 02:43:15.680
hole, you fill it with compost, and you end up eventually with another

2160
02:43:15.680 --> 02:43:18.920
hole because it goes away. It
doesn't it's not like soil that that kind

2161
02:43:18.920 --> 02:43:22.639
of stays there. But it sounds
like you're on the right track. I

2162
02:43:22.719 --> 02:43:26.840
just let's get them a little bit
of vigor and hopefully they'll they'll heal that

2163
02:43:26.920 --> 02:43:30.559
over real quick. Hey, thank
you so much Hey, thanks for the

2164
02:43:30.600 --> 02:43:31.680
call. Have fun out there,
and Katie, hope you have a good

2165
02:43:33.399 --> 02:43:37.200
Fourth of July weekend too. By
the way, well let's see you're listening

2166
02:43:37.200 --> 02:43:41.600
to garden Line and we're done.
We'll be back again next Friday. In

2167
02:43:41.600 --> 02:43:45.440
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2168
02:43:45.719 --> 02:43:46.760
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