WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.839 Good morning on a good Saturday morning. We are glad 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:04.839 you're with us. By the way, this is Garden Line. 3 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:07.160 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to talk 4 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:11.400 about gardening. You got any questions, let's do that seven 5 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:14.160 to one to three two one two kt rh. I'll 6 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:16.679 talk about some things that I think are important for 7 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.359 the season, but the most important thing are your questions. 8 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:23.440 Do you have issues with your lawn, your garden, your landscape. 9 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.640 Maybe you're thinking about planning some vegetables and like some 10 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:30.600 tips for advice, or got some strange bug crawling across 11 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:32.679 the produce that we need to talk about. We can 12 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:34.920 do all that kind of stuff and happy to do it. 13 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:39.880 It's seven one three two one two kt rh. This 14 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:45.079 week I finished putting a stone patio in the backyard. 15 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:48.960 I've been laying some stone down and you know it's 16 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:52.560 what we call, I guess, a dry patio, something no concrete. 17 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.520 I've got a cypress tree that has a bad habit 18 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.000 of sending knees up and it'll crack a lot of 19 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:02.159 things that I try to to do out there. So 20 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.640 I decided to do a drystack and that way, if 21 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:06.959 the if a knee comes up, I can move a stone, 22 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:09.480 get rid of the knee and put it back down again. 23 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:11.719 Don't look forward to doing that, but at least at 24 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.239 least as possible. Anyway, I finished that, and I am glad. 25 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.159 I was just about out of ibuprofen at the time, 26 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.959 so we survived it. But it's nice to do little 27 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.280 things out in the yard and garden to kind of 28 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:27.760 fix things up a little bit so you can enjoy 29 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.159 the place even more. Now that we finally are getting 30 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.840 this wonderful weather that we've been having, makes it so 31 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:38.319 nice to be outside and get things done. I guess 32 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:40.719 now's the time for all of us to be getting 33 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:43.560 a list of the activities we want to finish up 34 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:47.120 prior to it cooling off a little bit more. And 35 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:49.640 all the holidays that come through at the end of 36 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.239 the year tend to take our attention away to other things. 37 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.400 Just remember it is still fall, and it will be 38 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:58.439 for a while. We don't know what the winter will 39 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.920 arrive or many days it'll be, probably somewhere between three 40 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.480 and four days. This year we have such a mild climate, 41 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:08.520 but anyway, we don't know when it'll arrive. But now 42 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:11.000 his fall, now is the time to plant Oh my goodness. 43 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:12.719 If you're going to put a tree of shrub or 44 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:16.280 a woody vine in, put it in now. Give it 45 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:21.520 the most time possible before hot weather arrives next year. 46 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.280 That's important. The first year is the toughest year for 47 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.639 a new plant. And by giving it a head start 48 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:29.840 you have you've done a number of things. You've saved 49 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:33.360 yourself money because if you have to replace a plant, 50 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:37.560 that costs money. One other way that you save money 51 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:41.240 by fall planning, or you can save money by fall planning, 52 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.159 is if you were to take a smaller plant and 53 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:45.520 put it in in the fall. Let's say it's a 54 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:48.280 perennial like a salvi or something, and you put it 55 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.280 in in the fall, and then you wait until spring 56 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.199 and you buy the next size up. It's always significantly 57 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.199 more to buy the next size up than the size down. 58 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:58.639 You could put the next size up in in the 59 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:00.199 spring and by summer you won't be able to tell 60 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.719 the differenstween those two plants. Now, if you on instant, wow, yeah, 61 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.960 buy the bigger plant and just get there a lot faster. 62 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:10.919 But I'm just telling you that fall planning has a 63 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:14.800 lot of advantages. And in addition to being good for 64 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:19.960 the plant's survivability. It's just a head start. Plus it's 65 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:22.840 a nice time to be out there taking care of planting. 66 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.199 Speaking of, we're coming up on what for home owners 67 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.319 is a pruning season, the dormant season when homeowners do 68 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.759 most of their pruning. It's also when tree services do 69 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.159 a lot of their pruning, and Martin spun more with 70 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:42.319 affordable trees. No different. Martin does the just a huge 71 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.039 amount of pruning work in the cool season because that's 72 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.400 an ideal time to prune. You can prune twelve months 73 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:50.400 oft of the year if you need to. But I'm 74 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:53.520 just saying the time that we are entering, or have 75 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.120 been and now for a while and definitely will carry 76 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.159 us on through winter, is a very important time. And 77 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:02.240 I would reckon you get on Martin's schedule, have him 78 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:04.319 come out and look at what you got. You know, 79 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.199 take a look at the trees. What do they need? 80 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.800 What's his advice? Do you know we do we need 81 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.240 to remove some narrow branch angles because those are the 82 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.039 ones that often tend to crack. Do you have some 83 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.879 dead branches in a tree or other issues. He can 84 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:19.680 look at the trees and tell all that all that 85 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:22.399 kind of thing. While he's there, take a look. If 86 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.600 you're going to do any tree planting, if you've got 87 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:26.879 a young tree and you need to do training on it, 88 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:29.720 get some advice on that. Get somebody that knows what 89 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.959 they're doing. Listen, there's a lot of people that own 90 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:36.439 a chainsaw and drive around putting business cards in people's door. 91 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.240 That does not mean they know what they're doing. In fact, 92 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:44.480 chances are they don't from my experiences. But Martin does. 93 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.199 And if you want to give him a call at 94 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.399 seven one three six ' nine nine two six six 95 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.439 ' three, he can come out and check it out 96 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:54.519 for you, give you the advice you need. Maybe you're 97 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:57.920 going to be putting in a trench for some utility, 98 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:00.759 or maybe you're putting in a new driveway or some 99 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.480 other thing. Anytime you do anything within the branch spread 100 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.720 of the tree, even beyond that affects them a little bit. Uh, 101 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:09.959 you need to have somebody knows what they're talking about 102 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.519 Guidejoe on that. Martin spoon Moore is the one Martin, 103 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.319 and is Joe. This is Joe. Yeah, Here is Joe 104 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.680 his wife Joe. They he are the ones that answer 105 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:19.920 the phone. If you call Affordable Tree Service and you 106 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.399 don't hear Martin or Joe answer the phone. There are 107 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:26.360 people out there that just you know, they call their 108 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.879 company whatever they want and do whatever. They just call 109 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:33.199 back a different Just call back again because you've gotten 110 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.199 the wrong place. Somebody has misled you. Seven to one 111 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:41.079 three six nine nine two six six three Martin and 112 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.519 Joe Spoon Moore. If you want to go to the 113 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.000 website aff Tree Service dot com a f F the 114 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:52.240 first three letters in affordable aff Tree Service dot com. 115 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:54.879 Main thing is get on the schedule. Tell them your 116 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:58.519 guardline listener. He stays busy. I'm telling you he does 117 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:02.120 stay busy, and as a result, don't delay. You want 118 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.040 to get on his schedule for winter gets over with 119 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.319 a portable Tree's times. Somebody just the other day that 120 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:11.680 use them as very pleased with the work that they got, 121 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.040 which is what we would expect from Affordable Tree. I 122 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:19.920 mentioned being outside working on the patio. I've got an 123 00:06:20.040 --> 00:06:22.839 orchard area that's a that makes it sound bigger than 124 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:24.959 it is on the along the side of my house, 125 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.240 a little strip of area that's very, very bright and sunny, 126 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.319 but it is not well, let's just say it's it's 127 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.360 it's it's pretty narrow. So I've gotten a single row 128 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.480 of fruit trees along there. I've got enough room to 129 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:42.199 do that. And I'm getting soil ready, getting some irrigation 130 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:45.199 things set up and get you know, just getting anything 131 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.519 ready to go. I'll be doing that planting pretty soon 132 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.800 here too. Just remember on anything before we plant, what 133 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:54.279 do we do. We affects the soil, brown stuff before 134 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.279 green stuff, and that is an important thing to make 135 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.519 sure that that gets done if you want to have success. 136 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:02.600 Which time for me to take a break. I'm going 137 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:04.639 to do that and I'll be right back at seven 138 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.560 one three two one two ktr H. I'm glad you're 139 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:10.600 with us today. We got a lot to talk about, 140 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.720 as we always do in garden Line. There's so many plants, 141 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.800 so little time. That's the way it is, you know. 142 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.839 The more I guess we should have a disclaimer on 143 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.199 garden Line, and that is that gardening may be addictive, 144 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.959 maybe habit forming. That's a warning because it is you 145 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.040 get into one kind of plant and get into something else. 146 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.680 And there's always something new to learn, something cool and 147 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:37.720 fun to learn too, And there's there's levels of gardening 148 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:41.319 and I don't mean like some gardeners or better than others, 149 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.560 although that happens, right, I mean we get better as 150 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.600 we practice and learn and get I'm talking about levels 151 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:49.720 in the sense of some people just like I just 152 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:51.560 want a pretty lawn. I just want to mow it, 153 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.839 have a good lawn looking good. Other people are like 154 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.560 I want to get into putting in new flowers or 155 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:00.480 vegetables or herbs or whatever they want to do. And 156 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.000 then you take it up another step where you're doing 157 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.920 things from container gardening to hanging baskets to really beautifully 158 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:12.279 design containers, or maybe you start learning to propagate plants, 159 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.519 to start plants from seed to start plants, from cuttings 160 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:19.040 to root cuttings, to do divisions, and it just goes 161 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.279 on and on. I mean there's no limit. I mean 162 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:24.600 grafting would be a whole other thing. People that get 163 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:28.000 rootstocks and they graft them themselves. Or maybe you have 164 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:32.080 a citrus tree and you want to have three or 165 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.159 four kinds of citrus on the same tree. Do you 166 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.000 know you can butt a tree to do that? Butt 167 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:39.480 or graft either one. That's another level of card. There's 168 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:42.639 a lot, there's never an ending. There's never an end 169 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:44.720 to all the things that you can learn and all 170 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.879 the kind of cool things that you can have fun doing. 171 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.240 That's one thing I like about gardening. Another thing I 172 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:53.279 like is going out and seeing garden centers. I don't 173 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:55.960 know if you're like me on this one, but every 174 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:57.559 time I go to a new town, I try to 175 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.759 find a garden center's the top garden center there, and 176 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:02.720 go buy and visit them. Sometimes it's just a little 177 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:04.519 hole in the wall place off in a corner of 178 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.240 town that you wouldn't even think, you know, well, I'm 179 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.559 going to go over there. There's not any other reason 180 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:13.039 to head over into that nook or cranny of town, 181 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.759 and you just get out and enjoy it. And some 182 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.120 of the coolest garden centers are like that. They're the 183 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.840 ones you discover going around the corner. It's called I 184 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:24.559 call it horticultural tourism. But here in Houston we are 185 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.000 blessed to have many, many good garden centers and RCW 186 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.840 Nursery that's on the north west side of Houston. It's 187 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.679 right where Tomball Parkway comes into belt wag eight. R 188 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:38.080 CW is an example of just that kind of garden center. 189 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.399 Right now, there's a good deal I keep telling you 190 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.960 about and I hope you'll take advantage of, and that 191 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:48.240 is that they have got their trees off fifteen percent 192 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.080 and their shrubs are off twenty percent, So that means 193 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.559 a good savings now for the best time to plant 194 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:01.120 those two items is right now. They'll also when you're there, 195 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.360 don't leave without some root stimulator. They've got root activator. 196 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:08.480 Rather when you plant your plant, they'll tell you how 197 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.559 to use it. Just put that in the soil with 198 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.039 the tree root system when you do, and you know, 199 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.080 when you go home with a plant from RCW, you're 200 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.360 getting a species and even a variety in many cases 201 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:21.159 that is going to thrive here, that is going to 202 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.639 do well here. So again, the great sales are still 203 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.159 going on for the rest of this month, which is 204 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.000 getting close to drawing to a close here, so don't 205 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.000 put it off too soon or too late. Fifteen percent 206 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.519 off trees, twenty percent off shrubs at RCW Nursery. And 207 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.440 when you're out there, you're going to have a really 208 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:40.480 good time with some of the other bling and stuff 209 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:46.759 that they also have on hand. Let's see, I wanted 210 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:52.000 to say a word about Landscaper's Pride Landscaper's Pride is 211 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.799 a kind of a local company here that has a 212 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:00.679 wide variety of products, lots of cool stuff. Know, probably 213 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.279 two dozen plus different products for your soil and for 214 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:06.679 on top of your soil. For example, they got the 215 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:11.120 black velvet mult. It's a hardwood mulch that really is 216 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.000 just beautiful. It's not dyed, it's naturally dark, full of life, 217 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.039 and it's screens so that it's bulky enough to protect 218 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.879 the surface of the soil. As most quality mult products will. 219 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:28.399 You need a good mulch now winter weeds are germinating. 220 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.399 Don't let sunlight hit the soil wherever it does. Nature 221 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.399 plants a weed and black velvet mulch is a great 222 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.080 way to do that. Cedar mult is really attractive for 223 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:38.799 the holidays, got that nice cedar aroma to it as 224 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.480 you put it down, and really beautiful too. I love 225 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.759 the color of it as well. In time, you know 226 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:47.200 it ages and stuff. It's just a it's a beautiful mult. 227 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:50.159 And then finally they're top soil for filling in. If 228 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.120 you got some low spots in the yard, you're going 229 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:55.679 to be re sodding probably next spring. A sandy loam 230 00:11:55.679 --> 00:11:59.639 and compost mix is excellent for repairing those patchy yards, 231 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.960 smoothing out those areas. Those three are just three examples 232 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.600 of quality products from Landscapers Pride. You can go to 233 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:11.480 Landscaperspride dot com and find out more information about those 234 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:16.519 exact things. Makes it easy to get not just the 235 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.639 product information, but the locations as to where you can 236 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.399 find them. We're going to head out and out of 237 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.759 Tomball and talk to David. Hello, David, Welcome to garden Line. 238 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:31.519 Good morning, sir. I'm driving back from North Carolina. I'm 239 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:36.039 a truck driver and I stopped at the Georgia Welcome Center, 240 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.960 one of their travel centers, and they gave me some 241 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.879 seeds and kind of how we do blue bonnets and Texas. 242 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.840 They do what they call cosmos in Georgia, And. 243 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:50.279 Of course I took the seeds. 244 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:53.519 I'm taking it as a challenge, you know, and plus fay, hey, 245 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:54.039 I got. 246 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.080 Them free, you know, and so I want to try. 247 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:57.840 To plant these things. 248 00:12:58.000 --> 00:12:59.919 My question is, you. 249 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:01.879 Know, they grow in Georgia, are they going to grow 250 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:02.559 in Texas? 251 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.919 Probably there's a couple of different kinds of cosmos, probably 252 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.320 more than two. But uh, there's there's a couple of 253 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:12.559 types we we do grow here. Uh did did they 254 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:15.600 have pictures of this of the flowers on the packet? 255 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.320 Or oh heck they got the name of them here. 256 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:19.200 I'll tell you the types. 257 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:24.000 It's called uh so furious. 258 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:27.200 Nip I can't do what? What do you say? So 259 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.159 furious is one of them, and then the other one 260 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:33.960 is by E b I b I p I n 261 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.799 n A t u s. 262 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:43.600 The sulfurious will probably be a little leisure to grow. 263 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:48.600 But there are some really good uh bipinatus that will 264 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:50.639 will do well here as well. They're going to get 265 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:54.360 pretty tall. I would give them a shot. You could 266 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.200 start them as transplants and then transplant them out once 267 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.759 the danger of frost has passed, or you could just 268 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:01.639 see them out at that time and let them come 269 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.720 on up. Seat them out a little bit before the 270 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.039 danger of frost has passed and let them come on 271 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:07.759 up in the garden. However you want to go about it, 272 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.240 If you want to do you know, just a little 273 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.080 neat area, some certain amount of plants. You could start 274 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.080 them yourself indoors. They'll work either way. 275 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.320 Okay, I just I'm just going to kill up a 276 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.399 little I'm just gonna kill up a little spot and 277 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.120 throw it out there and see what they do. 278 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:28.399 All right, we'll have fun. That's that's a fun part 279 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:35.799 of gardening. That's the surprise. Yeah, I appreciate that very much. 280 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.519 H Yeah, that's a that is cool stuff. Uh, you know, 281 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.639 there there is a There are different styles of gardening 282 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:45.639 and one one type of gardening is called cottage gardening. 283 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.120 And cottage gardening. Now, don't be offended if you're a 284 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.840 cottage gardener, but I like to joke that cottage gardening 285 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.279 is just an excuse for a mess. It is, and 286 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.799 some people like an organized mess instead of everything being 287 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.240 in rows and all that kind of stuff. Well, you 288 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.080 just sort of have a It looks a little bit random, 289 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:12.879 but you're really managing the random with a cottage garden. 290 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.799 And basically you're throwing some seeds over in a corner 291 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:18.200 and letting them come up when and where they want to. 292 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:20.720 And then you've got certain plants that are kind of 293 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:25.279 foundational to it. But kidding aside, it is just a 294 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:27.240 whole another way to garden. And if you go back 295 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:32.519 in time, you know, to when this area was being pioneered, 296 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:35.159 if you will, with people coming in and a lot 297 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.120 of the gardens were that way. They were very, very random. 298 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:41.360 I had a great aunt that had a garden that 299 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.919 was a cottage garden, and it just you know what, 300 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.320 if they say bloom where you're planted, well, that's kind 301 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:49.360 of what happened. Things popped up, and that way you 302 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.639 find out what wants to grow there too. That is 303 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:55.480 another advantage of that approach. You know, you try a 304 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:57.759 lot of different things and you find out what's going 305 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.879 to do well here and what's not. Just remember that 306 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.519 plants receed, and some plants can crawl around underground and 307 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:06.600 on top of the ground, and so you don't want 308 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.279 to invite an invasion when you're doing that. I have 309 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:14.000 a few plants that I deadhead because if I let 310 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.440 them go to seed. It's not just a cottage garden. 311 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:20.679 It's a cottage garden. It's trying to conquer the world. 312 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:23.159 Kind of a pinky in the brain cottage garden. For 313 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.720 those of you who know what that is. Microlife fertilizers 314 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:32.039 or are organic natural types of fertilizer that are loaded 315 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.440 with microbes. That's what they're all about, because that's what 316 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:39.240 nature's all about. Microbes rule the world, especially in the 317 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.360 soil around the plant roots. And when you add a 318 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:48.600 quality product like Microgrow bioinoculant that's a granular bioinoculant with 319 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:53.679 sixty three different strains of beneficial microbes. And I can 320 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.720 just go into all the things they do and whatnot. 321 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:01.000 Let's just say this. They do everything from disease to 322 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:05.519 stimulating plants to grow in ways that are better for them, 323 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:10.359 more resistant to disease, and more productive. Micro grow biinoculants 324 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:14.960 and organic biological inoculant from Microlife. You can buy it 325 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.680 by the bag and put it on your lawn. It 326 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:19.119 doesn't take much because all we're doing is it's kind 327 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.480 of like a sour dough starter when you're baking bread. 328 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:23.240 You know, you just get a little start that gets 329 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.319 you the bugs, if you want to call them bugs. 330 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.880 They get in there and cause the dough to rise 331 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:31.359 and whatnot. Well, this is like doing that to your lawn. 332 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.599 Five to ten pounds per thousand square feet. That's not 333 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.160 much five to ten pounds per thousand square feet, and 334 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.200 if you've got a pretty significant issue with the soil, 335 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:42.680 you can double that and go up to about twenty 336 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:46.680 pounds per thousand But this is something you use along 337 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:50.400 with fertilizer or anytime of the year you want to 338 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:55.640 use it. It's not nitrogen, phosphorus potassium. You're putting out 339 00:17:55.960 --> 00:18:00.599 your inoculating your soil with additional beneficial microbes that are 340 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.640 out there micro grow bianoculants from Microlife. You can go 341 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:08.880 to microlife fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot Com that 342 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.000 tells you what all their products are, tells you more 343 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.079 about the products, and tells you where you can find 344 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:18.359 their products. Important to be able to find them in 345 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.960 the places where they are nearest to you. And Microlife's 346 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.160 widely widely available, so you won't have any trouble at 347 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:33.000 all locating microlife in your area. Well out of enchanted gardens. 348 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.480 They are gearing up for the holidays as you would 349 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:41.640 expect when you go into the gift shops. Oh my gosh, 350 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:44.799 they are loaded with things, and so are the gardens 351 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:49.039 outside in the blingk. They've got the Santa Claus themselfs 352 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:53.079 showing up on December seventh at ten am. December seventh, 353 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:55.839 ten am not too far away. So I'm telling you 354 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:57.720 now you can get that on your calendar. By the way, 355 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:01.880 Jennet Gardens is located on FM three fifty nine, just 356 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:05.839 north of Richmond, Texas FM three fifty nine. If you 357 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:07.640 haven't been there, you need to go. If you've got 358 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.400 family coming in for the holidays, set some time aside 359 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:14.200 one of the days to go over and take them 360 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:17.160 to Enchanted Gardens to see that place. It is awesome. 361 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.440 It is awesome. A week later, on the fourteenth, they're 362 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.000 having the grinch Fest. You know what, just go to 363 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:26.079 their website because all these events and all the things 364 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:28.400 you need to know are right there at the website. 365 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:35.519 It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. 366 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:37.480 That's where you get plants that want to grow. Here 367 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:42.960 an incredible variety and very friendly, knowledgeable staff that'll that'll 368 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:46.640 not steer you wrong and help you have success. Time 369 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:48.680 for me to take another little break. I will be 370 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:51.200 right back if you'd like to give us a call 371 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:56.200 seven one three two one two kt RH. The Stalkers 372 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.640 song now says she said that I can, and here 373 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:06.799 it'll be. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line. Good heavy 374 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:09.880 with us today. We're here to talk about gardening. Do 375 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:12.359 you have a question, Let's visit about it seven to 376 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:15.559 one three two one two k t r h seven 377 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:20.319 to one three two one two k t r h. 378 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.160 The orchard that I'm putting in on the side of 379 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:28.480 the house is in a very heavy clay soil. I 380 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:33.759 mean a clay that is just massively dense and poorly drained. 381 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.079 And you can't grow fruit in that, most fruit at least. 382 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:39.400 And so I'm bringing in some soil to mix it 383 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:42.680 up and you know, bring up the level a little bit, 384 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:45.960 try to improve on it. Well, I not just try, 385 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:48.039 I will improve on it so that the fruit trees 386 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:50.640 will do well there. And that's a nice thing about 387 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:54.160 residential horticulture around our houses is we can do all 388 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:55.880 kinds of things. You know, if you're a farmer with 389 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.079 a thousand acres, you can't put three inches accountpost over 390 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:01.319 the whole and acres, or at least not if you 391 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.839 don't stand business. But we can in a home backyard 392 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:07.720 for a little fruit tree or for a garden or whatever. 393 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.400 And it's really important because that clay soil, I'm telling you, 394 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.799 it doesn't drain well and it has a shrink swell potential. 395 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:18.400 And what that is, what that means is that when 396 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:21.680 it gets wet, it swells up and when it gets dry, 397 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:24.279 it shrinks up. That's why you see cracks in the 398 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.039 yard in the summer when it's hot, and those cracks 399 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.400 are from the soil having shrunk. Well, the same issue 400 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:34.200 really wrecks havoc on our sidewalks and our driveways and 401 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.599 on our home foundations and fix my slab foundation repair 402 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:40.279 is all about that. TI's been doing this in the 403 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:43.039 Houston area for twenty three years, actually over twenty three 404 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:46.920 years now, Ty Strickland, and he knows how to do it. 405 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:51.240 He's dealt with it. He understands the science behind it 406 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:54.799 of what's going on and what amount of movement is 407 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:57.359 of a concern and what you need to do to 408 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:01.000 fix it right. In fact, he had three goals, and 409 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:04.880 I like this. It's a slogan on time, fair priced fixed. 410 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:08.079 He shows up on time when he says he would, 411 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:11.079 he gives you a fair price, and when he fixes it, 412 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:14.039 he fixes it right. And he'll tell you if if 413 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:17.039 the movement is not enough to need fixing at this point, 414 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:19.640 he'll tell you that. I mean, he's a straight shooter, 415 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:23.599 native Estonian, fifth generation Texan. You can go to the 416 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:27.200 website fixmislab dot com and find out more. Make sure 417 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:29.519 if you call him, by the way, the number is 418 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:33.599 two eight one two five five forty ninety nine. Two 419 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.359 eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. Tell 420 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:38.799 him your guardline listener that get a free estimate for 421 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:40.039 garden line listeners. 422 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:40.680 Uh. 423 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:43.799 But if you don't know what I'm talking about, well, 424 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:45.519 walk around your house. Look at the brick. Do you 425 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:48.920 see cracks in the brick, especially underneath windows, but anywhere really? 426 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:52.759 Do you have sheet rock that's cracking inside or a ceiling. 427 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:56.480 Do you see maybe a door that's sticking that used 428 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:58.799 to not or maybe seasonally it sticks and then it 429 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:01.720 quits sticking, and so on. That's the movement we're talking about. 430 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:05.359 Fix my slab foundation repair two eight one two five 431 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:11.400 five forty nine. Don't be an ostrich, don't put your 432 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:14.480 head in the sand. This situation does not fix itself. 433 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:18.319 And the earlier you get on it, the better informed 434 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:20.640 you'll be as to what to do and what you 435 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:26.519 can do about it. I was visiting with someone the 436 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:31.240 other day that's asking me some questions regarding asmite, and 437 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:34.880 you know as mite, So is that like if I 438 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:36.920 if I fertilize I don't need to do as mite, 439 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:42.039 and the answer is no, you do need micronutrient trace minerals, 440 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:45.839 and most fertilizers don't have trace minerals in them, at 441 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:49.319 least maybe not in the content and the amount of 442 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.839 the specific kinds that you need. When you put it 443 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:55.519 on asmite, what you're doing is you're putting down that 444 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:58.680 the minerals that are essential for plant growth, that are 445 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:02.160 not needed in large enough quantities to be part of 446 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:07.319 our annual fertilization, fertilization, fertilization, fertilization, you know, things that 447 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:09.359 we do out in our in our garden, in our yard, 448 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.920 but they're still essential. And as MIGHT provides that. You 449 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.680 can go to the website ASMIT Texas dot com find 450 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:17.960 out more about it. In fact, I encourage you to do. 451 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:22.200 That is a mind product ground up. Essentially, it's crusted 452 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.400 minerals and it doesn't take a lot of it. It 453 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:29.640 goes a long way because these are micronutrients. But don't 454 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:32.680 be fooled. The fact that they're only needed in trace 455 00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:38.359 amounts does not mean they're not essential. They are essential. 456 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:43.640 So about twenty different nutrient or minerals that we need 457 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:46.720 in our soils for our plants. And when a nutrient 458 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:49.599 is essential, it's essential and without it, applant can't grow. 459 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.279 And that's why it is important to make sure your 460 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:55.480 soil is stocked pull now I call that the soil 461 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.440 bank account. All you need to do is get a 462 00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:59.839 soil test. If you ever want to check on any 463 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.480 nutrient level, even a macro nutrient like phosphorus and potassium 464 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.519 or something like magnesium or whatever. Get us all test, 465 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:09.000 find out what you need, and then you can fertilize 466 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:11.759 and supplement accordingly. Every my soul is a little bit different, 467 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:14.599 but I can tell you this asmide is a regular practice. 468 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:17.960 Is a good idea whether it is a vegetable garden 469 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.680 or your lawn or a flower bed. Just follow instructions 470 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:28.799 on the label. There are a lot of misconceptions when 471 00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:32.359 it comes to gardening and it. You know, things happen 472 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.599 oh for different reasons. Sometimes it's it used to be 473 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.880 needed and it's no longer needed in terms of a practice. 474 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:44.960 Let me give you an example. This one cracks me up. 475 00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:46.480 There. 476 00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:51.440 I had a professor in horticulture and he was telling 477 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:55.319 me that his wife would always cut the end of 478 00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:58.200 the ham off before she put it in the oven 479 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:00.680 to bake, like the shanky in, just cut a little 480 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:02.400 bit off the shank end and put it in the 481 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:04.720 oven to bay And he asked her why do you 482 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:06.440 do that? And she said, I don't know, my mom 483 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:10.680 always did it. Okay. Well, finally, one day, Thanksgiving dinner 484 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:14.519 or whatever, they were at Grandma's house and she said, hey, Grandma, 485 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:16.960 why are you Why do you always cut off the 486 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:18.559 end of your hand And she goes, well, I used 487 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:20.920 to have a small oven and I couldn't get the 488 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:22.640 whole thing in and so I'd have to cut the 489 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:27.359 end off. So something that had a purpose at one 490 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:29.880 time doesn't always have a purpose. And we need to 491 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:32.680 make sure we stay on top of things and you know, 492 00:26:32.839 --> 00:26:34.480 learn how to do things. I'm gonna talk about a 493 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:39.000 couple of misconceptions. I'll maybe we'll call them horticultural malpractices 494 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:41.839 when we come back here in just a minute. But 495 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.119 that is important. But one thing that hasn't changed is 496 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:47.440 the fact that if you want success with gardening, you 497 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:49.839 got to build good soil. It's as simple as that, 498 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:53.400 and Nature's way resources. They've been doing that for a 499 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:58.880 long time. They have long John Ferguson has been a 500 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:02.640 student of this world well for decades, and you know 501 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:05.759 he stays up the date when we're talking about the 502 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:08.960 professional journals of soul science and on and on and on. 503 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:12.119 He knows that stuff. And they have built a reputation 504 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:15.960 in the industry for creating quality products and ian running 505 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:18.880 the place. Now, same kind of thing we're talking about. 506 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:23.599 If you want a quality soil amendment or soil blend, 507 00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:27.000 they've got it. If you want a quality multch they've 508 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:31.240 got it. Every Friday twenty percent off their fungal compost 509 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:35.119 so Fungal Friday, they call it twenty percent off fungal compost. 510 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:36.799 You're not going to get a better deal than that, 511 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:39.920 they will. You go out there and get it there 512 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:43.920 on Interstate forty five almost to Conro where fourteen eighty 513 00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:46.799 eight from Magnolia comes in from the side. Just turn 514 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:50.000 right across the tracks if you're going north and they're there. 515 00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:52.640 If you want to buy it by the bag, they're 516 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:56.279 available in many local feed source garden centers places like that, 517 00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:59.519 or you can have them deliver it for a delivery 518 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:02.400 fee to where you live. However you go about it, 519 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:05.039 get the soil right and you will have success with 520 00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:07.400 your plans. Time for me to take a quick break. 521 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:09.920 I'll be right back. Chris in the Woodlands. You'll be 522 00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:10.680 our first up. 523 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:14.599 You can't drive your Chevy to the levee, and your 524 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:16.640 piece of the pie is smaller. 525 00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:18.759 The growth rate of the economy is the key. 526 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:22.480 Feast on a big slice of Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 527 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.039 That is real money in your pocket. 528 00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:29.519 Monday morning at eleven on US Radio seven KTRH. 529 00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:31.599 Attention to a gardening enthusiasts. Are you tired of homeown 530 00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:34.279 garden centers with just a few boring plants. We'll pack 531 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:36.599 up your printing sheares and head on over to the 532 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:39.759 arbor Gate, the ultimate playground for all things green. 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Hey, Chris, 600 00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:04.839 welcome to garden Line. 601 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:08.640 Well, thank you, and I sure do like your calls. 602 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:09.720 Screener. 603 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:11.759 He does a good cat. 604 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:12.319 We're good. 605 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:13.079 Tell him thank you. 606 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.599 He didn't yell at you, he didn't scream at you. 607 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:19.119 He calls me my name. I just love it. 608 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:24.480 Okay, we're good, all right, Jonathan, you're naming life. All right? 609 00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:28.039 What's up? Chris? 610 00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:32.759 Yesterday, today, and tomorrow has not been blooming ever since 611 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:35.599 the snow. What do I need to do to get 612 00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:36.160 them blooming? 613 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:36.480 Again. 614 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:39.880 They're growing fine. They look good. 615 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:43.039 Yeah, yeah, they're green and up to my hips. And 616 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.920 but no flowers this year and since since twenty one 617 00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:50.400 February twenty one. 618 00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:54.720 Well, I don't know any mechanism where cold weather would 619 00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:57.240 cause a plant to stop blooming, you know, in other words, 620 00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:59.160 it keeps growing. It didn't kill the plant, but it 621 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:05.400 stops growing, yes, yesterday, the day and tomorrow. Yeah yeah. 622 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:08.839 Brun Felsias is a fancy name for the plant. And 623 00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:13.759 they they like a bright light in our warm, warm climate. 624 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:15.960 They do a little bit better with kind of a 625 00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:18.559 dappled shade, just to give them a little break from 626 00:33:18.599 --> 00:33:22.559 the heat. It takes sunlight to make blooms on any plant, 627 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.319 because blooms take a lot of carbohydrates, and you've got 628 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:28.599 to have sun to make carbohydrates. So it gosh, I 629 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:32.640 don't I don't know why it wouldn't be blooming. I 630 00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:37.000 just haven't haven't seen that before. It likes moist soil, 631 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:41.119 but it doesn't like soggy wet soil. That is another 632 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:47.119 thing about the plant. Good lighting, adequate nutrition, not extra fertilizing, 633 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:50.079 but moderate fertilizing. It does like it a little bit 634 00:33:50.200 --> 00:34:00.240 on the acidic side, So using acid fertilized the yeah, yeah, 635 00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:03.519 they don't really affect the acidity much. That's that's a 636 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:08.440 it's a not well, it's it's based on truth, but 637 00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:11.000 they're not going to make any significant difference. I would 638 00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:16.239 use an acid loving plant food, something for azaleas, camellias, blueberries, 639 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:20.400 those kinds of things. It would probably be the next 640 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.880 step to it. How tall is your plant right now? 641 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:28.719 Some of them are up to my hip probably three 642 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:29.719 feet maybe. 643 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:33.440 Yeah, okay, oh a little on the smaller side there 644 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:36.760 are There is a dwarf cultivar, but even it gets 645 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:38.840 up to five feet tall, so I think it needs 646 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.800 a little more vigor. I would try, And of course 647 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:44.880 this year is done as far as Britain. Felsia is 648 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:50.000 concern because it's not a cold weather plant. So next 649 00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.800 spring when it comes out, gets you a good acid 650 00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:58.280 loving plant food. Microlife makes one for azaleas and acid 651 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:02.400 loving plants. It's in kind of a a reddish pink bag. 652 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:05.119 I'm color challenge. So there's another name for the color. 653 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:07.280 I can't I can't remember what it is, but anyway, 654 00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:13.880 that reddish pink kind of color would be the micro 655 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.440 Life product. For it, and I would start using that 656 00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:22.320 just following it. So anyway, I think that the pH 657 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.800 and maybe a little boost of nutrients if it's getting 658 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:28.039 adequate light. That's the only other thing I can think of, 659 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:30.880 the grist to get that thing to kick in the gear. 660 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:34.320 Yeah, we're in the woodlands, so there is lots of shade, 661 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:38.039 but maybe it's been part of it because it keeps 662 00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.039 growing all the shade trees around it. 663 00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:44.400 Yeah, and that is a factor, and so you might 664 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:47.880 it may need a little more light intensity. You know, 665 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:51.000 it's hard to say. Our eyes adjust to all kinds 666 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:55.480 of light, but we think an area may be bright 667 00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.239 that truly not or adequately bright. So a combination of 668 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:04.880 light and the things I mentioned. It's a beautiful plant. Yeah. 669 00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:08.440 I love to see it every spring, but used to 670 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:13.599 happened a long time. All right, well, thank you. 671 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:15.519 We can fix that. Let me know if it works 672 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:17.920 next year, whatever you need to do to. 673 00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:21.480 It, Okay, sure will all right, all right, thank you. 674 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:27.960 I appreciate that. Take care, Bye bye. All right, you're 675 00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:30.239 listening to the garden line seven one three two one 676 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:33.239 two k t r H seven one three two one 677 00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:38.639 two k t r H. The Cannon's Native Plants is 678 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.679 in the Heights, and anyone who's been to Bu Cannons 679 00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:45.119 knows what I'm about. What I'm talking about when I 680 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:50.079 say this is a very special place. It is a beautiful, 681 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:55.760 beautiful retreat from the world into a wonderland of native plants. 682 00:36:56.440 --> 00:37:01.599 Right now, the place is loaded up with beautiful Christmas trees. 683 00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:04.679 Oh my gosh, you should see these things. There's gorgeous 684 00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:08.639 which they do that every year Buchanans. It's just amazing. 685 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:10.679 But I don't want you to lose sight. I know 686 00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:12.679 the holidays are here, but don't lose sight of the 687 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:16.440 fact that now's the time to get things planted. Now 688 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:19.599 while you're out there, grab your trees, grab your wreaths, 689 00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.559 grab the swag and all the holiday decorations, because they've 690 00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:25.960 got all of that out there. By the way, put 691 00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:30.679 it on your calendar. Saturday December seventh. Saturday December seventh, 692 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:35.039 from ten am to three pm is their holiday open house. 693 00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.880 They're gonna have live music, they're gonna have kids crafts, 694 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:43.840 and will be out there drinks more. Really it's the 695 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:46.519 Buchanans is located on eleven Street in the Heights. Really 696 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:48.519 easy to get to. If you haven't been there, you 697 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:51.119 gotta go. In fact, take your family and friends out there, 698 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.679 especially if they're around on Saturday, December seventh. That's gonna 699 00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.119 be fun. They're gonna have live jazz band and coffee 700 00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:59.840 and hot cocoa and all kinds of things. But when 701 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:04.519 out there, remember it is still planting season. So if 702 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:07.400 you want to put in some native plants, they're not 703 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:09.880 a better time to plant than right now. If you 704 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:12.840 want to put in herbs, which they are stocked up on, 705 00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:14.960 if you can, it's not a better time to plant 706 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:17.320 than now. If you want to decorate your home for 707 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:23.559 the holidays with greenery, their house Plant Greenhouse is loaded 708 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:26.679 with beautiful plants, and you can do that. You know, 709 00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:28.840 when you put plants in a room, it just makes 710 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.760 a room come to life, it really does. And go 711 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.519 in the gift shops. Their gift shops amazing. I like 712 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:39.760 the little nutcrackers statues, you know, the kind that you 713 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:43.360 pull the thing up, lever up and mouth opens up. 714 00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:49.639 They have some of the most decorative, gorgeous statues nutcrackers 715 00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.760 I've ever seen. It's really beautiful. But for whatever reason 716 00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.840 you go, just remember the holiday open house again December seventh, 717 00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.320 ten am to three pm. It's a free event, by 718 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:06.639 the way, enjoy. Let's head over and talk to Derek. Now, hey, Derek, 719 00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:12.559 welcome to garden Line. Thank you Skip. I'm a complete beginner. 720 00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:15.559 I had a my long. 721 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:18.920 Guy come over and fix a sprinkler head. He turned 722 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:25.639 off the sprinklers and then, uh uh, the the schedule 723 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:29.960 of the sprinklers is now removed or whatever, so I 724 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:31.000 need to reset it. 725 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:33.840 So it's a Saint Augustine lawn. 726 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.639 What what schedule should I reset it to? 727 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:42.920 Does that make sense? Yeah? Good, good, that's a good question. 728 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.280 So first of all, your sprinkler guys should come do 729 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:50.159 that for you. I would I would ask that they 730 00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:53.800 since they stopped it, they come fix it. But that 731 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.719 that's neither here nor there. If you go online to 732 00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.920 gardening with skip dot com, I've got my lawn care ski. 733 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:03.599 It's free to download, and there's a big blue bar 734 00:40:03.880 --> 00:40:06.280 that goes all the way across January to December, and 735 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:10.400 it tells you each month, on average, how much water 736 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:12.679 do you need a week if it hasn't rained in 737 00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.239 the last couple of weeks. Okay, and right now we're 738 00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:19.480 in November and this is a half inch a week month, 739 00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:23.760 and then December and January and February or zero inches 740 00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:27.880 a week month. So aside from a very unusual drought 741 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:32.280 or something like that, you shouldn't have to water in 742 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:34.719 the winter time. So we're right on the edge. Really, 743 00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:37.800 if you feel like your soil is dry, go out there, 744 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:39.760 kind of dig down a few inches and just feel it. 745 00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:42.760 Then go ahead and do another watering. But we're pretty 746 00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:45.639 much winding up on that. And if you've had any 747 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.159 rain in the last week, you probably don't need any okay, So. 748 00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:57.079 Just in ram terms, November half an inch, December no water. 749 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:01.960 That's the general guide and what that's based on. Of 750 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:03.880 course every year is different. But what I did is 751 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:09.039 I took the historic weather data for ten years, twenty years. 752 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:11.599 I can't remember how far we went back of how 753 00:41:11.639 --> 00:41:15.320 much it rains in Houston versus how much launch use 754 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:19.559 based on temperature and many other factors and on the average, 755 00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:22.480 So like November the whole month would be about two 756 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.039 inches of irrigation for the whole month, about about a 757 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:30.000 half inch a week. So what was your website again? 758 00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:30.280 Please? 759 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:37.159 Gardening with Skip that's me Gardening with Skip dot com. 760 00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:40.639 There's a lot of good info on there. Thank you 761 00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:42.559 all right, man, I hear the music. It looks like 762 00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:44.360 they're about to cut us off here. Thanks a lot 763 00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:48.840 for your call back. Welcome back to guarden Line. Good 764 00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:51.000 to have you with us today. If you would like 765 00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:53.960 to give me a call, maybe ask a question about 766 00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:56.639 something you are wanting to grow or trying to grow, 767 00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:01.199 anything horticultural that you're interested in related to your garden 768 00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:06.599 seven one three two one two KTRH seven to one 769 00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:11.599 three two one two kt r H. Simple is that 770 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.519 plants for all seasons. That is the garden Center on 771 00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:18.880 two forty nine just north of Luetta. So if you 772 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:21.920 are let's say you are heading up to forty nine 773 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:26.199 Tomball Parkway toward Tomball, you exit Luetta and then across 774 00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:28.679 over Lutta and it's right there on the right hand side, 775 00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:31.079 really easy to get to. And you know, it's been 776 00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:34.440 around for a long time since the nineteen seventies or 777 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.800 early nineteen seventies when the Flowery family put that in. 778 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:39.880 And it's the kind of place where you go and 779 00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:41.880 you know a couple of things. You know, one that 780 00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:43.760 you're going to have staff that knows what they're talking 781 00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:46.320 about that can guide you and they can direct you. 782 00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.159 They specialize in that they've been doing it. They're gardeners. 783 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.800 They've been gardeners here for a long time and they 784 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:56.719 understand gardening and that is important. And secondly, you know 785 00:42:56.760 --> 00:42:59.159 you're going to be getting plants that will grow here. 786 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:01.960 They're not going to sell you stuff. They're not you 787 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.280 know one of these national chains that just puts plants 788 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.639 in all their stores everywhere, whether they grow in that 789 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.960 region or not. That's not plants for all seasons. They 790 00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:14.199 sell you stuff that grows here, and whether it's bulbs, 791 00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:18.000 whether it is a perennial, whether maybe it is an 792 00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:21.519 herb garden or annual flowers or whatever you're looking for, 793 00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:23.559 they're going to have them. And they're loaded up on 794 00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:28.119 everything related to gardening. If you're thinking about planting some vegetables, 795 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:30.519 they've got vegetables. They've got there. Certainly they got all 796 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.559 the onions in head those in it for a while 797 00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:35.559 now that do really well here, and they can guide 798 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:37.639 you on exactly how to go about it. If you 799 00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:41.519 want color, things like pansies and cyclement just so beautiful, 800 00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:44.639 go to plants for all seasons. Just stop in visit 801 00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:48.519 with them, say hi, ask them, ask them any kinds 802 00:43:48.519 --> 00:43:50.760 of questions you have, take them samples in there. They 803 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.280 can help you with that. That is what they really 804 00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:59.039 really do best. That and quality service plants for all seasons. 805 00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:02.159 Dot com website and the phone number two eight one 806 00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:06.320 three seven six sixteen forty six. We're going to go 807 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:10.880 now to Cyprus and talk to Blake. Hello, Blake, Welcome 808 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:13.559 to Guardenline. Good morning Skip. 809 00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:16.159 Hey, I just wanted to thank you. A couple of 810 00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:19.559 weeks ago, someone called in with a Tiff four nineteen 811 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.239 bermuda lawn with the weed, and they sent you pictures 812 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:24.679 and you said it was a very rare weed and 813 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:29.159 you identified it as adder's tongue and I looked it 814 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.679 up and lo and behold. I have that same weed 815 00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:36.599 and my Tiff four nineteen in about a five ten 816 00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.800 foot square area that I follow the schedule. I mow 817 00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:44.000 with a real mower. I used post and pre emergent herbicide, 818 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.800 and nothing else touched this. And it's not solid, but 819 00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:53.639 it like the other caller described it. Herbicides dent it 820 00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:57.239 but don't kill it. So I I've started with brush 821 00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:02.719 killer and a you tip trying to kill it now, 822 00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:04.159 so we'll see if that's okay. 823 00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:08.320 I don't know if you have any other ideas, but yeah, 824 00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:11.519 you know, I don't other than we'll try this or 825 00:45:11.559 --> 00:45:15.239 we'll try that, you know kind of thing it is. 826 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:19.400 There are some weed killers that are just top burn 827 00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:26.079 products and things like well, an example people have heard 828 00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:28.840 of is vinegar, you know, herbicidal vinegar. They spray on 829 00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:30.760 a plant and it just fries whatever you get it on. 830 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:32.519 If you get on your lawn's gonna fry the lawn, 831 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:35.039 it's gonna fry. It doesn't go to underground and kill 832 00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:39.079 underground storage structures and roots and bulbs and things, which 833 00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.920 is why we don't. We don't generally go to it first, 834 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:47.559 just because that's a limitation of it. But if you 835 00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:50.400 wanted to do some little spot careful spot treatments, just 836 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:53.840 minimizing contact, it's gonna have some little brown spots in 837 00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:56.960 the turf, but your terf will come back because it 838 00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:01.039 just fries the foliage that you get it on. Uh 839 00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:04.599 that I did a I did some online research and 840 00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:08.639 I could not find anywhere where someone says, oh, that's 841 00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:11.199 a weed that you kill with this product in any 842 00:46:11.239 --> 00:46:15.199 of the university websites, research based information or anything. 843 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.159 So yeah, no, likewise, after like I said, two weeks ago, 844 00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:22.800 you identified it, and I've spent online looking but you 845 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.960 know you got you got it identified. So that's a 846 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:29.840 big plus. But uh yeah, it's also looks like a 847 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.239 dollar weed, but it's it's very sparse and it has 848 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:38.199 a little stem coming up out of the leaf and. 849 00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:43.679 Right that little structure for four years. All right, well 850 00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:47.719 now we know what it is. Too bad you can't 851 00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.320 eat it. You know, if we could eat it, we would. 852 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:57.280 Just some of the searches. Hey, thanks, some sort of 853 00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:02.440 medicinal deal, but uh I'm eat Oh really thanks all right, 854 00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:03.559 I'm not going to go there. 855 00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:06.800 Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks a lot, like 856 00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:09.079 appreciate your call. Let me know if you figure out 857 00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.199 something that seems to work on it, I'd like to 858 00:47:11.239 --> 00:47:14.280 know that I don't have any here, I'd start experimenting 859 00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:17.320 with it. All right, we'll take take care and again, 860 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:19.800 thank you, thank you for that call. You know, when 861 00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.440 it comes to what are you going to use to 862 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:24.960 get rid of something? You need to be able to 863 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.960 go to a place it's going to carry all the 864 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.280 different products so you can do your experimenting, or maybe 865 00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:32.960 we know what the weed is, we know what to 866 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.079 do about it. Go get this product. Where do you go? Well, 867 00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:39.199 Ace Hardware. There's forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater 868 00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:42.760 Houston area over forty actually. And when you go in 869 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.679 there and you go, hey, Skip talked about this fertilizer, 870 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:47.920 they're going to have it. When you go in and 871 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:51.239 you say, yeah, I need this weed control or disease 872 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.760 control or pest control. I need synthetic, I need organic, 873 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:59.440 I need tools, I need anything for outdoor living, Ace 874 00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.440 is a place. They've just got it. They've got you covered. 875 00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:05.239 And when it comes to holidays, Ace is a place too. 876 00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.599 Now how many of you, when you're thinking about a 877 00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:09.320 holiday gift think, oh, I'm going to go to a 878 00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:11.920 hardware store, right, Well, we're not going to just a 879 00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:15.119 hardware store. We're talking about going to Ace Hardware. And 880 00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:18.360 when you walk in there, you will see unique, one 881 00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:21.239 of a kind gifts for everybody on the list. Whether 882 00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:24.280 it's somebody that is a do it yourself or and 883 00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.519 needs tools, whether it is some beautiful indoor decorations, or 884 00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:32.639 just just go in and see what I'm talking about. 885 00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:35.639 Each a store is unique because it's owned, privately owned 886 00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:38.960 and operated, and so each has its own personality, if 887 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:43.199 you will. But they all are really really cool places 888 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:46.559 for some really nice gifts as well. So whether you're 889 00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:49.880 dealing with creating the most beautiful lawn, the most bountiful garden, 890 00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:53.320 or whether you're looking for some holiday shopping, Ace is 891 00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:56.639 the place. Go to Acehardware dot com, find the store 892 00:48:56.679 --> 00:48:59.760 locator to find the store near you, and you will 893 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.400 be pleased with what you find. I promise you that 894 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:07.280 I'm always amazed when I go into ACE Hardwork. Well, 895 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:09.800 let's take a little break. We'll be right back with 896 00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:20.119 your calls at seven one three two one two KTRH. 897 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.639 Welcome back to Guarden Line, folks. Good have you with us. 898 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.639 We are glad you are with us today. We've got 899 00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:29.719 a lot of things that we can talk about regarding gardening. Uh, 900 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:32.199 you want to give me a call seven one three 901 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.840 two one two k t r H. Seven one three 902 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:39.159 two one two k t RH. I have talked for 903 00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:41.880 a while now about Puercecapes and told you you need 904 00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:43.639 to go to the website and see the kind of 905 00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:46.800 work they do. Uh, And I'm gonna say it again, 906 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:48.719 you need to go to the website and see the 907 00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:52.159 kind of work they do. If you need to fix 908 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:57.599 your landscape, improve your landscape, beautify your landscape, make it 909 00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:00.480 a more pleasant place to hang out and year around. 910 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:02.519 Peer Scapes is a company you need to know about. 911 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:06.039 The website is Pierscapes dot com p E A RCEE 912 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:12.320 s c A p e S. Pierceescapes one word dot com. Now, 913 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:14.199 when you go there, what you're going to find is 914 00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:17.960 that they can do repair on irrigation system, make sure 915 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:21.360 things are working functioning properly. They can take that soggy 916 00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:23.599 wet area that doesn't drain and make it an area 917 00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:29.320 that drains. They can create hard scapes, pathways, landscape lighting. 918 00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:33.679 They can do quarterly maintenance. Maybe maybe you want to 919 00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:36.480 redo your whole landscape and have the designers come in 920 00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:39.320 and just give you a show place. Maybe you just 921 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:41.480 want to do a section of the art or maybe 922 00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:44.440 take it in sections. Maybe you want to create that 923 00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:47.639 outdoor patio you know where you can do the barbecuing 924 00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:51.360 and that has beautiful lighting and it just it just 925 00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:55.400 is an enchanting place. Peerscapes does that. They specialize in that. 926 00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:57.000 All you got to do is give them a call 927 00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:00.719 two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. That'd be 928 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:02.599 a good time to do that. Even if you're gonna, 929 00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:04.559 you know, schedule them to come out and do some 930 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:08.280 work in late winter and spring or whatever, go ahead 931 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:10.480 and give them a call to eight one three seven 932 00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:14.239 oh fifty sixty, or just go to the website and 933 00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.960 there's the number there. There's examples. You can see what 934 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:23.360 I'm talking about. Piercescapes dot com. This places. These folks, 935 00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:26.960 they know what they're doing and you'll see that when 936 00:51:26.960 --> 00:51:28.480 you go there, you'll see the kind of work that 937 00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:34.239 they can do. If you live down south of the 938 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:38.280 Houston area, Horaz Hidden Gardens is your hometown garden center. 939 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:42.079 Just do south of Houston, right down there in Alvin Texas. 940 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:49.519 Alvin Texas, you know, Horaes Hidden Gardens has been continuing 941 00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:53.000 to just develop and grow and bring in more stuff. 942 00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:58.679 They've got. They just fruit trees, ever, just lots of options. 943 00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:00.800 I mean when I say fruit trees, I mean including 944 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:03.639 blueberry bushes. You know, they have several different types of 945 00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:08.519 really cool blueberries. They've got shrubs and trees, magnolias. 946 00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:08.760 You know. 947 00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:11.800 A couple of years ago took a major hit on 948 00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:16.280 Magnolia's just a killer summer. But they've got new ones 949 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:19.719 to replace them that just look great. They are in beautiful, 950 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:21.760 beautiful shape, more in income out and he can get 951 00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:23.480 those planning for you if you'd like to do that. 952 00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:26.599 If you want a plant of pecon tree, they also 953 00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:29.400 have a good supply of those. And it's not just 954 00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.320 fruits and nuts and things like that. It's all kinds 955 00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:35.199 of plants. When you go to Jorges Hidden Gardens, you're 956 00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:38.679 going to find well, I didn't mention citrus. I should 957 00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:41.000 have mentioned that because they also carry that as well, 958 00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:43.800 but things like azalea's for example. Maybe you want some 959 00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:47.280 pansies for color in the landscape. Depending on the season, 960 00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:49.679 they're going to have a wide variety of all kinds 961 00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:50.079 of things. 962 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:50.280 You know. 963 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.599 My favorite spring flowering tree is Chinese fringe and they 964 00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:59.039 have those eagles and Holly's red buds Maples. Jorges Hidden Gardens, 965 00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:02.960 they are on going to write this down. They are 966 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:08.639 on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas. All right. They're hours 967 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:12.639 by the way, Monday they're closed, but today and Tomorrow 968 00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:15.400 eight am to four pm and two c through Friday 969 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:18.880 nine am to three pm. Jorg sitting guards. By the way, 970 00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:20.679 when you're out there, if you buy a tree especially, 971 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:24.159 they have the three sixty tree stabilizers, and you ought 972 00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:25.880 to grab you one of those to go with your 973 00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:29.840 brand new tree. It does a perfect job of anchoring it. 974 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:34.599 And Joryes got that. Our phone number is seven one 975 00:53:34.719 --> 00:53:37.559 three two one two five eight seven four. Earlier I 976 00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:43.679 was talking about UH misconceptions or things that just ain't so, 977 00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:46.400 or things that have changed in gardening, you know. I 978 00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:51.559 use the analogy of UH by one of my Hoart professors. 979 00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:53.960 His wife cut off the hand to put it in 980 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:55.840 the in the oven, and he asked her why. She 981 00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:57.559 didn't know. It's because her mom did it. And asked 982 00:53:57.599 --> 00:53:59.639 mom why, and mom said, What's because I used to 983 00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:01.320 have a little love that was too small to put 984 00:54:01.320 --> 00:54:04.239 the pull back ham bony, so I had to cut 985 00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:06.639 the end off to fit it in the pan. And 986 00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:09.639 we do that in gardening and horticulture. One of the 987 00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:12.760 number one things that falls into that category is the 988 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.239 way we prune crape myrtles. Now, pruning season is coming 989 00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:20.760 up here, and if you have a crepe myrtle, don't 990 00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:23.119 butcher it. They call that creape murder. That's a good 991 00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:27.360 name for it. Crepe myrtles had beautiful structure, smooth bark 992 00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:29.440 that even in the winter when there's not a leaf 993 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:31.639 or bloom on the tree, they're beautiful. 994 00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:32.519 Uh. 995 00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:35.639 And when you go in and you just hack them off, 996 00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:39.239 like the landscape crews all over town are doing, don't 997 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:42.719 do that. There is no horticulture reason for doing that. 998 00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:45.039 You know, the reason for doing that because you just 999 00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:47.360 it's easy to tell someone just cut everything off this 1000 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:50.599 high and it's winter time, we don't any lawns to mow, 1001 00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.199 so let's send everybody out there and let's just prune 1002 00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:56.840 everything within an inch of its life. Don't do that. 1003 00:54:56.840 --> 00:55:02.199 That is bad. That is horticultural malpractice. Crape myrtle should 1004 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:09.000 have a natural branching, properly trained structure that is just 1005 00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:11.639 beautiful and there's not one way to do it. But 1006 00:55:11.880 --> 00:55:14.599 what you don't do is stub off a branch when 1007 00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:17.440 you're doing pruning. There are two kinds of cuts. Okay, 1008 00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:21.039 here's the nerd alert, but it's important if you're going 1009 00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:24.360 to learn one thing, this is important to know about pruning. 1010 00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:28.000 There's heading cuts, where you cut the end of a 1011 00:55:28.039 --> 00:55:30.559 branch off and when you're done. It looks like the 1012 00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:34.320 end of a broomstick. It just stubs off. The response 1013 00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:36.079 from the plant is going to be to send a 1014 00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:38.320 bunch of buds out at the end, and we have 1015 00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:40.960 what we call a crow's foot. So hold your hand up, 1016 00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:45.320 point your fingers and thumb upward and outward. That's called 1017 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:47.840 a crow's foot. You cut it off, and now all 1018 00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:50.320 these little shoots come out there. That's what happens when 1019 00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.599 they pun craig myrtles this way. That's a heading cut. 1020 00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:55.519 Very few places for heading cuts. There are a few, 1021 00:55:55.559 --> 00:56:00.199 but not many in horticulture. Printing a thinning cut. I 1022 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:02.639 want you to hold your hand up, put your fingers together, 1023 00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:06.280 and stick your thumb out to the side. Now, if 1024 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:09.880 you were to cut off all the fingers and leave 1025 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:12.559 the thumb sticking out, that's a thinning cut. I think 1026 00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:15.639 of it as redirecting growth. You got a highway with 1027 00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:19.400 an off ramp. You put a barricade on the highway 1028 00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:22.119 and all the traffic has to go out the off ramp. 1029 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:25.920 That's a thinning cut that you get less re sprouting. 1030 00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:29.119 And when you're through pruning. With thinning cuts, it is 1031 00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:31.679 a more natural look. It's not just a bunch of 1032 00:56:31.719 --> 00:56:35.480 stubbed ends. Thinning cuts. That's very important. You can learn 1033 00:56:35.519 --> 00:56:38.559 more about those online, but just keep that in mind. 1034 00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:41.920 That's like pruning one oh one, and especially when it 1035 00:56:41.960 --> 00:56:45.320 comes to crape myrtles, quit stubbing off the branches with 1036 00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:50.599 heading cuts. Use thinning cuts to redirect the traffic, traffic 1037 00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:56.280 being the growth of the plant into a different direction. Alrighty, 1038 00:56:56.480 --> 00:56:58.639 well that's you know what I think I'm going to 1039 00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.639 take that. We're going to post that. I put that 1040 00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:06.440 on social media because we need we need more people 1041 00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:08.400 to hear that. Maybe I can get a good picture 1042 00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:13.039 to go with it. I think that would be good. Anyway. Well, 1043 00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:14.599 our phone number if you'd like to give us call 1044 00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:19.079 seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1045 00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:23.480 four seven one three two one two five eight seven 1046 00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:30.079 four or KTRH makes it really easy, all right? 1047 00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:30.360 Uh. 1048 00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:35.039 I was talking about myths and misunderstandings and things like that. 1049 00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:40.880 Another thing that people don't comprehend when it comes to 1050 00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:46.599 plants is that the proper way to fertilize a plant. 1051 00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.440 People think of fertilizer as making the plant grow, and 1052 00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:55.480 there is a sense in which, especially with nitrogen that's 1053 00:57:55.599 --> 00:58:00.000 the case. But what fertilizers do is they provide the plant. 1054 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:04.599 That's the ingredients that they need to grow. It is 1055 00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:07.639 the sunlight, and it is the temperature, and it is 1056 00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:13.559 the soil moisture that spurs plant growth. So think about 1057 00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:15.840 plants is a little factory, because that's what they are. 1058 00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:19.199 The leaves capture sunlight, that's energy. They make plant food, 1059 00:58:19.320 --> 00:58:22.719 which fuels growth. If you had a little factory that 1060 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:25.880 was making something, I don't know, maybe a brick factory, 1061 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:30.000 let's say, and you put in clay or sand or something, 1062 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:32.719 you know, whatever it takes to hold everything together to 1063 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:37.119 produce this product. If you're limited in getting the supplies 1064 00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:39.880 you need to build what you're building, you're not going 1065 00:58:39.960 --> 00:58:43.000 to have much production coming out the end of the factory, okay. 1066 00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:47.159 And fertilizer is like part of those supplies for production 1067 00:58:47.400 --> 00:58:50.960 for the plant. So when you put it down the plant, 1068 00:58:51.239 --> 00:58:54.159 when the sunlight and the moisture and the temperature are right, 1069 00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:58.480 they can take off growing. If the nitrogen and phosphorus 1070 00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:03.440 and potassium and magnesium and sulfur and all the micronutrients 1071 00:59:03.480 --> 00:59:06.519 like zinc and molebdenum and iron and on and on 1072 00:59:06.679 --> 00:59:09.760 all of those ingredients. If they're not there, the plant's 1073 00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:10.840 not going to be able to grow. When you put 1074 00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:13.320 them there, the plant can take off and grow, and 1075 00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:16.559 it's nitrogen primarily. That is the main thing that fuels 1076 00:59:16.599 --> 00:59:19.920 that growth. So you don't take a plant that is 1077 00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:22.760 not growing and think fertilizer is going to make it 1078 00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.920 grow if it's not growing because of temperature, or because 1079 00:59:26.039 --> 00:59:29.280 of lack of sunlight, or because of soggy wet soil 1080 00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:32.400 or dry soil or some other factor. So just think 1081 00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:37.440 of fertilizer is supplying growth when the conditions are what 1082 00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:39.639 the plant needs. Why is that important? Well, A lot 1083 00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:42.119 of times people end up over fertilizing plants trying to 1084 00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:44.519 make them grow when the problem is really something else. 1085 00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:51.039 Something to think about. I talk all the time about 1086 00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:53.760 brown stuff before green stuff. Right, what does that mean? 1087 00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:57.480 That means you prepare the soil and then you can 1088 00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:01.440 have good plant growth. That's how that works works whenever 1089 01:00:01.719 --> 01:00:04.719 you get the soil right. And by the way, right 1090 01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:07.960 means there's plenty of organic matter in the soil. We 1091 01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:11.920 call that compost. When we're adding it organic matter, there 1092 01:00:12.079 --> 01:00:15.679 is good oxygen in the soil. Compost helps create that 1093 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:20.880 there's air space. It's not like this massive, massive modeling 1094 01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:24.519 clay that water and air can't get into. It's we 1095 01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:27.840 call friable. It breaks apart. It's got little small clumps 1096 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:31.559 and particles grouped together that brings air in the soil, 1097 01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:35.119 so good oxygen, good air down in the soil, good 1098 01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:39.199 water holding capacity, but also good drainage and organic matter 1099 01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:42.400 does all these things for the soil. And when you 1100 01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:46.199 create that and then chocolate full of the nutrients the 1101 01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:50.199 plants need, you've made the brown stuff that is going 1102 01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:54.320 to support incredible growth of the green stuff and cnumals 1103 01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:56.880 is a place where you can get all of that. 1104 01:00:57.119 --> 01:00:58.800 It is a prime place. You can go to the 1105 01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:03.079 website Maultch dot com. They're down on FM five twenty one, 1106 01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:06.239 your highway six and two eighty eight. Go to the website. 1107 01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:08.159 You can find out where and get the phone numbers 1108 01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:12.039 and everything else. Sienna Mulch dot com. They've got native 1109 01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:15.679 hardwood mar mulches. They've got double ground mulches, two inch 1110 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:22.960 screen mulches. They have beautiful, beautiful variations in all kinds 1111 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:28.159 of surface products for the soil by companies like Landscaper's Pride. 1112 01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:30.440 You heard me talk about black velvet before. Well, they 1113 01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:35.679 have that there. They have quality products from airloom soils 1114 01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:38.559 for example, and then the nutrients they go in the 1115 01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:44.119 soil part of the brown stuff, microlife fertilizers, Azamite, Nelson's 1116 01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:50.639 turf star lines, products from nitrofoss there, Landscaper's Pride as 1117 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:56.000 a soil amendment, and airloom soils and then of course 1118 01:01:56.360 --> 01:01:59.880 Medina products also all at Cienamulch. When you go to 1119 01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.920 AMLCH and you come out, you've got everything you need 1120 01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:06.000 for success. Again, go to the website, find out more, 1121 01:02:06.199 --> 01:02:07.719 find out how to get there. But the main thing 1122 01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:10.840 is get there, get ready. It is time to be 1123 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:15.599 planting and preparing thesoil. Seanamlch dot com. I'll be right back. 1124 01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:19.639 Glad to have you with us today. What do you 1125 01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:21.559 want to talk about? Give me a call seven one 1126 01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:25.800 three two one two KTRH and we'll talk about that. 1127 01:02:26.679 --> 01:02:28.239 Right now, we're going to go to the phones and 1128 01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:31.719 see what Scott out in Fort ben County wants to 1129 01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:34.559 talk about. Hey Scott, welcome to garden Line. 1130 01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:35.760 Good morning ship. 1131 01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:38.920 Hey, I had a question. 1132 01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:41.199 We got a maintenance guy at work. 1133 01:02:41.079 --> 01:02:45.559 To put a couple red pineapples, uh in the front door, 1134 01:02:46.519 --> 01:02:49.480 by the front door outside of Potts, And I. 1135 01:02:49.480 --> 01:02:52.239 Saw that and I said, man, there's little pineapples popping up. 1136 01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:53.519 I gotta have some of these. 1137 01:02:53.880 --> 01:02:56.000 Is that something that can go in the ground in 1138 01:02:56.039 --> 01:02:56.920 this type of climate? 1139 01:02:57.039 --> 01:02:58.480 I figure he got it local. 1140 01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:02.920 He bought it local, So yeah, it must do okay 1141 01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:04.320 in this type of climate. 1142 01:03:04.400 --> 01:03:06.519 But is that something that can go in the ground. 1143 01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:10.199 Does it need to be potted? Well, if it's truly 1144 01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:15.079 the red pineapple, it's like other pineapples. It is not 1145 01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:17.760 going to take the hardest cold that we have, so 1146 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:19.320 you're gonna to cover them up when it's going to 1147 01:03:19.360 --> 01:03:23.480 get really cold. They're a tropical type of rebelliad, but 1148 01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:26.079 they do need some protection from, you know, like a 1149 01:03:26.119 --> 01:03:28.440 real hard freeze. 1150 01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:32.159 So yes, So I guess my question too, is it 1151 01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:36.519 like is it just for looks? Are they selling it 1152 01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:39.199 just for looks? Or is it something that will come 1153 01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:39.840 to fruition. 1154 01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:45.280 It will produce a fruit that is reddish in color 1155 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:48.039 as well. The leaves kind of have almost a purplish 1156 01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:50.719 green look to them that are on top of the fruit. 1157 01:03:50.719 --> 01:03:52.719 You know how pineapple has the leaves coming out the 1158 01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:56.519 top of it. They're kind of a purplish green look. 1159 01:03:56.599 --> 01:04:00.320 I guess if that describes it, well, blue green maybe 1160 01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:04.119 another way to put it. But yeah, you can eat them. Technically, 1161 01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:08.239 I don't know anything about their culinary quality. I know 1162 01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:11.719 they're not known for for the colony equality, but the 1163 01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:14.719 fact that, you know, are they edible? Yeah, technically they 1164 01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:23.280 are grow a different kind. Okay, okay, I saw it. 1165 01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:25.039 I thought, I don't know what that is, and. 1166 01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:28.480 I need three of them. 1167 01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:31.559 Oh okay, all right, well give them a shot, you know. 1168 01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:33.639 I mean you can dig them up to pineapples or 1169 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:38.960 they're bromeliads, and uh, you know, we we buy bromeliads 1170 01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:43.360 as houseplant or as patio plants and things. The root 1171 01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:47.639 system is very limited in terms of Bromeliads generally are 1172 01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:51.119 capturing the water that falls from the sky and chunk 1173 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:53.159 channeling it down to the base of the plant. So 1174 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:55.760 I guess I'm saying all that just to say if 1175 01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:57.480 you dig one up and move it and plant it, 1176 01:04:57.559 --> 01:04:59.920 it's going to just keep going. They're they're not as 1177 01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:02.840 picky of some plants about about being. 1178 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:06.119 Dug, and they've got to be watered quite a bit. 1179 01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:10.480 Huh, moderate amount of water I mean they you know, 1180 01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:14.119 it's they're not gonna they're not going to die just 1181 01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:16.880 from a little bit of dry conditions, but you want 1182 01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:19.119 to keep them adequately moist if you want them to 1183 01:05:19.239 --> 01:05:25.039 look good and perform. Well understood, Skip. 1184 01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:25.719 Have a good weekend. 1185 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:26.039 Thank you. 1186 01:05:27.400 --> 01:05:30.719 All right, Well, keep keep track of things on it 1187 01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:32.920 and send me a picture when you when you get 1188 01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:37.920 some fruit on the Thingks absolutely, sir, appreciate appreciate that. 1189 01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:40.800 We're going to go out to surf side now and 1190 01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:43.079 talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to guard Line. 1191 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:46.559 Hey, Skip, appreciate it. I hat a quick question for you. 1192 01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:49.960 I'm going to start collecting seeds from some vegetable crops 1193 01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:53.000 to use in the next year. Does it make any 1194 01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:56.360 difference the size of the fruit or the size of 1195 01:05:56.440 --> 01:05:59.400 the seed, or all the seeds genetically the same if 1196 01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:00.519 they come from one plant. 1197 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:08.119 Technically, for most plants, all the seeds or genetically the same, 1198 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:12.960 except if it's a hybrid, then those seeds are going 1199 01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:17.880 to be a mix of the parents, and hybrids come 1200 01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:21.800 from different types of the mom, kind of like kids. 1201 01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:27.159 You know, a child will not directly resemble mom or dad. 1202 01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:29.760 There may be similarities, there may be oh they got 1203 01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:33.320 mom's eyes or dad's you know, nose or whatever. But 1204 01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:35.960 they're they're a mix, and so that's kind of a 1205 01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:40.360 hybrid type thing. Open pollinated plants, there's a little variation, 1206 01:06:40.559 --> 01:06:42.480 but in general they are all the same gene pool 1207 01:06:42.559 --> 01:06:42.800 kind of. 1208 01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:45.400 And so it's okay, that didn't matter. I didn't know 1209 01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:47.280 if it made a difference the size of the seed 1210 01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:50.559 or once again the size of the plant. You know, 1211 01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:52.920 just okay, So I can just use a little small 1212 01:06:53.000 --> 01:06:55.440 squash versus a large squadk and it would basically be 1213 01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:56.159 about the same. 1214 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.360 Oh yeah, yeah, that is That is not gonna be 1215 01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.639 a difference there. The only difference would be since you 1216 01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:06.920 brought up squashes, there are summer squashes and their winter squashes. 1217 01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:10.800 Summer squashes we eat immature, like zucchini and yellow squash, 1218 01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:15.000 and winter squashes we allowed to mature. And that would 1219 01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:19.320 include like kobocha squash and pumpkins and acorn squash and 1220 01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:24.079 butternut squash. Well, depending on there's a lot of crossing 1221 01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:26.800 that can go on with the many, many different types 1222 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:29.880 of each of those. And so I'm just gonna go 1223 01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:32.719 theoretical here, Like if a bee went Let's say you 1224 01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:34.679 had a yellow squash and a bee went over and 1225 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:39.199 got some zucchini pollen and pollinated one bloom, and a 1226 01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:43.360 different bee got pollen from another scare squash and pollinated 1227 01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:46.079 a different bloom. Those two fruit would have seeds from 1228 01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:49.599 different parents, say mom, different dads, Okay, and so there 1229 01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:52.360 would be a difference, but not because of the size 1230 01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:54.480 of the fruit or anything. 1231 01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:57.880 Sure I didn't. I'll see these guys that grow these 1232 01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:01.039 giant pumpkins, like you know, pop pump pumpkins. Then they 1233 01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:03.679 turn around. I think they sell the seed and they 1234 01:08:03.960 --> 01:08:06.559 I guess, well, maybe it does have something to do 1235 01:08:06.679 --> 01:08:08.719 with the size of the plant, but maybe not so. 1236 01:08:10.039 --> 01:08:14.400 Well, that that's just seeds, that that gene line, that 1237 01:08:14.719 --> 01:08:17.680 that breeding line has been developed over the years by 1238 01:08:17.840 --> 01:08:22.319 saving the seeds of crosses and things that produce the 1239 01:08:22.359 --> 01:08:25.920 biggest pumpkins and then planting those. And you know, so 1240 01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:29.159 you're going to get a variation. Okay, let me use 1241 01:08:29.239 --> 01:08:31.520 my people analogy one last time on it. If you 1242 01:08:32.119 --> 01:08:34.800 if you knew a family that one child was very 1243 01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:37.600 very tall and the other children are all short, obviously 1244 01:08:37.680 --> 01:08:41.199 there's something genetically different or that's a primary reason in 1245 01:08:41.279 --> 01:08:46.720 that one, and and and so you whenever you select 1246 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.760 for a particular characteristic and cross things, then you get 1247 01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:53.880 more of that. You develop that further. And those giant 1248 01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:56.800 pumpkins have been developed that way. But the main reason 1249 01:08:56.840 --> 01:08:59.800 they get so darn big is the growing conditions, the soil, 1250 01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:02.560 the way they grow them. I mean, it's a crazy 1251 01:09:03.239 --> 01:09:05.600 competition where they go to great links. 1252 01:09:06.560 --> 01:09:10.439 To go on television. All right, man, I appreciate you 1253 01:09:10.479 --> 01:09:11.159 answer my question. 1254 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:15.399 Thanks sir, appreciate the call. Thanks a lot. I appreciate 1255 01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:19.319 that you've heard me talk about quality home products before. 1256 01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:24.159 Quality home products is a company that you can trust. 1257 01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:26.800 That's the bottom line. That is their company that does 1258 01:09:26.920 --> 01:09:29.199 things right. You know, they've been here. This is our 1259 01:09:29.239 --> 01:09:33.359 thirty fifth anniversary. By the way, they built their company 1260 01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:37.680 on trust and transparency and just really exceptional service. This 1261 01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:43.479 is a family owned company that supports local causes, funding schools, 1262 01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:47.479 you know, COVID relief, donating to local food banks, just 1263 01:09:47.640 --> 01:09:50.079 on and on. 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It is time for me to take 1285 01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:59.079 a little break here, all right, folks, only you sent 1286 01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:07.479 fans out there enchanted forest. Today today Santa is gonna 1287 01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:09.199 be an ingended forest. He will be there from ten 1288 01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:11.520 am to two pm. So the minute I quit talking 1289 01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:14.119 on the radio, Santa starts talking in the Chending Forest. 1290 01:11:14.159 --> 01:11:16.319 Think about it that way. Santa will be there from 1291 01:11:16.359 --> 01:11:18.399 ten to two. They're gonna have hot chocolate. They've got 1292 01:11:18.439 --> 01:11:23.960 holiday crafts and some wonderful holiday cookies from Flowerful. But 1293 01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:26.119 you got to get out there today to do that. 1294 01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:28.319 While you're out there, they just got in all their 1295 01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:31.760 their beautiful Christmas trees, and I'm telling you they got Nobles, 1296 01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:35.880 they got silver Tip, they got Nordman, lots of different 1297 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:40.199 kind The grands or have arrived already in the frasiers 1298 01:11:40.239 --> 01:11:43.800 as well. Lots of options on Christmas trees as well. 1299 01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:46.039 So plan on getting your Christmas tree while you're out there. 1300 01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:48.239 The main thing is go and see Santa. But when 1301 01:11:48.399 --> 01:11:50.199 I want you to go up to Santa real close 1302 01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:52.680 and look at him and make sure that it's not 1303 01:11:52.880 --> 01:11:55.199 Danny Lenderman, because I've often thought Danny would make a 1304 01:11:55.279 --> 01:11:59.960 good Santa cloth. I'm pretty sure it's the real man himself, 1305 01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:05.640 the real Santa. So oh gosh. When you're there, go 1306 01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:08.520 to the gift shop. Beautiful little gifts and things, I mean, 1307 01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:12.000 things like little Colancho's in small little pots, you know, 1308 01:12:12.199 --> 01:12:15.760 with polar bears and Santa Elves and all kinds of 1309 01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:18.279 things in them. It's just a fun place to shop. 1310 01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:18.479 You know. 1311 01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:23.359 Anytime you go out there to Enchanted Forest in Richmond, Texas, 1312 01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:25.560 you're gonna have a good time. They are located by 1313 01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:31.119 the way on twenty seven fifty nine, twenty seven fifty nine, 1314 01:12:31.159 --> 01:12:33.960 that's FM twenty seven fifty nine out there. What I 1315 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:37.119 would do if I were you, Their website is just outstanding. 1316 01:12:37.319 --> 01:12:39.000 Just go there and you can find out everything you 1317 01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:44.600 need to know. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. That's 1318 01:12:44.640 --> 01:12:51.199 a lot so Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Go out. 1319 01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:53.319 Their main thing is till Santa. I said hello, and 1320 01:12:53.439 --> 01:12:55.680 tell them I've been good. By the way, I checked 1321 01:12:55.680 --> 01:12:58.079 on our Amazon orders the other day, my wife was 1322 01:12:58.439 --> 01:13:02.319 ordering a sack of coal for I think for somebody stocking. 1323 01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:04.159 I'm kind of worried about who that might be. So 1324 01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:07.600 tells I've been good when you're out there and ingented 1325 01:13:07.720 --> 01:13:10.960 for us. All right, enough of that fooling around. Michael 1326 01:13:11.079 --> 01:13:14.199 in Sugarland, thanks for waiting. How can we help today? 1327 01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:17.640 Good morning, Skip. It must be my day because your 1328 01:13:17.720 --> 01:13:21.359 producers leading on that last song, Reeling in the Years 1329 01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:24.079 by Stevie Dan is one of my favorites, but not 1330 01:13:24.239 --> 01:13:24.640 the leader. 1331 01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:28.279 I'm telling you, I got a questions for you, guys. 1332 01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:31.119 I have been in dated this year. I'm in Port 1333 01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:35.600 Ben County. I would say northwest Fort Ben County. There's 1334 01:13:35.680 --> 01:13:38.640 a grass that popped up from out of nowhere. It's 1335 01:13:39.279 --> 01:13:42.319 it's got two long blades. When it starts out, it 1336 01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:46.680 runs a very strong root system, and it grows so 1337 01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:48.840 fast that I'm having to cut my back, which is 1338 01:13:48.880 --> 01:13:52.600 saying Augustine almost every other day. Have you had anyone 1339 01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:54.039 else call about this grass? 1340 01:13:56.119 --> 01:13:58.479 Well, I need a little more of a description on 1341 01:13:58.640 --> 01:14:02.720 it than that. Does it grow almost straight up, way 1342 01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:04.720 above higher than the Saint Augustine. 1343 01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:08.720 Yes, yes, it's got. It starts off with two long 1344 01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:11.680 leaves and those quickly just I mean they grow at 1345 01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:14.279 a very fast face, but I get, you know, to 1346 01:14:14.359 --> 01:14:16.920 start pulling them up, and there's an extensive root system 1347 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:19.600 that runs from one to the other. But yeah, it 1348 01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:22.880 starts off as just two blades, and that grows, yeah, 1349 01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:26.479 at least four to five inches higher than my Saint Augustine. 1350 01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:28.640 And I've never seen any you. 1351 01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:33.000 Know what you know what nut sets or nutgrass is right, Yes, 1352 01:14:34.399 --> 01:14:36.760 it's not that right, it's not that. 1353 01:14:37.000 --> 01:14:38.119 It's not that it's. 1354 01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:44.640 Okay you you Michael. You may have something called torpedo grass. 1355 01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:46.039 Uh. 1356 01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:50.880 Torpedograss is like a bermuda grass on steroids. But I 1357 01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:54.439 mean it gets it comes up really high and grows 1358 01:14:54.520 --> 01:14:57.840 really fast, and like bermuda grass is connected underground and 1359 01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:00.640 on top of the ground. It also has an underground 1360 01:15:00.680 --> 01:15:05.560 connection like that. So what you're describing leans I'm leaning 1361 01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:08.880 toward torpedo grass being if you wanted to take some 1362 01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:11.000 pictures of it, pull some up, get a little bit 1363 01:15:11.039 --> 01:15:12.840 of the roots and lay it on a table, take 1364 01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:15.000 a real good picture where I could re see the grass. 1365 01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:18.680 I'd be happy to take a second shot at it. 1366 01:15:18.920 --> 01:15:20.720 But I think you're talking about torpedo grass. 1367 01:15:21.640 --> 01:15:25.199 Yeah, everything you just said, you know, really describe it 1368 01:15:25.279 --> 01:15:27.920 to a t. I mean it's I've looked I walk 1369 01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:30.560 my sub division. None of my other neighbors, except for 1370 01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:33.640 maybe the people on my street, seem to have this. 1371 01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:36.319 I mean, is it something that can be spread by 1372 01:15:36.880 --> 01:15:39.159 air or what did it actually come from? 1373 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:43.159 Well, it could come from a sprig that came in 1374 01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:48.199 with some turf. It could crawl in from some neighbors 1375 01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:52.960 or other area. Adjacent. It does have seed, but we 1376 01:15:53.079 --> 01:15:57.239 don't normally think about it as starting from seed, but that, 1377 01:15:57.640 --> 01:16:01.119 of course it could. I guess it is to where 1378 01:16:01.239 --> 01:16:03.079 I kind of I don't have the crystal ball to 1379 01:16:03.800 --> 01:16:08.760 really answer that one, but if you won't send me 1380 01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:11.279 a picture, I'll take a look. If you want to 1381 01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:14.800 just deal with it, go on onto my website, which 1382 01:16:14.880 --> 01:16:19.680 is gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com, 1383 01:16:20.479 --> 01:16:24.359 and on there you're going to see how to build 1384 01:16:24.439 --> 01:16:27.279 my weed wiper. It's a little device, a weed wiper 1385 01:16:27.880 --> 01:16:29.439 that you build and all you got to do is 1386 01:16:29.520 --> 01:16:33.159 run over to a Southwest Fertilizer on Bissinet and runwick 1387 01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:36.439 and they have the little grabber tool that you build 1388 01:16:36.439 --> 01:16:39.479 a weed wiper with. It's inexpensive, it's easy to do. 1389 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:44.239 And what you'll do is you'll put either a product 1390 01:16:44.319 --> 01:16:47.920 that kills everything, which would be like a glycosate type product, 1391 01:16:48.079 --> 01:16:51.000 or you'll put a grass only killer, which there's a 1392 01:16:51.039 --> 01:16:52.760 couple of those. I'll tell you about that in a minute. 1393 01:16:53.159 --> 01:16:55.640 You just put them on the sponges and then you 1394 01:16:55.840 --> 01:16:57.920 just as you're walking through the yard, you just reach 1395 01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:00.119 down and grab it and squeeze it on that and 1396 01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.159 then pull up on those those shoots coming up, and 1397 01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:06.880 it kills that without killing your grass because you're wiping 1398 01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:10.720 it only on the taller weed. Also on my website 1399 01:17:10.920 --> 01:17:14.680 is herbicides to use on the weed wiper. And so 1400 01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:17.399 if you go down the grass problems, it tells you 1401 01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:21.279 the three products, three ingredients. One of those three would 1402 01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:24.520 work on killing torpedo grass in your lawn. 1403 01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:28.159 Well, it's so strong right now, it's that it literally 1404 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:32.560 in my back My said Augustine. I follow your schedule 1405 01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:36.439 and the grass looks great, but this stuff literally I 1406 01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:38.600 cut the grass almost a couple of days ago, and 1407 01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:41.800 now I'm sitting looking at my backyard. It's a good 1408 01:17:41.840 --> 01:17:44.880 four inches hot, but it's all over it. It's like 1409 01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.560 totally infested in the Saint Augustine. So it looked, you know, 1410 01:17:48.720 --> 01:17:52.000 it looks all right, it looks green, but it's just taking. 1411 01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:54.640 All I. 1412 01:17:57.000 --> 01:17:59.279 Did other than just kind of lapping back on what 1413 01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:01.920 I've said. Number one, I make sure it's the right 1414 01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:05.520 thing we think, send me a picture. Number two is 1415 01:18:05.800 --> 01:18:08.520 get the weed wiper that created you use it for 1416 01:18:08.640 --> 01:18:11.119 a lot of different things, and then download that list 1417 01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:13.640 of products and just run over to Southwest and Bob 1418 01:18:13.680 --> 01:18:19.920 can get you all fixed up on that on that stuff. Yeah, 1419 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:21.720 if you want to hang on hold for a minute, 1420 01:18:22.439 --> 01:18:25.000 protu sier, we'll pick up the call and so you 1421 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:26.840 can send a picture. Give you an email to send 1422 01:18:26.840 --> 01:18:28.880 a picture too. If not that, that's fine. Thank you 1423 01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:33.760 for the call, Michael. Do appreciate that. Very interesting. All right, 1424 01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:36.520 we're going to run out to Greg in Missouri City 1425 01:18:36.640 --> 01:18:39.199 here before we run out of time. Hey, Greg, welcome 1426 01:18:39.239 --> 01:18:39.880 to guarden Line. 1427 01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:44.199 Thank you, Skip appreciate you're taking my call. 1428 01:18:44.760 --> 01:18:48.199 I have I have a healthy saying August being along. 1429 01:18:48.319 --> 01:18:50.000 At least it was healthy until recently. 1430 01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:55.520 I've been following your schedule and I mistakenly I'm going 1431 01:18:55.560 --> 01:19:00.479 to hurry the other day and mistakenly applied Imperial fifteen 1432 01:19:00.640 --> 01:19:03.399 five instead of the night. 1433 01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:13.279 Okay, that's fine, that's fine, it's no big deal. No, 1434 01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:15.680 it's okay. I mean, we you know, we'd rather not 1435 01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:19.920 push with most nitrogen. But it's not the end of 1436 01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:21.840 the world at all. Your grass will be fine, it'll 1437 01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:24.560 come out. You just pick up pick up your fertilizing 1438 01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:25.920 in the spring with my scape. 1439 01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:29.239 Now, I also have loud, large. 1440 01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:33.239 Round packs a right, all right, Greg, hang on, hang on, 1441 01:19:33.359 --> 01:19:35.039 I'm gonna have to take you the rest of the 1442 01:19:35.119 --> 01:19:36.159 call after we come back. 1443 01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:39.600 R H. Garden Line with Skimp Rickards. 1444 01:19:40.399 --> 01:19:48.239 Yes, Trim, just. 1445 01:19:48.479 --> 01:19:49.760 Watch him as. 1446 01:19:55.079 --> 01:19:55.319 Many. 1447 01:20:01.399 --> 01:20:04.640 Hey, welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to garden Line. 1448 01:20:04.680 --> 01:20:08.279 We're glad to have you with us. We're here to 1449 01:20:08.319 --> 01:20:10.479 answer your gardening questions, and the way I like to 1450 01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:12.920 put it is to help you have a more bountiful garden, 1451 01:20:13.359 --> 01:20:16.239 a more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. 1452 01:20:16.479 --> 01:20:20.439 Gardening should be fun. If you're not having fun, you're 1453 01:20:20.479 --> 01:20:23.359 not doing it right. And doing it right means doesn't 1454 01:20:23.399 --> 01:20:27.399 mean getting everything perfect. It doesn't mean you make no mistakes. 1455 01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:31.119 It means you're doing it in an adventurous way to enjoy, 1456 01:20:31.319 --> 01:20:32.840 to grow what you want to grow, and do what 1457 01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:36.279 you want to do. You know, everybody kills plants. In fact, 1458 01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:38.000 to be a good gardener, you got to kill a 1459 01:20:38.039 --> 01:20:41.039 lot of plants. That's just part of the process. Doing 1460 01:20:41.079 --> 01:20:43.920 it right means doing the things you enjoy doing. You know, 1461 01:20:44.039 --> 01:20:46.880 some people all they care about is a beautiful lawn 1462 01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:49.960 and trees and shrubs. They just want that outdoor setting 1463 01:20:50.760 --> 01:20:53.640 to be neat and clean and sharp looking perfect. Well, 1464 01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:56.439 that's good. Other people go the cottage garden route. They 1465 01:20:56.479 --> 01:21:00.359 wanted to look wild and barely managed with pathways through it, 1466 01:21:00.479 --> 01:21:03.920 and that's okay, go for that. If you're into edibles, 1467 01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:07.399 grow herbs, grow vegetables, grow fruit trees, you. 1468 01:21:07.359 --> 01:21:07.800 Can do that. 1469 01:21:08.399 --> 01:21:10.279 If you don't want to do all that, and maybe 1470 01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:12.960 you just want to have a beautiful, bountiful cut flower 1471 01:21:13.039 --> 01:21:17.279 garden or something to attract hummingbirds and butterflies and pollinators, 1472 01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:19.920 you to do it anyway you want. It's your place 1473 01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:22.039 between you and the hoa. Let me just put it 1474 01:21:22.159 --> 01:21:26.119 that way. You can do with it as you wish. 1475 01:21:26.239 --> 01:21:29.920 Where gardening has all these I don't want to call 1476 01:21:29.960 --> 01:21:33.760 them rules. They're presented like rules, but this is how 1477 01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:37.359 you ought to do stuff. There are no rules. I mean, 1478 01:21:38.359 --> 01:21:42.439 if you want to get colors that are esthetically pleasing 1479 01:21:42.560 --> 01:21:44.840 in the opinion of color designers, you know where you 1480 01:21:44.920 --> 01:21:47.359 get the color wheel out and you pick colors on 1481 01:21:47.399 --> 01:21:49.920 opposite side of the wheel or tertiary colors like a 1482 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:53.760 triangle three corners or three sides of the wheel, and 1483 01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:55.960 the weird wheels don't have sides. You get the idea 1484 01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:59.439 what I'm talking about. Anyway, you can do that, but 1485 01:22:00.119 --> 01:22:01.920 you don't have to do that. If you like the 1486 01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:04.399 look of it, do what you like. It's your yard. 1487 01:22:05.199 --> 01:22:08.600 There are no rules. Have fun. You want suggestions how 1488 01:22:08.680 --> 01:22:11.000 to have better success or how to make something look 1489 01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:14.399 a little better in general according to popular opinion. We 1490 01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:16.840 can help you with that here on guard Line. But 1491 01:22:16.960 --> 01:22:18.560 the main thing is get out there and have fun. 1492 01:22:18.760 --> 01:22:20.800 And one place you can go to have a lot 1493 01:22:20.840 --> 01:22:23.840 of fun is Moss Nursery down in Seabrook, Texas. I 1494 01:22:24.039 --> 01:22:26.479 love it every time I go down there. It's eight 1495 01:22:26.560 --> 01:22:29.800 acres that you wander through. You heard that right, an 1496 01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:34.199 eight acre gardener's paradise. Been around for ages. It's a 1497 01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:37.720 destination for sure. And every time you turn a corner, 1498 01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:39.800 you don't know what you're going to see. It's probably 1499 01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:46.119 going to be some carved concrete statuary or something that 1500 01:22:46.239 --> 01:22:48.960 they Jim brought back from timbuck to on some trip. 1501 01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:52.680 It's going to be lots and lots and lots and 1502 01:22:52.800 --> 01:22:58.119 kinds of pottery, taxidermy mounts, mineral specimens, African masks, you 1503 01:22:58.159 --> 01:23:00.560 see what I'm talking about. I mean, it's very eclectic, 1504 01:23:01.199 --> 01:23:04.960 but it's plants and plants and plants everywhere, flowers and 1505 01:23:05.039 --> 01:23:08.760 fruit and vegetables and herbs and shrubs and trees and 1506 01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:12.479 everything you can imagine. I am a specially fond of 1507 01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:17.159 their houseplant greenhouse. They have such an awesome collection of 1508 01:23:17.479 --> 01:23:20.760 all kinds. And I say houseplants, I mean it could 1509 01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:24.319 be a patio plant too. Maybe it's a cacti or 1510 01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:26.399 something that sits outside in the sun, but you bring 1511 01:23:26.399 --> 01:23:28.920 it down on skin freezing cold. They've got tons of 1512 01:23:28.960 --> 01:23:32.119 that stuff. They also have a really nice supply of 1513 01:23:32.199 --> 01:23:35.560 already growing forced Emmerillis bulbs. So you need a quick 1514 01:23:35.960 --> 01:23:38.960 you need something to take for that Thanksgiving meal where 1515 01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:42.199 you're going to have Thanksgiving at somebody's house, about grabbing 1516 01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:45.479 one of their forced Emmerillis bulbs and taking that home 1517 01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:50.359 with you. Moss Nursery, it is truly a destination will 1518 01:23:50.399 --> 01:23:53.880 worth going to on Toddville Road in Sebrook, Texas. Here's 1519 01:23:53.920 --> 01:24:03.560 the websiteas Nursery Moss m aas nursery dot com. Our 1520 01:24:03.640 --> 01:24:06.279 phone number is seven one three two one two k 1521 01:24:06.439 --> 01:24:10.600 t r H seven one three two one two k 1522 01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:15.199 t r h H. A lot of you listening to 1523 01:24:15.319 --> 01:24:19.000 Guardenline would like to garden as organically as you can. 1524 01:24:19.319 --> 01:24:22.520 That is a goal that is your that is your desire, 1525 01:24:22.600 --> 01:24:25.439 your interest, that's what you enjoy too. By the way, well, 1526 01:24:25.880 --> 01:24:31.560 Microlife Fertilizer has got a very wide selection of many, many, 1527 01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:36.119 many kinds of organic products. Uh I, like the micro 1528 01:24:36.319 --> 01:24:39.680 Grow bioinoculant that I was talking about earlier. They also 1529 01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:44.560 have a product called micro Grow liquid AF. Micro Grow 1530 01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:49.439 liquid AF, it's got eight beneficial microbes in it. It's 1531 01:24:49.640 --> 01:24:53.239 chock full, and these are things that fight disease, like 1532 01:24:53.840 --> 01:24:58.600 Bascilla's subtlests. There's actually a fungicide product that is that 1533 01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:03.000 is just Bascilla subtlests out there on the market because 1534 01:25:03.239 --> 01:25:07.319 Basila subtlest fights disease. Well, it's in this product. Trachoderma, 1535 01:25:07.439 --> 01:25:10.520 two different types of trachiderma, two types of strepped to 1536 01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:14.319 mice seats. These are all things that fight disease and 1537 01:25:14.520 --> 01:25:18.039 help your plants to have success. Micro Grow liquid AF. 1538 01:25:18.520 --> 01:25:20.199 You can mix it up water, you can spray it 1539 01:25:20.279 --> 01:25:22.680 on plants. It's not going to burn. It is not 1540 01:25:22.840 --> 01:25:27.279 a funge a side, but it does provide beneficial microbes 1541 01:25:27.680 --> 01:25:32.720 that will help fight disease on your plants. You can 1542 01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:35.760 find micro Grow liquid AF all the places you get Microlife. 1543 01:25:36.079 --> 01:25:38.600 Just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and you can 1544 01:25:38.640 --> 01:25:40.800 see the whole list. But I'll tell you this year, 1545 01:25:40.880 --> 01:25:42.439 you're going to be hard pressed to go into a 1546 01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:45.079 feed store that you hear me talk about on Gardenline, 1547 01:25:45.159 --> 01:25:47.159 to go into a garden center, to go into ACE 1548 01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:51.039 hardware store, go into a Southwest fertilizer and not run 1549 01:25:51.159 --> 01:25:56.640 into Microlife products like micro Grow Liquid AF. We're going 1550 01:25:56.720 --> 01:25:59.960 to head out now to the far kingdom of child 1551 01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:04.239 Hill and talk to Rachel. Hey, Rachel, welcome to garden Line. 1552 01:26:10.039 --> 01:26:12.000 All right, do you have Rachel. 1553 01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:14.119 If I'm here? 1554 01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:18.520 Alrighty, yeah, I can Welcome to garden Line. 1555 01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:23.760 Okay, thank you, good morning. I have young trees that 1556 01:26:23.880 --> 01:26:28.880 we transplanted and the deer are eating the bar literally 1557 01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:30.760 stripping the trees, and I wanted to see if you 1558 01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:34.159 had any ideas as to how to protect the trees 1559 01:26:34.319 --> 01:26:36.520 now since the bark is missing. 1560 01:26:38.079 --> 01:26:41.000 Yeah, if they've stripped too much of it off, the 1561 01:26:41.079 --> 01:26:43.399 tree probably will never recover, you know, Like if it's 1562 01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:46.359 three fourths of the wire around stripped off, that's too much. 1563 01:26:47.119 --> 01:26:50.079 A little damage the tree, a young tree, you want 1564 01:26:50.119 --> 01:26:52.039 to give it good water and fertilizer. When we get 1565 01:26:52.079 --> 01:26:55.079 back in the growing season, fertilizer to get it ground 1566 01:26:55.119 --> 01:26:57.159 as fast as you can and it'll recover from it. 1567 01:26:57.279 --> 01:26:59.239 In the meantime, you want to get a ring of 1568 01:26:59.359 --> 01:27:02.359 wire and if if you can get it up to 1569 01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:07.479 about six feet high, that would be good. If you 1570 01:27:07.560 --> 01:27:09.880 don't have to buy a six foot tall piece of wire, 1571 01:27:09.960 --> 01:27:13.239 you could put like three iron t posts in around 1572 01:27:13.359 --> 01:27:16.560 this tree a little distance out from it, not not far, 1573 01:27:17.439 --> 01:27:19.439 and then wrap the wire on it. But tie it 1574 01:27:19.560 --> 01:27:21.560 up where it's the bottom of the wires up off 1575 01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:23.960 the ground, you know, a couple of feet, and that 1576 01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:26.560 gets your wire taller without you having to buy a 1577 01:27:26.680 --> 01:27:29.800 giant eight foot piece of wire and just put it 1578 01:27:29.880 --> 01:27:32.119 around it and it keeps them physically away from it 1579 01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:35.760 because they're wanting to rub their horns on stuff. 1580 01:27:36.880 --> 01:27:37.079 Yeah. 1581 01:27:37.760 --> 01:27:41.359 Should I wrap any cat felt around the trunk? 1582 01:27:41.479 --> 01:27:44.039 So that is just to make it through the winter. 1583 01:27:46.359 --> 01:27:49.920 No, not really, I mean some when trees are young, 1584 01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:52.840 sometime we put tree wrap on them because the tree 1585 01:27:52.920 --> 01:27:58.640 wrap keeps the sunlight off the trunk and in on 1586 01:27:59.079 --> 01:28:05.000 winter days where we have warm temperatures, the hot afternoon 1587 01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:08.840 sun warms up that bark and then when the temperature 1588 01:28:08.920 --> 01:28:11.880 drops below freezing, it can kill the bark, and so 1589 01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:14.840 the wraps keep the sunlight off the trunk. On a 1590 01:28:14.960 --> 01:28:17.479 young tree that has thin bark, you know, as trees 1591 01:28:17.520 --> 01:28:19.119 get older, the bark gets thick and we don't have 1592 01:28:19.159 --> 01:28:21.560 to worry about that. But a very young, thin bark 1593 01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:24.520 tree like red oaks. Red oaks are very notorious without 1594 01:28:25.800 --> 01:28:27.800 it helps with that. But as far as the fact 1595 01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:29.800 that the deer have damaged it, now you need to 1596 01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:30.920 protect it? Not really? 1597 01:28:32.279 --> 01:28:34.479 Okay, great, well, thank you very much. 1598 01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:38.079 All right, thank you for the call. Good luck with 1599 01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:40.039 that tree. Hey, you know you can eat deer. 1600 01:28:41.680 --> 01:28:42.800 Sorry, yeah, I know. 1601 01:28:45.720 --> 01:28:48.760 This is not a problem. This is not a problem, Rachel. 1602 01:28:48.840 --> 01:28:57.359 This is an opportunity. Oh my gosh. Oh well, there's 1603 01:28:57.479 --> 01:28:59.000 have you ever heard of a hunting leace. You can 1604 01:28:59.039 --> 01:29:01.520 pay for all the Christmas presence this year. We just 1605 01:29:02.880 --> 01:29:05.960 never Okay, I'm going south and people are getting appalled 1606 01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:19.680 out there, so I'm gonna husher bye bye, Oh gosh boy. 1607 01:29:20.760 --> 01:29:23.119 Our phone number is seven one three if anyone still 1608 01:29:23.159 --> 01:29:25.840 wants to call after that, seven one three two one 1609 01:29:25.920 --> 01:29:29.439 two k t r H. Seven one three two one 1610 01:29:29.560 --> 01:29:30.039 two k. 1611 01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:31.520 T r H. 1612 01:29:32.359 --> 01:29:34.600 If your lawn has taken a hit, this summer or 1613 01:29:34.760 --> 01:29:38.119 last summer. We've had a couple of rough years on lawns. Uh, 1614 01:29:39.560 --> 01:29:41.600 you need to do some stuff to get it back 1615 01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:44.399 in shape. And then we talk about watering and fertilizing 1616 01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:47.199 and mowing, and those are all very very important. But 1617 01:29:47.439 --> 01:29:49.439 one of the things that is the most helpful. The 1618 01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:52.119 thing you can do to your lawn is to do 1619 01:29:52.560 --> 01:29:56.399 a core aeration followed by accompost top dressing. Now what 1620 01:29:56.600 --> 01:30:00.079 is the core aerration. Well, some aer rator machines is es. 1621 01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:04.119 Actually the little cheap things you rent to use. Most 1622 01:30:04.159 --> 01:30:07.479 of those just push a hole in the soil. So imagine, 1623 01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:10.079 you know, taking a sharpened stick and shoving it in 1624 01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:12.680 the soil and it just squeezes a hole open. Now, 1625 01:30:12.760 --> 01:30:15.720 the sides of the hole are extra compacted, which is 1626 01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:19.000 not a good idea. But a core erator has a 1627 01:30:19.119 --> 01:30:23.119 hollow time that goes down in the soil and pops 1628 01:30:23.199 --> 01:30:25.880 a plug out of the soil and drops it on 1629 01:30:25.960 --> 01:30:28.880 the surface. So when you've done coreration, it looks like 1630 01:30:28.960 --> 01:30:31.439 you had a little miniature dog convention on the yard. 1631 01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:34.399 You know, all the load droppings everywhere. That's good. Those 1632 01:30:34.439 --> 01:30:37.439 will melt away with rain. They'll cover up thatch they'll 1633 01:30:37.439 --> 01:30:40.720 help break down that thatch faster and those open holes 1634 01:30:41.119 --> 01:30:43.920 now allow oxygen, water and nutrients to go down deeper 1635 01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:48.359 into the soil easier, and BnB turf Pros does just that. 1636 01:30:48.680 --> 01:30:52.039 BnB turf Pros is a company that is dedicated to 1637 01:30:52.199 --> 01:30:55.800 customer service. What they are all about is making sure 1638 01:30:55.960 --> 01:30:58.600 you are happy, because they don't view you as just 1639 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:00.880 you know, a service, give me your money and they 1640 01:31:00.920 --> 01:31:03.880 go on to the next They want a relationship with 1641 01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:06.720 the customers where you come back and you're happy with 1642 01:31:06.840 --> 01:31:08.600 what they do, and they make sure that happens. And 1643 01:31:08.720 --> 01:31:10.319 you go look at their reviews and you can see 1644 01:31:10.399 --> 01:31:13.319 they do that. They cover the area from Sugarland across 1645 01:31:13.359 --> 01:31:16.720 to Paarland and down to Manville and Siena kind of 1646 01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:19.720 basically down Highway six, but Sugarland in Missouri City on 1647 01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:23.720 the west side, and then a Pairland Manvl on the 1648 01:31:23.800 --> 01:31:26.159 east side and all through that area. Now right now 1649 01:31:26.199 --> 01:31:28.039 they got the fall special going on. You get a 1650 01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:32.279 free aeration when you schedule the compost top dressing. And 1651 01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:36.960 that's step two. Compost top dressing. Finely screened, compost, evenly 1652 01:31:37.079 --> 01:31:41.520 spread out. It's so easy to hire this done as 1653 01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:43.880 opposed to trying to do it yourself. It's a mess 1654 01:31:43.960 --> 01:31:45.760 and hard to get. You won't get the coverage that 1655 01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:48.039 they get if you try to do it yourself. Now, 1656 01:31:48.159 --> 01:31:50.520 they only use products I recommend on guarden Line, so 1657 01:31:50.840 --> 01:31:53.880 top quality lead mol compost from Ciena Maltch that's what 1658 01:31:54.039 --> 01:31:58.119 they use. They do aeration, They also will do fertilization 1659 01:31:58.960 --> 01:32:01.359 and of course the company top dressing service, and now'd 1660 01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:02.199 be a good time to do that. 1661 01:32:02.319 --> 01:32:02.479 You know. 1662 01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:05.279 Throwing a little compost on the soul surface blocks a 1663 01:32:05.319 --> 01:32:08.560 little bit of light out too. It helps in minimizing 1664 01:32:08.640 --> 01:32:10.800 some of the weed problems that you might have. It's 1665 01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:13.119 not going to get rid of all weeds by any means, 1666 01:32:13.159 --> 01:32:15.199 but I'm just saying that it also helps with that. 1667 01:32:15.359 --> 01:32:19.640 This is a family owned service bb Turfpros dot com 1668 01:32:19.840 --> 01:32:23.359 b B turf Pros dot com. Here's a phone number. 1669 01:32:23.399 --> 01:32:25.720 I've given you time to grab a pen write it down. 1670 01:32:25.880 --> 01:32:27.800 Always listen to garden Line with a pen in hand, 1671 01:32:27.840 --> 01:32:30.680 so you can write these down. Seven one three two 1672 01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:35.039 three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two 1673 01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:40.159 three four five five nine eight. You are listening to 1674 01:32:40.239 --> 01:32:42.720 garden Line. Our phone number seven one three two one 1675 01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:46.840 two k t r H. Earlier, I was talking about 1676 01:32:47.760 --> 01:32:52.439 things that we can do might do for a overdue 1677 01:32:52.600 --> 01:32:55.079 for a break here, I think I better quit talking 1678 01:32:55.119 --> 01:33:02.199 for a little while and we'll be right back. Welcome 1679 01:33:02.239 --> 01:33:04.359 back to garden Line. Good to have you with us, folks. 1680 01:33:05.239 --> 01:33:09.119 Good to talk to you. Appreciate your questions and part 1681 01:33:09.159 --> 01:33:10.720 of the fun of gardening, you know, we try to 1682 01:33:10.760 --> 01:33:16.560 have fun here on garden Line. You know, the idea 1683 01:33:16.920 --> 01:33:20.600 of gardening. I just think it's the best hobby that 1684 01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:22.920 there is. It really is like the most popular hobby 1685 01:33:23.359 --> 01:33:28.079 in the world, especially in this country. We enjoy getting out, 1686 01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:30.880 we enjoy learning, we enjoy just touching nature and just 1687 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:32.680 relaxing and seeing accomplishments. 1688 01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:32.920 You know. 1689 01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:37.720 The when I was working with Ager Life Extension, you know, 1690 01:33:37.840 --> 01:33:40.640 each day eight to five, five days a week, actually 1691 01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:42.720 not eight to five is a lot longer hours than 1692 01:33:42.800 --> 01:33:46.239 that for a Kenny agent. But sometimes at the end 1693 01:33:46.239 --> 01:33:48.119 of the day, I'd look back, I'd go, what on 1694 01:33:48.199 --> 01:33:50.159 earth did I accomplish today? I know, I talked to 1695 01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:53.119 people on the phone, answered questions, answered email, planned programs 1696 01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:56.520 and all kinds of things. But it's like it kind 1697 01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:58.960 of feels like, you know, what do you have to 1698 01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:01.039 show for it. What do you see and when you 1699 01:34:01.159 --> 01:34:03.079 go out in the garden, and I'll use one of 1700 01:34:03.199 --> 01:34:07.960 the least popular gardening tasks, pulling weeds. You know, nobody 1701 01:34:08.079 --> 01:34:10.239 likes the pool well, most people don't like pool weeds. 1702 01:34:10.319 --> 01:34:13.560 I actually enjoy it a little bit. And here's why. 1703 01:34:13.880 --> 01:34:18.840 You sit down. You get on a row of garden 1704 01:34:18.920 --> 01:34:20.680 bed or whatever, you got some weeds in it, and 1705 01:34:20.800 --> 01:34:23.000 you just go through and do your however you're doing it, 1706 01:34:23.119 --> 01:34:25.840 hoeing or pulling or whatever. And when you're done with it, 1707 01:34:26.640 --> 01:34:28.760 even if you just do it for fifteen minutes, you 1708 01:34:28.880 --> 01:34:32.520 look back and you see the accomplishment. It looks better 1709 01:34:32.600 --> 01:34:34.600 and you see the results, and there is there is 1710 01:34:34.680 --> 01:34:37.720 a therapeutic thing in that. It's kind of like I 1711 01:34:37.800 --> 01:34:40.600 guess you know, you got a garage. It's a mess, 1712 01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:42.720 and you clean it up and get it all organized. 1713 01:34:42.720 --> 01:34:45.279 It just feels good. Right. That is one of the 1714 01:34:45.479 --> 01:34:48.640 one of the things I enjoy in gardening. Let's head out. 1715 01:34:49.039 --> 01:34:51.840 We're going to go now to North Houston and talk 1716 01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:54.119 to Mark. Hello, Mark, Welcome to garden Line. 1717 01:34:55.319 --> 01:34:59.880 I skip quick question and it's is it too late 1718 01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:03.439 to apply the nitro FoST fall special at this time? 1719 01:35:03.680 --> 01:35:05.359 I miss it is not a window a couple of 1720 01:35:05.399 --> 01:35:10.279 weeks ago. Yeah, no, it's not. You know, on my schedule, 1721 01:35:10.359 --> 01:35:13.720 there's this range. And one of the challenges of doing 1722 01:35:13.800 --> 01:35:16.960 the schedule is nature's not black and white. It's not 1723 01:35:17.159 --> 01:35:19.560 like on October thirty first, it's too early, and on 1724 01:35:19.680 --> 01:35:22.960 number first it's okay, you know, and nature's not that way. 1725 01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:26.279 But we have that bar on there for a reason. 1726 01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:28.920 And the earlier you get your fall fertilizing done, the 1727 01:35:29.039 --> 01:35:31.399 more benefits you can get out of it because the 1728 01:35:31.479 --> 01:35:35.960 grass is actively growing in things. But now it's just 1729 01:35:36.079 --> 01:35:39.640 fine still forgetting that done. But I wouldn't delay any longer. 1730 01:35:39.880 --> 01:35:42.600 And it's not going to hurt anything to do. It's 1731 01:35:42.720 --> 01:35:44.760 just going to the grass is going to get it 1732 01:35:44.800 --> 01:35:47.319 pretty sleepy headed as things cool off here, and it's 1733 01:35:47.359 --> 01:35:49.199 not going to be taking up the nutrients as well. 1734 01:35:50.239 --> 01:35:52.199 Okay, great, And the same for the barricade. 1735 01:35:52.239 --> 01:35:55.279 It's still within the time frame to apply that. 1736 01:35:55.479 --> 01:35:58.439 It's within the time frame. Yeah yeah, But barricade prevents 1737 01:35:58.520 --> 01:36:01.680 weed that are trying to erminate from getting established. So 1738 01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:04.000 don't delay any more on that because you want to 1739 01:36:04.479 --> 01:36:06.039 you want to get it down ahead of as much 1740 01:36:06.079 --> 01:36:07.640 weed germination as possible. 1741 01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:10.039 Okay, all right, thank you very much. 1742 01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:17.399 All right, thanks Mark, appreciate that calling care alrighty here, 1743 01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:21.560 let's see we are going to go now out to 1744 01:36:22.079 --> 01:36:24.560 humbold Texas and talk to Tina. 1745 01:36:24.840 --> 01:36:27.479 Hello, Tina, good morning, how are you? 1746 01:36:29.119 --> 01:36:30.960 I am good. 1747 01:36:31.720 --> 01:36:36.039 I've been using the microlife system following the schedule, and 1748 01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:40.960 I put some Microlife brown patch on in September, and 1749 01:36:41.079 --> 01:36:44.279 it looks like I'm getting some brown patch where it's 1750 01:36:44.479 --> 01:36:47.840 round circles of lighter grass mixed in with the green. Yes, 1751 01:36:48.000 --> 01:36:49.640 so I didn't know if I put it on too 1752 01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:51.119 soon or what can I do. 1753 01:36:51.359 --> 01:36:52.399 Now about it? 1754 01:36:52.640 --> 01:36:56.359 And one other question, the corn meal to prevent the 1755 01:36:56.479 --> 01:36:58.960 weeds from coming. Am I too late for that? 1756 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:05.439 All right? I think the brown patch Microlife brown patches 1757 01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:09.439 is not a fungicide. It's chocked with microbes that do 1758 01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:13.079 help populate the plant surfaces to make it a more 1759 01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:17.159 hospitable inhospitable place for diseases. But it doesn't mean you 1760 01:37:17.239 --> 01:37:20.279 can't get any brown patch at all. It's a long 1761 01:37:20.399 --> 01:37:23.399 term system. We As you use the micro life products 1762 01:37:23.479 --> 01:37:27.520 and grow a denser, healthier lawn over time, you work 1763 01:37:27.600 --> 01:37:31.079 yourself out of issues like weeds and certain disease and 1764 01:37:31.239 --> 01:37:35.720 other issues. Now the circles are there. I mean, you've 1765 01:37:35.720 --> 01:37:39.720 got a couple of options. Once the grass is infected. 1766 01:37:40.119 --> 01:37:45.000 Nothing will fix it like curate and make what's brown 1767 01:37:45.079 --> 01:37:48.359 turned green again. It's going to be it's going to 1768 01:37:48.439 --> 01:37:51.359 turn green when it warms up enough or if we 1769 01:37:51.439 --> 01:37:53.880 have warm spells in the winter enough to get some 1770 01:37:54.079 --> 01:37:56.960 leaf growth to come back on those runners. Because that's 1771 01:37:57.000 --> 01:37:59.520 all brown patch does is it rocks the leaves off. 1772 01:37:59.600 --> 01:38:02.520 It doesn't kill the grass. It just rots the leaves off, 1773 01:38:02.560 --> 01:38:06.479 and the leaves regrow, new leaves regrow. Now, as far 1774 01:38:06.560 --> 01:38:09.840 as the corn meal, what you're I think referring to 1775 01:38:10.039 --> 01:38:13.479 is corn gluten meal. There's a difference. Corn meal would 1776 01:38:13.479 --> 01:38:19.079 be no, it's okay, no, it's a common no, no problem. 1777 01:38:20.079 --> 01:38:24.840 People probably haven't thought about the difference. The corn gluten 1778 01:38:24.960 --> 01:38:32.000 meal is a pre emergent, therefore a weed seed preventer. Now, 1779 01:38:32.560 --> 01:38:35.840 having said that, it doesn't work on all weed seeds, 1780 01:38:36.520 --> 01:38:39.319 and it only works to prevent them, not to kill 1781 01:38:39.399 --> 01:38:42.079 them if they're growing, and you have to get it 1782 01:38:42.159 --> 01:38:46.159 down ahead of time. But it how do I do 1783 01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:50.399 this without it being long drawn out? Out? In nature? 1784 01:38:50.880 --> 01:38:53.680 We can't control the rainfall, and the ideal way to 1785 01:38:53.800 --> 01:38:55.880 use corn gluten meal would be to put it out, 1786 01:38:56.399 --> 01:38:59.359 apply about a third of an inch maybe a quarter 1787 01:38:59.479 --> 01:39:02.920 inch of just enough to get the weed seeds to sprout, 1788 01:39:03.520 --> 01:39:05.560 and then have it be dry for a week or two. 1789 01:39:06.880 --> 01:39:09.920 That weed seed that sprouts the corn gluten meal prevents 1790 01:39:09.960 --> 01:39:12.119 it from getting a root down and it dries out 1791 01:39:12.159 --> 01:39:15.800 and it dies. But if we get rainfall or if 1792 01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:19.640 your irrigation comes on, the corn gluten meal stops the root, 1793 01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:22.319 but then it keeps it moist so that when it 1794 01:39:22.439 --> 01:39:25.199 breaks down, the root just grows anyway. So it didn't 1795 01:39:25.319 --> 01:39:29.000 kill the weeds. It catches them at a vulnerable stage 1796 01:39:29.119 --> 01:39:31.640 and doesn't let the root grow. Why do I sail 1797 01:39:31.720 --> 01:39:34.000 that well, because we can't control the weather. Because a 1798 01:39:34.039 --> 01:39:36.199 lot of people do turn on their sprinklers and then 1799 01:39:36.319 --> 01:39:38.520 corn gluten meal doesn't do what it's supposed to do. 1800 01:39:39.039 --> 01:39:43.279 It's on my schedule as an option, but you have 1801 01:39:43.399 --> 01:39:47.560 to understand the caveats are that it may or may 1802 01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:49.319 not work depending on conditions. 1803 01:39:51.399 --> 01:39:55.359 Okay, so I just pretty much just don't do anything 1804 01:39:55.479 --> 01:39:58.880 to the brown patch. You just wait for the warmer weather. 1805 01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:03.159 What about amorite is it amorite? Could that be put 1806 01:40:03.239 --> 01:40:04.960 on the grass now. 1807 01:40:05.560 --> 01:40:07.840 As a mite? Yeah, as a mite can be put 1808 01:40:07.920 --> 01:40:10.279 on now, that's it's no problem with that. You can 1809 01:40:10.359 --> 01:40:12.680 put that down now, just follow the label ast to 1810 01:40:12.800 --> 01:40:15.760 rates and stuff. Uh and and it'll I think it's 1811 01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:18.880 forty four. Let's see, I'm trying to remember the rate. Well, 1812 01:40:18.920 --> 01:40:23.119 I'm not going to guess that it gee, I wish 1813 01:40:23.159 --> 01:40:28.439 I could hang on just sir. Oh yeah, forty A 1814 01:40:28.720 --> 01:40:31.920 forty four pound bag covers six to twelve thousand square feet, 1815 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:35.000 so that's a lot of lot area. So just a 1816 01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:38.680 little bit out there now, I'm I'm taking it by 1817 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:42.279 the names of the things you're talking about, like microlife 1818 01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:45.319 and corn gluten meal, that you prefer to do it organically. 1819 01:40:45.880 --> 01:40:45.960 Uh. 1820 01:40:46.159 --> 01:40:48.000 And that's why I didn't say use any kind of 1821 01:40:48.359 --> 01:40:50.760 of a funge a side. You could use the funge 1822 01:40:50.760 --> 01:40:54.000 aside now for the brown patch to prevent additional infection, 1823 01:40:54.640 --> 01:41:00.359 but there's there's not a good organic kind of control. 1824 01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.800 Especially there's not a good synthetic control. Once brown patch 1825 01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:08.279 has already infected the grass and done its damage, Well, 1826 01:41:08.359 --> 01:41:09.199 can I use. 1827 01:41:09.119 --> 01:41:14.159 It though, even though I'm using microlife, or should I just. 1828 01:41:14.239 --> 01:41:17.800 Not could you use the synthetic fungicide with the Well 1829 01:41:17.840 --> 01:41:19.920 you could, but I mean it's it's just going after 1830 01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:21.239 it in a different system. 1831 01:41:21.760 --> 01:41:21.920 You know. 1832 01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:24.279 If we were talking about if you were to call 1833 01:41:24.359 --> 01:41:26.399 me and say, you know, every year my yard just 1834 01:41:26.600 --> 01:41:29.319 is full of all these big brown circles, well I 1835 01:41:29.399 --> 01:41:31.479 might say, well, before they show up, then go ahead 1836 01:41:31.479 --> 01:41:35.520 and treat to prevent them. But when you're trying to 1837 01:41:35.600 --> 01:41:39.800 grow in a more organic direction, then you know, that's 1838 01:41:39.880 --> 01:41:42.640 your call as to whether you would want to try it. 1839 01:41:43.000 --> 01:41:44.600 I mean, if you had just a little bit of 1840 01:41:44.680 --> 01:41:47.399 brown patch starting and you want to prevent additional you 1841 01:41:47.479 --> 01:41:49.359 could do it that way. You could, you could put 1842 01:41:49.399 --> 01:41:52.119 on a product to prevent that. But most people that 1843 01:41:52.199 --> 01:41:54.600 are gardening organically are not going to go after it 1844 01:41:54.720 --> 01:41:57.159 that way. They're going to just focus on the building 1845 01:41:57.199 --> 01:42:01.000 the soil, adding, adding microbial content and and whatnot to 1846 01:42:01.119 --> 01:42:03.520 create a better lawn over time. 1847 01:42:03.560 --> 01:42:05.840 Okay, well, thank you so much. 1848 01:42:07.560 --> 01:42:10.439 All right, thank you very much, Tina. I appreciate your call. 1849 01:42:11.199 --> 01:42:14.800 Good luck with getting everything under control. All right, Well 1850 01:42:14.880 --> 01:42:16.359 it's time for me take a little break. I'll be 1851 01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:19.920 right back. You are listening your gardline. I'm your host. 1852 01:42:19.960 --> 01:42:23.760 Skip Richter, and we're here to have a good time. 1853 01:42:23.960 --> 01:42:25.760 That's it. We want to help you have a beautiful 1854 01:42:25.760 --> 01:42:28.279 garden of downfall landscape and a good time in the process. 1855 01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:31.159 Give me a call seven one three two one two 1856 01:42:31.560 --> 01:42:34.960 fifty eight seventy four or seven one three two one 1857 01:42:35.000 --> 01:42:38.359 two ktra to make it real easy like that. Hey, 1858 01:42:38.399 --> 01:42:42.159 have you been out to Nelson Water Gardens, Nelson Nursery 1859 01:42:42.199 --> 01:42:45.039 and water Gardens out there in Katie, Texas. You just 1860 01:42:45.159 --> 01:42:48.680 head out Katie Fort Ben Road out I ten, turn 1861 01:42:49.279 --> 01:42:51.800 right or north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's 1862 01:42:52.039 --> 01:42:54.279 just a stone's thrown down on the right hand side. 1863 01:42:55.000 --> 01:42:57.000 Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. Of course, they're a place 1864 01:42:57.039 --> 01:42:59.199 for water gardens, have been known for that, for ages 1865 01:42:59.359 --> 01:43:03.359 nationally for that. As a matter of fact, their nursery 1866 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:07.560 is just an awesome collection of every kind of color 1867 01:43:07.640 --> 01:43:10.279 plant you would want, fruit, plants, shrubs, trees. I mean 1868 01:43:10.319 --> 01:43:15.199 they carry it all there, absolutely beautiful stock of a 1869 01:43:15.399 --> 01:43:17.840 lot of nice things. They just readid the front flowerbeds 1870 01:43:17.840 --> 01:43:19.520 they look really good. And when you walk in and 1871 01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:21.920 look at those flower beds, pretty much everything in the flowerbed, 1872 01:43:22.119 --> 01:43:25.359 well everything in the flower bed is available inside the 1873 01:43:25.439 --> 01:43:29.039 store things for cool season, like snap dragons and ornamental 1874 01:43:29.119 --> 01:43:32.079 cabbage and stock if you're going stock before. It's a 1875 01:43:32.199 --> 01:43:37.880 really nice little plant. English daisies, colendulas, colengular blooms are 1876 01:43:38.000 --> 01:43:40.279 edible as our pansy blooms. Did you know that in 1877 01:43:40.399 --> 01:43:43.159 Dianthus they got the amazon and the spooky Dianthus? And 1878 01:43:43.239 --> 01:43:46.279 why to lessome looks really good and your landscape can 1879 01:43:46.319 --> 01:43:50.560 look the same now. Public service announcement. Christmas trees have arrived. 1880 01:43:51.039 --> 01:43:54.840 They have got their Christmas trees, freshly cut frasier for 1881 01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:58.239 Christmas trees right there. You can come by and pick 1882 01:43:58.239 --> 01:44:00.479 them up or they'll deliver either way you want to 1883 01:44:00.479 --> 01:44:02.960 go about it. Here's the phone number. You need to 1884 01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:04.479 write this down so you can give them a call. 1885 01:44:04.560 --> 01:44:09.000 Two eight one three nine to one forty seven sixty nine. 1886 01:44:09.880 --> 01:44:13.199 Inside it is decorated. They got their beautiful tree, They 1887 01:44:13.239 --> 01:44:14.920 got the points aetus. Oh, by the way, you can 1888 01:44:14.960 --> 01:44:18.039 get your points setus there too. Looks really nice inside 1889 01:44:18.039 --> 01:44:20.039 there and out. You know, we're kind of in the 1890 01:44:20.560 --> 01:44:24.279 Christmas and Thanksgiving season. So mister Turkey, which is a 1891 01:44:24.479 --> 01:44:28.760 decorated giant heybale, is ready for family photos. They've been 1892 01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:31.000 doing that as a little tradition. It's just behind the 1893 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:33.880 fish facility back there. Uh so you can bring the 1894 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:36.520 kiddos out and they can get the picture taken there 1895 01:44:36.600 --> 01:44:40.039 with mister Turkey as well. Don't forget December seventh as 1896 01:44:40.119 --> 01:44:44.159 Cookies with Santa. Yes, that's it, the man himself, Sanna 1897 01:44:44.319 --> 01:44:47.279 will be there and you don't want to miss Cookies 1898 01:44:47.680 --> 01:44:52.560 with Santa on December seventh. So if you want to 1899 01:44:52.600 --> 01:44:57.159 get out there, make sure put December seventh on your calendar. 1900 01:44:57.239 --> 01:45:04.319 Cookies with Santa out at Nelson, Wa Nursery. Mister Turkey. 1901 01:45:05.439 --> 01:45:11.119 Mister Turkey. Southwest Fertilizer is as the name implies, in 1902 01:45:11.199 --> 01:45:14.319 Southwest Houston. It's on the corner of Bisonet and Renwick. 1903 01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:18.680 Bisonet and Renwick in Southwest Houston. Listen, this is an institution. 1904 01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:23.079 This place has been around since nineteen fifty five and 1905 01:45:23.279 --> 01:45:28.119 they have been providing the greater Houston area with whatever 1906 01:45:28.279 --> 01:45:34.079 products they need to have success. That includes insecticide, fungicides, herbicides, 1907 01:45:34.199 --> 01:45:38.880 and fertilizers and other kinds of biostimulants, all kinds of 1908 01:45:38.960 --> 01:45:40.920 different products. If you're going to put it on the plant, 1909 01:45:41.039 --> 01:45:43.800 they've got it. In fact, if you're going to use 1910 01:45:43.840 --> 01:45:45.840 it to have a more beautiful yard. They have it, 1911 01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:48.600 and if they don't have something, you don't need it 1912 01:45:48.640 --> 01:45:51.640 because they have everything. They really do. Ninety foot wall 1913 01:45:51.680 --> 01:45:55.119 of tools, really quality tools. I keep telling you about 1914 01:45:55.159 --> 01:45:58.920 the folding kneeling bench. I used mine. I bought, wore 1915 01:45:59.000 --> 01:46:02.239 that thing out, wore me out in the process putting 1916 01:46:02.239 --> 01:46:05.239 in that rock patio. Without the kneeling bench getting up 1917 01:46:05.279 --> 01:46:06.479 and down up, I don't know how I would have 1918 01:46:06.560 --> 01:46:09.119 done it. It's a great tool. They've got them there. 1919 01:46:09.560 --> 01:46:11.399 The grabber tool that I tell you about. If you 1920 01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:13.560 want to be able to reach in and wipe a 1921 01:46:13.640 --> 01:46:17.199 herbicide on a plant with a weed plant without hurting 1922 01:46:17.399 --> 01:46:20.159 your desirable plants, a homemade grabber tool is how you 1923 01:46:20.239 --> 01:46:23.560 do it. Instructions are on my website Gardening with skip 1924 01:46:23.640 --> 01:46:26.800 dot com. The tool that you start with is there. 1925 01:46:27.039 --> 01:46:31.079 It's a grabber tool at Southwest Fertilizer. Bob's got him there. 1926 01:46:31.520 --> 01:46:33.560 It's really easy to make and he's got all the 1927 01:46:33.600 --> 01:46:37.119 products you put on him there at Southwest Fertilizer. Real easy, 1928 01:46:37.319 --> 01:46:40.319 easy to do. If you are looking for any kind 1929 01:46:40.359 --> 01:46:43.079 of a tool for success, maybe a soil knife. By 1930 01:46:43.119 --> 01:46:46.720 the way, soil knife is a really good gift item too. 1931 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:49.239 It's one of my top five gardening tools is a 1932 01:46:49.319 --> 01:46:51.920 soil knife, and Bob's got those there. If you're an 1933 01:46:51.960 --> 01:46:54.239 organic gardener, you're not going to find a better selection 1934 01:46:54.439 --> 01:47:01.560 of organic fertilizer, insecticide, fungicides, disease control, weed preventions. All 1935 01:47:01.640 --> 01:47:07.119 that is there also at Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer dot com. 1936 01:47:07.439 --> 01:47:10.399 That's the website. Here's the phone number seven one three 1937 01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:17.319 six six six seventeen forty four. All right, well, you 1938 01:47:17.399 --> 01:47:20.720 are listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. 1939 01:47:20.920 --> 01:47:23.079 If you have got some gardening questions you would like 1940 01:47:23.199 --> 01:47:25.399 to talk about, give me a call. Seven one three 1941 01:47:25.560 --> 01:47:29.039 two one two KTRH seven one three two one two 1942 01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:31.880 k t RH. I was talking about some myths and 1943 01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:36.119 talking about pruning crape myrtles earlier and someone had asked 1944 01:47:36.159 --> 01:47:38.920 for a little more detail on that. Uh So let's 1945 01:47:38.960 --> 01:47:40.920 just do it this way. A crpe myrtle can be 1946 01:47:41.159 --> 01:47:45.039 a multi trunked tree or it can be a single 1947 01:47:45.079 --> 01:47:47.399 trunk tree. You don't see a lot of single trunk 1948 01:47:47.479 --> 01:47:49.680 crape myrtles out there, but you can do that, and 1949 01:47:50.199 --> 01:47:53.000 you can purchase them that way too. That way you 1950 01:47:53.079 --> 01:47:55.359 have a single trunk and then it opens up into 1951 01:47:55.439 --> 01:47:59.439 a beautiful little small tree. Uh, the multi stemmed is 1952 01:47:59.520 --> 01:48:02.399 more common. And then typically you start off with three trunks. 1953 01:48:02.960 --> 01:48:05.560 No magic to any number, but three trunks are just 1954 01:48:05.640 --> 01:48:09.079 an example. You start off with those three trunks, and 1955 01:48:09.479 --> 01:48:13.279 then as they come up, allow each one to fork 1956 01:48:13.520 --> 01:48:17.199 into two. So what started off as three trunks may 1957 01:48:17.319 --> 01:48:21.039 becomes five or six trunks as the different trunks are 1958 01:48:21.039 --> 01:48:25.039 beginning to branch, and then those branches will fork, and 1959 01:48:25.199 --> 01:48:28.119 so you just kind of picture you're building this candelabra 1960 01:48:28.319 --> 01:48:31.359 of a structure with this crape myrtle by pruning it 1961 01:48:31.680 --> 01:48:34.359 from the time it's young. Now, if you've got one 1962 01:48:34.439 --> 01:48:37.039 that you didn't prune early, you can get the saw 1963 01:48:37.159 --> 01:48:40.560 out and fix it now that way, But it's always 1964 01:48:40.640 --> 01:48:44.439 better to start earlier. I like to say. I'll put 1965 01:48:44.439 --> 01:48:47.239 it this way. You need to do all your crpe 1966 01:48:47.279 --> 01:48:50.399 myrtle pruning with hand pruners, and if you can't with 1967 01:48:50.479 --> 01:48:53.880 hand pruners, then maybe loppers, but not with a saw. 1968 01:48:55.159 --> 01:48:57.720 If you get to a saw stage, you've let things 1969 01:48:57.760 --> 01:49:00.600 go way too far. But the idea is to do 1970 01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:03.319 what we call thinning cuts instead of just stubbing things 1971 01:49:03.359 --> 01:49:05.560 off so they look like the end of a broom handle. 1972 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:08.319 If you've got a branch, I say that it's going 1973 01:49:08.399 --> 01:49:10.600 in the wrong direction, or it's going too tall, and 1974 01:49:10.680 --> 01:49:12.840 you want to cut it back. Drop down that branch 1975 01:49:12.920 --> 01:49:16.039 to where there's a side branch, and cut the tall 1976 01:49:16.119 --> 01:49:18.920 branch off right above the side branch. So think of 1977 01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:21.079 it as a highway. It just directs the traffic out 1978 01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:24.119 that side branch and you can build a beautiful structure 1979 01:49:24.199 --> 01:49:28.119 that way. You don't have to prune crape myrtles. A 1980 01:49:28.199 --> 01:49:30.720 little training as it's growing is what you need to do. 1981 01:49:30.880 --> 01:49:30.960 Now. 1982 01:49:30.960 --> 01:49:32.680 If you want to get up there later and pune 1983 01:49:32.720 --> 01:49:36.000 a bunch of twiggy stuff out, go for it. Good luck. 1984 01:49:36.920 --> 01:49:40.159 But it is just not really necessary. When you buy 1985 01:49:40.199 --> 01:49:42.279 a crape myrtle, buy one that gets the size you 1986 01:49:42.399 --> 01:49:45.000 want it to be. That's what you need to do, 1987 01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:47.279 all right. I'm gonna take a little break here. When 1988 01:49:47.399 --> 01:49:50.399 we come back, I will go to Bruce and Lagrange 1989 01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:53.600 and Lynn and West Houston, and good to have you 1990 01:49:53.800 --> 01:49:58.079 with us. Thanks for listening in today. You know Nelson 1991 01:49:58.359 --> 01:50:02.119 plant Food has a proce that called Turfstar carbal Load 1992 01:50:02.239 --> 01:50:04.560 turf Star is a line of fertilizers for your long 1993 01:50:04.720 --> 01:50:08.279 turf Star by Nelson. Carbo Load is a product that 1994 01:50:08.439 --> 01:50:14.279 contains a fall fertilizer blend ideal blend for fall. Actually 1995 01:50:14.399 --> 01:50:17.079 got good load of potassium in it, which is important 1996 01:50:17.119 --> 01:50:20.840 for cold heartiness, and it has a pre emergent herbicide 1997 01:50:20.880 --> 01:50:22.600 in it. So what you do is you put it 1998 01:50:22.640 --> 01:50:24.520 out and you water it in. Watered in with about 1999 01:50:24.520 --> 01:50:26.840 a half inch of water. But do it right away 2000 01:50:27.079 --> 01:50:30.079 because neither the fertilizer does any good nor the pre 2001 01:50:30.199 --> 01:50:32.520 emergent does any good until you get it in the soil. 2002 01:50:32.560 --> 01:50:34.319 So you got to water it in. That's true of 2003 01:50:34.399 --> 01:50:38.600 all fertilizers and all pre emergents. So anyway, carbo Load 2004 01:50:38.960 --> 01:50:41.520 a forty pound bag covers five thousand square feet. It's 2005 01:50:41.520 --> 01:50:45.479 an excellent product, but don't delay get that done now. 2006 01:50:45.600 --> 01:50:47.119 This is kind of a I guess I'll say it 2007 01:50:47.199 --> 01:50:49.000 this way. It's a last call for getting that fall 2008 01:50:49.039 --> 01:50:51.880 fertilization down. We need to get that wrapped up before 2009 01:50:51.920 --> 01:50:54.840 we get the end this month, that's for sure. Carbo 2010 01:50:54.920 --> 01:50:58.279 Load from Nelson Plant Food one of many quality products 2011 01:50:58.319 --> 01:51:02.199 from the folks at Nelson. A head now out to Lagrange, 2012 01:51:02.239 --> 01:51:04.880 Texas and talk to Bruce. Hey Bruce, welcome to garden Line. 2013 01:51:06.039 --> 01:51:08.520 Hey Skip, thanks for taking a call. I just wander 2014 01:51:08.600 --> 01:51:10.840 and mind everybody that now is the time to put 2015 01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:15.079 out seeds so you get a good flower crop. Uh, 2016 01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:18.520 you know, across the winter and in the spring. My favorite, 2017 01:51:18.920 --> 01:51:22.560 because I'm a beekeeper, is Turner Sea Company. It's a 2018 01:51:22.680 --> 01:51:26.079 family company in Texas, and the beauty of it is 2019 01:51:26.279 --> 01:51:28.840 you can get on the website and pick any type 2020 01:51:28.880 --> 01:51:32.159 of mix of seeds that you're interested in, and they 2021 01:51:32.239 --> 01:51:36.039 will give you any amount. They'll package up small orders, 2022 01:51:36.079 --> 01:51:36.600 big order. 2023 01:51:36.600 --> 01:51:40.359 All right, all right, Bruce. I appreciate you letting the 2024 01:51:40.399 --> 01:51:42.119 word out there. I don't want to turn it into 2025 01:51:42.119 --> 01:51:44.359 a commercial, but it is a good time to plant 2026 01:51:44.640 --> 01:51:48.720 for the wallflowers and things like that, and uh, yeah, 2027 01:51:48.840 --> 01:51:51.760 don't delay. That's a good point. Did you have a 2028 01:51:51.880 --> 01:51:52.479 question down? 2029 01:51:53.359 --> 01:51:55.960 Yes, sir? Uh did I do this right? I'm gonna 2030 01:51:55.960 --> 01:51:59.720 put down fall clover, Paul intermix and something called a 2031 01:51:59.720 --> 01:52:02.520 store which is supposed to be a lot of cuts 2032 01:52:02.640 --> 01:52:06.920 hours and now it's the time to put it out, correct. 2033 01:52:09.199 --> 01:52:13.279 Yeah. It follows a good time to plant for the 2034 01:52:13.399 --> 01:52:15.680 earlier in the fall. The better, but you could still 2035 01:52:15.720 --> 01:52:16.479 plant most of that. 2036 01:52:17.720 --> 01:52:20.279 Okay, And I guess the other one is just bare ground. 2037 01:52:20.399 --> 01:52:23.439 Find the bare ground, sprinkle the seeds, and scratch it 2038 01:52:23.520 --> 01:52:24.000 in with a rate. 2039 01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:28.119 All right, sir, Hey, thanks for the call. I appreciate 2040 01:52:28.199 --> 01:52:29.560 that I might have to run. I got a line 2041 01:52:29.640 --> 01:52:32.720 up here. But let's see here. We're going to go 2042 01:52:32.840 --> 01:52:34.560 now to West Houston. Talk to Lynn. 2043 01:52:34.760 --> 01:52:38.800 Hey, Lynn, Hi, this is Lynn in West u And 2044 01:52:38.960 --> 01:52:42.760 I'm actually laughing because I called in to ask when 2045 01:52:42.840 --> 01:52:45.159 to plant zennias seeds, and I was just listening to 2046 01:52:45.279 --> 01:52:47.399 Bruce go on and on about put him in now, 2047 01:52:47.479 --> 01:52:48.119 put him in now? 2048 01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:53.199 So when do I not as zenas? Yeah? Not as 2049 01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:55.439 zenny as though, No zenny As. You're gonna plant in 2050 01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:57.800 the spring, when we get past the danger of frost. 2051 01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:00.720 So let's get at least in early. 2052 01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:01.720 March or late February. 2053 01:53:02.920 --> 01:53:05.760 Oh yeah, well I wouldn't do it in February. I'd 2054 01:53:05.760 --> 01:53:08.239 do it in March, you know, March or Aprilly. The 2055 01:53:08.279 --> 01:53:10.159 one would be good for planting zenies. I mean, you 2056 01:53:10.159 --> 01:53:13.560 can continue to plant them, but it's my walkway. 2057 01:53:13.600 --> 01:53:15.359 I have a lot of perennials that have a lot 2058 01:53:15.399 --> 01:53:18.960 of green, beautiful green foliage. And I saw this big 2059 01:53:19.079 --> 01:53:21.319 article inside of Living about how easy it is to 2060 01:53:21.399 --> 01:53:23.600 grow zenias, so I thought, well, maybe I can just 2061 01:53:23.840 --> 01:53:25.600 you know, seed some of those in in between the 2062 01:53:25.640 --> 01:53:27.520 green foliage and it'll look nice for summer. 2063 01:53:29.000 --> 01:53:32.479 Is this like a stone walkway, No, it's. 2064 01:53:32.520 --> 01:53:33.800 It's a planet walkway. 2065 01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:34.640 You know. 2066 01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:37.760 I have about two feet wide of like where my 2067 01:53:37.840 --> 01:53:41.079 amaryllis are, and two barrows and you know, things that 2068 01:53:41.199 --> 01:53:43.239 have a lot of foliage after the flowers are gone. 2069 01:53:44.600 --> 01:53:47.560 I see, okay, yeah, you could scatter some zenias and there. 2070 01:53:47.680 --> 01:53:51.439 Zennias come in mini types. There's a short, compact types 2071 01:53:51.479 --> 01:53:53.319 that are more of a bedding plant, and then there's 2072 01:53:53.359 --> 01:53:59.680 a tall cut flower types. So they're easy. Yeah they are. 2073 01:54:00.359 --> 01:54:02.439 And then you get cut flowers. That's a cool thing. 2074 01:54:02.520 --> 01:54:03.880 Yeah, and thank you so much. 2075 01:54:03.920 --> 01:54:04.640 I love your show. 2076 01:54:06.159 --> 01:54:08.920 Thanks Lynn. I appreciate your call. Appreciate that very much. 2077 01:54:10.159 --> 01:54:14.640 The arbor Gate has turned into a Christmas wonderland. I'm 2078 01:54:14.680 --> 01:54:17.079 telling you you've got to see it. Take your family 2079 01:54:17.119 --> 01:54:20.359 out there and see it. In fact, Arbitgate's a great 2080 01:54:20.439 --> 01:54:24.039 place for your holiday tradition of choosing the perfect, freshest 2081 01:54:24.359 --> 01:54:28.000 Christmas tree available. They just got in their freshly cut 2082 01:54:28.479 --> 01:54:31.840 Frasier for Christmas trees from the Blue Ridge Mountains, and 2083 01:54:31.920 --> 01:54:35.760 I'm telling you the fragrance is incredible. They bring in 2084 01:54:37.239 --> 01:54:40.319 just I'll just the freshest Christmas trees you're gonna be 2085 01:54:40.319 --> 01:54:44.039 able to get at the Arborgate freshly cut. Now, I'm 2086 01:54:44.039 --> 01:54:45.920 going to give you some a date that's very important. 2087 01:54:45.960 --> 01:54:48.920 Fact two dates. Santa and Missus Claus are coming to 2088 01:54:49.000 --> 01:54:52.439 the arbor Gate on Sunday, December first from one to 2089 01:54:52.600 --> 01:54:57.359 five pm. Sunday December first, one to five pm. If 2090 01:54:57.359 --> 01:55:02.079 you can't make that, they'll be back on Thursday December fifth, 2091 01:55:02.800 --> 01:55:08.399 ten am to two pm. Sunday December first, Thursday December 2092 01:55:08.479 --> 01:55:10.399 fifth to two pm. So here's what you need to. 2093 01:55:10.560 --> 01:55:12.640 Go to the website. Go to the Arburgate website and 2094 01:55:12.920 --> 01:55:15.600 just check out the dates and things on there. You 2095 01:55:15.680 --> 01:55:17.239 need to bring the kids of course, you need to 2096 01:55:17.319 --> 01:55:20.119 remember your camera or these days that means bring your phone. 2097 01:55:20.560 --> 01:55:23.560 And yes, pets are welcome too. We just don't need them, 2098 01:55:23.880 --> 01:55:25.680 you know. They just need to behave so that they 2099 01:55:25.760 --> 01:55:29.199 don't mess with Senna and Missus Claus. Right, otherwise you're 2100 01:55:29.239 --> 01:55:33.319 going to get a stocking full of coal for Christmas. 2101 01:55:34.319 --> 01:55:36.079 When you go to the Arborgate. Now you're going to 2102 01:55:36.119 --> 01:55:38.439 step into a winter wonderland. Oh my gosh. The gift 2103 01:55:38.479 --> 01:55:41.760 shops are decked with holiday trimmings and gifts and decor. 2104 01:55:42.600 --> 01:55:46.119 It's unbelievable. And here's a really special treat. Listen to this. 2105 01:55:46.920 --> 01:55:50.239 You get your garland, your swags, your wreaths, your bows, 2106 01:55:50.520 --> 01:55:53.239 get all that at the arbor Gate. They're experts will 2107 01:55:53.319 --> 01:55:57.359 design and assemble them formed for you, complimentary, no charge. 2108 01:55:58.039 --> 01:56:00.239 So you go there and if you want to really 2109 01:56:00.399 --> 01:56:03.159 deck out your house in a in a wild way, 2110 01:56:03.399 --> 01:56:07.399 you know, people walk and go wow. Go get your garland, swags, 2111 01:56:07.439 --> 01:56:09.960 wreathed bows at the Arborgate. Let them design them, let 2112 01:56:10.039 --> 01:56:12.680 them assemble them before you, and you're ready to go. 2113 01:56:12.960 --> 01:56:18.119 Everything you need to have a magical, unforgettable Christmas season. 2114 01:56:18.199 --> 01:56:20.079 You just got to go see the magic that they've 2115 01:56:20.159 --> 01:56:22.600 created there at the arbor Gate. Remember, go down Trishel 2116 01:56:22.720 --> 01:56:25.720 Road before or after Arburgate to swing around the back. 2117 01:56:25.880 --> 01:56:28.800 There's a sign there takes you right into the parking 2118 01:56:28.880 --> 01:56:31.600 lot for the easiest, safest access you can have at 2119 01:56:31.600 --> 01:56:35.439 the arbor Gate. I'm going to head now and talk 2120 01:56:35.560 --> 01:56:38.479 to Kent Hey Kent. I think I squeezed in here 2121 01:56:38.600 --> 01:56:41.159 for we run out of time. How can we help today? 2122 01:56:42.079 --> 01:56:46.279 Good morning, sir. I'm calling from Kingwood and my yard 2123 01:56:46.439 --> 01:56:49.359 does not have Yes, sir, you were out here about 2124 01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:51.680 two weeks ago. We got to visit with you out 2125 01:56:51.720 --> 01:56:54.680 at the out at the Wildbird's Unlimited. Thank you for 2126 01:56:54.840 --> 01:56:55.359 visiting a. 2127 01:56:55.399 --> 01:56:58.319 Great wilbird store. Yeah, yeah, good. 2128 01:57:00.399 --> 01:57:04.319 Our yard does not have much sunlight. There's a lot 2129 01:57:04.399 --> 01:57:08.199 of trees around, and I have been trying to go 2130 01:57:08.359 --> 01:57:13.359 with an organic make it an organic fertilizing schedule, but 2131 01:57:13.479 --> 01:57:16.479 I'm a poor schedule follower, so I'm behind in it, 2132 01:57:17.880 --> 01:57:22.560 and I know that I'm about a month past where 2133 01:57:22.600 --> 01:57:25.159 according to your schedule, a month passed where I need 2134 01:57:25.239 --> 01:57:29.720 to put on the organic. But I'm only a couple 2135 01:57:29.760 --> 01:57:34.960 of weeks past where I should put on synthetic. So okay, 2136 01:57:35.000 --> 01:57:37.760 should I put on synthetic and then back when it 2137 01:57:37.840 --> 01:57:40.760 gets spring rolls around, get back into the organic part, 2138 01:57:41.119 --> 01:57:43.520 or say the heck with it and put on an organic. 2139 01:57:43.680 --> 01:57:49.000 Now you can do either one. That I moved the 2140 01:57:49.199 --> 01:57:51.880 organic a little earlier, and the reason I did that 2141 01:57:52.880 --> 01:57:57.960 is because an organic product gets microbily broken down into 2142 01:57:58.079 --> 01:58:00.920 the nutrients that the grass plant takes up, and so 2143 01:58:01.039 --> 01:58:02.520 I was giving it a little bit of a head 2144 01:58:02.560 --> 01:58:04.760 start there. It's not what you would call a true 2145 01:58:04.840 --> 01:58:07.640 slow release, you know, where it's going to extend for months, 2146 01:58:08.319 --> 01:58:11.159 but it has to go through that process. But there's 2147 01:58:11.239 --> 01:58:13.800 not a problem if you haven't done it, go ahead 2148 01:58:13.800 --> 01:58:16.600 and do it, get it down. It will benefit the soil, 2149 01:58:17.159 --> 01:58:20.720 and I would just get that done, but just in 2150 01:58:20.840 --> 01:58:22.720 the future, you know, put it on the calendar to 2151 01:58:23.199 --> 01:58:25.239 get done a little bit earlier. You get more benefit 2152 01:58:25.319 --> 01:58:28.159 if you do it earlier. Got it, But there's not 2153 01:58:28.279 --> 01:58:29.560 a problem with going either way. 2154 01:58:30.119 --> 01:58:33.760 Yeah, should ill also be putting down the barricade or 2155 01:58:33.840 --> 01:58:36.560 something like that now also, well. 2156 01:58:37.079 --> 01:58:39.640 You can, but again you know, we're putting it out 2157 01:58:39.680 --> 01:58:43.880 to prevent weed seeds from germinating. So if you already 2158 01:58:43.920 --> 01:58:45.439 are full of weed seed, it's not going to kill 2159 01:58:45.479 --> 01:58:48.600 the weeds that are growing. It would prevent them from germanying. 2160 01:58:48.720 --> 01:58:51.960 So if you put it down now any weeds that 2161 01:58:52.079 --> 01:58:54.800 would and they'll continue to germinate through the cool season. 2162 01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:57.199 But if you have other weeds that are coming up, 2163 01:58:57.279 --> 01:59:01.960 it will prevent those missed any system. But if you 2164 01:59:02.079 --> 01:59:03.840 go on ahead and get it down watered in it 2165 01:59:03.920 --> 01:59:04.319 can do that. 2166 01:59:05.439 --> 01:59:07.840 Okay, okay, thanks a lot, skiff. 2167 01:59:07.880 --> 01:59:12.000 I appreciate sir, all right, thank you, appreciate the college. 2168 01:59:12.279 --> 01:59:16.960 Good to see out there in Kingwck. All right, folks, 2169 01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:19.720 I hear music. That means we're going to take a 2170 01:59:19.720 --> 01:59:22.279 little top of the hour break. Guess what we're entering 2171 01:59:22.399 --> 01:59:24.680 our last hour. So if you want to call a 2172 01:59:24.720 --> 01:59:27.760 garden line today, this next hour is your chance to 2173 01:59:27.920 --> 01:59:30.399 do just that. Our phone number seven one three two 2174 01:59:30.479 --> 01:59:34.560 one two kt r H seven to one three two 2175 01:59:34.680 --> 01:59:38.000 one two k t r A. Try and squeeze it 2176 01:59:38.079 --> 01:59:40.199 in here. As we come back, I'm gonna talk a 2177 01:59:40.239 --> 01:59:43.960 little bit about some more myths of gardening, some of 2178 01:59:44.000 --> 01:59:46.439 the things that you know. We've kind of all words 2179 01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:49.479 he's always heard or seen me that may not be true. 2180 01:59:49.520 --> 01:59:52.800 Who was it said? It's not that I don't know that, potters. 2181 01:59:52.880 --> 02:00:10.800 Now it's what I know that ain't so well, Welcome 2182 02:00:10.840 --> 02:00:13.039 back to garden Line. Oh my gosh, I just took 2183 02:00:13.039 --> 02:00:15.119 a look at the boards. All right, we've got some 2184 02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:18.359 work to do. We will get on that here. I 2185 02:00:18.600 --> 02:00:20.680 want to tell you, though, if you are looking for 2186 02:00:20.800 --> 02:00:25.720 anything for your yard, garden, for that outdoor special space 2187 02:00:25.960 --> 02:00:30.079 for the indoor decorations of the holidays, for lighting, for gifts. 2188 02:00:30.680 --> 02:00:33.279 ACE Hardware is the place, and I've been telling you 2189 02:00:33.359 --> 02:00:35.800 all year. ACE is a place for your fertilizers, and 2190 02:00:35.960 --> 02:00:39.000 your weak control, and your pest control, your disease control. 2191 02:00:39.600 --> 02:00:41.840 It's the place for the tools as you need to 2192 02:00:41.880 --> 02:00:44.760 get the job done. But ACE Hardware is the place 2193 02:00:44.920 --> 02:00:48.279 for anything that you need to create a more livable, 2194 02:00:48.359 --> 02:00:53.199 beautiful space outside the patio, the barbecue pits, the strings 2195 02:00:53.239 --> 02:00:56.439 of lights, all of that kind of thing, and indoors 2196 02:00:56.479 --> 02:00:58.880 as well. And it's an awesome place for gift giving 2197 02:00:58.920 --> 02:01:00.800 if you've got to do it yourself. For in your list, 2198 02:01:01.159 --> 02:01:03.279 who could use a power tool or a really high 2199 02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:06.600 quality tool of any type, ACE is a place for that. 2200 02:01:06.840 --> 02:01:09.159 If you're looking for gifts for the kitchen, for the 2201 02:01:09.239 --> 02:01:12.439 home decorations, ACE is the place with that. All you 2202 02:01:12.479 --> 02:01:14.199 got to do is go to ACE Hardware dot Com. 2203 02:01:14.560 --> 02:01:17.880 Store locator is there on the site. It'll help you 2204 02:01:18.000 --> 02:01:20.520 find the forty plus stores that are here in the 2205 02:01:20.560 --> 02:01:23.800 Greater Houston area. ACE is truly the place for that. 2206 02:01:24.800 --> 02:01:26.960 Alrighty here, I'm gonna just I guess I'm gonna start 2207 02:01:27.000 --> 02:01:28.640 off at the top of the list. Here, We're gonna 2208 02:01:28.640 --> 02:01:31.319 go to Pearland and talk to Roy. Hey, Roy, welcome 2209 02:01:31.359 --> 02:01:33.880 to garden Line. O, good morning, Skip, thank you. 2210 02:01:34.760 --> 02:01:36.880 Yes, sir, I have two pine trees that are infested 2211 02:01:36.960 --> 02:01:38.159 with the pine board beetles. 2212 02:01:38.359 --> 02:01:40.960 Is any any way to save them? Or is it 2213 02:01:41.079 --> 02:01:42.399 just pretty much they need. 2214 02:01:42.359 --> 02:01:42.960 To be cut down? 2215 02:01:44.079 --> 02:01:46.279 U tell me when you look at the trunks, where 2216 02:01:46.279 --> 02:01:48.079 do you see the gloves of sap? Are they like 2217 02:01:48.159 --> 02:01:50.199 from eight foot down or are they all all the 2218 02:01:50.239 --> 02:01:51.840 way up far up the tree? 2219 02:01:52.319 --> 02:01:54.199 As far as I can see, they're pretty high up 2220 02:01:54.239 --> 02:01:55.399 as far as I can see up. 2221 02:01:55.720 --> 02:02:00.920 Okay, yeah, when once there's the five different kinds to 2222 02:02:01.000 --> 02:02:04.520 my knowledge, five different kinds of mark beetles on pines 2223 02:02:04.600 --> 02:02:08.159 here in our area. And most of the time when 2224 02:02:08.199 --> 02:02:11.319 they occur, the damage is so extensive that the tree 2225 02:02:11.359 --> 02:02:14.439 will never recover and usually dies pretty quickly, especially when 2226 02:02:14.439 --> 02:02:18.119 the weather's warm and the demands are high. You might 2227 02:02:18.239 --> 02:02:20.760 want to have Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree come 2228 02:02:20.800 --> 02:02:23.479 out and take a look at them and see if 2229 02:02:23.520 --> 02:02:26.279 they can be saved, if what we assume it is 2230 02:02:26.600 --> 02:02:30.600 is what it truly is, and advise you on anything 2231 02:02:30.760 --> 02:02:32.720 like that. But that would be That would be my 2232 02:02:32.840 --> 02:02:34.960 two cents on it. I don't think you're going to 2233 02:02:35.000 --> 02:02:37.600 save them, but it something that valuable is worth. The 2234 02:02:37.680 --> 02:02:40.880 second opinion from someone who's standing there looking at them, 2235 02:02:41.920 --> 02:02:43.760 is there any way to protect the other ones that 2236 02:02:43.840 --> 02:02:48.199 I had? Yeah, that would be one that Martin could 2237 02:02:48.199 --> 02:02:50.840 tell you you can use. There are sprays you can use, 2238 02:02:50.920 --> 02:02:53.880 but you got to hit about eighty percent of the 2239 02:02:53.960 --> 02:02:57.800 height of the tree, the trunk from all sides, getting 2240 02:02:57.840 --> 02:03:00.319 it in the in the nooks and crannies, and you 2241 02:03:00.359 --> 02:03:02.119 can't just spray the bottom of the tree or put 2242 02:03:02.159 --> 02:03:06.680 something on the ground that goes up in and kills everything. Okay, 2243 02:03:07.119 --> 02:03:10.720 all right, well, thank you for your help. All right, sir, 2244 02:03:10.880 --> 02:03:12.600 Sorry to be the bearer bad news on that one. 2245 02:03:12.880 --> 02:03:15.720 We're gonna now go to Jesse. Hey, Jesse, welcome to 2246 02:03:15.800 --> 02:03:19.199 garden Line. Thank you, skip Hey. I got a question 2247 02:03:19.399 --> 02:03:20.079 on my yard. 2248 02:03:20.199 --> 02:03:23.880 On October the twenty first, I did the Texas Street 2249 02:03:24.079 --> 02:03:30.439 three step and a bag for different kind of worms 2250 02:03:30.520 --> 02:03:31.840 and bugs and stuff like that. 2251 02:03:32.039 --> 02:03:32.920 We went out of town. 2252 02:03:33.560 --> 02:03:35.960 We just got back and I'm looking at my yard. 2253 02:03:36.560 --> 02:03:41.960 Probably about one third it's different patches. It's nothing's completely round, 2254 02:03:42.039 --> 02:03:46.000 it's just all different shapes. It looks like straw, and 2255 02:03:46.159 --> 02:03:48.840 it was nice until when I left down with Sten 2256 02:03:49.399 --> 02:03:51.039 and I can go out there and I can pull 2257 02:03:51.119 --> 02:03:54.079 it up. It pulls up real easy, and the bottom 2258 02:03:54.159 --> 02:03:57.800 of it looks like a dark brownish black mole type. 2259 02:03:58.039 --> 02:04:02.600 Yeah, what about means? Okay, that's well, it's it is 2260 02:04:02.680 --> 02:04:05.359 what we call brown patch. The new name is actually 2261 02:04:05.560 --> 02:04:09.199 large patch that the scientists use for it. But it 2262 02:04:09.560 --> 02:04:12.720 rots the leaves off the runner and it happens fast, 2263 02:04:13.039 --> 02:04:16.359 like you described. The good news is the runners are 2264 02:04:16.399 --> 02:04:19.439 still alive and when the weather warms up, they'll they'll 2265 02:04:19.479 --> 02:04:22.199 push out fresh new leaves. So it's not killing anything. 2266 02:04:22.359 --> 02:04:24.439 Just makes it look bad, and you can't change that 2267 02:04:25.199 --> 02:04:27.479 because the weather's cooling off and the grass didn't want 2268 02:04:27.479 --> 02:04:29.479 to grow to put new leaves out until it warms 2269 02:04:29.560 --> 02:04:32.359 up a little bit. So it's a matter of at 2270 02:04:32.399 --> 02:04:34.279 this point, you know, just kind of living with it 2271 02:04:34.640 --> 02:04:38.239 and knowing that it is not killing your grass. It's 2272 02:04:38.439 --> 02:04:41.199 just it's just done its damage and the grass will 2273 02:04:41.239 --> 02:04:45.359 recover in time. Okay, So I don't need to do anything, 2274 02:04:47.000 --> 02:04:49.239 not really. I mean, you can put out a fungicide 2275 02:04:49.560 --> 02:04:53.800 to fight it, but you know, what's what's rotted, is rotted, 2276 02:04:54.000 --> 02:04:57.239 and it and again warm weather and time is what's 2277 02:04:57.279 --> 02:05:00.119 going to make it look good again. Now, if you had, uh, 2278 02:05:00.399 --> 02:05:02.159 if you had a few spots and you had a 2279 02:05:02.199 --> 02:05:05.560 whole yard that wasn't damaged, well you could spray it 2280 02:05:05.720 --> 02:05:10.239 to prevent additional spots from happening with the fung side. 2281 02:05:10.680 --> 02:05:15.119 But from what I'm hearing from you, it sounds pretty extensive, okay. 2282 02:05:16.119 --> 02:05:18.439 Yeah, and the grass seems pretty witch so I may 2283 02:05:18.479 --> 02:05:20.479 have been over over water in it too. 2284 02:05:22.079 --> 02:05:25.680 That is the one of the main overwatering and overfertilizing 2285 02:05:25.760 --> 02:05:29.479 with nitrogen. When we get into cooler temperatures, that really 2286 02:05:29.560 --> 02:05:32.920 sets things up for the brown patch. Yeah, so kind 2287 02:05:32.920 --> 02:05:35.600 of back off that you shouldn't need to. You're pretty 2288 02:05:35.680 --> 02:05:38.000 much the point of not needing to water again this winter. 2289 02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:43.239 Maybe once more, but probably probably not. Okay, thanks a lot, Jesse, 2290 02:05:43.399 --> 02:05:48.119 appreciate appreciate that call very much. Hey, Warrens Southern Garden 2291 02:05:48.159 --> 02:05:50.840 and Kingwood Garden Centers out there in Kingwood, Texas, and 2292 02:05:51.319 --> 02:05:54.199 you're fortunate to have them both. Warrens is on North 2293 02:05:54.520 --> 02:05:57.960 Park Driving, Kingwood, Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow by 2294 02:05:57.960 --> 02:06:00.680 the way. For the rest of this month the Kingwood 2295 02:06:00.680 --> 02:06:05.760 Garden Center Gift Shop forty percent off of all kinds 2296 02:06:05.840 --> 02:06:09.880 of things, nice gifts, nice nice things for your own home. 2297 02:06:10.520 --> 02:06:13.920 They're at Kingwood Garden Center now Warren Southern Gardens. They 2298 02:06:14.199 --> 02:06:16.800 as always are stocked up with everything you would expect 2299 02:06:16.840 --> 02:06:19.239 for the holidays. You know, the kind of decorative plants 2300 02:06:19.279 --> 02:06:24.399 we want for the holidays. We're talking about the kinds 2301 02:06:24.439 --> 02:06:27.920 of Christmas cacti and point sets and all those kinds 2302 02:06:27.960 --> 02:06:31.000 of things that you want to have for your beautiful 2303 02:06:31.079 --> 02:06:38.319 indoor decorations. Certainly the outdoor decorations like the pansies and 2304 02:06:38.479 --> 02:06:42.560 violas and things like that, they're all available there. It 2305 02:06:42.680 --> 02:06:46.119 makes it easy easy. I love going out there to visit. 2306 02:06:46.239 --> 02:06:49.199 It's a great place, by the way, very very nice 2307 02:06:49.239 --> 02:06:52.279 place to get out to find all your color and 2308 02:06:52.359 --> 02:06:54.720 to have success with the plants that you're going to grow. 2309 02:06:56.520 --> 02:06:56.640 They. 2310 02:06:56.720 --> 02:06:58.560 Oh, by the way, they also have Christmas trees in 2311 02:06:58.680 --> 02:07:02.439 and they got bulbs into out at Warren's Southern Gardens. 2312 02:07:02.479 --> 02:07:04.319 You need to go check those out. The point setus 2313 02:07:04.399 --> 02:07:07.960 are stunning. You'll see point set of colors and you're going, 2314 02:07:08.239 --> 02:07:13.000 I didn't know they came in that shade. They're pretty cool. Well, 2315 02:07:13.279 --> 02:07:14.880 I'm gonna have to take a little break here. It 2316 02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:19.000 is time for me to do so when we come back. 2317 02:07:19.640 --> 02:07:23.239 Let's see, we've got Claudia, Matt and Alicia. You will 2318 02:07:23.279 --> 02:07:26.359 be our first ones up when we get back. In 2319 02:07:26.439 --> 02:07:28.359 the meantime, if you'd like to give us a call 2320 02:07:28.479 --> 02:07:31.239 seven to one three two one two K t r 2321 02:07:31.479 --> 02:07:35.840 H seven one three two one two K t our Age. 2322 02:07:36.199 --> 02:07:39.600 I will be right back. Folks. Let's see, I want 2323 02:07:39.680 --> 02:07:41.399 to talk to about D and D Feed. You know, 2324 02:07:41.479 --> 02:07:43.479 D and D Feed is on the west side of Tomball. 2325 02:07:43.520 --> 02:07:46.680 It's your hometown feed store up there. It's about twenty 2326 02:07:46.800 --> 02:07:50.079 nine twenty about three miles west to two forty nine. 2327 02:07:50.760 --> 02:07:52.840 The Dover family opened up D and D back and 2328 02:07:52.960 --> 02:07:56.079 I believe it was nineteen eighty nine, and the store 2329 02:07:56.199 --> 02:07:58.960 just keeps getting better. They expanded it a while back. 2330 02:08:00.000 --> 02:08:01.760 It's a good stock of all kinds of things. When 2331 02:08:01.800 --> 02:08:04.800 you walk in there, you're gonna see it's gonna be 2332 02:08:04.920 --> 02:08:08.159 like you walked into where you get garden line stuff 2333 02:08:08.560 --> 02:08:12.560 and nitropos and microlife and Nelson turf Star and Medina 2334 02:08:12.640 --> 02:08:16.760 and heirloom soils and Nelson a lot of different Nelson 2335 02:08:16.880 --> 02:08:20.479 products as well. Landscaper's Pride is in there as well, 2336 02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:24.640 and anytime that you're looking for some seasonal plants, they're 2337 02:08:24.640 --> 02:08:26.640 going to have those out front in front of the store. 2338 02:08:27.279 --> 02:08:29.720 Of course, it's a place for livestock feed, but also 2339 02:08:29.840 --> 02:08:32.439 for really high quality dog food, high end lines like 2340 02:08:32.600 --> 02:08:37.159 Origin and Diamond and Victor and Star Pro, no matter 2341 02:08:37.239 --> 02:08:40.039 what you're going after the other day, I opened up 2342 02:08:40.079 --> 02:08:44.239 our barbecue pit and underneath the cover some rats had 2343 02:08:44.239 --> 02:08:47.520 gotten in there and chewed up some seeds and left 2344 02:08:47.600 --> 02:08:50.479 some other things that rats lead behind a pretty grossburry 2345 02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:53.520 barbecue pit. Well, D and D Feed. Just head over 2346 02:08:53.560 --> 02:08:55.760 there and get your pest and road and control products. 2347 02:08:56.000 --> 02:08:58.279 They've got those as well. And as we get colder, 2348 02:08:58.840 --> 02:09:01.239 we're going to see rats moving in on different things 2349 02:09:01.359 --> 02:09:04.399 and not where you want them to be. Mosquito dunks, 2350 02:09:04.880 --> 02:09:07.319 you know it. Pretty Much everything you need is there 2351 02:09:07.439 --> 02:09:09.359 at D and D Feed and Supply. Again, they're three 2352 02:09:09.399 --> 02:09:12.520 miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty. 2353 02:09:12.680 --> 02:09:15.439 Everything you would expect in a feed store, and a 2354 02:09:15.600 --> 02:09:18.760 lot lot more, especially for your lawn, your garden, and 2355 02:09:19.199 --> 02:09:23.039 your landscape. I'm going to head out to Texas City 2356 02:09:23.159 --> 02:09:24.079 now and talk to Matt. 2357 02:09:24.239 --> 02:09:28.520 Hello, Matt, hey, skip, how you doing this morning? 2358 02:09:29.760 --> 02:09:31.119 I'm good, sir. What's up? 2359 02:09:32.479 --> 02:09:34.800 So we have a lemon tree at in our backyard 2360 02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:38.239 and it is covered on the backs of the leaves 2361 02:09:38.279 --> 02:09:40.680 with very small white. 2362 02:09:40.640 --> 02:09:41.000 I don't know. 2363 02:09:41.079 --> 02:09:44.159 They look like little moths almost, I mean, and I'm saying, 2364 02:09:44.199 --> 02:09:46.000 it's every single leaf on the whole tree. 2365 02:09:46.960 --> 02:09:47.560 It just got. 2366 02:09:47.600 --> 02:09:49.760 Okays and hundreds of these bugs. 2367 02:09:50.039 --> 02:09:51.000 What can I do for that? 2368 02:09:52.399 --> 02:09:56.239 Yeah? And I assume you're when you mess around, they 2369 02:09:56.319 --> 02:10:01.399 fly off, flutter around way, Yes, they do. Yeah, that's 2370 02:10:01.520 --> 02:10:06.399 called white flies, and white flies are They lay eggs 2371 02:10:06.439 --> 02:10:08.239 that hatch out into a little larva that you don't 2372 02:10:08.279 --> 02:10:11.199 even re see, and then they go into pupa. And 2373 02:10:11.319 --> 02:10:13.760 you'll notice when you look at those leaves you'll see 2374 02:10:13.840 --> 02:10:17.119 some little if you were to take a fish scale 2375 02:10:17.199 --> 02:10:21.159 and shrink it down to a lowercase typed o or smaller, 2376 02:10:21.720 --> 02:10:25.119 that's a pupa from a white fly. They're kind of 2377 02:10:25.640 --> 02:10:31.439 a tannish light green tannish color and they're all on there. 2378 02:10:31.520 --> 02:10:33.479 And so the adults are kind of hard to kill 2379 02:10:33.520 --> 02:10:37.560 because they fly away and the pupa, though, you get 2380 02:10:37.560 --> 02:10:41.119 a good oil application underneath the leaves spray upward from 2381 02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:43.279 under the leaves with an oil, and you'll smother the 2382 02:10:43.359 --> 02:10:46.399 pupa and the larvae and the eggs with that, And 2383 02:10:46.680 --> 02:10:48.760 I think that would be the approach I would take. 2384 02:10:50.079 --> 02:10:54.600 Using stronger insecticides often has secondary effects like killing bugs 2385 02:10:54.640 --> 02:10:57.920 that are controlling the bugs. For us, we call them 2386 02:10:57.960 --> 02:11:01.560 the beneficial insects. So I would probably avoid that on 2387 02:11:01.640 --> 02:11:03.680 the citrus at this point. But I would do the 2388 02:11:03.760 --> 02:11:06.800 oil sprays from upward from underneath the leaves. Just don't 2389 02:11:06.880 --> 02:11:09.920 do that before, let's say, within thirty six hours of 2390 02:11:10.000 --> 02:11:13.640 a freeze. But the white flies should be kind of 2391 02:11:13.680 --> 02:11:16.079 shutting down a little bit, a little bit for winter, 2392 02:11:16.600 --> 02:11:19.279 although our winters are mild enough to where that that 2393 02:11:19.359 --> 02:11:21.920 can be a little bit of an erratic shutdown if 2394 02:11:22.000 --> 02:11:22.520 it happens. 2395 02:11:25.199 --> 02:11:26.520 All right, well, thank you very much. 2396 02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:30.359 Well, all right, good luck with him. You know, on 2397 02:11:30.479 --> 02:11:32.640 guard Line we don't charge for advice. We just asked 2398 02:11:32.680 --> 02:11:34.439 you to bring half of the citrus and drop it 2399 02:11:34.520 --> 02:11:36.560 off at the at the station. 2400 02:11:36.399 --> 02:11:36.920 And we'll call it. 2401 02:11:37.560 --> 02:11:38.079 Thank you, sir. 2402 02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:40.079 Ye bye. 2403 02:11:41.640 --> 02:11:43.720 Bye bye. All right, We're going to go now to 2404 02:11:45.600 --> 02:11:48.720 let's see Alicia in Missouri City. Hey, Alicia, welcome to 2405 02:11:48.760 --> 02:11:49.239 Garden Line. 2406 02:11:50.239 --> 02:11:56.239 Good morning, I'll be live next to a big park 2407 02:11:57.119 --> 02:12:01.359 with lots of trees. There's two eyes of their fans, 2408 02:12:02.960 --> 02:12:07.600 and I'm afraid of termite. Do you think I should 2409 02:12:07.680 --> 02:12:14.880 you sid termite and carpeting and killer to prevent. 2410 02:12:15.439 --> 02:12:20.000 H I don't. I don't think that's probably going to 2411 02:12:20.079 --> 02:12:21.520 do you a lot. First of all, do you know 2412 02:12:21.640 --> 02:12:24.079 that there's termites in the trees or is there. 2413 02:12:25.520 --> 02:12:26.920 You're afraid of them? 2414 02:12:28.439 --> 02:12:33.239 Yeah, well, termites are everywhere. They are in in our 2415 02:12:33.319 --> 02:12:36.960 Houston area. You know, anywhere you got wood that's decomposing 2416 02:12:37.199 --> 02:12:41.279 and things, they can live in that. And then the 2417 02:12:41.600 --> 02:12:44.279 it's but think of all the houses that don't have termites, 2418 02:12:44.359 --> 02:12:46.800 So it's not like because they're in nature, they're going 2419 02:12:46.840 --> 02:12:49.119 to be in your house. The things that are in 2420 02:12:49.239 --> 02:12:53.359 your control to do, Alicia is number one. Make sure 2421 02:12:53.439 --> 02:12:56.920 there's not soil or mulch piled up around the house, 2422 02:12:57.279 --> 02:12:59.720 covering the little If you have bricks, there's this little 2423 02:12:59.760 --> 02:13:03.079 weak call them wheepholes where there's no mortar between the 2424 02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:05.600 big couple of bricks at the very bottom of the wall. 2425 02:13:06.560 --> 02:13:08.760 Don't cover that with mulch because that's an easy way 2426 02:13:08.800 --> 02:13:11.239 for termites to sneak in. Make it where you can 2427 02:13:11.359 --> 02:13:13.119 see them because they have to build a little mud 2428 02:13:13.159 --> 02:13:16.000 tunnel up in there. I would hire a pest control 2429 02:13:16.039 --> 02:13:18.479 operator to come out to inspect your house and to 2430 02:13:18.560 --> 02:13:21.199 do a treatment. And if they do that periodically, that 2431 02:13:21.359 --> 02:13:23.880 is a good protection. Just the fact that there are 2432 02:13:23.920 --> 02:13:28.079 trees around that doesn't worry me, because termites are already everywhere. 2433 02:13:28.600 --> 02:13:30.960 It's just we don't want them to get in our house. 2434 02:13:31.359 --> 02:13:33.479 And to get in our house, they need some moisture 2435 02:13:33.920 --> 02:13:35.680 and they need a way to get in, and usually 2436 02:13:35.720 --> 02:13:37.800 it's through those wheepholes in the brick. So get you 2437 02:13:37.840 --> 02:13:40.479 a good pest control operator to come out and do 2438 02:13:40.560 --> 02:13:41.399 a termite treatment. 2439 02:13:41.439 --> 02:13:44.359 Okay, I will thank you very much. 2440 02:13:45.680 --> 02:13:48.880 All right, you take care. Thank you. I appreciate your 2441 02:13:48.960 --> 02:13:52.279 call very much, that is for sure. You know, the 2442 02:13:52.359 --> 02:13:55.359 folks at Medina have been making quality products for the 2443 02:13:55.399 --> 02:13:58.720 home and garden for many, many years. I think that 2444 02:13:58.920 --> 02:14:01.680 Bedina maybe our oldest sponsor on Guardline, goes way back 2445 02:14:01.760 --> 02:14:05.640 to Do E. Compson, days before we even call the 2446 02:14:05.800 --> 02:14:09.039 show garden Line. Medina was a sponsor and they have 2447 02:14:09.079 --> 02:14:12.880 a number of products. They've got one to call Medina Plus, 2448 02:14:13.000 --> 02:14:18.039 and Medina Plus is fortified with all kinds of essential 2449 02:14:18.359 --> 02:14:20.359 micro nutrients that plants need. 2450 02:14:20.479 --> 02:14:20.600 Now. 2451 02:14:20.800 --> 02:14:23.960 It has Medina soil activator, which has been around for 2452 02:14:24.039 --> 02:14:26.720 a very long time, but it's got over twenty different 2453 02:14:26.760 --> 02:14:29.800 trace elements. It's got some natural growth hormones from seaweed 2454 02:14:29.880 --> 02:14:32.800 extract in it, so it's going to do things like 2455 02:14:33.119 --> 02:14:36.680 help a plant get established. In transplanting. You can use 2456 02:14:36.680 --> 02:14:39.439 it as seed treatments as you're starting seedlings, give them 2457 02:14:39.479 --> 02:14:42.920 a watering in with Medina Plus. You can use it 2458 02:14:43.079 --> 02:14:46.159 to help increase blooming, to increase the growth and the 2459 02:14:46.319 --> 02:14:49.880 fruit set and things like that. It just benefits plants 2460 02:14:49.960 --> 02:14:53.680 in general and all those functions. Medina Plus available in 2461 02:14:53.800 --> 02:14:58.439 many garden centers, many feed stores Southwest Fertilizer for example, 2462 02:14:59.159 --> 02:15:02.720 and certainly hardware stores as well. To find Medina products 2463 02:15:02.920 --> 02:15:06.680 like Medina Plus. If you're gonna do any transplanting this fall, 2464 02:15:07.000 --> 02:15:09.319 and I hope you are, if you're gonna do any 2465 02:15:09.359 --> 02:15:11.760 in the winter or spring, make sure and have Medina 2466 02:15:11.760 --> 02:15:13.479 Plus on hand so you can put in a watering 2467 02:15:13.560 --> 02:15:16.399 can and water in your new transplants to soak that 2468 02:15:16.560 --> 02:15:21.079 root system with the Medina Plus. I'm going to head 2469 02:15:21.119 --> 02:15:23.520 now out to let's see where are we at Katie 2470 02:15:23.720 --> 02:15:26.359 and we're gonna talk to Alan. Hey, Allen, welcome to 2471 02:15:26.399 --> 02:15:26.920 garden Line. 2472 02:15:27.760 --> 02:15:28.479 Well, good morning. 2473 02:15:30.039 --> 02:15:32.159 I have a question and I'm afraid to hear what 2474 02:15:32.239 --> 02:15:34.520 the answer may be to it. So I have a 2475 02:15:35.600 --> 02:15:41.920 golf Beauty plum in the backyard and it is loaded 2476 02:15:42.159 --> 02:15:43.039 with blossoms. 2477 02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:45.239 It's covered snow white. 2478 02:15:45.920 --> 02:15:49.439 My concern is are you going to get a regeneration 2479 02:15:49.800 --> 02:15:53.399 of buds for the spring or am I just lost 2480 02:15:53.479 --> 02:15:54.199 for this next year? 2481 02:15:56.600 --> 02:15:58.640 Pretty much lost. There may be a few buds that 2482 02:15:58.720 --> 02:16:02.279 don't open that open in this bring. So golf Beauty 2483 02:16:02.520 --> 02:16:07.119 is a super low chill plum. So what that means 2484 02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:11.279 is once we've gotten about two hundred and fifty hours 2485 02:16:11.319 --> 02:16:15.600 of chilling, that the buds are set free to bloom 2486 02:16:15.640 --> 02:16:19.600 whenever the weather's warm enough. And we haven't had any 2487 02:16:19.720 --> 02:16:22.800 chilling yet. But what probably happened to your tree is 2488 02:16:23.279 --> 02:16:26.960 other stresses can cause that a lot of times after 2489 02:16:27.119 --> 02:16:30.199 we've had let's say a real hard drought at the 2490 02:16:30.279 --> 02:16:32.959 end of the year. And maybe yet this happens on 2491 02:16:33.079 --> 02:16:36.959 pears probably more than anything. But the leaves kind of 2492 02:16:37.000 --> 02:16:39.200 fall off, it's droughty, and then you water and it 2493 02:16:39.280 --> 02:16:43.520 comes back. It's like that stress is this. It functions 2494 02:16:43.600 --> 02:16:45.680 the same as chilling, and all of a sudden we 2495 02:16:45.760 --> 02:16:48.520 get a fall bloom on our pear trees from that, 2496 02:16:48.719 --> 02:16:51.360 and that has to be what happened to your golf beauty, 2497 02:16:51.879 --> 02:16:54.079 because we haven't had any chilling yet, but it is 2498 02:16:54.159 --> 02:16:57.239 a super low chill. I would let's say you were 2499 02:16:57.319 --> 02:17:01.159 in Katie. You're pretty far north for golf beauty, it 2500 02:17:01.280 --> 02:17:03.600 probably be better to go with something that's going to 2501 02:17:03.639 --> 02:17:07.079 be in the four hundred hour chilling range in order 2502 02:17:07.159 --> 02:17:08.559 to have dependable fruit. 2503 02:17:09.239 --> 02:17:11.360 Or Yeah, it's been in the ground for about three 2504 02:17:11.440 --> 02:17:14.879 years and I've been having some great harvests, but you know, 2505 02:17:15.479 --> 02:17:18.200 every once in a while, every fall, I'll get a 2506 02:17:18.239 --> 02:17:19.799 few blossoms here and there. 2507 02:17:20.159 --> 02:17:23.040 Then it would explode in the spring. And now I'm 2508 02:17:23.079 --> 02:17:24.440 just friend, I'm not going to get you fruit. But 2509 02:17:24.719 --> 02:17:26.520 you know, I think it's still young enough to maybe 2510 02:17:26.559 --> 02:17:29.719 dig up and put another tree in with the higher 2511 02:17:29.760 --> 02:17:30.479 sail requirement. 2512 02:17:30.719 --> 02:17:35.239 Well, well, you know that's your call, and there's different 2513 02:17:35.280 --> 02:17:37.520 things you can do. I mean, it depends on how 2514 02:17:37.600 --> 02:17:39.479 much trouble you want to go to. The simplest thing 2515 02:17:39.600 --> 02:17:41.319 is dig it up, put a different one in, or 2516 02:17:41.479 --> 02:17:43.920 a boy the simplest is just leave with it, leave 2517 02:17:44.000 --> 02:17:46.159 it and live with it. When it blooms too early, 2518 02:17:46.280 --> 02:17:50.280 try to protect the blooms from frost. The other thing 2519 02:17:50.360 --> 02:17:53.360 would be to go in and graft some other varieties 2520 02:17:53.479 --> 02:17:57.520 onto that same tree, you know. Okay, but those beauty 2521 02:17:57.600 --> 02:18:01.680 branches with other Now that's that's a task that requires 2522 02:18:01.719 --> 02:18:04.079 some skill and stuff. But I'm just giving you your 2523 02:18:04.159 --> 02:18:08.040 mini options. Most people would just replace that, I think 2524 02:18:08.600 --> 02:18:13.159 living in the Kadi area. Great, well, I do appreciate 2525 02:18:13.200 --> 02:18:13.520 your time. 2526 02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:18.239 Thanks for the information, you bet, you bet, and thanks. 2527 02:18:18.159 --> 02:18:24.440 Very appreciate you too. Take care alrighty, let's see we 2528 02:18:24.559 --> 02:18:26.680 are gonna what do we do here? We're going to 2529 02:18:26.760 --> 02:18:29.719 go to tangle Wild, I believe and talk. 2530 02:18:29.600 --> 02:18:34.479 To be Hello, b Hi, listen. I a couple of 2531 02:18:34.600 --> 02:18:38.120 weeks ago I went and bought the Eagle funge aside, 2532 02:18:38.559 --> 02:18:40.879 but I hadn't put it out, and I now have 2533 02:18:41.040 --> 02:18:43.239 called Is it okay to put it out? 2534 02:18:45.120 --> 02:18:45.680 Yeah? You could? 2535 02:18:45.920 --> 02:18:45.959 Do. 2536 02:18:46.040 --> 02:18:48.399 You see a bunch of brown circles in your lawn already? 2537 02:18:49.239 --> 02:18:52.680 Uh oh, I've had them already a long time ago 2538 02:18:52.799 --> 02:18:57.600 because of I have to tell you the hurricane barrel. 2539 02:18:58.200 --> 02:19:01.920 She she looked so much junk in my yard they 2540 02:19:02.040 --> 02:19:05.079 had bear spots where I had, you know, hot piles 2541 02:19:05.120 --> 02:19:08.280 of stuff. So I'm not really I don't think so, 2542 02:19:08.600 --> 02:19:11.319 I don't think I have anything, you know, like brown 2543 02:19:11.440 --> 02:19:12.479 spot or anything like that. 2544 02:19:12.959 --> 02:19:15.559 Okay, well, yeah, you could put it out now. You know, 2545 02:19:15.680 --> 02:19:18.559 some lawns are plagued by it every year. Some lawns 2546 02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:21.760 almost never get any uh, and so it's not like 2547 02:19:21.959 --> 02:19:24.239 every lawn has to be treated every year. 2548 02:19:25.079 --> 02:19:29.280 Okay, cut down on water. 2549 02:19:29.719 --> 02:19:33.440 You could put it out now where water because it's 2550 02:19:33.520 --> 02:19:36.399 take you have to water it in because be it's 2551 02:19:36.440 --> 02:19:39.360 taken up by the roots and it goes systemically through 2552 02:19:39.399 --> 02:19:43.319 the plant to prevent the disease. Yeah, the eagle does 2553 02:19:43.760 --> 02:19:45.440 the ingredient systemic. 2554 02:19:46.799 --> 02:19:47.440 You make sure. 2555 02:19:47.559 --> 02:19:51.600 But today, well that's a it's going to be a 2556 02:19:51.680 --> 02:19:54.280 good day. Then that's not much work to have to do. 2557 02:19:54.799 --> 02:19:56.879 I've got stuff I need to get done in my yard, 2558 02:19:56.959 --> 02:19:59.799 but I can't because I'm on the radio. So maybe 2559 02:19:59.840 --> 02:20:01.639 you you could, since you have so much time on 2560 02:20:01.719 --> 02:20:03.280 your hands, just come up here and help me with 2561 02:20:03.399 --> 02:20:04.200 some of my stuff. 2562 02:20:04.840 --> 02:20:07.639 Well, I wish I had that much time. But after 2563 02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:09.399 I do this, I have a few of the things 2564 02:20:09.479 --> 02:20:09.680 to do. 2565 02:20:10.760 --> 02:20:15.360 But okay, well, I keep I keep trying to Tom Sawyer, 2566 02:20:17.319 --> 02:20:19.559 I keep trying to Tom Sawyer people into doing my 2567 02:20:19.719 --> 02:20:22.120 work for me. So I guess that's going on. Thanks 2568 02:20:22.159 --> 02:20:24.559 for the call, b I appreciate it. Okay, you take 2569 02:20:24.639 --> 02:20:27.479 care all right. Time for me to take a little break, Carolyn. 2570 02:20:27.520 --> 02:20:29.680 You'll be first up when we come back back to 2571 02:20:29.719 --> 02:20:32.040 the garden line. We got about a half hour left 2572 02:20:32.120 --> 02:20:36.440 today of the show and your questions as well. If 2573 02:20:36.479 --> 02:20:39.760 you had not been to RCW Garden Center, RCW Nurses 2574 02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:42.520 right there where tomaw Parklay comes to the Beltway eight, 2575 02:20:42.799 --> 02:20:45.680 you just wing by there. They have got some really 2576 02:20:45.719 --> 02:20:48.840 cool stuff going on, and primarily it is their sale 2577 02:20:49.159 --> 02:20:54.920 on shrubs and trees fifteen percent off trees, twenty percent 2578 02:20:55.000 --> 02:20:57.920 off shrubs through the rest of November. Fifteen percent off trees, 2579 02:20:58.000 --> 02:21:01.920 twenty percent off shrub That is a significant and savings azaleas. 2580 02:21:02.159 --> 02:21:04.559 They have beautiful azaleas plenty. If you have a little 2581 02:21:04.600 --> 02:21:06.719 shady area and you would like to create with that 2582 02:21:06.840 --> 02:21:10.719 filtered shade some beautiful seasonal color. Azalia is a great 2583 02:21:10.760 --> 02:21:13.399 way to go. If you are looking for a camellia. 2584 02:21:13.600 --> 02:21:16.440 You know camellias used to be a lot of communeas 2585 02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:18.200 planted around the area, and I just don't see them 2586 02:21:18.239 --> 02:21:22.479 as much anymore. They're still around, but there's Sanquas and 2587 02:21:22.559 --> 02:21:25.559 Japonica types of camellia, so you can have December blooms, 2588 02:21:25.600 --> 02:21:29.120 you can have January ballooms, and they're just like little 2589 02:21:29.760 --> 02:21:35.639 beautiful roses, gorgeous, gorgeous plants. Rcw's got that and many, many, 2590 02:21:35.799 --> 02:21:38.840 many more different species of shrubs. They've got the root 2591 02:21:38.920 --> 02:21:41.879 stimulator you want to put down when you plant the 2592 02:21:41.920 --> 02:21:44.079 plant to soak into the root system to have success. 2593 02:21:44.120 --> 02:21:45.639 If you want to buy a plant that's a little bigger, 2594 02:21:45.680 --> 02:21:47.879 too big for you to carry in print a plant, 2595 02:21:48.440 --> 02:21:50.520 then let them come out. They'll do that. They do 2596 02:21:50.719 --> 02:21:54.520 that service as well. The main thing is just get 2597 02:21:54.559 --> 02:21:58.680 it done, do it sooner rather than later. That would 2598 02:21:58.760 --> 02:22:02.799 be my advice to you. RCW nurseries dot com. That's 2599 02:22:02.879 --> 02:22:06.280 the website again, corner of Tomball Parkway and Beltwegh eight. 2600 02:22:06.440 --> 02:22:09.360 Real easy access to get to it, So go for it. 2601 02:22:09.719 --> 02:22:11.200 And while you're there you're going to find a lot 2602 02:22:11.239 --> 02:22:16.120 of other really cool stuff at RCW. I'm going to 2603 02:22:16.200 --> 02:22:19.440 head over to talk to Caroline. Now, Hey, Caroline, welcome 2604 02:22:19.479 --> 02:22:20.079 to garden Line. 2605 02:22:21.319 --> 02:22:22.360 Good line ships. 2606 02:22:22.680 --> 02:22:23.879 We really enjoy your show. 2607 02:22:25.799 --> 02:22:26.079 Thank you. 2608 02:22:26.840 --> 02:22:27.120 Thanks. 2609 02:22:29.200 --> 02:22:31.920 When I was a little kid, my grandpa groups is 2610 02:22:32.000 --> 02:22:35.719 in Wisconsin. So I planted some together summer and I 2611 02:22:35.760 --> 02:22:40.159 thought they'd be about foot high maybe, and they got 2612 02:22:40.239 --> 02:22:43.479 to be about four feet high, and I was really surprised. 2613 02:22:43.840 --> 02:22:45.319 Akay. 2614 02:22:45.559 --> 02:22:48.840 Anyway, I collected seeds from them, and I have a 2615 02:22:48.879 --> 02:22:51.760 whole pot of seeds, and I'm wondering how and when 2616 02:22:51.920 --> 02:22:56.079 I should plant them, and how to our part if I, 2617 02:22:56.239 --> 02:22:57.479 you know, want to plant some more. 2618 02:22:58.239 --> 02:23:01.280 Yeah, well you do a couple of things since you 2619 02:23:01.440 --> 02:23:04.040 just have Yeah, since you have a lot of seeds, 2620 02:23:04.200 --> 02:23:06.440 what I would do is I would go ahead and 2621 02:23:06.719 --> 02:23:10.680 just kind of scatter them out in a bed area. 2622 02:23:12.200 --> 02:23:15.280 You know, ultimately you're gonna want your plants. Your zenny 2623 02:23:15.440 --> 02:23:19.440 is to be about somewhere between six inches and ten 2624 02:23:19.520 --> 02:23:23.079 inches apart in the bed. I tend to plant them 2625 02:23:23.120 --> 02:23:25.360 a little thicker because they're not all going to come up. 2626 02:23:25.440 --> 02:23:27.600 So if you plant the seeds, you're gonna after they 2627 02:23:27.680 --> 02:23:29.239 come up, you're gonna want to find them to that, 2628 02:23:29.520 --> 02:23:31.639 So don't put so many that you've got a lot 2629 02:23:31.719 --> 02:23:34.520 of thinning work to do. But just kind of loosely 2630 02:23:34.600 --> 02:23:36.840 scatter them, see what's going to come up. Water them 2631 02:23:36.920 --> 02:23:39.319 in really good, just barely cover them with soil. I 2632 02:23:39.440 --> 02:23:41.799 take a rake and just kind of scratch the soil 2633 02:23:41.920 --> 02:23:44.040 up and then drop the seeds in. And then as 2634 02:23:44.079 --> 02:23:46.319 you water them, they just kind of fall into the soil. 2635 02:23:46.319 --> 02:23:48.959 You kind of rake over them real lightly to move them, 2636 02:23:49.079 --> 02:23:51.399 just in the surface, not too deep. But don't do 2637 02:23:51.520 --> 02:23:55.399 that until we get to March. March is when we're 2638 02:23:55.479 --> 02:23:59.479 getting past our last freeze date, and as it warms up, 2639 02:23:59.680 --> 02:24:04.760 any gets more interested in growing. But don't plant them now, okay, 2640 02:24:04.920 --> 02:24:06.200 And I have. 2641 02:24:06.319 --> 02:24:08.760 Them right now in my rose garden because I thought 2642 02:24:08.799 --> 02:24:12.200 they could kind of fill in between. But is it 2643 02:24:12.319 --> 02:24:14.879 best to just keep plant them like by themselves and 2644 02:24:15.000 --> 02:24:17.040 not in between rose bushes or. 2645 02:24:18.520 --> 02:24:21.120 Well, you know, there's there's different approaches, you know that 2646 02:24:21.239 --> 02:24:23.719 I've been talking about cottage gardens off and on this morning, 2647 02:24:23.799 --> 02:24:25.879 and a cottage garden you would throw them in among 2648 02:24:25.959 --> 02:24:27.840 the roses and let them just kind of come up 2649 02:24:27.879 --> 02:24:31.280 here and there, you know, and that randomness is part 2650 02:24:31.319 --> 02:24:34.959 of the appeal. But a lot of people would rather 2651 02:24:35.159 --> 02:24:37.280 have the roses in the rose garden and then the 2652 02:24:37.360 --> 02:24:42.200 cut flower zenias in their own spot there because you 2653 02:24:42.239 --> 02:24:43.879 know they're going to look good part of the year 2654 02:24:43.920 --> 02:24:45.600 and then they're gonna not look good and you have 2655 02:24:45.639 --> 02:24:46.520 to replant something. 2656 02:24:46.600 --> 02:24:47.559 Yeah in the area. 2657 02:24:47.639 --> 02:24:52.239 Okay, So they really do last a long time once 2658 02:24:52.280 --> 02:24:52.719 you cut. 2659 02:24:52.600 --> 02:24:52.959 Them through it. 2660 02:24:53.239 --> 02:24:57.639 I love them, they do. They do. That's they're probably 2661 02:24:57.799 --> 02:25:02.479 the simplest, easiest cut flower to have success with. Zenias 2662 02:25:02.520 --> 02:25:06.079 are and when you go into a seed company and look, yeah, 2663 02:25:06.159 --> 02:25:07.920 they are. And when you go to a seed company, 2664 02:25:08.319 --> 02:25:11.520 you'll see types that are single blooms I'll just say, 2665 02:25:11.600 --> 02:25:14.440 kind of a sunflowerlike you know, bloom but doesn't look 2666 02:25:14.520 --> 02:25:16.920 like sunflowers, but single blooms. And then you have the 2667 02:25:17.000 --> 02:25:19.399 double kind, and then you have kinds that look like mums. 2668 02:25:19.479 --> 02:25:22.239 And there's even one called cactus flowered. I don't know 2669 02:25:22.239 --> 02:25:24.840 why they call it that, but it's it's little strappy, 2670 02:25:25.079 --> 02:25:28.559 roundish petals that are all frilly through an area. So 2671 02:25:28.639 --> 02:25:30.520 as you get online looking at them, you're gonna find 2672 02:25:30.559 --> 02:25:34.399 some pretty amazing zenias too, are just going down set. 2673 02:25:35.959 --> 02:25:37.959 Okay, Well, thank you for advice. 2674 02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:41.440 All right, thanks for being a Guardline listener, Carolyn. Good 2675 02:25:41.479 --> 02:25:45.040 to have you with us. Nelson plant Food has a 2676 02:25:45.120 --> 02:25:48.440 product that you need to purchase and just have on 2677 02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:53.440 hand anytime you're gonna grow flowers like zenias like we 2678 02:25:53.559 --> 02:25:56.200 were just talking about with Carolyn, and that is color Star. 2679 02:25:56.360 --> 02:26:00.920 It's a nineteen thirteen six plant food for all flowering plants, 2680 02:26:01.360 --> 02:26:05.159 so annuals and perennials. You can use for anything like that. Now. 2681 02:26:05.479 --> 02:26:08.639 It's one of the most universal blends that Nelson's has 2682 02:26:08.760 --> 02:26:11.639 created and also one of the most popular. Nelson's Color 2683 02:26:11.760 --> 02:26:16.159 Star is sold in many states across the country and 2684 02:26:16.280 --> 02:26:20.760 it is very popular with professional landscapers because they've discovered it, 2685 02:26:21.040 --> 02:26:23.559 they've used it, they see the success. If it ain't 2686 02:26:23.559 --> 02:26:26.559 bro don't fix it, they keep ordering Nelson Color Star. 2687 02:26:26.639 --> 02:26:30.360 It's a favorite professional landscapers and homeowners here in Texas 2688 02:26:30.440 --> 02:26:33.680 and beyond. Got five different sources of nitrogen. It has 2689 02:26:33.879 --> 02:26:38.280 organic bone meal which provides phosphorus. It's got organic blood 2690 02:26:38.360 --> 02:26:41.920 meal which provides nitrogen and other nutrients as well. In 2691 02:26:42.040 --> 02:26:45.360 all of these products. Bottom line is with color Star, 2692 02:26:45.760 --> 02:26:48.079 you will have color. And here here's the thing to 2693 02:26:48.159 --> 02:26:51.200 remember about when you want your blooming beds to bloom 2694 02:26:51.280 --> 02:26:54.719 and do well. It's not you know, it's not just 2695 02:26:54.879 --> 02:26:57.520 the phosphorus or potassium or something in the soil. You 2696 02:26:57.639 --> 02:27:01.799 need the nitrogen to provide and stimulate growth because when 2697 02:27:01.840 --> 02:27:05.079 you grow new foliage, now you have solar panels that 2698 02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:09.479 are capturing sunlight to make carbohydrates which help the plant 2699 02:27:09.559 --> 02:27:12.000 to bloom. If you've got a weak plant that no 2700 02:27:12.200 --> 02:27:14.719 carbs in it, it's not going to produce blooms, it's 2701 02:27:14.760 --> 02:27:16.840 not going to produce food or whatever you're trying to grow. 2702 02:27:17.319 --> 02:27:19.959 With the Nelson Color Star, you've got a good load 2703 02:27:20.000 --> 02:27:23.959 of nitrogen for some vigor so that it can bloom 2704 02:27:24.079 --> 02:27:25.879 and bloom up a storm. And that's what it does. 2705 02:27:26.159 --> 02:27:30.799 Nelson Plant Food will help your plants to absolutely bloom 2706 02:27:30.879 --> 02:27:35.000 up a storm. One of many good quality products from 2707 02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:38.079 the folks at Nelson's Plant Food. Well, I got to 2708 02:27:38.079 --> 02:27:40.120 take a little break here. When we come back, Hurta, 2709 02:27:40.319 --> 02:27:43.239 you will be the first up. Talk to you in 2710 02:27:43.360 --> 02:27:45.399 just a bit. Folks. Our phone number if you'd like 2711 02:27:45.440 --> 02:27:47.840 to give me a call seven one three two one 2712 02:27:47.920 --> 02:27:55.600 two KTRH. There we go. Welcome back to guarden Line. 2713 02:27:55.719 --> 02:27:58.959 We are in our final segment of the day. Final segment, 2714 02:28:00.159 --> 02:28:02.319 got plenty to talk about. We'll be back tomorrow. Remember 2715 02:28:02.440 --> 02:28:05.040 Garden Line is six am to ten am on Saturday 2716 02:28:05.120 --> 02:28:08.440 and Sunday every week. You got friends and family in 2717 02:28:08.520 --> 02:28:13.040 the area, the Greater Listening area. Those covers pretty much 2718 02:28:13.079 --> 02:28:15.959 southeast Texas and on u Huntsville and down Corpus and 2719 02:28:16.680 --> 02:28:19.600 have people listening over in New Bronfuls, Texas. Louis in 2720 02:28:19.639 --> 02:28:21.760 a border so any of that area, tell them about 2721 02:28:21.760 --> 02:28:23.879 Garden Line. They little out of state thing listen too. 2722 02:28:23.920 --> 02:28:26.479 We got people that listen out of state, so I 2723 02:28:26.520 --> 02:28:29.239 guess they're waiting to see what that crazy host is 2724 02:28:29.319 --> 02:28:32.000 going to say next or something. Anyway, we're going to 2725 02:28:32.079 --> 02:28:34.719 go to talk to Herda now in Spring Branch. Hello, Herda, 2726 02:28:34.959 --> 02:28:36.440 Welcome to Garden Morning. 2727 02:28:36.680 --> 02:28:42.159 How are you? I'm doing that purchase two three gallon 2728 02:28:42.559 --> 02:28:49.440 of foxtail firm plants, and it's still in the pot, 2729 02:28:49.840 --> 02:28:56.360 both of them. But one is a darker green and 2730 02:28:56.680 --> 02:28:59.600 one's kind of a light green, which is okay. I'm 2731 02:28:59.639 --> 02:29:05.159 gonna alternate them when I plant them. But okay, two 2732 02:29:05.280 --> 02:29:10.319 of the frons in the light green pot are turning yellow. 2733 02:29:10.879 --> 02:29:11.920 What's wrong with them? 2734 02:29:14.159 --> 02:29:17.000 I don't know. That happens some with foxtail fern. It's 2735 02:29:17.040 --> 02:29:21.000 not always a bad sign. Maybe a droughty period they 2736 02:29:21.040 --> 02:29:27.559 went through, you know, certainly they're fairly forgiving of soil moisture. 2737 02:29:27.959 --> 02:29:31.040 But no plant wants to be submerged nor put out 2738 02:29:31.079 --> 02:29:33.879 in the desert, and so sometimes those pots can be 2739 02:29:33.959 --> 02:29:37.879 out pretty quick. It could be that I generally it 2740 02:29:38.000 --> 02:29:41.600 doesn't lead to anything. Just kind of watch them. One 2741 02:29:41.680 --> 02:29:43.760 thing I'll do sometimes is take a pot and turn 2742 02:29:43.799 --> 02:29:46.159 it upside down, kind of bump it and lift it 2743 02:29:46.280 --> 02:29:48.879 off the root system, just to look at the roots 2744 02:29:48.920 --> 02:29:51.559 and see if they look kind of a healthy, creamy 2745 02:29:51.639 --> 02:29:54.520 white color or if they're kind of brown water soaked 2746 02:29:55.079 --> 02:29:58.000 or gray, which indicates a root rot. And if it's 2747 02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:00.520 a root rot, you definitely need it need to dry 2748 02:30:00.559 --> 02:30:01.159 it out a little bit. 2749 02:30:02.079 --> 02:30:11.079 All right, all right, well I guess, well when would 2750 02:30:11.159 --> 02:30:15.520 I plant them? I don't know. You can plan them 2751 02:30:16.079 --> 02:30:17.079 before spring? 2752 02:30:18.559 --> 02:30:20.479 Okay, Well you could plan them now if you wanted to. 2753 02:30:21.000 --> 02:30:24.840 Orn't just wait until spring. The negative of waiting is 2754 02:30:24.920 --> 02:30:27.399 you got to keep watching them, doing a little bit 2755 02:30:27.440 --> 02:30:31.719 of watering in the container over the wintertime. It's not ok. 2756 02:30:32.040 --> 02:30:35.479 But you could also avoid them getting kind of killed back, 2757 02:30:35.760 --> 02:30:39.079 you know, from some severe cold in a pot, because 2758 02:30:39.079 --> 02:30:41.440 you can just put them inside when that happens. 2759 02:30:41.559 --> 02:30:50.200 Put Yeah, yeah, that's true. Well, okay, thanks a lot, 2760 02:30:50.520 --> 02:30:51.440 you take care. 2761 02:30:52.920 --> 02:30:55.879 Well, thank you, and you have a wonderful thanksgiving her to. 2762 02:30:57.799 --> 02:30:59.959 Bye bye bye. 2763 02:31:01.559 --> 02:31:05.440 You know Wilbird's Unlimited. It is one of my favorite 2764 02:31:05.520 --> 02:31:09.120 stores period because every time I go into there, I 2765 02:31:09.319 --> 02:31:12.200 see such cool stuff. And you know, I've got a 2766 02:31:12.319 --> 02:31:15.559 number of products that I've gotten over the years from Wahbirds. 2767 02:31:15.920 --> 02:31:18.719 Certainly the squirrel excluding feeder, by the way, if you're 2768 02:31:18.719 --> 02:31:21.559 looking for the Cadillac of bird feeders, and just in 2769 02:31:21.719 --> 02:31:25.440 terms of it really works, that is the squirrel excluding 2770 02:31:25.840 --> 02:31:29.440 feeder from Wallbirds. Squirrels can't get in. They just can't 2771 02:31:29.479 --> 02:31:31.520 get in. It's got a little weight and a trapdoor 2772 02:31:31.639 --> 02:31:33.799 thing that doesn't let them in. In fact, I can 2773 02:31:33.879 --> 02:31:39.200 set it so sensitive that even like a dove trying 2774 02:31:39.239 --> 02:31:41.399 to land there and get feed out of that feeder, 2775 02:31:42.479 --> 02:31:45.079 it closes down. They can't get in too, So there's 2776 02:31:45.079 --> 02:31:49.040 an adjustment on it, replacement parts. It's just a quality feeder. 2777 02:31:49.079 --> 02:31:50.680 And if there's someone on your list and you want 2778 02:31:50.680 --> 02:31:53.120 to get them a really nice gift, that that would 2779 02:31:53.159 --> 02:31:55.319 be the squirrel excluding feeder. Now, there's a lot of 2780 02:31:55.399 --> 02:31:58.559 good gifts at Wallbirds, and people love birds and people 2781 02:31:58.639 --> 02:32:01.239 love being able to watch birds, hummingbird feeders to you 2782 02:32:01.399 --> 02:32:04.879 name it to bird houses, wabirds has it all beautiful 2783 02:32:04.879 --> 02:32:08.040 little bird baths. Right now, I just want to remind 2784 02:32:08.120 --> 02:32:10.559 you that it's getting close to the time when the 2785 02:32:10.600 --> 02:32:12.840 birds are going to be coming knocking on the door, going, hey, 2786 02:32:12.840 --> 02:32:15.520 we're getting hungry out here. We've eaten up all the 2787 02:32:15.600 --> 02:32:19.120 berries and the seeds and stuff from summer and fall. 2788 02:32:19.559 --> 02:32:22.000 It's wintertime and it's time for food. You need to 2789 02:32:22.040 --> 02:32:26.799 get the wabirds unlimited Winter super Blend Winter super Blend. 2790 02:32:27.120 --> 02:32:30.680 It's what I feed in my feeders, Winter super Blend. 2791 02:32:30.840 --> 02:32:33.840 The birds love it and it has fat and protein 2792 02:32:34.280 --> 02:32:36.280 so that the birds. You know that our day links 2793 02:32:36.559 --> 02:32:38.639 shorter now they don't have as many hours to go 2794 02:32:38.680 --> 02:32:40.600 out there and find food. Can you imagine being a 2795 02:32:40.639 --> 02:32:43.120 bird having to find food all day every day, trying 2796 02:32:43.159 --> 02:32:46.799 to survive and water too. By the way, if you 2797 02:32:46.920 --> 02:32:50.319 want to bring birds in, you get a quality blend 2798 02:32:50.440 --> 02:32:53.079 like Winter Super Blend and it'll do it. Now. Every 2799 02:32:53.159 --> 02:32:56.319 kind of bird has on the feed that seeds that 2800 02:32:56.520 --> 02:32:58.840 it likes. You know, there's some that like the little 2801 02:32:58.920 --> 02:33:02.680 thistle seeds and they're special feeders for thistle seeds. You 2802 02:33:02.760 --> 02:33:04.479 want to have an array out there, and you also 2803 02:33:04.559 --> 02:33:07.360 want to have water. Birds have to have water every day, 2804 02:33:07.879 --> 02:33:10.680 every day of the year. They got to drink like 2805 02:33:10.840 --> 02:33:13.440 we have to drink. The gotta have fresh water. So 2806 02:33:13.600 --> 02:33:16.559 that's one great way too to bring them into your place. 2807 02:33:16.719 --> 02:33:20.719 Get a quality seed from Walbird. I would recommend getting 2808 02:33:21.159 --> 02:33:25.000 the No Mess blends, so that would be something. Let's 2809 02:33:25.000 --> 02:33:27.920 say you had a bird seed with sunflowers in it. 2810 02:33:28.840 --> 02:33:31.639 The birds love those, but then they drop the shells, 2811 02:33:31.719 --> 02:33:33.479 so you have a little bit of a mess. A 2812 02:33:33.600 --> 02:33:37.000 no Mess blend. The sunflower seeds are already shelled and 2813 02:33:37.680 --> 02:33:40.319 ultimately price pound per pound. It's a pretty good way 2814 02:33:40.360 --> 02:33:42.639 to go too, actually, because you get more seed in 2815 02:33:42.719 --> 02:33:46.840 the bag. All right, Well, Wildbirds Unlimited there's six stores 2816 02:33:46.879 --> 02:33:48.760 in the Greater Houston area. All you have to do 2817 02:33:48.879 --> 02:33:55.239 is go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston, WBU 2818 02:33:55.959 --> 02:33:59.760 dot Com forward slash Houston find the wild Bird store 2819 02:34:00.120 --> 02:34:03.920 nearest to you. We're going to go now to talk 2820 02:34:04.000 --> 02:34:04.920 to Emil. 2821 02:34:04.760 --> 02:34:09.879 Heml Yeah, this Hi, how are you doing. I'm in 2822 02:34:09.959 --> 02:34:13.760 the Sharpstown area and I'm sure you're familiar with this 2823 02:34:14.879 --> 02:34:17.760 harsh herb. How hard it is to control? 2824 02:34:19.040 --> 02:34:19.079 You? 2825 02:34:19.200 --> 02:34:21.840 Can you know, spray it maybe a couple of times, 2826 02:34:21.920 --> 02:34:25.760 and but the biggest problem is it comes right back, 2827 02:34:26.879 --> 02:34:30.200 and even if you throw small patches pull it out 2828 02:34:30.319 --> 02:34:34.559 by the roots, it comes back on you. I guess 2829 02:34:34.760 --> 02:34:39.719 the there have some good products out there that take 2830 02:34:39.799 --> 02:34:42.680 care of it. What is your thoughts about having it 2831 02:34:42.840 --> 02:34:46.360 professionally done? The problem is after the drought here, a 2832 02:34:46.440 --> 02:34:49.520 lot of the neighbors just quit water and so most 2833 02:34:49.559 --> 02:34:52.040 of the neighbors it just takes over the whole yard. 2834 02:34:53.559 --> 02:34:57.760 Yeah, yeah, well you know, is it grun in your lawn? 2835 02:34:59.040 --> 02:35:02.840 Oh? Yeah, okay, I don't know what they. 2836 02:35:02.840 --> 02:35:08.920 Say, Well, it's it's a native plant. It's a native plant. 2837 02:35:09.399 --> 02:35:11.879 They have you ever heard the term one man's trash 2838 02:35:12.040 --> 02:35:20.639 is another man's treasures That that was said, probably originally 2839 02:35:20.799 --> 02:35:25.760 about horse herb. I'm joking, but horse herb for someone 2840 02:35:25.799 --> 02:35:27.799 who doesn't want any weeds in their lawn is a 2841 02:35:27.879 --> 02:35:30.159 pain in the neck. And I'm very hard to kill. 2842 02:35:30.760 --> 02:35:33.760 I have sprayed orse heerb with roundup before and it 2843 02:35:33.840 --> 02:35:37.399 didn't kill it. I'm just telling you that is a 2844 02:35:37.600 --> 02:35:39.079 tough or. I was trying to I said, I wonder 2845 02:35:39.120 --> 02:35:40.719 if this will kill you? And I didn't kill it. 2846 02:35:41.600 --> 02:35:44.559 But people that are into native plants, people that want 2847 02:35:44.600 --> 02:35:47.600 to attract certain kinds of little butterflies, people that want 2848 02:35:48.040 --> 02:35:50.639 something that is a green groundcover that grows in the 2849 02:35:50.719 --> 02:35:54.479 shade and even if it's drowdy, it survives. They love 2850 02:35:54.680 --> 02:35:57.719 horse herb. So you got to decide where you want 2851 02:35:57.760 --> 02:35:59.280 to fall on this. Sounds like you want to get 2852 02:35:59.360 --> 02:36:01.680 rid of it. I tell you there's some areas where 2853 02:36:01.840 --> 02:36:03.319 or serb is the best thing you can have on 2854 02:36:03.440 --> 02:36:06.440 the ground because of all the things I just said. Now, 2855 02:36:06.479 --> 02:36:07.719 if you want to get rid of it, you're gonna 2856 02:36:07.719 --> 02:36:11.319 have to use something stronger. And the problem is those 2857 02:36:11.479 --> 02:36:17.920 products will probably kill your Saint Augustine too. Products containing 2858 02:36:18.360 --> 02:36:22.159 triclop here, for example, would probably do a pretty good 2859 02:36:22.239 --> 02:36:26.520 job on the orse herb, but the tricle peers aren't 2860 02:36:26.559 --> 02:36:29.920 labeled for Saint Augustine because they are they are too 2861 02:36:30.000 --> 02:36:33.000 hard on it. So all you all I could say 2862 02:36:33.120 --> 02:36:35.000 is if you had so much orse herb that you 2863 02:36:35.079 --> 02:36:36.719 could just say, look, I'm just going to kill it 2864 02:36:36.799 --> 02:36:39.600 and if the Saint Augustine dies, that's fine, and then replant. 2865 02:36:40.079 --> 02:36:43.000 That's option A. Option B would be to get a 2866 02:36:43.079 --> 02:36:46.840 wiper type applicator where you could wipe down some sort 2867 02:36:46.920 --> 02:36:49.840 of a herb side like tricle peer on the orserb 2868 02:36:49.879 --> 02:36:53.040 without getting it on your grass. But there's not a 2869 02:36:53.120 --> 02:36:58.559 good solution. You're right, Digging it doesn't work. It strength 2870 02:36:58.760 --> 02:37:01.000 pretty much doesn't work. But those would be those would 2871 02:37:01.000 --> 02:37:03.280 be the two options to go about. 2872 02:37:03.319 --> 02:37:05.600 Okay, Well, thank you so much for your info. 2873 02:37:07.280 --> 02:37:10.440 All right, I appreciate the call. Thanks a lot for 2874 02:37:10.559 --> 02:37:13.360 being a gardener and listener. You're welcome, all right, folks, 2875 02:37:13.399 --> 02:37:16.600 you hear music, you know what music means. Music means 2876 02:37:16.639 --> 02:37:19.639 I have to shut up, and you're going to head 2877 02:37:19.639 --> 02:37:22.399 out of here and go see some of those Santas 2878 02:37:22.440 --> 02:37:26.840 we're talking about earlier. Are lots of lots of good 2879 02:37:26.879 --> 02:37:29.239 things to get out there and do today, if you're 2880 02:37:29.760 --> 02:37:33.760 if you are interested, he hanging around until tomorrow. We'll 2881 02:37:33.799 --> 02:37:36.559 be back at Lein tomorrow. I'd say I'm to answer 2882 02:37:36.559 --> 02:37:37.799 your gardening question.