Speaker 1: Good morning on a good Saturday morning. We are glad
Speaker 1: you're with us. By the way, this is Garden Line.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to talk
Speaker 1: about gardening. You got any questions, let's do that seven
Speaker 1: to one to three two one two kt rh. I'll
Speaker 1: talk about some things that I think are important for
Speaker 1: the season, but the most important thing are your questions.
Speaker 1: Do you have issues with your lawn, your garden, your landscape.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're thinking about planning some vegetables and like some
Speaker 1: tips for advice, or got some strange bug crawling across
Speaker 1: the produce that we need to talk about. We can
Speaker 1: do all that kind of stuff and happy to do it.
Speaker 1: It's seven one three two one two kt rh. This
Speaker 1: week I finished putting a stone patio in the backyard.
Speaker 1: I've been laying some stone down and you know it's
Speaker 1: what we call, I guess, a dry patio, something no concrete.
Speaker 1: I've got a cypress tree that has a bad habit
Speaker 1: of sending knees up and it'll crack a lot of
Speaker 1: things that I try to to do out there. So
Speaker 1: I decided to do a drystack and that way, if
Speaker 1: the if a knee comes up, I can move a stone,
Speaker 1: get rid of the knee and put it back down again.
Speaker 1: Don't look forward to doing that, but at least at
Speaker 1: least as possible. Anyway, I finished that, and I am glad.
Speaker 1: I was just about out of ibuprofen at the time,
Speaker 1: so we survived it. But it's nice to do little
Speaker 1: things out in the yard and garden to kind of
Speaker 1: fix things up a little bit so you can enjoy
Speaker 1: the place even more. Now that we finally are getting
Speaker 1: this wonderful weather that we've been having, makes it so
Speaker 1: nice to be outside and get things done. I guess
Speaker 1: now's the time for all of us to be getting
Speaker 1: a list of the activities we want to finish up
Speaker 1: prior to it cooling off a little bit more. And
Speaker 1: all the holidays that come through at the end of
Speaker 1: the year tend to take our attention away to other things.
Speaker 1: Just remember it is still fall, and it will be
Speaker 1: for a while. We don't know what the winter will
Speaker 1: arrive or many days it'll be, probably somewhere between three
Speaker 1: and four days. This year we have such a mild climate,
Speaker 1: but anyway, we don't know when it'll arrive. But now
Speaker 1: his fall, now is the time to plant Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: If you're going to put a tree of shrub or
Speaker 1: a woody vine in, put it in now. Give it
Speaker 1: the most time possible before hot weather arrives next year.
Speaker 1: That's important. The first year is the toughest year for
Speaker 1: a new plant. And by giving it a head start
Speaker 1: you have you've done a number of things. You've saved
Speaker 1: yourself money because if you have to replace a plant,
Speaker 1: that costs money. One other way that you save money
Speaker 1: by fall planning, or you can save money by fall planning,
Speaker 1: is if you were to take a smaller plant and
Speaker 1: put it in in the fall. Let's say it's a
Speaker 1: perennial like a salvi or something, and you put it
Speaker 1: in in the fall, and then you wait until spring
Speaker 1: and you buy the next size up. It's always significantly
Speaker 1: more to buy the next size up than the size down.
Speaker 1: You could put the next size up in in the
Speaker 1: spring and by summer you won't be able to tell
Speaker 1: the differenstween those two plants. Now, if you on instant, wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: buy the bigger plant and just get there a lot faster.
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you that fall planning has a
Speaker 1: lot of advantages. And in addition to being good for
Speaker 1: the plant's survivability. It's just a head start. Plus it's
Speaker 1: a nice time to be out there taking care of planting.
Speaker 1: Speaking of, we're coming up on what for home owners
Speaker 1: is a pruning season, the dormant season when homeowners do
Speaker 1: most of their pruning. It's also when tree services do
Speaker 1: a lot of their pruning, and Martin spun more with
Speaker 1: affordable trees. No different. Martin does the just a huge
Speaker 1: amount of pruning work in the cool season because that's
Speaker 1: an ideal time to prune. You can prune twelve months
Speaker 1: oft of the year if you need to. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying the time that we are entering, or have
Speaker 1: been and now for a while and definitely will carry
Speaker 1: us on through winter, is a very important time. And
Speaker 1: I would reckon you get on Martin's schedule, have him
Speaker 1: come out and look at what you got. You know,
Speaker 1: take a look at the trees. What do they need?
Speaker 1: What's his advice? Do you know we do we need
Speaker 1: to remove some narrow branch angles because those are the
Speaker 1: ones that often tend to crack. Do you have some
Speaker 1: dead branches in a tree or other issues. He can
Speaker 1: look at the trees and tell all that all that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. While he's there, take a look. If
Speaker 1: you're going to do any tree planting, if you've got
Speaker 1: a young tree and you need to do training on it,
Speaker 1: get some advice on that. Get somebody that knows what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Listen, there's a lot of people that own
Speaker 1: a chainsaw and drive around putting business cards in people's door.
Speaker 1: That does not mean they know what they're doing. In fact,
Speaker 1: chances are they don't from my experiences. But Martin does.
Speaker 1: And if you want to give him a call at
Speaker 1: seven one three six ' nine nine two six six
Speaker 1: ' three, he can come out and check it out
Speaker 1: for you, give you the advice you need. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: going to be putting in a trench for some utility,
Speaker 1: or maybe you're putting in a new driveway or some
Speaker 1: other thing. Anytime you do anything within the branch spread
Speaker 1: of the tree, even beyond that affects them a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 1: you need to have somebody knows what they're talking about
Speaker 1: Guidejoe on that. Martin spoon Moore is the one Martin,
Speaker 1: and is Joe. This is Joe. Yeah, Here is Joe
Speaker 1: his wife Joe. They he are the ones that answer
Speaker 1: the phone. If you call Affordable Tree Service and you
Speaker 1: don't hear Martin or Joe answer the phone. There are
Speaker 1: people out there that just you know, they call their
Speaker 1: company whatever they want and do whatever. They just call
Speaker 1: back a different Just call back again because you've gotten
Speaker 1: the wrong place. Somebody has misled you. Seven to one
Speaker 1: three six nine nine two six six three Martin and
Speaker 1: Joe Spoon Moore. If you want to go to the
Speaker 1: website aff Tree Service dot com a f F the
Speaker 1: first three letters in affordable aff Tree Service dot com.
Speaker 1: Main thing is get on the schedule. Tell them your
Speaker 1: guardline listener. He stays busy. I'm telling you he does
Speaker 1: stay busy, and as a result, don't delay. You want
Speaker 1: to get on his schedule for winter gets over with
Speaker 1: a portable Tree's times. Somebody just the other day that
Speaker 1: use them as very pleased with the work that they got,
Speaker 1: which is what we would expect from Affordable Tree. I
Speaker 1: mentioned being outside working on the patio. I've got an
Speaker 1: orchard area that's a that makes it sound bigger than
Speaker 1: it is on the along the side of my house,
Speaker 1: a little strip of area that's very, very bright and sunny,
Speaker 1: but it is not well, let's just say it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty narrow. So I've gotten a single row
Speaker 1: of fruit trees along there. I've got enough room to
Speaker 1: do that. And I'm getting soil ready, getting some irrigation
Speaker 1: things set up and get you know, just getting anything
Speaker 1: ready to go. I'll be doing that planting pretty soon
Speaker 1: here too. Just remember on anything before we plant, what
Speaker 1: do we do. We affects the soil, brown stuff before
Speaker 1: green stuff, and that is an important thing to make
Speaker 1: sure that that gets done if you want to have success.
Speaker 1: Which time for me to take a break. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do that and I'll be right back at seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two ktr H. I'm glad you're
Speaker 1: with us today. We got a lot to talk about,
Speaker 1: as we always do in garden Line. There's so many plants,
Speaker 1: so little time. That's the way it is, you know.
Speaker 1: The more I guess we should have a disclaimer on
Speaker 1: garden Line, and that is that gardening may be addictive,
Speaker 1: maybe habit forming. That's a warning because it is you
Speaker 1: get into one kind of plant and get into something else.
Speaker 1: And there's always something new to learn, something cool and
Speaker 1: fun to learn too, And there's there's levels of gardening
Speaker 1: and I don't mean like some gardeners or better than others,
Speaker 1: although that happens, right, I mean we get better as
Speaker 1: we practice and learn and get I'm talking about levels
Speaker 1: in the sense of some people just like I just
Speaker 1: want a pretty lawn. I just want to mow it,
Speaker 1: have a good lawn looking good. Other people are like
Speaker 1: I want to get into putting in new flowers or
Speaker 1: vegetables or herbs or whatever they want to do. And
Speaker 1: then you take it up another step where you're doing
Speaker 1: things from container gardening to hanging baskets to really beautifully
Speaker 1: design containers, or maybe you start learning to propagate plants,
Speaker 1: to start plants from seed to start plants, from cuttings
Speaker 1: to root cuttings, to do divisions, and it just goes
Speaker 1: on and on. I mean there's no limit. I mean
Speaker 1: grafting would be a whole other thing. People that get
Speaker 1: rootstocks and they graft them themselves. Or maybe you have
Speaker 1: a citrus tree and you want to have three or
Speaker 1: four kinds of citrus on the same tree. Do you
Speaker 1: know you can butt a tree to do that? Butt
Speaker 1: or graft either one. That's another level of card. There's
Speaker 1: a lot, there's never an ending. There's never an end
Speaker 1: to all the things that you can learn and all
Speaker 1: the kind of cool things that you can have fun doing.
Speaker 1: That's one thing I like about gardening. Another thing I
Speaker 1: like is going out and seeing garden centers. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're like me on this one, but every
Speaker 1: time I go to a new town, I try to
Speaker 1: find a garden center's the top garden center there, and
Speaker 1: go buy and visit them. Sometimes it's just a little
Speaker 1: hole in the wall place off in a corner of
Speaker 1: town that you wouldn't even think, you know, well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go over there. There's not any other reason
Speaker 1: to head over into that nook or cranny of town,
Speaker 1: and you just get out and enjoy it. And some
Speaker 1: of the coolest garden centers are like that. They're the
Speaker 1: ones you discover going around the corner. It's called I
Speaker 1: call it horticultural tourism. But here in Houston we are
Speaker 1: blessed to have many, many good garden centers and RCW
Speaker 1: Nursery that's on the north west side of Houston. It's
Speaker 1: right where Tomball Parkway comes into belt wag eight. R
Speaker 1: CW is an example of just that kind of garden center.
Speaker 1: Right now, there's a good deal I keep telling you
Speaker 1: about and I hope you'll take advantage of, and that
Speaker 1: is that they have got their trees off fifteen percent
Speaker 1: and their shrubs are off twenty percent, So that means
Speaker 1: a good savings now for the best time to plant
Speaker 1: those two items is right now. They'll also when you're there,
Speaker 1: don't leave without some root stimulator. They've got root activator.
Speaker 1: Rather when you plant your plant, they'll tell you how
Speaker 1: to use it. Just put that in the soil with
Speaker 1: the tree root system when you do, and you know,
Speaker 1: when you go home with a plant from RCW, you're
Speaker 1: getting a species and even a variety in many cases
Speaker 1: that is going to thrive here, that is going to
Speaker 1: do well here. So again, the great sales are still
Speaker 1: going on for the rest of this month, which is
Speaker 1: getting close to drawing to a close here, so don't
Speaker 1: put it off too soon or too late. Fifteen percent
Speaker 1: off trees, twenty percent off shrubs at RCW Nursery. And
Speaker 1: when you're out there, you're going to have a really
Speaker 1: good time with some of the other bling and stuff
Speaker 1: that they also have on hand. Let's see, I wanted
Speaker 1: to say a word about Landscaper's Pride Landscaper's Pride is
Speaker 1: a kind of a local company here that has a
Speaker 1: wide variety of products, lots of cool stuff. Know, probably
Speaker 1: two dozen plus different products for your soil and for
Speaker 1: on top of your soil. For example, they got the
Speaker 1: black velvet mult. It's a hardwood mulch that really is
Speaker 1: just beautiful. It's not dyed, it's naturally dark, full of life,
Speaker 1: and it's screens so that it's bulky enough to protect
Speaker 1: the surface of the soil. As most quality mult products will.
Speaker 1: You need a good mulch now winter weeds are germinating.
Speaker 1: Don't let sunlight hit the soil wherever it does. Nature
Speaker 1: plants a weed and black velvet mulch is a great
Speaker 1: way to do that. Cedar mult is really attractive for
Speaker 1: the holidays, got that nice cedar aroma to it as
Speaker 1: you put it down, and really beautiful too. I love
Speaker 1: the color of it as well. In time, you know
Speaker 1: it ages and stuff. It's just a it's a beautiful mult.
Speaker 1: And then finally they're top soil for filling in. If
Speaker 1: you got some low spots in the yard, you're going
Speaker 1: to be re sodding probably next spring. A sandy loam
Speaker 1: and compost mix is excellent for repairing those patchy yards,
Speaker 1: smoothing out those areas. Those three are just three examples
Speaker 1: of quality products from Landscapers Pride. You can go to
Speaker 1: Landscaperspride dot com and find out more information about those
Speaker 1: exact things. Makes it easy to get not just the
Speaker 1: product information, but the locations as to where you can
Speaker 1: find them. We're going to head out and out of
Speaker 1: Tomball and talk to David. Hello, David, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, sir. I'm driving back from North Carolina. I'm
Speaker 2: a truck driver and I stopped at the Georgia Welcome Center,
Speaker 2: one of their travel centers, and they gave me some
Speaker 2: seeds and kind of how we do blue bonnets and Texas.
Speaker 2: They do what they call cosmos in Georgia, And.
Speaker 3: Of course I took the seeds.
Speaker 2: I'm taking it as a challenge, you know, and plus fay, hey,
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 3: Them free, you know, and so I want to try.
Speaker 2: To plant these things.
Speaker 3: My question is, you.
Speaker 2: Know, they grow in Georgia, are they going to grow
Speaker 2: in Texas?
Speaker 1: Probably there's a couple of different kinds of cosmos, probably
Speaker 1: more than two. But uh, there's there's a couple of
Speaker 1: types we we do grow here. Uh did did they
Speaker 1: have pictures of this of the flowers on the packet?
Speaker 2: Or oh heck they got the name of them here.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the types.
Speaker 4: It's called uh so furious.
Speaker 2: Nip I can't do what? What do you say? So
Speaker 2: furious is one of them, and then the other one
Speaker 2: is by E b I b I p I n
Speaker 2: n A t u s.
Speaker 1: The sulfurious will probably be a little leisure to grow.
Speaker 1: But there are some really good uh bipinatus that will
Speaker 1: will do well here as well. They're going to get
Speaker 1: pretty tall. I would give them a shot. You could
Speaker 1: start them as transplants and then transplant them out once
Speaker 1: the danger of frost has passed, or you could just
Speaker 1: see them out at that time and let them come
Speaker 1: on up. Seat them out a little bit before the
Speaker 1: danger of frost has passed and let them come on
Speaker 1: up in the garden. However you want to go about it,
Speaker 1: If you want to do you know, just a little
Speaker 1: neat area, some certain amount of plants. You could start
Speaker 1: them yourself indoors. They'll work either way.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just I'm just going to kill up a
Speaker 2: little I'm just gonna kill up a little spot and
Speaker 2: throw it out there and see what they do.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have fun. That's that's a fun part
Speaker 1: of gardening. That's the surprise. Yeah, I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, that's a that is cool stuff. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there there is a There are different styles of gardening
Speaker 1: and one one type of gardening is called cottage gardening.
Speaker 1: And cottage gardening. Now, don't be offended if you're a
Speaker 1: cottage gardener, but I like to joke that cottage gardening
Speaker 1: is just an excuse for a mess. It is, and
Speaker 1: some people like an organized mess instead of everything being
Speaker 1: in rows and all that kind of stuff. Well, you
Speaker 1: just sort of have a It looks a little bit random,
Speaker 1: but you're really managing the random with a cottage garden.
Speaker 1: And basically you're throwing some seeds over in a corner
Speaker 1: and letting them come up when and where they want to.
Speaker 1: And then you've got certain plants that are kind of
Speaker 1: foundational to it. But kidding aside, it is just a
Speaker 1: whole another way to garden. And if you go back
Speaker 1: in time, you know, to when this area was being pioneered,
Speaker 1: if you will, with people coming in and a lot
Speaker 1: of the gardens were that way. They were very, very random.
Speaker 1: I had a great aunt that had a garden that
Speaker 1: was a cottage garden, and it just you know what,
Speaker 1: if they say bloom where you're planted, well, that's kind
Speaker 1: of what happened. Things popped up, and that way you
Speaker 1: find out what wants to grow there too. That is
Speaker 1: another advantage of that approach. You know, you try a
Speaker 1: lot of different things and you find out what's going
Speaker 1: to do well here and what's not. Just remember that
Speaker 1: plants receed, and some plants can crawl around underground and
Speaker 1: on top of the ground, and so you don't want
Speaker 1: to invite an invasion when you're doing that. I have
Speaker 1: a few plants that I deadhead because if I let
Speaker 1: them go to seed. It's not just a cottage garden.
Speaker 1: It's a cottage garden. It's trying to conquer the world.
Speaker 1: Kind of a pinky in the brain cottage garden. For
Speaker 1: those of you who know what that is. Microlife fertilizers
Speaker 1: or are organic natural types of fertilizer that are loaded
Speaker 1: with microbes. That's what they're all about, because that's what
Speaker 1: nature's all about. Microbes rule the world, especially in the
Speaker 1: soil around the plant roots. And when you add a
Speaker 1: quality product like Microgrow bioinoculant that's a granular bioinoculant with
Speaker 1: sixty three different strains of beneficial microbes. And I can
Speaker 1: just go into all the things they do and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Let's just say this. They do everything from disease to
Speaker 1: stimulating plants to grow in ways that are better for them,
Speaker 1: more resistant to disease, and more productive. Micro grow biinoculants
Speaker 1: and organic biological inoculant from Microlife. You can buy it
Speaker 1: by the bag and put it on your lawn. It
Speaker 1: doesn't take much because all we're doing is it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a sour dough starter when you're baking bread.
Speaker 1: You know, you just get a little start that gets
Speaker 1: you the bugs, if you want to call them bugs.
Speaker 1: They get in there and cause the dough to rise
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Well, this is like doing that to your lawn.
Speaker 1: Five to ten pounds per thousand square feet. That's not
Speaker 1: much five to ten pounds per thousand square feet, and
Speaker 1: if you've got a pretty significant issue with the soil,
Speaker 1: you can double that and go up to about twenty
Speaker 1: pounds per thousand But this is something you use along
Speaker 1: with fertilizer or anytime of the year you want to
Speaker 1: use it. It's not nitrogen, phosphorus potassium. You're putting out
Speaker 1: your inoculating your soil with additional beneficial microbes that are
Speaker 1: out there micro grow bianoculants from Microlife. You can go
Speaker 1: to microlife fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot Com that
Speaker 1: tells you what all their products are, tells you more
Speaker 1: about the products, and tells you where you can find
Speaker 1: their products. Important to be able to find them in
Speaker 1: the places where they are nearest to you. And Microlife's
Speaker 1: widely widely available, so you won't have any trouble at
Speaker 1: all locating microlife in your area. Well out of enchanted gardens.
Speaker 1: They are gearing up for the holidays as you would
Speaker 1: expect when you go into the gift shops. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they are loaded with things, and so are the gardens
Speaker 1: outside in the blingk. They've got the Santa Claus themselfs
Speaker 1: showing up on December seventh at ten am. December seventh,
Speaker 1: ten am not too far away. So I'm telling you
Speaker 1: now you can get that on your calendar. By the way,
Speaker 1: Jennet Gardens is located on FM three fifty nine, just
Speaker 1: north of Richmond, Texas FM three fifty nine. If you
Speaker 1: haven't been there, you need to go. If you've got
Speaker 1: family coming in for the holidays, set some time aside
Speaker 1: one of the days to go over and take them
Speaker 1: to Enchanted Gardens to see that place. It is awesome.
Speaker 1: It is awesome. A week later, on the fourteenth, they're
Speaker 1: having the grinch Fest. You know what, just go to
Speaker 1: their website because all these events and all the things
Speaker 1: you need to know are right there at the website.
Speaker 1: It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 1: That's where you get plants that want to grow. Here
Speaker 1: an incredible variety and very friendly, knowledgeable staff that'll that'll
Speaker 1: not steer you wrong and help you have success. Time
Speaker 1: for me to take another little break. I will be
Speaker 1: right back if you'd like to give us a call
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two kt RH. The Stalkers
Speaker 1: song now says she said that I can, and here
Speaker 1: it'll be. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line. Good heavy
Speaker 1: with us today. We're here to talk about gardening. Do
Speaker 1: you have a question, Let's visit about it seven to
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r h seven
Speaker 1: to one three two one two k t r h.
Speaker 1: The orchard that I'm putting in on the side of
Speaker 1: the house is in a very heavy clay soil. I
Speaker 1: mean a clay that is just massively dense and poorly drained.
Speaker 1: And you can't grow fruit in that, most fruit at least.
Speaker 1: And so I'm bringing in some soil to mix it
Speaker 1: up and you know, bring up the level a little bit,
Speaker 1: try to improve on it. Well, I not just try,
Speaker 1: I will improve on it so that the fruit trees
Speaker 1: will do well there. And that's a nice thing about
Speaker 1: residential horticulture around our houses is we can do all
Speaker 1: kinds of things. You know, if you're a farmer with
Speaker 1: a thousand acres, you can't put three inches accountpost over
Speaker 1: the whole and acres, or at least not if you
Speaker 1: don't stand business. But we can in a home backyard
Speaker 1: for a little fruit tree or for a garden or whatever.
Speaker 1: And it's really important because that clay soil, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: it doesn't drain well and it has a shrink swell potential.
Speaker 1: And what that is, what that means is that when
Speaker 1: it gets wet, it swells up and when it gets dry,
Speaker 1: it shrinks up. That's why you see cracks in the
Speaker 1: yard in the summer when it's hot, and those cracks
Speaker 1: are from the soil having shrunk. Well, the same issue
Speaker 1: really wrecks havoc on our sidewalks and our driveways and
Speaker 1: on our home foundations and fix my slab foundation repair
Speaker 1: is all about that. TI's been doing this in the
Speaker 1: Houston area for twenty three years, actually over twenty three
Speaker 1: years now, Ty Strickland, and he knows how to do it.
Speaker 1: He's dealt with it. He understands the science behind it
Speaker 1: of what's going on and what amount of movement is
Speaker 1: of a concern and what you need to do to
Speaker 1: fix it right. In fact, he had three goals, and
Speaker 1: I like this. It's a slogan on time, fair priced fixed.
Speaker 1: He shows up on time when he says he would,
Speaker 1: he gives you a fair price, and when he fixes it,
Speaker 1: he fixes it right. And he'll tell you if if
Speaker 1: the movement is not enough to need fixing at this point,
Speaker 1: he'll tell you that. I mean, he's a straight shooter,
Speaker 1: native Estonian, fifth generation Texan. You can go to the
Speaker 1: website fixmislab dot com and find out more. Make sure
Speaker 1: if you call him, by the way, the number is
Speaker 1: two eight one two five five forty ninety nine. Two
Speaker 1: eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. Tell
Speaker 1: him your guardline listener that get a free estimate for
Speaker 1: garden line listeners.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: But if you don't know what I'm talking about, well,
Speaker 1: walk around your house. Look at the brick. Do you
Speaker 1: see cracks in the brick, especially underneath windows, but anywhere really?
Speaker 1: Do you have sheet rock that's cracking inside or a ceiling.
Speaker 1: Do you see maybe a door that's sticking that used
Speaker 1: to not or maybe seasonally it sticks and then it
Speaker 1: quits sticking, and so on. That's the movement we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Fix my slab foundation repair two eight one two five
Speaker 1: five forty nine. Don't be an ostrich, don't put your
Speaker 1: head in the sand. This situation does not fix itself.
Speaker 1: And the earlier you get on it, the better informed
Speaker 1: you'll be as to what to do and what you
Speaker 1: can do about it. I was visiting with someone the
Speaker 1: other day that's asking me some questions regarding asmite, and
Speaker 1: you know as mite, So is that like if I
Speaker 1: if I fertilize I don't need to do as mite,
Speaker 1: and the answer is no, you do need micronutrient trace minerals,
Speaker 1: and most fertilizers don't have trace minerals in them, at
Speaker 1: least maybe not in the content and the amount of
Speaker 1: the specific kinds that you need. When you put it
Speaker 1: on asmite, what you're doing is you're putting down that
Speaker 1: the minerals that are essential for plant growth, that are
Speaker 1: not needed in large enough quantities to be part of
Speaker 1: our annual fertilization, fertilization, fertilization, fertilization, you know, things that
Speaker 1: we do out in our in our garden, in our yard,
Speaker 1: but they're still essential. And as MIGHT provides that. You
Speaker 1: can go to the website ASMIT Texas dot com find
Speaker 1: out more about it. In fact, I encourage you to do.
Speaker 1: That is a mind product ground up. Essentially, it's crusted
Speaker 1: minerals and it doesn't take a lot of it. It
Speaker 1: goes a long way because these are micronutrients. But don't
Speaker 1: be fooled. The fact that they're only needed in trace
Speaker 1: amounts does not mean they're not essential. They are essential.
Speaker 1: So about twenty different nutrient or minerals that we need
Speaker 1: in our soils for our plants. And when a nutrient
Speaker 1: is essential, it's essential and without it, applant can't grow.
Speaker 1: And that's why it is important to make sure your
Speaker 1: soil is stocked pull now I call that the soil
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Speaker 1: soil test. If you ever want to check on any
Speaker 1: nutrient level, even a macro nutrient like phosphorus and potassium
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Speaker 1: find out what you need, and then you can fertilize
Speaker 1: and supplement accordingly. Every my soul is a little bit different,
Speaker 1: but I can tell you this asmide is a regular practice.
Speaker 1: Is a good idea whether it is a vegetable garden
Speaker 1: or your lawn or a flower bed. Just follow instructions
Speaker 1: on the label. There are a lot of misconceptions when
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Speaker 1: oh for different reasons. Sometimes it's it used to be
Speaker 1: needed and it's no longer needed in terms of a practice.
Speaker 1: Let me give you an example. This one cracks me up.
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Speaker 1: I had a professor in horticulture and he was telling
Speaker 1: me that his wife would always cut the end of
Speaker 1: the ham off before she put it in the oven
Speaker 1: to bake, like the shanky in, just cut a little
Speaker 1: bit off the shank end and put it in the
Speaker 1: oven to bay And he asked her why do you
Speaker 1: do that? And she said, I don't know, my mom
Speaker 1: always did it. Okay. Well, finally, one day, Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 1: or whatever, they were at Grandma's house and she said, hey, Grandma,
Speaker 1: why are you Why do you always cut off the
Speaker 1: end of your hand And she goes, well, I used
Speaker 1: to have a small oven and I couldn't get the
Speaker 1: whole thing in and so I'd have to cut the
Speaker 1: end off. So something that had a purpose at one
Speaker 1: time doesn't always have a purpose. And we need to
Speaker 1: make sure we stay on top of things and you know,
Speaker 1: learn how to do things. I'm gonna talk about a
Speaker 1: couple of misconceptions. I'll maybe we'll call them horticultural malpractices
Speaker 1: when we come back here in just a minute. But
Speaker 1: that is important. But one thing that hasn't changed is
Speaker 1: the fact that if you want success with gardening, you
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Speaker 1: Old Doodie Brothers quiz China Growth. You know where China
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Speaker 1: Let's speaking of talk to be. Let's go straight out.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Chris in the Woodlands. Hey, Chris,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Well, thank you, and I sure do like your calls.
Speaker 11: Screener.
Speaker 12: He does a good cat.
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 4: Tell him thank you.
Speaker 1: He didn't yell at you, he didn't scream at you.
Speaker 12: He calls me my name. I just love it.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're good, all right, Jonathan, you're naming life. All right?
Speaker 1: What's up? Chris?
Speaker 12: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow has not been blooming ever since
Speaker 12: the snow. What do I need to do to get
Speaker 12: them blooming?
Speaker 13: Again.
Speaker 1: They're growing fine. They look good.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, they're green and up to my hips. And
Speaker 12: but no flowers this year and since since twenty one
Speaker 12: February twenty one.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know any mechanism where cold weather would
Speaker 1: cause a plant to stop blooming, you know, in other words,
Speaker 1: it keeps growing. It didn't kill the plant, but it
Speaker 1: stops growing, yes, yesterday, the day and tomorrow. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Brun Felsias is a fancy name for the plant. And
Speaker 1: they they like a bright light in our warm, warm climate.
Speaker 1: They do a little bit better with kind of a
Speaker 1: dappled shade, just to give them a little break from
Speaker 1: the heat. It takes sunlight to make blooms on any plant,
Speaker 1: because blooms take a lot of carbohydrates, and you've got
Speaker 1: to have sun to make carbohydrates. So it gosh, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know why it wouldn't be blooming. I
Speaker 1: just haven't haven't seen that before. It likes moist soil,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't like soggy wet soil. That is another
Speaker 1: thing about the plant. Good lighting, adequate nutrition, not extra fertilizing,
Speaker 1: but moderate fertilizing. It does like it a little bit
Speaker 1: on the acidic side, So using acid fertilized the yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't really affect the acidity much. That's that's a
Speaker 1: it's a not well, it's it's based on truth, but
Speaker 1: they're not going to make any significant difference. I would
Speaker 1: use an acid loving plant food, something for azaleas, camellias, blueberries,
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. It would probably be the next
Speaker 1: step to it. How tall is your plant right now?
Speaker 12: Some of them are up to my hip probably three
Speaker 12: feet maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, oh a little on the smaller side there
Speaker 1: are There is a dwarf cultivar, but even it gets
Speaker 1: up to five feet tall, so I think it needs
Speaker 1: a little more vigor. I would try, And of course
Speaker 1: this year is done as far as Britain. Felsia is
Speaker 1: concern because it's not a cold weather plant. So next
Speaker 1: spring when it comes out, gets you a good acid
Speaker 1: loving plant food. Microlife makes one for azaleas and acid
Speaker 1: loving plants. It's in kind of a a reddish pink bag.
Speaker 1: I'm color challenge. So there's another name for the color.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't remember what it is, but anyway,
Speaker 1: that reddish pink kind of color would be the micro
Speaker 1: Life product. For it, and I would start using that
Speaker 1: just following it. So anyway, I think that the pH
Speaker 1: and maybe a little boost of nutrients if it's getting
Speaker 1: adequate light. That's the only other thing I can think of,
Speaker 1: the grist to get that thing to kick in the gear.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we're in the woodlands, so there is lots of shade,
Speaker 12: but maybe it's been part of it because it keeps
Speaker 12: growing all the shade trees around it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that is a factor, and so you might
Speaker 1: it may need a little more light intensity. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say. Our eyes adjust to all kinds
Speaker 1: of light, but we think an area may be bright
Speaker 1: that truly not or adequately bright. So a combination of
Speaker 1: light and the things I mentioned. It's a beautiful plant. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I love to see it every spring, but used to
Speaker 12: happened a long time. All right, well, thank you.
Speaker 1: We can fix that. Let me know if it works
Speaker 1: next year, whatever you need to do to.
Speaker 12: It, Okay, sure will all right, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Take care, Bye bye. All right, you're
Speaker 1: listening to the garden line seven one three two one
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Speaker 1: in the Heights, and anyone who's been to Bu Cannons
Speaker 1: knows what I'm about. What I'm talking about when I
Speaker 1: say this is a very special place. It is a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful retreat from the world into a wonderland of native plants.
Speaker 1: Right now, the place is loaded up with beautiful Christmas trees.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you should see these things. There's gorgeous
Speaker 1: which they do that every year Buchanans. It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: But I don't want you to lose sight. I know
Speaker 1: the holidays are here, but don't lose sight of the
Speaker 1: fact that now's the time to get things planted. Now
Speaker 1: while you're out there, grab your trees, grab your wreaths,
Speaker 1: grab the swag and all the holiday decorations, because they've
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have live music, they're gonna have kids crafts,
Speaker 1: and will be out there drinks more. Really it's the
Speaker 1: Buchanans is located on eleven Street in the Heights. Really
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Speaker 1: gotta go. In fact, take your family and friends out there,
Speaker 1: especially if they're around on Saturday, December seventh. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. They're gonna have live jazz band and coffee
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Speaker 1: if you can, it's not a better time to plant
Speaker 1: than now. If you want to decorate your home for
Speaker 1: the holidays with greenery, their house Plant Greenhouse is loaded
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Speaker 1: when you put plants in a room, it just makes
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Speaker 1: you go, just remember the holiday open house again December seventh,
Speaker 1: ten am to three pm. It's a free event, by
Speaker 1: the way, enjoy. Let's head over and talk to Derek. Now, hey, Derek,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line. Thank you Skip. I'm a complete beginner.
Speaker 1: I had a my long.
Speaker 14: Guy come over and fix a sprinkler head. He turned
Speaker 14: off the sprinklers and then, uh uh, the the schedule
Speaker 14: of the sprinklers is now removed or whatever, so I
Speaker 14: need to reset it.
Speaker 1: So it's a Saint Augustine lawn.
Speaker 14: What what schedule should I reset it to?
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Yeah? Good, good, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: So first of all, your sprinkler guys should come do
Speaker 1: that for you. I would I would ask that they
Speaker 1: since they stopped it, they come fix it. But that
Speaker 1: that's neither here nor there. If you go online to
Speaker 1: gardening with skip dot com, I've got my lawn care ski.
Speaker 1: It's free to download, and there's a big blue bar
Speaker 1: that goes all the way across January to December, and
Speaker 1: it tells you each month, on average, how much water
Speaker 1: do you need a week if it hasn't rained in
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Okay, and right now we're
Speaker 1: in November and this is a half inch a week month,
Speaker 1: and then December and January and February or zero inches
Speaker 1: a week month. So aside from a very unusual drought
Speaker 1: or something like that, you shouldn't have to water in
Speaker 1: the winter time. So we're right on the edge. Really,
Speaker 1: if you feel like your soil is dry, go out there,
Speaker 1: kind of dig down a few inches and just feel it.
Speaker 1: Then go ahead and do another watering. But we're pretty
Speaker 1: much winding up on that. And if you've had any
Speaker 1: rain in the last week, you probably don't need any okay, So.
Speaker 14: Just in ram terms, November half an inch, December no water.
Speaker 1: That's the general guide and what that's based on. Of
Speaker 1: course every year is different. But what I did is
Speaker 1: I took the historic weather data for ten years, twenty years.
Speaker 1: I can't remember how far we went back of how
Speaker 1: much it rains in Houston versus how much launch use
Speaker 1: based on temperature and many other factors and on the average,
Speaker 1: So like November the whole month would be about two
Speaker 1: inches of irrigation for the whole month, about about a
Speaker 1: half inch a week. So what was your website again?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 1: Gardening with Skip that's me Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good info on there. Thank you
Speaker 1: all right, man, I hear the music. It looks like
Speaker 1: they're about to cut us off here. Thanks a lot
Speaker 1: for your call back. Welcome back to guarden Line. Good
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Speaker 1: to Guardenline. Good morning Skip.
Speaker 4: Hey, I just wanted to thank you. A couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago, someone called in with a Tiff four nineteen
Speaker 4: bermuda lawn with the weed, and they sent you pictures
Speaker 4: and you said it was a very rare weed and
Speaker 4: you identified it as adder's tongue and I looked it
Speaker 4: up and lo and behold. I have that same weed
Speaker 4: and my Tiff four nineteen in about a five ten
Speaker 4: foot square area that I follow the schedule. I mow
Speaker 4: with a real mower. I used post and pre emergent herbicide,
Speaker 4: and nothing else touched this. And it's not solid, but
Speaker 4: it like the other caller described it. Herbicides dent it
Speaker 4: but don't kill it. So I I've started with brush
Speaker 4: killer and a you tip trying to kill it now,
Speaker 4: so we'll see if that's okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have any other ideas, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't other than we'll try this or
Speaker 1: we'll try that, you know kind of thing it is.
Speaker 1: There are some weed killers that are just top burn
Speaker 1: products and things like well, an example people have heard
Speaker 1: of is vinegar, you know, herbicidal vinegar. They spray on
Speaker 1: a plant and it just fries whatever you get it on.
Speaker 1: If you get on your lawn's gonna fry the lawn,
Speaker 1: it's gonna fry. It doesn't go to underground and kill
Speaker 1: underground storage structures and roots and bulbs and things, which
Speaker 1: is why we don't. We don't generally go to it first,
Speaker 1: just because that's a limitation of it. But if you
Speaker 1: wanted to do some little spot careful spot treatments, just
Speaker 1: minimizing contact, it's gonna have some little brown spots in
Speaker 1: the turf, but your terf will come back because it
Speaker 1: just fries the foliage that you get it on. Uh
Speaker 1: that I did a I did some online research and
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Speaker 4: So yeah, no, likewise, after like I said, two weeks ago,
Speaker 4: you identified it, and I've spent online looking but you
Speaker 4: know you got you got it identified. So that's a
Speaker 4: big plus. But uh yeah, it's also looks like a
Speaker 4: dollar weed, but it's it's very sparse and it has
Speaker 4: a little stem coming up out of the leaf and.
Speaker 1: Right that little structure for four years. All right, well
Speaker 1: now we know what it is. Too bad you can't
Speaker 1: eat it. You know, if we could eat it, we would.
Speaker 4: Just some of the searches. Hey, thanks, some sort of
Speaker 4: medicinal deal, but uh I'm eat Oh really thanks all right,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks a lot, like
Speaker 1: appreciate your call. Let me know if you figure out
Speaker 1: something that seems to work on it, I'd like to
Speaker 1: know that I don't have any here, I'd start experimenting
Speaker 1: with it. All right, we'll take take care and again,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for that call. You know, when
Speaker 1: it comes to what are you going to use to
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Speaker 1: your calls at seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guarden Line, folks. Good have you with us.
Speaker 1: We are glad you are with us today. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot of things that we can talk about regarding gardening. Uh,
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Speaker 1: that they can do repair on irrigation system, make sure
Speaker 1: things are working functioning properly. They can take that soggy
Speaker 1: wet area that doesn't drain and make it an area
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Speaker 1: they can do. If you live down south of the
Speaker 1: Houston area, Horaz Hidden Gardens is your hometown garden center.
Speaker 1: Just do south of Houston, right down there in Alvin Texas.
Speaker 1: Alvin Texas, you know, Horaes Hidden Gardens has been continuing
Speaker 1: to just develop and grow and bring in more stuff.
Speaker 1: They've got. They just fruit trees, ever, just lots of options.
Speaker 1: I mean when I say fruit trees, I mean including
Speaker 1: blueberry bushes. You know, they have several different types of
Speaker 1: really cool blueberries. They've got shrubs and trees, magnolias.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago took a major hit on
Speaker 1: Magnolia's just a killer summer. But they've got new ones
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Speaker 1: have a good supply of those. And it's not just
Speaker 1: fruits and nuts and things like that. It's all kinds
Speaker 1: of plants. When you go to Jorges Hidden Gardens, you're
Speaker 1: going to find well, I didn't mention citrus. I should
Speaker 1: have mentioned that because they also carry that as well,
Speaker 1: but things like azalea's for example. Maybe you want some
Speaker 1: pansies for color in the landscape. Depending on the season,
Speaker 1: they're going to have a wide variety of all kinds
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Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 1: My favorite spring flowering tree is Chinese fringe and they
Speaker 1: have those eagles and Holly's red buds Maples. Jorges Hidden Gardens,
Speaker 1: they are on going to write this down. They are
Speaker 1: on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas. All right. They're hours
Speaker 1: by the way, Monday they're closed, but today and Tomorrow
Speaker 1: eight am to four pm and two c through Friday
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Speaker 1: brand new tree. It does a perfect job of anchoring it.
Speaker 1: And Joryes got that. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two five eight seven four. Earlier I
Speaker 1: was talking about UH misconceptions or things that just ain't so,
Speaker 1: or things that have changed in gardening, you know. I
Speaker 1: use the analogy of UH by one of my Hoart professors.
Speaker 1: His wife cut off the hand to put it in
Speaker 1: the in the oven, and he asked her why. She
Speaker 1: didn't know. It's because her mom did it. And asked
Speaker 1: mom why, and mom said, What's because I used to
Speaker 1: have a little love that was too small to put
Speaker 1: the pull back ham bony, so I had to cut
Speaker 1: the end off to fit it in the pan. And
Speaker 1: we do that in gardening and horticulture. One of the
Speaker 1: number one things that falls into that category is the
Speaker 1: way we prune crape myrtles. Now, pruning season is coming
Speaker 1: up here, and if you have a crepe myrtle, don't
Speaker 1: butcher it. They call that creape murder. That's a good
Speaker 1: name for it. Crepe myrtles had beautiful structure, smooth bark
Speaker 1: that even in the winter when there's not a leaf
Speaker 1: or bloom on the tree, they're beautiful.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 1: And when you go in and you just hack them off,
Speaker 1: like the landscape crews all over town are doing, don't
Speaker 1: do that. There is no horticulture reason for doing that.
Speaker 1: You know, the reason for doing that because you just
Speaker 1: it's easy to tell someone just cut everything off this
Speaker 1: high and it's winter time, we don't any lawns to mow,
Speaker 1: so let's send everybody out there and let's just prune
Speaker 1: everything within an inch of its life. Don't do that.
Speaker 1: That is bad. That is horticultural malpractice. Crape myrtle should
Speaker 1: have a natural branching, properly trained structure that is just
Speaker 1: beautiful and there's not one way to do it. But
Speaker 1: what you don't do is stub off a branch when
Speaker 1: you're doing pruning. There are two kinds of cuts. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the nerd alert, but it's important if you're going
Speaker 1: to learn one thing, this is important to know about pruning.
Speaker 1: There's heading cuts, where you cut the end of a
Speaker 1: branch off and when you're done. It looks like the
Speaker 1: end of a broomstick. It just stubs off. The response
Speaker 1: from the plant is going to be to send a
Speaker 1: bunch of buds out at the end, and we have
Speaker 1: what we call a crow's foot. So hold your hand up,
Speaker 1: point your fingers and thumb upward and outward. That's called
Speaker 1: a crow's foot. You cut it off, and now all
Speaker 1: these little shoots come out there. That's what happens when
Speaker 1: they pun craig myrtles this way. That's a heading cut.
Speaker 1: Very few places for heading cuts. There are a few,
Speaker 1: but not many in horticulture. Printing a thinning cut. I
Speaker 1: want you to hold your hand up, put your fingers together,
Speaker 1: and stick your thumb out to the side. Now, if
Speaker 1: you were to cut off all the fingers and leave
Speaker 1: the thumb sticking out, that's a thinning cut. I think
Speaker 1: of it as redirecting growth. You got a highway with
Speaker 1: an off ramp. You put a barricade on the highway
Speaker 1: and all the traffic has to go out the off ramp.
Speaker 1: That's a thinning cut that you get less re sprouting.
Speaker 1: And when you're through pruning. With thinning cuts, it is
Speaker 1: a more natural look. It's not just a bunch of
Speaker 1: stubbed ends. Thinning cuts. That's very important. You can learn
Speaker 1: more about those online, but just keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: That's like pruning one oh one, and especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to crape myrtles, quit stubbing off the branches with
Speaker 1: heading cuts. Use thinning cuts to redirect the traffic, traffic
Speaker 1: being the growth of the plant into a different direction. Alrighty,
Speaker 1: well that's you know what I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: take that. We're going to post that. I put that
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Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 1: I was talking about myths and misunderstandings and things like that.
Speaker 1: Another thing that people don't comprehend when it comes to
Speaker 1: plants is that the proper way to fertilize a plant.
Speaker 1: People think of fertilizer as making the plant grow, and
Speaker 1: there is a sense in which, especially with nitrogen that's
Speaker 1: the case. But what fertilizers do is they provide the plant.
Speaker 1: That's the ingredients that they need to grow. It is
Speaker 1: the sunlight, and it is the temperature, and it is
Speaker 1: the soil moisture that spurs plant growth. So think about
Speaker 1: plants is a little factory, because that's what they are.
Speaker 1: The leaves capture sunlight, that's energy. They make plant food,
Speaker 1: which fuels growth. If you had a little factory that
Speaker 1: was making something, I don't know, maybe a brick factory,
Speaker 1: let's say, and you put in clay or sand or something,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it takes to hold everything together to
Speaker 1: produce this product. If you're limited in getting the supplies
Speaker 1: you need to build what you're building, you're not going
Speaker 1: to have much production coming out the end of the factory, okay.
Speaker 1: And fertilizer is like part of those supplies for production
Speaker 1: for the plant. So when you put it down the plant,
Speaker 1: when the sunlight and the moisture and the temperature are right,
Speaker 1: they can take off growing. If the nitrogen and phosphorus
Speaker 1: and potassium and magnesium and sulfur and all the micronutrients
Speaker 1: like zinc and molebdenum and iron and on and on
Speaker 1: all of those ingredients. If they're not there, the plant's
Speaker 1: not going to be able to grow. When you put
Speaker 1: them there, the plant can take off and grow, and
Speaker 1: it's nitrogen primarily. That is the main thing that fuels
Speaker 1: that growth. So you don't take a plant that is
Speaker 1: not growing and think fertilizer is going to make it
Speaker 1: grow if it's not growing because of temperature, or because
Speaker 1: of lack of sunlight, or because of soggy wet soil
Speaker 1: or dry soil or some other factor. So just think
Speaker 1: of fertilizer is supplying growth when the conditions are what
Speaker 1: the plant needs. Why is that important? Well, A lot
Speaker 1: of times people end up over fertilizing plants trying to
Speaker 1: make them grow when the problem is really something else.
Speaker 1: Something to think about. I talk all the time about
Speaker 1: brown stuff before green stuff. Right, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: That means you prepare the soil and then you can
Speaker 1: have good plant growth. That's how that works works whenever
Speaker 1: you get the soil right. And by the way, right
Speaker 1: means there's plenty of organic matter in the soil. We
Speaker 1: call that compost. When we're adding it organic matter, there
Speaker 1: is good oxygen in the soil. Compost helps create that
Speaker 1: there's air space. It's not like this massive, massive modeling
Speaker 1: clay that water and air can't get into. It's we
Speaker 1: call friable. It breaks apart. It's got little small clumps
Speaker 1: and particles grouped together that brings air in the soil,
Speaker 1: so good oxygen, good air down in the soil, good
Speaker 1: water holding capacity, but also good drainage and organic matter
Speaker 1: does all these things for the soil. And when you
Speaker 1: create that and then chocolate full of the nutrients the
Speaker 1: plants need, you've made the brown stuff that is going
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Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us today. What do you
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Speaker 1: Right now, we're going to go to the phones and
Speaker 1: see what Scott out in Fort ben County wants to
Speaker 1: talk about. Hey Scott, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning ship.
Speaker 5: Hey, I had a question.
Speaker 17: We got a maintenance guy at work.
Speaker 18: To put a couple red pineapples, uh in the front door,
Speaker 18: by the front door outside of Potts, And I.
Speaker 17: Saw that and I said, man, there's little pineapples popping up.
Speaker 5: I gotta have some of these.
Speaker 17: Is that something that can go in the ground in
Speaker 17: this type of climate?
Speaker 1: I figure he got it local.
Speaker 17: He bought it local, So yeah, it must do okay
Speaker 17: in this type of climate.
Speaker 1: But is that something that can go in the ground.
Speaker 1: Does it need to be potted? Well, if it's truly
Speaker 1: the red pineapple, it's like other pineapples. It is not
Speaker 1: going to take the hardest cold that we have, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna to cover them up when it's going to
Speaker 1: get really cold. They're a tropical type of rebelliad, but
Speaker 1: they do need some protection from, you know, like a
Speaker 1: real hard freeze.
Speaker 17: So yes, So I guess my question too, is it
Speaker 17: like is it just for looks? Are they selling it
Speaker 17: just for looks? Or is it something that will come
Speaker 17: to fruition.
Speaker 1: It will produce a fruit that is reddish in color
Speaker 1: as well. The leaves kind of have almost a purplish
Speaker 1: green look to them that are on top of the fruit.
Speaker 1: You know how pineapple has the leaves coming out the
Speaker 1: top of it. They're kind of a purplish green look.
Speaker 1: I guess if that describes it, well, blue green maybe
Speaker 1: another way to put it. But yeah, you can eat them. Technically,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about their culinary quality. I know
Speaker 1: they're not known for for the colony equality, but the
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, are they edible? Yeah, technically they
Speaker 1: are grow a different kind. Okay, okay, I saw it.
Speaker 1: I thought, I don't know what that is, and.
Speaker 5: I need three of them.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, well give them a shot, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean you can dig them up to pineapples or
Speaker 1: they're bromeliads, and uh, you know, we we buy bromeliads
Speaker 1: as houseplant or as patio plants and things. The root
Speaker 1: system is very limited in terms of Bromeliads generally are
Speaker 1: capturing the water that falls from the sky and chunk
Speaker 1: channeling it down to the base of the plant. So
Speaker 1: I guess I'm saying all that just to say if
Speaker 1: you dig one up and move it and plant it,
Speaker 1: it's going to just keep going. They're they're not as
Speaker 1: picky of some plants about about being.
Speaker 19: Dug, and they've got to be watered quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Huh, moderate amount of water I mean they you know,
Speaker 1: it's they're not gonna they're not going to die just
Speaker 1: from a little bit of dry conditions, but you want
Speaker 1: to keep them adequately moist if you want them to
Speaker 1: look good and perform. Well understood, Skip.
Speaker 19: Have a good weekend.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, keep keep track of things on it
Speaker 1: and send me a picture when you when you get
Speaker 1: some fruit on the Thingks absolutely, sir, appreciate appreciate that.
Speaker 1: We're going to go out to surf side now and
Speaker 1: talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 5: Hey, Skip, appreciate it. I hat a quick question for you.
Speaker 5: I'm going to start collecting seeds from some vegetable crops
Speaker 5: to use in the next year. Does it make any
Speaker 5: difference the size of the fruit or the size of
Speaker 5: the seed, or all the seeds genetically the same if
Speaker 5: they come from one plant.
Speaker 1: Technically, for most plants, all the seeds or genetically the same,
Speaker 1: except if it's a hybrid, then those seeds are going
Speaker 1: to be a mix of the parents, and hybrids come
Speaker 1: from different types of the mom, kind of like kids.
Speaker 1: You know, a child will not directly resemble mom or dad.
Speaker 1: There may be similarities, there may be oh they got
Speaker 1: mom's eyes or dad's you know, nose or whatever. But
Speaker 1: they're they're a mix, and so that's kind of a
Speaker 1: hybrid type thing. Open pollinated plants, there's a little variation,
Speaker 1: but in general they are all the same gene pool
Speaker 1: kind of.
Speaker 5: And so it's okay, that didn't matter. I didn't know
Speaker 5: if it made a difference the size of the seed
Speaker 5: or once again the size of the plant. You know,
Speaker 5: just okay, So I can just use a little small
Speaker 5: squash versus a large squadk and it would basically be
Speaker 5: about the same.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that is That is not gonna be
Speaker 1: a difference there. The only difference would be since you
Speaker 1: brought up squashes, there are summer squashes and their winter squashes.
Speaker 1: Summer squashes we eat immature, like zucchini and yellow squash,
Speaker 1: and winter squashes we allowed to mature. And that would
Speaker 1: include like kobocha squash and pumpkins and acorn squash and
Speaker 1: butternut squash. Well, depending on there's a lot of crossing
Speaker 1: that can go on with the many, many different types
Speaker 1: of each of those. And so I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: theoretical here, Like if a bee went Let's say you
Speaker 1: had a yellow squash and a bee went over and
Speaker 1: got some zucchini pollen and pollinated one bloom, and a
Speaker 1: different bee got pollen from another scare squash and pollinated
Speaker 1: a different bloom. Those two fruit would have seeds from
Speaker 1: different parents, say mom, different dads, Okay, and so there
Speaker 1: would be a difference, but not because of the size
Speaker 1: of the fruit or anything.
Speaker 5: Sure I didn't. I'll see these guys that grow these
Speaker 5: giant pumpkins, like you know, pop pump pumpkins. Then they
Speaker 5: turn around. I think they sell the seed and they
Speaker 5: I guess, well, maybe it does have something to do
Speaker 5: with the size of the plant, but maybe not so.
Speaker 1: Well, that that's just seeds, that that gene line, that
Speaker 1: that breeding line has been developed over the years by
Speaker 1: saving the seeds of crosses and things that produce the
Speaker 1: biggest pumpkins and then planting those. And you know, so
Speaker 1: you're going to get a variation. Okay, let me use
Speaker 1: my people analogy one last time on it. If you
Speaker 1: if you knew a family that one child was very
Speaker 1: very tall and the other children are all short, obviously
Speaker 1: there's something genetically different or that's a primary reason in
Speaker 1: that one, and and and so you whenever you select
Speaker 1: for a particular characteristic and cross things, then you get
Speaker 1: more of that. You develop that further. And those giant
Speaker 1: pumpkins have been developed that way. But the main reason
Speaker 1: they get so darn big is the growing conditions, the soil,
Speaker 1: the way they grow them. I mean, it's a crazy
Speaker 1: competition where they go to great links.
Speaker 5: To go on television. All right, man, I appreciate you
Speaker 5: answer my question.
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Speaker 1: in Sugarland, thanks for waiting. How can we help today?
Speaker 20: Good morning, Skip. It must be my day because your
Speaker 20: producers leading on that last song, Reeling in the Years
Speaker 20: by Stevie Dan is one of my favorites, but not
Speaker 20: the leader.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I got a questions for you, guys.
Speaker 20: I have been in dated this year. I'm in Port
Speaker 20: Ben County. I would say northwest Fort Ben County. There's
Speaker 20: a grass that popped up from out of nowhere. It's
Speaker 20: it's got two long blades. When it starts out, it
Speaker 20: runs a very strong root system, and it grows so
Speaker 20: fast that I'm having to cut my back, which is
Speaker 20: saying Augustine almost every other day. Have you had anyone
Speaker 20: else call about this grass?
Speaker 1: Well, I need a little more of a description on
Speaker 1: it than that. Does it grow almost straight up, way
Speaker 1: above higher than the Saint Augustine.
Speaker 20: Yes, yes, it's got. It starts off with two long
Speaker 20: leaves and those quickly just I mean they grow at
Speaker 20: a very fast face, but I get, you know, to
Speaker 20: start pulling them up, and there's an extensive root system
Speaker 20: that runs from one to the other. But yeah, it
Speaker 20: starts off as just two blades, and that grows, yeah,
Speaker 20: at least four to five inches higher than my Saint Augustine.
Speaker 5: And I've never seen any you.
Speaker 1: Know what you know what nut sets or nutgrass is right, Yes,
Speaker 1: it's not that right, it's not that.
Speaker 5: It's not that it's.
Speaker 1: Okay you you Michael. You may have something called torpedo grass.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Torpedograss is like a bermuda grass on steroids. But I
Speaker 1: mean it gets it comes up really high and grows
Speaker 1: really fast, and like bermuda grass is connected underground and
Speaker 1: on top of the ground. It also has an underground
Speaker 1: connection like that. So what you're describing leans I'm leaning
Speaker 1: toward torpedo grass being if you wanted to take some
Speaker 1: pictures of it, pull some up, get a little bit
Speaker 1: of the roots and lay it on a table, take
Speaker 1: a real good picture where I could re see the grass.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to take a second shot at it.
Speaker 1: But I think you're talking about torpedo grass.
Speaker 20: Yeah, everything you just said, you know, really describe it
Speaker 20: to a t. I mean it's I've looked I walk
Speaker 20: my sub division. None of my other neighbors, except for
Speaker 20: maybe the people on my street, seem to have this.
Speaker 20: I mean, is it something that can be spread by
Speaker 20: air or what did it actually come from?
Speaker 1: Well, it could come from a sprig that came in
Speaker 1: with some turf. It could crawl in from some neighbors
Speaker 1: or other area. Adjacent. It does have seed, but we
Speaker 1: don't normally think about it as starting from seed, but that,
Speaker 1: of course it could. I guess it is to where
Speaker 1: I kind of I don't have the crystal ball to
Speaker 1: really answer that one, but if you won't send me
Speaker 1: a picture, I'll take a look. If you want to
Speaker 1: just deal with it, go on onto my website, which
Speaker 1: is gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 1: and on there you're going to see how to build
Speaker 1: my weed wiper. It's a little device, a weed wiper
Speaker 1: that you build and all you got to do is
Speaker 1: run over to a Southwest Fertilizer on Bissinet and runwick
Speaker 1: and they have the little grabber tool that you build
Speaker 1: a weed wiper with. It's inexpensive, it's easy to do.
Speaker 1: And what you'll do is you'll put either a product
Speaker 1: that kills everything, which would be like a glycosate type product,
Speaker 1: or you'll put a grass only killer, which there's a
Speaker 1: couple of those. I'll tell you about that in a minute.
Speaker 1: You just put them on the sponges and then you
Speaker 1: just as you're walking through the yard, you just reach
Speaker 1: down and grab it and squeeze it on that and
Speaker 1: then pull up on those those shoots coming up, and
Speaker 1: it kills that without killing your grass because you're wiping
Speaker 1: it only on the taller weed. Also on my website
Speaker 1: is herbicides to use on the weed wiper. And so
Speaker 1: if you go down the grass problems, it tells you
Speaker 1: the three products, three ingredients. One of those three would
Speaker 1: work on killing torpedo grass in your lawn.
Speaker 20: Well, it's so strong right now, it's that it literally
Speaker 20: in my back My said Augustine. I follow your schedule
Speaker 20: and the grass looks great, but this stuff literally I
Speaker 20: cut the grass almost a couple of days ago, and
Speaker 20: now I'm sitting looking at my backyard. It's a good
Speaker 20: four inches hot, but it's all over it. It's like
Speaker 20: totally infested in the Saint Augustine. So it looked, you know,
Speaker 20: it looks all right, it looks green, but it's just taking.
Speaker 5: All I.
Speaker 1: Did other than just kind of lapping back on what
Speaker 1: I've said. Number one, I make sure it's the right
Speaker 1: thing we think, send me a picture. Number two is
Speaker 1: get the weed wiper that created you use it for
Speaker 1: a lot of different things, and then download that list
Speaker 1: of products and just run over to Southwest and Bob
Speaker 1: can get you all fixed up on that on that stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want to hang on hold for a minute,
Speaker 1: protu sier, we'll pick up the call and so you
Speaker 1: can send a picture. Give you an email to send
Speaker 1: a picture too. If not that, that's fine. Thank you
Speaker 1: for the call, Michael. Do appreciate that. Very interesting. All right,
Speaker 1: we're going to run out to Greg in Missouri City
Speaker 1: here before we run out of time. Hey, Greg, welcome
Speaker 1: to guarden Line.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Skip appreciate you're taking my call.
Speaker 21: I have I have a healthy saying August being along.
Speaker 5: At least it was healthy until recently.
Speaker 21: I've been following your schedule and I mistakenly I'm going
Speaker 21: to hurry the other day and mistakenly applied Imperial fifteen
Speaker 21: five instead of the night.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine, that's fine, it's no big deal. No,
Speaker 1: it's okay. I mean, we you know, we'd rather not
Speaker 1: push with most nitrogen. But it's not the end of
Speaker 1: the world at all. Your grass will be fine, it'll
Speaker 1: come out. You just pick up pick up your fertilizing
Speaker 1: in the spring with my scape.
Speaker 21: Now, I also have loud, large.
Speaker 1: Round packs a right, all right, Greg, hang on, hang on,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to take you the rest of the
Speaker 1: call after we come back.
Speaker 5: R H. Garden Line with Skimp Rickards.
Speaker 1: Yes, Trim, just.
Speaker 19: Watch him as.
Speaker 2: Many.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 1: We're glad to have you with us. We're here to
Speaker 1: answer your gardening questions, and the way I like to
Speaker 1: put it is to help you have a more bountiful garden,
Speaker 1: a more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process.
Speaker 1: Gardening should be fun. If you're not having fun, you're
Speaker 1: not doing it right. And doing it right means doesn't
Speaker 1: mean getting everything perfect. It doesn't mean you make no mistakes.
Speaker 1: It means you're doing it in an adventurous way to enjoy,
Speaker 1: to grow what you want to grow, and do what
Speaker 1: you want to do. You know, everybody kills plants. In fact,
Speaker 1: to be a good gardener, you got to kill a
Speaker 1: lot of plants. That's just part of the process. Doing
Speaker 1: it right means doing the things you enjoy doing. You know,
Speaker 1: some people all they care about is a beautiful lawn
Speaker 1: and trees and shrubs. They just want that outdoor setting
Speaker 1: to be neat and clean and sharp looking perfect. Well,
Speaker 1: that's good. Other people go the cottage garden route. They
Speaker 1: wanted to look wild and barely managed with pathways through it,
Speaker 1: and that's okay, go for that. If you're into edibles,
Speaker 1: grow herbs, grow vegetables, grow fruit trees, you.
Speaker 5: Can do that.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to do all that, and maybe
Speaker 1: you just want to have a beautiful, bountiful cut flower
Speaker 1: garden or something to attract hummingbirds and butterflies and pollinators,
Speaker 1: you to do it anyway you want. It's your place
Speaker 1: between you and the hoa. Let me just put it
Speaker 1: that way. You can do with it as you wish.
Speaker 1: Where gardening has all these I don't want to call
Speaker 1: them rules. They're presented like rules, but this is how
Speaker 1: you ought to do stuff. There are no rules. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to get colors that are esthetically pleasing
Speaker 1: in the opinion of color designers, you know where you
Speaker 1: get the color wheel out and you pick colors on
Speaker 1: opposite side of the wheel or tertiary colors like a
Speaker 1: triangle three corners or three sides of the wheel, and
Speaker 1: the weird wheels don't have sides. You get the idea
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Anyway, you can do that, but
Speaker 1: you don't have to do that. If you like the
Speaker 1: look of it, do what you like. It's your yard.
Speaker 1: There are no rules. Have fun. You want suggestions how
Speaker 1: to have better success or how to make something look
Speaker 1: a little better in general according to popular opinion. We
Speaker 1: can help you with that here on guard Line. But
Speaker 1: the main thing is get out there and have fun.
Speaker 1: And one place you can go to have a lot
Speaker 1: of fun is Moss Nursery down in Seabrook, Texas. I
Speaker 1: love it every time I go down there. It's eight
Speaker 1: acres that you wander through. You heard that right, an
Speaker 1: eight acre gardener's paradise. Been around for ages. It's a
Speaker 1: destination for sure. And every time you turn a corner,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're going to see. It's probably
Speaker 1: going to be some carved concrete statuary or something that
Speaker 1: they Jim brought back from timbuck to on some trip.
Speaker 1: It's going to be lots and lots and lots and
Speaker 1: kinds of pottery, taxidermy mounts, mineral specimens, African masks, you
Speaker 1: see what I'm talking about. I mean, it's very eclectic,
Speaker 1: but it's plants and plants and plants everywhere, flowers and
Speaker 1: fruit and vegetables and herbs and shrubs and trees and
Speaker 1: everything you can imagine. I am a specially fond of
Speaker 1: their houseplant greenhouse. They have such an awesome collection of
Speaker 1: all kinds. And I say houseplants, I mean it could
Speaker 1: be a patio plant too. Maybe it's a cacti or
Speaker 1: something that sits outside in the sun, but you bring
Speaker 1: it down on skin freezing cold. They've got tons of
Speaker 1: that stuff. They also have a really nice supply of
Speaker 1: already growing forced Emmerillis bulbs. So you need a quick
Speaker 1: you need something to take for that Thanksgiving meal where
Speaker 1: you're going to have Thanksgiving at somebody's house, about grabbing
Speaker 1: one of their forced Emmerillis bulbs and taking that home
Speaker 1: with you. Moss Nursery, it is truly a destination will
Speaker 1: worth going to on Toddville Road in Sebrook, Texas. Here's
Speaker 1: the websiteas Nursery Moss m aas nursery dot com. Our
Speaker 1: phone number is seven one three two one two k
Speaker 1: t r H seven one three two one two k
Speaker 1: t r h H. A lot of you listening to
Speaker 1: Guardenline would like to garden as organically as you can.
Speaker 1: That is a goal that is your that is your desire,
Speaker 1: your interest, that's what you enjoy too. By the way, well,
Speaker 1: Microlife Fertilizer has got a very wide selection of many, many,
Speaker 1: many kinds of organic products. Uh I, like the micro
Speaker 1: Grow bioinoculant that I was talking about earlier. They also
Speaker 1: have a product called micro Grow liquid AF. Micro Grow
Speaker 1: liquid AF, it's got eight beneficial microbes in it. It's
Speaker 1: chock full, and these are things that fight disease, like
Speaker 1: Bascilla's subtlests. There's actually a fungicide product that is that
Speaker 1: is just Bascilla subtlests out there on the market because
Speaker 1: Basila subtlest fights disease. Well, it's in this product. Trachoderma,
Speaker 1: two different types of trachiderma, two types of strepped to
Speaker 1: mice seats. These are all things that fight disease and
Speaker 1: help your plants to have success. Micro Grow liquid AF.
Speaker 1: You can mix it up water, you can spray it
Speaker 1: on plants. It's not going to burn. It is not
Speaker 1: a funge a side, but it does provide beneficial microbes
Speaker 1: that will help fight disease on your plants. You can
Speaker 1: find micro Grow liquid AF all the places you get Microlife.
Speaker 1: Just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and you can
Speaker 1: see the whole list. But I'll tell you this year,
Speaker 1: you're going to be hard pressed to go into a
Speaker 1: feed store that you hear me talk about on Gardenline,
Speaker 1: to go into a garden center, to go into ACE
Speaker 1: hardware store, go into a Southwest fertilizer and not run
Speaker 1: into Microlife products like micro Grow Liquid AF. We're going
Speaker 1: to head out now to the far kingdom of child
Speaker 1: Hill and talk to Rachel. Hey, Rachel, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: All right, do you have Rachel.
Speaker 16: If I'm here?
Speaker 1: Alrighty, yeah, I can Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Okay, thank you, good morning. I have young trees that
Speaker 16: we transplanted and the deer are eating the bar literally
Speaker 16: stripping the trees, and I wanted to see if you
Speaker 16: had any ideas as to how to protect the trees
Speaker 16: now since the bark is missing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they've stripped too much of it off, the
Speaker 1: tree probably will never recover, you know, Like if it's
Speaker 1: three fourths of the wire around stripped off, that's too much.
Speaker 1: A little damage the tree, a young tree, you want
Speaker 1: to give it good water and fertilizer. When we get
Speaker 1: back in the growing season, fertilizer to get it ground
Speaker 1: as fast as you can and it'll recover from it.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, you want to get a ring of
Speaker 1: wire and if if you can get it up to
Speaker 1: about six feet high, that would be good. If you
Speaker 1: don't have to buy a six foot tall piece of wire,
Speaker 1: you could put like three iron t posts in around
Speaker 1: this tree a little distance out from it, not not far,
Speaker 1: and then wrap the wire on it. But tie it
Speaker 1: up where it's the bottom of the wires up off
Speaker 1: the ground, you know, a couple of feet, and that
Speaker 1: gets your wire taller without you having to buy a
Speaker 1: giant eight foot piece of wire and just put it
Speaker 1: around it and it keeps them physically away from it
Speaker 1: because they're wanting to rub their horns on stuff.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Should I wrap any cat felt around the trunk?
Speaker 5: So that is just to make it through the winter.
Speaker 1: No, not really, I mean some when trees are young,
Speaker 1: sometime we put tree wrap on them because the tree
Speaker 1: wrap keeps the sunlight off the trunk and in on
Speaker 1: winter days where we have warm temperatures, the hot afternoon
Speaker 1: sun warms up that bark and then when the temperature
Speaker 1: drops below freezing, it can kill the bark, and so
Speaker 1: the wraps keep the sunlight off the trunk. On a
Speaker 1: young tree that has thin bark, you know, as trees
Speaker 1: get older, the bark gets thick and we don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about that. But a very young, thin bark
Speaker 1: tree like red oaks. Red oaks are very notorious without
Speaker 1: it helps with that. But as far as the fact
Speaker 1: that the deer have damaged it, now you need to
Speaker 1: protect it? Not really?
Speaker 16: Okay, great, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call. Good luck with
Speaker 1: that tree. Hey, you know you can eat deer.
Speaker 16: Sorry, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: This is not a problem. This is not a problem, Rachel.
Speaker 1: This is an opportunity. Oh my gosh. Oh well, there's
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of a hunting leace. You can
Speaker 1: pay for all the Christmas presence this year. We just
Speaker 1: never Okay, I'm going south and people are getting appalled
Speaker 1: out there, so I'm gonna husher bye bye, Oh gosh boy.
Speaker 1: Our phone number is seven one three if anyone still
Speaker 1: wants to call after that, seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t r H. Seven one three two one
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Speaker 5: T r H.
Speaker 1: If your lawn has taken a hit, this summer or
Speaker 1: last summer. We've had a couple of rough years on lawns. Uh,
Speaker 1: you need to do some stuff to get it back
Speaker 1: in shape. And then we talk about watering and fertilizing
Speaker 1: and mowing, and those are all very very important. But
Speaker 1: one of the things that is the most helpful. The
Speaker 1: thing you can do to your lawn is to do
Speaker 1: a core aeration followed by accompost top dressing. Now what
Speaker 1: is the core aerration. Well, some aer rator machines is es.
Speaker 1: Actually the little cheap things you rent to use. Most
Speaker 1: of those just push a hole in the soil. So imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, taking a sharpened stick and shoving it in
Speaker 1: the soil and it just squeezes a hole open. Now,
Speaker 1: the sides of the hole are extra compacted, which is
Speaker 1: not a good idea. But a core erator has a
Speaker 1: hollow time that goes down in the soil and pops
Speaker 1: a plug out of the soil and drops it on
Speaker 1: the surface. So when you've done coreration, it looks like
Speaker 1: you had a little miniature dog convention on the yard.
Speaker 1: You know, all the load droppings everywhere. That's good. Those
Speaker 1: will melt away with rain. They'll cover up thatch they'll
Speaker 1: help break down that thatch faster and those open holes
Speaker 1: now allow oxygen, water and nutrients to go down deeper
Speaker 1: into the soil easier, and BnB turf Pros does just that.
Speaker 1: BnB turf Pros is a company that is dedicated to
Speaker 1: customer service. What they are all about is making sure
Speaker 1: you are happy, because they don't view you as just
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Speaker 1: what they do, and they make sure that happens. And
Speaker 1: you go look at their reviews and you can see
Speaker 1: they do that. They cover the area from Sugarland across
Speaker 1: to Paarland and down to Manville and Siena kind of
Speaker 1: basically down Highway six, but Sugarland in Missouri City on
Speaker 1: the west side, and then a Pairland Manvl on the
Speaker 1: east side and all through that area. Now right now
Speaker 1: they got the fall special going on. You get a
Speaker 1: free aeration when you schedule the compost top dressing. And
Speaker 1: that's step two. Compost top dressing. Finely screened, compost, evenly
Speaker 1: spread out. It's so easy to hire this done as
Speaker 1: opposed to trying to do it yourself. It's a mess
Speaker 1: and hard to get. You won't get the coverage that
Speaker 1: they get if you try to do it yourself. Now,
Speaker 1: they only use products I recommend on guarden Line, so
Speaker 1: top quality lead mol compost from Ciena Maltch that's what
Speaker 1: they use. They do aeration, They also will do fertilization
Speaker 1: and of course the company top dressing service, and now'd
Speaker 1: be a good time to do that.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 1: Throwing a little compost on the soul surface blocks a
Speaker 1: little bit of light out too. It helps in minimizing
Speaker 1: some of the weed problems that you might have. It's
Speaker 1: not going to get rid of all weeds by any means,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying that it also helps with that.
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Speaker 1: two k t r H. Earlier, I was talking about
Speaker 1: things that we can do might do for a overdue
Speaker 1: for a break here, I think I better quit talking
Speaker 1: for a little while and we'll be right back. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to garden Line. Good to have you with us, folks.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. Appreciate your questions and part
Speaker 1: of the fun of gardening, you know, we try to
Speaker 1: have fun here on garden Line. You know, the idea
Speaker 1: of gardening. I just think it's the best hobby that
Speaker 1: there is. It really is like the most popular hobby
Speaker 1: in the world, especially in this country. We enjoy getting out,
Speaker 1: we enjoy learning, we enjoy just touching nature and just
Speaker 1: relaxing and seeing accomplishments.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: The when I was working with Ager Life Extension, you know,
Speaker 1: each day eight to five, five days a week, actually
Speaker 1: not eight to five is a lot longer hours than
Speaker 1: that for a Kenny agent. But sometimes at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I'd look back, I'd go, what on
Speaker 1: earth did I accomplish today? I know, I talked to
Speaker 1: people on the phone, answered questions, answered email, planned programs
Speaker 1: and all kinds of things. But it's like it kind
Speaker 1: of feels like, you know, what do you have to
Speaker 1: show for it. What do you see and when you
Speaker 1: go out in the garden, and I'll use one of
Speaker 1: the least popular gardening tasks, pulling weeds. You know, nobody
Speaker 1: likes the pool well, most people don't like pool weeds.
Speaker 1: I actually enjoy it a little bit. And here's why.
Speaker 1: You sit down. You get on a row of garden
Speaker 1: bed or whatever, you got some weeds in it, and
Speaker 1: you just go through and do your however you're doing it,
Speaker 1: hoeing or pulling or whatever. And when you're done with it,
Speaker 1: even if you just do it for fifteen minutes, you
Speaker 1: look back and you see the accomplishment. It looks better
Speaker 1: and you see the results, and there is there is
Speaker 1: a therapeutic thing in that. It's kind of like I
Speaker 1: guess you know, you got a garage. It's a mess,
Speaker 1: and you clean it up and get it all organized.
Speaker 1: It just feels good. Right. That is one of the
Speaker 1: one of the things I enjoy in gardening. Let's head out.
Speaker 1: We're going to go now to North Houston and talk
Speaker 1: to Mark. Hello, Mark, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: I skip quick question and it's is it too late
Speaker 20: to apply the nitro FoST fall special at this time?
Speaker 1: I miss it is not a window a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Yeah, no, it's not. You know, on my schedule,
Speaker 1: there's this range. And one of the challenges of doing
Speaker 1: the schedule is nature's not black and white. It's not
Speaker 1: like on October thirty first, it's too early, and on
Speaker 1: number first it's okay, you know, and nature's not that way.
Speaker 1: But we have that bar on there for a reason.
Speaker 1: And the earlier you get your fall fertilizing done, the
Speaker 1: more benefits you can get out of it because the
Speaker 1: grass is actively growing in things. But now it's just
Speaker 1: fine still forgetting that done. But I wouldn't delay any longer.
Speaker 1: And it's not going to hurt anything to do. It's
Speaker 1: just going to the grass is going to get it
Speaker 1: pretty sleepy headed as things cool off here, and it's
Speaker 1: not going to be taking up the nutrients as well.
Speaker 5: Okay, great, And the same for the barricade.
Speaker 20: It's still within the time frame to apply that.
Speaker 1: It's within the time frame. Yeah yeah, But barricade prevents
Speaker 1: weed that are trying to erminate from getting established. So
Speaker 1: don't delay any more on that because you want to
Speaker 1: you want to get it down ahead of as much
Speaker 1: weed germination as possible.
Speaker 20: Okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Mark, appreciate that calling care alrighty here,
Speaker 1: let's see we are going to go now out to
Speaker 1: humbold Texas and talk to Tina.
Speaker 5: Hello, Tina, good morning, how are you?
Speaker 1: I am good.
Speaker 6: I've been using the microlife system following the schedule, and
Speaker 6: I put some Microlife brown patch on in September, and
Speaker 6: it looks like I'm getting some brown patch where it's
Speaker 6: round circles of lighter grass mixed in with the green. Yes,
Speaker 6: so I didn't know if I put it on too
Speaker 6: soon or what can I do.
Speaker 1: Now about it?
Speaker 6: And one other question, the corn meal to prevent the
Speaker 6: weeds from coming. Am I too late for that?
Speaker 1: All right? I think the brown patch Microlife brown patches
Speaker 1: is not a fungicide. It's chocked with microbes that do
Speaker 1: help populate the plant surfaces to make it a more
Speaker 1: hospitable inhospitable place for diseases. But it doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: can't get any brown patch at all. It's a long
Speaker 1: term system. We As you use the micro life products
Speaker 1: and grow a denser, healthier lawn over time, you work
Speaker 1: yourself out of issues like weeds and certain disease and
Speaker 1: other issues. Now the circles are there. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got a couple of options. Once the grass is infected.
Speaker 1: Nothing will fix it like curate and make what's brown
Speaker 1: turned green again. It's going to be it's going to
Speaker 1: turn green when it warms up enough or if we
Speaker 1: have warm spells in the winter enough to get some
Speaker 1: leaf growth to come back on those runners. Because that's
Speaker 1: all brown patch does is it rocks the leaves off.
Speaker 1: It doesn't kill the grass. It just rots the leaves off,
Speaker 1: and the leaves regrow, new leaves regrow. Now, as far
Speaker 1: as the corn meal, what you're I think referring to
Speaker 1: is corn gluten meal. There's a difference. Corn meal would
Speaker 1: be no, it's okay, no, it's a common no, no problem.
Speaker 1: People probably haven't thought about the difference. The corn gluten
Speaker 1: meal is a pre emergent, therefore a weed seed preventer. Now,
Speaker 1: having said that, it doesn't work on all weed seeds,
Speaker 1: and it only works to prevent them, not to kill
Speaker 1: them if they're growing, and you have to get it
Speaker 1: down ahead of time. But it how do I do
Speaker 1: this without it being long drawn out? Out? In nature?
Speaker 1: We can't control the rainfall, and the ideal way to
Speaker 1: use corn gluten meal would be to put it out,
Speaker 1: apply about a third of an inch maybe a quarter
Speaker 1: inch of just enough to get the weed seeds to sprout,
Speaker 1: and then have it be dry for a week or two.
Speaker 1: That weed seed that sprouts the corn gluten meal prevents
Speaker 1: it from getting a root down and it dries out
Speaker 1: and it dies. But if we get rainfall or if
Speaker 1: your irrigation comes on, the corn gluten meal stops the root,
Speaker 1: but then it keeps it moist so that when it
Speaker 1: breaks down, the root just grows anyway. So it didn't
Speaker 1: kill the weeds. It catches them at a vulnerable stage
Speaker 1: and doesn't let the root grow. Why do I sail
Speaker 1: that well, because we can't control the weather. Because a
Speaker 1: lot of people do turn on their sprinklers and then
Speaker 1: corn gluten meal doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: It's on my schedule as an option, but you have
Speaker 1: to understand the caveats are that it may or may
Speaker 1: not work depending on conditions.
Speaker 6: Okay, so I just pretty much just don't do anything
Speaker 6: to the brown patch. You just wait for the warmer weather.
Speaker 6: What about amorite is it amorite? Could that be put
Speaker 6: on the grass now.
Speaker 1: As a mite? Yeah, as a mite can be put
Speaker 1: on now, that's it's no problem with that. You can
Speaker 1: put that down now, just follow the label ast to
Speaker 1: rates and stuff. Uh and and it'll I think it's
Speaker 1: forty four. Let's see, I'm trying to remember the rate. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to guess that it gee, I wish
Speaker 1: I could hang on just sir. Oh yeah, forty A
Speaker 1: forty four pound bag covers six to twelve thousand square feet,
Speaker 1: so that's a lot of lot area. So just a
Speaker 1: little bit out there now, I'm I'm taking it by
Speaker 1: the names of the things you're talking about, like microlife
Speaker 1: and corn gluten meal, that you prefer to do it organically.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that's why I didn't say use any kind of
Speaker 1: of a funge a side. You could use the funge
Speaker 1: aside now for the brown patch to prevent additional infection,
Speaker 1: but there's there's not a good organic kind of control.
Speaker 1: Especially there's not a good synthetic control. Once brown patch
Speaker 1: has already infected the grass and done its damage, Well,
Speaker 1: can I use.
Speaker 6: It though, even though I'm using microlife, or should I just.
Speaker 1: Not could you use the synthetic fungicide with the Well
Speaker 1: you could, but I mean it's it's just going after
Speaker 1: it in a different system.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 1: If we were talking about if you were to call
Speaker 1: me and say, you know, every year my yard just
Speaker 1: is full of all these big brown circles, well I
Speaker 1: might say, well, before they show up, then go ahead
Speaker 1: and treat to prevent them. But when you're trying to
Speaker 1: grow in a more organic direction, then you know, that's
Speaker 1: your call as to whether you would want to try it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you had just a little bit of
Speaker 1: brown patch starting and you want to prevent additional you
Speaker 1: could do it that way. You could, you could put
Speaker 1: on a product to prevent that. But most people that
Speaker 1: are gardening organically are not going to go after it
Speaker 1: that way. They're going to just focus on the building
Speaker 1: the soil, adding, adding microbial content and and whatnot to
Speaker 1: create a better lawn over time.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much, Tina. I appreciate your call.
Speaker 1: Good luck with getting everything under control. All right, Well
Speaker 1: it's time for me take a little break. I'll be
Speaker 1: right back. You are listening your gardline. I'm your host.
Speaker 1: Skip Richter, and we're here to have a good time.
Speaker 1: That's it. We want to help you have a beautiful
Speaker 1: garden of downfall landscape and a good time in the process.
Speaker 1: Give me a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: fifty eight seventy four or seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two ktra to make it real easy like that. Hey,
Speaker 1: have you been out to Nelson Water Gardens, Nelson Nursery
Speaker 1: and water Gardens out there in Katie, Texas. You just
Speaker 1: head out Katie Fort Ben Road out I ten, turn
Speaker 1: right or north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's
Speaker 1: just a stone's thrown down on the right hand side.
Speaker 1: Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. Of course, they're a place
Speaker 1: for water gardens, have been known for that, for ages
Speaker 1: nationally for that. As a matter of fact, their nursery
Speaker 1: is just an awesome collection of every kind of color
Speaker 1: plant you would want, fruit, plants, shrubs, trees. I mean
Speaker 1: they carry it all there, absolutely beautiful stock of a
Speaker 1: lot of nice things. They just readid the front flowerbeds
Speaker 1: they look really good. And when you walk in and
Speaker 1: look at those flower beds, pretty much everything in the flowerbed,
Speaker 1: well everything in the flower bed is available inside the
Speaker 1: store things for cool season, like snap dragons and ornamental
Speaker 1: cabbage and stock if you're going stock before. It's a
Speaker 1: really nice little plant. English daisies, colendulas, colengular blooms are
Speaker 1: edible as our pansy blooms. Did you know that in
Speaker 1: Dianthus they got the amazon and the spooky Dianthus? And
Speaker 1: why to lessome looks really good and your landscape can
Speaker 1: look the same now. Public service announcement. Christmas trees have arrived.
Speaker 1: They have got their Christmas trees, freshly cut frasier for
Speaker 1: Christmas trees right there. You can come by and pick
Speaker 1: them up or they'll deliver either way you want to
Speaker 1: go about it. Here's the phone number. You need to
Speaker 1: write this down so you can give them a call.
Speaker 1: Two eight one three nine to one forty seven sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Inside it is decorated. They got their beautiful tree, They
Speaker 1: got the points aetus. Oh, by the way, you can
Speaker 1: get your points setus there too. Looks really nice inside
Speaker 1: there and out. You know, we're kind of in the
Speaker 1: Christmas and Thanksgiving season. So mister Turkey, which is a
Speaker 1: decorated giant heybale, is ready for family photos. They've been
Speaker 1: doing that as a little tradition. It's just behind the
Speaker 1: fish facility back there. Uh so you can bring the
Speaker 1: kiddos out and they can get the picture taken there
Speaker 1: with mister Turkey as well. Don't forget December seventh as
Speaker 1: Cookies with Santa. Yes, that's it, the man himself, Sanna
Speaker 1: will be there and you don't want to miss Cookies
Speaker 1: with Santa on December seventh. So if you want to
Speaker 1: get out there, make sure put December seventh on your calendar.
Speaker 1: Cookies with Santa out at Nelson, Wa Nursery. Mister Turkey.
Speaker 1: Mister Turkey. Southwest Fertilizer is as the name implies, in
Speaker 1: Southwest Houston. It's on the corner of Bisonet and Renwick.
Speaker 1: Bisonet and Renwick in Southwest Houston. Listen, this is an institution.
Speaker 1: This place has been around since nineteen fifty five and
Speaker 1: they have been providing the greater Houston area with whatever
Speaker 1: products they need to have success. That includes insecticide, fungicides, herbicides,
Speaker 1: and fertilizers and other kinds of biostimulants, all kinds of
Speaker 1: different products. If you're going to put it on the plant,
Speaker 1: they've got it. In fact, if you're going to use
Speaker 1: it to have a more beautiful yard. They have it,
Speaker 1: and if they don't have something, you don't need it
Speaker 1: because they have everything. They really do. Ninety foot wall
Speaker 1: of tools, really quality tools. I keep telling you about
Speaker 1: the folding kneeling bench. I used mine. I bought, wore
Speaker 1: that thing out, wore me out in the process putting
Speaker 1: in that rock patio. Without the kneeling bench getting up
Speaker 1: and down up, I don't know how I would have
Speaker 1: done it. It's a great tool. They've got them there.
Speaker 1: The grabber tool that I tell you about. If you
Speaker 1: want to be able to reach in and wipe a
Speaker 1: herbicide on a plant with a weed plant without hurting
Speaker 1: your desirable plants, a homemade grabber tool is how you
Speaker 1: do it. Instructions are on my website Gardening with skip
Speaker 1: dot com. The tool that you start with is there.
Speaker 1: It's a grabber tool at Southwest Fertilizer. Bob's got him there.
Speaker 1: It's really easy to make and he's got all the
Speaker 1: products you put on him there at Southwest Fertilizer. Real easy,
Speaker 1: easy to do. If you are looking for any kind
Speaker 1: of a tool for success, maybe a soil knife. By
Speaker 1: the way, soil knife is a really good gift item too.
Speaker 1: It's one of my top five gardening tools is a
Speaker 1: soil knife, and Bob's got those there. If you're an
Speaker 1: organic gardener, you're not going to find a better selection
Speaker 1: of organic fertilizer, insecticide, fungicides, disease control, weed preventions. All
Speaker 1: that is there also at Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 1: That's the website. Here's the phone number seven one three
Speaker 1: six six six seventeen forty four. All right, well, you
Speaker 1: are listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter.
Speaker 1: If you have got some gardening questions you would like
Speaker 1: to talk about, give me a call. Seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two KTRH seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: k t RH. I was talking about some myths and
Speaker 1: talking about pruning crape myrtles earlier and someone had asked
Speaker 1: for a little more detail on that. Uh So let's
Speaker 1: just do it this way. A crpe myrtle can be
Speaker 1: a multi trunked tree or it can be a single
Speaker 1: trunk tree. You don't see a lot of single trunk
Speaker 1: crape myrtles out there, but you can do that, and
Speaker 1: you can purchase them that way too. That way you
Speaker 1: have a single trunk and then it opens up into
Speaker 1: a beautiful little small tree. Uh, the multi stemmed is
Speaker 1: more common. And then typically you start off with three trunks.
Speaker 1: No magic to any number, but three trunks are just
Speaker 1: an example. You start off with those three trunks, and
Speaker 1: then as they come up, allow each one to fork
Speaker 1: into two. So what started off as three trunks may
Speaker 1: becomes five or six trunks as the different trunks are
Speaker 1: beginning to branch, and then those branches will fork, and
Speaker 1: so you just kind of picture you're building this candelabra
Speaker 1: of a structure with this crape myrtle by pruning it
Speaker 1: from the time it's young. Now, if you've got one
Speaker 1: that you didn't prune early, you can get the saw
Speaker 1: out and fix it now that way, But it's always
Speaker 1: better to start earlier. I like to say. I'll put
Speaker 1: it this way. You need to do all your crpe
Speaker 1: myrtle pruning with hand pruners, and if you can't with
Speaker 1: hand pruners, then maybe loppers, but not with a saw.
Speaker 1: If you get to a saw stage, you've let things
Speaker 1: go way too far. But the idea is to do
Speaker 1: what we call thinning cuts instead of just stubbing things
Speaker 1: off so they look like the end of a broom handle.
Speaker 1: If you've got a branch, I say that it's going
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction, or it's going too tall, and
Speaker 1: you want to cut it back. Drop down that branch
Speaker 1: to where there's a side branch, and cut the tall
Speaker 1: branch off right above the side branch. So think of
Speaker 1: it as a highway. It just directs the traffic out
Speaker 1: that side branch and you can build a beautiful structure
Speaker 1: that way. You don't have to prune crape myrtles. A
Speaker 1: little training as it's growing is what you need to do.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: If you want to get up there later and pune
Speaker 1: a bunch of twiggy stuff out, go for it. Good luck.
Speaker 1: But it is just not really necessary. When you buy
Speaker 1: a crape myrtle, buy one that gets the size you
Speaker 1: want it to be. That's what you need to do,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm gonna take a little break here. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I will go to Bruce and Lagrange
Speaker 1: and Lynn and West Houston, and good to have you
Speaker 1: with us. Thanks for listening in today. You know Nelson
Speaker 1: plant Food has a proce that called Turfstar carbal Load
Speaker 1: turf Star is a line of fertilizers for your long
Speaker 1: turf Star by Nelson. Carbo Load is a product that
Speaker 1: contains a fall fertilizer blend ideal blend for fall. Actually
Speaker 1: got good load of potassium in it, which is important
Speaker 1: for cold heartiness, and it has a pre emergent herbicide
Speaker 1: in it. So what you do is you put it
Speaker 1: out and you water it in. Watered in with about
Speaker 1: a half inch of water. But do it right away
Speaker 1: because neither the fertilizer does any good nor the pre
Speaker 1: emergent does any good until you get it in the soil.
Speaker 1: So you got to water it in. That's true of
Speaker 1: all fertilizers and all pre emergents. So anyway, carbo Load
Speaker 1: a forty pound bag covers five thousand square feet. It's
Speaker 1: an excellent product, but don't delay get that done now.
Speaker 1: This is kind of a I guess I'll say it
Speaker 1: this way. It's a last call for getting that fall
Speaker 1: fertilization down. We need to get that wrapped up before
Speaker 1: we get the end this month, that's for sure. Carbo
Speaker 1: Load from Nelson Plant Food one of many quality products
Speaker 1: from the folks at Nelson. A head now out to Lagrange,
Speaker 1: Texas and talk to Bruce. Hey Bruce, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hey Skip, thanks for taking a call. I just wander
Speaker 3: and mind everybody that now is the time to put
Speaker 3: out seeds so you get a good flower crop. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, across the winter and in the spring. My favorite,
Speaker 3: because I'm a beekeeper, is Turner Sea Company. It's a
Speaker 3: family company in Texas, and the beauty of it is
Speaker 3: you can get on the website and pick any type
Speaker 3: of mix of seeds that you're interested in, and they
Speaker 3: will give you any amount. They'll package up small orders,
Speaker 3: big order.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Bruce. I appreciate you letting the
Speaker 1: word out there. I don't want to turn it into
Speaker 1: a commercial, but it is a good time to plant
Speaker 1: for the wallflowers and things like that, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't delay. That's a good point. Did you have a
Speaker 1: question down?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir? Uh did I do this right? I'm gonna
Speaker 3: put down fall clover, Paul intermix and something called a
Speaker 3: store which is supposed to be a lot of cuts
Speaker 3: hours and now it's the time to put it out, correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It follows a good time to plant for the
Speaker 1: earlier in the fall. The better, but you could still
Speaker 1: plant most of that.
Speaker 3: Okay, And I guess the other one is just bare ground.
Speaker 3: Find the bare ground, sprinkle the seeds, and scratch it
Speaker 3: in with a rate.
Speaker 1: All right, sir, Hey, thanks for the call. I appreciate
Speaker 1: that I might have to run. I got a line
Speaker 1: up here. But let's see here. We're going to go
Speaker 1: now to West Houston. Talk to Lynn.
Speaker 22: Hey, Lynn, Hi, this is Lynn in West u And
Speaker 22: I'm actually laughing because I called in to ask when
Speaker 22: to plant zennias seeds, and I was just listening to
Speaker 22: Bruce go on and on about put him in now,
Speaker 22: put him in now?
Speaker 1: So when do I not as zenas? Yeah? Not as
Speaker 1: zenny as though, No zenny As. You're gonna plant in
Speaker 1: the spring, when we get past the danger of frost.
Speaker 1: So let's get at least in early.
Speaker 22: March or late February.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I wouldn't do it in February. I'd
Speaker 1: do it in March, you know, March or Aprilly. The
Speaker 1: one would be good for planting zenies. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can continue to plant them, but it's my walkway.
Speaker 22: I have a lot of perennials that have a lot
Speaker 22: of green, beautiful green foliage. And I saw this big
Speaker 22: article inside of Living about how easy it is to
Speaker 22: grow zenias, so I thought, well, maybe I can just
Speaker 22: you know, seed some of those in in between the
Speaker 22: green foliage and it'll look nice for summer.
Speaker 1: Is this like a stone walkway, No, it's.
Speaker 22: It's a planet walkway.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 22: I have about two feet wide of like where my
Speaker 22: amaryllis are, and two barrows and you know, things that
Speaker 22: have a lot of foliage after the flowers are gone.
Speaker 1: I see, okay, yeah, you could scatter some zenias and there.
Speaker 1: Zennias come in mini types. There's a short, compact types
Speaker 1: that are more of a bedding plant, and then there's
Speaker 1: a tall cut flower types. So they're easy. Yeah they are.
Speaker 1: And then you get cut flowers. That's a cool thing.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and thank you so much.
Speaker 22: I love your show.
Speaker 1: Thanks Lynn. I appreciate your call. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1: The arbor Gate has turned into a Christmas wonderland. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you've got to see it. Take your family
Speaker 1: out there and see it. In fact, Arbitgate's a great
Speaker 1: place for your holiday tradition of choosing the perfect, freshest
Speaker 1: Christmas tree available. They just got in their freshly cut
Speaker 1: Frasier for Christmas trees from the Blue Ridge Mountains, and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the fragrance is incredible. They bring in
Speaker 1: just I'll just the freshest Christmas trees you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get at the Arborgate freshly cut. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you some a date that's very important.
Speaker 1: Fact two dates. Santa and Missus Claus are coming to
Speaker 1: the arbor Gate on Sunday, December first from one to
Speaker 1: five pm. Sunday December first, one to five pm. If
Speaker 1: you can't make that, they'll be back on Thursday December fifth,
Speaker 1: ten am to two pm. Sunday December first, Thursday December
Speaker 1: fifth to two pm. So here's what you need to.
Speaker 1: Go to the website. Go to the Arburgate website and
Speaker 1: just check out the dates and things on there. You
Speaker 1: need to bring the kids of course, you need to
Speaker 1: remember your camera or these days that means bring your phone.
Speaker 1: And yes, pets are welcome too. We just don't need them,
Speaker 1: you know. They just need to behave so that they
Speaker 1: don't mess with Senna and Missus Claus. Right, otherwise you're
Speaker 1: going to get a stocking full of coal for Christmas.
Speaker 1: When you go to the Arborgate. Now you're going to
Speaker 1: step into a winter wonderland. Oh my gosh. The gift
Speaker 1: shops are decked with holiday trimmings and gifts and decor.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. And here's a really special treat. Listen to this.
Speaker 1: You get your garland, your swags, your wreaths, your bows,
Speaker 1: get all that at the arbor Gate. They're experts will
Speaker 1: design and assemble them formed for you, complimentary, no charge.
Speaker 1: So you go there and if you want to really
Speaker 1: deck out your house in a in a wild way,
Speaker 1: you know, people walk and go wow. Go get your garland, swags,
Speaker 1: wreathed bows at the Arborgate. Let them design them, let
Speaker 1: them assemble them before you, and you're ready to go.
Speaker 1: Everything you need to have a magical, unforgettable Christmas season.
Speaker 1: You just got to go see the magic that they've
Speaker 1: created there at the arbor Gate. Remember, go down Trishel
Speaker 1: Road before or after Arburgate to swing around the back.
Speaker 1: There's a sign there takes you right into the parking
Speaker 1: lot for the easiest, safest access you can have at
Speaker 1: the arbor Gate. I'm going to head now and talk
Speaker 1: to Kent Hey Kent. I think I squeezed in here
Speaker 1: for we run out of time. How can we help today?
Speaker 19: Good morning, sir. I'm calling from Kingwood and my yard
Speaker 19: does not have Yes, sir, you were out here about
Speaker 19: two weeks ago. We got to visit with you out
Speaker 19: at the out at the Wildbird's Unlimited. Thank you for
Speaker 19: visiting a.
Speaker 1: Great wilbird store. Yeah, yeah, good.
Speaker 19: Our yard does not have much sunlight. There's a lot
Speaker 19: of trees around, and I have been trying to go
Speaker 19: with an organic make it an organic fertilizing schedule, but
Speaker 19: I'm a poor schedule follower, so I'm behind in it,
Speaker 19: and I know that I'm about a month past where
Speaker 19: according to your schedule, a month passed where I need
Speaker 19: to put on the organic. But I'm only a couple
Speaker 19: of weeks past where I should put on synthetic. So okay,
Speaker 19: should I put on synthetic and then back when it
Speaker 19: gets spring rolls around, get back into the organic part,
Speaker 19: or say the heck with it and put on an organic.
Speaker 1: Now you can do either one. That I moved the
Speaker 1: organic a little earlier, and the reason I did that
Speaker 1: is because an organic product gets microbily broken down into
Speaker 1: the nutrients that the grass plant takes up, and so
Speaker 1: I was giving it a little bit of a head
Speaker 1: start there. It's not what you would call a true
Speaker 1: slow release, you know, where it's going to extend for months,
Speaker 1: but it has to go through that process. But there's
Speaker 1: not a problem if you haven't done it, go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it, get it down. It will benefit the soil,
Speaker 1: and I would just get that done, but just in
Speaker 1: the future, you know, put it on the calendar to
Speaker 1: get done a little bit earlier. You get more benefit
Speaker 1: if you do it earlier. Got it, But there's not
Speaker 1: a problem with going either way.
Speaker 19: Yeah, should ill also be putting down the barricade or
Speaker 19: something like that now also, well.
Speaker 1: You can, but again you know, we're putting it out
Speaker 1: to prevent weed seeds from germinating. So if you already
Speaker 1: are full of weed seed, it's not going to kill
Speaker 1: the weeds that are growing. It would prevent them from germanying.
Speaker 1: So if you put it down now any weeds that
Speaker 1: would and they'll continue to germinate through the cool season.
Speaker 1: But if you have other weeds that are coming up,
Speaker 1: it will prevent those missed any system. But if you
Speaker 1: go on ahead and get it down watered in it
Speaker 1: can do that.
Speaker 19: Okay, okay, thanks a lot, skiff.
Speaker 1: I appreciate sir, all right, thank you, appreciate the college.
Speaker 1: Good to see out there in Kingwck. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: I hear music. That means we're going to take a
Speaker 1: little top of the hour break. Guess what we're entering
Speaker 1: our last hour. So if you want to call a
Speaker 1: garden line today, this next hour is your chance to
Speaker 1: do just that. Our phone number seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two kt r H seven to one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t r A. Try and squeeze it
Speaker 1: in here. As we come back, I'm gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about some more myths of gardening, some of
Speaker 1: the things that you know. We've kind of all words
Speaker 1: he's always heard or seen me that may not be true.
Speaker 1: Who was it said? It's not that I don't know that, potters.
Speaker 1: Now it's what I know that ain't so well, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to garden Line. Oh my gosh, I just took
Speaker 1: a look at the boards. All right, we've got some
Speaker 1: work to do. We will get on that here. I
Speaker 1: want to tell you, though, if you are looking for
Speaker 1: anything for your yard, garden, for that outdoor special space
Speaker 1: for the indoor decorations of the holidays, for lighting, for gifts.
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware is the place, and I've been telling you
Speaker 1: all year. ACE is a place for your fertilizers, and
Speaker 1: your weak control, and your pest control, your disease control.
Speaker 1: It's the place for the tools as you need to
Speaker 1: get the job done. But ACE Hardware is the place
Speaker 1: for anything that you need to create a more livable,
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Speaker 1: of lights, all of that kind of thing, and indoors
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Speaker 1: if you've got to do it yourself. For in your list,
Speaker 1: who could use a power tool or a really high
Speaker 1: quality tool of any type, ACE is a place for that.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for gifts for the kitchen, for the
Speaker 1: home decorations, ACE is the place with that. All you
Speaker 1: got to do is go to ACE Hardware dot Com.
Speaker 1: Store locator is there on the site. It'll help you
Speaker 1: find the forty plus stores that are here in the
Speaker 1: Greater Houston area. ACE is truly the place for that.
Speaker 1: Alrighty here, I'm gonna just I guess I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: off at the top of the list. Here, We're gonna
Speaker 1: go to Pearland and talk to Roy. Hey, Roy, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line. O, good morning, Skip, thank you.
Speaker 18: Yes, sir, I have two pine trees that are infested
Speaker 18: with the pine board beetles.
Speaker 1: Is any any way to save them? Or is it
Speaker 1: just pretty much they need.
Speaker 5: To be cut down?
Speaker 1: U tell me when you look at the trunks, where
Speaker 1: do you see the gloves of sap? Are they like
Speaker 1: from eight foot down or are they all all the
Speaker 1: way up far up the tree?
Speaker 4: As far as I can see, they're pretty high up
Speaker 4: as far as I can see up.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, when once there's the five different kinds to
Speaker 1: my knowledge, five different kinds of mark beetles on pines
Speaker 1: here in our area. And most of the time when
Speaker 1: they occur, the damage is so extensive that the tree
Speaker 1: will never recover and usually dies pretty quickly, especially when
Speaker 1: the weather's warm and the demands are high. You might
Speaker 1: want to have Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree come
Speaker 1: out and take a look at them and see if
Speaker 1: they can be saved, if what we assume it is
Speaker 1: is what it truly is, and advise you on anything
Speaker 1: like that. But that would be That would be my
Speaker 1: two cents on it. I don't think you're going to
Speaker 1: save them, but it something that valuable is worth. The
Speaker 1: second opinion from someone who's standing there looking at them,
Speaker 1: is there any way to protect the other ones that
Speaker 1: I had? Yeah, that would be one that Martin could
Speaker 1: tell you you can use. There are sprays you can use,
Speaker 1: but you got to hit about eighty percent of the
Speaker 1: height of the tree, the trunk from all sides, getting
Speaker 1: it in the in the nooks and crannies, and you
Speaker 1: can't just spray the bottom of the tree or put
Speaker 1: something on the ground that goes up in and kills everything. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well, thank you for your help. All right, sir,
Speaker 1: Sorry to be the bearer bad news on that one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna now go to Jesse. Hey, Jesse, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line. Thank you, skip Hey. I got a question
Speaker 1: on my yard.
Speaker 18: On October the twenty first, I did the Texas Street
Speaker 18: three step and a bag for different kind of worms
Speaker 18: and bugs and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: We went out of town.
Speaker 18: We just got back and I'm looking at my yard.
Speaker 18: Probably about one third it's different patches. It's nothing's completely round,
Speaker 18: it's just all different shapes. It looks like straw, and
Speaker 18: it was nice until when I left down with Sten
Speaker 18: and I can go out there and I can pull
Speaker 18: it up. It pulls up real easy, and the bottom
Speaker 18: of it looks like a dark brownish black mole type.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about means? Okay, that's well, it's it is
Speaker 1: what we call brown patch. The new name is actually
Speaker 1: large patch that the scientists use for it. But it
Speaker 1: rots the leaves off the runner and it happens fast,
Speaker 1: like you described. The good news is the runners are
Speaker 1: still alive and when the weather warms up, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: push out fresh new leaves. So it's not killing anything.
Speaker 1: Just makes it look bad, and you can't change that
Speaker 1: because the weather's cooling off and the grass didn't want
Speaker 1: to grow to put new leaves out until it warms
Speaker 1: up a little bit. So it's a matter of at
Speaker 1: this point, you know, just kind of living with it
Speaker 1: and knowing that it is not killing your grass. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just done its damage and the grass will
Speaker 1: recover in time. Okay, So I don't need to do anything,
Speaker 1: not really. I mean, you can put out a fungicide
Speaker 1: to fight it, but you know, what's what's rotted, is rotted,
Speaker 1: and it and again warm weather and time is what's
Speaker 1: going to make it look good again. Now, if you had, uh,
Speaker 1: if you had a few spots and you had a
Speaker 1: whole yard that wasn't damaged, well you could spray it
Speaker 1: to prevent additional spots from happening with the fung side.
Speaker 1: But from what I'm hearing from you, it sounds pretty extensive, okay.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and the grass seems pretty witch so I may
Speaker 18: have been over over water in it too.
Speaker 1: That is the one of the main overwatering and overfertilizing
Speaker 1: with nitrogen. When we get into cooler temperatures, that really
Speaker 1: sets things up for the brown patch. Yeah, so kind
Speaker 1: of back off that you shouldn't need to. You're pretty
Speaker 1: much the point of not needing to water again this winter.
Speaker 1: Maybe once more, but probably probably not. Okay, thanks a lot, Jesse,
Speaker 1: appreciate appreciate that call very much. Hey, Warrens Southern Garden
Speaker 1: and Kingwood Garden Centers out there in Kingwood, Texas, and
Speaker 1: you're fortunate to have them both. Warrens is on North
Speaker 1: Park Driving, Kingwood, Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow by
Speaker 1: the way. For the rest of this month the Kingwood
Speaker 1: Garden Center Gift Shop forty percent off of all kinds
Speaker 1: of things, nice gifts, nice nice things for your own home.
Speaker 1: They're at Kingwood Garden Center now Warren Southern Gardens. They
Speaker 1: as always are stocked up with everything you would expect
Speaker 1: for the holidays. You know, the kind of decorative plants
Speaker 1: we want for the holidays. We're talking about the kinds
Speaker 1: of Christmas cacti and point sets and all those kinds
Speaker 1: of things that you want to have for your beautiful
Speaker 1: indoor decorations. Certainly the outdoor decorations like the pansies and
Speaker 1: violas and things like that, they're all available there. It
Speaker 1: makes it easy easy. I love going out there to visit.
Speaker 1: It's a great place, by the way, very very nice
Speaker 1: place to get out to find all your color and
Speaker 1: to have success with the plants that you're going to grow.
Speaker 5: They.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, they also have Christmas trees in
Speaker 1: and they got bulbs into out at Warren's Southern Gardens.
Speaker 1: You need to go check those out. The point setus
Speaker 1: are stunning. You'll see point set of colors and you're going,
Speaker 1: I didn't know they came in that shade. They're pretty cool. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to take a little break here. It
Speaker 1: is time for me to do so when we come back.
Speaker 1: Let's see, we've got Claudia, Matt and Alicia. You will
Speaker 1: be our first ones up when we get back. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, if you'd like to give us a call
Speaker 1: seven to one three two one two K t r
Speaker 1: H seven one three two one two K t our Age.
Speaker 1: I will be right back. Folks. Let's see, I want
Speaker 1: to talk to about D and D Feed. You know,
Speaker 1: D and D Feed is on the west side of Tomball.
Speaker 1: It's your hometown feed store up there. It's about twenty
Speaker 1: nine twenty about three miles west to two forty nine.
Speaker 1: The Dover family opened up D and D back and
Speaker 1: I believe it was nineteen eighty nine, and the store
Speaker 1: just keeps getting better. They expanded it a while back.
Speaker 1: It's a good stock of all kinds of things. When
Speaker 1: you walk in there, you're gonna see it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like you walked into where you get garden line stuff
Speaker 1: and nitropos and microlife and Nelson turf Star and Medina
Speaker 1: and heirloom soils and Nelson a lot of different Nelson
Speaker 1: products as well. Landscaper's Pride is in there as well,
Speaker 1: and anytime that you're looking for some seasonal plants, they're
Speaker 1: going to have those out front in front of the store.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's a place for livestock feed, but also
Speaker 1: for really high quality dog food, high end lines like
Speaker 1: Origin and Diamond and Victor and Star Pro, no matter
Speaker 1: what you're going after the other day, I opened up
Speaker 1: our barbecue pit and underneath the cover some rats had
Speaker 1: gotten in there and chewed up some seeds and left
Speaker 1: some other things that rats lead behind a pretty grossburry
Speaker 1: barbecue pit. Well, D and D Feed. Just head over
Speaker 1: there and get your pest and road and control products.
Speaker 1: They've got those as well. And as we get colder,
Speaker 1: we're going to see rats moving in on different things
Speaker 1: and not where you want them to be. Mosquito dunks,
Speaker 1: you know it. Pretty Much everything you need is there
Speaker 1: at D and D Feed and Supply. Again, they're three
Speaker 1: miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty.
Speaker 1: Everything you would expect in a feed store, and a
Speaker 1: lot lot more, especially for your lawn, your garden, and
Speaker 1: your landscape. I'm going to head out to Texas City
Speaker 1: now and talk to Matt.
Speaker 11: Hello, Matt, hey, skip, how you doing this morning?
Speaker 1: I'm good, sir. What's up?
Speaker 11: So we have a lemon tree at in our backyard
Speaker 11: and it is covered on the backs of the leaves
Speaker 11: with very small white.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 11: They look like little moths almost, I mean, and I'm saying,
Speaker 11: it's every single leaf on the whole tree.
Speaker 1: It just got.
Speaker 11: Okays and hundreds of these bugs.
Speaker 5: What can I do for that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And I assume you're when you mess around, they
Speaker 1: fly off, flutter around way, Yes, they do. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: called white flies, and white flies are They lay eggs
Speaker 1: that hatch out into a little larva that you don't
Speaker 1: even re see, and then they go into pupa. And
Speaker 1: you'll notice when you look at those leaves you'll see
Speaker 1: some little if you were to take a fish scale
Speaker 1: and shrink it down to a lowercase typed o or smaller,
Speaker 1: that's a pupa from a white fly. They're kind of
Speaker 1: a tannish light green tannish color and they're all on there.
Speaker 1: And so the adults are kind of hard to kill
Speaker 1: because they fly away and the pupa, though, you get
Speaker 1: a good oil application underneath the leaves spray upward from
Speaker 1: under the leaves with an oil, and you'll smother the
Speaker 1: pupa and the larvae and the eggs with that, And
Speaker 1: I think that would be the approach I would take.
Speaker 1: Using stronger insecticides often has secondary effects like killing bugs
Speaker 1: that are controlling the bugs. For us, we call them
Speaker 1: the beneficial insects. So I would probably avoid that on
Speaker 1: the citrus at this point. But I would do the
Speaker 1: oil sprays from upward from underneath the leaves. Just don't
Speaker 1: do that before, let's say, within thirty six hours of
Speaker 1: a freeze. But the white flies should be kind of
Speaker 1: shutting down a little bit, a little bit for winter,
Speaker 1: although our winters are mild enough to where that that
Speaker 1: can be a little bit of an erratic shutdown if
Speaker 1: it happens.
Speaker 11: All right, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Well, all right, good luck with him. You know, on
Speaker 1: guard Line we don't charge for advice. We just asked
Speaker 1: you to bring half of the citrus and drop it
Speaker 1: off at the at the station.
Speaker 5: And we'll call it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: Ye bye.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. All right, We're going to go now to
Speaker 1: let's see Alicia in Missouri City. Hey, Alicia, welcome to
Speaker 1: Garden Line.
Speaker 23: Good morning, I'll be live next to a big park
Speaker 23: with lots of trees. There's two eyes of their fans,
Speaker 23: and I'm afraid of termite. Do you think I should
Speaker 23: you sid termite and carpeting and killer to prevent.
Speaker 1: H I don't. I don't think that's probably going to
Speaker 1: do you a lot. First of all, do you know
Speaker 1: that there's termites in the trees or is there.
Speaker 23: You're afraid of them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, termites are everywhere. They are in in our
Speaker 1: Houston area. You know, anywhere you got wood that's decomposing
Speaker 1: and things, they can live in that. And then the
Speaker 1: it's but think of all the houses that don't have termites,
Speaker 1: So it's not like because they're in nature, they're going
Speaker 1: to be in your house. The things that are in
Speaker 1: your control to do, Alicia is number one. Make sure
Speaker 1: there's not soil or mulch piled up around the house,
Speaker 1: covering the little If you have bricks, there's this little
Speaker 1: weak call them wheepholes where there's no mortar between the
Speaker 1: big couple of bricks at the very bottom of the wall.
Speaker 1: Don't cover that with mulch because that's an easy way
Speaker 1: for termites to sneak in. Make it where you can
Speaker 1: see them because they have to build a little mud
Speaker 1: tunnel up in there. I would hire a pest control
Speaker 1: operator to come out to inspect your house and to
Speaker 1: do a treatment. And if they do that periodically, that
Speaker 1: is a good protection. Just the fact that there are
Speaker 1: trees around that doesn't worry me, because termites are already everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's just we don't want them to get in our house.
Speaker 1: And to get in our house, they need some moisture
Speaker 1: and they need a way to get in, and usually
Speaker 1: it's through those wheepholes in the brick. So get you
Speaker 1: a good pest control operator to come out and do
Speaker 1: a termite treatment.
Speaker 6: Okay, I will thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, you take care. Thank you. I appreciate your
Speaker 1: call very much, that is for sure. You know, the
Speaker 1: folks at Medina have been making quality products for the
Speaker 1: home and garden for many, many years. I think that
Speaker 1: Bedina maybe our oldest sponsor on Guardline, goes way back
Speaker 1: to Do E. Compson, days before we even call the
Speaker 1: show garden Line. Medina was a sponsor and they have
Speaker 1: a number of products. They've got one to call Medina Plus,
Speaker 1: and Medina Plus is fortified with all kinds of essential
Speaker 1: micro nutrients that plants need.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: It has Medina soil activator, which has been around for
Speaker 1: a very long time, but it's got over twenty different
Speaker 1: trace elements. It's got some natural growth hormones from seaweed
Speaker 1: extract in it, so it's going to do things like
Speaker 1: help a plant get established. In transplanting. You can use
Speaker 1: it as seed treatments as you're starting seedlings, give them
Speaker 1: a watering in with Medina Plus. You can use it
Speaker 1: to help increase blooming, to increase the growth and the
Speaker 1: fruit set and things like that. It just benefits plants
Speaker 1: in general and all those functions. Medina Plus available in
Speaker 1: many garden centers, many feed stores Southwest Fertilizer for example,
Speaker 1: and certainly hardware stores as well. To find Medina products
Speaker 1: like Medina Plus. If you're gonna do any transplanting this fall,
Speaker 1: and I hope you are, if you're gonna do any
Speaker 1: in the winter or spring, make sure and have Medina
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Speaker 1: can and water in your new transplants to soak that
Speaker 1: root system with the Medina Plus. I'm going to head
Speaker 1: now out to let's see where are we at Katie
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk to Alan. Hey, Allen, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 24: Well, good morning.
Speaker 13: I have a question and I'm afraid to hear what
Speaker 13: the answer may be to it. So I have a
Speaker 13: golf Beauty plum in the backyard and it is loaded
Speaker 13: with blossoms.
Speaker 16: It's covered snow white.
Speaker 13: My concern is are you going to get a regeneration
Speaker 13: of buds for the spring or am I just lost
Speaker 13: for this next year?
Speaker 1: Pretty much lost. There may be a few buds that
Speaker 1: don't open that open in this bring. So golf Beauty
Speaker 1: is a super low chill plum. So what that means
Speaker 1: is once we've gotten about two hundred and fifty hours
Speaker 1: of chilling, that the buds are set free to bloom
Speaker 1: whenever the weather's warm enough. And we haven't had any
Speaker 1: chilling yet. But what probably happened to your tree is
Speaker 1: other stresses can cause that a lot of times after
Speaker 1: we've had let's say a real hard drought at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. And maybe yet this happens on
Speaker 1: pears probably more than anything. But the leaves kind of
Speaker 1: fall off, it's droughty, and then you water and it
Speaker 1: comes back. It's like that stress is this. It functions
Speaker 1: the same as chilling, and all of a sudden we
Speaker 1: get a fall bloom on our pear trees from that,
Speaker 1: and that has to be what happened to your golf beauty,
Speaker 1: because we haven't had any chilling yet, but it is
Speaker 1: a super low chill. I would let's say you were
Speaker 1: in Katie. You're pretty far north for golf beauty, it
Speaker 1: probably be better to go with something that's going to
Speaker 1: be in the four hundred hour chilling range in order
Speaker 1: to have dependable fruit.
Speaker 25: Or Yeah, it's been in the ground for about three
Speaker 25: years and I've been having some great harvests, but you know,
Speaker 25: every once in a while, every fall, I'll get a
Speaker 25: few blossoms here and there.
Speaker 13: Then it would explode in the spring. And now I'm
Speaker 13: just friend, I'm not going to get you fruit. But
Speaker 13: you know, I think it's still young enough to maybe
Speaker 13: dig up and put another tree in with the higher
Speaker 13: sail requirement.
Speaker 1: Well, well, you know that's your call, and there's different
Speaker 1: things you can do. I mean, it depends on how
Speaker 1: much trouble you want to go to. The simplest thing
Speaker 1: is dig it up, put a different one in, or
Speaker 1: a boy the simplest is just leave with it, leave
Speaker 1: it and live with it. When it blooms too early,
Speaker 1: try to protect the blooms from frost. The other thing
Speaker 1: would be to go in and graft some other varieties
Speaker 1: onto that same tree, you know. Okay, but those beauty
Speaker 1: branches with other Now that's that's a task that requires
Speaker 1: some skill and stuff. But I'm just giving you your
Speaker 1: mini options. Most people would just replace that, I think
Speaker 1: living in the Kadi area. Great, well, I do appreciate
Speaker 1: your time.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the information, you bet, you bet, and thanks.
Speaker 1: Very appreciate you too. Take care alrighty, let's see we
Speaker 1: are gonna what do we do here? We're going to
Speaker 1: go to tangle Wild, I believe and talk.
Speaker 15: To be Hello, b Hi, listen. I a couple of
Speaker 15: weeks ago I went and bought the Eagle funge aside,
Speaker 15: but I hadn't put it out, and I now have
Speaker 15: called Is it okay to put it out?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You could?
Speaker 5: Do.
Speaker 1: You see a bunch of brown circles in your lawn already?
Speaker 15: Uh oh, I've had them already a long time ago
Speaker 15: because of I have to tell you the hurricane barrel.
Speaker 15: She she looked so much junk in my yard they
Speaker 15: had bear spots where I had, you know, hot piles
Speaker 15: of stuff. So I'm not really I don't think so,
Speaker 15: I don't think I have anything, you know, like brown
Speaker 15: spot or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, yeah, you could put it out now. You know,
Speaker 1: some lawns are plagued by it every year. Some lawns
Speaker 1: almost never get any uh, and so it's not like
Speaker 1: every lawn has to be treated every year.
Speaker 15: Okay, cut down on water.
Speaker 1: You could put it out now where water because it's
Speaker 1: take you have to water it in because be it's
Speaker 1: taken up by the roots and it goes systemically through
Speaker 1: the plant to prevent the disease. Yeah, the eagle does
Speaker 1: the ingredient systemic.
Speaker 26: You make sure.
Speaker 1: But today, well that's a it's going to be a
Speaker 1: good day. Then that's not much work to have to do.
Speaker 1: I've got stuff I need to get done in my yard,
Speaker 1: but I can't because I'm on the radio. So maybe
Speaker 1: you you could, since you have so much time on
Speaker 1: your hands, just come up here and help me with
Speaker 1: some of my stuff.
Speaker 15: Well, I wish I had that much time. But after
Speaker 15: I do this, I have a few of the things
Speaker 15: to do.
Speaker 1: But okay, well, I keep I keep trying to Tom Sawyer,
Speaker 1: I keep trying to Tom Sawyer people into doing my
Speaker 1: work for me. So I guess that's going on. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call, b I appreciate it. Okay, you take
Speaker 1: care all right. Time for me to take a little break, Carolyn.
Speaker 1: You'll be first up when we come back back to
Speaker 1: the garden line. We got about a half hour left
Speaker 1: today of the show and your questions as well. If
Speaker 1: you had not been to RCW Garden Center, RCW Nurses
Speaker 1: right there where tomaw Parklay comes to the Beltway eight,
Speaker 1: you just wing by there. They have got some really
Speaker 1: cool stuff going on, and primarily it is their sale
Speaker 1: on shrubs and trees fifteen percent off trees, twenty percent
Speaker 1: off shrubs through the rest of November. Fifteen percent off trees,
Speaker 1: twenty percent off shrub That is a significant and savings azaleas.
Speaker 1: They have beautiful azaleas plenty. If you have a little
Speaker 1: shady area and you would like to create with that
Speaker 1: filtered shade some beautiful seasonal color. Azalia is a great
Speaker 1: way to go. If you are looking for a camellia.
Speaker 1: You know camellias used to be a lot of communeas
Speaker 1: planted around the area, and I just don't see them
Speaker 1: as much anymore. They're still around, but there's Sanquas and
Speaker 1: Japonica types of camellia, so you can have December blooms,
Speaker 1: you can have January ballooms, and they're just like little
Speaker 1: beautiful roses, gorgeous, gorgeous plants. Rcw's got that and many, many,
Speaker 1: many more different species of shrubs. They've got the root
Speaker 1: stimulator you want to put down when you plant the
Speaker 1: plant to soak into the root system to have success.
Speaker 1: If you want to buy a plant that's a little bigger,
Speaker 1: too big for you to carry in print a plant,
Speaker 1: then let them come out. They'll do that. They do
Speaker 1: that service as well. The main thing is just get
Speaker 1: it done, do it sooner rather than later. That would
Speaker 1: be my advice to you. RCW nurseries dot com. That's
Speaker 1: the website again, corner of Tomball Parkway and Beltwegh eight.
Speaker 1: Real easy access to get to it, So go for it.
Speaker 1: And while you're there you're going to find a lot
Speaker 1: of other really cool stuff at RCW. I'm going to
Speaker 1: head over to talk to Caroline. Now, Hey, Caroline, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Good line ships.
Speaker 24: We really enjoy your show.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 24: When I was a little kid, my grandpa groups is
Speaker 24: in Wisconsin. So I planted some together summer and I
Speaker 24: thought they'd be about foot high maybe, and they got
Speaker 24: to be about four feet high, and I was really surprised.
Speaker 1: Akay.
Speaker 24: Anyway, I collected seeds from them, and I have a
Speaker 24: whole pot of seeds, and I'm wondering how and when
Speaker 24: I should plant them, and how to our part if I,
Speaker 24: you know, want to plant some more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you do a couple of things since you
Speaker 1: just have Yeah, since you have a lot of seeds,
Speaker 1: what I would do is I would go ahead and
Speaker 1: just kind of scatter them out in a bed area.
Speaker 1: You know, ultimately you're gonna want your plants. Your zenny
Speaker 1: is to be about somewhere between six inches and ten
Speaker 1: inches apart in the bed. I tend to plant them
Speaker 1: a little thicker because they're not all going to come up.
Speaker 1: So if you plant the seeds, you're gonna after they
Speaker 1: come up, you're gonna want to find them to that,
Speaker 1: So don't put so many that you've got a lot
Speaker 1: of thinning work to do. But just kind of loosely
Speaker 1: scatter them, see what's going to come up. Water them
Speaker 1: in really good, just barely cover them with soil. I
Speaker 1: take a rake and just kind of scratch the soil
Speaker 1: up and then drop the seeds in. And then as
Speaker 1: you water them, they just kind of fall into the soil.
Speaker 1: You kind of rake over them real lightly to move them,
Speaker 1: just in the surface, not too deep. But don't do
Speaker 1: that until we get to March. March is when we're
Speaker 1: getting past our last freeze date, and as it warms up,
Speaker 1: any gets more interested in growing. But don't plant them now, okay,
Speaker 1: And I have.
Speaker 24: Them right now in my rose garden because I thought
Speaker 24: they could kind of fill in between. But is it
Speaker 24: best to just keep plant them like by themselves and
Speaker 24: not in between rose bushes or.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, there's there's different approaches, you know that
Speaker 1: I've been talking about cottage gardens off and on this morning,
Speaker 1: and a cottage garden you would throw them in among
Speaker 1: the roses and let them just kind of come up
Speaker 1: here and there, you know, and that randomness is part
Speaker 1: of the appeal. But a lot of people would rather
Speaker 1: have the roses in the rose garden and then the
Speaker 1: cut flower zenias in their own spot there because you
Speaker 1: know they're going to look good part of the year
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna not look good and you have
Speaker 1: to replant something.
Speaker 19: Yeah in the area.
Speaker 24: Okay, So they really do last a long time once
Speaker 24: you cut.
Speaker 16: Them through it.
Speaker 1: I love them, they do. They do. That's they're probably
Speaker 1: the simplest, easiest cut flower to have success with. Zenias
Speaker 1: are and when you go into a seed company and look, yeah,
Speaker 1: they are. And when you go to a seed company,
Speaker 1: you'll see types that are single blooms I'll just say,
Speaker 1: kind of a sunflowerlike you know, bloom but doesn't look
Speaker 1: like sunflowers, but single blooms. And then you have the
Speaker 1: double kind, and then you have kinds that look like mums.
Speaker 1: And there's even one called cactus flowered. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they call it that, but it's it's little strappy,
Speaker 1: roundish petals that are all frilly through an area. So
Speaker 1: as you get online looking at them, you're gonna find
Speaker 1: some pretty amazing zenias too, are just going down set.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, thank you for advice.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for being a Guardline listener, Carolyn. Good
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Speaker 1: take a little break here. When we come back, Hurta,
Speaker 1: you will be the first up. Talk to you in
Speaker 1: just a bit. Folks. Our phone number if you'd like
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Garden Morning.
Speaker 27: How are you? I'm doing that purchase two three gallon
Speaker 27: of foxtail firm plants, and it's still in the pot,
Speaker 27: both of them. But one is a darker green and
Speaker 27: one's kind of a light green, which is okay. I'm
Speaker 27: gonna alternate them when I plant them. But okay, two
Speaker 27: of the frons in the light green pot are turning yellow.
Speaker 5: What's wrong with them?
Speaker 1: I don't know. That happens some with foxtail fern. It's
Speaker 1: not always a bad sign. Maybe a droughty period they
Speaker 1: went through, you know, certainly they're fairly forgiving of soil moisture.
Speaker 1: But no plant wants to be submerged nor put out
Speaker 1: in the desert, and so sometimes those pots can be
Speaker 1: out pretty quick. It could be that I generally it
Speaker 1: doesn't lead to anything. Just kind of watch them. One
Speaker 1: thing I'll do sometimes is take a pot and turn
Speaker 1: it upside down, kind of bump it and lift it
Speaker 1: off the root system, just to look at the roots
Speaker 1: and see if they look kind of a healthy, creamy
Speaker 1: white color or if they're kind of brown water soaked
Speaker 1: or gray, which indicates a root rot. And if it's
Speaker 1: a root rot, you definitely need it need to dry
Speaker 1: it out a little bit.
Speaker 27: All right, all right, well I guess, well when would
Speaker 27: I plant them? I don't know. You can plan them
Speaker 27: before spring?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well you could plan them now if you wanted to.
Speaker 1: Orn't just wait until spring. The negative of waiting is
Speaker 1: you got to keep watching them, doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of watering in the container over the wintertime. It's not ok.
Speaker 1: But you could also avoid them getting kind of killed back,
Speaker 1: you know, from some severe cold in a pot, because
Speaker 1: you can just put them inside when that happens.
Speaker 27: Put Yeah, yeah, that's true. Well, okay, thanks a lot,
Speaker 27: you take care.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, and you have a wonderful thanksgiving her to.
Speaker 7: Bye bye bye.
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Speaker 1: to Emil.
Speaker 26: Heml Yeah, this Hi, how are you doing. I'm in
Speaker 26: the Sharpstown area and I'm sure you're familiar with this
Speaker 26: harsh herb. How hard it is to control?
Speaker 15: You?
Speaker 26: Can you know, spray it maybe a couple of times,
Speaker 26: and but the biggest problem is it comes right back,
Speaker 26: and even if you throw small patches pull it out
Speaker 26: by the roots, it comes back on you. I guess
Speaker 26: the there have some good products out there that take
Speaker 26: care of it. What is your thoughts about having it
Speaker 26: professionally done? The problem is after the drought here, a
Speaker 26: lot of the neighbors just quit water and so most
Speaker 26: of the neighbors it just takes over the whole yard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well you know, is it grun in your lawn?
Speaker 26: Oh? Yeah, okay, I don't know what they.
Speaker 1: Say, Well, it's it's a native plant. It's a native plant.
Speaker 1: They have you ever heard the term one man's trash
Speaker 1: is another man's treasures That that was said, probably originally
Speaker 1: about horse herb. I'm joking, but horse herb for someone
Speaker 1: who doesn't want any weeds in their lawn is a
Speaker 1: pain in the neck. And I'm very hard to kill.
Speaker 1: I have sprayed orse heerb with roundup before and it
Speaker 1: didn't kill it. I'm just telling you that is a
Speaker 1: tough or. I was trying to I said, I wonder
Speaker 1: if this will kill you? And I didn't kill it.
Speaker 1: But people that are into native plants, people that want
Speaker 1: to attract certain kinds of little butterflies, people that want
Speaker 1: something that is a green groundcover that grows in the
Speaker 1: shade and even if it's drowdy, it survives. They love
Speaker 1: horse herb. So you got to decide where you want
Speaker 1: to fall on this. Sounds like you want to get
Speaker 1: rid of it. I tell you there's some areas where
Speaker 1: or serb is the best thing you can have on
Speaker 1: the ground because of all the things I just said. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to get rid of it, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to use something stronger. And the problem is those
Speaker 1: products will probably kill your Saint Augustine too. Products containing
Speaker 1: triclop here, for example, would probably do a pretty good
Speaker 1: job on the orse herb, but the tricle peers aren't
Speaker 1: labeled for Saint Augustine because they are they are too
Speaker 1: hard on it. So all you all I could say
Speaker 1: is if you had so much orse herb that you
Speaker 1: could just say, look, I'm just going to kill it
Speaker 1: and if the Saint Augustine dies, that's fine, and then replant.
Speaker 1: That's option A. Option B would be to get a
Speaker 1: wiper type applicator where you could wipe down some sort
Speaker 1: of a herb side like tricle peer on the orserb
Speaker 1: without getting it on your grass. But there's not a
Speaker 1: good solution. You're right, Digging it doesn't work. It strength
Speaker 1: pretty much doesn't work. But those would be those would
Speaker 1: be the two options to go about.
Speaker 26: Okay, Well, thank you so much for your info.
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate the call. Thanks a lot for
Speaker 1: being a gardener and listener. You're welcome, all right, folks,
Speaker 1: you hear music, you know what music means. Music means
Speaker 1: I have to shut up, and you're going to head
Speaker 1: out of here and go see some of those Santas
Speaker 1: we're talking about earlier. Are lots of lots of good
Speaker 1: things to get out there and do today, if you're
Speaker 1: if you are interested, he hanging around until tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 1: be back at Lein tomorrow. I'd say I'm to answer
Speaker 1: your gardening question.