WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:02.600 Welcome to Katie r H. 2 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:04.960 Garden Line with skip rictor. 3 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:14.439 Crazy Gas can use a trim. You just watch him 4 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:18.079 as wolds gas. 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:20.120 The US. 6 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:24.879 So many good things to see bat basic in bases 7 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:33.200 like gas days back, not a salad bases gas. 8 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:37.560 Sound beaming down. 9 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:51.119 Between well, well, well, good morning, Wenda Guten Morgan. However 10 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:57.119 you want to say it good to see you this morning. Yeah, 11 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.920 I said, See, I have to picture someone's out there 12 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:04.040 when I'm talking. It just makes it easier. Otherwise it's 13 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:08.920 like you're talking to the wall. So anyway, a little 14 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.519 inside shot there on how we do things here on 15 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:13.400 the Garden Line. Hey, if you would like to give 16 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.760 us call this morning, Well it's always you know, Sunday mornings, 17 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.079 first thing is always the best time to get right through. 18 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:21.239 So there's your little tip for the day. But anyway, 19 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.719 you can give me a call seven one three two 20 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.480 one two ktr H seven one three two one two 21 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.239 k t r H. I am looking forward to a 22 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.519 good day to day. Yesterday was great thanks to Southwest 23 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:36.439 Fertilizer Bob having us out there. It was it was 24 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.159 really fun. Got to talk to a lot of good 25 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.439 folks and we had a lot of fun too. Actually 26 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.239 did some walking around the store and whatnot, and Bolly, 27 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:45.879 I tell you, every time I go into that place, 28 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.519 I'm just surprised at all of the product and at 29 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.239 the tools. A ninety foot wall of tools. That's just amazing. 30 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.480 I don't know how they I don't know how they 31 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:58.640 do that. It's it's a lot. But he also carries 32 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:05.159 those specialty things, you know, the Skips weed wiper. If 33 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.239 you go on my website Gardening with Skip dot com, 34 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.599 I have a thing called Skip's Homemade weed Wiper, and 35 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.039 it's a grabber tool that you put sponges on and 36 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:19.240 make a tool to apply herbicides directly to a weed, 37 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.840 so it doesn't put a lot of chemical and environment 38 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.240 and it doesn't hurt the plants around it anyway. You 39 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:26.960 just got to go see it. Anyway, Bob's got those 40 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:29.800 grabber tools in there so people can do that. We 41 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.400 had some folks picking them up yesterday. And then he's 42 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:34.360 got that kneeling bench that I talk about a lot 43 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.360 in there. I love kneeling benches. I fell in love 44 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:39.560 with them sometime after forty when I woke up the 45 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.520 first morning and realized that I was sore, but I 46 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:45.719 had no earthly idea why some of you are not 47 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.840 and going, yeah, I know which do well. Anyway, He's 48 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:50.800 got those, but he's got all kinds of other good 49 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.199 stuff in there as well. So it was good see 50 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:56.639 see them, and thanks again for those of you who 51 00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:00.159 came out. I want to remind you or tell you 52 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.199 for the first time. Next Saturday, from twelve to two, 53 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.319 I'm going to be at Memorial City Ace Hardware, and 54 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:08.879 so I hope you'll come out to see me. I'll 55 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:10.520 talk a little bit more about that as we go 56 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:14.120 through the day, but anyway, just kind of make a 57 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.159 note for those of you in that area come on out. 58 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:22.360 Look forward to seeing you. In my own yard and 59 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:27.840 garden today i'd see I think probably later afternoon today. 60 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:29.919 I'm going to get outside and put her around just 61 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.240 a little bit. No big projects, just a couple of things. 62 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.280 I have a lime tree that is sitting in the pot. 63 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.199 It goes in and the soil is right beside it, 64 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:41.840 and so I just need to put all that together 65 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:44.159 and get that thing potted up. I've been holding on 66 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:45.599 to it for a while, you know. It's one of 67 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.520 those things that ends up. You bring it home and 68 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:50.039 it sits there for a little while because you're running 69 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:52.400 around doing other things. Time to get that in the 70 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:56.479 ground or in the pot. That is one thing I 71 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:03.199 like about pots is the convenience and the versatility. Number one. 72 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:08.719 The containers are beautiful, or they can be, and you 73 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.759 can move them around. And you're thinking, yeah, have you 74 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.800 ever tried to pick up a pot full of soil? 75 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:13.360 Yes? 76 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.079 I have, and I'll never do that again. What I 77 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:20.800 do is I have a little dolly. You tilt the pot, 78 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:24.240 slide the dolly lip underneath the edge, and then put 79 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.120 a strap around the pot like I attach it to 80 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.199 the dolly on one side, go around the pot and 81 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.920 attach it on the other side. And then once it's 82 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:36.120 snugly pulled up against the dolly, you can tilt that 83 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.439 thing and basically one hand take a pretty darn heavy 84 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:42.519 thing anywhere you want to go. And you can move 85 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:48.480 pots to sunnier or less sunny spots. If you decide, 86 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:50.560 you know what, this is a little too much sun, 87 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:52.519 I'm gonna give it a little afternoon shade. You just 88 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:54.519 roll it over to that spot. It's easy to do. 89 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:59.920 And anyway, the thing I like about pots or containers 90 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:04.000 with this plant is Cetrus has fragrant blooms, and I 91 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.199 love to smell the blooms of citrus. It's to me, 92 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:11.000 it's almost as it's almost equal to the benefit of 93 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.560 getting the citrus fruit themselves. But anyway, so this pot 94 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.639 will go by my patio where when I sit out there, 95 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.199 I can enjoy the fragrance. And yesterday I was talking 96 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:25.120 about some nice fragrant plants that we can put out, 97 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.600 or that I am putting out. I've put out some ginger, 98 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:32.439 some hedicium white butterfly ginger. Oh my gosh, it's heavenly 99 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:38.120 the fragrance. I have some confederate jasmine, also called star 100 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:40.560 jasmine that's about to go in on a back fence. 101 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.639 That is heavenly fragrance as well. I have something called 102 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:49.680 lemon verbina no excuse me, almond verbina. Lemon verbenas an 103 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.199 herb almon verbina, and it makes a shrub a bush. 104 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.439 You can share it back, and the more you share it, 105 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.959 the more terminals you get. And that's where the flowers are. 106 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:02.639 And these white, long, almost like a bottle brush type flower, 107 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.319 but smaller, are very fragrant too. I love that one. 108 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.959 I've got a sweet osmanthus that I also put in 109 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.160 the bed. These are mostly on the southwest side of 110 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.720 the patio because that's where the prevailing wind comes in 111 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.680 the summertime across there. So when you sit on the patio, 112 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.120 you know, you tend to get more of the wind 113 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:24.040 blowing from that direction, not always, but some, And so 114 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.720 we'll enjoy those fragrance. And now this citrus tree and 115 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.040 a container is going to go as be part of 116 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:35.439 the mix too. I like to compare visual and audio 117 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:39.079 using the adjectives for the other. Like I mean, for example, 118 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.000 it's going to be a cacophony of fragrances. Yeah, I know, 119 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.399 cacophony means a sound thing, but it's going to be 120 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.639 a cacophony of fragrances on that patio, and so I'm 121 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.279 looking forward to that anyway, Just some thoughts for you there. 122 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:52.920 You may want to create some of the same things. 123 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:55.279 There's a lot of other great plants that could go 124 00:06:55.399 --> 00:07:00.480 into the same mix as well. If you've not doneation 125 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.279 on your lawn in a while, you need to get 126 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.160 out there and do it. And a great product for 127 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.519 that is sweet Green from nitrofoss. Sweet green has eleven 128 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:11.600 percent nitrogen which is one of the higher nitrogen organic 129 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.439 type products you're gonna ever find. You put it down, 130 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.199 it dissolves into the soil very easily. Those carbon chains 131 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.639 and sweet green are loved by beneficial bacteria and you're 132 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.839 going to get a nice green up of your lawn. 133 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:25.959 You goun to find sweet green at plants and things 134 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:28.639 up in Brenham. You can find it at Fisher's Hardware 135 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:32.480 down in Baytown or our Lake Hardware clue on Dixie Drive. 136 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.360 I'm gonna take a little break here real quick and 137 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:38.439 I'll be right back. Stick around when we come back. 138 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.319 Chris and nasa Abe you'll be our first up. Well, 139 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:45.079 good morning, welcome back to the guard Line. Glad to 140 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:48.560 have you with us this morning. You can go straight 141 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.800 out of the phones here and talk to Chris in 142 00:07:51.120 --> 00:08:02.439 nasa abey. Hey, Chris, welcome to Guardline. Cool you know, yes, sir, yes, sir. 143 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.120 I've got a couple of bald spots in the yard, 144 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.439 uh you know, all the way down to dirt and 145 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.800 some a couple are in the in total shade, and 146 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:14.439 then some of them are in the you know, full sun. 147 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.079 I was wondering, I was thinking about getting some of 148 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:22.240 that Scot's easy seed that they sell at. 149 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:25.040 ACE and try that out unless you try suggest something different. 150 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:32.240 What kind of yard do you have? What's the grass Augustine? Okay, yeah, 151 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.480 it'll look real weird to put those seeds in uh 152 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:39.240 uh to be in there, and there's not a Saint 153 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:42.799 Augustine seed, So I would what I would do is 154 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:44.919 even if you go you can go places, just buy 155 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.919 like a a piece for two or three of sod 156 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:51.639 uh you know the lower size of your dormat at 157 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.960 the door. Uh, And you can take those and you 158 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:57.600 cut them up and cut one of them up and 159 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:00.759 maybe three different pieces if you want, and that way 160 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:03.279 spread them out in those different patches and holes that 161 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:06.799 you have watered in real good. Remember the water at 162 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.759 twice a day each one twice a day the first week, 163 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:12.519 once a day the second week, and then after that 164 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.000 you can start backing off. But that will fill in 165 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:20.039 really fast with a nice mature plant and make a 166 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.039 natural blend into what you already have. 167 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:26.320 That's okay, great. Do I need to prepare the soil 168 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.679 before I do that? That's you know, yeah, yeah, if 169 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.039 you broke it up a little bit. If you broke 170 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:34.840 it up a little bit with a rake. You could 171 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.039 put a little bit of very fine compost in there. 172 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.919 Don't put anything chunky at all, but just a little bit. 173 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.240 You don't need a whole lot. And then when you lay. 174 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.480 Your sid, first of all, wet the soil first, and 175 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:48.840 then lay the sod on top. And then make sure 176 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:53.720 you press it down so you get good sod to soil. 177 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:57.879 Contact that black clay that comes in with the sod underneath, 178 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.360 make sure it's touching the soil. There's nothing this air 179 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.759 air gap underneath it, is what I'm trying to say. 180 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.879 And then and then water it. That the most important 181 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.039 thing on that stuff surviving is don't you know, lay 182 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.679 a bunch of sod and an hour and a half later, 183 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:14.000 come back and start water. And just go ahead and 184 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.799 water it as you're getting it laid down, and then 185 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:18.840 again twice a day for the first week, once a 186 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.799 day the second week. Okay, Well, good Jill, thank you 187 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.000 for your help, sir you bet, Chris, thanks for the call. 188 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:32.159 Appreciate that heirloom soils is really a source of all 189 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.879 kinds of good products. I was talking to somebody the 190 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:37.440 other day and they I can't remember what was it. Oh, 191 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.360 I know what it was. They were wanting to plant 192 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.279 some rose bushes, and I said, well, there's some thing 193 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:47.320 called rose and Bloomers blend from heirloom soil. It's excellent 194 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.720 for that. And it says and bloomers because you know, 195 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.440 you may have even remembered Randy talking about way back, 196 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.480 you know, rose soil for don't just use it for roses, 197 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:58.559 usually for all kinds of things. Well that I think 198 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.000 that's this title Rose and Blue is just say, hey, 199 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.759 this is not just for roses. It's good for all 200 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.679 kinds of bloomin plants, and it works well. The veggie 201 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.799 and herb mix, yes, great for veggie and herb, but 202 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:11.320 if you want to put it in a flower bit, 203 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.600 if we find for that too. It really is sometimes 204 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:16.919 we put names on things just so people, you know, 205 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.279 feel they can identify. Okay, that's the one I need 206 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:22.519 for this, and it is. Those are all for the 207 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.080 things they say, but they can expand out to other things. 208 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.279 Airloom sauce has got fruit bery and citrus mix. They've 209 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.519 got a nice landscape ped mix too, by the way. 210 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:36.159 And then if you're looking for special things to maybe 211 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:39.039 improve your soil in general, kind of a you're going 212 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:40.399 to kind of be a do it yourself or in 213 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:42.799 putting certain things in. You can buy expanded shell from 214 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:45.519 you can buy expanded shell blend to a compost, or 215 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.240 you can buy aged leaf mole compost by the bag 216 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.120 from them. Airloom Soils can be delivered to your house too, 217 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:53.639 or you can go get it if you want to 218 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:56.120 go get it. The thing you need to check out 219 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:01.519 this if you would write this down Heirloom Soils heirloomsoils 220 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:04.039 dot com and check out the products they have, look 221 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:06.360 at where they are, look at the calculator that's on there. 222 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:09.080 That was another question I get. Sometimes people say, well 223 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:11.440 I don't know how much to get You know, well, 224 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.240 here's what you do. You figure out, go to the calculator, 225 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.279 put in how much, how wide, how deep, how long 226 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:23.039 the bed is, and it will help you know exactly 227 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:25.240 how much you need, whether you need to buy it 228 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:28.080 by the cubic yard, which if it's any sized job 229 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.039 at all, you do, or whether you know you just 230 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.919 go get some one cubic footbags and fill it in 231 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.759 that way. Anyway, Heirloomsoils dot com. That's what you need 232 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.440 to know. And just know this that every time I've 233 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.879 gotten one of their products and used it, and I've 234 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:47.000 done it a bunch. I see really good results, and 235 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:50.639 I wouldn't be recommending. I don't recommend things that I 236 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:54.440 have not had personal experience with or seen direct research on. 237 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.200 And to know that when I'm telling you something, you're 238 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:00.519 going to have good results with it too. Used as 239 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:03.279 directed as they always say, I never kind of had 240 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:08.120 commercial whatever flyer that you see anyway, heirloom, so you're 241 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.360 not going to go wrong with it. And if you've 242 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:13.080 listened to Guardenline one time, you've heard me say more 243 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.440 than one time that you got to start with the soil. 244 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.399 Get the soil right, and then the plants you put 245 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.879 in are going to have better success. That's how that works. 246 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:27.559 Along with doing good soils, doing quality nutrient additions. You know, 247 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.279 the nutrients are part of what I call the brown stuff, 248 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.399 the soil, the compost, the nutrients, all of that, the fertilizer, 249 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.799 that's all the foundation. And Neilson Plant Food has some 250 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:41.960 really cool products that They've got a line called Nutristar 251 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:46.159 that comes in screwtop lid jars, and the nutri Star 252 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:51.279 is named by the plant that's it's really designed for 253 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.279 and again there's some variability there. You don't have to 254 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.559 just use it on that one kind of plant. But 255 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.159 there's a nutri Star for hibiscus, there's a nutri Star 256 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:03.919 for vegetables, there's nutri Star for plumerias. I mean, on 257 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.279 and on and on. The one I want to tell 258 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:09.600 you about right now is the hibiscus and flowering tropicals food. 259 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.120 If you don't have hibiscus in your landscape, you need to. 260 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.240 Whether it's the perennial hibiscus it dies to the ground, 261 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.759 comes back and has flowers as big as dinner plates 262 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:21.519 that are either pink or red or white or swirled 263 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:25.000 or some version of those three colors, or a tropical 264 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:30.320 hibiscus which are absolutely sleunningly gorgeous. Nutristar Hibiscus and flowering 265 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:34.120 tropical food is great for all of that. And you know, 266 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.000 if it's got flowers on it, Hibiscus and flying tropicals 267 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.679 can do a good job for it. It gives you 268 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:43.519 multiple acidifying sources to make sure that the nutrient release 269 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:48.039 is in it is given out over time, but that 270 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.879 the pH of your soil is adequate for those plants 271 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.120 that you're growing. Get a good high potassium content make 272 00:14:54.159 --> 00:15:00.279 sure it's resistance. Potassium helps build a better how do 273 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.320 I say, drought resilience within a plant. It's one of 274 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.120 the functions of potassium, cold heartiness and other function of potassium. 275 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.919 But however you want to go about it. Nutra Star 276 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.320 Hibiscus and flowering tropicals, one of the many nutri Star 277 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.679 products by Nelson's is something you need to check into. 278 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:18.799 And by the way, there's about a dozen places around 279 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.399 town where you can take your empty jars in. Instead 280 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.879 having to buy more jars and throw away plastic, you 281 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:26.960 just refill them and it's it's more economical, but it's 282 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.480 also helps keep that plastic out of the environment, which 283 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:34.279 I think is a great way to go. You're listening 284 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:37.720 to Gardenline my phone number seven one three two one 285 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.879 two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH. Give 286 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:44.159 us a call. We'll help you with the kinds of 287 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:48.440 plants you're wanting to grow. I was mentioning fragrant flowers 288 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.200 and some of the ones we're doing around the landscape. 289 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:54.480 There are many other good examples of flowers that have 290 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.600 a nice fragrance. Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's overwhelming. You 291 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:03.360 know what a gardena is or example of one that's 292 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.639 just it's perfume, but it's a good, strong fragrance. Then 293 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.799 there are things that are a little more subtle. Some 294 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:15.720 of the old time petunias, old fashioned petunias, kind of 295 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:19.279 the cottage garden type. They're wild and lanky and probably 296 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:20.960 not gonna make it in a lot of flower beds 297 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.559 because they don't have the neat, clean appearance that our 298 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.399 modern petunias do. Some of those old ones have a 299 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:32.039 lovely little fragrance. Earlier this spring, when the Chinese fringe 300 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.480 was blooming, it was just my favorite spring blooming tree. 301 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:38.320 Chinese fringe has a nice little honey to me. It's 302 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:41.039 a kind of a honey like fragrance, and it has 303 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.720 so many blooms, just shaggy all over the plant that 304 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:46.600 when you get one of those and the breeze is 305 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:50.039 blow in the right direction, it's another nice fragrant plant 306 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:54.799 that you can enjoy. Remember, in gardening, we have not 307 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.200 just the visual. You know, people think about, well, I 308 00:16:57.720 --> 00:16:59.919 want to have a landscape, and what you think as well? 309 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.320 You picture this front of your house or backyard and 310 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.799 you see all the beautiful plants and there's all these colors. 311 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.680 Maybe you've got evergreens and deciduous But that's all visual, right, 312 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.519 And also part of the visual is big bold leaves 313 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:18.519 like an elephant ear or a kalladium, or narrow leaves 314 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.599 that are a fine leaf grass clump of grass for example. 315 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:27.440 Those are all parts of the visual. But gardening also 316 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:32.119 includes the sense that you smell and choosing to put 317 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:35.440 some nice fragrant plants that you love in. That's a 318 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:40.319 wonderful thing. A lot of us grew up with fragrant memories, 319 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.079 you know, maybe it was the smell of cookies in 320 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:45.319 grandma's kitchen, you know, when you're a kid growing up, 321 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:48.559 or something along those lines. Smells are one of the 322 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.200 things we remember best throughout our lives, to the very end. 323 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.200 I mean we smells are a memory that sticks in 324 00:17:56.319 --> 00:17:59.680 our brains. And you may have some fragrances of the 325 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.599 past of flowers that maybe grandy grew or something like that. 326 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:06.640 You can bring those in and you can re experience that. 327 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.039 So anyway, that's a freak. Another aspect of gardening is 328 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:15.240 movement and sound. Do you know that plants make sounds, Well, 329 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:19.279 sometimes they do. Movement would be like the swaying grass 330 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.119 in the breeze. There's a beauty to that and the 331 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.319 grass sea head's coming up above it. And I'm not 332 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.519 talking about long grass. I'm talking about big clumps of 333 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:31.960 grass like maiden grass, Miscanthus or mules or others. And 334 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:35.759 the sounds if you've ever sat underneath the clump of bamboo. 335 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:38.200 And by the way, I would plant clumping bamboo, not 336 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:44.720 running bamboo, because running bamboo can out run you. It's 337 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.200 like putting bermuda grass in your flower bed. It takes off. 338 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.759 It's a great plant. But if you don't have room, 339 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.720 or if you don't it contained underground, it don't do that. 340 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:56.440 But anyway, sit underneath bamboo and the breeze. Summer breeze 341 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.400 is blowing and the bamboo leaves are kind of stiff 342 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:01.880 and paper, if you will, and it almost sounds like 343 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:04.559 it's raining as you're sitting under there, as those leaves 344 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:09.200 rub against each other. That's a really interesting sound of 345 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:12.960 the garden. And then there's the butterflies what I call 346 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:17.519 flying flowers coming by that you can attract in. There's 347 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:21.200 watching the pollinators work on the flowers. There's hummingbirds that 348 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:23.720 come in. So there's that visual that can be added 349 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:26.480 to it and the songs of the birds that come in. 350 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:30.039 So I'm kind of droning on here, but I want 351 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:33.200 you to think of your garden as broader than just oh, 352 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.359 here's a prettiful, pretty flower. Beautiful flower. I'm gonna put 353 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.640 it in this front bed. That's fine, But garden goes way, 354 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:46.200 way way beyond that. Speaking of in Channy Gardens out 355 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:49.319 in Richmond, Rosenberg is an awesome garden center and be 356 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:51.440 a good place to visit this afternoon too. By the way, 357 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:55.799 the website if you'll write this down Enchanted Gardens Richmond 358 00:19:56.759 --> 00:19:59.480 dot com in Chennigardens Richmond dot com. When you get there, 359 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:02.119 you're gonna be greeted by an enthusiastic team that's as 360 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.599 helpful as they come. They know how to help you 361 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:10.039 have success, and you're going to have every part and 362 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.359 piece that you need to put together to make beauty, 363 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:16.000 whether it's a flower bed, a combination container you're creating, 364 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:20.480 or maybe rose bushes and shrubs along the periphery of 365 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:26.640 your landscape as backdrops. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Go there, 366 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:28.680 have a good time and take some friends with you, 367 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:32.279 because it's really a great outing for everybody. I'm going 368 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.279 to take a break and I'll be right back after 369 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.759 the news. All right, Welcome back, folks, Welcome back to 370 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:46.119 guarden Line. One of my favorite garden centers to visit 371 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:50.519 is down there in Seabrook. It's way southwest in Houston. 372 00:20:50.920 --> 00:20:52.799 Those of you in that whole region, you know it. 373 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.640 It's Moss Nursery. And Moss Nursery is not just another 374 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:57.319 garden center. 375 00:20:57.440 --> 00:20:57.640 It is. 376 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:00.279 First of all, it's a seventy year old, fan only 377 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:05.160 operated garden center. It is eight acres to find everything 378 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:07.359 you want, I mean, and when you wander through it, 379 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:10.599 it is every time you turn a corner, more plants, 380 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:14.480 seasonal color, every kind of flower you can imagine, gorgeous 381 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.079 hanging baskets to give you that instant you got. Somebody 382 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:18.519 come with over tonight and you want to degorate that 383 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.839 back patio hanging baskets are boom. You're there in one purchase. 384 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:26.960 It looks great no matter what you're looking for. Beautiful 385 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.160 shrubs like you have twenty different kinds of azalias that 386 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.640 they have their beautiful blooming shrubs, you know, talking of 387 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:37.680 that white Chinese fringe tree and ping Magnolia's the Japanese 388 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:40.119 Magnoia is the ones that were blooming. They're the first 389 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:43.559 things to bloom just about in the spring. It's beautiful 390 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:46.680 and the house plant selection is outstanding. You're not going 391 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.240 to find anything if you're looking for something different, you know, 392 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:52.240 like I don't have one of those already. It's a 393 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.680 great place for that. Jim has some really quirky T 394 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:57.759 shirts designs that he's come up with. He has a 395 00:21:57.799 --> 00:21:59.839 thing called the eyeball plant and you got to go 396 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:02.000 see it. It's cool. But anyway, you can get a 397 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:04.359 T shirt with that on it. Like I said, you 398 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:06.920 never know around the next corner what you're going to find. 399 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:12.279 At Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas, Mosnursery dot com 400 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:15.359 and here's the phone number two eight one four seven 401 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:19.880 four twenty four eighty eight. We're going to head up 402 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:23.039 to Willis now and talk to Sherry. Hey, Sherry, welcome 403 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:23.680 to garden. 404 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:28.440 Line, Thank you, good morning. Last year we had a 405 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:33.759 problem with our tomato plants. Our tomatoes, the second batch 406 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:36.400 of them, they started getting yellow and they had these 407 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:40.000 big I think they were stink boats, some green, some brown. 408 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:40.720 They were awful. 409 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:44.240 And yeah, so this year, my. 410 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:49.279 Husband started making these structures put nettie over, which I 411 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:51.680 don't know how they get pollinated if you put in 412 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:55.519 net sober, but that's one question. And then yesterday he 413 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:59.559 headed off distractor supply and got this stuff called bio. 414 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:03.759 It's danced and sits right on them, and it's got 415 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:06.519 thy flood drends in them. 416 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:08.559 Okay, and. 417 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:14.720 I really don't want to ingest that stuff. And you know, 418 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:17.440 we we're trying to go organic, but you know, also 419 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:19.119 we can't have these bugs. 420 00:23:20.839 --> 00:23:28.279 Yeah, I get it. Well, I don't have a bioadvanced 421 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.359 label in front of me, so I don't know if 422 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.119 it's labeled for vegetables or not. 423 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.079 Yes, it is exactly a vegetable, it. 424 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:40.200 Is, okay, good, good, Well, I mean, yeah, that's an option. 425 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:43.400 The problem with stink bugs is once you're adults flying around, 426 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:46.559 if you try to kill them, it takes a good potent. 427 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:50.319 Not just any insecticide will will work on that. What 428 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:54.720 I would do, the garden mesh, if that's what we're 429 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:58.039 talking about, has it's almost like a the window screens 430 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:01.559 on your house, but it's a very off fabric and 431 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:05.440 very light weight. So if you put that over them 432 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.480 the bugs can't get inside, and then you just lift 433 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:12.960 it up to do your harvesting tomatoes. Now, bees that 434 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:17.640 go and buzz the flower, especially bumblebees, they can help 435 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:21.240 with pollination by shaking the flower, but they're primarily pollinated 436 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:24.599 by wind moving the plants. This isn't a pollen that 437 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:28.000 the bee takes from one flower to another, but inside 438 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:31.440 the flower, when wind moves them or a bumblebee buzzes them, 439 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:35.000 it shakes pollen loose and it falls inside that flower 440 00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:39.839 to the pistol where it's received and pollinates. So you 441 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:42.799 can just you can do that. If your tomatoes are 442 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:44.920 in a very protected spot. Sometimes you need to go 443 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:46.519 out and shake the cage every now and then to 444 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:50.519 help them with that process. But out in the garden 445 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:53.359 with wind blowing, and wind will blow to some degree 446 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:58.160 through that mesh fabric. Okay, so that's an option. The 447 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:00.799 other thing I recommend on stink bugs and leaf footed 448 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:04.160 bugs is learn go online and do a search and 449 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:08.559 find out what their eggs and their nymphs look like. 450 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:12.480 The eggs are going to be little barrel for stink bugs. 451 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:15.599 They're gonna look like little barrels that are all stacked together. 452 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.400 And I say little, I mean tiny, you know, way 453 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:22.079 smaller than a beebe way smaller. But you can see 454 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:24.599 them in clusters and you go, that's a that's a 455 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:27.880 true bug egg, like a stink bug. And then when 456 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:33.359 they hatch out, the nymphs herd together. They hang out 457 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:36.839 together in little groups on the leaf and at that 458 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:39.400 stage they don't have wings, they can't fly away, and 459 00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:42.119 you can pull up. You just have a little pale 460 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:44.920 or whatever, a bowl of soapy water under them and 461 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:47.079 swat the branch and they all fall in the soapy 462 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:48.960 water and you just took a dozen of them out 463 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.720 that way. Once they're adults and they're flying around, now 464 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:56.839 we're having to grab some more potent products to spray, 465 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:01.680 and it's hard to it's hard to have as effective 466 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:03.960 of a control without just nuke in the whole place. 467 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:09.039 Okay, so you think just putting this, what is the 468 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:12.079 screening that you recommended calls to be bought some netting 469 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:13.279 from Famii poll. 470 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:17.519 Well, it may have been what he bought. Usually we 471 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:20.839 save the word netting for things that have holes maybe 472 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:24.799 a half inch to an inch that you're keeping birds 473 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:29.960 out with. The mesh holds the size of your window screens. 474 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:33.200 But it's a very soft fabric that just lays over 475 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:35.279 the plants and you can do that. 476 00:26:35.480 --> 00:26:35.599 Now. 477 00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:39.759 Some people will also take Organza bags. I don't know, 478 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:43.559 I had to learn what Organza was. You may be familiar, 479 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:48.519 but it's little, very very fine white mesh bags that 480 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.440 often have a draw string on them and they're used 481 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:55.799 for like, oh, I don't know, bridal party gifts, you know, 482 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:58.640 by the bride gives them out or something. But if 483 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:02.200 you go online and do a search for Organza bags, 484 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:04.920 you just need to buy them the size that you 485 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:08.279 need to go around your tomatoes or your tomato clusters, 486 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.079 and you just slip them over and pull the draw string. 487 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:12.559 You don't even have to tie it, just pull it 488 00:27:13.119 --> 00:27:16.240 and it stays there and it helps keep birds away 489 00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:18.839 from them, and it also keeps bugs away from the fruit. 490 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.200 And they're very cheap. You can buy them online by 491 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.559 the hundred and they're not much money at all. So 492 00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:26.920 I would try that also. But you got to bag 493 00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:28.599 every tomato with. 494 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:32.680 Those, yeah, well, and they're so dense in there. There's 495 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:34.480 a fun of tomato. 496 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:35.160 That's fun. 497 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:43.039 Yeah, Okay, that'd be a job. So yeah, with this side, 498 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:45.799 Luorin is that poison for humans? 499 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:50.960 Ciflutheran is well, Okay, I'm gonna let me just address 500 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.079 because we've got a lot of people listening. The word 501 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:59.720 poison is misused a lot. Salt is a poison, aspirin 502 00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:02.920 is a poison. There's a certain amount of either of 503 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:04.559 those that if you eat it, it will kill you. 504 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.480 And so poison is a term that really is based 505 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:12.839 on the dose that you get. Okay, so anything, pretty 506 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:15.559 much anything can be poisonous if you take the right amount. 507 00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:18.319 I know what you mean when you ask that, so 508 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:21.160 I'll answer it according to what you're really asking. But 509 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:25.960 I just needed to address that word poison. The Ciflutheran 510 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:30.240 is a synthetic pyrethroid. It's one of the synthetic pirethroids 511 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:34.160 that's labeled for a lot of applications in the garden 512 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:39.279 and landscape and whatnot. And so if you follow the label. 513 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:41.680 The research that was done is to like how long 514 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.680 do you need to wait after you spray whatever the 515 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:48.640 product is, before you re enter that garden area and 516 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:51.279 also before you would be able to harvest it. It's 517 00:28:51.319 --> 00:28:54.960 called days to harvest, and that's the time that's deemed 518 00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:00.240 to be acceptable to use. People have strong opinions about 519 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:02.519 what they spray on their plants, and a lot of 520 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:06.200 people don't want to mess with something that is a 521 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:11.839 synthetic ex ecticide. And I understand that it's fine, but 522 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:14.359 you got to follow the label if you're going to 523 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.079 use something like that. That's where we get into trouble 524 00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:20.000 is when we mix things too strong, when we spray 525 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:22.000 them one day and then we harvest the food the 526 00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:24.720 next day, and you're supposed to wait seven days maybe 527 00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:26.480 or you see what I'm saying. You just got to 528 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.079 follow the label and then and wash your produce. I 529 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.960 think in my gardens, I just don't try to spray 530 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.720 stink bugs. I just don't. I use Arganza bags. I 531 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:40.880 use the mesh covering over tomatoes and just block them 532 00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:45.400 out and make it simple that way. It's for some 533 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.480 people that's too much trouble. I understand that, but it's 534 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:50.519 up to you. But if someone's labeled for use on 535 00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:52.240 a product, you got to follow the label. 536 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:57.160 Okay, Well that's very helpful. Thank you so much. 537 00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:03.799 Yeah, all right, thanks a lot. Appreciate your call very much. Well, 538 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.279 that was a lot of discussion, a lot of information, 539 00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:09.400 but I stuff I wanted to say and make sure 540 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.079 people here and understand that that is important. 541 00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:12.880 Uh. 542 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:18.240 Peerscapes is an awesome, awesome company for bringing beauty to 543 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.440 your whole landscape from a landscape design to working on 544 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:26.920 irrigation to creating a gorgeous landscape, lighting to drainage to 545 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:31.119 a service they offer that's called quarterly maintenance. And with 546 00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:33.680 that you just haven't come out once every quarter. Once 547 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:36.680 every three months. They fix, They fix up the mults, 548 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:39.079 They replace any plants that needed. If you want to 549 00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.200 do a transition to a different season's color plants for 550 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:45.960 the flower bed, they can do that. Uh, and pruning, 551 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:49.680 you know what, whatever's needed. It's it's quarterly maintenance and 552 00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:52.279 you can get it from Pierscapes And the website is 553 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:57.240 Pierscapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Go there see when 554 00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:59.160 you see the pictures of what they do, you'll get 555 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:01.839 the idea of why we love them here on guarden 556 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:06.440 line two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two 557 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:10.519 eight one three seven oh five zero six zero, i'na 558 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:14.000 take a break and I'll be back. Walk off the earth. 559 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.119 You never listen to them there. You're kind of cute, 560 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:20.759 kind of different Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have 561 00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:23.960 you with us. It is time to put on the 562 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:27.640 summer fertilizations on your lawn. If you have not fertilized 563 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.680 last let's say six weeks or so, go ahead and 564 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.640 get this summer fertilizations on now NIGHTE five Super Turf, 565 00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.680 the silver bag. It's on my schedule at gardening with 566 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:40.720 Skip dot com. Just check out the schedule nine to five. 567 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:44.359 Super Turf is an outstanding product because it feeds for 568 00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:46.720 a very long time. You're gonna get like four months 569 00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.240 out of the thing, and so when you return your clippings. 570 00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:52.440 In addition to the fact that it's gradually releasing nutrients, 571 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:58.200 the clippings are decomposing and gradually releasing nutrients that'll carry 572 00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:01.200 all the way into the fall. Really, it's it's an excellent, 573 00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:05.160 excellent product. Design firstils, design for a climate. It's a 574 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.440 silver bag. Easy to identify in the garden centers where 575 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.799 you go, in the feed stores, in the Ace hardware stores, 576 00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:13.680 they've got it. You can find it in places like 577 00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:17.519 Lake Hardware and Angleton out Sand and shopping Center there 578 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:21.640 in alvin em d Clear Lake on Bay Area Boulevard. 579 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.440 Another place where you'll find nite foss products like the 580 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:29.839 super turf really does works. Talking to someone the other 581 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:34.440 day that was asking me about that quote that sprinkler 582 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:38.200 you talk about. At first it was like, I don't 583 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:41.319 talk about long spring, what are you talking about. Well, 584 00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:43.599 come to find out they're talking about tree hugger sprinklers. 585 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:47.799 Tree hugger is a sprinkler that's like a hinge. It 586 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:49.440 sort of looks like pac Man. You know how pac 587 00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:51.640 Man goes across the screen and it's like opening and 588 00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:54.319 closing his mouth. Well, imagine, you know, take put your 589 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:56.839 two thumbs together, curve your hands and then bring your 590 00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.880 your fingers together to make a circle, and then use 591 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:01.799 your thumbs is the hens to open it up. That's 592 00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:04.240 what a TreeHugger sprinkler looks like. And you hook it 593 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:05.880 up to a hose. You can get a little one 594 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.519 seven inches. They have eleven inch and fifteen inch sizes. 595 00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:12.200 If you just planted a plant, you can barely turn 596 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:14.559 them on and it'll wet that root ball, which is 597 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.519 right where all the water needs to go when a 598 00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:18.279 new plant goes in the ground because it doesn't have 599 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:21.039 roots further out. And then as you turn it up more, 600 00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:24.359 you water a larger and larger area. So maybe you're saying, well, 601 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.240 I didn't plant a plant, Well do you have a 602 00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:29.759 young tree, maybe a tree that's I don't know, been 603 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:33.240 in the ground five years, and we're going to get 604 00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.119 into summer, it's going to get hot, it's gonna quit raining. 605 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.400 At times, you crank that sprinkler up and you rescue 606 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:41.359 the tree. Or if you're trying to get it to 607 00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:43.359 grow fast, you can hang a hammock in the tree. 608 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:46.799 That's my goal. When I plant a tree, you can 609 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.119 make it continue to grow fast by continuing to ply 610 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.880 water and avoid that stress. Tree here or sprinklers aren't 611 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:55.119 just for trees. They're great for planting a rose bush 612 00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:57.079 or a shrub. And you can find them in a 613 00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:59.440 lot of places. For example, you can find them in 614 00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:01.400 D and D f Eden Supply. You're going to find 615 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:04.519 them at Southwest Fertilizer. I saw some just yesterday there, 616 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:10.280 kt Ace Hardware, K and M Hardware, A Task Cassida, Uh, 617 00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:12.880 You're going to find them at Inchinna Gardens and Forest, 618 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:17.000 and you're gonna find them at Warren Southern Gardens out 619 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:21.159 in Kingwood, RCW Nurseries Arborgate, Nelson Water Garden and nursery 620 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.880 out in the KT area. Lots of places carry the 621 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.400 tree hugger sprinkler. I would suggest you get one because 622 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.119 you're going to have a use for it again anytime 623 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:35.320 you plan something, and then for the years that follow 624 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:38.840 you can it'll water. You get that large one and 625 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:40.760 crank it up, and I mean it'll water a very 626 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:46.360 large area underneath the tree. They work cool invention in 627 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:50.320 my opinion. You're listening to garden Line our phone number 628 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.880 seven one three two one two k t r H 629 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:56.320 seven one three two one two k t r H. 630 00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:01.559 Buchanan's plants. Have you heard they? You know they last 631 00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:06.320 year twice during storms their whole checkout area was crushed 632 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:10.480 by falling limbs and things. And they have rebuilt. Now 633 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:13.119 they've got there what they call the barn the barn, 634 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:17.800 and it is a very solid structure. But one of 635 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:21.960 the cool things about it is, first of all, congratulations 636 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.079 to Buchanans for continuing to essentially dig out of the 637 00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:28.039 rubble and come back and just keep that place in 638 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:29.559 awesome shape. 639 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:30.039 Well. 640 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.719 Now customers can stand underneath the cover if it were 641 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:35.679 drizzling or something, if the sun is baking down. You 642 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:37.760 got a roof over your head out there, some shade. 643 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:40.800 It makes it really nice checking out. And of course 644 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:43.159 those of you who've been to Buchanans you know when 645 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.239 you go there there's going to be everything on earth 646 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.719 that you could possibly want, and a whole lot of 647 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:51.679 what's that never seen one of those before. They specialize 648 00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.000 in native plants, but they have every kind of plant. 649 00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:57.519 Their houseplant selection is outstanding. For example, you know those 650 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:02.360 aren't native plants typically. Cannons is an awesome place. It's fun, 651 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:04.960 and it's in the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street in 652 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:08.880 the Heights. You can go to Buchanansplants dot com. Bookmark 653 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:12.480 that website, sign up for their newsletter and you will 654 00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:16.960 find it to be extremely informative as well. I always 655 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:20.760 love to go. They're talking to to them the other day, 656 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:26.320 Zach and Heather, and they're excited. You know it's again, 657 00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:29.320 I don't. Those are some resilient folks because they have 658 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:31.920 been through it in the last twelve months and now 659 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:35.880 it's a hopeful new thing and the place is just better. 660 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:41.199 It's just better. That's what it amounts to. Let's see 661 00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:46.440 here we are, we are talking to next to James 662 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:50.440 in Spring, Texas. James, if I can find the right button, 663 00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:53.159 there we go. Hey James, welcome to garden Line. 664 00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:58.880 Good morning, Good morning. Question, is it seems like there's 665 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:02.280 been a few butterful this year. What should I plant 666 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:04.280 to attract butterflies? 667 00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:05.840 Oh? 668 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.119 My goodness, you have so many good plants that will 669 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:11.239 do that. I don't even know where to begin. You 670 00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:13.880 need to keep in mind that the butterflies are attracted 671 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.599 to certain flowers, So choosing flowers that attract the kind 672 00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:20.639 of butterfly you want. If you want golf friddllary, it's 673 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.199 an orange butterfly. You need passion vine for the larva 674 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:28.440 to feed on. And then the larval food sources. Milkweed 675 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:33.599 attracts monarchs for larval food. And you know there's a 676 00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:35.800 you're not too far away from Buchanans and they have 677 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.719 a lot of great butterfly plants over there. I would 678 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:41.840 suggest swinging by there and just say what would you 679 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:46.039 recommend as a group in general for butterflies. And they're 680 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:47.639 going to have a lot of options, And again, you 681 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:49.960 and I could talk for an hour about that because 682 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:53.760 there's so many, but most people want some milkweed for monarchs. 683 00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:57.800 Maybe a passion vine for gulf fritillary caterpillars to bring 684 00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:04.119 those in if you've got a zenias. And oh, what's 685 00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:07.280 the other one that is escaping my brain right now? 686 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:10.280 I'll think of it a little bit later. Oh the 687 00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:15.880 summer bloomer with orange and yellow flowers called Pride of 688 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:21.320 Barbados that attracts the swallowtails one type of the swallowtail 689 00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:25.119 that's a yellow and black and really well, So talk 690 00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:27.079 to a good nursery like that and I think they'll 691 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:28.119 get you off to a good start. 692 00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.679 Thank you so much, God bless you. 693 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.119 Bet. Remember just feed the adults and feed the babies 694 00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:38.239 with the planets you choose. Thanks James, appreciate your call 695 00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:42.199 very much. Microlife fertilizers even there's a grain in our types. 696 00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:44.320 We talk about the green bag for the lawns and 697 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:48.000 the six two four, But they have an unbelievable selection 698 00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:53.519 of liquid organics. For example, Biomatrix the orange label it's 699 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:58.880 a seven one three product. Okay Ocean Harvest the blue 700 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:03.440 label it's a four three product based on fish emulsion 701 00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:07.519 type ingredients. And then they have things like micro grow 702 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:11.719 Liquid af micro Grow Liquid AF is packed with eight 703 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:16.840 extremely dominating beneficial microbes that you need and want to 704 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:20.119 be there present in large numbers in your soil. Now, 705 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:26.320 it's not a fungicide, but those bacteria actually act as 706 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:30.800 fungus defense for your plants. There's one called Basillis subtlest, 707 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:32.960 and you can buy products that the whole product is 708 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:37.800 Basilla subtlest, just like we buy Bacillis thuringiensis for caterpillars. Well, 709 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:43.719 Basilli subtless fights diseases. There's some streptomyces and their trichoderma 710 00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:47.519 and other basillis that all work to defend your plants. 711 00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:51.159 That's micro grow liquid AF. Go to Microlifefertilizer dot com 712 00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.800 and you will find a long list of all the 713 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:59.760 great products they have and they're widely available. All right, folks, 714 00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:07.840 music is here, which means skip gets to quick talking. 715 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:11.239 But not until I tell you that next Saturday, albe 716 00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:15.320 at Memorial City Ace. Memorial City ACE is on Memorial Drive. 717 00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:22.360 Memorial City Ace A Memorial Drive, Saturday, May third, twelve 718 00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:25.559 to two, twelve to two, noon to two. I'll be there. 719 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:29.119 Come on out and see me. Memorial City ACE Hardware. 720 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.400 You get to see a really nice ace hardware store. 721 00:40:33.239 --> 00:40:36.280 I'll be doing the things we usually do, answering questions, 722 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:39.679 looking at samples, identifying plants, and just visiting with you 723 00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:43.360 to solve problems. By yesterday people brought me a lot 724 00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:45.400 of plant problems and we had a good time in 725 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.440 the process. I'm gonna take a little break here. We'll 726 00:40:49.480 --> 00:41:01.400 be right back after the news. Hey, welcome back. Good 727 00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:05.480 to have you with us. You're listening to Garden Line. 728 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.960 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help 729 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.559 you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That 730 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:13.960 is what we're all about. And if we can give 731 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.960 you some advice along those lines, if you've got some 732 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:19.679 questions about things like that, seven one three two one 733 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:23.280 two KTRH, give me a call. We'll visit and hopefully 734 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.119 get to the bottom of this thing. I have to 735 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:33.039 I've been answering gardening questions for over thirty seven years now. 736 00:41:33.639 --> 00:41:37.599 I worked for thirty five years as a county agrolife 737 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:41.679 extension horticulturist. Every county in Texas has an extension office 738 00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:44.159 that serves that county. Two hundred and fifty four counties 739 00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:47.119 in the state. I think two hundred and fifty or 740 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:50.239 fifty two actually have offices in the county. And if 741 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:52.119 you get out in West Texas where they're more jack 742 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.159 rabbits and people, you may have two counties served by 743 00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:58.719 a single office. But bottom line is you have a 744 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.840 county agent and your office. In urban areas, there are 745 00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:06.559 in addition to agriculture agents and family and community health 746 00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:11.039 agents or for age agents, you also have horticulture agents. 747 00:42:11.119 --> 00:42:13.239 Sometimes there's a few of us around the state. Here 748 00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.000 in the Houston listening area, if you've got an orange, 749 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.119 you've got a horticulturist. If you're up in Conroe, you've 750 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:23.840 got a horticulture. Rises County has a horticulturist. Houston has 751 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:27.079 a horticulturist, a couple of horticultures. I believe they are 752 00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:32.599 now for bengk County, Brazoria County, Galveston County. I'll leaving out. 753 00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:36.400 I think I covered it all. My apologies, I forgot 754 00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:39.199 someone in that group. But anyway, you got county horticulture 755 00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:40.800 so you can call on. That's where you go to 756 00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:44.199 find out information about getting your soil tested. That's where 757 00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:47.840 you go to get general gardening advice. And I encourage 758 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:49.840 you to take advantage of that. They have a connection 759 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:53.079 to the specialists at the university. So you may walk 760 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:56.239 in and go, I heard this thing is called mole 761 00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:59.320 crickets in the yard, And what do I do about that? 762 00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:00.920 And do I need to worry about it? That's a 763 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:03.039 good question. I don't think I've had a molk. I've 764 00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:06.559 had one or two molkirk. But anyway, they can put 765 00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:12.079 you in touch with church specialists, with entomologists, resources that 766 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:15.920 will help you with that. So call your county extension agent, 767 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:19.719 take advantage of them. Look, Abraham Lincoln created the Extension 768 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.480 Service in the United States. He signed into law the 769 00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:27.760 Extension Services. So every state in the country has through 770 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:29.719 a number of laws over the time. I know I'm 771 00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:32.519 doing a history lesson here, but it is worth noting 772 00:43:33.639 --> 00:43:36.760 every state has a Langret college at A and M. 773 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:42.920 It's for Texas, LSUS for Louisiana, Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, 774 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:47.440 Auburn University, un City of Florida, University of Georgia. Those 775 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.320 are all lang Grant universities that was created by a 776 00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:55.559 federal act. Where the common folks back in that day 777 00:43:56.199 --> 00:43:58.159 maybe couldn't go to Harvard or some of the place 778 00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:01.480 to a private school. And these were schools that were 779 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:06.199 available to the people that other purposes in doing them. 780 00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:12.000 And then there was the research out wing created by 781 00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:16.400 a different act. That means we have horticultural, agricultural, whatever 782 00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:19.760 kinds of research going on at these universities so that 783 00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.639 we get good answers that have been tested, improven, not 784 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:27.039 just somebody's opinion. That's important. And then they said, well, okay, 785 00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:30.760 we've got the university where we can teach kids and 786 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:33.760 train people for the next generation. We've got the research 787 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:38.239 where we can learn more and have locally proven good 788 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:43.199 answers to things, improve the life of people through development 789 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.559 of research. Now we got to get the word out 790 00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.760 to people, and that was the Extension Service. We say 791 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:53.400 it was taking the university to the people. That is 792 00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:57.480 kind of an old motto, if you will, of the 793 00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.679 Extension Service, taking the university to the people. And so 794 00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:04.480 back in the old days you would have a wagon. 795 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.280 There's a guy named semen Nap here in Texas. Actually 796 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:10.760 Texas is where the Extension Service was created, and now 797 00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:14.559 it serves all the states. But seman Nap, I say 798 00:45:14.840 --> 00:45:18.639 where it was created. It's where the idea and the 799 00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:23.360 functioning of that really began from the extension being created. 800 00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:25.400 Seeman Nap would take a wagon, he'd go out to 801 00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:28.320 the countryside, go to a farmer, have a big farm day. 802 00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.559 All the farmers in the area come. See. They would 803 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:33.079 plant let's say they were growing cotton there, and they 804 00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:35.639 would plant some new varieties of cotton that were more 805 00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:38.880 productive that had been developed by research, and so you'd 806 00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.360 have the regular cotton, then you'd have these new varieties, 807 00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:43.519 and then later on you have a big farm day 808 00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:45.519 and all the farmers come and see. You know, it's 809 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:48.960 kind of like Missouri, the show me state, when they're 810 00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:52.239 looking at Joe, their fellow farmer, and he's got it 811 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:54.960 on his place, and it's clear this works or this 812 00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:59.159 doesn't work. It spreads the innovation and as a result, 813 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:05.960 through the decades and America's ability to feed his population, 814 00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:08.800 to feed the world in many ways really changed. You know, 815 00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:11.480 farmer doesn't just feed twelve people anymore like in the 816 00:46:11.559 --> 00:46:17.000 horse drawn plow days. Maybe that amount we're talking about 817 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:21.079 forty plus people and more depending on the crops. And 818 00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:24.800 all that innovation happened because of that system that our 819 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:29.079 leaders back in the day, including Abraham Lincoln, signing that 820 00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:33.960 Extension Act into law that they had the vision to 821 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:37.440 do that, and the benefits are there. So now I 822 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.559 doubt you have a cotton patch that you're taking care of. 823 00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:44.519 There very few farmers in our world today compared to 824 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:50.039 the population, but everybody's got a garden or a lawn 825 00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:54.679 or has questions about other aspects of life. And those 826 00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:58.519 resources are there at your Agricultural Extension Office your Texas 827 00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:02.800 A and M. They call it the AGRA Life AGRA 828 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:06.360 as a combination of Agriculture and Life Agrolife Extension Office, 829 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:08.760 and you should take advantage of that. And they have 830 00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:11.840 a lot. I'm a horticulture so I'm talking about gardening, 831 00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:14.719 but they have information. The four each program is done 832 00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:17.400 out of there for youth development, the Family and Community 833 00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:22.360 Health program. It does things related to everything from diabetes 834 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:28.039 and heart disease prevention, you know, exercise and all kinds 835 00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:29.800 of things. And back in the day it was about 836 00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:32.840 how to can vegetables and soak clothes and they still 837 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:36.320 do that kind of stuff. But it's a good resource 838 00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:38.719 and it's there for you, so you should take advantage 839 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:43.000 of it. Well, that was a I guess you could say, 840 00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.480 a long commercial for the extension service. But I spent 841 00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:48.119 thirty five years doing it. I believe in it, and 842 00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:52.480 it's something that what do they call things, the best 843 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:56.039 kept secret? We like to not have it be in 844 00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:59.440 any way, shape or form a secret. Well tell you what. 845 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:01.480 I've been talking so long. I'm going to take a 846 00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:04.599 little break here. We'll be back with your question. Seven 847 00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:08.679 one three two one two kt r H. I guess 848 00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:11.519 that means I need to start talking. We're back. Thanks 849 00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:16.760 for thanks for enduring my long extension description. I just uh, 850 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:21.320 I'm always amazing how many people I find that don't 851 00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:25.440 have access to some good information. I guess I should 852 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:27.320 throw out there one more thing about that. There's a 853 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:31.599 website called that aggrolife has and it's there. It's essentially 854 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:33.360 just to be called the bookstore. I'll tell you a 855 00:48:33.400 --> 00:48:35.079 little bit more about it in just a minute. But 856 00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:37.679 a lot of the publications you can download from up there. 857 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:40.760 So maybe you have I don't know, some kind of 858 00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:45.960 indoor pest, silverfish or whatever is in indoors you want 859 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:47.599 to deal with, you can go find a publication on 860 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:49.400 it and read about it. And it's all part of 861 00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:55.039 that same service. Speaking of service, BnB, turf pros bnbturf 862 00:48:55.079 --> 00:48:58.039 pros dot com. That's the website, or excuse me, the 863 00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:02.679 website doesn't have the end in it. It's bb bbturfpros 864 00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:04.719 dot com. If you want to get m a call 865 00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:07.840 seven one three two three, four, five, five nine eight 866 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:10.199 seven one three two three four, five, five nine eight. 867 00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:11.800 It's a family owned business. 868 00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:12.159 Uh. 869 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:16.760 They provide quality work and they provide a good honest 870 00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:23.079 relationship personal connection with their customers their clients. Uh, that's 871 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:25.039 what they're all about. And if you look at the 872 00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:28.360 way that people rate them, it is very, very high, 873 00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:30.159 and which means they're doing a heck of a good 874 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:35.280 job with that right now through May, just through May. 875 00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.719 So we're about to start May. Here, we've got about 876 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:40.320 a month of this and left they are doing a 877 00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:45.519 free erration of your lawn with purchasing a compost top 878 00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:48.519 dressing of your lawn. So you you have them do 879 00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:50.639 a compost top dressing and they're going to throw in 880 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:54.519 a narration with that, but only through May, and they 881 00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:57.280 stay busy, so don't delay. Call them, get on the 882 00:49:57.360 --> 00:49:59.199 schedule and get them out there to do that. They 883 00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:03.599 serve the area kind of south of the Houston area 884 00:50:03.639 --> 00:50:06.639 a little bit primarily south of the Beltway. But if 885 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:08.920 you go from sugar Land and Missouri City all the 886 00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:12.280 way across to forty five League City and Dickinson and 887 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:17.239 everything in between, Pearland, Alvin Manville or Cola, Siana. Friends, 888 00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:19.639 would you know that that whole region down there, that's 889 00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:22.079 that's their home turf and that's where they do their 890 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:26.760 work primarily bb turfpros dot com seven one three, two, three, 891 00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:30.639 four fifty five ninety eight. Give them a call. And 892 00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:32.800 if you go to the website too, by the way, 893 00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:34.880 you can see the kind of work they do and 894 00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:39.559 it's it is gorgeous stuff, really really nice. First you 895 00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:40.800 look at it and you go, Okay, I want that 896 00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:42.480 at my house. I want it to look like that. 897 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:47.519 We'll call them they can do that. I was stopping 898 00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:50.159 by yesterday. I went by Plans for All Seasons up 899 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:54.039 on Highway to forty nine visiting. Was Sherry there and uh, 900 00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:57.840 just talking about what's going on, how this spring has been, 901 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:00.440 the different plants and things that they have, and you know, 902 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:04.320 there's so much knowledge in that Flowerty family that started 903 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.039 Plants for All Seasons back in what nineteen seventy three, 904 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.440 I believe, So they have been in that spot since 905 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:14.920 Tomball Parkway was hardly a goat path. I mean, they've 906 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:17.480 been there for a very long time. They know the area, 907 00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:20.239 they know the soils, and people there know them. They 908 00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.840 go because they depend on them. They know I'm going 909 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:24.239 to get a good answer. I'm going to get a 910 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:26.559 good plant. I'm going to get good service at Plants 911 00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:30.119 for All Seasons. That's what it's about. And they'll do that. Now. 912 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:33.679 If you need a specific location where they are is 913 00:51:34.039 --> 00:51:37.719 they are where Luetta comes into two forty nine. They're 914 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:42.000 on Highway two forty nine Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta, 915 00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:45.440 right there on the right hand side going north two 916 00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:49.440 eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight 917 00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:53.000 one three seven six sixteen forty six. You can follow 918 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:55.159 them on social media and go to the website Plants 919 00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:58.599 for All Seasons dot com. But go check it out. 920 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.000 The place is gorgeous or it is spring. I mean, 921 00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:06.400 if there is a time when garden centers are just 922 00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.440 opulent with plants, is that a private way to use 923 00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:12.719 to wear it opulate? If there's a time when they're 924 00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:15.239 opulent with plant, now is it? And oh my gosh, 925 00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:21.239 that place is gorgeous, loaded ready to go. That is true. 926 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:27.559 My some of my family members were purchasing some plants 927 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.639 that they're going to take home and turn their landscape 928 00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:35.800 into something beautiful and you know the color. We were 929 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:38.280 talking about different kinds of plants that they might want 930 00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:41.920 to put in. We're hitting a season now where the 931 00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.960 things that looked good in spring in the next let's 932 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:48.519 say two months, maybe about about two months from now 933 00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:52.480 are going to be struggling with summer. A lot of them, 934 00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:55.840 but not all. We have summer hardy plants, plants that 935 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:59.800 can survive in the heat and in the intense heat 936 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.519 actually that we have here. And as you're out there 937 00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:07.000 landscaping your yard and you go buy a quality garden center, 938 00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:09.320 and I hope you will go to an independent garden center. 939 00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:11.880 There are a lot of places you can buy plants 940 00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:15.960 in town, but a good independent garden center is going 941 00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:19.719 to give you the most knowledge about plants and the 942 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.320 most service after the sale that you're going to get, 943 00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.519 because that's what they're about. That's what they do. And 944 00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:27.920 we have them north, south, east, and west here in 945 00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:31.800 the greater Houston area, oh in central and you go 946 00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:33.360 in you can find the things you need and the 947 00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:36.880 advice you need, and that is worth a lot. I 948 00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:42.199 see people taking up plants home from certain places, not 949 00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:47.119 independent garden centers, and I just, you know, am thinking, 950 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:50.360 okay that you're going to get about a month out 951 00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:52.920 of that, and it's gone, so let's go back and 952 00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:54.000 let's get something different. 953 00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:54.239 Right. 954 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:57.480 Of course I don't walk up to them and nose 955 00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:00.760 in like that, but i'd like to. I hate to 956 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:02.800 see people. They're gonna feel like they have a brown thumb, 957 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:06.199 and they don't. They just went to a brown thumb 958 00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:09.280 source of plants, if you will, instead of going to 959 00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:10.639 a good independent garden center. 960 00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:12.599 Pest Bros. 961 00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:17.280 Is our pest control company here on Garden Line, and 962 00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:20.480 they service the greater Houston area. Really. I mean, if 963 00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:22.760 you're down all the way in down Texas City, all 964 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:24.719 the way up to the Woodlands, or from Katie across 965 00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:29.079 the Baytown, you're in their area that they serve. They 966 00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:34.679 have an outstanding termite service with high tech, the newest 967 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:39.719 cutting edge technology and products for controlling termites preventing them 968 00:54:39.719 --> 00:54:41.360 from getting into your house. And believe me, you get 969 00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:43.960 termites in your house and it'll spoil your day. There's 970 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:45.440 no need for that. You can have them come out 971 00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:48.480 and treat for that. They'll deal with fire ants in 972 00:54:48.559 --> 00:54:52.119 the yard while varmint's in the yard. Cockroaches running through 973 00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:54.920 the house. You know your maybe your mother in law 974 00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:57.760 came over and now she's screaming running through the house 975 00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:01.400 because there's cockroaches chasing her through. Well, you can fix that, 976 00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:06.039 or they can. Pest Bros. Thepestbros dot com. That's their website, 977 00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:10.239 thepestbros dot com. Here's a number you want to write 978 00:55:10.280 --> 00:55:13.880 this one down two eight one two oh six forty 979 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:17.000 six seventy two eight one six forty six seventy And 980 00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:18.800 they also are the place I keep talking about the 981 00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:22.679 mosquito control buckets that they provide. You just got to 982 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:24.320 go ask them about I have them tell you about 983 00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:26.960 the mosquito control buckets. It is a wonderful service. They 984 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.639 put them at your house. They do it through during 985 00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:32.079 the mosquito season. They come out each month and service them. 986 00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:36.559 And those buckets don't just control the mosquitoes that go 987 00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:40.360 in the bucket, uh, they spread that control to other 988 00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:43.519 places where mosquitoes will be laying eggs. So you can 989 00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:46.480 always kill an adult mosquito. But what about where they're 990 00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:48.679 laying eggs that you don't know about. You know, some 991 00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:52.199 place that holds water for a little bit. Mosquitos are 992 00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:55.559 very adept at that. With the buckets, you got mosquitoes 993 00:55:55.599 --> 00:55:59.639 that are working for you to prevent mosquito breeding around 994 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:03.760 your landscape and actually some to your neighbors on each side. 995 00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:09.719 I was visiting with the folks at Affordable Tree Service 996 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:12.840 a while back, and you've you've heard me talk about 997 00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.039 Affordable Tree Service. Randy talked about Affordable Tree Service. In fact, 998 00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:21.199 this family business, Martin Spoon Moore's company, Affordable Tree UH, 999 00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:24.480 is still going strong. You can give them a call 1000 00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:28.039 at seven one three six nine nine two six six 1001 00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:31.599 three and make an appointment. The team is out, they're busy, 1002 00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:35.480 they're active. Tell them you're UH from Garden Line. Garden 1003 00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:38.079 Line customers are their priority. When you call, you probably 1004 00:56:38.119 --> 00:56:41.079 talk to Martin's mom Toji is a family known business. Martin, 1005 00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:43.760 his wife, Joe and now Martin's mom all part of 1006 00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:44.440 the team there. 1007 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:45.000 UH. 1008 00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:46.519 If you want to learn more about some of the 1009 00:56:46.599 --> 00:56:49.159 specific services they offer, you can go to the website 1010 00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:53.719 aff Tree Service dot com aff Tree Service dot com, 1011 00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:56.440 but call them. That's the way you connect and get them, 1012 00:56:57.039 --> 00:56:59.039 get on the schedule for them to come out. Seven 1013 00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:04.079 to one, three, two, six six three. Look, hurricane season, 1014 00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:06.960 we're on the doorstep of it. But we know last year. 1015 00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:09.280 We learned last year you don't need a hurricane for 1016 00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:11.840 trees to fall down all over the place and put 1017 00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:15.519 power out for two weeks around this area. Uh, get 1018 00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:18.119 ahead of time. They'll do trimming, they'll do feeding, they'll 1019 00:57:18.119 --> 00:57:20.960 do everything you need to make your trees survive and 1020 00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:24.639 don't fall on your house or your neighbor's house too. 1021 00:57:24.719 --> 00:57:27.639 By the way, Affordable Tree Service seven to one three 1022 00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:33.079 six nine nine two six six three. I get to 1023 00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:35.760 talking and I lose track of the clock, so I 1024 00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:37.800 have to stop every now and then. Look, you get 1025 00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:40.960 me talking about plants or talking too gardeners, and I 1026 00:57:41.079 --> 00:57:44.039 tell you, I, uh, yeah, I can. I can drone 1027 00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:52.000 on ask my family. I was out at Nelson Watergarden 1028 00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:56.360 and Nursery the other day, Uh, visiting with Ralph out there, 1029 00:57:56.719 --> 00:58:01.039 and uh, you know that family has been in the business, 1030 00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:03.639 if you will, for a long time. And he has 1031 00:58:03.679 --> 00:58:07.480 a water garden. He's just saying, Nelson Water Gardens. They're 1032 00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:12.400 nationally recognized experts. People know them and they their contribution 1033 00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:15.000 to the industry is incredible. If you want to have 1034 00:58:15.039 --> 00:58:17.000 a beautiful water garden, if you want to have a 1035 00:58:17.079 --> 00:58:21.639 little waterfall designed and installed in your landscape, if you 1036 00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:23.519 would just like a pond, or if you would like 1037 00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:28.119 something they invented, which is the disappearing fountain. It's like 1038 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.280 a large you have a large, beautiful piece of pottery, 1039 00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:32.880 and you know the water comes out of the top, 1040 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:35.639 goes to the bottom and then recirculates. They can make 1041 00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:38.159 that for you and they can turn any pot into 1042 00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:42.079 one of those. They've designed the system to do it, 1043 00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:46.119 and it is so nice. The birds will be glad 1044 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:49.199 that you did it. The sound of rushing water is 1045 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.599 absolutely therapeutic, and they can do that. But remember it's 1046 00:58:52.719 --> 00:58:56.840 Nelson Nursery and water gardens. So what do you want 1047 00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:59.559 in the way of plants? House plants inside. When you 1048 00:58:59.599 --> 00:59:01.519 walk through the building, on your way to the back, 1049 00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:04.239 you pass by some of the most beautiful splints you're 1050 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:07.440 gonna find, really pretty, and then you hit the section 1051 00:59:07.599 --> 00:59:11.039 where there's the herbs and vegetables and where there's flowers 1052 00:59:11.199 --> 00:59:15.280 and all kinds of ornamental plants all the way up 1053 00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:18.159 to shrubs and trees and fruit and you name it. 1054 00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:21.400 It's a great place to go. I think my favorite thing, 1055 00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:24.119 and I'm a plant person, but my favorite thing is 1056 00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:26.159 just here in the sound of water, when you're walking 1057 00:59:26.199 --> 00:59:28.599 around so beautiful. They've got a koi pone in the back. 1058 00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:30.320 And if you take your little kids with you, and 1059 00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:33.079 I hope you will tell them that you would like 1060 00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:35.159 to get some koifood, they'll give you a little packet 1061 00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:38.559 of koyfood that the kids can take. And these koi 1062 00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:41.360 come up out of the water a few inches and 1063 00:59:41.519 --> 00:59:44.199 open their little round mouths and the kids can drop 1064 00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:46.960 the koyfood in them. Trust me, the kids will like that. 1065 00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:50.679 They will love it. It's just another reason to go 1066 00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:53.119 out there to Nelson Water Gardens. That's the website too, 1067 00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:58.360 by the way, Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. 1068 01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:01.960 It's a little quiet on the phones right now. If 1069 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:03.719 you'd like to gave me call seven one three two 1070 01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:06.679 one two k t r H. Seven one three two 1071 01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:09.880 one two k t r H. We'll be glad to 1072 01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:12.760 help you with the kinds of questions you might add. 1073 01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:16.199 I am adding things to the website now. If you 1074 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:19.559 haven't been to my website. Uh, I would encourage you 1075 01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:19.840 to go. 1076 01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:20.360 Uh. 1077 01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:25.440 The website is gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with 1078 01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:29.159 skip dot com. All right, so when you go there 1079 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:33.000 to gardening with skip dot I know I keep saying that, 1080 01:00:33.239 --> 01:00:37.880 but people need repetition, right Anyway, when you go to 1081 01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:41.119 Gardening with Skip dot com, uh, you will find a 1082 01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:44.719 lot of publications that we have put up there, and 1083 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:50.000 specifically we've got you can see my upcoming appearances on there. 1084 01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:53.920 I just put up a publication called lawn Care one 1085 01:00:53.960 --> 01:00:57.400 oh one, Long Care one oh one. And if you 1086 01:00:57.559 --> 01:01:01.360 want what are the basics, what are the key things 1087 01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:05.079 to have a gorgeous lawn, it's going to tell you 1088 01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:07.559 on there. It talks about mowing and watering and fertilizing 1089 01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:10.599 and weeds and aeration. You can download it and print 1090 01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:13.199 it out if you want. But if you're just looking 1091 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:17.119 for how do I do this well? Gardening with skip 1092 01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:19.599 dot com, that's where you want to go. And long 1093 01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:21.760 Care one on one is the latest of things we 1094 01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:24.360 put out there. I've got a publication on nuts edge. 1095 01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:27.840 We've talked about nuts edge a lot. Yesterday at Southwest Fertilizer. 1096 01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:34.519 People they that weed is ubiquitous and It is one 1097 01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:36.960 of the most difficult weeds that we have to control 1098 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:40.159 in our landscapes, and so in order to control it, 1099 01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:43.760 we got to be able to understand how it grows 1100 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:46.320 and use the right products with the right timing. And 1101 01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:50.519 that's on that publication as well. Again, it's free, getting 1102 01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:54.840 cheaper than free. Hey, Naevias Superturf silver bag by Natropos, 1103 01:01:55.119 --> 01:01:58.079 It's time. It's time to put it down. It's going 1104 01:01:58.159 --> 01:01:59.679 to take care of your lawn from now all the 1105 01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:04.119 way to the fall. Fertilization nightfis. Superturf is a silver bag. 1106 01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:08.119 It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that really works. 1107 01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:09.599 You're going to find it at D and D Feed 1108 01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:13.039 and Tomball Fishers Hardware out in Pasadena as well as 1109 01:02:13.159 --> 01:02:17.639 the Fishers in Laporte and Mont Bellevue. It works. Look 1110 01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:20.039 for the silver bag. All right, I'm gonna have to 1111 01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:23.000 take a little break here. When we come back from break, 1112 01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:26.719 Dwayne in Mont Bellevue, you will be our first caller 1113 01:02:26.920 --> 01:02:31.719 up seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, 1114 01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:35.760 we're back. Welcome back to the garden line, folks. Good 1115 01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:38.519 to have you with us. We are here to help 1116 01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:41.280 you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more 1117 01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:44.280 fun in the process. And boy, that last part is important. 1118 01:02:44.920 --> 01:02:47.480 You should be enjoying things out in the garden and 1119 01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:49.519 there are a lot of things we can do to 1120 01:02:49.679 --> 01:02:53.400 make it more enjoyable, and we'll talk about those. We 1121 01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:57.519 do talk about those each day. We have garden Line 1122 01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:00.360 Saturdays in Sunday six am to ten am. And as 1123 01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:03.440 you call with your questions, we can also go into 1124 01:03:03.880 --> 01:03:06.639 some specifics on how do you have success that helps 1125 01:03:06.719 --> 01:03:11.360 things be enjoyable. How do you make less work for 1126 01:03:11.519 --> 01:03:13.960 what you get out of it that makes it more enjoyable. 1127 01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:18.239 How do you avoid pest problems that makes it more enjoyable? 1128 01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:20.760 And how do you create something that when you step 1129 01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:22.960 back and look at it, you have a sense of accomplishment, 1130 01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:26.599 just a job well done right that makes it more enjoyable. Well, 1131 01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:29.280 we're going to head out now to Mont Bellevue and 1132 01:03:29.519 --> 01:03:32.199 talk to Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, welcome to garden Line. 1133 01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:36.039 Good morning, thanks for taking my call. Hey, I have 1134 01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:39.920 a quick question about mulberry trees. Do they do well 1135 01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:41.280 in the Beach City area? 1136 01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:47.239 They will? You know, I wouldn't stick them out, you know, 1137 01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:51.599 and where they're subjected to any kind of salt spray 1138 01:03:51.960 --> 01:03:56.199 or any issue like that. But in general, mulberry is 1139 01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:00.320 very widely available. And I say salt spray, you know, 1140 01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:02.480 Beach City is not going to have too much of 1141 01:04:02.519 --> 01:04:05.679 that because it's in the Trinity Bay, but it'll do 1142 01:04:05.840 --> 01:04:06.280 just fine. 1143 01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:11.360 Okay. What would be the best thing to when I'm 1144 01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:14.559 going to transplant the best fertilized or ashually put in 1145 01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:16.039 the ground to give it a good start? 1146 01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:19.239 Okay, So you want to make sure and don't put 1147 01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:23.199 any fertilizer in the ground when you plant. Just get 1148 01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:25.440 the plant. Are you are you buying one in a pot? 1149 01:04:25.639 --> 01:04:27.719 Or you said transplant, are you digging one up? 1150 01:04:28.679 --> 01:04:30.920 Well? No, they was giving some away yesterday in. 1151 01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:35.599 Mount bellvuew okay, And I got a two levelm okay. 1152 01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:39.199 So you just put it in the ground. Dig a 1153 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:43.559 hole that's only as deep as the container that you have, 1154 01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:47.639 So like if it's one gallon pot, don't dig a 1155 01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:49.400 hole that's a foot and a half deep because it 1156 01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:52.280 ends up settling. And you want to plant it at 1157 01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:55.239 exactly the level that the soil in the container is 1158 01:04:55.679 --> 01:04:59.679 not deeper and little highers okay, but not much and 1159 01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.880 then watered in really good. Loosen the soil up around it. 1160 01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:07.119 As before you make the planting, use the soil from 1161 01:05:07.199 --> 01:05:08.800 the that you dug out of a hole to go 1162 01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:12.400 back in to plant the mulberry. Don't put a bunch 1163 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:14.920 of composts, and don't put fertilizer in the hole. And 1164 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:17.360 then as it begins to grow, once you see new 1165 01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:20.559 growth happening on it about six weeks later, give it 1166 01:05:20.679 --> 01:05:22.800 just a little bit of fertilizer and you can just 1167 01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:26.039 use a lawn fertilizer on that to help it get going. 1168 01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:28.239 That you already you know, if you're going to fertilize 1169 01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:29.559 the lawn, you already got a big bag of it. 1170 01:05:29.599 --> 01:05:33.320 And it's very economical compared to smaller doses or smaller 1171 01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:38.440 containers of fertilizer per pound of nutrients. So I would 1172 01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:39.760 just use that. I mean, you can go out and 1173 01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:43.280 buy something that's for trees and shrubs, but I find 1174 01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.960 loan fertilizer works just great on that new tree. It's 1175 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:47.639 primary of the nitrogen you're looking for. 1176 01:05:49.719 --> 01:05:51.079 Okay, thanks for your helping. 1177 01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:53.880 Yes, give me. Let me give you one more tip 1178 01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:57.440 doing if you when you're planting it can build a 1179 01:05:57.559 --> 01:06:01.880 little doughnut berm of soil around it. Maybe, oh I 1180 01:06:01.920 --> 01:06:05.199 don't know, a foot out in both directions, so two 1181 01:06:05.239 --> 01:06:06.360 feet across the circle. 1182 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:07.119 Uh. 1183 01:06:07.559 --> 01:06:09.760 Then you when you water, you can fill that berm 1184 01:06:09.880 --> 01:06:13.440 and it'll soak straight down into the root zone and 1185 01:06:13.559 --> 01:06:16.679 you can give it good soakings because early on as 1186 01:06:16.760 --> 01:06:19.599 the temperature heats up, that's the touching go time that 1187 01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:22.159 that plan is trying to get a good root system 1188 01:06:22.199 --> 01:06:24.760 out so it's resilient and it doesn't have one yet. 1189 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:28.079 And so watering that inside that doughnut, filling it up 1190 01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:30.880 and letting it soak in will increase your survival and 1191 01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:32.400 early or early growth. 1192 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:37.599 All right, okay, great, Thanks all right. 1193 01:06:37.559 --> 01:06:39.599 D Wayne, thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much. 1194 01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:43.360 Phone number seven one three two one two k t 1195 01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:47.599 R H. Seven one three two one two k t 1196 01:06:47.960 --> 01:06:48.360 R h. 1197 01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:49.000 Uh. 1198 01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:53.119 It is mosquito season. If you look around after these 1199 01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:55.840 rains we've had, here they come. I'm just telling you, 1200 01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:59.519 here they come. I would get out today and get 1201 01:06:59.559 --> 01:07:03.679 some miske dunks. Mosquito dunks are available all over the place. 1202 01:07:03.760 --> 01:07:07.400 Ace hardware stores, feed stores, all our independent garden centers, 1203 01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:09.880 you know, Southwest Fertilizer. I saw a bunch on the 1204 01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:16.039 wall yesterday down there. Mosquito dunks are a disease of mosquitoes. 1205 01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:19.679 Isn't that interesting? Just a disease mosquitoes, actually mosquitoes and 1206 01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:24.320 fungus gnats, which happens when you overwater your houseplants and 1207 01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:28.800 other plants. But anyway, mosquitoes, they won't hurt lady beetles. 1208 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:31.639 They won't hurt birds or cats, or dogs or any 1209 01:07:31.719 --> 01:07:33.920 other insects, good or bad insects. They don't hurt any 1210 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:36.639 of them except mosquitoes. That's what they go after, and 1211 01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:40.079 fungus gnats. So you put a mosquito dunk in each 1212 01:07:40.119 --> 01:07:43.960 of those little round doughnuts, dissolves in about gives you 1213 01:07:44.039 --> 01:07:46.599 about thirty days, and it covers about one hundred square 1214 01:07:46.599 --> 01:07:49.599 feet of water surface. So if you've just got some 1215 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:52.119 little areas, like you know you got to catch basin 1216 01:07:52.199 --> 01:07:56.320 under your pots, mosquitoes breed there. So you can break 1217 01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:58.159 one of those dunks up and just put a few 1218 01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:01.320 granules in that area. You put it in bird bass, 1219 01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:03.519 you put it in a lot of things, and it works. 1220 01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:06.159 And let me tell you this, the mosquitoes are already 1221 01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:09.719 land eggs. They're already regulars out there. So the sooner 1222 01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:14.280 you get that in water, the better, because we're about 1223 01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:18.399 to have mosquitoes everywhere with the rains. We just had 1224 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:22.279 mosquito dunk. Grab some, keep them on hand. I'd keep them, 1225 01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:24.800 you know, in a cool, protected spot, not in a 1226 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:28.880 super super hot outdoor area, because it is a disease 1227 01:08:29.039 --> 01:08:32.239 of mosquitoes, and they work. I don't know what else 1228 01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:34.000 to say about it other than that they work. 1229 01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:37.560 I was. 1230 01:08:39.199 --> 01:08:43.680 Yesterday looking at We've got some tomatoes and several places 1231 01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:47.119 out in the gardens, and I've got one that is 1232 01:08:47.199 --> 01:08:49.840 actually in my wife's garden. It's a vego bed up 1233 01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:52.880 on top of a patio in the back. It's doing great. 1234 01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:55.760 I mean, it is just thriving and doing so well. 1235 01:08:55.840 --> 01:08:57.439 And then I had a couple that are actually in 1236 01:08:57.520 --> 01:09:02.079 the vegetable garden area in the backyard and the trees, 1237 01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:04.800 you know. And I should have paid attention to this 1238 01:09:04.960 --> 01:09:07.840 when I planted, I know better. Anyway, I put them 1239 01:09:07.880 --> 01:09:09.880 in the ground where I want. I wanted to move 1240 01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:11.680 into a different spot, and I put them in the ground. 1241 01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:14.239 And I was just watching the sun pattern yesterday, and 1242 01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:17.079 I don't have that many hours of sun. There's probably 1243 01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:21.479 four five hours or so of sun that these are getting. 1244 01:09:22.079 --> 01:09:24.079 That's not quite enough for tomatoes. And you can look 1245 01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:27.159 at how they're growing and how they're producing, and yeah, 1246 01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:30.279 it's not quite enough for tomatoes. If something is going 1247 01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:34.960 to bloom and fruit in your garden, think of it 1248 01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:43.119 as fruiting vegetables. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, squash. Those are 1249 01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:46.640 all fruiting vegetables. You need to give them at least 1250 01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:49.760 six hours of sun and more is even better. Okay, 1251 01:09:50.359 --> 01:09:54.840 if it is a rooting vegetable, it's not carrot season, 1252 01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:58.920 but things that grow roots like a turnip or a carrot, 1253 01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:01.760 or a radish or a beat it needs to get 1254 01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:05.119 lots of sun too, because and why is that. It's 1255 01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:08.319 because in order to grow a tomato or a squash 1256 01:10:08.600 --> 01:10:11.520 or a carrot root or whatever, you need a lot 1257 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:15.000 of carbohydrates. And you get carbohydrates when sun shines on 1258 01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:17.720 leaves and in shade, the plant can't do. It's like 1259 01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:20.119 putting a solar panel in the shade doesn't work very good. 1260 01:10:20.600 --> 01:10:22.960 If you've got an area that's a little too shady 1261 01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:25.239 for those, But you still want to grow vegetables, put 1262 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:28.960 your leafy greens there they can grow and do okay 1263 01:10:29.479 --> 01:10:32.359 with less sun than is required by the fruiting and 1264 01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:34.520 rooting vegetables. So there's just a little tip for you 1265 01:10:34.600 --> 01:10:35.239 to keep in mind. 1266 01:10:37.960 --> 01:10:39.840 I was. 1267 01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:45.439 I lost period thought. Oh, I was talking to some 1268 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:47.840 of the folks at Quality Home Products of Texas, and 1269 01:10:48.760 --> 01:10:50.560 you know I've talked about them for a long time. 1270 01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:55.199 Their source of the generatic automatic standby generator. Now what 1271 01:10:55.399 --> 01:10:58.560 that means automatic standby is when it's set up, if 1272 01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:00.600 the power goes out, the generator comes on. I mean 1273 01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:01.720 you don't even have time to get out of the 1274 01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:05.359 chair and the powers already on again, it automatically comes on. 1275 01:11:06.119 --> 01:11:08.039 You will not be left in the dark. And with 1276 01:11:08.199 --> 01:11:11.760 this generator, you're protecting your power supply. And you know 1277 01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:14.399 we say there's things like once in a lifetime storms, 1278 01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:16.920 Well we had two of them last year, took out 1279 01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:20.000 power for two weeks each. Don't depend on a power 1280 01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:23.239 grid that can be unreliable. You want to make sure 1281 01:11:23.359 --> 01:11:27.520 you have power. Rain, snow, we don't have snow much 1282 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:30.000 or sunshine. No matter what it is, you got your 1283 01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:32.560 power so life keeps going even when the power stops. 1284 01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:35.640 When you get a generator from Quality Home, the main 1285 01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:38.439 reason to go to Quality Home. A lot of people 1286 01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:41.880 sell generators. 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I'll be right back with our last segment 1308 01:12:45.359 --> 01:12:47.439 of the hour. All right, having some fun here on 1309 01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:52.840 garden Line, making sure you're with us, dozing off. I mean, 1310 01:12:52.880 --> 01:12:57.319 do you remember Alvin and the Chipmunks. Yeah. I don't 1311 01:12:57.319 --> 01:12:59.720 know what to say about that other than it was unique, 1312 01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:03.720 that's for sure. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have 1313 01:13:03.840 --> 01:13:07.279 you with us. And I wanted to talk about Growers 1314 01:13:07.359 --> 01:13:10.880 Outlet up in Willis. Grows Outlet is a garden center 1315 01:13:10.960 --> 01:13:14.039 that's on seventy five, just south of Willis Highway seventy five, 1316 01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:16.920 just minutes away from forty five. And that whole region 1317 01:13:17.119 --> 01:13:19.720 up there, whether it's New Waverley or Willis or Conroe 1318 01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:22.880 or you know, like Conroy area, they serve that while area. 1319 01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:25.359 People even drive up from the Woodlands to go up 1320 01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:27.560 to it. You can go to that website and you 1321 01:13:27.600 --> 01:13:33.039 should a garden. Excuse me, growers with drive one more time. 1322 01:13:33.359 --> 01:13:37.359 Growers Outlet in Willis. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. 1323 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:39.960 You'll find what they have for sale. They put their 1324 01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:43.800 availability online. They put the prices of things online. If 1325 01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:45.640 you want to go there. When you get there, you 1326 01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:49.079 can find fertilizers from Microlife and Nitrofoss and Medina to 1327 01:13:49.199 --> 01:13:51.960 make sure you have success with plants. But you are 1328 01:13:52.079 --> 01:13:54.119 going to be very impressive with this place. Have a 1329 01:13:54.199 --> 01:13:56.680 nice little gift shop inside. They at their products that 1330 01:13:56.760 --> 01:13:58.960 they sell to go with your plants. When it comes 1331 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:02.000 to plants, from betty plants to herbs, to vegetables, to 1332 01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:05.800 fruit trees, to shrubs and trees. Beautiful hanging baskets. They 1333 01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:09.760 have some mato fern hanging baskets that are just breathtaking, 1334 01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:13.880 gorgeous and beautiful flowering hanging baskets. It's all there, but 1335 01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:15.520 you got to go to see it. See what I'm 1336 01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:20.520 talking about. Growers outlet Willis dot com. That's it. That's 1337 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:27.199 as simple as that. Today when I get to this afternoon, 1338 01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:30.119 I'm gonna head out in pot up a couple of 1339 01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:35.560 things that are waiting on me and jungle land outdoor potting. 1340 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:39.119 So it's called jungle l and Flower and Vegetable Planting 1341 01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.119 soil Okay, Flower and Vegetable Planting sail comes in the 1342 01:14:42.199 --> 01:14:46.960 bags distributed by Nitrofoss. It's a blend of Canadian blonde 1343 01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:50.680 peete with four different sources of aged organic matter. And 1344 01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:55.800 basically with the microwrise of fungi that revitalized potting plants, 1345 01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:59.199 I'm gonna get really good lasting color. That's how that 1346 01:14:59.239 --> 01:15:03.119 stuff works. It rains well, but it holds water also, 1347 01:15:03.319 --> 01:15:08.000 and that combination is a sweet spot that jungle nd hits. 1348 01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:10.800 You put it in a good sized pot, You put 1349 01:15:10.840 --> 01:15:12.479 the right kind of plan in there that wants to 1350 01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:13.960 be in the spot where you're gonna put it, and 1351 01:15:14.039 --> 01:15:16.319 you're gonna have success. You're gonna find jungle Land and 1352 01:15:16.439 --> 01:15:19.680 other nitrofoss products at places like Bearing Hardware on Bissonet 1353 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:22.560 or the Bearing Chardware in West Teimer. Go out to 1354 01:15:22.680 --> 01:15:25.920 Enchanted Forest on FM twenty seven to fifty nine out 1355 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:29.600 in the Richmond Rosenberg area. They carry nitrofoss products out 1356 01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:33.960 there as well. So anyway, gonna get out and gonna 1357 01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:38.039 get that done. I love putting my hands in the dirt, 1358 01:15:38.079 --> 01:15:39.279 and I don't want to get into a lot of 1359 01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:42.159 work and stuff today, but I will get into doing 1360 01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:48.760 those things. If you've got metal furniture, like let's say 1361 01:15:49.079 --> 01:15:53.720 the aluminium or rot iron or cast iron types, maybe 1362 01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:56.960 even decorative things outside and they're not looking great, you 1363 01:15:57.079 --> 01:15:59.560 need to call Houston Powder coders. And here's what I 1364 01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:01.279 want you to do. Don't you take a picture of it? 1365 01:16:02.279 --> 01:16:06.840 Email that picture to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales 1366 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:09.079 at Houston cooders dot com. They'll give you a quick quote. 1367 01:16:09.279 --> 01:16:11.600 This is what it costs. If you're in the Houston area, 1368 01:16:11.640 --> 01:16:13.560 they'll come pick it up and when they're done, they'll 1369 01:16:13.640 --> 01:16:16.840 bring it back to you one hundred plus colors that 1370 01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:20.439 they can powder coat that to look it is gorgeous. 1371 01:16:20.479 --> 01:16:22.279 It ren news it and they do all the other 1372 01:16:22.399 --> 01:16:24.880 things that are needed to get it fixed up, whether 1373 01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:26.920 it's rusting, or need a little bit of welding here 1374 01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:29.079 or there, or new hardware on it, they can do 1375 01:16:29.159 --> 01:16:32.399 all of that. Here's the number two eight one, six seven, 1376 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:35.079 six thirty eight eighty eight. If you want to learn 1377 01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:39.199 more about them, you can go to Houston Powdercoders dot 1378 01:16:39.439 --> 01:16:44.680 com Houston Powdercoders dot com and you will see the 1379 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:48.000 work that they do, and it is very very good work, 1380 01:16:50.039 --> 01:16:53.279 very good work. The other day, not too long ago, 1381 01:16:53.279 --> 01:16:56.439 I was down visiting with Jorge a while back here 1382 01:16:56.560 --> 01:17:00.239 and just looking at all the operation that they got 1383 01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:02.279 set up down there, and you know, they just keep 1384 01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:05.159 it just keeps getting better. Down there. Harny grows a 1385 01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:09.199 lot of trees. He grows larger shrubs and things. So 1386 01:17:09.319 --> 01:17:11.640 if you if you want to get a quality plant 1387 01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:13.760 planted for you like that, he'll come out and do it. 1388 01:17:14.279 --> 01:17:16.880 That's all part of the system. Now. If you're looking 1389 01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:20.439 for things like maybe Peggy Martin roses, he's always got 1390 01:17:20.479 --> 01:17:22.359 some of those on it. It seems like he's got 1391 01:17:22.399 --> 01:17:24.159 a lot of beautiful ones. And when it comes to 1392 01:17:24.239 --> 01:17:27.039 fruit trees, oh my gosh, last time I got there, 1393 01:17:27.079 --> 01:17:29.520 he had like nine different kinds of peach trees, a 1394 01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:31.399 lot of the low chill ones that are that are 1395 01:17:31.439 --> 01:17:34.079 better for growing down there. By the way, he's in Alvin, Texas, 1396 01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:38.199 way south of Houston on Highway six. You just from 1397 01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:41.239 from Alvin, you head down six like you're going to 1398 01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:43.600 Santa Fe and he's off down to the right. So 1399 01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:46.039 that's kind of the specific region where you'll find him. 1400 01:17:46.439 --> 01:17:50.000 Jes Hidden Gardens. He carries the three sixty tree stabilizers 1401 01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:52.119 that are there. He asks some of his own fertilizer 1402 01:17:53.279 --> 01:17:55.840 from Nelson Plant feed folks that they make up there, 1403 01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:58.960 and whatever you're looking for, I mean lots of good citrus. 1404 01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:03.199 I saw blueberries, I saw bedding, plants, vegetables, herbs, everything, 1405 01:18:03.840 --> 01:18:07.760 Jorgce Hidden Gardens. So I just need to go out 1406 01:18:07.800 --> 01:18:11.479 and see him again Elizabeth Street and Alvin Oryce Hidden 1407 01:18:11.520 --> 01:18:16.439 Gardens or he's a character too. He's a lot of fun. 1408 01:18:17.760 --> 01:18:20.039 He's got a good sense of humor and it is 1409 01:18:20.119 --> 01:18:23.239 a real upbeat attitude about things like enjoy hanging out 1410 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:27.239 with Horay, you're listening to the guard line. We're gonna 1411 01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:30.239 take a little break here in just a bit. But 1412 01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:32.680 I did want to remind you first of all that 1413 01:18:32.880 --> 01:18:36.640 I'm going to be at Memorial City Ace Hardware. Memorial 1414 01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:43.079 City Ace Hardware that is on Memorial Drive in Houston, Texas, 1415 01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:48.199 of course on the west side. So if you let's 1416 01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:50.600 see her so I can get I'm trying to pull 1417 01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:52.479 something up here on my computer. Yeah, get a little 1418 01:18:52.479 --> 01:18:55.720 map here right off Memorial Drive. When you go there, 1419 01:18:55.840 --> 01:18:57.720 you're gonna find what you would expect from an Ace 1420 01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:01.399 Hardware store, and that is a lot of products to 1421 01:19:01.520 --> 01:19:04.880 help you have a more beautiful indoor your house indoors, 1422 01:19:05.359 --> 01:19:07.560 but also that outdoor area. You know you want a 1423 01:19:07.560 --> 01:19:10.399 beautiful landscape. Ace Hardware is the one to give you 1424 01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:12.800 that because they carry the fertilizers I talk about on 1425 01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:15.920 guard line. They carry products to control pests, weeds, and diseases. 1426 01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:18.800 You go into an ACE Hardware store, you're going to 1427 01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:22.199 find the tools and other supplies for gardening, such as 1428 01:19:22.359 --> 01:19:27.319 garden hoses and a watering devices, tools for pruning, tools 1429 01:19:27.359 --> 01:19:30.880 for digging, tools for dealing with weeds, or whatever. Ace 1430 01:19:30.920 --> 01:19:33.960 Hardware has got you covered. You want to enjoy your patio, 1431 01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:35.880 why not go to ACE Hardware and get a string 1432 01:19:35.960 --> 01:19:38.920 of lights to create that ambiance outdoors. They've got that 1433 01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:42.960 there and a lot lot more and perhaps my face 1434 01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:48.159 favorite addition to the patio or quality barbecue pits. You know, 1435 01:19:48.319 --> 01:19:50.720 I'm talking about things like Big green Egg. By the way, 1436 01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:53.319 there's probably I think Big Green Egg may well be 1437 01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:57.640 a cult. And then there's Trager, Oh my gosh, the 1438 01:19:57.840 --> 01:20:02.439 pellet fed grills and Weber grills and every kind of 1439 01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:04.520 supply you would need to go with your barbecue. And 1440 01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:06.680 I mean, you're gonna want to just live outside when 1441 01:20:06.680 --> 01:20:09.199 you've been to ACE Hardware and you get your patios 1442 01:20:09.199 --> 01:20:12.079 set up like that. And ACE Hardware's are all over 1443 01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:14.239 the place, it's easy to find them. Here's the website. 1444 01:20:14.359 --> 01:20:20.359 ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace Hardware Texas dot com. 1445 01:20:22.039 --> 01:20:26.840 Check it out. Come see me next Saturday. What is 1446 01:20:26.880 --> 01:20:30.279 that may third be there from twelve to two answering 1447 01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:32.800 your gardening questions. We'll have some giveaways there as well, 1448 01:20:33.279 --> 01:20:39.159 doing that we usually do that. Come on out, all right, folks. 1449 01:20:39.720 --> 01:20:41.880 I'm gonna take a little break here, fill up my 1450 01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:44.920 coffee cup, and we'll be back for our third hour 1451 01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:48.199 of the morning at eight o'clock hour with your gardening questions. 1452 01:20:48.279 --> 01:20:49.880 If you would like to be one of the first 1453 01:20:50.079 --> 01:20:53.079 up at that time, seven one three two one two 1454 01:20:53.680 --> 01:20:57.119 k t RH talk to Alejandro, get you on the board, 1455 01:20:57.840 --> 01:21:01.279 and we will visit with you out the things that 1456 01:21:01.439 --> 01:21:05.760 you want to know about regarding success and fun in 1457 01:21:05.880 --> 01:21:27.800 the garden. Be right back, all right, folks, we're back. 1458 01:21:30.800 --> 01:21:32.960 What are we going to talk about today? I got 1459 01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:35.960 some things in mind, but why don't you set the 1460 01:21:36.000 --> 01:21:39.560 agenda here with your questions? Seven one three two one 1461 01:21:39.640 --> 01:21:42.800 two k t r H seven one three two one 1462 01:21:42.880 --> 01:21:48.640 two k t r H. Simple as that sweet green 1463 01:21:48.720 --> 01:21:53.640 by Nitropuss is a it's an outstanding fertilizer. It's eleven 1464 01:21:53.680 --> 01:21:56.560 percent nitrogen, which in an organic product is a lot. 1465 01:21:57.119 --> 01:21:59.039 You put it down, you watered in, it goes into 1466 01:21:59.079 --> 01:22:04.119 the ground and sugar basic product type things are basically 1467 01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:07.399 carbon chains, right, and that carbon is very important to 1468 01:22:07.479 --> 01:22:09.920 beneficial microbes. That's part of what they do in the 1469 01:22:10.079 --> 01:22:13.439 soil is feed on decaying organic matter, that carbon that's 1470 01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:17.359 in it, because it's a fuel source for them. So 1471 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.239 sweet green provides that kind of boost for beneficial microbes 1472 01:22:21.279 --> 01:22:23.960 in the swam. Now you're gonna find sweet green. Oh gosh, 1473 01:22:24.039 --> 01:22:26.720 it's at a lot of places. For example, if you 1474 01:22:26.880 --> 01:22:29.479 went to Plants for All Seasons on two forty nine, 1475 01:22:29.520 --> 01:22:34.119 I saw some in there just yesterday. RCW Nurse Trees 1476 01:22:34.199 --> 01:22:37.880 carries night foss products, hiding and feed on. Stubner Airline 1477 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:41.760 carries night foss products, and as do many many many 1478 01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:46.720 places all over there, all over town. But let's do this. 1479 01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:51.159 Let's head to Roast Sharon this morning, and we're going 1480 01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:54.119 to talk to Kim. Hello, Kim, welcome to garden Line. 1481 01:22:55.279 --> 01:22:56.319 Oh, thank you, Skip. 1482 01:22:56.880 --> 01:22:57.039 Hey. 1483 01:22:57.760 --> 01:23:01.920 I just had a acre of and cleared off, and 1484 01:23:02.039 --> 01:23:04.720 you know how they bring in the machinery that like 1485 01:23:04.920 --> 01:23:08.960 brings it down to saw dust. My question is I 1486 01:23:09.119 --> 01:23:12.319 have an attachment for my tractor. Should I go ahead 1487 01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:17.840 and grade that some more, or like these places it 1488 01:23:17.960 --> 01:23:21.159 has this heavy sawdust because I remember you tell me 1489 01:23:21.720 --> 01:23:25.000 where there's bare lights, sunlight gets a weed. So I'm 1490 01:23:25.039 --> 01:23:27.600 trying to be proactive on that. So do you think 1491 01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:29.239 I should go ahead and grade that some more? 1492 01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:32.920 So tell me about the land? What are you going 1493 01:23:33.000 --> 01:23:36.800 to do there on that property? And a plant of 1494 01:23:37.640 --> 01:23:38.600 pasture or what. 1495 01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:43.920 I haven't really considered it. I find out a garden 1496 01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:46.600 in a couple of areas, but it was, you know, 1497 01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:49.479 heavily wooded and all, and I mean it's beautiful now. 1498 01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:53.479 So I'm just wondering, like in some of them areas 1499 01:23:53.680 --> 01:23:58.119 there's heavy mulch, So should I like kind of distribute 1500 01:23:58.159 --> 01:24:01.239 that grade it with my uh crater? 1501 01:24:01.760 --> 01:24:04.079 Yeah, if you can spread it around a little bit. 1502 01:24:04.119 --> 01:24:07.079 I mean that certainly helps when they when they grind 1503 01:24:07.119 --> 01:24:08.920 that stuff up and leave it lay in the spot, 1504 01:24:09.279 --> 01:24:11.199 it does act as a molt. So it's going to 1505 01:24:11.279 --> 01:24:12.520 give you some benefit like that. 1506 01:24:14.319 --> 01:24:14.479 You know. 1507 01:24:14.680 --> 01:24:17.439 Just remember that there's gonna be a lot of bear soil. 1508 01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:19.399 Even as you great with your tractor, you're gonna be 1509 01:24:19.439 --> 01:24:22.319 left with you know, quite a bit of bear soil there, right, 1510 01:24:22.359 --> 01:24:25.800 And uh, when when that are you in Brazoria County 1511 01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:32.359 or Harris Brazoria. Okay, yes, sir, uh I would. I 1512 01:24:32.399 --> 01:24:35.159 would talk to the folks at the Brazoria County Extension 1513 01:24:35.199 --> 01:24:37.760 office down there. I believe it's in Angleton. 1514 01:24:38.319 --> 01:24:38.439 Uh. 1515 01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:41.920 Anyway, the the ag agent should be able to advise 1516 01:24:42.000 --> 01:24:45.560 you on maybe some type of a pasture type grass 1517 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:48.399 that you could spread seed of out there in it 1518 01:24:49.039 --> 01:24:52.359 and get you something going that's that's gonna hold the 1519 01:24:52.399 --> 01:24:54.199 spot me later on if you want to get rid 1520 01:24:54.239 --> 01:24:55.800 of it. I mean, if you know right away you're 1521 01:24:55.840 --> 01:24:58.039 gonna put an orchard or something in, well, I wouldn't 1522 01:24:58.039 --> 01:25:01.800 put the grass in. But uh, because even with spreading 1523 01:25:01.880 --> 01:25:05.520 those those ground up woodships and things, you're gonna have 1524 01:25:05.520 --> 01:25:07.359 a lot of weeds come through and you're gonna be 1525 01:25:07.399 --> 01:25:10.079 out there brush hoogging it or doing something for it. 1526 01:25:10.319 --> 01:25:12.600 So I would say, think about what you wanted to 1527 01:25:12.720 --> 01:25:15.319 look like, or if you're not sure, I think a 1528 01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:18.199 grass pasture would be at least a good way because 1529 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:20.600 you can mow that and it's a lot more attractive 1530 01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:25.920 than you're gonna have shrubs and brush coming up in there. Anyway, 1531 01:25:26.319 --> 01:25:28.520 even after the grinding, you're gonna have a lot of 1532 01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:30.920 dormant weed seeds that have been laying there waiting for this, 1533 01:25:31.119 --> 01:25:34.000 and now they're gonna come up. So uh, just think 1534 01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:36.279 ahead on that and save yourself a little bit of trouble. 1535 01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:38.920 But as far as can you do the spreading with 1536 01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:41.359 with your box blade and whatnot, yes, you could do 1537 01:25:41.439 --> 01:25:43.640 you could do some of that, Okay. 1538 01:25:44.039 --> 01:25:45.560 I was just yeah, because. 1539 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:49.199 There is some beautiful moult, I think I'm gonna gather 1540 01:25:49.319 --> 01:25:52.800 at seven ads and spread along in my little garden 1541 01:25:52.880 --> 01:25:53.720 here there. 1542 01:25:53.840 --> 01:25:56.720 But okay, okay, I was just wanting to make sure. 1543 01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:03.640 I've got huge, some huge oaks that has some a 1544 01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:08.319 lot of shade, so I will have to drows Yeah. 1545 01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:13.119 So okay, well okay, grass is yeah, grass nook can 1546 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:15.800 grow into those, that's for sure, right right, I do 1547 01:26:15.840 --> 01:26:16.199 you know that? 1548 01:26:16.720 --> 01:26:17.039 All right? 1549 01:26:17.079 --> 01:26:19.600 Well, I'll touch face with my egg and see what 1550 01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:23.399 they shouldest. That's a good idea. All right, you take care, 1551 01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:25.760 all right, great, thanks for you, have a great day. 1552 01:26:26.199 --> 01:26:33.880 Bye bye you too, bye bye. I uh this was yesterday, 1553 01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:36.640 actually yesterday in the afternoon. We're sitting there watching some 1554 01:26:36.840 --> 01:26:39.720 birds out off our patio. It's become one of my 1555 01:26:39.760 --> 01:26:41.560 favorite things to do late in the day. Go out 1556 01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.159 there relax a little bit, UH, And there were a 1557 01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:48.520 pair of cardinals that were going to the feeder. The 1558 01:26:48.600 --> 01:26:53.520 feeder is UH in that case was the UH. It's 1559 01:26:53.560 --> 01:26:57.199 a hopper type feeder that has made a recycled plastic 1560 01:26:57.399 --> 01:27:01.520 and very durable. And it's from Birds Unlimited, which is 1561 01:27:01.560 --> 01:27:03.800 where you get anything that you want if you want 1562 01:27:03.840 --> 01:27:06.680 it to be quality and if it's for birds' that's 1563 01:27:06.720 --> 01:27:09.000 what it amounts to. You know, you buy birds seed 1564 01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:12.520 a lot of places and typically those seeds, those bags 1565 01:27:12.560 --> 01:27:14.600 of seed are filled with I call it the little 1566 01:27:14.640 --> 01:27:18.079 red bebies. Birds don't like that stuff. I few birds 1567 01:27:18.119 --> 01:27:20.000 will eat it a little bit, but I mean basically 1568 01:27:20.039 --> 01:27:22.720 it gets kicked out on the ground. When you go 1569 01:27:22.840 --> 01:27:26.159 to wild Birds Unlimited you can buy seed. It's going 1570 01:27:26.199 --> 01:27:29.000 to go into birds tummy, not second rate. We're not 1571 01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:32.359 gonna eat this stuff. They fill those bags with stuff 1572 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:36.640 that birds eat. You can even buy no mess blends. 1573 01:27:37.319 --> 01:27:39.880 So maybe something had sunflower seed in it, which is 1574 01:27:39.920 --> 01:27:42.319 a great seed for birds, but you don't want the 1575 01:27:42.399 --> 01:27:44.319 shells because they crack them open to get the seed 1576 01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:46.439 in out of the inside. Well that's called a no 1577 01:27:46.560 --> 01:27:49.479 mess blend. Now, the folks at Waldbirds Unlimited have a 1578 01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:51.359 perfect blend for this time of the year. It's called 1579 01:27:51.439 --> 01:27:55.199 Nesting Super Blends, only available at Wallbirds Unlimited. It's got 1580 01:27:55.319 --> 01:27:58.800 everything that birds need during the nesting season. You know, 1581 01:27:58.880 --> 01:28:01.920 when they're laying eggs, when they're hatching young, when they're 1582 01:28:02.000 --> 01:28:07.439 developing that skeletal development inside the bird that needs calcium. 1583 01:28:07.560 --> 01:28:11.279 It's got that. They need protein, They've got that in there. 1584 01:28:11.880 --> 01:28:14.159 You can find Nesting Super Blended any of the six 1585 01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:17.159 Wilbirds and Limited stores here in the Greater Houston area. 1586 01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:23.399 Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston WBU for 1587 01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:32.359 Wilbirdsunlimited dot com forward Slash Houston, Kingwood, Clare Lake, Pearland, Cyprus, 1588 01:28:32.920 --> 01:28:36.319 Houston on bel Air, Houston on Memorial Drive. Those are 1589 01:28:36.479 --> 01:28:39.840 all wild Birds Unlimited stores. You need to check them out. 1590 01:28:41.119 --> 01:28:42.920 Time for me to take a little break here. I 1591 01:28:43.119 --> 01:28:46.399 will be back with your calls, and Melanie and Helen 1592 01:28:46.520 --> 01:28:50.319 you'll be our first two up. And alrighty, when this 1593 01:28:50.399 --> 01:28:52.600 is the last time you hear at barbershop, do you 1594 01:28:52.680 --> 01:28:54.479 know how hard it is to find a barbershop song 1595 01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:58.960 that talks about gardening. We're a full service here at 1596 01:28:59.199 --> 01:29:03.920 Garden Line, Arbrogate Garden center up in Townball is a 1597 01:29:04.079 --> 01:29:07.880 destination and if you haven't been there, you've got to go. 1598 01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:10.279 I mean, this is a place. It's like going to 1599 01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:14.720 botanical garden, except a botanical garden filled with knowledgeable people 1600 01:29:14.960 --> 01:29:17.239 that want to help you have success and are willing 1601 01:29:17.399 --> 01:29:19.920 to take time and walk around with you to find 1602 01:29:19.960 --> 01:29:22.399 the right plants or the right plant combination that you're 1603 01:29:22.439 --> 01:29:26.880 looking for. Arburgate's outstanding. It just is what do you 1604 01:29:26.960 --> 01:29:29.119 want to grow? Maybe you want to put fruit trees. 1605 01:29:29.239 --> 01:29:31.159 They carry fruit trees twelve months out of the year 1606 01:29:31.359 --> 01:29:35.640 at Arburgate. They have shrubs, they have roses, they have perennials. 1607 01:29:35.720 --> 01:29:37.840 Do you have shady spots? Go into the little shade 1608 01:29:37.880 --> 01:29:40.319 area and they've got all kinds of wonderful plants there 1609 01:29:40.840 --> 01:29:43.479 in the shade. That's where I got one of my endiction. 1610 01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:47.359 What butterfly gingers was maybe two of them came from 1611 01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:53.279 Arburgate and the great great plants and again service, that 1612 01:29:53.479 --> 01:29:56.760 is what it's about. Knowledgeable people that are friendly, that 1613 01:29:56.840 --> 01:30:01.079 are helpful. And now they've last year, they are recent, 1614 01:30:01.199 --> 01:30:04.000 not too long ago. Last year they added the back 1615 01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:06.640 parking lot which is off Trichel Road, so instead of 1616 01:30:06.680 --> 01:30:09.359 parking in the front or parking along the road two 1617 01:30:09.399 --> 01:30:12.279 forty nine, don't do that, go around Trasher Road in 1618 01:30:12.319 --> 01:30:14.720 the back. It is an awesome parking lot with the 1619 01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:18.600 best entrance accessibility into Arbigate. You're going to get try 1620 01:30:18.640 --> 01:30:20.840 it out and before you go home. What's the rule 1621 01:30:20.920 --> 01:30:23.520 on guarden line, brown stuff before green stuff? Right, That 1622 01:30:23.720 --> 01:30:27.359 means nutrients and that means organic matter for your soil. 1623 01:30:28.159 --> 01:30:32.079 Get their one two three completely easy system, organic food complete, 1624 01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:37.359 anything with roots, it'll feed it Organic soil complete, which 1625 01:30:37.439 --> 01:30:40.880 has expanded jail in it an organic compost complete, which 1626 01:30:40.960 --> 01:30:44.119 also has expanded jail. Now, if you want the soil 1627 01:30:44.199 --> 01:30:46.000 and the compost, but you want it in volume, you 1628 01:30:46.039 --> 01:30:48.840 don't want to buy eight hundred bags, call Arbrogate, tell 1629 01:30:48.880 --> 01:30:50.880 them I need a bulk delivery and they will do that. 1630 01:30:51.119 --> 01:30:54.600 They can deliver those bulk to you as well. Arburgate, 1631 01:30:54.840 --> 01:30:56.680 for those of you who didn't know, is a mile 1632 01:30:56.720 --> 01:30:58.960 and a half west of two forty nine on twenty 1633 01:30:59.079 --> 01:31:01.199 nine to twenty and Tom Ball and I don't care 1634 01:31:01.239 --> 01:31:03.680 where you live. If you live way out of Houston 1635 01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:06.039 and you're hearing my voice right now, you got to 1636 01:31:06.079 --> 01:31:08.159 come to Houston and see the arbor Gate people drive. 1637 01:31:08.359 --> 01:31:10.319 I know people in Briancott Station drive down all the 1638 01:31:10.359 --> 01:31:13.880 time for Arburgate because it is just awesome, great place 1639 01:31:13.960 --> 01:31:17.920 to go. All right, let's head out here. Let's go 1640 01:31:18.239 --> 01:31:22.159 to Cyprus this morning, and we're going to talk to Melanie. Hello, Melanie, 1641 01:31:22.439 --> 01:31:23.079 welcome to garden. 1642 01:31:23.239 --> 01:31:23.680 Good morning. 1643 01:31:24.840 --> 01:31:26.840 Oh ready to get out in my yard today? And 1644 01:31:26.960 --> 01:31:29.159 I had a question, And I know you've covered this 1645 01:31:29.279 --> 01:31:32.600 before and I can't remember, but I had my yard 1646 01:31:32.640 --> 01:31:35.319 man put some last summer. He put mulch in, and 1647 01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:39.439 I wanted him to use that black yell malt from 1648 01:31:39.640 --> 01:31:40.560 Landscape's Pride. 1649 01:31:41.960 --> 01:31:42.600 He didn't use that. 1650 01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:43.880 I don't know what to use. 1651 01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:47.920 But it's real grey looking now, you know. And do 1652 01:31:48.039 --> 01:31:50.439 I need to take that out first before I put 1653 01:31:50.479 --> 01:31:51.399 the other mulch down? 1654 01:31:52.479 --> 01:31:52.600 Oh? 1655 01:31:52.680 --> 01:31:56.439 Do you put mulch? Add mulch on top of all? 1656 01:31:56.600 --> 01:31:59.880 Think about the forest? Yeah, the forest, The trees droply, 1657 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:02.720 they look like leaves for the whole year. Next year 1658 01:32:02.760 --> 01:32:05.119 they drop leaves on those leaves, and the old leaves 1659 01:32:05.119 --> 01:32:07.800 start to rot and make what is the best forest 1660 01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:11.119 floor soil around? Okay? You do you do that in 1661 01:32:11.159 --> 01:32:13.279 your beds by adding mult on top of the malts 1662 01:32:13.359 --> 01:32:14.560 rather than taking the old away. 1663 01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:18.039 Okay, so put it on top and then that other 1664 01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:18.560 will kind of. 1665 01:32:18.680 --> 01:32:20.000 You don't have to use it. You don't have to 1666 01:32:20.119 --> 01:32:22.479 use this. Yeah. Well you don't have to use as 1667 01:32:22.520 --> 01:32:25.039 much malt that way either, you know, because you've already 1668 01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:27.319 got molts there. It just you just want to freshen 1669 01:32:27.399 --> 01:32:29.600 it up on top. It doesn't take as much to 1670 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:31.039 do that another reason. 1671 01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:34.039 Okay, that's what I wanted to hear. 1672 01:32:34.199 --> 01:32:36.000 So that's good news, all right. 1673 01:32:36.159 --> 01:32:37.640 I thought i'd heard say that before. 1674 01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:38.600 It's just so ugly. 1675 01:32:40.039 --> 01:32:44.840 Yeah, yeah, well okay, I think I think dead stuff 1676 01:32:44.880 --> 01:32:48.560 on the ground is pretty so anyway, I know what 1677 01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:50.880 you're talking about. Though, it's your yard. 1678 01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:55.840 Okay, I'll do it. 1679 01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:01.880 You take care, bye bye. That is true green Pro. 1680 01:33:02.520 --> 01:33:04.680 You've heard me talk about green Pro. The folks at 1681 01:33:04.720 --> 01:33:08.880 Greenpro are experts of providing top quality compost top dressing, 1682 01:33:09.600 --> 01:33:14.560 fertilizing and cororation too, the perfect companion to compost top dressing. 1683 01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:16.760 What does that mean For those of you who hear 1684 01:33:16.840 --> 01:33:18.159 me say that, I don't know what I'm talking about. 1685 01:33:18.239 --> 01:33:21.399 Corrooration pops a plug of soil out of the ground 1686 01:33:21.920 --> 01:33:24.640 and drops it on the surface as it sort of 1687 01:33:24.680 --> 01:33:28.039 melts away in the rain and irrigation. It helps thatch 1688 01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:31.359 decompose faster. But the most important thing is that hole 1689 01:33:31.520 --> 01:33:35.159 brings oxygen down deeper into the soil. The compost top 1690 01:33:35.239 --> 01:33:37.920 dressing will fall partially of it will fall down in 1691 01:33:38.000 --> 01:33:42.439 that hole and will decompose away, and microbial activity just 1692 01:33:42.760 --> 01:33:46.880 goes crazy. I mean, it really really thrives in that situation. 1693 01:33:47.000 --> 01:33:48.960 One of the best things you can do not only 1694 01:33:49.079 --> 01:33:51.680 to feed the soil biology in your soil, but to 1695 01:33:51.800 --> 01:33:55.640 alleviate compaction, to help the soil take in moisture, rainfall, 1696 01:33:55.680 --> 01:33:58.800 irrigation better. And if you're trying to rejuvenate a lawn 1697 01:33:58.880 --> 01:34:02.640 that's been struggling, what did it diseases like brown patch 1698 01:34:02.760 --> 01:34:05.920 or tinchbugs or take all root rod or drought or whatever. 1699 01:34:06.720 --> 01:34:10.079 A good corporation in Kappa stop dressing. We'll do it now. 1700 01:34:10.600 --> 01:34:14.359 Greenpro serves about a forty five mile area in northwest Houston. 1701 01:34:14.960 --> 01:34:17.039 I think of it as the northwest quadrant of Houston. 1702 01:34:17.119 --> 01:34:21.920 That's a rough guide like Interstate forty five and Interstate ten. 1703 01:34:22.039 --> 01:34:25.399 The northwest quadrant that's primarily the area they service. Give 1704 01:34:25.399 --> 01:34:29.079 them a call eight three to two three five one 1705 01:34:29.479 --> 01:34:32.439 zero zero three two, or just go to the website 1706 01:34:32.600 --> 01:34:38.960 greenpro Texas dot com. Alrighty, We're gonna go now to 1707 01:34:39.199 --> 01:34:42.359 Humble and talk to Helen. Well, Hello, Helen, Welcome to 1708 01:34:42.439 --> 01:34:42.960 garden Line. 1709 01:34:43.840 --> 01:34:45.039 Well, good morning, Skip. 1710 01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:51.439 Earlier I had you tele Acller not to put fertilizer 1711 01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:54.760 in when you're planning a new plant that you've purchased, 1712 01:34:55.319 --> 01:34:57.119 not to put it in the hold. And that's what 1713 01:34:57.239 --> 01:34:57.920 I've been doing. 1714 01:34:58.319 --> 01:35:01.560 So maybe help me on that. 1715 01:35:01.840 --> 01:35:04.119 That's the only thing I need to know. 1716 01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:09.600 So did you ever watch I Love Lucy on TV 1717 01:35:10.560 --> 01:35:15.119 with Lucy and DESI? All right, remember how he would say, Lucy, 1718 01:35:15.239 --> 01:35:19.000 you got some splaining to do. So you're basically telling me, Skip, 1719 01:35:19.079 --> 01:35:21.520 you got some splaining to do about this fertilizer in 1720 01:35:21.560 --> 01:35:25.520 the planning hole. And I'll explain it right now. Basically, 1721 01:35:26.439 --> 01:35:29.359 you can put a slow release fertilizer in a planning 1722 01:35:29.439 --> 01:35:33.319 hole if you want. You can do that. Salt based fertilizer. 1723 01:35:33.439 --> 01:35:37.479 Synthetic salt based in the planning hole can be concentrated 1724 01:35:37.560 --> 01:35:40.479 and burn roots as they try to grow. The plant 1725 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:43.720 you're putting in has already got fertilizer in the root 1726 01:35:43.840 --> 01:35:46.680 zone that it's in in that pot. They've they've been doing. 1727 01:35:46.720 --> 01:35:49.079 That's how they grew the plant. They put you see 1728 01:35:49.079 --> 01:35:51.359 the little round bbies up on top sometimes from that. 1729 01:35:52.159 --> 01:35:54.479 But when you put it in the ground, we don't 1730 01:35:54.520 --> 01:35:56.600 need to put fertilizer right then, I mean to me, 1731 01:35:56.720 --> 01:35:59.000 I guess an analogy is like giving a baby a 1732 01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:00.760 t bone steak. What are they going to do with that? 1733 01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:01.560 You know? 1734 01:36:01.880 --> 01:36:04.920 And let's let that plant get established once it's grown 1735 01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:09.239 about six weeks or so, then begin to fertilize on 1736 01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:12.159 the top, scratch it into the soil and water it 1737 01:36:12.199 --> 01:36:15.880 in gradually. But people think the fertilizer in the planning 1738 01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:18.000 hole is just gonna make it go crazy, unless you 1739 01:36:18.079 --> 01:36:20.640 were using like medina has to grow six twelve six. 1740 01:36:20.760 --> 01:36:25.720 That's a super deluded liquid that you're putting in a 1741 01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:28.560 water and can to drench down into the root zone. 1742 01:36:28.680 --> 01:36:32.119 That's okay, that's okay, But don't just don't dry salt 1743 01:36:32.159 --> 01:36:34.640 based fertilizer in the planning hole. I usually say don't 1744 01:36:34.640 --> 01:36:37.840 put it in the planning hole because it's hard for 1745 01:36:37.920 --> 01:36:40.399 people to hear all that I just said and remember 1746 01:36:40.479 --> 01:36:42.600 all that, and you know, keep tracking. So I just said, 1747 01:36:42.600 --> 01:36:44.159 can't put fertilizer in the planning hole. 1748 01:36:45.119 --> 01:36:46.039 All right, all right. 1749 01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:46.800 I appreciate that. 1750 01:36:47.079 --> 01:36:48.319 All right, Heaven blessing. 1751 01:36:48.319 --> 01:36:51.399 All right, Helen, you too, thank you for the call. 1752 01:36:51.880 --> 01:36:55.800 I appreciate that a lot. Spring Creek Feed is up there, 1753 01:36:56.560 --> 01:37:00.079 just north and east of Tombol. It's kind of well 1754 01:37:00.079 --> 01:37:03.359 at Graham Parkway Highway two forty nine area up that direction. 1755 01:37:03.800 --> 01:37:07.399 They're on FM twenty nine seventy eight, FM twenty nine 1756 01:37:07.479 --> 01:37:09.520 seventy eight. Now when you drive down FM twenty nine 1757 01:37:09.560 --> 01:37:11.000 seventy eight, you're going to look over the side and 1758 01:37:11.079 --> 01:37:15.359 see this beautiful big feed store, Spring Creek Feed. They 1759 01:37:15.439 --> 01:37:20.520 carry fertilizers from Nelson, Turf, star Line, Microlife, nitrofoss. They 1760 01:37:20.680 --> 01:37:25.319 have herbicides for weed control, fungicides, pesticides, and a very friendly, 1761 01:37:25.399 --> 01:37:28.079 courteous staff that will greet you and point you at 1762 01:37:28.119 --> 01:37:30.119 the things that you need. Of course, when you're in there, 1763 01:37:30.159 --> 01:37:32.279 if you need some pet food and products, they've got 1764 01:37:32.359 --> 01:37:36.319 good quality pet food and products in there. If senior citizens, 1765 01:37:36.399 --> 01:37:40.279 military and youth from FFA and four H programs get 1766 01:37:40.319 --> 01:37:43.000 a discount, so let them know about that. If you 1767 01:37:43.079 --> 01:37:45.319 need special order, they can do that and they also 1768 01:37:45.399 --> 01:37:47.960 offer a delivery service. Another good reason to go to 1769 01:37:48.000 --> 01:37:54.239 Spring Creek Feed FM twenty nine seventy eight. Let's head 1770 01:37:54.520 --> 01:37:58.159 to Austin County now and we're going to talk to Doris. Hello, Doris, 1771 01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:02.680 are you I'm doing well? Thank you. 1772 01:38:04.680 --> 01:38:07.000 I'm just calling to see if you got my pictures 1773 01:38:07.439 --> 01:38:08.680 I sent yesterday. 1774 01:38:10.800 --> 01:38:15.640 I did not. Did they come in from a phone 1775 01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:18.319 number that ends in eighty one twenty two? 1776 01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:19.760 Yeah? 1777 01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:26.439 Okay, well that's you. I'm saying this not just for you, Doris, 1778 01:38:26.479 --> 01:38:31.119 but for everybody listening. There's different services like my Pick's 1779 01:38:31.159 --> 01:38:35.279 Messages and others where you can send something to an email, 1780 01:38:35.720 --> 01:38:38.039 but it comes in and I can't see who it's from. 1781 01:38:38.399 --> 01:38:40.760 I can't see that there's not a title of it. 1782 01:38:41.520 --> 01:38:44.319 And as a security measure, I just am not able 1783 01:38:44.359 --> 01:38:46.760 to open those up. And so I'm glad you followed 1784 01:38:46.800 --> 01:38:49.520 that up with a phone call. Now, knowing it's you, 1785 01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:52.760 I will go ahead and open this up. There's a 1786 01:38:52.880 --> 01:38:56.560 lot of bad stuff going online and I'm extra super 1787 01:38:56.680 --> 01:39:00.399 careful as a result of that. Okay, you send me 1788 01:39:00.439 --> 01:39:02.840 a picture of your tree ivy. I see the tree 1789 01:39:02.880 --> 01:39:07.960 ivy right, all right. Tree ivy is a unique plant. 1790 01:39:08.520 --> 01:39:12.720 It is a cross between Japanese aurelio, which is called 1791 01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:15.760 a fatsia. You see those growing outside in the Houston 1792 01:39:15.840 --> 01:39:19.439 area as a little shrub like plant, and English ivy, 1793 01:39:19.520 --> 01:39:22.920 which crawls all over creation. Tree ivy is used a 1794 01:39:23.000 --> 01:39:25.439 lot of times as a houseplant or very very very 1795 01:39:25.520 --> 01:39:29.119 shady outdoor areas. I think you were wanting to know 1796 01:39:29.199 --> 01:39:34.520 how big it gets? Is that correct? Yes, it'll get 1797 01:39:34.520 --> 01:39:40.079 about six feet high roughly, if you wanted. It tends 1798 01:39:40.199 --> 01:39:43.840 to start as a as a single trunk coming up 1799 01:39:44.359 --> 01:39:46.319 and if you tip that, if you take a little 1800 01:39:46.319 --> 01:39:49.399 snippers and cut the kind of two or three inches 1801 01:39:49.439 --> 01:39:52.560 out of it, it will start branching out, which is 1802 01:39:52.600 --> 01:39:54.600 what happens when you pretty much cut the end off 1803 01:39:54.640 --> 01:39:58.119 any branch and a plant, and it'll make a little 1804 01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:01.479 bit bushier and you can maintain pain that size lower. 1805 01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:04.680 So let's say you wanted I'm just gonna make up 1806 01:40:04.720 --> 01:40:06.399 numbers here, but you want to be about four feet 1807 01:40:06.439 --> 01:40:09.399 high only, okay, So then you would when it gets 1808 01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:11.079 about two feet high, you would tip it and it 1809 01:40:11.079 --> 01:40:13.520 would branch, and then as those branches get up close 1810 01:40:13.600 --> 01:40:15.800 to three feet or so, you would tip it again, 1811 01:40:16.359 --> 01:40:18.159 and you can kind of make it to be a 1812 01:40:18.199 --> 01:40:19.520 little bush here that way. 1813 01:40:21.760 --> 01:40:26.640 Okay, so I'm gonna have to transplant this thing pretty 1814 01:40:26.720 --> 01:40:30.600 same that, uh. 1815 01:40:30.840 --> 01:40:33.439 Yes, uh huh, or having in a big container. You 1816 01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:35.119 can grow them in a container if you want. 1817 01:40:36.119 --> 01:40:38.119 Well, I have one in that it's in that four 1818 01:40:38.199 --> 01:40:41.720 inch container and it's grown at least four inch. 1819 01:40:43.479 --> 01:40:48.239 Yeah, not in a four inch container. Oh okay, all right, 1820 01:40:49.720 --> 01:40:51.720 that was going to say that thing's on steroids. If 1821 01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:56.239 it's done spot, Yeah, you can transplant it into a 1822 01:40:56.279 --> 01:40:59.359 bigger pot. Yeah, you can do. It's not cold hardy. Really. 1823 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:01.840 Oh no, wait a minute, I think I don't know 1824 01:41:01.920 --> 01:41:04.319 what the cold heartiness on that is. It may well 1825 01:41:04.439 --> 01:41:13.680 be cold hearty. It needs to be in a very 1826 01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:17.760 a very very bright shade. Now that plant's been around, 1827 01:41:18.439 --> 01:41:21.920 oh gosh, it's about nineteen early nineteen hundreds when it 1828 01:41:22.039 --> 01:41:24.880 was developed I think in France or something. Somebody crossed 1829 01:41:24.880 --> 01:41:25.760 those things to come. 1830 01:41:25.760 --> 01:41:26.079 Up with it. 1831 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:32.840 All right, well, good luck with it, have fun. I 1832 01:41:34.760 --> 01:41:36.920 just have ten seconds left. I'm sorry, I'm going to 1833 01:41:37.000 --> 01:41:40.039 have to go, but use a houseplant food. Nelson Plant 1834 01:41:40.119 --> 01:41:43.239 Food has houseplant foods by the jars that can help 1835 01:41:43.279 --> 01:41:46.159 you with that. Thanks, thanks for your call. Gotta go, folks. 1836 01:41:47.079 --> 01:41:50.640 All right, we're back. Good to have you back with 1837 01:41:50.760 --> 01:41:56.880 us here on garden Line. My goal bountiful gardens, beautiful 1838 01:41:56.960 --> 01:42:00.439 landscapes and people having more fun out there guard and 1839 01:42:00.560 --> 01:42:02.279 doing it. That's what we try to do. We take 1840 01:42:02.359 --> 01:42:05.439 out the idea that you have a brown thumb, because 1841 01:42:05.479 --> 01:42:06.960 you don't. In fact, I'd like you to pause with 1842 01:42:07.079 --> 01:42:08.800 me right here. I'm only going to do this once. 1843 01:42:09.920 --> 01:42:12.520 Say to yourself, I do not have a brown thumb. 1844 01:42:13.479 --> 01:42:16.920 Now you didn't do it. I do not have a 1845 01:42:16.960 --> 01:42:19.520 brown thumb. There you go, all right, you don't. And 1846 01:42:19.640 --> 01:42:23.439 here's why. A brown thumb is simply an uninformed thumb. 1847 01:42:24.800 --> 01:42:27.359 Now you may go, well, grandma could drop a pencil 1848 01:42:27.439 --> 01:42:29.079 in the ground and it would rint and grow into 1849 01:42:29.079 --> 01:42:31.880 a pine tree. Okay, all right, Number one, I don't 1850 01:42:31.880 --> 01:42:34.439 believe that. But number two, Grandma was just doing things 1851 01:42:35.000 --> 01:42:37.399 that plants want. You knew how to make plants happy, 1852 01:42:37.760 --> 01:42:40.079 and that's why it looked like Grandma had a green thumb. 1853 01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:43.079 There's no natural It's not like some people. I just 1854 01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:45.279 kill ever plant I touch. Well, maybe in the past, 1855 01:42:45.359 --> 01:42:48.079 but not in the future. Let's talk. I've got a 1856 01:42:48.119 --> 01:42:51.399 website gardening with skip dot com to help you have success. 1857 01:42:51.560 --> 01:42:55.399 We do a garden show four hours each day Saturday 1858 01:42:55.439 --> 01:42:58.119 and Sunday over the weekends six am to ten am. 1859 01:42:58.199 --> 01:43:00.399 You can listen to past shows. By the way, uh, 1860 01:43:00.560 --> 01:43:02.800 if you go to the ktr CH website. In fact, 1861 01:43:02.800 --> 01:43:05.239 if you go to my website gardening with Skip dot com, 1862 01:43:05.359 --> 01:43:08.000 there is a listen to garden line button. It's brand 1863 01:43:08.039 --> 01:43:10.279 news right up at the top or near the top, 1864 01:43:11.600 --> 01:43:16.000 and if you click on it, you can go listen 1865 01:43:16.039 --> 01:43:18.439 to pass shows or you can listen live. Both of 1866 01:43:18.479 --> 01:43:21.520 them are available through that button right there. So let's 1867 01:43:21.600 --> 01:43:25.920 do this. Let's get you some good resources and get 1868 01:43:26.000 --> 01:43:28.039 you some good advice, and then if you've got questions, 1869 01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:30.239 we're not covering them. There's not a publication for everything 1870 01:43:30.359 --> 01:43:33.199 up there, that's for sure. Give me a call. Seven 1871 01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.199 one three two one two ktr H seven one three 1872 01:43:36.279 --> 01:43:39.680 two and two k t r H. All right, that 1873 01:43:39.960 --> 01:43:43.800 was a soapbox. Thanks for bearing with me. One of 1874 01:43:43.840 --> 01:43:47.000 the most important things we do, in fact, the single 1875 01:43:47.079 --> 01:43:49.479 most important thing we do to have success with plants 1876 01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:51.479 is to put them in soil that they can thrive in. 1877 01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:55.399 Plants live in their roots. Okay, so that's a term 1878 01:43:55.560 --> 01:43:57.520 that yes set Plants eat sunlight and you got to 1879 01:43:57.520 --> 01:43:59.159 pick the right ones, and got to fertilize the water. 1880 01:43:59.359 --> 01:44:03.039 I get all that, but the biggest mistake I see 1881 01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:06.159 people making is they PLoP a poor plant into an 1882 01:44:06.279 --> 01:44:09.880 unprepared plot. And that's too many peas for one sentence, 1883 01:44:10.000 --> 01:44:12.520 and you shouldn't do that. You go out, you get 1884 01:44:12.560 --> 01:44:15.760 your good quality compost or bed mix. You mix it 1885 01:44:15.840 --> 01:44:17.439 in the soil or pile it up on top of 1886 01:44:17.520 --> 01:44:21.319 the soil. You get fertilizer that is the nutrients those 1887 01:44:21.359 --> 01:44:23.960 plants want, and you mix it into the ground and 1888 01:44:24.359 --> 01:44:27.000 as the plant grows, you continue to do the fertilizer 1889 01:44:27.079 --> 01:44:29.680 to it. And when you do that, your plant's going 1890 01:44:29.720 --> 01:44:32.479 to hit the ground running and thrive. Ciena Maltch is 1891 01:44:32.640 --> 01:44:36.399 the one stop shop for all things brown stuff. Cenamulch 1892 01:44:36.720 --> 01:44:39.399 is located near Highway six and two eighty eight on 1893 01:44:39.680 --> 01:44:42.640 FM two or excuse me five twenty one FM five 1894 01:44:42.720 --> 01:44:45.680 twenty one south of Houston in the Sienna area. Go 1895 01:44:45.800 --> 01:44:49.520 to the website cnmultch dot com cnamltch dot com find 1896 01:44:49.560 --> 01:44:51.039 out about them. When you get there, what are you 1897 01:44:51.079 --> 01:44:53.560 gonna find. You're gonna find great composts. You're gonna find 1898 01:44:54.319 --> 01:44:57.520 blends like airloom, soils of veggy nerve mix, for example. 1899 01:44:57.560 --> 01:44:59.880 You can find rose soil there, for example, you can 1900 01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:02.800 find mulches and all kinds of things. They deliver within 1901 01:45:02.840 --> 01:45:05.840 about twenty miles of their location. But you're also when 1902 01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:09.439 you're there going to find microlife products and Nilsen's Star 1903 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:14.680 Line and Nilsen's plant food jars, products from Medina, products 1904 01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:19.760 from nitrofoss products like asomite. Remember I said it was 1905 01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:22.680 all things brown stuff. You go to see aemalt, you 1906 01:45:22.760 --> 01:45:24.840 get the stuff you need or have them delivered if 1907 01:45:24.840 --> 01:45:29.079 you're within twenty miles and you have gotten yourself prepared 1908 01:45:29.359 --> 01:45:32.880 to set the foundation for success, and you will see 1909 01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:36.039 that your thumb is greener this year simply because you 1910 01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:40.079 took that first right step. I'm going to head out 1911 01:45:40.119 --> 01:45:42.319 now to Spring, Texas and we're going to talk to 1912 01:45:42.520 --> 01:45:45.319 Mark this morning on garden Line. Hey, Mark, welcome to the. 1913 01:45:45.319 --> 01:45:49.119 Garden Line morning, Skip. Thanks for taking my call. I 1914 01:45:49.199 --> 01:45:52.319 guess some issues with some bermuda growing in my Saint Augustine. 1915 01:45:52.399 --> 01:45:55.680 Saint Augustine's are doing real well, but want to get 1916 01:45:55.720 --> 01:45:58.119 ahead and knock out the bermuda before it takes over 1917 01:45:58.199 --> 01:46:02.560 my lawn. Looking for some suggestions. What are your thoughts. 1918 01:46:02.880 --> 01:46:09.439 Well, the the your your options with the one that 1919 01:46:09.640 --> 01:46:13.520 you have with that situation is if the bermuda's in 1920 01:46:13.600 --> 01:46:17.640 certain areas, you can kill everything and then replant Saint 1921 01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:21.800 Augustine in those areas. That's when my daughter's redoing the 1922 01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:24.359 lawn like that, and they add bermuda and Saint Augustine 1923 01:46:24.399 --> 01:46:26.800 and they're starting over. They're getting rid of everything and 1924 01:46:27.079 --> 01:46:27.600 making sure that. 1925 01:46:28.239 --> 01:46:31.479 Did that last year just playing. I just did the 1926 01:46:31.560 --> 01:46:35.279 whole whole lawn, and I think unfortunately high yard folks 1927 01:46:35.479 --> 01:46:37.640 bring in seeds and so forth. 1928 01:46:38.000 --> 01:46:42.720 Yeah. Well, and what also happens is, like my daughter's place, 1929 01:46:42.760 --> 01:46:45.760 they've sprayed it twice already, because the first time you 1930 01:46:45.840 --> 01:46:48.680 miss some spots and then you spray it again. And 1931 01:46:48.880 --> 01:46:52.399 now I was out there just yesterday and they've got 1932 01:46:52.520 --> 01:46:55.520 a few little spots where Bermuda's coming back. So you 1933 01:46:55.680 --> 01:46:57.880 got to stick with it and make sure it's all 1934 01:46:58.039 --> 01:47:01.479 out of there, or you just didn't accomplish you know, 1935 01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:03.800 a whole lot. And so it's just a tip. The 1936 01:47:03.960 --> 01:47:08.920 other thing that you can there are there is a 1937 01:47:09.039 --> 01:47:13.560 way that commercial landscapers can do a combo of two 1938 01:47:13.640 --> 01:47:17.840 different products. Uh, and they're very expensive to purchase, so 1939 01:47:18.000 --> 01:47:21.279 like a person with one yard, it's probably too much. 1940 01:47:21.399 --> 01:47:24.640 But if you wanted to email me, I can put 1941 01:47:24.680 --> 01:47:27.239 you on hold a give you my email and if 1942 01:47:27.279 --> 01:47:30.199 you'll send me that and say need info on the 1943 01:47:30.279 --> 01:47:32.800 Bermuda and Saint Augustine, I can tell you a little 1944 01:47:32.840 --> 01:47:34.560 bit about it. But like I said, it's it's not 1945 01:47:34.760 --> 01:47:37.479 cheap and typically it's going to be something that you 1946 01:47:37.560 --> 01:47:40.159 have somebody to come in and do. But I can 1947 01:47:40.199 --> 01:47:42.640 give you more info if you'd like me too, Just 1948 01:47:42.760 --> 01:47:44.039 hang on and let me. 1949 01:47:45.880 --> 01:47:48.239 Is there anything like an over the counter type stuff 1950 01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:50.960 that's sold as you look for hardware store knock it out? 1951 01:47:51.479 --> 01:47:56.439 No, no, nothing over the counter for that stuff requires 1952 01:47:56.479 --> 01:48:00.479 special purchase and stuff. So anyway, like I said, I'm 1953 01:48:00.520 --> 01:48:03.359 willing to send some information to you, but but those 1954 01:48:03.399 --> 01:48:06.800 are the options. Kill everything and start over, but make 1955 01:48:06.840 --> 01:48:08.800 sure you've got it all before you start over, and 1956 01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:12.920 then doing this other thing that commercial folks can do 1957 01:48:13.359 --> 01:48:13.920 in the lawn. 1958 01:48:15.239 --> 01:48:17.840 All right, Well, I appreciate it, thank you ver much. 1959 01:48:18.199 --> 01:48:21.039 Yeah, so sorry we don't have better news, but that's 1960 01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:24.159 that's a combo. That's not a lot of solutions to 1961 01:48:24.319 --> 01:48:26.800 but thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call very much. 1962 01:48:27.640 --> 01:48:31.319 As amite I mentioned, you know, seeing them all scares amite. Well, 1963 01:48:31.319 --> 01:48:33.960 Azemite is carried by a lot of different places around town. 1964 01:48:34.079 --> 01:48:36.520 I mean wherever you are. If it's a good independent 1965 01:48:36.600 --> 01:48:39.399 garden center, if it's an acehard restore, feed stores, places 1966 01:48:39.520 --> 01:48:42.319 like that, you can find azamite. Now what is it. 1967 01:48:42.520 --> 01:48:44.920 It's trace minerals. So do you need a lot? No, 1968 01:48:45.119 --> 01:48:46.880 you don't need a lot. You need a little. It's 1969 01:48:46.960 --> 01:48:49.560 not like nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium that you need a 1970 01:48:49.600 --> 01:48:52.079 lot of. You need a little bit. It's called trace, 1971 01:48:52.600 --> 01:48:57.079 that's why. But they're essential. A grass plant can't grow 1972 01:48:57.520 --> 01:49:02.720 without boron. Did you know that without without molybdenum. Did 1973 01:49:02.760 --> 01:49:05.319 you know you can't grow? You say, nexting long without boron, 1974 01:49:05.399 --> 01:49:10.760 zinc or molobdinum. You can't because they're essential. Asmite carries 1975 01:49:11.000 --> 01:49:13.880 trace minerals and you can find more information at asmite 1976 01:49:13.920 --> 01:49:16.760 Texas dot com. And you can find azamite all over 1977 01:49:17.039 --> 01:49:19.720 town so many places. Pretty much every time I go 1978 01:49:19.760 --> 01:49:25.880 into a place, I see asmite there. All right, let's 1979 01:49:25.880 --> 01:49:29.039 see here, we're hitting up against a break. So I 1980 01:49:29.159 --> 01:49:31.199 tell you what I'm gonna do in order to have 1981 01:49:31.279 --> 01:49:34.960 a little more time for the calls coming in here. 1982 01:49:35.079 --> 01:49:38.119 I'm gonna go ahead and go to break. At this point, 1983 01:49:38.439 --> 01:49:41.840 I just want to remind you that next Saturday, May third, 1984 01:49:42.319 --> 01:49:46.520 from twelve to two, I'll be at Memorial Ace Hardware. 1985 01:49:47.439 --> 01:49:50.800 Memorial Ace Hardware a Memorial Drive in West Houston. Now, 1986 01:49:50.800 --> 01:49:52.800 if you want to find any Ace Hardware store like that, 1987 01:49:52.960 --> 01:49:55.279 that's part of our group here on garden Line. You 1988 01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:59.720 go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas 1989 01:50:00.439 --> 01:50:04.279 dot com and you'll find places like the Memorial Ace Hardware. 1990 01:50:04.640 --> 01:50:07.840 I think it's called Hardware City on there, Hardware City 1991 01:50:08.520 --> 01:50:11.319 on Memorial Drive. All right, hope to see you next week. 1992 01:50:11.760 --> 01:50:14.119 Take a break, Skip from Webster. You'll be first up 1993 01:50:14.159 --> 01:50:19.199 when we come back. All right, little Western swing from 1994 01:50:19.239 --> 01:50:21.680 asleep at the wheel this morning. Let's head straight out 1995 01:50:21.720 --> 01:50:23.920 to the phones this segment and we're going to head 1996 01:50:23.920 --> 01:50:27.239 to Webster and talk to Skip. Hey, Skip, welcome to 1997 01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:28.520 garden Line. Good to have you with us. 1998 01:50:28.680 --> 01:50:30.840 Hey, yep, I hope you're having a good day this morning. 1999 01:50:31.399 --> 01:50:32.640 Anyway, I am. 2000 01:50:33.720 --> 01:50:34.680 I have two questions. 2001 01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:37.319 One is we had a plant. 2002 01:50:37.600 --> 01:50:41.520 My wife had planted some tulips and anyway, there were 2003 01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:44.000 these little white looking worms that came out of me yesterday. 2004 01:50:44.000 --> 01:50:44.399 It turned out. 2005 01:50:44.399 --> 01:50:46.680 So they're supposed to be rat maggots. Are they bad 2006 01:50:46.800 --> 01:50:50.880 for the soil? I mean, I know their cause primarily 2007 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:53.399 because the soil was too wet. But are they bad 2008 01:50:53.479 --> 01:50:55.079 for the soil? Is just something you deal with. Do 2009 01:50:55.199 --> 01:50:57.479 they go away or do you need to replace the soil? 2010 01:50:58.560 --> 01:51:02.960 And second question, trying to grow we're failing miserably. Give 2011 01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:05.520 us some advice on how to grow cilantro properly. 2012 01:51:06.039 --> 01:51:08.680 So lantra. Okay, let's go back to the rat maggot 2013 01:51:09.319 --> 01:51:11.319 who said it was a rat maggot? How did you 2014 01:51:11.399 --> 01:51:11.960 come up with that? 2015 01:51:13.239 --> 01:51:18.720 My wife okay, oh, okay, sure of it and said 2016 01:51:18.720 --> 01:51:19.600 it was a rat maggot. 2017 01:51:21.159 --> 01:51:23.359 Okay, so it must have had a long tail on it. 2018 01:51:23.720 --> 01:51:24.199 Is that right? 2019 01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:29.399 No, it didn't have a tail, honey, so worse? Oh okay, 2020 01:51:29.760 --> 01:51:30.760 Oh I'm sorry, okay. 2021 01:51:30.920 --> 01:51:33.479 Okay, all right, Well then that that's a rat maggot. 2022 01:51:33.520 --> 01:51:37.079 That's actually a type of hoverfly. Uh, first time I've 2023 01:51:37.079 --> 01:51:40.319 ever had a rat maggot call. But hoverflies in general 2024 01:51:40.359 --> 01:51:43.399 a kind of beneficial insects. Some some species of them 2025 01:51:43.479 --> 01:51:45.840 do a good job of pest control and stuff. But 2026 01:51:46.119 --> 01:51:50.000 they typically are literally in the water like mosquito wriglars, 2027 01:51:50.119 --> 01:51:56.279 mosquito larvae. Uh, and so they shouldn't be hurting the plant. Now, 2028 01:51:56.760 --> 01:52:01.439 the there is there are roots maggots that come out 2029 01:52:01.479 --> 01:52:04.039 of the soil that do feed on roots, and so 2030 01:52:04.239 --> 01:52:07.199 that would be you know, if you if you feel 2031 01:52:07.279 --> 01:52:10.199 like these things are causing the plant a problem, any 2032 01:52:10.319 --> 01:52:13.000 kind of an insecticide in the soil of that plant 2033 01:52:13.319 --> 01:52:19.119 would would take care of it. But I'm a little unsure, 2034 01:52:19.840 --> 01:52:24.119 you know about the id for sure. And yeah, I 2035 01:52:24.239 --> 01:52:27.359 just don't think that it's going to be a problem. 2036 01:52:27.439 --> 01:52:29.399 If it truly is a rat maggot, I don't think 2037 01:52:29.399 --> 01:52:35.079 I would worry about it a lot. So anyway, now, 2038 01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:41.199 the cilantro cilantro is a plant that does best here 2039 01:52:41.239 --> 01:52:44.960 if you plant it in the fall and it takes 2040 01:52:45.039 --> 01:52:48.439 some cool weather. Does pretty good in the spring. As 2041 01:52:48.560 --> 01:52:51.720 our day length gets longer, it bolts. And when it bolts, 2042 01:52:51.800 --> 01:52:54.840 that means it sends up a little umbrella like white 2043 01:52:55.279 --> 01:52:57.880 flower head on it. They're kind of attractive flowerheads. But 2044 01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:02.000 at that point the cilandro quick it's producing that you 2045 01:53:02.079 --> 01:53:04.359 don't get the leaves, and the reason you grew it, 2046 01:53:04.560 --> 01:53:10.279 you know, to season your freeholism chara freholis or whatever. 2047 01:53:11.560 --> 01:53:13.520 Then you don't usually have the foliage to do that. 2048 01:53:14.399 --> 01:53:18.279 So that is a problem that is caused by day length, 2049 01:53:18.359 --> 01:53:21.359 and we can't change that. If the cilantro itself is 2050 01:53:21.439 --> 01:53:23.159 not doing well, let me ask you this, is it 2051 01:53:23.279 --> 01:53:26.800 looking a little on the sharp truce light green side, 2052 01:53:27.039 --> 01:53:30.039 or that is showing its concern or what are you 2053 01:53:30.119 --> 01:53:32.079 seeing when you say you're having trouble with it? 2054 01:53:33.039 --> 01:53:35.880 It turns light green and then dies quickly after that. 2055 01:53:37.319 --> 01:53:41.039 Okay, Usually that is a problem. It's going to be 2056 01:53:41.159 --> 01:53:44.039 something in the soil. It could be overwatering so staying 2057 01:53:44.159 --> 01:53:47.239 too wet. It could also be some sort of a 2058 01:53:47.359 --> 01:53:50.159 root rot occurring on it. I think that second is 2059 01:53:50.319 --> 01:53:55.319 unlikely but possible. So getting it in a nice, well 2060 01:53:55.399 --> 01:53:58.800 drained mix, getting it in some good sunlight where the 2061 01:53:58.880 --> 01:54:00.560 soil you can give it a good watering but the 2062 01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:04.199 soil will dry out well, and then maybe an addition 2063 01:54:04.399 --> 01:54:07.720 of some nitrogen into the mix. It could also be 2064 01:54:08.520 --> 01:54:11.680 missing Typically that doesn't call it to cause it to 2065 01:54:11.840 --> 01:54:14.920 just dye, but it will cause it to lose color, 2066 01:54:15.159 --> 01:54:19.760 heading toward yellow from green. But that I would just 2067 01:54:19.880 --> 01:54:23.840 get me a good solution. Of a liquid that you 2068 01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:28.039 could put that down. There's a product called Biomatrix from Microlife. 2069 01:54:28.119 --> 01:54:31.319 It's an orange label and a quart bottle or a gallon, 2070 01:54:32.079 --> 01:54:34.520 and I would try that and you put it in water. 2071 01:54:34.640 --> 01:54:36.279 Put it in water and can drench it over your 2072 01:54:36.319 --> 01:54:39.079 cilantro and see if it perks up. And if that's 2073 01:54:39.119 --> 01:54:41.800 the case, then it was the nitrogen that was lacking. 2074 01:54:43.000 --> 01:54:47.319 Okay, all right, well that's it anyway, love your show, 2075 01:54:47.319 --> 01:54:49.119 appreciate your time, and thank you very much. 2076 01:54:49.199 --> 01:54:51.399 Have a great day, all. 2077 01:54:51.359 --> 01:54:54.000 Right now, now good luck with that. I don't if 2078 01:54:54.000 --> 01:54:56.199 you've been listening to Guardenline, you know, I don't charge 2079 01:54:56.239 --> 01:54:57.800 for my advice, but I do ask for half the 2080 01:54:57.880 --> 01:55:00.800 produce you grow as a result of it. So if 2081 01:55:00.800 --> 01:55:03.119 you want to go ahead and put the cilantro in 2082 01:55:03.279 --> 01:55:06.479 some free holies, you know, charo free holies, I'll take 2083 01:55:06.560 --> 01:55:08.680 that as well. Just drop it off at the station 2084 01:55:08.800 --> 01:55:10.359 and we'll call it even. All right. 2085 01:55:11.359 --> 01:55:13.880 I could actually take that happen, have done it before 2086 01:55:14.000 --> 01:55:14.760 for Michael Berry. 2087 01:55:14.840 --> 01:55:20.000 So oh my gosh, oh no, oh my god, are 2088 01:55:20.079 --> 01:55:22.560 you kidding me? Okay, I wish I wouldn't on the air. 2089 01:55:22.600 --> 01:55:26.560 I'd like to pursue that one man, I'm stay out 2090 01:55:26.600 --> 01:55:30.560 of trouble. Stay just kidding you my end of it. 2091 01:55:31.920 --> 01:55:36.359 Oh gosh, thanks a lot a skip, I appreciate that. 2092 01:55:36.840 --> 01:55:37.000 Hey. 2093 01:55:37.119 --> 01:55:41.199 RCW Garden Center awesome garden center located where two forty 2094 01:55:41.279 --> 01:55:43.800 nine and belt Wait eight come together. It's easy to 2095 01:55:43.840 --> 01:55:45.560 get to get down there. And when you get there, 2096 01:55:45.640 --> 01:55:48.319 you're gonna find whatever the season is, you're gonna find 2097 01:55:48.319 --> 01:55:50.079 the plants. I mean, they've been having roses and back 2098 01:55:50.119 --> 01:55:53.640 in February they still got roses out there, a good selection. 2099 01:55:54.159 --> 01:55:58.079 You're gonna find the tropical hibiscus, like the Cajun types 2100 01:55:58.119 --> 01:56:04.439 of hibiscus that I like so much. They're there. They're there, annuals, perennials, groundcovers, herbs, vegetables, 2101 01:56:04.600 --> 01:56:05.399 they always have it. 2102 01:56:05.439 --> 01:56:05.560 All. 2103 01:56:06.039 --> 01:56:08.079 RCW is known as they get it got at nursery, 2104 01:56:08.439 --> 01:56:10.399 and that's because they don't have it. They'll do their 2105 01:56:10.439 --> 01:56:12.960 best to find it. They grow their own trees up 2106 01:56:13.000 --> 01:56:16.079 there in Plannersville at Williamson Tree Farm, and so you're 2107 01:56:16.119 --> 01:56:18.960 getting a good species that wants to grow in this area, 2108 01:56:19.159 --> 01:56:21.640 that has been produced in a way that sets it 2109 01:56:21.720 --> 01:56:23.720 up for success. And they'll come out and plant them 2110 01:56:23.760 --> 01:56:26.800 for you too. By the way, uh so, r CW 2111 01:56:27.000 --> 01:56:29.840 nurseries dot com. That is what you need to look for. 2112 01:56:30.319 --> 01:56:35.279 R CW nurseries dot com. Let's head out to Cyprus 2113 01:56:35.399 --> 01:56:37.720 and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line. 2114 01:56:39.000 --> 01:56:40.239 Good morning, skip. 2115 01:56:41.720 --> 01:56:42.039 Question. 2116 01:56:42.279 --> 01:56:46.840 Please, what's chewing on my Juliet? 2117 01:56:47.439 --> 01:56:48.319 Have made a plant? 2118 01:56:49.039 --> 01:56:49.640 Believes? 2119 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:52.159 What do you see? What does it look like? 2120 01:56:53.199 --> 01:56:59.560 Well, I don't see anything but the leaves. 2121 01:56:59.640 --> 01:57:03.600 Or their holes? Are there are holes in the leaves? Yes, sir, yeah, 2122 01:57:03.880 --> 01:57:07.239 all right. It's a beetle or a caterpillar, doesn't matter 2123 01:57:07.319 --> 01:57:09.600 which of the two it is. Find a product containing 2124 01:57:09.720 --> 01:57:12.960 spin no sid it's an organic product. S p I 2125 01:57:14.119 --> 01:57:19.279 n O s A D spin nose sad and spray 2126 01:57:19.319 --> 01:57:22.439 the foliage. It'll soak into the tissues. It's organic. And 2127 01:57:22.640 --> 01:57:26.079 whichever beetle our caterpillar comes along doing that, it'll shut. 2128 01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:30.880 Them down, all right, laying little black babies. 2129 01:57:31.640 --> 01:57:36.159 And I've been rubbing him with latex gloves on and 2130 01:57:36.319 --> 01:57:40.600 it's a green mush like to get them off the leak. 2131 01:57:40.680 --> 01:57:45.079 Okay, but let's do this, Matt. Yeah, I tell you what. 2132 01:57:45.199 --> 01:57:47.720 I'm not picturing it, but if you will take a 2133 01:57:47.880 --> 01:57:50.800 close up picture and send it to me. I'll be 2134 01:57:50.880 --> 01:57:52.840 happy to do it, but you got to make sure 2135 01:57:52.880 --> 01:57:55.039 it's in good sharp focus. As close as you can 2136 01:57:55.079 --> 01:57:57.600 get with a camera and still get good focus. I'm 2137 01:57:57.640 --> 01:57:59.520 going to put you on hole because I need to run. 2138 01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:02.880 But send me those photos. My producer will give you 2139 01:58:02.920 --> 01:58:05.319 the email to send them to and I do, I 2140 01:58:05.439 --> 01:58:09.399 really do appreciate your call. Yesterday I was at Southwest 2141 01:58:09.439 --> 01:58:12.479 Fertilizer and Southwest Fertilize has been around since nineteen fifty five, 2142 01:58:12.720 --> 01:58:16.800 seventieth year. Happy anniversary to them. That is quite an accomplishment. 2143 01:58:17.319 --> 01:58:20.159 They got everything you need in the way of controlling pasts, 2144 01:58:20.319 --> 01:58:22.720 dealing with you know, whatever, you're dealing with weeds? Do 2145 01:58:22.760 --> 01:58:24.840 you want to prevent weeds? Do you want to control weeds? 2146 01:58:25.239 --> 01:58:27.359 I was in there looking at their tools yesterday. They 2147 01:58:27.399 --> 01:58:29.359 got that grabber tool that I used to make my 2148 01:58:29.520 --> 01:58:33.279 homemade weed wiper. They have got some really nice pole 2149 01:58:33.399 --> 01:58:36.079 saws and just every kind of tool you can imagine. 2150 01:58:36.439 --> 01:58:39.800 The wall is ninety feet long that they have their 2151 01:58:39.840 --> 01:58:43.279 tools on. So what do you need? I'll tell you this, 2152 01:58:43.640 --> 01:58:47.000 If Southwest Fertilizer doesn't have something for gardening that you need, 2153 01:58:47.920 --> 01:58:51.920 you don't need it because they have everything to control things, 2154 01:58:52.359 --> 01:58:57.239 to manage weeds, to fertilize your lawn, the tools you need, 2155 01:58:57.359 --> 01:59:01.600 the spreaders for fire ants and are a uh, fertilizers 2156 01:59:01.640 --> 01:59:04.000 in the lawn, and on and on and on down 2157 01:59:04.039 --> 01:59:07.039 the way southwest. Fertilizers on the corner of the Byssinet 2158 01:59:07.359 --> 01:59:09.880 and Runwick. Corner of Abyssinet and Runwick. They got a 2159 01:59:09.920 --> 01:59:12.079 little shop in the back to the fixed small engines. 2160 01:59:12.640 --> 01:59:12.760 Uh. 2161 01:59:12.960 --> 01:59:14.640 And I would just recommend you go by there and 2162 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:17.920 check it out. Seven one three six sixty six one 2163 01:59:18.119 --> 01:59:21.920 seven four four. All right, time for me to take 2164 01:59:21.960 --> 01:59:24.079 a break and guess what we got one more hour 2165 01:59:24.199 --> 01:59:28.479 guardline today. The day is flying by. Hang around. We'll 2166 01:59:28.520 --> 01:59:30.399 be right back with your calls if you like to 2167 01:59:30.680 --> 01:59:33.960 get on the board ahead of time. Seven one three 2168 01:59:34.039 --> 01:59:37.520 two one two k t r H seven one three 2169 01:59:37.840 --> 01:59:41.399 two one two k t RH Remember next Saturday, May third, 2170 01:59:41.600 --> 01:59:45.479 I'm gonna be at Memorial City. ACE Hardware Memoris City, 2171 01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:48.880 ACE Hardware Memorial Drive. I think they also call it 2172 01:59:49.000 --> 01:59:51.039 Hardware City. I believe that's correct. 2173 01:59:51.640 --> 01:59:51.760 Uh. 2174 01:59:52.079 --> 01:59:55.439 And if you go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com, 2175 01:59:55.760 --> 01:59:59.479 Ace Hardware Texas dot com, you're gonna find all the 2176 02:00:00.560 --> 02:00:04.000 garden line ACE Hardware stores throughout the greater Houston area. 2177 02:00:04.039 --> 02:00:07.239 I think thirty three different locations, Sarah, So check it 2178 02:00:07.279 --> 02:00:11.399 out and come see me those weeds have been wondering about. 2179 02:00:11.479 --> 02:00:13.840 Pull them up, stick him in a bag. That bug 2180 02:00:13.880 --> 02:00:16.119 you found, put it, pull it, put it in a bag, 2181 02:00:16.239 --> 02:00:18.520 stick it in the fraser, shut it down, and then 2182 02:00:18.560 --> 02:00:29.359 bring it with you next Saturday. All right, folks, we're back. 2183 02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:34.800 You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 2184 02:00:35.000 --> 02:00:37.039 and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, 2185 02:00:37.079 --> 02:00:41.000 a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. Let's 2186 02:00:41.079 --> 02:00:44.920 just make it simple. That's that's basically what we're about here. 2187 02:00:45.680 --> 02:00:48.079 You can give me a call and let's say we're 2188 02:00:48.119 --> 02:00:51.119 in our last segment of the day of the weekend. 2189 02:00:51.359 --> 02:00:54.680 In fact, we're here Saturday and Sunday's from six am 2190 02:00:54.800 --> 02:00:57.319 to ten am, and we are entering the last hour 2191 02:00:57.640 --> 02:01:00.199 of Sunday here the Sunday Show. I hope you're having 2192 02:01:00.199 --> 02:01:02.479 a good Sunday. By the way, uh, if you would 2193 02:01:02.560 --> 02:01:03.960 like to give me a call, now would be a 2194 02:01:04.039 --> 02:01:05.840 good time to do it. Seven to one three two 2195 02:01:05.920 --> 02:01:08.680 one two k t r H seven to one three 2196 02:01:09.239 --> 02:01:15.279 two one two kt r H. I I was making 2197 02:01:15.399 --> 02:01:20.279 sure that we're getting some plants planted properly in a 2198 02:01:20.359 --> 02:01:22.359 bed that I was working on the other day. And 2199 02:01:22.680 --> 02:01:26.520 part of that process is to make sure that when 2200 02:01:26.560 --> 02:01:29.960 you plant, that plant is set up for success. And 2201 02:01:30.000 --> 02:01:32.039 I've talked about brown stuff for green stew, you know, 2202 02:01:32.159 --> 02:01:35.840 getting the right uh soil amendments in making sure it 2203 02:01:35.960 --> 02:01:38.119 drains well. I've got one spot where it was a 2204 02:01:38.159 --> 02:01:39.960 little bit low for the plant that I was going 2205 02:01:40.039 --> 02:01:43.279 to plant, uh, so I brought in some organic matter 2206 02:01:43.359 --> 02:01:45.520 built up that bed to give it a little bit 2207 02:01:45.600 --> 02:01:48.760 better drainage in there. Uh and then getting those nutrients tried. 2208 02:01:48.840 --> 02:01:51.640 And we have so many good products that we can 2209 02:01:51.720 --> 02:01:55.199 you know that you take microlife for example, Microlife has 2210 02:01:55.319 --> 02:01:58.520 got a lot of granular products. We've got the sixty 2211 02:01:58.640 --> 02:02:02.279 four for typically for long. They've got the humans plus, 2212 02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:06.119 which I encourage you to do with your fertilization. That 2213 02:02:06.399 --> 02:02:09.720 is a purple bag zero zero four. You're basically putting 2214 02:02:09.760 --> 02:02:12.600 it down to improve soil quality and microbial activity. 2215 02:02:13.039 --> 02:02:13.159 Uh. 2216 02:02:13.279 --> 02:02:15.319 And then they get the acidifier as a six two 2217 02:02:15.399 --> 02:02:19.520 four now that one for azilias, for blueberries, for camellias, 2218 02:02:19.800 --> 02:02:24.640 for Guardena's, even roses it's a good fertilizer for that. 2219 02:02:24.840 --> 02:02:27.399 Those all work, and then they have more and more 2220 02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:29.239 and more down the line. I have time to read 2221 02:02:29.359 --> 02:02:33.119 about all of the different ones they have, but the liquids. 2222 02:02:33.239 --> 02:02:36.520 Don't forget the liquids. UH. There I talk about biomatrix, 2223 02:02:36.640 --> 02:02:40.359 the seven to one three that is a higher nitrogen concentration. 2224 02:02:40.520 --> 02:02:42.720 You mix it in water. You will not burn plants 2225 02:02:42.720 --> 02:02:45.880 with it, uh, And you can drench plants in. You 2226 02:02:46.000 --> 02:02:48.720 can spray the foliage if you want, or you could 2227 02:02:48.720 --> 02:02:52.920 do for outdoors especially UH, I would do the Ocean 2228 02:02:53.000 --> 02:02:55.800 Harvest which is a four to two three blue label, 2229 02:02:56.079 --> 02:02:58.760 and super seweed, which is a green label. It is 2230 02:02:58.800 --> 02:03:00.720 a little bit of potassium in it, but you're primarily 2231 02:03:00.760 --> 02:03:03.159 putting it on there for some of the growth regulators 2232 02:03:03.199 --> 02:03:06.560 and other things that are present. And that combination organic 2233 02:03:06.640 --> 02:03:08.479 gardeners for a long time. You know, they don't want 2234 02:03:08.479 --> 02:03:12.039 to use the salt based fertilizers of blue water. If 2235 02:03:12.079 --> 02:03:14.520 you will that, you know, you mix up and drench 2236 02:03:14.560 --> 02:03:17.479 your houseplants with. So they would use a combination of 2237 02:03:17.520 --> 02:03:20.479 fish and motion and seaweed well, that or Ocean Harvest 2238 02:03:20.560 --> 02:03:24.560 blue plus the super Seaweed green. Those two together. That's 2239 02:03:24.600 --> 02:03:28.680 what organic gardeners have been aware of, its good product 2240 02:03:29.479 --> 02:03:33.960 combination for a very very long time. It's all from Microlife. Gosh, 2241 02:03:34.000 --> 02:03:36.680 Microlife so widely available. I mean, you know, go to 2242 02:03:36.760 --> 02:03:40.159 a hardware store, go to our ace hardware stores, go 2243 02:03:40.319 --> 02:03:42.399 to a feed store. You hear about me talk about 2244 02:03:42.399 --> 02:03:44.800 on Gardenline. Go to our independent garden centers. You hear 2245 02:03:44.880 --> 02:03:48.039 me talk about certainly. I was in Southwest Fertilizer yesterday. 2246 02:03:48.119 --> 02:03:51.359 My gosh, that had a whole wall of that stuff there. 2247 02:03:51.880 --> 02:03:55.720 It's easy to find the Microlife products, both granular and 2248 02:03:55.920 --> 02:03:58.319 by liquid. But the main thing is don't just hear 2249 02:03:58.359 --> 02:04:00.359 about it. Actually go get some and start trying it 2250 02:04:00.439 --> 02:04:03.520 out and see the results that you get. I've been 2251 02:04:03.560 --> 02:04:07.439 pleased when I've used them. Let's head now out to 2252 02:04:07.600 --> 02:04:10.079 Lake Jackson and we're going to talk to Ron this morning. 2253 02:04:10.319 --> 02:04:11.960 Hey Ron, welcome to garden Line. 2254 02:04:13.000 --> 02:04:13.720 Good morning, Skip. 2255 02:04:14.439 --> 02:04:17.439 I had a question about dollar weed. We had a 2256 02:04:17.479 --> 02:04:19.680 lot of weeds in the yard this year, but most 2257 02:04:19.720 --> 02:04:23.159 of them we've gotten rid of with healthy Saint Augustine 2258 02:04:23.199 --> 02:04:25.479 and doing some sprying, but the dollar weeds seem to 2259 02:04:25.560 --> 02:04:28.159 keep coming back in the yard and also in the 2260 02:04:28.239 --> 02:04:31.720 flower bed we had had them cleaned out and multipoot down, 2261 02:04:31.800 --> 02:04:34.079 but dollar weed are popping back out. 2262 02:04:34.439 --> 02:04:38.039 Can you help us there? Yeah? Yeah, let's start with 2263 02:04:38.399 --> 02:04:42.000 some cultural things. The wetter it stays, the more dollar 2264 02:04:42.079 --> 02:04:44.720 weed is just going to become solid in a lawn. 2265 02:04:45.279 --> 02:04:49.119 It loves wet, So your lawn doesn't need nearly as 2266 02:04:49.199 --> 02:04:52.800 much water as dollar weed wants. Okay, So if you'll 2267 02:04:53.079 --> 02:04:55.079 give your lawn of good soaking and then let it 2268 02:04:55.159 --> 02:04:58.199 dry out considerably before you water again, you know, once 2269 02:04:58.239 --> 02:05:00.239 a week. If you can get on that schedule about 2270 02:05:00.239 --> 02:05:02.640 an inch down, it's not gonna make dollar weed go away, 2271 02:05:03.199 --> 02:05:05.720 but at least now you're not encouraging it at the 2272 02:05:05.760 --> 02:05:08.600 same time you're trying to fight it. So I would 2273 02:05:08.680 --> 02:05:10.920 let things dry out like that. If you get a 2274 02:05:11.000 --> 02:05:15.560 product that is a combination product, you know, the trimech 2275 02:05:16.000 --> 02:05:19.760 kinds of products, they work, They work well on the 2276 02:05:19.880 --> 02:05:23.000 dollar weed. You just want to watch once our temperatures 2277 02:05:23.159 --> 02:05:26.079 are in the upper eighties and especially in the nineties, 2278 02:05:26.399 --> 02:05:28.119 some of those products can be a little bit hard 2279 02:05:28.199 --> 02:05:31.880 on your turf, your Saint Augustine turf, And so what 2280 02:05:32.079 --> 02:05:35.800 I would suggest is spray that early in the morning 2281 02:05:35.840 --> 02:05:38.079 while it's still cool the coolest time of the day, 2282 02:05:38.239 --> 02:05:41.000 and do it sooner rather than later, because these things 2283 02:05:41.079 --> 02:05:43.760 heat up it's harder to control. You can also use 2284 02:05:43.800 --> 02:05:47.159 a product called Celsius on it. It comes in little 2285 02:05:47.199 --> 02:05:51.520 pockets that make one gallon of spray. And you want 2286 02:05:51.560 --> 02:05:55.199 to use a spreader sticker or a surf factant that 2287 02:05:55.479 --> 02:05:59.920 those are basically the same thing. Spreader sticker, insurfactant. Dollar weed. 2288 02:06:00.000 --> 02:06:02.239 It's got a shiny leaf and you want your spray 2289 02:06:02.319 --> 02:06:05.920 to spread out and not just roll off the leaf. Okay, 2290 02:06:06.159 --> 02:06:09.079 so that's what the spreader sticker that you put with it. 2291 02:06:09.079 --> 02:06:12.920 It is very good. Thank you you show. 2292 02:06:13.800 --> 02:06:16.279 Okay, you back, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. All right, 2293 02:06:19.159 --> 02:06:21.520 fun fact. We try to give you fun facts here 2294 02:06:21.640 --> 02:06:24.439 on guarden Line. Did you know that there are products 2295 02:06:24.600 --> 02:06:29.239 made from dollar weed that you can consume. I don't 2296 02:06:29.239 --> 02:06:31.279 know much about it. I'm not saying go graze your 2297 02:06:31.359 --> 02:06:35.760 dollar weed. But I was in a Vietnamese grocery store 2298 02:06:37.039 --> 02:06:40.479 southeast of Houston a good while back, and in the 2299 02:06:40.560 --> 02:06:44.359 cooler I saw this drink can and it had a 2300 02:06:44.479 --> 02:06:46.680 picture a dollar weed on it, and I thought, okay, 2301 02:06:47.039 --> 02:06:48.760 I got to see what this is about. And it 2302 02:06:48.880 --> 02:06:51.239 was a very sweet serpy drink. Yes I bought it. Yes, 2303 02:06:51.239 --> 02:06:53.239 I put it in my mouth and my tummy because 2304 02:06:53.279 --> 02:06:56.520 I have to experience things right growing up. If you 2305 02:06:56.600 --> 02:06:58.680 tell me don't touch that, what's going to happen? I 2306 02:06:58.880 --> 02:07:00.560 touch it and then I learned and why you told 2307 02:07:00.600 --> 02:07:04.159 me not to touch it. But anyway, it was too 2308 02:07:04.239 --> 02:07:06.680 sweet for me, but I just thought, yeah, there you go. 2309 02:07:06.920 --> 02:07:09.800 You know, with weeds, one thing I like is if 2310 02:07:09.800 --> 02:07:12.560 you can't beat them, eat them. Well, in this case, 2311 02:07:12.760 --> 02:07:15.800 drink it. Yeah. You know, you can eat chick weed, 2312 02:07:16.039 --> 02:07:19.840 you can eat dandelion greens. There are other weeds that 2313 02:07:20.000 --> 02:07:21.600 you can eat as well. I won't go into all 2314 02:07:21.640 --> 02:07:25.279 the edible weeds, but just fun facts, I think. So 2315 02:07:25.560 --> 02:07:29.800 I'm amused by them. At least Warren Southern Gardens and 2316 02:07:29.920 --> 02:07:32.840 Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood. I don't know 2317 02:07:32.920 --> 02:07:36.239 how you got two in the same town, but you're fortunate. 2318 02:07:36.800 --> 02:07:39.800 Great garden centers. You know, they're not cookie cutters at 2319 02:07:39.840 --> 02:07:42.800 all of each other. Each one has its own unique 2320 02:07:42.920 --> 02:07:45.199 features and you know, and so you need to see 2321 02:07:45.239 --> 02:07:48.760 them both. Warren's is on North park Stone Hollow Drive 2322 02:07:48.880 --> 02:07:51.239 is where you'll find Kingwood Garden Center. Both of them 2323 02:07:51.279 --> 02:07:54.560 are open seven days a week. They have Microlife and 2324 02:07:54.720 --> 02:07:57.680 Nelson plant Food filling stations. Remember I said, like you 2325 02:07:57.760 --> 02:07:59.479 go to the grocery store and you get peanuts and 2326 02:07:59.560 --> 02:08:01.479 put them in a bag by pulling the handle down. 2327 02:08:02.760 --> 02:08:07.600 Microlife fertilizer and Nelson plant food jars both can be 2328 02:08:07.680 --> 02:08:10.239 filled at those places. And I think that's really cool. 2329 02:08:10.399 --> 02:08:12.640 That's a really added bonus or reason to go. You're 2330 02:08:12.640 --> 02:08:16.119 gonna find all the fertilizers from Nitrofossion, Microlife, and Nel, 2331 02:08:16.159 --> 02:08:19.000 some turf star bags, and heirloom soils and nail some 2332 02:08:19.159 --> 02:08:22.279 of course, and now some plant food. Uh, mosquita dunks too. 2333 02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:24.239 Time to grab some of those. You should always have 2334 02:08:24.319 --> 02:08:26.479 those on hand. You're gonna find them at both. But 2335 02:08:26.560 --> 02:08:29.239 what you're mainly going to find is a lot of beauty, 2336 02:08:29.880 --> 02:08:32.399 a lot of beauty. If you want your landscape to 2337 02:08:32.479 --> 02:08:35.960 be transformed, and you need color, and you need hanging baskets, 2338 02:08:36.000 --> 02:08:38.680 and you do flowering shrubs and all of that, go 2339 02:08:38.840 --> 02:08:42.479 to warn Southern Gardens are Kingwood Garden Center, both open 2340 02:08:42.560 --> 02:08:45.479 seven days a week out there in Kingwood. I'm gonna 2341 02:08:45.479 --> 02:08:47.560 take a break and I'll be back with your calls 2342 02:08:47.600 --> 02:08:52.880 at seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, folks, 2343 02:08:54.680 --> 02:09:00.119 let's go seven one three two one two KTRH. Youd 2344 02:09:00.159 --> 02:09:02.760 like to give me a call. I hope you are 2345 02:09:02.800 --> 02:09:06.239 planning on putting some containers on your patio if you 2346 02:09:06.279 --> 02:09:08.880 don't have room for vegetable garden, and especially if you've 2347 02:09:08.880 --> 02:09:11.800 got kids, little kids, get a big container and grow 2348 02:09:11.840 --> 02:09:14.680 some vegetables in it. There are a lot of vegetables. 2349 02:09:15.199 --> 02:09:17.760 Pretty much any vegetable can be grown a container. Some 2350 02:09:17.920 --> 02:09:20.079 of them you need a larger container, but you can 2351 02:09:20.159 --> 02:09:23.640 do that. If you want to grow flowers with kids, 2352 02:09:23.680 --> 02:09:26.279 that's fun. Let them plant some zinnia seed or sunflower 2353 02:09:26.359 --> 02:09:29.039 seeds and watch the whole thing grow. It's a wonder 2354 02:09:29.880 --> 02:09:32.800 that they just need to experience as and that is 2355 02:09:32.920 --> 02:09:36.680 the wonder of growing things yourself. You know, groceries, vegetables 2356 02:09:36.680 --> 02:09:38.920 don't come from grocery stores. They come from the dirt, 2357 02:09:39.960 --> 02:09:42.960 and they come from farms, and they come from our backyards. 2358 02:09:43.039 --> 02:09:45.680 And if you're going to do a container jungle and 2359 02:09:45.880 --> 02:09:48.720 flour and vegetable planting, soil is a good choice because 2360 02:09:48.720 --> 02:09:51.680 it drains well and it also holds water. You don't 2361 02:09:51.680 --> 02:09:53.920 want it all the water is run out but at 2362 02:09:53.960 --> 02:09:55.920 the same token, you don't have to become a soggy, 2363 02:09:56.000 --> 02:09:59.880 boggy mess, mucky mess. So Jungle ms designed for the 2364 02:10:00.439 --> 02:10:04.359 It's got four different sources of aged composts. It's got 2365 02:10:04.560 --> 02:10:07.800 Canadian bloon pede, it's got microiel fungi in it. And 2366 02:10:07.920 --> 02:10:12.199 whether you're grown vegetables, foliage or color plants, it's a 2367 02:10:12.239 --> 02:10:14.560 good choice for that. You're going to find it at 2368 02:10:14.560 --> 02:10:16.640 a lot of places carry night foss products. You know, 2369 02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:19.039 you can get night frost at Ace Hardware, Citium Memorial 2370 02:10:19.119 --> 02:10:21.760 Drive up in the Woodlands, you go to Aspa Ace 2371 02:10:22.359 --> 02:10:26.359 Kirgandohl Road and find it out in Katie a Sinkle 2372 02:10:26.520 --> 02:10:29.680 Ranch and Katie Hardware Ace on Pinoak. Both of those 2373 02:10:30.119 --> 02:10:33.520 are going to carry nitro FoST products like Jungle, and 2374 02:10:33.680 --> 02:10:37.840 just being an example, let's head out to Cyprus and 2375 02:10:38.079 --> 02:10:40.000 we're going to talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, Welcome to 2376 02:10:40.039 --> 02:10:45.399 garden Line. Hello, good morning, good morning. 2377 02:10:46.920 --> 02:10:50.680 Yes, my question is I have four oak trees in 2378 02:10:50.680 --> 02:10:54.279 the front yard and the one to the left of 2379 02:10:54.399 --> 02:10:57.720 me is always having roots shoes. So I was just 2380 02:10:57.800 --> 02:11:00.359 thinking this morning about just taking all this cutting the 2381 02:11:00.399 --> 02:11:04.000 grass out and saw it that's good grass, and then 2382 02:11:04.119 --> 02:11:07.000 taking Yeah much soil? How far deep are I go 2383 02:11:07.920 --> 02:11:11.479 down to really clear all that out? We said, We've 2384 02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:13.680 been playing this for years and we always have it 2385 02:11:13.760 --> 02:11:16.680 in control. But yeah, I'm getting a little bit older 2386 02:11:16.840 --> 02:11:18.680 and I'm gonna have to get people to do it now. 2387 02:11:19.880 --> 02:11:22.680 Mm hmm. Okay, So are these live oaks? 2388 02:11:23.920 --> 02:11:24.119 Yes? 2389 02:11:25.479 --> 02:11:29.479 Okay. So what happens is when you get a shoot 2390 02:11:29.520 --> 02:11:31.680 and you cut it off around the base of the shoote, 2391 02:11:31.720 --> 02:11:33.960 there's already a bunch of buds ready to go. The 2392 02:11:34.039 --> 02:11:36.760 plant is expecting you to cut it off, and they've 2393 02:11:36.800 --> 02:11:39.760 already prepared to come back. So if you go down 2394 02:11:39.880 --> 02:11:42.600 where it attaches to the root and just cut it 2395 02:11:42.720 --> 02:11:45.079 away at the base, don't leave any bit of a mound. 2396 02:11:45.159 --> 02:11:47.239 Don't leave what looks like a little hersy's kiss there 2397 02:11:47.279 --> 02:11:48.920 at the bottom, you know where it swelled up and 2398 02:11:48.960 --> 02:11:51.520 then the shot came out. Cut all that out, and 2399 02:11:51.640 --> 02:11:55.920 then apply something called sucker stopper. Sucker stopper is a 2400 02:11:56.000 --> 02:11:59.479 hormone that tells a plant don't do that. Okay. Now, 2401 02:11:59.520 --> 02:12:01.439 it's not to be one hundred percent, it's not gonna 2402 02:12:01.479 --> 02:12:05.199 last forever, but that's step one. When you feel things 2403 02:12:05.239 --> 02:12:09.479 back in, then get a really thick ground cloth like 2404 02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:12.319 you see at a garden center, that black stuff on 2405 02:12:12.439 --> 02:12:15.920 those ground that they set plant pots on. That kind 2406 02:12:15.960 --> 02:12:19.119 of stuff, A real good, thick, dense one, not something cheap, 2407 02:12:19.319 --> 02:12:23.239 but a quality one. You you know, you can just 2408 02:12:23.439 --> 02:12:27.279 ask go to your retailers there and make sure you're 2409 02:12:27.319 --> 02:12:30.680 getting the thickest one that they have. So put that 2410 02:12:30.840 --> 02:12:33.720 down and then put any kind of a somewhat heavy 2411 02:12:33.760 --> 02:12:36.359 cover over it. Some people will use kind of a 2412 02:12:36.520 --> 02:12:39.800 like a riverstone or some other decorative kind of a 2413 02:12:39.880 --> 02:12:43.560 rock material on it. But that oak will send up 2414 02:12:43.600 --> 02:12:46.600 more shoots in the future. It's genetically in that tree 2415 02:12:46.760 --> 02:12:47.199 to do that. 2416 02:12:48.439 --> 02:12:48.600 You know. 2417 02:12:48.800 --> 02:12:51.039 There's different kinds of live oaks, believe it or not, 2418 02:12:51.399 --> 02:12:55.199 and some types are prone toward roots suckering more than others. 2419 02:12:56.039 --> 02:12:56.960 But you're gonna have to. 2420 02:12:59.359 --> 02:13:00.720 This was oak. 2421 02:13:03.760 --> 02:13:04.479 Well or not. 2422 02:13:05.920 --> 02:13:08.960 I Yeah, it's a live oak. It's just a live 2423 02:13:09.039 --> 02:13:15.119 oak basically. But Southern live oaks, you know, the the 2424 02:13:15.560 --> 02:13:18.640 across the Gulf coast south, those are typically not so 2425 02:13:18.800 --> 02:13:22.640 bad at suckering. Oaks that are you'd find over west 2426 02:13:22.680 --> 02:13:25.920 of here do tend to sucker a lot and so 2427 02:13:26.159 --> 02:13:28.600 it But the point is you bought it at a 2428 02:13:28.680 --> 02:13:30.600 garden center. Who knows where it came from. But I'm 2429 02:13:30.680 --> 02:13:32.720 just telling you. You said one is doing it, the 2430 02:13:32.800 --> 02:13:36.680 others not. And that's why anytime you rototill around or 2431 02:13:36.760 --> 02:13:39.760 disturb the roots or make wounds, you're gonna get suckering 2432 02:13:40.000 --> 02:13:42.920 popping up. So trying to minimize that. Putting in a 2433 02:13:43.000 --> 02:13:45.079 flower bed and watering it a lot and all that 2434 02:13:45.159 --> 02:13:47.640 kind of stuff tends to promote suckering as well, So 2435 02:13:48.600 --> 02:13:50.600 try to avoid those things. But there's no way to 2436 02:13:50.680 --> 02:13:54.840 make that tree change its ways other than excavating all 2437 02:13:54.880 --> 02:13:59.760 your and then yeah, to the route to wherever it's coming. 2438 02:14:00.000 --> 02:14:02.039 It's going to be coming out somewhere near the surface, 2439 02:14:02.920 --> 02:14:04.760 somewhere near the soil surface, so you sho didn't have 2440 02:14:04.800 --> 02:14:09.560 to go very deep. Yeah, all right, yeah, yes, sir, 2441 02:14:09.720 --> 02:14:13.960 thank you, all right, Frett, you bet, thanks for the question. Yeah, 2442 02:14:14.039 --> 02:14:16.520 that is a problem that we have to deal with 2443 02:14:18.079 --> 02:14:21.079 ACE Hardware stores throughout the area. You hear me talk 2444 02:14:21.119 --> 02:14:24.239 about ACE all the time in our garden Line group 2445 02:14:24.279 --> 02:14:27.319 of ACE Hardware stores. There's thirty plus here in the group. 2446 02:14:27.439 --> 02:14:30.520 And ACE Hardware Texas dot Com is the website. And 2447 02:14:30.640 --> 02:14:33.439 I say that right up front because that's pretty much 2448 02:14:33.479 --> 02:14:35.920 what you need to know. The second thing you need 2449 02:14:36.000 --> 02:14:38.880 to know, other than go to ACE Hardware Texas dot 2450 02:14:38.960 --> 02:14:42.520 com to find your local ACE store, is that you 2451 02:14:43.359 --> 02:14:46.399 unless you've been in ACE recently, you are not aware 2452 02:14:46.479 --> 02:14:48.840 of all the good stuff that they have. I walk 2453 02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:51.680 into Aces, and you know, each one's independently owned, so 2454 02:14:51.840 --> 02:14:54.159 the local owner. It's all. It's going to be an 2455 02:14:54.159 --> 02:14:56.760 ACE Hardware store with all the typical stuff you'd expect 2456 02:14:56.760 --> 02:14:59.479 from ACE Hardware, which is everything you need for beauty 2457 02:14:59.520 --> 02:15:01.960 and bound and everything in the lawn and the garden, 2458 02:15:02.079 --> 02:15:07.640 and some really cool indoor decorations too. But each one 2459 02:15:07.720 --> 02:15:09.479 can set it up their own way, and you're gonna 2460 02:15:09.520 --> 02:15:11.239 walk in. You're gonna go, well, I didn't know you 2461 02:15:11.279 --> 02:15:14.399 could do that. You know, maybe you are wanting to 2462 02:15:14.560 --> 02:15:18.960 beautify your kitchen and dining area and you love the farmhouse. Look, 2463 02:15:19.119 --> 02:15:22.000 let's just say you're gonna go into ACE and go, oh, 2464 02:15:22.600 --> 02:15:25.319 I didn't know they had that kind of stuff here. No, No, 2465 02:15:25.439 --> 02:15:27.600 we didn't. And every time I walk into an ACE, 2466 02:15:27.680 --> 02:15:30.439 I see more stuff that I didn't know they had. Ace. 2467 02:15:30.840 --> 02:15:34.479 The motto ACE is a place is true. It really 2468 02:15:34.760 --> 02:15:37.359 is the place, and just go check some out. Go 2469 02:15:37.520 --> 02:15:41.239 to Acehardware Texas dot com. That's the website. Find your 2470 02:15:41.239 --> 02:15:43.800 ACE Hardware store. Go check them out. I think you'll 2471 02:15:43.840 --> 02:15:46.439 be surprised, and especially if you're trying to do your 2472 02:15:46.520 --> 02:15:51.239 lawn fertilization and flower beds and just all the stuff 2473 02:15:51.319 --> 02:15:54.520 you need to have a beautiful, bountiful place. Ace is 2474 02:15:54.560 --> 02:15:58.359 a place you're listening to Guarden Line. Our phone number 2475 02:15:58.560 --> 02:16:02.439 is seven one three one two kt r H seven 2476 02:16:02.520 --> 02:16:06.960 one three two one two k t r H. Nelson 2477 02:16:07.000 --> 02:16:11.880 Plant Food has a fertilizer part of the Turf Star line. 2478 02:16:12.039 --> 02:16:17.880 That's all Nelson's bags of turf promoting fertilizers called Bruce's Brew. 2479 02:16:18.439 --> 02:16:21.880 And Bruce's Brew is a unique creature and here's why. 2480 02:16:22.600 --> 02:16:25.560 We have fertilizers that are sol based fertilizers. You put 2481 02:16:25.640 --> 02:16:28.159 them down, they dissolve away the nutrients. I mean like 2482 02:16:28.279 --> 02:16:30.840 within a couple of days, the plant roots are taking 2483 02:16:30.920 --> 02:16:34.319 that nutrient up because they're immediately available. They're not long lasting, 2484 02:16:34.559 --> 02:16:36.559 but they are immediately available. We use those in our 2485 02:16:36.600 --> 02:16:40.840 spring green up often. Then they're the slow release that 2486 02:16:41.000 --> 02:16:43.680 lasts for months and months and months they go through summer. 2487 02:16:43.840 --> 02:16:47.319 Bruce's Brew lives in the border between those It is got. 2488 02:16:47.639 --> 02:16:50.719 It does have the immediate release feature, but it also 2489 02:16:51.319 --> 02:16:56.239 has nutrients that will release evenly over time for a 2490 02:16:56.319 --> 02:16:59.559 good while, and so you're kind of getting both with 2491 02:16:59.680 --> 02:17:02.959 Bruce Brew. It helps with root development, which is so 2492 02:17:03.079 --> 02:17:06.600 important in the summer heat for our lawn turf grasses. 2493 02:17:07.120 --> 02:17:10.559 The carbon based sources of nitrogen in Bruce's brew help 2494 02:17:10.600 --> 02:17:13.920 feed soil microbes, and so microbes rule the world and 2495 02:17:14.079 --> 02:17:16.719 they basically are why your plants are happy. If they're happy, 2496 02:17:16.799 --> 02:17:19.959 because microbes are in there making that root zone what 2497 02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:24.120 a plant wants. So anyway you get healthy soil, you 2498 02:17:24.200 --> 02:17:27.440 get healthy plants, you have less problems with pests and diseases, 2499 02:17:27.479 --> 02:17:29.879 and that includes your lawn. And you'll check out the 2500 02:17:29.959 --> 02:17:32.600 Bruces Brew from Nelson plant Food, part of the turf 2501 02:17:32.680 --> 02:17:35.000 Star line. Good stuff. 2502 02:17:36.879 --> 02:17:37.280 In my. 2503 02:17:38.799 --> 02:17:41.399 Orchard, I've got a couple of citrus trees right now, 2504 02:17:41.399 --> 02:17:43.280 and I'm about to put a peach tree in. I 2505 02:17:43.479 --> 02:17:45.440 was meant to get it done in the wintertime, but 2506 02:17:45.799 --> 02:17:49.000 you know, there's this thing called a round to it 2507 02:17:49.319 --> 02:17:51.879 that I usually don't have on hand a lot of times, 2508 02:17:51.959 --> 02:17:53.799 and I didn't have my round to it so I 2509 02:17:53.840 --> 02:17:57.920 could get around to it anyway. I'm planting a fig 2510 02:17:58.040 --> 02:18:00.799 tree as well, and your figs do so. Did you 2511 02:18:00.920 --> 02:18:03.600 know that figs used to be an industry on the 2512 02:18:03.639 --> 02:18:06.959 Gulf Coast, hundreds of acres of figs. Imagine that if 2513 02:18:07.000 --> 02:18:08.879 you have one fig tree, you know how productive they 2514 02:18:08.920 --> 02:18:11.520 can be. One hundred acres of figs, Oh my gosh. 2515 02:18:11.879 --> 02:18:13.799 And all the soils west to Houston, you know, the 2516 02:18:13.840 --> 02:18:17.000 clay soils that became rice patties. In time, there was 2517 02:18:17.040 --> 02:18:20.680 an industry there where we grew figs. And you know, 2518 02:18:21.159 --> 02:18:24.360 you get some really bad freezes ever now and then 2519 02:18:24.440 --> 02:18:27.440 they can take a fig past the ground and kill them. 2520 02:18:27.479 --> 02:18:29.319 I don't know if that happened or if it was 2521 02:18:29.479 --> 02:18:32.680 just the fact that other parts of the country began 2522 02:18:32.840 --> 02:18:37.079 to grow, like California figs in large quantities or whatever. Anyway, 2523 02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:39.120 we don't see that industry, but that didn't change the 2524 02:18:39.200 --> 02:18:43.120 fact that figs put up with our soils. I had 2525 02:18:43.159 --> 02:18:43.959 a fig tree. 2526 02:18:45.360 --> 02:18:45.840 That was. 2527 02:18:47.440 --> 02:18:50.559 Huge when we moved into this house. And when you 2528 02:18:50.639 --> 02:18:52.200 get a fig you want to get one that has 2529 02:18:52.239 --> 02:18:55.360 a closed eye or a drop of resin in the 2530 02:18:55.440 --> 02:18:57.440 little eye that's a belly button on the fig fruit, 2531 02:18:58.520 --> 02:19:01.239 because bugs get in there. The sour them and then 2532 02:19:01.399 --> 02:19:03.440 wasps are attracted to them. And you can't eat a 2533 02:19:03.479 --> 02:19:05.639 sour fig, so get one with a closed eye. This 2534 02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:07.200 one had an open eye, so I got rid of 2535 02:19:07.239 --> 02:19:12.079 the tree. It is a horribly poor drained area clay soil, 2536 02:19:12.719 --> 02:19:15.879 and that fig tree's roots went down five inches. This 2537 02:19:16.040 --> 02:19:19.360 a huge fig tree five inches deep, and they went sideways. 2538 02:19:19.639 --> 02:19:21.959 If you'd flipped it upside down, it looked like a tabletop. 2539 02:19:23.799 --> 02:19:27.360 I'd never seen that before, but it told me something. 2540 02:19:28.000 --> 02:19:30.399 Even in bad soil, you can grow figs here, and 2541 02:19:30.479 --> 02:19:32.639 you ought to try that. They do really, really well. 2542 02:19:33.239 --> 02:19:36.760 Maybe you're heading out to in Jenniforest, for example, they 2543 02:19:36.920 --> 02:19:40.719 carry figs. They carry other fruit trees as well, but 2544 02:19:41.200 --> 02:19:43.639 in Chenni forest can get you set up on that. 2545 02:19:43.959 --> 02:19:45.719 I want to tell you that they're really good. That 2546 02:19:45.840 --> 02:19:49.719 one of their fortes in addition to having everything is 2547 02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:53.719 native plants like Salvia's and lantanas, and plants that attract 2548 02:19:53.760 --> 02:19:57.600 pollinators specifically and are locally sourced and do well in 2549 02:19:57.680 --> 02:20:03.079 our soils here, beautiful, drought resilient, huge range of varieties, bees, butterflies. 2550 02:20:03.120 --> 02:20:05.399 What do you want to bring in? Hummingbirds? They got it. 2551 02:20:05.760 --> 02:20:09.559 Their plants thrive in this climate. They carry premium locally 2552 02:20:09.680 --> 02:20:15.040 made composts too. That really makes our local soils come 2553 02:20:15.120 --> 02:20:18.799 alive for the plants. Enchended Forest FM twenty seven to 2554 02:20:18.879 --> 02:20:21.479 fifty nine, FM twenty seven to fifty nine. If you 2555 02:20:21.520 --> 02:20:24.440 were in Richmond, you're heading towards sugar Land up fifty 2556 02:20:24.520 --> 02:20:27.319 nine or Ice sixty nine. Now it is, it's off 2557 02:20:27.399 --> 02:20:29.360 to the right twenty seven to fifty nine. Go there, 2558 02:20:29.920 --> 02:20:37.520 but check out this website. It's awesome. Enchanted Forest, Houston, TX. 2559 02:20:37.600 --> 02:20:39.719 And I'm saying that right, enchanted forest. I just went 2560 02:20:39.840 --> 02:20:42.200 blank right at the time I was starting to say 2561 02:20:42.200 --> 02:20:47.799 it enchanted forest Houston. No, that's not right, intended Forest Richmond. 2562 02:20:47.840 --> 02:20:50.799 I'm sorry, TX dot com. There I finally got it. 2563 02:20:51.079 --> 02:20:54.840 Enchended Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. I don't know why 2564 02:20:54.840 --> 02:20:56.600 I kept trying to add Houston to it. Go to 2565 02:20:56.680 --> 02:20:59.239 that website. It's awesome. I take a little break here. 2566 02:20:59.479 --> 02:21:01.559 We'll be back with your calls in just a moment. 2567 02:21:02.079 --> 02:21:03.760 There you go. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to 2568 02:21:03.760 --> 02:21:05.719 have you with us. If you would like to give 2569 02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:08.799 me a call seven to one to three, uh seven 2570 02:21:08.840 --> 02:21:11.319 to three two one two k t R H seven 2571 02:21:11.399 --> 02:21:14.799 one three two one two K t r H. Feel 2572 02:21:14.879 --> 02:21:17.200 free to do so. In fact, now it would be 2573 02:21:17.200 --> 02:21:22.280 a pretty good time to call Medina products. Gosh, there's 2574 02:21:22.280 --> 02:21:24.760 so many of them, uh, and I'd like to tell 2575 02:21:24.799 --> 02:21:26.680 you about all of them, but I can't tell it ever. 2576 02:21:26.799 --> 02:21:29.079 One that's out there. You hear me talk about has 2577 02:21:29.159 --> 02:21:31.959 to grow six T six plant food a lot because 2578 02:21:31.959 --> 02:21:34.000 it's an awesome product, it really is. I use it. 2579 02:21:34.879 --> 02:21:37.559 My primary use for it is i'd mix it in 2580 02:21:37.680 --> 02:21:40.200 water and drench in my new transplants, uh, and do 2581 02:21:40.360 --> 02:21:42.319 it when you plant, do it a week later, do 2582 02:21:42.399 --> 02:21:45.959 it a week later, three times, three drenches. Got good 2583 02:21:46.040 --> 02:21:48.559 phosphorcinate to help that root development and help the plant 2584 02:21:48.600 --> 02:21:51.399 get off to a good start. It's got humide, humic acid, 2585 02:21:51.920 --> 02:21:55.360 it's got a Medina soil activator, stimulate biological activities, got 2586 02:21:55.399 --> 02:21:58.479 seaweed extracts, and it's just good. You can also use 2587 02:21:58.520 --> 02:22:00.399 as a foldo if you want. But there are many 2588 02:22:00.440 --> 02:22:03.159 other good Medina products out there on the market, and 2589 02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:06.280 I think you ought to explore some of these. There 2590 02:22:06.399 --> 02:22:13.319 is some really outstanding, in my opinion, effective products for 2591 02:22:13.840 --> 02:22:17.559 having success with whatever you're trying to grow. So, for example, 2592 02:22:18.079 --> 02:22:23.120 maybe you are interested in creating beautiful flowers. There are 2593 02:22:23.239 --> 02:22:27.159 Medina products that will fit every kind of flower that 2594 02:22:27.280 --> 02:22:31.440 you possibly could want to grow. Right, So for example, 2595 02:22:31.840 --> 02:22:34.719 let's just see, I'm going to try to open with 2596 02:22:34.799 --> 02:22:36.559 these up. I've got to issue going there, we go 2597 02:22:37.440 --> 02:22:40.920 grab the wrong, wrong one. I was giving away some 2598 02:22:41.040 --> 02:22:46.959 samples yesterday of Medina products and they were it was 2599 02:22:47.079 --> 02:22:51.719 the fish emulsion type product, it was the seaweed type product, 2600 02:22:51.760 --> 02:22:53.559 and it was that hast grow type product when I 2601 02:22:53.680 --> 02:22:56.479 was a Southwest fertilizer and I love those. They all 2602 02:22:56.760 --> 02:22:59.200 work super super well. And the hastro grow is the 2603 02:22:59.239 --> 02:23:02.559 one that I was just telling you about. Whatever you're 2604 02:23:02.799 --> 02:23:05.559 whatever you're wanting to try to grow, whatever kind of 2605 02:23:06.479 --> 02:23:10.000 every kind of plant, Medina is designed to number one, 2606 02:23:10.319 --> 02:23:14.360 build the soil. That's what they do. They create all 2607 02:23:14.479 --> 02:23:17.559 kinds of from compost nutrient liquids that they put out 2608 02:23:17.600 --> 02:23:20.959 there to beneficial microbes that can be sprinkled out and 2609 02:23:21.159 --> 02:23:24.440 used to really pretty much all the products that they have. 2610 02:23:25.000 --> 02:23:27.520 If you are wanting to get your lawn boosted, there's 2611 02:23:27.639 --> 02:23:30.879 two excellent things. And by the way, I say for lawns, 2612 02:23:30.920 --> 02:23:32.440 but you can use these on a lot of different 2613 02:23:32.520 --> 02:23:34.639 kinds of plants. One of them is Medina has to 2614 02:23:34.760 --> 02:23:39.440 Grow Lawn. It's a twelve four eight liquid hooks up 2615 02:23:39.479 --> 02:23:41.520 to a garden hose and you just go to town. 2616 02:23:41.799 --> 02:23:44.840 It's got Medina soil activator also in it in addition 2617 02:23:44.920 --> 02:23:47.520 to the twelve four eight, and it's got humakuemic acid 2618 02:23:47.600 --> 02:23:50.440 in it. So it's like getting a lawn cair kit 2619 02:23:50.520 --> 02:23:52.920 in a bottle really and it works. I've used it. 2620 02:23:53.120 --> 02:23:57.239 It works. Medina has to Grow Lawn twelve four eight. 2621 02:23:57.600 --> 02:24:00.719 That's one of them. The other one and this product 2622 02:24:00.920 --> 02:24:05.000 is Medina has to Grow super Grow. There's a lot 2623 02:24:05.040 --> 02:24:08.479 of grows going on here. Medina has to grow Supergrow Plus. 2624 02:24:08.719 --> 02:24:11.239 That one has a little like a green band across 2625 02:24:11.280 --> 02:24:14.040 the product that says super Grow Plus. It's a sixteen 2626 02:24:14.200 --> 02:24:18.120 zero two no phosphorus. And I won't tell you this. 2627 02:24:18.879 --> 02:24:21.000 They've done a lot of studies on lawns. I did 2628 02:24:21.040 --> 02:24:24.120 a study in Austin, Texas and a neighborhood of two 2629 02:24:24.200 --> 02:24:27.399 hundred homes. And it don't think Austin's different than Houston 2630 02:24:27.440 --> 02:24:30.360 in this regard. It'd be similar here. Two hundred homes. 2631 02:24:30.879 --> 02:24:33.360 We did a soil sampling of all those homes. Not 2632 02:24:33.639 --> 02:24:38.520 one home needed phosphorus in that neighborhood. When you you know, 2633 02:24:38.600 --> 02:24:40.559 back in the days of Dewey Compton, they were saying 2634 02:24:40.719 --> 02:24:44.559 triple thirteen all the time for everything, and that middle 2635 02:24:44.639 --> 02:24:49.920 number thirteen builds up. Nitrogen washes away and it volatileizes away. 2636 02:24:50.399 --> 02:24:52.920 Potassium will move down through the soil with a good 2637 02:24:53.000 --> 02:24:56.559 drenching rain, but phosphorus sticks to the soil and as 2638 02:24:56.639 --> 02:24:59.920 you use it, it builds up, and when you overuse 2639 02:25:00.360 --> 02:25:02.799 you end up with a lot. So that Supergirl plus 2640 02:25:02.879 --> 02:25:05.840 the sixteen zero two, it's fine. Don't worry about the 2641 02:25:05.840 --> 02:25:09.000 phosphorus not being there. I would say it is extremely 2642 02:25:09.239 --> 02:25:13.000 rare that not putting phosphorus on is going to cause 2643 02:25:13.000 --> 02:25:17.000 your lawn of problem. Okay, it's extremely rare. We recommend 2644 02:25:17.079 --> 02:25:19.719 three one two four one two type ratios because that's 2645 02:25:19.760 --> 02:25:22.479 what the turf scientists tell us the grass would like 2646 02:25:22.559 --> 02:25:25.399 to have. But I would say, get a sol sample. 2647 02:25:25.440 --> 02:25:27.760 You may not need that metal number early at all. Anyway, 2648 02:25:27.799 --> 02:25:30.000 supergro Plus, hook it up to a garden host, spray 2649 02:25:30.040 --> 02:25:33.040 it on your lawn. You get results. People spray it 2650 02:25:33.399 --> 02:25:37.000 in their vegetable gardens. That boost of nitrogen you can 2651 02:25:37.120 --> 02:25:39.639 do that. You can spray it however you want to 2652 02:25:39.760 --> 02:25:43.639 use it, just use it. It's an excellent product from Medina. 2653 02:25:43.680 --> 02:25:45.559 I know I'm droning on about Medina now, but I 2654 02:25:45.680 --> 02:25:47.120 just want to tell you there's a lot of great 2655 02:25:47.200 --> 02:25:50.799 products and they're widely available here in the greater Houston area. 2656 02:25:51.040 --> 02:25:53.239 All right, well, let's head out to spring right now. 2657 02:25:53.280 --> 02:25:55.479 We're going to talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, Welcome to 2658 02:25:55.559 --> 02:25:56.000 garden Line. 2659 02:25:56.680 --> 02:25:57.959 Hey, Skip, good morning. 2660 02:25:58.559 --> 02:25:59.280 I had a question. 2661 02:26:00.079 --> 02:26:04.120 Should I be worried if my lantanas if not emerged back. 2662 02:26:04.639 --> 02:26:08.639 My bluop plumbagos are here, They've been here a month ago, 2663 02:26:08.760 --> 02:26:11.959 but my lantanas are just there's still nothing dormant. 2664 02:26:13.360 --> 02:26:16.840 Yeah, they should be doing something. They're not. They haven't 2665 02:26:16.879 --> 02:26:19.719 been actively growing. But I have some at my house 2666 02:26:19.879 --> 02:26:21.799 and down a row, I have some that are coming out. 2667 02:26:21.840 --> 02:26:23.719 I have three or four inches of growth, and some 2668 02:26:23.920 --> 02:26:26.399 of them aren't emerging at all. And I haven't gone 2669 02:26:26.440 --> 02:26:28.520 in there to look closely at them. But I suspect 2670 02:26:29.280 --> 02:26:32.840 we had a cold snap that might have gotten those. 2671 02:26:33.079 --> 02:26:37.000 And not all lantanas are equal in cold heartiness, and 2672 02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:40.639 so that could be part of the factor. The way 2673 02:26:40.799 --> 02:26:45.200 cold comes, you know, and it can also be go 2674 02:26:45.280 --> 02:26:47.239 ahead and cut them back to a couple of inches high, 2675 02:26:47.280 --> 02:26:49.760 and then take your thumbnail and scrape the bark at 2676 02:26:49.799 --> 02:26:52.719 the very base and dig back the molts or whatever's 2677 02:26:52.760 --> 02:26:55.040 around them, and scrape the bark with your thumbnail again. 2678 02:26:55.120 --> 02:26:58.239 And if you're not getting something that looks creamy or 2679 02:26:58.360 --> 02:27:02.840 green green is in there, you probably lost that one. 2680 02:27:03.040 --> 02:27:04.920 If you see some, give them a little more time, 2681 02:27:04.959 --> 02:27:08.319 they'll probably send out a bud. Okay, that's what I 2682 02:27:08.520 --> 02:27:08.920 was wondering. 2683 02:27:08.920 --> 02:27:11.159 Should just replant or give it a few more weeks? 2684 02:27:11.239 --> 02:27:15.520 Okay, Yeah, Okay, that's your call. That's your call. Yeah. 2685 02:27:15.639 --> 02:27:17.440 The fact that you reminded me I need to get 2686 02:27:17.479 --> 02:27:20.200 out and crawl around and do that to mine. Thanks. 2687 02:27:20.200 --> 02:27:21.799 I keep hoping every day I go out here that 2688 02:27:21.840 --> 02:27:23.200 they'll be sprouting, but nothing. 2689 02:27:24.719 --> 02:27:27.479 All right, Well let's see, all right, we'll see how 2690 02:27:27.520 --> 02:27:31.479 it turns out. All right, take care, Thanks, Thanks, thanks, 2691 02:27:31.639 --> 02:27:34.959 thank you, sir. Bye bye. Nature's Way resources. Uh did 2692 02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:37.440 you know Nature's Way as a two acre actually bigger 2693 02:27:37.479 --> 02:27:41.000 than that now two acre nursery fruit trees, natives got 2694 02:27:41.040 --> 02:27:43.840 house plants, I got vegetables. One of the largest varieties 2695 02:27:43.920 --> 02:27:47.120 of native plants you're gonna find in this area. Lots 2696 02:27:47.159 --> 02:27:49.639 of really cool plants, But why do you go to 2697 02:27:49.799 --> 02:27:55.239 Nature's Way? Well, native plants, but also their their products. 2698 02:27:55.440 --> 02:27:58.799 You know, way before compost was cool, uh, and there 2699 02:27:58.840 --> 02:28:02.719 were so many places producing compost here. Nature's Way was 2700 02:28:02.840 --> 02:28:05.959 leading the way and creating things like roastsoil and like 2701 02:28:06.120 --> 02:28:08.959 leaf mold composts. Those are two examples of things born 2702 02:28:09.120 --> 02:28:12.200 at Nature's Way. They still have those, and they have 2703 02:28:12.360 --> 02:28:15.000 much much more. Every Friday they have something called fungal 2704 02:28:15.079 --> 02:28:19.600 based compost. Now, when you decompose wood and woody products 2705 02:28:19.680 --> 02:28:22.680 and things like that, grind them up and decompose them 2706 02:28:22.719 --> 02:28:25.360 and stuff you get, it's fungi that do most of 2707 02:28:25.360 --> 02:28:28.319 the work for you. And fungal based compost is on 2708 02:28:28.440 --> 02:28:31.040 sale every Friday at Nature's Way. You can buy bags 2709 02:28:31.079 --> 02:28:33.680 for ten percent off or you can buy bulk for 2710 02:28:33.879 --> 02:28:37.120 twenty percent off. So that's a good deal. You can 2711 02:28:37.639 --> 02:28:39.440 go out there and get it with your truck. You 2712 02:28:39.520 --> 02:28:41.280 can have them deliver it to your house. You can 2713 02:28:41.360 --> 02:28:45.239 go find it in garden centers. Go around to garden 2714 02:28:45.319 --> 02:28:48.200 centers and you're going to find Nature's Way products in 2715 02:28:48.280 --> 02:28:51.040 mini garden centers. I was at Plants Fall Seasons yesterday 2716 02:28:51.079 --> 02:28:55.319 and solved Nature's Way Products there Nature's Way Resources dot com. 2717 02:28:55.479 --> 02:28:59.200 That's the website, Nature'sway Resources dot com. You need to 2718 02:28:59.239 --> 02:29:01.799 go check it out. It's a cool They redid the 2719 02:29:01.879 --> 02:29:04.360 website and it's very good, very helpful. By the way, 2720 02:29:04.360 --> 02:29:06.319 if you want to give them a call. Nine three 2721 02:29:06.440 --> 02:29:10.799 six two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two 2722 02:29:10.879 --> 02:29:16.120 seven three twelve hundred. I'm gonna take a little break 2723 02:29:16.200 --> 02:29:18.920 here and when we come back, we'll come back for 2724 02:29:19.040 --> 02:29:20.959 your calls. If you would like to give us call 2725 02:29:21.079 --> 02:29:24.760 seven one three two one two kt RH and uh 2726 02:29:25.559 --> 02:29:29.719 your questions hang around. We'll be right back. Welcome back 2727 02:29:29.719 --> 02:29:34.319 to the Garden Line. Guess what we're in our last segment. 2728 02:29:34.399 --> 02:29:36.760 This thing hole, this whole thing shouts down low before 2729 02:29:36.879 --> 02:29:40.559 ten o'clock and I'll be back next week on Saturday morning, 2730 02:29:40.600 --> 02:29:44.159 bright and early, bright eyed and bushy tailed. You can 2731 02:29:44.360 --> 02:29:48.440 rise and join me. Then, even if you refuse to shine, 2732 02:29:48.479 --> 02:29:51.399 you don't have to rise and shine. Just rise. Turn 2733 02:29:51.479 --> 02:29:53.719 on the radio, by the way, a good way to 2734 02:29:53.799 --> 02:29:57.159 listen to the garden Line. And I keep telling people 2735 02:29:57.520 --> 02:29:57.959 to do this. 2736 02:29:58.680 --> 02:29:58.799 Uh. 2737 02:29:58.920 --> 02:30:00.680 Now, if you listen on the radio, that's fine. K 2738 02:30:00.760 --> 02:30:03.200 t R eight seven Am. You can listen to it 2739 02:30:03.319 --> 02:30:05.600 on a radio, or you can listen to on your computer, 2740 02:30:05.680 --> 02:30:07.840 or however you want to do it. That's fine. That's 2741 02:30:07.840 --> 02:30:11.079 how a lot of people listen. There's an iHeartMedia app. 2742 02:30:11.280 --> 02:30:14.559 It is a red and white heart on it that 2743 02:30:14.719 --> 02:30:17.000 makes it easy to find on wherever your app store 2744 02:30:17.079 --> 02:30:19.559 is for the kind of phone you use, download the 2745 02:30:19.639 --> 02:30:22.440 iHeartMedia app and then search for garden Line. There's two 2746 02:30:22.479 --> 02:30:24.879 of them in the country, some lady somewhere else and 2747 02:30:25.040 --> 02:30:29.239 me down here. Just put it down and you know, 2748 02:30:29.680 --> 02:30:31.600 I don't know. You subscribe or whatever you do to 2749 02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:35.360 it to follow that show, and you can take your 2750 02:30:35.399 --> 02:30:38.040 phone out and listen to Guardline on your phone. Maybe 2751 02:30:38.040 --> 02:30:40.200 you got earbuds in and you turn your phone and 2752 02:30:40.239 --> 02:30:41.719 you set in your pocket as you go out and 2753 02:30:41.799 --> 02:30:44.639 work in the garden and you can listen to garden 2754 02:30:44.680 --> 02:30:46.879 Line live. And the cool thing about that. And this 2755 02:30:46.959 --> 02:30:48.879 hadn't happened yet, but one of these days somebody's going. 2756 02:30:48.799 --> 02:30:49.040 To do this. 2757 02:30:49.559 --> 02:30:51.639 You could be out walking around your yard and you 2758 02:30:51.719 --> 02:30:53.600 see a weed and you go, what is that weed? 2759 02:30:53.639 --> 02:30:55.399 And how to get rid of it? Take a picture 2760 02:30:55.440 --> 02:30:58.639 of it, call my producer Aleandro, get the email, email 2761 02:30:58.680 --> 02:31:01.000 it to me, and then you got to fall up 2762 02:31:01.040 --> 02:31:04.959 with a call and we'll talk about your garden question 2763 02:31:05.200 --> 02:31:09.680 live from your garden and now a live from Shruckstown 2764 02:31:09.760 --> 02:31:12.360 or wherever you live. We can do that, so just 2765 02:31:12.479 --> 02:31:14.959 keep that in mind. That's a possibility. I listen to 2766 02:31:15.040 --> 02:31:16.920 a lot of stuff on my phone now, and especially 2767 02:31:16.959 --> 02:31:19.399 when I can listen live. I love that and past 2768 02:31:19.440 --> 02:31:21.879 shows too. By the way, all right, tip of the day, 2769 02:31:22.520 --> 02:31:25.920 Anti Grows and Porium. Since nineteen eighty three, Antigros and 2770 02:31:26.000 --> 02:31:30.040 Porium has been a must visit destination for gardeners and 2771 02:31:30.159 --> 02:31:33.959 families in general alike. It's beautiful. They are roses because 2772 02:31:34.000 --> 02:31:36.360 it's the Rose and Porium, but they are so much more. 2773 02:31:36.879 --> 02:31:39.440 They've got navy plants and herbs and flowers. They carry 2774 02:31:39.440 --> 02:31:42.360 free trees and houseplants, and then there's their nursery and 2775 02:31:42.399 --> 02:31:46.959 display gardens. It it's fun to walk through there. It 2776 02:31:47.200 --> 02:31:50.120 just is, and I would recommend you do that. A 2777 02:31:50.239 --> 02:31:52.120 plan outing and if you're going to drive out, there's 2778 02:31:52.159 --> 02:31:53.959 not far I depend on where you live. It's not 2779 02:31:54.120 --> 02:31:57.479 that far up in the Independence, Texas area. It's just 2780 02:31:57.520 --> 02:32:00.920 a little north of Brenham. It's a good out. I 2781 02:32:01.000 --> 02:32:05.079 always love it during wildflower seasons which goes long around here, 2782 02:32:05.159 --> 02:32:08.719 especially Blue Bunnet, and it's a great place to visit. 2783 02:32:08.840 --> 02:32:11.719 Now when you're there, a couple things. You need to 2784 02:32:11.760 --> 02:32:14.200 walk through the gardens and see all of the plants 2785 02:32:14.239 --> 02:32:17.319 that they carry. They are awesome, absolutely awesome. I want 2786 02:32:17.360 --> 02:32:18.840 to remind you about a couple of things going on 2787 02:32:18.959 --> 02:32:22.440 out there. They're going to have their twenty twenty five 2788 02:32:22.879 --> 02:32:25.639 Spring Photo Contest and if you want to find all 2789 02:32:25.680 --> 02:32:29.879 the details the prize details. First of all, how about this. 2790 02:32:30.120 --> 02:32:32.639 One of the prizes is a one hundred dollars Anti 2791 02:32:32.719 --> 02:32:34.840 CROs im Porium gift certificate. If you want to find 2792 02:32:34.879 --> 02:32:37.520 out how to enter, go to their social look for 2793 02:32:37.559 --> 02:32:40.760 Anti CROs impoum and Instagram or Facebook and find out 2794 02:32:40.799 --> 02:32:43.040 how to enter and take part in this. That's fun 2795 02:32:43.239 --> 02:32:46.840 right there now. On May tenth, Saturday that's coming up 2796 02:32:46.959 --> 02:32:49.879 not too far from now, from eleven am to one 2797 02:32:50.000 --> 02:32:53.120 pm is a Mother's Day tea and luncheon. They're going 2798 02:32:53.159 --> 02:32:55.840 to have a special Mother's Day tam luncheon right out 2799 02:32:55.920 --> 02:32:58.239 there in the gardens themselves. They're going to have finger 2800 02:32:58.319 --> 02:33:01.479 sandwiches and salads and fruits vegetables and hummus dips and 2801 02:33:01.760 --> 02:33:05.239 it's just a nice setting with some really cool, dainty desserts, 2802 02:33:05.360 --> 02:33:08.680 as they put it, for a sweet finish. One other 2803 02:33:08.799 --> 02:33:13.920 reminder is May twenty fourth through twenty six is water 2804 02:33:14.280 --> 02:33:21.120 conserving products weekend. Santa Texas sales tax is held off 2805 02:33:21.280 --> 02:33:24.639 on water conserving products that weekend, so that's Memorial weekend. 2806 02:33:24.680 --> 02:33:27.440 Don't forget about that, so follow them on social media, 2807 02:33:27.799 --> 02:33:33.399 follow their newsletter. Go to Antique Roseemporium dot com, Antique 2808 02:33:33.440 --> 02:33:36.840 Rosenporium dot com. Lots of good information there at your 2809 02:33:36.879 --> 02:33:39.399 stock have a bib on because when you see their roses, 2810 02:33:39.399 --> 02:33:41.719 you're gonna start drooling and you mess up your shirt. 2811 02:33:42.159 --> 02:33:45.280 But I love going to antiqu rosing Porium. Really cool stuff. 2812 02:33:45.280 --> 02:33:47.479 By the way, they still have those two new roses 2813 02:33:47.520 --> 02:33:51.920 they just released called Glass Slipper and Cupid's Sweetheart, So 2814 02:33:51.959 --> 02:33:56.479 you got to check those out. I've been mentioning it. 2815 02:33:56.559 --> 02:33:58.760 Today I'm gonna remind you once more. It's time to 2816 02:33:58.799 --> 02:34:02.799 get the summer slow release products out on your lawn. 2817 02:34:03.360 --> 02:34:07.079 And Nitropos's silver bag makes it easy. Stand across the store. 2818 02:34:07.159 --> 02:34:08.959 Maybe you're in ace hardware store and you look way 2819 02:34:09.000 --> 02:34:11.200 over there and there's gardens, and you see that silver 2820 02:34:11.319 --> 02:34:14.719 bag from across the store. It's easy to spot. Nineteen 2821 02:34:14.799 --> 02:34:18.159 four to ten slow release, four months of feeding. You 2822 02:34:18.280 --> 02:34:20.680 do it, now you're done. You take care of summer 2823 02:34:20.760 --> 02:34:22.719 fertilizing all the way up until it's time to start 2824 02:34:22.879 --> 02:34:28.799 talking about fall fertilizing. Nitrofos super turf. So why would 2825 02:34:29.040 --> 02:34:29.680 you put that out? 2826 02:34:29.760 --> 02:34:29.879 Well? 2827 02:34:29.959 --> 02:34:32.479 Number one, it's it saves time. You do it, now 2828 02:34:32.520 --> 02:34:38.159 you're done. Number two, it's designed so that our southern 2829 02:34:38.239 --> 02:34:42.200 grasses like Bermuda grass in Augustine' zoysia, that it feeds 2830 02:34:42.280 --> 02:34:45.200 them well with a ratio that they want. Number Three, 2831 02:34:45.760 --> 02:34:49.280 it releases that slowly so that over time you don't 2832 02:34:49.280 --> 02:34:51.840 get a flush of top growth where you're mow mow, mowing, 2833 02:34:52.000 --> 02:34:54.120 trying to keep up with it, and then the root 2834 02:34:54.200 --> 02:34:56.200 system is smaller. Did you know that when you overdo 2835 02:34:56.360 --> 02:34:59.879 nitrogen on a turf grass plant, you get top growth, 2836 02:35:00.200 --> 02:35:04.399 it's greener and greener and wonderful. You got to mow it, 2837 02:35:05.000 --> 02:35:07.479 but the root growth actually is less than on a 2838 02:35:07.600 --> 02:35:11.239 plant that is fertilized properly. Night five super Turf is 2839 02:35:11.319 --> 02:35:14.399 designed to put a gradual release out through that whole 2840 02:35:14.440 --> 02:35:16.600 summer season, so you don't have to do the mo 2841 02:35:16.799 --> 02:35:20.079 moo moo. And now you've got a few grubs chomping 2842 02:35:20.159 --> 02:35:22.319 on the roots, and your root system is already smaller 2843 02:35:22.360 --> 02:35:24.680 than it should be. And you see the problem with 2844 02:35:24.879 --> 02:35:29.200 drought and other things. All right, you have been I 2845 02:35:29.319 --> 02:35:32.120 have explained it as best I can. Night five superturf, 2846 02:35:32.159 --> 02:35:36.760 silver bag. Find it all kinds of places. If you were, 2847 02:35:36.959 --> 02:35:40.600 let's say, at RCW Nursery, Tombo Parkway, you can find 2848 02:35:40.639 --> 02:35:42.479 that kind of thing. Plants fell seasons on the wet 2849 02:35:42.600 --> 02:35:45.399 I know they carried it there. D and de feed 2850 02:35:45.440 --> 02:35:47.879 and Tomball is another place you're going to find night 2851 02:35:47.959 --> 02:35:52.600 fish products like this silver bag is super turf. Well, 2852 02:35:53.040 --> 02:35:56.239 let's see. I wanted to mention. There's one other thing 2853 02:35:56.319 --> 02:35:59.319 I'd like to talk about before we're all done with today, 2854 02:36:00.159 --> 02:36:06.520 and that is including herbs in your landscape. A lot 2855 02:36:06.600 --> 02:36:08.319 of people think when they think of herbs, they think 2856 02:36:08.360 --> 02:36:10.840 of an herb garden, and those are beautiful. They're typically 2857 02:36:10.920 --> 02:36:14.399 geometric designs and they're all cool. That's fine, you can 2858 02:36:14.479 --> 02:36:19.440 do that, but herbs can be grown anywhere. My wife 2859 02:36:19.479 --> 02:36:23.840 has herbs in a flower bed that's raised and the 2860 02:36:24.079 --> 02:36:27.079 oregano is spilling over the sides. It looks really good. 2861 02:36:27.319 --> 02:36:29.440 By the way the time is spilling over the sides, 2862 02:36:29.479 --> 02:36:31.920 it looks good, and then they're the flowers in the bed. 2863 02:36:32.399 --> 02:36:34.239 You can put herbs in a hanging basket or a 2864 02:36:34.280 --> 02:36:37.680 container if you want. They work really well for that. 2865 02:36:38.239 --> 02:36:44.079 Some herbs even give you flowers. For example, Salvia pineapple sage. 2866 02:36:44.120 --> 02:36:47.200 It's a type of salvia and it has red tubular 2867 02:36:47.280 --> 02:36:51.520 flowers mostly in late summer and fall. But when the 2868 02:36:51.639 --> 02:36:54.600 hummingbirds find those, they go crazy. They love those things, 2869 02:36:54.639 --> 02:36:57.920 and the leaves smell like pineapples. Another herb that has 2870 02:36:58.040 --> 02:37:03.239 blooms that attracts palms especially would be trailing rosemary. Trailing 2871 02:37:03.360 --> 02:37:07.639 rosemary blooms more than upright rosemary, and yes she has 2872 02:37:07.760 --> 02:37:11.079 trailing rosemary and her flower beds is what raised flower 2873 02:37:11.120 --> 02:37:15.920 beds as well. In my vegetable gardens, I have chives 2874 02:37:16.000 --> 02:37:20.040 because chives bloom and they bring in beneficial pollinators and 2875 02:37:20.319 --> 02:37:23.040 other insects. I like to put a regano at the 2876 02:37:23.159 --> 02:37:26.159 end of a row, you know. I think a cool 2877 02:37:26.200 --> 02:37:28.959 combination is if you've got a road tomatoes and you 2878 02:37:29.040 --> 02:37:31.600 put some oregano in one end and some basil inter 2879 02:37:31.719 --> 02:37:33.920 mixed in the other, you just got your pesto garden 2880 02:37:33.959 --> 02:37:36.120 ready to go right there. I mean, throw some tony 2881 02:37:36.159 --> 02:37:38.479 tea's in at the other end if you want. But 2882 02:37:38.600 --> 02:37:40.879 it's all right there. There's no rule that you can't 2883 02:37:40.879 --> 02:37:43.280 plant herbs in a vegetable garden. I do it at 2884 02:37:43.319 --> 02:37:44.639 the end of the rose because I don't want to 2885 02:37:44.639 --> 02:37:46.639 have to go through let's say I was gonna spade 2886 02:37:46.680 --> 02:37:48.440 or till the bed. I don't want to have to 2887 02:37:48.760 --> 02:37:50.479 work around all the herbs, so I do them on 2888 02:37:50.559 --> 02:37:52.399 the end of the rose. But you can do that 2889 02:37:53.639 --> 02:37:55.319 however you want to grow them. You ought to grow 2890 02:37:55.399 --> 02:37:58.520 some herbs. There's herbs that are wonderful for culinary, herbs 2891 02:37:58.559 --> 02:38:02.479 that are wonderful for attracting and supporting beneficial insects, and 2892 02:38:02.559 --> 02:38:05.639 then of course herbs that bring in the pollinators. And 2893 02:38:05.760 --> 02:38:08.479 we need to do a good job of supporting those 2894 02:38:08.520 --> 02:38:10.840 because those guys are working for you. You know, they 2895 02:38:10.879 --> 02:38:13.559 are actually out there. You don't even know it. But 2896 02:38:13.680 --> 02:38:16.479 right now, out in your garden, there's some aphid that 2897 02:38:16.639 --> 02:38:20.360 is getting a wasp, landing beside it and laying an 2898 02:38:20.440 --> 02:38:23.040 egg in it, and it'll be like the movie Alien 2899 02:38:23.479 --> 02:38:26.200 that eggle hatch. The larvae will grow and eat out 2900 02:38:26.239 --> 02:38:29.120 the inside of the aphid. If you want the gory details. 2901 02:38:29.399 --> 02:38:32.040 It's used through the aphids chest and it sticks the 2902 02:38:32.120 --> 02:38:34.479 aphid to the leaf because dead aphids don't hold onto 2903 02:38:34.559 --> 02:38:37.840 leaves very well. And then it grows up inside the 2904 02:38:37.920 --> 02:38:41.159 aphid comes out as a wasp to go and lay 2905 02:38:41.159 --> 02:38:44.159 eggs in a whole bunch of other aphids. What does 2906 02:38:44.200 --> 02:38:49.319 that wasp do for nourishment? Nectar and pollen, that's what 2907 02:38:49.440 --> 02:38:52.680 it does for nourishment. Now, if you've got I'll just 2908 02:38:52.799 --> 02:38:54.600 use tomatoes as an example. We got a lot of 2909 02:38:54.639 --> 02:38:56.760 plants to get aphis, and if you've got some tomatoes 2910 02:38:56.799 --> 02:38:59.879 with aphids, wouldn't you like to have nourishment for Mama 2911 02:39:00.079 --> 02:39:02.079 was right there? And when I say was, I'm talking 2912 02:39:02.079 --> 02:39:04.520 about something size of a nat almost it's very small. 2913 02:39:05.280 --> 02:39:07.239 That's just an example of why we need to mix 2914 02:39:07.319 --> 02:39:10.120 our gardens up. Listen, a farm needs to be monoculture 2915 02:39:10.479 --> 02:39:12.479 so you can go across all the acreage and get 2916 02:39:12.479 --> 02:39:14.479 all the cotton out of there, or the sorghum or 2917 02:39:14.520 --> 02:39:17.239 whatever you're growing out of the farm. Our gardens should 2918 02:39:17.280 --> 02:39:20.319 not be monocultures. They should be mixed. We can do 2919 02:39:20.399 --> 02:39:23.840 that with containers. We can do that by mixing up 2920 02:39:23.879 --> 02:39:26.559 the plantings. No one said flowers can't be in a 2921 02:39:26.639 --> 02:39:30.639 vegetable garden. And by the way, herbs are very attractive, 2922 02:39:30.840 --> 02:39:34.280 and some herbs are really cool to use in flower 2923 02:39:34.360 --> 02:39:38.920 beds or lining a pathway like solid burnat cucumber flavored leaves, 2924 02:39:39.319 --> 02:39:43.760 little mounds rupertty lining a pathway chives another one that 2925 02:39:43.879 --> 02:39:46.120 does that. All right, I got quit talking, but there's 2926 02:39:46.120 --> 02:39:48.360 an idea for you. Have fun out in the garden 2927 02:39:48.440 --> 02:39:50.840 this week and go visit some garden centers this afternoon.