WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:12.199 It's shoes crazy trip. 3 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:20.160 You can just watch him as worlds. There are so 4 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:32.960 many good thanks to sleep bats in gay gass, back sides, gas, 5 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:44.240 sun beam and down between gasp. 6 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:52.479 Well, good morning, Good Sunday morning, gardener. Good to have 7 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:57.119 you with us this morning. Welcome to garden Line. I'm 8 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.280 your host, Skip Rictor, and we're here to help you 9 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:04.040 have a beautiful garden, a bountiful garden and more fun 10 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.319 in the whole process of it. Gardening is a blast. 11 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:13.000 My happy place. One of my happy places is out 12 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.480 in the garden. Another one is talking to gardeners. That 13 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.359 would be you. Whether you know it or not, you 14 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:20.560 are a gardener. I believe that with all my heart. 15 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.079 I really do. Don't tell me about brown thumbs. There 16 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.079 is no such thing as a brown thumb. There's only 17 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.359 uninformed thumbs. And we're gonna inform your thumb. And if 18 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.280 you want to talk about your thumb like it has 19 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:32.640 a color, well we're gonna turn your thumb green by 20 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:35.799 teaching your thumb a few things. And all of a 21 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:38.680 sudden you'll find that, I don't know, you may be 22 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.000 walking across the yard and drop a pencil on the ground. 23 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.120 Next morning you come out and it's rooted and grown 24 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:45.680 into a pine tree. I'm just saying, right, okay, I 25 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:48.719 mean that's that's making a big claim for garden Line. 26 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:50.599 But we're gonna give it our best shot. How about that. 27 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.359 If you'd like to give me a call, here's how 28 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.280 you do it. If I can find my number from 29 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:58.719 me seven one three two one two k t r 30 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:01.840 H seven one three two one two k TRCH believe 31 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:03.680 it or not, I have to stick that number up 32 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.200 in front of me because as many times as I've 33 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.120 said it, in the moment I need it, just that's 34 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:13.080 not always there. Right, all right, we'll give us a call. 35 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.280 We'll talk about the things that you are interested in. 36 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.680 For sure. You hear me talk about Peerscapes a lot. 37 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:25.199 Pier Scapes is the professional landscape company. Then we talk 38 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:28.400 about all the time on guarden Line. The folks at Peerscapes, 39 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.000 I don't care what you need, they can do it. 40 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.960 And it's really true. Go online, look at their website 41 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.719 Piercescapes dot com, Pierscapes dot com and just kind of 42 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:40.759 click around in it. Look at their social media too. 43 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.879 Lots of pictures of jobs they've done. Maybe you are 44 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:48.199 looking at that backyard spot kind of outside the back 45 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:50.840 door alongside the house, and you're thinking, you know, a 46 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.520 patio would be really nice. Maybe some stone out there, 47 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.199 we could set up some tables and just enjoy things. 48 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.479 How about a little barbecue put over here in the side. 49 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.439 Maybe we need a little rock wall going around this bed. 50 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:07.840 And you just keep imagining and get the inspiration from 51 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.479 pierscapes dot com. You can find a lot of things there. 52 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.000 Now you give them a call, you get set up, 53 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:14.919 come in, let's talk about what you're going to do. 54 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.520 What do you want. Maybe it's revamping a bed, Maybe 55 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.599 it's just the whole landscape. You know, I want to 56 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.879 do a complete landscape. They can do that. You're driving 57 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:26.280 around one night and you see beautiful lighting on somebody's 58 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:27.639 home and you just think, you know, that would be 59 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:31.159 a good security thing to have. Plus it's gorgeous going 60 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:33.639 out at night. They can do that. You got a 61 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:36.280 wet spot that doesn't drain well, they can fix that. 62 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:40.479 Pierscapes does it all. Also, they do quarterly maintenance, like, 63 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:45.400 for example, once every three months. Coming out looking at 64 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.360 your beds, sprucing them up, getting any weeds out, replenishing 65 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:52.319 the mulch that's in the bed, making sure that irrigation 66 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:56.080 is working well. As the season's change, you can arrange 67 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:58.719 for various we call them color changes, you know, going 68 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:01.199 from pansies to petunia. In other words, as you come 69 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:05.319 out of winter, there's there's nothing that they can't do, 70 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:07.960 and when they get through doing it, it looks great. 71 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.439 Pierscapes dot Com. Here's the phone number if you like 72 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.479 to call them. Two eight one three seven oh fifty 73 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.839 sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero. 74 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:24.240 This afternoon, I have some things I'm wanting to get 75 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:28.160 my hands on, uh in as far as gardening is concerned, 76 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.160 and one of them is some plant propagation. I've got 77 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.879 several different plants that I want to propagate, in other words, 78 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:38.560 make more of and you can do that by seed. 79 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.879 That's what nature does every day, is casting seeds out 80 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.720 from one plant to grow more. And you can also 81 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:47.199 do it about cuttings. There's other ways to propagate as well. 82 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.480 But I'm going to be doing some cutting rooting myself, 83 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:52.600 and I just haven't gotten around to it. I've got 84 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.680 a little light table indoors. That's a nice quality light. 85 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.680 You get a good loose media one that grows. Excuse 86 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.920 me that that you can moisten, but that isn't sop 87 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.319 and soggy wet. Really important to have good oxygen down 88 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:09.199 at the bottom of the cuttings when you put them 89 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:12.160 down in a growing mix to root them. I've got 90 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:14.560 some rooting hormone I keep in the refrigerator. That's how 91 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.480 you keep it fresh. And it's just a dust. You 92 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.480 can also buy it as a liquid. Just put a 93 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:23.480 little around the cutting, put it down into the mix 94 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.000 that you are going to use for rooting, and then 95 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.439 some kind of clear cover over the top that allows 96 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.759 all the light to get through, but it doesn't allow 97 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.600 the moisture out. You don't need them to dry out. 98 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.040 Think about this, that cutting has no way of taking 99 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:40.480 up moisture. It is rootless when you put it in there. 100 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.959 But as it develops roots, then it can begin to 101 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:45.920 take up its own moisture. And you don't have to 102 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:47.279 pull it out every day to look at it and 103 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:49.240 see if it has roots. If you do that, a 104 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:51.439 little tender root will break off and the cutting will die. 105 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.399 So you just wait and when you see new growth 106 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.959 starting on your cuttings, new little growth starting to grow out. 107 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:01.399 You know it's got something down that's taking up nutrients 108 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.560 to support that growth, and that means it has a root. 109 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:07.399 Rather than yank it out, I'll take a little fork, 110 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:09.680 like to use a little plastic fork just to get 111 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.160 underneath the cutting, kind of lift it up with the 112 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.839 fork and then kind of shake it just a little 113 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.319 bit and you can see the rooting media begin to 114 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.279 fall off and you can see the roots. Then you 115 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:21.560 pot it up into a new container and you're good 116 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:24.160 to go. Anyway. I've got several people that are wanting 117 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.759 some plants that I have, and so I'm just going 118 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:29.399 to root some cuttings today and get some of that done. 119 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.800 It's some the other day as well. It's a lot 120 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:33.800 of fun to do it now. Once they're kind of 121 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.639 established with some roots on them, they don't need to 122 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:40.639 stay indoors under lights. It's just it's so blazing hot 123 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.720 in the months to come that I just usually start 124 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:48.279 mine inside to do that. There's one other way that 125 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:51.959 you can start a cutting that's almost like guaranteed success. 126 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:54.600 It's close to guaranteed success, and that is with what's 127 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:59.279 called a layer la ye er. So let's say you 128 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:03.480 have a vining rows, you know, a climbing they call 129 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.600 them climbing roses. But and you go out toward the 130 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.160 end of the vine and you bend it, and as 131 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.560 you bend that it sort of cracks and it becomes 132 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.319 like a hinge, like an like your elbow. Okay, so 133 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.319 picture your elbow. Your fist is the end of the vine. 134 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:22.279 And you put that elbow under ground or in a 135 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:25.439 pot under the soil, have some way to pin it down. 136 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:27.839 Set a heavy rock on it, take a little bent 137 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.639 coat hanger and pin it down into the soil. Keep 138 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.680 that area moist. That wound will begin to callous where 139 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:37.040 your elbow is, and roots will begin to form, and 140 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:38.959 you just kind of have to check on it periodically, 141 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.240 not very often, every couple of weeks, maybe a little bit. 142 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:44.720 And once it's going got roots of its own, you 143 00:07:44.839 --> 00:07:47.720 cut it loose from mom. In other words, between your 144 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.279 I keep using my arm as the example, but between 145 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:53.399 your elbow and your bicep. You know it's connected to 146 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:55.519 your body that way, right, So you just cut it 147 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.160 off there and now it's its own plant. You can 148 00:07:58.199 --> 00:07:59.879 dig it up. I like to do it in containers, 149 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.000 because then you've already got it in a container and 150 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.879 you just keep going anyway. There's a lot of ways 151 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.519 to propagate, and propagating is fun. It's a great way 152 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:10.399 to share things also that you just can't find anywhere. 153 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:13.639 You know, maybe or maybe a plant has a wonderful memory, 154 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.399 you know, like it's one that you got from Grandma's 155 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.839 house before she passed. And now the house is gone, 156 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.600 it's no longer in the family, but everybody remembers that 157 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.120 you fill in the blank a shrub that was outside, uh, 158 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.920 and now you can share that with your other family 159 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.879 members as a memory of Grandma, for example. See what 160 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.600 I'm talking about. It's good to know how to do 161 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.879 some cuttings. Well, I'll tell you what we are getting 162 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:42.799 my excuse me, uh, looking at a time to take 163 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.240 a break here. I'll come right back, and Lisa in Seabrook, 164 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:48.399 you're gonna be our first stop when we come back. Alrighty, 165 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.960 welcome back. Good to have you with us here on 166 00:08:51.159 --> 00:08:54.039 garden Line. Look forward to visiting with you about the 167 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.200 questions you might have this morning. Seven one three two 168 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.960 one two kat r let's go out to the phones. 169 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.159 Now we're going to head out to Seabrook and visit 170 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.399 with Lisa. Hello, Lisa, Welcome to Gardenline. 171 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.480 Good morning, Good morning. We're looking for a small white 172 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.120 flowering tree, and yesterday I saw something called by Burnham. 173 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:15.039 Does that row well here? 174 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.039 Well, there's about one hundred and fifty different by Burnham's 175 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:23.720 literally probably more than that out there. There's some that 176 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:26.080 make little small bushes or some that get a little 177 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:31.360 bit taller. Some do okay here, and some do very 178 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.120 well here, and some need to be further north. It's 179 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.559 kind of a it's kind of hard to answer as 180 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.679 a single question, but there are a few that do 181 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.600 really good. There one that you might like. There's some 182 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:47.639 native ones, and if I were you, I would you're 183 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:50.240 done in Seabrook, I'd run over to Moss Nursery and 184 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.200 ask them what kinds they have, what kins they can 185 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.799 get that will be more tree form. If you go 186 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.559 a little further west from here, Rusty black Harvo Burnham 187 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:00.639 is really popular as a native tree. We have a 188 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.840 number of native I Burnhams here in the country, and 189 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.759 so that one is good. It can be a little 190 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.759 tricky to get started, but once it's established it's nice. 191 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.159 It has fall color and makes little berries that attract 192 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.360 the birds and things. But yeah, it just depends on 193 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:18.120 which one. The southern arrow wood, I wouldn't say it's 194 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.120 tree size, but it can get a little bit larger. 195 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.120 That would be a possibility. Just make sure you get 196 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:26.559 the southern one. So those are some of the things 197 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:29.120 if you're looking for other kinds of trees. Now, the 198 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:33.399 Chinese fringe I like a lot, but it gets it 199 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.039 probably you're going to see it eventually up around twenty 200 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.360 feet maybe tall is a tree. I don't know if 201 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:47.440 that's too big for what you're looking for or not. Okay, okay. 202 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.120 It has shaggy white blooms in the spring. You can 203 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.960 do an online search to see pictures of it. And 204 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:56.679 the blooms have a nice little fragrance, very light fragrance. 205 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.840 But there's so many of them that when you walk around, 206 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.320 you pick that fragrance up, which is nice. 207 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:10.159 Okay, thank you, you bet. 208 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:10.440 You bet. 209 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:12.039 We'll go over and talk to him at mosque because 210 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:13.639 they know what they're talking about over there, and they 211 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:15.879 can you know, they can point you in the right direction. 212 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.480 If there's a specific by Burnham you like to, you 213 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:21.559 run across and you want to call back some time, 214 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:23.799 I'd be happy to visit with you about you know, 215 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:28.039 more specifics, but most of them think of most by 216 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.039 Burnhams as big shrubs, and some of them can be 217 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:33.639 trained into kind of a tree form and do pretty good. 218 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.919 All right, Lisa, Well, thanks for the call. Good luck 219 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.799 with that. You take care if you are dealing with 220 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.559 gray leaf spot in your Saint Augustine, and you may 221 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:50.960 well be. Listen, gray leaf spots everywhere and the conditions, 222 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:55.840 environmental conditions make it become a problem. Okay, So you 223 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.000 go all through the heat of summer and you see 224 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.679 very little greatly spot at that time. But about now 225 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.919 the temperatures are a little milder, but we're getting more rainfall. 226 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:08.360 And then some people turn their sprinklers on way too often, 227 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.360 and that's when Gravey's spot takes off. An eagle turf 228 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.039 fungicide from nitrofoss can shut it down. It can shut 229 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.759 it down. Just remember your overwatering is one of the 230 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.960 things contributing to gray leaf spot in your Saint Augustine lawns. 231 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.600 So number one's let's back off good soaking not very 232 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.039 often when you need to treat for it. Eagle turf fungicide, 233 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:33.240 Eagle turf fung aside from nitrofoss You're gonna find Eagle 234 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:35.759 at Ace Hardware. City of Memorial. You're gonna find an 235 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:39.200 m dat and Rosenberg Bearings hardware on Bisonette and on 236 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.960 West Timer, and also plants fall seasons, plants for all 237 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.200 seasons as well. All righty, let's now head out the 238 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:49.720 League City and we're going to talk to Walter this morning. 239 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:51.360 Hey Walter, good morning. 240 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:53.080 Good morning. 241 00:12:54.159 --> 00:13:00.360 I sent you an email with quick tim regarding the 242 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:08.159 lawn changing colors to yellow, and I sent three pictures 243 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.480 along with the emails. Now, I forgot to mention to 244 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:16.320 you as something funny. Something funny is that I have 245 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:21.120 two oak trees and the leaves are like green and yellow, 246 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:23.879 and it seems to me that the lawn is taking 247 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.919 over the color of the yellow from the trees. I 248 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.639 don't know if that's a possibility or not, but I 249 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:34.600 follow your schedule and watering and fertilizing, and I'm not 250 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:38.399 really sure why this yellow. And it looks like I'm 251 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:42.919 the only one in the block that getting the grass 252 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:43.720 that is yellow. 253 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:50.519 Okay, so I have your pictures. I want you to 254 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:54.399 after we talk today and the sun comes up, go 255 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:58.000 out and pick some of the yellowish grass blades and 256 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.519 hold them up to the light. And I think what 257 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.360 you're going to see is when you look close, it's 258 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.279 striped yellow and green through up and down the length 259 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.480 of the grass blade. That's an iron deficiency. And I'm 260 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.159 ninety nine percent sure you're going to see that based 261 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.279 on the photos from a distance that you sent me. 262 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.639 If that's true, you can try an iron supplement on 263 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:29.120 the lawn and that will help replace the there's iron 264 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:30.919 in your soil. The grass can't get it because it's 265 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.679 in a form. Grass is not able to pick up 266 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.279 right now. So a supplement can help green it up 267 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:38.240 for you, and that would be a good idea. Be 268 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.080 very careful with your iron supplement because you've got driveways 269 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:44.240 and walkways and things. And if you get iron supplements 270 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:48.360 on concrete, it stains at a rust color. So after 271 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:53.200 you apply it, get your blower broom and get it 272 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.519 off the surfaces and then watered in really good. It 273 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.320 should do pretty good. I think you will also do 274 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:01.320 well if you get it as a liquid form. A 275 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:04.759 fertile home has a micro nutrient iron and other micro 276 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:08.720 nutrients supplement. It's by fertile home. It's in a gray bottle, 277 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.720 and it has more than just iron, It has manganese 278 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.600 and other things in it. And I might just do 279 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:18.440 it that way, maybe a hose hose en sprayer, and 280 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.840 that ought to green it up. Now, having set all that, 281 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.600 the question is why isn't the grass getting the iron 282 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.960 that's there in your soil one form One reason may 283 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.799 be if you have high pH or hyphosphorus or other things, 284 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.240 or there's a lack of iron. But another may be 285 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.360 a disease called take all root rot, which kills roots. 286 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:40.559 And when roots die, their ability to take up nutrients 287 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:42.960 goes down, or you may if they're not there, they 288 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.080 can't take them up at all. So the overall grass 289 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.039 plant is lacking because it doesn't have enough of a 290 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.000 root system to do that. If take all is the problem, 291 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:52.960 you're just going to need to go to my schedule, 292 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:57.639 my schedule on my website UH for UH Lawn Pest 293 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.639 Disease and weed Management, and you'll see take all root 294 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.960 run in the fungicide row going across and it tells 295 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.480 you when, and then at the bottom it tells you 296 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.639 what to use to control the take all. I can't 297 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:12.600 diagnose take all just from a distant picture of a lawn, 298 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:15.639 but having seen this so many times, I would say 299 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.120 there's a fifty to fifty chance that take All may 300 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.759 be involved. But still that fertilum supplement would be a 301 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:22.279 good IDEA. 302 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:29.960 Great, thanks so much. That's very comprehensive, and have a wonderful. 303 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.279 Day, all right, hopefully not too comprehensivell right, thank you, Walter. 304 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.519 I appreciate, appreciate your call very much. It's it's summer season, 305 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:40.480 and when it's summer, there are storms, and whether there 306 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:46.200 are storms, our trees can sustain severe damage. Remember last summer, 307 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.840 two storms came through and what was power out for 308 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:52.360 two weeks with each one, and at least some places 309 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:57.679 around town. You need to pureniture right to develop good structure. 310 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.960 And by the way, printing starts when you put the 311 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.879 tree in the ground. It's a little scrainy tree in 312 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.200 the ground. That's when we call it training at that stage, 313 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.680 but it's pruning that's when it begins. If you wait 314 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:15.440 until the tree is twenty feet high to begin pruning, 315 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:20.640 you're messing up because you've already developed narrow branch angles. 316 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.680 There's already structural things that aren't going to be good 317 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.559 and strong. So you want to start your trees early. 318 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.720 And that's where I would hire someone to come in 319 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.680 and help you with the training from the beginning. But 320 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:33.839 if you already have an established tree, you need someone 321 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:35.920 that knows what they're talking about to do the pruning. 322 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:42.400 And that process is not it's not that difficult. Just 323 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:44.680 remember that. It's like a lot of things in life. 324 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.920 The sooner you deal with an issue, the less problems 325 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.880 you're going to have, the less difficulty you're going to 326 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.160 have and trying to deal with it. Okay, don't put 327 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.000 things off, don't be an ostrich, put your head in 328 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.599 the scind if. I like to tell people this, if 329 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:04.960 if you go outside with a saw, you're admitting guilt. 330 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:08.720 And here's what that means. If you have a young 331 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:10.880 tree and you see branches and you go, this isn't 332 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:13.200 a good spot. I'm going to take my lopper prunters 333 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.200 and prune this off and you stay with it diligently 334 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:19.039 like that, you almost never need to get the saw out. Okay, now, 335 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.359 I realize there's situations where you got to solve branches, 336 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:24.480 but I'm just trying to keep create the concept that 337 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:27.839 the bigger the branches you're sawing off, the more you 338 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:29.960 have put off a problem that could have been dealt 339 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.039 with earlier. So don't from the time it goes in 340 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:36.839 the ground begin the prunting process and get somebody that 341 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.359 knows what they're doing. Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoonmore's company. 342 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:42.519 You heard about him on garden Line for a long 343 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.279 long time. They know what they're doing. You can call 344 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:47.960 seven one three six nine nine two six sixty three 345 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.279 get an appointment. It's a family company. Martin's mom's probably 346 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:53.480 going to answer the phone. UH, and just tell her 347 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.759 you heard about it on Guardenline. Because Guardenline customers go 348 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:57.960 to the front of their line. They're the priority. They're 349 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:02.440 the priority. So and they fill Affordable Tree stays busy. 350 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:06.160 They they fill up really quickly because they do good 351 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.960 work and people know them. So seven one three six 352 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:11.480 nine nine two six sixty three. And it's not just 353 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:14.000 for pruning, it's for advising on your trees. If you're 354 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.079 going to do construction around a tree, you gotta call 355 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:16.640 them to come in. 356 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:17.480 Uh. 357 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.119 This is a third generation company that's been in the 358 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:23.440 Houston area taking care of our trees for a long time. 359 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.200 Affordable tree Service seven one three six nine nine two 360 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:32.759 six six three Important to take care of your trees, 361 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.680 all right, take care of your trees, all right. Well, 362 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:37.519 I'm gonna take a little break here, David and Tumbull. 363 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:40.920 I don't have time to give you justice on your call. 364 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.599 Will take you first when we come right back. Oh yeah, 365 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:49.200 welcome back to the guard line. Folks. What are we 366 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:51.160 going to talk about today? You told me. I mean, 367 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:52.480 I got a lot of things I can talk about 368 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:54.960 a lot on my mind gardening wise, but hey, this 369 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:58.119 is about you. It's about your yard, your garden, your 370 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:03.799 flower bed. Let me give you one encouragement today this week, 371 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:08.039 well this week, how about today? Today? Be a good 372 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.599 day anyway, Get involved with a kid with gardening, if 373 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.599 you've got children, if you've got grandchildren, however you go 374 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:17.880 about it, get a kid out there in the garden, 375 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:20.319 get their hands in the dirt, and let them just 376 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:24.000 get dirty, make a mess, and have fun in the soil. 377 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.720 That is part of the fun of gardening. I know 378 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:31.240 some of you, you know, have sterilized kind of situations. 379 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:33.079 You keep kids in because you know when to get sick. 380 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:36.079 A kid that plays in the dirt. And this is 381 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:39.720 medically true. When we're exposed to a lot of things 382 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:43.960 like that, running around barefoot and stuff, it builds your 383 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:47.079 immune system and you're healthier. But a child that learns 384 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:50.200 to grow flowers and vegetables and things is more likely 385 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:53.359 to eat healthier Because I grew it, I'm going to 386 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:55.680 eat it. It's really different. Broccoli looks different when you 387 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:57.599 grew it, as opposed to when your mom's trying to 388 00:20:57.640 --> 00:20:58.559 shove it down your throat. 389 00:20:58.640 --> 00:20:58.759 Right. 390 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:01.960 Oh, by the way, today is National go barefoot Day, 391 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:05.720 so throw the shoes off. Nobody wears shoes today National 392 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:09.640 barefoot Day. Oh boy, I remember those days running barefoot 393 00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:12.519 all summer. There we go. All right, we're gonna go out. 394 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:14.799 The phones out, I'm gonna head the tumball. We're gonna 395 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.799 talk to David this morning. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line. 396 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:19.920 Good morning, Good morning, sir. 397 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:20.880 Hey. 398 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:26.119 I've got a grapefruit tree and a meyer lemon tree 399 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:29.559 that I planted about the same time, about a little 400 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:34.119 over a year ago. And the grapefruit tree, they both 401 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.000 were probably about a foot and a half tall when 402 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.960 I put them in the ground, and the grapefruit tree 403 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:42.759 now is about four feet tall. It's it's the limbs 404 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:45.720 are spreading out. It looks really good. It's doing real well. 405 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:50.119 The meyer lemon, if it was a foot tall when 406 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.039 I planted it, it's only a foot and a half 407 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:55.720 tall now and it's not doing at the same rate. 408 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.119 Is that just normal for that type of fruit? Or 409 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:00.599 doing something wrong? 410 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:03.359 Not that not that. 411 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:10.079 Unusual? Uh that that lack of growth. So it could 412 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:11.640 be a lot of things, and it could be more 413 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.079 than one too, probably not just one. Uh, lack of sunlight, 414 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:19.599 lack of good drainage in the soil, lack of moisture, 415 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:22.359 depend upon the soil going into a stress. Well there 416 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:24.359 erutriance done in them. 417 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:28.519 Well they're only about ten feet apart from each other. 418 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:35.039 And I'm putting the microt the tickers and fruit. I've 419 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:37.240 been putting that down about every two months, and I'm 420 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:41.839 going it's just not seem for what there it littles healthy. 421 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:46.119 All right, Well, you're doing everything you should do. Uh, 422 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:49.000 good sunlight. Let's see the other the other thing. And 423 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:51.559 I doubt this is the cause. But just keep in 424 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:54.079 mind that in the early days of these the early 425 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:57.079 years for two or three years of these plants getting 426 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:59.400 the fruit off so that it puts all its energy 427 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:02.480 into growing gives you way more fruit in the long run. 428 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:05.079 You know, I know, we want we've got a little bloom. 429 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:06.920 We want to have a fruit, a few fruit. But 430 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.680 that also really stunts them back. But I don't know 431 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:16.200 what else to tell you if it's really too early 432 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:19.319 for it to be a girdle a girdled stem. But 433 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:22.079 you might just dig down around the base of the 434 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:25.400 stem and make sure there's not something strangling the stem. 435 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:28.960 Sometimes the little tag, those little tags that loop around 436 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:30.920 and go through you know, there's a hole in the 437 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:33.240 tag and you wrap it around the tree and go 438 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:36.240 back through the hole. Sometimes those can be real tight 439 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.720 on the base of a stem or something else strangling 440 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.480 like that. I don't think that's the problem. But we're 441 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:45.000 kind of grabbing at straws here because everything else that 442 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:48.119 could go wrong you seem to have done right. So 443 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:52.519 I'll just continue to fertilize. You might want to give 444 00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.000 them a little boost of something with some nitrogen and 445 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:58.519 see if you can push a little bit more growth 446 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:02.160 on them. That would be good. Are you real sure 447 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:06.440 that the soil where that lemon is is very well drained. 448 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.119 I only imagine because I mean they're both on pretty 449 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:16.759 level ground. They're only about ten feet apart from each other. 450 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:20.279 So I'm going, well, I don't know, Okay, I'll take 451 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:20.640 and see you. 452 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:24.839 But okay, well, okay, well I'm going to eliminate that 453 00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:29.079 then from the possibilities, but I would get a booster nitrogen. 454 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:29.519 You know, the. 455 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:34.039 Product you're using for microlife is excellent, but they also 456 00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:38.359 have a supplement that it's called bio bio Matrix. It's 457 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:42.680 a little orange quart bottle and you can folier spray 458 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:46.599 with that as well, and I would try a drench 459 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:51.359 of that. It's a seven one three, I believe I 460 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:53.400 need to look at the bottle again the third number. 461 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:55.400 It's something like a seven one three. It's got mostly 462 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:58.960 nitrogen and you just drench it over the soil in 463 00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:01.359 a watering can. Can spray it on foliage. It's hard 464 00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:03.920 to get folier feed and a citrus, but if you 465 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:06.200 try to do that, do it early, early in the 466 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:10.079 morning when it's cool, and spray your folier spray upward 467 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:12.960 to hit the bottom of the leaves, and you may 468 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:15.039 get a little bit of a boost into the plant. 469 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:17.160 That way, but a good drenching of the root system 470 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:20.200 is also good. That That's about all I got for 471 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:24.480 you now, other than going out there and uh, threatening 472 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:26.319 the plant that you're going to yank it out of 473 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:28.039 the ground and throw it in the burn pile if 474 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:33.079 it start growing, and that I go out there and 475 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:36.559 sing you how's your well? Do you have a good voice, 476 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:41.640 because that could also be the problem that might be growth. 477 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:42.039 I don't know. 478 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:50.440 All right, thank you for the call. Appreciate that. All right, 479 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:53.079 let's see here where we we're going to go now 480 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.160 to a task. Casita and doctor Jim, Hey Jim, welcome 481 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:56.799 to guarden Line. 482 00:25:58.119 --> 00:25:58.680 Good morning. 483 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:02.200 The best way check moisture in the ground. 484 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:05.119 How do you do it? 485 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:05.839 Another one? 486 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:07.440 You're checking your trees? 487 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:14.039 Are we talking about fairly new planeted trees, you know, 488 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:16.359 in the first couple of years or what are. 489 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:16.799 We talking about? 490 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:18.880 Yeah? Okay, all new, they're all new. 491 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:24.359 Well, you know, the just the simple primitive way would 492 00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:28.359 be to go out there, get you a hand trowel 493 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:32.200 or something, dig down about four inches or so, about 494 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:34.480 four or five inches, and then just feel the soil 495 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:36.160 and see how it's doing and kind of get a 496 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:38.400 feel from it. That way literally a feel from it. 497 00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:39.200 Uh. 498 00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:44.000 There are moisture meters that are very erratic in their accuracy, 499 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:48.119 depending on so particle size and as to how well 500 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:52.880 they actually measure. When it's a tree in an area 501 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:55.880 that you think maybe getting could get too much water, 502 00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:59.960 some people will put a pipe down into the grain. 503 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:03.039 And let's say, I'm going to just make up a 504 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:04.960 number here, but let's say you got a pipe that 505 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:08.519 was about oh an inch and half in diameter and 506 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:11.839 you put it down into the ground at the depth 507 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:14.599 of the root ball that you planted. Then you can 508 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:16.960 come along with a little doll stick and stick it 509 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:19.240 down in that pipe and then pull it back out 510 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.640 and you can see if it's wet at the bottom 511 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:22.400 or not. You can see if they're standing water in 512 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:25.000 it or if you see what I'm saying, and you 513 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:28.240 always want to water it and don't overwater it. That 514 00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:31.079 that keeps you from kind of overwatering it, because if 515 00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:33.000 water is coming up in that pipe, that's not good. 516 00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:37.640 But the only other thing is just going by the 517 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:43.279 temperatures and doing a good moderate soaking just periodically to 518 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.960 help it along. And that's you know, you kind of 519 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.720 have to learn your soil, if you have sandy soil 520 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:51.559 or clay soil or whatever, frequency of watering is going 521 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:53.240 to vary a lot. Okay. 522 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:57.920 And also was just told that you should never water 523 00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:01.160 a newly planted tree day. Is that correct? 524 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:08.400 Well, that is a very good question. 525 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:13.319 And the reason why they said that because you should 526 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:16.759 give you should give the roots a chance to expand 527 00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:19.359 and find water on their own. Is that true? 528 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:23.559 I wouldn't say it that way. I tell you what 529 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.240 here in a nutshell is the deal on this when 530 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:30.160 you buy it. Let's see, you know, butterle of tree 531 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:32.599 for a tree whatever, and it's sitting in a garden center. 532 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:35.640 They're watering it every day to make sure it has 533 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:38.359 a good soaking and it stays wet. It depends on 534 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:40.799 the time and it's cooler and cloud and stuff. They're 535 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:42.799 not watering it every day. But my point is it 536 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:45.039 needs constant water because the whole root system is right 537 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:49.279 there in the pot, and the holes drain out well, 538 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:51.519 so you don't overwater it, so it doesn't hurt the 539 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:53.240 water like that. When you put it in the ground, 540 00:28:53.319 --> 00:28:55.759 the root system is still the same and the top 541 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:59.599 is still pumping water out through the leaves on warm 542 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:03.079 sunny days, so you are having to water frequently to 543 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.079 keep that little root ball moist. You don't want to 544 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:09.400 overwater it and get soggy. That is deadly to a tree. 545 00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:12.640 But on the other hand, even in moist soil, the 546 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:15.559 water can't wig end fast enough into that root ball 547 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:18.440 to supply the tree. You're going to need to water 548 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:21.319 the base of it. And gradually you're watering a bigger 549 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:25.400 area but less frequently, And it's just a it's a transition. 550 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:27.799 That's why it's so much better to plant and fall 551 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:31.039 and winter in spring because the demands aren't so high. 552 00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:34.400 When you plant in July and August, you can you 553 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:36.960 can plant then and keep a tree alive. But that 554 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:39.759 it's a touch and goat thing. Not too much water, 555 00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:43.319 not enough water, you know what I'm saying. So what 556 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:45.880 you said about watering every day, Yeah, I could see 557 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.759 a situation where you would water very lightly every day 558 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.440 that rootball, just don't overwater it. That's early on, But 559 00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:55.000 as soon as you can, you're wanting to back off, 560 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:58.640 and you're wanting to switch your watering cycle to where 561 00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:01.480 eventually within by the time that you get the end 562 00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:04.160 of the first summer, you should be watering about once 563 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:06.039 a week, and that ought to be more than enough. 564 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:12.400 The next question you mentioned, Hey, hey. 565 00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:14.279 Jim, I'm gonna have to put I might to put 566 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:16.039 you on. I got to put you on. Who go 567 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:20.720 to a break? Hang on, we'll come back. Alrighty, we're 568 00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:23.359 hopping here on Guarden Line. Good to have you with us. 569 00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:28.400 I guess what I did yesterday? I barbecued. I had 570 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:31.559 a go ahead time barbecue with my new pellet grill 571 00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:34.319 that I got at Ace Hardware. Our ACE Hardware is 572 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:36.960 yours if you are thinking, if you're in the market 573 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:40.079 for a barbecue bit or any accessories to go with it. 574 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:42.240 And I'm talking about the best brands you can think 575 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:43.880 of out there. I mean the you know, things like 576 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:46.920 Big Green Egg, things like Trager, things like Rectick, things 577 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:50.240 like oh gosh, what's Weber? There's another one in there more. 578 00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:52.599 I mean, I'm not naming them all. Ace Hardware has 579 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:54.599 got it and they've got all the accessories you need 580 00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:56.519 to go with them. Uh, you need to find your 581 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:02.079 local Ace Hardware store Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Listen, ladies, 582 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:06.079 Father's Days coming up. I'm just saying, wow, this would 583 00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:09.559 be a good one. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Find 584 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:12.039 your local ACE Hardware store. They're all over the place, 585 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:14.839 and at Acehardware Texas dot Com you can find out 586 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:17.119 of course when you're in there, get some fertilizer for 587 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.000 your lawn, get all the kinds of things you need 588 00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:22.799 to have a beautiful outdoor living experience. You can go 589 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:25.519 to All Star Ace and Spring up on Rayford Road. 590 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:28.039 You can go to K and M in Kingwood, which 591 00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:30.400 is on Kingwood Drive. There's also a K and M 592 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.079 at task Asita, which is in an humble address out 593 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.960 there on the east to the north and east of 594 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:39.119 us Cyprus Ace on Jones Road another good example. And 595 00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:41.359 if you're done in Deer Park, there's deer Park Ace, 596 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:46.119 deer Park Lumber, Ace Hardware on Center Street. That's just 597 00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:49.119 a few of the many, many ACE Hardware stores that 598 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:55.039 you'll find at ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. We're going 599 00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:58.319 to go now back to a task Asita and Jim, 600 00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:00.599 I think you had a quick follow up question. 601 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:03.519 Right, and also to help you out on that that 602 00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:08.400 Microlife Biometrics is a seven to one three Ye that 603 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.160 last call you have seven three okay, yeah, okay, yeah. 604 00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:16.079 When mixing I mix the four to two three with 605 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:19.720 the microlife, soil and plant energy. I made a mix 606 00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:23.720 of that. You have mentioned something about spring. You said 607 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:27.440 spray upwards under the leaf, but if you just spray 608 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:31.920 inside and under it and all around, that also helps correct. 609 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:38.720 Yeah, So the reason folio feeding is an unnatural way 610 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:41.359 for plants to kind of take in nutrients there. Plants 611 00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:44.400 are designed taking nutrients from the roots. Okay, but if 612 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:46.759 you follow your feed in the morning, the stomates, which 613 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:49.319 are little openings in the bottom of the leaf are open, 614 00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:53.400 and you get better take in of the nutrients. And 615 00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:55.720 not all nutrients are taken in the same on leaves 616 00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:59.079 for folio feeding. Centris tends to have a waxy kind 617 00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:02.680 of leaf surface anyway, a little shining, and so just 618 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:04.880 spraying over the top you're not going to get the uptake. 619 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:07.240 But in the morning, when the stowmates are open, spring 620 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.440 upward to the undersurfaces would be the way to go 621 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:14.799 about that. All righty, thank you sir. I'm gonna I'm 622 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.119 gonna need yeah, I'm gonna need to run, but thanks 623 00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:20.680 for the call. Jim. Look forward to, uh, you know, 624 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:23.680 seeing some pictures of these these beautiful trees that you're 625 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:30.839 taking care of you take care you too, talking about 626 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:33.559 the ace hardware and just you know, find everything you 627 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.519 need there. They have everything. I mean they have. You 628 00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:38.720 can get the propane tank there. If you've got a 629 00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:43.400 gas type grill, that's another another thing. Uh, and any 630 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:47.839 kind of outdoor beautification around, you know, a patio of 631 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:51.359 landscape stuff. They've got all this good stuff for it. Hey, 632 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.359 have you been to Plants for All Seasons recently? Plants 633 00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:59.119 for All Seasons is at Luetta and Tumball Parkway, which 634 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.599 is highway to So if you're going north from Houston 635 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:06.240 toward Tomball, you exit Luetta across over Luetta and it's 636 00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:08.079 right there on the right hand side. And if you're 637 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:10.239 a green thumb, you probably already know about Plants for 638 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:13.719 All seasons. If you think you have a brown thumb, well, 639 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:16.320 I'll take your thumb in there and they'll educate it. 640 00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:20.079 They know what they're doing. They're true lawn and garden experts. 641 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.360 They really know their stuff. Right now, they've got some 642 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:27.079 beautiful hidden gingers in a number of different types of 643 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:29.599 hidden ginger. They carry a variety of plants. I'm just 644 00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:33.119 picking one out hidden ginger. If you've got a bright, 645 00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:36.840 bright shady area is a perfect plant for that. It's 646 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:39.440 got a big kind of a can of leaf sized leaf, 647 00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:42.719 maybe a little smaller than that, and then these bloomstalks 648 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:44.920 that are just beautiful. They make a cup flowers too, 649 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:46.880 by the way, but they come up from the center 650 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:48.679 of the plant. That's why they call it hidden because 651 00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:51.119 it's not like the bloom is just sitting way above 652 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.960 the foliage. It's kind of in the top of the 653 00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:56.119 plant there. Beautiful and you got they got them plants 654 00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:58.880 for all seasons, which isn't a surprise. They carry everything 655 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:01.960 that would turn your lawn into a more or your 656 00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:06.679 landscape into a more beautiful place in the springtime. If 657 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:08.039 you want to get them a call two eight one 658 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:11.800 three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three 659 00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:17.000 seven six one six four six. You're listening to Gardenline. 660 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:18.679 I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're about to take a 661 00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:20.800 little break here for the top of the hour news 662 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:23.480 and we'll be back with your calls. Sunday morning is 663 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:25.719 always a good time to call because it's a little 664 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:30.039 bit quieter. People more sleepy heads on Sunday mornings seven 665 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:34.159 one three, two one two fifty eight, seventy four or 666 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.519 if you want to dial by letter seven eight seven 667 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.800 one three two one two ktr H seven one three 668 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.519 two and two k t r H. And we're going 669 00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:44.880 to take a little break here in just a second. 670 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.639 I want to remind you that my schedules are online 671 00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:52.760 and they are free. Go to gardening with Skip dot com. 672 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:57.199 Gardening with Skip dot com. That's where you're gonna find him. 673 00:35:57.679 --> 00:35:57.800 Uh. 674 00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:02.480 The lawn care schedule is there. The pests, disease and 675 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:07.320 weed management schedule is there. The publication on herbicide products 676 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.679 for application with my weed wiper or without the weed 677 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.719 wiper is there. I got to call yesterday someone had 678 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:15.559 a grassy weeds and they wanted to kill the grass, 679 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:17.960 but not kill their pretty flowers in the bed. Well, 680 00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:20.599 there are actually some products on the schedule they just 681 00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:24.800 kill grass. So whatever kind you're going after, it's right there. 682 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:27.480 Good article on lawn care long Care one oh one. 683 00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.760 I would highly recommend that you read that. It talks 684 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.800 about some of the basics of success with lawns and then, 685 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:36.800 of course, you know me, you got to talk about dirt. 686 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:42.239 Great gardens begin with great soil. Another new publication up 687 00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:51.039 on Gardeningwiskip dot com well, welcome back to gardening. Gardening 688 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:55.440 on garden Line. That's what we're doing here, plant in 689 00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:57.760 the airways. I guess you could say, I don't know, 690 00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:59.880 tell that sounds a little bit corny to me. But 691 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:03.400 we want to help you have success. And today is 692 00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:04.760 going to be a good day to get out and 693 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:09.000 enjoy this afternoon, we're gonna have some nice weather at least, 694 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:11.199 you know, as far as I'm concerned whether we can 695 00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:13.679 we can actually get out and get a little bit 696 00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:19.880 done in Sometimes when it comes to gardening and gardening tasks, 697 00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:23.119 I think we we tend to kind of make something 698 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.159 bigger than it needs to be. You know, we think, 699 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:26.559 oh my gosh, I got to do this, I don't 700 00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:28.960 know how to do this and stuff. It's really it's 701 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.320 really not that difficult, and when you take it in 702 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:33.039 small chunks, it works pretty good. 703 00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:33.239 Now. 704 00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:35.960 I'm I need to take my own advice there, because 705 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.719 I get out gardening and I feel like I got 706 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.000 to get it all done today, you know, and I 707 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:42.800 go and go Instead of spending a short time out 708 00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.199 getting some things done and going doing some other stuff 709 00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:47.840 come back to another time. I just tend to stick 710 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:50.960 around and nothing else nothing else gets done that day 711 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.360 but my gardening. And when summer comes and it's blazing hot, 712 00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:56.920 that is not a good way to do. Get a 713 00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:59.760 little work done early, early in the morning, get maybe 714 00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:01.719 a little done toward the end of the day. It's 715 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:05.079 still warm at the end day. But pace yourself. Take 716 00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:06.840 care of yourself too, by the way, take care of 717 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:12.119 yourself because a lot of things that they sneak up 718 00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:14.599 on us. For example, a heat stroke is one that 719 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:17.639 can sneak up on you. I remember, I've never had 720 00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:20.840 heat stroke. I have had heat exhaustion, and that scared 721 00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:26.079 me enough to kind of get my attention. But skin damage, 722 00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:29.559 you know, take care of that. I bought some little 723 00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:31.840 sleeves that you slide up your arm. They're actually a 724 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:35.880 kind that like bicyclists might wear. On one end your thumb, 725 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.840 there's a hole for your thumb and your fingers to 726 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.960 come out, and the sleeve just goes over the top 727 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:42.239 of your hand and all the way back, all the 728 00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:44.719 way up into your bicep underneath your short sleeve shirt. 729 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.960 And I use those driving in the car, but I 730 00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:50.360 also get out there and do some gardening. There's some 731 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:54.360 nice brands out there. Come in different colors and shape, 732 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:57.679 sizes and things. But take care of your skin. Sun 733 00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:02.440 damages is cumulative. And these sleeves you may be thinking, yeah, 734 00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:04.559 it's blazing hot. I don't wear them. It's cooler to 735 00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.960 wear them. When I put that sleeve on, it's very 736 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:12.000 it's very thin, a very kind of spandexy, I guess 737 00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:15.400 very you know, stretchy. And when I go out and 738 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:17.880 if your body perspires just a little bit, it cools 739 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:20.440 off real fast. It blocks the direct sun from getting on. 740 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:23.840 You just got good SPF factor and it makes gardening easier. 741 00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:27.039 The first time someone convinced me that gardening in a 742 00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:31.639 long sleeve shirt was actually cooler than gardening and shirt sleeves, 743 00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:35.199 and it's really true, especially if it wicks the moisture 744 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:39.599 away pretty well. All right, well that's enough advice. I'm 745 00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:43.239 not your mom, but I do. I do like to 746 00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.760 remind people of those things because they are important. We 747 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.840 want you to take care of yourself. Out in the 748 00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:52.559 garden yesterday we were watching the birds coming to our feeder. 749 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:56.519 I have the eliminator feeder from wild Birds Unlimited. It's 750 00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:59.639 one of my several feeders, but the eliminator from wild 751 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:02.440 Birds on Limited. The squirrels can't get in it. They 752 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:04.800 climb up the pole, they try to reach over there. 753 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:06.599 When they grab a hold of it, the door shuts 754 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:08.360 and they can't get to the food. And they don't 755 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:11.559 like that, and I do like that. And we were 756 00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:14.480 watching birds coming to the feeders, and just so many 757 00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:16.880 kinds of birds now are out and about. You know, 758 00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:20.960 it's nesting season. This is a time when birds need 759 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:24.760 an extra powerful blend that's going to have the oils, 760 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:27.719 the proteins, the calcium and things like that that are 761 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.960 all part of everything from laying eggs to skeletal development 762 00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:35.239 of the birds. And wild Birds Unlimited has something called 763 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:38.239 Nesting Super Blend. It's only available there. You can't get 764 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:40.360 it anywhere else. You can buy it in bags, you 765 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:44.199 can buy it by those compressed seed cylinders. So whatever 766 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:46.280 kind of feeder you have, you can put the Nesting 767 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:49.800 super Blend in it, and you need to. It is 768 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:52.519 a good support for our birds at this time. Now 769 00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.599 you're going to find Nesting Super Blend at any of 770 00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:59.159 our six wild Birds Unlimited stores here in the Houston AIO. 771 00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:02.039 So if you're listening to me and you're up in Cypress, well, 772 00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:05.280 there's one on Barker Cypress. Maybe you're kind of West 773 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.599 Houston and a Memorial Drive store would be the one 774 00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:11.199 close to you. Maybe kind of south in a little 775 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:14.280 to the west, the bel Air store may be the 776 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:17.480 best one for you. If you're in Pairland on East Broadway, 777 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:19.679 you'll find a wild Birds. In clear Lake, there's one 778 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:23.159 on El Dorado, and in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive another 779 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.360 wild Bird's unlimited store. Now, while you're there, check out 780 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.320 everything they have and spend some time talking to them. 781 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:34.519 Take your questions, and these folks know what they're talking about. 782 00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.960 They really do. They're experts, and if you have questions, 783 00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:41.960 they can help you. They can help you find the solutions. 784 00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:46.320 I love their bird seed for a number of reasons, 785 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:51.400 but mainly because it is quality seed without all the filler. 786 00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.599 If you want to sell bird seed and you want 787 00:41:55.639 --> 00:41:58.039 to sell it cheap, and I use the word cheap 788 00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:00.960 not in a positive way, you just fill it full 789 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.239 of the lower red bebes. And I've seen bird seed 790 00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:08.920 that is like sixty seventy percent red bebes. That's a 791 00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:13.840 sortum and it just birds don't like that. That's not 792 00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:15.800 I mean, if they're starving to death, de leat it, 793 00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:17.400 but that is not what they like. It ends up 794 00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:19.480 on the ground and it sprouts, and now you got 795 00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:22.000 weeds under your bird feeder because you planted the weeds 796 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.840 there by putting that in the feeder. Get a quality feed. 797 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:31.320 Wild Birds Unlimited has blends for different seasons. They have 798 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:34.880 different blends for different kinds of birds, different groups of birds, 799 00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.000 and then they have something called no mess blends. So 800 00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:41.280 when you get a no mess blend, you're getting this 801 00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:45.440 certain amount of certain kinds of seed blend, but you're 802 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:48.599 getting it so there's zero mess. For example, if there's 803 00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:51.400 sunflowers in it, the shells are already off, so you 804 00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:54.719 don't have a blow pole sunflower shells underneath the feeder. 805 00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:58.679 That's the no messed option, no mess option, and they 806 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:01.679 will will sell you probably and cylinders if you want 807 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:04.280 to go that way, or loose bags, however you want 808 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:06.719 to go about it. They have quality products and you 809 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:09.320 see the difference. I've seen it in my feeders, just 810 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:12.000 the enthusiasm and the amount of birds that are coming. 811 00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:14.440 They're just lining up down the block to get in there. 812 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:18.559 Because I love quality seed, and that's exactly what they 813 00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:22.039 get from wild Birds unlimited. All right, So there you go. 814 00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.840 If you've never gotten into birds, you need to try. 815 00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:29.760 Just get one bird feeder, put it out where you 816 00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:31.920 sit in the morning with your cup of coffee, and 817 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.920 you will really really enjoy it. It is addictive. Though 818 00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:45.559 you've been warned all right on talking about gardening and 819 00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:47.960 garden line. I wanted to talk a little bit about 820 00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:50.760 some herbs today, and I'm not going to have time 821 00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:52.880 to get too far into them here before I take 822 00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:57.079 a break, but I just wanted to start with basil. 823 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.920 Basil loves hot weather. I didn't even want to grow 824 00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:03.960 when it's cool spring weather. It wants hot weather. And 825 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.639 there are so many kinds of basil from the standard 826 00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:11.039 Genoees kind of type basil that you would think of 827 00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:16.199 when you're thinking about cooking with basil and making pestos 828 00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:20.199 and things like that, to all these flavored basils. You know, 829 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:25.440 there's basils that are a lemony flavor. I have the 830 00:44:26.079 --> 00:44:31.039 African blue basil. I'm not particularly fond of it culinary wise, 831 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:34.119 but some people love that flavor. There's basils with the 832 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.800 licorice type of flavor, the tie basil and things, and 833 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.960 I grow the African blue just for the pollinators. I've 834 00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:45.039 never seen a plant that's just so covered with pollinators 835 00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:47.159 all the time. Is African blue basil when it goes 836 00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:50.320 to blum. It's a very good, hardy plant. But why 837 00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.679 not add some basil to your gardens this year. It 838 00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:54.119 could go in a flower bed, it can go in 839 00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:56.360 a vegetable garden. It doesn't matter where you put it 840 00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.480 in a container. But we went out the other day 841 00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:01.800 and we were harvesting herbs. One of my daughters was 842 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:06.199 out chopping through our oregano bringing some in because we 843 00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:09.480 were doing some cooking. And it's just nice having fresh 844 00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:12.360 herbs yourself, and they're not hard to grow. I'll talk 845 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:14.800 about that more. We come back. All right now, we're 846 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.559 gonna take a little break if you'd like to give 847 00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:19.320 me a call. Seven one three two one two KTRH. 848 00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:24.599 All right, folks, we're back. Good Davey back. Thanks for 849 00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:27.039 hanging around with us on garden Line this morning. We've 850 00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.480 got some interesting questions here. In fact, let's head up 851 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:33.559 to Cyprus and visit with Martha this morning. Hey, Martha, 852 00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:34.599 welcome to garden Line. 853 00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:40.320 Thanks Jim. I had this plant. I got it a 854 00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:43.239 couple of years ago and had it repotted into a 855 00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:46.119 bigger pot, and I put it out on the atrium for. 856 00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:49.360 The cold weather and when I look and then. 857 00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:51.079 I forgot about it. So I looked at it just 858 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:55.360 recently and it had grown tremendously and the big leaves 859 00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:58.719 had fallen down as you be. And I don't know 860 00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:01.039 whether to cut them off whether. I don't know what 861 00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:04.159 I should do with that plant. It's pretty healthy, but 862 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:05.320 I don't know what to do with it. 863 00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:09.639 Yes, well, that's a kellal lily, the one you sent 864 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:13.320 me the photos of. And Kellalies are wonderful plants, that is. 865 00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:16.719 You know, there's eight hundred thousand bazillion kinds of plants 866 00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:18.719 out there, and believe it or not, in almost forty 867 00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.679 years now, I haven't gotten around all of them yet. 868 00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:26.599 And so keller lily is one that I began working 869 00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:29.519 with more last year, and we planted a bunch of it, 870 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:31.760 and I thought it in a pot, and we thought 871 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.079 they had all died because they kind of shrunk back 872 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:36.639 and shribbled. But I just set the pot out of 873 00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:39.559 the way because and the time at the moment to 874 00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:41.719 mess with it. In this spring, we came out the 875 00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:43.360 same thing as we looked and all of a sudden, 876 00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:45.679 here comes kllalilies out of the pot. Oh that's great, 877 00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:50.159 But yours look a little lanky and kellalily And it's 878 00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:56.559 a native environment. It's an African plant. I'm pretty sure that. Yeah, 879 00:46:56.639 --> 00:46:59.079 I'm pretty sure that's right. Anyway, it gets a lot 880 00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:02.000 of sun, full sun kind of thing. Now, I've always 881 00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:04.719 felt like maybe we should put it in a little 882 00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:07.039 bit of a break from the hottest time of the day. 883 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.719 So when we get into hotter summer weather, maybe give 884 00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:12.480 it a little bit of a very late day shade. 885 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:16.440 But it'll be a more compact plant that way. When 886 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:19.360 it gets super lanky and the petiols are thin of 887 00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.400 what you described, Martha and what's in your photos, they 888 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:25.800 kind of flop over, and I wouldn't remove them. If 889 00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:27.800 they turn yellow, go ahead and cut them back near 890 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:32.639 where they attach at the base. But they are capturing sunlight, 891 00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:37.000 and they're making carbohydrates, and they're feeding the little bulbs 892 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:42.159 that are that are in the soil there. So make 893 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:44.239 sure that you leave the leaves on as long as 894 00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:46.039 you can, as long as they're doing something for you. 895 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:50.039 Well, is it better to plant it out in the ground. 896 00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:57.440 Some people do. Yeah, some people do. They they like 897 00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:01.440 consistently moist soil. It's a little dry, they're not going 898 00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:05.039 to be happy. So in a container, you need to 899 00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:08.239 water them regularly to keep that soul moist. Some people 900 00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.760 even go to the step of getting a tray that 901 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:15.159 they can put water in and then they set the 902 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.880 plant in that tray. And I don't mean like the 903 00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:22.440 plant is immersed in water. I mean just like maybe 904 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:26.400 the bottom inch of the soil in the pot is underwater, 905 00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:29.639 and so it can constantly lick the water up. And 906 00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:31.719 that way you don't forget to water it. You just 907 00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:34.599 have to throw some mosquito dunks in there periodically, so 908 00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:36.119 you don't breed mosquitoes in that. 909 00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:41.239 Oh okay, okay, okay, all right, I'll try that. I 910 00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:43.639 mean because it looks really healthy. I was shocked when 911 00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:45.880 I looked at it because I hadn't looked at it 912 00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:46.320 for a lunch. 913 00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:50.320 Yeah. Yeah, look, no, it does look very healthy and 914 00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:51.480 it's beautiful. 915 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:51.960 Now. 916 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.000 The sunlight they're capturing now helps build the energy reserves. 917 00:48:57.079 --> 00:48:59.639 And I said earlier a bulb, it's actually a rhizome 918 00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:03.920 to produce the flowers. So at the end of the season, 919 00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.920 your foliage is gonna, you know, just kind of disappear 920 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:10.800 away and the plan will go dormant. And then in 921 00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:13.320 winter let them be dry, just let them sit, let 922 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:15.400 the pots sit there, and you don't have to worry 923 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:18.280 about water or anything in the winter. And then when 924 00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:20.920 the spring growth comes, you will have those bulbs that 925 00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:24.440 have the energy they need to be able to bloom 926 00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:25.719 better for you next year. 927 00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:30.960 Okay, okay, okay, all right, okay, thanks, I guess I'll 928 00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:31.280 keep it. 929 00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:37.840 Oh gosh, you got to keep it? Yeah, you bet, 930 00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:38.519 you bet. 931 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:38.760 Well. 932 00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:40.039 Enjoy it. They're beautiful. 933 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:44.199 Yeah, it's in an atrium and it does get some there. 934 00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:48.280 But I should put it out, probably right, I mean 935 00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:52.400 I put it, I think so, yeah, from the winter. 936 00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:58.000 And yes, I but pot we had last year that 937 00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:01.000 I didn't have in good sunlight, uh, and then it 938 00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:02.960 came out this year. It was lanky like that because 939 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:05.679 it's not an enough sun uh. And it had one 940 00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:10.000 we call them blooms, but their spaths, those those colorful 941 00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:12.719 structures that are on top of a calo lily. It 942 00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:15.000 only had one for the whole plant. And it's just 943 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.559 because it didn't have the energy. It's all about sunlight. 944 00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:22.320 Carbon energy for any kind of I didn't. 945 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:25.800 See any flowers at all. I didn't I've never seen 946 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:28.360 any flowers on it. Do I need to feed it? 947 00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:32.000 Then we'll take good care of it, okay, all right? 948 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:39.719 Well moderate, just just moderate something with a good phosphorus content. Yeah, 949 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.280 just a oh gosh, yeah, just a moderate amount. As 950 00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:47.519 you can see, it doesn't lack for nitrogen. It's it's 951 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:50.480 got some bigger in it. It looks okay, but just 952 00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:52.840 a moderate amount. Don't don't overdo it because then it 953 00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.960 gets real floppy and lanky. All right, thanks for the 954 00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:59.000 thanks for the call. I appreciate that, Martha. All right, 955 00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:01.599 next year, when you take care of it, uh, send 956 00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:04.679 me a picture of all the blooms on it. Will 957 00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:08.360 take a look at those. Uh yeah, kalallyes. You see 958 00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:10.559 those in stores now, they're selling them, you know, full 959 00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:12.239 of blooms. They have been for a little while now, 960 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:14.480 they've been probably the last month I've been seeing them 961 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:16.719 out there in stores. It's a good plant. 962 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:17.639 You know. 963 00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:19.679 There's a lot of plants like that. We just don't 964 00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:24.199 we don't use them enough and and deal with them enough, 965 00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:27.079 and they end up it's like that's hard to grow. 966 00:51:27.159 --> 00:51:27.719 It doesn't work. 967 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:27.960 Well. 968 00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:29.800 All you had need is to know is what a 969 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.280 plant wants. You got to think like a plant, you know. 970 00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:34.519 That's why I said there's no green thumbs, there's just 971 00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.800 informed thumbs. Well, now, if you got a kalally, give 972 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.719 it good sunlight, keep it constantly moist, do not let 973 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:43.679 it dry out. Let it dry out in summer I 974 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:45.519 mean in the winter, and set dormant and bring it 975 00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:49.039 back out and you'll have It's easy care. It really 976 00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:52.320 is easy. We did nothing, do nothing for our calilies 977 00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:54.519 from the end of the season all the way up 978 00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:56.880 until spring. When you start to see new growth. That's 979 00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:58.360 when you bring it out and give it some good 980 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.519 sunlight again. All right, there you go, and some people, 981 00:52:01.800 --> 00:52:03.719 if some of you grow them in the shade in 982 00:52:03.800 --> 00:52:05.519 your beds, give me a call. I'd like to hear 983 00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:07.280 about what you do, how much light they get, and 984 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:12.000 everything like that. I know you can, and so maybe 985 00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:15.239 that that would be of interest to some other folks 986 00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:22.079 to hear about your success. Medina. Medina is a lawn 987 00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:26.800 and garden product source for all kinds of good things. 988 00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:29.199 There are two products I want to tell you about 989 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:31.480 right now. One of them is and they both go 990 00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:34.440 on a hose end. They're a bottle that has a 991 00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:38.400 little screw attachment onto the garden hose. One of them 992 00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:41.840 is Medina has to grow lawn, has to grow lawn. 993 00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:44.840 Remember when a bottle says the name of a plant, 994 00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.480 that doesn't mean you can't use it on other plants. 995 00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:50.559 It just means that's what they're primarily marketing it for, 996 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:54.280 is lawns. Okay, it's a It is a twelve four eight. 997 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:56.519 That's a three one two ratio, which is what I 998 00:52:56.760 --> 00:52:59.840 like to see in a lawn fertilizer. Twelve for a 999 00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:02.639 Medina has to grow on You look it up at 1000 00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:04.559 the garden hose, you go over your lawn, just follow 1001 00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:07.639 the instructions. It's easy. It's just really easy to do. 1002 00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:10.480 I like it because if you've got some spots that 1003 00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:13.719 they just need a boost, you can go out there 1004 00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:16.079 with your hose end sprayer. The hose end sprayer be 1005 00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:18.440 in the bottle itself and you can just kind of 1006 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:21.519 dose those areas, I say, feather it out into the others. 1007 00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:23.880 You know, just you don't have just a line like 1008 00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:26.000 with a dry fertilizer, where you drop it and then 1009 00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:28.679 where it's not it's like green here, not green there. 1010 00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:31.199 You can just kind of feather it out and really 1011 00:53:31.480 --> 00:53:33.360 kind of give a boost to some little spots. But 1012 00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:35.800 it's not just for that, it's for your lawn. The 1013 00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:39.800 other product for Medina is called Supergrow Plus. Super Grow 1014 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:42.920 Plus same thing, bottle, hook it up to a garden hose. 1015 00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:46.159 I mean these things are for sale in larger quantities too, 1016 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:50.480 like gallons. But Supergrow Plus is a sixteen zero two 1017 00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:54.920 that is a boost of nitrogen and it's excellent for lawns. 1018 00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:58.880 It works very very well. I've used both of them. 1019 00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:01.639 I like both of them. I would recommend that you 1020 00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:04.320 use both of them. And so it just gives you 1021 00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:07.559 the ability to do that precision application. Now, if you 1022 00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:09.840 get anything that needs a boost of nitrogen and get 1023 00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:12.280 it growing. Could be your herb garden, could be your 1024 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.679 tomato plants and a vegetable garden or something else, you 1025 00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:19.239 can use these Medina lawn products for that and it'll 1026 00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:22.440 do the same good thing for those other plants as well. 1027 00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:27.159 All righty Medina products from Medina. Now you're gonna find 1028 00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:30.440 Medina products everywhere you go to Southwest Fertilizer. I mean 1029 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:33.679 they got probably every Medina product under the sun. You're 1030 00:54:33.679 --> 00:54:35.719 going to find them at garden centers, you know you're 1031 00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:38.199 your independent garden centers. You're going to find them at 1032 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:40.880 feed stores. You're going to find them at these hardware stores. 1033 00:54:41.719 --> 00:54:44.760 They're widely available, easy to find, and they work, that's 1034 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:49.400 the bottom line. As they work. You're listening to garden Line. 1035 00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:52.320 My number here is seven one three two one two 1036 00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:57.679 kt r H seven one three two one two kt 1037 00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:00.800 RH makes it really easy to give a call and 1038 00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:03.039 we'll talk about the things that are of interest to you. 1039 00:55:03.159 --> 00:55:04.599 I'm going to go back to herbs. I was talking 1040 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.880 about herbs before break and I mentioned the fact that 1041 00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:12.280 basil loves heat. It's easy, easy, easy to grow. Give 1042 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:15.880 it lots of sun and enjoy it. Most types of 1043 00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:20.079 basil will start to bloom and set seeds. If you're 1044 00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:23.480 going for basil foliage to eat, that's not a good 1045 00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:27.159 thing because when it starts blooming and setting seeds, it 1046 00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:30.800 doesn't produce the big, old, nice leaves that you're wanting 1047 00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:34.239 to harvest. It kind of runs out and it puts 1048 00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:37.639 all its energy into blooming and setting seed. That's when 1049 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:40.320 the pollinators get very interested in it, though, so you 1050 00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:42.599 can go for that. I will share my basil back 1051 00:55:42.719 --> 00:55:45.159 periodically to get fresh new growth on it, give it 1052 00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:48.400 a little boost of energy with some nitrogen that has 1053 00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:52.079 to grows twelve four eight has to grow on would 1054 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:53.679 be a good one to use for basil to give 1055 00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:56.519 it a little boost. But anyway, you give it a 1056 00:55:56.559 --> 00:55:58.880 boost and get some fresh new growth out and then 1057 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:01.920 you just can enjoy it. Again. Consider all the different 1058 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:06.159 kinds I mentioned oregano. There's several types of oregano, several 1059 00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:09.639 types of oregano that you can plant. Oregano makes a 1060 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:14.800 great groundcover. I would highly recommend you get herbs out 1061 00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:17.079 of the herb garden if you want to make a 1062 00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:21.800 beautiful Louis the fourteenth type geometric, all trimmed up in 1063 00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:24.960 everything herb garden, go for it, do that right, but 1064 00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:28.559 put herbs in your vegetable garden. I have chives at 1065 00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:32.320 the end of my rose. I have a regano growing 1066 00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:33.840 at the end of the I put basil at the 1067 00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:35.519 end of the tomato. In fact, if you're going to 1068 00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:37.800 grow tomatoes, why not put basil on one end and 1069 00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.000 a regano in the other. And you're just ready to 1070 00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:42.000 go for all the stuff you do with tomatoes right 1071 00:56:42.039 --> 00:56:43.400 there in your garden. 1072 00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:44.320 Do that. 1073 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:48.280 Time is another great one. It's not as vigorous as 1074 00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:50.960 a regano and spreading, but it stays nice and low 1075 00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:53.199 for the most part, and it does really well. I 1076 00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:56.800 think we My wife has like three a time growing 1077 00:56:57.039 --> 00:57:01.480 in her planting garden and it looks really good. Makes 1078 00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:05.079 a good good groundcover. You can do all of these 1079 00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:07.599 and containers as well. So if you have a big 1080 00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:09.719 old pot full of flowers and things, why not you 1081 00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:12.719 let some oregano or time spill over the edge of it. 1082 00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:16.199 There's always a place for herbs. They're fun to grow, 1083 00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:19.079 and it's not a healthier way to season up your 1084 00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:23.079 food than with the herbs you grew yourself fresh from 1085 00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:25.440 your garden. I need to take a little break here 1086 00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:27.840 and we will be back with your calls at seven 1087 00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:31.639 one three two one two kt RH A little bit 1088 00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:33.519 of a Sleep at the Wheel for those of you 1089 00:57:33.679 --> 00:57:38.760 who love that band from Austin, Texas. I do sleep 1090 00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:41.280 at the Wheel. Hey, you're listening to Guarden Line. Our 1091 00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:42.960 phone number here if you'd like to give me call 1092 00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:45.920 seven one three two one two k t r H 1093 00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:50.599 seven one three two one two k t R. H. 1094 00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:54.800 Houston Powder Coders. That's the company that can transform your 1095 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:59.719 outdoor metal into something really special. Maybe you've got one 1096 00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.320 of those old time chairs that there were tubular metal, 1097 00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:04.079 you know that you kind of bounce on and they 1098 00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:08.400 rock or bounce a little bit. They have the typically 1099 00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:10.880 primary colors you like, red and green and blue and 1100 00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:15.239 everything pink. Well, they can take those and they can 1101 00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:18.679 transform them again. You know, any kind of outdoor metal furniture, 1102 00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:21.639 whether it's cast iron, rod iron, or aluminum, patio furniture, 1103 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:25.840 cast iron, axcume, any of the metals that are outside, 1104 00:58:26.400 --> 00:58:28.480 Houston powder Coators will bring them in. If they got 1105 00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:31.400 some rust, you know, they deal with that. If they 1106 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:33.519 got old rusty bolts and things on them, they'll put 1107 00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:36.079 fresh new stainless steel hardware in them. Any kinds of 1108 00:58:36.159 --> 00:58:39.079 straps or sling fabric or anything that's part of the 1109 00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:42.199 kind of furniture you have, they'll they'll fix that and 1110 00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:45.320 then they powder cot it. Powder coating is better than painting. 1111 00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:53.199 And over one hundred color options is that enough? I 1112 00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:56.199 can't name five colors and they have over one hundred 1113 00:58:56.679 --> 00:59:00.480 color options that you can choose from. So, whether it's furniture, 1114 00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:04.440 or maybe an ornamental metal hanging that's on a fence 1115 00:59:04.519 --> 00:59:06.679 that's resting and you know, or brick wall and the 1116 00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:08.920 rust is running down the wall. Let them let them 1117 00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:10.960 coat it if you like the rust. Look, they can 1118 00:59:11.039 --> 00:59:13.400 coat it and it looks rusty, but it's not. It's 1119 00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:16.079 powder coated. Do you see what I'm saying. They can 1120 00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:17.880 do it all and all you got to do is 1121 00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:19.679 take a picture of what you want to get a 1122 00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:25.320 quote on and email that to sales at Houstoncoaters dot 1123 00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:28.679 com sales at Houstoncoders dot com for a quick quote, 1124 00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:30.519 and they'll send you a quote. If you go with it, 1125 00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.239 they'll come pick it up and they'll do the job. 1126 00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:35.320 They'll bring it back and drop it off all for you. 1127 00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:39.800 If you're in the Houston area. Houston Powder Cooders dot 1128 00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:41.920 com is the website. Go look at what they do. 1129 00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:44.880 Look at their social media too. They put pictures of 1130 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:48.360 all their great jobs on there and it'll be inspiration. 1131 00:59:48.519 --> 00:59:50.360 You go, oh, I've heard Skipp talk about that all 1132 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:52.199 the time, but I just said and pictured it like 1133 00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:56.639 the well. Houston Powdercoders dot com two eight one six 1134 00:59:56.760 --> 01:00:01.760 seven six thirty eight eighty eight please write that down two, eight, one, six, seven, 1135 01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:05.599 six thirty eight eighty eight. We're going to go back 1136 01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:06.960 to the phones now and we're going to have the 1137 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:10.840 spring branch and talk to Herda. Well, hello, Herda, welcome 1138 01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:11.599 about the morning. 1139 01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:19.360 My questions about day lilies. Okay, I have a number 1140 01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:23.760 of them that have shrouded up, and I find out 1141 01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:26.840 why they call them day lilies. They roll up at 1142 01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:33.400 night or in the evening. But anyway, what is it 1143 01:00:33.559 --> 01:00:35.440 okay to put them in a container? 1144 01:00:38.679 --> 01:00:41.039 You can grow day lilies in the container if you 1145 01:00:41.199 --> 01:00:44.639 keep it adequately watered, and do it in a container 1146 01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:47.639 with a volume of soil in it, not just like 1147 01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:50.159 a little gallon bucket, you know. I mean you need 1148 01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:52.920 you need to give them plenty of soil to work with, 1149 01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:56.199 but you could do that. They're pretty tough plants, all right, 1150 01:00:56.480 --> 01:00:56.880 all right? 1151 01:00:58.199 --> 01:00:59.599 Do I feed them anything? 1152 01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:06.519 Get you a fertilizer that has a good middle number 1153 01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:11.159 content that's phosphorus, and apply it just periodically. You can 1154 01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:12.519 do it in the spring. You can do it in 1155 01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:15.880 the summer if you need to. But the bottom line 1156 01:01:16.039 --> 01:01:18.159 is you just want to keep them healthy. You don't 1157 01:01:18.159 --> 01:01:21.239 want to push them into lots of growth in our lawns. 1158 01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:23.440 We're always pushing them with nitrogen to make them grow 1159 01:01:23.559 --> 01:01:26.280 because we want them green and full and thick. With 1160 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:30.559 daylilies and other flowering plants for that matter, our goal 1161 01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:32.960 is the flowers, and so we don't have to over 1162 01:01:33.239 --> 01:01:36.639 push with nitrogen and things. But you can get a 1163 01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:40.440 lot of good products. The folks at Nelson Plant Food 1164 01:01:40.559 --> 01:01:43.280 have a number of different products that will do very well. 1165 01:01:43.360 --> 01:01:46.800 There's one called color Star. Color Star you'll find it 1166 01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:51.599 little in your area wherever Nelson products are sold, and 1167 01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:54.239 follow the label on it. But color Star would be 1168 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:56.000 an excellent one for use on your. 1169 01:01:55.920 --> 01:02:00.679 Dayly Lisa, I put one of them in a quart 1170 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:03.639 container and took it to my neighbor as a gift. 1171 01:02:05.639 --> 01:02:07.400 Would that be too small for it. 1172 01:02:09.519 --> 01:02:12.519 For long term? Yeah, for long term it would. I'm 1173 01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:14.679 not sure what we're I'm not real sure we're talking 1174 01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:16.880 about day lilies here. Are you real sure that that's 1175 01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:18.000 the name of this plant? 1176 01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:23.719 No, I'm not really right now. I don't have a 1177 01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:27.440 way to get the information to you. I can ask 1178 01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:31.119 a friend maybe to do it, but it may be another. 1179 01:02:33.440 --> 01:02:35.599 That's fine. Let me ask you this what color of 1180 01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:36.199 the blooms? 1181 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:42.760 They're a cream white. 1182 01:02:44.679 --> 01:02:49.880 Okay, creamy white. And are they shaped like a trumpet? 1183 01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:53.000 Or are they shaped like a. 1184 01:02:55.000 --> 01:03:00.400 Trumpet? It's just one boom to a stam. This stem 1185 01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:05.320 is the size of a straw. It looks like about okay, 1186 01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:09.320 well over foot tall, and they have a ball at 1187 01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:09.840 the bottom. 1188 01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:15.000 Okay, Well, maybe maybe we're dealing with the dailily. There 1189 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:17.280 are several plants that have that fit that description. But 1190 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:20.239 whatever it is, the the advice I gave you is 1191 01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:22.599 is going to be sound for the whatever kind of 1192 01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:24.840 plant that fits that description. 1193 01:03:25.719 --> 01:03:27.400 All right, thank you very much. 1194 01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:31.159 All right, all right, all right, you take care of yourself. 1195 01:03:31.239 --> 01:03:31.920 Good to talk to you. 1196 01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:34.079 All right, thank you, bye bye. 1197 01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:35.760 M h. 1198 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:41.199 All right, there we go. You know, some people can't 1199 01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:43.599 walk in shoe gum at the same time, I can't 1200 01:03:44.199 --> 01:03:46.559 use the right mouse when I have two monce. I 1201 01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:49.719 just and you to step away from the mouse and 1202 01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:53.559 let somebody else drive. I guess. Anyway, we're back with 1203 01:03:54.119 --> 01:03:57.679 your questions. Listen, phone number you need this one seven 1204 01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:00.079 one three two one two k t r H. You 1205 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.360 don't talk about today. I'm kind of going on about herbs. 1206 01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:06.440 And we'll continue to here for a while because I'm 1207 01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:08.639 trying to convince you that you need to grow more herbs. 1208 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:12.039 I really think you do. There are very few plants 1209 01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:16.320 that are so versatile as herbs. There are herbs that bloom. 1210 01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:22.360 I planted some pineapple sage the other day. Pineapple sage 1211 01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:25.800 is a Salvia, Okay, so there's a lot of great Salvius. 1212 01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:29.239 Salvia is my favorite genus of plants that is out there. 1213 01:04:29.239 --> 01:04:31.519 If I had to pick one genus, it would be Salvius. 1214 01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:33.880 And I like a lot of plants, but I would 1215 01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:38.159 pick Salvius. Anyway. I planted some pineapple stage in late summer, 1216 01:04:38.320 --> 01:04:42.280 and in fall it puts out even the most for 1217 01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:46.880 the whole year. Red tubular, long, skinny blooms that hummingbirds love. 1218 01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:49.840 Of course, it has a pineapple fragrance to the foliage, 1219 01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:53.960 but in fall it is quite the bloomer. Another fall 1220 01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:58.079 blooming herb is Mexican mint marigol. Some people call it 1221 01:04:58.199 --> 01:05:01.559 Mexican marigol mint. That is not the name. It's not 1222 01:05:01.679 --> 01:05:06.760 a mint. It is a marigold Mexican mint marigold. Okay. 1223 01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:11.679 It has a licorice smell smelling foliage. So think of 1224 01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:14.559 black jelly beans. That's what the foliage smells like on it. 1225 01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:18.239 In fall, it loads up a clusters of little yellow 1226 01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:22.960 daisy like flowers that are absolutely beautiful. So that would 1227 01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:25.079 be another good one to plant now so that you 1228 01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:27.840 could enjoy it in the fall. There are herbs for flowers, 1229 01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:31.440 There are herbs for flavors, There are herbs for beautiful foliage. 1230 01:05:32.039 --> 01:05:33.880 Try some herbs this year. I'm going to take a break. 1231 01:05:34.039 --> 01:05:37.239 We'll be right back with your calls. Welcome back to Guardline. 1232 01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:43.000 Good to have you with us today. Hey, uh, bugs 1233 01:05:43.480 --> 01:05:46.280 bugs in the lawn? What do you do? What do 1234 01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:48.719 you do for chinchbugs? It's not quite chinchbug season yet, 1235 01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:50.920 it's coming. If you get my schedule, the long pest 1236 01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:53.719 disease and we'd management schedule. You see when we start 1237 01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:56.239 to look for chinchbugs, you see when we treat for grubs. 1238 01:05:56.840 --> 01:05:58.960 You see when we deal with you know, various things 1239 01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:01.880 through the year. That's what the schedules put there. What 1240 01:06:02.079 --> 01:06:06.000 about fire ants, that's another one they're always around. It 1241 01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:09.559 seems like, well, bug Out Max Granules covers it all. 1242 01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:13.480 Bug Out Max is a lawn and garden insect control 1243 01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:15.599 and you put it out on your lawn and it 1244 01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:18.280 deals with all the different things we're dealing with, from 1245 01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:22.639 grubs to fire ants to caterpillars that are chomping on things. 1246 01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:26.760 Even if you have fleas out there and the maybe 1247 01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:28.880 you got a dog and there's fleas living in the thatch. 1248 01:06:29.199 --> 01:06:31.000 That's part of the cycle of fleas and then they 1249 01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:34.800 bring them inside. Bug out Max granules by Nitrofoss that 1250 01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:37.639 will shut them down. Now, so where do you get 1251 01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:40.800 that kind of thing? Well, for example, you could get 1252 01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:43.880 it at RCW Nursery on Tomball Parkway. If you go 1253 01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:46.519 to Langham Creek Ace Hardware that's on five pot twenty 1254 01:06:46.639 --> 01:06:51.320 nine backside of Copperfield. There Plantation Ace Hardware on three 1255 01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:53.840 point fifty nine that's north and Liddle to the east 1256 01:06:54.280 --> 01:06:59.119 of the Richmond Rosenberg area, and then out in Ankleton, 1257 01:06:59.480 --> 01:07:03.239 Lake hard where in Angleton on Velasco and Lake Harbor 1258 01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:06.599 and Clute on Dixie Drive all places that carry night 1259 01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:10.280 Foss products. Let's go to the phones now. We're going 1260 01:07:10.360 --> 01:07:13.320 to head out to Magnolia and talk to Jane. Hello, Jane, 1261 01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:19.920 Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, Hi, how can I help? 1262 01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:24.719 I have a really tall crate myrtle like it's over 1263 01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:28.880 my rooftop and like every time this tiny year, I 1264 01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:30.880 feel like it's raining underneath it. 1265 01:07:31.239 --> 01:07:32.559 But it's really not raining. 1266 01:07:33.480 --> 01:07:37.280 It's kind of like a gummy white substance. 1267 01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:38.519 And I don't know what it is. 1268 01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:44.719 Gummy white. Well, I'm not sure if it's. 1269 01:07:44.599 --> 01:07:48.360 White or clear, but it feels like it's raining underneath 1270 01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:51.840 underneath that tree. Nowhere else in the in the whole ark, 1271 01:07:51.960 --> 01:07:52.920 but underneath that tree. 1272 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:57.880 Well, well, uh have you ever you know, you know 1273 01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:00.000 how people are like sitting outside and they got drinks 1274 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:02.599 and they got the little umbrellas in their drink. You've 1275 01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:06.440 seen that, right, Yeah, you need to get umbrellas because 1276 01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:09.400 of what I'm about to tell you. Oh, bugs are 1277 01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:12.159 peeing on you. That's what's happening, and so you need 1278 01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:14.440 a little umbrella for your drinks, so your iced tea 1279 01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:20.039 or whatever. Out there. Bugs there are insects that suck 1280 01:08:20.199 --> 01:08:24.960 the sap out of plants and they get the they 1281 01:08:25.039 --> 01:08:27.920 get the minerals and nutrient kinds of things out of it. 1282 01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:31.600 But they drink so much that it's going in one 1283 01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:33.600 end and out the other end of the bug. And 1284 01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:38.239 they're just constantly squirting that little little bits out and 1285 01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:42.880 so it doesn't really hurt the tree much. The trees 1286 01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.199 able to more than make up for it, but it does. 1287 01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:49.880 Sometimes some of those substances are very sugary, and we 1288 01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:53.960 get honeydew, and therefore we get a city mold, the 1289 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.239 black city mold growing. That's some types of insects are 1290 01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:00.399 causing that. There's other types that they just pe out 1291 01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:03.119 a little watery substance, and that's what it is. Now. 1292 01:09:03.439 --> 01:09:05.239 You can look at it two ways. You know. You 1293 01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:07.159 can look at it for what it is and get 1294 01:09:07.199 --> 01:09:09.119 grossed out, or you can look at it as a 1295 01:09:09.239 --> 01:09:12.760 nice missed system that helps cool you last summer when 1296 01:09:13.119 --> 01:09:18.319 you're sitting underneath getting a little spray of the let's 1297 01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:19.000 just say. 1298 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:19.439 A little bit. 1299 01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:22.560 There's a little bit of black black on the bark 1300 01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:26.079 at the very bottom of the tree, like a dark Yeah. 1301 01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:31.359 Well, crape myrtles also have crepe myrtle bark scale and aphids, 1302 01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:33.720 and both of those put out the sugary water that 1303 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:37.960 causes the city growth. What you're describing to me as 1304 01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:41.159 a different insect is more of a plant hopper, and 1305 01:09:41.800 --> 01:09:46.319 so yeah, that's that's it. Well, I don't know, I mean, 1306 01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:49.319 you could nuke your tree and kill everything. Now it's not. 1307 01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:51.920 And I just don't like, you know, sending people out 1308 01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:54.479 to nuke the tree with insecticides because something with six 1309 01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:58.039 legs is crawling around on it, So I would I 1310 01:09:58.079 --> 01:10:01.880 would ignore it. Just yeah, just you can get you 1311 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:04.359 can get the little umbrellas, I'm sure on Amazon for 1312 01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:07.640 a good price. And so there you go. Maybe get 1313 01:10:07.680 --> 01:10:12.159 your an umbrella while you're at it. Sounds good, all right, 1314 01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:17.119 all right, thank you, take care you best. Thank you. 1315 01:10:17.560 --> 01:10:19.920 It's go to League City and talk to Carol. Hey, Carol, 1316 01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:20.960 welcome to garden Line. 1317 01:10:21.960 --> 01:10:22.199 Hello. 1318 01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:26.039 I spoke to you last year about my white beach 1319 01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:30.159 spider lily that have fungus on them, and you told 1320 01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:33.920 me to get two products, the try try dimophon and 1321 01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:39.399 my clothes get to nil. And I found the second one, 1322 01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:43.119 but the first one the only place I can find 1323 01:10:43.159 --> 01:10:46.079 that is online for two hundred and fifty dollars a gallon. 1324 01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:50.199 Do you have any alternate in or anything. 1325 01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:55.159 That, Yeah, you're talking about try a dimophon, Yes, sir? 1326 01:10:55.720 --> 01:10:59.600 Was that the first one? Okay? Yes, sir, you know 1327 01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:04.520 I I'm actually not remembering exactly what it was. I 1328 01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:08.640 think you was the problem some little spots on the 1329 01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:11.399 leaves and then if you turn a leaf over, there's 1330 01:11:11.520 --> 01:11:18.760 kind of a dusty, rusty colored thing underneath there. Yes, okay, 1331 01:11:22.920 --> 01:11:27.720 well there are there's triadim ifon in more economical packages 1332 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:31.479 than that. That's just a fun just side. I wish 1333 01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:34.800 if I saw a picture. My hesitation is this, I 1334 01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:37.680 could suggest some things. But really, if I could see 1335 01:11:37.680 --> 01:11:40.680 a picture of the spots again and make sure I 1336 01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:45.000 know which disease it is, I could better target recommendation 1337 01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:50.439 to you. Okay, so. 1338 01:11:57.840 --> 01:11:58.279 Excuse me. 1339 01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:01.560 The second one you guys made is uh, it controls 1340 01:12:01.640 --> 01:12:04.640 it somewhat, but it just comes back with a vengeance 1341 01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:07.880 before I can put it on there. Even every ten days. 1342 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:13.319 Oh wow, we'll see Michael. Butte nil. It's systemic and 1343 01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:17.560 so it should last for a lot longer than that. 1344 01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:19.079 I'm not sure. 1345 01:12:21.319 --> 01:12:21.840 We can do this. 1346 01:12:21.920 --> 01:12:24.000 A couple of ways you could. You could get a 1347 01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:27.640 product called daco nil d A C O N I L. 1348 01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:32.840 That is a brand of the ingredient that's in it. Uh, 1349 01:12:33.159 --> 01:12:37.760 the ingredient. I keep giving you these long chemical names, 1350 01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:41.079 but that's really the best way to recommend something. But 1351 01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:45.199 Chloro thallo nil is dacoil and it is very good 1352 01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:50.159 against rust type diseases. If indeed this is a rust. 1353 01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:54.119 So I I just I just want to know that 1354 01:12:54.199 --> 01:12:58.159 we got we got the right disease. And so if 1355 01:12:58.199 --> 01:12:59.840 you want to do this, if you'd like to go 1356 01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:03.039 and take a picture of what you're seeing, show me 1357 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:05.439 the whole plant, and then show me up close and 1358 01:13:05.640 --> 01:13:08.600 good sharp focus, check focus before you send them the 1359 01:13:08.760 --> 01:13:10.720 top of the leaf, and then show me the bottom 1360 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:14.000 of the leaf on these spots. Then I can nail 1361 01:13:14.039 --> 01:13:16.479 it down and get it right and not waste your 1362 01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:18.880 time and money on something that may not work that well. 1363 01:13:19.079 --> 01:13:23.680 Because Michael buttinhil if it quickly is not working, then 1364 01:13:23.840 --> 01:13:25.760 we don't need to be using it because it if 1365 01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:28.800 it works, it works, and you shouldn't you shouldn't have 1366 01:13:28.880 --> 01:13:31.720 that experience with it. But that's how it is. You 1367 01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:34.920 just like you go to the doctor and they don't 1368 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:38.000 have like one medicine for everything that could make you sick, right, 1369 01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:40.840 and so that's how it is with these fungicides as well. 1370 01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:44.720 Okay, okay, well I'll do that. Then I'll send your 1371 01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:48.239 picture and see if we can get the right products 1372 01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:48.520 for it. 1373 01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:54.800 All right, happy to do that. Thanks for your call, Carol, 1374 01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:56.640 look forward to that. I'm going to put you on hold. 1375 01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:58.960 I'm gonna put your hold and I'll handro pickout and 1376 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:03.039 he'll give you the email that you're gonna need. All Right, folks, 1377 01:14:03.279 --> 01:14:06.000 the music means time to go to a top of 1378 01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:09.079 the hour break. Well, this morning is flying by already 1379 01:14:09.079 --> 01:14:12.560 eight o'clock almost. Well, I'm glad you're listening. I hope 1380 01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:14.920 you're having a good day, and I hope you have 1381 01:14:15.039 --> 01:14:18.319 plans for a really nice afternoon getting out there in 1382 01:14:18.439 --> 01:14:24.000 the gardens. Remember that herbs are for everybody, and herbs 1383 01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:29.840 are for everywhere. Containers, flower beds, I can even I've 1384 01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:32.720 seen people use solid burnett, which makes a little mound 1385 01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:36.720 of leaves that tastes like cucumbers. Solid burnett as a 1386 01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:39.520 little lining around the bed like you would use litt 1387 01:14:39.560 --> 01:14:42.600 riopy or something. I've seen people do that with chives too. 1388 01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:50.479 That's another idea. Just a pute for you. Well, welcome back, 1389 01:14:52.479 --> 01:14:55.800 Welcome back to the garden Line. We look forward to 1390 01:14:56.279 --> 01:14:58.600 helping you with the kinds of questions that you might 1391 01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:01.840 have today. I want you to have success. Listen, Gardening 1392 01:15:01.960 --> 01:15:04.399 is fun. The best hobby there is period. 1393 01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:05.359 It just is. 1394 01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:10.680 I'm not I'm okay, I'm biased, but that doesn't mean 1395 01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:14.720 I'm wrong, you know what I'm saying. It is a great, 1396 01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:18.159 great hobby. I've enjoyed it my whole life, considered a 1397 01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:22.000 blessing to be able to be for my whole life 1398 01:15:22.039 --> 01:15:26.520 really working in a field that I absolutely enjoy. So 1399 01:15:26.960 --> 01:15:30.119 two happy places probably near the top of my list. 1400 01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:32.920 One is visiting with gardeners. We're doing that right now, 1401 01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:35.880 did it for thirty five years in the agrofe Extension 1402 01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:39.800 Agent Texas A and M. And the other is sitting 1403 01:15:39.800 --> 01:15:42.720 out in my garden and just messing with plants and 1404 01:15:43.079 --> 01:15:46.399 watching bugs. You know, I enjoy learning and watching. It 1405 01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:49.039 is a fascinating world to go out there and just 1406 01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:51.319 be still a while and see what's going on. 1407 01:15:51.560 --> 01:15:51.680 You know. 1408 01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:55.079 I talked about African blue basil being such a great 1409 01:15:55.159 --> 01:15:58.520 pollinator attractor because it gets a a pretty good sized 1410 01:15:58.520 --> 01:16:01.520 basil bush and it it just blooms and blims and 1411 01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:04.399 blooms and blooms and blooms, and you sit there and 1412 01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:06.039 you look at them, and you see the different things 1413 01:16:06.079 --> 01:16:08.319 coming in. You learn a lot about them, and uh, 1414 01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:10.000 it just it's a wonderful field. 1415 01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:10.119 Now. 1416 01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:11.920 I know some of you arek go sit and stare 1417 01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:15.079 at your basil. But whatever kind of gardening you like, 1418 01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:18.359 I don't care if it's houseplants, if you like just 1419 01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:21.840 playing with plant propagation and starting seeds and growing transplants. 1420 01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:24.079 If you maybe the lawn is that, maybe you are 1421 01:16:24.159 --> 01:16:27.239 the lawn ranger of the neighborhood and that is what 1422 01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:31.720 makes you happy, A perfect pristine lawn that just looks good. Well, 1423 01:16:32.119 --> 01:16:35.840 go aheadside and be happy, enjoy that. Gardening has something 1424 01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:39.800 for everybody, no matter what you're growing. And I've gotten 1425 01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:41.680 a lot of emails Toda. I'm waiting on some follow 1426 01:16:41.760 --> 01:16:43.560 up calls from these folks that have done emails. But 1427 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:47.359 lots of pests, lots of disease problems and things. If 1428 01:16:47.600 --> 01:16:50.840 Southwest Fertilizer, you just need to put that on your rolodex. 1429 01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:54.920 Remember we used rolodexes. Southwest Fertilizer corner of bus Nutt 1430 01:16:54.920 --> 01:16:59.439 and Runwick website, Southwest Fertilizer dot com phone number seven 1431 01:16:59.479 --> 01:17:03.039 to one three six sixty six seventeen forty four seven 1432 01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:07.119 to one three six sixty six one seven four four. 1433 01:17:07.720 --> 01:17:09.800 They've got everything that you need. 1434 01:17:10.319 --> 01:17:10.399 Uh. 1435 01:17:10.560 --> 01:17:12.680 You know, a while ago someone was calling me and 1436 01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:15.359 they had well it was Carol talking about the the 1437 01:17:15.680 --> 01:17:19.319 lily and want to make sure we got that disease right. Well, 1438 01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:22.760 I don't care which of the many types of leaf 1439 01:17:22.800 --> 01:17:27.079 spot diseases and things that attack a lily. She has 1440 01:17:27.800 --> 01:17:30.920 the answer and the solution to its at Southwest Fertilizer 1441 01:17:31.239 --> 01:17:33.760 because they carry the whole thing. That is, when it 1442 01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:37.479 comes to diseases. It's like the pharmacy for plants. Everything 1443 01:17:37.560 --> 01:17:39.239 that you would need to manage or deal with the 1444 01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:42.720 disease is there. If it's insects, same thing. If it 1445 01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:47.000 is spider mite's same thing, If it's weeds, same thing, 1446 01:17:47.720 --> 01:17:49.520 they have it off. They don't have it, You don't 1447 01:17:49.560 --> 01:17:52.239 need it. It's as simple as that. Southwest Fertilizer corner 1448 01:17:52.279 --> 01:17:55.119 bus Nutt and Runwick stop ey there, say to Bob 1449 01:17:55.159 --> 01:17:58.159 and the team, if you've got a question about something, 1450 01:17:58.359 --> 01:18:00.560 you can take a picture in. You can take a 1451 01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:02.720 sample in samples even better, put them in a little 1452 01:18:02.760 --> 01:18:05.920 ziplock bag so something doesn't crawl away, and take it 1453 01:18:05.960 --> 01:18:09.039 to them. They'll do an assessment of it and you know, 1454 01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:13.039 points you to the right thing. So anyway, that Waspertilizers 1455 01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:15.680 the place you need to know, and the phone numer 1456 01:18:15.720 --> 01:18:17.119 you need to know right now, is seven to one 1457 01:18:17.119 --> 01:18:19.520 to three two one two KTRH. So you can give 1458 01:18:19.560 --> 01:18:21.640 us a call and we can talk about the things 1459 01:18:22.039 --> 01:18:26.520 that are of most interest to you. Yesterday I was 1460 01:18:26.560 --> 01:18:31.680 talking about Moss Nursery and I made a statement. I 1461 01:18:31.760 --> 01:18:35.960 saw some information from us about a place called the 1462 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:39.199 Clay Pigeon. It's a grand opening and some of the 1463 01:18:39.279 --> 01:18:40.680 bands that are going to be there and the fact 1464 01:18:40.680 --> 01:18:42.960 they're having a crawfish boil and everything there, and we 1465 01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:45.159 got some calls on it. And as I looked into it, 1466 01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:48.079 what I found out was, well, actually Jim's got a 1467 01:18:48.159 --> 01:18:52.399 new place in Austin, Texas, South Austin on Slaughter Creek Drive. Now, 1468 01:18:52.439 --> 01:18:54.720 I know we have people that listen from Austin and 1469 01:18:54.800 --> 01:18:58.680 from that area. But if you are inclined to go 1470 01:18:58.760 --> 01:19:01.720 over there, if you live over there, the klappage in 1471 01:19:01.840 --> 01:19:06.479 Grand Opening Extravaganza Saturday, June fourteenth, from twelve to six pm. 1472 01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:09.920 There will be a crawfish boil. There's gonna be music. 1473 01:19:10.119 --> 01:19:13.399 Of course, it's Austin. You've gotta have music, all kinds 1474 01:19:13.399 --> 01:19:16.880 of interesting stuff, pop up market and a lot of 1475 01:19:16.920 --> 01:19:21.239 other fun things. Anyway, that is, if you want more information, 1476 01:19:21.479 --> 01:19:26.399 just follow the Moss Nursery on social media. They've got 1477 01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:28.720 stuff posted. They even have a little qurer code you 1478 01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:30.960 can click on with your camera to find out more. 1479 01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:35.039 If you don't have plans for this afternoon, how about 1480 01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:37.840 a plan? The plan is to go to Moss Nursery 1481 01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:38.680 and go check out. 1482 01:19:38.560 --> 01:19:38.880 What they have. 1483 01:19:39.800 --> 01:19:44.800 Moss has got every category of plant in spades. As 1484 01:19:44.840 --> 01:19:48.520 they say, it is an outstanding place. If you are looking, 1485 01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:51.600 I'll say house plants. You know, house plan is a 1486 01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:54.039 term we made up. No plant is native to houses, 1487 01:19:54.479 --> 01:19:58.000 but plants that can take a very low light or 1488 01:19:58.039 --> 01:20:01.119 prefer a low light environment. We typically them houseplants, but 1489 01:20:01.199 --> 01:20:04.039 then a lot of those, like cactine succulents, they need 1490 01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:07.000 more light. And you can find the same things at 1491 01:20:07.079 --> 01:20:09.760 Moss's Houseplant get any kind of category you want. They 1492 01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:13.479 have gorgeous staghorn ferns hanging from trees out there. You 1493 01:20:13.840 --> 01:20:17.920 just have to go see them. They're unbelievably beautiful staghorn ferns, 1494 01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:22.199 whatever kind of plant you're looking for. Hanging baskets, hundreds 1495 01:20:22.359 --> 01:20:25.760 and hundreds of hanging baskets for summer color. Things that 1496 01:20:25.840 --> 01:20:29.239 will look good today. You got folks coming over this 1497 01:20:29.319 --> 01:20:32.319 afternoon or this evening. Go get you some color from 1498 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:36.359 Moss Nursery, hanging baskets, container color, whatever, and you can 1499 01:20:36.439 --> 01:20:41.479 have beauty instantly. Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas two 1500 01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:45.000 eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two 1501 01:20:45.039 --> 01:20:47.439 eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. We're 1502 01:20:47.439 --> 01:20:50.600 going to go down to Tomball and talk to Jody. Hey, Jody, 1503 01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:54.880 welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Thank you for having 1504 01:20:54.920 --> 01:21:02.399 me morning, Happy to do it. How can I help? 1505 01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:08.800 Yes, sir, I've recently purchased some guardinas and they're still 1506 01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:11.239 in the containers that I purchased them in. I've only 1507 01:21:11.319 --> 01:21:15.239 had them for a week. They're on the northeast side 1508 01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:18.199 of my home, which is where I wanted to plant them. 1509 01:21:19.600 --> 01:21:23.079 But I'm doing something wrong. I'm either overwatering or not 1510 01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:26.039 watering enough because they're literally turning black. 1511 01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:36.119 Okay, is a tissue itself? It's a tissue itself collapsing 1512 01:21:36.399 --> 01:21:38.800 or is it like a coating that if you wet 1513 01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:40.840 your thumb and rubbed it, you could rub the black 1514 01:21:40.920 --> 01:21:41.479 off the leaf? 1515 01:21:43.079 --> 01:21:43.199 Uh? 1516 01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:46.760 Well, I can't get anything to rub off on my hand. 1517 01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:50.119 It just literally looks like it's dying like it's burnt. 1518 01:21:50.920 --> 01:21:54.039 I'm thinking maybe they're just they can't tolerate the heat. 1519 01:21:56.279 --> 01:21:59.000 Oh, they can take the heat. That typically if you 1520 01:21:59.119 --> 01:22:01.119 give them a little late day shade is good. But 1521 01:22:01.199 --> 01:22:03.079 they need plenty of sun to be able to bloom 1522 01:22:03.279 --> 01:22:07.199 their best. So I think the problem is in the roots. 1523 01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:10.319 Lay one of those containers over, kind of bump on 1524 01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:13.079 it a little bit, and then slide it sideways out 1525 01:22:13.119 --> 01:22:15.520 of the container. And if the roots on the outside 1526 01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:19.600 aren't nice and creamy white colored, then you had a 1527 01:22:19.720 --> 01:22:21.880 root loss. And that could have been due to soggi, 1528 01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:23.960 it could have been due to dry Either one kills 1529 01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:27.439 roots and they need to probably be moved into a 1530 01:22:27.560 --> 01:22:30.880 very bright shade so the demands are lower on the 1531 01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:34.239 plant and given some time to recover and be real 1532 01:22:34.399 --> 01:22:38.039 careful with the watering during that time. Hopefully it's not 1533 01:22:38.199 --> 01:22:41.359 so far gone that you have difficulty saving them. But 1534 01:22:41.960 --> 01:22:44.520 that that is what I would do on those. And 1535 01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:46.720 make sure and get you when you get guardian, You'll 1536 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:49.920 always get you a good acid loving fertilizer. And you 1537 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:53.159 know up there and which which direction from Tomball or you. 1538 01:22:55.479 --> 01:22:56.000 Northwest? 1539 01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:03.399 Oh? Okay, well there you go. I mean Arbigate's kind 1540 01:23:03.399 --> 01:23:06.159 all kinds of good stuff in there that they know 1541 01:23:06.239 --> 01:23:08.439 what to give you for guardena so they can get 1542 01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:11.640 you all set up. But first let's just get those 1543 01:23:11.640 --> 01:23:13.720 things on their feet. Check the roots. If you've lost 1544 01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:15.680 a lot of roots, it's gonna be touch and go. 1545 01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:18.119 But just wait before you plan them. Let's try to 1546 01:23:18.119 --> 01:23:20.159 get them some new growth on them and get some 1547 01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:22.119 healthy roots on the outside and then put them in 1548 01:23:22.159 --> 01:23:26.920 the ground. Okay, okay, good, perfect, Thank you all right, Jody, 1549 01:23:27.560 --> 01:23:30.359 you bet, thank you for call. Appreciate that very much. 1550 01:23:31.199 --> 01:23:33.279 You two. I've got to run to a break here. 1551 01:23:33.560 --> 01:23:36.640 Kevin or Kelvill and Tomball and Bill and Galveson you'll 1552 01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:39.239 be our first two up. Welcome back to the garden Line, folks, 1553 01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:45.840 Little Dolly Parton to get us go on this hour. 1554 01:23:46.279 --> 01:23:49.680 We're going to head now down to Tomball. Let me 1555 01:23:49.840 --> 01:23:53.520 get my right mouse. We have problems with today and 1556 01:23:53.560 --> 01:23:56.199 we're gonna talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, welcome to garden Line. 1557 01:23:57.600 --> 01:23:59.600 Good morning ship, thanks for taking my call. 1558 01:24:01.640 --> 01:24:02.039 Molds. 1559 01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:03.520 How can I get rid of moles? 1560 01:24:03.880 --> 01:24:05.319 Yeah, warns don't seem to work. 1561 01:24:09.239 --> 01:24:11.399 Uh and and I just want to make sure we're 1562 01:24:11.439 --> 01:24:15.119 talking about moles and not gophers, right or do we 1563 01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:19.720 need to picking that one out? And okay, all right, 1564 01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:24.479 so moles. First of all, I'm gonna I'm gonna point 1565 01:24:24.520 --> 01:24:27.039 you at a publication that will be very helpful for you. 1566 01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:33.720 If you go to the agrolife Learn website agro Life Learn, 1567 01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:39.079 there is a publication on managing mold damage and you 1568 01:24:39.199 --> 01:24:43.000 just do a search for it. But managing mold damage 1569 01:24:43.039 --> 01:24:50.119 it goes into the oh gosh, I can, It goes 1570 01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:54.199 into the specific options that you have, some options involved 1571 01:24:54.239 --> 01:24:57.399 bringing a pest control operator around to do it and whatnot. 1572 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:01.800 But it's just agro Life Learn a mu dot Eed, 1573 01:25:01.920 --> 01:25:04.880 you do a search for mole, so mole publication when 1574 01:25:04.920 --> 01:25:06.520 you go there, when you look at it, what it's 1575 01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:09.119 going to tell you is your your basic options are 1576 01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:13.159 trapping from a homeowner standpoint, okay, And there's a couple 1577 01:25:13.279 --> 01:25:15.720 kinds of traps. One kind is a loop. The trap 1578 01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:18.039 sits on the ground. The loop is underground, the mole 1579 01:25:18.119 --> 01:25:20.159 goes through. It's kind of gross, but the mole goes 1580 01:25:20.199 --> 01:25:22.640 through and that loop snaps up on the mole. The 1581 01:25:22.720 --> 01:25:24.720 other is a spike that goes down from the top. 1582 01:25:24.760 --> 01:25:27.159 It's called a harpoon type trap. It tells you how 1583 01:25:27.359 --> 01:25:30.560 to find out which it runs, are active, where to 1584 01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:33.439 set the trap, how to set the trap and stuff. Uh, 1585 01:25:33.560 --> 01:25:35.800 and that is the that is kind of what's in 1586 01:25:35.920 --> 01:25:38.800 your control. The idea of poisons don't really work the 1587 01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:42.239 toxicans because moles don't really eat grain baits and things. 1588 01:25:43.199 --> 01:25:45.920 But and the and then other things that only a 1589 01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:49.520 PCO can do are out there, but that that's probably 1590 01:25:49.560 --> 01:25:51.319 the best way for you to deal with them. 1591 01:25:52.720 --> 01:25:55.159 The traps are better than the poison. 1592 01:25:58.199 --> 01:26:00.840 From what I hear. Now, I'm not a wildlife damage 1593 01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:05.119 management expert at all, but from what I've heard, the 1594 01:26:05.600 --> 01:26:10.760 toxican the baits that are available for moles not usually 1595 01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:14.479 that effective. They just don't eat grain baits and stuff. 1596 01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:19.960 Maybe something new is on the market, but yeah, yeah. 1597 01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:21.520 They haven't work so far. Okay, I'll get that. 1598 01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:22.279 To try and thank you. 1599 01:26:24.159 --> 01:26:27.239 All right, thank you very much, appreciate your call. Let's 1600 01:26:27.239 --> 01:26:33.159 see here, oh, Airloom soils. Heirloom soils is kind of 1601 01:26:33.199 --> 01:26:36.039 a one stop shop for anything you need to get 1602 01:26:36.119 --> 01:26:39.560 the ground ready for planting or to improve the ground 1603 01:26:39.720 --> 01:26:44.760 around existing plants. Bed mixes like things for roses and 1604 01:26:44.800 --> 01:26:48.880 other bloomers, things for fruit trees, things for vegetables and herbs. 1605 01:26:49.039 --> 01:26:51.479 Whatever it is, airlom soils has got a blend for you. 1606 01:26:52.000 --> 01:26:55.159 Just go to the website airloomsoils dot com and learn 1607 01:26:55.239 --> 01:26:57.760 about it all the products they have, and then head 1608 01:26:57.800 --> 01:27:00.439 out to your local garden center, feed stores. All kinds 1609 01:27:00.439 --> 01:27:03.520 of places carry airloom soils products. You can buy them 1610 01:27:03.560 --> 01:27:05.800 by the bag. If you're going to do a big 1611 01:27:05.960 --> 01:27:08.720 job and maybe revamping a big bed or building a 1612 01:27:08.760 --> 01:27:12.359 big bed, you can have them deliver by the cubicyard 1613 01:27:12.640 --> 01:27:15.319 to your place, either dumping it on the driveway or 1614 01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:19.479 bringing it by what they call supersacks cubicyard holding sacks, 1615 01:27:20.199 --> 01:27:21.359 or you can go out there and get it. Go 1616 01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:24.840 to Porter. It's out on Highway fifty nine Inporter, Texas, 1617 01:27:25.039 --> 01:27:28.960 the Warrange Rock and Malt location where airloom soils comes from. 1618 01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:32.800 They have that stuff out there as well. But start 1619 01:27:32.880 --> 01:27:36.560 by going to airloomsoils dot com airloomsols dot com find 1620 01:27:36.600 --> 01:27:39.479 out the products that they have, all kinds of things. 1621 01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:41.600 They also have shale too. You hear me talk about 1622 01:27:41.640 --> 01:27:44.560 expanded sheales sometime and how it holds up longer than 1623 01:27:44.720 --> 01:27:47.840 organic matter. Does even in keeping a clay soil open. 1624 01:27:48.560 --> 01:27:50.720 You can get it from there. Airlom Soils makes a 1625 01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:54.640 combo of malt or compost and shale too. You can 1626 01:27:54.680 --> 01:27:58.479 buy them both together in a bag. Airloom Sols quality products. 1627 01:27:58.520 --> 01:28:00.640 I say that because I've used them and I've seen 1628 01:28:00.680 --> 01:28:05.520 the results. Let's now, let's see we're going to head 1629 01:28:05.600 --> 01:28:09.399 to Bill in Galveston. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line. 1630 01:28:10.159 --> 01:28:13.359 Thanks get good morning. I sent you two photos good 1631 01:28:13.399 --> 01:28:19.960 morning of some powdered plants. One has its leaves as well, 1632 01:28:20.000 --> 01:28:22.199 the other one's doesn't have it. So what's the difference 1633 01:28:22.239 --> 01:28:26.680 and they got the same treatment, same place. Yeah, those 1634 01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:30.840 are angel wing bagone. Well not angel wings or regular pogonias. 1635 01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:31.560 Uh. 1636 01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:35.479 And you know, different things can cause the foliage to 1637 01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:37.680 fall off. It could have gone through a dry period. 1638 01:28:37.800 --> 01:28:42.359 That's very likely, Uh, saggy wet soil. If the those 1639 01:28:42.800 --> 01:28:47.000 hanging plastic hanging baskets the drainage holes are plugged or 1640 01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:49.640 whatever and they're not draining, well, it could be that. 1641 01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:53.560 But that's the difference. And I know what you're probably 1642 01:28:53.560 --> 01:28:55.279 gonna tell me is, Yeah, but they're hanging side by 1643 01:28:55.359 --> 01:28:57.479 side of water and the same and I don't have 1644 01:28:57.560 --> 01:29:00.880 an answer for that. But it's not an insect, it's 1645 01:29:01.039 --> 01:29:04.159 not a disease. It is some sort of a stress 1646 01:29:04.399 --> 01:29:09.439 in the root system that's causing that defiliation. So I 1647 01:29:09.479 --> 01:29:11.720 should make sure that that the drain holes are up 1648 01:29:11.720 --> 01:29:15.760 from that flog. Yeah, make sure you know, water it 1649 01:29:15.800 --> 01:29:17.359 a lot and see if a bunch of water runs 1650 01:29:17.399 --> 01:29:20.800 out the bottom. If it doesn't, then stick a pencil 1651 01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:22.760 up through the holes or something kind of open them up. 1652 01:29:22.760 --> 01:29:25.199 So I don't know what could be done there clogging them, 1653 01:29:25.880 --> 01:29:29.159 but just check for that. Bottom line is it's in 1654 01:29:29.279 --> 01:29:31.640 the roots that we're seeing the problem. 1655 01:29:31.960 --> 01:29:32.119 Now. 1656 01:29:32.279 --> 01:29:35.840 If it a root rock got into them, then it 1657 01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:39.000 may eventually kill the whole plant. You know, it may 1658 01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:42.199 may not be that. You just wait and it gets better, 1659 01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:45.000 but you just have to wait and see on that one. 1660 01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:46.960 Okay, thanks so much. 1661 01:29:48.920 --> 01:29:51.359 All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate you call very much. 1662 01:29:51.840 --> 01:29:57.319 You take care. Well, what are we looking at here? Yeah, 1663 01:29:57.359 --> 01:30:00.439 we got some time. Let's now head to talk to 1664 01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:03.479 John and Tom Ball. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line. 1665 01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:07.079 Yes, sir, I bought some a couple of months ago, 1666 01:30:07.199 --> 01:30:10.920 some Ingleston Hollies and some magnolia. 1667 01:30:10.479 --> 01:30:11.039 Okay, So. 1668 01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:16.000 How often show fertilized in the beginning and for how 1669 01:30:16.079 --> 01:30:17.920 long consistently? 1670 01:30:18.840 --> 01:30:22.359 Okay? Yeah, So when when you put a new plant 1671 01:30:22.399 --> 01:30:24.479 in the ground, new tree or shrub in the ground, 1672 01:30:24.920 --> 01:30:27.880 it does not need fertilizer for a while. You get it, 1673 01:30:28.039 --> 01:30:30.920 let it get established. When you start seeing new growth occurring, 1674 01:30:31.039 --> 01:30:34.079 like the plant is getting established and doing doing well, 1675 01:30:34.439 --> 01:30:39.039 you can begin to fertilize it gradually. Uh, you said 1676 01:30:39.079 --> 01:30:41.960 Eagleston Holly. And remind me of the second plant that you. 1677 01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:44.800 Said, Magnolia, Magnolia little Jim. 1678 01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:47.960 Okay, well, I would get I would get a plant 1679 01:30:48.000 --> 01:30:49.760 food for acid loving plants. 1680 01:30:50.119 --> 01:30:50.239 Uh. 1681 01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:54.000 And so depending on you know what, what kind of 1682 01:30:54.479 --> 01:30:55.840 product you prefer to use. 1683 01:30:56.319 --> 01:30:56.399 Uh. 1684 01:30:56.880 --> 01:31:00.279 The folks at Microlife have a microlife product for acaid 1685 01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:04.039 loving plants. It's kind of in a deep pink kind 1686 01:31:04.079 --> 01:31:07.960 of bag, pinkish red bag, and it works really well. 1687 01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:10.960 It being an organic not salt based, it's you're not 1688 01:31:11.000 --> 01:31:13.079 going to burn plants with it. You can mix it 1689 01:31:13.159 --> 01:31:15.199 into the soil a little bit, scratch it into the 1690 01:31:15.319 --> 01:31:18.079 surface so it can decompose a way. But it's gonna 1691 01:31:18.079 --> 01:31:20.399 take a while before those plants have the root system 1692 01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:23.079 that's out now in your soil and your planting beds 1693 01:31:23.520 --> 01:31:26.319 to be able to need and take up the nutrients 1694 01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:29.079 that they need. What was in the container when you 1695 01:31:29.159 --> 01:31:31.560 bought them is enough to hold them for a good while, 1696 01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:32.760 at least six weeks. 1697 01:31:34.199 --> 01:31:40.920 Okay, So I have fertilized it through arburgate. They're they're fertilizer. 1698 01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:43.800 So I think they told me once a month, and 1699 01:31:43.880 --> 01:31:47.520 I wouldn't show them that. Is that just too much monthly? 1700 01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:54.840 That's fine? Yeah, you could do that and arbigate. They're 1701 01:31:54.840 --> 01:31:58.920 fertilizers organic. It's an organic type fertilizer. So again you're 1702 01:31:58.960 --> 01:32:02.359 not salvation. I come them. Just gradually feed them as 1703 01:32:02.399 --> 01:32:04.079 you go by a little bit at a time. You're 1704 01:32:04.079 --> 01:32:07.119 getting the soil built, you're getting the soul better, and 1705 01:32:07.359 --> 01:32:09.720 just what they're telling you there, just follow out. That 1706 01:32:09.800 --> 01:32:15.000 would be just fine for their organic Yeah, all right, sir, 1707 01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:18.319 you take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much. 1708 01:32:21.600 --> 01:32:24.680 Whenever we are fertilizing plants, I just want to remind 1709 01:32:24.720 --> 01:32:28.760 everybody of something sometimes I talk about fertilizer like you're 1710 01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:31.680 giving a plant a boost. Like I was talking about, 1711 01:32:32.720 --> 01:32:35.840 you know, the Medina Hosen spray application of a higher 1712 01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:39.239 nitrogen product where you're just getting that nitrogen out in 1713 01:32:39.319 --> 01:32:41.439 there to give it a boost, and that nitrogen is 1714 01:32:41.560 --> 01:32:44.960 very volatile. That comes, it goes. The nitrogen that's there 1715 01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:47.039 today is not going to be the nitrogen that's there 1716 01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:49.760 a month from now. I mean, it gets taken up 1717 01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:52.640 by microbes, it goes off, it's a gas, it washes away. 1718 01:32:52.800 --> 01:32:56.000 There's a cycle in the soil of nitrogen, but all 1719 01:32:56.039 --> 01:32:59.640 the other nutrients, especially. We're building a bank account in 1720 01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:02.800 this and so when you're using a product and you're 1721 01:33:02.840 --> 01:33:05.199 doing it over and over again over time. You know 1722 01:33:06.319 --> 01:33:10.479 he was talking about the arrogate organic product. You are 1723 01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:14.560 putting lots of nutrients in the soil, lots of different nutrients, 1724 01:33:14.640 --> 01:33:18.079 not just three, and as a result, you're building that 1725 01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:21.000 bank account. So as these trees began to grow, he 1726 01:33:21.159 --> 01:33:25.039 had magnolia and eaglestunt whatever you're planting. The roots go 1727 01:33:25.119 --> 01:33:26.680 out there and they go, hey, I need a little 1728 01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:28.760 bit of this or that or the other. It could 1729 01:33:28.760 --> 01:33:30.920 be phosphorus, or it could be potassium. It could be 1730 01:33:31.920 --> 01:33:36.680 magnesium or sulfur or zinc or manganese or whatever. The 1731 01:33:36.760 --> 01:33:39.239 bank account has it and it's ready to go and 1732 01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:42.359 That is how we think of fertilizing, not just a 1733 01:33:42.439 --> 01:33:47.000 boost that's more than nitrogen, but building the bank account 1734 01:33:47.239 --> 01:33:49.159 so the plant can have success. I'm going to take 1735 01:33:49.159 --> 01:33:51.079 a quick break and Mike and surf side, you're my 1736 01:33:51.199 --> 01:33:56.279 first step when we come back. All right, In our 1737 01:33:56.319 --> 01:34:00.239 continued effort to find songs you've never heard before, one 1738 01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:04.000 which reminds me if you're dealing with mosquitos, pest Bros. 1739 01:34:04.359 --> 01:34:06.760 Pest Bros. Is the company you need to know about. 1740 01:34:07.479 --> 01:34:09.640 Here's a phone number you'll want to write this one down. 1741 01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:12.000 Call them for a quote. Two eight one two oh 1742 01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:15.159 six forty six seventy two eight one two six forty 1743 01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:18.840 six seventy. I will be posting something this week on 1744 01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:22.279 my mosquito buckets that I got from pest Bros. Or 1745 01:34:22.359 --> 01:34:24.319 that pest Bros. What they do is they go out 1746 01:34:24.359 --> 01:34:26.000 to your place, they set up the buckets, and they 1747 01:34:26.079 --> 01:34:29.680 come monthly back to service them. That's how that works 1748 01:34:29.800 --> 01:34:32.720 because they need to be maintained. These buckets have in 1749 01:34:32.880 --> 01:34:36.560 them something to attract mosquitos, so they come in there, 1750 01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:39.520 they lay their eggs. Those eggs will hatch into larvae 1751 01:34:39.560 --> 01:34:43.159 that will never become an adult mosquito and then mama 1752 01:34:43.279 --> 01:34:47.039 mosquito flies off with two substances on her feet. One 1753 01:34:47.239 --> 01:34:52.239 is a disease a fungus of mosquitos, and that mosquito 1754 01:34:52.239 --> 01:34:54.880 won't last a long time. But anywhere it stops with 1755 01:34:55.000 --> 01:34:57.079 a little bit of water, maybe your neighbor's got some 1756 01:34:57.199 --> 01:34:59.560 old tires in back that are holding water, or a 1757 01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:02.680 bur bath that they haven't tried to clean out for months. 1758 01:35:03.600 --> 01:35:06.760 When it lands to lay eggs there, that water will 1759 01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:08.800 get a little bit of a dose of that stuff 1760 01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:12.800 that won't let the mosquitoes go past the nymph stage. 1761 01:35:13.079 --> 01:35:17.399 And so basically your buckets become bait stations to make 1762 01:35:17.479 --> 01:35:21.079 sure that other stagnant water spots around your landscape and 1763 01:35:21.119 --> 01:35:25.279 your neighbors hopefully will be shut down. It works, it's ingenious, 1764 01:35:25.399 --> 01:35:27.760 it's excellent. Love that stuff. Now you can go to 1765 01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:31.159 the website thepestbros dot com. When you get there, you're 1766 01:35:31.159 --> 01:35:34.000 gonna find out other things, like they deal with fireance, 1767 01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:36.520 they deal with wall of varmits running around the property, 1768 01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:40.039 like mice and rats and other things. They deal with termites, 1769 01:35:40.199 --> 01:35:42.439 one of the worst pests we have in our home 1770 01:35:42.520 --> 01:35:46.359 because they do so much dollar damage to our homes. 1771 01:35:47.000 --> 01:35:49.439 They have a product that goes in a little trench 1772 01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:53.439 around the outside perimeter of your home and it lasts 1773 01:35:53.479 --> 01:35:56.640 for ten years and controls termites, and so you minimize 1774 01:35:56.760 --> 01:36:01.079 issues of well, what if my pets exposed to this 1775 01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:05.319 or that or the other. Best pros focuses on doing 1776 01:36:05.880 --> 01:36:10.119 effective treatment what works in the safest possible manner, so 1777 01:36:10.239 --> 01:36:14.680 you get those long term results without worrying. Dpestbros. Dot 1778 01:36:14.760 --> 01:36:18.720 Com two eight one, two oh six forty six seventy. 1779 01:36:20.119 --> 01:36:22.760 We're going to head now to surf Side and talk 1780 01:36:22.800 --> 01:36:25.279 to Mike this morning. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line. 1781 01:36:26.439 --> 01:36:28.800 Hey, thanks Kip. Hey, quick question for I was just 1782 01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:32.239 thinking about this today. When is the optimum time to 1783 01:36:32.359 --> 01:36:35.720 pick your vegetables. Would it be the morning or the 1784 01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:37.439 evening or the middle of the day or does it 1785 01:36:37.520 --> 01:36:38.039 even matter? 1786 01:36:40.439 --> 01:36:44.920 It can matter. Some things don't matter, like potatoes underground, 1787 01:36:45.359 --> 01:36:51.079 it's not they don't technically ripen. They get bigger o carrots, 1788 01:36:51.119 --> 01:36:54.239 for example. I try to do my harvesting in the morning, 1789 01:36:54.399 --> 01:36:58.079 and so do commercial farmers. Once the day heats up, 1790 01:36:58.119 --> 01:37:01.520 there's something called field heat that's in the vegetables. You know, 1791 01:37:01.600 --> 01:37:03.840 those tomatoes are hotter hanging on the vine if you 1792 01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:07.560 will when it's twenty five degrees outside, and so if 1793 01:37:07.600 --> 01:37:10.800 you when you pick things in the morning, especially things 1794 01:37:10.840 --> 01:37:14.439 that are prone to declining and quality, like sweet corn 1795 01:37:14.560 --> 01:37:17.399 being the ultimate. You pick it while it's cool, you 1796 01:37:17.520 --> 01:37:20.359 bring it in. You either use it or store it 1797 01:37:20.479 --> 01:37:23.520 or refrigerator, you know, whatever you're going to do, and 1798 01:37:23.640 --> 01:37:26.159 it lasts a lot longer than if you waited until 1799 01:37:26.520 --> 01:37:29.439 mid afternoon to pick sweet corn and you bring it in. 1800 01:37:30.079 --> 01:37:33.359 The declines is going much faster at that time, So 1801 01:37:33.760 --> 01:37:36.640 avoid the field heat. Pick in the morning in general 1802 01:37:36.800 --> 01:37:39.520 that it doesn't matter for everything. 1803 01:37:40.760 --> 01:37:44.119 That's exactly what's kind. For tomatoes would probably best in 1804 01:37:44.199 --> 01:37:45.800 the morning, I'm guessing probably. 1805 01:37:45.520 --> 01:37:51.520 Also be a little better. But tomatoes, yeah, tomatoes and cucumbers, 1806 01:37:51.600 --> 01:37:55.439 a squash and things. But it's not it's not a 1807 01:37:55.520 --> 01:37:58.000 big deal, you know, on them. I mean they you 1808 01:37:58.079 --> 01:38:01.279 see tomatoes sitting outside on a road sides down for days, 1809 01:38:01.399 --> 01:38:04.319 you know, underneath the cover of shade. Uh, and they're 1810 01:38:04.359 --> 01:38:07.880 getting hot. But it's not as big a deal for them. 1811 01:38:08.319 --> 01:38:10.359 But you know, all things being equal, just. 1812 01:38:10.359 --> 01:38:13.399 Pick in the morning, okay, cool, appreciate it. 1813 01:38:14.520 --> 01:38:17.239 Here here's when here's when you pick a tomato an 1814 01:38:17.319 --> 01:38:21.920 hour before the bird shows up to pecket. I understand, 1815 01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:27.159 all right, Mike, thanks a lot for your question. 1816 01:38:27.920 --> 01:38:28.399 Appreciate it. 1817 01:38:28.640 --> 01:38:33.319 You take care, Bye bye. That is true. We're gonna 1818 01:38:33.359 --> 01:38:35.359 go to Follsher now and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, 1819 01:38:35.520 --> 01:38:36.479 Welcome to the garden Line. 1820 01:38:37.600 --> 01:38:37.960 Hiki. 1821 01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:42.800 Thanks thanksgaking my call. I've got these tests that have 1822 01:38:42.880 --> 01:38:46.119 been attacking some pottered plants that have in my patio, 1823 01:38:46.880 --> 01:38:51.159 and I sent you some photos. They're they're not all 1824 01:38:51.279 --> 01:38:55.239 the same. The one that's thinks the most prevalent is this. 1825 01:38:56.000 --> 01:38:59.239 It's this white material. I'm assuming it's kind of an insect, 1826 01:38:59.319 --> 01:39:02.560 but I can't really finding me on those. It's but 1827 01:39:02.720 --> 01:39:05.880 there's all this kind of black gunk that it's leaving, 1828 01:39:05.920 --> 01:39:08.600 and it's it's gone over four different plants of line. 1829 01:39:09.119 --> 01:39:11.560 And then I got a couple others, one which has 1830 01:39:11.640 --> 01:39:14.560 some little white bugs on them, and another one they're 1831 01:39:14.640 --> 01:39:17.279 kind of I wondering if there's the mighty spider mites 1832 01:39:18.439 --> 01:39:21.399 that they're kind of like a very very very very 1833 01:39:21.479 --> 01:39:25.640 tiny kind of brownish color. Yeah, yeah, And I'm just 1834 01:39:25.760 --> 01:39:27.319 wondering the uh. 1835 01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:31.439 Is one of those that it looks like a camellia. 1836 01:39:31.840 --> 01:39:36.199 Is that what it is, that's right shrub. Okay, Yeah, 1837 01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:40.159 that is called T scale, that little white scale. It 1838 01:39:40.279 --> 01:39:42.680 sucks the juices out of the plant and then it 1839 01:39:42.840 --> 01:39:45.880 basically peas out sugar water. And that's why you get 1840 01:39:45.880 --> 01:39:48.720 a city mold that'll be growing there. It's already starting 1841 01:39:48.800 --> 01:39:51.640 but growing pretty soon. The best thing on that would 1842 01:39:51.640 --> 01:39:55.520 be a systemic insecticide that gets into the plumbing of 1843 01:39:55.600 --> 01:39:59.239 the plant, so when those scale insects suck the juice out, 1844 01:39:59.359 --> 01:40:02.039 they get the point in that way, something on the 1845 01:40:02.119 --> 01:40:04.800 outside of the leaf will be poisoned because it's not 1846 01:40:05.239 --> 01:40:09.479 sucking juices out of the plant, and a product ingredient 1847 01:40:10.359 --> 01:40:16.279 mid oh cloprid im I do clo p r I 1848 01:40:16.479 --> 01:40:22.239 d e mid oh cloprid on the camellia specifically, will 1849 01:40:22.279 --> 01:40:24.800 help shut that down. The T scale. All right, there's 1850 01:40:24.840 --> 01:40:28.880 some other systemics, you know, depending on where you shop. 1851 01:40:28.920 --> 01:40:31.079 You're out there in full sure, you've got a really 1852 01:40:31.119 --> 01:40:34.199 good ACE hardware store not too far for evening plantation 1853 01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:36.479 ACE on three fifty nine. They're going to have a 1854 01:40:36.560 --> 01:40:40.399 number of products like that out there, and I would 1855 01:40:40.439 --> 01:40:44.359 try that. Then there's another plant that has white stuff, 1856 01:40:44.479 --> 01:40:47.079 but it's along the veins of the of the leaf 1857 01:40:47.640 --> 01:40:50.279 that is also a scale. There may be some meai 1858 01:40:50.359 --> 01:40:52.920 bugs on that one too, but they're on the veins 1859 01:40:53.119 --> 01:40:55.720 because that's where they can get the main pipeline of 1860 01:40:55.800 --> 01:40:58.520 the plumbing and get more juices out of it. And 1861 01:40:58.680 --> 01:41:02.199 it's the same solution for that plant, Okay. And then 1862 01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:11.119 the final one, I am amid cloak prid I AM 1863 01:41:11.319 --> 01:41:15.560 I D O c l O p r I D. 1864 01:41:16.239 --> 01:41:19.119 And there's a lot of brands of a middle clo 1865 01:41:19.239 --> 01:41:24.039 prid in fact, oh gosh, yeah, there's just there's just 1866 01:41:24.119 --> 01:41:25.720 a bunch of brands of it. You don't you don't 1867 01:41:25.800 --> 01:41:29.960 have to really, Uh yeah, it's the the I just 1868 01:41:30.039 --> 01:41:32.760 tell telling them about a product a little bit earlier, uh, 1869 01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:36.399 that had some in it. But the other thing, uh, 1870 01:41:36.560 --> 01:41:39.239 the the plant with the kind of silvery centers of 1871 01:41:39.279 --> 01:41:42.720 the leafs with green edges that could be spider mites. 1872 01:41:43.039 --> 01:41:46.119 I'm too far away in the photo to see for sure, 1873 01:41:46.640 --> 01:41:48.720 but it looks a little like spider mites to me. 1874 01:41:49.000 --> 01:41:52.039 Blasts of water from up underneath that plant, up under 1875 01:41:52.079 --> 01:41:55.560 the leaves to dislodge them insecticidal soap spray early in 1876 01:41:55.600 --> 01:41:58.000 the morning before the sun comes out and starts baking down, 1877 01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:02.800 but both waters and insecticidal soap. You have to get 1878 01:42:03.560 --> 01:42:06.000 the plant the bug wet. You have to blast it 1879 01:42:06.079 --> 01:42:09.840 with the spray of water or soap. If a one 1880 01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:13.600 leaf is over another leaf and so those bugs are 1881 01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:16.000 protected by the leaf below it, You're not going to 1882 01:42:16.039 --> 01:42:17.640 get control with those products. 1883 01:42:18.800 --> 01:42:19.079 Okay. 1884 01:42:20.359 --> 01:42:21.479 So thorough, be thorough. 1885 01:42:22.680 --> 01:42:22.960 Okay. 1886 01:42:23.920 --> 01:42:26.319 And the one with a little white bug are those 1887 01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:31.760 the photo with a little white bugs? Are those spider mates? Two? 1888 01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:32.800 Are those like acids? 1889 01:42:36.279 --> 01:42:39.520 Is this the one? You only have three photos? 1890 01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:39.720 Right? 1891 01:42:41.720 --> 01:42:43.760 Four? 1892 01:42:44.159 --> 01:42:45.720 One two three? 1893 01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:48.560 Four? Okay? So we did the scale, We did this 1894 01:42:48.720 --> 01:42:51.399 silver leaf plant, and then the other comments I'm made 1895 01:42:51.760 --> 01:42:53.920 Where there are along the veins of the leaf that 1896 01:42:54.119 --> 01:42:56.800 is scale, also are mealely bugs. It could be mealy 1897 01:42:56.880 --> 01:43:00.279 bugs also on that leaf. I'm what I'm seeing is 1898 01:43:00.359 --> 01:43:03.640 a combination. But that's another amiddo clopri job right there. 1899 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:07.000 Okay, okay, okay, okay, got it all right. 1900 01:43:07.159 --> 01:43:12.159 Good luck, Thank you you bet appreciate your call. Glad 1901 01:43:12.199 --> 01:43:18.039 we could be of assistance to you. Microlife fertilizers, so 1902 01:43:18.439 --> 01:43:21.319 many good brand are brands, so many good types on 1903 01:43:21.439 --> 01:43:25.840 the market. This stuff works. I would recommend right today 1904 01:43:26.079 --> 01:43:30.520 you grab some Microlife Biomatrix orange label seven to one 1905 01:43:30.600 --> 01:43:35.000 three fertilizer and Microlife Ocean Harvest blue label four two 1906 01:43:35.159 --> 01:43:38.640 three fertilizer product based on a fish. As a matter 1907 01:43:38.680 --> 01:43:41.920 of fact, the first one orange label for inside or 1908 01:43:42.039 --> 01:43:45.800 outside blue label for outside. The label will tell you 1909 01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:47.880 how to apply it, how to mix it and everything. 1910 01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:50.840 They'll both give your plants a good boost and it's 1911 01:43:50.880 --> 01:43:53.359 a good way to get things going so you have 1912 01:43:53.479 --> 01:43:56.760 success with those plants. I'm gonna be back in just 1913 01:43:56.920 --> 01:43:57.680 a moment. 1914 01:43:58.560 --> 01:43:58.960 All right. 1915 01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:00.600 Welcome back to Guardlande and good to have you with 1916 01:44:00.720 --> 01:44:04.399 us this morning on a nice Sunday morning. You got 1917 01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:06.239 a question, you'd like to give me a call? Seven 1918 01:44:06.319 --> 01:44:08.880 one three two one two k t r H. That's 1919 01:44:08.880 --> 01:44:10.800 the number you can dial. Got room for a call 1920 01:44:10.920 --> 01:44:12.640 or two here before we get to the end of 1921 01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:15.760 this hour, Maybe one call, I believe looking at the clock. 1922 01:44:16.720 --> 01:44:19.760 Nitrophis super turf is a product you hear me talk 1923 01:44:19.800 --> 01:44:22.479 about all the time, and it's because it works. It 1924 01:44:22.600 --> 01:44:27.880 was designed many years ago based on research from Langra 1925 01:44:28.079 --> 01:44:33.600 University scientists turf researchers throughout the Gulf Coast region. If 1926 01:44:33.640 --> 01:44:36.560 you get down to places like tex A and m LSU, 1927 01:44:36.760 --> 01:44:40.079 Oklahoma State, Mississippi State, all the way across the University 1928 01:44:40.079 --> 01:44:44.920 of Florida and everything. You're going to find a consistent 1929 01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:48.800 message from the turf folks, and that is your fertilizers 1930 01:44:48.920 --> 01:44:50.359 need to be in a three one two or four 1931 01:44:50.439 --> 01:44:53.720 one two ratio is a general general guide. That's that's 1932 01:44:53.760 --> 01:44:57.680 a good ballpark to aim for. And they need to 1933 01:44:57.800 --> 01:45:02.520 release the nutrients slowly over time. That is the best way. Now, 1934 01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:04.640 you can take an immediate release fertilizer and if you 1935 01:45:04.720 --> 01:45:06.680 overdo it, you get a lot of top growth. But 1936 01:45:07.720 --> 01:45:10.319 what happens is you get to mowmore because it grows 1937 01:45:10.399 --> 01:45:13.319 like crazy on the top, nice deep green, but the 1938 01:45:13.439 --> 01:45:16.439 root system actually is less than if you fertilize properly. 1939 01:45:17.199 --> 01:45:19.840 That's a weird thing, but it's true. And so with 1940 01:45:20.000 --> 01:45:22.159 nine to five superturf, you put it down and for 1941 01:45:22.279 --> 01:45:25.760 four months it is feeding your lawn for you over time. 1942 01:45:26.119 --> 01:45:30.479 It's designed for that design for our hot, humid summers 1943 01:45:30.680 --> 01:45:34.439 and our Southern turf grasses like Saint Augustine Bermuda enjoys you. Now, 1944 01:45:35.119 --> 01:45:38.560 when you put it down and return your clippings, they 1945 01:45:38.600 --> 01:45:41.479 are going to release nutrients slowly over time is they 1946 01:45:41.560 --> 01:45:45.199 decompose also, which means the next fertilization you've got is 1947 01:45:45.359 --> 01:45:47.000 going to be the one if you put it down now, 1948 01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:49.359 the next fertilization you have is going to be the 1949 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:53.199 one in the fall. This false fertilization nine five superturf 1950 01:45:53.279 --> 01:45:55.079 is available a lot of different places. You're going to 1951 01:45:55.119 --> 01:45:59.720 find it at places like maybe down in the Sage 1952 01:45:59.800 --> 01:46:01.840 Mind Area M and D. Beamer. There's an M and 1953 01:46:01.880 --> 01:46:04.880 D Clare Lake as well on Bay Area Boulevard. If 1954 01:46:04.920 --> 01:46:08.039 you go to Alvin Stanton Shopping Center on North Taylor 1955 01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:12.479 carries night Foss products, and then in Baytown Fisher's Hardware 1956 01:46:12.720 --> 01:46:16.640 on Alexander and Brenham Plants and things on Highway three 1957 01:46:17.039 --> 01:46:21.319 sixty five Night to five superturb the silver bag makes 1958 01:46:21.359 --> 01:46:24.680 it easy to find. And remember, let's go out now 1959 01:46:24.800 --> 01:46:28.199 to League City, Texas, and we're going to talk to Carol. Hello, Carol, 1960 01:46:28.359 --> 01:46:29.279 welcome to garden Line. 1961 01:46:29.319 --> 01:46:32.720 Hello. Did you get my picture skip of atha lilies? 1962 01:46:35.079 --> 01:46:39.159 Oh gosh, I did, yeah, that those are excellent photos. 1963 01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:43.359 By the way, they are very ugly that I was 1964 01:46:43.439 --> 01:46:46.479 looking at them, though I didn't see the under Oh yeah, 1965 01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:48.840 you did send me an underside of the leaf. Okay, 1966 01:46:50.000 --> 01:46:53.039 it could be rust, or it could be what it 1967 01:46:53.239 --> 01:46:56.800 is is it's a fungal leaf spot that that I'm 1968 01:46:56.840 --> 01:47:01.560 sure of, and so any kind of a systemic fungicide 1969 01:47:01.760 --> 01:47:04.880 should do a good job of shutting that down. It 1970 01:47:05.079 --> 01:47:08.039 could be rust at the stage it's in right now, 1971 01:47:08.840 --> 01:47:12.279 I can't definitively say, but watch the bottom sides of 1972 01:47:12.319 --> 01:47:15.640 those leaves. If it's rust, out of the bottom, it's 1973 01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:20.039 like the little leaf explodes out these little, tiny, tiny 1974 01:47:20.199 --> 01:47:24.880 microscopic orange spores, and you'll see them coming out of 1975 01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:27.279 the bottom. You rub your thumb across it, and there'll 1976 01:47:27.279 --> 01:47:29.399 be orange on your thumb, like you rubbed it over 1977 01:47:29.479 --> 01:47:32.479 something rusty. But that's the why they call it the 1978 01:47:32.560 --> 01:47:36.399 rust fungus. But a systemic would be a good way 1979 01:47:36.479 --> 01:47:39.399 to go. I would probably try did you tell me 1980 01:47:39.520 --> 01:47:50.560 you had tried the one called propacnasole, no shock? Okay? Okay, 1981 01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:58.239 I would try one called propa conasole, okay. And it's 1982 01:47:58.359 --> 01:48:02.600 p r oh pr oh p I co o n 1983 01:48:03.520 --> 01:48:11.840 A z o l e pro con a zouls o 1984 01:48:12.039 --> 01:48:16.920 l E. Propa Conasol is a good funda side for 1985 01:48:17.079 --> 01:48:19.640 a number of different things. It's available over the counter 1986 01:48:21.560 --> 01:48:25.600 and you can just basically get it pretty much anywhere. 1987 01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:30.159 Garden centers and feed stores, H eight hardware stores, places 1988 01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:36.319 like that. Okay, City you've got some. Yeah, you've got 1989 01:48:36.680 --> 01:48:38.880 You've got a League City feed store that I'll bet 1990 01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:42.439 you has Propa Connasol. It's right there just south of 1991 01:48:42.600 --> 01:48:43.199 Highway three. 1992 01:48:44.800 --> 01:48:47.640 Starting appreciated because last year I ended up just cutting 1993 01:48:47.680 --> 01:48:49.960 them off to the ground in about August and they 1994 01:48:50.039 --> 01:48:54.479 came back real nice without the rust on them again. 1995 01:48:54.680 --> 01:48:57.640 But then my pros and now we're starting all over again. 1996 01:48:59.720 --> 01:49:03.000 Yeah, Yeah, that's it. And you know the bottom line 1997 01:49:03.079 --> 01:49:07.199 on it is you just have to stay with it. 1998 01:49:08.039 --> 01:49:14.600 Diseases are better prevented than cured. That's just that's just 1999 01:49:14.680 --> 01:49:18.600 the bottom line on it. And what I've seen, you know, 2000 01:49:18.760 --> 01:49:21.199 and looking at things, if you wait, like the leaves 2001 01:49:21.239 --> 01:49:23.920 you sent me that have all those spots, they're gone. 2002 01:49:24.119 --> 01:49:25.640 I mean, if you don't leave them for a while. 2003 01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:28.560 But I would take everything out, it's gonna be a 2004 01:49:28.680 --> 01:49:30.800 pretty good printing and I'd get it all out of there. 2005 01:49:31.079 --> 01:49:34.880 Because that's like when they say typhoid Mary, you know 2006 01:49:35.000 --> 01:49:37.880 one sick person that gets all the others sick. Uh, 2007 01:49:38.039 --> 01:49:42.079 And I think that, Yeah, yeah, I think that that 2008 01:49:42.159 --> 01:49:44.560 would be probably your best bet, but I would try 2009 01:49:44.560 --> 01:49:46.800 the proper condis. I think you're gonna probably have the 2010 01:49:46.840 --> 01:49:48.840 best bet with that for an over the counter should 2011 01:49:49.159 --> 01:49:51.920 that for whatever reason that work, there is something like 2012 01:49:53.640 --> 01:49:59.199 the resistance in diseases. We can switch you to another one, 2013 01:49:59.399 --> 01:50:00.600 but let's start with that one. 2014 01:50:01.800 --> 01:50:02.119 Okay. 2015 01:50:02.319 --> 01:50:04.560 I hope I can find it at my League City Feed. 2016 01:50:04.640 --> 01:50:05.560 I appreciate to hear. 2017 01:50:05.800 --> 01:50:08.840 Thank you, Oh, League City Feet'll have it. If not, 2018 01:50:08.960 --> 01:50:10.920 you've got a nice hardware store there down there, they'll 2019 01:50:10.960 --> 01:50:13.399 have it. To Propagonazo. Just go go ahead, talk to Jeff, 2020 01:50:13.439 --> 01:50:15.920 one of the folks there at League City Feed. Well, 2021 01:50:16.520 --> 01:50:20.159 all right, thank you. All right, folks, we've got to 2022 01:50:20.159 --> 01:50:22.560 go to a break here, Glenn and Richards, We're gonna 2023 01:50:22.600 --> 01:50:24.720 come to you first when we get back from this 2024 01:50:24.840 --> 01:50:28.600 little break. Hey, I want a low public service announcement. 2025 01:50:28.720 --> 01:50:32.800 On Saturday, August second, Saturday, second all day, eight am 2026 01:50:32.880 --> 01:50:36.920 to four pm. OBA, the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance is 2027 01:50:38.359 --> 01:50:42.640 hosting their Oba Palooza, the fourth annual. I'll be there speaking. 2028 01:50:42.800 --> 01:50:45.560 Joe Gardner, awesome speaker, will be there and many other 2029 01:50:45.640 --> 01:50:50.399 great speakers. Go to OBA online dot org. Slash register. 2030 01:50:53.800 --> 01:50:58.279 All right, folks, we're back. We got one hour left today, 2031 01:50:58.399 --> 01:51:02.079 one hour left this weekend on garden Line. Oh the way, 2032 01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:04.920 We're glad you're listening in with us today. I hope 2033 01:51:04.920 --> 01:51:07.960 you're enjoying the show. I'm gonna head straight out to 2034 01:51:08.039 --> 01:51:11.119 the phones this hour. We're gonna go to Richard's and 2035 01:51:11.359 --> 01:51:14.760 talk to Glenn. Hey Glenn, welcome to garden Line. 2036 01:51:16.680 --> 01:51:17.479 Good morning. 2037 01:51:19.600 --> 01:51:19.920 Morning. 2038 01:51:21.600 --> 01:51:21.800 Yeah. 2039 01:51:21.840 --> 01:51:26.560 I had a question on uh, different type of grasses 2040 01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:31.199 uh that you see you might see in h field 2041 01:51:31.359 --> 01:51:35.319 black fields and the ditches and whatever, you know, driving 2042 01:51:35.359 --> 01:51:36.640 in rural areas. 2043 01:51:37.359 --> 01:51:37.479 Uh. 2044 01:51:38.920 --> 01:51:41.039 Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out I need to 2045 01:51:41.319 --> 01:51:46.039 I need to get some seed down some bear property. 2046 01:51:46.079 --> 01:51:48.000 You know, it's a pretty pretty large area, and I'm 2047 01:51:48.039 --> 01:51:51.079 just trying to figure out what type of seed I 2048 01:51:51.119 --> 01:51:53.399 would need, you know, something that's kind of low maintenance. 2049 01:51:53.560 --> 01:51:57.119 Beat got hogg it, you know, a couple of two or. 2050 01:51:57.079 --> 01:52:02.319 Three times a year. Uh yeah, kind of low maintenance 2051 01:52:02.399 --> 01:52:04.640 and just to kind of fill in. 2052 01:52:05.119 --> 01:52:07.039 Or fill up, you know, fill the. 2053 01:52:08.920 --> 01:52:13.760 The payor dirt that I have right now. Yeah, got you. 2054 01:52:14.479 --> 01:52:17.439 Uh so that's a it's kind of an agriculture pasture, 2055 01:52:17.760 --> 01:52:21.920 uh type question. Uh, I would recommend that you give 2056 01:52:21.960 --> 01:52:26.079 a call to your agg agent with Aggerlife Extension for 2057 01:52:26.319 --> 01:52:31.159 Grimes County, and that is mister Matt Pfeiffer. Matt Pfeiffer 2058 01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:35.199 is over in the office. Uh yeah, to Grimes County. 2059 01:52:35.239 --> 01:52:35.359 Off. 2060 01:52:35.479 --> 01:52:37.199 Let me just give you a phone number. Ready, you 2061 01:52:37.319 --> 01:52:39.800 got you got a pin or paper paper handy hold on? 2062 01:52:40.359 --> 01:52:40.479 Uh? 2063 01:52:41.079 --> 01:52:49.199 Yes you bet nine eight seven three thirty nine O 2064 01:52:49.439 --> 01:52:53.560 seven eight seven three thirty nine O seven. He's going 2065 01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:55.720 to have access to a lot of the agrolife information 2066 01:52:55.840 --> 01:52:59.279 on pastures, the best best pasture grasses and management of 2067 01:52:59.359 --> 01:53:00.279 them and things like that. 2068 01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:01.119 Uh. 2069 01:53:01.319 --> 01:53:03.359 And he he could point you in the right direction 2070 01:53:04.000 --> 01:53:06.399 most likely. It's give me something that could be seated. 2071 01:53:06.720 --> 01:53:09.199 There's a few, like certain types of bermuda that are 2072 01:53:09.279 --> 01:53:12.079 used from spriggs. But I think you're going to want 2073 01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:16.119 more of a native pasture type grass most likely. And 2074 01:53:16.159 --> 01:53:18.159 that's going to be the guy that can He can 2075 01:53:18.239 --> 01:53:20.359 better point you to that than I can. I. I 2076 01:53:20.600 --> 01:53:23.359 I focus on grass that you grow to look at 2077 01:53:23.399 --> 01:53:26.359 in the lawn, you know, and and I get you 2078 01:53:26.399 --> 01:53:29.680 a better answer for what you're looking. Yeah, yeah, tried, 2079 01:53:29.840 --> 01:53:30.119 all right? 2080 01:53:30.199 --> 01:53:36.640 That some common bermuda and I mean it took, but uh, 2081 01:53:37.800 --> 01:53:41.760 yeah it is and it's very expensive, the common bermuda. 2082 01:53:41.880 --> 01:53:51.760 So yeah, well yeah, well you know, maybe Matt and 2083 01:53:51.920 --> 01:53:55.079 the last name I wist spell it p p f 2084 01:53:55.600 --> 01:53:59.640 e I f E r p f E I f 2085 01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:04.199 are all right, okay, by just give him out a 2086 01:54:04.279 --> 01:54:07.239 call telling skip sent you and uh and he'll he'll 2087 01:54:07.279 --> 01:54:09.319 be able to walk through through it with you, get 2088 01:54:09.359 --> 01:54:11.640 you in the right direction. Thank you, okay, sir, I 2089 01:54:11.880 --> 01:54:15.239 appreciate that. Thank you, Bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate 2090 01:54:15.279 --> 01:54:19.159 your call very much. Uh you too. For everybody listening. 2091 01:54:19.960 --> 01:54:24.239 Every county in Texas is served by an AGROLFE Extension office, 2092 01:54:24.439 --> 01:54:28.239 and in that office you have, uh all the counties 2093 01:54:28.319 --> 01:54:31.000 are going to have somebody that works in agriculture in general, 2094 01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:36.239 and that would be everything from raising livestock to growing 2095 01:54:36.439 --> 01:54:40.199 pasture grasses and things, uh to farm ponds and whatnot. 2096 01:54:40.479 --> 01:54:42.119 They're going to have a four h and youth agent, 2097 01:54:42.439 --> 01:54:44.800 which pretty much I've just heard about. Four h It's 2098 01:54:44.840 --> 01:54:48.760 an awesome youth development program teaches leadership and all kinds 2099 01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:51.840 of wonderful skills for youth that's not just about stock shows. 2100 01:54:52.720 --> 01:54:54.760 Four each is good. And then a family and community 2101 01:54:54.800 --> 01:54:58.439 health agent, and back a long time ago, the Family 2102 01:54:58.520 --> 01:55:02.680 and Community health position focused on things like sewing, making 2103 01:55:02.920 --> 01:55:08.840 clothing and canning vegetables and food and other things. Now 2104 01:55:09.239 --> 01:55:14.279 there's still those kinds of educational materials, but they do 2105 01:55:14.840 --> 01:55:18.680 things they go away beyond that, like health prevention diabetes 2106 01:55:18.840 --> 01:55:24.159 and heart disease, things like exercising programs like Walk across 2107 01:55:24.279 --> 01:55:28.920 Texas wonderful progress. Listen, the extension service is something everybody 2108 01:55:29.000 --> 01:55:33.119 outn't know who your agent is agunts are and reach 2109 01:55:33.199 --> 01:55:36.159 out to them to take advantage of that. In all 2110 01:55:36.239 --> 01:55:38.119 the areas, all two hundred and fifty four counties of 2111 01:55:38.159 --> 01:55:40.479 Texas in this part of the state, every county has 2112 01:55:40.479 --> 01:55:42.880 an office. You get out far enough in West Texas 2113 01:55:42.920 --> 01:55:45.960 where there are jackpipe rabbits than people, and you may 2114 01:55:46.000 --> 01:55:48.319 have an office that serves more than one county. But 2115 01:55:48.920 --> 01:55:52.840 over here everybody, every county has got an extension office 2116 01:55:53.000 --> 01:55:56.119 with several agents. Now, just while I'm rolling on that, 2117 01:55:57.000 --> 01:55:59.840 if you are in Harris County, or in Galveston County, 2118 01:56:00.239 --> 01:56:04.840 or in Fort Bend County, or in Brazoria County, or 2119 01:56:05.039 --> 01:56:09.760 in Brass County or in Montgomery County, I'm probably forgetting 2120 01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:12.920 somebody you have a horticulture agent as well in those 2121 01:56:13.000 --> 01:56:16.640 counties that run the master Gardening program and do all 2122 01:56:16.680 --> 01:56:20.359 the horticulture education. All right, so public service announcement. I'm 2123 01:56:20.359 --> 01:56:23.079 getting a bunch of those out today. Let's head now 2124 01:56:23.279 --> 01:56:26.319 to Missouri City and we're going to talk to Ray. Hello, Ray, 2125 01:56:26.399 --> 01:56:27.319 welcome to garden Line. 2126 01:56:28.239 --> 01:56:31.560 Hey, good morning, Skipton, thanks for taking my call. I 2127 01:56:31.640 --> 01:56:34.399 don't know if this is your area of expertise, but 2128 01:56:34.520 --> 01:56:35.319 I'll give it a shot. 2129 01:56:35.840 --> 01:56:36.079 Okay. 2130 01:56:36.119 --> 01:56:39.760 In my backyard, I have Saint Augustine grass and there 2131 01:56:39.760 --> 01:56:44.079 are a few places that's sinking and it's not level, 2132 01:56:44.760 --> 01:56:47.680 so I want to put some top soil to level 2133 01:56:47.760 --> 01:56:51.600 it off. My question is will the grass grow back 2134 01:56:51.800 --> 01:56:55.119 or do you think I'm going to have to reside 2135 01:56:55.199 --> 01:56:57.159 those areas where put the top soil. 2136 01:56:59.039 --> 01:57:01.119 How deep do you think you're gonna need to put 2137 01:57:01.199 --> 01:57:01.600 the soil? 2138 01:57:03.119 --> 01:57:06.560 Maybe no more than three inches, maybe not even that high. 2139 01:57:07.079 --> 01:57:12.640 Okay, okay, So, and you did say Saint Augustine? Correct? 2140 01:57:13.640 --> 01:57:14.039 Correct? 2141 01:57:15.840 --> 01:57:19.399 Okay, So Saint Augustine, if you completely covered up, it 2142 01:57:19.520 --> 01:57:23.000 kills it. It can't, you know, if it's got a 2143 01:57:23.079 --> 01:57:26.119 few if it's got grass blades sticking up, they get sunlight, 2144 01:57:26.760 --> 01:57:29.079 the end of those runners will push on up and 2145 01:57:29.199 --> 01:57:31.399 come back to the surface and you'll fill back in. 2146 01:57:32.159 --> 01:57:35.039 So if I were you, I would do it in 2147 01:57:35.159 --> 01:57:38.560 small amounts, maybe do an inch at a time, and 2148 01:57:38.680 --> 01:57:42.680 I would use topsoil, a good loamy topsoil blend on 2149 01:57:42.840 --> 01:57:45.479 the surface there. Some people use a kind of a 2150 01:57:45.560 --> 01:57:48.199 sand and loan blend, and some people put a little 2151 01:57:48.359 --> 01:57:50.920 compost in it, but not too much compost because that 2152 01:57:51.039 --> 01:57:54.439 shrinks back down over time, and you're trying to raise 2153 01:57:54.520 --> 01:57:56.239 the soil level, not raise it up and have it 2154 01:57:56.319 --> 01:57:59.439 go right back down again. So a topsoil about an 2155 01:57:59.479 --> 01:58:01.680 inch at a time time, let it grow back in 2156 01:58:01.840 --> 01:58:03.800 and get thick and pretty, and then do another inch 2157 01:58:03.880 --> 01:58:05.640 in those areas, and that'll kind of give you a 2158 01:58:05.760 --> 01:58:07.840 way to you know, as you're looking at it, going now, 2159 01:58:07.880 --> 01:58:09.399 I need a little more over there, a little more 2160 01:58:09.399 --> 01:58:11.079 over here. Now. If you want to get it all 2161 01:58:11.119 --> 01:58:13.039 done at once, you can do it all at once, 2162 01:58:13.520 --> 01:58:15.359 but then you're going to need to put some side 2163 01:58:15.439 --> 01:58:18.039 back in on those spots where you've covered it with 2164 01:58:18.159 --> 01:58:22.720 three inches of soil. Okay, I would I would. 2165 01:58:22.479 --> 01:58:27.640 Do exactly That's what I needed to know, all right, 2166 01:58:27.880 --> 01:58:30.000 Appreciate the information thank you. 2167 01:58:31.000 --> 01:58:34.039 You bet, thank you. Appreciate your call. Ray, thanks a lot. 2168 01:58:34.720 --> 01:58:37.560 Uh listen, if you are trying to reach us here 2169 01:58:37.680 --> 01:58:39.720 on garden Line, I just won't tell you that you 2170 01:58:39.800 --> 01:58:43.000 can do so at seven one three two one two 2171 01:58:43.239 --> 01:58:45.600 k t r H. Seven one three two one two 2172 01:58:46.119 --> 01:58:48.039 k t r H. I'll take a break and I'll 2173 01:58:48.039 --> 01:58:53.039 be right back. Hey, welcome back to garden Lines. We're 2174 01:58:53.079 --> 01:58:54.760 looking forward to talking to you today. I got some 2175 01:58:54.840 --> 01:58:58.000 show left here in our final hour of garden Line 2176 01:58:58.039 --> 01:59:00.920 this morning, So uh, I guess call now or forever 2177 01:59:01.000 --> 01:59:03.640 hold your piece until next Saturday when we'll be back again. 2178 01:59:05.800 --> 01:59:11.199 Arctic Insulation Solutions I talked about them yesterday. They are 2179 01:59:11.520 --> 01:59:14.600 pretty much the experts the way I look at it 2180 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:18.239 when it comes to cutting down on your heating and 2181 01:59:18.319 --> 01:59:23.479 cooling bills. So, for example, they do things like foil 2182 01:59:23.720 --> 01:59:29.039 radiant barriers. It's not aluminum foil. It's a quality product 2183 01:59:29.159 --> 01:59:34.000 on a very stronger base. It's an excellent product. But 2184 01:59:34.279 --> 01:59:36.319 think of it like you would think of an aluminum 2185 01:59:36.359 --> 01:59:38.840 foil that reflects heat back. Well, this goes up in 2186 01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:41.079 your attic and it goes on the rafters across the attic. 2187 01:59:41.079 --> 01:59:42.520 Because I have an opening at the top so he 2188 01:59:42.600 --> 01:59:45.760 can escape out from behind there, and it can make 2189 01:59:45.960 --> 01:59:49.159 thirty degree difference, and the temperature inside your attic, you know, 2190 01:59:49.239 --> 01:59:52.680 addicts can get I've heard people have been attics and 2191 01:59:52.760 --> 01:59:55.279 it was like one hundred and sixty degrees. I've been there. 2192 01:59:55.279 --> 01:59:58.640 I mean definitely one hundred and forty hundred and fifty even. Well, 2193 01:59:58.680 --> 02:00:01.960 what happens to that heat. It's radiating down on the 2194 02:00:02.079 --> 02:00:06.640 ceiling in your home. And if you've got gaps around 2195 02:00:06.800 --> 02:00:09.960 like where the registers are, that the little grades that 2196 02:00:10.039 --> 02:00:13.159 put the air conditioning out, or around a light fixture 2197 02:00:13.239 --> 02:00:16.079 or ceiling fans or wherever. If there's gaps around there, 2198 02:00:16.520 --> 02:00:20.119 I mean, it is making a significant difference. Artic insulation 2199 02:00:20.279 --> 02:00:23.119 solutions can also come out and they can do a 2200 02:00:23.239 --> 02:00:26.520 seal up of all of those gaps and things and 2201 02:00:26.960 --> 02:00:30.119 the difference that makes. It's like, well, if you left 2202 02:00:30.159 --> 02:00:32.159 your window open all day to day in your living 2203 02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:35.439 room or something, your air conditioner would be working pretty 2204 02:00:35.479 --> 02:00:37.079 hard to keep up with that, and you would not 2205 02:00:37.159 --> 02:00:39.640 be as comfortable in the room, would you. Well, that's 2206 02:00:39.720 --> 02:00:41.960 why you need to have these guys come out and 2207 02:00:42.079 --> 02:00:44.640 do what they do. Now, the radiant barrier that's one option. 2208 02:00:44.800 --> 02:00:48.319 Another option is they can put in insulation. They can 2209 02:00:48.399 --> 02:00:50.880 do any kind of insulation that you want done. The 2210 02:00:51.399 --> 02:00:53.560 one that I would suggest you take a good hard 2211 02:00:53.600 --> 02:00:57.520 look at is blown fiberglass. It costs less and it 2212 02:00:57.640 --> 02:01:00.640 works very well. And they'll they'll put an I stick 2213 02:01:00.680 --> 02:01:02.880 fluffy layer in there that'll go up to about R 2214 02:01:03.039 --> 02:01:06.159 thirty eight on top of your ceiling. And that is 2215 02:01:06.600 --> 02:01:08.560 really important if you already got some stuff in there 2216 02:01:08.600 --> 02:01:10.119 and they're just gonna come in and top it off 2217 02:01:10.199 --> 02:01:12.680 and get it right everywhere. It just takes a few 2218 02:01:12.720 --> 02:01:16.640 hours for them to do that. They are very budget friendly, 2219 02:01:16.880 --> 02:01:19.920 and so that means you go to them and you go, look, 2220 02:01:21.039 --> 02:01:24.119 my electric bills are killing me. What can you do? 2221 02:01:24.840 --> 02:01:25.399 You know, I. 2222 02:01:26.920 --> 02:01:29.760 Don't own Fort Knox. I need to know, and they'll 2223 02:01:29.760 --> 02:01:32.399 tell you, okay, well with your budget. These are what 2224 02:01:32.640 --> 02:01:35.439 I would suggest. Here's the one, two three options that 2225 02:01:35.520 --> 02:01:37.319 I would start with. One, go to two, go to three, 2226 02:01:37.520 --> 02:01:40.199 however far you want to go. That's the best bang 2227 02:01:40.239 --> 02:01:42.000 for your buck that you're going to get. They work 2228 02:01:42.039 --> 02:01:44.399 with you like that. They have solar attic fans. That's 2229 02:01:44.439 --> 02:01:48.079 a fan in the attic that's solar powered. You don't 2230 02:01:48.119 --> 02:01:51.399 have to run electricity to it, and anytime the temperatures 2231 02:01:51.399 --> 02:01:53.600 in the attic get above eighty five and above seventy 2232 02:01:53.640 --> 02:01:55.560 five percent humidity. By the way, you don't want mold 2233 02:01:55.640 --> 02:01:58.520 in the attic. This fan comes on, and I mean 2234 02:01:58.600 --> 02:02:01.520 it moves there about fifteen one hundred cubic fee per minute. 2235 02:02:01.680 --> 02:02:05.119 It moves air out of the attic. Go up in 2236 02:02:05.199 --> 02:02:07.600 your attic on a sunny day, or least stick your 2237 02:02:07.640 --> 02:02:11.800 head up in there. Be careful because it is unbelievably hot. 2238 02:02:12.000 --> 02:02:15.039 You change the temperature up in attic thirty degrees, you've 2239 02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:17.920 made a big difference in your air conditioning bills. So 2240 02:02:19.000 --> 02:02:22.479 this kind of service ends up giving you money back 2241 02:02:22.520 --> 02:02:25.079 over time or saving you money over time if you will, 2242 02:02:25.520 --> 02:02:28.399 and as a result, it is worth the investment to 2243 02:02:28.520 --> 02:02:31.359 do that. Now you can go to their website. It's 2244 02:02:31.560 --> 02:02:34.159 arctic Houston dot com. Now most of us don't know 2245 02:02:34.199 --> 02:02:36.439 how to spell arctic, so I'm gonna spell it for you. 2246 02:02:36.600 --> 02:02:41.960 It's not art, it's a arc tic Houston dot com, 2247 02:02:42.439 --> 02:02:46.239 arctich Houston dot com, or call them call them at 2248 02:02:46.359 --> 02:02:50.000 eight three two five eight six twenty eight ninety three 2249 02:02:50.239 --> 02:02:54.039 eight three to two five eight six twenty eight ninety three. 2250 02:02:54.439 --> 02:02:56.119 They can do anything needs to be done up there. 2251 02:02:56.199 --> 02:02:59.920 I mean we're talking about old insulation, dusty, moldy, pestin, 2252 02:03:00.000 --> 02:03:02.800 invested whatever. They get it out there for you. They 2253 02:03:02.960 --> 02:03:06.119 disinfect the attic area for improved air quality. They're air 2254 02:03:06.239 --> 02:03:08.319 seal all those things we were just talking. I was 2255 02:03:08.439 --> 02:03:15.079 just talking about their Arctic Solutions. Arctic Insulation Solutions, by 2256 02:03:15.119 --> 02:03:16.720 the way, they cover all the way from on the 2257 02:03:16.760 --> 02:03:19.600 west over in Berkshire, the east on the Bay Town 2258 02:03:19.800 --> 02:03:23.119 up north to Willis and south of Galveston. If you're 2259 02:03:23.119 --> 02:03:26.119 hearing my voice, they probably service your area. Eight three 2260 02:03:26.119 --> 02:03:30.439 to two, five, eight six, twenty eight ninety three Arctic Solutions. 2261 02:03:31.239 --> 02:03:36.239 Tell them you heard about it on Guardline. So I've 2262 02:03:36.279 --> 02:03:39.119 been talking about herbs today. Herbs are one of my 2263 02:03:39.239 --> 02:03:42.720 favorite types of plants to grow because they're so dad 2264 02:03:42.800 --> 02:03:45.960 gum versatile. I've talked about herbs. Of course, everybody knows 2265 02:03:46.079 --> 02:03:50.520 herbs and cooking and that that alone is worth growing herbs. 2266 02:03:51.000 --> 02:03:53.840 But herbs can be ornamental. I talked about using solid 2267 02:03:53.880 --> 02:03:56.520 burnout or chives as lining about like you would line 2268 02:03:56.600 --> 02:03:59.600 with the little riopy or something. Herbs can be ornamental, 2269 02:03:59.800 --> 02:04:03.680 like rosemary. If you have a Let's say you have 2270 02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:08.439 a like relief in your landscape topographically, you know there's 2271 02:04:08.479 --> 02:04:11.079 a high bed and then something lower. You can have 2272 02:04:11.239 --> 02:04:14.079 rosemary spilling over the side the trailing types and they 2273 02:04:14.199 --> 02:04:16.760 bloom really well, which attracts pollinators by the way it 2274 02:04:16.760 --> 02:04:21.319 supports pollinators. Or you can have upright rosemary shrubs very 2275 02:04:21.479 --> 02:04:24.159 drought resilient. Give them good drainage. They don't want to 2276 02:04:24.199 --> 02:04:26.560 be in a swamp, but give them good drainage, and 2277 02:04:26.760 --> 02:04:29.680 once they're established, you're going to be doing very little, 2278 02:04:29.680 --> 02:04:31.800 if any watering to your rosemary because it's a very 2279 02:04:31.920 --> 02:04:36.239 very good tough plant. There are herbs that are groundcovers, 2280 02:04:36.319 --> 02:04:39.600 like oregano and thyme, we could be using those. And 2281 02:04:40.079 --> 02:04:44.279 there's herbs that have beautiful flowers. I mentioned Mexico at 2282 02:04:44.319 --> 02:04:48.960 myrgold and I mentioned what was that pineapple, sayes salvia 2283 02:04:49.319 --> 02:04:52.000 that have beautiful flowers. Those are just two examples. There's 2284 02:04:52.079 --> 02:04:55.079 way more than that. The term herb can be spread 2285 02:04:55.239 --> 02:04:58.800 pretty far and wide over a lot of different things, 2286 02:04:59.319 --> 02:05:05.720 and they are beneficial. One time I was in a 2287 02:05:05.800 --> 02:05:08.479 garden up in Montgomery County, had the extension office there, 2288 02:05:08.920 --> 02:05:12.760 and I saw a little mud Dauber type wasp and 2289 02:05:12.920 --> 02:05:17.000 it was on time blooms in their herb garden, and oh, 2290 02:05:17.159 --> 02:05:20.199 that's interesting, And I thought that mud Dauber is getting 2291 02:05:20.279 --> 02:05:23.079 something out of those time blooms. And it flew off 2292 02:05:23.199 --> 02:05:24.840 and I saw it flew off to a fence, and 2293 02:05:24.920 --> 02:05:27.239 I followed it and it was making the little round 2294 02:05:27.359 --> 02:05:29.880 marble shaped mudballs. I'm not talking about the big long 2295 02:05:30.000 --> 02:05:32.560 cigar shaped things that are underneath your eaves that you hate. 2296 02:05:33.319 --> 02:05:35.680 About a little tiny round marble. You've probably seen them 2297 02:05:35.720 --> 02:05:38.039 on the screen to your house. I took that mud 2298 02:05:38.079 --> 02:05:39.520 ball and broke it open. You know it was in 2299 02:05:39.640 --> 02:05:44.359 it almost a dozen looper caterpillars. They were out in 2300 02:05:44.439 --> 02:05:48.680 the garden eating leaves. So that mud Dauber was out 2301 02:05:48.720 --> 02:05:51.119 there getting loopers and bringing them back and feeding it 2302 02:05:51.199 --> 02:05:54.880 to its babies. And the herbs were also serving a 2303 02:05:54.960 --> 02:05:59.399 function in that whole cycle. Herbs bringing in beneficial insects, parasitoid, 2304 02:05:59.520 --> 02:06:02.800 wasp lay eggs, and aphids that cause the aphids to 2305 02:06:02.880 --> 02:06:05.039 turn into a mummy. It's really cool if you're an aphi. 2306 02:06:05.039 --> 02:06:09.159 It's like watching the movie Alien. But that herbs are 2307 02:06:09.319 --> 02:06:12.800 an important part of our landscapes. Again, containers in beds 2308 02:06:12.960 --> 02:06:15.159 wherever you want to grow them. They are herbs to 2309 02:06:15.239 --> 02:06:18.479 grow and you should try some. And plus I just 2310 02:06:18.680 --> 02:06:21.359 like smelling them. You know, I cannot pass by rosemary 2311 02:06:21.880 --> 02:06:25.560 without rubbing on the on the leaves of it and 2312 02:06:25.680 --> 02:06:27.680 just smelling my hand as I go buy same thing 2313 02:06:27.760 --> 02:06:31.319 with copper canyon daisy and some others. When my kids 2314 02:06:31.359 --> 02:06:34.039 were little, one of my daughters, we had one of 2315 02:06:34.079 --> 02:06:38.079 those topiary rosemary's inside that's like shape like a Christmas tree. 2316 02:06:38.159 --> 02:06:40.359 You know, you buy them at Christmas and bring them 2317 02:06:40.399 --> 02:06:42.520 in and you know they're shape like a Christmas tree, 2318 02:06:42.720 --> 02:06:44.640 and then you put them outside and plant them when 2319 02:06:44.880 --> 02:06:46.880 the holidays are done. She would go out and hug 2320 02:06:47.039 --> 02:06:49.560 the thing. I mean, she would bear hug that rosemary 2321 02:06:49.960 --> 02:06:52.399 and she'd run down the hall. And I'd walk down 2322 02:06:52.439 --> 02:06:55.680 the hall later, and I think Mussolini had invaded or something. 2323 02:06:55.760 --> 02:06:59.840 I mean, there was like this Italian scent of wonderful 2324 02:07:00.119 --> 02:07:03.720 rosemary fill in the house. I love herbs, as I 2325 02:07:03.840 --> 02:07:05.920 hope you can tell, and you should too, give some 2326 02:07:06.039 --> 02:07:09.119 a try. You can grow culinary ginger. There's another herb, 2327 02:07:09.840 --> 02:07:12.279 I'll call it a herb. You can buy the little 2328 02:07:12.359 --> 02:07:15.600 ginger sections in the store, plant them in the ground 2329 02:07:15.600 --> 02:07:19.680 about two inches deep. They need lots of consistent soil moisture, 2330 02:07:19.800 --> 02:07:22.319 don't let them dry out. And they need shade, but 2331 02:07:22.600 --> 02:07:24.920 bright shade. So under the eaves of your house is 2332 02:07:24.960 --> 02:07:27.560 a great place to plant those. If you keep them 2333 02:07:27.600 --> 02:07:31.439 moist molt the soil that little bit you planted will 2334 02:07:31.520 --> 02:07:34.760 expand and you can actually harvest a crop of ginger 2335 02:07:35.000 --> 02:07:39.000 from your own beds. Just remember shade, shade, shade, but 2336 02:07:39.159 --> 02:07:42.239 bright shade and moisture, and you can do that. People. 2337 02:07:42.319 --> 02:07:45.439 Some people grow all kinds of things like that that 2338 02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:48.600 are culinary. All right, well, there you go. That's my 2339 02:07:48.720 --> 02:07:51.159 best shot at trying to get you to grow some 2340 02:07:51.279 --> 02:07:53.920 herbs this year. Try something new. Every year we ought 2341 02:07:53.960 --> 02:07:56.359 to be trying something new, maybe a new plant. It 2342 02:07:56.439 --> 02:07:59.359 may be no way to grow a plant, however you 2343 02:07:59.399 --> 02:08:03.279 want to go about it. Try something new. Too much 2344 02:08:03.359 --> 02:08:09.439 fun to have in horticulture in your lawn. It's time 2345 02:08:09.520 --> 02:08:12.319 to be doing the slow release fertilizers, the ones that 2346 02:08:12.439 --> 02:08:15.560 take a long time to gradually release those good nutrients 2347 02:08:15.720 --> 02:08:19.039 into the turf. And Neilson plant Food has a product 2348 02:08:19.359 --> 02:08:23.600 called Slow and Easy. Slow and Easy, and that's a 2349 02:08:23.680 --> 02:08:28.560 good name for it. It has it's designed. Dean designed 2350 02:08:28.640 --> 02:08:32.720 that with several different types of nitrogen fertilizer in it, 2351 02:08:33.279 --> 02:08:38.039 nitrogen compounds and some types of nitrogen. Some forms are 2352 02:08:38.079 --> 02:08:42.840 immediately available. Some forms with some soul moisture and some warmth, 2353 02:08:43.079 --> 02:08:46.199 they begin to release faster. Others it doesn't matter how 2354 02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:48.199 wet it is, they're not going to release the nitrogen. 2355 02:08:48.319 --> 02:08:52.159 There's biological activity that's going on to help break that 2356 02:08:52.319 --> 02:08:54.840 down and get it out. But the combination is with 2357 02:08:54.960 --> 02:08:58.359 Slow and Easy you get a gradual feed over four 2358 02:08:58.439 --> 02:09:02.520 months plus. I mean, it really feeds long term. And 2359 02:09:02.640 --> 02:09:04.520 you can find Nelson Slow and Easy in a lot 2360 02:09:04.560 --> 02:09:07.600 of places that carry no some products. And when you 2361 02:09:07.680 --> 02:09:10.119 put it down, you're good. You're good to go until 2362 02:09:10.239 --> 02:09:15.199 my fall schedule application. If you download my lawn care 2363 02:09:15.359 --> 02:09:17.880 schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see when 2364 02:09:17.920 --> 02:09:20.600 to apply it in the fall, when to apply fall fertilizers. 2365 02:09:20.880 --> 02:09:22.560 Slow and Easy will take you from now all the 2366 02:09:22.600 --> 02:09:25.479 way through there. It's a super product. It works very 2367 02:09:25.600 --> 02:09:28.560 very well, and it's widely available here in the Greater 2368 02:09:28.680 --> 02:09:31.800 Houston area. Take care of your lawn and return your 2369 02:09:31.840 --> 02:09:36.640 clippings now. If it rains for a week, and by 2370 02:09:36.720 --> 02:09:39.359 the time you get out there. You know the grass 2371 02:09:39.560 --> 02:09:41.199 is the tall. You could lose a toddler in the 2372 02:09:41.239 --> 02:09:44.479 front yard. Well, then you're going to have to bag 2373 02:09:44.560 --> 02:09:47.359 those up. But I would use them as mulches. I 2374 02:09:47.359 --> 02:09:50.199 would use them as walkway materials. Put them in a 2375 02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:54.000 compost pile. Don't throw away those are free nutrients. Listen, 2376 02:09:54.199 --> 02:09:56.720 when you put fertilizer on your lawn and you grow 2377 02:09:56.840 --> 02:10:00.399 grass clippings, and you cut off those grass clippings, they 2378 02:10:00.439 --> 02:10:02.520 are full of the nutrients that the plant took up. 2379 02:10:03.039 --> 02:10:06.880 So do you want to, as I say, rent fertilizer, 2380 02:10:07.159 --> 02:10:09.680 put it down, grow grass clippings, pay somebody to haul 2381 02:10:09.760 --> 02:10:12.720 it off your curb, or do you want to recycle 2382 02:10:12.800 --> 02:10:18.279 your fertilizer grass clippings or nature's own slow release fertilizer. 2383 02:10:18.800 --> 02:10:21.199 You just get to decide when you mow. Am I 2384 02:10:21.279 --> 02:10:23.439 going to mulch them back in? Or am I going 2385 02:10:23.479 --> 02:10:25.800 to use them for my compost in my beds and 2386 02:10:25.920 --> 02:10:28.640 I walkways? Or am I going to pay somebody to 2387 02:10:28.720 --> 02:10:31.840 haul away the fertilizer I bought? All right, Time for 2388 02:10:31.960 --> 02:10:33.760 me to take a little break here. We'll be back 2389 02:10:33.800 --> 02:10:36.239 with your calls seven to one three two one two 2390 02:10:36.399 --> 02:10:40.239 KTRH got wide open lines right now. If you don't hesitate, 2391 02:10:40.359 --> 02:10:42.039 you can be one of the first one or two up. 2392 02:10:42.920 --> 02:10:44.800 All right, welcome back to Guarden Line. Folks. 2393 02:10:46.680 --> 02:10:47.199 Have you with us? 2394 02:10:47.960 --> 02:10:51.039 Uh, let's see here, I'm gonna just go straight out 2395 02:10:51.319 --> 02:10:53.640 and talk to uh. Let's see. We're gonna get on 2396 02:10:53.680 --> 02:10:56.319 the phone to Houston, talk to Glenn. I think this 2397 02:10:56.479 --> 02:10:59.960 morning or this next call here. But first I've got 2398 02:11:00.119 --> 02:11:02.920 to grab the right mouse. It's an epidemic today. There 2399 02:11:02.960 --> 02:11:04.640 we go, Glenn. Welcome to garden Line. 2400 02:11:05.439 --> 02:11:07.359 Hey, good morning, Skipt. I wanted to ask you some 2401 02:11:07.600 --> 02:11:09.520 things about my pecan trees. 2402 02:11:10.319 --> 02:11:10.439 Uh. 2403 02:11:11.279 --> 02:11:14.560 I don't want to say trees plurally, because what it 2404 02:11:14.680 --> 02:11:18.199 actually is it's it's two trunks coming from the same 2405 02:11:18.279 --> 02:11:23.560 root system, okay. And I've never had any pecans on it. 2406 02:11:23.840 --> 02:11:26.039 And I was told by someone that I would need 2407 02:11:26.159 --> 02:11:30.239 to have a female pecan tra I don't know. I 2408 02:11:30.279 --> 02:11:32.359 couldn't tell you a male from a female tree, So 2409 02:11:32.520 --> 02:11:34.760 I don't know what I've got out there, Okay, But 2410 02:11:35.239 --> 02:11:38.199 but it's been there for some years, never had any 2411 02:11:38.239 --> 02:11:41.680 pecans on it. And there's some neighbors behind me that 2412 02:11:41.880 --> 02:11:45.359 have some pecan trees, probably within fifty yards and I 2413 02:11:45.479 --> 02:11:48.319 don't know what that they've they've buried pecans in the past, 2414 02:11:48.359 --> 02:11:50.720 but they've always been rotten inside, so I don't know 2415 02:11:50.800 --> 02:11:55.520 what's going on on with those. But okay, what do 2416 02:11:55.640 --> 02:11:58.560 I need to do to get this pecan tree to 2417 02:11:58.640 --> 02:11:59.760 bear bear pecans? 2418 02:12:03.279 --> 02:12:06.520 What is the rough diameter of those trunks about? You know, 2419 02:12:06.600 --> 02:12:09.800 waist higher, so we're talking about eight inches ten inches? 2420 02:12:09.960 --> 02:12:10.520 Four inches? 2421 02:12:10.960 --> 02:12:14.159 How about well they're roughly twelve inches. 2422 02:12:15.680 --> 02:12:21.479 Okay, all right, So just a clarification first, the people 2423 02:12:21.520 --> 02:12:24.000 that said there's male and female pecans, that's not true. 2424 02:12:24.159 --> 02:12:27.279 But what they were trying to say wash There's two 2425 02:12:27.439 --> 02:12:31.880 types of pecans. One the pollen those little pipe cleaner 2426 02:12:31.960 --> 02:12:34.319 looking catkins that hang down and fall on the ground 2427 02:12:34.399 --> 02:12:39.039 later that they come first, and then the individual little 2428 02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:43.920 tiny pecan nutlets become receptive to pollen. The other type, 2429 02:12:44.000 --> 02:12:47.840 it's vice versa. The pecan nutlets are receptive and then 2430 02:12:47.920 --> 02:12:50.439 that tree's pollen is shed toward the end of that 2431 02:12:50.600 --> 02:12:52.880 or a little bit later. So you want one of 2432 02:12:53.000 --> 02:12:57.359 both types, either pollen first or nutlets receptive first. There 2433 02:12:57.399 --> 02:13:00.319 are so many pecan trees around the area, and there 2434 02:13:00.439 --> 02:13:05.159 is some they're wind pollinated, not be pollinated. That generally, 2435 02:13:05.199 --> 02:13:07.279 you don't have to worry about putting two different types 2436 02:13:07.399 --> 02:13:10.439 of pecans in your yard. They'll pollinate themselves. And if 2437 02:13:10.439 --> 02:13:13.479 you've got a neighbor with trees, they probably are the 2438 02:13:13.840 --> 02:13:17.279 are going to pollinate your trees for you. If you 2439 02:13:17.359 --> 02:13:21.079 don't know which type you have. Next spring, go out 2440 02:13:21.359 --> 02:13:23.560 and if you can reach a branch to look at it. 2441 02:13:24.359 --> 02:13:27.800 Notice when the nutlets come out, little tiny ones, I 2442 02:13:27.840 --> 02:13:29.840 mean they're like a quarter inch long when they first 2443 02:13:29.880 --> 02:13:33.079 come out. And then look at the pollen, and you're 2444 02:13:33.119 --> 02:13:35.119 going to see one is going to be before the other. 2445 02:13:35.319 --> 02:13:38.279 If the ends on the nutlets are already black or brown, 2446 02:13:38.359 --> 02:13:41.279 that means they're done. They've already either been pollinated or not. 2447 02:13:42.159 --> 02:13:45.520 And just see which happens first. And that's the type 2448 02:13:45.560 --> 02:13:50.279 of pecan you have. So I suspect around your neighborhood 2449 02:13:50.640 --> 02:13:54.239 you're going to have some pecan dust pollen that is 2450 02:13:55.159 --> 02:13:58.560 adequate to pollinate your tree. If that's not the case, 2451 02:13:59.039 --> 02:14:02.039 then you would need to plant one that's the other 2452 02:14:02.239 --> 02:14:05.119 type from what you have. There's a website. Do you 2453 02:14:05.159 --> 02:14:07.800 have a pin or paper handy there where you could 2454 02:14:07.800 --> 02:14:08.439 write something down? 2455 02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:09.399 Yeah? 2456 02:14:12.039 --> 02:14:14.840 Yeah, yes, I want you to go to a website 2457 02:14:14.960 --> 02:14:17.479 and the name of it is Aggie Horticulture. I'm not 2458 02:14:17.600 --> 02:14:20.840 going to read out the URL. Just do a search 2459 02:14:20.920 --> 02:14:24.880 for Aggie Horticulture. On that page. There's the very front 2460 02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:27.000 page you'll see where you click on fruits and nuts 2461 02:14:27.119 --> 02:14:29.319 and you click there and you get a list of 2462 02:14:29.399 --> 02:14:31.520 ever possible kind of fruit and nut you could ever grow, 2463 02:14:32.000 --> 02:14:34.279 and go down to the pecan one and look at it, 2464 02:14:34.479 --> 02:14:37.560 print it out, read it online. It's free to do 2465 02:14:37.680 --> 02:14:40.039 whatever you want to do with it. And read a 2466 02:14:40.079 --> 02:14:43.159 little bit about those and the varieties and that thing 2467 02:14:43.279 --> 02:14:48.119 I just got through describing to you about pollen first 2468 02:14:48.319 --> 02:14:52.119 or nutlets first, and when you determine what you have, 2469 02:14:52.479 --> 02:14:55.399 you can use that publication to pick a variety that's 2470 02:14:55.479 --> 02:14:57.600 the other kind from what you have. 2471 02:14:59.159 --> 02:14:59.520 Alight. 2472 02:15:01.960 --> 02:15:05.600 One more thing, very quickly is last year I had 2473 02:15:05.800 --> 02:15:08.560 a real issue with the webworms on this tree. 2474 02:15:08.640 --> 02:15:10.239 It was they were really really bad. 2475 02:15:11.680 --> 02:15:13.960 Do they watch come out later later on, like in 2476 02:15:14.039 --> 02:15:14.359 the fall? 2477 02:15:14.479 --> 02:15:16.720 Is that is that when they make their way back. 2478 02:15:16.439 --> 02:15:21.119 Around the worst webworms or late summer and fall, we 2479 02:15:21.279 --> 02:15:24.520 have a spring population that ever now and then can 2480 02:15:24.560 --> 02:15:27.640 be kind of bad. Usually is not too bad, but 2481 02:15:28.279 --> 02:15:32.039 start looking in August for webs and and you can 2482 02:15:32.119 --> 02:15:34.039 break those up with a long pole or a strong 2483 02:15:34.119 --> 02:15:37.920 stream of water. You can spray the trees. Most people 2484 02:15:38.000 --> 02:15:40.000 in a residential neighborhood are not going to go to that, 2485 02:15:40.920 --> 02:15:43.520 but just breaking them up. But they're number one predator 2486 02:15:43.600 --> 02:15:46.560 is paper wasps. They build a little paper nests under 2487 02:15:46.600 --> 02:15:51.279 your heaves. They eat web worm and other caterpillars all day. 2488 02:15:51.520 --> 02:15:52.800 That's their number one food. 2489 02:15:53.479 --> 02:15:55.720 Well back when I was in the pest control because 2490 02:15:55.960 --> 02:16:00.560 I had a spray rig on my truck where I reached. 2491 02:16:00.359 --> 02:16:03.880 Okay, very high, but I don't know there you go there, 2492 02:16:05.079 --> 02:16:10.720 but that's fu of them, you know. Yeah, all right, Glenn, 2493 02:16:11.359 --> 02:16:13.439 good luck, Thanks for you all right, thank you. 2494 02:16:14.560 --> 02:16:17.079 Yes, sir, thank you very much. Appreciate the call. 2495 02:16:17.680 --> 02:16:17.800 Uh. 2496 02:16:18.000 --> 02:16:21.960 Nelson Water Gardens. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is out 2497 02:16:22.000 --> 02:16:25.880 there in Katie. It's your West Houston destination garden center. 2498 02:16:26.239 --> 02:16:28.560 It is, and it's a great one too. You go 2499 02:16:28.680 --> 02:16:30.680 in there. First of all, drive to Katie out I 2500 02:16:30.840 --> 02:16:34.440 ten turn north on Katie for Ben Road, and then 2501 02:16:35.000 --> 02:16:36.520 just up the street a little bit on the right 2502 02:16:36.600 --> 02:16:38.719 will be Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. You're going to 2503 02:16:38.760 --> 02:16:43.120 find the most beautiful pottery I've ever seen, and all 2504 02:16:43.280 --> 02:16:47.559 the kinds of those tall vase like urns that you 2505 02:16:47.799 --> 02:16:53.120 used to make a water recycling or yeah, recirculating kind 2506 02:16:53.120 --> 02:16:56.239 of fountain that by the way, Nelson invented that. Uh 2507 02:16:56.479 --> 02:16:58.840 you you can buy them there or you can you 2508 02:16:58.920 --> 02:17:00.840 can take any container that can turn it into one 2509 02:17:00.879 --> 02:17:04.360 of those. But they are just beautiful. They have the 2510 02:17:04.440 --> 02:17:06.920 fish to go in ponds, they have the things like 2511 02:17:07.040 --> 02:17:09.920 lily pads and others to go in ponds. But their 2512 02:17:10.000 --> 02:17:13.719 nursery is just loaded with gorgeous plants, all kinds of things, 2513 02:17:13.760 --> 02:17:16.440 from the houseplants that are inside to the plants on 2514 02:17:16.520 --> 02:17:18.879 the outside. This is a good time. And I'm telling you, 2515 02:17:18.959 --> 02:17:21.319 as we get into summer and things get hot, you 2516 02:17:21.479 --> 02:17:25.440 need heat loving plants like vinkas and like pentas and 2517 02:17:25.920 --> 02:17:28.600 zinnias and other things. They've got all of that at 2518 02:17:28.680 --> 02:17:32.479 Nelson Water Garden. And also at Nelson Water Garden, you're 2519 02:17:32.520 --> 02:17:36.639 going to find the beautiful sound of water that alone 2520 02:17:36.879 --> 02:17:39.239 is worth going and grab a kid to go with 2521 02:17:39.399 --> 02:17:42.760 you and go in. When you and some child you 2522 02:17:42.840 --> 02:17:47.760 know there, your kids, your grandkids, whatever, or maybe your spouse, 2523 02:17:48.120 --> 02:17:51.319 I'm just gonna leave that one there. They tell them 2524 02:17:51.440 --> 02:17:55.399 you would like some fish food to feed the fish, 2525 02:17:55.440 --> 02:17:56.959 and they'll give you a little a handful of fish 2526 02:17:57.000 --> 02:17:58.959 pellets and the kids can go out in the back. 2527 02:17:59.079 --> 02:18:01.959 There's a big old pond in the back where you 2528 02:18:02.040 --> 02:18:04.040 can reach down and the fish literally come up a 2529 02:18:04.079 --> 02:18:05.600 little bit out of the water and you can just 2530 02:18:05.680 --> 02:18:07.719 drop the fish food right in their mouth and kids 2531 02:18:07.760 --> 02:18:11.239 will love that. I love to go and just listen 2532 02:18:11.280 --> 02:18:13.120 to the sound of water. There are a few things 2533 02:18:13.200 --> 02:18:16.040 as therapeutic as water. But I got to warn you 2534 02:18:16.120 --> 02:18:18.639 you're gonna want to come home with some kind of 2535 02:18:18.719 --> 02:18:21.879 a water feature from Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens because 2536 02:18:21.920 --> 02:18:24.959 they are so so cool. Well, I need to take 2537 02:18:24.959 --> 02:18:27.200 a little break when we come back. We got two 2538 02:18:27.239 --> 02:18:31.639 calls and that is Dwayne in Mount Bellevue and Jim 2539 02:18:31.760 --> 02:18:34.239 in a task Casita and y'all will finish up the day. 2540 02:18:35.079 --> 02:18:38.440 Welcome back to Garden Line. Listen to Ace Hardware stores 2541 02:18:38.639 --> 02:18:41.200 or the go to place for all the things you 2542 02:18:41.319 --> 02:18:45.280 need for the outdoors, for the outside, for your lawn fertilizers. 2543 02:18:45.319 --> 02:18:48.360 You hear me talk about all these fertilizers. Ace Hardware 2544 02:18:48.399 --> 02:18:51.639 carries them. 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And hey, if you're 2566 02:19:58.879 --> 02:20:02.079 looking for Father's Day, I guess Ace is going to 2567 02:20:02.159 --> 02:20:05.440 have tons of stuff for the guy on your list. 2568 02:20:05.600 --> 02:20:08.719 I'm telling you. If they're into tools, they got you covered. 2569 02:20:09.000 --> 02:20:11.200 They're into barbecuing. Oh my gosh, that they got you 2570 02:20:11.319 --> 02:20:14.559 covered everything you would need. It's a great place. Not 2571 02:20:14.760 --> 02:20:17.959 just guys too, ladies and men both all kinds of 2572 02:20:18.040 --> 02:20:21.399 specialty gifts that you'll find in your Ace hardware store. 2573 02:20:22.760 --> 02:20:24.559 What's that out now, Tom up Bellevue. We're going to 2574 02:20:24.600 --> 02:20:26.959 talk to Dwayne. Hey, Dwayne, welcome to Guardenline. 2575 02:20:27.959 --> 02:20:30.360 Hey, good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I 2576 02:20:30.479 --> 02:20:32.680 sent you some pictures of a fist tree that I 2577 02:20:32.799 --> 02:20:37.280 planted in early twenty twenty four, and unfortunately it didn't 2578 02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:44.200 survive the freeze. So I have new limbs coming up 2579 02:20:44.799 --> 02:20:47.159 in the picture you can see. And I read all 2580 02:20:47.239 --> 02:20:49.280 kind of articles. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to 2581 02:20:49.360 --> 02:20:52.360 cut some back to send it out to get more 2582 02:20:52.440 --> 02:20:54.799 fig down the road, or if I just need to 2583 02:20:54.879 --> 02:20:56.319 let it stay like it is. 2584 02:20:59.040 --> 02:21:01.600 If I were you, I would not prune it at 2585 02:21:01.680 --> 02:21:06.360 this time. The fig lost, you know, its top growth 2586 02:21:06.440 --> 02:21:09.719 to the freeze. But basically it needs to get a 2587 02:21:09.799 --> 02:21:13.079 lot of leaves in sunlight, making carbohydrates to build power 2588 02:21:13.120 --> 02:21:15.639 and strengthen that plant so they can grow faster and 2589 02:21:15.760 --> 02:21:18.520 bear well. So for now I'd leave it alone. But 2590 02:21:18.639 --> 02:21:20.879 what I would do is I would get rid of 2591 02:21:20.959 --> 02:21:23.879 the grass around it. You can find a product that 2592 02:21:24.000 --> 02:21:26.879 kills just grass. You got bermuda grass around it, and 2593 02:21:26.920 --> 02:21:29.520 you got your Saint Augustine around that. If you could 2594 02:21:29.559 --> 02:21:32.840 give that fig about a two foot in all direction circle, 2595 02:21:33.959 --> 02:21:36.959 whatever you can afford to give it esthetically, go ahead 2596 02:21:36.959 --> 02:21:38.719 and kill the grass in that big circle area and 2597 02:21:38.799 --> 02:21:40.639 put a nice mult over the top. You can even 2598 02:21:40.719 --> 02:21:43.840 compost over the surface of the soil and get that 2599 02:21:44.000 --> 02:21:47.520 fig growing. And that was that will do more for 2600 02:21:47.959 --> 02:21:50.319 making it grow and become a nice big tree that 2601 02:21:50.319 --> 02:21:54.040 will bear for you than even fertilizing will. Just that 2602 02:21:54.200 --> 02:21:57.440 grass is a strong competitor with the fig. So that 2603 02:21:57.520 --> 02:21:59.760 doesn't mean don't fertilize. You could also fertilize, but I'm 2604 02:21:59.799 --> 02:22:04.040 just and uh, if you're looking, have you ever been 2605 02:22:04.079 --> 02:22:06.600 to my website gardening with skip dot com. 2606 02:22:07.760 --> 02:22:09.799 I've been there a few tip. 2607 02:22:09.319 --> 02:22:13.399 Yes, okay, okay, good, Well, when you go there, there's 2608 02:22:13.440 --> 02:22:17.840 a thing called herbicides for skip'sweed wiper. Basically, it's a 2609 02:22:17.920 --> 02:22:20.280 list of herbicides according to the weed you're going after, 2610 02:22:20.440 --> 02:22:23.680 and there's two on there. I think there's two, uh uh, 2611 02:22:24.239 --> 02:22:27.680 maybe more that are just grass killers, so you can 2612 02:22:27.760 --> 02:22:29.280 spray them. If they get on the fig, it won't 2613 02:22:29.319 --> 02:22:31.719 hurt it. If you spray them in your contunity bed, 2614 02:22:31.840 --> 02:22:34.120 it's not going to hurt the petunias. They kill grass, 2615 02:22:34.520 --> 02:22:36.159 and I would use one of those. You're gonna have 2616 02:22:36.200 --> 02:22:39.239 to probably do it more than once, but that's the safest. 2617 02:22:39.280 --> 02:22:41.239 If you get in there, you know, with the equivalent 2618 02:22:41.319 --> 02:22:43.000 of the old round up type stuff, and you get 2619 02:22:43.040 --> 02:22:45.040 it on the figure, you're gonna kill your fig. So 2620 02:22:46.120 --> 02:22:48.159 I like that grass on the killers. But they're there. 2621 02:22:48.159 --> 02:22:51.239 It's on the website herbicide less set up there. But 2622 02:22:51.360 --> 02:22:53.559 I would get going on it. That's the biggest favor 2623 02:22:53.639 --> 02:22:55.399 you can do it. It also keeps the weed eater 2624 02:22:55.479 --> 02:22:57.920 in the lawn mower away, which which is important. 2625 02:22:57.959 --> 02:22:58.159 Yeah. 2626 02:22:58.360 --> 02:23:01.719 Yeah. So one more question is you can see where 2627 02:23:01.760 --> 02:23:04.680 the day it stop is it's still about three foot 2628 02:23:04.719 --> 02:23:06.120 Do I just go ahead and cut that back? 2629 02:23:06.879 --> 02:23:09.479 Okay? Okay, yeah, you can just if it's dead, just 2630 02:23:09.559 --> 02:23:12.319 cut it off there at the ground. Yeah, all right, 2631 02:23:12.360 --> 02:23:14.600 good luck. Now you know, the rule on garden line 2632 02:23:14.719 --> 02:23:17.000 is I don't well. The rule on guardline win is 2633 02:23:17.040 --> 02:23:19.319 I don't charge for advice, but I do expect half 2634 02:23:19.360 --> 02:23:21.680 the produce you grow as a result of my advice. 2635 02:23:21.920 --> 02:23:24.479 So I love figs. Just bring half of what you 2636 02:23:24.600 --> 02:23:27.000 produce to the to the show and we'll call it even. 2637 02:23:27.159 --> 02:23:30.440 All right, Well, once I get some strawberry big failure, 2638 02:23:30.440 --> 02:23:31.120 I'll bring you some. 2639 02:23:32.920 --> 02:23:35.479 Have a good well, I am pulling your leg. I 2640 02:23:35.559 --> 02:23:38.639 gotta have a little fun with you. Thanks a lot, ma'am, 2641 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:41.680 appreciate it. Have a good weekend. We're gonna go now 2642 02:23:41.760 --> 02:23:44.319 to Tascasita and talk to Jim this morning. Jim, you 2643 02:23:44.399 --> 02:23:48.079 are the caboose of the show today. How can we help? Okay? 2644 02:23:48.200 --> 02:23:52.799 So today's question is about technique application. 2645 02:23:53.079 --> 02:23:56.959 Okay, and here's what it is. I spread some good compost. 2646 02:23:57.040 --> 02:23:57.600 On the bed. 2647 02:23:58.319 --> 02:24:01.200 Now I've got shredded tee deer bark. 2648 02:24:02.079 --> 02:24:02.399 Okay. 2649 02:24:02.920 --> 02:24:03.559 What I'm doing. 2650 02:24:03.799 --> 02:24:07.079 Question is when I spread it, I'm spreading it wet 2651 02:24:07.239 --> 02:24:09.440 because it spreads a lot easier, believe it or not, 2652 02:24:10.040 --> 02:24:13.760 and more evenly. Now, the next question is do I 2653 02:24:14.000 --> 02:24:19.840 keep the bark tight or do I keep it loose 2654 02:24:20.280 --> 02:24:22.920 on the ground, on the bed itself. 2655 02:24:23.000 --> 02:24:23.319 You said. 2656 02:24:23.319 --> 02:24:26.040 The bottom line is, I'm looking at it now and 2657 02:24:26.159 --> 02:24:28.360 it looks really good wet underneath. 2658 02:24:28.719 --> 02:24:30.479 But you tell me what to do with the rest 2659 02:24:30.559 --> 02:24:30.719 of it. 2660 02:24:32.360 --> 02:24:34.479 Now, just leave it loose. I don't I can't quite 2661 02:24:34.520 --> 02:24:36.639 picture it. But like if you have long strips of 2662 02:24:36.719 --> 02:24:39.520 cedar and so it literally was just like all this 2663 02:24:40.319 --> 02:24:42.920 light and air going through, because it's so like a 2664 02:24:43.000 --> 02:24:46.200 pile of sticks, then you probably need to grind it 2665 02:24:46.319 --> 02:24:48.760 up a little bit more. But you don't need to 2666 02:24:48.799 --> 02:24:50.879 press it down. You need to press it down. 2667 02:24:52.040 --> 02:24:53.120 Don't need to press it down. 2668 02:24:53.239 --> 02:24:55.760 Okay, Oh I skip, thanks a lot for help. 2669 02:24:55.840 --> 02:24:59.040 I have a great day. Thank you, Thank you man, 2670 02:24:59.319 --> 02:25:02.959 you too. Shit you call well, folks. I've got a 2671 02:25:03.000 --> 02:25:04.680 little bit of time here for me to talk about 2672 02:25:04.719 --> 02:25:07.319 one or two things, but I just want to thank 2673 02:25:07.360 --> 02:25:09.200 you for listening today. It's been a good day on 2674 02:25:09.280 --> 02:25:11.840 the phones with you. Guys. We want to help you 2675 02:25:11.920 --> 02:25:14.719 have success. Just remember, if you have questions during the week, 2676 02:25:15.200 --> 02:25:17.479 send me a photo, but then follow up with a call, 2677 02:25:17.959 --> 02:25:20.319 follow up with it all. I'm just not able to 2678 02:25:20.479 --> 02:25:23.719 take on answering emails and you know, kind of end 2679 02:25:23.799 --> 02:25:25.959 up a lot of times questions you sort of like 2680 02:25:26.040 --> 02:25:28.559 you become pimpals going back and forth, and I'm just 2681 02:25:28.680 --> 02:25:31.079 not able to I wish I could. But if you'll 2682 02:25:31.079 --> 02:25:35.280 send me your question with some photos attached, then call 2683 02:25:35.600 --> 02:25:37.760 on Saturday or Sunday and we'll talk about it. We've 2684 02:25:37.760 --> 02:25:39.760 had a number of people that have done that. 2685 02:25:41.200 --> 02:25:42.360 So the. 2686 02:25:44.239 --> 02:25:46.920 Idea is when you send a photo, to make sure 2687 02:25:46.959 --> 02:25:49.680 it's in sharp focus, and I need to see what 2688 02:25:50.000 --> 02:25:53.360 you're seeing, and so I usually like a picture of 2689 02:25:53.479 --> 02:25:55.760 the overall setting. So I get a picture of that 2690 02:25:56.120 --> 02:25:59.280 overall plant, and then up close, maybe turn a leaf over, 2691 02:25:59.360 --> 02:26:01.600 take a picture of the underside. Check them before you 2692 02:26:01.719 --> 02:26:04.440 send them. You want a good, sharp answer, not a 2693 02:26:04.479 --> 02:26:07.440 fuzzy answer, So don't send me a fuzzy photo, send 2694 02:26:07.520 --> 02:26:10.239 me a good sharplaint and we will help you. Looking 2695 02:26:10.319 --> 02:26:13.159 forward to helping you and pointing you in the right direction. 2696 02:26:14.159 --> 02:26:15.680 It's time for us to go. I hope you have 2697 02:26:15.760 --> 02:26:17.600 a wonderful week out there in the garden. Get out 2698 02:26:17.600 --> 02:26:20.200 and visit one of our independent garden centers this afternoon. 2699 02:26:21.159 --> 02:26:24.959 These mom and pop local businesses deserve your support. They 2700 02:26:25.079 --> 02:26:27.799 help make it possible for you to get to listen 2701 02:26:27.840 --> 02:26:30.120 to Guardline. Have you ever thought about that the reason 2702 02:26:30.159 --> 02:26:32.440 you get to listen to guard Line is because they 2703 02:26:32.479 --> 02:26:36.000 are sponsoring the show and support our sponsors. I just 2704 02:26:36.120 --> 02:26:38.639 asked that you do that, but maybe get out there 2705 02:26:38.719 --> 02:26:41.559 and just have fun. There are so many good things 2706 02:26:41.639 --> 02:26:44.879 to do, so much time, so many plants, so little time. 2707 02:26:44.920 --> 02:26:47.159 As the way I like to put in, have a 2708 02:26:47.200 --> 02:26:47.680 great week.