Speaker 1: But if you bag and get rid of it, that
Speaker 1: those nutrients and the perfect ratio that you put down
Speaker 1: in your soil. Now they're being taken to the curb
Speaker 1: in a black plastic bag, and somebody's hauling them away
Speaker 1: for you at a cost. Of course, that comes at
Speaker 1: a cost. Well, anyway, we want to always recycle those nutrients.
Speaker 1: I saw a few bags of leaves the other day
Speaker 1: at the curb somebody doing spring cleaning and tea in
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. I know what happens to those leaves they
Speaker 1: go to my place. Just throw them in the back
Speaker 1: of the truck and go home with them and use
Speaker 1: them as malts in my gardens. You can get composts
Speaker 1: with them. You can shrud them up and make a
Speaker 1: really attractive little malts too. Some people like to just
Speaker 1: use leaves whole. If the leaves are blowing around on you,
Speaker 1: you don't like that, just run on with the lawnmower
Speaker 1: with a bagging attachment, capture those leaves and then go
Speaker 1: dump the bag out there under that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Someone one time called me and asked me can I
Speaker 1: use oak leaves as molts? And I laughed and I said, well, God,
Speaker 1: does I mean, go to the forest, the native natural
Speaker 1: original you know, condition of the forest is the leaves
Speaker 1: drop and rot, they melt, and they feed the soil.
Speaker 1: And that's why when you go to a place like
Speaker 1: a tropical rainforest, been there since dirt and you stick
Speaker 1: your hand down the ground, it is the richest stuff
Speaker 1: on earth. And how did that happen? It was built
Speaker 1: that way by the plants and by the way nature
Speaker 1: is designed to work. So yes, you can use oak
Speaker 1: leaves as mults, no problem at all. Now, some leaves
Speaker 1: are slower to decompose Magnoia leaves. I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 1: could shingles. You could roof your house with them and
Speaker 1: they'd last to buy as long as thirty years. Shingles now, seriously,
Speaker 1: they're slow to break down, but you run over them
Speaker 1: with them ower, open up some more surface area on them,
Speaker 1: and those microbes will do the job. You know, we're
Speaker 1: not looking for them to decompose them fast. We're just
Speaker 1: looking for it to be a mault as slowly decomposes
Speaker 1: pine straw.
Speaker 3: Same way.
Speaker 1: Pine needles kind of slow to decompose until they're broken up.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. We want them alt so use them.
Speaker 1: Take advantage of that recycle those things.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 1: That's just some of the things I'm gonna have to do.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, there we go. Some of you guys have
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Speaker 1: about I'm not able to answer emails. Just do the
Speaker 1: volume and my time limitations on it. But what I
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Speaker 1: worry about, you know, saying something silly on the air,
Speaker 1: not a problem at all. We got you covered on
Speaker 1: all that. But I do like to describe things because
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Speaker 1: good to kind of have heads up on things that
Speaker 1: are going on, just so you can, you know, get
Speaker 1: get ahead of things. Well. In our Houston clay soils, boy,
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Speaker 1: the phones and talk to Hines. Hello, Heines, Welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 4: All right, skip, how can we help listen the way back?
Speaker 4: When do we come to his online.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, all right, take us back to.
Speaker 4: The well, it'd be early seventies when I started. But
Speaker 4: I have a situation with growing. Starting my plants indoors.
Speaker 4: I have to make the plants that I started when
Speaker 4: you started yours. It's beautiful, and then all of a
Speaker 4: sudden they started trying to get too tall, too quick,
Speaker 4: and they're losing their green. They're green, that's so okay.
Speaker 4: What kind of can I use before reset them in
Speaker 4: bigger pots?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: You know the first thing is yeah, I get you. Uh.
Speaker 1: The lack of green probably isn't due to a lack
Speaker 1: of fertilizer. It might be some but typically when the
Speaker 1: water when this, if the soil stays too wet, they
Speaker 1: get real soggy and they can have some issues.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Sometimes temperatures can affect that. I would be very slow
Speaker 1: to apply fertilizer. If you want to get you know,
Speaker 1: there's organic and synthetic options of liquid fertilizers, and you
Speaker 1: can dilute them a whole lot.
Speaker 3: Read the label.
Speaker 1: Dilute them down to the you know, most diluted form
Speaker 1: uh and and just water water with that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The the the other thing though, I think really you
Speaker 1: probably could use more light on those things. And even
Speaker 1: if it meant sticking them outside during the day. Now
Speaker 1: you know, if the temperature is even fifty degrees they
Speaker 1: can go outside and they can That will help slow
Speaker 1: the growth rate down so they can be a little
Speaker 1: stock here the wind moves them around the little bit slight.
Speaker 4: We haven't been having too much sunlight. I've been using
Speaker 4: the plant light, but that's not good.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the plant lights don't have the right wavelengths to
Speaker 1: do their best job. Sometimes they're a little too far
Speaker 1: from the plants also, and you need to run a
Speaker 1: plant light about fourteen hours a day for those seedlings.
Speaker 1: But the main thing you got the world.
Speaker 4: Outside until they got about two inches and then everything
Speaker 4: starts changing on me.
Speaker 1: Well, believe it or not. They need to sleep at
Speaker 1: night like we do. So about fourteen hours a day
Speaker 1: is a is a good time and the amount of time, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: And then you, like I said, I don't think the
Speaker 1: problem is fertilizer.
Speaker 3: But use a soluble fertilizer at the lowest miracle grove,
Speaker 3: the lowest.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, but but I think the main thing
Speaker 1: is the sunlight. And then uh, watch that watering keep
Speaker 1: them moist but not not soggy. And I think I
Speaker 1: think they'll not soggy wet, no, sir.
Speaker 3: Uh. And then I think too much water.
Speaker 4: Okay, but anyway, I think I know the cat water
Speaker 4: on small plants.
Speaker 5: Well you sounds like gets to it.
Speaker 1: They prefer rainwater if you got it, or even just
Speaker 1: still water.
Speaker 4: I have my bucket out there to catch it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, heines. Now I gave you free advice, so all
Speaker 1: I ask in return is that you bring me half
Speaker 1: the tomatoes you grow the year and we'll call it even.
Speaker 4: How about that I can call you can come get them.
Speaker 1: You're not going to deliver them, man, I don't.
Speaker 2: Drive too far.
Speaker 4: I think you might be. We're downtown.
Speaker 1: But I'm just joking with you. Man, Hey, I appreciate
Speaker 1: the call.
Speaker 5: Down.
Speaker 1: I'm not there. I'm not you take care of Thanks
Speaker 1: to the call, man, I appreciate it. Good luck with those, Bobby, Yep,
Speaker 1: that's that's true. There are a lot of things that
Speaker 1: can go wrong raising a little seedling, but don't let
Speaker 1: that stop you from trying, because once you get the
Speaker 1: hang of it, it is. It is not hard, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fun, and you can I don't
Speaker 1: know you can do it just for the fun of it.
Speaker 1: I guess you save a little bit on transplant costs,
Speaker 1: But I still buy transplants even though I raise seed
Speaker 1: But I'll raise the seedlings and start my own transplants,
Speaker 1: especially with things I can't buy locally. And you know,
Speaker 1: if there's nine hundred types of tomatoes out there, do
Speaker 1: you think a garden center can carry nine hundred to mate?
Speaker 1: Of course not that's crazy. But they your local garden centers,
Speaker 1: the one you hear me talk about here on guarden Line,
Speaker 1: the mom and pops, the independence, They know what to
Speaker 1: carry and they're going to have the best cultivars for
Speaker 1: our area for you, Like I said, so you can
Speaker 1: trust what you get there.
Speaker 3: They'll tell you about them.
Speaker 1: You know, if there's any aspects about them you need
Speaker 1: to know, they'll tell you that. But I'm telling you
Speaker 1: that if you want to try starting some things yourself,
Speaker 1: just do that and find you know, there's a I
Speaker 1: don't even say the varieties and things on there, because
Speaker 1: you know then everybody's going to go looking for that
Speaker 1: one thing and there's nothing particularly like you got to
Speaker 1: have this one. But I've got certain types of peppers
Speaker 1: that I like to grow that you're just okay here,
Speaker 1: I'll give one example. I don't know that you can
Speaker 1: buy habanada hobbanaros here in there. Maybe so one of
Speaker 1: our local garden center is libable to be carrying those
Speaker 1: because they're always expanding. But habanada is a hallowpen habannaro
Speaker 1: that has no heat. That's what nata means, not a
Speaker 1: nun no uh, and habanata that's name pepper I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: I grow those because they are virtually heatless, and your
Speaker 1: I know everybody's out there that eats hobernaro is going
Speaker 1: to what's the purpose of ab arrow without heat?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you the purpose.
Speaker 1: If you can't handle a full habornaro pepper and you
Speaker 1: got a habanada, you can mix one or two hot
Speaker 1: peppers with a bunch of habanadas and create a hot
Speaker 1: sauce that is mild enough for you to be able
Speaker 1: to handle, and you just decide how much you want.
Speaker 3: See what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean when I say there's some things
Speaker 1: that I'll grow just because I want to have those
Speaker 1: in the garden. Anyway, other examples out there. By the way,
Speaker 1: it is getting we're getting closer and closer to the
Speaker 1: time when we're going to put those tomatoes out in
Speaker 1: the garden. If you haven't started some, you still could,
Speaker 1: but at this point I don't know. It'd probably be
Speaker 1: good just to plan on going to your local garden
Speaker 1: center where they're going to carry a lot of different
Speaker 1: varieties for you. Land fertilization's coming up not too long
Speaker 1: from now, and so it's time to be getting set
Speaker 1: up and ready to go for that. By the way,
Speaker 1: microlife is going to be back in swing with that
Speaker 1: big green bag that we love for our lawns. That's
Speaker 1: the six ' two four that they have. I just
Speaker 1: want to suggest if you would consider Microlife Humates plus
Speaker 1: that is kind of a bluish purple bag. Humates plus
Speaker 1: is a zero zero four. We're not putting it down
Speaker 1: for the big three nutrients. It is not something you
Speaker 1: use instead of your regular fertilizer. It is a supplement
Speaker 1: to that that provides the humates the substances that help
Speaker 1: improve your clay soil. They improve the structure of your
Speaker 1: clay soil. Instead holding water like a farm pond, it
Speaker 1: drains internally even better. The roots get oxygen deeper because
Speaker 1: the soil structure is better. So just to remember, with
Speaker 1: microlightshum mats plus, you still get that six two four
Speaker 1: microlife the green bag, but the purple bag, the blue
Speaker 1: purple bag, the hum Mats plus, that is an addition
Speaker 1: to that, and it serves other purposes in your lawn
Speaker 1: that will help. So as you're out there purchasing throwing
Speaker 1: a bag of that Microlife hu Mats plus, we are
Speaker 1: right on the verge of doing this fertilization and don't
Speaker 1: wait until the last minute to run it and get
Speaker 1: it to go and get some right now. By the
Speaker 1: way I was talking about talking with the Hinds about
Speaker 1: you know, some of the liquid things that you can
Speaker 1: put down. Microlife has a lot of good things, like
Speaker 1: they've got Ocean Harvest that is a liquid fertilizer that
Speaker 1: is a fish based. They also have the Orange label.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever purchased their orange label before,
Speaker 1: but that is a good one. I'll mention something about
Speaker 1: that when we come back. It's it's about time for
Speaker 1: me to run to a break right here. When you
Speaker 1: are out and about and you're you know, doing your
Speaker 1: shopping and things like that, because it's pruning season, why
Speaker 1: not buy yourself a set of quality pruners this year,
Speaker 1: A quality you know, not cheap of things, things that
Speaker 1: you're going to have forever. The kinds of brands, and
Speaker 1: you know, I can sit here, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good brands out there, but things like Corona, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a good example of a brand like that, fell
Speaker 1: Cos another good example of a brand. Some of those
Speaker 1: you can replace the blades on. They got good strong steel,
Speaker 1: you can sharpen and they're just quality. Do yourself that favor.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break and I'll be right back
Speaker 1: with you with your questions at seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two ktr hut stars Way. Good morning, Good morning, gardeners,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 1: and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 1: a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. Well,
Speaker 1: if I could accomplish those three things, I would be happy,
Speaker 1: You would be happy, and the world would be a
Speaker 1: greener place. So let's let's get go in and do that.
Speaker 1: You know, we like feed stores here on Garden Line
Speaker 1: and League City Feed down in League City, Texas is
Speaker 1: one of the old time feed stores that you just
Speaker 1: love to go into. You remember those when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: maybe going into a feed store at League City Feed.
Speaker 1: By the way, they're on Highway three, just a few
Speaker 1: blocks south of ninety six in League City Highway through
Speaker 1: a few blocks south of ninety six. So they served
Speaker 1: that whole area. So whether you're in Webster or clear
Speaker 1: Lake City, or Baycliffe or San Leon, Lamark, Dickinson, Santa Fe,
Speaker 1: League City, Elqamin area, all those places, that whole region
Speaker 1: right there, this is your hometown feed store and they're
Speaker 1: open Monday through Saturday. Nine to six closed on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I like that nine to six because that way on
Speaker 1: the way home from work, you swing by there and
Speaker 1: grad what you need on the way back. They've got
Speaker 1: of course feed they of course they had that. It's
Speaker 1: including some premium pet food. But they also carry the
Speaker 1: products you need to manage pests and diseases and weeds
Speaker 1: and things like that. You hear me talk about fertilizers
Speaker 1: like nitrophoss and azemide and microlife and Nelson plant food.
Speaker 1: They've got those there. You hear me talk about heirloom soils,
Speaker 1: for example, they've got that there as well. At League
Speaker 1: City Feed again a few blocks south of Highway ninety
Speaker 1: six on Highway three in League City. They I always
Speaker 1: like it. There's a Madison has a dog named Rorschach,
Speaker 1: which is a Dalmatian, and I think I think Roshak
Speaker 1: is the best name for a Dalmation. You know, like
Speaker 1: you've gone to a psychiatrist and they bring the dog
Speaker 1: in and say, study those spots and tell me what
Speaker 1: you see. All right, what I see is a dog,
Speaker 1: and I like dogs. If we were looking at the
Speaker 1: top of the list of two Deus things you need
Speaker 1: to get done right, now, if you're starting any transplants,
Speaker 1: go ahead and hurry up and get that done. It's
Speaker 1: time to get those done so that they're ready to
Speaker 1: go in time.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: If you're going to do things that are slower developing
Speaker 1: transplants like tomatoes and peppers, those are going to take
Speaker 1: about six weeks, maybe even a little longer. I grow
Speaker 1: mine a little longer in the house. If you are
Speaker 1: going to do things that are fast, like cucumbers and squash,
Speaker 1: for example, if the water meltains kendalops is, you can
Speaker 1: start all those cucurbits as transplants, but they're not going
Speaker 1: to take a couple of weeks to get them going,
Speaker 1: because you don't want them to get pot bound if
Speaker 1: they get real unhappy, if you let them fill the
Speaker 1: sides of the pot with roots and you know, start
Speaker 1: to get a little stunted, they're not gonna be happy
Speaker 1: getting stuck out in the garden like that. So you
Speaker 1: don't want to leave them too long. But you can
Speaker 1: also do that. Generally speaking, we just direct seed those
Speaker 1: because it's just so easy to just direct seed them
Speaker 1: out in the garden. But however, you won't go about it.
Speaker 1: You can do you can do both of those. I
Speaker 1: am also suggesting if you got any pruning left to do,
Speaker 1: you get it done. All it's gonna take is some
Speaker 1: warmer days here, and our trees are gonna pop back
Speaker 1: out again, trees and shrubs and woody vines, And so
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get pruning done on those, get it done.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: That includes most roses. Now, if you have any plant
Speaker 1: that only blooms in the spring, only in the spring,
Speaker 1: wait until after it blooms to prune it. So that
Speaker 1: would be I said, most roses. That would be like
Speaker 1: the roses that just bloom once in the spring. A
Speaker 1: lot of our climbing roses are that way. Peggy Martin,
Speaker 1: for example, is that way. She blooms in the spring
Speaker 1: and not much through the rest of the year. And
Speaker 1: there are other plants like sparea or bridles reath like
Speaker 1: flowering quints and azaleas or another example, well except for
Speaker 1: the repeat blooming azaleas. And so you want to wait
Speaker 1: until after they bloom to prune them. And why is that?
Speaker 1: It's because right now those plants have all their bloom
Speaker 1: buds there in the branches, and if you prune them,
Speaker 1: you're cutting away bloom buds, so let them bloom and
Speaker 1: then after bloom, do a little pruning if it's needed
Speaker 1: on them. I'd highly recommend you learn how to print
Speaker 1: a plant before you go out and start hacking on it.
Speaker 1: Drive around town and see these trees that have just
Speaker 1: been butchered by bad pruning practices. Crp myrtle's the poster
Speaker 1: child a bad pruning. Just landscape crews. They don't know
Speaker 1: what they're doing when they do that. I'll just say
Speaker 1: that just directly. Anybody that butcher's a crate myrtle. They
Speaker 1: just don't know what they're doing. They're doing what other
Speaker 1: people do, and that will get you in trouble. Remember
Speaker 1: when you're a kid and you said, yeah, but Johnny
Speaker 1: gets to do this, Well, I'm not Johnny's mother. Just
Speaker 1: because somebody else does it doesn't mean you should do it.
Speaker 1: Don't but your crepe myrtles, you don't learn how to
Speaker 1: prone one to go online and learn. They're a good
Speaker 1: information out there. And there's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are just ranting about great murder because they're so tired
Speaker 1: of seeing it. I am too. I just got so
Speaker 1: tired of ranting.
Speaker 3: I kind of.
Speaker 1: Don't rant much more about it, but I should I guess,
Speaker 1: But printing properly a couple of the tips for printing properly.
Speaker 1: You want sharp printers. Sharp printers make clean cuts that
Speaker 1: heal faster. Dull printers you end up with stripping the
Speaker 1: bark and uh, it just makes it doesn't make us
Speaker 1: clean a cut. Also, the main thing with dull printers,
Speaker 1: it's hard to cut through a branch when the printers
Speaker 1: aren't sharp, and you to wear and tear on your
Speaker 1: joints and muscles. And you do a little bit of
Speaker 1: pruning with hand printers or loppers, and either your hand
Speaker 1: muscles or your shoulder and elbows and stuff, or they're
Speaker 1: going to tell you about it. If you have much
Speaker 1: pruning to do, get sharp printers. That's the only way
Speaker 1: to go. Sharp printers in quality, quality printers as well.
Speaker 1: But go ahead and get that done. Now, get your
Speaker 1: printing done. Now, learn how to make the proper cut.
Speaker 1: I've got a little thing I put on Facebook a
Speaker 1: long while back about how close to the trunk do
Speaker 1: you print off a branch? Just kind of guiding a
Speaker 1: little bit on that. Again, there's good information out there
Speaker 1: if you'll learn more about it. But go ahead and
Speaker 1: get that done. It's time. Now here's the big question
Speaker 1: everybody asks every year, do I paint the printing cut?
Speaker 1: And I want you to listen carefully to me, because
Speaker 1: I realized I have people listening all the way almost
Speaker 1: to Austin and almost to San Antonio, and so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of region here that we cover. So your
Speaker 1: basic answer is, do not paint printing cuts. It doesn't
Speaker 1: help the branch heal. It doesn't. And in time, they've
Speaker 1: done studies on this. A guy named Alec, doctor Alex Schigo,
Speaker 1: years ago, decades ago, did studies that prove that you
Speaker 1: do not need to paint the cut because those even
Speaker 1: those coatings, the coatings they put over there. When I
Speaker 1: say pain, I mean shellac or pain or pruning pain
Speaker 1: or anything, don't do it. They crack and then you
Speaker 1: get moisture and you get decay underneath. The exception to
Speaker 1: don't break the pruning cuts are oak trees because of
Speaker 1: oak wilt. Okay, when you make a wound, especially if
Speaker 1: you don't do it in the cold winter time, you
Speaker 1: wait a little too long. The beetles that transfer oak
Speaker 1: will spores from an infected tree to your new prunting
Speaker 1: cut they're out inactive and they can transfer it in.
Speaker 1: And the pruning paint isn't to make it heal, it's
Speaker 1: to block out the beetles feeding on that fresh wound.
Speaker 1: So if you're in an area of folk, will then
Speaker 1: use the prunting paint on oak trees only. Okay, otherwise
Speaker 1: don't do it. All right, I think I've said that enough.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a little break here for the
Speaker 1: news again, and I will be right back with your
Speaker 1: phone calls seven one three two one two ktrh you
Speaker 1: So the daughter says.
Speaker 3: This is a stalker song.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, welcome back to Gardenline.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us today.
Speaker 1: Hey, the Super bowls coming up, y'all know that, and
Speaker 1: that is that is the time to get together and
Speaker 1: have some fun. If you would like a grill to
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Speaker 1: Ace up in Willis, Texas. And guess what, I'm going
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Speaker 1: for spring. I finally am getting more birds to my feeder.
Speaker 1: I had a lull in the birds arriving at the
Speaker 1: feeder and kind of trying to figure out what's going
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Speaker 1: birds managers that they know what they're talking about. You know,
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Speaker 1: ask them any bird question and they've got an answer
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Speaker 1: You know, it's visiting one of the owners the other
Speaker 1: day and talking about the birds and you say, well,
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Speaker 1: hawk that may be hanging out and they'll come, you know,
Speaker 1: sit in your trees and if birds come around, they'll
Speaker 1: birds are smart, they don't but I don't know what
Speaker 1: was doing it, but they're coming back to my feed
Speaker 1: now I'm still feeding the winter feed that we plant
Speaker 1: that we recommend, the Winter super Blend. It's got lots
Speaker 1: of fat and protein in it to get those birds
Speaker 1: through a time when there's not much out there in
Speaker 1: nature farm to peck on. But you got to know
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Speaker 1: part of the package. But it's got sunflower oil and
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Speaker 1: Confetti Blend's gonna be around all the time. They're going
Speaker 1: to keep it year round. But you got to go
Speaker 1: get some of that and try it out. Nothing more
Speaker 1: beautiful than a cardinal Nothing more beautiful than a cardner
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Speaker 1: enjoy the beauty and the sound and everything birds in
Speaker 1: your landscape. That is a part of landscaping. It is,
Speaker 1: you know, we think about landscaping is just flowers and things,
Speaker 1: but we have lots of other aspects to it. Bringing
Speaker 1: the song of birds, in bringing the sound of water
Speaker 1: into the landscape, that's another plus that goes beyond the plants.
Speaker 1: And another one, how about flying flowers that would be
Speaker 1: called butterflies. Why not put in a landscape features especially
Speaker 1: in your gardens that attract butterflies, or that attract pollinators,
Speaker 1: some of our native bees and things. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: eden in your backyard. And I think you ought to
Speaker 1: sures you how to consider that and do that. For example,
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Speaker 1: saying I want, I want to I want to know
Speaker 1: what you have that'll attract hummingbirds to my yard. I
Speaker 1: want some, you know, like the red tubular flowers, but
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Speaker 1: just do that today. I always love going in there.
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Speaker 1: whatever your landscape location or dilemma or whatever it is, like,
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Speaker 1: easy to do your shopping. You're listening to Gardenline. I'm
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Speaker 1: it didn't live to tell the story, that's a possibility.
Speaker 1: I mentioned we're gonna be doing fertilizing in our lawns
Speaker 1: pretty soon, and that is certainly the case. But there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of confusion sometimes when I talk about
Speaker 1: azemite with people. And this is really simple, asamite is
Speaker 1: a trace mineral supplement. Now it's certified as a fertilizer,
Speaker 1: but it's a naturally mind out of the ground dug
Speaker 1: out of a mountain in about two hours south of
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. If you want to know, volcanic ash
Speaker 1: and lots of freshwater mintals in fact to have seventy
Speaker 1: seven known trace elements or micronutrients in it. And with azamite,
Speaker 1: you're putting it down in addition to your fertilizer. It
Speaker 1: goes with the fertilizer. Now, don't mix the two together
Speaker 1: in the same hopper because the part of size it's
Speaker 1: going to be different. But put out your fertilizer and
Speaker 1: put out your azamite. You can put out asm at
Speaker 1: anytime of the year with fertilizer. We have regular fertilizers.
Speaker 1: We have certain times of the year that are on
Speaker 1: my schedule, which is online at gardening with skip Dot
Speaker 1: com certain times of the year that you want to
Speaker 1: put those on. But with azamite, you do that anytime
Speaker 1: you want, at least it once a year. You can
Speaker 1: do it twice year if you want, depending on the
Speaker 1: levels of nutrients in your yard. You know, that's what
Speaker 1: fertilizing is all about, is what is in your yard?
Speaker 3: What do you need?
Speaker 1: And let's supplement that and keep our plants performing at
Speaker 1: their optimum. And asm I will do that. A forty
Speaker 1: four pound bag is going to cover about six to
Speaker 1: twelve thousand square feet of the lawn. I use it
Speaker 1: in vegetable gardens about ten pounds per thousand square feet
Speaker 1: and a vegetable garden. If you want more information, just
Speaker 1: go to Azamite Texas dot com. Azamite Texas dot com.
Speaker 1: You can learn a whole lot more about it there. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a little break here for the top hour.
Speaker 1: This time is the news. Last time I said it's
Speaker 1: the news, and it wasn't. But we'll be right back
Speaker 1: after the news with your phone calls. And when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're going to start with Mike and Lake
Speaker 1: Jackson and go to Dan and Crosby right after that. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to remind you that I'm going to be
Speaker 1: at the Enchented Gardens Garden Center on February fifteenth. That's
Speaker 1: a little bit out there. That's my next appearance out
Speaker 1: there in the Shanny Gardens from twelve to two, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to be talking about basically making gardening less work.
Speaker 1: The way I like to put it is how to
Speaker 1: have gardening success with less sweat and less ibuprofen. Were
Speaker 1: has some fun out there, Jenny Gardens, twelve to one,
Speaker 1: February the fifteenth. I'll do that right after the show. Well,
Speaker 1: actually I'm gonna be a twelve pm.
Speaker 3: It's when I'm gonna start out there, twelve to two.
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Speaker 3: Play on out there. I'll have a bit all right.
Speaker 1: Time for me to get a cup of coffee and
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we're here to help
Speaker 1: you have success and whatever you do.
Speaker 3: Out there and your lawns and garden.
Speaker 1: Uh, if you are looking at your place and it's
Speaker 1: just kind of drab looking, you know, I know it
Speaker 1: gets up.
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Speaker 1: out to the phones and talk to Mike and Lake Jackson. Hello, Mike,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning, Skip. I've got a Greek fruit tree
Speaker 6: that I bought through one of these county agent sales
Speaker 6: where all the gardeners get together, and I've had it
Speaker 6: about seven years and it really it does look like
Speaker 6: it wants to die, but it really just hadn't grown. Yeah,
Speaker 6: the leaves are all green, never has blooms, you know,
Speaker 6: about twenty feet away from it. I've got five lemon
Speaker 6: trees that are just blooming their heart out right now.
Speaker 6: And yeah, that's been going on several months. But this
Speaker 6: regfruit tree, you them both to say, and I'm not
Speaker 6: sure it was just time to kill it, like you say, and.
Speaker 3: Just another wather.
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's see how long did you said it
Speaker 1: had been in.
Speaker 6: About well, I've had it about seven years. In about
Speaker 6: three years, I had it in one place and then
Speaker 6: dug it up and moved it to a place where
Speaker 6: I thought, well, you could get maybe better drainage. And
Speaker 6: it looked like youah, the truck started thicking it, but
Speaker 6: it never really has grown. And okay, yep, leaves green.
Speaker 1: But you you're pretty sure the soil is well drained there.
Speaker 1: If you were to dig down like ten inches, you're
Speaker 1: not going to have water in the bottom of the hole.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, it's hard to say, you know, it's uh,
Speaker 6: you know, the soil is kind of your clay. But
Speaker 6: you know, when I dug it all out, I may
Speaker 6: have dug it too deep. I don't know. But you
Speaker 6: have mixed in, you know, a little bit of a
Speaker 6: compost and as bite and a few other things in
Speaker 6: there that you packed it all in tru the side
Speaker 6: of the hill, you know. So it's not like you
Speaker 6: said a basin or anything.
Speaker 1: And so I got you. Okay, that's good to know.
Speaker 1: So uh, as far as uh, it used to be
Speaker 1: at the right planning depth, and so you mentioned, may
Speaker 1: I dug it too deep? Sometimes I'll settle down. But
Speaker 1: here's what I'd like you to do. Go to the
Speaker 1: base of the trunk. Get you a little trial or something,
Speaker 1: and dig down about three or four inches if you can,
Speaker 1: and look for anything wrapped around the base of that trunk,
Speaker 1: and it could be something like you know the little
Speaker 1: plastic tags that come with plants that tells you what
Speaker 1: planet it is. Sometimes those will drop down and get
Speaker 1: covered up with soil and then they end up strangling
Speaker 1: the trunk and really shutting things down. That's a long shop,
Speaker 1: but that's a possibility if the roots aren't still in
Speaker 1: a If they were in a pot that was circling
Speaker 1: a lot and you didn't take them out, that will
Speaker 1: hamper establishment. Yours has been not performing for so long though,
Speaker 1: that it's kind of a bit of a mystery. I'm
Speaker 1: giving you ideas to look for any one of those
Speaker 1: normally is not causing as much of a lack of
Speaker 1: development as yours has. Have you tried fertilizing.
Speaker 6: It, Yeah, yeah, And I use the natrophilus, you know,
Speaker 6: the pekind citrus mixture, and you I've used meda okay else.
Speaker 3: And I do that over weird.
Speaker 1: You're doing everything you can do for that tree. Check
Speaker 1: the base of the trunk, I guess, and then go
Speaker 1: out about a foot away from the tree and just
Speaker 1: just dig down if you probably don't have a posthole
Speaker 1: digger on hand, but anything that would make a little
Speaker 1: vertict oh you do, Okay, go down about go down
Speaker 1: a little over a foot and just dig that soil
Speaker 1: out and just set it aside, and then just wait
Speaker 1: and watch and see if water comes up. And if
Speaker 1: it comes up, how far down from the surface you're
Speaker 1: seeing water. I know it's on a slope, and I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the problem. But we're here, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I said, this is a bit of a mystery
Speaker 1: as to why that one didn't do it well. So
Speaker 1: we're just checking all these things to be sure.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: If none of those turn out to do anything, I
Speaker 1: guess time keeping the grass away. Put a mulch on
Speaker 1: top of the ground so there's no competition for the tree,
Speaker 1: you know, in at least a couple of feet around
Speaker 1: it in all directions, and that that would be my
Speaker 1: best advice at this point.
Speaker 6: About how far out does the root system go on
Speaker 6: citrus trees, you know, assuming they're healthy.
Speaker 1: Once a tree is established and has been there for
Speaker 1: a few years, quite a few years, you're going to
Speaker 1: have a root system that's about twice the height of
Speaker 1: the tree in all directions. Now there're going to be
Speaker 1: a few roots ago, maybe a little further than that.
Speaker 1: There there's you know, the closer you get around the
Speaker 1: branch spread and stuff is where the biggest concentration of
Speaker 1: roots will be. But you'll have roots that reach way
Speaker 1: out past that.
Speaker 6: One of the quick questions. I've noticed that they look
Speaker 6: like lady bugs and they're orange with black spots, and
Speaker 6: if they can tell you, they'll actually bite you. And
Speaker 6: I didn't know it was a true lady big but
Speaker 6: they're all over the place, you know, on the on
Speaker 6: these plants too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, well that's that's good information. It doesn't
Speaker 1: it doesn't explain why the tree hadn't grown. But those
Speaker 1: are ladybugs, probably the har Harmonia species of lady beetle.
Speaker 1: But if you if you look, they're there for something.
Speaker 1: There's either scale or aphids or meae bugs or something
Speaker 1: like that. If lady beetles are around and most likely scale,
Speaker 1: uh on your on your citrus trees. But check that out.
Speaker 1: I'll turn the leaves over, look for specs. If you
Speaker 1: see any black city mold, that's a sign that you
Speaker 1: know you've got one of those pests on your plant
Speaker 1: and you would need to treat those. And depending on
Speaker 1: what you find, you can send me some pictures if
Speaker 1: you don't, take some pictures up close, so what you find,
Speaker 1: if you're not sure what it is, and we can
Speaker 1: we can go from there. In case you'd like to
Speaker 1: do that, I'm gonna have to go to a break
Speaker 1: right now, but I'm going to put you on hold,
Speaker 1: and if you want to send a photo, just let
Speaker 1: my producer give you the email. Thanks, Mike, I appreciate
Speaker 1: that call. Folks will be right back. Alrighty, let's get
Speaker 1: that going here and we're gonna continue on where we
Speaker 1: left off there on the guard line. Hey, if you
Speaker 1: are looking for a great hometown feedstore down maybe you're
Speaker 1: live out west to Tomball on Highway twenty nine twenty
Speaker 1: that region. We're talking about D and D feed store.
Speaker 1: D and D has been your hometown feed store out
Speaker 1: there since what nineteen eighty nine. I believe D and
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Speaker 1: able to buy vegetable seeds. They carry some plants out
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Speaker 1: with d Defeat. I was in there just the other
Speaker 1: day visit with Jeff, and I'm telling you, the stock
Speaker 1: that they have is outstanding. I was going through, you know,
Speaker 1: looking at the different products to deal with all kinds
Speaker 1: of plant problems, and I was surprised several times, Oh
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Speaker 1: your pets really, and of course it's a feed store,
Speaker 1: so for your livestock and by the way they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, they chicks are going to be arriving, and
Speaker 1: they do a great job of keeping a good stock
Speaker 1: of baby chicks all the time. Wow, I say all
Speaker 1: the time, all the time. In the springtime, I went
Speaker 1: r out there, and they're they're gonna be getting those
Speaker 1: in uh. In fact, on February twelfth, they're getting here.
Speaker 1: Let me just I'm gonna read you some names of
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Speaker 1: He got two different Orpington choices, Speckle Sussex, staff our
Speaker 1: Gym Americana, Amaracanna, the buff Brama. I thought Bramo was
Speaker 1: a cow buff Brama and the lavender. Why does see
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about? D and de feed. That's where
Speaker 1: all the chicks hang out. I'm telling you. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to the phones. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to friends with We're gonna talk to Jake. Hey, Jake,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hi, schip.
Speaker 10: We have a tree that to a pot brought it
Speaker 10: in the garage for the freeze, then took it out
Speaker 10: and Wednesday all the leaves fell.
Speaker 7: Off of it.
Speaker 10: They didn't turn color anything, they just fell off.
Speaker 1: Any suggestions, Well, that could have been something that happened
Speaker 1: right before you took it out of the pot. For
Speaker 1: all the leaves to fall off a tree, either it
Speaker 1: is a very severe drought in that pot, or it
Speaker 1: is extremely soggy conditions where the roots can't get oxygen.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything else that just knocks all the
Speaker 1: leaves off a tree other than fall. But so that
Speaker 1: that is very strange. You feel like it didn't dry
Speaker 1: out before you planted it.
Speaker 11: No, sure, I don't think.
Speaker 3: Okay, tell me the type of tree again, please, it's.
Speaker 10: A Persian lime tree.
Speaker 1: Lime, Okay, I can't think of another.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's two or three lives that are still on
Speaker 10: the tree, but no leaves right.
Speaker 1: Well, as long as the stems are still green and
Speaker 1: you know, supple and things, I think it the leaves
Speaker 1: are going to come back out. Other than drought or sagi,
Speaker 1: I don't know what would not quickly knock all the
Speaker 1: leaves off that lime tree. So that that's a bit
Speaker 1: of a mystery. You know, we talk about something called
Speaker 1: transplant shock that happens when a tree is moved from
Speaker 1: a container into the ground. Typically it occurs because some
Speaker 1: sort of a stress happens in the transplant process.
Speaker 3: But I'm sorry that that would be.
Speaker 12: The only.
Speaker 10: We put it in a pot when we bought it,
Speaker 10: and that was back in October, I believe, and it's
Speaker 10: been at a big fifteen gallon or larger pot ever
Speaker 10: since then. We just moved from outside into the garage
Speaker 10: for the freeze and then back out after the freeze.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, are you sure that it didn't get hit
Speaker 1: with some temperatures around thirty two but in that prior
Speaker 1: to the move or or after.
Speaker 10: It didn't before I mean, I don't think it did.
Speaker 10: I mean, because it was in the garage around forty.
Speaker 1: But I mean, yeah, well, now that you know I
Speaker 1: asked that, But now that I'm now that I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about it, that would just mean the leaves kind of
Speaker 1: turned bleached out and dried dead on the tree. One
Speaker 1: other thing, if it's in a lack of light for
Speaker 1: a period of time, you can get a leaf drop,
Speaker 1: but you wouldn't have had it that amount of time.
Speaker 1: I don't know we got it. We've got a mystery
Speaker 1: on that one. But it will releaf out again. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty convinced to that. I think you're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see new shoots whenever we get
Speaker 1: whenever the temperature allows that tree to grow. You know,
Speaker 1: citrus likes warmer tempts. But here we get, we can
Speaker 1: get almost an eighty this week. You may start to
Speaker 1: see some little sprouts occurring pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, Jake.
Speaker 11: Quick question, different, different subject, real quick question.
Speaker 10: Seed leaves that started, seeds for a variety of flowers
Speaker 10: and tomatoes. And how long I heard you say that
Speaker 10: the real wits need to be on for about fourteen
Speaker 10: hours a day.
Speaker 11: And how close should they be.
Speaker 3: To the dirt close to what?
Speaker 1: Say say that again? How close to what?
Speaker 10: How close to that should they be to the seeds
Speaker 10: to the dirt?
Speaker 1: Well, on a on a tomato, you're going to bury
Speaker 1: them about a quarter of an inch deep, and it
Speaker 1: could be a little more, but not much. Uh and
Speaker 1: pressed kind of pressed down a little bit so there's
Speaker 1: good contact between the seeds and the soil or the
Speaker 1: growing mix, and keep it moderately moist. And that that's
Speaker 1: if I understood your question right, that's right.
Speaker 10: Should the grow lights I've got grow lights on them,
Speaker 10: led grow lights with all three different colors?
Speaker 3: I see? I see, Okay.
Speaker 1: It depends on the power and quality of the grow light.
Speaker 1: For example, back and well back in the day, when
Speaker 1: we use fluorescent, I put the fluorescence about an inch
Speaker 1: above the seedlings because they didn't put out that much light,
Speaker 1: and to get them close. Some of the LEDs now
Speaker 1: have a lot more power, some don't. Some are just
Speaker 1: kind of like a fluorescent in terms of light output quantity.
Speaker 1: But I would start off probably about six inches above
Speaker 1: the lights, unless you feel like you know, this is
Speaker 1: like a runway light bright, and then maybe go up
Speaker 1: to about a foot. But know this that for every
Speaker 1: time you double the distance between the plant and the light,
Speaker 1: it's the amount of light coming to the plant is
Speaker 1: it goes to about a half believe it or not,
Speaker 1: and that's it varies a little bit, but basically moving
Speaker 1: the light a little further away makes a big difference
Speaker 1: in the amount of light it gets.
Speaker 3: That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: So I start off a little close, watch those ceilings
Speaker 1: real close, and then move it accordingly.
Speaker 11: Okay, thank you sir.
Speaker 1: All right, yes, sir, good luck with that. Sounds like
Speaker 1: like fun love grown those things. Yeah, I wrote, I
Speaker 1: wrote something. And by the way, I should have mentioned
Speaker 1: this to Jake. It's on my website and it's called
Speaker 1: lighting for Growing Transplants. So all of you out there
Speaker 1: you should write this. Please bookmark my website Gardening with
Speaker 1: Skip dot com, because every time I have a show,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be referring to things that are on that
Speaker 1: site that will help you. And this one's called lighting
Speaker 1: for Growing Transplants and it goes into the details of
Speaker 1: like quality, like quantity, how long to leave them on,
Speaker 1: the difference between you know, different kinds of lighting, and
Speaker 1: it will help you have success. So go to Gardening
Speaker 1: with Skip dot com look for the Lighting for Growing
Speaker 1: Transplants article. If you want a quality mix, just swing
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Speaker 1: make it not so dense and poorly drained. It helps
Speaker 1: alleviate compaction in fact, but the only good thing that
Speaker 1: you can do for an instant basically effect on compaction
Speaker 1: is to do a core aeration. You know, we know,
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Speaker 1: top of the yard. You know, get some compost on it,
Speaker 1: get some soil from the cores on it, and it
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Speaker 1: seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: If you have never put in, never grown herbs before? Uh,
Speaker 1: I want to encourage you to try that this spring.
Speaker 1: Why not now, it's a good time to plan it.
Speaker 1: By the way, you can plan herbs right now. Uh,
Speaker 1: And you can plan them all the way through the
Speaker 1: spring and summer pretty much any almost the time year.
Speaker 1: I almost all the herbs. But I would say once
Speaker 1: the weather warms up a little bit, you can plant
Speaker 1: things like basil, which are a little picky about that
Speaker 1: cold weather. Our garden centers carry wonderful supplies of herbs,
Speaker 1: they do, and there's so many good herbs. You know,
Speaker 1: if you want to enhance your cooking, can imagine this.
Speaker 1: You're you know, you're you're making a meal for family
Speaker 1: or for friends that have come over, and you just
Speaker 1: walk outside and you strip off some rosemary leaves, or
Speaker 1: you pick a few sprigs of time, or you gather
Speaker 1: some chives from the top of a chivee. They grow
Speaker 1: so fast and easy. Maybe it is a regano that
Speaker 1: you need for your cooking. Do you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's just right there. And you don't have to have
Speaker 1: an herb garden. I mean, if you want to have
Speaker 1: one of those little geometric herb gardens, you can do that.
Speaker 1: They're gorgeous, very formal looking. But you can put herbs
Speaker 1: in a pot. You can put herbs around plants at
Speaker 1: the end of my tomato rose. I often will plant
Speaker 1: like aregano and basil at the end of a tomato row.
Speaker 3: Know why is that?
Speaker 1: Well, I can think of some ways that tomato, sauce
Speaker 1: and oregano and basil all go together. Right, you can
Speaker 1: do that. It doesn't matter. In fact, things like basil
Speaker 1: when they bloom are attracting many of the pollinators and
Speaker 1: some of the adult beneficial insects to your garden. So
Speaker 1: you have a place for herbs. I mean, even if
Speaker 1: you don't have a garden, you can grow herbs. And
Speaker 1: you ought to try that. It's not hard to do,
Speaker 1: and it's fun to do. Just make sure they have
Speaker 1: good drainage and good sunlight. That's the two things that
Speaker 1: herbs need most. Good drainage and good sunlight. Mosts of soil.
Speaker 1: Keep this all moist. That's helpful, of course, But a
Speaker 1: good drainage, good sunlight, and you.
Speaker 3: Can grow up.
Speaker 1: So I'd like you to try that. I keep telling you,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna try new this year? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna try? You haven't done before this year. Gardening
Speaker 1: is too much fun.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 1: I've been I have been professionally in horticulture for thirty
Speaker 1: five years. I've been gardening the whole lot, and every
Speaker 1: year I learned something new. Every day almost I learned
Speaker 1: something new every year. I'm trying something new. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's a new plant, maybe it's a new way of growing,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a new type of pest control. You know,
Speaker 1: if you've never used a garden mesh over your your beds,
Speaker 1: your plants, it's like putting a screen porch over your plants.
Speaker 1: The water goes through, the air goes through, the sunlight
Speaker 1: goes through. The pest can't get through it. It's blocking
Speaker 1: them out. So that would be a new thing. I
Speaker 1: bet you haven't tried that. I bet eight ninety eight
Speaker 1: percent of people listening to this show right now have
Speaker 1: never purchased garden mesh to cover your plants and have
Speaker 1: natural pest exclusion from that. That's just an example of
Speaker 1: an idea. So I was, yeah, I've been gardening my
Speaker 1: whole life, and in fact, when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and that I hope nobody's listening to this. But when
Speaker 1: I was a kid back in Jordans and Texas. I
Speaker 1: got sent out to pull weeds when I missed behaved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a wonder I turned out to be a horticulturist.
Speaker 1: With that kind of child abuse, I had to go
Speaker 1: out and pull weeds. I let me just say this.
Speaker 1: We had the most weed free garden in town. And
Speaker 1: I'll let you figure out why that might be. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go to the phones right now, head up to
Speaker 1: college station and talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, welcome.
Speaker 3: To garden line.
Speaker 13: Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 7: Skip?
Speaker 1: I'm good, sir. How can we help?
Speaker 13: I've got a horse trough kind of a planter, one
Speaker 13: of those kind of rectangular galus galvanized planters you see
Speaker 13: at the hardware store or ace hardware wherever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, feedstore.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 13: That thing holds a lot of dirt. What it's maybe
Speaker 13: what two or three feet tall? What would probably a
Speaker 13: couple Yeah. Is there is there something to put in
Speaker 13: the bottom of it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 13: And then put dirt in because it you know, it
Speaker 13: holds a lot of dirt? Or or should I.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. Yeah, that's a great question. I
Speaker 1: got about a sixty seconds chair for my brake, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a quick answer, and if you
Speaker 1: want to hang around talk about it more, we can
Speaker 1: do that too. Basically, don't put anything in the bottom.
Speaker 1: Things about putting rocks and stuff that isn't isn't true.
Speaker 1: You gotta drill holes. You just gotta drill some holes
Speaker 1: in there. I would probably do quarter inch holes or something,
Speaker 1: just so the water can get out at the base.
Speaker 1: Do a bunch of them all around. The other thing
Speaker 1: you're going to need to do, Andy, is put that
Speaker 1: trough up on something. If it sits on a clay soil,
Speaker 1: and you got quite a few clay soils up there
Speaker 1: in College Station. If it sits down on the soil,
Speaker 1: then it's like that clay is sealing the holes and
Speaker 1: it doesn't drain downward any faster than it can drain
Speaker 1: down in clay. So if you put it up a
Speaker 1: little bit so that let's just say there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of airspace underneath there, then the water can get
Speaker 1: out better. So it doesn't have to be tall, It
Speaker 1: just has to be tall enough to hold that floor
Speaker 1: of the planter up off the soil surface. I'm is
Speaker 1: that Does that make sense? Yeah, I'm gonna put you
Speaker 1: on hold.
Speaker 3: Thank you. For the call.
Speaker 1: If you want to hang around, we'll come back to
Speaker 1: you when we get back and James and Spring you
Speaker 1: will be next. But exactly all right, we're back on garden.
Speaker 1: We are here to answer your gardening questions. Ia, just
Speaker 1: give me a call. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: ktr h. Nelson Plant Food has got a product called
Speaker 1: Bruce's Brew. It is there faster releasing lawn fertilizer. Now,
Speaker 1: when I say faster, I mean you get an initial
Speaker 1: fast release of nutrients for it, but then it evens
Speaker 1: out over time for regulated growth. And when you slow
Speaker 1: down grass growth, you feed grass. You want nitrogen, You
Speaker 1: want plenty of nitrogen, but you don't want a ton
Speaker 1: all at once. And with Bruce's Brew you get a
Speaker 1: quick green up, but then you continue to get the
Speaker 1: development of growth as time goes on because it's releasing
Speaker 1: gradually and that helps in root development. You overdoe nitrogen
Speaker 1: at one time on a grass plant, you get top
Speaker 1: growth at the expense root growth not good for the summertime,
Speaker 1: not at all. Bruces Bruce got carbon based nitrogen sources
Speaker 1: to feed the microbes in the soil and it basically
Speaker 1: healthy soil means healthy grass, less vulnerable to pests and diseases.
Speaker 1: And if you get my schedule and look out, we
Speaker 1: got a green up period coming up here real quick.
Speaker 1: And Bruce's Brew would be a great one to use.
Speaker 3: Just for that.
Speaker 1: From the folks at Nelson's, we're gonna head up to
Speaker 1: College station again. Andy, you're hanging out, So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: you got a follow up question.
Speaker 13: I do, Yeah, I appreciate that. I guess two quick things.
Speaker 13: We moved into June and we cut some but cut
Speaker 13: a few bushes down that were in the front flower bed.
Speaker 13: What what is a good product to put on top
Speaker 13: of those steps so they don't grow?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: Trichlop here, that's an ingredient comes in many products. T
Speaker 1: R I C l O P y R butt. You
Speaker 1: need to cut and then treat right Then you can't
Speaker 1: come back two days later.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: The amount of benefit you get decreases dramatically if it's
Speaker 1: not a fresh cut. So you may want to recut them,
Speaker 1: uh and then do the treatment right away. But here's
Speaker 1: here's what you should do. Go on my website it's
Speaker 1: gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: And when you go there, you're going to see as
Speaker 1: you as you go through. It's on the front page
Speaker 1: now it's controlling woody weeds and landscapes and garden and
Speaker 1: it tells you exactly how to do it. Uh, And
Speaker 1: so just go to gardening with Skip dot com. I've
Speaker 1: written a fact sheet up just for that, right right.
Speaker 13: And the last thing is, I've I've got a krpe
Speaker 13: myrtle that's in the back but it had, like just
Speaker 13: last year, had ants growing up and running up and
Speaker 13: down it and it just hasn't been good the neighbors.
Speaker 14: From the through out before.
Speaker 3: Okay, could have been.
Speaker 13: Cut it down or is there a good product for that?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, don't worry about the ants. They're just there because
Speaker 1: their scale up on the crape myrtle plant or aphids
Speaker 1: on the plant. But the ants aren't aren't really the problem.
Speaker 1: I would fertilize it. I would make sure and mulch
Speaker 1: around it to keep the grass away enough to kind
Speaker 1: of help it get some bigger and see if it improves.
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't, you can send me a picture
Speaker 1: of it and we can talk again more about that.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna have to.
Speaker 1: Run to another call here, but appreciate your calling. Good
Speaker 1: luck with all that, and don't hesitate to call back
Speaker 1: or send a photo if we can pursue further on
Speaker 1: that one. You know, Ace Hardware stores have got you
Speaker 1: covered on your spring cleaning. Do you need do you
Speaker 1: need some shelving you're putting in? Do you need some
Speaker 1: of those toats, those rubber toats to store all your stuff?
Speaker 1: You know, they've got you covered on that.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 1: They also have right now. They got their garden garden
Speaker 1: printers on side. These are power things.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: There's actually a garden printer that's got battery and just powered.
Speaker 1: Buy one, get one free, or no, get a free battery.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, buy one, you have the battery, they'll give
Speaker 1: you a free additional battery. You know you always need
Speaker 1: more than one battery. If you are looking for fiberglass
Speaker 1: handled yard and garden tools, those are super things. I
Speaker 1: mean they they flax, they work well, they last forever.
Speaker 1: Fiberglass handle yard and garden tools. They're on sale twenty
Speaker 1: one ninety nine. Ace Hardware stores places like Paco Aesinalvin, Brennam,
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware, Katie, Ace Hardware, go down to League City
Speaker 1: League City Ace Hardware and Child's Building supply in Orange, Texas.
Speaker 1: That's three of many many ACE Hardware is in our area.
Speaker 1: Five of many mini in our area. You can go
Speaker 1: to Acehardware dot com, find the store locator, and find
Speaker 1: the store that's nearest to you. We are now going
Speaker 1: to head to Spring and talk to James. Hello, James,
Speaker 1: Welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 16: Good morning.
Speaker 17: I have a Arizona cypress tree that I planted about
Speaker 17: a year and a half ago. This bring me two
Speaker 17: years and it started to get dark at the tips, and.
Speaker 7: Then when I went out and touched.
Speaker 17: It yesterday, it was like kind of pulling on it
Speaker 17: just seeing what it felt like. It's drying, cracking and
Speaker 17: breaking off. I don't know if it's a fucus or
Speaker 17: if it's getting too much water, or something's wrong.
Speaker 8: With the soil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it could be a number of things. When
Speaker 1: something happens on the tips, it often points to a
Speaker 1: plumbing problem, meaning that the water flow through the plant
Speaker 1: is hampered. And you know, we can do that to
Speaker 1: plants by putting way too much salt based fertilizer on.
Speaker 1: And we can do that by having drought, by having
Speaker 1: root damage and other things. There are also some cankers
Speaker 1: that will get on Arizona cypress. One is called seridium canker,
Speaker 1: and those are fungal diseases. And typically with those you
Speaker 1: said black, and typically with the cankers, it's like the
Speaker 1: leaves bleach out and die. You know, they die, but
Speaker 1: they're almost a tan brown kind of color. So one
Speaker 1: of those things is going on out there. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that would require fungal preventative sprays, and I might
Speaker 1: I might start off with gosh, I wouldn't really need
Speaker 1: to check on the specific fungus for that specific canker.
Speaker 1: I think I think that you're going to have success
Speaker 1: if you were to try something that contained either mic
Speaker 1: clobe buttenil mi clobe buttennil or see Belton would be
Speaker 1: another one you might want to try B A Y
Speaker 1: L E T O in those two fun fungus product.
Speaker 1: Fungus control products are pretty broadly effective on them.
Speaker 18: Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but just just know this that some of
Speaker 1: the kinkers that get on these junipers and cypress Arizona cypress,
Speaker 1: they don't have a good spray control. So what I'd
Speaker 1: like you to do is go out and neverwhere there's
Speaker 1: a brown tip. Take your hand pruners and snip it
Speaker 1: out and then have some lyesol and spray those pruners
Speaker 1: in between cuts so you don't carry the disease from
Speaker 1: one cut on your pruners to cut into another place
Speaker 1: and be spreading it more that way. But prune them
Speaker 1: out and use lifestyle between cuts and get all of
Speaker 1: that out of there. Don't drop it on the ground,
Speaker 1: and that'll that'll get some of the innoculum or the
Speaker 1: disease causing issue out of that site, so the next
Speaker 1: time it rains, it doesn't just splash that disease all
Speaker 1: over the place and.
Speaker 3: You're right back in business. Okay, thank you, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that call. RCW Nurseries is loaded with roses right now.
Speaker 1: I was talking to David the other day and oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, they are like four pages or more of roses.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's more than more than four pages. I
Speaker 1: was looking at their list and it just goes on
Speaker 1: and on and on. I don't care what kind of
Speaker 1: rose you want. Flora bunds grand to, Flora's cutting roses,
Speaker 1: shrub roses, climbing roses. They have got it off. It's
Speaker 1: six pages. I'm just listening here looking at the thing.
Speaker 1: Six pages. So you're not going to find a better
Speaker 1: selection than right now. And they only last as long
Speaker 1: as they last, you know. It's not like they run
Speaker 1: out of one rose and they order that one rose
Speaker 1: back in. So if you want the best selection, I'd
Speaker 1: get out there today. I would because, I mean, people know,
Speaker 1: when RCW gets their roses, you head out there and
Speaker 1: you get those things because it is time to get
Speaker 1: them in the ground. Now's a perfect time. Why are
Speaker 1: you out there? You're going to find other shrubs and
Speaker 1: annuals and perennials and navy plants and all kinds of things.
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Speaker 1: Many Welcome back, Welcome back, gardeners. We got a lot
Speaker 1: of gardening talk to be doing here on garden Line.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and if you'd like to
Speaker 1: give me a call, it's seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t r H seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t r H. Hey, do you have some
Speaker 1: metal furniture around your landscape? Maybe back patio, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Uh And and this can be like wrought
Speaker 1: iron furniture, cast iron furniture. Maybe you got some aluminum
Speaker 1: patio furniture, you know, any anything metal out there? Houston
Speaker 1: Powder coders can turn it into like new. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is amazing what they can do. I was visiting
Speaker 1: their operation not not too long ago, and they're the
Speaker 1: biggest powder coder in this whole region. I mean they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can hear my voice, you're probably
Speaker 1: within their realm because they get people from way out
Speaker 1: bring their stuff in for Houston powder coder. Sure, they're
Speaker 1: located belt Wag eight and Hardy Tow Road near that
Speaker 1: area of town, on the north side of town. You know,
Speaker 1: if you've got some old furniture, maybe it needs a
Speaker 1: little weldering repair, they can also do that to it
Speaker 1: for the powder coat it. They can fix you know,
Speaker 1: slings and straps and things.
Speaker 3: I've got some.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm gonna post a picture to Facebook today.
Speaker 1: I want you to see some of the work that
Speaker 1: they can do. And this could be. This could be
Speaker 1: metal stairs, metal railings, metal fencing, light poles, you know,
Speaker 1: you name it, benches, metal, We've got some of that
Speaker 1: metal furniture that you put the cushions on, you know,
Speaker 1: those outdoor seating sets. They can do that. They do
Speaker 1: the re finishing, they do the repair and get this
Speaker 1: over one hundred colors so I mean, if you wanted to.
Speaker 1: I saw a piece and I go, is that just
Speaker 1: you know? Is that coated yet? And because it had
Speaker 1: this beautiful iron look to it, and he said, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a coating color. You can choose that as your
Speaker 1: coating color. So whatever you want, and they do it right.
Speaker 1: They take their time. And I don't care how big
Speaker 1: something is. You got a goose neck trailer you want coated?
Speaker 1: They can do They can do that. They got a
Speaker 1: sixty five foot a little room, they can put that
Speaker 1: thing in to do the job. It's good work. They've
Speaker 1: been around since twenty seventeen. Here's the website, Houston Powdercoders
Speaker 1: dot Com. Here's the phone number two eight one six
Speaker 1: seven six thirty eight eighty eight to eight one six
Speaker 1: seven six thirty eight eighty eight. Give them a call.
Speaker 1: And now that old furniture, maybe it's starting to rust
Speaker 1: out there, stop that, get it in. Let them take
Speaker 1: care of that rust, Let them get it coated, let
Speaker 1: them get it looking really really good. I was so
Speaker 1: amazed when I saw the kind of work they can do.
Speaker 1: Let's it out to a base city. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, Welcome, to garden line.
Speaker 12: Hello, Skip, Okay, I need some information on Peggy Martin roses.
Speaker 12: I have some that are on a fence line and
Speaker 12: they're massive, and I've never trimmed them, and I don't
Speaker 12: want to trim off anything that might be blooms for
Speaker 12: the spring. But everyone says it's time to prune your roses.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm glad you called before you did that,
Speaker 1: because now is not the time to prune a Peggy Martin.
Speaker 1: Peggy does almost all her blooming in the spring. That's
Speaker 1: her big show of the year. So let's let that
Speaker 1: get done. And when it's done, then you can go
Speaker 1: in and trim as you see fit. You know, we
Speaker 1: could train Peggy Martin to an arbor, we could have
Speaker 1: her go down a fence or lots of different things
Speaker 1: and you just do the trimming you need. But after
Speaker 1: the blooms are done, that way, she has time to
Speaker 1: regrow new shoots, set buds in late summer and fall
Speaker 1: to put on an even better show next year.
Speaker 12: And sometimes they do blue in the fall, don't they.
Speaker 1: Two they can, yeah, you can with some climbers, you
Speaker 1: can get you know, some sporadic blooms. You know at
Speaker 1: other times of the year, but spring is the big time.
Speaker 1: But either way, even if it was a fall bloom,
Speaker 1: you would you would be best to do that after
Speaker 1: your spring bloom.
Speaker 3: That's the time.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 12: Could I add one more little question for you?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay.
Speaker 12: All my fruit trees are in the she shed where
Speaker 12: they've been protected from the winter cold, and they're in containers.
Speaker 12: But i'd like to put a couple of them in
Speaker 12: the ground. Is now the time to do that?
Speaker 1: Are these citrus?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, I would just for your own. You know, if
Speaker 1: you planted them now, you're probably going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: But what if we were to get one of those
Speaker 1: you know, twenty two degree things come through and that's
Speaker 1: still possible, So let's get past the biggest danger, or
Speaker 1: to get into mid February. You're probably okay to start
Speaker 1: putting them in, but they're not going to grow till
Speaker 1: it warms up anyway, right.
Speaker 12: Yeah, And it's forty seven today in Bay City, so
Speaker 12: it's still cold.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's still cool.
Speaker 1: The only thing is when you pull them out the container,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see roots going around the circle around the pot.
Speaker 1: Take your hamprinters and cut those, or take a box
Speaker 1: cutter knife and cut those because they will branch underground.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to cut them. You're better off if
Speaker 1: you do. You have a much better anchored well and
Speaker 1: a faster establishing tree if you prim the roots that
Speaker 1: are circling before you plan it.
Speaker 12: Great.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, appreciate that very much. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: We are going to go out to Kingwood now and
Speaker 1: talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Good morning, Skip. Thank you so much. One can question.
Speaker 19: I've been following the guardline schedule for over two decades now,
Speaker 19: and my lawn is healthy and good. One of the
Speaker 19: things that I changed in the past year and a half,
Speaker 19: I think is listening to you recommending that we mulchmoe
Speaker 19: more often to get those nutrients back in the soil.
Speaker 19: So I've been doing that as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Good.
Speaker 19: My biggest My biggest problem, and this is something that
Speaker 19: I'm struggling with, is I know it's so important to
Speaker 19: have a well sharpened blade on my mulch mower, and
Speaker 19: I have a very difficult time finding a reputable place
Speaker 19: to take my mower to have the blade sharpened and
Speaker 19: oil change and that sort of thing. I'm wondering why
Speaker 19: some of these big garden centers, and we have a
Speaker 19: couple of them here in Kingwood don't offer that service
Speaker 19: and as opposed to me having to drive across town
Speaker 19: to another town to have that service done. So I'm
Speaker 19: wondering if you can speak to some of your you know,
Speaker 19: mom and pop places and see if that's not another
Speaker 19: business line they can set up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll bring that up. I would if I were you,
Speaker 1: I'd go to your your local Ace hardware stores and
Speaker 1: just talk to them and see, you know, maybe they
Speaker 1: can point you at a good reputable place.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know you are ask your garden centers. You've got
Speaker 1: Warren's and you got Kingwood out there, but you also
Speaker 1: have can m Ace Hardware right there on Kingwood Drive.
Speaker 3: Just ask them.
Speaker 1: They may know a good local one that they would recommend.
Speaker 19: I've done that and usually you speak to the workers
Speaker 19: there and and they kind of look with the blank
Speaker 19: stare on their face and they don't and they don't
Speaker 19: know what to do. I think this has to be
Speaker 19: a question addressed to some of the owners of these places.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you can you know, ask to speak to
Speaker 1: the manager owner, uh, and see but anyway, that'd be
Speaker 1: my best guess. I could go into why they don't
Speaker 1: do blade sharpening and stuff. It just basically it doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't it's not it doesn't pay it. It's hard to
Speaker 1: have somebody that knows what they're doing on hand and things.
Speaker 1: But that might be a good service. I'll bring that
Speaker 1: up and.
Speaker 19: Ask thank you for the call, but for your listeners.
Speaker 1: Hello, yeah, I'm here, I gotta I gotta run for
Speaker 1: your listeners.
Speaker 19: It's a good idea to remind them to have those
Speaker 19: laid sharp and the least annually correct.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a good point. Hey, Fred, thank you for
Speaker 1: your call. I appreciate that. Evelyn and Katie you'll be
Speaker 1: first up when we come back from break. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's just the same that Tina Turner can't bring
Speaker 1: a little bit of energy to your user.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, love that.
Speaker 1: All right, We're going to run out here and talk
Speaker 1: to Evelyn in Katie first thing this segment. Hey, Evelyn,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 20: I have two quick questions for you, Well, I think
Speaker 20: they're quick. I have some stone fruit trees and I'm
Speaker 20: trying to get ahead of the bugs that get on
Speaker 20: and lay those eggs whatever they put those worms in them.
Speaker 20: So I'm trying to know. You want to know when
Speaker 20: it's the best time to spray, and what should I
Speaker 20: use on these trees to prevent that if possible?
Speaker 1: All right, well as far as what there are different
Speaker 1: products out there labeled for insect control on fruit trees,
Speaker 1: and so depending on where you go to your shopping
Speaker 1: you're at in Katie, got a couple of good Ace
Speaker 1: hardware stores out there by you.
Speaker 3: You've got the.
Speaker 1: Nelson Water Gardens out there by. Wherever you go, just
Speaker 1: ask them for an insecticide labeled for fruit trees, and
Speaker 1: not a horticultural oil, not an oil or a soap
Speaker 1: or anything, but an insecticide that has a bug killing
Speaker 1: product in it. And the time to spray is very critical.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing you asked the question. These pests
Speaker 1: start attacking toward the end of bloom and they go
Speaker 1: all the way up until almost the time you're picking
Speaker 1: the fruit. So once at least three fourths of the
Speaker 1: blooms have fallen off, you can do the first spray.
Speaker 1: You don't want to kill bees, so let those blooms
Speaker 1: fall off and then you can begin that spray, but
Speaker 1: right away, and you may have to do it again
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks later, and maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks later. It just depends on how much pressure you have.
Speaker 1: That's an insect called the plum curculio. So any kind
Speaker 1: of stone fruit like plums and peaches and nectarines, they're
Speaker 1: going to attack those. And they do. They lay their
Speaker 1: egg under a little flap in the fruit skin when
Speaker 1: it's still small, and that larva tunnels down to the
Speaker 1: seed and there you have the worm in the peach.
Speaker 2: It's okay then.
Speaker 20: And my second question is that I have some of
Speaker 20: my older fruit trees. I have this. It looks like
Speaker 20: some kind of growth, looks like moss or something. Should
Speaker 20: I scrape that off? Is it killing my tree? Or
Speaker 20: is it natural?
Speaker 2: Or what is it?
Speaker 1: Can you describe it to me the shape, the size,
Speaker 1: and the color.
Speaker 20: It's like a gray color. I think I heard one
Speaker 20: time that it's called I may not be pronounced its right,
Speaker 20: lichen or something like that, lichen or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. Lichen, that's correct. Lichen isn't a
Speaker 1: parasite of the plant. It grows on the plant. You
Speaker 1: can have lichen on rocks and dead fence posts, so
Speaker 1: it's not taking anything from the plant, but it's a
Speaker 1: sign that the plant probably isn't growing very vigorously, and
Speaker 1: it's also a sign that there's human conditions around it.
Speaker 1: But I would it's not something we spray for on
Speaker 1: fruit trees. If you want to take a little glove
Speaker 1: on your hand, kind of rub some of the if
Speaker 1: it gets real big, rub it off. But mainly it
Speaker 1: just means I need to be you need to be
Speaker 1: pruning those trees during pruning time a little more vigorously,
Speaker 1: and you need to do some fertilization and stuff to
Speaker 1: keep the vigor good, and that that is what the
Speaker 1: tree needs. The goal isn't to get rid of the lichen.
Speaker 20: Okay, Dan, Okay, great, okay, do those things.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Thank you appreciate calling on Evelyn.
Speaker 1: I don't charge for advice on garden line, but I
Speaker 1: do expect to see half of those peaches at the
Speaker 1: radio station.
Speaker 3: We'll call it even.
Speaker 20: Okay, I'll bring you quite a few of them. And
Speaker 20: also this year I planted a fruit cocktail tree, so
Speaker 20: I cannot wait. So if I have a oh my gosh,
Speaker 20: there you come by you okay, thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, now I'm joking about that. I'd say that
Speaker 1: to Evelyn. Everybody will don't be showing up at the
Speaker 1: station with you know, I guess everybody else their would
Speaker 1: like it. By the time I got there, there wouldn't
Speaker 1: be any left, all right. Hey, our phone number seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H. Have
Speaker 1: you been to Jgees Garden Center? You know rages hidden
Speaker 1: gardens is what they call it. Uh Horay has got
Speaker 1: a new shipment of roses. In got some beautiful ones.
Speaker 1: One it's a white Flora bunda, which means it has
Speaker 1: clusters of blooms called iceberg. It does and get really huge.
Speaker 1: It's a manerly bush, and it's got a lot of
Speaker 1: good disease resistance. And you know white is a color too,
Speaker 1: and it can be really beautiful on a landscape. Of course,
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of other kinds of roses there.
Speaker 1: He's got a good shipment. By the way, on Centris.
Speaker 1: This is the last weekend that they're going to have
Speaker 1: their meyer lemons on sal for only twenty five bucks.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a Meyer lemon, which is
Speaker 1: kind of the standard lemon we plan around here because
Speaker 1: it grows well and it just does well. It's got
Speaker 1: a little bit of cold heartiness too, which is great
Speaker 1: for citrus. But go by there check out the folks
Speaker 1: at Jorges Hidden Gardens, which the folks basically means Jorge
Speaker 1: and his wife run that place and they do a
Speaker 1: great job at it. And when you're going by Horaees
Speaker 1: Hidden Gardens, his winter hours that he has are Friday's
Speaker 1: from nine to three pm and Saturdays and Sundays from
Speaker 1: eight to four. He'll change out as we get a
Speaker 1: little in the spring, but not Friday ninety three, Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday eight to four. By the way, they are
Speaker 1: down there in down south of the Houston area, and
Speaker 1: it's an eleventh excuse me, eleven man. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: seventeen and saying eleven one seven seven two one Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Street in Alvin, just south the highway six one seven
Speaker 1: seven Elizabeth Street and Alvin. So if you're listening to
Speaker 1: me from Alvin and Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Algo al
Speaker 1: Gooa Arcadia, Alta Loma, this is the Backyard Garden Center
Speaker 1: right there, Jogeshedon Gardens, Go and check those out. Or
Speaker 1: he's a great guy too, by the way, very enthusiastic,
Speaker 1: very very nice, nice fella to work with. He's got
Speaker 1: great landscape trees too, by the way, if you need
Speaker 1: a kind of shrub or tree down there, he's got
Speaker 1: a great selection of those. Speaking of trees, uh, there
Speaker 1: is a product called the three sixty Tree Stabilizer three
Speaker 1: sixty Tree stable. What you do with that product is
Speaker 1: you attach it to a post and then to your tree.
Speaker 1: It's a stiff like a plastic stiffed arm that is
Speaker 1: very very strong and lasts a long time. It's got
Speaker 1: soft connectors. One that's even made on one end for
Speaker 1: the t posts, but it could be a wooden post
Speaker 1: as well. The other end is a soft strap to
Speaker 1: go around your tree. You want to set it where
Speaker 1: it's loose and it allows a little bit of movement
Speaker 1: in that trunk. Movement creates strength. You tie a tree
Speaker 1: trunk down without any movement. Tight tied down, it's not
Speaker 1: going to develop the strength of the trunk is if
Speaker 1: you allow a little movement, just a little bit. And
Speaker 1: you're going to find these at places like RCW nurseries.
Speaker 1: A Jorge has them down a horaries, hid and gardens.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about that. Seeing a malt down South
Speaker 1: also has those. You can find them, Buchanons and arborgate
Speaker 1: and plants for all seasons, a lot of other great
Speaker 1: locations around the Houston area. But don't plant a tree
Speaker 1: without getting a three sixty tree stabilizer. It will last.
Speaker 1: And you go, well, I just want one tree, Well,
Speaker 1: loan it to your neighbor, loaning to a family, remember whatever,
Speaker 1: But get you a three sixty tree stabilizer. Getting that
Speaker 1: tree stable and well, you know, loosely anchored in the ground,
Speaker 1: there is an important part of having it established quick
Speaker 1: and strong, and you want both of those. Let's see,
Speaker 1: we're going to go now to Joel and Katie. Hello Joel,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: How are you doing. Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, question,
Speaker 15: I have a plumera plant. It's about the stems about
Speaker 15: two and a half feet and it's in a potter
Speaker 15: in a pot And for this last coal snap out
Speaker 15: here in Katie, I put my plants in the garage.
Speaker 15: Over the course of the last couple of weeks, they
Speaker 15: noticed there's a blackness that's developed along the leaves and
Speaker 15: basically it's killing those leaves.
Speaker 3: What can I do about that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it could be. You know, you could
Speaker 1: add cold weather on it. You could sometimes there's like
Speaker 1: a bacterial infection or something that'll kill a leaf. But
Speaker 1: I doubt it's the ladder thing I said there, Although
Speaker 1: it could be. I would just as soon as we
Speaker 1: get some warm weather, get it outside. Plumerias are very
Speaker 1: unhappy with the weather we're having now. Even in your garage.
Speaker 1: It's too chilly for a plumeria to be super happy.
Speaker 1: So I think it'll be okay, just just get you know,
Speaker 1: those leaves come off, just pull them off and then
Speaker 1: get you a However you're going to plant it, you're
Speaker 1: going to go in a container. You're going to go
Speaker 1: in the ground outside.
Speaker 15: No, I'm going to keep in a container for a
Speaker 15: little bit longer.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, good, Well, when when you can get it
Speaker 1: some warm sunshine, do that? You know, if we have
Speaker 1: some eighty degrees this week, almost, let's see you're done.
Speaker 1: In case you might admit a there that kind of
Speaker 1: weather will give you make it a little bit happy,
Speaker 1: and get it some good quality sunlight. But otherwise, don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. People hang They pull up plumerias and
Speaker 1: shake the soil off the roots and hang them in
Speaker 1: the garage from a rafter all winter time. They just
Speaker 1: they go completely bare and dormant. Plumerias are pretty tough plants.
Speaker 1: And I think here's gonna be all right.
Speaker 15: Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it, you.
Speaker 1: Bet, you bet, Joel, thanks a lot, Thanks a lot. Hey,
Speaker 1: if we got any Plumeria Society folks that are listening,
Speaker 1: and I know we got folks that listen, feel free
Speaker 1: to call in about that. You may have some other
Speaker 1: thoughts on that one. Certainly welcome that as well.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Microlife fertilizers, they have so many options, from granular to
Speaker 1: products that are liquid that you would drench your plants with.
Speaker 1: Microlife has a huge line of products. Best selling organic
Speaker 1: fertilizers in the Houston area Microlife products. So you're going
Speaker 1: to have some quality stuff that doesn't happen, you know, automatically.
Speaker 1: I was talking earlier, someone wanted we're talking about liquid
Speaker 1: for starting your plant seedlings and getting them going, give
Speaker 1: them a little boost. And Biomatrix is an orange label.
Speaker 1: It's a seven to one three fertilizer, and it you
Speaker 1: dilute it down, dilute it well down. If you're talking
Speaker 1: about little seedlings, if you're talking about house plants and
Speaker 1: outdoor plants and stuff, you're not diluting it as much.
Speaker 1: But Biomatrix Orange label it's outstanding. I mentioned earlier they
Speaker 1: have the Ocean Harvest that's a four to two three
Speaker 1: organic sea fish based and then the Microlife super Seaweed
Speaker 1: seaweed based. Mix that Ocean Harvest with the super seaweed
Speaker 1: and you've got an outstanding product to spray on plant
Speaker 1: foliage to get those little things growing, to use as
Speaker 1: a foli your feet outdoors, or to drench in the
Speaker 1: soil for a fertilizer for those young growing plants as well.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 1: I'm hitting the hard break here for another break, Philip
Speaker 1: and Magnolia, you will be the very first up when
Speaker 1: we come back from this break. In the meantime, Owner,
Speaker 1: remind you of the website Gardening with Skip dot Com.
Speaker 1: When you go to Gardening with Skip dot com, you're
Speaker 1: going to find all these things I keep talking about
Speaker 1: that are written to help you out. I even put
Speaker 1: something up on pasteurizing soil. Maybe we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: when we come back, all right, I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: We're going to go now out to Magnolia and talk
Speaker 1: to Philip. Hello Philip, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning, how y'all.
Speaker 3: Doing well? What's up?
Speaker 21: Put a yard in probably about two years ago with
Speaker 21: new set set Augustine before ten, and it's done. Roll
Speaker 21: well in part lined and during the seasons like maybe
Speaker 21: part lined, but right there there fall I started getting
Speaker 21: perfectly round s brown circles, and they started to go
Speaker 21: with different areas of the yard. And okay, treated I
Speaker 21: treated it with try said spray, But I don't know
Speaker 21: if there's grubs or chits bugs. All right, did I
Speaker 21: treat it right? But partalized also and got a good
Speaker 21: rain on it before my winter. But I need to
Speaker 21: know when my grass starts coming back, did I get
Speaker 21: rid of it or what I needed to get rid
Speaker 21: of the brown lane perfectly circle?
Speaker 1: All right, Philip, Yeah, those rings are brown patch. They're
Speaker 1: also called take all excuse me, brown patch or large patch.
Speaker 1: They typically happen in the fall, they can happen all
Speaker 1: through the winter, and they can happen in early spring too.
Speaker 1: If you've got ongoing problems with that, you can put
Speaker 1: a fungicide down now all the way into early March
Speaker 1: if you need to, uh to fight that particular disease.
Speaker 1: The good news is that when the weather warms up,
Speaker 1: those spots are gonna go away and they're gonna regreen
Speaker 1: because the grass isn't dead, it's just the leaves that
Speaker 1: are dead. On the on the runners, so you can
Speaker 1: do nothing and it will it will regreen, or you
Speaker 1: can use a funger side. Now, I've got a schedule
Speaker 1: online at my website Gardening with Skip dot com, and
Speaker 1: it's a January through December. The insects, the disease, the
Speaker 1: weeds you want to prevent, the weeds that are already
Speaker 1: growing that you want to kill, and it gives you
Speaker 1: the organic and synthetic options that the whole nine yards
Speaker 1: is right there and it's free to look at on
Speaker 1: the computer or download if you want to print it out.
Speaker 1: But that's the gardeningwith Skip dot com and it'll give
Speaker 1: you the products that you can use for that brown
Speaker 1: patch of control or anything that's attacking your line.
Speaker 3: Okay, good deal.
Speaker 21: Check it out.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thanks sir. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: We're going to go now to mail and Carmi and
Speaker 1: hey Mel, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Oh thank you Skip.
Speaker 18: It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 22: Certainly doing love your shows.
Speaker 11: And I had a quick question.
Speaker 22: I help, and I hope it won't be what I'm
Speaker 22: thinking you're going to tell me, and that is I
Speaker 22: planted some loa blallly pine trees in my yard about
Speaker 22: the last spring winter, and they were doing great all summer,
Speaker 22: and this fall or maybe two months ago, I noticed
Speaker 22: we were getting a lot of deer coming in and
Speaker 22: we had a young buck who just a small rack.
Speaker 22: He came and just decimated them by scraping the bark
Speaker 22: off of the young pine trees.
Speaker 7: And yeah, what do I do?
Speaker 22: Are they gone now? I mean there's still green on
Speaker 22: top there still seemed to be hanging on. But can
Speaker 22: I save them or just trimm below the bark?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, you know you can eat venison. Yeah, seriously,
Speaker 1: joking aside, joking aside. If they just knocked part of
Speaker 1: the bark off going around the tree, the tree will
Speaker 1: probably survive and close gradually close that wound back over.
Speaker 1: If they've taken it like two thirds of the way
Speaker 1: around the tree and stuff, there's no future in those.
Speaker 1: They will not reach sprout. They pines aren't aren't able
Speaker 1: to re sprout. Other trees, you could chow them off, waste,
Speaker 1: chop them off waist high with a chains on, they'd
Speaker 1: re sprout.
Speaker 3: Not a pine.
Speaker 1: So, uh, just have to look at the extent of
Speaker 1: the damage, because what's going to have to happen is
Speaker 1: if there's a living strip of bart from the base
Speaker 1: to the top that the deer didn't kill, then that
Speaker 1: can start to slowly creep back around the tree. And
Speaker 1: only young tree there's it's reasonable to think that that
Speaker 1: might happen. But if it's you know, over halfway around
Speaker 1: or something, I don't think. I think you'd be better
Speaker 1: off starting over. And then get you some tall like
Speaker 1: wire fencing, like a two by four size holes in
Speaker 1: the wire, you know, something real sturdy wire, Put some
Speaker 1: teepots in and just make a little ring around it,
Speaker 1: and that'll keep them away from doing that.
Speaker 22: All right, Well, it's not what I wanted to hear, Skip,
Speaker 22: but I'll.
Speaker 7: I know it.
Speaker 1: I know it, all right, Well right, thank you, you
Speaker 1: bet you take care.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna let's see, we're gonna run to I
Speaker 1: left the gate open.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna go out to Katie and talk to Dennis. Hey, Dennis,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Yeah, well, thank you, and good morning to you, Skiet.
Speaker 23: Two questions in Katie, what USDA zone are we? And
Speaker 23: I'm looking for some recommendations of varieties of peaches and
Speaker 23: plums that would grow in the zone.
Speaker 1: Okay, I believe you're a you're gonna be eight B
Speaker 1: up there, but I need to check. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of close to the line on that.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 1: But as far as peaches and plums are concerned, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of good varieties. You go to a garden center.
Speaker 1: You're in Katy, so I'm gonna give you a handful.
Speaker 1: Around your area. You've got Nelson Water Gardens and nursery
Speaker 1: right there. You've got if you go south, you got
Speaker 1: enchanted gardens down south toward Richmond Rosenberg.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: And both of those are going to carry things that
Speaker 1: grow in your area. So you can go online to
Speaker 1: the Aggie Horticulture website look at the fruit tree section,
Speaker 1: and there's a free publication on peaches that lists some varieties.
Speaker 1: But I would say just go to your local garden
Speaker 1: center those places both and know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: They're going to only carry things that grow in your area,
Speaker 1: and that would probably be the best way to go about.
Speaker 11: It, Okay.
Speaker 23: And would they have varieties of peaches that I know
Speaker 23: they ripen at different times early spring and late spring,
Speaker 23: which would be preferable. So I could if all goes well,
Speaker 23: I could get continuous fruit harvests.
Speaker 3: Yes, they should.
Speaker 1: They should have a range, and it is good to
Speaker 1: pick if you're gonna like plant three peaches, don't plant
Speaker 1: three that all ripen at the same time, and that
Speaker 1: they should be able to tell you that. Also, you
Speaker 1: can go online. If you know the varieties, you can
Speaker 1: go online and there's some charts online that show the
Speaker 1: order of ripening of peach varieties.
Speaker 3: You just have to do a search for that.
Speaker 23: All right, thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much. I appreciate appreciate your
Speaker 1: call very much. Uh, listen, Medina products or what you
Speaker 1: need when you're doing this transplanting you're doing right now,
Speaker 1: and that would be like hastro grow six twelve six
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a little quick break here. I got
Speaker 1: a few folks on the line that we'll get to
Speaker 1: right when we come back. All right, welcome back to
Speaker 1: Garden Line. Glad to have you guys with us today.
Speaker 1: Lots of things we can talk about and calls and whatnot. Hey,
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Speaker 1: do for your lawn. I'm going to go now to Tomball.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to John. Hello, John, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning ship. Quick question for you. I've got your
Speaker 5: typical what right with about nine thousand square feet and
Speaker 5: I want privacy. So I was looking at Eagleson's Eagleson hollies. Okay,
Speaker 5: I don't have a real large, wide flour bitch. Should
Speaker 5: I get a tree form or bush form?
Speaker 4: You see?
Speaker 5: What would you suggest?
Speaker 1: Well, it kind of depends on what you want. If
Speaker 1: you want foliage all the way to the ground, that's fine.
Speaker 1: If you've got some shrubs or in front of those
Speaker 1: eaglestones that are shorter, then it doesn't matter as much.
Speaker 3: But I would it's up to you.
Speaker 1: This one is one hundred percent up to you whether
Speaker 1: you go tree or shrub. But Eagleston's a good holly.
Speaker 1: Just remember hollyes need good drainage, so you need a
Speaker 1: well drained bed. If that means building up a mound
Speaker 1: a little bit, do it. And the first three years
Speaker 1: of a holly's life, I would focus on hand watering
Speaker 1: and not just depend on a sprinkler system. A lot
Speaker 1: of things can block sprinkler water from reaching all the
Speaker 1: root zone, and you don't want that. When you handwater,
Speaker 1: you go all the way around the plant and give
Speaker 1: it a good soaking, and the roots are all going
Speaker 1: to be close to the base where that root ball
Speaker 1: went in the ground and it's gradually getting out, So
Speaker 1: always focus your watering around underneath the plant there at
Speaker 1: least for the first couple of years.
Speaker 5: Okay, would it be easy to maintain I wanted to
Speaker 5: trim on the bottom side to keep it or I
Speaker 5: can maintain it as far as not getting so wide.
Speaker 3: As far as depth, yes, you can do that. Yes,
Speaker 3: you can do that.
Speaker 1: You just want to do it often because if you
Speaker 1: let it grow I'm going to be exaggerated. If you
Speaker 1: let it grow a foot out and then you cut
Speaker 1: it foot back, you're going to be cutting back into
Speaker 1: an area where there aren't any leaves, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be twiggy and it'll re sprout. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: regular printing so that you're not having to cut too
Speaker 1: many inches off those shoots, that's that's what you want
Speaker 1: to focus on.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, would you go real quick?
Speaker 5: Would you go four or five feet wide on those?
Speaker 5: Because they grow pretty they're pretty hardy you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could do that. It's up to you.
Speaker 1: I mean, when we fight a plant too much, you know,
Speaker 1: when we try to keep a plant half the size
Speaker 1: it wants to be, that's a challenge. Uh, and so
Speaker 1: but you could try four feet and keep it at that.
Speaker 1: I think I think that would be doable. Yep, that'd
Speaker 1: be up to you again on that one. All right, John, Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for the car. Good luck with those, hope you
Speaker 1: have good success with that. For those of you got
Speaker 1: in Kingwood, Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center, I
Speaker 1: was talking about those just a minute ago.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 1: They are open seven days a week, and I'm telling
Speaker 1: you those places stay stocked up.
Speaker 3: It is beautiful.
Speaker 1: You know you got there and you know Warrens and
Speaker 1: you need vegetables or herbs or flowers or shrubs, trees, roses, whatever.
Speaker 1: It is a full service garden center and I love
Speaker 1: walking around those. Both Warrens and Kingwood Garden Center are
Speaker 1: fun places. I don't know how one town got two
Speaker 1: great garden centers like that, but you did. Warrens is
Speaker 1: on North Park Drive, Kingwood is on Stone Hollow Drive,
Speaker 1: So both of them are very handy. And again, seven
Speaker 1: days a week. Hey, I just gave you an idea
Speaker 1: of something to do this afternoon or maybe this morning.
Speaker 1: Get out there and enjoy yourself, and you're going to
Speaker 1: find good folks that are interested in helping you. You're
Speaker 1: going to find good products like you hear me mention
Speaker 1: soils products, fertilizer products, and pest management.
Speaker 3: It's all there.
Speaker 1: They stock up and they do a good job of it.
Speaker 1: We're going to head now out to Fullshre, Texas and
Speaker 1: talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning to Skip.
Speaker 9: So we're in a new build house out here in
Speaker 9: Fullshire and last fall we had our bermuda grass top
Speaker 9: dressed and ariated and such and with where we don't
Speaker 9: understand bermuda yet and do you defach it in the
Speaker 9: spring and should we top dress it again this early?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: You de thatch it is needed. The probably the best
Speaker 1: time to do a de thatch would be you know,
Speaker 1: you could do it in the spring time. You can
Speaker 1: you can kind of do it anytime of the year,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people will do that to clean
Speaker 1: things up before that first mowing bermuda. The more often
Speaker 1: you know it, the better it looks. So if you
Speaker 1: let it get tall and then cut it way back,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have some brown twiggy that'll regrain but looks
Speaker 1: bad for a while. So regular mowings import on a
Speaker 1: good sharp mower. That that would be one of the
Speaker 1: secrets to success with bermuda.
Speaker 3: Okay, and then we were looking to plant some trees.
Speaker 9: One of the trees we've chosen is a Chinese French
Speaker 9: tree because we have five rooftops we're.
Speaker 3: Trying to mask. But we okay, limited limited yard space.
Speaker 9: So what are some other small canopy trees that would
Speaker 9: give us a little a little visual block that would
Speaker 9: complement a Chinese fringe.
Speaker 1: Well, Chinese fringe is great. It's a spring bloomer. So
Speaker 1: if you went in with a tree form of crape myrtle,
Speaker 1: there is a type called oh gosh, I just went blank.
Speaker 1: Natches Natches like Natches Mississippi. It's white blooms, it's very
Speaker 1: disease resistant and has a gorgeous cinnamon exfoliating bark. And
Speaker 1: so you'd have to find somebody that grows it in
Speaker 1: the tree for him, notchz gets it. It'll get a
Speaker 1: thirty feet tall in time. But basically it would be
Speaker 1: a really good tree because it would extend your bloom
Speaker 1: time and it also has good fall color. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons.
Speaker 11: To like that.
Speaker 1: Like that, plant anything else evergreen, evergreen? My brain just
Speaker 1: drew a blank on trying to them up with one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right there, I'll think of some if I do, I'll
Speaker 1: just say it on the air. Hey man, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your coot, you take care all right. Time
Speaker 1: for a break, Russ. You will be first up when
Speaker 1: we come back. I know you've been holding. Thank you
Speaker 1: for being patient. It's just like somebody left the gates
Speaker 1: open and everybody called with per you call. You are
Speaker 1: listening to garden Line. I want to remind you the
Speaker 1: website Gardening with Skip dot com is where I put
Speaker 1: all kinds of helpful things. Right now, if you go
Speaker 1: up there and look at the website, what you're going
Speaker 1: to see. First thing up is Randy Lemon Scholarship. I
Speaker 1: mentioned that again. Just look at it on the website.
Speaker 1: Why not consider donating that. Randy is a great guy,
Speaker 1: serve this area for over twenty five years, and uh
Speaker 1: it's a good cause. It'll also find some other very
Speaker 1: interesting things like quality lighting for growing transplants.
Speaker 8: Welcome to kt r H garden Line with skimp Rickard's shows.
Speaker 1: Just watch him as so many birthdays to Zuppasy.
Speaker 2: Not a sorry.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: A Neno and garden Line I'm always saying brown stuff
Speaker 1: before green stuff. What does that mean? That means get
Speaker 1: the soil right. That's the brown stuff, that's soil, that's composts,
Speaker 1: that's fertilizers. Get that right, and then put your plants
Speaker 1: in the ground and that way you have success. Just
Speaker 1: just do that right, don't wait until your plants are
Speaker 1: struggling and then try to Sometimes you know, you can
Speaker 1: fertilize on the top, but you can't go down in
Speaker 1: the soil root system and improve drainage and stuff when
Speaker 1: you got a plant growing on it not fast at
Speaker 1: least well. Nature's Way Resources up in the Conro area,
Speaker 1: they are experts. They really they're the leader in terms
Speaker 1: of when things were when soil became cool. John Ferguson
Speaker 1: and Nature's Way Resources was leading the way and Ian
Speaker 1: his son, who has run their operation now continuing the
Speaker 1: exact same tradition. By the way, did you know that
Speaker 1: Nature's Way Resource is celebrating their thirtieth year anniversary And
Speaker 1: there's a reason, and that's because they're taking care of
Speaker 1: the customers and they're creating quality products. So you go
Speaker 1: to Nature's Way and you're going to find a garden
Speaker 1: center with lots of things like fruit trees and native
Speaker 1: plants are really good on lated plants up there too,
Speaker 1: seasonal vegetables and house plants and everything else. I want
Speaker 1: to remind you that they have the They were the
Speaker 1: creators of rose, soil and leaf more compos that was
Speaker 1: born at Nature's Way, super quality products. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to mulches, medium multius, coarse mulches, double ground mulches,
Speaker 1: mulchus for azaleas, they've got it all. All you got
Speaker 1: to do is give them a call. Nine three six
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Speaker 1: kind of different. The way it works anyway, nine twelve
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Speaker 1: will help you have success. Let's see here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go now and we're going to talk to Russ. Russ,
Speaker 1: you must be the most patient caller I've ever had.
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, Sorry for that weight, but appreciate you
Speaker 1: hanging on.
Speaker 14: Yeah, not a problem. We live up to the Kingwood
Speaker 14: area and have been here for several decades, and we
Speaker 14: used Warrens forever in a day on all our landscaping,
Speaker 14: and now they don't really do landscaping anymore. And uh,
Speaker 14: I was wondering if you had any suggestions for people
Speaker 14: that do work in our area to do some planting
Speaker 14: and redesigning on some of the.
Speaker 5: Areas we have in our yard.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, you know our the folks. I'm almost tighten
Speaker 1: rites puirscapes and they they tend to stay to the
Speaker 1: east of forty five, so you're you're far out.
Speaker 3: Of the area there.
Speaker 1: If you tried talking to Warren's and saying, who do
Speaker 1: you recommend, because they would know the landscapers that are
Speaker 1: in the area.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they didn't recommend anybody. I went to both the
Speaker 14: North Park store and the store that's over here closer
Speaker 14: to Kingwood Drive, and they just didn't want to recommend anybody, honestly.
Speaker 3: So okay, all right, well that's fine.
Speaker 14: We tried one and they they didn't when they realized
Speaker 14: it was Kingwood, they weren't going to come over here either.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 14: You think it would be working. I went to the
Speaker 14: Home and Garden show to find somebody or.
Speaker 6: Do you know anybody?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you could do that, I mean you can.
Speaker 1: You know, you do a search for landscapers in the
Speaker 1: area too. As far as finding somebody that I would,
Speaker 1: I would say these are good.
Speaker 3: I know they're good. I don't have one up in.
Speaker 1: That area, so I wish we did, okay, yeah, to
Speaker 1: get us one.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have one in that area. When you're looking
Speaker 1: for a landscaper, you know, see if you have any
Speaker 1: friends or neighbors in the area that you like what
Speaker 1: has been done on their yards? I would start there,
Speaker 1: find out how they did you know, they do what
Speaker 1: they say they're going to do? Did they did they
Speaker 1: clean up? Robably take care of things?
Speaker 3: And I would get that route probably on it.
Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't have another suggestion for you
Speaker 1: up there. One other thing, you're not too far from Porter,
Speaker 1: why don't you go to Warren's Rock and Mulch, which
Speaker 1: is up in the Porter area. That's where that soils comes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and heirloom soils are used by landscapers, and so uh,
Speaker 1: they may have some good suggestions for you. That'd be
Speaker 1: my next suggestion if you're if you're looking, you know,
Speaker 1: for for for someone like that, Hang on one second,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a telephone number or for them.
Speaker 3: Uh, pulled this.
Speaker 1: Up Warrensrock and Mall. It's one two three, Come on,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Okay, there we go Porter the Porter
Speaker 1: location to eight one three five four nineteen fifty two
Speaker 1: eight one three four nineteen fifty they're on on Highway
Speaker 1: fifty nine on the right side as you're heading up
Speaker 1: toward Porter.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I know exactly where they're at.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 11: I'll give them a call. Appreciate it, you bet, you bet?
Speaker 3: Good? Good luck with that. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Oh here, Yeah, let's take a call from David and Tomball. Hey, David,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 22: Well, good morning, sir.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 24: I've got some high dranges that look like it's just
Speaker 24: got stick sticking up by them with no leaves on
Speaker 24: them at all. And my instinct wants to just cut
Speaker 24: them all the way back down to the ground. Should
Speaker 24: I do that or can I do that?
Speaker 1: Well, they'll come back out if you do that. If
Speaker 1: you got anything living above ground, I'd probably leave it.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh, just that's normal. Are these the have
Speaker 1: the big like pump pump ball blooms, you know, the
Speaker 1: clusters of bombs rounded mound. Okay, because there's some other
Speaker 1: kinds of grandes. Uh yeah there you know they you
Speaker 1: may get some cold damage on top. But I would
Speaker 1: leave them and let them come back and just go up.
Speaker 1: Go about it that way.
Speaker 2: Okay, they just look bad, that's one.
Speaker 3: Want to get rid of. Well, you know it.
Speaker 1: People go about it different ways. I usually like to
Speaker 1: leave mine if they have them, and kill back. And
Speaker 1: so maybe maybe don't go over there. Don't go over there,
Speaker 1: spring when they look better. Thank you, David, all right,
Speaker 1: appreciate that you yes, sir, all right, bye bye. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Oh man, we ran out of time
Speaker 1: on Charlie for this segment. Charlie, you'll be our first
Speaker 1: s up at in West uh when we come back
Speaker 1: from this break.
Speaker 25: Uh.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys listening to garden Line. You know we're
Speaker 1: here on Saturday mornings and Sunday mornings from six am
Speaker 1: to ten am. Now, I think the best way to
Speaker 1: listen to Gardenine if you got to radio. That's great
Speaker 1: and it's a radio show, but you get you the
Speaker 1: iHeartMedia app on your phone. The iHeartMedia app on your
Speaker 1: phone downloaded. You can see past shows on there, but
Speaker 1: you can listen live. And if you'll take your phone,
Speaker 1: I turn Here's what I do when I'm out in
Speaker 1: the garden. I'll turn my phone upside down in my
Speaker 1: pocket so the speaker, you know, hear the speaker or
Speaker 1: either way, and crank it up and just go out
Speaker 1: and work in the garden and listen to guard line.
Speaker 1: And if you see a bug or something, you can
Speaker 1: take a picture of it and send it to me.
Speaker 1: Who knows, we may be able to talk quick about that.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
Speaker 26: All righty folks, This son is out And what a
Speaker 26: great day. Looks good outside right now. Good day to
Speaker 26: get out there and get some garden work done. Hey
Speaker 26: have you been doing?
Speaker 1: Send it for us?
Speaker 3: Have you ever been there?
Speaker 1: If you haven't, you really got to go. If you have,
Speaker 1: you already know why you need to go there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is the incredible full service garden center with everything
Speaker 1: you can imagine. Plus it's pretty and cool and I
Speaker 1: just like walking aroun around there. It's like you well,
Speaker 1: it's like you've kind of walked out into another world,
Speaker 1: another like in some cases back in time. The way
Speaker 1: the buildings look. I love the look of that. But
Speaker 1: you're there for plants, and they have got plants. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, everything right now. They are loaded up. They've
Speaker 1: got a Dave Wilson nursery order coming in that is
Speaker 1: probably one of the biggest shipments that Dave Wilson makes
Speaker 1: to Texas. Goes straight there to Enchanted Forest Garden Center.
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. You got low chill varieties of apple, peaches,
Speaker 1: and plums, so you need a variety that is going
Speaker 1: to do well. You know in the Houston to all
Speaker 1: the way down to the Gulf Coast, really that whole
Speaker 1: area and even a little further north than that. They
Speaker 1: carry those varieties. They do, and they have got when
Speaker 1: it comes to apples, there's low chills and we need
Speaker 1: that because you go buy a red delicious apples, stick
Speaker 1: it in the ground and you'll never see an apple
Speaker 1: that it doesn't work.
Speaker 7: Done here.
Speaker 1: But they know the ones that do. They have something.
Speaker 1: This has got ed by a buzz in three in
Speaker 1: one trees. Three in one tree, So here's the deal.
Speaker 1: There are certain things that are compatible, like three different
Speaker 1: kinds of apples could be grafted together. You could graft
Speaker 1: three different kinds of peaches, or even peaches and plumbs
Speaker 1: are cross compatible as a matter of fact. But one
Speaker 1: tree grows you a bunch of different stuff. Is that
Speaker 1: great or what? So that tree pollinates himself in the
Speaker 1: case of an apple, because you know, one bloom is
Speaker 1: pollinating the other varieties bloom because they're on the same tree.
Speaker 1: They make sure that you get the varieties that do.
Speaker 1: If you want citrus, awesome, awesome selections oft cetrus, especially satsumas.
Speaker 1: I think they have about twenty different varieties. Now, satsumas
Speaker 1: are cold hardy. Once they're well established, they're cold heating
Speaker 1: down to the middle teens. Actually, now that's not the
Speaker 1: week or the year after you put them in the ground.
Speaker 1: They have to establish well. But there are very few
Speaker 1: citrus trees that can match a satsuma for cold heartiness.
Speaker 1: So it's a great choice. Plus it they're the fruit
Speaker 1: is baggy. They're like those little if you're about the
Speaker 1: little qut oranges in the store, you know that just
Speaker 1: peel your fingernails can pull them right off and peel them.
Speaker 1: That's a satsuma. That that kind of fruit is what
Speaker 1: they have, and so do you need tools, do you
Speaker 1: need fertilizers, do you need soils?
Speaker 3: Whatever?
Speaker 1: For your fruit trees. They've got them there at the
Speaker 1: enchanted forest now in Channet Forest is in the Richmond
Speaker 1: Rosenberg area, but it's US. It's to the south and
Speaker 1: east of Interstate or Highway fifty nine. So in other words,
Speaker 1: if you're in Richmond, go in toward sugar Land. It's
Speaker 1: off to the right. You go off to the right
Speaker 1: out there, and when you're out there, say hi to them.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what Danny Milliken's knew. They got
Speaker 1: him on staff. Now that's a great a great win
Speaker 1: for them. But the highways or the road is fifty
Speaker 1: seven twenty seven, fifty nine twenty seven to fifty nine.
Speaker 1: Tongue tied here. But you really need to go, really
Speaker 1: really do and check out their fruit trees. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go now to the phones and we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Charlie and west U. Hey, Charlie, welcome to
Speaker 1: guard Line.
Speaker 7: Hi. Could you explain to me again how and when
Speaker 7: to trim loliope? Is it too late to do that?
Speaker 1: No, it's not in the spring, early in the spring,
Speaker 1: and I may even be starting in your area.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Loiope starts to send up new shoots out of the
Speaker 1: new leaves out of the ground, and if you trim
Speaker 1: after that, you end up with a bunch of stubbed
Speaker 1: off leaves, which is a little bit unsightly. So I
Speaker 1: would do it right now asap.
Speaker 3: Get that.
Speaker 1: Just cut them back as low as you want to
Speaker 1: cut them back, and fresh new growth is going to
Speaker 1: come out in spring and you've gotten all the old
Speaker 1: growth out of there. You know, whatever diseases or just
Speaker 1: wear and tear ragged leaves, they're all out of there.
Speaker 1: But do it as soon as you can. If your
Speaker 1: plants are looking really bad late in the summer, then
Speaker 1: in late August do it again. You can do it
Speaker 1: again and they will come out and you have fresh
Speaker 1: fall growth or fresh growth forefall. It looks good. The
Speaker 1: riope is it can be cut back to the ground
Speaker 1: twice a year if you want to.
Speaker 7: And and do I cut it to the ground or
Speaker 7: that a couple of inches of the ground or what
Speaker 7: comes can I use a well? I do it.
Speaker 1: I do it a couple of inches of the ground.
Speaker 1: I like using them more because, uh, it just makes
Speaker 1: a clean cut. A weed whacker is fine if you
Speaker 1: want to use that, because what you're weed whacking is
Speaker 1: not what you're going to see when the new growth
Speaker 1: comes out. That's why I said, don't wait until new
Speaker 1: shoots are out. If you weed whack it and it
Speaker 1: already has its new shoots, it's going to.
Speaker 7: Look pretty rough, okay, And the new shoots will be
Speaker 7: coming out soon. I guess.
Speaker 3: Very soon.
Speaker 1: They came out early. That's all about the weather. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all depending, All right, good luck with that. Yeah, send
Speaker 1: me a be for and after picture if you get
Speaker 1: around to it. I'd i'd like to see how your
Speaker 1: place looks. Hey, thanks a lot, Charlie, appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1: You take care and good luck with getting that in
Speaker 1: good shape. Let's go to Jeff and Spring Branch. Hey, Jeff,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 25: Hey skip Man, thanks for everything. Yeah, great day to
Speaker 25: be outside working in the yard.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 25: I have some azalia's, probably twenty five year old azalias.
Speaker 25: I never cover them, you know, during the ice they're
Speaker 25: they're fine. But this year I'm noticing that I got
Speaker 25: a bunch of rest rest on my leaves and they're
Speaker 25: turning yellow.
Speaker 11: Is that something to do?
Speaker 18: With the cold or another deficiency.
Speaker 1: Well, azaleas are evergreens. But every evergreen, whether it's a
Speaker 1: pine tree or southern magnolia or an azalea, those leaves
Speaker 1: only last a certain amount of time. And typically as
Speaker 1: we get new growth coming out in the spring with
Speaker 1: fresh growth, some of the old growth will start, you know,
Speaker 1: start to fade and drop. On various types of evergreens,
Speaker 1: it could, you know, azaleas could be doing that due
Speaker 1: to a droughty condition. We have not had droughty conditions, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, soggy wet soil. They don't like poor drainage,
Speaker 1: but they do want constant moisture. But I wouldn't worry
Speaker 1: about them at all. I think they're gonna be okay
Speaker 1: and just continue to provide good care. When they start
Speaker 1: to put on new growth. Get you an acidic fertilizer
Speaker 1: to put on them. A quality acidic fertilizer. Microlife has
Speaker 1: one that's in a pink bag for acid loving plants
Speaker 1: like blueberries and azaleas and camellias and Virginia sweet spire,
Speaker 1: those kinds of plants, And I would just sprinkle that
Speaker 1: around them and get some fresh new growth going.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 25: So they'll bloom with these rest colored leaves on if
Speaker 25: they don't fall off before the bloom, and then after that.
Speaker 18: Just trim it back and take good care of it.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 11: Thank you ski.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your bloom. Your blooms are gonna be out at
Speaker 1: the ends of the branches and they'll look beautiful.
Speaker 3: I think that. I think they'll be just fine. All right,
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir, thank you, you bet
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Uh. You know, Southwest Fertilizer on the corner of Businet
Speaker 1: and Runwick is the place to go for whatever you need.
Speaker 1: I don't and I mean whatever you need. If there
Speaker 1: is a product that controls pests like insects, that controls
Speaker 1: diseases that can that prevents weeds, that kills existing weeds,
Speaker 1: if there's a product that is a fertilizer that will
Speaker 1: help your plants look their best. Southwest has it, I
Speaker 1: mean the whole nine yeard. Go by there and check
Speaker 1: it out. You see what I'm talking about. Corner Businet
Speaker 1: and Runwick in Southwest Houston. Here's a phone number seven
Speaker 1: one three six sixty six seventeen forty four. Seven one
Speaker 1: three six sixty six seventeen forty four. You know, they've
Speaker 1: got a little shop there where they can do more
Speaker 1: blade sharpening, where they can do small engine repair and stuff.
Speaker 1: So that's another reason to swing by there. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to options, products and expertise to point you
Speaker 1: at what you need and not sell you what you
Speaker 1: don't need, you're not gonna better in Southwest Fertilizer. I'm
Speaker 1: going to head out now to clear Lake and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: On top of the morning to you, sir. Are you
Speaker 18: sure that what you're calling the sun isn't a mirage?
Speaker 18: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If somebody liked their lights on, I don't know.
Speaker 18: Yeah, maybe my toes are starting to grow together at
Speaker 18: any great, did you get the email about what might
Speaker 18: be mold crickets?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, I sure did. And what you sent
Speaker 1: me was a picture of mold crickets. And I can't
Speaker 1: remember when the last time I had a mold cricket
Speaker 1: question was, so I was. I was glad to see that, Uh,
Speaker 1: moult crickets. Everybody knows what a cricket looks like. And
Speaker 1: I know you because you sent me the picture. But
Speaker 1: moult crickets just think like a cricket that had just
Speaker 1: got big, big broad feet, almost like webbed feet with
Speaker 1: claws sticking out, and they crawl underground. They pushed just
Speaker 1: under the surface of the soil, so you'll see little
Speaker 1: raised tunnels like sometime as you see with voles or moles.
Speaker 1: But they make these little tunnels and then then make
Speaker 1: a little poles of dirt and they eat. They eat grass,
Speaker 1: They eat the parts of the grass plant, and so
Speaker 1: you gotta control them. You need to get something through
Speaker 1: the surface of the soil and down to the mole cricket.
Speaker 1: So an insecticide that can be drenched down in there
Speaker 1: would work pretty well for mole crickets. And if you
Speaker 1: look on my schedule, I don't have mole crickets on
Speaker 1: the schedule, but whatever you're using to treat for the
Speaker 1: chinch bugs and grubs, I think would be very good,
Speaker 1: certainly for.
Speaker 3: The mole crickets.
Speaker 1: They're a product that contains carbaryl or seven could be
Speaker 1: drenched down in there. It'll move down into the soil
Speaker 1: very well. And also there's one called BioAdvance twenty four
Speaker 1: hour grub killer plus that's one that would control mole crickets.
Speaker 3: As well.
Speaker 1: From an organic standpoint, a pyrethern, a pirethern insecticide might
Speaker 1: work on them, but you got to get it down
Speaker 1: below the surface, and that is the key, because they're
Speaker 1: working primarily underneath the ground.
Speaker 18: Well, that comment that she mentioned about it's too late
Speaker 18: for the soapy water and knem oil, yeah that was
Speaker 18: a comment because she thinks I'm totally organic and I
Speaker 18: had the correct her. I'm organic about where we might
Speaker 18: be growing edibles, but you know, if I need to
Speaker 18: put some poisoning to get some of these, I'm okay
Speaker 18: with that. She mentioned this trias the side or something
Speaker 18: like that.
Speaker 3: Is that a tryside?
Speaker 18: Does that work?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think let me look at try aside and see
Speaker 1: what is what is in that? I think that should work.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. I can't remember the ingredient in
Speaker 1: it right now, but anyway, triside should should do pretty good.
Speaker 1: These companies don't always. Sometimes you have to jump through
Speaker 1: hoops to figure out what ingredient it is because they
Speaker 1: don't just come out and tell you triside, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: a synthetic. It's a synthetic pyrethroide. So yeah, that would work.
Speaker 2: You could use it.
Speaker 1: So that's the soap just irritates them and makes them
Speaker 1: come to the surface and it doesn't work real great
Speaker 1: at that. So I wouldn't bother with the soap. I
Speaker 1: would I would use you know, like if you have tricide,
Speaker 1: that would that would work well.
Speaker 18: She said when she treated the lawn, that she went
Speaker 18: out one morning and there were twenty of them on
Speaker 18: her porch.
Speaker 2: So that's how she wow.
Speaker 1: Well, they were coming up. They hadn't been fed in
Speaker 1: the while, and they wanted They were knocking on the
Speaker 1: door wanting something.
Speaker 18: So you said something called biodense b io d n
Speaker 18: c RESI.
Speaker 1: Oh, I said, bio advanced. It is a grub killer.
Speaker 1: Plus it's just an example. There's none magic about that.
Speaker 1: And trysadle work just fine. Hey, I'm hitting a heartbreak,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to run. But good luck getting those
Speaker 1: under control. They make good fish bait too if you're
Speaker 1: a fisherman. I'm just saying, take care mark All right, folks,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back, all right, Welcome back to guard Line. Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening today. I hope we're helping out with
Speaker 1: that beautiful landscape and bountiful garden that you dream of.
Speaker 1: We can make it a reality. Welcome to give me
Speaker 1: a call ife you'd like to ask a question. Seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two five eight seven four seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Tree
Speaker 1: hugger sprinklers have been around now for a couple of
Speaker 1: several years. I guess I know I've been talking about
Speaker 1: them for a while. They are a really unique little gadget.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen one before, what it is
Speaker 1: is it's a little round sea shape type device with
Speaker 1: a hinge in the middle. So you put it up
Speaker 1: to the tree trunk and then it just bends and
Speaker 1: goes around the trunk to create a circle around the trunk.
Speaker 1: You hook it up to your water hose and you
Speaker 1: turn on the water hose to get three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty degrees of watering around that tree. And if you're
Speaker 1: putting a new plant in the ground, you can barely
Speaker 1: turn that on just to water. Soak that rootball. Leave
Speaker 1: it there for a while. Soak that rootball real good.
Speaker 1: If you've got one, maybe you planted last fall or
Speaker 1: last spring. It's getting some roots in the ground. You
Speaker 1: turn it up a little more to what a larger area.
Speaker 1: I mean you can do this all the way up
Speaker 1: to a good sized tree. In the middle of summer.
Speaker 1: You're trying to rescue that thing. It's it's dry, it's
Speaker 1: hot head and rained. Tree huggers will do that, and
Speaker 1: they'll put water in a spot where the tree has
Speaker 1: lots of roots, which is underneath the branch spread of
Speaker 1: the tree. They come in three sizes, a little seven
Speaker 1: inch for new plants, an eleven inch, and a fifteen inch.
Speaker 1: The fifteen inch, you know, cover a big wide area
Speaker 1: now at treehuggersprinkler dot com is the website. You're going
Speaker 1: to find these at places like the Arbor Gate, NRCW
Speaker 1: and Warren Southern Gardens, Nelson Water Gardener and Katie and
Speaker 1: Channy Gardens and Channing Forest and a Richmond Kingwood Garden
Speaker 1: Center out there with Warrens in Kingwood. Feed Stores like
Speaker 1: D and D, Sinkle Ranch, Ace, Katie ace K and M. A. S. Fullshire.
Speaker 1: A's Southwest Fertilizer has of of course BROD has everything.
Speaker 1: Spring Creek Feed Center up north Tomball just east northeast
Speaker 1: of Tombull and League City Feed down in League City.
Speaker 1: All places you can get the tree hugger sprinklers. Go
Speaker 1: to Treehuggers sprinkler dot com to find out more information
Speaker 1: finder retailer that's close to you. Let's see here. We're
Speaker 1: going to go now to Who's up next? George in
Speaker 1: Jersey Village. Hey, George, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Skiff welcome. Nice to talk to you. So
Speaker 2: I've got a couple of questions for you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: During the freeze, the bogle bea, we had covered it
Speaker 2: and I thought we treated it properly, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: look too healthy now. So that's the first question. The
Speaker 2: next one is my wife is wife is Korean, and
Speaker 2: she's about to plant some garlic tribes are called bouchou
Speaker 2: in the Korean language that they are used for everything.
Speaker 2: They cook everything with them. They're delicious. But so we've
Speaker 2: got a bag of a miracle grow and I suggested
Speaker 2: mixing some of that with worm castings. I don't know
Speaker 2: what proportion to do it too. So that's the other question.
Speaker 2: She says, I'm going to wait till springtime to plant them,
Speaker 2: and I don't know springtime to twin discovery marching right now, all.
Speaker 1: Right, let me try to let me try to tackle
Speaker 1: those two. The boom and villia. Get your little thumbnail
Speaker 1: or a pocket knife and just scrape the bark a
Speaker 1: little bit on it, and it should be creamy, creamy white,
Speaker 1: or maybe a light green underneath the bark, just right
Speaker 1: under the bark. That's a sign that it's alive. If
Speaker 1: you see paper sacked brown or brown, that it's dead,
Speaker 1: and you just have to that's going to get pruned out.
Speaker 1: If I were you, if if it at the base
Speaker 1: you see some green, I would just wait and let
Speaker 1: that tree, let that bush tell you where to print it.
Speaker 1: As you see new growth, then cut it back to
Speaker 1: where the new growth is. Uh And and that is simple,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna take some warm weather for it to
Speaker 1: want to grow, so be very patient with that. As
Speaker 1: far as the garlic chives are concerned, you can plant
Speaker 1: them anytime of the year. Just remember garlic chives, they reproduce,
Speaker 1: they receed profusely, and they'll they'll take over the bed.
Speaker 1: So whenever they have their little flowers up on top,
Speaker 1: you want to snip those off and don't let seedheads
Speaker 1: form and cast out their little black seeds or you'll
Speaker 1: you'll have too many, it'll be too thick.
Speaker 2: No such thing as too many?
Speaker 1: All right, dish, Well, all right, you have a lot
Speaker 1: of plants. I just you know you want to have
Speaker 1: a little clumps of garlic chives other than them just
Speaker 1: being like grass through the whole bed. So I'll leave
Speaker 1: that up to y'all. But you've been forewarn Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thanks sir, I appreciate the call. Good luck with that
Speaker 1: good question. We're going to go to Susan now in Beaumont. Hey, Susan,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 27: Well their skip, oh, hello, Skip, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great?
Speaker 3: How can we help you?
Speaker 20: Sir?
Speaker 27: I am wanting to utilize a ladybug in my vegetable garden.
Speaker 27: And my question is is there a certain time I
Speaker 27: need to put them out there? Do I need to
Speaker 27: wait until there's a certain amount of vegetation established? Do
Speaker 27: I put them directly on the vegetation or on the ground?
Speaker 1: Okay, so what if you're going to release them? And
Speaker 1: by the way, you've got ladybugs, you don't need to
Speaker 1: buy them. But if you want to buy them, it's
Speaker 1: not something I wreck not something I recommend. If you
Speaker 1: get aphids in your garden that lady beatles will show up.
Speaker 1: If you're going to release them, don't release them until
Speaker 1: you got aphids. They need to have something to eat
Speaker 1: or they'll fly to your neighbor's house, and so they're
Speaker 1: they're looking for food. The adults and their larva both
Speaker 1: eat aphids, so have some aphids. I like to use
Speaker 1: a plant called tropical milkweed. It's a milkweed and it
Speaker 1: brings butterflies and you know, monarchs in and stuff. But
Speaker 1: I like to use it because it gets a yellow
Speaker 1: aphid on it. And if you go to somewhere or
Speaker 1: buying milkweed, it's tropical milkweed, not other milk weeds, but
Speaker 1: specifically the tropical in this case, it'll load up and
Speaker 1: you'll have lace wings and lady beetles and parasitoid wasps
Speaker 1: and other things that eat aphids right there in your garden.
Speaker 1: But lady beetles aren't philanthropic and they're not going to
Speaker 1: lay eggs where their babies will starve. So in other words,
Speaker 1: you need to have pests to keep them around. And
Speaker 1: if you have a that's why I like to use milkweed,
Speaker 1: because it always has aphids on it during the growing season,
Speaker 1: and it just pulled them up there and they'll be around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you build it, they will come.
Speaker 27: Okay, wonderful.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate appreciate your call very much. Nelson Plant Food
Speaker 1: has so many great products.
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 1: They've got their turf Star line, the nutri Star line,
Speaker 1: the Nature Stars line, it's an organic line they have.
Speaker 1: They've got the Color Star which is great for beautiful color.
Speaker 1: Under the turf Star line, they have a product called Weedenator,
Speaker 1: and Whedenator is a fertilizer, but it's going to last
Speaker 1: up to six months. But what it has in it
Speaker 1: is a post emergent herbicide that will kill existing weeds
Speaker 1: existing weeds, So you have you have to have wet
Speaker 1: leaves of the weeds. In other words, if it hasn't rained,
Speaker 1: turn on the sprinter just long enough to wet the
Speaker 1: foliage and then put the turf Star Weedenater out where
Speaker 1: it'll stick to the leaves.
Speaker 3: Does better that way if you do that.
Speaker 1: But it also has a turf growth regulator, so instead
Speaker 1: of getting a lot of vertical growth where you're mo
Speaker 1: mo mowing your lawn, it's more horror it's not as
Speaker 1: fast as vertical growth. And as a result, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have really good results in terms of not being out
Speaker 1: there mowing so much to keep up. And that's a
Speaker 1: good idea. Plus the fact that it's a slow release
Speaker 1: and it's going to control chickweed and clover and dandelion,
Speaker 1: dollar weed, grasper personally and ragweed spirts, all kinds of
Speaker 1: things that you gotta you gotta get it on before
Speaker 1: all those weeds become reproductive.
Speaker 3: So what's in your yard right now?
Speaker 1: The chick weed and dandelion and the hand betten things
Speaker 1: you need to get that down if you're going to
Speaker 1: do it right now. The strip star weed eater from
Speaker 1: the folks at Nelson. Well, it looks like I got
Speaker 1: to take a quick break here. Vincent and Jonathan, you'll
Speaker 1: be our first two up when I come back. I
Speaker 1: know it's summer between strip. Each voice you ready for
Speaker 1: you ready for a little bit of warm weather. Let's
Speaker 1: speak up, all right, Welcome back to Gardenline.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: If you are looking for a wonderland to visit in
Speaker 1: a garden center, you need to see Arburgate Nursery. I
Speaker 1: know pretty much Eby lives here, has been to Arburgate
Speaker 1: Nursery because it's such a showplace and a one stop
Speaker 1: for all kinds of things. But it's up there in Tomball, Texas.
Speaker 1: It's to the west of Tomball for those of you
Speaker 1: knew to the area, on twenty nine to twenty. So
Speaker 1: you go up two forty nine to Tomball, turn west
Speaker 1: on twenty nine to twenty, and not too far outside
Speaker 1: of town on the left, there'll be Arburgate right there there.
Speaker 1: You want to drive around something called Trichel Road that
Speaker 1: goes around behind Arburgate because the back parking lot's the
Speaker 1: best one to park in. But anyway, that is neither
Speaker 1: here nor there. When it comes to talking about the plants,
Speaker 1: that's why you're going there. Extensive selection of fruit trees, berries,
Speaker 1: and grape vines. And I'm talking about When I say extensive,
Speaker 1: I mean fruit you would never dream to plant. And
Speaker 1: they've got one there like a goji berry or something
Speaker 1: like that. But all the standard stuff in the varieties
Speaker 1: that grow here, that's right, the varieties that grow here.
Speaker 1: You need to get the right chilling hours of some
Speaker 1: types of fruit. Arburgate can direct you. Listen the whole
Speaker 1: group from Beverly, the owner all. You know, Kennon one
Speaker 1: of the main main folks there at Arburgate, the whole team. Really.
Speaker 1: I visit with folks all the time when I'm out there,
Speaker 1: and I'm so impressed with their knowledge and they understand
Speaker 1: and they carry the things you need to grow. They're
Speaker 1: always getting in neose new deliveries of color plants for
Speaker 1: those flower beds, vegetables and herbs, seed starting kits. You
Speaker 1: you're talking this morning about starting your own seed, Well,
Speaker 1: the seed and the seed starting kit is they're waiting
Speaker 1: for you. At Arbrogate. They got roses that are blooming
Speaker 1: and they have their one two three system that is
Speaker 1: the soil for anything with roots, a compost that is awesome.
Speaker 1: It's got some expanded shail in it which really helps
Speaker 1: with the clay. And then they have the fertilizer. The
Speaker 1: organic fertilizer's part of the one two three easy system.
Speaker 1: And did you know the soil and the compost can
Speaker 1: be delivered in bulk. So if you're putting in a
Speaker 1: you know, a big area and you need more than
Speaker 1: just bags, call them up say hey, I'd like to
Speaker 1: on getting the soil and compost delivered. I don't care
Speaker 1: where you are, they will deliver it. If you're hearing
Speaker 1: my voice, they'll deliver it. And you can get the
Speaker 1: bulkloads of it right like that and arbigate plus. Just
Speaker 1: go out there this afternoon. It is so fun to
Speaker 1: walk around. Really, it's cool. You will be so inspired.
Speaker 1: Allow yourself some time. Take a friend with you too,
Speaker 1: By the way, that would be a great outing. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go and talk to Vincent now on the phones. Hey, Vincent,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Thank you, sir, Good morning. How are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm well, sir.
Speaker 11: Thanks great. I've got a question. I've got several bird
Speaker 11: of paradise playing in front of my house, and pretty
Speaker 11: good sized ones. I mean they took a hit with
Speaker 11: a freeze. I mean we're all covered. But I wanted
Speaker 11: to know do I need to cut them back down
Speaker 11: all the way to the ground or and if so,
Speaker 11: when and and then what do I do with him?
Speaker 11: Should I cut them down?
Speaker 2: Or what do you think I should do?
Speaker 3: Just to make sure I got the plant?
Speaker 1: When you say bird of paradise, you tell them lunges
Speaker 1: with orange and yellow clusters of flowers.
Speaker 11: Up on top, Yes, sir, yes, sir?
Speaker 1: Okay, uh there the tops are dead from the freezes
Speaker 1: you had, and so you can just cut them back
Speaker 1: essentially to the ground, you know, maybe an inch high
Speaker 1: or something, and then be patient because they are more
Speaker 1: sleepyheaded than a teenager on a Saturday morning. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be way past noon before you see them, right, uh.
Speaker 1: And so these it may be May when they start
Speaker 1: saying okay, it's warm enough for us, and they start
Speaker 1: growing again. So don't give up there. They're there. They'll
Speaker 1: come back up out of the ground, especially if you
Speaker 1: moltch the base.
Speaker 9: Great.
Speaker 11: Let me ask you, what's the best fertilizer to put
Speaker 11: on those.
Speaker 23: Well?
Speaker 1: Any kind I would you know? A furtilizer like color
Speaker 1: Star would do real good from Nelson Platt Food. It
Speaker 1: comes in the jars and you can just sprinkle it around,
Speaker 1: follow the label. But it would work really good. Anything
Speaker 1: it's gonna bloom. Color Star is gonna be a good fertilizer.
Speaker 11: For alrighty, sir, Thank you very much. Great help, love
Speaker 11: your trail, take.
Speaker 1: You bet, Thanks for the call. Good luck With that,
Speaker 1: We're going to go down to Cypress and talk to Jonathan. Hey, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 16: Good morning, SKIPT.
Speaker 21: I meet with my wife, Lily.
Speaker 16: We've got a question regarding we have a Mexican petunia
Speaker 16: that we planted I don't know, maybe ten years ago
Speaker 16: in the corner of our flower bed that lines our driveway,
Speaker 16: and this plant is out of control, invasive. I mean,
Speaker 16: we've tried, we've tried to maintain it and keep it
Speaker 16: cut back, but it just keeps growing and growing. And
Speaker 16: we've got a row of knockout.
Speaker 13: Roses, and.
Speaker 16: Okay, we don't know what to use without killing.
Speaker 1: Okay, is this the Mexican Is this the Mexican petunia
Speaker 1: that forms a little mound of foot high or is
Speaker 1: this the kind that gets up near your waist high?
Speaker 16: Yeah, this thing goes really hot.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, good.
Speaker 1: So hand digging all the rhizomes out is the least
Speaker 1: toxic option that you can have. But that's a lot
Speaker 1: of work and you will have to redo it a
Speaker 1: couple of times because you never get all of them.
Speaker 1: But that's one The second step would be to treat
Speaker 1: them with a herbicide that contains triclop peer tri c
Speaker 1: l O p y R. Now I want you to
Speaker 1: go to my website that's gardening with skip dot Com
Speaker 1: Gardening with Skip dot Com. And if you click on
Speaker 1: if you click on publications, it says all publications you'll
Speaker 1: see on there herbicide products to use with Skip's weed wiper.
Speaker 1: And there's another one, Skip's homemade weed wiper. And you
Speaker 1: make it out of a little grabber tool that you
Speaker 1: would use to get a jar off a shelf. It's
Speaker 1: real easy to make. And on that list of herbicide products,
Speaker 1: you want to use something on the list that is
Speaker 1: for woody tree shrubs, vines, and perennials with storage tubers,
Speaker 1: roots and rhizomes.
Speaker 3: That's what it says.
Speaker 1: So this would the plant you have, you need that,
Speaker 1: and the ingredient is tricle Peer and it lists all
Speaker 1: the different brands of tricle Peer that are most common
Speaker 1: in our market. And with that weed wiper, basically it's
Speaker 1: sponges on one of those grabber tools, and so you
Speaker 1: just put the tricle Peer right on that and you
Speaker 1: squeeze it at the base of a shoot of your
Speaker 1: plant and you pull it up the Mexican petunia leaves
Speaker 1: and you're just wiping it on the leaves and you're
Speaker 1: not getting it on your knockout roses, and you're not
Speaker 1: getting it on anything desirable. Now you're going to do that,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be some you don't get because they
Speaker 1: don't have a shoot sticking up yet. Just be patient
Speaker 1: and keep that. I have one hanging on my shelf
Speaker 1: and I use it in the yard for weeds. And
Speaker 1: by the way, that herbicide to use on the weed
Speaker 1: wiper sheet has what you use for nuts edge, what
Speaker 1: you use for wild onion and wild garlic, what you
Speaker 1: use for broad leaf weeds in the yard, what you
Speaker 1: would use for grass like weeds that are perennials that
Speaker 1: you can't get rid of, and what you use for
Speaker 1: the woody stems and the max and petunia and pepperbine
Speaker 1: and other things. It's a very handy thing. It's very
Speaker 1: easy to build, and this is a way to do it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 10: What was it?
Speaker 20: What was the name again?
Speaker 12: Tritle Pierre.
Speaker 1: T ri I c l O p y R. That's
Speaker 1: the ingredient and it comes in a bunch of brand
Speaker 1: names and they're all on the website. You can go
Speaker 1: on your phone right now and look at the gardening
Speaker 1: with skip dot com and it the two publications are there.
Speaker 1: One is how to build a Weed wiper. The other
Speaker 1: one is what to put on it?
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, all right, thank you, you bet, thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Take care
Speaker 1: all right, folks. Well we just kind of time that
Speaker 1: one out right here hear music in just about twenty seconds. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're out a show, We're out of calls, and I'm
Speaker 1: out of words. All how did that all happen at
Speaker 1: the same time? Anyway, thanks for listening today. Check out
Speaker 1: that website. I'm telling you there is so much good stuff,
Speaker 1: and I got more comment I keep adding stuff to
Speaker 1: it all the time. I put something up the other
Speaker 1: day called pasteurizing growing media or garden soil in an oven.
Speaker 1: So do you want to reuse growing media for whatever reason?
Speaker 1: You know, and maybe you're worried about it and they
Speaker 1: have some diseases in it and you don't want that
Speaker 1: to get on your plants. I tell you in there
Speaker 1: how to pasteurize it in your oven.
Speaker 3: You can do that.
Speaker 1: And some of you are going, ain't no way that's
Speaker 1: happening in my house. All right, Fine for you. Other
Speaker 1: people will try it. They care about it anyway, Just
Speaker 1: to kind of unusual publication, it's there, got something up
Speaker 1: on controlling, controlling nut set, and boy, it's about to
Speaker 1: pop up and start.
Speaker 3: Start next here.
Speaker 1: You got to get ahead of it. That said just
Speaker 1: ended up to Look, that's the one on.
Speaker 3: The west that said you have a good day in
Speaker 3: the garden.
Speaker 9: Mm hm