WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.279 But if you bag and get rid of it, that 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:06.440 those nutrients and the perfect ratio that you put down 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.199 in your soil. Now they're being taken to the curb 4 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:11.880 in a black plastic bag, and somebody's hauling them away 5 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.800 for you at a cost. Of course, that comes at 6 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:20.359 a cost. Well, anyway, we want to always recycle those nutrients. 7 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:22.679 I saw a few bags of leaves the other day 8 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:25.480 at the curb somebody doing spring cleaning and tea in 9 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.800 my neighborhood. I know what happens to those leaves they 10 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:30.719 go to my place. Just throw them in the back 11 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.399 of the truck and go home with them and use 12 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:36.280 them as malts in my gardens. You can get composts 13 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.159 with them. You can shrud them up and make a 14 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:41.479 really attractive little malts too. Some people like to just 15 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:44.640 use leaves whole. If the leaves are blowing around on you, 16 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:46.719 you don't like that, just run on with the lawnmower 17 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:49.880 with a bagging attachment, capture those leaves and then go 18 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:51.759 dump the bag out there under that. 19 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:52.200 You know. 20 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:54.679 Someone one time called me and asked me can I 21 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:58.920 use oak leaves as molts? And I laughed and I said, well, God, 22 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:03.280 does I mean, go to the forest, the native natural 23 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:08.959 original you know, condition of the forest is the leaves 24 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.879 drop and rot, they melt, and they feed the soil. 25 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:14.319 And that's why when you go to a place like 26 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:19.560 a tropical rainforest, been there since dirt and you stick 27 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:22.000 your hand down the ground, it is the richest stuff 28 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:24.400 on earth. And how did that happen? It was built 29 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:26.760 that way by the plants and by the way nature 30 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.920 is designed to work. So yes, you can use oak 31 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.239 leaves as mults, no problem at all. Now, some leaves 32 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:36.400 are slower to decompose Magnoia leaves. I'm pretty sure you 33 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:39.439 could shingles. You could roof your house with them and 34 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.120 they'd last to buy as long as thirty years. Shingles now, seriously, 35 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:45.959 they're slow to break down, but you run over them 36 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.359 with them ower, open up some more surface area on them, 37 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:51.959 and those microbes will do the job. You know, we're 38 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.640 not looking for them to decompose them fast. We're just 39 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.799 looking for it to be a mault as slowly decomposes 40 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:58.760 pine straw. 41 00:01:58.920 --> 00:01:59.319 Same way. 42 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:03.359 Pine needles kind of slow to decompose until they're broken up. 43 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:07.239 But that's okay. We want them alt so use them. 44 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.080 Take advantage of that recycle those things. 45 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:10.560 Anyway. 46 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:12.800 That's just some of the things I'm gonna have to do. 47 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:18.479 I've got some weeds that popped up, and when I 48 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.560 looking out there at them, I'm thinking, I have got 49 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.719 to get out and get those things out of here. 50 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:28.759 If I leave them, they're. 51 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:31.080 Gonna make seeds, and then I get to pull up 52 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.159 their children. Think of it that way, that's a good 53 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:35.560 I have never put it that way before. 54 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:36.199 I like that. 55 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:38.719 If you leave a weed, you get to pull up 56 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.080 all its children next year. That is the fact. 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And 97 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:59.879 if you've listened to Gardline very long, you know that 98 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:05.680 I treatus, I treat our clientele nicely, and so don't 99 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.600 worry about, you know, saying something silly on the air, 100 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.120 not a problem at all. We got you covered on 101 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:15.600 all that. But I do like to describe things because 102 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.360 you know, we're always having new things coming in, always new. 103 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:22.800 Maybe it's a pest or disease we haven't had before, 104 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:25.800 or maybe it's just hadn't been around a while and 105 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:29.120 now here they are, they're back, and so it's always 106 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.000 good to kind of have heads up on things that 107 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:33.839 are going on, just so you can, you know, get 108 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:40.160 get ahead of things. Well. In our Houston clay soils, boy, 109 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:43.560 they are swollen now. All this moisture, those soils have 110 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.680 swollen out. They they're pushing in all directions. When they 111 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.800 do that that's what by the way, heaves your sidewalks 112 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:53.920 up and your driveways, and also it's cracks foundations. When 113 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.680 the soil gets real wet, it swells, when it gets dry, 114 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.439 shrinks and there you go, and that can cause a 115 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.600 lot of damage. That's why ty Strickland, who owns Fixed 116 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:08.720 My Slab Foundation Repair, does what he does. And by 117 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.199 the way he does it was he's been doing this 118 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.199 twenty three years native. He's stony in fifth generation Texan. 119 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:17.319 He knows Houston soil. He knows Houston slabs, whether it's 120 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:21.680 a sidewalk, a driveway, or your foundation. If you got 121 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:23.920 door sticking, if you see cracks in the sheet rock, 122 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.279 if you see cracks in the brick on the outside, 123 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:27.600 walk around your house, take a look at that. 124 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:28.160 Especially. 125 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:31.639 One commonplace, not the only by far, but one commonplace 126 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.000 is you notice the windows. At the base of a window, 127 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:36.959 there's a crack going down to the ground from that window. 128 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.360 That's pretty common. Give him a call. The number is 129 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:43.560 two eight one, two five five forty nine forty nine. 130 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.519 Tye will show up on time. He will fix it right, 131 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.199 and he will give you a fair price. That's how 132 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:51.040 it works. Tell him you're a Guardline listener, you get 133 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.399 a free estimate, or go to his website and do 134 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.759 it this way fixmslab dot com. But whatever you do, 135 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:59.279 don't put it off. If you see signs of problems 136 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:02.399 like I described, don't put it off. Have him come by. 137 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.360 It may not even be really bad news. You never know, 138 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:08.000 I mean, but he does know, and he'll he'll shoot 139 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.519 straight with you. We're going to go now out to 140 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:14.079 the phones and talk to Hines. Hello, Heines, Welcome to 141 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:14.800 garden Line. 142 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:20.879 All right, skip, how can we help listen the way back? 143 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:23.879 When do we come to his online. 144 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:27.120 Oh my gosh, all right, take us back to. 145 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:33.439 The well, it'd be early seventies when I started. But 146 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.319 I have a situation with growing. Starting my plants indoors. 147 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:44.040 I have to make the plants that I started when 148 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:50.399 you started yours. It's beautiful, and then all of a 149 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:54.040 sudden they started trying to get too tall, too quick, 150 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:58.399 and they're losing their green. They're green, that's so okay. 151 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:04.839 What kind of can I use before reset them in 152 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:06.519 bigger pots? 153 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:07.759 All right? 154 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:12.720 You know the first thing is yeah, I get you. Uh. 155 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:16.720 The lack of green probably isn't due to a lack 156 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.920 of fertilizer. It might be some but typically when the 157 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.480 water when this, if the soil stays too wet, they 158 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.759 get real soggy and they can have some issues. 159 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:27.480 Uh. 160 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:32.360 Sometimes temperatures can affect that. I would be very slow 161 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.840 to apply fertilizer. If you want to get you know, 162 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.639 there's organic and synthetic options of liquid fertilizers, and you 163 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:41.240 can dilute them a whole lot. 164 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:42.000 Read the label. 165 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:45.519 Dilute them down to the you know, most diluted form 166 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:49.120 uh and and just water water with that. 167 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:51.159 Uh. 168 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:53.679 The the the other thing though, I think really you 169 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.039 probably could use more light on those things. And even 170 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:59.399 if it meant sticking them outside during the day. Now 171 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:04.919 you know, if the temperature is even fifty degrees they 172 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.720 can go outside and they can That will help slow 173 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.720 the growth rate down so they can be a little 174 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:15.320 stock here the wind moves them around the little bit slight. 175 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:19.000 We haven't been having too much sunlight. I've been using 176 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:24.200 the plant light, but that's not good. 177 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:27.360 Sometimes the plant lights don't have the right wavelengths to 178 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:29.720 do their best job. Sometimes they're a little too far 179 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.799 from the plants also, and you need to run a 180 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.480 plant light about fourteen hours a day for those seedlings. 181 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:38.320 But the main thing you got the world. 182 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:44.279 Outside until they got about two inches and then everything 183 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:45.600 starts changing on me. 184 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:48.679 Well, believe it or not. They need to sleep at 185 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.559 night like we do. So about fourteen hours a day 186 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:56.279 is a is a good time and the amount of time, yes, sir. 187 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:58.840 And then you, like I said, I don't think the 188 00:09:58.840 --> 00:09:59.799 problem is fertilizer. 189 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:05.080 But use a soluble fertilizer at the lowest miracle grove, 190 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:08.159 the lowest. 191 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.840 Okay, yeah, okay, but but I think the main thing 192 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:16.639 is the sunlight. And then uh, watch that watering keep 193 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.720 them moist but not not soggy. And I think I 194 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.559 think they'll not soggy wet, no, sir. 195 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.039 Uh. And then I think too much water. 196 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:37.559 Okay, but anyway, I think I know the cat water 197 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:39.080 on small plants. 198 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:43.559 Well you sounds like gets to it. 199 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:47.799 They prefer rainwater if you got it, or even just 200 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:48.320 still water. 201 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:53.519 I have my bucket out there to catch it, all. 202 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:56.559 Right, heines. Now I gave you free advice, so all 203 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.919 I ask in return is that you bring me half 204 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.159 the tomatoes you grow the year and we'll call it even. 205 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:05.120 How about that I can call you can come get them. 206 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:11.200 You're not going to deliver them, man, I don't. 207 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:11.840 Drive too far. 208 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:17.639 I think you might be. We're downtown. 209 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.600 But I'm just joking with you. Man, Hey, I appreciate 210 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:21.159 the call. 211 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:24.120 Down. 212 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:28.639 I'm not there. I'm not you take care of Thanks 213 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:34.000 to the call, man, I appreciate it. Good luck with those, Bobby, Yep, 214 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.399 that's that's true. There are a lot of things that 215 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.080 can go wrong raising a little seedling, but don't let 216 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.399 that stop you from trying, because once you get the 217 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.600 hang of it, it is. It is not hard, and 218 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:47.600 there's a lot of fun, and you can I don't 219 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:49.480 know you can do it just for the fun of it. 220 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.519 I guess you save a little bit on transplant costs, 221 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:55.840 But I still buy transplants even though I raise seed 222 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.039 But I'll raise the seedlings and start my own transplants, 223 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:02.080 especially with things I can't buy locally. And you know, 224 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.840 if there's nine hundred types of tomatoes out there, do 225 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.480 you think a garden center can carry nine hundred to mate? 226 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:12.639 Of course not that's crazy. But they your local garden centers, 227 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:14.480 the one you hear me talk about here on guarden Line, 228 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:18.320 the mom and pops, the independence, They know what to 229 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:21.159 carry and they're going to have the best cultivars for 230 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:25.159 our area for you, Like I said, so you can 231 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:26.159 trust what you get there. 232 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:27.080 They'll tell you about them. 233 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:30.080 You know, if there's any aspects about them you need 234 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.240 to know, they'll tell you that. But I'm telling you 235 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.639 that if you want to try starting some things yourself, 236 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.360 just do that and find you know, there's a I 237 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:41.720 don't even say the varieties and things on there, because 238 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.200 you know then everybody's going to go looking for that 239 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.360 one thing and there's nothing particularly like you got to 240 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:50.039 have this one. But I've got certain types of peppers 241 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.639 that I like to grow that you're just okay here, 242 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:55.080 I'll give one example. I don't know that you can 243 00:12:55.120 --> 00:13:01.840 buy habanada hobbanaros here in there. Maybe so one of 244 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:04.279 our local garden center is libable to be carrying those 245 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:10.159 because they're always expanding. But habanada is a hallowpen habannaro 246 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.559 that has no heat. That's what nata means, not a 247 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:17.080 nun no uh, and habanata that's name pepper I've ever heard. 248 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.039 I grow those because they are virtually heatless, and your 249 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:24.639 I know everybody's out there that eats hobernaro is going 250 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.919 to what's the purpose of ab arrow without heat? 251 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:28.879 I'll tell you the purpose. 252 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:31.840 If you can't handle a full habornaro pepper and you 253 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.240 got a habanada, you can mix one or two hot 254 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:38.600 peppers with a bunch of habanadas and create a hot 255 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:41.799 sauce that is mild enough for you to be able 256 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:43.720 to handle, and you just decide how much you want. 257 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:44.639 See what I'm talking about. 258 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:46.600 That's what I mean when I say there's some things 259 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:49.519 that I'll grow just because I want to have those 260 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:53.080 in the garden. Anyway, other examples out there. By the way, 261 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:55.840 it is getting we're getting closer and closer to the 262 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:57.799 time when we're going to put those tomatoes out in 263 00:13:57.799 --> 00:14:01.159 the garden. If you haven't started some, you still could, 264 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:04.559 but at this point I don't know. It'd probably be 265 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.159 good just to plan on going to your local garden 266 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.440 center where they're going to carry a lot of different 267 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:15.159 varieties for you. Land fertilization's coming up not too long 268 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.320 from now, and so it's time to be getting set 269 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:20.440 up and ready to go for that. By the way, 270 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.120 microlife is going to be back in swing with that 271 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:27.159 big green bag that we love for our lawns. That's 272 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.600 the six ' two four that they have. I just 273 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:34.039 want to suggest if you would consider Microlife Humates plus 274 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:37.960 that is kind of a bluish purple bag. Humates plus 275 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:40.600 is a zero zero four. We're not putting it down 276 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:43.639 for the big three nutrients. It is not something you 277 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:49.480 use instead of your regular fertilizer. It is a supplement 278 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:54.799 to that that provides the humates the substances that help 279 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.399 improve your clay soil. They improve the structure of your 280 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:02.039 clay soil. Instead holding water like a farm pond, it 281 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:06.679 drains internally even better. The roots get oxygen deeper because 282 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.639 the soil structure is better. So just to remember, with 283 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:13.320 microlightshum mats plus, you still get that six two four 284 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:17.200 microlife the green bag, but the purple bag, the blue 285 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.559 purple bag, the hum Mats plus, that is an addition 286 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:24.360 to that, and it serves other purposes in your lawn 287 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:27.039 that will help. So as you're out there purchasing throwing 288 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:31.480 a bag of that Microlife hu Mats plus, we are 289 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.080 right on the verge of doing this fertilization and don't 290 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:36.759 wait until the last minute to run it and get 291 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:39.120 it to go and get some right now. By the 292 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.279 way I was talking about talking with the Hinds about 293 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:44.080 you know, some of the liquid things that you can 294 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:46.679 put down. Microlife has a lot of good things, like 295 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.759 they've got Ocean Harvest that is a liquid fertilizer that 296 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:56.600 is a fish based. They also have the Orange label. 297 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.440 I don't know if you've ever purchased their orange label before, 298 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.320 but that is a good one. I'll mention something about 299 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.320 that when we come back. It's it's about time for 300 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:09.879 me to run to a break right here. When you 301 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.960 are out and about and you're you know, doing your 302 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.039 shopping and things like that, because it's pruning season, why 303 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.000 not buy yourself a set of quality pruners this year, 304 00:16:21.399 --> 00:16:23.879 A quality you know, not cheap of things, things that 305 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:27.039 you're going to have forever. The kinds of brands, and 306 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:28.639 you know, I can sit here, there's a lot of 307 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.240 good brands out there, but things like Corona, you know, 308 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:34.279 there's a good example of a brand like that, fell 309 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:36.879 Cos another good example of a brand. Some of those 310 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.840 you can replace the blades on. They got good strong steel, 311 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.200 you can sharpen and they're just quality. Do yourself that favor. 312 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:45.440 I'm gonna take a break and I'll be right back 313 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:49.080 with you with your questions at seven one three two 314 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:56.960 one two ktr hut stars Way. Good morning, Good morning, gardeners, 315 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.279 Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 316 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.080 and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, 317 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:06.720 a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. Well, 318 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:09.519 if I could accomplish those three things, I would be happy, 319 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.480 You would be happy, and the world would be a 320 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:15.319 greener place. So let's let's get go in and do that. 321 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:18.160 You know, we like feed stores here on Garden Line 322 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:22.000 and League City Feed down in League City, Texas is 323 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:25.920 one of the old time feed stores that you just 324 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:28.200 love to go into. You remember those when you're a kid, 325 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.839 maybe going into a feed store at League City Feed. 326 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.079 By the way, they're on Highway three, just a few 327 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:36.079 blocks south of ninety six in League City Highway through 328 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:39.000 a few blocks south of ninety six. So they served 329 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:41.839 that whole area. So whether you're in Webster or clear 330 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.680 Lake City, or Baycliffe or San Leon, Lamark, Dickinson, Santa Fe, 331 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.000 League City, Elqamin area, all those places, that whole region 332 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:51.559 right there, this is your hometown feed store and they're 333 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.440 open Monday through Saturday. Nine to six closed on Sunday. 334 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:56.599 I like that nine to six because that way on 335 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.559 the way home from work, you swing by there and 336 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.039 grad what you need on the way back. They've got 337 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:04.920 of course feed they of course they had that. It's 338 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:08.640 including some premium pet food. But they also carry the 339 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.720 products you need to manage pests and diseases and weeds 340 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:14.960 and things like that. You hear me talk about fertilizers 341 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:19.160 like nitrophoss and azemide and microlife and Nelson plant food. 342 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:22.720 They've got those there. You hear me talk about heirloom soils, 343 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.559 for example, they've got that there as well. At League 344 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.799 City Feed again a few blocks south of Highway ninety 345 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:33.759 six on Highway three in League City. They I always 346 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:38.119 like it. There's a Madison has a dog named Rorschach, 347 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:41.640 which is a Dalmatian, and I think I think Roshak 348 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:43.839 is the best name for a Dalmation. You know, like 349 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:46.359 you've gone to a psychiatrist and they bring the dog 350 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.000 in and say, study those spots and tell me what 351 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:52.759 you see. All right, what I see is a dog, 352 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:57.839 and I like dogs. If we were looking at the 353 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:00.200 top of the list of two Deus things you need 354 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:03.960 to get done right, now, if you're starting any transplants, 355 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:05.839 go ahead and hurry up and get that done. It's 356 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:08.519 time to get those done so that they're ready to 357 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:09.519 go in time. 358 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:09.880 Now. 359 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.839 If you're going to do things that are slower developing 360 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.799 transplants like tomatoes and peppers, those are going to take 361 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:19.200 about six weeks, maybe even a little longer. I grow 362 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:22.759 mine a little longer in the house. If you are 363 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.680 going to do things that are fast, like cucumbers and squash, 364 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:30.279 for example, if the water meltains kendalops is, you can 365 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:34.039 start all those cucurbits as transplants, but they're not going 366 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:35.759 to take a couple of weeks to get them going, 367 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:37.519 because you don't want them to get pot bound if 368 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:40.599 they get real unhappy, if you let them fill the 369 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.880 sides of the pot with roots and you know, start 370 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:44.799 to get a little stunted, they're not gonna be happy 371 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:47.200 getting stuck out in the garden like that. So you 372 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.039 don't want to leave them too long. But you can 373 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:53.279 also do that. Generally speaking, we just direct seed those 374 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:56.319 because it's just so easy to just direct seed them 375 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.519 out in the garden. But however, you won't go about it. 376 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:04.000 You can do you can do both of those. I 377 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:07.839 am also suggesting if you got any pruning left to do, 378 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.000 you get it done. All it's gonna take is some 379 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:13.599 warmer days here, and our trees are gonna pop back 380 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.519 out again, trees and shrubs and woody vines, And so 381 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:19.000 if you're gonna get pruning done on those, get it done. 382 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:19.240 Now. 383 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:23.400 That includes most roses. Now, if you have any plant 384 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.519 that only blooms in the spring, only in the spring, 385 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:31.279 wait until after it blooms to prune it. So that 386 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:33.680 would be I said, most roses. That would be like 387 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.000 the roses that just bloom once in the spring. A 388 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:40.119 lot of our climbing roses are that way. Peggy Martin, 389 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:42.839 for example, is that way. She blooms in the spring 390 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:46.200 and not much through the rest of the year. And 391 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.319 there are other plants like sparea or bridles reath like 392 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:54.759 flowering quints and azaleas or another example, well except for 393 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:57.880 the repeat blooming azaleas. And so you want to wait 394 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:00.279 until after they bloom to prune them. And why is that? 395 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:04.240 It's because right now those plants have all their bloom 396 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.480 buds there in the branches, and if you prune them, 397 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.799 you're cutting away bloom buds, so let them bloom and 398 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:13.839 then after bloom, do a little pruning if it's needed 399 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:18.160 on them. I'd highly recommend you learn how to print 400 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:20.680 a plant before you go out and start hacking on it. 401 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.440 Drive around town and see these trees that have just 402 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:29.720 been butchered by bad pruning practices. Crp myrtle's the poster 403 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:37.319 child a bad pruning. Just landscape crews. They don't know 404 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:39.319 what they're doing when they do that. I'll just say 405 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:43.240 that just directly. Anybody that butcher's a crate myrtle. They 406 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:45.400 just don't know what they're doing. They're doing what other 407 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:49.640 people do, and that will get you in trouble. Remember 408 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:52.200 when you're a kid and you said, yeah, but Johnny 409 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:55.759 gets to do this, Well, I'm not Johnny's mother. Just 410 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.359 because somebody else does it doesn't mean you should do it. 411 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:02.519 Don't but your crepe myrtles, you don't learn how to 412 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:04.839 prone one to go online and learn. They're a good 413 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.079 information out there. And there's a lot of people that 414 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.559 are just ranting about great murder because they're so tired 415 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:12.920 of seeing it. I am too. I just got so 416 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:13.759 tired of ranting. 417 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:15.680 I kind of. 418 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.680 Don't rant much more about it, but I should I guess, 419 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.880 But printing properly a couple of the tips for printing properly. 420 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.200 You want sharp printers. Sharp printers make clean cuts that 421 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:30.599 heal faster. Dull printers you end up with stripping the 422 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:34.599 bark and uh, it just makes it doesn't make us 423 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:37.480 clean a cut. Also, the main thing with dull printers, 424 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:40.119 it's hard to cut through a branch when the printers 425 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:42.279 aren't sharp, and you to wear and tear on your 426 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:44.240 joints and muscles. And you do a little bit of 427 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.480 pruning with hand printers or loppers, and either your hand 428 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:50.119 muscles or your shoulder and elbows and stuff, or they're 429 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:51.599 going to tell you about it. If you have much 430 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:54.559 pruning to do, get sharp printers. That's the only way 431 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:58.480 to go. Sharp printers in quality, quality printers as well. 432 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:00.720 But go ahead and get that done. Now, get your 433 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:03.559 printing done. Now, learn how to make the proper cut. 434 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.160 I've got a little thing I put on Facebook a 435 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:09.319 long while back about how close to the trunk do 436 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:11.680 you print off a branch? Just kind of guiding a 437 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:14.759 little bit on that. Again, there's good information out there 438 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:17.960 if you'll learn more about it. But go ahead and 439 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:21.200 get that done. It's time. Now here's the big question 440 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:24.880 everybody asks every year, do I paint the printing cut? 441 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:28.240 And I want you to listen carefully to me, because 442 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:31.079 I realized I have people listening all the way almost 443 00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:36.119 to Austin and almost to San Antonio, and so there's 444 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:40.279 a lot of region here that we cover. So your 445 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:46.279 basic answer is, do not paint printing cuts. It doesn't 446 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:51.400 help the branch heal. It doesn't. And in time, they've 447 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:54.599 done studies on this. A guy named Alec, doctor Alex Schigo, 448 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.240 years ago, decades ago, did studies that prove that you 449 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:02.640 do not need to paint the cut because those even 450 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:05.519 those coatings, the coatings they put over there. When I 451 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:08.440 say pain, I mean shellac or pain or pruning pain 452 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:12.000 or anything, don't do it. They crack and then you 453 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:16.039 get moisture and you get decay underneath. The exception to 454 00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:20.480 don't break the pruning cuts are oak trees because of 455 00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:24.759 oak wilt. Okay, when you make a wound, especially if 456 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:27.160 you don't do it in the cold winter time, you 457 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.200 wait a little too long. The beetles that transfer oak 458 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:34.799 will spores from an infected tree to your new prunting 459 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:38.240 cut they're out inactive and they can transfer it in. 460 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:40.640 And the pruning paint isn't to make it heal, it's 461 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:43.960 to block out the beetles feeding on that fresh wound. 462 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:46.799 So if you're in an area of folk, will then 463 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:51.680 use the prunting paint on oak trees only. Okay, otherwise 464 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:55.519 don't do it. All right, I think I've said that enough. 465 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:57.799 We're going to take a little break here for the 466 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:00.359 news again, and I will be right back with your 467 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:06.519 phone calls seven one three two one two ktrh you 468 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:08.240 So the daughter says. 469 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:09.519 This is a stalker song. 470 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:14.559 All right, folks, welcome back to Gardenline. 471 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:15.839 Good to have you with us today. 472 00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:18.359 Hey, the Super bowls coming up, y'all know that, and 473 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:20.480 that is that is the time to get together and 474 00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:23.519 have some fun. If you would like a grill to 475 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:25.880 do some outdoor grilling, which I think is pretty required 476 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:27.559 if you're going to watch the super Bowl. But anyway, 477 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:31.680 Ace Hardware stores have got you covered the best selection 478 00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:34.160 of grills. And we're talking about quality grills, you know, 479 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.079 things like the Big Green Egg and Rectech and Weber 480 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:40.640 and Tragger. They've got all of that incredible amount of 481 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:44.359 grilling supplies to go with them. Everything you could possibly 482 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:47.279 want to go with your outdoor grilling. Is that Ace 483 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:48.440 Hardware it is. 484 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:48.799 Now. 485 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.440 Maybe you're like me and you're doing some garage cleanup 486 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:55.119 spring cleaning. That could be indoors or outdoors. By the way, 487 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:59.160 Ace has got all kinds of storage and organizational needs 488 00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:02.440 from shelving to you know, the bins and boxes and whatnot. 489 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:05.400 If you're outdoor garbage can the one on wheels, you know, 490 00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:07.759 if it's not looking real good or just not working 491 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:11.000 falling apart, how about a brand new thirty two gallon 492 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:15.440 rubber made on wheels for twenty six ninety nine at 493 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:16.079 Ace Hardware. 494 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:16.640 They've got that. 495 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:20.359 I just saw that Ace Hardware has their steel still 496 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:23.960 trimors on sale right now for thirty percent off starting 497 00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:26.799 right now. I mean, get out there. This is a 498 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:28.440 good time if you're going to do any kind of 499 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:31.119 a power equipment purchase like that, swing by Ace. Check 500 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:32.119 out there still trimmers. 501 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:32.480 Now. 502 00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:34.920 You can go to Ace Hardware. There's one all seasons 503 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.880 Ace up in Willis, Texas. And guess what, I'm going 504 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:40.400 to be there on February twenty second, So anyone up 505 00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.640 in the Willis area, just marketing your calendars. February twenty second, 506 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:47.200 I'll be at that All Seasons Ace in Cyprus, Texas 507 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:50.160 cypress As. There's J and R Ace up in Porter, 508 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:53.839 Texas and I'm going to be there later this spring. 509 00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:57.640 And Kilgour Lumber down in clear Lake. All great ace 510 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.440 hardware stores for you to get the things you need 511 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:06.839 for spring. I finally am getting more birds to my feeder. 512 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:09.319 I had a lull in the birds arriving at the 513 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:12.599 feeder and kind of trying to figure out what's going 514 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:14.319 on with that, and visit with some of the wild 515 00:27:14.359 --> 00:27:17.920 birds managers that they know what they're talking about. You know, 516 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:19.920 you go to a wild bird store and you can 517 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.640 ask them any bird question and they've got an answer 518 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.200 to it. I've tried to stump them before, but I can't. 519 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.079 You know, it's visiting one of the owners the other 520 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:29.319 day and talking about the birds and you say, well, 521 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:31.119 you may have a he named a certain kind of 522 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:33.759 hawk that may be hanging out and they'll come, you know, 523 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:35.960 sit in your trees and if birds come around, they'll 524 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:40.000 birds are smart, they don't but I don't know what 525 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:41.640 was doing it, but they're coming back to my feed 526 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.839 now I'm still feeding the winter feed that we plant 527 00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:49.079 that we recommend, the Winter super Blend. It's got lots 528 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:51.559 of fat and protein in it to get those birds 529 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:54.319 through a time when there's not much out there in 530 00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:57.279 nature farm to peck on. But you got to know 531 00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:02.279 about the new Cardinal Confetti Cardinal Confetti seed blend, the 532 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:05.119 Cardinal tube feeder, the good Evening cardinal feeder. It's all 533 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:08.240 part of the package. But it's got sunflower oil and 534 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:12.799 black oilflower safflower. Excuse me, black oil sunflower, got something 535 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:16.960 called nutrisaff and bart butter bits, peanut halves, dried mealworms 536 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:19.200 net Right now, if there are any birds listening, they are, 537 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:22.119 I promise you they're slobbering right now they are. And 538 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:26.240 also stripe sunflower seed. It is great for cardinals. They'll 539 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:29.200 tract other birds too, by the way, But that Cardinal 540 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:31.359 Confetti Blend's gonna be around all the time. They're going 541 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:33.519 to keep it year round. But you got to go 542 00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:35.759 get some of that and try it out. Nothing more 543 00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:39.359 beautiful than a cardinal Nothing more beautiful than a cardner 544 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:41.799 out there at the feeder. While Bird's unlimited. You can 545 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:44.119 find the six stores in our area by going to 546 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:50.359 WBU dot com forward slash Houston w BU dot com 547 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:56.559 forward slash Houston. Don't don't miss out on getting to 548 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:02.039 enjoy the beauty and the sound and everything birds in 549 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:05.200 your landscape. That is a part of landscaping. It is, 550 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:08.839 you know, we think about landscaping is just flowers and things, 551 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.359 but we have lots of other aspects to it. Bringing 552 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:16.039 the song of birds, in bringing the sound of water 553 00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:20.039 into the landscape, that's another plus that goes beyond the plants. 554 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.640 And another one, how about flying flowers that would be 555 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:28.599 called butterflies. Why not put in a landscape features especially 556 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:33.279 in your gardens that attract butterflies, or that attract pollinators, 557 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.279 some of our native bees and things. There's a lot 558 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.000 of ways to go beyond plants in creating that beautiful 559 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:43.200 eden in your backyard. And I think you ought to 560 00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:47.759 sures you how to consider that and do that. For example, 561 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:51.559 just swing by Buchanan's Native Plants and they can get 562 00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:55.519 you set up with native plants that do whatever you 563 00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:57.440 want them to do. I mean, do you want low maintenance, 564 00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:00.319 They've got that. Do you want plants that require less 565 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.519 protection from a freeze, that are more dependably freeze hardy 566 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.240 that are more dependably heat and drought tolerant, that are 567 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:11.119 ideal for pollinators, or just going to be canon and 568 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:12.880 saying I want, I want to I want to know 569 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:15.880 what you have that'll attract hummingbirds to my yard. I 570 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.599 want some, you know, like the red tubular flowers, but 571 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.640 not all hummingbird flowers are red and tubular. Buchanans can 572 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:24.200 get you fixed up. They're the garden center on Eleventh 573 00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:27.240 Street in the Heights and their website, and this is 574 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:29.319 the most important thing to write down right now is 575 00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:35.279 Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. If you go there, 576 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.799 you're going to find lots of good information, educational videos, 577 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:41.799 educational sheets, lists of different kinds of plants. 578 00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:42.920 It's just good. 579 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:44.319 And when you're in there, you're going to be able 580 00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:47.599 to get your products like Microlife and Nitroposs and Nelson 581 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:51.319 and Nature's Way and Heirloom and Landscaper's Pride. They've got 582 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:54.000 their own Life Below, which is an all purpose soil 583 00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:57.400 blend with compost and expanded shale. They've also got their 584 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:02.240 own Tropicore, which is a peat free container mix designed 585 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.119 for your favorite tropical plants or indoor plants. Tropical ores 586 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:10.359 excellent for that. Buchanansplants dot com. You need to swing 587 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.559 by there this spring for sure. In fact, why not 588 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:17.319 just do that today. I always love going in there. 589 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.200 They just have It's a I put it. It's like 590 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:28.599 whatever your landscape location or dilemma or whatever it is, like, 591 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:30.519 Oh it's too wet and I can't make it drain better. 592 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:32.759 What plant will go there? Or oh this is so shady, 593 00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:34.880 Well we'll grow in a deep shade. They've got all 594 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:36.839 that group together for you, and it makes it really 595 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:41.680 easy to do your shopping. You're listening to Gardenline. I'm 596 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.039 your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven 597 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.880 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 598 00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:51.799 one three two one two five eight seven four. Look 599 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:54.359 out the window, still dark outside. If your neighbor's lights 600 00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:56.880 aren't on, go bang on the door, tell them they're 601 00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:59.960 missing Garden Line. They will rise up and call you blessed. 602 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.680 They may call you something else this morning, but eventually 603 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:07.000 they will appreciate that. I never had anybody tell me 604 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.279 they tried that, or maybe that's the ones that tried 605 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:12.880 it didn't live to tell the story, that's a possibility. 606 00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:16.039 I mentioned we're gonna be doing fertilizing in our lawns 607 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:20.960 pretty soon, and that is certainly the case. But there's 608 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:23.759 a little bit of confusion sometimes when I talk about 609 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:28.119 azemite with people. And this is really simple, asamite is 610 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:33.799 a trace mineral supplement. Now it's certified as a fertilizer, 611 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.440 but it's a naturally mind out of the ground dug 612 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:39.559 out of a mountain in about two hours south of 613 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:42.200 Salt Lake City. If you want to know, volcanic ash 614 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:44.480 and lots of freshwater mintals in fact to have seventy 615 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:50.480 seven known trace elements or micronutrients in it. And with azamite, 616 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:53.839 you're putting it down in addition to your fertilizer. It 617 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:56.839 goes with the fertilizer. Now, don't mix the two together 618 00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.680 in the same hopper because the part of size it's 619 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.119 going to be different. But put out your fertilizer and 620 00:33:03.119 --> 00:33:05.400 put out your azamite. You can put out asm at 621 00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:08.160 anytime of the year with fertilizer. We have regular fertilizers. 622 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.039 We have certain times of the year that are on 623 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:12.920 my schedule, which is online at gardening with skip Dot 624 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.160 com certain times of the year that you want to 625 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:18.720 put those on. But with azamite, you do that anytime 626 00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:21.039 you want, at least it once a year. You can 627 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.799 do it twice year if you want, depending on the 628 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:26.119 levels of nutrients in your yard. You know, that's what 629 00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:29.559 fertilizing is all about, is what is in your yard? 630 00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:30.279 What do you need? 631 00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:33.440 And let's supplement that and keep our plants performing at 632 00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:35.960 their optimum. And asm I will do that. A forty 633 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:37.839 four pound bag is going to cover about six to 634 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:41.000 twelve thousand square feet of the lawn. I use it 635 00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.880 in vegetable gardens about ten pounds per thousand square feet 636 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.359 and a vegetable garden. If you want more information, just 637 00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:50.799 go to Azamite Texas dot com. Azamite Texas dot com. 638 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:55.799 You can learn a whole lot more about it there. Well, 639 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:58.319 we're gonna take a little break here for the top hour. 640 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:00.440 This time is the news. Last time I said it's 641 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.279 the news, and it wasn't. But we'll be right back 642 00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:06.400 after the news with your phone calls. And when we 643 00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:08.320 come back, we're going to start with Mike and Lake 644 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:13.000 Jackson and go to Dan and Crosby right after that. Well, 645 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:16.039 I want to remind you that I'm going to be 646 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:21.719 at the Enchented Gardens Garden Center on February fifteenth. That's 647 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.320 a little bit out there. That's my next appearance out 648 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:26.360 there in the Shanny Gardens from twelve to two, and 649 00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:30.800 I'm going to be talking about basically making gardening less work. 650 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:33.360 The way I like to put it is how to 651 00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:37.840 have gardening success with less sweat and less ibuprofen. Were 652 00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.079 has some fun out there, Jenny Gardens, twelve to one, 653 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.440 February the fifteenth. I'll do that right after the show. Well, 654 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.159 actually I'm gonna be a twelve pm. 655 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:47.199 It's when I'm gonna start out there, twelve to two. 656 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:49.239 Come on out and see me. Plus you could see 657 00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:51.159 a wonderful mercy if you've never been so, I don't 658 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:51.880 care where you live. 659 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.880 Play on out there. I'll have a bit all right. 660 00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:58.119 Time for me to get a cup of coffee and 661 00:34:58.119 --> 00:34:58.360 out there. 662 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:08.119 That Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard's. 663 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:14.800 Trip. 664 00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:23.960 Just watch him as us so many good things to 665 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:24.960 suit bay. 666 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:33.519 Not a sign. 667 00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:40.280 All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. 668 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:42.159 I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we're here to help 669 00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.280 you have success and whatever you do. 670 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:47.559 Out there and your lawns and garden. 671 00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:50.679 Uh, if you are looking at your place and it's 672 00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:52.760 just kind of drab looking, you know, I know it 673 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:53.199 gets up. 674 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:54.039 Things get that way. 675 00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:56.599 Wait, this is the drab season as we get into 676 00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.960 the latter part of winter especially, Uh, why not get 677 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:04.119 Peerscape's a call. Peerscapes is our garden line preferred landscape 678 00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:08.519 at the durance is nineteen eighty eight. And they have professionals. 679 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:14.000 I'm talking about employees that have distinguished landscape, irrigation, drainage, 680 00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:17.960 backflow pesticide certifications, licenses. They know what they're doing and 681 00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:20.480 their employees stick around. So you're dealing with a company 682 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.119 that does things right. They got folks that have been 683 00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:27.400 there twenty six years working for Peirscapes, and you can 684 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.199 reach them at Peerscapes dot com. And I would recommend 685 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:33.199 you go about it that way Piercescapes dot com. The 686 00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:35.559 phone number is right there on the website two eight 687 00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:39.360 one three seven fifty sixty. But you can see the 688 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:42.199 kind of work they do on landscape design, landscape in 689 00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:46.480 this excuse me installation, the work they do on customer 690 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:52.800 custom sprinkler systems and sprinkler repair, beautiful landscape lighting, improving 691 00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.039 the drainage on those areas that are soggy and don't 692 00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:58.480 drain well so the plans aren't happy. Pierscapes dot Com 693 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:02.079 they can do all of that. I want to go 694 00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:06.480 out to the phones and talk to Mike and Lake Jackson. Hello, Mike, 695 00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:07.639 Welcome to garden Line. 696 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:12.559 Yeah, good morning, Skip. I've got a Greek fruit tree 697 00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:15.360 that I bought through one of these county agent sales 698 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.039 where all the gardeners get together, and I've had it 699 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.440 about seven years and it really it does look like 700 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:26.719 it wants to die, but it really just hadn't grown. Yeah, 701 00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:29.719 the leaves are all green, never has blooms, you know, 702 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.880 about twenty feet away from it. I've got five lemon 703 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:35.719 trees that are just blooming their heart out right now. 704 00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:40.079 And yeah, that's been going on several months. But this 705 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:43.639 regfruit tree, you them both to say, and I'm not 706 00:37:43.719 --> 00:37:45.960 sure it was just time to kill it, like you say, and. 707 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:47.360 Just another wather. 708 00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:51.280 Well, let's let's see how long did you said it 709 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:51.760 had been in. 710 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.159 About well, I've had it about seven years. In about 711 00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.679 three years, I had it in one place and then 712 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:02.239 dug it up and moved it to a place where 713 00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:05.239 I thought, well, you could get maybe better drainage. And 714 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:08.480 it looked like youah, the truck started thicking it, but 715 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:13.880 it never really has grown. And okay, yep, leaves green. 716 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:18.920 But you you're pretty sure the soil is well drained there. 717 00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:21.480 If you were to dig down like ten inches, you're 718 00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.239 not going to have water in the bottom of the hole. 719 00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.440 Well, yeah, it's hard to say, you know, it's uh, 720 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:31.599 you know, the soil is kind of your clay. But 721 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:33.719 you know, when I dug it all out, I may 722 00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:36.840 have dug it too deep. I don't know. But you 723 00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:39.800 have mixed in, you know, a little bit of a 724 00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:43.679 compost and as bite and a few other things in 725 00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:46.840 there that you packed it all in tru the side 726 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.199 of the hill, you know. So it's not like you 727 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:50.559 said a basin or anything. 728 00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:53.000 And so I got you. Okay, that's good to know. 729 00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:55.920 So uh, as far as uh, it used to be 730 00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:58.599 at the right planning depth, and so you mentioned, may 731 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:01.239 I dug it too deep? Sometimes I'll settle down. But 732 00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:03.719 here's what I'd like you to do. Go to the 733 00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:06.800 base of the trunk. Get you a little trial or something, 734 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.760 and dig down about three or four inches if you can, 735 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:13.400 and look for anything wrapped around the base of that trunk, 736 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:17.239 and it could be something like you know the little 737 00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:21.000 plastic tags that come with plants that tells you what 738 00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:23.400 planet it is. Sometimes those will drop down and get 739 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:26.079 covered up with soil and then they end up strangling 740 00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:29.840 the trunk and really shutting things down. That's a long shop, 741 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:33.440 but that's a possibility if the roots aren't still in 742 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:35.679 a If they were in a pot that was circling 743 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:38.239 a lot and you didn't take them out, that will 744 00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:43.559 hamper establishment. Yours has been not performing for so long though, 745 00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:47.840 that it's kind of a bit of a mystery. I'm 746 00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:51.519 giving you ideas to look for any one of those 747 00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:55.639 normally is not causing as much of a lack of 748 00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:59.280 development as yours has. Have you tried fertilizing. 749 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:04.039 It, Yeah, yeah, And I use the natrophilus, you know, 750 00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:11.199 the pekind citrus mixture, and you I've used meda okay else. 751 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:14.400 And I do that over weird. 752 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.559 You're doing everything you can do for that tree. Check 753 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:21.960 the base of the trunk, I guess, and then go 754 00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:24.559 out about a foot away from the tree and just 755 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:27.599 just dig down if you probably don't have a posthole 756 00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.000 digger on hand, but anything that would make a little 757 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:33.840 vertict oh you do, Okay, go down about go down 758 00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:36.440 a little over a foot and just dig that soil 759 00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.719 out and just set it aside, and then just wait 760 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:41.360 and watch and see if water comes up. And if 761 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:44.480 it comes up, how far down from the surface you're 762 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.280 seeing water. I know it's on a slope, and I 763 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.239 don't think that's the problem. But we're here, you know, 764 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:52.920 Like I said, this is a bit of a mystery 765 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:54.559 as to why that one didn't do it well. So 766 00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:56.599 we're just checking all these things to be sure. 767 00:40:57.159 --> 00:40:57.360 Uh. 768 00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.880 If none of those turn out to do anything, I 769 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:04.039 guess time keeping the grass away. Put a mulch on 770 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:06.760 top of the ground so there's no competition for the tree, 771 00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:08.880 you know, in at least a couple of feet around 772 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:12.400 it in all directions, and that that would be my 773 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:14.280 best advice at this point. 774 00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:17.840 About how far out does the root system go on 775 00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:20.199 citrus trees, you know, assuming they're healthy. 776 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:25.000 Once a tree is established and has been there for 777 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.920 a few years, quite a few years, you're going to 778 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.599 have a root system that's about twice the height of 779 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:33.440 the tree in all directions. Now there're going to be 780 00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:35.800 a few roots ago, maybe a little further than that. 781 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:40.000 There there's you know, the closer you get around the 782 00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:43.800 branch spread and stuff is where the biggest concentration of 783 00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:47.920 roots will be. But you'll have roots that reach way 784 00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:48.599 out past that. 785 00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:53.119 One of the quick questions. I've noticed that they look 786 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:57.079 like lady bugs and they're orange with black spots, and 787 00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:00.280 if they can tell you, they'll actually bite you. And 788 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:02.840 I didn't know it was a true lady big but 789 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:05.559 they're all over the place, you know, on the on 790 00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:06.559 these plants too. 791 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:12.000 Yeah, okay, well, well that's that's good information. It doesn't 792 00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:15.159 it doesn't explain why the tree hadn't grown. But those 793 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:20.559 are ladybugs, probably the har Harmonia species of lady beetle. 794 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:24.719 But if you if you look, they're there for something. 795 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:29.159 There's either scale or aphids or meae bugs or something 796 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:32.719 like that. If lady beetles are around and most likely scale, 797 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:37.239 uh on your on your citrus trees. But check that out. 798 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:39.800 I'll turn the leaves over, look for specs. If you 799 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:45.719 see any black city mold, that's a sign that you 800 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:48.360 know you've got one of those pests on your plant 801 00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:50.679 and you would need to treat those. And depending on 802 00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:52.840 what you find, you can send me some pictures if 803 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:54.920 you don't, take some pictures up close, so what you find, 804 00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:57.199 if you're not sure what it is, and we can 805 00:42:57.280 --> 00:42:59.760 we can go from there. In case you'd like to 806 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:01.039 do that, I'm gonna have to go to a break 807 00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:03.079 right now, but I'm going to put you on hold, 808 00:43:03.239 --> 00:43:05.960 and if you want to send a photo, just let 809 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:09.239 my producer give you the email. Thanks, Mike, I appreciate 810 00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:15.159 that call. Folks will be right back. Alrighty, let's get 811 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:20.119 that going here and we're gonna continue on where we 812 00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:23.679 left off there on the guard line. Hey, if you 813 00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:28.960 are looking for a great hometown feedstore down maybe you're 814 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.639 live out west to Tomball on Highway twenty nine twenty 815 00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:35.280 that region. We're talking about D and D feed store. 816 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:38.840 D and D has been your hometown feed store out 817 00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:42.239 there since what nineteen eighty nine. I believe D and 818 00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:45.079 D stocks all of the products you need to have 819 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:48.920 a successful beautiful lawn and garden. They've got the fertilizers 820 00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:54.000 you know, like Nelson plant Food and Nitra foss and 821 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.400 well Nelson specifically the turf Star for your lawn. They 822 00:43:56.400 --> 00:44:00.519 got Microlife, they have Medina products, they have soils from 823 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.840 heirloom soils and from Landscaper's Pride. You're going to be 824 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.320 able to buy vegetable seeds. They carry some plants out 825 00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:11.880 front also as well, and when you go inside you're 826 00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:14.079 going to be treated right. That's just how it is 827 00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:15.679 with d Defeat. I was in there just the other 828 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:19.440 day visit with Jeff, and I'm telling you, the stock 829 00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:22.280 that they have is outstanding. I was going through, you know, 830 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.599 looking at the different products to deal with all kinds 831 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:27.639 of plant problems, and I was surprised several times, Oh 832 00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:29.639 they had that. I did not know they carry that. 833 00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:31.320 That is good. And that's how it is at D 834 00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:33.480 N Defeed. Again, they're on twenty nine to twenty three 835 00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:36.480 miles west of two forty nine in Tomball. If you 836 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:39.400 want to getm call two eight one three five one 837 00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:43.079 seventy one forty four. While you're in there, pick up 838 00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:47.960 some of the quality, high quality dog food such as Origin, Diamond, 839 00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:51.440 Victor Starpro. They've got all of that for all of 840 00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:54.159 your pets really, and of course it's a feed store, 841 00:44:54.199 --> 00:44:57.039 so for your livestock and by the way they are. 842 00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:01.800 I mean, they chicks are going to be arriving, and 843 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:05.559 they do a great job of keeping a good stock 844 00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:09.440 of baby chicks all the time. Wow, I say all 845 00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:11.880 the time, all the time. In the springtime, I went 846 00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:13.719 r out there, and they're they're gonna be getting those 847 00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:18.159 in uh. In fact, on February twelfth, they're getting here. 848 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:20.159 Let me just I'm gonna read you some names of 849 00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:23.079 chickens Guardline. Can you believe that? Yeah, I'm gonna do it. 850 00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:26.639 The Golden Lace, Wyan Dots, the Rhode Island Reds, the 851 00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:31.079 bard Rocks, the buff or or Pingtons, the lavender orpingtons. 852 00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:34.960 He got two different Orpington choices, Speckle Sussex, staff our 853 00:45:35.039 --> 00:45:41.119 Gym Americana, Amaracanna, the buff Brama. I thought Bramo was 854 00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:44.320 a cow buff Brama and the lavender. Why does see 855 00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.840 what I'm talking about? D and de feed. That's where 856 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:49.960 all the chicks hang out. I'm telling you. I'm just saying, 857 00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:52.480 all right, let's go to the phones. I'm gonna go 858 00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:54.960 to friends with We're gonna talk to Jake. Hey, Jake, 859 00:45:55.800 --> 00:45:56.840 welcome to garden Line. 860 00:45:57.800 --> 00:45:58.280 Hi, schip. 861 00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:02.679 We have a tree that to a pot brought it 862 00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:06.679 in the garage for the freeze, then took it out 863 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:10.000 and Wednesday all the leaves fell. 864 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:10.320 Off of it. 865 00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:12.800 They didn't turn color anything, they just fell off. 866 00:46:14.280 --> 00:46:21.519 Any suggestions, Well, that could have been something that happened 867 00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:24.039 right before you took it out of the pot. For 868 00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:27.320 all the leaves to fall off a tree, either it 869 00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:32.800 is a very severe drought in that pot, or it 870 00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:37.719 is extremely soggy conditions where the roots can't get oxygen. 871 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:40.880 I don't know anything else that just knocks all the 872 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.679 leaves off a tree other than fall. But so that 873 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:47.760 that is very strange. You feel like it didn't dry 874 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:48.920 out before you planted it. 875 00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:52.079 No, sure, I don't think. 876 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:55.800 Okay, tell me the type of tree again, please, it's. 877 00:46:55.639 --> 00:46:57.440 A Persian lime tree. 878 00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:04.000 Lime, Okay, I can't think of another. 879 00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.960 Yeah, there's two or three lives that are still on 880 00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:11.800 the tree, but no leaves right. 881 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:14.880 Well, as long as the stems are still green and 882 00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:17.079 you know, supple and things, I think it the leaves 883 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:21.679 are going to come back out. Other than drought or sagi, 884 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:25.719 I don't know what would not quickly knock all the 885 00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:28.280 leaves off that lime tree. So that that's a bit 886 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.079 of a mystery. You know, we talk about something called 887 00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:34.840 transplant shock that happens when a tree is moved from 888 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.360 a container into the ground. Typically it occurs because some 889 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:41.000 sort of a stress happens in the transplant process. 890 00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:44.639 But I'm sorry that that would be. 891 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:45.199 The only. 892 00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:49.079 We put it in a pot when we bought it, 893 00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:51.639 and that was back in October, I believe, and it's 894 00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:55.159 been at a big fifteen gallon or larger pot ever 895 00:47:55.199 --> 00:47:58.840 since then. We just moved from outside into the garage 896 00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:01.360 for the freeze and then back out after the freeze. 897 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:05.519 Oh okay, are you sure that it didn't get hit 898 00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:08.599 with some temperatures around thirty two but in that prior 899 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:11.159 to the move or or after. 900 00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:15.400 It didn't before I mean, I don't think it did. 901 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:18.119 I mean, because it was in the garage around forty. 902 00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:22.480 But I mean, yeah, well, now that you know I 903 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:25.280 asked that, But now that I'm now that I'm thinking 904 00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:27.360 about it, that would just mean the leaves kind of 905 00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:31.480 turned bleached out and dried dead on the tree. One 906 00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:35.719 other thing, if it's in a lack of light for 907 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:38.840 a period of time, you can get a leaf drop, 908 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:41.400 but you wouldn't have had it that amount of time. 909 00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:44.239 I don't know we got it. We've got a mystery 910 00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:46.559 on that one. But it will releaf out again. I'm 911 00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:48.800 pretty convinced to that. I think you're gonna be okay. 912 00:48:48.840 --> 00:48:50.760 I think you're gonna see new shoots whenever we get 913 00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:54.000 whenever the temperature allows that tree to grow. You know, 914 00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:57.360 citrus likes warmer tempts. But here we get, we can 915 00:48:57.400 --> 00:48:59.760 get almost an eighty this week. You may start to 916 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:01.840 see some little sprouts occurring pretty soon. 917 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:04.880 Okay, all right, all right, Jake. 918 00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.960 Quick question, different, different subject, real quick question. 919 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:11.719 Seed leaves that started, seeds for a variety of flowers 920 00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:17.559 and tomatoes. And how long I heard you say that 921 00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:20.519 the real wits need to be on for about fourteen 922 00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:21.239 hours a day. 923 00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:24.320 And how close should they be. 924 00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:29.599 To the dirt close to what? 925 00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:32.440 Say say that again? How close to what? 926 00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:35.719 How close to that should they be to the seeds 927 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:36.679 to the dirt? 928 00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:41.639 Well, on a on a tomato, you're going to bury 929 00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:44.719 them about a quarter of an inch deep, and it 930 00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:47.519 could be a little more, but not much. Uh and 931 00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:49.639 pressed kind of pressed down a little bit so there's 932 00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:52.679 good contact between the seeds and the soil or the 933 00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:56.840 growing mix, and keep it moderately moist. And that that's 934 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.760 if I understood your question right, that's right. 935 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:03.280 Should the grow lights I've got grow lights on them, 936 00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:06.000 led grow lights with all three different colors? 937 00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:08.199 I see? I see, Okay. 938 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:12.039 It depends on the power and quality of the grow light. 939 00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:16.320 For example, back and well back in the day, when 940 00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:19.280 we use fluorescent, I put the fluorescence about an inch 941 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.519 above the seedlings because they didn't put out that much light, 942 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:26.159 and to get them close. Some of the LEDs now 943 00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:29.079 have a lot more power, some don't. Some are just 944 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:32.599 kind of like a fluorescent in terms of light output quantity. 945 00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:37.480 But I would start off probably about six inches above 946 00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.679 the lights, unless you feel like you know, this is 947 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:43.800 like a runway light bright, and then maybe go up 948 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:47.480 to about a foot. But know this that for every 949 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:51.079 time you double the distance between the plant and the light, 950 00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:55.360 it's the amount of light coming to the plant is 951 00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:57.760 it goes to about a half believe it or not, 952 00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:02.079 and that's it varies a little bit, but basically moving 953 00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:04.280 the light a little further away makes a big difference 954 00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:05.400 in the amount of light it gets. 955 00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:06.440 That's the bottom line. 956 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:09.079 So I start off a little close, watch those ceilings 957 00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:13.000 real close, and then move it accordingly. 958 00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:15.880 Okay, thank you sir. 959 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:20.679 All right, yes, sir, good luck with that. Sounds like 960 00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:24.320 like fun love grown those things. Yeah, I wrote, I 961 00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:26.440 wrote something. And by the way, I should have mentioned 962 00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:29.920 this to Jake. It's on my website and it's called 963 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:35.159 lighting for Growing Transplants. So all of you out there 964 00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:39.360 you should write this. Please bookmark my website Gardening with 965 00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:43.360 Skip dot com, because every time I have a show, 966 00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.159 I'm gonna be referring to things that are on that 967 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:48.159 site that will help you. And this one's called lighting 968 00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:51.960 for Growing Transplants and it goes into the details of 969 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:54.719 like quality, like quantity, how long to leave them on, 970 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:58.119 the difference between you know, different kinds of lighting, and 971 00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:01.400 it will help you have success. So go to Gardening 972 00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:03.440 with Skip dot com look for the Lighting for Growing 973 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:08.840 Transplants article. If you want a quality mix, just swing 974 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:12.239 by Heirloom Soils, which out importer, or go buy your 975 00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:16.360 local garden center, feed store, you know, Southwest Fertilizer, ace 976 00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:19.039 hardware store. You're going to find airloom soils in a 977 00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:23.079 lot of places around the Greater Houston area and they 978 00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:26.000 have quality things. They have things like the leaf mole composts. 979 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:28.440 They have things like the veggie and herb mix. They 980 00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:33.320 have things for indoor plants that you know, special blends 981 00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:35.599 that are for your well. It could be containers on 982 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:37.599 the patio, or it could be you know, an indoor 983 00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:41.039 house plant, and they have mulches and they just. 984 00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:41.880 Whatever you need. 985 00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:44.239 If you want a bulk of it, maybe you're putting 986 00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:46.599 in a whole garden, or you're going to top dress 987 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:49.880 your lawn or something, you can get them to deliver 988 00:52:50.159 --> 00:52:52.480 for a cost. Of course, you can get them to 989 00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:56.239 bring it in a supersack which holds one cubic yard, 990 00:52:56.639 --> 00:52:58.760 and that's a neat and clean area. You don't have 991 00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:00.880 to sweep up the driveway and have this pile in 992 00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:03.280 the driveway. They'll just bring it out, set that in 993 00:53:03.320 --> 00:53:05.320 your driveway and you just shovel it out of there. 994 00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.440 I've done that before myself. It works really really well. 995 00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:12.320 But Airloom Soils that's what you need to do. Airloomsoils 996 00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:14.760 dot com. When you go there, you're going to find 997 00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:16.679 a lot of good information. If you want to get 998 00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:20.119 a bulk delivery, I'm going to give you a different website. 999 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:25.280 Go to rock in Malts dot com. Slash delivery. The 1000 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:28.480 word rock the letter in the word malts All is 1001 00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:33.440 one word dot com slash delivery and they I think 1002 00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:36.360 I have about a three sack minimum for delivery, and 1003 00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.239 there are fees on delivery, but whatever you want to 1004 00:53:39.239 --> 00:53:41.239 go about it. They also have a premium lawn mix 1005 00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:44.000 by the way, that is really good for side prep. 1006 00:53:44.599 --> 00:53:48.239 It's a topsoil list. It's made with masonsand and compost 1007 00:53:48.280 --> 00:53:50.599 and some of their bedmechs and it's good to mix 1008 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.519 in there to fill in some holes that you might 1009 00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:57.079 have in your yard from heirloom soils. I mentioned earlier 1010 00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:59.440 that I'm going to be at Chini Gardens. If you 1011 00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:02.000 haven't been to Chenna Gardens, you need to go. It's 1012 00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:05.199 a great nursery out there in Richmond area. In fact, 1013 00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:07.800 it's on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond, so those 1014 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:11.639 of you up Katie direction or down down Richmond through 1015 00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:14.519 that whole region. They got folks was out there one 1016 00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:17.440 day talk to somebody that was from Austin, Texas that 1017 00:54:17.480 --> 00:54:19.760 had drove all the way to in Chenna Gardens in Richmond, 1018 00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.559 Texas because of the kind of place it is. That 1019 00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:24.719 just tells you a little bit right there. I want 1020 00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:26.400 to remind you that I'm going to be out there 1021 00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:31.920 on February fifteenth, that is two weeks two saturdays from today. 1022 00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:35.239 I'll be out at Enchanted Gardens in Richmond from twelve 1023 00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.159 to two and I'll be given a talk and answering 1024 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:41.079 your gardening questions. But my talk is going to be 1025 00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:46.039 on making gardening less work. How's that for an intriguing topic. 1026 00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:49.159 The way I put it is how to garden with 1027 00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:52.880 less sweat and ibuprofen. That is another way to look 1028 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:56.719 at it. Go to Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's 1029 00:54:56.719 --> 00:54:58.760 their website. And I'll just tell you this. When you're 1030 00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:00.159 in in Chended Gardens, you're going to f and the 1031 00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:02.880 fertilizers that talk about on garden Line. You're going to 1032 00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:08.199 find quality, quality soil blends from heirloom soils, Nature's way 1033 00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:11.159 and Landscaper's pride. I mean, that's a trifecta right there. 1034 00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:14.679 They have any kind of plant you're looking for. I'm 1035 00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:17.800 telling you you want a great selection of vegetables or herbs, 1036 00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:21.400 or flowers or shrubs or roses or trees. They've got 1037 00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:24.599 it all, as well as an enthusiastic team that knows 1038 00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:26.679 what they're talking about. So you can bring your photos 1039 00:55:26.679 --> 00:55:29.119 and samples in there, have them look at them to 1040 00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:34.239 give you some expert advice, identification, diagnosis, whatever you need 1041 00:55:34.599 --> 00:55:37.679 at Hairloomsoils dot Com. All right, it's time for me 1042 00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:40.000 to take a little break here. I'll be back with 1043 00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:46.800 your calls at seven to one three. Hey, welcome by, 1044 00:55:47.320 --> 00:55:49.320 Good to have with us, Good to have you with 1045 00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:53.280 us on garden Line today. We have got plenty that 1046 00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:57.480 we can be talking about whatever your interests are. That's 1047 00:55:57.480 --> 00:55:59.559 what you should call about. If you've got a question 1048 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:03.199 for plant identification, for a suggestion for a plant, for 1049 00:56:03.480 --> 00:56:06.199 diagnosing a plant issue or a problem, we'll help you 1050 00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:09.599 with that. And there are no stupid questions on Guardline, 1051 00:56:09.639 --> 00:56:13.159 just stupid answer. So the pressure's on me. Let's just 1052 00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:15.800 think of it that way. How about that. That's the 1053 00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:19.159 way I like to put it. If you are looking 1054 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:23.280 for compost top dressing and you happen to be in 1055 00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:26.000 that northwest quadrant of Houston, and when I say northwest, 1056 00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:29.079 I'm talking about you know, I tend I forty five 1057 00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:33.960 roughly roughly that area. Greenpro is your company. You know, 1058 00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:37.440 they serve an area about forty five miles from Magnolia 1059 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.840 in all directions basically, so we're talking about Spring Cyprus, 1060 00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:44.599 the woodlands, Conroe, Willis. If you're up northwest Magnolia, Montgomery 1061 00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:48.840 down to Katie West Houston, Central Houston, North Houston. Basically 1062 00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:52.360 that quadrant Greenprotexas dot com is a website and you 1063 00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:54.559 ought to go there and check them out. They can 1064 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:58.159 put that compost top dressing down and the core aeration, 1065 00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.239 and when you do that, you're helping to feed the 1066 00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:04.400 soil biology. That is what our clay soils desperately need 1067 00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:09.199 is good microbial activity and organic matter to improve that clay, 1068 00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:12.039 make it not so dense and poorly drained. It helps 1069 00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:15.360 alleviate compaction in fact, but the only good thing that 1070 00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:19.480 you can do for an instant basically effect on compaction 1071 00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:23.039 is to do a core aeration. You know, we know, 1072 00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:25.920 getting humates and humans and organic matter dye the soil. Yes, 1073 00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:30.360 that helps, but corretion is critical really for improving a 1074 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:34.079 serious compaction issue. That improves your soul's internal drainage. And 1075 00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:37.400 maybe your lawn was hammered by chinchbugs last summer, or 1076 00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:41.079 by take all root rot or by brown patch a 1077 00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:44.079 great way to get it back in shape is core 1078 00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:47.599 aeration and compost top dressing. If your lawn is thatchy, 1079 00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:50.400 you know all those lawn grass runners that are just 1080 00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:53.239 creating a sponge. You walk across it and it's real spongy. 1081 00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:58.400 Well correration compost top dressing helps break down that thatch 1082 00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.840 layer fast faster and just leaving that stuff sitting on 1083 00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:04.159 top of the yard. You know, get some compost on it, 1084 00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:06.840 get some soil from the cores on it, and it 1085 00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:09.559 will help. It'll increase your rooting depth and increases the 1086 00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:12.440 water absorption ability of your lawn. All of this is 1087 00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:14.480 gonna save some money on your water bills by not 1088 00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:20.480 watering that lawn so much. Greenprotexas dot com, Greenprotexas dot com. 1089 00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:22.719 If you want to give them a phone call eight 1090 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:26.440 three two three five one zero zero three two eight 1091 00:58:26.440 --> 00:58:30.800 three two three five ones ere zero three two. You're 1092 00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:33.159 listening to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Ricker and our 1093 00:58:33.239 --> 00:58:34.840 phone number if you'd like to give me a call 1094 00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:37.960 seven one three two one two k t r H 1095 00:58:38.039 --> 00:58:41.800 seven one three two one two k t r H. 1096 00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:42.800 Uh. 1097 00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:48.559 If you have never put in, never grown herbs before? Uh, 1098 00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:51.920 I want to encourage you to try that this spring. 1099 00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:54.039 Why not now, it's a good time to plan it. 1100 00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:56.280 By the way, you can plan herbs right now. Uh, 1101 00:58:56.320 --> 00:58:57.639 And you can plan them all the way through the 1102 00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:00.320 spring and summer pretty much any almost the time year. 1103 00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:03.920 I almost all the herbs. But I would say once 1104 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:06.039 the weather warms up a little bit, you can plant 1105 00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:09.039 things like basil, which are a little picky about that 1106 00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:14.039 cold weather. Our garden centers carry wonderful supplies of herbs, 1107 00:59:14.320 --> 00:59:18.599 they do, and there's so many good herbs. You know, 1108 00:59:18.599 --> 00:59:21.000 if you want to enhance your cooking, can imagine this. 1109 00:59:21.119 --> 00:59:23.320 You're you know, you're you're making a meal for family 1110 00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:25.320 or for friends that have come over, and you just 1111 00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:28.639 walk outside and you strip off some rosemary leaves, or 1112 00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:31.960 you pick a few sprigs of time, or you gather 1113 00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:35.800 some chives from the top of a chivee. They grow 1114 00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:39.400 so fast and easy. Maybe it is a regano that 1115 00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:41.639 you need for your cooking. Do you see what I'm saying. 1116 00:59:41.679 --> 00:59:43.639 It's just right there. And you don't have to have 1117 00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:45.239 an herb garden. I mean, if you want to have 1118 00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:48.360 one of those little geometric herb gardens, you can do that. 1119 00:59:48.440 --> 00:59:52.119 They're gorgeous, very formal looking. But you can put herbs 1120 00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:54.519 in a pot. You can put herbs around plants at 1121 00:59:54.519 --> 00:59:57.199 the end of my tomato rose. I often will plant 1122 00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:01.199 like aregano and basil at the end of a tomato row. 1123 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:01.880 Know why is that? 1124 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:05.280 Well, I can think of some ways that tomato, sauce 1125 01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:09.320 and oregano and basil all go together. Right, you can 1126 01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:12.039 do that. It doesn't matter. In fact, things like basil 1127 01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:15.440 when they bloom are attracting many of the pollinators and 1128 01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:19.159 some of the adult beneficial insects to your garden. So 1129 01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:21.639 you have a place for herbs. I mean, even if 1130 01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:24.239 you don't have a garden, you can grow herbs. And 1131 01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:27.360 you ought to try that. It's not hard to do, 1132 01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:30.880 and it's fun to do. Just make sure they have 1133 01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:34.239 good drainage and good sunlight. That's the two things that 1134 01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:39.840 herbs need most. Good drainage and good sunlight. Mosts of soil. 1135 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:42.679 Keep this all moist. That's helpful, of course, But a 1136 01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:44.239 good drainage, good sunlight, and you. 1137 01:00:44.199 --> 01:00:44.719 Can grow up. 1138 01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:46.719 So I'd like you to try that. I keep telling you, 1139 01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:49.360 what are you gonna try new this year? What are 1140 01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:51.880 you gonna try? You haven't done before this year. Gardening 1141 01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:52.880 is too much fun. 1142 01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:53.280 Listen. 1143 01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:58.400 I've been I have been professionally in horticulture for thirty 1144 01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:02.119 five years. I've been gardening the whole lot, and every 1145 01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:06.480 year I learned something new. Every day almost I learned 1146 01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:10.280 something new every year. I'm trying something new. And maybe 1147 01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:12.840 it's a new plant, maybe it's a new way of growing, 1148 01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:15.800 maybe it's a new type of pest control. You know, 1149 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:19.519 if you've never used a garden mesh over your your beds, 1150 01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:22.880 your plants, it's like putting a screen porch over your plants. 1151 01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:26.199 The water goes through, the air goes through, the sunlight 1152 01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:28.639 goes through. The pest can't get through it. It's blocking 1153 01:01:28.679 --> 01:01:30.840 them out. So that would be a new thing. I 1154 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:34.559 bet you haven't tried that. I bet eight ninety eight 1155 01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:37.000 percent of people listening to this show right now have 1156 01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:40.400 never purchased garden mesh to cover your plants and have 1157 01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:44.800 natural pest exclusion from that. That's just an example of 1158 01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:49.400 an idea. So I was, yeah, I've been gardening my 1159 01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:51.559 whole life, and in fact, when I was a kid, 1160 01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:54.079 and that I hope nobody's listening to this. But when 1161 01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:57.639 I was a kid back in Jordans and Texas. I 1162 01:01:57.679 --> 01:02:01.159 got sent out to pull weeds when I missed behaved. Yeah, 1163 01:02:01.199 --> 01:02:03.199 it's a wonder I turned out to be a horticulturist. 1164 01:02:03.400 --> 01:02:05.719 With that kind of child abuse, I had to go 1165 01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:09.800 out and pull weeds. I let me just say this. 1166 01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:12.760 We had the most weed free garden in town. And 1167 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:15.000 I'll let you figure out why that might be. We're 1168 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:16.719 gonna go to the phones right now, head up to 1169 01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:20.639 college station and talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, welcome. 1170 01:02:20.360 --> 01:02:21.000 To garden line. 1171 01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:22.800 Hey, how are you doing? 1172 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:23.159 Skip? 1173 01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:26.239 I'm good, sir. How can we help? 1174 01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:30.280 I've got a horse trough kind of a planter, one 1175 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:34.719 of those kind of rectangular galus galvanized planters you see 1176 01:02:34.719 --> 01:02:37.360 at the hardware store or ace hardware wherever. 1177 01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:39.840 Yeah, feedstore. 1178 01:02:40.519 --> 01:02:41.440 Uh. 1179 01:02:41.519 --> 01:02:45.119 That thing holds a lot of dirt. What it's maybe 1180 01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:48.559 what two or three feet tall? What would probably a 1181 01:02:48.639 --> 01:02:52.960 couple Yeah. Is there is there something to put in 1182 01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:53.880 the bottom of it? 1183 01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:55.039 Uh? 1184 01:02:55.079 --> 01:02:57.039 And then put dirt in because it you know, it 1185 01:02:57.079 --> 01:02:59.559 holds a lot of dirt? Or or should I. 1186 01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:03.679 That's a great question. Yeah, that's a great question. I 1187 01:03:03.679 --> 01:03:05.800 got about a sixty seconds chair for my brake, so 1188 01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:07.199 I'm gonna give you a quick answer, and if you 1189 01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:08.840 want to hang around talk about it more, we can 1190 01:03:08.880 --> 01:03:12.360 do that too. Basically, don't put anything in the bottom. 1191 01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:16.320 Things about putting rocks and stuff that isn't isn't true. 1192 01:03:16.679 --> 01:03:19.480 You gotta drill holes. You just gotta drill some holes 1193 01:03:19.480 --> 01:03:21.960 in there. I would probably do quarter inch holes or something, 1194 01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:23.719 just so the water can get out at the base. 1195 01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:26.280 Do a bunch of them all around. The other thing 1196 01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:28.239 you're going to need to do, Andy, is put that 1197 01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:31.920 trough up on something. If it sits on a clay soil, 1198 01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:33.480 and you got quite a few clay soils up there 1199 01:03:33.480 --> 01:03:36.199 in College Station. If it sits down on the soil, 1200 01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:39.119 then it's like that clay is sealing the holes and 1201 01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:42.480 it doesn't drain downward any faster than it can drain 1202 01:03:42.559 --> 01:03:44.880 down in clay. So if you put it up a 1203 01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:46.760 little bit so that let's just say there's a little 1204 01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:49.280 bit of airspace underneath there, then the water can get 1205 01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:52.320 out better. So it doesn't have to be tall, It 1206 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.880 just has to be tall enough to hold that floor 1207 01:03:55.039 --> 01:03:58.639 of the planter up off the soil surface. I'm is 1208 01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:01.679 that Does that make sense? Yeah, I'm gonna put you 1209 01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:02.159 on hold. 1210 01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:03.239 Thank you. For the call. 1211 01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:04.840 If you want to hang around, we'll come back to 1212 01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:07.079 you when we get back and James and Spring you 1213 01:04:07.119 --> 01:04:12.800 will be next. But exactly all right, we're back on garden. 1214 01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:16.639 We are here to answer your gardening questions. Ia, just 1215 01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:18.840 give me a call. Seven one three two one two 1216 01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:24.039 ktr h. Nelson Plant Food has got a product called 1217 01:04:24.119 --> 01:04:29.400 Bruce's Brew. It is there faster releasing lawn fertilizer. Now, 1218 01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:31.400 when I say faster, I mean you get an initial 1219 01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:34.559 fast release of nutrients for it, but then it evens 1220 01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:38.039 out over time for regulated growth. And when you slow 1221 01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:40.559 down grass growth, you feed grass. You want nitrogen, You 1222 01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:43.480 want plenty of nitrogen, but you don't want a ton 1223 01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:46.880 all at once. And with Bruce's Brew you get a 1224 01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:49.840 quick green up, but then you continue to get the 1225 01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:53.519 development of growth as time goes on because it's releasing 1226 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:57.280 gradually and that helps in root development. You overdoe nitrogen 1227 01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:59.079 at one time on a grass plant, you get top 1228 01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:02.119 growth at the expense root growth not good for the summertime, 1229 01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:06.079 not at all. Bruces Bruce got carbon based nitrogen sources 1230 01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:09.519 to feed the microbes in the soil and it basically 1231 01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:13.559 healthy soil means healthy grass, less vulnerable to pests and diseases. 1232 01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:15.480 And if you get my schedule and look out, we 1233 01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:17.800 got a green up period coming up here real quick. 1234 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:20.480 And Bruce's Brew would be a great one to use. 1235 01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:21.119 Just for that. 1236 01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:24.800 From the folks at Nelson's, we're gonna head up to 1237 01:05:25.440 --> 01:05:28.280 College station again. Andy, you're hanging out, So I'm assuming 1238 01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:29.480 you got a follow up question. 1239 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:34.679 I do, Yeah, I appreciate that. I guess two quick things. 1240 01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:39.199 We moved into June and we cut some but cut 1241 01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:41.800 a few bushes down that were in the front flower bed. 1242 01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:46.920 What what is a good product to put on top 1243 01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:48.719 of those steps so they don't grow? 1244 01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:50.880 Okay? 1245 01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:51.519 Uh? 1246 01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:56.440 Trichlop here, that's an ingredient comes in many products. T 1247 01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:00.719 R I C l O P y R butt. You 1248 01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:03.599 need to cut and then treat right Then you can't 1249 01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:04.760 come back two days later. 1250 01:06:05.159 --> 01:06:05.280 Uh. 1251 01:06:05.400 --> 01:06:09.199 The amount of benefit you get decreases dramatically if it's 1252 01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:12.920 not a fresh cut. So you may want to recut them, 1253 01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:15.719 uh and then do the treatment right away. But here's 1254 01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:18.400 here's what you should do. Go on my website it's 1255 01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:24.920 gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. 1256 01:06:25.159 --> 01:06:28.039 And when you go there, you're going to see as 1257 01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:30.800 you as you go through. It's on the front page 1258 01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:34.559 now it's controlling woody weeds and landscapes and garden and 1259 01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:37.639 it tells you exactly how to do it. Uh, And 1260 01:06:37.719 --> 01:06:40.039 so just go to gardening with Skip dot com. I've 1261 01:06:40.039 --> 01:06:44.239 written a fact sheet up just for that, right right. 1262 01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:48.199 And the last thing is, I've I've got a krpe 1263 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:51.320 myrtle that's in the back but it had, like just 1264 01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:55.880 last year, had ants growing up and running up and 1265 01:06:55.920 --> 01:07:00.039 down it and it just hasn't been good the neighbors. 1266 01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:01.519 From the through out before. 1267 01:07:03.119 --> 01:07:03.960 Okay, could have been. 1268 01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:06.440 Cut it down or is there a good product for that? 1269 01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:08.320 Uh? 1270 01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:10.760 Well, don't worry about the ants. They're just there because 1271 01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:13.199 their scale up on the crape myrtle plant or aphids 1272 01:07:13.199 --> 01:07:15.639 on the plant. But the ants aren't aren't really the problem. 1273 01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:18.840 I would fertilize it. I would make sure and mulch 1274 01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:21.239 around it to keep the grass away enough to kind 1275 01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:23.719 of help it get some bigger and see if it improves. 1276 01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:25.519 And if it doesn't, you can send me a picture 1277 01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:28.719 of it and we can talk again more about that. 1278 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:29.559 And I'm gonna have to. 1279 01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:32.320 Run to another call here, but appreciate your calling. Good 1280 01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:34.840 luck with all that, and don't hesitate to call back 1281 01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:37.960 or send a photo if we can pursue further on 1282 01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:41.599 that one. You know, Ace Hardware stores have got you 1283 01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:44.719 covered on your spring cleaning. Do you need do you 1284 01:07:44.760 --> 01:07:46.960 need some shelving you're putting in? Do you need some 1285 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:50.400 of those toats, those rubber toats to store all your stuff? 1286 01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:52.159 You know, they've got you covered on that. 1287 01:07:52.679 --> 01:07:52.920 Uh. 1288 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:55.960 They also have right now. They got their garden garden 1289 01:07:56.039 --> 01:07:57.840 printers on side. These are power things. 1290 01:07:57.880 --> 01:07:58.079 You know. 1291 01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:01.079 There's actually a garden printer that's got battery and just powered. 1292 01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:04.039 Buy one, get one free, or no, get a free battery. 1293 01:08:04.039 --> 01:08:06.239 Excuse me, buy one, you have the battery, they'll give 1294 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:08.159 you a free additional battery. You know you always need 1295 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:12.280 more than one battery. If you are looking for fiberglass 1296 01:08:12.440 --> 01:08:16.119 handled yard and garden tools, those are super things. I 1297 01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:19.520 mean they they flax, they work well, they last forever. 1298 01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:23.119 Fiberglass handle yard and garden tools. They're on sale twenty 1299 01:08:23.119 --> 01:08:27.640 one ninety nine. Ace Hardware stores places like Paco Aesinalvin, Brennam, 1300 01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:31.199 Ace Hardware, Katie, Ace Hardware, go down to League City 1301 01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:35.399 League City Ace Hardware and Child's Building supply in Orange, Texas. 1302 01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:38.399 That's three of many many ACE Hardware is in our area. 1303 01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:41.560 Five of many mini in our area. You can go 1304 01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.680 to Acehardware dot com, find the store locator, and find 1305 01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:47.800 the store that's nearest to you. We are now going 1306 01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:50.199 to head to Spring and talk to James. Hello, James, 1307 01:08:50.239 --> 01:08:51.359 Welcome to guarden Line. 1308 01:08:52.760 --> 01:08:53.319 Good morning. 1309 01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:57.960 I have a Arizona cypress tree that I planted about 1310 01:08:57.960 --> 01:09:00.640 a year and a half ago. This bring me two 1311 01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:06.920 years and it started to get dark at the tips, and. 1312 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:08.239 Then when I went out and touched. 1313 01:09:07.960 --> 01:09:10.000 It yesterday, it was like kind of pulling on it 1314 01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:13.720 just seeing what it felt like. It's drying, cracking and 1315 01:09:13.720 --> 01:09:16.920 breaking off. I don't know if it's a fucus or 1316 01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:20.399 if it's getting too much water, or something's wrong. 1317 01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:20.760 With the soil. 1318 01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:27.079 Yeah, yeah, it could be a number of things. When 1319 01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:30.399 something happens on the tips, it often points to a 1320 01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:37.159 plumbing problem, meaning that the water flow through the plant 1321 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:39.359 is hampered. And you know, we can do that to 1322 01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:42.640 plants by putting way too much salt based fertilizer on. 1323 01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:45.359 And we can do that by having drought, by having 1324 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:49.399 root damage and other things. There are also some cankers 1325 01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:55.920 that will get on Arizona cypress. One is called seridium canker, 1326 01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:00.199 and those are fungal diseases. And typically with those you 1327 01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:04.239 said black, and typically with the cankers, it's like the 1328 01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:07.279 leaves bleach out and die. You know, they die, but 1329 01:10:07.359 --> 01:10:10.840 they're almost a tan brown kind of color. So one 1330 01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:13.880 of those things is going on out there. Yeah, Okay, 1331 01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:18.520 so that would require fungal preventative sprays, and I might 1332 01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:24.520 I might start off with gosh, I wouldn't really need 1333 01:10:24.640 --> 01:10:30.920 to check on the specific fungus for that specific canker. 1334 01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:34.720 I think I think that you're going to have success 1335 01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:37.840 if you were to try something that contained either mic 1336 01:10:37.920 --> 01:10:47.479 clobe buttenil mi clobe buttennil or see Belton would be 1337 01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:49.800 another one you might want to try B A Y 1338 01:10:50.119 --> 01:10:54.439 L E T O in those two fun fungus product. 1339 01:10:54.479 --> 01:11:00.359 Fungus control products are pretty broadly effective on them. 1340 01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:02.880 Okay, thank you very much. 1341 01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:06.039 Yeah, but but just just know this that some of 1342 01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:10.920 the kinkers that get on these junipers and cypress Arizona cypress, 1343 01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:14.640 they don't have a good spray control. So what I'd 1344 01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:16.119 like you to do is go out and neverwhere there's 1345 01:11:16.119 --> 01:11:18.520 a brown tip. Take your hand pruners and snip it 1346 01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:22.000 out and then have some lyesol and spray those pruners 1347 01:11:22.000 --> 01:11:26.239 in between cuts so you don't carry the disease from 1348 01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:29.760 one cut on your pruners to cut into another place 1349 01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:32.560 and be spreading it more that way. But prune them 1350 01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:37.640 out and use lifestyle between cuts and get all of 1351 01:11:37.640 --> 01:11:39.399 that out of there. Don't drop it on the ground, 1352 01:11:39.760 --> 01:11:42.520 and that'll that'll get some of the innoculum or the 1353 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:46.760 disease causing issue out of that site, so the next 1354 01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:48.960 time it rains, it doesn't just splash that disease all 1355 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:49.640 over the place and. 1356 01:11:49.640 --> 01:11:56.000 You're right back in business. Okay, thank you, Thank you, sir. 1357 01:11:56.039 --> 01:11:56.680 Appreciate that. 1358 01:11:57.720 --> 01:12:04.560 Appreciate that call. RCW Nurseries is loaded with roses right now. 1359 01:12:04.560 --> 01:12:06.199 I was talking to David the other day and oh 1360 01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:10.399 my gosh, they are like four pages or more of roses. 1361 01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:12.800 In fact, it's more than more than four pages. I 1362 01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:15.279 was looking at their list and it just goes on 1363 01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:16.800 and on and on. I don't care what kind of 1364 01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:19.720 rose you want. Flora bunds grand to, Flora's cutting roses, 1365 01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:23.840 shrub roses, climbing roses. They have got it off. It's 1366 01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:26.039 six pages. I'm just listening here looking at the thing. 1367 01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:29.000 Six pages. So you're not going to find a better 1368 01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:31.800 selection than right now. And they only last as long 1369 01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:34.000 as they last, you know. It's not like they run 1370 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:35.920 out of one rose and they order that one rose 1371 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:38.840 back in. So if you want the best selection, I'd 1372 01:12:38.880 --> 01:12:41.920 get out there today. I would because, I mean, people know, 1373 01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:44.840 when RCW gets their roses, you head out there and 1374 01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:48.840 you get those things because it is time to get 1375 01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:51.199 them in the ground. Now's a perfect time. Why are 1376 01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:52.960 you out there? You're going to find other shrubs and 1377 01:12:52.960 --> 01:12:56.000 annuals and perennials and navy plants and all kinds of things. 1378 01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:59.079 You're gonna have fertilizers like nine to fiss and microlife 1379 01:12:59.159 --> 01:13:02.920 turk Star RCW, RCW nurseries dot Com. There at the 1380 01:13:02.960 --> 01:13:08.119 corner the intersection of Beltway eight and Hearty Toll Road. No, 1381 01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:10.199 it's belt Way eight, Bel eight and two forty nine. 1382 01:13:10.199 --> 01:13:12.159 I can't even get my map in my head here 1383 01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:15.159 belt Way eight and timeball Parkway two forty nine. Go ahead, 1384 01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:18.119 hit you a rose, don't wait this time? 1385 01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:19.960 All right? 1386 01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:22.840 Well, music means I got a quit talking. That means 1387 01:13:22.880 --> 01:13:26.199 that's the translation of that is you got quick talkings. 1388 01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:28.479 We're going to be back, though we're taking some time 1389 01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:30.279 for the news here. When we come back, we'll get 1390 01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:32.039 your calls. I got an open board right now, so 1391 01:13:32.079 --> 01:13:34.560 if you'd like to get on the board with Jonathan, 1392 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:36.720 you can be one of the first ones up when 1393 01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:39.680 we come back. It's seven one three two one two 1394 01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:43.439 k t r H seven one three two one two 1395 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:48.159 k t all right, I need to load up on 1396 01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:50.239 a note, cup of coffee, and we'll be right back. 1397 01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:59.600 Welcome to kz RH guarden Line with scamp Ricks. 1398 01:14:08.119 --> 01:14:14.840 Just watch him as so. 1399 01:14:15.000 --> 01:14:22.840 Many Welcome back, Welcome back, gardeners. We got a lot 1400 01:14:22.840 --> 01:14:25.520 of gardening talk to be doing here on garden Line. 1401 01:14:25.560 --> 01:14:27.720 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and if you'd like to 1402 01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:29.880 give me a call, it's seven one three two one 1403 01:14:29.960 --> 01:14:32.520 two k t r H seven one three two one 1404 01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:34.199 two k t r H. Hey, do you have some 1405 01:14:34.359 --> 01:14:39.000 metal furniture around your landscape? Maybe back patio, that kind 1406 01:14:39.039 --> 01:14:42.199 of thing. Uh And and this can be like wrought 1407 01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:46.039 iron furniture, cast iron furniture. Maybe you got some aluminum 1408 01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:50.359 patio furniture, you know, any anything metal out there? Houston 1409 01:14:50.399 --> 01:14:54.359 Powder coders can turn it into like new. I mean, 1410 01:14:54.399 --> 01:14:57.000 it is amazing what they can do. I was visiting 1411 01:14:57.039 --> 01:15:01.039 their operation not not too long ago, and they're the 1412 01:15:01.039 --> 01:15:04.000 biggest powder coder in this whole region. I mean they are. 1413 01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:07.720 I mean, if you can hear my voice, you're probably 1414 01:15:07.800 --> 01:15:10.359 within their realm because they get people from way out 1415 01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:13.760 bring their stuff in for Houston powder coder. Sure, they're 1416 01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:16.119 located belt Wag eight and Hardy Tow Road near that 1417 01:15:16.239 --> 01:15:19.560 area of town, on the north side of town. You know, 1418 01:15:19.960 --> 01:15:21.880 if you've got some old furniture, maybe it needs a 1419 01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:24.680 little weldering repair, they can also do that to it 1420 01:15:24.760 --> 01:15:27.039 for the powder coat it. They can fix you know, 1421 01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:28.600 slings and straps and things. 1422 01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:29.119 I've got some. 1423 01:15:29.159 --> 01:15:31.800 In fact, I'm gonna post a picture to Facebook today. 1424 01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:34.159 I want you to see some of the work that 1425 01:15:34.199 --> 01:15:36.439 they can do. And this could be. This could be 1426 01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:41.079 metal stairs, metal railings, metal fencing, light poles, you know, 1427 01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:45.399 you name it, benches, metal, We've got some of that 1428 01:15:46.079 --> 01:15:48.279 metal furniture that you put the cushions on, you know, 1429 01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:51.359 those outdoor seating sets. They can do that. They do 1430 01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:53.880 the re finishing, they do the repair and get this 1431 01:15:54.680 --> 01:15:58.760 over one hundred colors so I mean, if you wanted to. 1432 01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:00.600 I saw a piece and I go, is that just 1433 01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:04.199 you know? Is that coated yet? And because it had 1434 01:16:04.199 --> 01:16:06.239 this beautiful iron look to it, and he said, oh, 1435 01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:08.600 that's a coating color. You can choose that as your 1436 01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:12.479 coating color. So whatever you want, and they do it right. 1437 01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:15.159 They take their time. And I don't care how big 1438 01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:18.960 something is. You got a goose neck trailer you want coated? 1439 01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:21.439 They can do They can do that. They got a 1440 01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:24.600 sixty five foot a little room, they can put that 1441 01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:26.920 thing in to do the job. It's good work. They've 1442 01:16:26.920 --> 01:16:31.760 been around since twenty seventeen. Here's the website, Houston Powdercoders 1443 01:16:31.800 --> 01:16:35.239 dot Com. Here's the phone number two eight one six 1444 01:16:35.319 --> 01:16:38.960 seven six thirty eight eighty eight to eight one six 1445 01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:42.960 seven six thirty eight eighty eight. Give them a call. 1446 01:16:43.119 --> 01:16:45.479 And now that old furniture, maybe it's starting to rust 1447 01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:48.760 out there, stop that, get it in. Let them take 1448 01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:50.800 care of that rust, Let them get it coated, let 1449 01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:54.279 them get it looking really really good. I was so 1450 01:16:54.399 --> 01:16:56.279 amazed when I saw the kind of work they can do. 1451 01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:00.520 Let's it out to a base city. Now we're going 1452 01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:03.680 to talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, Welcome, to garden line. 1453 01:17:04.199 --> 01:17:09.039 Hello, Skip, Okay, I need some information on Peggy Martin roses. 1454 01:17:09.119 --> 01:17:11.239 I have some that are on a fence line and 1455 01:17:11.239 --> 01:17:14.279 they're massive, and I've never trimmed them, and I don't 1456 01:17:14.279 --> 01:17:16.600 want to trim off anything that might be blooms for 1457 01:17:16.920 --> 01:17:20.720 the spring. But everyone says it's time to prune your roses. 1458 01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:25.399 Okay, Well, I'm glad you called before you did that, 1459 01:17:25.800 --> 01:17:28.960 because now is not the time to prune a Peggy Martin. 1460 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:32.479 Peggy does almost all her blooming in the spring. That's 1461 01:17:32.520 --> 01:17:35.560 her big show of the year. So let's let that 1462 01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:38.479 get done. And when it's done, then you can go 1463 01:17:38.560 --> 01:17:41.039 in and trim as you see fit. You know, we 1464 01:17:41.079 --> 01:17:44.239 could train Peggy Martin to an arbor, we could have 1465 01:17:44.279 --> 01:17:46.840 her go down a fence or lots of different things 1466 01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:49.560 and you just do the trimming you need. But after 1467 01:17:49.600 --> 01:17:52.640 the blooms are done, that way, she has time to 1468 01:17:52.720 --> 01:17:55.319 regrow new shoots, set buds in late summer and fall 1469 01:17:55.520 --> 01:17:57.520 to put on an even better show next year. 1470 01:17:58.479 --> 01:18:03.880 And sometimes they do blue in the fall, don't they. 1471 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:06.279 Two they can, yeah, you can with some climbers, you 1472 01:18:06.279 --> 01:18:09.079 can get you know, some sporadic blooms. You know at 1473 01:18:09.079 --> 01:18:12.000 other times of the year, but spring is the big time. 1474 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:13.800 But either way, even if it was a fall bloom, 1475 01:18:14.119 --> 01:18:17.279 you would you would be best to do that after 1476 01:18:17.319 --> 01:18:18.119 your spring bloom. 1477 01:18:18.159 --> 01:18:18.640 That's the time. 1478 01:18:18.680 --> 01:18:18.880 Okay. 1479 01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:20.880 Could I add one more little question for you? 1480 01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:23.359 Yes, okay. 1481 01:18:24.439 --> 01:18:27.760 All my fruit trees are in the she shed where 1482 01:18:27.800 --> 01:18:31.560 they've been protected from the winter cold, and they're in containers. 1483 01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:33.520 But i'd like to put a couple of them in 1484 01:18:33.560 --> 01:18:35.399 the ground. Is now the time to do that? 1485 01:18:37.039 --> 01:18:38.720 Are these citrus? 1486 01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:40.960 Yeah? 1487 01:18:41.039 --> 01:18:44.880 Okay, I would just for your own. You know, if 1488 01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:47.479 you planted them now, you're probably going to be just fine. 1489 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:49.960 But what if we were to get one of those 1490 01:18:50.039 --> 01:18:53.680 you know, twenty two degree things come through and that's 1491 01:18:53.680 --> 01:18:56.760 still possible, So let's get past the biggest danger, or 1492 01:18:56.800 --> 01:18:59.279 to get into mid February. You're probably okay to start 1493 01:18:59.279 --> 01:19:01.680 putting them in, but they're not going to grow till 1494 01:19:01.680 --> 01:19:03.920 it warms up anyway, right. 1495 01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:05.880 Yeah, And it's forty seven today in Bay City, so 1496 01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:06.720 it's still cold. 1497 01:19:07.960 --> 01:19:09.000 Yeah, it's still cool. 1498 01:19:09.960 --> 01:19:11.800 The only thing is when you pull them out the container, 1499 01:19:11.800 --> 01:19:14.600 you're gonna see roots going around the circle around the pot. 1500 01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:17.359 Take your hamprinters and cut those, or take a box 1501 01:19:17.399 --> 01:19:21.600 cutter knife and cut those because they will branch underground. 1502 01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:24.119 Don't be afraid to cut them. You're better off if 1503 01:19:24.159 --> 01:19:26.359 you do. You have a much better anchored well and 1504 01:19:26.439 --> 01:19:29.439 a faster establishing tree if you prim the roots that 1505 01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:31.000 are circling before you plan it. 1506 01:19:31.119 --> 01:19:31.439 Great. 1507 01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:38.399 Thanks for the call, appreciate that very much. Let's see here. 1508 01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:40.920 We are going to go out to Kingwood now and 1509 01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:43.720 talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, welcome to garden Line. 1510 01:19:43.359 --> 01:19:47.920 Good morning, Skip. Thank you so much. One can question. 1511 01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:53.439 I've been following the guardline schedule for over two decades now, 1512 01:19:53.479 --> 01:19:57.079 and my lawn is healthy and good. One of the 1513 01:19:57.119 --> 01:20:00.119 things that I changed in the past year and a half, 1514 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.039 I think is listening to you recommending that we mulchmoe 1515 01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:08.800 more often to get those nutrients back in the soil. 1516 01:20:08.920 --> 01:20:10.239 So I've been doing that as well. 1517 01:20:10.800 --> 01:20:11.840 Yeah. Good. 1518 01:20:11.960 --> 01:20:17.680 My biggest My biggest problem, and this is something that 1519 01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:21.640 I'm struggling with, is I know it's so important to 1520 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:25.840 have a well sharpened blade on my mulch mower, and 1521 01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:31.199 I have a very difficult time finding a reputable place 1522 01:20:31.319 --> 01:20:34.119 to take my mower to have the blade sharpened and 1523 01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:38.039 oil change and that sort of thing. I'm wondering why 1524 01:20:38.279 --> 01:20:40.920 some of these big garden centers, and we have a 1525 01:20:40.960 --> 01:20:44.359 couple of them here in Kingwood don't offer that service 1526 01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:48.880 and as opposed to me having to drive across town 1527 01:20:48.920 --> 01:20:52.520 to another town to have that service done. So I'm 1528 01:20:52.560 --> 01:20:55.479 wondering if you can speak to some of your you know, 1529 01:20:55.560 --> 01:20:59.479 mom and pop places and see if that's not another 1530 01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:01.079 business line they can set up. 1531 01:21:02.359 --> 01:21:04.800 Yeah, I'll bring that up. I would if I were you, 1532 01:21:04.840 --> 01:21:07.279 I'd go to your your local Ace hardware stores and 1533 01:21:07.439 --> 01:21:10.520 just talk to them and see, you know, maybe they 1534 01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:13.520 can point you at a good reputable place. 1535 01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:13.880 Uh. 1536 01:21:14.159 --> 01:21:16.279 You know you are ask your garden centers. You've got 1537 01:21:16.279 --> 01:21:19.079 Warren's and you got Kingwood out there, but you also 1538 01:21:19.159 --> 01:21:21.560 have can m Ace Hardware right there on Kingwood Drive. 1539 01:21:22.359 --> 01:21:22.920 Just ask them. 1540 01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:25.520 They may know a good local one that they would recommend. 1541 01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:30.880 I've done that and usually you speak to the workers 1542 01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:33.720 there and and they kind of look with the blank 1543 01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:36.000 stare on their face and they don't and they don't 1544 01:21:36.039 --> 01:21:37.880 know what to do. I think this has to be 1545 01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:41.359 a question addressed to some of the owners of these places. 1546 01:21:42.840 --> 01:21:45.600 Okay, well you can you know, ask to speak to 1547 01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:49.640 the manager owner, uh, and see but anyway, that'd be 1548 01:21:49.680 --> 01:21:52.720 my best guess. I could go into why they don't 1549 01:21:52.800 --> 01:21:56.760 do blade sharpening and stuff. It just basically it doesn't 1550 01:21:57.039 --> 01:21:59.319 doesn't it's not it doesn't pay it. It's hard to 1551 01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:01.760 have somebody that knows what they're doing on hand and things. 1552 01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:04.279 But that might be a good service. I'll bring that 1553 01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:04.920 up and. 1554 01:22:05.119 --> 01:22:09.079 Ask thank you for the call, but for your listeners. 1555 01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:14.119 Hello, yeah, I'm here, I gotta I gotta run for 1556 01:22:14.159 --> 01:22:14.800 your listeners. 1557 01:22:14.840 --> 01:22:17.520 It's a good idea to remind them to have those 1558 01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:19.560 laid sharp and the least annually correct. 1559 01:22:20.439 --> 01:22:22.680 Yes, that's a good point. Hey, Fred, thank you for 1560 01:22:22.760 --> 01:22:25.119 your call. I appreciate that. Evelyn and Katie you'll be 1561 01:22:25.159 --> 01:22:33.760 first up when we come back from break. You know, 1562 01:22:33.960 --> 01:22:36.640 it's it's just the same that Tina Turner can't bring 1563 01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:38.239 a little bit of energy to your user. 1564 01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:41.359 What I'm saying, love that. 1565 01:22:42.520 --> 01:22:44.640 All right, We're going to run out here and talk 1566 01:22:44.680 --> 01:22:48.520 to Evelyn in Katie first thing this segment. Hey, Evelyn, 1567 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:49.640 welcome to garden Line. 1568 01:22:50.359 --> 01:22:51.319 Good morning, Skip. 1569 01:22:51.680 --> 01:22:53.920 I have two quick questions for you, Well, I think 1570 01:22:53.920 --> 01:22:57.000 they're quick. I have some stone fruit trees and I'm 1571 01:22:57.039 --> 01:22:59.479 trying to get ahead of the bugs that get on 1572 01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:03.840 and lay those eggs whatever they put those worms in them. 1573 01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:06.159 So I'm trying to know. You want to know when 1574 01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:09.039 it's the best time to spray, and what should I 1575 01:23:09.199 --> 01:23:12.399 use on these trees to prevent that if possible? 1576 01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:16.079 All right, well as far as what there are different 1577 01:23:16.119 --> 01:23:19.000 products out there labeled for insect control on fruit trees, 1578 01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:21.960 and so depending on where you go to your shopping 1579 01:23:22.600 --> 01:23:24.239 you're at in Katie, got a couple of good Ace 1580 01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:26.399 hardware stores out there by you. 1581 01:23:26.039 --> 01:23:29.079 You've got the. 1582 01:23:27.960 --> 01:23:31.800 Nelson Water Gardens out there by. Wherever you go, just 1583 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:35.000 ask them for an insecticide labeled for fruit trees, and 1584 01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:37.680 not a horticultural oil, not an oil or a soap 1585 01:23:37.760 --> 01:23:42.680 or anything, but an insecticide that has a bug killing 1586 01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:47.000 product in it. And the time to spray is very critical. 1587 01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:50.800 It's a good thing you asked the question. These pests 1588 01:23:50.840 --> 01:23:53.399 start attacking toward the end of bloom and they go 1589 01:23:53.479 --> 01:23:55.600 all the way up until almost the time you're picking 1590 01:23:55.640 --> 01:23:59.239 the fruit. So once at least three fourths of the 1591 01:23:59.279 --> 01:24:02.159 blooms have fallen off, you can do the first spray. 1592 01:24:02.199 --> 01:24:04.640 You don't want to kill bees, so let those blooms 1593 01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:07.920 fall off and then you can begin that spray, but 1594 01:24:08.039 --> 01:24:09.680 right away, and you may have to do it again 1595 01:24:09.720 --> 01:24:11.760 a couple of weeks later, and maybe a couple of 1596 01:24:11.760 --> 01:24:14.439 weeks later. It just depends on how much pressure you have. 1597 01:24:14.920 --> 01:24:18.600 That's an insect called the plum curculio. So any kind 1598 01:24:18.640 --> 01:24:22.079 of stone fruit like plums and peaches and nectarines, they're 1599 01:24:22.119 --> 01:24:24.880 going to attack those. And they do. They lay their 1600 01:24:24.880 --> 01:24:27.439 egg under a little flap in the fruit skin when 1601 01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:31.239 it's still small, and that larva tunnels down to the 1602 01:24:31.279 --> 01:24:33.399 seed and there you have the worm in the peach. 1603 01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:35.600 It's okay then. 1604 01:24:35.880 --> 01:24:38.880 And my second question is that I have some of 1605 01:24:38.920 --> 01:24:43.159 my older fruit trees. I have this. It looks like 1606 01:24:43.239 --> 01:24:45.800 some kind of growth, looks like moss or something. Should 1607 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:48.920 I scrape that off? Is it killing my tree? Or 1608 01:24:49.119 --> 01:24:50.159 is it natural? 1609 01:24:50.319 --> 01:24:51.199 Or what is it? 1610 01:24:52.399 --> 01:24:55.640 Can you describe it to me the shape, the size, 1611 01:24:55.640 --> 01:24:57.199 and the color. 1612 01:24:57.800 --> 01:25:01.239 It's like a gray color. I think I heard one 1613 01:25:01.319 --> 01:25:04.319 time that it's called I may not be pronounced its right, 1614 01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:09.359 lichen or something like that, lichen or something like that. 1615 01:25:08.720 --> 01:25:13.239 That's what it is. Lichen, that's correct. Lichen isn't a 1616 01:25:13.479 --> 01:25:16.960 parasite of the plant. It grows on the plant. You 1617 01:25:17.119 --> 01:25:20.960 can have lichen on rocks and dead fence posts, so 1618 01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:24.439 it's not taking anything from the plant, but it's a 1619 01:25:24.479 --> 01:25:28.479 sign that the plant probably isn't growing very vigorously, and 1620 01:25:28.520 --> 01:25:31.479 it's also a sign that there's human conditions around it. 1621 01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:35.840 But I would it's not something we spray for on 1622 01:25:35.880 --> 01:25:37.640 fruit trees. If you want to take a little glove 1623 01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:39.439 on your hand, kind of rub some of the if 1624 01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:42.279 it gets real big, rub it off. But mainly it 1625 01:25:42.399 --> 01:25:44.359 just means I need to be you need to be 1626 01:25:44.399 --> 01:25:47.800 pruning those trees during pruning time a little more vigorously, 1627 01:25:48.239 --> 01:25:50.760 and you need to do some fertilization and stuff to 1628 01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:54.239 keep the vigor good, and that that is what the 1629 01:25:54.279 --> 01:25:56.960 tree needs. The goal isn't to get rid of the lichen. 1630 01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:01.520 Okay, Dan, Okay, great, okay, do those things. 1631 01:26:01.800 --> 01:26:05.479 Thank you all right, Thank you appreciate calling on Evelyn. 1632 01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:07.479 I don't charge for advice on garden line, but I 1633 01:26:07.520 --> 01:26:10.000 do expect to see half of those peaches at the 1634 01:26:10.119 --> 01:26:10.800 radio station. 1635 01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:11.920 We'll call it even. 1636 01:26:11.800 --> 01:26:14.079 Okay, I'll bring you quite a few of them. And 1637 01:26:14.199 --> 01:26:16.760 also this year I planted a fruit cocktail tree, so 1638 01:26:16.800 --> 01:26:19.920 I cannot wait. So if I have a oh my gosh, 1639 01:26:19.960 --> 01:26:22.319 there you come by you okay, thank you? 1640 01:26:22.359 --> 01:26:27.439 All right, now I'm joking about that. I'd say that 1641 01:26:27.479 --> 01:26:29.399 to Evelyn. Everybody will don't be showing up at the 1642 01:26:29.439 --> 01:26:32.319 station with you know, I guess everybody else their would 1643 01:26:32.319 --> 01:26:34.920 like it. By the time I got there, there wouldn't 1644 01:26:34.920 --> 01:26:39.479 be any left, all right. Hey, our phone number seven 1645 01:26:39.520 --> 01:26:42.239 one three two one two k t r H seven 1646 01:26:42.279 --> 01:26:45.359 one three two one two k t r H. Have 1647 01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:49.319 you been to Jgees Garden Center? You know rages hidden 1648 01:26:49.319 --> 01:26:51.880 gardens is what they call it. Uh Horay has got 1649 01:26:51.920 --> 01:26:54.399 a new shipment of roses. In got some beautiful ones. 1650 01:26:54.399 --> 01:26:57.600 One it's a white Flora bunda, which means it has 1651 01:26:57.640 --> 01:27:01.039 clusters of blooms called iceberg. It does and get really huge. 1652 01:27:01.399 --> 01:27:04.159 It's a manerly bush, and it's got a lot of 1653 01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:07.119 good disease resistance. And you know white is a color too, 1654 01:27:07.319 --> 01:27:10.079 and it can be really beautiful on a landscape. Of course, 1655 01:27:10.079 --> 01:27:12.279 He's got a lot of other kinds of roses there. 1656 01:27:12.319 --> 01:27:15.680 He's got a good shipment. By the way, on Centris. 1657 01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:18.960 This is the last weekend that they're going to have 1658 01:27:19.159 --> 01:27:23.079 their meyer lemons on sal for only twenty five bucks. 1659 01:27:23.720 --> 01:27:25.479 So if you're looking for a Meyer lemon, which is 1660 01:27:25.560 --> 01:27:28.840 kind of the standard lemon we plan around here because 1661 01:27:28.880 --> 01:27:31.560 it grows well and it just does well. It's got 1662 01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:33.840 a little bit of cold heartiness too, which is great 1663 01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:37.840 for citrus. But go by there check out the folks 1664 01:27:37.880 --> 01:27:40.800 at Jorges Hidden Gardens, which the folks basically means Jorge 1665 01:27:40.920 --> 01:27:43.560 and his wife run that place and they do a 1666 01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:47.399 great job at it. And when you're going by Horaees 1667 01:27:47.439 --> 01:27:52.159 Hidden Gardens, his winter hours that he has are Friday's 1668 01:27:52.319 --> 01:27:56.319 from nine to three pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 1669 01:27:56.399 --> 01:27:58.319 eight to four. He'll change out as we get a 1670 01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:01.159 little in the spring, but not Friday ninety three, Saturday 1671 01:28:01.159 --> 01:28:03.560 and Sunday eight to four. By the way, they are 1672 01:28:03.600 --> 01:28:09.600 down there in down south of the Houston area, and 1673 01:28:09.920 --> 01:28:14.840 it's an eleventh excuse me, eleven man. I'm looking at 1674 01:28:14.880 --> 01:28:19.159 seventeen and saying eleven one seven seven two one Elizabeth 1675 01:28:19.199 --> 01:28:22.119 Street in Alvin, just south the highway six one seven 1676 01:28:22.199 --> 01:28:24.800 seven Elizabeth Street and Alvin. So if you're listening to 1677 01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:28.279 me from Alvin and Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Algo al 1678 01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:32.399 Gooa Arcadia, Alta Loma, this is the Backyard Garden Center 1679 01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:38.640 right there, Jogeshedon Gardens, Go and check those out. Or 1680 01:28:38.680 --> 01:28:41.640 he's a great guy too, by the way, very enthusiastic, 1681 01:28:42.079 --> 01:28:46.279 very very nice, nice fella to work with. He's got 1682 01:28:46.279 --> 01:28:48.720 great landscape trees too, by the way, if you need 1683 01:28:48.760 --> 01:28:50.479 a kind of shrub or tree down there, he's got 1684 01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:54.920 a great selection of those. Speaking of trees, uh, there 1685 01:28:54.960 --> 01:28:58.520 is a product called the three sixty Tree Stabilizer three 1686 01:28:58.680 --> 01:29:02.479 sixty Tree stable. What you do with that product is 1687 01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:07.000 you attach it to a post and then to your tree. 1688 01:29:07.079 --> 01:29:11.720 It's a stiff like a plastic stiffed arm that is 1689 01:29:12.000 --> 01:29:14.319 very very strong and lasts a long time. It's got 1690 01:29:14.439 --> 01:29:18.000 soft connectors. One that's even made on one end for 1691 01:29:18.119 --> 01:29:20.479 the t posts, but it could be a wooden post 1692 01:29:20.520 --> 01:29:22.920 as well. The other end is a soft strap to 1693 01:29:22.960 --> 01:29:25.359 go around your tree. You want to set it where 1694 01:29:25.399 --> 01:29:27.880 it's loose and it allows a little bit of movement 1695 01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:31.479 in that trunk. Movement creates strength. You tie a tree 1696 01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:35.680 trunk down without any movement. Tight tied down, it's not 1697 01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:37.600 going to develop the strength of the trunk is if 1698 01:29:37.640 --> 01:29:40.199 you allow a little movement, just a little bit. And 1699 01:29:40.239 --> 01:29:43.079 you're going to find these at places like RCW nurseries. 1700 01:29:43.079 --> 01:29:45.159 A Jorge has them down a horaries, hid and gardens. 1701 01:29:45.199 --> 01:29:49.279 I'm just talking about that. Seeing a malt down South 1702 01:29:49.479 --> 01:29:52.239 also has those. You can find them, Buchanons and arborgate 1703 01:29:52.279 --> 01:29:54.399 and plants for all seasons, a lot of other great 1704 01:29:54.760 --> 01:29:58.239 locations around the Houston area. But don't plant a tree 1705 01:29:58.279 --> 01:30:02.319 without getting a three sixty tree stabilizer. It will last. 1706 01:30:02.359 --> 01:30:04.279 And you go, well, I just want one tree, Well, 1707 01:30:04.479 --> 01:30:06.840 loan it to your neighbor, loaning to a family, remember whatever, 1708 01:30:07.199 --> 01:30:10.319 But get you a three sixty tree stabilizer. Getting that 1709 01:30:10.399 --> 01:30:14.319 tree stable and well, you know, loosely anchored in the ground, 1710 01:30:14.359 --> 01:30:19.159 there is an important part of having it established quick 1711 01:30:19.439 --> 01:30:24.359 and strong, and you want both of those. Let's see, 1712 01:30:24.399 --> 01:30:28.520 we're going to go now to Joel and Katie. Hello Joel, 1713 01:30:28.560 --> 01:30:29.640 welcome to garden Line. 1714 01:30:30.840 --> 01:30:36.079 How are you doing. Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, question, 1715 01:30:36.279 --> 01:30:40.000 I have a plumera plant. It's about the stems about 1716 01:30:40.039 --> 01:30:44.399 two and a half feet and it's in a potter 1717 01:30:45.479 --> 01:30:47.880 in a pot And for this last coal snap out 1718 01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:52.479 here in Katie, I put my plants in the garage. 1719 01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:55.399 Over the course of the last couple of weeks, they 1720 01:30:55.439 --> 01:31:01.159 noticed there's a blackness that's developed along the leaves and 1721 01:31:02.119 --> 01:31:03.720 basically it's killing those leaves. 1722 01:31:03.920 --> 01:31:04.920 What can I do about that? 1723 01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:09.119 Yeah, you know it could be. You know, you could 1724 01:31:09.119 --> 01:31:12.039 add cold weather on it. You could sometimes there's like 1725 01:31:12.119 --> 01:31:15.560 a bacterial infection or something that'll kill a leaf. But 1726 01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:19.239 I doubt it's the ladder thing I said there, Although 1727 01:31:19.239 --> 01:31:21.760 it could be. I would just as soon as we 1728 01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:25.000 get some warm weather, get it outside. Plumerias are very 1729 01:31:25.079 --> 01:31:27.800 unhappy with the weather we're having now. Even in your garage. 1730 01:31:27.840 --> 01:31:31.159 It's too chilly for a plumeria to be super happy. 1731 01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:34.479 So I think it'll be okay, just just get you know, 1732 01:31:34.640 --> 01:31:36.720 those leaves come off, just pull them off and then 1733 01:31:37.520 --> 01:31:41.079 get you a However you're going to plant it, you're 1734 01:31:41.079 --> 01:31:42.720 going to go in a container. You're going to go 1735 01:31:42.920 --> 01:31:45.079 in the ground outside. 1736 01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:47.560 No, I'm going to keep in a container for a 1737 01:31:47.600 --> 01:31:48.560 little bit longer. 1738 01:31:49.800 --> 01:31:52.920 Okay, good, good, Well, when when you can get it 1739 01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:55.680 some warm sunshine, do that? You know, if we have 1740 01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:59.680 some eighty degrees this week, almost, let's see you're done. 1741 01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:02.640 In case you might admit a there that kind of 1742 01:32:02.720 --> 01:32:06.359 weather will give you make it a little bit happy, 1743 01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:09.520 and get it some good quality sunlight. But otherwise, don't 1744 01:32:09.520 --> 01:32:12.399 worry about it. People hang They pull up plumerias and 1745 01:32:12.479 --> 01:32:14.159 shake the soil off the roots and hang them in 1746 01:32:14.159 --> 01:32:17.439 the garage from a rafter all winter time. They just 1747 01:32:17.520 --> 01:32:21.039 they go completely bare and dormant. Plumerias are pretty tough plants. 1748 01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:22.319 And I think here's gonna be all right. 1749 01:32:23.680 --> 01:32:26.399 Thanks for the advice. Appreciate it, you. 1750 01:32:26.520 --> 01:32:30.159 Bet, you bet, Joel, thanks a lot, Thanks a lot. Hey, 1751 01:32:30.199 --> 01:32:34.640 if we got any Plumeria Society folks that are listening, 1752 01:32:34.640 --> 01:32:37.279 and I know we got folks that listen, feel free 1753 01:32:37.319 --> 01:32:38.920 to call in about that. You may have some other 1754 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:41.760 thoughts on that one. Certainly welcome that as well. 1755 01:32:42.399 --> 01:32:42.520 Uh. 1756 01:32:43.319 --> 01:32:48.479 Microlife fertilizers, they have so many options, from granular to 1757 01:32:48.600 --> 01:32:54.039 products that are liquid that you would drench your plants with. 1758 01:32:54.560 --> 01:32:58.279 Microlife has a huge line of products. Best selling organic 1759 01:32:58.319 --> 01:33:02.640 fertilizers in the Houston area Microlife products. So you're going 1760 01:33:02.720 --> 01:33:07.840 to have some quality stuff that doesn't happen, you know, automatically. 1761 01:33:08.439 --> 01:33:11.600 I was talking earlier, someone wanted we're talking about liquid 1762 01:33:11.600 --> 01:33:14.520 for starting your plant seedlings and getting them going, give 1763 01:33:14.560 --> 01:33:18.520 them a little boost. And Biomatrix is an orange label. 1764 01:33:18.600 --> 01:33:21.640 It's a seven to one three fertilizer, and it you 1765 01:33:21.680 --> 01:33:24.359 dilute it down, dilute it well down. If you're talking 1766 01:33:24.359 --> 01:33:26.560 about little seedlings, if you're talking about house plants and 1767 01:33:26.600 --> 01:33:29.840 outdoor plants and stuff, you're not diluting it as much. 1768 01:33:30.399 --> 01:33:35.760 But Biomatrix Orange label it's outstanding. I mentioned earlier they 1769 01:33:35.800 --> 01:33:38.000 have the Ocean Harvest that's a four to two three 1770 01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:43.239 organic sea fish based and then the Microlife super Seaweed 1771 01:33:43.319 --> 01:33:46.640 seaweed based. Mix that Ocean Harvest with the super seaweed 1772 01:33:46.680 --> 01:33:50.960 and you've got an outstanding product to spray on plant 1773 01:33:51.000 --> 01:33:53.640 foliage to get those little things growing, to use as 1774 01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:56.159 a foli your feet outdoors, or to drench in the 1775 01:33:56.239 --> 01:34:00.520 soil for a fertilizer for those young growing plants as well. 1776 01:34:00.640 --> 01:34:00.960 Well. 1777 01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:06.880 I'm hitting the hard break here for another break, Philip 1778 01:34:06.920 --> 01:34:09.359 and Magnolia, you will be the very first up when 1779 01:34:09.399 --> 01:34:11.720 we come back from this break. In the meantime, Owner, 1780 01:34:11.760 --> 01:34:15.680 remind you of the website Gardening with Skip dot Com. 1781 01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:18.079 When you go to Gardening with Skip dot com, you're 1782 01:34:18.079 --> 01:34:20.399 going to find all these things I keep talking about 1783 01:34:20.439 --> 01:34:23.960 that are written to help you out. I even put 1784 01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:27.119 something up on pasteurizing soil. Maybe we'll talk about that 1785 01:34:27.159 --> 01:34:29.159 when we come back, all right, I'll be right back. 1786 01:34:29.199 --> 01:34:29.800 Folks. 1787 01:34:30.079 --> 01:34:34.880 Thank you, hey, welcome back to Garden Line. Thanks for 1788 01:34:34.960 --> 01:34:37.359 joining us today. 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What's up? 1826 01:36:28.399 --> 01:36:32.199 Put a yard in probably about two years ago with 1827 01:36:32.439 --> 01:36:35.680 new set set Augustine before ten, and it's done. Roll 1828 01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:38.359 well in part lined and during the seasons like maybe 1829 01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:42.119 part lined, but right there there fall I started getting 1830 01:36:42.399 --> 01:36:46.600 perfectly round s brown circles, and they started to go 1831 01:36:46.680 --> 01:36:50.760 with different areas of the yard. And okay, treated I 1832 01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:53.000 treated it with try said spray, But I don't know 1833 01:36:53.119 --> 01:36:57.760 if there's grubs or chits bugs. All right, did I 1834 01:36:57.840 --> 01:37:01.600 treat it right? But partalized also and got a good 1835 01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:04.119 rain on it before my winter. But I need to 1836 01:37:04.199 --> 01:37:06.640 know when my grass starts coming back, did I get 1837 01:37:06.760 --> 01:37:08.079 rid of it or what I needed to get rid 1838 01:37:08.079 --> 01:37:10.199 of the brown lane perfectly circle? 1839 01:37:10.279 --> 01:37:13.640 All right, Philip, Yeah, those rings are brown patch. They're 1840 01:37:13.640 --> 01:37:16.640 also called take all excuse me, brown patch or large patch. 1841 01:37:17.439 --> 01:37:19.920 They typically happen in the fall, they can happen all 1842 01:37:19.960 --> 01:37:22.520 through the winter, and they can happen in early spring too. 1843 01:37:23.560 --> 01:37:26.640 If you've got ongoing problems with that, you can put 1844 01:37:26.640 --> 01:37:30.439 a fungicide down now all the way into early March 1845 01:37:30.520 --> 01:37:34.079 if you need to, uh to fight that particular disease. 1846 01:37:34.399 --> 01:37:37.439 The good news is that when the weather warms up, 1847 01:37:37.600 --> 01:37:40.199 those spots are gonna go away and they're gonna regreen 1848 01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:42.880 because the grass isn't dead, it's just the leaves that 1849 01:37:42.960 --> 01:37:45.920 are dead. On the on the runners, so you can 1850 01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:49.560 do nothing and it will it will regreen, or you 1851 01:37:49.600 --> 01:37:51.640 can use a funger side. Now, I've got a schedule 1852 01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:56.199 online at my website Gardening with Skip dot com, and 1853 01:37:56.319 --> 01:38:00.680 it's a January through December. The insects, the disease, the 1854 01:38:00.760 --> 01:38:03.279 weeds you want to prevent, the weeds that are already 1855 01:38:03.279 --> 01:38:04.800 growing that you want to kill, and it gives you 1856 01:38:04.880 --> 01:38:08.079 the organic and synthetic options that the whole nine yards 1857 01:38:08.159 --> 01:38:10.079 is right there and it's free to look at on 1858 01:38:10.239 --> 01:38:12.680 the computer or download if you want to print it out. 1859 01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:16.640 But that's the gardeningwith Skip dot com and it'll give 1860 01:38:16.680 --> 01:38:20.640 you the products that you can use for that brown 1861 01:38:20.720 --> 01:38:24.560 patch of control or anything that's attacking your line. 1862 01:38:24.880 --> 01:38:26.720 Okay, good deal. 1863 01:38:26.960 --> 01:38:27.359 Check it out. 1864 01:38:27.359 --> 01:38:30.520 Thank you so much, Thanks sir. I appreciate the call. 1865 01:38:30.760 --> 01:38:34.079 We're going to go now to mail and Carmi and 1866 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:35.479 hey Mel, welcome to garden Line. 1867 01:38:36.520 --> 01:38:37.359 Oh thank you Skip. 1868 01:38:37.399 --> 01:38:38.880 It's a pleasure to talk to you. 1869 01:38:39.640 --> 01:38:41.920 Certainly doing love your shows. 1870 01:38:41.960 --> 01:38:43.560 And I had a quick question. 1871 01:38:43.680 --> 01:38:46.159 I help, and I hope it won't be what I'm 1872 01:38:46.159 --> 01:38:48.439 thinking you're going to tell me, and that is I 1873 01:38:48.600 --> 01:38:52.880 planted some loa blallly pine trees in my yard about 1874 01:38:54.399 --> 01:38:58.560 the last spring winter, and they were doing great all summer, 1875 01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:04.319 and this fall or maybe two months ago, I noticed 1876 01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:07.039 we were getting a lot of deer coming in and 1877 01:39:08.239 --> 01:39:11.119 we had a young buck who just a small rack. 1878 01:39:11.640 --> 01:39:15.680 He came and just decimated them by scraping the bark 1879 01:39:16.119 --> 01:39:18.880 off of the young pine trees. 1880 01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:21.479 And yeah, what do I do? 1881 01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:24.279 Are they gone now? I mean there's still green on 1882 01:39:24.399 --> 01:39:27.159 top there still seemed to be hanging on. But can 1883 01:39:27.239 --> 01:39:30.479 I save them or just trimm below the bark? 1884 01:39:31.319 --> 01:39:31.520 Well? 1885 01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:38.000 Well, first of all, you know you can eat venison. Yeah, seriously, 1886 01:39:39.680 --> 01:39:44.159 joking aside, joking aside. If they just knocked part of 1887 01:39:44.239 --> 01:39:47.239 the bark off going around the tree, the tree will 1888 01:39:47.319 --> 01:39:51.640 probably survive and close gradually close that wound back over. 1889 01:39:52.159 --> 01:39:54.199 If they've taken it like two thirds of the way 1890 01:39:54.239 --> 01:39:57.640 around the tree and stuff, there's no future in those. 1891 01:39:58.199 --> 01:40:01.840 They will not reach sprout. They pines aren't aren't able 1892 01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:05.279 to re sprout. Other trees, you could chow them off, waste, 1893 01:40:05.520 --> 01:40:07.479 chop them off waist high with a chains on, they'd 1894 01:40:07.520 --> 01:40:07.960 re sprout. 1895 01:40:08.399 --> 01:40:08.960 Not a pine. 1896 01:40:09.720 --> 01:40:12.840 So, uh, just have to look at the extent of 1897 01:40:12.920 --> 01:40:15.039 the damage, because what's going to have to happen is 1898 01:40:15.079 --> 01:40:17.800 if there's a living strip of bart from the base 1899 01:40:17.880 --> 01:40:20.960 to the top that the deer didn't kill, then that 1900 01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:24.399 can start to slowly creep back around the tree. And 1901 01:40:24.600 --> 01:40:28.960 only young tree there's it's reasonable to think that that 1902 01:40:29.159 --> 01:40:32.760 might happen. But if it's you know, over halfway around 1903 01:40:32.960 --> 01:40:34.840 or something, I don't think. I think you'd be better 1904 01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:39.439 off starting over. And then get you some tall like 1905 01:40:40.359 --> 01:40:44.760 wire fencing, like a two by four size holes in 1906 01:40:44.840 --> 01:40:47.279 the wire, you know, something real sturdy wire, Put some 1907 01:40:47.479 --> 01:40:50.359 teepots in and just make a little ring around it, 1908 01:40:50.520 --> 01:40:52.199 and that'll keep them away from doing that. 1909 01:40:54.640 --> 01:40:56.880 All right, Well, it's not what I wanted to hear, Skip, 1910 01:40:57.039 --> 01:40:58.319 but I'll. 1911 01:40:58.920 --> 01:40:59.239 I know it. 1912 01:40:59.399 --> 01:41:04.399 I know it, all right, Well right, thank you, you 1913 01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:05.640 bet you take care. 1914 01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:06.319 All right. 1915 01:41:06.439 --> 01:41:10.399 Now we're gonna let's see, we're gonna run to I 1916 01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:11.359 left the gate open. 1917 01:41:12.000 --> 01:41:12.399 There we go. 1918 01:41:12.600 --> 01:41:15.479 Okay, we're gonna go out to Katie and talk to Dennis. Hey, Dennis, 1919 01:41:15.520 --> 01:41:16.399 welcome to garden Line. 1920 01:41:17.239 --> 01:41:20.000 Yeah, well, thank you, and good morning to you, Skiet. 1921 01:41:20.279 --> 01:41:24.760 Two questions in Katie, what USDA zone are we? And 1922 01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:29.479 I'm looking for some recommendations of varieties of peaches and 1923 01:41:29.680 --> 01:41:31.520 plums that would grow in the zone. 1924 01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:35.359 Okay, I believe you're a you're gonna be eight B 1925 01:41:35.680 --> 01:41:37.760 up there, but I need to check. You're gonna be 1926 01:41:37.840 --> 01:41:39.479 kind of close to the line on that. 1927 01:41:40.199 --> 01:41:40.319 Uh. 1928 01:41:40.600 --> 01:41:43.000 But as far as peaches and plums are concerned, there's 1929 01:41:43.000 --> 01:41:45.800 a lot of good varieties. You go to a garden center. 1930 01:41:45.880 --> 01:41:47.479 You're in Katy, so I'm gonna give you a handful. 1931 01:41:47.520 --> 01:41:51.000 Around your area. You've got Nelson Water Gardens and nursery 1932 01:41:51.079 --> 01:41:53.640 right there. You've got if you go south, you got 1933 01:41:53.800 --> 01:41:57.680 enchanted gardens down south toward Richmond Rosenberg. 1934 01:41:58.359 --> 01:41:58.479 Uh. 1935 01:41:58.680 --> 01:42:01.000 And both of those are going to carry things that 1936 01:42:01.159 --> 01:42:04.760 grow in your area. So you can go online to 1937 01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:08.520 the Aggie Horticulture website look at the fruit tree section, 1938 01:42:08.840 --> 01:42:12.920 and there's a free publication on peaches that lists some varieties. 1939 01:42:13.479 --> 01:42:15.680 But I would say just go to your local garden 1940 01:42:15.760 --> 01:42:18.560 center those places both and know what they're talking about. 1941 01:42:18.600 --> 01:42:21.000 They're going to only carry things that grow in your area, 1942 01:42:21.600 --> 01:42:23.760 and that would probably be the best way to go about. 1943 01:42:23.560 --> 01:42:25.760 It, Okay. 1944 01:42:26.000 --> 01:42:28.760 And would they have varieties of peaches that I know 1945 01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:32.479 they ripen at different times early spring and late spring, 1946 01:42:32.560 --> 01:42:35.680 which would be preferable. So I could if all goes well, 1947 01:42:35.800 --> 01:42:38.319 I could get continuous fruit harvests. 1948 01:42:39.640 --> 01:42:40.399 Yes, they should. 1949 01:42:40.800 --> 01:42:43.319 They should have a range, and it is good to 1950 01:42:43.439 --> 01:42:46.079 pick if you're gonna like plant three peaches, don't plant 1951 01:42:46.119 --> 01:42:48.039 three that all ripen at the same time, and that 1952 01:42:48.399 --> 01:42:50.800 they should be able to tell you that. Also, you 1953 01:42:50.840 --> 01:42:52.760 can go online. If you know the varieties, you can 1954 01:42:52.840 --> 01:42:55.439 go online and there's some charts online that show the 1955 01:42:55.640 --> 01:42:58.239 order of ripening of peach varieties. 1956 01:42:58.439 --> 01:42:59.760 You just have to do a search for that. 1957 01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:02.800 All right, thank you, I appreciate it. 1958 01:43:03.319 --> 01:43:06.239 All right, thank you very much. I appreciate appreciate your 1959 01:43:06.279 --> 01:43:12.720 call very much. Uh, listen, Medina products or what you 1960 01:43:12.920 --> 01:43:15.319 need when you're doing this transplanting you're doing right now, 1961 01:43:15.399 --> 01:43:17.840 and that would be like hastro grow six twelve six 1962 01:43:18.039 --> 01:43:22.319 plant food, high quality nitrogen, phosphorus, Potassium's got an extra 1963 01:43:22.439 --> 01:43:25.479 load of potassium to help that plant develop roots. It's 1964 01:43:25.520 --> 01:43:29.439 got Medina soil activator to stimulate biological activity around the 1965 01:43:29.520 --> 01:43:33.039 roots and then humate humic acid which improves sol structure, 1966 01:43:33.199 --> 01:43:36.560 which improves nutrient update. It's got seaweed extracts in it. 1967 01:43:37.159 --> 01:43:40.640 It's all good, it works, and it's not just for transplanting. 1968 01:43:40.720 --> 01:43:42.560 It's just this is the season where a lot of 1969 01:43:42.600 --> 01:43:44.840 people are planning. So if you put a plant in 1970 01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:47.880 the ground, get your watering, can mix it according to 1971 01:43:47.880 --> 01:43:49.840 the label, drench it in. You're not going to burn 1972 01:43:49.880 --> 01:43:53.439 your plants with Medina haster grows six twelve six. Drench 1973 01:43:53.520 --> 01:43:55.960 it into the ground and if you got extra leftover, 1974 01:43:56.159 --> 01:43:58.119 you can use it all year as a folier feed. 1975 01:43:58.199 --> 01:44:00.720 You can use it as a drench. I mean, it's 1976 01:44:00.760 --> 01:44:03.239 good stuff from the folks at Medena and it works, 1977 01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:06.279 and so what more can you ask for than that. 1978 01:44:06.840 --> 01:44:08.720 I'm gonna take a little quick break here. I got 1979 01:44:08.760 --> 01:44:10.960 a few folks on the line that we'll get to 1980 01:44:11.199 --> 01:44:15.199 right when we come back. All right, welcome back to 1981 01:44:15.319 --> 01:44:17.640 Garden Line. Glad to have you guys with us today. 1982 01:44:18.359 --> 01:44:21.720 Lots of things we can talk about and calls and whatnot. Hey, 1983 01:44:21.840 --> 01:44:26.239 if you are south and south and west of the 1984 01:44:26.279 --> 01:44:29.800 Houston area, we're talking about from Missouri City and sugar 1985 01:44:29.920 --> 01:44:32.319 Land all the way across to Pearland and down a 1986 01:44:32.399 --> 01:44:35.880 Manvil on Highway six. 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It's 1998 01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:13.680 one of the best places in the world. They do aeration, 1999 01:45:14.039 --> 01:45:16.720 they do fertilization, compost, top dressing, all of that on 2000 01:45:16.800 --> 01:45:20.920 your lawn. Bbturfpros dot Com from Sugarland in Missouri City, 2001 01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:23.920 across the Paarland in Manville and that whole region down there. 2002 01:45:24.560 --> 01:45:25.199 They'll serve you. 2003 01:45:25.479 --> 01:45:29.399 Bbturfpros dot Com one of the best things you can 2004 01:45:29.479 --> 01:45:32.720 do for your lawn. I'm going to go now to Tomball. 2005 01:45:32.760 --> 01:45:35.119 We're going to talk to John. Hello, John, welcome to 2006 01:45:35.199 --> 01:45:35.640 garden Line. 2007 01:45:36.560 --> 01:45:40.600 Good morning ship. Quick question for you. I've got your 2008 01:45:40.680 --> 01:45:46.079 typical what right with about nine thousand square feet and 2009 01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:52.239 I want privacy. So I was looking at Eagleson's Eagleson hollies. Okay, 2010 01:45:52.319 --> 01:45:56.319 I don't have a real large, wide flour bitch. Should 2011 01:45:56.359 --> 01:45:58.560 I get a tree form or bush form? 2012 01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:00.680 You see? 2013 01:46:01.479 --> 01:46:02.439 What would you suggest? 2014 01:46:02.600 --> 01:46:06.000 Well, it kind of depends on what you want. If 2015 01:46:06.000 --> 01:46:08.119 you want foliage all the way to the ground, that's fine. 2016 01:46:08.199 --> 01:46:10.399 If you've got some shrubs or in front of those 2017 01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:13.800 eaglestones that are shorter, then it doesn't matter as much. 2018 01:46:14.359 --> 01:46:17.079 But I would it's up to you. 2019 01:46:17.479 --> 01:46:19.479 This one is one hundred percent up to you whether 2020 01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:21.800 you go tree or shrub. But Eagleston's a good holly. 2021 01:46:22.239 --> 01:46:24.680 Just remember hollyes need good drainage, so you need a 2022 01:46:24.720 --> 01:46:27.239 well drained bed. If that means building up a mound 2023 01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:30.359 a little bit, do it. And the first three years 2024 01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:33.479 of a holly's life, I would focus on hand watering 2025 01:46:34.079 --> 01:46:37.720 and not just depend on a sprinkler system. A lot 2026 01:46:37.760 --> 01:46:41.119 of things can block sprinkler water from reaching all the 2027 01:46:41.239 --> 01:46:43.840 root zone, and you don't want that. When you handwater, 2028 01:46:43.960 --> 01:46:45.520 you go all the way around the plant and give 2029 01:46:45.520 --> 01:46:47.760 it a good soaking, and the roots are all going 2030 01:46:47.840 --> 01:46:50.479 to be close to the base where that root ball 2031 01:46:50.479 --> 01:46:53.920 went in the ground and it's gradually getting out, So 2032 01:46:54.159 --> 01:46:57.640 always focus your watering around underneath the plant there at 2033 01:46:57.760 --> 01:46:59.039 least for the first couple of years. 2034 01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:03.640 Okay, would it be easy to maintain I wanted to 2035 01:47:03.840 --> 01:47:07.800 trim on the bottom side to keep it or I 2036 01:47:07.840 --> 01:47:10.760 can maintain it as far as not getting so wide. 2037 01:47:11.640 --> 01:47:14.119 As far as depth, yes, you can do that. Yes, 2038 01:47:14.239 --> 01:47:14.680 you can do that. 2039 01:47:14.760 --> 01:47:16.800 You just want to do it often because if you 2040 01:47:16.920 --> 01:47:18.560 let it grow I'm going to be exaggerated. If you 2041 01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:20.119 let it grow a foot out and then you cut 2042 01:47:20.159 --> 01:47:22.840 it foot back, you're going to be cutting back into 2043 01:47:22.880 --> 01:47:25.079 an area where there aren't any leaves, and it's going 2044 01:47:25.159 --> 01:47:28.399 to be twiggy and it'll re sprout. But yeah, so 2045 01:47:29.199 --> 01:47:32.239 regular printing so that you're not having to cut too 2046 01:47:32.319 --> 01:47:35.279 many inches off those shoots, that's that's what you want 2047 01:47:35.319 --> 01:47:35.840 to focus on. 2048 01:47:35.960 --> 01:47:39.119 Okay, Okay, would you go real quick? 2049 01:47:39.159 --> 01:47:41.880 Would you go four or five feet wide on those? 2050 01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:45.479 Because they grow pretty they're pretty hardy you. 2051 01:47:46.319 --> 01:47:48.159 Yeah, you could do that. It's up to you. 2052 01:47:48.439 --> 01:47:51.359 I mean, when we fight a plant too much, you know, 2053 01:47:51.399 --> 01:47:53.920 when we try to keep a plant half the size 2054 01:47:53.960 --> 01:47:56.680 it wants to be, that's a challenge. Uh, and so 2055 01:47:57.600 --> 01:48:00.399 but you could try four feet and keep it at that. 2056 01:48:00.560 --> 01:48:03.760 I think I think that would be doable. Yep, that'd 2057 01:48:03.800 --> 01:48:08.079 be up to you again on that one. All right, John, Hey, 2058 01:48:08.159 --> 01:48:10.600 thanks for the car. Good luck with those, hope you 2059 01:48:10.680 --> 01:48:13.039 have good success with that. For those of you got 2060 01:48:13.079 --> 01:48:16.680 in Kingwood, Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center, I 2061 01:48:16.720 --> 01:48:18.039 was talking about those just a minute ago. 2062 01:48:18.520 --> 01:48:18.600 Uh. 2063 01:48:18.760 --> 01:48:21.000 They are open seven days a week, and I'm telling 2064 01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:23.439 you those places stay stocked up. 2065 01:48:23.680 --> 01:48:24.640 It is beautiful. 2066 01:48:24.680 --> 01:48:26.800 You know you got there and you know Warrens and 2067 01:48:26.960 --> 01:48:30.600 you need vegetables or herbs or flowers or shrubs, trees, roses, whatever. 2068 01:48:30.960 --> 01:48:33.039 It is a full service garden center and I love 2069 01:48:33.119 --> 01:48:36.680 walking around those. Both Warrens and Kingwood Garden Center are 2070 01:48:36.720 --> 01:48:38.600 fun places. I don't know how one town got two 2071 01:48:38.640 --> 01:48:42.000 great garden centers like that, but you did. Warrens is 2072 01:48:42.079 --> 01:48:45.119 on North Park Drive, Kingwood is on Stone Hollow Drive, 2073 01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:47.960 So both of them are very handy. And again, seven 2074 01:48:48.039 --> 01:48:50.159 days a week. Hey, I just gave you an idea 2075 01:48:50.159 --> 01:48:53.119 of something to do this afternoon or maybe this morning. 2076 01:48:53.479 --> 01:48:55.680 Get out there and enjoy yourself, and you're going to 2077 01:48:55.720 --> 01:48:58.680 find good folks that are interested in helping you. You're 2078 01:48:58.680 --> 01:49:00.960 going to find good products like you hear me mention 2079 01:49:01.439 --> 01:49:05.199 soils products, fertilizer products, and pest management. 2080 01:49:05.680 --> 01:49:06.239 It's all there. 2081 01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:08.840 They stock up and they do a good job of it. 2082 01:49:10.560 --> 01:49:13.319 We're going to head now out to Fullshre, Texas and 2083 01:49:13.399 --> 01:49:15.720 talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome to garden Line. 2084 01:49:16.800 --> 01:49:17.680 Good morning to Skip. 2085 01:49:18.680 --> 01:49:21.399 So we're in a new build house out here in 2086 01:49:21.479 --> 01:49:27.399 Fullshire and last fall we had our bermuda grass top 2087 01:49:27.479 --> 01:49:32.079 dressed and ariated and such and with where we don't 2088 01:49:32.119 --> 01:49:37.159 understand bermuda yet and do you defach it in the 2089 01:49:37.279 --> 01:49:41.279 spring and should we top dress it again this early? 2090 01:49:43.159 --> 01:49:43.279 Uh? 2091 01:49:43.439 --> 01:49:46.359 You de thatch it is needed. The probably the best 2092 01:49:46.560 --> 01:49:48.960 time to do a de thatch would be you know, 2093 01:49:49.079 --> 01:49:50.840 you could do it in the spring time. You can 2094 01:49:50.960 --> 01:49:52.399 you can kind of do it anytime of the year, 2095 01:49:52.439 --> 01:49:55.119 but a lot of people will do that to clean 2096 01:49:55.199 --> 01:49:59.239 things up before that first mowing bermuda. The more often 2097 01:49:59.279 --> 01:50:01.439 you know it, the better it looks. So if you 2098 01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:03.279 let it get tall and then cut it way back, 2099 01:50:03.359 --> 01:50:06.680 you're gonna have some brown twiggy that'll regrain but looks 2100 01:50:06.760 --> 01:50:09.239 bad for a while. So regular mowings import on a 2101 01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:12.479 good sharp mower. That that would be one of the 2102 01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:14.640 secrets to success with bermuda. 2103 01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:19.439 Okay, and then we were looking to plant some trees. 2104 01:50:19.680 --> 01:50:22.239 One of the trees we've chosen is a Chinese French 2105 01:50:22.279 --> 01:50:25.199 tree because we have five rooftops we're. 2106 01:50:25.119 --> 01:50:30.800 Trying to mask. But we okay, limited limited yard space. 2107 01:50:31.279 --> 01:50:34.720 So what are some other small canopy trees that would 2108 01:50:34.720 --> 01:50:37.760 give us a little a little visual block that would 2109 01:50:37.800 --> 01:50:39.119 complement a Chinese fringe. 2110 01:50:40.960 --> 01:50:43.439 Well, Chinese fringe is great. It's a spring bloomer. So 2111 01:50:43.560 --> 01:50:46.279 if you went in with a tree form of crape myrtle, 2112 01:50:47.079 --> 01:50:51.560 there is a type called oh gosh, I just went blank. 2113 01:50:51.880 --> 01:50:57.119 Natches Natches like Natches Mississippi. It's white blooms, it's very 2114 01:50:57.199 --> 01:51:01.479 disease resistant and has a gorgeous cinnamon exfoliating bark. And 2115 01:51:01.680 --> 01:51:04.079 so you'd have to find somebody that grows it in 2116 01:51:04.119 --> 01:51:06.840 the tree for him, notchz gets it. It'll get a 2117 01:51:06.920 --> 01:51:09.600 thirty feet tall in time. But basically it would be 2118 01:51:09.640 --> 01:51:11.800 a really good tree because it would extend your bloom 2119 01:51:11.880 --> 01:51:14.640 time and it also has good fall color. And there's 2120 01:51:14.640 --> 01:51:15.760 a lot of reasons. 2121 01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:15.880 To like that. 2122 01:51:16.359 --> 01:51:26.640 Like that, plant anything else evergreen, evergreen? My brain just 2123 01:51:26.720 --> 01:51:29.880 drew a blank on trying to them up with one. Yeah, 2124 01:51:30.039 --> 01:51:33.479 right there, I'll think of some if I do, I'll 2125 01:51:33.560 --> 01:51:35.319 just say it on the air. Hey man, thanks a lot. 2126 01:51:35.399 --> 01:51:39.920 I appreciate your coot, you take care all right. Time 2127 01:51:40.159 --> 01:51:43.560 for a break, Russ. You will be first up when 2128 01:51:43.560 --> 01:51:45.319 we come back. I know you've been holding. Thank you 2129 01:51:45.399 --> 01:51:47.760 for being patient. It's just like somebody left the gates 2130 01:51:47.800 --> 01:51:51.199 open and everybody called with per you call. You are 2131 01:51:51.239 --> 01:51:53.279 listening to garden Line. I want to remind you the 2132 01:51:53.399 --> 01:51:57.399 website Gardening with Skip dot com is where I put 2133 01:51:57.640 --> 01:52:00.720 all kinds of helpful things. Right now, if you go 2134 01:52:00.800 --> 01:52:02.640 up there and look at the website, what you're going 2135 01:52:02.680 --> 01:52:06.880 to see. First thing up is Randy Lemon Scholarship. I 2136 01:52:07.640 --> 01:52:10.000 mentioned that again. Just look at it on the website. 2137 01:52:10.279 --> 01:52:12.600 Why not consider donating that. Randy is a great guy, 2138 01:52:12.760 --> 01:52:16.640 serve this area for over twenty five years, and uh 2139 01:52:17.119 --> 01:52:19.800 it's a good cause. It'll also find some other very 2140 01:52:19.840 --> 01:52:23.800 interesting things like quality lighting for growing transplants. 2141 01:52:25.920 --> 01:52:32.159 Welcome to kt r H garden Line with skimp Rickard's shows. 2142 01:52:38.479 --> 01:52:48.239 Just watch him as so many birthdays to Zuppasy. 2143 01:52:54.760 --> 01:52:55.640 Not a sorry. 2144 01:53:02.119 --> 01:53:04.039 Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you 2145 01:53:04.119 --> 01:53:04.439 with us. 2146 01:53:05.840 --> 01:53:06.640 Good to have you with us. 2147 01:53:06.640 --> 01:53:09.239 A Neno and garden Line I'm always saying brown stuff 2148 01:53:09.399 --> 01:53:12.079 before green stuff. What does that mean? That means get 2149 01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:16.359 the soil right. That's the brown stuff, that's soil, that's composts, 2150 01:53:16.520 --> 01:53:20.880 that's fertilizers. Get that right, and then put your plants 2151 01:53:20.880 --> 01:53:23.920 in the ground and that way you have success. Just 2152 01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:26.800 just do that right, don't wait until your plants are 2153 01:53:26.800 --> 01:53:29.439 struggling and then try to Sometimes you know, you can 2154 01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:31.640 fertilize on the top, but you can't go down in 2155 01:53:31.720 --> 01:53:34.199 the soil root system and improve drainage and stuff when 2156 01:53:34.199 --> 01:53:36.640 you got a plant growing on it not fast at 2157 01:53:36.760 --> 01:53:40.600 least well. Nature's Way Resources up in the Conro area, 2158 01:53:41.319 --> 01:53:45.199 they are experts. They really they're the leader in terms 2159 01:53:45.319 --> 01:53:50.359 of when things were when soil became cool. John Ferguson 2160 01:53:50.680 --> 01:53:54.319 and Nature's Way Resources was leading the way and Ian 2161 01:53:54.479 --> 01:53:57.960 his son, who has run their operation now continuing the 2162 01:53:58.119 --> 01:54:00.960 exact same tradition. By the way, did you know that 2163 01:54:01.079 --> 01:54:05.239 Nature's Way Resource is celebrating their thirtieth year anniversary And 2164 01:54:05.319 --> 01:54:07.159 there's a reason, and that's because they're taking care of 2165 01:54:07.199 --> 01:54:09.600 the customers and they're creating quality products. So you go 2166 01:54:09.640 --> 01:54:11.960 to Nature's Way and you're going to find a garden 2167 01:54:12.039 --> 01:54:15.319 center with lots of things like fruit trees and native 2168 01:54:15.359 --> 01:54:17.560 plants are really good on lated plants up there too, 2169 01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:21.159 seasonal vegetables and house plants and everything else. I want 2170 01:54:21.159 --> 01:54:23.399 to remind you that they have the They were the 2171 01:54:23.520 --> 01:54:26.640 creators of rose, soil and leaf more compos that was 2172 01:54:26.760 --> 01:54:30.560 born at Nature's Way, super quality products. But when it 2173 01:54:30.640 --> 01:54:34.319 comes to mulches, medium multius, coarse mulches, double ground mulches, 2174 01:54:34.439 --> 01:54:37.159 mulchus for azaleas, they've got it all. All you got 2175 01:54:37.239 --> 01:54:39.760 to do is give them a call. Nine three six 2176 01:54:40.560 --> 01:54:45.000 three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three 2177 01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:48.680 two one sixty nine ninety or depending on what area 2178 01:54:48.720 --> 01:54:51.720 you're listening in, here's another one nine three six two 2179 01:54:51.840 --> 01:54:56.079 seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven three 2180 01:54:56.159 --> 01:54:59.560 twelve hundred. The phone systems come up in that region's 2181 01:54:59.600 --> 01:55:03.520 kind of different. The way it works anyway, nine twelve 2182 01:55:03.600 --> 01:55:07.399 hundred Nature's way resources. Give them a call and they 2183 01:55:07.439 --> 01:55:11.680 will help you have success. Let's see here. I'm gonna 2184 01:55:11.720 --> 01:55:14.359 go now and we're going to talk to Russ. Russ, 2185 01:55:14.640 --> 01:55:17.000 you must be the most patient caller I've ever had. 2186 01:55:17.119 --> 01:55:19.880 Thank you, sir, Sorry for that weight, but appreciate you 2187 01:55:20.000 --> 01:55:20.319 hanging on. 2188 01:55:21.880 --> 01:55:24.359 Yeah, not a problem. We live up to the Kingwood 2189 01:55:24.399 --> 01:55:28.880 area and have been here for several decades, and we 2190 01:55:29.079 --> 01:55:32.560 used Warrens forever in a day on all our landscaping, 2191 01:55:32.720 --> 01:55:37.000 and now they don't really do landscaping anymore. And uh, 2192 01:55:37.520 --> 01:55:41.760 I was wondering if you had any suggestions for people 2193 01:55:41.840 --> 01:55:45.479 that do work in our area to do some planting 2194 01:55:45.640 --> 01:55:47.960 and redesigning on some of the. 2195 01:55:49.520 --> 01:55:51.079 Areas we have in our yard. 2196 01:55:52.880 --> 01:55:57.840 Yeah. Uh, you know our the folks. I'm almost tighten 2197 01:55:57.920 --> 01:56:00.399 rites puirscapes and they they tend to stay to the 2198 01:56:00.479 --> 01:56:03.439 east of forty five, so you're you're far out. 2199 01:56:03.439 --> 01:56:04.239 Of the area there. 2200 01:56:04.760 --> 01:56:07.439 If you tried talking to Warren's and saying, who do 2201 01:56:07.520 --> 01:56:10.319 you recommend, because they would know the landscapers that are 2202 01:56:10.399 --> 01:56:10.960 in the area. 2203 01:56:11.159 --> 01:56:14.039 Yeah, they didn't recommend anybody. I went to both the 2204 01:56:14.279 --> 01:56:18.079 North Park store and the store that's over here closer 2205 01:56:18.239 --> 01:56:23.000 to Kingwood Drive, and they just didn't want to recommend anybody, honestly. 2206 01:56:23.239 --> 01:56:25.199 So okay, all right, well that's fine. 2207 01:56:25.319 --> 01:56:30.720 We tried one and they they didn't when they realized 2208 01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:33.439 it was Kingwood, they weren't going to come over here either. 2209 01:56:33.359 --> 01:56:33.439 So. 2210 01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:36.920 You think it would be working. I went to the 2211 01:56:37.640 --> 01:56:40.039 Home and Garden show to find somebody or. 2212 01:56:40.119 --> 01:56:41.000 Do you know anybody? 2213 01:56:42.319 --> 01:56:43.920 Well, I mean you could do that, I mean you can. 2214 01:56:44.039 --> 01:56:47.319 You know, you do a search for landscapers in the 2215 01:56:47.399 --> 01:56:49.840 area too. As far as finding somebody that I would, 2216 01:56:49.880 --> 01:56:50.920 I would say these are good. 2217 01:56:50.960 --> 01:56:53.520 I know they're good. I don't have one up in. 2218 01:56:53.600 --> 01:56:57.680 That area, so I wish we did, okay, yeah, to 2219 01:56:57.760 --> 01:56:58.279 get us one. 2220 01:56:58.960 --> 01:56:59.239 I don't. 2221 01:56:59.279 --> 01:57:00.960 I don't have one in that area. When you're looking 2222 01:57:01.000 --> 01:57:05.159 for a landscaper, you know, see if you have any 2223 01:57:05.520 --> 01:57:07.640 friends or neighbors in the area that you like what 2224 01:57:08.359 --> 01:57:10.720 has been done on their yards? I would start there, 2225 01:57:11.439 --> 01:57:13.439 find out how they did you know, they do what 2226 01:57:13.479 --> 01:57:15.279 they say they're going to do? Did they did they 2227 01:57:15.600 --> 01:57:17.359 clean up? Robably take care of things? 2228 01:57:17.479 --> 01:57:20.479 And I would get that route probably on it. 2229 01:57:21.279 --> 01:57:24.359 I don't. I just don't have another suggestion for you 2230 01:57:24.520 --> 01:57:27.479 up there. One other thing, you're not too far from Porter, 2231 01:57:27.920 --> 01:57:31.079 why don't you go to Warren's Rock and Mulch, which 2232 01:57:31.159 --> 01:57:35.279 is up in the Porter area. That's where that soils comes. Yeah, 2233 01:57:35.399 --> 01:57:39.159 and heirloom soils are used by landscapers, and so uh, 2234 01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:42.239 they may have some good suggestions for you. That'd be 2235 01:57:42.359 --> 01:57:46.199 my next suggestion if you're if you're looking, you know, 2236 01:57:46.399 --> 01:57:48.680 for for for someone like that, Hang on one second, 2237 01:57:48.720 --> 01:57:50.439 I'll give you a telephone number or for them. 2238 01:57:51.039 --> 01:57:53.600 Uh, pulled this. 2239 01:57:53.800 --> 01:57:56.640 Up Warrensrock and Mall. It's one two three, Come on, 2240 01:57:56.880 --> 01:57:59.880 let's do it. Okay, there we go Porter the Porter 2241 01:58:00.119 --> 01:58:05.239 location to eight one three five four nineteen fifty two 2242 01:58:05.279 --> 01:58:08.319 eight one three four nineteen fifty they're on on Highway 2243 01:58:08.359 --> 01:58:10.319 fifty nine on the right side as you're heading up 2244 01:58:10.680 --> 01:58:11.239 toward Porter. 2245 01:58:11.560 --> 01:58:13.640 Yeah, I know exactly where they're at. 2246 01:58:13.760 --> 01:58:14.039 Thank you. 2247 01:58:14.159 --> 01:58:17.600 I'll give them a call. Appreciate it, you bet, you bet? 2248 01:58:17.840 --> 01:58:19.640 Good? Good luck with that. Thank you. 2249 01:58:20.520 --> 01:58:26.600 Oh here, Yeah, let's take a call from David and Tomball. Hey, David, 2250 01:58:26.840 --> 01:58:27.840 welcome to garden Line. 2251 01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:29.840 Well, good morning, sir. 2252 01:58:30.039 --> 01:58:30.199 Hey. 2253 01:58:31.039 --> 01:58:33.760 I've got some high dranges that look like it's just 2254 01:58:34.279 --> 01:58:36.880 got stick sticking up by them with no leaves on 2255 01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:39.520 them at all. And my instinct wants to just cut 2256 01:58:39.560 --> 01:58:41.680 them all the way back down to the ground. Should 2257 01:58:41.720 --> 01:58:43.159 I do that or can I do that? 2258 01:58:44.600 --> 01:58:46.359 Well, they'll come back out if you do that. If 2259 01:58:46.399 --> 01:58:49.000 you got anything living above ground, I'd probably leave it. 2260 01:58:49.319 --> 01:58:54.319 Uh and uh, just that's normal. Are these the have 2261 01:58:54.479 --> 01:58:58.600 the big like pump pump ball blooms, you know, the 2262 01:58:58.760 --> 01:59:02.279 clusters of bombs rounded mound. Okay, because there's some other 2263 01:59:02.399 --> 01:59:06.079 kinds of grandes. Uh yeah there you know they you 2264 01:59:06.199 --> 01:59:08.279 may get some cold damage on top. But I would 2265 01:59:08.399 --> 01:59:10.760 leave them and let them come back and just go up. 2266 01:59:10.960 --> 01:59:11.920 Go about it that way. 2267 01:59:13.600 --> 01:59:15.359 Okay, they just look bad, that's one. 2268 01:59:15.600 --> 01:59:21.279 Want to get rid of. Well, you know it. 2269 01:59:22.600 --> 01:59:25.159 People go about it different ways. I usually like to 2270 01:59:25.239 --> 01:59:27.000 leave mine if they have them, and kill back. And 2271 01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:31.880 so maybe maybe don't go over there. Don't go over there, 2272 01:59:32.159 --> 01:59:35.239 spring when they look better. Thank you, David, all right, 2273 01:59:35.439 --> 01:59:39.600 appreciate that you yes, sir, all right, bye bye. That's 2274 01:59:39.640 --> 01:59:42.640 a good one. Oh man, we ran out of time 2275 01:59:42.720 --> 01:59:45.239 on Charlie for this segment. Charlie, you'll be our first 2276 01:59:45.239 --> 01:59:48.319 s up at in West uh when we come back 2277 01:59:48.520 --> 01:59:49.319 from this break. 2278 01:59:49.600 --> 01:59:49.680 Uh. 2279 01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:52.279 Appreciate you guys listening to garden Line. You know we're 2280 01:59:52.279 --> 01:59:55.439 here on Saturday mornings and Sunday mornings from six am 2281 01:59:56.000 --> 01:59:58.880 to ten am. Now, I think the best way to 2282 01:59:58.920 --> 02:00:00.800 listen to Gardenine if you got to radio. That's great 2283 02:00:00.840 --> 02:00:03.119 and it's a radio show, but you get you the 2284 02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:06.600 iHeartMedia app on your phone. The iHeartMedia app on your 2285 02:00:06.600 --> 02:00:09.199 phone downloaded. You can see past shows on there, but 2286 02:00:09.279 --> 02:00:11.920 you can listen live. And if you'll take your phone, 2287 02:00:12.039 --> 02:00:13.720 I turn Here's what I do when I'm out in 2288 02:00:13.760 --> 02:00:16.159 the garden. I'll turn my phone upside down in my 2289 02:00:16.239 --> 02:00:19.319 pocket so the speaker, you know, hear the speaker or 2290 02:00:19.479 --> 02:00:22.279 either way, and crank it up and just go out 2291 02:00:22.319 --> 02:00:24.159 and work in the garden and listen to guard line. 2292 02:00:24.199 --> 02:00:25.680 And if you see a bug or something, you can 2293 02:00:25.720 --> 02:00:27.039 take a picture of it and send it to me. 2294 02:00:27.279 --> 02:00:29.399 Who knows, we may be able to talk quick about that. 2295 02:00:30.000 --> 02:00:30.720 I'll be right back. 2296 02:00:33.800 --> 02:00:37.000 All righty folks, This son is out And what a 2297 02:00:37.079 --> 02:00:40.359 great day. Looks good outside right now. Good day to 2298 02:00:40.399 --> 02:00:43.159 get out there and get some garden work done. Hey 2299 02:00:43.680 --> 02:00:44.279 have you been doing? 2300 02:00:44.319 --> 02:00:45.000 Send it for us? 2301 02:00:45.319 --> 02:00:46.039 Have you ever been there? 2302 02:00:46.680 --> 02:00:49.239 If you haven't, you really got to go. If you have, 2303 02:00:49.439 --> 02:00:51.520 you already know why you need to go there. I mean, 2304 02:00:51.560 --> 02:00:55.840 it is the incredible full service garden center with everything 2305 02:00:55.920 --> 02:00:59.000 you can imagine. Plus it's pretty and cool and I 2306 02:00:59.199 --> 02:01:01.640 just like walking aroun around there. It's like you well, 2307 02:01:01.720 --> 02:01:04.680 it's like you've kind of walked out into another world, 2308 02:01:05.199 --> 02:01:08.159 another like in some cases back in time. The way 2309 02:01:08.199 --> 02:01:10.359 the buildings look. I love the look of that. But 2310 02:01:11.199 --> 02:01:13.960 you're there for plants, and they have got plants. Oh 2311 02:01:14.039 --> 02:01:17.079 my gosh, everything right now. They are loaded up. They've 2312 02:01:17.119 --> 02:01:20.079 got a Dave Wilson nursery order coming in that is 2313 02:01:20.840 --> 02:01:23.520 probably one of the biggest shipments that Dave Wilson makes 2314 02:01:23.800 --> 02:01:27.119 to Texas. Goes straight there to Enchanted Forest Garden Center. 2315 02:01:27.399 --> 02:01:30.800 So here's the deal. You got low chill varieties of apple, peaches, 2316 02:01:30.880 --> 02:01:34.000 and plums, so you need a variety that is going 2317 02:01:34.079 --> 02:01:37.560 to do well. You know in the Houston to all 2318 02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:40.359 the way down to the Gulf Coast, really that whole 2319 02:01:40.439 --> 02:01:42.640 area and even a little further north than that. They 2320 02:01:42.720 --> 02:01:47.520 carry those varieties. They do, and they have got when 2321 02:01:47.560 --> 02:01:50.640 it comes to apples, there's low chills and we need 2322 02:01:50.760 --> 02:01:53.640 that because you go buy a red delicious apples, stick 2323 02:01:53.680 --> 02:01:55.279 it in the ground and you'll never see an apple 2324 02:01:56.039 --> 02:01:57.720 that it doesn't work. 2325 02:01:57.800 --> 02:01:58.119 Done here. 2326 02:01:58.199 --> 02:02:00.439 But they know the ones that do. They have something. 2327 02:02:00.600 --> 02:02:02.600 This has got ed by a buzz in three in 2328 02:02:02.720 --> 02:02:05.479 one trees. Three in one tree, So here's the deal. 2329 02:02:05.760 --> 02:02:08.359 There are certain things that are compatible, like three different 2330 02:02:08.439 --> 02:02:11.560 kinds of apples could be grafted together. You could graft 2331 02:02:12.439 --> 02:02:14.840 three different kinds of peaches, or even peaches and plumbs 2332 02:02:14.880 --> 02:02:18.720 are cross compatible as a matter of fact. But one 2333 02:02:18.840 --> 02:02:21.000 tree grows you a bunch of different stuff. Is that 2334 02:02:21.119 --> 02:02:23.560 great or what? So that tree pollinates himself in the 2335 02:02:23.600 --> 02:02:26.399 case of an apple, because you know, one bloom is 2336 02:02:26.800 --> 02:02:29.840 pollinating the other varieties bloom because they're on the same tree. 2337 02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:34.359 They make sure that you get the varieties that do. 2338 02:02:34.479 --> 02:02:40.520 If you want citrus, awesome, awesome selections oft cetrus, especially satsumas. 2339 02:02:40.520 --> 02:02:44.239 I think they have about twenty different varieties. Now, satsumas 2340 02:02:44.399 --> 02:02:48.199 are cold hardy. Once they're well established, they're cold heating 2341 02:02:48.560 --> 02:02:51.279 down to the middle teens. Actually, now that's not the 2342 02:02:51.960 --> 02:02:54.159 week or the year after you put them in the ground. 2343 02:02:54.239 --> 02:02:57.840 They have to establish well. But there are very few 2344 02:02:58.479 --> 02:03:02.359 citrus trees that can match a satsuma for cold heartiness. 2345 02:03:02.439 --> 02:03:04.960 So it's a great choice. Plus it they're the fruit 2346 02:03:05.079 --> 02:03:07.039 is baggy. They're like those little if you're about the 2347 02:03:07.039 --> 02:03:09.399 little qut oranges in the store, you know that just 2348 02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:12.119 peel your fingernails can pull them right off and peel them. 2349 02:03:12.760 --> 02:03:15.880 That's a satsuma. That that kind of fruit is what 2350 02:03:16.039 --> 02:03:18.119 they have, and so do you need tools, do you 2351 02:03:18.199 --> 02:03:20.039 need fertilizers, do you need soils? 2352 02:03:20.279 --> 02:03:20.680 Whatever? 2353 02:03:20.880 --> 02:03:24.880 For your fruit trees. They've got them there at the 2354 02:03:25.199 --> 02:03:28.800 enchanted forest now in Channet Forest is in the Richmond 2355 02:03:28.880 --> 02:03:34.479 Rosenberg area, but it's US. It's to the south and 2356 02:03:35.319 --> 02:03:39.359 east of Interstate or Highway fifty nine. So in other words, 2357 02:03:39.359 --> 02:03:41.560 if you're in Richmond, go in toward sugar Land. It's 2358 02:03:41.600 --> 02:03:44.399 off to the right. You go off to the right 2359 02:03:44.479 --> 02:03:47.079 out there, and when you're out there, say hi to them. 2360 02:03:47.159 --> 02:03:49.960 I mean, you know what Danny Milliken's knew. They got 2361 02:03:50.039 --> 02:03:52.159 him on staff. Now that's a great a great win 2362 02:03:52.279 --> 02:03:56.159 for them. But the highways or the road is fifty 2363 02:03:56.239 --> 02:03:59.560 seven twenty seven, fifty nine twenty seven to fifty nine. 2364 02:04:00.239 --> 02:04:03.359 Tongue tied here. But you really need to go, really 2365 02:04:03.439 --> 02:04:06.279 really do and check out their fruit trees. I'm going 2366 02:04:06.359 --> 02:04:08.119 to go now to the phones and we're going to 2367 02:04:08.159 --> 02:04:10.560 talk to Charlie and west U. Hey, Charlie, welcome to 2368 02:04:10.600 --> 02:04:11.079 guard Line. 2369 02:04:12.560 --> 02:04:17.079 Hi. Could you explain to me again how and when 2370 02:04:17.640 --> 02:04:22.000 to trim loliope? Is it too late to do that? 2371 02:04:22.479 --> 02:04:25.600 No, it's not in the spring, early in the spring, 2372 02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:28.479 and I may even be starting in your area. 2373 02:04:28.520 --> 02:04:28.840 I don't know. 2374 02:04:29.359 --> 02:04:31.479 Loiope starts to send up new shoots out of the 2375 02:04:31.600 --> 02:04:34.199 new leaves out of the ground, and if you trim 2376 02:04:34.359 --> 02:04:36.479 after that, you end up with a bunch of stubbed 2377 02:04:36.520 --> 02:04:39.680 off leaves, which is a little bit unsightly. So I 2378 02:04:39.720 --> 02:04:41.520 would do it right now asap. 2379 02:04:41.840 --> 02:04:42.119 Get that. 2380 02:04:42.520 --> 02:04:44.000 Just cut them back as low as you want to 2381 02:04:44.000 --> 02:04:46.399 cut them back, and fresh new growth is going to 2382 02:04:46.479 --> 02:04:48.840 come out in spring and you've gotten all the old 2383 02:04:48.920 --> 02:04:51.920 growth out of there. You know, whatever diseases or just 2384 02:04:52.079 --> 02:04:54.960 wear and tear ragged leaves, they're all out of there. 2385 02:04:55.600 --> 02:04:57.840 But do it as soon as you can. If your 2386 02:04:57.960 --> 02:05:01.760 plants are looking really bad late in the summer, then 2387 02:05:01.800 --> 02:05:03.920 in late August do it again. You can do it 2388 02:05:04.000 --> 02:05:06.000 again and they will come out and you have fresh 2389 02:05:06.239 --> 02:05:09.359 fall growth or fresh growth forefall. It looks good. The 2390 02:05:09.520 --> 02:05:11.600 riope is it can be cut back to the ground 2391 02:05:11.640 --> 02:05:12.760 twice a year if you want to. 2392 02:05:14.560 --> 02:05:17.840 And and do I cut it to the ground or 2393 02:05:18.039 --> 02:05:20.600 that a couple of inches of the ground or what 2394 02:05:20.760 --> 02:05:23.720 comes can I use a well? I do it. 2395 02:05:25.439 --> 02:05:26.840 I do it a couple of inches of the ground. 2396 02:05:26.920 --> 02:05:30.199 I like using them more because, uh, it just makes 2397 02:05:30.239 --> 02:05:32.279 a clean cut. A weed whacker is fine if you 2398 02:05:32.319 --> 02:05:34.760 want to use that, because what you're weed whacking is 2399 02:05:34.880 --> 02:05:36.520 not what you're going to see when the new growth 2400 02:05:36.600 --> 02:05:38.600 comes out. That's why I said, don't wait until new 2401 02:05:38.640 --> 02:05:40.279 shoots are out. If you weed whack it and it 2402 02:05:40.319 --> 02:05:42.000 already has its new shoots, it's going to. 2403 02:05:42.000 --> 02:05:45.079 Look pretty rough, okay, And the new shoots will be 2404 02:05:45.119 --> 02:05:46.720 coming out soon. I guess. 2405 02:05:48.079 --> 02:05:48.520 Very soon. 2406 02:05:48.800 --> 02:05:53.079 They came out early. That's all about the weather. Yeah, 2407 02:05:53.479 --> 02:05:59.560 all depending, All right, good luck with that. Yeah, send 2408 02:05:59.640 --> 02:06:01.359 me a be for and after picture if you get 2409 02:06:01.359 --> 02:06:03.760 around to it. I'd i'd like to see how your 2410 02:06:03.800 --> 02:06:06.760 place looks. Hey, thanks a lot, Charlie, appreciate the phone call. 2411 02:06:07.199 --> 02:06:09.439 You take care and good luck with getting that in 2412 02:06:10.520 --> 02:06:13.600 good shape. Let's go to Jeff and Spring Branch. Hey, Jeff, 2413 02:06:13.600 --> 02:06:14.520 welcome to garden line. 2414 02:06:15.560 --> 02:06:18.439 Hey skip Man, thanks for everything. Yeah, great day to 2415 02:06:18.479 --> 02:06:19.880 be outside working in the yard. 2416 02:06:21.439 --> 02:06:21.600 Hey. 2417 02:06:21.680 --> 02:06:25.680 I have some azalia's, probably twenty five year old azalias. 2418 02:06:25.720 --> 02:06:28.840 I never cover them, you know, during the ice they're 2419 02:06:28.960 --> 02:06:32.439 they're fine. But this year I'm noticing that I got 2420 02:06:32.800 --> 02:06:37.399 a bunch of rest rest on my leaves and they're 2421 02:06:37.439 --> 02:06:38.079 turning yellow. 2422 02:06:38.199 --> 02:06:39.199 Is that something to do? 2423 02:06:39.239 --> 02:06:41.039 With the cold or another deficiency. 2424 02:06:41.239 --> 02:06:44.800 Well, azaleas are evergreens. But every evergreen, whether it's a 2425 02:06:44.840 --> 02:06:48.479 pine tree or southern magnolia or an azalea, those leaves 2426 02:06:48.520 --> 02:06:51.439 only last a certain amount of time. And typically as 2427 02:06:51.479 --> 02:06:53.239 we get new growth coming out in the spring with 2428 02:06:53.359 --> 02:06:55.720 fresh growth, some of the old growth will start, you know, 2429 02:06:55.840 --> 02:06:58.800 start to fade and drop. On various types of evergreens, 2430 02:06:59.560 --> 02:07:02.479 it could, you know, azaleas could be doing that due 2431 02:07:02.520 --> 02:07:06.920 to a droughty condition. We have not had droughty conditions, uh, 2432 02:07:07.239 --> 02:07:09.960 you know, soggy wet soil. They don't like poor drainage, 2433 02:07:09.960 --> 02:07:13.760 but they do want constant moisture. But I wouldn't worry 2434 02:07:13.760 --> 02:07:15.520 about them at all. I think they're gonna be okay 2435 02:07:15.840 --> 02:07:19.039 and just continue to provide good care. When they start 2436 02:07:19.119 --> 02:07:22.239 to put on new growth. Get you an acidic fertilizer 2437 02:07:22.840 --> 02:07:26.279 to put on them. A quality acidic fertilizer. Microlife has 2438 02:07:26.439 --> 02:07:29.840 one that's in a pink bag for acid loving plants 2439 02:07:29.960 --> 02:07:35.000 like blueberries and azaleas and camellias and Virginia sweet spire, 2440 02:07:35.119 --> 02:07:37.880 those kinds of plants, And I would just sprinkle that 2441 02:07:37.960 --> 02:07:40.159 around them and get some fresh new growth going. 2442 02:07:41.479 --> 02:07:41.880 Awesome. 2443 02:07:42.239 --> 02:07:42.600 Awesome. 2444 02:07:42.680 --> 02:07:44.960 So they'll bloom with these rest colored leaves on if 2445 02:07:44.960 --> 02:07:46.960 they don't fall off before the bloom, and then after that. 2446 02:07:47.119 --> 02:07:49.159 Just trim it back and take good care of it. 2447 02:07:49.279 --> 02:07:49.600 Perfect. 2448 02:07:49.760 --> 02:07:50.239 Thank you ski. 2449 02:07:50.720 --> 02:07:52.800 Yeah, your bloom. Your blooms are gonna be out at 2450 02:07:52.800 --> 02:07:54.720 the ends of the branches and they'll look beautiful. 2451 02:07:54.800 --> 02:07:56.880 I think that. I think they'll be just fine. All right, 2452 02:07:57.039 --> 02:08:01.079 Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir, thank you, you bet 2453 02:08:01.319 --> 02:08:01.720 all right. 2454 02:08:01.960 --> 02:08:05.239 Uh. You know, Southwest Fertilizer on the corner of Businet 2455 02:08:05.319 --> 02:08:09.199 and Runwick is the place to go for whatever you need. 2456 02:08:09.359 --> 02:08:12.479 I don't and I mean whatever you need. If there 2457 02:08:12.640 --> 02:08:16.680 is a product that controls pests like insects, that controls 2458 02:08:16.760 --> 02:08:21.760 diseases that can that prevents weeds, that kills existing weeds, 2459 02:08:21.840 --> 02:08:25.079 if there's a product that is a fertilizer that will 2460 02:08:25.239 --> 02:08:28.239 help your plants look their best. Southwest has it, I 2461 02:08:28.399 --> 02:08:30.279 mean the whole nine yeard. Go by there and check 2462 02:08:30.319 --> 02:08:32.600 it out. You see what I'm talking about. Corner Businet 2463 02:08:32.680 --> 02:08:35.520 and Runwick in Southwest Houston. Here's a phone number seven 2464 02:08:35.560 --> 02:08:39.479 one three six sixty six seventeen forty four. Seven one 2465 02:08:39.560 --> 02:08:43.399 three six sixty six seventeen forty four. You know, they've 2466 02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:45.520 got a little shop there where they can do more 2467 02:08:45.600 --> 02:08:48.560 blade sharpening, where they can do small engine repair and stuff. 2468 02:08:48.600 --> 02:08:51.880 So that's another reason to swing by there. But when 2469 02:08:51.960 --> 02:08:56.039 it comes to options, products and expertise to point you 2470 02:08:56.239 --> 02:08:58.479 at what you need and not sell you what you 2471 02:08:58.600 --> 02:09:02.640 don't need, you're not gonna better in Southwest Fertilizer. I'm 2472 02:09:02.640 --> 02:09:04.439 going to head out now to clear Lake and we're 2473 02:09:04.479 --> 02:09:07.560 going to talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line. 2474 02:09:07.920 --> 02:09:09.560 On top of the morning to you, sir. Are you 2475 02:09:09.640 --> 02:09:12.000 sure that what you're calling the sun isn't a mirage? 2476 02:09:15.520 --> 02:09:15.800 I don't know. 2477 02:09:15.800 --> 02:09:17.520 If somebody liked their lights on, I don't know. 2478 02:09:17.840 --> 02:09:21.920 Yeah, maybe my toes are starting to grow together at 2479 02:09:21.920 --> 02:09:25.560 any great, did you get the email about what might 2480 02:09:25.640 --> 02:09:26.680 be mold crickets? 2481 02:09:26.960 --> 02:09:30.119 Oh yes, yes, I sure did. And what you sent 2482 02:09:30.199 --> 02:09:32.319 me was a picture of mold crickets. And I can't 2483 02:09:32.479 --> 02:09:35.359 remember when the last time I had a mold cricket 2484 02:09:35.520 --> 02:09:38.399 question was, so I was. I was glad to see that, Uh, 2485 02:09:38.560 --> 02:09:41.720 moult crickets. Everybody knows what a cricket looks like. And 2486 02:09:42.000 --> 02:09:44.159 I know you because you sent me the picture. But 2487 02:09:44.319 --> 02:09:47.680 moult crickets just think like a cricket that had just 2488 02:09:47.880 --> 02:09:52.000 got big, big broad feet, almost like webbed feet with 2489 02:09:52.159 --> 02:09:55.439 claws sticking out, and they crawl underground. They pushed just 2490 02:09:55.560 --> 02:09:58.239 under the surface of the soil, so you'll see little 2491 02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:02.680 raised tunnels like sometime as you see with voles or moles. 2492 02:10:03.520 --> 02:10:05.760 But they make these little tunnels and then then make 2493 02:10:05.760 --> 02:10:08.359 a little poles of dirt and they eat. They eat grass, 2494 02:10:08.720 --> 02:10:11.880 They eat the parts of the grass plant, and so 2495 02:10:12.039 --> 02:10:15.000 you gotta control them. You need to get something through 2496 02:10:15.159 --> 02:10:18.319 the surface of the soil and down to the mole cricket. 2497 02:10:18.560 --> 02:10:21.439 So an insecticide that can be drenched down in there 2498 02:10:22.319 --> 02:10:25.079 would work pretty well for mole crickets. And if you 2499 02:10:25.159 --> 02:10:28.000 look on my schedule, I don't have mole crickets on 2500 02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:33.119 the schedule, but whatever you're using to treat for the 2501 02:10:33.239 --> 02:10:36.199 chinch bugs and grubs, I think would be very good, 2502 02:10:36.960 --> 02:10:38.039 certainly for. 2503 02:10:39.640 --> 02:10:40.520 The mole crickets. 2504 02:10:41.000 --> 02:10:45.239 They're a product that contains carbaryl or seven could be 2505 02:10:45.319 --> 02:10:48.399 drenched down in there. It'll move down into the soil 2506 02:10:48.640 --> 02:10:53.880 very well. And also there's one called BioAdvance twenty four 2507 02:10:53.960 --> 02:10:58.039 hour grub killer plus that's one that would control mole crickets. 2508 02:10:58.079 --> 02:10:58.399 As well. 2509 02:10:59.319 --> 02:11:03.960 From an organic standpoint, a pyrethern, a pirethern insecticide might 2510 02:11:04.079 --> 02:11:06.319 work on them, but you got to get it down 2511 02:11:06.399 --> 02:11:10.520 below the surface, and that is the key, because they're 2512 02:11:10.560 --> 02:11:12.600 working primarily underneath the ground. 2513 02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:17.399 Well, that comment that she mentioned about it's too late 2514 02:11:17.479 --> 02:11:24.079 for the soapy water and knem oil, yeah that was 2515 02:11:24.119 --> 02:11:27.239 a comment because she thinks I'm totally organic and I 2516 02:11:27.359 --> 02:11:30.720 had the correct her. I'm organic about where we might 2517 02:11:30.760 --> 02:11:34.319 be growing edibles, but you know, if I need to 2518 02:11:34.359 --> 02:11:36.479 put some poisoning to get some of these, I'm okay 2519 02:11:36.560 --> 02:11:39.920 with that. She mentioned this trias the side or something 2520 02:11:40.039 --> 02:11:40.199 like that. 2521 02:11:40.600 --> 02:11:42.319 Is that a tryside? 2522 02:11:44.800 --> 02:11:45.359 Does that work? 2523 02:11:47.239 --> 02:11:47.479 Yeah? 2524 02:11:47.880 --> 02:11:52.600 I think let me look at try aside and see 2525 02:11:52.680 --> 02:11:56.520 what is what is in that? I think that should work. 2526 02:11:56.560 --> 02:11:58.680 I'm trying to remember. I can't remember the ingredient in 2527 02:11:58.760 --> 02:12:02.760 it right now, but anyway, triside should should do pretty good. 2528 02:12:03.039 --> 02:12:05.960 These companies don't always. Sometimes you have to jump through 2529 02:12:06.000 --> 02:12:08.520 hoops to figure out what ingredient it is because they 2530 02:12:08.560 --> 02:12:11.640 don't just come out and tell you triside, Oh, it's 2531 02:12:11.680 --> 02:12:15.159 a synthetic. It's a synthetic pyrethroide. So yeah, that would work. 2532 02:12:15.520 --> 02:12:16.119 You could use it. 2533 02:12:16.840 --> 02:12:20.279 So that's the soap just irritates them and makes them 2534 02:12:20.359 --> 02:12:23.600 come to the surface and it doesn't work real great 2535 02:12:23.640 --> 02:12:26.439 at that. So I wouldn't bother with the soap. I 2536 02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:29.319 would I would use you know, like if you have tricide, 2537 02:12:29.359 --> 02:12:30.880 that would that would work well. 2538 02:12:30.960 --> 02:12:33.359 She said when she treated the lawn, that she went 2539 02:12:33.399 --> 02:12:35.119 out one morning and there were twenty of them on 2540 02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:36.359 her porch. 2541 02:12:36.760 --> 02:12:38.680 So that's how she wow. 2542 02:12:39.239 --> 02:12:40.880 Well, they were coming up. They hadn't been fed in 2543 02:12:40.960 --> 02:12:42.920 the while, and they wanted They were knocking on the 2544 02:12:43.000 --> 02:12:43.760 door wanting something. 2545 02:12:46.359 --> 02:12:49.720 So you said something called biodense b io d n 2546 02:12:50.159 --> 02:12:51.159 c RESI. 2547 02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:57.079 Oh, I said, bio advanced. It is a grub killer. 2548 02:12:57.199 --> 02:12:59.840 Plus it's just an example. There's none magic about that. 2549 02:13:00.039 --> 02:13:03.079 And trysadle work just fine. Hey, I'm hitting a heartbreak, 2550 02:13:03.359 --> 02:13:05.760 so I'm going to run. But good luck getting those 2551 02:13:05.800 --> 02:13:07.960 under control. They make good fish bait too if you're 2552 02:13:07.960 --> 02:13:12.159 a fisherman. I'm just saying, take care mark All right, folks, 2553 02:13:12.239 --> 02:13:20.039 we'll be right back, all right, Welcome back to guard Line. Hey, 2554 02:13:20.079 --> 02:13:24.319 thanks for listening today. I hope we're helping out with 2555 02:13:24.479 --> 02:13:28.720 that beautiful landscape and bountiful garden that you dream of. 2556 02:13:30.079 --> 02:13:32.359 We can make it a reality. Welcome to give me 2557 02:13:32.399 --> 02:13:34.199 a call ife you'd like to ask a question. Seven 2558 02:13:34.239 --> 02:13:37.720 one three two one two five eight seven four seven 2559 02:13:37.880 --> 02:13:43.800 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Tree 2560 02:13:43.840 --> 02:13:47.239 hugger sprinklers have been around now for a couple of 2561 02:13:47.479 --> 02:13:50.479 several years. I guess I know I've been talking about 2562 02:13:50.520 --> 02:13:53.680 them for a while. They are a really unique little gadget. 2563 02:13:53.800 --> 02:13:55.800 And if you haven't seen one before, what it is 2564 02:13:56.159 --> 02:14:01.399 is it's a little round sea shape type device with 2565 02:14:01.479 --> 02:14:03.239 a hinge in the middle. So you put it up 2566 02:14:03.279 --> 02:14:05.279 to the tree trunk and then it just bends and 2567 02:14:05.399 --> 02:14:08.279 goes around the trunk to create a circle around the trunk. 2568 02:14:09.560 --> 02:14:10.960 You hook it up to your water hose and you 2569 02:14:11.079 --> 02:14:13.279 turn on the water hose to get three hundred and 2570 02:14:13.479 --> 02:14:15.840 sixty degrees of watering around that tree. And if you're 2571 02:14:15.840 --> 02:14:18.319 putting a new plant in the ground, you can barely 2572 02:14:18.439 --> 02:14:21.039 turn that on just to water. Soak that rootball. Leave 2573 02:14:21.079 --> 02:14:22.920 it there for a while. Soak that rootball real good. 2574 02:14:23.359 --> 02:14:25.680 If you've got one, maybe you planted last fall or 2575 02:14:25.800 --> 02:14:28.479 last spring. It's getting some roots in the ground. You 2576 02:14:28.600 --> 02:14:30.680 turn it up a little more to what a larger area. 2577 02:14:30.960 --> 02:14:32.479 I mean you can do this all the way up 2578 02:14:32.560 --> 02:14:34.960 to a good sized tree. In the middle of summer. 2579 02:14:35.039 --> 02:14:37.439 You're trying to rescue that thing. It's it's dry, it's 2580 02:14:37.479 --> 02:14:39.600 hot head and rained. Tree huggers will do that, and 2581 02:14:39.640 --> 02:14:42.199 they'll put water in a spot where the tree has 2582 02:14:42.319 --> 02:14:45.199 lots of roots, which is underneath the branch spread of 2583 02:14:45.279 --> 02:14:47.800 the tree. They come in three sizes, a little seven 2584 02:14:47.880 --> 02:14:51.079 inch for new plants, an eleven inch, and a fifteen inch. 2585 02:14:51.159 --> 02:14:54.119 The fifteen inch, you know, cover a big wide area 2586 02:14:54.640 --> 02:14:57.800 now at treehuggersprinkler dot com is the website. You're going 2587 02:14:57.840 --> 02:15:00.720 to find these at places like the Arbor Gate, NRCW 2588 02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:04.319 and Warren Southern Gardens, Nelson Water Gardener and Katie and 2589 02:15:04.399 --> 02:15:07.720 Channy Gardens and Channing Forest and a Richmond Kingwood Garden 2590 02:15:07.840 --> 02:15:11.079 Center out there with Warrens in Kingwood. Feed Stores like 2591 02:15:11.199 --> 02:15:15.439 D and D, Sinkle Ranch, Ace, Katie ace K and M. A. S. Fullshire. 2592 02:15:15.479 --> 02:15:18.800 A's Southwest Fertilizer has of of course BROD has everything. 2593 02:15:19.399 --> 02:15:22.800 Spring Creek Feed Center up north Tomball just east northeast 2594 02:15:22.840 --> 02:15:25.399 of Tombull and League City Feed down in League City. 2595 02:15:25.800 --> 02:15:29.159 All places you can get the tree hugger sprinklers. Go 2596 02:15:29.239 --> 02:15:32.239 to Treehuggers sprinkler dot com to find out more information 2597 02:15:32.720 --> 02:15:37.319 finder retailer that's close to you. Let's see here. We're 2598 02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:40.199 going to go now to Who's up next? George in 2599 02:15:40.520 --> 02:15:42.960 Jersey Village. Hey, George, welcome to garden Line. 2600 02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:46.079 Thank you, Skiff welcome. Nice to talk to you. So 2601 02:15:46.159 --> 02:15:47.399 I've got a couple of questions for you. 2602 02:15:47.399 --> 02:15:47.640 Thank you. 2603 02:15:48.840 --> 02:15:51.399 During the freeze, the bogle bea, we had covered it 2604 02:15:51.560 --> 02:15:55.199 and I thought we treated it properly, but it doesn't 2605 02:15:55.239 --> 02:15:59.399 look too healthy now. So that's the first question. The 2606 02:15:59.479 --> 02:16:02.399 next one is my wife is wife is Korean, and 2607 02:16:02.479 --> 02:16:05.920 she's about to plant some garlic tribes are called bouchou 2608 02:16:06.000 --> 02:16:08.479 in the Korean language that they are used for everything. 2609 02:16:08.560 --> 02:16:11.720 They cook everything with them. They're delicious. But so we've 2610 02:16:11.760 --> 02:16:15.159 got a bag of a miracle grow and I suggested 2611 02:16:15.319 --> 02:16:18.600 mixing some of that with worm castings. I don't know 2612 02:16:18.680 --> 02:16:22.680 what proportion to do it too. So that's the other question. 2613 02:16:22.920 --> 02:16:25.479 She says, I'm going to wait till springtime to plant them, 2614 02:16:25.800 --> 02:16:32.040 and I don't know springtime to twin discovery marching right now, all. 2615 02:16:32.000 --> 02:16:34.120 Right, let me try to let me try to tackle 2616 02:16:34.200 --> 02:16:39.559 those two. The boom and villia. Get your little thumbnail 2617 02:16:39.680 --> 02:16:41.639 or a pocket knife and just scrape the bark a 2618 02:16:41.719 --> 02:16:44.920 little bit on it, and it should be creamy, creamy white, 2619 02:16:45.079 --> 02:16:47.520 or maybe a light green underneath the bark, just right 2620 02:16:47.600 --> 02:16:50.879 under the bark. That's a sign that it's alive. If 2621 02:16:50.920 --> 02:16:53.280 you see paper sacked brown or brown, that it's dead, 2622 02:16:53.319 --> 02:16:55.319 and you just have to that's going to get pruned out. 2623 02:16:55.399 --> 02:16:58.399 If I were you, if if it at the base 2624 02:16:58.520 --> 02:17:01.319 you see some green, I would just wait and let 2625 02:17:01.399 --> 02:17:04.479 that tree, let that bush tell you where to print it. 2626 02:17:04.959 --> 02:17:07.760 As you see new growth, then cut it back to 2627 02:17:07.840 --> 02:17:11.280 where the new growth is. Uh And and that is simple, 2628 02:17:11.360 --> 02:17:13.200 and it's gonna take some warm weather for it to 2629 02:17:13.280 --> 02:17:15.959 want to grow, so be very patient with that. As 2630 02:17:16.040 --> 02:17:18.479 far as the garlic chives are concerned, you can plant 2631 02:17:18.520 --> 02:17:22.959 them anytime of the year. Just remember garlic chives, they reproduce, 2632 02:17:23.079 --> 02:17:26.840 they receed profusely, and they'll they'll take over the bed. 2633 02:17:27.440 --> 02:17:30.000 So whenever they have their little flowers up on top, 2634 02:17:30.200 --> 02:17:32.680 you want to snip those off and don't let seedheads 2635 02:17:32.760 --> 02:17:35.799 form and cast out their little black seeds or you'll 2636 02:17:35.959 --> 02:17:38.040 you'll have too many, it'll be too thick. 2637 02:17:39.200 --> 02:17:40.399 No such thing as too many? 2638 02:17:42.440 --> 02:17:48.600 All right, dish, Well, all right, you have a lot 2639 02:17:48.639 --> 02:17:50.520 of plants. I just you know you want to have 2640 02:17:50.559 --> 02:17:54.120 a little clumps of garlic chives other than them just 2641 02:17:54.280 --> 02:17:56.959 being like grass through the whole bed. So I'll leave 2642 02:17:57.000 --> 02:18:00.799 that up to y'all. But you've been forewarn Thank you, 2643 02:18:02.440 --> 02:18:04.600 Thanks sir, I appreciate the call. Good luck with that 2644 02:18:04.920 --> 02:18:09.000 good question. We're going to go to Susan now in Beaumont. Hey, Susan, 2645 02:18:09.399 --> 02:18:10.280 welcome to garden line. 2646 02:18:10.399 --> 02:18:13.360 Well their skip, oh, hello, Skip, how are you doing today? 2647 02:18:14.719 --> 02:18:15.559 I'm doing great? 2648 02:18:15.680 --> 02:18:16.399 How can we help you? 2649 02:18:17.760 --> 02:18:17.959 Sir? 2650 02:18:18.360 --> 02:18:23.079 I am wanting to utilize a ladybug in my vegetable garden. 2651 02:18:24.319 --> 02:18:30.120 And my question is is there a certain time I 2652 02:18:30.239 --> 02:18:32.319 need to put them out there? Do I need to 2653 02:18:32.479 --> 02:18:36.959 wait until there's a certain amount of vegetation established? Do 2654 02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:40.520 I put them directly on the vegetation or on the ground? 2655 02:18:42.040 --> 02:18:44.879 Okay, so what if you're going to release them? And 2656 02:18:45.000 --> 02:18:47.399 by the way, you've got ladybugs, you don't need to 2657 02:18:47.440 --> 02:18:50.559 buy them. But if you want to buy them, it's 2658 02:18:50.639 --> 02:18:53.600 not something I wreck not something I recommend. If you 2659 02:18:53.879 --> 02:18:57.120 get aphids in your garden that lady beatles will show up. 2660 02:18:57.559 --> 02:18:59.719 If you're going to release them, don't release them until 2661 02:18:59.719 --> 02:19:01.639 you got aphids. They need to have something to eat 2662 02:19:01.680 --> 02:19:05.319 or they'll fly to your neighbor's house, and so they're 2663 02:19:05.360 --> 02:19:09.159 they're looking for food. The adults and their larva both 2664 02:19:09.200 --> 02:19:12.239 eat aphids, so have some aphids. I like to use 2665 02:19:12.280 --> 02:19:15.760 a plant called tropical milkweed. It's a milkweed and it 2666 02:19:15.920 --> 02:19:20.319 brings butterflies and you know, monarchs in and stuff. But 2667 02:19:20.559 --> 02:19:22.479 I like to use it because it gets a yellow 2668 02:19:22.520 --> 02:19:24.760 aphid on it. And if you go to somewhere or 2669 02:19:24.799 --> 02:19:29.239 buying milkweed, it's tropical milkweed, not other milk weeds, but 2670 02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:33.680 specifically the tropical in this case, it'll load up and 2671 02:19:34.319 --> 02:19:37.479 you'll have lace wings and lady beetles and parasitoid wasps 2672 02:19:37.559 --> 02:19:40.159 and other things that eat aphids right there in your garden. 2673 02:19:40.719 --> 02:19:43.920 But lady beetles aren't philanthropic and they're not going to 2674 02:19:44.000 --> 02:19:47.639 lay eggs where their babies will starve. So in other words, 2675 02:19:47.920 --> 02:19:50.760 you need to have pests to keep them around. And 2676 02:19:50.920 --> 02:19:53.440 if you have a that's why I like to use milkweed, 2677 02:19:53.440 --> 02:19:55.959 because it always has aphids on it during the growing season, 2678 02:19:56.520 --> 02:19:59.920 and it just pulled them up there and they'll be around. Yeah, 2679 02:20:00.040 --> 02:20:01.200 if you build it, they will come. 2680 02:20:02.680 --> 02:20:03.600 Okay, wonderful. 2681 02:20:03.680 --> 02:20:04.479 Thank you so much. 2682 02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:06.680 All right, thank you. 2683 02:20:06.760 --> 02:20:11.879 I appreciate appreciate your call very much. Nelson Plant Food 2684 02:20:12.280 --> 02:20:13.760 has so many great products. 2685 02:20:13.840 --> 02:20:13.959 You know. 2686 02:20:14.040 --> 02:20:16.600 They've got their turf Star line, the nutri Star line, 2687 02:20:16.799 --> 02:20:19.920 the Nature Stars line, it's an organic line they have. 2688 02:20:20.479 --> 02:20:23.920 They've got the Color Star which is great for beautiful color. 2689 02:20:24.440 --> 02:20:27.680 Under the turf Star line, they have a product called Weedenator, 2690 02:20:27.840 --> 02:20:32.319 and Whedenator is a fertilizer, but it's going to last 2691 02:20:32.440 --> 02:20:34.520 up to six months. But what it has in it 2692 02:20:34.959 --> 02:20:39.120 is a post emergent herbicide that will kill existing weeds 2693 02:20:39.680 --> 02:20:41.959 existing weeds, So you have you have to have wet 2694 02:20:42.079 --> 02:20:45.000 leaves of the weeds. In other words, if it hasn't rained, 2695 02:20:45.000 --> 02:20:46.879 turn on the sprinter just long enough to wet the 2696 02:20:46.959 --> 02:20:49.639 foliage and then put the turf Star Weedenater out where 2697 02:20:49.639 --> 02:20:50.559 it'll stick to the leaves. 2698 02:20:50.600 --> 02:20:52.000 Does better that way if you do that. 2699 02:20:52.520 --> 02:20:55.360 But it also has a turf growth regulator, so instead 2700 02:20:55.399 --> 02:20:57.399 of getting a lot of vertical growth where you're mo 2701 02:20:57.600 --> 02:21:01.239 mo mowing your lawn, it's more horror it's not as 2702 02:21:01.360 --> 02:21:04.520 fast as vertical growth. And as a result, you're gonna 2703 02:21:04.520 --> 02:21:06.920 have really good results in terms of not being out 2704 02:21:06.920 --> 02:21:09.360 there mowing so much to keep up. And that's a 2705 02:21:09.399 --> 02:21:11.680 good idea. Plus the fact that it's a slow release 2706 02:21:11.920 --> 02:21:14.639 and it's going to control chickweed and clover and dandelion, 2707 02:21:14.719 --> 02:21:17.760 dollar weed, grasper personally and ragweed spirts, all kinds of 2708 02:21:17.879 --> 02:21:21.159 things that you gotta you gotta get it on before 2709 02:21:21.280 --> 02:21:23.920 all those weeds become reproductive. 2710 02:21:24.079 --> 02:21:26.079 So what's in your yard right now? 2711 02:21:26.200 --> 02:21:28.920 The chick weed and dandelion and the hand betten things 2712 02:21:29.440 --> 02:21:30.760 you need to get that down if you're going to 2713 02:21:30.840 --> 02:21:32.920 do it right now. The strip star weed eater from 2714 02:21:32.959 --> 02:21:37.000 the folks at Nelson. Well, it looks like I got 2715 02:21:37.120 --> 02:21:39.760 to take a quick break here. Vincent and Jonathan, you'll 2716 02:21:39.760 --> 02:21:43.879 be our first two up when I come back. I 2717 02:21:44.000 --> 02:21:48.079 know it's summer between strip. Each voice you ready for 2718 02:21:48.399 --> 02:21:50.959 you ready for a little bit of warm weather. Let's 2719 02:21:50.959 --> 02:21:53.600 speak up, all right, Welcome back to Gardenline. 2720 02:21:53.639 --> 02:21:54.440 Good to have you with us. 2721 02:21:55.239 --> 02:21:59.760 If you are looking for a wonderland to visit in 2722 02:21:59.840 --> 02:22:03.319 a garden center, you need to see Arburgate Nursery. I 2723 02:22:03.399 --> 02:22:05.719 know pretty much Eby lives here, has been to Arburgate 2724 02:22:05.799 --> 02:22:09.760 Nursery because it's such a showplace and a one stop 2725 02:22:09.879 --> 02:22:13.639 for all kinds of things. But it's up there in Tomball, Texas. 2726 02:22:13.840 --> 02:22:16.280 It's to the west of Tomball for those of you 2727 02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:18.879 knew to the area, on twenty nine to twenty. So 2728 02:22:19.000 --> 02:22:20.879 you go up two forty nine to Tomball, turn west 2729 02:22:20.920 --> 02:22:23.799 on twenty nine to twenty, and not too far outside 2730 02:22:23.879 --> 02:22:26.200 of town on the left, there'll be Arburgate right there there. 2731 02:22:26.319 --> 02:22:28.680 You want to drive around something called Trichel Road that 2732 02:22:28.760 --> 02:22:31.200 goes around behind Arburgate because the back parking lot's the 2733 02:22:31.239 --> 02:22:34.879 best one to park in. But anyway, that is neither 2734 02:22:34.920 --> 02:22:37.399 here nor there. When it comes to talking about the plants, 2735 02:22:37.440 --> 02:22:41.600 that's why you're going there. Extensive selection of fruit trees, berries, 2736 02:22:41.799 --> 02:22:45.840 and grape vines. And I'm talking about When I say extensive, 2737 02:22:45.959 --> 02:22:48.200 I mean fruit you would never dream to plant. And 2738 02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:50.760 they've got one there like a goji berry or something 2739 02:22:50.879 --> 02:22:54.159 like that. But all the standard stuff in the varieties 2740 02:22:54.239 --> 02:22:56.840 that grow here, that's right, the varieties that grow here. 2741 02:22:56.920 --> 02:22:58.760 You need to get the right chilling hours of some 2742 02:22:58.920 --> 02:23:02.920 types of fruit. Arburgate can direct you. Listen the whole 2743 02:23:02.959 --> 02:23:06.920 group from Beverly, the owner all. You know, Kennon one 2744 02:23:06.959 --> 02:23:11.280 of the main main folks there at Arburgate, the whole team. Really. 2745 02:23:11.639 --> 02:23:13.520 I visit with folks all the time when I'm out there, 2746 02:23:13.559 --> 02:23:16.719 and I'm so impressed with their knowledge and they understand 2747 02:23:16.879 --> 02:23:19.239 and they carry the things you need to grow. They're 2748 02:23:19.280 --> 02:23:22.360 always getting in neose new deliveries of color plants for 2749 02:23:22.440 --> 02:23:26.680 those flower beds, vegetables and herbs, seed starting kits. You 2750 02:23:26.799 --> 02:23:29.479 you're talking this morning about starting your own seed, Well, 2751 02:23:29.719 --> 02:23:32.000 the seed and the seed starting kit is they're waiting 2752 02:23:32.040 --> 02:23:34.280 for you. At Arbrogate. They got roses that are blooming 2753 02:23:35.159 --> 02:23:37.399 and they have their one two three system that is 2754 02:23:37.479 --> 02:23:41.440 the soil for anything with roots, a compost that is awesome. 2755 02:23:41.520 --> 02:23:43.799 It's got some expanded shail in it which really helps 2756 02:23:43.879 --> 02:23:47.319 with the clay. And then they have the fertilizer. The 2757 02:23:47.559 --> 02:23:50.520 organic fertilizer's part of the one two three easy system. 2758 02:23:50.559 --> 02:23:52.360 And did you know the soil and the compost can 2759 02:23:52.399 --> 02:23:55.040 be delivered in bulk. So if you're putting in a 2760 02:23:55.319 --> 02:23:56.719 you know, a big area and you need more than 2761 02:23:56.799 --> 02:23:59.760 just bags, call them up say hey, I'd like to 2762 02:24:00.239 --> 02:24:02.559 on getting the soil and compost delivered. I don't care 2763 02:24:02.600 --> 02:24:05.799 where you are, they will deliver it. If you're hearing 2764 02:24:05.840 --> 02:24:08.399 my voice, they'll deliver it. And you can get the 2765 02:24:08.440 --> 02:24:11.559 bulkloads of it right like that and arbigate plus. Just 2766 02:24:11.639 --> 02:24:14.200 go out there this afternoon. It is so fun to 2767 02:24:14.280 --> 02:24:17.760 walk around. Really, it's cool. You will be so inspired. 2768 02:24:17.879 --> 02:24:20.239 Allow yourself some time. Take a friend with you too, 2769 02:24:20.360 --> 02:24:23.440 By the way, that would be a great outing. We're 2770 02:24:23.440 --> 02:24:26.959 gonna go and talk to Vincent now on the phones. Hey, Vincent, 2771 02:24:27.079 --> 02:24:27.959 welcome to garden Line. 2772 02:24:29.040 --> 02:24:30.680 Thank you, sir, Good morning. How are you doing. 2773 02:24:32.079 --> 02:24:32.680 I'm well, sir. 2774 02:24:32.879 --> 02:24:37.079 Thanks great. I've got a question. I've got several bird 2775 02:24:37.120 --> 02:24:39.639 of paradise playing in front of my house, and pretty 2776 02:24:39.639 --> 02:24:41.399 good sized ones. I mean they took a hit with 2777 02:24:41.440 --> 02:24:43.879 a freeze. I mean we're all covered. But I wanted 2778 02:24:43.920 --> 02:24:45.920 to know do I need to cut them back down 2779 02:24:45.959 --> 02:24:48.639 all the way to the ground or and if so, 2780 02:24:49.000 --> 02:24:52.600 when and and then what do I do with him? 2781 02:24:52.680 --> 02:24:53.479 Should I cut them down? 2782 02:24:53.559 --> 02:24:55.079 Or what do you think I should do? 2783 02:24:56.639 --> 02:24:57.840 Just to make sure I got the plant? 2784 02:24:57.879 --> 02:24:59.719 When you say bird of paradise, you tell them lunges 2785 02:24:59.760 --> 02:25:02.479 with orange and yellow clusters of flowers. 2786 02:25:02.120 --> 02:25:04.000 Up on top, Yes, sir, yes, sir? 2787 02:25:04.840 --> 02:25:08.559 Okay, uh there the tops are dead from the freezes 2788 02:25:08.639 --> 02:25:10.879 you had, and so you can just cut them back 2789 02:25:11.520 --> 02:25:14.159 essentially to the ground, you know, maybe an inch high 2790 02:25:14.280 --> 02:25:18.200 or something, and then be patient because they are more 2791 02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:21.920 sleepyheaded than a teenager on a Saturday morning. It's gonna 2792 02:25:21.920 --> 02:25:24.239 be way past noon before you see them, right, uh. 2793 02:25:24.440 --> 02:25:27.760 And so these it may be May when they start 2794 02:25:27.959 --> 02:25:30.399 saying okay, it's warm enough for us, and they start 2795 02:25:30.440 --> 02:25:33.719 growing again. So don't give up there. They're there. They'll 2796 02:25:33.760 --> 02:25:35.520 come back up out of the ground, especially if you 2797 02:25:35.639 --> 02:25:36.360 moltch the base. 2798 02:25:37.760 --> 02:25:38.000 Great. 2799 02:25:38.239 --> 02:25:40.159 Let me ask you, what's the best fertilizer to put 2800 02:25:40.200 --> 02:25:40.639 on those. 2801 02:25:43.200 --> 02:25:43.440 Well? 2802 02:25:44.000 --> 02:25:46.319 Any kind I would you know? A furtilizer like color 2803 02:25:46.360 --> 02:25:48.920 Star would do real good from Nelson Platt Food. It 2804 02:25:48.959 --> 02:25:52.079 comes in the jars and you can just sprinkle it around, 2805 02:25:52.159 --> 02:25:54.440 follow the label. But it would work really good. Anything 2806 02:25:54.479 --> 02:25:57.280 it's gonna bloom. Color Star is gonna be a good fertilizer. 2807 02:25:56.879 --> 02:26:00.840 For alrighty, sir, Thank you very much. Great help, love 2808 02:26:00.879 --> 02:26:01.760 your trail, take. 2809 02:26:02.040 --> 02:26:04.040 You bet, Thanks for the call. Good luck With that, 2810 02:26:04.120 --> 02:26:07.719 We're going to go down to Cypress and talk to Jonathan. Hey, Jonathan, 2811 02:26:07.799 --> 02:26:08.680 Welcome to Guardline. 2812 02:26:10.280 --> 02:26:11.040 Good morning, SKIPT. 2813 02:26:11.799 --> 02:26:12.840 I meet with my wife, Lily. 2814 02:26:12.920 --> 02:26:17.079 We've got a question regarding we have a Mexican petunia 2815 02:26:17.200 --> 02:26:20.639 that we planted I don't know, maybe ten years ago 2816 02:26:20.760 --> 02:26:23.639 in the corner of our flower bed that lines our driveway, 2817 02:26:24.399 --> 02:26:29.159 and this plant is out of control, invasive. I mean, 2818 02:26:29.200 --> 02:26:33.520 we've tried, we've tried to maintain it and keep it 2819 02:26:33.639 --> 02:26:35.799 cut back, but it just keeps growing and growing. And 2820 02:26:35.840 --> 02:26:39.120 we've got a row of knockout. 2821 02:26:38.760 --> 02:26:39.440 Roses, and. 2822 02:26:43.200 --> 02:26:45.879 Okay, we don't know what to use without killing. 2823 02:26:46.040 --> 02:26:49.559 Okay, is this the Mexican Is this the Mexican petunia 2824 02:26:49.680 --> 02:26:51.840 that forms a little mound of foot high or is 2825 02:26:51.879 --> 02:26:53.840 this the kind that gets up near your waist high? 2826 02:26:55.040 --> 02:26:56.399 Yeah, this thing goes really hot. 2827 02:26:58.079 --> 02:27:00.280 Okay, okay, good. 2828 02:27:01.200 --> 02:27:05.719 So hand digging all the rhizomes out is the least 2829 02:27:05.799 --> 02:27:08.719 toxic option that you can have. But that's a lot 2830 02:27:08.799 --> 02:27:10.639 of work and you will have to redo it a 2831 02:27:10.719 --> 02:27:12.799 couple of times because you never get all of them. 2832 02:27:13.200 --> 02:27:16.319 But that's one The second step would be to treat 2833 02:27:16.360 --> 02:27:22.280 them with a herbicide that contains triclop peer tri c 2834 02:27:22.719 --> 02:27:25.200 l O p y R. Now I want you to 2835 02:27:25.280 --> 02:27:29.360 go to my website that's gardening with skip dot Com 2836 02:27:30.040 --> 02:27:32.319 Gardening with Skip dot Com. And if you click on 2837 02:27:32.879 --> 02:27:36.799 if you click on publications, it says all publications you'll 2838 02:27:36.840 --> 02:27:42.319 see on there herbicide products to use with Skip's weed wiper. 2839 02:27:43.079 --> 02:27:47.000 And there's another one, Skip's homemade weed wiper. And you 2840 02:27:47.079 --> 02:27:48.719 make it out of a little grabber tool that you 2841 02:27:48.760 --> 02:27:51.120 would use to get a jar off a shelf. It's 2842 02:27:51.360 --> 02:27:55.040 real easy to make. And on that list of herbicide products, 2843 02:27:55.520 --> 02:27:59.040 you want to use something on the list that is 2844 02:27:59.280 --> 02:28:03.600 for woody tree shrubs, vines, and perennials with storage tubers, 2845 02:28:03.680 --> 02:28:04.520 roots and rhizomes. 2846 02:28:04.559 --> 02:28:05.280 That's what it says. 2847 02:28:05.479 --> 02:28:08.840 So this would the plant you have, you need that, 2848 02:28:09.000 --> 02:28:11.680 and the ingredient is tricle Peer and it lists all 2849 02:28:11.799 --> 02:28:14.680 the different brands of tricle Peer that are most common 2850 02:28:14.760 --> 02:28:18.040 in our market. And with that weed wiper, basically it's 2851 02:28:18.120 --> 02:28:21.200 sponges on one of those grabber tools, and so you 2852 02:28:21.399 --> 02:28:23.520 just put the tricle Peer right on that and you 2853 02:28:23.920 --> 02:28:27.399 squeeze it at the base of a shoot of your 2854 02:28:27.559 --> 02:28:31.399 plant and you pull it up the Mexican petunia leaves 2855 02:28:31.440 --> 02:28:33.360 and you're just wiping it on the leaves and you're 2856 02:28:33.399 --> 02:28:36.280 not getting it on your knockout roses, and you're not 2857 02:28:36.399 --> 02:28:39.559 getting it on anything desirable. Now you're going to do that, 2858 02:28:39.799 --> 02:28:41.799 and there's gonna be some you don't get because they 2859 02:28:41.799 --> 02:28:45.159 don't have a shoot sticking up yet. Just be patient 2860 02:28:45.280 --> 02:28:47.520 and keep that. I have one hanging on my shelf 2861 02:28:48.000 --> 02:28:50.120 and I use it in the yard for weeds. And 2862 02:28:50.200 --> 02:28:52.479 by the way, that herbicide to use on the weed 2863 02:28:52.520 --> 02:28:55.559 wiper sheet has what you use for nuts edge, what 2864 02:28:55.719 --> 02:28:58.120 you use for wild onion and wild garlic, what you 2865 02:28:58.280 --> 02:29:01.239 use for broad leaf weeds in the yard, what you 2866 02:29:01.319 --> 02:29:04.639 would use for grass like weeds that are perennials that 2867 02:29:04.719 --> 02:29:06.920 you can't get rid of, and what you use for 2868 02:29:07.079 --> 02:29:12.120 the woody stems and the max and petunia and pepperbine 2869 02:29:12.200 --> 02:29:15.360 and other things. It's a very handy thing. It's very 2870 02:29:15.399 --> 02:29:17.280 easy to build, and this is a way to do it. 2871 02:29:18.200 --> 02:29:18.600 Go ahead. 2872 02:29:20.079 --> 02:29:20.479 What was it? 2873 02:29:20.559 --> 02:29:21.280 What was the name again? 2874 02:29:21.319 --> 02:29:22.239 Tritle Pierre. 2875 02:29:23.799 --> 02:29:28.440 T ri I c l O p y R. That's 2876 02:29:28.559 --> 02:29:30.920 the ingredient and it comes in a bunch of brand 2877 02:29:31.000 --> 02:29:32.600 names and they're all on the website. You can go 2878 02:29:32.719 --> 02:29:35.440 on your phone right now and look at the gardening 2879 02:29:35.639 --> 02:29:40.520 with skip dot com and it the two publications are there. 2880 02:29:40.600 --> 02:29:42.440 One is how to build a Weed wiper. The other 2881 02:29:42.479 --> 02:29:43.479 one is what to put on it? 2882 02:29:44.799 --> 02:29:50.440 Okay, perfect, all right, thank you, you bet, thank you? 2883 02:29:50.719 --> 02:29:53.799 All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Take care 2884 02:29:54.879 --> 02:29:58.159 all right, folks. Well we just kind of time that 2885 02:29:58.280 --> 02:30:03.239 one out right here hear music in just about twenty seconds. Uh, 2886 02:30:03.879 --> 02:30:06.239 we're out a show, We're out of calls, and I'm 2887 02:30:06.280 --> 02:30:09.040 out of words. All how did that all happen at 2888 02:30:09.079 --> 02:30:13.239 the same time? Anyway, thanks for listening today. Check out 2889 02:30:13.280 --> 02:30:16.760 that website. I'm telling you there is so much good stuff, 2890 02:30:16.799 --> 02:30:19.120 and I got more comment I keep adding stuff to 2891 02:30:19.280 --> 02:30:22.000 it all the time. I put something up the other 2892 02:30:22.120 --> 02:30:27.479 day called pasteurizing growing media or garden soil in an oven. 2893 02:30:28.520 --> 02:30:31.120 So do you want to reuse growing media for whatever reason? 2894 02:30:31.760 --> 02:30:33.200 You know, and maybe you're worried about it and they 2895 02:30:33.239 --> 02:30:35.120 have some diseases in it and you don't want that 2896 02:30:35.200 --> 02:30:38.319 to get on your plants. I tell you in there 2897 02:30:38.559 --> 02:30:41.159 how to pasteurize it in your oven. 2898 02:30:41.399 --> 02:30:41.920 You can do that. 2899 02:30:42.680 --> 02:30:44.360 And some of you are going, ain't no way that's 2900 02:30:44.399 --> 02:30:47.079 happening in my house. All right, Fine for you. Other 2901 02:30:47.120 --> 02:30:49.600 people will try it. They care about it anyway, Just 2902 02:30:49.639 --> 02:30:55.120 to kind of unusual publication, it's there, got something up 2903 02:30:55.200 --> 02:30:58.079 on controlling, controlling nut set, and boy, it's about to 2904 02:30:58.159 --> 02:30:59.319 pop up and start. 2905 02:30:59.360 --> 02:31:00.239 Start next here. 2906 02:31:00.399 --> 02:31:02.079 You got to get ahead of it. That said just 2907 02:31:02.360 --> 02:31:03.879 ended up to Look, that's the one on. 2908 02:31:03.920 --> 02:31:08.120 The west that said you have a good day in 2909 02:31:08.200 --> 02:31:08.600 the garden. 2910 02:31:09.600 --> 02:31:09.920 Mm hm