WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.480 This program. Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with 2 00:00:05.719 --> 00:00:06.559 Skip Ricard. 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.080 It's crazy. 4 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:17.039 Just watch him as we. 5 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:24.199 Say. 6 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:32.359 We're not a sign. 7 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:38.719 I believe it's about time for us to get a 8 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:42.479 show started today. Welcome to garden Line. We are glad 9 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:45.880 you're with us on this Sunday morning. I congratulations on 10 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:48.640 being up and hopefully having at least one eye open 11 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:51.320 a cup of coffee on one hand at this hour 12 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:52.960 of the morning. We're glad to have you with us. 13 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:54.840 If you would like to give me a call and 14 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.920 discuss things that are of interest to you, questions you 15 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:01.200 might have about your beautiful guard and a landscape. Just 16 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:03.640 give us a call. It's seven to one three two 17 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.840 one two k t R H seven one three two 18 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:12.239 one two k t R as simple as that. I 19 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:17.159 have noticed a lot of questions lately about there are 20 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:22.640 issues related to trees and tree safety. And here's how 21 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:25.680 they often go. I've got a tree, and at the 22 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:27.719 bottom of the tree trunk, here's a picture. Look at 23 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:29.760 these mushrooms coming out of the side of the tree. 24 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:32.079 What do I do about that? In other words, can 25 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:35.239 I spray it? Is it a concern or whatever? Another 26 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.319 version of it would be that I have a tree 27 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:42.560 that on one side it's like the interior is eroding 28 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.719 away and the bark is peeled back, or I have 29 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:46.599 a loose bark on the outside. What do I do 30 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.079 about it? And these are all versions of basically one question, 31 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:56.040 and that is what do I do when the structural 32 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:00.159 strength of my tree starts to be deteriorated away. So 33 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.079 if you think about a tree, remember that it is 34 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:05.480 a living cylinder. I know, we think about it as 35 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:08.319 the trunk is solid all the way through. Everything inside 36 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:11.639 is just wood, it's two by fours, Okay. On the 37 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:16.280 outside we have tissues called floum and xylum and cambium, 38 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.680 and that's where all the living occurs. That's where the 39 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:22.879 things produced in the leaves, the sugars are translocated down 40 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.919 through part of that. Another part is translocating water and 41 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.439 nutrients up for the ground to the top of the tree. 42 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.479 But it's a living cylinder. Now, the interior of that cylinder, 43 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:35.599 hopefully is good, strong, sound wood. But whenever you break 44 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:41.360 through that outer living cylinder, you expose the interior dead wood. Now, 45 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.960 add to that some thyme, some moisture, and some microbes, 46 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.919 and we start to see what can eventually end up 47 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:52.400 being a hollow tree where the interior is all decomposed away, 48 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.520 just like a log in the forest would decompose away 49 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:59.599 and the exterior still living. The problem with that is 50 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.479 struckly that tree gets weaker when that happens. If you 51 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:06.439 see mushrooms, that's a sign that there's a fungus in 52 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:11.719 the tree that is decomposing organic matter and is essentially fruiting. 53 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.919 We say that mushrooms are like the fruit if you will, 54 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:19.840 of the of the fungus inside, the my ceilium inside, 55 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.840 and so just a sign of mushrooms, I mean, yeah, 56 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:24.039 there's something growing in there, just like in your lawn 57 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.879 when you see a circle of white mushrooms. Number one, 58 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:29.400 if you've got a golf club, you can have a 59 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:31.639 lot of fun with those. Number two though, that is 60 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:35.080 just a fungus. It's decomposing the thatch away through the 61 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.439 lawn and like a wildfire would spread from where the 62 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.439 match hit the ground outward in all directions. Well, this 63 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.159 fungus is moving outward through the thatch in all directions. 64 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:47.080 That's what you tend to get circles of those mushrooms. 65 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:51.080 Mushrooms in and of themselves aren't necessarily a problem. In fact, 66 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:53.520 we're entering real quick here the fall season, and when 67 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.280 we do we get some cool weather, maybe a front 68 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:59.240 comes through and some moisture that break in temperature, we're 69 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.080 going to see a lot of mushrooms coming up in 70 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:04.719 flower beds and the mulch and lawns and other things. 71 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.680 Just know this when it comes to the tree, the 72 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.599 more you leave the interior wood exposed, the more time 73 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:16.519 and opportunity there is for decay to set in. Now, 74 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.920 when lightning splits down the side of a tree, when 75 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:24.399 coal damage splits the side of a tree, when your 76 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.079 truck bumper hits the tree and breaks kills part of 77 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.600 the bark right there, knocks it loose, there's nothing to 78 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.839 do to fix that instantly, But just know that that 79 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.600 is the process that's going to be going on. What 80 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.399 we do have in our power is to get the 81 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.879 loose bark out of the way, just peel it off, 82 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:47.639 and then leave that inner wood more exposed where there's 83 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:49.959 not something holding moisture in. You know, when it gets 84 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.079 wet and rainy, if you got dead bark sitting over 85 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.480 the top of it, that's just holding it in. We'd 86 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:56.480 rather it dry out a little bit faster, and so 87 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.519 cleaning out the dead bark is helpful and then good 88 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.399 vigor the tree. That means water and fertilizer, water, especially 89 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:07.560 during the summer season, fertilizer periodically just to keep its growth. 90 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.399 And callus grows over and it's like a lava flow 91 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.920 coming from both sides, and it just crosses right over 92 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:17.160 that deadwood and closes back over that wound in time. 93 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:21.160 So the big, big wound probably never close over small wound, 94 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:25.319 probably pretty quick. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone 95 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.959 number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 96 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:31.560 seventy four seven one three two one two five eight 97 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:38.480 seven four. I talk about azamite here on the garden Line, 98 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:41.600 and you hear me mention that it is a trace mineral, 99 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.279 and I find that people people are often just not 100 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:48.720 really clear you know what what we mean by a 101 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:55.040 trace mineral. Well, what I'm talking about there is something 102 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:58.560 that the plant needs in small amounts, So a trace 103 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:07.160 mineral or a micro nutrient tracemental or micronutrient. Probably if 104 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:09.879 you were to compare to macronutrients, just imagine needing a 105 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:14.040 minuscule amount versus needing a whole lot, but it also 106 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.040 being essential, and that's hard for people to get their 107 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.639 head around, because if I don't need much, how can 108 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.839 it be as important as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It 109 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:25.920 is essential. If you could take every molecule of manganese 110 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:28.879 out of the soil, A plant could not live if 111 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.079 you would take and it just needs t any bits 112 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:33.920 of mangaies same with boron and iron and zinc and 113 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.639 other things. Azmite is a micronutrient supplement, So what we're 114 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.439 doing there is not fertilizing the grass to make it grow. 115 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.480 We're building the nutrients and the soil so as the 116 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.879 grass grows there's nothing lacking, because when one thing lacks, 117 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.199 that's where it stops growing. It's as simple as that. 118 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.279 Asimite can help with that. We typically will put it 119 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.120 on about once a year through the lawn. I use 120 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.439 vegetable gardens and other good place you can use in 121 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.279 flower beds, whatever wherever you want to build up that 122 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.800 content in the soil. Asimitexas dot com that's our website. 123 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.279 It's real easy to find the kinds of things you're 124 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:14.959 looking for. I was out yesterday and a mosquito had 125 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.879 the gall to come up and land on me and 126 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.240 start to take my blood. And if I wanted to 127 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.199 get blood, I go to the South Texas Blood Bank, 128 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:25.120 not into my backyard. While mosquito dunks are a product 129 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.879 the disease and mosquitoes, well here's what you do. You 130 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.199 just throw them out in a pond or any area 131 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.319 where you have standing water, and they last about a 132 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:38.079 month and slowly dissolve away, releasing mosquito disease into the water. 133 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.800 It's as simple as that. You can find mosquito dunks everywhere. 134 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:42.959 If you got a little small area, like a little gutter, 135 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:44.920 you want to toss some in, or underneath the catch 136 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.399 basin under your plants, you can break up a dunk 137 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.959 and toss a few crumbles in there. They also sell 138 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:52.879 a crumbly form of it as well. Mosquito dunks, though, 139 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.319 is step one in making sure we get ahead of 140 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.040 those credits in our backyard. Well, it's time for me 141 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.000 to take a little break. I will be right back 142 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:04.199 guard line. It is a it's gonna be a good, 143 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:07.000 a good Sunday. I am looking forward to maybe this 144 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.399 afternoon getting out and getting a couple of things done 145 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:12.480 plenty to do in the garden and in the landscape, 146 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.639 that is for sure. You know that our garden centers 147 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:20.199 are chalk stocking up when it comes to getting ready 148 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:23.639 for fall. Summer's been We're still at the end of summer, 149 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:25.519 but it is getting to be time where if you 150 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:27.879 want to put some things out, like put some petunias 151 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:29.720 out and some other things that will carry you up 152 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.799 into the first frost, it'd be a good time. Miracles 153 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.399 another good one. You plant maragols in the fall and 154 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.799 they do so much better than they do in summer. 155 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.200 Spider miight populations are going down as we as the 156 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.360 days get shorter, when the day and the temperatures cooler, 157 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:49.679 and those marigols just glow in the in the cool, 158 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.039 crisp nights of fall, right up until the first frost. 159 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.039 Then it's time to switch them out for something else. 160 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:56.559 And Chaney Forest down there in Richmond, they are the 161 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:01.039 garden center that is on FM Twine and Richmond going 162 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.440 toward sugar Land. It's off to the right twenty seven 163 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:08.759 fifty nine. Enchanted Forest is a well is the name 164 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.320 in place. It's an enchanting place. I just love walking 165 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:15.000 through there. There's so much stock. They are loaded up 166 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.600 on all kinds of things that you know, the real 167 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.000 popular one of the newer plants that's kind of catching 168 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.399 on is desert rose. Desert rose is beautiful old plant. 169 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.879 They got plenty of those there. Have you seen those 170 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:30.000 yellow esperanzas around town? They have yellow. They have other 171 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:34.320 colors too. There's also kind of some orange versions of 172 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:37.360 that that are really beautiful. There's just a lot, there's 173 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.039 a lot. I maybe we could talk on and on. 174 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.480 They're starting to get in the first of the cooler 175 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.600 weather annuals. Dianthus is a good example of that. Dianthus 176 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:48.360 does really well. Also, well, they're gonna be open, by 177 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.279 the way, they're gonna be open today. They're going to 178 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.480 be open also tomorrow today until five tomorrow or excuse 179 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.000 me today from ten am to four, my mistake, excuse 180 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.480 me ten am to four. They'll be closed tomorrow Labor Day, 181 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.440 which is not unusual for businesses to be closed on 182 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.720 Labor Day. So I hope you'll check them out. Go 183 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:12.240 to the website. The website makes it really easy Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX. 184 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.200 There you'll find everything you need to know how to 185 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.279 get there, the upcoming events, and they always in the 186 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.759 fall or having educational activities. I'll be out there at 187 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:24.840 some point this fall, but in Gendi Forest in Richmond. 188 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:29.600 If you'd like to speak to me about some sort 189 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:32.840 of a disease or insect or suggestion for a plant 190 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.000 or diagnosis, you know whatever. Seven one three two one 191 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.679 two k t RH. Glad to visit with you. And 192 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:42.879 we've got some special things coming up today. I'm going 193 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.279 to do a little bit of a visit with someone 194 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:51.879 on soil and building raised beds and growing mixes and 195 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.080 things like that. And you hear me all the time 196 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.759 the broken record brown stuff before green stuff. Well I'm 197 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.279 gonna get some support in here for that concept as well. 198 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:06.000 You know, when it comes to building the soil, the 199 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:11.000 organic approach to soil building is are to gardening in general, 200 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.320 is to make the soil as healthy as you can. 201 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.039 And healthy means it's it drains well so it's not 202 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.399 water logged. The good microbes that are in the soil 203 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.519 have everything they need. That includes oxygen due to building 204 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.120 up good soil structure. It includes the carbon materials, the 205 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.759 organic materials that they chew on. That's their energy to 206 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:36.919 break down and microlife. Fertilizer is designed around just that. See, 207 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:41.159 the goal in designing Microlife was to create a fertilizer 208 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:46.840 that was natural, that had a ton of microbes even 209 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.120 added to it, and that functions in a way that 210 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:53.840 builds the soil. So for example, humtes plus that's a 211 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:56.679 zero zero four hu must is a mature that just 212 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:00.360 helps build soil structure and it helps and doing so 213 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:04.159 what it's doing is it's helping microbial activity as well. 214 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:04.720 Uh. 215 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.360 That makes it easy when you when you think about 216 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:10.399 some of the liquids that microlife has. You know, the 217 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:15.120 Biomatrix is seven one four is the orange label liquid. 218 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.360 It works very well. I use it in house plants, 219 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.320 I can use it and transplanting a lot of other things. 220 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.000 It's just a good fertilizer. But Microlife has a number 221 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:27.639 of those fish emulsions and seaweed based fertilizers and many 222 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:31.120 many others. Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com where you 223 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:33.000 can learn a lot more and it's really easy to 224 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:35.159 find pretty much every where. You hear me talk about 225 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.279 on guardenline and they're going to have microlife there very widespread. 226 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:40.200 Uh. 227 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:42.960 The phone number for garden Line is seven one three 228 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.600 two one two five eight, seven, four, seven one three 229 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.360 two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you would 230 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:54.799 like to send some sort of a photo that you 231 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.720 would then call to talk about, You're welcome to call 232 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:01.759 the number and just tell producer us that you need 233 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:03.960 an email address to send a photo for a question. 234 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.679 I think you probably makes sense if you think about it, 235 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:09.879 for me to try to answer every email that comes in, 236 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.600 and the millions of people that live in the greater 237 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.519 Houston area and even out where Garden Line's heard further 238 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:18.679 away than that, it just would be impossible. And so 239 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.360 what I ask is send me the photo. You can 240 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.600 send it ahead of time, preferably, but sometimes we talk 241 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.799 and I'll put someone in contact with Chris to get 242 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.080 an email, and it's just so that I can see 243 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:32.600 a picture that helps me answer your question better. That 244 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:38.200 sometimes your description and what minds I sees is not 245 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:40.639 the same thing, and that doesn't lead to a good outcome. 246 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.679 So that is the reason we do that. But you're 247 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:47.159 certainly welcome. You're certainly welcome to do that as well. 248 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.320 For those of you who follow us on Facebook, thank 249 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:54.000 you garden Line on Facebook. 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But now there is an Instagram page 262 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.639 garden Line with skip, so we invite you to kind 263 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:38.399 of join in with us on that. Uh. This is 264 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.120 this spring and early summer. Even the midsummer has been 265 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.320 a stormy one. You know, we had a couple of 266 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:47.440 really rough storms, one being a hurricane that knocked out power. 267 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:49.879 And everybody wants a generator now. And I would tell 268 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.879 you this, I certainly understand the insurance and the peace 269 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.039 of mind that comes with having a generator there at 270 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.000 the house. If you work from home, you got to 271 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:00.480 have power. 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Twenty four seven three sixty five 291 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.080 Go to QUALITYTX dot com, or you can also go 292 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.320 to or get them a call at seven one three 293 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:16.320 quality Quality TX dot com or seven one three Quality 294 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.320 head out to northwest Houston. Now we're gonna talk to Ralph. 295 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:21.480 Good morning, Ralph, welcome to Girdline. 296 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.120 Good morning, You've got a great program. I'm want to 297 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.440 know about my Saint Augustine grass. I thought I was 298 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.720 doing the right thing all the time. But some spots 299 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:36.679 or you have along that's not putting any grass and nothing, 300 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:40.360 but others are in the front yard or this, uh 301 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.399 there there, I haven't been keeping up with the yard. Okay, 302 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.759 let's say that what am I missing? 303 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:51.679 Well, it could be a number of things. You know. 304 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.320 Number one needs to be sunny, or at least pretty 305 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.960 sunny for Saint Augustine to be thick and look good. 306 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:01.240 You need to give it adequate water. But you know, 307 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:03.279 don't water every other day and just give it a 308 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:05.839 good soaking and let it dry out a little bit. 309 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:08.559 And you know, it could be a disease or a 310 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.799 lot of things that that can affect that can affect 311 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:16.920 your grass. Ralph, So I suspect it's going to be 312 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:18.839 a combination of some of those things. 313 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:22.680 Uh huh. 314 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:24.000 Have you fertilized lately? 315 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:25.759 Has that? 316 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:25.880 What? 317 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.839 Have you fertilized that area lately? 318 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:34.000 Not lately. When I first hit it was good but 319 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:37.440 I haven't done anything with its throb. 320 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.920 Yeah, it's good to do that. You know, we're getting 321 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:45.039 pretty close to fall fertilization time, so at this point 322 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.000 you may want to just hold and then get your 323 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:52.319 fall fertilization down probably towards the end of September here 324 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:57.759 for your area. But bottom line is, you know, at 325 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:00.480 the lawn, it's just a matter of mo water and 326 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:06.039 fertilized plus sunlight. And that's one of those four is lacking. 327 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.039 Well they're just in patches like that and it's really bad, 328 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:11.559 you know. 329 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:17.119 Yeah, sometimes it's variations in soil Ralph. Sometimes the soil 330 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:20.359 is not the same everywhere. Sometimes it's foot traffic, and 331 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.960 sometimes it's just diseases and diseases are random, and I 332 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:25.759 mean you can get a little disease over in one 333 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:29.960 area and maybe it's not evenly infected through the whole lawn. 334 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.079 So there are a lot of a lot of factors 335 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:34.599 like that. I just think you probably need to be 336 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:38.400 fertilizing a little more and probably when we go into 337 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.920 hot weather, give it a rescue. Watering is needed to 338 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:42.599 keep it going. 339 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.359 Well, it's just terrible, but it's such good grass. And 340 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:51.599 then this happens with teas. Okay, I appreciate you. Okay, 341 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:53.000 I have a good shows. 342 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:53.680 All right. 343 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:57.759 You take care. People care about their lawns, that is 344 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:01.319 for sure, and it's understandable. I totally understand that care 345 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.119 a lot. Hey have you been to Ana Plants and Produce. 346 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:06.359 Ana Plants and Produce is up there on one oh 347 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:10.759 five in uh the Montgomery area, and they have everything 348 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:12.960 you need. You need to go follow them online. You 349 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:15.559 need to check out that place. Drive by and just 350 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.920 go in and see. They've got some really good deals 351 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:20.240 going on right now. Always have good color, and they 352 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:23.119 are always loaded up on every fertilizer and soil product 353 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:24.759 that you might need. In fact, they got some deals 354 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.400 going on that right now. So but you just have 355 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.160 to give them a call. It's A and A Plants 356 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:31.599 and Produce, and I am going to have to take 357 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.440 a little break here and back to the guard Line. 358 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.200 Good to have you with us as always our phone 359 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:40.000 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 360 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.279 or if you like to dial by letters seven one 361 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:46.000 three two one two KTRH. As simple as that. I 362 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.119 was talking about Ana Plants and Produce. Where we went 363 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:50.559 to break, I just wanted to let you know. This 364 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:53.240 is kind of like your public service announcement. There is 365 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:55.519 This is day three of a three day sale they've 366 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.759 got going on. It ends today. Is today's the last 367 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:03.079 day five percent off all their bagged products, and that 368 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.480 would be fertilizers from like nitrofoss and Microlife for example. 369 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.720 If you're looking for soil, are also Nelson's too. By 370 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:15.160 the way, if you're looking for soil, there is materials 371 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:20.039 like Nature's Way Resources and airloom soils. There is stuff 372 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:24.359 from Landscaper's Pride their quality mixes and mulches and things, 373 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:26.880 and then azum I too. All of these and more 374 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:29.519 is all part of this three day sell that ends today. 375 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.640 So twenty five percent off. Here's the way to think 376 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:35.680 about it. Maybe you're thinking, well, I'm not doing anything 377 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:38.680 right now, go ahead and stock up on it, because 378 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:42.480 remember fall is the time that you want to have 379 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:46.319 your beds in shape already. Okay, it's if you wait 380 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.480 until it gets too late. It Typically what has happened 381 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:52.119 to me in the past is I get busy, I 382 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:54.039 don't get around to it, and suddenly it's like, oh, 383 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:56.160 I want to go plant broccoli, and now it's raining 384 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:58.279 for three days and then that's cooler, and so the 385 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:01.079 soil stays wet longer. It can't work the soil when 386 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.519 it's sopping wet. But if you get those beds built now, 387 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:06.119 this would be a good time to do it. So 388 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:08.920 I would recommend that you stock up, even if it's 389 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:11.720 just topping off some beds, not building them, and is 390 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:13.559 ready to go for it. I mean, they got it 391 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:15.440 out there, and they're giving you a good deal you 392 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:17.559 should take advantage of, especially all those of you who 393 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:23.960 live up there in the Lake Conroe area. In my 394 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:27.880 own yard and garden, I was noticing that I've got 395 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:31.880 some areas around my trees where the grass is struggling 396 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:34.400 a little bit. As those trees get denre and denture 397 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:37.920 through the years, as the light levels at the soil 398 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.440 get lower and lower, there's just less energy for that 399 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:43.960 grass to be able to grow and stay thick and 400 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.440 lush and healthy and everything. And it just starts getting spindly, 401 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.759 and as it starts to go down, it's hard to 402 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:51.680 get it turned back around. So what are you going 403 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.400 to do? I mean, you can go up and trim 404 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.119 a lot of branches out of the tree, that's really 405 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:58.720 not the best of all practices to do, and it's 406 00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:01.160 only going to be temporary because grow back in time. 407 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:06.920 So that's an opportunity to transform some of those areas 408 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:11.720 that are a little too shady into something that will 409 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:14.599 thrive in that kind of setting. Some plants are a 410 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:18.559 better able to utilize the limited sunlight and still thrive 411 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:19.839 and do good. And we've got a lot of great 412 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:22.480 shade gardens. So do you want a groundcover, do you 413 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.039 want to put some color in? You know, in the summer, 414 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:28.519 we use kalladiums in the shady areas, and we have 415 00:22:28.559 --> 00:22:31.279 flowers that grow in the better shady areas. We're about 416 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:34.759 to enter the cool season where the leaves fall off 417 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:39.319 of deciduous trees, and so areas around those could support 418 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:42.160 some cool season flowers because they're getting sunlight in the 419 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:45.559 wintertime like they don't during the summertime. Those are just 420 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:49.400 some things to think about, but just remember that we 421 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:54.000 can try to fight the nature out there, but oftentimes 422 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:57.720 it's better just when life gives you lemons make lemonade 423 00:22:57.960 --> 00:22:59.599 sort of thing. You know, we just go ahead and 424 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.920 that area. I've talked to people before that had areas 425 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.640 that were just sopping, soggy wet, and it didn't drain well, 426 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.720 and all the plants we want a plant wouldn't grow there. 427 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.119 Kind of thing, Well, why not plant something that wants 428 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:15.200 to grow there? Button bush is a native that grows 429 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:18.279 in wet areas, and it's really attractive. Big old bush 430 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.359 was really very attractive. There are other things like Louisiana irises, 431 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:25.319 and there are other plants that grow in a wet area, 432 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:28.519 So why not just go with that because that opens 433 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:30.720 a palette up to some new things to put in 434 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.839 the landscape. Just a few thoughts. Hopefully that'll be helpful 435 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:36.279 to you if you'd like to give a skull here 436 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:39.640 on Guardline seven to one three two one two KTRH. 437 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:41.559 By the way, I always listen to guard Line with 438 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.039 a piece of paper and a pen somewhere nearby, because 439 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.000 I may give a phone number or a website or 440 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.079 mention a product and you missed it. Of course, you 441 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:55.559 can always listen to the podcast afterwards, but it's just 442 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:58.160 better to keep a pen or pencil handy because a 443 00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:01.359 lot of things are very timely, like that sale. It 444 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:05.519 was just timbat Medina has a product called has to Grow. 445 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:09.440 It's a six twelve six plant food. Now that higher 446 00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:12.440 middle number the phosphorus is telling you that you know, 447 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:16.119 that's going to help with root development and also with 448 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:19.160 some of the other functions in the plant, like blooming 449 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:25.759 and like producing the carbohydrates and whatnot that it needs. 450 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:28.480 That's part of the deal. Well, Medina has to Grow 451 00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:33.559 six twelve six has not just that nitrogen phosphor potassium. 452 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.599 It's got Medina soil activator for stimulating biological activity, humates, 453 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:41.839 humic acid to improve soil structure. I've been talking about 454 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:46.079 that today, and just even sea read extracts are in there, 455 00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:49.039 and all of that helps to stimulate health. It helps 456 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:52.200 to stimulate fruiting and blooming. You can use has to 457 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:54.400 Grow six twelve six as a folier. It's not going 458 00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:57.680 to burn your plants. You can and I would recommend 459 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:00.000 you use it when you're doing any kind of transplanting, 460 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:04.279 when you're putting your fall flowers, winter flowers in, when 461 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:06.279 you're putting in shrubs and trees. Just mix it up 462 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:09.000 in a big old canister or a watering bottle, or 463 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:11.720 sometimes they just chose a five gallon bucket and then 464 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:14.039 just use as a drench to water in those plants. 465 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:16.240 When you're trying to get a lot done, it's helpful 466 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:19.200 to do it that way. Medina has to grow six 467 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:23.279 twelve six plant food, very convenient, widely available. Like all 468 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:25.920 Medina products, It's available in quart bottles that have a 469 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:27.960 little measuring cup at the top of the bottom built 470 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:31.799 into the bottle. It is also a convenient hose in 471 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:35.440 sprayer quart size gallons and of course even larger if 472 00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:38.519 you want to go for that. It's a good product 473 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:42.160 and it works. You are listening to garden Line and 474 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:44.559 I'm your host, Skip Richter. Our phone number if you'd 475 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:46.640 like to give us a call seven one three two 476 00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:50.319 one two fifty eight seventy four seven to one three 477 00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:55.720 two one two five eight seven four. For those of 478 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:58.799 you that live down south of the Houston area, you're 479 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:02.640 fortunate there when it comes to taking care of building 480 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:06.680 a foundation for any kind of success in your lawn, garden, landscape, 481 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:09.880 you name it, and that is building the soil. And 482 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:13.880 the place is Medina Medina. I'm not just talking about Medina. 483 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:15.839 They have Medina at this place. I'm about to tell 484 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:20.440 you to Ciena Maltz. Ciena Maltz is down on FM 485 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:24.400 five one just north of Roast Sharon. Here's the website. 486 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:26.319 You go here and you can find out everything you 487 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:27.920 need to know, including how to get there, how to 488 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:31.920 call them Cienamaltz dot com, CNA Maltz dot com. And 489 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:34.119 I always say start with the brown stuff before you 490 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:36.559 put in the green stuff. And Ciena Maltch is the 491 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:39.960 place where you get all the brown stuff stuff that 492 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:43.000 you might need. Do you need composts? Do you need 493 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:47.640 veggie herb mixed from marlom soil? Do you need some 494 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:51.559 expanded shale? Do you need fertilizers? And I'm talking about 495 00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:53.720 all the ones you hear me talk about Azemie and 496 00:26:53.799 --> 00:27:01.599 Microlife and Nelson's and the nitroposs Medina. Do you wont landscapers, Pride? 497 00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:03.960 Do you want airlooms? They have all of it there 498 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:07.759 And so when you drive away, you have everything you 499 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.519 need to set a foundation for success. You're gonna plant 500 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.400 fruit trees as fall, You're gonna plant shrubs or trees. 501 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:16.319 Do you have some perennials that you want to put in? 502 00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:19.200 Start it with the soil and see Enumulch is a place. 503 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:21.640 They're down south again. They're just north of road sharing 504 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:24.799 On five twenty one. By the way, they're open Monday 505 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:28.880 through Friday seven thirty to five and Saturday seven thirty 506 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:31.880 to two. Close today, closed on Sunday, but they'll be 507 00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:35.440 open again tomorrow for you to get going. And it 508 00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:39.880 is definitely time to get going on that. It's time 509 00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:41.799 for me to take a little break, So I'm gonna 510 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:44.400 pause and do that, and I'll be right back the 511 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:48.039 phones that start this last segment of the first hour, 512 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:50.839 We're gonna go to Fairfield and talk to Marty. Hello, 513 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:56.000 Marty morning skip. Hey, I'm ready to prep my beds 514 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:00.039 for my fall. Bengis my coal crops. 515 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.440 But I still have peppers and they're not big, but 516 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:08.039 they're just I had flowers and and peppers still on 517 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:12.920 the vines. I wondered, if I pull the peppers off 518 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:14.960 and then just pull up the plants so I can 519 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:19.400 prep the beds, will they still ripen like on the 520 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:20.279 counter top. 521 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:23.960 No, they won't. They won't go any further once you 522 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:29.079 harvest them, I would. I mean, it depends on what 523 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.480 kind of pepper you know, they're they're going to get bigger. 524 00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:34.319 A pepper gets bigger and so it hits its size. 525 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:37.559 For whatever species of pepper you got. But then if 526 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:40.400 you want it to go in toward turning color, like 527 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.599 you'd like to get a little red color in it, 528 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:46.000 or whatever color it will turn, that just takes even 529 00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:49.599 more time. And we have these spring and fall traffic 530 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.519 gems in the garden, and especially at the spring, but 531 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.279 we also have it in fall, you know, and so 532 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.440 you just kind of have to make a decision on 533 00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:59.680 what you want to do. One way to head your 534 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.160 belt a little bit is to take your fall plantings 535 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.319 and put them in small, smaller containers. Like let's say 536 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.880 you bought a little six pack of broccoli, but you 537 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:13.279 didn't really have room for it. You weren't ready for 538 00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:15.720 it yet. You could move them into four inch pots 539 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.640 and even bigger if you wanted. But that way you're 540 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.680 keeping the fall crop growing and at the same time 541 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:25.599 getting just a little bit more out of your warm 542 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:28.599 seasoned crop. So that's about the only strategy I can 543 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:29.799 think up to help a little bit. 544 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:31.559 That's a good idea. 545 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:34.240 I haven't gotten my plants yet. 546 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:38.599 I wanted to prep the beds first, but that's a 547 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:40.319 good idea. 548 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:43.440 I think I'll do that all right. All right, Well, 549 00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:49.680 thank you for the call. Okay, bye, ideas. All right, yeah, 550 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:51.720 that is true. Hey have you have you guys been 551 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:54.599 those of you listening, have you been to Buchanan's Native Plants. 552 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:56.680 I know those of you in north central Houston have 553 00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:59.839 because it's located in the Heights on Eleventh Street. But 554 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.440 what about those of you from other areas. You know, 555 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:06.200 we have so many great garden centers here that I 556 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:07.599 think we all need to be doing a little bit 557 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:12.799 of what we call horticultural tourism about that, go visit 558 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:16.000 some new places, and Buchanans is one of those unique places. 559 00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:19.160 And we are so blessed here to have such awesome 560 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:25.519 independent garden centers. Buchanan's Native Plants they are most known, 561 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:28.079 I would say, for the fact that they have a 562 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:32.240 huge variety of natives and lots and lots of information 563 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:34.759 and whatever kind of gardening you want. You know, it's 564 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:36.519 not just give me a native plant. It's like, give 565 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:39.200 me a native plant the hummingbirds will be attracted to, 566 00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:42.000 for example, or one that bees or pollinators will be 567 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:44.319 attracted to. Give me a native plant that can grow 568 00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:46.000 in the shape. They can do all of that at 569 00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:50.640 Buchanan's Plants. The websites Buchanans plants dot Com, knowledgeable staff, 570 00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:54.720 full line of products to take care of your plants 571 00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:58.039 to have success with them, including those brown stuff things 572 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:03.119 that I've been talking about. Buchanansplants dot Com is a website. 573 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:05.880 Go to the website, sign up for the newsletter. It 574 00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:08.960 is outstanding, as is the website when it comes to 575 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:11.680 being able to just learn more and more and get 576 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.559 better and better. And that is the kind of garden 577 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:16.920 center we're looking for, and you find it there are 578 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:21.839 Buchanans Native Plants. I'm going to head now to Kingwood, 579 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:26.039 Texas and talk to Janey. Hello, Janie, I skip. 580 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:29.119 Can you hear me? 581 00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:30.839 Help? Yes, ma'am. 582 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.319 Well, I went ahead and brought the yard down in 583 00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.640 spring to soil, and I went to Nature's Way like 584 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:39.480 you recommended and got the mulch. 585 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:41.319 And after I got all of. 586 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:44.599 The plants put in, we did the compost, you know, 587 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:48.680 and more moult. Problem is, after barrel, I have all 588 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:54.519 of these like fungus looking spores in every single bed. 589 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.599 I went ahead and picked them up and removed them 590 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:00.960 and put them in a like a bucket and contain them. 591 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:03.480 But I was hoping I could send you a picture 592 00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:05.720 so you can tell me what I'm dealing with, because 593 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.960 there's been nothing else in those beds, with the exception 594 00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:09.920 of all of the water. 595 00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:15.480 Can you describe them, just real briefly. Whatever they look like. 596 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:16.240 How big are they? 597 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:20.400 They're about well, they're about as big as account patty 598 00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:25.480 and they are. They've got little round open spores on 599 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:29.720 the top and it looks like just one round. I'll 600 00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:32.000 go ahead and send you a picture if that's possible, 601 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.599 but I'm pretty sure it's fungal. I was worried about 602 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:39.359 spraying because you said that it's not. It doesn't discriminate 603 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:42.119 like it'll kill all even good fungus. I didn't want 604 00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:42.440 to do that. 605 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.640 Well, I think I know what they are, but I'm 606 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:49.559 gonna look at a picture, and so what I'm gonna do, Janey, 607 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.559 is put you on hold, and Chris will give you 608 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.400 an email address. Send me some pictures of the little 609 00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.960 bit further back and then up close, but make sure 610 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:01.039 they're all in good sharp focus, and I will tell 611 00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:03.160 you what they are. I'm going to say, I'm ninety 612 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:06.559 percent sure that this is nothing for you to worry about. 613 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:09.319 This is not going to kill your plants or something 614 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.640 like that. But let me take a look at the 615 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:13.279 picture and be. 616 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:18.000 Sure, Okay, awesome, wonderful, I'll hold Thank you so much, you. 617 00:33:18.039 --> 00:33:20.599 Bet, thank you, thank you very much for the call. Crystal. 618 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:23.640 Pick that up and get that information to you. You know, 619 00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:26.920 we are going to get a lot of mushroom calls 620 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.880 in fall. Mushrooms and other fruiting bodies there are. The 621 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.279 world of mushrooms is amazing. I mean it really truly 622 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:41.440 the world of fungi. And I just read a book, 623 00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:46.519 a really interesting book about fungi across the world and 624 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.119 all things they do and what they've what they've learned 625 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.119 about them, and how they interact together and connect plants 626 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:55.480 to communicate between plants, and what they do in the soil, 627 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.839 and how they can do things that know other microbes 628 00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:00.759 than the microbes aren't able to do, and it is 629 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:03.480 just really interesting. But anyway, the bottom line on it 630 00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:08.480 was that what I'm trying to say is when fall 631 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:10.400 comes and we get the weather break, we start see 632 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.119 all kinds of weird stuff. There is a mushroom. There 633 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.800 is a fungus, I must say, fungus that grows on 634 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.280 malts that looks like the dog threw up on the molts. 635 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:23.239 It literally looks like that. There's another one that looks 636 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.079 like scrambled eggs up on top of the molts. And 637 00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:28.679 people call and they get all freaky and weird and say, 638 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:31.920 there's this yellow thing like I don't know what it 639 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:34.960 is on top of my mulch. And bottom line, it's 640 00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:41.079 nature making organic matter turn into soil. That is why 641 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:43.480 we're not a mile deep in tree trunks here in 642 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:46.480 the Gray Easton area. Every tree that ever lived on 643 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:49.519 this place for going back in time if there wasn't 644 00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.360 something to decompose them. And mushrooms are the one or 645 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.280 fungi are the ones that can really do the lign 646 00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:58.480 and the toughest part of the tree. But it's just 647 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:00.639 part of nature and we can relax. You know what 648 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:03.440 people call about ferry meushrooms in the yard all the time, 649 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:05.840 And I don't think you need to use a fungus 650 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:08.000 to try to stop that. I think you need to 651 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:09.920 get a golf club and realize it's going to go 652 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:11.719 away on its own. But in the meantime you're going 653 00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:16.199 to have some fun. That's my two cents worth for 654 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:23.000 whatever that is worth. Plantrall Seasons is a garden center 655 00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:26.400 that's right there on two forty nine and Luetta two 656 00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.440 forty nine and Luetta. It's easy, easy to find, easy 657 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:31.119 to get to. But when you go in there, you're 658 00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:33.519 going into garden center. It's been family owned and operated 659 00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:36.639 since nineteen seventy three. You're going into the place where 660 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:39.440 the Flowerty family and there's a number of Flowery family 661 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:43.760 members that work there, including their other employees, are knowledgeable 662 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.079 and they can answer your questions. They can point you 663 00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:49.239 in the right direction. They can direct you to the 664 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:51.840 product that you might need, or make suggestions. You buy 665 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:53.920 a plant, you come back in, you go, hey, I 666 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:56.599 see this on it is this okay. They're knowledgeable, they 667 00:35:56.599 --> 00:35:59.119 can do that, and that is so important. Here's your 668 00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:03.280 phone number one three seven six sixteen forty six or 669 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:07.679 go to Plants for All Seasons dot com Plants for 670 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:13.679 All Seasons dot com. I love going to gardens. I've 671 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:15.960 been talking about that this morning, but I just love 672 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:18.679 going to new garden centers, even ones I've been to, 673 00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:22.000 because you know, every time the seasons change, the things 674 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:25.440 that are in the garden center changes. I like going 675 00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:27.360 I going to Ace Hardner shows all the time because 676 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:29.880 each one's independently owned and so you know, you never know, 677 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:31.400 I mean you don't, you know, go into one that 678 00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:36.159 has a laser that cuts that etches cutting boarders. You know, 679 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.119 you may go into one that has a fudge bar 680 00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:41.519 or whatever. It just makes it fun. I enjoy doing 681 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:43.760 that and I love, especially in the garden centers, to 682 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:47.159 see the changes through the seasons and kind of always 683 00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:52.440 new plants. Listen so many plants, so little time. My 684 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:54.480 goal here on guard Line is to help you have success. 685 00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:58.440 I want you to feel like gardening is fun and 686 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.599 you can do it, and the Wheel want to guide 687 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:04.840 you in that and advising and diagnosing and assisting in 688 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.119 any way we can. And that's why we're here. Here's 689 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.320 the phone number seven one three two one two k 690 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.320 t r H if you want to call during break 691 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:14.840 and be one of the first ones up to come back. 692 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:20.400 A h Guarden Line with Skip Richard. 693 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:31.440 It's just watching world. 694 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:37.000 All right. 695 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.519 I hope you're having a good Sunday morning so far, 696 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:44.239 nice and peaceful and quiet. I love this early morning 697 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:46.360 time and just I don't know, just want of the 698 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:49.199 quiet times. Hear things in the house you never heard before, 699 00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:51.559 you know, the clicking of a clock that you never 700 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:55.760 had really noticed, and until everything is real silent and quiet. 701 00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:58.719 It's kind of nice refrigerator kicking on. What's that noise? 702 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:03.719 You know what? We you're listening to guardline. I'm talking 703 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.800 on the guardline. We're talking about all the things that 704 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.639 we need to know in order to have a beautiful landscape, 705 00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:11.920 bountiful garden. And that's kind of the goal here when 706 00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:15.960 it comes to having beautiful lawns, making sure trees stay healthy. 707 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.119 You know, trees are so valuable and very important part 708 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:21.880 of the landscape. That's why I like to send people 709 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.800 to Martin spoon Moore an affordable tree because Martin knows 710 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:27.159 what he's doing. He's been doing this a very long time, 711 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.880 and he can come in. Maybe you need some printing done. 712 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.719 You know, the next storm that comes through. And by 713 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:34.239 the way, you don't have to have a hurricane to 714 00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.039 have a storm. The next storm that comes through, is 715 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:39.719 your tree ready for it? Have you done all you can? 716 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:41.920 You know, there's a storm that'll take down any tree 717 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:45.880 no matter what, But why not make them as resilient 718 00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:49.199 and as strong as possible. Why not minimize the risk? 719 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.199 And Martin can do that. He can help advise you 720 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.920 on what to do around the tree too. I see 721 00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:57.440 pictures all the time, a beautiful tree and they build 722 00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:59.360 a house around it and put a sidewalk over it 723 00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:03.840 and run trench besided for utilities, and I just think, Okay, well, 724 00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:06.079 I guess the next step is pay somebody to take 725 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:07.840 it down and hallered away because it's going to die 726 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:09.719 because they didn't do the things they need to do. 727 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:12.360 Martin knows how to take care of trees. So go 728 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.559 to Affordable Tree. You can go aff tree Service dot com, 729 00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:19.239 aff tree Service dot com, or give them a call 730 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:23.760 at seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 731 00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:27.679 Seven one three six nine twenty six sixty three. Listen, 732 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.920 just because someone owns a chainsaw and a pickup does 733 00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:34.079 not mean they need to touch your trees. You need 734 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.280 somebody that knows what they're talking about. It always breaks 735 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.079 my heart to see damage that's been done, and now 736 00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:42.719 what do we do? How do we fix it? So 737 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.159 much you can do ahead of time, so little that 738 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:48.159 can be done after the damage has already been done. 739 00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:53.199 I was talking with a neighbor the other day that 740 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:57.360 had a drainage system issue in the backyard. And when 741 00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.199 you when you have areas that are low and you 742 00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:03.320 have soil that is clay. When you have features in 743 00:40:03.400 --> 00:40:06.719 the landscape that take water and move it to another area, 744 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.519 like your roof, your roof gutters like a hardescape, the 745 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:12.679 water washes off. I've suddenly you got areas that are 746 00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.440 really poorly drained, and pierscapes can fix that. I talk 747 00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:19.920 about pier scapes all the time, but they can fix 748 00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:22.679 those drainage areas. We're about to get into the fall season. 749 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:24.760 It'd be a good time to give them a call. It's 750 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:27.280 time for planting. What kind of beds do you want 751 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:29.199 to put in? What kind of designing do you want? 752 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:33.159 Do you is your irrigation system still working? Okay, so 753 00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:35.079 they need to be checked over. Do you need somebody 754 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:40.000 to come through quarterly, quarterly, every quarter and revamp your beds. 755 00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:43.000 I'm talking about trimming them, weeding them, fertilizing them, making 756 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.400 sure irrigation is working, putting the mulch down seasonally, as 757 00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:52.320 how many times a year you select to do. Doing 758 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:54.760 a color change. You know, we've got a lot of 759 00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:57.519 summer plants now, but there's a freezer for us coming 760 00:40:57.639 --> 00:40:59.719 and at some point we got to switch to another 761 00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:02.800 one or color changes Piercecapes can do that. They can 762 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:05.199 do that too if you want to go all out. 763 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.519 How about a beautiful outdoor for our place? Oh when 764 00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:11.119 a crisp, cool nights get here? Can you imagine how 765 00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:13.519 nice that would be. Peercecapes knows how to do it. 766 00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:16.360 Here's the phone number two eight one three seven oh 767 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:20.400 fifty sixty. Or just go to the website Peerscapes dot 768 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.840 com and see the kind of work that they can do. 769 00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:27.320 You are listening to Guardline our phone number seven one 770 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.000 three two one two ktrh. How can we help you 771 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:34.760 have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape? 772 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:36.480 That is what we like to do. 773 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:38.719 Uh. 774 00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.159 You know the the uh the folks at it Enchanted 775 00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:44.880 Gardens which is on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond 776 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:48.679 and Chanty Gardens. It's on FM three fifty nine for 777 00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:51.199 those of you who know that area three fifty nine. 778 00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:53.880 Just if you're in Richmond heading north toward Katie fullsher 779 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:57.239 direction FM three fifty nine in Chanty Gardens. Here's the 780 00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:03.199 website Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. Have you never been? You got 781 00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:06.760 to go see the place because it is gorgeous. Everything 782 00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:09.360 you need are you getting ready for fall, maybe some 783 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:12.679 fall decorations, fall plantings, but also you know with the 784 00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:18.320 Halloween and Thanksgiving and holidays coming up, all kinds of 785 00:42:18.360 --> 00:42:21.639 things to decorate your landscape and your home. When it 786 00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:25.559 comes to plants, if you want combination planters, maybe something 787 00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:29.320 combined into a beautiful basket of beautiful wire basket planting, 788 00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:32.760 they can do all of that. Their selection of plants 789 00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:36.519 and trees and their knowledge of this area is unmatched. 790 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.159 I mean, they really really do a good job. Fallows 791 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:41.679 a time for vegetables and roses, and also for herbs. 792 00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:45.119 Follows a time to plant your roses. If you need 793 00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:49.119 antique or hybrid, they've got them there, specimen types of trees, 794 00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:51.960 and then the products that you need to go with them. 795 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.519 They know also brownze stuff before green stuff, so microlife, 796 00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:00.000 Nature's Way, nitrofoss, Nelson plant food, heirloom soils, landscapers, pride, 797 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:03.079 medina and other things that I recommend here on garden 798 00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:06.119 Line are all there and enchanted gardens. If I'm three 799 00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:08.639 point fifty nine on the Katie Folsher side of Richmond. 800 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:11.320 They are open today by the way, ten am to 801 00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:14.199 four pm. So this afternoon be a good time to 802 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:20.119 get out there. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. I am 803 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.440 going to head to Southwest Houston now and we're going 804 00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:26.400 to talk to Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn, welcome to garden Line. 805 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:32.199 Thank you. My Chinese broccoli is still making the one 806 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:35.519 that I planted in the spring. Can I nurse that 807 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:38.239 through for the fall? Or do I need to replant? 808 00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:42.239 You don't need to replant. Just keep taking care of it. 809 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:45.199 I've got some old leaves further down the stems, you know, 810 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:48.000 that are showing some leaf spots or any kind of thing. 811 00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:49.639 Just go ahead and take those off. Get all that 812 00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:53.639 out of there so you don't spread the any diseases. 813 00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:56.400 Going forward to kind of a sanitary measure, you know, 814 00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:01.639 like cleaning house, getting all the junk and yeah, fertilize 815 00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:03.880 and water and when it cools off, it's going to 816 00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:05.679 get real happy and the flavor gets a little bit 817 00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:07.320 better too, when it gets crisp and cool. 818 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:10.559 Do I need to fertilize or the gain. 819 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:15.000 When was the last time you fertilized it? 820 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:21.159 When I planted it? Oh, I have the grow boxes 821 00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:24.719 and I come with with fertilizer in them. 822 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:27.280 Okay, you have one of the boxes where you put 823 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:32.519 the liquid down in the bottom and then it works. Okay, yeah, right, Well, 824 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:34.840 I mean if they've got fertilizer in it, that's fine. 825 00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:36.920 I don't know a lot of times they'll put a 826 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.400 slow release into that soil mix in the grow box, 827 00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:41.320 but that's. 828 00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:43.559 Only it's good for four. 829 00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.519 Months, yeah, three to four months. And as in our 830 00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:50.159 climate where it's hot, things move a little bit faster, 831 00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:53.360 you know, decomposition goes faster and other things because of 832 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:56.679 our warm weather. But so I would I would do 833 00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:58.199 that again, you got a couple of. 834 00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:01.039 Ecs, Okay, I have some of the happy frogs, so 835 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:03.320 that put some of that on it. 836 00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:05.800 Is that a fertilizer or a soil you're talking about 837 00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:06.519 from them? 838 00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:08.039 Now, that's the fertilizer. 839 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:14.880 I would that's what you have. Okay, yeah, use what 840 00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:18.679 you have one, But in general, I would probably direct 841 00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:22.800 you to a different kind of fertilizer, especially if you're 842 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:25.079 looking at something to give you a good long release 843 00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:27.679 and that's got a good blend of nutrients and stuff. There. 844 00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:29.639 There's we have a number of good products that I 845 00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:33.119 talk about here on guard line. But all right, hey, Carolyn, 846 00:45:33.199 --> 00:45:34.760 I have got to go to a break. They are 847 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:38.079 telling me to cut my mic off here. So I'll 848 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.199 wish you will and thank you for the call. You bet, 849 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:44.679 when we come back from break, we will take your 850 00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:47.079 call at seven one three two one two fifty eight 851 00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:52.719 seventy four. Do you have well, give me a call 852 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:56.760 seven one three two one two five eight seven four 853 00:45:56.840 --> 00:45:59.960 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 854 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:05.639 When it comes to preparing your soil, landscapers pride folks, 855 00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:08.400 they have got you covered. They have a number of 856 00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:12.079 different products, many different products to build soil to make 857 00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:17.360 it a stronger, healthier, more effective medium for growing your plants. 858 00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:19.880 Also for mulchs to go on the surface, you always 859 00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:21.840 need mult In the summer it's hot and they cool 860 00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:25.239 the surface in the cool season and really twelve months 861 00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.079 out the year they're fighting weeds, which is a problem 862 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.400 in stopping erosion and other things. For example, a landscaper's 863 00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:34.639 pride is one called black velvet. It is not dyed maults. 864 00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.199 We don't recommend that on garden line, but they do 865 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:41.800 have one black velvet, naturally dark colored, velvety black beautiful 866 00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:44.400 malts and it works really well. They have a top 867 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:46.719 soil that is a blend of a sandy loam soil 868 00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:50.280 with some composted material in it. Compost in it. You 869 00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:52.079 can use that for topping off, maybe you got some 870 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:54.000 low spots in the lawn, or maybe you just want 871 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.199 to use it in building into a bed. It works 872 00:46:56.239 --> 00:46:59.679 really well for either way. Their premium potting mix is 873 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:05.119 like potting soil on steroids. It's got a Nelson plant 874 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:08.960 Food color star ingredient in it that just gives like 875 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:14.719 three months of color feeding, fertilization all in that potting mix. 876 00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:17.559 It'd be good for indoor plants, be good for outdoor plants, 877 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:21.440 it'd be good for vegetables, flowers, whatever you want to grow. 878 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:23.840 And then, of course the rose mix Rosemex kind of 879 00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:27.880 a standard here Nelson or excuse me. The Landscaper's Pride 880 00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:31.639 rose mix has a nice blend of all the things 881 00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:36.119 necessary to create a beautiful, healthy rosebush. That foundation that 882 00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.400 when you add additional nutrients, roses just take off like 883 00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:43.239 a rocket. All from Landscaper's Pride Landscaperspride dot com. That's 884 00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.280 their website. If you want to go check out where 885 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.320 you can find them. They're pretty widely available. In fact, 886 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:49.639 it's most of the places I talk about are going 887 00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:55.039 to have landscapers Pride products available for you. You are listening 888 00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:56.320 to Garden Line. If you like to give us a 889 00:47:56.320 --> 00:47:58.639 call kind of quiet on the phones this morning, uh 890 00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.719 seven one three to KTRH. We'll be happy to visit 891 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:05.239 with you, answer your questions. Otherwise, I'm just going to 892 00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:07.599 be talking about the things that I think are important. 893 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:09.960 And really, you know when I do that, what I'm 894 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.440 doing is I'm addressing the questions I get during the week, 895 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:17.280 the questions I get seasonally every year, at whatever time 896 00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.760 it is. There's a cycle. There have been doing this 897 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:23.960 thirty five years, actually thirty six now, and so I've 898 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.880 kind of gotten used to the common questions. But you know, 899 00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:29.760 the fun thing is there's always something new. There's always 900 00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:33.079 some other thing that I hadn't heard of it before. 901 00:48:33.159 --> 00:48:36.039 Some new plant now, everybody's got to have it, that 902 00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:40.119 kind of thing. If you have not fertilized your lawn 903 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:44.280 this summer, you can still do a Nitropos Superturf application. 904 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:48.519 Superturf is a gradual release fertilizer releases over time. It's 905 00:48:48.599 --> 00:48:52.480 the silver bag, the silver bag from Nitrofoss. So you're 906 00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:55.079 going to find Nitropas super Turf at a lot of 907 00:48:55.119 --> 00:48:58.760 different places. You go to d and De Feed up 908 00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:00.639 in Tumball and they're going to it there. You go 909 00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:05.199 down to Angleton on Velasco at Lake Hardware and Angleton 910 00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:08.079 they're going to have it there. Go to Baytown Fisher's 911 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:11.239 Hardware on Alexander, they're going to have Nitroposs super turf 912 00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:17.719 there as well. Excuse me. Someone was talking to me 913 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:21.960 the other day about returning grass clippings and just they 914 00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:23.840 were kind of looking at it as if it were 915 00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:27.480 like a controversy, you know, should you return grass clippings 916 00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:33.159 or not? And there is no controversy. Nature returns grass clippings, right. 917 00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:36.320 Have you ever seen if I have a T shirt 918 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:38.719 that I had designed, it's got Holstein cows and they're 919 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:41.599 mowing a meadow and putting the bags of clippings out 920 00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:46.840 at the roadside. So nature recycles naturally. Yes, you can 921 00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:49.280 return them now if you don't mow for a while 922 00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:51.480 and it gets you real tall, if it gets wet, 923 00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:54.960 maybe the rain has kept you from mowing. There are 924 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:56.960 times when you don't want to leave your long looking 925 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.800 like a hayfield, and you pick them up. I do 926 00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:00.960 that but I use them as small in the garden beds, 927 00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:03.440 just a light coating of malts over the beds, use 928 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.400 them in a compost pile, whatever, But in general, more 929 00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:09.599 regularly and with a multi more and return the clippings. 930 00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:12.800 Do you know here's a fun fact. You need to 931 00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:15.960 listen to this one. If you were to take all 932 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:20.519 the clippings that you produce in your lawn for the 933 00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:23.480 whole year and send them to a lab and say, 934 00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:25.480 I want you to tell me how many pounds of 935 00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:29.960 nitrogen phosphorsym potassium there are in these, it would be 936 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:34.519 more fertilizer than you fertilize. If you follow the full 937 00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:37.679 schedule fertilizing all the times that are on the schedule, 938 00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:43.480 your lawn more puts out more nutrients than your fertilizer 939 00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:46.440 sprouder does. Does that mean you don't need to fertilize, No, 940 00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:48.519 of course not. It just means if you bag your 941 00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:52.119 clippings now you have to fertilize even more because you're 942 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:56.079 taking nature's perfect slow release fertilizer, which is a grass clipping. 943 00:50:56.519 --> 00:50:58.719 This is going to decompose and not just give you 944 00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:03.000 nitrogen phosphorsympth tasting. It's going to give you all the micros, 945 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:06.880 because remember I said they were essential. It takes micros 946 00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.159 to build a grass plant. So when you hold up 947 00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:11.840 in your hand a clipping, let's say you have a 948 00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:16.920 Saint Augustine clipping. In that clipping, there's manganese and there's boron, 949 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.840 and there's all the micros as well as the macros 950 00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:25.480 that are needed in order to have successfully grow a clipping. 951 00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:28.760 So here's the decision. Your lawn needs mowing this afternoon. 952 00:51:28.800 --> 00:51:31.920 Let's say, okay, you're going to do that. Where the 953 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:36.599 where is all the organic matter and free already purchased 954 00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:40.119 nutrients going to go in a bag to pay somebody 955 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:42.440 to haul them off to hold the ground somewhere or 956 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:44.519 is it going to go back into your landscape? That 957 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:49.599 makes sense, follow the way nature does it. And you 958 00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:51.639 should return your clipping. And if you don't, be ready 959 00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:54.000 to fertilize a little bit more. And I understand there's 960 00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:56.679 times when we don't. I understand that. Another time when 961 00:51:56.679 --> 00:51:58.719 you don't return the clippings is when you have a 962 00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:00.679 whole bunch of weeds that have gone on to seed, 963 00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:03.199 bag those up and get them out of there. Don't 964 00:52:03.199 --> 00:52:07.800 return the weed seeds back in. But in general return 965 00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:13.039 the clippings makes sense. We call that don't bag it? Well, 966 00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:15.599 you're listening to garden line. The number seven one three, two, 967 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:18.960 one two five eight seven four seven one three two 968 00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:23.559 one two fifty eight seventy four. Warrens and Kingwood Garden 969 00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:25.800 Center are both out there in Kingwood. So you guys 970 00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:29.480 are really fortunate to have two great garden centers that 971 00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:32.599 you can visit out in the Kingwood area. Kingwood Garden 972 00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:37.079 Centers over there on Stone Hollow, Stone Hollow, Warrens Gardens. 973 00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:39.199 I bet you've been to Warrens. I probably don't even 974 00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:40.800 need to tell you this, and be probably into both 975 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.840 of them, but Warrens is on North Park Drive. Both 976 00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:47.519 of them have an outstanding selection of everything you need 977 00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:50.320 for success. Do you need fertilizers? Do you need soil? 978 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:53.599 Do you need great plants of all kinds? I'm talking 979 00:52:53.599 --> 00:53:00.840 about shade plants, sun plants, native plants, ornamental trees and shrubs, vegetables, herbs, 980 00:53:01.480 --> 00:53:04.599 just on and on tropicals. There's another one. Do you 981 00:53:04.679 --> 00:53:08.440 need a good fertilized genie succulents? Do you need containers? 982 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:13.519 Their statuary, their pottery collection is beautiful and then vines, 983 00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:16.880 you know, ornamental grasses, blooming vines, groundcovers. They've got it 984 00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:19.599 all and it always looks good out there. They're always 985 00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:22.559 doing an excellent job when it comes to bringing in 986 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:25.840 quality stuff and then advising you properly on that you 987 00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:28.559 can take your problem question in there and they can 988 00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:30.800 help you with it. They're happy to do that. They've 989 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:33.679 got some great sales going on right now, what we 990 00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:36.119 call the yellow dot sales. You put a big yellow 991 00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:39.280 dot on the on the container and you can pick 992 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:42.199 up some really nice plants that they have on a 993 00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:44.679 special going on out there. So take advantage of that. 994 00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:47.599 Don't let this, don't let this slip by. If you 995 00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:49.760 haven't been to Warren Southern Gardens, get out there and 996 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:53.320 enjoy yourself because it is fun. I've been in there 997 00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:55.960 more than once with my wife. She loves shopping in there. 998 00:53:56.519 --> 00:54:01.559 Warren Southern Gardens. Going to go now to the phones 999 00:54:01.800 --> 00:54:05.079 and we're gonna go back to Northwest Houston. Talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph, 1000 00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:05.639 what's up? 1001 00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:12.000 Dime back again? Oh my Gordon, Mark Berthable, Gordon. It 1002 00:54:12.039 --> 00:54:15.119 didn't do nothing this year last year, and it was 1003 00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:19.880 always a great produce. And it's just everything was bad. 1004 00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:21.599 But what am I missing? 1005 00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:25.280 You got a lot of sunlight on that spot? 1006 00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:26.519 Oh? 1007 00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:32.239 I got not a lot, but yeah, I got it's 1008 00:54:32.280 --> 00:54:32.920 pretty open. 1009 00:54:33.199 --> 00:54:37.519 Yes, yeah, well if you kind of look at it. 1010 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:40.119 I've done this before. But I'll go out to a 1011 00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:42.000 spot in my yard where I'm thinking about putting in 1012 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:44.199 a garden. I'll take a picture of it at nine 1013 00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:46.760 in the morning, and at eleven in the morning, and 1014 00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:49.519 at one pm, and and just see how many hours 1015 00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:52.760 of sun is on that spot. You for a garden, 1016 00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:56.480 you need at least six to have good success. 1017 00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:57.239 Uh. 1018 00:54:57.360 --> 00:55:01.039 And so that that could be one thing. Good quality 1019 00:55:01.079 --> 00:55:04.000 soil with compost added to loosen it up. That's enough. 1020 00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:06.519 So those are a couple of typical. 1021 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:12.159 I'm really old and I've had this a long time, 1022 00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:16.880 and I try to yeh finished the soil. What is 1023 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:18.400 the best thing to do? 1024 00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:23.639 Well? Sometimes it's you know, it's when when you know, 1025 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:26.199 just the physical work of getting out there and mixing 1026 00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:27.559 soil and stuff that'll wearry you out. 1027 00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:27.920 Uh. 1028 00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.199 And if if you can get somebody to come in 1029 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:32.639 and help, you know, with maybe doing a rotorteling, I 1030 00:55:32.679 --> 00:55:34.400 would get a good quality compost. 1031 00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:35.280 Uh. 1032 00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:37.760 You were up in the north west Houston area. You 1033 00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:41.400 have access to some wonderful groceries out there. But get 1034 00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:45.199 you a good some bags of compost material and mix 1035 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:46.800 it into the soil. Where do you like to shop 1036 00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:47.199 up there? 1037 00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.679 I go with all you Gordon, show all of it. 1038 00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:56.599 Okay, yeah, okay, Well they all work quality. They have 1039 00:55:56.719 --> 00:55:59.280 good quality soul mixes that you can put in. I 1040 00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:01.159 would put a little bit of a compost or a 1041 00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:04.119 bed mix, and I'd mix it into the soil. I'd 1042 00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:06.639 do that sooner rather than later. And so when you 1043 00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:09.679 go to plant, it's already ready to go. But you 1044 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:10.599 certainly could do that. 1045 00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:14.920 That would be this many years. Is that's what calls 1046 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:18.199 it is. I've been not adding allay a lot, but 1047 00:56:18.280 --> 00:56:19.199 I haven't added so. 1048 00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:20.880 Well. 1049 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:23.480 I don't have the crystal ball to know exactly your 1050 00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:25.960 house what all is happening, but I can tell you 1051 00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:28.920 over the years, that little tree gets to be a 1052 00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:31.599 big tree. And so we have mar shade. Over the years, 1053 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:34.920 even a couple of years, the organic matter that was 1054 00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:39.119 in the soil decomposes away. Our our natural native organic 1055 00:56:39.239 --> 00:56:41.920 matter levels are very low here because we have a long, warm, 1056 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:43.280 moist brewing season. 1057 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:44.159 And so. 1058 00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:51.719 Okay, yeah, it's my grass. Yeah, I have the wrong 1059 00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:54.519 runners going over it. But he won't go into this 1060 00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:57.760 certain big two big patches of grass. 1061 00:56:58.280 --> 00:56:59.840 What what can I do? 1062 00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:03.480 Are they crossing over it and they're not rooting down 1063 00:57:03.639 --> 00:57:04.920 or they won't even crawl over. 1064 00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:08.840 That, they're not rooting down? And but I have grass 1065 00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:12.840 fast you ever placed, but not there. It's a big 1066 00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:14.840 two long runners of. 1067 00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:20.480 Ralph. Do you use pre emergent herbicides to prevent weed 1068 00:57:20.519 --> 00:57:22.679 seeds from coming up in that area? 1069 00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:23.639 No? I don't. 1070 00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:27.320 Okay, well in this case, that that eliminates one of 1071 00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:31.719 the causes of them not pegging down. Gosh, I don't know. 1072 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:34.239 I would Uh, you know, you got a little spade 1073 00:57:34.280 --> 00:57:35.880 and park where you could just kind of stand on 1074 00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.239 it and wiggle it down into the soil a little 1075 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:40.519 bit and then pull it back up out. I'm not 1076 00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:43.280 talking about spinning over and spading the soil. I mean 1077 00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:46.000 just you wiggle the times into the ground and pull 1078 00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:48.280 back kind of crack that soil up in a little bit. 1079 00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:50.400 I would do that, and then I would add a 1080 00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:53.880 little bit of compost leaf mold, compost top dressing, and 1081 00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:56.800 you're gonna be able to find a lot of different places. 1082 00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:00.760 I think the compost is probably my answer. We go 1083 00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:05.719 the soul just don't look right there, Okay, Okay. 1084 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:07.880 Hey Ralph, I'm gonna have to run to a break, 1085 00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.880 but try. I still would try that spading fork with 1086 00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:14.679 a little leaf bow compost on top. And I think 1087 00:58:14.760 --> 00:58:16.320 if you do that two or three times over the 1088 00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:18.280 next year, I believe you can get that where it'll 1089 00:58:18.320 --> 00:58:20.400 grow stuff better. Thanks a lot for your call, sir. 1090 00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:22.719 When we come back Ron in Cleveland, you'll be our 1091 00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:24.679 first up. Right now, we're gonna take a low break. 1092 00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:32.119 Houston's News Why there were traffic plus breaking news twenty 1093 00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:35.800 four to seven. 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I got my bermuda grass 1179 01:02:51.639 --> 01:02:53.239 is really starting to come in pretty good. But I 1180 01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:55.960 get these all different kinds of weeds, and I don't 1181 01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:58.920 know how to identify them. Like I know Virginia button 1182 01:02:58.960 --> 01:03:03.880 weed aka a covid weed, but uh, I know spurge, 1183 01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:06.880 and but I get these other weeds and I don't 1184 01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:10.400 know if they're crab grass or basket grass. Is there 1185 01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:13.519 a how do I identify these weeds so I know 1186 01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:14.800 I'm putting down the right stuff? 1187 01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:20.760 Well, uh, you got a couple of approaches out there. 1188 01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:23.360 One of them is you're in the Cleveland area not 1189 01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:25.760 too far away from Kingwood. You can go over to 1190 01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:28.280 Warren Southern Gardens. Take your weeds and little bags and 1191 01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:33.000 show show them see how many of them they can identify. 1192 01:03:33.480 --> 01:03:35.239 You can if you got some that are right now 1193 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:37.199 in the lawn, if you want to take some pictures 1194 01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:38.880 of them, you can email them to me and I'll 1195 01:03:38.920 --> 01:03:40.880 take a look. I'm not gonna be able to give 1196 01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:43.920 a very elaborated do this for this and that for 1197 01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:46.119 that and all the whole thing, but I'll take a 1198 01:03:46.199 --> 01:03:49.679 look and go, Okay, you know, maybe on the on 1199 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:54.000 the photos, say just put them as a number like one, two, three, four, 1200 01:03:54.400 --> 01:03:56.719 and that way I can go photos number one, three 1201 01:03:56.800 --> 01:03:58.880 and five. You know, here's what you got. 1202 01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:00.079 And I'll. 1203 01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:04.239 I wasn't sure if you had a website like you 1204 01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:07.679 had the Create Myrtles deal, if there was a website 1205 01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:08.800 or something that could go to. 1206 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:10.239 But I guess you. 1207 01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:14.800 Actually no, actually there is. Uh do you have a penhandy? 1208 01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:15.960 No? 1209 01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:21.559 I don't, but I'll okay, Well, I'm gonna okay. It's simple. 1210 01:04:21.719 --> 01:04:26.119 It's Aggie turf. Oh Haggy turf is one word and 1211 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:29.199 and the rest of the website is dot tamo dot 1212 01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:31.280 e d u t a m U for text a 1213 01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:34.559 m But Aggie turf on the front page. Down at 1214 01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:38.360 the lower left, it's turf grass weeds, And if you 1215 01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:40.519 click on that there's pictures of a whole lot of 1216 01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:43.239 common weeds. Now they don't tell you in that spot 1217 01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:45.039 what to do about them, but they tell you what 1218 01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:45.679 the weed is. 1219 01:04:46.239 --> 01:04:48.639 All right, that's what I'm looking for. I know you 1220 01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:49.000 got it. 1221 01:04:50.079 --> 01:04:53.719 I have a good well you you two, Thank you 1222 01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:56.519 very much. I always try to have the answer, or 1223 01:04:56.559 --> 01:05:00.400 at least make up something that sounds plausible. Now really, 1224 01:05:02.039 --> 01:05:06.840 oh gosh, yep, yeah, yeah, Well, weeds are They're just 1225 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:11.280 part of gardening. You know, if you think about it 1226 01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:15.559 from a gardener's standpoint, we see plants, good guys, weeds 1227 01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:18.480 bad guys. Kind of like the old Western movies, you know, 1228 01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:22.119 where the bad guys wore black cowboy hats and the 1229 01:05:22.559 --> 01:05:24.719 good guys wore white cowboy hats and they shot each 1230 01:05:24.719 --> 01:05:27.440 other from behind the rocks up in that box canyon, 1231 01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:31.159 that kind of thing. Well, our weeds don't wear hats, 1232 01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:34.199 but we have assigned them the bad guy status. But 1233 01:05:34.360 --> 01:05:37.039 in reality, a weed is just a plant growing out 1234 01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:42.880 of place. And whenever the soil gets bare, nature covers 1235 01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:46.280 it with plants, and those we call weeds to us 1236 01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:50.119 because nature knows you've got to protect the soil. And 1237 01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:52.559 I like to put it this way. Wherever sunlight hits 1238 01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:56.840 the soil, nature plants a weed. Okay, so weed, a 1239 01:05:57.079 --> 01:06:00.480 corn plant growing in a Saint Augustine law is a 1240 01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:03.639 weed as corn a weed? Well, it depends on where 1241 01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:06.559 it's growing. Do you see what I'm saying. So whenever 1242 01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:09.800 we approach things, I like to just take a step 1243 01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:12.800 back and not look at everything having to have a 1244 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:17.079 spray solution. We have a lot of spray solutions, and 1245 01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:20.360 there's times so we need to use them. But if 1246 01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:23.719 you start with low water, fertilize and make a dense lawn, 1247 01:06:24.039 --> 01:06:27.199 you have less weeds. If sunlight cannot hit the soil, 1248 01:06:27.800 --> 01:06:31.039 a huge portion of the potential weeds will be taken 1249 01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:35.400 out of the picture. Not all Virginia button weed can 1250 01:06:35.480 --> 01:06:38.599 grow in dense Saint Augustine. Dollar weed can grow in 1251 01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:42.119 dense Saint Augustine, But I'm talking about the majority of things. 1252 01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:44.840 If your long gets thin, you are going to learn 1253 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:47.800 a lot about weeds because wherever sunlight hits the soil, 1254 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:51.880 nature will plant one. And so just think of it 1255 01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:55.119 from a cultural standpoint in our flower beds. Mulching. Put 1256 01:06:55.159 --> 01:06:58.440 a mulch down so that sunlight can't hit the soil. 1257 01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:02.599 That's one of the many benefits of mulch. Makes it 1258 01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:03.400 just makes sense. 1259 01:07:04.079 --> 01:07:04.440 You know, I. 1260 01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:08.639 Talk about Ace Hardware stores all the time, but there's 1261 01:07:08.679 --> 01:07:10.639 forty of them here in the Greater Houston area. You 1262 01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:13.880 can go to the website Acehardware dot Com find the 1263 01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:17.719 ones near you. Makes it easy. And right now we're 1264 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:20.760 in the last day of the grand reopening of the 1265 01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:24.320 Langham Creek Ace Hardware those of you in Northwest Houston 1266 01:07:24.679 --> 01:07:29.639 Copperfield area, we're talking about intersection of bark Barker Cypress 1267 01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:33.559 in FM five twenty nine. That's where Langham Creek Ace hardwrisk. 1268 01:07:33.639 --> 01:07:36.679 Today they're giving away a painter room makeover US two 1269 01:07:36.719 --> 01:07:38.800 hundred dollars value. They're drawing for it, so you got 1270 01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:41.480 to go buy and register. And they're doing demos on 1271 01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:43.880 their trigger grills today. But they have a lot of 1272 01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:47.280 other stuff going on out there. They you know, a 1273 01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:50.159 lot of vendor demonstrations, a lot of fun activities and things. 1274 01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:52.960 But you got to go buy. Stop in, say hi, 1275 01:07:53.519 --> 01:07:55.599 how you guys doing. Heard about your on guard line 1276 01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:57.880 and just see what all is going on. It's a 1277 01:07:58.159 --> 01:08:01.000 really nice little revamp that they've done out there at 1278 01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:06.159 the Ace Hardware on at Langham Creek, Langham Creek Ace Hardware. 1279 01:08:08.599 --> 01:08:10.679 You are listening to Guarden Line, and we're here to 1280 01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:14.079 help you have a more bountiful garden. We'd like to 1281 01:08:14.159 --> 01:08:17.720 have a more beautiful landscape, just with some basic tips 1282 01:08:17.800 --> 01:08:21.840 for success. That is important to be able to provide 1283 01:08:21.880 --> 01:08:26.439 those those basic things that plants need, sunlight, drainage, soil, 1284 01:08:27.199 --> 01:08:31.600 starting with good plants. You know, it's hard to make 1285 01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:37.359 absolute statements in nature because nature is not a black 1286 01:08:37.439 --> 01:08:40.560 and white thing. At Nature has a lot of gray 1287 01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:44.159 areas as one thing goes to another. But I think 1288 01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:48.000 that your and my approach to gardening, whether you are 1289 01:08:48.039 --> 01:08:52.479 synthetic or organic or whatever, should always be to start 1290 01:08:52.640 --> 01:08:57.479 with avoiding problems. That would mean building up good soil. 1291 01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:00.920 That would mean choosing plants that are adapted to hear 1292 01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:05.399 in some cases, choosing plants that are resistant to problems. 1293 01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:09.640 Here and as we start there and build good soil 1294 01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:11.680 and so on, mults from all that stuff I've been 1295 01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:14.319 talking about, you avoid a lot of the problems and 1296 01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:17.600 so we don't even have to have the question of 1297 01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:21.159 what do I do for filling the blank insect or 1298 01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:24.039 disease or whatever or wet we can avoid it, and 1299 01:09:24.159 --> 01:09:26.359 we always want to try to start it that way. 1300 01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:29.960 That's why you hear me talk about things like cororating 1301 01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:33.800 the lawn and compass top dressing the lawn, and building 1302 01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:36.600 density through mol watering and fertilizing in a lawn. Those 1303 01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:41.840 are all steps to create beauty by avoiding problems. SAME's 1304 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.680 true in flower beds and vegetable gardens and herb gardens 1305 01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:49.840 and whatnot. As gardeners, we're always trying to grow something 1306 01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:52.600 that probably doesn't want to grow there. You know, I 1307 01:09:52.640 --> 01:09:56.479 don't know how many little unsuspecting blue spruce trees get 1308 01:09:56.520 --> 01:09:59.960 hauled out of Colorado every year when Texans come back 1309 01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:03.439 from vacation. But they don't belong here and they're not 1310 01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:05.560 going to grow here. We always try to do that. 1311 01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:07.680 But the more you can focus on things that want 1312 01:10:07.720 --> 01:10:09.680 to grow here, the better. And of course native plants 1313 01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:11.760 or the ultimate in that, I mean native pants are 1314 01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:14.880 if they're native from this area, they're from here, so 1315 01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:18.319 they do very very well, easy, easy to grow those 1316 01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.439 Nelson plant food, you know, has they're the ones where 1317 01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:25.439 we get things like the Slow and Easy, the summer 1318 01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:30.359 long fertilization of Slow and Easy, and Bruce's Brew that 1319 01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:32.319 you can do anytime of the year. It's going to 1320 01:10:32.359 --> 01:10:34.079 give you a lot of quick green up and it 1321 01:10:34.159 --> 01:10:37.039 does have some slow release components in it as well. 1322 01:10:37.439 --> 01:10:39.720 But I want to talk a little about about the jars, 1323 01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:43.520 the Nutri Star and the color Star. Color Star then 1324 01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:46.560 it's the best name for a product because if it 1325 01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:49.000 does it have color, yes, it is color Star. There's 1326 01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:51.800 a good answer. It makes it that easy. But also 1327 01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:54.920 the Nutri Star line. The Tree and Shrub is part 1328 01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:57.359 of the Nutri Star line. And if you've got a plant, 1329 01:10:57.760 --> 01:11:00.279 a tree or shrub and it's been planted in your 1330 01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:02.680 first five years, you need to be using that on 1331 01:11:02.760 --> 01:11:06.600 a regular basis to keep it growing. And there are 1332 01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:11.039 many many other products. There's tropical products, there's blooming products, 1333 01:11:11.039 --> 01:11:14.840 there's indoorhouse plant products, all in the Nutri Star line. 1334 01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:17.640 And when you get those jugs, you can refill them. 1335 01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:20.560 There's a dozen areas in Greater Houston where you can 1336 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:25.520 go and refill your plastic jars. It becomes more economical 1337 01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:28.960 when you do that, and you don't throw away all 1338 01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:32.319 the plastic, which we are already know. We got plenty 1339 01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:35.399 of issues with all the stuff we discard that didn't 1340 01:11:35.399 --> 01:11:37.960 want to break down really fast. All right, it was 1341 01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:40.119 time for me take another break. I am going to 1342 01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:42.439 be back here for our last segment this hour, and 1343 01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:44.399 then we have a special guest to lead off in 1344 01:11:44.479 --> 01:11:46.119 the eight o'clock hour. We're going to be talking about 1345 01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:52.000 dirt stuff. Okay, just hang around sure, and we're here 1346 01:11:52.159 --> 01:11:55.399 to answer your gardening questions. Help you have a more beautiful, 1347 01:11:56.039 --> 01:11:59.159 beautiful garden and a more bountiful garden as well as 1348 01:11:59.199 --> 01:12:02.119 well as a beautiful escape. Our phone number is seven 1349 01:12:02.159 --> 01:12:05.399 to one three two one two KTRH seven to one 1350 01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:10.479 three two to one two kt r H. I was 1351 01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:14.560 visiting Southwest Fertilizer the other day, visiting with Aaron and 1352 01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:17.279 some of the team there, uh and just I had 1353 01:12:17.319 --> 01:12:19.000 some things I needed to pick up, and you know, 1354 01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:21.159 I know when you go in there, it's always it 1355 01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:23.279 always takes me a while because I have to go 1356 01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:24.920 up and down the aiss and look at what's new. 1357 01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:26.840 Try to stay up to date on what's going on 1358 01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:29.640 in the market, because there's always new products and changes 1359 01:12:29.720 --> 01:12:32.199 in products and things and you can know that Southwest 1360 01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:34.760 Fertilizer is always going to have the latest stuff as 1361 01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:38.279 well as stuff that's long proven that you've used for years. 1362 01:12:38.359 --> 01:12:42.000 They still keep it around there as well. So think 1363 01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:45.119 of it this way. If Southwest Fertilizer does not have it, 1364 01:12:45.239 --> 01:12:48.520 you don't need it. And that is pretty much black 1365 01:12:48.600 --> 01:12:51.159 and white true right there, because they have it all. 1366 01:12:51.399 --> 01:12:53.960 They have it all. Eighty foot wall of tools, eighty 1367 01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:55.680 feet of tools. I was looking. Oh, by the way, 1368 01:12:55.720 --> 01:12:58.760 you know I made that weed wiper. If you haven't 1369 01:12:58.800 --> 01:13:02.079 seen the little weed wiper that I designed, or I 1370 01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:05.560 mean it designed as a fancy word for it, but uh, 1371 01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:09.760 go to my website gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening 1372 01:13:09.960 --> 01:13:12.479 with Skip dot com. You'll see the weed wiper and 1373 01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:14.319 you'll see the products that you use on it to 1374 01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:15.960 wipe on whatever kind of weed you have. Do you 1375 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:18.479 have poison ivy that's a certain product. Do you have 1376 01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:21.760 grassyweeds that's a different product. Do you have sedges like 1377 01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:26.199 nutsedge that's a different product. Anyway, that's how that works. 1378 01:13:26.239 --> 01:13:27.880 It's all free, it's all online. You can see it. 1379 01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:32.359 Bob's got those little suction cup devices grabber tools that 1380 01:13:32.479 --> 01:13:34.359 you use to build your weed wiper, and it makes 1381 01:13:34.359 --> 01:13:36.880 it so easy, makes it very very easy for all 1382 01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:38.760 to do it yourself. Or you can figure this one out. 1383 01:13:39.039 --> 01:13:41.239 You probably even design a version of it that's better 1384 01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:43.840 than what I got up there. But that's just an 1385 01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:46.199 example of what I mean when I say Southwest Fertilizer 1386 01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:50.000 has everything they've been around since nineteen fifty five. Corner 1387 01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:56.079 of Bissinet and Renwick. Southwest Fertilizer dot com and for 1388 01:13:56.199 --> 01:13:59.319 a phone number seven to one three six sixty six 1389 01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:06.640 seven four. That makes it real easy. Anyway, I was 1390 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:08.680 in there doing some shopping. I picked up some things. 1391 01:14:08.800 --> 01:14:14.439 I am in a ongoing battle to learn about nuts Edge, 1392 01:14:14.479 --> 01:14:16.920 to find the kinks in its armor and to go 1393 01:14:17.039 --> 01:14:19.439 after those, and that's a lot of the information I've 1394 01:14:19.479 --> 01:14:22.399 put up is about that. But i have a number 1395 01:14:22.439 --> 01:14:24.199 of places in the yard where I've got a little 1396 01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:26.479 bit Nutsedge going and I'm working with it. So I'm 1397 01:14:26.520 --> 01:14:29.720 in a little xeon zois a lawn and Nutsedge sticks 1398 01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:32.720 it set up above the fine textured xeon and shows 1399 01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:35.680 up really well better than i'd like it too. So 1400 01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:38.840 I'm looking at controlling it there. I'm looking at controlling 1401 01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:41.560 it in flower beds and always trying something different. That's 1402 01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:44.680 why I came up with that weed wiper device that 1403 01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:48.319 works really well in certain situations. Not for everything, but 1404 01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:53.399 certain situations works really well. Well, you're listening to Garden 1405 01:14:53.479 --> 01:14:55.079 Line've got time for a call here. In fact, I 1406 01:14:55.199 --> 01:14:57.359 see one coming in there and take that in just 1407 01:14:57.399 --> 01:14:59.880 a second. When was the last time you went to 1408 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:04.439 Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out in Katie, Texas. Now, 1409 01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:07.800 if you haven't been before, that's a great idea for 1410 01:15:07.880 --> 01:15:11.279 this afternoon, run out there and check out Nelson's Nursery 1411 01:15:11.319 --> 01:15:14.079 and water gardens. You know, they've been long known nationally 1412 01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:16.439 known for the water gardens they created. They invented that 1413 01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:19.319 disappearing fountain where you know it runs down the side 1414 01:15:19.359 --> 01:15:22.439 of a big beautiful pottery piece in the garden and 1415 01:15:23.119 --> 01:15:25.159 just recycles up through the pottery piece. 1416 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:25.399 Again. 1417 01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:30.640 They created that. They can build water gardens, waterfalls. They 1418 01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:33.640 can help you if you want advice and the products 1419 01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:36.039 you need to put together to make a disappearing fountain 1420 01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:37.920 or something. They can do that too. But they're also 1421 01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:41.199 a garden center. You know, Nelson's Water Garden and Nursery 1422 01:15:41.319 --> 01:15:44.760 has an excellent selection of plants, they really do. It's 1423 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:49.399 they have out outstanding stuff. I always like to go 1424 01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:51.680 ahead and visit. I'm always surprised, you know. I always 1425 01:15:51.800 --> 01:15:53.800 find that it's like, oh, I didn't know you guys 1426 01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:56.159 carried that too. And I think they're expanding a little bit. 1427 01:15:56.479 --> 01:15:58.279 But right now they have an end of summer sale. 1428 01:15:58.359 --> 01:16:03.000 Three gallon roses, fifteen bucks, pothus ieties four inch and 1429 01:16:03.079 --> 01:16:06.239 six inch pots, magnolia trees hibiscus the tree form of 1430 01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:10.039 hibiscus and the standard form fruit trees, not citrus, but 1431 01:16:10.199 --> 01:16:14.000 other fruit trees. Twenty bucks, Citrus thirty five bucks. Crape 1432 01:16:14.039 --> 01:16:16.840 myrtles three gallon twenty bucks. Do you see what I'm saying? 1433 01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:19.479 A lot and lot while supplies last, So if you 1434 01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:22.399 wait around, somebody's going to get it. But Nelson Water 1435 01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:25.840 Garden and Nursery and Katie it is just north of Ien. 1436 01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:28.680 You turn north on Katie Fortman Road and you're right there. 1437 01:16:28.760 --> 01:16:34.359 It is your West Houston destination garden center. That I'll 1438 01:16:34.479 --> 01:16:37.439 just make it like that. It's as simple. It's as 1439 01:16:37.479 --> 01:16:41.119 simple as that, you're West Houston Destination and garden center. 1440 01:16:43.159 --> 01:16:45.600 I keep trying to get you to take your friends 1441 01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:49.079 and go out there. And just sit. I think I 1442 01:16:49.119 --> 01:16:50.800 don't know if the folks at Nelson Water Garden and 1443 01:16:50.920 --> 01:16:53.520 Nursery you're listening, but I think that they ought to 1444 01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:56.600 have lawn chairs that you can rent up front and 1445 01:16:56.960 --> 01:16:59.279 you just go back and sit in the shade underneath 1446 01:16:59.319 --> 01:17:02.159 the trees to the water, and uh, you know, the 1447 01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:04.800 first ten minutes is free. After that we're gonna you know, 1448 01:17:04.920 --> 01:17:08.560 I think I think i'd pay it. When I sit 1449 01:17:08.760 --> 01:17:10.680 and listen to the sound of moving water, it is 1450 01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:14.000 so relaxing. I mean, it's just peaceful. The cares of 1451 01:17:14.039 --> 01:17:16.600 the world go away when you go back into into 1452 01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:22.119 that area of the Nelson Water Gardens at nursery. Well, 1453 01:17:22.159 --> 01:17:24.520 we're running up to where the end of our time 1454 01:17:25.239 --> 01:17:28.359 here on guarden line. For this hour, when we come back, 1455 01:17:28.399 --> 01:17:31.119 we have a special guest. I'm going to focus on 1456 01:17:31.880 --> 01:17:34.239 the details of why do I always say brown stuff 1457 01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:37.960 before green stuff? And why do I always say you 1458 01:17:38.039 --> 01:17:41.119 know it says mate. Some of you from probably from Texas, 1459 01:17:41.239 --> 01:17:43.239 know the old phrase, hey, you got to make hay 1460 01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:45.960 while the sun shines. Well there's also one that I 1461 01:17:46.159 --> 01:17:49.199 just said, well you got to make garden beds while 1462 01:17:49.239 --> 01:17:51.119 the sun shines. And now's the time to get that 1463 01:17:51.279 --> 01:17:53.600 done too. We're going to talk about those kind of things, 1464 01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:55.760 some of the aspects of soil and soil mixes and 1465 01:17:56.039 --> 01:17:59.720 different things that to have success. So instead of just 1466 01:17:59.840 --> 01:18:02.239 me telling your brown stuff before green stuff over and 1467 01:18:02.319 --> 01:18:03.960 over and over again, we're going to dig in get 1468 01:18:03.960 --> 01:18:08.359 a little bit nerdier on it as well. If you 1469 01:18:08.840 --> 01:18:12.199 are planning on doing any kind of landscape or re 1470 01:18:12.199 --> 01:18:15.840 innovations this fall, now would be the time to begin 1471 01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:18.960 prep for that, and I would suggest something. You know, 1472 01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:21.199 we're at the end of summer. This is typically about 1473 01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:24.000 the worst our landscapes look all year when we get 1474 01:18:24.000 --> 01:18:25.399 to the end of summer. Like, if you're going to 1475 01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:27.159 have drought issues, this is when you see them. If 1476 01:18:27.199 --> 01:18:29.560 you're going to lose plants, this is typically when the 1477 01:18:29.640 --> 01:18:32.800 plants are struggling. Midwinter can be a little rough, but 1478 01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:35.720 in general, this is a tough time. So drive up 1479 01:18:35.720 --> 01:18:37.279 to your house and look at it from the road, 1480 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:39.800 just I mean, look at it like you don't live there. 1481 01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:42.640 Look at it like what do I think about that? 1482 01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:44.560 When I want to do that at my house? It 1483 01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:46.640 is your house. But we're just playing a game here. 1484 01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:48.279 What would be nice? 1485 01:18:48.439 --> 01:18:48.600 You know? 1486 01:18:48.920 --> 01:18:51.079 Oh, I could use an evergreen over there, or I 1487 01:18:51.119 --> 01:18:54.920 could use some color plants across here. That area is 1488 01:18:55.119 --> 01:18:58.520 dark and shady, and it just sort of disappears into 1489 01:18:58.640 --> 01:19:01.840 the landscape. What you're probably going to see is I 1490 01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:04.640 see a sea of green, green grass, green ground covers, 1491 01:19:04.680 --> 01:19:08.520 green shrubs, green trees. Where's my color? Those kind of 1492 01:19:08.600 --> 01:19:11.239 questions then help you to think about what you want 1493 01:19:11.279 --> 01:19:13.079 to do. There's going to be areas where you want 1494 01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:20.399 to do some annual okay, annual applications like the cool 1495 01:19:20.439 --> 01:19:25.239 season color and whatnot. Typically those cost more per square 1496 01:19:25.279 --> 01:19:27.880 foot of ground because you're changing them out several times 1497 01:19:27.920 --> 01:19:30.439 a year, so there is a cost there, whereas with 1498 01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:32.439 the shrub you pay once and you have it pretty 1499 01:19:32.520 --> 01:19:35.239 much for the rest of time. But what kind of 1500 01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:37.199 color changes do you want? Do you want to Is 1501 01:19:37.239 --> 01:19:39.039 there an area that's really hard to mow because you 1502 01:19:39.119 --> 01:19:41.279 got a right angle? Maybe you could do a curved 1503 01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:44.039 bed edge. Maybe you don't have a bed edge, and 1504 01:19:44.199 --> 01:19:47.840 having a really nice set of stones or pavers going 1505 01:19:48.039 --> 01:19:51.600 around a bed would be really attractive and set things apart. 1506 01:19:52.079 --> 01:19:54.119 Do you see what I'm saying. That's the kind of 1507 01:19:54.199 --> 01:19:56.920 questions that I think you ought to be asking this 1508 01:19:57.159 --> 01:19:59.960 time of the year, and you got to look at 1509 01:20:00.119 --> 01:20:02.600 it like it's not your house. I mean look at 1510 01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:06.000 it like I like that. If I were going to 1511 01:20:06.039 --> 01:20:08.439 buy this house, what would I want to be different 1512 01:20:08.520 --> 01:20:10.840 that front and I opened the door. You don't have 1513 01:20:10.920 --> 01:20:13.479 to do it all at once, step by step that 1514 01:20:13.680 --> 01:20:15.800 by b we need to do it that way you 1515 01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:18.640 do a turnkey all at once, or you can just 1516 01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:22.239 enjoy getting it done a little other time. Maybe there's 1517 01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:25.680 a rosebush that's not blooming, it's not in enough sunlight, 1518 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:27.720 the trees have gotten bigger over the years. Time to 1519 01:20:27.800 --> 01:20:29.520 move it. This fall is the time you're going to 1520 01:20:29.600 --> 01:20:33.960 do that. So think those thoughts now. Maybe there's some 1521 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:37.560 other opportunities for it, maybe like hummingbirds and see you 1522 01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:41.000 know what I'd like some plants and bring in hunting birds. Well, 1523 01:20:41.399 --> 01:20:44.520 the fall is coming, it's the prime planning season of 1524 01:20:44.600 --> 01:20:47.079 the year. Now's going to be it thrall ready and 1525 01:20:47.359 --> 01:20:50.600 now's the time to do that walk through assessment and 1526 01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:53.279 see what you would like to change. At your point, 1527 01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:54.760 I'll be right back. 1528 01:20:57.560 --> 01:21:01.600 Welcome to KZRH guarded line with skimped richards. 1529 01:21:10.119 --> 01:21:11.760 Just watch him as. 1530 01:21:18.119 --> 01:21:20.039 All right, folks, Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to 1531 01:21:20.039 --> 01:21:22.239 have you with us. We are looking forward to talking 1532 01:21:22.319 --> 01:21:25.560 to you about your gardening questions. Right now, I'm going 1533 01:21:25.640 --> 01:21:27.479 to do for about the next couple of segments here. 1534 01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:29.760 I'm going to just do a kind of one on 1535 01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:34.159 one visit about soil. Just hang around with us for 1536 01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:37.319 the calls. We'll be taking them back again around eight thirty. 1537 01:21:37.560 --> 01:21:39.439 So if you want to call and get online, don't 1538 01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:41.920 mind waiting. Welcome to do that. So you're first up, 1539 01:21:42.000 --> 01:21:44.520 but we're going to take a little time away from 1540 01:21:44.600 --> 01:21:45.560 that phone for just a bit. 1541 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:46.319 Uh. 1542 01:21:46.680 --> 01:21:50.960 I'm going to speak to mister Lewis tomorrow. Louise. You know, 1543 01:21:51.119 --> 01:21:53.600 you guys have probably run into Luis if you've been 1544 01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:57.439 about anywhere. He seems to be ubiquitous getting around. I 1545 01:21:57.600 --> 01:22:00.960 see him in show Garden Center, there's all kinds of places. 1546 01:22:01.319 --> 01:22:03.880 Luis is from heirloom soils. You hear me talk about 1547 01:22:03.880 --> 01:22:07.119 airloin soils all the time. But I'm bringing Louis in 1548 01:22:07.239 --> 01:22:11.680 here to discuss some specifics about why we do what 1549 01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:13.960 we do this soil, how we do it right, some 1550 01:22:14.079 --> 01:22:17.000 of the ingredients that are part of having success with soil, 1551 01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:19.840 and the importance of a building soil at the time 1552 01:22:19.880 --> 01:22:22.800 of the year. Luis, that was a long introduction, but 1553 01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:23.960 welcome to garden Line. 1554 01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:25.399 Hey, thank you. 1555 01:22:26.840 --> 01:22:31.640 I have been a trade shows lately and I've spoken 1556 01:22:31.720 --> 01:22:34.439 to I don't know how many people, hundreds of people, 1557 01:22:34.600 --> 01:22:37.319 so it's great to be with you today. 1558 01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:42.079 Yeah, well, I know you really get into your soils 1559 01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:45.239 and stuff. In fact, I would say there's probably if 1560 01:22:45.279 --> 01:22:46.880 I could sneak up on you at the right time, 1561 01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:49.640 I might find you making compost angels out there in 1562 01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:52.479 the ground, you know, lay it on your back, just 1563 01:22:52.920 --> 01:22:59.239 getting in touch with the microbes. Yes, sir, that was 1564 01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:01.680 off the wall. Well, I wanted to bring you on. 1565 01:23:01.800 --> 01:23:03.960 I've been telling folks that, you know, the time to 1566 01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:07.520 get this already is now because fall is coming and 1567 01:23:07.720 --> 01:23:10.239 we're not in control of when it rains or when 1568 01:23:10.239 --> 01:23:12.760 it would be too wet. And it's also kind of important, 1569 01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:15.079 isn't it, to get soil built up, so it has 1570 01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:17.000 time to kind of settle in and mellow. You know, 1571 01:23:17.079 --> 01:23:18.960 when you put in a new bed, it's going to 1572 01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:22.399 settle a little bit. That's just inevitable. But now would 1573 01:23:22.399 --> 01:23:23.800 be a good time to get ahead of it. So 1574 01:23:23.920 --> 01:23:25.319 what are some thoughts you have about that? 1575 01:23:26.520 --> 01:23:30.319 So One of the things that not many people look 1576 01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:35.079 into is the weeds that are growing in their soils. 1577 01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:38.600 The weeds are telling us a story. And if you. 1578 01:23:40.119 --> 01:23:42.560 Research the wheat that's growing in your soil, whether it's 1579 01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:44.760 a garden bed or a vegtabl better or the lawn, 1580 01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:47.800 you're going to find that that wheat is growing because 1581 01:23:47.880 --> 01:23:51.159 a lack of a nutrient has got too much mineral 1582 01:23:51.239 --> 01:23:54.960 components in the soil, or it's compacted. The soil is compacted. 1583 01:23:55.520 --> 01:23:58.840 So look at the weeds you have in your yard. 1584 01:23:59.039 --> 01:24:01.600 You know, we have any of different products that are 1585 01:24:01.720 --> 01:24:06.159 used to combat weeds, but see what they are and 1586 01:24:06.319 --> 01:24:09.479 see what the research tells you, and based on that 1587 01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:14.279 you can actually have a plan to better the soil. Right, So, 1588 01:24:14.399 --> 01:24:18.439 one of the main components of improving that soil is 1589 01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:22.520 using compost add in organic matter to the environment. 1590 01:24:23.800 --> 01:24:27.840 M Yeah, compost, that's what nature does, right. 1591 01:24:29.399 --> 01:24:29.800 Exactly. 1592 01:24:29.920 --> 01:24:34.359 I mean, if we go back in time, we don't 1593 01:24:34.399 --> 01:24:37.520 have fancy soil companies and fancy you know, brands of 1594 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:41.840 soil and fertilizers. Nature that it's saying and by itself, 1595 01:24:42.119 --> 01:24:46.439 and everybody thrived with what nature you know, provided so 1596 01:24:48.039 --> 01:24:51.119 at the at compost composing the number one component that 1597 01:24:51.279 --> 01:24:54.920 you should be adding on a regular basis. And also 1598 01:24:55.920 --> 01:24:58.279 look and see what happens to this old structure that 1599 01:24:58.680 --> 01:24:59.760 it's available in your yard. 1600 01:25:00.079 --> 01:25:01.079 You're you know your garden. 1601 01:25:02.479 --> 01:25:04.319 Well, those are good points and you know you're coming 1602 01:25:04.319 --> 01:25:06.520 about weeds and telling us about the soil. It also 1603 01:25:06.600 --> 01:25:09.039 tells us about our water content. You know, things like 1604 01:25:09.119 --> 01:25:11.560 grass burds can grow where it's a little drowdy, things 1605 01:25:11.720 --> 01:25:16.039 like oh, Virginia button weed and and dollar weed. They 1606 01:25:16.119 --> 01:25:19.239 love it when it's soggy, wet, and so there's there's 1607 01:25:19.279 --> 01:25:24.039 also some clues about our proper or improper watering exactly. 1608 01:25:24.119 --> 01:25:28.000 So for example, dandelions, uh, and when they grow, when 1609 01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:31.560 you find them somewhere indicates a poor soil condition and 1610 01:25:31.680 --> 01:25:34.920 loin casium and the and the soil is usually compacted. 1611 01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:38.960 The dandelion is growing deep. The tap roots are doing 1612 01:25:39.560 --> 01:25:42.359 their job, which is breaking up the soil, and they're 1613 01:25:42.439 --> 01:25:45.720 looking to ariate and have more airflow. Right, so, if 1614 01:25:45.800 --> 01:25:48.840 you follow the advice that you give everybody on a 1615 01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:53.479 on a regular basis, areating the soil and breaking down 1616 01:25:53.960 --> 01:25:58.840 the clay particles that bond with compost or with expanded 1617 01:25:58.920 --> 01:26:01.520 shell because that's why you're dealing with expondential and compost. 1618 01:26:01.560 --> 01:26:05.119 You're pretty much creating the eruption between those clay particles, 1619 01:26:05.159 --> 01:26:07.479 and that's what's creating, you know, the pockets of the air. 1620 01:26:08.079 --> 01:26:13.000 The more water retention, more and just more flow, better, 1621 01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:18.359 better nutrient. How do I say this, more nutrients going 1622 01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:20.680 through the soil and stay there because. 1623 01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:24.920 Yeah, compaction, right, Yeah, it's it. I often describe the 1624 01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:27.960 soil as a bank account of nutrients, you know, and 1625 01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:30.119 so it's like if you want to take money out 1626 01:26:30.119 --> 01:26:31.960 of the bank to buy something, you got to have 1627 01:26:32.039 --> 01:26:35.239 money in the bank to do that, prettych and so 1628 01:26:35.840 --> 01:26:38.000 with the soil, the more you build it up with 1629 01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:42.279 everything a plant could need, then it's just available because plants, 1630 01:26:42.640 --> 01:26:45.119 you know, a lot of times I think people think about, well, 1631 01:26:45.159 --> 01:26:47.640 I'm going to I'm going to fertilize my soil and 1632 01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:49.199 then that's just going to take care of it for 1633 01:26:49.279 --> 01:26:51.880 a long, long, long time. And in reality, plants are 1634 01:26:51.960 --> 01:26:55.119 eating a little bit every day, and so they need 1635 01:26:55.239 --> 01:26:59.039 nutrients that are available three hundred and sixty five days 1636 01:26:59.119 --> 01:27:01.520 of the year, you know, and maybe not applying it 1637 01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:03.319 at one time then is going to work. You're gonna 1638 01:27:03.319 --> 01:27:05.439 have to spread it out. But you're talking about putting 1639 01:27:05.439 --> 01:27:06.000 compost in. 1640 01:27:06.319 --> 01:27:06.439 Now. 1641 01:27:06.600 --> 01:27:11.720 Compost contains everything that a plant needed to grow. And I, Louis, 1642 01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:13.479 I'm gonna I'm on a soapbox here a little bit. 1643 01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:15.479 But just bear if you'll bear with me. If you 1644 01:27:15.600 --> 01:27:17.560 hold up a grass clipping and look at it, that 1645 01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:20.720 grass clipping has every micro nutrient that is required for 1646 01:27:20.880 --> 01:27:23.600 grass to live in it. And so when they when 1647 01:27:23.640 --> 01:27:27.319 you compost that clipping or that fallen tree leaf or whatever, 1648 01:27:28.079 --> 01:27:31.199 all those nutrients are there in the compost for the plants. 1649 01:27:31.279 --> 01:27:34.600 So it composts. We don't think of it as a fertilizer, 1650 01:27:34.800 --> 01:27:38.640 but it does provide nutrients like a fertilizer does, just 1651 01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:41.720 in a little bit a lower dosage. So anyway that 1652 01:27:42.079 --> 01:27:45.880 I'm trying to get people to recycle their organic materials. 1653 01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:48.399 Yeah, yeah, and that's that's all what you do. Think 1654 01:27:48.439 --> 01:27:51.199 so is recycling that materials and you know, making a 1655 01:27:51.199 --> 01:27:53.720 little compost pile. I know it's difficult to it at home, 1656 01:27:53.800 --> 01:27:56.760 but when you do it on a large, you know, 1657 01:27:56.880 --> 01:28:01.079 commercial scale scale that we do. We're we compost thousands 1658 01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:03.840 of qvtors of product every year. You know, it's different 1659 01:28:03.880 --> 01:28:06.600 because we have the space and the machinery, but also 1660 01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:10.600 on that point which is really interesting, the feeding of 1661 01:28:10.680 --> 01:28:11.039 the plant. 1662 01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:11.279 Right. 1663 01:28:11.359 --> 01:28:14.079 So a lot of people tend to plant tomatoes every 1664 01:28:14.119 --> 01:28:17.319 single season in the same place, and cucumbers or broccoli 1665 01:28:17.399 --> 01:28:21.359 or lettuce, right, and those are plants that are very 1666 01:28:21.439 --> 01:28:25.039 heavy feeders. So a lot of times you tend to think, well, 1667 01:28:25.119 --> 01:28:27.920 why why did my tomatoes produce it really well last 1668 01:28:28.039 --> 01:28:29.000 last season and they're not. 1669 01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:30.159 Really producing this season. 1670 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:35.319 Well, you're pretty much distracting everything you have of nutrient 1671 01:28:35.359 --> 01:28:38.279 availability from that soil, right. So that's why you come 1672 01:28:38.319 --> 01:28:41.399 into with compost or with a nice soil plant. And 1673 01:28:41.880 --> 01:28:44.399 like you said in Houston, we are so lucky to 1674 01:28:44.520 --> 01:28:47.720 have so many soil companies that make really good products, 1675 01:28:47.880 --> 01:28:49.720 and there's a soil for just. 1676 01:28:49.760 --> 01:28:52.279 At any application you can find in garden centers. 1677 01:28:52.520 --> 01:28:55.239 That is that is so true. And I'm going to 1678 01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:57.560 have to take a break here real quick for a commercial. 1679 01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:01.039 We'll be back with Lewis tomorrow from Airloom Soils to 1680 01:29:01.079 --> 01:29:03.520 continue our discussion of soils in just a moment. Folks, 1681 01:29:06.680 --> 01:29:10.560 Flooding School. Okay, all right, welcome back to Guardline. Good 1682 01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:12.359 to have you with us. We are visiting with Louise 1683 01:29:12.399 --> 01:29:15.600 tomorrow from heirloom soils, and we're talking about so prep 1684 01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:20.239 the components of good quality soil mix. Luise, we were 1685 01:29:20.279 --> 01:29:23.359 discussing composts in general. But when you look across a 1686 01:29:23.439 --> 01:29:26.720 line of products, you see a lot of different things, 1687 01:29:26.840 --> 01:29:28.479 you know, Like I mean with you guys, you got 1688 01:29:28.520 --> 01:29:30.920 the rose and bloomers blend, and then you've got cactus 1689 01:29:30.960 --> 01:29:32.760 and succulent, and then you got veggie nerd mix and 1690 01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:35.560 fruit and berry and citrus mix and so on. Uh, 1691 01:29:36.560 --> 01:29:38.600 tell me a little bit about as you guys formulate 1692 01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:41.000 a soil, what are some of the key components in 1693 01:29:41.039 --> 01:29:44.000 addition to just the fact that there's some decomposed organic 1694 01:29:44.079 --> 01:29:48.439 matter in there that that create these different products as 1695 01:29:48.479 --> 01:29:58.520 you as you blend them. Hey, Louise, Uh, did you 1696 01:29:58.600 --> 01:29:59.640 hear my question just now? 1697 01:30:01.680 --> 01:30:01.880 Yeah? 1698 01:30:02.800 --> 01:30:09.119 I heard the sod who is uh you know, the 1699 01:30:09.199 --> 01:30:12.640 soil I call them the soil chat Uh. He uh 1700 01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:17.039 formulated the soils and he used a lot of different products, 1701 01:30:17.119 --> 01:30:19.039 a lot of different ingredients to make these soils. 1702 01:30:19.119 --> 01:30:19.199 Right. 1703 01:30:19.279 --> 01:30:22.439 So the base is commonly more composed h pine mark 1704 01:30:22.560 --> 01:30:23.560 and coca core fiber. 1705 01:30:23.720 --> 01:30:24.840 We don't use any peoples. 1706 01:30:25.560 --> 01:30:31.399 Their ingredients are based on the mineral component and mineral 1707 01:30:31.960 --> 01:30:35.159 kind of usage of specific plants. Right, So we use 1708 01:30:36.159 --> 01:30:39.439 products like basalt sand, which is a volcanic rock sand, 1709 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:43.520 granite sand, a torpedo sand. We also use some peara 1710 01:30:43.560 --> 01:30:49.880 light and some products we have warm castings, hummates, what 1711 01:30:50.000 --> 01:30:50.479 else do we have? 1712 01:30:51.520 --> 01:30:52.640 So many ingredients? 1713 01:30:52.920 --> 01:30:55.399 Yeah, there's expanded shales in some of the mixes. 1714 01:30:57.319 --> 01:31:00.279 Yeah, expanded shell But yeah, those are kind of the 1715 01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:04.319 primary ingredients we have. And some of the products are 1716 01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:08.119 ball Some of the products have michroism, which is a great, great, 1717 01:31:08.680 --> 01:31:10.640 great thing to add to a product. And you know, 1718 01:31:11.039 --> 01:31:14.399 one of the best responses and reactions I got during 1719 01:31:14.439 --> 01:31:17.800 the spring when I did these uh the events at 1720 01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:21.680 garden centers, was explaining my charism and people really seem 1721 01:31:21.720 --> 01:31:26.640 to enjoy the explanation. So microsis to land works put together, right, 1722 01:31:26.720 --> 01:31:30.760 micro is fungi, riiser is root. So when you go 1723 01:31:30.840 --> 01:31:33.800 into the soil and you put michroysm, what they do 1724 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:38.000 is they actually create a very thin and almost microscopic 1725 01:31:39.239 --> 01:31:41.600 root that attaches to the root system of the plant 1726 01:31:42.199 --> 01:31:45.520 and it goes to places where the plant, the plant's 1727 01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:48.880 root system will not be able to distract any nutrients. 1728 01:31:49.199 --> 01:31:53.399 So I was just having a smoothie and I got 1729 01:31:53.439 --> 01:31:56.439 my little ball and you know, I get to the 1730 01:31:56.479 --> 01:32:00.399 bottom of the smoothie cup and I can access all 1731 01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:03.119 of it. You know, when you drink a SMOOTHI, the 1732 01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:05.119 last bit of this smoothie is the best part because 1733 01:32:05.199 --> 01:32:06.560 you get really sided when. 1734 01:32:06.479 --> 01:32:07.520 You finish it. 1735 01:32:08.279 --> 01:32:11.560 You want so my price is doing that. It's accessing 1736 01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:13.600 all those nutrients in the soil. And if you have 1737 01:32:13.680 --> 01:32:18.399 a nutrients rich soil, then that my CRISI is doing 1738 01:32:18.600 --> 01:32:21.640 a lot of work for the root of the plant, 1739 01:32:21.720 --> 01:32:23.600 and then the plant has a lot of new train 1740 01:32:23.680 --> 01:32:25.159 uptic and it all works. 1741 01:32:25.319 --> 01:32:28.399 Yeah, sometimes we could do a whole show and just 1742 01:32:28.520 --> 01:32:31.119 Mike Horizon and not even scratch the surface. But that 1743 01:32:31.319 --> 01:32:33.600 is that we're learning so much about stuff we used 1744 01:32:33.640 --> 01:32:35.720 to not know. It was just all dirt, right, and 1745 01:32:35.880 --> 01:32:38.319 now suddenly we're realizing how live it is and all 1746 01:32:38.399 --> 01:32:41.199 that's happening down in there. So when you're blending these things, 1747 01:32:41.239 --> 01:32:42.960 you know you've got a lot of different mixes and 1748 01:32:43.119 --> 01:32:46.920 whatnot that people would use. Can you give people some 1749 01:32:47.079 --> 01:32:50.640 advice as you look at it for getting ready for 1750 01:32:50.760 --> 01:32:53.159 the fall planting season. I'm trying to get people going 1751 01:32:53.239 --> 01:32:56.439 on this as soon as possible, because fall planting is 1752 01:32:56.680 --> 01:32:59.600 just around the corner. And so, what are some components 1753 01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:01.960 that you would recommend if someone wants to have success, 1754 01:33:02.039 --> 01:33:04.520 let's say on a landscape bed. What are some things 1755 01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:06.520 you would suggest that they do. How would you go 1756 01:33:06.640 --> 01:33:07.760 about it in. 1757 01:33:07.800 --> 01:33:10.000 A landscape bed. Okay, so let's go back to May 1758 01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:13.720 June July. We had incredible amounts of rain. So think 1759 01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:16.840 about that rain pretty much washing away and leaching all 1760 01:33:16.880 --> 01:33:20.840 those nutrients everything. Pretend everything's gone. So let's start with 1761 01:33:22.239 --> 01:33:25.560 a balance fertilizer. Use something like a microlive six two 1762 01:33:25.600 --> 01:33:28.039 four or a nails plant food eight three five, which 1763 01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:31.560 is the new organic option they have. Maybe it's new, 1764 01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:33.000 maybe it's not gonna know how long it's been in 1765 01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:37.800 the market. Add compost, make sure you mix the compost. 1766 01:33:38.079 --> 01:33:40.680 Or if you don't want to add the compost and 1767 01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:44.560 want to add a soil, find a good soil that 1768 01:33:44.800 --> 01:33:48.399 has good ingredients and add it to your bed. Because 1769 01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:52.199 what you're doing there is adding the food the macronutrient, 1770 01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:56.920 and in the soil, if the soil has mineral components, 1771 01:33:56.960 --> 01:34:00.960 you're adding the trade mineral, which is the micro When 1772 01:34:01.000 --> 01:34:03.520 you have a balance of those two, Your plants are 1773 01:34:03.600 --> 01:34:06.720 going to have better performance because now you have food 1774 01:34:07.439 --> 01:34:12.239 minerals and a new soil to complement what's there already. 1775 01:34:12.319 --> 01:34:14.319 Right, So that's what I would do. 1776 01:34:15.000 --> 01:34:19.800 I think that's probably the backbone of having a successful 1777 01:34:19.800 --> 01:34:24.239 garden is good soil, good organic matter, good macronutrient which 1778 01:34:24.239 --> 01:34:29.039 is the fertilizer, and balanced micronutrient which is the trades 1779 01:34:29.079 --> 01:34:30.159 mineral like azomite. 1780 01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:33.800 So you're just setting your plants up for success. Really, 1781 01:34:34.399 --> 01:34:37.199 you're getting everything they need there and in one place. 1782 01:34:37.479 --> 01:34:41.000 You know, one thing I've noticed is that soil that 1783 01:34:41.520 --> 01:34:48.760 organic organic, meaning it contains organic matter. Soil decomposes away 1784 01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:52.039 over time, and people have probably noticed this, Like you 1785 01:34:52.159 --> 01:34:54.039 got a flower pot on the back porch, it's full 1786 01:34:54.079 --> 01:34:56.119 of soil, and a couple of two or three years 1787 01:34:56.159 --> 01:34:57.520 down the line, you look at it and it's like 1788 01:34:57.640 --> 01:34:59.800 not even half full of soil. Where did it all go? Well, 1789 01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:03.279 not oxidized away. But that happens in our landscape beds too, 1790 01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:07.399 So I think topping off landscape beds with quality mixes 1791 01:35:07.800 --> 01:35:10.520 according to the plants you're going to grow, there is 1792 01:35:10.640 --> 01:35:12.800 something that needs to be sort of part of our 1793 01:35:12.840 --> 01:35:14.079 annual cycle as well. 1794 01:35:15.239 --> 01:35:16.399 Yeah, I mean, thank god. 1795 01:35:16.479 --> 01:35:20.039 What we recommend on a regular basis is mult twice 1796 01:35:20.039 --> 01:35:25.279 a year, right, but we never say at soil once 1797 01:35:25.319 --> 01:35:26.800 a year, once every couple of years. 1798 01:35:26.880 --> 01:35:27.000 Right. 1799 01:35:27.159 --> 01:35:31.800 So if you're mulch and you are taking the advantage 1800 01:35:31.800 --> 01:35:33.359 of that, you don't have any mulch left. 1801 01:35:34.159 --> 01:35:36.479 Add some soil, mix it in with the current soil, 1802 01:35:36.520 --> 01:35:37.159 and then you mulch. 1803 01:35:37.680 --> 01:35:40.760 But yeah, that's a great practice to remember, is add 1804 01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:43.479 some soil every couple of years, because that's what it 1805 01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:44.000 was going to. 1806 01:35:45.479 --> 01:35:49.279 Ultimately, I don't know, settle. 1807 01:35:50.119 --> 01:35:52.960 And usually what you get left, what's left on that 1808 01:35:53.359 --> 01:35:57.039 on that soil mixture is the inert component, which is 1809 01:35:57.119 --> 01:36:00.479 the sand or the expanded shell or the little fables 1810 01:36:00.520 --> 01:36:03.279 from the signs, you know, all they're gunning. Matter is 1811 01:36:03.319 --> 01:36:06.840 usually used by the micros, by the plants, by the 1812 01:36:07.000 --> 01:36:09.279 root systems. That's where the nutrients are, right. 1813 01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:12.479 So yeah, that's and that's how it happens in nature. 1814 01:36:12.600 --> 01:36:15.119 And so we're just trying to take advantage of the 1815 01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:19.439 knowledge that is there. If we just stop, look, listen, learn, study, 1816 01:36:19.960 --> 01:36:21.840 we can we can take advantage of that at home. 1817 01:36:21.880 --> 01:36:23.439 It makes it it makes it easy when you guys 1818 01:36:23.479 --> 01:36:25.239 put it all on the bag and you just hold 1819 01:36:25.279 --> 01:36:26.479 it home and put it in the ground. 1820 01:36:27.159 --> 01:36:27.279 Uh. 1821 01:36:27.680 --> 01:36:29.399 It makes it really simple. You don't have to be 1822 01:36:29.439 --> 01:36:32.800 a soul scientist to have success when you're gardening and 1823 01:36:32.880 --> 01:36:34.960 you have a good good products that can do that. 1824 01:36:35.880 --> 01:36:37.960 You know, the cactus and suckle. It makes you guys 1825 01:36:38.039 --> 01:36:41.399 have I we've been redoing some strings around our house. 1826 01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:43.880 My wife loves strings. We got string of heart, string 1827 01:36:43.960 --> 01:36:46.439 of pearl, string of arrow, string of bananas, string of 1828 01:36:46.840 --> 01:36:50.479 everything under the sun. And that cactine suculent mix has 1829 01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:53.279 a lot of grit to it and it drains internally 1830 01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:56.439 really well. And I think that's something you know, and 1831 01:36:56.439 --> 01:36:59.960 a lot of flower containers. I sometimes you start with us, 1832 01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:02.359 well maybe it's a cheap potting soil, and it just 1833 01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:05.840 kind of settles in and gets real thick and mucky, 1834 01:37:06.159 --> 01:37:09.079 almost gooey, you know. It just you don't have airspace 1835 01:37:09.199 --> 01:37:12.560 down in there in the soil and things that open 1836 01:37:12.640 --> 01:37:14.680 that up. And as you do a potting mix is 1837 01:37:14.760 --> 01:37:16.920 like you guys have the works and cactus and succulent. 1838 01:37:18.399 --> 01:37:22.720 You've got components that you can reuse. I mean, you know, 1839 01:37:22.840 --> 01:37:24.840 you finish the year and you pull that plant out, 1840 01:37:24.920 --> 01:37:27.560 you can mix some fresh stuff in and continue going 1841 01:37:27.640 --> 01:37:29.279 with it as long as you don't have a disease 1842 01:37:29.359 --> 01:37:32.279 issue going on in there. But those those components of 1843 01:37:32.399 --> 01:37:34.039 drainage I think are really important. 1844 01:37:35.319 --> 01:37:38.000 Yes, it's like cactus and circulant. I don't know if 1845 01:37:38.000 --> 01:37:39.960 I was talking to you or somebody else, and I 1846 01:37:40.079 --> 01:37:43.039 was explaining that this is the most complex blend we make. 1847 01:37:44.399 --> 01:37:47.159 It has a lead based on leaf more compost. It 1848 01:37:47.279 --> 01:37:52.119 has cured coco corea fiber parallite compost and native mulch 1849 01:37:52.199 --> 01:37:56.199 composting soil fines, and then it has these components that 1850 01:37:56.239 --> 01:38:01.000 are really interesting expanded shell, basalt, signed granite and torpedoes 1851 01:38:01.000 --> 01:38:04.520 sand vermi composed, which is you know, one castings in 1852 01:38:04.600 --> 01:38:05.159 my chrysa. 1853 01:38:06.079 --> 01:38:07.239 And that's because it has. 1854 01:38:07.159 --> 01:38:10.880 All these different components that I call drain or structure components. 1855 01:38:11.680 --> 01:38:15.880 It doesn't compact, it doesn't mock up like you're talking about. 1856 01:38:16.479 --> 01:38:18.199 It stays lose. 1857 01:38:18.239 --> 01:38:20.319 But it's also the heaviest product we make, right so, 1858 01:38:20.880 --> 01:38:23.800 and that's what cactuses like. A lot of people like 1859 01:38:23.880 --> 01:38:26.880 this product. Because of that, some other people prefer. 1860 01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:27.760 To add more. 1861 01:38:28.560 --> 01:38:31.279 I've seen some and I've heard somebody say that they 1862 01:38:31.359 --> 01:38:34.560 added decomposed grinded to it because they wanted it to 1863 01:38:34.680 --> 01:38:38.079 be heavier and to kind of mimic what you see 1864 01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:43.680 in the desert. But I have cactuses and succulents, primarily 1865 01:38:43.720 --> 01:38:48.079 succulents that I planted in twenty twenty two that are 1866 01:38:48.199 --> 01:38:51.960 thriving still to this day in that product. 1867 01:38:52.199 --> 01:38:55.399 Yeah, and that's that it's worked out well for us. 1868 01:38:55.680 --> 01:38:59.600 I've had a real good success with that. So I 1869 01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:02.720 want to talk a little bit about you know, I 1870 01:39:02.840 --> 01:39:04.720 tell people all the time when I talk about airlom cells, 1871 01:39:04.760 --> 01:39:07.119 you can find it everywhere. It's easy to find. But 1872 01:39:07.359 --> 01:39:10.840 I like your website, the Airloom Cells of Texas dot com. 1873 01:39:11.239 --> 01:39:15.279 And one thing that people need to realize is if 1874 01:39:15.319 --> 01:39:18.560 they go to that website, now even if you're not 1875 01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:21.319 going to buy an heirloom soil or that's you know 1876 01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:25.319 that maybe that's not what you're going justifind go there 1877 01:39:25.399 --> 01:39:29.760 for the soil calculator alone, because the soil calculator is 1878 01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:33.399 so good. That's that's in the website. By the way, 1879 01:39:33.479 --> 01:39:36.840 is Heirloomsoils dot Com makes it real easy, but you 1880 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:39.319 can put in if you don't know how many one 1881 01:39:39.359 --> 01:39:42.600 foot bags, how many wheelbarrows, how many five gallon buckets. 1882 01:39:42.680 --> 01:39:44.760 Do I need to do such and such. It's all 1883 01:39:44.840 --> 01:39:48.880 there and then they can plan accordingly. And of course, 1884 01:39:49.239 --> 01:39:50.439 you know, I know, you guys have a lot of 1885 01:39:50.439 --> 01:39:52.680 great products that we hope they would choose one of. 1886 01:39:52.840 --> 01:39:56.279 But uh, that's that calculator is amazing and the website's 1887 01:39:56.399 --> 01:39:56.920 very helpful. 1888 01:39:57.840 --> 01:40:01.039 So the calculator is used by out of my competitors, 1889 01:40:01.239 --> 01:40:02.640 which is great. I love it. 1890 01:40:04.079 --> 01:40:06.600 And also on the website, if you wanted to find 1891 01:40:06.640 --> 01:40:08.520 a garden center, and you know, if you're not going 1892 01:40:08.600 --> 01:40:10.560 to buyer loom soils, go to where to find air 1893 01:40:10.640 --> 01:40:13.439 loom soils if a map doesn't load up, since you 1894 01:40:13.560 --> 01:40:16.319 refers to the site, and you'll have a map of 1895 01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:20.159 all the maybe eighty plus locations that carry a product, 1896 01:40:20.239 --> 01:40:22.880 and those locations are going to be garden centers, you know, 1897 01:40:23.000 --> 01:40:27.319 hardware stores, feed stores that carry a huge amount of 1898 01:40:27.359 --> 01:40:30.520 different products that you you know, you talk about on. 1899 01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:33.640 A regular basis, and they're spread all over the place. 1900 01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:37.039 It goes from kind of Austin all the way to 1901 01:40:37.479 --> 01:40:42.039 Neerland and down to Corpus. So that's a yeah website, 1902 01:40:42.079 --> 01:40:46.720 and we got I added a soil fog where I'm 1903 01:40:46.720 --> 01:40:49.640 going to add like different links. And also there is 1904 01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:52.039 a presentation on it if you scroll the way to 1905 01:40:52.119 --> 01:40:55.119 the bottom that talks about my horizon and it talks 1906 01:40:55.119 --> 01:40:55.880 about the weeds. 1907 01:40:56.039 --> 01:40:57.119 What are weeds telling us? 1908 01:40:57.359 --> 01:40:57.399 So? 1909 01:40:58.239 --> 01:41:01.479 Okay, yeah, that's good. Those of you who are living 1910 01:41:01.560 --> 01:41:03.439 way outside of the Houston area. I know, I was 1911 01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:06.359 listening to KRH coming out of the Austin Airport the 1912 01:41:06.439 --> 01:41:09.039 other day and up in College Station, or you know, 1913 01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:11.960 way down way out east and just a lot of places. 1914 01:41:12.359 --> 01:41:14.880 It's widely available. So those of you who don't live 1915 01:41:14.960 --> 01:41:17.199 right here in Houston, you can still find it those 1916 01:41:17.279 --> 01:41:21.800 products in your area. Luis, I got about probably thirty 1917 01:41:21.840 --> 01:41:26.119 seconds or so here. Any closing quick thoughts on getting 1918 01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:28.399 ready for fall by getting your soil right. 1919 01:41:30.079 --> 01:41:32.720 Getting ready for fall, Like I said, and I'll repeat 1920 01:41:32.760 --> 01:41:35.760 this over and over again, make sure you fertilize to 1921 01:41:35.840 --> 01:41:40.079 give the soil, mixing the oil some food. The fertilizers 1922 01:41:40.119 --> 01:41:44.439 your micronutrient. Use a micronutrient, which is a trade mineral. 1923 01:41:44.880 --> 01:41:47.560 The combination of those two allows the plant to have 1924 01:41:47.680 --> 01:41:51.680 better nutrient uptake and use really good organic matter or 1925 01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:57.560 a really good robust soil to add to that existing environment. 1926 01:41:57.920 --> 01:42:02.760 Those are your three components keys to successful garden, whether 1927 01:42:02.800 --> 01:42:05.640 it's a flower bed or a or a vegetable bed. 1928 01:42:05.960 --> 01:42:06.880 And if you're doing all. 1929 01:42:06.800 --> 01:42:09.479 Right, give those three. Give those three one more run 1930 01:42:09.560 --> 01:42:10.199 more quick time. 1931 01:42:11.399 --> 01:42:13.079 Yep, one more. 1932 01:42:13.159 --> 01:42:15.399 I was just saying, I give those three just one 1933 01:42:15.439 --> 01:42:17.479 two three one more quick time for people that are 1934 01:42:18.119 --> 01:42:18.800 writing it down. 1935 01:42:19.680 --> 01:42:23.880 Yeah, micronutrient is your fertilizer. Thank good, fertilizer six two 1936 01:42:23.960 --> 01:42:27.880 four eight three five. Your second one is your micronutrient, 1937 01:42:28.039 --> 01:42:32.560 which is your trade mineral, something like the most important part, 1938 01:42:32.760 --> 01:42:35.399 the soil component or the compost component. 1939 01:42:35.479 --> 01:42:37.680 Right, they've got it all right there you go. 1940 01:42:39.560 --> 01:42:41.600 Well, Louise, I wish we could do this all morning. 1941 01:42:42.039 --> 01:42:44.319 They're telling me it's time to go to a commercial, 1942 01:42:44.399 --> 01:42:46.399 so I got to shut up. Thank you so much 1943 01:42:46.399 --> 01:42:48.439 for being on. I appreciate that a lot. Again. If 1944 01:42:48.479 --> 01:42:52.399 you want the website, it's Heirloomsols of Texas dot com. Folks. 1945 01:42:52.520 --> 01:42:55.000 You're going to take a break here, all right, take 1946 01:42:55.039 --> 01:42:56.359 care of Louise. Appreciate it. 1947 01:42:56.560 --> 01:42:57.840 Thank you all right, bye bye. 1948 01:42:58.439 --> 01:43:01.760 I want you to have success. Get the soil done now, 1949 01:43:01.880 --> 01:43:03.960 get your beds built now, get things improved. 1950 01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:04.119 Now. 1951 01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:06.399 If you've got old beds do some topping off of them. 1952 01:43:06.920 --> 01:43:10.199 Whatever it takes to get that set. Include the nutrients, 1953 01:43:10.399 --> 01:43:13.520 if you need micros, if you need regular fertilizing, get 1954 01:43:13.560 --> 01:43:15.520 all that in there and get those things ready. It 1955 01:43:15.640 --> 01:43:18.800 is time just around the corner to get all our 1956 01:43:18.880 --> 01:43:23.399 fall for fall planting, prime time chores accomplished, and that 1957 01:43:23.720 --> 01:43:26.199 that is coming not a better time of the year. Hey, 1958 01:43:26.359 --> 01:43:27.920 we're going to open it back up to phones now. 1959 01:43:28.000 --> 01:43:30.279 Our number is seven one three two one two k 1960 01:43:30.520 --> 01:43:33.760 t RH. I want to remind you that next Saturday, 1961 01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:37.600 September seventh, I'll be at the Montgomery County Home Outdoor 1962 01:43:37.680 --> 01:43:40.880 Living Show. That Home and Outdoor Living Show in Montgomery 1963 01:43:40.920 --> 01:43:44.039 County is at the lone Star Convention and Expo Center 1964 01:43:44.119 --> 01:43:48.760 out there north north northeast on Airport Road. Now, I'll 1965 01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:51.560 be there from twelve to two on Sunday. I'm going 1966 01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:54.880 to give a talk on fall gardening, and then I'll 1967 01:43:54.960 --> 01:43:57.720 stay there and answer questions till the cows come home. 1968 01:43:57.760 --> 01:43:59.079 I don't know what time the cows get home, but 1969 01:43:59.319 --> 01:44:02.399 I'll stick around and we'll answer questions as many as 1970 01:44:02.479 --> 01:44:05.079 you have. Bring me samples, bring me pictures of things 1971 01:44:05.119 --> 01:44:06.920 that you want to ask about. We'll go through it, 1972 01:44:06.960 --> 01:44:09.880 and I'll be giving away a lot of micro Life 1973 01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:15.359 fertilizer giveaways while we're there. So just another reason to 1974 01:44:15.479 --> 01:44:18.800 show up and be part of the fun while we're 1975 01:44:18.840 --> 01:44:23.039 out there again. Next Saturday, September seventh, Lone Star at 1976 01:44:23.199 --> 01:44:28.159 Convention and Expo Center on Airport Road. All right, let's 1977 01:44:28.159 --> 01:44:29.880 head out to the phones. Now, we're going to go 1978 01:44:30.039 --> 01:44:35.600 to New Caney and talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, good morning, Skip. 1979 01:44:36.840 --> 01:44:39.680 Yesterday morning, you had somebody from the Caney called in 1980 01:44:39.800 --> 01:44:45.159 about pear trees, and I was very interested in the conversation. 1981 01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:46.239 He said that he. 1982 01:44:46.680 --> 01:44:49.239 Used the pairs to make a pair of wine and 1983 01:44:49.359 --> 01:44:52.920 so forth. I would be very interested in doing the 1984 01:44:53.000 --> 01:44:54.920 same thing, and I was hoping you would have some 1985 01:44:55.159 --> 01:44:59.800 specific recommendations for variety, since you need a paar tree 1986 01:45:00.119 --> 01:45:02.720 pollinator to accomplish the gulps. 1987 01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:05.199 Yeah, so. 1988 01:45:07.479 --> 01:45:11.239 Let's do this, Bill. When when we're done with this call, 1989 01:45:11.279 --> 01:45:13.039 I'm going to put you on hold, and I want 1990 01:45:13.199 --> 01:45:17.239 Chris to get whatever contact information you would want to 1991 01:45:17.359 --> 01:45:20.239 give to the guy who made pair wine yesterday. Okay, 1992 01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:23.239 And if that person's listening, if you will call in, 1993 01:45:23.760 --> 01:45:25.720 If you will call in, we'll put you in touch 1994 01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:29.560 with Bill and you guys can can talk how to 1995 01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:32.239 get there from here kind of stuff. As far as 1996 01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:36.640 pair varieties, Bill, I would go to the Aggie Horticulture website. 1997 01:45:36.760 --> 01:45:41.560 It's Aggie hyphen Horticulture dot TAMU dot edu. But if 1998 01:45:41.600 --> 01:45:43.640 you just do a search for Aggi Horticulture, on the 1999 01:45:43.680 --> 01:45:46.359 front page is a fruit and nuts section and you 2000 01:45:46.479 --> 01:45:50.199 click on that and you can pick publications on everything 2001 01:45:50.319 --> 01:45:52.920 from avocados to I don't know what fruit begins with 2002 01:45:53.079 --> 01:45:56.159 the but it's all a to Z and pairs is 2003 01:45:56.239 --> 01:45:58.800 one of the publications, and in that it lists the 2004 01:45:58.920 --> 01:46:02.760 varieties and knows you about each variety. And so I 2005 01:46:02.840 --> 01:46:05.319 would turn you loose on that because you're gonna get 2006 01:46:05.319 --> 01:46:08.399 a lot more information. I'm giving a little quick answer here, 2007 01:46:09.119 --> 01:46:12.319 but that would be pairs grow. They're not much of 2008 01:46:12.359 --> 01:46:16.560 a challenge. Yeah, and so did you have more of 2009 01:46:16.600 --> 01:46:17.119 the questions? 2010 01:46:19.000 --> 01:46:19.880 No, that that's it. 2011 01:46:20.079 --> 01:46:22.680 Actually, I was just hoping. I was thinking that if 2012 01:46:22.680 --> 01:46:25.720 I couldn't talk to the fellow that I would I 2013 01:46:25.760 --> 01:46:28.000 would have assumed that you would know the varieties that 2014 01:46:28.079 --> 01:46:31.159 would be the very best prior real southern area here. 2015 01:46:31.760 --> 01:46:32.760 And I appreciate that. 2016 01:46:33.720 --> 01:46:35.439 I appreciate all your efforts. 2017 01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:37.800 Well, I don't think on pears, you know, we have 2018 01:46:37.920 --> 01:46:40.079 any like this variety or that it hadn't hit the 2019 01:46:40.119 --> 01:46:42.640 point like a fine wines where certain grapes grown in 2020 01:46:42.720 --> 01:46:45.920 certain soils make certain kinds of wine. I think with pears, 2021 01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:48.159 it's just like, hey, that's sugar, let's ferment it and 2022 01:46:48.279 --> 01:46:52.439 drink it kind of deal. But I'll let you visit 2023 01:46:52.560 --> 01:46:53.880 with with him more about that. 2024 01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:54.399 But thank you. 2025 01:46:54.479 --> 01:46:58.520 I appreciate appreciate your call a lot if you would 2026 01:46:58.600 --> 01:47:00.479 like to call garden Line and talk to me about 2027 01:47:00.479 --> 01:47:02.920 some of these things. Seven to one to three two 2028 01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:06.840 one two kt r H seven to one three two 2029 01:47:06.920 --> 01:47:09.359 one two k t r H and we'll get Chris 2030 01:47:09.439 --> 01:47:14.720 there giving or getting bills contact information. We put two 2031 01:47:14.840 --> 01:47:18.319 people together that way. That's just another nice thing there. 2032 01:47:19.920 --> 01:47:20.039 Uh. 2033 01:47:20.920 --> 01:47:24.680 Nitrofoss makes a fertilizer called Sweet Green. And you know 2034 01:47:24.760 --> 01:47:28.399 we're talking about organics and stuff like that, natural kinds 2035 01:47:28.439 --> 01:47:31.199 of things. Well, molasses is something that is used in 2036 01:47:31.359 --> 01:47:36.920 organic gardeners gardens a lot because it's it's basically carbon sugars, 2037 01:47:36.960 --> 01:47:41.119 basically a string of carbons, and and the microbes really 2038 01:47:41.159 --> 01:47:43.640 feed on it and thrive on that kind of thing, 2039 01:47:43.760 --> 01:47:46.199 especially the beneficial bacteria and things that are doing good 2040 01:47:46.239 --> 01:47:46.479 for us. 2041 01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:46.920 Well. 2042 01:47:46.960 --> 01:47:50.600 Sweet Green's on eleven zero zero fertilizer. It's got that 2043 01:47:50.880 --> 01:47:54.359 boost of nitrogen high amount for a for a non 2044 01:47:54.720 --> 01:47:59.000 non synthetic type product. But sweet Green it has a 2045 01:47:59.039 --> 01:48:01.439 wonderful fresh and you can use it on your line. 2046 01:48:01.479 --> 01:48:03.239 You'd really use it on anything you want to use 2047 01:48:03.279 --> 01:48:06.359 it on for a good quick boost. And that's something 2048 01:48:06.399 --> 01:48:08.159 you could do now to hold you over into you 2049 01:48:08.359 --> 01:48:11.199 get into it. We get into our fall fertilization season. 2050 01:48:11.800 --> 01:48:15.359 But Sweet Green from Nitrofoss again widely available. Auspa Ace 2051 01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:17.640 up in the Woodlands is going to carry it. You're 2052 01:48:17.640 --> 01:48:19.159 going to find it at Plants for all seasons on 2053 01:48:19.239 --> 01:48:21.279 two forty nine. You're going to find it at Plants 2054 01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:24.319 and Things up in Brunham on Highway three sixty five. 2055 01:48:24.479 --> 01:48:29.800 Sweet Green from Nitrofoss. I love the smell of it. 2056 01:48:30.880 --> 01:48:33.520 I like to kind of tongue in cheeks say, you know, 2057 01:48:33.640 --> 01:48:35.159 it smells so good when you throw it in the 2058 01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:36.560 back of the car, you're going to want to make 2059 01:48:36.560 --> 01:48:38.840 an extra loop around six ' ten on the way home, 2060 01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:42.760 just so you can enjoy the fragrance of sweet Green 2061 01:48:43.119 --> 01:48:46.720 a little bit longer. You are listening to Guardline and 2062 01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:49.359 our phones are seven to one three two one two 2063 01:48:49.600 --> 01:48:52.840 k t r H. Seven to one three two one 2064 01:48:52.960 --> 01:48:55.279 two k t r H. Feel free to give us 2065 01:48:55.319 --> 01:48:57.600 a call. This morning, been kind of a quiet day 2066 01:48:57.640 --> 01:49:01.560 on the phones. Typically what happens when this happens is 2067 01:49:01.800 --> 01:49:05.079 the whole day's calls. Try to call it the last minute. 2068 01:49:05.119 --> 01:49:08.039 We got a little over an hour left in the show, 2069 01:49:08.199 --> 01:49:09.640 and I would encourage you if you want to talk, 2070 01:49:09.640 --> 01:49:11.520 it's always better to do it sooner rather than later. 2071 01:49:11.920 --> 01:49:15.119 Towards the end, things get kind of crazy, just because 2072 01:49:15.279 --> 01:49:17.479 I don't know, maybe more people are waking up, or 2073 01:49:18.319 --> 01:49:21.279 they're thinking of questions that they want to ask. We're 2074 01:49:21.279 --> 01:49:23.199 here to help you with all the above. And then 2075 01:49:23.279 --> 01:49:30.560 some one of my uh daughters has a beautiful rose 2076 01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:33.279 bush that you got here in the Greater Houston area, 2077 01:49:33.319 --> 01:49:36.720 and we were I was at her place a while back. 2078 01:49:36.800 --> 01:49:39.359 We were doing some training on some climbing type of 2079 01:49:39.439 --> 01:49:42.920 rose and UH, just getting it pruned and taken care of, 2080 01:49:43.199 --> 01:49:46.359 and I was just noticing, you know that when she 2081 01:49:46.760 --> 01:49:49.720 gives a good care, very good care, and the thing 2082 01:49:49.840 --> 01:49:52.600 is very healthy and it's very vigorous, and UH, just 2083 01:49:52.960 --> 01:49:55.800 a little a little tip on roses. Roses the queen 2084 01:49:55.880 --> 01:49:59.800 of the garden. They say, right, uh, it is so popular, 2085 01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:03.680 and roses put on a great spring show. Some roses 2086 01:50:04.239 --> 01:50:07.760 climbers often are once bloomers, and some other types of 2087 01:50:07.880 --> 01:50:10.199 roses are what we call once bloomers. They bloom in 2088 01:50:10.239 --> 01:50:13.399 the spring and that's it, and that's okay. I've got 2089 01:50:13.520 --> 01:50:17.079 the Peggy Martin rose on a arbor at my house 2090 01:50:17.640 --> 01:50:19.800 and it's a spring primarily bloomer. The rest of the year, 2091 01:50:19.800 --> 01:50:22.479 it's given me shade, so that's okay. But then there's 2092 01:50:22.560 --> 01:50:25.880 others that repeat over and over again and just giving 2093 01:50:25.920 --> 01:50:28.039 them good care. Fall is the best time of the 2094 01:50:28.119 --> 01:50:30.720 year to plant a rose, and I encourage you to 2095 01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:33.520 give them a good close look this fall. When we 2096 01:50:33.600 --> 01:50:35.279 come back, I think I'll talk a little bit more 2097 01:50:35.319 --> 01:50:39.079 about the keys to success with roses. In the meantime, 2098 01:50:39.399 --> 01:50:40.159 I'll be right back. 2099 01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:43.640 As you know, I'm all of god abbeys goddabets. 2100 01:50:43.920 --> 01:50:47.439 All right, all right, welcome back to Gardenline. I'm your host, 2101 01:50:47.479 --> 01:50:49.319 Skip Richter. I was just talking before we went to 2102 01:50:49.319 --> 01:50:53.600 break about roses and just some tips on roses making 2103 01:50:53.720 --> 01:50:56.520 a quality mix like a rose blend. We got rose 2104 01:50:56.560 --> 01:50:59.199 blendz here in the scenario that work outstanding for that 2105 01:50:59.319 --> 01:51:01.479 making them a good race back, giving them lots of 2106 01:51:01.560 --> 01:51:05.520 sunlight space the plants out so air can move around 2107 01:51:05.720 --> 01:51:09.520 and among them to lessen the time the leaves stay wet. 2108 01:51:09.800 --> 01:51:12.119 The more the leaves stay with, the more disease problems 2109 01:51:12.159 --> 01:51:16.319 you have on any plant. So good air circulation, good sunlight, 2110 01:51:16.640 --> 01:51:19.000 good soil, and then pick some good roses. By the 2111 01:51:19.039 --> 01:51:22.880 way RCW. I almost forgot to mention this Today RCW 2112 01:51:23.039 --> 01:51:25.920 Nursery that is the garden center that is where two 2113 01:51:26.000 --> 01:51:28.920 forty nine Tumble Parkway comes into bout Wagh eight. They 2114 01:51:29.000 --> 01:51:32.119 are having a Labor Day weekend Rose sale on their 2115 01:51:32.319 --> 01:51:36.199 Star roses and Weeks roses. Now you may not know 2116 01:51:36.680 --> 01:51:39.680 what a star in Weeks mean. Well, Star rows is huge, 2117 01:51:40.239 --> 01:51:44.279 huge rose company across the United States. Weeks Roses another 2118 01:51:44.359 --> 01:51:48.159 one produced tons of quality roses each style. Only ten 2119 01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:51.680 bucks Star and weak roses at RCW. But that's the 2120 01:51:51.880 --> 01:51:54.760 Labor Day weekend sale only, so don't mess around. As 2121 01:51:54.800 --> 01:51:56.840 soon as you get there, the better choices you're going 2122 01:51:56.920 --> 01:52:01.359 to have. But this is unbelievable opportunity by rosebus ten 2123 01:52:01.439 --> 01:52:03.960 dollars and I'm telling you fall planning is coming the 2124 01:52:04.039 --> 01:52:06.600 best playing time of the year. So there's a little 2125 01:52:07.079 --> 01:52:09.399 word to the wise. I'd get out to RCW Nursries. 2126 01:52:09.399 --> 01:52:11.640 You can go to the website RCW Nurseries dot com 2127 01:52:12.000 --> 01:52:15.399 find out more about them. But that is a call 2128 01:52:15.520 --> 01:52:20.159 public service announcement. Let's go to Perland. Now we're going 2129 01:52:20.199 --> 01:52:23.239 to talk to Kay. Hello. Okay, good morning, Skip. 2130 01:52:23.319 --> 01:52:25.800 Thank you for taking my call. Yes, I have a 2131 01:52:26.119 --> 01:52:31.159 question on I have a little volunteer oak tree that 2132 01:52:31.399 --> 01:52:33.399 I found in one of my flower beds and I 2133 01:52:33.479 --> 01:52:35.000 dug it up. It's probably been a year and a 2134 01:52:35.039 --> 01:52:38.399 half or so and it was about four or five 2135 01:52:38.520 --> 01:52:42.479 inches tall. It's about twelve fourteen inches tall now. But 2136 01:52:43.039 --> 01:52:47.479 I failed to water it adequately and the leaves all died. Well, 2137 01:52:47.520 --> 01:52:50.520 I took them all off and it's still flexible. Do 2138 01:52:50.600 --> 01:52:52.039 you think it's gonna be okay? 2139 01:52:52.399 --> 01:52:53.199 Will it come back? 2140 01:52:53.279 --> 01:52:55.840 There's a chance. Yeah, there's a chance. And you know, 2141 01:52:56.119 --> 01:52:58.520 it just depends on the degree to which the drought 2142 01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:01.680 hit it. I mean, you know, eventually can kill a plant, 2143 01:53:01.760 --> 01:53:04.640 but a little drops the problem. Uh, So I would 2144 01:53:04.640 --> 01:53:06.640 give it some time. It may try to relieve. I 2145 01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:07.960 kind of hate for it to have to do that 2146 01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:10.199 right before fall when the leaves are gonna get knocked 2147 01:53:10.239 --> 01:53:14.199 off again. Anyway, Yeah, I would, uh, I would give it, 2148 01:53:14.319 --> 01:53:17.279 give it some time, let's see uh it. Typically there 2149 01:53:17.319 --> 01:53:19.680 should be some decent storage in the ground and it 2150 01:53:19.760 --> 01:53:20.960 shouldn't just be dead. 2151 01:53:21.079 --> 01:53:25.000 But you never know, it wasn't for a long time. 2152 01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:28.000 It was just you know, a short a few days, 2153 01:53:28.079 --> 01:53:29.439 I would, I would guess, or. 2154 01:53:29.479 --> 01:53:32.960 So yeah, well, if you see signs of life, is 2155 01:53:33.039 --> 01:53:35.239 it in a container now or is it in the ground. 2156 01:53:35.039 --> 01:53:37.079 Yes, it's in Yeah, No, it's in a pot. 2157 01:53:38.159 --> 01:53:40.800 Okay, Well, the sooner, sooner you can get that if 2158 01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:42.600 you see signs of life, as sooner you can get 2159 01:53:42.640 --> 01:53:45.119 it planted the better. And by sooner, I mean you 2160 01:53:45.159 --> 01:53:47.119 know this fall is opposed to next year or the 2161 01:53:47.199 --> 01:53:49.159 year after. Go ahead and get it out of the 2162 01:53:49.199 --> 01:53:52.199 container in the ground I was keeping. 2163 01:53:52.319 --> 01:53:54.000 I don't really have room for it in my yarn. 2164 01:53:54.039 --> 01:53:56.239 I'm keeping it from my son daughter in law, and 2165 01:53:56.479 --> 01:53:59.399 they're not ready for it. So I was just gonna, okay, 2166 01:53:59.479 --> 01:54:02.600 keep moving it up in size till they're ready for it. 2167 01:54:02.720 --> 01:54:05.560 But thank you so much, have a blessed day, bye 2168 01:54:05.600 --> 01:54:06.720 bye you as well. 2169 01:54:06.920 --> 01:54:11.359 Thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call a lot. Nelson 2170 01:54:11.439 --> 01:54:15.039 Plant Food produces a wide variety of quality fertilizers. You 2171 01:54:15.079 --> 01:54:16.880 hear me talk about the turf Star line all along. 2172 01:54:16.920 --> 01:54:19.000 I've been talking about slow and easy all summer because 2173 01:54:19.000 --> 01:54:22.159 it releases so slowly over time. I talk about Bruce's 2174 01:54:22.239 --> 01:54:25.199 Brew anytime of the year. Really it's a pretty quick 2175 01:54:25.239 --> 01:54:26.680 green up, but it has a little bit of slow 2176 01:54:26.760 --> 01:54:29.359 release to it. As soon as we get into fall, 2177 01:54:29.439 --> 01:54:32.079 I'll be telling you about Carbload, the fall fertilizer from 2178 01:54:32.159 --> 01:54:35.439 Nelson's Turf Star line, the Nutri Star line, but that's 2179 01:54:35.479 --> 01:54:38.640 another one, the Nutri Star. It comes, people buy it 2180 01:54:38.760 --> 01:54:41.920 typically buy it in jars, plastic jars or screw top lids, 2181 01:54:42.319 --> 01:54:44.560 and there's a Nutri Star for trees and shrubs, There's 2182 01:54:44.600 --> 01:54:47.359 a Nutri Star for tropical plants. There's a Neutra Star 2183 01:54:47.760 --> 01:54:51.279 for different kinds of blooming plants, depending on you know, 2184 01:54:51.319 --> 01:54:54.159 the particular plant you have. You can refill those jars 2185 01:54:54.199 --> 01:54:56.760 at twelve different places around the Greater Houston area. Makes 2186 01:54:56.800 --> 01:54:59.159 it very economical to do a refill and save on 2187 01:54:59.239 --> 01:55:02.600 the plastic. Just another smart move by the folks at 2188 01:55:02.680 --> 01:55:06.439 Nelson Plant Food. Also don't forget the color star. Color 2189 01:55:06.600 --> 01:55:09.680 color color. You want color this fall, you want color 2190 01:55:09.760 --> 01:55:12.960 this winter. We're looking at pens and violas and whatnot. 2191 01:55:13.359 --> 01:55:15.399 It's just some color star. Put it down, mix it 2192 01:55:15.479 --> 01:55:17.960 in the soil, and then plant your plants, and you're 2193 01:55:18.000 --> 01:55:21.039 going to see those results last all through the winter season. 2194 01:55:22.399 --> 01:55:24.640 We're going to head out now to West Houston and 2195 01:55:24.760 --> 01:55:27.399 talk to Gary. Gary, Welcome to guard Line. 2196 01:55:28.960 --> 01:55:29.720 Good morning, Skip. 2197 01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:32.800 Here's my interesting thing kind of follows from the guests 2198 01:55:32.880 --> 01:55:35.680 you just had on talking about soil and rebuilding beds. 2199 01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:36.039 For next year. 2200 01:55:36.600 --> 01:55:40.119 I've got you know, L shaped beds, you know, against 2201 01:55:40.159 --> 01:55:43.560 my fant traditional you know, small backyard type thing. And 2202 01:55:44.079 --> 01:55:46.680 the beds had gotten you know, real low. They needed 2203 01:55:46.720 --> 01:55:49.640 to be completely you know, rebuilt. They would have needed 2204 01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:52.760 at least like two yards of soil. And but what 2205 01:55:52.920 --> 01:55:56.079 I did when I did my my new little patch 2206 01:55:56.159 --> 01:56:01.399 of grass, I removed all of that Saint Augustine fairly deep. 2207 01:56:02.159 --> 01:56:04.680 But I didn't have a way of removing it away 2208 01:56:04.720 --> 01:56:07.159 from the house. I put the I put all that 2209 01:56:07.479 --> 01:56:09.760 in my beds and figured it. I just let it 2210 01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:13.640 all deteriorate there. And okay, of course it's got a 2211 01:56:13.680 --> 01:56:17.039 healthy weed population all along the whole thing. So it's 2212 01:56:17.479 --> 01:56:20.119 fairly green with nothing but weeds. But I want to know, 2213 01:56:20.600 --> 01:56:24.079 is it okay to build a bed. Kill all those weeds, 2214 01:56:24.520 --> 01:56:27.680 kill them up, let it deteriorate and compost, and then 2215 01:56:27.760 --> 01:56:30.760 put real compost and stuff on top of it and 2216 01:56:30.840 --> 01:56:31.840 build a bed that way? 2217 01:56:32.079 --> 01:56:33.880 Or is that going to cause me problems? 2218 01:56:35.359 --> 01:56:38.039 Well, well you can. You know, in vegetable gardens, we 2219 01:56:38.119 --> 01:56:40.720 do stuff called green manuring, and what that means is 2220 01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:43.920 you grow like rye grass or vetch or something and 2221 01:56:44.000 --> 01:56:46.600 then you turn it into the soil and let it 2222 01:56:46.720 --> 01:56:49.479 decompose to build the soil. That's kind of what you're 2223 01:56:49.520 --> 01:56:53.199 doing with your question. I would just say, make sure 2224 01:56:53.319 --> 01:56:57.079 the weeds are not perennials like bermuda grass or nuts 2225 01:56:57.239 --> 01:57:00.399 edge or something else that chopping it up up, it's 2226 01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:03.600 just gonna multiply it and it'll be right back. If 2227 01:57:03.640 --> 01:57:06.079 it's just annual weeds, you can do that if you 2228 01:57:06.159 --> 01:57:08.279 want to. Just remember you're gonna have weed seeds in there. 2229 01:57:08.960 --> 01:57:12.199 But if you want to turn old Saint Augustine grass 2230 01:57:12.359 --> 01:57:15.159 into I've thrown where I cut out a section of 2231 01:57:15.199 --> 01:57:17.079 Saint Augustine to put in a bed, I'll throw that 2232 01:57:17.159 --> 01:57:19.439 in a compost pile and just got a little soil 2233 01:57:19.479 --> 01:57:22.319 attached to it and it just composts away like anything else. 2234 01:57:23.520 --> 01:57:26.800 Well, yeah, I mean I've got I've got nuts edge, 2235 01:57:26.880 --> 01:57:28.840 just the bane of my existence. But I find it 2236 01:57:28.920 --> 01:57:31.560 pretty good with all the different, you know, typical tools. 2237 01:57:32.000 --> 01:57:35.479 When I go to kill the weeds and I'm gonna 2238 01:57:35.520 --> 01:57:40.000 wait until let's say late February or whatever to start 2239 01:57:40.039 --> 01:57:44.760 the rebuilding process, is there a vegetative killer that's not 2240 01:57:44.880 --> 01:57:47.159 one of those wait a year type of things that 2241 01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:50.079 might help me, because I'll kill the nuts that's special, right, 2242 01:57:50.479 --> 01:57:53.039 but I'll do the rest just with something to zap 2243 01:57:53.119 --> 01:57:55.439 everything that's safe for every build here. 2244 01:57:55.520 --> 01:57:58.479 I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna answer that by giving you 2245 01:57:58.640 --> 01:58:02.960 my website. It's gardener with Skip dot com. Gardening with 2246 01:58:03.199 --> 01:58:06.800 Skip dot Com. On there, you'll see some brand new 2247 01:58:06.880 --> 01:58:09.159 information on the nuts edge. There's one it's an in 2248 01:58:09.279 --> 01:58:11.439 depth look that we be very helpful for you. Then 2249 01:58:11.479 --> 01:58:15.279 there's a herbicide for the weed wiper page, and that 2250 01:58:15.479 --> 01:58:19.399 lists the herbicide ingredients for different kinds of weeds. So 2251 01:58:19.520 --> 01:58:22.760 depending on whether you're going after grassy or sedges or 2252 01:58:22.840 --> 01:58:25.079 broad leaf weeds or weeds that are coming out of 2253 01:58:25.119 --> 01:58:27.520 a bowl out of the ground, like wild onions and garlic. 2254 01:58:27.600 --> 01:58:30.239 It's got a list of all the product ingredients and 2255 01:58:30.319 --> 01:58:31.880 then you just go find a brand that has that 2256 01:58:32.039 --> 01:58:34.560 in it. I think that'll be helpful for answering your 2257 01:58:34.640 --> 01:58:36.159 question when you get back into spring. 2258 01:58:36.239 --> 01:58:39.680 Okay, perfect, Perfect, sounds good. Thank you very much, Gael. 2259 01:58:40.399 --> 01:58:43.319 All right, thank you, appreciate appreciate your call very much. 2260 01:58:43.960 --> 01:58:47.960 Let's see here we are looking at Okay, I tell 2261 01:58:48.000 --> 01:58:51.920 you what, I'm going to go ahead and let's see. 2262 01:58:51.960 --> 01:58:55.399 We're going to open up Mike and Montgomery. Mike, I'm 2263 01:58:55.479 --> 01:58:58.000 just letting you know. I've probably got about a minute 2264 01:58:58.279 --> 01:59:01.039 before I have to go, but let's see if we 2265 01:59:01.079 --> 01:59:02.640 can get a start to your answer and then we'll 2266 01:59:02.680 --> 01:59:03.560 finish when we come back. 2267 01:59:04.479 --> 01:59:08.439 Okay, real quick, I'm sitting on an acre of land 2268 01:59:08.640 --> 01:59:11.399 on corner lot about four hundred foot a ditch that's 2269 01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:13.720 a mixture of crabgrass is Saint Augustine. 2270 01:59:14.319 --> 01:59:14.800 What do I do? 2271 01:59:14.960 --> 01:59:18.760 Okay? Okay, The more you build Saint Augustine over the years, 2272 01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:21.359 denser and denser, the less the crabgrass will be able 2273 01:59:21.439 --> 01:59:24.279 to sprout. Crabgrass begins to sprout in spring when the 2274 01:59:24.319 --> 01:59:26.720 soul temps hit about fifty to fifty five fifty six 2275 01:59:26.920 --> 01:59:29.079 right in there. That's when you want to have a 2276 01:59:29.159 --> 01:59:33.359 pre emergent down before that. So when the seeds of 2277 01:59:33.439 --> 01:59:36.560 cradgrass try to sprout, they're not able to. We might 2278 01:59:36.640 --> 01:59:39.479 have to repeat it again part way into summer, but 2279 01:59:39.640 --> 01:59:42.319 in general, the pre emergent is the easiest way because 2280 01:59:42.439 --> 01:59:46.159 killing grass and grass with a post emergent is pretty 2281 01:59:46.199 --> 01:59:49.600 much not possible for most things. So you can't spread 2282 01:59:49.680 --> 01:59:54.039 and kill crabgrass and not kill the Saint Augustine. Thank you, 2283 01:59:55.760 --> 01:59:59.079 all right, Well, that's good. Didn't know we get all 2284 01:59:59.439 --> 02:00:01.880 that's a that's good what we did. Thanks for the call, man, 2285 02:00:02.079 --> 02:00:04.840 appreciate it. Uh Don in Beaumont. You're gonna be our 2286 02:00:04.880 --> 02:00:07.359 first when we come back. First up for the rest 2287 02:00:07.399 --> 02:00:09.079 of you, if you'd like to call it was our 2288 02:00:09.199 --> 02:00:12.039 last hour coming up seven one three two one two 2289 02:00:12.760 --> 02:00:15.399 k t r A. I want to remind you I'm 2290 02:00:15.439 --> 02:00:18.319 going to be at that Montgomery County Fall An Outdoor 2291 02:00:18.920 --> 02:00:22.640 a Home An Outdoor Living show next Saturday, September seventh. 2292 02:00:22.720 --> 02:00:24.680 I'll be there from twelve to two. I'm gonna give 2293 02:00:24.680 --> 02:00:26.920 a talk on fall gardening and then I'm gonna answer 2294 02:00:26.920 --> 02:00:29.399 your gardening questions. Look at samples you bring in, look 2295 02:00:29.399 --> 02:00:31.239 at pictures you bring in. We're just gonna help you 2296 02:00:31.319 --> 02:00:34.640 have the adountiful garden, beautiful landscape. 2297 02:00:36.159 --> 02:00:39.800 Car pro has transformed car salving me. Welcome to k 2298 02:00:40.000 --> 02:00:43.079 t r H. Garden Line with scamp Rickard. 2299 02:00:42.960 --> 02:00:53.680 Show Essy just watch him as world. 2300 02:01:07.920 --> 02:01:08.479 A sad. 2301 02:01:09.920 --> 02:01:13.359 All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back. 2302 02:01:13.520 --> 02:01:15.680 We are glad you're with us, looking forward to talking 2303 02:01:15.720 --> 02:01:18.880 to you about the things that are of interest to you. 2304 02:01:19.920 --> 02:01:23.199 I would suggest that we were just I was just 2305 02:01:23.399 --> 02:01:25.960 a minute ago, I was talking to somebody about crabgrass. 2306 02:01:26.039 --> 02:01:27.680 Kind of gave me a real quick answer. We're running 2307 02:01:27.680 --> 02:01:30.479 out of time there. Just to remember, crabgrass is an 2308 02:01:30.640 --> 02:01:34.359 annual grass. It comes up from seeds. So if you 2309 02:01:34.439 --> 02:01:36.680 have crabgrass and it goes to seed, you're going to 2310 02:01:36.760 --> 02:01:41.000 have crabgrass again and again and again. We always say 2311 02:01:41.039 --> 02:01:43.720 that one year of weeding is twenty years of seeding. 2312 02:01:44.079 --> 02:01:47.520 In other words, when you let a plant go to seed, 2313 02:01:47.840 --> 02:01:50.159 you may have one weed, but it's producing one hundred 2314 02:01:50.239 --> 02:01:52.600 thousand seeds that are coming up next year and the 2315 02:01:52.680 --> 02:01:55.399 next year. Who knows. Depends on the plant, but don't 2316 02:01:55.439 --> 02:01:57.319 let them go to seed if you can. But if 2317 02:01:57.560 --> 02:02:01.880 you have crabgrass issues or other annual weed issues in 2318 02:02:02.000 --> 02:02:05.079 the spring, you want to put down something that prevents 2319 02:02:05.439 --> 02:02:08.479 the seeds from germinating and establishing. You know, our number 2320 02:02:08.520 --> 02:02:10.239 one goal is to build a dense lawn where the 2321 02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:13.720 sunlight doesn't hit the soil so that weed seeds are 2322 02:02:13.800 --> 02:02:17.600 choked out that way. But if this is an ongoing problem, 2323 02:02:17.640 --> 02:02:21.039 it means that there's some thinness in the soil, and 2324 02:02:21.319 --> 02:02:23.880 therefore we probably are going to want to prevent that, 2325 02:02:23.960 --> 02:02:25.520 and you can do that with something like barricade from 2326 02:02:25.600 --> 02:02:28.920 night frost, for example. But if you get my schedule online, 2327 02:02:29.000 --> 02:02:33.079 it's at gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with skip 2328 02:02:33.279 --> 02:02:36.840 dot Com on there there is a lawn care schedule 2329 02:02:36.920 --> 02:02:40.880 that's the how to take carry your lawn b water fertilized, 2330 02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:44.840 and also a schedule that's pest weeds and disease management, 2331 02:02:45.000 --> 02:02:47.159 and that's how to deal with things that go wrong 2332 02:02:47.479 --> 02:02:49.800 that things that want to eat your lawn or infect 2333 02:02:49.880 --> 02:02:54.039 your lawn, and so weed seeds, weeds are on that schedule. 2334 02:02:54.159 --> 02:02:56.439 And you just look at it's January to December. It 2335 02:02:56.520 --> 02:02:59.640 tells you exactly when to do what on all both schedules, 2336 02:02:59.760 --> 02:03:02.359 on all these things, it makes it easy. You can 2337 02:03:02.439 --> 02:03:04.479 print them out. If you're an organic gardener, if you're 2338 02:03:04.479 --> 02:03:07.000 a synthetic gardener, there's options for both of you on 2339 02:03:07.239 --> 02:03:10.520 both of these schedules. And so in spring, it's gonna 2340 02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:13.640 be in February, we do this the pre emergence that 2341 02:03:13.880 --> 02:03:17.239 prevent crabgrass and other weeds. They need to go down 2342 02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:18.279 before the weed sprout. 2343 02:03:18.720 --> 02:03:18.840 Right. 2344 02:03:19.039 --> 02:03:21.119 It's kind of like playing baseball. If you swing after 2345 02:03:21.199 --> 02:03:23.920 the catchers holding the ball, it's a little late, right, 2346 02:03:24.760 --> 02:03:27.319 So don't do that. Follow my schedule. Do it at 2347 02:03:27.359 --> 02:03:30.119 the right time so that when the weeds try to sprout, 2348 02:03:30.439 --> 02:03:32.239 you shut them down. That's kind of how that works. 2349 02:03:32.279 --> 02:03:35.399 Hopefully that clarifies if there any questions out there about that. 2350 02:03:35.800 --> 02:03:38.279 We're going to go now over to Beaumont and talk 2351 02:03:38.359 --> 02:03:40.279 to Donna. Hello, Donna, Welcome. 2352 02:03:40.039 --> 02:03:42.439 To garden Line, Going skip. 2353 02:03:43.319 --> 02:03:46.119 I was wondering if it's too late to do a 2354 02:03:46.199 --> 02:03:49.159 little pruning on my azalia bushes along the side of 2355 02:03:49.239 --> 02:03:49.680 my house. 2356 02:03:51.680 --> 02:03:54.359 Dona, if you got a you know, a gangly shoot 2357 02:03:54.439 --> 02:03:56.600 sticking out here and there, snipping one or two or 2358 02:03:56.600 --> 02:03:58.680 three of those off if you need to, that's fine. 2359 02:03:59.239 --> 02:04:02.479 Just know that the tell you is have are actually 2360 02:04:02.680 --> 02:04:06.880 now are still setting their buds for next spring. So 2361 02:04:07.079 --> 02:04:10.399 when you prune now, you're removing what would have bloomed 2362 02:04:10.479 --> 02:04:13.000 on that shoot. Okay, so we don't want to do 2363 02:04:13.199 --> 02:04:15.319 much pruning it, but if you need it just a 2364 02:04:15.439 --> 02:04:17.600 shape a little bit, feel free to do not. 2365 02:04:18.039 --> 02:04:20.720 Okay, okay, thank you very much. 2366 02:04:21.680 --> 02:04:23.279 All right, and the hey, by the way, that goes 2367 02:04:23.479 --> 02:04:26.840 that same thing goes true with any kind of spring 2368 02:04:26.920 --> 02:04:32.199 blooming plant, like a spyriea bridal wreath. The u oh 2369 02:04:32.359 --> 02:04:38.520 gosh ornamental flowering quints is sometimes used in landscapes once 2370 02:04:38.640 --> 02:04:41.720 blooming roses just bloom in the spring and everything it's all. 2371 02:04:41.840 --> 02:04:45.119 And fruit trees too, by the way, they've already there 2372 02:04:45.199 --> 02:04:47.039 when they go into winter, they already have their buds 2373 02:04:47.119 --> 02:04:49.520 for the spring. So just something to keep in mind. 2374 02:04:50.199 --> 02:04:56.760 Thank you Donna for the call. I appreciate that. All right, folks, yep, 2375 02:04:56.880 --> 02:04:58.920 that's the pruning time. I guess we need to create 2376 02:04:58.920 --> 02:05:03.159 another schedule for I hadn't thought about that. If there's 2377 02:05:03.239 --> 02:05:05.640 enough interest in it, I may do that a pruning 2378 02:05:05.680 --> 02:05:07.800 schedule through the air. That would be kind of good. 2379 02:05:08.680 --> 02:05:13.399 I'm making a note to myself, note to self. Here 2380 02:05:13.439 --> 02:05:15.479 we go, all right, Our phone number if you'd like 2381 02:05:15.560 --> 02:05:17.399 to give me a call seven to one three two 2382 02:05:17.439 --> 02:05:20.920 one two kt r H. Seven to one three two 2383 02:05:21.000 --> 02:05:24.439 one two kt r H. We are entering our last 2384 02:05:24.680 --> 02:05:28.680 hour of the season, or of the show rather for today, 2385 02:05:29.000 --> 02:05:31.880 not for the season. No, no, although would you be 2386 02:05:32.159 --> 02:05:33.960 would you be happy if we could just go ahead 2387 02:05:33.960 --> 02:05:35.760 and call it on summer and say okay, that's enough, 2388 02:05:35.840 --> 02:05:37.920 stop and then we go ahead and get into fall. 2389 02:05:38.199 --> 02:05:40.079 I think that'd be a good a good thing. Maybe 2390 02:05:40.079 --> 02:05:41.560 we'll get hold of a weather man see if we 2391 02:05:41.600 --> 02:05:44.920 can arrange that. If you've been dealing with bugs in 2392 02:05:45.000 --> 02:05:50.479 your lawn, chinch bugs, the sod webworms, for example, mole crickets. 2393 02:05:50.560 --> 02:05:52.680 Did you know there's something called a mole cricket? Yes, 2394 02:05:52.760 --> 02:05:57.039 there is nitropuss. Bug Out max is for that. And 2395 02:05:57.199 --> 02:05:59.319 I had someone call earlier and they ask a question, 2396 02:06:00.039 --> 02:06:02.159 how do you apply bug out? Well, bug out max 2397 02:06:02.239 --> 02:06:05.119 as a granule, and so what you do is you 2398 02:06:05.199 --> 02:06:07.600 spread it like you would spread fertilizer. You just have 2399 02:06:07.720 --> 02:06:10.079 to follow the setting on the bag for the kind 2400 02:06:10.119 --> 02:06:13.359 of spreader you're using. And it's gonna get in the ground. 2401 02:06:13.359 --> 02:06:15.279 You're gonna water it in then with just a little 2402 02:06:15.279 --> 02:06:17.279 bit of water, not a gully washer, just you know, 2403 02:06:17.399 --> 02:06:19.600 third of an inch something like that. Just get it wet, 2404 02:06:20.039 --> 02:06:22.760 move it off of that granule and into the soil 2405 02:06:22.920 --> 02:06:27.680 thatch and the soil surface. Now, when that happens, chinchbugs 2406 02:06:27.920 --> 02:06:30.159 are hiding in the thatch all day and night. They 2407 02:06:30.279 --> 02:06:32.560 love it in there. That's where they work. That's where 2408 02:06:32.600 --> 02:06:36.239 you apply and get them with nitrovass bug out max. 2409 02:06:36.800 --> 02:06:39.359 Side weeb worms are spending their days in the thatch 2410 02:06:39.399 --> 02:06:40.880 and they come out at night to chew on your 2411 02:06:40.920 --> 02:06:43.720 grass blades. That is where you get them, catch them 2412 02:06:43.760 --> 02:06:46.119 in the thatch. Now you're gonna find Nitrofass bugout Max 2413 02:06:46.199 --> 02:06:47.640 in a lot of different places. If you go up 2414 02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:50.880 to Woodlands fourteen eighty eight Shades of Texas, it's gonna 2415 02:06:50.880 --> 02:06:53.479 have it up there. If you go to Fisher's Hardware, 2416 02:06:53.520 --> 02:06:55.880 both the one in South Houston on Southomore and the 2417 02:06:55.960 --> 02:06:59.399 one in Laporte on Broadway Street or both places, you 2418 02:06:59.479 --> 02:07:02.800 can find night to fash products like that bug out Max. 2419 02:07:02.840 --> 02:07:05.680 And finally let's go down to Angleton to Lake Hardware 2420 02:07:05.760 --> 02:07:08.319 on Velasco. And they're gonna have it down there as well. 2421 02:07:09.840 --> 02:07:12.079 I think I'm gonna head now out to the phones 2422 02:07:12.119 --> 02:07:14.119 and we're gonna head to Katie and talk to Henry. 2423 02:07:14.640 --> 02:07:16.439 Good morning, Henry, Welcome to Guardliner. 2424 02:07:17.439 --> 02:07:22.119 Good mornings, Skip, thanks for taking Mark call. I'm curious 2425 02:07:22.199 --> 02:07:27.039 about it's called a Spanish dagger yaka what you feel 2426 02:07:27.039 --> 02:07:30.479 about and being planning in Texas. I'm worried about freezes 2427 02:07:30.720 --> 02:07:32.760 and losing plants because I have a history of that. 2428 02:07:33.479 --> 02:07:36.279 Your thoughts on that and then where to buy them? 2429 02:07:37.920 --> 02:07:42.159 Okay, and you were in Katie, you you might try 2430 02:07:42.880 --> 02:07:48.399 heading out to Katie and turn north, or you're in Katie, 2431 02:07:48.800 --> 02:07:51.840 go north on Katie Fort Ben Road and do Nelson 2432 02:07:51.920 --> 02:07:55.600 water Gardens and nursery. Nursery and water gardens. They've had 2433 02:07:55.600 --> 02:07:57.159 a lot of things there. I don't know off the 2434 02:07:57.239 --> 02:07:59.079 top of my head if they carry that one. They might. 2435 02:07:59.439 --> 02:08:01.760 They may well do that. We've got a lot of 2436 02:08:01.800 --> 02:08:04.079 good You can go down south and head toward a 2437 02:08:04.279 --> 02:08:06.479 Nike in China. Gardens is not too far from you. 2438 02:08:07.000 --> 02:08:09.159 I bet they have them down there too. That would 2439 02:08:09.159 --> 02:08:12.920 be another in terms of how close, starting with the closest. 2440 02:08:13.560 --> 02:08:15.399 It's not the distance I worry. I just want to 2441 02:08:15.439 --> 02:08:19.199 get good stock to start with and something dependable, you know, 2442 02:08:19.439 --> 02:08:19.840 That's all. 2443 02:08:21.039 --> 02:08:22.720 I got you well, And as far as can you 2444 02:08:22.800 --> 02:08:25.760 plan them in Texas, yes, God did out in West Texas. 2445 02:08:26.960 --> 02:08:29.600 They go wild out there, and so if you bring 2446 02:08:29.680 --> 02:08:33.159 them over here, just remember they're incredibly drought tolerant. But 2447 02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:36.079 usually that means don't put it in a swamp. And 2448 02:08:36.399 --> 02:08:38.079 if you keep them too wet, if you don't get 2449 02:08:38.119 --> 02:08:40.880 them high and dry where the excess drains away, they're 2450 02:08:40.920 --> 02:08:43.359 going to struggle. But otherwise, yes, they can grow here 2451 02:08:43.520 --> 02:08:46.239 just fine. Hey, I'm hitting a hard break. I got 2452 02:08:46.359 --> 02:08:48.479 to go ahead and and I head to a commercial. 2453 02:08:48.560 --> 02:08:51.079 But thank you, Henry, appreciate your call. Thanks for being 2454 02:08:51.119 --> 02:08:54.920 on guarden Line. I'll be right back. Folks, glad you 2455 02:08:55.079 --> 02:08:58.279 are listening in today. You know anything that you need 2456 02:08:58.640 --> 02:09:01.199 for your lawn, your garden, your landscape. I'm talking about 2457 02:09:01.520 --> 02:09:06.880 fertilizers and pest control, disease control, We control any tools, 2458 02:09:07.279 --> 02:09:10.680 garden hoses, and if you want to beautify that outdoor setting. 2459 02:09:10.760 --> 02:09:13.439 You know fall is coming, yes, yes, yes, I can't wait. 2460 02:09:14.079 --> 02:09:15.840 And when it gets here, I'm going to be hanging 2461 02:09:15.880 --> 02:09:18.000 out on my patio out back. And I got some 2462 02:09:18.199 --> 02:09:20.399 beautiful little lights I have strung up around there to 2463 02:09:20.479 --> 02:09:22.760 give that ambiance. I call them beer garden lights kind 2464 02:09:22.800 --> 02:09:25.319 of what they look like. Ace Hardware's got all of 2465 02:09:25.359 --> 02:09:30.039 that stuff and more. If you need quality, quality brands 2466 02:09:30.600 --> 02:09:34.479 of barbecue equipment like Treger and Weber and Big Big 2467 02:09:34.560 --> 02:09:37.319 Green Egg and whatnot, they've got that now right now. 2468 02:09:38.119 --> 02:09:40.079 I just need to point this out for those of 2469 02:09:40.159 --> 02:09:43.640 you up in northwest area of Houston, the Langham Creek 2470 02:09:43.680 --> 02:09:46.800 Ace Hardware is having their grand reopening. It's been three days. 2471 02:09:46.800 --> 02:09:49.359 Today's the last day of it. They'll be doing a 2472 02:09:49.680 --> 02:09:53.000 drawing for a paint or room makeover two hundred dollars value, 2473 02:09:53.079 --> 02:09:55.319 so that in and of itself as worth showing up 2474 02:09:55.399 --> 02:09:57.439 to put your name in the hat. They'll be doing 2475 02:09:57.520 --> 02:10:02.199 demos on craiger drills, grills as well. And I'll tell 2476 02:10:02.199 --> 02:10:04.119 you I love that store. I've been in there. I 2477 02:10:04.239 --> 02:10:06.039 was in there this spring, and then when I heard 2478 02:10:06.079 --> 02:10:07.800 they were going to kind of revamp some things and 2479 02:10:07.880 --> 02:10:10.039 do a grand reopening, I was pretty excited about that, 2480 02:10:10.640 --> 02:10:12.640 and I think you should be too. Go to the 2481 02:10:12.720 --> 02:10:16.359 Intersection of Barker Cypress in five twenty nine. The Intersection 2482 02:10:16.439 --> 02:10:18.680 of Barker Cypress in five twenty nine. It's kind of 2483 02:10:18.720 --> 02:10:22.279 on the backside of Copperfield neighborhood up there and stop 2484 02:10:22.359 --> 02:10:25.439 in say hey to the folks at Langham Creek. Ace Hardware. 2485 02:10:25.520 --> 02:10:28.159 You know, wherever you live, you got an ACE Hardware nearby. 2486 02:10:28.680 --> 02:10:30.600 All you gotta do is go to Acehardware dot com 2487 02:10:30.840 --> 02:10:33.520 find the store locator and what There are forty stores 2488 02:10:33.560 --> 02:10:35.600 in the Greater Houston area, so there's going to be 2489 02:10:36.239 --> 02:10:39.399 one close to you. I'm going to go now out 2490 02:10:39.439 --> 02:10:42.199 to Bay City and we're going to talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerriy, 2491 02:10:42.239 --> 02:10:43.119 Welcome to garden Line. 2492 02:10:44.319 --> 02:10:44.439 Hi. 2493 02:10:45.319 --> 02:10:46.479 I have two questions. 2494 02:10:47.319 --> 02:10:52.000 One, my fountains, my water fountain outside haven't added any 2495 02:10:52.079 --> 02:10:55.399 chemical to it. It's just been running water and now 2496 02:10:55.640 --> 02:11:00.800 is turning the stones that the fountains made up but black. 2497 02:11:01.640 --> 02:11:05.199 This this mildew. What is environmentally safe that I can 2498 02:11:05.560 --> 02:11:07.560 put in the water so it'll. 2499 02:11:07.399 --> 02:11:08.159 Clear up the water. 2500 02:11:11.479 --> 02:11:15.000 Oh well, let's take this one first. I am not 2501 02:11:15.279 --> 02:11:17.079 an expert on all things that can go on. It 2502 02:11:17.159 --> 02:11:19.000 could be some type of analogy growing in there, it 2503 02:11:19.039 --> 02:11:21.600 could be other things I want you to can I 2504 02:11:21.680 --> 02:11:27.880 give you a website, It's Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson 2505 02:11:27.960 --> 02:11:30.600 Watergardens dot com. They're out in Katie. But the fact 2506 02:11:30.640 --> 02:11:32.239 that you didn't buy your thing there, that's not going 2507 02:11:32.279 --> 02:11:34.359 to stop them from helping you. There are great folks, 2508 02:11:34.800 --> 02:11:37.600 and so go to Nelson Watergardens dot com their phone number. 2509 02:11:37.800 --> 02:11:39.560 You're going to get it off the site there and 2510 02:11:39.760 --> 02:11:41.199 just call them and say, look, I got a problem 2511 02:11:41.239 --> 02:11:43.399 and I could use some helpier, can you help me? 2512 02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:46.079 And I promise you they'll be more than happy to 2513 02:11:46.159 --> 02:11:47.760 help you get to the bottom of that one. What 2514 02:11:47.920 --> 02:11:48.840 was your second question? 2515 02:11:48.920 --> 02:11:53.840 Okay, my second question is I have five pomegrant bushes 2516 02:11:54.399 --> 02:11:57.880 and they produced pomegrant. It's for the first time. They're 2517 02:11:57.880 --> 02:12:02.319 about five years old, have been big that had. They 2518 02:12:02.359 --> 02:12:05.560 had been living in containers. So I moved them out 2519 02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:08.399 of the containers a year ago and the bush and 2520 02:12:08.520 --> 02:12:11.640 screw and then ma peme granite and I picked one 2521 02:12:11.800 --> 02:12:14.640 and I cut it open and it wasn't rock yet. 2522 02:12:14.680 --> 02:12:17.640 The seeds looked fine. But on the outside, the skin 2523 02:12:17.840 --> 02:12:18.399 it's got. 2524 02:12:18.600 --> 02:12:19.239 On all of them. 2525 02:12:19.479 --> 02:12:21.399 It's got little black dogs. 2526 02:12:21.359 --> 02:12:22.159 On the palm granite. 2527 02:12:22.239 --> 02:12:26.479 Yeah, yeah, probably it could be fungal or bacterial. There's 2528 02:12:26.520 --> 02:12:29.439 a reason why we don't have big palm granite orchards 2529 02:12:29.479 --> 02:12:32.640 around Houston. Our climate over here is a little on 2530 02:12:32.680 --> 02:12:34.800 the wet side, a little on the rainy side. For 2531 02:12:35.000 --> 02:12:37.359 them to be real happy. You can grow them here, 2532 02:12:37.520 --> 02:12:39.079 but you just are going to have to put up 2533 02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:41.800 with some kind of ugly on the outside. Palm granites 2534 02:12:42.600 --> 02:12:46.000 and those kind of spots. Depending on the spot, there 2535 02:12:46.039 --> 02:12:48.479 are probably a spray like a copper spray or something 2536 02:12:48.520 --> 02:12:51.000 you could use. I would have to get a good 2537 02:12:51.039 --> 02:12:53.640 look at the palm granite to determine what it is, 2538 02:12:53.760 --> 02:12:56.720 so we would recommend the right spray. But most people 2539 02:12:56.920 --> 02:13:00.119 just kind of tolerate that and just go on. Just 2540 02:13:00.159 --> 02:13:02.319 make sure they have good drainage because they also want that. 2541 02:13:03.760 --> 02:13:07.760 Oh okay, because the inside looks great, but the outside it's. 2542 02:13:10.279 --> 02:13:10.520 Okay. 2543 02:13:10.640 --> 02:13:11.640 Well, thank you so much. 2544 02:13:12.760 --> 02:13:17.319 Yeah, that's a nice thing about you know, ugly being 2545 02:13:17.399 --> 02:13:22.079 only skin deep in many ways is on those bomb 2546 02:13:22.119 --> 02:13:24.479 graantage you just you just turn off the lights, close 2547 02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:26.880 your eyes, and it tastes just as good you have 2548 02:13:27.000 --> 02:13:36.680 to look at all, right, Kerry, take care. Yeah. My 2549 02:13:36.760 --> 02:13:38.800 wife says that if I'm ever wondering if I should 2550 02:13:38.880 --> 02:13:42.439 say something, the answer is almost always a definite no, 2551 02:13:42.800 --> 02:13:46.119 because if it's at the point where I'm wondering, I 2552 02:13:46.239 --> 02:13:50.039 probably passed the whatever line. So anyway, that's where we are. 2553 02:13:51.600 --> 02:13:54.319 I wanted to talk a little bit about Nature's Way Resources. 2554 02:13:54.359 --> 02:13:56.079 You hear me, You've heard me talk about them before. 2555 02:13:56.720 --> 02:13:59.920 Nature's Way is where a lot of the premium quality 2556 02:14:00.199 --> 02:14:03.479 soil products that I talk about on Guarden Line were born. 2557 02:14:04.399 --> 02:14:07.359 Rose soil was born in Nature's Way. There's other folks 2558 02:14:07.399 --> 02:14:10.239 that make rose soil, but Nature's Way is where that came. 2559 02:14:10.720 --> 02:14:15.399 Quality leaf mold, compost top dressing, Nature's Way. I mean, 2560 02:14:15.439 --> 02:14:17.520 I could go on and on. There are a number 2561 02:14:17.600 --> 02:14:21.399 of other products that really started there. John Ferguson knows 2562 02:14:21.479 --> 02:14:23.880 more about He's forgot more about soil than most people know. 2563 02:14:24.640 --> 02:14:28.720 And Ian running the shop. Now up there, they're producing 2564 02:14:28.800 --> 02:14:31.119 quality products. They have quality plants too, by the way, 2565 02:14:31.199 --> 02:14:32.960 So if you show up to pick up some bags 2566 02:14:33.199 --> 02:14:36.000 or pick up bulk, go walk over and check out 2567 02:14:36.039 --> 02:14:38.600 their plants. They got some really nice ones over there 2568 02:14:38.840 --> 02:14:41.760 up at Nature's Way Resources. Just to remember, if you're 2569 02:14:41.800 --> 02:14:45.560 going to buy any kind of a soil product, composts, soil, blends, 2570 02:14:45.920 --> 02:14:48.319 mult to go on top of the soil, tell them 2571 02:14:48.359 --> 02:14:50.479 you heard about it on garden line. Say, Skip was 2572 02:14:50.520 --> 02:14:53.920 talking about ure Nature's Way and you get a discount 2573 02:14:54.159 --> 02:14:57.319 off of what you're purchasing. And this is the time 2574 02:14:57.479 --> 02:15:02.119 to prepare the soil now while the sunshines. Prepare soil 2575 02:15:02.119 --> 02:15:05.439 while the sunshines. Fall planting is coming. Don't wait to 2576 02:15:05.479 --> 02:15:07.560 see if it's too wet and rainy at that time 2577 02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:10.079 to do the soil. Do it now and go out 2578 02:15:10.119 --> 02:15:12.800 to Nature's Way. You can buy by the bag, you 2579 02:15:12.840 --> 02:15:14.560 can go out and pick up bulk. You can have 2580 02:15:14.720 --> 02:15:17.520 them delivered to your house bulk. However you want to 2581 02:15:17.560 --> 02:15:20.920 go about it, just get it done. That is the 2582 02:15:21.119 --> 02:15:24.520 number one tip I could give you for success is 2583 02:15:24.880 --> 02:15:28.760 plant in the fall into soil that has been properly prepared. 2584 02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:31.479 They're on Sherbrooks Circle, which is off of Interstate forty five, 2585 02:15:31.600 --> 02:15:35.199 right where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five from Magnolia. 2586 02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:37.840 If you would like to learn more, check out their 2587 02:15:37.880 --> 02:15:42.960 new websites really Cool, Nature'sway Resources dot com, Nature's Way 2588 02:15:43.000 --> 02:15:45.479 Resources dot Com. We're going to go now to the 2589 02:15:45.760 --> 02:15:47.039 heights and talk to Larry. 2590 02:15:47.199 --> 02:15:51.399 Hey, Larry, Hello, Skip a golden unimus. 2591 02:15:52.359 --> 02:15:54.640 First of all, do they not grow well down here 2592 02:15:54.760 --> 02:15:55.279 and working? 2593 02:15:55.319 --> 02:15:55.920 I find one. 2594 02:15:56.000 --> 02:15:57.000 I'm a small one. 2595 02:15:58.119 --> 02:16:02.199 Yeah, they're okay. They are susceptible to powdery mildews, so 2596 02:16:02.239 --> 02:16:04.159 a lot of times the leaves are kind of crinkly 2597 02:16:04.279 --> 02:16:07.239 and have a white dusty look to them. They also 2598 02:16:07.359 --> 02:16:11.439 are susceptible to a couple of types of scale insects 2599 02:16:11.520 --> 02:16:13.760 that you have to watch for. But they've been around 2600 02:16:13.800 --> 02:16:16.279 a long time, you know. If you if you were 2601 02:16:16.319 --> 02:16:20.279 looking for something that had that same color, there are 2602 02:16:20.319 --> 02:16:25.479 other shrub options that come in the variegated yellow golden colors. 2603 02:16:26.359 --> 02:16:29.720 So Sunshine Lugustrum, it'll make a little bit larger shrub 2604 02:16:30.199 --> 02:16:32.680 than Golden Euonymous, but that would be another one that 2605 02:16:32.799 --> 02:16:35.840 doesn't have those same issues that Golden Euonymous has. 2606 02:16:36.000 --> 02:16:38.200 You just have to have been told that Sunshine Lagusham 2607 02:16:38.200 --> 02:16:39.159 would be a good replacement. 2608 02:16:39.280 --> 02:16:41.840 But if I want another Golden Unimise, you know where 2609 02:16:41.879 --> 02:16:42.799 I might find one. 2610 02:16:44.239 --> 02:16:46.879 Pretty much anywhere. If you go over I would you're 2611 02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:49.079 in the heights, I would just go over to Buchanan's Plants. 2612 02:16:49.079 --> 02:16:51.959 They'd bound to have one there. If they don't, you know, 2613 02:16:52.120 --> 02:16:54.520 you can head out from that direction. I'll bet you're 2614 02:16:54.559 --> 02:16:57.799 going to find them at RCW Nurseries or just continuing up, 2615 02:16:58.440 --> 02:17:01.879 you know two forty nine troll seasons, arbor Gate. There's 2616 02:17:01.920 --> 02:17:04.559 lots of places that carry. I would start with the 2617 02:17:04.600 --> 02:17:07.239 bu cannons in your backyard there. They're they're a liable 2618 02:17:07.399 --> 02:17:08.920 you know. If they don't happen, they could probably get 2619 02:17:08.920 --> 02:17:10.760 them in in time for your fall planting too. 2620 02:17:10.879 --> 02:17:13.079 That's either okay, So that's not a bad time to 2621 02:17:13.120 --> 02:17:16.079 plant a replacement one of mine die. 2622 02:17:17.440 --> 02:17:20.840 Yeah, okay, Well fall is the best time falls. And 2623 02:17:20.840 --> 02:17:23.440 when I say fall in your area here, I'm talking 2624 02:17:23.479 --> 02:17:28.520 about late October early November being ideal, but you can 2625 02:17:28.559 --> 02:17:29.959 plant sooner or later than that. 2626 02:17:30.639 --> 02:17:32.120 Okayki, thank you very much. 2627 02:17:33.000 --> 02:17:34.000 All enjoy the show. 2628 02:17:35.200 --> 02:17:37.520 Thanks, I appreciate that. Glad to have you as a listener. 2629 02:17:38.440 --> 02:17:40.120 We're going to go out now to sugar Land and 2630 02:17:40.200 --> 02:17:42.799 talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to guard Line. 2631 02:17:43.920 --> 02:17:47.120 Yes, good morning. I want to have a question about 2632 02:17:48.520 --> 02:17:52.639 turning oak oak trees. I have an oak tree in 2633 02:17:52.719 --> 02:17:56.399 the backyard and the lambs are hanging down well about 2634 02:17:56.559 --> 02:17:59.280 four feet from the from the ground. 2635 02:18:00.239 --> 02:18:01.920 This tree is about twenty years. 2636 02:18:01.760 --> 02:18:06.520 Old, okay, So I just wanted to Jim, you can. 2637 02:18:06.520 --> 02:18:10.120 Give you some guidelines on trimming theft. 2638 02:18:09.520 --> 02:18:11.639 I absolutely can't. Jim, do you know what kind of 2639 02:18:11.680 --> 02:18:12.520 oak it is? Off hand? 2640 02:18:14.399 --> 02:18:15.600 I think it's a live oak. 2641 02:18:17.239 --> 02:18:24.319 Well does it have leaves on it in the winter? Yes, Okay, 2642 02:18:24.680 --> 02:18:27.559 so that's probably a live oak. And you can trum 2643 02:18:27.959 --> 02:18:30.879 a branch anytime of the year that you want to. 2644 02:18:32.079 --> 02:18:34.600 The best time, if you're going to pick your time, 2645 02:18:34.760 --> 02:18:37.479 the best time is late winter to make those cuts. 2646 02:18:38.479 --> 02:18:41.559 Go online and learn how to make a proper pruning 2647 02:18:41.639 --> 02:18:43.360 cut because where you make the cut and how you 2648 02:18:43.440 --> 02:18:46.239 make the cuts very important to not damage the tree. 2649 02:18:47.239 --> 02:18:49.280 But learn how to do that and then just go 2650 02:18:49.440 --> 02:18:51.520 out there. I would do it in late winter unless 2651 02:18:51.559 --> 02:18:53.399 if there's a reason, you got to get those things 2652 02:18:53.639 --> 02:18:56.479 up from where they are sort of we say that's 2653 02:18:56.639 --> 02:18:58.399 lifting up the skirt of the tree. You know how 2654 02:18:58.399 --> 02:19:00.600 the branches hang down and you're kind of lifting it up. 2655 02:19:01.360 --> 02:19:01.440 Uh. 2656 02:19:01.719 --> 02:19:04.079 Then you can do that at any time, but ideally 2657 02:19:04.200 --> 02:19:04.600 late winter. 2658 02:19:07.159 --> 02:19:10.360 So what what should you do? 2659 02:19:10.520 --> 02:19:13.680 They need to come off or leave them on hanging 2660 02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:16.360 down low, or what's the proper thing to. 2661 02:19:16.399 --> 02:19:16.719 Do with it? 2662 02:19:16.959 --> 02:19:17.159 It is? 2663 02:19:17.719 --> 02:19:20.959 It is one aesthetics for you. 2664 02:19:21.719 --> 02:19:21.840 Uh. 2665 02:19:22.079 --> 02:19:25.520 So you will see oaks across the Gulf Coast States, 2666 02:19:25.799 --> 02:19:30.799 beautiful giant oak trees Louisiana, Mississippi all across and they 2667 02:19:31.040 --> 02:19:32.840 the branches hang all the way down to the ground, 2668 02:19:33.520 --> 02:19:36.000 and that's a beautiful thing. Now maybe in a yard 2669 02:19:36.479 --> 02:19:38.520 you can't have that. You need to pick those up, 2670 02:19:38.600 --> 02:19:40.000 you know, cut those off and get it up a 2671 02:19:40.040 --> 02:19:42.399 little bit. But that's all your call. That's not a 2672 02:19:42.479 --> 02:19:44.360 matter of what's right or wrong for the tree. 2673 02:19:45.680 --> 02:19:48.520 Okay, I got you. And what about finning out the 2674 02:19:49.280 --> 02:19:52.280 upper part of the oak tree? What should you do that? 2675 02:19:52.600 --> 02:19:57.399 Or I would say don't. I would say don't. Definitely, 2676 02:19:57.559 --> 02:19:59.920 stripping all the all the branches off and just having 2677 02:20:00.079 --> 02:20:02.479 a periphery of foliage is not that great for the tree. 2678 02:20:02.479 --> 02:20:05.959 It's not proper pruning practice. So I would just leave it. 2679 02:20:06.360 --> 02:20:08.239 Sometimes people thin it out to get a little more 2680 02:20:08.319 --> 02:20:11.079 light through because live oaks cast so much shade, hardly 2681 02:20:11.120 --> 02:20:14.479 anything will grow under them. But I would in general, 2682 02:20:14.600 --> 02:20:19.200 for the tree standpoint, you don't need to thin anything out. Okay. 2683 02:20:19.360 --> 02:20:22.600 The other thing I do on the trimming is any 2684 02:20:23.399 --> 02:20:26.399 lambs that are over overlapping each other, or. 2685 02:20:28.399 --> 02:20:30.719 I trim those bags are. 2686 02:20:30.760 --> 02:20:34.719 Cut yeah, anything yeah, anything rubbing, anything too crowded and 2687 02:20:35.079 --> 02:20:39.399 stuff like that. That'll do it. But just make sure 2688 02:20:39.399 --> 02:20:41.879 you've got a good sharp saw, but learn about where 2689 02:20:41.959 --> 02:20:44.680 to make that cut. There's something called a three point 2690 02:20:44.879 --> 02:20:47.200 cut that if you're cutting off a branch it's too 2691 02:20:47.239 --> 02:20:49.959 big for you to hold with one hand, it's too 2692 02:20:50.000 --> 02:20:51.600 big for you to hold with one hand, you need 2693 02:20:51.680 --> 02:20:54.399 to cut it off using a three point cut, and 2694 02:20:54.440 --> 02:20:57.040 there's a lot of good free info online on how 2695 02:20:57.079 --> 02:20:58.799 to do that. Hey, Jim, I got a run. It's 2696 02:20:58.879 --> 02:21:00.600 time for a break here, but thank you for the call. 2697 02:21:00.680 --> 02:21:03.680 I appreciate that. When we come back, Joseph in the 2698 02:21:03.719 --> 02:21:06.239 Woodlands and Jazz you're listening in today, We've got plenty 2699 02:21:06.280 --> 02:21:08.360 more to talk about and some folks to talk about 2700 02:21:08.399 --> 02:21:11.520 it too. Just want to remind you that if you 2701 02:21:11.600 --> 02:21:16.200 are looking for product to help give boosts to your 2702 02:21:16.280 --> 02:21:18.079 new plants, that you're going to be putting in this fall, 2703 02:21:18.159 --> 02:21:20.799 and you will be. There's fall gardening for vegetables. It's 2704 02:21:20.840 --> 02:21:24.360 a time to plant herbs, it's a time to plant flowers, shrubs, trees, 2705 02:21:24.399 --> 02:21:28.600 and whatnot. Microlife Fertilizer line of products has got you 2706 02:21:28.719 --> 02:21:31.799 set up. They've got a number of liquid products that 2707 02:21:32.000 --> 02:21:35.440 work really, really well in providing the kind of boost 2708 02:21:35.799 --> 02:21:40.319 that I'm talking about. We have the orange labeled to 2709 02:21:40.479 --> 02:21:44.040 seven one four mix called Biomatrix. It does very good 2710 02:21:44.479 --> 02:21:46.920 for a fertilizing to give a boost to plants. It's 2711 02:21:47.079 --> 02:21:50.520 loaded with microbes like all Microlife products are, and it 2712 02:21:50.799 --> 02:21:53.920 does super well for that. There is liquid humus that 2713 02:21:54.079 --> 02:21:56.760 you can put in as you're planting your plants and 2714 02:21:56.879 --> 02:21:59.639 it does super super well. Another product, it's kind of 2715 02:21:59.639 --> 02:22:01.680 a newer one to me. It's one I haven't used 2716 02:22:01.799 --> 02:22:03.920 as much, but I am starting to use it now, 2717 02:22:04.319 --> 02:22:09.239 and that is one called micro Grow Bioinoculant. It is 2718 02:22:09.360 --> 02:22:11.959 a granular product. When you put it out, you are 2719 02:22:12.079 --> 02:22:16.600 adding just an untold number of microbes to the soil 2720 02:22:17.079 --> 02:22:21.319 to help create those relationships with microbes and plant roots 2721 02:22:21.600 --> 02:22:24.040 that help the plant to thrive. It's as simple as that. 2722 02:22:24.559 --> 02:22:27.559 It really really works. Another good one is Microlife Soil 2723 02:22:27.600 --> 02:22:30.360 and Plant Energy. That is a liquid. It is in 2724 02:22:30.479 --> 02:22:33.399 a buying a quarter a gallon bottle and it works 2725 02:22:33.600 --> 02:22:36.479 super well. Also. You know, really all of these products 2726 02:22:36.559 --> 02:22:40.040 by Microlife, they're designed to do what nature is already doing, 2727 02:22:40.239 --> 02:22:45.079 and that is building soil over time with microbes, with 2728 02:22:45.319 --> 02:22:48.799 nutrients and making that root system so healthy that the 2729 02:22:48.840 --> 02:22:53.440 plant can't help but succeed. Widely available in microlife products. 2730 02:22:53.440 --> 02:22:56.280 You don't find them everywhere, pretty much every garden center 2731 02:22:56.399 --> 02:23:00.319 and ace hardware store, feed stores, a Southwest fertilizer down 2732 02:23:00.399 --> 02:23:04.360 at you know you go all the wayside. Just went 2733 02:23:04.440 --> 02:23:08.239 blank on My brain just just went blank for a second. 2734 02:23:08.920 --> 02:23:11.079 Oh my gosh. I'll come back to it in a minute. 2735 02:23:11.079 --> 02:23:12.959 When when it jumps back in the mid you know, 2736 02:23:13.040 --> 02:23:15.719 after eight hours of talking in the morning, the first 2737 02:23:15.760 --> 02:23:18.360 thing in the morning, I can kind of run run 2738 02:23:18.479 --> 02:23:21.440 into a blank pretty quick. All right, Well, anyway, I'll 2739 02:23:21.440 --> 02:23:24.399 come back to it in a second. Let's for now 2740 02:23:25.200 --> 02:23:27.280 get my brain out of this situation and go talk 2741 02:23:27.319 --> 02:23:32.559 to Joseph in the Woodlands. Joseph, how are we doing fine? 2742 02:23:32.600 --> 02:23:33.079 Good morning. 2743 02:23:33.920 --> 02:23:36.600 I was in South Texas a couple of weeks ago, 2744 02:23:36.840 --> 02:23:41.159 and I saw these new homes and they had Italian 2745 02:23:41.760 --> 02:23:46.200 cypress pines, and Randy had mentioned a couple of years, 2746 02:23:46.319 --> 02:23:49.239 a few years ago that they wouldn't grow up here 2747 02:23:49.280 --> 02:23:52.360 in the woodlands. I want to see your opinion. Some 2748 02:23:52.520 --> 02:23:55.319 of the nursery say that they do care him sometimes, 2749 02:23:55.440 --> 02:23:59.239 but but you know, I really had to order them. 2750 02:23:59.360 --> 02:24:02.120 So I want to hear your opinion. 2751 02:24:02.200 --> 02:24:02.399 On it. 2752 02:24:03.280 --> 02:24:06.239 What do you think about growing these pines in the 2753 02:24:06.280 --> 02:24:08.639 woodlands the Italians. 2754 02:24:08.719 --> 02:24:11.280 It's actually Italian cypress, as cypress is supposed to be 2755 02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:15.000 in a pine. Two different things. Italian cypress. Those are 2756 02:24:15.040 --> 02:24:17.520 the tall, skinny things you see when you see a 2757 02:24:17.600 --> 02:24:20.879 movie about the Mediterranean. You know where you've got olive 2758 02:24:21.000 --> 02:24:24.559 orchards and all that, and those those big, tall, skinny evergreens, 2759 02:24:24.719 --> 02:24:29.520 and they will grow here. But our climate is so wet, 2760 02:24:29.680 --> 02:24:32.680 it's a frequent rainfall that we end up with a 2761 02:24:32.799 --> 02:24:36.600 lot of foliage diseases. And when you get a foliage disease, 2762 02:24:36.639 --> 02:24:39.000 it kills a shoot. You have this dead spot that 2763 02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:42.239 doesn't fill back in on the tree. So what was 2764 02:24:42.319 --> 02:24:45.920 a beautiful shape tree now is all blotchy. And then 2765 02:24:46.000 --> 02:24:49.120 if you one of them just flat dies. Now you've 2766 02:24:49.159 --> 02:24:50.680 got all these tall ones and you're gonna put a 2767 02:24:50.680 --> 02:24:53.799 little bit of bitty one in to replace one that died. 2768 02:24:54.239 --> 02:24:56.680 It doesn't match. And so I think in the long term, 2769 02:24:57.200 --> 02:25:02.159 due to foliage diseases, a little insect called a bagworm 2770 02:25:02.319 --> 02:25:05.079 that attacks them, and also spider mites, I just don't 2771 02:25:05.120 --> 02:25:08.959 recommend them for here. I think in general it tends 2772 02:25:09.079 --> 02:25:11.639 to not do well and I know you drive around Houston, 2773 02:25:11.680 --> 02:25:13.319 you're going to see a few that look great, and 2774 02:25:13.440 --> 02:25:15.399 that's possible. But I can't tell you how many people 2775 02:25:15.440 --> 02:25:18.000 I talk to that have them, that have started to 2776 02:25:18.079 --> 02:25:19.680 go south and wish they hadn't planted them. 2777 02:25:21.600 --> 02:25:26.000 Okay, because I have a rectangular shrub. It's about twenty 2778 02:25:26.360 --> 02:25:29.440 two feet long and ten feet wide and I wanted 2779 02:25:29.479 --> 02:25:32.319 to put three in the center. So can you recommend 2780 02:25:32.319 --> 02:25:33.920 anything I can do in that area? 2781 02:25:36.479 --> 02:25:40.639 There are some yo puns that stay very upright and narrow. 2782 02:25:41.719 --> 02:25:43.440 The jury is still out on you know, will that 2783 02:25:43.559 --> 02:25:45.639 still look that way twenty years from now or not, 2784 02:25:45.879 --> 02:25:49.600 But there are some of those. There's also something called skypencil, 2785 02:25:50.479 --> 02:25:52.920 and it is a holly, but I found that it 2786 02:25:53.120 --> 02:25:56.120 doesn't perform as well here as we would like it too. 2787 02:25:56.239 --> 02:26:00.120 It's a tall, narrow plant. There's let's see sill a 2788 02:26:00.159 --> 02:26:04.719 wet sweet gums. Sweet gums can be a little challenging, 2789 02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:09.319 but slender silhouette variety of sweet gum is very narrow, 2790 02:26:09.399 --> 02:26:11.879 and you see it around Houston. Some you see this. 2791 02:26:12.040 --> 02:26:14.079 Really it's a deciduous so it's only going to be 2792 02:26:14.159 --> 02:26:16.920 green in the growing season, not in the winter. But 2793 02:26:17.040 --> 02:26:19.559 that would be another narrow thing that might fit into 2794 02:26:19.600 --> 02:26:20.399 an area like that. 2795 02:26:23.280 --> 02:26:27.200 Okay, all right, all right, well, thank you very much, 2796 02:26:27.399 --> 02:26:28.959 thank you, thank you for your information. 2797 02:26:30.360 --> 02:26:33.360 Yes, sir, Yes, Joseph, I hope that helps. Let's see 2798 02:26:33.360 --> 02:26:35.159 where we're gonna go. Now. We're gonna go to Jersey 2799 02:26:35.280 --> 02:26:37.879 Village now and talk to Jasmine. Hey, Jasmine, welcome to 2800 02:26:37.959 --> 02:26:49.920 garden Line. Hey Jasmine, All right, Jasmine, are you there? 2801 02:26:50.840 --> 02:26:58.559 Last call Jasmine. I'll put you on hold and we 2802 02:26:58.680 --> 02:27:00.920 will come back to you in just a moment. We're 2803 02:27:00.920 --> 02:27:03.079 going to go to gym and Sugarland. Hey, Jim, welcome 2804 02:27:03.120 --> 02:27:03.719 to garden Line. 2805 02:27:04.920 --> 02:27:05.079 Oh. 2806 02:27:05.280 --> 02:27:05.600 Thanks. 2807 02:27:06.520 --> 02:27:10.760 I have a pecan tree and it blew up the 2808 02:27:11.280 --> 02:27:12.440 barrel parricane. 2809 02:27:13.159 --> 02:27:17.879 It's about twelve inch diameter at the base, so I've 2810 02:27:18.319 --> 02:27:22.000 it all flesh with the ground and I wanted to 2811 02:27:22.079 --> 02:27:26.040 find out about the stump to keep it from coming back. 2812 02:27:27.399 --> 02:27:29.440 Okay, something I should put on there. 2813 02:27:30.760 --> 02:27:32.799 Okay, Well, I'm going to tell you what you would 2814 02:27:32.799 --> 02:27:35.000 have done at cutting it, and then I'll talk about 2815 02:27:35.000 --> 02:27:38.120 what you would do now. Ideally, when you cut any 2816 02:27:38.360 --> 02:27:40.760 woody plant off at the ground, I don't care if 2817 02:27:40.760 --> 02:27:43.600 it's a stump of poison ivy or a hackberry or 2818 02:27:44.120 --> 02:27:48.479 in this case, that pecan tree. If you immediately treat 2819 02:27:49.120 --> 02:27:51.520 the perimeter of that cut off stump where all the 2820 02:27:51.559 --> 02:27:54.639 living tissues are around the outside with the product containing 2821 02:27:54.760 --> 02:27:58.719 trichlop here, and then it will soak in and it 2822 02:27:58.799 --> 02:28:00.920 will kill it. If it doesn't kill it completely, when 2823 02:28:00.959 --> 02:28:02.719 it tries to resprout, do it again and it will 2824 02:28:02.799 --> 02:28:08.479 kill it. T R I c l O P y R. Now, 2825 02:28:08.680 --> 02:28:10.920 if if you don't get all that written down, go 2826 02:28:11.040 --> 02:28:14.479 to gardening with Skip dot com. And one of my 2827 02:28:14.600 --> 02:28:18.440 newest publications is Herbicide. It says herbicides for a weed wiper, 2828 02:28:18.879 --> 02:28:22.719 but it tells you the ingredients that kill each kind 2829 02:28:22.799 --> 02:28:25.760 of weed, including woody weeds and brush and trees and 2830 02:28:25.840 --> 02:28:28.360 things like that. And so it's it's right there, and 2831 02:28:28.399 --> 02:28:30.440 I even give you brand names that you're going to 2832 02:28:30.479 --> 02:28:32.959 find in the garden centers of Triclo Peer. 2833 02:28:33.040 --> 02:28:37.040 In this case, okay, okay, all right, if I don't 2834 02:28:37.079 --> 02:28:37.719 do anything. 2835 02:28:39.840 --> 02:28:42.760 It's going to resprout. It's gonna resprout. So you got 2836 02:28:42.840 --> 02:28:47.799 two options, Jim, or you could you could cut it 2837 02:28:47.920 --> 02:28:51.120 again and then treat that fresh wound, or you could 2838 02:28:51.159 --> 02:28:53.760 wait till it reach sprouts and when it does, then 2839 02:28:53.840 --> 02:28:56.760 cut those off and treat treat those with the triclo peer. 2840 02:28:56.840 --> 02:28:58.440 Either way you go about it, you're gonna probably have 2841 02:28:58.479 --> 02:29:00.479 to do it more than once. But that's the way 2842 02:29:00.520 --> 02:29:04.079 I would suggest. All right, Okay, thank you very much, 2843 02:29:05.239 --> 02:29:07.799 you bet, thank you very much. We're going to go 2844 02:29:07.840 --> 02:29:09.920 to break here. When we come back, Jasmine and Jersey 2845 02:29:10.000 --> 02:29:12.079 Village you'll be our first up, and Jim and a 2846 02:29:12.120 --> 02:29:15.200 Tescasita you're right behind her. We'll be right we are 2847 02:29:15.280 --> 02:29:18.840 in our last segment of the weekend. Just remember, you 2848 02:29:18.920 --> 02:29:21.040 can listen to guard Line by podcast. If you want 2849 02:29:21.040 --> 02:29:24.520 to go back and listen to past shows, you're certainly 2850 02:29:24.600 --> 02:29:27.239 welcome to do that. And anybody who lives anywhere and 2851 02:29:27.319 --> 02:29:30.120 can't get a radio signal for garden Line can listen 2852 02:29:30.200 --> 02:29:34.040 to us on computer or on their app. I have 2853 02:29:34.200 --> 02:29:36.760 the iHeartMedia app on my phone. It allows me to 2854 02:29:36.840 --> 02:29:38.920 listen but not only the podcast, but even to live 2855 02:29:39.040 --> 02:29:41.840 radio Live katrh right there on the Heart Media app. 2856 02:29:42.360 --> 02:29:44.840 And that's just another way. If I were you, I 2857 02:29:44.879 --> 02:29:47.479 would be outside right now messing around in the garden, 2858 02:29:47.520 --> 02:29:50.680 I think, and I'd have my phone with me listening 2859 02:29:50.760 --> 02:29:52.840 to guard Line. So who knows you may see something, 2860 02:29:52.920 --> 02:29:54.639 take a picture, send it in. Next thing you know, 2861 02:29:55.079 --> 02:29:57.959 we're in a conversation. Let's head out to Jersey Village 2862 02:29:58.040 --> 02:30:00.760 now and we're going to talk to Jazz. Welcome to 2863 02:30:00.840 --> 02:30:01.760 garden Line, Jasmine. 2864 02:30:02.959 --> 02:30:05.399 Thank you so much, Skip. I wanted to ask you. 2865 02:30:05.639 --> 02:30:07.920 I have two bushes that are about five foot tall 2866 02:30:08.120 --> 02:30:11.719 with the vines the carolina that bloom the little yellow 2867 02:30:11.799 --> 02:30:15.239 trumpets in the springtime, and the bush has gotten so 2868 02:30:15.680 --> 02:30:20.360 top heavy. Even though I had the spiral wire within, 2869 02:30:20.680 --> 02:30:23.399 everything is growing outside of that and hanging over to 2870 02:30:23.479 --> 02:30:25.840 the side. Can I cut a bunch of that off 2871 02:30:25.920 --> 02:30:28.799 and just get it back to the pretty much within 2872 02:30:28.959 --> 02:30:29.799 the wire. 2873 02:30:29.639 --> 02:30:34.399 Spiral, You could, and the plant would survive and regrow. 2874 02:30:34.680 --> 02:30:39.000 If it were mine, that carolina Jessemine has or is 2875 02:30:39.159 --> 02:30:41.719 setting its bloom budge or has set is bloom budge 2876 02:30:41.760 --> 02:30:44.159 for next spring. I might to just leave it like 2877 02:30:44.280 --> 02:30:46.760 it is now so you can enjoy all those blooms 2878 02:30:47.319 --> 02:30:49.680 and then right after finishes bloom and then cut it 2879 02:30:49.799 --> 02:30:53.239 back you'll get Okay, you can direct it for future years, 2880 02:30:53.280 --> 02:30:54.760 but if you cut it back way back now, you're 2881 02:30:54.760 --> 02:30:56.719 going to lose a lot of the spring bloom show. 2882 02:30:57.760 --> 02:31:02.239 Okay, I'll wait to after the spring next year. Thank you, 2883 02:31:02.840 --> 02:31:04.479 thank you, thank you so much. 2884 02:31:04.879 --> 02:31:08.639 Bye bye bye bye you bet uh. You know I 2885 02:31:08.799 --> 02:31:11.040 like birds, and I've told you before I used to 2886 02:31:11.120 --> 02:31:12.680 not be a bird person. It was like I was 2887 02:31:12.760 --> 02:31:15.280 never the guy with the binoculars walking around looking at 2888 02:31:15.479 --> 02:31:18.760 birds and naming every song I heard. But ever since 2889 02:31:18.799 --> 02:31:21.239 I've been putting some of the Wallbirds products out of 2890 02:31:21.319 --> 02:31:23.520 my yard. I'm talking about feeders, and you know there's 2891 02:31:23.559 --> 02:31:27.040 bird houses or bird feeders. I just am getting more 2892 02:31:27.040 --> 02:31:29.239 and more interested. I was sitting this morning before garden 2893 02:31:29.280 --> 02:31:32.079 Line started, just listening to a bird in the darkness 2894 02:31:32.159 --> 02:31:34.440 start to wake up the world with its songs, and 2895 02:31:34.520 --> 02:31:36.799 I just love that. Now you can can go to 2896 02:31:36.920 --> 02:31:41.079 Wallbirds Unlimited his website for Houston. It's called WBU dot com, 2897 02:31:41.479 --> 02:31:44.559 but then add forward slash Houston and you can see 2898 02:31:44.600 --> 02:31:45.600 all of our six stores. 2899 02:31:45.639 --> 02:31:45.799 Here. 2900 02:31:46.319 --> 02:31:49.280 Right now is hummingbird season. They're in my yard, they're 2901 02:31:49.280 --> 02:31:51.840 in your yard. The sooner you get a feeder out, 2902 02:31:51.879 --> 02:31:54.479 the better. The one I would recommend from Wallbirds is 2903 02:31:54.559 --> 02:31:57.680 called the high perch feeder. The high perch feeder is 2904 02:31:57.760 --> 02:32:01.120 just outstanding. I've got several hummingbird feeders collected over the years. 2905 02:32:01.680 --> 02:32:06.000 My favorite is high perch feeder from Wabirds Unlimited. Now 2906 02:32:06.159 --> 02:32:09.840 they also have the blends, the of the sugary solutions 2907 02:32:09.879 --> 02:32:11.520 that you can mix for them. They even have some 2908 02:32:11.719 --> 02:32:14.159 that are slower to mold. You know, when you're feeding 2909 02:32:14.200 --> 02:32:17.520 your hummingbirds, can't just leave it that's sugar water out 2910 02:32:17.559 --> 02:32:19.959 there in the feeder for a week or two. It's 2911 02:32:20.000 --> 02:32:23.000 going to go bad. That's what happens. That's called fermenting. 2912 02:32:23.799 --> 02:32:26.079 So you need to clean it out and change it out. 2913 02:32:26.200 --> 02:32:29.120 Just put enough to feed them until for a few days, 2914 02:32:29.239 --> 02:32:30.440 and then put some more out. You don't have to 2915 02:32:30.479 --> 02:32:32.479 fill the whole thing up, and it doesn't have to 2916 02:32:32.520 --> 02:32:34.200 have the red dye in it. In fact, I wouldn't 2917 02:32:34.200 --> 02:32:36.879 even bother with that at all. Wilbirds Unlimited can get 2918 02:32:36.879 --> 02:32:38.680 you set up on that. It can get you set 2919 02:32:38.760 --> 02:32:41.159 up on the other feeds. I'm feeding their super blends. 2920 02:32:41.200 --> 02:32:43.879 Still my birds have been molding. Oh my gosh. They 2921 02:32:43.959 --> 02:32:45.280 look like they got in a fight with a weed 2922 02:32:45.360 --> 02:32:48.959 eater and lost. You should see those birds. But they 2923 02:32:49.000 --> 02:32:50.840 are sure happy that I've got the food right there, 2924 02:32:50.879 --> 02:32:52.479 because it's kind of hard to fly around when you're 2925 02:32:52.520 --> 02:32:56.200 in the middle of molt. Anyway, go to Wallbirds learn more. 2926 02:32:56.600 --> 02:32:59.680 I just got to warn you it's an addiction. You 2927 02:32:59.760 --> 02:33:02.920 will get more and more into birds the further along 2928 02:33:03.000 --> 02:33:04.879 you go, especially when you get to kind of help 2929 02:33:05.280 --> 02:33:09.200 and advice that they'll give you there at Walldbirds. I'm 2930 02:33:09.239 --> 02:33:11.319 going to head out to a Tesca Seda. Now we're 2931 02:33:11.319 --> 02:33:14.079 going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Guardline. 2932 02:33:15.360 --> 02:33:19.040 Gee, thank you very much for taking my phone call. Well, 2933 02:33:19.600 --> 02:33:22.719 part two of planting the sod in my front yard. 2934 02:33:23.879 --> 02:33:27.000 Planting the sod watered it just like you said. And 2935 02:33:27.159 --> 02:33:30.120 now for some strange reason, is like an inch and 2936 02:33:30.159 --> 02:33:33.399 a half gap in between a lot of the sod. 2937 02:33:33.840 --> 02:33:36.959 Should I fill that with some top soil or the 2938 02:33:37.079 --> 02:33:39.319 grass grow closer together? 2939 02:33:41.600 --> 02:33:44.479 The grass will cover it over. If it really is 2940 02:33:44.600 --> 02:33:49.200 a drop down in the actual soil level itself, you 2941 02:33:49.319 --> 02:33:51.200 could put a little bit of a mix. I might 2942 02:33:51.280 --> 02:33:57.799 get something like, oh gosh, Landscaper's Pride has a topsail 2943 02:33:57.879 --> 02:34:00.120 blend that that is a sandy loan saw mix to 2944 02:34:00.159 --> 02:34:01.920 a little bit of compost. You can put that in 2945 02:34:02.040 --> 02:34:05.520 there in between. Because the reason I would say that 2946 02:34:05.680 --> 02:34:08.760 one is because it actually is sandy long soil. So 2947 02:34:08.959 --> 02:34:11.959 if you just put like compost in between. It's going 2948 02:34:12.040 --> 02:34:15.680 to sink down as it decomposes again anyway. But if 2949 02:34:15.760 --> 02:34:17.959 it's inch and a half two inches, that's a pretty 2950 02:34:18.000 --> 02:34:20.120 big gap. I might fill it myself. And yes, the 2951 02:34:20.200 --> 02:34:22.840 grass will crawl back over it. We're getting near the 2952 02:34:22.959 --> 02:34:25.159 end of the season, so it may not fully fill 2953 02:34:25.200 --> 02:34:27.639 in everything, but I think it'll by and large if 2954 02:34:27.639 --> 02:34:29.559 you just keep taking care of it, you may have 2955 02:34:29.639 --> 02:34:31.559 pretty good filled by the end of the season for 2956 02:34:31.719 --> 02:34:33.719 such a small area that has to crawl over. 2957 02:34:35.239 --> 02:34:37.760 Okay, So in other words, just just leave it alone, 2958 02:34:37.799 --> 02:34:38.680 and it's best thing. 2959 02:34:40.879 --> 02:34:43.719 You could Yeah, you could do that. It'll be just fine. 2960 02:34:43.760 --> 02:34:46.639 Gret our lawns find a way. It's just the only 2961 02:34:47.000 --> 02:34:48.959 my hesitation is that's a pretty big gap, and so 2962 02:34:49.079 --> 02:34:51.440 you know, as you're walking along it's not going to 2963 02:34:51.479 --> 02:34:57.000 be a real smooth surfaces. But other than that, you 2964 02:34:57.079 --> 02:34:58.079 know it'll I. 2965 02:34:58.120 --> 02:35:02.399 Do have a one yard left a top soil, sandy 2966 02:35:02.479 --> 02:35:05.879 top soil that you buy now it's called a Look. Yeah, 2967 02:35:05.920 --> 02:35:08.639 I've got the yards, So I just spread that in there, 2968 02:35:08.799 --> 02:35:11.840 and that'd be really good. Is this the best time 2969 02:35:11.920 --> 02:35:15.200 to do that? Is this the best time to spread it? 2970 02:35:15.280 --> 02:35:16.600 Or should I wait till next year. 2971 02:35:17.799 --> 02:35:19.479 Well, I would go ahead and do it now so 2972 02:35:19.639 --> 02:35:22.879 that any grass that crawls over it has something to 2973 02:35:22.920 --> 02:35:25.440 peg down in. I mean, if you wait until it's 2974 02:35:25.440 --> 02:35:27.760 already crawling over and then add soil on top, you're 2975 02:35:27.799 --> 02:35:30.079 sort of covering up your grass a little bit. So great, 2976 02:35:30.159 --> 02:35:31.879 if you're going to do it, I would do it now. 2977 02:35:31.959 --> 02:35:34.559 But listen, this isn't a this isn't a black and 2978 02:35:34.600 --> 02:35:37.360 white answer, and it's up to you either way, you're 2979 02:35:37.360 --> 02:35:38.879 going to be okay, all right, Jim. 2980 02:35:40.079 --> 02:35:42.159 Kip, thank you very much. Free hope sir, have a 2981 02:35:42.200 --> 02:35:42.680 blessed day. 2982 02:35:43.760 --> 02:35:46.879 Yeah as well, thanks a lot. I appreciate that. Well, 2983 02:35:47.000 --> 02:35:49.479 here we are. We're getting near the end of a 2984 02:35:49.719 --> 02:35:52.319 segment here, I think we do. So I've got a 2985 02:35:52.360 --> 02:35:54.840 clear on the board, so I may just wind this 2986 02:35:54.959 --> 02:35:57.159 one up with some advice and things I've been wanting 2987 02:35:57.200 --> 02:35:59.239 to try to get around to and talk about. First 2988 02:35:59.280 --> 02:36:01.479 of all, I want to mind you this is kind 2989 02:36:01.520 --> 02:36:06.879 of last reminder here. Next Saturday, September seventh is the 2990 02:36:06.959 --> 02:36:10.440 Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. And I go 2991 02:36:10.520 --> 02:36:12.520 to a lot of different home and garden shows. This 2992 02:36:12.719 --> 02:36:14.399 is a great one. It's a great one. It's up 2993 02:36:14.440 --> 02:36:17.200 at the Lone Star Convention and Expo Center, and we 2994 02:36:17.319 --> 02:36:19.319 always have a good crowd that comes out for that one. 2995 02:36:20.079 --> 02:36:22.239 I'm going to be given a talk on fall gardening, 2996 02:36:22.479 --> 02:36:25.799 and then I'm going to be answering your questions, as 2997 02:36:25.840 --> 02:36:27.959 I say, till the cows come home, whenever the cows 2998 02:36:28.079 --> 02:36:30.959 decide to come home. If you would like to get 2999 02:36:31.000 --> 02:36:33.479 some free microlife product, I'm going to be given away 3000 02:36:33.479 --> 02:36:36.000 a couple of really cool micro life products, some samples 3001 02:36:36.040 --> 02:36:38.239 of that, and more than just a little samples, a 3002 02:36:38.360 --> 02:36:42.040 nice little container of it, and just show up and 3003 02:36:42.200 --> 02:36:43.799 we will have a big time out there. If you've 3004 02:36:43.799 --> 02:36:46.040 got samples of plants, if you've got things you want 3005 02:36:46.079 --> 02:36:48.559 to ask questions about, and maybe you got some photos 3006 02:36:48.639 --> 02:36:51.799 on your phone. Some weeds, boy, I always get bag 3007 02:36:51.840 --> 02:36:54.120 fulls of weeds at these things, but that's okay. Just 3008 02:36:54.239 --> 02:36:56.000 bring them, pull them up, put them on a ziplock, 3009 02:36:56.120 --> 02:36:58.319 let me look at them. We'll talk about what to do. 3010 02:36:59.319 --> 02:37:01.479 I am going to tell you this, a lot of 3011 02:37:01.559 --> 02:37:03.680 my answers are going to be go to the website 3012 02:37:03.879 --> 02:37:06.920 Gardening with Skip dot com because I keep adding more 3013 02:37:06.920 --> 02:37:10.120 and more stuff up there that helps us. So I'm 3014 02:37:10.159 --> 02:37:11.760 not sitting here away with my hands in the air 3015 02:37:11.799 --> 02:37:13.920 trying to describe something to you. Just go right up there. 3016 02:37:13.920 --> 02:37:16.040 And it's a free publication. You can download it, you 3017 02:37:16.079 --> 02:37:17.719 can print it, you can just look at it on 3018 02:37:17.840 --> 02:37:21.159 the screen, whatever you want. We're adding more and more 3019 02:37:21.200 --> 02:37:23.799 to that. But anyway, come on out. Any of you 3020 02:37:23.959 --> 02:37:26.680 up north. If you want drive across town, that's great too, 3021 02:37:27.079 --> 02:37:29.239 But any of you up in the north direction. I 3022 02:37:29.399 --> 02:37:31.239 love to meet my listeners, So come on out at 3023 02:37:31.239 --> 02:37:34.520 the Montgomery County Fall Home and Outdoor Living Show. I'll 3024 02:37:34.600 --> 02:37:37.639 be there Saturday, September seventh. Yes, that's a week from 3025 02:37:37.760 --> 02:37:42.600 yesterday ten or excuse me, twelve o'clock to two o'clock. 3026 02:37:42.639 --> 02:37:44.280 So I mean spend a lot of time up there, 3027 02:37:44.559 --> 02:37:46.559 and I look forward to helping you with that, as 3028 02:37:46.639 --> 02:37:50.559 well as meeting you out and about one other thing 3029 02:37:50.639 --> 02:37:54.799 real quick to Benson is the second annual Strawberry Jamboree 3030 02:37:54.959 --> 02:37:58.120 is going to be the Extension Office in Lake Jackson, 3031 02:37:58.200 --> 02:38:01.840 Texas Bressori County. I said, at the Extension Office. No, no, no, no, no, 3032 02:38:02.079 --> 02:38:04.559 it's by the Extension Office, that's who's putting it on. 3033 02:38:05.200 --> 02:38:08.360 It is at the rec Center ninety one Lake drive 3034 02:38:08.440 --> 02:38:12.680 in Lake Jackson. It is September twenty first, that's a 3035 02:38:12.799 --> 02:38:14.639 Saturday from eight to twelve. 3036 02:38:14.760 --> 02:38:15.000 Million. 3037 02:38:16.040 --> 02:38:19.000 October is a prime time for count and strawberry. You're 3038 02:38:19.000 --> 02:38:22.000 going to have our day full of speakers that are outstanding. 3039 02:38:22.079 --> 02:38:24.879 They'll take everything now know how to grow strawberry successfully. 3040 02:38:25.479 --> 02:38:28.079 They are going to also take orders for strawberry plugs 3041 02:38:28.159 --> 02:38:30.079 there if you want. I'm going to be out. There'll 3042 02:38:30.079 --> 02:38:33.360 be door prizes and exhibitors. It is a free event. 3043 02:38:33.959 --> 02:38:37.360 Do you hear that? Free? Eight to twelve noon on 3044 02:38:37.479 --> 02:38:41.159 September twenty first. For more information, just call the Brazoria 3045 02:38:41.239 --> 02:38:44.079 County Extension Office. You can call nine seventy nine eight 3046 02:38:44.200 --> 02:38:48.360 six four fifteen fifty eight. And guess what, it's my 3047 02:38:48.440 --> 02:38:51.280 favorite part. There's gonna be a Strawberry short Kate contest. 3048 02:38:51.600 --> 02:38:53.879 They haven't asked me to be a judge yet, but 3049 02:38:54.159 --> 02:38:56.399 I would probably peg out and nobody else would have 3050 02:38:56.440 --> 02:38:58.399 anything to eat. But anyway, if you think you're a 3051 02:38:58.399 --> 02:39:02.319 strawberry short Kate expert, all right, step up to the 3052 02:39:02.360 --> 02:39:05.680 plate man enter the contest. Nine sevent nine eight six 3053 02:39:05.760 --> 02:39:07.479 four fifteen fifty eight.