WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:02.399 Welcome to Katie r. 2 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:05.480 H Garden Line with Skip Richter's. 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:21.320 Crazy trip. You just watch him as well. Many thanks 4 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:35.359 to see bot basic quick not a sun glass the 5 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:37.920 sun beamon down between. 6 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:49.439 All right, let's do this. Good morning, gardeners and want 7 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:54.960 to be gardeners. Thanks for tuning in the garden Line. 8 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.479 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help 9 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:01.600 you have a beautiful garden of bountiful garden, gorgeous landscape 10 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:04.840 and hopefully a lot of fun in the process. You know, 11 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:07.359 the cool thing I think one of the cool things 12 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:11.200 about gardening is it is a It's like painting and 13 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:14.439 that you have a blank canvas. Now, sometimes the canvas 14 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.760 isn't blank, it's a mess. You got to clear it 15 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:21.480 off and start with a blank canvas. But when you're 16 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:24.680 painting something, you pick up the brush and look at 17 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.719 this big, giant white canvas and say, okay, what do 18 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:30.480 I want to paint and where do I begin? You 19 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:32.959 start drawing whatever whatever it is you want to see. 20 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:34.840 It could be a bunch of balloons in the sky, 21 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.480 you know, it could be anything you want to draw 22 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:40.159 on the canvas. You get to do it. You get 23 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.319 to pick the colors, you get to decide where you 24 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.560 want to put it, and it's a lot of fun. 25 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:50.480 And the cool thing about it is there's a range, 26 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:54.560 so that gardening is for anybody, no matter what you 27 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:57.239 are doing, no matter what you're trying to landscape, or 28 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:01.120 how big the project is or how small. For some people, 29 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.920 starting off on gardening is getting a bunch of big containers, 30 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.639 filling them full of quality potting soil and growing vegetables 31 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:12.319 and flowers on the patio or down the driveway or 32 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:14.560 wherever you want to set them on the front porch. 33 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.280 For other people, it may mean just having somebody come 34 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:22.960 in and turn the whole place upside down, begin with 35 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:27.240 dirt and take it from there. The whole design is new. 36 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:31.280 Everything has created hardscapes. I mean, you've got a huge 37 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:34.560 range in gardening. But don't feel like if you don't 38 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:38.680 have this show placed landscape that's going to be on 39 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.080 the next garden tour, that you're just not doing a 40 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.400 good job gardening. Of course not. You get to do 41 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.039 what you want to do. What do you want your 42 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.199 garden to look like? What is the next step that 43 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.560 you want to take? And I would advise you to 44 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.360 start with some sort of a plan, some sort of 45 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:00.520 an idea, think about it. Drive around town. I do 46 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.159 this all the time. I've said this many times on 47 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:04.840 the show. But when I go from here to there, 48 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:07.240 I never take the well I try to never take, 49 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:13.080 you know, the standard highway route. I will go through neighborhoods, 50 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.639 I'll take other roots, and I get to see houses, 51 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:17.919 and I get to see different ways of landscaping, and 52 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:20.360 I get to see different kinds of plants and combinations. 53 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:22.560 And it's inspiring to do that. And you can take 54 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.240 a picture of it. It's okay to take a picture 55 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:26.800 from the road if somebody's landscape, and take it home, 56 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:29.080 and you know, put it in your to do or 57 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:33.639 your someday, and then you've got those ideas there. You 58 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:37.520 begin by starting with the soil. Always that that is 59 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:41.560 the foundation to success. It is not about starting with plants. 60 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:44.560 Do not do that. Start with the soil, brown stuff 61 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.599 before green stuff. You get the soil right, and you 62 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:50.080 put the good plants in it, in the design you like, 63 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.639 and there you go. And I would begin, I would begin, 64 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:57.800 you know, easy, you start with the basics. A lot 65 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.919 of times gardeners, Okay, I'm drawn on here, but I 66 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:04.599 think this is important. A lot of times gardeners are 67 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.680 plant collectors, and I am a plant collector myself. I 68 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.599 get it. I understand it. You go to a garden center, 69 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:13.919 there's a pretty plant. I want that one. Oh, look 70 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.079 at this one over here that is awesome. I want 71 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:18.519 that one. And you do that, and then you go 72 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:20.480 home and you walk around going where am I going 73 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:25.839 to put these? And the landscapes of plant collectors tend 74 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:27.680 to look like a bomb went off in a garden 75 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.800 center and everything rooted where it is landed. You just 76 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:35.639 have a great collection, but it's like there's no order 77 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.000 to it, there's no sense to it. And sometimes plants 78 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.519 don't thrive because you got a cactus next to an 79 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:44.160 azalea and they don't have the same water needs, or 80 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:49.639 you know, you have maybe a fern, you know, next 81 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:52.079 to a hibiscus and they don't have the same sunlight needs. 82 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:55.879 I'm just saying you start with a plan. Just maybe 83 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.800 your first step, maybe your first step right now, is 84 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.480 to get out there and side. I'm going to create 85 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:04.720 this bed around a tree or along a back fence 86 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:08.120 or wherever, and I'm gonna get good sold I'm gonna 87 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.040 build it up, and then I want to put these 88 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:13.360 plants in it. So first you get the beds created 89 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:15.399 and then you begin to put the plants in. And 90 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.720 there's nothing wrong. You don't have to do the whole 91 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.680 thing at once. In fact, I've got a back bed 92 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:25.240 that probably oh gosh, it's probably fifty feet long, and 93 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.680 at this current time, I probably have seven plants and 94 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.480 the whole bad or six probably, and it's so it 95 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.399 looks sparse, but I'm gonna build it out. I'm just 96 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.680 doing it a little at a time, and that's okay. 97 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.560 So that's why we're here for on Guardline to help 98 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:42.079 answer questions, to help guide you, to give you direction. 99 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:44.600 If you have problems, you can you can call us 100 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.199 or email me a photo and then call and we'll 101 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:50.199 talk about, you know, what is that bug or problem? Uh, 102 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:52.680 But feel free to do that reach out. We love 103 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:55.319 to talk to you phone number seven one three two 104 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.399 one two K t R H. Let's go ahead and 105 00:05:58.439 --> 00:05:59.519 go to the phones. So we're going to head to 106 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:03.480 Jersey this morning and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, welcome 107 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:04.319 to garden Line. 108 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:11.199 Hey, good morning skill. My Saint Augustine grass has come 109 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.399 out really well this year and probably the best I've 110 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.360 had in years. But all of a sudden, I'm getting 111 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:23.199 out a lot of blades turning yellow kind of starts. 112 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.439 It's not real. My yard still looks good, but I 113 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.839 can look down into the grass and at the base 114 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:33.879 of the blades they start yellow and then it slowly 115 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.160 kind of creeps into the blades of grass. And I'm 116 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.240 just seeing this in many different spots, and I'm just wondering, 117 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.519 is it more maybe a fungle, or is it maybe 118 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.680 I've got bugs. 119 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.560 That's a good question. I'm kind of trying to picture 120 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.800 what you're seeing. So the yellowing is just like the 121 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:56.160 whole part of the beleef is like a bright yellow. 122 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:06.560 It's not like a gradual loss of green. Ok yes, Okay, 123 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:08.680 if you were to pick a blade and hold it 124 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.319 up and look at it to the sky, do you 125 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.519 think you would see, uh, just solid yellow or would 126 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.279 you see kind of a yellow and green striped that 127 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:24.040 becomes more yellow as it progresses along time. Okay? That 128 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.279 sounds like an iron That sounds like an iron deficiency. 129 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:31.920 And iron can be can fail to get into the 130 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:35.360 grass for several reasons. One is the pH of the 131 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.120 soil is a little high. Number two is the phosphorus. 132 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.959 The middle number on the fertilizer bag is a little high. 133 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.240 That's why my my my lawn schedules we try to 134 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.639 aim for for low phosphorus numbers. And then the final 135 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:51.800 one is there just as an iron, And that's actually 136 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.560 the more unlikely one that there just is an iron. 137 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.240 A soil test would tell you what your iron levels are, 138 00:07:57.839 --> 00:07:59.759 but you could go in there with a product called 139 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:04.800 iron keylate keylate is spelled c h E la te 140 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.639 and it's a type of iron that doesn't tie up 141 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.040 in the soil as readily and so the grass plant 142 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.040 has a better chance of getting it. I would start 143 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.920 with that. Apply it. You can do them. Sometimes you 144 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:19.920 can do hose in iron application. Sometimes granular hose in 145 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.439 probably a little bit better, but that way you can 146 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:25.680 kind of just treat the areas that are most showing 147 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.600 it and see how it responds to that. If that 148 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:31.680 greens it up, then that was the problem. And if 149 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.519 it doesn't, then we need to look a little deeper. 150 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.120 Maybe send me some photos and we'll look for some 151 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:39.919 possible diseases involved. I think at this point, though, with 152 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.720 your description, it's going to be an iron deficiency. 153 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:44.399 Thank you. 154 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:44.759 Stip. 155 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:46.320 I'm going to give that a try. 156 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.600 All right, you take care you're there, you know, right 157 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.960 there in Jersey Village, You've got some Ace hardware stores 158 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.320 up in that whole cypress area that can get you 159 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:01.000 all fixed up with a keylated type of iron. And 160 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.480 also some great garden centers too, not far away. 161 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.919 From you, aces right down the street. 162 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.440 I'll give them check in with all y. 163 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:12.399 All right, sounds good, good luck, Thank you, thank you 164 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:16.840 for the call. Appreciate that. In the lawns. I was 165 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:20.799 out in the yard visiting with my neighbor a few 166 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:25.240 days ago, and he said, he said that I had 167 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.840 turned him onto Sweet Green for a nitropos and he said, 168 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.519 I need to get some more of that where. You know. 169 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.039 That was awesome, he said. He greened his line up 170 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:37.679 like crazy. It did it fast. It just looks great, 171 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.759 And that's true. Sweet Green is a it's a primarily 172 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:45.840 a nitrogen fertilizer. Natural fertilizer melts away into your lawn grassroots. 173 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:47.519 Pick it up, and you get some fast growth you 174 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:49.759 want to give now. Normally, right now, I'm recommending slow 175 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:52.519 releases to carry us through summer. But sometimes you need 176 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:53.639 to get in there and you want to get a 177 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:57.360 quick result and you know, kind of invigorate a spot 178 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:59.039 and sweet green is great for that. And you know 179 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.480 we use it various time of the year. But sweet 180 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:04.480 green from nitrofosk can be found in many places Ace 181 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:08.000 hardware and sinkle ranch ospase ace in the woodlands. You 182 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.559 go up, maybe in Channa Forest. There'll be another place 183 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.600 down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Take a little 184 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.399 break here and we'll be right back with your calls. Well, 185 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:21.000 good morning, it is time to wake up. Here we 186 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:24.879 go on guardline weird to answer your questions, help you 187 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.360 have success. That's the bottom line. So give me a 188 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:29.879 call if you got a question. If you'd like to 189 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.720 send a photo ahead of you calling with your question, 190 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:37.559 just call and talk to my producer and he will 191 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:39.919 tell you how to get that photo to me. Sometimes, 192 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:41.720 if it's going to be a description and you're trying 193 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.600 to describe a weed you can't quite describe and stuff, 194 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:46.600 it's better to send me a photo, let me look 195 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.320 at it, then give me a call. We'll talk about it, 196 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.080 figure out what's going on there. 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Getting a generator set up as 228 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:30.879 a process, So don't delay. I mean, you can't like here, 229 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:32.679 there's a hurricane in the Gulf and call them up 230 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.759 to come put a generator out. You got to call 231 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.559 them ahead of time and start that process to get 232 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:39.840 it done, because when they do it, they do it right. 233 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.639 We're going to go now out to Spring and talk 234 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.200 to Lance. Good morning, Lance, Welcome to garden Line. 235 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:52.559 Ory Skip A quick question. I'm following the skins, but 236 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.320 i think I've got my pre immersion out a little late, 237 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:58.600 and I'm having a few weeks in my yard and 238 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:00.919 I'm wondering what I can if there's anything in a 239 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:02.720 little of going out there on the hands and even 240 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.320 picking them. If there's a product can yeah, straight on 241 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.039 granular into Saint State yard. 242 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.759 Got you? Now, these are these are broad leaf weeds 243 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.840 as opposed to grassy kinds of weeds. 244 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:17.480 I have a little bit of ermuta that's mixed in 245 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.559 from the neighbor, but I'm more it's yeah dollars. There's 246 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:22.480 a few dollar weeds. And then there is one that 247 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:25.960 looks like a little a little succulent with white flowers. 248 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:28.759 Okay, yeah, that's a booker. 249 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:32.159 That's a lot, but just a little yeah, well. 250 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:34.840 Don't let it become a lot. That's Virginia button weed. 251 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:38.120 And those low white flowers are followed by a little 252 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.919 a little smaller than an English pea size pods that 253 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:47.000 will recede it. Uh. Probably at this time, the best 254 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:51.600 thing you could use is something called Celsius, like the 255 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.240 temperatures Celsius. It comes in a little pack that makes 256 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.879 one gallon. So you mix it up and you're just 257 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.039 sporting the weeds. You're not you're not like treating the 258 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.240 entire lawn. You're going to where the weeds are and 259 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:06.120 you're squirting them with it, and it works very well. 260 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:08.919 It is also one that even if the tempts are 261 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:10.919 in the low nineties. It's not going to stress your 262 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:14.000 grass like some of the other good weed control products 263 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:17.360 will do. Once these temperatures get as high as they're getting. Now, 264 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:19.279 go ahead and use it in the morning. It's the 265 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.519 best time to apply it, and that would be the one. 266 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.679 And it also is probably about as effective as anything 267 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:29.559 you can find on the Virginia button weed, and even 268 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.360 at that you may find that four six weeks later 269 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:36.600 you're having to treat it again with the celsius because 270 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:39.120 it's a very difficult weed to get rid of, but 271 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:40.159 Celsius can do it. 272 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:41.639 Well. 273 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:45.240 Appreciate you, all right, good luck getting rid of those 274 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.799 weeks thanks to the call this morning. You bet you 275 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:51.399 take care. Appreciate that. Let's go now to Stafford and 276 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:53.679 we're going to talk to Mary. Good morning, Mary. 277 00:14:54.600 --> 00:15:00.679 Good morning. I have a beautiful green thing vine growing 278 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.919 up the trellis, but I have no ballooons. 279 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:08.120 Okay. Is this a climbing bean that you have? 280 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:09.080 Yes? 281 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:14.519 Okay, well I have several that are climbing and one 282 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.519 that's a bush bean, but none. 283 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:18.360 Of them are bloomings. 284 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:21.720 None of them are blooming. How long ago did you plant? 285 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.039 Probably two months and I planted from seam. 286 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:32.960 Oh wow, Okay, well, green beans, most of them, the 287 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.080 bush types especially, you should be getting something at about 288 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:41.720 fifty days as far as production, or less could be 289 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:46.879 less pul beans upright, ones they can range anywhere from 290 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.879 about that, but some of them can go up to 291 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.919 seventy days or more. They're kind of slow to get moving, 292 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:57.240 so it could be that if you overdo nitrogen on beans, 293 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:01.480 they take off with a bush leaf growth at the 294 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:05.879 expense of bloom production. So I don't know how rich 295 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:08.840 your soil is or what the fertilization schedule's been, but 296 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:12.879 just know that you don't want to not give them 297 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:15.240 any fertilizer, but just go go a little bit light, 298 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.600 especially on the nitrogen. And then finally, if they're if 299 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.879 they don't get at least six hours of sun, you're 300 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:24.159 going to see a delay in production and a lower 301 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.159 level of production because they just can't make enough carbohydrates 302 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:29.799 to do it. So does any of that get. 303 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.200 Is it going to get too hot for them to produce? 304 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:39.320 Yes, they'll quit setting, but not just yet. You should 305 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.080 still be getting setting on your beans. But when it 306 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:43.960 does get hot there, they're not going to set. 307 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.159 I put some ashes from my fireplace back in the 308 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:49.080 winter on the bed. 309 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:54.240 Is that a problem the problem, Well, probably not if 310 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:57.480 it wasn't too much. It's kind of like everything the 311 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:01.120 dose makes the poison kind of would I would say 312 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.240 if you overdo ashes, the pH is going to get 313 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.160 too high and you may see some iron chlorosis or 314 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.599 yellowing of the new growth. Ashes are going to contain 315 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:14.319 potassium and a number of other minerals and can be 316 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.359 helpful if that's what your soil needs. If you already 317 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:20.079 have a lot of what is in the ashes, then 318 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:23.799 you're just creating an imbalance. So that's where we go 319 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:26.680 back to a soil test to see where you are 320 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:28.279 and what might need to be added. 321 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.480 Okay, well the leaves and everything look very, very healthy, 322 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.279 but they're just not producing. Maybe I'm too. 323 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:42.440 Early yet, Well two months you should be getting. You 324 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:46.400 should have gotten balloons by now, and even pods for sure. 325 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:49.359 I don't know. I kind of can you know? Looping 326 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:54.440 back again, it's light, it's moderate fertilizing, not too much, 327 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:59.519 and then depending on the variety, they vary in terms 328 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:02.799 of how how soon they come into production. I can't 329 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.680 think of anything else that would be causing them not 330 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:08.559 to produce. For you than that. Give them a little 331 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.400 more time, see what they do, let them settle in, 332 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.880 and just make sure they get adequate so moisture, and 333 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.599 hopefully they'll settle in and start producing for you. 334 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:22.640 Thank you all right, Mary. 335 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.200 Thank you very much. Appreciate that call. Yeah, that's interesting. 336 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.799 Green beans are more people ought to grow them. We've 337 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.119 got a lot of great types of green beans. There's 338 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:38.680 bush beans, bush types, and then there are the types 339 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.839 that we call pole beans that climb. There are some gosh, 340 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:46.000 some great varieties. You know, there's so many good varieties. 341 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.960 I've done green bean trials over the last twenty years 342 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:52.759 several times, and there's a lot of good varieties. One 343 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:55.920 old bean that's been around a long time and it 344 00:18:56.039 --> 00:18:59.880 still is a good one is Contender. Contender is the variety. 345 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:02.799 But there are a lot of other good ones. And 346 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:05.720 you go to a garden center that knows, you know, 347 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.039 they carry the varieties that want to do well here 348 00:19:08.359 --> 00:19:10.640 and talk to them about what they have. But that's 349 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:14.160 an old mainstay, it's been around there. On the pole beans, 350 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:16.880 a lot of those take a little too long to 351 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:21.039 come into production for me. And so there are a 352 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:23.759 few varieties. There's one called rattlesnakes a little slow to 353 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:26.640 come into production, but it's an interesting being. And then 354 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:29.680 there's some broad flat types of pole beans as well 355 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:34.200 that do well also. We're just about to come up 356 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:39.519 here into another break. I just wanted to mention that 357 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:42.200 if you have not been to my website, I would 358 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:44.440 encourage you to go check it out. It's gardening with 359 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:49.000 Skip dot com. That's where my schedules are. The schedule 360 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:54.160 for lawn fertilizing and lawn care in general, mowing, watering, fertilizing, 361 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.160 and then the schedule for lawn problems, and that would 362 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:00.160 be weeds and diseases and insects, and they go from 363 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.720 January to December. It's a little chart like a checkerboard 364 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:08.880 sort of, and from January to December, and then each 365 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:11.720 row is a different problem, like there's a disease row 366 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:13.680 and insect row and so on. So you can see 367 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:17.079 exactly when do chinchbugs typically attack here, when do soide 368 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:20.039 web worms typically attack, and then follow it down as 369 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:21.880 to what to do about it. Let's take a break, 370 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.000 we'll be right back. Hey, good morning, welcome back to 371 00:20:25.039 --> 00:20:29.160 garden Line. Thanks for joining us today. What do you 372 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:32.759 want to talk about? This show is about you and 373 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:37.079 your questions regarding gardening. How do we help you have success? 374 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:39.680 That's what it's about. Give me a call when you 375 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:43.720 want to maybe diagnose a problem or make some suggestions 376 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:46.759 as to how to improve a part of the landscape. 377 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:49.640 Phone number seven one three two one two k t 378 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:52.519 r H. Seven one three two one two k t 379 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.880 r H. And we will be happy to do just that. 380 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:01.119 I was talking earlier about, you know, gardening, taking gardening 381 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:04.000 step at a time. Don't look at it like, oh, 382 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:06.759 I've got to have this giant landscape makeover, although you could, 383 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.720 but look at it like what is the next little 384 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:12.200 thing I want to do? What is the next thing? 385 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.160 About a year ago or so, I decided my next 386 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:19.279 thing in the house we had moved into was to 387 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:21.599 put in and I call it an orchard. It just 388 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:24.799 means that's where fruit trees are. It's not an orchard, 389 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:27.039 but it's the orchard's on the side of the house. 390 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:28.680 I had a little strip there. There's a little too 391 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.400 narrow to do a whole lot with. And with the 392 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:36.240 privacy fence and the eaves of the house, the ground 393 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:42.440 sunlight amount is less, meaning you know, as a sun 394 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:44.720 goes through the sky. There's a little pattern that goes 395 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.240 across the ground, but the number of hours any spot 396 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:50.440 is in the sun is lower. So what I did 397 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:53.200 is I brought in and carrid some vego beds. I 398 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.480 filled them with soil, not too tall, probably about eleven 399 00:21:55.480 --> 00:22:00.680 inch high, and big squares, and then I anim trees 400 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:02.759 in them. So the trees that come up, they're going 401 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.440 to be in the sun a lot because they catch 402 00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:08.559 the sun sooner and even when the ground has gone 403 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:11.279 into shade from the house, the tree leaves are up 404 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:13.960 there still capturing sunlight, see what I'm saying. So it 405 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:16.400 became a good spot for that, and I put a 406 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.559 little archard down. I started with the beds, got them 407 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:20.440 set up back to I still have a bed. I 408 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:23.200 haven't put a tree in, and the beds have trees, 409 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:25.640 and so I'm just waiting. I know what I want 410 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:26.839 to do there, and it's just a matter of me 411 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.279 getting around to it and finding that species and variety 412 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:34.079 that I'm looking for. But now that whole area it 413 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.400 looks nice now for me. Everybody has a different opinion 414 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:39.480 about what they like the look of Some people would 415 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:41.480 put grass in there and mow it and edge it 416 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:43.880 and weed eat it and everything. I just turned it 417 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:46.559 into a giant moultched area. It's around you walk around 418 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:49.039 that side of the house and it's basically a lot 419 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:51.759 of leaves from last winter. All my neighbors are so 420 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:54.480 nice to leap at the curb for me and brought 421 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:56.440 them home, run over them with a lawnmoarders, chop them 422 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:58.599 up a little bit so they don't blow around, and 423 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:02.039 it just looks like a four all around those trees. 424 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.279 And if a weed sticks its head up, I take 425 00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:06.880 care of that weed. But in general, with the thick, thick, 426 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:08.839 multual leaves, I don't have to deal with it. So 427 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:12.319 that was like one project that was done in pieces 428 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:14.720 over time, and you can do the same kinds of things. 429 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:17.200 Maybe you want to grow some vegetables, why not starting 430 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:20.720 containers and then or you could start going all the 431 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:23.039 way to getting a nice raised bed and putting it 432 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:25.359 on the ground, filling it full of good mix and 433 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:27.680 starting to grow your vegetables. And there's things you can 434 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:30.039 grow in summer, so you can start that garden right 435 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:32.880 now and then when fall comes you'll be rolling and 436 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:35.559 ready to go for broccol and cabbage and cauliflower and 437 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:40.200 a kale and a coolabbie, and spinach and lettuce and 438 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:44.480 beets and radishes and carrots, and here I go. I mean, 439 00:23:44.680 --> 00:23:47.720 there's a lot of things you can plan, but start small. 440 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:49.279 Try something. What is going to be the thing you 441 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:51.519 do next? And just because it's summer and it's like 442 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:54.200 it's going to get hot now, now you can still 443 00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:57.680 do that. A little morning work here and there can 444 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:00.720 go a long way toward making your life escape or 445 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:05.039 your gardening dreams. Take that next step. Well, let's uh 446 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:07.880 head out now to the phones. We're going to go 447 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:11.680 to Greg in Magnolia. Hello, Greg, welcome to garden Line. 448 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:13.839 Good morning, Good morning. 449 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:15.119 How are you doing this morning? 450 00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:17.160 I'm well, thank you. 451 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:24.720 My question is I have several fruit trees. I have 452 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:30.759 a lemon tree, of peach, apple, and two orange trees. 453 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:36.000 And after that freezygeddon we had several years ago. It 454 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:48.319 buds but does not produce any fruit there, especially the peach. 455 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.079 Is not it So it blooms, but it doesn't cut fruit. 456 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:59.079 That's what you're saying, Yes, sir, yes, sir, Well that's strange. 457 00:24:59.079 --> 00:24:59.839 And I fertilile. 458 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:09.200 Okay, Well, peaches, peaches do not require a second variety 459 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:14.200 for pollinating your apple does, but the peaches don't. The 460 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:19.160 if it gets enough sunlight, that's an important part of 461 00:25:19.319 --> 00:25:22.240 setting buds and blooming. But if you're getting blooms, you're 462 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:25.200 getting at least bud set so maybe, you know, if 463 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:27.519 the sunlight was a little marginal, maybe that could be 464 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:32.720 part of it. There isn't an insect that kills the thing. 465 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:38.000 It kills the fruit after it blooms. It's not a 466 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:42.000 pest problem. You know, there's some diseases like brown rot 467 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.000 that can even attack the blooms and the young fruit, 468 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:48.359 but generally that's not when you see a problem with it. Hm, 469 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:53.079 this is strange a peach that bloom, blooms. Does it 470 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:54.400 does look good? 471 00:25:56.119 --> 00:26:00.960 Yes, yes, it hasn't really grown thickness in the trunk 472 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:05.319 is as I would like it. But it is next 473 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:08.480 to two sweet gums, and that might be sucking all 474 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:10.920 the more all the minerals and stuff from it because 475 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:12.079 you know, the sandy loan just. 476 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:13.640 Doesn't hould the minerals. 477 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:15.559 Yeah, up county. 478 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:20.359 And you know oil, Yeah, it's a decent it's a 479 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:23.359 decent type of soil that how many hours of real 480 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:28.319 direct sunlight do you think that tree gets. 481 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:31.279 Probably six to eight. 482 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:39.319 Well that should be enough fruit. Yeah, right, So after 483 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:43.160 it blooms, do little green peaches form like I'm talking 484 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:45.160 about the size, you know, like an English pee, but 485 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:46.519 they are elongated and skinny. 486 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.319 No, sir, no sir, because as soon as you know, 487 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:53.359 back in the day, you know, I'm preaching at the choir. 488 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:55.160 But when once you see a little fruit, then I 489 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:59.200 start spraying. That is sector side stuff, the fruit tree spray. 490 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:02.480 And then bards usial gated the squirrels and I throw 491 00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:03.759 the nest the net over it. 492 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:10.039 And then that had probably well blooms this year. 493 00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:13.000 Okay, oh oh just a dozen. And how old is 494 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:13.480 the tree? 495 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:15.839 About seven years old? 496 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:17.319 It really hasn't grown much. 497 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:19.759 And I fertilize, you know, with those spikes every year, 498 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.559 and I use that mult its fruit trees. 499 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:27.599 Yeah, I would mean I would. I'm opposed to the spikes. 500 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:29.799 Well as opposed to the spikes. I just get a 501 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:32.920 good lawn fertilizer or a fruit tree fertilizer and sprinkle 502 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:36.799 the granules all around under the tree and a big throughout, 503 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:40.519 a big circle or a circular area for every inch 504 00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:43.000 of trunk diameter, give it one or two cups of 505 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:44.000 lawn fertilizer. 506 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:47.039 Yes, so, and I use the good stuff. 507 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:50.400 The only thing, all right, Well, the only thing I 508 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:53.839 can think of that could be happening is maybe the 509 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:57.519 pollinators are being killed if you start too early on spring, 510 00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:00.839 and like, don't don't spray any insecticides during blow but 511 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:04.079 that I don't know why you wouldn't have any pollinators. 512 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:07.920 But that's not many blooms for a tree. And so 513 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:10.359 that's the only thing I can think about. If you want, 514 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.440 I'm gonna I think we kind of hit a stalemate 515 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:14.920 on this one. If you would like, I'm gonna put 516 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.319 you on hold, and you can either hang up or 517 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:19.720 if you hang on, my producer will give you an 518 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:22.640 email address and send me a picture of the tree 519 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.440 from a couple of angles in its neck, in its setting, 520 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:27.920 and then maybe get up close and show me what 521 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:30.279 it looks like. If I see anything else on it, 522 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:33.000 maybe something will pop into my head that hasn't yet. 523 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.440 But we'll see what we can do for you. Okay, 524 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:39.319 all right, put you on hold right now, you bet, 525 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:42.720 thank you for the call. So we were sitting outside 526 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:46.039 yesterday late in the day. We like to go out 527 00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.039 late in the day and I don't have a big 528 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:50.839 mosquito problem because I got those mosquito buckets, so thank 529 00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:53.720 goodness because that used to ruin that nice time of 530 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:56.400 the day. But anyway, we're sitting outside, my wife and 531 00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:59.559 I and little birds are coming to our feeders. We 532 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:02.759 got a couple of feeders from wildbirds, and we were 533 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:05.160 just watching them come and go from the feeders, and 534 00:29:05.400 --> 00:29:09.400 I got out the Merlin app. And if you don't 535 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:11.839 even have bird feeders, you need to get this app. 536 00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:15.680 It's free. It's from Cornell. Cornell University has an ornithology 537 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.640 department that created this amazing app. And basically what you 538 00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:22.960 do is you can take a picture and then look 539 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:24.759 for what the name of that bird is. And it 540 00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:28.000 really works. I zoomed in on a Carolina chickadee that 541 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:31.480 was so far away that when I zoomed in on it, 542 00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:34.240 it was like a real grainy, crummy picture, but it 543 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.279 was there. Merlin told me, that's a Carolina chickadee. You 544 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:39.200 could go down, you could listen to the songs that 545 00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:41.640 bird makes. You can find out about it. It's so cool. 546 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:43.519 And then we're sitting there a little bit later and 547 00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:45.680 we heard two or three birds singing in the trees 548 00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:48.559 and I couldn't even see the birds. Merlin also has 549 00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:51.960 a listen find the bird by sound and it listens 550 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:54.920 and as soon as it here's this little bird singing. 551 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.400 After a few seconds, it pops up the name of 552 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.960 the bird. It's so amazing. Wild Birds on Limited is 553 00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:04.039 our favorite place to go because we're getting more and 554 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.880 more into these birds. The feeders. I've got a feeder. 555 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:09.440 One of the feeders we're watching the Carolina A tigoties 556 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:14.559 at is the squirrel eliminator origin. It's just called the eliminator. 557 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:17.160 Excuse me, a bit of eliminates squirrels and things because 558 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:20.279 they they they if they try to grab onto it 559 00:30:20.359 --> 00:30:23.039 to go in and get food, it closes the door 560 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.759 on the feeder. It's really really cool. Now now's nesting 561 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.359 time still for birds, and so you need to be 562 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:32.920 using their exclusive Nesting super Blend only get it only 563 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:38.000 available Wallbirds Unlimited. We're still using our Cardinal Convetti that 564 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:41.680 is a great feed also, but Nesting super Blends so important. 565 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:46.079 Six stores Kingwood, clear Lake, Pearland, two in Houston, one 566 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:50.880 one on Memorial and then in Cyprus. WBU dot Com 567 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:55.039 forward Slash Houston WBU dot com Forward Slash Houston. You need, 568 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.319 you need to try this stuff out, get that Merlin 569 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:03.279 app and then get to Wildbirds Limited. Welcome back to Guardline. 570 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.720 Good to have you with us this morning. We're here 571 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:09.400 to help you have success and fun when you go 572 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:13.920 about your gardening activities. That is important. Another way that 573 00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:16.599 you can make sure and have success and fun is 574 00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:19.200 to know where your local ACE Hardware store is and 575 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:24.200 it's easy to find. Ace Hardwaretexas dot com. Ace Hardware 576 00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:28.319 Texas dot com. That's the website and when you go there, 577 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:31.079 you're going to find everything you need to have success 578 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:34.880 in your lawn, to control weeds and diseases, to control insects, 579 00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.359 to fertilize your lawn. And make sure that you hear 580 00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:39.720 me talk about these products and where do I get them? Well, 581 00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:43.480 your local Ace Hardware store. Ace Hardwaretexas dot com. That's 582 00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:45.440 a website that I'll hope you find the one for you. 583 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:50.000 So for example, up north there's spring Ace on Spring Cypress. 584 00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:53.160 Down southwest there's Plantation Ace on Mason Road in the 585 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.920 Richmond Rosenberg area, Champions Ace on Spring Cypress northwest, northeast 586 00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:01.720 Crosby ACE on FM twenty one hundred, and then in 587 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:05.759 West Houston there's Langham Creek ASE on FM five point nine. 588 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.440 In Cyprus just by the Copperfield neighborhood there, and there 589 00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:12.119 are many, many, many more. There's just a few examples 590 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.720 of the ace hardwar stores you can find near you. 591 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:17.119 But the main thing is you gotta go. You gotta 592 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:20.839 check them out. By the way, Father's Day is coming, 593 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:27.440 and I'm just saying, their barbecue selection is great, it 594 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.240 is unbelievable, So you may just want to go by 595 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:33.000 there and check it out. Also, some really great tools, 596 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:40.480 you know, from really quality brands and whatnot. Whatever your dad, husband, grandpa, 597 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.720 son is looking for that is related to tools and 598 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:49.319 guy kinds of things. If you will, well, Ace Hardw's 599 00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:51.200 got it. And I know some of you ladies are 600 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:53.559 going wait, I like tools too. Okay, all right, get 601 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:55.880 you one, when you get your husband one? Two? Why not? 602 00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:59.359 I think that's allowed. Let's go out to Tomball. We're 603 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:01.279 going to talk to my Hey, Hey, Mike, welcome to 604 00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:01.960 garden Line. 605 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:07.039 Hey, good morning, Skip love your show. 606 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:08.599 Good morning, thank you. 607 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:13.640 I have something growing in my yard. I sent a picture. 608 00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:17.680 It looks like a sedge, but it's got little what 609 00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:21.720 looks like grass burds sitting on top of it. I'm 610 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.359 just wondering how to control it. I've got several patches 611 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.440 of it in my yard, and I have a bermuda, 612 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:31.160 mostly bermuda and tiff tough grass. 613 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:37.160 Okay, So that's that is a weed called kai linga, 614 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:41.279 and it's related to sedges. It has a triangular stem 615 00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:43.039 at the base and you get the look real close 616 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.079 or feel it with your hands, roll it, roll the 617 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:47.400 stem in your fingers and you can kind of feel 618 00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:51.799 the clunky three sides as you roll it along. Kling 619 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:55.680 is a difficult weed to control. Uh. First of all, 620 00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:01.200 it loves wet conditions. So your grass can do with 621 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:04.680 much less water than kaylinga, and so would I would 622 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:09.639 make my watering very deep and infrequent as possible. Don't 623 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:13.360 just keep it wet all the time. Otherwise kyllinga just 624 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:17.599 proliferates and it's very difficult to manage. You can't control rainfall, 625 00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:22.199 which can control irrigation. Then, as far as products, the 626 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:29.679 product called sedge hammer. Sedge hammer will give decent control, 627 00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:33.039 but it's going to take several applications. It's not just 628 00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:35.079 a wipe it out like it like it does on 629 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:38.800 some of the other sedges and things. But sedge hammer. 630 00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:44.639 And there's also one product called Managed that's the same thing, 631 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:49.000 Manage and sedge hammer. I think there may be one 632 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:52.599 called sedge Ender that's the same brand as well. I 633 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:54.760 need to look at it's on my website. I need 634 00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:57.760 to look at my own website. But anyway, use those, 635 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.639 follow the instructions on them, and be ready to do 636 00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:03.280 it maybe two or three times as we go through 637 00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:06.599 this season. Just don't don't let it up, prayer, and 638 00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:08.360 then in the meantime keep it dry as you can. 639 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:10.119 Okay. 640 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:11.639 Well, I don't. 641 00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:13.159 Water my yard very very. 642 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:18.960 Often unless it really needs it, so okay, uh yeah, 643 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:22.239 so uh I have the sedge hammer here, so I'll 644 00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:24.679 just start applying. Okay if I can get rid of it. 645 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:28.039 Yeah, just stay stay with it, don't let it, don't 646 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:30.360 let up from Yes, sir, you take care. I appreciate you. 647 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:32.559 Call time for me to go to a break. Is 648 00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:35.440 that what I'm hearing? Oh no, we're hearing music. No, 649 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:38.519 there's no way. It's the top of the hour. We 650 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:41.679 didn't just do an hour a garden line. I just 651 00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:44.519 got started. I had stories to tell, things to talk about. 652 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.840 I guess you have to stick around. We're glad you're listen. 653 00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:54.719 By the way, if you have questions about uh that Sedge, 654 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:58.239 go to the website gardening with skip dot com. Find 655 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:02.159 the publication called Sage and end up. Look it is. 656 00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.960 I researched it for a long time, talked a lot 657 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:11.119 of turf and weed specialists and searched out the products 658 00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:14.559 and everything, and I figured that animal out and we 659 00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.760 have figured out ways to shut it down. But you 660 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:19.159 got to be diligent. You got to read that publication 661 00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:23.239 and be diligent. You don't halfway control nuts Edge. You 662 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:29.280 never let it up for air. Well, good morning, welcome 663 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:32.719 back to Guardline. It is good to have you with us. 664 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:37.239 Looking forward to visiting with you about the things that 665 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.440 are of most interest to you. How do you have 666 00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:43.599 success in the garden and in the landscape. Just before 667 00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.280 we went to break there, I was visiting let's see, oh, 668 00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:50.320 I was visiting with Mike and about some kylinga in 669 00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:53.119 the yard, and I failed to mention that image is 670 00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:57.559 another option for that image. I am age the label 671 00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:02.239 will say image for Nutsedge. There's other images. Just to 672 00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:04.280 get the one that says image for nuts edge and 673 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.199 that's another good option. Might be a little more effective 674 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:11.760 actually than the manager and sedgehammer would be on that 675 00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:15.239 particular Kalinga. I just want to make sure and say 676 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:19.199 that I'll email them as well. But welcome back to Guardline. 677 00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:21.199 Good have you with us. We have plenty of things 678 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:23.400 we can touch base on and talk about today. I 679 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:26.440 want to begin by just this segment at least by 680 00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:30.880 just saying, if you have been wanting to garden more, 681 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:34.039 but maybe as you've gotten older, getting around is difficult. 682 00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:36.760 It's hard to get up, hard to get down. Maybe 683 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:39.760 some arthritic conditions in your hands make it a little 684 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:42.519 harder to hold some of the implements and things. There's 685 00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:45.800 a lot that you can do to continue to enjoy gardening. 686 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:49.400 I talk about the kneeling bench all the time. It's 687 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:51.559 a folding bench that you flip it one way and 688 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.400 you can sit on it, so you can be sitting 689 00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:56.960 there like printing the suckers off your tomatoes, or doing 690 00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:59.039 some of the kind of work like that, or you 691 00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:01.920 can flip at the upside down and you kneel on 692 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.280 it and the legs become handles to get up and down, 693 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.960 and boy does it ever make a huge difference when 694 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:09.199 you have to go down to your knees and get 695 00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:14.199 back up again. On gardening, tools that are ergonomically designed 696 00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:17.360 are very helpful. And I always talk about quality tools, 697 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:20.719 you know, making sure you get a quality tool. Oytherwise. 698 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.000 Checking out a plants Fall Seasons the other day and 699 00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:25.440 I noticed they have a lot of good quality tools 700 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.039 there and they have some ergonomic ones as well. The 701 00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:34.760 Plants Fall Seasons is a garden center there where Tomball Parkway, 702 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:38.920 FM two forty nine and Luetta come together. It's right 703 00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:41.880 there on Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta. But they've 704 00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:44.280 got a great tool section and we were talking about 705 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:48.440 gifts and things for Father's Day and whatnot. If you 706 00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:51.199 check that out, you might find that that is just 707 00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:56.480 a really good get. A quality tool is essentially last 708 00:38:56.559 --> 00:39:00.800 forever almost It just a lot of these printers, quality 709 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.000 brands like Corona, and I believe they have Corona there 710 00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:07.679 at plants Fall Seasons. They even replace the blades on 711 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:09.800 many of the models and things, so they just keep 712 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:14.239 going and they work well. And cheap tools they get 713 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.559 messed up and it makes it harder to cut and 714 00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:18.840 so that's more strain on your hands, and so get 715 00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:22.800 a quality tool, and that way, in the long run, 716 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:26.280 I would contend that you save money. You throw away 717 00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:30.119 a lot of cheap, worthless tools, while one quality tool 718 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:32.159 just keeps going and going and it makes it so 719 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:34.960 much easier. And especially those you're dealing you know, with 720 00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.840 strains on joints and elbows and from using a lopper 721 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:42.280 prunter or something like that. So anyway, just a little 722 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:44.199 tip there, plants fail seasons. Why there you can find 723 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:47.840 some great plants too, And they carry all the fertilizers 724 00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.800 you're hearing me talk about here on garden Line. They 725 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:55.079 just have a great selection also soils products from potting mixes, 726 00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.199 tumulchiz to bed mixes out in the landscape two eight, one, three, 727 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.239 seven six, sixteen forty six. If you want to give 728 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:06.599 him a call, we're gonna head out now to Needville 729 00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:14.800 and talk to Vernon or Vernon, Vernon, Vernon, Well, hey Vernon, 730 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:16.159 welcome to garden Line. 731 00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:18.079 Yes, I got a question. 732 00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:20.760 A couple of weeks ago, I went to a fruit 733 00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:24.280 tree giveaway down in Sweeney and I got a couple 734 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:32.079 of prime art freedom blackberries, Okay, and they look great, 735 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:33.960 and I've got them sitting in a container where they're 736 00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:37.880 waking up water and these things are just going like 737 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:41.000 game busters. But I wanted to transplant them, but I'm 738 00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:43.079 kind of afraid of doing it in the heat. Right now, 739 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:46.360 it's okay, get them in the ground. 740 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:49.440 Yeah, no, you do need to get them in the ground. 741 00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:51.800 Make sure you get a good sunny location for them. 742 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:54.400 They're going to need some sort of a trellis because 743 00:40:54.440 --> 00:40:58.599 they produce long, strong canes growth they you know, their 744 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.639 their canes are very vigorous, and so you need a 745 00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:05.320 wire to attach them to. Just a single wire even 746 00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:09.280 oh about chest high usually is okay, maybe a little 747 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:14.639 bit lower than that. But Primark Freedom is bread by 748 00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:17.079 the University of Arkansas. That's what the arc is about. 749 00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:21.239 In the in the name and prime means that the 750 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:26.159 first year canes produce fruit. In blackberries, I don't want 751 00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:28.559 to nerd out on you here, but in blackberries, a 752 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:30.960 shoe comes out of the ground in the first year, 753 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:33.800 it's called a primacaine. Then it goes through winter, and 754 00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:37.360 the second year it's called a flora caane, meaning it flowers. 755 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:42.000 And that's the normal BlackBerry. One year a cane grows, 756 00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:44.159 goes through winter, and next year it fruits and then 757 00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:48.880 it dies. Primacaine blooming blackberries have fruit the very first 758 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:52.000 year before they go through that first winter. They can 759 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:56.320 also have fruit the next year, but that in primark freedom. 760 00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.679 There's another one primary traveler that are just excellent. And 761 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:03.840 there are some see where you located, Yeah, there are 762 00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:08.800 some BlackBerry patches. There's a patch out there toward oh, 763 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:11.639 just west on two ninety. I'm trying to think of exactly, 764 00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:14.559 but anyway, they have both of those varieties and they 765 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:17.719 look great. So you've got a great variety there. 766 00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:20.519 Okay, so we go and get them in the ground, 767 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:22.559 and what's the best fertilizer to use them? 768 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:26.920 Most you know, blackberries don't take a lot of fertilizer, 769 00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:30.159 but I would use now they are fertilizers that are 770 00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.599 far fruit trees, and that would be fine to use. 771 00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:37.599 I tend to, you know, I need to fertilize, and 772 00:42:37.679 --> 00:42:39.880 it's like I don't have a fertilizer. I tend to 773 00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:42.719 just grab my lawn fertilizers and use those on them. 774 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.119 And you hear me talk about all these lawn fertilizers, 775 00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:47.280 any of the lawn fertilizers on the schedule would be 776 00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:50.719 good for blackberries. Just use it moderately. You don't want 777 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:54.199 to overdo it, but scratch it into the ground, watered 778 00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:56.119 in real good. The main thing on blackberries, keep the 779 00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:59.159 weeds away, give them plenty of rooms so that a 780 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:01.400 weed eater or a lawn more doesn't get in the way. 781 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:03.920 And yeah, they'll they'll do good for you. 782 00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:08.840 Okay, all right, well that sounds good. I appreciate that. 783 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:11.440 Well, good luck. Now you know the rule on guarden 784 00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:13.559 line is my advice is free, but you got to 785 00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:15.679 bring me half the blackberries and we'll call it even. 786 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:21.119 All right, well sounds fair, All right, sounds fair. Well 787 00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:24.679 I do too, take care of vernon. Appreciate your call, 788 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:29.119 Thank you very much. Microlife fertilizers, there is an example 789 00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:30.679 of a good one for fruit trees, you know, the 790 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:36.159 green bag. The Microlife makes fertilizers for like citrus and 791 00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:39.440 other fruit too. You can do that one. They both 792 00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:42.440 work very well for your fruits. But anyway, the green 793 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:44.760 bag that typically is what we think about the lawn. 794 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:47.039 You're going to put it on several times through the summer, 795 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.559 just just moderate doses as you go through microbes get involved, 796 00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:54.039 they turn the nutrients loose, your plants get happy, and 797 00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:56.840 your soul gets better. That's how it works with microlife. 798 00:43:56.920 --> 00:43:59.280 You can also get their humans plus the purple bag. 799 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:01.760 And when you put the you mates plus inn uh, 800 00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:05.559 that is going to help with the all long term 801 00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:09.119 improvement of soil. Humus is the final stage of compost. 802 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:13.039 So you mats plus or essentially concentrated compost in a 803 00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:15.800 bag and they work and they're for microlife. So grab 804 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:18.440 both the green and the purple bag. Get out there 805 00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:22.000 in your lawn. Get busy. Time for me to take 806 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.800 a little break and then we'll be back. All righty, 807 00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:29.360 we got a little bit of you're preyle. That's been 808 00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:31.920 a while. Welcome back to the guarden line if you'd 809 00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:34.440 like to give me a call. Seven one three two 810 00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:37.760 one two k t r H seven one three two 811 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:42.400 one two k t RH Someone who's asking me about 812 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:44.639 I mentioned earlier the kneeling bench, and I was talking 813 00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.440 about you know, orgonomic tools and things like that. Uh 814 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:49.440 and uh, you know where can you get those? Well, 815 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.239 they're available in a lot of different places. Uh, but 816 00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:56.440 I always just go to Southwest Fertilizer because I talked 817 00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:58.559 to Bob about those long time ago, and he's kept 818 00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.440 them in stocked and you always have them there, and 819 00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:04.880 they're they're not that expensive, but they are very hopeful. 820 00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:08.119 And yeah, I've told this story before. It's been a 821 00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:11.320 long time, so I'll tell it again. But I bought 822 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:16.840 my sister a kneeling bench. Now, my sister is older 823 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:20.760 than me, significantly older than me, a fact that I 824 00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:23.719 love to point out to her whenever I get a chance. 825 00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:27.280 Bless her poor heart having me as a brother. Anyway, 826 00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:31.519 I got her one, and I got kind of looking 827 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:33.760 at it and I thought, you know what, I think 828 00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:36.000 I could use one. Not that I'm getting older and evening, 829 00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:37.920 not that I'm getting to crap it or anything, but 830 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:41.280 I'm just saying anyway, So I got me one. And 831 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:44.480 you know, have you ever been out in the garden 832 00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:49.000 working and the next day you wake up in maybe 833 00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:51.800 the pre natal position, and everything hurts and you don't 834 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:55.320 know why. It's because you In my case, it's because 835 00:45:55.400 --> 00:45:57.039 I go down to my knees to plant a seed 836 00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.440 or pull a weed or mulch. I get back up again. 837 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:01.039 I go over here. You're not plan a plan. I 838 00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:03.880 get up again again, and who knows, maybe five thousand 839 00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:06.519 times on a Saturday. At least that's the way it 840 00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:10.400 feels on Sunday morning when I wake up. The kneeling 841 00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:12.639 bench is really helpful for that. So I got me one. 842 00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:14.159 I fell in love with this, one of my top 843 00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:18.079 five tools that I have. Maybe I should just do 844 00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.199 a thing sometime on my favorite tools. That'd be a 845 00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:24.039 good deal. I think I will. But anyway, kneeling bench 846 00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:26.639 a good one. Southwest Fertilizer's got it. If you go 847 00:46:26.719 --> 00:46:29.119 to my website, we talk about, you know, controlling nuts 848 00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.719 edge and I have my weed wiper. It's a homemade 849 00:46:31.719 --> 00:46:34.920 little deal, not expensive at all, easy to put together, 850 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.199 very simple anybody. You may not be a handyman at all, 851 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.880 but you definitely can build this weed wiper. So simple. 852 00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.480 And where do you get the tool? The grabber tool 853 00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:46.320 that you used to build it, because it takes a 854 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:48.639 certain kind of grabber tool at least it works best 855 00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:50.760 with a certain kind of grabber tool. You get it 856 00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:53.360 a Southwest Fertilizer. Bob's got those. You just go buy 857 00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:55.400 and ask him, say I want that grabber tool. The 858 00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:58.159 skip talks about I'm making a weed wipper. Whence you're 859 00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:00.960 right to it. Anytime you go on to Southwest, you're 860 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:03.960 going to find everything you need. You know, other tools 861 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.760 quality brand. If I mentioned Corona earlier, Falco is another 862 00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:11.599 outstanding quality brand. Any product that comes out of my 863 00:47:11.679 --> 00:47:14.239 mouth on garden Line is going to be a Southwest 864 00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:17.880 fertilizer because anything that works they carry, and they carry 865 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.440 many options of it. Someone called the other day and 866 00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:24.079 they had a crape myrtle that was sprouting from the 867 00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:25.960 bottom and they'd cut them off and in reach sprout 868 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:27.599 and they'd cut them off and in reach sprout. Well, 869 00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:31.119 there's a product called sucker stopper, and it's a hormone 870 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:34.320 that plants produce. But you put it on those cuts 871 00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.079 when you remove a sucker and it didn't come back again. 872 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:40.320 Isn't that nice? Yes, it works. I'm using it on 873 00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:45.719 some Vitex I have. That's horrible about soccer sprouting. But anyway, 874 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.679 Bob's got those Southwest Fertilizer corner Bissinette and Renwick seven 875 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.440 one three six sixty six one seven four four. If 876 00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:57.079 they don't have it, you don't need it. Let's go 877 00:47:57.239 --> 00:47:59.639 now out to sugar Land and we're going to visit 878 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:02.199 with Mike Hello, Michael, Welcome to guard Line. 879 00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:03.320 Hello. 880 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.440 I'm on my third rosemary bush. Every time I buy 881 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:11.639 one it dries up and just dues. And even the 882 00:48:11.639 --> 00:48:14.239 third one here, it's half of it's already dried up. 883 00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.079 I don't know if I'm watering it too much, not 884 00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:21.360 watering it enough. I've got it in a five gallon pot. 885 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:26.480 I've used or Miracle Grow Organic Choice to with the 886 00:48:26.519 --> 00:48:29.679 little pearlite in it to dry it up because I 887 00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:32.880 was reading that the soil can't be too wet, and 888 00:48:33.039 --> 00:48:36.159 it's down my patio not getting direct sunlight. 889 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:41.599 Yeah, okay, Well, rosemary does not like wet conditions. It 890 00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:44.920 is more of a Mediterranean herb, so you know things 891 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.440 like olive trees and things that are real happy growing 892 00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:52.000 on a rocky hill side in the Mediterranean. Rosemary is 893 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.199 that kind of plant that does super well here planet 894 00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:57.119 in a bed if you have, if it has good 895 00:48:57.159 --> 00:48:59.960 drainage planted in a bed, it is a very drop tolerant. 896 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:03.559 Once established, it's a very It has a way of 897 00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:05.880 getting out down there and getting the water it needs. 898 00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:09.519 In a container. The whole root system is confined, so 899 00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:13.039 when that container goes dry, you can have drought problems 900 00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:16.639 on rosemary if it gets too dry in the container, 901 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:19.920 if the container needs good drainage holes in order to 902 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:22.599 do well. But it's going to be one of those 903 00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:25.360 two things, Michael. It's either it got too wet and 904 00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:27.239 it got some root right in it, or it got 905 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:31.000 too dry. And I think probably too dry may have 906 00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:33.320 been the problem. Although I'm not there as you water, 907 00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:35.599 so I don't know how your watering is going. But 908 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:38.760 that typically happens when you plan a new one. It 909 00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:41.880 has a confined root system and you gotta water that 910 00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:43.679 little maybe it came out of a four inch pot. 911 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.159 You gotta water that little four inch square root system 912 00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:50.159 that went in the ground until it gets reaches out 913 00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:53.800 the roots into the soil throughout the container. But it's 914 00:49:53.800 --> 00:49:56.079 an easy one. Give it plenty of sunlight. It wants 915 00:49:56.119 --> 00:49:58.440 a lot of sun But if you can get it 916 00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:00.639 through that time, I think that's help. Maybe a root 917 00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:04.480 stimulator wouldn't be a bad idea either. When you're getting it. 918 00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:07.880 Started, so you're saying put it in direct put it 919 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:10.360 in the direct sunlight or not direct sunlight. 920 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:14.320 No, it likes direct sunlight. If you put it in 921 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:18.719 the shade, it'll stay alive. But it's weak. It's it's 922 00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:21.960 a little more spindly, and it doesn't have the energy. 923 00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:26.679 Sun produces the fuel for the plant, and that fuel 924 00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:30.039 is carbohydrates. And so when a plant is in less 925 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:33.199 sun than it wants, and rosemary wants full sun, it 926 00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:34.679 doesn't do as well. 927 00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:37.760 It's not as if another bush. It's just more of 928 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:40.599 the stringing one. The one that's more like a vine 929 00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:43.639 kind of grows, doesn't grow, really doesn't really grow upward, 930 00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:46.480 it grows out, and that one is thrived out rot. 931 00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:51.159 Oh really okay, rosemud? Well, yeah, Rosemary's rosemary. So I 932 00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:53.480 don't know why that one's thriving the other one isn't. 933 00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:56.480 But I don't give up on them. They're not that 934 00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:59.480 hard to grow. I have killed rosemary and container by 935 00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:03.239 ignoring before, and you know, just because you get busy 936 00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:06.360 and and it really wasn't well established when I did that, 937 00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:08.480 and I know better, but you know how it is. 938 00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:09.719 Things happen, And. 939 00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.199 Is the organic choice soil the one with this kind 940 00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:16.320 of compost is is that a good soil or not? 941 00:51:16.719 --> 00:51:17.840 Is that? Okay? 942 00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:21.239 I would get I would get one that's got a 943 00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:26.480 medium texture, not super chunky, but not just mucky little 944 00:51:26.480 --> 00:51:30.639 potting soil that just has no particle size at all. Uh. 945 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.400 The veggie nerd mix from heirloom soils is a very 946 00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:38.199 good one for growing rosemaries and tomatoes and even flowers. Really, 947 00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:40.920 but veggie nerd mix would be a good good one 948 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:48.760 for that. That kind of container five gallon and five gallons. Yeah, yes, sir, 949 00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:52.039 they're available. They're available by the bag. You're you're down 950 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:56.639 in the sugar Land area, Yes, self as fertilizer probably 951 00:51:56.679 --> 00:51:59.320 has that by the bag. I'm sure when you go down. 952 00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:02.639 You know, there's some ace hardware stores that you may 953 00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:05.320 call them down in your area. The plantation acism too 954 00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:09.519 far away from you. And then there's the garden centers 955 00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:14.079 down toward Richmond Rosenberg direction that the enchanted forest and 956 00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:16.360 attended gardens that probably have it as well. 957 00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:22.239 All right, all right, Michael, thank you. 958 00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:28.880 All right, you take care, appreciate you. Bye bye. Nelson 959 00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:33.719 Water Gardens and Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is a 960 00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:37.360 destination garden center and it's it's on the on the 961 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:39.920 west side of Houston. It's out in Katie. So if 962 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.960 you are anywhere west in Houston and you're looking for 963 00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:46.000 you know, a really cool place to go, a place 964 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:50.480 where you just can enjoy just being there. I love 965 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:52.360 the sound of water. Every time I go to Nelson's, 966 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:54.519 I just want to sit down and get therapy by 967 00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:57.840 listening to ten thousand fountains around me everywhere. And oh 968 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:01.039 my gosh, they're so gorgeous, aren't you. If you go there, 969 00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:03.679 you're gonna think you need and you cannot live without 970 00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:07.679 a disappearing fountain because they're so pretty and they're so cool, 971 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:10.840 and birds like them, and it just it's just wonderful. 972 00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:13.280 They have it all there. But they are so much 973 00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:16.840 more than that. They are a nursery, Nelson Nursery and 974 00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:20.000 water gardens is just what kind of plants do you want? 975 00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:22.039 You're talking about rosemary just now, Well, they got a 976 00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:25.880 greater herb selection. Do you want some of the perennial 977 00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:27.639 of Thiscus, the ones that die to the ground and 978 00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:32.519 come back every year. Beautiful little pottery, amazing pottery, really 979 00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:37.559 really really nice. So just keep in mind that it's 980 00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:39.599 the place to go, and you got to take your 981 00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:42.679 friends when you go, because it's just a fun outing 982 00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:45.480 to get out and do that with people coming up 983 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:48.800 On Saturday, June twenty eighth at nine am, they have 984 00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:53.239 their Ding Dang Sale, the Ding Dang Sale kicking off 985 00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:56.360 your Fourth of July holiday. It's an annual clearance event. 986 00:53:56.639 --> 00:54:00.039 All kinds of clearance items happened at that time. I 987 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:02.199 need to wait till that to get something. But I'm 988 00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:05.000 just saying if you don't go check that out on Saturday, 989 00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:09.000 June twenty eighth, before we jump into summer with both feet. 990 00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:10.960 We're kind of in summer with one foot right now. 991 00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:14.960 But Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. You go out to 992 00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:17.559 Katie Turn North on Katie Fort Ben Road and they're 993 00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:19.000 just up the street a little bit there on the 994 00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:22.519 right hand side. Let's go out to Texas City. Now 995 00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:25.079 we're going to talk to Carrie. Hey, Carrie, welcome to 996 00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:28.760 the garden Line. Hi, good morning, Good morning. 997 00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:30.320 Hi. 998 00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:34.280 I just have a question. We have several bags of 999 00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:39.760 potting soil that we've kept in our house to deter 1000 00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:44.039 any answer bugs getting in them. Well, they started developing. 1001 00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:46.599 They have gnats in them, and I don't know if 1002 00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:48.880 I should throw away the potting soil or how. 1003 00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:57.760 To treat it. No, don't throw it away. I would 1004 00:54:57.840 --> 00:55:02.559 probably put it outside for just a little bit. Do 1005 00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:05.280 you know you hear me talk about mosquito dunks on 1006 00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:10.920 ye garden line. If you can get either the mosquito 1007 00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:13.280 dunk or mosquito granules. If you use a dunk, you 1008 00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:15.199 got to take a hammer and break it up, or 1009 00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:17.280 just some granules. Put them in a little bit of 1010 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:20.440 water and in a watering can, and then just water 1011 00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:24.280 the especially the top of that potting soil top couple 1012 00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:28.559 inches of the potting soil. The same disease that kills 1013 00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:32.840 mosquitos kills fungus gnats, and so you can kill the 1014 00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:35.079 gnats in the bag that way. It's natural. It's not 1015 00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.679 a poison. It's a disease of the just of those 1016 00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:41.800 two species, mosquitos and fungus gnats. So I would try that, 1017 00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:44.000 and I think that'll work for you. In the meantime. 1018 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:46.400 Letting it be a little on the dry side helps. 1019 00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:49.280 Is when it's moist, that's when fungus knots want to 1020 00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:52.280 get to it. But don't throw it away. It's good stuff. 1021 00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:57.039 Okay, well, awesome, Thank you so much for your help. 1022 00:55:57.119 --> 00:55:57.960 I appreciate it. 1023 00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:02.360 You bet, thanks call carry appreciate that. Okay, good bye, 1024 00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:05.960 all right, by bye, You're listening to garden line seven 1025 00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:09.400 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 1026 00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:13.719 one three, two one two five eight seven four. I 1027 00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:16.400 talk about Medina products a lot because there are a 1028 00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:19.280 lot of Medina products and they really really work. Or 1029 00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:23.119 were talking earlier to Michael, you know about the rosemary 1030 00:56:23.159 --> 00:56:26.400 and getting it established well, and I should have mentioned 1031 00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:29.280 to him, Medina has to grow six twelve six. Plant 1032 00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:33.079 food is a great product for watering in new transplants. 1033 00:56:33.559 --> 00:56:36.079 If I were putting a rosemary in, I would get 1034 00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:39.440 some Medina has to grow six twelve six. Plant Food's 1035 00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:42.199 got that hYP phosphorus. The high middle number really helps 1036 00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:44.719 with rooting. It's got Medina soil activator in it. It's 1037 00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:48.400 got humic acid in it, it's got seaweed extracts in it. 1038 00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:51.079 Put in a watering can and watered in when you 1039 00:56:51.119 --> 00:56:53.639 plant that thing, and then watered in a week later, 1040 00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:56.679 and then watered in another week. Three different applications of 1041 00:56:56.719 --> 00:56:59.559 it to get it off to its best start. Now, 1042 00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:01.960 that's not the only use of Medina hasht gros six 1043 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:04.440 twelve six, but it's one that I use all the 1044 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:09.679 time because it definitely works. Medina products are available everywhere. 1045 00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:09.920 You know. 1046 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.119 You go to feed stores, you go to gardens and 1047 00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:16.159 independent garden centers, you go to Ace hardware store. You're 1048 00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:18.920 going to find Medina products all over the place and 1049 00:57:18.960 --> 00:57:20.800 they work. What It's time for me to take a 1050 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:25.079 little break. We're here coming up on the mid hour break. 1051 00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:27.480 If you'd like to give me a call the number 1052 00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:31.159 seven one three two one two kt r H seven 1053 00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:34.960 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We'll 1054 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:38.800 be right back with you and your questions. Well, welcome 1055 00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:41.840 back to the garden Line. Good to have you with us. 1056 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:47.280 So what a wonderful world. Alrighty, we're going to go 1057 00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:52.159 to Sherry now in Conroe. Hey Sherry, welcome to garden Line. 1058 00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:55.000 Good morning and good morning Skip. How are you this morning? 1059 00:57:56.239 --> 00:57:56.719 Doing well? 1060 00:57:56.719 --> 00:57:57.599 Thanks you hearing me? 1061 00:57:58.400 --> 00:57:58.679 Hear me? 1062 00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:02.239 Okay, now I just have a quick question about my 1063 00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:06.639 plumbaria tree. Of course, when it got really cold in February, 1064 00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:10.320 I had to remove it, and I was planted in 1065 00:58:10.360 --> 00:58:13.599 the ground and then brought it inside and then I 1066 00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:17.000 replanted it. I have probably over fifty plumaria tree, so 1067 00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:19.920 this one is not even growing. It's alive though I 1068 00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:20.840 can tell it's alive. 1069 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:26.000 Okay, Well, if you've got fifty plumerias, you know how 1070 00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:27.239 to grow plumrias. 1071 00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:30.880 So yeah, I've propagated quite a few. So this one here, 1072 00:58:31.079 --> 00:58:34.840 I'm almost thinking it's very dormant. It's like because I 1073 00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:36.159 pulled it up out of the ground, I had a 1074 00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:40.599 root ball, even put the powder on it, the white 1075 00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:45.639 powder to get the roots to grow and micro life, water, sun, 1076 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:49.719 everything needed for growth. It's green, but it's no flowers, 1077 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:51.320 no nothing, just to stick. 1078 00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:54.719 Well, well, yeah, the things you said, you've given it 1079 00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:57.519 what it wants. I don't know if you said this, 1080 00:58:57.639 --> 00:58:59.559 but gets plenty of sun, right. 1081 00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:01.639 Oh yeah, plenty of sun? 1082 00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:06.440 Yeah yeah, okay, okay, so that's it that you're doing 1083 00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:09.679 everything you can. I don't know if some sort of 1084 00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:12.880 a shock from what it went through. It shouldn't take 1085 00:59:12.920 --> 00:59:15.800 this long to recover. Plume areas don't grow fast, but 1086 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:23.199 they do grow correct, right seeing some yeah go ahead, right. 1087 00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:26.400 I'm just I thought, well, it's been since you know, 1088 00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:30.360 Marshish somewhere in there and being patient and it's alive, 1089 00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:33.000 and I just think, like you said, it's in shock, 1090 00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:37.880 and it's kind of an a dormant or a standstill state. 1091 00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:40.480 So I guess I'll just kind of play it by 1092 00:59:40.559 --> 00:59:43.639 ear and maybe they'll PLoP back. But it's alive. It's green. 1093 00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:46.039 If you, you know, rub the bar or the outside 1094 00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:49.719 of the stocks. It's about a two three foot stock. 1095 00:59:49.800 --> 00:59:50.519 It's still alive. 1096 00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:54.880 Does it have any green leaves on it yet? 1097 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:57.920 No? No, But when I first put it in, it 1098 00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:00.360 had one in February, and then. 1099 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:00.960 I pulled it out. 1100 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:03.039 So I'm thinking, it's like, what are you doing? 1101 01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:06.280 You know, well, don't give up on it. It may 1102 01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:08.800 take a long time, but don't give up on it, 1103 01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:12.920 and it should begin to grow. I just don't know 1104 01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:15.719 why I wouldn't. And obviously you don't have to take 1105 01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:16.679 care of a plummeria. 1106 01:00:18.239 --> 01:00:20.559 Yeah, I have quite a few, if you want some. 1107 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:24.639 Okay, well I may take you up on that. I've 1108 01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:27.599 been looking for plumeria all right. 1109 01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:30.920 Okay, Well, thank you for your advice. I guess I'll 1110 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:33.920 just kind of keep on doing what I'm doing and 1111 01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:36.400 then maybe it'll just surprise me one day. 1112 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:40.000 I think it will. And sometimes, you know, one thing 1113 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:42.519 I learned a long time ago is that plants can't read. 1114 01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:45.280 They can't because if they could read, they would know 1115 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:48.559 not to do things they're doing, you know, like it'll 1116 01:00:48.599 --> 01:00:52.079 say true a book, I'll tell you that you got 1117 01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:54.079 to do this, or if you do this, a plan 1118 01:00:54.119 --> 01:00:57.159 will do that. And they don't cooperate because they can't read, 1119 01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:58.960 they don't know, they don't understand what we are. 1120 01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:01.800 Correct, You're exactly right. 1121 01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:06.960 I'm obviously joke joking, but uh, yeah, it's just sometimes 1122 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:10.559 it's just yeah, I don't know that makes sense. I 1123 01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:12.760 shouldn't be doing that. I guess the plant can't. 1124 01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.679 Yeah, I agree, definitely, yeah I cannot. 1125 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:16.639 All right, but. 1126 01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:18.880 Anyway, thank you so much. I appreciate your time. 1127 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:20.320 Thank you. 1128 01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:20.840 Share. 1129 01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:23.159 Are you in the Plumarius Society by any chance? 1130 01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:24.679 H No, I'm not. 1131 01:01:26.039 --> 01:01:28.400 Okay, I'm just curious. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask some 1132 01:01:28.599 --> 01:01:30.920 if someone in the society will call in and give 1133 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:33.679 us some thoughts on this. But I thought it first. 1134 01:01:33.679 --> 01:01:35.800 Thanks a lot, appreciate it. Do you appreciate your call? 1135 01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:36.119 Thank you? 1136 01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:36.639 Take care? 1137 01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:37.239 All right? 1138 01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:41.039 All right, I know we got some Plumarious Society folks 1139 01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:43.920 out there, and uh, if you've had this happen and 1140 01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:47.199 then you know you did something to it, it changed 1141 01:01:47.239 --> 01:01:49.199 it or it just changed, just give me called I'd 1142 01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:50.679 be kind of curious to hear about that, because I 1143 01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:55.119 haven't run into that myself and so be kind of curious. 1144 01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:58.760 So anyway, there you go. Uh, you're listening to Guardline 1145 01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:02.239 our phone number seven one two one two kt r 1146 01:02:02.519 --> 01:02:06.400 H seven one three two one two k t r H. 1147 01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:10.079 All right, so, uh, we're having a great Sunday morning here. 1148 01:02:10.079 --> 01:02:12.199 I hope you are too. By the way, it's a 1149 01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:16.880 lovely day this afternoon. I plan on doing nothing. That 1150 01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:18.920 is my plan for today. I'm going to do a 1151 01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:21.599 whole lot of nothing. If I do any gardening, it 1152 01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:23.920 will be in a book or on a computer screen 1153 01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:27.559 because I'm just not going to get out and do it. 1154 01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:29.559 I'm giving myself a rest day. It's kind of a 1155 01:02:29.559 --> 01:02:31.559 little too much of the not rest days here in 1156 01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:34.320 the last week. So anyway, I hope you enjoy it. 1157 01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:35.920 If you get a chance to get out and see 1158 01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:38.519 a great garden center, that'd be an awesome thing to 1159 01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:42.159 do this afternoon. They're still well stocked, and when you 1160 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:44.760 go to our independent garden centers, you end up getting 1161 01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:47.159 experts that know what they're doing. There are people from 1162 01:02:47.159 --> 01:02:50.199 here who've gardened here who know our plants. You know 1163 01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:53.039 it's not just a shipment because the national headquarters of 1164 01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:55.159 the chain said, here's a bunch of plants. You know, 1165 01:02:55.239 --> 01:02:58.599 it's a it's stuff that they've chosen, they've ordered, and 1166 01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:02.079 they have if you will cure specifically for you and 1167 01:03:02.119 --> 01:03:04.960 for your garden. And that is the nice thing about 1168 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:09.039 our mom and Pops also called independent Garden centers here 1169 01:03:09.079 --> 01:03:14.440 in the Greater Houstonario. I talked earlier about some tools 1170 01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:16.039 I like, and I'm just going to talk about that 1171 01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:18.639 a little bit. In fact, this would be something I 1172 01:03:18.679 --> 01:03:23.880 may post this, I may post this to our Facebook page. 1173 01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:25.239 That would be a good thing to do with this. 1174 01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:28.679 But anyway, so one of my favorite tools. If I 1175 01:03:28.719 --> 01:03:30.760 were to pick out just a few that I really like, 1176 01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:32.639 and I have so many tools I like, so this 1177 01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:35.400 is hard to do. But the kneeling bench is one. 1178 01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:37.239 You know, you can sit on it. For those of 1179 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:39.360 you who aren't listening earlier, you can sit on the bench, 1180 01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:41.159 or you can flip it over and kneel on it 1181 01:03:41.199 --> 01:03:43.800 and the legs become handles to get you back up 1182 01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:48.679 off your knees again without the strain. Very good one. 1183 01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:52.599 Another one I love is a soil knife, a soil knife. 1184 01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:55.960 Think of a like a booie knife, but one that 1185 01:03:56.199 --> 01:04:00.280 has a sort of a scalloped blade. It's curved just 1186 01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:04.840 a little bit, and so it has a point on it. Well, 1187 01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:06.320 some of them are round it on the end, some 1188 01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:09.039 come to a point. On One side is just a 1189 01:04:09.079 --> 01:04:13.519 regular knife edge, not super super sharp, but you can 1190 01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:17.039 sharpen them pretty well. The other side is typically serrated, 1191 01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:21.679 and so that serrated edge. In fact, I was planting 1192 01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:26.000 a shrub two days ago and I came up to 1193 01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:28.280 a root digging the hole. I just grabbed my soul 1194 01:04:28.360 --> 01:04:30.119 knife and just was stabbing it in there like a 1195 01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:33.400 little sewing machine, just going up and down, stabbing it 1196 01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:35.599 against that root on the serrated edge, and it just 1197 01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:37.000 cut right through it, and the root was as big 1198 01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:40.360 as my little finger. It's really nice. It usually has 1199 01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:43.599 gradation markings on it in inches, so if you want 1200 01:04:43.639 --> 01:04:46.039 to see how deep something is, you want to plant 1201 01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:47.960 something for inches deep, you can use your knife to 1202 01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:51.519 measure that. Some of them have other nice gadgets on them. 1203 01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:54.159 My mind, I have a scabbard that I put it 1204 01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:56.079 in so it sits on my belt so there with 1205 01:04:56.119 --> 01:04:59.000 me when I'm out in the yard. It just works great. 1206 01:04:59.159 --> 01:05:02.599 And there's lot of versions of them, but it is 1207 01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:05.639 a very handy tool. I use it a whole lot 1208 01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:08.960 on planting. I was in a bed that had been 1209 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:12.400 neglected and had this clump of grass weed grass growing 1210 01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:15.079 in it, and I just took my sole knife again 1211 01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:17.920 with a serrated edge, kind of lifted the grass blades 1212 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:21.880 up and I just was sliding it underneath the grass, 1213 01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:24.519 just under the sole surface, just ripping through the roots 1214 01:05:24.559 --> 01:05:27.000 of the grass. If you cut below the crown of 1215 01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:29.639 a grass plant, it won't reach sprout from the roots. 1216 01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:32.559 It can't unless it's a perennial grass like johnsngrass or 1217 01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:35.679 something that has those rhizomes. Anyway, just taking it out 1218 01:05:35.719 --> 01:05:37.960 like that and just really quickly, and if I tried 1219 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:41.440 to pull that up, I'd have lifted up a bowling 1220 01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:44.239 ball sized load of soil, probably hurt my back trying 1221 01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:46.679 to pull it up. But so a knife works. That's 1222 01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:50.800 another good one. I really enjoy that tool. For general weeding. 1223 01:05:52.079 --> 01:05:56.159 I like to be able to use a either a 1224 01:05:56.199 --> 01:05:59.800 diamond hoe or a hula hoe. A diamond hoe is 1225 01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:02.599 ape like a long, skinny diamond, and all four edges 1226 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:04.719 are sharp, and so two of the points because it's 1227 01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:07.599 a long, skinny diamond you can use to go in 1228 01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.519 there and get right up beside a plant, just to 1229 01:06:10.519 --> 01:06:13.199 slice a little weed out of the way. It's at 1230 01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:16.119 an angle where you're not chopp You never chop with it, 1231 01:06:16.280 --> 01:06:18.559 You just use it. I guess you would say. I 1232 01:06:18.559 --> 01:06:21.639 would say you use it almost like you're mopping the floor. 1233 01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:24.039 You know, you just are sliding it back and forth 1234 01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:27.639 underneath the soil surface like that. A hula ho, also 1235 01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:31.039 called a stirrup hoe, has a strap shaped blade that 1236 01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:34.119 comes down and curves flat and then comes back up again, 1237 01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:37.960 and it rocks. So when you're pushing it, it rocks 1238 01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:40.960 one way and cuts, and when you pull it it 1239 01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:43.280 rocks the other way and cuts. And so you would 1240 01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:46.000 use it like you're playing shuffleboard, except not just pushing 1241 01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:48.719 the shovelboard. You're pushing and pulling, and you can go 1242 01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:51.920 through a large area of soil really fast, controlling a 1243 01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:53.840 lot of weeds if they're not too large. So that's 1244 01:06:53.880 --> 01:06:55.920 another one that I like, I gotta take a little 1245 01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:58.199 break here. We'll stop there on the tools. Maybe I'll 1246 01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.519 start up with some more when we come back in 1247 01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:03.800 just a bit. All right, We're hopping here on Guardenlne. 1248 01:07:03.840 --> 01:07:07.199 Good to have you with us this morning. We're talking gardening. 1249 01:07:07.239 --> 01:07:09.119 If you want to talk gardening with me seven one 1250 01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:11.880 three two one two ktrights. What you need to know 1251 01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:16.079 it is time for summer fertilization, and primarily in summer. 1252 01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:20.559 We're focusing on slow release products that last that gradually 1253 01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:23.519 trickle that nitrogen out to the growing grass, just like 1254 01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:27.920 the grass takes up nitrogen gradually over time. Nitropas superturf 1255 01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:31.440 silver bag, that's the one that does just that. It'll 1256 01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:34.519 give you about sixteen weeks of release. So you do 1257 01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:36.719 it now, you're good to go until we do our 1258 01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:40.000 fall fertilization. Really just return those clippings in the meantime. 1259 01:07:40.360 --> 01:07:43.159 It'll cut down on your mowing because of that slow release. 1260 01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:46.760 It'll improve the plant's ability to go through drought because 1261 01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:50.880 plants that are not overfertilized with nitrogen at one time 1262 01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:54.000 have better root systems. Therefore, they can take up water 1263 01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:57.159 better and have a more extensive bank account of the 1264 01:07:57.199 --> 01:08:01.559 soil available to the plant. Super Tuff's available places like 1265 01:08:01.639 --> 01:08:05.280 Bearings Hardware on Bisonet and on West Timer Ace Hardware 1266 01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:08.400 City on Memorial Drive and plants for all seasons on 1267 01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:13.119 Highway two forty nine. And it's not hard to spot 1268 01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.239 because it's a sober bag, easy to see half way 1269 01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:20.800 across the store. Makes it real easy. I was talking 1270 01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:23.279 to somebody the other day who is trying to fix 1271 01:08:23.319 --> 01:08:26.159 some drainage in their property. They just have a bad 1272 01:08:26.199 --> 01:08:28.239 area and they've kind of messed around with it. And 1273 01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:30.920 you know, they if you don't know what you're doing, 1274 01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:33.479 I mean, you can do do it yourself. Drainage projects. 1275 01:08:33.520 --> 01:08:35.279 People do them all the time. But if you don't 1276 01:08:35.319 --> 01:08:37.119 know what you're doing, you spend a lot of time 1277 01:08:37.159 --> 01:08:40.680 and money and effort and it doesn't work right. You 1278 01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:43.760 need to know how to lay it out so that 1279 01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:46.960 it does drain properly from the area that's too wet 1280 01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:49.680 to the area where you can have it go. And 1281 01:08:49.760 --> 01:08:52.399 Pierce Capes is that kind of company. In fact, Pierce 1282 01:08:52.479 --> 01:08:55.680 Caapes in general are professionals, so they have they have 1283 01:08:55.760 --> 01:09:02.359 distinguished landscape, Irrigation, Drainage, backflow, pest side, all these certifications 1284 01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:05.800 and licenses. These The average tenure for their employees over 1285 01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:08.039 ten years, and they got people on staff they've been 1286 01:09:08.079 --> 01:09:11.199 around over twenty five years. They know what they're doing 1287 01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:13.479 and so have a professional come in and do it. 1288 01:09:13.880 --> 01:09:16.520 Do you need landscape design, they can do that. Do 1289 01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:19.680 you need to get that drainage fixed. They know how 1290 01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:22.279 to design a system. They can deal with it when 1291 01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:24.960 it rains too much here in the Greater Houston area. 1292 01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:27.359 Do you need lighting? They know how to do that 1293 01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:30.760 right and the right kinds of products so you have success. 1294 01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:35.439 And the same with irrigation. Quality custom sprinkler systems designed 1295 01:09:35.479 --> 01:09:40.079 to incorporate all the areas of your landscape. Pierscapes dot com. 1296 01:09:40.119 --> 01:09:42.600 That's the website. Start there, go look at what they do. 1297 01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:47.159 Piercescapes dot com two eight, one three, seven oh fifty sixty. 1298 01:09:47.720 --> 01:09:51.439 I'm going to go now to Kingwood and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, 1299 01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:52.479 welcome to garden Line. 1300 01:09:53.239 --> 01:09:54.840 Hey Skip, how are you Hey? 1301 01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:58.560 So I got a question in my front yard. My 1302 01:09:58.720 --> 01:10:01.079 oak dropped and we cut it up and it laid 1303 01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:04.319 in the one spot for like nine weeks, and so 1304 01:10:04.439 --> 01:10:08.039 I got an area like ten by twenty that has 1305 01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:11.119 got like wild grass in it. And the question is, uh, 1306 01:10:11.960 --> 01:10:15.439 you talk about kill till and Phil I had a 1307 01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:17.880 contractor to come out and say, hey, well, I'm just 1308 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:20.239 going to scalp it and then put topsail on it 1309 01:10:20.279 --> 01:10:21.560 and lay down saw it on. 1310 01:10:21.560 --> 01:10:22.119 Top of it. 1311 01:10:22.479 --> 01:10:25.560 Do I need to use round up and wait for 1312 01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:29.840 it to die and then till and then phil or 1313 01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:31.239 can I do what he was saying? 1314 01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:35.079 It depends on the weeds that are there. If they're 1315 01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:38.920 all annual weeds, what he's saying will do it. That'll work. 1316 01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:43.359 If let's say you had muta grass in there are 1317 01:10:43.399 --> 01:10:46.119 some other weeds it's perennial that when you scrape off 1318 01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:47.840 the top of the ground it just comes back out 1319 01:10:47.880 --> 01:10:50.600 of the ground. Then it wouldn't work. So it depends 1320 01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:53.600 on the weeds that you have. But I you know, 1321 01:10:53.640 --> 01:10:55.279 I don't know all the weeds, and I'm sure you 1322 01:10:55.279 --> 01:10:57.000 don't know all the names of the weeds that you. 1323 01:10:57.000 --> 01:10:59.119 Have in there. It's basically the grass. 1324 01:10:59.159 --> 01:10:59.960 It's like a wild girl. 1325 01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:09.119 Yeah, okay, Well, we do have some perennial grasses. If 1326 01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:11.039 you want to send me pictures of them, that may 1327 01:11:11.079 --> 01:11:13.680 be the best way to go. You know, I don't 1328 01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:15.800 want you to waste your time and money either way. 1329 01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:18.720 You know, if we were to tell you I just 1330 01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:21.279 do what he said. Well, then if it was a 1331 01:11:21.319 --> 01:11:23.359 perennial grass and it popped through then you'd have a 1332 01:11:23.359 --> 01:11:25.680 problem trying to kill a grass in your grassy lawn. 1333 01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:28.479 So I'd like to take a look at them to 1334 01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:31.520 be sure. But that that's really the bottom line is 1335 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:34.119 can it come back up through there or not? 1336 01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:38.399 And so it just round up. Yeah, let's ask for 1337 01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:40.520 a round up. How long do I have to wait for? 1338 01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:43.560 You know, like a week or a week? 1339 01:11:43.920 --> 01:11:46.960 Give it a week so that it moves down all 1340 01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:50.319 the way down into the plant system. And after that, 1341 01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:53.439 if you need to throw dirt on top or whatever, 1342 01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:55.920 that's fine, but you want to make sure that it 1343 01:11:56.199 --> 01:11:58.720 has plenty of time to move down. And if you 1344 01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:00.640 could go a little longer than a that would be 1345 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:03.439 even better. Sometimes what you'll see is in your spraying 1346 01:12:03.560 --> 01:12:08.079 you missed a spot, and then you can respray that spot. 1347 01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:11.800 And it's better to get it right before you go 1348 01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:14.199 into the time, money and expense of putting in new 1349 01:12:14.279 --> 01:12:16.760 sod because you want it to turn out nice, of course. 1350 01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:18.960 Okay, perfect, I appreciate it. 1351 01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:23.840 Yeah, thank you, thanks a lot. Yeah, appreciate your call. 1352 01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:27.039 Good question to ask. That was a good question. And 1353 01:12:27.479 --> 01:12:31.600 you know, it is important to get things right when 1354 01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:37.279 you're doing them. A lot of times we do things halfway, 1355 01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:40.600 and there's some things you can get away with doing halfway, 1356 01:12:41.159 --> 01:12:43.920 but there's things you can't get away with doing halfway. 1357 01:12:44.479 --> 01:12:47.920 If evil canevil jumped halfway across the Grand Canyon, it 1358 01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:49.840 would not end well. By the way, if you jump 1359 01:12:49.960 --> 01:12:51.840 nine tenths of the way across the Grand Canyon, it 1360 01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:54.199 wouldn't end will either. You got to do things right, 1361 01:12:54.359 --> 01:12:57.720 and so you want to not have to redo. And 1362 01:12:57.760 --> 01:13:00.800 when it comes to getting grass and stuff and weeds 1363 01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:03.119 that are in a lawn, get rid of them before 1364 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:05.680 you put that lawn down. So whatever that takes, whatever 1365 01:13:05.680 --> 01:13:09.279 it takes, and you know, certainly an herbicide with time 1366 01:13:09.439 --> 01:13:11.239 can be a way to do it. My daughter put 1367 01:13:11.279 --> 01:13:13.880 in a lawn this week or not this week, this 1368 01:13:13.960 --> 01:13:18.560 summer or spring, and we went through several rounds of 1369 01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:21.720 making because you had some very tough to get rid 1370 01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:24.720 of weeds that are perennials in the site. And we 1371 01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:27.760 got that all eliminated, and it took about three rounds 1372 01:13:27.760 --> 01:13:30.319 of it to make sure we got it right. Because 1373 01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:33.319 then when the grass goes down, you don't have the problem. 1374 01:13:33.520 --> 01:13:35.960 You get rid of it. If you throw grass on 1375 01:13:36.079 --> 01:13:38.239 a problem, you're just going to have problems in your 1376 01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:40.600 new lawn, and you don't want to do that. So 1377 01:13:40.640 --> 01:13:43.319 I do practice what I preach on that one and 1378 01:13:43.399 --> 01:13:46.880 I highly recommend it. Hey, Houston powder Coders biggest powder 1379 01:13:46.920 --> 01:13:49.600 coder in our region, six acres. They have over seventy 1380 01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:53.399 five employees. These guys they powder coat everything. I mean 1381 01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:57.359 they it's amazing all the different kinds of applications. They 1382 01:13:57.399 --> 01:13:59.560 have certain applications that they do for folks down on 1383 01:13:59.560 --> 01:14:01.880 the Gulf coat to deal with, you know, the excessive 1384 01:14:01.920 --> 01:14:05.720 salt sprays and stuff which really takes a toll on metal. 1385 01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:09.199 Over one hundred different colors that you can use. And 1386 01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:11.239 they can, like I said, they can powder coat or anything. 1387 01:14:11.239 --> 01:14:13.239 They gotta been big enough to bring a trailer in 1388 01:14:13.279 --> 01:14:16.399 there and powder coat the whole metal trailer. For US gardeners, 1389 01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:19.640 we're looking at cast iron, wrought iron, and luminum patio furniture. 1390 01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:22.760 We're looking at decorative things that hang on the wall 1391 01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:26.760 that are metal. We're looking at perhaps things like a 1392 01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:31.960 post light post in the yard, or a railing that 1393 01:14:32.039 --> 01:14:34.640 goes down the side of a patio or a walkway. 1394 01:14:35.279 --> 01:14:37.520 They can do all of that. You take a picture 1395 01:14:37.560 --> 01:14:40.600 of what you want to have done. You send it 1396 01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:43.800 to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. They'll give you a 1397 01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:46.279 quick quote, they'll pick it up, they'll deliver it. They 1398 01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:50.960 do it all Houston Powdercoders dot com two eight one 1399 01:14:51.239 --> 01:14:54.600 six seven six thirty eight eighty eight to eight one 1400 01:14:54.840 --> 01:14:57.079 six seven, six thirty eighty eighty eight. Go to Houston 1401 01:14:57.079 --> 01:14:59.720 Powdercoaters dot com. Fault. Look at social media, look at 1402 01:14:59.720 --> 01:15:01.479 the work they do. You'll see what I'm talking about. 1403 01:15:01.520 --> 01:15:07.199 It is amazing. Well music means I'm gonna be talking. 1404 01:15:07.520 --> 01:15:09.880 Turn it over to the news. Apparently there is something 1405 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:15.000 more to talk about than gardening. Ard of nevable. We'll 1406 01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:18.279 be right back after that with your gardening questions. If 1407 01:15:18.439 --> 01:15:20.199 we've got to open board right now, So if you 1408 01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:22.720 would like to call during the break, maybe we've on 1409 01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:25.279 the first ones up. Seven to one three two one 1410 01:15:25.319 --> 01:15:28.119 two k t r H. Seven to one three two 1411 01:15:28.119 --> 01:15:47.159 one two k t r H. Good morning, gardeners, Welcome 1412 01:15:47.159 --> 01:15:48.920 back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. 1413 01:15:49.479 --> 01:15:53.479 We're about for this hour, We're going to be visiting 1414 01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:58.239 with a special guest, rich Edie from wild Birds Unlimited. 1415 01:15:58.319 --> 01:16:00.439 And so what I'm gonna do this hour is if 1416 01:16:00.479 --> 01:16:03.560 you want to call in with a birding question, anything 1417 01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:06.159 related to birding, feel free to do so. If it's 1418 01:16:06.199 --> 01:16:08.359 a different kind of question, just hold it and we'll 1419 01:16:08.359 --> 01:16:11.279 take it in our next hour, starting at nine o'clock. Okay, 1420 01:16:11.640 --> 01:16:14.399 so let's do it that way, and I'm gonna go 1421 01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:17.399 right on head here. We're gonna head out and talk 1422 01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:19.960 to Rich. Hey, Rich, welcome to garden Line. 1423 01:16:20.840 --> 01:16:22.479 Good morning, Skip. How you doing today? 1424 01:16:23.760 --> 01:16:25.359 I'm doing good. How are you doing? 1425 01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:30.439 Doing really good? Sitting here, our purple Martins are really 1426 01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:34.600 doing a lot activity right now. Got a full house 1427 01:16:34.680 --> 01:16:37.239 with a bunch of babies that are getting ready to fledge. 1428 01:16:37.319 --> 01:16:41.319 So so there you go summer, Oh yeah, for sure. 1429 01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:45.560 Yeah, it's just stuffy in a mosquito at your place 1430 01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:51.359 then with all those purple marks around and dragonflies and dragonflies. Yeah, 1431 01:16:51.399 --> 01:16:54.680 there you go. There you go. Well that's good. I 1432 01:16:54.720 --> 01:16:56.159 was talking earlier. I don't know if you were listening 1433 01:16:56.159 --> 01:16:58.159 to Garland earlier, but I was talking about being out 1434 01:16:58.199 --> 01:17:02.279 with my wife yesterday on the back patio, and you know, 1435 01:17:02.359 --> 01:17:06.199 I'm a novice at birds for sure, but I'm getting 1436 01:17:06.239 --> 01:17:08.680 so interested. And there was a little what turned out 1437 01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:13.760 to be a Caroline Tickty at our eliminator feeder, and 1438 01:17:14.279 --> 01:17:16.199 so I zoomed in with my camera and had this 1439 01:17:16.279 --> 01:17:19.279 cryptic little picture, you know, all pixelated and everything like that, 1440 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:22.399 because I zoomed from about twenty five thirty feet away 1441 01:17:22.880 --> 01:17:25.279 and I saw I went to Merlin and put it 1442 01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:27.520 on there, and it was a Carolina tickty sure enough, 1443 01:17:27.560 --> 01:17:29.960 And a few minutes later we were hearing a couple 1444 01:17:29.960 --> 01:17:32.680 of different birds singing. And again I'm a novice, I 1445 01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:35.000 don't recognize them by their songs. So I just pulled 1446 01:17:35.039 --> 01:17:37.439 out Merlin again and listened to sound, and there was 1447 01:17:37.479 --> 01:17:39.960 my Carolina tickitty. So I got in another bird, I 1448 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:41.840 got to hear what they were like. It's kind of fun. 1449 01:17:42.319 --> 01:17:43.079 It's a lot, Oh. 1450 01:17:43.079 --> 01:17:45.720 Yeah, for sure it is. You know, that Mertlin app 1451 01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:50.920 is a great way for people to learn about what 1452 01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:54.560 each bird sounds like, because I generally will hear a 1453 01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:58.640 bird way before i'll see it, right, And so using 1454 01:17:58.640 --> 01:18:01.399 that Merlin app, if you're out on a walk in 1455 01:18:01.479 --> 01:18:03.760 a park or just hang out in your backyard like 1456 01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:07.000 you were doing, put that Merlin app up, turn on 1457 01:18:07.119 --> 01:18:10.119 the sound, and all of a sudden, it'll start picking 1458 01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:12.960 up all the different birds in your backyard. Like I say, 1459 01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:15.479 you'll hear them before you see them, so it's a 1460 01:18:15.520 --> 01:18:19.039 great way to learn what each bird sounds like. For sure. 1461 01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:23.680 That is a good point for sure. Now I saw 1462 01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:27.159 a video you did a little clip on social about 1463 01:18:27.199 --> 01:18:31.199 the eliminator feeder, and I have one and I love it. 1464 01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:34.000 My squirrels don't like it. The language that they use. 1465 01:18:34.039 --> 01:18:37.560 If you can translate from squirrel to English, it'll make 1466 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:40.880 a sailor blush. I mean, they are, they are very 1467 01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:43.960 upset about that feeder. But we tell people a little 1468 01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:47.800 bit about the eliminator because that one is just amazing. 1469 01:18:48.680 --> 01:18:53.239 Yeah, the Eliminator feeder certainly is our flagship squirrel resistant feeder. 1470 01:18:54.319 --> 01:18:58.279 People may have a missing they may think that a 1471 01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:00.319 squirrel is not going to get on the feeder. They're 1472 01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:02.680 gonna get on the feeder, they're just not going to 1473 01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:05.159 be able to get to the bird food. So yeah, 1474 01:19:05.199 --> 01:19:08.840 so the eliminator works really well. What's unique about that 1475 01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:11.319 feeder is is you can adjust the tension on it, 1476 01:19:11.399 --> 01:19:14.000 so for folks who aren't familiar with it, it's got 1477 01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:17.279 a spring loaded action, so when weight gets on the purchase, 1478 01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:20.159 it closes off the ports of the bird food, so 1479 01:19:20.439 --> 01:19:23.520 it prevents the squirrel from getting into the feeder. You 1480 01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:26.760 can also adjust the tension even lighter, so even if 1481 01:19:26.800 --> 01:19:29.720 you're trying to keep off let's say mourning dove. Some 1482 01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:32.039 folks don't like to feed all the dove they're finding 1483 01:19:32.119 --> 01:19:34.760 from being on the ground, but not on their feeders 1484 01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:36.800 because they will eat a lot of bird food as well, 1485 01:19:36.840 --> 01:19:39.560 And so you can adjust that tension even to when 1486 01:19:39.640 --> 01:19:44.279 a heavier bird gets on there, it'll close off. So yeah, 1487 01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:47.000 it's a very effective feeder. It does a really good 1488 01:19:47.039 --> 01:19:49.840 job at keeping your seat dry. And you know, you 1489 01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:52.159 can put any seed blend in there you want, like 1490 01:19:52.239 --> 01:19:55.039 our no masks or our voice, it doesn't really matter. 1491 01:19:55.680 --> 01:19:57.920 The blend of your choice goes in the eliminator, and 1492 01:19:57.920 --> 01:20:01.319 it's very effective at keeping squirrels out of your bird food. 1493 01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:05.680 Yeah that's good. Well, I have mindset like that, and 1494 01:20:06.079 --> 01:20:08.880 so blue jays and doves and stuff don't even go 1495 01:20:08.920 --> 01:20:11.920 to that one. But you know, like a RN or 1496 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:17.039 like the carolina that I was talking about, the smaller birds, 1497 01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:20.279 a technoos or something like that, it can sit on it. 1498 01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:23.399 The other feeder is the hopper feeder you guys have 1499 01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:27.159 that's a recycled material, and I like that one a 1500 01:20:27.199 --> 01:20:29.359 lot but that's where the big birds have to go eat. 1501 01:20:29.359 --> 01:20:33.720 And boy do they ever line They line up to 1502 01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:34.600 get to that one. 1503 01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:38.560 Yeah, hopper feeders are they're a classic feeder. I mean 1504 01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:41.079 when I was growing up as a kid in the Ozarks, 1505 01:20:41.399 --> 01:20:43.359 you know, my dad had a hopper feeder. Of course 1506 01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:45.760 it was made out of wood back then, but that 1507 01:20:45.960 --> 01:20:48.840 was that's the feeder that's that everybody's familiar with. It 1508 01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:50.640 holds a lot of food. It's what we call a 1509 01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:54.439 foundational feeder. The eliminator is right, well, but that's that's 1510 01:20:54.479 --> 01:20:56.960 a feeder that you put out in your yard. It's 1511 01:20:57.000 --> 01:20:59.319 out there three hundred and sixty five days a year, 1512 01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:03.880 holds a week worth of food or maybe a little more, 1513 01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:07.359 keeps the seed dry, and that's the feeder that the 1514 01:21:07.399 --> 01:21:10.279 birds know is going to have something for them every 1515 01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:12.520 time they come to your backyard. Because birds are on 1516 01:21:13.079 --> 01:21:16.279 a pattern, right, They moved through the yards looking for 1517 01:21:16.359 --> 01:21:18.800 food on kind of a consistent pattern. When you've got 1518 01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:22.479 something out there consistently that has food, like a hopper 1519 01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:26.199 feeder or your eliminator, they're going to frequent your yard 1520 01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:28.359 on a very regular basis. 1521 01:21:29.079 --> 01:21:32.039 Good. Well, that's good, good information. Now I've noticed that 1522 01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:33.720 the hopper feeder you guys have has a little bit 1523 01:21:33.760 --> 01:21:36.279 bigger roof. I think it, and I don't have as 1524 01:21:36.359 --> 01:21:38.880 much problems with the birds. He getting wet, you know 1525 01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:40.960 when it rains, unless we just get a horizontal rain 1526 01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:41.920 or something coming in. 1527 01:21:42.279 --> 01:21:45.640 Yeah, that's right. The hopper feeder that was actually designed 1528 01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:49.199 by the owner and CEO of wild Birds Unlimited, Jim Carpenter. 1529 01:21:49.279 --> 01:21:51.479 He had that patented back of the day when he 1530 01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:55.560 designed it. And you were talking about the recycled material 1531 01:21:55.760 --> 01:21:58.319 it is. It's made from recycled milk jukes and so 1532 01:21:59.119 --> 01:22:01.680 what people are familariliar with the word poly lumber, but 1533 01:22:01.960 --> 01:22:04.920 this is a little bit different with these feeders really 1534 01:22:04.960 --> 01:22:09.319 stand up well to do our nice humid weather in Houston, right, 1535 01:22:09.399 --> 01:22:12.680 So they they won't they they won't crack, they won't split, 1536 01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:16.359 as opposed to you know, the traditional wood feeders that 1537 01:22:16.479 --> 01:22:19.840 eventually over time will just brought away. This feeder will last. 1538 01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:23.960 A long long time. Yeah, I can. It looks like that. Uh, 1539 01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:25.800 we got a caller on the line, so we're going 1540 01:22:25.880 --> 01:22:27.800 to go out and take a call. Here. We're going 1541 01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:30.640 to talk to Marty in Fairfield. Hey, Marty, you are 1542 01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:33.000 on the line. With me and Rich Eadie from wild 1543 01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:33.720 Birds Unlimited. 1544 01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:39.079 Yes, I was so excited. Hi, I just wanted to 1545 01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:43.560 see I put out your food, the no mess blench. 1546 01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:48.560 I also have the cardinal consetti and I have the 1547 01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:53.840 one that is mostly centaur seeds. But the problem I'm 1548 01:22:53.880 --> 01:22:59.279 having is the blackbirds, ones that are trashy birds. They 1549 01:22:59.359 --> 01:23:02.880 seem to take over the birds years and and they 1550 01:23:02.960 --> 01:23:05.640 run off all the other birds. And I wonder is 1551 01:23:05.640 --> 01:23:08.840 there a way to keep those away or is there 1552 01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:13.359 a food that will not that they won't like? Because 1553 01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:18.600 I had that the hot pepper stuff for the squirrel. 1554 01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:26.119 Which you think, Yeah it's rich. 1555 01:23:27.359 --> 01:23:30.840 Okay, Yeah, we're having a Yeah, we're just having a 1556 01:23:30.880 --> 01:23:33.319 little glitch here. We're going to try to We're having 1557 01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:35.640 trouble getting him back on with you on. So I mean, 1558 01:23:35.720 --> 01:23:37.560 let me if I put Marty on hold, do you 1559 01:23:37.560 --> 01:23:39.479 think that would would work? Can we do it that way? 1560 01:23:40.479 --> 01:23:42.840 Let me let me try that. I'm gonna there we go. 1561 01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:46.840 All right, you got Rich. We're having trouble getting you 1562 01:23:46.840 --> 01:23:49.119 both on at the same time. So can you want 1563 01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:50.960 to comment answer Marty's question? 1564 01:23:51.680 --> 01:23:54.000 Yeah, for sure, Marty. So I think it comes down 1565 01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:57.000 to a couple of different questions I may have, and 1566 01:23:57.399 --> 01:24:00.319 if you drop into the story, they can make help 1567 01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:03.479 you a little further. But there's a grackles, which are 1568 01:24:03.600 --> 01:24:06.159 the big blackbirds that you typically see I call them, 1569 01:24:06.239 --> 01:24:12.319 I call them HIV birds and so yeah, yeah, those birds, 1570 01:24:12.359 --> 01:24:14.800 you know, they they can take over a feeder. You 1571 01:24:14.920 --> 01:24:19.800 might try feeding safflower, just straight safflowers. Safflower is what 1572 01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:24.600 we call a problem solving bird food. Squirrels don't particularly 1573 01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:28.000 like it because it's really bitter, and the blackbirds slash 1574 01:24:28.039 --> 01:24:31.640 crackles don't really like it either. So that's something that 1575 01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:34.479 you could try. And then we were talking about the 1576 01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:38.600 eliminator a little bit earlier. The eliminator is not only 1577 01:24:38.640 --> 01:24:42.239 squirrel food, but you could adjust to keep bigger birds 1578 01:24:42.439 --> 01:24:45.279 like the grackles off of your feeder. Uh, so they're 1579 01:24:45.319 --> 01:24:47.399 not getting at all your bird food and they they 1580 01:24:47.439 --> 01:24:50.319 eventually figure out if they can't get into it, they'll 1581 01:24:50.399 --> 01:24:51.800 just they'll just go elsewhere. 1582 01:24:52.079 --> 01:24:58.920 So I will do more staff far than I mix 1583 01:24:59.079 --> 01:25:01.960 the staff flower in with all other three, but I'll 1584 01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:04.039 just have to in straight staff law. 1585 01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:07.439 Yeah, give that a try, and if you need some 1586 01:25:07.479 --> 01:25:09.600 more help, be sure to just give us a call. 1587 01:25:09.640 --> 01:25:10.800 Would be glad to help you out. 1588 01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:16.399 Okay, thank you, you Bet, Thank you Marty, appreciate that call. Hey, Rich, 1589 01:25:16.439 --> 01:25:19.039 we got to take a quick break and we'll come 1590 01:25:19.119 --> 01:25:22.479 right back and continue our conversation with you. All right, 1591 01:25:22.520 --> 01:25:25.279 welcome back to regard line. Welcome back. We're going to 1592 01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:28.960 go straight back to the phones. Now we are visiting 1593 01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:33.000 with Rich Ed from Wildbirds Unlimited. Rich, it's good to 1594 01:25:33.000 --> 01:25:35.319 have you back. Thanks for hanging on with us. I 1595 01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:37.720 have a list a mile long of things I want 1596 01:25:37.760 --> 01:25:39.560 to talk to you about with THEE how far we 1597 01:25:39.600 --> 01:25:42.600 can we can get in this? Before I forget though, 1598 01:25:42.680 --> 01:25:45.079 I want to mention that if people are interested in 1599 01:25:45.239 --> 01:25:49.560 finding their local Wildbirds store Wildbird's Unlimited store, what you 1600 01:25:49.600 --> 01:25:55.039 do is you go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston, 1601 01:25:55.680 --> 01:25:59.439 WBU dot com forward slash Houston, and you can find 1602 01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:02.199 the sixth wild Birds Unlimited stores here in the greater 1603 01:26:02.239 --> 01:26:04.920 Houston area and north south east west. There we got 1604 01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:07.840 plenty of stores around. There's gonna be one close to you. 1605 01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:09.800 So I just want to mention that, or Rich, before 1606 01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:12.960 you go too far into this, could you give us 1607 01:26:13.079 --> 01:26:16.479 a few tips for someone who's listening in going Okay, 1608 01:26:16.560 --> 01:26:18.880 this sounds like it might be fun. I'd like to 1609 01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:23.479 dabble my toe in the water of bringing birds to 1610 01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:25.920 the landscape. And what are some tips for beginners that 1611 01:26:25.960 --> 01:26:33.279 you would suggest? Any any thoughts or ideas there anything? 1612 01:26:35.760 --> 01:26:42.079 Can you hear me? Oh? All right, We'll get Rich 1613 01:26:42.159 --> 01:26:47.039 rap back here just a moment. Well second, okay, hey, Rich, 1614 01:26:47.079 --> 01:26:47.520 are you there? 1615 01:26:48.439 --> 01:26:49.479 I am Can you hear me? 1616 01:26:50.239 --> 01:26:50.359 Oh? 1617 01:26:50.359 --> 01:26:53.239 Okay, good, Yeah, we were. I was talking and I 1618 01:26:53.319 --> 01:26:56.760 wasn't connected with you. Basically, I'm just asking what are 1619 01:26:56.800 --> 01:26:59.760 some tips for people that might be interested in trying 1620 01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:03.960 to get into feeding birds and learning about birds and things. 1621 01:27:04.039 --> 01:27:06.479 What are some beginner tips that you would suggest for 1622 01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:07.359 someone like that. 1623 01:27:08.720 --> 01:27:14.359 Yeah, So the first thing that we try to get 1624 01:27:14.399 --> 01:27:19.720 folks to try is a tray feeder. The tray feeder 1625 01:27:19.880 --> 01:27:23.640 you would put a variety of different foods in there. 1626 01:27:24.600 --> 01:27:29.439 Birds actually eat by sight, so they don't always look 1627 01:27:29.439 --> 01:27:32.520 at a feeder and know that that's for them. So 1628 01:27:32.640 --> 01:27:37.640 put out a tree feeder, multiple types of food, see 1629 01:27:37.680 --> 01:27:42.840 what the birds like, and then circle back and get 1630 01:27:42.840 --> 01:27:45.840 a feeder. Once you've got them, come into that tray feeder. 1631 01:27:47.479 --> 01:27:51.000 Okay, okay, that's a good one. I used to have 1632 01:27:51.039 --> 01:27:54.079 a trade feeder. Oh, I still do, but it is 1633 01:27:54.119 --> 01:27:56.680 a good way to start off. Just basically a little 1634 01:27:56.720 --> 01:28:00.680 tray typically with wood or recycloplastic around it. It has 1635 01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:02.439 holes in it so water can drain out of it 1636 01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:05.640 if it needs to, hangs by little wires, and it's 1637 01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:12.600 real easy to use. A good idea. Uh So when 1638 01:28:12.640 --> 01:28:16.079 we're when we're talking about bird feed are bird seeds? 1639 01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:16.760 Uh? 1640 01:28:17.479 --> 01:28:19.079 I talk about this a lot when I talk about 1641 01:28:19.079 --> 01:28:21.720 wibirds unlimited, but there is there are a lot of 1642 01:28:22.159 --> 01:28:24.800 cheap seeds out there. You can find them pretty much 1643 01:28:24.920 --> 01:28:29.640 everybody those bird seeds, but typically they're like well over 1644 01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:32.560 half sometimes up to almost three quarter of the little 1645 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:35.279 tiny red bebies is what I call them. It's the 1646 01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:38.680 it's the milo or sorghum, uh that birds just don't 1647 01:28:38.720 --> 01:28:40.880 care that much about. They're not very fond of. So 1648 01:28:40.920 --> 01:28:44.079 you end up buying X pounds of bird seed and 1649 01:28:44.119 --> 01:28:47.159 you end up only getting a fraction of that. In 1650 01:28:47.239 --> 01:28:49.640 terms of things birds are interested And I appreciate the 1651 01:28:49.640 --> 01:28:52.279 fact that you guys, you know, put things in your 1652 01:28:52.640 --> 01:28:56.199 in your blends that one percent of it birds are 1653 01:28:56.239 --> 01:29:01.079 interested in eating. And so I I think when you're 1654 01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:03.359 looking at all your blends. How would someone come in 1655 01:29:03.439 --> 01:29:05.640 and know, you know, what would be a good blend 1656 01:29:05.720 --> 01:29:07.760 for me to use? Right now, we're talking about nesting 1657 01:29:07.880 --> 01:29:10.720 super blend, but can you kind of give some thoughts 1658 01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:11.079 on that. 1659 01:29:12.279 --> 01:29:15.479 Yeah, so when somebody comes in the store, they're going 1660 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:18.319 to we can walk them through the whole process. So 1661 01:29:18.359 --> 01:29:21.439 we have and so what you're talking about is seed 1662 01:29:21.479 --> 01:29:23.880 that has a lot of filler in it, so cereal 1663 01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:29.159 fillers like milow, wheat, even cracked corn, which some birds 1664 01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:33.119 will leave, but not too many. So all of our 1665 01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:36.000 blends are what we call a no waste That means 1666 01:29:36.159 --> 01:29:38.079 the birds are going to eat one hundred percent of 1667 01:29:38.119 --> 01:29:40.880 everything that's in the bag. We've got a variety of 1668 01:29:40.920 --> 01:29:43.560 blends that's starting to say. With our Supreme blend, it's 1669 01:29:43.600 --> 01:29:48.279 black oil, sunflower, striped sunflower, safflower, which we talked a 1670 01:29:48.319 --> 01:29:51.840 little bit about earlier in some flower chips, and then 1671 01:29:51.880 --> 01:29:54.439 if you move to our choices, just like the Supreme, 1672 01:29:54.680 --> 01:29:58.920 but we've added peanuts and with peanuts off for even 1673 01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:02.560 a wide variety like went backers at my Sparto tough 1674 01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:05.399 peanuts as well. So so those are what we call 1675 01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:08.000 them no waste, but you will get mass on the ground, 1676 01:30:08.880 --> 01:30:11.319 which some so long they've got to pick backyards. It's 1677 01:30:11.359 --> 01:30:14.720 no big deal smaller backyards. So they want to have 1678 01:30:14.760 --> 01:30:17.079 a little bit tidier way of feeding the person. You 1679 01:30:17.119 --> 01:30:20.720 slide over to our no mask which is sunflower tips 1680 01:30:20.840 --> 01:30:26.039 and iced peanuts. That is one hundred. We'll see you'll 1681 01:30:26.079 --> 01:30:29.000 get very little mass if any on the ground. Whatever 1682 01:30:29.079 --> 01:30:31.119 does that, the ground will get up by the ground 1683 01:30:31.159 --> 01:30:36.079 feeding birds like the and sparrows. So okay, and yeah, 1684 01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:38.920 and we have we have everything in between. We have 1685 01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:41.880 a lot of straight, straight seats like black whiles sunflower seed. 1686 01:30:42.520 --> 01:30:45.359 We do get it's a difference between black oil and 1687 01:30:45.399 --> 01:30:50.439 striped sunflower. Stripe sunflower is what you basically see in 1688 01:30:50.560 --> 01:30:53.000 the sunflower seeds that you buy at the grocery store, 1689 01:30:53.000 --> 01:30:56.159 at the convenience store that baseball players eat. Those are 1690 01:30:56.359 --> 01:30:59.600 bigger murder shells that have a much bigger heart in them. 1691 01:31:00.079 --> 01:31:04.319 Cardinals absolutely love striped stone flower seed. Black oil the smaller, 1692 01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:08.279 much easier to crack into, and so your smaller birds 1693 01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:12.399 really like the black oil. But tip mice, cardinals, blue jays, 1694 01:31:12.479 --> 01:31:15.239 they really like to stripe. So that's why we put 1695 01:31:15.279 --> 01:31:18.439 both in our blends. Because some birds like one more 1696 01:31:18.520 --> 01:31:19.039 than the other. 1697 01:31:19.439 --> 01:31:24.319 So okay, wow, that's that's a lot of good information. 1698 01:31:25.439 --> 01:31:29.239 So i've i you mentioned that you use the term 1699 01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:34.159 no waste or your blends. There's also something called no mass. 1700 01:31:34.199 --> 01:31:36.279 Can you talk a little bit about what that means, 1701 01:31:36.319 --> 01:31:38.560 because do you have the n M on some of 1702 01:31:38.600 --> 01:31:41.840 your bird seed blends. What does tell us about no mass? 1703 01:31:42.119 --> 01:31:46.800 Yeah, so the the are what we call our no mess. 1704 01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:49.319 No millet is what that means. So some of our 1705 01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:52.199 blends have white millet in it, which is great for 1706 01:31:52.279 --> 01:31:54.960 your ground feeding birds. For folks in town that have 1707 01:31:55.119 --> 01:32:01.960 the the scaly breasted unia, which a thriving population in 1708 01:32:02.000 --> 01:32:04.680 the Hoaston area, they love millet, so sometimes you might 1709 01:32:04.720 --> 01:32:07.560 want to offer millet in your backyard. But for folks 1710 01:32:07.560 --> 01:32:10.039 who don't want millet in are no mask no millet, 1711 01:32:10.079 --> 01:32:12.119 that's what the in them stands for, and no mask 1712 01:32:12.199 --> 01:32:15.880 means just that you're there's one hundred percent edible seed. 1713 01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:18.960 There are no cells on the sunflatter seats, so the 1714 01:32:19.000 --> 01:32:21.800 birds will they go to the feeder. They're eating everything 1715 01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:23.960 that's in the feeder and there's nothing getting kicked to 1716 01:32:24.039 --> 01:32:26.960 the ground, which, by the way, yeah, you do look 1717 01:32:27.000 --> 01:32:30.479 at other blends that we were talking about. Read the ingredients. 1718 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:33.600 If you're buying it elsewhere, breathe the ingredients. And if 1719 01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:38.800 you're seeing corn, milo or wheat, the birds are not 1720 01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:40.840 gonna eat it. So what they're gonna do is they're 1721 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:43.000 just gonna throw that out of the feed or looking 1722 01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:46.039 for something that they do want eat. That's why somethings 1723 01:32:46.119 --> 01:32:48.840 go and my birds are just tearing through that teeth 1724 01:32:48.840 --> 01:32:51.479 that I get, and it's like, well, take a closer 1725 01:32:51.520 --> 01:32:53.479 look at the ground. You're probably gonna find a lot 1726 01:32:53.520 --> 01:32:56.880 more of it on the ground than you realize. So right, 1727 01:32:57.039 --> 01:32:59.319 so just read the ingredient list. Yep. 1728 01:33:00.720 --> 01:33:03.960 Okay, well rich you are. Sometimes I'm hearing you loud 1729 01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:06.079 and clear, and then it's kind of like you start 1730 01:33:06.119 --> 01:33:08.439 to get garbled. I don't know if that's a cell 1731 01:33:08.479 --> 01:33:10.920 phone deal or whatever, but just letting you know that 1732 01:33:10.960 --> 01:33:12.800 we're kind of cutting a little bit in and out. 1733 01:33:13.920 --> 01:33:15.840 So I want to I would like to visit a 1734 01:33:15.880 --> 01:33:21.880 little bit about the seasonal types of blends and also 1735 01:33:23.239 --> 01:33:26.359 seeds for different kinds of birds. I know that you 1736 01:33:26.399 --> 01:33:29.640 guys have every kind of feeder in the world, and 1737 01:33:29.680 --> 01:33:32.680 so when I walk into wild Birds Unlimited, I look 1738 01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:35.399 and I just see all these feeders. And I got 1739 01:33:35.399 --> 01:33:38.119 a feeder from my mother in law who quit, she's 1740 01:33:38.159 --> 01:33:40.479 just not able to do the bird thing anymore. And 1741 01:33:40.520 --> 01:33:43.560 it's a thistle feeder. It's got these little tiny slits 1742 01:33:43.600 --> 01:33:45.640 in it. And that's just an example of what I'm 1743 01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:47.760 talking about. So could you talk a little bit about 1744 01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:51.840 not just like a tray versus a hopper, but different 1745 01:33:52.000 --> 01:33:54.840 blends and different kinds of feeders that you might use 1746 01:33:54.920 --> 01:33:56.399 for certain kinds of birds. 1747 01:33:57.159 --> 01:33:59.840 Yeah, for sure, so hopefully you can hear me. Okay, 1748 01:34:00.520 --> 01:34:04.199 we call it being seasonally savvy in the store, and 1749 01:34:04.319 --> 01:34:07.479 what that means is we're gonna have our birds here 1750 01:34:07.640 --> 01:34:10.920 year round, like our cardinals, our chickadees, our tip mice, 1751 01:34:11.000 --> 01:34:16.279 are downy woodpeckers, red belly woodpeckers. But being seasonally savvy 1752 01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:18.960 also means that we keep up with the movement of 1753 01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:21.680 birds from season to season. So a good example of 1754 01:34:21.680 --> 01:34:24.560 that is hummingbirds. Right now, very few of us have 1755 01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:29.399 hummingbirds in our backyard that come July into late July 1756 01:34:29.600 --> 01:34:32.319 into August and September, the hummingbirds are going to show up. 1757 01:34:32.399 --> 01:34:34.159 So that's when we tell people to put out their 1758 01:34:34.199 --> 01:34:38.119 hummingbird feeders. You are talking about the Niger feeders, the 1759 01:34:38.159 --> 01:34:40.680 bench feeders that have the real small slips. It looks 1760 01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:44.479 like kind of like black rice. We don't feed Niger 1761 01:34:44.600 --> 01:34:48.359 here in the Houston area year round. We typically will 1762 01:34:48.399 --> 01:34:50.920 get our goldfinches in the winter. They show up in 1763 01:34:51.039 --> 01:34:54.039 late December and they're usually gone by the first part 1764 01:34:54.039 --> 01:34:56.920 of April. So we had a very good bolt inches 1765 01:34:56.960 --> 01:35:01.239 and cold benches shut up from the north. Gold pitches 1766 01:35:01.239 --> 01:35:04.399 don't really migrate, they're more nobody. They're gonna move as 1767 01:35:04.439 --> 01:35:07.600 far as they need to get a good solid food source. 1768 01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:10.359 And so this year the winner in order to push 1769 01:35:10.399 --> 01:35:12.640 the birds further south. And so we have a good 1770 01:35:12.680 --> 01:35:15.560 relation of gold pinches this year. And that's when you 1771 01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:18.760 put the Niger out. Yeah, And then you're talking about 1772 01:35:18.760 --> 01:35:21.800 our nesting super blind. That's really good all the way 1773 01:35:21.800 --> 01:35:24.880 through August. It's a really good plan to support the 1774 01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:28.119 birds when they go through their molt in the fall. Uh. 1775 01:35:28.159 --> 01:35:30.439 And then we have another new and that we started 1776 01:35:30.479 --> 01:35:33.000 with cardinal confetti. I believe Marty talking. 1777 01:35:33.039 --> 01:35:35.560 Yeah, Rich Rich, I'm gonna I'm gonna get you to 1778 01:35:35.640 --> 01:35:38.840 hold that. I'm against a heartbreak in about fifteen seconds. 1779 01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:41.960 So I want to come back and jump into cardinal confetti. 1780 01:35:42.000 --> 01:35:44.520 I've got it. My birds absolutely love it, so just 1781 01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:47.880 hang on. Sorry to have to interrupt you, but I 1782 01:35:47.920 --> 01:35:51.239 gotta follow the rules here, so we'll be right back. Well, 1783 01:35:51.319 --> 01:35:54.039 welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline folks. Good to have 1784 01:35:54.079 --> 01:35:57.239 you with us. Hey, we're visiting with Rich Ed from 1785 01:35:57.319 --> 01:36:00.479 wild Birds Unlimited, and we're talking all things birds this hour. 1786 01:36:00.640 --> 01:36:03.119 If you have a non bird question, hold it till 1787 01:36:03.159 --> 01:36:05.520 after nine o'clock we'll take that. If you have a 1788 01:36:05.560 --> 01:36:07.880 bird question, feel free to call in right now and 1789 01:36:07.920 --> 01:36:11.159 here's your chance to talk to the expert. Just give 1790 01:36:11.239 --> 01:36:14.319 us a call at seven one three two one two 1791 01:36:14.600 --> 01:36:17.640 k t r H. I'm gonna go back here and 1792 01:36:17.720 --> 01:36:20.880 take Rich. Hey, Rich, it is good to have you 1793 01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:22.560 with us. If I can get my there we go. 1794 01:36:22.880 --> 01:36:25.600 If thanks for being on today. By the way, I 1795 01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:29.399 really appreciate that this is such good information. My next 1796 01:36:29.439 --> 01:36:31.840 question is is there anything you don't know about birds? 1797 01:36:31.840 --> 01:36:34.840 Because every time I ask you a question, you answer 1798 01:36:35.079 --> 01:36:39.720 with information I hadn't even thought about to ask you. Guys, 1799 01:36:39.960 --> 01:36:41.800 I know this is true of all the wild birds 1800 01:36:41.840 --> 01:36:45.560 owners and stuffy They just know their stuff. It's it's 1801 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:47.479 a great place to go for information too. 1802 01:36:48.439 --> 01:36:50.960 Yeah, well we appreciate that. Yeah, that's that's what we 1803 01:36:51.119 --> 01:36:52.680 that's what we try to do. I mean, at the 1804 01:36:52.760 --> 01:36:55.800 end of the day, are our mission is to bring 1805 01:36:55.840 --> 01:36:58.800 people in nature together and bring joy into everybody's lives 1806 01:36:58.840 --> 01:37:02.800 by watching their backyard birds. The birds are are super important. 1807 01:37:03.359 --> 01:37:07.560 They're a real indicator of our environment and the and 1808 01:37:07.640 --> 01:37:10.399 the ecosystem in your backyard. Right. So not only do 1809 01:37:10.479 --> 01:37:12.920 we try and educate folks on the different birds that 1810 01:37:12.960 --> 01:37:15.560 they'll see in their yard, but how does that tie 1811 01:37:15.600 --> 01:37:20.000 into their landscape. You know, native plants, organic gardening, attracting 1812 01:37:20.039 --> 01:37:24.039 the insects to your backyard, well attract the birds, right, 1813 01:37:24.159 --> 01:37:27.439 So we really try and get everybody educated on that 1814 01:37:27.479 --> 01:37:29.119 as well. 1815 01:37:29.319 --> 01:37:32.640 That's good, that's excellent. Yeah. Yeah. And Wildbirds Unlimited is 1816 01:37:32.880 --> 01:37:34.960 a place to go. I was we were talking about, 1817 01:37:35.319 --> 01:37:38.560 you know, seasonal things. I just want to mention that 1818 01:37:38.680 --> 01:37:42.840 when people go to WBU dot com forward Slash Houston, 1819 01:37:42.880 --> 01:37:45.840 you can find your wildbird stores, but also you can 1820 01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:50.039 find out about different bird questions you may like you 1821 01:37:50.079 --> 01:37:53.560 could look up what is a catbird look like? Or 1822 01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:56.159 what does the golfinch look like? You can look up 1823 01:37:56.520 --> 01:37:59.479 what are seasonal savvy for birds. Like we were just 1824 01:37:59.520 --> 01:38:01.199 talking about what are you do in summer and what's 1825 01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:03.159 going on. There's a lot of good videos on there 1826 01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:07.520 that are very helpful, and so bookmark WBU dot com 1827 01:38:07.560 --> 01:38:11.720 forward sized Houston and start perusing around it. It's pretty amazing, 1828 01:38:12.079 --> 01:38:16.760 pretty definitely pretty amazing stuff. So let's shift just a 1829 01:38:16.840 --> 01:38:20.399 little bit. Father's Day is coming up, and you know 1830 01:38:20.520 --> 01:38:23.239 people are always thinking, what's a good gift, you know, for dad? 1831 01:38:23.680 --> 01:38:26.640 Or it's certainly same things true on Mother's Day. What 1832 01:38:27.000 --> 01:38:30.439 would you suggest someone who is looking for a good 1833 01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:33.640 dad gift that would be something to either help someone 1834 01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:37.439 that was already into feeding birds and watching birds, or 1835 01:38:37.439 --> 01:38:40.199 someone who it might be kind of an introductory gift 1836 01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:41.119 to get them started. 1837 01:38:42.520 --> 01:38:46.159 Well, if nobody, if somebody has never been in our store, 1838 01:38:46.439 --> 01:38:49.520 then they don't know about what we call our advanced 1839 01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:54.680 poll system, the acronym for it's aps. Our polls system 1840 01:38:55.159 --> 01:38:58.319 is very unique to wildbirds unlimited. For folks who've been 1841 01:38:58.319 --> 01:39:00.520 in our store, they know about it. But what the 1842 01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:05.279 pole system is is it is a very sturdy bird 1843 01:39:05.319 --> 01:39:10.279 feeding station pole system. You start with the basic setup. 1844 01:39:10.399 --> 01:39:13.199 It comes with a four foot ground pole, a four 1845 01:39:13.239 --> 01:39:17.359 foot extension, a double hook, and a ground stabilizer. And 1846 01:39:17.399 --> 01:39:20.640 the ground stabilizer is probably the most important feature of 1847 01:39:20.640 --> 01:39:23.960 the pole system because what it'll do is it'll keep 1848 01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:28.279 your pole system nice, straight and sturdy. What's great about 1849 01:39:28.279 --> 01:39:31.439 the APF system is you start with that double hook. 1850 01:39:31.880 --> 01:39:34.359 You can come back later and you can buy another 1851 01:39:34.439 --> 01:39:37.239 double hook, and you can expand it to go from 1852 01:39:37.279 --> 01:39:40.359 two feeders to four feeders. And then we have all 1853 01:39:40.479 --> 01:39:42.840 kinds of different attachments that you can put on it 1854 01:39:42.880 --> 01:39:46.279 as well. A squirrel baffle if you've got it out 1855 01:39:46.279 --> 01:39:48.239 in the middle of your yard and you can maintain 1856 01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:51.800 that ten foot perimeter around the system, Putting a baffle 1857 01:39:51.840 --> 01:39:54.119 on will keep the squirrels from calling up the pole. 1858 01:39:54.840 --> 01:39:57.920 You can put branch brunches, you can put different kinds 1859 01:39:57.960 --> 01:40:00.960 of hooks for different types times of the year. In 1860 01:40:01.000 --> 01:40:04.760 other words, if your your goldfinches show up in December, 1861 01:40:04.840 --> 01:40:07.520 you can rearrange your pole system to put out your 1862 01:40:07.640 --> 01:40:11.199 Niger feeders. Hummingbirds are showing up. But you know what, 1863 01:40:11.239 --> 01:40:13.800 they're really good for two scope, They're really great for 1864 01:40:13.880 --> 01:40:18.079 holding hanging baskets. They're they're like, oh okay, yeah, yeah, 1865 01:40:18.359 --> 01:40:21.199 you could put you can put a heavy duty flower 1866 01:40:21.279 --> 01:40:23.880 basket on there. People use them for all kinds of 1867 01:40:23.920 --> 01:40:27.560 different things. So the APS pole system is by far 1868 01:40:28.199 --> 01:40:30.760 one of the one of the very unique things that 1869 01:40:30.800 --> 01:40:33.520 we have. And everybody, you can never have too many 1870 01:40:33.520 --> 01:40:35.640 pole systems in your yard, That's what I say. 1871 01:40:35.760 --> 01:40:38.720 So there, there you go. And it's true. I have one. 1872 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:40.840 I just have one. But the one I have I 1873 01:40:40.920 --> 01:40:42.960 love it. And you're right about the stability. I can 1874 01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:45.359 push the the four prongs that go on the ground 1875 01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:47.079 around it, and you have a little screw you tighten 1876 01:40:47.199 --> 01:40:49.640 up there. I can push them down to grass level 1877 01:40:49.680 --> 01:40:51.439 and you can mow over it, you can weed eat 1878 01:40:51.479 --> 01:40:54.960 around it. Uh. And it does hold that thing very 1879 01:40:55.119 --> 01:40:57.680 very sturdy. By the way, I saw I heard you 1880 01:40:57.720 --> 01:40:59.720 the other day on a on a social media you 1881 01:40:59.760 --> 01:41:02.800 were somebody a squirrel can jump ten feet out and 1882 01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:04.800 five feet up. I believe. Is that correct? Is what 1883 01:41:04.960 --> 01:41:05.319 you said? 1884 01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:09.199 Yeah, that's exactly right. So people come in, well, squirrels 1885 01:41:09.199 --> 01:41:10.279 are driving me crazy. 1886 01:41:10.479 --> 01:41:14.399 So I have a squirrel that I thought needs to 1887 01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:17.239 go to the squirrel Olympics, but apparently he's just average. 1888 01:41:17.640 --> 01:41:20.840 I had a feeder that was eight feet away from 1889 01:41:20.920 --> 01:41:26.039 a fence, and that's it was amazing. He could jump 1890 01:41:26.079 --> 01:41:29.319 to the feeder with a problem. It's like, Dad, come in. 1891 01:41:31.479 --> 01:41:33.279 He had a baffle on it, so he just said, 1892 01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:35.600 the heck with the baffle, I'm jumping over the top. 1893 01:41:36.399 --> 01:41:38.439 Yeah. The fun part of that would have been watching 1894 01:41:38.520 --> 01:41:41.600 him try the first several times right eight feet away. 1895 01:41:42.479 --> 01:41:45.159 I can promise you he wasn't the first time. 1896 01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:49.119 Yeah, okay, all right, Hey, we gotta we gotta caller 1897 01:41:49.279 --> 01:41:51.159 Ron from the west Side, so rich. We're going to 1898 01:41:51.199 --> 01:41:54.359 bring him on and let him ask you a question. Hey, Ron, 1899 01:41:54.399 --> 01:41:55.279 welcome to garden Line. 1900 01:41:56.279 --> 01:42:01.319 Hi there, I have a I got some of your 1901 01:42:01.880 --> 01:42:08.039 the Noble mess blend, and I've had this feeder for 1902 01:42:08.079 --> 01:42:10.319 a long time. And it's the time where you pull 1903 01:42:10.359 --> 01:42:13.359 the top up your feet it from the you fill 1904 01:42:13.399 --> 01:42:15.359 it from the top, and then I guess it's a 1905 01:42:15.399 --> 01:42:19.199 tray feeder. There's a little tray that holds the seed, 1906 01:42:19.319 --> 01:42:23.479 and the birds are just not coming it still, just. 1907 01:42:23.640 --> 01:42:26.199 You know, they're they're not taking it. Is it the 1908 01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:28.399 placement of it. It's under the eve. 1909 01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:30.239 Of my. 1910 01:42:33.800 --> 01:42:36.560 Yeah, it's under one of the eves, and under the 1911 01:42:36.840 --> 01:42:40.079 of your house is pretty close to the house. Yeah, 1912 01:42:40.119 --> 01:42:42.800 it could be a plate, it could be a placement issue. 1913 01:42:42.880 --> 01:42:45.960 We we generally recommend that a feeder be at least 1914 01:42:45.960 --> 01:42:48.399 ten feet away from your house, and a lot of 1915 01:42:48.439 --> 01:42:51.800 that just has to do with preventing windows strikes and 1916 01:42:51.840 --> 01:42:54.960 things like that. Like I was saying earlier, on the 1917 01:42:55.000 --> 01:42:58.199 tray feeder, birds eat by sight first. They don't look 1918 01:42:58.239 --> 01:43:01.760 at them, say the eliminator feeder or a hopper feeder 1919 01:43:01.760 --> 01:43:05.439 and go, oh that's for me, right, They they really 1920 01:43:05.479 --> 01:43:08.159 need to see the food first. Have you ever had 1921 01:43:08.199 --> 01:43:12.159 birds on that feeder ever? 1922 01:43:12.319 --> 01:43:15.279 I mean I think maybe a few have come by, But. 1923 01:43:16.880 --> 01:43:21.439 Yeah, so you cold it up once and that's it. Yeah, 1924 01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:24.159 you might. You might try changing the placement of it 1925 01:43:24.199 --> 01:43:27.039 for sure. That would be That would be my first recommendation. 1926 01:43:27.159 --> 01:43:28.960 I mean, I'll give you a really good example of 1927 01:43:29.039 --> 01:43:32.760 placement importance, even like on a nest box. I have 1928 01:43:32.840 --> 01:43:35.359 a blue bird. I had a bluebird box in my 1929 01:43:35.439 --> 01:43:38.199 front yard for a long time, and I could never 1930 01:43:38.279 --> 01:43:41.159 get the bluebirds to even take a second look at it. Right, 1931 01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:44.399 I moved it to my backyard, into the corner of 1932 01:43:44.439 --> 01:43:46.279 my yard where I thought it might be a more 1933 01:43:46.319 --> 01:43:49.800 attractive place, and they moved right in. And so the 1934 01:43:49.840 --> 01:43:52.920 same thing will go with feeders, right, you might have 1935 01:43:53.000 --> 01:43:54.840 to do a little bit of trial and air to 1936 01:43:54.880 --> 01:43:57.960 put it. As long as you're seeing birds in your backyard, 1937 01:43:58.359 --> 01:44:00.840 it's a matter of just helping the bird birds find 1938 01:44:00.960 --> 01:44:04.359 that feeder and the bird food easier. Uh. And again 1939 01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:06.960 you might you might even try a tray feeder first, 1940 01:44:07.119 --> 01:44:10.399 change the placement, try a tray feeder. Once they're coming 1941 01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:12.640 to that tray feeder, then you can put that feeder 1942 01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:15.319 right back out again and they'll go, Okay, the food's 1943 01:44:15.359 --> 01:44:17.600 in here, and they'll figure it out pretty quick. 1944 01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:22.880 I have a a bird bath right underneath it, so 1945 01:44:23.119 --> 01:44:25.600 I'm giving them water and giving them things. 1946 01:44:25.840 --> 01:44:26.039 Yeah. 1947 01:44:26.079 --> 01:44:33.399 Bird yeah, birds. Yeah. Again, that's a placement thing as well. 1948 01:44:33.479 --> 01:44:38.560 So birds are birds are spooky creatures, right. So I 1949 01:44:38.960 --> 01:44:41.640 I hear folks putting bird baths like right along their 1950 01:44:41.680 --> 01:44:45.479 back hedge. Well, bird baths and a hedge probably don't 1951 01:44:45.520 --> 01:44:48.760 mix too well because a bird will see that and think, hmm, 1952 01:44:48.920 --> 01:44:51.880 something in that hedge might come out and get me. Right, So, 1953 01:44:52.039 --> 01:44:55.960 bird baths generally do well out in the open. They 1954 01:44:55.960 --> 01:44:57.800 can be in the shade, they can be in full sun, 1955 01:44:57.880 --> 01:45:00.600 it doesn't really matter. But again, a place where the 1956 01:45:00.600 --> 01:45:03.760 birds can see it and feel comfortable getting on the 1957 01:45:03.760 --> 01:45:06.319 bird bath. I mean, you've got your neighborhood cats, You've 1958 01:45:06.319 --> 01:45:09.319 got your neighborhood Cooper's Hawk, so they need to be 1959 01:45:09.399 --> 01:45:12.079 able to keep They're gonna try and keep themselves safe 1960 01:45:12.239 --> 01:45:13.520 and so placement. 1961 01:45:13.600 --> 01:45:17.439 Hey, that's a that's a great that's a great answer. 1962 01:45:17.479 --> 01:45:17.680 RN. 1963 01:45:17.680 --> 01:45:20.000 I hope that helps. I'm gonna have to move on, 1964 01:45:20.479 --> 01:45:22.359 but I appreciate your call. And all you got to 1965 01:45:22.359 --> 01:45:26.000 do is stop into a Wild Bird's Unlimited store. If 1966 01:45:26.039 --> 01:45:28.239 you're on the west side. You've got a store on 1967 01:45:28.359 --> 01:45:33.520 bel Air in Houston and one on Memorial Drive in Houston, 1968 01:45:34.159 --> 01:45:35.880 so those are both kind of well. Bel Air is 1969 01:45:35.920 --> 01:45:38.680 more southwest, but you've got a couple of stores pretty 1970 01:45:38.680 --> 01:45:40.760 close to you. You need to stop into one and they'll 1971 01:45:40.800 --> 01:45:43.039 answer a thousand of those questions for you. They're really 1972 01:45:43.039 --> 01:45:46.560 good at it. Thanks thanks for calling in. Rich, go 1973 01:45:46.600 --> 01:45:48.520 to another break. We're going to come back for a 1974 01:45:48.560 --> 01:45:50.600 short segment, so if you can hang on, I sure 1975 01:45:50.640 --> 01:45:53.760 would appreciate it. I would love to ask you some more. Hey, 1976 01:45:53.800 --> 01:45:56.319 welcome back to Guardline, folks. We got one more segment 1977 01:45:56.399 --> 01:46:00.399 left with Rich Eadie from All Birds Unlimited. Now you've 1978 01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:03.640 got six Wildbirds unlimited stores here in the greater Houston area, 1979 01:46:03.720 --> 01:46:06.079 So at north south east west, wherever you live, there's 1980 01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:08.560 one close to you. And in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive 1981 01:46:08.600 --> 01:46:12.720 on clear Lake Eldorado Boulevard, and on Paarland on East Broadway, 1982 01:46:13.159 --> 01:46:17.199 Houston West on bel Air, Houston Southwest, excuse me, Memorial Drive, 1983 01:46:17.279 --> 01:46:20.319 Houston Southwest on bel Air, and then in Cypress on 1984 01:46:20.479 --> 01:46:24.239 Barker Cypress. So go see one. That'd be a great 1985 01:46:24.279 --> 01:46:26.439 thing to do this afternoon. Go check out a wildbird 1986 01:46:26.479 --> 01:46:29.840 store and find out what this is that we're talking about. Well, Rich, 1987 01:46:30.119 --> 01:46:32.720 this is a short segment, and so I wanted to 1988 01:46:32.760 --> 01:46:36.199 first say, are there some things that maybe you wish 1989 01:46:36.239 --> 01:46:38.359 I had asked or that people need to know that 1990 01:46:38.439 --> 01:46:40.840 I didn't think to ask, that you would like to 1991 01:46:40.880 --> 01:46:42.920 add before we run out of time here today. 1992 01:46:44.079 --> 01:46:47.640 Well, I think you know, there's a kind of an 1993 01:46:47.680 --> 01:46:50.199 old saying that say that you don't need to feed 1994 01:46:50.199 --> 01:46:52.640 the birds in the summertime because they have plenty of food. 1995 01:46:53.319 --> 01:46:57.159 And actually the opposite to that is true, because right 1996 01:46:57.159 --> 01:47:01.000 now is nesting season. And so if you the birds 1997 01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:04.840 and they're they're laying their eggs and they're raising their babies. 1998 01:47:05.640 --> 01:47:08.640 The feeders are really important to mom and dad because 1999 01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:13.199 a chickadee, a single chickadee, will collect over eight thousand 2000 01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:17.960 caterpillars just to raise this single clutch. So that's a 2001 01:47:18.000 --> 01:47:20.640 lot of flying around, that's a lot of foraging to 2002 01:47:20.680 --> 01:47:23.600 find a lot of caterpillars in about a three week period. 2003 01:47:24.119 --> 01:47:27.239 And so what you'll see is the chickene's were we'll 2004 01:47:27.239 --> 01:47:29.760 be looking for the insects for their young. They'll come 2005 01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:32.600 to the feeders to feed themselves to keep their energy up. 2006 01:47:32.680 --> 01:47:37.159 So summertime feeding is actually very very important for our 2007 01:47:37.199 --> 01:47:39.760 backyard birds because it really does help them along a 2008 01:47:39.800 --> 01:47:40.760 really busy time. 2009 01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:44.000 All right, now, we got to hear that again. A 2010 01:47:44.079 --> 01:47:47.960 chickadee is a very tiny little bird. How many caterpillars? 2011 01:47:48.479 --> 01:47:51.560 Over eight thousand? Yeah, over eight thousand? 2012 01:47:51.560 --> 01:47:53.600 Okay, so yep, there's. 2013 01:47:53.319 --> 01:47:53.800 I know that. 2014 01:47:56.279 --> 01:47:58.760 I read a book many years ago when it first 2015 01:47:58.840 --> 01:48:02.279 came out that blew my mind and change my thinking. 2016 01:48:02.319 --> 01:48:04.159 I've been doing horticulture a long time, but it was 2017 01:48:04.199 --> 01:48:08.520 called Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallomy, and basically, I 2018 01:48:08.520 --> 01:48:10.680 don't you can't summarize the book in a sentence, but 2019 01:48:11.279 --> 01:48:14.720 basically it's our oak trees. All these plants that we 2020 01:48:14.760 --> 01:48:17.720 have are fed on by caterpillars. And the more we 2021 01:48:18.239 --> 01:48:20.960 plant things that are not native to hear or that 2022 01:48:21.119 --> 01:48:24.920 don't support those kinds of caterpillar populations, we really affect 2023 01:48:24.920 --> 01:48:27.720 our wild birds because they can't just survive on what 2024 01:48:27.760 --> 01:48:30.079 we have in our feeders. And it was a whole 2025 01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:33.199 mindset about landscaping and what you do and what you 2026 01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:33.560 don't do. 2027 01:48:34.239 --> 01:48:34.359 Uh. 2028 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:37.079 And I had no idea that things like you just 2029 01:48:37.119 --> 01:48:40.399 said that many caterpillars a little tiny bird like that 2030 01:48:40.439 --> 01:48:44.039 would need. And I would suggest someone else if you're interested, 2031 01:48:44.079 --> 01:48:46.600 read it Bringing Nature On. It's an excellent, excellent book, 2032 01:48:46.640 --> 01:48:48.359 and there are many others that point to that. But 2033 01:48:48.439 --> 01:48:51.039 thanks for bringing that upreach, because that is that was 2034 01:48:51.119 --> 01:48:52.359 mind blowing to hear that. 2035 01:48:52.479 --> 01:48:55.880 The first time you want to attract chickadees, plant an 2036 01:48:55.880 --> 01:48:59.239 oak tree. That's that's what they say. Is that a 2037 01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:02.399 post for over three hundred different types of mods. Yep, 2038 01:49:02.720 --> 01:49:05.640 And they're eating the collecting the larvail of those moths, 2039 01:49:05.640 --> 01:49:08.760 and oak trees are a super close plant for that. 2040 01:49:09.000 --> 01:49:12.920 So boy, we we could we could end it right 2041 01:49:12.960 --> 01:49:14.840 there and just let that sink in. That is really 2042 01:49:14.920 --> 01:49:17.239 good information I'll tell you one thing. Some of your 2043 01:49:17.520 --> 01:49:20.399 some of your blends, you have dried meal worms. And 2044 01:49:20.680 --> 01:49:24.239 I am not a drug expert, but I am pretty 2045 01:49:24.279 --> 01:49:26.840 sure that in the bird world, dried meal worms are 2046 01:49:26.880 --> 01:49:33.319 a control substance. That's crack for birds. My birds love 2047 01:49:33.439 --> 01:49:36.520 that stuff and it you know, it's so high and 2048 01:49:36.600 --> 01:49:39.479 what proteins and vats and everything like that. 2049 01:49:39.479 --> 01:49:41.800 That's right, drive. Meal worms are a great addition to 2050 01:49:41.840 --> 01:49:45.319 the backyard. We were talking about the cardinal confetti. It 2051 01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:47.359 it has dried meal worms in it. So if you 2052 01:49:47.479 --> 01:49:50.000 want to attract cardinals and other types of birds in 2053 01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:52.039 our area, that's a great blend to give a try 2054 01:49:52.239 --> 01:49:54.520 because it does have dried meal worms in it as well. 2055 01:49:56.399 --> 01:49:59.680 Wow, that is that is good, good info. We got 2056 01:49:59.680 --> 01:50:02.520 about a minute left before and we can even talk 2057 01:50:02.560 --> 01:50:04.279 into the music when it starts here in just a 2058 01:50:04.319 --> 01:50:08.119 little bit if we like. I would like to just 2059 01:50:08.479 --> 01:50:11.520 leave you with any other suggestions for someone who is 2060 01:50:11.600 --> 01:50:15.920 wanting to get more help with learning about birds, in 2061 01:50:15.920 --> 01:50:19.479 addition to going to your local Wildbirds Unlimited store, any 2062 01:50:19.520 --> 01:50:22.720 other tips or resources out there that you might recommend. 2063 01:50:22.760 --> 01:50:24.560 I know the owner wrote a book. 2064 01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:28.840 Yeah, Jim Carpenter. Yeah, The Joy of Backyard, The Joy 2065 01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:31.359 of Bird Feeding. So he wrote a book. It gives 2066 01:50:31.359 --> 01:50:34.159 you step by step constructions on how to get started 2067 01:50:34.199 --> 01:50:38.359 feeding birds in your backyard. But you can always go 2068 01:50:38.439 --> 01:50:41.880 to the Cornell website Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They're a 2069 01:50:41.960 --> 01:50:45.359 wealth of information on just about every bird in North America, 2070 01:50:46.640 --> 01:50:50.159 and so there's lots of lots of resources out there. 2071 01:50:50.239 --> 01:50:53.760 National Wildlife Federation we encourage folks to get their yard 2072 01:50:53.840 --> 01:50:57.479 certified as a natural as a wildlife habitat through National 2073 01:50:57.479 --> 01:51:00.960 Wildlife Federation. That means that you're focusing on the things 2074 01:51:00.960 --> 01:51:03.159 that birds need in their backyard, but not just birds, 2075 01:51:03.159 --> 01:51:06.720 but all wildlife. So that's another great place to start. 2076 01:51:06.840 --> 01:51:10.680 And if people need more questions answered, they can certainly 2077 01:51:10.680 --> 01:51:12.560 come in and see any of us, and we'd be 2078 01:51:12.600 --> 01:51:14.359 glad to help them. 2079 01:51:15.119 --> 01:51:17.359 Well, I tell you, I've been to almost all, I 2080 01:51:17.399 --> 01:51:20.520 believe of the wild Birds Unlimited stores around town, and 2081 01:51:20.560 --> 01:51:23.600 I'm always amazed. It's not just you guys that run 2082 01:51:23.640 --> 01:51:26.399 the shop there, but the folks that work with you. 2083 01:51:26.439 --> 01:51:30.119 They're so enthusiastic and so knowledgeable, it just makes it 2084 01:51:30.119 --> 01:51:32.640 It makes it a lot of fun. Y'all have done 2085 01:51:32.680 --> 01:51:35.159 a great job on that. Well, I appreciate it. 2086 01:51:35.199 --> 01:51:38.600 Yeah, we appreciate yep, you bet we We like I said, 2087 01:51:38.640 --> 01:51:41.520 we enjoy. We enjoy bringing joy into people's lives by 2088 01:51:41.560 --> 01:51:44.439 letting them enjoy, helping them enjoy their backyard. And that's 2089 01:51:44.439 --> 01:51:45.239 what we're all about. 2090 01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:49.319 Yeah, I'm going to be speaking at an upcoming event 2091 01:51:49.399 --> 01:51:52.399 called Oba Palooza and I saw you are too. Is 2092 01:51:52.439 --> 01:51:54.600 that correct? Or do I have a different event that 2093 01:51:54.680 --> 01:51:56.720 you're Yeah. 2094 01:51:56.520 --> 01:51:59.199 No, thanks for bringing me, I am yeah. 2095 01:51:59.439 --> 01:52:00.600 What are you gonna be telling us? 2096 01:52:00.680 --> 01:52:04.760 Telling us about creating a healthy backyard bird habitat? 2097 01:52:06.239 --> 01:52:09.439 Okay, now that's Saturday, August second, folks, just listening to 2098 01:52:09.479 --> 01:52:11.600 garden Line. I'll talk about it multiple times dream now 2099 01:52:11.640 --> 01:52:15.319 and then. But Rich, I can't thank you enough. Thanks 2100 01:52:15.359 --> 01:52:18.079 so much for coming on. I know people really learned 2101 01:52:18.119 --> 01:52:20.880 a lot and enjoyed it. And uh, if you're looking 2102 01:52:20.880 --> 01:52:25.520 for a Father's Day gift, that that book by mister Carpenter, 2103 01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:27.560 the founder of Wildberd's on living If We would be 2104 01:52:27.600 --> 01:52:29.399 a great gift for dad. Who knows he may read 2105 01:52:29.439 --> 01:52:33.239 that and get inspired to try it himself. Have a 2106 01:52:33.279 --> 01:52:36.800 great thank you, Thank you, yes, sir, you too. You 2107 01:52:36.880 --> 01:52:39.079 take care? All right, Well we're going to put this 2108 01:52:39.239 --> 01:52:42.119 hour in the books. We're coming back for one hour today, folks, 2109 01:52:42.319 --> 01:52:44.840 one more hour of garden Line. If you got any 2110 01:52:44.920 --> 01:52:47.720 kind of gardening questions seven one three two one two 2111 01:52:48.319 --> 01:52:50.199 K t R H. Look forward to talking to you. 2112 01:52:53.640 --> 01:52:57.359 All right, we're back. Welcome back to guard Line. That's 2113 01:52:57.399 --> 01:53:01.680 great having rich Edie from Wildbird. It's unlimited there answering 2114 01:53:01.680 --> 01:53:04.359 our gardening questions. Boy, do I have a lot of 2115 01:53:04.359 --> 01:53:07.800 gardening questions. I tell you I talk about Ace Hardware 2116 01:53:07.840 --> 01:53:10.159 Stores all the time. You know that you listen to 2117 01:53:10.199 --> 01:53:13.039 me and doing it. Uh, it's just the place. It's 2118 01:53:13.039 --> 01:53:14.880 the place to go. Do you need a great Father's 2119 01:53:14.960 --> 01:53:17.520 Day gift? You're not going to do better than Ace Hardware. 2120 01:53:17.880 --> 01:53:22.359 For example, maybe maybe there's a hands hand tool for dad, 2121 01:53:22.560 --> 01:53:25.600 you know, a power tool like something from Ace has 2122 01:53:25.600 --> 01:53:28.960 their own brands. There's Milwaukee, there's Stanley, there's Black and Decker, 2123 01:53:29.039 --> 01:53:32.640 Craftsman and Dewault. I'm especially fond of the Duwault and 2124 01:53:32.680 --> 01:53:34.880 boy do they ever have those at Ace Hardware stores. 2125 01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:38.680 Barbecue pits, barbecue equipment to go with your barbecue pits 2126 01:53:38.720 --> 01:53:43.199 and supplies. And then you know, whatever Dad is interested in, 2127 01:53:43.399 --> 01:53:46.159 you're going to find something there at ACE. Whatever is 2128 01:53:46.680 --> 01:53:51.680 an outdoor enjoyment and outdoor creating that special outdoor environment, 2129 01:53:52.159 --> 01:53:55.199 or even things inside the house. Ace Hardware has got 2130 01:53:55.239 --> 01:53:57.720 you covered. You can find your ACE Hardware stores by 2131 01:53:57.720 --> 01:54:01.760 going to Ace Hardware Texas dot com and you'll find 2132 01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:04.760 stores like All Star, Ace and Magnolia k and m 2133 01:54:04.800 --> 01:54:08.720 Ace and Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, the Kilgore's Clear Lake 2134 01:54:08.840 --> 01:54:11.560 Lumber on East Maine. If you're down in Port Lavaka, 2135 01:54:11.760 --> 01:54:15.000 there's Port Lovaka Ace on Calvin Plaza, and then Katie 2136 01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:18.680 Ace Hardware on Penoak Road in Old Town Katie. Just 2137 01:54:18.720 --> 01:54:21.319 a few of the mini Ace Hardware stores at Ace 2138 01:54:21.359 --> 01:54:25.720 Hardware Texas dot Com. We're gonna go now to Katie. 2139 01:54:25.760 --> 01:54:29.119 Speaking of Katie and talk to George. Hello, George, welcome 2140 01:54:29.119 --> 01:54:29.760 to garden Line. 2141 01:54:31.239 --> 01:54:32.079 Good morning, Skid. 2142 01:54:32.159 --> 01:54:36.279 Thank you for taking my call. I got three questions 2143 01:54:36.399 --> 01:54:39.640 and I hang up and I listened to you the 2144 01:54:39.760 --> 01:54:44.760 first one. Okay, I have three. I moved into this 2145 01:54:44.800 --> 01:54:49.199 home about five years ago. It came with three very 2146 01:54:49.319 --> 01:54:55.960 tall palm trees. Okay, there is a lot of weeds, 2147 01:54:56.199 --> 01:54:59.279 especially this time of the year, grows around this palm trees. 2148 01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:03.760 Do you have a suggestion on how to get rid 2149 01:55:03.800 --> 01:55:06.359 at those palm tree I'm sorry, sorry, give ready to 2150 01:55:06.359 --> 01:55:09.000 the weeds without harming the palm trees. 2151 01:55:10.560 --> 01:55:13.840 Yeah, so what can you give me? The other question 2152 01:55:14.000 --> 01:55:16.079 you have so because I need to keep going on 2153 01:55:16.199 --> 01:55:17.600 and then I'll answer them all together. 2154 01:55:18.840 --> 01:55:19.199 Yes, sir. 2155 01:55:19.319 --> 01:55:23.279 The other question, I have a flower bit that I 2156 01:55:23.399 --> 01:55:26.560 was getting ready to plant some flowers and as I 2157 01:55:26.800 --> 01:55:31.560 was digging, I found there's clay on the bottom about 2158 01:55:32.479 --> 01:55:36.079 eight about sixty eight inches deep. I ran into clay, 2159 01:55:36.159 --> 01:55:36.640 so stop. 2160 01:55:37.159 --> 01:55:38.560 I want to have a solution for that. 2161 01:55:40.840 --> 01:55:45.439 The last question I have is I have two create 2162 01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:49.119 myrtle trees in the backyard, but the area is not. 2163 01:55:49.199 --> 01:55:50.279 Getting a lot of shade. 2164 01:55:50.800 --> 01:55:51.399 Is it safe? 2165 01:55:51.840 --> 01:55:55.600 I can remove those and replant them somewhere else. 2166 01:55:56.680 --> 01:55:57.239 That's all for me. 2167 01:55:57.319 --> 01:56:00.159 Okay, thanks a lot. I'll answer those three. You have 2168 01:56:00.199 --> 01:56:02.119 a quick answer on those. Generally, I try to keep 2169 01:56:02.119 --> 01:56:04.479 it to a question here on Guardline, but I can 2170 01:56:04.560 --> 01:56:07.439 do a quick one on these getting rid of weeds 2171 01:56:07.439 --> 01:56:11.079 around palm trees. The most palms don't have basal sprouts. 2172 01:56:11.119 --> 01:56:13.199 There are a few palms that you get multiple trunks 2173 01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:15.520 coming out of the ground, but most don't. So just 2174 01:56:15.640 --> 01:56:17.720 look and check if there's no green leaves or anything 2175 01:56:17.760 --> 01:56:20.319 down there. You can use. If it's grassy weeds, there's 2176 01:56:20.399 --> 01:56:23.399 grass only killers. If it's grass and broad leaf. There 2177 01:56:23.439 --> 01:56:26.920 are systemic products that if you go to my website 2178 01:56:26.960 --> 01:56:32.479 gardening with Skip dot com, there's a publication called herbicides 2179 01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:35.199 to use on Skip's weed wiper. Now you don't have 2180 01:56:35.279 --> 01:56:37.479 to use the weed wiper to use these herbicides, but 2181 01:56:37.520 --> 01:56:39.359 they're grouped by the kind of weeds you have. And 2182 01:56:39.439 --> 01:56:41.399 I would go there and you'll find a listing of 2183 01:56:41.479 --> 01:56:45.000 the ingredients and the products that you need. Firebed with 2184 01:56:45.199 --> 01:56:47.119 clay underneath. You're just going to need to bring in 2185 01:56:47.359 --> 01:56:50.359 some expanded shale and some compost and mix it in 2186 01:56:50.479 --> 01:56:52.840 as deeply as you can. If you can bring a 2187 01:56:52.920 --> 01:56:56.319 bed mix in like a veggie and herb mix would 2188 01:56:56.319 --> 01:56:58.880 be a good one. That would work on that and 2189 01:56:59.000 --> 01:57:02.960 create a raised so excess water drains away. That would 2190 01:57:03.000 --> 01:57:05.520 be even better. But anything you do to improve the 2191 01:57:05.600 --> 01:57:08.239 internal drainage of the soil like I mentioned, or bring 2192 01:57:08.359 --> 01:57:11.600 up the level would be helpful for that. And I 2193 01:57:11.760 --> 01:57:14.880 just went blank on the loves the last question Andre 2194 01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:18.319 that he asked me, I can't remember the last question. 2195 01:57:18.520 --> 01:57:21.159 Oh great, myrtles. Yeah, don't move crept myrtles now, thank you. 2196 01:57:21.920 --> 01:57:25.239 Move crepe myrtles in November or December would be the 2197 01:57:25.319 --> 01:57:28.680 best time. Once they've drop leaves, that's the time you 2198 01:57:28.760 --> 01:57:30.840 want to dig them up and move them. If they're big, 2199 01:57:31.239 --> 01:57:33.399 it's going to be very difficult for them to recover 2200 01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:36.159 and survive the move. If they're small, you might be 2201 01:57:36.319 --> 01:57:39.800 successful with it. All right. That is a fast answer 2202 01:57:40.399 --> 01:57:43.920 in a nutshell on those If you're dealing with pests 2203 01:57:44.159 --> 01:57:46.520 inside and around your home, you need to know about 2204 01:57:46.560 --> 01:57:50.880 pest Brothers. Pest Bros Is the company that I talk 2205 01:57:50.920 --> 01:57:53.319 about on guardline all the time and I recommend because 2206 01:57:53.359 --> 01:57:55.279 from Texas City all the way to the Woodlands, from 2207 01:57:55.279 --> 01:57:58.359 Baytown to Katie, they cover that whole area. They have 2208 01:57:58.479 --> 01:58:02.159 ways of dealing with termites that are long lasting and 2209 01:58:02.680 --> 01:58:06.279 designed programs on it that are very safe to use. Also, 2210 01:58:06.800 --> 01:58:10.680 fire ants, mosquitoes, wild varmits. Whatever is bugging you called 2211 01:58:10.760 --> 01:58:15.119 pest Bros. Go to the website the pest b r 2212 01:58:15.239 --> 01:58:19.760 os dot com. Thepestbros dot com two eight one, two 2213 01:58:19.840 --> 01:58:23.800 oh six forty six seventy. They can fix it right 2214 01:58:24.119 --> 01:58:26.920 in the most effective way and in the safest way, 2215 01:58:27.000 --> 01:58:31.199 so you get long term control without those worries. Let's 2216 01:58:31.239 --> 01:58:34.720 head now to talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, welcome to Guardline. 2217 01:58:36.119 --> 01:58:37.279 Hello, how are you today? 2218 01:58:38.680 --> 01:58:39.119 Do good? 2219 01:58:40.439 --> 01:58:40.680 Good? 2220 01:58:41.720 --> 01:58:45.319 H I sent you some pictures of the lantana that 2221 01:58:45.479 --> 01:58:48.560 I have. I've got five of them. This one stopped 2222 01:58:48.600 --> 01:58:52.039 producing flowers, and the new leaves that are coming on 2223 01:58:52.960 --> 01:58:53.920 don't look good at all. 2224 01:58:57.000 --> 01:58:59.399 Oh this is a while back, right, I remember seeing 2225 01:58:59.439 --> 01:59:04.760 that a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So what I 2226 01:59:04.960 --> 01:59:08.479 saw is there are little insects that suck the juices 2227 01:59:08.520 --> 01:59:12.479 out of lanana leaves. There is a thing called the 2228 01:59:12.560 --> 01:59:15.560 lantana lacebug that's one of them. Then there are some 2229 01:59:15.720 --> 01:59:17.880 plant hoppers that do the same thing. And you see 2230 01:59:17.920 --> 01:59:21.239 the new growth, it loses its green and little tiny specks. 2231 01:59:21.319 --> 01:59:23.720 But when you get a thousand specks on there, the 2232 01:59:23.800 --> 01:59:28.680 whole thing just looks tan. You are brown. And the 2233 01:59:28.800 --> 01:59:31.520 way to deal with that is a challenge, because if 2234 01:59:31.560 --> 01:59:33.479 you put a systemic on them, it'll go in the 2235 01:59:33.560 --> 01:59:36.000 plant and kill those bugs. But you do have butterflies 2236 01:59:36.039 --> 01:59:38.199 come into your lantanas, so it's a little bit of 2237 01:59:38.239 --> 01:59:41.279 a trade off there. I might try using a spray 2238 01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:46.479 of a pyrethrin type insecticide pyrethrine. It is an organic 2239 01:59:46.560 --> 01:59:50.319 product that doesn't last very long, but it does an immediate, 2240 01:59:50.399 --> 01:59:52.880 quick knockdown. But you're going to need to spray upward 2241 01:59:52.920 --> 01:59:54.920 from underneath the plant, which is a little hard to do, 2242 01:59:55.840 --> 01:59:57.680 and you need to give them a good dosing of it. 2243 01:59:57.880 --> 02:00:00.319 These bugs hide, it's almost impossible to cat them in 2244 02:00:00.399 --> 02:00:02.800 the act, other than lace bugs, which don't run away 2245 02:00:03.000 --> 02:00:05.279 so fast. But you're gonna have to hit those pretty 2246 02:00:05.319 --> 02:00:08.159 hard and do it probably about once a week for 2247 02:00:08.239 --> 02:00:10.520 about three weeks to get ahead of them. Then give 2248 02:00:10.560 --> 02:00:12.680 them some fertilizer and water and try to push them 2249 02:00:12.720 --> 02:00:15.199 fresh new growth so they can get some leaves out 2250 02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:15.960 there in the sunlight. 2251 02:00:16.079 --> 02:00:21.720 Pat Okay, I sure appreciate it, all right, you bet ye? 2252 02:00:22.000 --> 02:00:22.399 Good luck. 2253 02:00:22.479 --> 02:00:25.760 Yeah, I've dealt with those same things myself. That is 2254 02:00:26.000 --> 02:00:30.840 indeed a problem for sure. When you're dealing with mosquitoes. 2255 02:00:31.199 --> 02:00:34.640 One simple way is just find the stagnant water where 2256 02:00:34.640 --> 02:00:37.239 they're breeding and throw a mosquito dunk in it. Someone 2257 02:00:37.319 --> 02:00:40.640 called earlier about some fungus gnats and pot bags of 2258 02:00:40.680 --> 02:00:45.319 potting soil. There isn't a disease in the mosquito dunks 2259 02:00:45.399 --> 02:00:48.560 that kills mosquito larva and fungus gnat larva. And that's it. 2260 02:00:49.039 --> 02:00:51.279 It doesn't hurt ladybugs, it doesn't hurt the family cat, 2261 02:00:51.319 --> 02:00:53.560 doesn't hurt the birds coming to the bird feeder. It 2262 02:00:54.119 --> 02:00:56.680 just goes after the mosquitos, which is a wonderful thing. 2263 02:00:57.399 --> 02:00:59.960 Some of them look like small beige donuts. The mosquito dunk. 2264 02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:02.479 They float around, cover about one hundred square feet and 2265 02:01:02.640 --> 02:01:05.520 last for about a month. Then there's granules. Those are small, 2266 02:01:05.600 --> 02:01:08.479 like grape nut size, little if you remember that serial, 2267 02:01:08.800 --> 02:01:12.039 little size granules that you can throw in in places 2268 02:01:12.119 --> 02:01:14.239 where stagnant water is just going to be, you know, 2269 02:01:14.399 --> 02:01:18.119 underneath your catch basins, under your plants and a perhaps 2270 02:01:18.159 --> 02:01:21.119 a bird bath, or even if like there's a hollow 2271 02:01:21.199 --> 02:01:23.479 spot in a tree and water's getting in there, mosquitoes 2272 02:01:23.520 --> 02:01:25.479 are breeding in it. Just toss one up in or 2273 02:01:25.560 --> 02:01:27.800 toss some granules up in there. You can take care 2274 02:01:27.800 --> 02:01:29.760 of them that way. You're gonna find mosquito dunks at 2275 02:01:29.760 --> 02:01:32.079 a hardware stores. You're gonna find them at feed stores 2276 02:01:32.199 --> 02:01:35.000 or independent garden centers. They're easy to find. You need 2277 02:01:35.079 --> 02:01:37.399 to have them on hand all the time because when 2278 02:01:37.439 --> 02:01:40.239 you need them, you need them and don't ever be 2279 02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:44.079 a Skeeter breeder. Don't be a Skeeter breeder. Get rid 2280 02:01:44.119 --> 02:01:46.439 of those things. I'm gonna take a little break here. 2281 02:01:46.560 --> 02:01:48.800 We'll be back with your calls in just one second 2282 02:01:48.840 --> 02:01:54.000 here at seven one three two on two kt RH. Alrighty, 2283 02:01:55.680 --> 02:01:58.600 welcome back. We're in our last hour on guarden Line. 2284 02:01:58.720 --> 02:02:00.880 You got a question seven one three two one two 2285 02:02:01.000 --> 02:02:03.800 kt r H, give me a call. We're gonna head 2286 02:02:03.800 --> 02:02:06.920 out now to tom Ball, Texas and talk to John 2287 02:02:07.039 --> 02:02:09.399 this morning. Hello John, welcome to garden Line. 2288 02:02:10.439 --> 02:02:12.600 Good morning, Skiff. I got a quick question for you 2289 02:02:12.720 --> 02:02:18.840 about eagleson Holly's. They're roughly two months old, about fifteen 2290 02:02:18.920 --> 02:02:21.640 gallons when they put them in, but they didn't support 2291 02:02:21.720 --> 02:02:25.199 them or take them up, and three or four of 2292 02:02:25.279 --> 02:02:27.800 them are kind of laying in, so would it be 2293 02:02:27.960 --> 02:02:30.760 best to take them up? Yeah? 2294 02:02:31.720 --> 02:02:34.520 Do they do they have a single trunk or do 2295 02:02:34.600 --> 02:02:35.720 they have multiple trunks? 2296 02:02:36.800 --> 02:02:36.960 An? 2297 02:02:37.079 --> 02:02:37.600 They're single? 2298 02:02:38.880 --> 02:02:39.640 Okay? Good? 2299 02:02:40.239 --> 02:02:40.319 Uh. 2300 02:02:40.439 --> 02:02:45.159 There's advice called the three sixty tree stabilizer, and you 2301 02:02:45.239 --> 02:02:47.680 can find it at a lot of different places up 2302 02:02:47.680 --> 02:02:49.239 there in Tomball. They got them at Arburgate. 2303 02:02:49.319 --> 02:02:49.680 I know that. 2304 02:02:50.479 --> 02:02:53.359 Uh, and go grab you one of those. Uh you 2305 02:02:53.720 --> 02:02:56.199 just drive a little tea post in the ground, a 2306 02:02:56.239 --> 02:02:58.680 little metal post in the ground. It attaches to the 2307 02:02:58.760 --> 02:03:00.920 post and attaches to the true and you want that 2308 02:03:01.039 --> 02:03:03.279 strap to be real loose, because what happened is when 2309 02:03:03.319 --> 02:03:05.119 they grew these things, they probably I don't know how 2310 02:03:05.159 --> 02:03:07.800 they grew them, but they had some way of holding them, 2311 02:03:07.960 --> 02:03:12.079 and they didn't develop good strength. Trink strength, good night, 2312 02:03:12.359 --> 02:03:17.520 trunk strength. There we go, trunks, and so yeah, when 2313 02:03:17.560 --> 02:03:19.319 a plant moved, it's easy for you to say, when 2314 02:03:19.359 --> 02:03:22.560 a plant moves, it makes the tissue stronger, and it 2315 02:03:22.600 --> 02:03:24.359 makes those roots at the bottom that are kind of 2316 02:03:24.399 --> 02:03:26.760 like the anchor roots that hold that trunk straight. It 2317 02:03:26.880 --> 02:03:29.159 strengthens them as well. So you want to leave it 2318 02:03:29.199 --> 02:03:31.319 a little loose so that eagleston can move around in 2319 02:03:31.399 --> 02:03:34.920 the wind, but it'll prevent it from moving more than 2320 02:03:34.960 --> 02:03:37.920 about three or four inches for sure. And so that's 2321 02:03:37.960 --> 02:03:39.680 what I would do. It's a simplest and you'll have 2322 02:03:39.760 --> 02:03:42.800 that thing anytime you plan anything, whether it's a crpe, 2323 02:03:42.840 --> 02:03:45.880 myrtle or a tree or whatever. It'll hold them well. 2324 02:03:46.000 --> 02:03:49.159 And that's what I would recommend. It's the simplest, fastest, easiest. 2325 02:03:49.239 --> 02:03:52.199 You're not you're not hammering steaks in the ground and 2326 02:03:52.359 --> 02:03:55.479 trying to make guy wires, you know, to hold it 2327 02:03:55.600 --> 02:03:57.800 down and stuff. Just to get you a three sixty 2328 02:03:57.880 --> 02:03:59.119 tree stabilizer and that'll do. 2329 02:03:59.159 --> 02:04:02.079 It about two of them. I've got like three or 2330 02:04:02.119 --> 02:04:05.159 four of the kind of leaning. So I'm surprised they 2331 02:04:05.920 --> 02:04:09.119 do something one day. This is a good nursery. I'm 2332 02:04:09.159 --> 02:04:11.239 not going to say the name, but yeah, there's no 2333 02:04:11.520 --> 02:04:12.079 no good. 2334 02:04:12.840 --> 02:04:16.760 Support them well, and the nursery didn't grow them, you know. 2335 02:04:16.840 --> 02:04:20.119 The nursery wasn't the grower for them either. So anyway, 2336 02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:23.079 just just just do that, Just give them a little 2337 02:04:23.119 --> 02:04:25.279 bit of support and hold them, hold them in place, 2338 02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:29.319 let them move though, make sure they move a little bit. Uh, 2339 02:04:29.520 --> 02:04:31.560 and then I'd probably leave it on there, maybe about 2340 02:04:31.600 --> 02:04:33.920 six months, just depending on how they're holding up. You 2341 02:04:33.960 --> 02:04:36.159 can check them and then take it off. You shouldn't 2342 02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:37.600 have to leave it on there a very long time. 2343 02:04:38.039 --> 02:04:40.159 Okay, thank you skip. 2344 02:04:41.319 --> 02:04:44.159 Hey John, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate your call, very much. 2345 02:04:44.359 --> 02:04:48.199 Good to talk to you. I have forgotten to tell 2346 02:04:48.199 --> 02:04:51.359 you guys about this, but we are entering the early 2347 02:04:51.520 --> 02:04:54.039 part of tinchbug season. If you go to my lawn 2348 02:04:54.119 --> 02:04:56.760 pest disease, and we'd management schedule. You will see that 2349 02:04:56.960 --> 02:04:59.920 June is when we do two things. Number one, if 2350 02:05:00.039 --> 02:05:03.119 we've got chinchbug issues or soide web worm. It's early 2351 02:05:03.199 --> 02:05:06.600 for sodeweb worms, although they could occur early, but it's 2352 02:05:06.600 --> 02:05:08.119 a little bit of a long shot on them for 2353 02:05:08.239 --> 02:05:11.960 right now. But chinchbugs could begin now and by the 2354 02:05:12.039 --> 02:05:16.800 time we get into in August, even early September, those 2355 02:05:16.920 --> 02:05:19.800 things really built up. But now is your first treatment 2356 02:05:19.880 --> 02:05:22.239 for grubs. If you have an issue with grubworms in 2357 02:05:22.319 --> 02:05:25.039 the soil, now's the time to do it. Look at 2358 02:05:25.079 --> 02:05:27.920 my schedule. I've got a treatment for grubs for June, 2359 02:05:28.319 --> 02:05:30.239 and then I have a different thing we put down 2360 02:05:30.359 --> 02:05:33.039 in July and August. I can go into that more later. 2361 02:05:33.640 --> 02:05:37.920 For now, bug Out Max granules. Bug Out Max Granules. 2362 02:05:38.039 --> 02:05:41.880 It's a great lawn and garden and control from nitrofoss. 2363 02:05:41.920 --> 02:05:44.600 So you're going to find it in places nitrofoss is sold. 2364 02:05:45.239 --> 02:05:47.199 You go to d and DE Feed Up in Tomball, 2365 02:05:47.720 --> 02:05:51.720 you go to RCW Nurseries, you go to ACE Hardware, 2366 02:05:51.760 --> 02:05:54.920 Citium Memorial Drive, you go to Langham Creek Case hard 2367 02:05:55.000 --> 02:05:57.960 Run five twenty nine. You're going to find nitrofoss products there. 2368 02:05:58.279 --> 02:06:01.319 But now's the season for down, the month for putting 2369 02:06:01.399 --> 02:06:06.000 down the bug out max to shut those turf insects down, 2370 02:06:06.239 --> 02:06:11.640 especially the grubs and secondly the early chinchbugs. All right, 2371 02:06:12.119 --> 02:06:15.239 I'll cover it. Let's go now to Meyerland and we 2372 02:06:15.479 --> 02:06:18.319 are going to visit with John. Hello, John, Welcome to 2373 02:06:18.399 --> 02:06:21.159 garden line. How you doing skip? 2374 02:06:22.199 --> 02:06:25.479 I got a bunch of good boves, I got a 2375 02:06:25.560 --> 02:06:30.159 bunch of news citrus, and I don't have a fits 2376 02:06:30.279 --> 02:06:33.399 or anything like that. But something is eaten the green, 2377 02:06:33.880 --> 02:06:37.359 you know, the tender new growth right down to. 2378 02:06:37.520 --> 02:06:38.720 The to the limb. 2379 02:06:40.439 --> 02:06:41.760 I have no idea what it is. 2380 02:06:44.520 --> 02:06:46.479 Well, it's either going to be a caterpillar or a 2381 02:06:46.560 --> 02:06:50.359 beetle most likely, Uh, I would I would guess it's 2382 02:06:50.399 --> 02:06:52.600 a caterpillar. But if you look around on there, you're 2383 02:06:52.640 --> 02:06:54.119 not seeing any critters around. 2384 02:06:56.119 --> 02:07:01.439 I'm not seeing anything. And I've been spraying for you know, bugs, 2385 02:07:01.960 --> 02:07:03.439 caterpillars and suck. 2386 02:07:05.600 --> 02:07:05.720 Uh. 2387 02:07:06.079 --> 02:07:07.319 Can you tell me what you've been. 2388 02:07:09.760 --> 02:07:10.079 What's that? 2389 02:07:11.800 --> 02:07:11.840 What? 2390 02:07:12.079 --> 02:07:14.600 What have you been spraying? Do you remember what product 2391 02:07:14.680 --> 02:07:15.000 it was? 2392 02:07:15.920 --> 02:07:16.039 Uh? 2393 02:07:16.920 --> 02:07:20.520 The stuff for for vegetables and fruit trees that have 2394 02:07:20.600 --> 02:07:22.680 got from Southwest or Lauser. 2395 02:07:24.000 --> 02:07:28.159 Okay, Uh, you were gonna say, could it be something. 2396 02:07:29.760 --> 02:07:30.039 Mice. 2397 02:07:33.079 --> 02:07:38.760 I've never known mice to do that, Okay, I I 2398 02:07:39.199 --> 02:07:41.760 just don't. That doesn't sound right to me the mice. 2399 02:07:41.880 --> 02:07:43.039 So uh, it's. 2400 02:07:46.399 --> 02:07:50.159 As soon as any new growth comes out, it'll get 2401 02:07:50.199 --> 02:07:52.840 a good start, and then the next day it's gone. 2402 02:07:57.119 --> 02:07:57.239 Here. 2403 02:07:57.359 --> 02:08:00.479 Here's what I would do. I would get go out 2404 02:08:00.520 --> 02:08:02.439 there at night, you know, go at like ten o'clock 2405 02:08:02.479 --> 02:08:05.439 at night or ir relate your up and just get 2406 02:08:05.479 --> 02:08:08.720 a flashlight and look around on there. Because some of 2407 02:08:08.800 --> 02:08:11.760 our critters are nocturnal, some of the caterpillars are nocturnal 2408 02:08:11.800 --> 02:08:15.279 in others and maybe you can catch something in the 2409 02:08:15.439 --> 02:08:17.439 act that would be helpful in knowing what to do. 2410 02:08:17.560 --> 02:08:20.800 I don't know what's the insecticide in the product you 2411 02:08:20.920 --> 02:08:26.199 bought there at Southwest, but you know, if it were 2412 02:08:26.279 --> 02:08:31.039 a BT ingredient and you had a you had a 2413 02:08:31.840 --> 02:08:34.640 you know, a grasshopper or a beetle or some other 2414 02:08:34.800 --> 02:08:37.840 chewing past, BT wouldn't work. That's why I ask, you 2415 02:08:37.920 --> 02:08:41.079 know what's in the product, But if you can catch 2416 02:08:41.119 --> 02:08:43.119 them in the act, I would I would try that. 2417 02:08:43.279 --> 02:08:46.119 If not, there are some other products that you can 2418 02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:50.000 use that kind of kill all insects. But here's here's 2419 02:08:50.039 --> 02:08:53.159 something we could do. I'm gonna I think we're winding 2420 02:08:53.239 --> 02:08:55.239 this up because I'm not coming up with a good, 2421 02:08:55.279 --> 02:08:58.199 definitive answer for you. I'm gonna put you on hold, 2422 02:08:58.279 --> 02:09:01.159 and if you want, my producer will give you an email. 2423 02:09:01.560 --> 02:09:04.279 If you'll take a picture of the damage, and then 2424 02:09:04.399 --> 02:09:06.680 you will take a picture of the label of the 2425 02:09:06.760 --> 02:09:10.039 product you're using and email them to me. I'll look 2426 02:09:10.079 --> 02:09:12.960 at that and I'll give you a second opinion, Okay, John, 2427 02:09:14.000 --> 02:09:18.119 all right, yeah, yes, sir, real quick. 2428 02:09:19.439 --> 02:09:23.560 Down on the bay on San Antonio Bay, is the 2429 02:09:23.920 --> 02:09:27.199 soil there too uh pH off? 2430 02:09:27.319 --> 02:09:30.239 Too much for citrus and hibiscus. 2431 02:09:31.920 --> 02:09:33.079 Down around sea drift? 2432 02:09:34.359 --> 02:09:37.600 I don't think so uh not, you know, just as 2433 02:09:37.680 --> 02:09:42.880 a general region issue, I don't believe so. So uh 2434 02:09:43.600 --> 02:09:45.359 Are you seeing symptoms on the plants. 2435 02:09:46.920 --> 02:09:50.479 No, I haven't planted anything, but I don't see anybody 2436 02:09:50.520 --> 02:09:51.279 else doing it. 2437 02:09:52.760 --> 02:09:55.439 Oh well, if you've got a like a clay or 2438 02:09:55.479 --> 02:09:57.720 a sand either one, get a lot of composts, build 2439 02:09:57.800 --> 02:10:00.079 up a raised mound, mixing in the soil rug it, 2440 02:10:00.199 --> 02:10:02.479 or get a good bed mix to build up a 2441 02:10:02.600 --> 02:10:05.119 raised bound. They don't want to sit in wet conditions, 2442 02:10:05.720 --> 02:10:07.520 and then you ought to be able to grow any 2443 02:10:07.560 --> 02:10:08.239 of that down there? 2444 02:10:08.840 --> 02:10:13.880 Ye twenty three, but is one hundred feet? 2445 02:10:15.640 --> 02:10:18.439 Yeah, well give give up, you know, give them up 2446 02:10:18.479 --> 02:10:20.720 a raised box or something to grow in that that'll work. 2447 02:10:21.199 --> 02:10:24.720 Thanks sir, appreciate, appreciate your phone call. Uh, let's see here, 2448 02:10:24.800 --> 02:10:26.119 where are we all? We got a little bit of time. 2449 02:10:26.840 --> 02:10:30.520 I wanted to mention that you know talking about Nelson 2450 02:10:30.520 --> 02:10:32.560 plant foods all the time, and I've been telling you 2451 02:10:32.720 --> 02:10:35.520 recently about this Slow and Easy. Slow and Easy is 2452 02:10:36.239 --> 02:10:41.960 a very slow release fertilizer for your lawns. It it 2453 02:10:42.079 --> 02:10:45.880 has a high nitrogen content, but that nitrogen is leaked 2454 02:10:46.039 --> 02:10:50.319 out in small amounts over four months or at least. Okay, 2455 02:10:50.960 --> 02:10:54.000 so you put it down now and it covers you 2456 02:10:54.039 --> 02:10:54.840 all the way to fall. 2457 02:10:55.560 --> 02:10:55.680 Uh. 2458 02:10:55.920 --> 02:10:59.880 It has some some ingredients that I think are really interesting. First, 2459 02:11:00.039 --> 02:11:02.199 while the slow release prevents burned you know, you don't 2460 02:11:02.199 --> 02:11:05.199 burn your plants with too much the form of nitrogen 2461 02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:07.800 in it, there will be some taken up on that 2462 02:11:07.960 --> 02:11:12.319 by so microbes and things. Also, it has an acidifying 2463 02:11:12.399 --> 02:11:14.399 element to it, and it's not going to take your 2464 02:11:14.479 --> 02:11:17.119 lawn from a pH eight to a pH six. Don't 2465 02:11:17.119 --> 02:11:20.479 worry about that. But gradually, over time it's helping bring 2466 02:11:20.600 --> 02:11:23.920 that pH down a little bit. And turf cress does well. 2467 02:11:24.239 --> 02:11:25.720 It does well in that you're going to have a 2468 02:11:25.800 --> 02:11:29.319 little less iron deficiencies as you bring that pH down 2469 02:11:29.399 --> 02:11:33.119 in your lawn. Slow and easy has multiple beneficial effects, 2470 02:11:33.439 --> 02:11:36.399 mainly feeding the lawn gradually so you still get a 2471 02:11:36.439 --> 02:11:38.520 good root system. You don't have to mow all the 2472 02:11:38.560 --> 02:11:40.720 time trying to keep up with it because you've overdone 2473 02:11:40.760 --> 02:11:44.479 the nitrogen. It's slow and it's easy, and it's from 2474 02:11:44.560 --> 02:11:49.960 Nelson Plant Food That makes plenty of sense. Highly recommend 2475 02:11:50.039 --> 02:11:52.479 that one. Hey, let's go to Richmond. Now we're going 2476 02:11:52.560 --> 02:11:55.640 to talk to Terry this morning. Good morning, Terry, welcome 2477 02:11:55.720 --> 02:11:56.399 regardan Yes. 2478 02:11:56.319 --> 02:11:57.600 Sir, well, thank you. 2479 02:11:58.239 --> 02:12:01.800 My question is Dylan with uh more of my yard. 2480 02:12:02.079 --> 02:12:04.680 I've learned from you that I do not need to 2481 02:12:04.840 --> 02:12:09.000 bag my clippings. Uh But in my backyard, I have 2482 02:12:09.239 --> 02:12:14.319 two large magnolia trees that put out lots of big 2483 02:12:14.520 --> 02:12:18.640 leaves all the time. So okay, I just continue just 2484 02:12:18.760 --> 02:12:22.279 to multch them up or or what what do I 2485 02:12:22.399 --> 02:12:22.760 need to do? 2486 02:12:24.199 --> 02:12:24.359 Well? 2487 02:12:24.439 --> 02:12:26.039 I took the call right before I have to go 2488 02:12:26.119 --> 02:12:29.479 to break so here's what we're gonna do. Hang on, 2489 02:12:29.840 --> 02:12:31.479 We're gonna go a little break here, and I'm gonna 2490 02:12:31.479 --> 02:12:32.600 come back because I want to talk to you, to 2491 02:12:32.640 --> 02:12:34.319 you about a little bit more than just a few 2492 02:12:34.399 --> 02:12:37.880 seconds here. Okay, okay, but we will we will come up. 2493 02:12:37.960 --> 02:12:39.359 Just hang on and put you on hold and we 2494 02:12:39.680 --> 02:12:41.319 will come right back to you. 2495 02:12:42.039 --> 02:12:42.119 Uh. 2496 02:12:42.319 --> 02:12:46.359 Obapalooza is Saturday, August second. It's from eight to four 2497 02:12:46.720 --> 02:12:50.399 and it is an organic extravaganza is basically what it 2498 02:12:50.479 --> 02:12:53.079 amounts to. You can get more information by going to 2499 02:12:53.239 --> 02:12:57.039 OBA online dot org slash register. O h b A 2500 02:12:57.439 --> 02:13:02.760 online dot org slash register. Joe Gardner Joe Lemple will 2501 02:13:02.800 --> 02:13:04.760 be there speaking and so will I hope you can 2502 02:13:04.800 --> 02:13:06.960 make it all right? There you go. If you can 2503 02:13:07.039 --> 02:13:10.840 tell me who that is singing that, hey, I'll be impressed. 2504 02:13:11.960 --> 02:13:14.159 And b you won't have any weeds in your yard 2505 02:13:14.239 --> 02:13:16.000 this year. That's a guarantee. 2506 02:13:17.239 --> 02:13:17.359 You know. 2507 02:13:17.439 --> 02:13:20.079 It's all about soil, isn't it. It's brown stuff before 2508 02:13:20.159 --> 02:13:23.800 green stuff. And when I think about someone getting started, 2509 02:13:23.800 --> 02:13:26.640 I always tell them build the soil first. And heirloom 2510 02:13:26.720 --> 02:13:30.159 soils has a blend for every situation. I don't care 2511 02:13:30.239 --> 02:13:32.680 what you're going after if you are wanting to grow 2512 02:13:32.800 --> 02:13:36.079 vegetables and herbs or for that matter, flowers too. Airloom 2513 02:13:36.119 --> 02:13:38.600 Soils has something called Veggie and Herb Mix. It does 2514 02:13:38.720 --> 02:13:41.640 really well. If you're trying to spread something over the 2515 02:13:41.720 --> 02:13:44.159 soil in where you're going to put a lawn, you're 2516 02:13:44.159 --> 02:13:46.199 filling in, you're getting it all ready, you're kind of 2517 02:13:46.239 --> 02:13:48.640 mixing it in and everything. They've got something called the 2518 02:13:48.760 --> 02:13:51.760 Premium lawn Mix. That's something you buy by the bulk. 2519 02:13:52.479 --> 02:13:55.199 It's top soil list. It's made with masons and compost 2520 02:13:55.239 --> 02:13:58.520 and bed mix. Great for that soil prep. Very economical too. 2521 02:13:59.039 --> 02:14:03.000 Leaf Molkompo for top dressings are just using in your containers. 2522 02:14:03.520 --> 02:14:06.159 Maybe you grow succulents. How about cacti in succulents. How 2523 02:14:06.199 --> 02:14:08.279 about a potting soil called the Works. I've used the 2524 02:14:08.319 --> 02:14:12.239 Works potting soil for years. It is an excellent blend. 2525 02:14:12.279 --> 02:14:14.960 It drains well and yet it holds water. You keep 2526 02:14:15.000 --> 02:14:16.920 hearing me say, with clay soils, you need to add 2527 02:14:16.960 --> 02:14:21.079 expanded shale, you need to add compost. Well, they have compost. 2528 02:14:21.640 --> 02:14:25.800 They have expanded shale, and they have expanded shell and compost. 2529 02:14:26.359 --> 02:14:28.520 How do you want it they've got it, and then 2530 02:14:28.640 --> 02:14:31.199 quality bed mixes of two. Course, all you do is 2531 02:14:31.239 --> 02:14:35.119 go to airloomsoils dot com, Heirloomsoils dot com, look at 2532 02:14:35.159 --> 02:14:37.760 the soil calculator, find out how much you need. It'll 2533 02:14:37.800 --> 02:14:39.520 tell you, I mean it down to like how many 2534 02:14:39.600 --> 02:14:42.119 five gallon buckets of soil do you need? Or are 2535 02:14:42.199 --> 02:14:46.359 there in a qbcyard or whatever. They will deliver. They 2536 02:14:46.479 --> 02:14:48.560 will also you can also go out there to porter 2537 02:14:48.640 --> 02:14:50.279 and pick it up. And then if you go to 2538 02:14:50.359 --> 02:14:53.439 garden centers, feed stores, all kinds of places all around 2539 02:14:53.520 --> 02:14:56.840 town that carry airloom salce products, you can find it 2540 02:14:56.880 --> 02:15:02.439 by the bag and big beautiful bags, really really nice products. 2541 02:15:02.960 --> 02:15:05.520 I know that because they use them, because they work 2542 02:15:05.920 --> 02:15:09.239 all right, Heirloomsoils dot Com, go check them out. We're 2543 02:15:09.279 --> 02:15:12.359 going to go back now to Terry and Richmond, and 2544 02:15:12.760 --> 02:15:15.760 Terry thank you for hanging on while we went to 2545 02:15:15.840 --> 02:15:19.880 break there. So your bottom line question for those just 2546 02:15:20.000 --> 02:15:23.159 joining us on the air is that you have magnolia 2547 02:15:23.279 --> 02:15:25.399 leaves and they're big old leaves and they're everywhere, and 2548 02:15:25.439 --> 02:15:26.680 what do you do about them? You know, do you 2549 02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:29.399 grind them up and mulch them or what Magnolia leaves. 2550 02:15:29.439 --> 02:15:32.119 I'm pretty sure that you could roof your house with 2551 02:15:32.239 --> 02:15:34.560 them and they last longer than a thirty year shingle. 2552 02:15:35.439 --> 02:15:39.880 But when you break them up and that glossy coating 2553 02:15:40.960 --> 02:15:44.359 is broken up, microbes can get to more surfaces on 2554 02:15:44.439 --> 02:15:48.319 the leaf and they break down fairly fairly, well pretty quickly. 2555 02:15:48.800 --> 02:15:51.079 So I would run them over with a lawnmower or 2556 02:15:51.119 --> 02:15:53.359 anything to break them up a little bit and then 2557 02:15:53.479 --> 02:15:55.600 use them as mulch any and everywhere you want to 2558 02:15:55.680 --> 02:15:57.720 use them. They're just fine. Just don't I just wouldn't 2559 02:15:57.720 --> 02:15:58.239 do them whole. 2560 02:16:00.199 --> 02:16:06.359 Okay, good, well, I got on the question that was sure. 2561 02:16:06.439 --> 02:16:08.680 Let me ask you what the other thing my front yard? 2562 02:16:08.760 --> 02:16:11.720 I got these oak trees. At times I get overwhelmed 2563 02:16:11.760 --> 02:16:15.279 with leaves there. So do I just try to munch them? 2564 02:16:15.760 --> 02:16:18.319 Or do I need to remove as much of the 2565 02:16:18.439 --> 02:16:21.239 oak leaves as possible or kind of what is my 2566 02:16:21.680 --> 02:16:24.760 game plan for my oak? And everything's on Saint August, 2567 02:16:24.880 --> 02:16:25.039 you know? 2568 02:16:25.239 --> 02:16:31.359 So yeah, okay, well on on on the oak leaves. 2569 02:16:31.720 --> 02:16:34.520 You can again, I would the same kind of thing. 2570 02:16:34.600 --> 02:16:36.040 They do have a little bit of a coating on them. 2571 02:16:36.559 --> 02:16:39.360 They are high in tannins. But I from what I'm 2572 02:16:39.399 --> 02:16:41.440 seeing I just wouldn't worry about them. I knew a 2573 02:16:41.520 --> 02:16:45.280 guy who had giant compost beds and they were made 2574 02:16:45.319 --> 02:16:48.280 out of nothing but oak leaves and sheep man are. 2575 02:16:48.399 --> 02:16:50.799 This was Central Texas, hence the sheet man are and 2576 02:16:51.000 --> 02:16:53.760 they did great and the plants thrived in it. And 2577 02:16:53.959 --> 02:16:57.040 so H just grind them up a little bit. Uh, 2578 02:16:57.360 --> 02:17:01.040 And it works well. I use live oak leaves, and 2579 02:17:01.159 --> 02:17:02.959 then when you get to the bigger oak leaves a 2580 02:17:03.040 --> 02:17:04.559 kind of meat, you know, closer to the size of 2581 02:17:04.559 --> 02:17:07.239 your hand, like red oat and white oat. Those are 2582 02:17:07.280 --> 02:17:09.920 even easier to grind up in you. So yeah, listen, 2583 02:17:10.360 --> 02:17:13.239 Nature takes every leaf on earth and it turns it 2584 02:17:13.319 --> 02:17:16.840 into soil. Whether it's a pine needle or a magnolia 2585 02:17:17.040 --> 02:17:19.360 or a live oak, all of those fall on the 2586 02:17:19.440 --> 02:17:22.319 ground and become soil again as part of nature's design. 2587 02:17:22.399 --> 02:17:25.040 So don't be afraid to use them. Okay, thank you 2588 02:17:25.200 --> 02:17:28.440 very much, Thank you, Terry, and thanks for hanging on 2589 02:17:28.920 --> 02:17:31.799 during the break. You bet good to visit with you. Hey, 2590 02:17:31.840 --> 02:17:34.120 we've got time for another call here before we go 2591 02:17:34.200 --> 02:17:37.280 to break seven one three two one two k. 2592 02:17:37.520 --> 02:17:38.239 T r H. 2593 02:17:38.399 --> 02:17:42.000 If you would like to ask a gardening question, I 2594 02:17:42.120 --> 02:17:44.239 tell you that you need to go to Moss Nursery. 2595 02:17:44.280 --> 02:17:46.280 I don't care where you live, you need to make 2596 02:17:46.319 --> 02:17:49.159 a trip over that. That'd be a great outing. My 2597 02:17:49.360 --> 02:17:51.520 idea of a good day would be I run down 2598 02:17:51.559 --> 02:17:53.360 to Keema Greb or go to Moss and then go 2599 02:17:53.399 --> 02:17:55.239 to Keema and get some lunch on the boardwalk or 2600 02:17:55.280 --> 02:17:59.879 something like that. But Moss Nursery eight acres cram full 2601 02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:03.639 of gorgeous plants. This is a seventy year old family 2602 02:18:03.719 --> 02:18:09.319 operated nursery. When you go to Moss, you allow yourself 2603 02:18:09.399 --> 02:18:12.239 some time. You're going to wander, and you're going to 2604 02:18:12.360 --> 02:18:14.799 go through and see some of the best pottery anywhere 2605 02:18:14.959 --> 02:18:18.280 all over the place. You're gonna see beautiful flowers. You 2606 02:18:18.399 --> 02:18:22.079 got shady areas. Go get some Terinia also called wishbone 2607 02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:24.680 flower at Moss Nursery. They are loaded. They just got 2608 02:18:24.719 --> 02:18:26.680 a big shipment of them in. Do you like the 2609 02:18:26.799 --> 02:18:30.280 daisy like flowers, like rubekia, and like echinaesia, a purple 2610 02:18:30.360 --> 02:18:33.200 cone flower or purple cone flower, and all those other 2611 02:18:33.280 --> 02:18:36.760 cone flower colors I have Now Moss just got wishma 2612 02:18:36.840 --> 02:18:40.360 non They are stunningly beautiful. You need something that can 2613 02:18:40.440 --> 02:18:42.600 take so much heat. You could probably lay it on 2614 02:18:42.719 --> 02:18:45.200 Interstate forty five and it would survive in the summer. 2615 02:18:45.600 --> 02:18:49.440 That's called Venka. The Nirvana series of Venca is resistant 2616 02:18:49.600 --> 02:18:53.000 to a fungal blight, a bacterial blike excuse me, that 2617 02:18:53.280 --> 02:18:56.319 used to wipe out Venca, but Nirvana's resistant. They have 2618 02:18:56.520 --> 02:18:59.079 Nirvana and all kinds of beautiful colors, not just the 2619 02:18:59.159 --> 02:19:03.280 standard pink and white Vinka, but they've got some beautiful 2620 02:19:03.360 --> 02:19:06.959 lavender colors. They've got some rose colors. They are awesome 2621 02:19:07.520 --> 02:19:10.520 for lots of sun and lots of heat. You just 2622 02:19:10.600 --> 02:19:14.280 give them some water and they're gonna do super, super fine. 2623 02:19:14.879 --> 02:19:17.440 I could sit here and spend a whole show just 2624 02:19:17.680 --> 02:19:20.360 talking about mosterners shoe. Let me give you one more. 2625 02:19:20.680 --> 02:19:25.000 They have a great selection. A new arrival of mallow 2626 02:19:25.079 --> 02:19:28.239 hibiscus that is rose mallow or swamp mallow. That isn't 2627 02:19:28.319 --> 02:19:31.719 the tropical hibiscus which Moss also has. Of course, have everything, 2628 02:19:32.360 --> 02:19:35.280 but it's a perennial biscus. It dies to the ground 2629 02:19:35.319 --> 02:19:37.319 in the winter and it comes back out in summer 2630 02:19:37.440 --> 02:19:41.479 with dinner plate size gorgeous blooms. Just go to Moss 2631 02:19:41.520 --> 02:19:44.520 and check them out. While you're there, say congratulations to 2632 02:19:44.719 --> 02:19:46.719 the employee. Of the month. His name is Cat Cat. 2633 02:19:46.879 --> 02:19:49.920 He's a cat. He is employee of the month for 2634 02:19:50.040 --> 02:19:52.520 June of twenty twenty five. Now I've watched Cat Cat 2635 02:19:52.559 --> 02:19:54.360 at Moss and I can tell you this. He's a loafer. 2636 02:19:54.879 --> 02:19:57.079 He does not do good. I don't know how. I 2637 02:19:57.120 --> 02:19:59.600 don't know who he bribed to be employee of the month. 2638 02:20:00.399 --> 02:20:02.959 But say hey to cat cowboy while you're down there. 2639 02:20:03.639 --> 02:20:06.399 All right, well, here we go. It's time for me 2640 02:20:06.399 --> 02:20:08.079 to take a little break. When we come back from break, 2641 02:20:08.159 --> 02:20:10.760 Nick and Cyprus, you are going to be our first up. 2642 02:20:11.159 --> 02:20:13.399 I want to remind you Oba Palooza one more time. 2643 02:20:13.440 --> 02:20:16.440 I didn't quite get it in last time. Oba Palooza 2644 02:20:16.879 --> 02:20:23.079 obaonline dot org, OHBA online dot org. Slash register. It 2645 02:20:23.239 --> 02:20:26.159 is a full day of training eight am to four pm, 2646 02:20:26.399 --> 02:20:29.280 including breaks. Now it does come for a cost. You 2647 02:20:29.319 --> 02:20:31.719 got it. You got a register for it. But you 2648 02:20:31.799 --> 02:20:34.559 are getting some of the best speakers all day long. 2649 02:20:34.719 --> 02:20:37.719 Joe Lample who is Joe the gar Joe Gardner. I 2650 02:20:37.719 --> 02:20:39.559 don't know if you have seen the guy on TV 2651 02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:43.840 or podcaster. He's awesome. He's really really on target guy. 2652 02:20:44.159 --> 02:20:46.280 He's going to be there as a headliner speaker, A 2653 02:20:46.319 --> 02:20:47.879 lot of the rest of us are also going to 2654 02:20:47.920 --> 02:20:51.440 be speaking. I'm going to be talking about vegetables for heat, 2655 02:20:51.680 --> 02:20:54.639 for hot weather, things to grow in hot weather. Come 2656 02:20:54.719 --> 02:20:57.639 on out and see us August second. That's a Saturday, 2657 02:20:58.200 --> 02:21:00.239 eight am to four pm. I won't get there till 2658 02:21:00.280 --> 02:21:03.920 after ten obviously because I'll be doing this, but coming 2659 02:21:03.959 --> 02:21:08.799 out to Oba Palooza obaonline dot org slash register, we'll 2660 02:21:08.840 --> 02:21:11.840 be right back. All right, you're back here. We are 2661 02:21:11.920 --> 02:21:15.760 on guardline having a good time. Listen if you are 2662 02:21:15.920 --> 02:21:19.360 wanting to deal with summer without sending every penny you 2663 02:21:19.559 --> 02:21:24.120 own to pay for air conditioning electricity. In other words, 2664 02:21:24.799 --> 02:21:27.719 Arctic Insallation Solutions is who you need to know about 2665 02:21:28.079 --> 02:21:32.479 Arctic Houston dot com. So Arctic Insallation Solutions, that's a 2666 02:21:32.559 --> 02:21:37.399 company website, Arctic Houston dot com, and it's Arctic arc 2667 02:21:37.600 --> 02:21:40.760 tic Houston dot com. I still haven't learned how to 2668 02:21:40.760 --> 02:21:44.360 spell Arctic eight three to two five A six twenty 2669 02:21:44.399 --> 02:21:46.879 eight ninety three. Now they're a one stop shop for 2670 02:21:47.040 --> 02:21:50.319 all your customized insallation needs. They can do things like 2671 02:21:50.399 --> 02:21:53.319 putting a radiant barrier up in the attic on the rafters. 2672 02:21:53.799 --> 02:21:57.159 It's ninety seven percent of the heat gets radiated away 2673 02:21:57.239 --> 02:21:59.479 to lower the attic temperature about thirty degrees or more. 2674 02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.399 Now they can also put in fiberglass insulation. They can 2675 02:22:03.440 --> 02:22:05.760 do any kind of insulation you need. I mean, there's 2676 02:22:05.799 --> 02:22:09.559 all the different variations on high you insulate and attic. 2677 02:22:09.639 --> 02:22:12.200 They can do that. The one I think is probably 2678 02:22:12.239 --> 02:22:14.879 the most practical, fast, easy, and it works is blown 2679 02:22:14.920 --> 02:22:18.680 in fiberglass. Make a nice thick pillow of fiberglass insulation. 2680 02:22:19.239 --> 02:22:22.799 It holds its height very well R thirty eight value. 2681 02:22:23.040 --> 02:22:26.280 That is amazing good value. They can do that. They 2682 02:22:26.319 --> 02:22:28.440 can also put in a solar attic fan. This is 2683 02:22:28.520 --> 02:22:32.360 really cool. Sunshines makes it hot right. Sunshines makes that 2684 02:22:32.559 --> 02:22:36.360 attic fan power when it gets to eighty five degrees 2685 02:22:36.479 --> 02:22:38.520 or seventy five percent humidity. By the way, you don't 2686 02:22:38.559 --> 02:22:41.239 want your addicts being very very high humidity because you 2687 02:22:41.280 --> 02:22:43.760 get mold in things. The attic fan comes on and 2688 02:22:43.840 --> 02:22:48.239 moves fifteen hundred cubic feet of air a minute, and 2689 02:22:48.440 --> 02:22:52.000 that brings a really good ventilation up into the attic 2690 02:22:52.079 --> 02:22:54.120 and keeps it cooler as well. They deal a lot 2691 02:22:54.120 --> 02:22:56.879 of other things. They can do removal of old insulation. 2692 02:22:57.399 --> 02:23:00.319 They can make sure an air seal in the healing 2693 02:23:00.479 --> 02:23:03.760 all those holes around light fixtures or the AC registers 2694 02:23:03.879 --> 02:23:07.000 or even wall plates. When you steal all that up, 2695 02:23:07.479 --> 02:23:10.200 it is like taking a window that's sitting there open 2696 02:23:10.280 --> 02:23:12.920 in your living room and closing it. It is huge 2697 02:23:13.079 --> 02:23:15.760 in terms of preventing the loss of your nice cool 2698 02:23:15.799 --> 02:23:18.520 air that you paid for on your electric bill. Arctic 2699 02:23:18.600 --> 02:23:22.840 Installation Solutions, Arctic Houston dot Com eight three two fifty 2700 02:23:22.920 --> 02:23:26.600 eight excuse me, five eighty six twenty eight ninety three 2701 02:23:26.719 --> 02:23:30.319 eight three two five eight six twenty eight ninety three. 2702 02:23:30.440 --> 02:23:33.040 Let's head out now we're going to go to Cyprus, 2703 02:23:33.159 --> 02:23:36.319 Texas and visit with Nick. Hello, Nick, and welcome to 2704 02:23:36.399 --> 02:23:36.879 garden Line. 2705 02:23:38.000 --> 02:23:39.719 Hey, Skip, I believe that what the tractors you were 2706 02:23:39.799 --> 02:23:40.920 playing just a second ago. 2707 02:23:41.079 --> 02:23:44.680 So ah, good good ding ding ding winter winter checking dinner. 2708 02:23:45.280 --> 02:23:48.920 That is the tractors. All right, I'm impressed. Go ahead. 2709 02:23:50.000 --> 02:23:54.040 Well, I am actually in the backyard airity my long 2710 02:23:54.079 --> 02:23:55.719 a little bit, and I was going to put down 2711 02:23:55.799 --> 02:23:59.399 some compost over it. Now, I was wondering about the shells. 2712 02:23:59.399 --> 02:24:01.000 Should I put some shell in there? Because it's really 2713 02:24:01.040 --> 02:24:04.719 clay in this one area, clay man, how much shell 2714 02:24:04.920 --> 02:24:05.079 you know? 2715 02:24:05.239 --> 02:24:05.520 Putting? 2716 02:24:06.719 --> 02:24:09.159 Yeah, putting shell down in a lawn is just not 2717 02:24:09.559 --> 02:24:12.600 going to be a very effective or practical thing. Usually 2718 02:24:12.680 --> 02:24:15.719 with shale will lay about Let's say you just had 2719 02:24:15.760 --> 02:24:19.360 a horrible solid clay, you would lay about maybe three 2720 02:24:19.440 --> 02:24:21.920 inches of shell down and mix it as deeply as 2721 02:24:22.000 --> 02:24:24.680 you could, and then you would have these little porous 2722 02:24:25.680 --> 02:24:27.959 rocks like little lava rocks. If you look at them 2723 02:24:28.040 --> 02:24:30.079 under a microscope, you have a little pets and holes 2724 02:24:30.079 --> 02:24:32.799 in them, and they hold the clay apart for a 2725 02:24:32.879 --> 02:24:37.360 long time, whereas compost breaks down. But that would be good, 2726 02:24:37.600 --> 02:24:41.479 but in a lawn, just you're going to aerate periodically, 2727 02:24:42.040 --> 02:24:44.399 and each time you erate, the holes are probably gonna 2728 02:24:44.399 --> 02:24:45.920 be in a little different spot. And when you do 2729 02:24:45.959 --> 02:24:49.000 a compost top dressing of something like a leaf mold compost, 2730 02:24:49.079 --> 02:24:52.200 it's been screened down to very small particle size. You're 2731 02:24:52.239 --> 02:24:54.840 going to gradually be improving that lawn. And then the 2732 02:24:54.920 --> 02:24:58.200 roots of the grass also improve the soil and keep 2733 02:24:58.280 --> 02:25:01.360 it open too. So the healthier your grass is, the 2734 02:25:01.440 --> 02:25:02.879 better off your soil condition is. 2735 02:25:04.000 --> 02:25:08.120 Okay, So so doing the aeration, I'm doing that literally 2736 02:25:08.239 --> 02:25:09.959 as we speak, so that I'll do that and then 2737 02:25:10.000 --> 02:25:12.239 just put the accomplist over top of that should and 2738 02:25:12.440 --> 02:25:12.879 water it in. 2739 02:25:14.440 --> 02:25:17.440 That's it, get the aeration done, and then the compost 2740 02:25:17.479 --> 02:25:20.040 top dressing rake it around so it kind of falls down. 2741 02:25:20.120 --> 02:25:21.879 You don't need much compost top dressing, you know. A 2742 02:25:21.920 --> 02:25:23.920 third of an inch is probably enough in most cases 2743 02:25:24.639 --> 02:25:27.239 unless you just have a real big problem. But yeah, 2744 02:25:27.319 --> 02:25:29.559 that'll Hey are you listening to the guardline on your phone? 2745 02:25:30.559 --> 02:25:31.479 I am on my phone. 2746 02:25:31.520 --> 02:25:34.479 I'm doing I'm doing eighth A June always tell us 2747 02:25:34.559 --> 02:25:35.959 to do it, so I was, okay, I'm going to 2748 02:25:36.000 --> 02:25:36.719 take this opportunity. 2749 02:25:37.079 --> 02:25:40.319 You are the first caller that's that's said something that 2750 02:25:40.680 --> 02:25:43.719 let me know that that is good. It makes sense 2751 02:25:43.799 --> 02:25:46.120 to me if it was me listening, I'd be out 2752 02:25:46.159 --> 02:25:50.120 there doing work while I listen. So congratulations. I wish 2753 02:25:50.159 --> 02:25:52.479 I had a prize for the tractors and for listening 2754 02:25:52.559 --> 02:25:55.879 on your phone. But thanks Nick, I appreciate it, appreciate 2755 02:25:55.920 --> 02:25:56.280 your coming. 2756 02:25:57.840 --> 02:25:58.239 So thank you. 2757 02:26:00.159 --> 02:26:02.799 Good good for you. You take care. Yeah, so what 2758 02:26:02.879 --> 02:26:05.440 we're talking about there is there is a thing called 2759 02:26:05.440 --> 02:26:08.159 the iHeartMedia app. It's a little red square with a 2760 02:26:08.319 --> 02:26:11.559 white heart in it, And just go look in your 2761 02:26:11.680 --> 02:26:14.520 app store whatever kind of phone you have, and download 2762 02:26:14.559 --> 02:26:17.559 the iHeart media app fine garden Line. There's two in 2763 02:26:17.680 --> 02:26:19.920 the country that I know of. One is some lady 2764 02:26:19.959 --> 02:26:22.360 in the northeast. I think I don't know anything about 2765 02:26:22.360 --> 02:26:25.840 her or show. The other one is me and just 2766 02:26:26.000 --> 02:26:28.920 follow that show. So anytime you're outside working, turn your 2767 02:26:28.920 --> 02:26:32.000 phone on. You know, if you have earbuds, you want 2768 02:26:32.000 --> 02:26:34.600 to do it that way, that's good. But get out there, 2769 02:26:34.840 --> 02:26:37.000 and should you run across something when you're out in 2770 02:26:37.040 --> 02:26:39.319 the lawn or out in the garden, you could take 2771 02:26:39.319 --> 02:26:42.120 a picture of it, email it to me and then 2772 02:26:42.520 --> 02:26:45.239 call to follow up. And so, as I like to say, 2773 02:26:45.520 --> 02:26:47.959 it could be Garden Line live from your garden on 2774 02:26:48.079 --> 02:26:52.840 that morning. So just another way to listen that allows you, 2775 02:26:53.040 --> 02:26:55.479 you know, not to be tethered to a radio. I 2776 02:26:55.600 --> 02:26:58.959 think that I can't hold still long enough. If I'm 2777 02:26:58.959 --> 02:27:00.840 in a car, I can listen to but when I'm 2778 02:27:00.879 --> 02:27:02.639 in the house, I'm going from here to there to 2779 02:27:02.760 --> 02:27:04.680 the other, and so I just like to listen on 2780 02:27:04.719 --> 02:27:09.799 my phone. There you go. Well, here we are in 2781 02:27:10.319 --> 02:27:13.159 the beginning of summer and the beginning of hurricane season, 2782 02:27:13.440 --> 02:27:17.280 and hurricane season you know, whether it's a big one 2783 02:27:17.399 --> 02:27:19.840 or a small one in terms of how money storms 2784 02:27:19.879 --> 02:27:23.639 they expect. It's still is hurricane season and it is 2785 02:27:23.760 --> 02:27:26.760 still storm season two and last year, you know, we 2786 02:27:26.840 --> 02:27:29.239 had those two storms knocked out power for two weeks each. 2787 02:27:29.520 --> 02:27:31.399 That was a that was a mess. Well I think 2788 02:27:31.440 --> 02:27:33.000 one of them was related to the hurricane, the other 2789 02:27:33.040 --> 02:27:35.799 one wasn't. But you got to get your trees pruned 2790 02:27:36.000 --> 02:27:38.840 properly so they are as storm proof as they can be. 2791 02:27:39.239 --> 02:27:41.239 There are storms that can knock down any tree, right, 2792 02:27:41.920 --> 02:27:45.559 but if you prune them properly, it makes them a 2793 02:27:45.639 --> 02:27:48.719 lot stronger, and that starts. Pruning starts when you plant 2794 02:27:48.799 --> 02:27:50.879 the tree. It's not just like I got this big 2795 02:27:50.959 --> 02:27:52.879 tree that's a mess. I'm going to prune it and 2796 02:27:52.920 --> 02:27:56.120 then everything's okay. Yeah it needs pruning, I'm sure, but 2797 02:27:56.879 --> 02:27:59.399 from the beginning of the time you plant, you want 2798 02:27:59.440 --> 02:28:03.239 to prune your trees property to create as strong of 2799 02:28:03.319 --> 02:28:06.639 a brand structure as you can. That is the goal, 2800 02:28:07.200 --> 02:28:10.920 and Affordable Tree Service knows how to do that. Affordable 2801 02:28:10.920 --> 02:28:13.440 Tree Service been a Gardenline sponsor for many years back 2802 02:28:13.479 --> 02:28:16.959 when Randy was doing Guardenline. Long term sponsor during the 2803 02:28:17.040 --> 02:28:20.639 years Randy was doing this. Affordable Tree Service is a 2804 02:28:20.760 --> 02:28:24.600 family owned operation. Martin Spoonmore's company. Uh is I guess 2805 02:28:24.639 --> 02:28:26.239 they've been doing this for fifty years now in the 2806 02:28:26.280 --> 02:28:29.319 family somewhere close to that. When you call, you're going 2807 02:28:29.319 --> 02:28:31.840 to probably talk to Martin's mom. She typically answers the 2808 02:28:31.879 --> 02:28:33.680 phone there. Tell her that you heard about it on 2809 02:28:33.799 --> 02:28:37.440 guarden Line. Because they guardline customers are their top priority. 2810 02:28:37.520 --> 02:28:39.200 They take care of their garden line. They can take 2811 02:28:39.200 --> 02:28:41.840 care of all their customers, but they it is a 2812 02:28:42.040 --> 02:28:46.319 very special group and relationship between Guardline customers and Affordable 2813 02:28:46.360 --> 02:28:50.319 Tree Garden Line listeners and Affordable Tree Service So seven 2814 02:28:50.399 --> 02:28:54.319 one three, six nine nine two six sixty three seven 2815 02:28:54.319 --> 02:28:58.159 to one three six nine nine two six six three. 2816 02:28:58.440 --> 02:29:00.760 If you want to learn more about special services, they 2817 02:29:00.840 --> 02:29:06.799 offer specific ones aff Tree Service dot com. So they 2818 02:29:06.879 --> 02:29:09.959 do things like they can do the training and pruning. 2819 02:29:10.399 --> 02:29:13.559 They do consultations, which is well worth the money to 2820 02:29:13.600 --> 02:29:15.120 have them come out and doing that. They serve the 2821 02:29:15.360 --> 02:29:19.159 entire ktrch listening area. They do pruning, they do deep feeding, 2822 02:29:19.239 --> 02:29:22.319 they do pest control and disease control, and stump grinding. 2823 02:29:22.559 --> 02:29:24.840 If you're going to do any construction around a tree, 2824 02:29:24.879 --> 02:29:27.479 in construction includes a sidewalk and put over the root 2825 02:29:27.600 --> 02:29:32.079 system Callum First Affordable Tree Service seven one three six 2826 02:29:32.239 --> 02:29:38.000 nine nine T six six'. Three WELL i always say 2827 02:29:38.079 --> 02:29:39.479 this at the end of the, show but that went. 2828 02:29:39.600 --> 02:29:43.040 Fast they say time flies when you're having. Fun i've 2829 02:29:43.079 --> 02:29:45.559 been having. FUN i hope you have. Cormit the frog 2830 02:29:45.719 --> 02:29:50.760 says time's fun when you're having. Flies but that's just 2831 02:29:50.840 --> 02:29:53.799 a dad. Joke i'm a. Dad, oh don't Forget Father's 2832 02:29:53.920 --> 02:29:58.120 day coming. Up lots of great ideas for the gardening 2833 02:29:58.200 --> 02:30:02.040 father on your, list the father on your, list or 2834 02:30:02.600 --> 02:30:05.840 maybe for a hardware, stores a father that just love 2835 02:30:06.079 --> 02:30:09.559 certain kinds of power to. Them take Care dad this. 2836 02:30:09.639 --> 02:30:13.719 Weekend it's coming. Weekend you take. Care see you Next. 2837 02:30:13.760 --> 02:30:16.520 Saturday in the, meantime you can go to the app 2838 02:30:16.680 --> 02:30:18.639 or the website and listen to past. Shows