Speaker 1: Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
Speaker 1: of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
Speaker 1: to kt r H Garden Line with skip Rickard's.
Speaker 2: Trip just watch him as so many things to see.
Speaker 3: Black Bay not a sign. Well, good morning, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line, and first of all, congratulations, even if you
Speaker 3: only have one eye opening, a cup of coffee in
Speaker 3: your hand trying to get the other one hoping you're here,
Speaker 3: We're glad to have you with us this morning, and
Speaker 3: we are going to be talking about gardening like we
Speaker 3: always do. If you would like to be part of
Speaker 3: the show and maybe ask a question, well here's how
Speaker 3: you do it. Seven to one to three, two to
Speaker 3: one two kt r H. Seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two kt r H. I want to visit about
Speaker 3: a number of different things today, some things that are
Speaker 3: kind of different than what I generally talk about on Guardline,
Speaker 3: but still gardening related topics, and certainly we'll have your
Speaker 3: calls to talk about the things that you are interested in.
Speaker 3: We're kind of hitting that time where we're officially transitioning
Speaker 3: our seasons according to the temperature outside. You know, I've
Speaker 3: been telling you that don't pay attention to the calendar
Speaker 3: or to the temperature. Pay attention to the calendar, because
Speaker 3: summer drags on here and then we seem to be
Speaker 3: getting fall, and then we have another week of summer
Speaker 3: again temperature wise, but we have to do things according
Speaker 3: to the calendar, because there's such a thing as average
Speaker 3: frost dates average freeze dates, and those are based on
Speaker 3: basically about ten twenty years more like twenty years of
Speaker 3: data by the Weather Service, saying, okay, on average, this
Speaker 3: is when the first frost of fall occurs, and then
Speaker 3: on average, this is when the first frosts of freeze
Speaker 3: freeze of fall occurs. My mouth still hadn't woken up
Speaker 3: fully yet, so bear with me. And when we're planting things,
Speaker 3: if it's a warm season plant, well it's not built
Speaker 3: to take frosts and freezes. And if it's a cool
Speaker 3: season plant, it's not built to take blazing heat either
Speaker 3: most cases. But we have to plant according to that
Speaker 3: and when those dates are coming, we need to start
Speaker 3: watching for them. Now, average can be a misleading word,
Speaker 3: you know. I had a years ago a caller came
Speaker 3: in and said they wanted to know, what when is
Speaker 3: the first frost going to be this year, and worded
Speaker 3: that way, it's like, who knows, I don't have a
Speaker 3: gardening crystal ball. Because average just means average. We could
Speaker 3: have a frost a month earlier, we could have a
Speaker 3: frost not until a month later. And that's an exaggeration
Speaker 3: a little bit. But in general, average just means, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of what's in the middle of all the things
Speaker 3: that could happen. And I realize I'm not going to
Speaker 3: get For those of you who are mathematicians, I understand mean, median, mode, average,
Speaker 3: all those different ways to say in the same thing.
Speaker 3: But you know what I'm talking about. So what does
Speaker 3: average mean? Well, I like to say average is just
Speaker 3: a guide and it basically means nothing. Why do I
Speaker 3: say that, Well, if you put one foot in boiling
Speaker 3: water and one foot in ice water on average, you're comfortable.
Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying. In other words, average is
Speaker 3: just somewhere in the middle that we look at. So
Speaker 3: if you are looking at your garden and you're looking
Speaker 3: at the dates for your area as to when the
Speaker 3: average frost dates would occur, you want to always air
Speaker 3: a little bit on the side of being conservative with it,
Speaker 3: because it could come a little bit earlier than normal. Now,
Speaker 3: I've put together some stuff that is online on my
Speaker 3: website at Gardening with Skip dot Com. Fact I'll mention
Speaker 3: this later in the show if I remember it, and
Speaker 3: it is the frost and Freeze publication that I put out.
Speaker 3: It's one that I did with one of the inn
Speaker 3: M horticulture specialists several years ago. But it's protecting landscape
Speaker 3: plants and gardens from frosts and freezes, and it goes
Speaker 3: into the whole nine yards. If you want to nerd
Speaker 3: out on the science of frosts and freezes, there's information
Speaker 3: in there about that. But if you just want the basics,
Speaker 3: like Okay, what do I do with my citrus tree
Speaker 3: it's going to be twenty two degrees tonight? It helps
Speaker 3: you with what to do about those kind of things too,
Speaker 3: But that's on the website Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 3: Gardening with Skip dot Com. One time, when I was
Speaker 3: in Conroe, this is many years ago, as a horticulture agent.
Speaker 3: There a newspaper call and they were asking me about
Speaker 3: frost and freezes. And I can't remember the conversation, but
Speaker 3: I think I said something about, well, the average free
Speaker 3: state for our area is such and such and and
Speaker 3: we were talking in the newspaper when this story hit.
Speaker 3: It said county horticultureist says the first freeze this year
Speaker 3: will be on and it gave a date, and I
Speaker 3: was like, I like, no, I didn't say that, And
Speaker 3: I spent two weeks trying to tell everyone I knew
Speaker 3: that I didn't say that. That was misprinted. On that day,
Speaker 3: there was a freeze and it was the It was
Speaker 3: the first one for the year, of the last one,
Speaker 3: I can't remember which which it was. And if I
Speaker 3: just kept my mouth shut, I would have sounded like
Speaker 3: some savant, some what you know, predictor of the profit
Speaker 3: of the future whatever. But that was so funny, because yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't say that, but boy, if I had kept
Speaker 3: my mouth shut, it's sure what it looked good anyway.
Speaker 3: Number seven one three two one two k t r
Speaker 3: H seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: The folks at Nelson have created this fertilizer and we'd
Speaker 3: control called carbo load. Carbo load, What an interesting name.
Speaker 3: Why does it? Why is it called carbo load? Well,
Speaker 3: because in the fall, your turf grass takes up nutrients
Speaker 3: and especially needs potassium that's the third number on the bag.
Speaker 3: It doesn't need a lot of nitrogen. You don't want
Speaker 3: to push it into growth when we're entering the cold season.
Speaker 3: But it needs a little bit because nitrogen and potassium
Speaker 3: are taken up together. Okay, that's the end of the
Speaker 3: nerd alert section here. But carbo load goes. The nutrients
Speaker 3: go into the grass plant. The sun shines on the leaves,
Speaker 3: which it's doing now, and the grass produces carbohydrates and
Speaker 3: carbohydrates or sugars that help prevent the grass from freezing.
Speaker 3: They protect the tissue. It's like anti freeze in the
Speaker 3: grass plant. I remember when our kids were little, we
Speaker 3: made popsicles, you know, mix up kool aid water or
Speaker 3: something like that. We made popsicles, and when you froze
Speaker 3: them and the freezer some of you remember this, the
Speaker 3: clear water part would freeze fast and then right up
Speaker 3: at the very top would be this gooey sugary stuff
Speaker 3: that never quite froze all the way. Sometimes that's the
Speaker 3: principle we're talking about. Sugars in liquid in a plant
Speaker 3: are going to not freeze. The plant's not going to
Speaker 3: freeze them. But that's what carbo load's about. It also
Speaker 3: has a pre emergent herbicide in it. The pre emergent
Speaker 3: herbicide prevents cool season weeds which you are germinating now,
Speaker 3: from being able to germinate and get established. So when
Speaker 3: you put carbo load out, and by the way, a
Speaker 3: forty pound bag covers five thousand square feet, then you
Speaker 3: water it in. And you have to water it in
Speaker 3: if it sits on top of the soil, neither fertilizer
Speaker 3: nor pre emergent is doing anything as a granule on
Speaker 3: the soil. You water it in. The nutrients go into
Speaker 3: the soil so the roots can get them, and the
Speaker 3: weed prevention goes into the soil surface so that when
Speaker 3: a weed seed sprouts, it can't it cannot establish a plant.
Speaker 3: Car beload by now, so don't delay anymore. It's time
Speaker 3: to get that out. We need to get that out soon.
Speaker 3: And always follow the label, always apply everything at the
Speaker 3: label rate. Very important. All right, time for me to
Speaker 3: take a quick break. I will be right back with
Speaker 3: your call. Seven one three two one two KTRH. It's
Speaker 3: always a good day for gardening. I was taking care
Speaker 3: of some house plants the other day. I make that
Speaker 3: statement sometimes it every day is a good day for gardening,
Speaker 3: and then someone will go, yeah, what if it's two
Speaker 3: degrees outside and hailing, you know, or something. Well, you
Speaker 3: have house plans, don't you. You have seeds to order,
Speaker 3: you have seeds to start, you have cuttings to root inside.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of indoor gardening activities and I enjoy
Speaker 3: doing those. I do them a lot in the summertime
Speaker 3: when it's blazing hot and I don't want to be
Speaker 3: outside in the middle of the day, and also in
Speaker 3: the one time, I just, let's see, about three days ago,
Speaker 3: set up my seed starting racks. I got two racks
Speaker 3: that I'm using for seeds starting on a light to
Speaker 3: put on them. I'll talk about that more a little
Speaker 3: bit later in the season when we're getting ready to
Speaker 3: grow some different kinds of transplants. But anyway, I got
Speaker 3: them set up, getting done ahead of time. I would
Speaker 3: encourage you, if you have not tried seeds starting before,
Speaker 3: to try that because it's really fun. You can grow
Speaker 3: your own seeds, you can start cuttings yourself, and you know,
Speaker 3: there's levels of gardening. There's the Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 3: go to the store, buy a plant, pay somebody to
Speaker 3: put it in the ground and then enjoy it. That's cool.
Speaker 3: That's gardening. That's fun. You can do that, or you
Speaker 3: can go all the way down to where you are
Speaker 3: collecting your own seeds, you're germinating and growing your own plants.
Speaker 3: You're taking cuttings and rooting them yourself. I mean, there's
Speaker 3: a wide range there, and wherever you want to be
Speaker 3: in that range is good. You decide gardening is fun.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be fun, and we try to make
Speaker 3: it so here on Garden. Speaking of fun and gardening,
Speaker 3: Plants Fell Seasons has got some cool season color in
Speaker 3: now and cool season vegetables too, by the way, but
Speaker 3: they are just stunning. You need to go and check
Speaker 3: them out. You can check them out online on their
Speaker 3: Facebook page or just go by there. Plant Frell Seasons
Speaker 3: is on Tomball Parkway two forty nine, just north of Luetta.
Speaker 3: It's right there on the side of Tomball Parkway, just
Speaker 3: north of Luetta. You should see some of the gorgeous
Speaker 3: blooms that they have right now. They've got pansies and
Speaker 3: violas that are just busting out with all kinds of
Speaker 3: cool color and a lot of other cool things too.
Speaker 3: If you put some of that out. Your winter landscape
Speaker 3: can be so beautiful. There is no reason that our
Speaker 3: landscapes need to just be blah in the winter. There
Speaker 3: we have a lot of good color options and plant
Speaker 3: frall seasons can get you set up on that as well. Now,
Speaker 3: if you have any questions or any samples you want identified,
Speaker 3: or you just need advice on Hey, this is a
Speaker 3: shady bed and I can't get anything to grow well
Speaker 3: in it. What would you suggest? They can do all that.
Speaker 3: They are lawn and garden experts, So take some pictures,
Speaker 3: bring in some samples, go visit with them. Get your
Speaker 3: green on. As they say at Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 3: Plants for All Seasons dot Com two eight, one, three, seven, six,
Speaker 3: sixteen forty six, you need to swing by there. Oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, they have bulbs. They have onion sets
Speaker 3: for your vegetable garden as well. Yep, they're ready for
Speaker 3: the season and you can be too. I was setting
Speaker 3: up my seed rack. I was just telling you about that.
Speaker 3: And one of the things that is important when you're
Speaker 3: gonna be starting seeds or rooting cuttings for that matter,
Speaker 3: is to have good lighting. In fact, that would probably
Speaker 3: be the single most important thing, although there are things
Speaker 3: that are essential. You gotta have good temperatures, you gotta
Speaker 3: have good lighting, you gotta have a growing media, and
Speaker 3: all that. Those are all important, but where most people
Speaker 3: go south is on lighting. If your plants don't get
Speaker 3: adequate light, your seedlings are going to be spend ley
Speaker 3: and they're not going to do well. They are just
Speaker 3: knocking their lean and stretch and snap over because they
Speaker 3: don't have any strength to the stem. And good lighting
Speaker 3: is important. And if you are really into gardening, or
Speaker 3: you know someone who is really into gardening and really
Speaker 3: would like to grow their own seedlings or start transplants,
Speaker 3: a great Christmas gift and it's not inexpensive. They as
Speaker 3: you get into really good lighting, you can spend a
Speaker 3: little money on it. That doesn't mean you have to
Speaker 3: spend a lot of money. There's a range. We can
Speaker 3: help you with those kinds of questions as well, But
Speaker 3: that information will just change your whole efforts and seeds
Speaker 3: starting and trying things out like that. So get good light.
Speaker 3: If you need to visit with me about it, I
Speaker 3: can kind of help direct you and guide you to
Speaker 3: some things. Get send me an email on that I
Speaker 3: can send you some links to some good lighting information
Speaker 3: and resources. But that changed the world when it came
Speaker 3: to seed starting. I used to do this and this
Speaker 3: was like the bottom line lighting that got me by
Speaker 3: on starting to mate a transplant or broccoli transplants or whatever.
Speaker 3: And that was the old shoplights with the T twelve fixtures.
Speaker 3: Those are the bulbs that are bigger than a quarter
Speaker 3: in diameter, you know, the larger bulb. And I would
Speaker 3: put a cool white bulb in a warm white bulb
Speaker 3: because the warm white bulb is more of the red wavelengths.
Speaker 3: The cool white bulb has more of the blue wavelengths.
Speaker 3: And when you put one of each in a shoplight
Speaker 3: or four foot shoplight, you had a decent blend of lighting.
Speaker 3: And so I'd put two shoplights, hang them over my
Speaker 3: planets and do that. Well, now we're kind of getting
Speaker 3: away from those effluorescent tubes. Now everything's becoming led. But
Speaker 3: it gets really confusing. I need to put something. I
Speaker 3: tell you what, I'm going to try to put something
Speaker 3: on my website about basics of plant lighting. I will
Speaker 3: make a note right now and try to do that
Speaker 3: because going through the whole thing on the air is
Speaker 3: just not going to work. But if you want to
Speaker 3: spend just a little bit on a gift for somebody,
Speaker 3: a good led plant light that's in the white range,
Speaker 3: right range of wavelength would be a good gift because
Speaker 3: I'm telling you it opens up the world. You know,
Speaker 3: any plant is yours when you have a good light indoors,
Speaker 3: meaning you can buy seeds of all kinds of things
Speaker 3: you'll never find in a local garden center. And just
Speaker 3: because a garden center can't carry a nine million different things,
Speaker 3: and you can start on yourself. All right, Well, there's
Speaker 3: a tip now, quick garden line quiz. If you've listened
Speaker 3: more than one show, you should know what is the
Speaker 3: mantra we say here on have success with gardening. Brown
Speaker 3: stuff before green stuff. Brown stuff before green stuff means
Speaker 3: you get the soil right and your plants, then the
Speaker 3: green stuff will thrive. Landscaper's Pride has been helping gardeners
Speaker 3: get the soil right for a long long time, over
Speaker 3: two dozen different products that they have. One that I
Speaker 3: think is an outstanding product. It's their Healthy Soil Compost.
Speaker 3: It's made locally sourced green materials, composted down, screened down
Speaker 3: into a quality mix to amend your soils. Many of
Speaker 3: our soils here are heavy clays. Compost loosens up a clay,
Speaker 3: helps it drain internally better, get oxygen down in the
Speaker 3: root system. Compost helps the sand to whole moisture better.
Speaker 3: Sands drained too well, and compost helps hold a little
Speaker 3: bit of moisture in there. The other compost they have
Speaker 3: is a mushroom compost and that is made from local
Speaker 3: mushroom substrate. You know those little white mushrooms that you
Speaker 3: get in the store. Well, when they grow those, they
Speaker 3: grow them on a substrate of organic materials and then
Speaker 3: when they're done with a crop, it goes out and
Speaker 3: it's sold. It's available for compost and for making composts,
Speaker 3: and for making a quality product, very rich in nutrients.
Speaker 3: That's the Landscapers Pride mushroom compost. For more of their products,
Speaker 3: go to Landscaperspride dot com. Landscaperspride dot com. You can
Speaker 3: follow them on social media just to keep up the
Speaker 3: date with things. Also on there is a list of
Speaker 3: where you can buy their products, which is they're widely
Speaker 3: available here in the stores in this area. You are
Speaker 3: listening to Guardenline and my number is seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two ktr H seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two kt r A Sunday's always kind of uh, somewhat
Speaker 3: of a humor on guardline for me, and that is
Speaker 3: that first thing in the morning, it's awfully quiet. Now,
Speaker 3: why would anyone want to sleep in? Early, early, early,
Speaker 3: early on a Sunday morning. And then at the end
Speaker 3: of the show, it's like, oh, everybody now wants to
Speaker 3: call and it's harder to get in. So if you
Speaker 3: ever want to get into garden line without a weight,
Speaker 3: Sunday morning is a good time. Early Sunday morning is
Speaker 3: a good time to do that. Someone asked me the
Speaker 3: other day about azamite, you know, they said, is azimite
Speaker 3: a fertilizer? And the answer is yes, But it's not
Speaker 3: the same kind of fertilizer as the ones with the
Speaker 3: big three numbers on the bag that you put on
Speaker 3: your lawns and gardens and things. Those big three numbers
Speaker 3: are macro nutrients, meaning your plants need a lot of them,
Speaker 3: and they're always nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in that order
Speaker 3: the three numbers, but they're secondary nutrients like things like
Speaker 3: calcium or sulfur or magnesium and then there's trace minerals
Speaker 3: that you just need a little of. Do you know
Speaker 3: did you know that a plant cannot grow without manganese?
Speaker 3: Did you know that a plant cannot grow without copper?
Speaker 3: Did you know that a plant can't grow without zinc
Speaker 3: or iron? Okay, those are trace minerals. Those are all
Speaker 3: trace minerals. They are essential for plant growth. Azamite is
Speaker 3: a trace mineral supplement that you put on your soil.
Speaker 3: You can put in your vegetable gardens so your vegetables
Speaker 3: are more packed with all of the different nutrients and
Speaker 3: grow really well as a result. You can put on
Speaker 3: your lawns, and I do recommend that you do that.
Speaker 3: But whatever you do, you need to get your azmite
Speaker 3: down on the soil to provide those minerals. So when
Speaker 3: do you do it, Well, you don't have to wait
Speaker 3: until it's time to fertilize the lawn to put on asmite.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't put out a high nitrogen right now in
Speaker 3: the lawn because we're going into winter. But now's a
Speaker 3: fine time to do asimite. So is the time in
Speaker 3: the spring when you're fertilizing your lawn. You could also
Speaker 3: add to asumite at that time. It is a soil
Speaker 3: bank account builder. Think of it that way. When you
Speaker 3: need to buy something, you got to get money from
Speaker 3: the bank to buy it. Well, when plants want to grow,
Speaker 3: when they want vigor, when they want blooms, when they
Speaker 3: want fruit, whatever they're producing, they have to get it
Speaker 3: from the soil bank account to do that. And as
Speaker 3: might does just that. ASMI Texas dot com. That's the website.
Speaker 3: If you want to learn more about it ASMIT Texas
Speaker 3: dot com. Whether you learn more about it or not,
Speaker 3: just do it. All right, time for a break. I'll
Speaker 3: be right back. All right, we're back. We are back
Speaker 3: on guardline. Welcome, Welcome back. If you are interested in
Speaker 3: asking a question, or have a plant you need identified,
Speaker 3: or any kind of thing like that, you can just
Speaker 3: give me a call. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H in Chenny Gardens down in the
Speaker 3: Richmond Rosenberg area is a destination nursery. And I'm not
Speaker 3: just saying that like it's a description I'm giving it.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about being out there talking to people and
Speaker 3: finding out they've driven. Like I said the other day,
Speaker 3: it's ran and somebody who came from Austin, Texas. No,
Speaker 3: you're visiting family over here. No, we came over to
Speaker 3: shop at gardens. We love this place. So okay, well
Speaker 3: that is what of culture tourism. But that's the kind
Speaker 3: of garden center there. It is. It's on the Katie
Speaker 3: Fullsher side of Richmond, that's north. So you just go
Speaker 3: up seven twenty three FM seven twenty three and three
Speaker 3: fifty nine, right at that corner FM three fifty nine,
Speaker 3: and when you get there, you're going to see a
Speaker 3: very gorgeous, sprawling place that has every kind of plant
Speaker 3: that you can imagine, certainly everything for the season. Like
Speaker 3: right now, for example, they've got strawberries in now's the
Speaker 3: time to plant strawberries. Everybody thinks they want to plant
Speaker 3: strawberries in the spring. Don't do that. Plant them now
Speaker 3: because they have all winter. We have really mild winters here,
Speaker 3: and they'll grow all winter and you will get a
Speaker 3: bigger plant with more bloom buds already in the plant
Speaker 3: when spring comes. Do you know that strawberries as they
Speaker 3: grow over the winter time, the fall and winter season,
Speaker 3: they develop stronger plants that have more bloom buds that
Speaker 3: and it is time to bloom. You get more production.
Speaker 3: So go to in chanted gardens. Grab some strawberries. You
Speaker 3: can put them in strawberry jars if you want those
Speaker 3: little terracotta containers that have the holes in the side
Speaker 3: for planning in. I just put mine in the ground.
Speaker 3: I put them in raised beds and all kinds of things.
Speaker 3: It is easy to grow strawberries here. You just get
Speaker 3: them in, water them in continue to provide small amounts
Speaker 3: of nitrogen over the winter, and they can do that.
Speaker 3: So grab your plants there. Also, if you need some
Speaker 3: onion sets though, while you're in there, grab those. I
Speaker 3: challenge you yesterday to grow onions as year. Most of
Speaker 3: you have not grown onions yourself, and you should. If
Speaker 3: you don't have a garden, just get a big container.
Speaker 3: You can grow onions in a big container. They'll grow
Speaker 3: in that just fine. You just want to give them space.
Speaker 3: You'll probably I don't know, in a container. I'd probably
Speaker 3: put them about maybe four inches apart, something like that.
Speaker 3: And then with onions, you keep pushing them with nitrogen
Speaker 3: and continually adequate water, not soggy, but always watering them,
Speaker 3: always fertilizing them. Here's why if you want success with onions,
Speaker 3: you need to get as big a plant as you
Speaker 3: can before spring, as big a plant as you can
Speaker 3: before spring, because every leaf on an onion plant is
Speaker 3: a ring in the onion bulb. I think about that
Speaker 3: just a minute. So if you've got a scrawny onion
Speaker 3: plant with three leaves, when spring comes, you're going to
Speaker 3: have a scrawny onion bulb with three rings. The base
Speaker 3: of the leaf is the ring of the onion. So
Speaker 3: if you fertilize and fertilize and makes they never get
Speaker 3: dry and you just keep them going all wintertime. When
Speaker 3: the day link shortens or LinkedIn's and it starts to bulb,
Speaker 3: you're going to have something huge.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: My goal is always to have those softball sized onions
Speaker 3: you see in the store, and it's kind of hard
Speaker 3: to achieve in our climate, but you can get real
Speaker 3: close and I've seen some gardeners do impressive with them.
Speaker 3: But that's a secret to success, and just go out
Speaker 3: to in Chenny Gardens again FM three point fifty nine
Speaker 3: and seven twenty three on the Katie fullsher Side of Richmond.
Speaker 3: Go to the website and you can find out more there.
Speaker 3: Enchanted gardens Richmond dot com, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find the fertilizers I talk about, and you're
Speaker 3: going to find incredibly knowledgeable and helpful people to help
Speaker 3: you have success. That is what they do there. I
Speaker 3: I was talking to one of my one of my kids.
Speaker 3: I call them kids there, they're long grown, but you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a parent talking to one of my kids the
Speaker 3: other day and they had purchased a home where they
Speaker 3: had some cracks in the outside of the home, and
Speaker 3: they were concerned about what do we need to do?
Speaker 3: Is this a big foundation problem? What should we do?
Speaker 3: And I call Ty Strickland. Tay Strickland's the owner of
Speaker 3: Fix my Slab Foundation Repair, and I said, hey, Ty,
Speaker 3: here's the situation. What do you think you know, do
Speaker 3: we need to get somebody on This was in a
Speaker 3: town halfway across Texas, uh and outside his area for sure,
Speaker 3: but you know, he was so helpful. He was He
Speaker 3: talked to me about, you know, well, okay, how how
Speaker 3: how far is how BIG's a crack? What's this happening here?
Speaker 3: And he's asked me a bunch of questions about it,
Speaker 3: And the bottom line was you know what that's movement,
Speaker 3: but that's within the range of something to not really
Speaker 3: worry about, and it's like, okay, well that's good to know.
Speaker 3: But that's the kind of guy Tye is. Tye is
Speaker 3: that service type industry person who does the job right.
Speaker 3: He fixes it right, He shows up on time when
Speaker 3: he says he will, and he gives you a fair price,
Speaker 3: and if something's not needed, he'll tell you, and if
Speaker 3: it is, he'll tell you and tell you what your
Speaker 3: options are. You can go to fix myslab dot com.
Speaker 3: That's his website, or you can just give him a
Speaker 3: call two eight one two fifty five forty nine forty nine.
Speaker 3: So if you're walking around the house and you look
Speaker 3: at the brick on the outside and you see cracks,
Speaker 3: especially underneath windows, that seems to be a place where
Speaker 3: cracks off and originate. Or if you're inside and you
Speaker 3: see cracks in the sheet rock or doors are sticking,
Speaker 3: those are all reasons to call Tie and have him
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Speaker 3: line listener. He's been doing this for twenty three years.
Speaker 3: He knows what he's doing ti strick one fix my
Speaker 3: slab foundation repair. Nobody wants to have foundation problems, I
Speaker 3: mean right, I mean that is like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: because this is like, this is my home. I don't
Speaker 3: have that problem. Well, you know the analogy of the ostrich,
Speaker 3: it sticks his head in the sand. Don't be the ostrich.
Speaker 3: I think that's That's basically what I'm trying to say
Speaker 3: is if you see a problem, have somebody look into
Speaker 3: it early. It's not going to get better, it may
Speaker 3: not be a horrible thing. Just don't don't put it
Speaker 3: off because you're worried about it. Just just look at it.
Speaker 3: Our clay soils shrink and swell a lot, and they move.
Speaker 3: They definitely move, that's for sure. One of my back
Speaker 3: patios is actually the patio pad is heaving up and
Speaker 3: moving away from the foundation of the house just a
Speaker 3: little bit, just a tiny bit. But I was looking
Speaker 3: at the other and thinking, Wow, the power of soil
Speaker 3: is amazing. Is it shrinks and swells and moves and
Speaker 3: all kinds of stuff like that. Well, if you are
Speaker 3: gonna take my advice and take care of the brown
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Speaker 3: some holes and kind of get some organic matter in
Speaker 3: the surface. There seventy four dollars a sack for that
Speaker 3: and many many other products. Why are you there? All right?
Speaker 3: Time for me to take another little break and we
Speaker 3: will be right back. Well, coming back. Allow music crawl
Speaker 3: our Louisiana lesteners across the George straight. Welcome back to
Speaker 3: the Garden Line. We're glad to have you with us.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go straight to the phones now and head
Speaker 3: out to Richmond to talk to Connie this morning. Hello Connie,
Speaker 3: welcome to Garden Line. All right, Uh, do we have Connie?
Speaker 3: See what? I'm gonna put Connie back on hold here
Speaker 3: and if y'all check on that, we'll come back to her.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, all right, let's see, we're gonna try this again. There,
Speaker 3: do we have you Connie? Hello, Hey, welcome to Garden.
Speaker 5: Him.
Speaker 6: Sorry about all.
Speaker 5: That The reason I calling is we have cutter ants
Speaker 5: in our yard that bridge over into our neighbor's yard
Speaker 5: and we can't seem to get rid of them.
Speaker 3: Uh huh what can we do? Uh? Well, what's what
Speaker 3: you need to do? Uh? And I'm not going to
Speaker 3: like read out my home concoction recipe thing on the
Speaker 3: air here and every but what I have one that
Speaker 3: some pest control operators have said. It just works well,
Speaker 3: so it's worth giving it a try. Basically, it's a
Speaker 3: mix of some different products. The problem with leaf cutter
Speaker 3: ants is they they they're not attracted to the exact
Speaker 3: same baits as like fire ants or sugar ants or
Speaker 3: each ant has kind of certain things that attract it.
Speaker 3: And you can't just use a contact killer pesticide with
Speaker 3: them because they live in a giant underground cavern where
Speaker 3: they cut your You may know this, but they cut
Speaker 3: the leaves off your plants, They haul them back, they
Speaker 3: stick them to the ceiling of the cavern and grow
Speaker 3: fungus on them and eat the fungus. Is that is
Speaker 3: that interesting? And basically grows weed fungus too, it's called mushrooms.
Speaker 3: But anyway, that's what they do, and so you kind
Speaker 3: of have to get abait product in there in a
Speaker 3: way that's going to be able to kill them. And
Speaker 3: I can I can send you some some kind of
Speaker 3: home concoction thing that that I think if you try it,
Speaker 3: you'll have success with it.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 5: And also, just in case we need it, is there
Speaker 5: a company that can help with that if we decide
Speaker 5: that we've tried yet and it's just not getting it.
Speaker 3: That is a good question. I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: I would have to look into that. We don't currently
Speaker 3: have a sponsor who I communicate with on pest control
Speaker 3: type things. Okay, there probably is somebody who could do
Speaker 3: something like that, but I just off the top of
Speaker 3: my head couldn't couldn't tell you who. Okay, but it's
Speaker 3: pretty but I'm almost send you is really easy to
Speaker 3: do it yourself. It's really easy to do.
Speaker 5: So what about the fact that people have them to
Speaker 5: and they don't seem to be, you know, worried about
Speaker 5: trying to get rid of them. We're just gonna have
Speaker 5: to keep doing well because they have them and they're
Speaker 5: not getting rid of theirs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and nothing is nothing is permanent. And you might
Speaker 3: if your neighbor is willing, you might talk to him
Speaker 3: and say, would you mind if we put some of
Speaker 3: this bait, you know, across the fence over there too,
Speaker 3: or because that that way you could get ahead of them.
Speaker 3: And it's not permanent. You know, it's going to give
Speaker 3: you several months of control. But generally these mounds have
Speaker 3: a way of recovering, and you know, you don't get everything,
Speaker 3: and so they come back. But it sure saves you
Speaker 3: from losing stuff. I one night, in one night, I
Speaker 3: had a peach orchard, and in one night I walked
Speaker 3: out the next morning and three peach trees didn't have
Speaker 3: a leaf on them, and they all had leaves the
Speaker 3: day before. So I know what leaf cutter ants can do.
Speaker 3: They work fast, all right, they work fast, that's right.
Speaker 3: But they are fascinating, very fascinating. All right, Connie, thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put you on hold. Don't go away. Jonathan'll
Speaker 3: pick up and he'll give you my email address. All right.
Speaker 3: That's it. One of the interesting creatures of nature. You know,
Speaker 3: we sit here and a lot of pests. You know,
Speaker 3: they just make you mad, like fire ants, they bite
Speaker 3: you make you mad. But when you look at just
Speaker 3: the world, they live in how they just just all
Speaker 3: the signs of what's going on in there. It is
Speaker 3: a fascinating world. It's like honey bees, you know, honey
Speaker 3: We're very familiar with the fact that honey bees have
Speaker 3: ways of doing dances that tell other bees where to
Speaker 3: go get pollen and nectar, and they just the whole
Speaker 3: world of honey bees is fascinating. Well, we just happen
Speaker 3: to like honeybees because they give us honey. But a
Speaker 3: lot of creatures out there in nature are pretty interesting,
Speaker 3: pretty cool. But not when I've got three peach trees
Speaker 3: that don't have a leaf on them the next day
Speaker 3: that I'm not into that, that is for sure. Okay,
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Speaker 3: pack here in the Houston area. I mean, you know
Speaker 3: there we're talking about donating to local food banks, funding schools,
Speaker 3: providing COVID relief. There's so many ways that they are
Speaker 3: let's just say, good citizens, good business citizens of our
Speaker 3: community here and certainly in the sense of when power
Speaker 3: goes out, providing what's needed to keep our homes and
Speaker 3: businesses running. Quality Home. I yesterday was out working on
Speaker 3: my patio again. This is like going to be a
Speaker 3: longstime story because it's taken me a while because there's
Speaker 3: a bunch of issues I'm having to deal with and
Speaker 3: getting it in, but getting those stones light down getting
Speaker 3: everything in place. And I have two Golden Retrievers, and
Speaker 3: these golden retrieves, we love our dogs, but I have
Speaker 3: found that you cannot shame a golden retriever. You know,
Speaker 3: I've walked out and said, you guys are bums. What
Speaker 3: are you doing? I get up? Come on, man, you
Speaker 3: know I need some help over here. They don't. It
Speaker 3: doesn't phase them. But what they will do is when
Speaker 3: I'm not watching, they will go find a stick and
Speaker 3: take it to the back door and shred it into
Speaker 3: something I've got to vacuum up. And yesterday doing the patio,
Speaker 3: there were these little slabs that it's almost like thin tiles,
Speaker 3: tight slabs of rock, and they were taking them out
Speaker 3: in the yard and somehow with their teeth cracking them
Speaker 3: and leaving rocks all over my yard. And I probably
Speaker 3: spent fifteen twenty minutes just picking up the rocks that
Speaker 3: they saw a need to crack in the grass. So
Speaker 3: Ellie and Tex are not let's just say they're in
Speaker 3: the doghouse today, but as they know, I don't really
Speaker 3: get mad at them. Love those dogs. Well, we're hitting
Speaker 3: the top of the hour. This this one went kind
Speaker 3: of fast. That was that was kind of interesting. If
Speaker 3: you'd like to give us a call, you could get
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Speaker 3: break and then you'll be first up. When you come.
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Speaker 3: I want to remind you that my website, Gardening with
Speaker 3: Skip dot com gardening is skip dot com has my
Speaker 3: schedules on it. The lawn care schedule which is mow water, fertilized,
Speaker 3: apply the azmite type products, do aeration. It's all on
Speaker 3: that schedule. In other words, try to care for your launch.
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Speaker 3: do chinchbugs occur? And how do you control them? When
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Ricter.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as many good.
Speaker 8: Things to see.
Speaker 9: A sun.
Speaker 3: Well, good morning Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have
Speaker 3: you with us this morning. We are looking forward to
Speaker 3: visiting with you about the things that are of interest
Speaker 3: to you. What are your questions? Is about the lawn trees, vegetables.
Speaker 3: Keep trying to convince everybody to grow a vegetable garden
Speaker 3: for the first time. If you've never grown one before,
Speaker 3: if you have already, try something different, a new vegetable,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe a new way of growing, a container growing
Speaker 3: or something like that. I think that's kind of fun.
Speaker 3: One time, I want one time, many years ago. I
Speaker 3: did it the first time, and I still do garden
Speaker 3: in wheelbarrows? Have you ever thought about that? You get
Speaker 3: an old wheelbarrow and can get a new one if
Speaker 3: you want. Just make sure it has some drainage holes
Speaker 3: down in the bottom, and you feel it full of
Speaker 3: quality potting mix and you can grow anything and it's
Speaker 3: great for the winter. Here's why you want to plant
Speaker 3: some things out there and in the wheelbarrow that might
Speaker 3: freeze if it got really really cold. What do you
Speaker 3: have to do? Roll up the garage door, send the
Speaker 3: wheelbarrow inside for the night, bring it back out the
Speaker 3: next day. You want to put you say you don't
Speaker 3: have room for a garden that has a good sign.
Speaker 3: If you got a wheelbarrow, you do you just roll
Speaker 3: it over to the sunny spot and it gives the
Speaker 3: neighbors something to talk about. As if they needed it.
Speaker 3: They talk about you already, you know that right anyway,
Speaker 3: That is a whimsickle way of going about gardening, but
Speaker 3: it is fun for flowers and for vegetables. Speaking of whimsy,
Speaker 3: have you been to Arburgate a garden center recently? You know,
Speaker 3: when you go into Arburgate, First of all, you just
Speaker 3: stop in your tracks because you look around and there
Speaker 3: is so much going on. There is color everywhere, and
Speaker 3: then there is all the different kinds of garden art
Speaker 3: and things just I can't describe it. You's got to
Speaker 3: go see it, maybe those of you who have been
Speaker 3: there to know what I'm talking about. Just all kinds
Speaker 3: of things that make your garden just look cool. Their
Speaker 3: pottery is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. No matter what you're interested in,
Speaker 3: they've got it. By the way, the gift shops there
Speaker 3: are just loaded to the brim with all kinds of
Speaker 3: holiday arrangements, great gifts for your home or for somebody else.
Speaker 3: That's on your list and they have the expert advice
Speaker 3: to help you have success. For example, let's say you decided,
Speaker 3: you know what, I want to grow blueberries and I
Speaker 3: want to grow them in a big container? Do I
Speaker 3: do that? And what do I need? Do I need
Speaker 3: two varieties or will one variety do it? How do
Speaker 3: I do that? What kind of potting soil do I use?
Speaker 3: What kind of fertilizer do I use? Walk into Arburgate
Speaker 3: and ask them wouldn't it be cool to have your
Speaker 3: own blueberries in the spring to enjoy in the summer.
Speaker 3: They can help you do that. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: No matter what you're going after, Arburgate has got exactly
Speaker 3: what you need. They are on Tomball Parkway, which is
Speaker 3: I'm sorry not Tomball Parkway. They're off of Tomball Parkway
Speaker 3: about a mile and a half on twenty nine to twenty.
Speaker 3: So if you go up to Tomball up tom Ball Parkway,
Speaker 3: turn left on twenty nine twenty about a mile and
Speaker 3: a half out on the left, there they are tresh.
Speaker 3: A road goes around behind them. It's a little loop
Speaker 3: and that's the back parking lot you want to go
Speaker 3: parking because it's very easy and safe access, easy to do,
Speaker 3: but allow some time because when you go to arbigate,
Speaker 3: you're going to need some time because there's so much
Speaker 3: to see and there's so many things that you will
Speaker 3: suddenly discover you cannot live without. I'm going to head No,
Speaker 3: back to the phones to go talk to Liam. Hello, Liam,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden line. Hello sir, Hello, how can we help?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, sir, I got flight flies on my citrus trees.
Speaker 10: Their baby citrus hadn't been in the ground a year,
Speaker 10: and I can't seem to get ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Flies.
Speaker 3: Yes, I believe it's a white flies.
Speaker 10: It's got the curly leaf, got the little lines inside
Speaker 10: of the leaves.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm glad, I add No, that's a citrus leaf miner.
Speaker 3: H And so okay, here's what happens that that's it
Speaker 3: is a fly that lays an egg, and that egg
Speaker 3: is a tunnel. The larva tunnels between the upper and
Speaker 3: lower leaf surface. And if you look real close at
Speaker 3: one of those silvery curled leaves, you'll see a little
Speaker 3: black trail zigzagging through the leaf, serpentining through the leaf.
Speaker 3: That's the larva as it's chewed through the leaf. What
Speaker 3: it leaves behind, So how do I kill him? You bet?
Speaker 3: They only attack new tender growth. They don't attack old, tough,
Speaker 3: leathery leaves. So anytime you get a flush of growth,
Speaker 3: you can spray it. And the probably the most organic
Speaker 3: safest product that works is on that is going to
Speaker 3: be spin no sid spin spin spin. Oh. And then
Speaker 3: sad is the those pests make you sad. Spin o
Speaker 3: sad and uh, that's organic. It soaks into the leaf
Speaker 3: and so when the larva tries to choose through it,
Speaker 3: that's spinosid is inside where it will kill them. They
Speaker 3: don't kill citrus trees. If you have a young tree
Speaker 3: you're trying to get to grow fast, they can set
Speaker 3: it back if you have an old, established tree. Some
Speaker 3: people just ignore them and don't worry about it. But
Speaker 3: that is how you control them. You just have to
Speaker 3: get ahead of them when the new flushes of growth occur.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I appreciate it, you bet.
Speaker 11: Liam.
Speaker 3: Now you know on Guardenline we do not charge for advice,
Speaker 3: but I do expect half the produce. If this helps
Speaker 3: you have good centrius destruction. It's going to be a
Speaker 3: couple of years, but I'll owe you. Hey, I figure
Speaker 3: in time, I'm going to eat well in my old
Speaker 3: age when all these things start to bring their dividends. Hey,
Speaker 3: have a good weekend. Appreciate that. Thanks, appreciate that very much. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and where do you get things, like Spino said, Well,
Speaker 3: Ace hardware stores. That is one place. There's forty Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware stores in the Houston area. And so when you
Speaker 3: hear me say some product, go into ACE and say, hey,
Speaker 3: you got some of this, and the answer is probably yes,
Speaker 3: Spino said, definitely is going to be a yes. It
Speaker 3: is so easy. And with forty stores, no matter where
Speaker 3: you live, you're going to find it. You already know
Speaker 3: that ACE is a place you get all the fertilizers
Speaker 3: I talk about on guarden Line. You already know that
Speaker 3: ACE is a place when you're trying to control weeds,
Speaker 3: trying to control disease and pests, insects, all that. That's
Speaker 3: the place for that. But ACE is also the place
Speaker 3: for your holiday decorating, for making the areas that you
Speaker 3: want to enjoy nicer indoors and outdoors. By the way,
Speaker 3: ACE is, Yes, a hardware store. You everything at a
Speaker 3: hardware store should be ACE is. But ACE is a
Speaker 3: place for top quality barbecue pits. For example. ACE is
Speaker 3: a place for some really unique and cool holiday gifts.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna be talking about that here in
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks once we get to the Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 3: So if you are looking for anything that you need
Speaker 3: like that, Ace Hardware is the place. It makes it
Speaker 3: so easy. Go to ACE Hardware dot com, find the
Speaker 3: store locator. Ace Hardware dot Com find the store locator
Speaker 3: and you can find the ACE store that is nearest
Speaker 3: to you. I'm gonna need to take a little break
Speaker 3: here and when I come back, Kathy in Belleville, you
Speaker 3: will be our first up. We're back on the Garden Line.
Speaker 3: And what are we gonna do. We're gonna run first
Speaker 3: things right out for Belville, Texas and back to Kathy. Cathy,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Garden Line. Hi, Hi, how are you doing well?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. What's up?
Speaker 8: I have a huge problem with cut ants and I've
Speaker 8: tried going to my agrolife agent and I've tried some
Speaker 8: of her stuff that she suggested and nothing, you know,
Speaker 8: it kind of kills the you know, the area, and
Speaker 8: they just pick up and move someplace else. Do you
Speaker 8: have your secrets.
Speaker 3: They're tough. Yeah, yes, I'm gonna have to put you
Speaker 3: on hold and and you'll get an email. You send
Speaker 3: me that request, I'll send you some information on it.
Speaker 3: I'd be happy to do that. Yeah, I, as I
Speaker 3: was saying before, I've dealt with them. And uh, did
Speaker 3: you ever see the show Caddyshack. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 3: there was that gopher or whatever it was, and you
Speaker 3: know he just went through everything from dynamite to un
Speaker 3: trying to catch up with that gopher. That was me
Speaker 3: And I tried one time putting a hose into the
Speaker 3: area and just turned it on and ran it and ran.
Speaker 3: Think I'm gonna float those guys right out of there.
Speaker 3: That didn't work. I won't. I won't say on the
Speaker 3: air ballistic things that I a while that was about it.
Speaker 3: I tried setting them on fire and everything else. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're a problem, but I do have a recipe that's
Speaker 3: some pcos Pescantal operators tell me works pretty good. So anyway,
Speaker 3: I ought to give you at least relief for a
Speaker 3: while before you have to come back and do it again.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because there they're a vicious little launsters. Say, I
Speaker 8: have thirteen cranpe myrtles that they decimated three times. Now
Speaker 8: I'm surprised there's still a love.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a mess. We gotta put to stop that.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll put you on hold, Jonathan will pick
Speaker 3: it up and you can go from there. All right,
Speaker 3: Thank you, Keavi. I appreciate that. That is funny. I
Speaker 3: guess this could be the leaf cutter Ant Show. By
Speaker 3: the way, when we need a title for this show,
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Speaker 3: or you walk in and go, you know what. My
Speaker 3: irrigation system is a mess. Can y'all come in check
Speaker 3: it out, fix it, do whatever I need? Or I
Speaker 3: got this poorly drained area and Skip keeps saying that
Speaker 3: plants need good drainage and I can't grow anything there.
Speaker 3: Can you guys put some subsurface drainage in the interest
Speaker 3: just to all these I want landscape lighting. You remember
Speaker 3: how I said, make those outdoor areas just really special
Speaker 3: to be out in and you know we're so warm
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Speaker 3: I'm going to go now to Tom in Dickenson. Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Tom Hey, good morning, thank you. I planted a half
Speaker 12: a dozen lemon trees just from seeds from lemons we
Speaker 12: brought home from the grocery store. Just as a project.
Speaker 12: I'd never done anything like that before. The reason I'm
Speaker 12: calling is, I remember a couple weeks ago you were
Speaker 12: discussing the trus with one of the callers and talked
Speaker 12: about grafting and whether or not it was going to
Speaker 12: be edible fruit, and something about thorns on the branches.
Speaker 12: And I'm starting to see some thorns on mine. So
Speaker 12: am I barking up the wrong tree with these seedlings?
Speaker 3: Tell me where the seeds came from?
Speaker 12: Just blumins. I bought from the grocery store.
Speaker 3: Okay, So what you're looking at is those are a
Speaker 3: variety that's not a rootstock. So what you heard me
Speaker 3: say before was where the graph dies and the rootstock sprouts,
Speaker 3: and you get thornin us, but a lot of citrus.
Speaker 3: When it's in a juvenile state, meaning it came from
Speaker 3: a seed and it's early in its life, is very thorny.
Speaker 3: And then as it gets older and becomes mature, the
Speaker 3: branch growth up higher on it. It isn't as thorny
Speaker 3: because it goes from being a juvenile to being something
Speaker 3: that can bloom and set fruit. That's a maturing process.
Speaker 3: So it is not unusual for seedlings to be thorny.
Speaker 3: You just have to be patient with it, and eventually
Speaker 3: you will get non thorny. Although the caveat to that
Speaker 3: is some types of citrus do have thorns. That's just
Speaker 3: part of the type of Ceterrius. You know, like setsuma
Speaker 3: oranges aren't very thorny, but you know, certain kinds of
Speaker 3: other things can be thorny. But anyway, that's okay.
Speaker 12: So I'm okay with these growing up. They're probably gonna.
Speaker 3: What's that They're going to grow and they will set
Speaker 3: brute eventually. I don't know how long it'll take. Different
Speaker 3: fruit plant, you know, like a pecan tree can take
Speaker 3: twelve years before you finally start getting pecans off of it.
Speaker 3: With something like ceterric, it should happen much much sooner
Speaker 3: than that. But when it happens depends on the growth
Speaker 3: and health of the plant, how much sun it's getting,
Speaker 3: and then the very specific genetics of that of that
Speaker 3: seed species.
Speaker 12: Well there, I guess they're young there. I just transfer
Speaker 12: them from like a dixie cup to a gallon planter
Speaker 12: and they just really took off. So they're about a
Speaker 12: foot tall now, So I'm thinking they just need a
Speaker 12: little more room to roam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna be juvenile for several years. For several years,
Speaker 3: you're got a pretty good sized plant growing and it'll
Speaker 3: still be in a juvenile stage. But I'm just having
Speaker 3: fun with it now.
Speaker 12: It's just it's just a project and experiment. I've never
Speaker 12: done something. I'm taking your advice and trying new stuff.
Speaker 12: So I'm not you know, I'm not a gardener by
Speaker 12: any stretch, but we're trying to learn.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you are a gardener. You gardeners are always
Speaker 3: trying and learning. So welcome to the world. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: is fun, and congratulations on that. I think I think
Speaker 3: people should do stuff like that one take care, Tom,
Speaker 3: thank you for the call. And if it ever starts
Speaker 3: producing lemons, if it ever produces lemons, you can just
Speaker 3: drop some off and we'll call it either. Yeah, ok,
Speaker 3: thank you, bye bye. Yeah. It's not a rule, it's
Speaker 3: just a suggestion. Or maybe it's a plea. I don't
Speaker 3: a desperate plea. I don't know what it is. If
Speaker 3: you're out in the Kingwood area, you've got two really
Speaker 3: cool garden centers. You got Kingwood Garden Center and warrens
Speaker 3: Now First Kingwood Garden Center. That's the one on Stone Hollow,
Speaker 3: Kingwood Garden Center at their gift shop right now. This
Speaker 3: is the third week of an ever increasing it's been
Speaker 3: going up every week. How much percent off is the
Speaker 3: items in the gift shop. They're cleaning house, so you
Speaker 3: get a whole bunch of new inventory in forty percent
Speaker 3: off this week. Yes, it started yesterday. It goes all
Speaker 3: the way to the thirtieth of November. Forty percent off.
Speaker 3: So get over there. Whatever you can find. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're not going to better deal than that. Their gift
Speaker 3: shop is loaded with the widest range of things you've
Speaker 3: ever seen. It is really cool. And while are you there,
Speaker 3: you get to enjoy seeing Kingwood Garden Center too. It's
Speaker 3: a nice place to visit real cool plants. And then
Speaker 3: over at Warren's Southern Gardens on North Park Drive, they
Speaker 3: are loaded up on their cool season color. They have
Speaker 3: bulbs in stock. They have got a really good deal
Speaker 3: on some of the mulch and are salt based mulch
Speaker 3: and soil based products and things that it's the kind
Speaker 3: of place to where you go and you just get
Speaker 3: excellent advice. You know, Michael and the whole team over there,
Speaker 3: they know what they're talking about, and they can guide
Speaker 3: you to success. Maybe you've seen a beautiful, cool seasoned
Speaker 3: plant or with all these plants and flowers and colorful
Speaker 3: foliage coming out of it, but you don't know how
Speaker 3: to do that. Go talk to them. They'll walk you through.
Speaker 3: They'll say, here, grab some of this dusty miller over here,
Speaker 3: grab some of this blue violas over here. And I mean,
Speaker 3: they'll put the thing together for you and show you
Speaker 3: how to do it. I mean, if you want to
Speaker 3: harm them to do it, they'll do that. But they
Speaker 3: can make you look good. That's what they do at
Speaker 3: Warren Southern Guards and Kingwood Garden Center out there in
Speaker 3: the Kingwood area. I'm going to head now out to
Speaker 3: Oak Forest and we're going to talk to a little
Speaker 3: Oh Elizabeth.
Speaker 13: Hi, good morning. How are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm well, thank you? What's up?
Speaker 14: Good?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 13: Tomato hornworms there. My grandparents were able to grow anything
Speaker 13: in their backyard, and forest comes to tomatoes. I have
Speaker 13: grown tomatoes and oak forests in the past, but now
Speaker 13: I just constantly they're just eaten up by tomato hornworms.
Speaker 13: And if I can be there every day and go
Speaker 13: out at night with the flashlights I can kill them.
Speaker 13: But if I'm taking care of a sick grandchild for
Speaker 13: a few days, or working really intensely for a few days,
Speaker 13: it's all over. And so I just let my tomatoes
Speaker 13: go for the summer.
Speaker 15: I gave us.
Speaker 13: Well, so I have my fall tomatoes and they were
Speaker 13: just sudding out looking great. Hear their back. What I
Speaker 13: just I'm giving up? What do you do?
Speaker 3: Well, here's the problem, Elizabeth, out there on the dark
Speaker 3: gardening Web. You've heard of the dark web, the dark
Speaker 3: gardening Web. Your address is, your address is posted in
Speaker 3: the Tomato hornworm chat room, and they all know where
Speaker 3: you are, and they're all coming there. I'm sorry to
Speaker 3: tell you that you've been outed. What I would do
Speaker 3: if you've got neighborhood kids, you need to enlist what
Speaker 3: we call importation of natural enemies. This is something that's
Speaker 3: been done in gardening for a long time, where you
Speaker 3: bring in a natural enemy that takes care of the past.
Speaker 3: So you get a neighborhood kid back there. You pick
Speaker 3: one horn worm, you don't have to say a word,
Speaker 3: and you put it on the sidewalk and step on
Speaker 3: it and it squirts like a ketchup packet in McDonald's
Speaker 3: as you stepped on and then you go back in
Speaker 3: the house and fifteen minutes later look at your kitchen
Speaker 3: window and there's going to be six kids that they've gathered.
Speaker 3: They could bring all their friends and show them this
Speaker 3: and after that, you don't have hornworm problems. Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: going to go with you.
Speaker 13: I used to feed into my son's bearded drag. We
Speaker 13: don't have the spirit drag all right? What to do?
Speaker 3: Okay? Well, what you do? Get them either bet or
Speaker 3: spin no said. BT lasts about two days. Spinosaid lasts
Speaker 3: longer in the environment. And spray your tomatoes periodically with it.
Speaker 3: Those are both organic. They're both organic, and the the
Speaker 3: leaves of the tomato. Spinosad will kill anything that's a caterpillar.
Speaker 3: BT will kill and that way you spray them. I
Speaker 3: would do the spinosaid if you're not able to check
Speaker 3: them periodically. But typically it's not going to be like
Speaker 3: in two days suddenly you've got giant horn rooms. They
Speaker 3: have to the moth has to lay the egg, they
Speaker 3: have to hatch out their tiny caterpillars. It takes a
Speaker 3: while for them to grow before you even see leaves
Speaker 3: in missing because there's a little small, right, and so
Speaker 3: if you just periodically you would just spray your tomatoes,
Speaker 3: like you know, I am going to go on vacation
Speaker 3: for a week. Just just spray them and you'll be
Speaker 3: You'll be okay that way.
Speaker 13: Well, we've had a lot of in the past doing
Speaker 13: kind of a black light search at night. It's kind
Speaker 13: of a neat scientific cure for kids. But at this
Speaker 13: point I don't care anymore. Kill them, all right, okay, Well,
Speaker 13: thank you, you bet all right, you take care all right,
Speaker 13: thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks thanks for letting me have some fun with
Speaker 3: that one. Uh yeah, Tomato horn worms, I'll tell you
Speaker 3: one day. I should have said this right up front.
Speaker 3: Tomato horn worms are about to go away. In fact,
Speaker 3: they're you know, as we get cooler and cooler, they
Speaker 3: don't they don't like that of course, need to do
Speaker 3: the tomatoes for that matter. Well, it's time for me
Speaker 3: to take another quick break. Here's the phone number if
Speaker 3: you'd like to call in seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two k t R H. I'll be right back. I
Speaker 3: need to go again on guarden line. With your calls
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Speaker 3: the most important thing you do. I'm just gonna say
Speaker 3: this over and over again. The most important thing you
Speaker 3: do if you want to have success with plans is
Speaker 3: prepare the soil first. Now very important. Also picking plants
Speaker 3: that want to grow there, in fact, that's essential. Picking
Speaker 3: a spot that has the amount of sunlight that plant needs,
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Speaker 3: your control and you can do it. And Cienamlts is
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Speaker 3: would include nutrients, fertilizers and things like that. When you
Speaker 3: make roots happy, that plant can thrive. Very very important.
Speaker 3: Don't PLoP a poor plant into an unprepared plot or
Speaker 3: pick a peck of pickle puppers with peter piper. Plants
Speaker 3: need to have soil where they can create an extensive
Speaker 3: root volume full of rich, well aerated, oxygenated soil to
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Speaker 3: That's what you need to know, cienamultch dot com. We're
Speaker 3: going to go now to a Tascasita and we're going
Speaker 3: to talk to Veronica. Veronica, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Yes, good morning.
Speaker 6: I have a question about greet myrtles.
Speaker 5: I had a couple crate myrtles removed from my front
Speaker 5: yard a couple of years ago.
Speaker 8: And the problem is that I keep getting tons of baby.
Speaker 16: Crate myrtles popping up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the stumps were ground from the tree. But I'm
Speaker 3: still having these.
Speaker 6: Like thirty at a time coming up.
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's anything I can do to
Speaker 4: stop that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is other than digging, which you're already aware
Speaker 3: of that. What I would do is if there and
Speaker 3: I do this by the way, I have crate myrtles
Speaker 3: that pop up here and there where maybe a root
Speaker 3: was cut or something and they sprout up. And I
Speaker 3: have a weed wiper that I made. It's so easy
Speaker 3: to make homemade. I mean, anybody could do it. If
Speaker 3: you go to my website Gardening with Skip, look for
Speaker 3: Skip's weed wiper. What it is is one of those
Speaker 3: grabber tools, you know, the things that you reach up
Speaker 3: to get a jar office shelf, and they got like
Speaker 3: suction cups on the end to grab something. You get
Speaker 3: one of the You get one of those and you
Speaker 3: attach sponges to it. But my little diagram on there
Speaker 3: shows you exactly how to do it, and then there
Speaker 3: is an ingredient called triclop peer that you put on
Speaker 3: the sponge. Now, the reason I like the weed wiper
Speaker 3: is you don't have to stoop down, you don't have
Speaker 3: to dig. Those things are long enough to We're standing
Speaker 3: upright with your arm down by your side. You can
Speaker 3: reach all the way to the ground with them and
Speaker 3: you just squeeze the handle and the sponges wipe that
Speaker 3: product right on the leaves of the crepe myrtle in
Speaker 3: this case that's coming up only. So on my website
Speaker 3: gardening with skip dot com, there is how to build
Speaker 3: a weed wiper, and then there's herbicides for it, and
Speaker 3: that triclo peer t R I c l O p
Speaker 3: y R is listed on there for things like I
Speaker 3: don't I don't put crate myrtles. Most people aren't trying
Speaker 3: to kill kraigmer but poison ivy pepper wine, you know
Speaker 3: those seedlings from hackberries coming up in the fence line.
Speaker 3: That it's really easy to do. And even if you
Speaker 3: don't build the weed wiper, the tricle apear ingredient is
Speaker 3: what you want to use. But you just have to
Speaker 3: be careful because if you spray it, there are a
Speaker 3: lot of things tricl appear will kill, so you don't
Speaker 3: want to get it on something that's not the problem weed.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay, well I'll check your website out and see
Speaker 17: if that works for me.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much all right, Well, that is the
Speaker 3: way to get rid of them. And it may take
Speaker 3: a few applications. You know, if you got a whole
Speaker 3: big old root under there with lots of storage capacity,
Speaker 3: one little wipe may not get it all in one time,
Speaker 3: but it will get it. It will get it. Thank you, Veronica.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you waiting, and you appreciate the call. That
Speaker 3: is the case I'm telling you. That makes it so easy.
Speaker 3: And don't worry about how hard is this to build.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you if you can take a pint
Speaker 3: jar canning lid and a nail and a hammer and
Speaker 3: make a hold in the lid, you can build this thing. Seriously,
Speaker 3: that's about the total amount of work too. It's very
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Speaker 3: It is time for me to take a break here
Speaker 3: pretty quick, Leanne and Cyprus. You will be the very
Speaker 3: first up when we come back from break, because I
Speaker 3: want to have time to be able to give you
Speaker 3: adequate time on your call. I just want to remind Joe.
Speaker 3: I was talking about the website before. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of information on there, and I put it up there
Speaker 3: because some things are hard to just explain, you know,
Speaker 3: one hundred times over the course of a couple of months,
Speaker 3: Like how do you kill a nutgrass? Well, it's a process,
Speaker 3: there's a there's information to it. But on my website
Speaker 3: is all the free stuff of how to do it.
Speaker 3: So just go there and look at it and save
Speaker 3: yourself the hassle. That way, you don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about writing all these chemicals or writing all these names
Speaker 3: of plants down or whatever. We're doing. The publication on
Speaker 3: protecting plants from frosts and freezes is there on the website,
Speaker 3: and we're not there yet, but we will soon be
Speaker 3: there where you'll need that publication, So go ahead and
Speaker 3: print it up or download it. It's free, and be
Speaker 3: ready when the time comes. All right, we're going to
Speaker 3: take a break. I'll be right back. Thanks for listening,
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Speaker 3: how to information. Let's set out to cypress now and
Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Leanne. Hello, Leanne, welcome to Guardenline. Alrighty,
Speaker 3: We're going to put Lee in on old here and
Speaker 3: let's see if we can there we go. You know what, Leanne,
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Speaker 6: Sorry about that, I'll get good morning Skip. So I
Speaker 6: took your advice a couple of months ago, and we
Speaker 6: in prep for putting in the generator, we had had
Speaker 6: to have the crape myrtle totally removed and then moved
Speaker 6: over slightly to where it would stay. I put in
Speaker 6: a Chitalpa from proven Winners, and I know it's going
Speaker 6: to give me fragrant blooms about the same color pink
Speaker 6: and maybe not quite be as big an invasive, but
Speaker 6: just and I've been watching for sprouts and I did
Speaker 6: this last week find some.
Speaker 14: I had to.
Speaker 6: I had to actually move some more roots that were
Speaker 6: going to go under that generator pad. But we could
Speaker 6: only go so far because there's other infrastructure there. There's
Speaker 6: our WiFi and phone, and of course electrical is lower.
Speaker 6: But we could only go so far. And so I
Speaker 6: was poisoning with the tricle peer. And one of these
Speaker 6: roots is as big as my forearm and I could
Speaker 6: only take it out so far.
Speaker 14: And since then, and I've known.
Speaker 6: Him brown tips on the upper growth of that chitalpa
Speaker 6: and it had been in the ground for over a
Speaker 6: month with no problem. Can the moisture in the ground
Speaker 6: wick that poison over there?
Speaker 3: It's not gonna it's not going to hit it that way.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's the tricle peer that's doing that, tokay.
Speaker 3: But when you apply tricle per, you either apply it
Speaker 3: just to the foliage as a wipe on. I like
Speaker 3: to use my weed wiper for that, or you dab
Speaker 3: it on fresh cut surface. Is only you know, you're
Speaker 3: not drenching it into the soil of course, just dad
Speaker 3: with the fresh cut because that wound can take in
Speaker 3: the trichopere. So a little spongebrush and you know we're
Speaker 3: talking about a tea spoon or tablespoon of the product.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that that's not the problem. Then when you
Speaker 3: plant a new plant, the root systems can find and
Speaker 3: in the garden center is getting watered every day and
Speaker 3: so that it pumps that soil that root ball dry.
Speaker 3: Even if the soil is kind of moist, it can
Speaker 3: still go into a little bit of a drought, and
Speaker 3: that burning tips can be anything from a little bit
Speaker 3: of a drought type symptom to if you put fertilizer
Speaker 3: that's salt based in the planting hole and those roots
Speaker 3: get burned, that that nutrient goes up into the plant
Speaker 3: and goes all the way out to the to the
Speaker 3: tips of the leaves and edges of the leaves where
Speaker 3: the water is all evaporating away, transpiring away, and it
Speaker 3: leaves that salt behind and you get a burn tip too.
Speaker 3: So there's different things that can cause it. But I
Speaker 3: think your chittapa is fine. I wouldn't worry about that
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 6: So if anything could, it be overwatering, well probably not.
Speaker 3: The when you overwater. The reason overwatering is bad for
Speaker 3: plants is because the roots can't get oxygen, and so
Speaker 3: then the roots start to die and then you see
Speaker 3: overall symptoms where like an entire leaf is just turning
Speaker 3: yellow and falling off, and the plant's wilting even though
Speaker 3: it's standing in water. Because the roots can't kick into gear,
Speaker 3: they can't have to breathe, and they can't do that,
Speaker 3: So I don't think that is going to be an
Speaker 3: overwatering symptom.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not yellowing. So when I plan, I know
Speaker 6: chatapas I read the instructions that said they don't like
Speaker 6: to be extra fertile. But when I did plant it
Speaker 6: two weeks in a row, I did put the medina
Speaker 6: has to grow on it to water it. And it
Speaker 6: is a sprinkler system there. Yeah, I knew that would.
Speaker 3: Be okay, yeah, and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then but there is a sprinkler system there.
Speaker 6: It does run quite a bit because it's also connected
Speaker 6: to some hanging baskets. That's my biggest.
Speaker 3: Concern that well, back back it down a little bit.
Speaker 3: One of one of Chatopa's parents is desert willow, which
Speaker 3: grows in very dry areas. Very well, that's one of
Speaker 3: its two parents. And so you don't want to you
Speaker 3: don't want to keep it in a swamp. It doesn't
Speaker 3: want to be in a swamp. So I would I would, uh,
Speaker 3: I would back off a little bit. If you can
Speaker 3: do hand watering, uh, just from now on it up
Speaker 3: until spring. That way you could water right at the base,
Speaker 3: which is where the only place where all the roots
Speaker 3: are is still that little cylinder you put in the
Speaker 3: ground and just hand water there, I think that would
Speaker 3: probably be better. And a clay soil. If you overwater the
Speaker 3: hole becomes an underground bathtub, and now the roots are
Speaker 3: sitting submerged. So I would just watch out for the
Speaker 3: sprinkler on this one. Let's get it. You know it's
Speaker 3: gonna go dormant here, the leaves are gonna fall off,
Speaker 3: and then it essentially almost needs no water. You know,
Speaker 3: the nature will provide enough for it.
Speaker 6: All right, Okay, sounds good, Thank.
Speaker 3: You, well, good luck with it. Good luck with it.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you're making progress there. Thanks for the thanks
Speaker 3: for the call. I appreciate that very much. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to go to a break here. I will be
Speaker 3: back pretty soon. I'm gonna hear some music in about
Speaker 3: two seconds. You mentioned medina. You know, hash to grow
Speaker 3: six to twelve six is excellent for watering in plants, like
Speaker 3: we were talking about. Just get something, have it on
Speaker 3: the shelf, has to grow six twelve six plant. For
Speaker 3: what you do is I put mine into like a
Speaker 3: watering can and then just water in every time my
Speaker 3: plants an do that, you do it again a week
Speaker 3: later and again a week. Makes it real easy. You
Speaker 3: can get Medina all kinds of places widely available. It's
Speaker 3: one of the many products it's got. It also has
Speaker 3: that Medina Soul activator in it too, which I think
Speaker 3: is excellent, excellent. Alrighty, well, there's the music that means
Speaker 3: we are going to take a little break. We will
Speaker 3: come back. If you would like to give us a
Speaker 3: call and get on the board so you can be
Speaker 3: first up when we come back. Seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two three ten seven.
Speaker 12: Don't have to.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kzy r h garden Line with skimp Rickards.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 3: A welcome back. Welcome to garden Line. Let's do this again.
Speaker 3: We got an hour to go here at eight o'clock
Speaker 3: and another one at nine o'clock. Two more hours today
Speaker 3: for your gardening questions and for advice to help you
Speaker 3: have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and
Speaker 3: more fun in the process. That's what I want to happen.
Speaker 3: That's what I would like to happen for you. Gardening
Speaker 3: should be fun, it should be and we all kill plants.
Speaker 3: We all kill plants. Yes, I'm admitting I kill plants.
Speaker 3: Don't tell anybody. It's just hearing me listening right now.
Speaker 3: Don't spread that around. But that's okay. To be a
Speaker 3: good gardener, you got to kill plants because things happen.
Speaker 3: You learn that way. Sometimes it's no fun, you know,
Speaker 3: lose an expensive plant. But just by following some principles
Speaker 3: you can have success. You can minimize your plant killing.
Speaker 3: You know, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Speaker 3: Plants will take your name off the list as you
Speaker 3: learn a little bit more and you're less likely to
Speaker 3: get hauled off to horticulture prison for murdering some poor
Speaker 3: little plan Who can help you with that, you know.
Speaker 3: Microlife Fertilizer has a wide variety of products. They've got
Speaker 3: their granular products. That's things like the green bag, the
Speaker 3: sixty four, the summer fertilizer, the fall fertilizer, which it's
Speaker 3: still okay to put on now. If you didn't get
Speaker 3: it done until now, you can still go ahead and
Speaker 3: do it. That is called brown patch. It's called Microlife
Speaker 3: brown patch and a brown bag brownish purple, herb, maroon,
Speaker 3: and the brown patch will give you the nutrient blend
Speaker 3: you need for going into fall, and it does really
Speaker 3: well for that. But then they also have their liquids.
Speaker 3: I like to use the liquid products. They've got a seaweed,
Speaker 3: They've got a fisher moulsion type product. They've got one
Speaker 3: that I use a lot on house plants. It is
Speaker 3: an orange label, okay, micro see micro, I just want
Speaker 3: blank on the micro anyway, it's an orange label on it.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you in just a minute. It just stepped
Speaker 3: out of my mind and I find that it's excellent.
Speaker 3: It has no odor really, and so you can use
Speaker 3: it indoors. By the way, don't use don't use fish
Speaker 3: and motion indoors unless you have cats and want to
Speaker 3: see all the potting soil in your plant. Help because
Speaker 3: cats will walk them off for a fish. But fish
Speaker 3: emulsion is such an excellent fertilizer, just not inside. But
Speaker 3: other products that they have, they have liquids. For example,
Speaker 3: the micro grow liquid is an excellent product for adding
Speaker 3: tons of microbes to the soil. Adding a lot of
Speaker 3: micro I mean I'm talking about the bazillions that add
Speaker 3: to the soil, and even for house plants, that is helpful.
Speaker 3: It is helpful to be able to add additional microbial
Speaker 3: content because microbes help the plants to thrive by the
Speaker 3: way the product I couldn't say the name of the
Speaker 3: orange le biomatrix to seven one three fertilizer you can
Speaker 3: use I use it on houseplins, but I mean you
Speaker 3: can use it in any plant in your garden. It
Speaker 3: just does really well. All of that's for Microlife. All
Speaker 3: you have to do is go to Microlife Fertilizer Com
Speaker 3: and learn about all of the many, many products, many
Speaker 3: of which I never even talked about here on guard Line.
Speaker 3: Just don't have time to do all of them.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: And you'll also learn where you can get micro Life,
Speaker 3: which I'll save you the trouble. It's just everywhere everywhere,
Speaker 3: feed stores, hardware, ace hardware stores, garden centers, Southwest Fertilizers.
Speaker 3: You can get Microlife everywhere. All right, We're gonna go
Speaker 3: up to talk to Caroline next. Hello Caroline, Welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hello.
Speaker 18: Uh, I have a comment about something I heard yesterday morning,
Speaker 18: but I didn't take time to stop and call. You
Speaker 18: had a caller that was having problems with squirrels in
Speaker 18: the backyard messing up for trees of Yeah, well we
Speaker 18: have a problem. So man, when we have it again.
Speaker 18: But a few years ago we had a tree man
Speaker 18: come out and tream all our trees and everything looks pretty.
Speaker 18: And then we just kept seeing these twigs falling every
Speaker 18: all of our driveway in yard. And when the yard
Speaker 18: man would come and pick him up, and they were
Speaker 18: back again, and uh, and it got worse, and we
Speaker 18: called the tree man back. And we had something called
Speaker 18: twig girdlers, and it didn't have anything to do with
Speaker 18: the squirrels that they sprayed. Right in the meantime, I
Speaker 18: had to pick up the drop the whatever leaves and
Speaker 18: twigs had dropped, put them in a bag and tie
Speaker 18: it tight.
Speaker 3: He said, there, that is right in that twiggerler though
Speaker 3: this this collar was saying they were dropping leaves everywhere,
Speaker 3: and the twigg gurler though, I'm gonna tell you what
Speaker 3: i'm gonna do, Caroline, in a little bit. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: talk about a couple of things that that chomp on
Speaker 3: twigs like that. But thank you for that caller. Reminder,
Speaker 3: lots of critters out there, aren't.
Speaker 7: There, Yes, there are.
Speaker 18: You can't see these, I mean, but he said, if
Speaker 18: you don't pick them up, they'll crawl back up the
Speaker 18: tree and lay more eggs, and evidently a few of
Speaker 18: them did, because it's been two or three years and
Speaker 18: they're back.
Speaker 19: They do.
Speaker 3: They do a nice little neat cut on those limbs. Hey,
Speaker 3: thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 3: I talk about RCW Nursery a lot because I love
Speaker 3: RCW Nursery. It's the garden center that's right there where
Speaker 3: two forty nine comes into belt Way eight. And when
Speaker 3: you go into RCW, first of all, you're going to
Speaker 3: find all the kinds of plants you're looking for and
Speaker 3: products to go with those plants. But if you're looking
Speaker 3: for shrubs right now, they got a sale on shrubs.
Speaker 3: It's excellent talking to somebody the other day. Send them
Speaker 3: over there that's looking for some special certain kinds of shrubs,
Speaker 3: and rcw's got those, and so it's a good time
Speaker 3: to get them. Falls the best time to plant shrubs
Speaker 3: and trees anyway, and so you should do that. They
Speaker 3: grow their own trees up there in Plannersville at the
Speaker 3: Tree Farm, and I'm telling you RCW only sells plants
Speaker 3: that are going to do really really well. Here. Those
Speaker 3: trees are growing. They've chosen those species because they know
Speaker 3: they do well here and you can plant them yourself.
Speaker 3: It's small. If you want them to come plant it,
Speaker 3: they'll do a professional job on it. They have the
Speaker 3: products like root stimulator and whatnot that you would want
Speaker 3: for that. But just go to RCW again the corner
Speaker 3: of Tomball Parkway at Beltway eight r cwnurseries dot com.
Speaker 3: We're going to go now to Huntsville and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning. I planted a burroke in the very corner
Speaker 11: of my dog pin and my wife got overzealous with
Speaker 11: the roundup in order to kill all the weeds there
Speaker 11: so she could mow and lo and behold it killed
Speaker 11: the burroke. So I cut it off at ground level.
Speaker 11: It was dead, all the limbs where you can just
Speaker 11: break them off with your hand, and there was no green.
Speaker 11: I cut it off at ground lever didn't pay any
Speaker 11: attention to it. About a week ago I went out
Speaker 11: and lo and behold, there's a stem coming straight up
Speaker 11: with three beautiful big leaves that the burrough has. And
Speaker 11: I wondered about should I mulch it around it with
Speaker 11: pine needles. I've got a lot of pine trees and
Speaker 11: I put a lot of pine needles around it. It
Speaker 11: had three adult leaves and it had one little one
Speaker 11: just starting. And we're getting cold weather. It's already been
Speaker 11: down in the thirty thirty five thirty six degree level
Speaker 11: those leaves should have if it was normal, those leaves
Speaker 11: would have died and blown away by now. But what
Speaker 11: about up here in this You know I'm north of Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaker 7: Am I going to have to?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Alabama? Okay?
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaker 14: So I've called you.
Speaker 3: I think it's before Yeah, I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be fine, Charles. The burokes are tough native species, and
Speaker 3: you still have a root system that's in decent health.
Speaker 3: That's why you got that sprout. So even if freeze
Speaker 3: killed that sprout back, which I don't think it will, uh,
Speaker 3: then it's going to be just fine. Your mulching is fine,
Speaker 3: kind of protects the base. Generally not at all needed
Speaker 3: on a burrow, but there's no problem. Just couldn't leave
Speaker 3: it since you got it on there. I think next
Speaker 3: spring you'll see it come back and all you The
Speaker 3: only other thing you need for success is to take
Speaker 3: the roundup away from your wife.
Speaker 11: That's well they make beautiful a.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, I hear her in the background. I'm probably
Speaker 3: in big trouble.
Speaker 11: Now, Yeah, I said, the acorns make beautiful decorations. You
Speaker 11: can spray them gold or silver, and people use them
Speaker 11: in their decorative reefs and so forth.
Speaker 14: But beautiful than.
Speaker 3: I just have to wear a hard hat when you're
Speaker 3: mowing underneath the burrow. Hey, I've got I've got to run.
Speaker 3: I've talked past my break time. But thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that call a lot, Charles. All right, folks,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. All right, welcome back to the
Speaker 3: Guardline to have you with us. Glad to be here.
Speaker 3: We're going to head back to the phones here and
Speaker 3: just a bit by the way, the phone number is
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 3: seven one three two and two k t r H.
Speaker 3: Listen to. Birds are about to be flocking back to
Speaker 3: the feeders there. They're there at the feeders already, but
Speaker 3: as we get into colder weather, they're going to be
Speaker 3: depending on our feeders a lot more. And that is
Speaker 3: a great thing because it's an opportunity to bring them
Speaker 3: up where you can sit and enjoy them, especially through
Speaker 3: the winter. Time, and I would recommend right now that
Speaker 3: you get some Winter super Blend. Winter super Blend is
Speaker 3: the wild birds unlimited bird seed for the cold weather season.
Speaker 3: It's packed with protein, it's packed with fat. As the
Speaker 3: daylight hours or shorter and shorter now we are looking
Speaker 3: at less time for birds to be outfeeding. So being
Speaker 3: able to get a high quality feed and a short
Speaker 3: amount of time is very important. Remember to that it's
Speaker 3: always good to have water out. Number one. Birds need
Speaker 3: water every day and so having a dependable supply is
Speaker 3: important to them. And when they know there's a dependable supply,
Speaker 3: they're going to come back there time after time. You know,
Speaker 3: if you have the water out for one day a
Speaker 3: week here and there, they don't know they get water
Speaker 3: to the house. I mean they may find it, but
Speaker 3: keep it out all the time. They need it every
Speaker 3: day and it brings them to your house, just like
Speaker 3: feed brings them to your house. Bird seed, so does water.
Speaker 3: So keep that out for them as well. Stop by wallbirds.
Speaker 3: I tell you there are so many gift opportunities in there.
Speaker 3: Put something on your list for the holidays for gift giving.
Speaker 3: Purchase something for somebody else you know. You may know
Speaker 3: someone who is just not you know, they're not the
Speaker 3: typical bird watcher with binoculars wandering around through the woods,
Speaker 3: but they would enjoy something that really brings the beauty,
Speaker 3: the sounds of the birds and everything into the backyard.
Speaker 3: So a quality bird feed er, a quality bird house.
Speaker 3: Just go to Wallbirds talk to them about it. If
Speaker 3: you know someone that already likes birds, They've got some
Speaker 3: awesome books that would make great gifts. Wildbirds Ilimited go
Speaker 3: to WBU dot com forward slash Houston w b U
Speaker 3: dot com forward slash Houston. We're going to go to
Speaker 3: Southwest Houston now and talk to Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn, good morning.
Speaker 4: I'm wondering if it's too late to fertilize my eggplants
Speaker 4: bloomed all summer, but didn't They didn't make but until
Speaker 4: the end of the summer. And now I've got four
Speaker 4: good sized eggplants and two little marble size ones coming out.
Speaker 4: So should I give them some fertilizer now or is
Speaker 4: it too late?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't give them any. They're just find their growth
Speaker 3: rate is slowing down as the days get shorter or
Speaker 3: are shorter in the good night, temperatures cool off a
Speaker 3: little bit. And so there's plenty of nutrients in the soil.
Speaker 3: You don't want to stimulate tender new growth. There's not
Speaker 3: time for that to develop and bloom and set eggplants.
Speaker 3: So I'm just concerned with whatever you've got on the plant,
Speaker 3: trying to get those to harvest. So yeah, hold off
Speaker 3: on the fertilizer.
Speaker 4: On the eggplant, Okay. I the same with it with
Speaker 4: the okra.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, I'm impressed that you still have okrah going.
Speaker 3: My mine has been dwindling down for a while now,
Speaker 3: but it is even pickier about these cold nights that
Speaker 3: we're having right now. It's not happy at all about that.
Speaker 3: So any on vegetables, squash, green beans, okra. You know
Speaker 3: that none of those need need fertilizer.
Speaker 4: Now, okay, good, thank you, you.
Speaker 3: Bet you bet. Now remember the rule on guard lines.
Speaker 3: All I need to do is when you get those
Speaker 3: last few eggplants, just divide them in half and bring
Speaker 3: them to the station. We'll call it even. Thank you
Speaker 3: appreciate that.
Speaker 14: Okay, take care.
Speaker 3: Okay, someday that Joe, it's going to get old. Maybe not,
Speaker 3: I don't know. We'll see. We'll find out. When you're
Speaker 3: looking for a place to get all kinds of things
Speaker 3: that you need for making a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape.
Speaker 3: Southwest Fertilizer has got you covered. Southist Fertilizer's been around
Speaker 3: since nineteen fifty five. They're at the corner Abyssinet and
Speaker 3: Runwick in south West Houston. Southwest Fertilizer has got every
Speaker 3: fertilizer I talk about on garden line, I mean, and
Speaker 3: then some. Just if you haven't been in there, you
Speaker 3: need to drive over there and just go look at
Speaker 3: it and see what what is this? This kip keeps
Speaker 3: talking about the place where if they don't have it,
Speaker 3: you don't need it, Well go look, go see it.
Speaker 3: I've been talking to people today about my weed wiper,
Speaker 3: my homemade weed wiper. How easy it is to make.
Speaker 3: Bob's got the little grabber tools with the suction cups
Speaker 3: that you need to make one. They're there on the wall.
Speaker 3: He's got stock of them. Get one, even if you
Speaker 3: don't need it today, just get it and get it made.
Speaker 3: It's it's so easy. Go on my website. You can
Speaker 3: do that. Grab His kneeling bench makes a good gift,
Speaker 3: and it's also buy one for yourself. I bought one
Speaker 3: for my sister, who is much older than me, the
Speaker 3: fact that I very much enjoy pointing out to her.
Speaker 3: And after a while I thought, you know what, I
Speaker 3: think I'm going to get me one. And I did.
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, change your life, change your gardening life.
Speaker 3: Me going up and down laying a patio stones and
Speaker 3: getting up and down and up and down. If I
Speaker 3: didn't have that kneeling bench, I don't know how you
Speaker 3: get buy I mean, because well, I know what happened.
Speaker 3: You wake up in the prenatal position the next morning
Speaker 3: and you can't straighten your legs out because you're so sore.
Speaker 3: It's a cool tool. Hey, he's also got an eighty
Speaker 3: or actually now ninety foot wall of tools. Do you
Speaker 3: need substacle to prevent weeds or kill weeds? Do you
Speaker 3: need stuff to kill insects? Do you need stuff to
Speaker 3: fight diseases? Are you an organic gardener and you only
Speaker 3: want organic products? You're not going to find a bigger
Speaker 3: selection than Southwest Fertilizer. Yes, they have those two Southwest
Speaker 3: Fertilizer dot com corner of this and Runwick. You should
Speaker 3: check those out. For example, he's got there you hear
Speaker 3: me talk about the color Star and other Nelson products
Speaker 3: and things. You know, the color Star is Nelson's fertilizer famous,
Speaker 3: I'll say, famous fertilizer for flowering plants. And why do
Speaker 3: I say famous, Well, because it has become so popular.
Speaker 3: Professional landscapers have been using it for a long time.
Speaker 3: Do you know that Nelson's ships the product out of
Speaker 3: state to commercial landscapers and others because it's so popular.
Speaker 3: It's not just textans. I mean people all over they
Speaker 3: find it, they try it, it works, and they buy it.
Speaker 3: That is color Star. Color Star has got five different
Speaker 3: sources of nitrogen in it. It's got organic bone meal
Speaker 3: that provides phosphors, it's got organic blood meal that provides nitrogen,
Speaker 3: and I mean it's got five different sources of nitrogen.
Speaker 3: It feeds the soil and the soil feature plants. That's
Speaker 3: how that works. I would say put it out about
Speaker 3: every three to four months the growing season and in
Speaker 3: the cool season too. You know, in the cool season,
Speaker 3: micro activity slows down a little bit and the release
Speaker 3: of nutrients are far slows down a little bit. If
Speaker 3: you've got a bed full of pansies and you want
Speaker 3: them to bloom, bloom, bloom. Have you ever you ever
Speaker 3: planted those things? And you know they bloom pretty good
Speaker 3: and then they just sort of kind of not do much.
Speaker 3: You got to stimulate new growth on them because new
Speaker 3: growth makes new leaves that catch sunlight, that makes sugars
Speaker 3: that make blooms. That's how that works. If a cool
Speaker 3: season or worm season blooming plant is not healthy growing
Speaker 3: with green foliage growth, you're not going to have good
Speaker 3: bloom production. Color Star does just that. It's a nineteen
Speaker 3: thirteen six for all flowering plants from Nelson Plant. It
Speaker 3: comes in little jars two pound jars and larger a
Speaker 3: larger screw top lid type jar as well. Four pounds
Speaker 3: I believe is the weight on it. But anyway, bottom
Speaker 3: line is color Star. You need some of that and
Speaker 3: it works and I would highly recommend it. You were
Speaker 3: listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven to one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t r H. Seven to
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t r H. Give
Speaker 3: us a call. We can answer the questions that you
Speaker 3: might have. I earlier on I was talking about let's
Speaker 3: see what was I talking about. Oh, we had a
Speaker 3: call yesterday about some leaves that were dropping off of
Speaker 3: a tree. And I wanted to talk a little about
Speaker 3: another question that I haven't had, didn't have yesterday, but
Speaker 3: it's very closely related, and that is what causes small
Speaker 3: twigs to fall out of your tree a lot, or
Speaker 3: small branches to fall out of your trees a lot.
Speaker 3: And there's there's a couple of different things. Number One,
Speaker 3: squirrels can actually nip the ends of branches and so
Speaker 3: on the ground you find this little section of a
Speaker 3: twig with leaves on it, and when you look at
Speaker 3: where it broke off, you can see that it was
Speaker 3: like cut with little squirrel teeth cut off and do
Speaker 3: that occasionally they'll just nip those little things off, and
Speaker 3: you'll see that. There are also little borers that can
Speaker 3: get into a branch, little pinhole size hole in them,
Speaker 3: and that becomes a weak spot. The branch often dies
Speaker 3: because the flow can't get to the leaves toward the
Speaker 3: end of it, and it snaps there and falls off.
Speaker 3: And then there are twig girdlers. And we had a
Speaker 3: collar a little bit earlier that was talking about the
Speaker 3: twig girdlers, and those are really interesting insects. They are
Speaker 3: a long insect with very long antenna. It's kind of
Speaker 3: a brown black, little chewing beetle insect that gets on
Speaker 3: the twig. And typically it's going to happen on twigs
Speaker 3: that are maybe the size of your small into your
Speaker 3: small finger, or even a little bit smaller pencil size
Speaker 3: even is a common size. And they stand there on
Speaker 3: the twig and they chew all the way around the
Speaker 3: twig as if you took a little tiny saw and
Speaker 3: you saw it not through it, but all the way
Speaker 3: almost to the center, all the way around it. And
Speaker 3: then that twig, of course snaps and falls out. And
Speaker 3: you pick up this twig and it looks like it
Speaker 3: would just sawed off, perfectly sawed off, and that's the
Speaker 3: twig girdler. What that insect does is it lays an
Speaker 3: egg outside of where it cut the limb off. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that egg is now in the fallen branch, and
Speaker 3: you need to pick those branches up and get rid
Speaker 3: of them. Get rid of them, bury them down deep
Speaker 3: in the soil if you want to dig that kind
Speaker 3: of hole. Put them in the trash and have somebody
Speaker 3: haul them away somewhere else, because they will hatch out
Speaker 3: of that and that's part of the life cycle of
Speaker 3: coming back into your trees. I've seen them do this
Speaker 3: to many kinds of trees, pecond trees. It happens a lot.
Speaker 3: I've even seen it on rose branches before. But that's
Speaker 3: a twig girdler. You can spray, but there's really no
Speaker 3: need to just pick up all the fallen branches like that,
Speaker 3: and you've removed that whole generation of you know, of
Speaker 3: new offspring that are about to come out from your property.
Speaker 3: That's a twig girdler. Just a little minor pruning is
Speaker 3: the damage they do. I've seen some pretty significant cases,
Speaker 3: but nothing that was very alarming to worry about. All right,
Speaker 3: it's time for me to take a break for the news.
Speaker 3: I will be right back with your calls. If you'd
Speaker 3: like to be first up seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two KTRH. Welcome back to the garden line, folks.
Speaker 3: If you would like to call in with your questions,
Speaker 3: just dial seven to one three two to one two KTRH.
Speaker 3: You know I still say dial That's interesting. I catch
Speaker 3: myself every time I say it. Now at least I'm
Speaker 3: aware of it. If you remember the rotary phones, a
Speaker 3: lot of listeners do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's kind of weird now to think that we actually
Speaker 3: stuck our finger and a dial and made a big circle.
Speaker 3: I had to wait for a text come back again.
Speaker 3: But times change, right, Well, welcome back to the garden line.
Speaker 3: What do you want to talk about? What kind of
Speaker 3: questions do you have? We want you to have a
Speaker 3: bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and I like fun in
Speaker 3: the process. That would be a goal that I have
Speaker 3: least for you. In my gardens out there, we are
Speaker 3: starting to harvest a lot of the coal crops cruciferous crops.
Speaker 3: Those are the blue leaf vegetables. That's things like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, coal,
Speaker 3: robbie kale, collards. What else is in that group Brussels
Speaker 3: Brussels sprouts. Anyway, those are all coal crops and they
Speaker 3: are packed with really good things for our health. Coal
Speaker 3: crops are they have a number of cancer fighting agents
Speaker 3: in them. They're just good for you. They really are
Speaker 3: good for you. Now people have different opinions about them.
Speaker 3: Some of them can be quite strong, such as mustard
Speaker 3: that even though it's not blue leaf, that's actually a
Speaker 3: cruciferous vegetable itself, and I'm not quite up to mustard.
Speaker 3: It's a little too strong for me. But some people
Speaker 3: love it. And then there's others that are just not
Speaker 3: strong at all. They're just sweet. There is a vegetable
Speaker 3: called chi jim asi, and that's a name, at least
Speaker 3: once company gives on it. It's a it's a different
Speaker 3: species of one of the coal crops. It's very mild.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have that mustard family pungency at all to it.
Speaker 3: But everybody's taste varries. I love kale, especially when we
Speaker 3: get some cold weather and the kale just seems to
Speaker 3: get really sweet. I think it's great. Isn't smoothies and
Speaker 3: my smoothies for example, And a lot of people don't
Speaker 3: like kale. One one time, I was watching a sports
Speaker 3: show and they were, I don't know, they were just
Speaker 3: chit chatting and they got off topic on TV, and uh,
Speaker 3: this guy said he had a good kale recipe. And
Speaker 3: what you do is you take a cookie sheet a
Speaker 3: cookie sheet pan, and you spray it with a non
Speaker 3: stick spray and you put the kale out on it,
Speaker 3: and then you spray that with a little olivail and
Speaker 3: sprinkle se saal on it and you put it in
Speaker 3: the in the oven and you roast it until it's crispy,
Speaker 3: and then you take it out and you walk over
Speaker 3: to the trash and you tilt the pan and it
Speaker 3: slides right off into the trash because you oiled. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's not a fan of kale right there. Some of
Speaker 3: you are going, yes, yes, I like that recipe. Others
Speaker 3: are horrified that kale chips just got thrown away. That's
Speaker 3: a good thing about vegetables. We can find lots of
Speaker 3: things we want to grow. But I want to challenge
Speaker 3: you to do something this year. Grow something you've never
Speaker 3: grown before. Eat something you've never tried before. I never
Speaker 3: was a kale fan. I grew up in the South,
Speaker 3: and I don't know. There is something about the Mason
Speaker 3: Dixon line, where years ago kale was north of the line,
Speaker 3: college was south of the line. That's just kind of
Speaker 3: how the line drew through the country. Now we grow
Speaker 3: a lot of kale in the South way more than
Speaker 3: we used to. I don't know if they're growing College
Speaker 3: further up north or not. But anyway, try something you
Speaker 3: ever grown before. There's some good ones. That Cheams I
Speaker 3: was talking about is an excellent, really mild one. Somebody
Speaker 3: that is not in the mustard at all would love
Speaker 3: that plant really well. There's a lot of different kinds
Speaker 3: of radishes. My dad ate the little cherry bell radishes
Speaker 3: that were so hot they'd burned the end of your
Speaker 3: tongue off. And I hate the hot radishes. I just
Speaker 3: don't like them at all. But now there's very mild radishes,
Speaker 3: like the watermelon radish, which is the size of a turnip,
Speaker 3: and it has a beautiful red color on the inside
Speaker 3: with a white maybe a little green on the very outside,
Speaker 3: and then white and then red inside. It's beautiful. Have
Speaker 3: you ever tried growing those? Get your kids out there too.
Speaker 3: You know, when kids grow something and they're more likely
Speaker 3: to eat it, and when they eat fresh vegetables, they're
Speaker 3: more likely to have a healthy life in the long term. Yep,
Speaker 3: that tried. Happy meals are not good for us. I'm
Speaker 3: not picking on one store. I'm just saying, or one restaurant.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying processed food, no fresh garden vegetables. Yes,
Speaker 3: what are you gonna grow this year? How about a
Speaker 3: Swiss chart? It is not extremely cold, hardy like spinaches,
Speaker 3: but you can grow Swiss chart. They're a low cover
Speaker 3: over it. We're gonna have some cold weather and it
Speaker 3: does really well. Lots of things you can grow. Try something,
Speaker 3: grow carrot Do this, okay, one thing I haven't convinced
Speaker 3: you may think one thing. Get some carrot seed. Get
Speaker 3: a five gallon bucket, drill some holes in the bottom,
Speaker 3: put a quality soil mix in there, a potting soil,
Speaker 3: you know, the very high quality potting soil. Sprinkle some
Speaker 3: carrot seed on top of the surface. Barely cover them
Speaker 3: like an eighth of an inch as I mean, just
Speaker 3: a little bit of soil and press it down and
Speaker 3: keep it moist. And it takes them a while to sprout,
Speaker 3: but when they sprout, you got to keep it moist.
Speaker 3: They will grow in that five gallon bucket and your
Speaker 3: kids will get to pull carrots they grew out of
Speaker 3: a five gallon big They will enjoy that. That is fun.
Speaker 3: If you also got kids and you want something kind
Speaker 3: of fun for them to do. They're not gonna lie cradishes,
Speaker 3: probably most kids don't. But you can get a chicken wire,
Speaker 3: hardware cloth or something like that. You plant the seeds
Speaker 3: into a little container, a little flat container maybe for
Speaker 3: six inches deep and then put that hardware cloth or
Speaker 3: that chicken wire on the surface. They'll grow through it,
Speaker 3: and once they've developed their full sized round roots, you
Speaker 3: can then just pull that strip of wire off, wash
Speaker 3: the soil off, and what you've got is a piece
Speaker 3: of wire hanging in the air with the bulbs on
Speaker 3: one side and the leaves on the other. That's pretty
Speaker 3: cool stuff, fun for kids, but I'm not thinking they're
Speaker 3: going to like the hot radishes. Let's go out now
Speaker 3: to Lake Jackson and we're going to talk to Ronnie. Well, Hello, Ronnie,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Glad to be here. Appreciate you taking the call. Two
Speaker 15: quick questions. Is it too late to start growing cabbage
Speaker 15: and stuff like that? The winter fruits vegetables you're talking
Speaker 15: about from seeds? Should I get or can I go
Speaker 15: ahead and plant the seeds now? Or should I get
Speaker 15: a already started plant.
Speaker 3: Well, it's better at this point you get already started
Speaker 3: plants because you get a head start and it just
Speaker 3: happens faster, and a lot of things can happen in
Speaker 3: between it being a seed you're dropped on the ground
Speaker 3: and hitting that stage of a transplant size. But that said,
Speaker 3: if you want to start seeds, that's fine. If we're
Speaker 3: going to get down, oh let's just say below freezing
Speaker 3: and it's a little tender seedling, I'd cover them up,
Speaker 3: you know, put something out there so the cover doesn't
Speaker 3: smash them, and to hold up the cover. But yes,
Speaker 3: you can still plant from seed if you want. It's
Speaker 3: just going to be a very long cabbage takes a
Speaker 3: long time anyway, and it'll it'll extend even longer. Okay, right,
Speaker 3: just what I need. All right, man, thanks a lot,
Speaker 3: appreciate appreciate that call. All right, here we go. Time
Speaker 3: flies and you're having fun or when you're droning on
Speaker 3: about kids and vegetables, we'll be right back. Hey, welcome
Speaker 3: back to the Guarden Line. Good to have you with
Speaker 3: us today. I'm gonna run right out the first thing
Speaker 3: the segment and we're going to go to Fairfield and
Speaker 3: talk to Marty. Hey, Marty, welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning.
Speaker 20: Hey, Skip, Hey, don't ever put yourself down for talking
Speaker 20: about in fact, kids and plants. I'm working on all
Speaker 20: of my great grand uh nephews and nieces their Christmas gifts,
Speaker 20: and we're putting together kits for them to start gardening.
Speaker 20: So don't ever, don't ever feel like you might be
Speaker 20: talking to the wind or the air or whatever, because
Speaker 20: we're I understand you.
Speaker 3: Yes, I wonder who was out there. I'm glad to
Speaker 3: meet you. All right, what do you want to talk
Speaker 3: about today, Marty?
Speaker 20: Well, I cut all my Okrah back and I left
Speaker 20: about oh three feet of them, and they're growing only
Speaker 20: very very rapidly, and so they become six inches long
Speaker 20: within a day or two, like faster than they did
Speaker 20: in the summer. I've been picking them. They're probably too
Speaker 20: tough to eat or pickle, but I've been picking seeds
Speaker 20: out of them and just drying them and all that.
Speaker 20: Is there anything else I can do with those?
Speaker 3: Because I have a lot, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: this is like you were setting me up to drone
Speaker 3: on and bore the audience and unlink. Yes, there's a
Speaker 3: lot you can do with Okra if you dry, if
Speaker 3: you let Okra pods dry, you can paint them up.
Speaker 3: And as a friend of mine painted ochre like little
Speaker 3: Santa clauses. So just kind of imagine the little cap
Speaker 3: on Okra is a Santa hat right at the end,
Speaker 3: and they dipped them in red paint or something. They
Speaker 3: put white beards on them. Yeah, you could do that.
Speaker 3: Christmas tree ornaments. Okra dried arrangements can be sprayed too.
Speaker 3: You get the stem and the whole thing, and they
Speaker 3: use them like that. The seed can be ground and
Speaker 3: made into coffee substitute. Now, I don't think Folgers is
Speaker 3: in danger of getting put out of business coffee, but
Speaker 3: I'm told that, like during Civil war or something, when
Speaker 3: things were hard, they would grind up okresy to make
Speaker 3: the coffee substitute out of it. Kind of weird stuff.
Speaker 3: The pods are great fire starters when they're dry too.
Speaker 3: I mean it's like you just put them underneath like
Speaker 3: the lugs in the fireplace to get it started or
Speaker 3: something like that. Or Yeah, there's a lot of different
Speaker 3: things people. George Washington Carver, I told you I was
Speaker 3: gonna drone on George Washington Carver, who is one of
Speaker 3: my horticulture heroes. Absolutely amazing man. He found so many
Speaker 3: different uses. He took ochra stalks and he soaked them
Speaker 3: in water and kind of like hammered on him and
Speaker 3: made rugs out of okra stalk fibers. He also made
Speaker 3: paper out of the pith that then inside pith in
Speaker 3: the okre yeah you made he pounded it out into
Speaker 3: a paper like but that was him. He was the
Speaker 3: guy's mind was incredible. But anyway, I'll stop there, but yes,
Speaker 3: you're getting started.
Speaker 20: Well no, I just like, I've been picking the seeds
Speaker 20: until I'm tired of picking, but I just have so
Speaker 20: many left, and I was like, what can I do
Speaker 20: with this, especially because I'm making these kids little Christmas
Speaker 20: kits today to start gardens. So anyway, okay, we'll all
Speaker 20: go on. Is there a website with George Washington Carver
Speaker 20: and all.
Speaker 3: Of his Tuskegee Institute. He was a Tuskegee Institute. He
Speaker 3: was like the Extension Service before there was even an
Speaker 3: extension service. He was a very very early person. He
Speaker 3: would have a wagon called the Jessup Wagon that he
Speaker 3: would take out in the countryside to teach farmers about
Speaker 3: how to be more productive, how to make more money
Speaker 3: off their farms. And it's very very interesting. You can
Speaker 3: look up Jessup Wagon or look up George Washington Carver.
Speaker 3: The guys think he had over one hundred Jessup j. E. S.
Speaker 3: S Up. I believe he found over one hundred uses
Speaker 3: for sweet potatoes.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: But you know you think back in that day and time,
Speaker 3: and that was he was an incredible scientist. This is
Speaker 3: a long strung but all right, all right, have fun,
Speaker 3: Bye bye bye. Yeah, don't get me started talking about Okra,
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Speaker 3: to willisonow and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey, good morning. I have a question. I was in
Speaker 7: to come to Washington last week and fell in love
Speaker 7: with the Japanese maples. Can I grow Japanese maple up
Speaker 7: at Lake Conrod?
Speaker 3: You can, but you have to give them what they want.
Speaker 3: They like somewhat acidic soil. They like to be in
Speaker 3: a very bright shade, not in the full brunt of
Speaker 3: the sun. Now, there are Japanese maples that have adjusted
Speaker 3: and do it better in more sun than I thought
Speaker 3: they would. But in general, the kind that have wider
Speaker 3: leaves shaped like not the size of but shape like
Speaker 3: a sycamore leaf, as opposed to the kind that have little,
Speaker 3: narrow thread like leaves, the wider leaves tend to do
Speaker 3: a little bit better. That's a generalization, but those are
Speaker 3: some tips. If you go to a you know, you
Speaker 3: go to a good garden center that can advise you
Speaker 3: and direct you in the particular cultivars they grow. But
Speaker 3: just remember acidic soil, lots of organic matter, constant moisture,
Speaker 3: consistent moisture, don't let them dry out, and a very
Speaker 3: very bright maybe a little morning sun, but very bright shade.
Speaker 3: And that's the secret to getting them to do well.
Speaker 7: For you here, So four or five hours of direct
Speaker 7: sunlight that it's a no go.
Speaker 3: You probably would be It would probably be okay with
Speaker 3: four to five. It just depends a lot on the
Speaker 3: cultivar and stuff that you grow. And if they if
Speaker 3: they started with that, that's good. Where they run into
Speaker 3: a problem is when it's real shady and then they
Speaker 3: you know, the tree gets cut down and now they're
Speaker 3: in full brunner sun. That changes to too sudden, too
Speaker 3: hard on them.
Speaker 7: Okay, Now, where can I locate one it's kind of
Speaker 7: been tempered for our area, or oh that one of these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you can get Japanese maples in a lot
Speaker 3: of different places. You know, you're not you're a little
Speaker 3: distanced to come down I thirty five to the arbor gate.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they carry them out there at
Speaker 3: A and A plants and produce on one oh five
Speaker 3: west of co Conroe or not. There's a grower's outlet
Speaker 3: up there in Willis. It's close to you that might
Speaker 3: have them. I didn't look for that one. I'm iffy
Speaker 3: on whether they would carry that. I know if you come,
Speaker 3: if you're willing to do a little. I've come down
Speaker 3: to Arburgate. You can find Japanese maples there, and they're
Speaker 3: going to know the varieties to carry and what to
Speaker 3: have there. So those are a few places.
Speaker 7: Okay, Now tell me get in the name of that.
Speaker 3: Arbor gate, the arbor Gate. Yes, in Tomball there there
Speaker 3: west just west of Tomball, about a mile arbur Gate Tree.
Speaker 3: Give them a call first, see what they got. All right,
Speaker 3: thank you, appreciate, all right, you take care. Well, let's
Speaker 3: see here. I'm trying to catch the calls up this
Speaker 3: hour and looks like I tell you what, let's do this.
Speaker 3: I'm going to head out to Beaumont, Sabian. I may
Speaker 3: not be able to finish your call this hour, but
Speaker 3: let's give it a shot.
Speaker 18: Okay.
Speaker 7: I live in Beaumont and I have some foreign grass
Speaker 7: in baiting my Saint Augustine. It looks like ryde grass.
Speaker 11: But it's not and it's spreading, and I don't know
Speaker 11: what it is or how to get rid of it.
Speaker 3: Does it come up above the Saint Augustine? Is it
Speaker 3: taller than the Saint Augustine?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, So killing a grass and a grass is
Speaker 3: hard to do because something that kills a grassy weed
Speaker 3: kills your grassy lawn. If you use a wiper type applicator,
Speaker 3: you can wipe it on the grass that's the weed,
Speaker 3: without getting the product on the lawn itself. So that
Speaker 3: would be one option. I think what would be best
Speaker 3: is if you could take some really good close up
Speaker 3: pictures and let me see those. I would be happy
Speaker 3: to do a quick id on them and give you
Speaker 3: any other comments that might come to mind. Most of
Speaker 3: the time you see a rye grass like plant.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, I have good pictures.
Speaker 11: I made them. I don't know.
Speaker 14: Okay, what do I gotta send them?
Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on hold and my producer
Speaker 3: Jonathan will give you an email to send them to.
Speaker 3: The long term solution to this is to use a
Speaker 3: pre emergent earlier in the fall. All right, hi, folks,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back after the top of the news.
Speaker 1: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as well. That many good peace
Speaker 2: to suppot basic.
Speaker 15: Sign.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. If you
Speaker 3: would like to give me a call to ask a question,
Speaker 3: I'd be happy to help you our phone number seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t r H seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t r H. My
Speaker 3: goal is for you to have fun gardening. I want.
Speaker 3: I know you would like to have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 3: and I know you would like to have a beautiful landscape,
Speaker 3: and I know you would like to have fun in
Speaker 3: the process, and that's what we're all about here on
Speaker 3: the garden Line. I hope you're having fun this morning.
Speaker 3: I am. Someone made a mistake and asked me about
Speaker 3: Okra earlier. Thank you Marty for that. And I've been
Speaker 3: thinking about Okra all during the break, so this is
Speaker 3: a problem. There's probably a wing of the Betty Ford
Speaker 3: Clinic for Okra enthusiasts. I need to go there, I think.
Speaker 3: By the way, for those of you who want to
Speaker 3: become addicted to Okra, there is a book called The
Speaker 3: Whole Okra. The whole Okra by Chris Smith, friend of
Speaker 3: mine from out in North Carolina area, and it is
Speaker 3: a book. It will fascinate you. It will tell you
Speaker 3: all about the history all kinds of He is like
Speaker 3: he went over the top with okra and it's really
Speaker 3: really fun and cool stuff. There's even a even made okra.
Speaker 3: What do you call fruit roll ups? You know that
Speaker 3: that gooey kind of gummy stuff. Well, they they found
Speaker 3: a way to make a kind of a fruit roll
Speaker 3: up thing out a hook er. So I know all
Speaker 3: of you are are not watering at the mouth right now,
Speaker 3: but that's that seven seventy four Nilson Water Garden out
Speaker 3: there in Katie, Texas is an outstanding garden center because
Speaker 3: it's Nilsen Water Gardens and nursery. You know, the nursery
Speaker 3: itself is always full of really quality plants. Things that
Speaker 3: you are looking for to grow you're going to find
Speaker 3: out there, you know, and things you wouldn't maybe expect,
Speaker 3: you know, for example, the the butterfly vine. Have you
Speaker 3: ever heard of butterfly vine? It isn't it's not a
Speaker 3: vine that it's not named that way because it attracts butterflies.
Speaker 3: It's named that way, because the yellow flower clusters are
Speaker 3: replaced by seed pods that look like butterflies. They do.
Speaker 3: Just google it, look, check it out. It's really cool.
Speaker 3: It makes a really good vine too. By the way,
Speaker 3: very vigorous will will cover a structure well. And yeah,
Speaker 3: arrangers will take those little pods, dry them and the
Speaker 3: butterfly pods and dry them and use them in arrangements.
Speaker 3: They uh, let's see. I believe that next week midweek
Speaker 3: they're getting their Christmas trees in out at Nelson Water
Speaker 3: Garden and Nursery. They got all kinds of sizes, lots
Speaker 3: of good options on that, so you want to be
Speaker 3: aware of that. When you're out there, you're gonna find
Speaker 3: lots of color and you're also going to find water gardens. Now,
Speaker 3: this would be a good time to schedule an installation
Speaker 3: of a water garden, because you know, it takes a
Speaker 3: while to get everything planned out and out there to
Speaker 3: your place. And if you'd like a beautiful waterfall, a
Speaker 3: beautiful waterfall, nobody can do it as well as Nelson
Speaker 3: Water Garden and Nursery. They're outstanding at that. They created
Speaker 3: the disappearing fountain, the big like a tall vase type
Speaker 3: pottery that sits on a bed of gravel and water
Speaker 3: comes out of the pottery, goes down the sides and
Speaker 3: goes back the gravel and recirculates. They came up with
Speaker 3: that system and they have all the parts for it.
Speaker 3: So if you wanted to do it, do it yourself.
Speaker 3: For on it. They could tell you how to do
Speaker 3: it if you want to, if you want to go
Speaker 3: that route. But you should see the pottery that they
Speaker 3: have for the water gardens out there. It is outstanding.
Speaker 3: They have the fish, they have the plants, they have
Speaker 3: everything else. And so we're kind of entering into this
Speaker 3: cool winter season where it's kind of an off season
Speaker 3: in some ways and many things. Why not go ahead
Speaker 3: and get set up to get an installation to add
Speaker 3: water to your landscape. The sound of water is so therapeutic.
Speaker 3: It is wonderfully therapeutic. Just and go out to Nelson
Speaker 3: Water Garden. Do this, Take your friends, because this is
Speaker 3: a destination worth going to. You head out it. Ten
Speaker 3: you get to Katie Fort Ben Road and Katie turn right,
Speaker 3: go north. It's just a little bit up on the
Speaker 3: right hand side, and go back out there and just
Speaker 3: sit for a while and just listen to the sound
Speaker 3: of water coming from all over around you. It's inspiring
Speaker 3: and you will want that to be the next thing
Speaker 3: you add to your landscape when you experience it. Let's see,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna Oh, I wanted to give you the website
Speaker 3: Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Go to the
Speaker 3: website and check it out. You find a lot there.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go now to Angleton and talk to Barbara. Hey, Barbara,
Speaker 3: is it Barbara?
Speaker 10: Hello?
Speaker 3: Yes, Hey, Okay.
Speaker 17: My question is I would like to enhance my flower
Speaker 17: beds and I was thinking of getting some mushroom composts,
Speaker 17: and I wanted to know if it's too late to
Speaker 17: do that now or if I should wait until the spring.
Speaker 3: No, you can do that now. You absolutely can do
Speaker 3: that now in Louisiana, Pacific and Louisiana. I don't know
Speaker 3: why I always say that, because it's a East Texas
Speaker 3: lumber company thing. It reminds me of Landscaper's pride. Landscape
Speaker 3: is pride as a mushroom compost by the bag, and
Speaker 3: it's so widely available. I bet you can get it
Speaker 3: in your area, especially if you've got some ace hardware
Speaker 3: stores or something around, but get the mushroom compost from
Speaker 3: them and spread it out. I would only add it
Speaker 3: about an inch or too thick. You could go thicker
Speaker 3: if your soil is really a very poor clay and
Speaker 3: needs more amending. But it doesn't take as much mushroom
Speaker 3: compost as regular compost to provide the same nutrient benefits. Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: Now the one place I would not the one just
Speaker 3: to be sure. The one place I would not use
Speaker 3: the mushroom is on something that's a very acidic soil
Speaker 3: bed like for azaleas or blueberries or things like that,
Speaker 3: because it is a higher pH. But it's still good.
Speaker 3: I've used it a lot for many decades. It's an excellent,
Speaker 3: excellent product. Just know that it will raise the pH
Speaker 3: just a little bit.
Speaker 17: Okay, thank you very much, good.
Speaker 3: Barbara. Thanks enjoy that flower bit you take that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that mushroom compost is like magic stuff. I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: it's really cool. Well let's take a little time here.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to a break in just a second.
Speaker 3: I did want to mention to you. I was telling
Speaker 3: you about ACE before, and ACE hardware is the place
Speaker 3: where you're going to find all kinds of things for
Speaker 3: whatever season you're in. You know, right now we're looking
Speaker 3: at gift giving. ACE is a place with all kinds
Speaker 3: of cool gifts. Listen, if there's a do it yourself
Speaker 3: for in your life. Oh my gosh, top brands of
Speaker 3: all kinds of things that ACE has. I'm mister gardener,
Speaker 3: right so I'm always talking about they've got fertilizers. When
Speaker 3: I talk about a fertilizer on guardline, go to ACE
Speaker 3: and get it. It works well. Do you need to
Speaker 3: control or prevent weeds? Do you need to deal with
Speaker 3: insects and diseases? Ace has got all of that stuff.
Speaker 3: But ACE is so much more. And right now we're
Speaker 3: in the holiday season, holiday decorations, holiday lighting, lots and
Speaker 3: lots of good stuff that you're going to find it
Speaker 3: neighborhood Ace. And when I say your neighborhood Ace, I
Speaker 3: do mean that forty plus stores in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 3: Go to ACE Hardware dot com. Ace Hardware dot Com
Speaker 3: find the store. If you've not been in an ACE recently,
Speaker 3: please go check one out. You will be very pleasantly
Speaker 3: surprised at all the things that are so cool and
Speaker 3: so helpful, that are available in your local Ace hardware store.
Speaker 3: Time for a break. I will be right back with
Speaker 3: more garden line, all those things some of us will
Speaker 3: take the branded for.
Speaker 19: Us to use photochrome to take pictures.
Speaker 3: Now, what do we use digital storage devices? Remember when
Speaker 3: you had to take a picture and wait for it
Speaker 3: to get uh you know, developed, the photographs printed, And
Speaker 3: it wasn't like you just stood there and wait. Like now,
Speaker 3: if you did a picture, you can stand there and
Speaker 3: wait for uh No, it was it was. It took
Speaker 3: a while, and then half your pictures were bad and
Speaker 3: you had to throw them all out. That's it, yep, yep,
Speaker 3: those are the days. Oh my, well, that's a development.
Speaker 3: I love our fact that we got a camera incorporated
Speaker 3: into our phone. That is unbelievably good, unbelievable what those
Speaker 3: things can do. As a gardening photographer, which I am,
Speaker 3: I do photography for my magazine articles and other things,
Speaker 3: I can tell you this that the modern camera app
Speaker 3: development has just been a life changer. So here's a
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Speaker 3: You are listening to garden Line, and uh, I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter. We're here to help you have a bountiful
Speaker 3: garden and a beautiful landscape. I try to direct you
Speaker 3: to places that I think are just some of the
Speaker 3: best places in town. Or when I say in town,
Speaker 3: I mean the listening area around Houston. Uh all this
Speaker 3: area to go to products that are going to work
Speaker 3: because I've tried them, or because I've seen the research
Speaker 3: and they do work, and places that you just will enjoy.
Speaker 3: And one of those places is in Shenned for us.
Speaker 3: I was down there earlier this fall, and I just
Speaker 3: love going to Chenned. You know, you go out there
Speaker 3: and it Enchanted is a good name for it, because
Speaker 3: it is just cool. From the time you drive up,
Speaker 3: it's like you're entering this really cool gardening world and
Speaker 3: you just want to head in there and get busy.
Speaker 3: They've got a great gift shop, they've got nice houseplants
Speaker 3: when you first walk through, and then it opens up
Speaker 3: into all kinds of things. Off to the right are
Speaker 3: the plants that attract butterflies. Right outside the back door,
Speaker 3: right there to the right, and I'm telling you, they've
Speaker 3: got things that the ballooms attract butterflies. They've got things
Speaker 3: that are butterfly larval food sources. And if you want
Speaker 3: to have monarchs or golf fritillaries or swallowtails, there's plants
Speaker 3: that those larva feed on, and you can put those
Speaker 3: in your landscape and you will have butterflies. It's like
Speaker 3: field of dreams. You build it, they will come, and
Speaker 3: they've got them there. In fact, during the growing season
Speaker 3: when the butterflies are jumping on the leaves of their plants,
Speaker 3: and they'll even give you a free larva to take
Speaker 3: home with you. When I say butterflies, I mean they're
Speaker 3: larva they'll get they'll let you take home one kind
Speaker 3: of like sow starter, no charge, and you get a
Speaker 3: good start at your own place. Right now. They got
Speaker 3: shrubs and trees. This is the prime season to plant
Speaker 3: them all kinds of things. My favorite spring blooming tree
Speaker 3: is Chinese fringe tree, and they've got those there, beautiful shaggy,
Speaker 3: fragrant ballooms. Medium sized tree fits our modern lots really
Speaker 3: really well, and it is just absolutely gorgeous. And they've
Speaker 3: got red buds and all the other stuff that you
Speaker 3: would want. You go to the left and you got vegetables,
Speaker 3: you've got herbs, you've got the fairy garden things. You've
Speaker 3: got flowers of perennials and annuals and all kinds of things.
Speaker 3: You just need to go out there and see it all.
Speaker 3: Allow yourself a little time to wander around. Say hello
Speaker 3: to Clay and say hello to Danny. Out there. They
Speaker 3: will advise you and point you in the right direction
Speaker 3: whatever your gardening questions are. That's the Enchanted Forest. And
Speaker 3: by the way, if you're in Richmond heading toward sugar Land,
Speaker 3: it's off to the right. It's on FM twenty seven
Speaker 3: fifty nine Enchanted Forest. If you want to go to
Speaker 3: the website, go two enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 3: I will say that one more time, and you need
Speaker 3: to go to the website. Their website is outstanding. It
Speaker 3: is enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. You are listening
Speaker 3: to Garden Line. We've got to open lines right now
Speaker 3: and this is our last last bit of the show
Speaker 3: here last half hour plus a little bit if you'd
Speaker 3: like to give us a call. Seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H. Seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H. I uh. This past week,
Speaker 3: one of the things that I've been working on is
Speaker 3: getting some containers ready for planting. I've got some beautiful containers,
Speaker 3: and you know, you spend money on a quality container,
Speaker 3: a beautiful one, and you just have it for years
Speaker 3: and years and years and years of enjoyment. And right
Speaker 3: now I'm going to be putting some vegetables in a container.
Speaker 3: I'll also want to get some flowers in one, but
Speaker 3: first come some vegetables in a container. It's a gorgeous container.
Speaker 3: We've got a rosemary that we're going to put out
Speaker 3: in a container out in front of the house, and
Speaker 3: the container's ready, it's just waiting on me to get
Speaker 3: through at that patio so that I can get out
Speaker 3: there and get busy doing that. Nature's Way Resources is
Speaker 3: north of Conro, and you've heard me talk about him before.
Speaker 3: Nature's Way is the birthplace of a lot of quality
Speaker 3: soil products. John Ferguson years ago created Nature's Way and
Speaker 3: that guy is a soil science student through the roof.
Speaker 3: I mean the guy. The number of books and magazines
Speaker 3: and journals, professional journals he's read over the years, I
Speaker 3: couldn't even keep count. He knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: And that's why it is the place where rose oil
Speaker 3: was born, where leafmore compost was born, where you can
Speaker 3: still get super high quality materials of all types. Mulches, compost.
Speaker 3: You can buy it by the bag, you can buy
Speaker 3: it by bulk. You can go get it, you can
Speaker 3: have them deliver it, you can go to US stores.
Speaker 3: They have different store outlets in Houston that carry their products.
Speaker 3: And it's just quality stuff. You're not going to go wrong.
Speaker 3: I've got two different kinds of mulches that they produce
Speaker 3: that I've been testing out in flower beds and very
Speaker 3: pleased with. And of course the soil blends are just
Speaker 3: absolutely through the roof. If you want leaf mold compost
Speaker 3: to do some top dressing of your lawn if you
Speaker 3: kind of do a little do it yourself in there.
Speaker 3: They've got that Nature's way resources. Here's the phone number
Speaker 3: nine three six two seven three twelve hundred. They're up
Speaker 3: Interstate forty five almost Conroe on the right, on the
Speaker 3: right hand side where fourteen eighty eight comes in from
Speaker 3: the left. Turn right across the tracks. Sherwood Circle is
Speaker 3: what you run into. Turn right again and you're there,
Speaker 3: simple as that Nature's Way resources. Let's head out to
Speaker 3: Jersey Village now and I'm going to talk to George. Hey, George,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 14: Hey, Yeah, good morning, Skip. This is going to be
Speaker 14: a regular occurrence. I have problems every day, but I'm
Speaker 14: taking your advice about brown stuff. First, Okay, I've got
Speaker 14: to raise bed that's about four football and I need
Speaker 14: to fill it up so I can do another planning.
Speaker 14: It was full at one time and the rain wash
Speaker 14: some of it away, so I need about ten bags
Speaker 14: of brown stuff to fill it up again. So what
Speaker 14: do you recommend?
Speaker 3: And tell me again what all you're going to grow
Speaker 3: in there vegetables?
Speaker 14: For now, I'm thinking about the watermelon radages you talk
Speaker 14: about those sound like an interesting thing to try to grow,
Speaker 14: so and spinach and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, well I would I like the aerlom cells, veggie
Speaker 3: and irmes for that kind of thing. It is available
Speaker 3: by bag all over the place, easy to find it,
Speaker 3: and airlom cels. I think veggie irmes would be the
Speaker 3: way I would go for that particular kind of bad
Speaker 3: that you're doing there.
Speaker 14: Okay, good, thank you very much. We'll get some.
Speaker 3: Yeah you bet all right? Okay, now you know, you
Speaker 3: know the role on guard Line that was free advice.
Speaker 3: But I do expect to see half of the produce
Speaker 3: you create at the gar at the kid your Age studio,
Speaker 3: so I don't.
Speaker 14: I've never seen those watermelon bradishes, never seen watermelon ratis before.
Speaker 14: That's an interesting looking thing.
Speaker 3: So that one is? That one is? Oh okay yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well I'm I'm I kid people about having to drop
Speaker 3: off stuff. But yeah, watermelon radish is so pretty and
Speaker 3: it's mild enough to where you can slice it and
Speaker 3: then cut it into quarters, you know, like pizza pie
Speaker 3: and put it on a dip tray and it makes
Speaker 3: a really good chip if you will for dip and
Speaker 3: it's mild enough for that, so we go. I'm getting hungry, okay,
Speaker 3: you can. It is a radish, you know, so, I
Speaker 3: mean in some radishes are just too hot for me,
Speaker 3: but watermelons not. But it it's a nice addition to
Speaker 3: a multi vegetable dip tray.
Speaker 14: Yeah, nobody will know what it is, all right, man,
Speaker 14: all right, thank you?
Speaker 3: All right, there I go, Thank you, sir. Appreciate appreciate
Speaker 3: your call. Yeah, try growing something new. That is my
Speaker 3: challenge to you. What are you going to grow new
Speaker 3: that you've never grown before? Try it? I mean, what
Speaker 3: are you out? You know, packet of seed on watermelon radishes.
Speaker 3: By the way, when you're planting things that are root crops,
Speaker 3: it is better to plant them by seed than transplant.
Speaker 3: You can plant radishes and turnips from transplants. You can
Speaker 3: do that, or beats also from transplit if you want
Speaker 3: to do that, but it is so easy to do
Speaker 3: it from seed. Now, carrots you definitely need to do seed.
Speaker 3: And here's why. That carrot sends a little skinny roots
Speaker 3: straight down in the ground long before it becomes a carrot.
Speaker 3: It's just a skinny root. And if that root breaks,
Speaker 3: it will form two roots that go out or three,
Speaker 3: and if you were to try to transplant, when that
Speaker 3: root goes down in the transplant tree, it hits the
Speaker 3: hole and the oxygen burns the rootoff, the air burns
Speaker 3: the rooto off, and you will not have a long
Speaker 3: normal carrot route if you grow it from a transplant.
Speaker 3: So don't do that. You'll have weird carrot roots. You'll
Speaker 3: have provocative carrot roots, but you won't have you won't
Speaker 3: have normal carrot roots. So always direct seed your carrots.
Speaker 3: And as far as I'm concerned, direct seed all your
Speaker 3: root crops, I think they do better that way. Time
Speaker 3: for me to take a break. We'll come back with
Speaker 3: your calls in just a moment. Nine or eight or
Speaker 3: seeing me seven to one three two one two ktright
Speaker 3: seven one three two and two ktr eight. You heard
Speaker 3: me talk about Microlife. I love to talk about Microlife
Speaker 3: because they make a lot of really good quality products.
Speaker 3: You know. One example of that would be their humic
Speaker 3: acid complex. It's got some humic acid and some full
Speaker 3: vic acid in it. Now you're going, Okay, why should
Speaker 3: I care about these two acids? I don't even know
Speaker 3: what you just said well, when you take compost and
Speaker 3: you compost it to its final stage that's called humus,
Speaker 3: and in that humans are acidic compounds that do a
Speaker 3: number of things for the soil. They improve the soil's
Speaker 3: physical properties, They help fungal promote in good fungi fungal growth.
Speaker 3: They provide there are minerals in those products for the soil,
Speaker 3: and the humic fulvic acid has also a little bit
Speaker 3: of kelp in it. It's really a cornerstone product for them.
Speaker 3: And anytime that you are putting something down into the soil,
Speaker 3: you can add that. You can drench it onto over
Speaker 3: your plants. It is beneficial for microbes, it's beneficial for
Speaker 3: the soil structure, and it goes with a several products
Speaker 3: that Microlife makes. They make one call liquid humates. Plus
Speaker 3: it's a soil conditioner again, a stimulator of biological activity,
Speaker 3: and it just works. You could put it in a
Speaker 3: hose in spray or spread on your turf crash. You
Speaker 3: can put it in a flower bed, you can put
Speaker 3: it in a watering can to water things in. All
Speaker 3: products from Microlife. All you have to do is go
Speaker 3: online Microlife Fertilizer dot com and you can learn more
Speaker 3: about these and other microlife products. I want to hit
Speaker 3: out and out of Jersey Village and we're going to
Speaker 3: talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Hey, Skip, good morning. I wanted to talk a little
Speaker 16: bit about my Saint Augustine. Wanted to talk about my
Speaker 16: Saint Augustine grass, some lessons, some hard lessons that I've learned,
Speaker 16: and maybe some things that I wanted to just run
Speaker 16: by you and see what you thought. You know, this
Speaker 16: time of year brown patch that we all know is
Speaker 16: uh huh.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, we're I've got some more
Speaker 3: callers I'm gonna try to work in, So let's hit
Speaker 3: one or two of them and who and then we'll
Speaker 3: move on.
Speaker 16: Okay, We've always been told to cut our Saint Augustine
Speaker 16: as high as possible, and we have always, you know,
Speaker 16: been told to different remedies for the brown patch. But
Speaker 16: I think that we should also talk about this time
Speaker 16: of year, especially right now after this rain. If you
Speaker 16: have good grass, cut it short so it drives out faster.
Speaker 3: And you won't have the moisture.
Speaker 16: Problem staying around so long, and that will help with
Speaker 16: the brown patch as well. That's that's just my opinion.
Speaker 16: We've always been told to cut our grass high and
Speaker 16: and do different things. But I think varying the speeds,
Speaker 16: I mean the height on the lower as well as
Speaker 16: whether or not you moult.
Speaker 4: Or I like.
Speaker 16: Right now, I don't know if you recommend multing. I
Speaker 16: don't think multiing.
Speaker 3: Might know it would be good, especially after.
Speaker 16: The train trapping that much. One other things, I think
Speaker 16: there are people on here that need to hear from
Speaker 16: time to time that this time of year the sun
Speaker 16: is further south and so what in summer you might
Speaker 16: have light in one area, but now there's not, so
Speaker 16: there's you know, people need to consider that that this
Speaker 16: time of year the sun moves further south and you
Speaker 16: have to move your plants around at their sun loving
Speaker 16: out there in the shade. Thanks Skiff, appreciate the program.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you. Wain In Chris, thanks for the call. We're
Speaker 3: gonna We're gonna run now to uh tangle Wood, tangle
Speaker 3: Wild and talk to be Hey b, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning.
Speaker 9: I heard the fellow talking about trees, you know, the
Speaker 9: Japanese maples, and I really like them too, but I've
Speaker 9: always heard that they're really difficult to grow down here.
Speaker 9: Of course, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not an expert.
Speaker 3: Well, they're a little bit of a challenge. It can
Speaker 3: be done, though, you know, plants can't read, and so
Speaker 3: if they could read, they would know. They can't grow
Speaker 3: in places where then somebody grows. And the minute I
Speaker 3: go online and say you can't grow such and such plant,
Speaker 3: I'll get five calls to people that are growing that plant.
Speaker 3: You know. So there's always exceptions to the rule. But
Speaker 3: I don't want to disk Japanese maple. They are beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful plants. You just love the additions they want. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they add a very nice addition to the landscape.
Speaker 9: Well, they have such a pretty color, you know, and
Speaker 9: it's so it gets boring just look at green stuff,
Speaker 9: you know. And I saw something on PBS about two
Speaker 9: brothers who inherited a nursery from their dad who loves
Speaker 9: of Japanese maples, and he started a nursery called Mister Maple.
Speaker 9: And they're in Flat Rock, North Carolina. And these guys
Speaker 9: went around the world looking All they do is look
Speaker 9: at maples, apparently, and there's one hundred and eight types
Speaker 9: of Japanese maples and I'm sure there's one that would
Speaker 9: grow here.
Speaker 3: Cool. Yeah, there are more than one, and our good
Speaker 3: garden centers they will carry the ones that do best here.
Speaker 9: So do you think they would know what cornelia is?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I have not been into a cornelius lately,
Speaker 3: so I just couldn't answer that.
Speaker 6: For you.
Speaker 3: Around for a long time. Yeah, yeah, they've been around
Speaker 3: a long long time. Hey, thanks for the call, B
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 9: Okay, Well, I'm glad I yeah, because you know, on
Speaker 9: my front yard they took a tree down that was
Speaker 9: it should have acidified the soil because it was a pine.
Speaker 9: It was a pine tree. So I'm hoping I can.
Speaker 3: Grow one, all righty, good luck with that. Send me
Speaker 3: a picture if you grow one. I'd love to see that.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to North Houston now and talk to Robert. Hey, Robert, welcome,
Speaker 3: Reguard line. Hey, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 19: I got a question about Aurelia cordatas. I've got two
Speaker 19: different sources to say that in Japan they eat they
Speaker 19: parbol the young shoots and are edible. So I was
Speaker 19: wondering if the shoots are edible, and another sources that
Speaker 19: the roots could be edible too. Do you think that
Speaker 19: the leaves so that plant would be edible?
Speaker 3: Awesome? Well, it's on a list. I've seen it on
Speaker 3: lists of edible plants. When it gets to things like that,
Speaker 3: I would want to research out a little bit before
Speaker 3: I commented too much on it. Other than the fact
Speaker 3: that it is on a list of things that you
Speaker 3: can eat, I've seen that before. But as far as
Speaker 3: you know it's growth and things like that, I don't
Speaker 3: know if it'll grow this far south. I've never seen
Speaker 3: aurelio kardada this far south. But I would do some research,
Speaker 3: be real careful with that. But there's a website called
Speaker 3: plants Let's see Plants for a Future, Plants for a Future.
Speaker 3: It's p FAF dot org and it's a really good
Speaker 3: website about all kinds of plants and uses and things.
Speaker 3: P FAF dot org. I'm pretty sure they would have
Speaker 3: a radio kardata on there, and in there you can
Speaker 3: go read about it and learn a lot more.
Speaker 19: Okay, one more question, bitter melon do you think you
Speaker 19: would grow okay?
Speaker 15: Here?
Speaker 3: Do you say bitter melon yes, yes? Or bitter melon yeah? Better? Better?
Speaker 3: Melon will grow here? And absolutely? What's a warm season plant,
Speaker 3: so whenever you would be growing I don't know, canalops
Speaker 3: and watermelons and squash and things. You can grow bitter
Speaker 3: melon during the seasons, very popular. That's got the right name.
Speaker 3: It is a bitter thing. But yeah, you can grow that. Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm up against a hard break, Robert, thank you for
Speaker 3: the cooker and thank you, yeah, thank you, appreciate that.
Speaker 3: You take care. All right, folks, I'll be right back
Speaker 3: if you'd like to get on the line with me.
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two kt r H. It's
Speaker 3: a nerd day at the gardening. Call it outside of
Speaker 3: the rain with the inside starting some seeds. I just
Speaker 3: put on a raincoat. We can garden in the rain right.
Speaker 15: Er.
Speaker 3: The song remember the Doctor Doolittle movie Doctor Doolittle. How
Speaker 3: many of you remember that movie. One of the songs
Speaker 3: the words were, if you remain out in the rain,
Speaker 3: you'll think you're drinking pink champagne and you will spend
Speaker 3: your life praying for thunderstorms. I don't know where that
Speaker 3: came from, back in the crevices of the brain, back
Speaker 3: there somewhere. More useless information for the day. You're listening
Speaker 3: to garden line for useful information call seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two AH seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: Ktr'd be happy to help you with the kinds of
Speaker 3: questions that you might have. Earlier, I was talking about
Speaker 3: Medina products and the product called has to Grow six
Speaker 3: twelve six. That's a Medina plant foods product that I
Speaker 3: especially recommend for when you're transplanting plants to put in
Speaker 3: a water can drench it over the plants down in
Speaker 3: the root system because it's got that twelve percent phosphorus
Speaker 3: in it, a little bit of nitrogen, a little bit
Speaker 3: of potassium, and twelve percent phosphorus. Phosphorus is important for roots.
Speaker 3: It helps stimulate the blooming and whatnot on a plant.
Speaker 3: But in that six twelve six is Medina soil activator
Speaker 3: stimulates biological activity. It also has humande humic acid, which
Speaker 3: we know humic acid is important for sol structure, improving
Speaker 3: and proving nutrient uptake because when the structure is better,
Speaker 3: the root system is better, the root is able to
Speaker 3: take up nutrients to thrive and take up nutrients even better.
Speaker 3: And of course it got seaweed extract in it too.
Speaker 3: Lots of good products from me, this is just one
Speaker 3: Medina products have been around for a very long time.
Speaker 3: They're time tested, and in fact, you know when I
Speaker 3: first began working my way through all the Medina line,
Speaker 3: trying this out and trying that out and trying the
Speaker 3: other out, I was just thinking, my goodness, They've got
Speaker 3: a lot of really cool products and has to grow
Speaker 3: six twelve six by Medina has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 3: Plant food is just one of those if you're going
Speaker 3: to do any transplanting, you should have some on hand.
Speaker 3: And listen, you should be doing transplanting. There is not
Speaker 3: a better time of the year to plant woody ornamentals,
Speaker 3: tree shrubs and woody vines, to plant fruit trees, to
Speaker 3: plant strawberry plants, to plant perennials, and including ornamental grasses,
Speaker 3: to plant cool seasoned flour. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of planning to be done. And when maybe you have
Speaker 3: bought some vegetables to set out as transplants, water them
Speaker 3: in with Medina has to grow six twelve six. When
Speaker 3: you grow these tomato transplants, I keep trying to get
Speaker 3: you to grow some of your own transplants well water men,
Speaker 3: Medina has to grow six twelve six seven ktr h.
Speaker 3: We are in our last segment, we got time for
Speaker 3: about another call. If somebody'd like to call in, we
Speaker 3: be happy to visit with you and help you as
Speaker 3: we always do, to have a beautiful, beautiful garden and
Speaker 3: a bountiful, bountiful garden, and certainly a beautiful landscape as well,
Speaker 3: and as I like to say, and more fun in
Speaker 3: the process, and more fun in the process. I am
Speaker 3: going to be doing my law and fertilization finally this week.
Speaker 3: I know I've been busy, but I have an excuse.
Speaker 3: It says the cobblers kids go barefoot. The Cobblers kids
Speaker 3: go barefoot. So sometimes my yard has to wait because
Speaker 3: I'm around doing other things. But anyway, I'm going to
Speaker 3: be getting my fall fertilizer out and getting it watered
Speaker 3: in really good to make sure that my ground, my
Speaker 3: grass goes into winter stronger. Remember this, we talk about
Speaker 3: cold heartiness, and we don't live in an area where
Speaker 3: typical winners kill our grass. You know, it's not like
Speaker 3: it's touch and go, and if we don't do that,
Speaker 3: it's going to all die. But we can have winters
Speaker 3: where there is cold damage to lawns. But I think
Speaker 3: the most important reason that we do a fall fertilization
Speaker 3: in our lawns is for spring growth, for spring growth.
Speaker 3: And why am I saying that now, won't that fertilizer
Speaker 3: be gone? No, because what happens is when you do
Speaker 3: a fall fertilization, the grass takes it up, It makes
Speaker 3: carbohydrates and creates, let's just say, an energy reserve in
Speaker 3: the grass plant in spring. It's not the roots that
Speaker 3: are taking up the nutrients that start that early growth.
Speaker 3: The soil is cool, the roots are old, they're going
Speaker 3: to be dying and new roots replacing them as we
Speaker 3: move into spring. But it's that stored energy that supports
Speaker 3: early green up and growth and strength. So your fall
Speaker 3: fertilization is important for a number of reasons, not just
Speaker 3: for winter survival and health, but for spring growth early on.
Speaker 3: That is very, very important. And so if you haven't
Speaker 3: done one, it's still time to do it. We've got
Speaker 3: some great products out there that can help your lawn
Speaker 3: be stronger going into the winter season. So if you
Speaker 3: haven't done it yet, go ahead and do it now.
Speaker 3: I'd rather we do it earlier. I'd rather i'd done
Speaker 3: mine earlier. But still you can go ahead and do it.
Speaker 3: Get it done now, because when you fertilize, now, maybe
Speaker 3: I should say it this way. Fall fertilizing is fertilizing
Speaker 3: your early spring lawn. It's supporting that early early growth
Speaker 3: before the grass is you know, the soil's warm enough
Speaker 3: and the rich systems or new roots are developing in things.
Speaker 3: As that grass comes out of the winter and begins
Speaker 3: to grow, it starts to you know, as it warms up.
Speaker 3: The runners begin to grow in our sleepy headed, warm
Speaker 3: season turf, and they begin to grow, and then they're
Speaker 3: pegging down roots. And now you got new roots, and
Speaker 3: now there's a whole other world. And we're doing our
Speaker 3: spring fertilizations and other things summer fertilizations to keep it
Speaker 3: growing through the year. Fall fertilizer very very important. All right,
Speaker 3: there was your tip for the day. I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe I've getten another tip or two for the day,
Speaker 3: but it would be a good time to do that.
Speaker 3: So I've been challenging you all morning. What are you
Speaker 3: going to grow different this year? What are you going
Speaker 3: to try that's new this year? I want to give
Speaker 3: you one more challenge. What are you going to learn
Speaker 3: that's new this year? You know, we had a caller
Speaker 3: about a plant that is assailable or not. You know,
Speaker 3: maybe you are interested in learning about herbs. Why don't
Speaker 3: you spend some time learning about herbs. You know, when
Speaker 3: you listen to garden Line, you learn. I hope you do.
Speaker 3: We provide that information to help you become a better gardener.
Speaker 3: But it's also important when you are wanting to try
Speaker 3: anything new or get better at what you do, to
Speaker 3: spend some time learning. You know, they say that the
Speaker 3: most important part of cutting down trees is sharpening the saw,
Speaker 3: and that is really true. And you are the gardener.
Speaker 3: We need to sharpen us as gardeners when we do that.
Speaker 3: Printing season is coming. I see so much printing malpractice
Speaker 3: out there where people have trimmed their shrubs in a
Speaker 3: way that is not good. It's not going to help
Speaker 3: the shrub. You can learn about that, and now'd be
Speaker 3: a good time to do that. Spend some time learning.
Speaker 3: One good website that I'll give you that you can
Speaker 3: go to for a lot of good information is a
Speaker 3: Aggie horticulture website. Aggie Horticulture from the Horticulture Department TAXA,
Speaker 3: A and M. It's it's Aggie hyphen Horticulture dot TAMU
Speaker 3: dot edu, but you can just google it Aggie Horticulture.
Speaker 3: When you get there, you're going to find a section
Speaker 3: on vegetables that has the Easy Gardening series of publications
Speaker 3: for every single vegetable you possibly want to grow, and
Speaker 3: things like fertilizing the garden, building raised beds, building the
Speaker 3: soil disease controlled things like that. There's a fruit section
Speaker 3: that has a publication on every fruit from avocados to
Speaker 3: whatever fruit begins with a Z. It's got all those
Speaker 3: publications in it. They're free and it's science based information.
Speaker 3: Very good. And keep checking out gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 3: I keep adding stuff. I'm working with my designer right now.
Speaker 3: We're revamping the website and about to add a bunch
Speaker 3: of whole new cool information to help you have success
Speaker 3: with your garden. So go for the day tip for
Speaker 3: the wires, however you want to put it. Learn something,
Speaker 3: get out and learn something. I just read about it
Speaker 3: and I just study it online. Then get out and
Speaker 3: try it, because there's nothing like experience. I've got a
Speaker 3: Master three in horticulture for textm that was helpful, And
Speaker 3: I'm telling you by day by day by day one
Speaker 3: most important of all