WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:28.399 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:33.520 Basis gas. 3 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:39.240 Can you want the trip you just watching as work going? 4 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:40.520 Basis? 5 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:46.679 Can you brats to see Britain in the bay? 6 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:48.600 The basis the gas? 7 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.280 Can you dislo back again? 8 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.000 Not sad brasses the gay and you. 9 00:00:58.799 --> 00:00:59.759 So be. 10 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:10.680 All right, folks stop. Welcome to garden Line. Good to 11 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:12.680 have you with us on this Sunday morning. Going to 12 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.319 be a great day out there. If you're a if 13 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:18.159 you got one drop of gardening blood in you, this 14 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:22.200 week ought to be really excited. I mean exciting. You 15 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:23.920 got to be excited about the weeks. What I'm trying 16 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.280 to say is early in the morning for me anyway. 17 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.920 You know, it's kind of like if you ever listen 18 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.719 to Footloose, you know by Kenny Loggins. If you can 19 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.400 listen to Footloose and your foot's not tapping, you need 20 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.000 to check your pulse because something is seriously wrong. If 21 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.359 you're a gardener and you are not excited about the 22 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.840 weather this week, oh my gosh, wow, it's going to 23 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:46.760 be great this afternoon. Be a good time to get 24 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:48.920 out to a garden center and get you some supplies, 25 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.400 get you some things you need stop buy your you 26 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.359 know your ace hardware stores, stop buy your feed store. 27 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:56.359 We got a lot of great places here in town 28 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.480 to get you ready to have a great spring, and 29 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.480 that's what we're working on today. You know, products for example, 30 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.879 like Microlife. Microlife fertilizers have been around a long time, 31 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:08.520 fact for over thirty five years now. It's the number 32 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:11.879 one selling organic fertilizer here in the Greater Houston area. 33 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:13.639 And it's not just Greater Houston. I mean to go 34 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.599 all the way to San Antonio, Austin place that you 35 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:20.159 see Microlife for sale A long long region around here 36 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.080 are a wide region. And the reason is it works. 37 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:27.520 That's the bottom line. Microlife fertilizers are based on microbes. 38 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:31.039 That's why it says micro Life microbes rule the world. 39 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:35.520 They definitely keep the plants happy. Nutrients go through microbes 40 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.000 in order to be turned into a form plants can use. 41 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:41.560 That's what they do. Microlife fertilizer is designed around that 42 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.960 it's loaded with microbes. When you purchase a product from Microlife, 43 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.520 you're going to be getting along with it a lot 44 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:48.240 of microbes. 45 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:49.080 Now. 46 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.919 A couple of the products I particularly like, one of 47 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:54.960 them is the Blue label. That's Ocean Harvest. The Microlife 48 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:58.439 Blue label. It's a four to two three fertilizer fish based, 49 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:00.840 So you want to use that out side. That's a 50 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:02.439 primary place you're going to use this. It's not going 51 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:04.919 to burn. You can use it as a you know, 52 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.800 as a diluted solution for you know, starting a little 53 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.639 seedlings or something like that. You can fold your feed 54 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:13.800 with it. You can you know, drench it over a 55 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:16.319 root system to give plants a boost. Another one I 56 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:19.479 like is Microlife Biomatrix. That's an orange label. You can 57 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.000 use it indoors or outdoors. These are both liquid. You 58 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:23.919 can buy them in a quart or a gallon. Well, 59 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.000 anyway you you mix it up according to the label. Again, 60 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.080 you're not going to burn with it, but that higher 61 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:33.000 nitrogen content in it really pushes leafy growth. So it's 62 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:35.879 great for house plants for example, but it's good for 63 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.360 any kind of plants anywhere you want to give plants 64 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:42.120 a real quick boost to get them going. That's what 65 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.439 I use. I basically keep the orange label near me 66 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:48.280 all the time when I'm doing gardening stuff. It's right 67 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.280 there in the shed with me, and it works. That's 68 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:53.400 about that's the bottom line. That's why we use it. 69 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:56.080 And you know you can get microlife again anywhere all 70 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:01.840 through this region. For example, Southwest Fertilize, Southwest Fertilizer in 71 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:03.759 the corner of Business and Runwick. You hear me talk 72 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:06.159 about them all the time. This place has been around 73 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.960 for seventy years. They're having their seventieth birthday this year. Now, 74 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.039 you don't stick around seventy years if you're not doing 75 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:15.879 something right, that's for sure, and treating your customers right. 76 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.560 But you go in to Southwest Fertilizer, you're going to 77 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.199 find microlife. You're also going to find all the full 78 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:24.600 range of products you hear me talk about here on 79 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:28.360 garden Line. You're going to find things to control pests, weeds, 80 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:32.079 and diseases. And if you are are looking to prevent 81 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.480 weeds or to control weeds that exists, they've got everything 82 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.240 you need for that. If you're an organic gardener, you're 83 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:40.959 not going to find a larger selection of organic supplies 84 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:47.560 anywhere in Houston than right there. You're just not. It's 85 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:50.360 the one stop shop. And when I say one stop shop, 86 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:54.480 i'm talking about also mulch also, you know, compost and 87 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:56.959 soil amendments. They're going to have azamite in there. You're 88 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.120 going to find Nature's Way and heirloom soil resources. You're 89 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.600 gonna find all the Medina products that you need in there. 90 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.519 For sure. They have a nice seed selection, both the 91 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:08.079 little packets and the bins where you take the little 92 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.240 scoop and you fill your own envelope. That's the most 93 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:14.560 economical way to buy seed right there. You know the tools. 94 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:16.680 I can just go sit there and drool and look 95 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.600 at the ninety foot wall of tools. Because quality brands, 96 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:23.279 you know, Falco, Corona. Don't buy cheap tools. Buy tools 97 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.600 that are quality for a reasonable price, and you will 98 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:28.519 save a lot of money in the long run, plus 99 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.040 a lot of headaches. I've thrown away a bunch of 100 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.680 cheap tools in my life. Unfortunately, I learned long ago 101 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:36.959 not to do that. Ask them to see the garden 102 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:39.920 kneeling seat that I always talk about. They've got those 103 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.720 in there as well. Just go in and check it out. 104 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:44.319 I don't care where you live. You're listening to this, 105 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:46.439 sometimes you need to get over there and check out 106 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.639 Southwest Fertilizer Corner Bissinet and Runwick. You're gonna get friendly service. 107 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.040 You're gonna get quality products, and you're going to get 108 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:57.639 not just great selection, but unbelievable selection. Southwest Fertilizer dot 109 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:01.399 Com six or seven to one three six one seven 110 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:06.759 four four if you would like to try that, and 111 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:08.920 I hope you will. In fact, I haven't been by 112 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:10.639 there in over a month now. I need to get 113 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.759 back over there. I always I always stop in to 114 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:14.839 visit a Bob and see what's going on over there, 115 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.519 because they they definitely have the things that are that 116 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:22.759 are happening in my own garden. I've got some containers 117 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.519 that are waiting for me to take care of them. 118 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.079 Some of them are just bare because I pull the 119 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:32.600 soil or the plants out from last planting, last falls planting, 120 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.160 and they're just waiting on me to put new plants in. 121 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.839 You notice sometimes that you have to top off containers 122 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.120 that maybe it was full in the spring, and then 123 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.920 by the time you get to next spring, it's like whoa, 124 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.240 it is really sunken down in this container. That's the 125 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:55.160 natural process of a gosh, you can't say oxid is oxidation. 126 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.160 We you know, we just think of it as composting. Basically, 127 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.519 leaves become common post composts becomes humous, and so all 128 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.040 the way down that line, things are breaking down more 129 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.959 and more and more, and in that oxidation process. That's good. 130 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.639 That's nature. That's what nature does. You just need to 131 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.319 remember to top things off a little bit and get 132 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.480 you some good fresh material and build that back up. 133 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.319 Whether you're using a very fine textured potting soil, whether 134 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.839 you're using a chunkier thing and a larger container, either 135 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:31.600 way you're going to have success with that. So if 136 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:34.959 you haven't tried a lot of containers before, you really 137 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.759 ought to, because it is one of the simplest, easiest 138 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:41.319 ways to garden that anybody can garden. And I mean 139 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.120 it is very, very easy, and it's beautiful too. And 140 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.600 the nice thing about containers is no matter where you 141 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:50.480 need something, you can stick a container there. I've got 142 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:54.720 containers sitting out a little concrete pad in my lawn, 143 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.279 you know, one of those disks you move around. I've 144 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.160 got containers on driveways. I've got containers on pad. You 145 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:04.839 can make beauty anywhere, and you can make beauty fast. 146 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:07.519 That is the way to go. Hey, I need to 147 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.519 take a little break. I'm going to do that right now, 148 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:14.800 and I will be right back. All right, welcome back 149 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.959 to the guard Line. Glad to have you with us today. 150 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.639 Looking forward to talking to you about the kinds of 151 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:25.439 things that you are wondering about. Whatever, whatever the topic is, 152 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.439 we're here to help. And you know what I wanted 153 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.199 to This is the time of year where I make 154 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.759 it's a gardening bug. I understand that spring is the time, 155 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:37.120 the main time people feel that way. I wish people 156 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:39.279 felt that way and fall more they do in fall, 157 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.360 but I fall out to be equal or greater than 158 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:46.080 spring when it comes to gardening excitement. But anyway, spring 159 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.600 is the time. And if you have been looking at 160 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:50.159 your place and you just don't like the look of it, 161 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.919 and you're thinking, you know what, I don't have the skill, 162 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:56.679 I don't know how to design. I don't want to 163 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:59.919 do the work you need to call Piercescapes because they 164 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:03.679 do all the above and more. There are preferred landscaper 165 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.120 for a reason because when they come in, they change 166 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.960 things and they make them beautiful. They do really good 167 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.799 work there. They a lot of their employees hold you know, 168 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:20.759 distinguish landscape, irrigation, drainage, backflow, pesticide certifications, licenses, I mean, 169 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:24.279 these are quality trained staff. They have designers who know 170 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.039 how to design something beautiful, whether it's a whole landscape 171 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.320 design or a portion of the landscape. If you need irrigation, 172 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.600 you know, repair and getting it working right, lighting, drainage, 173 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:38.440 whatever it is, they can do it. And hard scapes, 174 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:40.559 oh my gosh, they're so good at that as well. 175 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.559 You need to go to the website piercescapes dot com 176 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:49.759 piercescapes dot com, and I tell you what, go there 177 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:51.279 and look at the pictures. If you want to give 178 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.480 them a call, it's two eight one three, seven fifty sixty. 179 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.000 But just go there, check out, look at examples of 180 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.320 the work they do. Get an idea for what I'm 181 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.559 talking about and you'll see it. You'll go, oh my gosh, 182 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:06.039 I never even thought about lighting like that. For that, 183 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:10.840 that is stunning. They can do that and give them 184 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:13.519 a call. Go buy there, check it out, sit down 185 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:15.279 with them, you know, take some pictures. Just talk to 186 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:16.960 them first. They'll tell you what they need you to do, 187 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:20.200 and when they get through with your place, it will 188 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.759 be amazing. It's turkey. They know their work. 189 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:23.159 You know. 190 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.120 I'm a I'm a horticulturist, but I'm not a designer, 191 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.960 and so I'm a plant person. I'm a I somewhat 192 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:34.879 jokingly refer to us as plant collectors. Those people like me. Now, 193 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:37.840 how do you know a plant collector versus a designer? Well, 194 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:41.039 a designer, the place looks beautiful. You drive by, you 195 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:44.240 may not even care about plants, and it's pretty. It's beautiful. 196 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.720 A plant collector, our place looks like a bomb went 197 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.720 off in a garden center and everything rooted where it landed, 198 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.960 and that's our landscape. It's just that's a little harsh. 199 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:57.519 But we go somewhere, we say I want that plant 200 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.120 without a thought of where is it going to go? 201 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:00.000 Is it part of a place? 202 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:00.279 Land? 203 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.120 And I want that plant? And then we walk around 204 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.240 trying to find someplace to squeeze it in or pull 205 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.440 something else out to put it in. And that is 206 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.799 not a good way. That is not a good way 207 00:11:10.120 --> 00:11:14.320 to go about designing your landscape. You may be you 208 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:17.720 may also be a plant collector like me. So anyway, 209 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:22.360 if that makes sense, I guess you get it. Have 210 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.639 you ever been to Spring Creek feed Supply that's out 211 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:31.960 there in the Magnolia direction area from Tomball. It's really 212 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:34.759 close to Grand park Way and two forty nine both 213 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.039 Spring Creek Feed Center is a place where you walk 214 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:40.480 in and number one, it's impressive. It's just a it's 215 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:44.320 a gorgeous, beautiful place. So much product inside, so many 216 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.080 different kinds of things, not just feed, not just feed, 217 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.799 of course, they have feed quality feed for your pets, 218 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:53.240 for your farm and ranch and whatnot. They have friendly folks, 219 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:55.960 friendly folks that greet you, take care of you. They 220 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.000 make sure that you get what you need. They get 221 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.200 your hands on that product. If you're a backyard chicken 222 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.840 person and you just love backyard chickens, well they're going 223 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.759 to have all the supplies that you need now Spring 224 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.559 Creek Feed. If you want to get a call, here's 225 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.799 the number. Two eight one two five two five four 226 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:17.440 zero zero two eight one two five two five four 227 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:21.840 zero zero. They are on FM twenty nine seventy eight again, 228 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.919 FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham 229 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:29.279 Parkway and Highway two forty nine Combat Parkway. They call 230 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:33.720 that one. I love going into feed stores. I love 231 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:35.240 the smell of feed stores. 232 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:36.120 I just do. 233 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:38.080 I grew up when I was a kid, you know, 234 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:41.240 toddled in with my my dad to feed store and 235 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:44.480 you know, to buy things for the farm, and it 236 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.279 just I don't know, it's just a nice, familiar, old fragrance. 237 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:54.480 You know. Fragrances, They they last someone can I'm going 238 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:57.480 off topic here, but someone can be struggling in a 239 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:00.000 lot of ways mentally, and you bring in a certain 240 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.159 and smell, maybe a fresh baked cookie smell, and suddenly 241 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.600 they go back eighty years to Grandma making them one 242 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.120 or something. You know, it's a it's a cool thing 243 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.159 the way fragrances work for us. Well, we're gonna go 244 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.879 out to the phones and talk to Tim. Hey, Tim, 245 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:24.440 where is braskin State Park? Or where are you? All right? Tim, 246 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:29.080 I'm not able to hear you. Let's see if I'm 247 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:33.879 gonna put you back on hold there hopefully hopefully there 248 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.720 we go. All right, now we got Tim? Hey, Tim, Hey, 249 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:39.519 how are you doing this morning? I'm good? Where are 250 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:41.200 you located? Oh? 251 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.000 I'm out here by the brides Fork? 252 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:45.480 I got you? All right? What can how can we 253 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:46.039 help today? 254 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:51.720 I have a bailey bush and I have these black 255 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:54.480 spots on the leaves, and then the leaves eventually start 256 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:55.759 turning brown and fall off. 257 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.639 All right, is this U Is this the native red 258 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:03.919 bay or is this the culinary bay that you use 259 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:10.080 for cooking one for cooking? Okay, all right? That that 260 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.519 blackening of the leaves is typical when things go wrong 261 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.759 on that plant. It could be different things. It could 262 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.320 be a root problem such as soggy wet conditions, or 263 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.519 it could be due to even droughty conditions can but 264 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:29.279 that usually doesn't turn the leaves black. Another possibility is 265 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:31.919 some cold damage. We've had some good cold snaps, and 266 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.519 that is not a fully cold hardy tree. And although 267 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.080 it can take some cold, if we're having warm weather 268 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.639 and then cold hits, it makes that less hardy and 269 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.480 you would get damage at a temperature you wouldn't have 270 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:50.879 expected to get damage at. Okay, So go ahead. 271 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:57.000 When I bought it from Danny in Channa Garden or forest, whichever, 272 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:01.120 that one is overall in booths twenty fifty nine. 273 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:02.559 Yeah, that's intended for us. 274 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:04.519 Yeah, chen forest, that's. 275 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:04.759 What it is. 276 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.240 And then I took a leaf back and they give 277 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.720 me a like a three. She said it was like 278 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:16.360 a spot, a black spot, mold or something. Okay, and 279 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.879 she give me a h like an insistence a face 280 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:23.320 the side, fung your side, all that kind of mixed 281 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.360 together and once spray, okay, and I've been spraying it 282 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.559 once well one, I was supposed to pray once a week. 283 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:31.399 I kind of get around there, you know, best I can. 284 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.320 And it's still not taking care of it. That's been 285 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:36.039 two to three. 286 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:39.480 Months, so it's not getting better. You're saying, well, no, sir, 287 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:42.159 I don't have the leaves in my hand, and they did. 288 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:45.720 They may have seen city mold on it. Is it? 289 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.480 Is it something that's on the surface of the leaf 290 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:50.799 that's black, like if you wet your thumb and rubbed 291 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:53.120 it over the leaf and go away, or is it 292 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.480 the whole leaf itself is actually black. 293 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.759 No, it's just spots on it, and I really haven't 294 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:01.000 tried to wipe it off. 295 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:01.399 With my thumb. 296 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:06.080 But okay, that is probably cudy mold due to some 297 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:11.080 type of scale. And these scales suck juices out of 298 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.600 the plant. They get the nutrients out of the juice, 299 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.399 and they basically excrete the sugary substances because they don't 300 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:20.039 need the sugar in it, and then it falls on 301 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:23.320 leaves and citimoe grows on sugary stuff, and so that 302 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:27.440 that's why you have those spots controlling scale. You can 303 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:31.919 use dormant oils, you can use summer oils rather spraying upward. 304 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.480 But on a bay tree, there's so many leaves and 305 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.679 they're so stiff that it's kind of hard to get 306 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:39.919 one hundred percent coverage of the undersides of all the leaves. 307 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:43.759 But if you could achieve that oil would work. Other 308 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:46.840 than oil, you're left with a systemic that you put 309 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:50.080 in the soil and goes up in the plant, and 310 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.080 then anything sucking juice out of the plant gets that 311 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:57.120 systemic insecticide. So are those are the two ways to 312 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.080 go about it. I don't know if bay trees are 313 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:03.159 on the list of of plants on those particular products 314 00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:05.319 or not. I did just have to grab one and look. 315 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:09.319 But if you go, if you go to enchanted forest 316 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:13.319 and tell them you're looking for a systemic insecticide to 317 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:15.559 use in your bay tree, they can put your hands 318 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.160 put your hands on one, and I would try that route. 319 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.480 If you turn some leaves over and under the leaves, 320 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:25.319 you see little tiny it's like fish scales, but they're tiny. 321 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.440 They're smaller than a lowercase typed. Oh, they're real tiny, 322 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.680 little kind of yellow shark truse green kind of things 323 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.160 sticking to the bottom of the leaf. That that's what 324 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.680 the scale probably looks like. There are several types of 325 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:40.200 scale though. 326 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.039 Okay, but I appreciate I'll send some back. Go over 327 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:46.640 there and check with them one more time. 328 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:48.720 Then all right, you take care. Why are you over there? 329 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.119 Grab some tomato plants. They got some good ones. All right, 330 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:56.839 all right, thanks a lot, appreciate that call. There you go. 331 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:01.960 All right, Well, you're listening to garden Line and I'm 332 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.079 your host, skip Rick or We're to answer your gardening 333 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:07.519 questions to help you have success. That is what we're 334 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:09.880 trying to do. That is what we're looking for. Hey, 335 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:14.240 you know, Ace hardware stores are a place where pretty 336 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:17.279 much everything you need inside now they've got it. I mean, 337 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:19.119 of course they're a hardware store. You know, they got 338 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:22.640 everything from lights, so electricity, to plumbing, you name it. 339 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:29.160 But their outdoor section is just amazing. The wide range 340 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:32.480 of fertilizers, products to control pests, the tools that you 341 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:35.720 need to work outside, they're all there. And if you're 342 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:38.079 fixing up the patio, you know, we need those little 343 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:40.440 strings of lights. I call them beer garden lights. That's 344 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.039 kind of what they look like. They've got stuff like that. 345 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:46.680 Of course they've got barbecue pits. Don't even get me started. 346 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:49.039 I can talk about that for an hour. Their selection 347 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:54.200 of top quality lines is unbelievable, very important, very important 348 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:59.000 for sure. The thing that I'm interested in right now 349 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:00.880 that has been going on on at ACE is all 350 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:05.880 their storage and spring cleaning types of supplies. If you 351 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.599 can dream it up, they've got it there. Because I've 352 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:11.400 been redoing my garage. Oh my gosh. You know garages 353 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.839 where junk goes to just pile up. You get it clean, 354 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:18.240 and next thing you know, it's junkie again. Well, you 355 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:21.200 need shelving, you need bins, you know, bins to store 356 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:24.119 stuff in, You need cleaning supply. They have it all 357 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.559 at ACE. Walk into an AM. Let me just ask 358 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:28.400 you to do this next time you get a chance, 359 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.119 walk into an ACE. You can find your local A 360 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:36.720 store by going to ACE Hardwaretexas dot com Ace Hardwaretexas 361 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:40.279 dot Com and walk into one and just walk around 362 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:41.759 a little bit and check it out. I mean you 363 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.480 may walk on. You know, each one's independent. They so 364 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:46.359 each owner can do what they want to do in 365 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:49.079 their store. I mean, it's still all ACE. It looks 366 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.839 like ACE. It is ACE, of course, but one may 367 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:53.960 have You may walk up to a fudge bar in 368 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:55.799 one who knew at a hardware store you can get 369 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.359 a fudge bar. Well, ACE is way more than just 370 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:03.880 hardware Ace Hardware Texas. I'm coming up on another hard 371 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.039 break here. I am going to be talking when I 372 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:11.759 come back a little bit about herb gardens and herb gardening, 373 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:16.599 maybe growing herbs without an herb garden. So just hang 374 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:19.160 around and we'll be back with your calls in just 375 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:22.200 a moment. I want to remind you my website, Gardening 376 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.079 with Skip dot com is where all the schedules are, 377 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:27.359 and when you hear me talk about a publication, it's 378 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:33.960 going to be there. All right. Welcome back to garden Line. 379 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:38.920 Got a little mix up mix in the music there, somebody. 380 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:42.920 Yesterday I was out at the Home and Garden show 381 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:47.599 up in Montgomery County up in Conroe at the Lune 382 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:50.680 Star Center up on Airport Road. By the way, they're 383 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:53.599 going on today. Still, if you didn't get out there yesterday, 384 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:55.200 you ought to go on. It was this great show. 385 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:57.599 The master gardener's from Montgomery County were out there answering 386 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:00.160 gardening questions and things. You got to get out there 387 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:01.799 and check it out. Anyway, somebody told me it came 388 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:04.640 by and I get this every now and then they say, 389 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:07.279 I appreciate the fact that you play a lot of 390 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:10.480 weird music. I think what they meant. I think what 391 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:14.519 they meant as a mix of music. But anyway, I 392 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:16.400 hear that from time time people like that. You never 393 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:19.079 know what's going to come on. That's true. We even 394 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:22.680 have yodling chickens here occasionally when we need to. Don't 395 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:24.839 make me have to pull out barbershop, I will, I 396 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:31.799 promise anyway. Hey, in Chenity Gardens down in the Richmond 397 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:36.279 Rosenberg area is one of the destination nurseries that people 398 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:38.599 go to from all over. I've said this before, but 399 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:41.000 I was there one time and someone from Austin was there. 400 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:43.680 What are you doing visit? No, we just came. They 401 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:45.599 didn't come visit family. They were just over there because 402 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.359 they love in Jenny Gardens. So they actually made that 403 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:51.680 up to go there. That's pretty cool, but that's kind 404 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.759 of nursery it is. If you want to go to 405 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:56.000 their website, I would write this down. You know, a 406 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:57.720 lot of times I give here's their dress. Here's a 407 00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:59.559 phone number. If you used to go to the website, 408 00:21:59.599 --> 00:22:03.799 it's all right there Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. In 409 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.079 chenned Gardens Richmond dot com you can sign up for 410 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:10.160 the newsletter. That's great. You lot of good information on 411 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:13.319 that that you will want to have. They're on FM 412 00:22:13.440 --> 00:22:16.160 three fifty nine on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond. 413 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:19.640 So if you're in Richmond heading up Northway FM three 414 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.039 fifty nine, you can get there and it's an unforgettable 415 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:24.480 place to visit. And I'm telling you this. They have 416 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:28.119 a very enthusiastic team. Yah. You can bring in photos 417 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:31.680 or samples to get expert advice from them. Their knowledge 418 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:35.440 of the plants is extensive, and so when you start 419 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:37.759 talking about well I try to plant there and it 420 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:40.680 didn't work that, they can probably tell you, well, it's 421 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:43.720 because this or that want you this other one. You know, 422 00:22:43.799 --> 00:22:46.319 maybe it's drought resistance, maybe it's shade, maybe who knows why, 423 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:48.480 but they can point you to the plants that you 424 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:50.680 have success with. And while you're there, you can do 425 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:53.839 the brown stuff before green stuff thing. Because they have 426 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:59.640 Nature's way, they have airloom soils They have fertilizer from Microlife, 427 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.480 Nelson Plant Food, and Menina, so you can take the 428 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:05.759 take care of the whole thing to have success with 429 00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:08.160 your plants. And it's a fun place to visit. That's 430 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:11.119 in Chenni Gardens Katie Fosher Side of Richmond in Chenni 431 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.599 Gardens Richmond dot com. If you would like to give 432 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:17.680 me a call our phone number, it would help if 433 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:19.720 I gave you that out, wouldn't it seven to one 434 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:24.519 three two one two ktr H seven one three two 435 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:28.920 one two kt r H. Whatever you want to visit 436 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:30.920 about today, I said I was going to visit about herbs, 437 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:33.160 and I want to talk a little bit about herbs. 438 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:39.359 There are traditional formal herb gardens and you see those, 439 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:41.319 you know it may see a big estate with this 440 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.759 beautiful thing that's all geometric and it's got circles and 441 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:49.160 angles and it's you know what is the mirror images 442 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:51.519 from left to right or up and down or whatever. 443 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:54.519 It's just all designed beautifully. Okay, you can do that, 444 00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:57.039 that's fine. You can do that. But if you just 445 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:00.279 have a normal landscape and you don't want to put 446 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:04.359 in an herb garden, why not use herbs in your landscape. 447 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:07.880 Here's some ways you can do it. Containers. Herbs are 448 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:10.559 great for containers. You could have a container that you're 449 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:14.000 growing flowers in, but you could have time spilling over 450 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:16.519 the side of that container. See what I mean. You 451 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:19.839 can grow mint in a container too, and that helps 452 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:22.640 confine it. Because mint likes to take off running. It 453 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:25.480 can outrun bermuda grass, that's for sure. So don't just 454 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:28.319 turn it loose in your gardens. It'll take over. But 455 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:32.599 mint is great for in a container. What about rosemary. 456 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:36.680 Rosemary is an evergreen shrub that is adequately cold tolerant 457 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:39.799 for our area. It is very drought tolerant, and as 458 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:42.759 long as you don't have it in soggy, wet roots 459 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.440 over the wintertime or anytime, it's going to perform well 460 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:48.119 for you. It doesn't like to be in a swamp. 461 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.119 But rosemary is incredible. Years ago, I remember we went 462 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.079 through a drought. I can't remember, it's a long time ago, 463 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:57.680 and the master gardeners up in North somewhere in North Texas, 464 00:24:58.039 --> 00:25:00.440 they went through town and they did it as assessment 465 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:02.920 of all the plants. What survived, what didn't you know? 466 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:05.519 That kind of thing. Rosemary was the very top of 467 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:07.880 the list as a plant that made it through that drought, 468 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.319 So that's pretty impressive. Plus it has flowers, especially the 469 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.400 trailing kinds of rosemary that attract bees in and that 470 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.839 is also very cool. So I'll keep talking about herbs 471 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.279 here in just a little bit, but I'm pretty excited 472 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:24.559 about using plants where we want to use them. You know, 473 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:26.400 if you want a cut flower, you don't have to 474 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:29.720 have a cut flower garden. You can put some zenias 475 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.119 among whatever you got going. I mean, it comes down 476 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:36.440 to aesthetics and what you like, but don't feel like, 477 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:38.559 you know, have to have a vegetable garden over there, 478 00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:41.440 and a flower garden over there, and an herb garden 479 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:44.880 over there. I grow several kinds of flowers and vegetable 480 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.279 gardens because they attract beneficial insects and I need them 481 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:52.720 to patrol the garden for me. Well, when it comes 482 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.400 to an organic plant food, nitroposs has really done their 483 00:25:56.440 --> 00:25:58.920 homework and the product that they came up with after 484 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.440 many years of research is called sweet Green organic plant food. 485 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:06.240 Now what that is sweet green It reacts with water. 486 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:10.200 It has a unique level of organic compounds in it 487 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:13.480 that as the microbes break it down and they love 488 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:17.119 it because they like carbon materials, and it's a molasses 489 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:21.759 space is a carbon material. It just the soil comes alive. 490 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:27.039 There's revitalization there when microbes get busy, and when microbes 491 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:30.119 get happy, the soil gets better and plants get happy. 492 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:32.480 That's how it works. So it increases the health of 493 00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:36.000 the soil by increasing the population of beneficial microbes, and 494 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.720 you just get the optimum health and performance out of 495 00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:41.359 It's eleven percent nitrogen, one of the highest rates of 496 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.000 nitrogen any organic you're gonna find anywhere in the country. 497 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:48.279 And it works, sweet green, smells wonderfully, and you're going 498 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:52.200 to find it at Ace excuse me, Ace Hardwall, of course, 499 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.440 Ace hardware source. But you're going to find it all 500 00:26:54.599 --> 00:26:58.400 kinds of places all over this area of the state. 501 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:02.880 For example, Baytown Fisher's Hardware, Plants and things in Brenham 502 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:05.799 Lake Hardware, both the one include and the one in Angleton. 503 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:11.519 Those are all places that carry nitroposs products. Let's see 504 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:13.839 our phone number seven one three two one two k 505 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:15.480 t R H. If you'd like to give me a 506 00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:19.119 call on this good Sunday morning. I hope you're awake 507 00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:22.039 and doing good son's about to come out. But if 508 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:24.240 you look next door and your neighbor's lights aren't on, 509 00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:26.799 go bang on the door. Tell them they're missing guarden line, 510 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:29.720 and they will rise up on this beautiful Sunday morning 511 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:32.480 and call you blessed, or they may call you something 512 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:38.359 else actually, but in the long term they will appreciate it. Okay, 513 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:41.279 I shouldn't say I just get a kick out of that. 514 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.000 Someone said, you know, when the kids on me one time, Dad, 515 00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:48.039 your jokes aren't funny. I said, yes, but they're funny 516 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:51.400 to me, and so I don't care if they're funny 517 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:56.160 to you or not. That's called a dead joke because 518 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.519 it's the cause of more rolling eyes than any other 519 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:05.440 thing on. Best Brothers is a pest control company here 520 00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:08.079 in the Greater Houston area. Serves a whole Greater Houston 521 00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:09.960 area all the way from up to the Woodlands down 522 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.319 to Texas City, from Baytown to Katie. They control pests. 523 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:16.839 What is your pest? Is it rats and mice? Runner 524 00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:20.160 around inside? Or outside? They can do that. Is it 525 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:23.359 mosquitos outside? Is it fire ants outside? They've got some 526 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.039 very innovative ways to get to get ahead of those 527 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:29.799 I was talking about their bait buckets that have like 528 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:32.480 a disease of mosquitos. The mosquitoes come in there and 529 00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:35.119 they pick it up, and it's it's just all exciting stuff, 530 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:37.920 you know. If you feel like mosquitos about mosquitos, like 531 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:41.640 I do, get pretty excited about that. Anyway, you can 532 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:43.960 contact them for a quote at two eight one two 533 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:48.279 oh six forty six seventy talk to them about a 534 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.720 termite check and the kinds of ways they can control 535 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:55.119 termites longer term. And they have some ways of doing that. 536 00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:58.519 If you're dealing with household pasts like cockroaches, for example, 537 00:28:58.599 --> 00:29:01.599 Oh my gosh, there they got that hands down. They 538 00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:04.640 know what they're doing. At the Press Brothers, it's the 539 00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:11.119 pestbros dot com. The pest Bros b r os dot 540 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:15.759 com two eight one two oh six forty six seventy. 541 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:18.559 All right, I'm gonna take a little break here and 542 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.240 I'll be right back with your calls at seven one 543 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:29.039 three two one two kt r H. Alrighty, good Sunday morning. 544 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:31.160 If you will look in the eastern sky, there is 545 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:34.039 a glow over there that is saying this is gonna 546 00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.079 be a good day. It's always you do It's always 547 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:38.160 a good day for gardeners. 548 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:39.920 It is. 549 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:43.160 And you're thinking, oh yeah, what if it's like twenty 550 00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:47.039 degrees outside and haling and the winds blowing seventy miles 551 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.400 an hour. You take care of your house plants, you 552 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:52.519 plant seeds to start for planting outside. Later, you get 553 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:56.079 online and you learn about gardening. It's always a good 554 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.400 day for garden But this day is gonna be a 555 00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:01.039 good day to be outside. You know, if you've been 556 00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:04.480 here in Houston for one year, you know what summer's like, 557 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:08.160 and it's a challenge. We still can garden in summer. 558 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:10.559 We just work earlier in the day, maybe later in 559 00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:15.960 the day. But wow, now, no excuse, I mean, you know, 560 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:20.799 this is it. And spring is such an important season 561 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:22.839 to get things ready. Got to get the soil ready. 562 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:23.279 Now. 563 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:26.400 You know, a lot of times we think of fertilizing 564 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.240 is feeding plants. And I understand that. I understand the 565 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.960 concept of I'm putting these nutrients down, plants are going 566 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.839 to take them up, so I'm feeding my plants. But 567 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:36.640 I want you to think of it a little different way, 568 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:40.279 and that is the soil being a bank account and 569 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:46.000 fertilizer being deposits in the bank account, and the plants 570 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:50.279 they go to the ATM and they make withdrawals. But 571 00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:52.759 it's not just the same thing money money money, it's 572 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:55.839 all the different nutrients that they need. And azemite is 573 00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:59.920 a product for trace minerals. Trace minerals. These are minerals 574 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.160 that are absolutely essential. A plant cannot grow without any 575 00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:07.640 of the essential trace minerals. And there's a lot of them, okay, 576 00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:11.519 but they're not needed in large amounts, so we put 577 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:13.880 out just a little. So they're essential, but we don't 578 00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:15.799 need a lot of them, you know, kind of like 579 00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:18.839 us and maybe vitamin D. You need some, but take 580 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.039 too much and you're in big trouble. Right. Azamite is 581 00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:24.200 that trace mental supplement. You put it down any time 582 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:27.279 of the year. You can put it down now. We're 583 00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:29.960 getting into the spring fertilization season, so you could put 584 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.039 it down now. That's fine. In fact I would. But 585 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:35.319 if you're in the middle of summer and you didn't 586 00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:37.559 do an azemite in the spring, go ahead and do it. 587 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.039 It's okay to do it. And it's not a substance 588 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:44.519 that pushes the plant to grow like nitrogen does. It's 589 00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:47.960 a substance that is there for building. Everything a plant needs, 590 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.440 from healthy leaves to fruit, to flowers to roots to stems, 591 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:56.119 everything it needs is in the minerals that are in 592 00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.480 the soil bank account. Go to azimite Texas dot com 593 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:01.759 to find out you're gonna find azamite all over the place. 594 00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:04.599 They've got it at garden centers, they have it, at 595 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.200 feed stores. You're going to find it in play like 596 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.640 ace hardwaster. You're gonna find it a Southwest. There's just 597 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:13.359 a lot of places they carry asamite because they know 598 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:18.720 it works. People know it works. Let's see, I was 599 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:21.920 looking at I've got I have a place where I 600 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:25.279 keep my fertilizers right and keep them somewhat cool and dry. 601 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:28.000 I don't like them to be eight hundred degrees, which 602 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:31.240 gets to be that in the summer sometimes. And so 603 00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:35.279 I was looking through there and just kind of making 604 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.079 my plans for spring fertilization. Say what am I short on? 605 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:40.000 What do I need to purchase and those kind of things, 606 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:43.519 making sure we have everything we need. And I think 607 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:45.079 it'd be a good idea for you to take that 608 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:47.279 kind of assessment if you go on line to gardening 609 00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:50.960 with skip dot com. You can find my lawn care 610 00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:56.839 schedule and my lawn pest Disease and weed management schedule. 611 00:32:57.079 --> 00:33:00.200 They're free, they're multi colored. They go from January through 612 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.359 December telling you what you need to do when and 613 00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:07.319 the products that are best for that particular thing that 614 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.359 particular time. Okay, and so if you will do that, 615 00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:13.400 check it out, and then as you're out and about shopping, 616 00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:15.519 take it with you, because then you can kind of 617 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:16.960 point in and go, do you have any of this 618 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:19.720 this particular thing, And that way you don't have to 619 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:22.640 remember what it is and they can put that in 620 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:26.279 your hands. I love going to the Anti Grozenport. That 621 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:28.039 is a must visit destination. 622 00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:28.680 It is. 623 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:30.920 I can't tell you how many times I've been there, 624 00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:34.240 and I've gone out there before when I wasn't even 625 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.720 looking for a particular rose or plant. I was just 626 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:40.720 wanting to enjoy the place and take pictures. Of course, 627 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:42.680 when you do that, you end up going home with 628 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:45.799 plants because they have so many. Their nursery and display 629 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:48.200 garden is gorgeous. Now, I want to tell you about 630 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:51.039 some events coming up right now, by the way, Spring 631 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:57.319 Events Spring Garden Party March seventh, at six pm times ticking. 632 00:33:57.519 --> 00:34:00.480 We're almost there. You need to check it out. You 633 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.839 can go to get tickets. This is a ticketed event 634 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:05.279 because you're going to get a really nice meal. There's 635 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:08.880 going to be craft beer and mead from Wildlife, Wildflyer 636 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:14.880 meter meter excuse me up there courtin Annesota and Kathy 637 00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:19.039 Bolton will also be there providing some music and there's more. 638 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:23.559 But anyway, go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. But you 639 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:27.800 got to get those tickets today. Today is the last 640 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:32.719 day to grab those tickets. Antique Roseemporium dot com also 641 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.840 for today. The next two days of the Spring Deal 642 00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:40.360 is the annual Spring Celebration March eighth and ninth, full 643 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:44.719 weekend event, lots of good speakers, there's hands on ticketed workshops. 644 00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.079 There's gonna be artists and vendor market and they have 645 00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:49.519 some really cool stuff there, food trucks and of course 646 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:53.639 roses and roses and roses and plants of all types galore, 647 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.000 which is what you expect at the antiqu Roseenbrium. Finally, 648 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.199 the Spring Break Workshop March tenth through thirteenth, that is 649 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.519 part of their Children in the Garden program and basically 650 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:05.039 it's a hands on workshop that starts each of those 651 00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.840 days March ten through thirteenth at ten am, and you 652 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:11.559 get those tickets also on the website. Everything's on the website. 653 00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:13.719 If you are a group and you'd like to go 654 00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:16.639 out and check out Antique rosen Poium, I highly recommend 655 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:19.320 you do that. You can email them at events at 656 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:26.519 we Areroses dot com for more information. Antique Roseemporium is 657 00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:29.400 the website dot com and all that you need is 658 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:34.360 right there talking about soil and the importance of soil 659 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:36.960 and getting things right. You're not going to find a 660 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:41.639 better place than Nature's Way Resources for a wide variety 661 00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:44.519 of every kind of soil that you might need. Maybe 662 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:46.639 you're going to put in some blueberries, maybe you're going 663 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.719 to put in some azaleas or camellias, and you need 664 00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:54.480 a soil for acid loving plants. Well, Nature's Way Resources 665 00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:57.400 they've got it. They've got it right there. They have 666 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.960 an excellent supply of all all kinds of things. They 667 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:04.519 have a thing called fungal based compost. It's a high 668 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:09.559 quality compost that is on sale every Friday, high quality 669 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.880 organic product. Ten percent off the bags every Friday and 670 00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:17.400 twenty percent off bulk you can say get a bulk delivery. 671 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.559 People use it for a compost op dressing too. That's 672 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:25.519 Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Nine three six two seven 673 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:31.639 three twelve hundred nine three six two seven three twelve hundred. 674 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:34.880 And while you are going to the website Nature's Way 675 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.000 Resources dot Com, check out the Spring Garden Festival that's 676 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:41.920 March twenty second, from eight am to two pm. They're 677 00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:44.079 gonna have plant sales. Of course, they're gonna have food 678 00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:47.880 and drinks and vendors. There'll be talks, three different hour 679 00:36:48.239 --> 00:36:51.840 talks on plants, nine eleven and one pm. Costs nothing 680 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:54.880 to get in and you will enjoy yourself. I've been 681 00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:56.960 to it more than once and it is a blast. 682 00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:00.639 Now Nature's weighs up. You go up forty five to Conroe, 683 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:03.599 when fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, go 684 00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:06.559 to Magnolia. You turn right and go across the railroad 685 00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:12.840 tracks and you're there. Well, let's see. Oh herbs. I 686 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:15.440 keep saying I'm gonna talk about something, then I drift 687 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:19.119 off and talk about something else. I like to use 688 00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.039 herbs in my vegetable garden. I will put herbs that 689 00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.119 have flowers on them in the vegetable garden because that 690 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.800 attracts a little small, tiny parasitoid wasps and other beneficial 691 00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:32.000 insects like lace wings need little flowers for the adults 692 00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:36.480 to get to get nourishment. I will use a trailing herb. 693 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:40.239 I've used a regano. In fact, I had a row 694 00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:43.760 that had tomatoes and oregano and basil in it in 695 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.400 the same row. So guess what. You walk one row 696 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:49.239 and you've made a whole dish right there. You're all 697 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.760 set up to make some sauce or something, pesto or whatever. 698 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:56.039 And I like using herbs and vegetable guards. They work 699 00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:58.719 really really well for that. And so if you don't 700 00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:00.960 have room, you don't want to make a big formal garden, 701 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:02.960 you still want to do herbs. There are herbs that 702 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:06.199 are good in the landscape. Chives make a nice little 703 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.719 like a it's almost like a little a riopy row, 704 00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.159 you know, along a sidewalk or something like that. Salad 705 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.800 burnett has little leaves that taste like cucumbers, and it 706 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:18.519 makes a tiny, tiny it makes about a one foot 707 00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:21.239 high mounting plant. It's not an herb you see a lot, 708 00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:23.519 but the leaves taste like cucumbers. Throw them in a 709 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:26.159 salad and it's like putting cucumbers in the salad, and 710 00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:29.800 that's a cool herb. There's just so many There's so 711 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:32.039 many good herbs that we can use in our garden. 712 00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:34.960 Some of them flower like Mexican mint marigold flowers in 713 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.079 the fall, with beautiful yellow flowers. It is a substitute 714 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:42.599 for terragun. It makes a nice little upright herb. I 715 00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:45.559 love the smell of the leaves that if you've ever 716 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:49.960 smelled black jelly beans, that's what Mexican marigoldiaves smell like. 717 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.360 I think that's cool. Anyway, I already told you about rosemary. 718 00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:56.920 Rosemary for trailing like a coming over a large container, 719 00:38:57.199 --> 00:39:00.159 or maybe as a groundcover and a very sunny. Are 720 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:04.800 lots of good options here for herbs. Think of other 721 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:08.119 ways to use them containers in the flower garden, in 722 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:11.800 the vegetable garden, in the landscape, and even in hanging baskets. 723 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:13.760 Some herbs are suited to that as well. 724 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:15.760 Well. 725 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:18.039 The music means I got to quit talking. Guess what 726 00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:20.079 is going to happen next Saturday. I'm going to go 727 00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:23.440 out to Hoorges Hidden Gardens in Alvin south of Houston 728 00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:26.000 Orges Hidden Gardens. You hear me talk about it all 729 00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:28.880 the time. Come on out, Come on out and see 730 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:30.079 me out there. I'm going to tell you more about 731 00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.880 it as we go through the show this morning, but 732 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:34.599 I'll be there from one pm to three pm, so 733 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.599 it's a Saturday afternoon thing. I'll be answering gardening questions. 734 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:40.800 We'll have some plants there. You know. I can explain 735 00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:42.920 how to do this or that or the other with plants. 736 00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:46.000 As always at these appearances, you want to bring me 737 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:47.920 a sample of a plant or a picture of a plant. 738 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:50.559 We did some of those yesterday up at the Montgomery 739 00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:54.400 County Home Show. Here's your chance, and we spent a 740 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:56.679 lot of time visiting about it. We'll have some product. 741 00:39:56.719 --> 00:40:01.000 Getaway it's too ballway next Saturday or hey Kidden Gardens. 742 00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:10.280 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard's. 743 00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:20.480 Shoes, crazy gas trim, just watching as well, go. 744 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:24.840 Us. 745 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:27.559 So many good things to supp brazy. 746 00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:42.239 Gas, A sorry sun beam and down. 747 00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.679 All right, we're back. Welcome back to Garden Line. I 748 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:51.800 can see outside now, you know I I tell you 749 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.280 this often, but you can listen to garden Line on 750 00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:58.719 the radio because it's a radio show. But you can 751 00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.239 also take your phone, put iHeart Media app on it. 752 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:03.880 Fine garden line. There's only two guarden lines in the 753 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:06.199 whole country. When I'm some lady somewhere else, I don't 754 00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:09.960 even know where that is. Anyway, find a garden line, 755 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.639 the guard line, and turn that phone in your pocket 756 00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:15.800 and go outside and get some work done. This morning. 757 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:18.400 We got weeds to pull, got soil to work, and 758 00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:20.239 who knows. When the sun comes up a little bit more, 759 00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:22.840 you may see a picture, or see a bug or something, 760 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:25.960 take a picture of Call my producer. You can email 761 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:27.920 it to me and we have live from your garden 762 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.280 and answer to your question. So you can't beat that, right. 763 00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:36.239 Tree hugger sprinklers are the ultimate watering device for either 764 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.519 newly planted or established trees and shrubs. So maybe you 765 00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:41.679 put a rosebush in this February, you can get you 766 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.360 the smaller tree hugger. It's a seven inch and it 767 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:46.760 goes around that rose bush. You turn on the water 768 00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:48.800 just a little bit and it waters that root ball 769 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:52.400 and just beyond that. Now, as plants get bigger, you 770 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:54.199 just turn the tree hugger up more. I mean you 771 00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:58.000 could have. You could have a seven ten year old 772 00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:02.280 tree and you put that fifteen inch tree hugger around 773 00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.199 it and turn it on and crank it all the 774 00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:06.599 way out where it's going all the way to the 775 00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:08.880 branch spread of the tree. And this summer when we 776 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:11.199 go through heat and drought, you can do rescue treatments 777 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:12.599 of your tree that way. You don't have to run 778 00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.199 the water and everywhere. You can take care of that 779 00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:18.039 tree that way. Rosarians love the product because it works. 780 00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:20.280 Now you're gonna find tree Hugger at a lot of places. 781 00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.800 They got it at the arbor Gate. You're gonna find 782 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:25.519 it at Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in 783 00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.679 Katie RCW has it, Warrens and Southern Garden and Kingwood 784 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:33.760 Gardens Center in Kingwood, in Chanted Gardens and in Channa 785 00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:36.159 Forests down there in Richmond, Rosenberg D and D Feed 786 00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:39.159 and Tomball Spring Creek Feed up just north and east 787 00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:41.920 of Tomball, a League City Feed down in League City 788 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:44.559 Southwest Fertilizer. And then how about here's some ACE Hardware 789 00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:47.400 store Sinkle Ranch as Katie, ace K and m Ace 790 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:51.079 and a test Asita, a test Asda and full Share 791 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:53.440 Ace hardware all places you can get a tree hugger, 792 00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:56.920 and listen, you're gonna have many uses for this. It's 793 00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:59.360 not it's called tree hugger, but it could be called 794 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:03.360 shrub hugger. Or two. It's for all sizes of woody ornamentals, 795 00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:07.760 helping rescue them, but especially also helping them get off 796 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.480 to a good start those first months after a plant 797 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:14.559 is planted or critical to its survival. I'm gonna go 798 00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:17.039 out to Katie now and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, 799 00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:24.960 welcome to garden line. All right, let me try one 800 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:29.880 more than Greg. Are you there? All right? All right? 801 00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:33.400 All right, well we're having a little glad here. We'll 802 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:36.000 fix that. We'll get Katie or get Greg here from 803 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:41.599 Katie in just one second. You know the you've heard 804 00:43:41.639 --> 00:43:43.920 me talk about plants for all seasons a number of times. 805 00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:47.880 It's the garden Center up there on FM two forty nine, 806 00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:52.000 which is Tomball Parkway. So let me see here. It's 807 00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:56.920 we're trying to fix this audio problem right here. Anyway. 808 00:43:57.159 --> 00:43:59.360 It is the garden Center at two forty nine just 809 00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:03.199 north of Loo Okay, so right now you should see 810 00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:06.760 the police. It is loaded with herbs and vegetables and 811 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.400 flowers and everything. I mean, it looks like spring there, 812 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:11.599 and spring means everything. I don't know how they fit 813 00:44:11.639 --> 00:44:14.559 everything in on the lot because there's so many great 814 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:18.760 plants that they get in there. But they have expert 815 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:21.400 advice and you know, yes they have good plants. Yes, 816 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:24.639 they know which plants to sell here and not sell here, 817 00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:26.679 and they sell the ones that grow here because their 818 00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:29.239 gardeners have been doing best for all seasons, been around 819 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:32.199 since the nineteen seventies. All right, So anyway you go 820 00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:34.599 in there. But the most important thing I think in 821 00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:36.880 a garden center is you get people who know what 822 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.679 they're talking about, that can guide you, that can help 823 00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:42.719 you to you know, take the time to explain things, 824 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.559 listen to your questions, look at your sample problems, and 825 00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:49.119 then help you find the solution that, as they say, 826 00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:51.800 is worth the price of admission. That is so important 827 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:53.920 to have a garden center like that, And that is 828 00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:56.639 exactly the kind of garden center Plants for All Seasons says, 829 00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.840 you will find everything you need. Check out the new 830 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:05.920 Indoor store where they have really high quality pruning tools. 831 00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:08.400 They've got seeds and you know, when you're looking for 832 00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:11.679 potatoes and planting onions and stuff. That's all. Stuff's always 833 00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:14.400 in the store there too. Well, let's run out now 834 00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.920 to We're gonna go to Katie and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, 835 00:45:18.039 --> 00:45:25.000 is it working this time? My bad? There we go. 836 00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:28.440 We're having to go the back We're having to go 837 00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:31.679 through the back door today, Greg. And so I think 838 00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:33.519 I finally got you on how are we doing? 839 00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:35.159 I'm doing great? 840 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:35.679 Thanks? 841 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.840 Quick question for you. I recently bought a really nice 842 00:45:41.239 --> 00:45:46.280 Washington Nabel. You know, it's either a five or ten gallon. 843 00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:48.360 Tree. 844 00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:53.760 And two quick questions on planning it. Number one, should 845 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:57.119 you go ahead and soak the the after you take 846 00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:00.320 it out of the container. Soak it in like super 847 00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:05.199 thrive or a root stimulator before planning it. And then secondly, 848 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:08.679 I've read different things about whether or not you should 849 00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:13.239 use fertilizer on it the first year. Okay, your thoughts 850 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:14.280 on few of those? 851 00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:16.880 You bet? Number one, put it in the sun. Number two, 852 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:20.519 mix a large area. Mix some compost in the soil 853 00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.679 if you can, or get a bed mix or something. 854 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:24.320 But mix it in a little bit, not just the 855 00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:26.280 planning hole at all. It's got to be large because 856 00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:29.199 those roots are going to be way out Secondly, when 857 00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:30.559 you put it in the ground, set it at the 858 00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.360 exact same level that it was in the container, not deeper. Uh, 859 00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:36.719 And don't dig the hole deeper because if you dig, 860 00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:39.239 like let's say you have a one foot deep root 861 00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:41.679 ball and you dig a two foot deep hole, that 862 00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:43.920 is going to settle and it's going to end up 863 00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:46.000 too deep. So I dig it just as deep as 864 00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:48.239 a root ball, set it in there, and then I 865 00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:52.800 would get some Medina has to grow six twelve six. Okay, 866 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:56.280 that is a liquid. It's got the twelve percent phosphorus, 867 00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:59.639 which is important for root development, but it's got a 868 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:03.360 a all the six percent nitrogen and six percent potassium too. 869 00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:06.079 It has medina sill activat around. It's going to stimulate 870 00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:09.159 the biological activity. I would drench it, drench it. You 871 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:11.000 could soak the root ball before you put it in 872 00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:13.360 the ground if you want to, that's fine, But then 873 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:16.440 after you plant it, I would make sure one way 874 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:19.239 or another you're giving it medina that day, But then 875 00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.000 a week later medina has to grow six twelve six, 876 00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.239 and then a week after that medina has to grow 877 00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:27.800 six So three times you're giving it a drenching to 878 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.559 do everything you can to stimulate the root growth and development, 879 00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:35.639 healthy development of that plant. And then after that going 880 00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:41.079 on in the season, Yes, you can fertilize it, and 881 00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:43.920 you should. You don't need to put a lot, but 882 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:48.480 a small amount gradually over time, you know that root system. 883 00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:51.639 However wide that container is, the roots are going to 884 00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:54.519 be only in that area for a while. And then 885 00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:56.199 as we get a few months down the line, you 886 00:47:56.280 --> 00:47:58.039 got roots that are going out a little wider and 887 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:00.880 then a little wider, and so so you just want 888 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:02.719 to be careful not to dump a bunch of salt 889 00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:05.719 based fertilizer right on top of those roots in the container, 890 00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.800 because you can burn them that way. Just put a 891 00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:10.719 light application and continue to move it out as far 892 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:13.360 as the branch spread, or a little beyond the branch spread. 893 00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:20.360 Okay, And then you know, I've also read that even 894 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:25.239 though it's hard to resist, supposedly the first year, you're 895 00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:28.800 not supposed to allow it to fruit. 896 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.920 Yeah. Correct, Actually, you know, if you were doing it commercially, 897 00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:34.920 it'd be two or three years. You know that you 898 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.880 would be trying to hold off so you could grow 899 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:41.079 a big tree and the energy doesn't all go into 900 00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:44.039 that fruit. But yes, Hey, I've got about fifteen seconds 901 00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:45.920 before I have to go to break. But if you 902 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.679 can pull that fruit off, it's hard to do, but 903 00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:50.679 if you can do it at least the first year 904 00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:53.599 or two, that would be better. Maybe the second year, 905 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:56.639 leave yourself a fruit or two just to taste. All right, man, 906 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:01.599 thank you, Thank you, Greg, appreciate your call. M All right, folks, 907 00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:06.760 we'll be right back. All right, we're back. Welcome back 908 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.079 to the Guarden Line. Glad to have you with us today. 909 00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:12.480 We're gonna go straight to the phones and talk to 910 00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:16.400 Sean and Katie and I have to not pick up 911 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:19.519 that call. It a different way, all right. 912 00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.719 Sean, Hey, good morning, Skip. Can you hear me? 913 00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:25.519 Yes, I can hear you. Call. 914 00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:29.159 I got a quick question, and so I got a 915 00:49:29.239 --> 00:49:30.840 Saan on this team full of weeds. 916 00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:37.480 And I bought microfoss barricade and weed donator by turf Star. 917 00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:40.480 I just had a question. 918 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:42.199 Can I put both of them down? 919 00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:42.880 If I can? 920 00:49:43.800 --> 00:49:45.079 Doesn't matter in which order. 921 00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:50.800 No, what you what you would do if you if 922 00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:53.239 you were gonna do that, hold on to the weed 923 00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:58.280 nator for another time. Uh. And with the barricade you 924 00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:02.920 could get that Nitropos has a blue bag. That is 925 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:07.800 it says it has trimac in it, it's it's a weed, 926 00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:10.039 it's a it's a it's a weed and feed. It 927 00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:12.920 has both in it. But this is one time of 928 00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:15.840 the year when that is very appropriate to have the 929 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:19.480 two together. Normally sometime with things the timing it right, 930 00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:22.079 but the blue bag and then you would put it 931 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:24.920 on with the barricade. So that's two nitro fash products. 932 00:50:25.239 --> 00:50:27.559 The barricade prevents the weeds that are on their way. 933 00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:32.360 The the blue bag, the fifteen to five ten with 934 00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:35.280 trimec is is going to kill the weeds that are 935 00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.719 there now, but you have to wet the weed first 936 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:41.320 before you put the fertilizer down. Now, later when you 937 00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:43.840 when you're gonna use your Nelson Weedenator, because you're gonna 938 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:44.920 have it on hand, you can do that in the 939 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:47.679 in the fall if you want, you're gonna you are 940 00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:51.599 gonna also wet the weeds before you put that down 941 00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:55.320 so you could use it. The weedinator is killing existing weeds, 942 00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:59.239 and the barricade is stopping the weeds that are coming. 943 00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:03.000 And both the nitroposs blue bag and the weed nator 944 00:51:03.199 --> 00:51:07.320 work in a similar way. They fertilize and they kill 945 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:10.920 the existing weeds. So you can use either one now 946 00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:15.239 or later. It doesn't matter either way you want to go. Okay, 947 00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:20.719 all right, thank you, You bet appreciate that call. All right, yeah, 948 00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:23.920 let me tell you another nightfoss product is there? Imperial, 949 00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:28.239 the Imperial fifteen five to ten. That is a reddish 950 00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:31.800 orange bag, reddish orange, and it is strictly fertilizer, and 951 00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:35.840 it is strictly a fast release fertilizer and it's used. 952 00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:37.719 We were using it this time of year for an 953 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:40.679 early green up. If you put it down, the lawns 954 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:42.719 warming up, it's starting to kind of wake up a 955 00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:44.760 little bit, and you get some nutrient down there, especially 956 00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:47.039 the nitrogen. You're going to get that green up from it. 957 00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:52.320 It's been around for nearly a half century now because 958 00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:54.639 it works. The fifteen five to ten. The three one 959 00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:57.000 to two ratio is a standard ratio used throughout the 960 00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:02.039 South for lawns because research at universities on turf have 961 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:06.280 found though that's the ratio that lins typically need, you know, 962 00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.400 so in absence of a soil test, you go with 963 00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:10.519 a three one two ratio, unless the soil tests were 964 00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:13.079 to tell you something different. But you're you're not going 965 00:52:13.159 --> 00:52:14.920 to go wrong with a fifteen to five to ten 966 00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:17.960 like product like that. Now you're going to find nitoposs 967 00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:21.599 products all over town. They're available, I say all over town, 968 00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.320 all over the listening area. For example, Dan and Alvin 969 00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:27.519 Stanton shopping Center, M and D. There's an M and 970 00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:30.440 D and Sagemont on Beamer. It's called Beamer. 971 00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:31.199 Uh. 972 00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:33.840 There is a M and D in clear Lake on 973 00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:37.400 Bay Area bay Area Boulevard. Getting tongue tied here, and 974 00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:39.840 how about one of the Fishers hardwarees. There's one in 975 00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:43.079 Pasadena on Southomore, one in Laporte on Broadway one in 976 00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:48.320 Mount Bellevue on FM thirty one eighty. All places that 977 00:52:48.440 --> 00:52:52.440 carry Nita Fross products. You were listening to garden Line. 978 00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:55.559 The phone numbers seven one three two one two kt 979 00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:59.519 r H seven to one three two one two kt 980 00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.920 r H. Give us a call. We'll talk about the 981 00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:06.199 things that are most of interest to you. If you've 982 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:09.480 never grown cetrus before, you really ought to grow it. 983 00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:14.880 Citrus is just it's just a wonderful plant. First of all, 984 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:17.800 it's an evergreen. So you know where you would want 985 00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:21.119 an evergreen job? Well, put a citrus in right, because 986 00:53:21.159 --> 00:53:25.199 it's evergreen. It is a plant we plant for its 987 00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:28.920 wonderful fruit, whether it's lemons or limes, or satsuma oranges 988 00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:33.079 or regular oranges, whatever you're gonna plant. The fruit is wonderful. 989 00:53:33.559 --> 00:53:37.599 But the blooms. If you don't even care about citrus fruit, 990 00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:41.519 it's worth growing for the blooms. The blooms are heavenly scented. 991 00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:46.000 I always like to try to plant things where I 992 00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:50.480 will smell the fragrance. Okay, So like typically in summertimes 993 00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:53.599 you kind of have a southwesterly wind. You just figure 994 00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:56.199 out it's your house which which direction. Maybe you have 995 00:53:56.320 --> 00:53:58.599 something on both sides of the patio, but that way, 996 00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:00.840 when you're sitting there, when some things in bloom, you 997 00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:03.599 just enjoy it. And we have so many great scented plants, 998 00:54:03.639 --> 00:54:06.039 and Centrius is definitely one. But I would encourage you 999 00:54:06.119 --> 00:54:09.039 to do that. You know, as we're getting here, we're right, 1000 00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:11.920 depending on where in the listening area you are, we're 1001 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.320 kind of on the verge of passing that last average prostate. 1002 00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:19.000 And so you know, if you're done in Galveston, that 1003 00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:22.000 comes much earlier than if you're up in Huntsville, for example. 1004 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:25.679 But the bottom line is once we kind of get 1005 00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:28.719 past the worry about frost or freeze, then we go 1006 00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:31.239 ahead and put our citrus in and that way you 1007 00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:36.000 are sure that you have no damage occurring to it. Now, 1008 00:54:36.039 --> 00:54:38.480 you could have planted citrus in February been ready to 1009 00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:40.119 cover it up if we had a hard freeze, but 1010 00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:42.679 I just like to make it a little easier on myself, 1011 00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:44.360 and I wait till it warms up because that's when 1012 00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:47.519 citrus wants to grow anyway. So but get them now, 1013 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:51.559 because supplies don't always last. You know, some of the 1014 00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:55.159 rarer things or the more popular things, they may be 1015 00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:57.320 gone when you go get them later. So that's just 1016 00:54:57.400 --> 00:55:00.519 a little tip there. And our garden centers here I 1017 00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:04.679 have a wonderful selection of centrus plants, just so many 1018 00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:08.280 types and it's just great. So if you haven't had 1019 00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:10.159 a citrus, you need to do it now. If you're 1020 00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:12.880 going to do one in a and it needs to 1021 00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.760 be in a container, then it could be a mier 1022 00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:19.039 lemon meer lemon that gets to be a bigger plant, 1023 00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:21.639 but you can keep it in a container with some pruning, 1024 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:23.760 and it needs to be a very large container. So 1025 00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:26.519 think about a half whiskey barrel. Now, I wouldn't put 1026 00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:29.440 it in a wooden whiskey barrel because wood rots over time, 1027 00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.760 and whiskey barrels aren't made to be rot proof. But 1028 00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:35.159 that volume of soil, I guess you could do a 1029 00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:37.960 whiskey barrel if you lined it with plastic and punch 1030 00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:40.360 some holes in the bottom. Maybe I don't know anyway, 1031 00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:43.320 but that volume of soil that would also be good 1032 00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:45.960 for a lime tree. There's several types of lime, a 1033 00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:48.119 Mexican lime, key lime, you know, there's a lot of 1034 00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:50.760 different kinds of limes that can grow. I'm going to 1035 00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:54.400 have I'm putting two citrus on my patio in containers 1036 00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:58.239 this spring. I've already started getting my plants and getting 1037 00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:01.039 ready to go, and so I'll also have some going 1038 00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:02.920 in the ground, kind of do a little mini citrus 1039 00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:07.800 planting orchard this year. Looking forward to that. But anyway, 1040 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:11.599 now's the time, get out there, get your selection, just 1041 00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:13.760 take care of it. I know, I had to drive 1042 00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:15.239 out of town for a couple days the other day 1043 00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:18.000 and I got a large like a washtub, and I 1044 00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:19.960 set all my little citrus plants in it, and I 1045 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:22.199 put about two inches of water in the bottom and 1046 00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:25.320 that's my babysitter until I get back, making sure they 1047 00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:27.559 don't dry out while I'm gone out there to water 1048 00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:30.199 them each day. So that's just a little tip too, 1049 00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:33.880 so you don't do that. South of Houston is Sienna Moultch. 1050 00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:38.840 Siennamultch is the go to place for the brown stuff 1051 00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:44.679 for the foundation for setting plants up for success. They 1052 00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:48.360 have the moltch, they have the blends, the bed mixes 1053 00:56:48.639 --> 00:56:51.320 like Veggie nerd mix, just being an example of one 1054 00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:54.159 of many. They have the mulches to go on top 1055 00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:56.199 of the ground. They have the nutrients to go in 1056 00:56:56.360 --> 00:56:58.320 the ground. So if you go to Siena, you're gonna 1057 00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.280 find days Mite was talking about that earlier. They got 1058 00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:03.039 it there. You're gonna find products from mairloom soils too, 1059 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:06.800 like their vegione or mixed. They're gonna have fertilizers from Medina, 1060 00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:10.800 from nitrofoss from Nelson, and they also not just the 1061 00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:13.400 Nelson turf Star, but they also carry the plant fuud 1062 00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:16.679 jars that Nelson has and then Microlife too. You're gonna 1063 00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:20.239 find there at Ciena Mulch. They are on Highway six 1064 00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:22.639 or near Highway six and two eighty eight. They're actually 1065 00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:25.480 on FM five twenty one. But let's just do it 1066 00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:27.760 this way. Go to the website. Everything you need to 1067 00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:32.440 know is there Sienna Maltz dot com, Cienamultch dot com. 1068 00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:36.039 And they also deliver within twenty miles for a small fee, 1069 00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:38.559 so you can go pick it up or you can 1070 00:57:38.599 --> 00:57:40.519 have them deliver it if you're within twenty miles of 1071 00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:45.679 their location. I always like going in there. It's just 1072 00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:48.639 it's one of the friendliest places you're gonna go. They 1073 00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:51.119 the way they greet you, the you know, the products 1074 00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:53.239 they have are excellent and a lot of people have 1075 00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:55.559 learned that over the years that that that is the 1076 00:57:55.599 --> 00:57:59.480 place to go get your stuff. If you're doing a 1077 00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:03.800 container of soil. Night Fuss has a product called jungle Land. 1078 00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:08.639 Jungle Land is for containers so indoors. There's a jungle 1079 00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:11.679 Land that has water saving crystals. Now, these crystals, when 1080 00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:14.800 they're dry or just like a little hard I don't know, 1081 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:18.440 rock candy or something maybe smaller than that, they're very tiny, uh, 1082 00:58:18.920 --> 00:58:20.840 but when they get wet, they swell up and they 1083 00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:24.079 really hold that water. So when you forget okay, I know, 1084 00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:28.320 you don't forget. When your friends and family forget, then 1085 00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:32.480 those crystals help contain that or help supply that plant 1086 00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:34.559 for a little bit longer to keep him from going 1087 00:58:34.599 --> 00:58:37.639 into drought stress until your friends are family. Remember to 1088 00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:41.360 water their plant. Okay, Now, I won't admit on the 1089 00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:44.159 air that sometimes I forget to water my plants, but 1090 00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:50.639 I do jungle Land water saving potting soil for your 1091 00:58:50.679 --> 00:58:53.880 indoor plants. Just remember that that will get you out 1092 00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:55.559 of some trouble and the plants will love it too. 1093 00:58:55.599 --> 00:58:58.679 By the way, they have a jungle land outdoor called 1094 00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:02.599 jungle Land Flour Vegetable Planting soil too. You can also 1095 00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:05.119 use that one. And where do you find it? Well, 1096 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:08.360 where they sell nitropos go to a nitrofos type place. 1097 00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:10.039 So if you went to D and D feed up 1098 00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:11.719 in Tomball, if you went to the Arbigate, if you 1099 00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:13.320 went to Plants for all Seasons, if you want to 1100 00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:19.199 the RCW Nursery or Hidning Feed on Stubner Airline, those 1101 00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:21.840 are all places that carry nitroposs products, and there are 1102 00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:26.039 many many more. You're listening to garden Lined. Our phone 1103 00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:30.039 number here is seven one three two one two kt RH. 1104 00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:32.159 We got some room on the phones if you'd like 1105 00:59:32.199 --> 00:59:34.239 to give a skull. We're about to about three minutes 1106 00:59:34.239 --> 00:59:37.400 away from our half hour, right but we have time 1107 00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:39.440 here to take a call if you'd like to do that. 1108 00:59:41.239 --> 00:59:46.440 In my gardens, I am doing a sol revamp right now. 1109 00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:50.360 I have some areas, some beds that I made, and 1110 00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:52.920 they're nice beds, but they kind of sunk down as 1111 00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:56.920 that organic matter decomposed. And so I'm putting some fresh material, 1112 00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:00.840 some fresh bed mixes up into those beds and then 1113 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:02.960 mixing it in a little bit just to blend it 1114 01:00:03.039 --> 01:00:06.920 with the soil. And my nutrient content is good because 1115 01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:10.079 i always have decomposing organic matter, and I'm always using 1116 01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:13.599 a fertilizer with each planting, you know, the appropriate fertilizer 1117 01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:16.679 for growing the plants. But I'm getting all that ready, 1118 01:00:16.880 --> 01:00:19.199 and when I do, and this is just a little tip, 1119 01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:23.360 I'm going to be away from the garden for a 1120 01:00:23.480 --> 01:00:25.840 little while after I get it ready. And so I've 1121 01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:29.119 got a bunch of multch. I'm actually I collect leaves 1122 01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:31.920 and use leaf mulch a lot in my vegetable gardens, 1123 01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:35.119 and I'm just going to spread that over the beds 1124 01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:38.280 and create a blanket to block out the light, so 1125 01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:40.840 when I come back, I can just pull the multch 1126 01:00:40.920 --> 01:00:43.440 back and do my planting and I won't come back 1127 01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:45.760 to a little chia pet of weeds that have all 1128 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:49.599 sprouted and the whole bed solid green. That is just 1129 01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:51.559 a tip that I use a lot of times. Sometimes 1130 01:00:51.599 --> 01:00:54.679 I'll prepare my soul in the late fall, and then 1131 01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:57.480 in spring I can pull the mulch back and I'm 1132 01:00:57.519 --> 01:00:59.800 ready to go. So you may find that to be 1133 01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:02.559 hopeful for you. But there's a lot of a lot 1134 01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:07.079 of good ways to go about gardening. Warren's Setting Gardens 1135 01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:10.719 and Kingwick Garden Center are your go to garden centers 1136 01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:14.800 out there in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park, Kingwood 1137 01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:17.679 Garden Centers on Stone Hollow, and you just have to 1138 01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:20.960 go see the places they are. Warrens the other day 1139 01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:23.960 got so many where they still are getting so many 1140 01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:26.639 shipments of plants in that's just beautiful. 1141 01:01:26.679 --> 01:01:26.800 Now. 1142 01:01:26.840 --> 01:01:29.000 Both these places are open seven days a week, so 1143 01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:31.840 this afternoon would be a good time to go check 1144 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:35.239 out these places. They each have their unique flavor, if 1145 01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:39.599 you will, and they're both definitely worth stopping in and 1146 01:01:39.719 --> 01:01:42.320 checking out. They serve that whole community out there and 1147 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:46.599 Ukainey and Valley Ranch, Humble, Kingwood and Taska Seed a 1148 01:01:46.679 --> 01:01:49.599 porter that whole area out there. They sell the products 1149 01:01:49.639 --> 01:01:52.760 I recommend on garden Line like nitrofoss and Microlife and 1150 01:01:53.159 --> 01:01:56.960 turf Star and heirloom sauce and other Nelson plant foods 1151 01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:00.639 for example. All you got to do is go check 1152 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:04.039 them out. We're in Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center 1153 01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:07.760 runs on North Park Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow Drive. 1154 01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:10.000 Time for me to take a break and turn it 1155 01:02:10.079 --> 01:02:12.719 over to Jared to tell you everything exciting happening in 1156 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:14.719 the news. Don't go away. You need to know this. 1157 01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:23.519 No somebody, all right, good Sunday morning to you. We 1158 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:27.280 are officially bright outside, or we can see around get 1159 01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:30.320 some gardening done out there. Have you topped off your 1160 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:31.280 maltch this year? 1161 01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:32.000 Uh? 1162 01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:35.079 You know someone I get this call often, and I 1163 01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:39.960 don't know where the mindset comes from, but someone will say, well, 1164 01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:42.760 I'm pulling all my ole malt out to put fresh 1165 01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:45.880 melts in, and you don't. You don't need to do that, 1166 01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:48.559 and you shouldn't do that. And I'll base my case 1167 01:02:48.679 --> 01:02:54.920 on the forest. If that was necessary, then how would 1168 01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:58.239 the forests thrive on the fact that we put new 1169 01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:02.039 mulch on old malts. You're after year when the leaves fall, Okay, 1170 01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:07.159 that it's actually the case that the old malts is decomposing, 1171 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:11.199 and that's a good thing. That's releasing organic matter to 1172 01:03:11.320 --> 01:03:14.199 the soil. It's becoming compost over a very very slow 1173 01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:16.719 period with mulches. Depending on the kind of multus is 1174 01:03:16.760 --> 01:03:20.079 a rate of decomposition. The bottom line is you've got 1175 01:03:20.159 --> 01:03:24.000 this great stuff right when it's at its almost best stage. 1176 01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:26.880 You're pulling it out. But fresh mulch in let that 1177 01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:29.480 be a soil building material. If you want to go 1178 01:03:29.599 --> 01:03:31.280 to mix it into the surface a little bit, if 1179 01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:34.280 it's truly decomposed, that's fine, but I would just let 1180 01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:35.280 it be a gradient. 1181 01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:35.599 So on. 1182 01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.320 If you're cutaway looking at your soil on the top 1183 01:03:38.480 --> 01:03:41.719 is fresh mulch, brand new mult As you go down, 1184 01:03:41.800 --> 01:03:45.400 there's some kind of chocolatey brown starting its wet, and 1185 01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:48.559 maybe you see some fungal activity breaking it down there. 1186 01:03:48.639 --> 01:03:50.400 And then as you go down a little further, it 1187 01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:52.320 just gets richer and richer all the way down into 1188 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:54.840 the soil, and earth worms are coming up and they're 1189 01:03:54.880 --> 01:03:57.119 doing their thing through there. And that's the way you 1190 01:03:57.199 --> 01:04:00.199 do it. That's the forest floor effect, and that's the 1191 01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:02.400 way it is designed to work for trees to thrive 1192 01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:06.679 and do well. So whatever your plants are, shrubs, trees, flowers, 1193 01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:11.480 even ornamental grasses. When you molt, just put fresh molts 1194 01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:14.920 on top and leave that stuff that's just really starting 1195 01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:18.360 to get good for the soil. And people will get 1196 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:21.679 confused about what's the difference between mult and composts sometimes 1197 01:04:22.119 --> 01:04:26.360 and compost goes in the soil because it's ready to 1198 01:04:27.239 --> 01:04:29.719 go to the roots and do its thing in the soil. 1199 01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:32.599 Mult goes on top of the soil because it's a 1200 01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:34.920 let's call it a raw material, you know, like a 1201 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:36.679 wood chip would be a raw material. 1202 01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:36.960 Right. 1203 01:04:37.320 --> 01:04:40.400 Well, these these shredded bark mulches, the quality mulches you're 1204 01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:42.840 going to get from our places, you know, like Nature's 1205 01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:48.519 Way resources and airloom soils for example, those are quality materials. 1206 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:52.360 They go on top that they they're there to block 1207 01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:56.559 the weeds. And so don't put molts in your soil. 1208 01:04:56.679 --> 01:04:58.800 Put it on top of the soil. Now a common 1209 01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:02.440 question I get, I'm kind of running off down a 1210 01:05:02.519 --> 01:05:04.440 rabbit trail here, but I think it's an important one. 1211 01:05:05.039 --> 01:05:07.159 A common question I get is, well, if I put 1212 01:05:07.760 --> 01:05:11.559 like wood on top of the soil, won't that tie 1213 01:05:11.639 --> 01:05:15.920 up soil nitrogen? And the answer is no. And here's why. 1214 01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:19.079 If you I'm going to go to an extreme, if 1215 01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:22.960 you mixed sawdust and fresh wood chips, you know, like 1216 01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:27.239 chopped up chips in the soil, it would tie up 1217 01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:31.199 nitrogen because microbes need carbon and nitrogen to break that down. 1218 01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:34.920 So you're getting a loss of nitrogen for the plants 1219 01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:38.639 because it's being used to help break down those wood chips. 1220 01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:42.039 But most sitting on top, even as a tuba four 1221 01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:44.480 sitting on top of the ground, does not tie up 1222 01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:48.199 nitrogen down in the soil right at the surface, maybe 1223 01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:50.760 right on a quarter inch right there, you know where 1224 01:05:50.800 --> 01:05:54.199 the decomposition is occurring. But don't worry about that. You 1225 01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:57.400 don't have to worry about that. That's another reason why 1226 01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:00.480 I don't like to mix mulch into the soil. That's 1227 01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:04.079 not a good effect to have. Once it gets decomposing, 1228 01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:07.880 then that nitrogen starts cycling. You know, the nitrogen that 1229 01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:11.519 was taken up to help break down the woody materials, 1230 01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:15.880 it's not lost. The microbes die and the nitrogen goes 1231 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.760 back into the soil, I mean it starts cycling in there. 1232 01:06:19.039 --> 01:06:23.079 So anyway, little too nerdy maybe for you. But those 1233 01:06:23.119 --> 01:06:27.239 are fairly common questions or fairly common misconceptions that I 1234 01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:29.320 hear about all the time. Hey, I'm going to be 1235 01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:34.440 at Jorges Hidden Gardens this next Saturday. I don't know 1236 01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:36.360 if you've ever been down there before. If you haven't, 1237 01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:40.400 there's your chance. This is your what excuse to go 1238 01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:43.400 as if you needed one. Jorges Hidden Gardens. You hear 1239 01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:46.039 me talk about them all the time. They are down 1240 01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:50.800 south in the Alvin area. So if you were to 1241 01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:55.360 let's say you're in Alvin, you're gonna go kind of 1242 01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:57.880 down six a little to the south and east of 1243 01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:00.920 the actual town of Alvin, and they're out there on 1244 01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:05.440 Elizabeth Street in that area. So Hoorges Hidden Gardens is 1245 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:08.199 the kind of place where when you go, you always 1246 01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:10.519 gonna find the things you need. Of course, they're gonna 1247 01:07:10.559 --> 01:07:14.159 have they always have like fruit trees and shade trees 1248 01:07:14.239 --> 01:07:17.800 and roses, and like the Lady the Lady Martin, the 1249 01:07:18.199 --> 01:07:21.000 Peggy Martin Rose for example, they've always got they got 1250 01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:25.000 really good selection. Right now, of vegetables and herbs and 1251 01:07:25.119 --> 01:07:27.800 other things. But I'm gonna be there next Saturday from 1252 01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:30.519 one to three pm. So it's a little bit later 1253 01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:32.480 than my normal start time because I got a little 1254 01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:35.480 bit further to get on there Hoorges Hidden Gardens in Alvin. 1255 01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:38.159 I'll be answering your questions. Well, I don't know. We'll 1256 01:07:38.199 --> 01:07:40.519 probably pull some plants out of pots and talk about 1257 01:07:40.639 --> 01:07:42.960 roots and planting them and trimming them and and other 1258 01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:45.119 kinds of things. While we're there. We're gonna have a 1259 01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:47.480 good time, and I hope you will come down and 1260 01:07:47.639 --> 01:07:49.599 see me. Just put that on the collar next Saturday, 1261 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:53.559 March eighth, one to three pm. Hoeges Hidden Gardens and Alvin. 1262 01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:57.599 I'm looking forward to that. It's been a little while 1263 01:07:57.639 --> 01:08:00.360 since I've been down to see Jorge, and I really 1264 01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:02.159 had a good time last time I went down there. 1265 01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:05.920 You know, he carries some good stuff, really good quality plants. 1266 01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:08.639 And by the way, it's a place where you know, 1267 01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:11.719 you can get some of the supplies and things that 1268 01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:13.880 I talk about here on garden Line all the time. 1269 01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:17.279 So anyway or he hid in gardens, that's the place 1270 01:08:17.359 --> 01:08:22.079 to go. Well, let's see we are time I get 1271 01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:24.279 to talk, and I forget about what time we are 1272 01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:28.479 actually in because I'm having too much fun I actually do. 1273 01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:32.159 My favorite place, in my happy place is talking to gardeners. 1274 01:08:32.520 --> 01:08:33.880 I love it. I just love it. 1275 01:08:34.479 --> 01:08:35.079 You know what. 1276 01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:41.319 Nineteen eighty five, I started as a county extension or 1277 01:08:41.359 --> 01:08:44.880 actually as a experimentation specialist up in Missouri and came 1278 01:08:44.920 --> 01:08:47.600 back to Texas. And I've been answering gardening questions that 1279 01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:51.239 whole time, and I've heard so many and I've learned 1280 01:08:51.279 --> 01:08:53.399 a lot. You know, there's never a day goes by 1281 01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:56.159 as a gardener. If you're out there and you're paying 1282 01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:59.760 attention that you're not learning something. I'm telling you the 1283 01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:05.880 the amount of information there is in horticulture. And if 1284 01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:07.920 you had learned it all, let's just say you did 1285 01:09:08.079 --> 01:09:11.039 know everything, which is absolutely impossible not going to happen. 1286 01:09:12.159 --> 01:09:14.279 Next thing, you know, here comes a new tomato variety, 1287 01:09:14.359 --> 01:09:17.720 a new rose bush, Here comes a new type of 1288 01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:21.800 some sort of product, or some sort of changes to plants, 1289 01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:24.960 or a disease we've never had before, an insect we've 1290 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:28.640 never had before. And you never quit learning. But let 1291 01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:33.600 me tell you that keeps you young. Don't need one reason. 1292 01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:35.159 You see a lot of times. Older people, you know, 1293 01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:38.479 gardening is number one. It's so therapeutic, it's so good. 1294 01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:42.960 But younger people gardening too, and it keeps your mind fresh, 1295 01:09:43.560 --> 01:09:47.279 it keeps you optimistic. Listen to gardener. You got to 1296 01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:50.000 be an optimist to open up a little seed envelope 1297 01:09:50.159 --> 01:09:52.640 and see these little bits of detritus in the bottom 1298 01:09:52.720 --> 01:09:54.720 that they're saying is going to turn into a tomato 1299 01:09:54.840 --> 01:09:59.880 plant or whatever seed it is. And you stick that dried, 1300 01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:02.079 dead thing in the ground, and all of a sudden 1301 01:10:02.319 --> 01:10:05.840 you're getting luscious tomatoes or flowers or whatever you've planted. 1302 01:10:06.840 --> 01:10:10.039 That's called faith, and that is called a renewal, and 1303 01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:12.479 that is just the way the world works. And I 1304 01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:17.439 think that's a really cool thing, absolutely cool thing. I 1305 01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:19.520 am having to take a little break here. I want 1306 01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:22.640 to remind you that my website is gardening with Skip 1307 01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:25.119 dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. You can find 1308 01:10:25.159 --> 01:10:29.319 out more information there. You know, the folks at Nelson 1309 01:10:29.520 --> 01:10:33.439 Plant Food, they have absolutely come up with a wonderful selection. 1310 01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:37.000 I could spend hours just talking about all the products 1311 01:10:37.039 --> 01:10:39.399 that they have. But they have one called Bruce's Brew, 1312 01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:42.199 and that is a lawn fertilizer it's part of the 1313 01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:46.520 turf Star series. Now, Bruce's Brew is going to give 1314 01:10:46.520 --> 01:10:49.079 you a fast release like you would expect from a 1315 01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:53.880 spring early spring green up fertilizer, but it releases for 1316 01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:57.680 two three months going down the line, so it's not 1317 01:10:58.039 --> 01:10:59.920 just a one and done. It's going to give you 1318 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:04.000 a continued feeding, an initial fast and then an evening 1319 01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:07.000 out over time for regulated growth. What that does is 1320 01:11:07.640 --> 01:11:10.840 it helps form a good deep root system to not 1321 01:11:11.079 --> 01:11:14.840 just overdo it all at once. The carbon based nitrogen 1322 01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:18.800 feeds soil microbes. That's in Bruce's Brew. You're gonna find 1323 01:11:18.840 --> 01:11:20.760 it at a lot of places like other nils, some 1324 01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:23.640 plant foods, so you need to check that out Bruce's Brew. 1325 01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:25.520 It would be a great time right now to put 1326 01:11:25.560 --> 01:11:27.600 some down. I have to take a break. I'll be 1327 01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:28.079 right back. 1328 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:30.520 Hi. 1329 01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:35.920 If you're thirty years or younger and you know who 1330 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:38.840 that is, let me know you get a free rose bush. 1331 01:11:39.680 --> 01:11:43.520 I'm making that up. Abba. How many people remember? Abba? 1332 01:11:43.720 --> 01:11:45.720 Oh boy, that was a big deal at the time. 1333 01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:49.239 Let's head out to Pinehurst, Texas. We're going to talk 1334 01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:51.960 to Greg this morning, and I have got to do 1335 01:11:52.159 --> 01:11:54.880 the right kind of click here in order to get Hey, Greg, 1336 01:11:56.359 --> 01:11:57.079 Thanksgiving for you. 1337 01:11:58.079 --> 01:12:00.520 Hey. Couple two unrelated questions. 1338 01:12:01.359 --> 01:12:04.640 One was, I was listening to you yesterday and I'm 1339 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:07.159 getting ready to put down my pre emergent and my 1340 01:12:07.720 --> 01:12:11.760 my Imperial and I did my first knowing of the season, 1341 01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:15.640 and I had a bunch of that. But the green 1342 01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:17.760 Saint Augustine's are kind of coming up. But I have 1343 01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:19.199 a bunch of the kind of I guess you call 1344 01:12:19.239 --> 01:12:22.399 it dead grass and almost turns into hay. And I 1345 01:12:22.600 --> 01:12:26.319 bagged it yesterday, but I wanted to. I saw a 1346 01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:29.119 lot left over. My neighbor has one of those kind 1347 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:32.319 of de thatching machines. Did I use one of those 1348 01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:33.920 as well? Or Am I fine? 1349 01:12:34.039 --> 01:12:38.720 Just kind of leaving it there? You said, Saint Augustine, Yeah, 1350 01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:41.760 don't put don't do de thatching on it. It tears 1351 01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:44.840 it up. Yeah, Saint Augustine. If it was Bermuda, that'd 1352 01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:48.319 be different. But yeah, don't do don't do that. It'll 1353 01:12:48.319 --> 01:12:50.720 be okay. It will decompose away. You know, you think 1354 01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:53.800 about where Saint Augustine is native and every leaf that 1355 01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:56.479 ever grows dies in rots and goes to the soil, 1356 01:12:56.600 --> 01:12:59.560 So it'll be okay. If you know, if you mow 1357 01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:02.159 it a little. Then you're gonna mow it. Let's say 1358 01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:05.079 you're gonna keep it at three inches or something. You 1359 01:13:05.199 --> 01:13:07.960 may be mowed down to about two right now and 1360 01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:11.319 or a little bit lower and then get the fresh 1361 01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:13.600 new growth up. You can do that and if you 1362 01:13:13.680 --> 01:13:17.600 can return all that mowing back into the soil, if 1363 01:13:17.640 --> 01:13:19.840 it doesn't look bad, you have to test it and see. 1364 01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:22.640 But if you have a good mulching more that chops 1365 01:13:22.680 --> 01:13:25.239 it up in the little pieces, it'll settle down and 1366 01:13:25.319 --> 01:13:27.840 then it'll be a surface mulch to help fight weeds. 1367 01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:29.760 Because you just cut all the leaves off and now 1368 01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:32.199 the sunlight's going to hit the soil. So I try 1369 01:13:32.279 --> 01:13:34.279 to return that if I can. Sometimes you have to 1370 01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:38.279 bag it up because it's too much. Okay, Okay, that's 1371 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:39.920 good to know. Okay, super helpful. 1372 01:13:40.640 --> 01:13:43.760 And my other question, total related, is around I've got 1373 01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:47.279 to I've got have a ninety feet of rear fence 1374 01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:51.159 that I'm going to plant some privacy screens. I think 1375 01:13:51.199 --> 01:13:54.039 I've finally decided on eagles and hollies. 1376 01:13:54.279 --> 01:13:54.560 Okay. 1377 01:13:56.279 --> 01:13:59.319 My question is is a is that good for what 1378 01:13:59.439 --> 01:14:03.479 I'm trying to you? And be how far apart should 1379 01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:06.600 I plant and assuming I'm getting like you know, already 1380 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:09.640 kind of nine ten foes forty five gallons. 1381 01:14:09.880 --> 01:14:10.079 Yeah. 1382 01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:13.439 So so with whatever plants you're going to plant, you 1383 01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:19.319 want to look at what it's mature size. Is mature 1384 01:14:19.359 --> 01:14:22.760 with okay? And if you know, if if you look 1385 01:14:22.760 --> 01:14:25.479 at the mature with, that's how big you expected to get. 1386 01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:30.119 Then it depends on the balance between spending money and 1387 01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:34.119 faster results. So if you put it at half that distance, 1388 01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:37.840 you're going to get a complete closure faster, But you're 1389 01:14:37.920 --> 01:14:41.560 spending money on some pretty expensive plants. Uh, if you 1390 01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:43.640 put it, if you put it, if you want to 1391 01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:45.600 save somebody, you can do it about eighty percent, But 1392 01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:48.039 you're not going to have the wall of foliage as fast. 1393 01:14:48.439 --> 01:14:50.840 You're going to be individual plants for a little bit longer. 1394 01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:53.720 So that that's the trade off on them. It's a 1395 01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:55.479 it's a great plant, you know. 1396 01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:56.119 I I. 1397 01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.479 Love Eagleston Holly. They're they're one of the one of 1398 01:15:00.520 --> 01:15:05.439 the popular. Are those berries? Ah, good question. I don't know. 1399 01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:07.319 I would have to go look that up. And boy, 1400 01:15:07.359 --> 01:15:08.800 I definitely don't want to say on the air. 1401 01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:13.319 My best guess sure not are My wife was concerned 1402 01:15:13.359 --> 01:15:15.159 about dogs and kids, and I was like, well, I 1403 01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:17.000 think they have been just quite a bit of them 1404 01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:19.520 to make a big difference, but I wasn't entirely sure. 1405 01:15:19.680 --> 01:15:24.279 So yeah, I'm trying to remember how wide the eagleston gets. 1406 01:15:24.319 --> 01:15:25.880 I know it can get up to like twenty feet 1407 01:15:25.960 --> 01:15:26.640 high eventually. 1408 01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:29.199 Yeah, yeah, you're pretty big. 1409 01:15:29.359 --> 01:15:31.479 Trying to remember the width on it. But anyway you 1410 01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:32.319 can find that out. 1411 01:15:32.680 --> 01:15:33.039 And then. 1412 01:15:36.479 --> 01:15:37.199 Depending on how. 1413 01:15:37.159 --> 01:15:41.840 Fast okay, and underneath those like say, playing them whatever, 1414 01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:44.920 call it eight ten feet apart, whatever it is, should 1415 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:48.439 I do a bed underneath them? Or should I do 1416 01:15:48.760 --> 01:15:51.039 should I play them individually? Or is that just kind 1417 01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:52.920 of personal present person. 1418 01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:54.840 I would do. I would do a bed all the 1419 01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:57.159 way down the road, and I would mix in some 1420 01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.720 high quality organic matter. These kind of plants love to 1421 01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:03.279 be in a forest floor environment where you have a 1422 01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:05.920 lot of rotting materials over the decades you know that 1423 01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:08.640 have built the soil. Make sure they have good drainage. 1424 01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:10.960 A little bit of a raised bed helps a little bit. 1425 01:16:11.800 --> 01:16:15.920 And then when you do get them planted, mosts a surface, 1426 01:16:16.359 --> 01:16:19.199 but the first year, if you can hand water as 1427 01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:22.880 much as possible, I would do that. Sprinklers get blocks, 1428 01:16:23.199 --> 01:16:26.199 blocked by other plants, and they don't. You don't always 1429 01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.039 get good coverage. And Holly's are real picky that first 1430 01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:32.600 year about having little droughty spots around them and stuff, 1431 01:16:32.680 --> 01:16:37.039 and so I would you can use your sprinkler, but 1432 01:16:37.399 --> 01:16:39.479 I would make sure and you do handwritting, because then 1433 01:16:39.560 --> 01:16:42.079 you know you're getting a good drench and that root 1434 01:16:42.159 --> 01:16:44.119 ball is gonna that's where all the roots are and 1435 01:16:44.159 --> 01:16:45.960 it's going to take a while before they fill that bed. 1436 01:16:46.479 --> 01:16:48.840 So don't forget that root ball is especially where you 1437 01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:51.760 need to put your water, because everything the plant gets 1438 01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:54.000 comes out of that little cylinder for the first month 1439 01:16:54.159 --> 01:16:58.560 or so before it gets real step Okay, okay, thanks 1440 01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:00.760 very much. You bet, thanks a lot, but I appreciate 1441 01:17:00.840 --> 01:17:06.359 your call. Houston Powder Coders is the biggest powder coder 1442 01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:08.720 in this whole region. I mean, the property is like 1443 01:17:09.439 --> 01:17:12.960 six acres, like seventy five more than seventy five employees. 1444 01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:16.640 They can do anything. They have a bay that is 1445 01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:19.319 like I don't know, forty or fifty more feet long 1446 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:21.560 or somebody you put a gooseneck trailer in the darn thing. 1447 01:17:21.640 --> 01:17:24.079 It's huge. And then they have things for your little 1448 01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:26.560 patio furniture. That's what you're interested in, you know, the 1449 01:17:26.640 --> 01:17:30.079 wrought iron, the cast iron, the aluminum patio furniture. 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Go take 1460 01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:01.119 an em Go take a picture and of your furniture, 1461 01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:03.640 whatever you have. Maybe it's a wall hanging that's iron 1462 01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:07.399 that you want to get coated to go to sales 1463 01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:15.680 at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at houstoncoders dot com and 1464 01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:18.239 send your picture and they'll give you a quick quote 1465 01:18:18.399 --> 01:18:19.800 on what's going to take. If you want to go 1466 01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:23.279 to the website Houston powder Coders dot com or two 1467 01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:28.720 eight one six seven, six thirty eight eighty eight. We're 1468 01:18:28.760 --> 01:18:31.560 going to go out to Humble now and talk to Helen. Hey, Helen, 1469 01:18:31.640 --> 01:18:36.199 welcome to garden line. I keep going in the front 1470 01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:38.119 door and we have to use the backdoor. Hey, Helen, 1471 01:18:38.279 --> 01:18:39.199 welcome to garden line. 1472 01:18:40.319 --> 01:18:42.119 Well, good morning, good morning. 1473 01:18:42.279 --> 01:18:46.079 I got a two fold question for you. My husband 1474 01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:51.199 seem to think if I make my sane augustine grass stronger, 1475 01:18:52.119 --> 01:18:54.199 it will choke the weeds out. 1476 01:18:55.760 --> 01:19:00.600 That is, and I want okay, yeah, I don't. 1477 01:19:00.399 --> 01:19:02.239 Want to waste money on weed killer. 1478 01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:03.680 Good for you. 1479 01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:07.199 Your number one weed control is a dense, healthy lawn. 1480 01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:10.319 So you don't plant a lawn and it's not thick, 1481 01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:14.000 but you just plan on using herbicides every month. You're, 1482 01:19:14.159 --> 01:19:17.439 you know, trying to keep weeds out. Herbicides are there 1483 01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:20.039 as your back up. But if you create a dense, 1484 01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:24.279 healthy lawn, you're going to get rid of most especially 1485 01:19:24.359 --> 01:19:28.119 weeds coming from seed. Most weeds. There's some weeds, Helen, 1486 01:19:28.199 --> 01:19:31.239 that can live in a dense, healthy Saint Augustine lawn, 1487 01:19:31.479 --> 01:19:35.000 like Virginia button weed and like dollar dollar weeds. One 1488 01:19:35.239 --> 01:19:38.119 can live in that lawn. But a lot of them 1489 01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:41.199 crab grass and grass burr and hind bit and chickweed 1490 01:19:41.279 --> 01:19:43.439 and clover and all those. If you have a dense, 1491 01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:46.000 healthy lawn in sunlight can't get to the soil, those 1492 01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:49.119 weed teats can't come up. Your lawn becomes a mulch 1493 01:19:49.520 --> 01:19:53.760 that mulches out the light and prevents weeds from coming in. Okay, 1494 01:19:54.359 --> 01:19:59.560 got okay, so you're both right. I'm well, you're both right. 1495 01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:02.079 I got one last thing. 1496 01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:02.760 Yeah. 1497 01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:07.560 Also, when I mulch my flower beds, what is too 1498 01:20:07.720 --> 01:20:09.199 much and what is too little? 1499 01:20:10.239 --> 01:20:12.359 What is too much and what is too little? 1500 01:20:12.640 --> 01:20:12.760 Uh? 1501 01:20:13.520 --> 01:20:16.840 Generally about three inches. The chunkier the mulch, the thicker 1502 01:20:16.920 --> 01:20:19.119 it has to be to block out the light, the 1503 01:20:19.239 --> 01:20:21.680 finer texture of the mulch, the less you need to 1504 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:24.119 do the job. But about three inches is a pretty 1505 01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:24.640 good number. 1506 01:20:24.680 --> 01:20:28.399 Okay, okay, all right, I appreciate that. 1507 01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:31.439 Well, I appreciate your call. Y'all have fun. I'm glad. 1508 01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:34.159 I'm glad we have peace in the family. No marriage 1509 01:20:34.199 --> 01:20:36.520 counselor need it out there and humble, We're. 1510 01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:39.319 Good to go. I'm glad he's got one thing right 1511 01:20:39.399 --> 01:20:39.760 this year. 1512 01:20:40.039 --> 01:20:43.560 Okay, apparently he did something right when he married you. 1513 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:45.399 How about that? I bet he agrees with me. 1514 01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:45.880 I love it. 1515 01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:49.159 Thank you, though, y'all have a good garden day. 1516 01:20:51.079 --> 01:20:54.039 Oh my gosh, iy you know away. Sometimes people I 1517 01:20:54.079 --> 01:20:56.720 get a call and someone says, well, my husband thinks this, 1518 01:20:56.960 --> 01:20:58.760 and I told him that, and I can see there's 1519 01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:01.920 a battle brewing. Look, I don't do I do do 1520 01:21:02.039 --> 01:21:04.359 marriage counseling. Oh I do, but it's three hundred dollars 1521 01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:06.640 an hour, and you don't want me to do it. 1522 01:21:07.720 --> 01:21:10.239 But I will give you horticulture advice for free. So 1523 01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:12.279 and we'd like to have some fun with the callers. 1524 01:21:12.600 --> 01:21:15.800 As you can see. Hey, stick around for the news. 1525 01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:18.000 I'll be right back. Don't go away. We've got lots 1526 01:21:18.079 --> 01:21:18.840 more to talk about. 1527 01:21:23.680 --> 01:21:27.720 Welcome to kat r h Garden Line with scamp Rickards. 1528 01:21:36.279 --> 01:21:54.119 Just watch him as well. So many birties not sor alright, 1529 01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:59.399 welcome back to the garden line on a beautiful Sunday morning. 1530 01:21:59.880 --> 01:22:03.439 I'm telling you this afternoon you need to figure it out. 1531 01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:06.000 But you gotta go somewhere and get something and get 1532 01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:08.920 out in the yard and have some fun there. This 1533 01:22:09.159 --> 01:22:11.640 is the time. Are there's stuff to do in the lawns. 1534 01:22:11.720 --> 01:22:14.920 Right now we are putting a pre emergent for warm 1535 01:22:14.960 --> 01:22:17.520 season weeds. If you are going to do a pre emergent. 1536 01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:18.279 You gotta do it now. 1537 01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:19.039 Uh. 1538 01:22:19.279 --> 01:22:22.760 If you have cool season weeds before they finish setting 1539 01:22:22.840 --> 01:22:25.199 seeds and stuff, get a post emerging on them. The 1540 01:22:25.239 --> 01:22:27.039 sooner the better if you're gonna get rid of them. 1541 01:22:27.159 --> 01:22:28.720 If you just got a few, you can hand pull them. 1542 01:22:28.880 --> 01:22:30.560 You've got a few, you can spots spray. I'm here 1543 01:22:30.600 --> 01:22:32.680 and there. You don't have to do that all that, uh, 1544 01:22:33.279 --> 01:22:35.960 but that's what it's what I do in mind most theories. 1545 01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:38.680 But listen, when there's a bunch that and pulling just 1546 01:22:38.760 --> 01:22:42.119 not practical unless you'd enjoy doing that. There are people 1547 01:22:42.159 --> 01:22:45.159 who do. But anyway, you got to. You gotta take 1548 01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:48.039 care of them because once a cool season weeds such 1549 01:22:48.119 --> 01:22:52.079 seeds that one weed plant now has created hundreds of 1550 01:22:52.199 --> 01:22:56.600 potential offspring, so next fall they'll sprout and next spring 1551 01:22:57.239 --> 01:23:00.640 it's going to be even worse. And so the goals, 1552 01:23:01.199 --> 01:23:02.960 you know, we talk about a lot of products for 1553 01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:05.359 doing a lot of things, and they work, they do 1554 01:23:05.560 --> 01:23:08.880 work that works. But our goal is to build the densest, 1555 01:23:08.960 --> 01:23:14.159 healthiest lawn in the world. And regular mowing, proper watering 1556 01:23:14.239 --> 01:23:17.479 with a good soaking on an infrequent basis, and then 1557 01:23:17.640 --> 01:23:20.760 fertilizing with a high quality fertilizer is how we do that. 1558 01:23:21.199 --> 01:23:26.199 It's lawn care is really simple. Mow water fertilized. That's 1559 01:23:26.319 --> 01:23:30.119 the simplest I can make it. And then when a 1560 01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:34.960 chinchbug shows up or a brown patch circle or cool 1561 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:37.159 season weats or warm season weaeds, we have ways of 1562 01:23:37.199 --> 01:23:40.560 dealing with that. But our goal is mow water fertilized 1563 01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:42.960 to create the densest, healthiest lawn that you can do. 1564 01:23:43.439 --> 01:23:44.479 That's what we're after. 1565 01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:45.840 Now. 1566 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:48.479 In your garden beds, your goal is to create beauty. 1567 01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:53.800 You want it to look good. Colorful flowers, colorful foliage shrubs, 1568 01:23:53.880 --> 01:23:57.640 and maybe some evergreen, maybe some blooming shrubs. Moss Nursery 1569 01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:00.439 done in Seabrook is a place where you can get 1570 01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:03.520 all that and more. This nursery. If you've not been 1571 01:24:03.560 --> 01:24:05.920 to Mosque before, you need to just make a plan 1572 01:24:06.079 --> 01:24:08.600 to go, you know, go get lunching chema or something 1573 01:24:08.640 --> 01:24:11.760 and go visit Moss or it's down in Seabrook off 1574 01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:16.600 Toddville Road, and they are so loaded right now with 1575 01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:20.800 all kinds of plants, and they carry standard things that 1576 01:24:20.920 --> 01:24:23.239 you would expect at a garden center, you know, junipers 1577 01:24:23.279 --> 01:24:27.239 after the four varieties of junipers, ozelia's, red buds, magnolias, 1578 01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:31.399 you know, Holly's and ewes and Chinese witchy or Chinese 1579 01:24:31.439 --> 01:24:34.359 witch hazel, laura pedal and ball cipers. But they have 1580 01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:37.319 other things like Brazilian rain trees. Go look that one up. 1581 01:24:37.520 --> 01:24:41.159 That's a cool plant. Portula carria. Yeah I didn't say 1582 01:24:41.159 --> 01:24:45.319 porta laca, said portulacaria. So think of think of portulaca, 1583 01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:49.479 or person, think of purcelaine or porta laca and imagine 1584 01:24:49.520 --> 01:24:52.520 it being a little like not shrub, but a little 1585 01:24:52.560 --> 01:24:56.359 bit of a woody plant or small plant, not just 1586 01:24:56.479 --> 01:24:59.439 like a groundcover that's all succulent. That's what that is. 1587 01:24:59.560 --> 01:25:03.359 Pretty cool stuff. They have hundreds of bon bonseye starters. 1588 01:25:03.479 --> 01:25:05.760 If you I took somebody yesterday that was a bonesye 1589 01:25:05.840 --> 01:25:09.880 grower at the Home and Garden show up in Montgomery County, 1590 01:25:09.920 --> 01:25:11.920 which by the way is still going on today. Uh 1591 01:25:12.199 --> 01:25:16.319 and we were talking bones eye. But you go downto 1592 01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:19.319 moss you can. There's hundreds of plants you can choose 1593 01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:21.800 from and start that hobby yourself. Have you ever tried that? 1594 01:25:22.239 --> 01:25:23.880 You know, it's kind of building a ship in a bottle. 1595 01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:25.800 Something you get out and play with and work on 1596 01:25:25.920 --> 01:25:28.600 and stuff. Bonesye is a is a really cool fun 1597 01:25:28.840 --> 01:25:31.840 anyway I'm going on about bones Eye. Moss Nursery is 1598 01:25:31.880 --> 01:25:33.840 a place to go. It's not just under the garden Center. 1599 01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:37.119 You're going to wander through eight acres and you're going 1600 01:25:37.199 --> 01:25:39.439 to find everything you need and they are loaded up 1601 01:25:39.560 --> 01:25:42.479 with plants ready for you right now, and lots of 1602 01:25:42.680 --> 01:25:45.920 yard art. We'll call it landscape bling. They've got plenty 1603 01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:50.159 of that too. Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. Moss Nursery dot com. 1604 01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:53.479 Moss has two a's in it two eight one four 1605 01:25:53.600 --> 01:25:55.960 seven four twenty four eighty eight to eight one four 1606 01:25:56.039 --> 01:26:01.960 seven four twenty four eighty eight. If you are interested 1607 01:26:02.199 --> 01:26:04.439 in giving a skull here on garden Line, we'd be 1608 01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:07.159 happy to visit with you our phone number seven one 1609 01:26:07.279 --> 01:26:10.920 three two one two kt RH seven one three two 1610 01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:15.840 one two kt RH. I mentioned earlier that you got 1611 01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:17.840 to get the pre emergent now, if you're going to 1612 01:26:17.920 --> 01:26:20.199 put one on. Some people use them, some people don't. 1613 01:26:20.279 --> 01:26:22.520 But if you're going to put a pre emergent on, 1614 01:26:23.199 --> 01:26:25.880 and if you've got a thin lawn where sunlight hits 1615 01:26:25.920 --> 01:26:29.359 the soil, nature will plant weeds there. That's how it works. 1616 01:26:29.399 --> 01:26:31.279 That's why we build as dens of a lawn as 1617 01:26:31.319 --> 01:26:36.399 we can. But barricade by nitrofoss is an excellent product 1618 01:26:36.720 --> 01:26:39.760 for preventing weed seeds from sprouting. Here's how it works. 1619 01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:41.680 I'm not going to go nerdy on you. Just in 1620 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:43.920 a nutshell, you need to know this. You put the 1621 01:26:43.960 --> 01:26:46.520 barricade down, You water it with about half inch of water. 1622 01:26:46.760 --> 01:26:48.640 It goes into the soil and it ties up at 1623 01:26:48.680 --> 01:26:51.079 the surface. It doesn't wash off the surface. It doesn't 1624 01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:53.800 wash through the soil. It's made to tie up to 1625 01:26:53.800 --> 01:26:56.359 the soil. If it didn't do that, when the weeds 1626 01:26:56.439 --> 01:26:58.680 germinate up at the surface, there wouldn't be any barricade 1627 01:26:58.720 --> 01:27:01.760 there for them. It's a barricade. It's named that for 1628 01:27:01.840 --> 01:27:04.479 a reason. It ties up to the soil. A weed 1629 01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:06.680 tries to sprout and it can't come through it. That's 1630 01:27:06.720 --> 01:27:09.000 how barricade works. And there are other pre emergents in 1631 01:27:09.079 --> 01:27:13.239 the market. I'll tell you this. Nothing grabs the soil 1632 01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:16.520 and sticks in place as well as barricade does. That's 1633 01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:20.000 that's just a fact. Okay, broad leaf weeds, grassy weeds, 1634 01:27:20.039 --> 01:27:23.079 whatever's coming up this spring and summer, you get ahead 1635 01:27:23.079 --> 01:27:26.039 of them with barricade. Now, now you're gonna find barricade, 1636 01:27:26.279 --> 01:27:29.760 like other nitrofuss products in many places around town. If 1637 01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:32.359 you go to Bearings Hardware on Bissonet, if you go 1638 01:27:32.520 --> 01:27:35.600 to the Bearing Hardware that's on West Teimer, for example, 1639 01:27:36.399 --> 01:27:39.680 you go to Hiden and Feed on Stubner Airline, or 1640 01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:42.720 Ace Hardware City, which is a memorial drive. How about 1641 01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:46.880 all Spas Ace on kirkandall oor Ace out a Sinkle ranch, 1642 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:49.359 all places where you're going to get quality night fuss 1643 01:27:49.359 --> 01:27:55.840 products like the barricade. People get confused, and you know, 1644 01:27:56.000 --> 01:27:58.720 in answering questions, I hear it a lot. I hear 1645 01:27:58.960 --> 01:28:01.600 where two things are said and they're both true, but 1646 01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:03.720 then when they put them together, they get mixed up 1647 01:28:03.960 --> 01:28:08.880 and it gets a little confusing. Herbicides come in two types, 1648 01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:12.039 whether it's an organic product or synthetic product. There's going 1649 01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:16.199 to be things that prevent weed seeds from sprouting and establishing, 1650 01:28:16.239 --> 01:28:20.000 and there's gonna be things that kill existing weeds. And 1651 01:28:20.159 --> 01:28:23.680 you gotta you want to do one or the other. Now, 1652 01:28:24.159 --> 01:28:25.960 if you're looking for a quality nursery and you're out 1653 01:28:26.000 --> 01:28:28.560 in the Kadi area our West Houston nursery is an 1654 01:28:28.600 --> 01:28:32.119 awesome one. You're fortunate. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery and 1655 01:28:32.199 --> 01:28:36.119 Katie Nelson Water Garden is a full service local nursery. 1656 01:28:36.159 --> 01:28:37.800 I know it says water garden in the name. It 1657 01:28:37.840 --> 01:28:42.119 also says nursery in the name. Nelson Nursery and Water Garden. 1658 01:28:42.560 --> 01:28:45.479 For two generations, they've been a leader in water gardens 1659 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:49.800 and their garden center and nursery is just awesome. Walk 1660 01:28:49.880 --> 01:28:52.079 through from the house plants you walk through when you 1661 01:28:52.159 --> 01:28:54.800 come through the building to the vegetables and herbs you 1662 01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:57.479 get to and flowers next to the shrubs and trees 1663 01:28:57.560 --> 01:28:59.880 and fruiting plants and everything. You're out there in the 1664 01:29:00.119 --> 01:29:03.319 koy posey and the coy ponds and the water plants 1665 01:29:03.600 --> 01:29:08.720 that they carry their nationally recognized experts. Nelson Watergardens dot Com. 1666 01:29:09.199 --> 01:29:11.960 You go out to Katie Turn North on Katie Fort 1667 01:29:12.039 --> 01:29:15.319 Benroad and it's right up there, Nelson Watergardens dot Com. 1668 01:29:18.560 --> 01:29:19.159 Like the frame. 1669 01:29:19.560 --> 01:29:20.000 There we go. 1670 01:29:20.159 --> 01:29:20.920 It's still. 1671 01:29:23.319 --> 01:29:26.359 And more marriage advice for all you guys out there 1672 01:29:26.399 --> 01:29:28.640 today on garden Line. See we're a we are a 1673 01:29:29.439 --> 01:29:33.319 multi service show. We don't just do plants, you do music. 1674 01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:38.119 Welcome back, We're good to have. It's good to have you. 1675 01:29:38.359 --> 01:29:41.279 Glad you're here. Seven one three two one two kt 1676 01:29:41.479 --> 01:29:42.880 rih if you'd like to give me a call and 1677 01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:46.720 that'd be a good time. Wildbirds Unlimited is they are 1678 01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:50.039 the ones response. I blame Wildbirds Unlimited for getting me 1679 01:29:50.279 --> 01:29:51.600 into backyard birding. 1680 01:29:51.840 --> 01:29:52.039 I do. 1681 01:29:52.279 --> 01:29:54.640 It's their fault because I go in there and I 1682 01:29:54.880 --> 01:29:58.199 see products that are amazing, you know, like they have 1683 01:29:58.319 --> 01:30:00.920 feeders like I just got their hop it's called the 1684 01:30:01.000 --> 01:30:04.239 Classic Eco Tough hopper feeders designed by the owner of 1685 01:30:04.319 --> 01:30:07.439 Wildbirds Drains Well. Keeps your seed dry, which some hopper 1686 01:30:07.479 --> 01:30:10.239 feeders she'd get soggy wet. I just got one, putting 1687 01:30:10.279 --> 01:30:13.359 it out in the yard. I love the eliminator. The 1688 01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:17.720 eliminator feeder is just awesome. It keeps the squirrels from 1689 01:30:17.760 --> 01:30:20.800 getting in. It works really really well. My squirrels hate 1690 01:30:20.840 --> 01:30:24.399 it on a Sunday morning. The language that they use, 1691 01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:26.479 they should be ashamed of themselves because they can't get 1692 01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:29.279 in that feeder. Which makes me happy. All right now, 1693 01:30:29.560 --> 01:30:34.520 right now, you need wild Birds Unlimited Nesting super Blend. 1694 01:30:35.039 --> 01:30:37.600 That is the one. For now. Our birds are nesting, 1695 01:30:37.640 --> 01:30:41.399 they're laying eggs, they need the calcium in wildbirds unlimited 1696 01:30:41.640 --> 01:30:45.359 nesting super blend. They need the protein in that feed 1697 01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:48.199 as well. You can buy it in loose seed bag. 1698 01:30:48.399 --> 01:30:50.479 You can buy it in seed cylinders, which are kind 1699 01:30:50.479 --> 01:30:50.760 of cool. 1700 01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:51.000 You know. 1701 01:30:51.039 --> 01:30:53.279 It's like one of those little candles. It's about I 1702 01:30:53.319 --> 01:30:55.079 don't know, four inches across or so. They come in 1703 01:30:55.119 --> 01:30:57.039 different sizes, by the way, but it's like all the 1704 01:30:57.079 --> 01:30:58.720 seed is sort of glued in there and the birds 1705 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:01.840 have to kind of peck it out whatever's convenient for you, 1706 01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:03.800 whatever you want to do, and whatever kind of feeder 1707 01:31:03.880 --> 01:31:06.239 you need, Warbirds is going to have that kind of 1708 01:31:06.279 --> 01:31:10.359 feeder for you. That's what they do. The most important 1709 01:31:10.399 --> 01:31:15.439 thing they do is that they give accurate local advice. 1710 01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:19.279 They can tell you when the hummingbirds typically arrive, when 1711 01:31:19.359 --> 01:31:21.960 the Purple Martin Scouts show up, and when you need 1712 01:31:22.039 --> 01:31:25.840 to get your Martin houses up. It's an amazing place. 1713 01:31:26.239 --> 01:31:29.680 They told me about the Cornell app and it's called Merlin, 1714 01:31:29.840 --> 01:31:33.000 like Merlin the Magician, Merlin me R L A N. 1715 01:31:33.199 --> 01:31:35.439 It's free. You need to go get it. Just do this, 1716 01:31:35.840 --> 01:31:38.880 do this for me today. Download Merlin on your phone. 1717 01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:42.159 It's free and try it out. If you see a 1718 01:31:42.199 --> 01:31:44.159 bird and take a picture. Merlin will tell you what 1719 01:31:44.279 --> 01:31:46.720 that bird is. I mean, unless it's like five hundred 1720 01:31:46.760 --> 01:31:49.479 yards down the way there. If you go out in 1721 01:31:49.520 --> 01:31:51.520 the morning and you hear a bird, go to Merlin 1722 01:31:51.640 --> 01:31:54.159 and say listen, and it'll tell you what the bird 1723 01:31:54.319 --> 01:31:56.840 is and tell you about that bird. It is free, 1724 01:31:56.960 --> 01:31:59.000 it is cool. War birds s time out. See it's 1725 01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:01.560 their fault. I would have been this enthusiastic if it 1726 01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:04.439 hasn't been for them. Well, you're fortunate. 1727 01:32:04.520 --> 01:32:04.680 Here. 1728 01:32:04.720 --> 01:32:06.840 You've got six wild Bird stores. If you live in 1729 01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:10.199 Pearland on Broadway, if you live in Kingwood on Kingwood 1730 01:32:10.279 --> 01:32:14.239 Drive down in Houston on the west Side at Memorial 1731 01:32:15.239 --> 01:32:18.760 on bel Air in Houston, up in Cypress on Barker Cypress, 1732 01:32:18.880 --> 01:32:22.279 or in clear Lake on Eldorado Boulevard. All great stores, 1733 01:32:22.800 --> 01:32:26.000 all great wild Birds, unlimited stores. You got to check 1734 01:32:26.119 --> 01:32:29.880 these things out. You'll love it. I promise you you will. Well, 1735 01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:31.840 you're listening to Garden Line and we're here to answer 1736 01:32:31.840 --> 01:32:34.119 your gardening questions. So if you want to give me 1737 01:32:34.199 --> 01:32:37.680 a call, the number is seven one three two one 1738 01:32:37.800 --> 01:32:42.680 two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRY. I 1739 01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:45.279 know you're probably getting ready for church or something. Who 1740 01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:48.239 knows what you got planned today? And you're busy, so 1741 01:32:48.520 --> 01:32:50.600 that's good. You just keep listening. It will be good 1742 01:32:50.640 --> 01:32:52.760 with that too. But if you have a question, I'm 1743 01:32:52.760 --> 01:32:54.800 glad to help you. I've got an open line right now, 1744 01:32:54.840 --> 01:32:57.159 which is which is a good thing if you were 1745 01:32:57.279 --> 01:33:01.560 interested in asking a question. I was out in the 1746 01:33:01.680 --> 01:33:05.520 yard the other day taking care of some mulching that 1747 01:33:05.640 --> 01:33:08.079 I needed to do in my front bed. I had 1748 01:33:08.119 --> 01:33:10.640 a real nice craws. I'm trying out some different multas 1749 01:33:10.640 --> 01:33:12.520 you know, when I talk about a product on guarden Line, 1750 01:33:13.600 --> 01:33:15.800 most of the time I've used it, or I've read 1751 01:33:15.800 --> 01:33:18.640 about it in research, or I've seen it and you know, 1752 01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:22.680 been around it and familiar with it. And this was 1753 01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:28.000 I got some molts things from the folks at Nature's 1754 01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:30.840 Way up in forty five North and I was trying 1755 01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:32.479 them out, and you know, I try this one out, 1756 01:33:32.560 --> 01:33:34.720 see how it does, hot looks and stuff, and try 1757 01:33:34.720 --> 01:33:35.399 a different one out. 1758 01:33:35.399 --> 01:33:35.640 And I was. 1759 01:33:35.720 --> 01:33:38.720 I was replenishing one of their double shred it's called 1760 01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:40.840 a double shredded molts that they have. Look really good. 1761 01:33:41.000 --> 01:33:43.359 It's really doing the job and it works well. And 1762 01:33:43.399 --> 01:33:45.479 they have many others as well. But I'm always trying 1763 01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:48.359 different things out out there and seeing you know how 1764 01:33:48.399 --> 01:33:50.439 it works. And you can always tell where you don't 1765 01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:52.439 have your molts thick enough because the weed comes up. 1766 01:33:52.880 --> 01:33:55.840 It's true, looking at us, I can eat be a weed. 1767 01:33:56.039 --> 01:33:58.600 I moltzed it and I walk over there, and it's 1768 01:33:58.680 --> 01:34:01.239 like this little gap in the malt sunlight hits the soil. 1769 01:34:01.399 --> 01:34:05.079 Wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. That's 1770 01:34:05.119 --> 01:34:09.199 how that works. Unfortunately, nature does not like bear soil 1771 01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:13.359 because bar soil gets eroded. Bear soil gets crusted, and 1772 01:34:13.520 --> 01:34:15.920 nature takes care of soil that way. It's a beautiful 1773 01:34:15.960 --> 01:34:21.600 design system, all right. Sweet Green from Nitrophis is an 1774 01:34:21.760 --> 01:34:25.640 organic fertilizer with eleven percent nitrogen. That's a lot for 1775 01:34:25.720 --> 01:34:31.520 an organic fertilizer being a carbon based product. Sugar is 1776 01:34:31.600 --> 01:34:34.800 a string of carbons, and molasses is a sugar type 1777 01:34:35.199 --> 01:34:39.039 and so basically your molasses product goes in the soil 1778 01:34:39.399 --> 01:34:42.199 and microbes go nuts. I mean it's like crack, a 1779 01:34:42.279 --> 01:34:45.920 micro crack. I love this stuff. And when they go nuts, 1780 01:34:46.439 --> 01:34:49.680 they are turning loose all the things that your plants 1781 01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:52.319 need to grow. The nitrogen that's in it you know, 1782 01:34:52.520 --> 01:34:55.840 and their activity is breaking down organic matter and it's 1783 01:34:55.840 --> 01:34:58.600 just making the soil better. So you're not just adding nitrogen. 1784 01:34:58.680 --> 01:35:01.119 You're doing things that help the soil as well. Now 1785 01:35:01.159 --> 01:35:03.680 you're going to find Sweet Green a lot of places 1786 01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:06.920 around town. If you go, oh, let's say to Rosenberg, 1787 01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:10.760 there is Sweet Green at M and D in Rosenberg. 1788 01:35:10.880 --> 01:35:14.159 If you go to Court Hardware in Stafford on South Maine, 1789 01:35:14.279 --> 01:35:18.279 you're going to find or M and D there Court Hardware, 1790 01:35:18.560 --> 01:35:20.920 You're going to find the nitrophos products there. By the way, 1791 01:35:20.920 --> 01:35:23.520 there's also M and D and Cyprus on Luetta that 1792 01:35:23.640 --> 01:35:26.000 you can go to, and Langham Creek Ace Hardware on 1793 01:35:26.239 --> 01:35:28.239 five twenty nine. You need to go see that story. 1794 01:35:28.279 --> 01:35:31.560 It's got They did a total renovation recently and it 1795 01:35:31.680 --> 01:35:34.960 looks great. Anyway, Sweet Green's easy to find. That's the 1796 01:35:35.000 --> 01:35:40.039 bottom line. Try it out. So I'm out and I'm 1797 01:35:40.600 --> 01:35:43.279 replenishing mults. I'm taking care of some things like that, 1798 01:35:43.960 --> 01:35:48.640 and I have some semi sensitive plants, like it's the 1799 01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:53.600 pride of Barbados. It's also the proper name is Sey Sulpinia, 1800 01:35:53.960 --> 01:35:58.319 but Pride of Barbados or Barbados Pride is something that 1801 01:35:58.640 --> 01:36:01.319 people call it a lot. It's a tropical type of 1802 01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:04.439 plant that dice to the ground here and usually comes back, 1803 01:36:04.600 --> 01:36:06.439 but it doesn't like cold cold, and we had some 1804 01:36:06.520 --> 01:36:08.720 pretty cold this winter. So I took a bunch of 1805 01:36:08.800 --> 01:36:11.319 maltch and just piled it up over the stems of 1806 01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:13.439 the plant, and it killed it all the way back. 1807 01:36:13.960 --> 01:36:16.800 And I know this that once we're done with all 1808 01:36:16.840 --> 01:36:19.239 the coal, which we're pretty much done, I'll just pull 1809 01:36:19.279 --> 01:36:21.640 that mulch back off there, let that crown breathe, and 1810 01:36:21.720 --> 01:36:24.399 we'll have fresh new growth. But that plant is a sleepyhead. 1811 01:36:24.399 --> 01:36:26.359 It's not going to show up till about May. It's 1812 01:36:26.439 --> 01:36:29.239 like a teenager on Saturday morning. If you see them 1813 01:36:29.239 --> 01:36:32.640 before lunch, you're lucky, all right, it's a sleepyhead. But 1814 01:36:33.119 --> 01:36:35.159 I love that plant too, But just a tip when 1815 01:36:35.159 --> 01:36:37.039 you're mulching, mulch is one of the best ways you 1816 01:36:37.119 --> 01:36:40.520 can protect those tender plants like that as they're coming up. 1817 01:36:42.039 --> 01:36:45.560 Enchanted Forest is a wonderful garden center. I was talking 1818 01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:48.319 to somebody this morning about who called in, you know 1819 01:36:48.399 --> 01:36:53.640 about Enchanted Forest, and I believe it's tim And they 1820 01:36:53.760 --> 01:36:56.479 have everything that you would want a garden center to have. 1821 01:36:57.000 --> 01:37:00.039 The setting is just amazing when you drive up. I 1822 01:37:00.079 --> 01:37:01.640 don't know how to describe it. I don't say it's 1823 01:37:01.640 --> 01:37:04.239 like an old Western town, but just the whole building 1824 01:37:04.279 --> 01:37:07.760 and everything. It's rustic. It's a barn look rustic, but 1825 01:37:07.920 --> 01:37:10.079 it is so cool. And then you go there and 1826 01:37:10.199 --> 01:37:13.760 then there's buildings on the site. There's like structures on 1827 01:37:13.880 --> 01:37:16.399 the site with the plants in them that you just 1828 01:37:16.520 --> 01:37:19.920 walk in free air float through there and they're loaded 1829 01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:26.079 tomatoes of every type, you can imagine, herbs of every type, 1830 01:37:26.119 --> 01:37:31.000 you can imagine, annual flowers, perennial flowers, hanging baskets. They 1831 01:37:31.319 --> 01:37:35.039 really do a great job on pollinator plants and on 1832 01:37:35.319 --> 01:37:39.359 specifically butterfly plants, both the ones that attract the adults 1833 01:37:39.439 --> 01:37:42.439 and the food sources for the young. Everybody knows, you know, 1834 01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:48.479 monarch butterflies need milkweed. Well, passion flower butterflies need passion vine. 1835 01:37:49.039 --> 01:37:53.960 That a gulf fridillary butterflies. Excuse me, gulfridillary butterflies need 1836 01:37:54.000 --> 01:37:57.000 passion vine. They've got all that and during the season 1837 01:37:57.319 --> 01:37:59.600 you're going to find caterpillars on the plants. They'll let 1838 01:37:59.600 --> 01:38:00.960 you take the I got a pillar home too, so 1839 01:38:01.079 --> 01:38:03.359 you got your little it's like having a sour dough starter. 1840 01:38:03.960 --> 01:38:06.760 You got your your butterfly garden starter going home with 1841 01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:10.640 the plant. They're located on FM twenty seven fifty nine, 1842 01:38:11.039 --> 01:38:14.319 and that is south of fifty nine or sixty nine 1843 01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:18.479 the interstate. If you're going from Richmond, Rosenberg to a Sugarland, 1844 01:38:18.520 --> 01:38:20.840 it's off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. 1845 01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:28.399 Enchented Forest. The website Enchented Forest Richmond, TX dot com. 1846 01:38:28.720 --> 01:38:31.239 You need to go check this place out tonight this 1847 01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:35.720 afternoon'd be a great time. Let's go out to Pasadena 1848 01:38:35.920 --> 01:38:38.199 now and we're gonna let's see who are we talking 1849 01:38:38.239 --> 01:38:42.479 to in Pasadena. He is Steve Steve, Welcome to garden Line. 1850 01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:48.479 Yeah, Skip, we appreciate you longtime garden Line listener, Andy Lemon, 1851 01:38:48.960 --> 01:38:51.560 rest of Soul, and that I appreciate you stepping in 1852 01:38:51.680 --> 01:38:52.439 and doing such. 1853 01:38:52.319 --> 01:38:52.880 A great job. 1854 01:38:53.039 --> 01:38:54.079 Thanks for being a listener. 1855 01:38:55.000 --> 01:38:58.079 Oh yeah, you got your help so many people. Hopefully 1856 01:38:58.079 --> 01:39:00.760 you can help me today. All right, I got a 1857 01:39:00.880 --> 01:39:06.199 yard my daughter's property in Pasadena and it became a 1858 01:39:06.279 --> 01:39:08.800 rent property and they didn't do anything. And we have 1859 01:39:08.960 --> 01:39:13.479 two big trees and the leaf malts, not malt, just leaves. 1860 01:39:13.760 --> 01:39:14.640 Three years of it. 1861 01:39:14.760 --> 01:39:19.640 I begged about almost thirty contractor bags of leafs out 1862 01:39:19.720 --> 01:39:24.560 of there this last week and everything's dead and it's a. 1863 01:39:24.640 --> 01:39:26.000 It's a pretty good sized yard. 1864 01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:31.119 It used to have some grass and we don't know 1865 01:39:31.119 --> 01:39:34.600 if we're going to keep it or rent property or 1866 01:39:34.920 --> 01:39:37.920 or sell it. But I didn't want the cost. I mean, 1867 01:39:38.079 --> 01:39:40.279 sod's gone up in such a I mean, I can't 1868 01:39:40.319 --> 01:39:42.840 believe the price of sods these days, these last years. 1869 01:39:42.880 --> 01:39:47.079 But yeah, I've never seen the yard. I never I thought, man, 1870 01:39:47.119 --> 01:39:49.279 what's what's a good way to go about? I mean 1871 01:39:49.319 --> 01:39:50.920 it's it's pretty hardpan too. 1872 01:39:51.000 --> 01:39:54.159 You know, it's like it's just it's a flat surface. 1873 01:39:55.560 --> 01:39:57.680 And yes, so anyway, but I guess my question to you, 1874 01:39:57.760 --> 01:40:00.279 and I just stopped and listen, what would you do 1875 01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:01.520 to prep that up? 1876 01:40:02.520 --> 01:40:04.319 And I guess so it would be the easiest thing. 1877 01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:06.720 And I've done that before. I've brought into the top 1878 01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:08.079 soil laid sod. 1879 01:40:08.159 --> 01:40:11.239 But okay, i'd really have been interested in your ideas. 1880 01:40:11.279 --> 01:40:11.840 Go thank you. 1881 01:40:12.079 --> 01:40:13.239 How sunny is the spot? 1882 01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:16.960 Well, I'm taking I'm having a tree service come in 1883 01:40:17.000 --> 01:40:18.159 and get rid of one of the trees. 1884 01:40:18.199 --> 01:40:20.359 So we're going to bring a lot more sun in Okay. 1885 01:40:21.000 --> 01:40:21.960 So there is one. 1886 01:40:22.159 --> 01:40:24.640 There's one really large oak, and I'm going to have 1887 01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:25.600 that trimmed up. 1888 01:40:26.000 --> 01:40:26.600 So that's what all. 1889 01:40:27.079 --> 01:40:30.119 It should be decent for growing. After I do that, 1890 01:40:30.159 --> 01:40:31.760 and that's next week, I'm going to have the tree 1891 01:40:31.800 --> 01:40:32.439 service come in. 1892 01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:35.239 Okay. If you've got good sunlight, you can grow any 1893 01:40:35.319 --> 01:40:38.760 of our main southern grasses, which is Saint Augustine, Zuysia, 1894 01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:41.880 and bermuda. If you start to get into shade, the 1895 01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:44.560 bermuda drops out, you get into a little more shade, 1896 01:40:44.680 --> 01:40:47.920 and the zoysia drops out, and then you get into 1897 01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:50.199 more in the the Saint Augustine drops out. There actually 1898 01:40:50.239 --> 01:40:53.000 are some zoysias that are comparable to Saint Augustine in 1899 01:40:53.239 --> 01:40:56.439 shade tolerance. But so depending on the spot, you're going 1900 01:40:56.520 --> 01:40:58.600 to pick one of those. And the reason that matters 1901 01:40:58.880 --> 01:41:02.119 is what whever you do, you are going to want 1902 01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:06.079 to fertilize it consistently and water it consistently to get 1903 01:41:06.119 --> 01:41:09.039 it to cover as fast as possible you can sell. 1904 01:41:09.279 --> 01:41:10.760 There's a couple of strategies. 1905 01:41:10.840 --> 01:41:10.920 You know. 1906 01:41:11.000 --> 01:41:13.760 Of course, you fill the whole thing with sid that's fast, 1907 01:41:13.920 --> 01:41:17.960 that's easy, it costs money. Okay. The next step would 1908 01:41:18.000 --> 01:41:22.520 be to start somewhere laying side, and then later by 1909 01:41:22.600 --> 01:41:24.920 more sod to go further and let that side creep 1910 01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:26.600 out a little bit, and then more sid and more side, 1911 01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:29.439 so you're sort of taking over, maybe starting at the house, 1912 01:41:29.520 --> 01:41:33.039 working out or whatever. That's another strategy. A third strategy 1913 01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:35.720 is to get rid of everything. Get the dirt right, 1914 01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:37.760 you need to make sure and get you know, get 1915 01:41:37.800 --> 01:41:39.520 that loosened up if you can row a tail or 1916 01:41:39.560 --> 01:41:40.960 break it up a little bit, or bring in some 1917 01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:44.159 full soil to fill holes and things. And then once 1918 01:41:44.199 --> 01:41:48.000 you've done that, you want to put your side out 1919 01:41:48.319 --> 01:41:51.399 as more like plugs or strips. You can take a 1920 01:41:51.439 --> 01:41:54.439 piece of sod it's like a doormat size, and you 1921 01:41:54.600 --> 01:41:56.880 cut it into strips and you put those a foot apart, 1922 01:41:57.399 --> 01:41:59.680 and now you've made it go a lot further, maybe 1923 01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:01.920 three times as far as it would have. But then 1924 01:42:01.960 --> 01:42:03.600 you have to wait on it to fill in. And 1925 01:42:03.680 --> 01:42:06.600 so those are your three options that you got on 1926 01:42:06.920 --> 01:42:09.239 I've got about I've got about ten seconds before I 1927 01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:10.680 have to go. I'll put you on hold if you 1928 01:42:10.760 --> 01:42:12.039 want to keep this going. 1929 01:42:12.760 --> 01:42:15.159 No, it's okay, It sounds like I could probably do 1930 01:42:15.279 --> 01:42:16.760 the human checkters game. 1931 01:42:16.840 --> 01:42:19.039 With that. That that is it and the and the 1932 01:42:19.319 --> 01:42:20.760 the thing to keep in ling is you're going to 1933 01:42:20.800 --> 01:42:22.880 be dealing with weeds. But that's okay. It's the it's 1934 01:42:22.920 --> 01:42:25.560 a cost effective way. Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate 1935 01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:25.960 it a lot. 1936 01:42:26.079 --> 01:42:27.319 Yes, thanks appreciated. 1937 01:42:29.119 --> 01:42:33.079 All Right, we're back. Welcome to Garden Line. Welcome back 1938 01:42:33.199 --> 01:42:39.479 on a beautiful sunday. Oh my gosh, the temperature. It's awesome. 1939 01:42:39.760 --> 01:42:41.920 This this is the way it should be year round. 1940 01:42:43.359 --> 01:42:45.880 I wish well, if you'd like to give me a 1941 01:42:45.960 --> 01:42:48.159 call here on Guarden Line my number seven one three 1942 01:42:48.239 --> 01:42:49.279 two one two K. 1943 01:42:49.439 --> 01:42:50.199 T R H. 1944 01:42:50.840 --> 01:42:53.000 We're here to answer your gardening questions, to help in 1945 01:42:53.079 --> 01:42:55.880 any way we can to help you have success. Uh, 1946 01:42:57.039 --> 01:42:59.720 pests spoil the show. I don't care if it's a 1947 01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:03.560 cockroach crawling across the floor causing panic screams, people are 1948 01:43:03.640 --> 01:43:07.319 jumping on furniture, throwing shoes. I mean it's a mess, right, 1949 01:43:08.479 --> 01:43:12.600 Or if it's termites that are doing significant potential damage 1950 01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:16.319 there to your house. Pest Brothers can take care of 1951 01:43:16.359 --> 01:43:19.840 all of that. They specialize, that's their name, pest Bros. 1952 01:43:20.000 --> 01:43:24.279 Pest Brothers, pest Bros. They specialize in this out in 1953 01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:27.199 your yard. How about fire ants? Would you like a 1954 01:43:27.560 --> 01:43:32.159 very effective, very low talks safe way to control fireance. 1955 01:43:32.159 --> 01:43:35.079 They can do that. They have the kinds of extremely 1956 01:43:35.239 --> 01:43:38.319 low concentration baits that work on fire ants, but they're 1957 01:43:38.359 --> 01:43:40.359 not a problem for your pets that are out there. 1958 01:43:41.119 --> 01:43:44.399 Maybe you're dealing with mosquitos. They've got that cool bucket 1959 01:43:44.479 --> 01:43:47.239 system that I talked about, you know, not blasting, not 1960 01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:49.720 essentially nuke in the yard, trying to kill mosquitos that 1961 01:43:49.760 --> 01:43:52.199 might be flying by at the moment or in a bushy. 1962 01:43:52.520 --> 01:43:56.159 These bait stations draw the mosquitoes to them, and that's 1963 01:43:56.199 --> 01:43:58.840 where the problem for the mosquitos begins. They lay eggs 1964 01:43:59.000 --> 01:44:01.760 in the water in the but those eggs can never 1965 01:44:01.840 --> 01:44:04.920 develop into mosquitoes because the product falls into the water. 1966 01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:07.840 The product gets on the mosquito when it lands on 1967 01:44:07.880 --> 01:44:10.000 the little screen, and then it goes flying off and 1968 01:44:10.079 --> 01:44:14.399 wherever it lands in water, it introduces a very cool product, 1969 01:44:14.520 --> 01:44:18.279 very safe product that prevents mosquitos from growing. And guess what, 1970 01:44:18.479 --> 01:44:21.039 here's the best part the mosquito that picked up that product. 1971 01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:23.199 It's actually two things in that little dust. The other 1972 01:44:23.319 --> 01:44:26.680 thing is a fungus that attacks mosquito's bodies. I mean, 1973 01:44:26.760 --> 01:44:30.560 and I could get gross here, but if you hate mosquitos, 1974 01:44:30.600 --> 01:44:32.920 you can always let you imagine it for yourself. It 1975 01:44:32.920 --> 01:44:35.159 doesn't end well for a mosquito. It's a natural control. 1976 01:44:35.279 --> 01:44:39.640 It doesn't hurt ladybugs, doesn't hurt birds, doesn't hurt you know, 1977 01:44:40.239 --> 01:44:43.520 fish or anything else. This is very specific, very safe, 1978 01:44:43.640 --> 01:44:49.359 which is typical of the pest Bros. The pestbrosbros dot com. 1979 01:44:49.560 --> 01:44:52.319 That's the website two eight one, two oh six forty 1980 01:44:52.399 --> 01:44:59.479 six seventy long term control without the worries. Let's see, 1981 01:44:59.520 --> 01:45:00.840 I've got a phone call here. We're going to go 1982 01:45:00.880 --> 01:45:04.199 out to Crosby now and talk to Gerald. Hello, Gerald, 1983 01:45:04.279 --> 01:45:05.119 welcome to garden Mine. 1984 01:45:06.159 --> 01:45:10.439 Good morning, Skip, how you doing well. I have a 1985 01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:14.000 question about can you put as and mite in that 1986 01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:16.520 sweet green down at the same time? 1987 01:45:16.840 --> 01:45:21.479 Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely. Sweet green is pretty specific to being nitrogen. 1988 01:45:21.760 --> 01:45:26.039 That's that's pretty much what it is, and so asumite 1989 01:45:26.159 --> 01:45:28.319 is going to give you the trace minerals. Now, I 1990 01:45:28.399 --> 01:45:32.920 would not mix as and MTE with other fertilizers in 1991 01:45:33.039 --> 01:45:36.239 the same spread or hopper at the same time, So 1992 01:45:36.439 --> 01:45:38.319 put out one and then put out the other. Because 1993 01:45:38.319 --> 01:45:41.079 the particle size is different and you won't get even application. 1994 01:45:41.600 --> 01:45:44.239 But yes, same day, same time, put out one, come 1995 01:45:44.279 --> 01:45:46.279 back load the other one. Put it out. You're good. 1996 01:45:46.760 --> 01:45:49.800 Same as is true with you know, fertilizers and then barricade. 1997 01:45:49.880 --> 01:45:53.359 You know, the fertilizers are different particle size and barricade, 1998 01:45:53.399 --> 01:45:54.079 so you got to do them. 1999 01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:57.840 Separate, right, Okay, Well that's what I needed to know 2000 01:45:57.920 --> 01:45:59.600 because I don't want to put some down before this 2001 01:45:59.720 --> 01:46:00.520 one gets. 2002 01:46:01.760 --> 01:46:03.399 Yeah, how much are we supposed to get? I haven't 2003 01:46:03.439 --> 01:46:04.359 looked at the weather. 2004 01:46:04.239 --> 01:46:06.600 Here, I don't know how much. 2005 01:46:09.119 --> 01:46:11.800 Okay, all right, Well, just I always watch the amount 2006 01:46:11.800 --> 01:46:13.079 because you know, if we were going to get like 2007 01:46:13.199 --> 01:46:15.560 two or three inches of rain, I wouldn't fertilize ahead 2008 01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:18.840 of that because you will have some wash away. But 2009 01:46:19.000 --> 01:46:21.960 if it's if it's more moderate, let the rain save 2010 01:46:22.000 --> 01:46:27.039 you some irrigation. So yeah, good plan man, all righty bro, 2011 01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:31.479 thank you, all right? Thanks Jered, take care, Yes, sir, 2012 01:46:31.760 --> 01:46:36.960 you as well if you bet. If you're looking to 2013 01:46:37.039 --> 01:46:41.680 do a compost, stop dressing and or a core aeration 2014 01:46:42.399 --> 01:46:44.239 of your lawn, And by the way, that is one 2015 01:46:44.239 --> 01:46:45.720 of the best things you can do for a lawn, 2016 01:46:45.920 --> 01:46:51.680 especially clay soil, especially compacted soil I would call year 2017 01:46:51.800 --> 01:46:55.439 round Houston. If you're located inside the Beltway or out 2018 01:46:55.479 --> 01:46:57.880 in the Richmond Rosenberg area, you know, we have different 2019 01:46:58.199 --> 01:47:00.399 folks if we talk about on guarden line for different 2020 01:47:00.439 --> 01:47:03.640 parts of the area, because hauling the equipment and all 2021 01:47:03.680 --> 01:47:06.720 the composts for top dressing and stuff around, I mean, 2022 01:47:06.720 --> 01:47:08.960 you just can't. You can't go two hundred miles all 2023 01:47:09.039 --> 01:47:11.840 over the place trying to do that. You're around Houston 2024 01:47:11.960 --> 01:47:14.920 serves that area inside the Beltway and out at Richmond Rosenberg, 2025 01:47:15.000 --> 01:47:19.840 and they are composting specialists for both compost and specialists 2026 01:47:19.840 --> 01:47:23.039 for corration. So when they use a product, it's a 2027 01:47:23.119 --> 01:47:26.399 quality product. When they do aeration, it's the type of 2028 01:47:26.479 --> 01:47:30.720 machinery you can't rent that does a nice core popped 2029 01:47:30.720 --> 01:47:32.760 out of the soil, dropped on the surface. That's how 2030 01:47:32.760 --> 01:47:34.560 it should be done. That's how it should be done. 2031 01:47:34.600 --> 01:47:37.000 Don't just rent some cheap machine that squeezes a hole 2032 01:47:37.079 --> 01:47:39.800 in the soil. You want to do cor aeration, pop 2033 01:47:39.880 --> 01:47:42.600 it out. That's what they do. Now you can breathe 2034 01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:45.119 a new life into your lawn literally because with each 2035 01:47:45.239 --> 01:47:48.079 corrooration you get oxygen down in the soil, the root 2036 01:47:48.159 --> 01:47:53.279 system is enhanced fertilizer and this compost does fall into 2037 01:47:53.359 --> 01:47:56.239 that hole. The compost helps hold it open. And each 2038 01:47:56.359 --> 01:47:59.720 time you do corroortion, you are making an area that 2039 01:47:59.840 --> 01:48:02.800 is struggling with the clay compaction in things, you're making 2040 01:48:02.880 --> 01:48:05.640 it better and year round Houston does it. Here's the website. 2041 01:48:05.760 --> 01:48:09.680 It's not hard. Year round Houston dot com eight three 2042 01:48:09.720 --> 01:48:13.279 to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. Year 2043 01:48:13.359 --> 01:48:15.960 round Houston dot Com eight three to two eight eight 2044 01:48:16.039 --> 01:48:19.520 four fifty three thirty five. Let's go out now on 2045 01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:22.960 the phones. We're going to talk to AJ. Hello, AJ, 2046 01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:24.000 Welcome to garden Line. 2047 01:48:25.079 --> 01:48:25.800 Oh, thank you. 2048 01:48:26.239 --> 01:48:26.399 Hey. 2049 01:48:26.439 --> 01:48:30.399 I got a question about I've got a raised bed 2050 01:48:30.560 --> 01:48:33.439 garden out in my backyard and over the years just 2051 01:48:33.560 --> 01:48:35.800 kind of settled down and I wanted to put something 2052 01:48:36.159 --> 01:48:38.840 over the top of it that would enrich that soil. 2053 01:48:39.319 --> 01:48:43.479 What do you suggest? Is this a vegetable garden, right, 2054 01:48:43.640 --> 01:48:47.279 you said ub guard. Yeah, I would get There is 2055 01:48:47.359 --> 01:48:50.640 a product called Veggie and Herb Mix from Heirloom Soil, 2056 01:48:51.159 --> 01:48:55.680 and it's available just everywhere by the bag. And so 2057 01:48:55.840 --> 01:48:57.680 if you're just topping off a bed, you could just 2058 01:48:57.720 --> 01:49:00.319 do it by the bag. You can also get a 2059 01:49:00.359 --> 01:49:02.600 bulk delivery of it or go pick up a bulk 2060 01:49:02.800 --> 01:49:05.600 amount of it yourself on a truck or trailer. Uh, 2061 01:49:05.760 --> 01:49:08.239 if you want more than if it's gonna take too 2062 01:49:08.279 --> 01:49:10.520 many bags to do what you want to do. But uh, 2063 01:49:10.720 --> 01:49:11.000 that is. 2064 01:49:12.880 --> 01:49:14.079 Maybe picking up a yard. 2065 01:49:14.119 --> 01:49:15.479 I got to pick it up that I could pick 2066 01:49:15.520 --> 01:49:20.119 it up with what pass for uh veggie and herb mix. 2067 01:49:20.479 --> 01:49:22.640 And what you're gonna what you're gonna want to do 2068 01:49:23.359 --> 01:49:28.000 is you want you want to go where you can 2069 01:49:28.159 --> 01:49:31.680 get the soil bulk in Porter that that's hang on 2070 01:49:31.760 --> 01:49:35.479 one second, I'm trying to reach and get the address here. 2071 01:49:35.800 --> 01:49:39.640 Uh in the Porter yard is where they basically produce 2072 01:49:39.680 --> 01:49:42.960 and distribute from out there, and it's Warren's Rock and 2073 01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:45.399 Moltz is the location where you get it. 2074 01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:46.000 Uh. 2075 01:49:46.239 --> 01:49:50.600 The the address is US fifty nine Access Road in Porter. 2076 01:49:51.479 --> 01:49:54.319 But if you want, you can go to the website. 2077 01:49:54.439 --> 01:49:57.960 It's rock inmlts dot com r O c K the 2078 01:49:58.079 --> 01:50:00.399 letter in and then Malts dot com. Let me give 2079 01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:04.000 you a phone number to eight one to eight one 2080 01:50:04.279 --> 01:50:08.680 three five four nineteen fifty to eight one three nine 2081 01:50:09.199 --> 01:50:11.359 call them up. You got options. They can put a 2082 01:50:11.399 --> 01:50:14.399 super stack in your truck, or they can dump it 2083 01:50:14.600 --> 01:50:17.319 in your truck, but they know all the details of 2084 01:50:17.359 --> 01:50:19.439 that and set that up with them. I think they're 2085 01:50:19.439 --> 01:50:22.000 open seven to four Monday through Friday, seven to three 2086 01:50:22.079 --> 01:50:23.760 on Saturday, and definitely close today. 2087 01:50:24.840 --> 01:50:29.640 Okay, one more question. I heard you talking about Core Areation. Yes, 2088 01:50:29.880 --> 01:50:33.039 do you suggest I call here the Spring area? 2089 01:50:33.600 --> 01:50:38.520 In the Spring Area, I would call green Pro Green 2090 01:50:38.680 --> 01:50:42.640 Pro and a right. Let me, I'll see their address here. 2091 01:50:42.680 --> 01:50:44.760 In a minute, I have to run to a break, 2092 01:50:45.119 --> 01:50:47.640 but when I come back, I'll give an address or 2093 01:50:47.760 --> 01:50:50.880 information on Oh I haven't here, it is right here. 2094 01:50:50.920 --> 01:50:54.960 I'll just do it Greenprotextas dot Com. That's the website, 2095 01:50:55.239 --> 01:50:57.239 so just go there and that's got the phone number 2096 01:50:57.239 --> 01:50:59.359 and everything on it, Greenprotexas dot Com. 2097 01:50:59.399 --> 01:51:01.920 All right, all right, certainly appreciate, thank you. 2098 01:51:02.079 --> 01:51:14.119 You bet bye bye? All right? Votes, Yeah, that's a 2099 01:51:14.359 --> 01:51:16.840 who is singing footloose there. I don't know that artist. 2100 01:51:16.920 --> 01:51:20.359 That's different, but you know what, that's what they call 2101 01:51:20.479 --> 01:51:23.439 cover song called right. You make a good song and 2102 01:51:23.840 --> 01:51:28.119 everybody becomes Elvis when you sing one of his songs. 2103 01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:30.800 All right, Well, I was talking about airlom so before 2104 01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:34.479 we went to break. Heirloom soils is uh they serve 2105 01:51:34.600 --> 01:51:36.880 the whole region. In fact, I've seen their products way 2106 01:51:37.119 --> 01:51:39.479 you know, towards san Antoni, Austin direction and everything. They 2107 01:51:40.079 --> 01:51:43.960 they produce a quality product and as a result, you 2108 01:51:44.039 --> 01:51:46.560 got a lot of people interested in it. And they 2109 01:51:46.640 --> 01:51:49.680 also give you versatility. They sell their bags in so 2110 01:51:49.760 --> 01:51:52.720 many places around town that it's easy to find heirloom 2111 01:51:52.760 --> 01:51:56.079 soils and they give you a variety, so you can 2112 01:51:56.199 --> 01:51:59.359 get a soil that is for roses and other blooming 2113 01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:02.479 and shrubs in general. You can get a veggie and 2114 01:52:02.640 --> 01:52:05.039 herbmex which is good for vegetables and herbs, and you 2115 01:52:05.119 --> 01:52:07.880 cant even grow flowers, little annual flowers and things that 2116 01:52:08.119 --> 01:52:09.520 do you discried for that. You can get one for 2117 01:52:09.600 --> 01:52:11.720 fruit trees, you can get one for acid loving plants. 2118 01:52:11.760 --> 01:52:16.399 They've got it all there. Also in the versatility, you 2119 01:52:16.479 --> 01:52:18.039 can buy it by the bag, but you can have 2120 01:52:18.119 --> 01:52:20.479 them bring it to you two ways. You can have 2121 01:52:20.600 --> 01:52:22.479 them bring a dump truck and dump it in the 2122 01:52:22.600 --> 01:52:25.119 driveway and you shovel from there. I've done that many 2123 01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:28.880 times building up my beds. You can also get it 2124 01:52:28.960 --> 01:52:32.359 in what's called a supersack. That's a one cubic yard 2125 01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:36.000 sack that it lifts up, they set it on your driveway. 2126 01:52:36.079 --> 01:52:38.319 It's neat and clean. I've still got one. I haven't 2127 01:52:38.319 --> 01:52:41.600 finished up a supersack setting on my driveway that I've 2128 01:52:41.600 --> 01:52:43.520 been shoveling out of. I just need to get more 2129 01:52:43.600 --> 01:52:46.439 time to get to it. It's neat, it's clean, it's easy, easy, 2130 01:52:46.520 --> 01:52:48.840 easy to do. Now, if you're going to get a 2131 01:52:48.880 --> 01:52:52.880 delivery of supersacks, there's a three supersacked minimum, So you 2132 01:52:52.920 --> 01:52:54.520 can't just get like a one yard and have them 2133 01:52:54.560 --> 01:52:57.159 drive eight hundred miles smart, so you got to you 2134 01:52:57.279 --> 01:53:00.520 got to do the minimum there on three. But however 2135 01:53:00.520 --> 01:53:01.640 you want to go about it? Do you want to 2136 01:53:01.720 --> 01:53:04.199 drive out to Porter I was just talking someone just 2137 01:53:04.359 --> 01:53:09.119 a moment ago about going out there at Wrang's Rocket 2138 01:53:09.199 --> 01:53:12.000 Melch and picking it up right there. Heirloom soil products 2139 01:53:12.199 --> 01:53:14.359 right there. While you're out there, you know you're gonna 2140 01:53:14.359 --> 01:53:18.600 find things like black star gravel, crush, granite, pea pea gravel, sand, 2141 01:53:19.479 --> 01:53:21.840 things like that. They have a really beautiful thing called 2142 01:53:21.920 --> 01:53:25.600 rainbow gravels, a little different colors of a little gravel. 2143 01:53:25.840 --> 01:53:29.760 It's real pretty. And then of course mulch is cedar, mulch, hardwood, 2144 01:53:29.800 --> 01:53:34.000 mulch pine bark, mulch. It just they have a lot 2145 01:53:34.159 --> 01:53:37.680 go to. You need to check them out. Heirloomsoils dot 2146 01:53:37.720 --> 01:53:40.239 Com is where you go to learn about all the 2147 01:53:40.319 --> 01:53:44.520 airlom soil products. And if you are deciding that you 2148 01:53:44.600 --> 01:53:46.600 want to do a delivery, I would just give them 2149 01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:49.279 a call at two eight one three five four nineteen 2150 01:53:49.359 --> 01:53:52.960 fifty two eight one three five four one nine five zero. 2151 01:53:55.319 --> 01:53:59.039 I get excited about soil. The way I like to 2152 01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:02.439 tell people is I get I love dirt, and yet 2153 01:54:03.319 --> 01:54:05.960 people remind me gardeners, some master gardener's going to go. 2154 01:54:06.000 --> 01:54:08.199 It's not called dirt, y'all taught us in master gardening. 2155 01:54:08.239 --> 01:54:11.680 It's not dirt. It it's oil. That's right. It is soil. 2156 01:54:12.399 --> 01:54:15.239 Dirt is soil where you don't want it. Dirt in 2157 01:54:15.319 --> 01:54:19.000 your house. Soil in your house is called dirt, all right. Anyway, 2158 01:54:20.640 --> 01:54:25.600 Semantics green Pro I was just talking with I think 2159 01:54:25.600 --> 01:54:28.439 it was it was it aj about green Pro. He 2160 01:54:28.600 --> 01:54:32.039 was asking about Core Aeration. Green Pro is our core 2161 01:54:32.199 --> 01:54:37.560 aeration specialist that services about a forty five mile range 2162 01:54:38.319 --> 01:54:43.000 from Magnolia. So to make it a little simple there, 2163 01:54:43.119 --> 01:54:45.039 all you got to do is think of Interstate forty 2164 01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:49.359 five and Interstate ten. That's the northwest quadront of Houston. 2165 01:54:49.840 --> 01:54:55.479 That's where they serve. Basically, Okay, their correation services are impeccable. 2166 01:54:55.560 --> 01:54:57.119 They've been doing this a long time. They know what 2167 01:54:57.199 --> 01:55:02.159 they're doing. They only use top quality comp and when 2168 01:55:02.199 --> 01:55:05.880 they fertilized fertilizer as well. But they'll come in, they'll 2169 01:55:05.960 --> 01:55:08.920 do a corrotion with a machine that does it right, 2170 01:55:09.680 --> 01:55:12.439 and then they'll put the top quality compost down. And 2171 01:55:12.520 --> 01:55:15.239 when you do that, you're feeding the biology the soil, 2172 01:55:15.479 --> 01:55:18.520 the microbes, and they need that. You're getting oxygen in 2173 01:55:18.600 --> 01:55:21.800 the soil, which helps both the scent the sand, the 2174 01:55:22.479 --> 01:55:25.680 turf roots, and the microbes themselves they need oxygen too. 2175 01:55:26.319 --> 01:55:29.119 You're improving the internal drainage because now there's a way 2176 01:55:29.159 --> 01:55:32.159 for water to soak in faster down into the soil 2177 01:55:32.159 --> 01:55:36.720 because you've increased that area by the corrooration. If your 2178 01:55:36.760 --> 01:55:39.279 soil has been or your sod has been struggling with 2179 01:55:39.439 --> 01:55:43.279 chinchbugs or brown patch or take all patch, corretion's the 2180 01:55:43.359 --> 01:55:46.239 secret if you've got that. I was talking yesterday when 2181 01:55:46.279 --> 01:55:49.119 I was up at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show. 2182 01:55:49.119 --> 01:55:51.560 It's still going on today, still going on. If you 2183 01:55:51.600 --> 01:55:53.680 haven't gotten out there. I was talking to some people 2184 01:55:53.760 --> 01:55:55.960 that had thatch problems and we were talking about what 2185 01:55:56.079 --> 01:55:58.680 causes that and all that kind of thing. The number 2186 01:55:58.760 --> 01:56:01.079 one way to get rid of that is to core air, right, 2187 01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:05.119 because it brings those little little cylinders of soil up 2188 01:56:05.159 --> 01:56:07.479 to the surface and drops them there in the thatch, 2189 01:56:07.720 --> 01:56:09.840 and when they dissolve into the thatch, it makes it 2190 01:56:09.920 --> 01:56:13.399 rot real fast. Also, the compost top dressing helps because 2191 01:56:13.439 --> 01:56:15.840 it keeps it moist. When you have organic matter that 2192 01:56:15.960 --> 01:56:19.239 stays moist, decomposition will occur. And that's how you get 2193 01:56:19.319 --> 01:56:19.640 rid of that. 2194 01:56:20.239 --> 01:56:20.600 All right. 2195 01:56:21.239 --> 01:56:27.800 What more can I say? Greenprotexas dot com, Greenprotexas dot 2196 01:56:27.920 --> 01:56:32.359 Com eight three two three five one zero zero three 2197 01:56:32.479 --> 01:56:36.760 two A three two three five one zero zero three two. 2198 01:56:36.880 --> 01:56:39.640 I've got time for one more call this hour. If 2199 01:56:39.840 --> 01:56:42.239 you are fast on the dial, we'll get to you 2200 01:56:42.920 --> 01:56:46.920 before the end of the hour. I love RCW Nursery 2201 01:56:47.079 --> 01:56:49.479 for several reason. Number one is convenient. It's just right 2202 01:56:49.600 --> 01:56:52.319 there where FM two forty nine comes ato bout way eight. 2203 01:56:53.119 --> 01:56:55.279 You know, you just do it on your maps, phone 2204 01:56:55.359 --> 01:56:57.079 maps or whatever, and it'll take it right down to 2205 01:56:57.119 --> 01:56:59.119 It's easy to get to this right there, and so 2206 01:56:59.279 --> 01:57:02.119 that location, and I mean whether you're northwest or east 2207 01:57:02.239 --> 01:57:04.399 or south or wherever, it's easy to get there to 2208 01:57:04.600 --> 01:57:09.319 RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries has all kinds of good deals 2209 01:57:09.359 --> 01:57:13.760 going on right now, and they grow they sell everything. 2210 01:57:13.840 --> 01:57:16.920 You know, we're talking about herbs and flowers and vegetables. Yeah, 2211 01:57:16.960 --> 01:57:19.920 they have all that stuff. The roses, I don't know 2212 01:57:19.920 --> 01:57:22.880 anybody carries the many types of roses as RCW Nursery 2213 01:57:23.000 --> 01:57:26.720 pages and pages full of roses. That is something all 2214 01:57:26.800 --> 01:57:29.920 the rosarians know about that place. And it's still okay 2215 01:57:29.960 --> 01:57:31.960 to plant roses. For crying out loud, this is a 2216 01:57:32.039 --> 01:57:35.479 great time to get your roses planted. So stop by RCW. 2217 01:57:35.720 --> 01:57:39.279 See what they got there. Check them out. They also though, 2218 01:57:39.920 --> 01:57:42.279 when it comes to shrubs and trees, they have a 2219 01:57:42.560 --> 01:57:47.000 very good selection and they grow their own trees. Most 2220 01:57:47.039 --> 01:57:49.399 of the trees they have they grow their own, coming 2221 01:57:49.520 --> 01:57:52.760 from up in Planetersville where they have their field, the 2222 01:57:53.119 --> 01:57:56.199 Williamston Tree Farm up there, And so you're going to 2223 01:57:56.239 --> 01:57:58.479 get species that want to grow here. They don't sell 2224 01:57:58.560 --> 01:58:01.239 you a blue spruce, for example, because they know it 2225 01:58:01.279 --> 01:58:03.439 didn't grow it. They've been doing this, they've been doing 2226 01:58:03.439 --> 01:58:07.399 this since nineteen seventy nine. That's how long RCW has 2227 01:58:07.479 --> 01:58:10.159 been in business. So what's that forty six years? I 2228 01:58:10.239 --> 01:58:13.239 think they probably know what they're doing. And when they 2229 01:58:13.319 --> 01:58:15.199 grow a tree, they grow it right, so it's going 2230 01:58:15.279 --> 01:58:18.039 to establish and succeed. And if it's of any size 2231 01:58:18.039 --> 01:58:19.479 at all, you're going to want to get help in 2232 01:58:19.560 --> 01:58:22.479 planning it. And they do planting services as well. And 2233 01:58:22.600 --> 01:58:24.680 if it's a small tree and you're going to plant yourself, 2234 01:58:25.119 --> 01:58:27.600 they have things like roots Stimulator. They certainly carry the 2235 01:58:27.640 --> 01:58:31.720 fertilizers we talk about here on Guardenline and things like Nitrophoss, Microlife, 2236 01:58:31.800 --> 01:58:35.880 turf Star. It's just the place to go and if 2237 01:58:35.920 --> 01:58:38.119 they don't have it, they probably get it. We call 2238 01:58:38.199 --> 01:58:40.079 them they get it, got it nursery because if they 2239 01:58:40.079 --> 01:58:43.199 don't have it, ask them. I bet they can find 2240 01:58:43.239 --> 01:58:45.680 it because they do their best to find anything that 2241 01:58:45.800 --> 01:58:51.479 you're interested in. All right, website rcwnursries dot com. Simple 2242 01:58:51.520 --> 01:58:54.760 as that, We're going to go out to pair Land 2243 01:58:54.840 --> 01:59:00.199 now and talk to K. Hello, okay, excuse me to 2244 01:59:00.279 --> 01:59:04.239 do this called in the backwards way. Hey K, Hey, 2245 01:59:04.439 --> 01:59:05.960 how you doing. I'm good. 2246 01:59:06.319 --> 01:59:13.000 I thought you got rid of me. I have a 2247 01:59:13.119 --> 01:59:17.399 question on the big elephant foot plant I have. It's 2248 01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:21.560 not the fringy one. It's one that has the big branches. 2249 01:59:21.680 --> 01:59:26.159 It has a spread of probably four feet or so, 2250 01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:30.520 and I had it covered and had a floodlight on 2251 01:59:30.640 --> 01:59:33.560 the base of it. But I think some of the 2252 01:59:34.239 --> 01:59:37.840 ends of the branches it looks like they're dead. I 2253 01:59:37.960 --> 01:59:41.359 scraped them and they're they're not. But the whole, the 2254 01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:44.680 whole branch is not. That's grape that and there's still life. 2255 01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:48.560 Can I just clip those off? 2256 01:59:49.000 --> 01:59:52.800 Or yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I don't 2257 01:59:52.800 --> 01:59:56.920 know what plant we're talking about. Kay, elephant ear, it. 2258 01:59:57.000 --> 02:00:00.640 All comes out of us, not elephant ear, it's elephant foot. 2259 02:00:00.960 --> 02:00:09.119 It's okay, okay, you know what them most of them 2260 02:00:09.199 --> 02:00:11.600 have this fringy stuff coming out of them. 2261 02:00:11.680 --> 02:00:16.680 Now, okay, the music is on. I'm about to be 2262 02:00:16.800 --> 02:00:19.560 cut for the news. Hang on, don't go away. I'll 2263 02:00:19.600 --> 02:00:21.560 come back to you. Okay, if you can hang on, 2264 02:00:21.920 --> 02:00:25.359 I'll be back. Okay, All right, folks, Hey, I want 2265 02:00:25.399 --> 02:00:27.720 to remind you all that I'll be at Jorges Hidden 2266 02:00:27.760 --> 02:00:31.199 Gardens in Alvin next Saturday. Now I'm doing this a 2267 02:00:31.279 --> 02:00:33.359 little later down there because I have to drive down 2268 02:00:34.239 --> 02:00:39.399 one pm to three pm Jorges Hidden Gardens and Alvin. 2269 02:00:39.560 --> 02:00:41.239 I hope you'll come out and see me. We do 2270 02:00:41.399 --> 02:00:43.399 the regular old thing, you know, where you bring me 2271 02:00:43.479 --> 02:00:46.359 samples or pictures or whatever and we diagnose and identify. 2272 02:00:46.920 --> 02:00:49.520 But I'm going to be talking about secrets of planting 2273 02:00:49.680 --> 02:00:52.159 success when we're down there, and a lot of other 2274 02:00:52.279 --> 02:00:55.439 things and answering your gardening questions at Jorges Hidden Gardens. 2275 02:00:58.279 --> 02:01:02.039 Welcome to kt r H Guarden Line with Scared Rictor. 2276 02:01:02.159 --> 02:01:27.399 It's trim. Just watch him as a man again a 2277 02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:35.640 sun All right, we're back. Guess what we got one 2278 02:01:35.680 --> 02:01:38.159 more hour today, which means we got one more hour 2279 02:01:38.279 --> 02:01:40.880 this weekend. You got a question and they can't wait 2280 02:01:40.960 --> 02:01:43.359 until next Saturday. Well that'd be a good time to ask. 2281 02:01:43.560 --> 02:01:46.199 We'll be happy to help you with that. For those 2282 02:01:46.239 --> 02:01:48.840 of you up in the Greater Willis area, And when 2283 02:01:48.840 --> 02:01:50.920 I say Greater Willis, I mean you know the lake 2284 02:01:51.079 --> 02:01:54.680 like Conrad out there, the Conroe up north New Waiver, 2285 02:01:55.199 --> 02:01:58.000 just that whole reeve of the woodlands, even growers outlet 2286 02:01:58.119 --> 02:02:00.399 in Willis is a place you need to see. I 2287 02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:04.840 bet you haven't been there before. The website is exactly 2288 02:02:05.000 --> 02:02:10.119 that Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They're on Highway 2289 02:02:10.159 --> 02:02:13.159 seventy five, just minutes away from forty five, just a 2290 02:02:13.199 --> 02:02:16.159 little bit south of Willis. There they serve that whole area, 2291 02:02:16.199 --> 02:02:18.680 of course, and they've got the fertilizers you hear me 2292 02:02:18.800 --> 02:02:21.399 talking about all the time, you know, microlife and nitroposs 2293 02:02:21.439 --> 02:02:29.359 and medina for example. Their selection of vegetables and bedding plants, ferns, perennials, shrubs, trees, fruit. 2294 02:02:29.640 --> 02:02:31.399 They've got a bunch of fruit in the other day, 2295 02:02:31.399 --> 02:02:33.960 I was talking to them up there. They've got figs 2296 02:02:34.039 --> 02:02:36.359 and there's like four different kinds of figs. I have 2297 02:02:36.520 --> 02:02:38.560 a bunch of different kinds of figs. Maybe more than that. 2298 02:02:39.239 --> 02:02:42.600 They have blueberries, and then you know all the standard 2299 02:02:42.640 --> 02:02:44.800 fruit trees, you know, the peaches and whatnot that you 2300 02:02:44.800 --> 02:02:48.560 would expect a really nice selection. The cool thing I 2301 02:02:48.680 --> 02:02:52.239 think are a cool thing about it is products that 2302 02:02:52.399 --> 02:02:55.479 they have are viewable online. You can look at availability 2303 02:02:55.520 --> 02:02:58.439 and pricing. Not many nurseries do that, but you go 2304 02:02:58.520 --> 02:03:01.600 to Growers Outlet in Willow dot com and you can see, 2305 02:03:01.600 --> 02:03:04.920 i think every Wednesday evening they update their vegetable list 2306 02:03:05.119 --> 02:03:09.159 of what they have. Huge, beautiful baskets, Oh my gosh. 2307 02:03:09.319 --> 02:03:12.560 And when you're looking at perennials like verbena and geraniums, 2308 02:03:12.600 --> 02:03:14.560 they grow those in house right there. They've got a 2309 02:03:14.600 --> 02:03:17.479 really nice gift shop. It's just a good place to visit. 2310 02:03:17.640 --> 02:03:19.960 And you go first, go to the website. Check it out. 2311 02:03:20.039 --> 02:03:23.800 Growers Outlet in Willis dot com on Highway seventy five, 2312 02:03:24.159 --> 02:03:26.960 just south of Willis, just a few minutes away from 2313 02:03:27.039 --> 02:03:31.079 Interstate forty five. We're gonna go now and go back 2314 02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:34.159 to K. We were visiting with K before we went 2315 02:03:34.239 --> 02:03:36.880 to break there. Hey, Kay, welcome to garden Ope. I 2316 02:03:37.039 --> 02:03:39.399 messed up. I messed up. Hang on, all right, we're 2317 02:03:39.399 --> 02:03:42.560 gonna try that again. Hey, K, welcome to garden Line. 2318 02:03:42.760 --> 02:03:44.680 Yeah I called back, I got cut off. 2319 02:03:44.880 --> 02:03:47.520 It was it was weird. Yeah all right, Well. 2320 02:03:47.399 --> 02:03:50.840 Boy, I'm talking about the elephant. 2321 02:03:51.079 --> 02:03:53.840 Yeah, elephant foot, Yeah, elephant foot. For those other folks 2322 02:03:53.880 --> 02:03:57.800 that are listening, that's a plant that's also called ponytail palm. 2323 02:03:57.840 --> 02:04:00.319 You're probably familiar with it a big old sweat. 2324 02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:01.960 But that's not what I have. 2325 02:04:02.319 --> 02:04:03.600 Oh, you don't have a ponytail. 2326 02:04:04.479 --> 02:04:10.520 I don't have a ponytail has large long branches coming 2327 02:04:10.600 --> 02:04:14.479 out and then they're clusters of big leaves. 2328 02:04:14.359 --> 02:04:18.079 At the end of the Okay, Okay, do you know 2329 02:04:18.239 --> 02:04:21.399 now I have never I have never grown that plant before, 2330 02:04:21.760 --> 02:04:24.319 but I can tell you this about it. I know 2331 02:04:24.479 --> 02:04:26.680 what you're talking about. I just my experience with it. 2332 02:04:27.159 --> 02:04:29.479 It's very limited. Okay, you said you have some cold 2333 02:04:29.560 --> 02:04:32.199 damage right to it on the on. 2334 02:04:32.319 --> 02:04:35.640 The tips, like three or four inches on the two ends. 2335 02:04:35.920 --> 02:04:37.319 What what I would drink? 2336 02:04:37.680 --> 02:04:37.880 Where? 2337 02:04:38.640 --> 02:04:38.920 Ahead? 2338 02:04:39.279 --> 02:04:39.319 No? 2339 02:04:39.439 --> 02:04:39.960 I'm sorry, go. 2340 02:04:39.920 --> 02:04:44.279 Ahead, No, I was just saying where the frost blanket 2341 02:04:44.479 --> 02:04:48.079 was out too far? I guess from the heat source 2342 02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:52.800 at the base, but so so some of it I 2343 02:04:52.880 --> 02:04:56.279 think froze and it I just am afraid it's going 2344 02:04:56.359 --> 02:04:58.880 to affect the rest of the branches. 2345 02:04:59.239 --> 02:05:04.000 Well I I wouldn't. I would just say this, what's 2346 02:05:04.520 --> 02:05:07.760 been effected is affected, and you can't change that. You 2347 02:05:07.800 --> 02:05:10.119 can't take dead and make your live, of course, But 2348 02:05:10.359 --> 02:05:13.199 if you just wait and see, you may see some 2349 02:05:13.359 --> 02:05:15.720 areas that start to be sunken. And if it's just 2350 02:05:15.800 --> 02:05:18.159 a little spot, the branch is probably going to have 2351 02:05:18.279 --> 02:05:21.279 enough structural integrity to hang on and keep going. If 2352 02:05:21.319 --> 02:05:22.800 it's a bigger spot, you may have to do some 2353 02:05:22.920 --> 02:05:26.319 cutting out, but it can put out some fresh new growth. 2354 02:05:26.520 --> 02:05:29.439 So you're going to have to just kind of wait 2355 02:05:29.520 --> 02:05:31.960 and see on it. And I always like to let 2356 02:05:32.039 --> 02:05:34.319 the plant tell me when to prune. You know, we 2357 02:05:34.439 --> 02:05:36.720 do the thing where we scrape the branch and see 2358 02:05:36.720 --> 02:05:39.159 if it's brown underneath or if it's a healthy color, 2359 02:05:40.039 --> 02:05:42.199 and you can do that, but the plant will tell 2360 02:05:42.199 --> 02:05:44.199 you pretty quick here. And if you see stuff really 2361 02:05:44.319 --> 02:05:47.880 sinking in, sunken and soft, almost spongy like, then that 2362 02:05:48.119 --> 02:05:49.600 definitely is is not alive. 2363 02:05:50.760 --> 02:05:53.560 I have scraped it and there's some of these ants 2364 02:05:53.680 --> 02:05:57.399 are brown underneath, but then the rest of the branch 2365 02:05:57.600 --> 02:06:00.800 is green, yeah, or you know, lives looking. 2366 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:02.920 So that's why I didn't know. 2367 02:06:03.319 --> 02:06:04.640 What where did you get that thing? 2368 02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:04.960 That? 2369 02:06:05.119 --> 02:06:07.119 I don't think I've ever seen that for sailor it was. 2370 02:06:07.720 --> 02:06:11.800 I've had it for over fifty years. It came from 2371 02:06:11.960 --> 02:06:15.319 a friend of ours. My husband was an orthodonist, and 2372 02:06:15.960 --> 02:06:18.840 he had a young man that was a teacher and 2373 02:06:19.119 --> 02:06:22.319 he had he did lab work for it, and they 2374 02:06:22.520 --> 02:06:25.640 he and his wife had a small nursery and when 2375 02:06:25.760 --> 02:06:29.960 my husband opened his new office, they gave us that plant, okay, 2376 02:06:30.479 --> 02:06:32.640 and I took it home and I had it, but 2377 02:06:32.800 --> 02:06:35.479 I always had a big garage that I could put 2378 02:06:35.520 --> 02:06:38.119 it in when the weather was bad. 2379 02:06:38.279 --> 02:06:41.880 Well, and I don't have that now, so okay, I'm 2380 02:06:41.920 --> 02:06:43.960 going to put you. We're gonna good job. My producer 2381 02:06:44.039 --> 02:06:45.640 is going to pick up. If it's okay with you. 2382 02:06:46.119 --> 02:06:47.800 Would you get an email to send me a picture 2383 02:06:47.840 --> 02:06:49.880 of that plant. I'd love to see it, and especially 2384 02:06:50.000 --> 02:06:53.720 the area before and after. I would love to see that. 2385 02:06:53.840 --> 02:06:54.079 Thank you. 2386 02:06:54.399 --> 02:06:56.680 It happens to it and it loses its leaves in 2387 02:06:56.760 --> 02:07:00.239 the fall every fall. It acts like a diak it. 2388 02:07:00.640 --> 02:07:03.399 Okay, well, thank you, thank you, thank you very much 2389 02:07:03.520 --> 02:07:06.000 for that. You bet. And let's see. We're gonna go 2390 02:07:06.079 --> 02:07:08.319 to Pasadena now and talk to Valdo. 2391 02:07:09.920 --> 02:07:11.479 Hey, Stip, how you doing? 2392 02:07:11.560 --> 02:07:13.319 Hey Skip, how you doing? I'm doing good. 2393 02:07:14.359 --> 02:07:15.239 Yeah, I'm just gonna. 2394 02:07:15.039 --> 02:07:16.920 Ask a question, then hang up and listen on the radio. 2395 02:07:17.520 --> 02:07:20.399 I bought a Eagleston Holly. 2396 02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:22.960 I don't know if it was a twenty five gallon, 2397 02:07:23.079 --> 02:07:27.159 twenty five gallon or thirty gallons. I bought it just 2398 02:07:28.239 --> 02:07:33.239 right before winter in twenty four, put it in and 2399 02:07:33.359 --> 02:07:36.760 then I'm just now noticing that it's starting to grow 2400 02:07:36.800 --> 02:07:41.239 another or it has another trunk, so it has the 2401 02:07:41.319 --> 02:07:42.199 main trunk. 2402 02:07:41.920 --> 02:07:44.640 Where it's tied off to bamboo stick for it to 2403 02:07:44.720 --> 02:07:47.079 stay straight. And now there's another one off to the 2404 02:07:47.159 --> 02:07:50.159 side of that. Yeah, can I just can I just 2405 02:07:50.279 --> 02:07:54.439 remove that? You can? Yeah, you can. And I can't 2406 02:07:54.520 --> 02:07:56.560 see the plants, so I you know, I can't really 2407 02:07:56.640 --> 02:07:59.279 advise you on whether you should or not, but you can. 2408 02:07:59.600 --> 02:08:02.039 You can prune it off close to where it attaches 2409 02:08:02.119 --> 02:08:06.479 to the trunk. Uh and and uh and the plant 2410 02:08:06.520 --> 02:08:09.039 will continue on from there. Sometimes they do that. That's 2411 02:08:09.319 --> 02:08:12.880 that's not a big issue. But you know, structurally, I 2412 02:08:12.920 --> 02:08:14.920 think it sounds like you want to take that little 2413 02:08:14.960 --> 02:08:18.520 one off because it's kind of comparing. You can leave it. 2414 02:08:18.640 --> 02:08:20.479 I wish I could see it, and then I know 2415 02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:24.039 for sure. But Egleston, on a lot of plants, you're 2416 02:08:24.039 --> 02:08:26.159 going to get multiple trunks like that that come up 2417 02:08:26.279 --> 02:08:28.960 sometime when they're a really narrow angle, like if you 2418 02:08:29.039 --> 02:08:31.600 hold up two fingers, you know that narrow angle between 2419 02:08:31.640 --> 02:08:35.920 your fingers. That's that as each gets bigger, it's a 2420 02:08:35.960 --> 02:08:38.560 place where a plant can split. And we don't like that. 2421 02:08:38.680 --> 02:08:41.439 We'd rather plants come out at a at a wider angle. 2422 02:08:42.000 --> 02:08:45.680 But I'm speaking generically because I can't see what you 2423 02:08:45.760 --> 02:08:48.680 got all right, thank you, all right, thank you for 2424 02:08:48.760 --> 02:08:52.800 the call. I appreciate that very much. Uh Nelson. Plant 2425 02:08:52.840 --> 02:08:55.319 Food has a lot of different products, and I want 2426 02:08:55.359 --> 02:08:56.720 to talk to you about a couple of them this time. 2427 02:08:56.800 --> 02:08:59.159 I talk about turf Star all the line. The turf 2428 02:08:59.239 --> 02:09:00.920 Star line all the time. They got a lot of 2429 02:09:00.960 --> 02:09:05.960 great products. The Azalea and the it's called Azalea and 2430 02:09:06.399 --> 02:09:09.319 all acid loving plants. It's a nutri Star comes in 2431 02:09:09.399 --> 02:09:12.880 a jar. That's one. The other one is Vegetable Garden. 2432 02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:15.479 Those are products. They come in a jar. You just 2433 02:09:15.560 --> 02:09:18.600 take your little tablespoon, scoop out or whatever and sprinkle 2434 02:09:18.640 --> 02:09:21.800 them around according to the label. Right, Vegetable Garden's got 2435 02:09:21.840 --> 02:09:24.680 five different sources in nitrogen, so you're getting a release 2436 02:09:24.800 --> 02:09:27.359 of nitrogen over time. You're not having to fertilize your 2437 02:09:27.399 --> 02:09:29.039 garden ever a couple of weeks. I mean it's going 2438 02:09:29.079 --> 02:09:32.680 to last for several months there. It's a very good 2439 02:09:32.800 --> 02:09:37.680 product designed for the nutrient types that vegetables are going 2440 02:09:37.720 --> 02:09:41.000 to most need. Basically, that's how it's designed. Nutri Star, 2441 02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:45.319 Azalia and acid loving plant. That one is an acidifying fertilizer. 2442 02:09:45.399 --> 02:09:50.000 If it's blueberries, kalladiums camellias, if you've got dogwoods or gadenas, 2443 02:09:50.039 --> 02:09:52.800 if you got hollies, hollies or plants that appreciate a 2444 02:09:52.840 --> 02:09:56.159 little bit of an acidic environment, hadranges of course, yes, 2445 02:09:56.239 --> 02:09:59.439 the magnolias. There's a lot of plants we didn't have. 2446 02:09:59.640 --> 02:10:01.920 I didn't. I didn't say az alias, but that's in 2447 02:10:02.000 --> 02:10:05.920 the name. Those all like acidic soils and they do 2448 02:10:06.079 --> 02:10:09.760 better in those soils. It has four different acidifying sources, 2449 02:10:09.880 --> 02:10:12.800 and it's got a slow release nitrogen as well, so 2450 02:10:12.880 --> 02:10:14.399 you're gonna get two or three months out of that. 2451 02:10:15.000 --> 02:10:19.880 Nutristar azalea and acid loving plants and nutristar vegetable garden. 2452 02:10:19.920 --> 02:10:22.199 Look for those canisters in a garden center near you. 2453 02:10:22.720 --> 02:10:24.399 I got to take a break here. When I come back, 2454 02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:27.760 Gene and Katie, you'll be our first step. All right, 2455 02:10:27.920 --> 02:10:30.720 welcome back to the guarden line. We're here to help 2456 02:10:30.760 --> 02:10:32.800 you have success with your garden. That's what you want 2457 02:10:32.800 --> 02:10:34.800 to do, because if you have success, you're gonna have fun. 2458 02:10:34.840 --> 02:10:36.199 And if you've got fun, you're gonna do more of it. 2459 02:10:36.239 --> 02:10:38.000 And if you do more of it, you're gonna live 2460 02:10:38.000 --> 02:10:40.760 along in happy life. See how that works. It does 2461 02:10:41.399 --> 02:10:43.800 if you've got outdoor containers and you are looking for 2462 02:10:43.920 --> 02:10:48.039 a quality soil, you look no further Jungle in flour 2463 02:10:48.239 --> 02:10:52.039 and vegetable planting soil. Jungle and flour and vegetable planting 2464 02:10:52.079 --> 02:10:56.159 soils from nitrophiles. It has specially blended Canadian blond peat 2465 02:10:56.319 --> 02:11:01.319 with four different sources of aged decompose bark and I'm 2466 02:11:01.399 --> 02:11:02.279 telling you it all. 2467 02:11:02.439 --> 02:11:02.560 Oh. 2468 02:11:02.640 --> 02:11:04.840 It also has microrise of fungi, which you know work 2469 02:11:04.880 --> 02:11:08.399 with plant roots to help the roots take up nutrients better. 2470 02:11:08.560 --> 02:11:10.520 And they just have a number of functions that they 2471 02:11:10.560 --> 02:11:13.439 do to help roots. So you got an outdoor potted plant, 2472 02:11:13.560 --> 02:11:16.640 you are going to have a happy plant, long lasting, 2473 02:11:16.800 --> 02:11:19.600 vibrant color. You get the most is that you can 2474 02:11:19.720 --> 02:11:22.399 out of plants when you put a mix like jungle 2475 02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:25.039 Land from nitrofoss. When you put a mix like that 2476 02:11:25.359 --> 02:11:28.720 in that drains well so it never soggy, too boggy, 2477 02:11:29.800 --> 02:11:33.199 and it holds moisture so it never it's slow to 2478 02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:35.199 dry out. Let's put it that way. You're not watering 2479 02:11:35.239 --> 02:11:37.239 it three times a day trying to keep it going. Now, 2480 02:11:37.239 --> 02:11:39.800 you're gonna find nitro fross products at a number of places. 2481 02:11:40.479 --> 02:11:43.039 You go up to Cyprus, to M and D on Luetta. 2482 02:11:43.119 --> 02:11:45.159 You're going to find them there. Langham Creek Ace Hardware 2483 02:11:45.239 --> 02:11:48.840 five twenty nine, you're going to find them at the 2484 02:11:49.720 --> 02:11:52.600 excuse me, all Spas ACE up in the Woodlands and 2485 02:11:52.760 --> 02:11:56.239 Sinkle Ranch Ace. Katie Hardware Ace is another place that 2486 02:11:56.319 --> 02:11:58.399 you're going to find those. And how about we throw 2487 02:11:58.479 --> 02:12:01.880 one more in out there in Richmondberg Plantation Ace Hardware 2488 02:12:01.920 --> 02:12:04.560 on three point fifty nine. The same road that in 2489 02:12:04.680 --> 02:12:07.079 Jenny Gardens is on by the Way, which also carries 2490 02:12:07.119 --> 02:12:11.079 these products. It's easy to find night Fast products. These 2491 02:12:11.119 --> 02:12:13.720 are all examples of the many places you go looking 2492 02:12:13.800 --> 02:12:17.119 for them. We're going to go now to Katie and 2493 02:12:17.199 --> 02:12:20.600 talk to Jane Op. We're going to go there. If 2494 02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:24.520 I push the right button. Now, let's try hello. I'm 2495 02:12:24.520 --> 02:12:27.560 going to get one caller right today, Jane. Maybe one. 2496 02:12:27.840 --> 02:12:30.399 I'll call it one in a row. Welcome to garden Line. 2497 02:12:32.399 --> 02:12:35.600 Thank you. I have three questions if you have time. 2498 02:12:36.239 --> 02:12:41.039 I have a bay beef tree and a lemon tree, 2499 02:12:41.560 --> 02:12:44.199 and I need to know what to spray them with 2500 02:12:45.159 --> 02:12:49.640 because they get this black, sticky, gooey stuff on the leads. 2501 02:12:50.720 --> 02:12:56.520 Okay, there are several insects that can secrete the sugary 2502 02:12:56.640 --> 02:13:00.479 water that creates that black city mold. The blacks is 2503 02:13:00.560 --> 02:13:03.000 not the problem. It's just growing on sugar water that 2504 02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:09.720 the insect made. My best guess, and I'm about ninety 2505 02:13:09.720 --> 02:13:11.359 percent year of this is the case, is that you're 2506 02:13:11.399 --> 02:13:14.520 dealing with scale. Now, if it's can do this, white 2507 02:13:14.560 --> 02:13:16.880 flies can do this, meatlely bugs can do this. But 2508 02:13:17.760 --> 02:13:19.880 when you told me the trees, I bet you're dealing 2509 02:13:19.920 --> 02:13:22.680 with scale. If you turn a lemon leaf over and 2510 02:13:22.960 --> 02:13:25.600 look at it close, and you should see some little 2511 02:13:26.079 --> 02:13:28.600 things they're like a fish scale and that they're flat, 2512 02:13:28.960 --> 02:13:32.399 but they're only they're smaller than a typed lower case 2513 02:13:32.560 --> 02:13:35.039 O in the kind of scale that's on these cent 2514 02:13:35.840 --> 02:13:38.279 and I think that's what you're going to see. There 2515 02:13:38.319 --> 02:13:40.359 are some other types of scale you might see under 2516 02:13:40.399 --> 02:13:43.119 the leaf. But the way you control scale is you 2517 02:13:43.239 --> 02:13:45.880 smother them with oil. So if you can get a 2518 02:13:45.960 --> 02:13:50.720 spray of an oil horticultural oil oil used to spray 2519 02:13:50.760 --> 02:13:54.520 on plants and spray it upward to coat the bottoms 2520 02:13:54.560 --> 02:13:57.199 of the leaves. And the more coating you get, the 2521 02:13:57.319 --> 02:13:58.880 better it's going to be. Like if you have a 2522 02:13:58.960 --> 02:14:01.600 leaf and you spray and ninety percent of the bottom 2523 02:14:01.640 --> 02:14:04.239 of the leaf gets oil. That ten percent is going 2524 02:14:04.319 --> 02:14:06.159 to have life scale that are going to reproduce and 2525 02:14:06.239 --> 02:14:09.439 refill the leaf. So one hundred percent coverage is your goal. 2526 02:14:09.640 --> 02:14:11.239 If you can do that, you got to get turn 2527 02:14:11.319 --> 02:14:13.439 that sprayer upside down and get under there and really 2528 02:14:13.520 --> 02:14:15.439 work on them. But you can do it that way. 2529 02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:18.279 Can you name a product that I can I have 2530 02:14:18.479 --> 02:14:20.399 tried name and it didn't seem to work. 2531 02:14:20.520 --> 02:14:26.039 Okay, Well, whenever, whenever you're shopping you look for an oil, 2532 02:14:26.079 --> 02:14:31.039 where are you located Jeane, Katie, kat Okay Katie. Well, yeah, 2533 02:14:31.159 --> 02:14:34.159 you've got like you've got Katie's Hardware that's right there 2534 02:14:34.359 --> 02:14:36.399 that that would be an example of one that is 2535 02:14:36.520 --> 02:14:40.159 very close to you. And there's also an Ace Hardware 2536 02:14:40.159 --> 02:14:42.600 and single ranch in that part of Katie. But go 2537 02:14:42.760 --> 02:14:46.279 by there and ask them for a summer oil or 2538 02:14:46.319 --> 02:14:50.720 a horticultural oil. And different companies make it. I mean, 2539 02:14:50.760 --> 02:14:52.399 you know, you may find it from Fertile Home, er 2540 02:14:52.439 --> 02:14:56.159 bo Nite or Monterey or High Yield or something. There's 2541 02:14:56.199 --> 02:14:58.520 a lot of types out there, but they're made for 2542 02:14:58.680 --> 02:15:01.279 coating the plants and and they're made to not burn 2543 02:15:01.399 --> 02:15:05.880 the plants. The old time dormond oils could burn tissue 2544 02:15:05.920 --> 02:15:08.039 when you got it on it. So you can do that. Now, 2545 02:15:08.479 --> 02:15:09.920 that's gonna be hard, and you're gonna to do it 2546 02:15:09.960 --> 02:15:12.239 more than once because you never get it all and 2547 02:15:12.319 --> 02:15:14.720 you just got to watch out for it. The alternative 2548 02:15:14.760 --> 02:15:17.880 would be to put a systemic insecticide in the soil 2549 02:15:18.079 --> 02:15:21.039 around the plant and have it taken up by the plant, 2550 02:15:21.600 --> 02:15:24.079 But you would have to find one that's labeled for 2551 02:15:24.279 --> 02:15:27.319 use on an edible like a lemon tree or a 2552 02:15:27.359 --> 02:15:33.199 bay tree. And so it works well because the roots 2553 02:15:33.239 --> 02:15:35.159 take it up. And like if you had a lady 2554 02:15:35.199 --> 02:15:37.800 beetle crawling around the leaves of the plant, it wouldn't 2555 02:15:37.800 --> 02:15:40.479 get poisoned because it's not sucking out of the plant. 2556 02:15:40.680 --> 02:15:43.680 The poison that's inside the plumbing of the plant from 2557 02:15:43.720 --> 02:15:46.800 a systemic you see what I'm saying. So those are 2558 02:15:46.840 --> 02:15:49.159 your two Those are your two options and ways to 2559 02:15:49.199 --> 02:15:51.479 go about it. I hesitate. The reason I didn't start 2560 02:15:51.520 --> 02:15:54.920 with the systemic is you know, if you've got your 2561 02:15:55.239 --> 02:15:58.640 lemon is blooming, then that product can be present in 2562 02:15:58.720 --> 02:16:01.640 the blooms and effect bees, and we like to try 2563 02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:04.680 to avoid that. It's the best way to kill the bug. 2564 02:16:04.800 --> 02:16:07.920 But it has these you know. Yeah, but you know, uh, 2565 02:16:08.239 --> 02:16:12.039 and the oil is the safest way. But it's hard. 2566 02:16:12.159 --> 02:16:12.279 You know. 2567 02:16:12.399 --> 02:16:15.239 Those leaves on a bay tree are so stiff. It's hard. 2568 02:16:15.600 --> 02:16:17.800 One leaf blocks the spray from getting on the leaf 2569 02:16:17.920 --> 02:16:20.840 right above it, you know, so you spray well. 2570 02:16:20.880 --> 02:16:23.800 When I lived in Bernie, I didn't have any problems 2571 02:16:23.960 --> 02:16:27.960 like this. When I moved here to Katie, I developed 2572 02:16:28.000 --> 02:16:28.560 a problem. 2573 02:16:28.720 --> 02:16:33.440 Okay, well you'll stay with it. I one way or another. 2574 02:16:33.600 --> 02:16:35.680 If you want to use the systemic, maybe when the 2575 02:16:35.799 --> 02:16:38.399 lemon is not blooming or fruiting, Yeah. 2576 02:16:38.239 --> 02:16:42.319 Yeah, I would prefer check. Yeah, I would check with ace. 2577 02:16:42.680 --> 02:16:47.040 Yeah. And the bay produces those bay trees, don't they 2578 02:16:47.120 --> 02:16:50.520 produce enough bay leaves for the entire city of Katie, 2579 02:16:50.600 --> 02:16:51.760 including Sincle ranch. 2580 02:16:52.639 --> 02:16:52.840 Yes. 2581 02:16:53.079 --> 02:16:55.399 Yeah, you need a few bay leaves and you got 2582 02:16:55.479 --> 02:16:57.920 ten thousand on a tree, So pick you a couple 2583 02:16:57.959 --> 02:16:59.000 of branches of leaves. 2584 02:16:59.040 --> 02:17:01.000 It would be nice to be able to sell them 2585 02:17:01.040 --> 02:17:03.159 because bay leaves are expensive. 2586 02:17:04.280 --> 02:17:06.399 I know they are, and you can't make gumbo without them. 2587 02:17:07.079 --> 02:17:09.639 So what I would do, I would pick me about 2588 02:17:09.680 --> 02:17:12.120 twenty leaves off, dry them and put them in a bag, 2589 02:17:12.239 --> 02:17:14.159 and then you can do what you want the tree, 2590 02:17:14.159 --> 02:17:15.799 and you don't have to harvest anymore leaves for a 2591 02:17:15.920 --> 02:17:17.159 year far more. 2592 02:17:18.520 --> 02:17:21.520 Okay, this other thing has baffled me for quite a 2593 02:17:21.639 --> 02:17:27.520 few For about four years. I have a small raised 2594 02:17:27.600 --> 02:17:34.319 bed garden and every day I collect my kitchen scraps 2595 02:17:34.520 --> 02:17:38.719 in a container. I put them in the freezer. Then 2596 02:17:38.760 --> 02:17:41.639 the next morning I go out to the garden, dig 2597 02:17:41.760 --> 02:17:45.879 a hole and dump the scraps into the hole and 2598 02:17:46.079 --> 02:17:49.920 cover the scraps up, and I keep going rotating around 2599 02:17:50.000 --> 02:17:55.959 the garden with it. Now my question is I don't 2600 02:17:56.040 --> 02:17:58.959 have a single worm in my guarden. I can't understand. 2601 02:17:59.360 --> 02:18:01.000 The scraps are totally gone. 2602 02:18:01.399 --> 02:18:06.760 Yeah, no worms. Well, okay, the worms that like scraps 2603 02:18:06.840 --> 02:18:09.200 are the little red wigglers. And if you had a 2604 02:18:09.239 --> 02:18:12.479 little place where you wanted to do that, go online 2605 02:18:12.520 --> 02:18:15.120 and learn about what's called verma culture with a v 2606 02:18:16.120 --> 02:18:19.120 There bins where people tear up newspaper put those red 2607 02:18:19.159 --> 02:18:21.559 wigulars in and bury their scraps in it, and they 2608 02:18:21.639 --> 02:18:23.920 eat it and they turn it into worm castings. You 2609 02:18:24.000 --> 02:18:25.559 can do that kind of thing in a garden, but 2610 02:18:25.719 --> 02:18:27.319 you got to learn a little bit about it. The 2611 02:18:28.680 --> 02:18:31.879 nightcrawlers and things aren't as interested in those scraps. They 2612 02:18:32.000 --> 02:18:34.000 more want to come to the surface and pull organic 2613 02:18:34.079 --> 02:18:37.719 matter down in their tunnel. But the scraps will decompose 2614 02:18:37.840 --> 02:18:40.639 by some of microbes, and so it's still working whether 2615 02:18:40.680 --> 02:18:41.920 you got worms showing up or not. 2616 02:18:42.879 --> 02:18:46.639 Oh okay, great, that's my last question. What is the 2617 02:18:46.719 --> 02:18:49.360 best tomato for Kati area? 2618 02:18:49.559 --> 02:18:54.600 Oh my gosh, twenty there's twenty different problems. Do you 2619 02:18:54.639 --> 02:18:57.840 want to do? You want a cherry, a grape cherry, 2620 02:18:57.920 --> 02:19:01.079 A great person. Tycoon's perfect can if you can find it. 2621 02:19:01.159 --> 02:19:03.680 It's not easy to find, but it's an awesome tomato. 2622 02:19:06.319 --> 02:19:07.440 The plants of Tycoon. 2623 02:19:08.680 --> 02:19:11.959 Yeah, yeah, I bought with them. 2624 02:19:13.000 --> 02:19:13.799 It's a good tomato. 2625 02:19:13.959 --> 02:19:16.840 So this will be the first time that I have 2626 02:19:17.239 --> 02:19:19.520 grown it before, all right, Prior. 2627 02:19:19.319 --> 02:19:21.600 To that it was ye. 2628 02:19:21.799 --> 02:19:25.600 Well, I also grow jewel yet. I love jewel yet. Yeah, 2629 02:19:25.840 --> 02:19:27.639 and I haven't been able to find those yet. 2630 02:19:27.799 --> 02:19:29.600 All right, Well, I got a run gene. Thanks for 2631 02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:31.680 the call. I appreciate I appreciate. 2632 02:19:31.239 --> 02:19:31.799 That very much. 2633 02:19:32.479 --> 02:19:34.200 Thank you. Come bye. 2634 02:19:34.920 --> 02:19:37.079 Micro Life makes a lot of different kinds of fertilizers. 2635 02:19:37.280 --> 02:19:40.159 They make something called humates. Plus it's a purple bag. 2636 02:19:40.399 --> 02:19:42.959 It is a zero zero four. That's what the numbers 2637 02:19:43.040 --> 02:19:45.680 on the label, but you're not putting it on for those. 2638 02:19:46.319 --> 02:19:49.440 You're putting it on because it's the final decomposed stage 2639 02:19:49.479 --> 02:19:54.399 of organic matter humus humantes. It has the the compounds 2640 02:19:54.440 --> 02:19:57.159 in it, like humic acid and fullvic acid and things 2641 02:19:57.280 --> 02:20:01.239 that are part of that whole microbial one world down 2642 02:20:01.280 --> 02:20:04.639 there in the soil that builds soil structure. So when 2643 02:20:04.639 --> 02:20:07.879 you're doing your fertilization, don't think of this like a fertilizer. 2644 02:20:07.879 --> 02:20:09.959 You don't use it in place a fertilizer. You use 2645 02:20:10.040 --> 02:20:13.360 it also when you fertilize or any time of the year. 2646 02:20:13.399 --> 02:20:15.760 You don't have to wait till fertilizer season. You just 2647 02:20:15.879 --> 02:20:18.319 put it on. It gets, it's gonna work. Its win 2648 02:20:18.440 --> 02:20:21.440 the soil over time, and it works. It's a purple bag. 2649 02:20:21.600 --> 02:20:23.719 It's from microlife and you need to try it out. 2650 02:20:24.920 --> 02:20:27.959 We're going to run let's see what's our time right here. Yeah, 2651 02:20:27.959 --> 02:20:29.440 I got a little bit time. We're going to run 2652 02:20:29.479 --> 02:20:37.000 out to Katie and talk to Henry. Up. Hey, Henry, Henry, Welcome, 2653 02:20:37.399 --> 02:20:38.479 Welcome to garden Line. 2654 02:20:39.719 --> 02:20:42.520 Well, thank you, skip listen. I've been collecting. I have 2655 02:20:42.600 --> 02:20:46.559 a bunch of outdoor pots full of potting soil and weeds, 2656 02:20:47.120 --> 02:20:50.399 and I'd like to reuse that potting soil, but i'd 2657 02:20:50.479 --> 02:20:53.239 like to I think I need to pasteurize it before 2658 02:20:53.319 --> 02:20:53.760 I can. 2659 02:20:54.040 --> 02:20:57.200 All right doing that, I've already done the work for you. 2660 02:20:57.479 --> 02:21:02.799 Go to my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening 2661 02:21:02.920 --> 02:21:06.719 with Skip dot com on there is a publication. Click 2662 02:21:06.799 --> 02:21:11.760 on the publications, scroll down pasteurizing soil. Basically, you're gonna 2663 02:21:11.760 --> 02:21:13.680 take it, you're gonna moisten it, you're gonna put it 2664 02:21:13.719 --> 02:21:16.559 in a turkey bag, one of those oven turkey bags 2665 02:21:16.840 --> 02:21:18.680 or something like that. There's different ways to do it, 2666 02:21:19.000 --> 02:21:20.479 and you're gonna heat it, but you need to do 2667 02:21:20.559 --> 02:21:22.680 it to the right temperature for the right amount of time. 2668 02:21:23.239 --> 02:21:25.399 And it's all in that in that free sheet that 2669 02:21:25.479 --> 02:21:26.239 tells you how to do it. 2670 02:21:27.360 --> 02:21:30.479 Oh boys, Skip, I mean I have, I got quite 2671 02:21:30.520 --> 02:21:35.040 a pile of dirt out there with well there, okay. 2672 02:21:35.079 --> 02:21:38.319 There there's one other option, and that is oh boy. 2673 02:21:38.479 --> 02:21:40.399 I don't have the link to it, but it's a 2674 02:21:40.680 --> 02:21:44.959 University of California. University of California Extension Service did something 2675 02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:49.760 on a solarising soil and it's about solarizing soil in 2676 02:21:49.840 --> 02:21:52.879 your garden. But there's a section where you take your 2677 02:21:52.959 --> 02:21:56.280 pots and you stack them up on a pallet so 2678 02:21:56.399 --> 02:21:59.799 there's air movement underneath, and you cover them with plastic 2679 02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:02.799 in the hot sun and the middle of summer, and 2680 02:22:02.959 --> 02:22:05.440 it heats up enough in there to pasteurize them. And 2681 02:22:05.559 --> 02:22:07.360 that's a way to do a lot more. But you 2682 02:22:07.440 --> 02:22:12.000 got to find the University of California publication on solarizing soil. 2683 02:22:12.280 --> 02:22:14.000 All right, good luck with that? 2684 02:22:15.120 --> 02:22:15.719 Can I can? I? 2685 02:22:16.719 --> 02:22:16.840 Can? 2686 02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:19.719 I just do like ground up, just saturated with a 2687 02:22:19.799 --> 02:22:21.479 round up Wait for a while, now. 2688 02:22:21.680 --> 02:22:24.040 No, that's not going to do it. There's not. Those 2689 02:22:24.079 --> 02:22:27.319 are the only two ways without the commercial equipment to 2690 02:22:27.360 --> 02:22:30.239 pasteurize it. I've got to run. They're about to They're 2691 02:22:30.239 --> 02:22:32.000 about to cut me off here. Thank you very much. 2692 02:22:32.079 --> 02:22:34.920 I appreciate you call, Henry. Good luck with that. All right, folks, 2693 02:22:35.040 --> 02:22:36.840 turn it over to Jared here. I'll be right back. 2694 02:22:36.959 --> 02:22:38.559 If you want to give us a call, you can 2695 02:22:38.600 --> 02:22:41.760 dial seven one three two one two kt r H. 2696 02:22:43.399 --> 02:22:48.760 All right, folks. Oh, it's a good day. It is 2697 02:22:48.920 --> 02:22:53.079 a beautiful Sunday, and I hope that this afternoon you 2698 02:22:53.159 --> 02:22:55.600 will get out, take a deep breath of fresh air 2699 02:22:55.760 --> 02:22:59.239 and enjoy nature. I've told you this on the air before, 2700 02:22:59.319 --> 02:23:02.000 but I actually enjoy pulling weeds. Now, if I have 2701 02:23:02.040 --> 02:23:03.840 an acre of weeds to pull, I you know, I 2702 02:23:03.959 --> 02:23:05.840 dread that, of course, But when I look at a 2703 02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:08.879 little garden area and there's some weeds, I go, ah, gosh, 2704 02:23:08.920 --> 02:23:11.440 I got weeds. And then I sit down and I 2705 02:23:11.719 --> 02:23:13.440 use a hoe or a hand or whatever. I get 2706 02:23:13.520 --> 02:23:16.159 rid of them, mult over them, and you just stand 2707 02:23:16.280 --> 02:23:18.840 up and you look and it's beautiful and you see 2708 02:23:18.879 --> 02:23:21.520 what you accomplish. There are a lot of areas in life, 2709 02:23:21.559 --> 02:23:23.079 and some of you may be this way. You know, 2710 02:23:23.200 --> 02:23:24.799 you go to work, you work all day, and at 2711 02:23:24.799 --> 02:23:27.920 the end of the day, you go, what have I accomplished? What? Really? 2712 02:23:28.760 --> 02:23:31.319 You know you've worked, but it's hard to get that 2713 02:23:31.399 --> 02:23:35.639 gratification of seeing a visual, big difference. And I guess 2714 02:23:35.680 --> 02:23:37.200 that's why I like to pull weats, because I can 2715 02:23:37.280 --> 02:23:40.000 make a mess look really nice. And if you know 2716 02:23:40.079 --> 02:23:42.639 how to use newspaper, put it about four sheet to 2717 02:23:42.799 --> 02:23:45.959 six sheets thick. Now, I know most people are not 2718 02:23:46.120 --> 02:23:49.440 taking the physical paper, but if you got that, throw 2719 02:23:49.520 --> 02:23:51.520 some mult on top and you go from weeds to 2720 02:23:51.639 --> 02:23:55.399 wonderful and like fifteen minutes, I mean it's it's it's 2721 02:23:55.520 --> 02:23:59.079 the horticultural equivalent of sweeping the dirt under the rug. 2722 02:24:00.760 --> 02:24:05.000 You heard it here first Arbigate and tom Ball. What 2723 02:24:05.239 --> 02:24:09.120 a nursery. I've loved going to Arbigate for a long time. 2724 02:24:09.239 --> 02:24:11.360 And do you know how long Arbrogate has been around 2725 02:24:12.120 --> 02:24:16.920 twenty ninth year anniversary. They're celebrating their twenty ninth year anniversary. 2726 02:24:17.799 --> 02:24:21.120 So go out and say happy anniversary to Beverly and 2727 02:24:21.159 --> 02:24:23.319 the whole crew out there at the arbor Gate. When 2728 02:24:23.360 --> 02:24:26.200 you go to Arbigate, you're gonna find lots of cool stuff. 2729 02:24:26.280 --> 02:24:30.479 You know, they've got beautiful, beautiful flowers. One of my 2730 02:24:30.639 --> 02:24:32.879 favorite flowers in the last ten years that I've just 2731 02:24:32.959 --> 02:24:37.600 fell in love with has been the daisies. Now, daisies 2732 02:24:37.639 --> 02:24:39.959 come in so many colors, not just the white daisies, 2733 02:24:40.319 --> 02:24:42.440 you know, we're talking about certain series that have been 2734 02:24:42.920 --> 02:24:48.440 bred with just bright colors that are so gorgeous. Also, 2735 02:24:48.639 --> 02:24:53.280 and this is a public service announcement. Next Saturday, Saturday 2736 02:24:53.319 --> 02:24:57.239 March eighth, at ten am for ten dollars, you can 2737 02:24:57.280 --> 02:24:59.920 go to the Arborgate and you can listen to it. 2738 02:25:00.120 --> 02:25:02.639 Talk on rose punting by Gay Hammett. Now let me 2739 02:25:02.680 --> 02:25:06.479 tell you something Gay has forgotten more about roses than 2740 02:25:06.520 --> 02:25:09.239 most people know. She's past president of Houston Rose Society. 2741 02:25:09.360 --> 02:25:14.840 She knows everything. And this is about as good a 2742 02:25:15.399 --> 02:25:18.280 well spent ten dollars. You have to get out there 2743 02:25:18.319 --> 02:25:20.600 to the Arborgate and do. That's next Saturday, ten am. 2744 02:25:20.719 --> 02:25:24.079 So they only have forty attendees. Space only space for 2745 02:25:24.200 --> 02:25:26.920 forty because this is a you know, this isn't an 2746 02:25:27.440 --> 02:25:31.000 auditorium type thing. This is a very intimate and personal 2747 02:25:31.079 --> 02:25:34.120 thing where you will learn how to prune roses and 2748 02:25:34.280 --> 02:25:36.520 you get a lot about rose answers as well. Bring 2749 02:25:36.559 --> 02:25:39.799 a friend two eight one three five one eighty eight 2750 02:25:39.959 --> 02:25:42.639 fifty one two eight one three five one eight eight 2751 02:25:42.719 --> 02:25:45.319 five one. That's where you can find out more about that. 2752 02:25:45.520 --> 02:25:48.200 And I just got to say this, why you're there, 2753 02:25:48.440 --> 02:25:51.239 ask them to show you the deciduous magnolias, or let 2754 02:25:51.280 --> 02:25:53.520 me put it this way, just look up and look 2755 02:25:53.600 --> 02:25:56.479 around and you're going to see them. These things are 2756 02:25:56.600 --> 02:25:59.959 the hottest pink with a purplish hue. They are gorgeous. 2757 02:26:00.079 --> 02:26:02.360 They bloom when there's not a leaf on the plants. 2758 02:26:03.079 --> 02:26:05.159 And we live in a part of Texas where you 2759 02:26:05.239 --> 02:26:09.879 can grow deciduous magnolias. Very successfully. There's several types of them, 2760 02:26:10.440 --> 02:26:12.399 but when you see this, you got to put one 2761 02:26:12.399 --> 02:26:15.440 in the landscape because when spring comes, the first plant 2762 02:26:15.520 --> 02:26:18.760 to show up with a trumpet and announced spring one 2763 02:26:18.840 --> 02:26:21.200 of the first ones down here. If you live further north, 2764 02:26:21.280 --> 02:26:24.920 it's a pcithia, But down here it's these decidious magnolias. 2765 02:26:24.959 --> 02:26:27.120 They're great and you can get them at Arbrogate. By 2766 02:26:27.120 --> 02:26:29.559 the way, where's Arbrogate? Okay, if you haven't been there, 2767 02:26:30.079 --> 02:26:32.120 a mile and a half west of two forty nine 2768 02:26:32.319 --> 02:26:34.840 on twenty nine to twenty out of Tumbel, just west 2769 02:26:34.920 --> 02:26:37.000 of Tumbul, you'll see it on the left. Turn down 2770 02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:40.159 Treshe Road which goes around Arburgate. Go in the back 2771 02:26:40.360 --> 02:26:43.479 park there. It's a great parking lot, safe, easy access. 2772 02:26:45.239 --> 02:26:49.360 Can you tell I like decidious magnolias were Let's see. 2773 02:26:49.360 --> 02:26:51.200 We're going to go out to Katie now and talk 2774 02:26:51.280 --> 02:26:54.920 to John. Hey, John, Welcome to dark Derk. 2775 02:26:55.639 --> 02:26:56.440 Good morning, Skip. 2776 02:26:57.280 --> 02:26:59.920 You're talking about trumpets announcing spring. My favorite one is 2777 02:27:00.120 --> 02:27:02.879 is is there anything better than the smell of the 2778 02:27:03.159 --> 02:27:04.680 meyer lemon flowers? 2779 02:27:04.799 --> 02:27:10.440 Oh my gosh, they're intoxicating, I mean a control substance. 2780 02:27:10.520 --> 02:27:12.840 Because I'm sure people have gotten drunk sitting by one 2781 02:27:12.959 --> 02:27:13.879 smelling enough of it. 2782 02:27:14.159 --> 02:27:19.399 Like gardens, I called last week about I got two 2783 02:27:20.000 --> 02:27:25.840 avacado trees from the enchanted garden Mexicola, which is doing 2784 02:27:25.920 --> 02:27:26.840 absolutely beautiful. 2785 02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:29.680 It's hopefully going to be start giving some fruit soon. 2786 02:27:30.559 --> 02:27:34.079 But then another one of Leela, which they only warranty 2787 02:27:34.200 --> 02:27:37.440 their plants seven days out. But last week I was saying, 2788 02:27:37.479 --> 02:27:39.360 it's uh lost half. 2789 02:27:39.239 --> 02:27:39.719 Of its leave. 2790 02:27:39.840 --> 02:27:44.360 Now the other half of its leaves are wilting and 2791 02:27:45.399 --> 02:27:50.239 the sticks they're starting to turn black based on the top. 2792 02:27:50.879 --> 02:27:52.200 So I want to get your thoughts on that. 2793 02:27:52.600 --> 02:27:53.719 How long would you plant it? 2794 02:27:55.079 --> 02:27:56.319 I thought it about a month ago. 2795 02:27:56.479 --> 02:27:56.920 I've had to. 2796 02:27:58.840 --> 02:28:01.440 Do you think it could have have you had a cold. 2797 02:28:01.479 --> 02:28:03.360 I'm trying to remember when the coal snaps were. If 2798 02:28:03.399 --> 02:28:06.159 you had a coal snap, we brought them inside for cold. Okay, 2799 02:28:07.639 --> 02:28:13.840 who turning black? Other than cold, saggy, soggy, wet soil 2800 02:28:13.920 --> 02:28:16.120 conditions that drowned the roots. I guess could be a 2801 02:28:16.200 --> 02:28:19.360 play a role, but I don't know. You know what 2802 02:28:19.399 --> 02:28:21.000 I would do, I would take a picture of it, 2803 02:28:21.200 --> 02:28:23.120 and I would go back in there and explain you 2804 02:28:23.200 --> 02:28:24.719 bought a couple of them from them and see what 2805 02:28:24.840 --> 02:28:27.719 they think about those. They may be able to work 2806 02:28:27.760 --> 02:28:30.920 something out with you or something on that one. If 2807 02:28:31.120 --> 02:28:33.719 if you brought it in from the cold. I just 2808 02:28:33.799 --> 02:28:36.920 don't know, other than wet soil, what would cause them 2809 02:28:37.000 --> 02:28:39.000 to turn black and fall off that. 2810 02:28:39.319 --> 02:28:39.520 Yeah. 2811 02:28:39.520 --> 02:28:41.600 I talk to Connor and he says, sorry, there's nothing 2812 02:28:41.680 --> 02:28:43.760 we can do, only guarantee plants of these. 2813 02:28:44.000 --> 02:28:45.840 Well, and there's I understand that. I mean, you can 2814 02:28:45.920 --> 02:28:50.280 imagine why they did that, but no advice on, no 2815 02:28:50.399 --> 02:28:51.680 thoughts on what would have caused it. 2816 02:28:51.879 --> 02:28:54.559 Okay, Well they said basically, good luck, we'n't glad that 2817 02:28:54.760 --> 02:28:56.600 we got one that looks great. 2818 02:28:56.719 --> 02:29:02.520 Yeah, yeah, I understand, Well I would boy. First of all, 2819 02:29:02.559 --> 02:29:04.799 I don't there's nothing to do for you right now. 2820 02:29:04.840 --> 02:29:06.879 I wouldn't spray it. I wouldn't say spray it with 2821 02:29:06.959 --> 02:29:09.600 this in sex side or fungicide or whatever. I don't 2822 02:29:09.639 --> 02:29:12.479 think it's it's definitely not a lack of nutrients. It's 2823 02:29:12.799 --> 02:29:15.520 eat the colder water. Somehow one of those is involved. 2824 02:29:15.600 --> 02:29:18.200 I guess if a bunch of roots were damaged in 2825 02:29:18.319 --> 02:29:21.760 the planting. But even at that, those are pretty tough plants. 2826 02:29:21.840 --> 02:29:26.680 They shouldn't they shouldn't break down like that. Yeah, I don't. 2827 02:29:26.760 --> 02:29:28.479 I don't know what else to tell you on this one. 2828 02:29:30.239 --> 02:29:30.760 Appreciate it. 2829 02:29:30.920 --> 02:29:34.440 No disease that I'm aware of. Okay, all right, thanks 2830 02:29:34.479 --> 02:29:35.479 a lot, appreciate your call. 2831 02:29:35.479 --> 02:29:35.959 All right, thank you. 2832 02:29:36.879 --> 02:29:39.079 All right. Yeah, that was a stumper, and that that 2833 02:29:39.239 --> 02:29:42.799 does happen sometimes. Listen, uh, Ace hardware stores are everywhere, 2834 02:29:43.120 --> 02:29:46.879 and A stores hardware stores have everything, right, That's why 2835 02:29:46.920 --> 02:29:49.319 their motto is ACE is the place. It doesn't tell 2836 02:29:49.319 --> 02:29:50.879 you what it's a place for, because it's a place 2837 02:29:50.920 --> 02:29:54.319 for everything. You know, you need plumbing, you need wiring, 2838 02:29:54.559 --> 02:29:58.760 you need light bulbs, you need all the standard hardware stuff. 2839 02:29:58.959 --> 02:30:02.200 Of course they got that, but they have a lot 2840 02:30:02.399 --> 02:30:05.639 of other things. You're revamping your garage, cleaning it up. 2841 02:30:05.680 --> 02:30:08.159 You need some binge, you need some shelving, they've got that. 2842 02:30:08.840 --> 02:30:11.520 You need cleaning supplies for that spring cleaning we all 2843 02:30:11.559 --> 02:30:14.680 get into each spring. They've got a wide variety of those. 2844 02:30:15.120 --> 02:30:17.760 You need things for the outside patio, like a string 2845 02:30:17.840 --> 02:30:21.079 of lights or maybe some barbecue supplies. Oh my gosh, 2846 02:30:21.959 --> 02:30:24.760 just go see it. An unbelievable selection of that. And 2847 02:30:24.840 --> 02:30:26.840 then when it comes to the yard, you hear me 2848 02:30:26.920 --> 02:30:29.440 talk about fertilizers, They got them you hear me talk 2849 02:30:29.479 --> 02:30:33.079 about even soils, so mixes, soill blends and mulches and 2850 02:30:33.200 --> 02:30:36.239 things you're going to find those there tools and then 2851 02:30:36.360 --> 02:30:39.200 things to control weeds. I talk about barricade. You know 2852 02:30:39.319 --> 02:30:42.520 the importance of preventing weeds. Well, they got that. They 2853 02:30:42.639 --> 02:30:45.280 talk about the post emergent things. They've got that. The 2854 02:30:45.360 --> 02:30:48.959 things that control insects and disease, including organic products, they've 2855 02:30:49.000 --> 02:30:51.360 got that at ACE Hardware stores. And you've got a 2856 02:30:51.440 --> 02:30:53.959 lot of ACE hardware stores to choose from. You can 2857 02:30:54.920 --> 02:30:56.840 you know where do you want to go? I mean, 2858 02:30:56.879 --> 02:30:59.079 because there's going to be an Ace Hardware pretty much 2859 02:30:59.600 --> 02:31:01.600 every where that you want to be. You know, a 2860 02:31:01.719 --> 02:31:03.879 K and M and a task a Seeda, the Bay 2861 02:31:03.959 --> 02:31:08.559 City Ace Hardware down in Wharton, the Wharton feed and 2862 02:31:08.680 --> 02:31:11.719 Ace Hardware, or the Hamilton Hardware Highway six near Bear 2863 02:31:11.840 --> 02:31:15.079 Creek are just examples of the many, many, many ACE 2864 02:31:15.159 --> 02:31:17.600 Hardware stores that you can choose from. Time for me 2865 02:31:17.719 --> 02:31:20.319 to take a break. I'll be right back. All right, 2866 02:31:20.479 --> 02:31:21.040 we're bad. 2867 02:31:22.680 --> 02:31:22.959 Folks. 2868 02:31:23.000 --> 02:31:26.079 We got about ten to fifty minutes left in garden 2869 02:31:26.120 --> 02:31:30.680 Line today and they've been a good day. I've enjoyed 2870 02:31:30.760 --> 02:31:34.879 visiting with our body and talking about gardening night fass barricade. 2871 02:31:35.040 --> 02:31:36.360 I've talked to you about it and talked to you 2872 02:31:36.360 --> 02:31:38.399 about it and talk to you about it. If you're 2873 02:31:38.440 --> 02:31:41.120 going to prevent warm seasoned weeds, you need to do 2874 02:31:41.200 --> 02:31:44.360 it before the weed sprout. It's much easier to prevent 2875 02:31:44.399 --> 02:31:47.799 a weed than to kill a weed that's existing. Barricade 2876 02:31:48.120 --> 02:31:50.200 is watered in with a half inch of water. Don't 2877 02:31:50.280 --> 02:31:52.799 forget to water it in. That activates it. Otherwise it 2878 02:31:52.920 --> 02:31:55.399 can't work if you don't get in the soil. Half 2879 02:31:55.440 --> 02:31:57.479 inch of water puts it in the soil where when 2880 02:31:57.520 --> 02:32:00.440 a weed sprouts for about sixty days, it's to prevent 2881 02:32:00.479 --> 02:32:03.040 that weed from coming up. Depends on the weather and conditions. 2882 02:32:03.079 --> 02:32:04.760 It could be a little longer, little short, or whatever, 2883 02:32:05.000 --> 02:32:07.879 but about sixty days is the amount of protection it's 2884 02:32:07.920 --> 02:32:09.440 going to give you. So if you got things that 2885 02:32:09.479 --> 02:32:11.959 sprout all through the summertime, you like grass burrs and 2886 02:32:12.040 --> 02:32:14.840 things are constantly out there sprouting, well, you may need 2887 02:32:14.920 --> 02:32:17.159 to redo it in about sixty days, but for right now, 2888 02:32:17.920 --> 02:32:22.159 do it. Follow the label very carefully. The label is 2889 02:32:22.200 --> 02:32:24.280 your key to success. If you go out and be 2890 02:32:24.360 --> 02:32:29.879 the lawn ranger and weigh it well, let the buyer. Beware, 2891 02:32:29.959 --> 02:32:32.959 you should not do that. Should not do that. Labels. 2892 02:32:32.959 --> 02:32:35.799 I don't care what the product is, always follow the label. 2893 02:32:36.280 --> 02:32:40.360 That is very important. Barricade works grassy weeds, broad leaf weeds. 2894 02:32:40.440 --> 02:32:42.600 It prevents them. It works well, and you're going to 2895 02:32:42.639 --> 02:32:45.479 find it in a lot of places like nitrofoss products. 2896 02:32:45.520 --> 02:32:50.360 For example, in Memorial a Memorial Drive, Ace Hardware, City Ospostion, 2897 02:32:50.479 --> 02:32:53.120 the woodlands on Kerkandalt. I mentioned that one before hiding 2898 02:32:53.159 --> 02:32:55.920 and feed on Stuben or airline, go down to one 2899 02:32:55.959 --> 02:32:59.680 of the Mini Fishers hardware. There's one in Pasadena on 2900 02:33:00.079 --> 02:33:02.799 the port, when in Mount Bellevue, when in Baytown. Those 2901 02:33:03.000 --> 02:33:05.680 are all examples of places where you can find nitrofoss 2902 02:33:05.760 --> 02:33:09.280 products like the s barricade. We're gonna got the phones 2903 02:33:09.319 --> 02:33:16.200 now and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, I. 2904 02:33:16.639 --> 02:33:17.600 Did you get my emails? 2905 02:33:17.639 --> 02:33:18.319 Do you get my pap? 2906 02:33:18.440 --> 02:33:18.559 Oh? 2907 02:33:18.879 --> 02:33:21.319 Let me look, I'll have to check that out. I 2908 02:33:21.399 --> 02:33:23.360 don't know now, Nancy. I got to ask you first. 2909 02:33:23.440 --> 02:33:26.040 It says you're from Flint. Are you calling from Flint? 2910 02:33:27.559 --> 02:33:27.760 Yes? 2911 02:33:27.920 --> 02:33:30.399 Yes, we talked to them my watermelons in a while 2912 02:33:30.520 --> 02:33:33.799 back right in between Palestine and Tyler. 2913 02:33:34.000 --> 02:33:37.479 Yeah, I know, just south the tyler. Yeah, I know 2914 02:33:37.600 --> 02:33:39.399 you don't get the radio signal up there. 2915 02:33:41.479 --> 02:33:42.799 Well, you know, I haven't tried. 2916 02:33:42.879 --> 02:33:45.840 I just do with the app Okay, always have. 2917 02:33:45.879 --> 02:33:48.200 I've been listening for thirty years. 2918 02:33:48.399 --> 02:33:51.559 Well, thank you. Hey, I'm looking at your pictures. What's 2919 02:33:51.639 --> 02:33:52.120 your question? 2920 02:33:53.360 --> 02:33:58.440 Okay, the the three palms that look horrible you're outside. 2921 02:33:58.479 --> 02:34:00.920 We set them on the front porch. Well, we put 2922 02:34:00.959 --> 02:34:04.920 them inside to where you have a pool table and 2923 02:34:05.239 --> 02:34:07.719 just let them in there. And they were doing fine. 2924 02:34:07.920 --> 02:34:10.719 And I took them out about two days after the 2925 02:34:10.799 --> 02:34:12.760 last freeze up here. It gets a lot colder here 2926 02:34:12.840 --> 02:34:15.600 than it does even with the say, because we're on 2927 02:34:15.680 --> 02:34:19.159 the lake, and put them, put them outside, and then 2928 02:34:19.200 --> 02:34:22.600 they they've been gorgeous plants, and all three of them 2929 02:34:22.680 --> 02:34:23.159 look like that. 2930 02:34:23.360 --> 02:34:26.120 Should I should I cut it? 2931 02:34:26.879 --> 02:34:31.319 It's cold, it's cold damage. And what remains to be seen, Nancy, 2932 02:34:31.639 --> 02:34:36.440 is whether the stems were killed and these uh palms 2933 02:34:36.479 --> 02:34:40.040 and yeah, palm you have drsina uh. And I'm trying 2934 02:34:40.040 --> 02:34:42.319 to look at all those things like that. But like 2935 02:34:42.440 --> 02:34:44.440 on the dsina, I think I see a little green 2936 02:34:44.479 --> 02:34:46.440 growth coming out of the top of one of those stems. 2937 02:34:46.879 --> 02:34:50.040 So the leaves that are brown and the leaves that 2938 02:34:50.159 --> 02:34:53.760 have just kind of gotten almost a gray brown green, 2939 02:34:53.959 --> 02:34:58.159 dark color, water soaked. Look, uh, those are all gone, 2940 02:34:58.280 --> 02:35:00.719 but I would just wait, Let's wait, let's watch them, 2941 02:35:00.760 --> 02:35:02.280 and the tree will tell you if it's going to 2942 02:35:02.360 --> 02:35:05.079 make it or not. If it's round, you might as 2943 02:35:05.120 --> 02:35:07.239 well clip it out. It's not coming back to life. 2944 02:35:07.959 --> 02:35:11.520 But hopefully the damage wasn't too extensive. And as I'm 2945 02:35:11.600 --> 02:35:14.040 looking at the plants the way the leaves covered some 2946 02:35:14.200 --> 02:35:16.000 of them, I think you're going to be Okay, what 2947 02:35:16.200 --> 02:35:17.040 was your other question? 2948 02:35:17.159 --> 02:35:18.879 Okay? The other one was okay. 2949 02:35:19.200 --> 02:35:21.200 And then I had a picture of my lemon and 2950 02:35:21.319 --> 02:35:24.000 my plum, which those were in my sunroom. Yes, and 2951 02:35:24.280 --> 02:35:26.600 I'm just asking that those look pretty healthy. And then 2952 02:35:26.680 --> 02:35:29.440 the other picture was a picture of my raised garden 2953 02:35:29.639 --> 02:35:33.600 outside the sun room. Can I plant I'm going to 2954 02:35:33.680 --> 02:35:35.719 do water on tomatoes a get out there, but I'm 2955 02:35:35.760 --> 02:35:38.799 not going to go crazy. I can I do an 2956 02:35:38.840 --> 02:35:44.000 avocado tree in that avocado garden or any any kind of. 2957 02:35:44.000 --> 02:35:44.639 A fruit tree. 2958 02:35:44.799 --> 02:35:46.879 You are so far north that I wouldn't even try 2959 02:35:46.879 --> 02:35:49.319 an avocado. I mean, unless you wanted to build a 2960 02:35:49.360 --> 02:35:51.959 giant greenhouse over the thing. You're not going to have 2961 02:35:52.079 --> 02:35:52.799 success with that. 2962 02:35:53.920 --> 02:35:56.120 Yeah, it does have to where you can cover it. 2963 02:35:56.200 --> 02:35:59.280 But I'm not going to What fruit tree could I 2964 02:35:59.360 --> 02:36:01.799 put out there instead of having it in a pot? 2965 02:36:04.159 --> 02:36:08.639 Well, that area looks partially shady. How much sun does 2966 02:36:08.680 --> 02:36:08.959 it get? 2967 02:36:10.120 --> 02:36:15.360 It gets a biled sixty, you know, all day long 2968 02:36:15.440 --> 02:36:22.239 because it's only okay, And the thing isn't that it's 2969 02:36:22.799 --> 02:36:24.959 electrical pants surround it. So I can keep my dear 2970 02:36:25.079 --> 02:36:28.079 from getting into it. I just planted in wheels on 2971 02:36:28.159 --> 02:36:29.959 the property, okay, dear. 2972 02:36:29.760 --> 02:36:36.680 Will Yeah, So you've got a couple of options, do you. 2973 02:36:37.000 --> 02:36:38.920 Since you liked a garden in that spot, I hate 2974 02:36:38.920 --> 02:36:41.000 to have a big tree that's shading the whole area. 2975 02:36:41.760 --> 02:36:44.559 But how about how about a raspberry a rabbit eye. 2976 02:36:45.120 --> 02:36:48.399 I've served raspberry, forget I said that. A blueberry? Okay, 2977 02:36:49.079 --> 02:36:51.959 rabbit I blueberries. You need a type that's called a 2978 02:36:52.079 --> 02:36:54.520 rabbit eye, and you need to get two different varieties. 2979 02:36:55.040 --> 02:36:57.479 There's one. There's a number of varieties. There's one called 2980 02:36:57.520 --> 02:37:00.879 bright blue, there's one called climax, there's one. There's just 2981 02:37:00.959 --> 02:37:04.000 a bunch of them. But get two different ones and 2982 02:37:04.120 --> 02:37:05.879 plant too. If you want to plant more than two, 2983 02:37:05.959 --> 02:37:09.760 you can, but you need two different varieties for cross pollination. 2984 02:37:09.959 --> 02:37:14.159 Tiff blue is another rabbit EI blueberry. They need high 2985 02:37:14.239 --> 02:37:14.879 quality water. 2986 02:37:15.120 --> 02:37:19.000 So yeah, okay, I absolutely love blueberries and i's a 2987 02:37:19.079 --> 02:37:22.120 great and I have had strawberries and yeah, all kinds 2988 02:37:22.120 --> 02:37:25.520 of other things out there, so that that is great. 2989 02:37:25.719 --> 02:37:28.440 Drawback on blueberries is just going to be water quality 2990 02:37:28.680 --> 02:37:30.680 and so a pH. Okay, so you want to use 2991 02:37:30.719 --> 02:37:31.920 acidic fertilizers. 2992 02:37:32.600 --> 02:37:32.719 Uh. 2993 02:37:32.920 --> 02:37:35.200 And you know you'll see if you see yellow growth 2994 02:37:35.280 --> 02:37:37.159 on the new growth that the pH is too high. 2995 02:37:37.200 --> 02:37:38.840 You got to get it down a little bit more. Okay, 2996 02:37:39.120 --> 02:37:41.879 but that would fit that spot really well. They'll put 2997 02:37:41.959 --> 02:37:43.639 up with a little bit of shade and do okay. 2998 02:37:43.840 --> 02:37:45.959 Fruit doesn't like to be in shade, but blueberries will 2999 02:37:45.959 --> 02:37:47.079 do okay with a little bit. 3000 02:37:48.399 --> 02:37:48.719 Okay. 3001 02:37:49.159 --> 02:37:52.280 Okay, Hey, that that sounds great. And it is a 3002 02:37:52.319 --> 02:37:56.159 beautiful day, and thanks for everything you do, and everybody 3003 02:37:56.239 --> 02:37:58.440 go out there and make some beautiful memories. 3004 02:37:58.559 --> 02:37:58.959 There you go. 3005 02:37:59.440 --> 02:38:01.760 Well more. You know, I don't know if if you 3006 02:38:01.840 --> 02:38:03.639 listen to Guardline you've heard me say this, but I 3007 02:38:03.760 --> 02:38:07.120 expect half the produce from these blueberries to be delivered 3008 02:38:07.159 --> 02:38:09.639 to the station. Now look for you to drive three 3009 02:38:09.680 --> 02:38:12.000 and a half hours that's not a problem to fulfill 3010 02:38:12.040 --> 02:38:18.520 a promise, right, So right, yes, there you go. Put 3011 02:38:18.600 --> 02:38:21.600 the onus on me. Hey, I'm joking with you. Thanks 3012 02:38:21.639 --> 02:38:24.079 for the call, Thanks for being listener. Tell your neighbors 3013 02:38:24.159 --> 02:38:25.440 and Tyler to listen. 3014 02:38:25.319 --> 02:38:26.879 In I constant. 3015 02:38:29.000 --> 02:38:32.760 All right, you take care. We've got to have a 3016 02:38:32.799 --> 02:38:35.840 little bit of fun here. If you want to get 3017 02:38:35.920 --> 02:38:39.680 out this afternoon, especially if you're around in the Houston area, 3018 02:38:40.159 --> 02:38:43.000 you got to swing over by Buchanans Native Plants. I 3019 02:38:43.440 --> 02:38:45.959 absolutely love that place. Every time I go, I see 3020 02:38:46.000 --> 02:38:47.760 something I haven't seen before, and I want to tell 3021 02:38:47.760 --> 02:38:51.959 you it is Buchanan's Native Plants. Now, does that mean 3022 02:38:52.000 --> 02:38:54.680 they have only natives. No, they have more plants than 3023 02:38:54.719 --> 02:38:58.159 you can imagine. But when you go to Buchan's Naty Plants, 3024 02:38:58.559 --> 02:39:00.440 you're going to find a selection in they It's like 3025 02:39:00.639 --> 02:39:04.440 nowhere in the greater Houston area. It is unbelievable all 3026 02:39:04.559 --> 02:39:08.120 that they have. They're always featuring different native plants. If 3027 02:39:08.200 --> 02:39:10.200 you sign up for their newsletter, which you should do, 3028 02:39:10.559 --> 02:39:14.159 there's a lot of good information and things that pay back, 3029 02:39:14.719 --> 02:39:16.200 you'll see a lot. And in fact, this week they 3030 02:39:16.280 --> 02:39:19.639 featured Maximilian sunflower that is a late summer fall, blooming 3031 02:39:19.719 --> 02:39:23.239 sunflower that blooms on tall stalks, I mean like six 3032 02:39:23.319 --> 02:39:27.159 foot high stalks. And it's a perennial planet. Once find 3033 02:39:27.200 --> 02:39:30.680 a wet spot, it'll love that, Maximilian. That's just an 3034 02:39:30.719 --> 02:39:33.920 example of the bazillion of things that they have up 3035 02:39:33.959 --> 02:39:36.440 there at Buchanan's Native Planet. It's a fun place to shop. 3036 02:39:36.520 --> 02:39:40.040 It's on eleven Street on the Heights. The website, please 3037 02:39:40.120 --> 02:39:47.840 write it down, Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. That website. 3038 02:39:47.879 --> 02:39:49.639 You can sign up for the newsletter. You need to 3039 02:39:49.719 --> 02:39:52.559 do that, you really do. But there are videos that 3040 02:39:52.639 --> 02:39:57.399 are educational. There's web pages that you read that are educational. 3041 02:39:57.520 --> 02:39:59.799 It is a really really good site with all a 3042 02:40:00.040 --> 02:40:03.120 lot of good information. When you walk in there, you're 3043 02:40:03.200 --> 02:40:05.200 talking to people that have been doing this for a 3044 02:40:05.399 --> 02:40:08.600 very long time. They know their stuff. And when you're 3045 02:40:08.600 --> 02:40:11.360 out looking at plants, swing in the gift shop, it 3046 02:40:11.479 --> 02:40:14.440 is unbelievable. It's really cool and oh why you're there. 3047 02:40:15.079 --> 02:40:17.959 You remember brown stuff before green stuff. Well, they've got 3048 02:40:18.280 --> 02:40:22.879 products from Microlife, a full line liquid solid granulars. They 3049 02:40:23.000 --> 02:40:26.840 have products from Nitrofos, products from Nelson plant Food Products, 3050 02:40:26.879 --> 02:40:31.280 from heirloom soils. They have their own all purpose blends 3051 02:40:31.399 --> 02:40:34.479 called Life Below and Tropicore. You just ask them about that. 3052 02:40:34.840 --> 02:40:37.600 Bucuntis NATed plants. We're going to run out to Katie 3053 02:40:37.680 --> 02:40:42.000 now and talk to Logan. Hello, Logan, Hi, how's it 3054 02:40:42.000 --> 02:40:45.520 going well. I'm doing well. I actually took a call 3055 02:40:45.600 --> 02:40:47.680 the right way, so we got right to it. We 3056 02:40:47.799 --> 02:40:49.879 got about forty five seconds. Let's see if we can 3057 02:40:49.920 --> 02:40:50.159 help you. 3058 02:40:52.159 --> 02:40:53.879 I got brown patch in my yard. 3059 02:40:54.120 --> 02:40:55.600 What can I use to get rid of it? 3060 02:40:56.360 --> 02:40:59.399 At this stage? If the circles are there, you're not 3061 02:40:59.440 --> 02:41:02.079 going to make them green with the spray. Sprays prevent it, 3062 02:41:02.319 --> 02:41:04.520 so I would say, don't worry about it. It's going 3063 02:41:04.600 --> 02:41:07.319 to go away. The weather's going to heat up, the 3064 02:41:07.440 --> 02:41:10.040 grass is going to regreen in those circles, and be 3065 02:41:10.200 --> 02:41:12.239 ready to deal with it next fall because it'll be 3066 02:41:12.319 --> 02:41:16.280 back next fall. My schedule on my schedule online at 3067 02:41:16.360 --> 02:41:19.159 gardening with Skip dot com tells you right when to treat. 3068 02:41:19.280 --> 02:41:21.159 And I know now is the time you can treat, 3069 02:41:21.600 --> 02:41:23.639 but I'm just telling you you're not going to gain 3070 02:41:23.799 --> 02:41:26.520 enough this late in the game probably to be worth 3071 02:41:26.639 --> 02:41:27.200 treating now. 3072 02:41:28.559 --> 02:41:30.840 Okay, so just to weed and feed and let it green. 3073 02:41:30.719 --> 02:41:34.959 Up on its own. Uh yeah yeah yeah, don't worry 3074 02:41:35.000 --> 02:41:37.479 about the brown patch. And now thanks for the call man,