WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:08.839 In line with Skip Richter. 2 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:40.759 Just watch him as. 3 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:30.440 All right, gardeners, good morning, good morning on a good 4 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.679 Sunday morning. We're glad to have you with us. Welcome 5 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:35.840 to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And what 6 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.200 do we do here, Well, we answer your gardening questions. 7 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.119 We try within our power to help you have a 8 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:46.079 bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape because it is very doable. 9 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:48.399 You know, here in the greater Houston area, in fact 10 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:54.119 all of southeast Texas, it is. Our plant palette is huge. 11 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:54.719 Now. 12 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:56.479 There are a lot of things we can't grow. They 13 00:00:56.479 --> 00:01:00.520 grow up north, or they grow somewhere else. There are 14 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.880 so many things you can grow here that you can't 15 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:06.959 grow other places. And we really enjoy a big plant pellette. 16 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:09.760 I think that is that is one of the things 17 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.400 probably maybe we don't appreciate as much now people that 18 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.640 move from other areas, you know, they go, you can 19 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.519 grow et ceterus. You know you can actually grow in avocado. Well, 20 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:20.560 yeah you can. It's going to freeze back some, but 21 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.519 yes you can. I was talking to somebody the other 22 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:25.560 day at wild Birds down in clear Lake and he 23 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.719 was showing me pictures of his avocado tree and it 24 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:29.920 frozen back. I think a couple of times, I believe, 25 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:32.920 but I mean it came right back like Gangbusters, and 26 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:35.359 he's getting a lot of avocados out of it. We 27 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.120 just have options down here, and I realized in the 28 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:40.359 listening area we got folks you know, up in Huntsville 29 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:45.359 on Interseate forty five and over down toward Karpas and Louisiana, 30 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:47.519 and so there's a big range here, so any one 31 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.319 plant may not go all areas, but my goodness, we 32 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:53.560 have a lot of great, great options in this region 33 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.760 for growing plants. And fall is a season for planting, 34 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.159 so I want to encourage you to get out there 35 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:03.040 and try planting something. Yesterday I was out at A 36 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:06.000 and A Plants and Produce and Montgomery, and thanks for 37 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.479 everybody that came out. I had a great time visiting 38 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.199 with you guys, and as usual, you had a lot 39 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.680 of questions. We kind of got hung up on weeds 40 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:15.599 there for a while, and I was getting depressed because 41 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:18.599 I want to talk about flowers and fruit and vegetables, 42 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.439 loans and other things, and we were delving into how 43 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.960 to kill nuts, edge and whatnot. But hey, it's your questions. 44 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:26.960 That's what we're here for. And if I've answered them 45 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.199 a hundred times, I'll answer them one hundred first time. 46 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:32.719 I don't mind. I know how it is. That gardener 47 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:36.120 has been doing this thirty five years and we typically 48 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:38.719 have the same questions. And some people are new to gardening, 49 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:41.800 and you know, they may have questions that a veteran 50 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.680 gardener would go, oh my gosh, don't you know the 51 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.039 answer to that? Well, I don't do that. I mean, seriously, 52 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:49.800 if it's your question, it's going to get respected, it's 53 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:51.639 going to get answered. That's how I look at it, 54 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.400 because my goal is to take people that have never 55 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:59.520 gardened before and make them enthusiastic green thumb, which means 56 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:04.319 your thumb. It's educated gardeners. That's how that works. So 57 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.479 give us a call. Our phone number is seven one 58 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.759 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, thanks 59 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.960 to A and A for having me out yesterday. It 60 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:14.319 was great. While we were there, I was looking around 61 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.759 at all the beautiful plants that they have in stock, 62 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:19.560 and they are loaded up and it looks great out there. 63 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:20.919 And of course, you know when you go to Ana, 64 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.400 you've got every kind of fertilizer and soil product that 65 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:26.879 I talk about here that are available. Just looking through 66 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:31.520 all the different bag products and the fertilizers from Nitrofossen 67 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:34.719 Nelson and from Microlife, you know, things from heirloom soils 68 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:38.080 in Nature's way. They stay stocked up. And those of 69 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.000 you who live out there in Montgomery, in Conroe, out 70 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:45.199 by the Lake Lake Conroe neighborhoods, it's your backyard garden 71 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.960 center and you need to run over there and check 72 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.879 it out because it's close and it is well stocked, 73 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:54.840 and the folks that are there to help you are 74 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.280 very very good. I was talking with one of the staff. 75 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.360 There's a master partner actually, someone that had been in 76 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:05.080 some of my training classes when I speak in Montgomery County, 77 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.360 and you know, that's that's kind of person that's going 78 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.479 to be able to point you in the right direction. 79 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:14.560 And that's what we like about independent garden centers is 80 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:19.759 educated folks. I've talked about this before, but I had 81 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:22.079 been in big box stores and I'm not going to 82 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:24.079 name the stores. You know, it doesn't matter what I 83 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.279 put the name on. It applies to about all of them. 84 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.480 But I've been in big box stores and sometimes I'll 85 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.319 go in and ask questions just to see, you know, 86 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:34.920 the knowledge level of the staff. And you know, I'm 87 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:38.040 stand in front of a pesticide aisle asking a question 88 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:40.199 and the answer was like, are you kidding me? It 89 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.160 would have been the worst thing for somebody to do. 90 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:44.800 And I just say, oh, really, how long you been 91 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.920 working here? I've been here a week? Oh really, we'll 92 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.600 be doing for that. Well. In one case the answer 93 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:52.959 was I was managing the jewelry counter. In another case 94 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:54.959 it was I was cutting hair in a beauty shop. 95 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.480 And do you see what I'm saying? That is not 96 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:01.639 a person unless they just happened to be very knowledgeable 97 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:05.160 as a gardener to be selling you pesticides or to 98 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:07.839 be pointing you to the plant that's going to survive. Here. 99 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.360 Another pet peeve of mine is going to those places. 100 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.800 And I know people go in because they think, well, 101 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.720 this is gonna be cheap. Well, remember, cheap and economical 102 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.360 are not the same thing. And here's why. If you 103 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.720 buy a plant that dies, if you buy a product 104 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.480 that doesn't work or damages you're lawn, that's not cheap. 105 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:26.879 You're going to go back after to buy another one. 106 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.959 And other things and I see that happen. But I've 107 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:34.120 been in those stores and they're selling raspberries, black cab raspberries. 108 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.639 They don't grow down here, and maybe you kept one 109 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.560 alive for five minutes, but listen, they don't grow down here. 110 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:44.879 They're selling conquered grapes that down here. If you're in 111 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:48.439 New York, that's great. That's a good grape. You know. 112 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.600 Niagara is another one like that, conquered ripens, one berry 113 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.959 at a time. Just go buy some Welch's grape juice 114 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:56.199 that's conquered grapes and enjoy that, and don't try to 115 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:58.439 plant one in your yard. But they're for sale here. 116 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:00.600 And I could go on and on on and on. 117 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.680 Northern high bush blueberries we can grow rabbitized in southern 118 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.319 high Bush. We cannot grow Northern high bush down here, 119 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:11.279 not successfully long term. And they shouldn't be settling them. 120 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.279 But hey, big chain, that's what happens. All right, I'm 121 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.519 through griping about that for now. Let's go out to 122 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.600 the phones. See we're going to go to Kingwood now 123 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:27.600 and talk to Angelo. Good morning Angelo. All right, we're 124 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.439 gonna put Angelo on hold. Do we have you Angelo? 125 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:31.319 Yeah? 126 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:34.720 You there yes, yes, how can we help today? 127 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.639 Oh, yes, I have about it. Oh it's about a 128 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.240 five foot Plemiri tree. They got kind of beat up 129 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.040 with the hurricane. It's like at a ninety degree angle. 130 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.920 It's blooming and everything. The leaves are getting kind of 131 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.120 beat up though, with the sun and everything. But my 132 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:53.160 question is, can I just cut it at the trunk 133 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.959 about maybe three feet up and with something grow from there. 134 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:58.839 It's healthy, but it's a little. 135 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.120 Bread Yeah, you'll see branches come out on them. I 136 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.199 saw one the other day that stem was dying and 137 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:06.480 there were little shout shoots coming out of the base. 138 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:09.800 So you could do that. I'm not a plumeria expert. 139 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:11.319 I'll just tell you that up front. I know a 140 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.600 lot of but but yeah, you can. You can do that, 141 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:17.079 and just remember and winter. If you haven't had it 142 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.160 to a winner already, you definitely need protection. Or pull 143 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:21.639 it up and bring it in and hang it and 144 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.040 hang it in the garage or something. 145 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:24.959 Yeah. I've done that in the past, and I just 146 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.560 want to cut it about instead of it's it was 147 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.879 five foot before the hurricane beat it up. Okay, I'll 148 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:32.959 just kind of down to about three foot. But no, 149 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.680 branches on and everything. Just have the date of the trunk. 150 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:36.680 That's that one. 151 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.160 Yeah, and you might try it. You might try rooting 152 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.000 some some branches and sections of it too that you 153 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:44.000 cut cut off. Don't just throw them all away. 154 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:48.560 But if I just cut that trunk, you know, cut 155 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:50.480 that with that little there at the top of. 156 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:57.160 It, it'll sprout out. But it yes, you can do that. Well, 157 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:00.279 good luck with that. Thank you for the call. Shape 158 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:02.639 that very much. We got to run to a quick break. 159 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:05.120 Ann and Roger. You'll be our first two up when 160 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:05.920 we come right back. 161 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:07.279 If you had listened to. 162 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:10.079 Forward to your calls and visiting with you about the 163 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.000 things that interest you. You know, one of the one 164 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:15.439 of the important things that we do in the garden 165 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:19.079 landscape is build good soil but also support and in 166 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:23.399 doing so, support microbial activity. There are a lot of 167 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.319 microbes out there. Sometimes we think of funguses or bad 168 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:29.600 bacteria or bad and some are, but there are a 169 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:32.200 lot of good ones, a lot of ones that benefit 170 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:36.399 our plants, that help turn organic matter like tree trunks 171 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:39.000 back in the soil that would be the fungib or 172 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:44.799 really shine at that microlife has put the kinds of 173 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:49.159 beneficial microbes that I'm talking about in its products, and 174 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:53.000 you'll find that there's a product called Microgo bio Andoculant. 175 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:57.200 It's kind of a maroonish color, dark maroonish color bag 176 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:00.000 and it also comes in the little clear jars with 177 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:03.960 the screwtop lids. It has sixty three different beneficial strains 178 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:09.159 of micro organisms, all kinds of different basillas and pseudomonas 179 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.919 and streptomycees and others that are good guys. They do 180 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.960 a lot of things. They fight disease, they outcompete bad 181 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.120 organisms on the surfaces of plants. They connect to roots 182 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:24.279 and help the roots to thrive. They just do a 183 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.639 lot of things. And Microlife biinoculant is something that you 184 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:29.080 can put out at any time of the year. Now 185 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:30.879 it'd be a fine time to do it. I think 186 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.919 anything we do prior to the season where we start 187 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.440 to see brown patch and large patch is a good 188 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.799 thing because the more that you enhance that plan, the 189 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.679 more you protect that plant, the better your chances are 190 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:47.200 to have success. And so try that micro grow biinoculant, 191 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:49.960 either by the sack or by the large jar. Either 192 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.840 way you go, I think you will be very pleased 193 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:54.519 with it. Now you can use it on things other 194 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.159 than your lawn. You can use it around all the 195 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:01.240 plants that you have. Micro grow non occulant for microlife. 196 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.519 Something to consider, and I think you should. I'm going 197 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:06.519 to go now out to Wharton and we're going to 198 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:08.960 talk to Ann. Hello, Anne, Welcome to garden line. 199 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.440 Yes, sir, good morning. My big problem is a twenty 200 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:19.080 foot bid of holly that is uh infested with scale, No, 201 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:23.879 not scale, really whitefly. And I've sprayed that with knee 202 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:28.840 oil and some dawn dish, so already twice this week. 203 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.240 Do I just need to continue doing that? 204 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.840 And you're you are? I just want to make sure 205 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:39.279 you're sure it's scale. It's white flies, not scale, is 206 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:39.919 what you're saying. 207 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:44.679 No, this is whitefly. Now, do have what I call 208 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.440 scale on my spineless prickly pair that I took a 209 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:51.759 brush to and scraped what I could off. But this 210 00:10:51.879 --> 00:10:55.879 is this is basically the white fly on the holly 211 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:59.799 as well as my miho satsuma ya. 212 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:04.440 Okay, well white flies. What you see is the little 213 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.279 white fly like a big gnat that's white flying around, 214 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.919 bigger than a nat. But what is also happening is 215 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.600 they're laying eggs typically under the leaf, and then the 216 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:17.120 leaf the eggs hatch into a larvae that then turns 217 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.399 into a pupa. And the pupa look like little tiny scales, 218 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:23.519 like a fish scale, and they're about the size of 219 00:11:23.559 --> 00:11:27.720 a lowercase typed oh letter O. So you just kind 220 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:31.159 of imagine maybe a ten point font typed oh. That's 221 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.320 what you're looking for. If you will spray upward from 222 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:38.039 underneath the plant with that kneem oil or any kind 223 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:41.039 of an oil, summer oil, a horticultural oil, don't do 224 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.480 it during the middle of a ninety degree day. You'll 225 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.200 do it at a cooler time of day that that 226 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.399 will cover and smother those And so you're if you 227 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.279 stay at that for a period of time, not every day, 228 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.519 but you know, once a week or so, you can 229 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.840 break that life cycle that way. There's also systemics that 230 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:00.639 you can put in the soil that go up in 231 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.639 the plant and anything sucking juices out of the plant, 232 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.519 like those white flies, then it will get them. But 233 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.960 I prefer to go the other route if you could, 234 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:11.720 but you're just gonna have to kind of stay on 235 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.399 it to break up that life cycle. 236 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.559 All right, So once once a week, what do I 237 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:23.879 do to remedy the my miho satsuma leaves or literally 238 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.559 black I've blasted them with a high frush of water 239 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.000 and you just can't get that stuff off. 240 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:30.759 You got to scrape it off. 241 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.360 It kind of wears off in time. But I'm told 242 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:38.480 some people will get like a soapy solution out there 243 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:40.559 and spray it and let it sit and then blast 244 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:43.360 it off. Or I've never tried that, and I wouldn't 245 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.399 do it again. During the heat of the day. You 246 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.039 might try that and they get a you know, get 247 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.240 a something along those lines. Otherwise, it's just kind of 248 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.120 something we live with. They put out new growth, the 249 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.360 old eventually flakes off. But that's about all that's in 250 00:12:58.399 --> 00:12:59.840 your power. I mean to go out there with a 251 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:03.559 bunge and wash every leaf with the soapy sponges. It 252 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.200 is not practical, No, unless you have a very smart plan. 253 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:10.600 No, the tree is way too big. In fact, it 254 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.759 came back after the big freeze we had covered it 255 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:17.799 in all okay and is producing. So I just need 256 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:19.440 to continue with what I'm doing. 257 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.440 Then, I think, I think so yeah, but just make 258 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.440 sure you're directing that spray upward. Yeah, you have to 259 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.200 completely coat the bottom of every possible leaf. That's what 260 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:28.759 you're aiming at. 261 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:29.440 That's the problem. 262 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:30.120 And I'm going to be. 263 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:36.000 Yeah, I'm going to be in Wharton on next Saturday, 264 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:39.120 the twenty eighth. I'll be at Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware. 265 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:40.799 Come on out and see me. And if you want 266 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:43.759 to bring a leaf or two from that first plant, 267 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.159 we'll look and i'll see if I can see those 268 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.080 whitely pupa or larva, and i'll show you what they 269 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:51.519 look like. All right, Okay, very good. That's from there 270 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:55.440 from one to three. It's going to take you all 271 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:58.039 to get there, so we're starting at one, go to three. 272 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.159 We'll have some giveaways and it's gonna be a fun time. 273 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.120 So tell you friends and come on out and see me. 274 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.720 I don't get that far out of town very often. 275 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.399 So no, I've never heard you come south this far, 276 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:10.799 so look forward. 277 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:11.519 I never had. 278 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:13.240 Coming. 279 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:15.600 People have said that so much that the show has 280 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:22.080 gone south, but travel south. Thanks Anne, I appreciate, appreciate 281 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.279 you very much. Bye bye. All Right, I got to 282 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.200 be serious, but not today. You're listening to the garden Line. 283 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.639 We're glad you are thanks for being a listener. Speaking 284 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:37.320 of south down south of Houston, Ciena Maltz is the 285 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:39.759 go to place. They're just north of Road Sharon. They're 286 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.440 on FM five twenty one. And you know what I say, 287 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.879 brown stuff for green stuff, meaning you get that soil 288 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.919 perfect and whatever plant you put in is going to 289 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.320 be very happy and you're going to pick good plans. 290 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:54.600 But if you don't start with the soil, you're making 291 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.120 a mistake. Ciena Maltch is the place for the brown stuff, 292 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.120 meaning you can buy composts, you by bed mixes like 293 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.960 Veggie and HERBX from Heirloom Soils. They carry that one there. 294 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:08.360 Cianamulch has only quality products and they have every fertilizer 295 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:11.159 you hear me talk about every brand, you know everything 296 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:16.440 Microlife and Nelson's and nitrofoss, the products from Landscaper's Pride 297 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.320 and Medina and Heirloom Soils, Asimite, all of that, all 298 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:23.240 the soil stuff is there at Cienamlch. Of course, they 299 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:28.879 also have rock beautiful rock gravel for creek drain ways 300 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:31.480 and things. Everything you need is there. You just need 301 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.200 to go Cienamultch dot com. That's the website. Cenamultch dot com. 302 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.000 They are close today, close on Sundays, but they're open 303 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:42.919 Monday through Friday seven thirty to five and Saturday from 304 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:47.559 seven thirty to two. Let's go now out to kindod Taxis. 305 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.039 Hello, Roger, Hey, how you done? 306 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:53.840 I'm good, sir. How can we help today? 307 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:55.000 Hey? 308 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:58.919 So, I can't get my grass to grow, and I've 309 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:01.360 been told it's because I have all these pine trees 310 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.759 in my yard. And I've been told the pine trees 311 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.159 they soak up all the water, they add too much 312 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.639 acid to the soil. And I'm just wondering, is that 313 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:12.200 Is there something that I can do? 314 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.919 Or is that even? Is that is that true? 315 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.360 Is it is the pine tree promitting my grass from 316 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:18.960 going or what. 317 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.759 They're not making? Yeah, they're not making the soil too 318 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:27.440 acid for grass. What they do shade and their needles 319 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.840 are falling and casting a little shade if you don't 320 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.639 get those up pretty quick. But they shade themselves. And 321 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:34.480 they also have a lot of roots up at the 322 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:39.120 surface that are pulling moisture out of the grass. And also, 323 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:41.919 you know when you have a whole lot of woody roots, 324 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.679 there's not as much soil volume for the for the 325 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.440 grassroots to be in and the closer you get to 326 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.559 the pine, the worse that is because the bigger or 327 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:54.519 roots you got, And so it's a factor of all 328 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.799 of those things. I think the main thing you can 329 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.440 do is just make sure it gets adequate water during 330 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.600 periods when it hasn't rained, make sure you give it 331 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:07.279 a good deep soaking, and continue to do the fertilizations 332 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:10.799 that help provide the nitrogen needed for vigor. Of course, 333 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.880 we're entering fall now, so it's time not for high nitrogen, 334 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.599 but it's time to go to fall type fertilizers. But 335 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.079 that's what's within your power. 336 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.319 Okay, So it's it hard to go crass with pine tree. 337 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.240 It can be a fair enough of them. Yeah, you know, 338 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.640 I see a lot of yeah, two and they look good. Yeah, 339 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.079 but it is just a matter of shading. That's why 340 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.200 people switch over and they start you know, planting azalias 341 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:43.799 the under the pines and other things that can grow 342 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.079 and bloom with less than good full sunlight. 343 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:47.440 Yeah. 344 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.640 I've got nine trees and it's only about twelve hundred 345 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:54.079 square foot yards, So you know there's a wow. 346 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.640 Okay, Yeah, that's a bunch. I think it I know 347 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.960 we all loved have a nice turf area to walk 348 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:05.880 on and whatnot, but you may want to start rethinking 349 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:09.680 a landscape that may be more suited to an area 350 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:12.200 with that many pine trees and that small that amount 351 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:12.640 of space. 352 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:17.000 All right, thank you, all right. 353 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.039 Yes, sir, thanks for the call. I hate to be 354 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:22.680 the bearer of bad news, but sometimes you know, it's 355 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.119 just a situation that we we get into. It's it's 356 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:29.599 what do they say, it's what happens. I was talking 357 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:32.920 about cian a mult and carrying as m you know, 358 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:38.039 asamite is the micronutrient supplement that we talk about putting down. 359 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:40.799 I recommend about once a year is good. It's all 360 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:43.359 my schedule. If you look at my schedule on gardening 361 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.640 with Skip dot com, that's where all my schedules are. 362 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.200 That's where all the info sheets I'm putting together are. 363 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:52.359 We're continuing to grow it. We got plans for some 364 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:56.440 new developments. So just bookmark gardening with Skip dot com 365 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.920 and it helps. It helps me answer your questions because 366 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.640 rather than taking a lot of airtime to try to 367 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:05.519 explain something, I can put a publication together, may even 368 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.119 have diagrams or something on it and it just directs 369 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:10.519 you exactly and it's just easy and fast for you 370 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:13.599 to get to and get your answers. So I encourage 371 00:19:13.599 --> 00:19:18.200 you to do that. But as a mite, micronutrients important 372 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.240 trace minerals that plants have to have to survive. Putting 373 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:23.799 them in the soil bank account so as the grass 374 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:25.799 grows and needs them, it's there and you can use 375 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.119 it in flower beds, you can use it in your gardens. 376 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:32.599 I use it in vegetable gardens myself. But it's it's 377 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:34.319 a great product and it goes a long way because 378 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:36.400 you don't need a lot of micro nutrients, but you 379 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:39.240 do need them, and so that's how as might works. 380 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:41.960 Let's see how are we doing here on time. We're 381 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.319 about running out of time here for the next break, 382 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.680 so we're going to hold here if you would like 383 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.200 to give us a call to be up after the break. 384 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:53.319 Seven to one three two one two five eight seven 385 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:58.480 four seven one three two one two. Hey, welcome back. 386 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.680 We are back on a nice Sunday morning, and I'm 387 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.440 glad you're listening in today to Garden Line. I'm your host, 388 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:06.640 Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a 389 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:11.759 beautiful garden, a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and all 390 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.640 it takes is a little good information and some quality 391 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:17.720 plants from a place that knows what they're doing. And 392 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:20.319 that would be our mom and pop garden centers, all 393 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:24.160 independent garden centers, if you will, the ones that are 394 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:27.640 from here, that live here, the garden here, and that 395 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.279 know how to garden here. That is very important. And 396 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:32.920 a good example of that is Warren Southern Gardens out 397 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.160 there in Kingwood and Kingwood Garden Center. They're both out 398 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:40.079 in Kingwood. They've got new arrival, a nice group of 399 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:42.359 citrus has arrived out there. This would be a good 400 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:44.519 time to grab some get those in the ground fig 401 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:46.920 trees as well. They have several different varieties, some you've 402 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:49.599 probably never even heard of, that you can try out 403 00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:53.759 out at the Warren Southern Gardens. For example, they have 404 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:57.160 fall veggies. It's time man to get in your cabbage 405 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:01.319 and Brussels sprouts, coloreds, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, all kinds of 406 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.680 things can be planted as we move into this cool season. 407 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:07.799 And a nice shipment of cactus, including some really rare 408 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.279 gems like the variegated chin cactus and the ghost cactus. 409 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:14.799 I know you're thinking, what, what's a ghost cactor? Well 410 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:18.079 go find out, go go check them out. It's time 411 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:20.440 to get your planters ready for fall. They've got all 412 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.839 the plants to have a beautiful fall planter. Now, if 413 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:25.680 you don't know how to do it, you know, it's 414 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:26.880 like I don't know how to do that. I don't 415 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.279 know which one's a pick. They'll help you or drop 416 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:31.799 your planters off and say you do it, and they'll 417 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:33.240 do it and you come back and pick them up. 418 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.400 Of course it gots to do that, but they are 419 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:41.759 professionals and they can create some gorgeous, gorgeous planters for 420 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:43.759 you for fall, and I know you would love to 421 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:46.559 have a beautiful place going into this fall. Five bucks 422 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:51.039 off micro Life sixty four, Microlife brown Patch, a nitrophost 423 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:54.359 sweet Green, and Azamite through the end of this month. 424 00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:58.359 It ends September thirtieth, five dollars off each bag. Good deal. 425 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:02.480 There's also sale on Bugginator for the pest control from 426 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:05.240 Nitrofoss and they're super Turf from Nitrofoss. They have a 427 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:08.279 tree sale going on right now now while supplies last, 428 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:14.920 but thirty percent off any tree. I cannot emphasize enough 429 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:17.160 how important it is if you're going to plant a 430 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:20.359 tree or a shrub or a woody vine, get it 431 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:24.000 in in the fall. The best planning season is coming 432 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:27.839 up the next two months or just prime time for planning. 433 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:31.640 You plan now, but it is prime time in the fall, 434 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:33.920 and thirty percent off is a good deal. I mean 435 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:37.240 that there's your chance right there. Don't forget. When you 436 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.279 get a tree, you need to get the things to 437 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:43.799 help the roots get established, the roots stimulator. You've got 438 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:47.720 your compost materials. You're working in not the planning hole, 439 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:51.279 but a very large area around the tree. Those tree 440 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:53.160 roots are going to be primarily in the top foot 441 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:55.799 of soil over time, and you don't put it in 442 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:58.519 the planning hole, but you do it in a large area. So, 443 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:03.279 for example, you've got a shale compost mix from airloom 444 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:05.519 soils of Texas. They have that at War and Seven 445 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:08.240 Guards and Kingwack Garden Center. So don't forget described the 446 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:13.359 newsletter too. While you're out there. I wanted to let's see, 447 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:15.599 I was going to I want to make a couple 448 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:18.960 of comments about a couple things that i'd like to 449 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:25.559 When I can occasionally talk to you about landscape tips. 450 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:28.920 You know, just some ideas things that you might want 451 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:33.160 to be aware of, and one of them, let's see here. 452 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:37.119 First thing I want to talk about is landscape planning 453 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:40.319 from a standpoint of texture. You know, when we look 454 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:42.960 at a landscape and we want to plant things, we 455 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:45.240 think about what kind of flowers can I plant there, 456 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:49.799 or shrubs or things, but also consider texture. Texture means 457 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:55.039 the big bold leaves of elephant ears or kalladiums versus 458 00:23:55.359 --> 00:24:00.680 the very fine textured leaves of something like, for example, 459 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:04.079 firecracker fern. It's also called firecracker plant. It's a type 460 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:06.880 of Ruscellia. This thing comes out of the ground. It's 461 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:08.759 almost like a fountain. It comes out of the ground 462 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:12.240 the straight stems with lots of small stems, and it 463 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:15.680 loads up typically with a coral red flower. There's also 464 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:17.759 a white form and kind of a yellowish form that 465 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:20.920 are less common. But these coral red flowers are heavy 466 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.599 and it makes each of the little small thin stems 467 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.319 hang over, so it's just like it's weeping. But it's 468 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:31.559 this giant mound of tubular flowers that hummingbirds and butterflies love. 469 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:34.960 But it's a fine textured plant. That is a cool plant, 470 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:36.680 and you can get them at our garden centers too. 471 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:39.519 By the way, they freeze to the ground in a good, 472 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:41.720 good hard cold snap, and then you just cut them 473 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.440 off and they come right back out again. They look good. 474 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:47.400 But that's an example of a fine textured plant. There's 475 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:50.680 all kinds of textures to leave. Some are kind of 476 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:54.440 soft and almost a velvety feel. Some are very glossy 477 00:24:54.480 --> 00:24:58.079 and shiny. When you do a landscape, don't just think 478 00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:00.279 about you know, it's a shrub or it's a hour 479 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:02.960 or whatever. Think about those textures and mix it up 480 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:05.839 a little bit. It really adds interest to have a 481 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:09.559 variation in textures in your landscape. All right, here's a tip. 482 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:13.759 You are listening to Guardenline our phone number seven one 483 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:17.359 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 484 00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:20.799 three two one two five eight seven four. By the way, 485 00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:24.279 that firecracker fern gets about three to four feet tall, 486 00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:27.279 and because the weight of the blooms kind of causes 487 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:29.440 the branches to lean out. You know, it may be 488 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:33.079 four or five feet or your real ears is really happy, 489 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:35.839 even a little wider in time. But you can prune it. 490 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:37.799 You can trim it. You can control some of that, 491 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:42.319 but well it's a good plant. Love that plant. I 492 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:44.799 have been yesterday, of course, I was at at A 493 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.039 and A Plants and Produce, And as I mentioned while ago, 494 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:49.599 I'm going to be at the Wharton Feed Ace Hardware 495 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:53.599 store next weekend, Saturday, the twenty eighth of September, and 496 00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:56.799 it's going to be an after lunch thing from one 497 00:25:56.839 --> 00:26:00.200 to three. So grab grab some lunch and then come 498 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:04.000 on out to Wharton Ace Hardware, Wharton Feed and Ace 499 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.960 Hardware store. They've gotten all set up out there. Y'all 500 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.240 are fortunate to have that come in to the community 501 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:11.880 out there, because it's gonna be a great store. It 502 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:14.720 is a great store for being out there, and I'm 503 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:16.960 going to be giving away some things as well as 504 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.359 answering your gardening questions. And I don't get out to 505 00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:22.680 Wharton very far, so people listening down in Corpus Christy, 506 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:24.920 I don't know, you know, be a fun day trip. 507 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:28.559 Come on out. Where have you lived down in that direction? 508 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:30.759 Come on out and see me out there at the 509 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:35.920 Wharton Ace Hardware next Saturday, September twenty eighth. And again 510 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:39.160 the time is not like my normal times, A little 511 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:43.599 bit later from one to three one pm to three pm, 512 00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:46.039 I'll be out there, so hope you can come out 513 00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:48.880 and see me at the Ace Hardware. You know Ace Hardware's. 514 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:52.640 We've got ACE Hardware's all over our Greater Houston area. 515 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.000 They're forty stores in our Greater Houston Ace Hardware Group here, 516 00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:57.839 and it makes it really easy. All you have to 517 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:00.000 do is go to Acehardware dot com and you can 518 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:03.319 find a store near you, like Warden Ace Hardware for example, 519 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:06.599 if you go to the store locator, and it makes 520 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:08.839 it easy. Now when you get to ACE, you're going 521 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:10.880 to find the fertilizers I talk about. You're going to 522 00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:14.480 find everything you need to have a bountiful garden and 523 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:18.119 a beautiful landscape, whether you're managing pest, suedes and diseases, 524 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.160 whether you are wanting to fertilize and stimulate the plants 525 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:27.960 to grow organic products, synthetic products, whether you need tools, whatever, 526 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:30.359 If you're just setting up a beautiful outdoor space in 527 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:33.119 the garden with some landscape lights, and you know those 528 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:35.319 little strings of I call them beer garden lights, but 529 00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:38.359 you know there's little strings of lights that don't shine 530 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.039 really bright, but they create that overall this really nice 531 00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:43.599 glow of bombience in the back. They have things like that, 532 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:46.559 things to really take it up a notch out there 533 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:50.599 in the outdoor living spaces that we have. And it's 534 00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:52.759 solid A's Hardware and you need to go into an 535 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:57.279 ACE Hardware because it is amazing what they have. Now, 536 00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:59.599 these are independently on stores and you never I mean 537 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:02.400 there may be fudge bar, a really cool fudge bar 538 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:07.720 in one or a place that you know, etches, cutting 539 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.119 boards and things as for gifts, and it's just like, oh, 540 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:13.200 I didn't know they had that. I promise you there's 541 00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.720 going to be some Oh I didn't know they had that. 542 00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:16.880 When you go into your local ACE Hardware store, it's 543 00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:19.480 a great place forget purchasing too. Well, I got to 544 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:21.079 take a break. I'll be right back. 545 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:30.720 Me the s of you Emmassy Dream Dream. 546 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.759 Welcome back, Welcome back on a nice Sunday. I really 547 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.720 appreciate you guys listening and let's have some fun talking 548 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:40.599 about the things that interest you in gardening. Gardening is 549 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.200 a great hobby. It is fun, it really is. And 550 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:46.240 it doesn't matter what you're into. I mean, you may 551 00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:49.200 not want to go outside, but you may love houseplants. 552 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:52.759 I'm telling you there are more house plants than you've 553 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:56.680 got time left to grow them. I mean, every time 554 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:58.880 I turn around, there's house plants I haven't even heard 555 00:28:58.920 --> 00:29:01.319 of that are now coming on the market. I don't know. 556 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:03.880 Somebody crawling through some jungle somewhere found it and drug 557 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:07.480 it back and started propagating it. It's really cool. And 558 00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:10.880 if you are into herbs, if you're into edibles, fruit, 559 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:13.920 vegetables and herbs, for example, there's that. If you just 560 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:17.640 want to look at hummingbirds and butterflies and whatnot, there's 561 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:20.759 that kind of gardening. If you are a lawn ranger, 562 00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:23.400 you know, the weekend warrior on the lawn, and you 563 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:27.279 want a big, beautiful green carpet and go for it. 564 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:30.759 We can help you with that too. By the way, 565 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:33.960 do you see what I'm saying. How about this? How 566 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.319 about landscaping for fragrance, You're talking about different kinds of landscaping. 567 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:41.720 There are so many plants that have lovely fragrance at 568 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:43.680 different times of the year. One of these days, I'll 569 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.720 let me put something together. I'll talk to you about 570 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:48.720 some of the specific examples and things like that. But 571 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:53.279 I love the fragrance and the landscape. And maybe you 572 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:55.160 don't care about any of the things I talked about. 573 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:57.759 Maybe just you would like to try to grow some 574 00:29:57.799 --> 00:29:59.759 healthy food and vegetables. You don't want to plow up 575 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:02.559 the b you want to use containers. All right, let's 576 00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:05.279 do it. Let's have fun. Get the kids involved. You know, 577 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:08.519 it is so important that kids get connected with nature. 578 00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:12.440 There is a stack of research them all high showing 579 00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:15.039 that when kids get in touch with nature, from a 580 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.240 walk in the forest to time in the dirt in 581 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:20.920 the garden, they are healthier in every possible way. We're 582 00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:23.680 talking about mental health, we're talking about physical health, we're 583 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:26.880 talking about eating differently, because when you grow something, you're 584 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.039 more likely to eat it. I just can't make enough 585 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.720 sales pitches to you on the benefits of gardening. And 586 00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:36.359 if you feel like if you're afraid you're going to fail, 587 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:39.079 don't be afraid. You got to kill a lot of 588 00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:41.440 plants to be a good gardener. So let's get going 589 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:44.000 killing some plants, all right, and then we'll eventually not 590 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:46.960 kill as many plants. I want you to loosen up 591 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.839 and have fun. That is what we're here for, and 592 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:51.839 I can help you do that. Like I like to 593 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:55.240 tell you to say on the air, there are no 594 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:58.279 brown thumbs. There are only uninformed thumbs. And as you 595 00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:01.119 get as you inform your thumb, it's greener and greener. 596 00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:04.240 The reason Grandma could grow seem like anything she put 597 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:06.079 in the ground grew is Chris, Grandma knew how to 598 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.720 do it. It's just a matter of knowledge. It's not magic. 599 00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:12.440 There is no special aura that comes out from some 600 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.319 people that makes plants grow but not others. It's a 601 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.000 matter of finding the right plant, putting it in the soil, 602 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:21.319 and taking care of it right. And you can do that, 603 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.400 you can, And so what is your interest? Are you 604 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:28.240 interested in all of that? Do you want to get specific? 605 00:31:28.599 --> 00:31:32.720 You know, do you like orchids? Well you can that 606 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:35.880 can be your gardening. You can just do orchids if 607 00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:37.519 you want to do that. I think you're going to 608 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:39.799 want to do a lot more because once you get going, 609 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:44.079 so many plants, so little time. It is it's an 610 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:48.400 addictive hobby and it is fun. And we are fortunate 611 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.680 in Houston to have excellent independent nurseries north, south, East, West, 612 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:55.960 and Central. I mean they're all over the place here 613 00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.200 and they're all worth going to you know, I just 614 00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:02.559 I think it's a it's horticulture. Tourism is a good idea, 615 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:05.000 and so I don't care where you live out in 616 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.519 timbuck II. Well go to this nursery one weekend, then 617 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.000 go to another nursery another week Just see what's there. 618 00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:13.799 And everywhere you're going to find a little different. Feel. 619 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.880 You're going to find a little different a group of plants, 620 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:20.480 for example, in some specialize in one thing or another. 621 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:23.960 But it's going to be fun. You're going to enjoy 622 00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:26.759 doing it. And here comes fall, the best planning season 623 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.240 of the year. Get out there now. I know it's 624 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:34.720 still hot outside, but it's not the calendar. I mean, 625 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.279 it's not the temperature. It's the calendar you need to 626 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.599 walk worry about because the average frostate comes when the 627 00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:43.279 average frostate comes, and I don't care if it's hot 628 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:46.599 going all the way up to that. You need to 629 00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:49.000 be doing what you need to do at the right times. 630 00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.319 Our vegetable planning schedules and things that you see around 631 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:56.559 the Houston area, they're designated that way. The best time 632 00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:59.000 to get the soil ready is right now, because the 633 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:02.839 best time to plant is in the fall. So let's 634 00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:05.319 get out, let's get going, and let's have some success 635 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:07.640 and I'll help you do it. We're here, hold your 636 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:12.240 hand if you want. We'll advise as you wish. And 637 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:14.759 we got the great garden centers that we'll do that too. 638 00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:18.759 So don't let the thermometer stop you from getting started 639 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.119 on the best planting season of the year. Let's go 640 00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.319 out to League City and we're going to talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, 641 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:25.839 welcome to Garden Line. 642 00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:31.000 Nice skip, thank you for being on the on the 643 00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:34.400 show's morning. I was in the process of trying to 644 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:37.079 send you a picture, but I didn't have time. There's 645 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:41.720 a few spots in my yard that have a very 646 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:46.720 low growing type of a I guess it's a weed. 647 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:50.400 When i'd use my phone plant Identify, it says it's 648 00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:55.119 carpet grass, and it very low growing, doesn't look like 649 00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.799 Saint Augustine. It's close to the ground, and it seems 650 00:33:58.839 --> 00:33:59.880 to be kind of spreading. 651 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:01.440 I just wanted to do I just treat. 652 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:06.359 That like a weed and use it. It's either if 653 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.400 it says it looks like carpet grass, then it's probably 654 00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:15.000 a dove weed. That's the closest looking weed to your 655 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:15.960 Saint Augustine. 656 00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:16.679 Uh. 657 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:19.599 And I here's what I want you to do. I 658 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:22.119 want you to send me a picture. I'm going to 659 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:23.880 put you on hold if you don't have the Do 660 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:25.199 you have the email address or not? 661 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:26.159 Yes? 662 00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:26.440 I do. 663 00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:30.199 Okay, get a get a good picture and send it 664 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:31.599 to me, because I don't want to send you out 665 00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:34.480 buying and spraying something if we're not really sure of 666 00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:39.239 which weed we're dealing with. Okay, okay, okay, do that 667 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:42.840 and I'll I'll check the email. I'll get you an answer. Okay, okay, 668 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:45.880 thank you very Your answer is probably it's probably going 669 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.880 to be celsius that comes out of my mouth when 670 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:51.000 I when I see the weed. But let's not jump 671 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.920 on that one. Let's be sure. Thanks a lot, fake Paul, 672 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:58.280 appreciate that. Y. You take care? Yeah, you bet, bye 673 00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.639 bye uh night. FUSS has their three step program Three 674 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:08.559 steps Fertilizer weed control, Fungicide for diseases, Fertilizer Night Frost 675 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:12.320 Fall Special Winter Riser. It is designed for helping your 676 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:15.400 grass go into winter strong, to be more cold hardy, 677 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:20.360 and to come out of spring strong. Second barricade weed 678 00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:24.960 control Look at my schedule October October October, but earlier 679 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:28.519 in October is better. You can do it now, but 680 00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:31.440 it's a little on the early side. We don't expect 681 00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:34.039 any cool season weeds to be germinating in the next 682 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:35.920 couple of weeks. But I would get this out in 683 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:40.199 early October because it if you wait until after they're 684 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:43.320 up and grow and you've missed the window. Night frous 685 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:46.719 barricade will work for that. And then finally night Fuss 686 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.400 eagle turf fungicide. It's a systemic. It moves into the 687 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:51.960 tissues of the grass. So when brown patch large patch 688 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.559 and take all patch all try to infect, which they 689 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:59.760 will this fall, then the Eagle fungicide helps shut that 690 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.920 down before it even gets started. Don't wait till the 691 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:05.840 circles appear. You can't make circles green with fungicide. You 692 00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:07.719 need to do it ahead of time. Look at my 693 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.920 schedule and follow that and it'll guide you in that way. 694 00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:13.039 Night Fruss is widely available. You're going to find it 695 00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:15.960 at Fisher's Hardware and Baytown, the one in mop Bellevue, 696 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:18.079 the one in Pasadena, and the one in the Port 697 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:22.000 just as examples. You are listening to Guardline and we're 698 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.119 here to direct you. You know, I keep bragging on 699 00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:26.719 our mom and pop garden centers, and Plants for All 700 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:28.800 Seasons is an example of that. You know, this garden 701 00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:31.760 center's been around since nineteen seventy three, right there on 702 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:36.840 Tombaill Parkway FM two forty nine. I just you know, 703 00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:38.559 I said that a thousand times in my life, and 704 00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:42.159 I just almost went blank. Plants for All Seasons dot 705 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:44.480 Com is the website. When you go into Plants for 706 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:48.000 All Seasons, you're going to find every season the best 707 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:50.159 plants to be planting, and they're loaded and ready to 708 00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.599 go right now. For your fall planting. You're going to 709 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:56.400 also find, and this is very important, the advice, and 710 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:59.679 they are experts, they've been doing this a long time 711 00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:02.519 and they know what they're talking about. You bring them 712 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:04.920 a weed, you bring them a plant that's sick, you 713 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.679 bring them a bug, whatever, and they're going to identify 714 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:08.760 it and they're going to tell you what to do 715 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.880 about it, and they're not going to steer you wrong. 716 00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:13.559 That is why it is so important to go to 717 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:16.960 an independent garden center like Plants for All Seasons and 718 00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:21.400 all the folks up in that whole area between Cyprus 719 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.880 and Tombull. They know plants for all seasons because they've 720 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:26.800 been there a long time and they've had good results 721 00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:29.760 from there. I can guarantee you that they are true 722 00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.920 lawn and garden experts and you will be happy with 723 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:36.800 your results. We're going to head now out to Brazoria 724 00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:40.880 County and talk to Louis Lewis. You know what, Lewis, 725 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.159 I did it again. I did this yesterday. I take 726 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:47.360 a call right before it's time for a break. Sorry 727 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:49.639 about that, man, I have to put you on hold. 728 00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.840 I will come right back to you. Sorry to have 729 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:57.679 to false alarm. Golly, on these days, I'm gonnaigure out 730 00:37:57.679 --> 00:37:59.480 how not to do that. I just get so excited 731 00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:03.360 talking about plants and products and garden centers and whatnot. Hey, 732 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:07.760 don't forget next Saturday, Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware from 733 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:12.239 one to three. That's Saturday, September twenty eighth. Be there 734 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:16.119 or be be squared. I'll be there. I'll be looking 735 00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:17.920 for you, and if you don't show up, I'm going 736 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.440 to tell all your neighbors that show up to go 737 00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:22.679 to your house and plant grasp burds in the yard. 738 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.239 I'm sorry, it's it's gardening terrorism. But you need to 739 00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:27.800 show up and be there. That was that was uncalled for. 740 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:32.320 That anyway, my attempted here. Looking forward to seeing out 741 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:36.599 there though. Seriously, also don't forget I will be or 742 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:40.079 there will be an excellent program coming up on growing 743 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:41.800 food and I'll tell you about it when we come back. 744 00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:42.519 Hi. 745 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:44.760 This is any of the products or services advertised on 746 00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:46.559 this program. 747 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:50.320 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with sci Rictor. 748 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:54.760 It's so pay. 749 00:38:59.159 --> 00:38:59.519 Just what. 750 00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:04.400 Hey, folks, welcome back to Garden Line. We are glad 751 00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:06.360 to have you with us, and we're jumping right into 752 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:08.840 it here. I mentioned right before we went into break 753 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:11.719 there's an upcoming educational program you need to know about 754 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:15.440 the folks. At Oba Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance are putting 755 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:19.119 on a program called So You Want to Grow Good Food? 756 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:22.280 That's a good title. They have a number of speakers 757 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.199 on it, including Bob Randall. Bob's of course you all 758 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.320 know him. He's the author of Year Round Gardening, which 759 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:30.159 if you vegetable garden here in the Greater Houston area, 760 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:33.519 you need to not do it without that book. That 761 00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:36.239 is an excellent, outstanding book, by the way, and he's 762 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.199 a great speaker too. If you want more information on 763 00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:42.679 this program, it is October fifth at the Houston Arboretom 764 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.360 and Nature Center and it's all day on Saturday. It's 765 00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:48.079 eight am to three point thirty pm. And to get 766 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:53.599 more information go to this website OBA online dot ORGHBA 767 00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:59.840 online one word dot org. All right, I was visiting 768 00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:03.880 with Luis from Airlom Soils the other day, and just 769 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.920 give me some information on some of the products and 770 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:09.840 the deals that are going on right now. There is 771 00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:12.360 a you know, Heirloom Soils is the one that has 772 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:17.239 the veggie nerd mix, the rose mix, the excellent potting 773 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.840 soils for indoor and for outdoor called the Works for example. 774 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:22.960 I could just go on and on a while ago 775 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.599 I was talking about the fact that at Warren's, you know, 776 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:29.880 they they had their mix of compost and expanded shale, 777 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.239 which is the best thing you can put into clay. 778 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:36.039 Composts and expanded shale both help loosen up a clay 779 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:41.400 really well well. Right now, right now at the Porter location, 780 00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:43.599 which is where Airloom Soils are made out at Porter 781 00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:48.559 for this is a limited time offer. By the way, 782 00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:52.440 you can either pick up or get a delivery bulk 783 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:56.519 of the Heirloom Soils roast soil or their Veggie and 784 00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:00.599 Herb mix. Roast soil are veggie and herb mix very 785 00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:03.440 limited time, and when you do, you get a free 786 00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:06.800 bag of Microlife sixty four, the green bag of Microlife. 787 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:08.960 This is at the porter location. If you want more 788 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:14.039 information on the porter location, that's rock inmultch dot com, 789 00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:18.119 r O c K the letter N multch dot com. 790 00:41:18.199 --> 00:41:21.280 If you want more information in general on heirloom soils, 791 00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:24.280 heirloomsoils dot com, you need to go there and look 792 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:26.719 at all of the products. And I've tried. I'm working 793 00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:28.960 my way through them. They got so many, I'm working 794 00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:30.719 my way through them, and I have not had one 795 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:34.679 yet that didn't perform outstanding for me in growing plants, 796 00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:38.159 whether it's the container mixes. There's one four that I 797 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.119 used for our succulents that's a cactus and succulent mix 798 00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:45.559 that's outstanding, and on and on down the line. We're 799 00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:47.119 going to go back out to the phones. Now we 800 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:50.119 got Lewis and Lewis and Jorge. I think Lewis has 801 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:52.079 been there a little longer. We're going to go straight 802 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.000 to Lewis and Brassouri County Lewis, This isn't a false alarm. 803 00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:58.280 I'm actually here this time. How can we hit more? 804 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:03.239 Good morning? My question this morning is about products like 805 00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:09.280 super Thrive or Garrett Juice or Medina for pre soaking 806 00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:14.440 say bedding plants, or barried strawberries or berry, say peach trees. 807 00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.119 When you're getting ready to plant stuff and you put 808 00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:18.880 on a pre soak, it even seeds, large seeds. What 809 00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:21.039 are your thoughts on those kind of products. 810 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:24.480 Well, I can't speak to all of them, used all 811 00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:28.679 of them. Yeah, but I know with the Medina, for example, 812 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:32.840 that whenever you are soaking plant roots, number one, soaking 813 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:35.639 them in water is in and of itself beneficial because 814 00:42:35.679 --> 00:42:37.760 you're getting to making sure the roots are moist and 815 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:41.320 held moist before you plan them. Drying out is a problem. 816 00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:45.000 Then when you have the microbial activity that is in 817 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:49.960 these a lot of these Medina products specifically, that is 818 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.760 beneficial because they're putting the kind of microbes in that 819 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.800 either are helping fight, is helping colonize the roots and 820 00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:58.480 doing whatever things you know the microbes are going to do. 821 00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:03.079 Oftentimes will have other substances in them, you know from 822 00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:10.039 natural plant hormones that stimulate roots to I can't say 823 00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:13.719 the word vitamins, different kinds of other substances and all 824 00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.119 of that. It's just kind of amounts to a roots stimulator. 825 00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:18.280 So I think you're going to see a benefit from that, 826 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:21.239 and I would encourage doing so. You're not going to 827 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:24.239 ever burn the roots with those products. They're not salt based, 828 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:29.000 you know, fertilizer where you can burn roots, especially if 829 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.880 it was too high of a concentration. But yeah, I 830 00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:36.119 would do that. I have used a number of different 831 00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:40.840 products that they have, and it's always worked for me, 832 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:43.400 always had good results with them. I've never set up 833 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:45.800 a trial where you know, I replicate it and do 834 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:48.679 all that kind of stuff, but from the standpoint of 835 00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:51.440 just trying them and seeing the results, I've had good 836 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:52.159 results with that. 837 00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:56.719 I'm just curious if you knew of any there's the 838 00:43:56.760 --> 00:44:00.480 ever actually been any type of let's call it study 839 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:05.079 or anything that was empirically measured where you know, they 840 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:09.559 said yeah, okay, they have to look or lasses extract 841 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:11.960 or whatever. Yeah, you don't like the super thrives, like 842 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:15.639 the like the Garrett Juice is those kind of products. 843 00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:19.079 Right, I don't read. Yeah, I don't know I'm telling 844 00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.079 you that would be a hard trial to do, because 845 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.559 you know, in a trial, you try to eliminate all 846 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:27.840 the variables except the one thing you're looking at, you know, 847 00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:32.480 and when you're talking about microbes and microbe content, and 848 00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:35.000 you know, what is the mix of microbes and what's 849 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.119 already in your soil. You know, you may have a 850 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:40.159 very poor soil, you may have a very microbe enriched soil. 851 00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:42.239 You haven't been putting composts and all kinds of things 852 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.119 in it, And so it's just really it's really hard 853 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.440 to just set up a trial where you really could 854 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:49.599 get a good answer on those kinds of things. So 855 00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.599 I think we depend on, you know, the the decades 856 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:55.280 of gardeners and the results they've had and things like that. 857 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.679 And for me, it comes down to just I'm going 858 00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.760 to try it. If I if I'm gonna to promote something, 859 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:02.639 I'm gonna try it planet and see how it does. 860 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:05.800 And I haven't done the strawberry root soaking, like you mentioned, 861 00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:08.840 with the products, but I have used them as transplant 862 00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:11.719 solutions and things. So I hope that helps. 863 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.280 No, No, I just always look for another opinion. Thank you, Skip, 864 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:16.000 I appreciate it. 865 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:21.320 All right, Leis thanks, appreciate the call. Yeah, that is 866 00:45:21.599 --> 00:45:24.519 very very important. You know, we're talking about all the 867 00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:28.400 products he was mentioning products and things. Southwest Fertilizer is 868 00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:31.280 the go to company if you were looking for something 869 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.280 that's hard to find it is. It's in Southwest Houston. 870 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:36.440 It's on Bissonet and Renwick, and I know people that 871 00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:39.719 drive a long way to go there because Southwest is 872 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:42.320 going to have they have all the standard stuff every 873 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.079 fertilizer I talk about at Southwest. If you hear me 874 00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:47.920 mention a product to kill weeds, to fight disease, to 875 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:52.599 deal with insects, it's there. But they have a lot 876 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:55.440 of other things. And so someone I sent someone the 877 00:45:55.480 --> 00:45:59.079 other day there to get one product and they had 878 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.800 like three different ops form. The person was asking me, well, 879 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:03.639 they said they had that, but they also had this 880 00:46:03.719 --> 00:46:05.920 and this. Well all of them are good. They were 881 00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:08.519 all good for the thing. And Southwest is like that. 882 00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:10.280 They're not going to steer you wrong. They're not going 883 00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:12.239 to say you product just because they got it for 884 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:14.920 sale that they want to get rid of the product. 885 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:16.960 They're going to point you to one that'll be success. 886 00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:19.239 And that's why they hang around. You know, they've been 887 00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:22.599 around since n eighteen fifty five, So you don't do that 888 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:24.840 if you don't a have products at work and be 889 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:28.440 take care of your customers. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is 890 00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:31.280 a website corner of Bisonette and Renwick. Get out there 891 00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:32.960 and check it out and you'll see why I am 892 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:35.039 so big on that place. I have to take a 893 00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:38.920 little break here. When we come back, George, David and Joe, 894 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.880 you will be our first ones up line listener. We 895 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:46.280 appreciate that. Hey, have you been out to Enchannon Forest 896 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.840 and Richmond Rosenberg. They are set up for fall. I 897 00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.519 mean you're going to find all your fall vegetables. They 898 00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.199 got a great stock of them, and now's the time 899 00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:57.519 to get them in. Now's the time. Remember what I 900 00:46:57.559 --> 00:46:59.639 said earlier, don't look at the thermometer, look at the 901 00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:02.480 calind Now's the time to get them in. They'll be fine. 902 00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:05.440 Put them in, water them in, get your herbs there. 903 00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.519 They are loaded up with herbs as well. They have 904 00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:12.880 a really good selection of tree planting options. I'm one 905 00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:15.199 of my favorite, and I think it's Danny's too, probably 906 00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:18.880 Chinese fringe tree, Chinese fringe blooms, in the spring and 907 00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:21.840 it is gorgeous. It is a billow of shaggy white 908 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:24.280 blooms with a nice honey like scent, at least that's 909 00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:26.760 what it smells like to me. Somewhere in honey baby 910 00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:30.079 powder somewhere in there. It's a nice plant. And it 911 00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:32.199 doesn't get too big either for a tree. So if 912 00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:35.480 you want something that it's the typical lot sizes that 913 00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:38.400 we have today. Chinese fringe is excellent and they've got 914 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:42.039 them an Enchanted Forest Garden Center out there in the 915 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.320 Richmond Rosenberg area. You just head up, let's see, you're 916 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:47.880 going to go on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So 917 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:50.719 if you're in Richmond Rosenberg going towards sugar Land, it's 918 00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:54.239 off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. While 919 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.639 you're out there, you're gonna find the Night to FoST 920 00:47:56.679 --> 00:47:59.079 Fall special. I talk about the carbo load us, I 921 00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:01.719 talk about the micro like brown patch, I talk about 922 00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:04.480 the barricade and Eagle Fund. All those things I was 923 00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:07.599 talking about, they're going to happen there at Enchanted Forest 924 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.119 Garden Center. Go see, and by the way, take your 925 00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:13.400 camera because the lantana are so loaded with butterfly. I 926 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.320 could not believe every time I go out there and 927 00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:18.880 they have Lananna blooming. It's like every butterfly in the 928 00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:22.480 country has gotten the message. Go to and channel for 929 00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:26.559 us and check out there because they are just everywhere 930 00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:29.119 on it and it's it's some fun butterfly pictures. Take 931 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.440 the kids with you when you do that. Also, let's 932 00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:35.719 see here we are going to go to David in 933 00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:39.840 West Columbia. David, Welcome to garden Line. 934 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:46.199 Yes, sir, my neighbor has an abundance of cats, and 935 00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:50.280 as you know, privacy fans don't de tear cats, and 936 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:54.440 they are using my plants. They are using my plants 937 00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:57.679 as a as a litter box in my yard. 938 00:48:58.199 --> 00:48:59.559 Yes, and everywhere else. 939 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.920 Is there something I can put on my plants and 940 00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:05.639 yard that will deter the cats but don't hurt the green. 941 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:10.079 There are some smell things that I've heard people putting 942 00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:12.880 out there. I've never bought or used those things, so 943 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.480 I don't know how well they work. I have put 944 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:20.320 in potted plants, especially in the house. You can just 945 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:23.039 cut a little section of like hardware cloth or something, 946 00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:25.000 and it sort of like becomes a little screen that 947 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:26.800 sits on the surface, so they can't dig in the 948 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:31.840 in the plant. I've known people that put pebbles almost 949 00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:34.880 like not river rock size, but pretty good chunk sized 950 00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:38.320 little rock pebbles in the surface of plants to also 951 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:41.920 keep them out. That's about it as far as what 952 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:44.400 I would suggest. But you might want to try one 953 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:48.280 of those smelly scare them away sprays and see if 954 00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:51.800 that works. I haven't tried those a right jeep, Thank you, 955 00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:55.760 all right, David, good luck. Hey. I had a friend 956 00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:57.400 when I was a kid. I knew a guy that 957 00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:00.599 actually worked for my dad and he had He was 958 00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:02.960 so upset about it. He had actually done the map. 959 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:05.000 He knew how many cats are wearing the neighborhood and 960 00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:07.039 how many times they went to the bathroom every day. 961 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:12.480 It was hileritou but it's not funny, but it does 962 00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:17.639 help the laugh sometimes when you, oh, he was alerted, 963 00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:19.159 you should have heard him talk about it. He had 964 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:24.079 done the math. Thanks David, I appreciate your call. George 965 00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:26.800 and Jersey Village, Welcome to guarden Line. How can we help? 966 00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:30.480 Good morning, Skiff, Good morning. I try to find that 967 00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:34.360 whibs that you just mentioned. The obo online dot org that. 968 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:39.199 Doesn't seem to go h oh hb A oh hb 969 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:45.159 A organic horticulture benefits all right, glad that all. 970 00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:48.639 Hold on, hold on, don't go away. My sweet potatoes 971 00:50:48.679 --> 00:50:51.519 when I picked them yesterday. They're beautiful, but they taste 972 00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:55.440 like junk. So why yelled at me? So how can 973 00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:57.440 I make them taste better? Can I want to plan them? 974 00:50:57.480 --> 00:50:59.440 Can I put some sugar in the bottom of the 975 00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:01.199 hole or something like that, or anything I can do 976 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:02.159 to fix the beast. 977 00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:07.480 No sugar comes from the leaves getting sunlight. So I've 978 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.400 not had a bad I've not had a junk tasting 979 00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:13.360 sweet potato like that. Grow. That's a new one to me. 980 00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.719 Are they good size? Are they good sized? Potatoes? 981 00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:20.360 Big as my hand or something like that? They're very 982 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:24.239 beautiful statues. But yeah, okay, well. 983 00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:27.280 Right now, there is a there is a curing process. 984 00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:29.239 You know, when you dig a sweet potato, they typically 985 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.960 put them in a warm not hot, but kind of 986 00:51:31.960 --> 00:51:35.559 a warm moist storage for a period of time, and 987 00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:38.079 it's it's part of the curing process and sets the skin. 988 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:40.880 I've never tried eating one straight out of the ground, 989 00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:44.880 so I'm wondering if that may be part of it. Yeah, George, 990 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.719 I'm gonna have to look into that again. I haven't 991 00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:51.400 had that problem before. And if they're a good sized 992 00:51:51.400 --> 00:51:54.159 sweet potato, that means the leaves made a lot of sugar, 993 00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:57.760 and so it may just be that there is a 994 00:51:57.800 --> 00:51:59.960 starch sugar thing that goes on there. I don't know 995 00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:01.679 that's the new one. I'll look into it. 996 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:05.880 They're about six inches long and three inches in diameter 997 00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:08.639 or something like that. A pretty good size. 998 00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:11.960 Okay, okay, let's see what I can find. I'll mention 999 00:52:12.039 --> 00:52:13.639 it on the air if I come up with anything. 1000 00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:17.119 Appreciate the call. Thanks a lot, Thank you. You take care, 1001 00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:23.239 you bet. Warbirds Unlimited is loaded up for the one 1002 00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:26.519 of the best seasons of the year. I think hummingbirds 1003 00:52:26.559 --> 00:52:28.719 are coming through and they are loading up. I don't 1004 00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:31.199 know how hummingbird flies across the golf from Mexico, but 1005 00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:33.079 it takes a lot of sugar to do it. And 1006 00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:34.840 at my house they are going to the plants I 1007 00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:37.679 planted for them, and they are going to my hummingbird feeders. 1008 00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:39.719 I got two feeders, two from wabirds. As a matter 1009 00:52:39.719 --> 00:52:42.920 of fact, the high perched feeder that it didn't matter 1010 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.199 what you put out there, you put a good quality 1011 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:47.480 feeder out there with good sugar water and it you 1012 00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:48.920 can make your own, or you can buy one of 1013 00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:51.079 their mixes. They have a thing that I use in 1014 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:54.000 my sugar water that makes it lasts longer. In a 1015 00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:58.639 ninety five degree day, sugar water starts to get pretty 1016 00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:01.119 nasty out there, and you can't leave it in the 1017 00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:03.679 feeder for a week. It's not good for the hummingbirds. 1018 00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:06.920 And so this stuff you put in it's a natural 1019 00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:10.519 mineral substance and it makes it last over a week 1020 00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:14.559 and it works really good. Also, other birds migrating through you, 1021 00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:18.719 like Baltimore orioles, and then here comes wintertime just around 1022 00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:22.559 the corner. They have the best selections of bird seed 1023 00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:25.760 mixes that I know of. And that cheap bird seed 1024 00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:28.360 you buy at other places where you get the little 1025 00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:30.960 red bebes and the birds kick half of the all 1026 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:32.480 of that out because they don't want to eat it. 1027 00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:35.800 You end up paying more for your bird seed because 1028 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:39.039 you don't they waste half of it, they're not going 1029 00:53:39.079 --> 00:53:41.000 to use it. That's not the way it is with Walldbirds. 1030 00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:43.760 And there's six Wallbirds stores near you go check one 1031 00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:49.960 out wbu dot com, Forward Slash Houston that is where 1032 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.800 you need to go WBU dot com forward Slash Houston 1033 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:56.440 find the one closest to you. We're going to go 1034 00:53:56.519 --> 00:53:59.280 now out to Kingwood and talk to Joe Hey, Joe. 1035 00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.920 Good More Skip. I had a quick question for you. 1036 00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:07.599 I've got my nitrofoss Fall special at barricade ready to go, 1037 00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:11.480 and do you recommend go ahead and putting them down 1038 00:54:11.559 --> 00:54:14.800 now or do you recommend wait a few weeks on 1039 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:15.679 putting those down? 1040 00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:20.840 I would I would king what I would probably put 1041 00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:24.920 those out about You could do it at the very 1042 00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:27.679 end of September or at the very beginning of October. 1043 00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:29.360 I think if it was mine, I'd probably do it at 1044 00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:30.280 the beginning of October. 1045 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:31.079 Uh. 1046 00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:34.679 And now, if we're going to get some coal front 1047 00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:36.719 coming in and we're gonna get rain and the temperature 1048 00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:39.840 is gonna drop down, you want to do it then? Okay? 1049 00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:43.719 Because the weed seed germination is based on soil temperature, 1050 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:47.000 and as it cools off, the weeds you're going to 1051 00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:49.400 prevent at this time of the year are going to 1052 00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:53.119 start germinating, and you need that barricade down ahead of time. 1053 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:57.519 As far as the fertilization, late September is okay. I'd 1054 00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:00.480 probably do it in first of October two and it 1055 00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.719 will gradually provide those nutrients out there as the grass 1056 00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:07.079 moves into the cool season. And so you got you 1057 00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:09.280 got time for that one. But you don't want to 1058 00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:11.320 delay for sure on the on the barricade. 1059 00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:14.519 On this you say, do delay on the barricade. 1060 00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:19.360 No, you don't. What you can delay. But as soon 1061 00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:23.239 as the temperature's right, that coldfront, some cool rain and stuff, 1062 00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:25.840 you're gonna start to see the cool season weeds beginning 1063 00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:27.960 to germinate. And that's why I'd rather get it out 1064 00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.480 and early. It's gonna last a while. So if you 1065 00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:32.519 get it out the beginning of October, it's gonna still 1066 00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:35.519 be working for you through November doing what it does. 1067 00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:41.000 Great. And do you recommend waiting a few days between 1068 00:55:41.960 --> 00:55:45.719 putting out the barricade and then the fertilizer later. 1069 00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:48.519 No, I would do them both. And here's why. You 1070 00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:51.320 put one out and you come back and don't put 1071 00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:53.159 them in the same hopper. Come back, hold up the 1072 00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:55.400 other one, put it out, and then turn on your 1073 00:55:55.400 --> 00:55:58.760 sprinklers for about thirty and inch half inch of water, 1074 00:55:59.239 --> 00:56:01.679 just enough to move it down into the soil surface 1075 00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:04.360 and then both of them can go to work, especially 1076 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:07.880 that barricade. It doesn't the granules sitting on the ground 1077 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:10.639 dry or not controlling anything. When you get some water, 1078 00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:13.840 it washes the product into the soil surface and then 1079 00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:15.119 you get the weed control from that. 1080 00:56:16.199 --> 00:56:17.320 Thank you, I appreciate it. 1081 00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:24.639 Skip okay, you take care. Appreciate the colt trying to 1082 00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:26.679 watch my clock a little bit better this time than 1083 00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:31.239 I often do. Mucanna's Native Plants is an outstanding place 1084 00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:34.000 to go to in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street there. 1085 00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:35.639 If you haven't been, you need to go just to 1086 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:38.599 see the place. Now. They specialize in natives, and if 1087 00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:40.880 you're looking for any kind of I mean not just 1088 00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:42.800 I want a native plant, but I want a nadi 1089 00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:46.480 plant that attracts hummingbirds so that next year they're hanging 1090 00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:48.639 out at my house just to go to the flowers 1091 00:56:48.679 --> 00:56:50.960 on this plant. They can do that. I want butterfly 1092 00:56:51.119 --> 00:56:53.880 native plant. I want you fill in the blank. They 1093 00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:57.760 also have an outstanding selection of everything fall right now. 1094 00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:01.840 All those fall colors, you know, the nges and reds 1095 00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:04.599 and things that we think of is like Thanksgiving colors 1096 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.480 or Halloween colors. They've got all those kind of plants, 1097 00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:10.440 and you can get set up and have a beautiful fall. Remember, 1098 00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:13.639 forget the temperature, don't look at the thermometer, look at 1099 00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:16.039 the calendar. It's time to do those things. Get those 1100 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:18.599 things in the ground so you can enjoy them. Yeah, 1101 00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:21.440 I tell you, marigolds are a great fall plant. They're 1102 00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:23.920 yellow and orange and kind of a color in between 1103 00:57:23.960 --> 00:57:26.960 the two of those, and they just glow up until 1104 00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:29.559 the first frost, which is a long time away done 1105 00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:32.480 in our area here, and so take advantage of it. 1106 00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:35.280 Go out to Buchanan's Plants while you're there, grab some 1107 00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:38.039 of the fertilizer products they carry. They carry the things 1108 00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:40.039 I talk about here on Guardline. They also have some 1109 00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:42.800 great soil based products some of their own as well, 1110 00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:46.679 and just get set up. Let's have a beautiful fall, 1111 00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:50.159 and let's let Buchanan's Plants provide the supplies you need 1112 00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:53.480 to make that happen. I'm going to go now out 1113 00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:57.000 to friends would and we're going to talk to Jake. Jake, 1114 00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:00.159 looks like I've got a couple of minutes here. See 1115 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.039 if we can get your question, or we'll carry you 1116 00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:02.880 over if we need to. 1117 00:58:03.760 --> 00:58:06.800 All right, should be quick, uh, We've got an area 1118 00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:09.760 between the sidewalk and the street that was covered up 1119 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:13.159 with a debris from kirka burrow that is now contic 1120 00:58:13.239 --> 00:58:14.559 but wheats and touch and. 1121 00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:16.239 I want to put I'm thinking I want to put 1122 00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:17.199 blue bonnets. 1123 00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:21.320 Or other wild bird wild seeds out there. Is that 1124 00:58:21.840 --> 00:58:24.079 how can I keep it attractive throughout the year, not 1125 00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:27.280 just the eight to ten weeks that the flowers are blooming. 1126 00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:31.800 So so you're wanting to not have grass there, but 1127 00:58:31.840 --> 00:58:34.119 you're wanting to have other kinds of plants. 1128 00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:41.360 I'm thinking blue bonnets, wildflowers, Texas wildflowers specifically the whole array. 1129 00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:46.519 Yeah. Wildflowers are. Yeah, they're wonderful that you know, they 1130 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:50.360 have their seasons. And so since it's right out front, 1131 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:53.519 you have to be a little bit. You have to 1132 00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:56.960 change your aesthetic opinion a little bit because you know, 1133 00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:59.679 when you're blue bonnets are done blooming, they're not very pretty, 1134 00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:02.199 you know, and then something else is coming on, So 1135 00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:04.039 you can't mow the whole thing because you got another 1136 00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:04.800 flower coming on. 1137 00:59:05.639 --> 00:59:05.760 Uh. 1138 00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:08.320 And so that that's just something you may want to 1139 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:12.519 think about. You could you could do other things out there. 1140 00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:16.639 I don't know what your preferences would be. But you 1141 00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:20.320 could certainly do just blue bonnets, for example, in that 1142 00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:23.719 area initially, maybe do some different colors of blue bonnets, uh, 1143 00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:27.239 and then when they start to go down, you could 1144 00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:31.519 plant something like a zenia, a dwarf, a compact type 1145 00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:34.280 of zenia, or one called narrow leaf sinia out there 1146 00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:36.760 and do that. Those are just a few of the 1147 00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:41.039 of the options options. Let's do this. I'm going to 1148 00:59:41.159 --> 00:59:43.480 run to a break let if you if you want 1149 00:59:43.480 --> 00:59:45.880 to keep talking about this, that's fine. Just hang on. 1150 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:48.000 I'm gonna put you on hold and we'll be back 1151 00:59:48.039 --> 00:59:50.760 with you as soon as I get back. Welcome back 1152 00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:54.079 to garden line. Hey, if you would like to visit 1153 00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:56.800 about something regarding your plants, just give me a call 1154 00:59:56.880 --> 01:00:00.159 seven one three two one two five eight seven for 1155 01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:03.599 I'll listen to you brag about the tomato agree this summer, 1156 01:00:03.639 --> 01:00:05.480 but only for a very short time. We can't put 1157 01:00:05.519 --> 01:00:09.440 up with that now, seriously. I'll also listen to you 1158 01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:12.519 and commiserate with you on the allergies going on. By 1159 01:00:12.519 --> 01:00:16.039 the way, right now, let's see, we got grass allergies, 1160 01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:19.119 we got ragweed allergies, and what is the other one 1161 01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:21.920 that probably seed or I don't know. I know Central 1162 01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:24.920 Texas they are suffering from cedar fever when it gets 1163 01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:28.079 into the fall season and moves in the cooler weather. 1164 01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.159 You know, we end up fighting them when we live 1165 01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:34.559 anywhere in the country really just about. There are some 1166 01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:38.440 areas that are fairly allergy free, but others it's just 1167 01:00:38.519 --> 01:00:40.840 part of a seasonal deal. I know, by the third 1168 01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:44.679 week of September it's going to hit every year about 1169 01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:47.039 the time dove hunting season for those of you dove 1170 01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:51.800 hunters hit. Somehow, allergies hit about that same time too. Ragweed, 1171 01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:57.840 those are really really problematic. One well, I wanted to 1172 01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:01.280 talk a little bit about the Nelson Water Garden folks. 1173 01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:03.599 You know, I was out at Nelson Water Gardens visiting 1174 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.159 a while back, looking at the different products that they carry. 1175 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.199 Now it's actually Nelson Nursery and water Gardens. I still 1176 01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:13.199 call it Nelson Water Garden because you know, they are 1177 01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:16.239 nationally famous for water gardens. They've been doing that a very, 1178 01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:19.320 very long time. But they also have an outstanding nursery. 1179 01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:22.559 And every time I'm there, it's like, oh, you also 1180 01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:24.800 carry that. I did not realize you also, Okay, and 1181 01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:27.280 they do. They have so many things, you know, the 1182 01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:30.159 fertilizers that you need for your plants to help them 1183 01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:34.280 be successful. I love going to see the plants that 1184 01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:36.480 they have, but I also love going to see the 1185 01:01:36.519 --> 01:01:39.320 water features and to hear the water features they have. 1186 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:44.440 There is nothing as calming as the sound of running 1187 01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:47.440 water out in your backyard, patio area or wherever you 1188 01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:49.360 want to put it. You put in the front entrance 1189 01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:52.519 if you want. It's just it's just nice. They have 1190 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:55.440 the disappearing fountains, they have the little waterfalls. They can 1191 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.159 build them. They can. They can sell you the product 1192 01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:00.280 for them, and then you go build it yourself if 1193 01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:02.519 you're that kind of do it yourself, or they don't 1194 01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:06.360 mind doing that. But they do excellent work and they 1195 01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:09.159 again are well known. They're nationally known. When it comes 1196 01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:13.760 to those little discipearing fountains, there's like a large urn 1197 01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:16.760 that the water comes over, rolls down the side and 1198 01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:20.199 circulates back through again. They invented that and they know 1199 01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:24.119 how to do those things. And whether you're wanting the 1200 01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:26.800 plants that go in the water garden, the fish you know, 1201 01:02:26.920 --> 01:02:29.800 like the koi and shabunk and whatnot, they go into 1202 01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:35.400 a water garden They've got you covered. That's the bottom 1203 01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:37.280 line on it. And you will find when you go 1204 01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.760 there their pottery selection and it's the beautiful features they 1205 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:42.880 have are wonderful. 1206 01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:43.199 It is. 1207 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:45.440 It's kind of a showplace, it really is, and a 1208 01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:47.960 destination and I would encourage you think of it as 1209 01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:50.280 your West Houston garden center. You know how said we 1210 01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:54.159 got north south east west, Well directly out west on Katie. 1211 01:02:54.199 --> 01:02:56.400 You just hit Katie turned north on Katie Fort Ben 1212 01:02:56.440 --> 01:02:59.519 Road and you're there. Here's the website. Write this down 1213 01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:04.400 and you can all that you want. Nelson Water Gardens 1214 01:03:04.599 --> 01:03:09.840 Plural dot com, Nelson Watergardens dot com. I'm going to 1215 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:13.320 go out now to Jean in Chapel Hill. Hello, Jean, 1216 01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:14.400 welcome to garden Line. 1217 01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:18.280 Good morning, Thank you for the call, taking my call. 1218 01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.559 This you back late spring, early late spring, early summer, 1219 01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:26.519 we had a lot hundreds, if not thousands of small 1220 01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:30.119 eggcorns or oak trees growing up from all the acorns 1221 01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:31.840 that came out of the shoe mart and the live 1222 01:03:32.039 --> 01:03:35.639 oak trees. And we decided to dig up a few 1223 01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:39.719 and put them into gallon pots. And they're growing fairly well, 1224 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:43.199 but they're pretty small. My question is when can we 1225 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:45.199 put those in the ground. 1226 01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:48.480 You know, I would. I'd probably put them in the 1227 01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:52.119 ground at the beginning of November. You could do it 1228 01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:54.719 in late October, beginning of November something like that. We 1229 01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:57.559 want the weather to cool enough to where the demands 1230 01:03:57.559 --> 01:04:01.440 are minimals, so any transplant shock is minimum, but still 1231 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:03.920 get it done early enough to give them every possible 1232 01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:07.960 week possible before next summer heat arrives. And so when 1233 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:09.880 you take them out of the pot, if they have 1234 01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:13.119 circling roots, you either need to unwind the roots and 1235 01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:16.320 dig a hole to fit or cut the roots one 1236 01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:18.119 or the other. Don't leave them in the ground with 1237 01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:20.960 circling roots because that tree will grow and the root 1238 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:23.440 will grow and one day it will start to strangle 1239 01:04:23.480 --> 01:04:25.440 the tree and you have a mess on your hands. 1240 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:29.360 Okay, very good, Well, thank you. That answers my question. 1241 01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:33.159 All right, all right, thank you very much, Thank you. Bye, 1242 01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:37.800 appreciate that call you, Bye bye bye. I was talking 1243 01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:41.079 earlier about this nitroposs three step program, and I think 1244 01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:44.239 it's an ingenious thing that they've done, because this is 1245 01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:46.079 a time of year where we need to be talking 1246 01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:49.760 about getting our fall ready for the fertilizer. That's designed 1247 01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:53.360 for fall to make our plants go into fall stronger, 1248 01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:55.559 to be more cold hearty, and to come out of 1249 01:04:55.800 --> 01:05:00.320 fall stronger as well in the spring. Just hear me 1250 01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:04.519 again on this spring initial spring lawn and growth is 1251 01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:07.519 based on stored energy in the grass plant and where 1252 01:05:07.559 --> 01:05:10.840 did that stored energy come from? Nutrients and sunshine in 1253 01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:16.559 the fall, So it's very important for your spring green up. Secondly, 1254 01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:20.159 it's the time to deal with weeds once the temperature drops. 1255 01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:23.480 Each weed species has a certain temperature where it'll start 1256 01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:26.840 to germinate and grow. In the spring, it's the warming 1257 01:05:26.920 --> 01:05:29.119 up of the soil for our warm season weeds. In 1258 01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:32.039 the fall, it's the cooling down of the soil for 1259 01:05:32.119 --> 01:05:35.000 our cool season weeds. So if you look at my schedule, 1260 01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:37.599 October is the time I say get your pre emergence 1261 01:05:37.639 --> 01:05:40.480 down now. Weeds are going to germinate November. There may 1262 01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:43.039 be some germinating warm days in December if they haven't 1263 01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:45.840 germinated yet, But you don't want to wait until they're 1264 01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:48.000 already sprouting. You want to get ahead of them. And 1265 01:05:48.079 --> 01:05:52.440 barricade is the product, by the way, for fall fertilizing. 1266 01:05:52.519 --> 01:05:55.840 It's nitrophosphall special winter riser that's the name of the 1267 01:05:55.840 --> 01:05:58.960 product for the weeds. It's barricade, and you put it down. 1268 01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:01.440 It's a granule. You water it in, just a little 1269 01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:03.920 bit of water moving into the surface, and then when 1270 01:06:03.920 --> 01:06:06.440 the weed sprouts, it's going to shut it down and 1271 01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:08.559 you don't have to reapply it and reapply it. Barricade's 1272 01:06:08.559 --> 01:06:10.119 going to last you all all to the end of 1273 01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:12.920 the year, really, and so you're good to go there. 1274 01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:17.679 The third step is the fall diseases, which primarily is 1275 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:21.599 the large patch also called brown patch or formerly called 1276 01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:25.079 brown patch. Most people still call it brown patch and 1277 01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:29.119 take all root right. Those are the biggies and the 1278 01:06:29.320 --> 01:06:33.519 fungicide called Eagle from nitrofoss. Eagle like the bird that 1279 01:06:34.119 --> 01:06:37.000 is systemic. It moves into the plant and when those 1280 01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:40.039 diseases show up, that plant is ready to fend them off. 1281 01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:43.400 So if you wait until the big circles appear, you 1282 01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:47.519 missed your window. Don't do that. Get that down follow 1283 01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:52.800 my schedule. October. If you see a nice cool snap 1284 01:06:52.840 --> 01:06:55.199 coming through with some rain and stuff, boy, I would 1285 01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:58.400 immediately when that has passed so it doesn't wash it 1286 01:06:58.440 --> 01:06:59.760 all the way, I would get out there and get 1287 01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:02.280 that that Eagle down and water it in real good 1288 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:04.159 to shut it down. It'd be good to be ahead 1289 01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:07.039 of that though, and being a systemic, it's gonna be 1290 01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:09.599 in the ground or in the grass plant for a while, 1291 01:07:09.679 --> 01:07:11.480 so it's not like you know, it just lasts a 1292 01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:13.920 little bit. It's gonna give you good control. Now you're 1293 01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:16.320 gonna find this at ACEH Hardware and Sinkle Ranch the 1294 01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:19.119 Arborgate and Tomball Shades of Texas, either the one in 1295 01:07:19.159 --> 01:07:22.920 South Houston, Southeast Houston, or actually the one in Southeast 1296 01:07:22.920 --> 01:07:26.519 Houston on Genoa Red Bluff Road. I'm gonna take it. Hey, 1297 01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:29.679 welcome to garden Line. Thanks for joining us. I appreciate that, 1298 01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:32.280 I actually do. I don't take it for granted that 1299 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.480 you listen to garden Line. There's a lot of things 1300 01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:37.719 you could be doing and listening to and whatnot, and 1301 01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:39.960 we're glad to have you here. I personally think it 1302 01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:42.760 is going to help you have better success in your garden. 1303 01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:46.760 I've been doing this for thirty five years professionally. Actually 1304 01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:49.719 have been doing it my whole life. I grew up 1305 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:53.360 with the garden. But I do know the things that 1306 01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:56.079 it takes to have success, and that's what we try 1307 01:07:56.079 --> 01:07:58.440 to do. And anytime you have something pop up, you know, 1308 01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:01.320 what's this bug? What's this disease? I saw a plant 1309 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:02.920 the other day. Here's a picture of it. What is it? 1310 01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:05.079 I'd like one? Does it grow here? All of those 1311 01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:06.800 kinds of questions, we can help you with those in 1312 01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:10.159 our number seven one, three, two, two, fifty eight seventy four. 1313 01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:12.599 I tell you who else can help you with things 1314 01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:16.039 like that, and that's our garden centers r CW Nursery, 1315 01:08:16.039 --> 01:08:19.119 for example. That is a garden center that is there 1316 01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:24.800 where Highway or FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes 1317 01:08:24.840 --> 01:08:29.279 into Beltweg eight and r CW is always a good 1318 01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:34.560 place to go and get whatever kind of plants, you know, vegetables, herbs, flowers, shrubs, trees, finds, 1319 01:08:35.880 --> 01:08:38.640 you name it. Right now, I want to I just 1320 01:08:38.680 --> 01:08:42.600 want to feature talking about the fact that they grow 1321 01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:46.600 their own trees and they have outstanding trees, and their 1322 01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:50.439 trees are fifteen percent off this month. This month is September, 1323 01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:54.039 and you need to get a tree now because fall 1324 01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:56.439 is the time to plant them. If you know, they 1325 01:08:56.520 --> 01:08:58.199 say the best time to plant a tree is forty 1326 01:08:58.279 --> 01:09:00.680 years ago. The second best time is today, and that's 1327 01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:03.520 really true. Especially when today is in the fall and 1328 01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:06.760 we're entering that season. They have them from seven gallons 1329 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:09.039 all the way up to two hundred gallons. Now, obviously 1330 01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:10.680 you're not going to throw a two hundred gallon in 1331 01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:13.399 the back of your ugo and take it home, but 1332 01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:15.560 they'll bring it to you and plant it for you. 1333 01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:19.239 They also offer that available service if you would like 1334 01:09:19.319 --> 01:09:22.760 to do that. They have new Mexican white oaks, which 1335 01:09:22.800 --> 01:09:25.560 is called Monterey oak. It is one of the fastest 1336 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:29.279 growing oaks and it is a long lived quality species 1337 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:32.159 Mexican white oak or monteraeak. They have them in a 1338 01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:35.560 hunter gallon. They've got two hundred gallons southern magnolias that 1339 01:09:36.039 --> 01:09:39.840 you want instant pizazz and wow, a two hundred gavan 1340 01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:43.399 gallon southern magnolia is it. They'll provide all the information 1341 01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:46.279 you need to find the right location. They'll give you 1342 01:09:46.319 --> 01:09:48.199 planning tips. They even have the products, you know, the 1343 01:09:48.279 --> 01:09:50.600 root stimulators and things like that that you can take 1344 01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:55.119 with you when you buy a tree. RCW nurseries dot 1345 01:09:55.199 --> 01:09:59.079 Com is the name is the website and if you 1346 01:09:59.119 --> 01:10:01.319 want to actually go buy there and visit with them, 1347 01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:05.439 they are it's actually fifteen eight oh nine Tombol Parkway. 1348 01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:08.000 I like to just say Tombo Parkway at belt wag eight. 1349 01:10:08.359 --> 01:10:11.039 Just look it up on your maps. It's easy to 1350 01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:14.000 get to. And there could not be a better time 1351 01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:15.560 for you to go buy and get one of their 1352 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:18.159 trees than this fifteen percent off sale that they're having 1353 01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:24.159 right now. That's pretty amazing. Someone i think Lewis called 1354 01:10:24.199 --> 01:10:27.319 earlier and was talking about some of the different companies 1355 01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:33.039 that have different kinds of microbial products that are used 1356 01:10:33.079 --> 01:10:37.359 in stimulating growth of plants or in transplanting or soaking roots. 1357 01:10:37.359 --> 01:10:39.039 I think was part of the question that he had, 1358 01:10:39.640 --> 01:10:42.880 and Medina has a number of those kinds of things. 1359 01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:45.479 One of the ones that I would, you know, if 1360 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:48.479 I were going to the Medina line of plant foods, 1361 01:10:48.479 --> 01:10:50.479 I mean, you know, I might use something like the 1362 01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:53.840 hum atumic acid or the Medina Plus or or something 1363 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:56.840 like their seaweed products. But I think the best one 1364 01:10:56.880 --> 01:11:00.600 for that might be there has to grow six twelve six. Now, 1365 01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:03.760 the has to grow six twelve six. It's got the NPK, 1366 01:11:03.960 --> 01:11:07.399 the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, phosphorus being very 1367 01:11:07.399 --> 01:11:12.680 important for roots, and six percent of potassium. He's got 1368 01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:15.920 the medina soil activator in it, which includes a lot 1369 01:11:16.039 --> 01:11:19.720 of biological activity, and then the humate humic acid that's 1370 01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:23.399 a final decomposition stage of compost is humus and the 1371 01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:26.840 humte humic acids full of acids. Those kinds of things 1372 01:11:27.199 --> 01:11:29.880 are part of that. They help improve the soil structure. 1373 01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:33.319 It also has seweed extracts in it as well. You 1374 01:11:33.319 --> 01:11:34.760 can do it as a folio. You're not going to 1375 01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:37.319 burn your plants with it. It's but it's really good for 1376 01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:40.800 transplanting and that's the has to grow six twelve six. 1377 01:11:40.840 --> 01:11:43.359 It only takes one ounce in a gallon of water 1378 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.000 and you just I drench it over the whole plant 1379 01:11:46.039 --> 01:11:48.479 with a watering can get them on the foliage, but 1380 01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:50.319 you also get it down in the soil, which is 1381 01:11:50.359 --> 01:11:52.560 the primary place where it's going to do what it 1382 01:11:52.600 --> 01:11:56.880 does best. Medina has to grow six twelve six. Plant 1383 01:11:56.880 --> 01:11:58.880 food would be the one I would point you to 1384 01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:02.640 if you're going to do any planting and oh my gosh, 1385 01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:06.680 it's fall. I hope you're planning on doing planting. I 1386 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:08.880 just am going to beat that drum as long and 1387 01:12:08.960 --> 01:12:12.079 hard as I can because it's the best time. You know, 1388 01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:15.960 I'm talking about fall for woody ornamentals, tree shrubs, woody vines, roses. Yes, 1389 01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:19.279 I know February Valentine's Day is supposed to be when 1390 01:12:19.279 --> 01:12:21.720 you plant roses. That's fine, you can do that. You 1391 01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:23.319 can plant them in July if you want, if you 1392 01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:26.319 take good care of them. But fall is an excellent 1393 01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:29.560 time to plant roses. Don't wait till Valentine's Day. Do 1394 01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:32.960 it now, get it done, and that rose will have 1395 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:36.239 a head start on the one you planted on Valentine's Day. 1396 01:12:37.079 --> 01:12:38.880 You see what I'm saying. If you plant now, you're 1397 01:12:38.880 --> 01:12:42.479 giving them a head start. That is really really important. 1398 01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:45.279 You are listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven 1399 01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:49.279 to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1400 01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:51.560 I got time for one more call, I believe, before 1401 01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:54.920 we go into our next top of the hour break. 1402 01:12:55.199 --> 01:12:58.520 If you would like to give a call. I want 1403 01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:00.680 to talk to you a little bit about Quality home products. 1404 01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:03.960 I had mentioned them before, and the thing you need 1405 01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:06.560 to know about quality home is this. They have high 1406 01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:10.800 quality products of various types, including generators, and they carry 1407 01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:15.079 the Generac generator, and they have some special deals for 1408 01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:17.479 trade ins and stuff. You just need to call them 1409 01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:21.079 and ask about that makes it very valuable a resource 1410 01:13:21.119 --> 01:13:23.880 for you to have that trade in value. They have 1411 01:13:24.039 --> 01:13:27.640 done a bazillion homes and a boy right now. People 1412 01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:30.560 since the storms we've had earlier in the year, have 1413 01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:34.000 been buying generators because you go without power for two 1414 01:13:34.039 --> 01:13:37.199 weeks and suddenly generator sounds like a good idea. And 1415 01:13:37.239 --> 01:13:41.119 that's happened twice for a lot of folks. The reason 1416 01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:43.359 I like quality Home, the thing I want it, I 1417 01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:45.239 want you to understand is you can go buy a 1418 01:13:45.319 --> 01:13:48.960 generator at a lot of different places. But to get 1419 01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:53.039 a good quality deal and to get everything they offer, 1420 01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:59.039 you can't get just everywhere. Quality Home starts with talking 1421 01:13:59.079 --> 01:14:02.560 with you and making sure you get the generator package 1422 01:14:02.760 --> 01:14:06.760 that fits your needs. You know, what do you need 1423 01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:09.880 to run the whole house air conditioning and all do 1424 01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:12.479 you need to just be able, you know, to keep 1425 01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:16.079 your internet online and refrigerators and freezers from going bad? 1426 01:14:16.159 --> 01:14:18.319 I mean, do you see what I'm saying. There's different 1427 01:14:18.399 --> 01:14:20.680 packages out there, but then they deal with all the 1428 01:14:20.840 --> 01:14:23.720 things that you have to do to get permission to 1429 01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:25.920 put the thing in. There's regulations and you don't have 1430 01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:27.720 to jump those hoops. They know how to do it. 1431 01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:30.479 They're running with you. Then they bring in contractors that 1432 01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:33.680 are quality home contractors, not people they go out and 1433 01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:36.279 hire like some generator companies do, to come in and 1434 01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:38.640 do the work. So you know, you're now you've got 1435 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:41.119 a third party or a fourth party out there trying 1436 01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:43.479 to coordinate all that and make it happen. It's all 1437 01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:46.319 in house with them, and then once they put it 1438 01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:51.439 in their service after the sale, they twenty four seven, 1439 01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:55.479 three hundred and sixty five days a year. They're there 1440 01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:57.960 to help you with your problems that you might have. 1441 01:14:58.079 --> 01:15:01.359 If you need it serviced, you need anything, they just 1442 01:15:01.439 --> 01:15:04.560 talk to them about this. It's family owned operation, a 1443 01:15:04.720 --> 01:15:10.279 Houston local company since nineteen eighty nine. QUALITYTX dot com 1444 01:15:10.359 --> 01:15:13.720 is the phone number and excuse me is the website 1445 01:15:13.760 --> 01:15:16.039 and the phone number is seven to one three Quality. 1446 01:15:16.079 --> 01:15:21.000 Those are real easy QUALITYTX dot com seven one three Quality. 1447 01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:23.399 You need to give them a call. We're going into 1448 01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:25.760 a cooler season now where people aren't thinking about that, 1449 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:28.439 and that's a great time to go ahead and start 1450 01:15:28.479 --> 01:15:33.039 the process of getting one for your home. Let's see here, 1451 01:15:33.159 --> 01:15:36.359 we are going to go out to Ralph and Katie. Ralph, 1452 01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:39.159 I have got about one minute, So let's see if 1453 01:15:39.199 --> 01:15:40.199 we can get this done. 1454 01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:46.760 Okay, yesterday, walking the perimeter of our yard, I noticed 1455 01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:53.560 the gray circle and you said about the eagle product 1456 01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:59.439 to put it out next month is but if you 1457 01:15:59.479 --> 01:16:01.720 already have a circle, what do you need to do 1458 01:16:01.800 --> 01:16:02.039 on that? 1459 01:16:03.319 --> 01:16:05.640 Well, you can still put it out. You can put 1460 01:16:05.640 --> 01:16:07.800 it out at the end of September. You can put 1461 01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:11.079 it out in early October. I generally point to early 1462 01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:13.239 October because that's when we finally start to get the 1463 01:16:13.279 --> 01:16:15.560 real col fronts through here that are that are cooling 1464 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:20.399 things off. Either way, if you want, that's my answer 1465 01:16:20.399 --> 01:16:22.720 to your question. If you want, you can send me 1466 01:16:22.760 --> 01:16:25.319 a picture of what you're calling a gray circle. I'll 1467 01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:27.239 be happy to take a look at it. And it 1468 01:16:27.319 --> 01:16:30.000 may be that I see something else in the picture, 1469 01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:34.800 but if it's truly a large patch, brown patch, what 1470 01:16:34.840 --> 01:16:36.520 we just talked about is what you need to do. 1471 01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:40.199 Great, Do I call back or just send the picture? 1472 01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:44.239 No? No, no, just no, Just hang on and I'll 1473 01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:46.359 I'm gonna put you on hold. The producer will pick 1474 01:16:46.399 --> 01:16:49.479 it up. He's juggling a couple of things right now. 1475 01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:51.920 To be patient. He'll be back with you and we'll 1476 01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:54.439 get you. We'll get that picture and I'll answer you 1477 01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:59.359 by email. All right, sir, thank you. There you go, folks, 1478 01:16:59.439 --> 01:17:02.720 another hour in the books. I just want to remind 1479 01:17:02.760 --> 01:17:06.359 you next Saturday, the twenty eighth, I'll be at Wharton Feed. 1480 01:17:06.720 --> 01:17:10.760 So all of you way down south and west come 1481 01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:13.239 out and see me, or just out west drop down 1482 01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:14.800 to work. I'm driving a long way to get there. 1483 01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:17.119 You can't do if you live in Wharton. My gosh, 1484 01:17:17.159 --> 01:17:19.239 you have to come out. I think it's mandatory. They're 1485 01:17:19.239 --> 01:17:20.840 going to be going house to house and warton and 1486 01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:22.960 can true to show up. We're going to be doing 1487 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:25.399 all the fun stuff we do at appearances, Wharton Feed 1488 01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:28.039 and Ace Hardware a new store down there, cool store. 1489 01:17:28.039 --> 01:17:30.359 We're gonna have a lot of giveaways too. I hope 1490 01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:31.359 you'll come out and see us. 1491 01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:37.960 If you have a lawyer, an accountant, a businessman in 1492 01:17:38.000 --> 01:17:41.880 your family and they're very proud of their office and 1493 01:17:41.920 --> 01:17:45.279 they only have the classiest things on the wall, and 1494 01:17:45.359 --> 01:17:48.119 you want something they can add to that collection, go 1495 01:17:48.159 --> 01:17:53.439 see US coins. They have rare coins, they have rare notes, 1496 01:17:53.880 --> 01:17:59.119 they have rare memorabilia, rare flags, historical flags, US coins 1497 01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:02.039 on iten just outside the loop seven one four six 1498 01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:04.039 four sixty eight sixty eight. 1499 01:18:06.640 --> 01:18:08.279 It's turf grass. 1500 01:18:08.319 --> 01:18:31.640 Just watch him as all. 1501 01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:25.239 Right, folks, welcome back to Guarden Line. Glad to have 1502 01:18:25.319 --> 01:18:27.359 you with us, Good to be back. We've got I've 1503 01:18:27.359 --> 01:18:29.000 got a special guest coming up here. I want to 1504 01:18:29.720 --> 01:18:31.560 I want to take about from eight eight thirty. I 1505 01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:33.760 think we're going to visit about a few things. You'll 1506 01:18:33.760 --> 01:18:35.720 see it in just a moment. I'm gonna let the 1507 01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:38.840 suspense build, I guess for just a moment. I wanted 1508 01:18:38.880 --> 01:18:41.439 to mention I haven't talked about Star Hope in a while, 1509 01:18:41.479 --> 01:18:44.079 and I just wanted to mention about Star of Hope. 1510 01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:47.600 You know, summer is waning now and we're really looking 1511 01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:49.359 forward to the holidays, but a lot of the people 1512 01:18:49.359 --> 01:18:52.199 that are homeless here, they're basically looking forward to the 1513 01:18:52.239 --> 01:18:55.159 next meal. And with Star of Hope, I cannot think 1514 01:18:55.159 --> 01:18:59.680 of a better use of your hard earned money than 1515 01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:03.560 to support someone who is in need. Through Star of Hope. 1516 01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:08.960 The way that they manage and utilize funds is outstanding, 1517 01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:13.520 and the difference they make is incredible. I've talked to 1518 01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:17.039 folks who have gone through their programs. I know the 1519 01:19:17.119 --> 01:19:19.119 kind of work that they've done. I've heard the stories 1520 01:19:19.159 --> 01:19:22.119 as well. For two dollars and fifty cents, you can 1521 01:19:22.159 --> 01:19:25.640 provide a meal to a homeless person. And homelessness has 1522 01:19:25.800 --> 01:19:30.079 a lot of different faces across the Houston area. When 1523 01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:32.600 you hear the stories, it's like, well, yeah, I never 1524 01:19:32.640 --> 01:19:35.079 thought about that before, or oh, I see how that 1525 01:19:35.119 --> 01:19:37.119 would be a problem. Like, for example, you lose your job, 1526 01:19:37.159 --> 01:19:40.279 you lose everything, you're homeless, you don't how do you 1527 01:19:40.359 --> 01:19:42.800 suddenly have a way to get a job, how do 1528 01:19:42.840 --> 01:19:45.039 you get to work? What if you're dealing with the 1529 01:19:45.079 --> 01:19:47.760 substance abuse problem? What if you got kids and you 1530 01:19:47.760 --> 01:19:51.439 need daycare and you find some job that's not enough 1531 01:19:51.560 --> 01:19:53.600 to pay for all the above and end up with 1532 01:19:53.640 --> 01:19:57.479 anything to pay the bills. Star of Hope solves those problems. 1533 01:19:57.479 --> 01:19:59.399 So how many meals will you provide? My wife and 1534 01:19:59.439 --> 01:20:02.239 I support Star of Hope. I hope that you will 1535 01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:04.960 join us and together we are making a difference. You 1536 01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:06.720 can give hope and you can give it now by 1537 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:09.960 going to Star of Hope And here's the website s 1538 01:20:10.079 --> 01:20:13.760 O Hmission dot org. I want to tell you this too. 1539 01:20:14.000 --> 01:20:17.239 This month, three locations of suit Mart are hosting their 1540 01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:20.920 annual September sale, and a portion of their selected suit 1541 01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:23.840 sales will be donated to Star of Hope. That's Suitmart. 1542 01:20:24.279 --> 01:20:29.680 Suit Mart during the month of suit Member, their annual 1543 01:20:29.760 --> 01:20:33.520 suit Member. That's a good name for it, all right, 1544 01:20:33.560 --> 01:20:35.800 I just wanted to share that with you. Well, let's 1545 01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:40.600 end the suspense. Our special guest today is the Texas 1546 01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:43.279 Garden Guy, Dustin Oak, a friend of mine. Dustin and 1547 01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:45.279 I have not been friends a long time. We met 1548 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:47.600 not too long ago, but I really liked the guy, 1549 01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:50.039 and I know you do too. He is super popular 1550 01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:54.520 on the social media. Hey, Destin, welcome to Garden Line. 1551 01:20:56.279 --> 01:21:01.119 Are you there. It's going well? I can, yes, now 1552 01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:03.880 I can. Good to talk to you. I was watching 1553 01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:07.600 some of your stuff online, Uh, some of your online 1554 01:21:07.640 --> 01:21:10.039 stuff the other day. Is it's just really great and 1555 01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:12.319 you got I know you have a big following on 1556 01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:14.840 that and I encourage anybody listening if you if you 1557 01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:17.119 haven't found the Texas Garden Guy, you need to go. 1558 01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:20.399 You need to go check him out. Pretty much every 1559 01:21:20.399 --> 01:21:26.960 social media platform. It seems like you're you're ubiquitous out there. Well, 1560 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:32.319 I asked you, that's it, that's it. You're like Roy Kent, 1561 01:21:32.640 --> 01:21:37.000 He's here, he's there, He's everywhere. Anyway. That's what's the 1562 01:21:37.039 --> 01:21:40.079 name of that show. I can't even say it, Lasso 1563 01:21:40.199 --> 01:21:44.840 ted Lasso comment. So I Askedston. I asked Destin to 1564 01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:48.399 come on and talk about First of all, I want 1565 01:21:48.399 --> 01:21:50.239 to talk about figgs, Deston, and I know you are 1566 01:21:50.279 --> 01:21:53.960 a fig aficionado, uh, and a lot about it, and 1567 01:21:53.960 --> 01:21:56.359 tell us a little bit about uh, you know figgs, 1568 01:21:56.640 --> 01:21:59.439 Why why you like him? And some of your favorite 1569 01:21:59.520 --> 01:22:00.920 types of figs to grow? 1570 01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:03.079 Yeah. Absolutely. 1571 01:22:03.720 --> 01:22:06.640 You know, now that we're getting more colder temperatures down 1572 01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:09.439 here in the Houston area, a lot of people have 1573 01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:12.880 been losing their citrus and losing their tropicals. A lot 1574 01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:14.920 of the fruit trees, and one of the trees that 1575 01:22:14.960 --> 01:22:18.479 I've been recommending people to grow that really can handle 1576 01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:20.359 the cold. You know, it takes a whipping, it keeps 1577 01:22:20.359 --> 01:22:23.760 on kicking, is the fig tree. You know, they do 1578 01:22:23.840 --> 01:22:26.600 with containers. They do well on the ground, whether your 1579 01:22:26.600 --> 01:22:29.119 soil is well draining or it's that black gumbo in 1580 01:22:29.159 --> 01:22:31.920 a subdivision. They really don't care. They will grow it 1581 01:22:31.960 --> 01:22:35.199 everywhere and within the first year you'll get you'll get fruits. 1582 01:22:35.319 --> 01:22:38.640 So my favorite varieties or any of the LSU varieties. 1583 01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:41.239 I love the work. I love the purple, I love 1584 01:22:41.279 --> 01:22:43.720 the LSU black, I love I love them all. He 1585 01:22:43.800 --> 01:22:45.319 can't go wrong with figs. 1586 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:48.880 Yeah, I think the purple may be the most common 1587 01:22:48.920 --> 01:22:50.680 one of those that I see around. 1588 01:22:51.319 --> 01:22:51.439 Uh. 1589 01:22:51.600 --> 01:22:54.399 And it does really work really well. What was bread, 1590 01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:57.359 you know, for for this kind of climate down here? 1591 01:22:57.520 --> 01:23:01.079 So so it does super And you're right, you know, 1592 01:23:01.119 --> 01:23:07.640 figs being such a fast to fruit, uh is really amazing. 1593 01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:08.279 Uh. 1594 01:23:08.600 --> 01:23:10.720 Do you ever have to deal with problems on your figs? 1595 01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:12.439 I know from time to time I get calls on 1596 01:23:12.479 --> 01:23:14.880 people that have deals, you know, they maybe have polish 1597 01:23:14.920 --> 01:23:19.079 diseases or some some souring of fruit or birds or 1598 01:23:19.560 --> 01:23:21.319 any kind of critters like that. What are some of 1599 01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:24.159 the challenges you might have to deal with or that 1600 01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:25.720 you've dealt with on your figs. 1601 01:23:26.399 --> 01:23:29.119 I'd say probably the most common message I get is 1602 01:23:29.119 --> 01:23:32.680 about copper figure or fig rusts. You know, people are 1603 01:23:32.720 --> 01:23:35.039 concerned that they're you know, their figs are getting rusty 1604 01:23:35.079 --> 01:23:38.880 looking and they're falling off, and that's fine. Defoliation is 1605 01:23:38.920 --> 01:23:42.239 common usually usually I'll get it right after the first 1606 01:23:42.239 --> 01:23:45.079 crop in the spring. I'll get some defoliation, but then 1607 01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:47.760 it comes right back. It's not really an issue do 1608 01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:48.680 you need to worry about. 1609 01:23:48.960 --> 01:23:49.760 Some people use. 1610 01:23:49.720 --> 01:23:52.600 Fungus sides and all kinds of remedies, but I kind 1611 01:23:52.600 --> 01:23:54.840 of just let the fig be the fig and let 1612 01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:56.840 it drop its leaves and they come right back. 1613 01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:01.319 And they are pretty resilient. Yes, they are. 1614 01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:03.880 And another issue people will get with their figs is 1615 01:24:03.880 --> 01:24:07.199 they keep losing their figs to either squirrels, possums, or 1616 01:24:07.279 --> 01:24:11.159 the infamous mocking bird. And I've kind of kind of 1617 01:24:11.159 --> 01:24:14.239 found a couple of methods that I use to keep 1618 01:24:14.279 --> 01:24:17.319 them safe from the critters. I use those little Organza bags. 1619 01:24:17.319 --> 01:24:20.279 People use them for you know, rice at weddings. They 1620 01:24:20.399 --> 01:24:22.560 put the rice in their little bags at weddings and 1621 01:24:22.560 --> 01:24:24.960 in them ount those little drawstring bags. You can put 1622 01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:27.720 them over your figs as they start to ripen up, 1623 01:24:28.039 --> 01:24:31.279 and typically the critters I can leave them alone, especially 1624 01:24:31.319 --> 01:24:32.439 if you have insects. 1625 01:24:32.159 --> 01:24:33.199 Issues as well. 1626 01:24:33.279 --> 01:24:36.199 So lots of ways to keep cool. See. 1627 01:24:37.920 --> 01:24:40.079 Yeah, and those are Ganza bags. Those are those are 1628 01:24:40.119 --> 01:24:42.800 pretty darn handy. I use them for plant breeding, like 1629 01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:45.920 breeding okra and stuff, because you put them over a 1630 01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:48.520 bloom and the bugs can't get in there to mess 1631 01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:50.680 up your breeding plans, you know, in other words, the 1632 01:24:51.680 --> 01:24:54.960 bees and stuff. It allows you to protect the blooms 1633 01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:57.920 and so you get to pollinate them. Ravan a pollinator. Uh, 1634 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:00.640 those are those are really cool? You know. I grew 1635 01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.159 up with a fig tree. It was south of San 1636 01:25:03.159 --> 01:25:08.560 Antonio in Jordantoon, Texas, Atascosa County, and we didn't freeze 1637 01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:11.159 enough down there really at that time, at least it didn't, 1638 01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:13.520 and we had a single trunk tree that came up 1639 01:25:13.560 --> 01:25:16.920 and had branches. And I find that now it seems 1640 01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:19.800 like we get freezes often enough to where we end up. 1641 01:25:20.279 --> 01:25:22.279 They may freeze pretty far back and we end up 1642 01:25:22.279 --> 01:25:27.199 more with multi stemmed fig bushes, but tree size. But 1643 01:25:27.319 --> 01:25:30.039 fig bushes, is that it for you? Or do you 1644 01:25:30.079 --> 01:25:31.920 try to train years into a single trunk? 1645 01:25:32.920 --> 01:25:35.640 So I tend to try like a trim everything up 1646 01:25:35.720 --> 01:25:39.720 like a tree. And figs are super easy to prune 1647 01:25:39.760 --> 01:25:41.199 back because you can't really go wrong. 1648 01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:42.000 For the most part. 1649 01:25:42.359 --> 01:25:44.600 Most varieties that we have here in Houston are going 1650 01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:46.720 to be the kind of you're talking about that will 1651 01:25:46.720 --> 01:25:49.800 die back every single winter when they come back like 1652 01:25:49.840 --> 01:25:51.840 a bunch of hands and fingers throw on the ground 1653 01:25:51.880 --> 01:25:54.279 and looks at a giant bush, but a couple of 1654 01:25:54.359 --> 01:25:57.920 rides that will stay a single stem. I've noticed in 1655 01:25:57.920 --> 01:26:02.520 my lsu Or rourke white Mersailles have do not die 1656 01:26:02.560 --> 01:26:05.479 back as hard and so they are actually still a 1657 01:26:05.520 --> 01:26:07.920 single stem fig tree. So you're looking for like a 1658 01:26:07.960 --> 01:26:11.800 single stem tree. The white mersai, the white mercies and 1659 01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:14.039 the lsu Or work have not died. 1660 01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:17.840 Back very hard for me, So. 1661 01:26:16.479 --> 01:26:19.439 That those are true, it will say more the tree form. 1662 01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:24.000 Well, that is really good to know, very good to know. Uh. 1663 01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:24.520 You know. 1664 01:26:26.119 --> 01:26:28.920 When it comes to figs. Something people don't know is 1665 01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:33.319 that historically we uh well, well, gosh it, here I 1666 01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:35.520 go again. I get so into these talks that I 1667 01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:37.479 forget about the time I got to take a quick break. 1668 01:26:37.560 --> 01:26:38.880 Can you hang on just a little bit and come 1669 01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:43.159 back and continue this discussion. Thank you very much. All right, folks, 1670 01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:48.199 I'll be right back with Destin Noke, the Texas Garden Guy, 1671 01:26:49.000 --> 01:26:51.239 and I'm gonna jump right back into our conversation we're 1672 01:26:51.239 --> 01:26:55.479 having with Destin Noke, the Texts Garden guy. Hey, Dustin, 1673 01:26:55.600 --> 01:26:58.640 we were talking figs, uh, and I just want to 1674 01:26:58.640 --> 01:27:00.239 continue that for a little bit. And then I got 1675 01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:02.319 one other topic. I'd like to pick your brain about 1676 01:27:02.319 --> 01:27:04.439 because I know you know a lot about it. First 1677 01:27:04.439 --> 01:27:08.119 of all, on the figs, people didn't realize that years ago, 1678 01:27:08.199 --> 01:27:11.319 like one hundred years ago, this was a major commercial 1679 01:27:11.399 --> 01:27:14.000 fig producing region. I mean, we're talking about hundreds of 1680 01:27:14.039 --> 01:27:17.119 acres of figs in the Gulf Coast area here. I 1681 01:27:17.159 --> 01:27:21.000 don't know if you've run across that, but that's you know, 1682 01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:23.159 one fig tree produces a lot of figs. I don't 1683 01:27:23.159 --> 01:27:25.159 know what you do with the one hundred acres of figs. 1684 01:27:25.520 --> 01:27:27.760 That's a lot. Yeah. 1685 01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:32.520 Actually, Paarland actually wasn't known for the pears back in 1686 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:34.800 the day. They're actually they had a large, large fig 1687 01:27:35.319 --> 01:27:38.600 orchards out there in Parland. They were a huge producer. 1688 01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:39.960 There. 1689 01:27:39.960 --> 01:27:42.920 You go, well, so it's a good fruit. It's an 1690 01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:47.039 easy fruit and for someone wanting to garden organically, fig 1691 01:27:47.239 --> 01:27:49.640 is one of the top fruit that you can choose 1692 01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:51.279 that you're not going to have to spray a lot, 1693 01:27:51.279 --> 01:27:52.840 and you can get to get fruit you're gonna get 1694 01:27:52.840 --> 01:27:56.359 by without spraying. And I mean there's a sales pitch 1695 01:27:56.399 --> 01:28:00.520 for figs right there. Let me speaking of sales. 1696 01:28:01.239 --> 01:28:03.039 Hold on hold real quick, I'm gonna say, if you're 1697 01:28:03.039 --> 01:28:05.960 interested in getting into pigs. We're having our first annual 1698 01:28:06.039 --> 01:28:09.640 fig Toberfest on October fifth down at Angels and Texas. 1699 01:28:09.640 --> 01:28:12.039 You can you can find the event on Facebook as 1700 01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:14.760 a free event. You come, there's a chance you're gonna 1701 01:28:14.840 --> 01:28:17.000 end up with a fig tree, So come on, come 1702 01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:17.800 all a bye. 1703 01:28:18.840 --> 01:28:21.199 Well, you took the words out of my mouth. So 1704 01:28:21.319 --> 01:28:25.359 that's exactly right in Angleton, the Brazoria County Extension, I 1705 01:28:25.439 --> 01:28:28.439 was Kimberly, mayor the horticulturist. That's your that's your extension 1706 01:28:28.479 --> 01:28:31.279 horticulturist in Brazoria County. Kimberley is a wonderful agent. 1707 01:28:31.800 --> 01:28:31.960 Uh. 1708 01:28:32.039 --> 01:28:35.199 She's gonna have this and she's going to have some speakers. 1709 01:28:35.239 --> 01:28:37.439 Doctor Hartman from Texas and M is going to be 1710 01:28:37.439 --> 01:28:41.000 talking about fig research. Uh. There'll be a talk by 1711 01:28:41.039 --> 01:28:45.520 Steven Yannick uh from the Victoria area actually on fig 1712 01:28:45.560 --> 01:28:48.279 trials and the pest disease and varieties of figs that 1713 01:28:48.319 --> 01:28:51.000 do best. And then deston who you're hearing now, our 1714 01:28:51.079 --> 01:28:53.920 Texas garden guy will be there talking. Uh, you have 1715 01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:56.520 to tell me what your topic is. Gonna be Phil's Figs, 1716 01:28:56.600 --> 01:28:58.880 your old buddy Phil de Angelus is gonna be there too. 1717 01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:01.720 Is that right, Yes, sir, I'm gonna be more of 1718 01:29:01.760 --> 01:29:03.880 a master of ceremonies and we'll be hosting kind of 1719 01:29:03.920 --> 01:29:04.079 the thing. 1720 01:29:04.079 --> 01:29:07.279 I'm gonna let the sky talk I'm left talking about. 1721 01:29:07.920 --> 01:29:12.800 I'm we're bringing Phil Phil's Figs down from Wilmington, North Carolina, 1722 01:29:12.880 --> 01:29:15.439 and actually the fig Hunter from California is coming down 1723 01:29:15.479 --> 01:29:15.840 as well. 1724 01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:16.520 So it's gonna be. 1725 01:29:16.479 --> 01:29:19.279 An awesome time the fig Hunter. Oh my gosh, and 1726 01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:21.199 you have to have this thing. Well, I'm trying to 1727 01:29:21.239 --> 01:29:24.960 do garden line, so I can't go, dad gum it. Well, 1728 01:29:25.000 --> 01:29:25.600 we will make sure. 1729 01:29:25.760 --> 01:29:27.720 We will make sure to record and try to live 1730 01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:29.079 stream a lot of it because there's a lot of 1731 01:29:29.079 --> 01:29:30.479 people that want to come that can't make it. 1732 01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:36.039 So oh, yes, hey, if y'all are interested in going 1733 01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:40.520 to this, it's a great program. You know, the URLs 1734 01:29:40.560 --> 01:29:43.079 and everything are kind of funky. Just call nine seven 1735 01:29:43.199 --> 01:29:47.720 nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight. That's the Brazoria 1736 01:29:47.760 --> 01:29:50.840 County Extension Office nine seven nine eight six four fifteen 1737 01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:54.640 fifty eight again October fifth, from eight am to one 1738 01:29:54.720 --> 01:29:59.159 pm in Angleton at Lakeside Park. Okay, but but call them. 1739 01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:01.359 You got to go to this. This is cool stuff, 1740 01:30:01.399 --> 01:30:03.319 all right, before we run out of time. It looks 1741 01:30:03.319 --> 01:30:06.239 like I got about eight, eight or nine minutes here. Uh, 1742 01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:10.800 tell me about the desert rose. I think people when 1743 01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:13.479 they hear the word desert and rose, they probably don't 1744 01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:16.000 know what the picture. And this is something I think 1745 01:30:16.039 --> 01:30:17.600 you've really gotten into. Is that right? 1746 01:30:18.920 --> 01:30:19.119 Yeah? 1747 01:30:19.159 --> 01:30:19.880 I know for sure. 1748 01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:22.000 I bought my first one a couple of years ago 1749 01:30:22.039 --> 01:30:24.239 and I was at my buddy Jorges Hidden Gardens and 1750 01:30:24.279 --> 01:30:27.359 you had this cool looking plant that I'd never seen before. 1751 01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:29.359 It looked like a potato that had a bunch of 1752 01:30:29.399 --> 01:30:32.720 branches coming out of the ground and had these beautiful, 1753 01:30:32.720 --> 01:30:35.439 like almost almost pulmeria looking flowers. 1754 01:30:35.880 --> 01:30:37.479 And I had to have it. I had to have it. 1755 01:30:37.640 --> 01:30:39.800 I'm I'm a plant hoarder, and so you know when 1756 01:30:39.800 --> 01:30:41.840 I when I see something I've never seen before, I. 1757 01:30:41.800 --> 01:30:42.720 Got to get it, you know. 1758 01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:45.239 And you know, over the last two or three years, 1759 01:30:45.279 --> 01:30:49.159 I've accumulated probably thirty of them, and I've even started 1760 01:30:49.159 --> 01:30:51.800 growing up for seed. But what they are there, the 1761 01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:54.479 type of plane is called a cottiform, and a cottiform 1762 01:30:54.600 --> 01:30:56.960 is like a camel, you know, it holds all its 1763 01:30:57.039 --> 01:31:00.560 water in the base and when you buy them nurseries 1764 01:31:00.560 --> 01:31:04.760 they're typically real swollen and they're submerged in soil. And 1765 01:31:05.119 --> 01:31:07.439 the coolest thing about them is when you buy them, 1766 01:31:07.560 --> 01:31:09.560 you can unpod them and you can see how much 1767 01:31:09.680 --> 01:31:11.039 craziness is. 1768 01:31:11.000 --> 01:31:12.159 Down to manique the soil. 1769 01:31:12.199 --> 01:31:17.800 I mean, it looks insane videos with oh it's so 1770 01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.479 cool looking and there. They really handle our climate really 1771 01:31:21.520 --> 01:31:25.439 well with the hot, hot spring and summers we're getting. 1772 01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:28.199 They just they are not full tolerant whatsoever. 1773 01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:29.600 That's the only thing. 1774 01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:33.119 But they're in a container you can bring them in 1775 01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:35.359 the winter time and stuff. So it'd be a good 1776 01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:39.079 one for a new gardener who's afraid they can't grow stuff, 1777 01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:41.439 because it's not that hard keeping them going right. 1778 01:31:42.399 --> 01:31:42.760 For sure. 1779 01:31:42.760 --> 01:31:44.840 As long as they're a well draining soil, they will 1780 01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:47.600 handle the It will handle pretty much everything you throw 1781 01:31:47.640 --> 01:31:47.960 at them. 1782 01:31:48.279 --> 01:31:49.399 A lot of first time. 1783 01:31:49.279 --> 01:31:52.640 Gardeners, you know, they want to water, water, water, you know, 1784 01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:54.319 and this is one of those things that you don't 1785 01:31:54.359 --> 01:31:55.840 really have to water but maybe. 1786 01:31:55.560 --> 01:31:58.119 Once a week. So it's it's it's something you don't 1787 01:31:58.119 --> 01:31:59.479 have to worry about. You can just leave it. 1788 01:31:59.439 --> 01:32:03.119 Alone, all right. Well, there you go. I mean you 1789 01:32:03.119 --> 01:32:05.439 can't you can't ask for much more than that and 1790 01:32:05.479 --> 01:32:08.840 you said you did? You say you have about thirty 1791 01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:10.119 of them? 1792 01:32:10.359 --> 01:32:11.119 Oh at least. 1793 01:32:12.960 --> 01:32:19.359 Yeah. You know, folks, you get into horticulture and they 1794 01:32:19.399 --> 01:32:22.399 don't warn you about this, but it is addictive. I'm 1795 01:32:22.399 --> 01:32:24.680 pretty sure there's a wing of the Betty Ford Clinic 1796 01:32:24.720 --> 01:32:27.720 for gardeners because you start getting into this and the 1797 01:32:27.760 --> 01:32:30.720 next thing you know, you got eight hundred thousand plants 1798 01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:33.159 and you know, the family can't even walk through the 1799 01:32:33.199 --> 01:32:37.840 house or the yard. Oh boy, but that's fun, isn't it. 1800 01:32:38.920 --> 01:32:42.000 Oh yes, sir, it's not hurting anybody because you know what, 1801 01:32:42.039 --> 01:32:44.239 you can always send people homew with plants and make 1802 01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:44.920 room for more. 1803 01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:49.079 You know, there you go, you know, and that's something 1804 01:32:49.199 --> 01:32:50.359 people need to think about. 1805 01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:50.800 You know. 1806 01:32:50.880 --> 01:32:53.600 Now's the time when you could be taking cuttings from 1807 01:32:53.640 --> 01:32:57.279 something like a rosemary, for example, getting it rooted and 1808 01:32:57.399 --> 01:32:59.720 giving it away is a gift plant, you know, sometime 1809 01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:02.159 for the holidays, or maybe people come over with Thanksgiving 1810 01:33:02.199 --> 01:33:04.039 for a meal, or you go to somebody's house for 1811 01:33:04.079 --> 01:33:07.880 Thanksgiving and you take some little Rosemary's that you're rooted yourself. 1812 01:33:08.079 --> 01:33:10.479 People appreciate getting gifts like that. 1813 01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:11.760 One. 1814 01:33:12.800 --> 01:33:16.079 Everybody has ever been to my house knows you leave 1815 01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:17.279 with at least one plant. 1816 01:33:17.399 --> 01:33:18.640 You never leave empty handed. 1817 01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:21.960 All right, Well I'm going to bring my pickup when 1818 01:33:21.960 --> 01:33:30.000 I get over there, so uh yeah, no problem at all. Yeah, 1819 01:33:30.119 --> 01:33:32.600 there we go. Well that sounds good. Well tell us 1820 01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:35.199 let's see here. I've got just a few minutes left. 1821 01:33:35.199 --> 01:33:38.279 I'd like to hear more about some of your online activities. 1822 01:33:38.680 --> 01:33:42.279 I kind of a chance to tell folks on Instagram, Facebook, 1823 01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:44.399 you know, where can they see you? How can they 1824 01:33:44.399 --> 01:33:45.960 find out more and stuff like that. 1825 01:33:47.039 --> 01:33:49.399 Yeah, so I've got to go by Texas guard guy 1826 01:33:49.439 --> 01:33:54.119 on pretty much every social media platform. Tak Go just 1827 01:33:54.159 --> 01:33:56.239 got back from a road trip to Alabama that they 1828 01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:59.720 went to a huge home homesteading YouTube meet up over there. 1829 01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:03.720 Just posted the vlog of that I did about eight 1830 01:34:03.800 --> 01:34:06.439 nursery tours. I like to go see nurseries on them 1831 01:34:06.439 --> 01:34:09.159 in different places and check out se a varieties of 1832 01:34:09.159 --> 01:34:10.239 stuff they are and so. 1833 01:34:10.520 --> 01:34:11.680 That can do a little bit shopping. 1834 01:34:11.720 --> 01:34:13.960 But so I've posted a lot of those videos on 1835 01:34:14.039 --> 01:34:17.119 YouTube and Facebook, and then we also do our podcast, 1836 01:34:17.119 --> 01:34:20.159 The Garden Party every week on Wednesday at seven pm 1837 01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:23.359 live on Facebook and YouTube, and then you can find. 1838 01:34:23.199 --> 01:34:27.039 It on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Wherever you listen to podcasts, 1839 01:34:27.079 --> 01:34:27.920 you can find it there. 1840 01:34:27.800 --> 01:34:31.880 Too, all right, and folks, it's called the Garden Party 1841 01:34:32.279 --> 01:34:35.319 and just go online, Facebook and YouTube. Let's just start 1842 01:34:35.359 --> 01:34:38.479 with those pretty much. I buy is on one or 1843 01:34:38.479 --> 01:34:41.960 the other of those Garden Party on you said Tuesdays 1844 01:34:42.000 --> 01:34:42.800 at seven. 1845 01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:47.600 Wednesday seven, the Garden Party podcast Wednesday Wednesday, okay, sir, 1846 01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:48.960 Wednesdays at seven pm. 1847 01:34:50.359 --> 01:34:53.239 Yeah, all right, Wednesdays and seven. So yeah, I stalked 1848 01:34:53.319 --> 01:34:56.079 you on your trip. It's like you were posting before 1849 01:34:56.119 --> 01:34:58.199 you even got out of Texas. You were You're already 1850 01:34:58.199 --> 01:35:00.520 posting stuff and then you're at this or that nursery 1851 01:35:00.560 --> 01:35:02.520 and it sounded like a lot of fun. 1852 01:35:03.640 --> 01:35:06.279 It was a blasting getting to meet new people and 1853 01:35:06.319 --> 01:35:08.920 see different nurseries. I love going to check out nurseries 1854 01:35:08.960 --> 01:35:11.720 and meeting the meeting the owners and finding out the 1855 01:35:11.720 --> 01:35:13.520 stories behind out how everything got started. 1856 01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:14.239 It's so much fun. 1857 01:35:14.960 --> 01:35:19.520 Yeah, oh gosh, I think horticultural tourism is something that 1858 01:35:20.039 --> 01:35:22.319 we ought to talk about more and promote more, you know. 1859 01:35:22.359 --> 01:35:24.600 I on on the guarden Line. I'm always saying to 1860 01:35:24.840 --> 01:35:28.680 people living in the listening area, you live where there's 1861 01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:32.720 so many great nurseries. I mean North South. I've been 1862 01:35:34.079 --> 01:35:38.000 we are we are you know, I've lived in San 1863 01:35:38.000 --> 01:35:40.880 Antonio area. I've lived in Dallas, I mean Austin. They 1864 01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:43.479 have great nurseries there, some outstod you're going to go 1865 01:35:43.479 --> 01:35:44.840 to one of those towns. Call me. I'll tell you 1866 01:35:44.880 --> 01:35:48.000 which nurseries to go to. But not like Houston. Same 1867 01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:50.520 thing with Dallas. Good nurseries, not like Houston. I've been 1868 01:35:50.560 --> 01:35:53.520 to Atlanta thinking, oh my gosh. You know, Atlanta botanical 1869 01:35:53.560 --> 01:35:55.880 gardens is great. I said, so, I can't wait to 1870 01:35:55.880 --> 01:35:59.279 see these nurseries, and it's like, where are they? You know, 1871 01:35:59.359 --> 01:36:02.079 I figured got more than Houston. They're not even hold 1872 01:36:02.119 --> 01:36:04.760 a candle to us here. This is a great place 1873 01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:08.279 for garden centers. And so I think maybe maybe you 1874 01:36:08.319 --> 01:36:11.359 and I need to just get a bus rented one 1875 01:36:11.399 --> 01:36:13.840 weekend and we'll just we'll do you know how they 1876 01:36:13.840 --> 01:36:17.039 have pub crawls, We'll do a nursery crawl. Let us 1877 01:36:17.119 --> 01:36:19.239 go from one garden center to another. 1878 01:36:21.119 --> 01:36:25.399 That's a great idea. That's all we need is me, you, 1879 01:36:25.520 --> 01:36:27.039 j White, and Jorge will be good. 1880 01:36:28.359 --> 01:36:32.640 Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. I don't know the 1881 01:36:32.720 --> 01:36:36.520 authorities might get winto that and shut it down cast 1882 01:36:36.520 --> 01:36:40.640 of characters like that. Oh well yeah, well, well, you know, 1883 01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:43.520 I really appreciate you coming on. Did you have any 1884 01:36:43.600 --> 01:36:46.439 other thoughts you wanted to add before we move on? 1885 01:36:47.560 --> 01:36:49.119 No, I just want to say thanks just giving you 1886 01:36:49.159 --> 01:36:51.680 a chance. Yeah, now, thanks for having me. 1887 01:36:52.039 --> 01:36:52.640 I appreciate it. 1888 01:36:52.680 --> 01:36:54.880 I love the I love the garden line, and you 1889 01:36:54.920 --> 01:36:57.279 do such a great job. And you know you've you've 1890 01:36:57.279 --> 01:36:59.840 been such a great friend since since since you've taken over, 1891 01:36:59.880 --> 01:37:02.079 and so I just appreciate you having me on. 1892 01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:06.319 Well, I appreciate that. Thank you very much for coming on. 1893 01:37:06.640 --> 01:37:08.880 I think that's great and I wanted to pick your 1894 01:37:08.880 --> 01:37:11.039 brain on these topics. I mean we could probably talk 1895 01:37:11.039 --> 01:37:14.159 about others as well, for sure, but it's been good 1896 01:37:14.199 --> 01:37:17.199 and thanks a lot. I do appreciate you coming on today. 1897 01:37:17.319 --> 01:37:22.239 You take care and be well anytime. Skip. Thanks all right, 1898 01:37:22.600 --> 01:37:25.640 bye bye. Yeah that was destined. No Texas Garden Guy. 1899 01:37:25.720 --> 01:37:27.920 You can find him on Instagram, Facebook, and a lot 1900 01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:30.920 of other social media platforms that I know little to 1901 01:37:31.000 --> 01:37:36.119 nothing about. Instagram and Facebook I'm familiar with. But anyway, seriously, 1902 01:37:36.479 --> 01:37:39.039 you ought to check him out, especially that Garden Party 1903 01:37:39.079 --> 01:37:42.520 podcast on Wednesdays at seven. That's a lot of fun. 1904 01:37:42.560 --> 01:37:44.920 He has a cast of characters. You know. Phil Spiggs 1905 01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:47.279 has comes in. He's from the North Carolina area. He's 1906 01:37:47.319 --> 01:37:53.359 got a guy from up in the Amarillo area. Not sorry, 1907 01:37:53.399 --> 01:37:59.319 not Amarillo, a Lobbuck area, Texas Tech a former coworker 1908 01:37:59.560 --> 01:38:01.720 of mine as a matter of fact. So anyway, it's 1909 01:38:01.720 --> 01:38:05.199 a good podcast. Well where are we on time here? 1910 01:38:05.279 --> 01:38:08.279 We're pretty close to a break. I want to just 1911 01:38:08.319 --> 01:38:11.640 remind you again if you missed that information in the 1912 01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:16.520 inaugural inaugural that's easy for me to say. FIG Toberfest 1913 01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:21.399 October fifth in Angleton for more information ninety seven nine 1914 01:38:21.720 --> 01:38:25.880 eight six four one five five eight nine seven nine 1915 01:38:25.960 --> 01:38:28.319 eight six four one five five eight. It is going 1916 01:38:28.399 --> 01:38:32.279 to be a morning through early afternoon full of great 1917 01:38:32.319 --> 01:38:35.000 FIG information, folks. I'll be right back Lyon had a 1918 01:38:35.000 --> 01:38:37.840 great visit with Destinoe, Texas garden guy. We are back 1919 01:38:37.880 --> 01:38:39.960 to answer your calls right now if you'd like to 1920 01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:42.840 give us a call. Seven one three two one two 1921 01:38:42.880 --> 01:38:45.800 five eight seven four seven one three two one two 1922 01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:50.239 fifty eight seventy four. I wanted to talk a little 1923 01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:54.199 bit about the product from turf Star called Carboload, and 1924 01:38:54.279 --> 01:38:57.920 the reason is it's time. It's time. Now we know 1925 01:38:58.079 --> 01:39:00.720 fall fertilization needs to be done with product that has 1926 01:39:00.760 --> 01:39:05.520 a good content of potassium the third number on the bag, 1927 01:39:05.800 --> 01:39:09.159 because that helps potassium and nitrogen are taken up together 1928 01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:12.760 by the grass plant. And I like to just as 1929 01:39:12.800 --> 01:39:16.000 an easy to remember things, think of it as ana 1930 01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:18.720 freeze for the plant. When you put those nutrients in 1931 01:39:18.760 --> 01:39:22.199 the plant, it is able to create the carbohydrates. That's 1932 01:39:22.199 --> 01:39:26.159 why it's called carbo load, to which you are sugars, 1933 01:39:26.199 --> 01:39:30.359 and it helps cold heartiness. Have you ever made homemade popsicles? 1934 01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:33.199 You know, you make the sugar, kool aid, sugar water, whatever. 1935 01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:35.079 You put it in there and you freeze it. And 1936 01:39:35.119 --> 01:39:37.159 have you ever noticed that at the bottom of the 1937 01:39:37.159 --> 01:39:39.720 popsicle there's pure water and then as you get up 1938 01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:42.760 to the top there's this real sticky sugary stuff that 1939 01:39:42.840 --> 01:39:47.359 didn't quite freeze because sugar water it takes a lot 1940 01:39:47.439 --> 01:39:50.359 colder temperature to freeze it. Well, that's a real fast 1941 01:39:50.720 --> 01:39:53.800 analogy of what's going on in the plant. But I 1942 01:39:53.800 --> 01:39:56.199 think it makes sense. It helps you understand what's going on. 1943 01:39:57.119 --> 01:39:59.319 You need to get carbo load down soon. You can 1944 01:39:59.319 --> 01:40:00.640 do it. The end of sep Setember You can do 1945 01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:03.960 it in early October, but don't delay much past early October. 1946 01:40:04.239 --> 01:40:06.880 Now it can be applied all through. But the fact 1947 01:40:06.920 --> 01:40:09.399 that it has a pre emergent herbicide in it, something 1948 01:40:09.439 --> 01:40:12.920 to prevent weed seeds from germinating, makes me want to 1949 01:40:12.920 --> 01:40:15.479 push that toward the earlier part of October in case 1950 01:40:15.520 --> 01:40:18.159 we get in early October this cold front with some 1951 01:40:18.319 --> 01:40:21.000 rain and it cools off a little bit and suddenly 1952 01:40:21.000 --> 01:40:23.920 the weed seeds go, hey, fall winters here, let's get going. 1953 01:40:24.079 --> 01:40:26.079 You want the carbo load down ahead of that. That 1954 01:40:26.199 --> 01:40:28.760 is how that works. One forty pound bag covers five 1955 01:40:29.159 --> 01:40:34.199 thousand square feet. Now that one one thing to be 1956 01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:37.720 aware of is if you plan on overseeding with rye grass, 1957 01:40:38.079 --> 01:40:40.319 which I hope you don't because that's not good for 1958 01:40:40.359 --> 01:40:43.319 your lawn. You don't want to use something with the 1959 01:40:43.319 --> 01:40:45.720 pre emerging in it because it'll your rye grass won't 1960 01:40:45.760 --> 01:40:49.239 come up. And so but other than that, it is 1961 01:40:49.319 --> 01:40:52.800 an outstanding product that is from Nelson. It's part of 1962 01:40:52.840 --> 01:40:56.840 their turf Star line. Carbo Load widely available around the 1963 01:40:56.880 --> 01:40:59.640 Houston area, and you ought to consider it because it 1964 01:40:59.680 --> 01:41:03.640 does work. You are listening to garden Line phone number 1965 01:41:03.720 --> 01:41:07.239 seven one three two one two, five eight seven four 1966 01:41:07.399 --> 01:41:11.880 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh, 1967 01:41:11.920 --> 01:41:14.479 you've heard me talk about fix my Slab Foundation Repair 1968 01:41:14.560 --> 01:41:17.960 Ty Strickland. A good while back I visited with Ty. 1969 01:41:18.119 --> 01:41:22.000 I had a question about a foundation issue that a 1970 01:41:22.079 --> 01:41:24.560 family member had and I was just kind of getting it, 1971 01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:28.520 picking his brain for some information on it, and basically, 1972 01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:30.800 you know, he said, you know, with that amount of movement, 1973 01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:32.960 you don't need to worry about doing anything. And it 1974 01:41:33.119 --> 01:41:35.479 just reminded me. Ty is a straight shooter. 1975 01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:36.119 You know. 1976 01:41:36.199 --> 01:41:38.039 It's not like you call him and so he's going 1977 01:41:38.079 --> 01:41:39.920 to say you need work you don't need. He's an 1978 01:41:39.920 --> 01:41:42.720 honest guy. He's been doing this twenty three years and 1979 01:41:43.000 --> 01:41:45.960 he makes sure that the customer's taken care of. There's 1980 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:49.199 three things that you can guarantee are going to happen 1981 01:41:49.479 --> 01:41:52.960 when you call Ty Strickland, which is fix my slab 1982 01:41:53.000 --> 01:41:56.640 Foundation repair two eight, one two five, five forty nine 1983 01:41:56.760 --> 01:41:59.479 forty nine. Those see things are he's going to show 1984 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:01.960 up on time. I'm oh, my gosh, if only all 1985 01:42:02.000 --> 01:42:05.199 service people would do that. He is going to give 1986 01:42:05.239 --> 01:42:08.640 you a fair price. And third, he's going to fix 1987 01:42:08.680 --> 01:42:11.880 it right and he'll also tell you if it doesn't 1988 01:42:11.920 --> 01:42:14.720 need it. If it's like you know what that doesn't require, 1989 01:42:15.680 --> 01:42:18.399 he'll tell you that. And my gosh, when I hire 1990 01:42:18.439 --> 01:42:20.640 anybody for any kind of service or help at the house, 1991 01:42:21.560 --> 01:42:23.720 I just wanted to be straight shooting with me and 1992 01:42:23.800 --> 01:42:26.159 I want those three things. Show up on time, give 1993 01:42:26.199 --> 01:42:27.840 me a fair price, and fix it right if it 1994 01:42:27.880 --> 01:42:30.880 needs to be fixed. And that's tie two eight one 1995 01:42:31.119 --> 01:42:35.640 two f I five forty nine forty nine fixmyslab dot com. 1996 01:42:35.760 --> 01:42:37.960 Got cracks in the sheet rock, got cracks in the brick, 1997 01:42:38.039 --> 01:42:40.720 you got a door that's sticking. Those are all signs 1998 01:42:40.760 --> 01:42:43.720 of movement. Don't be an ostrich put your head in 1999 01:42:43.720 --> 01:42:46.560 the sand. Just give him a call, have him check 2000 01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:48.000 it out and see if it needs work or not. 2001 01:42:48.680 --> 01:42:51.159 And if he does, he'll he'll shoot straight with you 2002 01:42:51.319 --> 01:42:57.479 at fix my slab foundation repair. I enjoyed visiting with 2003 01:42:57.720 --> 01:43:00.920 Destin and actually got a X a minute ago from 2004 01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:02.960 someone going, Hey, you and Destin need to do that 2005 01:43:03.680 --> 01:43:07.439 nursery crawl bus idea. So, Destin, if you're still listening, 2006 01:43:07.720 --> 01:43:10.079 I think that may have some traction. We may have 2007 01:43:10.119 --> 01:43:14.399 to get together sometime and and figure that out. It 2008 01:43:14.439 --> 01:43:17.000 sounds like a fun idea to me. I mean, if 2009 01:43:17.039 --> 01:43:19.239 you got like you remember the bus on the Muppets, 2010 01:43:19.239 --> 01:43:22.479 it was rocking and rolling going down down the highway. 2011 01:43:22.680 --> 01:43:24.560 We woul painting big flowers on the side. Because this 2012 01:43:24.720 --> 01:43:27.880 is a nursery tour. Right, I'm going to head out 2013 01:43:27.880 --> 01:43:31.159 the Pleasantville. We're going to talk to Deborah. Deborah, welcome 2014 01:43:31.199 --> 01:43:33.319 to garden Linet skip. 2015 01:43:33.880 --> 01:43:34.079 Hey. 2016 01:43:34.199 --> 01:43:37.840 I just tried to say that overseeding with wryglass for 2017 01:43:37.880 --> 01:43:40.359 the winner was bad for the yard. However, I have 2018 01:43:40.439 --> 01:43:42.720 a bare patch that I have killed till the field 2019 01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:49.520 and don't have time to resaw it until the Spring's. 2020 01:43:55.199 --> 01:43:58.680 There you go. I'm glad to hear those words. Are 2021 01:43:58.720 --> 01:44:03.439 sinking in out there with oaks. Yeah, No, overseed it, 2022 01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:05.520 that's fine, those bear spots. You don't want the soil 2023 01:44:05.560 --> 01:44:08.399 to crust your road. All that kind of thing. You 2024 01:44:08.399 --> 01:44:12.199 can do it. Here's the thing on overseating, debor overseting 2025 01:44:12.399 --> 01:44:15.960 is planting weeds in your grass to the grass plant. 2026 01:44:15.960 --> 01:44:18.079 If you talk to your Saint Augustine or z always 2027 01:44:18.079 --> 01:44:21.000 your Bermuda turf, it's a you just planted weeds all 2028 01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:23.000 over the place. In me, Why are you doing that? 2029 01:44:23.079 --> 01:44:26.239 Because they compete for light, they compete for water, they 2030 01:44:26.279 --> 01:44:29.600 compete for nutrients. And then in spring, when your grass 2031 01:44:29.680 --> 01:44:32.039 is trying to wake up and get going, the rye 2032 01:44:32.039 --> 01:44:35.840 grass is just going crazy growing and it is a 2033 01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:38.439 stress on your lawn. Now, if you've got one of 2034 01:44:38.439 --> 01:44:40.680 those properties, it has to be green all year. I 2035 01:44:40.760 --> 01:44:43.560 understand that, I know why people do it, but I 2036 01:44:43.640 --> 01:44:46.680 tell you, and professional turf managers will tell you that 2037 01:44:46.760 --> 01:44:50.000 if year after year after year you're overseeding, you're weakening. 2038 01:44:50.199 --> 01:44:54.880 And usually that's done in bermuda grass properties, but it 2039 01:44:55.199 --> 01:44:57.479 weakens it. So I try to talk people out of it. 2040 01:44:57.520 --> 01:44:58.520 But if you don't do it, I can tell you 2041 01:44:58.560 --> 01:45:02.520 how to do it. And for areas like yours, absolutely yeah, 2042 01:45:02.520 --> 01:45:04.199 there's no grass there. You got to get some. You 2043 01:45:04.239 --> 01:45:05.199 got to cover the ground. 2044 01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:06.800 There's no grass there. 2045 01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:11.319 So annual the seeds versus perennial rye should I just. 2046 01:45:11.279 --> 01:45:12.760 Do the annual to do it what. 2047 01:45:14.319 --> 01:45:17.279 You could do annual annual rye grass comes up faster, 2048 01:45:17.479 --> 01:45:20.720 but it doesn't have the nice color perennial rye grass 2049 01:45:20.840 --> 01:45:23.279 has a little bit makes a better grass plant a 2050 01:45:23.279 --> 01:45:26.399 better color. Uh, And so usually I'll do an annual 2051 01:45:26.439 --> 01:45:30.359 perennial mix. And so you know where wherever you would 2052 01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:32.680 purchase that kind of thing, you you would if they 2053 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:35.760 have a mix, I would go with the mix. Work's 2054 01:45:35.800 --> 01:45:37.960 a pleasant bill. I should know that. But it's not 2055 01:45:38.079 --> 01:45:38.680 ringing a bell. 2056 01:45:39.600 --> 01:45:44.359 It is East Houston, just past just before the ship 2057 01:45:44.439 --> 01:45:45.279 travel bridge. 2058 01:45:46.479 --> 01:45:49.840 Okay between between, I can and we just go it can. 2059 01:45:51.239 --> 01:45:54.720 Okay? All right? Well good, well yeah, that that's the 2060 01:45:54.720 --> 01:45:55.720 bottom line on it. 2061 01:45:55.960 --> 01:46:00.760 So hey, and it's not if the guy that lives 2062 01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:02.920 in me is listening us, would you tell him that 2063 01:46:02.960 --> 01:46:05.479 you cannot buy Saint Augustine's seeds because he was arguing 2064 01:46:05.479 --> 01:46:07.560 with me because he was the grass. He's a yard man, 2065 01:46:08.880 --> 01:46:09.239 all right. 2066 01:46:09.399 --> 01:46:11.840 Whoever it was out there arguing with Deborah, stop it. 2067 01:46:12.600 --> 01:46:15.000 Don't get in a tangle with her. She will eat 2068 01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:17.640 your lunch and pop the sock, pop the sack in 2069 01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:20.439 your face. If you mess with her. You're wrong too. 2070 01:46:20.960 --> 01:46:26.880 There you go. No, there, there isn't ryegra. There isn't 2071 01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:29.520 Saint Augustine's seed. I think one time there was some, 2072 01:46:29.680 --> 01:46:32.640 but it never was something that worked or a good idea. 2073 01:46:33.119 --> 01:46:37.359 Just get sucked, all right. We solved that he's gonna 2074 01:46:37.439 --> 01:46:40.199 leave you alone. Now, I guarantee you may send you 2075 01:46:40.239 --> 01:46:44.880 an apology note after all that. BA, all right, we're 2076 01:46:44.880 --> 01:46:47.640 gonna go out to pear Land and talk to Timmy. Hey, Timmy, 2077 01:46:47.640 --> 01:46:50.399 welcome to guard Line. Hey, how's it going? 2078 01:46:50.479 --> 01:46:50.840 Skip? 2079 01:46:52.760 --> 01:46:55.680 I can't hear Timmy? Oh can you hear me? 2080 01:46:55.760 --> 01:46:55.960 Now? 2081 01:46:57.359 --> 01:47:01.479 Yes? I can't? Yes? Is this is this a quick call, Timmy? 2082 01:47:01.600 --> 01:47:03.760 Or do I need to hold you on after we 2083 01:47:03.840 --> 01:47:04.800 get back from the break. 2084 01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:09.520 It's it's a quick call overfill myself the other day 2085 01:47:09.800 --> 01:47:13.359 and i'd recently shocked it. I'd drained the water into 2086 01:47:13.399 --> 01:47:14.159 my yard. 2087 01:47:14.239 --> 01:47:15.800 Did I do wrong? 2088 01:47:16.000 --> 01:47:16.479 Or what? 2089 01:47:18.399 --> 01:47:21.319 Too much chlorine? Yeah, you can burn. You can burn 2090 01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:22.520 plants with the chlorine. 2091 01:47:22.720 --> 01:47:23.000 Uh. 2092 01:47:23.039 --> 01:47:26.199 And when it's too strong. Uh, there's nothing to do 2093 01:47:26.239 --> 01:47:28.399 about it now, so let's just watch and wait and 2094 01:47:28.439 --> 01:47:29.199 hope for the best. 2095 01:47:29.560 --> 01:47:29.760 Uh. 2096 01:47:29.880 --> 01:47:33.319 It may or may not have damaged it. But there's 2097 01:47:33.399 --> 01:47:37.520 no anti chlorine sprayed to butt down, uh, to undo 2098 01:47:38.000 --> 01:47:40.520 if there was some damage. But in general I would 2099 01:47:40.520 --> 01:47:41.560 not recommend that, of course. 2100 01:47:42.159 --> 01:47:45.399 All right, one more quick, one more quick one, Skip. Uh, 2101 01:47:45.600 --> 01:47:50.920 I've got outside chickens. What's your opinion on chicken manure? 2102 01:47:51.119 --> 01:47:52.239 Is it helping or hurt? 2103 01:47:54.079 --> 01:47:58.159 Chickens carry certain microbes that make us sick and chicken 2104 01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:01.079 manure is one of the ones notorious that if you 2105 01:48:01.159 --> 01:48:03.560 fully compost it, it is okay. If you put it 2106 01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:06.840 down and mix it into the soil and let it 2107 01:48:07.199 --> 01:48:10.760 decompose for a while, that's fine. If you're planting something 2108 01:48:10.840 --> 01:48:13.960 that's edible, I would be more concerned. If it's something 2109 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:18.000 that's not edible, like lettuce leaves, you know where that 2110 01:48:18.079 --> 01:48:21.600 it can splash into the lettuce, then I would be concerned. Okay, 2111 01:48:22.560 --> 01:48:24.359 I'm sorry I have to go so quick, but I 2112 01:48:24.960 --> 01:48:27.479 do need to run you bet, I will be right back. Folks. 2113 01:48:29.399 --> 01:48:31.239 Good to have you with us. We got plenty of 2114 01:48:31.279 --> 01:48:33.159 things to talk about today. I was telling you a 2115 01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:35.359 little bit about some micro life products while ago, and 2116 01:48:35.439 --> 01:48:38.680 I want to tell you about micro grow, the bioinoculant, 2117 01:48:38.720 --> 01:48:41.520 and also well I mentioned that a little bit and 2118 01:48:41.600 --> 01:48:45.239 the importance of putting the microbes into the soil that 2119 01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:49.439 you get when you have micro grow, it absolutely loads 2120 01:48:49.600 --> 01:48:52.399 things up. And when that happens and diseases try to 2121 01:48:52.399 --> 01:48:55.279 come in, you've got a number of beneficial microbes that 2122 01:48:55.319 --> 01:48:57.720 are there doing two things. Some of them actually help 2123 01:48:57.800 --> 01:49:00.760 fight disease, some of them out compete the disease. On 2124 01:49:00.800 --> 01:49:03.439 the plant's surface, and so it's like a hostile environment 2125 01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:06.640 to try to land and infect the plant. That makes sense. 2126 01:49:07.520 --> 01:49:10.319 Micro Grow bioinocculant comes in a bag and in a jar. 2127 01:49:10.880 --> 01:49:14.159 Microlife also has this brown Patch fertilizer that is a 2128 01:49:14.159 --> 01:49:16.720 fertilizer you would apply in the fall. If you go 2129 01:49:16.760 --> 01:49:19.079 to my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll 2130 01:49:19.119 --> 01:49:22.560 see that on there. And it is an organic product 2131 01:49:22.600 --> 01:49:26.760 for fall application, natural product and it works. It does 2132 01:49:26.920 --> 01:49:29.319 very very good job. And if you're going to do 2133 01:49:29.359 --> 01:49:32.479 fall fertilization and you're looking for a natural product for that, 2134 01:49:32.560 --> 01:49:36.600 and you got that fall fertilization balance of nutrients that 2135 01:49:36.680 --> 01:49:40.640 I keep talking about, Microlife brown Patch would be the 2136 01:49:40.640 --> 01:49:41.680 one to do it. And you can find it in 2137 01:49:41.680 --> 01:49:43.279 a lot of places. For example, they're going to have 2138 01:49:43.279 --> 01:49:46.359 it out there at in Chane Gardens in Richmond. Have 2139 01:49:46.439 --> 01:49:48.640 you ever been there? Have you ever been doing Chana Gardens? 2140 01:49:48.680 --> 01:49:51.960 If you're in Richmond going north toward Katie, it's it's 2141 01:49:52.119 --> 01:49:55.079 up that direction. It's it's really easy to get to. 2142 01:49:55.720 --> 01:50:00.279 It's on three point fifty nine. Just I guess you're 2143 01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:02.560 going up seven to twenty three. That's a FM road. 2144 01:50:03.079 --> 01:50:05.000 When you get to three fifty nine, you're there. It's 2145 01:50:05.079 --> 01:50:07.319 right at the corner. It's easy to get to. And 2146 01:50:08.000 --> 01:50:09.680 Enchanted Gardens is the kind of place where you're going 2147 01:50:09.720 --> 01:50:12.720 to find everything you need right now. It's fall season, 2148 01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:18.880 so unbelievable fall color, plants, unbelievable fall decorations indoor and outdoor. 2149 01:50:18.920 --> 01:50:22.239 Their gift shops outstanding, by the way, but anything you're 2150 01:50:22.239 --> 01:50:24.680 going to plant and fall, which I hope you're planning 2151 01:50:24.720 --> 01:50:27.359 on planting a lot in fall because it's the best 2152 01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:30.560 planning season of the year. Remember, don't look at the thermometer, 2153 01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:34.640 look at the calendar. The calendar says, get your plants, 2154 01:50:34.680 --> 01:50:37.520 get your soil, get ready, let's go. Let's do this. 2155 01:50:38.479 --> 01:50:41.560 And if you delay, then next thing, you know, we're 2156 01:50:41.560 --> 01:50:44.359 too cold, or some other thing has happened, there's a 2157 01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:47.960 frost or whatever. You're missing that window of opportunity. Don't delay. 2158 01:50:48.399 --> 01:50:51.960 Enchanted Gardens on three fifty nine on the Katie Fusher 2159 01:50:52.039 --> 01:50:57.640 side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. 2160 01:50:57.880 --> 01:51:01.199 Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're going to go now 2161 01:51:01.359 --> 01:51:05.199 to Cove, Texas and talk to Rufous Hello Rufous. 2162 01:51:06.560 --> 01:51:10.520 YEP I got a sago palm out here, and it's 2163 01:51:10.600 --> 01:51:12.680 put that ball on like it normally. 2164 01:51:12.359 --> 01:51:18.000 Does you there, yes, yes, sir, Hey, it has. 2165 01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:18.960 Not opened up yet. 2166 01:51:19.159 --> 01:51:21.640 So I went out there and started looking at it, 2167 01:51:22.279 --> 01:51:24.960 and it's like a cabbage on top. And I pull 2168 01:51:25.039 --> 01:51:28.079 the leaves back and there's these little mushroom things growing 2169 01:51:28.199 --> 01:51:30.399 everywhere on the inside. What's going wrong? 2170 01:51:32.039 --> 01:51:35.880 Nothing wrong. That is a female sego palm. There's male 2171 01:51:36.279 --> 01:51:39.039 that have a little plume of a of a pollen 2172 01:51:39.079 --> 01:51:42.239 producing structure that's like a cone sticking straight up, an 2173 01:51:42.279 --> 01:51:46.000 elongated pine cone thing. The females have that little bowling 2174 01:51:46.000 --> 01:51:48.800 ball on the top, and those are seeds that you see. 2175 01:51:48.840 --> 01:51:50.640 They make seeds that are on the size of a 2176 01:51:50.720 --> 01:51:53.800 quarter or bigger right there all over in the middle. 2177 01:51:53.840 --> 01:51:55.880 And there's nothing to worry about. It's just part of 2178 01:51:55.920 --> 01:51:57.680 that plant doing its life cycle. 2179 01:51:59.439 --> 01:52:02.119 So you know, I got the free zone and and 2180 01:52:02.399 --> 01:52:04.199 a lot of the leaves are browned and stuff. I 2181 01:52:04.239 --> 01:52:07.239 was hoping for the next green foliage to carry on 2182 01:52:07.279 --> 01:52:10.159 for the next couple of years. Is it going to 2183 01:52:10.199 --> 01:52:13.039 put those leaves on later on? After this drops off. 2184 01:52:14.279 --> 01:52:17.079 You you probably should see some new leaf growth. You know, 2185 01:52:17.119 --> 01:52:19.640 we're going into a cooler season here pretty quick. And 2186 01:52:20.000 --> 01:52:21.880 so we'll just have to see as long as do 2187 01:52:21.920 --> 01:52:23.960 you have some green leaves on the plant? 2188 01:52:24.760 --> 01:52:26.319 Oh, yes, sir, I do have some? 2189 01:52:26.800 --> 01:52:31.199 Okay, Yeah, well it's okay. You You may see a 2190 01:52:31.239 --> 01:52:33.920 side branch come out. You may see some pups come 2191 01:52:33.960 --> 01:52:36.760 out from the bottom, little babies coming out around the sides. 2192 01:52:37.359 --> 01:52:37.560 Uh. 2193 01:52:37.600 --> 01:52:40.479 And if if the worst case scenario is you would, 2194 01:52:40.520 --> 01:52:42.760 you know, cut the trunk off and let let some 2195 01:52:42.840 --> 01:52:45.520 side shoots come up out of the base. But I 2196 01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:48.239 think it's going to be fine. I wouldn't at this point. 2197 01:52:48.279 --> 01:52:50.319 I wouldn't be concerned. That's just part of what we 2198 01:52:50.359 --> 01:52:51.640 see on those around here. 2199 01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:54.880 That's my one right there. 2200 01:52:55.399 --> 01:52:58.439 Thanks a lot, All right, well you bet, you bet. 2201 01:52:58.600 --> 01:53:00.920 Just be careful boy, those things I had some sharp, 2202 01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:03.600 pointy things. Kind of hard to get into the middle 2203 01:53:03.640 --> 01:53:04.920 of that, as. 2204 01:53:04.800 --> 01:53:06.000 You probably found out. 2205 01:53:07.239 --> 01:53:11.720 Yeah, okay, take care. You're listening to guardline folks. Seven 2206 01:53:11.720 --> 01:53:14.720 to one three two one two kt r H seven 2207 01:53:14.800 --> 01:53:18.560 one three two one two kt r H. Have you 2208 01:53:18.600 --> 01:53:21.479 tried to products the products from Landscapers Pride. You know 2209 01:53:21.520 --> 01:53:24.960 they got twenty something products out there, mulches and soil 2210 01:53:25.039 --> 01:53:28.479 mixes and all kinds of things. Right now, it's fall planting. 2211 01:53:28.600 --> 01:53:32.279 How about a rose mix. Their rose mix is outstanding quality. 2212 01:53:32.439 --> 01:53:35.079 And if you're going to grow roses, shrubs, even a 2213 01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:38.079 flower bed, you can do that with their rose mix. 2214 01:53:38.119 --> 01:53:41.199 They have a premium potting mix that has incorporated into 2215 01:53:41.279 --> 01:53:44.840 it a fertilizer, so it gives you an extended release 2216 01:53:44.960 --> 01:53:48.159 of nutrients. You got indoor plants, you need potting soal. 2217 01:53:48.319 --> 01:53:50.479 You got outdoor plants, you want to do a container 2218 01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:54.359 Landscapers Pride premium podding mix. You got some areas in 2219 01:53:54.399 --> 01:53:57.560 your lawn that are low, that are holes your your 2220 01:53:58.079 --> 01:54:02.319 lawnmower is banging around and bumping and gouging the grass 2221 01:54:02.359 --> 01:54:04.760 as you grow because it's not an even soil. Get 2222 01:54:04.760 --> 01:54:07.640 some of their top soil from Landscaper's Pride, put that out, 2223 01:54:07.680 --> 01:54:09.159 straighten them ounta and how's a good time to get 2224 01:54:09.199 --> 01:54:12.239 that done. And finally, of course, black velvet malts. Every 2225 01:54:12.319 --> 01:54:13.920 month of the year is a good time to malts. 2226 01:54:14.000 --> 01:54:17.560 Wherever sunlight hits a soil. As Deborah was reminding us 2227 01:54:17.600 --> 01:54:21.079 a moment ago, nature plants a weed. Wherever sunlight hits 2228 01:54:21.079 --> 01:54:23.720 a soil, Nature plants a weed. You should never leave 2229 01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:27.079 bear soil. Nature abhors a vacuum. It knows how to 2230 01:54:27.079 --> 01:54:30.720 protect the soil from crusting and erosion and overheating and freezing. 2231 01:54:31.359 --> 01:54:34.159 Put malts on the ground. It does that. Black velvet 2232 01:54:34.199 --> 01:54:38.880 is an outstanding product, beautifully black, not dyed, from Landscaper's Pride. 2233 01:54:38.880 --> 01:54:41.640 You can go to Landscaperspride dot com if you want 2234 01:54:41.640 --> 01:54:44.319 to learn more about it. It's widely available. You're going 2235 01:54:44.359 --> 01:54:46.039 to find it a lot of the retailers you hear 2236 01:54:46.119 --> 01:54:48.800 me talk about here on garden Line, whether it's a 2237 01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:52.479 garden center, whether it is a feed store, whether it 2238 01:54:52.600 --> 01:54:56.640 is a Ace Hardware store or a Southwest Fertilizer, those 2239 01:54:56.640 --> 01:54:59.399 are the kind of places where you find quality products 2240 01:54:59.439 --> 01:55:03.760 from landsca Aprish Pride. Our phone number is seven one 2241 01:55:03.840 --> 01:55:07.760 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're running 2242 01:55:07.760 --> 01:55:09.760 a little short on time here, so we may have 2243 01:55:09.840 --> 01:55:13.039 to bump a call to the next hour, but I 2244 01:55:13.119 --> 01:55:15.640 just want to give you that number. I was saying 2245 01:55:15.680 --> 01:55:18.880 you could find Landscapers Pride in places like an Ace 2246 01:55:18.920 --> 01:55:24.119 Hardware store. Well, Ace Hardware is everywhere, forty stores in 2247 01:55:24.159 --> 01:55:26.479 the Greater Houston area. By the way, don't forget I'm 2248 01:55:26.479 --> 01:55:28.760 going to be at the Wharton Ace Hardware store next 2249 01:55:28.760 --> 01:55:32.039 Saturday from one to three. Be there for two hours 2250 01:55:32.520 --> 01:55:35.840 doing the thing we do on these appearances, and that 2251 01:55:36.039 --> 01:55:39.560 is we diagnose your questions, We answer your questions. You 2252 01:55:39.560 --> 01:55:42.399 can bring me samples. We can help make suggestions for 2253 01:55:42.520 --> 01:55:46.520 planting areas, improving your landscape. I'll be giving away some 2254 01:55:46.560 --> 01:55:49.039 giveaways there. You don't want to miss that. And I 2255 01:55:49.039 --> 01:55:50.880 don't get out that far. In fact, I never have 2256 01:55:50.960 --> 01:55:53.319 gotten out that far to the south and west. So 2257 01:55:53.439 --> 01:55:56.439 even if you're listening way down in Corpus Christi or something, 2258 01:55:56.720 --> 01:55:58.840 well here's a chance, come on up, let's meet. I 2259 01:55:58.960 --> 01:56:01.520 love to meet the folks. They visit with us. I mean, 2260 01:56:01.680 --> 01:56:05.800 for the rest of you. Ashardware dot com store locator, 2261 01:56:05.920 --> 01:56:08.159 that's what you're looking for. Aceharder dot com. Go to 2262 01:56:08.239 --> 01:56:11.159 the store locator. There's forty stores in the Greater Houston 2263 01:56:11.199 --> 01:56:13.560 area all the way out to Beaumont, and you're going 2264 01:56:13.640 --> 01:56:16.960 to find the fire ant control. This is firent control season. 2265 01:56:17.359 --> 01:56:20.079 Hit them now before we go into winter. Get out there, 2266 01:56:20.319 --> 01:56:24.079 get that done, all right. We're putting an hour in 2267 01:56:24.119 --> 01:56:26.840 the books. Today is flying by. But they say time fly, 2268 01:56:27.279 --> 01:56:30.520 time flies when you're having fun. I'm having fun. I 2269 01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:33.279 hope you are. Hermit. The frog, by the way, says 2270 01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:36.319 that time's fun when you're having flies. But I'm just saying, 2271 01:56:37.399 --> 01:56:41.039 all right, folks, I'll be right back in a little bit. 2272 01:56:41.479 --> 01:56:44.199 Just one more reminder. I'll be at Wharton Ace Hardware, 2273 01:56:44.319 --> 01:56:46.960 Wharton Feed and Acehrder is a new place out there 2274 01:56:47.479 --> 01:56:50.600 on Saturday, this coming Saturday the twenty eight, from one 2275 01:56:50.880 --> 01:56:53.560 to three pm. Remember that's a little later timeframe than 2276 01:56:53.680 --> 01:56:57.720 my normal appearance timeframe. So that's your clocks and calendars 2277 01:56:57.720 --> 01:56:59.199 for that. I hope you'll come out and see me 2278 01:56:59.359 --> 01:57:02.319 if you want to be part of Figtoberfest October fifth 2279 01:57:02.319 --> 01:57:05.880 and Angleton called Kimberly Mayer at the Brazoria County Extension 2280 01:57:05.880 --> 01:57:10.640 Office at nine seven nine eight six four one five 2281 01:57:11.119 --> 01:57:14.159 five eight nine seven nine eight six four one five 2282 01:57:14.279 --> 01:57:16.399 five eight for all things figs. And you get to 2283 01:57:16.399 --> 01:57:17.479 meet Destin out there too. 2284 01:57:17.600 --> 01:57:20.439 Katie r h. Garden line with skimp Rictor. 2285 01:57:20.520 --> 01:57:23.439 It's crazy. 2286 01:57:27.640 --> 01:57:28.800 Trim. 2287 01:57:29.239 --> 01:57:54.600 Just watch him astrays not a sound sum All right, 2288 01:57:54.760 --> 01:57:55.920 all right, let's do this. 2289 01:57:56.279 --> 01:57:59.239 We have another hour a guarden line left to go 2290 01:57:59.359 --> 01:58:02.520 here and if you have a gardening question, now'd be 2291 01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:04.119 a good time to call in. It's kind of quiet 2292 01:58:04.199 --> 01:58:06.479 on the boards right here. Usually that way when we 2293 01:58:06.560 --> 01:58:09.000 come right out of a break. Seven one three two 2294 01:58:09.039 --> 01:58:12.079 one two k t rh would be a good number 2295 01:58:12.239 --> 01:58:14.720 if you want to get on the garden line. Nine 2296 01:58:14.840 --> 01:58:17.439 seven nine excuse me, seven one three two one two 2297 01:58:17.560 --> 01:58:21.600 ktr eight. I've talked about a number of different things today, 2298 01:58:21.800 --> 01:58:25.680 and I like to kind of throw out ideas, perhaps 2299 01:58:25.840 --> 01:58:29.239 some things that you might want to know in order 2300 01:58:29.319 --> 01:58:31.880 to have success as you plan your landscape. Fall is 2301 01:58:32.000 --> 01:58:35.319 for planting. It is the best time of the year 2302 01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:38.920 to get things done, absolutely, the best time of the year. 2303 01:58:39.079 --> 01:58:43.319 Nothing nothing like fall for success because you got the 2304 01:58:43.359 --> 01:58:47.800 whole whole season ahead of you, the cool season ahead 2305 01:58:47.800 --> 01:58:49.920 of you, for roots to get established in the ground. Well, 2306 01:58:49.960 --> 01:58:54.439 here's an idea if you're trying to do some landscape planting. 2307 01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:57.319 I suggest one of the things you keep in mind 2308 01:58:57.680 --> 01:59:01.479 is landscape color from fold. Now. I talked about earlier 2309 01:59:01.479 --> 01:59:05.479 about landscape texture, but landscape color from foliage is important 2310 01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:07.199 in the South where it gets hot. We just went 2311 01:59:07.239 --> 01:59:10.239 through a blazing hot summer, right and a lot of 2312 01:59:10.319 --> 01:59:12.000 things don't bloom in summer. We have a few good 2313 01:59:12.039 --> 01:59:15.439 bloomers but not like spring. But in summer we can 2314 01:59:15.520 --> 01:59:18.159 turn to foliage. And there's lots of great ideas for 2315 01:59:18.279 --> 01:59:22.000 foliage out there, for example, Chinese witch hazel. It are 2316 01:59:22.039 --> 01:59:24.640 also called lauro pedulum. That's the term a lot of 2317 01:59:24.680 --> 01:59:27.760 people used for it. It's its genus name. It has 2318 01:59:27.880 --> 01:59:33.319 purplish maroon, purplish colored leaves that are really striking sunshine. 2319 01:59:33.399 --> 01:59:38.279 Lagustrum right up against it has yellow, bright yellow colored foliage. 2320 01:59:38.319 --> 01:59:40.600 It's attractive, by the way. Anybody from Lsu might like 2321 01:59:40.680 --> 01:59:41.319 that combination. 2322 01:59:41.520 --> 01:59:41.840 I don't know. 2323 01:59:42.000 --> 01:59:44.479 I'm just saying, although it looks a little more burgundy 2324 01:59:44.520 --> 01:59:47.880 to me, but hey, I'm biased. How about a canna 2325 01:59:47.960 --> 01:59:50.760 tropicana that is a bulb dies to the ground the 2326 01:59:50.880 --> 01:59:53.720 rhizome does and to the rhizomes comes back out in 2327 01:59:53.720 --> 01:59:58.159 the spring with gorgeous, gaudy looking colors. Canna tropicicana is 2328 01:59:58.199 --> 02:00:00.720 so gaudy that if you put pink flaming in your yard, 2329 02:00:00.800 --> 02:00:03.000 no one will notice them. They'll just notice the canna. 2330 02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:07.000 I'm just saying. Abelia's come now, not just in green. 2331 02:00:07.159 --> 02:00:10.239 But there's types that There's one called kaleidoscope that has 2332 02:00:10.319 --> 02:00:13.680 multiple colors. There's some that are have some white variegations 2333 02:00:13.760 --> 02:00:17.079 in the foliage and whatnot. Dwarf and andinas have always 2334 02:00:17.119 --> 02:00:19.439 been a good choice. There's many different kinds of dwarf 2335 02:00:19.520 --> 02:00:22.359 and anddinas out there. And then there's the perennials and 2336 02:00:22.520 --> 02:00:25.119 the annuals. I mentioned one perennial be in the canna. 2337 02:00:25.720 --> 02:00:28.560 There's one another cannon called Bengal Tiger that's yellow and 2338 02:00:28.680 --> 02:00:33.319 green striped leaves, very striking, very very beautiful. Pretoria is 2339 02:00:33.319 --> 02:00:35.680 another good choice, and there's a purple leaf one as well. 2340 02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:41.520 Then there's things like copper plant and colias and kalladium bulbs. 2341 02:00:41.560 --> 02:00:43.720 Do you see what I'm saying. You go through summer 2342 02:00:43.960 --> 02:00:45.680 and you don't have those that don't have to bloom. 2343 02:00:45.960 --> 02:00:49.399 They look good just as foliage. So as you're doing 2344 02:00:49.479 --> 02:00:53.439 your fall planting, don't forget that foliage brings us color 2345 02:00:54.039 --> 02:00:57.680 all year or a can and especially during those blazing 2346 02:00:57.720 --> 02:01:00.520 hot summertimes. That's just a tip for you to think 2347 02:01:00.520 --> 02:01:04.520 about as you're getting ready for your fall planting. The 2348 02:01:04.560 --> 02:01:07.880 folks that Nelson Plant Food have a product that is 2349 02:01:07.960 --> 02:01:10.399 one of the newest ones in their group and I 2350 02:01:10.640 --> 02:01:13.119 love it. It is called Genesis and it is for 2351 02:01:13.359 --> 02:01:18.720 transplanting it's got micoriza, and those are the fungi that 2352 02:01:19.000 --> 02:01:21.199 get into the plant root and reach out into the 2353 02:01:21.319 --> 02:01:25.439 soil to bring phosphorus and other important elements back to 2354 02:01:25.520 --> 02:01:27.399 the plant that the plant can't reach with its own 2355 02:01:27.479 --> 02:01:31.600 root system. There's other fungi that are beneficial to the microbiome. 2356 02:01:31.640 --> 02:01:35.199 There's bacteria that benefit the plant. Now, it has nutrients 2357 02:01:35.279 --> 02:01:37.560 in it, but it's not going to burn your plants. 2358 02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:41.199 It's a natural source of nutrients. Okay, So when I'm 2359 02:01:41.279 --> 02:01:45.000 moving small plants to a bigger container, always in that 2360 02:01:45.079 --> 02:01:48.880 potting salt, mix in some nutristar genesis from Nelson. If 2361 02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:51.319 you're going to plant a shrub or a perennial, or 2362 02:01:51.359 --> 02:01:56.199 an herb or a winter vegetable in your gardens, mix 2363 02:01:56.359 --> 02:01:59.880 some nutristar genesis into that soil and it will help 2364 02:02:00.159 --> 02:02:02.359 get off to a good start. The stuff works, and 2365 02:02:02.520 --> 02:02:04.520 I say that because I've used it, I've done it, 2366 02:02:04.560 --> 02:02:07.439 I've seen it. It is an excellent product. Comes in 2367 02:02:07.880 --> 02:02:12.960 little clear canisters with screwtop lids, call them jars. By 2368 02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:16.039 the way, Also, whenever you get on Nelson's product in 2369 02:02:16.199 --> 02:02:19.479 those jars, remember there are refail stations for Nelson products 2370 02:02:19.840 --> 02:02:22.399 all over the Houston area, and that's just another way 2371 02:02:22.560 --> 02:02:25.239 save a little money and also avoid adding more plastic 2372 02:02:25.640 --> 02:02:29.359 to the environment. Well, let's head out to Spring, Texas 2373 02:02:29.479 --> 02:02:35.520 and we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Mike 2374 02:02:35.600 --> 02:02:35.920 you there. 2375 02:02:37.880 --> 02:02:38.600 That is Joe. 2376 02:02:41.279 --> 02:02:43.840 Okay, Well, how can we help? 2377 02:02:45.199 --> 02:02:47.199 Yes, sir, I was calling a see one of the 2378 02:02:47.279 --> 02:02:50.119 best time for me to plant my mustard grains, And 2379 02:02:50.399 --> 02:02:53.760 I got a second question. Is older gentleman told me 2380 02:02:54.760 --> 02:02:58.279 if the bulls get on my plate brains to soap 2381 02:02:58.760 --> 02:03:01.279 some kayee pepper spray my greens. 2382 02:03:03.640 --> 02:03:06.920 I've not had success with hot pepper for bugs now 2383 02:03:07.119 --> 02:03:11.479 it'll keep squirrels out of things, But you can try it. 2384 02:03:11.600 --> 02:03:14.079 I'm not saying it won't work. I've just never heard, 2385 02:03:14.560 --> 02:03:16.520 you know, or seen any kind of trials or stuff 2386 02:03:16.520 --> 02:03:19.199 where they tried that and had good success. So why 2387 02:03:19.199 --> 02:03:20.800 don't you give it a try and then you tell 2388 02:03:20.880 --> 02:03:23.000 me how it worked for you. As far as the 2389 02:03:23.079 --> 02:03:27.600 mustard green, you want to plant them in October. That's 2390 02:03:27.640 --> 02:03:29.760 a good time to plant mustard greens in your area. 2391 02:03:29.800 --> 02:03:31.560 You can also plant them in November if you want. 2392 02:03:31.800 --> 02:03:35.000 They're pretty cold, hardy, but I would do it in October. 2393 02:03:35.079 --> 02:03:36.520 It needs to cool off just a little bit for 2394 02:03:36.640 --> 02:03:39.399 mustard to be really happy. And as far as the bugs, 2395 02:03:39.479 --> 02:03:41.359 what I do is I get some stuff called row 2396 02:03:41.479 --> 02:03:48.039 cover fabric. It's a very fine polyester spun material that 2397 02:03:48.359 --> 02:03:50.680 you get at garden centers and you put it over 2398 02:03:50.800 --> 02:03:53.279 the mustard when you plant the seed. You can put 2399 02:03:53.359 --> 02:03:55.079 some little sticks in there to hold it up so 2400 02:03:55.239 --> 02:03:57.319 the rain doesn't get it in the dirt before the 2401 02:03:57.399 --> 02:04:00.319 mustard comes up. But air goes through it, water goes 2402 02:04:00.399 --> 02:04:03.159 through it, and it's like a screen porch around those 2403 02:04:03.279 --> 02:04:05.920 mustard greens and all the caterpillars and beetles that like 2404 02:04:06.039 --> 02:04:08.199 mustard can't get in. But you have to do it 2405 02:04:08.319 --> 02:04:10.840 before the bugs get in, otherwise you're trapping them inside 2406 02:04:10.880 --> 02:04:15.119 the cafeteria, if you know what I'm saying. Oh, thank you, 2407 02:04:15.479 --> 02:04:18.520 roc up. Just yes, sir, you bet, Thank you very much. 2408 02:04:18.560 --> 02:04:21.359 Appreciate your call. Let's see here we are going to 2409 02:04:21.439 --> 02:04:24.720 go to David in Spring Branch. Hey, David, welcome, regardline. 2410 02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:28.439 Thank you, thank you for taking my phone call. I 2411 02:04:28.520 --> 02:04:31.000 had a question about my palm tree. It's only like 2412 02:04:31.039 --> 02:04:35.039 about shoulder high, but it looks bad and I think 2413 02:04:35.079 --> 02:04:40.079 it's a windmill. It's Coharty. It looks like a faded 2414 02:04:40.199 --> 02:04:44.239 green leaves on it, and it looks groopy. It looks 2415 02:04:44.279 --> 02:04:48.720 groopy as well, and I wanted to make sure there 2416 02:04:48.800 --> 02:04:50.720 was no answer there or anything like that. I really 2417 02:04:50.760 --> 02:04:53.800 didn't see any insects there that were could be affecting it. 2418 02:04:54.000 --> 02:04:56.880 What do you propose, David, David, Yeah, it's going to 2419 02:04:56.920 --> 02:05:00.399 be a soil problem, and I'm hitting up against a break. Basically, 2420 02:05:00.520 --> 02:05:03.439 something's wrong in the soil. Too wet, too dry, I 2421 02:05:03.479 --> 02:05:07.319 don't know, more likely to saggy. Is a problem. But 2422 02:05:07.439 --> 02:05:09.199 if you want to hang on, we can continue this 2423 02:05:09.439 --> 02:05:10.720 right after break. But I have to go for the 2424 02:05:10.800 --> 02:05:12.880 news right quick, and i'll be right right to those. 2425 02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:15.920 I want to remind you that I will be at 2426 02:05:16.079 --> 02:05:20.640 Nature's Way Resources on October twelfth. That's a ways out, 2427 02:05:20.720 --> 02:05:22.079 but I want you to get ready for this one. 2428 02:05:22.159 --> 02:05:24.720 This is our fall festival and it is a I've 2429 02:05:24.760 --> 02:05:28.359 officially declared it is a shindig that means fun lots 2430 02:05:28.439 --> 02:05:32.239 going on, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales, live music, 2431 02:05:32.439 --> 02:05:36.560 children's activities, and I'll be there from eleven thirty to 2432 02:05:36.920 --> 02:05:39.359 one thirty and I'll be answering gardening questions I may 2433 02:05:39.359 --> 02:05:41.439 stick around a little longer if you guys are still 2434 02:05:41.479 --> 02:05:44.680 going and we're having fun doing it. Remember that at 2435 02:05:44.760 --> 02:05:48.039 Nature's Way Fungal Friday sale is still on twenty percent 2436 02:05:48.119 --> 02:05:51.199 off fungal compost, which you can use for top dressing 2437 02:05:51.399 --> 02:05:52.800 if you would like to do that. You don't have 2438 02:05:52.960 --> 02:05:55.600 to get leaf Moo compost, but you also get their 2439 02:05:55.640 --> 02:05:59.359 fungal composts. Both of those quality products from Nature's Way 2440 02:05:59.399 --> 02:06:01.960 work very well. You can also just mix it into 2441 02:06:02.000 --> 02:06:04.439 the soil to build the soil stronger. It's an excellent 2442 02:06:04.479 --> 02:06:08.079 compost for that. At Nature's Way Resources, which is go 2443 02:06:08.239 --> 02:06:10.880 up I forty five north right where fourteen eighty eight 2444 02:06:11.359 --> 02:06:14.760 comes in from Agnolia, Turn right across the tracks Nature's 2445 02:06:14.800 --> 02:06:18.960 Way right there nine three six two seven three one 2446 02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:23.279 two zero zero. Remember October twelfth. I'll be there for 2447 02:06:23.359 --> 02:06:25.880 their Fall festival, and you do not want to miss 2448 02:06:26.039 --> 02:06:28.680 that shindig. We're going to go right now. Back to 2449 02:06:28.880 --> 02:06:31.600 David and Spring Branch. David, you're talking about your palm 2450 02:06:31.680 --> 02:06:34.840 tree symptoms. I just wanted to add it's something in 2451 02:06:34.960 --> 02:06:37.760 the soil. It could you know, it could be soggy, 2452 02:06:37.840 --> 02:06:41.800 wet conditions that are just oversaturated for too long. Chances 2453 02:06:41.880 --> 02:06:45.279 are you're not watering it that much, but if it's 2454 02:06:45.319 --> 02:06:48.199 getting over there, and maybe that could happen. The worst 2455 02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:51.159 case scenario is there's something called butt rot. Now that 2456 02:06:51.319 --> 02:06:53.319 I didn't make that up and the ten year old 2457 02:06:53.359 --> 02:06:56.359 boy and me thinks that's pretty funny, But bunt rot 2458 02:06:56.560 --> 02:07:00.800 is a fungal disease called ganoderma butt rot, And when 2459 02:07:00.880 --> 02:07:03.960 it's there, there's no treating it. You'll notice the new 2460 02:07:04.039 --> 02:07:06.439 growth coming out is going to be yellow and pale 2461 02:07:06.640 --> 02:07:10.039 and it's just going to decline. And should that progress 2462 02:07:10.119 --> 02:07:12.039 to that point, you need to get it out of there. 2463 02:07:12.159 --> 02:07:14.399 Get the base and as much of the roots as 2464 02:07:14.439 --> 02:07:17.479 you can out of there. Because the fungus survives on 2465 02:07:17.600 --> 02:07:23.199 plant tissues, So remove and destroy all of that plant tissue, 2466 02:07:23.279 --> 02:07:26.359 the trunk, the base, and some of the roots before 2467 02:07:26.399 --> 02:07:29.319 you replant in that area. Okay, any kind of wound 2468 02:07:29.439 --> 02:07:34.039 on the trunk helps helps that particular disease enter. So 2469 02:07:34.560 --> 02:07:37.359 just something to think about other than that, watch the 2470 02:07:37.439 --> 02:07:40.119 watering on it. Maybe give it a little fertilizer if 2471 02:07:40.159 --> 02:07:43.520 it's struggling a little bit, a palm fertilizer. But I 2472 02:07:43.600 --> 02:07:45.640 think it's going to be a wait and watch Okay. 2473 02:07:46.199 --> 02:07:48.359 Well, if it gets to that point, if I have 2474 02:07:48.479 --> 02:07:50.880 to take it out, do I replant it elsewhere? 2475 02:07:51.680 --> 02:07:54.800 Okay, Okay, you can't plant that plant, but you can 2476 02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:57.399 buy another one and bring it in. Yes, and it 2477 02:07:57.880 --> 02:07:59.920 probably be better. If you could put something else there, 2478 02:08:00.079 --> 02:08:01.560 probably be better. But if you can get all those 2479 02:08:02.760 --> 02:08:06.159 organic the plant parts out, then I would say you 2480 02:08:06.199 --> 02:08:09.119 probably could go right back with another same kind of palm. 2481 02:08:09.319 --> 02:08:11.760 All right, Hey, I got to run, but thank you 2482 02:08:12.079 --> 02:08:14.560 and good luck with that, you bet. I wish you 2483 02:08:14.640 --> 02:08:17.319 the very best. If you're looking for a way to 2484 02:08:17.439 --> 02:08:19.720 have the most beautiful landscape on the block, that is 2485 02:08:19.800 --> 02:08:23.680 called Pierscapes. They are professionals. They have designers on staff 2486 02:08:23.760 --> 02:08:26.239 that can design the whole nine yards for you. If 2487 02:08:26.279 --> 02:08:28.119 you just want to redo a bed, if you want 2488 02:08:28.159 --> 02:08:30.159 to you know, I've got some plants that are wimpy 2489 02:08:30.399 --> 02:08:32.840 and they're not surviving in this climate very well, and 2490 02:08:32.920 --> 02:08:35.479 you want to replace them. Peerscapes can advise you on 2491 02:08:35.600 --> 02:08:38.000 that as well. They do quarterly maintenance where they come 2492 02:08:38.039 --> 02:08:40.800 in every quarter, they take over the bed. Every quarter 2493 02:08:40.920 --> 02:08:44.439 they come in, they're gonna weed, they're gonna trim, fertilize, 2494 02:08:44.560 --> 02:08:48.439 check the irrigation. Do any aeration that's necessary, change the 2495 02:08:48.560 --> 02:08:51.760 seasonal color out. You know, the flowers that are going 2496 02:08:51.800 --> 02:08:54.720 to look good in the next season. Add mulch. 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I have some landscape 2509 02:09:31.039 --> 02:09:35.319 services scheduled and we're having new beds new malt and 2510 02:09:35.479 --> 02:09:38.359 I'm concerned because I was thinking about this. It seems 2511 02:09:38.439 --> 02:09:40.680 like every time we do anything in our yard, we 2512 02:09:40.880 --> 02:09:46.439 have ants. Whenever I plant my pot, my flowers and 2513 02:09:46.520 --> 02:09:50.000 my pots, seems like the ants just take over everything. 2514 02:09:50.199 --> 02:09:53.119 And I'm wondering if there's anything that we could do 2515 02:09:53.319 --> 02:09:57.039 beforehand to try to alleviate this problem that we're having. 2516 02:09:58.479 --> 02:10:01.760 I know in the past we have used I'm sorry. 2517 02:10:01.560 --> 02:10:05.199 Go ahead, are you are you're talking about fire ants? 2518 02:10:05.439 --> 02:10:07.000 Are you talking about fire ants? 2519 02:10:07.840 --> 02:10:08.079 Yeah? 2520 02:10:08.159 --> 02:10:10.319 They're red, yeah, and I guess they bite. 2521 02:10:12.760 --> 02:10:15.479 Yeah, So you we need to find out what kind 2522 02:10:15.560 --> 02:10:17.600 they are for sure, you have they bite, they're probably finance. 2523 02:10:17.680 --> 02:10:19.039 Or you just get a friend you don't like and 2524 02:10:19.119 --> 02:10:20.840 have them come over and tell them they have to 2525 02:10:20.880 --> 02:10:24.920 walk barefoot across the yard and standing talking and if 2526 02:10:24.920 --> 02:10:32.560 they start screaming, that's fire ants. So seriously their best Yeah, Okay, 2527 02:10:32.560 --> 02:10:35.840 they're best controlled with a bait. Okay. Fire Ant baits 2528 02:10:36.960 --> 02:10:39.439 are the best way to deal with them because it's 2529 02:10:39.520 --> 02:10:42.359 the minimum amount of pesticide at a very low rate 2530 02:10:42.439 --> 02:10:46.319 over a huge area and it even mounds you can't 2531 02:10:46.399 --> 02:10:52.439 see underground. They have roving credit roving you know ants. Yeah, 2532 02:10:52.600 --> 02:10:54.760 that are finding food to bring back and they'll bring 2533 02:10:54.840 --> 02:10:57.199 the bait back. So get you a fresh bait. You 2534 02:10:57.279 --> 02:11:00.279 said you were in Paarland, right, yes, and there in 2535 02:11:00.319 --> 02:11:03.600 the Pearland area, you right there in town you got Pairland, 2536 02:11:03.680 --> 02:11:07.039 Ace Lumber and Ace Hardware. On North Maine they will 2537 02:11:07.079 --> 02:11:10.159 have for baits. There's several of them. There's Ambro, there's 2538 02:11:10.239 --> 02:11:14.800 advance base baits, there's extinguished that's an excellent one. But 2539 02:11:14.880 --> 02:11:16.920 they'll put you in touch with one or more of 2540 02:11:17.039 --> 02:11:20.119 the baits. Follow the label, put it out. You may 2541 02:11:20.239 --> 02:11:22.720 need de bait again a little bit later. But fall 2542 02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:24.560 is the best time to do it, and it's the 2543 02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:27.359 best way to do if any escape that you can 2544 02:11:27.479 --> 02:11:30.680 follow up with an individual mound treatment. You know, some 2545 02:11:30.880 --> 02:11:34.119 may pup, but don't just don't just use the dump 2546 02:11:34.199 --> 02:11:36.239 it on the mound and kill the ants treatment, because 2547 02:11:36.239 --> 02:11:38.720 then you're playing whack them mole with fire antce. You know, 2548 02:11:38.800 --> 02:11:40.800 you kill this mound and the one pops up and 2549 02:11:40.840 --> 02:11:43.399 you kill it and another one pops up. Do the baits. 2550 02:11:43.479 --> 02:11:45.680 That's the way to go. And at Paarland at the 2551 02:11:45.720 --> 02:11:46.800 Ash Hardware they got those. 2552 02:11:47.479 --> 02:11:50.960 Okay, okay, And another quick question, do they actually you 2553 02:11:51.000 --> 02:11:54.439 know when I put like flowers in my pots and 2554 02:11:54.560 --> 02:11:57.479 then they get invaded with these ants? Are they harming 2555 02:11:57.720 --> 02:12:01.439 the ant? The ants harming the plant actually that I've 2556 02:12:01.479 --> 02:12:04.920 just potted also? Or is it doesn't harm the plant 2557 02:12:04.960 --> 02:12:05.239 at all? 2558 02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:10.560 Okay, you're not harming they some plants like Okay, I'll 2559 02:12:10.640 --> 02:12:13.239 just this in your pots. But like okra, they'll get 2560 02:12:13.319 --> 02:12:16.239 up there and they'll eat into the but the buds 2561 02:12:16.439 --> 02:12:19.520 or the yeah bud okay, okra pods to get some 2562 02:12:19.640 --> 02:12:23.319 moisture and protein out of there and stuff. But in general, 2563 02:12:23.479 --> 02:12:27.000 they don't they don't attack plants. They are a protein feeder. 2564 02:12:27.079 --> 02:12:30.399 They're looking for They're looking for caterpillars and flea larva 2565 02:12:30.600 --> 02:12:33.479 and anything that's proteiny. That's what they're eating. 2566 02:12:34.479 --> 02:12:37.159 Okay, all right, all right, well, thank you so much. 2567 02:12:37.319 --> 02:12:41.159 I will try that, all right, Thanks appreciate that, Sabrina. 2568 02:12:41.319 --> 02:12:43.640 Thanks for the call. Uh let's see, we're gonna go 2569 02:12:43.680 --> 02:12:46.800 to Cypress and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to Gardline. 2570 02:12:48.199 --> 02:12:51.640 Hey, thanks for having me. So I've got a very 2571 02:12:51.680 --> 02:12:55.560 common question regarding dollar weed. We get dollar weed in 2572 02:12:55.640 --> 02:12:58.600 our yard, especially the front yard, is what really bothers me, 2573 02:12:58.800 --> 02:13:02.399 you know, every spring, and I treat it with which 2574 02:13:02.439 --> 02:13:04.239 is strange because it gets plenty of on it's on 2575 02:13:04.319 --> 02:13:06.920 a slope, good drainage. But nevertheless, we get a big 2576 02:13:06.960 --> 02:13:08.239 patch of it right in the middle of the front 2577 02:13:08.319 --> 02:13:12.239 yard and I treat it with I believe it's bonn 2578 02:13:12.279 --> 02:13:16.079 eyed weed beater ultra, which I know Randy lemon I 2579 02:13:16.199 --> 02:13:18.079 mentioned that, you know, a long time ago, and it works. 2580 02:13:18.119 --> 02:13:20.199 It works great, although I end up with these little 2581 02:13:20.239 --> 02:13:23.479 patches of you know, dead spots waiting for weeks until 2582 02:13:23.560 --> 02:13:24.920 the Saint Augustine kind of filled it in. 2583 02:13:25.039 --> 02:13:27.720 But my question is why does it keep coming back? 2584 02:13:27.960 --> 02:13:28.920 How can I just kill this? 2585 02:13:30.479 --> 02:13:30.600 Well? 2586 02:13:30.680 --> 02:13:33.359 Dollar weed has some underground structures that you may not 2587 02:13:33.479 --> 02:13:36.439 get all of those that it primarily is coming back 2588 02:13:36.800 --> 02:13:41.880 from those, So that would be you know that that 2589 02:13:42.000 --> 02:13:45.680 is probably what you're seeing. There are a number of products. 2590 02:13:45.760 --> 02:13:49.479 The bone eye that Randy had recommended works well. I 2591 02:13:49.640 --> 02:13:52.199 try to watch out for the temperature though on those, 2592 02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:54.399 you know, when you get up above eighty five degrees, 2593 02:13:54.439 --> 02:13:57.279 some of those can damage your Saint Augustine lawn. And 2594 02:13:57.399 --> 02:13:59.760 that's where I typically will shift over and send people 2595 02:13:59.760 --> 02:14:02.720 to get celsius that you can buy on little packets 2596 02:14:02.760 --> 02:14:05.039 that make one gallon of spray, which goes a long 2597 02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:08.760 way if you're if you're spot treating, uh, that that 2598 02:14:09.000 --> 02:14:11.720 is an option. There are other options out there for 2599 02:14:12.159 --> 02:14:15.399 dollar weed control and they work. You just have to 2600 02:14:15.479 --> 02:14:20.720 watch the temperature. Okay, okay, Celsius and that's that's all 2601 02:14:20.800 --> 02:14:24.359 on the label. Yeah, that's all on the label too, 2602 02:14:25.119 --> 02:14:27.720 So just always read the label. It'll tell you what 2603 02:14:27.880 --> 02:14:29.560 grass you can use it on. It'll tell you any 2604 02:14:29.600 --> 02:14:31.479 restrictions like temperature for example. 2605 02:14:32.000 --> 02:14:35.479 Uh, and frustrate stop it from coming back. 2606 02:14:35.600 --> 02:14:36.359 You know that's the thing. 2607 02:14:36.439 --> 02:14:39.199 I keep thinking I'm killing it, and then then in 2608 02:14:39.279 --> 02:14:41.720 the spring it comes right back, almost comes back worse, 2609 02:14:42.000 --> 02:14:44.520 getting worse, and well. 2610 02:14:45.159 --> 02:14:47.399 So, okay, a couple of things to do. The denture 2611 02:14:47.479 --> 02:14:50.399 your lawn gets the more it fights weeds. But dollar 2612 02:14:50.439 --> 02:14:54.199 weed can co exist with Saint Augustine even when it's 2613 02:14:54.279 --> 02:14:58.720 dense very well. So look at your watering schedule. Anything 2614 02:14:58.840 --> 02:15:01.640 you can do to dry the swell out as much 2615 02:15:01.680 --> 02:15:04.920 as possible between waterings, that would be good. So instead 2616 02:15:04.920 --> 02:15:07.880 of squirting it every day, you know, once a week 2617 02:15:07.960 --> 02:15:10.600 a good soaking, but not much more. If there's bad 2618 02:15:10.720 --> 02:15:13.079 drainage in the area. Anything you could do to improve 2619 02:15:13.199 --> 02:15:15.119 drainage and dry it out a little more, it slows 2620 02:15:15.199 --> 02:15:18.399 the dollar weed down. Otherwise, you know, it loves to 2621 02:15:18.479 --> 02:15:20.920 live in a swamp, and so the wetter it is, 2622 02:15:21.359 --> 02:15:23.960 the harder it is to fight because the dollar weat 2623 02:15:24.079 --> 02:15:27.239 is just so vigorous. And they say at that point, okay. 2624 02:15:27.479 --> 02:15:29.199 Okay, all right, great, Thanks a lot. 2625 02:15:29.359 --> 02:15:32.279 That's the cultural thing you could do, all right, but 2626 02:15:32.479 --> 02:15:34.560 you may want to try switching to the celsius. Go 2627 02:15:34.600 --> 02:15:36.560 ahead and hit it now with the celsius, be ready 2628 02:15:36.600 --> 02:15:39.840 to again in the spring. I think that you know, 2629 02:15:39.960 --> 02:15:43.399 it's one of the better products, and it's even though 2630 02:15:43.439 --> 02:15:45.279 our temperatures are high. If you do it early in 2631 02:15:45.319 --> 02:15:48.920 the morning, you can have that celsius work without doing 2632 02:15:49.159 --> 02:15:51.399 a lot of damage to your lawn. You know, it's 2633 02:15:51.479 --> 02:15:53.960 not liking u celsius in ninety five degree weather, but 2634 02:15:54.039 --> 02:15:55.840 if it's early in the morning, you can use it 2635 02:15:56.600 --> 02:15:58.199 and it's not going to be as much of a 2636 02:15:58.279 --> 02:16:00.319 problem as some of the others that want it. Gets 2637 02:16:00.319 --> 02:16:01.760 above eighty five, it's a problem. 2638 02:16:02.920 --> 02:16:05.800 Okay, all right, thanks a lot, all right. 2639 02:16:05.720 --> 02:16:08.520 Good luck with that dollar weed. One time I was 2640 02:16:08.640 --> 02:16:12.039 in a I was in a grocery store, I believe 2641 02:16:12.039 --> 02:16:15.479 it's a Vietnamese grocery store, somewhere south east of Houston, 2642 02:16:15.680 --> 02:16:19.000 maybe over toward Beaumont, I believe, anyway, and I saw 2643 02:16:19.079 --> 02:16:23.119 a drink and it had dollar weed on the picture 2644 02:16:23.239 --> 02:16:25.840 on the front of the can, and it is exactly 2645 02:16:25.960 --> 02:16:28.640 what it was. It was a drink made from dollar weed. 2646 02:16:28.840 --> 02:16:30.239 I had to buy one and drink it. You know, 2647 02:16:30.359 --> 02:16:33.200 I'll put anything in my mouth once just about and 2648 02:16:33.319 --> 02:16:36.520 I had to to try this stuff, and oh my gosh, 2649 02:16:36.840 --> 02:16:41.079 it was like k ro syrup sweet. But they say, well, 2650 02:16:41.120 --> 02:16:44.680 if you can't beat them, eat them. Well maybe maybe dandelions, 2651 02:16:44.760 --> 02:16:48.079 maybe chick weed. I'll do that. Yeah, not dollar weed. 2652 02:16:48.200 --> 02:16:51.399 I couldn't do that one. But that's an interesting approach 2653 02:16:51.520 --> 02:16:55.399 to dealing with problems like that. Oh gosh. You know, 2654 02:16:56.399 --> 02:16:59.200 when it comes to having success in your garden and 2655 02:16:59.399 --> 02:17:02.559 your landscape, it really just boils down to the simple 2656 02:17:02.639 --> 02:17:07.520 practices of sunlight and soil and good plants and good 2657 02:17:07.600 --> 02:17:10.079 care following that. And so here's what I mean. Does 2658 02:17:10.120 --> 02:17:12.760 it want to be in shade or sun? Does it 2659 02:17:12.879 --> 02:17:15.840 take what soil or not? If it doesn't, you got 2660 02:17:15.920 --> 02:17:18.079 to build up the soil in a raised bed, make 2661 02:17:18.239 --> 02:17:20.959 better drainage, and you have success, and then give a 2662 02:17:21.000 --> 02:17:24.440 good fertilizer. It's not really that difficult. Well, it's time 2663 02:17:24.479 --> 02:17:26.520 for me to take a break and I will be 2664 02:17:26.760 --> 02:17:30.399 right back our last thirty minutes of the show today, 2665 02:17:30.559 --> 02:17:33.280 in fact, last thirty minutes of this weekend on Guardline. 2666 02:17:33.719 --> 02:17:35.440 So if you got any questions that we can help 2667 02:17:35.479 --> 02:17:37.399 you with. It'd be a good time to talk about 2668 02:17:37.440 --> 02:17:41.520 those I wanted to tell you about Affordable Tree Care, 2669 02:17:41.680 --> 02:17:43.719 and I do all the time. I talk about Martin 2670 02:17:43.760 --> 02:17:45.600 spoon Moore, I talk about his wife Joe being the 2671 02:17:45.639 --> 02:17:48.680 ones that answer the phone. This is a business where 2672 02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:52.000 the owners are still actively involved. You make a phone 2673 02:17:52.040 --> 02:17:54.319 call to Affordable Tree Care, and if you don't hear 2674 02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:57.040 Martin or Joe on the phone, you call the wrong number, 2675 02:17:57.120 --> 02:18:00.319 hang up, dial again because their number. You want to 2676 02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:02.639 write this, just write this down and keep it because 2677 02:18:02.680 --> 02:18:04.719 you never know you or maybe a neighbor has a 2678 02:18:04.760 --> 02:18:09.079 tree issue. Seven to one three six nine nine twenty 2679 02:18:09.200 --> 02:18:12.840 six sixty three seven one three six nine nine two 2680 02:18:13.079 --> 02:18:15.319 six sixty three. And if you want to go to 2681 02:18:15.399 --> 02:18:19.000 the website, it's Afftree Service dot com. But I want 2682 02:18:19.040 --> 02:18:22.079 to tell you October through February is primetime for getting 2683 02:18:22.079 --> 02:18:24.799 your trees pruned. And everybody else wants to get their 2684 02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:29.040 trees pruned then too. So Martin's schedule fills up. Don't delay. 2685 02:18:29.479 --> 02:18:31.399 Give him a call now, get on the schedule. Maybe 2686 02:18:31.440 --> 02:18:33.399 you don't need him to come until January, but get 2687 02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:37.000 on the schedule. Get that done. He will prune. He 2688 02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:40.079 does deep root feeding. He'll check the trees overall health. 2689 02:18:40.760 --> 02:18:43.040 If you've if you've noticed that a tree is like 2690 02:18:43.159 --> 02:18:45.879 the ground is heaving up a little bit on one side, 2691 02:18:45.920 --> 02:18:48.079 you know, the tree root base. Any kind of movement 2692 02:18:48.200 --> 02:18:52.280 down in there. Uh, that's probably from the last storms 2693 02:18:52.399 --> 02:18:54.559 that did some of their movement and damage to it. 2694 02:18:55.040 --> 02:18:56.760 Give Martin a call, have him take a look at 2695 02:18:56.799 --> 02:18:59.120 that and make sure it's all good and safe to go, 2696 02:18:59.319 --> 02:19:02.239 and he'll advise you on things. The October February is 2697 02:19:02.319 --> 02:19:05.200 really a short window when our best pruning time is here, 2698 02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:08.559 So call now to get on the schedule. Martin stays 2699 02:19:08.600 --> 02:19:11.200 busy because Martin does good work. It's as simple as that. 2700 02:19:11.879 --> 02:19:14.440 That's also why we love to have Affordable Tree as 2701 02:19:14.440 --> 02:19:16.559 a sponsor here on garden Line, because I know I 2702 02:19:16.600 --> 02:19:18.639 can send you them and they're going to do a 2703 02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:22.360 good job. So aff Tree Service dot Com seven to 2704 02:19:22.399 --> 02:19:26.639 one three six nine nine two six six three. We 2705 02:19:26.719 --> 02:19:29.319 are now going to go out to tom Ball, Texas 2706 02:19:29.360 --> 02:19:31.639 and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line. 2707 02:19:32.559 --> 02:19:36.040 Good morning, Skiff. Have a couple of quick questions. 2708 02:19:36.159 --> 02:19:36.719 One is. 2709 02:19:38.479 --> 02:19:41.680 Fertilization. I did the sweet Green probably about four or 2710 02:19:41.719 --> 02:19:42.479 five weeks ago. 2711 02:19:43.840 --> 02:19:44.680 Okay, was it too? 2712 02:19:45.360 --> 02:19:48.159 Did I wait a bit? Or what's your thinking on that? 2713 02:19:50.440 --> 02:19:50.559 Uh? 2714 02:19:51.000 --> 02:19:51.040 No? 2715 02:19:51.559 --> 02:19:54.479 If you if you did sweet green, then I would 2716 02:19:54.520 --> 02:19:57.680 in early October, I'd go ahead and put down the 2717 02:19:57.799 --> 02:19:59.799 nitrofoss Fall special winner. 2718 02:19:59.840 --> 02:20:03.040 I okay, okay. 2719 02:20:03.280 --> 02:20:05.719 The sweet Green is a lot of super slow release. No, 2720 02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:07.760 it's a you know it's going to break down pretty 2721 02:20:07.840 --> 02:20:09.319 quick and release the nutrients. 2722 02:20:09.959 --> 02:20:10.079 Uh. 2723 02:20:10.239 --> 02:20:12.799 And so the Nitropuss three step that's going to be 2724 02:20:12.840 --> 02:20:17.079 the higher potassium fertilizer to help your grass build the 2725 02:20:17.120 --> 02:20:20.239 carbohydrates to have winter heartiness and come out stronger in 2726 02:20:20.280 --> 02:20:20.680 the spring. 2727 02:20:21.760 --> 02:20:22.159 Perfect. 2728 02:20:22.680 --> 02:20:25.639 And one more quick question, Skip I called last week, 2729 02:20:25.680 --> 02:20:28.760 I'll think about bermuda and so trying to choke out 2730 02:20:28.840 --> 02:20:31.920 my say in Augustine, Well, I'm doing that, but now 2731 02:20:31.959 --> 02:20:35.520 it'srill fin in a bunch of areas. You know it's 2732 02:20:35.559 --> 02:20:38.440 got bermuta but a thrill fin. Back in the day 2733 02:20:38.520 --> 02:20:41.399 you did sand. But that's not the way to go anymore. 2734 02:20:42.079 --> 02:20:46.920 What's your suggestion, Uh, if you want to make the bermuda, 2735 02:20:47.280 --> 02:20:49.040 you want to make the bermuda happy, I'd get a 2736 02:20:49.079 --> 02:20:52.879 compost top dressing. You were up there in the Tamaul area, 2737 02:20:52.959 --> 02:20:55.920 so you're not that terribly far away from Nature's Way Resources, 2738 02:20:56.280 --> 02:20:58.440 which is up on I forty five where fourteen eighty 2739 02:20:58.440 --> 02:21:02.440 eight comes in, and they've got every Friday is fungal Friday. 2740 02:21:02.760 --> 02:21:05.920 Get I like the leaf mold composts that they have, 2741 02:21:06.040 --> 02:21:09.079 but I also like the fungal compost And just call, 2742 02:21:09.559 --> 02:21:11.719 you know, talk to Ian or one of the folks 2743 02:21:11.840 --> 02:21:13.799 there and just tell them what you want to do. 2744 02:21:13.879 --> 02:21:15.440 You talk to me on guardline. You're wanting to do 2745 02:21:15.479 --> 02:21:18.399 a top dressing on your bermuda lawn and so you 2746 02:21:18.520 --> 02:21:20.799 need something kind of screen down. Fine, and they've got 2747 02:21:20.840 --> 02:21:23.200 that product. They they know what we're talking about. When 2748 02:21:23.239 --> 02:21:25.719 you call them and they'll get you set up and 2749 02:21:25.879 --> 02:21:27.319 that you can do. You can go pick it up 2750 02:21:27.360 --> 02:21:28.760 if you've got a way to do it, or you 2751 02:21:28.920 --> 02:21:31.200 can have them deliver it if you want to go 2752 02:21:31.239 --> 02:21:31.959 about it that way. 2753 02:21:33.040 --> 02:21:33.399 Perfect. 2754 02:21:33.520 --> 02:21:37.879 Thank you having a going Yeah, thank you appreciate the call. John, 2755 02:21:38.239 --> 02:21:41.079 John very good. Yeah, And I should have mentioned this 2756 02:21:41.120 --> 02:21:43.040 when John was talking about while you're there, while you're 2757 02:21:43.079 --> 02:21:46.120 doing nightro fast Fall special, get the barricade out because 2758 02:21:46.159 --> 02:21:49.639 that prevents grassy weeds in thin areas. It where sunlight 2759 02:21:49.760 --> 02:21:52.760 hits the soil. Nature plants a weed. So unless your 2760 02:21:52.840 --> 02:21:55.520 lawn is just so thick, no sun can get to 2761 02:21:55.600 --> 02:21:58.120 the soil, you're gonna see weeds pop up from seed 2762 02:21:58.399 --> 02:22:00.719 because that's what they do. That's what nature does to 2763 02:22:00.799 --> 02:22:03.639 prevent bear soil. Nature hates bear soil for good reason. 2764 02:22:04.520 --> 02:22:08.760 So barricade put down in October early October, don't delay. 2765 02:22:09.399 --> 02:22:12.040 You can apply it all October, you apply it November 2766 02:22:12.079 --> 02:22:14.000 and all of that. But I say, why not get 2767 02:22:14.040 --> 02:22:15.719 it done ahead of time because that barricade is gonna 2768 02:22:15.760 --> 02:22:17.920 last you a couple of two three months easy, and 2769 02:22:18.120 --> 02:22:20.000 so go ahead and get it down, especially in the 2770 02:22:20.079 --> 02:22:23.559 cool season, and get it down and then let's cover 2771 02:22:23.719 --> 02:22:26.920 that whole period where these will be sprouting and you 2772 02:22:26.920 --> 02:22:28.680 won't be dealing with them in the spring. Then Nitro 2773 02:22:28.719 --> 02:22:34.600 foster eagle turf funge aside is a systemic that helps 2774 02:22:34.680 --> 02:22:37.520 prevent the large patch or brown patch. It also helps 2775 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:40.879 prevent takeof patch, which is really really important. You know, 2776 02:22:41.000 --> 02:22:44.559 John's up there in the Tomball area and you're going 2777 02:22:44.639 --> 02:22:48.000 to find you know, these kind of night fosh products 2778 02:22:48.000 --> 02:22:50.399 at plant troll seasons of Tomball Parkway, for example, and 2779 02:22:50.479 --> 02:22:52.680 Chenny Garden's din and Richmonds and those of you live 2780 02:22:52.760 --> 02:22:54.760 up in the woodland shades of Texas has them, so 2781 02:22:54.840 --> 02:22:58.079 it's easy easy to find those kinds of products from Nitrofoster. 2782 02:22:58.840 --> 02:23:02.920 Let's go now to rop in North Houston. Hey Robert, 2783 02:23:03.079 --> 02:23:06.200 welcome to garden Line. Hey, good morning, Skip. Hey Skip. 2784 02:23:06.319 --> 02:23:08.920 I heard you make the analogy about the h the 2785 02:23:09.000 --> 02:23:11.840 kool aid and making water, you know, harder to freeze. 2786 02:23:12.319 --> 02:23:15.280 So it got me thinking, ID I was wondering if 2787 02:23:15.360 --> 02:23:18.639 you if you watered plants with sugar water before a freeze, 2788 02:23:19.120 --> 02:23:21.200 would they take up the sugar water and help you 2789 02:23:21.639 --> 02:23:24.200 prevent or slow down the freezing process. 2790 02:23:24.280 --> 02:23:27.680 And now it wouldn't. It wouldn't. The plant has a 2791 02:23:27.799 --> 02:23:30.479 natural way of doing that, and that is sunshine on 2792 02:23:30.559 --> 02:23:34.040 a green leaf. That's how you get carbohydrates. And the 2793 02:23:34.159 --> 02:23:37.200 plant is designed to know how to do that. And 2794 02:23:37.360 --> 02:23:40.600 and potassium is an important element in that process. But 2795 02:23:40.719 --> 02:23:43.440 you need a little nitrogen with the potassium to go together. 2796 02:23:43.440 --> 02:23:47.600 That's why we have our fall special fertilizers. But yeah, 2797 02:23:47.719 --> 02:23:49.719 let the plant do it as the best way. I wish, 2798 02:23:49.840 --> 02:23:53.559 I wish the other would work. But uh now, okay, 2799 02:23:53.799 --> 02:23:55.840 one more question real quick. I heard you last week 2800 02:23:55.840 --> 02:23:58.760 about the air potato is that edible, and if so, 2801 02:23:59.280 --> 02:24:03.360 we're some horses for it. I do not think it's edible. 2802 02:24:04.319 --> 02:24:07.280 I've seen them, you know, gardeners that love those to 2803 02:24:07.319 --> 02:24:09.239 wrap around the pine trees and things. The only thing 2804 02:24:09.280 --> 02:24:13.000 about air potato is it can be invasive, and it 2805 02:24:13.200 --> 02:24:16.239 just depends on the area you're in and you know 2806 02:24:16.399 --> 02:24:19.200 how close it is to other things. Always pick up 2807 02:24:19.239 --> 02:24:21.440 all those potatoes when they fall if you have one, 2808 02:24:21.600 --> 02:24:24.840 because you don't want to, you know, just have a bunch. 2809 02:24:24.920 --> 02:24:28.399 It's not like kudzu, but but it is a potential problem. 2810 02:24:28.799 --> 02:24:30.680 So be careful with the air potato if you're going 2811 02:24:30.760 --> 02:24:33.639 to grow it. Okay, well, thanks so much for the information. 2812 02:24:33.719 --> 02:24:37.600 Appreciate you you bet, Robert, thank you for calling. Take 2813 02:24:37.680 --> 02:24:41.639 care Okay, you do good. Good rest of your weekend. 2814 02:24:42.760 --> 02:24:45.000 When was the last time you went out to Arburgate. Well, 2815 02:24:45.200 --> 02:24:48.079 if you haven't been recently, you need to go Arborgate. 2816 02:24:48.360 --> 02:24:50.479 Is I tell you that place you ought to see it? 2817 02:24:50.479 --> 02:24:54.760 I was looking, dad, That is just checking out. 2818 02:24:55.280 --> 02:24:55.440 You know. 2819 02:24:55.520 --> 02:24:57.559 You just stand there and you look, and I mean 2820 02:24:57.600 --> 02:25:00.120 you could stand in one spot for thirty minutes and 2821 02:25:00.239 --> 02:25:03.479 not see everything that there is at Arburgate because there's 2822 02:25:03.559 --> 02:25:06.479 all kinds of landscape bling, you know, beautiful things to 2823 02:25:06.520 --> 02:25:11.799 put in your landscape decorations. There's plants galore, gorgeous pottery. 2824 02:25:11.920 --> 02:25:13.399 I want you walk in. You just have to walk 2825 02:25:13.479 --> 02:25:15.159 right past the pottery. If you come in the front door. 2826 02:25:15.200 --> 02:25:17.280 By the way, there is a backdoor. It is that 2827 02:25:17.399 --> 02:25:20.399 parking lot that's all weathered on off Trischel Roads. So 2828 02:25:20.559 --> 02:25:23.200 if you drive past Arburgate and miss Trischel, it's coming 2829 02:25:23.280 --> 02:25:25.600 back in on the other side. It's a loop behind Arburgate. 2830 02:25:26.200 --> 02:25:29.079 I like that back patio best because it's easy to 2831 02:25:29.079 --> 02:25:31.520 get in there and walk right in and be in business. 2832 02:25:32.079 --> 02:25:36.200 Arburgates gift shops are loaded with beautiful stuff, beautiful stuff 2833 02:25:36.280 --> 02:25:40.120 for Halloween decorations, for Thanksgiving decoration. I think they're even 2834 02:25:40.159 --> 02:25:43.120 getting some Christmas stuff in already, So you need to 2835 02:25:43.200 --> 02:25:46.280 go by there. Arburgate dot com is the website. Go there, 2836 02:25:46.399 --> 02:25:48.799 subscribe to the newsletter and stuff too. While you're there. 2837 02:25:49.280 --> 02:25:51.760 You will not be disappointed and take some prinds when 2838 02:25:51.799 --> 02:25:54.559 you go. All right, time for a break. I'll be 2839 02:25:54.879 --> 02:25:56.799 right back. Gad to have you with us. I was 2840 02:25:56.840 --> 02:26:01.360 out in my garden this past week and do some multching, 2841 02:26:02.079 --> 02:26:05.200 and I ran out a multch and it reminded me. 2842 02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:07.360 You know, I thought, I know, always know better than this. 2843 02:26:07.559 --> 02:26:09.520 I do this mental math in my head and I 2844 02:26:09.639 --> 02:26:12.319 think I got enough, and then I run short, and 2845 02:26:12.440 --> 02:26:16.120 it reminded me. There's a this is an author unknown quote, 2846 02:26:16.440 --> 02:26:19.440 but this is so true. Here he goes. My rule 2847 02:26:19.479 --> 02:26:22.600 of green thumb for malts is to double my initial 2848 02:26:22.840 --> 02:26:26.159 estimate of the bags needed and then add three. That way, 2849 02:26:26.280 --> 02:26:31.399 I'll only be two bags short. Unfortunately, that is too 2850 02:26:31.479 --> 02:26:33.760 too true. We're gonna go out to Spring, Texas and 2851 02:26:33.840 --> 02:26:36.280 talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line. 2852 02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:37.600 Good morning. 2853 02:26:38.360 --> 02:26:43.200 I'm preparing to put a new grass down and what 2854 02:26:44.239 --> 02:26:49.120 what is the preparation process once once the ground is 2855 02:26:49.600 --> 02:26:54.000 completely cleaned of all weeds and all everything. 2856 02:26:54.959 --> 02:26:59.440 First up, Yeah, first start, you want to get any 2857 02:26:59.719 --> 02:27:03.120 pernial weed out of there, whether it's bermuda grass in 2858 02:27:03.159 --> 02:27:06.600 a Saint Augustine to be planted lawn or whatever it is. 2859 02:27:06.879 --> 02:27:09.159 You know the dollar we's we were talking about earlier, 2860 02:27:09.319 --> 02:27:12.040 Virginia button, whatever it is. Kill the stuff, don't let 2861 02:27:12.120 --> 02:27:15.639 it come back in your new lawn. Then you want 2862 02:27:15.799 --> 02:27:18.840 to do a light tilling if you can, if it's practical, 2863 02:27:18.879 --> 02:27:21.600 to do that. Get the old organic materials out of 2864 02:27:21.639 --> 02:27:23.719 the way, because you want the sod to touch the 2865 02:27:23.840 --> 02:27:27.440 soil rather than a bunch of dead weeds. If there's 2866 02:27:27.479 --> 02:27:30.200 any areas that need to be filled, now's the time 2867 02:27:30.280 --> 02:27:32.440 to do it. Get it all smooth. That way, when 2868 02:27:32.479 --> 02:27:34.840 you mow, you get a nice even mowing, not one 2869 02:27:34.920 --> 02:27:37.319 where the blade is tilting and gouging the ground as 2870 02:27:37.360 --> 02:27:40.920 it bumps along. Get that smoothed out, and then get 2871 02:27:40.959 --> 02:27:42.959 your grass down and do it as soon as you can. 2872 02:27:43.280 --> 02:27:45.799 We are still warm, but it's not gonna be warm 2873 02:27:45.840 --> 02:27:48.360 for a long time, and once we get into November, 2874 02:27:48.559 --> 02:27:51.959 grassroot growth is slowing a whole lot, and so I 2875 02:27:52.040 --> 02:27:56.159 would suggest asap getting all this done. In order to 2876 02:27:56.239 --> 02:27:58.680 get that grass well rooted in. You want to water 2877 02:27:58.799 --> 02:28:01.680 it every day for the first week, every other day 2878 02:28:01.799 --> 02:28:03.959 for the second week, and then you can start to 2879 02:28:04.040 --> 02:28:07.120 back off that watering schedule, especially as things cool off, 2880 02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:07.959 you can back off a lot. 2881 02:28:09.520 --> 02:28:14.959 So don't put any weed forgive on it before you 2882 02:28:15.040 --> 02:28:15.920 put the new grass. 2883 02:28:17.200 --> 02:28:21.040 Do not, absolutely do not put a pre emergent herbicide 2884 02:28:21.079 --> 02:28:24.200 down before you put the grass down, because here's what's 2885 02:28:24.239 --> 02:28:29.000 gonna happen. Those herbicides. When weed seed sprout, they keep 2886 02:28:29.079 --> 02:28:32.120 the roots from being able to form. They make them stubby, 2887 02:28:32.200 --> 02:28:34.719 they won't grow. The same thing will happen to your 2888 02:28:34.719 --> 02:28:37.479 Saint Augustine roots on the side that you lay down 2889 02:28:37.639 --> 02:28:40.280 on top of a just put down pre emergent herbicide, 2890 02:28:40.719 --> 02:28:43.040 your grass's not gonna be able to root in. So 2891 02:28:43.280 --> 02:28:45.840 do not do them ahead of time. Afterwards the top 2892 02:28:45.879 --> 02:28:48.799 of the ground fine, but right now I would say 2893 02:28:48.840 --> 02:28:52.000 this first. Now, let's get that stuff rooted in. We'll 2894 02:28:52.040 --> 02:28:53.959 worry about pre emergence next year. 2895 02:28:54.200 --> 02:29:00.079 Okay, what if I kind of put some humus and 2896 02:29:00.200 --> 02:29:01.680 manure mixed in. 2897 02:29:03.479 --> 02:29:05.799 You can mix maybe say an inch or so of 2898 02:29:05.879 --> 02:29:07.959 that into the soil all over the place if you 2899 02:29:08.040 --> 02:29:08.360 want to. 2900 02:29:09.079 --> 02:29:09.200 Uh. 2901 02:29:09.399 --> 02:29:11.200 It's gonna help for a little while, but not a 2902 02:29:11.319 --> 02:29:12.760 long term, and don't overdo it. 2903 02:29:13.040 --> 02:29:13.159 Uh. 2904 02:29:13.319 --> 02:29:14.559 Be kind of light on that. 2905 02:29:15.200 --> 02:29:15.319 Uh. 2906 02:29:15.440 --> 02:29:17.680 But once you get that grass, our number one goal 2907 02:29:17.760 --> 02:29:19.200 now is to get the weeds out of the way, 2908 02:29:19.959 --> 02:29:23.319 the ground prepared and level, and the grass down and 2909 02:29:23.399 --> 02:29:26.479 those roots from that sod down into your soil a 2910 02:29:26.760 --> 02:29:29.559 s A p and down coming in. 2911 02:29:31.440 --> 02:29:33.559 The last thing I want to say is before you 2912 02:29:34.159 --> 02:29:38.200 put put the put the new grass down. Should you 2913 02:29:39.000 --> 02:29:42.000 would all like to water it the ground before you 2914 02:29:43.280 --> 02:29:45.239 put to the side down or just leave. 2915 02:29:45.079 --> 02:29:49.319 It dry if it's if it's very dry, yes, get 2916 02:29:49.360 --> 02:29:52.360 it moist because that way the roots go down into 2917 02:29:52.440 --> 02:29:54.239 moist soil. If if the soil is too dry, they're 2918 02:29:54.239 --> 02:29:55.399 not going to be to grow into there. 2919 02:29:55.639 --> 02:29:55.840 Well. 2920 02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.879 Uh, but the watering you're doing is also going to 2921 02:29:58.920 --> 02:30:01.239 get some water down into it. You're not putting a lot, 2922 02:30:01.319 --> 02:30:03.760 you know. When we're saying water twice a day or 2923 02:30:03.879 --> 02:30:05.879 and then once a day, we're not talking about putting 2924 02:30:06.079 --> 02:30:08.520 two inches of water down twice a day. We're talking about, 2925 02:30:08.639 --> 02:30:10.479 you know, just a little bit. You want to keep 2926 02:30:10.520 --> 02:30:13.319 it moist because your grass is coming in with about 2927 02:30:13.319 --> 02:30:16.280 a half inch to three quarter inch long roots and 2928 02:30:16.879 --> 02:30:20.680 that doesn't do much, you know, and so asap, getting 2929 02:30:20.680 --> 02:30:23.239 those roots in the ground is how that grass gets resilient. 2930 02:30:23.639 --> 02:30:26.200 And so we're babying it along for the for the 2931 02:30:26.280 --> 02:30:28.799 first little bit so that it can get roots down. 2932 02:30:28.840 --> 02:30:33.120 But also just just get that done soon, Mike, because 2933 02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:34.840 you'll end up with better stand. 2934 02:30:36.280 --> 02:30:39.520 So it's okay to lightly water it before you put 2935 02:30:39.600 --> 02:30:40.200 the new down. 2936 02:30:42.799 --> 02:30:45.559 Yes, if the soil is dry, that's helpful. So the 2937 02:30:45.680 --> 02:30:49.040 roots can go into moist already premic and soil. That's helpful. 2938 02:30:51.200 --> 02:30:54.959 Appreciate all you have, but yep, yeah, a great day. 2939 02:30:54.920 --> 02:30:58.680 All right, all right, love it all right, I appreciate, 2940 02:30:58.799 --> 02:30:59.639 appreciate your call. 2941 02:30:59.760 --> 02:30:59.920 Thank you. 2942 02:31:00.200 --> 02:31:04.000 Might all right, folks, there we go. Uh there's the 2943 02:31:04.079 --> 02:31:07.879 advice on lawns. You still do it, but don't delay. 2944 02:31:08.440 --> 02:31:13.040 The more you delay, the less the less helpful it 2945 02:31:13.079 --> 02:31:16.719 will be for that grass trying to get going. So anyway, 2946 02:31:18.879 --> 02:31:20.760 I want to remind you that I am going to 2947 02:31:20.760 --> 02:31:24.799 be going to where Wharton Feed Ace Hardware next Saturday 2948 02:31:25.040 --> 02:31:28.280 from one a little bit later than normal, one to three, 2949 02:31:28.479 --> 02:31:30.879 one to three pm. Grab you some lunch. You may 2950 02:31:30.920 --> 02:31:32.959 have to bring me some lunch because I'll be flying 2951 02:31:33.000 --> 02:31:37.040 down the highway during lunchtime. No, seriously, Wharton Feed one 2952 02:31:37.159 --> 02:31:41.440 to three pm. When I'm there, the Lockley's owners of 2953 02:31:41.520 --> 02:31:44.879 Wharton Feed and Ace are going to be providing some giveaways. 2954 02:31:44.959 --> 02:31:47.719 They're going to have some plants from green Leaf Plants. 2955 02:31:48.079 --> 02:31:51.200 They're gonna have a gift certificate from the muck Boot Company, 2956 02:31:52.000 --> 02:31:54.879 and then Nitropos be there. There'll be a couple of 2957 02:31:54.959 --> 02:31:57.879 bags of fall special that I've been bragging about all day. 2958 02:31:58.000 --> 02:31:59.879 We'll be giving the two bags of that away, begin 2959 02:32:00.120 --> 02:32:02.600 two bags of barricade away. So come out you might 2960 02:32:02.680 --> 02:32:06.799 get lucky. If not Wharton Ace feed and hardware, or 2961 02:32:07.399 --> 02:32:12.559 excuse me, Wharton Feed and Ace. That way I got 2962 02:32:12.680 --> 02:32:15.079 to say it right, is gonna have plenty of those 2963 02:32:15.159 --> 02:32:18.680 ninety fives and other products on hand. But come on 2964 02:32:18.799 --> 02:32:20.600 out and we'll have a really good time. I'm gonna 2965 02:32:20.600 --> 02:32:23.559 have some Texas Gardener magazines available out there too, some 2966 02:32:23.760 --> 02:32:27.040 even not tried looking at the Texas Gardener. You gotta subscribe. 2967 02:32:27.120 --> 02:32:29.680 That's a great magazine, and I have a couple a 2968 02:32:29.760 --> 02:32:32.559 few copies of it to pass around. So come on 2969 02:32:32.680 --> 02:32:34.520 out and see me. And you know, you can always 2970 02:32:34.559 --> 02:32:37.600 bring me samples of plants to identify her to diagnose. 2971 02:32:38.319 --> 02:32:40.239 If you got a bug crawling around you don't know 2972 02:32:40.280 --> 02:32:42.159 what to do, bring it. I'll get it under a 2973 02:32:42.200 --> 02:32:44.719 hot lamp and you know, put it through the make 2974 02:32:44.799 --> 02:32:47.239 it confess its name, and we can that way get 2975 02:32:47.239 --> 02:32:49.440 to the bottom of it. But we're gonna have a 2976 02:32:49.479 --> 02:32:51.559 good time, and I'm looking forward to coming out for 2977 02:32:51.600 --> 02:32:54.399 those of you way out southwest like that, even past 2978 02:32:54.520 --> 02:32:58.239 Wharton down toward Corpus CHRISTI direction come on out, let's 2979 02:32:58.360 --> 02:33:01.280 meet and let's get that opportunity. I don't get out 2980 02:33:01.360 --> 02:33:05.319 that way often enough, in my opinion, so I hope 2981 02:33:05.319 --> 02:33:10.040 you will do that. I love quotes. I love quotes 2982 02:33:10.079 --> 02:33:12.840 on gardening because so many of them are are true, 2983 02:33:13.000 --> 02:33:16.040 so true. A guy named doctor Alan Armitage, who is 2984 02:33:16.040 --> 02:33:20.000 probably one of the most famous ornamental horticulturists in the 2985 02:33:20.120 --> 02:33:24.319 southeast US. He's from Georgia originally uh and just a 2986 02:33:24.399 --> 02:33:28.159 prolific writer and speaker. He said gardening simply does not 2987 02:33:28.520 --> 02:33:32.440 allow one to become mentally old because too many hopes 2988 02:33:32.520 --> 02:33:36.239 and dreams are yet to be realized. And that is 2989 02:33:36.319 --> 02:33:38.920 so true. I'm going to tell you the best garden 2990 02:33:39.120 --> 02:33:42.159 I've ever had in my life is my next one. 2991 02:33:43.559 --> 02:33:46.440 It's true. It's true. You buy a fruit tree, you 2992 02:33:46.520 --> 02:33:48.559 got that little tag with pictures of fruit on it, 2993 02:33:48.799 --> 02:33:52.879 don't you just picture and taste? Right then what's gonna come? 2994 02:33:53.280 --> 02:33:56.280 There's always hope for the future with gardening. And this 2995 02:33:56.479 --> 02:34:00.239 is this is scientifically true. I'm talking about research that 2996 02:34:00.280 --> 02:34:03.000 are dealing with dementia, people that are dealing with depression. 2997 02:34:03.639 --> 02:34:05.959 When you get out and you play in the dirt 2998 02:34:06.079 --> 02:34:08.360 and you plant stuff and you get involved in that. 2999 02:34:09.319 --> 02:34:15.200 It is really therapy. Since I like quotes so much, 3000 02:34:15.559 --> 02:34:18.520 here's another one. It's actually a little rhyming one. When 3001 02:34:18.559 --> 02:34:21.920 I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go 3002 02:34:22.120 --> 02:34:28.159 out and garden. It's cheaper than a shrink. That's true. 3003 02:34:28.680 --> 02:34:30.920 It's good for you. So I hope this week you 3004 02:34:30.959 --> 02:34:33.559 will have a wonderful time out in the garden. I 3005 02:34:33.680 --> 02:34:36.959 hope that you will get out there. Remember, don't look 3006 02:34:37.040 --> 02:34:40.079 at the thermometer, look at the calendar. 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