Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Richt.
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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, good Saturday morning. Good to have you
Speaker 3: with us this morning on garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter, and we will be talking about all the
Speaker 3: things you need to know when it comes to having
Speaker 3: a successful garden and a beautiful landscape and just enjoying
Speaker 3: yourself in the process. That that's one of my goals
Speaker 3: is really when we do garden Line here is to
Speaker 3: have you find gardening to be an enjoyable, fulfilling process.
Speaker 3: Whether all you want to do is make the place
Speaker 3: pretty so many people drive by, or when you drive
Speaker 3: up you like the way it looks, or maybe you
Speaker 3: want to go in also in a direction of I
Speaker 3: would like some production from the garden. I want to
Speaker 3: see I want flowers to bring inside. I want herbs
Speaker 3: to bring inside for the culinary things going on in
Speaker 3: the kitchen, as well as maybe some vegetables. We can
Speaker 3: do that too. If you just want a beautiful, perfect lawn,
Speaker 3: well let's talk about how to get there. From here.
Speaker 3: You can give me a call at seven one three
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Speaker 3: you have that kind of success. That's what we're all
Speaker 3: about doing here. I'm going to tell you something right
Speaker 3: off the bat, and I'll mention this number of times today.
Speaker 3: But today after the show at one pm, one pm,
Speaker 3: right after lunch, I will be at the Home and
Speaker 3: Garden Show down at the Fort Bend Epicenter. The Fort
Speaker 3: Bend Epicenter. Now this is the call it bras this
Speaker 3: Home and Garden Show. It is on Southwest Freeway, so
Speaker 3: I mean it's just right there. When you drive down
Speaker 3: Southwest Freeway. You to see it right there. If you're
Speaker 3: heading down south the direction from Houston's come me on
Speaker 3: the left hand side. But anyway, I'll be there from
Speaker 3: one to three and what I'm going to do is
Speaker 3: I'm going to go through some of the essential steps
Speaker 3: to create a thriving spring garden and a thriving spring lawn.
Speaker 3: And then I'll have time to answer your gardening questions
Speaker 3: and answer or gardening questions and assists you if you
Speaker 3: got any problems you want to diagnose. Maybe you got
Speaker 3: some samples you want to bring in, put them in
Speaker 3: a bag a plastic bag and make sure and capture
Speaker 3: whatever it is you want me to see. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: some leaves that aren't looking right, or a bug or
Speaker 3: a disease looking thing or and or take a photo
Speaker 3: on your phone and bring it in with you and
Speaker 3: we'll get to the bottom of it. We'll have a
Speaker 3: the doctor is in clinic. I'm not a doctor, but
Speaker 3: we will have one of those. Come on, we'll do
Speaker 3: a plant clinic right there for you as well as
Speaker 3: me giving some tips to help you have success. And
Speaker 3: I'll be there for two hours, So come on out
Speaker 3: Fort Bend Epicenter, Southwest Freeway, the Brawses Home and Garden Show.
Speaker 3: I will also be bringing some things to give away
Speaker 3: as a result, so you may win some things as
Speaker 3: you come in. I'm bring a whole bunch of different
Speaker 3: things in the giveaway to folks that come to the seminars.
Speaker 3: So look forward to seeing you. Hope you can make
Speaker 3: that today here on Garden Line. We love our feed
Speaker 3: stores and League City feed is you know one of
Speaker 3: those kinds of places where if you have memories of
Speaker 3: old time feed stores, you know, going in just the wonderful,
Speaker 3: just the aroma of a feed store I don't know,
Speaker 3: it's just a nice earthy smell. I love it, absolutely
Speaker 3: love it. That City feeds like that. You It's been
Speaker 3: around for forty years plus, actually over forty years now,
Speaker 3: and it's down in League City. Of course, it's just
Speaker 3: a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three.
Speaker 3: So if you're on ninety six and you go south
Speaker 3: on three, just a few blocks it'll be there on
Speaker 3: the left. So it serves that whole region really, Elkaminar Reale,
Speaker 3: League City, Webster Baylift, Lamark, all those communities around there.
Speaker 3: This is your hometown feed store. And when you go in,
Speaker 3: you're going to find products you hear me talk about
Speaker 3: like nitrofoss products, like product like the product asamite a,
Speaker 3: products from Microlife, heirloom soils, Nelson plant food and more
Speaker 3: all there at League City feed They also got really
Speaker 3: high quality pet foods as well. And it's kind of
Speaker 3: a one stop shop.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: They're open Monday through Saturday from nine to six, closed
Speaker 3: on Sunday, but even during the week after working, swing
Speaker 3: by there on the way home and get what you need.
Speaker 3: And if you happen to have back here chickens. I
Speaker 3: got good supplies for those as well. League City Feed
Speaker 3: a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway
Speaker 3: three in League City. I was out working on some
Speaker 3: things out in the yard this week, and one of
Speaker 3: the things that I noticed is the cold that we
Speaker 3: had had kind of fried back some of the tips
Speaker 3: of my long grasses, Saint Augustine primarily, but also I've
Speaker 3: got some Saint Augustine some Soysa both in my lawn.
Speaker 3: I love both of those grasses, really, I permute it
Speaker 3: is good too. Evergrass has its place. But anyway, I'm
Speaker 3: just kind of noticing that the freeze that had burned
Speaker 3: that back. A lot of my plants that kind of
Speaker 3: got nipped good in the first freeze were taken to
Speaker 3: the ground in this freeze. And that's okay. But here's
Speaker 3: what I'm doing. I'm leaving the dead top growth. And
Speaker 3: the phrase I use for that is learn to like ugly,
Speaker 3: or learn to love ugly, or learn to live with ugly,
Speaker 3: however you want to put it. What that means is okay.
Speaker 3: Let me use this as an example. In the front
Speaker 3: of the house, I've got some Mexican heather, which is
Speaker 3: a little short kind of spreading mounting plant, and I
Speaker 3: have some lantana and both of them are just fried
Speaker 3: on the top, but all the dead leaves, the dead
Speaker 3: tops on those are acting as sort of an insulation
Speaker 3: for the base. When heat rises up from the soil,
Speaker 3: it could either radiate directly up in the atmosphere or
Speaker 3: if it hits some foliage something to block that radiant,
Speaker 3: it bounces back down. And you can see this on
Speaker 3: a frosty night. Next time we have frost and you've
Speaker 3: got frost all over your yard, you know that white,
Speaker 3: frozen frosty covering look underneath like a live oak tree,
Speaker 3: and there won't be frost. And it's because the heat
Speaker 3: rising directly up from there is being reflected back down
Speaker 3: onto the grass blades. So as they lose their heat
Speaker 3: and frost would have developed, it doesn't. And that's just
Speaker 3: an example of what the principal I'm talking about about
Speaker 3: about something above the plant like that reflecting it back
Speaker 3: down having a difference. Now, that's not going to make
Speaker 3: the difference. You know, if we have a hard freeze.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about that. I'm not frost, but it
Speaker 3: does make a little bit of a difference in a freeze.
Speaker 3: So if you can learn to live with ugly for
Speaker 3: a while. Once we get past the freezes, then we'll
Speaker 3: clean all that out and things will look all pretty
Speaker 3: and everything again. But we need to be able to
Speaker 3: leave it as long as possible. Now, sometimes plants turn
Speaker 3: to mush. You know, if you had more of us
Speaker 3: a plant that has more moisture in it, like a
Speaker 3: cana for example, Well it's gonna be a pot of mush.
Speaker 3: And you can clean that out and get rid of it.
Speaker 3: But if you do, throw some mulch over the top
Speaker 3: of it, because you still want that blanket of protection.
Speaker 3: I don't think we're done with freezes, and if we're not,
Speaker 3: we don't want to pull the plug too quick and
Speaker 3: open things up. Hey, I'm going to go to a
Speaker 3: break right now and we'll be right back if you'd
Speaker 3: like to give me a call. Seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two KTR eight and welcome back to the Garden Line. Wow,
Speaker 3: that wrong, Glad to have you with us. I'm going
Speaker 3: to run straight out to the phones. This we back
Speaker 3: off again and we're going to head to Cleveland and
Speaker 3: talk to Cynthia. Hello, Cynthia, good morning, Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good mornings. Get how you doing this morning?
Speaker 3: I'm well, thanks.
Speaker 5: I have some questions.
Speaker 6: Number One, I'm gonna get ready to start a spring garden,
Speaker 6: but first I need to ask you about my tropicals.
Speaker 5: I've got a bunch of tropical trees.
Speaker 6: That I planted last spring, and I did my best
Speaker 6: to keep them covered and and try to keep them
Speaker 6: out of all the cold that we have.
Speaker 5: But I looked at a lot of them yesterday and
Speaker 5: a lot.
Speaker 6: Of them don't look real good, and I'm not sure
Speaker 6: what I can do to try to revive them. Okay,
Speaker 6: they've been watered real good, and I know we've got
Speaker 6: rain coming and that'll probably help them, but I don't
Speaker 6: know if there's something else that I can do to
Speaker 6: them that they will make it through everything they've been through.
Speaker 5: That's my first question.
Speaker 3: Well tropic, Yeah, tropicals, you know, they they aren't made
Speaker 3: for just living through cold weather. That that's wather. They're
Speaker 3: called tropicals, right we when we use that term tropical, though,
Speaker 3: we throw a lot of things in that are actually perennial,
Speaker 3: you know. So some people refer to like a canna
Speaker 3: as a tropical type plant because the least little bit
Speaker 3: of frost or freeze it's gonna take it down.
Speaker 5: But well, these are for us. Well, these are all
Speaker 5: like fruit trees, like lemon trees.
Speaker 6: I've got pomegranates, I've got limes, grapefruit, and then I've
Speaker 6: got clementines. And I know that they don't do you
Speaker 6: well when it gets to cold. And I tried to
Speaker 6: protect them, but other than going out there and putting
Speaker 6: a heater on each and every one, there's just no way.
Speaker 5: There's too many of them.
Speaker 3: Right right, Well, the citrus is cold tender, but it
Speaker 3: varies from one type of citrus to another. On those,
Speaker 3: you need to protect them as best you can. And
Speaker 3: there's there's like two levels of protection. The first thing
Speaker 3: would just beat the mound soil or fine compost up
Speaker 3: against the trunk and a big and a big cone.
Speaker 3: It's about the only time you'll ever hear me talk
Speaker 3: about doing that. We call those multi volcanoes. It's actually
Speaker 3: a soil or a compost volcano. And that protects the graph.
Speaker 3: So if all is lost, at least you'll have re sprouting.
Speaker 3: You want to replace the tree, it'll the variety that's
Speaker 3: grapped will come back.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I did that to each and every one of them,
Speaker 6: and then I covered them with a frost frost blanket.
Speaker 6: But then I also cover good with uh like a
Speaker 6: moving blanket, and then put them under a tub. So,
Speaker 6: like I said, I did all my kids that I
Speaker 6: pulled some of the coverings up of them yesterday. The
Speaker 6: leaves are all crunchy, and so I watered all the
Speaker 6: truth good.
Speaker 3: But yes, I don't know what you what you're gonna
Speaker 3: do for the spring, well for not not for now,
Speaker 3: We're gonna wait and watch.
Speaker 5: Now, Okay, the.
Speaker 3: I'll talk about in a little more depth today about
Speaker 3: how do you assess coal damage, But the bottom line
Speaker 3: is you want to give it a few days. Uh,
Speaker 3: And then what you're gonna notice is that inside those
Speaker 3: little twigs and branches, what was creamy white or light
Speaker 3: green turns papersack brown. Uh. And when you and even
Speaker 3: gray and black event on some plants. But when you
Speaker 3: see that, then you know that's dead. And when it
Speaker 3: comes time to print, which isn't now, uhlater on, when
Speaker 3: the new growth begins, the growth will tell you where
Speaker 3: to prune. So that you're just gonna for now just
Speaker 3: hold on, wait and watch. I know it's ugly. I
Speaker 3: know you're wondering and stuff but don't jump the gun,
Speaker 3: and when it's time, you'll prone out all the dead.
Speaker 3: And that may mean cutting it off above the ground,
Speaker 3: above that soil that you piled up, but it also
Speaker 3: may mean that your trunk and many of the branches
Speaker 3: are still alive and fine. But time will tell on
Speaker 3: that for sure.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay.
Speaker 6: The other question I have for my garden is the
Speaker 6: ground here.
Speaker 5: Where I live is it's just clay. It's so hard clay.
Speaker 6: It's so hard in the summertime when there's no rain,
Speaker 6: and then as soon as you get rain, it just
Speaker 6: gets slick. And I live not too far from living earth,
Speaker 6: So I'm.
Speaker 5: Not sure if they make a product that is suitable
Speaker 5: for that.
Speaker 6: Garden to be able to go and work it into
Speaker 6: that dirt to make it more fertile for like cucumbers
Speaker 6: in summer, squash and you know, stuff like that to
Speaker 6: be able to even survive in.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm sure they have products. I'm not familiar with
Speaker 3: their products at all, and I'm just not But if
Speaker 3: you're in Cleveland, you're really close to airlom soils and
Speaker 3: Porter and I am more familiar with those, and they
Speaker 3: have if you're going to grow edibles and things. They
Speaker 3: have a veggie and herb mix there that you can
Speaker 3: mix in. They have regular composts and things like that,
Speaker 3: and so that may you know, I know, you're down
Speaker 3: just down the road from them, and they can deliver
Speaker 3: or you can go pick it up or those kinds
Speaker 3: of things. A lot of our composts and multipurveyers will
Speaker 3: sell by the bag. They'll sell them bulk and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But from kind of what you described, I think the
Speaker 3: veggie and hermex would be a good a good blend
Speaker 3: for that and anything with that heavy clay and sticky
Speaker 3: heavy clay, it doesn't have air space in the soil.
Speaker 3: It's very very compacted, very dense. It water logs easily,
Speaker 3: and when you add decaying organic matter in it, which
Speaker 3: you know, compost is the term for basically for that,
Speaker 3: when you add that kind of thing in, it helps
Speaker 3: open that soil up. You just want to avoid compressing
Speaker 3: it yourself with foot traffic or anything. Whenever walk on
Speaker 3: our garden beds, we always you know, avoid that because
Speaker 3: it just smashes them the clay back down again and
Speaker 3: the organic matter is helping to loosen it up over time.
Speaker 6: Right, right, Okay, Well that answers. That answers both both
Speaker 6: questions I had, and that helps me so much. I
Speaker 6: was I was really frightened over my my fruit trees
Speaker 6: because I've really put a lot of work into them.
Speaker 6: But we'll just wait and see what happens.
Speaker 5: Hopefully they're not answer yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as they start to come out, if you
Speaker 3: want to send me some pictures, uh, you know, we
Speaker 3: can take a look at them again and make advice.
Speaker 3: I just think you'll give them some time. If you
Speaker 3: prune now and you cut into living tissues in your pruning,
Speaker 3: it stimulates that plant to try to regrow, and the
Speaker 3: last thing your citrus needs to do now is to
Speaker 3: start putting out new growth exactly. I definitely don't want that.
Speaker 3: So let's just hold off and then there'll be plenty
Speaker 3: of time to get it cleaned up and you'll be
Speaker 3: off to the races again with them.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, I appreciate it much to let you know.
Speaker 6: The last time I called it was about my rosa
Speaker 6: sharing We're blooming beautifully and all of a sudden they
Speaker 6: just started dying. It was too much water in the coil,
Speaker 6: and you had told me to check that okay, and
Speaker 6: I did, and I got them on the ground, I
Speaker 6: got them in some pots, and so they're doing wonderful.
Speaker 5: So I just wanted to thank you.
Speaker 3: Well, good glad to hear you were able to turn
Speaker 3: them around. Well, Cyndia, thanksk Cynthia, thank you for the call.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Thanks ye all right, bye.
Speaker 3: Bye, allright bye bye. Yeah, that is uh act to me.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Let me just go ahead and make a few comments about, uh,
Speaker 3: how do you how do you know? How do you
Speaker 3: assess freeze damage? First of all, when when plant, you know,
Speaker 3: when you see the leaves brown and stuff, well, those
Speaker 3: leaves are killed. That's obviously it frosted it. But you
Speaker 3: got all these branches and trunks and things of some
Speaker 3: of our shrubs and trees. And how do you assess
Speaker 3: where it was killed? Well, first of all, right after
Speaker 3: the freeze, it's a little hard to assess. And as
Speaker 3: you have a few days, especially as the temperatures warm
Speaker 3: up a little bit, then you're going to start to
Speaker 3: see the tissues that were killed. Go from what if
Speaker 3: you scratch back the bark on little twigs and branches
Speaker 3: with your thumbnail or a knife blade, what it should
Speaker 3: look like underneath this creamy white or a very light
Speaker 3: light shark treacy green color. Okay, but if it in
Speaker 3: time those freeze dead tissues turned toward brown or I
Speaker 3: like to use the descript or paper sack brown or
Speaker 3: pecan brown, that's what you see. Sometimes you get black
Speaker 3: and gray and they're depending again on how much freeze
Speaker 3: damage and the species. But that's obviously not healthy. Once
Speaker 3: you straight back and see that, well that's not going
Speaker 3: to come back to life, of course, and you would
Speaker 3: need to print it out. But at this stage we
Speaker 3: still have winter left, and so to prune. Now, should
Speaker 3: you cut down into living tissues, then that is Prunting's
Speaker 3: a stimulating process and it sort of encourages a plant
Speaker 3: to re sprout. And we don't want ref sprouting now,
Speaker 3: we want it to be still, stay asleep, wait and
Speaker 3: then when spring comes, you'll the plant will tell you
Speaker 3: where to prune back. Okay, Now you can assess it
Speaker 3: with a thumbnail or a knife blade and keep checking
Speaker 3: here and here and here and here and here and
Speaker 3: all over and decide where to prune. But I would
Speaker 3: say hold on right now, let the plant tell you
Speaker 3: when it comes out. If you need to get it
Speaker 3: burned out. Use that scratch test to determine, but don't
Speaker 3: cut down into living tissues to shit. That is not
Speaker 3: what you want to do. But that's one quick way
Speaker 3: to just do that kind of assessment on your plants.
Speaker 3: I love going to the garden centers. I just do that.
Speaker 3: It is so much fun to wander through a quality
Speaker 3: garden center. Buchanons is that kind of place. Those of
Speaker 3: you who've been there know what I'm talking about. If
Speaker 3: you haven't been there, you need to go check it out.
Speaker 3: Buchanons is in the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street, and
Speaker 3: they specialize in Texas natives, but they have everything. If
Speaker 3: you want house plants, they have a huge house plant
Speaker 3: greenhouse that is unbelievably well stocked. In fact, one thing
Speaker 3: I kind of find cool is they've got these little
Speaker 3: small two inch tropicals. I had little tiny pots and
Speaker 3: if you want together like a terrarium, which is a
Speaker 3: great thing to do in the winter season when you're
Speaker 3: gardening indoors. Tried that out. I mean, they have all
Speaker 3: this beautiful colored foliage and little two inch containers and
Speaker 3: you can build your own terrarium. And I use that
Speaker 3: just as an example, because when you go to Buchanans,
Speaker 3: you're gonna find few trees, fruit trees. You're gonna find
Speaker 3: stuff for shade, You're gonna find gorgeous pottery. You're gonna
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Speaker 3: Nature's Way or heirloom soil or Landscaper's Pride or nitrophoss
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Speaker 3: You got this heavy clay, like we're talking about Cynthia
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Speaker 3: a gardening question you want to visit about seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two five eight seven four. Hey, if
Speaker 3: you want to take that to another level, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be at the Brasses Home and Garden Show at
Speaker 3: the Fort Bend Epicenter down in Rosenberg today, So all
Speaker 3: of you folks listening, you know, down Victoria, and then
Speaker 3: that holds everywhere southwest, especially of Houston, or you can
Speaker 3: ride further if you want. Some people do. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a good home and garden show.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: The folks that inntented forests are going to be there.
Speaker 3: They've got a great display and there's lots of seminars
Speaker 3: going on. It'll be today, it was yesterday, and it'll
Speaker 3: be today and tomorrow is well. I'll be there today
Speaker 3: from one to three. One to three today. You can
Speaker 3: bring me some samples or photos for diagnostics if you want.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be doing some giveaways as well. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have a book there as well. I never talked
Speaker 3: about my book, but I'm gonna bring some of those
Speaker 3: with me today and i'll be answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 3: After I start off with a brief presentation, I'm going
Speaker 3: to talk about the essential steps to creating a thriving
Speaker 3: spring garden and lawn and then we'll have a lot
Speaker 3: of Q and A time, plenty of time to visit
Speaker 3: and take a good close look at the things that
Speaker 3: are going wrong in your line. You got maybe you
Speaker 3: scratched a branch back and you go, I don't know
Speaker 3: if that's dead or not. Bring a picture of it,
Speaker 3: get up close, make sure it's in sharp focus. Fuzzy
Speaker 3: pictures gets you fuzzy answers. So you need a good
Speaker 3: sharp focus photo. We'll take a look at that. Be
Speaker 3: happy to visit with you about all those kinds of
Speaker 3: things at the Browse's Home and Garden Show today one
Speaker 3: o'clock to three o'clock. Be there for two hours. One
Speaker 3: hour seminar followed by an hour of Q and A
Speaker 3: and diagnostics and everything else, including if you'd like to
Speaker 3: pick up a copy of a book and have it signed,
Speaker 3: we'll be happy to do that. Well, let's see, I
Speaker 3: was talking about checking out my lawns and some of
Speaker 3: the frost that had occurred on my plants. I have
Speaker 3: a some ginger. Ginger is one of my favorite flowering plants,
Speaker 3: by the way, and I'm there are lots of good
Speaker 3: kinds of ginger out there. There's the variegated yellow and
Speaker 3: green Alpinia ginger. That's more of a foliage plant. That's
Speaker 3: why we grow it for its beautiful foliage. There is
Speaker 3: hidden ginger there, you know. There's My favorite of all
Speaker 3: the gingers is the hedicium. It's called the butterfly ginger.
Speaker 3: It's tall stalks. And my favorite of all the butterflies
Speaker 3: is plain old white butterfly ginger. It is so fragrant.
Speaker 3: And then there's some other cool colors. There's kind of
Speaker 3: coral colored blooms and variations, you know, from the yellow
Speaker 3: to the to the reddish colors. Uh. And some of
Speaker 3: them are very fragrant. Some of them are not as fragrant,
Speaker 3: but they're all beautiful. They all make good cut flowers too,
Speaker 3: by the way. But I've got some two different kinds
Speaker 3: of of a butterfly ginger that I hadn't some containers,
Speaker 3: so I had to protect those because whenever you have
Speaker 3: a container on top of the surface, what would have
Speaker 3: been root hardy below the ground in the soil suddenly
Speaker 3: now is exposed to the full brunt of the cold
Speaker 3: because you're set in a container in my case, on
Speaker 3: top of the patio out there, and it's going to
Speaker 3: get way too cold and cause more damage than it
Speaker 3: would had that ginger been in the ground. Because multed
Speaker 3: well in the ground, ginger is a is a dependable
Speaker 3: perennial for us. So I had to bring them in
Speaker 3: real close to the house, cover them, come up, mult
Speaker 3: of them because they're about to go in the ground
Speaker 3: to get planted. Not the normal time of year you
Speaker 3: plant ginger, but you can plant ginger now. And we're
Speaker 3: going to be working on on some of that. But anyway,
Speaker 3: just a few of the things going on out there
Speaker 3: in the garden. Uh, you've heard me talk about Nelson
Speaker 3: plant food before. Nelson has something called Jennison. It's one
Speaker 3: of their nutri Star line.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 3: Nelson has Turf Star for your lawn. They've got color
Speaker 3: Star awesome for color in your flower beds. And then
Speaker 3: they have Genesis. Genesis is loaded with microizo bacteria and
Speaker 3: other fungi that helped benefit benefit that soul microbiome. It's
Speaker 3: got humates in it. It's designed to be mixed in
Speaker 3: the soil. So if you're going to transplant anything or
Speaker 3: bump up anything you're growing, mix Genesis into the soil plant,
Speaker 3: your plant watered in, and then later you can resume
Speaker 3: with regular fertilizations, but start with Nelson Genesis. Time for
Speaker 3: me to take a little break here. I am going
Speaker 3: to be right back at seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two KTRH. Welcome back, hey, it's good to have you
Speaker 3: with us today. We are going into all kinds of
Speaker 3: things related to plants to help you have success. Is
Speaker 3: the way I like to put it is I want
Speaker 3: you to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and
Speaker 3: more fun in the process. That is the goal here.
Speaker 3: So let's do that. You got some questions you want
Speaker 3: to ask. All you gotta do is give me a
Speaker 3: call seven to one three two one two k t
Speaker 3: r H. Seven to one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t r H. We'll be happy to visit with you
Speaker 3: about those so that you can have success. By the way,
Speaker 3: if you're one of the good ways to have success
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Speaker 3: A lot of the stores you just have to ask
Speaker 3: your local store about this, but a lot of them
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Speaker 3: but just ask your store for details about that. But
Speaker 3: anytime you're on ACE, go ahead and sign up for
Speaker 3: ACE Rewards. It's very very well worth it. Easy, painless
Speaker 3: to do. If you want to get your garage in ordering,
Speaker 3: maybe you need some storage shelves. Spring cleaning time is here.
Speaker 3: I know, I know. I walk out in my garage
Speaker 3: about once a year and I look and I go,
Speaker 3: you know, I've made a mess again. Time time to
Speaker 3: get this cleaned up. ACE has got you covered on that.
Speaker 3: And of course if you're doing spring cleaning, all the
Speaker 3: cleaning supplies and storage tots and everything else you need,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Just let's put let's make this simple.
Speaker 3: ACE is the place. ACE is the place, no matter
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Speaker 3: and you got Langham Creek right there, a hard Memorial
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Speaker 3: you got Plantation Ace. Just come north of Richmond Plantation
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware, awesome store. And they're many many more. Easy.
Speaker 3: ACE makes it easy, they just really do. I was
Speaker 3: looking at my vegetable garden and if you can see
Speaker 3: a pick, if you can see my vegetable garden right now,
Speaker 3: you might be shaking your head going, what's wrong with him?
Speaker 3: Why doesn't he there and clean it up? And it's
Speaker 3: because I've been busy, been doing other things. But it
Speaker 3: needs me. Uh spring planting is just around the corner,
Speaker 3: and uh so it's time for me to get out
Speaker 3: there and do some cleanup. And that's easy to do.
Speaker 3: In fact, that's one of the actually one of the
Speaker 3: things I enjoy. I'm probably weird in this way as
Speaker 3: a gardener, but I like a weeding and I like
Speaker 3: cleaning up the garden. And the reason is this. If
Speaker 3: you go out and you've got a weedy bed and
Speaker 3: you just get busy and you pull weeds on it
Speaker 3: or hoe them, or mulch the bed or whatever, when
Speaker 3: you get through, it looks beautiful and it's so rewarding
Speaker 3: to see that. You know, there are a lot of
Speaker 3: things in life. And I don't know if you guys
Speaker 3: got a job, you may know that what I'm talking
Speaker 3: about here, But you know, you work all day and
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's like, what did
Speaker 3: I accomplish today? I know, I move paper around the
Speaker 3: desk and talk to some people about some stuff, But
Speaker 3: what did I accomplish today? With gardening and you got
Speaker 3: a weedy bed. Oh my gosh. Thirty minutes you look
Speaker 3: back and it's like, ah, that looks better. I like that.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I'm a little weird in that way. I
Speaker 3: like that, but like cleaning up too. Right now, I've
Speaker 3: got some old dead stalks of some last year's okra
Speaker 3: and peppers and some other things. I'll just get in
Speaker 3: there and clean all those up real good. I'll be
Speaker 3: ready to go. Everything will look really nice and pretty
Speaker 3: for the next step of it. Whenever I'm there's different
Speaker 3: ways to go about gardening. There's not one way. The
Speaker 3: old traditional ways you got a rototiller and you banged
Speaker 3: up the soil, made it loose, planted your plants, and
Speaker 3: you just rototilled more than one time a year for sure,
Speaker 3: every time you're doing a new planting. Whenever you had
Speaker 3: a plant, you pulled it out, shook the soil off
Speaker 3: the roots, and threw the plant away, and that you know,
Speaker 3: that was part of renovating. That's okay. You can still
Speaker 3: do everything that way if you want. What I'm doing
Speaker 3: more now is a no till kind of gardening in
Speaker 3: the vegetable garden. And what does that mean? That means
Speaker 3: Number one, think about nature. Nobody's spading forks or rototill's nature.
Speaker 3: The plants die, the roots they had in the ground die,
Speaker 3: and now those roots are dead to haying organic matter
Speaker 3: that have created tunnels through the soil, opening the soil up.
Speaker 3: Microbes get in there, they get happy, they go crazy,
Speaker 3: and little by little, as you fill the soil with
Speaker 3: roots and roots on annual plants are gonna ride away
Speaker 3: when the plant's gone in. On grassy plants, by the way,
Speaker 3: roots live about a year and then die. So grass
Speaker 3: even builds its own soil that way. But when whenever
Speaker 3: I have let's say, well I've got some peppers and
Speaker 3: some tomatoes and things, I'll just cut them off right
Speaker 3: at the ground, or you just cut the base out
Speaker 3: right there and basically leave the base in the ground
Speaker 3: to rot. And so when it's time to plant around them,
Speaker 3: I just make my little trenches, dig the holes, put
Speaker 3: in the transplants, do whatever I'm gonna do, but I
Speaker 3: just leave it as a no till. Now, you don't
Speaker 3: have to do it that way, but you can. If
Speaker 3: you have something that dies from a root rod, or
Speaker 3: let's say it's a tomato that gets nematodes on the roots,
Speaker 3: or some wilt fungal disease of the roots. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: you want to get that out of it and then
Speaker 3: not replant that same family of plants in that area
Speaker 3: for a while. But in general, no tail is good.
Speaker 3: Farmers have gone to no til for years. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of no tail going on in various types of
Speaker 3: agriculture where they reconize, just cut it off at the ground,
Speaker 3: leave the roots in the ground. They even have special
Speaker 3: planters that are designed to plant into no tail beds
Speaker 3: and do well. Now, if I were going to have
Speaker 3: to mix some amendments into the soil, well yeah, I
Speaker 3: would spade it. I would do that. I would get
Speaker 3: those down in there. If I were going to dig
Speaker 3: a trench to plant potatoes in, okay, I get it.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying, you know, this only way to do it.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying it makes a lot of sense. And
Speaker 3: it's a lot easier too, that is for sure. So
Speaker 3: I've got to get out there. I'm gonna cut those
Speaker 3: peppers off, cut the okra off. Sometimes I'll pull when
Speaker 3: something is rotted, I'll kind of pull on it and
Speaker 3: it'll all break off there just below the ground. I'll
Speaker 3: get the base of it out out of the way.
Speaker 3: But I had a soil knife, which is like a
Speaker 3: big old giant booe kne that's got a serrated edge
Speaker 3: on one side, one of my favorite tools, and I'll
Speaker 3: just go to the bottom of a cornstalk and just
Speaker 3: with that soul knife, I'll just just essentially cut it
Speaker 3: off right there at the ground, real fast and easy
Speaker 3: to do. And all those corn roots now have created
Speaker 3: the pathways into the soil to get oxygen down, to
Speaker 3: get water in faster, to stimulate microbial growth as they decompose.
Speaker 3: And it makes sense, all right. So that's called no till.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of versions of it. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of ways to go about it, but it's something that
Speaker 3: maybe you ought to think about. If you haven't done
Speaker 3: that before. Just know this. You don't have to pull
Speaker 3: all the plants out and get all that stuff out
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Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with scarre Ricard's.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 3: A sign well, good morning, Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 3: We're here to answer your gardening questions and to help
Speaker 3: you have more success and more fun in the process
Speaker 3: as you go about gardening. We are still in winter
Speaker 3: time and after that last freeze, things are looking kind
Speaker 3: of bleak out there, but spring is coming. That is
Speaker 3: the cool thing about gardening. Is one of the cool
Speaker 3: things about gardening is that there's always a renewal. There's
Speaker 3: always a new season. You know, things live, things die,
Speaker 3: things come up, we plant new things things. We can
Speaker 3: just continue to take our little piece of eden and
Speaker 3: turn it more and more beautiful as we go along.
Speaker 3: And I think that is a really cool creative process.
Speaker 3: It is a mind, body and soul healing process to
Speaker 3: get out there and just enjoy working with nature, just
Speaker 3: taking it and making it better. And what do we say,
Speaker 3: improving your plot in life? If you want to go
Speaker 3: about it that way, we can put it that way
Speaker 3: as well. Speaking of improving your plot in life, if
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Speaker 3: and just look look at what they do on landscape
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Speaker 3: would improve the property. Whether it's just your backpatio or
Speaker 3: whether it's all around the house. You want lights on
Speaker 3: the house, on the pathways, on security lighting, you know,
Speaker 3: for or your own protection. Piercescapes has the ability to
Speaker 3: do magic there. Look at the hardscapes they do, Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, patios and walkways and things that are gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Do you need irrigation work done? Do you have a
Speaker 3: bad drainage? Most people in Houston with our clay soils,
Speaker 3: you got some low spot that doesn't drain well. They
Speaker 3: can fix that. They know how to fix that. Maybe
Speaker 3: you just want quality care for your landscape. You know
Speaker 3: you're not a do it yourself or to get out
Speaker 3: and do it all yourself. You want somebody that comes
Speaker 3: by once a quarter and gets in those flower beds
Speaker 3: and if they need replanting of the flowers, put some
Speaker 3: new stuff in, if they need some mulching replenished on
Speaker 3: the surface, if they need the irrigation check, they do
Speaker 3: all that. By the way, when they come by on
Speaker 3: their quarterly maintenance, they do the changes out of color
Speaker 3: little fertilizing, little trimming, whatever you need. That's part of that.
Speaker 3: And I could just go on and on. Piercescapes does
Speaker 3: it all. Pierscapes dot Com go look at it. Then
Speaker 3: you'll see what I'm talking about. From you know, minor
Speaker 3: revamping of beds to a major top down, turnkey, gorgeous,
Speaker 3: beautiful turnover in your landscape. They can do all of that.
Speaker 3: And spring is the time to get get busy with
Speaker 3: turning out the places around. I've got some flowers that
Speaker 3: I'm going to be putting out, I say flowers at
Speaker 3: perennials that I'm going to be putting out in my beds.
Speaker 3: Last year I worked on salvia bed that I have.
Speaker 3: I love salvia's. They're my favorite of all the perennials.
Speaker 3: You know, people often ask me, oh, your horticulture is,
Speaker 3: what's your favorite plant? Well, I got a billion favorite plants.
Speaker 3: I have one. But if you put a gun to
Speaker 3: my head and said come on, man, I'd say, okay,
Speaker 3: give me one species, give me one or genus. Rather,
Speaker 3: it would be the salvias. I love Salvi's, beautiful salvias.
Speaker 3: South Mexican bush stage blooms in the late summer and
Speaker 3: fall Salvia mystic spires, beautiful blue blooms. Salvia greggy I.
Speaker 3: It's a little subshri that just now it comes in
Speaker 3: so many colors. Used to be kind of red and
Speaker 3: maybe white. Now we've got corals and purples and mobs
Speaker 3: and all kinds of versions of Salvia gregory. They're just
Speaker 3: absolutely gorgeous. And I could go on and on and
Speaker 3: on and on. There's a lot of Salva, hundreds and
Speaker 3: literally hundreds of types of salvia out there. Not all
Speaker 3: of them do well here, but a lot of them do.
Speaker 3: And that is one of the most dependable genera of
Speaker 3: plants that we have, or the salvias. You know, salvias
Speaker 3: are in the mint family. Did you know that? Okay,
Speaker 3: nerd alert fun fact. You can be the next Cliff
Speaker 3: Claven at the next garden Club if you just listen
Speaker 3: to this. Mint family plants have square stems, and when
Speaker 3: you grab the stem, you can feel it fee the
Speaker 3: little four sides. That's what mint is like. Salvia is
Speaker 3: in the mint family. It has square stems. Agistash is
Speaker 3: in the mint family. It's got square stems, And there
Speaker 3: are other members of the mint family. But I'm just
Speaker 3: saying fun fact square stems mint family. By the way,
Speaker 3: can you tell me what has triangular stems, sedges, sedges
Speaker 3: like papyrus, like the umbrella sedge that you see as
Speaker 3: an ornamental plant, like nutsedge nutgrass in your yard. Yeah,
Speaker 3: nutsedge has triangular stems. So you can sometimes walk around
Speaker 3: blind reaching on plants and tell a lot about them
Speaker 3: just by feeling the structures and things like the shapes
Speaker 3: of the stem, for example. But anyway, that's just an
Speaker 3: extra that was what ever penny you paid for it.
Speaker 3: But I love salvias, and some of the salvias they
Speaker 3: bloom at different times. A lot of them are good
Speaker 3: about reblooming and reblooming salvias. Many of the types will
Speaker 3: attract hummingbirds. Many of the tripes will attract butterflies. Many
Speaker 3: of the types can be used as cutflowers too, as salvias,
Speaker 3: and they just have a lot of good features. Many
Speaker 3: of them are quite drought tolerant. Most of them want
Speaker 3: good sunlight. But some salvia greggy I will put up
Speaker 3: with a very bright shade and do very well in
Speaker 3: it as well. So there's kind of a salvia for
Speaker 3: everybody out there. In fact, there's probably a dozen salvias
Speaker 3: that would do really well in your landscaping garden. I
Speaker 3: don't know why I got off into Salvia's. I just
Speaker 3: it's one of the plants that I do like a lot.
Speaker 3: I do like a lot, but never forget. I only
Speaker 3: have ten thousand favorites, so we're not going to limit
Speaker 3: it to just one thing. If you'd like to give
Speaker 3: me a call and ask a question, our phone number
Speaker 3: is seven to one three two to one two kt
Speaker 3: RH seven one three two one two kt RH. I
Speaker 3: will be at the Epicenter, the Fort Bend Epicenter, which
Speaker 3: is on Southwest Freeway, having fifty nine down that direction
Speaker 3: in Fort ben County near Rosenberg. I'll be there today
Speaker 3: after the show. After the show at one o'clock to
Speaker 3: three o'clock, I'll be there for two hours. I'll talk
Speaker 3: about some things, answer some questions, give a little talk.
Speaker 3: I have some copies of books there if you're interested
Speaker 3: in a sign book, I'll bring some samples to give
Speaker 3: away as well. An Enchanted Forest will be there now.
Speaker 3: If you've not been to Enchanted Forest, they're gonna have
Speaker 3: a big old display there. Folks that enchanted fillids coulding
Speaker 3: Danny Millican who is their new manager for growth there
Speaker 3: an Enchanted Forest. Dany's got a long history in the
Speaker 3: green industry here in the Greater Houston area, but they
Speaker 3: will be there as well. And if you haven't been
Speaker 3: to Enchanted Forest, you need to go. It's out there
Speaker 3: on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're en
Speaker 3: Richmond going towards sugar Land is off to the right
Speaker 3: FM twenty seven fifty nine, you have got to go.
Speaker 3: They've got bulbs, they've got fruit trees, they've got shrubs,
Speaker 3: they've got annual color. They have a beautiful gift shop.
Speaker 3: And if you need to get a beautiful tree or
Speaker 3: shrub in like maybe something that blooms like a Chinese
Speaker 3: French tree, they've got a good supply of shrubs in
Speaker 3: as well. And when it comes to plants for butterflies,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, they have huge tablefuls of all kinds
Speaker 3: of things. In fact, if you want to know what
Speaker 3: a butterfly looks like, go buy, Go buy and Jenni
Speaker 3: Forest because they all hang out there and they'll even
Speaker 3: give you a larva of the butterfly if it's on
Speaker 3: the planet, to take home with you. So it's kind
Speaker 3: of like what sour dough starter for your butterfly garden
Speaker 3: and gented forest in Jenny Forest. Go come just come
Speaker 3: by today to the Fort Ben Hoome and Garden Show
Speaker 3: and see them when you come by to visit with me.
Speaker 3: Time for me to take a quick break. When we
Speaker 3: come back, we were going to go to the phones
Speaker 3: and Ron and Derek you'll be our first two.
Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to the garden Line. Glad to have
Speaker 3: you with us today. Let's run out to the phones
Speaker 3: right now. We're going to start in Cleveland, Texas with Ron. Hello, Ron,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line. Good morning Skip.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 10: I've got four knockout or double knockout roses in a
Speaker 10: front flower bed that have gotten way bigger than I
Speaker 10: thought they would.
Speaker 5: I'd like to.
Speaker 10: Get some tips and tricks on how far I can
Speaker 10: trim them back, and I want to pull through them
Speaker 10: out and put them towards the back of the bed.
Speaker 10: So like, can I get on to the big canes
Speaker 10: on those or any tips would be appreciated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you can. You can cut them way back.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, ros is go and be real
Speaker 3: happy about it being cut, But you could cut that
Speaker 3: thing back to eight inches high and have it come
Speaker 3: back out again. It could, it'll survive that. But I
Speaker 3: would I would print them back. If you're going to
Speaker 3: move them, I'd probably print them back by about a
Speaker 3: half maybe maybe two thirds, even get them in their
Speaker 3: new spot. That way, it's easy to get them moved
Speaker 3: and in the new spot. Watermen really good and they
Speaker 3: will come back. But don't delay. Get it done now
Speaker 3: while the temperatures are still cool and the demands are low. Yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, well, I appreciate it. Enjoy your show. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Now if you if you're wanting to keep more of it,
Speaker 3: you may have to kind of tie the branches kind
Speaker 3: of up together, like you're pulling them upward, and twine
Speaker 3: around the whole bush to kind of hold it together.
Speaker 3: That makes it easier to get in there and work
Speaker 3: underneath it without given blood. I would I would do
Speaker 3: the printing thing myself. Either way, you'll be good because
Speaker 3: people right now, people are planting roses that have been
Speaker 3: ripped out of the ground their bear root, and they've
Speaker 3: been chopped off just you know, a foot above the ground,
Speaker 3: and they're selling them to you that way. So basically
Speaker 3: you're doing the same thing. At home, except yours are
Speaker 3: just getting dug and moved and watered in right away,
Speaker 3: same day, so it's even easier on yours. Okay, great,
Speaker 3: I appreciate all right, sir, thank you. Good luck with that.
Speaker 3: Send me a picture when they start blooming. You bet,
Speaker 3: take care. All right, let's h it's head the Houston
Speaker 3: area and talk to Derek. Hey, Derek, welcome to gardenline.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'd like to suggest it on I sot your
Speaker 9: crab and I want to get rid of the net edge.
Speaker 9: Just started coming in last year really heavy, so I
Speaker 9: want to see whether I pray on it or you
Speaker 9: know what I should apply to kill the netdig the
Speaker 9: number two. I got box food that I want suggestions
Speaker 9: on boxhood.
Speaker 3: Okay. Well, as far as the nuts edge is concerned,
Speaker 3: if you go to my website, there is I have
Speaker 3: a number of publications. But if you scroll down or
Speaker 3: just do the view all publications because it's dumped off
Speaker 3: the bottom of the list. Now. Uh, there's tips for
Speaker 3: winning the war against nutsedge, and then there's nutsedge and
Speaker 3: end depth. Look, you can go with either of those
Speaker 3: that you want, but the bottom line when it comes
Speaker 3: to spraying is you're going to want to use a
Speaker 3: product there. There are a number, by the way, the
Speaker 3: excuse me. There are a number of different products that
Speaker 3: are on the market for it, but the best are
Speaker 3: one that contain an ingredient called halo sulfur on Halo
Speaker 3: sulfur on. Now, I know that trying to remember a
Speaker 3: name like that is possible, but on the website, on
Speaker 3: my Nutsedge publication, it gives examples. I'm going to give
Speaker 3: you a few brand examples, but there's one called sedge
Speaker 3: Hammer Plus, like not sledgehammer, but sedge hammer Plus. There
Speaker 3: is one called Martin's Nut Grass Eliminator. That's another one.
Speaker 3: There's a high yield product for it. The Monterey has
Speaker 3: one called nut grass Killer. Two. Those are all the
Speaker 3: same ingredient and they all work well on Nutsedge. I
Speaker 3: would encourage you to read the publication on there that
Speaker 3: brown stuff before green stuff, meaning you get the foundation
Speaker 3: right and then you put that green plant in the
Speaker 3: ground and it's going to hit the ground running and
Speaker 3: you're going to be really happy with the results. Whether
Speaker 3: it's a whole bunch of tomatoes or a lot beautiful
Speaker 3: petunia flowers or whatever. The plant is. Soil first brown
Speaker 3: stuff before green stuff. And the place where you can
Speaker 3: get all your ground, all the brown stuff you need
Speaker 3: to do taken care of all of it, from compost
Speaker 3: to bed mixes to fertilizers is Ciena Mulch. Cena Maltch
Speaker 3: is just south of Houston. It's near where Highway six
Speaker 3: and two eighty eight come together. The actual road is
Speaker 3: FM five point twenty one. But I just want you
Speaker 3: to go to Cienamultch dot com and there you can
Speaker 3: get the number in the road in the hours and
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. Sienna Mulch dot com. That
Speaker 3: whole region Meridian First Colony, Sweetwater, Paarland, Iowa Colony, Sandy Point,
Speaker 3: that whole region down there, Sir Ciena malt serves it.
Speaker 3: They'll deliver within about twenty miles for a fee if
Speaker 3: you want them to bring it to your place, or
Speaker 3: you can just go get it. You can buy things
Speaker 3: by the bag, you and buy things by the bulk.
Speaker 3: They've gotten native hardwood, they got double ground mulches, two
Speaker 3: inch screen mulches. They have propucks from Landscapers Pride, they
Speaker 3: have products from excuse me, heirloom soils. And then when
Speaker 3: it comes to fertilizers we're talking about. By the way,
Speaker 3: they also have yeah, the landscapers Pride black velvet malts too,
Speaker 3: which is really special, and the rose soil, the veggie
Speaker 3: nerdmix from heirloom soils down there. When it comes to fertilizers,
Speaker 3: they have stuff from Medina, they have stuff from Nilsen,
Speaker 3: they have stuff from Nitroposs, they have stuff from Microlife.
Speaker 3: They carry azamite as well, and this is a good
Speaker 3: time to be beginning with any kind of azamite editions.
Speaker 3: You're going to be wanting to put into your soil
Speaker 3: this year, and they've got that. So when you come
Speaker 3: out to see anamalts, you have the foundation. You have
Speaker 3: done the brown stuff before green stuff, and now go
Speaker 3: find a fun great plant that wants to grow here
Speaker 3: and watch it take off and grow as a result
Speaker 3: from that. Ce animals dot com. Animals dot com. And
Speaker 3: by the way, they treat you right there too. They
Speaker 3: are just very very customer friendly. When you go in there,
Speaker 3: you have a good time. You will have a good time.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Guardline. The phone number is seven to
Speaker 3: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two, five, eight, seven four, And
Speaker 3: we've talked about today. I was I was talking a
Speaker 3: little bit about frost and freeze assessment and how to
Speaker 3: go about that. I'm going to post I think I'm
Speaker 3: going to post something to our social media about frost
Speaker 3: and freeze assessment. Gave a little spiel about it. I'll
Speaker 3: mention some more a little bit later as we go
Speaker 3: through it. The bottom line on frost and freeze assessment
Speaker 3: right now is relax, learn to live with ugly, don't
Speaker 3: worry about it. Don't feel like you need to jump
Speaker 3: the gun and cut everything off that's dead. Just wait.
Speaker 3: The easiest law is that fair way to go about
Speaker 3: taking care of your plants that were freeze damaged is
Speaker 3: just still. Let the plant tell you where to prune.
Speaker 3: As we start to warm up a little bit, you're
Speaker 3: going to see exactly where sprouts of new growth appear,
Speaker 3: and then you know where to cut things off that
Speaker 3: are dead. If you want to get ahead of it,
Speaker 3: at least give it a few days after a freeze
Speaker 3: e vent like we had and some little warmer weather,
Speaker 3: and that way, those tissues that were killed begin to
Speaker 3: show the decline very well, and you may see underneath
Speaker 3: the surface of the bark. If you scrape, scrape a
Speaker 3: little branch with your thumbnail or with a knife, you'll
Speaker 3: see instead of a nice creamy, creamy white to chartrouse
Speaker 3: green underneath there, you'll see paper sack brown color. And
Speaker 3: that means it's dead. It's dying, and it takes a
Speaker 3: little while for the for that to kind of happen
Speaker 3: and you to be real clear what you're dealing with.
Speaker 3: But either way, just wait and wait and see. You know,
Speaker 3: if you want, if you got a prone then at
Speaker 3: least scrape and don't cut into living wood. Don't cut
Speaker 3: health healthy wood. That's a stimulating process. And the last
Speaker 3: thing your plans need right now is to be encouraged
Speaker 3: to try to re sprout because you pruned it back
Speaker 3: too much, then the next freeze is going to cause
Speaker 3: even more damage. Anyway, that's why, well here we are,
Speaker 3: and we are about the time for me to take
Speaker 3: another break. I want to remind you that I'm going
Speaker 3: to be at the Brass Home and Garden Show today
Speaker 3: at the Fort Bend at the Center. It's in Rosenberg, Texas.
Speaker 3: I'll be there from one pm, so you have time
Speaker 3: to get lunch one pm to three PM. I'll talk
Speaker 3: for an hour in a seminar and we'll talk about
Speaker 3: essential steps to create a thriving spring garden and a lawn,
Speaker 3: a beautiful lawn in the spring. What do you need
Speaker 3: to do? What do you need to know? Let's get
Speaker 3: that done. We'll talk about that and then I'll answer
Speaker 3: your gardening questions and so just show up, bring me
Speaker 3: samples and whatnot. I'll be doing some giveaways as well,
Speaker 3: and I'll bring some of my books that I never
Speaker 3: talked about on the air and I should anyway. I'll
Speaker 3: bring some and have some signed copies if you'd like
Speaker 3: to do that. We'll be right back. Good morning, Welcome
Speaker 3: to guarden Line. I'm your host, Stiff Rector. This is
Speaker 3: garden Line. Guarden Line is a call in show. Now
Speaker 3: I can talk about gardening till the cows come home,
Speaker 3: but what this is about is getting your questions answered,
Speaker 3: helping you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
Speaker 3: and more fun in the process. So in order to
Speaker 3: do that, you'll need to write this number down seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two k T RH seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two k T Right, how can we help?
Speaker 3: What kinds of questions do you have and we will
Speaker 3: be happy to assist you with that. RCW Nurseries you
Speaker 3: know they've been around a long time. That that is
Speaker 3: the garden center that's right there where Tumball Parkway two
Speaker 3: forty nine FM two nine where that comes into belt
Speaker 3: Way eight and it's an easy access, easy to get
Speaker 3: to right there. When you go into RCW, you're going
Speaker 3: to find people that know what they're talking about. You're
Speaker 3: going to find service. You're going to find people that
Speaker 3: have a garden to here themselves for a long time.
Speaker 3: They know what they're doing. In fact, they essentially are
Speaker 3: growing their own trees up there at the Williamson Tree
Speaker 3: Farm up in Plantersville area, and they have a quality
Speaker 3: stock of all kinds of things like that the tree.
Speaker 3: When it comes to trees, whether it's big or small.
Speaker 3: They can also come out and do the planting for
Speaker 3: you and take care of that. And listen, we're in
Speaker 3: tree planting season. Don't delay. I mean, you can plant
Speaker 3: a tree twelve months out of the year. But the
Speaker 3: sooner you get it done, the better off it is.
Speaker 3: The easier it is on you, the easier it is
Speaker 3: on the tree to get established. So go ahead and
Speaker 3: call them and do that. Right now, they've gotten in
Speaker 3: a shipment of roses that is unbelievable. I'm talking about hundreds,
Speaker 3: hundreds of rose varieties. Their list, you can go to
Speaker 3: the website r Cwnurseries dot com RCW Nurseries dot com
Speaker 3: and you can print out their list. And I'm talking
Speaker 3: about a chart that tells you the name, the habit
Speaker 3: of the rose, the class of rose, the color of
Speaker 3: the rose, is it fragrant or not, other helpful comments
Speaker 3: about that rose, and it's it's six pages long. That's
Speaker 3: so many roses that they have. So if you're looking
Speaker 3: for a rose that is disease resistant, that repeat blooms,
Speaker 3: that is an all America rose selection, that is apricot
Speaker 3: colored or red colored or pink colored or lavender color.
Speaker 3: It's a shrub, it's a climber. You get to pick.
Speaker 3: And they've got their best stock of the year right
Speaker 3: now at r c W Nurseries. And it's time to
Speaker 3: get roses planted too. I know, we say roses. You know,
Speaker 3: Valentine's Day roses easy to remember. Yeah, that's true, and
Speaker 3: that's a good time. But you right today is a
Speaker 3: good time to plant a rose. Get one, get it
Speaker 3: in the ground. Talk to them. They'll get you some
Speaker 3: root stimulators, some other products you need to get success
Speaker 3: with that plant. They'll even tell you how to do it.
Speaker 3: They won't come out and plant it for you, but
Speaker 3: they will do how to do it. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: why not a rose, it's a queen of the garden.
Speaker 3: If you've got a sunny spot. Roses like sun If
Speaker 3: you got a sun spot and you want something that
Speaker 3: just gives you color and color, they've got it. Do
Speaker 3: you want one that's a cut flower, They've got it.
Speaker 3: You bring those cut flowers in. Do you want one
Speaker 3: that is a shrub, a shrub type rose, you just
Speaker 3: hedge it. You don't have to be a rose printing specially.
Speaker 3: Just headgs the thing and it'll grow and it'll look good.
Speaker 3: Knockouts that kind of rose. It does good. But oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, when you've got six pages of roses shoes from,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna do better now. R cwnurseries dot com.
Speaker 3: And while you're in there, yes, you're gonna find herbs
Speaker 3: and vegetables and flowers and other kinds of ornamental shrubs
Speaker 3: and trees and everything else, including the products. You need
Speaker 3: to have success with them, So go check it out.
Speaker 3: You have been forewarned. The opportunity is there. There should
Speaker 3: be a there should be a line backed up on
Speaker 3: two forty nine and bout way a trying to get
Speaker 3: into that place today with the with the kind of
Speaker 3: shipment that they've gotten in on these beautiful roses. You know,
Speaker 3: I like roses. They I like easy care. Now when
Speaker 3: it comes to roses, I'm just kind of wandering on
Speaker 3: on roses here because I like talking about roses. The
Speaker 3: you know, rose enthusiasts. They may be into the cut
Speaker 3: flowers and the really unique and beautiful hybrid teas and
Speaker 3: just all that kind of thing, and that's fine, you
Speaker 3: can do that, but you may just want a little groundcover,
Speaker 3: spreading rose. Do you know. Roses can be groundcovers and
Speaker 3: sunny spots. There are a number of types of roses
Speaker 3: that they stay small, they stay low, and they spread
Speaker 3: out and they do really well. I mentioned I like
Speaker 3: shrub roses because I think it's pretty cool that to
Speaker 3: get a shrub with green leaves, so it's a shrub.
Speaker 3: It looks good, but then it blooms. I mean, what
Speaker 3: a deal? What a what a plus that is and
Speaker 3: it's easy. It's easy to do, you know. It used
Speaker 3: to be roses were all prima donnas. I mean you
Speaker 3: had to sit there and in one hand you had
Speaker 3: an umbrella to keep the rain off of them because
Speaker 3: rain promotes disease, and in the other hand had a
Speaker 3: spray wand to squirt them every five minutes with a
Speaker 3: fungeeside to keep them from dying from some disease. Now
Speaker 3: now we have got a lot of roses with incredible
Speaker 3: disease resistance that they can be a very very low
Speaker 3: care maintenance shrub in your landscape and you get flowers
Speaker 3: and in some cases you get fragrance too. So I
Speaker 3: think everybody will to plant more roses. How about an arbor,
Speaker 3: how about a pergola or maybe an archway going in
Speaker 3: to the garden or entering an outdoor patio sitting area,
Speaker 3: or an arbor over the top of an outdoor sitting area.
Speaker 11: I have.
Speaker 3: I have a rose that goes over a pergola type
Speaker 3: structure over a part of one of my patio areas
Speaker 3: in the back, and it's just gorgeous. This is a
Speaker 3: this is a climber, and so a lot of climbers
Speaker 3: tend to be once bloomers, meaning they bloom in spring,
Speaker 3: but not after that. But that's good with me, you know.
Speaker 3: I'm good with that, and so'm I really really enjoy it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I do. And when when spring comes, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: the branches, the shoots of that that hang over the
Speaker 3: sides of the pergola just load up with flowers. Gorgeous, beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful flowers. That minds of Peggy Martin. By the way,
Speaker 3: that's one of the ones that in the last ten
Speaker 3: years has just been so loved and famous because it
Speaker 3: survived the New Orleans hurricane floods. It went for weeks
Speaker 3: out there years ago. You remember that one, Katrina, Peggy Martin.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. But Peggy Martin is just one
Speaker 3: example of many many good rowses. So anyway, that's the
Speaker 3: one I have in my pergola. I love that thing. Well,
Speaker 3: you're listening to Guardline our phone numbers seven one three
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Speaker 3: two one two k t r h H. It is
Speaker 3: about time for me to go to a little break
Speaker 3: here in just a moment, I did want to mention
Speaker 3: that if you have questions that might involve a photo.
Speaker 3: You can call my producer, talk to Jonathan seven one
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Speaker 3: photo you need to send me, and then follow that
Speaker 3: up with a phone call. I'm not able to answer
Speaker 3: with my fingers typing all the questions that come in
Speaker 3: at the time just doesn't allow that. But if you
Speaker 3: will send me a picture or send me a question
Speaker 3: with a photo and then call in, we can discuss it.
Speaker 3: Because I'll tell you this, I know a lot of
Speaker 3: people are shy to be on the air. Don't worry
Speaker 3: about it. The pressure's on me, not you. And so
Speaker 3: send me a picture and I can look at it
Speaker 3: and then we can talk about Because somebody else is
Speaker 3: going to have the same question. You may think, Ah,
Speaker 3: this is a stupid question. Nobody asks us. No it's not.
Speaker 3: It's not a stupid question. There's only stupid answers. And
Speaker 3: I'll worry about that, all right, folks. I'll be right back,
Speaker 3: and we're going to take a call from looks like
Speaker 3: Jimmy when we come right back. Alrighty, let's get right
Speaker 3: to the phones this hour. We're going to head to Conro,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to Jimmy. Hey, Jimmy, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 3: Oh hello, do we have Jimmy? Yeah, there you are.
Speaker 5: Let's sorry about that.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 12: Yes, I have a rose bush and there used to
Speaker 12: be three other ones, but they never survived.
Speaker 5: This one hardly did anything to it.
Speaker 12: And I have given catfish in the to the soil
Speaker 12: where the rose bushes were, and I'm thinking about propagating
Speaker 12: them because that rose bush seems to be really resilient
Speaker 12: and just survives. I guess, so I will say about
Speaker 12: propagating it, okay. And the thing about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so do you happen to know the name of
Speaker 3: the rose or not?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: That's kind of pink. Okay, okay. Uh. A lot of
Speaker 3: roses are grafted, and their grafted is because the root
Speaker 3: stock is more resilient in certain soil conditions than a
Speaker 3: rooted rose would have been. But there are a lot
Speaker 3: of types of roses that aren't grafted. They root a
Speaker 3: cutting like you're describing, and then they just plant it.
Speaker 3: And so you can go either way. But what you'll
Speaker 3: want to do is there's two things you can do.
Speaker 3: The standard way people propagate roses is to take a
Speaker 3: cutting and take the leaves off the Let's say the
Speaker 3: cutting is about four inches long, and you take the
Speaker 3: leaves off the bottom half of that cutting and dip
Speaker 3: it in a rooting hormone powder, which you can get
Speaker 3: at any garden center, and then you put it in
Speaker 3: moist like a potting soil or something like that, put
Speaker 3: a cover over it to keep the humidity in because
Speaker 3: otherwise they've dry it before it has a chance to
Speaker 3: make roots. And put it in a bright spot, but
Speaker 3: not direct sunlight, so really like real close to like
Speaker 3: an eastern window or something like that would be good,
Speaker 3: or a northern window. Even you want good light, but
Speaker 3: you don't want direct sunlight. And it takes a while,
Speaker 3: but most roses are fairly easy to root. If you
Speaker 3: get a good, healthy cutting and you dip it in
Speaker 3: rooting hormone first and make sure it's in a moist condition.
Speaker 3: There's another way to do it that is a higher
Speaker 3: percentage success. And if this bush has branches that are
Speaker 3: kind of sagging down toward the ground, you can go
Speaker 3: out toward the end of a branch. With roses, you
Speaker 3: don't want to root a woody limb of the of
Speaker 3: the rose bush. You know one that has bark on
Speaker 3: the outside. It's that big or old. You want to
Speaker 3: root something that's pencil sized or smaller, typically typically smaller.
Speaker 3: But if you take one of those and you bend it,
Speaker 3: what it'll happen is it'll crack. It won't No, I'm
Speaker 3: not talking about snap off, but I'm talking about you
Speaker 3: just bend it, and now it's almost like that branch
Speaker 3: has an elbow on it. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You move it and it's attached, but it moves like
Speaker 3: an elbow. And you put that elbow down in the
Speaker 3: ground and I will often take a piece of coat hanger,
Speaker 3: make a U shape a piece of coat hanger and
Speaker 3: push it into the soil to hold that elbow into
Speaker 3: a shallow hole in the ground, maybe three or four
Speaker 3: inches deep, and then put soil over it and keep
Speaker 3: it moist. Some people will just set a big, heavy
Speaker 3: rock over it. You just don't want the wind to
Speaker 3: blow the branch and pull it back out of the ground.
Speaker 3: But if you do that, it will root. It may
Speaker 3: take a few weeks to do that, but once it
Speaker 3: is rooting, you can cut it loose from the mother
Speaker 3: plant and dig it up and move it wherever you want.
Speaker 3: So that's called a tip layer or a layer la
Speaker 3: yeer and it's more successful than cuttings because what happens
Speaker 3: is the mother plant is nourishing the cutting while it's developing,
Speaker 3: or the thing while it's develop uping roots as opposed
Speaker 3: to being cut off. And now it has no nourishment
Speaker 3: and it just has to get a root done real
Speaker 3: quick before it dies. That's how it would be with
Speaker 3: a cutting. That makes sense. Oh yeah, it's interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: do this. Go online and do a search for layering
Speaker 3: l A y e R layering a rose and you'll
Speaker 3: find lots of good help to help you do that. Okay,
Speaker 3: And if there's nothing down low like that, then you've
Speaker 3: got to do cuttings. All right. Hey, good luck with that, Jimmy,
Speaker 3: thank you all right, Yes, sir, appreciate that you as well.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Let's see here, all right, We're
Speaker 3: going to go to Brookshire now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 3: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning.
Speaker 3: Morning. So how can we help Well, I have a.
Speaker 8: Just bought a new home in north of Berkshire here
Speaker 8: just for five nine in Waller County, and it has
Speaker 8: zero landscaping, with the exception of Saint Augustine, Bermuda and weeds,
Speaker 8: and I'm curious. I'm looking for help in several areas. First,
Speaker 8: I want to get some trees in and I'm cious
Speaker 8: looking for recommendations on that. I've got an acre and
Speaker 8: a half, so I've got a lot of real estate
Speaker 8: and any companies that might get I need to put
Speaker 8: some pre emergent down, I'm sure pretty soon, and fertilizer.
Speaker 8: And I've got my own water well, so I'm a
Speaker 8: little concerned about putting down the right stuff there. And lastly,
Speaker 8: I'm adding a water softener that will also hit the spigots.
Speaker 3: On the house.
Speaker 8: And I'm wondering if there's a difference between potassium chloride and.
Speaker 5: Sodium chloride on the water softer on how it will.
Speaker 8: Affect any of the plants I put around the house.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, well, I'm not sure why you're softening outdoor spiggot water.
Speaker 3: You know, we we soften our water, you know, for
Speaker 3: the pipes. I know that's one reason, but we soften
Speaker 3: for washing clothes and things like that. But anyway, the
Speaker 3: potassium potassium isn't as bad as sodium when it comes
Speaker 3: to that, but still softened water is not something that
Speaker 3: the plants are real fond of. As far as you know,
Speaker 3: you have a bunch of questions and that's good. By
Speaker 3: the way, feel free to call back as often as
Speaker 3: you like, and we kind of walk through all of them.
Speaker 3: But as far as you know, making sure that you've
Speaker 3: got the kind of plants you want, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of good things out There's a lot of good trees
Speaker 3: out there. You're just down the street from Nelson Water
Speaker 3: Gardens and Katie off it In and Katie and they
Speaker 3: have they carry trees and they could probably direct you
Speaker 3: to local landscapers who they would recommend if you want
Speaker 3: that kind of help. Down toward Richmond from you is
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens and the same thing there. They do carry
Speaker 3: a lot of trees and they could also direct you
Speaker 3: probably to some landscapers in your area. As far as
Speaker 3: trees go, I like blooming trees in the summer like
Speaker 3: Craig myrtles are beautiful. Chinese fringe tree has white, shaggy
Speaker 3: spring blooms. That's a nice one. Didn't get too large,
Speaker 3: so it's one where you know, it sounds like you
Speaker 3: got the space for a large tree, but it's nice
Speaker 3: having some smaller trees around too, over a patio or
Speaker 3: something you can enjoy visually. But then there's beautiful shade
Speaker 3: trees that would do well. A nut tall oak and
Speaker 3: new t t A l nut tall oak is a
Speaker 3: good red oak that would do well out in your area.
Speaker 3: And then there's a lot of others that also will
Speaker 3: do well there. Mike, I'm running up against a hard break.
Speaker 3: If you want to hang on through the break. When
Speaker 3: we come back, we can continue this this because i
Speaker 3: know you have you know, additional probably follow ups questions
Speaker 3: on it, but I'm going to put you on hold.
Speaker 3: If you want to stick around, we'll talk when when
Speaker 3: you get back. When we get back, time for me
Speaker 3: to take a top of the hour break. Just want
Speaker 3: to remind everybody I'm going to be down in regiment
Speaker 3: area at the Fort Ben County Epicenter. That's on Southwest
Speaker 3: Freeway right there, so you're heading down south. That'll be
Speaker 3: on the left hand side. I'm going to be there
Speaker 3: from one to three today. From one to three now,
Speaker 3: I'll be starting off for about an hour of talking
Speaker 3: about the essential steps of creating a thriving spring garden
Speaker 3: and a lawn. In fact, yeah, just all kinds of
Speaker 3: things about having success in the spring. What do you
Speaker 3: need to know?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 3: I want to talk about answering your gardening questions for
Speaker 3: about an hour, so I'll be giving away free samples.
Speaker 3: I'll bring copies of my books down there to sign
Speaker 3: if you're interested, but basically just helping you have six
Speaker 3: us through Q and A and bring me samples.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richards.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as so many things to.
Speaker 3: All right, we're back, Welcome back to garden Line. I
Speaker 3: am glad you are with us today, looking forward to
Speaker 3: visiting with you. I was mentioned before we went to
Speaker 3: break about talking with Mike out in Brookshire, which we're
Speaker 3: going to come back to here just a second, about
Speaker 3: in China Gardens being down south of him. There has
Speaker 3: been a source for he was looking for some trees
Speaker 3: for example. Uh, they really in China Gardens has an
Speaker 3: unmatched selection of plants and in general, I mean if
Speaker 3: you're talking about vegetables or ornamental grasses, or flowers or
Speaker 3: herbs or shrubs or trees or roses or fruit trees
Speaker 3: or just everything you name it, they've got a good,
Speaker 3: good selection of it. They also have an outstanding selection
Speaker 3: of products to go with the things that you're purchasing there. Remember,
Speaker 3: we got to take care of the soil for you.
Speaker 3: Take ore of the plants well Microlife, nitrofoss Nelson, plant
Speaker 3: food Medina, things from Nature's Way, things from heirloom soils,
Speaker 3: things from landscapers Pride. See what I mean. They've got
Speaker 3: it all right there now. In Chenna Gardens is on
Speaker 3: the Kjfullshire side of Richmond. They're on FM three fifty
Speaker 3: nine three fifty nine. You just go to the website
Speaker 3: Entented Gardens Richmond dot com Entented Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: They're open money through Saturday from eight to five and
Speaker 3: Tomorrow Sunday from ten am to four pm. By the way,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be out there in at Chenna Gardens
Speaker 3: on Saturday, February fifteenth, from twelve to one. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be giving a talk on till for making gardening less work,
Speaker 3: talk about how to get more from your gardens with
Speaker 3: the way I like to put it, how to get
Speaker 3: more with less sweat and ibuprofen. I hope you make
Speaker 3: gardening easy and more productive and more fun in the process.
Speaker 3: Out there in Jenny Gardens and that'll be on February fifteenth.
Speaker 3: From twelve till one, we're going to go back to
Speaker 3: Mike now in Brookshire. Mike, where do we pick it up? Here?
Speaker 3: We were talking about some things you might want to
Speaker 3: plant out there.
Speaker 8: We were I think we're ready to transition to the yard.
Speaker 8: So I've got a combination of Saint Augustine and Bermuda
Speaker 8: pretty well covered a lot of weeds as well, and
Speaker 8: looking for recommendations for water well friendly pre emergence and
Speaker 8: infertilizers and granular or liquid.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what I need, Okay. What i want
Speaker 3: to do is have you go to my website. I
Speaker 3: don't know, have you ever been and looked at my
Speaker 3: gardening schedules yet up there on the website, have yes, sir? Okay.
Speaker 3: So there's a lawn care schedule, and then there's a
Speaker 3: lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. The second one
Speaker 3: pest disease and weed management. If you have a question
Speaker 3: about like pre emergent weed control, you'll see on the
Speaker 3: schedule that anytime from mid January through February in our
Speaker 3: general listening area here, which is a large area. But
Speaker 3: that's why it's a big section on the calendar is
Speaker 3: the time to put your pre emergent out because you
Speaker 3: want to get those out before we'd seeds begin to
Speaker 3: sprout and come up. And when I say weed seeds
Speaker 3: in this case, I mean warm season weed seeds. The
Speaker 3: cool season weeds are already growing. But that's when you
Speaker 3: do it. If you at the bottom of the schedule
Speaker 3: there there's a pre emergent section with synthetic and organic
Speaker 3: options for trying to deal with weeds in the lawn
Speaker 3: in a pre emergent way. Then there's more information on
Speaker 3: post emergent. But the main thing on pre emergence is
Speaker 3: you want to grab a product, you know, night frust
Speaker 3: barricades and I talk most about.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: You put it out at the label rate, water it
Speaker 3: in with about a half inch of water. Get it
Speaker 3: into the soil surface. Just get it into the soil surface, uh,
Speaker 3: and then it will prevent when the weed seed tries
Speaker 3: to sprout. It it doesn't let it establish and grow,
Speaker 3: it kills it and so but you have to do
Speaker 3: it before the weed seed tries to sprout.
Speaker 8: Okay, perfect, I guess the last last question any recommendations
Speaker 8: on I've got it mentioned an acre and a half.
Speaker 8: Some of the soil I know was trucked in to
Speaker 8: build elevation. How would I go about getting a soil
Speaker 8: test done?
Speaker 3: Okay, I also have a thing on my website that
Speaker 3: is a publication that I it's just a page that
Speaker 3: I wrote on soil testing and uh, it's at the
Speaker 3: garden It's at the Gardening with Skip website, Gardening with
Speaker 3: Skip dot com. But the short answer is there is
Speaker 3: the state soil testing lab is at A and M,
Speaker 3: and the website is soil Testing one word dot T
Speaker 3: a m U as in Texas A and M University
Speaker 3: dot ed U as an education so soil testing dot
Speaker 3: TAMU dot edu. And you want to choose the urban
Speaker 3: soil test form urban even though you're out in the
Speaker 3: country Berkshire. Urban means yards, gardens, roses, flower beds, you
Speaker 3: know that, that kind of thing. That's what urban means.
Speaker 3: But urban soil testing form uh. And then follow the
Speaker 3: instructions and when you get the results back, if you've
Speaker 3: got questions, you can maybe send me a copy of
Speaker 3: it and then give me a call to follow up
Speaker 3: on it and we can we can discuss some of that.
Speaker 3: Or you can go to your county Extension office and
Speaker 3: your horticulture or agriculture agent can help interpret it as well.
Speaker 8: Easy, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just make make sure and follow the instructions for
Speaker 3: how to take a soil sample. The bottom line is
Speaker 3: you want to take a composite sample from a bunch
Speaker 3: of different spots of a six inch core of soil.
Speaker 3: So you want the same amount of soil one inch
Speaker 3: deep as six inches deep. You know, don't just scoop
Speaker 3: some off the top two inches. Don't dig a hole
Speaker 3: and take some out of the bottom of the hole.
Speaker 3: Get a get a vertical section from a bunch of places,
Speaker 3: could be five to ten places. Mix it all together
Speaker 3: and you need about a pint of soil to send in.
Speaker 3: All right, sir, you've met Thanks for the call, looking
Speaker 3: for You're talking it again sometime YouTube, Bye bye. Nature's
Speaker 3: Way resources is up there in Conroe on off Interstate
Speaker 3: forty five. In fact, if you're heading if you're heading
Speaker 3: from Houston north to Conroe, right where fourteen eighty eight
Speaker 3: comes in from Magnolia, you just turn right across the
Speaker 3: tracks and you're there. Nature's Way. It's on Turrbroke Circle
Speaker 3: right there and they have number one. They've They've got
Speaker 3: every kind of soil product you possibly could want or
Speaker 3: need in a very quality form. They've been doing this
Speaker 3: is kind of I guess you could almost say the
Speaker 3: grandfather of soil products is John John Ferguson at Nature's
Speaker 3: Way I and his son now runs a place carries
Speaker 3: the same tradition, same kind of quality products, from composts
Speaker 3: to bed mixes, to things for fruit trees, things for herbs.
Speaker 3: You need mulches, do you, I mean flower beds. They've
Speaker 3: got it all right there at Nature's Way. And all
Speaker 3: you have to do is go check them out and
Speaker 3: you can. You can drive up there with your truck
Speaker 3: or trader and get some stuff if you want, you can,
Speaker 3: you know, have them deliver it for you. And lie
Speaker 3: of their products are available by the bag around the
Speaker 3: greater Houston area as well. Nature's Way Resources dot Com.
Speaker 3: Go to that website. Everything he needs there Nature's Way
Speaker 3: Resources dot Com. I'm gonna take a break now, I'll
Speaker 3: be right back with a call for from Christa out
Speaker 3: in Richmond. Alrighty, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Stip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions
Speaker 3: at seven one three, two, one, two, five, eight, seven four.
Speaker 3: Listen the super Bowls coming? Are you geared up for that? All? Right? Well,
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Speaker 3: out now to Richmond, Texas and talk to Christa. Hello Christa,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hi dare Skip. Thank you for taking my call and
Speaker 13: really appreciate it. I just actually moved here, Thank you.
Speaker 13: I started. I just moved here about nine months ago
Speaker 13: from Nevada where it's desert. So this is a whole
Speaker 13: different world to me here as far as landscaping. But
Speaker 13: I start it is totally the soil is so different here.
Speaker 13: And I was pretty good.
Speaker 3: At him when I was everything in the desert.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So I started a landscape project. I'm putting in
Speaker 13: a partial of some rock, you know, some type of
Speaker 13: what we call desert landscaping. But I kept a lot
Speaker 13: of grass. But the gentlemen that are doing the work
Speaker 13: are going to remove some maulch and a little layer
Speaker 13: of dirt. We're going to re put some fresh mulch
Speaker 13: in fresh soil there in the garden area in the front,
Speaker 13: We're going to plant with some flowers.
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 13: Is it okay to you?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 13: I have some very low areas in the backyard. It's
Speaker 13: a huge backyard where and where I'm actually having a
Speaker 13: lot of puddling, a lot of waters gathering after it
Speaker 13: rains or snows. Would it be okay to instead of
Speaker 13: throwing that away, to place it there in those lower areas,
Speaker 13: I'm trying to build those areas up so there because
Speaker 13: you know in the summer that it then gets moldy
Speaker 13: as it as the heat comes. So go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, So tell me what is what is it
Speaker 3: that you're going to put in those lower areas? I
Speaker 3: miss that. What are you asking?
Speaker 1: Well, they're going to.
Speaker 13: Remove the malt, maulch, and soil from the there's a
Speaker 13: little area in the front where you know how in
Speaker 13: most front yards there is like the builders put an
Speaker 13: area where there's shrubs and you and flowers. So they're
Speaker 13: going to remove They're going to remove the old mulch
Speaker 13: and soil. And because they want to put fresh mulch
Speaker 13: and soil in, so I can plant some beautiful flowers
Speaker 13: there in a couple of weeks and instead of throwing
Speaker 13: that old away? Can I use that in those low
Speaker 13: areas in the backyard where water.
Speaker 3: So if it's soil, yes you can. If it's mulch,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. Mulch is just organic matter that is going
Speaker 3: to decompose and shrink down. So if you fill the
Speaker 3: low areas and you use mostly mult slash compost type materials,
Speaker 3: it's going to just sink back down again. Just the way.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but if
Speaker 3: you had a pot on the patio, after two years,
Speaker 3: the pot's only half full of soil because what was
Speaker 3: there was almost all organic matter and it just decomposed away,
Speaker 3: So just use soil to fill in the low areas.
Speaker 3: But and the old malt is good. Maltmult decomposes and
Speaker 3: releases nutrients. It turns into compost which feeds microbes in
Speaker 3: the soil and makes your plants happy, your soil better.
Speaker 3: So I would never get rid of olmult I generally,
Speaker 3: and I know you're renovating there, so I would pull
Speaker 3: it and set it aside, and then I would get
Speaker 3: all the bed done, and then I'd put the ulmultch
Speaker 3: back in and you can pull it aside to do
Speaker 3: your planting around it. But think of the forest floor.
Speaker 3: There's dry leaves on top, and then as you go
Speaker 3: down you get into rich crumbly leaf mold compost d
Speaker 3: materials that is the best of on earth, and then
Speaker 3: the soils down below that. And that's what you do
Speaker 3: in your flower beds is when you have nu malts needed,
Speaker 3: when the olmult gets thin, just add nu mulch on
Speaker 3: top and leave that almultch because that's just when it's
Speaker 3: getting to be really good soil stuff.
Speaker 13: Oh well, that's good news because so basically what people
Speaker 13: when people are replacing their mulch doing it, probably because
Speaker 13: the mulch doesn't look attractive, right, so they think, well,
Speaker 13: I'm going to put new mults in because okay, okay.
Speaker 3: I guess yes, And beauty is in the eye of
Speaker 3: the beholder. Some people like colored mulches and I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't care for those at all. But I think
Speaker 3: old malts is beautiful. But if you want something pretty
Speaker 3: and fresh, you know, there's a product that Landscaper's Pride makes.
Speaker 3: It's available all over town and it is. It's called
Speaker 3: black velvet, and it's not dyed. It's just naturally very
Speaker 3: dark color. So some people like that and it's fine.
Speaker 3: It's fine stuff, especially because it's not dyeed. But any
Speaker 3: kind of a quality mulch put on the surface is
Speaker 3: what you want to do, just to maintain something that
Speaker 3: blocks the sunlight out and moderates soil temperatures.
Speaker 13: Oh okay, well, thank you very much. I really apprecire
Speaker 13: your help. Thank you, sir. You have a beautiful day.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome to Houston. Call us back. One quick
Speaker 3: thing you mentioned, you know, putting in some kind of
Speaker 3: zeric type landscaping. You can do that here. We do
Speaker 3: get a lot of rain, a lot of humidity. So
Speaker 3: you definitely want an area that drains well. If you
Speaker 3: take some of the plants that are very drought tolerant
Speaker 3: and you put them in our Houston black clays and
Speaker 3: it's stays soggy like that area you were describing, it'll
Speaker 3: kill them in a heartbeat. So a raised amound of
Speaker 3: soil to drain away excess water, fixing low spots that
Speaker 3: have poor drainage with either French drains underground or by
Speaker 3: raising the lava lap. It's all important, especially if you
Speaker 3: want to go with some more zeric types of plants. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, thank you appreciate that. All right, you're listening
Speaker 3: to guard line. Uh seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: five eight seven four. Listen, it's planting season. It's planting season. Uh.
Speaker 3: We're going to get to summertime and people are gonna
Speaker 3: call me and say, can I still plant a you
Speaker 3: fill in the blank, And the answer is going to
Speaker 3: be yes, with a little bit of a butt. Yes.
Speaker 3: But you got to water a little bit every day
Speaker 3: to keep it going without overwater in it and causing
Speaker 3: major problems. If you plant now, it's a more forgiving time.
Speaker 3: It's easy. You put it in the ground, you water
Speaker 3: it in real good. It has a chance to establish roots,
Speaker 3: and you know you do have to rewater at times,
Speaker 3: but it's not like in one day that root balls
Speaker 3: already pumped dry again because it's one hundred degrees outside
Speaker 3: and hadn't rained in three weeks. So now's the time
Speaker 3: to get the plants in so you can get a
Speaker 3: root system established. And if you're going to do that,
Speaker 3: I want you to do one other thing. Gets some
Speaker 3: Medina has to grow six twelve six. Medina has to
Speaker 3: grow six twelve six. It's got six percent nitrogen, twelve
Speaker 3: percent phosphorus that's especially important in root development, and six
Speaker 3: percent potassium. And with that it also has Medina soil
Speaker 3: activator to stimulate biological activity. It's got humate humic acid.
Speaker 3: Humic acid is produced by decomposed, fully decomposing organic matter.
Speaker 3: Hemic acids is one of the natural organic acids that's
Speaker 3: produced by decomposing organic matter and the microbes that are
Speaker 3: doing the work. Okay, that improves sol structure, It improves
Speaker 3: nutrient uptake as well. Whenever your soil gets better, your
Speaker 3: nutrient uptake is going to improve. It's got seaweed extracts
Speaker 3: in it. Now you can use it as a folier spray.
Speaker 3: That's fine, But right now for planting season, I would
Speaker 3: especially make sure and get your watering can. Put some
Speaker 3: has to grow six twelve six from medina has to
Speaker 3: grow six twelve six plant food, put it in the
Speaker 3: watering can and water in your new plants with it.
Speaker 3: I will often put it in a little container and
Speaker 3: set the whole plant pot in the container before I
Speaker 3: plant it to soak that root ball full of has
Speaker 3: to grow six to twelve six, and then plant in
Speaker 3: the ground. You can do it either way. Planet it
Speaker 3: and soak it, soak it and planet either way you
Speaker 3: want to go. Follow up a week later with another
Speaker 3: soaking of has to grow, and a week later with
Speaker 3: another soaking of asterword those three about a week of
Speaker 3: art and your plant will be well on its way
Speaker 3: to success. And the more you do right now to
Speaker 3: get a root system out in the ground, the better
Speaker 3: that plant is going to not only take off running
Speaker 3: and grow well for you. But survived this first challenging summer,
Speaker 3: which every summer is a challenging summer here in the
Speaker 3: Greater Houston area. That is for sure. You're listening to
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Speaker 3: Southwest Fertilizer is a Houston tradition, really long term, better
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Speaker 3: I'll be right back with your calls in just a moment. Alrighty,
Speaker 3: we have some more garden Line to do, so let's
Speaker 3: hop right in and do that. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 3: and we're here to answer your gardening questions. I'm here
Speaker 3: to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more
Speaker 3: beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. Now I
Speaker 3: gotta do is give me a call seven to one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t r H. So we
Speaker 3: are going to go now out to Carrie. Hello, Carrie,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hey, my name is Terry.
Speaker 3: Oh. Hello, well, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 14: I have some lemon tares and an orange tree that
Speaker 14: I've grown from a seed, and they're all in pots.
Speaker 5: And I don't know.
Speaker 14: When to prove them when it's appropriate, you know, And
Speaker 14: they need to go in the ground because they're not miniatures.
Speaker 5: They need to be in the ground.
Speaker 14: But we're figure that out of our situation with deer
Speaker 14: and all that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm just, well, so what.
Speaker 5: From the shock from the cold? I have them in
Speaker 5: the house right now.
Speaker 14: Before the freeze came, we I had a neighbor of
Speaker 14: mine brought them inside, and.
Speaker 3: Okay, I just.
Speaker 5: I don't know what what do I do to get
Speaker 5: them out of the shock when the cold.
Speaker 14: Is away and I take them back outside. One of
Speaker 14: my neighbors said to put like a couple of aspirins
Speaker 14: and some water and put that in the soil.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Okay, well you don't need to do that.
Speaker 3: What you want to do is, first of all, anytime
Speaker 3: it's above forty degrees especially, put them out and just
Speaker 3: let them get sunlight, because sunlight makes the carbohydrates in
Speaker 3: the leaves and that strengthens the plant so that when
Speaker 3: you transplant it, or just in general, it's going to
Speaker 3: be stronger and healthier and do better. So indoors, you know,
Speaker 3: we just don't quite have enough light for them, and
Speaker 3: they want to be in sunlight. So whenever you can,
Speaker 3: just have them out there where they get good sunlight.
Speaker 3: If it's going to get down, you know, freezing, well yeah,
Speaker 3: bring them in. But in general, as much as you can.
Speaker 14: Even right now, and I live in Livingston or Trinity actually,
Speaker 14: but it's like thirty five degrees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know it's cold, but thirty five
Speaker 3: at least it can get some sunlight and benefit from that.
Speaker 3: But just in general, just if they stay in for
Speaker 3: weeks or a week or so, it's going to weaken
Speaker 3: it a little bit. And so you need to just
Speaker 3: do it according to your temperatures there in that area.
Speaker 3: Just just do the best you can with it. As
Speaker 3: far as planting them, because they've been in a container,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have roots that are going around in a
Speaker 3: circle in the pot, and those don't unwind after you
Speaker 3: plan them underground. So what you're gonna want to do,
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be hard to do, but you're going
Speaker 3: to cut those roots. Just take your little prunters or
Speaker 3: if if they're little roots, you can just use a
Speaker 3: box cutter knife and slice vertically down through the sides
Speaker 3: of the cylinder root ball. And it's okay, very important
Speaker 3: to do this to cut those roots because otherwise you're
Speaker 3: going to have a wound up, root bound container and
Speaker 3: they're just not gonna thrive. They're not gonna take off
Speaker 3: and thrive like you want them to. So then's the
Speaker 3: top part. You can cut it back. Go ahead.
Speaker 14: So when we go to put them in the round.
Speaker 14: So I say they're a container probably about I'm five
Speaker 14: foot tall if I put my arms together, I don't
Speaker 14: even put them around, so six foot pots, right, But.
Speaker 3: They're in a very large.
Speaker 14: Growing out of out of the bottoms of the pot,
Speaker 14: and so I know it's time. We've got to find
Speaker 14: a place to play at them in the ground and
Speaker 14: get them in the ground.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so you want to wait.
Speaker 14: Though, because we live we live in Trinity on Lake Livingston,
Speaker 14: and it's mostly all red clay and red dirt. So
Speaker 14: I'm gonna I want them need to dig that whole like.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna need like a.
Speaker 14: Something bigger in a shovel to dig the whole, like
Speaker 14: two to three times bigger than the pot, and then
Speaker 14: cut the roots right, and.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, cut the cut the roots. Here. Here's what well, Terry,
Speaker 3: let me tell you what what I do. I would
Speaker 3: get you some good composting material, compost or bed mix
Speaker 3: or whatever, and I would put it on the ground,
Speaker 3: and I would take a spading fork and as best
Speaker 3: you can in an area probably five feet across, mix
Speaker 3: that into the soil before you even dig a hole.
Speaker 3: And then dig the hole for the plant. And if
Speaker 3: you've mixed that in an area five feet wide, you
Speaker 3: don't have to dig a hole that's two times as
Speaker 3: big as the root ball because you've already loosened the
Speaker 3: soil out there. You want to dig it only as
Speaker 3: deep as the soil in the container. So if you
Speaker 3: were just a picture you've taken the plant out of
Speaker 3: the container and it's sitting on the ground, how tall
Speaker 3: is that soils that was in the pot? And if
Speaker 3: it's a foot high, dig a foothole. If it's a
Speaker 3: foot and a half high, dig of a foot and
Speaker 3: a half hole, because you don't want to dig it
Speaker 3: deeper because then you'll fill with loose soil in the bottom.
Speaker 3: Because it wants you need to have it at the
Speaker 3: same depth that it was in the pot. You want
Speaker 3: the soil level to be the same, so if you
Speaker 3: dig it too deep, it ends up settling down too deep.
Speaker 3: So dig it only as deep as a root ball.
Speaker 3: Dig it a little bigger than the root ball, not much,
Speaker 3: because you've already loose, You've taken a spading fork, and
Speaker 3: you've you've kind of cracked open the soil to get
Speaker 3: this compost. You spread around it down in the soil,
Speaker 3: dig that whole planet in and watered in really well.
Speaker 3: And I would wait to do that until we're past
Speaker 3: the danger of frosts in your area. You know, there's
Speaker 3: no hurry. Citrus is not going to take off growing
Speaker 3: real fast, real early on. And it likes it a little.
Speaker 3: It likes it to warm up a little bit. So
Speaker 3: go ahead and get it in after you know you're
Speaker 3: not going to have any more frosts, and and and
Speaker 3: then do it as I described there.
Speaker 14: I have a random question as well. So, uh, my
Speaker 14: lemon trees one of them. So we were moving from
Speaker 14: Texas City to our lake house, and my husband acted
Speaker 14: in the back of the truck sideways, and once he
Speaker 14: brought them back and put them in the front yard,
Speaker 14: one of them started making flower buds. Is that just
Speaker 14: like I'm in shock, I'm gonna I'm gonna bloom or is.
Speaker 5: I have no idea?
Speaker 3: No, it'll do. Now, lemons can bloom repeatedly during the season,
Speaker 3: and so that's not unusual. Uh they You know, I
Speaker 3: can't go into exactly why it may have bloom at
Speaker 3: that specific time, but that's okay. You're all right on those. Hey,
Speaker 3: I've got a heartbreak coming up here and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to run, But good luck with those, and if
Speaker 3: if you have success. I know it's a long drive
Speaker 3: to the station in Houston, but all I ask is
Speaker 3: you bring me half the lemons you grow and we'll
Speaker 3: call this even.
Speaker 5: All right, I've got I've got six and the ball
Speaker 5: that man, I'm saving those.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, Kerrien, there you go. You take care.
Speaker 3: Thank you for the call. A lot, folks. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to run here. I will be right back with
Speaker 3: your call seven one three two one two kt r
Speaker 3: H Lady's choice, everybody. Alrighty, there you go, a little
Speaker 3: asleep at the wheel. I'm I'm not asleep at the
Speaker 3: microphone though. We're here to answer your gardening questions. Just
Speaker 3: give me a call seven to one three two one
Speaker 3: two k t R eight seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two k t r H. Listen, this is the time
Speaker 3: to get your fruit trees planted. Prime time for planting
Speaker 3: fruit trees. I don't know what kind of fruit you're
Speaker 3: interested in growing, but I'll tell you this. You ought
Speaker 3: to grow something. Everybody has room for fruit trees. Now
Speaker 3: you're thinking, okay, no, I don't. I absolutely do not.
Speaker 3: What do you have shrubs? Do you have a garden bed?
Speaker 3: You do have room for fruit trees. You know, a
Speaker 3: peach tree is an attractive little blue spring blooming tree
Speaker 3: that gives you fruit on top of the old. Deal
Speaker 3: you an area that's a little shady because fruit trees
Speaker 3: love full sun. Well, how about a blueberry or how
Speaker 3: about a fig tree? They both do good in a
Speaker 3: partial shade. They can they can do okay in that.
Speaker 3: It's not they want to be in shape, but they
Speaker 3: can do well in that. I'll tell where you can
Speaker 3: get a lot of fruit trees too. I was talking
Speaker 3: to the folks out at Arborgate, Beverly Kennon out there,
Speaker 3: and I said, hey, I need you to send me
Speaker 3: a list of the fruit trees you carry They did
Speaker 3: pages and pages and pages and pages, all the standard stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, you want an apple, you want a pear,
Speaker 3: You want a blueberry, You want to peach, you want
Speaker 3: to plum, you want all that kind of How about this?
Speaker 3: How about a palm granite? They have those. How About
Speaker 3: a really quality type of grape that will grow here
Speaker 3: in our area. How about all kinds of cetera, I mean,
Speaker 3: all kinds of centris, lots and lots, blackberries, thornless blackberries.
Speaker 3: You want a quality thornless BlackBerry. They've got those there.
Speaker 3: Unusual things like tangi low and pamelo and guava that's unusual.
Speaker 3: And olive like the arbiquinya that's one of the most
Speaker 3: common adapted varieties of olive attire here, and they've got
Speaker 3: those at Arborgate. I was talking, you know about blueberries.
Speaker 3: They've got both the southernhigh bush type and the rabbit
Speaker 3: eye types of blueberries, both of which do very very
Speaker 3: well here. I mean, I could go on and on
Speaker 3: and on. Gojiberries, Native paw paws, Native mayha, oh, Native
Speaker 3: mayhow someone called me about a Mayhaw the other day,
Speaker 3: Native Mayhaw's They got gojiberries, as I said, jujubi's. Do
Speaker 3: you even know what a jiujubi is? Think of it
Speaker 3: as like a little miniature apple like fruit that grows
Speaker 3: and it is extremely, extremely tough plant all at Arburgate.
Speaker 3: While you're at Arborgate, make sure and check out their camellias.
Speaker 3: Beautiful camellias in bud and in bloom. They've got roses
Speaker 3: in bloom out there at Arburgate. If you need cool
Speaker 3: season color. It's still okay, still time to be putting
Speaker 3: out things like viola's and snap dragons and alyssa and
Speaker 3: all of that. We got plenty of mild weathers still
Speaker 3: to come here. They've got vegetables, they've got herbs. They've
Speaker 3: got you covered. That's the bottom line. Do you know
Speaker 3: you know that I talked about their one two three system,
Speaker 3: which is a soil for anything that has roots, a
Speaker 3: fertile eye the same organic fertilizer, and then a compost
Speaker 3: type material that is part of their one two three.
Speaker 3: They sell their soil and composts by bulk too, and
Speaker 3: they deliver it. It can be delivered. So give them
Speaker 3: a call at Arbrogate and say I need need to
Speaker 3: get a bulk amount, not just a few bags. I
Speaker 3: need a bulk amount of this. They'll get you fixed
Speaker 3: up there as well. Remember when you go to Arbrogate,
Speaker 3: take Trischel Road around the back, because that's where the
Speaker 3: really cool parking lot is. It's so easy access, so safe,
Speaker 3: so easy to get in and out. Arbrogate's a popular place,
Speaker 3: and they stay busy in that front parking lot stays busy.
Speaker 3: Just go around the back. That's what I do. Just
Speaker 3: drive around the back. It's really easy to get in,
Speaker 3: and I think you will. It'll become your favorite place
Speaker 3: to park. When you go by there. You listen to
Speaker 3: the garden line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. How
Speaker 3: can we help you with something that you have going on.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a problem with a plant, a disease insect.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're dealing with weeds, or you have been year
Speaker 3: after year and you're wanting to know how do I
Speaker 3: get ahead of that. Well, give me a call. Seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two KTRH seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H. Someone was asking me
Speaker 3: about nuts Edge earlier, and I was talking about the
Speaker 3: publications that are on my website. The website is gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com and anything here on garden line
Speaker 3: where I need to put you a publication up there
Speaker 3: where you can find. It's going to be on my website.
Speaker 3: That makes it easy. And when I get questions that
Speaker 3: take a minute to answer, you know, like nuts edge
Speaker 3: isn't just a two second answer, It's better if I
Speaker 3: explain some things to you and give you your options
Speaker 3: where you can choose and understand how to go about it. Right.
Speaker 3: I put that on the website, like freeze protection. That
Speaker 3: freeze protection publication I talked about for weeks now because
Speaker 3: we were having all the freezes coming up. It's there
Speaker 3: on the website and it's there all year long. And
Speaker 3: if you you got a friend in timbucktoo, I mean,
Speaker 3: if they live in the Allegheny Mountains of Wordsgany in
Speaker 3: New York, I just made something up there. Anyway, if
Speaker 3: they live anywhere in the country, that freese publication is
Speaker 3: still applicable to them because it talks about how freezes
Speaker 3: happened and how we protect plants. And that's true in
Speaker 3: Minnesota and that is true in many Yellow Texas as well.
Speaker 3: So if you want my schedules, a lawn care schedule
Speaker 3: and the pest disease and weed management schedule. Think of
Speaker 3: a chart. On the left side is January, on the
Speaker 3: right side of December, and going up and down the
Speaker 3: side or the specifics. How do you mow your lawn,
Speaker 3: how do you water your lawn, how do you fertilize
Speaker 3: your lawn, what do you use when do you do it?
Speaker 3: How do you control pasts, how do you control weeds?
Speaker 3: How do you control diseases? Both organic and synthetic options,
Speaker 3: they're on the chart. It makes it so easy. Just
Speaker 3: download it, print it out, keep it with you, take
Speaker 3: it shopping that way when you get into the store.
Speaker 3: You may I think I said something, but it's printed
Speaker 3: there on the chart. Just just point at that and
Speaker 3: send me one of those and they'll take care of that.
Speaker 3: We put all that together to make it easier for you.
Speaker 3: Someone called about soil testing while ago and on there
Speaker 3: on my publications is a soil testing made simple, fill
Speaker 3: one page sheet. It explains how to take a soil sample,
Speaker 3: how to submit a soil sample, and you can print
Speaker 3: it out as a PDF. Most of my things are
Speaker 3: available as PDF documents as well. If you don't just
Speaker 3: read them online and makes it easy. So I would
Speaker 3: recommend that you just booked that bookmark that gardeningwith skip
Speaker 3: dot com, and I'm going to be adding more to
Speaker 3: it and adding more to it. And if you're ever
Speaker 3: kind of wondering, well, what was that thing? He said,
Speaker 3: you can go and you can just look at that
Speaker 3: and it makes it real simple. I'm going to run
Speaker 3: here to Houston and talk to Andy. Andy, we got
Speaker 3: a little bit here. Let's see if we can get
Speaker 3: your question answered before we have to go to break. Yes,
Speaker 3: good morning.
Speaker 15: I'm trying to figure out how I can stream Plumeria
Speaker 15: plumary I grow. Uh it's so tall and uh up.
Speaker 15: A couple of days ago, I had to bring it
Speaker 15: inside and I didn't know can I trim it or
Speaker 15: which way can I manage it in order to to
Speaker 15: to get this plant? I mean handle these plant and
Speaker 15: also yeah, never ever bluem.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So plum arias they're they're a big, thick,
Speaker 3: fleshy stalk stem and with branches sometimes and uh so
Speaker 3: if you cut them off, they're gonna shoots are gonna
Speaker 3: come out. You're gonna get some buds push out on
Speaker 3: the sides. But you can also cut one off and
Speaker 3: root it. You can take a section of the end
Speaker 3: of a branch, and you can make more plumerias that
Speaker 3: way by rooting them, and that brings it down in
Speaker 3: stature as well. You're starting back with a shorter maybe
Speaker 3: a you know, a foot or a foot and a
Speaker 3: half tall little plant there, So that is also another option.
Speaker 3: As far as blooming, plumerias need good nutrition, especially things
Speaker 3: like phosphorus and potassium the second and third number on
Speaker 3: the bag, with a little bit of nitrogen. In order
Speaker 3: for them to bloom well, they need an adequate supply
Speaker 3: of moisture, not soggy wet, but they need lots of sun,
Speaker 3: lots and lots of sun. That's the most important, the sun,
Speaker 3: A little bit of nutrition and moderate moisture to have
Speaker 3: success with those. Okay, thank you much, all right, you bet,
Speaker 3: thank you. I appreciate that call. Kind of running short
Speaker 3: there on time, folks. When we come back, by the way,
Speaker 3: Kathleen and Tom will you'll be first up if you'd
Speaker 3: like to be second seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t R H own to remind you today this afternoon,
Speaker 3: right after lunch one pm, I'm going to be at
Speaker 3: the Brasses Home and Garden show at the Fort. Then
Speaker 3: epicenter off Southwest Freeway, and I'll talk for an hour
Speaker 3: about essential steps to create a thrive in spring garden.
Speaker 3: And then i'll do Q and A with you with
Speaker 3: your samples and your pictures till the cows come home.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Kati r h. Garden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as.
Speaker 3: All right, we're back for our last hour of garden
Speaker 3: Line this morning. Were I have to jump in a
Speaker 3: car and or get to jump in a car and
Speaker 3: down to the Brows's Home and Garden Show. I'll be
Speaker 3: there at one o'clock today. Let's jump right into the
Speaker 3: calls here and we're gonna go to Magnolia and talk
Speaker 3: to Carla. Hello, Carla, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: So the the question I had was I.
Speaker 16: Have planted you know, I've tried citrus trees, fig trees.
Speaker 16: The problem we have is the deer, so they never
Speaker 16: really get a chance to take off. And I don't
Speaker 16: know what I should do because we're kind of in
Speaker 16: a wooded area. If I should just like put that
Speaker 16: type you know, that fencing around it, Like what would
Speaker 16: you recommend?
Speaker 3: Well, that's a that is a simple little question with
Speaker 3: a very long answer, because there's a lot of things
Speaker 3: we do to try to discourage deer. I'll try to
Speaker 3: be brief with it. But first of all, deer are
Speaker 3: not equally fond of all plants. I wouldn't use the
Speaker 3: term deer proof, although there are some plants that are
Speaker 3: essentially deer proof. But what you'll find is a plant
Speaker 3: deer don't like in one area, they may eat in
Speaker 3: another area of the state. And so just kind of
Speaker 3: be a low cautious when someone says this is a
Speaker 3: deerproof plant, because it may or may not. But choosing
Speaker 3: plants they don't prefer is a good idea. That's one,
Speaker 3: and there are lists of those online that you can
Speaker 3: look at. Secondly, deer in a rural area are quite skittish,
Speaker 3: and so it's kind of easy to spook them and
Speaker 3: they run away. In urban areas, they're not I've been
Speaker 3: in or San Antonio and seen deer in the middle
Speaker 3: of the day driving down a neighborhood street. Deer three
Speaker 3: deer laying in the front yard watching me drive by.
Speaker 3: That's not a skittish deer. So those kind of deer
Speaker 3: are harder to spook because they're already used to human
Speaker 3: smells and whatnot. There are sprays that you can put
Speaker 3: out that usually are made of what's called putrescent egg solid,
Speaker 3: so think of rotten eggs. You mix up the spray
Speaker 3: you sprayed on plants into stincts, and deer prefer not
Speaker 3: to get around that. They don't like that. There are
Speaker 3: there are sound and light and water types of scared
Speaker 3: devices out there too. One called one brand is called
Speaker 3: the scarecrow sprinkler, and it's because it's painted to look
Speaker 3: sort of like a scarecrow, or like a little crow rather,
Speaker 3: and it has a motion sensor, so when deer come
Speaker 3: walking through the yard, it comes on like a machine
Speaker 3: gun and just strafes water across them for about eight seconds,
Speaker 3: and it spooks them and they run away. But deer
Speaker 3: get used to anything. They do get used to anything.
Speaker 3: Some people put out little human hair and I've used
Speaker 3: the flour in garden before that it spooked them away.
Speaker 3: They left, But then when it rains and washes in,
Speaker 3: it doesn't. But again, if they're used to people, the
Speaker 3: human hair smell even isn't quite enough. So the next
Speaker 3: step would be using a fence, and the fence needs
Speaker 3: to be at least six feet tall, probably more and
Speaker 3: more like seven to really keep them out. If your
Speaker 3: area is small, the fence doesn't need to be as
Speaker 3: large because deer need to have room to get a
Speaker 3: running start, to jump or to land. Uh. And so
Speaker 3: if you have like a ten by ten fenced area,
Speaker 3: they're not going to jump into the middle of that.
Speaker 3: That's an extreme example.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 3: But and then finally electrical electrical fencing that they it
Speaker 3: pops them and they it scares them away, and and
Speaker 3: that's a whole nother discussion, but those are those are
Speaker 3: kind of your options on deer. The only other thing
Speaker 3: is when you're putting out new plants, they haven't rooted
Speaker 3: in well, and so putting a little wire cage over them,
Speaker 3: maybe you get a chicken wire box over them or
Speaker 3: something like that until they get rooted in. Then if
Speaker 3: deer nip them, they're just pruning them back and that
Speaker 3: the plant can sprout back out, whereas when it's a
Speaker 3: new plant, they just literally pull on it and they're
Speaker 3: rips right out of the ground.
Speaker 16: And that's basically what's been taking place. Okay, I see, Okay,
Speaker 16: now that that's a great idea. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I would. I would get a spray from
Speaker 3: you know, a garden center, gets you a spray and
Speaker 3: see how that works for a lot of deer. That's
Speaker 3: gonna work pretty good, one of those deer scaring sprays.
Speaker 3: And they come in many brand names, but they work okay.
Speaker 3: But again depending on we say deer pressure, meaning if
Speaker 3: deer is starving to death, they live in a city already,
Speaker 3: that's heavy deer pressure, it's hard to spook them away.
Speaker 3: But as you go away from starving to death, and
Speaker 3: as you go away from familiarity with people, it's easier
Speaker 3: to spook them away. So those those are your options. Carla,
Speaker 3: got it? Okay, great, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to run. We got some some folks that lined
Speaker 3: up here. But thank you for the call. Good luck
Speaker 3: with that, Good luck with that. Yeah, but all right,
Speaker 3: bye bye. Let's see here. Where's next. We're gonna go
Speaker 3: to talk to Katie. Hello, Katie, how can we help?
Speaker 18: Hello?
Speaker 7: Thanks for having my call.
Speaker 1: Quick question.
Speaker 7: I have to one of them. One of them is
Speaker 7: I have a banana fig tree that has been in
Speaker 7: the ground for about four years and it's like a
Speaker 7: giant Bond's eye. It's really gnarly and pretty when it
Speaker 7: doesn't have a leaves on it. But and it does
Speaker 7: two harvests a year, probably somewhere upwards of seven hundred
Speaker 7: figs on each harvest. My question is it's a lot
Speaker 7: out of control. So I need to know when I
Speaker 7: should prune it and how severely I can prune it
Speaker 7: because it grows probably two to three feet in circumference
Speaker 7: every year, and so now I don't want to have
Speaker 7: to use a ladder to get to things.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, Okay, So I would prune it at the end
Speaker 3: of the cool season, because when you prune, you don't
Speaker 3: want it to try to re sprout. Let's say we
Speaker 3: have a few days of seventy five degrees next week
Speaker 3: or whatever, it may try to re sprout, and then
Speaker 3: figs are not that cold hearty with especially tender growth.
Speaker 3: So I would wait. I'd probably do my pruning. I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe early to mid February something like that.
Speaker 3: There's not the magic about that time. But that's just
Speaker 3: that's just an idea because I do get.
Speaker 7: But I do get, you know, leaf tips. You know,
Speaker 7: if it gets warm again, I'm going to have leaf
Speaker 7: tips in the next week or so.
Speaker 3: Yes, and you can't. You can't prevent that. So just
Speaker 3: cut it back as far as you want. And if
Speaker 3: you got some old big stumps in it, you can
Speaker 3: cut those off the ground if you want. But our
Speaker 3: trunks in it is what I should have said. But
Speaker 3: space the branches out. You know, if you're going to
Speaker 3: have a big tree like you've got, you may have
Speaker 3: seven or so trunks, five to seven trunks coming up
Speaker 3: from the ground in this huge clump space I'm out
Speaker 3: apart a little bit where they're not just one right
Speaker 3: beside the other, and open the tree up a little
Speaker 3: bit that way, and you can maintain some height on
Speaker 3: it height maintenance that way as well.
Speaker 7: Okay, And then my second question. I have two white
Speaker 7: flesh peach trees that are in probably twenty four inch diameter,
Speaker 7: you know, large terracotta pots that I want to put
Speaker 7: in the ground this year. Yes, one of them never
Speaker 7: even lost its leaves and they're both in bloom. So
Speaker 7: I was always told, you know, whether it was a
Speaker 7: wives tail or alm neck, you know, can't transplant when
Speaker 7: they're blooming. But it's like you know, they were blooming
Speaker 7: before you can free.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, no, you can you can. We'll just have
Speaker 3: to see if these blooms hold up or not. The
Speaker 3: advantage of them being in pots is if we do
Speaker 3: have another hard freeze, you can bring the blooms in
Speaker 3: and then bring them back out and I might wait
Speaker 3: to plant them until after the last frost if you're
Speaker 3: trying to save the crop that's on them. Hey, Katie,
Speaker 3: I have got to run. I'm against a hard break.
Speaker 3: But good luck with those, and thank you a lot.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that call. Emily, Charles, Kathleen. We'll get you
Speaker 3: first up when we come back. Hey, welcome back. Good
Speaker 3: with us. We are going to jump right back in
Speaker 3: the phones here on garden Line and head out to
Speaker 3: Emily and sugar Land. Hello Emily, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Yes, I have a quick question. I have a roast
Speaker 18: bush's tall skin eat. It only produces maybe three roses,
Speaker 18: but the top but broke off at the in where
Speaker 18: it's like hanging on by the skin. So I kind
Speaker 18: of like try to patch it together because the butt
Speaker 18: is still green. Is it better to print it and
Speaker 18: because I heard that if you pune it it will
Speaker 18: grow back more, or is it better to graft.
Speaker 7: It back on in someplace to the tree.
Speaker 18: Does that have how much green does that have to have?
Speaker 18: Or do you have a video that shows how to
Speaker 18: grab it someplace else?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't worry about the grafting at all. What
Speaker 3: I would do is print it out. Go down at
Speaker 3: least to the first set of five leaflet leaf on
Speaker 3: the plant, you know, right below a bud that usually
Speaker 3: you have a leaflets that are about three of them
Speaker 3: or so. And then you got a little further and
Speaker 3: you'll have leaves that have five leaflets, and at least
Speaker 3: go down to that. Here's the thing on roses. They
Speaker 3: bloom on the ends of shoots. So when you prune
Speaker 3: a plant, you take off one shoot and you're going
Speaker 3: to have maybe two or three shoots. They grow in
Speaker 3: its place, so now you can have two or three
Speaker 3: blooms instead of one. So each time you prune back,
Speaker 3: don't be afraid to cut it back pretty good and
Speaker 3: get fresh new growth coming out, and that will provide
Speaker 3: additional blooms for you. Don't try to grasp you.
Speaker 18: Come off, You leave it like you cut before the
Speaker 18: fought the set of five, or you cut after below it,
Speaker 18: above it or below.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is a This is a cut
Speaker 3: flower rose, not a bush rose, right, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: not made for a shrub. It's made for cut flower
Speaker 3: long stems, yes or no.
Speaker 18: On that, I don't know. It's a long skinny it's
Speaker 18: tall and skinny.
Speaker 4: It doesn't it's not a bush.
Speaker 7: It looks more like a little tree.
Speaker 18: Three long beams coming up right.
Speaker 3: So when I'm saying three to five leaflets, what I'm
Speaker 3: really trying to to say is, don't just cut the
Speaker 3: butt off. Go down a little bit until you start
Speaker 3: seeing these five leaflet leaves and cut down in there,
Speaker 3: because that will provide the extra vigor to send up
Speaker 3: a good, strong, new shoot for more blooms. But I
Speaker 3: would go ahead at some.
Speaker 18: Point I cut above them, are below this set.
Speaker 5: Of plus.
Speaker 3: Right above, right above, because where that leaf attaches, there's
Speaker 3: a bud that will form a shoot. Cut right above that,
Speaker 3: and you'll and a shoot will come out right at
Speaker 3: the bottom of that leaflet.
Speaker 18: Okay, perfect, okay, thank you so much, all right, goodbye,
Speaker 18: you bet you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Appreciate your call very much. You know, Microlife has a
Speaker 3: number of products that are good. Now we're gonna be
Speaker 3: talking about microlif fertilizer. For your lawn here later. Okay,
Speaker 3: that warming season is coming up and we're going to
Speaker 3: go all into lawn fertilizing. Anytime of the year, though,
Speaker 3: it is a good time to put out Microlife humts plus.
Speaker 3: Now there is four percent potassium in it, but the
Speaker 3: primary reason we're putting it out is hu mats plus
Speaker 3: is concentrated compost in a bag. So you take organic
Speaker 3: matter like leaves and grass clippings and whatever, and you
Speaker 3: decompose it, and we call that compost. You take compost
Speaker 3: and you let it decompose to its final state that's
Speaker 3: called humus. And when you reach the stage of humus,
Speaker 3: when we're creating humates with the hum humic acid and
Speaker 3: other things in it, that is really good stuff with
Speaker 3: the soil. It improves all texture, it improves microbial activity,
Speaker 3: It helps loosen up a clay soil as it works
Speaker 3: itself as you work it, or it works yourself down
Speaker 3: into the soil. Microlife humantes plus that is a bluish
Speaker 3: purple bag and you can do it anytime of the year.
Speaker 3: You could do it now. You can wait until you
Speaker 3: fertilize in the spring. Put your fertilizer out and then
Speaker 3: put humts plus out too, because we're talking about two
Speaker 3: different actions here and humans plus. For any kind of
Speaker 3: a soil, it's going to be beneficial, especially when you're
Speaker 3: dealing with kind of fixing up a pretty crummy clay
Speaker 3: or something like that. It's especially helpful in those kinds
Speaker 3: of situations. And that's from the folks at Microlife and
Speaker 3: you can go to micro Life Fertilizer dot com find
Speaker 3: out where to buy it. It's pretty much sold everywhere,
Speaker 3: and also about the other products that they carry. I'm
Speaker 3: going to head nowt to Tanglewood and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 17: Thank you Skip. I have used the letyer since nineteen
Speaker 17: eighty eight. I have used the schedule that goes provided
Speaker 17: by Randy and now by you for at least ten years. Okay,
Speaker 17: this is the first year I've had some brown patch.
Speaker 17: My neighbor had some and it apparently jumped the driveway
Speaker 17: have about a two foot area and about a six
Speaker 17: foot area. They're not water stands. So I put on
Speaker 17: Nelson's fertilizer that had the fund side in it about
Speaker 17: six or eight weeks ago when I first saw it,
Speaker 17: but it didn't stop it. What can I do now?
Speaker 17: Number one? Do I still need to stop it? Number two?
Speaker 17: What can I do now to guard against having it
Speaker 17: next year? And if I can't do anything now, when
Speaker 17: do I make sure I put something out next year?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, when we see the circles, what we're seeing
Speaker 3: is the visual progressed condition of brown patch. Where So
Speaker 3: when you see a circle and you spray it, and
Speaker 3: you go, well the circle got better, bigger, or another
Speaker 3: one appeared, it's because that disease was already working in
Speaker 3: the grass. You just didn't see the circle yet, And
Speaker 3: so that's why it looks like a product may not work.
Speaker 3: That's one reason why I would not be doing fertilizing
Speaker 3: on the lawn this early. But there are on my
Speaker 3: schedule that you referred to. If you look on there,
Speaker 3: it's got mid January through February. Are actually into March
Speaker 3: is a time when we can have brown patch, and
Speaker 3: when we do preventive applications of the products that are
Speaker 3: there on the schedule to control it. Now you kind
Speaker 3: of have an option. The brown patch seems to be
Speaker 3: worse and better prevented when we do it in the spring,
Speaker 3: I mean in the fall, in the spring, we will
Speaker 3: get we can get more circles. I usually ignore mine.
Speaker 3: I've got some in my yard right now, and I'm
Speaker 3: kind of ignoring them because once that grass gets growing,
Speaker 3: it's going to green backy. It's going to be okay,
Speaker 3: because brown patch that I can kill your grass, It
Speaker 3: just rots the leaves off. But if you want to
Speaker 3: prevent additional circles, now would be a good time to
Speaker 3: get a product out there that will help prevent it. Now,
Speaker 3: and especially in February. It's temperature moisture related, and so
Speaker 3: if we have mild temperatures, you can get brown patch
Speaker 3: circles in the middle of winter. You know, if the
Speaker 3: temperatures are right. Typically it's a fall in the spring problem,
Speaker 3: early spring problem. But if you want to prevent it,
Speaker 3: get the right products out there now. If not, you know,
Speaker 3: like I'm doing, And that's just say, Okay, the circles
Speaker 3: are there, that's okay. It's going to be all green
Speaker 3: pretty soon, and I'm not gonna worry about it, Okay.
Speaker 17: You see, is there a liquid form or something that
Speaker 17: works better than the granular because what I put out
Speaker 17: was grain. You're looking for.
Speaker 3: Either either way is find most of the products that
Speaker 3: we have are going to be granular. Something like nitrophos
Speaker 3: has a total brown patch control, for example, and you
Speaker 3: know you can There are some products that are liquid
Speaker 3: that can be sprayed in a hose en sprayer that
Speaker 3: contain ingredients like propoconazole and azoxystrobin. Those are on my schedule,
Speaker 3: but I generally recommend those for take all root rod
Speaker 3: and don't worry about them for brown patch. But you
Speaker 3: can go either way. Just know that it is basically
Speaker 3: occurring on the runners and at the base of the
Speaker 3: grass blades. That's where it's causing its damage. So you
Speaker 3: get either way you go about it. You just want
Speaker 3: to protect that area, all right.
Speaker 17: My neighbor has a one of the high end, big
Speaker 17: name landscape folks who did spray her little spot, and
Speaker 17: so they used the liquid and I was curious to
Speaker 17: appear to attack it immediately, and I was curious if
Speaker 17: there's something out there and I could do to make
Speaker 17: sure that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well a liquid is going to get down there,
Speaker 3: You're gonna spray, and it's going to get right down
Speaker 3: there on the grass blades and on the on the
Speaker 3: runners and stuff, so I could I could see that too.
Speaker 3: In general, you know we're talking about ingredients. Uh, and
Speaker 3: so however you get the ingredient out there, Uh, the
Speaker 3: ingredient's going to do what that ingredient can do. In
Speaker 3: other words, does it control it well or not? Is
Speaker 3: the question? All right, sir?
Speaker 17: You have the ingredients are on the website.
Speaker 3: You said, yes, they are on my on my lawn
Speaker 3: pest disease and we'd management schedule. But you have to
Speaker 3: look undertake our root rot to see to see those
Speaker 3: ingredients that I mentioned by name. Uh, that will also
Speaker 3: help them. Bron pat sum. All right, sir, Thank you
Speaker 3: appreciate your call. You take care. Let's see here. Oh,
Speaker 3: I wanted to mention for those of you up in
Speaker 3: the Tamboul area. D and D Feed is an outstanding
Speaker 3: place to get all kinds of products like this. You know,
Speaker 3: we're talking about stuff on my schedule and they D
Speaker 3: and D carries nitrofoss products, they carry microlife products, They
Speaker 3: carry Nelson Turf Star line, They have other Nilsen plant foods.
Speaker 3: One of the canisters, for example, they have products from
Speaker 3: Medina airloom soil products. There. At D and D Feed
Speaker 3: they carry everything you need along with quality feeds like
Speaker 3: especially high quality pet food for your pets, very good.
Speaker 3: And then if you need to control weeds, diseases, insects,
Speaker 3: it's all there at D and D Feed. They're three
Speaker 3: miles west of two forty nine, just west on twenty
Speaker 3: nine to twenty outside of Tumball, so you're in the
Speaker 3: middle of Tomball. Head out twenty nine to twenty to
Speaker 3: the west three miles and they'll be on the left
Speaker 3: hand side. Dover Family's been doing this since nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3: They continue to expand it and improve on it, and
Speaker 3: every time I go by there, it's just like it's
Speaker 3: a better place. It really is. It is good to
Speaker 3: begin with. Don't forget if those of you are into
Speaker 3: backyard chickens, they're going to be getting backyard chicken orders
Speaker 3: in pretty soon. I think we can get into February.
Speaker 3: We'll start talking about that as well. But go by,
Speaker 3: say hey to Jeff and the team there at D
Speaker 3: and Defeat. While you're there, pick up the products you
Speaker 3: need to have success with your lawn and your landscapes.
Speaker 3: Let's see here. I'm gonna go Chris in Jersey Village.
Speaker 3: I'm picking up this phone call right before I have
Speaker 3: to go to break but let's see if we can
Speaker 3: get a start on it, and we'll finish you when
Speaker 3: we come back.
Speaker 11: Okay, thanks for taking my call, you bet Okay, real quick.
Speaker 11: The microlight you said, we can get that most anyway. See,
Speaker 11: I wanted to fertilize the backyard, but my dogs are
Speaker 11: back there, and everybody I've talked to you know you
Speaker 11: don't want to do that with dogs.
Speaker 3: So I was thinking, no, perfect, I'm sorry. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: dogs may eat it. The dogs may eat it. They
Speaker 3: like it. My dogs love to eat micro life. I'm serious,
Speaker 3: they do. All right, man, let me let me do this,
Speaker 3: but let me let me go to break. I'm I'm
Speaker 3: having to stop right here. I will come back and
Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna talk about this and and go
Speaker 3: into detail for you. We'll be right back. Okay, sure,
Speaker 3: all right, let's see what's wrong here we go. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: We're going to go back out to the phone call
Speaker 3: we started before a break with Chris out in Jersey Village.
Speaker 3: So Chris, we were talking about uh uh, you had
Speaker 3: some questions about the yard and let's let's continue.
Speaker 7: On with that.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 11: Uh, what I need to know is what kind of
Speaker 11: product can I put in my backyard that you know,
Speaker 11: a won't affect the dogs and be you know, will
Speaker 11: help the grass grow because I mean it does come in,
Speaker 11: but I mean a lot of weeds and stuff like that,
Speaker 11: and I know I can't use a weed or anything
Speaker 11: because of the dogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's right, I get it. Uh, Well, you've
Speaker 3: got you've got a number of different options out there.
Speaker 3: There are products from Medina that are good fertilizers that
Speaker 3: for fertilizing you're on. You got a products from Microlife
Speaker 3: that are good fertilizers for fertilizing you on when it
Speaker 3: comes to micro everywhere, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, it's easy
Speaker 3: to talk about microlide that that really interested me. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well that you know, there's an Ace Hardware store. The
Speaker 3: closest one to you is on on Jones Road. I
Speaker 3: used to go out one when I lived up in
Speaker 3: your area. Uh and Jones Roid. Ace is gonna have
Speaker 3: Microlife and they're gonna, yeah, they're gonna have some other
Speaker 3: stuff and they're just down the road from you a
Speaker 3: little bit. There. Probably the closest one to you. You
Speaker 3: know what, also over pretty close to you, Hamilton Hardware
Speaker 3: over on Highway sixth North is about equidistant from you
Speaker 3: there in Jersey Villas. But you mean you go into
Speaker 3: an ACE hardware store and you're gonna find these products.
Speaker 11: Okay, Now I've got a preferred customer thing. I use
Speaker 11: that ACE quite a bit. I'm going to go because
Speaker 11: I want to talk to you anyway. I just wanted
Speaker 11: to say thank you for your program. You actually have
Speaker 11: something on the air that I want to listen to instead.
Speaker 3: Of all the fruit for all that's going around.
Speaker 11: So thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I'll take that. I'll take that as I praise Chris.
Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate I for you being a listener. Thanks
Speaker 3: for the call to you. Take care of guy. Good
Speaker 3: luck with that. All right? There you have it, folks,
Speaker 3: No fruit for all on this show, or at least
Speaker 3: I try not to. Actually we do. We do frough
Speaker 3: a little bit. Ever now we try to avoid it. Okay, Hey, listen,
Speaker 3: whenever you are looking to have success with attracting birds
Speaker 3: to your landscape, there's one place to go, and that's
Speaker 3: Wildbirds Unlimited. And I'm telling you I love going in there,
Speaker 3: and I've been to a whole bunch of you know,
Speaker 3: we have six of them in the Houston area, there's
Speaker 3: if you want to find the one near you, you
Speaker 3: can just go to WBU that stands for Wildbirds Unlimited
Speaker 3: WBU dot com forward slash Houston and I'll show you
Speaker 3: where the stores are, and there's one nor Southeast. But
Speaker 3: you're going to find them easy, easy to find. But
Speaker 3: when you go in there, you're going to find the
Speaker 3: quality products that will attract birds to your landscape in
Speaker 3: the best way. And there's a lot of cheap bird
Speaker 3: seed on the market, a ton of it. Most of
Speaker 3: it is about fifty percent of those little red bebes
Speaker 3: that birds don't really particularly care for. To be honest,
Speaker 3: most birds that you're wanting to bring in don't. But
Speaker 3: with a Wildbirds product, you're getting you buy a pound
Speaker 3: of wild bird seed and you're getting a pound of stuff.
Speaker 3: It goes into a bird's belly, especially if it's the
Speaker 3: already whole seed, and they have whole seed mixes. So
Speaker 3: if you buy sunflower, you're getting the kernels, not the husks. Now,
Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with the huss they just break them open,
Speaker 3: get the kernels out, and then you got a husk
Speaker 3: on the ground. I'm fine with that, but if you
Speaker 3: want like one percent of the bag going into the
Speaker 3: bird belly that go to Wallbirds. They're no mess blends.
Speaker 3: It's called no mess. They have n M on the
Speaker 3: bags and you'll find all kinds. The newest thing at
Speaker 3: Wallbirds is called cardinal confetti. Cardinal confetti. Cardinal is in
Speaker 3: the red birds. Yeah, the cardinals. It's got safflower. It's
Speaker 3: got black ole sunflower, it's got sunflower chips. It's got
Speaker 3: nutrius safflower called nutris saff It's got bark, butter bits,
Speaker 3: peanut halves, dried mealworms, stripes, sunflower seeds. Doesn't that sound
Speaker 3: yummy except the dried mealworm part. Dried mealworms are yummy
Speaker 3: to the birds. I'll tell you that. You can put
Speaker 3: it in a loose tray feeder. You can put it
Speaker 3: on a hopper. I use stuff like that bird eliminator,
Speaker 3: excuse me, squirrel eliminator, not bird eliminator. When squirrels come
Speaker 3: up and try to get my feed, that eliminator just
Speaker 3: shuts the door and they can't get in. And you
Speaker 3: will not believe the kind of language a squirrel will
Speaker 3: use in your backyard where the children can hear it.
Speaker 3: When you can't get into my bird feeder. That makes
Speaker 3: me happy to break their hearts. But anyway, Wildbirds has
Speaker 3: got the eliminator. It's got all kinds of feeders. If
Speaker 3: you are looking for a wintertime feed, we're still in
Speaker 3: the season where I would recommend Winter super Blend. Winter
Speaker 3: super Blend is loaded with proteins and fats, very helpful
Speaker 3: to birds. Less day hours to be out there gathering feed,
Speaker 3: colder temperatures, just they need a little extra boost. And
Speaker 3: that's why Wildbird's made Winter super Blend. I want take
Speaker 3: out one other thing, and that's bark butter. I mentioned
Speaker 3: that wall ago and that cardinal confetti blend. Bark butter
Speaker 3: itself is a spreadable suet that you smear on the
Speaker 3: bark of a tree. That's why they call it bark butter,
Speaker 3: and the birds go up to imagine peanut but sort
Speaker 3: of and you just smeared it on the tree and
Speaker 3: birds were coming out and pecking in it. Well, this
Speaker 3: bark butter has got all kinds of things mixed into it,
Speaker 3: and they have documented over one hundred and fifty different
Speaker 3: species of birds that bark butter attracts. It's called Gem's
Speaker 3: birdacious bark butter. It's made by the founder of All
Speaker 3: Birds guy named Jen Carpenter. They also had the bark
Speaker 3: butter and bits. It's little bite sized nuggets that you
Speaker 3: can put in a feeder. You can mix it in
Speaker 3: with the seed that you're already putting in there. They've
Speaker 3: got bugs and bits. Here we go mealworms. It's got
Speaker 3: the bark, butter and dried millworms in it. Now, if
Speaker 3: there are any birds listening right now, birds don't have
Speaker 3: saliva to my knowledge, but they're slobber coming out of
Speaker 3: the corners of their mouth listening to this, because this
Speaker 3: is like, that's like talking to me about enchiladas. I mean,
Speaker 3: I cannot start drooling when you start talking about enchilada.
Speaker 3: This chiladas for birds anyway. Bark butter products super high
Speaker 3: and calcium that helps support the egg development. By the way,
Speaker 3: your birds are going to besting soon. They're out there,
Speaker 3: they're getting those those finding their nests, getting them set up.
Speaker 3: If you, by the way, if you want to do
Speaker 3: a one of those Purple Martin houses, time to get
Speaker 3: those set up. Because we get into February, we're gonna
Speaker 3: have scouts coming around looking for a place to stay.
Speaker 3: You want your house up when the scouts are looking
Speaker 3: before they settle in on some other place. So stop
Speaker 3: by wild birds, ask them, ask them to show you
Speaker 3: the options they have for the purple Martin boxes. All right,
Speaker 3: I've been talking about wilberds because I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3: I love love feeding birds in the back. I love
Speaker 3: the sounds go out in the morning and enjoyed listening
Speaker 3: to the birds singing. It's kind of cool you are
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Speaker 3: We're coming back for the last segment of the day.
Speaker 3: I can take a call or two then, So if
Speaker 3: you like, I got a question, can't wait till tomorrow,
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Speaker 3: If you have got one that's burning, maybe a burning
Speaker 3: question or something like that, we can do that. Remember
Speaker 3: when I finished today, I'm gonna grab me some lunch
Speaker 3: and head down to the Brazas home and garden Show
Speaker 3: at the Fort Bend Epicenter just off Southwest Freeway down
Speaker 3: there in Rosenberg, Texas. I'll be there from one to three.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start off with one hour talking about the
Speaker 3: essential steps to create a thriving garden in the spring,
Speaker 3: a thriving lawn in the spring. We'll go through that
Speaker 3: and we'll answer your gardening questions for another hour. For sure,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have some giveaways that I'm giving away. I
Speaker 3: have some copies of Texas Gardener magazine. If you have
Speaker 3: not subscribed to Texas Gardener, you need to. You need to,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna have some samples there. I'll give you one.
Speaker 3: Come take a look at least for the first However,
Speaker 3: many people that I have samples for I don't I'm bringing.
Speaker 3: But anyway, i'll have those for you, answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 3: I'll bring some of my books. If you like one signed,
Speaker 3: I can provide that for you down there too, But
Speaker 3: mainly bring me pictures on your phone of problems of questions.
Speaker 3: What's this plant? What's this weed? How do I control it?
Speaker 3: Bring me samples. Throw some weeds in a bag, you
Speaker 3: zip it up and bring it on in. We'll take
Speaker 3: a look at them and we'll just have a little
Speaker 3: plant clinic. I don't have a lab coat. I wish
Speaker 3: I need a white lab coat and I could say
Speaker 3: the plant doctor is in or something like that, even
Speaker 3: though I don't have my doctorate, by the way, but
Speaker 3: I'll be happy to answer your gardening questions. At the
Speaker 3: Fort Bend Epicenter, the Brises Home and Garden Shoe by
Speaker 3: the way, the folks at Enchanted Forest will be there.
Speaker 3: They have a great display. You can visit with them.
Speaker 3: You can see examples of some of the plants that
Speaker 3: they had, some really cool plants they're going to bring in.
Speaker 3: And there's going to be a lot of other seminars too,
Speaker 3: I know just looking at the schedule. By the way,
Speaker 3: that Home and Garden show is going from yesterday to tomorrow,
Speaker 3: Friday to Sunday. Remember I'll be there today three, but
Speaker 3: they have a lot of other seminars. Andy chad Ester
Speaker 3: from the folks at Medina will be there. She has
Speaker 3: been there already talking. She's gonna give some more talks there.
Speaker 3: And Danny from Intended Forest is going to be there
Speaker 3: as well, so you need to come by and meet him.
Speaker 3: Danny's is new to intended Forest, not new to the area.
Speaker 3: He's been doing gardening in all kinds of ways here
Speaker 3: the green industry in the Houston area, from botanical gardens
Speaker 3: to media to you name it. Danny's a real cool
Speaker 3: fellow to meet and he'll be down there giving some
Speaker 3: talks as well. So come on down, let's meet you
Speaker 3: and let's have some fun. Bring me some samples. This
Speaker 3: is my first appearance this year, and I can't wait.
Speaker 3: I've been cooped up all winter not being able to
Speaker 3: go out and rub shoulders a gardener. So here we go.
Speaker 3: Come on out and see me. We had some calls
Speaker 3: today from sugar Land at different places. Come on down,
Speaker 3: let's do that. Let's get some products in your hands,
Speaker 3: some samples to try out. The We've talked a lot today,
Speaker 3: off and on with different things about soil regarding plants.
Speaker 3: You know, the clay soils that we have, and they
Speaker 3: don't drain well, and almost all plants need good drainage.
Speaker 3: There's some that can live in a swamp, but most
Speaker 3: plants would prefer to have good drainage, good oxygen in
Speaker 3: the root system. Well, when it comes to your home,
Speaker 3: the problem with our soils. Is that these clay shrinks
Speaker 3: and swells. It gets bigger and it gets smaller. It
Speaker 3: literally does. That's way of cracks in the summer, Big
Speaker 3: giant cracks in the yard. That's clay that has shrunk up. Well,
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Speaker 3: talking about, and he's an honest, fair fellow. We're gonna
Speaker 3: go now out to Oh my gosh, we're going all
Speaker 3: the ways San Antonio, Texas to talk to Doug. Hey, Doug,
Speaker 3: welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 4: Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I'm sure a
Speaker 4: lot of people call it in this morning after the
Speaker 4: freeze and see what they're going to do about their plants.
Speaker 4: I have a speranza now, it's in the pot. I
Speaker 4: was able to bring it in, but the leaves are
Speaker 4: getting a little crispy on it, and uh, I want
Speaker 4: to know, do I need to cut it back or
Speaker 4: what for spring or or what do we got to
Speaker 4: do there?
Speaker 3: Good question, A good question. Are you going to keep
Speaker 3: it in a pot? Or are you going to plant
Speaker 3: it in the garden?
Speaker 1: Now, we're going to keep it in the pot.
Speaker 7: It's it's a wide pot.
Speaker 4: It's it's probably about two feet.
Speaker 3: Wide and about about about a foot up. So okay, okay, Well,
Speaker 3: uh so you could do a couple of things.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: I would wait until it starts to grow, and you'll
Speaker 3: see what's dead and what's sprouting, and then cut it
Speaker 3: back to what's sprouting. Uh that's off the ugly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just want ever new gro it maybe a little
Speaker 3: later in that before you've see new growth. But uh yeah,
Speaker 3: just that'd be the easiest. If you want to get
Speaker 3: in a hurry about it, you can take your thumbnail
Speaker 3: little piget knife, scratch the bark back. It should be
Speaker 3: cream colored or maybe a sharpsose light green color in
Speaker 3: there if it's alive, and if it's dead, it'll be
Speaker 3: the color of a paper sack or even brown black
Speaker 3: gray streak sometimes, but gotcha, it takes a while after
Speaker 3: a freeze for it to fully show that damage color.
Speaker 3: But you could then follow keep scratching your way back
Speaker 3: toward the ground and when you hit green, then printed
Speaker 3: above that. But I would.
Speaker 4: I'll probably wait on it. I have a two prider
Speaker 4: Barbados in the ground, and I'm molt volcano, as I say,
Speaker 4: And they're a little chrispy cue. They're gonna first year once,
Speaker 4: so they're not so established it. They're gonna be all right, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, leave them for now, leaving leave the mounds you
Speaker 3: got on them. It's okay. As soon as we start
Speaker 3: to warm up. Pride of Barbados is slow to wake
Speaker 3: up in the spring. It's like a teenager on a
Speaker 3: Saturday morning. If you see them for lunch, that's what
Speaker 3: you're doing. Good. So Pride to Arbodos. It's going to
Speaker 3: be about probably April, April or May before it tells
Speaker 3: you it's coming back. Don't give up on it. But
Speaker 3: once we warm up a little bit and we're not
Speaker 3: worried about freezes, pull all that multi volcano you put
Speaker 3: around them away to get for you know, get oxygen
Speaker 3: down in there and they'll be back. They'll be fine
Speaker 3: with what you did.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, sir, thank you for the yes.
Speaker 3: Sir, all right, sounds good. Thanks for the call, take care, Thanks,
Speaker 3: appreciate your calling. Yeah, you can listen to garden Line anywhere.
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Speaker 3: however you want to go about it. You can listen
Speaker 3: to past shows that way too, So I thank you
Speaker 3: for listening in live. We will be back tomorrow morning
Speaker 3: and I'll be back taking your questions your calls. In
Speaker 3: the meantime, come on down to the Brazzes Home and
Speaker 3: Garden Show in Rosenberg at the Fort Bend at the Center.
Speaker 3: I'll be there at one o'clock and I'm going to
Speaker 3: be bringing samples of Texas Gardener Magazine. I'll have my
Speaker 3: books on hand. I'll be bringing giveaways trying Nelson plant
Speaker 3: food as a matter of fact for you to receive,
Speaker 3: and then answering your gardening question. How could I do
Speaker 3: a talk? Be there for two hours. Come on let's
Speaker 3: meet