WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:04.879 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Richt. 2 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:21.280 It's just watch him as many. 3 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:31.079 Good things to sets, not a sign. 4 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:37.359 The sun beam and. 5 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:44.200 Hey, good morning, good Saturday morning. Good to have you 6 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.719 with us this morning on garden Line. I'm your host, 7 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:50.600 Skip Richter, and we will be talking about all the 8 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:53.039 things you need to know when it comes to having 9 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.679 a successful garden and a beautiful landscape and just enjoying 10 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.880 yourself in the process. That that's one of my goals 11 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:02.960 is really when we do garden Line here is to 12 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:08.519 have you find gardening to be an enjoyable, fulfilling process. 13 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:10.519 Whether all you want to do is make the place 14 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:13.239 pretty so many people drive by, or when you drive 15 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:15.799 up you like the way it looks, or maybe you 16 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.000 want to go in also in a direction of I 17 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.120 would like some production from the garden. I want to 18 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:23.879 see I want flowers to bring inside. I want herbs 19 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.319 to bring inside for the culinary things going on in 20 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:30.719 the kitchen, as well as maybe some vegetables. We can 21 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.200 do that too. If you just want a beautiful, perfect lawn, 22 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.920 well let's talk about how to get there. From here. 23 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.840 You can give me a call at seven one three 24 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:41.359 two one two k t r H seven to one 25 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.599 three two one two kt RH and we can help 26 00:01:45.799 --> 00:01:48.480 you have that kind of success. That's what we're all 27 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:50.799 about doing here. I'm going to tell you something right 28 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:53.840 off the bat, and I'll mention this number of times today. 29 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:59.400 But today after the show at one pm, one pm, 30 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:03.000 right after lunch, I will be at the Home and 31 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:06.480 Garden Show down at the Fort Bend Epicenter. The Fort 32 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:10.759 Bend Epicenter. Now this is the call it bras this 33 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:13.479 Home and Garden Show. It is on Southwest Freeway, so 34 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.639 I mean it's just right there. When you drive down 35 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.599 Southwest Freeway. You to see it right there. If you're 36 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:19.840 heading down south the direction from Houston's come me on 37 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:24.039 the left hand side. But anyway, I'll be there from 38 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.520 one to three and what I'm going to do is 39 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:29.400 I'm going to go through some of the essential steps 40 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.479 to create a thriving spring garden and a thriving spring lawn. 41 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.879 And then I'll have time to answer your gardening questions 42 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:40.520 and answer or gardening questions and assists you if you 43 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:42.520 got any problems you want to diagnose. Maybe you got 44 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:44.280 some samples you want to bring in, put them in 45 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:48.360 a bag a plastic bag and make sure and capture 46 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.199 whatever it is you want me to see. Maybe it's 47 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:52.560 some leaves that aren't looking right, or a bug or 48 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:56.000 a disease looking thing or and or take a photo 49 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.240 on your phone and bring it in with you and 50 00:02:58.319 --> 00:02:59.879 we'll get to the bottom of it. We'll have a 51 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:02.879 the doctor is in clinic. I'm not a doctor, but 52 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:05.919 we will have one of those. Come on, we'll do 53 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:08.680 a plant clinic right there for you as well as 54 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.520 me giving some tips to help you have success. And 55 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.840 I'll be there for two hours, So come on out 56 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:19.719 Fort Bend Epicenter, Southwest Freeway, the Brawses Home and Garden Show. 57 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:25.280 I will also be bringing some things to give away 58 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.840 as a result, so you may win some things as 59 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.520 you come in. I'm bring a whole bunch of different 60 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:33.879 things in the giveaway to folks that come to the seminars. 61 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.199 So look forward to seeing you. Hope you can make 62 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:40.400 that today here on Garden Line. We love our feed 63 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.520 stores and League City feed is you know one of 64 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:48.240 those kinds of places where if you have memories of 65 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:51.719 old time feed stores, you know, going in just the wonderful, 66 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.159 just the aroma of a feed store I don't know, 67 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:59.039 it's just a nice earthy smell. I love it, absolutely 68 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.240 love it. That City feeds like that. You It's been 69 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:04.800 around for forty years plus, actually over forty years now, 70 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.000 and it's down in League City. Of course, it's just 71 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.680 a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three. 72 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:13.919 So if you're on ninety six and you go south 73 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:15.719 on three, just a few blocks it'll be there on 74 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.439 the left. So it serves that whole region really, Elkaminar Reale, 75 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:23.399 League City, Webster Baylift, Lamark, all those communities around there. 76 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:25.800 This is your hometown feed store. And when you go in, 77 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:27.920 you're going to find products you hear me talk about 78 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:32.079 like nitrofoss products, like product like the product asamite a, 79 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:37.240 products from Microlife, heirloom soils, Nelson plant food and more 80 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:41.160 all there at League City feed They also got really 81 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:44.079 high quality pet foods as well. And it's kind of 82 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:45.000 a one stop shop. 83 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:45.199 You know. 84 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:47.800 They're open Monday through Saturday from nine to six, closed 85 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:51.040 on Sunday, but even during the week after working, swing 86 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:53.639 by there on the way home and get what you need. 87 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:55.879 And if you happen to have back here chickens. I 88 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:59.240 got good supplies for those as well. League City Feed 89 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.720 a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway 90 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:10.439 three in League City. I was out working on some 91 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.480 things out in the yard this week, and one of 92 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:18.319 the things that I noticed is the cold that we 93 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:21.839 had had kind of fried back some of the tips 94 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:26.439 of my long grasses, Saint Augustine primarily, but also I've 95 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:29.480 got some Saint Augustine some Soysa both in my lawn. 96 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.079 I love both of those grasses, really, I permute it 97 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.240 is good too. Evergrass has its place. But anyway, I'm 98 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.920 just kind of noticing that the freeze that had burned 99 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.279 that back. A lot of my plants that kind of 100 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:42.839 got nipped good in the first freeze were taken to 101 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:46.920 the ground in this freeze. And that's okay. But here's 102 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:50.920 what I'm doing. I'm leaving the dead top growth. And 103 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:55.079 the phrase I use for that is learn to like ugly, 104 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.879 or learn to love ugly, or learn to live with ugly, 105 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:01.800 however you want to put it. What that means is okay. 106 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:03.720 Let me use this as an example. In the front 107 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.319 of the house, I've got some Mexican heather, which is 108 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:10.399 a little short kind of spreading mounting plant, and I 109 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.040 have some lantana and both of them are just fried 110 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.079 on the top, but all the dead leaves, the dead 111 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.399 tops on those are acting as sort of an insulation 112 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.120 for the base. When heat rises up from the soil, 113 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:27.439 it could either radiate directly up in the atmosphere or 114 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:31.480 if it hits some foliage something to block that radiant, 115 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:34.959 it bounces back down. And you can see this on 116 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.800 a frosty night. Next time we have frost and you've 117 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.439 got frost all over your yard, you know that white, 118 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.160 frozen frosty covering look underneath like a live oak tree, 119 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.680 and there won't be frost. And it's because the heat 120 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:51.639 rising directly up from there is being reflected back down 121 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:54.360 onto the grass blades. So as they lose their heat 122 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:58.079 and frost would have developed, it doesn't. And that's just 123 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:01.279 an example of what the principal I'm talking about about 124 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:04.720 about something above the plant like that reflecting it back 125 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:07.120 down having a difference. Now, that's not going to make 126 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:09.120 the difference. You know, if we have a hard freeze. 127 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:12.120 I'm not talking about that. I'm not frost, but it 128 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.639 does make a little bit of a difference in a freeze. 129 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:16.879 So if you can learn to live with ugly for 130 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:19.920 a while. Once we get past the freezes, then we'll 131 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.240 clean all that out and things will look all pretty 132 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.120 and everything again. But we need to be able to 133 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:30.839 leave it as long as possible. Now, sometimes plants turn 134 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:32.720 to mush. You know, if you had more of us 135 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.199 a plant that has more moisture in it, like a 136 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.439 cana for example, Well it's gonna be a pot of mush. 137 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:41.240 And you can clean that out and get rid of it. 138 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.759 But if you do, throw some mulch over the top 139 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.560 of it, because you still want that blanket of protection. 140 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.040 I don't think we're done with freezes, and if we're not, 141 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.680 we don't want to pull the plug too quick and 142 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:54.399 open things up. Hey, I'm going to go to a 143 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:56.879 break right now and we'll be right back if you'd 144 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:58.600 like to give me a call. Seven one three two 145 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:02.560 one two KTR eight and welcome back to the Garden Line. Wow, 146 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:07.040 that wrong, Glad to have you with us. I'm going 147 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:10.839 to run straight out to the phones. This we back 148 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:13.800 off again and we're going to head to Cleveland and 149 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:17.879 talk to Cynthia. Hello, Cynthia, good morning, Welcome to Garden Line. 150 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:21.319 Good mornings. Get how you doing this morning? 151 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.240 I'm well, thanks. 152 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:27.240 I have some questions. 153 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:32.279 Number One, I'm gonna get ready to start a spring garden, 154 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.320 but first I need to ask you about my tropicals. 155 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.639 I've got a bunch of tropical trees. 156 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:42.840 That I planted last spring, and I did my best 157 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:46.000 to keep them covered and and try to keep them 158 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:47.559 out of all the cold that we have. 159 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:50.840 But I looked at a lot of them yesterday and 160 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:51.279 a lot. 161 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.759 Of them don't look real good, and I'm not sure 162 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:59.279 what I can do to try to revive them. Okay, 163 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.799 they've been watered real good, and I know we've got 164 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:06.320 rain coming and that'll probably help them, but I don't 165 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:08.600 know if there's something else that I can do to 166 00:09:08.759 --> 00:09:13.960 them that they will make it through everything they've been through. 167 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:17.000 That's my first question. 168 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:22.000 Well tropic, Yeah, tropicals, you know, they they aren't made 169 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:26.440 for just living through cold weather. That that's wather. They're 170 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.759 called tropicals, right we when we use that term tropical, though, 171 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.240 we throw a lot of things in that are actually perennial, 172 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.159 you know. So some people refer to like a canna 173 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.159 as a tropical type plant because the least little bit 174 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:39.960 of frost or freeze it's gonna take it down. 175 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:45.879 But well, these are for us. Well, these are all 176 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.000 like fruit trees, like lemon trees. 177 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:56.000 I've got pomegranates, I've got limes, grapefruit, and then I've 178 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.279 got clementines. And I know that they don't do you 179 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.759 well when it gets to cold. And I tried to 180 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:05.919 protect them, but other than going out there and putting 181 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.039 a heater on each and every one, there's just no way. 182 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:09.320 There's too many of them. 183 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:14.159 Right right, Well, the citrus is cold tender, but it 184 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:17.039 varies from one type of citrus to another. On those, 185 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.000 you need to protect them as best you can. And 186 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.320 there's there's like two levels of protection. The first thing 187 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:27.360 would just beat the mound soil or fine compost up 188 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.080 against the trunk and a big and a big cone. 189 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:32.759 It's about the only time you'll ever hear me talk 190 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:38.120 about doing that. We call those multi volcanoes. It's actually 191 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:42.279 a soil or a compost volcano. And that protects the graph. 192 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:45.159 So if all is lost, at least you'll have re sprouting. 193 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.720 You want to replace the tree, it'll the variety that's 194 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:50.080 grapped will come back. 195 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:50.480 Yeah. 196 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.240 I did that to each and every one of them, 197 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:57.279 and then I covered them with a frost frost blanket. 198 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:01.039 But then I also cover good with uh like a 199 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:05.679 moving blanket, and then put them under a tub. So, 200 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.000 like I said, I did all my kids that I 201 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:10.759 pulled some of the coverings up of them yesterday. The 202 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:14.240 leaves are all crunchy, and so I watered all the 203 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:15.320 truth good. 204 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.279 But yes, I don't know what you what you're gonna 205 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:24.720 do for the spring, well for not not for now, 206 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:26.120 We're gonna wait and watch. 207 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:27.559 Now, Okay, the. 208 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.639 I'll talk about in a little more depth today about 209 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:34.360 how do you assess coal damage, But the bottom line 210 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.759 is you want to give it a few days. Uh, 211 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.200 And then what you're gonna notice is that inside those 212 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:44.799 little twigs and branches, what was creamy white or light 213 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:50.320 green turns papersack brown. Uh. And when you and even 214 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.080 gray and black event on some plants. But when you 215 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:57.120 see that, then you know that's dead. And when it 216 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.360 comes time to print, which isn't now, uhlater on, when 217 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:04.240 the new growth begins, the growth will tell you where 218 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:08.159 to prune. So that you're just gonna for now just 219 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:10.200 hold on, wait and watch. I know it's ugly. I 220 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.080 know you're wondering and stuff but don't jump the gun, 221 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:15.639 and when it's time, you'll prone out all the dead. 222 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.799 And that may mean cutting it off above the ground, 223 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:21.320 above that soil that you piled up, but it also 224 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.879 may mean that your trunk and many of the branches 225 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:27.159 are still alive and fine. But time will tell on 226 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:27.919 that for sure. 227 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:30.360 Okay, okay. 228 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:34.639 The other question I have for my garden is the 229 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:36.200 ground here. 230 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:41.279 Where I live is it's just clay. It's so hard clay. 231 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.000 It's so hard in the summertime when there's no rain, 232 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:46.720 and then as soon as you get rain, it just 233 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:52.759 gets slick. And I live not too far from living earth, 234 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:54.399 So I'm. 235 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.519 Not sure if they make a product that is suitable 236 00:12:58.679 --> 00:12:59.159 for that. 237 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.159 Garden to be able to go and work it into 238 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:07.720 that dirt to make it more fertile for like cucumbers 239 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:12.240 in summer, squash and you know, stuff like that to 240 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:13.840 be able to even survive in. 241 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:17.519 Right, I'm sure they have products. I'm not familiar with 242 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:20.320 their products at all, and I'm just not But if 243 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.799 you're in Cleveland, you're really close to airlom soils and 244 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:27.120 Porter and I am more familiar with those, and they 245 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:29.440 have if you're going to grow edibles and things. They 246 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.519 have a veggie and herb mix there that you can 247 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.840 mix in. They have regular composts and things like that, 248 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:38.559 and so that may you know, I know, you're down 249 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:41.600 just down the road from them, and they can deliver 250 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:44.000 or you can go pick it up or those kinds 251 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.360 of things. A lot of our composts and multipurveyers will 252 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:50.399 sell by the bag. They'll sell them bulk and whatnot. 253 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.159 But from kind of what you described, I think the 254 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.440 veggie and hermex would be a good a good blend 255 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:59.240 for that and anything with that heavy clay and sticky 256 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:02.320 heavy clay, it doesn't have air space in the soil. 257 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:06.600 It's very very compacted, very dense. It water logs easily, 258 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.279 and when you add decaying organic matter in it, which 259 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.840 you know, compost is the term for basically for that, 260 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.919 when you add that kind of thing in, it helps 261 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:20.440 open that soil up. You just want to avoid compressing 262 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.240 it yourself with foot traffic or anything. Whenever walk on 263 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:26.480 our garden beds, we always you know, avoid that because 264 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:29.519 it just smashes them the clay back down again and 265 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:33.240 the organic matter is helping to loosen it up over time. 266 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:39.000 Right, right, Okay, Well that answers. That answers both both 267 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.159 questions I had, and that helps me so much. I 268 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.840 was I was really frightened over my my fruit trees 269 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:46.879 because I've really put a lot of work into them. 270 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.639 But we'll just wait and see what happens. 271 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.120 Hopefully they're not answer yeah. 272 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.360 Yeah, And as they start to come out, if you 273 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.480 want to send me some pictures, uh, you know, we 274 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:00.919 can take a look at them again and make advice. 275 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:04.840 I just think you'll give them some time. If you 276 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:09.200 prune now and you cut into living tissues in your pruning, 277 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:12.600 it stimulates that plant to try to regrow, and the 278 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.039 last thing your citrus needs to do now is to 279 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.600 start putting out new growth exactly. I definitely don't want that. 280 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.919 So let's just hold off and then there'll be plenty 281 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:25.720 of time to get it cleaned up and you'll be 282 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:27.840 off to the races again with them. 283 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.639 Okay, well, I appreciate it much to let you know. 284 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:35.399 The last time I called it was about my rosa 285 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:40.840 sharing We're blooming beautifully and all of a sudden they 286 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:44.039 just started dying. It was too much water in the coil, 287 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.600 and you had told me to check that okay, and 288 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:48.559 I did, and I got them on the ground, I 289 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.840 got them in some pots, and so they're doing wonderful. 290 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:53.360 So I just wanted to thank you. 291 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:56.519 Well, good glad to hear you were able to turn 292 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.919 them around. Well, Cyndia, thanksk Cynthia, thank you for the call. 293 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:01.600 I appreciate that. 294 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.399 Thanks ye all right, bye. 295 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:10.600 Bye, allright bye bye. Yeah, that is uh act to me. 296 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:10.919 Uh. 297 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:15.279 Let me just go ahead and make a few comments about, uh, 298 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.360 how do you how do you know? How do you 299 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:23.919 assess freeze damage? First of all, when when plant, you know, 300 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:25.879 when you see the leaves brown and stuff, well, those 301 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:28.440 leaves are killed. That's obviously it frosted it. But you 302 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.320 got all these branches and trunks and things of some 303 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.360 of our shrubs and trees. And how do you assess 304 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:37.440 where it was killed? Well, first of all, right after 305 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.759 the freeze, it's a little hard to assess. And as 306 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.159 you have a few days, especially as the temperatures warm 307 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:44.399 up a little bit, then you're going to start to 308 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:49.600 see the tissues that were killed. Go from what if 309 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.720 you scratch back the bark on little twigs and branches 310 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:56.039 with your thumbnail or a knife blade, what it should 311 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.279 look like underneath this creamy white or a very light 312 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.960 light shark treacy green color. Okay, but if it in 313 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:07.319 time those freeze dead tissues turned toward brown or I 314 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.440 like to use the descript or paper sack brown or 315 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.720 pecan brown, that's what you see. Sometimes you get black 316 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.000 and gray and they're depending again on how much freeze 317 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:20.559 damage and the species. But that's obviously not healthy. Once 318 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.240 you straight back and see that, well that's not going 319 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:25.119 to come back to life, of course, and you would 320 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.079 need to print it out. But at this stage we 321 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:31.680 still have winter left, and so to prune. Now, should 322 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:36.039 you cut down into living tissues, then that is Prunting's 323 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:39.599 a stimulating process and it sort of encourages a plant 324 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.519 to re sprout. And we don't want ref sprouting now, 325 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:46.480 we want it to be still, stay asleep, wait and 326 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.680 then when spring comes, you'll the plant will tell you 327 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:52.480 where to prune back. Okay, Now you can assess it 328 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:55.680 with a thumbnail or a knife blade and keep checking 329 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:57.000 here and here and here and here and here and 330 00:17:57.079 --> 00:17:59.359 all over and decide where to prune. But I would 331 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:01.319 say hold on right now, let the plant tell you 332 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:03.000 when it comes out. If you need to get it 333 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.359 burned out. Use that scratch test to determine, but don't 334 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:09.240 cut down into living tissues to shit. That is not 335 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:11.599 what you want to do. But that's one quick way 336 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:15.319 to just do that kind of assessment on your plants. 337 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:21.279 I love going to the garden centers. I just do that. 338 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:24.799 It is so much fun to wander through a quality 339 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:27.319 garden center. Buchanons is that kind of place. Those of 340 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:29.720 you who've been there know what I'm talking about. If 341 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:31.400 you haven't been there, you need to go check it out. 342 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.359 Buchanons is in the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street, and 343 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:39.359 they specialize in Texas natives, but they have everything. If 344 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.839 you want house plants, they have a huge house plant 345 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:47.440 greenhouse that is unbelievably well stocked. In fact, one thing 346 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:49.559 I kind of find cool is they've got these little 347 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.039 small two inch tropicals. I had little tiny pots and 348 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.119 if you want together like a terrarium, which is a 349 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:58.279 great thing to do in the winter season when you're 350 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:01.160 gardening indoors. Tried that out. I mean, they have all 351 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.960 this beautiful colored foliage and little two inch containers and 352 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:05.960 you can build your own terrarium. And I use that 353 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.680 just as an example, because when you go to Buchanans, 354 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:10.960 you're gonna find few trees, fruit trees. You're gonna find 355 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.759 stuff for shade, You're gonna find gorgeous pottery. You're gonna 356 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:17.200 find all the supplies, whether it's you know, products from 357 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.799 Nature's Way or heirloom soil or Landscaper's Pride or nitrophoss 358 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:23.359 or Nelson or you name it. Microlife's another one. They 359 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:26.400 got plenty of that at Buchanans in the Heights. Go 360 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:31.279 to their website buchanons Plants dot com. Write that down 361 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:35.880 police Buchanan's Plants dot com. It is an outstanding website 362 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:40.000 full of good educational information. And you need to sign 363 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:42.359 up for their newsletter so you can stay up to 364 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:45.240 date on what's coming, the events that they're gonna have, 365 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:49.839 the things going on at the nursery. Buchanansplants dot com. 366 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.680 Go check that out. I'm gonna take a break now 367 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:55.319 for the halfway through the hour news and I'll be 368 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:58.240 right back at seven one three two one two k 369 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:05.319 t rh All right, here we go back in the 370 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.839 saddle again. A garden line. I'm your host, skip Rick 371 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.079 or we are here to answer your gardening questions. All 372 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:12.319 you got to do is give me a call seven 373 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:15.799 one three two one two k t R H. Wile ago. 374 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.640 I was talking about Buchannan's plants and I wanted to 375 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.240 mention that they have a seminar today at ten ten 376 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.000 to eleven o'clock on Texas Native Gardening. You know they 377 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:28.799 If anybody knows about native plants, it's Buchanans. Folks at 378 00:20:28.839 --> 00:20:33.000 Buchanans today Bugannans eleven or ten to eleven Texas Native 379 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.160 Gardening free seminar. You can go to and check out 380 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.119 see if you were signed up for the newsletter. You 381 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.440 already know that they are following them on on social 382 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:46.160 media Facebook and Instagram. The folks at Greenpro are experts 383 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.839 when it comes to providing a top quality compost, top dressing, 384 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:52.680 and fertilizing to keep your lawn healthy. They also do 385 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:56.599 core aeration. What is core aeration? That is where you 386 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:59.680 pull a plug of soil out of the ground and 387 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:03.240 drop it on the surface. That's different than an errator 388 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:07.039 that just shoves a tine into the ground and squeezes 389 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:09.480 the soil open true creator and opening. It's better to 390 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.000 do cor aeration and they do that. They've got the 391 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:14.839 equipment that does a really good job of it, and 392 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:17.079 so compost top dressing is going to help you know, 393 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.279 it's going to feed your soul. Biology number one, that's 394 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:24.359 what microbes really love is decaying organic matter and even 395 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:27.160 some of the substances that are produced by organic matter. 396 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:30.799 The core aeration or excuse me, the compost top dressing 397 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.240 service can help to alleviate compaction, as will the core 398 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.319 aeration and helps on internal drainage. Because think about this. 399 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:39.519 You got this heavy clay, like we're talking about Cynthia 400 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:42.559 with Cynthia a minute ago. This heavy clay is there. 401 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:44.880 So you pop a core out of the soil, put 402 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:47.759 some compost top dressing on it. It falls down into those 403 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:52.079 holes in the soil and roots start to thrive and grow, 404 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:55.880 and with all the biological activity and everything else, little 405 00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:00.319 by little, that clay becomes looser and better as a 406 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.079 place for plant roots to thrive. That's how that works. 407 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:05.720 So if you're long struggling from chinchbugs, from brown patch, 408 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:09.279 from drought, take all root rod, all of that. If 409 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:11.839 you've got a thick layer of thatch on top of 410 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.759 your soil, compost top dressing helps speed the decomposition of 411 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.400 that thatch thatches parts of the grass plant that are 412 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.440 very slow to decompose, the runners, the roots, the nodes 413 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.880 throw compost in there and it starts to decompose a 414 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:27.119 lot faster and gets rid of that thatch for you. 415 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:30.480 So you got better rooting depth, you got better water absorption. 416 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:33.440 Just give a post at greenpro call. They serve an 417 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:36.720 area about forty five miles from Magnolia, So up north 418 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:40.599 you know Spring, Cyprus, Woodlands, Conroe, willis over to Magnolia, Montgomery, 419 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:44.079 cun in the northwest direction down toward Katie West, Houston 420 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:48.079 Central North. Basically the northwest quadrant of the city is 421 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:54.839 where greenpro focuses. Greenprotexas dot com Greenprotexas dot com. Eight 422 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:58.119 three to two three five to one zero zero three 423 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:03.319 zero eight three to two five ones eero zero three zero. 424 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:05.440 There are very few things you can do for a 425 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:11.759 lawn that give the overall longer term benefits of cor 426 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:16.880 aeration and compost. Hot dressing over the top. You're listening 427 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:18.960 to garden Line. I'm your hostp Richter. If you've got 428 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:21.480 a gardening question you want to visit about seven one 429 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:24.920 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 430 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:27.839 three two one two five eight seven four. Hey, if 431 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:30.160 you want to take that to another level, I'm going 432 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:32.759 to be at the Brasses Home and Garden Show at 433 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:37.000 the Fort Bend Epicenter down in Rosenberg today, So all 434 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:41.640 of you folks listening, you know, down Victoria, and then 435 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.240 that holds everywhere southwest, especially of Houston, or you can 436 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:47.640 ride further if you want. Some people do. It's gonna 437 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:48.759 be a good home and garden show. 438 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:49.279 Uh. 439 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:53.480 The folks that inntented forests are going to be there. 440 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:56.160 They've got a great display and there's lots of seminars 441 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:58.559 going on. It'll be today, it was yesterday, and it'll 442 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:01.440 be today and tomorrow is well. I'll be there today 443 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:05.680 from one to three. One to three today. You can 444 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:09.119 bring me some samples or photos for diagnostics if you want. 445 00:24:09.160 --> 00:24:11.480 I'm going to be doing some giveaways as well. I'm 446 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:13.680 gonna have a book there as well. I never talked 447 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:15.400 about my book, but I'm gonna bring some of those 448 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:18.559 with me today and i'll be answering your gardening questions. 449 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:23.000 After I start off with a brief presentation, I'm going 450 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:25.839 to talk about the essential steps to creating a thriving 451 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:29.319 spring garden and lawn and then we'll have a lot 452 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:31.480 of Q and A time, plenty of time to visit 453 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:34.680 and take a good close look at the things that 454 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:36.640 are going wrong in your line. You got maybe you 455 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:38.559 scratched a branch back and you go, I don't know 456 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.799 if that's dead or not. Bring a picture of it, 457 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:43.720 get up close, make sure it's in sharp focus. Fuzzy 458 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:46.480 pictures gets you fuzzy answers. So you need a good 459 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:49.000 sharp focus photo. We'll take a look at that. Be 460 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:51.279 happy to visit with you about all those kinds of 461 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:53.880 things at the Browse's Home and Garden Show today one 462 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:57.200 o'clock to three o'clock. Be there for two hours. One 463 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:00.079 hour seminar followed by an hour of Q and A 464 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:04.079 and diagnostics and everything else, including if you'd like to 465 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:05.880 pick up a copy of a book and have it signed, 466 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:10.119 we'll be happy to do that. Well, let's see, I 467 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.119 was talking about checking out my lawns and some of 468 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:15.759 the frost that had occurred on my plants. I have 469 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:22.839 a some ginger. Ginger is one of my favorite flowering plants, 470 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:24.880 by the way, and I'm there are lots of good 471 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.759 kinds of ginger out there. There's the variegated yellow and 472 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:31.720 green Alpinia ginger. That's more of a foliage plant. That's 473 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:34.880 why we grow it for its beautiful foliage. There is 474 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.240 hidden ginger there, you know. There's My favorite of all 475 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:42.880 the gingers is the hedicium. It's called the butterfly ginger. 476 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.480 It's tall stalks. And my favorite of all the butterflies 477 00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:50.920 is plain old white butterfly ginger. It is so fragrant. 478 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:53.200 And then there's some other cool colors. There's kind of 479 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:57.440 coral colored blooms and variations, you know, from the yellow 480 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:01.000 to the to the reddish colors. Uh. And some of 481 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:03.279 them are very fragrant. Some of them are not as fragrant, 482 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:05.759 but they're all beautiful. They all make good cut flowers too, 483 00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:08.319 by the way. But I've got some two different kinds 484 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:12.240 of of a butterfly ginger that I hadn't some containers, 485 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:14.519 so I had to protect those because whenever you have 486 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:17.400 a container on top of the surface, what would have 487 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:22.039 been root hardy below the ground in the soil suddenly 488 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.039 now is exposed to the full brunt of the cold 489 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:27.519 because you're set in a container in my case, on 490 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.119 top of the patio out there, and it's going to 491 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.680 get way too cold and cause more damage than it 492 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:34.880 would had that ginger been in the ground. Because multed 493 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:37.400 well in the ground, ginger is a is a dependable 494 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:39.279 perennial for us. So I had to bring them in 495 00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:41.359 real close to the house, cover them, come up, mult 496 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:42.759 of them because they're about to go in the ground 497 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:45.000 to get planted. Not the normal time of year you 498 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.599 plant ginger, but you can plant ginger now. And we're 499 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.759 going to be working on on some of that. But anyway, 500 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.039 just a few of the things going on out there 501 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:56.839 in the garden. Uh, you've heard me talk about Nelson 502 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:01.200 plant food before. Nelson has something called Jennison. It's one 503 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:02.480 of their nutri Star line. 504 00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:02.720 You know. 505 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:05.359 Nelson has Turf Star for your lawn. They've got color 506 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:08.799 Star awesome for color in your flower beds. And then 507 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:14.200 they have Genesis. Genesis is loaded with microizo bacteria and 508 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:18.079 other fungi that helped benefit benefit that soul microbiome. It's 509 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:20.519 got humates in it. It's designed to be mixed in 510 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.160 the soil. So if you're going to transplant anything or 511 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:27.079 bump up anything you're growing, mix Genesis into the soil plant, 512 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:30.119 your plant watered in, and then later you can resume 513 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:35.240 with regular fertilizations, but start with Nelson Genesis. Time for 514 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:37.440 me to take a little break here. I am going 515 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.359 to be right back at seven one three two one 516 00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:45.559 two KTRH. Welcome back, hey, it's good to have you 517 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:49.079 with us today. We are going into all kinds of 518 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:51.880 things related to plants to help you have success. Is 519 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:53.880 the way I like to put it is I want 520 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:56.720 you to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and 521 00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.680 more fun in the process. That is the goal here. 522 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:02.440 So let's do that. You got some questions you want 523 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:04.559 to ask. All you gotta do is give me a 524 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.279 call seven to one three two one two k t 525 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:10.039 r H. Seven to one three two one two k 526 00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:12.200 t r H. We'll be happy to visit with you 527 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.680 about those so that you can have success. By the way, 528 00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:18.400 if you're one of the good ways to have success 529 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:20.920 in all kinds of things, not just your lawn and garden, 530 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:24.279 but even around the house, inside the house, the patio, 531 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:27.279 and you name it is Ace Hardware. You know. Ace 532 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:30.720 Hardware has got a number of stores through the Greater 533 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.240 Houston area. You can go to their website ayshardware dot 534 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:35.799 Com and find the store locator and there's just a 535 00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:37.839 whole bunch of red dots everywhere. So you're going to 536 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:40.680 get to find more than one ACE near you that 537 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:43.359 has everything you need. We got the Super Bowl coming up, 538 00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:45.799 so it's time to get ready to do some Super 539 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:49.279 Gold Bowl grilling, if you will. Uh. And you go 540 00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:52.480 to ACE Hardware and you're going to find incredible brands 541 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:57.359 like Traeger you know what what that means, a Weber, Rectech, 542 00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:00.519 a Big Green Egg, and Blackstone. All those kinds of 543 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:04.039 brands are available at our various ACE Hardware stores or 544 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:07.279 as you go around town. If you're an ACE Hardware 545 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.559 Rewards remember which I remember which I am, by the way, 546 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:13.799 and you should be too. You just sign up for it, 547 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:17.559 and as you purchase things at ACE, you build up 548 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:21.640 your reward numbers, your count and being a reward member. 549 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.240 A lot of the stores you just have to ask 550 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:25.160 your local store about this, but a lot of them 551 00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:28.319 will assemble and even deliver a barbecue pet for you, 552 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:30.599 but just ask your store for details about that. But 553 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.400 anytime you're on ACE, go ahead and sign up for 554 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:36.799 ACE Rewards. It's very very well worth it. Easy, painless 555 00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:39.640 to do. If you want to get your garage in ordering, 556 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:43.240 maybe you need some storage shelves. Spring cleaning time is here. 557 00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:45.960 I know, I know. I walk out in my garage 558 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:47.599 about once a year and I look and I go, 559 00:29:47.720 --> 00:29:50.440 you know, I've made a mess again. Time time to 560 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:53.240 get this cleaned up. ACE has got you covered on that. 561 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:55.920 And of course if you're doing spring cleaning, all the 562 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.680 cleaning supplies and storage tots and everything else you need, 563 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:02.920 I don't know. Just let's put let's make this simple. 564 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:06.319 ACE is the place. ACE is the place, no matter 565 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:08.599 what you're looking for. ACE is a place. We got 566 00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:12.200 Aces all over again. Up in Champions for Us, there's 567 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:15.279 Champions Ace Hardware. You go over to the Copperfield there 568 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.440 and you got Langham Creek right there, a hard Memorial 569 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.160 Ace Hardware and the Memorial Area. Go down to Richmond area, 570 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.559 you got Plantation Ace. Just come north of Richmond Plantation 571 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:30.000 Ace Hardware, awesome store. And they're many many more. Easy. 572 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:35.960 ACE makes it easy, they just really do. I was 573 00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.559 looking at my vegetable garden and if you can see 574 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.039 a pick, if you can see my vegetable garden right now, 575 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:45.200 you might be shaking your head going, what's wrong with him? 576 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.039 Why doesn't he there and clean it up? And it's 577 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:50.440 because I've been busy, been doing other things. But it 578 00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:54.599 needs me. Uh spring planting is just around the corner, 579 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:57.599 and uh so it's time for me to get out 580 00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:59.480 there and do some cleanup. And that's easy to do. 581 00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:01.720 In fact, that's one of the actually one of the 582 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:04.599 things I enjoy. I'm probably weird in this way as 583 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:07.720 a gardener, but I like a weeding and I like 584 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:12.119 cleaning up the garden. And the reason is this. If 585 00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.039 you go out and you've got a weedy bed and 586 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.279 you just get busy and you pull weeds on it 587 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.480 or hoe them, or mulch the bed or whatever, when 588 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:23.519 you get through, it looks beautiful and it's so rewarding 589 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:25.559 to see that. You know, there are a lot of 590 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:28.119 things in life. And I don't know if you guys 591 00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:29.640 got a job, you may know that what I'm talking 592 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.119 about here, But you know, you work all day and 593 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:33.680 at the end of the day, it's like, what did 594 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:36.960 I accomplish today? I know, I move paper around the 595 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:39.319 desk and talk to some people about some stuff, But 596 00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:42.759 what did I accomplish today? With gardening and you got 597 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.799 a weedy bed. Oh my gosh. Thirty minutes you look 598 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.279 back and it's like, ah, that looks better. I like that. 599 00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:51.279 So anyway, I'm a little weird in that way. I 600 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:53.759 like that, but like cleaning up too. Right now, I've 601 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.640 got some old dead stalks of some last year's okra 602 00:31:56.799 --> 00:32:00.119 and peppers and some other things. I'll just get in 603 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.960 there and clean all those up real good. I'll be 604 00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:06.240 ready to go. Everything will look really nice and pretty 605 00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:10.880 for the next step of it. Whenever I'm there's different 606 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:14.519 ways to go about gardening. There's not one way. The 607 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:17.640 old traditional ways you got a rototiller and you banged 608 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:20.039 up the soil, made it loose, planted your plants, and 609 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:23.400 you just rototilled more than one time a year for sure, 610 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:26.599 every time you're doing a new planting. Whenever you had 611 00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:30.119 a plant, you pulled it out, shook the soil off 612 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:32.799 the roots, and threw the plant away, and that you know, 613 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:36.000 that was part of renovating. That's okay. You can still 614 00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:38.720 do everything that way if you want. What I'm doing 615 00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:41.839 more now is a no till kind of gardening in 616 00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:45.920 the vegetable garden. And what does that mean? That means 617 00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:51.640 Number one, think about nature. Nobody's spading forks or rototill's nature. 618 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:57.039 The plants die, the roots they had in the ground die, 619 00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:01.359 and now those roots are dead to haying organic matter 620 00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.440 that have created tunnels through the soil, opening the soil up. 621 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.640 Microbes get in there, they get happy, they go crazy, 622 00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:11.680 and little by little, as you fill the soil with 623 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:16.440 roots and roots on annual plants are gonna ride away 624 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:18.720 when the plant's gone in. On grassy plants, by the way, 625 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.160 roots live about a year and then die. So grass 626 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:25.480 even builds its own soil that way. But when whenever 627 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:27.640 I have let's say, well I've got some peppers and 628 00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:30.680 some tomatoes and things, I'll just cut them off right 629 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:33.039 at the ground, or you just cut the base out 630 00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:36.480 right there and basically leave the base in the ground 631 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:39.759 to rot. And so when it's time to plant around them, 632 00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:42.240 I just make my little trenches, dig the holes, put 633 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.599 in the transplants, do whatever I'm gonna do, but I 634 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.480 just leave it as a no till. Now, you don't 635 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:48.720 have to do it that way, but you can. If 636 00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:51.480 you have something that dies from a root rod, or 637 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:55.359 let's say it's a tomato that gets nematodes on the roots, 638 00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:59.000 or some wilt fungal disease of the roots. Well, yeah, 639 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.519 you want to get that out of it and then 640 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:03.440 not replant that same family of plants in that area 641 00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:07.000 for a while. But in general, no tail is good. 642 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.679 Farmers have gone to no til for years. There's a 643 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:13.920 lot of no tail going on in various types of 644 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.400 agriculture where they reconize, just cut it off at the ground, 645 00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:19.519 leave the roots in the ground. They even have special 646 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:22.840 planters that are designed to plant into no tail beds 647 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:25.760 and do well. Now, if I were going to have 648 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.360 to mix some amendments into the soil, well yeah, I 649 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.119 would spade it. I would do that. I would get 650 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.239 those down in there. If I were going to dig 651 00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:36.079 a trench to plant potatoes in, okay, I get it. 652 00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.840 I'm not saying, you know, this only way to do it. 653 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:40.800 I'm just saying it makes a lot of sense. And 654 00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:43.960 it's a lot easier too, that is for sure. So 655 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:45.800 I've got to get out there. I'm gonna cut those 656 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.960 peppers off, cut the okra off. Sometimes I'll pull when 657 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.000 something is rotted, I'll kind of pull on it and 658 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.199 it'll all break off there just below the ground. I'll 659 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:56.400 get the base of it out out of the way. 660 00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:58.760 But I had a soil knife, which is like a 661 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:01.559 big old giant booe kne that's got a serrated edge 662 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:05.280 on one side, one of my favorite tools, and I'll 663 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.119 just go to the bottom of a cornstalk and just 664 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:09.920 with that soul knife, I'll just just essentially cut it 665 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:12.000 off right there at the ground, real fast and easy 666 00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:15.800 to do. And all those corn roots now have created 667 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:18.559 the pathways into the soil to get oxygen down, to 668 00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:22.360 get water in faster, to stimulate microbial growth as they decompose. 669 00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:26.119 And it makes sense, all right. So that's called no till. 670 00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:28.239 There's a lot of versions of it. There's a lot 671 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:31.719 of ways to go about it, but it's something that 672 00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:34.360 maybe you ought to think about. If you haven't done 673 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.519 that before. Just know this. You don't have to pull 674 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.320 all the plants out and get all that stuff out 675 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:43.280 of the ground. Nature doesn't do that. If you're looking 676 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:46.920 for a cool place to find lots of quality plants, 677 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:49.159 plants for all seasons, is it? You know? 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We're going to take a 689 00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:26.199 little break for the top of the hour news. I'm 690 00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:28.119 here for your phone calls. If you would like to 691 00:36:28.159 --> 00:36:30.639 be one of the first ones up when we come back, 692 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.280 just called now seven one three two one two k 693 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.559 t r H. Johnathan'll get you on the board. We'll 694 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:39.599 be ready to go at the top of the news 695 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:42.760 and we'll take your phone calls at that point in time. 696 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:46.239 Don't forget today, I'm going to be at the Fort. 697 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:50.599 Then it's a home and garden show down there in Richmond, Texas. 698 00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:54.760 I'll either from one to three at the foot and Epicenter. 699 00:36:57.079 --> 00:37:01.599 Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with scarre Ricard's. 700 00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:40.519 Just watch him as. 701 00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:33.000 A sign well, good morning, Welcome back to garden Line. 702 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.679 We're here to answer your gardening questions and to help 703 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:40.559 you have more success and more fun in the process 704 00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:44.159 as you go about gardening. We are still in winter 705 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:46.920 time and after that last freeze, things are looking kind 706 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:50.719 of bleak out there, but spring is coming. That is 707 00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:53.400 the cool thing about gardening. Is one of the cool 708 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:56.480 things about gardening is that there's always a renewal. There's 709 00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:59.599 always a new season. You know, things live, things die, 710 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:03.079 things come up, we plant new things things. We can 711 00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:06.480 just continue to take our little piece of eden and 712 00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:09.400 turn it more and more beautiful as we go along. 713 00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:13.360 And I think that is a really cool creative process. 714 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:16.760 It is a mind, body and soul healing process to 715 00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:21.000 get out there and just enjoy working with nature, just 716 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:24.480 taking it and making it better. And what do we say, 717 00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:26.599 improving your plot in life? If you want to go 718 00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:28.840 about it that way, we can put it that way 719 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:32.199 as well. Speaking of improving your plot in life, if 720 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:35.920 you really want to see your plot improve, Peerscapes can 721 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.199 do it. They go here's what I want to do. 722 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:43.960 Go to this website peerscapes dot com, piercescapes dot com 723 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.199 and just look look at what they do on landscape 724 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:51.000 lighting and tell me you cannot picture how much that 725 00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:54.239 would improve the property. Whether it's just your backpatio or 726 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:56.199 whether it's all around the house. You want lights on 727 00:38:56.239 --> 00:38:59.480 the house, on the pathways, on security lighting, you know, 728 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:03.000 for or your own protection. Piercescapes has the ability to 729 00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:06.239 do magic there. Look at the hardscapes they do, Oh 730 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:10.280 my gosh, patios and walkways and things that are gorgeous. 731 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:13.119 Do you need irrigation work done? Do you have a 732 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.199 bad drainage? Most people in Houston with our clay soils, 733 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:18.880 you got some low spot that doesn't drain well. They 734 00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:21.880 can fix that. They know how to fix that. Maybe 735 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:27.840 you just want quality care for your landscape. You know 736 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:29.480 you're not a do it yourself or to get out 737 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:31.320 and do it all yourself. You want somebody that comes 738 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:33.719 by once a quarter and gets in those flower beds 739 00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:36.199 and if they need replanting of the flowers, put some 740 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:39.440 new stuff in, if they need some mulching replenished on 741 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:41.920 the surface, if they need the irrigation check, they do 742 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:43.480 all that. By the way, when they come by on 743 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:46.159 their quarterly maintenance, they do the changes out of color 744 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:49.800 little fertilizing, little trimming, whatever you need. That's part of that. 745 00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.480 And I could just go on and on. Piercescapes does 746 00:39:54.519 --> 00:39:57.679 it all. Pierscapes dot Com go look at it. Then 747 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.880 you'll see what I'm talking about. From you know, minor 748 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:07.519 revamping of beds to a major top down, turnkey, gorgeous, 749 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:10.639 beautiful turnover in your landscape. They can do all of that. 750 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:15.199 And spring is the time to get get busy with 751 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.119 turning out the places around. I've got some flowers that 752 00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:20.800 I'm going to be putting out, I say flowers at 753 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:24.360 perennials that I'm going to be putting out in my beds. 754 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:28.000 Last year I worked on salvia bed that I have. 755 00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:31.440 I love salvia's. They're my favorite of all the perennials. 756 00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:33.639 You know, people often ask me, oh, your horticulture is, 757 00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:37.320 what's your favorite plant? Well, I got a billion favorite plants. 758 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:39.960 I have one. But if you put a gun to 759 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:41.840 my head and said come on, man, I'd say, okay, 760 00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:45.960 give me one species, give me one or genus. Rather, 761 00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:50.559 it would be the salvias. I love Salvi's, beautiful salvias. 762 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.840 South Mexican bush stage blooms in the late summer and 763 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:58.840 fall Salvia mystic spires, beautiful blue blooms. Salvia greggy I. 764 00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.679 It's a little subshri that just now it comes in 765 00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:03.760 so many colors. Used to be kind of red and 766 00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:08.559 maybe white. Now we've got corals and purples and mobs 767 00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:11.480 and all kinds of versions of Salvia gregory. They're just 768 00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:14.480 absolutely gorgeous. And I could go on and on and 769 00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:17.360 on and on. There's a lot of Salva, hundreds and 770 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:20.400 literally hundreds of types of salvia out there. Not all 771 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.639 of them do well here, but a lot of them do. 772 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.480 And that is one of the most dependable genera of 773 00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.519 plants that we have, or the salvias. You know, salvias 774 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:31.119 are in the mint family. Did you know that? Okay, 775 00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:34.039 nerd alert fun fact. You can be the next Cliff 776 00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:36.800 Claven at the next garden Club if you just listen 777 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:41.199 to this. Mint family plants have square stems, and when 778 00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:43.119 you grab the stem, you can feel it fee the 779 00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:46.280 little four sides. That's what mint is like. Salvia is 780 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:49.719 in the mint family. It has square stems. Agistash is 781 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:51.679 in the mint family. It's got square stems, And there 782 00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:54.239 are other members of the mint family. But I'm just 783 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.559 saying fun fact square stems mint family. By the way, 784 00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:02.599 can you tell me what has triangular stems, sedges, sedges 785 00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:06.559 like papyrus, like the umbrella sedge that you see as 786 00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:11.159 an ornamental plant, like nutsedge nutgrass in your yard. Yeah, 787 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:17.760 nutsedge has triangular stems. So you can sometimes walk around 788 00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:20.679 blind reaching on plants and tell a lot about them 789 00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:24.320 just by feeling the structures and things like the shapes 790 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:28.039 of the stem, for example. But anyway, that's just an 791 00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:30.360 extra that was what ever penny you paid for it. 792 00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:36.239 But I love salvias, and some of the salvias they 793 00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:38.360 bloom at different times. A lot of them are good 794 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.559 about reblooming and reblooming salvias. Many of the types will 795 00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:46.360 attract hummingbirds. Many of the tripes will attract butterflies. Many 796 00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:50.360 of the types can be used as cutflowers too, as salvias, 797 00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:54.000 and they just have a lot of good features. Many 798 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:57.599 of them are quite drought tolerant. Most of them want 799 00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:03.880 good sunlight. But some salvia greggy I will put up 800 00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:06.320 with a very bright shade and do very well in 801 00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:09.440 it as well. So there's kind of a salvia for 802 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:12.239 everybody out there. In fact, there's probably a dozen salvias 803 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:15.719 that would do really well in your landscaping garden. I 804 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:17.679 don't know why I got off into Salvia's. I just 805 00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:21.239 it's one of the plants that I do like a lot. 806 00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.679 I do like a lot, but never forget. I only 807 00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:28.360 have ten thousand favorites, so we're not going to limit 808 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:32.119 it to just one thing. If you'd like to give 809 00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:34.039 me a call and ask a question, our phone number 810 00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:37.159 is seven to one three two to one two kt 811 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:43.119 RH seven one three two one two kt RH. I 812 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:48.840 will be at the Epicenter, the Fort Bend Epicenter, which 813 00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:51.639 is on Southwest Freeway, having fifty nine down that direction 814 00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:54.880 in Fort ben County near Rosenberg. I'll be there today 815 00:43:55.119 --> 00:44:00.360 after the show. After the show at one o'clock to 816 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:02.880 three o'clock, I'll be there for two hours. I'll talk 817 00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:05.519 about some things, answer some questions, give a little talk. 818 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:08.400 I have some copies of books there if you're interested 819 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.280 in a sign book, I'll bring some samples to give 820 00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:14.079 away as well. An Enchanted Forest will be there now. 821 00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:16.199 If you've not been to Enchanted Forest, they're gonna have 822 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:20.280 a big old display there. Folks that enchanted fillids coulding 823 00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.000 Danny Millican who is their new manager for growth there 824 00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:26.119 an Enchanted Forest. Dany's got a long history in the 825 00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:29.239 green industry here in the Greater Houston area, but they 826 00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:31.320 will be there as well. And if you haven't been 827 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:33.639 to Enchanted Forest, you need to go. It's out there 828 00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.000 on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're en 829 00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:39.559 Richmond going towards sugar Land is off to the right 830 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:43.039 FM twenty seven fifty nine, you have got to go. 831 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:46.559 They've got bulbs, they've got fruit trees, they've got shrubs, 832 00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:49.519 they've got annual color. They have a beautiful gift shop. 833 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:53.079 And if you need to get a beautiful tree or 834 00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:56.039 shrub in like maybe something that blooms like a Chinese 835 00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:58.800 French tree, they've got a good supply of shrubs in 836 00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:01.280 as well. And when it comes to plants for butterflies, 837 00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:06.480 oh my gosh, they have huge tablefuls of all kinds 838 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:07.719 of things. In fact, if you want to know what 839 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.079 a butterfly looks like, go buy, Go buy and Jenni 840 00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:12.519 Forest because they all hang out there and they'll even 841 00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:14.320 give you a larva of the butterfly if it's on 842 00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.239 the planet, to take home with you. So it's kind 843 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:19.800 of like what sour dough starter for your butterfly garden 844 00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:24.360 and gented forest in Jenny Forest. Go come just come 845 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:26.320 by today to the Fort Ben Hoome and Garden Show 846 00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:28.320 and see them when you come by to visit with me. 847 00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:30.440 Time for me to take a quick break. When we 848 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.480 come back, we were going to go to the phones 849 00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:34.360 and Ron and Derek you'll be our first two. 850 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:34.599 Up. 851 00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:39.239 Hey, welcome back to the garden Line. Glad to have 852 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:41.880 you with us today. Let's run out to the phones 853 00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:46.599 right now. We're going to start in Cleveland, Texas with Ron. Hello, Ron, 854 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.559 welcome to garden Line. Good morning Skip. 855 00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:50.440 Hey. 856 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:54.119 I've got four knockout or double knockout roses in a 857 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:56.719 front flower bed that have gotten way bigger than I 858 00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:57.519 thought they would. 859 00:45:58.280 --> 00:45:58.920 I'd like to. 860 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:01.840 Get some tips and tricks on how far I can 861 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:03.920 trim them back, and I want to pull through them 862 00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:06.199 out and put them towards the back of the bed. 863 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.760 So like, can I get on to the big canes 864 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:12.480 on those or any tips would be appreciated. 865 00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:16.639 Yeah, no, you can. You can cut them way back. 866 00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:20.480 I mean, you know, ros is go and be real 867 00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.559 happy about it being cut, But you could cut that 868 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:25.519 thing back to eight inches high and have it come 869 00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:29.119 back out again. It could, it'll survive that. But I 870 00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.039 would I would print them back. If you're going to 871 00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:33.079 move them, I'd probably print them back by about a 872 00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:36.960 half maybe maybe two thirds, even get them in their 873 00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:38.960 new spot. That way, it's easy to get them moved 874 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.000 and in the new spot. Watermen really good and they 875 00:46:42.039 --> 00:46:44.199 will come back. But don't delay. Get it done now 876 00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:48.480 while the temperatures are still cool and the demands are low. Yeah. 877 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:54.480 All right, well, I appreciate it. Enjoy your show. Yeah yeah. 878 00:46:54.639 --> 00:46:56.719 Now if you if you're wanting to keep more of it, 879 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.599 you may have to kind of tie the branches kind 880 00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:02.440 of up together, like you're pulling them upward, and twine 881 00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:04.440 around the whole bush to kind of hold it together. 882 00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:07.119 That makes it easier to get in there and work 883 00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:12.199 underneath it without given blood. I would I would do 884 00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.000 the printing thing myself. Either way, you'll be good because 885 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:17.800 people right now, people are planting roses that have been 886 00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:20.199 ripped out of the ground their bear root, and they've 887 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:23.480 been chopped off just you know, a foot above the ground, 888 00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:26.599 and they're selling them to you that way. So basically 889 00:47:26.679 --> 00:47:28.719 you're doing the same thing. At home, except yours are 890 00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.519 just getting dug and moved and watered in right away, 891 00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:35.920 same day, so it's even easier on yours. Okay, great, 892 00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:40.480 I appreciate all right, sir, thank you. Good luck with that. 893 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:44.360 Send me a picture when they start blooming. You bet, 894 00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.559 take care. All right, let's h it's head the Houston 895 00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:52.760 area and talk to Derek. Hey, Derek, welcome to gardenline. 896 00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:54.000 Good morning. 897 00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:59.639 Yeah, I'd like to suggest it on I sot your 898 00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:02.679 crab and I want to get rid of the net edge. 899 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:07.039 Just started coming in last year really heavy, so I 900 00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.760 want to see whether I pray on it or you 901 00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:12.480 know what I should apply to kill the netdig the 902 00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:15.360 number two. I got box food that I want suggestions 903 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:17.719 on boxhood. 904 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:23.639 Okay. Well, as far as the nuts edge is concerned, 905 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:27.119 if you go to my website, there is I have 906 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:30.400 a number of publications. But if you scroll down or 907 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:33.679 just do the view all publications because it's dumped off 908 00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:38.400 the bottom of the list. Now. Uh, there's tips for 909 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:42.599 winning the war against nutsedge, and then there's nutsedge and 910 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.800 end depth. Look, you can go with either of those 911 00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:48.440 that you want, but the bottom line when it comes 912 00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:51.280 to spraying is you're going to want to use a 913 00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:54.320 product there. There are a number, by the way, the 914 00:48:54.599 --> 00:48:57.039 excuse me. There are a number of different products that 915 00:48:57.119 --> 00:48:59.719 are on the market for it, but the best are 916 00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:05.000 one that contain an ingredient called halo sulfur on Halo 917 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.519 sulfur on. Now, I know that trying to remember a 918 00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:11.000 name like that is possible, but on the website, on 919 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:14.760 my Nutsedge publication, it gives examples. I'm going to give 920 00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:18.280 you a few brand examples, but there's one called sedge 921 00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:25.639 Hammer Plus, like not sledgehammer, but sedge hammer Plus. There 922 00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:30.159 is one called Martin's Nut Grass Eliminator. That's another one. 923 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.079 There's a high yield product for it. The Monterey has 924 00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:37.320 one called nut grass Killer. Two. Those are all the 925 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:41.519 same ingredient and they all work well on Nutsedge. I 926 00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:45.199 would encourage you to read the publication on there that 927 00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:50.719 brown stuff before green stuff, meaning you get the foundation 928 00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.440 right and then you put that green plant in the 929 00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:55.440 ground and it's going to hit the ground running and 930 00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:58.119 you're going to be really happy with the results. Whether 931 00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:00.519 it's a whole bunch of tomatoes or a lot beautiful 932 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:05.000 petunia flowers or whatever. The plant is. Soil first brown 933 00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:07.679 stuff before green stuff. And the place where you can 934 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:10.960 get all your ground, all the brown stuff you need 935 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:14.679 to do taken care of all of it, from compost 936 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:19.480 to bed mixes to fertilizers is Ciena Mulch. Cena Maltch 937 00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:22.199 is just south of Houston. It's near where Highway six 938 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:25.320 and two eighty eight come together. The actual road is 939 00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:28.320 FM five point twenty one. But I just want you 940 00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:31.000 to go to Cienamultch dot com and there you can 941 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:33.079 get the number in the road in the hours and 942 00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:36.840 all that kind of stuff. Sienna Mulch dot com. That 943 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:42.079 whole region Meridian First Colony, Sweetwater, Paarland, Iowa Colony, Sandy Point, 944 00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:45.719 that whole region down there, Sir Ciena malt serves it. 945 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:48.480 They'll deliver within about twenty miles for a fee if 946 00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:50.320 you want them to bring it to your place, or 947 00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:52.280 you can just go get it. You can buy things 948 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.519 by the bag, you and buy things by the bulk. 949 00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:58.000 They've gotten native hardwood, they got double ground mulches, two 950 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:01.800 inch screen mulches. They have propucks from Landscapers Pride, they 951 00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:06.280 have products from excuse me, heirloom soils. And then when 952 00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:10.239 it comes to fertilizers we're talking about. By the way, 953 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:14.400 they also have yeah, the landscapers Pride black velvet malts too, 954 00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:19.599 which is really special, and the rose soil, the veggie 955 00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:23.440 nerdmix from heirloom soils down there. When it comes to fertilizers, 956 00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:26.440 they have stuff from Medina, they have stuff from Nilsen, 957 00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:30.320 they have stuff from Nitroposs, they have stuff from Microlife. 958 00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.360 They carry azamite as well, and this is a good 959 00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:38.440 time to be beginning with any kind of azamite editions. 960 00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:40.480 You're going to be wanting to put into your soil 961 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:42.639 this year, and they've got that. So when you come 962 00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.559 out to see anamalts, you have the foundation. You have 963 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.039 done the brown stuff before green stuff, and now go 964 00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:51.280 find a fun great plant that wants to grow here 965 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:53.840 and watch it take off and grow as a result 966 00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:58.519 from that. Ce animals dot com. Animals dot com. And 967 00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:01.519 by the way, they treat you right there too. They 968 00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:06.960 are just very very customer friendly. When you go in there, 969 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:09.320 you have a good time. You will have a good time. 970 00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:13.320 You're listening to Guardline. The phone number is seven to 971 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:17.920 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 972 00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:21.280 one three two one two, five, eight, seven four, And 973 00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:23.840 we've talked about today. I was I was talking a 974 00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:27.039 little bit about frost and freeze assessment and how to 975 00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:29.719 go about that. I'm going to post I think I'm 976 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:34.639 going to post something to our social media about frost 977 00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:37.519 and freeze assessment. Gave a little spiel about it. I'll 978 00:52:37.559 --> 00:52:39.840 mention some more a little bit later as we go 979 00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:42.639 through it. The bottom line on frost and freeze assessment 980 00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:47.039 right now is relax, learn to live with ugly, don't 981 00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:49.960 worry about it. Don't feel like you need to jump 982 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:53.760 the gun and cut everything off that's dead. Just wait. 983 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:56.800 The easiest law is that fair way to go about 984 00:52:57.119 --> 00:52:59.400 taking care of your plants that were freeze damaged is 985 00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:01.559 just still. Let the plant tell you where to prune. 986 00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:04.239 As we start to warm up a little bit, you're 987 00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:06.840 going to see exactly where sprouts of new growth appear, 988 00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:09.519 and then you know where to cut things off that 989 00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:11.920 are dead. If you want to get ahead of it, 990 00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:15.159 at least give it a few days after a freeze 991 00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:18.559 e vent like we had and some little warmer weather, 992 00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:22.039 and that way, those tissues that were killed begin to 993 00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:26.920 show the decline very well, and you may see underneath 994 00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:29.280 the surface of the bark. If you scrape, scrape a 995 00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:32.800 little branch with your thumbnail or with a knife, you'll 996 00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:36.679 see instead of a nice creamy, creamy white to chartrouse 997 00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:41.519 green underneath there, you'll see paper sack brown color. And 998 00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:44.760 that means it's dead. It's dying, and it takes a 999 00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.239 little while for the for that to kind of happen 1000 00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:50.239 and you to be real clear what you're dealing with. 1001 00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:54.159 But either way, just wait and wait and see. You know, 1002 00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:55.760 if you want, if you got a prone then at 1003 00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:59.800 least scrape and don't cut into living wood. Don't cut 1004 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.679 health healthy wood. That's a stimulating process. And the last 1005 00:54:02.679 --> 00:54:05.480 thing your plans need right now is to be encouraged 1006 00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:07.840 to try to re sprout because you pruned it back 1007 00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:11.119 too much, then the next freeze is going to cause 1008 00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:16.239 even more damage. Anyway, that's why, well here we are, 1009 00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:18.599 and we are about the time for me to take 1010 00:54:18.599 --> 00:54:20.519 another break. I want to remind you that I'm going 1011 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:23.599 to be at the Brass Home and Garden Show today 1012 00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:26.840 at the Fort Bend at the Center. It's in Rosenberg, Texas. 1013 00:54:26.920 --> 00:54:29.800 I'll be there from one pm, so you have time 1014 00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:33.559 to get lunch one pm to three PM. I'll talk 1015 00:54:33.639 --> 00:54:35.599 for an hour in a seminar and we'll talk about 1016 00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:40.039 essential steps to create a thriving spring garden and a lawn, 1017 00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:42.400 a beautiful lawn in the spring. What do you need 1018 00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:44.039 to do? What do you need to know? Let's get 1019 00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:46.440 that done. We'll talk about that and then I'll answer 1020 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:50.239 your gardening questions and so just show up, bring me 1021 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:53.480 samples and whatnot. I'll be doing some giveaways as well, 1022 00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:55.360 and I'll bring some of my books that I never 1023 00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:57.599 talked about on the air and I should anyway. I'll 1024 00:54:57.599 --> 00:54:59.519 bring some and have some signed copies if you'd like 1025 00:54:59.599 --> 00:55:03.559 to do that. We'll be right back. Good morning, Welcome 1026 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:06.079 to guarden Line. I'm your host, Stiff Rector. This is 1027 00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:09.400 garden Line. Guarden Line is a call in show. Now 1028 00:55:09.480 --> 00:55:11.920 I can talk about gardening till the cows come home, 1029 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:15.400 but what this is about is getting your questions answered, 1030 00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:19.280 helping you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, 1031 00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:21.880 and more fun in the process. So in order to 1032 00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:24.519 do that, you'll need to write this number down seven 1033 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:28.000 one three two one two k T RH seven one 1034 00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:30.920 three two one two k T Right, how can we help? 1035 00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:33.760 What kinds of questions do you have and we will 1036 00:55:33.800 --> 00:55:40.559 be happy to assist you with that. RCW Nurseries you 1037 00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:42.639 know they've been around a long time. That that is 1038 00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:45.760 the garden center that's right there where Tumball Parkway two 1039 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:48.480 forty nine FM two nine where that comes into belt 1040 00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:51.280 Way eight and it's an easy access, easy to get 1041 00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:54.840 to right there. When you go into RCW, you're going 1042 00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:56.639 to find people that know what they're talking about. You're 1043 00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:58.440 going to find service. You're going to find people that 1044 00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:01.760 have a garden to here themselves for a long time. 1045 00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:05.599 They know what they're doing. In fact, they essentially are 1046 00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:08.800 growing their own trees up there at the Williamson Tree 1047 00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:12.800 Farm up in Plantersville area, and they have a quality 1048 00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:16.559 stock of all kinds of things like that the tree. 1049 00:56:16.599 --> 00:56:18.719 When it comes to trees, whether it's big or small. 1050 00:56:19.159 --> 00:56:21.079 They can also come out and do the planting for 1051 00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:22.880 you and take care of that. And listen, we're in 1052 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:25.760 tree planting season. Don't delay. I mean, you can plant 1053 00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:28.599 a tree twelve months out of the year. But the 1054 00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:30.360 sooner you get it done, the better off it is. 1055 00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:32.679 The easier it is on you, the easier it is 1056 00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:35.480 on the tree to get established. So go ahead and 1057 00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:38.199 call them and do that. Right now, they've gotten in 1058 00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:42.840 a shipment of roses that is unbelievable. I'm talking about hundreds, 1059 00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:47.000 hundreds of rose varieties. Their list, you can go to 1060 00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:53.320 the website r Cwnurseries dot com RCW Nurseries dot com 1061 00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:55.639 and you can print out their list. And I'm talking 1062 00:56:55.639 --> 00:56:58.280 about a chart that tells you the name, the habit 1063 00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:01.000 of the rose, the class of rose, the color of 1064 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:04.480 the rose, is it fragrant or not, other helpful comments 1065 00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:07.800 about that rose, and it's it's six pages long. That's 1066 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.679 so many roses that they have. So if you're looking 1067 00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:14.239 for a rose that is disease resistant, that repeat blooms, 1068 00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.159 that is an all America rose selection, that is apricot 1069 00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:20.159 colored or red colored or pink colored or lavender color. 1070 00:57:20.719 --> 00:57:23.679 It's a shrub, it's a climber. You get to pick. 1071 00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:26.920 And they've got their best stock of the year right 1072 00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:30.039 now at r c W Nurseries. And it's time to 1073 00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:33.199 get roses planted too. I know, we say roses. You know, 1074 00:57:33.280 --> 00:57:36.440 Valentine's Day roses easy to remember. Yeah, that's true, and 1075 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:39.280 that's a good time. But you right today is a 1076 00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:42.519 good time to plant a rose. Get one, get it 1077 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:44.639 in the ground. Talk to them. They'll get you some 1078 00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:47.559 root stimulators, some other products you need to get success 1079 00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:49.679 with that plant. They'll even tell you how to do it. 1080 00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:51.320 They won't come out and plant it for you, but 1081 00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:54.519 they will do how to do it. And I'm telling you, 1082 00:57:54.599 --> 00:57:56.679 why not a rose, it's a queen of the garden. 1083 00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:59.400 If you've got a sunny spot. Roses like sun If 1084 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.480 you got a sun spot and you want something that 1085 00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:03.719 just gives you color and color, they've got it. Do 1086 00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:06.119 you want one that's a cut flower, They've got it. 1087 00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:08.119 You bring those cut flowers in. Do you want one 1088 00:58:08.119 --> 00:58:10.840 that is a shrub, a shrub type rose, you just 1089 00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:13.320 hedge it. You don't have to be a rose printing specially. 1090 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:16.519 Just headgs the thing and it'll grow and it'll look good. 1091 00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:19.000 Knockouts that kind of rose. It does good. But oh 1092 00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.639 my gosh, when you've got six pages of roses shoes from, 1093 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:27.000 you're not gonna do better now. R cwnurseries dot com. 1094 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:29.679 And while you're in there, yes, you're gonna find herbs 1095 00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:33.440 and vegetables and flowers and other kinds of ornamental shrubs 1096 00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:36.800 and trees and everything else, including the products. You need 1097 00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:40.360 to have success with them, So go check it out. 1098 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:45.800 You have been forewarned. The opportunity is there. There should 1099 00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:48.000 be a there should be a line backed up on 1100 00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:50.000 two forty nine and bout way a trying to get 1101 00:58:50.039 --> 00:58:52.679 into that place today with the with the kind of 1102 00:58:53.320 --> 00:58:58.559 shipment that they've gotten in on these beautiful roses. You know, 1103 00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:04.400 I like roses. They I like easy care. Now when 1104 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.360 it comes to roses, I'm just kind of wandering on 1105 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:09.159 on roses here because I like talking about roses. The 1106 00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:13.000 you know, rose enthusiasts. They may be into the cut 1107 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:17.119 flowers and the really unique and beautiful hybrid teas and 1108 00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:19.920 just all that kind of thing, and that's fine, you 1109 00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:23.159 can do that, but you may just want a little groundcover, 1110 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:25.840 spreading rose. Do you know. Roses can be groundcovers and 1111 00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:29.119 sunny spots. There are a number of types of roses 1112 00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:32.199 that they stay small, they stay low, and they spread 1113 00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:34.960 out and they do really well. I mentioned I like 1114 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:38.320 shrub roses because I think it's pretty cool that to 1115 00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:41.039 get a shrub with green leaves, so it's a shrub. 1116 00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:44.559 It looks good, but then it blooms. I mean, what 1117 00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:48.679 a deal? What a what a plus that is and 1118 00:59:48.719 --> 00:59:51.320 it's easy. It's easy to do, you know. It used 1119 00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:53.719 to be roses were all prima donnas. I mean you 1120 00:59:53.760 --> 00:59:55.880 had to sit there and in one hand you had 1121 00:59:55.920 --> 00:59:57.920 an umbrella to keep the rain off of them because 1122 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.280 rain promotes disease, and in the other hand had a 1123 01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:02.360 spray wand to squirt them every five minutes with a 1124 01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:05.519 fungeeside to keep them from dying from some disease. Now 1125 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:09.119 now we have got a lot of roses with incredible 1126 01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:13.039 disease resistance that they can be a very very low 1127 01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:17.039 care maintenance shrub in your landscape and you get flowers 1128 01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:21.039 and in some cases you get fragrance too. So I 1129 01:00:21.039 --> 01:00:23.639 think everybody will to plant more roses. How about an arbor, 1130 01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:27.199 how about a pergola or maybe an archway going in 1131 01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:30.280 to the garden or entering an outdoor patio sitting area, 1132 01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:32.840 or an arbor over the top of an outdoor sitting area. 1133 01:00:33.280 --> 01:00:33.639 I have. 1134 01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:39.079 I have a rose that goes over a pergola type 1135 01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:42.639 structure over a part of one of my patio areas 1136 01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:48.000 in the back, and it's just gorgeous. This is a 1137 01:00:48.239 --> 01:00:50.480 this is a climber, and so a lot of climbers 1138 01:00:50.519 --> 01:00:53.000 tend to be once bloomers, meaning they bloom in spring, 1139 01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:56.920 but not after that. But that's good with me, you know. 1140 01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:02.000 I'm good with that, and so'm I really really enjoy it. Yeah, 1141 01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:04.960 I do. And when when spring comes, oh my gosh, 1142 01:01:05.079 --> 01:01:07.800 the branches, the shoots of that that hang over the 1143 01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:13.360 sides of the pergola just load up with flowers. Gorgeous, beautiful, 1144 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.440 beautiful flowers. That minds of Peggy Martin. By the way, 1145 01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:18.320 that's one of the ones that in the last ten 1146 01:01:18.440 --> 01:01:23.079 years has just been so loved and famous because it 1147 01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:27.320 survived the New Orleans hurricane floods. It went for weeks 1148 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:33.000 out there years ago. You remember that one, Katrina, Peggy Martin. 1149 01:01:33.159 --> 01:01:35.360 That's a good one. But Peggy Martin is just one 1150 01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:38.320 example of many many good rowses. So anyway, that's the 1151 01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:41.639 one I have in my pergola. I love that thing. Well, 1152 01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:44.079 you're listening to Guardline our phone numbers seven one three 1153 01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:48.119 two one two k t r H seven one three 1154 01:01:48.440 --> 01:01:53.159 two one two k t r h H. It is 1155 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:55.639 about time for me to go to a little break 1156 01:01:55.639 --> 01:01:58.000 here in just a moment, I did want to mention 1157 01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:02.679 that if you have questions that might involve a photo. 1158 01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:06.159 You can call my producer, talk to Jonathan seven one 1159 01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:09.119 three two one two KTRH. Tell him you got a 1160 01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:10.840 photo you need to send me, and then follow that 1161 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:14.800 up with a phone call. I'm not able to answer 1162 01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:18.400 with my fingers typing all the questions that come in 1163 01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:21.639 at the time just doesn't allow that. But if you 1164 01:02:21.719 --> 01:02:23.639 will send me a picture or send me a question 1165 01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:26.519 with a photo and then call in, we can discuss it. 1166 01:02:26.519 --> 01:02:28.000 Because I'll tell you this, I know a lot of 1167 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:30.519 people are shy to be on the air. Don't worry 1168 01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:34.320 about it. The pressure's on me, not you. And so 1169 01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:36.400 send me a picture and I can look at it 1170 01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:38.159 and then we can talk about Because somebody else is 1171 01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:40.440 going to have the same question. You may think, Ah, 1172 01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:43.039 this is a stupid question. Nobody asks us. No it's not. 1173 01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:45.679 It's not a stupid question. There's only stupid answers. And 1174 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:48.639 I'll worry about that, all right, folks. I'll be right back, 1175 01:02:48.679 --> 01:02:50.239 and we're going to take a call from looks like 1176 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:55.440 Jimmy when we come right back. Alrighty, let's get right 1177 01:02:55.480 --> 01:02:58.000 to the phones this hour. We're going to head to Conro, 1178 01:02:58.239 --> 01:03:03.119 Texas and talk to Jimmy. Hey, Jimmy, welcome to garden line. 1179 01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:08.639 Oh hello, do we have Jimmy? Yeah, there you are. 1180 01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:10.519 Let's sorry about that. 1181 01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:11.280 Uh. 1182 01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:16.519 Yes, I have a rose bush and there used to 1183 01:03:16.519 --> 01:03:18.760 be three other ones, but they never survived. 1184 01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:21.119 This one hardly did anything to it. 1185 01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:27.199 And I have given catfish in the to the soil 1186 01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:34.119 where the rose bushes were, and I'm thinking about propagating 1187 01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:38.360 them because that rose bush seems to be really resilient 1188 01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:41.840 and just survives. I guess, so I will say about 1189 01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:44.920 propagating it, okay. And the thing about that. 1190 01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:49.480 Yeah, so do you happen to know the name of 1191 01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:50.199 the rose or not? 1192 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:51.440 No? 1193 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:58.400 That's kind of pink. Okay, okay. Uh. A lot of 1194 01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:03.000 roses are grafted, and their grafted is because the root 1195 01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:10.840 stock is more resilient in certain soil conditions than a 1196 01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:13.599 rooted rose would have been. But there are a lot 1197 01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:16.320 of types of roses that aren't grafted. They root a 1198 01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:19.679 cutting like you're describing, and then they just plant it. 1199 01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:22.880 And so you can go either way. But what you'll 1200 01:04:22.920 --> 01:04:26.199 want to do is there's two things you can do. 1201 01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:29.119 The standard way people propagate roses is to take a 1202 01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:32.480 cutting and take the leaves off the Let's say the 1203 01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:35.360 cutting is about four inches long, and you take the 1204 01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:38.840 leaves off the bottom half of that cutting and dip 1205 01:04:38.920 --> 01:04:41.079 it in a rooting hormone powder, which you can get 1206 01:04:41.119 --> 01:04:44.480 at any garden center, and then you put it in 1207 01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:48.920 moist like a potting soil or something like that, put 1208 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:52.519 a cover over it to keep the humidity in because 1209 01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:54.519 otherwise they've dry it before it has a chance to 1210 01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:57.039 make roots. And put it in a bright spot, but 1211 01:04:57.320 --> 01:05:01.119 not direct sunlight, so really like real close to like 1212 01:05:01.159 --> 01:05:03.679 an eastern window or something like that would be good, 1213 01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:06.679 or a northern window. Even you want good light, but 1214 01:05:06.719 --> 01:05:09.760 you don't want direct sunlight. And it takes a while, 1215 01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:12.880 but most roses are fairly easy to root. If you 1216 01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:15.000 get a good, healthy cutting and you dip it in 1217 01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:18.119 rooting hormone first and make sure it's in a moist condition. 1218 01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:21.800 There's another way to do it that is a higher 1219 01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:25.360 percentage success. And if this bush has branches that are 1220 01:05:25.440 --> 01:05:29.800 kind of sagging down toward the ground, you can go 1221 01:05:29.960 --> 01:05:32.320 out toward the end of a branch. With roses, you 1222 01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:37.840 don't want to root a woody limb of the of 1223 01:05:37.880 --> 01:05:40.960 the rose bush. You know one that has bark on 1224 01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:44.800 the outside. It's that big or old. You want to 1225 01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:49.840 root something that's pencil sized or smaller, typically typically smaller. 1226 01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:53.400 But if you take one of those and you bend it, 1227 01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:57.320 what it'll happen is it'll crack. It won't No, I'm 1228 01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:59.440 not talking about snap off, but I'm talking about you 1229 01:05:59.480 --> 01:06:02.039 just bend it, and now it's almost like that branch 1230 01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:04.360 has an elbow on it. You see what I'm saying. 1231 01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:07.119 You move it and it's attached, but it moves like 1232 01:06:07.159 --> 01:06:10.639 an elbow. And you put that elbow down in the 1233 01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:14.639 ground and I will often take a piece of coat hanger, 1234 01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:17.400 make a U shape a piece of coat hanger and 1235 01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:20.840 push it into the soil to hold that elbow into 1236 01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:23.599 a shallow hole in the ground, maybe three or four 1237 01:06:23.599 --> 01:06:27.000 inches deep, and then put soil over it and keep 1238 01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:28.800 it moist. Some people will just set a big, heavy 1239 01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:30.440 rock over it. You just don't want the wind to 1240 01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:32.239 blow the branch and pull it back out of the ground. 1241 01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:35.320 But if you do that, it will root. It may 1242 01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:38.079 take a few weeks to do that, but once it 1243 01:06:38.159 --> 01:06:40.800 is rooting, you can cut it loose from the mother 1244 01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:43.320 plant and dig it up and move it wherever you want. 1245 01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:47.480 So that's called a tip layer or a layer la 1246 01:06:47.679 --> 01:06:52.639 yeer and it's more successful than cuttings because what happens 1247 01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:58.440 is the mother plant is nourishing the cutting while it's developing, 1248 01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:01.199 or the thing while it's develop uping roots as opposed 1249 01:07:01.199 --> 01:07:03.239 to being cut off. And now it has no nourishment 1250 01:07:03.599 --> 01:07:05.239 and it just has to get a root done real 1251 01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:07.920 quick before it dies. That's how it would be with 1252 01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:13.119 a cutting. That makes sense. Oh yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, 1253 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:17.199 do this. Go online and do a search for layering 1254 01:07:17.480 --> 01:07:21.239 l A y e R layering a rose and you'll 1255 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:24.000 find lots of good help to help you do that. Okay, 1256 01:07:24.360 --> 01:07:26.559 And if there's nothing down low like that, then you've 1257 01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:30.559 got to do cuttings. All right. Hey, good luck with that, Jimmy, 1258 01:07:31.719 --> 01:07:37.599 thank you all right, Yes, sir, appreciate that you as well. 1259 01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:41.519 Thank you very much. Let's see here, all right, We're 1260 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:45.199 going to go to Brookshire now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, 1261 01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:46.199 welcome to guard Line. 1262 01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:48.199 Good morning. 1263 01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:55.119 Morning. So how can we help Well, I have a. 1264 01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:59.400 Just bought a new home in north of Berkshire here 1265 01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:03.199 just for five nine in Waller County, and it has 1266 01:08:03.559 --> 01:08:08.320 zero landscaping, with the exception of Saint Augustine, Bermuda and weeds, 1267 01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:12.960 and I'm curious. I'm looking for help in several areas. First, 1268 01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:16.039 I want to get some trees in and I'm cious 1269 01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:20.159 looking for recommendations on that. I've got an acre and 1270 01:08:20.159 --> 01:08:21.880 a half, so I've got a lot of real estate 1271 01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:27.279 and any companies that might get I need to put 1272 01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:31.159 some pre emergent down, I'm sure pretty soon, and fertilizer. 1273 01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:32.960 And I've got my own water well, so I'm a 1274 01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:39.159 little concerned about putting down the right stuff there. And lastly, 1275 01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:46.920 I'm adding a water softener that will also hit the spigots. 1276 01:08:46.359 --> 01:08:46.960 On the house. 1277 01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:50.399 And I'm wondering if there's a difference between potassium chloride and. 1278 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:53.319 Sodium chloride on the water softer on how it will. 1279 01:08:53.199 --> 01:08:56.640 Affect any of the plants I put around the house. 1280 01:08:58.439 --> 01:09:03.920 Alrighty, well, I'm not sure why you're softening outdoor spiggot water. 1281 01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:07.279 You know, we we soften our water, you know, for 1282 01:09:07.359 --> 01:09:10.439 the pipes. I know that's one reason, but we soften 1283 01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:15.319 for washing clothes and things like that. But anyway, the 1284 01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:19.279 potassium potassium isn't as bad as sodium when it comes 1285 01:09:19.319 --> 01:09:23.479 to that, but still softened water is not something that 1286 01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:27.399 the plants are real fond of. As far as you know, 1287 01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:30.800 you have a bunch of questions and that's good. By 1288 01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:33.079 the way, feel free to call back as often as 1289 01:09:33.119 --> 01:09:35.119 you like, and we kind of walk through all of them. 1290 01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:40.039 But as far as you know, making sure that you've 1291 01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:41.760 got the kind of plants you want, there's a lot 1292 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:43.640 of good things out There's a lot of good trees 1293 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:47.720 out there. You're just down the street from Nelson Water 1294 01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:51.760 Gardens and Katie off it In and Katie and they 1295 01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:54.359 have they carry trees and they could probably direct you 1296 01:09:54.439 --> 01:09:58.079 to local landscapers who they would recommend if you want 1297 01:09:58.119 --> 01:10:04.039 that kind of help. Down toward Richmond from you is 1298 01:10:05.239 --> 01:10:08.199 Enchanted Gardens and the same thing there. They do carry 1299 01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:10.399 a lot of trees and they could also direct you 1300 01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:14.680 probably to some landscapers in your area. As far as 1301 01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:18.560 trees go, I like blooming trees in the summer like 1302 01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:22.880 Craig myrtles are beautiful. Chinese fringe tree has white, shaggy 1303 01:10:22.960 --> 01:10:26.279 spring blooms. That's a nice one. Didn't get too large, 1304 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.239 so it's one where you know, it sounds like you 1305 01:10:29.359 --> 01:10:31.720 got the space for a large tree, but it's nice 1306 01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:34.680 having some smaller trees around too, over a patio or 1307 01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:38.720 something you can enjoy visually. But then there's beautiful shade 1308 01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:42.199 trees that would do well. A nut tall oak and 1309 01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:46.760 new t t A l nut tall oak is a 1310 01:10:46.760 --> 01:10:49.359 good red oak that would do well out in your area. 1311 01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:51.800 And then there's a lot of others that also will 1312 01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:55.600 do well there. Mike, I'm running up against a hard break. 1313 01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:58.079 If you want to hang on through the break. When 1314 01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:00.680 we come back, we can continue this this because i 1315 01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:04.960 know you have you know, additional probably follow ups questions 1316 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:06.840 on it, but I'm going to put you on hold. 1317 01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:09.079 If you want to stick around, we'll talk when when 1318 01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:12.039 you get back. When we get back, time for me 1319 01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:15.000 to take a top of the hour break. Just want 1320 01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:18.159 to remind everybody I'm going to be down in regiment 1321 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:25.159 area at the Fort Ben County Epicenter. That's on Southwest 1322 01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:27.880 Freeway right there, so you're heading down south. That'll be 1323 01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:29.800 on the left hand side. I'm going to be there 1324 01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:33.439 from one to three today. From one to three now, 1325 01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:36.960 I'll be starting off for about an hour of talking 1326 01:11:37.039 --> 01:11:40.600 about the essential steps of creating a thriving spring garden 1327 01:11:40.920 --> 01:11:45.439 and a lawn. In fact, yeah, just all kinds of 1328 01:11:45.439 --> 01:11:48.760 things about having success in the spring. What do you 1329 01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:49.159 need to know? 1330 01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:49.359 Then? 1331 01:11:49.359 --> 01:11:51.439 I want to talk about answering your gardening questions for 1332 01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:54.279 about an hour, so I'll be giving away free samples. 1333 01:11:54.279 --> 01:11:56.439 I'll bring copies of my books down there to sign 1334 01:11:56.479 --> 01:11:59.840 if you're interested, but basically just helping you have six 1335 01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:02.239 us through Q and A and bring me samples. 1336 01:12:04.039 --> 01:12:08.079 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richards. 1337 01:12:16.640 --> 01:12:24.560 Just watch him as so many things to. 1338 01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:37.760 All right, we're back, Welcome back to garden Line. I 1339 01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:40.800 am glad you are with us today, looking forward to 1340 01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:43.439 visiting with you. I was mentioned before we went to 1341 01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:47.680 break about talking with Mike out in Brookshire, which we're 1342 01:12:47.680 --> 01:12:49.800 going to come back to here just a second, about 1343 01:12:49.840 --> 01:12:52.520 in China Gardens being down south of him. There has 1344 01:12:52.600 --> 01:12:54.880 been a source for he was looking for some trees 1345 01:12:54.920 --> 01:12:58.119 for example. Uh, they really in China Gardens has an 1346 01:12:58.199 --> 01:13:01.000 unmatched selection of plants and in general, I mean if 1347 01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:04.199 you're talking about vegetables or ornamental grasses, or flowers or 1348 01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:06.720 herbs or shrubs or trees or roses or fruit trees 1349 01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:09.880 or just everything you name it, they've got a good, 1350 01:13:10.319 --> 01:13:14.840 good selection of it. They also have an outstanding selection 1351 01:13:14.920 --> 01:13:18.399 of products to go with the things that you're purchasing there. Remember, 1352 01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:19.760 we got to take care of the soil for you. 1353 01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:23.800 Take ore of the plants well Microlife, nitrofoss Nelson, plant 1354 01:13:23.840 --> 01:13:27.359 food Medina, things from Nature's Way, things from heirloom soils, 1355 01:13:27.359 --> 01:13:29.640 things from landscapers Pride. See what I mean. They've got 1356 01:13:29.680 --> 01:13:32.640 it all right there now. In Chenna Gardens is on 1357 01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:36.680 the Kjfullshire side of Richmond. They're on FM three fifty 1358 01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:39.439 nine three fifty nine. You just go to the website 1359 01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:46.000 Entented Gardens Richmond dot com Entented Gardens Richmond dot com. 1360 01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:49.520 They're open money through Saturday from eight to five and 1361 01:13:49.600 --> 01:13:52.800 Tomorrow Sunday from ten am to four pm. By the way, 1362 01:13:52.840 --> 01:13:54.680 I'm going to be out there in at Chenna Gardens 1363 01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:58.199 on Saturday, February fifteenth, from twelve to one. I'm gonna 1364 01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:01.880 be giving a talk on till for making gardening less work, 1365 01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:04.039 talk about how to get more from your gardens with 1366 01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:05.760 the way I like to put it, how to get 1367 01:14:05.760 --> 01:14:09.119 more with less sweat and ibuprofen. I hope you make 1368 01:14:09.159 --> 01:14:12.319 gardening easy and more productive and more fun in the process. 1369 01:14:12.359 --> 01:14:15.039 Out there in Jenny Gardens and that'll be on February fifteenth. 1370 01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:18.079 From twelve till one, we're going to go back to 1371 01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:21.800 Mike now in Brookshire. Mike, where do we pick it up? Here? 1372 01:14:21.840 --> 01:14:23.800 We were talking about some things you might want to 1373 01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:24.600 plant out there. 1374 01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:30.399 We were I think we're ready to transition to the yard. 1375 01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:34.840 So I've got a combination of Saint Augustine and Bermuda 1376 01:14:34.960 --> 01:14:38.600 pretty well covered a lot of weeds as well, and 1377 01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:44.000 looking for recommendations for water well friendly pre emergence and 1378 01:14:44.119 --> 01:14:47.039 infertilizers and granular or liquid. 1379 01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:52.039 I'm not sure what I need, Okay. What i want 1380 01:14:52.079 --> 01:14:54.279 to do is have you go to my website. I 1381 01:14:54.279 --> 01:14:56.199 don't know, have you ever been and looked at my 1382 01:14:56.439 --> 01:15:02.920 gardening schedules yet up there on the website, have yes, sir? Okay. 1383 01:15:03.199 --> 01:15:05.279 So there's a lawn care schedule, and then there's a 1384 01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:10.039 lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. The second one 1385 01:15:10.159 --> 01:15:13.119 pest disease and weed management. If you have a question 1386 01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:17.000 about like pre emergent weed control, you'll see on the 1387 01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:21.000 schedule that anytime from mid January through February in our 1388 01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:23.720 general listening area here, which is a large area. But 1389 01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:28.000 that's why it's a big section on the calendar is 1390 01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:29.880 the time to put your pre emergent out because you 1391 01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:33.760 want to get those out before we'd seeds begin to 1392 01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:35.920 sprout and come up. And when I say weed seeds 1393 01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:38.840 in this case, I mean warm season weed seeds. The 1394 01:15:38.840 --> 01:15:42.359 cool season weeds are already growing. But that's when you 1395 01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:43.880 do it. If you at the bottom of the schedule 1396 01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:47.079 there there's a pre emergent section with synthetic and organic 1397 01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:50.800 options for trying to deal with weeds in the lawn 1398 01:15:50.920 --> 01:15:54.279 in a pre emergent way. Then there's more information on 1399 01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:56.760 post emergent. But the main thing on pre emergence is 1400 01:15:57.039 --> 01:15:59.279 you want to grab a product, you know, night frust 1401 01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:01.119 barricades and I talk most about. 1402 01:16:01.680 --> 01:16:01.880 Uh. 1403 01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:04.199 You put it out at the label rate, water it 1404 01:16:04.279 --> 01:16:06.279 in with about a half inch of water. Get it 1405 01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:09.960 into the soil surface. Just get it into the soil surface, uh, 1406 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:12.680 and then it will prevent when the weed seed tries 1407 01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:15.039 to sprout. It it doesn't let it establish and grow, 1408 01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:18.079 it kills it and so but you have to do 1409 01:16:18.119 --> 01:16:20.399 it before the weed seed tries to sprout. 1410 01:16:22.399 --> 01:16:28.760 Okay, perfect, I guess the last last question any recommendations 1411 01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:31.279 on I've got it mentioned an acre and a half. 1412 01:16:32.600 --> 01:16:35.119 Some of the soil I know was trucked in to 1413 01:16:35.159 --> 01:16:40.600 build elevation. How would I go about getting a soil 1414 01:16:40.720 --> 01:16:41.600 test done? 1415 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:47.239 Okay, I also have a thing on my website that 1416 01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:50.479 is a publication that I it's just a page that 1417 01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:54.680 I wrote on soil testing and uh, it's at the 1418 01:16:54.720 --> 01:16:58.720 garden It's at the Gardening with Skip website, Gardening with 1419 01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:02.479 Skip dot com. But the short answer is there is 1420 01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:05.560 the state soil testing lab is at A and M, 1421 01:17:05.840 --> 01:17:11.800 and the website is soil Testing one word dot T 1422 01:17:12.159 --> 01:17:15.399 a m U as in Texas A and M University 1423 01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:20.560 dot ed U as an education so soil testing dot 1424 01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:25.479 TAMU dot edu. And you want to choose the urban 1425 01:17:26.199 --> 01:17:29.479 soil test form urban even though you're out in the 1426 01:17:29.479 --> 01:17:35.520 country Berkshire. Urban means yards, gardens, roses, flower beds, you 1427 01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:37.920 know that, that kind of thing. That's what urban means. 1428 01:17:38.640 --> 01:17:41.479 But urban soil testing form uh. And then follow the 1429 01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:44.680 instructions and when you get the results back, if you've 1430 01:17:44.680 --> 01:17:47.319 got questions, you can maybe send me a copy of 1431 01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:50.479 it and then give me a call to follow up 1432 01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:52.960 on it and we can we can discuss some of that. 1433 01:17:53.520 --> 01:17:56.439 Or you can go to your county Extension office and 1434 01:17:56.600 --> 01:18:01.399 your horticulture or agriculture agent can help interpret it as well. 1435 01:18:03.640 --> 01:18:05.800 Easy, okay, thank you very much. 1436 01:18:06.079 --> 01:18:09.680 Yeah, just make make sure and follow the instructions for 1437 01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:12.399 how to take a soil sample. The bottom line is 1438 01:18:12.439 --> 01:18:14.680 you want to take a composite sample from a bunch 1439 01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:18.800 of different spots of a six inch core of soil. 1440 01:18:19.479 --> 01:18:21.520 So you want the same amount of soil one inch 1441 01:18:21.640 --> 01:18:24.079 deep as six inches deep. You know, don't just scoop 1442 01:18:24.119 --> 01:18:26.039 some off the top two inches. Don't dig a hole 1443 01:18:26.039 --> 01:18:27.439 and take some out of the bottom of the hole. 1444 01:18:28.119 --> 01:18:31.239 Get a get a vertical section from a bunch of places, 1445 01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:34.079 could be five to ten places. Mix it all together 1446 01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:36.119 and you need about a pint of soil to send in. 1447 01:18:39.600 --> 01:18:43.640 All right, sir, you've met Thanks for the call, looking 1448 01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:48.319 for You're talking it again sometime YouTube, Bye bye. Nature's 1449 01:18:48.319 --> 01:18:51.640 Way resources is up there in Conroe on off Interstate 1450 01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:53.720 forty five. In fact, if you're heading if you're heading 1451 01:18:53.720 --> 01:18:56.479 from Houston north to Conroe, right where fourteen eighty eight 1452 01:18:56.560 --> 01:18:59.159 comes in from Magnolia, you just turn right across the 1453 01:18:59.199 --> 01:19:01.640 tracks and you're there. Nature's Way. It's on Turrbroke Circle 1454 01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:04.439 right there and they have number one. They've They've got 1455 01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:07.319 every kind of soil product you possibly could want or 1456 01:19:07.359 --> 01:19:09.800 need in a very quality form. They've been doing this 1457 01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:11.840 is kind of I guess you could almost say the 1458 01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:17.399 grandfather of soil products is John John Ferguson at Nature's 1459 01:19:17.399 --> 01:19:19.760 Way I and his son now runs a place carries 1460 01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:23.479 the same tradition, same kind of quality products, from composts 1461 01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:26.439 to bed mixes, to things for fruit trees, things for herbs. 1462 01:19:26.840 --> 01:19:30.399 You need mulches, do you, I mean flower beds. They've 1463 01:19:30.439 --> 01:19:33.640 got it all right there at Nature's Way. And all 1464 01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:36.159 you have to do is go check them out and 1465 01:19:36.439 --> 01:19:38.079 you can. You can drive up there with your truck 1466 01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:40.760 or trader and get some stuff if you want, you can, 1467 01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:43.319 you know, have them deliver it for you. And lie 1468 01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:46.000 of their products are available by the bag around the 1469 01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:52.319 greater Houston area as well. Nature's Way Resources dot Com. 1470 01:19:52.600 --> 01:19:55.199 Go to that website. Everything he needs there Nature's Way 1471 01:19:55.239 --> 01:19:58.439 Resources dot Com. I'm gonna take a break now, I'll 1472 01:19:58.479 --> 01:20:01.119 be right back with a call for from Christa out 1473 01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:06.159 in Richmond. Alrighty, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, 1474 01:20:06.159 --> 01:20:10.279 Stip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions 1475 01:20:10.279 --> 01:20:13.760 at seven one three, two, one, two, five, eight, seven four. 1476 01:20:13.880 --> 01:20:18.800 Listen the super Bowls coming? Are you geared up for that? All? Right? Well, 1477 01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:22.279 speaking of Super Bowls, one of the things I like 1478 01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:24.560 to do most is grill. I like to grill up. 1479 01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:28.359 I like to grill all the time, actually, but grilling 1480 01:20:28.399 --> 01:20:32.199 burgers and whatever you're into grilling in kababs and things. 1481 01:20:34.079 --> 01:20:36.680 If you want to really have a good quality grill, 1482 01:20:36.760 --> 01:20:40.000 you just need to go by ACE Hardware. Because what 1483 01:20:40.039 --> 01:20:43.359 are the biggest best brands that the famous ones, the 1484 01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:46.119 ones that people just swear by, like Big Green Egg 1485 01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:49.640 They've got it, Rectech got it, Tragger got it, Weber 1486 01:20:49.840 --> 01:20:53.439 got it, Blackstone, They've got it. ACE Hardware Store has 1487 01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:56.199 got you covered for grills and all the accessories that 1488 01:20:56.239 --> 01:20:58.319 you need. With Super Bowl coming up and all of that. 1489 01:20:58.680 --> 01:21:00.640 You got it. Now, when when you go to ACE, 1490 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:02.800 you got to get and you got to join and 1491 01:21:02.840 --> 01:21:05.479 become an ACE Rewards member. Sure, simply you just sign 1492 01:21:05.520 --> 01:21:07.640 the me. It doesn't take anything to do it. But 1493 01:21:08.159 --> 01:21:10.279 when you do that, in average purchase you make you're 1494 01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:14.520 earning points toward it. And a lot of ACE Hardware 1495 01:21:14.560 --> 01:21:18.039 stores for their members will do an assembly and a 1496 01:21:18.119 --> 01:21:21.359 delivery of grills to your house. So just ask about that. 1497 01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:22.960 Where you shop at your ACE. You know there's a 1498 01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:25.319 bunch of Aces all over the place. You just go 1499 01:21:25.399 --> 01:21:29.039 to Acehardware dot Com and find the store locator and 1500 01:21:29.079 --> 01:21:31.399 find the one near you. Now, right now in my garage, 1501 01:21:31.520 --> 01:21:35.720 I'm doing cleanup. Shelving units are available at ACE. Storage 1502 01:21:35.720 --> 01:21:39.039 binds are available at ACE. Everything you need to get 1503 01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:41.680 that spring cleaning done, both out in the garage and 1504 01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:44.560 in the house. All kinds of cleaning supplies and things 1505 01:21:44.640 --> 01:21:47.079 like that. ACE has got you covered. It's as simple 1506 01:21:47.079 --> 01:21:49.760 as that. You know, there's ACE everywhere. Like I said, 1507 01:21:49.800 --> 01:21:53.000 there's one in Victoria, Victoria ACE down Base City ACE. 1508 01:21:53.640 --> 01:21:55.920 If you go down to Galveston, they got Chalmers ACE 1509 01:21:56.359 --> 01:21:58.960 down there. So it's just really easy to find an 1510 01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:03.159 ACE store near you. I think we're going to go 1511 01:22:03.239 --> 01:22:07.399 out now to Richmond, Texas and talk to Christa. Hello Christa, 1512 01:22:07.479 --> 01:22:08.600 Welcome to Garden Line. 1513 01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:11.560 Hi dare Skip. Thank you for taking my call and 1514 01:22:11.640 --> 01:22:16.600 really appreciate it. I just actually moved here, Thank you. 1515 01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:19.560 I started. I just moved here about nine months ago 1516 01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:24.079 from Nevada where it's desert. So this is a whole 1517 01:22:24.119 --> 01:22:27.199 different world to me here as far as landscaping. But 1518 01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:32.279 I start it is totally the soil is so different here. 1519 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:34.000 And I was pretty good. 1520 01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:35.640 At him when I was everything in the desert. 1521 01:22:36.359 --> 01:22:40.720 Yeah, So I started a landscape project. I'm putting in 1522 01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:44.199 a partial of some rock, you know, some type of 1523 01:22:44.239 --> 01:22:47.520 what we call desert landscaping. But I kept a lot 1524 01:22:47.560 --> 01:22:51.880 of grass. But the gentlemen that are doing the work 1525 01:22:51.920 --> 01:22:54.760 are going to remove some maulch and a little layer 1526 01:22:54.880 --> 01:22:57.920 of dirt. We're going to re put some fresh mulch 1527 01:22:58.000 --> 01:23:01.600 in fresh soil there in the garden area in the front, 1528 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:03.600 We're going to plant with some flowers. 1529 01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:05.079 Is it? 1530 01:23:05.119 --> 01:23:06.920 Is it okay to you? 1531 01:23:06.920 --> 01:23:07.079 Now? 1532 01:23:07.079 --> 01:23:10.000 I have some very low areas in the backyard. It's 1533 01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:14.840 a huge backyard where and where I'm actually having a 1534 01:23:14.840 --> 01:23:18.800 lot of puddling, a lot of waters gathering after it 1535 01:23:18.920 --> 01:23:22.600 rains or snows. Would it be okay to instead of 1536 01:23:22.680 --> 01:23:26.000 throwing that away, to place it there in those lower areas, 1537 01:23:26.039 --> 01:23:29.159 I'm trying to build those areas up so there because 1538 01:23:29.199 --> 01:23:32.079 you know in the summer that it then gets moldy 1539 01:23:33.000 --> 01:23:37.359 as it as the heat comes. So go ahead, I'm sorry. 1540 01:23:38.520 --> 01:23:41.119 Yeah, right, So tell me what is what is it 1541 01:23:41.159 --> 01:23:43.000 that you're going to put in those lower areas? I 1542 01:23:43.039 --> 01:23:44.800 miss that. What are you asking? 1543 01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:46.960 Well, they're going to. 1544 01:23:47.039 --> 01:23:51.000 Remove the malt, maulch, and soil from the there's a 1545 01:23:51.039 --> 01:23:54.960 little area in the front where you know how in 1546 01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:58.279 most front yards there is like the builders put an 1547 01:23:58.319 --> 01:24:02.680 area where there's shrubs and you and flowers. So they're 1548 01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:07.439 going to remove They're going to remove the old mulch 1549 01:24:08.119 --> 01:24:12.840 and soil. And because they want to put fresh mulch 1550 01:24:12.880 --> 01:24:15.720 and soil in, so I can plant some beautiful flowers 1551 01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:18.920 there in a couple of weeks and instead of throwing 1552 01:24:19.000 --> 01:24:22.600 that old away? Can I use that in those low 1553 01:24:22.680 --> 01:24:25.119 areas in the backyard where water. 1554 01:24:27.680 --> 01:24:31.159 So if it's soil, yes you can. If it's mulch, 1555 01:24:31.279 --> 01:24:34.880 I wouldn't. Mulch is just organic matter that is going 1556 01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:37.720 to decompose and shrink down. So if you fill the 1557 01:24:37.760 --> 01:24:42.800 low areas and you use mostly mult slash compost type materials, 1558 01:24:43.239 --> 01:24:45.560 it's going to just sink back down again. Just the way. 1559 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:47.159 I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but if 1560 01:24:47.159 --> 01:24:50.439 you had a pot on the patio, after two years, 1561 01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:52.439 the pot's only half full of soil because what was 1562 01:24:52.479 --> 01:24:55.720 there was almost all organic matter and it just decomposed away, 1563 01:24:56.399 --> 01:24:59.199 So just use soil to fill in the low areas. 1564 01:24:59.720 --> 01:25:04.079 But and the old malt is good. Maltmult decomposes and 1565 01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:09.000 releases nutrients. It turns into compost which feeds microbes in 1566 01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:12.039 the soil and makes your plants happy, your soil better. 1567 01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:15.680 So I would never get rid of olmult I generally, 1568 01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:18.600 and I know you're renovating there, so I would pull 1569 01:25:18.600 --> 01:25:20.920 it and set it aside, and then I would get 1570 01:25:20.920 --> 01:25:23.119 all the bed done, and then I'd put the ulmultch 1571 01:25:23.119 --> 01:25:26.039 back in and you can pull it aside to do 1572 01:25:26.119 --> 01:25:29.479 your planting around it. But think of the forest floor. 1573 01:25:29.760 --> 01:25:32.000 There's dry leaves on top, and then as you go 1574 01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:36.359 down you get into rich crumbly leaf mold compost d 1575 01:25:36.520 --> 01:25:39.039 materials that is the best of on earth, and then 1576 01:25:39.079 --> 01:25:42.000 the soils down below that. And that's what you do 1577 01:25:42.039 --> 01:25:45.359 in your flower beds is when you have nu malts needed, 1578 01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:48.239 when the olmult gets thin, just add nu mulch on 1579 01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:50.680 top and leave that almultch because that's just when it's 1580 01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:52.359 getting to be really good soil stuff. 1581 01:25:53.560 --> 01:25:57.640 Oh well, that's good news because so basically what people 1582 01:25:57.880 --> 01:26:01.560 when people are replacing their mulch doing it, probably because 1583 01:26:01.640 --> 01:26:05.800 the mulch doesn't look attractive, right, so they think, well, 1584 01:26:05.800 --> 01:26:10.279 I'm going to put new mults in because okay, okay. 1585 01:26:10.000 --> 01:26:12.079 I guess yes, And beauty is in the eye of 1586 01:26:12.119 --> 01:26:16.600 the beholder. Some people like colored mulches and I don't. 1587 01:26:16.680 --> 01:26:19.840 I don't care for those at all. But I think 1588 01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:23.279 old malts is beautiful. But if you want something pretty 1589 01:26:23.319 --> 01:26:26.800 and fresh, you know, there's a product that Landscaper's Pride makes. 1590 01:26:26.800 --> 01:26:29.840 It's available all over town and it is. It's called 1591 01:26:29.880 --> 01:26:33.039 black velvet, and it's not dyed. It's just naturally very 1592 01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:36.279 dark color. So some people like that and it's fine. 1593 01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:39.920 It's fine stuff, especially because it's not dyeed. But any 1594 01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:42.880 kind of a quality mulch put on the surface is 1595 01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:45.600 what you want to do, just to maintain something that 1596 01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:48.359 blocks the sunlight out and moderates soil temperatures. 1597 01:26:49.439 --> 01:26:52.000 Oh okay, well, thank you very much. I really apprecire 1598 01:26:52.000 --> 01:26:54.239 your help. Thank you, sir. You have a beautiful day. 1599 01:26:54.279 --> 01:26:58.079 All right, welcome to Houston. Call us back. One quick 1600 01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:00.600 thing you mentioned, you know, putting in some kind of 1601 01:27:01.359 --> 01:27:04.960 zeric type landscaping. You can do that here. We do 1602 01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:06.840 get a lot of rain, a lot of humidity. So 1603 01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:09.640 you definitely want an area that drains well. If you 1604 01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:12.079 take some of the plants that are very drought tolerant 1605 01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:14.960 and you put them in our Houston black clays and 1606 01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:17.680 it's stays soggy like that area you were describing, it'll 1607 01:27:17.760 --> 01:27:20.239 kill them in a heartbeat. So a raised amound of 1608 01:27:20.279 --> 01:27:23.920 soil to drain away excess water, fixing low spots that 1609 01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:26.960 have poor drainage with either French drains underground or by 1610 01:27:27.039 --> 01:27:30.560 raising the lava lap. It's all important, especially if you 1611 01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:34.960 want to go with some more zeric types of plants. Okay, 1612 01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:38.119 all right, thank you appreciate that. All right, you're listening 1613 01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:42.319 to guard line. Uh seven one three two one two 1614 01:27:42.359 --> 01:27:45.359 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two 1615 01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:50.239 five eight seven four. Listen, it's planting season. It's planting season. Uh. 1616 01:27:50.359 --> 01:27:52.960 We're going to get to summertime and people are gonna 1617 01:27:52.960 --> 01:27:55.319 call me and say, can I still plant a you 1618 01:27:55.359 --> 01:27:56.920 fill in the blank, And the answer is going to 1619 01:27:56.960 --> 01:28:00.359 be yes, with a little bit of a butt. Yes. 1620 01:28:00.439 --> 01:28:02.720 But you got to water a little bit every day 1621 01:28:02.760 --> 01:28:05.520 to keep it going without overwater in it and causing 1622 01:28:05.560 --> 01:28:10.079 major problems. If you plant now, it's a more forgiving time. 1623 01:28:10.439 --> 01:28:12.520 It's easy. You put it in the ground, you water 1624 01:28:12.560 --> 01:28:15.560 it in real good. It has a chance to establish roots, 1625 01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:17.439 and you know you do have to rewater at times, 1626 01:28:17.479 --> 01:28:20.439 but it's not like in one day that root balls 1627 01:28:20.439 --> 01:28:23.199 already pumped dry again because it's one hundred degrees outside 1628 01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:26.000 and hadn't rained in three weeks. So now's the time 1629 01:28:26.000 --> 01:28:27.520 to get the plants in so you can get a 1630 01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:29.359 root system established. And if you're going to do that, 1631 01:28:29.399 --> 01:28:31.279 I want you to do one other thing. Gets some 1632 01:28:31.319 --> 01:28:35.279 Medina has to grow six twelve six. Medina has to 1633 01:28:35.359 --> 01:28:39.680 grow six twelve six. It's got six percent nitrogen, twelve 1634 01:28:39.720 --> 01:28:43.840 percent phosphorus that's especially important in root development, and six 1635 01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:48.560 percent potassium. And with that it also has Medina soil 1636 01:28:48.600 --> 01:28:53.640 activator to stimulate biological activity. It's got humate humic acid. 1637 01:28:53.720 --> 01:29:00.439 Humic acid is produced by decomposed, fully decomposing organic matter. 1638 01:29:00.720 --> 01:29:04.359 Hemic acids is one of the natural organic acids that's 1639 01:29:04.439 --> 01:29:08.600 produced by decomposing organic matter and the microbes that are 1640 01:29:08.640 --> 01:29:12.159 doing the work. Okay, that improves sol structure, It improves 1641 01:29:12.279 --> 01:29:14.920 nutrient uptake as well. Whenever your soil gets better, your 1642 01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:18.520 nutrient uptake is going to improve. It's got seaweed extracts 1643 01:29:18.520 --> 01:29:21.079 in it. Now you can use it as a folier spray. 1644 01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:24.720 That's fine, But right now for planting season, I would 1645 01:29:24.840 --> 01:29:27.960 especially make sure and get your watering can. Put some 1646 01:29:28.039 --> 01:29:31.479 has to grow six twelve six from medina has to 1647 01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:34.119 grow six twelve six plant food, put it in the 1648 01:29:34.159 --> 01:29:36.600 watering can and water in your new plants with it. 1649 01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:39.000 I will often put it in a little container and 1650 01:29:39.039 --> 01:29:42.680 set the whole plant pot in the container before I 1651 01:29:42.760 --> 01:29:45.800 plant it to soak that root ball full of has 1652 01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:47.880 to grow six to twelve six, and then plant in 1653 01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:49.920 the ground. You can do it either way. Planet it 1654 01:29:49.960 --> 01:29:52.199 and soak it, soak it and planet either way you 1655 01:29:52.199 --> 01:29:55.199 want to go. Follow up a week later with another 1656 01:29:55.239 --> 01:29:57.279 soaking of has to grow, and a week later with 1657 01:29:57.359 --> 01:29:59.920 another soaking of asterword those three about a week of 1658 01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:02.399 art and your plant will be well on its way 1659 01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:05.560 to success. And the more you do right now to 1660 01:30:05.640 --> 01:30:09.079 get a root system out in the ground, the better 1661 01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:11.880 that plant is going to not only take off running 1662 01:30:12.239 --> 01:30:16.640 and grow well for you. But survived this first challenging summer, 1663 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:21.479 which every summer is a challenging summer here in the 1664 01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:25.800 Greater Houston area. That is for sure. You're listening to 1665 01:30:25.920 --> 01:30:28.720 garden Line phone number seven one three two one two 1666 01:30:29.119 --> 01:30:31.800 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two 1667 01:30:32.319 --> 01:30:35.880 five eight seven four. If you need any kind of 1668 01:30:35.920 --> 01:30:40.600 supplies for your gardening, got to swing by Southwest Fertilizer. 1669 01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:41.439 Uh. 1670 01:30:41.600 --> 01:30:45.560 Southwest Fertilizer is a Houston tradition, really long term, better 1671 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:52.039 since nineteen fifty five, it's a long time. They have 1672 01:30:52.159 --> 01:30:55.159 got everything you need. Do you need to kill insects 1673 01:30:55.239 --> 01:30:58.760 or diseases? Do you need to kill weeds or prevent weeds? 1674 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:02.079 Do you need to fertilize the soil. 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I'm your host, Skip Richter, 1696 01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:14.039 and we're here to answer your gardening questions. I'm here 1697 01:32:14.039 --> 01:32:17.600 to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more 1698 01:32:17.640 --> 01:32:20.279 beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. Now I 1699 01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:21.800 gotta do is give me a call seven to one 1700 01:32:21.880 --> 01:32:25.399 three two one two k t r H. So we 1701 01:32:25.439 --> 01:32:28.960 are going to go now out to Carrie. Hello, Carrie, 1702 01:32:29.079 --> 01:32:30.239 welcome to garden Line. 1703 01:32:31.279 --> 01:32:32.520 Hey, my name is Terry. 1704 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:37.239 Oh. Hello, well, welcome to garden Line. 1705 01:32:38.079 --> 01:32:38.239 Hi. 1706 01:32:39.479 --> 01:32:44.319 I have some lemon tares and an orange tree that 1707 01:32:44.479 --> 01:32:49.119 I've grown from a seed, and they're all in pots. 1708 01:32:49.880 --> 01:32:50.920 And I don't know. 1709 01:32:53.920 --> 01:32:59.279 When to prove them when it's appropriate, you know, And 1710 01:32:59.319 --> 01:33:02.039 they need to go in the ground because they're not miniatures. 1711 01:33:02.079 --> 01:33:03.119 They need to be in the ground. 1712 01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:07.920 But we're figure that out of our situation with deer 1713 01:33:08.119 --> 01:33:08.640 and all that. 1714 01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:13.079 But yeah, I'm just, well, so what. 1715 01:33:13.479 --> 01:33:16.039 From the shock from the cold? I have them in 1716 01:33:16.079 --> 01:33:16.920 the house right now. 1717 01:33:19.119 --> 01:33:22.319 Before the freeze came, we I had a neighbor of 1718 01:33:22.319 --> 01:33:24.680 mine brought them inside, and. 1719 01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:28.840 Okay, I just. 1720 01:33:28.840 --> 01:33:32.039 I don't know what what do I do to get 1721 01:33:32.079 --> 01:33:34.479 them out of the shock when the cold. 1722 01:33:34.319 --> 01:33:37.920 Is away and I take them back outside. One of 1723 01:33:37.960 --> 01:33:41.279 my neighbors said to put like a couple of aspirins 1724 01:33:41.279 --> 01:33:44.399 and some water and put that in the soil. 1725 01:33:44.920 --> 01:33:51.000 I don't know. Okay, well you don't need to do that. 1726 01:33:51.640 --> 01:33:55.239 What you want to do is, first of all, anytime 1727 01:33:55.319 --> 01:34:00.800 it's above forty degrees especially, put them out and just 1728 01:34:00.880 --> 01:34:05.079 let them get sunlight, because sunlight makes the carbohydrates in 1729 01:34:05.119 --> 01:34:09.039 the leaves and that strengthens the plant so that when 1730 01:34:09.079 --> 01:34:12.159 you transplant it, or just in general, it's going to 1731 01:34:12.199 --> 01:34:17.279 be stronger and healthier and do better. So indoors, you know, 1732 01:34:17.319 --> 01:34:19.439 we just don't quite have enough light for them, and 1733 01:34:19.479 --> 01:34:21.560 they want to be in sunlight. So whenever you can, 1734 01:34:21.720 --> 01:34:23.479 just have them out there where they get good sunlight. 1735 01:34:23.479 --> 01:34:26.239 If it's going to get down, you know, freezing, well yeah, 1736 01:34:26.520 --> 01:34:30.640 bring them in. But in general, as much as you can. 1737 01:34:32.119 --> 01:34:35.800 Even right now, and I live in Livingston or Trinity actually, 1738 01:34:35.840 --> 01:34:37.960 but it's like thirty five degrees. 1739 01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:43.239 Yeah, I know, I know it's cold, but thirty five 1740 01:34:43.399 --> 01:34:47.119 at least it can get some sunlight and benefit from that. 1741 01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:51.079 But just in general, just if they stay in for 1742 01:34:51.199 --> 01:34:55.199 weeks or a week or so, it's going to weaken 1743 01:34:55.279 --> 01:34:57.880 it a little bit. And so you need to just 1744 01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:01.319 do it according to your temperatures there in that area. 1745 01:35:01.840 --> 01:35:03.760 Just just do the best you can with it. As 1746 01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:07.000 far as planting them, because they've been in a container, 1747 01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:08.680 you're gonna have roots that are going around in a 1748 01:35:08.720 --> 01:35:12.520 circle in the pot, and those don't unwind after you 1749 01:35:12.600 --> 01:35:15.319 plan them underground. So what you're gonna want to do, 1750 01:35:15.359 --> 01:35:16.880 and it's gonna be hard to do, but you're going 1751 01:35:16.920 --> 01:35:20.239 to cut those roots. Just take your little prunters or 1752 01:35:20.279 --> 01:35:22.239 if if they're little roots, you can just use a 1753 01:35:22.279 --> 01:35:25.960 box cutter knife and slice vertically down through the sides 1754 01:35:26.000 --> 01:35:34.600 of the cylinder root ball. And it's okay, very important 1755 01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:38.000 to do this to cut those roots because otherwise you're 1756 01:35:38.000 --> 01:35:40.520 going to have a wound up, root bound container and 1757 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:43.399 they're just not gonna thrive. They're not gonna take off 1758 01:35:43.399 --> 01:35:46.560 and thrive like you want them to. So then's the 1759 01:35:46.640 --> 01:35:50.520 top part. You can cut it back. Go ahead. 1760 01:35:52.119 --> 01:35:54.159 So when we go to put them in the round. 1761 01:35:54.840 --> 01:36:00.439 So I say they're a container probably about I'm five 1762 01:36:00.479 --> 01:36:02.840 foot tall if I put my arms together, I don't 1763 01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:09.119 even put them around, so six foot pots, right, But. 1764 01:36:09.680 --> 01:36:10.920 They're in a very large. 1765 01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:14.680 Growing out of out of the bottoms of the pot, 1766 01:36:15.800 --> 01:36:18.079 and so I know it's time. We've got to find 1767 01:36:18.079 --> 01:36:19.920 a place to play at them in the ground and 1768 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:20.800 get them in the ground. 1769 01:36:21.399 --> 01:36:23.600 Yeah, And so you want to wait. 1770 01:36:23.960 --> 01:36:28.199 Though, because we live we live in Trinity on Lake Livingston, 1771 01:36:28.800 --> 01:36:32.600 and it's mostly all red clay and red dirt. So 1772 01:36:32.680 --> 01:36:35.000 I'm gonna I want them need to dig that whole like. 1773 01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:35.920 I'm gonna need like a. 1774 01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:40.760 Something bigger in a shovel to dig the whole, like 1775 01:36:41.319 --> 01:36:44.199 two to three times bigger than the pot, and then 1776 01:36:44.680 --> 01:36:47.119 cut the roots right, and. 1777 01:36:47.119 --> 01:36:50.720 Then yeah, cut the cut the roots. Here. Here's what well, Terry, 1778 01:36:50.760 --> 01:36:52.680 let me tell you what what I do. I would 1779 01:36:52.680 --> 01:36:57.199 get you some good composting material, compost or bed mix 1780 01:36:57.319 --> 01:37:00.319 or whatever, and I would put it on the ground, 1781 01:37:00.760 --> 01:37:03.000 and I would take a spading fork and as best 1782 01:37:03.039 --> 01:37:07.600 you can in an area probably five feet across, mix 1783 01:37:07.760 --> 01:37:10.439 that into the soil before you even dig a hole. 1784 01:37:11.119 --> 01:37:13.199 And then dig the hole for the plant. And if 1785 01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:15.439 you've mixed that in an area five feet wide, you 1786 01:37:15.479 --> 01:37:17.600 don't have to dig a hole that's two times as 1787 01:37:17.640 --> 01:37:20.399 big as the root ball because you've already loosened the 1788 01:37:20.439 --> 01:37:23.880 soil out there. You want to dig it only as 1789 01:37:24.039 --> 01:37:26.920 deep as the soil in the container. So if you 1790 01:37:26.920 --> 01:37:29.880 were just a picture you've taken the plant out of 1791 01:37:29.880 --> 01:37:33.600 the container and it's sitting on the ground, how tall 1792 01:37:33.720 --> 01:37:37.119 is that soils that was in the pot? And if 1793 01:37:37.159 --> 01:37:39.159 it's a foot high, dig a foothole. If it's a 1794 01:37:39.159 --> 01:37:40.680 foot and a half high, dig of a foot and 1795 01:37:40.720 --> 01:37:42.560 a half hole, because you don't want to dig it 1796 01:37:42.600 --> 01:37:45.560 deeper because then you'll fill with loose soil in the bottom. 1797 01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:47.359 Because it wants you need to have it at the 1798 01:37:47.439 --> 01:37:51.600 same depth that it was in the pot. You want 1799 01:37:51.600 --> 01:37:54.079 the soil level to be the same, so if you 1800 01:37:54.119 --> 01:37:56.600 dig it too deep, it ends up settling down too deep. 1801 01:37:56.640 --> 01:37:58.439 So dig it only as deep as a root ball. 1802 01:37:59.279 --> 01:38:01.279 Dig it a little bigger than the root ball, not much, 1803 01:38:01.319 --> 01:38:04.079 because you've already loose, You've taken a spading fork, and 1804 01:38:04.159 --> 01:38:07.119 you've you've kind of cracked open the soil to get 1805 01:38:07.159 --> 01:38:09.880 this compost. You spread around it down in the soil, 1806 01:38:10.640 --> 01:38:13.119 dig that whole planet in and watered in really well. 1807 01:38:13.159 --> 01:38:15.840 And I would wait to do that until we're past 1808 01:38:15.960 --> 01:38:19.680 the danger of frosts in your area. You know, there's 1809 01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:21.920 no hurry. Citrus is not going to take off growing 1810 01:38:22.000 --> 01:38:24.560 real fast, real early on. And it likes it a little. 1811 01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:26.680 It likes it to warm up a little bit. So 1812 01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:29.239 go ahead and get it in after you know you're 1813 01:38:29.279 --> 01:38:31.279 not going to have any more frosts, and and and 1814 01:38:31.359 --> 01:38:33.720 then do it as I described there. 1815 01:38:34.800 --> 01:38:38.600 I have a random question as well. So, uh, my 1816 01:38:38.760 --> 01:38:43.359 lemon trees one of them. So we were moving from 1817 01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:48.039 Texas City to our lake house, and my husband acted 1818 01:38:48.359 --> 01:38:51.439 in the back of the truck sideways, and once he 1819 01:38:51.560 --> 01:38:53.319 brought them back and put them in the front yard, 1820 01:38:54.319 --> 01:38:58.479 one of them started making flower buds. Is that just 1821 01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:01.680 like I'm in shock, I'm gonna I'm gonna bloom or is. 1822 01:39:02.640 --> 01:39:03.479 I have no idea? 1823 01:39:03.840 --> 01:39:08.479 No, it'll do. Now, lemons can bloom repeatedly during the season, 1824 01:39:08.680 --> 01:39:12.439 and so that's not unusual. Uh they You know, I 1825 01:39:12.479 --> 01:39:14.840 can't go into exactly why it may have bloom at 1826 01:39:14.840 --> 01:39:18.680 that specific time, but that's okay. You're all right on those. Hey, 1827 01:39:18.720 --> 01:39:20.479 I've got a heartbreak coming up here and I'm gonna 1828 01:39:20.479 --> 01:39:23.239 have to run, But good luck with those, and if 1829 01:39:23.039 --> 01:39:25.840 if you have success. I know it's a long drive 1830 01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:27.960 to the station in Houston, but all I ask is 1831 01:39:28.000 --> 01:39:30.319 you bring me half the lemons you grow and we'll 1832 01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:30.960 call this even. 1833 01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:33.960 All right, I've got I've got six and the ball 1834 01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:37.000 that man, I'm saving those. 1835 01:39:37.079 --> 01:39:41.640 All right, all right, Kerrien, there you go. You take care. 1836 01:39:41.720 --> 01:39:43.720 Thank you for the call. A lot, folks. I'm gonna 1837 01:39:43.800 --> 01:39:45.880 have to run here. I will be right back with 1838 01:39:45.920 --> 01:39:48.880 your call seven one three two one two kt r 1839 01:39:49.119 --> 01:39:57.319 H Lady's choice, everybody. Alrighty, there you go, a little 1840 01:39:57.359 --> 01:40:00.760 asleep at the wheel. I'm I'm not asleep at the 1841 01:40:00.800 --> 01:40:03.399 microphone though. We're here to answer your gardening questions. Just 1842 01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:05.640 give me a call seven to one three two one 1843 01:40:05.760 --> 01:40:08.319 two k t R eight seven one three two one 1844 01:40:08.399 --> 01:40:10.479 two k t r H. Listen, this is the time 1845 01:40:10.520 --> 01:40:14.800 to get your fruit trees planted. Prime time for planting 1846 01:40:14.800 --> 01:40:17.640 fruit trees. I don't know what kind of fruit you're 1847 01:40:17.680 --> 01:40:19.840 interested in growing, but I'll tell you this. You ought 1848 01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:23.359 to grow something. Everybody has room for fruit trees. Now 1849 01:40:23.399 --> 01:40:27.039 you're thinking, okay, no, I don't. I absolutely do not. 1850 01:40:27.079 --> 01:40:30.800 What do you have shrubs? Do you have a garden bed? 1851 01:40:31.800 --> 01:40:33.600 You do have room for fruit trees. You know, a 1852 01:40:33.640 --> 01:40:37.479 peach tree is an attractive little blue spring blooming tree 1853 01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:40.600 that gives you fruit on top of the old. Deal 1854 01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:43.560 you an area that's a little shady because fruit trees 1855 01:40:43.640 --> 01:40:47.039 love full sun. Well, how about a blueberry or how 1856 01:40:47.039 --> 01:40:49.399 about a fig tree? They both do good in a 1857 01:40:49.439 --> 01:40:51.680 partial shade. They can they can do okay in that. 1858 01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:53.560 It's not they want to be in shape, but they 1859 01:40:53.600 --> 01:40:55.760 can do well in that. I'll tell where you can 1860 01:40:55.760 --> 01:40:57.479 get a lot of fruit trees too. I was talking 1861 01:40:57.479 --> 01:41:01.920 to the folks out at Arborgate, Beverly Kennon out there, 1862 01:41:02.359 --> 01:41:04.199 and I said, hey, I need you to send me 1863 01:41:04.239 --> 01:41:07.960 a list of the fruit trees you carry They did 1864 01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:13.800 pages and pages and pages and pages, all the standard stuff. 1865 01:41:13.800 --> 01:41:15.279 You know, you want an apple, you want a pear, 1866 01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:17.439 You want a blueberry, You want to peach, you want 1867 01:41:17.439 --> 01:41:20.119 to plum, you want all that kind of How about this? 1868 01:41:20.680 --> 01:41:24.079 How about a palm granite? They have those. How About 1869 01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:28.640 a really quality type of grape that will grow here 1870 01:41:28.960 --> 01:41:33.119 in our area. How about all kinds of cetera, I mean, 1871 01:41:34.279 --> 01:41:39.279 all kinds of centris, lots and lots, blackberries, thornless blackberries. 1872 01:41:39.279 --> 01:41:42.000 You want a quality thornless BlackBerry. They've got those there. 1873 01:41:42.600 --> 01:41:47.920 Unusual things like tangi low and pamelo and guava that's unusual. 1874 01:41:47.960 --> 01:41:50.119 And olive like the arbiquinya that's one of the most 1875 01:41:50.399 --> 01:41:54.239 common adapted varieties of olive attire here, and they've got 1876 01:41:54.239 --> 01:41:57.720 those at Arborgate. I was talking, you know about blueberries. 1877 01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:01.359 They've got both the southernhigh bush type and the rabbit 1878 01:42:01.439 --> 01:42:04.800 eye types of blueberries, both of which do very very 1879 01:42:04.840 --> 01:42:06.680 well here. I mean, I could go on and on 1880 01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:11.359 and on. Gojiberries, Native paw paws, Native mayha, oh, Native 1881 01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:13.319 mayhow someone called me about a Mayhaw the other day, 1882 01:42:13.880 --> 01:42:17.079 Native Mayhaw's They got gojiberries, as I said, jujubi's. Do 1883 01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:19.680 you even know what a jiujubi is? Think of it 1884 01:42:19.680 --> 01:42:23.359 as like a little miniature apple like fruit that grows 1885 01:42:23.399 --> 01:42:27.479 and it is extremely, extremely tough plant all at Arburgate. 1886 01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:31.079 While you're at Arborgate, make sure and check out their camellias. 1887 01:42:31.399 --> 01:42:35.119 Beautiful camellias in bud and in bloom. They've got roses 1888 01:42:35.319 --> 01:42:38.920 in bloom out there at Arburgate. If you need cool 1889 01:42:38.920 --> 01:42:41.640 season color. It's still okay, still time to be putting 1890 01:42:41.720 --> 01:42:45.319 out things like viola's and snap dragons and alyssa and 1891 01:42:45.359 --> 01:42:48.520 all of that. We got plenty of mild weathers still 1892 01:42:48.560 --> 01:42:51.439 to come here. They've got vegetables, they've got herbs. They've 1893 01:42:51.479 --> 01:42:53.439 got you covered. That's the bottom line. Do you know 1894 01:42:53.680 --> 01:42:55.960 you know that I talked about their one two three system, 1895 01:42:55.960 --> 01:42:59.520 which is a soil for anything that has roots, a 1896 01:42:59.520 --> 01:43:04.680 fertile eye the same organic fertilizer, and then a compost 1897 01:43:04.720 --> 01:43:07.439 type material that is part of their one two three. 1898 01:43:07.560 --> 01:43:10.279 They sell their soil and composts by bulk too, and 1899 01:43:10.319 --> 01:43:13.399 they deliver it. It can be delivered. So give them 1900 01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:15.399 a call at Arbrogate and say I need need to 1901 01:43:15.399 --> 01:43:17.680 get a bulk amount, not just a few bags. I 1902 01:43:17.760 --> 01:43:20.239 need a bulk amount of this. They'll get you fixed 1903 01:43:20.319 --> 01:43:22.600 up there as well. Remember when you go to Arbrogate, 1904 01:43:23.000 --> 01:43:26.600 take Trischel Road around the back, because that's where the 1905 01:43:26.720 --> 01:43:30.880 really cool parking lot is. It's so easy access, so safe, 1906 01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:34.399 so easy to get in and out. Arbrogate's a popular place, 1907 01:43:34.399 --> 01:43:37.039 and they stay busy in that front parking lot stays busy. 1908 01:43:37.319 --> 01:43:38.840 Just go around the back. That's what I do. Just 1909 01:43:38.920 --> 01:43:41.319 drive around the back. It's really easy to get in, 1910 01:43:41.720 --> 01:43:45.079 and I think you will. It'll become your favorite place 1911 01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:48.560 to park. When you go by there. You listen to 1912 01:43:48.600 --> 01:43:51.159 the garden line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. How 1913 01:43:51.199 --> 01:43:53.840 can we help you with something that you have going on. 1914 01:43:54.800 --> 01:43:58.159 Maybe it's a problem with a plant, a disease insect. 1915 01:43:58.239 --> 01:44:00.680 Maybe you're dealing with weeds, or you have been year 1916 01:44:00.720 --> 01:44:02.399 after year and you're wanting to know how do I 1917 01:44:02.399 --> 01:44:04.680 get ahead of that. Well, give me a call. Seven 1918 01:44:04.760 --> 01:44:09.720 one three two one two KTRH seven one three two 1919 01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:14.880 one two k t r H. Someone was asking me 1920 01:44:15.000 --> 01:44:19.239 about nuts Edge earlier, and I was talking about the 1921 01:44:19.279 --> 01:44:22.960 publications that are on my website. The website is gardening 1922 01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:26.039 with Skip dot com and anything here on garden line 1923 01:44:26.159 --> 01:44:28.039 where I need to put you a publication up there 1924 01:44:28.039 --> 01:44:29.880 where you can find. It's going to be on my website. 1925 01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:34.479 That makes it easy. And when I get questions that 1926 01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:37.520 take a minute to answer, you know, like nuts edge 1927 01:44:37.600 --> 01:44:41.479 isn't just a two second answer, It's better if I 1928 01:44:41.520 --> 01:44:44.560 explain some things to you and give you your options 1929 01:44:44.960 --> 01:44:48.000 where you can choose and understand how to go about it. Right. 1930 01:44:48.359 --> 01:44:51.520 I put that on the website, like freeze protection. That 1931 01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:55.000 freeze protection publication I talked about for weeks now because 1932 01:44:55.039 --> 01:44:57.319 we were having all the freezes coming up. It's there 1933 01:44:57.319 --> 01:44:59.720 on the website and it's there all year long. And 1934 01:44:59.760 --> 01:45:02.319 if you you got a friend in timbucktoo, I mean, 1935 01:45:02.359 --> 01:45:08.039 if they live in the Allegheny Mountains of Wordsgany in 1936 01:45:08.079 --> 01:45:10.199 New York, I just made something up there. Anyway, if 1937 01:45:10.199 --> 01:45:13.199 they live anywhere in the country, that freese publication is 1938 01:45:13.239 --> 01:45:15.880 still applicable to them because it talks about how freezes 1939 01:45:15.880 --> 01:45:18.079 happened and how we protect plants. And that's true in 1940 01:45:18.119 --> 01:45:21.800 Minnesota and that is true in many Yellow Texas as well. 1941 01:45:21.880 --> 01:45:24.760 So if you want my schedules, a lawn care schedule 1942 01:45:25.000 --> 01:45:29.279 and the pest disease and weed management schedule. Think of 1943 01:45:29.279 --> 01:45:32.159 a chart. On the left side is January, on the 1944 01:45:32.239 --> 01:45:34.600 right side of December, and going up and down the 1945 01:45:34.680 --> 01:45:37.640 side or the specifics. How do you mow your lawn, 1946 01:45:37.680 --> 01:45:39.640 how do you water your lawn, how do you fertilize 1947 01:45:39.640 --> 01:45:41.760 your lawn, what do you use when do you do it? 1948 01:45:42.159 --> 01:45:44.920 How do you control pasts, how do you control weeds? 1949 01:45:44.960 --> 01:45:49.880 How do you control diseases? Both organic and synthetic options, 1950 01:45:49.960 --> 01:45:53.119 they're on the chart. It makes it so easy. Just 1951 01:45:53.239 --> 01:45:55.920 download it, print it out, keep it with you, take 1952 01:45:55.920 --> 01:45:59.159 it shopping that way when you get into the store. 1953 01:45:59.600 --> 01:46:01.880 You may I think I said something, but it's printed 1954 01:46:01.920 --> 01:46:04.119 there on the chart. Just just point at that and 1955 01:46:04.159 --> 01:46:06.039 send me one of those and they'll take care of that. 1956 01:46:07.000 --> 01:46:09.680 We put all that together to make it easier for you. 1957 01:46:09.800 --> 01:46:13.479 Someone called about soil testing while ago and on there 1958 01:46:13.560 --> 01:46:17.439 on my publications is a soil testing made simple, fill 1959 01:46:17.520 --> 01:46:20.880 one page sheet. It explains how to take a soil sample, 1960 01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:23.760 how to submit a soil sample, and you can print 1961 01:46:23.760 --> 01:46:25.520 it out as a PDF. Most of my things are 1962 01:46:25.560 --> 01:46:28.479 available as PDF documents as well. If you don't just 1963 01:46:28.560 --> 01:46:31.560 read them online and makes it easy. So I would 1964 01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:36.119 recommend that you just booked that bookmark that gardeningwith skip 1965 01:46:36.359 --> 01:46:38.560 dot com, and I'm going to be adding more to 1966 01:46:38.600 --> 01:46:41.039 it and adding more to it. And if you're ever 1967 01:46:41.159 --> 01:46:43.159 kind of wondering, well, what was that thing? He said, 1968 01:46:44.399 --> 01:46:46.840 you can go and you can just look at that 1969 01:46:47.000 --> 01:46:49.279 and it makes it real simple. I'm going to run 1970 01:46:49.439 --> 01:46:53.600 here to Houston and talk to Andy. Andy, we got 1971 01:46:53.600 --> 01:46:55.359 a little bit here. Let's see if we can get 1972 01:46:55.359 --> 01:46:58.520 your question answered before we have to go to break. Yes, 1973 01:46:58.640 --> 01:46:59.239 good morning. 1974 01:47:00.199 --> 01:47:03.960 I'm trying to figure out how I can stream Plumeria 1975 01:47:04.039 --> 01:47:08.680 plumary I grow. Uh it's so tall and uh up. 1976 01:47:08.960 --> 01:47:10.840 A couple of days ago, I had to bring it 1977 01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:15.920 inside and I didn't know can I trim it or 1978 01:47:15.960 --> 01:47:19.720 which way can I manage it in order to to 1979 01:47:19.720 --> 01:47:23.279 to get this plant? I mean handle these plant and 1980 01:47:23.319 --> 01:47:26.520 also yeah, never ever bluem. 1981 01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:33.920 Okay, okay, So plum arias they're they're a big, thick, 1982 01:47:33.960 --> 01:47:38.239 fleshy stalk stem and with branches sometimes and uh so 1983 01:47:38.560 --> 01:47:41.079 if you cut them off, they're gonna shoots are gonna 1984 01:47:41.079 --> 01:47:44.199 come out. You're gonna get some buds push out on 1985 01:47:44.279 --> 01:47:46.760 the sides. But you can also cut one off and 1986 01:47:46.920 --> 01:47:49.079 root it. You can take a section of the end 1987 01:47:49.079 --> 01:47:51.960 of a branch, and you can make more plumerias that 1988 01:47:52.039 --> 01:47:55.119 way by rooting them, and that brings it down in 1989 01:47:55.239 --> 01:47:57.520 stature as well. You're starting back with a shorter maybe 1990 01:47:57.520 --> 01:47:59.079 a you know, a foot or a foot and a 1991 01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:03.520 half tall little plant there, So that is also another option. 1992 01:48:04.359 --> 01:48:10.319 As far as blooming, plumerias need good nutrition, especially things 1993 01:48:10.359 --> 01:48:13.119 like phosphorus and potassium the second and third number on 1994 01:48:13.159 --> 01:48:16.279 the bag, with a little bit of nitrogen. In order 1995 01:48:16.319 --> 01:48:19.000 for them to bloom well, they need an adequate supply 1996 01:48:19.039 --> 01:48:22.159 of moisture, not soggy wet, but they need lots of sun, 1997 01:48:22.520 --> 01:48:26.119 lots and lots of sun. That's the most important, the sun, 1998 01:48:26.279 --> 01:48:29.800 A little bit of nutrition and moderate moisture to have 1999 01:48:29.840 --> 01:48:35.960 success with those. Okay, thank you much, all right, you bet, 2000 01:48:36.000 --> 01:48:38.479 thank you. I appreciate that call. Kind of running short 2001 01:48:38.479 --> 01:48:41.279 there on time, folks. When we come back, by the way, 2002 01:48:41.359 --> 01:48:43.399 Kathleen and Tom will you'll be first up if you'd 2003 01:48:43.439 --> 01:48:46.399 like to be second seven one three two one two 2004 01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:51.199 k t R H own to remind you today this afternoon, 2005 01:48:51.279 --> 01:48:53.800 right after lunch one pm, I'm going to be at 2006 01:48:53.880 --> 01:48:56.920 the Brasses Home and Garden show at the Fort. Then 2007 01:48:56.920 --> 01:49:01.079 epicenter off Southwest Freeway, and I'll talk for an hour 2008 01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:04.159 about essential steps to create a thrive in spring garden. 2009 01:49:04.239 --> 01:49:06.319 And then i'll do Q and A with you with 2010 01:49:06.359 --> 01:49:09.000 your samples and your pictures till the cows come home. 2011 01:49:10.479 --> 01:49:14.279 Welcome to Kati r h. Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2012 01:49:14.359 --> 01:49:44.159 It's just watch him as. 2013 01:49:34.880 --> 01:49:38.399 All right, we're back for our last hour of garden 2014 01:49:38.479 --> 01:49:41.199 Line this morning. Were I have to jump in a 2015 01:49:41.239 --> 01:49:43.319 car and or get to jump in a car and 2016 01:49:43.560 --> 01:49:45.880 down to the Brows's Home and Garden Show. I'll be 2017 01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:49.159 there at one o'clock today. Let's jump right into the 2018 01:49:49.159 --> 01:49:51.760 calls here and we're gonna go to Magnolia and talk 2019 01:49:51.800 --> 01:49:54.479 to Carla. Hello, Carla, welcome to garden Line. 2020 01:49:55.039 --> 01:49:56.199 Hi, thanks for having me. 2021 01:49:58.439 --> 01:50:02.119 So the the question I had was I. 2022 01:50:02.159 --> 01:50:06.399 Have planted you know, I've tried citrus trees, fig trees. 2023 01:50:06.560 --> 01:50:10.159 The problem we have is the deer, so they never 2024 01:50:10.239 --> 01:50:13.079 really get a chance to take off. And I don't 2025 01:50:13.119 --> 01:50:15.560 know what I should do because we're kind of in 2026 01:50:15.840 --> 01:50:20.199 a wooded area. If I should just like put that 2027 01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:23.039 type you know, that fencing around it, Like what would 2028 01:50:23.119 --> 01:50:23.720 you recommend? 2029 01:50:26.199 --> 01:50:29.359 Well, that's a that is a simple little question with 2030 01:50:29.399 --> 01:50:32.920 a very long answer, because there's a lot of things 2031 01:50:32.920 --> 01:50:36.600 we do to try to discourage deer. I'll try to 2032 01:50:36.600 --> 01:50:40.560 be brief with it. But first of all, deer are 2033 01:50:40.600 --> 01:50:44.520 not equally fond of all plants. I wouldn't use the 2034 01:50:44.600 --> 01:50:46.760 term deer proof, although there are some plants that are 2035 01:50:46.880 --> 01:50:50.279 essentially deer proof. But what you'll find is a plant 2036 01:50:50.359 --> 01:50:52.479 deer don't like in one area, they may eat in 2037 01:50:52.520 --> 01:50:56.279 another area of the state. And so just kind of 2038 01:50:56.279 --> 01:50:58.359 be a low cautious when someone says this is a 2039 01:50:58.399 --> 01:51:01.600 deerproof plant, because it may or may not. But choosing 2040 01:51:01.600 --> 01:51:04.720 plants they don't prefer is a good idea. That's one, 2041 01:51:04.920 --> 01:51:06.960 and there are lists of those online that you can 2042 01:51:07.000 --> 01:51:12.760 look at. Secondly, deer in a rural area are quite skittish, 2043 01:51:13.199 --> 01:51:16.239 and so it's kind of easy to spook them and 2044 01:51:16.279 --> 01:51:19.479 they run away. In urban areas, they're not I've been 2045 01:51:19.520 --> 01:51:22.279 in or San Antonio and seen deer in the middle 2046 01:51:22.279 --> 01:51:25.479 of the day driving down a neighborhood street. Deer three 2047 01:51:25.479 --> 01:51:27.640 deer laying in the front yard watching me drive by. 2048 01:51:28.000 --> 01:51:32.159 That's not a skittish deer. So those kind of deer 2049 01:51:32.199 --> 01:51:34.920 are harder to spook because they're already used to human 2050 01:51:35.000 --> 01:51:39.640 smells and whatnot. There are sprays that you can put 2051 01:51:39.640 --> 01:51:43.960 out that usually are made of what's called putrescent egg solid, 2052 01:51:44.039 --> 01:51:46.960 so think of rotten eggs. You mix up the spray 2053 01:51:46.960 --> 01:51:49.439 you sprayed on plants into stincts, and deer prefer not 2054 01:51:49.520 --> 01:51:52.760 to get around that. They don't like that. There are 2055 01:51:54.640 --> 01:51:59.399 there are sound and light and water types of scared 2056 01:51:59.399 --> 01:52:03.920 devices out there too. One called one brand is called 2057 01:52:03.960 --> 01:52:07.119 the scarecrow sprinkler, and it's because it's painted to look 2058 01:52:07.239 --> 01:52:10.560 sort of like a scarecrow, or like a little crow rather, 2059 01:52:11.079 --> 01:52:14.279 and it has a motion sensor, so when deer come 2060 01:52:14.319 --> 01:52:17.399 walking through the yard, it comes on like a machine 2061 01:52:17.399 --> 01:52:20.680 gun and just strafes water across them for about eight seconds, 2062 01:52:20.720 --> 01:52:22.840 and it spooks them and they run away. But deer 2063 01:52:22.880 --> 01:52:25.680 get used to anything. They do get used to anything. 2064 01:52:25.840 --> 01:52:29.039 Some people put out little human hair and I've used 2065 01:52:29.039 --> 01:52:32.000 the flour in garden before that it spooked them away. 2066 01:52:32.079 --> 01:52:34.560 They left, But then when it rains and washes in, 2067 01:52:35.119 --> 01:52:37.439 it doesn't. But again, if they're used to people, the 2068 01:52:37.520 --> 01:52:41.119 human hair smell even isn't quite enough. So the next 2069 01:52:41.159 --> 01:52:44.239 step would be using a fence, and the fence needs 2070 01:52:44.239 --> 01:52:47.840 to be at least six feet tall, probably more and 2071 01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:50.760 more like seven to really keep them out. If your 2072 01:52:50.840 --> 01:52:53.760 area is small, the fence doesn't need to be as 2073 01:52:53.880 --> 01:52:56.560 large because deer need to have room to get a 2074 01:52:56.680 --> 01:53:01.239 running start, to jump or to land. Uh. And so 2075 01:53:01.319 --> 01:53:03.640 if you have like a ten by ten fenced area, 2076 01:53:03.680 --> 01:53:05.279 they're not going to jump into the middle of that. 2077 01:53:05.279 --> 01:53:06.520 That's an extreme example. 2078 01:53:07.119 --> 01:53:07.239 Uh. 2079 01:53:07.479 --> 01:53:13.600 But and then finally electrical electrical fencing that they it 2080 01:53:13.640 --> 01:53:16.359 pops them and they it scares them away, and and 2081 01:53:16.439 --> 01:53:19.920 that's a whole nother discussion, but those are those are 2082 01:53:20.000 --> 01:53:22.520 kind of your options on deer. The only other thing 2083 01:53:22.560 --> 01:53:25.399 is when you're putting out new plants, they haven't rooted 2084 01:53:25.439 --> 01:53:28.720 in well, and so putting a little wire cage over them, 2085 01:53:28.760 --> 01:53:30.840 maybe you get a chicken wire box over them or 2086 01:53:30.880 --> 01:53:34.199 something like that until they get rooted in. Then if 2087 01:53:34.279 --> 01:53:36.880 deer nip them, they're just pruning them back and that 2088 01:53:37.119 --> 01:53:40.000 the plant can sprout back out, whereas when it's a 2089 01:53:40.039 --> 01:53:42.000 new plant, they just literally pull on it and they're 2090 01:53:42.039 --> 01:53:43.159 rips right out of the ground. 2091 01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:47.840 And that's basically what's been taking place. Okay, I see, Okay, 2092 01:53:48.000 --> 01:53:53.199 now that that's a great idea. Yeah, go ahead. 2093 01:53:53.520 --> 01:53:56.520 Uh, yeah, I would. I would get a spray from 2094 01:53:56.800 --> 01:53:59.000 you know, a garden center, gets you a spray and 2095 01:54:00.000 --> 01:54:02.359 see how that works for a lot of deer. That's 2096 01:54:02.399 --> 01:54:05.720 gonna work pretty good, one of those deer scaring sprays. 2097 01:54:05.800 --> 01:54:09.319 And they come in many brand names, but they work okay. 2098 01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:13.760 But again depending on we say deer pressure, meaning if 2099 01:54:13.800 --> 01:54:16.359 deer is starving to death, they live in a city already, 2100 01:54:16.600 --> 01:54:19.560 that's heavy deer pressure, it's hard to spook them away. 2101 01:54:20.000 --> 01:54:23.399 But as you go away from starving to death, and 2102 01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:26.319 as you go away from familiarity with people, it's easier 2103 01:54:26.359 --> 01:54:29.039 to spook them away. So those those are your options. Carla, 2104 01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:32.279 got it? Okay, great, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna 2105 01:54:32.279 --> 01:54:34.399 have to run. We got some some folks that lined 2106 01:54:34.439 --> 01:54:36.039 up here. But thank you for the call. Good luck 2107 01:54:36.079 --> 01:54:39.800 with that, Good luck with that. Yeah, but all right, 2108 01:54:39.840 --> 01:54:42.840 bye bye. Let's see here. Where's next. We're gonna go 2109 01:54:43.399 --> 01:54:45.680 to talk to Katie. Hello, Katie, how can we help? 2110 01:54:49.079 --> 01:54:49.399 Hello? 2111 01:54:49.720 --> 01:54:50.800 Thanks for having my call. 2112 01:54:51.880 --> 01:54:52.520 Quick question. 2113 01:54:52.600 --> 01:54:55.279 I have to one of them. One of them is 2114 01:54:55.399 --> 01:54:59.520 I have a banana fig tree that has been in 2115 01:54:59.600 --> 01:55:02.920 the ground for about four years and it's like a 2116 01:55:03.039 --> 01:55:05.720 giant Bond's eye. It's really gnarly and pretty when it 2117 01:55:05.760 --> 01:55:08.239 doesn't have a leaves on it. But and it does 2118 01:55:08.680 --> 01:55:13.680 two harvests a year, probably somewhere upwards of seven hundred 2119 01:55:13.760 --> 01:55:17.239 figs on each harvest. My question is it's a lot 2120 01:55:17.359 --> 01:55:21.439 out of control. So I need to know when I 2121 01:55:21.439 --> 01:55:24.479 should prune it and how severely I can prune it 2122 01:55:24.479 --> 01:55:28.119 because it grows probably two to three feet in circumference 2123 01:55:28.479 --> 01:55:30.880 every year, and so now I don't want to have 2124 01:55:30.920 --> 01:55:33.479 to use a ladder to get to things. 2125 01:55:34.840 --> 01:55:38.199 Gotcha, Okay, So I would prune it at the end 2126 01:55:38.239 --> 01:55:42.399 of the cool season, because when you prune, you don't 2127 01:55:42.399 --> 01:55:44.520 want it to try to re sprout. Let's say we 2128 01:55:44.600 --> 01:55:47.640 have a few days of seventy five degrees next week 2129 01:55:47.760 --> 01:55:51.079 or whatever, it may try to re sprout, and then 2130 01:55:51.119 --> 01:55:54.119 figs are not that cold hearty with especially tender growth. 2131 01:55:54.680 --> 01:55:59.119 So I would wait. I'd probably do my pruning. I 2132 01:55:59.159 --> 01:56:02.680 don't know, maybe early to mid February something like that. 2133 01:56:03.000 --> 01:56:05.239 There's not the magic about that time. But that's just 2134 01:56:05.880 --> 01:56:09.640 that's just an idea because I do get. 2135 01:56:09.520 --> 01:56:12.520 But I do get, you know, leaf tips. You know, 2136 01:56:12.560 --> 01:56:14.520 if it gets warm again, I'm going to have leaf 2137 01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:16.560 tips in the next week or so. 2138 01:56:17.560 --> 01:56:20.520 Yes, and you can't. You can't prevent that. So just 2139 01:56:21.000 --> 01:56:23.680 cut it back as far as you want. And if 2140 01:56:23.680 --> 01:56:26.479 you got some old big stumps in it, you can 2141 01:56:26.520 --> 01:56:29.920 cut those off the ground if you want. But our 2142 01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:32.159 trunks in it is what I should have said. But 2143 01:56:32.840 --> 01:56:35.800 space the branches out. You know, if you're going to 2144 01:56:35.880 --> 01:56:38.199 have a big tree like you've got, you may have 2145 01:56:39.000 --> 01:56:42.279 seven or so trunks, five to seven trunks coming up 2146 01:56:42.279 --> 01:56:45.000 from the ground in this huge clump space I'm out 2147 01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:47.039 apart a little bit where they're not just one right 2148 01:56:47.079 --> 01:56:49.439 beside the other, and open the tree up a little 2149 01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:53.079 bit that way, and you can maintain some height on 2150 01:56:53.159 --> 01:56:56.399 it height maintenance that way as well. 2151 01:56:57.479 --> 01:57:02.159 Okay, And then my second question. I have two white 2152 01:57:02.159 --> 01:57:06.359 flesh peach trees that are in probably twenty four inch diameter, 2153 01:57:06.840 --> 01:57:09.199 you know, large terracotta pots that I want to put 2154 01:57:09.199 --> 01:57:12.840 in the ground this year. Yes, one of them never 2155 01:57:12.880 --> 01:57:16.119 even lost its leaves and they're both in bloom. So 2156 01:57:16.159 --> 01:57:17.960 I was always told, you know, whether it was a 2157 01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:20.640 wives tail or alm neck, you know, can't transplant when 2158 01:57:20.640 --> 01:57:24.279 they're blooming. But it's like you know, they were blooming 2159 01:57:24.359 --> 01:57:25.600 before you can free. 2160 01:57:25.600 --> 01:57:28.920 No, yeah, no, you can you can. We'll just have 2161 01:57:29.039 --> 01:57:32.399 to see if these blooms hold up or not. The 2162 01:57:32.439 --> 01:57:34.520 advantage of them being in pots is if we do 2163 01:57:34.560 --> 01:57:36.399 have another hard freeze, you can bring the blooms in 2164 01:57:37.359 --> 01:57:39.159 and then bring them back out and I might wait 2165 01:57:39.199 --> 01:57:41.600 to plant them until after the last frost if you're 2166 01:57:41.640 --> 01:57:44.359 trying to save the crop that's on them. Hey, Katie, 2167 01:57:44.399 --> 01:57:46.359 I have got to run. I'm against a hard break. 2168 01:57:46.439 --> 01:57:48.880 But good luck with those, and thank you a lot. 2169 01:57:49.039 --> 01:57:52.960 I appreciate that call. Emily, Charles, Kathleen. We'll get you 2170 01:57:53.000 --> 01:57:59.680 first up when we come back. Hey, welcome back. Good 2171 01:58:00.279 --> 01:58:02.199 with us. We are going to jump right back in 2172 01:58:02.199 --> 01:58:04.479 the phones here on garden Line and head out to 2173 01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:08.279 Emily and sugar Land. Hello Emily, Welcome to garden Line. 2174 01:58:09.800 --> 01:58:13.039 Yes, I have a quick question. I have a roast 2175 01:58:13.039 --> 01:58:15.680 bush's tall skin eat. It only produces maybe three roses, 2176 01:58:16.079 --> 01:58:19.920 but the top but broke off at the in where 2177 01:58:19.960 --> 01:58:22.079 it's like hanging on by the skin. So I kind 2178 01:58:22.119 --> 01:58:24.720 of like try to patch it together because the butt 2179 01:58:24.760 --> 01:58:27.279 is still green. Is it better to print it and 2180 01:58:27.479 --> 01:58:29.159 because I heard that if you pune it it will 2181 01:58:29.199 --> 01:58:31.359 grow back more, or is it better to graft. 2182 01:58:31.159 --> 01:58:32.800 It back on in someplace to the tree. 2183 01:58:32.840 --> 01:58:34.600 Does that have how much green does that have to have? 2184 01:58:35.159 --> 01:58:37.279 Or do you have a video that shows how to 2185 01:58:37.359 --> 01:58:38.840 grab it someplace else? 2186 01:58:40.640 --> 01:58:43.000 Yeah, I wouldn't worry about the grafting at all. What 2187 01:58:43.560 --> 01:58:45.680 I would do is print it out. Go down at 2188 01:58:45.800 --> 01:58:49.720 least to the first set of five leaflet leaf on 2189 01:58:49.800 --> 01:58:52.000 the plant, you know, right below a bud that usually 2190 01:58:52.039 --> 01:58:54.279 you have a leaflets that are about three of them 2191 01:58:54.399 --> 01:58:56.399 or so. And then you got a little further and 2192 01:58:56.479 --> 01:58:59.159 you'll have leaves that have five leaflets, and at least 2193 01:58:59.199 --> 01:59:01.560 go down to that. Here's the thing on roses. They 2194 01:59:01.640 --> 01:59:04.640 bloom on the ends of shoots. So when you prune 2195 01:59:04.640 --> 01:59:06.880 a plant, you take off one shoot and you're going 2196 01:59:06.920 --> 01:59:09.039 to have maybe two or three shoots. They grow in 2197 01:59:09.159 --> 01:59:11.119 its place, so now you can have two or three 2198 01:59:11.199 --> 01:59:14.479 blooms instead of one. So each time you prune back, 2199 01:59:14.920 --> 01:59:17.079 don't be afraid to cut it back pretty good and 2200 01:59:17.199 --> 01:59:20.760 get fresh new growth coming out, and that will provide 2201 01:59:20.880 --> 01:59:24.000 additional blooms for you. Don't try to grasp you. 2202 01:59:24.079 --> 01:59:29.520 Come off, You leave it like you cut before the 2203 01:59:29.640 --> 01:59:32.560 fought the set of five, or you cut after below it, 2204 01:59:32.880 --> 01:59:33.600 above it or below. 2205 01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:36.199 Yeah, this is this is a This is a cut 2206 01:59:36.239 --> 01:59:38.800 flower rose, not a bush rose, right, I mean, it's 2207 01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:41.279 not made for a shrub. It's made for cut flower 2208 01:59:41.359 --> 01:59:43.880 long stems, yes or no. 2209 01:59:44.079 --> 01:59:47.000 On that, I don't know. It's a long skinny it's 2210 01:59:47.119 --> 01:59:47.880 tall and skinny. 2211 01:59:47.920 --> 01:59:49.119 It doesn't it's not a bush. 2212 01:59:49.199 --> 01:59:50.840 It looks more like a little tree. 2213 01:59:53.159 --> 01:59:56.319 Three long beams coming up right. 2214 01:59:56.840 --> 01:59:59.479 So when I'm saying three to five leaflets, what I'm 2215 01:59:59.520 --> 02:00:01.000 really trying to to say is, don't just cut the 2216 02:00:01.079 --> 02:00:03.800 butt off. Go down a little bit until you start 2217 02:00:03.880 --> 02:00:07.840 seeing these five leaflet leaves and cut down in there, 2218 02:00:08.159 --> 02:00:10.640 because that will provide the extra vigor to send up 2219 02:00:10.680 --> 02:00:13.680 a good, strong, new shoot for more blooms. But I 2220 02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:15.920 would go ahead at some. 2221 02:00:15.960 --> 02:00:19.520 Point I cut above them, are below this set. 2222 02:00:19.359 --> 02:00:20.079 Of plus. 2223 02:00:21.720 --> 02:00:24.840 Right above, right above, because where that leaf attaches, there's 2224 02:00:24.880 --> 02:00:28.399 a bud that will form a shoot. Cut right above that, 2225 02:00:28.800 --> 02:00:30.600 and you'll and a shoot will come out right at 2226 02:00:30.600 --> 02:00:31.640 the bottom of that leaflet. 2227 02:00:31.760 --> 02:00:35.760 Okay, perfect, okay, thank you so much, all right, goodbye, 2228 02:00:36.399 --> 02:00:37.319 you bet you, thank you. 2229 02:00:37.520 --> 02:00:40.720 Appreciate your call very much. You know, Microlife has a 2230 02:00:40.800 --> 02:00:42.720 number of products that are good. Now we're gonna be 2231 02:00:42.720 --> 02:00:45.800 talking about microlif fertilizer. For your lawn here later. Okay, 2232 02:00:45.960 --> 02:00:48.359 that warming season is coming up and we're going to 2233 02:00:48.479 --> 02:00:52.079 go all into lawn fertilizing. Anytime of the year, though, 2234 02:00:52.199 --> 02:00:54.439 it is a good time to put out Microlife humts plus. 2235 02:00:54.560 --> 02:00:57.520 Now there is four percent potassium in it, but the 2236 02:00:57.640 --> 02:00:59.880 primary reason we're putting it out is hu mats plus 2237 02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:04.880 is concentrated compost in a bag. So you take organic 2238 02:01:04.960 --> 02:01:07.439 matter like leaves and grass clippings and whatever, and you 2239 02:01:07.640 --> 02:01:10.479 decompose it, and we call that compost. You take compost 2240 02:01:10.600 --> 02:01:12.840 and you let it decompose to its final state that's 2241 02:01:12.880 --> 02:01:16.399 called humus. And when you reach the stage of humus, 2242 02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:19.840 when we're creating humates with the hum humic acid and 2243 02:01:19.920 --> 02:01:22.039 other things in it, that is really good stuff with 2244 02:01:22.119 --> 02:01:25.720 the soil. It improves all texture, it improves microbial activity, 2245 02:01:26.479 --> 02:01:28.760 It helps loosen up a clay soil as it works 2246 02:01:28.840 --> 02:01:30.880 itself as you work it, or it works yourself down 2247 02:01:30.920 --> 02:01:34.760 into the soil. Microlife humantes plus that is a bluish 2248 02:01:34.760 --> 02:01:37.520 purple bag and you can do it anytime of the year. 2249 02:01:37.520 --> 02:01:38.920 You could do it now. You can wait until you 2250 02:01:39.000 --> 02:01:41.880 fertilize in the spring. Put your fertilizer out and then 2251 02:01:41.960 --> 02:01:45.239 put humts plus out too, because we're talking about two 2252 02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:48.199 different actions here and humans plus. For any kind of 2253 02:01:48.239 --> 02:01:50.520 a soil, it's going to be beneficial, especially when you're 2254 02:01:50.520 --> 02:01:53.399 dealing with kind of fixing up a pretty crummy clay 2255 02:01:53.600 --> 02:01:57.159 or something like that. It's especially helpful in those kinds 2256 02:01:57.199 --> 02:01:59.520 of situations. And that's from the folks at Microlife and 2257 02:01:59.600 --> 02:02:02.359 you can go to micro Life Fertilizer dot com find 2258 02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:04.600 out where to buy it. It's pretty much sold everywhere, 2259 02:02:05.319 --> 02:02:08.800 and also about the other products that they carry. I'm 2260 02:02:08.840 --> 02:02:12.039 going to head nowt to Tanglewood and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles, 2261 02:02:12.119 --> 02:02:13.000 Welcome to Guardline. 2262 02:02:13.800 --> 02:02:18.680 Thank you Skip. I have used the letyer since nineteen 2263 02:02:18.720 --> 02:02:23.800 eighty eight. I have used the schedule that goes provided 2264 02:02:23.840 --> 02:02:27.319 by Randy and now by you for at least ten years. Okay, 2265 02:02:28.239 --> 02:02:32.079 this is the first year I've had some brown patch. 2266 02:02:32.199 --> 02:02:35.520 My neighbor had some and it apparently jumped the driveway 2267 02:02:37.239 --> 02:02:39.760 have about a two foot area and about a six 2268 02:02:39.840 --> 02:02:47.319 foot area. They're not water stands. So I put on 2269 02:02:49.119 --> 02:02:54.279 Nelson's fertilizer that had the fund side in it about 2270 02:02:54.800 --> 02:02:56.600 six or eight weeks ago when I first saw it, 2271 02:02:56.720 --> 02:02:59.399 but it didn't stop it. What can I do now? 2272 02:03:00.119 --> 02:03:02.399 Number one? Do I still need to stop it? Number two? 2273 02:03:02.479 --> 02:03:07.319 What can I do now to guard against having it 2274 02:03:07.439 --> 02:03:10.399 next year? And if I can't do anything now, when 2275 02:03:10.479 --> 02:03:12.680 do I make sure I put something out next year? 2276 02:03:14.640 --> 02:03:18.640 Okay, Well, when we see the circles, what we're seeing 2277 02:03:19.000 --> 02:03:23.399 is the visual progressed condition of brown patch. Where So 2278 02:03:23.640 --> 02:03:25.520 when you see a circle and you spray it, and 2279 02:03:25.560 --> 02:03:27.920 you go, well the circle got better, bigger, or another 2280 02:03:27.960 --> 02:03:31.319 one appeared, it's because that disease was already working in 2281 02:03:31.399 --> 02:03:33.720 the grass. You just didn't see the circle yet, And 2282 02:03:33.880 --> 02:03:36.600 so that's why it looks like a product may not work. 2283 02:03:36.720 --> 02:03:39.880 That's one reason why I would not be doing fertilizing 2284 02:03:40.079 --> 02:03:42.119 on the lawn this early. But there are on my 2285 02:03:42.239 --> 02:03:44.960 schedule that you referred to. If you look on there, 2286 02:03:45.079 --> 02:03:49.399 it's got mid January through February. Are actually into March 2287 02:03:50.039 --> 02:03:52.199 is a time when we can have brown patch, and 2288 02:03:52.359 --> 02:03:56.760 when we do preventive applications of the products that are 2289 02:03:56.800 --> 02:04:01.079 there on the schedule to control it. Now you kind 2290 02:04:01.119 --> 02:04:03.920 of have an option. The brown patch seems to be 2291 02:04:04.079 --> 02:04:08.319 worse and better prevented when we do it in the spring, 2292 02:04:08.479 --> 02:04:11.279 I mean in the fall, in the spring, we will 2293 02:04:11.359 --> 02:04:14.199 get we can get more circles. I usually ignore mine. 2294 02:04:14.199 --> 02:04:16.000 I've got some in my yard right now, and I'm 2295 02:04:16.079 --> 02:04:18.880 kind of ignoring them because once that grass gets growing, 2296 02:04:19.000 --> 02:04:20.880 it's going to green backy. It's going to be okay, 2297 02:04:20.920 --> 02:04:22.760 because brown patch that I can kill your grass, It 2298 02:04:22.840 --> 02:04:25.319 just rots the leaves off. But if you want to 2299 02:04:25.359 --> 02:04:29.640 prevent additional circles, now would be a good time to 2300 02:04:29.800 --> 02:04:32.800 get a product out there that will help prevent it. Now, 2301 02:04:32.960 --> 02:04:39.479 and especially in February. It's temperature moisture related, and so 2302 02:04:40.000 --> 02:04:42.399 if we have mild temperatures, you can get brown patch 2303 02:04:42.439 --> 02:04:44.520 circles in the middle of winter. You know, if the 2304 02:04:44.560 --> 02:04:47.960 temperatures are right. Typically it's a fall in the spring problem, 2305 02:04:48.119 --> 02:04:52.239 early spring problem. But if you want to prevent it, 2306 02:04:52.600 --> 02:04:55.720 get the right products out there now. If not, you know, 2307 02:04:55.920 --> 02:04:58.319 like I'm doing, And that's just say, Okay, the circles 2308 02:04:58.359 --> 02:04:59.960 are there, that's okay. It's going to be all green 2309 02:05:00.119 --> 02:05:02.880 pretty soon, and I'm not gonna worry about it, Okay. 2310 02:05:02.960 --> 02:05:05.760 You see, is there a liquid form or something that 2311 02:05:05.880 --> 02:05:07.960 works better than the granular because what I put out 2312 02:05:08.079 --> 02:05:08.920 was grain. You're looking for. 2313 02:05:12.239 --> 02:05:15.119 Either either way is find most of the products that 2314 02:05:15.279 --> 02:05:19.000 we have are going to be granular. Something like nitrophos 2315 02:05:19.119 --> 02:05:24.800 has a total brown patch control, for example, and you 2316 02:05:24.880 --> 02:05:28.000 know you can There are some products that are liquid 2317 02:05:28.479 --> 02:05:32.199 that can be sprayed in a hose en sprayer that 2318 02:05:32.359 --> 02:05:38.720 contain ingredients like propoconazole and azoxystrobin. Those are on my schedule, 2319 02:05:39.560 --> 02:05:43.119 but I generally recommend those for take all root rod 2320 02:05:43.359 --> 02:05:45.279 and don't worry about them for brown patch. But you 2321 02:05:45.359 --> 02:05:49.039 can go either way. Just know that it is basically 2322 02:05:49.159 --> 02:05:51.479 occurring on the runners and at the base of the 2323 02:05:51.560 --> 02:05:54.920 grass blades. That's where it's causing its damage. So you 2324 02:05:55.039 --> 02:05:58.079 get either way you go about it. You just want 2325 02:05:58.119 --> 02:06:01.119 to protect that area, all right. 2326 02:06:01.159 --> 02:06:04.000 My neighbor has a one of the high end, big 2327 02:06:04.159 --> 02:06:10.680 name landscape folks who did spray her little spot, and 2328 02:06:10.920 --> 02:06:12.680 so they used the liquid and I was curious to 2329 02:06:12.760 --> 02:06:15.760 appear to attack it immediately, and I was curious if 2330 02:06:15.760 --> 02:06:18.079 there's something out there and I could do to make 2331 02:06:18.159 --> 02:06:18.479 sure that. 2332 02:06:19.039 --> 02:06:21.159 Yeah, well a liquid is going to get down there, 2333 02:06:21.199 --> 02:06:22.800 You're gonna spray, and it's going to get right down 2334 02:06:22.840 --> 02:06:24.960 there on the grass blades and on the on the 2335 02:06:25.239 --> 02:06:27.479 runners and stuff, so I could I could see that too. 2336 02:06:28.159 --> 02:06:31.479 In general, you know we're talking about ingredients. Uh, and 2337 02:06:31.640 --> 02:06:35.279 so however you get the ingredient out there, Uh, the 2338 02:06:35.479 --> 02:06:37.800 ingredient's going to do what that ingredient can do. In 2339 02:06:37.960 --> 02:06:40.239 other words, does it control it well or not? Is 2340 02:06:40.319 --> 02:06:42.479 the question? All right, sir? 2341 02:06:43.600 --> 02:06:45.720 You have the ingredients are on the website. 2342 02:06:45.760 --> 02:06:49.760 You said, yes, they are on my on my lawn 2343 02:06:49.840 --> 02:06:53.000 pest disease and we'd management schedule. But you have to 2344 02:06:53.039 --> 02:06:56.000 look undertake our root rot to see to see those 2345 02:06:56.199 --> 02:06:59.560 ingredients that I mentioned by name. Uh, that will also 2346 02:06:59.600 --> 02:07:02.119 help them. Bron pat sum. All right, sir, Thank you 2347 02:07:02.880 --> 02:07:06.680 appreciate your call. You take care. Let's see here. Oh, 2348 02:07:06.760 --> 02:07:08.359 I wanted to mention for those of you up in 2349 02:07:08.399 --> 02:07:11.479 the Tamboul area. D and D Feed is an outstanding 2350 02:07:11.600 --> 02:07:13.800 place to get all kinds of products like this. You know, 2351 02:07:13.880 --> 02:07:17.079 we're talking about stuff on my schedule and they D 2352 02:07:17.159 --> 02:07:20.760 and D carries nitrofoss products, they carry microlife products, They 2353 02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:24.720 carry Nelson Turf Star line, They have other Nilsen plant foods. 2354 02:07:24.800 --> 02:07:27.840 One of the canisters, for example, they have products from 2355 02:07:27.920 --> 02:07:32.079 Medina airloom soil products. There. At D and D Feed 2356 02:07:32.479 --> 02:07:35.239 they carry everything you need along with quality feeds like 2357 02:07:35.399 --> 02:07:39.199 especially high quality pet food for your pets, very good. 2358 02:07:39.359 --> 02:07:42.000 And then if you need to control weeds, diseases, insects, 2359 02:07:42.239 --> 02:07:44.079 it's all there at D and D Feed. They're three 2360 02:07:44.199 --> 02:07:48.279 miles west of two forty nine, just west on twenty 2361 02:07:48.399 --> 02:07:50.159 nine to twenty outside of Tumball, so you're in the 2362 02:07:50.159 --> 02:07:52.199 middle of Tomball. Head out twenty nine to twenty to 2363 02:07:52.279 --> 02:07:54.840 the west three miles and they'll be on the left 2364 02:07:54.880 --> 02:07:58.119 hand side. Dover Family's been doing this since nineteen eighty nine. 2365 02:07:58.600 --> 02:08:00.840 They continue to expand it and improve on it, and 2366 02:08:01.119 --> 02:08:04.039 every time I go by there, it's just like it's 2367 02:08:04.079 --> 02:08:05.880 a better place. It really is. It is good to 2368 02:08:05.920 --> 02:08:08.439 begin with. Don't forget if those of you are into 2369 02:08:08.680 --> 02:08:11.720 backyard chickens, they're going to be getting backyard chicken orders 2370 02:08:11.720 --> 02:08:13.840 in pretty soon. I think we can get into February. 2371 02:08:14.239 --> 02:08:16.960 We'll start talking about that as well. But go by, 2372 02:08:17.079 --> 02:08:18.840 say hey to Jeff and the team there at D 2373 02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:22.760 and Defeat. While you're there, pick up the products you 2374 02:08:22.880 --> 02:08:26.199 need to have success with your lawn and your landscapes. 2375 02:08:28.760 --> 02:08:32.760 Let's see here. I'm gonna go Chris in Jersey Village. 2376 02:08:32.800 --> 02:08:34.960 I'm picking up this phone call right before I have 2377 02:08:35.039 --> 02:08:36.359 to go to break but let's see if we can 2378 02:08:36.399 --> 02:08:37.960 get a start on it, and we'll finish you when 2379 02:08:38.000 --> 02:08:38.520 we come back. 2380 02:08:39.880 --> 02:08:46.640 Okay, thanks for taking my call, you bet Okay, real quick. 2381 02:08:48.279 --> 02:08:51.439 The microlight you said, we can get that most anyway. See, 2382 02:08:51.680 --> 02:08:54.560 I wanted to fertilize the backyard, but my dogs are 2383 02:08:54.640 --> 02:08:57.680 back there, and everybody I've talked to you know you 2384 02:08:57.800 --> 02:08:59.399 don't want to do that with dogs. 2385 02:09:00.279 --> 02:09:06.079 So I was thinking, no, perfect, I'm sorry. Yeah, the 2386 02:09:06.199 --> 02:09:08.680 dogs may eat it. The dogs may eat it. They 2387 02:09:08.840 --> 02:09:11.399 like it. My dogs love to eat micro life. I'm serious, 2388 02:09:12.000 --> 02:09:14.920 they do. All right, man, let me let me do this, 2389 02:09:15.960 --> 02:09:20.039 but let me let me go to break. I'm I'm 2390 02:09:20.079 --> 02:09:22.079 having to stop right here. I will come back and 2391 02:09:22.119 --> 02:09:24.199 we're gonna we're gonna talk about this and and go 2392 02:09:24.319 --> 02:09:27.560 into detail for you. We'll be right back. Okay, sure, 2393 02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:32.720 all right, let's see what's wrong here we go. Welcome back. 2394 02:09:32.800 --> 02:09:34.479 We're going to go back out to the phone call 2395 02:09:34.520 --> 02:09:38.439 we started before a break with Chris out in Jersey Village. 2396 02:09:38.640 --> 02:09:42.159 So Chris, we were talking about uh uh, you had 2397 02:09:42.239 --> 02:09:47.000 some questions about the yard and let's let's continue. 2398 02:09:46.600 --> 02:09:47.039 On with that. 2399 02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:48.760 Okay. 2400 02:09:49.560 --> 02:09:52.199 Uh, what I need to know is what kind of 2401 02:09:52.319 --> 02:09:56.760 product can I put in my backyard that you know, 2402 02:09:56.960 --> 02:10:00.800 a won't affect the dogs and be you know, will 2403 02:10:00.840 --> 02:10:04.119 help the grass grow because I mean it does come in, 2404 02:10:04.800 --> 02:10:06.880 but I mean a lot of weeds and stuff like that, 2405 02:10:07.079 --> 02:10:09.279 and I know I can't use a weed or anything 2406 02:10:09.439 --> 02:10:10.439 because of the dogs. 2407 02:10:12.479 --> 02:10:16.159 Yeah, yeah, that's right, I get it. Uh, Well, you've 2408 02:10:16.159 --> 02:10:19.119 got you've got a number of different options out there. 2409 02:10:19.560 --> 02:10:24.079 There are products from Medina that are good fertilizers that 2410 02:10:24.800 --> 02:10:27.119 for fertilizing you're on. You got a products from Microlife 2411 02:10:27.159 --> 02:10:30.479 that are good fertilizers for fertilizing you on when it 2412 02:10:30.560 --> 02:10:36.399 comes to micro everywhere, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, it's easy 2413 02:10:36.399 --> 02:10:40.119 to talk about microlide that that really interested me. Yeah. 2414 02:10:41.479 --> 02:10:43.600 Well that you know, there's an Ace Hardware store. The 2415 02:10:43.640 --> 02:10:46.520 closest one to you is on on Jones Road. I 2416 02:10:46.640 --> 02:10:48.119 used to go out one when I lived up in 2417 02:10:48.159 --> 02:10:50.720 your area. Uh and Jones Roid. Ace is gonna have 2418 02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:53.359 Microlife and they're gonna, yeah, they're gonna have some other 2419 02:10:53.399 --> 02:10:55.000 stuff and they're just down the road from you a 2420 02:10:55.039 --> 02:10:57.439 little bit. There. Probably the closest one to you. You 2421 02:10:57.560 --> 02:11:01.159 know what, also over pretty close to you, Hamilton Hardware 2422 02:11:01.199 --> 02:11:06.439 over on Highway sixth North is about equidistant from you 2423 02:11:06.520 --> 02:11:08.439 there in Jersey Villas. But you mean you go into 2424 02:11:08.439 --> 02:11:10.439 an ACE hardware store and you're gonna find these products. 2425 02:11:11.119 --> 02:11:15.479 Okay, Now I've got a preferred customer thing. I use 2426 02:11:15.520 --> 02:11:18.399 that ACE quite a bit. I'm going to go because 2427 02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:22.720 I want to talk to you anyway. I just wanted 2428 02:11:22.760 --> 02:11:25.880 to say thank you for your program. You actually have 2429 02:11:26.119 --> 02:11:29.960 something on the air that I want to listen to instead. 2430 02:11:29.600 --> 02:11:31.720 Of all the fruit for all that's going around. 2431 02:11:32.680 --> 02:11:34.039 So thank you very much. 2432 02:11:36.159 --> 02:11:39.199 I'll take that. I'll take that as I praise Chris. 2433 02:11:39.840 --> 02:11:42.119 Thank you, appreciate I for you being a listener. Thanks 2434 02:11:42.159 --> 02:11:43.640 for the call to you. Take care of guy. Good 2435 02:11:43.720 --> 02:11:47.199 luck with that. All right? There you have it, folks, 2436 02:11:48.600 --> 02:11:51.079 No fruit for all on this show, or at least 2437 02:11:51.119 --> 02:11:54.399 I try not to. Actually we do. We do frough 2438 02:11:54.439 --> 02:11:59.840 a little bit. Ever now we try to avoid it. Okay, Hey, listen, 2439 02:12:00.680 --> 02:12:07.319 whenever you are looking to have success with attracting birds 2440 02:12:07.359 --> 02:12:10.159 to your landscape, there's one place to go, and that's 2441 02:12:10.359 --> 02:12:14.960 Wildbirds Unlimited. And I'm telling you I love going in there, 2442 02:12:15.039 --> 02:12:16.560 and I've been to a whole bunch of you know, 2443 02:12:16.640 --> 02:12:18.279 we have six of them in the Houston area, there's 2444 02:12:18.960 --> 02:12:20.359 if you want to find the one near you, you 2445 02:12:20.439 --> 02:12:24.159 can just go to WBU that stands for Wildbirds Unlimited 2446 02:12:24.840 --> 02:12:28.880 WBU dot com forward slash Houston and I'll show you 2447 02:12:28.920 --> 02:12:32.119 where the stores are, and there's one nor Southeast. But 2448 02:12:32.199 --> 02:12:34.520 you're going to find them easy, easy to find. But 2449 02:12:34.600 --> 02:12:36.319 when you go in there, you're going to find the 2450 02:12:36.560 --> 02:12:41.960 quality products that will attract birds to your landscape in 2451 02:12:42.039 --> 02:12:44.239 the best way. And there's a lot of cheap bird 2452 02:12:44.319 --> 02:12:46.279 seed on the market, a ton of it. Most of 2453 02:12:46.319 --> 02:12:48.960 it is about fifty percent of those little red bebes 2454 02:12:49.000 --> 02:12:51.479 that birds don't really particularly care for. To be honest, 2455 02:12:51.560 --> 02:12:55.039 most birds that you're wanting to bring in don't. But 2456 02:12:55.159 --> 02:12:58.039 with a Wildbirds product, you're getting you buy a pound 2457 02:12:58.079 --> 02:12:59.960 of wild bird seed and you're getting a pound of stuff. 2458 02:13:00.039 --> 02:13:02.399 It goes into a bird's belly, especially if it's the 2459 02:13:02.439 --> 02:13:04.840 already whole seed, and they have whole seed mixes. So 2460 02:13:04.880 --> 02:13:08.920 if you buy sunflower, you're getting the kernels, not the husks. Now, 2461 02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:11.479 there's nothing wrong with the huss they just break them open, 2462 02:13:11.560 --> 02:13:13.000 get the kernels out, and then you got a husk 2463 02:13:13.079 --> 02:13:16.279 on the ground. I'm fine with that, but if you 2464 02:13:16.359 --> 02:13:18.680 want like one percent of the bag going into the 2465 02:13:18.720 --> 02:13:21.880 bird belly that go to Wallbirds. They're no mess blends. 2466 02:13:21.960 --> 02:13:25.079 It's called no mess. They have n M on the 2467 02:13:25.159 --> 02:13:28.119 bags and you'll find all kinds. The newest thing at 2468 02:13:28.159 --> 02:13:33.479 Wallbirds is called cardinal confetti. Cardinal confetti. Cardinal is in 2469 02:13:33.560 --> 02:13:36.920 the red birds. Yeah, the cardinals. It's got safflower. It's 2470 02:13:36.960 --> 02:13:39.800 got black ole sunflower, it's got sunflower chips. It's got 2471 02:13:39.920 --> 02:13:44.600 nutrius safflower called nutris saff It's got bark, butter bits, 2472 02:13:44.800 --> 02:13:49.359 peanut halves, dried mealworms, stripes, sunflower seeds. Doesn't that sound 2473 02:13:49.439 --> 02:13:54.119 yummy except the dried mealworm part. Dried mealworms are yummy 2474 02:13:54.159 --> 02:13:55.520 to the birds. I'll tell you that. You can put 2475 02:13:55.520 --> 02:13:57.840 it in a loose tray feeder. You can put it 2476 02:13:57.960 --> 02:14:01.319 on a hopper. I use stuff like that bird eliminator, 2477 02:14:01.920 --> 02:14:06.000 excuse me, squirrel eliminator, not bird eliminator. When squirrels come 2478 02:14:06.079 --> 02:14:08.199 up and try to get my feed, that eliminator just 2479 02:14:08.239 --> 02:14:10.399 shuts the door and they can't get in. And you 2480 02:14:10.520 --> 02:14:12.840 will not believe the kind of language a squirrel will 2481 02:14:12.920 --> 02:14:15.239 use in your backyard where the children can hear it. 2482 02:14:15.680 --> 02:14:18.560 When you can't get into my bird feeder. That makes 2483 02:14:18.640 --> 02:14:21.520 me happy to break their hearts. But anyway, Wildbirds has 2484 02:14:21.560 --> 02:14:24.319 got the eliminator. It's got all kinds of feeders. If 2485 02:14:24.399 --> 02:14:26.760 you are looking for a wintertime feed, we're still in 2486 02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:30.119 the season where I would recommend Winter super Blend. Winter 2487 02:14:30.239 --> 02:14:34.039 super Blend is loaded with proteins and fats, very helpful 2488 02:14:34.039 --> 02:14:37.680 to birds. Less day hours to be out there gathering feed, 2489 02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:41.359 colder temperatures, just they need a little extra boost. And 2490 02:14:41.439 --> 02:14:45.319 that's why Wildbird's made Winter super Blend. I want take 2491 02:14:45.399 --> 02:14:47.479 out one other thing, and that's bark butter. I mentioned 2492 02:14:47.520 --> 02:14:51.159 that wall ago and that cardinal confetti blend. Bark butter 2493 02:14:51.359 --> 02:14:55.359 itself is a spreadable suet that you smear on the 2494 02:14:55.439 --> 02:14:57.439 bark of a tree. That's why they call it bark butter, 2495 02:14:58.000 --> 02:15:00.640 and the birds go up to imagine peanut but sort 2496 02:15:00.680 --> 02:15:02.880 of and you just smeared it on the tree and 2497 02:15:03.000 --> 02:15:04.680 birds were coming out and pecking in it. Well, this 2498 02:15:04.880 --> 02:15:08.560 bark butter has got all kinds of things mixed into it, 2499 02:15:09.079 --> 02:15:12.399 and they have documented over one hundred and fifty different 2500 02:15:12.439 --> 02:15:15.640 species of birds that bark butter attracts. It's called Gem's 2501 02:15:15.680 --> 02:15:18.800 birdacious bark butter. It's made by the founder of All 2502 02:15:18.880 --> 02:15:22.039 Birds guy named Jen Carpenter. They also had the bark 2503 02:15:22.119 --> 02:15:24.600 butter and bits. It's little bite sized nuggets that you 2504 02:15:24.680 --> 02:15:26.960 can put in a feeder. You can mix it in 2505 02:15:27.039 --> 02:15:29.119 with the seed that you're already putting in there. They've 2506 02:15:29.159 --> 02:15:31.800 got bugs and bits. Here we go mealworms. It's got 2507 02:15:31.880 --> 02:15:35.039 the bark, butter and dried millworms in it. Now, if 2508 02:15:35.079 --> 02:15:37.399 there are any birds listening right now, birds don't have 2509 02:15:37.479 --> 02:15:41.199 saliva to my knowledge, but they're slobber coming out of 2510 02:15:41.199 --> 02:15:44.000 the corners of their mouth listening to this, because this 2511 02:15:44.359 --> 02:15:47.560 is like, that's like talking to me about enchiladas. I mean, 2512 02:15:47.760 --> 02:15:50.720 I cannot start drooling when you start talking about enchilada. 2513 02:15:50.880 --> 02:15:56.439 This chiladas for birds anyway. Bark butter products super high 2514 02:15:56.439 --> 02:15:59.079 and calcium that helps support the egg development. By the way, 2515 02:15:59.119 --> 02:16:01.479 your birds are going to besting soon. They're out there, 2516 02:16:01.920 --> 02:16:05.079 they're getting those those finding their nests, getting them set up. 2517 02:16:05.680 --> 02:16:06.920 If you, by the way, if you want to do 2518 02:16:07.600 --> 02:16:10.920 a one of those Purple Martin houses, time to get 2519 02:16:10.960 --> 02:16:13.159 those set up. Because we get into February, we're gonna 2520 02:16:13.159 --> 02:16:15.439 have scouts coming around looking for a place to stay. 2521 02:16:15.600 --> 02:16:18.439 You want your house up when the scouts are looking 2522 02:16:18.479 --> 02:16:21.520 before they settle in on some other place. So stop 2523 02:16:21.600 --> 02:16:24.039 by wild birds, ask them, ask them to show you 2524 02:16:24.159 --> 02:16:27.399 the options they have for the purple Martin boxes. All right, 2525 02:16:27.439 --> 02:16:29.439 I've been talking about wilberds because I'm excited about it. 2526 02:16:29.560 --> 02:16:32.399 I love love feeding birds in the back. I love 2527 02:16:32.479 --> 02:16:34.959 the sounds go out in the morning and enjoyed listening 2528 02:16:35.040 --> 02:16:39.280 to the birds singing. It's kind of cool you are 2529 02:16:39.360 --> 02:16:42.000 listening to Gardenline, and I to give you a phone number, 2530 02:16:42.159 --> 02:16:44.680 and that number is seven one three two one two 2531 02:16:45.360 --> 02:16:48.440 k t r H. Seven one three two one two 2532 02:16:48.600 --> 02:16:51.079 k t r H. I'm gonna take a little break here. 2533 02:16:51.399 --> 02:16:54.000 We're coming back for the last segment of the day. 2534 02:16:54.000 --> 02:16:55.520 I can take a call or two then, So if 2535 02:16:55.559 --> 02:16:57.479 you like, I got a question, can't wait till tomorrow, 2536 02:16:57.879 --> 02:16:59.719 Now's the time to give us a call. Seven one 2537 02:16:59.760 --> 02:17:05.600 three two and two KTRH. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back 2538 02:17:05.639 --> 02:17:07.479 to garden Line. Hey, I got time for a quick call. 2539 02:17:07.559 --> 02:17:11.399 If you have got one that's burning, maybe a burning 2540 02:17:11.520 --> 02:17:14.200 question or something like that, we can do that. Remember 2541 02:17:14.399 --> 02:17:17.520 when I finished today, I'm gonna grab me some lunch 2542 02:17:17.600 --> 02:17:21.079 and head down to the Brazas home and garden Show 2543 02:17:21.159 --> 02:17:24.319 at the Fort Bend Epicenter just off Southwest Freeway down 2544 02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:28.799 there in Rosenberg, Texas. I'll be there from one to three. 2545 02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:32.360 I'm gonna start off with one hour talking about the 2546 02:17:32.600 --> 02:17:35.680 essential steps to create a thriving garden in the spring, 2547 02:17:35.840 --> 02:17:38.639 a thriving lawn in the spring. We'll go through that 2548 02:17:38.840 --> 02:17:41.840 and we'll answer your gardening questions for another hour. For sure, 2549 02:17:42.719 --> 02:17:45.639 I'm gonna have some giveaways that I'm giving away. I 2550 02:17:45.719 --> 02:17:47.840 have some copies of Texas Gardener magazine. If you have 2551 02:17:48.000 --> 02:17:51.879 not subscribed to Texas Gardener, you need to. You need to, 2552 02:17:51.959 --> 02:17:54.040 and I'm gonna have some samples there. I'll give you one. 2553 02:17:54.319 --> 02:17:56.399 Come take a look at least for the first However, 2554 02:17:56.479 --> 02:17:59.840 many people that I have samples for I don't I'm bringing. 2555 02:18:00.280 --> 02:18:03.159 But anyway, i'll have those for you, answering your gardening questions. 2556 02:18:03.159 --> 02:18:05.319 I'll bring some of my books. If you like one signed, 2557 02:18:05.399 --> 02:18:07.959 I can provide that for you down there too, But 2558 02:18:08.120 --> 02:18:12.159 mainly bring me pictures on your phone of problems of questions. 2559 02:18:12.200 --> 02:18:14.639 What's this plant? What's this weed? How do I control it? 2560 02:18:15.399 --> 02:18:17.600 Bring me samples. Throw some weeds in a bag, you 2561 02:18:18.040 --> 02:18:19.879 zip it up and bring it on in. We'll take 2562 02:18:19.920 --> 02:18:21.639 a look at them and we'll just have a little 2563 02:18:22.079 --> 02:18:24.280 plant clinic. I don't have a lab coat. I wish 2564 02:18:24.319 --> 02:18:26.280 I need a white lab coat and I could say 2565 02:18:26.319 --> 02:18:28.719 the plant doctor is in or something like that, even 2566 02:18:28.760 --> 02:18:31.200 though I don't have my doctorate, by the way, but 2567 02:18:31.719 --> 02:18:35.120 I'll be happy to answer your gardening questions. At the 2568 02:18:35.239 --> 02:18:38.159 Fort Bend Epicenter, the Brises Home and Garden Shoe by 2569 02:18:38.159 --> 02:18:41.440 the way, the folks at Enchanted Forest will be there. 2570 02:18:41.559 --> 02:18:43.920 They have a great display. You can visit with them. 2571 02:18:43.920 --> 02:18:45.559 You can see examples of some of the plants that 2572 02:18:45.799 --> 02:18:47.680 they had, some really cool plants they're going to bring in. 2573 02:18:48.319 --> 02:18:50.319 And there's going to be a lot of other seminars too, 2574 02:18:50.959 --> 02:18:53.200 I know just looking at the schedule. By the way, 2575 02:18:53.280 --> 02:18:56.479 that Home and Garden show is going from yesterday to tomorrow, 2576 02:18:56.680 --> 02:19:00.639 Friday to Sunday. Remember I'll be there today three, but 2577 02:19:00.719 --> 02:19:03.840 they have a lot of other seminars. Andy chad Ester 2578 02:19:04.239 --> 02:19:06.920 from the folks at Medina will be there. She has 2579 02:19:07.040 --> 02:19:09.639 been there already talking. She's gonna give some more talks there. 2580 02:19:10.280 --> 02:19:15.159 And Danny from Intended Forest is going to be there 2581 02:19:15.239 --> 02:19:17.680 as well, so you need to come by and meet him. 2582 02:19:18.000 --> 02:19:20.879 Danny's is new to intended Forest, not new to the area. 2583 02:19:20.920 --> 02:19:24.680 He's been doing gardening in all kinds of ways here 2584 02:19:24.840 --> 02:19:27.760 the green industry in the Houston area, from botanical gardens 2585 02:19:27.879 --> 02:19:32.360 to media to you name it. Danny's a real cool 2586 02:19:32.399 --> 02:19:34.600 fellow to meet and he'll be down there giving some 2587 02:19:34.719 --> 02:19:38.399 talks as well. So come on down, let's meet you 2588 02:19:38.479 --> 02:19:40.319 and let's have some fun. Bring me some samples. This 2589 02:19:40.399 --> 02:19:42.600 is my first appearance this year, and I can't wait. 2590 02:19:42.799 --> 02:19:45.200 I've been cooped up all winter not being able to 2591 02:19:45.239 --> 02:19:47.360 go out and rub shoulders a gardener. So here we go. 2592 02:19:47.879 --> 02:19:49.399 Come on out and see me. We had some calls 2593 02:19:49.399 --> 02:19:52.040 today from sugar Land at different places. Come on down, 2594 02:19:52.319 --> 02:19:54.799 let's do that. Let's get some products in your hands, 2595 02:19:54.840 --> 02:20:00.360 some samples to try out. The We've talked a lot today, 2596 02:20:00.399 --> 02:20:03.200 off and on with different things about soil regarding plants. 2597 02:20:03.280 --> 02:20:05.000 You know, the clay soils that we have, and they 2598 02:20:05.040 --> 02:20:08.600 don't drain well, and almost all plants need good drainage. 2599 02:20:08.680 --> 02:20:11.000 There's some that can live in a swamp, but most 2600 02:20:11.079 --> 02:20:13.959 plants would prefer to have good drainage, good oxygen in 2601 02:20:14.000 --> 02:20:16.440 the root system. Well, when it comes to your home, 2602 02:20:16.639 --> 02:20:19.959 the problem with our soils. Is that these clay shrinks 2603 02:20:20.000 --> 02:20:23.000 and swells. It gets bigger and it gets smaller. It 2604 02:20:23.120 --> 02:20:25.479 literally does. That's way of cracks in the summer, Big 2605 02:20:25.520 --> 02:20:29.360 giant cracks in the yard. That's clay that has shrunk up. Well, 2606 02:20:29.399 --> 02:20:32.280 what happens when you have a sidewalk or a driveway 2607 02:20:32.360 --> 02:20:34.840 or a foundation on that You get damage, You get 2608 02:20:34.879 --> 02:20:37.799 heaving and breaking and cracking and all kinds of things. 2609 02:20:38.399 --> 02:20:43.239 Fix my slab foundation repair. Ty Strecklin's the guy tie 2610 02:20:43.239 --> 02:20:45.840 owns it. Ty is a native Ustonian. He's a fifth 2611 02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:49.520 generation Texan and he's been fixing slabs in this area 2612 02:20:49.600 --> 02:20:52.559 for twenty three years, actually probably more than that. Now 2613 02:20:52.959 --> 02:20:55.120 he knows what he's doing. He shows up on time. 2614 02:20:55.680 --> 02:20:59.159 Isn't that a nice refreshing change of pace for people? 2615 02:21:00.200 --> 02:21:02.559 Somebody and then they never show up? Ty will he does. 2616 02:21:03.000 --> 02:21:05.559 He fixes it right, and he gives you a fair price. 2617 02:21:05.639 --> 02:21:07.319 And if it doesn't need work, he'll tell you that too. 2618 02:21:08.760 --> 02:21:10.840 If you tell him you're a guarden line listener, free 2619 02:21:11.000 --> 02:21:13.760 estimate for your guarden line listeners, have him come out 2620 02:21:13.799 --> 02:21:17.719 and look is your sheet rock? Cracking is a door 2621 02:21:17.840 --> 02:21:21.200 sticking that used to not stick. That's movement is the 2622 02:21:21.280 --> 02:21:25.159 brick on the outside showing cracks. Call tie, here's the 2623 02:21:25.239 --> 02:21:29.520 number two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. 2624 02:21:30.040 --> 02:21:32.600 Two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine, 2625 02:21:32.799 --> 02:21:37.360 or just go to this website. It's easy fix myslab 2626 02:21:37.879 --> 02:21:40.239 dot com. Don't be an ostrich stick your head in 2627 02:21:40.280 --> 02:21:43.200 the sand. Call him bite the bullet. Let's take a 2628 02:21:43.280 --> 02:21:45.319 look at it. Who knows. You may get good news 2629 02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:46.879 and you don't even need to worry about it. But 2630 02:21:47.040 --> 02:21:48.479 if you need it, he'll tell you what you need, 2631 02:21:48.600 --> 02:21:50.159 what it's going to take, and he knows what he's 2632 02:21:50.159 --> 02:21:53.000 talking about, and he's an honest, fair fellow. We're gonna 2633 02:21:53.040 --> 02:21:55.639 go now out to Oh my gosh, we're going all 2634 02:21:55.639 --> 02:21:58.600 the ways San Antonio, Texas to talk to Doug. Hey, Doug, 2635 02:21:58.680 --> 02:21:59.600 welcome to guarden Line. 2636 02:22:01.239 --> 02:22:04.319 Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I'm sure a 2637 02:22:04.360 --> 02:22:05.920 lot of people call it in this morning after the 2638 02:22:06.000 --> 02:22:08.559 freeze and see what they're going to do about their plants. 2639 02:22:08.639 --> 02:22:11.959 I have a speranza now, it's in the pot. I 2640 02:22:12.079 --> 02:22:14.239 was able to bring it in, but the leaves are 2641 02:22:14.280 --> 02:22:17.079 getting a little crispy on it, and uh, I want 2642 02:22:17.120 --> 02:22:18.760 to know, do I need to cut it back or 2643 02:22:18.799 --> 02:22:20.879 what for spring or or what do we got to 2644 02:22:20.920 --> 02:22:21.159 do there? 2645 02:22:21.600 --> 02:22:24.200 Good question, A good question. Are you going to keep 2646 02:22:24.200 --> 02:22:25.360 it in a pot? Or are you going to plant 2647 02:22:25.360 --> 02:22:25.920 it in the garden? 2648 02:22:27.079 --> 02:22:28.399 Now, we're going to keep it in the pot. 2649 02:22:29.120 --> 02:22:30.479 It's it's a wide pot. 2650 02:22:30.559 --> 02:22:32.360 It's it's probably about two feet. 2651 02:22:32.159 --> 02:22:38.520 Wide and about about about a foot up. So okay, okay, Well, 2652 02:22:38.840 --> 02:22:41.040 uh so you could do a couple of things. 2653 02:22:41.319 --> 02:22:41.440 Uh. 2654 02:22:41.680 --> 02:22:44.040 I would wait until it starts to grow, and you'll 2655 02:22:44.079 --> 02:22:46.600 see what's dead and what's sprouting, and then cut it 2656 02:22:46.680 --> 02:22:53.079 back to what's sprouting. Uh that's off the ugly. Yeah, 2657 02:22:53.079 --> 02:22:54.719 I just want ever new gro it maybe a little 2658 02:22:54.760 --> 02:22:56.879 later in that before you've see new growth. But uh yeah, 2659 02:22:57.040 --> 02:22:59.079 just that'd be the easiest. If you want to get 2660 02:22:59.079 --> 02:23:01.280 in a hurry about it, you can take your thumbnail 2661 02:23:01.399 --> 02:23:03.959 little piget knife, scratch the bark back. It should be 2662 02:23:04.079 --> 02:23:08.879 cream colored or maybe a sharpsose light green color in 2663 02:23:08.959 --> 02:23:11.200 there if it's alive, and if it's dead, it'll be 2664 02:23:11.239 --> 02:23:14.159 the color of a paper sack or even brown black 2665 02:23:14.239 --> 02:23:18.479 gray streak sometimes, but gotcha, it takes a while after 2666 02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:21.280 a freeze for it to fully show that damage color. 2667 02:23:21.719 --> 02:23:24.920 But you could then follow keep scratching your way back 2668 02:23:24.959 --> 02:23:27.479 toward the ground and when you hit green, then printed 2669 02:23:27.520 --> 02:23:30.319 above that. But I would. 2670 02:23:32.959 --> 02:23:35.680 I'll probably wait on it. I have a two prider 2671 02:23:35.799 --> 02:23:41.120 Barbados in the ground, and I'm molt volcano, as I say, 2672 02:23:41.520 --> 02:23:45.239 And they're a little chrispy cue. They're gonna first year once, 2673 02:23:45.440 --> 02:23:49.520 so they're not so established it. They're gonna be all right, right. 2674 02:23:49.879 --> 02:23:51.959 Yeah, leave them for now, leaving leave the mounds you 2675 02:23:52.040 --> 02:23:54.840 got on them. It's okay. As soon as we start 2676 02:23:54.920 --> 02:23:57.760 to warm up. Pride of Barbados is slow to wake 2677 02:23:57.879 --> 02:23:59.600 up in the spring. It's like a teenager on a 2678 02:23:59.639 --> 02:24:01.920 Saturday morning. If you see them for lunch, that's what 2679 02:24:02.319 --> 02:24:05.879 you're doing. Good. So Pride to Arbodos. It's going to 2680 02:24:05.920 --> 02:24:09.120 be about probably April, April or May before it tells 2681 02:24:09.159 --> 02:24:11.239 you it's coming back. Don't give up on it. But 2682 02:24:11.399 --> 02:24:13.040 once we warm up a little bit and we're not 2683 02:24:13.120 --> 02:24:16.079 worried about freezes, pull all that multi volcano you put 2684 02:24:16.120 --> 02:24:19.479 around them away to get for you know, get oxygen 2685 02:24:19.600 --> 02:24:22.600 down in there and they'll be back. They'll be fine 2686 02:24:22.639 --> 02:24:23.319 with what you did. 2687 02:24:25.120 --> 02:24:28.520 All right, Well, sir, thank you for the yes. 2688 02:24:28.399 --> 02:24:34.360 Sir, all right, sounds good. Thanks for the call, take care, Thanks, 2689 02:24:34.399 --> 02:24:39.399 appreciate your calling. Yeah, you can listen to garden Line anywhere. 2690 02:24:39.479 --> 02:24:43.719 If you got family in uh Nome, Alaska, they can 2691 02:24:43.799 --> 02:24:47.639 listen to garden Line on the iHeart Media app. My 2692 02:24:47.760 --> 02:24:50.600 advice may not be applicable to know, but I don't know. 2693 02:24:51.559 --> 02:24:55.559 Might enjoy it seriously though. Anybody listen on the iHeartMedia 2694 02:24:55.559 --> 02:24:58.120 app live or to the podcast, or you just go 2695 02:24:58.239 --> 02:25:01.959 to ktr EA's website and listen the podcasts there. Yeah, 2696 02:25:02.000 --> 02:25:03.440 however you want to go about it. You can listen 2697 02:25:03.479 --> 02:25:06.280 to past shows that way too, So I thank you 2698 02:25:06.399 --> 02:25:09.040 for listening in live. We will be back tomorrow morning 2699 02:25:09.719 --> 02:25:12.760 and I'll be back taking your questions your calls. In 2700 02:25:12.879 --> 02:25:16.000 the meantime, come on down to the Brazzes Home and 2701 02:25:16.079 --> 02:25:19.920 Garden Show in Rosenberg at the Fort Bend at the Center. 2702 02:25:20.239 --> 02:25:22.440 I'll be there at one o'clock and I'm going to 2703 02:25:22.479 --> 02:25:25.159 be bringing samples of Texas Gardener Magazine. I'll have my 2704 02:25:25.239 --> 02:25:28.639 books on hand. I'll be bringing giveaways trying Nelson plant 2705 02:25:28.639 --> 02:25:31.520 food as a matter of fact for you to receive, 2706 02:25:31.719 --> 02:25:34.159 and then answering your gardening question. How could I do 2707 02:25:34.200 --> 02:25:36.799 a talk? Be there for two hours. Come on let's 2708 02:25:36.879 --> 02:25:37.079 meet