WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:05.919 Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skimp Richard's. 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:16.039 Crazy trip. Just watch him as well. 3 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:20.480 Us. 4 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:23.719 So many good things to Septsy. 5 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:31.000 Not a sor. 6 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:42.159 Well good morning, Yeah, it's me live. I uh. It's 7 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:45.079 been a low break here during the holiday season. I 8 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.799 hope you have had a wonderful time with family, hopefully 9 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:51.520 got some rest. Here we go first guard Line show 10 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.840 of twenty twenty five. We will be here for your 11 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.320 calls as we always are. If you would like to 12 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:00.320 give me a call at seven one three two one 13 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.359 to KTRH seven one three two one two k t RH. 14 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:08.040 We'll talk about whatever is of interest to you, what 15 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.599 is pressing in the gardening world of your backyard or 16 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.799 your front yard. Right now, we will be having a 17 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:19.000 great season. I have determined, just decided by myself that 18 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:20.760 this is going to be one of the best gardening 19 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:25.079 years ever. I mean it, I really am looking forward 20 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:27.680 to this gardening season. You know, every year throws us 21 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:31.280 its own curve. Some years it's awfully hot and dry. 22 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:33.719 Some years it just doesn't seem to want to quit 23 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:36.840 rain in some years it tends to give us a 24 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.439 pretty good coal snap. We got one of those coming 25 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:43.000 by the way, but not too terribly bad. We'll talk 26 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:44.560 about that a little bit as we go on through 27 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:47.879 the show today. But no matter what happens, there's a 28 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.719 lot that we are in control of when it comes 29 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:54.280 to gardening in the weather that once we understand how 30 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:57.719 to properly take care of plants, meaning get plants what 31 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.239 they want, that's kind of what it amounts to. We'll 32 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:02.519 talk about having a green thumb. A green thumb isn't 33 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.000 there's no such thing as a green thumb. I like 34 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:06.920 to put it that way because it makes a point, 35 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:11.520 and that point is that it's not like some people 36 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:13.639 just have a green thumb. And if you feel like 37 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.000 your thumb's been brown and every time you try to 38 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.800 grow something it doesn't work, you have these problems or 39 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.000 issues or things, don't worry about that. We will fix it. 40 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:26.039 Because a green thumb is i'll just say, a myth 41 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:27.599 And if you want to think of it as a 42 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.199 green thumb, well, let's do it this way. Then there's 43 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.120 no such thing as a brown thumb. There's just an 44 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.360 uninformed thumb. So we will inform your thumb, and amazingly, 45 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:40.759 it will start to turn green. That's how it works. 46 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.719 Garden line seven one three two one two kt r H. 47 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.280 I'm your host, Skip Richter and really looking forward to 48 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.960 twenty twenty five. Out in the garden. We are entering 49 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.080 that season where everybody gets gardening fever. You know, people 50 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:58.400 that aren't really even into gardening when spring comes here 51 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:03.479 and it's just on a doorstep. When it hits, people 52 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.879 get gardening fever. And gardening fever causes us to want 53 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:09.319 to go out and buy and plant and do all 54 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.919 kinds of things. And I think that's great. I think 55 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.919 that's great. But if you're going to do it, let's 56 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:20.840 do it in a smart way. How about that? What 57 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.439 does that mean? That means don't just grab a plant 58 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:26.520 that doesn't belong in the Greater Houston area. Plant something 59 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:28.879 that wants to be here. Maybe you just move from Colorado. 60 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.240 I love blue spruce, they don't grow here. Maybe you 61 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.199 love that blue Colorado columbine. Yeah, I know, you went 62 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.560 ski in, you saw a seed packet, whatever, Just put 63 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.840 it on the shelf and enjoy looking at it, because 64 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:42.080 that's as close to a Columbine flowers you're going to 65 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.520 get here in Texas. From the blue Colorado are the 66 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:48.120 ones that are you know all those multicolors that they'll 67 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:51.159 sell you up there. We have two native columbines down here, 68 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.199 the Hinkleys, which is a yellow, beautiful columbine yellow. And 69 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.520 then our native that's in central Texas is a small 70 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:02.800 red columbine that's a native here. Plant those they'll grow. 71 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:05.319 See what I'm talking about. Maybe you move from the Midwest. 72 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:10.240 Oh my goodness, for cythia anywhere really, anywhere further north 73 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:13.719 in the country. Forsythia is gorgeous, the first harbinger of spring, 74 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:17.560 just about in the springtime. Don't plant it here, it's 75 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:22.079 not for here. Do you like lilas? You know that 76 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.680 fragrance of lilacs. Just let your memory tell you how 77 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:29.079 wonderful they smell. Because they don't belong here, but lots 78 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:31.800 of things do. And by planting plants that want to 79 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:35.720 grow here, you can have success. That is step one. 80 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.959 Plant something that wants to grow. Step two is prepare 81 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.120 the soil. Actually, that is step one. We always talk 82 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.120 about brown stuff or green stuff on garden line. Make 83 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:48.639 that your number one New Year's resolution this year. If 84 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:52.000 you want to be a gardener, number one resolution is 85 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.279 to choose things that want to grow, but plant them 86 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.879 in soil they want to be in. So, for example, 87 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:03.480 we have native plants Central Texas native the Texas Mountain Laurel, 88 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:08.319 beautiful clusters grape like clusters of blooms that have a 89 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:13.600 gaudy grepe, bubblegum, grape, kool aid, whatever fragrance to them. 90 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:18.519 A wonderful, wonderful plant. We also have plants, excuse me, 91 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:20.759 their native to the eastern parts of the state, more 92 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:24.759 acidic soils. Those two plants, even though they're both Texas plants, 93 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:27.120 don't want to be in the same soil, and so 94 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:29.319 you got to give them what they want. And that 95 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.600 makes it even easier to have success is you're not 96 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:37.439 trying to swim up stream. You're actually planting things in 97 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.480 the soil they want to be in. So that's number 98 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:41.839 one New Year's resolution. Get out there and fix your soil. 99 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.439 Now's the time to do it. Anytime in the cool season, 100 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.319 soil is dry enough to work, it's a good time 101 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.120 to do that. Raised beds are always a good idea 102 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.480 because you can always add water, but you can't take 103 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.120 it away when you have excess soggy wet, which I've 104 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.279 gotten some of my right now, I've got an area 105 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.839 I'm trying to redo and I'm just having to wait 106 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:05.680 on the soil to dry out enough to be able 107 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:09.079 to work it. But you can always create raised beds, 108 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.720 you can always amend the soil, you can create more 109 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:14.879 provide more organic matter for your soil. All of that 110 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:18.040 kind of stuff will help you have success. And that's 111 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.360 what we want you to have. I want you to 112 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.920 have success in your garden, and so we will harp. 113 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.319 I'll be a broken record on preparing the soil, preparing 114 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.480 the soil, taking care of the soil, getting it right, 115 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.519 making the plants feel at home, all of the above. 116 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.000 And when we do that, we will have success. It 117 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.079 just sets us up for success. Now, there's a lot 118 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:43.199 of different things that can happen that you know will 119 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:45.920 throw you curves and challenges. I don't mean just you know, 120 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:48.319 you prepare the soil and nothing goes wrong. Well, there's 121 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.480 a lot more to it, but seriously, that is step one, 122 00:06:51.639 --> 00:06:55.439 and that's where most people go wrong. Most people go 123 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.439 wrong by not preparing the soil ahead of time. So 124 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.240 courage you to do that and I'll perhaps I'll spend 125 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.120 a little time on that today. I know I will 126 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:07.079 week by week here as we go through here on 127 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:10.560 Garden Line. Well, thanks for listening, thanks for rejoining us 128 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.319 here in twenty twenty five. We're coming up on a 129 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:15.959 little bit of a break here. If you'd like to 130 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:17.759 give me a call, get on the board. We can 131 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.160 visit with you about the kinds of questions you might have. 132 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:23.920 Seven to one three two one two five eight seven four. 133 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.120 That is seven one three, two one two fifty eight 134 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:31.680 seventy four. If you have a question that might involve 135 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.639 a photo, give my producer Jonathan a call and get 136 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.680 an email so you can send me a photo and 137 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:40.759 then call and we'll talk about it on the air. Sometimes, 138 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.279 you know, you're describing a weed and what I'm picturing 139 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:45.720 and what you're describing isn't the same thing. Or maybe 140 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:48.639 it's a flower or a fruit or something. Go ahead 141 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:51.399 and just let you know, send me a photo, Let's 142 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:53.600 let me look at it, then let's talk about it. 143 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:55.839 Because I guarantee you this, other people will have the 144 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.879 same questions that you have. Well, I'll be right back 145 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.480 in just a moment with your questions and with more 146 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:02.319 a garden Line. 147 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.439 Come back to Guarden Line, folks. 148 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.199 Good to have you with us this morning. Welcome back 149 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:12.360 to We're welcome back, Welcome to twenty twenty five, the 150 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.399 best gardening year you will ever have experienced. This is it. 151 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:19.519 I'm being positive. Gardeners are optimists. We absolutely have to be, 152 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.399 because you know, we take these little dried pieces of 153 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:27.319 detritus that just look like, I don't know, just woodchip, 154 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.720 tiny wood chips, and we put them in the soil, 155 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:35.080 knowing that a tomato or a petunia is going to 156 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.159 come out of that thing. It's actually going to come 157 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.240 to life, grow and produce stuff that we really want 158 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:44.080 to see or eat or whatever. That's an optimist. We 159 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.240 believe in the future, and twenty twenty five is going 160 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:48.840 to be a great gardening year. I can just tell 161 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.639 you that we're going to start off by going straight 162 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.480 to the phones and this hour or segment, and we're 163 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.879 going to go to talk to Michael and Montgomery. Hello, Michael, 164 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:06.720 welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, I'm here, all righty, 165 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:10.519 Well there he is. Hey Mike, how are we. 166 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:11.080 Doing this morning? 167 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:14.799 Well, I'm good. I'm a little rusty. I forgot to 168 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:16.679 push the right button to get you on, so I'm 169 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.840 just talking to myself instead of you. Good. 170 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:20.919 Have you got a problem. 171 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.240 I planted a six foot red maple last year in 172 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:31.000 place of my oak that died, and it plant and 173 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:34.360 it's bloomed leaves and everything. But now with Paul, it 174 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:37.639 dropped its leaves and everything. And with this freeze coming around, 175 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:41.399 do I have to wrap it as a security? 176 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.960 You know, red maple is a hearty tree for our 177 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.039 area and we don't have to worry about it for cold, 178 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:51.120 but in your situation there I would. And here's why 179 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:55.840 we've We've been pretty warm these last few weeks, and 180 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.320 plants that can become very cold hearty when they harden 181 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:04.519 off as the weather gets colder and colder gradually, they 182 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.120 can be very uncold, hardy when suddenly a freeze comes 183 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.120 and they're not ready for it. Now, nine chances out 184 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.559 of ten, youre tree's gonna be fine, but just to 185 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.519 be safe with it, I would wrap up the trunk 186 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.879 around the base of the trunk. There are some some 187 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.360 wraps that you can put around them to protect the 188 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.960 sun from warming up those trunk tissues. And what happens 189 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.000 is the sun will warm it during the day and 190 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:32.440 a brand new This is true with red oaks, it's 191 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:35.399 true with grape myrtles, and several other kinds of trees up. 192 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.360 The sun shines on that trunk and it warms up 193 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:41.919 warmer than the air around it, Just like if you 194 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.720 stood outside on a cold, cold winter day that you 195 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:47.279 could feel the warmth of the sun on your face. Well, 196 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.679 that's what happens. Those tissues start to flow sap a 197 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:53.240 little bit, and then that night it freezes and you 198 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:57.159 get freeze damaged, typically on the southwest side of the trunk. 199 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.320 So normally I don't recommend trump rock trunk wraps, but 200 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:04.159 for that I would. You could. You could use different 201 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:06.559 things to do it, but there are some papers you 202 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:09.120 can wrap around to kind of crinkly. There's some plastic 203 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:12.399 wraps and things, but I like the paper wraps. Just 204 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:14.799 until that tree gets a year or so on it, 205 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.480 a year or two on it more, and that trunk 206 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:23.120 starts to get a little heartier. Then the bark gets 207 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.919 a little thicker and it's not so likely to suffer 208 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.600 that southwest injury on a freezing night. 209 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:33.000 Awesome, Thank you very much for your advice. I'll get 210 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:33.679 to work today. 211 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:38.240 You bet all right. You take care and fortunately this 212 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.039 freeze is going to be fairly mild and so I'm 213 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:44.200 I think if people that are listening going, oh my gosh, 214 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.279 I got to wrap all my trees. No, you probably don't, 215 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.759 but on a brand new, thin trunk tree. Yeah, well, 216 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:53.200 thanks for the call, man, I appreciate it. Thank you, 217 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.159 all right. Yeah, for those of you listening, just keep 218 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.799 that in mind. You know, it's like like, you know, 219 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:02.799 if you were to say, you know, skipped, are we 220 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.679 gonna get damage to all our tree trunks this freeze? 221 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:11.799 Well no, probably not not at all, but there's a possibility. 222 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:16.240 And when a tree is young, it's it's a paper 223 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:18.559 thin bark. I mean it's very very thin, you know, 224 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.080 it doesn't have those deep ridges. It's very smooth, and 225 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.159 a maple tree bark is not smooth normally, but when 226 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:29.240 a chung it is. I was in Atlanta, Georgia walking. 227 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:31.039 They have a I don't know what they call it. 228 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:33.240 It's like a beltway that goes around the city, but 229 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.440 it's a walkway. It's a big, giant wide sidewalk, you know, 230 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:40.120 maybe fifteen feet wide or something. It goes around the city. 231 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.559 You can walk the whole thing, and walking through I 232 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:47.519 just noticed every little tree had a wound. On the 233 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:50.039 southwest side at the base, I say, little tree. Now, 234 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.240 those things the first time I went there were probably 235 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:55.840 the size of a of a golf ball, and I 236 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.799 saw the wounds in Now these things, I've been going 237 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.679 for several years, but they're probably a lot of them 238 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:06.120 are four to six inches thick, and when you look 239 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.279 at them, you can see that old wound where the 240 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.120 southwest injury occurred when they were a little thin trunk, 241 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.000 thin barked young trees. And that's exactly how it happens. 242 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:19.960 People call. When I used to work with the Agro 243 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:23.440 Life Extension Office, people would call and go, so, I've 244 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:27.399 got this split near the bottom of my tree trunk, 245 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:29.840 and I would say, is it on the southwest side? 246 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:32.679 And there would be this pause where, you know, nobody 247 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.360 knows off the hand what size side of the trunk. 248 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:38.399 They have to stop and think, okay, this is north 249 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.279 and suddenly they'd go, yeah, like how did you know that? 250 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:46.039 And who cares what side it is. That's exactly what happens. 251 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:51.159 A nice mild winter day and the sun at the 252 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.080 latest part of you know, what's the hottest time of 253 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:54.919 the day. Look at the temperatures through the day. The 254 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.960 hottest time of the day is going to be around 255 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.159 four o'clock, okay, somewhere around there, depends on the day. 256 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.200 In the coal front coming through or something. But anyway, 257 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.159 that's the warmest part and it warms up and with 258 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.519 the sun shining on it, it warms up even more 259 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.519 more than the rest of the tree trunk around all 260 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:16.080 the other sides of the tree, and so that's where 261 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.919 the sap starts to flow. And so then a coal 262 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.879 snap that night. Typically that's going to happen when it 263 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:27.320 gets down, you know, mid twenties, lower twenties or even colder. 264 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.159 That's where we start to get that, even the teens, 265 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.600 and you get that damage and you don't see it 266 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.480 right away, but boy, you do see it when it 267 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.320 starts to grow in the spring. And will the tree survive, Yeah, 268 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:43.000 the tree will make it fine. But now you've got 269 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.320 this big wound that's got to heal over. Perhaps you 270 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:47.879 get some decay into the inner bark there is that 271 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.679 splits open and exposes the inner bark. So why not 272 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.480 just avoid it. It's easy to avoid. And the way 273 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.200 we do it is put a little wrap around the tree. 274 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.840 I've known people to paint the bases of their trees white. 275 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.120 The trunks were parts of the trunk white to reflect 276 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:04.919 some of that heat. That helps a little bit. Looks 277 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.840 kind of strange, although you go to some places like 278 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.559 in Mexico, it's very popular even in large tree trunks 279 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:13.519 and parks and stuff, you know, painted white on the 280 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.519 lower part. But there is a place for that. I 281 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.279 have known people to put some aluminum foil around the trunk, 282 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:23.480 just wrap it around, just kind of crump it and 283 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:26.559 so it stays there, just to reflect that sunlight out 284 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.720 to keep that trunk cool rather than encouraging it to grow. Oh, 285 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:34.240 let's see, it was it two decembers, three decembers ago. Now, 286 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:38.919 we had a period where, especially for those of you 287 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.080 up in the northern part of the listening area. When 288 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.080 I say that, I mean you know, like Tomball up 289 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.559 to College Station in Huntsville and everything up as you 290 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:50.879 go north, A lot of crape myrtles got killed to 291 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.240 the ground for the same reason. It went down to 292 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:57.279 the upper teens in December, and they were not ready 293 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:01.000 for it. They were not hardened off, and some flat 294 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.399 to the ground and they came right back out. Of course, 295 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.559 the base survives that you lost the above gun growth 296 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:08.919 and it was the same principle going on there. They 297 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:13.120 weren't ready for it. Crepe myrtles grow much further north 298 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:16.320 than here. You know, the one of the major crate 299 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:20.279 myrtle breeding programs in the country for decades past has 300 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:23.320 been up in Beltsville, Maryland. That's a little further north 301 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:27.559 than here. Well, that's the USDA breeding program. And so 302 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.519 if they can grow up there, why are we having 303 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.080 them killed to the ground here for the reason I 304 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:37.080 just described. So, better safe than sorry is what I say. 305 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:38.840 If I flipped a coin and had to say is 306 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:40.840 it going to be needed or not? I would say no. 307 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:45.519 But I wouldn't risk my own trees if I wasn't sure. 308 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:49.159 So there you go. That's my advice. I'd rather spend 309 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.480 a little time going out there and protecting the trunk, 310 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:57.440 and then even if I didn't have to. Right, all right, Well, 311 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:00.360 we got some cold weather coming. Last time I ed, 312 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:06.319 we were looking at temperatures down in the upper twenties. 313 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.599 For those of you who are up north of the 314 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.799 Houston area, and for those of you that are down 315 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:18.319 kind of even horizontally even across you know, with Houston, 316 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.200 sugar Land and across there, we're looking probably down around 317 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.880 thirty degrees twenty nine degrees, and that'll vary. I can't 318 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.680 predict the weather. The people that predict the weather sometimes miss. 319 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.799 But anyway, so we've got to do a little protection 320 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:36.079 for that possibility of getting some pipe damage. You know, 321 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.000 they say the three peas or plants, pipes and pets, 322 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:40.640 and you got to take care of all three of those, 323 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.480 of course. And when it comes to plants, if you've 324 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:47.119 got plants that are very sensitive to cold, we have 325 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:50.799 plants that are perennials here and in a mild winter 326 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:54.119 they'll just come right through without being killed on the ground. 327 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:57.319 And in a hard winter than they can be killed 328 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:59.000 all the way to the ground or killed out right, 329 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:04.559 depending on the plant. You know, perennial is a geographical designation. 330 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.880 Let me give you an example. You know, yellow bills esperanza, 331 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:11.920 beautiful yellow blooms. Had those around for a good long time. Now. 332 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:14.000 Those are a good tough plant. But you go up 333 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:16.519 the Dallas and they're not You go to Dallas, they're 334 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:18.559 gonna be killed the ground and could be killed outright. 335 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:23.880 Same with Pride of Barbados. Barbados pride, some people call 336 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:28.240 it red bird of Paradise, gorgeous summer bloomer. But you 337 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:31.200 get cold enough and it's not a perennial kill it 338 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:33.599 out right. So you got to take care of your 339 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:35.799 plants depending on where you live and how cold it gets. 340 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.680 And Ace Hardware has got you covered. They have the 341 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:43.039 plant frost blankets to protect your plant. It's a thick 342 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:47.880 woven material spun bound actually material. They come in different forms, 343 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:51.119 but you put them over your plant and secure them 344 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:54.640 to the ground and that holds the warmth of the 345 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:58.079 soil rising up to protect that plant. It's very helpful, 346 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:02.319 especially for frost because frost can't form on the leaves 347 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:04.680 when you got that cover over it. They have fawcet 348 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.160 covers to go over your faucets. They have something called 349 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:12.440 the freeze Miser fatt protection. It's a little short thing 350 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.160 you screw onto your faucet. You turn on the faucet 351 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:20.000 just wide open and no water comes out. But as 352 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.440 it gets cold, it starts to let water trickle through. 353 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:26.519 And when you have water trickling through, the water doesn't 354 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:28.119 just sit there to freeze. No, it's not going to 355 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:31.279 take you through timblow zero, but it'll take you through 356 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:34.000 the kinds of freezes typically that we have here. They've 357 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.960 got pipe wrap as a type of insulation to go 358 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.680 around your pipe. You plug it in, Well, there's the 359 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.559 insulation for your pipe, but there's also an insulating tape, 360 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:51.519 and there's wires that you can plug in that provide 361 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:53.960 just a little bit of heat to protect pipes and things. 362 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:57.319 In fact, there's a couple dozen different things that ACE 363 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.440 Hardware carries to help you prepare for the cold. So 364 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:02.319 I'm going to be talking about some of those other 365 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:04.440 things as we go through the morning, because we got 366 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.640 that coming up today, are coming up soon, the freeze. 367 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:09.839 Once you get through this weekend, I got a little 368 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:12.640 rainy weather ahead of it, and then sky's clear, and 369 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:15.599 when the sky's clear, the temperature can drop a lot further, 370 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.079 and that's what we're going to be experiencing all right. 371 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:19.720 Time for me to take a little break. I'll be 372 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:21.119 right back. If you'd like to give me a call 373 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:23.359 and get on the line. Seven to one three two 374 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:28.640 one two kt r H. 375 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.359 Hey, welcome back to Guarden Line. 376 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.240 You got a question you can help you with today, Well, 377 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:37.319 here's a number seven one three two one two kt 378 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.640 r H. Be happy to visit with you about the 379 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:43.599 things you need to know to have success in your garden. 380 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:46.960 Gardening is fun. It's supposed to be fun, and I 381 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:48.440 want you to have success. I don't want you to 382 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.279 be discouraged. I don't want you to feel like you 383 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:53.000 have a brown thumb. You don't trust me. You do 384 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.519 not have a brown thumb. I promise you don't. All 385 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:59.359 you need to do is get that thumb educated with 386 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:04.319 some good and and you can absolutely have success. Gardening 387 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:07.119 is not rocket science. I don't even know what that means, 388 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:09.839 even the rocket science anyway. Nothing's rocket science if you 389 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:13.119 know what you're doing, not even not even rocket science. 390 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.119 So just give us a call seven one three two 391 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:19.720 one two fifty eight seventy four. If you want to 392 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:21.960 send me a photo, I headed ahead of the call. 393 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:25.440 That's fine. Just call my UH number here seven one 394 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.240 three two one two fifty eight to seventy four till Jonathan. 395 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:30.000 You want to send a photo, He'll give you an email. 396 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:31.880 Send it to me, we can talk about it. I'm 397 00:21:31.880 --> 00:21:34.799 not able to answer all the emails by typing out 398 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:38.880 the answers to them, but I do appreciate when you 399 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.160 can send a photo. Being able to talk about the 400 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:43.960 question that you have and having something visual to look 401 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:46.079 at so I can help you diagnose or help you 402 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:50.559 identify or whatever it is that you're trying to do. Well, 403 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:54.359 let's see here I was discussing the importance of coal 404 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.200 protection in you know, someone's saying, well, ACE Hardware, where 405 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:59.079 do you Where is my ACE Hardware? Well, they're all 406 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:02.200 over the place. Go to Acehardware dot Com, find the 407 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:06.680 store locator and there's all there, all over the Greater 408 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:08.680 Houston area. You can find one near you. For example, 409 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:11.319 you go up to Porter Texas j N R. ACE 410 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.680 Hardware right there in Porter up in Willis all seasons, 411 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.039 ACE up in Willis, down in Clearly Kilgore Lumber and 412 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:22.200 Clear Lakes an ACE hardware store. And then Cyprus says 413 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:26.119 right there in Cyprus, Texas. Those are all examples of 414 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:30.319 ACE hardware stores that are near to you. I was 415 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:32.839 outside the other day looking at my bird feeder and 416 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:34.359 I hadn't seen a lot of birds come into it, 417 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:36.839 and I was going, you know what's wrong with that? 418 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:39.960 And what happened is it's one of those feeders that 419 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:43.640 when something sits on it, if it's too heavy, the 420 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:47.680 bird feeder closes. It's it's the squirrel excluding feeder from 421 00:22:47.720 --> 00:22:50.319 Wabbird's Unlimited. Squirrels can't get in because when they sit 422 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.079 down on it, it you know, closes the door. They 423 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:55.400 can't get to the food. But anyway, the food had 424 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:57.400 kind of gotten stuck up in there. I don't know 425 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:59.960 if some moisture or whatever had kind of gotten it stuck. 426 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.319 And I kind of bumped on it a little bit 427 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:04.759 and it dropped right down, and it just reminded me 428 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.920 check those feeders out. I'm using Wildbirds Unlimited Winter super 429 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:11.680 Blend in my feeders. I sometimes mix a few other 430 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:14.400 things in there. You know, depending on what birds you 431 00:23:14.440 --> 00:23:16.759 want to attract, there's different kinds of seed that are 432 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:20.559 most attractive to them. But Wibirds Unlimited Winter super Blend 433 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:22.680 is important because it has the fat and the protein 434 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:25.920 that birds need for fueling. You know, the days are shorter, 435 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.319 the temperature a little colder, sometimes the weather's inclement, and 436 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.519 they're not out able to do the feeding they're looking 437 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:35.279 for a lot of those things that went to seed 438 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:38.160 in the fall have now been picked over. The birds 439 00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:40.519 are getting hungry, So go buy Wilbirds un Let me 440 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:45.319 get you some of the Winter super Blend or one 441 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:47.400 of their other you know, just talk to the folks there. 442 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.599 They are so knowledgeable. I love going into wild birds. 443 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:54.680 It's like you're going to visit a friend because you 444 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:56.200 talk to him and say, hey, I'm interested in this, 445 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:59.279 and they're enthusiastic. Listen, they've got the they've got the 446 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.119 wild bird bud themselves, and they feed at their houses. 447 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:05.440 They know what they're talking about and you can just 448 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:07.240 strike up a conversation and they can talk to you 449 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:09.440 about it. You know, it's not all about just buying 450 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:11.319 a product, it's about learning how to do it. They 451 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.200 want you to have success because birding in the backyard 452 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:17.200 is a lot of fun. You know, you may not 453 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:21.400 be the guy with the you know, the stereotypical birder 454 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.960 that's got the little safari hat on and shorts and 455 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.839 these binoculars and walking around looking at birds in the 456 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.279 wild and songs that's fun, by the way, too. But 457 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:32.599 in the backyard you just feed them and you enjoy 458 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.200 the music. It's as simple as that, and warbirds can 459 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:37.759 help you do just that. Let's go out to the 460 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:39.759 phones now. We're going to head to pair Land and 461 00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:42.599 talk to Belinda. Hey, Belinda, Welcome to garden line. 462 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:46.079 Oh thank you, Skip. I have a big problem. 463 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:51.359 I have two six trees, two palm trees, two palmegranate trees, 464 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:53.000 and two citrus trees. 465 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:55.759 I have mult around them, okay, and I was going 466 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:56.440 to get the hay. 467 00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:59.359 But do I need to get those big, heavy covers that. 468 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:00.839 Go all the way over the curry? 469 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:02.720 No. 470 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:07.640 The most sensitive of those that you mentioned is your citrus, okay, 471 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:12.240 and those would I would do. The primary protection for 472 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:14.880 that is one where if you can put a cover 473 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.680 over the whole tree, that's good. But a cover needs 474 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:20.960 to drape all the way to the ground and be 475 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:25.079 secured to the ground with soil or rocks or bricks 476 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:28.559 or boards or whatever holds it down securely, because you 477 00:25:28.599 --> 00:25:31.680 want to create dead air space underneath it for the 478 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:34.279 warmth of the soil to rise up and make a 479 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:36.440 difference on the kind of coal we're going to have. 480 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:39.559 Our cold is going to be pretty minor considering you know, 481 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:41.759 when we're just talking about you in the upper twenties, 482 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:45.759 that's minor freeze compared to when you get mid twenties, 483 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.759 low twenties and teens, and so that'll be enough. I 484 00:25:48.759 --> 00:25:51.079 don't think your fig is going to need anything unless 485 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:54.559 it's a brand excuse me, your plum and palm granite. 486 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:58.680 Unless they're brand new trees very thin bark and stuff. Yeah, 487 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:00.440 you may want to protect them a little bit. Uh, 488 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:03.440 but they're probably going to be just fine. And then 489 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:06.240 the fig, if it's in a growing state, can get 490 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:09.240 some cold damage. If not, it's going to come through 491 00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:13.880 just fine. I'm not worried about figs right now myself 492 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:17.440 on the kind of gold that we're about to have. 493 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:21.799 Okay, so just a citrus, I have one big enough 494 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:22.480 to cover it. 495 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:25.039 Okay, I'll do that. 496 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:32.319 Yeah, thank you, Yeah, well, thank you, you know, even thank 497 00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:32.799 you very much. 498 00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:33.640 I appreciate you call. 499 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:35.680 Hey, thank you. 500 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:42.440 So you know, this freeze is a I'm going to 501 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:46.319 call it a minor one. You know, last time I checked, 502 00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:48.880 even heading all the way up to Huntsville, you're maybe 503 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.000 twenty eight something like that is what the last was 504 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.519 said to be. That's a freeze. But remember there's there's 505 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:01.240 freezes that they come and they stay frozen for a 506 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:05.240 long time. Each day. We're warming back up into the 507 00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:09.559 maybe forties in most places, and so there's not a 508 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.119 long period of time where those plants are frozen, and 509 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.200 that makes a difference. And so this is a kind 510 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.640 of phrase where it's not maybe we're preparing and warming 511 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:22.039 up for a significant one later, but for right now 512 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:24.960 this is a moderate one. So still protect and just 513 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:28.319 remember what I'm saying about one plant doesn't apply to another. 514 00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:32.039 You're talking about like figs or or more cold tender 515 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:38.119 than Belinda's a plum, for example, or palm grantite, those 516 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:41.920 those are not as cold tender as fig But just 517 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:44.720 depending on where you live, do what you need to do, 518 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.079 take care of it. Let's we're gonna go, actually I 519 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:49.480 have to take a break here. We're gonna come to 520 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:52.200 Marty in Fairfield right when we get back in the meantime, 521 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.160 if you like to give me a call. Seven one 522 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:56.519 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 523 00:27:58.519 --> 00:28:01.599 Welcome back to the Garden Line. Glad to have you 524 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:03.960 with us today. Thanks for listening in. I'm your host, 525 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.279 Skip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. 526 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.000 Do you got a phone, You got a phone, you 527 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:10.680 got a question? Well seven one three two one two 528 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:13.599 kt RH. It's as easy as that. And let's just 529 00:28:13.640 --> 00:28:17.880 start by going straight out to Marty in Fairfield. Hello Marty, 530 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:19.440 Welcome to Garden Rains Kid. 531 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:20.599 Happy New Year. 532 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:29.480 I have two spider lilies that are overgrown. They're about 533 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:33.480 four to five feet tall, and they're hanging against each 534 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.279 other in the middle of a walkway and I wanted 535 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:39.759 to see it. I called you a couple of weeks ago, 536 00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:44.480 and then you were on vacation. But is it okay 537 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:47.839 if I dig them up and before the freeze and 538 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:51.720 put them in some soil and some big pots, And 539 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:56.400 just because they always tend to freeze back and I 540 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:01.319 really want to separate them before the freeze back, and 541 00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:04.720 wondered if it would be okay you can do that. 542 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.200 Or let them freeze back and separate them at that time. 543 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.920 Either way is fine, They'll do fine. Let me just 544 00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:12.640 make sure we're talking about the same plant. Is this 545 00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:18.640 a white blooming flower, shaggy white blooms, yes, strappy petals, Okay. 546 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:22.279 Sometimes people refer to like a type of like chorus 547 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.240 as spider lily too. Yeah, that one. 548 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:32.079 Looks like a big star. It's it's it's a spider 549 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:34.960 little not yeah, not like a spider plant. A spider 550 00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:41.359 lily and big bulbs, Yeah, big bulbs. Dig leaves, long, 551 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.480 dark green. It's beautiful when it blooms. But they have 552 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:51.960 gotten Yeah, they've gotten really crowded, and I just I 553 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:57.240 don't know, I've been lazy about sending them out, so 554 00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:58.759 I wondered if it would be okay if I went 555 00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:00.960 ahead and did it before the freeze. 556 00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:05.759 You can do that now, just you know, bring them inside. 557 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:09.079 Don't leave the bulbs just sitting out and cold for now. 558 00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:11.839 But they're just a little bit underground when they grow. 559 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:14.680 They're not super deep bulbs, but they are protected by 560 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.039 the soil. But yeah, you sure can you do that 561 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:19.279 and guide them and then. 562 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:22.759 Plant the land. 563 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.640 You can put them right back in the ground if 564 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.880 you want. You know, in our warm climate, we don't 565 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:32.480 have to worry. If some further north they may plant 566 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:35.119 them in the spring more. But you can plant them 567 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:37.240 now if you like and reset them, or you can 568 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.599 keep them inside. Just remember if they dry out then 569 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:43.839 it's kind of like you let them get frosted back. 570 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:51.200 Then they'll just have to come back out again. Amarillis 571 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:55.599 is the same way Amarillis. They are in their cold 572 00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:58.400 weather stage. I've got some that are still showing good 573 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:01.359 strappy foliage. Or do you or your amarellas still have 574 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:02.279 green foliage. 575 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.119 Yes, all of them do. They're beautiful. 576 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:09.079 Yeah, yeah they are. And uh you know they're they're 577 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:12.680 gonna bloom a little a little bit later when warms up. 578 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:16.200 But if you, if you, if you can keep them 579 00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:19.480 from getting killed back, I think they'll you'll have a 580 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:21.599 little bit stronger plant. They'll do a little bit better 581 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:26.319 for you. Either way. Those are both tough, very tough plants. 582 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:32.000 Nope, all right, okay, thank you, all right. 583 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:34.039 Thank you. You know, the rule on guarden line is 584 00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:37.480 our advice is free. But when you divide all these bulbs, 585 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:39.240 you just need to bring half of the ones you 586 00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:41.200 dig up and leave them at the station and we'll 587 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:43.240 call it even. Okay, you don't. 588 00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:45.000 Have any room in your garden, just like me. 589 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:50.279 That's that true. That's the truth. Garden We don't ask 590 00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:52.359 that question. We just buy the plant, come home and 591 00:31:52.400 --> 00:32:00.480 figure it out. That's right, all right, folks. That is 592 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:06.200 that is so true of gardeners. Oh bye. That's why 593 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.599 I say gardeners are plant collectors. A lot of times. 594 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.720 You know, there's some people that they do it. Let's 595 00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:13.720 just say, right, you know, they go out and they 596 00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:16.200 they come up with a plan. They have a designer 597 00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:18.799 design the landscape and do all that and it's beautiful 598 00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:21.440 as gorgeous. It's a showplace. And they've only put the 599 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.839 plants in. They're going to plant that need to be there. 600 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:26.759 They don't overcrowd them and things. And then there's the 601 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:29.799 rest of us, the plant collectors. Our places look like 602 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.319 a bomb went off in a garden center and everything 603 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.480 rooted where it landed. It's just we see a plant 604 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.920 we got to have there. You know where am I 605 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:40.000 going to put it? That's silly to worry about that. 606 00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:42.960 Buy the plant, take it home, then figure out where 607 00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:46.559 to put it. But you know what, it's your yard. 608 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:49.240 It's to you and the hoa. So I guess in 609 00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:51.519 the backyard, you do what you want to do. The 610 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.960 hoa has an opinion about the front yard. Believe me, 611 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:56.079 they do. 612 00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:57.759 Well. 613 00:32:57.880 --> 00:32:59.880 As we're getting out there and taking care of our plants. 614 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:02.759 You know that the most important thing is to build 615 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:05.160 the soil. And one of the ways that we improve 616 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:10.039 our soil is with products from microlife like microlife micro 617 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:13.960 grow bioinoculant that is one that is loaded with all 618 00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:17.599 kinds of good microbes that are part of keeping plants healthy. 619 00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:21.880 I actually a week doesn't go by that I don't 620 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:26.519 read some research article about what some microbe has now 621 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:30.680 been discovered to be able to do. There are microbes 622 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.440 that cause roots to grow in certain directions. Can you 623 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:38.359 believe that there are microbes that get into the root 624 00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:41.640 system and cause the top of the plant to be 625 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:45.519 better at resisting disease? Can you believe that there are 626 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.759 microbes in this case the fungi that link one plant 627 00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:55.519 to another, that communicate from one plant to another about 628 00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:58.000 hey there's a bug eating us, watch out, get ready 629 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.519 for it, and all kinds of other things. It's an 630 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:03.599 amazing world. Micro Life's built around those kinds of things. 631 00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:07.200 It's taking advantage of what nature is already doing and 632 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.400 helping you do a better job of that in your yard. 633 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:14.639 Micro grow bioinoculant is a maroon bag, a burgundy bag, 634 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:20.280 very beautiful bag. Of course I'm biased, but anyway, it 635 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:26.000 is loaded with sixty three different beneficial micro organism strains. Now, 636 00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:28.519 all the microlife products are going to have MicroB xenom. 637 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.800 I mean they just do. They keep them stocked with 638 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:35.239 all kinds of good things. The micro grow biinoculant. Don't 639 00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:37.239 think of it as a fertilizer, think of it as 640 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:41.039 what it says, a bioinoculant, those kinds of things that 641 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:44.679 are helpful to your soils or your plant's root system. 642 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:48.400 Now there's also micro grow liquid AF. These are two 643 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:50.960 different products. They both have a dark kind of a 644 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.679 burgundy colored label, a little different in shade. But micro 645 00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:59.280 Grow liquid AF is loaded also with eight extremely dominating 646 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.960 beneficial mind grobes that live in the soil and help 647 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.320 your plans. Hey, where do you get microlife? Everywhere? It's 648 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:10.639 pretty much everywhere, feed stores, garden centers, the hardware stores, 649 00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:17.599 Southwest fertilizers down Southwest Houston. Okay, well, there's the first 650 00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:20.679 hour of twenty twenty five in the books. Boy, we 651 00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.280 got a lot more to talk about, and I'm telling 652 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.719 you this is going to be your best garden year ever. 653 00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:29.400 Trust me on this one. Believe me on this one. 654 00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:32.119 Just keep listening in. Don't forget my website too. By 655 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:35.079 the way, gardening with skip dot Com. I remember, I'm 656 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:36.719 going to talk about some new things that are up 657 00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:39.039 there on the dep side when we come back. 658 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:44.760 Take for un Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 659 00:35:44.880 --> 00:36:15.719 It's just watch you as seats well. 660 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:19.639 Good Saturday morning, Good Saturday morning, and welcome to twenty 661 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:23.519 twenty five. Welcome the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rector, 662 00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:26.280 and we're here to answer gardening questions. That's what we do. 663 00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:26.920 Uh. 664 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:31.079 I guess we'll even allow some uh gardening bragging, you know, 665 00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:33.079 if you want to, if you want to talk about uh, 666 00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:36.239 I don't know. You just got through planning a whole 667 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:39.760 bunch of wonderful fruit trees for your backyard, or just 668 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:42.199 got a whole bunch of new bulbs in that you're 669 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:44.559 fixing the put out there. Yeah, we'll do that. By 670 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:46.599 the way, for those of you who are not from Texas, 671 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:49.159 fixing is a word. Fixing is a word. It means 672 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:52.400 I'm about to I'm about to do it. If I 673 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:54.880 sometimes I forget. You know, you grew up someplace and 674 00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:57.800 use certain kinds of terms and language, and you recognize 675 00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:00.800 other people don't always do that. Head from New Jersey 676 00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:03.039 when I went to college, it lived seam arm as 677 00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:05.440 Randy and I as a matter of fact, back in 678 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.360 the day, and I remember the first time he goes fixing, 679 00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:11.639 what do you mean fixing and it's like, I mean, 680 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:14.960 I'm about to do something didn't realize. Not everybody talks 681 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:20.920 like that anyway, just an observation. But we are here 682 00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:24.079 to help you have a good success. And what I 683 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:25.679 like to say is I'm here to help you have 684 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:28.840 a more beautiful garden and a more bountiful garden and 685 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:32.920 the same At the same time, gardening is fun, and 686 00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:36.519 gardening gives us a connection in nature that we are made. 687 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:40.239 We're designed for nature, we really are. It is our 688 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:44.280 happy place. It's where we find relaxation. It's where we 689 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.400 find a lot of reward too. You know, there is 690 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:51.000 something when you grow your own tomato and you pick 691 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:54.480 that thing right off the vine and you enjoy that fresh, 692 00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:59.000 homegrown flavor that is so rewarding. When you smell the 693 00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:04.079 fragrance of a wonderful flower, that just I mean, it's 694 00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:07.800 just like nature's perfume that is rewarding. When you esthetically 695 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:11.559 look out there and you see a well trimmed lawn 696 00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:15.719 and a beautiful landscape, there's something esthetically rewarding about all that. 697 00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:18.159 And gardening gives you all that kind of stuff. Now, 698 00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:21.800 how do you end up having all that? Well? Number one. 699 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:26.480 You start with the soil. And I'm a broken record 700 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:30.880 on this, but brown stuff before green stuff, meaning you 701 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.800 fix the soil and then you plant the plant. That's 702 00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:38.079 how it works. Brown stuff before green stuff. And if 703 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:40.280 you go into a garden center today, which I think 704 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:43.280 would be a great thing to do it just come 705 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.960 home with some soil bags some Maybe you're starting seeds 706 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.440 and you need a seed starting mix. Maybe you are 707 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:52.320 putting in a bed and you need a quality bed mix. 708 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:55.719 Maybe you need some multch to go on top of 709 00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:57.920 the soil to protect the base of the plants. We're 710 00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.599 talking earlier about some coal damage and some plants are 711 00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:02.960 very cold sensitive. But when you throw a good thick 712 00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:05.239 layer of mulch over the top of them, it's like 713 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:08.599 putting a blanket over you. I mean it holds in 714 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.079 the warmth of the soil and it protects the crowns 715 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.000 of those plants. Where do you do that, well, Cienamal 716 00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:17.000 should be a good place to do it. It's kind of 717 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:21.559 the one stop shop for everything that's let's just say 718 00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:25.079 everything brown. When it comes to brown stuff, the composts 719 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:28.719 for the soil. The soil blends like the vegion or 720 00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:33.639 bix from heirloom soils. They've got that there. They carry 721 00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:38.559 products from landscapers Pride to They carry products from heirloom soils. 722 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:41.920 Of course. They also are a place where you're going 723 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:45.599 to find fertilizers from nitrofoss from Nelson, plant food from 724 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:50.039 for example, azamide and microlife. They carry all of that, 725 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:53.039 and then products from Medina as well. They deliver within 726 00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:55.639 twenty miles now. They're located down south of town on 727 00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:58.840 FM five point twenty one, near where Highway six and 728 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.559 two eighty eight are south of Houston. Go to the 729 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:07.000 website Sienna multch dot com Sienna multch dot com. There 730 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:08.800 you can find it where they're located. You can find 731 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:10.840 it when they're open. By the way, they're open today 732 00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:13.519 Saturday from seven thirty to two, So good day to 733 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:16.760 get out and do that. Get that stuff at your 734 00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:19.840 house on the ground, in the soil, on top of 735 00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:22.079 the soil, whatever you need to do with it, and 736 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:25.199 get ready because planting season is upon us. It is 737 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.719 still a good time to plant woody ornamentals and perennials 738 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:31.360 to give them a head start on the spring. Those 739 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.360 spring gardens, whether it's flowers or vegetables, or herbs. Get 740 00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:39.119 the soil right, because whenever that's dry enough to work 741 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:41.800 the soil, there's a good time to work the soil. 742 00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:45.880 It is, it's always good. You always amend and improve 743 00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:48.800 your soil. I don't care how good the soil is, 744 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.199 you're always in time going to be needing to do 745 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.559 some amendments and improvements on the soil, unless you're just 746 00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:59.320 growing a native plant in a soil that it's very 747 00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:02.559 adapted to. In that case, yeah, I get it. You 748 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:05.559 get it set up, and you forget it. But for 749 00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:08.559 a lot of things, including containers, you've got to keep 750 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:12.000 improving the soil in order to keep that at its 751 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:16.159 top functioning ability. Because plants live in their roots they do. 752 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:20.760 Quality soil means it's got organic matter. It means it's 753 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:24.039 got nutrients, and remember all of this is available cinemals. 754 00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:27.800 And it also quality soil means that it drains well, 755 00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.480 that excess water runs right through it, but that it 756 00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:32.519 holds some water. It's not just like a sand that 757 00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:35.440 water runs right through. It holds water, but it also 758 00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:38.719 drains the excess water. Cinamals cannot you do all of that, 759 00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:42.320 and if you're smart, you will get that done. Because 760 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:48.760 I'm telling you the the the wise gardener, I'll put 761 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:52.000 it that way. The wise gardener knows that you get 762 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.360 the soil right and it makes you look good. It 763 00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:56.960 makes your thumb look green, if you know what I'm 764 00:41:56.960 --> 00:42:01.480 talking about. All right, that's that speaking of the animals 765 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:05.400 and products and things, you know that cienumalch also carries 766 00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:10.960 Nelson plant food products. Now, Nelson is a it's just 767 00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:15.960 a long term, outstanding purveyor of some quality blends of 768 00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:19.559 nutrients for your plants. You know, there's a Nelson plant 769 00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:21.119 food for just about every kind of plant you want 770 00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:26.239 to grow, from lawns to things like let's say hibeskas 771 00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:30.519 or things like plumeria or things like roses. Nelson has 772 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:33.800 their color Star line, probably one of the most popular 773 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:37.159 lines now for almost forty years. Color Star is an 774 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.400 all purpose plant food, So you put it down on anything. 775 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:41.599 Just think about this way. If it gives you color, 776 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:44.760 put color Star on it. That's easy to remember. So 777 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:47.800 all the flowering plants, annuals of perennials, even shrubs and 778 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:49.960 trees that can you can use it on that It 779 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:53.440 acts quickly, but it also has organic nutrients sources to 780 00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:57.199 slowly release into the soil over time, so about every 781 00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:59.639 three or four months put your color Star down on 782 00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:02.840 your beds. You can also get it with a funge 783 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:06.480 side involved in a mixed in call Colorstar Plus to 784 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:09.360 help with the root issues that you might have. A 785 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:13.280 Color Star has been popular for landscapers for a very 786 00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:16.159 long time, and even out of state. You know, they 787 00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:19.480 ship that stuff all over the country to people that 788 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:22.880 have discovered it and now they use it and again landscapers. 789 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:26.599 Professional landscapers no to use color Star all from Nelson 790 00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:33.119 Plant Food. Nelson Plant Food is a Houston area homegrown 791 00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:38.320 basically homegrown company that produces whatever kind of nutrients you 792 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:40.400 need for the plants that you want to grow and 793 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:42.760 have success with. It's time for me to take a 794 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:44.599 little quick break. I'll be right back. 795 00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:45.679 You know. 796 00:43:46.119 --> 00:43:49.480 They welcome back to the guard Line. Glad to have 797 00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:52.400 you with us this morning on the first show of 798 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:56.440 twenty twenty five. You're welcome to the best gardening year 799 00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:59.320 you're going to have that you've ever had. How about 800 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:02.000 that saying a lot, isn't it? I just think it is. 801 00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:04.320 That's how I look at it. I tell you what, 802 00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:06.199 when I buy a seed, it's going to be the 803 00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:09.719 most bountiful harvest I've ever had. When I buy a 804 00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:13.079 fruit tree, I can just already taste the fruit. I mean, listen, 805 00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:15.519 you got to be an optimist as a gardener, and 806 00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:19.000 we do everything we can to have success. The bottom 807 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.039 line is that's a fun part of gardening because you know, 808 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:25.280 even when things don't work out like you want, you 809 00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:28.599 just adjust. You just adjust and you figure it out 810 00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:31.440 and it's okay. If this year ends up being a 811 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:33.920 little hot and dry, that's all right. We know how 812 00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:36.320 to water plant if it gets a little cold. We 813 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:37.840 know how to protect plants. I'm going to come back 814 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:39.760 and talk about plant protection here in a little bit. 815 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:41.880 Right now, I'm going to run out to the galleria 816 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:44.280 and we're going to talk to Forest. Hey, Forrest, welcome 817 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:45.000 to garden Line. 818 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:47.000 Hey, thank you, Skip. 819 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.960 I'm sure you'll cover a lot of these freeze questions. 820 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:55.159 But I've been growing a couple of citrus trees, a 821 00:44:55.239 --> 00:44:56.960 lime and a lemon that I picked up at a 822 00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:03.199 Buchanan's container, and my plan was to bring them in 823 00:45:03.480 --> 00:45:05.960 for this freeze we're about to have. But I just 824 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.719 wanted to get your thoughts on the rule of thumb 825 00:45:08.760 --> 00:45:12.760 on growing citrus and chill hours and that sort of thing. 826 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:13.920 How cold they can get. 827 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.079 Yeah, that's a good question for us. 828 00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:18.039 You know. 829 00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:21.440 The bottom line is limes and lemons, especially limes, are 830 00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.400 not very cold hearty at all, and so it went 831 00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:27.719 in doubt. I would bring them in just because you know, 832 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:29.079 you don't want to take a chance on it. 833 00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:29.519 Now. 834 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:34.000 There there are variations on protecting a plant, from leaving 835 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:36.480 it out there figuring it's going to be okay, to 836 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:39.519 bringing it up close to the house. I've got some 837 00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:42.960 house plants that are sitting outside my house, underneath the eaves, 838 00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:47.239 right up against the house, and they're still looking good. 839 00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:50.400 And they haven't you know, we haven't had a hard freeze, 840 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:53.960 but we had a minor freeze, and so just that 841 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:57.079 protected spot helped a lot. And then the next step 842 00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.800 would be to bring them into protect a garage, or 843 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:02.159 to cover them up and put some heat underneath them. 844 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.320 I think any of those things would be fine if 845 00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:09.199 it were mine. I wouldn't take chances on leaving them out. 846 00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:12.119 Once we drop below freezing, you're gonna get some damage 847 00:46:12.159 --> 00:46:14.480 to a lime and then probably to a lemon too. 848 00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:18.760 Okay, great, I appreciate that. 849 00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:19.360 Thank you. Sir. 850 00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.639 Yeah, do you have a dolly you can strap them 851 00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:26.320 too and wheel them in real easily without hurting your back. 852 00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.639 Oh, I got a whole system set up because I 853 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:36.280 also grow up plumeria in containers. I've been bringing plumeria 854 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.800 inside for years, so I got I got the drill 855 00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:39.360 for sure. 856 00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:44.519 Good. That's good. Yeah. But when I first discovered that 857 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:46.280 you didn't have to pick plants up and carry them 858 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.079 around and you could put them on a dolly, that 859 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:52.440 was that was good information right there. My dolly has 860 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:55.599 a strap attached to it so that I just go 861 00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:57.760 up to the plant and the strap's already there to 862 00:46:57.760 --> 00:46:59.760 wrap it around the pot so it sticks, stays on 863 00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:01.800 the dolly lip, you know, and you can move it 864 00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:02.440 around with you. 865 00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:05.960 Well, good luck with them, thank you, sir. 866 00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:08.840 All right, yes, sir, you take care. Thanks for the call. 867 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:12.920 Appreciate that. All right, you're listening to garden Line or our 868 00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:14.280 phone number if you'd like to give me a call. 869 00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:17.400 Seven to one three two one two ktr H seven 870 00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:22.000 to one three two one two kt r H. I 871 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:24.280 was talking about plant protection, and I do want to 872 00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:30.320 mention a couple things about protecting plants. First of all, 873 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:33.960 when when you're wanting to protect a plant, a cover 874 00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:36.760 over the top of the plant to create dead air 875 00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:41.119 space is very important. Now, creating dead air space means 876 00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:43.920 dead air space connected to the soil. So here's what 877 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:46.480 I mean. Don't wrap the top of a plant like 878 00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:51.840 a landscape lollipop. Allow the cover to drape straight down 879 00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.280 to the ground as if you put an umbrella over it, 880 00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:56.880 and where the rain would drip down off the umbrella. 881 00:47:57.480 --> 00:47:59.639 That is where the cover goes straight to the ground. 882 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:01.639 Secure if you're it there so the warmth of the 883 00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:04.800 soil can rise up underneath that cover. You create dead airspace, 884 00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:08.239 and you make a difference in the cold temperatures and 885 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:11.480 the rate of cooling inside that cover. We're gonna have 886 00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:14.159 freezes coming up here that are going to be fairly brief. 887 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:16.599 It may if you live far enough north, you're gonna 888 00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:19.800 have two or three days of freezing, but it warms 889 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:22.719 up during the day into the forties, goes back down again. 890 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.440 All you need is a little bit of protection slow 891 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:27.519 the cooling and your good. If you want to add 892 00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:31.280 one more measure of protection, you can put a clamp 893 00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:36.360 light underneath. Now these are those aluminum shielded light fixtures 894 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:39.079 that have a clamp, so you can attach them to 895 00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:42.039 the side of a container. You can attach them to 896 00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:44.840 the trunk of the plant, but don't shine the light 897 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:48.199 on the trunk. Shine the light down toward the soil 898 00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:51.800 and that it'll rise up underneath that cover and make 899 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:54.280 a huge difference and protect them. Now, if it's going 900 00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:58.480 to be seventeen degrees, no, not one little incandescent bulb 901 00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:01.119 is not going to do that. But even just a 902 00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:03.440 bright one hundred and fifty wat bulb, you don't have 903 00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:06.519 to have a heat lamp in. Those will provide enough 904 00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:10.360 warmth to make a big difference underneath the cover. If 905 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:13.119 the cover is not secured to the ground, wind is 906 00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:15.840 going to blow. It's going to displace that air that 907 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:18.400 you've warmed, or that the soil warmth that has risen 908 00:49:18.519 --> 00:49:21.320 up to warm the air, and you're gonna be right 909 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:23.679 back down just as cold as it is outside the cover. 910 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:26.719 You gotta secure it to the ground. However you want 911 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:31.960 to do that, soil, bricks, boards, whatever works for you. 912 00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:33.639 Make sure it's secure to the ground. You're gonna have 913 00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:36.719 some breeze. You really need to make sure that that 914 00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:39.480 cover stays down there on the ground. And then that 915 00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:43.559 little addition of one heat lamp for minor freezes like 916 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:45.840 we're having now, is enough. I put one hundred and 917 00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:49.559 fifty watt flood light bulb in mine. You can use 918 00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:51.639 a heat lamp bulb. You're not going to need that 919 00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:55.079 much heat. Now, if you're trying to cover maybe a 920 00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:58.119 satsumetry that's eight feet tall and you're going to get 921 00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:00.679 heat under that, well okay, yeah, but we're not going 922 00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:03.599 to have satsuma freeze damage kind of weather in this 923 00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:06.000 particular type of freeze, other types of a lot of 924 00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:09.639 other types of ceterric. Yes, we will. So anyway, provide 925 00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:12.440 that protection and you can make a huge difference, and 926 00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:14.239 you just have that on hand. I've got mine in 927 00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.280 the they're in the garage. The clamp light is clamped 928 00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:19.880 to the wall and the bulbs in it. It's ready 929 00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.440 to go and whenever I need them, they just come 930 00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:24.599 right out and go straight out there. Make sure to 931 00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:28.239 protect those electric connections. If you were to have rain, 932 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.920 which we're not supposed to have rain with the cold 933 00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:33.679 that we're having, it's supposed to to get dry before 934 00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:36.239 we have the cold. But if you do, you got 935 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.719 to cover that connection. It's electrical connection there. Don't drop 936 00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:43.760 a connection into dry grass either. Should you have some 937 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:49.039 sort of a spark or something like that, you can 938 00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.400 set grass on fire underneath there. So you got to 939 00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:53.840 you got to use your head on that stuff. But 940 00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:58.199 by the way, I've got a publication online at Gardening 941 00:50:58.400 --> 00:51:03.840 with Skip dot com. It's protecting plants from frosts and freezes. 942 00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:06.360 It's a publication I wrote with one of our specialists 943 00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:09.480 at Texas A and M Horticulture Department a number of 944 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:16.239 years ago, and I think it really covers well frosts 945 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:19.800 and freezes, how they occur, the information about them you 946 00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.159 may not have been aware of, and that leads you 947 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:25.360 to how to protect them correctly. And so I just 948 00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:28.079 gave you one little example of what's in the publication there. 949 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:31.239 Just take it out, check it out. It's like nine 950 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:34.360 pages of color pictures and all kinds of Information's very 951 00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:37.760 good Gardening with Skip dot com. Will you write that 952 00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:41.119 website down because I refer to it just about every 953 00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:44.440 show because I'm always putting something up there to help 954 00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:47.559 you to have to success, and in this case, it's 955 00:51:47.599 --> 00:51:51.039 that publication. Go check it out. It's free. You tak 956 00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:53.880 me down on that price. It's free. You can download it, 957 00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:55.679 you can look at it online. You can send it 958 00:51:55.719 --> 00:51:58.239 to your cousin and Tim bucktoo, who has a question 959 00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:02.360 about freezing just downloaded. Email it to him. Let them 960 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:04.159 know about her. Just send them the link to it. 961 00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:08.880 If you go about that that way. Gardening with Skip, 962 00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:14.639 that's me gardening with Skip dot com. I'm gonna tomorrow, 963 00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:16.960 I'm gonna spend a little bit of time, a little 964 00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:20.760 more in depth talking about my predecessor in this chair, 965 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:22.800 Randy Lemon. You know, garden Line has been around a 966 00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:25.719 long time, even before it was called garden Line. Doy 967 00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:29.519 Compton probably the first in about five of us now 968 00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:33.079 that have had been hosts of garden Line through the decades, 969 00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:37.480 goes back to the nineteen fifties. Randy was prior to me, 970 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.440 was in this seat for over twenty five years, and 971 00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:44.719 Randy was well beloved and well known throughout the greater 972 00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:48.280 Houston area. A scholarship was set up a while back 973 00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:52.039 for Randy at Texas A and M for a horticulture student. 974 00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:54.400 If you knew Randy, you knew how proud he was 975 00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:57.480 of our university that he and I went to, and 976 00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:01.320 also how proud he would be to know that a 977 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:04.519 scholarship was set up in his name there for horticulture student. 978 00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:09.599 You probably are one of the many, many, many people 979 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:12.920 that benefited over the years from Randy's advice here on 980 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:16.639 garden Line. I'm gonna tomorrow talk a little bit more 981 00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:19.000 about the scholarship and about Randy, but I just wanted 982 00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:22.840 to mention it today. Tomorrow, I believe, is the two 983 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:27.320 year anniversary of Randy's passing. That came as a shock 984 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.440 to all of us, everyone in the Greater Houston area 985 00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:37.960 gardening world. Uh and it it's it's been something that well, 986 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:39.719 like I said, it was just a shock. You know, 987 00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:42.280 you never you never would expect something like that all, 988 00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:45.960 although we all know our time here on earth is 989 00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:51.239 is not infinite. But Randy was bigger than life. 990 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.159 He was. 991 00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:54.320 He was quite a character. And I can tell you this. 992 00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:56.400 I didn't know him before college, but I knew him 993 00:53:56.440 --> 00:54:00.599 starting in college and back in the day that nineteen 994 00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:05.079 a eighty eighty, maybe nineteen eighty, I think it is 995 00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:10.840 when I first met Randy. Randy was a very special individual, 996 00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:14.239 a good friend and a good friend of the horticulture 997 00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:16.840 world here in the Greater Houston area. If you would 998 00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:20.360 like to consider, I asked you, would you consider making 999 00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:23.760 a donation to the scholarship fund in remembrance of Randy. 1000 00:54:24.239 --> 00:54:27.480 It's really easy to do. First of all, the easiest 1001 00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:29.400 way is just go to my website and it tells 1002 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:31.239 you how to do it there. I'll tell you briefly 1003 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:33.440 right now, but the bottom line is, just go the 1004 00:54:33.480 --> 00:54:35.400 website and I'll tell you. If you want to give online, 1005 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.199 you go to a website called Texas A and M 1006 00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:44.840 Foundation websites txamfoundation dot com. There is a little more 1007 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:48.000 to the url than that, but on my website, I 1008 00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:51.320 tell you how to find and send the money to 1009 00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:53.159 the right place. If you want to do it by check, 1010 00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:55.519 you can mail the check to the Texas A and 1011 00:54:55.639 --> 00:54:57.719 M Foundation. But in the memo you got to write 1012 00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:01.000 Lemon Scholarship. Lemon has two ms L E, M, M 1013 00:55:01.079 --> 00:55:04.880 O N Scholarship, but that's the Texas and M Foundation, 1014 00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:08.079 and the address for that is also on the website 1015 00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:10.840 Gardening with Skip dot com. It's the most recent thing 1016 00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:14.599 that I've put online on the Gardening with Skip dot 1017 00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:18.079 com website. Would you consider that? Would you join me 1018 00:55:18.199 --> 00:55:22.639 in considering supporting that scholarship. Time for me to take 1019 00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:25.760 a quick break here. When we come back, I'll be 1020 00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:28.320 back with your gardening questions. If you'd like to call 1021 00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:31.280 and get on on board with that, just kive Jonathan 1022 00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:34.360 call seven month three two one two k t r H. 1023 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:36.400 We'll get you online. We'll talk to you about the 1024 00:55:36.440 --> 00:55:38.320 things that are of interest to you, and I'm going 1025 00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:42.239 to continue to talk about cold protection for plants, how 1026 00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:44.920 to protect your plants from cold. We'll be right back. 1027 00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:48.360 Here. 1028 00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:50.719 We are, We're back with garden line. We got your 1029 00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:53.679 gardening questions is coming. You just got to give me 1030 00:55:53.719 --> 00:55:56.480 a call seven one three two one two k t 1031 00:55:56.679 --> 00:55:59.880 r H. I want to continue talking about cold protection, 1032 00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:05.079 cold protection for your plants, and just basically I'm giving 1033 00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:07.280 you some principles to think about. I talked a while 1034 00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:09.800 ago about covering a plant, how to cover them properly, 1035 00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:12.920 and the fast way to just say that is no 1036 00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:16.400 landscape lollipops. People that put a cover around a let's 1037 00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.079 say a little small tree or shrub, and they bring 1038 00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:21.119 it all the way and wrap it around the trunk. 1039 00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:24.840 That's like a lollipop, right, and that all that does 1040 00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:28.000 is keep the warmth of those branches in, but that 1041 00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.960 they're going to cool off too fast. It'll slow cooling 1042 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:33.800 a little bit, but not much. Taking it all the 1043 00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:35.639 way to the ground and allowing the warmth of the 1044 00:56:35.679 --> 00:56:38.679 heat to rise up, or putting a heat lamp underneath it, 1045 00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:41.960 or a light underneath it. An incandescent bulb is a 1046 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.239 heat lamp. They produce a lot of heat if you 1047 00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:46.199 are a touched one, you know what I'm talking about. 1048 00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:50.360 Providing that extra warmth underneath that helps a lot. Now, 1049 00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:55.800 there's several variables in how much protection you're going to need. 1050 00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:58.599 Number one, how cold is it going to get. The 1051 00:56:58.599 --> 00:57:00.480 colder you get, the more more heat you're going to 1052 00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:03.440 have to produce in order to protect that plant. Number two, 1053 00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:06.599 how cold hardy is the plant? Some plansts don't need 1054 00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:09.599 protection at all. There are plenty cold hardy they don't 1055 00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:12.199 have to worry about that. Some you know, you take 1056 00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:14.119 a lime tree for example, it's going to get down 1057 00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:18.000 twenty eight degrees. You got a problem for sure. So 1058 00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.800 you got to protect those a lot. So it's the 1059 00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:23.119 how cold is it going to get? How cold hardy 1060 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:26.840 is the plant? Another one is what kind of freeze 1061 00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:31.000 is it? Now? There are several types of freezes too, 1062 00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:35.320 specifically radiant and convective freezes that I talk about in 1063 00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:38.400 the publication that's online at Gardening with Skip dot com. 1064 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:41.239 But one of them is just a cold, still night 1065 00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:45.159 and heat is radiating up from the soil. It's radiating 1066 00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.440 up off of the plants. That's why we end up 1067 00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:50.880 getting frosts on the leaves of the plants. And those 1068 00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:53.239 are easy to protect because you cover them up, you 1069 00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:56.519 provide some warmth in you're good. The freeze where you 1070 00:57:56.559 --> 00:58:01.039 get a cold blue northern wind blow and throw that 1071 00:58:01.239 --> 00:58:04.480 just super chills things quickly, you know. You know that 1072 00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:06.559 when you walk outside and it's cold and the wind 1073 00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:10.599 is blowing, you cool off way faster. And those we 1074 00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:14.320 definitely have to create dead air space, and we definitely 1075 00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:20.079 need extra warmth to provide the protection for them. Some 1076 00:58:20.199 --> 00:58:24.800 things that are important to consider when you're protecting your plants. Now, 1077 00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:28.000 dead air space is your friend. I use the warmth 1078 00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:32.679 of the soil and then finally provide extra heat as needed, 1079 00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:36.280 and I do that with clamp on lamps. If I 1080 00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:39.719 were if I had a let's they had a citrus tree, 1081 00:58:39.800 --> 00:58:44.239 something a little bigger orange tree, or even a setzuma. 1082 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:46.519 If it's going to get cold enough. I may put 1083 00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:49.039 a couple of lamps under there, earth three lamps under there. 1084 00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:52.599 I may use an actual heat lamp bulb that generates 1085 00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.920 a lot of radiant heat underneath there, but don't shine 1086 00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.679 it against the trunk. You can damage tissues. Those things 1087 00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:02.679 get really hot. Turn all those on and hold your 1088 00:59:02.679 --> 00:59:05.639 hand about three feet away and just to the side, 1089 00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:07.800 not above it, to the side, and you can feel 1090 00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:10.320 that radiant heat coming out. We're going to send it 1091 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:12.559 down and warm the soil, and that will rise up 1092 00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:15.719 underneath the cover and provide a lot of protection. Most 1093 00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:17.960 of my freezes. A little flood light one hundred and 1094 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:21.360 fifty white bulb. I know people that use little mechanic lights, 1095 00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:22.960 you know, those little things that are in a cage 1096 00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:25.559 and you hang them up underneath the hood. When you 1097 00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:27.880 open the hood of your car, you hang them up 1098 00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:30.239 underneath there so you can see down those mechanic dumb 1099 00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:32.679 of lights. Something like that with a hunter white bulb 1100 00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:34.760 is good. If you just had a little, let's say, 1101 00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:39.199 a small lime tree or something in a container or 1102 00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:41.519 in the ground that you want to provide a little 1103 00:59:41.519 --> 00:59:43.239 bit of protection when we're going to get down to 1104 00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:47.480 what twenty nine, twenty eight someplace is only thirty degrees 1105 00:59:47.880 --> 00:59:51.280 depending on where you are in the listening area. And 1106 00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:54.320 that's enough. But it's a matter, it's a relative thing, 1107 00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:56.960 and so keep that in mind when you're protecting plants. 1108 00:59:57.280 --> 00:59:59.920 And do look at that publication online. I took a lot, 1109 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.559 a lot of time to write that with one of 1110 01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:06.599 our anim specialists, very knowledgeable fellow, and we put together 1111 01:00:06.679 --> 01:00:10.960 a really helpful publication that you should just have it 1112 01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:13.280 printed out or at least save it to your computer 1113 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:15.840 so you can look at it and it reminds you 1114 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:18.559 of the different things. You know, what people ask questions 1115 01:00:18.599 --> 01:00:21.519 like what about water? I see people's spray plants with 1116 01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:25.800 water and the ice breezes and the ice insulates the plant. 1117 01:00:26.039 --> 01:00:29.960 And the answer bottom line is that no, that's not true. 1118 01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:34.119 That's not true. If you want to get nerdy, I'll 1119 01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:38.159 be very brief with this, but very briefly. Ice as 1120 01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:42.559 water changes from liquid to solid, each milli liter of 1121 01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:46.800 water cubic centimeter of water gives off one calorie of heat. 1122 01:00:48.199 --> 01:00:50.920 That's nerdy stuff. That's for your next garden party. So 1123 01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:53.559 you can impress people and bore them to death. Okay, 1124 01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:56.719 so one centimary. So as long as there's liquid water 1125 01:00:56.920 --> 01:01:00.760 freezing on the surface of the ice around on the plant, 1126 01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:05.480 the interior temperature doesn't go below, not much below thirty 1127 01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:11.320 two degrees. But the minute you have liquid water freeze, 1128 01:01:11.559 --> 01:01:14.880 stop having liquid water freezing, and it's just ice. That 1129 01:01:14.920 --> 01:01:19.360 temperature plummets, just like the ice wed in there. Because 1130 01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:24.000 ice does not insulate in the sense of protecting the 1131 01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:27.480 interior buds from going colder. The ice gets colder, the 1132 01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:31.559 buds get colder. So for ninety nine percent of the 1133 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:36.199 home garden situations, putting ice putting water on plants in 1134 01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:39.079 a freeze is not a good idea, even a breaking limbs, 1135 01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:41.440 you end up with all other kinds of issues, sometimes 1136 01:01:41.519 --> 01:01:45.199 even worse because all right here we go, I said 1137 01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:47.960 one nerd thing. We're gonna give you one more. Because 1138 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:51.960 when it switches and now you have the ice thawing 1139 01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:56.199 and changing from ice to liquid water, it pulls a 1140 01:01:56.280 --> 01:01:59.679 calorie of heat out. When water goes through that state 1141 01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:04.960 chain from liquid to ice solid liquid, you're either gaining 1142 01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:08.559 or losing a calorie there. And so if you got 1143 01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:11.480 to the morning and let's say it was thirty degrees 1144 01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:15.599 thirty two degrees. It's starting to thaw there, and you 1145 01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:19.559 quit sprinkling, and that ice began to melt, the interior 1146 01:02:20.199 --> 01:02:24.719 would actually get colder. Now you're thinking that, how can 1147 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:28.000 ice be melting on the surface and the interior getting colder. 1148 01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:30.880 Well it does. And I'll give you one quick example 1149 01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:34.920 that suddenly making ice cream makes sense. Remember when you 1150 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:38.119 had the old hand crank ice cream makers, what did 1151 01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:40.320 you do? You filled them with ice, and then what 1152 01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:44.280 did you put on the ice? Salt? Remember that you 1153 01:02:44.320 --> 01:02:46.559 had to sit on those things, so that whole steel 1154 01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:49.239 while somebody cranked it, or you cranked it while someone 1155 01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:52.800 sat on it. Why do we put salt on? Salt 1156 01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:55.960 melts the ice. Why do we want to melt the 1157 01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:59.239 ice if we're making ice cream, Because when the ice melts, 1158 01:02:59.800 --> 01:03:02.599 it draws heat out of the ice cream on the 1159 01:03:02.639 --> 01:03:06.239 inside of that han crank ice cream maker. That's why 1160 01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.320 you put salt on, because it makes the ice cream colder. 1161 01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:12.239 See what I'm saying. You get ice on your plants, 1162 01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:16.000 the sun comes up and you start to thaw, you're 1163 01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:18.000 not out of the woods. In fact, it can get 1164 01:03:18.039 --> 01:03:21.119 worse on the inside where those buds are. All right, 1165 01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:24.320 I try not to do too much nerd stuff for you. 1166 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:26.480 But chew on that one for a while. I think 1167 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:28.639 it's pretty cool. Stop pretty interesting. We're gonna take a 1168 01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:30.719 little break here. I'll be right back with your gardening question. 1169 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:35.239 Seven one three two one two ktr H. All right, 1170 01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:39.719 welcome back to garden line. Hey, if you want to 1171 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:42.360 get me a call, talk about whatever's of interest to you. 1172 01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:44.639 What are the kind of questions? Maybe you got a 1173 01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:48.840 gardening there's a good one. Maybe a gardening resolution. What 1174 01:03:48.880 --> 01:03:51.400 do you want to do different in twenty twenty five 1175 01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:53.280 than you've done before? Now I'm not a big New 1176 01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:56.440 Year's resolution person. I know it's all that we think 1177 01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:59.760 if we decide we're resolving something that therefore we're going 1178 01:03:59.800 --> 01:04:02.239 to do it, and it happens. And I mean, you know, 1179 01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:05.440 everybody knows what happens to New Year's resolutions by about 1180 01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:09.639 the second or third week at January. But seriously, what 1181 01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:12.079 would you like to do different in gardening? What would 1182 01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:14.719 you like to grow that you'd never grown? Let me 1183 01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:18.760 encourage you to do something different, try something new. Have 1184 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:22.679 you never grown vegetables? Okay, get you a five gallon bucket, 1185 01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:25.320 drill holes in the bottom, get you a tomato plant. 1186 01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:28.639 Put it, fill it full of a quality of veggie 1187 01:04:28.639 --> 01:04:31.760 and herb mix from heirlooms, soils or something like that, 1188 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:36.320 maybe a quality mix from nature's way, and grow you 1189 01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:40.480 a small tomato plant in that bucket. You could do that. 1190 01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:42.760 You can do it with a klopenion pepper if you 1191 01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:46.239 like calopenias. Maybe since we're in the cool season, how 1192 01:04:46.239 --> 01:04:49.400 about a broccoli plant. My wife just picked the first 1193 01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:52.920 broccoli from some plants she planted back in late fall 1194 01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:57.719 and brought it in yesterday. We killed the fatted broccoli 1195 01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:01.519 and enjoyed it a roasted Oh my gosh, that was 1196 01:05:01.559 --> 01:05:04.920 good last night. You can do that. Why not do it? 1197 01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:07.039 You don't have to have a whole garden to do it. 1198 01:05:07.159 --> 01:05:09.719 You just need to, like I said, just to make 1199 01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:11.960 a point, a five gallon buggy with holes drilled in 1200 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:13.800 the bottom of it. You can do that. Or you 1201 01:05:13.800 --> 01:05:15.719 can get you a really nice container, or you can 1202 01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:17.840 go all the way and make a nice garden. Raise bed. 1203 01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:21.719 I hope you go all the way on it. But seriously, 1204 01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:25.519 what is what is your resolution? Maybe it's to mulch 1205 01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:28.960 and not be dealing with weeds all the time, Or 1206 01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:31.000 here's a good one. This isn't a fun one, but 1207 01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:35.159 it's a good one. I'm gonna not let nuts sedge 1208 01:05:35.159 --> 01:05:39.280 show its face this year when it comes up and 1209 01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:42.840 as three to five leaves. I'm gonna follow skips Guide 1210 01:05:43.159 --> 01:05:46.840 online Gardening with skip dot Com the nutsedge Guide and 1211 01:05:47.039 --> 01:05:49.000 end depth the look, and they'll tell you exactly how 1212 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:52.199 to shut nutsedge down before it proliferates and gives you 1213 01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:55.320 all kinds of headaches. Maybe that's a resolution for you 1214 01:05:55.400 --> 01:05:58.519 this year. Maybe I'm gonna redo the lawn and I'm 1215 01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:01.360 gonna make it a nice dense lawns so I'm not 1216 01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:04.960 constantly having to fight weeds all the time. Maybe that's 1217 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:09.000 a resolution. Maybe it's to grow a new kind of houseplant, 1218 01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:13.679 something different, something beautiful. Perhaps it's to put in herbs 1219 01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:16.079 in your flower beds or your vegetable gardens, or to 1220 01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:19.360 make an herb garden. What's your resolution for this year? 1221 01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:21.519 How about a fruit tree? Oh my gosh, those are 1222 01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:24.159 so good. We have fruit trees that are challenged to grow, 1223 01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:26.599 and we have fruit trees that are easy to grow. 1224 01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:30.000 I love citrus because citrus number one, you get to 1225 01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:32.920 eat the centrus. But number two, the fragrance of the 1226 01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:37.360 blooms is outstanding, and I'm planning a satsuma this year 1227 01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:41.360 right off of our patio. I've got the spot already 1228 01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:42.880 ready to go. I just need to get out there 1229 01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:45.199 and get it done. But I'm gonna put a satsum 1230 01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:48.239 in because I enjoy the fragrance of citrus blooms in general. 1231 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:51.079 Some are more fragrant than others, but they're all good 1232 01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:56.239 and it's just fun to do. What's your New Year's resolution? 1233 01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:59.360 If you will give me a call seven to one 1234 01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:02.920 three on to KTRH, let's talk about it. Or if 1235 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:05.039 you just have questions and things, we can visit about 1236 01:07:05.079 --> 01:07:08.000 that too. You are listening to Guarden Line and we're 1237 01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:09.719 here to help you have a bountiful garden and a 1238 01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:13.719 beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. Bountiful garden, 1239 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:17.880 beautiful landscape, more fun and the process. The cold is coming. 1240 01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:21.440 We're gonna have a little, our first significant, little coal 1241 01:07:21.519 --> 01:07:23.719 snap of the year. For those of you who are 1242 01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:27.000 used to living up north, it's like, wait, it's not 1243 01:07:27.039 --> 01:07:28.559 even gonna get to the mid twenties. What are you 1244 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:32.320 talking about? Well, okay, it's cold for here, Okay, so 1245 01:07:32.360 --> 01:07:34.400 what are we gonna do? We can grow things you 1246 01:07:34.440 --> 01:07:36.639 can't grow up north, you know. I mean, how many 1247 01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:41.519 avocado trees and citrus trees do you see even in 1248 01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:46.440 northern Texas? None? Right, So we can do those, but 1249 01:07:46.440 --> 01:07:49.360 we got to protect them. So go by Ace Hardware Store. 1250 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:51.239 They've got everything you're gonna need for it. You know, 1251 01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:54.039 I was talking about those clamp lights and the bulbs 1252 01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:55.679 that you put in them. Whether it's a flood light 1253 01:07:55.800 --> 01:07:58.840 one fifty water, whether it's an actual heat lamp, you 1254 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:03.519 can get those. You can also get the plastic covers, 1255 01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:07.400 the tarps that go over plants to make sure you 1256 01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:11.039 create that dead air space underneath. Now we got to 1257 01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:13.559 deal with water protection too. Those of you are going 1258 01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:15.599 to get into a little harder freeze. You want to 1259 01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:18.560 have something to cover your faucet, like a faucet cover 1260 01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:22.119 or maybe the freeze miser. That's right, freeze miser. It's 1261 01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:24.640 a whole the thing you screw into the faucet. Then 1262 01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:28.000 you turn the faucet on. It doesn't allow any water 1263 01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:30.920 through until it gets cold, and then it starts to 1264 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:36.039 trickle water through, and moving water is it's much more 1265 01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:38.680 reluctant to freeze. Gotta get much colder to freeze moving 1266 01:08:38.720 --> 01:08:41.800 water than stagnant water, and so as a result, you 1267 01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:44.760 get your pipes through on a very very cold night. 1268 01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:49.439 They've got tape for wrapping pipes that they have, the 1269 01:08:49.840 --> 01:08:53.159 foam covers over pipes. They've also got the little wires 1270 01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:56.039 that you put around your pipes, like an electrical type 1271 01:08:56.039 --> 01:08:58.359 of a tape that just barely warms it enough to 1272 01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:02.399 protect it everything else you need. You need some duct tape. 1273 01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:07.479 Do you need something for maybe, you know, de icing 1274 01:09:07.640 --> 01:09:11.119 the windshield to your car if you've got the frost 1275 01:09:11.159 --> 01:09:13.039 freeze or whatever is on it, and it's not just 1276 01:09:13.039 --> 01:09:16.000 this freeze, it's the ones coming up as well. Do 1277 01:09:16.079 --> 01:09:18.640 you need to keep your hands warm. They've got some 1278 01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:21.800 really good gloves as well as handwarmers. Also in there, 1279 01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:26.880 fireplace logs, the firewood. Do you need a propane heater? 1280 01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:30.000 There's always a good kerosene for a backup or for 1281 01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:33.439 those kinds of heaters. Whatever you need is that ACE Hardware. 1282 01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:36.800 Remember it's the three p's that we worry about. Plants, pipes, 1283 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:38.880 and pets. You got to take care of those, and 1284 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.680 ACE Hardware's got you covered. Just go to acehardware dot com. 1285 01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:44.520 You can find the ACE hardware store near you that 1286 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.880 is going to be your source for everything when it 1287 01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:50.199 comes to cold protection, and that would include let's say 1288 01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:53.239 you're in Alvin, Patco East Hardware down there, up in Brenham, 1289 01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:57.199 Brenham Ace Hardware, Katie Ace Hardware out west of town, 1290 01:09:57.279 --> 01:10:01.159 Hamilton Hardware off Highway six, your Bear Creek down south 1291 01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:04.199 off Highway six. Hamilton Hardware is an ACE store. And 1292 01:10:04.199 --> 01:10:06.199 then out in Orange for those of you, first of all, 1293 01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:10.239 thanks for listening out in Orange. Child's building supply Ace 1294 01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:14.760 Hardware out there in Orange, Texas. We're going to heading 1295 01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:16.720 out of the phones and talk to Loretta out in 1296 01:10:16.840 --> 01:10:20.399 Texas City. Hello, Loretta, good morning. 1297 01:10:22.039 --> 01:10:27.000 Yes, I have always wanted a bird of paradise, so 1298 01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:30.279 I was wondering how easy or how difficult they are 1299 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:30.800 to grow. 1300 01:10:34.279 --> 01:10:37.840 Alrighty, you know what, Loretta, I am looking at my 1301 01:10:37.960 --> 01:10:40.680 clock and I just saw I'm running out of time here, 1302 01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:43.800 so I'm going to start to answer you, but we're 1303 01:10:43.800 --> 01:10:46.279 going to get some music here and then I will 1304 01:10:46.279 --> 01:10:48.319 finish your answer after the top of the break. So 1305 01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:50.680 I'll let you know that upfront. Are we talking about 1306 01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:53.600 a bird of paradise? Is like the tropical type that 1307 01:10:53.680 --> 01:10:55.760 have the little kind of flower that comes up and 1308 01:10:55.800 --> 01:10:58.840 goes horizontal, or are we talking about the kind that 1309 01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:05.319 has big orange and yellow flowers in long, tall clusters. 1310 01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:08.840 Just a small one where it kind of goes all 1311 01:11:09.079 --> 01:11:11.239 horizonal zonal horizontal. 1312 01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:15.119 Okay, good, Yeah. Those are very cold tender. If they 1313 01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:18.039 if you get them in a protected place near a house, 1314 01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:21.840 they can do fine with very little protection except in 1315 01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:26.439 a very very cold freeze. You you can grow them 1316 01:11:26.439 --> 01:11:28.600 in containers, or you can grow them in the ground. 1317 01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:32.439 They just need decent drainage. They're not that difficult to grow. 1318 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:34.960 They like a lot of sunlight that they don't have 1319 01:11:35.000 --> 01:11:37.159 to be in the full sun. They just hang on 1320 01:11:37.520 --> 01:11:40.760 and when we come back we'll finish not answering your questions. 1321 01:11:43.840 --> 01:11:47.680 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scared Rickard. 1322 01:11:47.720 --> 01:11:48.560 It's so we. 1323 01:11:56.399 --> 01:12:09.840 Just watch as Okay, folks, welcome back. 1324 01:12:10.319 --> 01:12:12.159 Let's get this hour going. We got a lot of 1325 01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:14.079 things to talk about here today. Got special guests coming 1326 01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:16.520 up in just a second. I want to run first 1327 01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:19.800 thing out to wes U and talk to Charlie. Charlie, 1328 01:12:19.960 --> 01:12:21.680 I wanted to see how we could help with the 1329 01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:22.720 question that you had. 1330 01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:27.439 I've got four different kinds of plants in my landscape, 1331 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:31.159 and I wondered what the cold tolerance is. Do I 1332 01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:34.159 need to cover any of all of them? I've got 1333 01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:41.960 loriat okay Asian jasmine, Japanese you and azilias, and the 1334 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:45.279 avilias are new two or three months old. 1335 01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:48.840 None of those need covering. In the freezer you're going 1336 01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:54.079 to have done in West u Yeah, this time they're good. Yeah. 1337 01:12:54.119 --> 01:12:58.560 What will happen with the lariope? Yeah, with the loriope 1338 01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:02.439 is sometimes when we get a little cold, they'd get 1339 01:13:02.439 --> 01:13:05.359 a little ragged looking and stuff that happens in the 1340 01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:07.560 summer heat with spider mites. Do and you can just 1341 01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:09.920 cut that lariope off. In fact, i'd recommend you do 1342 01:13:09.960 --> 01:13:13.239 it when we get here into January before the new 1343 01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:15.159 growth starts on it. Just mow it back to the 1344 01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:17.319 ground and get fresh new growth out. If it's looking 1345 01:13:17.359 --> 01:13:19.720 a little on the ragged side. But none of those 1346 01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:20.399 need covering. 1347 01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:23.399 Oh, you can mow it. I didn't realize that. 1348 01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:28.800 Because you know, yeah, the old leaves, after you know, 1349 01:13:28.840 --> 01:13:31.439 a season or two, they start to kind of shrivel 1350 01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:35.520 turn brown. There's issues, So just make it fresh, cut 1351 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:37.279 it back, you know, come right back out of the ground. 1352 01:13:37.479 --> 01:13:39.520 But don't wait until the new growth starts, because then 1353 01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:41.039 you'll have a bunch of leaves that the top has 1354 01:13:41.119 --> 01:13:42.000 been chopped off of. 1355 01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:47.159 Okay, so what you see just just when it starts 1356 01:13:47.159 --> 01:13:49.399 to warm up, when it starts to grow over that 1357 01:13:49.720 --> 01:13:50.319 be run Mark. 1358 01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:52.840 I would just say you could. You could do it now, 1359 01:13:52.920 --> 01:13:57.119 but I would do it probably mid January something like that. 1360 01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:01.000 When you start to see the fresh snow leaves coming out. 1361 01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:04.560 Get that done pretty quick if you haven't already done. 1362 01:14:04.439 --> 01:14:06.399 It, Okay, I have not. 1363 01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:12.479 Okay, all right, Charson, thanks and everything else I mentioned 1364 01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:14.720 is I guess if it was going to get done 1365 01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:17.880 in the color, then thirty I might need to cover it. 1366 01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:25.079 But if we get down in the yeah, there's not 1367 01:14:25.119 --> 01:14:27.520 a practical way to cover Japanese you anyway, but those 1368 01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:31.039 are cold hearty. You're just typically not going to experience 1369 01:14:31.119 --> 01:14:34.760 temperatures where you are that's going to damage those plans. 1370 01:14:35.279 --> 01:14:39.640 Okay, all right, all right, sir, one. 1371 01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.039 Last thing for you to worry about today. Good luck 1372 01:14:43.079 --> 01:14:46.560 for Thanks for the call. I appreciate that. Hey, I 1373 01:14:46.600 --> 01:14:48.680 have a special guest that I like to bring on, 1374 01:14:49.199 --> 01:14:53.640 and that is mister Dean Nelson from Nelson Plant Food. Hey, Dean, 1375 01:14:53.680 --> 01:14:57.960 are you there, Yes, sir, can you hear me? I can? 1376 01:14:58.199 --> 01:14:59.960 I can. Well, good Sunday morning, do you? 1377 01:15:01.000 --> 01:15:01.359 Thank you? 1378 01:15:01.439 --> 01:15:02.520 Good morning Sunday morning. 1379 01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:03.600 Year. 1380 01:15:04.239 --> 01:15:07.119 Well, happy New Year to you too. You know, I 1381 01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:11.520 have been last weekend and yesterday and I was talking 1382 01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:14.600 about Randy Lemon's scholarship and I wanted to have you 1383 01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:16.920 come on and let's talk about that a little bit. 1384 01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:19.720 I know you helped, well, you basically got that set 1385 01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:21.960 up at Texas A and m I'd like you to tell 1386 01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:26.319 folks about the scholarship and uh, you know, just let's 1387 01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:29.239 just start off with what what is this scholarship and 1388 01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:31.880 how can people participate in it? 1389 01:15:32.479 --> 01:15:37.319 Well, the what first made me start thinking about it 1390 01:15:37.359 --> 01:15:39.760 is as I go to these trade shows, and you 1391 01:15:39.800 --> 01:15:42.159 and I both have been going for I know, four 1392 01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:44.840 years for me, probably less that the same for you. 1393 01:15:44.880 --> 01:15:47.640 But anyway, as you go to these shows, there's less 1394 01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:51.680 and less young people in the horticulture industry. In horticulture industry, 1395 01:15:52.359 --> 01:15:54.319 you know, it's it's not an easy job. You have 1396 01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:56.399 to love to be with plans, you have to love 1397 01:15:56.479 --> 01:15:58.560 to be outdoors. And you start off on the end 1398 01:15:58.600 --> 01:16:01.319 of the shovel when you get out, even when you graduate, 1399 01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:03.840 you know, you're out out there with the folks, working 1400 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:08.319 with the land, helping improve flowers and plants for your customers. 1401 01:16:08.359 --> 01:16:12.159 And and it's a service. It's basically a service. 1402 01:16:12.359 --> 01:16:12.720 And so. 1403 01:16:14.199 --> 01:16:16.439 Yeah, I'm thinking we need to start bringing more new 1404 01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:20.720 people into this industry. And so the idea I thought, well, 1405 01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:23.520 you know, let's do the scholarship to help help some 1406 01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:26.760 of these kids when they come into A and M. 1407 01:16:26.800 --> 01:16:29.039 Of course, you and I both graduate from A and M. 1408 01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:33.680 And uh so I got with horticulture department and talk 1409 01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:34.399 to doctor Drina. 1410 01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:37.279 He's ahead of the department there and and he's he 1411 01:16:37.359 --> 01:16:37.920 was very. 1412 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:39.319 Excited about it, he said. 1413 01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:41.920 And I asked him, I said, what would you use 1414 01:16:41.960 --> 01:16:44.279 this for an existing student or you would you use it. 1415 01:16:44.239 --> 01:16:47.439 To recruit somebody? He said, oh, definitely recruit, He said, 1416 01:16:47.479 --> 01:16:47.760 we can. 1417 01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:49.760 We can use the money to find a kid that 1418 01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:53.079 is really dedicated coming out of high school to the 1419 01:16:53.279 --> 01:16:58.039 to horticulture and loves loves plans and people. And uh, 1420 01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:00.479 we can use this to recruit some good, good kids. 1421 01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:03.560 And you know, the past, I don't know. I guess 1422 01:17:03.560 --> 01:17:09.760 ten years I brought in five kids. They graduates my 1423 01:17:09.840 --> 01:17:11.479 and M into the horticulture industry. 1424 01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:14.640 Now, I hired them and trained them for a couple 1425 01:17:14.680 --> 01:17:16.680 of years, and five of three of them are still 1426 01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:19.279 in the industry. One of them actually owns about it. 1427 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:21.279 I don't know about a twenty million dollar company. She 1428 01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:23.760 worked for me for a couple of years and then 1429 01:17:24.399 --> 01:17:27.039 she went to another job and ended up buying a 1430 01:17:27.079 --> 01:17:30.159 guy out. And so it makes a big difference. One 1431 01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:33.399 person can make a huge difference in this industry. 1432 01:17:34.920 --> 01:17:39.399 That's true. That is absolutely true. And having gone through 1433 01:17:39.439 --> 01:17:42.119 the wart program up there, I can tell you that 1434 01:17:41.960 --> 01:17:46.439 that is that is something that is always needed. You know, 1435 01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:48.800 there's a lot of folks working out in the industry 1436 01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:52.680 that maybe they've picked up information from here and there, 1437 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:57.399 but not necessarily accurate training and just the basics and things. 1438 01:17:57.479 --> 01:18:00.600 And as an employer, being able to hire somebody that's 1439 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:04.520 coming out, you know, with the already a head start 1440 01:18:05.079 --> 01:18:07.239 on the industry, sure is a good thing, isn't it. 1441 01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:10.000 Well and and A and M. And of course I 1442 01:18:10.079 --> 01:18:12.520 know Stephen F. Auston has a big program, and I 1443 01:18:12.560 --> 01:18:13.680 think Sam Houston does. 1444 01:18:13.720 --> 01:18:22.479 But horticulture is not an easy degree. How many different 1445 01:18:22.560 --> 01:18:25.239 plants types you have to know and how to take 1446 01:18:25.239 --> 01:18:28.720 care of them, and insects and soil chemistry and biology 1447 01:18:28.760 --> 01:18:32.479 and plants physiology, and it's it's, it's it's fascinating when 1448 01:18:32.520 --> 01:18:35.439 you start looking at what God did that putting all 1449 01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:38.359 this stuff together, it is unbelievable. And that's that's your 1450 01:18:38.359 --> 01:18:43.520 whole job. Your job is, yeah, to help help us 1451 01:18:43.600 --> 01:18:45.359 understand what to do, what not to do. 1452 01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:49.640 You know, And I've told people this before, but the 1453 01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:52.720 way I would put it is, horticulture is not a discipline. 1454 01:18:53.119 --> 01:18:55.680 It is a combination of disciplines. And it's said, be 1455 01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:59.000 a horticulturist, you've got to be an entomologist, a plant pathologist, 1456 01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:04.399 a soul scientist, plant nutrition expert. And I mean, you know, 1457 01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:06.159 I could just keep going and you kind of have 1458 01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:08.199 to put it all together because someone calls up and says, hey, 1459 01:19:08.199 --> 01:19:11.479 my lawn is yellowing, and my brain's going, okay, is 1460 01:19:11.479 --> 01:19:13.560 that an iron deficiency? Why is it an iron? Is 1461 01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:15.479 there a lack of iron? Is the pH two highs 1462 01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:17.279 or too much posphors? I mean you see what I'm saying. 1463 01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:22.600 That the thinking process. But it's fun. I love it, Yeah, 1464 01:19:22.840 --> 01:19:24.119 I think, yeah, a lot of fun. 1465 01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:27.520 Like somebody calls the doctor say, hey doctor, I feel bad. 1466 01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:30.800 Will I need medicine? Bool? How do you feel? I 1467 01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:32.319 just feel bad? Send me something. 1468 01:19:33.479 --> 01:19:36.279 There you go. Hey Dean, I'm up against a quick 1469 01:19:36.279 --> 01:19:38.600 commercial break. Can you hang on and we'll keep this 1470 01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:42.359 going we come back. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. 1471 01:19:42.439 --> 01:19:45.800 I'll be right back. Folks. All right, welcome back. Glad 1472 01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:47.399 to have you back with us here. We're visiting with 1473 01:19:47.479 --> 01:19:52.039 Dean Nelson of Nelson Plant Food and we're talking today 1474 01:19:52.119 --> 01:19:54.960 about Randy Lemon. You know, I talked yesterday about this 1475 01:19:55.039 --> 01:20:00.800 anniversary of being the anniversary of Randy's passing when we 1476 01:20:00.920 --> 01:20:06.520 lost him here in the Southeast Texas area. Such an influence, 1477 01:20:06.640 --> 01:20:08.960 and I do want to say this before I forget, 1478 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:10.399 and we'll come back to it at the end. But 1479 01:20:10.479 --> 01:20:14.920 if you would like to participate in supporting this scholarship 1480 01:20:15.119 --> 01:20:19.520 for the sake of horticulture students, supporting horticulture students coming 1481 01:20:19.560 --> 01:20:22.319 out in the industry, you can go to my website 1482 01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:25.439 Gardening with Skip dot com and right there top thing 1483 01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:28.199 I've got posted is the Randy Lemon Scholarship. You can 1484 01:20:28.239 --> 01:20:30.199 give online or you can give by check, and it 1485 01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:32.600 tells you how to do all that right now, Dean, 1486 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:35.119 I'd like to, first of all, welcome back. I'd like 1487 01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:38.600 to just talk about Randy a little bit. He was 1488 01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:42.000 bigger than life and quite the character. I can attest 1489 01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:43.600 to that. He and I used to joke that we 1490 01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:46.159 were never going to tell our kids what happened in 1491 01:20:46.279 --> 01:20:51.439 Moses Hall at Texas and University. That Randy was just 1492 01:20:51.840 --> 01:20:53.039 he ruled the room, right. 1493 01:20:54.199 --> 01:20:54.720 Yeah. 1494 01:20:54.760 --> 01:20:57.359 And you know, if I'm a put a little guilt 1495 01:20:57.399 --> 01:20:59.479 trip on your audience here, maybe a little bit. But 1496 01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:02.239 you know, if you ever if called and talked to 1497 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:05.800 Randy he helped you with your plants, or if if 1498 01:21:05.800 --> 01:21:08.199 you met him at a book book signing and and 1499 01:21:08.399 --> 01:21:12.199 talked with him or sponsored the show, you know, we 1500 01:21:12.239 --> 01:21:16.359 need to put me up some money and remember Randy 1501 01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:17.479 and just get you know. 1502 01:21:17.479 --> 01:21:19.159 Anything to the foundation. 1503 01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:21.880 You know, like you say, he bigger than life, and 1504 01:21:22.399 --> 01:21:24.479 he'd come out to the plant and we'd walk around. 1505 01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:27.399 He's all very interested in how we made fertilizer and 1506 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:28.279 why we made it. 1507 01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:31.079 And I have some wonderful pictures of us together that 1508 01:21:31.119 --> 01:21:32.439 I just absolutely cherish. 1509 01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:34.239 I get kind of teary when. 1510 01:21:34.119 --> 01:21:40.159 I when I look at him, and uh, but. 1511 01:21:42.119 --> 01:21:42.960 Gosh, I lost my. 1512 01:21:43.119 --> 01:21:45.880 Train of thought here. But he would, like you say, 1513 01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:48.439 he was just bigger than life. And whenever I would 1514 01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:50.760 bring out a new fertilizer product, you know, just to 1515 01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:53.880 tell people how influential he was, I would go around 1516 01:21:53.920 --> 01:21:55.680 all these these retail stores and they would say, well, 1517 01:21:55.760 --> 01:21:56.800 is Randy gonna talk about it? 1518 01:21:56.960 --> 01:21:59.479 Well, what's Randy said about this? Does Randy use it? 1519 01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:01.720 And he liked it, you know, and that he was 1520 01:22:01.840 --> 01:22:08.600 huge And this the Gulf Coast gardening community, there's nothing 1521 01:22:08.680 --> 01:22:10.399 like it anywhere in the country. I've been all over 1522 01:22:10.439 --> 01:22:13.199 the country, you know, selling my products, and there's no 1523 01:22:13.439 --> 01:22:15.319 big garden shows out there. 1524 01:22:15.439 --> 01:22:17.119 There's no big gardening. 1525 01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:20.479 Community like what what what Randy built? And Bill Bill 1526 01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:23.800 Zact and John Burrow before them. You know, this is 1527 01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:26.039 this is something, This is something and you and I 1528 01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:29.279 are all you know, take you especially. 1529 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:31.239 Are taking into and growing it even more. 1530 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:34.800 But we're all benefiting from from from what Randy did 1531 01:22:34.840 --> 01:22:36.000 all those years. 1532 01:22:37.000 --> 01:22:40.000 Right, Well, he was, he was larger than life. His 1533 01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:43.680 presence here meant a lot to the green industry. And 1534 01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:47.960 I tell people all the time that you're so fortunate 1535 01:22:48.079 --> 01:22:50.239 to be in gardening here in the Houston area with 1536 01:22:50.319 --> 01:22:54.600 a number of outstanding garden centers, quality products and things, 1537 01:22:55.239 --> 01:22:58.399 and then advice that makes it so easy to have success. 1538 01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:01.119 And for over twenty five years, Randy sat in this 1539 01:23:01.239 --> 01:23:05.520 seat and he educated the greater Houston AARIA and he 1540 01:23:05.640 --> 01:23:09.800 was certainly loved and followed and appreciated. And you know, 1541 01:23:09.920 --> 01:23:12.279 you and I each have a personal connection to Randy. 1542 01:23:12.279 --> 01:23:14.039 And I can tell you this. I'm a product of 1543 01:23:14.079 --> 01:23:16.600 that program that he came out of. And this scholarship 1544 01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:20.079 that you guys have set up up there is really 1545 01:23:20.199 --> 01:23:22.760 important because they'll come a time and I'm not sitting 1546 01:23:22.800 --> 01:23:24.840 in this chair, and there needs to be somebody else 1547 01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:28.239 to come and to take that chair. And just the 1548 01:23:28.279 --> 01:23:33.439 memory of Randy is is I don't know, there's not another. 1549 01:23:33.560 --> 01:23:34.880 As they say, they broke the mold. 1550 01:23:37.159 --> 01:23:39.760 And this is the scholarship is permanent. 1551 01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:44.079 It's a permanent endowment and once we get it, it's 1552 01:23:44.119 --> 01:23:46.520 worth twenty five thousand dollars now and the goal is 1553 01:23:46.560 --> 01:23:49.279 one hundred and that'll that'll generate four thousand dollars a 1554 01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:52.399 year to a student forever. And they'll give it to 1555 01:23:52.439 --> 01:23:55.239 one student until that person graduates, and then they'll find 1556 01:23:55.279 --> 01:23:56.760 somebody else and give it to them. 1557 01:23:56.840 --> 01:23:59.399 But you can also add to it, you. 1558 01:23:59.319 --> 01:24:00.840 Know, if somebody wants to call up and say, I 1559 01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:04.720 just want to add you know whatever to the current scholarship, 1560 01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:06.960 and they'll give it out this year. So we're going 1561 01:24:07.039 --> 01:24:09.159 to fund it's going to be funded at a thousand 1562 01:24:09.159 --> 01:24:12.239 dollars in the fall, and uh, we're just going to 1563 01:24:12.359 --> 01:24:14.359 keep adding to it over the years and get it 1564 01:24:14.399 --> 01:24:15.640 up to where we didn't need it to be. 1565 01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:20.239 Well, I really appreciate the fact that you took the 1566 01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:23.159 initiative to get that set up, and I hope that 1567 01:24:23.199 --> 01:24:27.960 people listening, both the listeners who benefited from Randy, the 1568 01:24:28.119 --> 01:24:31.960 businesses that benefited from Randy's presence and here in the 1569 01:24:32.000 --> 01:24:35.239 Houston area would, as you say, step up with the 1570 01:24:35.279 --> 01:24:38.479 plate and be part of this because we got a 1571 01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:40.039 good way to go. You know, a thousand dollars a 1572 01:24:40.079 --> 01:24:42.640 lot of money. But when you're looking at a college education, 1573 01:24:42.840 --> 01:24:46.439 someone some could you know, not going to become a 1574 01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:50.159 rocket scientist or a physician or whatever, and the future 1575 01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:53.840 of moving into the degree of horticulture help goes a 1576 01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:55.840 long way and maybe makes the difference between a very 1577 01:24:55.880 --> 01:24:59.399 good person making it into the industry and not. And 1578 01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:02.760 so I really encourage everybody listening to my voice to 1579 01:25:03.399 --> 01:25:05.760 consider being part of this, because we need to get 1580 01:25:05.800 --> 01:25:08.119 that thing up, like you said, two one hundred thousand 1581 01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:11.119 in the endowment so that we can be given four 1582 01:25:11.119 --> 01:25:13.199 thousand every year to a student. 1583 01:25:14.399 --> 01:25:16.039 And these kids coming and we go every year to 1584 01:25:16.079 --> 01:25:18.600 the job fair, and these kids coming out at the 1585 01:25:18.600 --> 01:25:25.359 horticulture department are amazing. They are motivated, they love what 1586 01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:28.880 they're doing, and it's just so fun to be around them. 1587 01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:32.600 And so if we can you know, like one person 1588 01:25:32.720 --> 01:25:35.800 like you know, like you or me, you know, makes 1589 01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:41.560 it can make a huge difference in all of Texans. 1590 01:25:42.079 --> 01:25:45.439 You know, in our horticultural experience is just one person. 1591 01:25:45.199 --> 01:25:46.640 You never know, you just never. 1592 01:25:46.560 --> 01:25:51.359 Know, you never know, and it matters. It does matter. 1593 01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:54.399 And I guess you and I both said this in 1594 01:25:54.439 --> 01:25:58.079 different ways, but everybody listening to guarden Line is benefiting 1595 01:25:59.039 --> 01:26:02.840 in one shape or form of from the things that 1596 01:26:02.960 --> 01:26:05.279 Randy set up and built here. I say built here, 1597 01:26:05.520 --> 01:26:07.119 you know, because it does go. He goes back all 1598 01:26:07.159 --> 01:26:10.279 the way, you know. That's Zike and Burrows, you know, 1599 01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:13.800 back to the day when Dewey Compton was doing the 1600 01:26:13.800 --> 01:26:16.840 show in the fifties, and it is unheard of that, 1601 01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:20.159 we have a show that's that's continued this long and 1602 01:26:20.359 --> 01:26:23.479 also eight hours a weekend. That's something you go run 1603 01:26:24.439 --> 01:26:26.479 the great the whole country. You're not going to find 1604 01:26:26.479 --> 01:26:29.399 that guarding show eight hours a weekend, but that's a 1605 01:26:29.439 --> 01:26:33.840 fortunate thing for folks that are listening here. So when 1606 01:26:33.960 --> 01:26:35.479 you know, thinking about Randy, I don't put you on 1607 01:26:35.479 --> 01:26:37.479 the spot or anything, but do you have a favorite 1608 01:26:37.520 --> 01:26:41.600 story of Randy or any any would you? Would you 1609 01:26:41.640 --> 01:26:42.319 tell us one? 1610 01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:46.760 Yeah, we he just wanted we'd come out to lunch 1611 01:26:46.840 --> 01:26:49.520 and we'd out in Belleville and there was a gas station. 1612 01:26:49.600 --> 01:26:50.439 It was a Texi coast. 1613 01:26:50.520 --> 01:26:53.039 It was a shell station back then, and they had 1614 01:26:53.039 --> 01:26:56.000 these big, old, huge, greasy hamburgers. I mean that they 1615 01:26:56.039 --> 01:26:58.000 must have added about four thousand calories. 1616 01:26:58.239 --> 01:26:59.239 And it was during COVID. 1617 01:27:01.119 --> 01:27:02.600 We walked in there and I said, you know, I 1618 01:27:02.600 --> 01:27:04.319 want to, you know, get some hamburgers. Well, okay, but 1619 01:27:04.359 --> 01:27:06.039 it has to be to go. I said, why, well, 1620 01:27:06.279 --> 01:27:07.079 it's we're closed. 1621 01:27:07.079 --> 01:27:07.520 It's COVID. 1622 01:27:07.600 --> 01:27:10.119 I looked in their dining rooms, like about a ten 1623 01:27:10.159 --> 01:27:12.479 by ten space with some one hundred year old chairs 1624 01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:13.880 that are falling apart. 1625 01:27:13.640 --> 01:27:16.039 In the desk, I mean the table. I said, look, 1626 01:27:16.039 --> 01:27:18.640 there's nobody in here. We can just sit down here. Okay. 1627 01:27:20.800 --> 01:27:22.119 It took him about twenty minutes. 1628 01:27:22.159 --> 01:27:26.399 They're all handmade, and uh, he was so thrilled about 1629 01:27:26.399 --> 01:27:31.840 that hamburger and they are good hamburgers. And then today 1630 01:27:31.880 --> 01:27:34.199 people it's nott a shell station. But everybody says, where 1631 01:27:34.239 --> 01:27:35.760 you want to go lunch, just go shelf station. What's 1632 01:27:35.800 --> 01:27:36.840 not a shelf shell station? 1633 01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:37.239 What is? 1634 01:27:37.279 --> 01:27:38.279 I don't know, let's go. 1635 01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:42.319 But he that sounds Georgie. 1636 01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:47.159 And also the last time I saw him, he said, 1637 01:27:47.199 --> 01:27:47.920 I need a part. 1638 01:27:47.760 --> 01:27:48.359 Line from the yard. 1639 01:27:48.399 --> 01:27:49.680 I wanted you to look at it. So and he 1640 01:27:49.760 --> 01:27:52.000 called me all the time about asking me about stuff. 1641 01:27:52.039 --> 01:27:53.560 You know, what about this? What about that? You know 1642 01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:55.319 problems or how to fix this? 1643 01:27:56.039 --> 01:27:58.640 So I walked into this house in Katie and I 1644 01:27:58.720 --> 01:27:59.840 went up there about ten o'clock. 1645 01:27:59.880 --> 01:28:04.199 He in his pajamas. I was laughing at him. I said, 1646 01:28:04.239 --> 01:28:05.560 why are you wearing your pajamasy? 1647 01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:06.720 I'm working on my book. 1648 01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:09.279 I'm about finished with it. He was almost finished with 1649 01:28:09.279 --> 01:28:09.960 his last book. 1650 01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:12.840 So we looked at his his yard and his weeds, 1651 01:28:12.880 --> 01:28:15.560 and he wanted some fertilizer for him and his neighbors. 1652 01:28:15.720 --> 01:28:18.600 But you know, he all he you know, his whole 1653 01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:22.159 life was hordericulture, the books and the people and the customers. 1654 01:28:23.000 --> 01:28:25.039 You know, his whole life was the kids of course, 1655 01:28:25.079 --> 01:28:27.279 and Von you know course. 1656 01:28:27.600 --> 01:28:31.800 Right, absolutely well and Randy. He just loved communicate with people. 1657 01:28:32.119 --> 01:28:36.239 And also you and I think, weren't you at that 1658 01:28:36.279 --> 01:28:38.239 Brookwood tree planning they did for him? 1659 01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:40.119 Yeah, so you know I was. 1660 01:28:40.840 --> 01:28:43.319 I was not shocked, but I was very you know, 1661 01:28:43.399 --> 01:28:45.319 they went on and on about what all he has 1662 01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:47.920 done for them over the years. He just has the hardest, 1663 01:28:47.920 --> 01:28:50.279 biggest text helping all those kids. 1664 01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:54.359 Yeah, that's true. Yeah, there's there's a tree out of Brookwood. 1665 01:28:54.359 --> 01:28:56.640 If anybody ever goes out there, which I would recommend 1666 01:28:56.640 --> 01:28:58.760 you go, check it out as a wonderful place, wonderful 1667 01:28:58.800 --> 01:29:01.720 program that they have that. I believe our David Williamson 1668 01:29:01.800 --> 01:29:04.880 RCW donated a tree that they planted out there. I 1669 01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:08.199 believe it's a nut tall oak and I look forward 1670 01:29:08.239 --> 01:29:10.880 to going and visiting periodically and just seeing that thing 1671 01:29:10.920 --> 01:29:14.600 grow because that will be a very long term remembrance 1672 01:29:14.680 --> 01:29:22.720 right there. I love that. Yeah. Well, uh, the scholarship again, 1673 01:29:23.319 --> 01:29:28.000 you've made it where it's easy to donate to people 1674 01:29:28.039 --> 01:29:29.960 can go online. You know, I tend to not read 1675 01:29:30.000 --> 01:29:31.840 out the whole u ur L because nobody's gonna be 1676 01:29:31.840 --> 01:29:34.840 able to write it down or remember it. But it 1677 01:29:34.960 --> 01:29:37.279 is the A and M Foundation, Texas and M Foundation. 1678 01:29:37.399 --> 01:29:40.359 The scholarship is called the Lemon Scholarship of two ms 1679 01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:43.520 L E M, M O n uh. And you can 1680 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:46.079 send a check by mail to them, or you can 1681 01:29:46.119 --> 01:29:49.159 go online and give online. Either way you want to 1682 01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:51.279 go about it, And again I've made it easy by 1683 01:29:51.319 --> 01:29:54.560 just on my website, the very top thing that's there, 1684 01:29:54.760 --> 01:29:58.039 Randy Lemon Scholarship. You click on it and it has 1685 01:29:58.079 --> 01:30:00.439 a direct link in there to go straight to the 1686 01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:03.720 scholarship of people want to want to go about doing 1687 01:30:03.720 --> 01:30:06.960 it that way, and I again I would encourage people 1688 01:30:07.640 --> 01:30:11.359 to do this. Number one, just out of appreciation for 1689 01:30:11.479 --> 01:30:14.159 what Randy meant to this area and to gardeners into 1690 01:30:14.199 --> 01:30:17.680 this area and to horticulture businesses in this area. And 1691 01:30:17.800 --> 01:30:21.840 number two because it's just a good cause. Like you said, 1692 01:30:21.880 --> 01:30:25.439 horticulture as a degree, it's a challenging thing. It's not 1693 01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:28.439 the kind of thing that typically you know, it's gonna 1694 01:30:28.520 --> 01:30:32.119 people gonna get rich, quake off, to say the least, 1695 01:30:32.279 --> 01:30:36.439 but it is something that by supporting it, you're making 1696 01:30:36.479 --> 01:30:39.199 a difference. And what you have enjoyed for twenty five 1697 01:30:39.319 --> 01:30:41.359 plus years of Randy and a couple of years of 1698 01:30:41.399 --> 01:30:45.520 me here doing this, that is all because of the 1699 01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:50.560 horticulture knowledge and training that's been provided to students as 1700 01:30:50.600 --> 01:30:52.800 we speak up there, and like you said, there are 1701 01:30:52.800 --> 01:30:55.640 a lot of good horticulture programs around around the state, 1702 01:30:56.359 --> 01:31:00.279 but this one is dear to both your mind, heart 1703 01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:03.199 and I know certain certainly to Randy's heart as well. 1704 01:31:05.319 --> 01:31:08.000 I got about a minute, Dean, any final thoughts here 1705 01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:09.960 before we have to take a break. 1706 01:31:11.439 --> 01:31:13.720 No, just looking forward to a great year in this weather. 1707 01:31:13.800 --> 01:31:15.920 You know, he's freezing one day and it's hot to next, 1708 01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:17.079 so you never know about that. 1709 01:31:17.359 --> 01:31:21.000 But you know, Raindy was just you know, he's always 1710 01:31:21.039 --> 01:31:22.319 be in our hearts. 1711 01:31:22.119 --> 01:31:24.560 And hopefully every year we can around this time we 1712 01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:26.640 can kind of keep talking about his a little bit. 1713 01:31:26.760 --> 01:31:30.399 And uh, I don't know, just god bleave in the 1714 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:32.239 United States of America. 1715 01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:36.239 All right, there you go. We're very fortunate. And again 1716 01:31:36.640 --> 01:31:38.560 I want to thank you. I appreciate you coming on, 1717 01:31:38.880 --> 01:31:42.319 uh taking some time out. This has been good. I 1718 01:31:42.319 --> 01:31:45.720 think it's a great thing to remember back you know, 1719 01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:49.720 and also to have the opportunity to do something that 1720 01:31:49.760 --> 01:31:52.880 looks toward the future. And this is a really important thing, 1721 01:31:53.159 --> 01:31:55.359 a wonderful thing. And thanks thanks a lot for getting 1722 01:31:55.399 --> 01:31:55.840 it set up. 1723 01:31:55.880 --> 01:31:56.079 Dean. 1724 01:31:56.600 --> 01:31:59.800 Yeah, and asked everybody get your check book out, so 1725 01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:02.680 don't forget there you go. 1726 01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:03.720 Thank you good? 1727 01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:08.960 All right, yes, sir, you too, Thank you, sir. Well, 1728 01:32:09.359 --> 01:32:11.760 here we are, time for a break. I'll be back 1729 01:32:12.239 --> 01:32:15.880 right after Jared gets and educates you about the news. 1730 01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:18.760 I wonder if Jared's got all his pipes and plants covered. 1731 01:32:18.560 --> 01:32:19.079 Up right now? 1732 01:32:19.119 --> 01:32:23.640 All right, all right, we are back. Nice little visit 1733 01:32:23.720 --> 01:32:29.279 there with Dean about Randy's scholarship up at Texas A 1734 01:32:29.279 --> 01:32:32.760 and M. I hope you guys will consider taking advantage. 1735 01:32:33.159 --> 01:32:36.840 I think that's a great cause. Our phone number if 1736 01:32:36.840 --> 01:32:38.560 you'd like to give me a call seven one three 1737 01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:41.399 two one two k t RH. We'll get back to 1738 01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:43.439 your calls here, so feel free to give us a call. 1739 01:32:43.520 --> 01:32:47.079 Let's talk about the things that are of interest to you. 1740 01:32:47.239 --> 01:32:49.119 I know I'm going to be spending a little more 1741 01:32:49.119 --> 01:32:52.399 time talking about some of the topics we have discussed today, 1742 01:32:52.399 --> 01:32:55.560 different angles on them, like uh, coll protection of plants, 1743 01:32:56.560 --> 01:32:59.439 it's time for proning and and things along those line. 1744 01:32:59.479 --> 01:33:01.800 Seeds start. We spent a little time talking about that 1745 01:33:01.880 --> 01:33:04.079 as well. Just want to remind you if you go 1746 01:33:04.199 --> 01:33:06.800 to our Garden Line Facebook page, and I hope you 1747 01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:12.119 follow us on Facebook, I have posted something there that's 1748 01:33:12.159 --> 01:33:16.720 a publication on freeze protection for plants. It's actually the 1749 01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:19.640 long title. This is an official Texas A and M 1750 01:33:19.680 --> 01:33:24.680 Horticulture Department publication called Protecting Landscape and Horticulture Crop horticultural 1751 01:33:24.720 --> 01:33:29.880 Crops from frosts and freezes. And it's nine pages, full 1752 01:33:30.079 --> 01:33:32.800 color pictures. It's beautiful. Got to just click the link 1753 01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:35.680 on Facebook and you go right to my website where 1754 01:33:35.720 --> 01:33:40.079 you'll find that publication available. Talks about every aspect of 1755 01:33:40.159 --> 01:33:42.359 protecting plants from the cold. What do we do, why 1756 01:33:42.359 --> 01:33:44.880 do we do it, what works, what doesn't work? Should 1757 01:33:44.920 --> 01:33:48.000 you spray prints with water? What are the different kinds 1758 01:33:48.039 --> 01:33:51.439 of freezes that we have? And then the approaches that 1759 01:33:51.479 --> 01:33:53.079 we have to take. If you're going to cover plants, 1760 01:33:53.079 --> 01:33:55.880 how do you do it? What about adding heat? All 1761 01:33:55.960 --> 01:33:57.680 kinds of good stuff. I just think you ought to 1762 01:33:57.720 --> 01:33:59.880 have a copy. If you've got a plant that's outdoor, 1763 01:34:00.119 --> 01:34:02.119 you need to have a copy of this publication on hand. 1764 01:34:02.439 --> 01:34:04.880 So when we have these seasons where we're going into cold, 1765 01:34:05.239 --> 01:34:07.239 you're ready to go. Now, the cold we're about to 1766 01:34:07.239 --> 01:34:10.239 get into is not that bad. I'm not saying it's 1767 01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:13.079 not freezing. A lot of areas are freezing, but it's 1768 01:34:13.119 --> 01:34:15.520 just not that bitter cold. We're not talking about the 1769 01:34:15.560 --> 01:34:18.720 mid to low twenties or even teens here. We're talking 1770 01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:20.960 about a pretty minor cold, and it's going to warm 1771 01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:24.960 up pretty quickly. Have you ever noticed that, you know, 1772 01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:29.399 maybe it gets down to twenty nine degrees at the 1773 01:34:29.399 --> 01:34:32.680 bottom of the night, at the end of the night, 1774 01:34:32.800 --> 01:34:35.359 and then by the time we get up, before the 1775 01:34:35.399 --> 01:34:38.000 sun even comes up, it's already warming back up again, 1776 01:34:38.079 --> 01:34:40.720 and first thing you know, we're right up above freezing again. 1777 01:34:40.880 --> 01:34:42.439 Not that long. So this is going to be an 1778 01:34:42.479 --> 01:34:45.159 easy one in terms of protecting plants, not as big 1779 01:34:45.159 --> 01:34:48.359 of a challenge as we sometimes space. I'm going to 1780 01:34:48.439 --> 01:34:50.720 head out now to Kingwood and we're going to visit 1781 01:34:50.760 --> 01:34:53.279 with Pamela. Hey, Pamela, welcome to garden Line. 1782 01:34:54.439 --> 01:34:54.880 Thank you. 1783 01:34:57.560 --> 01:35:00.960 I am an idea you should tell people out Last 1784 01:35:01.000 --> 01:35:03.840 year when we had the freeze coming, I stopped at 1785 01:35:03.920 --> 01:35:05.199 stores like Ace. 1786 01:35:05.039 --> 01:35:06.399 A couple of aces and stuff. 1787 01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:09.479 There was no freeze claw, so I bought some from 1788 01:35:09.520 --> 01:35:14.479 Amazon and it was fifty feet long and ten feet 1789 01:35:14.520 --> 01:35:18.640 wide in a vacuum sealed bag. Well, I opened that 1790 01:35:18.840 --> 01:35:23.560 bag up. Big mistake, big uh. It was like five 1791 01:35:23.640 --> 01:35:27.720 feet high. It filled my fifteen by twenty foot room. 1792 01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:32.439 Try to cut that footed around plants, Yeah, and I did. 1793 01:35:32.600 --> 01:35:36.560 I got it around one of the hydranges yeah, not 1794 01:35:36.720 --> 01:35:38.880 hydrange high biscus. 1795 01:35:38.920 --> 01:35:40.119 And I put the sea. 1796 01:35:40.119 --> 01:35:43.239 Nine lights you know, in there, and I had the 1797 01:35:43.279 --> 01:35:45.800 clips and it's windy, it's it's ter rain. 1798 01:35:46.479 --> 01:35:47.560 This was not fun. 1799 01:35:48.079 --> 01:35:50.640 So now I've come up with the idea. 1800 01:35:51.119 --> 01:35:52.720 That you sew them. 1801 01:35:53.119 --> 01:35:56.920 You sew the sides like, you know, take five feet 1802 01:35:57.000 --> 01:36:00.399 by five feet, so ten feet of the whip and 1803 01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:03.760 of the fifty foot so you knew about five of these, 1804 01:36:04.479 --> 01:36:06.880 and you sew in the sides down. 1805 01:36:07.399 --> 01:36:08.479 And I do. 1806 01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:12.680 My plants are in pots if it's because I can't 1807 01:36:12.680 --> 01:36:15.079 get to the ground anymore and get. 1808 01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:17.319 Up and it's perfect. 1809 01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:21.960 It just goes over everything. Also a cute tanks. 1810 01:36:23.359 --> 01:36:24.680 M H. 1811 01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:27.560 I was gonna say, now are you offering for everybody listening. 1812 01:36:27.560 --> 01:36:29.560 You're gonna give your home address and people bring their 1813 01:36:29.640 --> 01:36:33.960 cloth and you're gonna do all the sewing for them. 1814 01:36:34.199 --> 01:36:37.000 Well, I'm gonna put it in the garage, you know, 1815 01:36:37.159 --> 01:36:40.119 and I've got sudents coming over to help me do this. 1816 01:36:40.560 --> 01:36:43.920 But you can also buy bags of my mulch and 1817 01:36:44.039 --> 01:36:47.199 put up against your sprinkler system. 1818 01:36:47.399 --> 01:36:49.720 Yes, and that will work. 1819 01:36:50.039 --> 01:36:53.000 I appreciate. I appreciate that if there's actually a thing 1820 01:36:53.079 --> 01:36:55.239 called the planket out there, and there's things that come 1821 01:36:55.279 --> 01:36:59.000 in as bags that are that are prease covers that 1822 01:36:59.039 --> 01:37:02.239 are already so together that you can slip over plants, 1823 01:37:02.279 --> 01:37:06.000 so that that's another option for the non seamstresses out 1824 01:37:06.000 --> 01:37:08.199 there that are trying to say this. But thanks a 1825 01:37:08.239 --> 01:37:12.079 lot for the tip ideas there, Penela, appreciate. I appreciate 1826 01:37:12.119 --> 01:37:14.359 you calling in and being a garden line listener. Yeah, 1827 01:37:14.359 --> 01:37:18.600 thanks a lot. You take care. There are a lot 1828 01:37:18.600 --> 01:37:21.239 of ways to go about covering and protecting plants, and 1829 01:37:21.279 --> 01:37:24.359 I'm telling you I have used everything from bed sheets 1830 01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:29.800 to bed blankets, to tarps to plastic to you name it. 1831 01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:33.800 She mentioned bags of least. I know people that take 1832 01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:38.039 a big old ring of wire mesh wire, fence wire 1833 01:37:38.439 --> 01:37:41.000 and put it around something like a fig tree, when 1834 01:37:41.039 --> 01:37:43.479 we're gonna get really cold, and they just fill that 1835 01:37:43.560 --> 01:37:45.720 thing up with leaves to create as much of a 1836 01:37:46.159 --> 01:37:49.039 protected space inside there. It's not the best way to 1837 01:37:49.079 --> 01:37:51.079 do it, but it is a way to do it. 1838 01:37:51.159 --> 01:37:53.159 And remember this, and we're not going to have this 1839 01:37:53.239 --> 01:37:54.479 kind of cold, but I'm just going to tell you 1840 01:37:54.479 --> 01:37:58.640 to remember this. Anytime you've got something like let's say 1841 01:37:58.680 --> 01:38:01.960 a citrus that's grafted, and you've got to protect the 1842 01:38:02.000 --> 01:38:05.199 top of that graft. Even if you lose the whole tree, 1843 01:38:05.239 --> 01:38:09.079 if you protect a few inches above the graft, that 1844 01:38:09.119 --> 01:38:11.760 tree will re sprout and come back faster. You want 1845 01:38:11.800 --> 01:38:14.520 to buy a new one that way, but you got 1846 01:38:14.560 --> 01:38:17.279 to protect it. And so pile soil up, pile and 1847 01:38:17.399 --> 01:38:21.640 I always tell you don't make multi volcanoes, don't do that. Well, no, 1848 01:38:21.760 --> 01:38:23.800 you don't do that for a long term, but for 1849 01:38:23.880 --> 01:38:26.800 a frosty night, you pile soil up against the trunk 1850 01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:28.720 of the tree, make this big ConA soil, or you 1851 01:38:28.760 --> 01:38:31.840 can use very fine textured compost and pile it up there. 1852 01:38:32.319 --> 01:38:35.079 You protect that and even if you lose the top, 1853 01:38:35.560 --> 01:38:37.800 that tree will come back, and it'll come back fast 1854 01:38:37.840 --> 01:38:40.760 because you got this big root system. Now pushing new 1855 01:38:40.800 --> 01:38:44.319 growth to re re establish that top. Time for me 1856 01:38:44.399 --> 01:38:46.880 take a quick break. I will be right back with 1857 01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:49.439 your phone calls at seven one three two one two 1858 01:38:49.920 --> 01:38:54.479 k t RH. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back back on garden line. 1859 01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:56.960 Got lots of plant things to discuss today. We're going 1860 01:38:57.000 --> 01:38:58.479 to go back to phones here in just a second 1861 01:38:58.520 --> 01:39:01.720 if you would like to call seven three two one 1862 01:39:01.760 --> 01:39:04.520 two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one 1863 01:39:04.560 --> 01:39:10.319 two kt r H. So, when you think about needing 1864 01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:14.520 something to do your gardening, whether it's taking care of 1865 01:39:14.560 --> 01:39:17.920 your lawn or your vegetable garden or flowers or seed 1866 01:39:17.960 --> 01:39:20.800 starting or any of that. Maybe you need a tool 1867 01:39:20.880 --> 01:39:24.000 for pruning, what do you think of? First? Well, how 1868 01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:27.079 about Southwest Fertilizer. You know, every time I go into 1869 01:39:27.279 --> 01:39:29.640 Bob's store there, Southwest Fertilizer, it's on the corner of 1870 01:39:29.640 --> 01:39:33.479 Bisinet and Runwick in Southwest Houston. Every time I go in, 1871 01:39:33.600 --> 01:39:35.880 I see something like, Oh, I didn't know you had that, 1872 01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:38.279 And then my second thought is, oh, why didn't I 1873 01:39:38.439 --> 01:39:41.239 You have everything in here. If Southwest doesn't carry it, 1874 01:39:41.680 --> 01:39:44.720 you don't need it. And whether it's you know, we've 1875 01:39:44.720 --> 01:39:47.840 been talking about freeze protection and things. It's pruning season. 1876 01:39:47.880 --> 01:39:50.399 Do you need a quality saw, a quality handprint, or 1877 01:39:50.439 --> 01:39:56.199 a quality looppers. Don't buy junk from some national chain store. 1878 01:39:57.000 --> 01:39:59.720 Just go to Southwest Fertilizer and grab you some quality 1879 01:39:59.760 --> 01:40:02.880 tool because it's time for that. They carry that kneeling bench. 1880 01:40:03.119 --> 01:40:04.880 It's a sitting bench. You flip it over, it's a 1881 01:40:04.960 --> 01:40:07.079 kneeling bench. It helps you get up. If you're north 1882 01:40:07.119 --> 01:40:09.520 of forty you know what I'm talking about. You gotta 1883 01:40:09.800 --> 01:40:11.560 you can't do that up and down all day without 1884 01:40:11.560 --> 01:40:14.199 paying the price. With the kneeling bench, you can. Bob's 1885 01:40:14.199 --> 01:40:16.119 got that. He's got that there. Do you need a 1886 01:40:16.159 --> 01:40:18.600 fertilizer spreader? Do you need a spreader for putting out 1887 01:40:18.600 --> 01:40:22.119 fire ant bait? Do you need the fire ant bait? Insecticide, 1888 01:40:22.119 --> 01:40:26.760 funge aside, herbicide, fertilizers, they're all there. If you're an 1889 01:40:26.840 --> 01:40:29.520 organic gardener, you're not going to find a bigger selection 1890 01:40:29.560 --> 01:40:33.119 of organic products than Southwest Fertilizer carries in the whole region. 1891 01:40:33.319 --> 01:40:36.199 That that's just a fact. They've been around since nineteen 1892 01:40:36.279 --> 01:40:37.920 fifty five, and there's a reason for that. 1893 01:40:38.119 --> 01:40:38.239 Now. 1894 01:40:38.279 --> 01:40:40.000 You can give them a call at seven one three 1895 01:40:40.119 --> 01:40:43.159 six six six one seven four four, or just go 1896 01:40:43.239 --> 01:40:47.560 to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Tell you where 1897 01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:49.680 to find them, tell you how to call them, and 1898 01:40:50.079 --> 01:40:52.039 mean things. Just get over there and get your supplies. 1899 01:40:52.520 --> 01:40:55.439 Be ready to go. Bob's got you covered. We're going 1900 01:40:55.520 --> 01:40:57.560 to go out to League City now and we're going 1901 01:40:57.600 --> 01:41:00.079 to talk to Steven. Hello, Steven, Welcome to Gardline. 1902 01:41:00.239 --> 01:41:03.000 Hey, Hey, how you doing. Happy to be on the 1903 01:41:03.039 --> 01:41:07.039 show with you today, Thank you, sir. So. 1904 01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:06.359 I have a. 1905 01:41:07.960 --> 01:41:14.920 Question about an oak tree right behind my house. There 1906 01:41:15.399 --> 01:41:18.359 was a big oak tree. It was maybe twenty twenty 1907 01:41:18.359 --> 01:41:21.960 five feet tall and it had grown over the corner 1908 01:41:22.000 --> 01:41:25.760 of my garage. So back over the summer I had 1909 01:41:25.800 --> 01:41:28.880 that cut down and it was cheaper to cut it 1910 01:41:28.960 --> 01:41:33.399 down to about eight feet eight nine feet rather than 1911 01:41:33.399 --> 01:41:35.880 grind it all the way down to the stump. And I 1912 01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:38.560 thought for sure that would have killed it. But since 1913 01:41:38.680 --> 01:41:42.119 that time there have been sprouts that have come off 1914 01:41:42.119 --> 01:41:45.000 the top of it, and there's a decent amount of 1915 01:41:45.000 --> 01:41:48.920 foliage on there. Now. My question is, with the weather turning, 1916 01:41:49.600 --> 01:41:51.520 is that going to finally kill that off? 1917 01:41:53.920 --> 01:41:53.960 No? 1918 01:41:54.279 --> 01:41:56.000 It was it a live oak or red oak, or 1919 01:41:56.000 --> 01:42:02.439 do you happen to know what kind live oak I believe. Okay, no, 1920 01:42:02.600 --> 01:42:05.960 it's going to sprout back. So you're wanting to kill 1921 01:42:05.960 --> 01:42:08.079 the tree, right, that's your no. 1922 01:42:08.079 --> 01:42:11.119 No, Well, I just didn't want it to fall on 1923 01:42:11.159 --> 01:42:13.199 my garage, and that's why I had it cut back. 1924 01:42:13.479 --> 01:42:15.880 I thought for sure cutting off as much as they 1925 01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:19.119 did would have killed it, but it didn't, and I 1926 01:42:19.199 --> 01:42:21.720 don't necessarily want to kill it. I mean, if it 1927 01:42:22.600 --> 01:42:24.560 grows back, it's going to take years and years to 1928 01:42:24.560 --> 01:42:27.000 be a problem again as it was, so I just 1929 01:42:27.520 --> 01:42:31.000 I wonder will this freeze kill it, and then will 1930 01:42:31.039 --> 01:42:33.680 I have a big, you know, eight foot problem back 1931 01:42:33.680 --> 01:42:36.119 there that's going to fall over on one of my kids. 1932 01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:40.560 Okay, no, it's not going to kill it. If it 1933 01:42:40.640 --> 01:42:42.439 is so close to the garage as you had to 1934 01:42:42.439 --> 01:42:44.840 print it like that, I don't know that there's a 1935 01:42:44.840 --> 01:42:48.039 long term future for that tree. Once it's been cut 1936 01:42:48.079 --> 01:42:52.039 back that hard, it's regrowth, it's going to be just wild. 1937 01:42:52.079 --> 01:42:54.359 Hair is going everywhere, and it won't have a really 1938 01:42:54.399 --> 01:42:58.960 great structure. So I would seriously consider removing it. If 1939 01:42:59.000 --> 01:43:02.079 you want a tree there, plant one at a distance 1940 01:43:02.199 --> 01:43:03.840 where you're not going to have to do that kind 1941 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:06.760 of pruning. To it. That would be my advice. Now, 1942 01:43:07.720 --> 01:43:10.359 if you want, you can have someone who knows how 1943 01:43:10.359 --> 01:43:13.520 to prune come out there and take a look at it, 1944 01:43:13.920 --> 01:43:15.680 but their jaw is going to hit the ground and 1945 01:43:15.800 --> 01:43:18.560 they see it. But they could kind of help bring 1946 01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:22.039 it back to a shape that may stay away from 1947 01:43:22.039 --> 01:43:23.920 the garage. But that sounds like it's close enough to 1948 01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:26.520 be kind of an issue with foundations and who knows 1949 01:43:26.600 --> 01:43:29.840 what else. Maybe well, that way going up into the. 1950 01:43:29.760 --> 01:43:33.680 Garage, the driveway ends and then there's a slope that 1951 01:43:33.800 --> 01:43:36.880 goes down and this oak tree is at the bottom 1952 01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:41.840 of that slope, so it's decently far away enough. Now 1953 01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:44.600 if it'd sell over, it wouldn't hit the garage, but 1954 01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:46.640 with it being as tall as it was, it would 1955 01:43:46.680 --> 01:43:48.600 have taken out the far corner of it. 1956 01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:51.960 Sure, yeah, I got you. Well, live ooks are huge, 1957 01:43:52.000 --> 01:43:54.239 and so it's going to get huge again and it'll 1958 01:43:54.279 --> 01:43:58.680 have even weaker branch attachments because of that pruning. So 1959 01:43:58.720 --> 01:44:01.239 I again, I don't know there's a long term If 1960 01:44:01.239 --> 01:44:02.720 you want to hire an arbist to come out and 1961 01:44:02.800 --> 01:44:04.720 take a look at it, I would call Martin spoon 1962 01:44:04.760 --> 01:44:07.520 Moore from Affordable Tree have him to come out and 1963 01:44:07.560 --> 01:44:11.159 take a look. You know, I can't see it, but 1964 01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:12.880 he will, and he'll be able to tell you whether 1965 01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:15.840 it can be saved or not. If you want to 1966 01:44:15.840 --> 01:44:17.279 get rid of it, you can do that. I can 1967 01:44:17.319 --> 01:44:20.000 tell you how to do that too. If you maybe 1968 01:44:20.039 --> 01:44:22.319 plant a tree that doesn't get so big right there, 1969 01:44:22.520 --> 01:44:25.720 that might be another option. But it's up again. 1970 01:44:25.720 --> 01:44:26.760 I'll take that down. 1971 01:44:27.720 --> 01:44:29.159 What was the name of the company. 1972 01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:31.079 Against affordable tree? 1973 01:44:31.079 --> 01:44:34.880 Okay? And they serve this league city Mark. I think 1974 01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:36.960 he goes down that far. Give him a call. He 1975 01:44:37.000 --> 01:44:38.800 can tell you. Here's the phone number, seven to one 1976 01:44:38.880 --> 01:44:45.720 three six and six twenty six sixty three. 1977 01:44:46.479 --> 01:44:50.640 Twenty six sixty three okay, and then just one one 1978 01:44:50.680 --> 01:44:52.640 other question real quick before I get off the phone 1979 01:44:52.640 --> 01:44:55.960 with you. We have three dogs in the house, and 1980 01:44:56.520 --> 01:44:59.560 this time of year, with him running around the backyard, 1981 01:44:59.600 --> 01:45:02.359 there's a patch of grass that they just they just 1982 01:45:02.439 --> 01:45:06.239 tear up and it doesn't matter how much it grows 1983 01:45:06.239 --> 01:45:08.840 in in the summertime and it does grow back. But 1984 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:12.000 until it does grow back, they track a bunch of 1985 01:45:12.119 --> 01:45:15.199 mud in the house. And we've tried everything to keep 1986 01:45:15.239 --> 01:45:19.119 them from killing it. Is there anything any fertilizer we 1987 01:45:19.159 --> 01:45:21.279 can put or turf builder down there or something. 1988 01:45:22.880 --> 01:45:26.239 There is nothing that will make any grass you can 1989 01:45:26.279 --> 01:45:30.239 plant tolerant of that kind of foot traffic from dogs. 1990 01:45:31.319 --> 01:45:32.439 They just wear it out. 1991 01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:33.000 Now. 1992 01:45:33.079 --> 01:45:37.439 Bermuda is the most wear and tear resistant, but it 1993 01:45:37.479 --> 01:45:40.800 has its own issues other than going out and putting, 1994 01:45:40.840 --> 01:45:43.720 you know, kind of maybe some patio stones out there 1995 01:45:43.920 --> 01:45:46.359 to kind of extend that out a little further. I 1996 01:45:46.680 --> 01:45:49.640 just don't know a good suggestion on that one. 1997 01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:53.000 All Right, we can try, and I'll give your guy 1998 01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:54.960 a call. I have some trees in the front I 1999 01:45:55.000 --> 01:45:57.640 may have in Prune anyway, all. 2000 01:45:57.600 --> 01:46:00.000 Right, sounds good. Hey, thanks for the call. I appreciate 2001 01:46:00.079 --> 01:46:03.720 et that. Oh let's see here, boy, I don't have 2002 01:46:03.800 --> 01:46:07.359 time to take another call. Carrie and Buffalo rego down 2003 01:46:07.439 --> 01:46:10.159 in Houston. We will have to hold you until we 2004 01:46:10.199 --> 01:46:12.720 come back from the top of the hour news and 2005 01:46:12.800 --> 01:46:14.720 you'll be our first two up if you're able to 2006 01:46:14.720 --> 01:46:18.880 stick around for that. Thank you and everyone listening for 2007 01:46:19.119 --> 01:46:22.439 being a Garden Line listener. We appreciate you being around. 2008 01:46:22.800 --> 01:46:24.800 We do not take that for granted. I know You've 2009 01:46:24.800 --> 01:46:26.279 got a lot of other things you can be doing 2010 01:46:26.319 --> 01:46:29.279 with your time. I hope this is entertaining for you. 2011 01:46:29.399 --> 01:46:32.319 I hope it's educational for you, and I don't know, 2012 01:46:32.760 --> 01:46:35.039 maybe we're helping you have a little bit of success 2013 01:46:35.119 --> 01:46:37.880 at least. That's what i'd like to think, you know. 2014 01:46:39.039 --> 01:46:40.880 Way I like to put it is, we're here to 2015 01:46:40.920 --> 01:46:43.520 help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and 2016 01:46:43.560 --> 01:46:46.239 more fun in the process. That's what I like to have. 2017 01:46:46.359 --> 01:46:48.159 That's what i'd like to accomplish. So let's see if 2018 01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:50.479 we can do all those three. Just want to remind 2019 01:46:50.520 --> 01:46:52.960 you one more time. We have our garden Line Facebook 2020 01:46:53.000 --> 01:46:55.800 page where I have posted a link to the Frost 2021 01:46:56.000 --> 01:47:01.359 Freeze publication protecting your landscape Plans, and you click right 2022 01:47:01.399 --> 01:47:02.960 on it on the Facebook page and get to it, 2023 01:47:03.079 --> 01:47:08.000 or you go to my website gardening with Skip dot com. 2024 01:47:08.000 --> 01:47:11.039 Gardening with Skip dot com, lots of other good information 2025 01:47:11.399 --> 01:47:15.760 information on lighting for seed starting, information on randylant on scholarship, 2026 01:47:15.800 --> 01:47:18.079 and a lot of other things that are up there 2027 01:47:18.119 --> 01:47:20.359 as well. All right, don't take a break, you stick 2028 01:47:20.399 --> 01:47:22.479 around and we'll be right back with your calls. 2029 01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:27.079 Welcome to k t r H garden Line with Skip. 2030 01:47:27.199 --> 01:47:46.039 Rickard's Crazy just watch him as well. Thanks to stay. 2031 01:47:52.359 --> 01:47:52.520 There. 2032 01:47:52.600 --> 01:47:59.760 Not a sign, All right, Welcome back, welcome back your 2033 01:47:59.760 --> 01:48:02.479 guard line. Good to have you with us. I don't 2034 01:48:02.520 --> 01:48:04.800 know what happened, but somewhere halfway through the show today 2035 01:48:05.119 --> 01:48:07.600 somebody left the gates open. So we're going to run 2036 01:48:07.720 --> 01:48:10.199 back out here to the phones and let's see. We're 2037 01:48:10.239 --> 01:48:13.920 going to start with Cameron up in Conroe. Hey Cameron, 2038 01:48:13.960 --> 01:48:14.840 welcome to Garden Line. 2039 01:48:16.159 --> 01:48:17.640 Hey Moren Skiff, are you sir? 2040 01:48:19.039 --> 01:48:21.359 I'm well, thank you good. 2041 01:48:22.640 --> 01:48:23.479 Just real quick question. 2042 01:48:23.640 --> 01:48:26.239 I've got a they do magnolia growing out back of 2043 01:48:26.279 --> 01:48:31.439 the house, probably about a foot tall, growing wild, and 2044 01:48:31.960 --> 01:48:33.880 I really don't have that green of the thumb, but 2045 01:48:34.119 --> 01:48:38.000 I'd like to replant in another location in my yard 2046 01:48:39.159 --> 01:48:43.079 so that way you could grow up, grow big. I'm 2047 01:48:43.159 --> 01:48:46.600 on a heavy black gumbo soil. What do you recommend 2048 01:48:46.760 --> 01:48:49.119 for taking care of this thing this year? 2049 01:48:49.319 --> 01:48:57.279 And yeah, you know, magnolia's are happiest in our acidic 2050 01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:02.319 forest soils of the southeast, and so when you put 2051 01:49:02.359 --> 01:49:05.199 them on a black gumbo they may or may not 2052 01:49:05.359 --> 01:49:07.640 do pretty well. They need good drainage first of all, 2053 01:49:07.800 --> 01:49:10.840 So if it is a heavy clay like that, somewhat 2054 01:49:10.880 --> 01:49:13.199 of a mound to help the soil drain away from 2055 01:49:13.239 --> 01:49:19.199 the surface would be helpful. Anything that makes the soil 2056 01:49:19.760 --> 01:49:22.000 you know, a little better drained is going to be 2057 01:49:22.079 --> 01:49:24.119 beneficial to them. They like it a little bit on 2058 01:49:24.199 --> 01:49:27.680 the acidic side. Although they can take higher pH they 2059 01:49:27.800 --> 01:49:30.840 prefer it a little on the acidic side. So adding 2060 01:49:30.880 --> 01:49:34.239 a lot of composted materials to the soil, loosening up 2061 01:49:34.319 --> 01:49:36.520 that clay a little bit, getting it on a good mound. 2062 01:49:37.119 --> 01:49:41.039 You might even see a benefit from putting some expanded 2063 01:49:41.119 --> 01:49:44.039 shale in a very large area around them. And it 2064 01:49:44.079 --> 01:49:45.640 takes quite a bit of shale to do that, but 2065 01:49:45.760 --> 01:49:48.319 that helps open up that clay soil, provide a little 2066 01:49:48.319 --> 01:49:50.800 bit better internal drainage. But those are all be things 2067 01:49:50.840 --> 01:49:53.560 in your power. Keeping a mulch on the soil all 2068 01:49:53.640 --> 01:49:56.279 the time. You know, in the forest the leaves fall 2069 01:49:56.359 --> 01:49:58.880 on the ground, pile up and just rot year after 2070 01:49:59.039 --> 01:50:01.279 year after year. Make and the soil better and better. 2071 01:50:01.880 --> 01:50:04.600 So do that around your magnolia tree, and as wide 2072 01:50:04.600 --> 01:50:06.399 of an area as you can, to try to make 2073 01:50:06.439 --> 01:50:10.600 it as at home by creating that forest floor environment 2074 01:50:10.760 --> 01:50:11.239 as you can. 2075 01:50:12.760 --> 01:50:16.319 Okay, all right, perfect, and probably looking at an early 2076 01:50:16.479 --> 01:50:18.079 spring to do this, or. 2077 01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:22.840 Well, if the sooner you move it, the better. Now, 2078 01:50:22.880 --> 01:50:24.560 the sooner you move at the better get as much 2079 01:50:24.600 --> 01:50:26.079 of the roots as you can. They don't like it 2080 01:50:26.159 --> 01:50:28.399 and move. But if it's still pretty small, you may 2081 01:50:28.600 --> 01:50:32.119 successfully move it. But you need to do it soon 2082 01:50:32.239 --> 01:50:35.399 because summer is coming, and the more months it has 2083 01:50:35.560 --> 01:50:39.159 to get a root system established, re established, the better 2084 01:50:39.239 --> 01:50:41.159 off it'll be when when the heat arrives. 2085 01:50:42.520 --> 01:50:46.439 Okay, perfect, well, I'll all right after this freezing weather 2086 01:50:46.560 --> 01:50:47.479 this week, I'll get to. 2087 01:50:47.600 --> 01:50:51.039 It, all right, sir. You take care, Thanks for the call. 2088 01:50:51.279 --> 01:50:54.279 We're going to go now to Alvin and talk to Frank. Hey, Frank, 2089 01:50:54.479 --> 01:50:55.600 welcome to garden Line. 2090 01:50:56.560 --> 01:51:00.760 Morning, Skip. I was calling about grafting trees the time 2091 01:51:00.800 --> 01:51:03.359 of year. I just got a little kit from Amazon, 2092 01:51:04.199 --> 01:51:09.560 and I'm waiting to get some wound dressing healing, you know, 2093 01:51:09.640 --> 01:51:13.720 wound dressing. And also it says something about having to 2094 01:51:14.079 --> 01:51:17.399 like put some spray or clean up like anti microbes 2095 01:51:17.439 --> 01:51:19.199 or whatever. I don't know if they should equipment or 2096 01:51:19.239 --> 01:51:21.399 where you do the cut at, but I was looking 2097 01:51:21.479 --> 01:51:24.319 at the you know, the procedure and is it the 2098 01:51:24.359 --> 01:51:26.399 good time of the right time? Should have wait a 2099 01:51:26.439 --> 01:51:28.640 few weeks, a few months to grab the con trees 2100 01:51:28.760 --> 01:51:30.399 and some fig trees. 2101 01:51:32.000 --> 01:51:36.079 Okay, Well, figs. We yeah, figs, we normally don't graft. 2102 01:51:36.319 --> 01:51:38.159 You can take a fig branch, one of those dormant 2103 01:51:38.199 --> 01:51:40.920 little branches the size of one of your fingers, cut 2104 01:51:40.960 --> 01:51:44.279 off about an eight insection of it, and stick it 2105 01:51:44.359 --> 01:51:46.760 in the ground a little root and grow. I mean, 2106 01:51:46.920 --> 01:51:51.000 they're very easy to do figs. So you don't need 2107 01:51:51.079 --> 01:51:54.159 to graft the fig. I guess you could. I've never 2108 01:51:55.359 --> 01:51:58.239 I've never even heard of grafting a fig. I don't 2109 01:51:58.279 --> 01:52:01.159 know why you would, but most people just just stick 2110 01:52:01.199 --> 01:52:03.039 them in the ground and root them as far as 2111 01:52:03.119 --> 01:52:04.520 the pecan could. 2112 01:52:06.800 --> 01:52:07.199 Very good. 2113 01:52:07.560 --> 01:52:08.119 I didn't know that. 2114 01:52:08.720 --> 01:52:08.760 No. 2115 01:52:09.520 --> 01:52:13.760 Yeah, say on the pecans, I would think about this 2116 01:52:14.039 --> 01:52:20.319 just a minute. The do you have an existing pecan 2117 01:52:20.479 --> 01:52:23.399 tree you're grafting them onto that? That's a lot of 2118 01:52:23.439 --> 01:52:24.880 the trap Describe to me. 2119 01:52:24.920 --> 01:52:28.840 What, yeah, what's what you'd call the root stock? And 2120 01:52:29.800 --> 01:52:31.920 I have one of those, and then I have some 2121 01:52:32.119 --> 01:52:35.600 other trees that are the paper shell all right, you 2122 01:52:35.680 --> 01:52:38.560 know there that are a hybrid that's going to grasb 2123 01:52:38.640 --> 01:52:41.640 some of those limbs onto my rootstock tree, which is 2124 01:52:41.920 --> 01:52:44.159 it's just a native pecan. It makes a little small 2125 01:52:44.199 --> 01:52:46.760 ones sometimes and and it. 2126 01:52:46.800 --> 01:52:48.079 Does real. 2127 01:52:50.319 --> 01:52:52.960 Okay, So if you have a little seedling coming up 2128 01:52:53.039 --> 01:52:55.920 and still small, let's say the tree itself is the 2129 01:52:56.000 --> 01:52:59.199 size of your little finger, then you can you can 2130 01:52:59.359 --> 01:53:04.880 use a different kind of graft on that that like 2131 01:53:05.000 --> 01:53:08.439 a whip graft, even on those as pecans get a 2132 01:53:08.479 --> 01:53:11.039 little bigger or as you're what we call top work 2133 01:53:11.119 --> 01:53:12.520 in a tree, meaning you got a tree and you 2134 01:53:12.560 --> 01:53:14.920 got all these branches, you want to find a branch 2135 01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:17.520 it's about the size of a coke can soft drink can, 2136 01:53:18.079 --> 01:53:20.560 and cut it off there and do what's called an 2137 01:53:20.760 --> 01:53:25.560 inlay bark graft on those that that's the best way 2138 01:53:25.640 --> 01:53:28.640 to go about that particular graft. And have you seen 2139 01:53:28.720 --> 01:53:29.920 how to do those somewhere? 2140 01:53:31.039 --> 01:53:35.199 Yes, I've seen some YouTube videos about it. Okay, well, 2141 01:53:35.199 --> 01:53:36.800 you got to make it a little split and then 2142 01:53:36.840 --> 01:53:38.800 you slip it in between there and then wrap it. 2143 01:53:39.279 --> 01:53:43.239 Yes, yes, very very important to follow that carefully. If 2144 01:53:43.319 --> 01:53:46.119 you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, just do a 2145 01:53:46.159 --> 01:53:49.359 search for Aggi Horticulture. Go to the fruit and nut 2146 01:53:49.520 --> 01:53:54.920 resources page. There is specifically something for Texas inlay graft 2147 01:53:55.119 --> 01:53:58.319 and Texas four flap graft. Those are two different graphs. 2148 01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:01.720 I said. The whip graft actually the four flap would 2149 01:54:01.720 --> 01:54:03.520 probably be your better way to do if you have 2150 01:54:03.800 --> 01:54:06.399 very small stock, like the size of one of your fingers. 2151 01:54:07.199 --> 01:54:10.479 But anyway, those are the two that we primarily do 2152 01:54:10.600 --> 01:54:16.239 in Texas for pecans. You want your graft would to 2153 01:54:16.319 --> 01:54:18.920 be you want your graft would to be dormant with 2154 01:54:19.000 --> 01:54:22.039 the inlay bark graft. But you want to wait until 2155 01:54:22.159 --> 01:54:25.520 the tree you're grafting it onto the sap has started 2156 01:54:25.600 --> 01:54:28.039 to flow. Like right now, if you went out and 2157 01:54:28.159 --> 01:54:30.920 tried to peel back the bark on that existing tree, 2158 01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:34.880 the bark is firmly attached to the wood. But once 2159 01:54:34.960 --> 01:54:37.199 a sap flows, the bark peels like you're like you're 2160 01:54:37.239 --> 01:54:40.239 peeling a banana. It just comes right off. That's the 2161 01:54:40.359 --> 01:54:42.800 stage where you do the inlay bark graph. But but 2162 01:54:43.039 --> 01:54:45.720 the wood you're using needs to be dormant, stored in 2163 01:54:45.800 --> 01:54:49.399 the in the refrigerator to stay dormant. 2164 01:54:50.600 --> 01:54:54.840 Very good and regarding like wound dressing. And then I 2165 01:54:54.920 --> 01:54:57.079 don't know what it's like. An antiseptic that they were 2166 01:54:57.119 --> 01:54:59.000 talking about is just for the tools. 2167 01:54:58.960 --> 01:55:02.600 Yeah or yeah? I would not. I would not. I 2168 01:55:02.640 --> 01:55:06.760 would not use worry about anyseptic on the wound. I mean, 2169 01:55:06.840 --> 01:55:10.840 you know, I've never for for printed pecans, I've never 2170 01:55:11.279 --> 01:55:15.000 I mean, grafting pecans, I've never uh, you know, dealt 2171 01:55:15.039 --> 01:55:17.560 with antiseptic on the tools. I mean, you could spray 2172 01:55:17.600 --> 01:55:19.359 them with some life soil if you want to do that, 2173 01:55:19.560 --> 01:55:22.600 that'd be fine. But the main thing is making the 2174 01:55:22.720 --> 01:55:26.920 graft properly. You don't you don't. You can use things 2175 01:55:27.119 --> 01:55:30.520 like grafting wax and whatnot to it, but bottom line 2176 01:55:30.680 --> 01:55:35.000 is just uh, you know, just get you uh, some 2177 01:55:36.239 --> 01:55:39.800 plastic bag to wrap around them, uh, and you tie 2178 01:55:39.840 --> 01:55:42.119 it to the branch and you tie it up on 2179 01:55:42.239 --> 01:55:45.159 the grafted piece, so you create a complete air tight 2180 01:55:45.920 --> 01:55:49.359 section underneath there to hold the moisture in and then 2181 01:55:49.439 --> 01:55:51.760 wrap the whole thing with foil. This is all in 2182 01:55:51.840 --> 01:55:55.000 the publication that's on Aggie Horticulture. Wrap it in foil 2183 01:55:55.079 --> 01:55:58.239 to reflect any sunlight outside of that clear bag. 2184 01:56:00.039 --> 01:56:04.359 Okay, so we're not really in the season for doing that. Yeah, 2185 01:56:04.399 --> 01:56:06.439 we need to get other side of winter time. 2186 01:56:07.920 --> 01:56:09.520 Yeah, probably what you worried more. 2187 01:56:10.960 --> 01:56:13.880 Yeah, get your get your graft would now, but but 2188 01:56:14.159 --> 01:56:16.000 store it in the fridge and then do the graft 2189 01:56:16.079 --> 01:56:18.279 in spring, when the when the sap starts to flow 2190 01:56:18.359 --> 01:56:21.239 and growth starts to appear. Hey, I got to run. 2191 01:56:21.560 --> 01:56:23.960 We're on against a hard break. But good luck with that. 2192 01:56:24.199 --> 01:56:26.039 And if you have any other questions on it, follow up, 2193 01:56:26.159 --> 01:56:28.600 just give me a call back sometime. All right, folks, 2194 01:56:28.640 --> 01:56:30.520 I've got to run to a break. When we come 2195 01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:32.960 back from break, we are going to talk to Dennis 2196 01:56:33.079 --> 01:56:39.000 and Gary after the break. Who can tell me the 2197 01:56:39.119 --> 01:56:45.000 name of the band? Send them that the Wonders a 2198 01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:49.279 k a. Theaters. You have to look that one up. Eaters. 2199 01:56:50.680 --> 01:56:54.279 They spelled Wonder O n E. One was O ne 2200 01:56:54.520 --> 01:56:57.319 so when people looked at Wonder, it looked like, okay, 2201 01:56:58.000 --> 01:57:01.319 you heard it here first on Garden Life. Let's go 2202 01:57:01.399 --> 01:57:04.600 to Gary. We're going to talk to Gary now on Guardline. 2203 01:57:04.640 --> 01:57:06.680 Welcome to the show. Gary, good to have you with us. 2204 01:57:08.680 --> 01:57:09.840 Hey, good morning, Skip. 2205 01:57:09.880 --> 01:57:10.399 How are you doing. 2206 01:57:11.920 --> 01:57:14.359 I'm well, I'm well. How can we help? 2207 01:57:14.560 --> 01:57:14.720 Hey? 2208 01:57:15.880 --> 01:57:16.079 Yeah? 2209 01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:19.000 So, I've got some fruit trees I'm wanting to plant. 2210 01:57:19.039 --> 01:57:21.960 I picked them up at a box store. There's a 2211 01:57:22.000 --> 01:57:24.479 couple of peach trees, a couple of plum trees, and 2212 01:57:24.560 --> 01:57:28.640 a big and pretty elementary question I guess is when's 2213 01:57:28.680 --> 01:57:30.239 the best time the year to plant those? 2214 01:57:31.119 --> 01:57:34.079 Is it now or wait? Till we get closer to springtime. 2215 01:57:35.720 --> 01:57:38.760 Now absolutely, now get them in the ground. Yeah, sooner 2216 01:57:38.800 --> 01:57:41.079 you get them in the ground, the sooner they're able 2217 01:57:41.159 --> 01:57:43.800 to start put it producing the root system. They'll need 2218 01:57:43.880 --> 01:57:46.760 to go through this first summer. So when you pull 2219 01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:49.279 them out of the container, if you see roots circling, 2220 01:57:49.720 --> 01:57:51.439 if you can kind of tease them out of there 2221 01:57:51.560 --> 01:57:54.520 and dig a hold of to accommodate them. Don't wrap 2222 01:57:54.600 --> 01:57:57.159 the roots up in the hole. They don't unwind underground, 2223 01:57:57.239 --> 01:57:59.600 of course. And if you need to cut a root, 2224 01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:01.680 go ahead and cut the root. It's okay to cut it. 2225 01:58:01.760 --> 01:58:04.600 Within two weeks it'll be sprouting new side roots from 2226 01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:07.920 behind the cut, and it'll be a much better established 2227 01:58:07.960 --> 01:58:11.039 tree as a result. So don't if you've got circling 2228 01:58:11.159 --> 01:58:14.119 roots unwrap them or cut them. More likely it can 2229 01:58:14.239 --> 01:58:17.760 have to cut them. So what about the frequency of 2230 01:58:18.199 --> 01:58:19.840 water in them at this time of the year. Is 2231 01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:22.159 is it important that you water them on a pretty 2232 01:58:22.199 --> 01:58:29.159 frequent basis this time of year? A good watering in 2233 01:58:29.800 --> 01:58:31.960 when you plant them should be sufficient. They're going to 2234 01:58:32.000 --> 01:58:34.760 be dormant if they have mari lost their leaves, they 2235 01:58:34.760 --> 01:58:39.720 will this week, but you shouldn't have to water them 2236 01:58:40.279 --> 01:58:42.800 until they begin new growth, and then you can begin 2237 01:58:42.920 --> 01:58:46.359 to provide some water. Just always remember the first months, 2238 01:58:46.439 --> 01:58:50.520 even the first summer after planting, the roots are still 2239 01:58:50.600 --> 01:58:53.920 quite confined. They haven't fully stretched out into all the 2240 01:58:54.039 --> 01:58:58.359 soil around them, and so regular watering is a little 2241 01:58:58.399 --> 01:59:02.479 more important for a newly planted tree during its first 2242 01:59:02.920 --> 01:59:05.680 two or even three years, especially the first year. 2243 01:59:07.520 --> 01:59:10.920 Okay, and so I've got a mixture of soils out 2244 01:59:10.960 --> 01:59:13.600 there in my property. Some of it's clay and then 2245 01:59:13.640 --> 01:59:15.920 there's some of it's more loamy. I guess it be 2246 01:59:16.039 --> 01:59:20.640 better to plant and the loamy obviously, but that's something 2247 01:59:20.640 --> 01:59:21.359 I was wondering too. 2248 01:59:22.640 --> 01:59:26.000 Yeah, they like a sandy loam soil. That is their 2249 01:59:26.079 --> 01:59:29.119 absolute favorite. Not everybody has that. And we can make 2250 01:59:29.159 --> 01:59:32.520 peaches grow and a lot of other things. But if 2251 01:59:32.560 --> 01:59:34.920 you were to, if you were to say, what's the 2252 01:59:35.000 --> 01:59:37.479 best soil for peaches, it's sandy loam. And that's why 2253 01:59:37.560 --> 01:59:42.119 the biggest peach producing regions of our country, of our state, 2254 01:59:42.159 --> 01:59:46.439 excuse me, are up in the Maheya area where there's 2255 01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:48.960 a band of sandy loam soil that comes through there, 2256 01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:53.479 and over in Fredericksburg and areas that have sandy loam soils. 2257 01:59:54.239 --> 01:59:55.520 That's that's their favorite. 2258 01:59:57.239 --> 02:00:00.560 Okay, well, I appreciate your help and then answer my questions. 2259 02:00:00.680 --> 02:00:04.600 Thank you all right, Gary, thanks for the call. Appreciate 2260 02:00:04.680 --> 02:00:08.199 that you take care. Let's see we're going to go 2261 02:00:08.279 --> 02:00:11.359 now to Cove, Texas and talk to Dennis. Hey, Dennis, 2262 02:00:11.399 --> 02:00:12.279 welcome to garden Line. 2263 02:00:12.920 --> 02:00:16.439 Thank you skip my question. I have two red tip 2264 02:00:16.840 --> 02:00:20.119 shrubs and I prum once a year whenever the weather 2265 02:00:20.800 --> 02:00:23.319 gets cold and it's going to stay cold, so now's 2266 02:00:23.359 --> 02:00:27.640 that time. And I always trim the tops back to 2267 02:00:27.720 --> 02:00:29.880 the eve of the house. So that's that's at eight 2268 02:00:30.000 --> 02:00:34.680 feet and typically I'm taking off on average about a foot. 2269 02:00:34.800 --> 02:00:37.840 They'll they'll usually get up, you know, about nine feet, 2270 02:00:38.279 --> 02:00:40.560 and I take that off. And the width I don't 2271 02:00:40.600 --> 02:00:43.920 really have a set marker, but because i'm trimming from 2272 02:00:43.960 --> 02:00:46.720 a step ladder, I usually wind up trimming the width 2273 02:00:47.479 --> 02:00:50.600 so that I can reach the center on top, you know, 2274 02:00:50.760 --> 02:00:54.439 and stay safely balanced on the step ladder. And what 2275 02:00:54.520 --> 02:00:57.720 I've noticed this year is that the shrubs seem to 2276 02:00:57.800 --> 02:01:02.920 have spread width wise much more than they've ever grown before. 2277 02:01:03.119 --> 02:01:06.119 And while I still would I would estimately be taken 2278 02:01:06.199 --> 02:01:10.359 off about a quarter of the total wood of the tree. 2279 02:01:11.760 --> 02:01:16.880 Because the foliage is typically only on the outside of 2280 02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:20.079 the tree. On the interior branches aren't really any leaves. 2281 02:01:20.239 --> 02:01:22.560 I'll be taken off a lot more of the leaves 2282 02:01:22.680 --> 02:01:26.239 I think, percentage wise, I normally do. 2283 02:01:26.680 --> 02:01:34.159 Is that a problem, Dennis, I missed the species of 2284 02:01:34.239 --> 02:01:35.239 plant we're talking about. 2285 02:01:35.840 --> 02:01:38.800 Okay, so I don't know if this is the real name. 2286 02:01:39.680 --> 02:01:44.119 We call them red red tips. It's the shrug. 2287 02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:44.760 You know. 2288 02:01:44.880 --> 02:01:47.680 The leaves are mostly green, but the ones on the 2289 02:01:47.840 --> 02:01:49.239 end of the branches are red. 2290 02:01:49.840 --> 02:01:53.600 Yes, yeah, that's red to fatinia as a coat. So 2291 02:01:54.159 --> 02:01:56.479 you can print that as much as you want and 2292 02:01:56.600 --> 02:02:00.000 it'll come back from it. What happens on all plants 2293 02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:05.359 pretty much, especially the shrubs than things. They tend to 2294 02:02:05.399 --> 02:02:09.359 grow more outward at the top and end up shading 2295 02:02:09.520 --> 02:02:12.359 their base as a result. You know, as the top 2296 02:02:12.439 --> 02:02:15.800 gets wider, think of a capital V. It grows like 2297 02:02:15.880 --> 02:02:19.920 a capital V, and so the top shades the base 2298 02:02:20.000 --> 02:02:21.760 and you lose your foliage, which you want to have 2299 02:02:21.840 --> 02:02:24.119 foliage all the way down to the ground. So you 2300 02:02:24.279 --> 02:02:26.520 kind of have to work to keep the top at 2301 02:02:26.640 --> 02:02:30.600 least vertical. The side's vertical, if not a little bit 2302 02:02:31.039 --> 02:02:34.479 narrower at the top, like I had mentioned a capital V, 2303 02:02:34.720 --> 02:02:38.159 think more toward to capital A, not like a Christmas 2304 02:02:38.199 --> 02:02:41.199 tree shape. But just get the top narrower and that 2305 02:02:41.359 --> 02:02:45.159 allows good light up and down all through that shrub, 2306 02:02:45.680 --> 02:02:47.960 and as a result, you have good foliage all through 2307 02:02:48.000 --> 02:02:50.680 the shrub. So don't be afraid to hack back as 2308 02:02:50.760 --> 02:02:53.399 much as you need to do that, because that shrub 2309 02:02:53.520 --> 02:02:55.680 is constantly going to be fighting you trying to be 2310 02:02:55.800 --> 02:02:58.000 top heavy, and we need it to not be top 2311 02:02:58.079 --> 02:03:01.079 heavy for the aesthetics of an ice full shrub. 2312 02:03:03.159 --> 02:03:05.640 Okay, that answers my question. Thank you very much. 2313 02:03:07.000 --> 02:03:09.640 Yes, sir, thank you for the call. Appreciate that very much. 2314 02:03:09.960 --> 02:03:16.119 Good good question, very good question, good point. Earlier I was, 2315 02:03:16.279 --> 02:03:20.560 you know, talking about the importance of taking care of 2316 02:03:20.680 --> 02:03:26.720 your plants, making sure that you've got adequate soil, adequate nutrition, 2317 02:03:27.439 --> 02:03:32.239 you know, adequate organic matter content. It is important to 2318 02:03:32.479 --> 02:03:34.800 when you take care of a plant, to provide the 2319 02:03:34.920 --> 02:03:37.359 roots what they need because in a sense, plants grow 2320 02:03:37.439 --> 02:03:39.359 in the root, they live in their roots. I like 2321 02:03:39.479 --> 02:03:41.399 to put it that way because we sort of forget 2322 02:03:41.439 --> 02:03:45.079 about the below ground part, but keeping the roots happy 2323 02:03:45.199 --> 02:03:47.840 is important. The medina, the folks at Medina makes something 2324 02:03:47.880 --> 02:03:50.880 called humate humic acid. What is humic acid, Well, that's 2325 02:03:50.960 --> 02:03:56.840 basically the final stage of decomposing organic matter. So we 2326 02:03:56.960 --> 02:04:00.319 have organic matter like leaves and grass clippings and things. 2327 02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:04.560 It decomposes into what we would call compost, and then 2328 02:04:04.680 --> 02:04:08.199 that decomposes into what's called humus. It's the final stage, 2329 02:04:08.239 --> 02:04:11.039 and the humic acid is one of the natural ingredients 2330 02:04:11.119 --> 02:04:15.640 that are in humus. Humus does a number of good 2331 02:04:15.680 --> 02:04:18.079 things for the soil, and the humic acid helps with 2332 02:04:18.199 --> 02:04:21.159 soil structure. It helps with the way that the plant 2333 02:04:21.239 --> 02:04:23.880 has access to nutrients in addition to the fact that 2334 02:04:24.000 --> 02:04:28.880 they're nutrients in and of itself. But you make humte 2335 02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:32.439 I'm in trouble saying. Humane humic acid from Medina is 2336 02:04:32.479 --> 02:04:34.039 the kind of thing you just mix a little in 2337 02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:36.119 a gallon of water, and when you plant a plant, 2338 02:04:36.199 --> 02:04:38.039 you just pour it on the root ball as you 2339 02:04:38.159 --> 02:04:41.279 replace the soil, apply it again, give it another good drench. 2340 02:04:41.960 --> 02:04:45.319 It is very helpful. I will soak seeds in humus 2341 02:04:46.159 --> 02:04:48.920 or humic acid rather, and all you have to do 2342 02:04:49.239 --> 02:04:52.319 is put about a tablespoon per gallon of water of 2343 02:04:52.399 --> 02:04:56.159 the humane humic acid and then soak the seed until 2344 02:04:56.640 --> 02:04:59.640 that penetrates the skin and the seeds swell up and 2345 02:04:59.680 --> 02:05:01.760 then anthem right away. Don't let them set like that, 2346 02:05:02.199 --> 02:05:04.640 plant them. So I'll typically do that the night before 2347 02:05:05.119 --> 02:05:06.600 I'm going to go out and plant. And that's one 2348 02:05:06.640 --> 02:05:09.239 of the quality products there from the folks at Medina. 2349 02:05:09.319 --> 02:05:14.119 Medina also produces something called has to Grow six twelve six. 2350 02:05:14.760 --> 02:05:16.880 Now has to Grow six twelve six is a high 2351 02:05:16.960 --> 02:05:20.680 quality products. Got the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent sassium, 2352 02:05:20.800 --> 02:05:25.319 six percent excuse me, twelve percent phosphorus six percent potassium. 2353 02:05:25.840 --> 02:05:29.439 That is very useful to a plant trying to develop 2354 02:05:29.479 --> 02:05:32.920 a root system, to a plant trying to produce blooms 2355 02:05:32.960 --> 02:05:36.079 and foliage. Phosphorus very important for that. And it also 2356 02:05:36.199 --> 02:05:38.880 contains Medina Soil Activator, which we know been around a 2357 02:05:38.880 --> 02:05:41.159 long time, one of the most famous products from Medina. 2358 02:05:41.760 --> 02:05:43.960 There is also present in the has to Grow six 2359 02:05:44.199 --> 02:05:47.079 twelve six. Again, I will use it when I'm transplanting. 2360 02:05:47.159 --> 02:05:50.239 I will use it anytime that you're wanting to apply 2361 02:05:50.800 --> 02:05:53.479 a drench into the soils, even a folier spray. You're 2362 02:05:53.479 --> 02:05:55.720 not going to burn with that. Just two examples of 2363 02:05:55.880 --> 02:05:59.439 quality products there from the folks at medina that are 2364 02:05:59.680 --> 02:06:02.439 white available here in the Greater Houston area and have 2365 02:06:02.680 --> 02:06:03.760 been for ages. 2366 02:06:03.840 --> 02:06:04.079 Do you know. 2367 02:06:04.439 --> 02:06:08.199 I was just reading about Dewey Compton or earlier, and 2368 02:06:09.199 --> 02:06:11.680 he talked about medina products that goes back to the 2369 02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:14.880 nineteen fifties. Diana's been around a while, It's been proven 2370 02:06:15.000 --> 02:06:17.800 for a very long time, and gardeners already know that. 2371 02:06:18.359 --> 02:06:20.159 Now it's time for me to take a little quick break. 2372 02:06:20.640 --> 02:06:24.359 For gosh, we're coming up. I've got a another minute 2373 02:06:24.439 --> 02:06:26.479 or so, so I'll just go a little bit longer. 2374 02:06:27.079 --> 02:06:29.119 We'll come back to your calls though. Hey, by the way, 2375 02:06:29.119 --> 02:06:30.479 if you'd like to give me a call, the phone 2376 02:06:30.560 --> 02:06:33.479 number is seven to one three two one two ktr 2377 02:06:33.560 --> 02:06:37.079 eight seven one three two one two KTRH. Earlier, I 2378 02:06:37.199 --> 02:06:42.079 mentioned that tomorrow we were going to talk about more 2379 02:06:42.279 --> 02:06:45.720 about Randy Lemon. The host of garden Line, Dean Nelson 2380 02:06:45.920 --> 02:06:47.359 is going to come on the show in the morning 2381 02:06:47.399 --> 02:06:48.760 and we're going to talk a little bit about a 2382 02:06:48.840 --> 02:06:52.239 scholarship for Randy and just some memories of Randy. Actually, 2383 02:06:53.079 --> 02:06:58.079 today is the anniversary of both Randy's birthday and his 2384 02:06:58.640 --> 02:07:01.760 passing to years ago. The came as a shock to 2385 02:07:01.880 --> 02:07:05.840 everyone in the gardening World here in Southeast Texas, and 2386 02:07:06.000 --> 02:07:08.640 we'll be talking more about that then. I just want 2387 02:07:08.680 --> 02:07:12.600 to remind you, though, one more time, that Randy's scholarship 2388 02:07:13.399 --> 02:07:15.359 is still around at A and M. They've got it 2389 02:07:15.560 --> 02:07:19.279 funded to a level now where there is some funding 2390 02:07:19.399 --> 02:07:23.920 going to New A and M horticulture students. New A 2391 02:07:24.000 --> 02:07:27.560 and M horticulture students can receive the Randy Lemon Scholarship. 2392 02:07:27.640 --> 02:07:30.439 We want to get it funded better. I just think 2393 02:07:30.479 --> 02:07:33.439 we can do better than this. You can go online 2394 02:07:33.760 --> 02:07:36.640 and you can donate online toward it. You can do 2395 02:07:36.760 --> 02:07:39.520 it by mail if you'd like to. There's a lot 2396 02:07:39.560 --> 02:07:41.600 of details to that. I make it real simple on 2397 02:07:41.680 --> 02:07:43.960 my website. Just go to gardening with Skip dot com 2398 02:07:44.359 --> 02:07:48.000 Gardening with Skip dot com. The top item on there 2399 02:07:48.199 --> 02:07:51.079 is the Randy Lemon Scholarship. It tells you how you 2400 02:07:51.199 --> 02:07:53.039 can give and if you're one of the folks that 2401 02:07:53.159 --> 02:07:56.720 listened to Randy for years that appreciated the help that 2402 02:07:56.840 --> 02:08:00.560 he provided you, why not consider making even a small 2403 02:08:00.640 --> 02:08:04.479 donation toward that scholarship. I know Randy would be so 2404 02:08:04.640 --> 02:08:06.680 proud to know that we were doing this now. And 2405 02:08:06.880 --> 02:08:09.199 thanks to Dean for getting that all set up. 2406 02:08:09.279 --> 02:08:09.680 By the way. 2407 02:08:10.159 --> 02:08:11.720 All right, I'm gonna take a little break. When I 2408 02:08:11.760 --> 02:08:13.680 come back, We're gonna go out to Humble and talk 2409 02:08:13.760 --> 02:08:17.520 to Gary and Hey, welcome back to the garden Line. 2410 02:08:19.359 --> 02:08:21.720 Welcome back. Good to have you with us. You are 2411 02:08:22.520 --> 02:08:25.399 listening to the first show of the year twenty twenty five, 2412 02:08:25.479 --> 02:08:27.199 and twenty twenty five is gonna be the best year 2413 02:08:27.199 --> 02:08:29.520 you've ever had in gardening. I'm just predicting that right now. 2414 02:08:29.560 --> 02:08:31.680 It's gonna be my best year of gardening. You know, 2415 02:08:31.760 --> 02:08:34.560 the fun thing about gardening is gardening is like the 2416 02:08:34.600 --> 02:08:38.199 old etches sketches. I've used that analogy before, but how 2417 02:08:38.239 --> 02:08:40.159 many of you remember an etch a sketch? You know, 2418 02:08:40.239 --> 02:08:42.920 you had two knobs, one went up and down, one sideways, 2419 02:08:43.199 --> 02:08:46.760 and you tried to draw something. Inevitably, you went left 2420 02:08:46.800 --> 02:08:48.439 when you should have gone right or whatever, and it 2421 02:08:48.479 --> 02:08:50.920 messes up the drawing. What do you do? You turn 2422 02:08:51.000 --> 02:08:53.600 it upside down and shake it and you get a 2423 02:08:53.640 --> 02:08:57.680 blank slate. Again, that's gardening. Every year is a blank slate. 2424 02:08:57.720 --> 02:09:00.520 In fact, halfway through spring, if you don't like the 2425 02:09:00.560 --> 02:09:03.199 way that garden looks, you can just get you your 2426 02:09:03.920 --> 02:09:06.760 roto teller, the equivalent of a shake in the edges 2427 02:09:06.760 --> 02:09:09.720 sketch and you get to start over again. It's okay. 2428 02:09:09.840 --> 02:09:11.800 You can't fail at garden you only give up. We're 2429 02:09:11.840 --> 02:09:13.319 not going to give up. We're going to have the 2430 02:09:13.359 --> 02:09:15.479 best year ever. And I really believe that. I think 2431 02:09:15.520 --> 02:09:18.239 it's gonna be a good year. Right now, we're going 2432 02:09:18.279 --> 02:09:21.319 to go out and talk to Gary and Humble. Hello, Gary, 2433 02:09:21.399 --> 02:09:22.239 welcome to garden Line. 2434 02:09:23.560 --> 02:09:25.039 Thank you, sir. Good morning. 2435 02:09:25.840 --> 02:09:26.039 Say. 2436 02:09:26.159 --> 02:09:33.000 I planned a myer lemon about three years ago, and 2437 02:09:33.399 --> 02:09:35.479 about a year and a half ago or so, whatever 2438 02:09:35.479 --> 02:09:37.520 it was, it froze back. 2439 02:09:38.800 --> 02:09:39.359 Completely. 2440 02:09:39.640 --> 02:09:44.000 And then I started seeing some new sprouts above the graft. 2441 02:09:45.319 --> 02:09:49.000 And now it's five and a half feet tall, but 2442 02:09:49.199 --> 02:09:52.319 no blossoms at all. And I'm wondering, do I need 2443 02:09:52.399 --> 02:09:54.439 to protect this or do I let it freeze. 2444 02:09:59.159 --> 02:10:04.399 Well, let's see you were an Humble. It's gonna be 2445 02:10:04.399 --> 02:10:06.079 a little on the cold side. I think I would 2446 02:10:06.119 --> 02:10:08.439 cover it up. I just protected a little bit at 2447 02:10:08.479 --> 02:10:15.279 the very least. If it's from above the graph, yes, 2448 02:10:15.439 --> 02:10:18.439 if it's above the graft, it will produce. It absolutely 2449 02:10:18.479 --> 02:10:21.600 will From below the grap then you've got a rootstock. 2450 02:10:23.520 --> 02:10:26.039 Yeah, but it's it's like I say, it's five and 2451 02:10:26.039 --> 02:10:28.760 a half foot tool now and not a blossom anywhere 2452 02:10:29.159 --> 02:10:32.479 all year, and it's been that, and you're. 2453 02:10:32.439 --> 02:10:36.319 You're sure, okay, well it's it's all right. Are you 2454 02:10:36.399 --> 02:10:37.880 sure it's coming above the graph though? 2455 02:10:38.159 --> 02:10:38.279 Right? 2456 02:10:39.479 --> 02:10:41.760 I'm pretty sure there. 2457 02:10:41.880 --> 02:10:43.159 I can see the line there. 2458 02:10:43.199 --> 02:10:46.960 It's about an inch above. But yeah, yeah, because it 2459 02:10:47.479 --> 02:10:51.520 did grow full and uh, but there's no blossoms in 2460 02:10:51.640 --> 02:10:55.479 the all year. So I'm wondering is it worth all 2461 02:10:55.479 --> 02:10:55.840 the time? 2462 02:10:57.119 --> 02:11:01.560 Even a rootstock is capable of blooming, but it just 2463 02:11:01.640 --> 02:11:07.560 doesn't produce quality fruit. Is the growth on it more 2464 02:11:07.760 --> 02:11:10.079 thorny than your mere lemon was? 2465 02:11:12.680 --> 02:11:16.199 It's about the same. But like I say, no blossoms, 2466 02:11:16.239 --> 02:11:17.319 there's a lot of leaves. 2467 02:11:24.640 --> 02:11:27.960 Yeah, I you know, if it's not a lot more thorny, 2468 02:11:28.000 --> 02:11:30.680 I still think it's worth waiting and seeing, unless you 2469 02:11:30.840 --> 02:11:31.760 just want to hurry out. 2470 02:11:33.000 --> 02:11:36.039 I didn't. I don't think there's any thorns. I don't 2471 02:11:36.079 --> 02:11:37.199 recall seeing thorns. 2472 02:11:37.199 --> 02:11:40.600 Okay. I think you've got a lemon tree that's going 2473 02:11:40.680 --> 02:11:44.159 to settle in and start blooming for you here before long. 2474 02:11:44.560 --> 02:11:52.840 I do, so I just stay with it system, okay, okay, 2475 02:11:53.000 --> 02:11:54.640 all right, then I need to produce. 2476 02:11:54.439 --> 02:11:56.760 Exactly m that's it. 2477 02:11:57.119 --> 02:11:57.560 You got it. 2478 02:11:59.159 --> 02:12:01.640 Good luck with that. If it ever produces Lendon's for you, 2479 02:12:01.680 --> 02:12:03.720 you just bring me half the produce to the to 2480 02:12:03.880 --> 02:12:06.560 the radio station and we'll call it even. Thank you, 2481 02:12:06.920 --> 02:12:12.680 Thank you, sir, Bye bye. Someday that joke's gonna get old, 2482 02:12:12.800 --> 02:12:16.399 but not to me. You asked my kids. I think 2483 02:12:16.520 --> 02:12:19.880 jokes are hilarious that have ceased to be hilarious. You 2484 02:12:19.920 --> 02:12:22.840 know when I when my kids were like age six 2485 02:12:22.920 --> 02:12:25.960 and under, I ruled the room, even maybe seven and under. 2486 02:12:26.600 --> 02:12:30.399 Somewhere along the line, I became less funny. Isn't that 2487 02:12:30.520 --> 02:12:35.880 amazing how that works? Well, the way I like to 2488 02:12:35.920 --> 02:12:38.039 put it is, I'm gonna tell jokes that make me laugh, 2489 02:12:38.119 --> 02:12:40.520 even if they don't make you laugh. One of us 2490 02:12:40.560 --> 02:12:43.399 has gotta have fun here. Thanks for being a listener 2491 02:12:43.439 --> 02:12:48.399 to Garden Line. Hey, you probably have noticed that here 2492 02:12:48.439 --> 02:12:51.159 in the Houston area we have a heavy clay soil. 2493 02:12:51.239 --> 02:12:54.199 We call it gumbo soil because it's a thick black clay. 2494 02:12:54.479 --> 02:12:56.920 Not everybody does. You may have sandy soil or sandy 2495 02:12:57.000 --> 02:12:59.720 loan where you live, but by and large are Houston. 2496 02:12:59.760 --> 02:13:02.720 Black clay is predominant in this area. And when you 2497 02:13:02.880 --> 02:13:06.600 have a clay that has a high shrink swell potential. 2498 02:13:06.760 --> 02:13:09.399 What that means is when it's wet, it swells. When 2499 02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:13.119 it's dry, it shrinks. When you have that, you'll notice 2500 02:13:13.279 --> 02:13:15.199 in the summertime, when it's dry, you get these big 2501 02:13:15.359 --> 02:13:19.479 cracks in the yard. You know, big old cracks open 2502 02:13:19.600 --> 02:13:21.840 up in the soil because it's dry and it's shrinking, 2503 02:13:22.239 --> 02:13:25.039 and then it gets wet and it closes back up again. Well, 2504 02:13:25.079 --> 02:13:27.720 that wrecks havoc on your sidewalk and on your driveway 2505 02:13:27.760 --> 02:13:30.399 and on your home foundations. And you may notice that 2506 02:13:30.520 --> 02:13:32.960 your doors are sticking. They didn't stick before and I 2507 02:13:33.119 --> 02:13:34.439 was under sticking again. 2508 02:13:35.000 --> 02:13:35.159 You know. 2509 02:13:35.399 --> 02:13:38.800 Or maybe there's a crack in the sheet rock or 2510 02:13:38.960 --> 02:13:41.520 there's a crack in the brick on the outside. Typically 2511 02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:44.399 go see those at the base of a window, kind 2512 02:13:44.439 --> 02:13:46.560 of going from the back one corner of the window 2513 02:13:46.640 --> 02:13:47.960 down to the ground. But they can to curl all 2514 02:13:48.000 --> 02:13:50.479 over the place. Well, that's a sign that you got 2515 02:13:50.520 --> 02:13:54.199 a foundation issue, and fix my slab. Foundation repair is 2516 02:13:54.279 --> 02:13:57.319 the go to place for that. Ty Strickland is a 2517 02:13:57.520 --> 02:14:02.119 native Houstonian. He's a fifth generation and he knows our soils. 2518 02:14:02.199 --> 02:14:05.920 He understands this issue, and he knows how to assess 2519 02:14:05.960 --> 02:14:08.920 it and what to do about it. The things I 2520 02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:12.520 like most about Ty's work. Number one is an honest fellow. 2521 02:14:12.840 --> 02:14:15.600 Number two he shows up on time when he tells 2522 02:14:15.680 --> 02:14:17.600 he's going to show up. That's part of being honest 2523 02:14:17.680 --> 02:14:21.600 by the way. He fixes it right, and he charges 2524 02:14:21.680 --> 02:14:24.720 a fair price. And what more can you ask for 2525 02:14:24.800 --> 02:14:26.880 any kind of a service industry come in to your house, 2526 02:14:27.560 --> 02:14:30.079 especially when they're dealing with the foundation of your home. 2527 02:14:30.319 --> 02:14:32.319 And he's been doing this for twenty three years. He 2528 02:14:32.479 --> 02:14:34.600 knows what he's doing. You give him a call, tell 2529 02:14:34.640 --> 02:14:37.840 him your guarden line listener. Free estimates for garden line listeners. 2530 02:14:38.239 --> 02:14:41.880 You can go to the website fixmislab dot com, or 2531 02:14:41.960 --> 02:14:44.439 you can call him too. Eight one two fi five 2532 02:14:44.920 --> 02:14:48.239 forty nine forty nine two eight one two fi five 2533 02:14:48.720 --> 02:14:52.119 four nine four nine fix my slab foundation repair listen. 2534 02:14:52.199 --> 02:14:54.159 If you think you may have a problem, don't be 2535 02:14:54.239 --> 02:14:56.479 an ostrich. Put your head in this end. Call him 2536 02:14:56.880 --> 02:15:00.399 if it's not a serious issue. If it's okay, there 2537 02:15:00.520 --> 02:15:05.159 is such a level of concern that's not worth worrying about. 2538 02:15:05.560 --> 02:15:09.439 He'll tell you that. But it's not gonna get better, 2539 02:15:09.760 --> 02:15:11.880 so don't put it off. Go ahead and give Tay 2540 02:15:11.920 --> 02:15:14.439 a call two eight one two FI five forty nine 2541 02:15:15.000 --> 02:15:19.039 forty nine. All right, folks, we've got one more segment 2542 02:15:19.199 --> 02:15:21.319 in the first show of the year coming up, and 2543 02:15:21.439 --> 02:15:24.279 I'll be right back with your calls at five excuse me, 2544 02:15:24.880 --> 02:15:28.960 seven to one three two one two kt RH loved. 2545 02:15:31.159 --> 02:15:33.640 Welcome back to guarden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richer, 2546 02:15:33.720 --> 02:15:36.960 and we're here for our last segment of today, the 2547 02:15:37.199 --> 02:15:41.159 first garden Line show of twenty twenty five, which is 2548 02:15:41.239 --> 02:15:43.279 going to be the best gardening year we've ever had. 2549 02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:48.279 I really really believe that. You know, nature throws us curves, 2550 02:15:48.359 --> 02:15:52.600 but that's okay, we just continue on. We were resilient. 2551 02:15:52.880 --> 02:15:55.279 Gardeners are resilient. You know, gardeners have to have faith. 2552 02:15:55.520 --> 02:15:58.439 First of all. I mentioned this earlier. But to take 2553 02:15:59.479 --> 02:16:01.199 take a hand full of seeds, I mean, they look 2554 02:16:01.319 --> 02:16:04.359 like detritus. They look like debris on the ground, little 2555 02:16:04.439 --> 02:16:08.600 chips of wood or whatever they are, and they look dead. 2556 02:16:08.840 --> 02:16:10.520 And you put them in the ground, you give water 2557 02:16:10.640 --> 02:16:14.079 to them, and a miracle starts to happen. Water soaks 2558 02:16:14.119 --> 02:16:18.279 into the seed and starts a chain of biochemical reactions 2559 02:16:18.479 --> 02:16:20.640 that ends up with you getting a tomato or a 2560 02:16:20.720 --> 02:16:24.119 petunia flower or whatever kind of seed it is. Is 2561 02:16:24.199 --> 02:16:27.920 that amazing? I mean, you know, someone once said that 2562 02:16:29.840 --> 02:16:32.280 anybody can count the number of seeds in an apple, 2563 02:16:32.360 --> 02:16:34.559 but only God knows the number of apples in a seed, 2564 02:16:35.440 --> 02:16:37.559 and that you know, it's really true. I mean, think 2565 02:16:37.600 --> 02:16:39.959 about that, that one little seed in the case of 2566 02:16:40.040 --> 02:16:46.239 an apple, just countless, countless production from it. All right, 2567 02:16:46.280 --> 02:16:49.719 I'm gonna get a little This isn't nerdy, this is philosophical. 2568 02:16:50.280 --> 02:16:53.920 But somewhere years ago, you know, the guy Johnny apple 2569 02:16:54.000 --> 02:16:57.000 seed that went through the countryside, just scattering seeds everywhere, 2570 02:16:57.120 --> 02:17:00.559 and all these apples came up here and there and yonder. Well, 2571 02:17:00.760 --> 02:17:05.600 people would find one. That's a hap hazard, just genetic occurrence. 2572 02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:09.520 That's what seeds are, just like people are all different genetically. Well, 2573 02:17:09.920 --> 02:17:13.479 apples are all different genetically. Any kind of seed is 2574 02:17:13.559 --> 02:17:16.680 going to do that. So they would find one and 2575 02:17:16.719 --> 02:17:19.680 they would go, you know what, this is a really 2576 02:17:19.760 --> 02:17:23.559 special apple. Let's take cuttings and let's graft them, and 2577 02:17:23.719 --> 02:17:26.719 let's name it, and that way we can produce more 2578 02:17:26.760 --> 02:17:30.120 of it. That's how the first red delicious apple occurred. 2579 02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:35.280 And many of the oldest apple varieties were just haphazards. 2580 02:17:35.319 --> 02:17:38.559 Same with pecans pecans years ago. Some day I'll tell 2581 02:17:38.559 --> 02:17:41.319 you the story of pecans, but that's a whole nother story. 2582 02:17:41.559 --> 02:17:47.280 But anyway, so red Delicious just and other varieties. Now, 2583 02:17:47.440 --> 02:17:52.479 we breed varieties like that intentionally by crossing apple parentage lines, 2584 02:17:53.159 --> 02:17:55.360 but they just occurred and someone said, oh, I like that, 2585 02:17:55.920 --> 02:17:58.479 I'm gonna save that one. So think about this. I 2586 02:17:58.520 --> 02:18:00.840 don't know how many Red Delicious apple trees have been 2587 02:18:00.879 --> 02:18:02.680 created over the years. I mean, you know, we don't 2588 02:18:02.680 --> 02:18:06.000 grow those down here in Texas, but apple producing country. 2589 02:18:06.079 --> 02:18:08.399 That's kind of like an old standard variety that for 2590 02:18:08.559 --> 02:18:11.799 years rule the roost because it was longer, and it 2591 02:18:11.920 --> 02:18:14.600 was darker red, and it just it just had features 2592 02:18:14.639 --> 02:18:18.239 that were desirable. A seed sprouted, even if it was 2593 02:18:18.280 --> 02:18:22.399 an intentional collapse. Of course, one seed and one apple 2594 02:18:23.159 --> 02:18:26.319 produced the first Red Delicious tree, and after that it 2595 02:18:26.440 --> 02:18:29.360 was a matter of grafting and grafting and grafting to 2596 02:18:29.440 --> 02:18:33.000 where there's thousands and thousands and thousands of acres of 2597 02:18:33.159 --> 02:18:37.719 genetically the same red Delicious apples. Because in nature, one 2598 02:18:37.840 --> 02:18:42.040 seed sprouted and it had the superior qualities that someone 2599 02:18:42.360 --> 02:18:46.840 chose to select. So I just find that to be amazing. 2600 02:18:46.959 --> 02:18:49.280 I find plant genetics and just the you know, you 2601 02:18:49.399 --> 02:18:51.840 cross this, you cross that, And there are people that 2602 02:18:51.959 --> 02:18:55.360 do that as gardeners do I do that with okra myself, 2603 02:18:55.559 --> 02:18:58.680 creating new varieties and things. So it's kind of a 2604 02:18:58.719 --> 02:19:01.280 fun fact something that they about maybe get you excited 2605 02:19:01.280 --> 02:19:04.600 about doing some plant crossing yourself. We're gonna go out 2606 02:19:04.639 --> 02:19:07.559 of Bayliff and talk to Sue. Hello, Sue, Welcome to 2607 02:19:07.639 --> 02:19:08.120 garden line. 2608 02:19:10.000 --> 02:19:11.120 Hello, Skip, How are you? 2609 02:19:12.639 --> 02:19:14.559 I'm good? I'm good. How can we help? 2610 02:19:15.639 --> 02:19:15.840 Well? 2611 02:19:16.120 --> 02:19:16.440 I have. 2612 02:19:18.079 --> 02:19:21.959 The long skinny eggplants and the black beauty egg plants 2613 02:19:22.040 --> 02:19:27.559 and they're just loaded with fruit. Are they gonna be okay? 2614 02:19:27.680 --> 02:19:29.319 Or do I need to try to cover them? 2615 02:19:32.159 --> 02:19:35.280 Well, if it gets below freezing, they're gonna or if 2616 02:19:35.280 --> 02:19:37.959 it gets close to freezing, they can even have frost damage. 2617 02:19:38.719 --> 02:19:41.200 And so you're gonna need to cover them. Anything you 2618 02:19:41.319 --> 02:19:44.520 put over them that drapes down to the ground, secure 2619 02:19:44.559 --> 02:19:46.639 it to the ground to kind of hold some airspace 2620 02:19:46.760 --> 02:19:48.719 underneath there. You ought to be able to get them 2621 02:19:48.760 --> 02:19:53.159 through this freeze. Okay. If your area drops below let's 2622 02:19:53.159 --> 02:19:58.040 say thirty degrees for sure, then you're probably gonna need 2623 02:19:58.120 --> 02:20:01.319 some source of heat underneath there. But what's going to 2624 02:20:01.360 --> 02:20:03.719 happen in these coming freezes this week is it's going 2625 02:20:03.799 --> 02:20:06.399 to drop down below freezing and then it's going to 2626 02:20:06.440 --> 02:20:08.399 come right back up when the sun comes out in 2627 02:20:08.479 --> 02:20:11.159 the day. We'll be up in the forties and so 2628 02:20:11.360 --> 02:20:13.879 we don't have to survive for twenty four hours below 2629 02:20:14.000 --> 02:20:17.520 thirty two degrees. So we're just protecting them a little bit, 2630 02:20:17.600 --> 02:20:18.600 and that ought to get them through. 2631 02:20:20.440 --> 02:20:28.319 Okay, my second question the butt. I have calamandan that 2632 02:20:28.600 --> 02:20:31.760 is the chopped fruit all over it, and they're starting 2633 02:20:31.799 --> 02:20:35.760 to turn orange. I go ahead and pick them. I 2634 02:20:35.920 --> 02:20:37.440 know nothing about this fruit. 2635 02:20:39.000 --> 02:20:42.159 Yeah, Calamandan is a little it's an orange like thing 2636 02:20:42.239 --> 02:20:48.360 with very small orange traice on it. It's used. It's ornamental. 2637 02:20:48.479 --> 02:20:53.959 First of all. People love the just the ornamental factor, 2638 02:20:54.120 --> 02:20:56.879 but they're also edible. They're just not the you know, 2639 02:20:57.040 --> 02:21:01.600 the best tasting orange type thing that that you could have. 2640 02:21:02.559 --> 02:21:05.280 But I think they're attractive and I would cover them 2641 02:21:05.479 --> 02:21:08.680 in the kind of cold weather that we're we're looking 2642 02:21:08.879 --> 02:21:13.159 at having, So I think that's I think that's worthwhile. 2643 02:21:13.680 --> 02:21:14.680 Is it in a container? 2644 02:21:15.639 --> 02:21:16.239 Yes it is. 2645 02:21:17.920 --> 02:21:24.600 Yeah, do you know excuse me, get you a Dolly 2646 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:28.239 or something like that. Kalamandan's are actually pretty cold hearty. 2647 02:21:28.680 --> 02:21:28.840 You know. 2648 02:21:28.920 --> 02:21:33.639 The more I think about it, I think in your area, 2649 02:21:33.799 --> 02:21:35.479 I think, I don't think you're going to have to 2650 02:21:35.520 --> 02:21:37.399 bring it in or cover it now that I'm thinking 2651 02:21:37.399 --> 02:21:41.639 about it, because they're they're one of their parentage is 2652 02:21:41.760 --> 02:21:44.840 come quat and come quatre hardy down into the teens. 2653 02:21:44.840 --> 02:21:47.440 I think Klimandan is going to take it down pretty 2654 02:21:48.360 --> 02:21:51.440 well down into the twenties and be okay. So I 2655 02:21:51.520 --> 02:21:53.040 think you're going to be all right with it. I'm 2656 02:21:53.079 --> 02:21:55.680 gonna adjust my statement a little bit as I think 2657 02:21:55.719 --> 02:21:58.440 about that. Klamanda, well, I. 2658 02:21:58.479 --> 02:22:02.479 Think it's confused because it's got flower buds on it. 2659 02:22:02.600 --> 02:22:06.319 To you, oh, flower buds too, I don't know how 2660 02:22:06.399 --> 02:22:09.440 cool will be by And. 2661 02:22:09.520 --> 02:22:12.680 It's on the new growth. You had a collar call 2662 02:22:12.760 --> 02:22:17.000 while ago that had some new growth, had some curly 2663 02:22:17.159 --> 02:22:18.280 leaves and stuff. 2664 02:22:18.399 --> 02:22:18.559 You know. 2665 02:22:19.479 --> 02:22:22.079 I never found a leaf minor either, but I did 2666 02:22:22.200 --> 02:22:25.840 find it like a little web in there that I 2667 02:22:26.000 --> 02:22:29.719 scraped out. But that's where the new flower buds are at. 2668 02:22:30.120 --> 02:22:31.799 I was going to cut the tips off. 2669 02:22:32.959 --> 02:22:33.120 You know. 2670 02:22:33.440 --> 02:22:36.479 Those are nice plants, they say, kind of small, especially 2671 02:22:36.520 --> 02:22:38.760 in the container. You know, they stayed a rash and small, 2672 02:22:38.760 --> 02:22:41.559 and so people liked to grown because they you know, 2673 02:22:41.680 --> 02:22:44.840 it's easy to it's easy to do. But calm kalamandan 2674 02:22:45.079 --> 02:22:47.239 is is pretty cold hearty. So I think you're gonna 2675 02:22:47.239 --> 02:22:50.200 be okay. As far as the blooms themselves, I've never 2676 02:22:50.840 --> 02:22:53.680 I've never looked into that, like sometimes a plant will 2677 02:22:53.719 --> 02:22:56.079 be hardy, but the blooms are not. But I think 2678 02:22:56.200 --> 02:22:57.639 you're going to be all right. If you want to 2679 02:22:57.680 --> 02:22:59.799 be careful, just put her on dolly running in the 2680 02:23:00.079 --> 02:23:02.760 ode and bring it back out. But I don't think 2681 02:23:02.840 --> 02:23:05.360 that's needed for a kalamand And in the freeze, we're 2682 02:23:05.399 --> 02:23:05.959 about to have. 2683 02:23:07.319 --> 02:23:11.280 Okay, because it I just got it this past spring. 2684 02:23:12.040 --> 02:23:14.399 You know, it's fifty percent off. So I brought it 2685 02:23:14.520 --> 02:23:18.719 home and stuffed it in a container, and it immediately 2686 02:23:18.879 --> 02:23:23.159 started blooming and bearing these little fruits. And I was like, okay, 2687 02:23:23.959 --> 02:23:26.399 I thought, how do you like again? 2688 02:23:28.120 --> 02:23:29.920 How do you like the bloom fragrance? 2689 02:23:31.280 --> 02:23:31.399 Oh? 2690 02:23:31.479 --> 02:23:32.319 It smells good. 2691 02:23:33.959 --> 02:23:36.760 H Yeah, that's a nice thing. The nice thing about 2692 02:23:36.760 --> 02:23:38.719 a container cetress like that is you can put it 2693 02:23:38.840 --> 02:23:41.239 right beside where you sit outside in the patio and 2694 02:23:41.479 --> 02:23:44.079 just it's like you have perfume, just wafting over. 2695 02:23:45.600 --> 02:23:51.040 Right with all my guardenas and jasmines and and my citrus, 2696 02:23:51.079 --> 02:23:56.639 because I've got lemon lisbon lemon and uh Orlando TAngelo 2697 02:23:56.959 --> 02:23:58.680 also in a in a. 2698 02:23:59.120 --> 02:24:02.799 My goodness to it. Well, you just got all kinds 2699 02:24:02.799 --> 02:24:06.879 of not so common fruit, centrus, fruit growing around there. 2700 02:24:07.280 --> 02:24:09.440 Send me a picture though sometimes when they're especially when 2701 02:24:09.440 --> 02:24:11.920 they're blooming and things. I'd love to earn fruit. I'd 2702 02:24:11.959 --> 02:24:14.200 love to see that. Well, thank you for the call. 2703 02:24:14.319 --> 02:24:18.280 Make sure the calimandon, but I'll get it to tomorrow maybe. 2704 02:24:19.639 --> 02:24:21.680 Okay, Well, I'm gonna put you on hold and maybe 2705 02:24:21.799 --> 02:24:23.639 our producer will pick up and give you an email 2706 02:24:23.680 --> 02:24:25.120 where you can get that to me if you need that. 2707 02:24:25.559 --> 02:24:28.840 Thanks for the call. All right, folks. Music means I 2708 02:24:28.920 --> 02:24:31.399 gotta quit talking today. I'll be back in the morning though, 2709 02:24:31.479 --> 02:24:33.840 first thing, six o'clock. Hey, I'm gonna get up early 2710 02:24:34.000 --> 02:24:35.799 so I can be on the air at six. You 2711 02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:38.920 get up with me, we'll talk. By the way. Tip 2712 02:24:39.000 --> 02:24:41.639 for the wise, it's easiest to get through on phones 2713 02:24:41.799 --> 02:24:44.440 earlier in the morning when it was later on. All right, 2714 02:24:45.399 --> 02:24:45.799 take care