WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.040 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:06.919 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 3 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:12.880 to kt r H Garden Line with Skip rictes. 4 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:13.279 The crazy. 5 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.000 Gas can trim. 6 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.359 Just watch him as whom. 7 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:30.879 Gas so many birdings to see bats in the bases. 8 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:41.079 Like gas again, you sacking not a sum glasses gas 9 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:46.359 so beamon sweets gas. 10 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:58.439 Starting well, well, doodle, first thing in the morning on 11 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:04.200 a Saturday morning. Congratulate if you're up. Added congratulations if 12 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:10.719 both eyes are wide open and you are somewhat alert. 13 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:14.040 I'm ready to go this morning. We got a lot 14 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.120 to talk about on gardening. We always do. I talk 15 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:19.519 about that all the time. The fact that gardening gives 16 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:22.760 us a lot of opportunities to learn and talk about 17 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:26.000 a lot of things. I enjoy that aspect of it. 18 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.400 You know, you never get bored when you are learning 19 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:33.280 about growing things and plants. We were made to grow things. 20 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.159 That is just part of our DNA, I believe. And 21 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:40.799 there's an accomplishment that comes when you plant a plant 22 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:43.840 or plant a seed into the soil. Uh. It is 23 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.400 just just a sense of I did that, I grew that, 24 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.200 I made that, and that is a really cool and 25 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:54.040 fun thing to do. You are listening to garden Line, 26 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.480 We're here to answer your gardening questions phone number seven 27 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.879 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If 28 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:02.680 you would like to give me a call seven one 29 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.640 three two one two kt r H and we can 30 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:10.879 talk about whatever gardening topics are most of interest to you. 31 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.759 I spent this week getting some things done out and 32 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.639 about around the landscape. You know, my garden has been 33 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:24.639 kind of on hiatus since it was primarily an Okra garden. 34 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.439 This summer I kind of went all in to doing 35 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.879 a lot of different Okre breeding plots and things, and 36 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:33.319 so it Okra sort of took over the garden. Of course, 37 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:35.560 Okra right now is not very happy at n't like 38 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.479 these temperatures, and it's all coming out so that I 39 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:41.680 can move on to other things. But I look at 40 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:45.159 gardening as not only a way to grow food, but 41 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:48.560 also a way to become a better gardener. You know, 42 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.800 when you can read about gardening all day and I 43 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.120 don't care how good a book is, how knowledgeable the 44 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.639 author is, there's nothing like it out there, and just 45 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.360 doing it now when I'm not saying that, you know, 46 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:06.439 it's not important to read and learn and well listen 47 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.879 to the garden Line to learn. But it's just nothing 48 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.039 like putting your hand to the plow, so to speak, 49 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.520 and getting after it and doing it. And I learn 50 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.120 something every year in the garden. I learned more than something. 51 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:21.120 I learned a lot of somethings every year in the garden. 52 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:27.400 It is a very dynamic thing. Every year is different. 53 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:31.400 You know, one year maybe late light blast or early 54 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:36.199 blight blast your tomatoes and it just seems like, you know, 55 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.159 where did all that come from? Well, each year is different. 56 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.000 Some years, certain insects we have outbreaks of and some 57 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:47.800 years what you find is where you didn't seem to 58 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:51.680 have nutrient problems, suddenly plants aren't doing really well. And 59 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:53.520 who knows what the change could have been. Mad It 60 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.319 could have been things you added, It could have been soggy, 61 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.360 wet soil affects that, it could have been a lot 62 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.919 of things that happened. But you learn every time you 63 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.240 do it, and you just got to get out there 64 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.080 and do it. That is, you know, it's it's like 65 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.000 the quote, and I've made it a number of times 66 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.919 here on garden Line. You know, to be a good 67 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:14.719 gardener to be a good gardener, you got to kill 68 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.839 a lot of plants. Doctor J. C. Ralston, a famed 69 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:20.360 horticulture has said, if you're not killing plants, you're not 70 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.519 really stretching yourself as a gardener. And boy, is that 71 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.199 ever true. That is true. So I have stretched myself 72 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:32.079 a lot by trying things and killing plants and learning, 73 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.079 learning what plants need, what they want. You know, That's 74 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.199 the thing I always say, there's no brown thumbs in gardening. 75 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:41.800 There's only uninformed thumbs. And we're here to inform your thumb. 76 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:46.040 But it is really true that a lot of the 77 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:50.040 things that are that have made me the best gardener 78 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:54.279 that I can possibly be a year after year getting 79 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:58.839 better and better at it is. It's just trial and error. 80 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:03.240 It's being experimental and not being afraid to fail. And 81 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:05.120 I would encourage you to do that this year. You know, 82 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:08.759 every year I grow tomatoes. Of course, it's almost required. 83 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:10.480 I think there's a Texas law that if you have 84 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.800 a garden, you have to grow at least one tomato. 85 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:17.240 But I always add, I've got Tier three that are 86 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.360 my you know, dependables. I know they're going to be there. 87 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.040 I like them. They they're going to perform, they're pretty good. 88 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:25.720 But I always have Tier three that are some I've 89 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.920 never grown before, just to try them out, just to learn. 90 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:32.120 And you know what, some of my favorites entered the 91 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.680 world of my favorites by being an experiment that I tried, 92 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.879 one that I tried out. How about growing things differently? 93 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.839 Have you ever grown potatoes in a bucket? That's too 94 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.800 late for planting potatoes, But if you can make a 95 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.319 hole in the bottom of a bucket or a basket, 96 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:50.879 or you know whatever, however you go about it and 97 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:53.879 set a potato piece in the bottom, set that container 98 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.439 on the ground, by the way, and let the potatoes 99 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.120 grow up into the bucket, and then just keep adding 100 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:04.720 compost soil are more of a compost to the bucket 101 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:06.920 as they grow, so they're having to grow up out 102 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.319 of the compost a little bit. And by the time 103 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:11.519 they get to the top and that bucket is full 104 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.600 of compost, all your potatoes will be in that bucket. 105 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:16.759 It's true. You can do that, and then you just 106 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:18.600 kind of lean it over, cut it loose from the 107 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:21.759 ground because the roots are down in the ground. Regular 108 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.920 potatoes like red potatoes and white potatoes are those are 109 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:30.160 the stem pieces. It's actually a stem. Sweet potatoes or roots, 110 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.879 Irish potatoes, baking potatoes, new potatoes, all of those those 111 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:39.120 are stems, so they come above the little seed piece, 112 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:40.879 the chunk of potato that you plant in the ground. 113 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:42.639 So all your potatoes are in the bucket. They you 114 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.439 got a bucket full of compost and potatoes, you just 115 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.600 dump it out. There's no easier potato digging than that. 116 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.360 And they also it's also really nice. You just need 117 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.160 to have plenty of drainage holes in the bottom of 118 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:56.959 the bucket. But that's something different. Have you ever planted 119 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:01.439 a tomato upside down? You could do it same thing. 120 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.079 You got a bucket, you stick the tomato. You kind 121 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.399 of have to wrap the leaves up so you can 122 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.120 push them down through a hole in the bottom of 123 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.000 the bucket. But the hole shouldn't be so big that 124 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.439 everything just falls through. Sometimes I'll wrap a little newspaper 125 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.160 around the stem just to sort of plug that hole. 126 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:21.839 Fill the container full of a high quality and growing mix, 127 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.600 you know, veggie and herb mix would be a good example, 128 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:28.199 and just keep it watered and the tomato hangs down 129 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.079 and they'll try to kind of bend up, but then 130 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:32.639 they end up drooping down as they get tomatoes on them, 131 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:34.639 and you hang it up somewhere and it gives a 132 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.000 neighbor something to talk about. He's growing tomatoes out of 133 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:41.360 the bottom of a bucket upside down. Mildred, Well, they're 134 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.600 talking about you anyway, so don't worry about that. Just 135 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:48.160 have fun anyway, Try something new. I always trying to 136 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:52.199 encourage you to grow something you haven't grown, try something new, 137 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.360 do something in a way you haven't tried. And I 138 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.120 think it just is part of the fun of gardening. 139 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:02.319 It's certainly a conversation piece. All right, Well you get 140 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.399 the idea. Uh seven one three two one two five 141 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.759 eight seven four. If you'd like to give us a call, 142 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:09.079 We're going to go to a little break here and 143 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.160 I'll be right back with I got a lot of 144 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:13.720 things I want to talk about today, some really interesting 145 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.600 and cool tips to talk to you in just a bit. 146 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.439 Welcome back for garden Line. Hey, we are here to 147 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.160 answer your gardening questions and just to help make you 148 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.639 a better gardener. You know, they say, if you're cutting 149 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.879 trees every night and then you got to quick cutting trees, 150 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:31.360 just to stop and sharpen the saw. Well, gardeners are 151 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:34.080 the same way. If we don't stop every now and 152 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:37.559 then or in the process, you know, sharpen us our saw. 153 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.639 If you will make us better gardeners, it kind of 154 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.799 gets boring, and sometimes misconceptions we have tend to live on. 155 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:48.600 Have you ever noticed that in life in general, there's 156 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:51.519 things you thought were right, but they turned out later 157 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:54.960 you go, yeah, that wasn't right. Well, I think I 158 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:59.120 don't know. Is it probably Mark Twain or one of 159 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:04.639 those kind of pontificators said something like, it's not what 160 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:10.039 I don't know that concerns me, it's what I know 161 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.840 that ain't. So other words, the thing I think I 162 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:17.799 know that I'm wrong about whatever. Anyway, that is really 163 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.440 true when it comes to gardening as well. I've talked 164 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.080 to you in the past about quality home products, and 165 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.600 you know that they are the purveyors of the outstanding 166 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:33.360 stand by generator by Generac Generac automatic stand by generators 167 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.279 set outside your house. And I know right now the 168 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.720 storms from this past year are the last thing on 169 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.480 your minds. But let me just give you a tip 170 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:44.720 if you are interested in getting a generator set up 171 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.320 for next year. So when we do enter the storm seasons, 172 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:51.320 and it's not just hurricane season. You know, the first 173 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.600 storm we had this year wasn't even a hurricane season. 174 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:57.679 It wasn't related to a hurricane. If you're interested in that, 175 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:00.000 now would be a good time to call them, because 176 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.840 a low quieter on the on the front during this 177 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.840 time here, because people are busy with other things. Give 178 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.279 Quality Home a call. You can dial seven to one 179 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.480 to three Quality, or you can go to their website 180 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:15.799 Quality tx dot com and talk to them about the 181 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.159 process of what it takes to get a Quality Home 182 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:22.720 generator set up at your place now. If you happen 183 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:24.360 to be we're getting the end of the year here. 184 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.480 Maybe you're an electrician or a plumber and you just 185 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.879 aren't real happy where you're working right now. Maybe you 186 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:34.000 know you would like to get a better opportunity, something 187 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:39.559 with more maybe competitive pay, something with comprehensive medical, dental, 188 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:44.000 vision coverage, retirement plans, holiday paid time off, career advancement. 189 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:48.279 You want to work for a really established, reputable company. Well, 190 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:51.039 Quality Home is all that, and you ought to get 191 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.480 my call. You ought to go online to Quality TX 192 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.240 dot com, qualitytx dot com. The three you can make 193 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.720 an application to become heart of the Quality team. And 194 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.720 I'm tell you this. When I visited with the folks 195 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:06.399 from Quality, one thing I noticed is they just love 196 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:09.639 working there. They love their jobs. And boy, isn't that 197 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.559 important those of us who have been in jobs we loved, 198 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:17.240 in jobs we didn't love so much. Well, consider giving 199 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.600 them a call again. License electricians and plumbing pros because 200 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:23.360 all their stuff like that is in house. They don't, 201 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:26.320 you know, contract out to get electrician to come in 202 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.840 and deal with their products when they're installing. They have 203 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.879 their own and you can be one of those. So 204 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:35.720 a lot of things that I'd like to visit about. 205 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:37.559 One thing I want to start talking about today is 206 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.240 there is a fellow I know. I've always really respected 207 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:44.639 his horticultural work. His name is Lee Reich up in 208 00:11:44.799 --> 00:11:49.879 New York area, and he writes from a standpoint and 209 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:54.879 I really appreciate this of both research base information, am 210 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.879 making stuff up or hearing what someone else said, research 211 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:03.039 based information, and secondly, very much personal experience. He is 212 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.720 a full gardener, I mean thirty years of his career, 213 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:09.879 and he worked for Cornell for a long time, and 214 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.039 he had written some things and I was just looking. 215 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:17.519 It was kind of a gardening guru's guide, some tips 216 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.600 for gardeners, And as I read them, it was like, yes, yes, yes, yeah, 217 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.159 every one of them. He is hitting the nail, just 218 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.919 direct on. So I want to give you a few 219 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.080 of those to think about. One of his tips is 220 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:36.720 it basically has two words organic matter. Now have you 221 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:38.639 ever heard me talk about the brown stuff and the 222 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:43.759 green stuff. Yeah, it's important to some, it's important in gardening. 223 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.919 And you can just sum it up to words organic matter. 224 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.480 Whether it's coming from these fallen leaves that are hitting 225 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:53.840 the ground now, whether you make compost, buy composts, put 226 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:58.159 kitchen scraps out there to decompose, if it was once alive, 227 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:03.440 it's organic matter. And as it decomposes, it becomes the 228 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.879 equivalent of compost and eventually humus. And when you put 229 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.279 it in the soil, it encourages a healthy balance of 230 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:14.600 beneficial microbes and microbes health plants, fight pests and disease. 231 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:18.519 They also feeds. It releases its nutrients back into the soil. 232 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.840 Organic matter so important, so important. Do you know that 233 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.759 your lawn more puts out more nutrients than your fertilizer spreader? 234 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.000 Let that sink in just a minute. Your lawn mowre 235 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.639 puts out more nutrients and your fertilizer spreader. So that 236 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.000 means that if you were to take all the grass 237 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.759 clippings in a year of mowing and dry them down, 238 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.919 send them to the lab, have them do an analysis 239 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.120 on what's in them, there are more pounds of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, 240 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.480 and all the micronutrients because you have to have them 241 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.360 to grow grass. All of those are in those clippings 242 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:57.440 more than you've applied with your fertilizer. Now, if you 243 00:13:57.720 --> 00:13:59.759 bag your clippings to get rid of them, you just 244 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:02.519 have to fertilize even more. It doesn't mean if you 245 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:05.200 return clippings you don't have to fertilize. It just means 246 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:09.159 don't get rid of that valuable stuff that is happening 247 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.840 when trees drop leaves. It's happening with grass clippings and 248 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:17.960 all kinds of things organic matter. Second point, we're it's 249 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.039 going to take a while to go over some of these, 250 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.360 but over the course of this morning, I'd like to 251 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:26.600 do that. Don't panic over insects and diseases. That is 252 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.039 something that isn't said I should talk about that more, 253 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.919 there are some situations where if you don't deal with 254 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:37.200 them early, they become a big problem. You know, brown 255 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.120 patch in our yards. If you're going to treat for it, 256 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:43.919 you got to catch it either before it starts or 257 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:47.759 very very early in the process. But most things we 258 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:52.879 deal with. It's just a tolerable amount of damage. You know, 259 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:54.639 to have a few aphens on a plant, to have 260 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:56.480 a few spider mites on a planet, to have a 261 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:00.559 few leaf spots on a disease. Something you and up 262 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:02.600 some leaves here and there. Maybe it's a caterpillar or 263 00:15:02.600 --> 00:15:06.919 a grasshopper or a beetle. We can put up with that, Okay, 264 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.440 A spray is our last resort. Now, that doesn't mean 265 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.240 you wait until there's hardly anything left of the plant 266 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.320 to spray. It just means you don't have to control 267 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.159 every problem in the garden by constantly spraying and treating 268 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:23.159 for it. Organic or synthetic I'm talking about I don't 269 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.039 care whether you're an organic or synthetic gardener. In this point. 270 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.039 You don't have to spray for everything that happens. And 271 00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:32.600 it is really true, It is really important to remember that. 272 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:36.200 I remember years ago they did a study on green 273 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.879 beans in the garden, you know, bush beans, and they 274 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:43.399 took leaves, they cut leaves off the plant to see 275 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:47.080 how many leaves does the plant have to lose in 276 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:52.759 order to have a significant noticeable drop in production, and 277 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:56.519 it was forty percent of the leaves. So if you've 278 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:59.000 got a green bean and it's got a few holes 279 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:03.480 and almost all the leaves, that still is not warranting 280 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.480 a spray. You can spray and kill the bug, but 281 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:08.200 you're not going to see more green beans as a 282 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:12.000 result of it. So that's just the point that I'm 283 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:16.360 trying to make. Just think about it before you feel 284 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.720 like you have to deal with something now. Again, my 285 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:23.279 caveat on that is, yes, there are situations where you 286 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.039 get an explosion if you don't shut it down early, 287 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:30.919 but I'm telling you nature has a way of fixing things. 288 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:34.840 When I first started as a county extension agent, I 289 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:39.440 remember that our spray schedule for pecan orchards was every 290 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:43.039 week or two. You're spraying with this and spraying with this, 291 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.919 and spraying with this all through the season. And basically 292 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.879 you just sprayed the orchard all season, over and over 293 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.720 and over again on a pretty frequent basis, so that 294 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:55.200 fill in the blank didn't become a problem. It was 295 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:59.519 disease and insects, sprays and stuff like that. Then part 296 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:04.519 way into it, something called integrated pest management really took hold. 297 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:08.359 And that's a process where we don't just spray because 298 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.039 there might be a past, or there is a past, 299 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.240 we decide whether we need to spray or not. And 300 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.799 so pecan orchardice would turn over a pecan. You know, 301 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:20.039 pecans have compound leaves. It's not just one little leaflet, 302 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:23.359 it's a whole set of leaves on a stem of petial. 303 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.839 And they would turn over a leaf, count the number 304 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:29.839 of aphids on it and do that to one hundred 305 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:33.240 leaves in the orchard and come up with the exact 306 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.720 average number of aphids on it. And so maybe this 307 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:39.200 week you had an average of four aphids per leief 308 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:42.000 and next year seven afrits per leief, or next year, 309 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:44.799 next week and the next week, you know, it got 310 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.920 up to nine and then it went back down to five. 311 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.720 What happened there? Ladybugs moved in, lace wings moved in, 312 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.200 parasitizing wasps move in, and nature took care of it. 313 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:59.519 And there's this little dotted line that says, yeah, more 314 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:04.160 than number of aphids, then spray, And that concept applies 315 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.000 to our garden as well. No, we don't count aphids 316 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:08.799 on plants. We don't need to, but that idea, that 317 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:13.599 approach to it applies as well. And so point number 318 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:18.880 two I'm making here with Lee's doctor Reisch's tips is 319 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.720 don't panic over insects and diseases, learn about managing them. 320 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:26.680 All right, Well, it is getting near another little break here. 321 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:29.720 I'm going to come back with more of those tips 322 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.319 as we go through. And I've also got some interesting 323 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:35.880 stuff on how plants react to light that I think 324 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.680 you'll find very interesting, as well as a few other Oh, 325 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.559 I'm gonna go I'm gonna talk about an missletoe today. 326 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.559 We're gonna talk about mistletoe. It's a season for it, right, 327 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.640 all right, stick stick around. We'll be right back here, 328 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:51.279 and just a bit by the way, if you'd like 329 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:52.599 to go ahead and give me a call, see can 330 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.519 be first up when we come back. The number is 331 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:00.559 seven to one three two one two K T R H. 332 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.279 And none of you. 333 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:09.039 Remember John Denver? Yep, he had a garden song. You know, 334 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:12.160 I try to I've been on a search for songs 335 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:17.720 about gardening things, and I've come up with some interesting ones. 336 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.240 Let's just say we'll be adding a few of those 337 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.440 as bumper music as we go through here, especially next year. 338 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:26.400 But anyway, I just thought I put that in there, 339 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:29.599 so I've been I was talking about some tips from 340 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:32.599 a guy named Lee Reich, doctor Reich up and was 341 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:36.119 in Cornell. He's now retired. He still writes. He's got 342 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:38.880 some great books. By the way, if you want an 343 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:42.839 excellent book for a Christmas gift, h he has a book. 344 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.119 Oh guy, it's called Weedless Gardening. I believe he's the 345 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:50.640 title of it, weedless Gardening, and he basically talks about 346 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:53.480 how nature takes care of the soil by covering it 347 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:57.240 with maltz and things like that. And I have used 348 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:02.119 that system of weedless gardening myself and it it really works. 349 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:04.400 When I saw his book, it's like, oh, somebody else 350 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:07.519 figured that out too. Of course, Nature figured that a 351 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.240 long time before we did, which is another point that 352 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.279 I'm going through. Some of the points that I think 353 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:16.000 really valuable that he made, and that is have faith 354 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:18.359 in Mother Nature. She's been at it a long time 355 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:22.440 follower lead. So, for example, what does nature do with 356 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:25.839 bear soil? Nature throws leaves on it to cover it 357 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.599 up and prevent erosion and prevent wide string swings and temperature. 358 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:35.359 Nature essentially protects that bear soil with leaves. It also 359 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.279 protects it with plants. We call those weeds, by the way, 360 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:42.000 But when if you just strip away a section of 361 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:44.119 your lawn and get rid of all the lawn, what's 362 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:45.880 going to happen is all these weeds come up where 363 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:47.880 they come from, seeds that we're waiting there. But your 364 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:52.279 lawn was preventing it. And so nature doesn't like that, 365 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:54.599 and it covers it up to protect the soil, and 366 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:57.279 we can do the same thing. It really makes sense nature. Also, 367 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:02.599 you'll notice that plants in areas where they want to grow. 368 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.880 Now that think about that a minute. So if you 369 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:12.240 are looking for something to go in a wet spot, 370 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:15.839 we'll pick one from nature that grows in wet spots 371 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.359 or you know, whether it's a native plant here or 372 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.079 from another area. A button bush is a native shrub 373 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:25.440 and through it in parts of Texas and it it 374 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.240 just will grow right on the side of a stream. 375 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:30.759 I mean, it puts up with wet soil really really well. 376 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:35.160 Louisiana Iris puts up with wet soil really really well. Uh, 377 00:21:35.279 --> 00:21:37.839 and then there are plants that need dry soil and 378 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.599 prefer dry soil, and so whatever it is that just 379 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:44.839 learn from where plants grow, for the conditions, for how 380 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.440 nature goes about things, and be patient with it. So 381 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:52.640 I think it's a good point that he makes. Another one, well, 382 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:54.880 I'll tell you what. Let me let me let me 383 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.200 just make a statement about that that nature thing. Microlife 384 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:04.279 fertilizers have been designed to work with nature, and by 385 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:10.039 doing that, they're doing things like using organic ingredients, natural 386 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:15.599 organic matter, things from nature to form a fertilizer that 387 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:19.000 you can put out that will release those nutrients somewhat 388 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:23.759 slowly over time to help stimulate your plant. Because that's 389 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:26.400 what that's how nature does it. It puts organic matter 390 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:29.279 on the ground that releases nutrients over time as it 391 00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:34.079 decomposes a way over places. Now there's microlife ingredients that 392 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:38.880 microlife products that are filled with beneficial microbes as well, like, 393 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:43.839 for example, one the micro micro grow bioinoculate. It is 394 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:50.920 not a fertilizer, it is a bios biostimulating and bio 395 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:54.000 providing product. What do I mean by that, I mean 396 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:58.440 that you are inoculating soil with sixty three different types 397 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:02.240 of beneficial microbe strains that are known to be beneficial 398 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:06.519 to plants, and that is how micro grow bioinoculate works. 399 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:07.880 You can put it in any kind of soil. I 400 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:12.599 put it in some of my container mixes indoors, because 401 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:16.240 you know, this is kind of an artificial soil. That's 402 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.359 what growing media is. Potting soil is an artificial soil. 403 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:22.039 And I put it in that, I put it outside. 404 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:23.799 You can spread it in your lawn. I mean, there's 405 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:25.880 a lot of ways you can use it. But microlife 406 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:28.359 products are designed that way to work with nature, to 407 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:30.240 take what nature has taught us, and to put it 408 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.519 actually to practice for your law and for your garden, 409 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.200 for whatever you're trying to grow, including like I said, 410 00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:40.119 house plants. You can find out more at Microlifefertilizer dot 411 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:43.559 com Microlife Fertilizer dot com, and you find these products 412 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.519 all over the Greater Houston area at the kinds of 413 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:50.240 places we talk about feed stores and ace hardware stores 414 00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:55.680 and Southwest Fertilizer and garden centers across town. Microlife products. 415 00:23:56.519 --> 00:23:59.880 But anyway, another point that I would like to make 416 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:02.279 by the way, I should I get going on this talking, 417 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:04.240 and I forget to give you our phone number in 418 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:07.160 case you want to call someone's wanting to dial in 419 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:10.000 seven one three two one two k t r H 420 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:13.880 seven one three two one two k t rh Uh. 421 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:20.200 And this one I think is probably neglected more than 422 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:22.279 most of the points I'm going to be making here. 423 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:26.519 But and that's to keep written records and photos. Now 424 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:28.720 I know some of you are going, oh, I don't 425 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:32.440 want to go through that. That's nonsense. When you write 426 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:36.640 down what you did and what happened as a result, 427 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:39.559 you learn from it and you can refer back to it. 428 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:40.480 Uh. 429 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.200 And I don't mean just written records. I mean information 430 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:47.839 about what you're writing about. For example, here it is 431 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.839 you have this new bug and it's eating your I 432 00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:55.920 don't know whatever plant, and you send a picture to 433 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:58.960 me on garden line and I say, it's this bug, 434 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:01.359 and here's something things you can do about it, or 435 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:03.640 don't worry about it. It's not a big problem, or 436 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:06.119 whatever I say. And then you just make a note, 437 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:08.680 take a picture in your garden with your camera phone, 438 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:12.920 take a picture of the bug, and write down with 439 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:16.200 it include cut and paste from an email or I've 440 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:19.640 even used publications online and you can download and put 441 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:21.599 them with it, and you create like a it's like 442 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:25.480 a gardening journal, but it also becomes a gardening book 443 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:28.960 as you build it over time. But keep records when 444 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.160 did you plant? What were the results? Because you just 445 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:35.920 won't remember. And trust me, I don't remember. I don't. 446 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:39.240 I mean, I love The other day I was thinking, Okay, 447 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:42.200 what peppers did I plant? Two years ago? I had 448 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:44.440 a big pepper crop or a bunch of peppers? A 449 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:47.279 trial I did? Which ones did I plant? And how 450 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:49.920 did they perform? And my brain's going, I don't know. 451 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:52.799 I went back and looked at my seed orders to 452 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:56.599 find out, Oh, it was these. But keep records. You 453 00:25:56.759 --> 00:25:59.160 learn from your mistakes. There is no end to what 454 00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:02.200 you can learn about goard gardening unless you forget what 455 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:05.079 you did and what the results were. So help avoid that. 456 00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:09.319 Thomas Jefferson, a very good gardener, wrote, though an old man, 457 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:13.839 I am a young gardener. He kept excellent, excellent records. 458 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:16.720 All right, time for a break? The number seven one 459 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.920 three two one two kt RH. Would you like to 460 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:21.240 give me a call? We'll be right back. All right, 461 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.839 we are just monkeying around here on garden line. Thanks 462 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:29.279 for listening. Appreciate having you with us today. If you'd 463 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:30.920 like to give me a call seven one three two 464 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:34.200 one two K t r H. I'm going to jump 465 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:38.400 back into these tips by a fellow named Lee Reisch 466 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:43.279 that I just found so helpful. Another tip he had 467 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:47.960 is don't get boxed in by preconceptions. For example, the 468 00:26:48.039 --> 00:26:50.960 flowers have to be in a flower garden, no flowers 469 00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:52.960 can be in the vegetable garden. You know, flowers, A 470 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:56.000 lot of types of flowers attract beneficial insects, and we 471 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:00.680 want those to be attracted to our vegetable gardens. There 472 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.559 are number one it makes your vegetable garden pretty, or two. 473 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.400 I always include there's certain kinds of flowers I know 474 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.200 are very attractive to beneficials, certain beneficials, and so I 475 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:14.640 always include those when I'm planting around the garden. I 476 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:18.160 had a garden one time where I had I like buckets, 477 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:20.720 the galvanized buckets, you know, punch some holes in the bottom, 478 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:22.720 hang them on a fence post, and you can grow 479 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:24.680 flowers in those as long as you got some sort 480 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:27.000 of drip irrigation or like to get out in water 481 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:32.039 a lot, and I had beneficial flower plants, beneficial attracting 482 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:34.480 flower plants all around the garden, hanging on an over 483 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:37.799 post of the fence around the garden. It's kind of unusual, 484 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.839 looked kind of cool, and it did some good. You 485 00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:42.680 don't have to have an orchard to grow fruit. There's 486 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:47.079 another one I lived over in conro text As many 487 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:49.799 years ago. I had a peach tree that was part 488 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:52.279 of our landscape. It was just sitting there like any 489 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.000 other shrub or tree that you would put in the landscape. 490 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:58.240 It wasn't in an orchard. But in the spring it bloomed. 491 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:01.160 Then it was beautiful. It just made a nice that's 492 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.559 called edible landscaping. There's a lot of ways to do 493 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.359 that same. It's true with herbs. You don't have to 494 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:10.000 have an herb garden to grow herbs. In my vegetable gardens, 495 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.839 I will often put something like a regano as a groundcover. 496 00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:17.559 I often will also put some of the flowering herbs 497 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:20.400 for the reasons I mentioned before, at the end of 498 00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:23.599 the garden bed. One year I made a kind of 499 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:27.400 apasta bed. It had tomatoes in it. At the ends 500 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.759 of the rose. One end of the rose was a regano, 501 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:34.079 the other end was basil. Well, I just had all 502 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:36.519 the you know, all the ingredients you would want for possibly. 503 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:38.680 It was just kind of fun. But plus, gardening is 504 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:42.440 supposed to be fun, right. The weating isn't fun is 505 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:47.680 another preconception. Oh, I hate weeding. Actually wheating is not bad. 506 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.119 You know, we by getting out there and doing a 507 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:54.160 little bit of early hoeing. If you've got bear soil 508 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:56.519 and you get some weeds in there, just slice them 509 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.240 up real good. Even hand weating, if it's not too much, 510 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.079 is kind of enjoyable because you get to see the benefits. 511 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:05.440 But when you get through eating, put mulch on the soil. 512 00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.079 Remember what nature does put mulch on top of the soil. 513 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:13.880 Over thirty years ago, I think doctor Reich has not 514 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:19.799 been tilling his soil. And for me, it's been probably 515 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:25.000 fifteen years that I quit regularly tilling the soil. And 516 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:28.559 you don't need to think about nature. Who tills the forest, 517 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:34.119 who tills the meadow. It doesn't get tilled. Roots grow, 518 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:39.200 the plants die, the roots decompose. You have channels now 519 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:42.039 into the soil where those roots were. Now there's rotting 520 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:46.039 organic matter channels, and earthworms will follow those channels because 521 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:49.279 they like to eat the organic matter take it in, 522 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:52.160 so you don't have to rototill the soil. There are 523 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:56.319 a few times where I will rot hotel of certain situations, 524 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:00.279 like if I were trying to incorporate some foster first 525 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:02.680 down deeper at phosphorus doesn't move down in the soil 526 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:05.440 very well, then that that might be a time where 527 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:07.279 I do it. Or if I'm getting started for the 528 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:10.119 first time and I'm trying to improve a crumy soil, 529 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:13.000 I would wrote a till things in like expanded shale 530 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:15.400 and a clay or compost and a clay or a saying, 531 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.359 but you don't have to you don't have to do that. 532 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:21.599 Try new ways of doing things. We have a whole 533 00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:25.920 other talk on no till gardening. Sometimes here's a big one. 534 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.880 Seek out reputable sources when you have a question. Oh boy, 535 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.440 oh boy. I get so frustrated when and this is 536 00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:39.799 worse on social media, but not only on social media, 537 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:43.000 when I read stuff by people who do not know 538 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:48.640 what they're talking about, but they're experts, because why because 539 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.599 they say they're experts, and it just happens a lot. 540 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:55.799 And I'm not going to pick on any specific names here, 541 00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:59.519 but often celebrity type people will do that, you know, 542 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:02.160 because famous than you know, Like if Taylor Swift ever 543 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:05.119 went in and did a gardening show, everybody watch it. 544 00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:07.599 But does that mean she knows what she's talking about? 545 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:09.079 I have no idea if she knows what she's talking 546 00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:11.119 about about gardening and she doesn't. I'm just using that 547 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:14.319 as an example. But I read a lot of stuff 548 00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:16.920 and it just isn't necessary. It's kind of like some 549 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:19.799 of these home improvement shows where you know you got someone. 550 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:21.920 If you've got if you're a young, strappy guy with 551 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.839 an Australian accent, you can be an expert on a 552 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:28.599 home gardening show. I mean a home improvement show. From 553 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:32.160 what I see, young ladies with a tool built same thing. 554 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:35.960 But anyway, find a reputable source. Here's how you do that. 555 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:39.920 Number one, I would consider myself a reputable source because 556 00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:45.640 I've spent forty years now learning and just studying, research 557 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.720 and talking to gardeners and teaching and things like that. 558 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:54.079 We have many good nurseries, garden centers, independent garden centers 559 00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:57.480 where we have people that are reputable resources that you 560 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.519 can have when you're doing an online search. Now, this 561 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:03.720 is worth this is worth listening to the whole show 562 00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:06.480 today just to get this one point. If you're going 563 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:09.559 to do an online search, at the end of what 564 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:13.000 you're searching for, type in site s I T E 565 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:20.640 s I T E colon dot edu. What that tells 566 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:24.400 Google or whoever you're using. And when you say cite colon, 567 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:26.880 it says I want you to Let's say you're searching 568 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:33.880 for nematode control, nematode control space site colon dot eedu. 569 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.000 What it says is Google, I want you to go 570 00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:40.799 find information on nematode control, but I only want you 571 00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:46.920 to return to me sites that end in dot edu 572 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:50.519 in other words, a university or research and extension service, 573 00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:55.240 those kinds of things. Try it sometime, Try it sometimes, 574 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:59.839 Try like lawn disease or Saint Augustine disease, for example, 575 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.640 and then do it without site colon dot edu and 576 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:05.480 do it with site colon dot ed You Now, does 577 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:07.960 that mean that only universities know anything? 578 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:08.400 No? 579 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:11.720 Does that mean they're one hundred percent right? Absolutely not. 580 00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:15.440 In fact, oftentimes I see things that are aloft, but 581 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:18.480 they are ninety nine percent I mean it is very, 582 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:22.000 very hopeful, and it allows you to go through a 583 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.240 lot of nonsense and cut right to the chase. I mean, 584 00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:29.160 you can look wherever you want, but reputable sources very 585 00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:32.319 very important. Hey, Ace Hardware stores are set up for 586 00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:35.000 holiday lighting. It is time to get that done. Go 587 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:38.079 to Ace Hardware for your indoor lights, your outdoor lights, 588 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:41.279 for your indoor and outdoor decorations. They've got gifts from 589 00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:45.200 their gifts that beautiful gift shops, toys, tools, everything you 590 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.680 need for the holidays and forevery day. You know, we 591 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:50.359 got Child's building supply out there in Orange for those 592 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.079 of you listening out in that area. Hamilton Hardware off 593 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:56.920 Highway six near Bear Creek, All Spas Ace in the Woodlands, 594 00:33:56.960 --> 00:34:00.200 just three of many, many A stores in the Greater 595 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:06.680 Houston area. We will be right back after a break 596 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:08.559 at the top of the hour. I got a lot 597 00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:10.679 more stuff to talk about, and give me a call 598 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:16.639 with your question. You know, I h one thing that 599 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:22.920 I enjoy most about about gardening and things is trying 600 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:26.039 something I haven't tried before. That is just fun. You know, 601 00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:29.000 there's a traditional way of doing everything, but then there's 602 00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:32.079 I talked about upside down tomatoes, you can do that. 603 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:34.920 Upside Down peppers, by the way, didn't work as well. 604 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:38.440 That's a different story. But upside down tomatoes work pretty 605 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:40.840 good when you're our greet tomatoes and an upside down 606 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:43.199 bucket and in the top I plant at basil. So 607 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:47.000 there you go. There's your pasta garden or whatever post 608 00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:48.480 testa garden. 609 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:50.519 All right, we'll you're. 610 00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:57.480 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scamp Rictor. 611 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:21.559 Just watch him as so many good things to see, 612 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:23.400 not a side. 613 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:31.199 All right, here we go again, garden line. Welcome back. 614 00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:34.000 Good to have you with us. We got we got 615 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:35.800 a lot of things we are talking about. 616 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:36.400 Uh. 617 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.039 I've been going through kind of a list of tips 618 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:44.559 or ideas or concepts. I guess that I ran across 619 00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:46.760 from a fellow who I have read and respected for 620 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:50.519 a long time, doctor Lee Rich. He's from Cornell. Wasn't 621 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:53.599 from Cornell. He's retired now. Uh, he's still a garden writer, 622 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:57.719 got some great books out and uh, just knowledgeable, does 623 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:02.199 a lot of research based and from that works really 624 00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:07.480 really well. Another idea or a tip that he puts 625 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.320 out that I totally agree with this is to grow 626 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:13.800 a variety of plants, especially when it comes to edibles, 627 00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:16.760 because you never know, you know that it may be 628 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:20.400 that one year, a particular disease wipes out your crop 629 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:24.360 of fill in the blank, but you still have all 630 00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:26.960 these other crops that are coming through just fine. It's 631 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.519 true of ornamentals as well. But the more you mix 632 00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:32.840 things up, the more you heage your bet. And I 633 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.480 do that with cultivars or varieties within a type of vegetable. 634 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:41.760 For example, I don't just grow one type of tomato typically. Well, 635 00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:45.039 I'm always experimenting, so I may have six or seven 636 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.480 different ones in a year, but at least I would 637 00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:50.320 recommend for you to grow at least two or three 638 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:54.079 even better, because that way you sort of headge your bet, 639 00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:56.519 and I think that's a good idea. Another one is 640 00:36:56.760 --> 00:37:01.440 don't plant too much. Oh boy, here we go. Now. 641 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:05.119 You know how they say do as I say, not 642 00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:08.880 as I do. This is a perfect example of that. 643 00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:12.440 Don't plant too much. Don't let you know. You get 644 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:14.519 a seed catalog, and boy have they been coming in 645 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:17.519 the door. I've got a whole stack of them here already. 646 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:23.920 You look through those catalogs, Oh my gosh, you see 647 00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:26.280 a picture of tomato is like, I have to have 648 00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:29.519 that one. It is perfect, yea, and the catalog is perfect, 649 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.480 but it is a tough suggestion to follow. I fall 650 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:35.119 prey to planting too much stuff all the time. 651 00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:35.719 You know. 652 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:40.800 Of course I do mine for experiments and for taking 653 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:44.320 photos from my articles and stuff and videos too, so 654 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:46.920 I can make an excuse to have this certain kind 655 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:49.960 of garden thing, but seriously, don't do it at home. 656 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:55.519 Plant enough but not too much. Here's a prime example, 657 00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:58.199 and Newby gardeners do this all the time, and unfortunately 658 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:01.119 not just Newby gardeners. You get a packet of lettuce, 659 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:03.119 and I don't know how many seeds are in a packet, 660 00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:05.599 but you plan about half of them, and so you 661 00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:09.519 have this like eight foot or five foot long bed 662 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:13.039 of lettuce growing. Now, how much lettuce do you eat 663 00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:16.320 in a week? I mean, do you like if you're 664 00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:18.840 growing ahead lettuce, which I don't recommend you do here. 665 00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:20.599 I don't think that's the best kind of grow. But now, 666 00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:22.239 if you're growing ahead of lettuce, how long does the 667 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:26.880 head of lettuce last? That's one plant and you just 668 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:31.039 planted dozens of them. What's going to happen to that? 669 00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:34.639 You see what I'm saying, think about plant a little bit. 670 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:39.039 Just like lettuce. For example, I may plant five or 671 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:43.000 six to ten plants at the most, and then two 672 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.119 weeks later plant five or six to ten. That way, 673 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:47.800 if the bugs get one or one dies or doesn't 674 00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:50.599 come up or whatever, I'm still good. But you can 675 00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.360 get a lot of good eating out of a small 676 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:57.880 garden space if you don't plant too much of any 677 00:38:57.920 --> 00:38:59.960 one thing. You mix it up a little bit. And finally, 678 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:04.679 I'm just going to say that, and this is not 679 00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:08.320 coming out of what he wrote, but it's a get 680 00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:11.800 out in your gardens on a frequent basis. There's an 681 00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:16.280 old adage that would they say it, the best fertilizer 682 00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:18.960 is the footprints of the gardener. So you can think 683 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.679 about what that means. It means you get out in 684 00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:22.119 your garden and your plants do better. 685 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:22.559 Well. 686 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.079 I would say the best pest control and disease control 687 00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:29.519 is also the footprints of the gardener. Catching a problem 688 00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:33.760 early on, making some wise decisions as to whether something 689 00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:37.719 needs to be done or not, not waiting until you 690 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.840 know it's too late. I get a lot of questions 691 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:42.639 and pictures by email, and I've just seen a lot 692 00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:46.280 of gardeners do this, but they don't notice the problem 693 00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:48.559 until there's hardly a leaf left on the plant, and 694 00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.880 the ones left have holes in them, and then it's like, 695 00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:53.480 what do I do? Well, I can tell you what 696 00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:56.400 would have killed the bug if you had needed to 697 00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:59.840 spray it, But at that stage there's no need to 698 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:03.480 spray because it's done. It's toast to pull it up 699 00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:06.000 and replant. So get out there in the garden. See 700 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:11.719 what's going on, learn from it. Make notes, keep records 701 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:16.320 that's important. Oh did I skip over that one? Keep written? 702 00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:18.599 Oh no, I didn't keep written records and photos. I 703 00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:20.519 talked about that. But let me go back to that 704 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.159 one just for one second. Here. I wean't talk all 705 00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.079 the way through this segment. When it comes to records. 706 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:29.440 There's a lot of ways to doing it. You can 707 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:34.239 use apps. There was an app called, oh gosh, I 708 00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:36.039 can't even remember the name that I used to use, 709 00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:38.559 but then it something changed about it and I didn't 710 00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:41.079 like it anymore. Now I use one Note. One Note 711 00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:44.159 is a Microsoft product. You can use that. There are 712 00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:48.519 a lot of different apps. There's a number of different 713 00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:51.679 apps that are excellent for they'll allow you to have 714 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.199 like files, you know where. Let me make you this 715 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:57.719 my vegetable file. This is my flower file, this is 716 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.880 my lawn file. And then within there you can have 717 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:03.840 folders in that, and then you can you can add stuff. 718 00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:06.440 You can add pictures, you can add articles and stuff. 719 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:11.159 I just printed up an article a little bit ago 720 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.320 on something that popped up that was of interest to me, 721 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:17.199 and that's going to go in and my digital file. 722 00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:19.559 You don't have to. If you want paper to wrestle through, 723 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.039 you can do that, but I like to just file 724 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.480 it digitally in there, and your notebook becomes your learning page. 725 00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.679 That's very, very helpful. You always refer back to it. 726 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.239 All right, we're gonna we're gonna leave Lee Reich there 727 00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.280 for a little bit and some of those tips. By 728 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.679 the way, his book, he has more than one book 729 00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:44.239 out there, but his book Weedless Gardening is really a 730 00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:47.519 good one. It is a top down gardening method like 731 00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:51.360 Nature does. Nature gardens from the top down. You can too. 732 00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:53.719 Let's go ahead and go out to the phones. We're 733 00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:57.079 going to head to Cleveland now and talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, 734 00:41:57.159 --> 00:41:58.239 welcome to garden Line. 735 00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:04.719 Good more skip this cool morning's gotten me thinking about 736 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:10.119 freeze protection. I've got a Texas Mountain Laurel that's been 737 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.440 in the ground for maybe four or five years. I 738 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.320 got it right before Randy passed away, so. 739 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:17.199 It's been about that long, I believe. 740 00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:20.599 So it's fairly good side like five foot How well 741 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.960 does that plant resist freeze freezing? 742 00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:30.360 Do I need to Yeah? It does well. Yeah, no, 743 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:33.639 you really don't. It does well in areas much colder 744 00:42:33.679 --> 00:42:36.519 than Houston. In fact, he's a native up in the 745 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:38.840 hill country of Texas and stuff, where they can have 746 00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:42.880 harder freezes than we do here. I've never seen freeze 747 00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:46.639 damage on a mountain Laurel. I suspect it could happen, 748 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:51.280 especially if a freeze came suddenly and was a very 749 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.079 hard freeze. You know, we're going from days in the 750 00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:58.719 seventies and eighties to suddenly getting down in the low twenties, 751 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:02.360 you know, without warning. I'm sure you could freeze damage it, 752 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:04.960 but not something we normally worry about. 753 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:10.519 All right, great, Yeah, it's it's it's pretty getting pretty 754 00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:12.280 good size, and it's going to get a bit of 755 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.719 bit harder and harder to protectisolog just curious? I have 756 00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:18.679 gotten the seed pods, and I was able to after 757 00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:20.960 talking to you previously. I have gotten the seed pods 758 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:22.840 and I've got about four or five. 759 00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:27.840 I think there's four now about five six inch long. 760 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:31.639 You know your scarfire them or however that you say that, yeah, 761 00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:34.480 so's it's pretty neat. You know, making like you say, 762 00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:38.239 making those things good is an achievement like you're talking about. 763 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:41.360 So all right, there was something else. 764 00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:43.599 That I was gonna mention, but just oh yeah, last 765 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:48.159 week talking you were you hey Ron, Yeah, yes. 766 00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:50.639 Sir Ron, I need to put you on hosts. I'm 767 00:43:50.639 --> 00:43:52.400 gonna have to go to a break. Hold that thought 768 00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:54.599 and we'll come back with your question when I get 769 00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:57.760 right back from break. Thanks a lot, We'll be right back. Folks, 770 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:02.239 Welcome back to guard Line. Do I ad you with us? 771 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:08.079 I was just taking a look at some of the 772 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:15.039 lighting work outdoor lighting, Christmas lighting, holiday lighting that Peerscapes does. 773 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:17.199 You know Peerscapes, I talk about them all the time 774 00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:21.440 is a full service landscape company. I mean they kind 775 00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:24.840 of do it all whatever you need, but they do 776 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:27.559 holiday lighting and if you would love to see a 777 00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:32.480 professional job, go check out their website. It is Piercescapes 778 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:35.519 dot com. Pierscapes dot Com. Follow them on social media. 779 00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:38.480 A lot of good ideas there too. You know, one 780 00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:40.920 thing about outdoor lighting, this isn't just holiday lighting, but 781 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.800 outdoor lighting in general, is it is a security issue. 782 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:46.960 You know, you come into your house through a door, 783 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:49.360 it's a dark area, there's a bunch of bushes planted 784 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.519 up against a house where somebody can hide in there, 785 00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:55.199 and it just a well lit landscape is kind of 786 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:58.440 a deterrent to somebody wanting to break in walk in. 787 00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:01.800 And they can create at outdoor lighting to enhance safety. 788 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:04.760 Of course, also people walking around tripping over things and stuff. 789 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.199 Pierce Caapes knows how to do all that, and they 790 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:11.119 also are excellent at regular maintenance. You know, if you 791 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:14.119 need somebody to come in, maybe just quarterly, you want 792 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:16.360 somebody to come into your beds, trim them, weed them, 793 00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:20.199 fertilize them, check the irrigation, make sure that the mulch 794 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:23.519 is you know, an appropriate thickness, apply it is needed. 795 00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:26.800 And then of course make color changes so your bets 796 00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:29.400 always look good all four seasons of the year. Well 797 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:31.480 Piercecapes can do that. You can give a call to 798 00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:34.960 eight one, three, seven, oh fifty sixty two eight one 799 00:45:35.039 --> 00:45:38.639 three seven oh five zero six zero, or, as I 800 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:41.599 always say, just go to the website. You'll see it 801 00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:46.119 all there Piercescapes dot com. We're going to go back 802 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:48.320 now to Ron in Cleveland. Ron, I think you had 803 00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:52.119 a follow up question you were wanting to talk about. Yes, sir, 804 00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:53.239 thank you for coming back. 805 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:56.039 It wasn't really a question as much as it was 806 00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:59.000 a statement, but it was about a caller. I believe 807 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:00.840 it was last Sunday you had and he was asking 808 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:06.440 about aromatic plans and you had mentioned Texas Mountain Laurel 809 00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:11.760 and sweet almond verbena. And I've got sweet Alma verbina 810 00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:15.400 in the backyard in the front yard with my Texas 811 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:19.480 Mounta Laurel front and as you're mowing around the aromatics 812 00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:21.719 of that sweet almond verbena. So I just wanted to 813 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:24.239 second your thoughts in case that gentleman was listening. 814 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:30.039 Yeah, I think sweet Alma verbina fragrance should be a 815 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:36.280 control substance to be regulated because you can just about 816 00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:41.920 go into a heavenly coma smelling that that plan Mount 817 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:46.480 Laurels the same way. Yes, thank you very much, good well, 818 00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:49.639 thanks well, thanks for sticking around after break I appreciate that, 819 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:53.360 Thank you. All right, Yeah, that is true fragrance. You know, 820 00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:56.880 one thing about gardening that I want you to remember 821 00:46:56.960 --> 00:46:59.599 I talk about it from time to time is gardening 822 00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:02.280 isn't just a visual you know. We when you think 823 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:06.119 about I'm gonna landscape my house, you picture the visual 824 00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:09.239 of it, right. It's pretty, it's balanced, it's got all 825 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:13.000 these you know, different colors and and uh and and 826 00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:16.760 the textures, different textures and things. Gardening is also fragrance. 827 00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:21.880 To walk outside and have a citrus tree blooming, and 828 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:27.519 that wonderful citrus bloom, fragrance wafts up into your old 829 00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:30.920 factory system. Oh my gosh, that's good. Alma being another 830 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:33.000 of course example of that, and there are many other 831 00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:38.239 good examples of that as well. Another thing is, uh, 832 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:44.159 the benefits into our ears when we when we enjoy 833 00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:46.920 the sounds of the garden, maybe the sounds of birds 834 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:49.679 that are out in the garden singing. That's one of 835 00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:53.840 my favorite things right there. But even you know, here's 836 00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:59.320 an example. One time I sat beneath a clump of bamboo, 837 00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:01.679 a talk clump of bamboo at the old Harris County 838 00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:06.400 Extension Office used to be on at off Highway six 839 00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:12.119 and it in there in the Attics reservoir, and I 840 00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:14.480 was sitting on the bamboo and the wind was blowing, 841 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.440 and it sounded like there was a light rain falling 842 00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:21.840 as those those stiff, kind of papery bamboo leaves were 843 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.519 rubbing against each other as the wind blew. It was 844 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.519 a unique sent Yet to hear that, to see what 845 00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:30.320 I'm talking about, or hear what I'm talking about, it's 846 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:34.360 just really cool. And gardening has sounds, you know. Gardening 847 00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:37.960 also has movement. Gardening has moved and maybe the swaying 848 00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:41.119 of plants, the way grass sways in the breeze. It 849 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:44.800 there's a lot of different the fluttering of butterfly going 850 00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:47.320 by or things. There's a lot of aspects of gardening 851 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:51.199 that add to that complete sense, not just visual, but 852 00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:54.119 the sense of smell, the sense of hearing, certainly, the 853 00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:57.000 sense of touch. Back to the smell. By the way, 854 00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:03.760 there are plants with very aromatic foldage tech Copper canyon 855 00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:07.960 daisy as an example of that kind of plant. Rosemary 856 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.519 is one of my daughters. When she was little, we 857 00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:13.559 had one of these roseberry Christmas trees in the house. 858 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:16.079 You know, it's a big container shape like a Christmas tree. 859 00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:19.800 Is a rosemary a cushing plant. Those out afterwards, and 860 00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:22.800 she would go up and hug that thing. She would 861 00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:27.199 hug it. And she went through the house with rosemary 862 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:30.239 coming off of her like I mean, I thought Mussolini 863 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:32.559 had invaded or something and get out the pasta and 864 00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:36.239 the Italian food. At his time. It was the whole 865 00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:38.679 house smell like rosemary because she carried it with her 866 00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:42.440 as she went. But the scent of such a nice 867 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:47.039 aspect of gardening. I mentioned earlier about you know, nature 868 00:49:47.159 --> 00:49:50.440 and learning from nature, and that nature doesn't like bear soil. 869 00:49:51.559 --> 00:49:54.400 You can fix that real eazy in your landscape by 870 00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:58.480 using well landscaper. Spride has a couple of mulches I'd 871 00:49:58.480 --> 00:49:59.840 like to talk about. First of all, is a cedar 872 00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:03.199 mo really attractive? The holidays got that nice reddish smell, 873 00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:06.320 the fresh the fresh look of cedar malts, the fresh 874 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:09.519 fresh aroma of cedar malts, you know as you're moulting 875 00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:12.280 your beds walking through, it's beautiful. They also have their 876 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:16.199 black velvet that's a standard hardwood mult It's kind of 877 00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:19.360 an immature compost what it amounts to, but it's been 878 00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:21.559 it's been dark and it's full of life. It's not 879 00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:26.679 it is not dyed. It is naturally dark, and it's 880 00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:30.000 screened to be bulky enough to protect the surface of 881 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.599 the soil as most mulches do. Black velvet is widely available, 882 00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.559 you know, like other landscapers privately, they got two dozen 883 00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:40.360 or plus different kinds of products. Here in the hoast scenario. 884 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:43.719 You can go to garden centers, feed stores, ace hardware stores. 885 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:46.000 You know, Southwest fertilized a lot of places. You can 886 00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:50.280 get south Landscapers Pride Quality Multus and then don't forget 887 00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:52.800 their top soil. To anybody who is trying to level 888 00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:56.320 out some holes in your yard, or maybe you are 889 00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:58.800 redoing your yard, you can just get their top so 890 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:02.239 it's a sandy loam compost mix to help you repair 891 00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:06.400 patchy areas, just smooth out even areas. It's also good 892 00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:09.199 for bedprep, you know, if you're gonna prepare a bed 893 00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:11.039 and you want to get a little more kind of 894 00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:13.679 a soil based material in there in addition to the 895 00:51:13.760 --> 00:51:17.199 organic matter. A sandy loam compost top dressing topswell from 896 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.840 Landscaper's Pride. You can go to Landscaperspride Dot com. They've 897 00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:26.239 got all the information on their products there, including where 898 00:51:26.280 --> 00:51:28.880 you can find them, including where you can find them. 899 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:33.000 All Right, what was I What was I talking about here? 900 00:51:33.039 --> 00:51:33.199 Oh? 901 00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:38.440 I wanted to talk a little bit about light plant lighting. Now, 902 00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:42.559 any kid in school has learned that if you stick 903 00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:47.800 a prism in front of light, it refracts the different 904 00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:50.639 colors that are in light. What we see is white 905 00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:57.199 is actually everything from a violet color through a blue, 906 00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.760 through a green, through a yellow, through a red. That 907 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:05.320 whole range of colors is there in white light. But 908 00:52:05.440 --> 00:52:08.039 each of those colors does different things in plants. You know, 909 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:11.039 we think light is light, white light is white light. No, 910 00:52:11.119 --> 00:52:16.280 it's not. Each of the colors has different aspects that 911 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:22.280 the plants utilize. And for example, if I can oversimplify it, 912 00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:25.320 blue and red are the two big ones. Those are 913 00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:28.360 the ones that do most of the stuff we want 914 00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:35.480 with plants. Blue is a something that really causes the 915 00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:39.320 leaves to grow thicker. It causes the stems to a 916 00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:44.159 long or to not elongate. It's a sign that there's 917 00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:48.360 a good, strong light there. And it also plays a 918 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:52.760 part in photoperiodic flowering, which means when the days get longer, 919 00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:56.000 when the days get shorter. The blue light is one 920 00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:58.440 of the regulators of that process. 921 00:52:58.480 --> 00:52:58.719 You know. 922 00:52:59.079 --> 00:53:03.119 We know that holiday cactus, you know, blooms in the fall, 923 00:53:03.639 --> 00:53:06.119 for example, or Point sett Is, and that is a 924 00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:09.800 day length effect from blue light. So those are some 925 00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:13.400 things blue light. Just think a blue light for vegetative 926 00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:17.800 development and growth, primarily vegetative development and growth. And then 927 00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:23.159 red light on the other hand, red is another thing 928 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:28.800 that makes the plant stockier, and it also helps the 929 00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:33.239 plant go into blooming and fruiting. It's a big part 930 00:53:33.239 --> 00:53:35.440 of blooming and fruiting, and it's also a big part 931 00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:38.800 of some seed germination. Certain seeds you don't want to bury, 932 00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:41.239 you put on the surface of the soil or barely 933 00:53:41.320 --> 00:53:44.280 cover them because they need that red light. It's part 934 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:47.400 of the process of their germination. So blue and red. 935 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:51.079 So that's why sometimes you see lights that look purple, 936 00:53:51.159 --> 00:53:54.719 and it's because they're primarily blue and red LEDs in 937 00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:57.840 there for that. Now, so if you're going to grow plant, 938 00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.960 let's say you're going to grow tomatoes. For plant, blue 939 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:04.960 is the most important one for producing good vegetative growth. 940 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:07.679 You don't just have blue lights, but that's an important one. 941 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:10.159 If you want those tomatoes as they get older to 942 00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:13.960 then start blooming and fruiting. Red is the most important 943 00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:17.239 aspect of that. And then the question is what about 944 00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:20.760 green light? Green Light is a sign that you're growing 945 00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:26.199 in the shade, you're competing with other other plants, and 946 00:54:26.559 --> 00:54:30.119 as a result, you're going to find that though they 947 00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:33.480 stretch a little bit, plants in the shade do trying 948 00:54:33.519 --> 00:54:37.880 to get to light, and the photosynthesis down deeper in 949 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:41.239 the leaf occurs a little bit more because the light 950 00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:43.199 is limited in that. I can talk about those a 951 00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:46.079 little bit when we come back. We're about to have 952 00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:48.719 to take a little quick break here and I'll talk 953 00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:51.440 a little bit about some of the led grow lights. 954 00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:55.679 And why would I just said maybe important phone number 955 00:54:55.880 --> 00:54:58.280 if you'd like calder and break seven one three two 956 00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:03.559 one two fifty eight seven. All right, little culture club, Hey, 957 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:05.840 welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us. 958 00:55:06.719 --> 00:55:12.480 Try to pay some upbeat music every around. Then. I 959 00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:16.519 talked about a Nelson fertilizer for a long time now 960 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:20.039 because they have so many great products. But you know, 961 00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:23.360 as we enter into the cool season, we think about 962 00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:27.559 house plants more because house plants, you know, we're I 963 00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:30.199 don't want to make it like we're hole up indoors 964 00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:32.760 because it's a freezing blizzard outside. But we just spend 965 00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:35.400 a little more time indoors sometimes in the cool season, 966 00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.440 and your houseplants really twelve months out of the year 967 00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:42.280 need to have a quality food that is providing them 968 00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:44.920 the nutrients they need to do well. That is important. 969 00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:48.440 You don't overfertilize any plant, but you do want to 970 00:55:48.440 --> 00:55:51.599 fertilize all the plants that we have into some degree 971 00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:55.239 in another. And a plant in a potting soil in 972 00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:58.400 a container has a confined root system. So let's say 973 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.440 you've got a little i don't know if the leaf 974 00:56:00.519 --> 00:56:04.480 fig or you know, Chinese evergreen or something, that little 975 00:56:04.519 --> 00:56:06.840 plant in the container. If it was growing in its 976 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:09.239 native habitat in the ground, it would have roots way 977 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:11.639 out in all directions. But you've got it wound up 978 00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:15.840 in a little tight container, and that container then has 979 00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:18.480 it's the only place roots can get nutrients and water. 980 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:20.960 And so you've got to keep it adequately moist, but 981 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:24.239 not too wet, because both drought and too much water 982 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:27.360 are a problem. But it's think about the nutrients in 983 00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:32.320 that container. Nutri star for indoor plants is it has 984 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:37.440 both slow and fast release nutrient sources to provide that 985 00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:41.199 plant the vitality, the healthy development, the leaf growth. Primarily 986 00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:44.400 with houseplants, we're looking at leaf growth, foliage, and you 987 00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:46.480 can ply it once or twice during the winter time 988 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:49.840 because it's a slower time for plants to grow. But 989 00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:53.159 as things, you know, as we get into longer day lengths. 990 00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:55.320 As you know, even though your house is kind of 991 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:57.840 the same temperature most of the year, the day length 992 00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.159 changes and the light quality and chain, and that's when 993 00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:05.239 we kick into fertilizing our indoor plants even more. Nutri 994 00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:08.599 Star for indoor plants by Nelson's an excellent product. Just 995 00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:10.079 buy it, have it on hand because you're going to 996 00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:13.920 use it all year. We are. Let's see, I'm gonna 997 00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:17.960 go to Patty and Spring. Hey, Patty, welcome to garden Line. 998 00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:19.400 Thank you. 999 00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:22.000 I was wondering, is it too late for me to 1000 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:28.719 fertilize my Saint Augustine. 1001 00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:33.400 It won't hurt if you do it, but the benefits 1002 00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:36.800 are very minimal at this point in time. Now you 1003 00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:38.960 could put some down, it'll be there. There'll be a 1004 00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:42.000 little bit of nutrient uptake that occurs but now that 1005 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:44.159 we're hitting the point where it's getting as cool as 1006 00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:46.960 it is and the daylenks is as short as it is, 1007 00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:51.280 the grass plant just isn't pulling in that nutrition at 1008 00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:54.599 the rate it was back in October, for example. And 1009 00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:57.280 so generally, if you look at my schedule, I don't 1010 00:57:57.320 --> 00:58:01.679 really talk about fertilizing, you know, when we hit this 1011 00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:05.239 point in the season. But if you had a situation 1012 00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:08.320 where the soil was very poor you didn't get fertilizing 1013 00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:11.320 done before, Yes you can, you can certainly do that 1014 00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:14.119 add to it, but just realize that a lot of 1015 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:17.480 it will be lost over the wintertime as it gets 1016 00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:19.840 washed away in rains and so on. 1017 00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:22.960 Okay, and then I have one more question. 1018 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:26.840 Is there any place that I readid my flower beds 1019 00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:30.280 in the front. We had some foundation work done, so 1020 00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:33.440 they kind of got trashed, but I don't know why. 1021 00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:35.400 I don't don't know what to put in them. Is 1022 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:39.039 there anybody that would come that I could pay to say, Hey, 1023 00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:41.599 this would be good here and this would be good there. 1024 00:58:46.119 --> 00:58:49.719 Well, what I would do is go to a good 1025 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:52.360 quality mom and pop garden cent are like you hear 1026 00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:54.920 me talk about her on guard line and talk to them, 1027 00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:58.599 take them a picture of your yard and say, oh, look, 1028 00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:02.639 here's a bed that's law. What plants would you recommend 1029 00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:05.440 for cool season for this bet and then for spring 1030 00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:08.840 or summer, and they can give you some ideas, give 1031 00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:12.079 you kind of a mix. Maybe if it's plants for 1032 00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:14.239 the season we're in now, they'll have them on hand 1033 00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:15.800 where you can kind of look at them and see 1034 00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:18.639 if you like that and whatnot. I think that's the 1035 00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:20.960 best way to do it. Now. As far as you know, 1036 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.760 you can have a landscaping company come out and do 1037 00:59:23.880 --> 00:59:26.639 planting for you know, puer Scapes goes out and does 1038 00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:32.199 color or bed maintenance and does seasonal planting. You can 1039 00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:35.159 have them do color changes through the year to keep 1040 00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:37.440 those beds looking good. So those would be a couple 1041 00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:39.119 of options for your question. 1042 00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:41.800 Okay, all righty, thanks so much. 1043 00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:46.320 All right, you bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate that, Patty. 1044 00:59:47.679 --> 00:59:52.079 We're going to go to George in Jersey Village. Hey, George, Yeah. 1045 00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:54.519 Good morning, Skip. When I heard you talking to that 1046 00:59:54.599 --> 00:59:57.920 gentleman before about fragrant plants, and I made to know 1047 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.119 it about the robina, but I didn't get the other to. 1048 01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:08.360 Please Okay, well, I mentioned, uh that citrus blooms are 1049 01:00:08.599 --> 01:00:12.199 wonderfully fragrant. They have a wonderful fragrance. And so especially 1050 01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:15.639 if it's a smaller cus, you know, like oh, a 1051 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:19.199 satsuma or a kumquat that you've got in a big container, 1052 01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:21.440 you can kind of put it on the patio where 1053 01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:24.679 you enjoy that breeze up close, or that fragrance up 1054 01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:28.400 first when the breeze blows through. Another one is uh 1055 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:32.599 you see almond verbino was one in Texas Mountain Laurel. 1056 01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:37.199 The blooms look like clusters of purple grapes and they 1057 01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:40.519 have I don't know if you I know, I know 1058 01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:45.119 that that gaudy is something we use to describe things 1059 01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:47.679 we see, you know, like pink flamingos all in the 1060 01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:52.079 front yard. That's bloody. But I think if Gotty had 1061 01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:55.599 if fragrance could be gaudy, Texas Mountain Laurel would be gatty. 1062 01:00:55.639 --> 01:00:59.440 It's that do you remember the grape super bubble bubble 1063 01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:04.360 gum of the grape flavored that fragrant. That's what the 1064 01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:09.239 Texas Martin Laurel smells like. It is a sweet, syrupy 1065 01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:14.119 grape that'll you won't you will not fail to remember 1066 01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:17.280 it's there when it blooms only in spring, though. Am 1067 01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:21.679 I going to the neighbors all right, George, No, that's 1068 01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:24.159 their problem. No, they won't. They'll they'll love it. It'll 1069 01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:26.599 be diluted by the time it gets over there. Take 1070 01:01:26.639 --> 01:01:31.719 care of Josh. Appreciate appreciate your call. Uh where are 1071 01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:34.719 we here? We're going to go to Carroll in Sugarland. Hey, Carol, 1072 01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:36.679 welcome to garden morning. 1073 01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:41.679 So I went ahead and got a Chinese fringe tree. 1074 01:01:41.960 --> 01:01:44.840 It's little, it's about four or five feet tall, and 1075 01:01:44.880 --> 01:01:47.800 it's got branches down that are kind of low. When 1076 01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:51.079 can I remove those branches? I don't want it to 1077 01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:53.679 grow like a bush. I wanted to grow like a tree. 1078 01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:57.239 Yeah what okay, Here's what I would do, and this 1079 01:01:57.360 --> 01:01:59.400 is true of any tree for the other people listening. 1080 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:04.079 If you will take the branches that are not permanent 1081 01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:07.519 and cut the end of the last four inches out 1082 01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:10.920 of them, tip them. We call that they will branch more, 1083 01:02:11.400 --> 01:02:15.480 but they won't become dominant at all. They'll be more dwarfed. 1084 01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:19.760 And then the branches that are gonna be permanent, leave 1085 01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:23.559 those to grow. And then when the ones you've been 1086 01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:28.880 tipping periodically, hit about just under an inch in diameter. 1087 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:32.960 Cut them off then, and that woundlehill roll quickly. The 1088 01:02:33.039 --> 01:02:35.480 reason we're leaving them is they have foliage on them, 1089 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:37.719 and if you were to strip off every branch that's 1090 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:40.280 not permanent, you would be taking a lot of the 1091 01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:44.679 energy leaf producing branch area out of the plant and 1092 01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.440 you wouldn't get as rapid of a growth and development. 1093 01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:50.000 So what we're doing is we're saying we're not going 1094 01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:53.280 to let you put too much energy into this branch 1095 01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:56.599 because it's going to go, but we are going to 1096 01:02:56.679 --> 01:02:59.039 keep leaves on it because they are fueling the root 1097 01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:01.559 system and the growth of the plant itself. Does that 1098 01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:04.880 make sense, Yes, that's interesting. 1099 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:09.280 And also I've read different things about the soil preparation 1100 01:03:09.559 --> 01:03:12.880 and some people say, don't amend the soil at all 1101 01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:15.960 because you want it to get used to the clay soil. 1102 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:21.519 Okay, in a I'll have to do this quick because 1103 01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:25.039 I got to take a break in a situation where 1104 01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:27.440 you've got a tree that's going to have roots going 1105 01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:31.239 way out in all directions, much higher, much further than 1106 01:03:31.239 --> 01:03:34.000 the height of the tree in all directions. Amending a 1107 01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:37.119 small area doesn't do much. If it's a smaller plant, 1108 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:40.719 and you can amend a large area, not the planting hole, 1109 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:43.480 but let's say ten foot wide bed, you know, or 1110 01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:46.199 ten foot long bed, then go ahead and amend the 1111 01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:49.519 whole area to help it in its early growth. But 1112 01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:52.920 after you amend it, then dig the hole in plant. 1113 01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:56.119 Don't just throw a little fertilizer or compost in the 1114 01:03:56.119 --> 01:03:58.320 pot in the hole. That's going to not be good. 1115 01:03:58.480 --> 01:03:59.039 Don't do that. 1116 01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:04.320 Okay, thank you, you bet. 1117 01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:06.239 Thank you very much. We're going to take a break 1118 01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:08.719 right here. When we come back, Ben and Baytown, you 1119 01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:15.360 will be our first up. All right, welcome back, Welcome 1120 01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:18.079 back to garden. Good to have garden line, good, good 1121 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:21.480 to have you with us today. Moss Nursery done in 1122 01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:25.239 Seabrook is one of those places that when you have 1123 01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:28.320 family in town for the holidays, you got to take 1124 01:04:28.360 --> 01:04:30.760 them out there. You know, you need an afternoon, get 1125 01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:34.719 a little stroll, enjoy it. Moss is a destination nursery. 1126 01:04:34.760 --> 01:04:37.800 This thing has been around for ages as a family 1127 01:04:37.880 --> 01:04:41.760 mom and pop garden center. Eight acres, eight acres of 1128 01:04:41.800 --> 01:04:44.960 gardener's paradise to wander through and you go in if 1129 01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:47.239 it's a cool day, go into the greenhouse and they 1130 01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:50.559 get warm. But you wouldn't believe the plant collection they have. 1131 01:04:50.760 --> 01:04:52.800 I mean, whoever's visiting you is going to want to 1132 01:04:52.840 --> 01:04:54.559 take a plan home when they go in there, because 1133 01:04:54.559 --> 01:04:57.920 there's everything from succulents, you know, cacti and other succulents, 1134 01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:02.599 to gorgeous foldage plants. I mean, Moss just has it all. 1135 01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:06.360 They whatever is seasonal, you know, right now, they got 1136 01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:09.719 good seasonal color, all the different kinds of bulbs and 1137 01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:12.119 holiday plants and things like that. Of course you can 1138 01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:14.440 find all those there, but it's always a good time 1139 01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.159 to plant trees and shrubs. Moss has got you covered 1140 01:05:17.199 --> 01:05:20.280 on that too. The main thing is just to get 1141 01:05:20.280 --> 01:05:23.280 out and enjoy it and check it out. You're not 1142 01:05:23.320 --> 01:05:28.280 going to find a place with any better selection of pottery. 1143 01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:31.360 I mean, they have a huge pottery selection from all 1144 01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:34.320 over the world and a lot of unusual things that 1145 01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:36.920 you walk around the corner, you see I've never seen 1146 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.800 one of those before. Well that's because you're at Moss Nursery. 1147 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:44.360 Moss nurseryes on Toddville Road in Seabrook. The website is 1148 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:51.079 Moss Nurserymaas nursery dot Com. We're going to go now 1149 01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:54.519 to talk to Ben in Baytown. Hey Ben, welcome to 1150 01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:55.079 garden Line. 1151 01:05:56.199 --> 01:05:58.800 Hey, good morning, Skip. I just want to ask you 1152 01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:03.880 a question. I got a little bitty oak sapling, I say, 1153 01:06:03.920 --> 01:06:05.719 a little bit. It's about two feet tall or so. 1154 01:06:07.199 --> 01:06:09.239 Is it too late in the year to transplant that 1155 01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:10.239 to another area? 1156 01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.519 It is perfect time of the year. The best time 1157 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:19.000 is when the leaves are falling off in the late fall, 1158 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:22.519 even into the winter, but sooner is better. So you 1159 01:06:22.559 --> 01:06:25.800 could go out right now and move that thing. Get 1160 01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:28.119 as much of the root as you can. Main thing 1161 01:06:28.639 --> 01:06:34.159 is too watered in, really good, subtle the soil and 1162 01:06:34.199 --> 01:06:36.079 make sure you put it in the soil at the 1163 01:06:36.119 --> 01:06:38.880 same level that it was growing before. Don't plant it 1164 01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:41.920 too deep or too shallow. Okay. 1165 01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.519 And I heard you say something when you're moss and 1166 01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:48.119 you talk about moss nurture, and you're saying, it's a 1167 01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:50.400 good time to plant shrubs as well. 1168 01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:56.760 Oh gosh, yes, the best. And Ben, here's why. When 1169 01:06:56.760 --> 01:06:58.880 you put a shrub in the ground, First of all, 1170 01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:00.519 when you take it out of it contain they're going 1171 01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:02.480 to be roots circling and you want to cut those 1172 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:05.320 and they will quickly branch within a couple of weeks. 1173 01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:09.000 I'll already be sending out new roots underground. But if 1174 01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:12.159 you do that now, it has all the way until 1175 01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:15.519 next May when it starts to get hot to develop 1176 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:19.280 a root system. So when summer comes, it's much more resilient. 1177 01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:22.920 And if you waited until April to plant that same plant, 1178 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:26.320 you could do that, of course, but you'd be a 1179 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:28.559 little more touch and go on the watering of it 1180 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.480 than you would if you get it planted at this time. 1181 01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:31.800 Of the year. 1182 01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:34.840 Okay, I see, yeah, give. 1183 01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:37.719 Yourself, give yourself an advantage, give your plan a head. 1184 01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:42.679 Start, all right, man, appreciation you take care, you. 1185 01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:47.360 Bet you thanks appreciate that call very much. That is 1186 01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:51.639 absolutely the case. By the way, D and D Feed 1187 01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:55.920 in Tomball is an awesome, awesome place to go for 1188 01:07:56.159 --> 01:07:57.039 quality feeds. 1189 01:07:57.159 --> 01:07:57.360 You know. 1190 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.440 They stock every kind of feed you can imagine, including 1191 01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:03.559 some really high end lines for dog food and other pets. 1192 01:08:04.280 --> 01:08:06.639 They are on twenty nine to twenty about three miles 1193 01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:11.079 west of two forty nine, So when you get when 1194 01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:13.320 you if you're on two forty now you're in Tombol 1195 01:08:13.480 --> 01:08:15.320 and you head out twenty nine to twenty about three 1196 01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:17.720 miles on the left. That Over family has been running 1197 01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:20.800 that place since nineteen eighty nine. And when you go 1198 01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:23.920 in there, if you hear me talk about products like 1199 01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:27.359 I've talked about heirloom soils or Nelson plant food or 1200 01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:32.119 Landscaper's Pride products, you know I'm talking about products from Nelson, 1201 01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:36.680 like turf Star, products from Medina, from Microlife, from Nitrofoss. 1202 01:08:37.079 --> 01:08:40.520 They're all there at D and D Feed, including a 1203 01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:44.359 better selection. I was really surprised first time I went 1204 01:08:44.399 --> 01:08:47.239 in there at their selection of things to control pests 1205 01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:50.760 and weeds and diseases too. D and D Feed and Supply. 1206 01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:53.840 That's your hometown feed store on the west end of Tombul, 1207 01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:57.640 just outside of town. We're going to go. Now, let's 1208 01:08:57.680 --> 01:08:59.079 see where are we here. We're going to go to 1209 01:08:59.159 --> 01:09:02.479 Cliff in Katie. Hello, Cliff, Welcome to garden Line. 1210 01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:06.479 How are you doing good? To talk to you? Question 1211 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:07.520 for you about mogunias. 1212 01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:15.199 I'm I'm not not typically not able to take care 1213 01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:17.000 of plants very well, but this one is sort of 1214 01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:17.760 blossomed on me. 1215 01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:19.840 And I don't know if. 1216 01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:25.479 Begunia's gross actual additional stems, but it seems like this 1217 01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:28.479 one is sort of blossoming. And before I got some 1218 01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:32.319 microlive six two four, and I didn't know before I 1219 01:09:32.359 --> 01:09:35.760 start trying to keep it alive and do that kind 1220 01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:37.319 of thing, it's kind of flourishing, and I kind of 1221 01:09:37.319 --> 01:09:39.479 feel like, well, hey, heck, I just don't want to 1222 01:09:39.479 --> 01:09:41.680 touch it is. Let it just water it every now 1223 01:09:41.720 --> 01:09:46.680 and then and let it keep doing its magic. But 1224 01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:50.720 before I thought, before I start stepping into doing something 1225 01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:52.760 that I might regret, I just thought I'd give you 1226 01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:53.199 a call. 1227 01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:54.560 And get your advice. 1228 01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:58.119 I didn't know if microlife is something that you would 1229 01:09:58.159 --> 01:09:59.720 put in. I don't know how many of those pellets 1230 01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:02.680 to put in a little you know, base with this 1231 01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:04.279 well gone unit, so to speak. 1232 01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:08.439 Ye, how big is there that container? How wide does? 1233 01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:11.920 How wide is the container they're growing in? 1234 01:10:13.279 --> 01:10:18.800 So this one is about eight inches deep. I put 1235 01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:20.960 potting soil in it because, like I said, I don't 1236 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:22.359 know what else to put in it. I just put 1237 01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:24.880 potting soil in it, dropped it in it. It's about 1238 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:27.960 eight inches deep and it's it's a kind of a bowl. 1239 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.279 So it starts at the top four or five six 1240 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:33.000 inches round down at the bottom it's probably eight inches. 1241 01:10:32.680 --> 01:10:38.960 Around Okay, so you know there's not a writer. Yes, 1242 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:40.880 you can use micro life six two four. I would 1243 01:10:40.920 --> 01:10:45.119 probably put about oh maybe three tablespoons of it in 1244 01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:49.479 that container each time you with it. Begunias are warm 1245 01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:52.800 seasoned plants. They can't take cold, and generally we don't 1246 01:10:52.840 --> 01:10:56.479 fertilize those this late in the year. Now, if you're 1247 01:10:56.520 --> 01:10:58.720 going to bring it indoors, or if it is indoors, 1248 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:02.760 well it's indoors. You've been little fertilizer. Okay, Well, it 1249 01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:07.800 just needs it just needs to be adequately watered to 1250 01:11:07.880 --> 01:11:11.920 keep it moderately moist but not soggy. When you sprinkle 1251 01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:14.039 the microlife in there, if you can kind of scratch 1252 01:11:14.079 --> 01:11:16.359 it into the surface a little bit, you know, when 1253 01:11:16.399 --> 01:11:18.560 I say scratch it, I'm kind of picturing, you know, 1254 01:11:18.680 --> 01:11:21.479 something that just kind of breaks not two inches deep, 1255 01:11:21.640 --> 01:11:25.399 just under the surface and water that helps it get 1256 01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:28.479 contact with the soil, and it does it does a 1257 01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.960 little bit better that way in terms of breaking down 1258 01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:34.159 and releasing those nutrients. Okay, Now, if I were you, 1259 01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:38.359 I would probably if I were I would probably instead 1260 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:40.600 of using the six two four. I mean, that's a 1261 01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:44.720 good fertilizer, but I think I would use instead one 1262 01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:48.600 of their liquids. And Microlife makes a number of really 1263 01:11:48.640 --> 01:11:51.439 good liquid fertilizers. So I don't know if you've ever 1264 01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:52.319 seen any of those. 1265 01:11:52.840 --> 01:11:56.079 No, not have not? 1266 01:11:56.319 --> 01:12:00.079 So oh gosh, I'm just drawn a blank here and 1267 01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:03.680 I'll say the name of one in just a minute. 1268 01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:06.680 It's an orange label I'm trying to think of. Just 1269 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:08.439 hang on, hang on to keep listening. 1270 01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:14.000 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richards. 1271 01:12:15.439 --> 01:12:20.760 Crazy trim. 1272 01:12:22.079 --> 01:12:39.640 Just watch him as to see crazy not a sign. 1273 01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:47.880 All right, folks, we're back. Let's get going. We've got 1274 01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:50.199 a lot to talk about on plants here on Guarden Line. 1275 01:12:50.239 --> 01:12:52.239 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and if you'd like to 1276 01:12:52.239 --> 01:12:54.199 give me a call you got a question, our phone 1277 01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:57.880 number seven one three two one two k t r 1278 01:12:58.199 --> 01:13:01.840 H seven one three two one two kt RH. Now, 1279 01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:07.720 winter is pruning season, primetime pruning season. Can we print 1280 01:13:07.760 --> 01:13:11.279 otther time of the year? Yes? Absolutely, Primetime is the 1281 01:13:11.279 --> 01:13:13.479 cool season that that's when we try to get it 1282 01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:17.720 most done. And uh, if you are interested in having 1283 01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:20.439 somebody come out and do it right, you need to 1284 01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:24.520 call Affordable Tree Martin spoon More. He knows what he's doing. 1285 01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:28.159 He's done this a long time. He's a professional at it. 1286 01:13:28.319 --> 01:13:31.840 And Martin and his wife Joe answer their own phones 1287 01:13:31.880 --> 01:13:34.800 when you call them at seven one three six nine 1288 01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:39.199 nine two six six three. It's the owners that answer 1289 01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:41.840 the phone. And if you don't talk to Martin or Joe, 1290 01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:44.840 call up all the wrong number, not wrong place, uh 1291 01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:48.840 seven one three, six nine nine two six six three. 1292 01:13:48.920 --> 01:13:52.319 You can also go to his website aff tree Service 1293 01:13:52.359 --> 01:13:56.119 dot com. Afftree service dot com. He does all things 1294 01:13:56.119 --> 01:13:58.359 for trees, you know, if you need pruning done, deep 1295 01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:03.840 root feeding, just checking the trees, overall health advice on 1296 01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:05.960 things you're doing around the tree. Hey Martin, I'm going 1297 01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:08.039 to put in a driveway over here. You know, what 1298 01:14:08.319 --> 01:14:10.840 is it is that okay? Or what can I do 1299 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:13.439 to prevent damage to the tree, all those kind of 1300 01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:17.319 things that bring them in. Trees are the most valuable 1301 01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:20.960 single plant in your landscape, and they are very valuable 1302 01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:23.560 of the house. They're valuable for the shade in the summer. 1303 01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:25.520 And if you haven't been in the Houston summer yet, 1304 01:14:25.560 --> 01:14:28.920 well God bless you get ready. But it's good to 1305 01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:31.920 have shade trees, and they're valuable and you don't want 1306 01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:34.640 to have somebody that doesn't know what they're doing. Mess 1307 01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:36.800 with them, because when they do damage to a tree 1308 01:14:36.800 --> 01:14:40.760 by bad pruning, it's for life. I mean just it is. 1309 01:14:41.399 --> 01:14:44.680 And also if damage is done in construction or anything 1310 01:14:44.800 --> 01:14:48.000 like that, it's it threatens the life of the tree, 1311 01:14:48.079 --> 01:14:50.199 certainly the early growth, but maybe the life or the 1312 01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:54.439 structural stability of it itself. Call Martin seven to one 1313 01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:58.439 three six ninety nine two six six ' three. We 1314 01:14:58.479 --> 01:15:01.439 are going to go now to uh talk to Cliff 1315 01:15:01.560 --> 01:15:05.920 and Katie. Hey, Cliff, what, Oh no, we already talked 1316 01:15:05.920 --> 01:15:06.439 to Cliff. 1317 01:15:07.640 --> 01:15:10.720 You did I saw you still heart? 1318 01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:16.880 Okay, you were asking me. I thank you for hanging around. Well, 1319 01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:20.439 bless your heart hanging around so long. Micro Life bio 1320 01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:23.159 Matrix is the one I couldn't put the name on. 1321 01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:26.199 It's the orange label. It's a little court jar you 1322 01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:28.399 can buy in a gallon, but it's a seven to 1323 01:15:28.479 --> 01:15:32.920 one three fertilizer. So it supports that foliage growth really well, 1324 01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:35.760 and you'll get good blooms on them as well. But 1325 01:15:35.800 --> 01:15:37.920 that's that is a good one. There are the good 1326 01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:40.760 micro Life products. But I like the liquid. You mix 1327 01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:42.640 it a little bit of water every time you water. 1328 01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:44.600 You put a little bit of that in and it 1329 01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:47.119 it just does. Well, that's probably going to serve you 1330 01:15:47.159 --> 01:15:51.000 better than the granules on your indoor play. Well, thanks 1331 01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:56.520 so much, all right, thank you, thank you. Okay, yeah, 1332 01:15:56.600 --> 01:16:00.079 you know the I uh, all right, here we go 1333 01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:03.079 and go to now Rick and Spring Branch. Hey, Rick, 1334 01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:04.199 welcome to. 1335 01:16:04.199 --> 01:16:09.399 Guard Hi skipper, love your show, really do. You're doing 1336 01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:10.479 a good good job. 1337 01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:14.479 Next week it's going to be I'll see right now, 1338 01:16:14.479 --> 01:16:16.600 it's going to be thirty nine degrees on Wednesday. 1339 01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:18.640 You think my tomatoes will be okay? 1340 01:16:18.760 --> 01:16:20.880 It's a pretty weighty question because I have over a 1341 01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:21.920 hundred of them on there. 1342 01:16:25.079 --> 01:16:30.640 They'll be okay, they won't they won't be freeze damaged. 1343 01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:34.640 As we get closer to freezing, if we have a 1344 01:16:34.720 --> 01:16:39.600 good clear night, we may have the potential for frost. 1345 01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:41.960 It doesn't have to be thirty two degrees in the 1346 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:45.359 air for there to be a frost. I don't just 1347 01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:48.920 kind of watch for that, see what the Yeah, well, 1348 01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:50.800 all you would have to do for the frost anyway 1349 01:16:50.840 --> 01:16:53.199 is just throw a cover over them. You don't need 1350 01:16:53.279 --> 01:16:56.920 heat underneath for that temperature. But thirty thirty nine is 1351 01:16:56.960 --> 01:16:59.640 a little high to have a frost, but it could happen. 1352 01:17:01.039 --> 01:17:03.600 Okay, I hope not. Well that gets me to my 1353 01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:06.159 second question. I was going to talk about my compost. 1354 01:17:07.359 --> 01:17:10.840 Is there anything I have like I do my own 1355 01:17:10.920 --> 01:17:11.359 I do. 1356 01:17:11.359 --> 01:17:12.840 A lot of work on my compost. 1357 01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:14.800 I spend a lot of time because I use my 1358 01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:20.279 own compost, and I use row soil and micro light. 1359 01:17:21.159 --> 01:17:23.800 I use those three and I'm doing really well, especially 1360 01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:24.680 with my tomatoes. 1361 01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:27.239 Is there anything that I can feed sounds like. 1362 01:17:29.800 --> 01:17:34.680 My compost, Like go like the Southwest fertilizer and back 1363 01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:38.279 and actually get a bag of something to enhance it. 1364 01:17:38.439 --> 01:17:39.840 I put all my scraps in there. 1365 01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:43.720 I put my coffee grounds all that stuff, and my 1366 01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:46.439 my compost as well, always does real well. 1367 01:17:46.840 --> 01:17:48.439 But to feed the worms, I never. 1368 01:17:51.520 --> 01:17:55.079 Yeah, you're you're doing it good worms. Are we talking 1369 01:17:55.119 --> 01:17:59.119 about an earthworm? 1370 01:17:57.039 --> 01:17:57.159 Uh? 1371 01:17:59.239 --> 01:18:01.359 Are we talking about the little red wigglers? 1372 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:03.760 The little red wigglars? 1373 01:18:04.159 --> 01:18:09.079 Which worm? Okay? They like food scraps, uh, And well 1374 01:18:09.079 --> 01:18:11.239 that's what I'm doing. Yeah. If you if you put 1375 01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:14.399 if you put food scraps into the compost, that they 1376 01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:17.560 like that. They don't like it hot, So you know, 1377 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:20.520 a cold compost with food scraps. The red wigglers will 1378 01:18:20.520 --> 01:18:23.439 feed on those food scraps. That's what people make what's 1379 01:18:23.479 --> 01:18:27.439 called verma culture bins for raising worms, and they're they're 1380 01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:31.600 based on newspaper and food scraps. That's that's all they need. 1381 01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:34.159 Sounds like you're doing everything right. You got a good 1382 01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:39.640 mix this red wigglers do. Yeah, go onlining and and 1383 01:18:39.840 --> 01:18:43.800 just do a search for verma culture bin. I used 1384 01:18:43.800 --> 01:18:46.279 to have something online. I don't know if I still do, 1385 01:18:46.359 --> 01:18:49.079 but anyway, Uh yeah. You take a you know, one 1386 01:18:49.119 --> 01:18:52.479 of those rubber made tubs, and you tear up tiny 1387 01:18:52.479 --> 01:18:56.279 strips of newspaper about an inch wide, wet them, moisten them, 1388 01:18:56.640 --> 01:18:59.600 and then throw in some some fruit food scraps and 1389 01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:01.760 put yours in there. And they go to town and 1390 01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:04.199 they turn the whole thing into worm castings in time. 1391 01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:08.359 So okay, But sounds like you're doing good. You got 1392 01:19:08.760 --> 01:19:11.520 you got anything going all the province y'all for a 1393 01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:14.800 long time. Y'all help me out there, all right, thank 1394 01:19:14.840 --> 01:19:18.239 you sir? Well, good, well, good, sounds like you're doing 1395 01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:22.560 a good job. You bet take care of that. Is 1396 01:19:22.720 --> 01:19:26.600 that is the case. He's doing an excellent job based 1397 01:19:26.600 --> 01:19:30.520 on all of that. Plants for all seasons is on 1398 01:19:31.359 --> 01:19:34.399 two forty nine Tomball Parkway just north of Louetta. You 1399 01:19:34.439 --> 01:19:38.600 exit Louetta and go one just north of Louetta heading 1400 01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:41.119 toward Tomball Way. There they are right on the right 1401 01:19:41.159 --> 01:19:44.239 hand side. Been around said it's nineteen seventy three. That's 1402 01:19:44.279 --> 01:19:47.479 a long time. And this family owned business is true 1403 01:19:48.039 --> 01:19:51.319 lawn and garden experts from the family members, many several 1404 01:19:51.319 --> 01:19:55.239 of them work there, to the employees they hire that 1405 01:19:55.279 --> 01:19:58.279 are very knowledgeable and well trained. You can go in 1406 01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:01.000 there with pictures and samples. They help diagnose them for you. 1407 01:20:01.520 --> 01:20:04.800 Uh you know, like they say, get your green on 1408 01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:07.039 at Plants for All Seasons. That is so true. I 1409 01:20:07.039 --> 01:20:08.920 don't care if you're a master gardener or if you're 1410 01:20:08.920 --> 01:20:12.119 a first time gardener. Go to Plants for All Seasons 1411 01:20:12.199 --> 01:20:14.079 and you will get the help you need. You'll get 1412 01:20:14.079 --> 01:20:17.239 the quality plants you want. Plants for All Seasons dot 1413 01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:22.439 com two eight, one three, seven, six one six for six. 1414 01:20:23.279 --> 01:20:25.319 I'm gonna take a little break here and we'll be 1415 01:20:25.439 --> 01:20:27.159 right back. I got some more stuff to talk about. 1416 01:20:27.159 --> 01:20:30.159 I'm gonna get back into the colors of light on 1417 01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:32.680 plants a little bit, and then i gotta talk about 1418 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:36.199 missile to today Oh yeah, we feel good this morning 1419 01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:40.680 because we're gardeners and it's always a good day for gardeners. 1420 01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:43.079 Welcome back to garden Line. You want to give me 1421 01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:46.000 a call seven one three two one two k t 1422 01:20:46.199 --> 01:20:48.680 R H seven one three two one two k t 1423 01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:52.319 R h U. If you uh, you know, you got 1424 01:20:52.319 --> 01:20:55.239 family in for the holidays and stuff and h You 1425 01:20:55.319 --> 01:20:57.960 may notice a door is sticking. You know, you never 1426 01:20:58.000 --> 01:20:59.920 go through that door much, but suddenly now it's kind 1427 01:20:59.960 --> 01:21:01.960 of sticking. And you look, there's a crack in the 1428 01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:04.199 sheet rock. You go outside, there's a crack in the brick. 1429 01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:07.479 That means things are moving around, which we do not 1430 01:21:07.600 --> 01:21:11.119 want our slab moving around, but it happens. We live 1431 01:21:11.119 --> 01:21:15.079 in Houston high shrink swell potential soils, meaning they get dry, 1432 01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:18.159 they shrink, they get wet, they swell, and that movement 1433 01:21:18.439 --> 01:21:20.840 takes its toll. Is it a problem you need to 1434 01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:23.239 deal with? Well, you don't know, but you can find 1435 01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:26.479 out by calling Ty Strickland. Tis an honest fella, been 1436 01:21:26.479 --> 01:21:30.720 doing this for twenty three years. Fix myslab dot com, 1437 01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:34.760 Fix my slab. That's his company. Fixmyslab dot com Free 1438 01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:37.319 estimates for Gardenline listeners. Telling me you heard about him 1439 01:21:37.319 --> 01:21:39.760 on garden Line. Give him a call. Two eight one 1440 01:21:40.319 --> 01:21:43.960 two fiy five forty nine forty nine. Two eight one 1441 01:21:44.359 --> 01:21:47.880 two five five forty nine forty nine. Even in these 1442 01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:52.640 expensive times, Tie is still committed to giving you a 1443 01:21:52.640 --> 01:21:56.319 fair price, showing up on time, oh my gosh, and 1444 01:21:56.479 --> 01:21:59.000 fixing it right. And he doesn't just tew foundations. They 1445 01:21:59.039 --> 01:22:03.680 can fix driveways and sidewalks too, They can level them 1446 01:22:03.800 --> 01:22:05.880 of those, they can replace him a new concrete. He 1447 01:22:05.920 --> 01:22:09.000 does it all. Is a native Hewstonian, fifth generation Texan. 1448 01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:12.520 Ty knows our soils, he knows what happens, and he 1449 01:22:12.600 --> 01:22:15.920 knows when and how to fix things. Give him a 1450 01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:19.680 call find out about it. Ty Strickland fix my slab 1451 01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:26.640 two eight one two five forty nine forty nine. Never 1452 01:22:26.880 --> 01:22:28.760 never good news to know you need work done on 1453 01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:33.199 anything from plumbing to electrical slabs to whatever you name. 1454 01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:33.359 It. 1455 01:22:33.479 --> 01:22:37.840 Never good. But when you do, you want somebody that's 1456 01:22:37.880 --> 01:22:39.520 going to treat you right, that's going to show up 1457 01:22:39.560 --> 01:22:42.960 and be honest. My gosh, I wish that I could 1458 01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:45.439 have that going back in time. All the times I've 1459 01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:49.399 hired some person to do some sort of repair on 1460 01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:52.600 my property, it doesn't always turn out that way. But 1461 01:22:52.880 --> 01:22:56.000 it's nice to know you got people that do do 1462 01:22:56.079 --> 01:22:58.560 that kind of work. I was talking about lights earlier 1463 01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:02.560 and the fact that there's blue I guess to summarize 1464 01:23:02.560 --> 01:23:04.880 some things I was talking about, is the blue wavelength 1465 01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:09.039 is primary for vegetative growth. The red wavelength is primarily 1466 01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:14.319 for blooming and fruiting. And certain seeds that we plant 1467 01:23:14.359 --> 01:23:17.079 on the surface, they need red light as part of 1468 01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:20.520 their germination process. Now there's green light, which is what 1469 01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:22.439 you find in the interior. Let's say have a tree 1470 01:23:22.520 --> 01:23:26.720 or underneath the tree. You know, the red light and 1471 01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:29.720 the blue light get absorbed, but the green light makes 1472 01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:33.039 it down into the interior of the tree more. But 1473 01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:36.279 for a plant getting green light and not the red blue, 1474 01:23:36.319 --> 01:23:39.399 that's a sign that hey, I'm in the shade and 1475 01:23:38.880 --> 01:23:41.720 I gotta stretch out and grow a little further. I 1476 01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:44.720 got to have a little more photosynthesis going on in 1477 01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:47.119 my leaves with a little bit of light that's coming in. 1478 01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:50.560 So they developed that. I don't know if you've ever 1479 01:23:50.640 --> 01:23:55.760 grown a those moth orchids, the kind you just see everywhere, 1480 01:23:55.800 --> 01:23:58.880 I mean even in a supermarket. Those moth orchids, they'revery 1481 01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:01.720 easy to grow, but if you put them in not 1482 01:24:01.960 --> 01:24:06.159 enough light, they actually get dark emerald green color because 1483 01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:08.920 they are trying to pack as much chlorophyll in there 1484 01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:13.680 to capture the few little photons coming through to the 1485 01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:16.399 leaves and make the best of it. And that's just 1486 01:24:16.520 --> 01:24:19.439 that's an example of that kind of response. But anyway, 1487 01:24:19.479 --> 01:24:23.600 I want to talk about plant growing. You plant a 1488 01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:26.279 tomato ceiling, you want to get a transplant for the garden. 1489 01:24:26.760 --> 01:24:29.800 The blue light is especially important now you really need 1490 01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:32.199 it all. It doesn't hurt to havele just regular white light. 1491 01:24:32.239 --> 01:24:33.840 You don't have to buy one of these lights like 1492 01:24:33.960 --> 01:24:38.079 certain indoor grower producers used that just have blue and 1493 01:24:38.159 --> 01:24:41.159 red colors in them. Just gets you a good light. 1494 01:24:41.239 --> 01:24:45.039 But the blue is most important for vegetative growth, and 1495 01:24:45.119 --> 01:24:47.800 then the red when we get into blooming and fruiting, 1496 01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:51.600 that is the most important too. Now we can get 1497 01:24:51.640 --> 01:24:54.439 real nerdy about light. I mean, we can talk about 1498 01:24:54.760 --> 01:25:01.199 all kinds of factors. Just know this, people and plants 1499 01:25:01.920 --> 01:25:06.399 don't see and measure light the same way. When we 1500 01:25:06.520 --> 01:25:09.960 measure light, we want to know how many lumens is 1501 01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:12.800 that light bulb? How many lumens is it? That's what 1502 01:25:12.840 --> 01:25:17.279 you see on a light bulb package. Plants want to 1503 01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:22.560 know how much photosynthetically active light is coming through. They 1504 01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:28.800 call that photosynthetic. Photosynthetically active radiation is what it's called. Now, 1505 01:25:28.880 --> 01:25:30.760 what is that par I'm just going to say par 1506 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:34.159 from now on about that. Lumens are for humans, par 1507 01:25:34.399 --> 01:25:37.439 is for plants. Remember that. So when you go by 1508 01:25:37.479 --> 01:25:40.439 a light made to light up your house, all you 1509 01:25:40.560 --> 01:25:42.880 know is that it's either a warm white or a 1510 01:25:42.920 --> 01:25:48.119 cool white or some version of those. That's fine. That 1511 01:25:48.119 --> 01:25:51.119 that's what we need. We need to see. Plants need 1512 01:25:51.720 --> 01:25:55.960 light to function for photosynthesis. They are the ones that 1513 01:25:56.039 --> 01:25:58.399 can take sunlight and turn it into plant food and 1514 01:25:58.439 --> 01:26:01.439 turn it into people food too, by the way, And 1515 01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:05.960 so when you're purchasing a plant light, if you're just 1516 01:26:06.000 --> 01:26:08.800 going to grow a few seedlings, something that is in 1517 01:26:08.880 --> 01:26:11.760 the cool spectrum and the warm spectrum cool as blue, 1518 01:26:11.840 --> 01:26:15.079 warm as red. That that is, if you have a 1519 01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:17.800 balance of those two, that's going to be a decent 1520 01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:20.119 light just to get your seedling up and growing. But 1521 01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:23.399 if you really want to grow quality seedlings, or if 1522 01:26:23.439 --> 01:26:27.239 you want to grow plants further than just seedlings, like 1523 01:26:27.359 --> 01:26:30.640 maybe you're bringing some cold sensitive plants in for the 1524 01:26:30.680 --> 01:26:33.199 winter and you need to supplement the light on those 1525 01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:35.960 or provide light for them. You can get a quality 1526 01:26:36.079 --> 01:26:39.760 led grow lamp designed for plants and you can learn 1527 01:26:39.800 --> 01:26:41.680 more about that. And I'm going to post something to 1528 01:26:41.760 --> 01:26:44.600 my web page. I meant to do it this past week. 1529 01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:47.319 I will this week get it posted to the web 1530 01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:50.319 page on lighting so you can understand better. Maybe you're 1531 01:26:50.319 --> 01:26:53.000 thinking about purchasing a plant light for yourself or for 1532 01:26:53.079 --> 01:26:59.079 a Christmas gift for a gardener on your list. Buyer, beware, 1533 01:26:59.399 --> 01:27:02.840 there's all lot of stuff out there that is just 1534 01:27:03.239 --> 01:27:06.840 not helpful or not true. They say this is a 1535 01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:09.920 plant light, but when you get into looking at it, 1536 01:27:09.920 --> 01:27:11.760 it's only a plant light if you put it two 1537 01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:14.239 inches from the plant and leave it on fourteen hours 1538 01:27:14.319 --> 01:27:17.560 sixteen hours a day. You know, in other words, it's not. 1539 01:27:18.439 --> 01:27:21.439 So we can clarify that. My article will clarify that 1540 01:27:21.479 --> 01:27:23.720 a little bit. But just remember, if you're going to 1541 01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:26.039 start seedlings, if you've done it before and they're lanky 1542 01:27:26.119 --> 01:27:28.640 and spinley and they break over, and you know they 1543 01:27:28.760 --> 01:27:31.680 just are not good seedlings, it's because of the lighting. 1544 01:27:32.039 --> 01:27:34.880 And that is the number one thing that goes wrong 1545 01:27:34.920 --> 01:27:38.960 when people try to grow plants is the lighting. Water 1546 01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:42.520 is an issue, nutrients are an issue, temperature is an issue, 1547 01:27:42.600 --> 01:27:45.439 all of that, but lighting is the biggest mistake we make. 1548 01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:48.520 And once we get past, oh, let's say Christmas time, 1549 01:27:48.720 --> 01:27:50.479 we get into New Year's it is time to be 1550 01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:54.079 planting seedlings of things you're going to plant out in 1551 01:27:54.079 --> 01:27:57.399 your garden in the spring. Things like tomatoes and peppers 1552 01:27:57.399 --> 01:28:00.960 and whatnot. Those all come after wee get past these 1553 01:28:01.000 --> 01:28:03.079 holiday season, it's time to get them in the ground, 1554 01:28:03.319 --> 01:28:05.479 maybe even before if you live in the southern part 1555 01:28:05.479 --> 01:28:09.399 of the listening area. Let's see here, we're going to 1556 01:28:09.479 --> 01:28:11.760 go out to Katie now and we're going to talk 1557 01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:14.279 to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to garden Line. 1558 01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:15.520 Hello. 1559 01:28:17.399 --> 01:28:23.199 Yes, sir, I was wandering to think about a growing scrape. Yeah, 1560 01:28:23.319 --> 01:28:24.279 I think about growth of grapes. 1561 01:28:24.319 --> 01:28:27.600 Heare out here in Katie, and I was wondering what. 1562 01:28:27.760 --> 01:28:29.920 Style of grapes I have and what should a soil 1563 01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:30.239 be Like. 1564 01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:35.800 Grapes are pretty forgiving a soil. They don't want to 1565 01:28:35.840 --> 01:28:38.840 be in soggy soil. And you know out here it 1566 01:28:38.840 --> 01:28:41.520 can rain a lot at times where we end up 1567 01:28:41.560 --> 01:28:44.479 with a swamp so especially if it's a clay soil. 1568 01:28:44.680 --> 01:28:47.000 Or a low spot. You need to build up a 1569 01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:52.039 bed to make sure drainage is good. That said, grapes 1570 01:28:52.079 --> 01:28:55.800 are pretty forgiving of the soil. As far as grape 1571 01:28:55.920 --> 01:28:58.760 types there. If you want to make a white wine, 1572 01:28:59.159 --> 01:29:03.119 there is a variety you called blanc dubois blanc. It's 1573 01:29:03.279 --> 01:29:08.920 blanc b L A N C d U B O 1574 01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:11.800 I S. I believe it is how they it's it's French, 1575 01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:14.960 so I believe it's Blanc dubis is it. It's a 1576 01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:17.920 green grape and it makes a white wine. And it's 1577 01:29:18.239 --> 01:29:22.640 Pierce disease resistance. That's a number one grape killing disease 1578 01:29:22.720 --> 01:29:25.039 that we have here in the southeast part of the state. 1579 01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:29.119 It's Pierce's disease. And you've got to have resistant varieties. 1580 01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:32.439 So Blanc dubis is a white wine one. If you're 1581 01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:39.720 looking for let's see for red wines. Oh boy, there 1582 01:29:39.760 --> 01:29:43.159 are you know what? Let me let me do this 1583 01:29:43.239 --> 01:29:46.000 first to give you the best answer. If you go 1584 01:29:46.079 --> 01:29:49.279 to the Aggie Horticulture web page, just do a search 1585 01:29:49.319 --> 01:29:50.720 for Aggie Horticulture. 1586 01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:51.720 Uh. 1587 01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:54.399 And on that front page there's a fruit there's a 1588 01:29:54.479 --> 01:29:59.000 fruit and not resources page on there. And if you 1589 01:29:59.079 --> 01:30:04.279 get into that, there are Pierce's Disease Tolerant Grape listing 1590 01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:08.000 uh and it's one of the publications on there. There's 1591 01:30:08.079 --> 01:30:11.159 also an art publication on grape arbors. If you want 1592 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:14.600 to go that route with it on there. But you 1593 01:30:14.640 --> 01:30:19.560 want a tolerant variety, black Spanish lenore is another name 1594 01:30:19.640 --> 01:30:23.119 for it. Black Spanish is an old time red grape 1595 01:30:23.279 --> 01:30:26.640 that's grown here. A lot of those kinds of grapes 1596 01:30:26.720 --> 01:30:29.239 are not going to perform. They're not going to have 1597 01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:31.720 the qualities of wine that you might in some of 1598 01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:33.800 the fine wines you buy in the store that are 1599 01:30:33.840 --> 01:30:38.399 grown in more arid regions. But they they will grow here. 1600 01:30:39.279 --> 01:30:40.720 Yeah, okay, don't think about it. 1601 01:30:40.760 --> 01:30:44.239 And then if you want a table grape, yeah, I 1602 01:30:44.319 --> 01:30:45.520 was just going to say, if you want to if 1603 01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:51.960 you want a table grape, go ahead. 1604 01:30:52.920 --> 01:30:56.319 Oh sorry, I'll playing them in an. 1605 01:30:55.880 --> 01:30:58.520 Old orbs tross, you know, to make sure it's playing 1606 01:30:58.520 --> 01:30:59.239 granted holes in there. 1607 01:30:59.479 --> 01:31:01.039 That works like a. 1608 01:31:01.199 --> 01:31:02.800 Kind of like a race bet almost. 1609 01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:07.399 Well, it would, but I would more use the ring 1610 01:31:07.520 --> 01:31:10.680 without the bottom, the sides without the bottom. If you 1611 01:31:10.680 --> 01:31:13.840 want to go that route, it provides them some soil. 1612 01:31:13.920 --> 01:31:16.359 Grapes are going to need a much larger area than 1613 01:31:16.399 --> 01:31:19.880 the horse trough holes for roots to grow in. So 1614 01:31:20.720 --> 01:31:23.680 just you can buy those rings that have no bottom 1615 01:31:23.680 --> 01:31:25.640 in them. They're not for holding water, and you could 1616 01:31:25.680 --> 01:31:27.880 do that, or you could just make a raised box bed, 1617 01:31:27.960 --> 01:31:30.119 however you want to go about it. I'm gonna have 1618 01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:33.239 to take a break here pretty quick for the for 1619 01:31:33.319 --> 01:31:36.439 a commercials, but I would do that. I would go 1620 01:31:36.439 --> 01:31:39.000 to the Aggie Horticulture website though. You'll learn a lot 1621 01:31:39.159 --> 01:31:41.760 on there about those and get some other good ideas. 1622 01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:44.600 I just threw out a few varieties for you all. 1623 01:31:44.680 --> 01:31:45.359 I appreciate it. 1624 01:31:45.439 --> 01:31:50.439 Okay, thanks, Bob, appreciate that. We're gonna take a little break. 1625 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:52.880 When we come back. We will talk to Bob in 1626 01:31:53.000 --> 01:31:57.720 Friendswood and Fran and Katie welcome back to garden Line. 1627 01:31:58.279 --> 01:32:01.079 Glad you are listening today. We've got a burn to 1628 01:32:01.119 --> 01:32:03.960 things talk about, including your questions. At seven one three 1629 01:32:04.079 --> 01:32:07.479 two one two fifty eight seventy four, we're going to 1630 01:32:07.520 --> 01:32:10.079 go to Friends with now and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, 1631 01:32:10.119 --> 01:32:11.760 welcome to garden Line. 1632 01:32:12.199 --> 01:32:13.479 Good morning, Skip, thank you. 1633 01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:16.239 Sure. 1634 01:32:18.199 --> 01:32:20.199 So I have a we just bought a new home 1635 01:32:20.239 --> 01:32:23.960 down in Lamark and uh, I'm wanting to put some 1636 01:32:24.079 --> 01:32:26.640 red mulberry trees back there, And first off, I guess 1637 01:32:27.399 --> 01:32:30.239 is that a good area for red mulberry trees? 1638 01:32:32.479 --> 01:32:35.119 They would? They will do fine there, they sure will. 1639 01:32:35.359 --> 01:32:39.319 Yeah, do you happen to know any places in the 1640 01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:46.680 Houston area where I can purchase them? 1641 01:32:46.720 --> 01:32:52.399 Down south? I might try calling Moss Nursery over in 1642 01:32:52.520 --> 01:32:59.079 Seabrook or Jorges Hidden Gardens down in Alvin. There are 1643 01:32:59.119 --> 01:33:03.640 some other garden centers down your way. The names are 1644 01:33:03.720 --> 01:33:07.439 escaping me right now as I try to think of them. Uh, 1645 01:33:07.560 --> 01:33:11.159 but those two would be a place to start. 1646 01:33:11.399 --> 01:33:11.560 Uh. 1647 01:33:11.600 --> 01:33:15.359 And if you if you run, if you can't find one, 1648 01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:18.920 you're sure welcome to email me and I can. I 1649 01:33:18.960 --> 01:33:22.840 can look into it more specifically on the red mulberries 1650 01:33:22.880 --> 01:33:26.039 and probably do a better job giving you a source. 1651 01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:29.319 But that that would just mean, you know, hang on 1652 01:33:29.800 --> 01:33:32.600 after our call, and my producer will give you an 1653 01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:35.680 email address if you want, if you want to. 1654 01:33:35.640 --> 01:33:38.560 Do that, Okay, Yeah, that sounds great, I appreciate. 1655 01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:42.960 Yeah, you bet. That's not a common fruit tree really here. 1656 01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:46.399 I mean, not like you know, peaches or citrus or things. 1657 01:33:46.920 --> 01:33:47.159 Uh. 1658 01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:49.399 And so I just off the top of my head, 1659 01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:53.000 I'm just not sure down in your area? Who carries those? 1660 01:33:55.319 --> 01:33:55.560 Thanks? 1661 01:33:55.760 --> 01:33:58.640 Thanks sir, appreciate that call. You bet. 1662 01:34:00.079 --> 01:34:00.199 It. 1663 01:34:01.079 --> 01:34:03.560 Let's go to Katie now and talk to Fran. Hey, Fran, 1664 01:34:03.800 --> 01:34:04.760 welcome to garden line. 1665 01:34:05.840 --> 01:34:09.399 Oh thanks. I'm just wondering if you have any tips 1666 01:34:09.640 --> 01:34:13.159 on how to keep spoils from digging in your garden beds, 1667 01:34:13.399 --> 01:34:17.760 digging holes and into the newly planted bushes and such. 1668 01:34:18.119 --> 01:34:21.439 How to is there a way to stop them? 1669 01:34:21.439 --> 01:34:28.800 Any tips? Yeah? So, I don't know how much bed 1670 01:34:28.880 --> 01:34:33.239 area you have that they're digging in, but some gardeners, 1671 01:34:33.239 --> 01:34:36.159 and I've done this myself, is put wire on the ground, 1672 01:34:36.279 --> 01:34:39.279 you know, sections of wire. I have an area where 1673 01:34:39.279 --> 01:34:41.880 the dogs were always digging in the beds and things, 1674 01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:44.279 and I just took some chicken wi I actually bought 1675 01:34:44.359 --> 01:34:49.640 the kind that's green coated metal, kind of covered with 1676 01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:51.880 a green plastic coating so you don't really see it, 1677 01:34:52.760 --> 01:34:55.000 and I just laid it on the surface and took 1678 01:34:55.039 --> 01:34:58.920 a few pins to pin it down. And that keeps 1679 01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:00.640 them out of there. And if it's a bed where 1680 01:35:00.640 --> 01:35:02.600 you've got to get in and change the flowers all 1681 01:35:02.640 --> 01:35:06.079 the time, uh, then that that's not going to be practical. 1682 01:35:06.159 --> 01:35:08.840 But if it's just some shrubs and things that would work. 1683 01:35:09.840 --> 01:35:12.720 Okay, okay, that's sound good. I'll try that, thank you. 1684 01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:17.640 Okay, you bet. One other thing, one other thing you 1685 01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:23.039 could try, and and is sometimes gardeners have told me 1686 01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:26.760 they use they'll use mothballs and they'll throw a few 1687 01:35:27.039 --> 01:35:29.239 around the bed, and not a whole bunch of them, 1688 01:35:29.399 --> 01:35:32.079 just a few, and it creates an odor that a 1689 01:35:32.119 --> 01:35:34.520 lot of plant or a lot of critters don't like 1690 01:35:34.600 --> 01:35:36.920 that smell. I mean, if you've ever smelled mothballs, they're 1691 01:35:36.920 --> 01:35:40.720 pretty pungent, And of course you'll smell it when you're 1692 01:35:40.720 --> 01:35:43.520 outside if you're the ones blowing the right way. But 1693 01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:45.479 you might try that and see if that kind of 1694 01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:47.960 gets them out of that bed and off to something else. 1695 01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:53.760 Just another idea, Sure you bet, Thank you, Thanks for 1696 01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:57.880 the call. Okay, here we're going to go now to 1697 01:35:58.960 --> 01:36:02.399 Bob in freend Ones. Would hey, Bob, welcome to garden Line. 1698 01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:07.840 Yes, sir, I think you already answered my red mullberry questions. 1699 01:36:08.359 --> 01:36:13.479 Oh okay, okay, okay, thank you very much. I'm close off. 1700 01:36:14.279 --> 01:36:18.000 Let's see, we're gonna go down to Jeff and Clearla 1701 01:36:18.000 --> 01:36:19.800 like Hey Jeff. 1702 01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:24.840 Hi, good morning, Skiff, I've got a hedgerow of azalea's. 1703 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:28.399 They're probably about three and a half feet high. They're sick, 1704 01:36:28.520 --> 01:36:31.840 they're long and down at the base. In one area 1705 01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:35.560 there are all these like thread or maybe a little 1706 01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:40.199 string sized, light green, tall weeds that kind of like 1707 01:36:40.239 --> 01:36:43.560 a vine, and it has little tiny leaves hanging off, 1708 01:36:43.600 --> 01:36:45.399 but they go all the way up, okay, to the top, 1709 01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:48.039 and they kind of lay over on top, and I 1710 01:36:48.039 --> 01:36:49.840 don't know how to kill them. I just pull them 1711 01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:52.319 out from the top, but it doesn't really kill the root, 1712 01:36:52.800 --> 01:36:53.960 so I don't know how to get rid of them 1713 01:36:54.000 --> 01:36:55.399 without hurting the azalea. 1714 01:36:57.600 --> 01:37:01.960 Okay, to number one, I can put you on hold 1715 01:37:02.079 --> 01:37:04.680 and you can send me a picture, and that allows 1716 01:37:04.720 --> 01:37:07.880 me to be sure of what I'm talking about. We 1717 01:37:07.920 --> 01:37:10.680 can do that if it is a broadly vine, in 1718 01:37:10.680 --> 01:37:13.560 other words, it's not a grass plant that's growing through there. 1719 01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:19.199 It's a broadly plant of vine. You can dab a 1720 01:37:19.319 --> 01:37:24.800 product containing triclope here on the leaves or stem of that. 1721 01:37:25.560 --> 01:37:28.279 The safest way to do it is to build a 1722 01:37:28.279 --> 01:37:31.159 little weed wiper, which I have to online. You can 1723 01:37:31.199 --> 01:37:33.640 see how to build one. They're inexpensive and easy and 1724 01:37:33.680 --> 01:37:36.439 you'll use them a lot around the landscape because that 1725 01:37:36.479 --> 01:37:38.720 allows you to put that product on the sponges of 1726 01:37:38.760 --> 01:37:41.239 the weed wiper, and you reach right in there and 1727 01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:43.840 you get it on the stem of the vine, and 1728 01:37:43.880 --> 01:37:45.560 you get it on the leaves of the vine, and 1729 01:37:45.600 --> 01:37:49.560 it'll translocate down and kill them. That's one option. Another 1730 01:37:49.760 --> 01:37:52.359 is to cut the vines off a few inches above 1731 01:37:52.439 --> 01:37:56.039 the ground and just use a little spongebrush like you 1732 01:37:56.119 --> 01:38:00.239 get at the paint store, a little narrow spongebrush, dip 1733 01:38:00.279 --> 01:38:03.840 it in the triclopere and wipe it on the stem 1734 01:38:03.920 --> 01:38:06.479 and the cut surface of the vine. And that's another 1735 01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:07.520 way to go about that. 1736 01:38:09.000 --> 01:38:13.119 No, that's good, I think. I'm sorry. 1737 01:38:13.119 --> 01:38:16.000 Ahead, okay, you have you have you ever been to 1738 01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:23.279 my website Gardening with Skip dot com? Uh no, sir, okay, 1739 01:38:23.600 --> 01:38:27.720 So go there and you'll see Skip's weed wiper. It's 1740 01:38:27.760 --> 01:38:30.199 a publication shows you how to build one. You'll also 1741 01:38:30.319 --> 01:38:34.039 see herbicides to use on Skip's weed wiper. And so 1742 01:38:34.159 --> 01:38:37.159 whatever you're trying to control, maybe it's wild onions coming 1743 01:38:37.239 --> 01:38:40.880 up in the yard, maybe it's poison ivy, you know, 1744 01:38:41.039 --> 01:38:43.479 over in a shrub or the vine you're talking about. 1745 01:38:43.600 --> 01:38:46.760 It'll tell you what products to use to wipe on 1746 01:38:46.920 --> 01:38:49.640 those particular kinds of unwanted plants. 1747 01:38:51.000 --> 01:38:53.159 Yes, I will do it at the top. The base 1748 01:38:53.279 --> 01:38:56.039 is so nested down and they almost can't get in there, 1749 01:38:56.439 --> 01:38:58.920 you know what I mean. So yeah, hopefully it'll work 1750 01:38:59.000 --> 01:39:00.359 to the top. I appreciate it all that. 1751 01:39:01.079 --> 01:39:06.039 Just just be extra careful, yeah, yeah, the track will. 1752 01:39:06.199 --> 01:39:07.880 Just be real careful not to get it on your 1753 01:39:08.239 --> 01:39:10.760 It will kill broad leaf weeds period, whether it's a 1754 01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:13.920 lovely azalea, a petunia, or the weed you're trying to kill, 1755 01:39:13.960 --> 01:39:15.439 it'll kill them all if you get it on them, 1756 01:39:15.439 --> 01:39:18.159 So be real careful, yes, sir. 1757 01:39:17.960 --> 01:39:18.880 I will. I appreciate it. 1758 01:39:19.239 --> 01:39:25.439 Thank you, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. U. 1759 01:39:25.920 --> 01:39:29.640 League City feed Down in League City is your go 1760 01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:33.800 to place for quality feeds down in that area. You know, 1761 01:39:33.840 --> 01:39:36.079 if you're if you're in any of the communities around 1762 01:39:36.159 --> 01:39:39.000 League City, this is your hometown feed store. So people 1763 01:39:39.039 --> 01:39:41.640 in Santa Fe and San Leon and Dickinson and Webster 1764 01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:45.319 and clear Lake City and Lamark and this is your 1765 01:39:45.319 --> 01:39:48.479 hometown feed store. You just head to League City. It's 1766 01:39:48.520 --> 01:39:51.520 on Highway three, just a few blocks south of ninety six. 1767 01:39:51.840 --> 01:39:54.720 Highway three, A few blocks south of ninety six. You're 1768 01:39:54.720 --> 01:39:57.520 going to find the products I talk about, like nitrofoss 1769 01:39:57.560 --> 01:40:03.560 and microlife, Nelson play food asamite. There. They carry a 1770 01:40:03.600 --> 01:40:06.680 wide variety of pesticides and herbicides and fungicides, and of 1771 01:40:06.720 --> 01:40:08.720 course they have feed store. They got feet stuff. But 1772 01:40:08.760 --> 01:40:10.439 if you're a gardener or a lands it won't take 1773 01:40:10.439 --> 01:40:12.359 care of your landscape. You got to go by there. 1774 01:40:12.439 --> 01:40:15.439 Here's the phone number two eight one three three two 1775 01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:19.720 sixteen twelve. They are open Monday through Saturday nine to six, 1776 01:40:19.760 --> 01:40:21.760 so you can swing by there after work, and they're 1777 01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:25.720 closed on Sunday. League City Feet. I've got to run 1778 01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:29.399 here to break Bill and Friends with You'll be the 1779 01:40:29.399 --> 01:40:34.600 first up when we come back. Welcome back, Welcome back 1780 01:40:34.640 --> 01:40:38.600 to garden Line. All right, on a good day for gardening. 1781 01:40:38.640 --> 01:40:41.600 And yes, I know, I know you're saying, but it's 1782 01:40:41.680 --> 01:40:44.600 raining outside. It's hardly going to get about fifty today. 1783 01:40:45.439 --> 01:40:47.399 How can that be a good day for gardening. It's 1784 01:40:47.439 --> 01:40:49.800 a great day for gardening. It's time to listen to 1785 01:40:49.840 --> 01:40:51.520 garden Line on the radio, which we're going to be 1786 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:53.960 doing that till ten o'clock. It is time to get 1787 01:40:54.000 --> 01:40:58.880 out the seed catalogs and dream, dream about the wonderful 1788 01:40:58.920 --> 01:41:01.319 things you're going to plant this year's time. You could 1789 01:41:01.319 --> 01:41:04.319 even you know, brave souls can get out and visit 1790 01:41:04.319 --> 01:41:05.720 a garden center if you want to do on a 1791 01:41:05.800 --> 01:41:07.960 day like this, that's all right. I like I do 1792 01:41:08.039 --> 01:41:11.640 it less crowds and days like this too. It is 1793 01:41:11.680 --> 01:41:13.520 a good time to take care of house plants, to 1794 01:41:13.560 --> 01:41:17.119 plan your house plants, to fertilize. If you need anything repotted, 1795 01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:19.079 this would be a good time to do it. To 1796 01:41:19.079 --> 01:41:22.119 get online and order some equipment and things for gardening 1797 01:41:22.159 --> 01:41:25.039 and supplies. You need lots of stuff to do for gardening, 1798 01:41:25.119 --> 01:41:28.720 even on a day like this. Bukin's Native Plants, they've 1799 01:41:28.760 --> 01:41:31.920 got a house plant greenhouse that is covered. It's it's 1800 01:41:31.920 --> 01:41:34.399 a greenhouse, a plast to cover over the top. You 1801 01:41:34.439 --> 01:41:36.159 can go in there and shop on a day like this, 1802 01:41:36.439 --> 01:41:39.279 and man, do they have a good selection all kinds 1803 01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:42.680 of open things, all kinds of things that are there. 1804 01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:46.159 And they're open today by the way too. Now if Buchanan, 1805 01:41:46.319 --> 01:41:49.439 they've got an event coming up that is today that 1806 01:41:49.640 --> 01:41:52.479 I really think you need to consider, and that's the 1807 01:41:52.520 --> 01:41:57.720 holiday open house that's today. There's live music, there's kids crafts. 1808 01:41:57.840 --> 01:42:01.319 There's a sanob there. There'll be drinks. When Buchanans puts 1809 01:42:01.319 --> 01:42:03.600 on a party, it's always a great event, always a 1810 01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:07.039 great in this case a free event. They're on Eleventh 1811 01:42:07.079 --> 01:42:10.520 Street in the Heights. Eleventh Street in the Heights is Buchanans. Now. 1812 01:42:10.520 --> 01:42:14.960 They specialize in natives, native plants. Nobody has as many 1813 01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:18.199 native plants as Beginnings does in this whole region. So 1814 01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:21.319 if you're thinking about adding a native plant. Earlier I 1815 01:42:21.399 --> 01:42:23.800 talked about I don't know what was it. Button bush 1816 01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:25.720 does well in wet areas. You know, so you got 1817 01:42:25.720 --> 01:42:28.800 this wet, soggy area. What can what shrub can I 1818 01:42:28.880 --> 01:42:32.279 plant there that will attract butterflies? Button bush is a 1819 01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:34.960 good example. Where do you get it? Well, Buchanans has it. 1820 01:42:35.000 --> 01:42:37.039 They've got a lot others too, And fall is the 1821 01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:38.600 time to plant, even if you're not going to get 1822 01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:40.760 out and planet it today, Get the plant, bring it home. 1823 01:42:41.439 --> 01:42:43.800 When the weather clears and it'll be clearing up here, 1824 01:42:44.319 --> 01:42:46.000 you can get out there and get the job done. 1825 01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:49.960 At Buchanans Plants, go to Buchanansplants dot com. That's the 1826 01:42:50.000 --> 01:42:54.159 website Buchanansplants dot com. Sign up for their newsletter. You 1827 01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:56.520 need to hear what's going on, and they always have 1828 01:42:56.640 --> 01:43:01.840 good educational materials available. Throw on a coat, get out there, 1829 01:43:02.079 --> 01:43:06.439 enjoy the holiday open house that they're having today. We're 1830 01:43:06.439 --> 01:43:09.920 going to go to Friends with now and visit with Bill. Hello, Bill, 1831 01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:11.079 Welcome to garden Line. 1832 01:43:11.479 --> 01:43:17.319 Good morning Skip. I've got seven variety of citrus plants 1833 01:43:17.319 --> 01:43:23.439 in my backyard, including some Persian limes, satsumas, and meyer lemons. 1834 01:43:23.439 --> 01:43:26.680 And I'm going to be gone on and off for 1835 01:43:26.720 --> 01:43:30.399 about a month here in the beginning in about a 1836 01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:33.880 week and then into January. I'm worried about coming home 1837 01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:38.560 and find them all dead. I was wondering, I've got 1838 01:43:38.199 --> 01:43:44.119 like wire those a little wire cages around them. I 1839 01:43:44.159 --> 01:43:45.720 was wondering if it makes sense for me to go 1840 01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:48.399 out and get some like leaf moll composts and dump 1841 01:43:48.399 --> 01:43:50.159 it in there up to the stock up to the 1842 01:43:50.199 --> 01:43:54.000 leaf level to try and protect the you know, would 1843 01:43:54.039 --> 01:43:57.079 it be okay to put you know, something like that 1844 01:43:57.239 --> 01:44:02.079 on the stems for that length of time to help help. 1845 01:44:01.960 --> 01:44:07.159 You could do that A uh yeah, A fairly find 1846 01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:11.560 textured compost put around the base will help protect uh 1847 01:44:11.960 --> 01:44:15.920 uh and insulate uh and you see citrus orchards in Florida. 1848 01:44:15.920 --> 01:44:18.680 When it's going to rain, they'll or Texas they'll pile 1849 01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:21.439 giant cones of soil up around the base and that way, 1850 01:44:21.439 --> 01:44:23.960 if it freezes back to the top of that soil cone, 1851 01:44:24.399 --> 01:44:27.279 well at least you've got something above the graft to regrow, 1852 01:44:27.479 --> 01:44:29.800 so that that would be step one. You're on the 1853 01:44:29.880 --> 01:44:30.680 right track there. 1854 01:44:31.159 --> 01:44:31.359 Uh. 1855 01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:35.159 You just you just want to remember pardon. 1856 01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:38.279 Saying, get you know, get it away from it after 1857 01:44:38.359 --> 01:44:39.920 I get back, as soon as I get back. 1858 01:44:40.680 --> 01:44:42.479 Yeah, when you can get it back, get it back 1859 01:44:42.520 --> 01:44:44.720 from there. Don't leave it long term. But you do 1860 01:44:44.800 --> 01:44:47.199 want to finder textured compost because you don't want air 1861 01:44:47.239 --> 01:44:49.159 to blow through that, you know, and you want it 1862 01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:51.399 to you want it to hold in some heat there. 1863 01:44:51.680 --> 01:44:55.920 But that would do it. On my website, Gardening with 1864 01:44:56.319 --> 01:45:00.159 skip dot com, there's a publication on protecting plants and 1865 01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:03.239 frosts and freezes that I wrote with one of our 1866 01:45:03.319 --> 01:45:06.840 hort specialists at A and M. It is nine page, 1867 01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:10.039 I think it's nine pages, full color, lots of information. 1868 01:45:10.600 --> 01:45:13.279 I would definitely go check that out today. You can 1869 01:45:13.319 --> 01:45:15.039 print it up if you want, or just read it 1870 01:45:15.079 --> 01:45:19.560 online and that will give you some guidance. You can 1871 01:45:19.640 --> 01:45:24.199 create a structure over the more cold tender things. And 1872 01:45:25.039 --> 01:45:27.159 let's say you make a PVC box. Just think of 1873 01:45:27.199 --> 01:45:30.560 that a PVC igloo or a box. I like to 1874 01:45:30.600 --> 01:45:34.399 bend the PBC pipe in an arch over it in 1875 01:45:34.479 --> 01:45:36.920 two or three different directions, and then throw a cover 1876 01:45:37.000 --> 01:45:40.119 over the whole thing. If it's a clear cover, it'll 1877 01:45:40.119 --> 01:45:43.840 get too hot underneath there. If it's a shady cover. 1878 01:45:44.119 --> 01:45:46.479 To not have sunlight for how long are you going 1879 01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:47.000 to be gone? 1880 01:45:47.720 --> 01:45:48.520 Over? About a month? 1881 01:45:50.319 --> 01:45:52.560 About a month, it's a little long to not get 1882 01:45:52.600 --> 01:45:56.760 any sunlight at all. If you had anybody who would 1883 01:45:57.119 --> 01:46:00.960 locally be willing to come by and drop the sides 1884 01:46:01.039 --> 01:46:04.920 down and just put some bricks, you know, you have 1885 01:46:05.000 --> 01:46:08.439 the weights and stuff there and secure that and then 1886 01:46:08.560 --> 01:46:10.960 when the freeze is done, take it off. If it 1887 01:46:11.000 --> 01:46:13.520 gets if we get you know, warm sunny days, and 1888 01:46:13.560 --> 01:46:15.840 they're boxed up in a clear cover, it gets too 1889 01:46:15.880 --> 01:46:19.159 hot in there too. That would be the ultimate protection, 1890 01:46:19.479 --> 01:46:22.239 is to have that covering over it. That air dead, 1891 01:46:22.239 --> 01:46:24.840 air space, no air blowing through covering. 1892 01:46:25.640 --> 01:46:25.920 Yeah. 1893 01:46:26.039 --> 01:46:27.239 Now I do have RSA. 1894 01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:30.079 I got these like metal fences around them. They go 1895 01:46:30.199 --> 01:46:32.760 up to about two and a half feet tall, and 1896 01:46:33.000 --> 01:46:35.800 I got a bunch of frost cloths I could kind 1897 01:46:35.800 --> 01:46:39.039 of with with the mulch inside, kind of put the 1898 01:46:39.079 --> 01:46:42.000 frost class around it and then but not cover up 1899 01:46:42.039 --> 01:46:46.039 the top of the tree so much. It might help keep. 1900 01:46:45.960 --> 01:46:48.640 You can cover if you Yeah, if you have a 1901 01:46:48.680 --> 01:46:53.119 frost cloth level thickness of that spun bomb polyester, that 1902 01:46:53.119 --> 01:46:57.479 that would give some protection a few degrees. Now, things 1903 01:46:57.560 --> 01:47:00.560 like satsumas, they're going to be very hearty and we're 1904 01:47:00.600 --> 01:47:03.319 probably not going to have weather that kills us atsuma 1905 01:47:04.079 --> 01:47:07.359 and while you're gone. But some things like lemons and 1906 01:47:07.399 --> 01:47:11.000 limes are very coold tender, So yeah, you may prioritize 1907 01:47:11.039 --> 01:47:11.680 how you do that. 1908 01:47:12.479 --> 01:47:14.399 Okay, Well, thank you very much, appreciate it. 1909 01:47:16.000 --> 01:47:18.479 Well, good luck with it. And if any citrus survives, 1910 01:47:18.520 --> 01:47:20.560 I just ask you bring me half the produce to 1911 01:47:20.600 --> 01:47:22.960 the station and we'll call it even. Thank you, Bill, 1912 01:47:25.800 --> 01:47:31.720 bye bye. All right. Oh you're listening to the garden line, 1913 01:47:31.760 --> 01:47:34.840 and oh my gosh, the clock says that I got 1914 01:47:34.840 --> 01:47:37.199 to quit talking. I don't want to quit talking. I've 1915 01:47:37.199 --> 01:47:39.960 had a lot to talk about here. I keep telling 1916 01:47:39.960 --> 01:47:42.800 you we're going to talk about mistletoe. We are just 1917 01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:45.199 stick around and be patient. I'm going to tell you 1918 01:47:45.239 --> 01:47:49.840 stuff about mistletoe that you did not know. That's a 1919 01:47:49.880 --> 01:47:51.840 bold statement that I am. I'm going to tell you 1920 01:47:51.880 --> 01:47:54.399 stuff about mistletoe you not know. 1921 01:47:54.960 --> 01:47:55.039 Now. 1922 01:47:55.079 --> 01:47:57.840 I will not tell you how to get your favorite 1923 01:47:57.920 --> 01:48:01.199 significant other underneath that that you're gonna have to work 1924 01:48:01.239 --> 01:48:04.680 that out yourself. But I will talk about some of 1925 01:48:04.760 --> 01:48:08.319 the wonders of mistletoe when you come back. You are 1926 01:48:08.359 --> 01:48:11.119 listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one 1927 01:48:11.239 --> 01:48:15.039 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 1928 01:48:15.199 --> 01:48:19.239 three two one two five eight seven four. You can 1929 01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:24.960 check the out online at gardening with skip dot com. 1930 01:48:25.439 --> 01:48:27.960 Lots of good information there. I talked about that fees 1931 01:48:28.039 --> 01:48:30.920 and cross protection. Hey, don't wait until the night of 1932 01:48:31.000 --> 01:48:34.000 the freeze. Download it now. Let this supply you know 1933 01:48:34.359 --> 01:48:35.239 and you'll be ready. 1934 01:48:37.239 --> 01:48:41.439 Welcome to kzy r H garden Line with skimp Richter's so. 1935 01:48:41.800 --> 01:48:56.399 Please crazy trip. Just watch you as will tell us 1936 01:48:56.439 --> 01:48:57.279 so many. 1937 01:48:57.079 --> 01:49:09.520 Gothies to supposy not a side. 1938 01:49:09.880 --> 01:49:14.279 All right, folks, Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad you're listening. 1939 01:49:15.039 --> 01:49:17.119 Glad to have you with us today. It's a good 1940 01:49:17.159 --> 01:49:19.880 day to be inside listening to Garden Line right now. 1941 01:49:20.399 --> 01:49:23.920 I hope you can bundle up and enjoy getting out 1942 01:49:24.199 --> 01:49:26.000 some of the things that you can be out there 1943 01:49:26.039 --> 01:49:28.439 doing today. Begin has had that big event going on. 1944 01:49:28.600 --> 01:49:30.479 I definitely don't want to miss that. Starts right after 1945 01:49:30.479 --> 01:49:33.239 the Garden Line show, by the way, ten o'clock until 1946 01:49:33.239 --> 01:49:35.920 you don't want to delay, get there and enjoy that. 1947 01:49:36.760 --> 01:49:38.920 I'm sure they're going to have some cover for you. 1948 01:49:39.000 --> 01:49:40.920 I know they do in the greenhouse there. It's a 1949 01:49:40.920 --> 01:49:41.359 good thing. 1950 01:49:42.039 --> 01:49:42.239 Well. 1951 01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:49.119 Medina Products has been a fixture of Garden Line for long, 1952 01:49:49.319 --> 01:49:53.840 long before I sat down in this chair. And Medina 1953 01:49:54.039 --> 01:49:56.119 is loved by gardeners because they have a number of 1954 01:49:56.159 --> 01:49:59.159 different products and they work. That's kind of the bottom 1955 01:49:59.199 --> 01:50:01.199 line on it. One of them i'd like to feature 1956 01:50:01.279 --> 01:50:05.880 right now is called Medina Plus now Medinasol Activator, a 1957 01:50:05.880 --> 01:50:10.479 different product. Medinosol Activator has been around for a long time, 1958 01:50:11.039 --> 01:50:15.239 very popular with gardners. Medina Plus takes that Medinosol Activator 1959 01:50:15.279 --> 01:50:19.920 adds about forty different trace elements natural growth hormones from 1960 01:50:19.960 --> 01:50:23.359 seaweed like side of kindness for example. It's got additional 1961 01:50:23.399 --> 01:50:26.640 elements like magnesium and iron and zinc and so on, 1962 01:50:27.319 --> 01:50:29.560 of vitamins, and other things. It's going to be the 1963 01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:32.319 kind of thing you would use as a folier feed, 1964 01:50:32.439 --> 01:50:36.560 won't burn your plants. It is especially helpful at transplanting time. 1965 01:50:37.640 --> 01:50:41.960 You can drench that new transplant in with Medina Plus 1966 01:50:42.720 --> 01:50:46.920 and it helps establish roots. It helps early growth. You're 1967 01:50:46.920 --> 01:50:49.479 going to have better establishment, You're going to have better 1968 01:50:49.760 --> 01:50:54.479 growth in everything. When a plant is healthy, everything is improved, 1969 01:50:54.520 --> 01:50:58.760 so increasing blooming and promoting fruit set and other things 1970 01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:03.640 like that by just making the plant very very healthy, 1971 01:51:03.920 --> 01:51:07.640 very very vigorous. Now when you're using it, you can 1972 01:51:07.800 --> 01:51:09.640 you can buy it by the court and mix it up, 1973 01:51:10.720 --> 01:51:13.720 put it in a wateringkin. That's how I would apply 1974 01:51:13.800 --> 01:51:16.560 it as I do apply it. Or you could do 1975 01:51:16.560 --> 01:51:19.399 a hose in sprayer. That's another option, so you could 1976 01:51:19.439 --> 01:51:22.439 use it on lawns and things like that if you wished, Uh, 1977 01:51:22.640 --> 01:51:24.479 but you could what are your plants in with that? 1978 01:51:24.600 --> 01:51:26.479 Just go over the whole garden with that hose en sprayer, 1979 01:51:26.840 --> 01:51:29.399 applying it to the foliage and the and the roots 1980 01:51:29.439 --> 01:51:32.399 as well. Medina Plus from the folks at Medina and 1981 01:51:32.439 --> 01:51:35.800 Medina products again widely available here in the Greater Houston area. 1982 01:51:35.800 --> 01:51:40.039 You're not going to mean trouble finding those products. Now 1983 01:51:40.079 --> 01:51:45.079 I've been talking about coming in and discussing missiletoe, so 1984 01:51:45.199 --> 01:51:53.920 let's jump in to the mistletoe discussion. So the mistletoe 1985 01:51:54.399 --> 01:52:01.239 is a parasitic plant that essentially lives off of other plants. 1986 01:52:02.760 --> 01:52:05.800 So you see it in trees. For example, some trees 1987 01:52:05.840 --> 01:52:09.439 are especially prone to it. Hackberries very prone to mistletoe, 1988 01:52:09.680 --> 01:52:11.760 but not the only variety. In fact, a lot of 1989 01:52:11.800 --> 01:52:14.600 different trees are attacked by mistletoe. Did you know they're 1990 01:52:14.600 --> 01:52:20.720 over thirteen hundred species of mistletoe worldwide. Fortunately, they don't 1991 01:52:20.760 --> 01:52:23.239 all grow here. We just have a couple of types 1992 01:52:23.560 --> 01:52:26.760 here in North America that are native and then a 1993 01:52:26.800 --> 01:52:30.039 few species that have found their way in to North 1994 01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:33.479 America as well. But they can only live on a 1995 01:52:33.520 --> 01:52:37.520 host plant. So what they do is the mistletoe sea 1996 01:52:37.680 --> 01:52:41.880 lands on the plant bark and it sprouts in its 1997 01:52:41.920 --> 01:52:45.359 sends the equivalent of a root's actually called a hostoria 1998 01:52:45.800 --> 01:52:50.600 into the tree branch, and then the root like structure 1999 01:52:51.479 --> 01:52:56.960 just populates that area and it draws the nutrients and 2000 01:52:57.319 --> 01:53:00.520 the water the minerals in the water from the tree. 2001 01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:04.600 Mistletoe is green, the stems are green, and so they 2002 01:53:04.640 --> 01:53:09.039 can photosynthesize and make their own carbohydrates on the plant. Okay, 2003 01:53:09.079 --> 01:53:13.239 that's how they live now. Interestingly enough, in the America, 2004 01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:17.079 mistletoe the primarily one we deal with this called phorodendron. 2005 01:53:17.119 --> 01:53:19.359 That's the genus of it, and what it means is 2006 01:53:19.479 --> 01:53:24.880 thief of the tree in Greek. So it literally is drawing. 2007 01:53:25.039 --> 01:53:28.279 It is sucking water nutrients out of the tree through 2008 01:53:28.319 --> 01:53:33.600 those Australia roots and they can live many, many, many years, 2009 01:53:33.640 --> 01:53:35.960 and it generally doesn't kill trees, although it can get 2010 01:53:36.319 --> 01:53:39.039 to be so bad that it really severely weakens the tree. 2011 01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:42.600 Second fun fact about mistletoe. Did you know they're separate 2012 01:53:42.600 --> 01:53:47.359 male and female plants. Yeah, separate male and female plants 2013 01:53:47.399 --> 01:53:51.000 and mistletoe. So the female plants produce the berries, those 2014 01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:56.560 little white, gelatinous, kind of sticky berries. If you've ever 2015 01:53:56.600 --> 01:54:00.239 grabbed one and squeezed on it and everything, it's it's 2016 01:54:00.279 --> 01:54:04.680 just it's a gooey mess. But here's another fun fact, 2017 01:54:04.680 --> 01:54:09.720 a cool thing. The seeds. The berries have seeds inside. 2018 01:54:10.000 --> 01:54:13.840 They pump water into the seed and there is so 2019 01:54:14.000 --> 01:54:19.199 much pressure in that berry that when it explodes, those 2020 01:54:19.239 --> 01:54:23.479 seeds just shoot out of there and they've actually you know, 2021 01:54:23.560 --> 01:54:28.039 with slow moo photography determined that up to sixty miles 2022 01:54:28.039 --> 01:54:31.560 per hour as far as fifty feet away. So you 2023 01:54:31.640 --> 01:54:34.800 got mistletoe in your tree, Boom, a berry pops and 2024 01:54:34.840 --> 01:54:39.199 there go. Seeds fly in whichever direction and it's they're sticky. 2025 01:54:39.239 --> 01:54:41.960 They have sicky substance, so they stick where they land 2026 01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:45.159 and then they germinate. Now you got mistletoe over there. 2027 01:54:45.199 --> 01:54:48.039 Another way they can occur is birds eat them. They 2028 01:54:48.159 --> 01:54:52.159 like the berries, and then the birds digest the berries 2029 01:54:52.399 --> 01:54:55.319 and out the back end of the bird comes the seed. 2030 01:54:55.920 --> 01:54:58.399 And when they do their little droppings and they land 2031 01:54:58.439 --> 01:55:00.880 on a plant. That's another way that's gets into the 2032 01:55:00.880 --> 01:55:05.159 plant that we have now. Now, yeah, controlling mistletoe is 2033 01:55:05.239 --> 01:55:10.079 very difficult and almost almost impossible. I've seen a lot 2034 01:55:10.119 --> 01:55:13.560 of different things recommended, from wrapping a tree with burrowlap 2035 01:55:13.680 --> 01:55:16.359 covered with black plastic and leaving it on for a 2036 01:55:16.399 --> 01:55:19.000 long time because remember it truly is a plant that 2037 01:55:19.039 --> 01:55:23.239 has to have sunlight to grow, but that it does 2038 01:55:23.359 --> 01:55:25.520 just say it's impractical to try to do that. There 2039 01:55:25.520 --> 01:55:30.199 are products containing hormones like ethophon that caused the missletoe 2040 01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:33.119 to essentially be cast out of the tree that has 2041 01:55:33.159 --> 01:55:36.800 break often come out. That is a temporary effix, not 2042 01:55:36.840 --> 01:55:39.199 going to last a super long time. You can do that. 2043 01:55:40.560 --> 01:55:43.720 Did you know that? In Oklahoma mistletoe is the state 2044 01:55:44.520 --> 01:55:49.520 floral emblem. Okay, I think you can do better than that, 2045 01:55:49.560 --> 01:55:51.880 but we're going to go with it. In that tradition 2046 01:55:51.960 --> 01:55:54.600 of kissing under the mistletoe goes back at least to 2047 01:55:54.680 --> 01:55:57.840 the seventeen hundreds, and I don't know how that actually 2048 01:55:57.920 --> 01:56:01.600 got started. But if you're underneath the mistletoe and someone 2049 01:56:01.600 --> 01:56:03.319 finds you, they're supposed to be able to get away 2050 01:56:03.359 --> 01:56:07.000 with a holiday kiss. Good luck with that to an 2051 01:56:07.079 --> 01:56:15.079 unwilling victim. Approach the mistletoe anyway. Mistletoe is hung up 2052 01:56:15.119 --> 01:56:17.319 in our houses and stuff. Just remember it has a 2053 01:56:17.359 --> 01:56:21.600 reputation of being a poisonous plant, but it's the European 2054 01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:26.359 spee one European species. It's reportedly toxic. The American mistletoe 2055 01:56:26.439 --> 01:56:28.399 is not deadly. I'm sure it doesn't taste good and 2056 01:56:28.439 --> 01:56:30.119 it would be good for you to eat it, but 2057 01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:33.319 it's not the toxic one. But it is one we 2058 01:56:33.439 --> 01:56:36.000 use a lot for our decorations. A lot of birds 2059 01:56:36.039 --> 01:56:40.239 depend on the mistletoe berries. Other animals, deer, elk, squirrels, chipmunks, 2060 01:56:40.279 --> 01:56:44.680 even porcupines will eat the leaves of mistletoe when fresh 2061 01:56:44.880 --> 01:56:50.640 food is scarce. So you know what surprised me though? 2062 01:56:50.680 --> 01:56:52.560 One other thing, and that is that it is an 2063 01:56:52.600 --> 01:56:57.279 important nectar and palmen plant for honeybees and other native bees. 2064 01:56:57.359 --> 01:57:01.239 So there you go, more about mistletoe than you ever thought. 2065 01:57:01.319 --> 01:57:04.199 I think the most amazing fact that I learned reading 2066 01:57:04.279 --> 01:57:07.479 up about it was that those berries could burst and 2067 01:57:07.600 --> 01:57:11.000 send sixty mile an hour seeds as much as fifty 2068 01:57:11.039 --> 01:57:13.720 feet away. That's like, wow, that's cool stuff. All right, 2069 01:57:13.840 --> 01:57:16.159 Time for me to take a break and we will 2070 01:57:16.199 --> 01:57:20.479 be right back. Welcome back, folks. I tell the lad 2071 01:57:20.600 --> 01:57:23.199 you're listening into garden Line today, how can we help 2072 01:57:23.279 --> 01:57:27.680 you have a more downtiful garden, a more beautiful landscape 2073 01:57:28.199 --> 01:57:30.800 and more fun in the process. That's what we want 2074 01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:33.359 to do here. I'll tell you how you have more 2075 01:57:33.439 --> 01:57:35.399 success in your garden, and that is to get the 2076 01:57:35.399 --> 01:57:38.079 products you need to do what you need to do. 2077 01:57:38.079 --> 01:57:40.680 Do you need to fertilize, Do you need to control insects, 2078 01:57:40.760 --> 01:57:45.239 our diseases or pests? Do you need tools? Quality tools 2079 01:57:45.760 --> 01:57:49.039 that will help you to get the job done better? 2080 01:57:49.079 --> 01:57:52.359 With less effort, less strain on your joints and hands 2081 01:57:52.359 --> 01:57:56.159 and things like that. Southwest Fertilizer. As he answered all 2082 01:57:56.199 --> 01:57:59.439 those questions, it's also the answer to other questions. Who 2083 01:57:59.520 --> 01:58:03.600 sells in bulk? Also, where you get those scoops and 2084 01:58:03.680 --> 01:58:06.279 you scoop out. There's the most economical way to buy seeds. 2085 01:58:06.720 --> 01:58:09.760 Southwest Fertilizer. You know, where can you go and get 2086 01:58:09.800 --> 01:58:15.199 your lawnmower blade sharpened, small engine repaired? Southwest Fertilizer. It's 2087 01:58:15.239 --> 01:58:17.479 it's the answer to a lot of questions. It's been 2088 01:58:17.520 --> 01:58:21.039 around since nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty five, and they've 2089 01:58:21.079 --> 01:58:23.760 got every fertilizer or product you'll ever hear coming out 2090 01:58:23.760 --> 01:58:25.760 of my mouth on guard line. They just do. They 2091 01:58:25.840 --> 01:58:28.960 carry it all. If Southwest doesn't have it, you don't 2092 01:58:29.000 --> 01:58:33.039 need it. It's as simple as that. Southwest Fertilizer dot 2093 01:58:33.079 --> 01:58:36.239 Com is the website phone number seven to one three 2094 01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:41.199 six six six one seven four four seven one three 2095 01:58:41.359 --> 01:58:45.600 six six six one seven four four. They're located on 2096 01:58:45.680 --> 01:58:49.840 the corner of Byssinet and Renwick in southwest Houston. It 2097 01:58:50.159 --> 01:58:54.119 is where veteran gardeners have long known to go for 2098 01:58:54.239 --> 01:58:57.479 anything you're looking for, especially things that might be hard 2099 01:58:57.479 --> 01:58:59.239 to find in other places. By the way, it's a 2100 01:58:59.239 --> 01:59:01.840 good place to get some cool Christmas gifts, like a 2101 01:59:01.960 --> 01:59:05.079 soil knife. One of my favorite tools. If I were 2102 01:59:05.119 --> 01:59:07.640 to say, like, what are my top five favorite tools, 2103 01:59:07.680 --> 01:59:09.640 I think on that list would be a soil knife 2104 01:59:09.960 --> 01:59:12.000 and the kneeling bench, and Bob's got both of those. 2105 01:59:12.079 --> 01:59:14.640 By the way, I was talking to someone earlier about 2106 01:59:14.680 --> 01:59:16.760 how to build a weed wiper. Go to my website 2107 01:59:16.800 --> 01:59:19.399 gardening with Skip dot com. It'll tell you how to 2108 01:59:19.399 --> 01:59:21.720 build a weed wiper. But the first tool you need, 2109 01:59:21.760 --> 01:59:25.159 the suction cup grabber tool. Bob's got it at south 2110 01:59:25.439 --> 01:59:29.399 West Fertilizer. See this is what I'm talking about. Bob 2111 01:59:29.439 --> 01:59:32.560 and I talk pretty often about things and what's in 2112 01:59:32.640 --> 01:59:36.279 the market and what might be an item that gardeners 2113 01:59:36.279 --> 01:59:39.239 are needing or looking for and things. And I'm telling 2114 01:59:39.279 --> 01:59:41.880 you the guy stays up to date and then some 2115 01:59:42.039 --> 01:59:47.880 on all these kinds of things. Southwest Fertilizer. I was 2116 01:59:47.960 --> 01:59:51.880 visiting with the wild Birds store owner recently, and I 2117 01:59:51.960 --> 01:59:56.439 always call them because they if there's a question about birds, 2118 01:59:57.039 --> 01:59:59.760 they know what they're talking about. They are experts at it. 2119 01:59:59.800 --> 02:00:02.479 You know, there's six different wallbirds stores around Houston. You 2120 02:00:02.520 --> 02:00:07.159 can go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston and 2121 02:00:07.199 --> 02:00:10.000 find the store near you. Now, right now, you need 2122 02:00:10.039 --> 02:00:16.000 to be there picking up the Wildbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend. 2123 02:00:16.399 --> 02:00:21.399 Wildbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend that is packed with protein 2124 02:00:21.520 --> 02:00:24.319 and fat helps the birds out. You know, today's the 2125 02:00:24.399 --> 02:00:25.760 day where it's kind of hard to get out and 2126 02:00:25.760 --> 02:00:28.359 about looking for food, and the birds are going to 2127 02:00:28.399 --> 02:00:33.359 be coming back to our feeders in large numbers as 2128 02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:37.520 the natural food sources becomes more and more scarce out there, 2129 02:00:37.840 --> 02:00:41.319 and Wildbird's Unlimited Winter Super Blend is excellent for that. 2130 02:00:42.119 --> 02:00:45.039 Another reason to go to Wildbirds right now, though, is 2131 02:00:45.079 --> 02:00:49.520 for your holiday gifts. There are wonderful options you can do. 2132 02:00:50.239 --> 02:00:53.640 My favorite feeder is a squirrel eliminating feeder. It is 2133 02:00:53.680 --> 02:00:57.680 a Cadillac and it really really works. It's an excellent feeder. 2134 02:00:58.319 --> 02:01:00.840 They can do replacement parts on in. I mean, it's 2135 02:01:00.920 --> 02:01:04.920 real simple to operate and it works. Uh. But maybe 2136 02:01:04.960 --> 02:01:08.640 a beautiful hummingbird feeder, maybe a bird house of Some 2137 02:01:08.640 --> 02:01:11.199 people want to learn to attract blue birds and they 2138 02:01:11.279 --> 02:01:13.760 can help you do that and they can even provide 2139 02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:15.840 you with a variety of different kinds of bird out. 2140 02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:18.399 How about Purple Martins. By the time we get to February, 2141 02:01:18.399 --> 02:01:20.960 Purple Martins are going to be here and a nice 2142 02:01:21.039 --> 02:01:24.239 quality Purple Martin house. It's on a telescoping pole or 2143 02:01:24.279 --> 02:01:26.880 something that allows you to take it down and clean 2144 02:01:26.920 --> 02:01:30.079 it out the part the little sections come out. It's 2145 02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:33.520 real easy. They have a really nice Purple Martin house. 2146 02:01:33.520 --> 02:01:35.560 They also have the kind that are that look like 2147 02:01:35.640 --> 02:01:39.399 white gourds that but they're plastic. But they also are 2148 02:01:39.479 --> 02:01:42.319 well designed for Purple Martin. What a good gift. What 2149 02:01:42.399 --> 02:01:46.800 a good gift from Wilbirds. You are listening to garden Line. 2150 02:01:47.079 --> 02:01:48.880 If you'd like to give me a call, the phone 2151 02:01:48.960 --> 02:01:52.159 number is seven one three two one two five eight 2152 02:01:52.359 --> 02:01:56.520 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight 2153 02:01:56.920 --> 02:01:59.479 seventy four. We'll be happy to help you in any 2154 02:01:59.479 --> 02:02:01.359 way we can. I saw something the other day, this 2155 02:02:01.439 --> 02:02:05.239 from the Saturday Evening Post in nineteen oh three. Saturday 2156 02:02:05.239 --> 02:02:10.560 Evening Post nineteen oh three, someone said, you've heard that 2157 02:02:10.680 --> 02:02:13.319 you reap what you sew, but that does not always 2158 02:02:13.359 --> 02:02:21.000 apply to the pictures on seed packets. Is that not true? 2159 02:02:21.760 --> 02:02:23.640 All right, Well, let's we get better at it. Maybe 2160 02:02:23.640 --> 02:02:27.920 it applies more and more to you report yourself. 2161 02:02:27.960 --> 02:02:28.159 You know. 2162 02:02:28.239 --> 02:02:31.520 Sometimes I look at at gardening catalog seed cat packets 2163 02:02:31.520 --> 02:02:34.920 and stuff. Or my favorite is the companies that sell 2164 02:02:34.960 --> 02:02:37.520 fruit trees. They had the catalogs, you know, And I 2165 02:02:37.520 --> 02:02:39.800 don't pick on any one company, but you know, there 2166 02:02:39.800 --> 02:02:42.479 are companies out there that do. And you'll see this 2167 02:02:42.640 --> 02:02:47.479 branch with like fifteen apples in a foot long branch, 2168 02:02:47.520 --> 02:02:50.079 and they're all big and gorgeous and everything're like, okay, 2169 02:02:50.119 --> 02:02:55.079 come on, man, really give me a break here. That's it. 2170 02:02:55.439 --> 02:02:57.640 And I tell you the one job, one of many 2171 02:02:57.720 --> 02:03:01.680 jobs I would not like to have a is writing 2172 02:03:01.800 --> 02:03:07.760 descriptions for let's say, vegetables and flowers, especially vegetables for 2173 02:03:07.840 --> 02:03:10.960 seed packets. Oh my gosh, some of these sea companies 2174 02:03:11.199 --> 02:03:14.720 carry dozens of types of tomatoes, and what are you 2175 02:03:14.760 --> 02:03:17.880 going to say? It's red, it tastes like a tomato, 2176 02:03:18.399 --> 02:03:22.039 it's sweet, and I mean, there's only so much you 2177 02:03:22.079 --> 02:03:24.479 can say about a vegetable, and yet they've got to 2178 02:03:24.479 --> 02:03:26.600 write another one and not make it sound like the 2179 02:03:26.600 --> 02:03:29.920 one they just wrote and could go read a packet. 2180 02:03:29.960 --> 02:03:35.520 Sometimes there are seed companies that specialize in tomatoes. There's one, 2181 02:03:36.279 --> 02:03:40.840 what's it called Tomato Grower supply. There's another one totally tomatoes. 2182 02:03:41.520 --> 02:03:44.399 They're not really justtimated. They may have peppers and eggplant 2183 02:03:44.479 --> 02:03:47.000 things in them, but they have more Dutch of tomatoes 2184 02:03:47.000 --> 02:03:50.199 than you can imagine, most of which you shouldn't grow here, right, 2185 02:03:50.479 --> 02:03:53.119 because not every part of the country needs to plant 2186 02:03:53.159 --> 02:03:56.560 the same varieties. But I just think about how on 2187 02:03:56.760 --> 02:03:59.680 earth do you write those descriptions. But anyway, that's a 2188 02:03:59.680 --> 02:04:04.279 fun part of gardening. Hey, A good gardening gift would 2189 02:04:04.359 --> 02:04:07.880 be a seed starting kit. And by a kit, it 2190 02:04:07.920 --> 02:04:11.560 could include things like a tray, one of those seventy 2191 02:04:11.680 --> 02:04:16.920 two cell trays like you see. They're long about eleven 2192 02:04:16.920 --> 02:04:21.199 inches nine inches wide and twenty inches long something close 2193 02:04:21.239 --> 02:04:23.439 to that. Anyway, they're close to that nine or eleven 2194 02:04:23.479 --> 02:04:26.239 and twenty inches long. And then they come with a 2195 02:04:26.239 --> 02:04:29.039 little dome over the top of plastic dome. And then 2196 02:04:29.159 --> 02:04:31.000 you just put the potting soil in them and you 2197 02:04:31.039 --> 02:04:34.920 start your seeds and throw in a heating mat. Would 2198 02:04:35.000 --> 02:04:38.399 be a nice addition to that. By throwing in a 2199 02:04:38.439 --> 02:04:42.520 heating mat. I start my seeds now in the garage, 2200 02:04:42.560 --> 02:04:44.199 and it's a cold garage. I mean there's no heat 2201 02:04:44.199 --> 02:04:46.319 out there. I mean it's protected, so it's nice cold 2202 02:04:46.319 --> 02:04:48.840 as outside, but it's just a cold garage. But I 2203 02:04:48.880 --> 02:04:51.399 have heating mats underneath the covers and then a plastic 2204 02:04:51.479 --> 02:04:54.399 cover over that kind of holes creats a dead air 2205 02:04:54.399 --> 02:04:56.520 space of some warmth in there, and it does well. 2206 02:04:56.520 --> 02:04:59.359 In fact, did you know that young seedlings you're growing 2207 02:04:59.399 --> 02:05:03.279 yourself mention that not enough light makes them spinley. Another 2208 02:05:03.399 --> 02:05:08.279 thing that helps that causes a lack of good strong, 2209 02:05:08.359 --> 02:05:12.800 stocky transplants, or is temperatures. When when temperatures are very warm, 2210 02:05:12.880 --> 02:05:16.239 plants tend to grow luxuriantly. If you could put a 2211 02:05:16.279 --> 02:05:19.279 heating mat under a pad and keep the media you're 2212 02:05:19.319 --> 02:05:22.840 growing the seeds in warm, but let the air be cool, 2213 02:05:23.119 --> 02:05:26.479 that helps create a very stocky transplant. While I'm talking 2214 02:05:26.479 --> 02:05:29.560 about stocky transplants, I'll just throw one more thing that 2215 02:05:29.680 --> 02:05:33.000 helps stocky transplants, and this one I think is cool 2216 02:05:34.079 --> 02:05:39.359 moving the plants, I mean brushing over them in a greenhouse. 2217 02:05:39.399 --> 02:05:43.000 It may be an oscillating fan blowing by that causes 2218 02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:47.199 movement in the plants in your little few trays you're 2219 02:05:47.239 --> 02:05:49.520 starting at home. It could be running your hands over 2220 02:05:49.560 --> 02:05:52.439 the top of the seedlings, just brushing over them, petting pets, 2221 02:05:52.439 --> 02:05:57.279 your plants, and each time you move them, it stimulates 2222 02:05:57.560 --> 02:06:02.119 responses to create a stockier stem and a stronger transplant. 2223 02:06:03.119 --> 02:06:03.760 It does. 2224 02:06:04.279 --> 02:06:06.760 And the fancy word. I try to give you a 2225 02:06:06.760 --> 02:06:10.000 fancy word each week if I can. This week's fancy 2226 02:06:10.000 --> 02:06:14.079 word is thig mo morphogenesis. Big mo morphogenesis. What does 2227 02:06:14.119 --> 02:06:16.199 that mean? It means if you touch it, it gets stronger. 2228 02:06:17.159 --> 02:06:21.199 So thig momorphogenesis is why I say when you stake 2229 02:06:21.239 --> 02:06:24.800 a plant, you shouldn't stake it perfectly still. For that 2230 02:06:25.520 --> 02:06:28.079 trunk of the tree to bend a little bit in 2231 02:06:28.119 --> 02:06:32.680 the wind. That stretching causes the tree trunk to grow stronger. 2232 02:06:33.319 --> 02:06:37.119 The heading over the surface of your little tomato seedlings 2233 02:06:37.159 --> 02:06:40.600 causes those seedlings to become stockier. It does. It's a 2234 02:06:40.720 --> 02:06:44.720 natural reaction that nature does to plants. And we bring 2235 02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:47.640 them inside and put them in a real still, a 2236 02:06:47.760 --> 02:06:51.119 very still air space where they don't move at all. 2237 02:06:51.439 --> 02:06:54.720 We put them in not quite enough light and maybe 2238 02:06:54.720 --> 02:06:56.840 it's a little warm in there. We're putting too much 2239 02:06:56.920 --> 02:07:01.279 nitrogen fertilize all of those things, recreating that sp seedling 2240 02:07:01.479 --> 02:07:06.039 that doesn't survive well. Take advantage of big momorphogenesis and 2241 02:07:06.079 --> 02:07:09.399 you can be the cliff Claven of your neighborhood horticultural 2242 02:07:09.399 --> 02:07:14.199 Cliff Claven. Remember the the postman on Cheers who knew everything, 2243 02:07:14.319 --> 02:07:16.520 or at least he thought he did, and he talked 2244 02:07:16.560 --> 02:07:19.239 like he did. You can be the Cliff Clavin by 2245 02:07:19.359 --> 02:07:24.199 just knowing great words like big moo, morpho, genesis. For 2246 02:07:24.239 --> 02:07:29.199 those of you who grew up with Julian Andrews, supercrags 2247 02:07:29.239 --> 02:07:34.199 are super catifragilistic, expieladoches. You thank me later. We're going 2248 02:07:34.239 --> 02:07:37.079 to take a break. I'll be right back. Actually, we 2249 02:07:37.199 --> 02:07:38.920 got just a minute left. I don't have to stop 2250 02:07:38.960 --> 02:07:41.720 talking quite yet. That's a good thing. I love quotes, 2251 02:07:41.760 --> 02:07:44.800 you know. I was giving you a quote a little 2252 02:07:44.840 --> 02:07:48.560 bit ago, one quote that I like. It was written back, 2253 02:07:48.720 --> 02:07:52.760 oh gosh, I don't know when, by an unlingering English aristocrat, 2254 02:07:52.800 --> 02:07:56.840 author and gardner. It goes this way. The most noteworthy 2255 02:07:56.960 --> 02:08:03.119 thing about gardeners is that they always are optimistic. They 2256 02:08:03.279 --> 02:08:07.359 always are enterprising, and they're never satisfied. They always look 2257 02:08:07.439 --> 02:08:12.000 forward to doing something better than they've ever done before. Man, 2258 02:08:12.119 --> 02:08:14.560 is that ever true? I can tell you this. The 2259 02:08:14.560 --> 02:08:17.279 best garden I've ever grown in my life is the 2260 02:08:17.279 --> 02:08:20.439 one come in this spring. It is I always feel 2261 02:08:20.479 --> 02:08:23.600 that way, not about spring, but all the time because 2262 02:08:23.600 --> 02:08:26.079 I'm learning more, I'm trying something new, and I'm going 2263 02:08:26.159 --> 02:08:28.159 to have success with I just know I am. I 2264 02:08:28.239 --> 02:08:30.680 just know I am. That's a fun thing. I think 2265 02:08:30.720 --> 02:08:33.199 that's one of the beneficial things of gardening. In addition 2266 02:08:33.239 --> 02:08:35.600 to the physical exercise, In addition to getting out there 2267 02:08:35.640 --> 02:08:39.039 in nature, breathing the air and stuff like that, one 2268 02:08:39.079 --> 02:08:42.119 of the best things about gardening is the hope and 2269 02:08:42.239 --> 02:08:46.880 the optimism that it bills in us as gardeners. All right, 2270 02:08:46.920 --> 02:08:49.079 I'll leave you with that. We'll be right back, folks. 2271 02:08:49.159 --> 02:08:52.239 All right, folks, welcome back to guarden Line. Hey, if 2272 02:08:52.239 --> 02:08:53.840 you'd like to give me a call, we are in 2273 02:08:53.920 --> 02:08:56.560 our last half hour of the day here. Seven one 2274 02:08:56.600 --> 02:09:00.000 three two one two five eight seven four seven three 2275 02:09:00.079 --> 02:09:02.199 two one two five eight seven four. I hope you're 2276 02:09:02.279 --> 02:09:05.159 enjoying the weather we're having. And I know some people 2277 02:09:05.159 --> 02:09:08.359 are going, wait a minute, I don't enjoy wet, forty 2278 02:09:08.399 --> 02:09:13.960 degree whatever temperatures. Well, I know, but isn't it a 2279 02:09:14.039 --> 02:09:16.760 nice break from the summer we just went through. And 2280 02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:19.239 you can always here's how I look at it. When 2281 02:09:19.279 --> 02:09:22.479 it's hot, it's hot. I mean, you can put on shorts, 2282 02:09:22.479 --> 02:09:24.680 sleeves and shorts and all that. But it's still hot. 2283 02:09:24.760 --> 02:09:27.479 But in the cold weather, you can always bundle up. 2284 02:09:27.720 --> 02:09:30.520 That's what I love. I love cold weather. I don't 2285 02:09:30.560 --> 02:09:33.640 like being cold. I like cold weather. I just do. 2286 02:09:33.840 --> 02:09:36.239 It's a nice, nice break. So here we are finally 2287 02:09:36.239 --> 02:09:38.279 getting to it. And I'll tell you another reason it's 2288 02:09:38.279 --> 02:09:42.760 important our plants. Plants go through a process called hardening off. 2289 02:09:42.880 --> 02:09:47.439 Hardening off means that the plant is shutting down growth 2290 02:09:48.319 --> 02:09:52.880 and storing up carbohydrates and preparing for winter as it 2291 02:09:52.920 --> 02:09:57.039 goes into dormancy. Even if it's a plant that doesn't 2292 02:09:57.119 --> 02:09:59.800 really go into dormancy, it's still is going through those 2293 02:10:00.039 --> 02:10:04.079 the processes. When a plant properly and fully hardens off, 2294 02:10:04.399 --> 02:10:07.239 it is quite cold, hardy. I mean, you take really 2295 02:10:07.239 --> 02:10:10.840 cool weather and that that plant does fine. When it 2296 02:10:10.880 --> 02:10:14.720 doesn't properly harden off, a freeze, even a freeze that 2297 02:10:14.720 --> 02:10:18.079 shouldn't kill that plant, suddenly becomes a big problem. And 2298 02:10:18.159 --> 02:10:21.840 it happened. I noticed it, especially in the northern parts 2299 02:10:21.840 --> 02:10:25.479 of this listening area. But a couple of Decembers ago, 2300 02:10:26.199 --> 02:10:30.359 we had a mid teen frieze that occurred in December, 2301 02:10:31.359 --> 02:10:36.520 way early for the area, and also our crpe myrtles 2302 02:10:36.640 --> 02:10:39.640 were not hardened off fully and we had crape myrtles 2303 02:10:39.720 --> 02:10:42.039 killed to the ground. The next summer they sprouted out 2304 02:10:42.079 --> 02:10:43.920 and we had this big bushy mess coming out of 2305 02:10:43.920 --> 02:10:46.640 the bottom of the ground where they're where the crape 2306 02:10:46.640 --> 02:10:49.439 myrtle trunk had died back, sometimes the only partial die back. 2307 02:10:49.760 --> 02:10:52.239 But that's an example of why hardening off is important. 2308 02:10:52.279 --> 02:10:55.680 And when we have temperatures like today, it helps those 2309 02:10:55.720 --> 02:10:58.720 plants to harden off, and that is important so that 2310 02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:02.439 we don't have the significant cold damage that can occur 2311 02:11:02.640 --> 02:11:07.039 when plants are not properly hardened off. So you can 2312 02:11:07.079 --> 02:11:09.680 be glad we're having the day. Plus, if you got 2313 02:11:09.680 --> 02:11:12.079 a fireplace in your house, I always I've always thought 2314 02:11:12.079 --> 02:11:16.079 it was humorous that we have fireplaces in Southeast Texas. 2315 02:11:16.920 --> 02:11:21.319 Of why, I tell you why, because of the ambiance. 2316 02:11:21.439 --> 02:11:24.960 It's cool, it's fine. It just I mean, there's just 2317 02:11:26.039 --> 02:11:28.439 there's just an ambiance. You know. When it comes to winter, 2318 02:11:28.520 --> 02:11:30.439 we don't get a lot of the cold spells. So 2319 02:11:30.600 --> 02:11:33.640 all these Christmas songs which we're starting to hear, and 2320 02:11:33.680 --> 02:11:36.920 we'll be hearing a lot, it's hard to relate. As 2321 02:11:36.920 --> 02:11:40.800 the Texan you know, dashing through the snow. What snow 2322 02:11:41.079 --> 02:11:45.760 on a one horse open sleigh? What's a sleigh? Chestnuts 2323 02:11:45.800 --> 02:11:51.600 roasting on an open Wait a minute, what are chestnuts? Anyway? Yeah, 2324 02:11:51.720 --> 02:11:53.840 I could go on and on about that one. All right, 2325 02:11:54.000 --> 02:11:55.880 noth of that. Let's go out and take some of 2326 02:11:55.880 --> 02:11:58.279 your calls. We're going to go to Clear Lake and 2327 02:11:58.359 --> 02:12:01.279 talk to Jane Heyan. Welcome to garden Line. 2328 02:12:02.039 --> 02:12:04.079 I thank you very much for taking quare coal. 2329 02:12:04.840 --> 02:12:08.560 I understand that I can dig up my hybiscus and 2330 02:12:08.600 --> 02:12:11.319 take it in because I'm worried about it being cold, 2331 02:12:11.680 --> 02:12:12.920 but I don't know how to do that. 2332 02:12:12.960 --> 02:12:13.560 Can you help me? 2333 02:12:15.720 --> 02:12:23.920 Okay? Well, so you just dig wider more than deeper, okay, 2334 02:12:23.960 --> 02:12:26.760 And so if you can get out about oh, let's 2335 02:12:26.800 --> 02:12:32.399 say eight inches from the plant in all directions. If 2336 02:12:32.439 --> 02:12:34.640 it could go a little wider, they'd be fine, and 2337 02:12:34.680 --> 02:12:37.119 then slider shovel underneath it. To dig underneath it, you 2338 02:12:37.640 --> 02:12:41.199 only need to go about maybe four to six inches deep. 2339 02:12:41.279 --> 02:12:44.600 But if you can't get that wide and everything, that's fine. 2340 02:12:44.640 --> 02:12:46.800 But just get a little more of the roots. I 2341 02:12:46.840 --> 02:12:49.239 would lift it up and kind of shake some of 2342 02:12:49.239 --> 02:12:52.520 the excess soil off the roots and then bring it 2343 02:12:52.560 --> 02:12:55.600 in to put in a container. The size of the 2344 02:12:55.680 --> 02:12:58.039 roots you dug, so that was a sixteen inch wide 2345 02:12:58.039 --> 02:13:00.399 if I said eight inches on each side, so you 2346 02:13:00.399 --> 02:13:02.880 would need a bigger container for that. I have mine 2347 02:13:03.079 --> 02:13:05.680 and about a two thirds of size. It looks like 2348 02:13:05.720 --> 02:13:08.920 an old whiskey barrel, but it's it's plastic, so it's 2349 02:13:08.920 --> 02:13:11.119 about two thirds the size of a whiskey barrel. And 2350 02:13:11.159 --> 02:13:13.640 it does really well in there. And just fill it 2351 02:13:13.680 --> 02:13:20.880 full of quality potting, soil, quality page so water. Okay, yeah, well, 2352 02:13:20.920 --> 02:13:24.800 after you transport it inside, after you get it planted, yes, 2353 02:13:24.880 --> 02:13:26.920 give it a good watering, make sure the container has 2354 02:13:27.000 --> 02:13:30.720 drainage holes, and then just bring it into a protected spot. 2355 02:13:30.800 --> 02:13:34.359 Now mine I leave out a lot during the cool season, 2356 02:13:35.159 --> 02:13:38.359 but when it's going to be freezing, I take my 2357 02:13:39.560 --> 02:13:41.840 dolly and put a strap around it and bring it 2358 02:13:41.880 --> 02:13:43.840 into the garage and then take it back out again 2359 02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:46.560 because it'll still have some leaves on it. If you 2360 02:13:46.600 --> 02:13:48.920 can give it a decent amount of light as much 2361 02:13:48.960 --> 02:13:52.640 as possible, but that's it. And don't worry about fertilizing 2362 02:13:52.640 --> 02:13:56.039 it a lot. Just keep it adequately moist, not soggy, 2363 02:13:56.079 --> 02:13:59.000 adequately moist, and you can get it through the wintertime, 2364 02:13:59.039 --> 02:14:02.359 and then I would that are leaving a container outdoors 2365 02:14:02.359 --> 02:14:04.640 as well. It just makes it a little bit easier 2366 02:14:04.640 --> 02:14:06.199 to bring it in and out. You don't have to 2367 02:14:06.199 --> 02:14:07.159 redig it every year. 2368 02:14:08.119 --> 02:14:09.479 That sounds like a great idea. 2369 02:14:09.640 --> 02:14:10.439 I'll remember that. 2370 02:14:11.680 --> 02:14:13.640 I don't want to have to. 2371 02:14:14.920 --> 02:14:15.560 Okay, thank you. 2372 02:14:15.680 --> 02:14:19.880 Very much, Well, you bet, you bet, Gene, thanks for 2373 02:14:19.880 --> 02:14:24.199 the call. I appreciate I appreciate that very much. We 2374 02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:27.239 are I wanted to talk about Nelson Water Garden. They're 2375 02:14:27.279 --> 02:14:30.680 out there in Katie. So basically you go out I 2376 02:14:30.920 --> 02:14:33.479 ten to Katie and when you get to Katie Fort 2377 02:14:33.520 --> 02:14:36.640 Ben Road, you're going to turn right. That's going north 2378 02:14:36.680 --> 02:14:39.800 across over the tracks. You're you're there. It's just a 2379 02:14:39.800 --> 02:14:42.760 little bit up the road on the right. Nelson Nursery 2380 02:14:42.800 --> 02:14:45.039 and water Garden. Of course, they're a water garden place 2381 02:14:45.039 --> 02:14:47.159 are nationally known for that have been for a very 2382 02:14:47.279 --> 02:14:51.119 very long time. But Nelson Water Gardens is also an 2383 02:14:51.319 --> 02:14:55.119 really outstanding nursery from fruit tree plants to annual color, 2384 02:14:55.159 --> 02:14:58.319 to vegetables, to herbs, you name it. Of course they 2385 02:14:58.359 --> 02:15:01.680 carry the plants for water garden as well. If you've 2386 02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:04.359 been thinking about getting a watergarden. That would be a 2387 02:15:04.399 --> 02:15:08.520 fun thing to do during the end of the winter season, 2388 02:15:08.560 --> 02:15:10.720 getting it all set up and ready to go so 2389 02:15:10.800 --> 02:15:13.199 as the weather worms up, you can get that thing 2390 02:15:13.319 --> 02:15:17.119 stocked with fish and plants and other things. Nelson's will 2391 02:15:17.119 --> 02:15:19.439 build those for you. They will also tell you how 2392 02:15:19.479 --> 02:15:21.079 to do it. So if you want one of the 2393 02:15:21.079 --> 02:15:24.840 disappearing fountains that they designed and created, you just get 2394 02:15:24.840 --> 02:15:29.079 a really nice large glazed pottery urned from them. It's 2395 02:15:29.119 --> 02:15:32.800 set up to have water spout out the top, roll 2396 02:15:32.840 --> 02:15:35.359 over the sides into a bed of gravel where it 2397 02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:40.520 recirculates back up through the container. A beautiful feature, a 2398 02:15:40.640 --> 02:15:43.520 nice feature. So you can get that thing out there 2399 02:15:43.560 --> 02:15:46.319 and set up and weather worms up a little bit. 2400 02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:50.439 Take off. Good to go. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery, 2401 02:15:50.560 --> 02:15:54.800 Katie fort Benroad. Go to the website Nelson Watergardens dot 2402 02:15:54.840 --> 02:15:59.199 com Nelson Watergardens dot com. When you get there you 2403 02:15:59.239 --> 02:16:01.720 will find out all lot more about them, and boy, 2404 02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:04.199 they are set up for the holidays right now. From 2405 02:16:04.279 --> 02:16:08.359 trees to poinsettas, to holiday cactus to all kinds of 2406 02:16:08.399 --> 02:16:12.840 other holiday decor. They have got you covered at Nelsonwatergardens 2407 02:16:12.960 --> 02:16:15.000 dot com. I'm going to have to take a quick 2408 02:16:15.039 --> 02:16:17.119 break here when we come back, Saviian and Beaumont, you 2409 02:16:17.159 --> 02:16:19.399 will be our very first up. All right here, we're 2410 02:16:19.399 --> 02:16:22.680 going to go out to Beaumont. Actually we're going to 2411 02:16:22.720 --> 02:16:25.960 go to Wharton. Excuse me first to Jeff and Wharton. Hey, Jeff, 2412 02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:28.760 welcome to Guardline. Good morning. 2413 02:16:29.720 --> 02:16:34.559 Well, you were advertising Medena products just a little while ago, 2414 02:16:34.639 --> 02:16:37.680 and it reminded me. We moved to Wharton in nineteen 2415 02:16:37.719 --> 02:16:41.159 seventy six and Dewey was still on the air, and 2416 02:16:41.520 --> 02:16:44.639 remember he was telling us, and you may know this story. 2417 02:16:45.040 --> 02:16:50.360 He was talking about the magical qualities of the products 2418 02:16:50.399 --> 02:16:52.680 and he said, you know, there was a fell and 2419 02:16:52.760 --> 02:16:55.479 I may be best in this story up that lost 2420 02:16:55.520 --> 02:16:59.000 his hand in an industrial accident and. 2421 02:16:59.000 --> 02:17:01.200 He put the stump. 2422 02:17:00.920 --> 02:17:04.399 Of his hand where the hand had gone the arm 2423 02:17:04.680 --> 02:17:10.639 into Medina and the Henri group. And he used to 2424 02:17:10.680 --> 02:17:15.520 tell that story about Medina products and you know, all 2425 02:17:15.559 --> 02:17:17.680 you got to do is go down the Honda Texas 2426 02:17:17.719 --> 02:17:21.280 and pick up those products. And it was in he'd 2427 02:17:21.360 --> 02:17:22.760 loved telling that story. 2428 02:17:23.319 --> 02:17:29.239 So anyway, I don't we don't talk about that because yeah, 2429 02:17:29.280 --> 02:17:30.920 we don't. We don't talk about that because we don't 2430 02:17:30.920 --> 02:17:33.159 want to put all the plastic surgeons out of business. 2431 02:17:34.639 --> 02:17:35.399 They could do that. 2432 02:17:35.840 --> 02:17:39.200 It was a hilarious he was great. 2433 02:17:39.280 --> 02:17:41.920 That sounds like they called him old old dude. 2434 02:17:41.959 --> 02:17:42.239 Yeah. 2435 02:17:42.280 --> 02:17:46.319 He was a character. Yeah, and that tells me how 2436 02:17:46.399 --> 02:17:49.920 long Medina has been a sponsor Reguard Line. Yeah, because 2437 02:17:50.120 --> 02:17:50.680 I'm looking. 2438 02:17:50.719 --> 02:17:53.239 I went online just before I called you, and he 2439 02:17:53.319 --> 02:17:56.799 died in that plane crash in October nineteen seventy six. 2440 02:17:57.760 --> 02:17:59.719 I mean, that's that was. 2441 02:17:59.600 --> 02:18:02.760 Incredible and most of the Compton family was all on 2442 02:18:02.760 --> 02:18:05.799 that plane. It was near Somerville. 2443 02:18:06.840 --> 02:18:07.719 That's all right. 2444 02:18:08.280 --> 02:18:11.440 I thought that would your Bedina folks would like to hear. 2445 02:18:11.559 --> 02:18:17.200 Thanks. Yeah, thanks, thanks for the My gosh. You know, 2446 02:18:17.520 --> 02:18:19.959 now you've caused me a problem, though, Jeff, because people 2447 02:18:20.000 --> 02:18:22.840 hear stuff and either they don't listen to what I 2448 02:18:22.879 --> 02:18:24.840 said and they tell me I said something I didn't say, 2449 02:18:25.159 --> 02:18:28.319 or they they hear something that's a joke and they 2450 02:18:28.319 --> 02:18:30.200 think it's for real. So I got to be extra 2451 02:18:30.239 --> 02:18:32.920 careful with that. I'm going to go out to Beaumont 2452 02:18:33.000 --> 02:18:35.600 now and talk to Sabian. Hey, Sabyan, welcome to Guardline. 2453 02:18:37.479 --> 02:18:41.440 Thank you, Hey. I did some pictures of a foreign 2454 02:18:41.520 --> 02:18:44.440 grass in baying my Saint Augustine lawn and you asked 2455 02:18:44.440 --> 02:18:48.799 me to call back. That's what to do with it? 2456 02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:50.399 And what type of grass this is? 2457 02:18:52.920 --> 02:18:54.120 When did you send the email? 2458 02:18:55.719 --> 02:18:56.719 I think it was. 2459 02:18:58.520 --> 02:19:05.559 November teat or Okay, let me go back, let me 2460 02:19:05.639 --> 02:19:11.280 go back here. Uh, I don't have the name Sabian 2461 02:19:11.559 --> 02:19:18.479 in my emails. It's a Fabian. Okay, okay, got you 2462 02:19:19.200 --> 02:19:21.600 got you. Let me let me find that right quick here. 2463 02:19:22.239 --> 02:19:24.639 I do remember getting that one in and now I'm 2464 02:19:24.639 --> 02:19:28.799 not finding that either. Good night, nurse. Could you do it? 2465 02:19:28.959 --> 02:19:31.319 Could you do a quick rescind for me? I don't 2466 02:19:31.319 --> 02:19:33.719 know why, but it's I remember seeing it and I 2467 02:19:33.760 --> 02:19:36.879 don't see it here. If you could hit a quick rescind, 2468 02:19:36.920 --> 02:19:38.520 I will. I will try to look at I'm trying 2469 02:19:38.559 --> 02:19:41.360 to remember what the grass. Oh, was this the little 2470 02:19:41.639 --> 02:19:45.479 small kind of shiny leaf grass that was just growing 2471 02:19:45.559 --> 02:19:51.399 real thick in the lawn that I remember that that was? Yeah, 2472 02:19:51.440 --> 02:19:54.680 that is called kai linga k y l I n 2473 02:19:54.760 --> 02:19:58.280 g A. I think it has two l's actually, but 2474 02:19:58.399 --> 02:20:01.959 Kayalinga is kind of nutgrass, but it doesn't have nuts underground. 2475 02:20:02.440 --> 02:20:02.680 Uh. 2476 02:20:02.959 --> 02:20:06.799 If you go online to go to my website, it 2477 02:20:06.879 --> 02:20:11.479 is it is gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with 2478 02:20:12.079 --> 02:20:15.399 Skip dot Com. And when you get to the website, 2479 02:20:16.879 --> 02:20:23.479 there is a publication on there called nuts edge an 2480 02:20:23.520 --> 02:20:28.559 in depth look okay, and the products that it mentions 2481 02:20:28.639 --> 02:20:32.399 are good for ki linga. The products are good for kylingka. 2482 02:20:32.520 --> 02:20:38.239 So uh. The it's also on the herbicides to use 2483 02:20:38.879 --> 02:20:43.000 on my weed wiper publication too. You'll find it on that. 2484 02:20:43.479 --> 02:20:45.600 So let me let me pull that up right here 2485 02:20:45.600 --> 02:20:49.559 and just give you a couple of examples. Uh. Here 2486 02:20:49.600 --> 02:20:53.280 we go. Halo sulfur on methyl halo sulfur on like 2487 02:20:53.360 --> 02:20:58.520 halo like uh uh around your head and sulfur on 2488 02:20:58.760 --> 02:21:03.360 s u L h h A l O s u 2489 02:21:03.639 --> 02:21:07.040 l f u r O N. And I'm gonna stop 2490 02:21:07.079 --> 02:21:09.639 spelling it out there. If anything that starts off with 2491 02:21:09.680 --> 02:21:12.479 halto sulfur on on the garden market, that's it. So 2492 02:21:12.799 --> 02:21:18.920 brand names sedge Hammer plus, get the sedge hammer that 2493 02:21:19.040 --> 02:21:24.639 says sedgehammer plus uh. And Monterey. If you go where 2494 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:30.680 Moneray products are sold, it's called nutgrass Killer. Two. If 2495 02:21:30.719 --> 02:21:35.920 you go where Martin's products are sold, it's nutgrass Eliminator. 2496 02:21:37.840 --> 02:21:41.040 And if you go where they carry high yield products, 2497 02:21:41.120 --> 02:21:46.319 it's high yield nutsedge and horsetail control, but sedgehammer plus 2498 02:21:46.399 --> 02:21:49.600 is the one most people find. It's a little one. 2499 02:21:49.760 --> 02:21:53.040 It makes a one gallon. It's a little little small packet, 2500 02:21:53.959 --> 02:21:56.440 very small packet that you put in water makes a gallon. 2501 02:21:57.120 --> 02:22:00.040 And the hedge sedgehammer plus, I said, the plus this 2502 02:22:00.239 --> 02:22:02.879 is important. It has a surfactant that makes it stick 2503 02:22:02.959 --> 02:22:07.000 to those shiny Kailinga leaves because Kalinga and that said 2504 02:22:07.040 --> 02:22:09.760 you're very closely related. That'll work. You're going to have 2505 02:22:09.799 --> 02:22:12.120 to redo it. You're going to be ready to do it, 2506 02:22:12.159 --> 02:22:15.000 and maybe but doing it right now, you can do that. 2507 02:22:15.280 --> 02:22:18.079 It'll do some good now, but especially when things warm 2508 02:22:18.159 --> 02:22:21.520 up and it begins actively growing again in the spring. 2509 02:22:21.600 --> 02:22:23.200 You want to you want to hit it then. 2510 02:22:23.159 --> 02:22:30.000 Okay, okay, thank you. 2511 02:22:27.680 --> 02:22:31.440 You bet, Thank you very much. Appreciate appreciate your call. God. 2512 02:22:31.520 --> 02:22:37.000 We resolve resolved that uh Ace Hardware stores are set 2513 02:22:37.120 --> 02:22:39.520 up for the holidays. I mean, do you need gifts? 2514 02:22:39.600 --> 02:22:42.040 They got great gifts. They got toys too, by the way, 2515 02:22:42.120 --> 02:22:44.600 and some of those old antique toy stuff that you 2516 02:22:44.719 --> 02:22:48.200 remember growing up with you is that still around? Yes, 2517 02:22:48.239 --> 02:22:51.040 it is. At Ace Hardware. They have tools for the 2518 02:22:51.159 --> 02:22:55.399 do it yourselfers on your list of all kinds and genders. 2519 02:22:56.200 --> 02:22:57.799 I used to say, for the guys that do it 2520 02:22:57.879 --> 02:23:00.920 just no, no, no, no, we got We've got ladies that are 2521 02:23:00.920 --> 02:23:04.920 bigger do it yourselfers than their spouses are or significant others. 2522 02:23:06.280 --> 02:23:08.559 ACE has got you cut up are set up for that. 2523 02:23:08.959 --> 02:23:11.959 If you need lights or decorations, things inside the house, 2524 02:23:12.000 --> 02:23:15.159 things outside the house, things for the patio, Christmas lights, 2525 02:23:15.319 --> 02:23:17.760 lights by the foot, which I think is really cool. 2526 02:23:17.799 --> 02:23:19.920 You can buy a string exactly as long as you 2527 02:23:19.959 --> 02:23:21.920 want it to be. Ace has got that. 2528 02:23:22.120 --> 02:23:22.319 You know. 2529 02:23:22.440 --> 02:23:27.280 Ace has a thing called round Up for Kids, and 2530 02:23:27.559 --> 02:23:30.520 at what it is. It's a fundraiser for the Children's 2531 02:23:30.559 --> 02:23:34.520 Miracle Network, which supports our Texas Children's Hospital here in Houston. 2532 02:23:35.280 --> 02:23:37.639 Round Up for Kids is when you go to the register, 2533 02:23:38.040 --> 02:23:40.639 you have this option to round up to the next 2534 02:23:40.639 --> 02:23:42.639 dollar and that money and you know what, when you 2535 02:23:42.680 --> 02:23:44.760 take all the people that check out at all the 2536 02:23:44.799 --> 02:23:47.799 Ace Hardware stores throughout Houston, that adds up to a 2537 02:23:47.840 --> 02:23:51.840 significant amount of money. Now. Ace Hardware stores are everywhere 2538 02:23:52.399 --> 02:23:54.760 all through the Houston area. The K and M Hardware 2539 02:23:54.799 --> 02:23:56.959 has got a location in Kingwood and one in a 2540 02:23:57.079 --> 02:24:01.040 Tascasita All Stories Hardware has got two locations. One is 2541 02:24:01.079 --> 02:24:03.719 in the Spring, one is in Magnolia. For those of 2542 02:24:03.719 --> 02:24:07.159 you up around Lake Conroe, you got Lake Conroe ACE Hardware. 2543 02:24:07.639 --> 02:24:11.000 Over on the east Side you've got U Valdie Ace Hardware. 2544 02:24:11.280 --> 02:24:14.600 And up in Brenham you got Brenham Ace Hardware. And 2545 02:24:14.719 --> 02:24:18.399 of course all through the Greater Houston area. Easy to 2546 02:24:18.440 --> 02:24:20.799 find an ACE and when you go in there, you're 2547 02:24:20.840 --> 02:24:24.040 going to find stuff that you need for a beautiful garden, 2548 02:24:24.079 --> 02:24:29.120 a beautiful landscape, beautiful decorations. That's why they say ACE 2549 02:24:29.399 --> 02:24:34.600 is the place. Well, I've talked all the way through 2550 02:24:35.399 --> 02:24:38.639 the show today, four hours of garden Line, along with 2551 02:24:38.799 --> 02:24:41.520 some of you calling in to talk. Appreciate that. I'll 2552 02:24:41.559 --> 02:24:45.440 be back tomorrow morning six am. I hope everyone is 2553 02:24:45.600 --> 02:24:47.600 go ahead and get up at five so you can 2554 02:24:47.600 --> 02:24:50.399 have coffee and be alert and ready to go, and 2555 02:24:50.440 --> 02:24:53.319 we will hit the ground running at six o'clock in 2556 02:24:53.360 --> 02:24:57.719 the morning answering your gardening questions or maybe even saying 2557 02:24:57.719 --> 02:25:00.239 some crazy things or playing some crazy music for some 2558 02:25:00.399 --> 02:25:03.239 of that as well. Thanks for being a garden Line listener. 2559 02:25:03.239 --> 02:25:04.959 I appreciate that. I just want to remind you my 2560 02:25:05.040 --> 02:25:10.239 website gardening with skip dot com go check it out 2561 02:25:10.280 --> 02:25:13.600 and download the publication on frosts and Freezes