Speaker 1: Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
Speaker 1: of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
Speaker 1: to kt r H Garden Line with Skip rictes.
Speaker 2: The crazy.
Speaker 3: Gas can trim.
Speaker 4: Just watch him as whom.
Speaker 3: Gas so many birdings to see bats in the bases.
Speaker 4: Like gas again, you sacking not a sum glasses gas
Speaker 4: so beamon sweets gas.
Speaker 2: Starting well, well, doodle, first thing in the morning on
Speaker 2: a Saturday morning. Congratulate if you're up. Added congratulations if
Speaker 2: both eyes are wide open and you are somewhat alert.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to go this morning. We got a lot
Speaker 2: to talk about on gardening. We always do. I talk
Speaker 2: about that all the time. The fact that gardening gives
Speaker 2: us a lot of opportunities to learn and talk about
Speaker 2: a lot of things. I enjoy that aspect of it.
Speaker 2: You know, you never get bored when you are learning
Speaker 2: about growing things and plants. We were made to grow things.
Speaker 2: That is just part of our DNA, I believe. And
Speaker 2: there's an accomplishment that comes when you plant a plant
Speaker 2: or plant a seed into the soil. Uh. It is
Speaker 2: just just a sense of I did that, I grew that,
Speaker 2: I made that, and that is a really cool and
Speaker 2: fun thing to do. You are listening to garden Line,
Speaker 2: We're here to answer your gardening questions phone number seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If
Speaker 2: you would like to give me a call seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H and we can
Speaker 2: talk about whatever gardening topics are most of interest to you.
Speaker 2: I spent this week getting some things done out and
Speaker 2: about around the landscape. You know, my garden has been
Speaker 2: kind of on hiatus since it was primarily an Okra garden.
Speaker 2: This summer I kind of went all in to doing
Speaker 2: a lot of different Okre breeding plots and things, and
Speaker 2: so it Okra sort of took over the garden. Of course,
Speaker 2: Okra right now is not very happy at n't like
Speaker 2: these temperatures, and it's all coming out so that I
Speaker 2: can move on to other things. But I look at
Speaker 2: gardening as not only a way to grow food, but
Speaker 2: also a way to become a better gardener. You know,
Speaker 2: when you can read about gardening all day and I
Speaker 2: don't care how good a book is, how knowledgeable the
Speaker 2: author is, there's nothing like it out there, and just
Speaker 2: doing it now when I'm not saying that, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not important to read and learn and well listen
Speaker 2: to the garden Line to learn. But it's just nothing
Speaker 2: like putting your hand to the plow, so to speak,
Speaker 2: and getting after it and doing it. And I learn
Speaker 2: something every year in the garden. I learned more than something.
Speaker 2: I learned a lot of somethings every year in the garden.
Speaker 2: It is a very dynamic thing. Every year is different.
Speaker 2: You know, one year maybe late light blast or early
Speaker 2: blight blast your tomatoes and it just seems like, you know,
Speaker 2: where did all that come from? Well, each year is different.
Speaker 2: Some years, certain insects we have outbreaks of and some
Speaker 2: years what you find is where you didn't seem to
Speaker 2: have nutrient problems, suddenly plants aren't doing really well. And
Speaker 2: who knows what the change could have been. Mad It
Speaker 2: could have been things you added, It could have been soggy,
Speaker 2: wet soil affects that, it could have been a lot
Speaker 2: of things that happened. But you learn every time you
Speaker 2: do it, and you just got to get out there
Speaker 2: and do it. That is, you know, it's it's like
Speaker 2: the quote, and I've made it a number of times
Speaker 2: here on garden Line. You know, to be a good
Speaker 2: gardener to be a good gardener, you got to kill
Speaker 2: a lot of plants. Doctor J. C. Ralston, a famed
Speaker 2: horticulture has said, if you're not killing plants, you're not
Speaker 2: really stretching yourself as a gardener. And boy, is that
Speaker 2: ever true. That is true. So I have stretched myself
Speaker 2: a lot by trying things and killing plants and learning,
Speaker 2: learning what plants need, what they want. You know, That's
Speaker 2: the thing I always say, there's no brown thumbs in gardening.
Speaker 2: There's only uninformed thumbs. And we're here to inform your thumb.
Speaker 2: But it is really true that a lot of the
Speaker 2: things that are that have made me the best gardener
Speaker 2: that I can possibly be a year after year getting
Speaker 2: better and better at it is. It's just trial and error.
Speaker 2: It's being experimental and not being afraid to fail. And
Speaker 2: I would encourage you to do that this year. You know,
Speaker 2: every year I grow tomatoes. Of course, it's almost required.
Speaker 2: I think there's a Texas law that if you have
Speaker 2: a garden, you have to grow at least one tomato.
Speaker 2: But I always add, I've got Tier three that are
Speaker 2: my you know, dependables. I know they're going to be there.
Speaker 2: I like them. They they're going to perform, they're pretty good.
Speaker 2: But I always have Tier three that are some I've
Speaker 2: never grown before, just to try them out, just to learn.
Speaker 2: And you know what, some of my favorites entered the
Speaker 2: world of my favorites by being an experiment that I tried,
Speaker 2: one that I tried out. How about growing things differently?
Speaker 2: Have you ever grown potatoes in a bucket? That's too
Speaker 2: late for planting potatoes, But if you can make a
Speaker 2: hole in the bottom of a bucket or a basket,
Speaker 2: or you know whatever, however you go about it and
Speaker 2: set a potato piece in the bottom, set that container
Speaker 2: on the ground, by the way, and let the potatoes
Speaker 2: grow up into the bucket, and then just keep adding
Speaker 2: compost soil are more of a compost to the bucket
Speaker 2: as they grow, so they're having to grow up out
Speaker 2: of the compost a little bit. And by the time
Speaker 2: they get to the top and that bucket is full
Speaker 2: of compost, all your potatoes will be in that bucket.
Speaker 2: It's true. You can do that, and then you just
Speaker 2: kind of lean it over, cut it loose from the
Speaker 2: ground because the roots are down in the ground. Regular
Speaker 2: potatoes like red potatoes and white potatoes are those are
Speaker 2: the stem pieces. It's actually a stem. Sweet potatoes or roots,
Speaker 2: Irish potatoes, baking potatoes, new potatoes, all of those those
Speaker 2: are stems, so they come above the little seed piece,
Speaker 2: the chunk of potato that you plant in the ground.
Speaker 2: So all your potatoes are in the bucket. They you
Speaker 2: got a bucket full of compost and potatoes, you just
Speaker 2: dump it out. There's no easier potato digging than that.
Speaker 2: And they also it's also really nice. You just need
Speaker 2: to have plenty of drainage holes in the bottom of
Speaker 2: the bucket. But that's something different. Have you ever planted
Speaker 2: a tomato upside down? You could do it same thing.
Speaker 2: You got a bucket, you stick the tomato. You kind
Speaker 2: of have to wrap the leaves up so you can
Speaker 2: push them down through a hole in the bottom of
Speaker 2: the bucket. But the hole shouldn't be so big that
Speaker 2: everything just falls through. Sometimes I'll wrap a little newspaper
Speaker 2: around the stem just to sort of plug that hole.
Speaker 2: Fill the container full of a high quality and growing mix,
Speaker 2: you know, veggie and herb mix would be a good example,
Speaker 2: and just keep it watered and the tomato hangs down
Speaker 2: and they'll try to kind of bend up, but then
Speaker 2: they end up drooping down as they get tomatoes on them,
Speaker 2: and you hang it up somewhere and it gives a
Speaker 2: neighbor something to talk about. He's growing tomatoes out of
Speaker 2: the bottom of a bucket upside down. Mildred, Well, they're
Speaker 2: talking about you anyway, so don't worry about that. Just
Speaker 2: have fun anyway, Try something new. I always trying to
Speaker 2: encourage you to grow something you haven't grown, try something new,
Speaker 2: do something in a way you haven't tried. And I
Speaker 2: think it just is part of the fun of gardening.
Speaker 2: It's certainly a conversation piece. All right, Well you get
Speaker 2: the idea. Uh seven one three two one two five
Speaker 2: eight seven four. If you'd like to give us a call,
Speaker 2: We're going to go to a little break here and
Speaker 2: I'll be right back with I got a lot of
Speaker 2: things I want to talk about today, some really interesting
Speaker 2: and cool tips to talk to you in just a bit.
Speaker 2: Welcome back for garden Line. Hey, we are here to
Speaker 2: answer your gardening questions and just to help make you
Speaker 2: a better gardener. You know, they say, if you're cutting
Speaker 2: trees every night and then you got to quick cutting trees,
Speaker 2: just to stop and sharpen the saw. Well, gardeners are
Speaker 2: the same way. If we don't stop every now and
Speaker 2: then or in the process, you know, sharpen us our saw.
Speaker 2: If you will make us better gardeners, it kind of
Speaker 2: gets boring, and sometimes misconceptions we have tend to live on.
Speaker 2: Have you ever noticed that in life in general, there's
Speaker 2: things you thought were right, but they turned out later
Speaker 2: you go, yeah, that wasn't right. Well, I think I
Speaker 2: don't know. Is it probably Mark Twain or one of
Speaker 2: those kind of pontificators said something like, it's not what
Speaker 2: I don't know that concerns me, it's what I know
Speaker 2: that ain't. So other words, the thing I think I
Speaker 2: know that I'm wrong about whatever. Anyway, that is really
Speaker 2: true when it comes to gardening as well. I've talked
Speaker 2: to you in the past about quality home products, and
Speaker 2: you know that they are the purveyors of the outstanding
Speaker 2: stand by generator by Generac Generac automatic stand by generators
Speaker 2: set outside your house. And I know right now the
Speaker 2: storms from this past year are the last thing on
Speaker 2: your minds. But let me just give you a tip
Speaker 2: if you are interested in getting a generator set up
Speaker 2: for next year. So when we do enter the storm seasons,
Speaker 2: and it's not just hurricane season. You know, the first
Speaker 2: storm we had this year wasn't even a hurricane season.
Speaker 2: It wasn't related to a hurricane. If you're interested in that,
Speaker 2: now would be a good time to call them, because
Speaker 2: a low quieter on the on the front during this
Speaker 2: time here, because people are busy with other things. Give
Speaker 2: Quality Home a call. You can dial seven to one
Speaker 2: to three Quality, or you can go to their website
Speaker 2: Quality tx dot com and talk to them about the
Speaker 2: process of what it takes to get a Quality Home
Speaker 2: generator set up at your place now. If you happen
Speaker 2: to be we're getting the end of the year here.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're an electrician or a plumber and you just
Speaker 2: aren't real happy where you're working right now. Maybe you
Speaker 2: know you would like to get a better opportunity, something
Speaker 2: with more maybe competitive pay, something with comprehensive medical, dental,
Speaker 2: vision coverage, retirement plans, holiday paid time off, career advancement.
Speaker 2: You want to work for a really established, reputable company. Well,
Speaker 2: Quality Home is all that, and you ought to get
Speaker 2: my call. You ought to go online to Quality TX
Speaker 2: dot com, qualitytx dot com. The three you can make
Speaker 2: an application to become heart of the Quality team. And
Speaker 2: I'm tell you this. When I visited with the folks
Speaker 2: from Quality, one thing I noticed is they just love
Speaker 2: working there. They love their jobs. And boy, isn't that
Speaker 2: important those of us who have been in jobs we loved,
Speaker 2: in jobs we didn't love so much. Well, consider giving
Speaker 2: them a call again. License electricians and plumbing pros because
Speaker 2: all their stuff like that is in house. They don't,
Speaker 2: you know, contract out to get electrician to come in
Speaker 2: and deal with their products when they're installing. They have
Speaker 2: their own and you can be one of those. So
Speaker 2: a lot of things that I'd like to visit about.
Speaker 2: One thing I want to start talking about today is
Speaker 2: there is a fellow I know. I've always really respected
Speaker 2: his horticultural work. His name is Lee Reich up in
Speaker 2: New York area, and he writes from a standpoint and
Speaker 2: I really appreciate this of both research base information, am
Speaker 2: making stuff up or hearing what someone else said, research
Speaker 2: based information, and secondly, very much personal experience. He is
Speaker 2: a full gardener, I mean thirty years of his career,
Speaker 2: and he worked for Cornell for a long time, and
Speaker 2: he had written some things and I was just looking.
Speaker 2: It was kind of a gardening guru's guide, some tips
Speaker 2: for gardeners, And as I read them, it was like, yes, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: every one of them. He is hitting the nail, just
Speaker 2: direct on. So I want to give you a few
Speaker 2: of those to think about. One of his tips is
Speaker 2: it basically has two words organic matter. Now have you
Speaker 2: ever heard me talk about the brown stuff and the
Speaker 2: green stuff. Yeah, it's important to some, it's important in gardening.
Speaker 2: And you can just sum it up to words organic matter.
Speaker 2: Whether it's coming from these fallen leaves that are hitting
Speaker 2: the ground now, whether you make compost, buy composts, put
Speaker 2: kitchen scraps out there to decompose, if it was once alive,
Speaker 2: it's organic matter. And as it decomposes, it becomes the
Speaker 2: equivalent of compost and eventually humus. And when you put
Speaker 2: it in the soil, it encourages a healthy balance of
Speaker 2: beneficial microbes and microbes health plants, fight pests and disease.
Speaker 2: They also feeds. It releases its nutrients back into the soil.
Speaker 2: Organic matter so important, so important. Do you know that
Speaker 2: your lawn more puts out more nutrients than your fertilizer spreader?
Speaker 2: Let that sink in just a minute. Your lawn mowre
Speaker 2: puts out more nutrients and your fertilizer spreader. So that
Speaker 2: means that if you were to take all the grass
Speaker 2: clippings in a year of mowing and dry them down,
Speaker 2: send them to the lab, have them do an analysis
Speaker 2: on what's in them, there are more pounds of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,
Speaker 2: and all the micronutrients because you have to have them
Speaker 2: to grow grass. All of those are in those clippings
Speaker 2: more than you've applied with your fertilizer. Now, if you
Speaker 2: bag your clippings to get rid of them, you just
Speaker 2: have to fertilize even more. It doesn't mean if you
Speaker 2: return clippings you don't have to fertilize. It just means
Speaker 2: don't get rid of that valuable stuff that is happening
Speaker 2: when trees drop leaves. It's happening with grass clippings and
Speaker 2: all kinds of things organic matter. Second point, we're it's
Speaker 2: going to take a while to go over some of these,
Speaker 2: but over the course of this morning, I'd like to
Speaker 2: do that. Don't panic over insects and diseases. That is
Speaker 2: something that isn't said I should talk about that more,
Speaker 2: there are some situations where if you don't deal with
Speaker 2: them early, they become a big problem. You know, brown
Speaker 2: patch in our yards. If you're going to treat for it,
Speaker 2: you got to catch it either before it starts or
Speaker 2: very very early in the process. But most things we
Speaker 2: deal with. It's just a tolerable amount of damage. You know,
Speaker 2: to have a few aphens on a plant, to have
Speaker 2: a few spider mites on a planet, to have a
Speaker 2: few leaf spots on a disease. Something you and up
Speaker 2: some leaves here and there. Maybe it's a caterpillar or
Speaker 2: a grasshopper or a beetle. We can put up with that, Okay,
Speaker 2: A spray is our last resort. Now, that doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you wait until there's hardly anything left of the plant
Speaker 2: to spray. It just means you don't have to control
Speaker 2: every problem in the garden by constantly spraying and treating
Speaker 2: for it. Organic or synthetic I'm talking about I don't
Speaker 2: care whether you're an organic or synthetic gardener. In this point.
Speaker 2: You don't have to spray for everything that happens. And
Speaker 2: it is really true, It is really important to remember that.
Speaker 2: I remember years ago they did a study on green
Speaker 2: beans in the garden, you know, bush beans, and they
Speaker 2: took leaves, they cut leaves off the plant to see
Speaker 2: how many leaves does the plant have to lose in
Speaker 2: order to have a significant noticeable drop in production, and
Speaker 2: it was forty percent of the leaves. So if you've
Speaker 2: got a green bean and it's got a few holes
Speaker 2: and almost all the leaves, that still is not warranting
Speaker 2: a spray. You can spray and kill the bug, but
Speaker 2: you're not going to see more green beans as a
Speaker 2: result of it. So that's just the point that I'm
Speaker 2: trying to make. Just think about it before you feel
Speaker 2: like you have to deal with something now. Again, my
Speaker 2: caveat on that is, yes, there are situations where you
Speaker 2: get an explosion if you don't shut it down early,
Speaker 2: but I'm telling you nature has a way of fixing things.
Speaker 2: When I first started as a county extension agent, I
Speaker 2: remember that our spray schedule for pecan orchards was every
Speaker 2: week or two. You're spraying with this and spraying with this,
Speaker 2: and spraying with this all through the season. And basically
Speaker 2: you just sprayed the orchard all season, over and over
Speaker 2: and over again on a pretty frequent basis, so that
Speaker 2: fill in the blank didn't become a problem. It was
Speaker 2: disease and insects, sprays and stuff like that. Then part
Speaker 2: way into it, something called integrated pest management really took hold.
Speaker 2: And that's a process where we don't just spray because
Speaker 2: there might be a past, or there is a past,
Speaker 2: we decide whether we need to spray or not. And
Speaker 2: so pecan orchardice would turn over a pecan. You know,
Speaker 2: pecans have compound leaves. It's not just one little leaflet,
Speaker 2: it's a whole set of leaves on a stem of petial.
Speaker 2: And they would turn over a leaf, count the number
Speaker 2: of aphids on it and do that to one hundred
Speaker 2: leaves in the orchard and come up with the exact
Speaker 2: average number of aphids on it. And so maybe this
Speaker 2: week you had an average of four aphids per leief
Speaker 2: and next year seven afrits per leief, or next year,
Speaker 2: next week and the next week, you know, it got
Speaker 2: up to nine and then it went back down to five.
Speaker 2: What happened there? Ladybugs moved in, lace wings moved in,
Speaker 2: parasitizing wasps move in, and nature took care of it.
Speaker 2: And there's this little dotted line that says, yeah, more
Speaker 2: than number of aphids, then spray, And that concept applies
Speaker 2: to our garden as well. No, we don't count aphids
Speaker 2: on plants. We don't need to, but that idea, that
Speaker 2: approach to it applies as well. And so point number
Speaker 2: two I'm making here with Lee's doctor Reisch's tips is
Speaker 2: don't panic over insects and diseases, learn about managing them.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, it is getting near another little break here.
Speaker 2: I'm going to come back with more of those tips
Speaker 2: as we go through. And I've also got some interesting
Speaker 2: stuff on how plants react to light that I think
Speaker 2: you'll find very interesting, as well as a few other Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go I'm gonna talk about an missletoe today.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about mistletoe. It's a season for it, right,
Speaker 2: all right, stick stick around. We'll be right back here,
Speaker 2: and just a bit by the way, if you'd like
Speaker 2: to go ahead and give me a call, see can
Speaker 2: be first up when we come back. The number is
Speaker 2: seven to one three two one two K T R H.
Speaker 5: And none of you.
Speaker 2: Remember John Denver? Yep, he had a garden song. You know,
Speaker 2: I try to I've been on a search for songs
Speaker 2: about gardening things, and I've come up with some interesting ones.
Speaker 2: Let's just say we'll be adding a few of those
Speaker 2: as bumper music as we go through here, especially next year.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I just thought I put that in there,
Speaker 2: so I've been I was talking about some tips from
Speaker 2: a guy named Lee Reich, doctor Reich up and was
Speaker 2: in Cornell. He's now retired. He still writes. He's got
Speaker 2: some great books. By the way, if you want an
Speaker 2: excellent book for a Christmas gift, h he has a book.
Speaker 2: Oh guy, it's called Weedless Gardening. I believe he's the
Speaker 2: title of it, weedless Gardening, and he basically talks about
Speaker 2: how nature takes care of the soil by covering it
Speaker 2: with maltz and things like that. And I have used
Speaker 2: that system of weedless gardening myself and it it really works.
Speaker 2: When I saw his book, it's like, oh, somebody else
Speaker 2: figured that out too. Of course, Nature figured that a
Speaker 2: long time before we did, which is another point that
Speaker 2: I'm going through. Some of the points that I think
Speaker 2: really valuable that he made, and that is have faith
Speaker 2: in Mother Nature. She's been at it a long time
Speaker 2: follower lead. So, for example, what does nature do with
Speaker 2: bear soil? Nature throws leaves on it to cover it
Speaker 2: up and prevent erosion and prevent wide string swings and temperature.
Speaker 2: Nature essentially protects that bear soil with leaves. It also
Speaker 2: protects it with plants. We call those weeds, by the way,
Speaker 2: But when if you just strip away a section of
Speaker 2: your lawn and get rid of all the lawn, what's
Speaker 2: going to happen is all these weeds come up where
Speaker 2: they come from, seeds that we're waiting there. But your
Speaker 2: lawn was preventing it. And so nature doesn't like that,
Speaker 2: and it covers it up to protect the soil, and
Speaker 2: we can do the same thing. It really makes sense nature. Also,
Speaker 2: you'll notice that plants in areas where they want to grow.
Speaker 2: Now that think about that a minute. So if you
Speaker 2: are looking for something to go in a wet spot,
Speaker 2: we'll pick one from nature that grows in wet spots
Speaker 2: or you know, whether it's a native plant here or
Speaker 2: from another area. A button bush is a native shrub
Speaker 2: and through it in parts of Texas and it it
Speaker 2: just will grow right on the side of a stream.
Speaker 2: I mean, it puts up with wet soil really really well.
Speaker 2: Louisiana Iris puts up with wet soil really really well. Uh,
Speaker 2: and then there are plants that need dry soil and
Speaker 2: prefer dry soil, and so whatever it is that just
Speaker 2: learn from where plants grow, for the conditions, for how
Speaker 2: nature goes about things, and be patient with it. So
Speaker 2: I think it's a good point that he makes. Another one, well,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Let me let me let me
Speaker 2: just make a statement about that that nature thing. Microlife
Speaker 2: fertilizers have been designed to work with nature, and by
Speaker 2: doing that, they're doing things like using organic ingredients, natural
Speaker 2: organic matter, things from nature to form a fertilizer that
Speaker 2: you can put out that will release those nutrients somewhat
Speaker 2: slowly over time to help stimulate your plant. Because that's
Speaker 2: what that's how nature does it. It puts organic matter
Speaker 2: on the ground that releases nutrients over time as it
Speaker 2: decomposes a way over places. Now there's microlife ingredients that
Speaker 2: microlife products that are filled with beneficial microbes as well, like,
Speaker 2: for example, one the micro micro grow bioinoculate. It is
Speaker 2: not a fertilizer, it is a bios biostimulating and bio
Speaker 2: providing product. What do I mean by that, I mean
Speaker 2: that you are inoculating soil with sixty three different types
Speaker 2: of beneficial microbe strains that are known to be beneficial
Speaker 2: to plants, and that is how micro grow bioinoculate works.
Speaker 2: You can put it in any kind of soil. I
Speaker 2: put it in some of my container mixes indoors, because
Speaker 2: you know, this is kind of an artificial soil. That's
Speaker 2: what growing media is. Potting soil is an artificial soil.
Speaker 2: And I put it in that, I put it outside.
Speaker 2: You can spread it in your lawn. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of ways you can use it. But microlife
Speaker 2: products are designed that way to work with nature, to
Speaker 2: take what nature has taught us, and to put it
Speaker 2: actually to practice for your law and for your garden,
Speaker 2: for whatever you're trying to grow, including like I said,
Speaker 2: house plants. You can find out more at Microlifefertilizer dot
Speaker 2: com Microlife Fertilizer dot com, and you find these products
Speaker 2: all over the Greater Houston area at the kinds of
Speaker 2: places we talk about feed stores and ace hardware stores
Speaker 2: and Southwest Fertilizer and garden centers across town. Microlife products.
Speaker 2: But anyway, another point that I would like to make
Speaker 2: by the way, I should I get going on this talking,
Speaker 2: and I forget to give you our phone number in
Speaker 2: case you want to call someone's wanting to dial in
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two k t rh Uh.
Speaker 2: And this one I think is probably neglected more than
Speaker 2: most of the points I'm going to be making here.
Speaker 2: But and that's to keep written records and photos. Now
Speaker 2: I know some of you are going, oh, I don't
Speaker 2: want to go through that. That's nonsense. When you write
Speaker 2: down what you did and what happened as a result,
Speaker 2: you learn from it and you can refer back to it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean just written records. I mean information
Speaker 2: about what you're writing about. For example, here it is
Speaker 2: you have this new bug and it's eating your I
Speaker 2: don't know whatever plant, and you send a picture to
Speaker 2: me on garden line and I say, it's this bug,
Speaker 2: and here's something things you can do about it, or
Speaker 2: don't worry about it. It's not a big problem, or
Speaker 2: whatever I say. And then you just make a note,
Speaker 2: take a picture in your garden with your camera phone,
Speaker 2: take a picture of the bug, and write down with
Speaker 2: it include cut and paste from an email or I've
Speaker 2: even used publications online and you can download and put
Speaker 2: them with it, and you create like a it's like
Speaker 2: a gardening journal, but it also becomes a gardening book
Speaker 2: as you build it over time. But keep records when
Speaker 2: did you plant? What were the results? Because you just
Speaker 2: won't remember. And trust me, I don't remember. I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love The other day I was thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: what peppers did I plant? Two years ago? I had
Speaker 2: a big pepper crop or a bunch of peppers? A
Speaker 2: trial I did? Which ones did I plant? And how
Speaker 2: did they perform? And my brain's going, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I went back and looked at my seed orders to
Speaker 2: find out, Oh, it was these. But keep records. You
Speaker 2: learn from your mistakes. There is no end to what
Speaker 2: you can learn about goard gardening unless you forget what
Speaker 2: you did and what the results were. So help avoid that.
Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson, a very good gardener, wrote, though an old man,
Speaker 2: I am a young gardener. He kept excellent, excellent records.
Speaker 2: All right, time for a break? The number seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt RH. Would you like to
Speaker 2: give me a call? We'll be right back. All right,
Speaker 2: we are just monkeying around here on garden line. Thanks
Speaker 2: for listening. Appreciate having you with us today. If you'd
Speaker 2: like to give me a call seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two K t r H. I'm going to jump
Speaker 2: back into these tips by a fellow named Lee Reisch
Speaker 2: that I just found so helpful. Another tip he had
Speaker 2: is don't get boxed in by preconceptions. For example, the
Speaker 2: flowers have to be in a flower garden, no flowers
Speaker 2: can be in the vegetable garden. You know, flowers, A
Speaker 2: lot of types of flowers attract beneficial insects, and we
Speaker 2: want those to be attracted to our vegetable gardens. There
Speaker 2: are number one it makes your vegetable garden pretty, or two.
Speaker 2: I always include there's certain kinds of flowers I know
Speaker 2: are very attractive to beneficials, certain beneficials, and so I
Speaker 2: always include those when I'm planting around the garden. I
Speaker 2: had a garden one time where I had I like buckets,
Speaker 2: the galvanized buckets, you know, punch some holes in the bottom,
Speaker 2: hang them on a fence post, and you can grow
Speaker 2: flowers in those as long as you got some sort
Speaker 2: of drip irrigation or like to get out in water
Speaker 2: a lot, and I had beneficial flower plants, beneficial attracting
Speaker 2: flower plants all around the garden, hanging on an over
Speaker 2: post of the fence around the garden. It's kind of unusual,
Speaker 2: looked kind of cool, and it did some good. You
Speaker 2: don't have to have an orchard to grow fruit. There's
Speaker 2: another one I lived over in conro text As many
Speaker 2: years ago. I had a peach tree that was part
Speaker 2: of our landscape. It was just sitting there like any
Speaker 2: other shrub or tree that you would put in the landscape.
Speaker 2: It wasn't in an orchard. But in the spring it bloomed.
Speaker 2: Then it was beautiful. It just made a nice that's
Speaker 2: called edible landscaping. There's a lot of ways to do
Speaker 2: that same. It's true with herbs. You don't have to
Speaker 2: have an herb garden to grow herbs. In my vegetable gardens,
Speaker 2: I will often put something like a regano as a groundcover.
Speaker 2: I often will also put some of the flowering herbs
Speaker 2: for the reasons I mentioned before, at the end of
Speaker 2: the garden bed. One year I made a kind of
Speaker 2: apasta bed. It had tomatoes in it. At the ends
Speaker 2: of the rose. One end of the rose was a regano,
Speaker 2: the other end was basil. Well, I just had all
Speaker 2: the you know, all the ingredients you would want for possibly.
Speaker 2: It was just kind of fun. But plus, gardening is
Speaker 2: supposed to be fun, right. The weating isn't fun is
Speaker 2: another preconception. Oh, I hate weeding. Actually wheating is not bad.
Speaker 2: You know, we by getting out there and doing a
Speaker 2: little bit of early hoeing. If you've got bear soil
Speaker 2: and you get some weeds in there, just slice them
Speaker 2: up real good. Even hand weating, if it's not too much,
Speaker 2: is kind of enjoyable because you get to see the benefits.
Speaker 2: But when you get through eating, put mulch on the soil.
Speaker 2: Remember what nature does put mulch on top of the soil.
Speaker 2: Over thirty years ago, I think doctor Reich has not
Speaker 2: been tilling his soil. And for me, it's been probably
Speaker 2: fifteen years that I quit regularly tilling the soil. And
Speaker 2: you don't need to think about nature. Who tills the forest,
Speaker 2: who tills the meadow. It doesn't get tilled. Roots grow,
Speaker 2: the plants die, the roots decompose. You have channels now
Speaker 2: into the soil where those roots were. Now there's rotting
Speaker 2: organic matter channels, and earthworms will follow those channels because
Speaker 2: they like to eat the organic matter take it in,
Speaker 2: so you don't have to rototill the soil. There are
Speaker 2: a few times where I will rot hotel of certain situations,
Speaker 2: like if I were trying to incorporate some foster first
Speaker 2: down deeper at phosphorus doesn't move down in the soil
Speaker 2: very well, then that that might be a time where
Speaker 2: I do it. Or if I'm getting started for the
Speaker 2: first time and I'm trying to improve a crumy soil,
Speaker 2: I would wrote a till things in like expanded shale
Speaker 2: and a clay or compost and a clay or a saying,
Speaker 2: but you don't have to you don't have to do that.
Speaker 2: Try new ways of doing things. We have a whole
Speaker 2: other talk on no till gardening. Sometimes here's a big one.
Speaker 2: Seek out reputable sources when you have a question. Oh boy,
Speaker 2: oh boy. I get so frustrated when and this is
Speaker 2: worse on social media, but not only on social media,
Speaker 2: when I read stuff by people who do not know
Speaker 2: what they're talking about, but they're experts, because why because
Speaker 2: they say they're experts, and it just happens a lot.
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to pick on any specific names here,
Speaker 2: but often celebrity type people will do that, you know,
Speaker 2: because famous than you know, Like if Taylor Swift ever
Speaker 2: went in and did a gardening show, everybody watch it.
Speaker 2: But does that mean she knows what she's talking about?
Speaker 2: I have no idea if she knows what she's talking
Speaker 2: about about gardening and she doesn't. I'm just using that
Speaker 2: as an example. But I read a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: and it just isn't necessary. It's kind of like some
Speaker 2: of these home improvement shows where you know you got someone.
Speaker 2: If you've got if you're a young, strappy guy with
Speaker 2: an Australian accent, you can be an expert on a
Speaker 2: home gardening show. I mean a home improvement show. From
Speaker 2: what I see, young ladies with a tool built same thing.
Speaker 2: But anyway, find a reputable source. Here's how you do that.
Speaker 2: Number one, I would consider myself a reputable source because
Speaker 2: I've spent forty years now learning and just studying, research
Speaker 2: and talking to gardeners and teaching and things like that.
Speaker 2: We have many good nurseries, garden centers, independent garden centers
Speaker 2: where we have people that are reputable resources that you
Speaker 2: can have when you're doing an online search. Now, this
Speaker 2: is worth this is worth listening to the whole show
Speaker 2: today just to get this one point. If you're going
Speaker 2: to do an online search, at the end of what
Speaker 2: you're searching for, type in site s I T E
Speaker 2: s I T E colon dot edu. What that tells
Speaker 2: Google or whoever you're using. And when you say cite colon,
Speaker 2: it says I want you to Let's say you're searching
Speaker 2: for nematode control, nematode control space site colon dot eedu.
Speaker 2: What it says is Google, I want you to go
Speaker 2: find information on nematode control, but I only want you
Speaker 2: to return to me sites that end in dot edu
Speaker 2: in other words, a university or research and extension service,
Speaker 2: those kinds of things. Try it sometime, Try it sometimes,
Speaker 2: Try like lawn disease or Saint Augustine disease, for example,
Speaker 2: and then do it without site colon dot edu and
Speaker 2: do it with site colon dot ed You Now, does
Speaker 2: that mean that only universities know anything?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Does that mean they're one hundred percent right? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: In fact, oftentimes I see things that are aloft, but
Speaker 2: they are ninety nine percent I mean it is very,
Speaker 2: very hopeful, and it allows you to go through a
Speaker 2: lot of nonsense and cut right to the chase. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can look wherever you want, but reputable sources very
Speaker 2: very important. Hey, Ace Hardware stores are set up for
Speaker 2: holiday lighting. It is time to get that done. Go
Speaker 2: to Ace Hardware for your indoor lights, your outdoor lights,
Speaker 2: for your indoor and outdoor decorations. They've got gifts from
Speaker 2: their gifts that beautiful gift shops, toys, tools, everything you
Speaker 2: need for the holidays and forevery day. You know, we
Speaker 2: got Child's building supply out there in Orange for those
Speaker 2: of you listening out in that area. Hamilton Hardware off
Speaker 2: Highway six near Bear Creek, All Spas Ace in the Woodlands,
Speaker 2: just three of many, many A stores in the Greater
Speaker 2: Houston area. We will be right back after a break
Speaker 2: at the top of the hour. I got a lot
Speaker 2: more stuff to talk about, and give me a call
Speaker 2: with your question. You know, I h one thing that
Speaker 2: I enjoy most about about gardening and things is trying
Speaker 2: something I haven't tried before. That is just fun. You know,
Speaker 2: there's a traditional way of doing everything, but then there's
Speaker 2: I talked about upside down tomatoes, you can do that.
Speaker 2: Upside Down peppers, by the way, didn't work as well.
Speaker 2: That's a different story. But upside down tomatoes work pretty
Speaker 2: good when you're our greet tomatoes and an upside down
Speaker 2: bucket and in the top I plant at basil. So
Speaker 2: there you go. There's your pasta garden or whatever post
Speaker 2: testa garden.
Speaker 6: All right, we'll you're.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scamp Rictor.
Speaker 4: Just watch him as so many good things to see,
Speaker 4: not a side.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go again, garden line. Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. We got we got
Speaker 2: a lot of things we are talking about.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I've been going through kind of a list of tips
Speaker 2: or ideas or concepts. I guess that I ran across
Speaker 2: from a fellow who I have read and respected for
Speaker 2: a long time, doctor Lee Rich. He's from Cornell. Wasn't
Speaker 2: from Cornell. He's retired now. Uh, he's still a garden writer,
Speaker 2: got some great books out and uh, just knowledgeable, does
Speaker 2: a lot of research based and from that works really
Speaker 2: really well. Another idea or a tip that he puts
Speaker 2: out that I totally agree with this is to grow
Speaker 2: a variety of plants, especially when it comes to edibles,
Speaker 2: because you never know, you know that it may be
Speaker 2: that one year, a particular disease wipes out your crop
Speaker 2: of fill in the blank, but you still have all
Speaker 2: these other crops that are coming through just fine. It's
Speaker 2: true of ornamentals as well. But the more you mix
Speaker 2: things up, the more you heage your bet. And I
Speaker 2: do that with cultivars or varieties within a type of vegetable.
Speaker 2: For example, I don't just grow one type of tomato typically. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm always experimenting, so I may have six or seven
Speaker 2: different ones in a year, but at least I would
Speaker 2: recommend for you to grow at least two or three
Speaker 2: even better, because that way you sort of headge your bet,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a good idea. Another one is
Speaker 2: don't plant too much. Oh boy, here we go. Now.
Speaker 2: You know how they say do as I say, not
Speaker 2: as I do. This is a perfect example of that.
Speaker 2: Don't plant too much. Don't let you know. You get
Speaker 2: a seed catalog, and boy have they been coming in
Speaker 2: the door. I've got a whole stack of them here already.
Speaker 2: You look through those catalogs, Oh my gosh, you see
Speaker 2: a picture of tomato is like, I have to have
Speaker 2: that one. It is perfect, yea, and the catalog is perfect,
Speaker 2: but it is a tough suggestion to follow. I fall
Speaker 2: prey to planting too much stuff all the time.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: Of course I do mine for experiments and for taking
Speaker 2: photos from my articles and stuff and videos too, so
Speaker 2: I can make an excuse to have this certain kind
Speaker 2: of garden thing, but seriously, don't do it at home.
Speaker 2: Plant enough but not too much. Here's a prime example,
Speaker 2: and Newby gardeners do this all the time, and unfortunately
Speaker 2: not just Newby gardeners. You get a packet of lettuce,
Speaker 2: and I don't know how many seeds are in a packet,
Speaker 2: but you plan about half of them, and so you
Speaker 2: have this like eight foot or five foot long bed
Speaker 2: of lettuce growing. Now, how much lettuce do you eat
Speaker 2: in a week? I mean, do you like if you're
Speaker 2: growing ahead lettuce, which I don't recommend you do here.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's the best kind of grow. But now,
Speaker 2: if you're growing ahead of lettuce, how long does the
Speaker 2: head of lettuce last? That's one plant and you just
Speaker 2: planted dozens of them. What's going to happen to that?
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying, think about plant a little bit.
Speaker 2: Just like lettuce. For example, I may plant five or
Speaker 2: six to ten plants at the most, and then two
Speaker 2: weeks later plant five or six to ten. That way,
Speaker 2: if the bugs get one or one dies or doesn't
Speaker 2: come up or whatever, I'm still good. But you can
Speaker 2: get a lot of good eating out of a small
Speaker 2: garden space if you don't plant too much of any
Speaker 2: one thing. You mix it up a little bit. And finally,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say that, and this is not
Speaker 2: coming out of what he wrote, but it's a get
Speaker 2: out in your gardens on a frequent basis. There's an
Speaker 2: old adage that would they say it, the best fertilizer
Speaker 2: is the footprints of the gardener. So you can think
Speaker 2: about what that means. It means you get out in
Speaker 2: your garden and your plants do better.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: I would say the best pest control and disease control
Speaker 2: is also the footprints of the gardener. Catching a problem
Speaker 2: early on, making some wise decisions as to whether something
Speaker 2: needs to be done or not, not waiting until you
Speaker 2: know it's too late. I get a lot of questions
Speaker 2: and pictures by email, and I've just seen a lot
Speaker 2: of gardeners do this, but they don't notice the problem
Speaker 2: until there's hardly a leaf left on the plant, and
Speaker 2: the ones left have holes in them, and then it's like,
Speaker 2: what do I do? Well, I can tell you what
Speaker 2: would have killed the bug if you had needed to
Speaker 2: spray it, But at that stage there's no need to
Speaker 2: spray because it's done. It's toast to pull it up
Speaker 2: and replant. So get out there in the garden. See
Speaker 2: what's going on, learn from it. Make notes, keep records
Speaker 2: that's important. Oh did I skip over that one? Keep written?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I didn't keep written records and photos. I
Speaker 2: talked about that. But let me go back to that
Speaker 2: one just for one second. Here. I wean't talk all
Speaker 2: the way through this segment. When it comes to records.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of ways to doing it. You can
Speaker 2: use apps. There was an app called, oh gosh, I
Speaker 2: can't even remember the name that I used to use,
Speaker 2: but then it something changed about it and I didn't
Speaker 2: like it anymore. Now I use one Note. One Note
Speaker 2: is a Microsoft product. You can use that. There are
Speaker 2: a lot of different apps. There's a number of different
Speaker 2: apps that are excellent for they'll allow you to have
Speaker 2: like files, you know where. Let me make you this
Speaker 2: my vegetable file. This is my flower file, this is
Speaker 2: my lawn file. And then within there you can have
Speaker 2: folders in that, and then you can you can add stuff.
Speaker 2: You can add pictures, you can add articles and stuff.
Speaker 2: I just printed up an article a little bit ago
Speaker 2: on something that popped up that was of interest to me,
Speaker 2: and that's going to go in and my digital file.
Speaker 2: You don't have to. If you want paper to wrestle through,
Speaker 2: you can do that, but I like to just file
Speaker 2: it digitally in there, and your notebook becomes your learning page.
Speaker 2: That's very, very helpful. You always refer back to it.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna we're gonna leave Lee Reich there
Speaker 2: for a little bit and some of those tips. By
Speaker 2: the way, his book, he has more than one book
Speaker 2: out there, but his book Weedless Gardening is really a
Speaker 2: good one. It is a top down gardening method like
Speaker 2: Nature does. Nature gardens from the top down. You can too.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and go out to the phones. We're
Speaker 2: going to head to Cleveland now and talk to Ron. Hey, Ron,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good more skip this cool morning's gotten me thinking about
Speaker 8: freeze protection. I've got a Texas Mountain Laurel that's been
Speaker 8: in the ground for maybe four or five years. I
Speaker 8: got it right before Randy passed away, so.
Speaker 6: It's been about that long, I believe.
Speaker 8: So it's fairly good side like five foot How well
Speaker 8: does that plant resist freeze freezing?
Speaker 2: Do I need to Yeah? It does well. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: you really don't. It does well in areas much colder
Speaker 2: than Houston. In fact, he's a native up in the
Speaker 2: hill country of Texas and stuff, where they can have
Speaker 2: harder freezes than we do here. I've never seen freeze
Speaker 2: damage on a mountain Laurel. I suspect it could happen,
Speaker 2: especially if a freeze came suddenly and was a very
Speaker 2: hard freeze. You know, we're going from days in the
Speaker 2: seventies and eighties to suddenly getting down in the low twenties,
Speaker 2: you know, without warning. I'm sure you could freeze damage it,
Speaker 2: but not something we normally worry about.
Speaker 8: All right, great, Yeah, it's it's it's pretty getting pretty
Speaker 8: good size, and it's going to get a bit of
Speaker 8: bit harder and harder to protectisolog just curious? I have
Speaker 8: gotten the seed pods, and I was able to after
Speaker 8: talking to you previously. I have gotten the seed pods
Speaker 8: and I've got about four or five.
Speaker 2: I think there's four now about five six inch long.
Speaker 8: You know your scarfire them or however that you say that, yeah,
Speaker 8: so's it's pretty neat. You know, making like you say,
Speaker 8: making those things good is an achievement like you're talking about.
Speaker 2: So all right, there was something else.
Speaker 8: That I was gonna mention, but just oh yeah, last
Speaker 8: week talking you were you hey Ron, Yeah, yes.
Speaker 2: Sir Ron, I need to put you on hosts. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to go to a break. Hold that thought
Speaker 2: and we'll come back with your question when I get
Speaker 2: right back from break. Thanks a lot, We'll be right back. Folks,
Speaker 2: Welcome back to guard Line. Do I ad you with us?
Speaker 2: I was just taking a look at some of the
Speaker 2: lighting work outdoor lighting, Christmas lighting, holiday lighting that Peerscapes does.
Speaker 2: You know Peerscapes, I talk about them all the time
Speaker 2: is a full service landscape company. I mean they kind
Speaker 2: of do it all whatever you need, but they do
Speaker 2: holiday lighting and if you would love to see a
Speaker 2: professional job, go check out their website. It is Piercescapes
Speaker 2: dot com. Pierscapes dot Com. Follow them on social media.
Speaker 2: A lot of good ideas there too. You know, one
Speaker 2: thing about outdoor lighting, this isn't just holiday lighting, but
Speaker 2: outdoor lighting in general, is it is a security issue.
Speaker 2: You know, you come into your house through a door,
Speaker 2: it's a dark area, there's a bunch of bushes planted
Speaker 2: up against a house where somebody can hide in there,
Speaker 2: and it just a well lit landscape is kind of
Speaker 2: a deterrent to somebody wanting to break in walk in.
Speaker 2: And they can create at outdoor lighting to enhance safety.
Speaker 2: Of course, also people walking around tripping over things and stuff.
Speaker 2: Pierce Caapes knows how to do all that, and they
Speaker 2: also are excellent at regular maintenance. You know, if you
Speaker 2: need somebody to come in, maybe just quarterly, you want
Speaker 2: somebody to come into your beds, trim them, weed them,
Speaker 2: fertilize them, check the irrigation, make sure that the mulch
Speaker 2: is you know, an appropriate thickness, apply it is needed.
Speaker 2: And then of course make color changes so your bets
Speaker 2: always look good all four seasons of the year. Well
Speaker 2: Piercecapes can do that. You can give a call to
Speaker 2: eight one, three, seven, oh fifty sixty two eight one
Speaker 2: three seven oh five zero six zero, or, as I
Speaker 2: always say, just go to the website. You'll see it
Speaker 2: all there Piercescapes dot com. We're going to go back
Speaker 2: now to Ron in Cleveland. Ron, I think you had
Speaker 2: a follow up question you were wanting to talk about. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: thank you for coming back.
Speaker 8: It wasn't really a question as much as it was
Speaker 8: a statement, but it was about a caller. I believe
Speaker 8: it was last Sunday you had and he was asking
Speaker 8: about aromatic plans and you had mentioned Texas Mountain Laurel
Speaker 8: and sweet almond verbena. And I've got sweet Alma verbina
Speaker 8: in the backyard in the front yard with my Texas
Speaker 8: Mounta Laurel front and as you're mowing around the aromatics
Speaker 8: of that sweet almond verbena. So I just wanted to
Speaker 8: second your thoughts in case that gentleman was listening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think sweet Alma verbina fragrance should be a
Speaker 2: control substance to be regulated because you can just about
Speaker 2: go into a heavenly coma smelling that that plan Mount
Speaker 2: Laurels the same way. Yes, thank you very much, good well,
Speaker 2: thanks well, thanks for sticking around after break I appreciate that,
Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, Yeah, that is true fragrance. You know,
Speaker 2: one thing about gardening that I want you to remember
Speaker 2: I talk about it from time to time is gardening
Speaker 2: isn't just a visual you know. We when you think
Speaker 2: about I'm gonna landscape my house, you picture the visual
Speaker 2: of it, right. It's pretty, it's balanced, it's got all
Speaker 2: these you know, different colors and and uh and and
Speaker 2: the textures, different textures and things. Gardening is also fragrance.
Speaker 2: To walk outside and have a citrus tree blooming, and
Speaker 2: that wonderful citrus bloom, fragrance wafts up into your old
Speaker 2: factory system. Oh my gosh, that's good. Alma being another
Speaker 2: of course example of that, and there are many other
Speaker 2: good examples of that as well. Another thing is, uh,
Speaker 2: the benefits into our ears when we when we enjoy
Speaker 2: the sounds of the garden, maybe the sounds of birds
Speaker 2: that are out in the garden singing. That's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite things right there. But even you know, here's
Speaker 2: an example. One time I sat beneath a clump of bamboo,
Speaker 2: a talk clump of bamboo at the old Harris County
Speaker 2: Extension Office used to be on at off Highway six
Speaker 2: and it in there in the Attics reservoir, and I
Speaker 2: was sitting on the bamboo and the wind was blowing,
Speaker 2: and it sounded like there was a light rain falling
Speaker 2: as those those stiff, kind of papery bamboo leaves were
Speaker 2: rubbing against each other as the wind blew. It was
Speaker 2: a unique sent Yet to hear that, to see what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, or hear what I'm talking about, it's
Speaker 2: just really cool. And gardening has sounds, you know. Gardening
Speaker 2: also has movement. Gardening has moved and maybe the swaying
Speaker 2: of plants, the way grass sways in the breeze. It
Speaker 2: there's a lot of different the fluttering of butterfly going
Speaker 2: by or things. There's a lot of aspects of gardening
Speaker 2: that add to that complete sense, not just visual, but
Speaker 2: the sense of smell, the sense of hearing, certainly, the
Speaker 2: sense of touch. Back to the smell. By the way,
Speaker 2: there are plants with very aromatic foldage tech Copper canyon
Speaker 2: daisy as an example of that kind of plant. Rosemary
Speaker 2: is one of my daughters. When she was little, we
Speaker 2: had one of these roseberry Christmas trees in the house.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a big container shape like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: Is a rosemary a cushing plant. Those out afterwards, and
Speaker 2: she would go up and hug that thing. She would
Speaker 2: hug it. And she went through the house with rosemary
Speaker 2: coming off of her like I mean, I thought Mussolini
Speaker 2: had invaded or something and get out the pasta and
Speaker 2: the Italian food. At his time. It was the whole
Speaker 2: house smell like rosemary because she carried it with her
Speaker 2: as she went. But the scent of such a nice
Speaker 2: aspect of gardening. I mentioned earlier about you know, nature
Speaker 2: and learning from nature, and that nature doesn't like bear soil.
Speaker 2: You can fix that real eazy in your landscape by
Speaker 2: using well landscaper. Spride has a couple of mulches I'd
Speaker 2: like to talk about. First of all, is a cedar
Speaker 2: mo really attractive? The holidays got that nice reddish smell,
Speaker 2: the fresh the fresh look of cedar malts, the fresh
Speaker 2: fresh aroma of cedar malts, you know as you're moulting
Speaker 2: your beds walking through, it's beautiful. They also have their
Speaker 2: black velvet that's a standard hardwood mult It's kind of
Speaker 2: an immature compost what it amounts to, but it's been
Speaker 2: it's been dark and it's full of life. It's not
Speaker 2: it is not dyed. It is naturally dark, and it's
Speaker 2: screened to be bulky enough to protect the surface of
Speaker 2: the soil as most mulches do. Black velvet is widely available,
Speaker 2: you know, like other landscapers privately, they got two dozen
Speaker 2: or plus different kinds of products. Here in the hoast scenario.
Speaker 2: You can go to garden centers, feed stores, ace hardware stores.
Speaker 2: You know, Southwest fertilized a lot of places. You can
Speaker 2: get south Landscapers Pride Quality Multus and then don't forget
Speaker 2: their top soil. To anybody who is trying to level
Speaker 2: out some holes in your yard, or maybe you are
Speaker 2: redoing your yard, you can just get their top so
Speaker 2: it's a sandy loam compost mix to help you repair
Speaker 2: patchy areas, just smooth out even areas. It's also good
Speaker 2: for bedprep, you know, if you're gonna prepare a bed
Speaker 2: and you want to get a little more kind of
Speaker 2: a soil based material in there in addition to the
Speaker 2: organic matter. A sandy loam compost top dressing topswell from
Speaker 2: Landscaper's Pride. You can go to Landscaperspride Dot com. They've
Speaker 2: got all the information on their products there, including where
Speaker 2: you can find them, including where you can find them.
Speaker 2: All Right, what was I What was I talking about here?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk a little bit about light plant lighting. Now,
Speaker 2: any kid in school has learned that if you stick
Speaker 2: a prism in front of light, it refracts the different
Speaker 2: colors that are in light. What we see is white
Speaker 2: is actually everything from a violet color through a blue,
Speaker 2: through a green, through a yellow, through a red. That
Speaker 2: whole range of colors is there in white light. But
Speaker 2: each of those colors does different things in plants. You know,
Speaker 2: we think light is light, white light is white light. No,
Speaker 2: it's not. Each of the colors has different aspects that
Speaker 2: the plants utilize. And for example, if I can oversimplify it,
Speaker 2: blue and red are the two big ones. Those are
Speaker 2: the ones that do most of the stuff we want
Speaker 2: with plants. Blue is a something that really causes the
Speaker 2: leaves to grow thicker. It causes the stems to a
Speaker 2: long or to not elongate. It's a sign that there's
Speaker 2: a good, strong light there. And it also plays a
Speaker 2: part in photoperiodic flowering, which means when the days get longer,
Speaker 2: when the days get shorter. The blue light is one
Speaker 2: of the regulators of that process.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: We know that holiday cactus, you know, blooms in the fall,
Speaker 2: for example, or Point sett Is, and that is a
Speaker 2: day length effect from blue light. So those are some
Speaker 2: things blue light. Just think a blue light for vegetative
Speaker 2: development and growth, primarily vegetative development and growth. And then
Speaker 2: red light on the other hand, red is another thing
Speaker 2: that makes the plant stockier, and it also helps the
Speaker 2: plant go into blooming and fruiting. It's a big part
Speaker 2: of blooming and fruiting, and it's also a big part
Speaker 2: of some seed germination. Certain seeds you don't want to bury,
Speaker 2: you put on the surface of the soil or barely
Speaker 2: cover them because they need that red light. It's part
Speaker 2: of the process of their germination. So blue and red.
Speaker 2: So that's why sometimes you see lights that look purple,
Speaker 2: and it's because they're primarily blue and red LEDs in
Speaker 2: there for that. Now, so if you're going to grow plant,
Speaker 2: let's say you're going to grow tomatoes. For plant, blue
Speaker 2: is the most important one for producing good vegetative growth.
Speaker 2: You don't just have blue lights, but that's an important one.
Speaker 2: If you want those tomatoes as they get older to
Speaker 2: then start blooming and fruiting. Red is the most important
Speaker 2: aspect of that. And then the question is what about
Speaker 2: green light? Green Light is a sign that you're growing
Speaker 2: in the shade, you're competing with other other plants, and
Speaker 2: as a result, you're going to find that though they
Speaker 2: stretch a little bit, plants in the shade do trying
Speaker 2: to get to light, and the photosynthesis down deeper in
Speaker 2: the leaf occurs a little bit more because the light
Speaker 2: is limited in that. I can talk about those a
Speaker 2: little bit when we come back. We're about to have
Speaker 2: to take a little quick break here and I'll talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about some of the led grow lights.
Speaker 2: And why would I just said maybe important phone number
Speaker 2: if you'd like calder and break seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two fifty eight seven. All right, little culture club, Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 2: Try to pay some upbeat music every around. Then. I
Speaker 2: talked about a Nelson fertilizer for a long time now
Speaker 2: because they have so many great products. But you know,
Speaker 2: as we enter into the cool season, we think about
Speaker 2: house plants more because house plants, you know, we're I
Speaker 2: don't want to make it like we're hole up indoors
Speaker 2: because it's a freezing blizzard outside. But we just spend
Speaker 2: a little more time indoors sometimes in the cool season,
Speaker 2: and your houseplants really twelve months out of the year
Speaker 2: need to have a quality food that is providing them
Speaker 2: the nutrients they need to do well. That is important.
Speaker 2: You don't overfertilize any plant, but you do want to
Speaker 2: fertilize all the plants that we have into some degree
Speaker 2: in another. And a plant in a potting soil in
Speaker 2: a container has a confined root system. So let's say
Speaker 2: you've got a little i don't know if the leaf
Speaker 2: fig or you know, Chinese evergreen or something, that little
Speaker 2: plant in the container. If it was growing in its
Speaker 2: native habitat in the ground, it would have roots way
Speaker 2: out in all directions. But you've got it wound up
Speaker 2: in a little tight container, and that container then has
Speaker 2: it's the only place roots can get nutrients and water.
Speaker 2: And so you've got to keep it adequately moist, but
Speaker 2: not too wet, because both drought and too much water
Speaker 2: are a problem. But it's think about the nutrients in
Speaker 2: that container. Nutri star for indoor plants is it has
Speaker 2: both slow and fast release nutrient sources to provide that
Speaker 2: plant the vitality, the healthy development, the leaf growth. Primarily
Speaker 2: with houseplants, we're looking at leaf growth, foliage, and you
Speaker 2: can ply it once or twice during the winter time
Speaker 2: because it's a slower time for plants to grow. But
Speaker 2: as things, you know, as we get into longer day lengths.
Speaker 2: As you know, even though your house is kind of
Speaker 2: the same temperature most of the year, the day length
Speaker 2: changes and the light quality and chain, and that's when
Speaker 2: we kick into fertilizing our indoor plants even more. Nutri
Speaker 2: Star for indoor plants by Nelson's an excellent product. Just
Speaker 2: buy it, have it on hand because you're going to
Speaker 2: use it all year. We are. Let's see, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go to Patty and Spring. Hey, Patty, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 10: I was wondering, is it too late for me to
Speaker 10: fertilize my Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2: It won't hurt if you do it, but the benefits
Speaker 2: are very minimal at this point in time. Now you
Speaker 2: could put some down, it'll be there. There'll be a
Speaker 2: little bit of nutrient uptake that occurs but now that
Speaker 2: we're hitting the point where it's getting as cool as
Speaker 2: it is and the daylenks is as short as it is,
Speaker 2: the grass plant just isn't pulling in that nutrition at
Speaker 2: the rate it was back in October, for example. And
Speaker 2: so generally, if you look at my schedule, I don't
Speaker 2: really talk about fertilizing, you know, when we hit this
Speaker 2: point in the season. But if you had a situation
Speaker 2: where the soil was very poor you didn't get fertilizing
Speaker 2: done before, Yes you can, you can certainly do that
Speaker 2: add to it, but just realize that a lot of
Speaker 2: it will be lost over the wintertime as it gets
Speaker 2: washed away in rains and so on.
Speaker 11: Okay, and then I have one more question.
Speaker 10: Is there any place that I readid my flower beds
Speaker 10: in the front. We had some foundation work done, so
Speaker 10: they kind of got trashed, but I don't know why.
Speaker 10: I don't don't know what to put in them. Is
Speaker 10: there anybody that would come that I could pay to say, Hey,
Speaker 10: this would be good here and this would be good there.
Speaker 2: Well, what I would do is go to a good
Speaker 2: quality mom and pop garden cent are like you hear
Speaker 2: me talk about her on guard line and talk to them,
Speaker 2: take them a picture of your yard and say, oh, look,
Speaker 2: here's a bed that's law. What plants would you recommend
Speaker 2: for cool season for this bet and then for spring
Speaker 2: or summer, and they can give you some ideas, give
Speaker 2: you kind of a mix. Maybe if it's plants for
Speaker 2: the season we're in now, they'll have them on hand
Speaker 2: where you can kind of look at them and see
Speaker 2: if you like that and whatnot. I think that's the
Speaker 2: best way to do it. Now. As far as you know,
Speaker 2: you can have a landscaping company come out and do
Speaker 2: planting for you know, puer Scapes goes out and does
Speaker 2: color or bed maintenance and does seasonal planting. You can
Speaker 2: have them do color changes through the year to keep
Speaker 2: those beds looking good. So those would be a couple
Speaker 2: of options for your question.
Speaker 11: Okay, all righty, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: All right, you bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate that, Patty.
Speaker 2: We're going to go to George in Jersey Village. Hey, George, Yeah.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Skip. When I heard you talking to that
Speaker 11: gentleman before about fragrant plants, and I made to know
Speaker 11: it about the robina, but I didn't get the other to.
Speaker 2: Please Okay, well, I mentioned, uh that citrus blooms are
Speaker 2: wonderfully fragrant. They have a wonderful fragrance. And so especially
Speaker 2: if it's a smaller cus, you know, like oh, a
Speaker 2: satsuma or a kumquat that you've got in a big container,
Speaker 2: you can kind of put it on the patio where
Speaker 2: you enjoy that breeze up close, or that fragrance up
Speaker 2: first when the breeze blows through. Another one is uh
Speaker 2: you see almond verbino was one in Texas Mountain Laurel.
Speaker 2: The blooms look like clusters of purple grapes and they
Speaker 2: have I don't know if you I know, I know
Speaker 2: that that gaudy is something we use to describe things
Speaker 2: we see, you know, like pink flamingos all in the
Speaker 2: front yard. That's bloody. But I think if Gotty had
Speaker 2: if fragrance could be gaudy, Texas Mountain Laurel would be gatty.
Speaker 2: It's that do you remember the grape super bubble bubble
Speaker 2: gum of the grape flavored that fragrant. That's what the
Speaker 2: Texas Martin Laurel smells like. It is a sweet, syrupy
Speaker 2: grape that'll you won't you will not fail to remember
Speaker 2: it's there when it blooms only in spring, though. Am
Speaker 2: I going to the neighbors all right, George, No, that's
Speaker 2: their problem. No, they won't. They'll they'll love it. It'll
Speaker 2: be diluted by the time it gets over there. Take
Speaker 2: care of Josh. Appreciate appreciate your call. Uh where are
Speaker 2: we here? We're going to go to Carroll in Sugarland. Hey, Carol,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden morning.
Speaker 12: So I went ahead and got a Chinese fringe tree.
Speaker 12: It's little, it's about four or five feet tall, and
Speaker 12: it's got branches down that are kind of low. When
Speaker 12: can I remove those branches? I don't want it to
Speaker 12: grow like a bush. I wanted to grow like a tree.
Speaker 2: Yeah what okay, Here's what I would do, and this
Speaker 2: is true of any tree for the other people listening.
Speaker 2: If you will take the branches that are not permanent
Speaker 2: and cut the end of the last four inches out
Speaker 2: of them, tip them. We call that they will branch more,
Speaker 2: but they won't become dominant at all. They'll be more dwarfed.
Speaker 2: And then the branches that are gonna be permanent, leave
Speaker 2: those to grow. And then when the ones you've been
Speaker 2: tipping periodically, hit about just under an inch in diameter.
Speaker 2: Cut them off then, and that woundlehill roll quickly. The
Speaker 2: reason we're leaving them is they have foliage on them,
Speaker 2: and if you were to strip off every branch that's
Speaker 2: not permanent, you would be taking a lot of the
Speaker 2: energy leaf producing branch area out of the plant and
Speaker 2: you wouldn't get as rapid of a growth and development.
Speaker 2: So what we're doing is we're saying we're not going
Speaker 2: to let you put too much energy into this branch
Speaker 2: because it's going to go, but we are going to
Speaker 2: keep leaves on it because they are fueling the root
Speaker 2: system and the growth of the plant itself. Does that
Speaker 2: make sense, Yes, that's interesting.
Speaker 12: And also I've read different things about the soil preparation
Speaker 12: and some people say, don't amend the soil at all
Speaker 12: because you want it to get used to the clay soil.
Speaker 2: Okay, in a I'll have to do this quick because
Speaker 2: I got to take a break in a situation where
Speaker 2: you've got a tree that's going to have roots going
Speaker 2: way out in all directions, much higher, much further than
Speaker 2: the height of the tree in all directions. Amending a
Speaker 2: small area doesn't do much. If it's a smaller plant,
Speaker 2: and you can amend a large area, not the planting hole,
Speaker 2: but let's say ten foot wide bed, you know, or
Speaker 2: ten foot long bed, then go ahead and amend the
Speaker 2: whole area to help it in its early growth. But
Speaker 2: after you amend it, then dig the hole in plant.
Speaker 2: Don't just throw a little fertilizer or compost in the
Speaker 2: pot in the hole. That's going to not be good.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 12: Okay, thank you, you bet.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. We're going to take a break
Speaker 2: right here. When we come back, Ben and Baytown, you
Speaker 2: will be our first up. All right, welcome back, Welcome
Speaker 2: back to garden. Good to have garden line, good, good
Speaker 2: to have you with us today. Moss Nursery done in
Speaker 2: Seabrook is one of those places that when you have
Speaker 2: family in town for the holidays, you got to take
Speaker 2: them out there. You know, you need an afternoon, get
Speaker 2: a little stroll, enjoy it. Moss is a destination nursery.
Speaker 2: This thing has been around for ages as a family
Speaker 2: mom and pop garden center. Eight acres, eight acres of
Speaker 2: gardener's paradise to wander through and you go in if
Speaker 2: it's a cool day, go into the greenhouse and they
Speaker 2: get warm. But you wouldn't believe the plant collection they have.
Speaker 2: I mean, whoever's visiting you is going to want to
Speaker 2: take a plan home when they go in there, because
Speaker 2: there's everything from succulents, you know, cacti and other succulents,
Speaker 2: to gorgeous foldage plants. I mean, Moss just has it all.
Speaker 2: They whatever is seasonal, you know, right now, they got
Speaker 2: good seasonal color, all the different kinds of bulbs and
Speaker 2: holiday plants and things like that. Of course you can
Speaker 2: find all those there, but it's always a good time
Speaker 2: to plant trees and shrubs. Moss has got you covered
Speaker 2: on that too. The main thing is just to get
Speaker 2: out and enjoy it and check it out. You're not
Speaker 2: going to find a place with any better selection of pottery.
Speaker 2: I mean, they have a huge pottery selection from all
Speaker 2: over the world and a lot of unusual things that
Speaker 2: you walk around the corner, you see I've never seen
Speaker 2: one of those before. Well that's because you're at Moss Nursery.
Speaker 2: Moss nurseryes on Toddville Road in Seabrook. The website is
Speaker 2: Moss Nurserymaas nursery dot Com. We're going to go now
Speaker 2: to talk to Ben in Baytown. Hey Ben, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Skip. I just want to ask you
Speaker 6: a question. I got a little bitty oak sapling, I say,
Speaker 6: a little bit. It's about two feet tall or so.
Speaker 6: Is it too late in the year to transplant that
Speaker 6: to another area?
Speaker 2: It is perfect time of the year. The best time
Speaker 2: is when the leaves are falling off in the late fall,
Speaker 2: even into the winter, but sooner is better. So you
Speaker 2: could go out right now and move that thing. Get
Speaker 2: as much of the root as you can. Main thing
Speaker 2: is too watered in, really good, subtle the soil and
Speaker 2: make sure you put it in the soil at the
Speaker 2: same level that it was growing before. Don't plant it
Speaker 2: too deep or too shallow. Okay.
Speaker 6: And I heard you say something when you're moss and
Speaker 6: you talk about moss nurture, and you're saying, it's a
Speaker 6: good time to plant shrubs as well.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yes, the best. And Ben, here's why. When
Speaker 2: you put a shrub in the ground, First of all,
Speaker 2: when you take it out of it contain they're going
Speaker 2: to be roots circling and you want to cut those
Speaker 2: and they will quickly branch within a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I'll already be sending out new roots underground. But if
Speaker 2: you do that now, it has all the way until
Speaker 2: next May when it starts to get hot to develop
Speaker 2: a root system. So when summer comes, it's much more resilient.
Speaker 2: And if you waited until April to plant that same plant,
Speaker 2: you could do that, of course, but you'd be a
Speaker 2: little more touch and go on the watering of it
Speaker 2: than you would if you get it planted at this time.
Speaker 5: Of the year.
Speaker 6: Okay, I see, yeah, give.
Speaker 2: Yourself, give yourself an advantage, give your plan a head.
Speaker 6: Start, all right, man, appreciation you take care, you.
Speaker 2: Bet you thanks appreciate that call very much. That is
Speaker 2: absolutely the case. By the way, D and D Feed
Speaker 2: in Tomball is an awesome, awesome place to go for
Speaker 2: quality feeds.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: They stock every kind of feed you can imagine, including
Speaker 2: some really high end lines for dog food and other pets.
Speaker 2: They are on twenty nine to twenty about three miles
Speaker 2: west of two forty nine, So when you get when
Speaker 2: you if you're on two forty now you're in Tombol
Speaker 2: and you head out twenty nine to twenty about three
Speaker 2: miles on the left. That Over family has been running
Speaker 2: that place since nineteen eighty nine. And when you go
Speaker 2: in there, if you hear me talk about products like
Speaker 2: I've talked about heirloom soils or Nelson plant food or
Speaker 2: Landscaper's Pride products, you know I'm talking about products from Nelson,
Speaker 2: like turf Star, products from Medina, from Microlife, from Nitrofoss.
Speaker 2: They're all there at D and D Feed, including a
Speaker 2: better selection. I was really surprised first time I went
Speaker 2: in there at their selection of things to control pests
Speaker 2: and weeds and diseases too. D and D Feed and Supply.
Speaker 2: That's your hometown feed store on the west end of Tombul,
Speaker 2: just outside of town. We're going to go. Now, let's
Speaker 2: see where are we here. We're going to go to
Speaker 2: Cliff in Katie. Hello, Cliff, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: How are you doing good? To talk to you? Question
Speaker 9: for you about mogunias.
Speaker 13: I'm I'm not not typically not able to take care
Speaker 13: of plants very well, but this one is sort of
Speaker 13: blossomed on me.
Speaker 9: And I don't know if.
Speaker 13: Begunia's gross actual additional stems, but it seems like this
Speaker 13: one is sort of blossoming. And before I got some
Speaker 13: microlive six two four, and I didn't know before I
Speaker 13: start trying to keep it alive and do that kind
Speaker 13: of thing, it's kind of flourishing, and I kind of
Speaker 13: feel like, well, hey, heck, I just don't want to
Speaker 13: touch it is. Let it just water it every now
Speaker 13: and then and let it keep doing its magic. But
Speaker 13: before I thought, before I start stepping into doing something
Speaker 13: that I might regret, I just thought I'd give you
Speaker 13: a call.
Speaker 2: And get your advice.
Speaker 9: I didn't know if microlife is something that you would
Speaker 9: put in. I don't know how many of those pellets
Speaker 9: to put in a little you know, base with this
Speaker 9: well gone unit, so to speak.
Speaker 2: Ye, how big is there that container? How wide does?
Speaker 2: How wide is the container they're growing in?
Speaker 9: So this one is about eight inches deep. I put
Speaker 9: potting soil in it because, like I said, I don't
Speaker 9: know what else to put in it. I just put
Speaker 9: potting soil in it, dropped it in it. It's about
Speaker 9: eight inches deep and it's it's a kind of a bowl.
Speaker 9: So it starts at the top four or five six
Speaker 9: inches round down at the bottom it's probably eight inches.
Speaker 2: Around Okay, so you know there's not a writer. Yes,
Speaker 2: you can use micro life six two four. I would
Speaker 2: probably put about oh maybe three tablespoons of it in
Speaker 2: that container each time you with it. Begunias are warm
Speaker 2: seasoned plants. They can't take cold, and generally we don't
Speaker 2: fertilize those this late in the year. Now, if you're
Speaker 2: going to bring it indoors, or if it is indoors,
Speaker 2: well it's indoors. You've been little fertilizer. Okay, Well, it
Speaker 2: just needs it just needs to be adequately watered to
Speaker 2: keep it moderately moist but not soggy. When you sprinkle
Speaker 2: the microlife in there, if you can kind of scratch
Speaker 2: it into the surface a little bit, you know, when
Speaker 2: I say scratch it, I'm kind of picturing, you know,
Speaker 2: something that just kind of breaks not two inches deep,
Speaker 2: just under the surface and water that helps it get
Speaker 2: contact with the soil, and it does it does a
Speaker 2: little bit better that way in terms of breaking down
Speaker 2: and releasing those nutrients. Okay, Now, if I were you,
Speaker 2: I would probably if I were I would probably instead
Speaker 2: of using the six two four. I mean, that's a
Speaker 2: good fertilizer, but I think I would use instead one
Speaker 2: of their liquids. And Microlife makes a number of really
Speaker 2: good liquid fertilizers. So I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 2: seen any of those.
Speaker 6: No, not have not?
Speaker 2: So oh gosh, I'm just drawn a blank here and
Speaker 2: I'll say the name of one in just a minute.
Speaker 2: It's an orange label I'm trying to think of. Just
Speaker 2: hang on, hang on to keep listening.
Speaker 1: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richards.
Speaker 2: Crazy trim.
Speaker 4: Just watch him as to see crazy not a sign.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, we're back. Let's get going. We've got
Speaker 2: a lot to talk about on plants here on Guarden Line.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and if you'd like to
Speaker 2: give me a call you got a question, our phone
Speaker 2: number seven one three two one two k t r
Speaker 2: H seven one three two one two kt RH. Now,
Speaker 2: winter is pruning season, primetime pruning season. Can we print
Speaker 2: otther time of the year? Yes? Absolutely, Primetime is the
Speaker 2: cool season that that's when we try to get it
Speaker 2: most done. And uh, if you are interested in having
Speaker 2: somebody come out and do it right, you need to
Speaker 2: call Affordable Tree Martin spoon More. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: He's done this a long time. He's a professional at it.
Speaker 2: And Martin and his wife Joe answer their own phones
Speaker 2: when you call them at seven one three six nine
Speaker 2: nine two six six three. It's the owners that answer
Speaker 2: the phone. And if you don't talk to Martin or Joe,
Speaker 2: call up all the wrong number, not wrong place, uh
Speaker 2: seven one three, six nine nine two six six three.
Speaker 2: You can also go to his website aff tree Service
Speaker 2: dot com. Afftree service dot com. He does all things
Speaker 2: for trees, you know, if you need pruning done, deep
Speaker 2: root feeding, just checking the trees, overall health advice on
Speaker 2: things you're doing around the tree. Hey Martin, I'm going
Speaker 2: to put in a driveway over here. You know, what
Speaker 2: is it is that okay? Or what can I do
Speaker 2: to prevent damage to the tree, all those kind of
Speaker 2: things that bring them in. Trees are the most valuable
Speaker 2: single plant in your landscape, and they are very valuable
Speaker 2: of the house. They're valuable for the shade in the summer.
Speaker 2: And if you haven't been in the Houston summer yet,
Speaker 2: well God bless you get ready. But it's good to
Speaker 2: have shade trees, and they're valuable and you don't want
Speaker 2: to have somebody that doesn't know what they're doing. Mess
Speaker 2: with them, because when they do damage to a tree
Speaker 2: by bad pruning, it's for life. I mean just it is.
Speaker 2: And also if damage is done in construction or anything
Speaker 2: like that, it's it threatens the life of the tree,
Speaker 2: certainly the early growth, but maybe the life or the
Speaker 2: structural stability of it itself. Call Martin seven to one
Speaker 2: three six ninety nine two six six ' three. We
Speaker 2: are going to go now to uh talk to Cliff
Speaker 2: and Katie. Hey, Cliff, what, Oh no, we already talked
Speaker 2: to Cliff.
Speaker 9: You did I saw you still heart?
Speaker 2: Okay, you were asking me. I thank you for hanging around. Well,
Speaker 2: bless your heart hanging around so long. Micro Life bio
Speaker 2: Matrix is the one I couldn't put the name on.
Speaker 2: It's the orange label. It's a little court jar you
Speaker 2: can buy in a gallon, but it's a seven to
Speaker 2: one three fertilizer. So it supports that foliage growth really well,
Speaker 2: and you'll get good blooms on them as well. But
Speaker 2: that's that is a good one. There are the good
Speaker 2: micro Life products. But I like the liquid. You mix
Speaker 2: it a little bit of water every time you water.
Speaker 2: You put a little bit of that in and it
Speaker 2: it just does. Well, that's probably going to serve you
Speaker 2: better than the granules on your indoor play. Well, thanks
Speaker 2: so much, all right, thank you, thank you. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know the I uh, all right, here we go
Speaker 2: and go to now Rick and Spring Branch. Hey, Rick,
Speaker 2: welcome to.
Speaker 7: Guard Hi skipper, love your show, really do. You're doing
Speaker 7: a good good job.
Speaker 14: Next week it's going to be I'll see right now,
Speaker 14: it's going to be thirty nine degrees on Wednesday.
Speaker 7: You think my tomatoes will be okay?
Speaker 14: It's a pretty weighty question because I have over a
Speaker 14: hundred of them on there.
Speaker 2: They'll be okay, they won't they won't be freeze damaged.
Speaker 2: As we get closer to freezing, if we have a
Speaker 2: good clear night, we may have the potential for frost.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be thirty two degrees in the
Speaker 2: air for there to be a frost. I don't just
Speaker 2: kind of watch for that, see what the Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: all you would have to do for the frost anyway
Speaker 2: is just throw a cover over them. You don't need
Speaker 2: heat underneath for that temperature. But thirty thirty nine is
Speaker 2: a little high to have a frost, but it could happen.
Speaker 14: Okay, I hope not. Well that gets me to my
Speaker 14: second question. I was going to talk about my compost.
Speaker 14: Is there anything I have like I do my own
Speaker 14: I do.
Speaker 7: A lot of work on my compost.
Speaker 14: I spend a lot of time because I use my
Speaker 14: own compost, and I use row soil and micro light.
Speaker 14: I use those three and I'm doing really well, especially
Speaker 14: with my tomatoes.
Speaker 7: Is there anything that I can feed sounds like.
Speaker 14: My compost, Like go like the Southwest fertilizer and back
Speaker 14: and actually get a bag of something to enhance it.
Speaker 7: I put all my scraps in there.
Speaker 14: I put my coffee grounds all that stuff, and my
Speaker 14: my compost as well, always does real well.
Speaker 7: But to feed the worms, I never.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're doing it good worms. Are we talking
Speaker 2: about an earthworm?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Are we talking about the little red wigglers?
Speaker 7: The little red wigglars?
Speaker 2: Which worm? Okay? They like food scraps, uh, And well
Speaker 2: that's what I'm doing. Yeah. If you if you put
Speaker 2: if you put food scraps into the compost, that they
Speaker 2: like that. They don't like it hot, So you know,
Speaker 2: a cold compost with food scraps. The red wigglers will
Speaker 2: feed on those food scraps. That's what people make what's
Speaker 2: called verma culture bins for raising worms, and they're they're
Speaker 2: based on newspaper and food scraps. That's that's all they need.
Speaker 2: Sounds like you're doing everything right. You got a good
Speaker 2: mix this red wigglers do. Yeah, go onlining and and
Speaker 2: just do a search for verma culture bin. I used
Speaker 2: to have something online. I don't know if I still do,
Speaker 2: but anyway, Uh yeah. You take a you know, one
Speaker 2: of those rubber made tubs, and you tear up tiny
Speaker 2: strips of newspaper about an inch wide, wet them, moisten them,
Speaker 2: and then throw in some some fruit food scraps and
Speaker 2: put yours in there. And they go to town and
Speaker 2: they turn the whole thing into worm castings in time.
Speaker 2: So okay, But sounds like you're doing good. You got
Speaker 2: you got anything going all the province y'all for a
Speaker 2: long time. Y'all help me out there, all right, thank
Speaker 2: you sir? Well, good, well, good, sounds like you're doing
Speaker 2: a good job. You bet take care of that. Is
Speaker 2: that is the case. He's doing an excellent job based
Speaker 2: on all of that. Plants for all seasons is on
Speaker 2: two forty nine Tomball Parkway just north of Louetta. You
Speaker 2: exit Louetta and go one just north of Louetta heading
Speaker 2: toward Tomball Way. There they are right on the right
Speaker 2: hand side. Been around said it's nineteen seventy three. That's
Speaker 2: a long time. And this family owned business is true
Speaker 2: lawn and garden experts from the family members, many several
Speaker 2: of them work there, to the employees they hire that
Speaker 2: are very knowledgeable and well trained. You can go in
Speaker 2: there with pictures and samples. They help diagnose them for you.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, like they say, get your green on
Speaker 2: at Plants for All Seasons. That is so true. I
Speaker 2: don't care if you're a master gardener or if you're
Speaker 2: a first time gardener. Go to Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 2: and you will get the help you need. You'll get
Speaker 2: the quality plants you want. Plants for All Seasons dot
Speaker 2: com two eight, one three, seven, six one six for six.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a little break here and we'll be
Speaker 2: right back. I got some more stuff to talk about.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get back into the colors of light on
Speaker 2: plants a little bit, and then i gotta talk about
Speaker 2: missile to today Oh yeah, we feel good this morning
Speaker 2: because we're gardeners and it's always a good day for gardeners.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to garden Line. You want to give me
Speaker 2: a call seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 2: R H seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 2: R h U. If you uh, you know, you got
Speaker 2: family in for the holidays and stuff and h You
Speaker 2: may notice a door is sticking. You know, you never
Speaker 2: go through that door much, but suddenly now it's kind
Speaker 2: of sticking. And you look, there's a crack in the
Speaker 2: sheet rock. You go outside, there's a crack in the brick.
Speaker 2: That means things are moving around, which we do not
Speaker 2: want our slab moving around, but it happens. We live
Speaker 2: in Houston high shrink swell potential soils, meaning they get dry,
Speaker 2: they shrink, they get wet, they swell, and that movement
Speaker 2: takes its toll. Is it a problem you need to
Speaker 2: deal with? Well, you don't know, but you can find
Speaker 2: out by calling Ty Strickland. Tis an honest fella, been
Speaker 2: doing this for twenty three years. Fix myslab dot com,
Speaker 2: Fix my slab. That's his company. Fixmyslab dot com Free
Speaker 2: estimates for Gardenline listeners. Telling me you heard about him
Speaker 2: on garden Line. Give him a call. Two eight one
Speaker 2: two fiy five forty nine forty nine. Two eight one
Speaker 2: two five five forty nine forty nine. Even in these
Speaker 2: expensive times, Tie is still committed to giving you a
Speaker 2: fair price, showing up on time, oh my gosh, and
Speaker 2: fixing it right. And he doesn't just tew foundations. They
Speaker 2: can fix driveways and sidewalks too, They can level them
Speaker 2: of those, they can replace him a new concrete. He
Speaker 2: does it all. Is a native Hewstonian, fifth generation Texan.
Speaker 2: Ty knows our soils, he knows what happens, and he
Speaker 2: knows when and how to fix things. Give him a
Speaker 2: call find out about it. Ty Strickland fix my slab
Speaker 2: two eight one two five forty nine forty nine. Never
Speaker 2: never good news to know you need work done on
Speaker 2: anything from plumbing to electrical slabs to whatever you name.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 2: Never good. But when you do, you want somebody that's
Speaker 2: going to treat you right, that's going to show up
Speaker 2: and be honest. My gosh, I wish that I could
Speaker 2: have that going back in time. All the times I've
Speaker 2: hired some person to do some sort of repair on
Speaker 2: my property, it doesn't always turn out that way. But
Speaker 2: it's nice to know you got people that do do
Speaker 2: that kind of work. I was talking about lights earlier
Speaker 2: and the fact that there's blue I guess to summarize
Speaker 2: some things I was talking about, is the blue wavelength
Speaker 2: is primary for vegetative growth. The red wavelength is primarily
Speaker 2: for blooming and fruiting. And certain seeds that we plant
Speaker 2: on the surface, they need red light as part of
Speaker 2: their germination process. Now there's green light, which is what
Speaker 2: you find in the interior. Let's say have a tree
Speaker 2: or underneath the tree. You know, the red light and
Speaker 2: the blue light get absorbed, but the green light makes
Speaker 2: it down into the interior of the tree more. But
Speaker 2: for a plant getting green light and not the red blue,
Speaker 2: that's a sign that hey, I'm in the shade and
Speaker 2: I gotta stretch out and grow a little further. I
Speaker 2: got to have a little more photosynthesis going on in
Speaker 2: my leaves with a little bit of light that's coming in.
Speaker 2: So they developed that. I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 2: grown a those moth orchids, the kind you just see everywhere,
Speaker 2: I mean even in a supermarket. Those moth orchids, they'revery
Speaker 2: easy to grow, but if you put them in not
Speaker 2: enough light, they actually get dark emerald green color because
Speaker 2: they are trying to pack as much chlorophyll in there
Speaker 2: to capture the few little photons coming through to the
Speaker 2: leaves and make the best of it. And that's just
Speaker 2: that's an example of that kind of response. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about plant growing. You plant a
Speaker 2: tomato ceiling, you want to get a transplant for the garden.
Speaker 2: The blue light is especially important now you really need
Speaker 2: it all. It doesn't hurt to havele just regular white light.
Speaker 2: You don't have to buy one of these lights like
Speaker 2: certain indoor grower producers used that just have blue and
Speaker 2: red colors in them. Just gets you a good light.
Speaker 2: But the blue is most important for vegetative growth, and
Speaker 2: then the red when we get into blooming and fruiting,
Speaker 2: that is the most important too. Now we can get
Speaker 2: real nerdy about light. I mean, we can talk about
Speaker 2: all kinds of factors. Just know this, people and plants
Speaker 2: don't see and measure light the same way. When we
Speaker 2: measure light, we want to know how many lumens is
Speaker 2: that light bulb? How many lumens is it? That's what
Speaker 2: you see on a light bulb package. Plants want to
Speaker 2: know how much photosynthetically active light is coming through. They
Speaker 2: call that photosynthetic. Photosynthetically active radiation is what it's called. Now,
Speaker 2: what is that par I'm just going to say par
Speaker 2: from now on about that. Lumens are for humans, par
Speaker 2: is for plants. Remember that. So when you go by
Speaker 2: a light made to light up your house, all you
Speaker 2: know is that it's either a warm white or a
Speaker 2: cool white or some version of those. That's fine. That
Speaker 2: that's what we need. We need to see. Plants need
Speaker 2: light to function for photosynthesis. They are the ones that
Speaker 2: can take sunlight and turn it into plant food and
Speaker 2: turn it into people food too, by the way, And
Speaker 2: so when you're purchasing a plant light, if you're just
Speaker 2: going to grow a few seedlings, something that is in
Speaker 2: the cool spectrum and the warm spectrum cool as blue,
Speaker 2: warm as red. That that is, if you have a
Speaker 2: balance of those two, that's going to be a decent
Speaker 2: light just to get your seedling up and growing. But
Speaker 2: if you really want to grow quality seedlings, or if
Speaker 2: you want to grow plants further than just seedlings, like
Speaker 2: maybe you're bringing some cold sensitive plants in for the
Speaker 2: winter and you need to supplement the light on those
Speaker 2: or provide light for them. You can get a quality
Speaker 2: led grow lamp designed for plants and you can learn
Speaker 2: more about that. And I'm going to post something to
Speaker 2: my web page. I meant to do it this past week.
Speaker 2: I will this week get it posted to the web
Speaker 2: page on lighting so you can understand better. Maybe you're
Speaker 2: thinking about purchasing a plant light for yourself or for
Speaker 2: a Christmas gift for a gardener on your list. Buyer, beware,
Speaker 2: there's all lot of stuff out there that is just
Speaker 2: not helpful or not true. They say this is a
Speaker 2: plant light, but when you get into looking at it,
Speaker 2: it's only a plant light if you put it two
Speaker 2: inches from the plant and leave it on fourteen hours
Speaker 2: sixteen hours a day. You know, in other words, it's not.
Speaker 2: So we can clarify that. My article will clarify that
Speaker 2: a little bit. But just remember, if you're going to
Speaker 2: start seedlings, if you've done it before and they're lanky
Speaker 2: and spinley and they break over, and you know they
Speaker 2: just are not good seedlings, it's because of the lighting.
Speaker 2: And that is the number one thing that goes wrong
Speaker 2: when people try to grow plants is the lighting. Water
Speaker 2: is an issue, nutrients are an issue, temperature is an issue,
Speaker 2: all of that, but lighting is the biggest mistake we make.
Speaker 2: And once we get past, oh, let's say Christmas time,
Speaker 2: we get into New Year's it is time to be
Speaker 2: planting seedlings of things you're going to plant out in
Speaker 2: your garden in the spring. Things like tomatoes and peppers
Speaker 2: and whatnot. Those all come after wee get past these
Speaker 2: holiday season, it's time to get them in the ground,
Speaker 2: maybe even before if you live in the southern part
Speaker 2: of the listening area. Let's see here, we're going to
Speaker 2: go out to Katie now and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Hello.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I was wandering to think about a growing scrape. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I think about growth of grapes.
Speaker 16: Heare out here in Katie, and I was wondering what.
Speaker 6: Style of grapes I have and what should a soil
Speaker 6: be Like.
Speaker 2: Grapes are pretty forgiving a soil. They don't want to
Speaker 2: be in soggy soil. And you know out here it
Speaker 2: can rain a lot at times where we end up
Speaker 2: with a swamp so especially if it's a clay soil.
Speaker 2: Or a low spot. You need to build up a
Speaker 2: bed to make sure drainage is good. That said, grapes
Speaker 2: are pretty forgiving of the soil. As far as grape
Speaker 2: types there. If you want to make a white wine,
Speaker 2: there is a variety you called blanc dubois blanc. It's
Speaker 2: blanc b L A N C d U B O
Speaker 2: I S. I believe it is how they it's it's French,
Speaker 2: so I believe it's Blanc dubis is it. It's a
Speaker 2: green grape and it makes a white wine. And it's
Speaker 2: Pierce disease resistance. That's a number one grape killing disease
Speaker 2: that we have here in the southeast part of the state.
Speaker 2: It's Pierce's disease. And you've got to have resistant varieties.
Speaker 2: So Blanc dubis is a white wine one. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for let's see for red wines. Oh boy, there
Speaker 2: are you know what? Let me let me do this
Speaker 2: first to give you the best answer. If you go
Speaker 2: to the Aggie Horticulture web page, just do a search
Speaker 2: for Aggie Horticulture.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And on that front page there's a fruit there's a
Speaker 2: fruit and not resources page on there. And if you
Speaker 2: get into that, there are Pierce's Disease Tolerant Grape listing
Speaker 2: uh and it's one of the publications on there. There's
Speaker 2: also an art publication on grape arbors. If you want
Speaker 2: to go that route with it on there. But you
Speaker 2: want a tolerant variety, black Spanish lenore is another name
Speaker 2: for it. Black Spanish is an old time red grape
Speaker 2: that's grown here. A lot of those kinds of grapes
Speaker 2: are not going to perform. They're not going to have
Speaker 2: the qualities of wine that you might in some of
Speaker 2: the fine wines you buy in the store that are
Speaker 2: grown in more arid regions. But they they will grow here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, don't think about it.
Speaker 2: And then if you want a table grape, yeah, I
Speaker 2: was just going to say, if you want to if
Speaker 2: you want a table grape, go ahead.
Speaker 11: Oh sorry, I'll playing them in an.
Speaker 5: Old orbs tross, you know, to make sure it's playing
Speaker 5: granted holes in there.
Speaker 9: That works like a.
Speaker 5: Kind of like a race bet almost.
Speaker 2: Well, it would, but I would more use the ring
Speaker 2: without the bottom, the sides without the bottom. If you
Speaker 2: want to go that route, it provides them some soil.
Speaker 2: Grapes are going to need a much larger area than
Speaker 2: the horse trough holes for roots to grow in. So
Speaker 2: just you can buy those rings that have no bottom
Speaker 2: in them. They're not for holding water, and you could
Speaker 2: do that, or you could just make a raised box bed,
Speaker 2: however you want to go about it. I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to take a break here pretty quick for the for
Speaker 2: a commercials, but I would do that. I would go
Speaker 2: to the Aggie Horticulture website though. You'll learn a lot
Speaker 2: on there about those and get some other good ideas.
Speaker 2: I just threw out a few varieties for you all.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Bob, appreciate that. We're gonna take a little break.
Speaker 2: When we come back. We will talk to Bob in
Speaker 2: Friendswood and Fran and Katie welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Glad you are listening today. We've got a burn to
Speaker 2: things talk about, including your questions. At seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two fifty eight seventy four, we're going to
Speaker 2: go to Friends with now and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Skip, thank you.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 15: So I have a we just bought a new home
Speaker 15: down in Lamark and uh, I'm wanting to put some
Speaker 15: red mulberry trees back there, And first off, I guess
Speaker 15: is that a good area for red mulberry trees?
Speaker 2: They would? They will do fine there, they sure will.
Speaker 15: Yeah, do you happen to know any places in the
Speaker 15: Houston area where I can purchase them?
Speaker 2: Down south? I might try calling Moss Nursery over in
Speaker 2: Seabrook or Jorges Hidden Gardens down in Alvin. There are
Speaker 2: some other garden centers down your way. The names are
Speaker 2: escaping me right now as I try to think of them. Uh,
Speaker 2: but those two would be a place to start.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And if you if you run, if you can't find one,
Speaker 2: you're sure welcome to email me and I can. I
Speaker 2: can look into it more specifically on the red mulberries
Speaker 2: and probably do a better job giving you a source.
Speaker 2: But that that would just mean, you know, hang on
Speaker 2: after our call, and my producer will give you an
Speaker 2: email address if you want, if you want to.
Speaker 6: Do that, Okay, Yeah, that sounds great, I appreciate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you bet. That's not a common fruit tree really here.
Speaker 2: I mean, not like you know, peaches or citrus or things.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so I just off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: I'm just not sure down in your area? Who carries those?
Speaker 6: Thanks?
Speaker 2: Thanks sir, appreciate that call. You bet.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Katie now and talk to Fran. Hey, Fran,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 16: Oh thanks. I'm just wondering if you have any tips
Speaker 16: on how to keep spoils from digging in your garden beds,
Speaker 16: digging holes and into the newly planted bushes and such.
Speaker 16: How to is there a way to stop them?
Speaker 2: Any tips? Yeah? So, I don't know how much bed
Speaker 2: area you have that they're digging in, but some gardeners,
Speaker 2: and I've done this myself, is put wire on the ground,
Speaker 2: you know, sections of wire. I have an area where
Speaker 2: the dogs were always digging in the beds and things,
Speaker 2: and I just took some chicken wi I actually bought
Speaker 2: the kind that's green coated metal, kind of covered with
Speaker 2: a green plastic coating so you don't really see it,
Speaker 2: and I just laid it on the surface and took
Speaker 2: a few pins to pin it down. And that keeps
Speaker 2: them out of there. And if it's a bed where
Speaker 2: you've got to get in and change the flowers all
Speaker 2: the time, uh, then that that's not going to be practical.
Speaker 2: But if it's just some shrubs and things that would work.
Speaker 16: Okay, okay, that's sound good. I'll try that, thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, you bet. One other thing, one other thing you
Speaker 2: could try, and and is sometimes gardeners have told me
Speaker 2: they use they'll use mothballs and they'll throw a few
Speaker 2: around the bed, and not a whole bunch of them,
Speaker 2: just a few, and it creates an odor that a
Speaker 2: lot of plant or a lot of critters don't like
Speaker 2: that smell. I mean, if you've ever smelled mothballs, they're
Speaker 2: pretty pungent, And of course you'll smell it when you're
Speaker 2: outside if you're the ones blowing the right way. But
Speaker 2: you might try that and see if that kind of
Speaker 2: gets them out of that bed and off to something else.
Speaker 2: Just another idea, Sure you bet, Thank you, Thanks for
Speaker 2: the call. Okay, here we're going to go now to
Speaker 2: Bob in freend Ones. Would hey, Bob, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, I think you already answered my red mullberry questions.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, okay, thank you very much. I'm close off.
Speaker 2: Let's see, we're gonna go down to Jeff and Clearla
Speaker 2: like Hey Jeff.
Speaker 5: Hi, good morning, Skiff, I've got a hedgerow of azalea's.
Speaker 5: They're probably about three and a half feet high. They're sick,
Speaker 5: they're long and down at the base. In one area
Speaker 5: there are all these like thread or maybe a little
Speaker 5: string sized, light green, tall weeds that kind of like
Speaker 5: a vine, and it has little tiny leaves hanging off,
Speaker 5: but they go all the way up, okay, to the top,
Speaker 5: and they kind of lay over on top, and I
Speaker 5: don't know how to kill them. I just pull them
Speaker 5: out from the top, but it doesn't really kill the root,
Speaker 5: so I don't know how to get rid of them
Speaker 5: without hurting the azalea.
Speaker 2: Okay, to number one, I can put you on hold
Speaker 2: and you can send me a picture, and that allows
Speaker 2: me to be sure of what I'm talking about. We
Speaker 2: can do that if it is a broadly vine, in
Speaker 2: other words, it's not a grass plant that's growing through there.
Speaker 2: It's a broadly plant of vine. You can dab a
Speaker 2: product containing triclope here on the leaves or stem of that.
Speaker 2: The safest way to do it is to build a
Speaker 2: little weed wiper, which I have to online. You can
Speaker 2: see how to build one. They're inexpensive and easy and
Speaker 2: you'll use them a lot around the landscape because that
Speaker 2: allows you to put that product on the sponges of
Speaker 2: the weed wiper, and you reach right in there and
Speaker 2: you get it on the stem of the vine, and
Speaker 2: you get it on the leaves of the vine, and
Speaker 2: it'll translocate down and kill them. That's one option. Another
Speaker 2: is to cut the vines off a few inches above
Speaker 2: the ground and just use a little spongebrush like you
Speaker 2: get at the paint store, a little narrow spongebrush, dip
Speaker 2: it in the triclopere and wipe it on the stem
Speaker 2: and the cut surface of the vine. And that's another
Speaker 2: way to go about that.
Speaker 5: No, that's good, I think. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Ahead, okay, you have you have you ever been to
Speaker 2: my website Gardening with Skip dot com? Uh no, sir, okay,
Speaker 2: So go there and you'll see Skip's weed wiper. It's
Speaker 2: a publication shows you how to build one. You'll also
Speaker 2: see herbicides to use on Skip's weed wiper. And so
Speaker 2: whatever you're trying to control, maybe it's wild onions coming
Speaker 2: up in the yard, maybe it's poison ivy, you know,
Speaker 2: over in a shrub or the vine you're talking about.
Speaker 2: It'll tell you what products to use to wipe on
Speaker 2: those particular kinds of unwanted plants.
Speaker 5: Yes, I will do it at the top. The base
Speaker 5: is so nested down and they almost can't get in there,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. So yeah, hopefully it'll work
Speaker 5: to the top. I appreciate it all that.
Speaker 2: Just just be extra careful, yeah, yeah, the track will.
Speaker 2: Just be real careful not to get it on your
Speaker 2: It will kill broad leaf weeds period, whether it's a
Speaker 2: lovely azalea, a petunia, or the weed you're trying to kill,
Speaker 2: it'll kill them all if you get it on them,
Speaker 2: So be real careful, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: I will. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. U.
Speaker 2: League City feed Down in League City is your go
Speaker 2: to place for quality feeds down in that area. You know,
Speaker 2: if you're if you're in any of the communities around
Speaker 2: League City, this is your hometown feed store. So people
Speaker 2: in Santa Fe and San Leon and Dickinson and Webster
Speaker 2: and clear Lake City and Lamark and this is your
Speaker 2: hometown feed store. You just head to League City. It's
Speaker 2: on Highway three, just a few blocks south of ninety six.
Speaker 2: Highway three, A few blocks south of ninety six. You're
Speaker 2: going to find the products I talk about, like nitrofoss
Speaker 2: and microlife, Nelson play food asamite. There. They carry a
Speaker 2: wide variety of pesticides and herbicides and fungicides, and of
Speaker 2: course they have feed store. They got feet stuff. But
Speaker 2: if you're a gardener or a lands it won't take
Speaker 2: care of your landscape. You got to go by there.
Speaker 2: Here's the phone number two eight one three three two
Speaker 2: sixteen twelve. They are open Monday through Saturday nine to six,
Speaker 2: so you can swing by there after work, and they're
Speaker 2: closed on Sunday. League City Feet. I've got to run
Speaker 2: here to break Bill and Friends with You'll be the
Speaker 2: first up when we come back. Welcome back, Welcome back
Speaker 2: to garden Line. All right, on a good day for gardening.
Speaker 2: And yes, I know, I know you're saying, but it's
Speaker 2: raining outside. It's hardly going to get about fifty today.
Speaker 2: How can that be a good day for gardening. It's
Speaker 2: a great day for gardening. It's time to listen to
Speaker 2: garden Line on the radio, which we're going to be
Speaker 2: doing that till ten o'clock. It is time to get
Speaker 2: out the seed catalogs and dream, dream about the wonderful
Speaker 2: things you're going to plant this year's time. You could
Speaker 2: even you know, brave souls can get out and visit
Speaker 2: a garden center if you want to do on a
Speaker 2: day like this, that's all right. I like I do
Speaker 2: it less crowds and days like this too. It is
Speaker 2: a good time to take care of house plants, to
Speaker 2: plan your house plants, to fertilize. If you need anything repotted,
Speaker 2: this would be a good time to do it. To
Speaker 2: get online and order some equipment and things for gardening
Speaker 2: and supplies. You need lots of stuff to do for gardening,
Speaker 2: even on a day like this. Bukin's Native Plants, they've
Speaker 2: got a house plant greenhouse that is covered. It's it's
Speaker 2: a greenhouse, a plast to cover over the top. You
Speaker 2: can go in there and shop on a day like this,
Speaker 2: and man, do they have a good selection all kinds
Speaker 2: of open things, all kinds of things that are there.
Speaker 2: And they're open today by the way too. Now if Buchanan,
Speaker 2: they've got an event coming up that is today that
Speaker 2: I really think you need to consider, and that's the
Speaker 2: holiday open house that's today. There's live music, there's kids crafts.
Speaker 2: There's a sanob there. There'll be drinks. When Buchanans puts
Speaker 2: on a party, it's always a great event, always a
Speaker 2: great in this case a free event. They're on Eleventh
Speaker 2: Street in the Heights. Eleventh Street in the Heights is Buchanans. Now.
Speaker 2: They specialize in natives, native plants. Nobody has as many
Speaker 2: native plants as Beginnings does in this whole region. So
Speaker 2: if you're thinking about adding a native plant. Earlier I
Speaker 2: talked about I don't know what was it. Button bush
Speaker 2: does well in wet areas. You know, so you got
Speaker 2: this wet, soggy area. What can what shrub can I
Speaker 2: plant there that will attract butterflies? Button bush is a
Speaker 2: good example. Where do you get it? Well, Buchanans has it.
Speaker 2: They've got a lot others too, And fall is the
Speaker 2: time to plant, even if you're not going to get
Speaker 2: out and planet it today, Get the plant, bring it home.
Speaker 2: When the weather clears and it'll be clearing up here,
Speaker 2: you can get out there and get the job done.
Speaker 2: At Buchanans Plants, go to Buchanansplants dot com. That's the
Speaker 2: website Buchanansplants dot com. Sign up for their newsletter. You
Speaker 2: need to hear what's going on, and they always have
Speaker 2: good educational materials available. Throw on a coat, get out there,
Speaker 2: enjoy the holiday open house that they're having today. We're
Speaker 2: going to go to Friends with now and visit with Bill. Hello, Bill,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Good morning Skip. I've got seven variety of citrus plants
Speaker 17: in my backyard, including some Persian limes, satsumas, and meyer lemons.
Speaker 17: And I'm going to be gone on and off for
Speaker 17: about a month here in the beginning in about a
Speaker 17: week and then into January. I'm worried about coming home
Speaker 17: and find them all dead. I was wondering, I've got
Speaker 17: like wire those a little wire cages around them. I
Speaker 17: was wondering if it makes sense for me to go
Speaker 17: out and get some like leaf moll composts and dump
Speaker 17: it in there up to the stock up to the
Speaker 17: leaf level to try and protect the you know, would
Speaker 17: it be okay to put you know, something like that
Speaker 17: on the stems for that length of time to help help.
Speaker 2: You could do that A uh yeah, A fairly find
Speaker 2: textured compost put around the base will help protect uh
Speaker 2: uh and insulate uh and you see citrus orchards in Florida.
Speaker 2: When it's going to rain, they'll or Texas they'll pile
Speaker 2: giant cones of soil up around the base and that way,
Speaker 2: if it freezes back to the top of that soil cone,
Speaker 2: well at least you've got something above the graft to regrow,
Speaker 2: so that that would be step one. You're on the
Speaker 2: right track there.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: You just you just want to remember pardon.
Speaker 17: Saying, get you know, get it away from it after
Speaker 17: I get back, as soon as I get back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you can get it back, get it back
Speaker 2: from there. Don't leave it long term. But you do
Speaker 2: want to finder textured compost because you don't want air
Speaker 2: to blow through that, you know, and you want it
Speaker 2: to you want it to hold in some heat there.
Speaker 2: But that would do it. On my website, Gardening with
Speaker 2: skip dot com, there's a publication on protecting plants and
Speaker 2: frosts and freezes that I wrote with one of our
Speaker 2: hort specialists at A and M. It is nine page,
Speaker 2: I think it's nine pages, full color, lots of information.
Speaker 2: I would definitely go check that out today. You can
Speaker 2: print it up if you want, or just read it
Speaker 2: online and that will give you some guidance. You can
Speaker 2: create a structure over the more cold tender things. And
Speaker 2: let's say you make a PVC box. Just think of
Speaker 2: that a PVC igloo or a box. I like to
Speaker 2: bend the PBC pipe in an arch over it in
Speaker 2: two or three different directions, and then throw a cover
Speaker 2: over the whole thing. If it's a clear cover, it'll
Speaker 2: get too hot underneath there. If it's a shady cover.
Speaker 2: To not have sunlight for how long are you going
Speaker 2: to be gone?
Speaker 7: Over? About a month?
Speaker 2: About a month, it's a little long to not get
Speaker 2: any sunlight at all. If you had anybody who would
Speaker 2: locally be willing to come by and drop the sides
Speaker 2: down and just put some bricks, you know, you have
Speaker 2: the weights and stuff there and secure that and then
Speaker 2: when the freeze is done, take it off. If it
Speaker 2: gets if we get you know, warm sunny days, and
Speaker 2: they're boxed up in a clear cover, it gets too
Speaker 2: hot in there too. That would be the ultimate protection,
Speaker 2: is to have that covering over it. That air dead,
Speaker 2: air space, no air blowing through covering.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now I do have RSA.
Speaker 17: I got these like metal fences around them. They go
Speaker 17: up to about two and a half feet tall, and
Speaker 17: I got a bunch of frost cloths I could kind
Speaker 17: of with with the mulch inside, kind of put the
Speaker 17: frost class around it and then but not cover up
Speaker 17: the top of the tree so much. It might help keep.
Speaker 2: You can cover if you Yeah, if you have a
Speaker 2: frost cloth level thickness of that spun bomb polyester, that
Speaker 2: that would give some protection a few degrees. Now, things
Speaker 2: like satsumas, they're going to be very hearty and we're
Speaker 2: probably not going to have weather that kills us atsuma
Speaker 2: and while you're gone. But some things like lemons and
Speaker 2: limes are very coold tender, So yeah, you may prioritize
Speaker 2: how you do that.
Speaker 17: Okay, Well, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck with it. And if any citrus survives,
Speaker 2: I just ask you bring me half the produce to
Speaker 2: the station and we'll call it even. Thank you, Bill,
Speaker 2: bye bye. All right. Oh you're listening to the garden line,
Speaker 2: and oh my gosh, the clock says that I got
Speaker 2: to quit talking. I don't want to quit talking. I've
Speaker 2: had a lot to talk about here. I keep telling
Speaker 2: you we're going to talk about mistletoe. We are just
Speaker 2: stick around and be patient. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: stuff about mistletoe that you did not know. That's a
Speaker 2: bold statement that I am. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: stuff about mistletoe you not know.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: I will not tell you how to get your favorite
Speaker 2: significant other underneath that that you're gonna have to work
Speaker 2: that out yourself. But I will talk about some of
Speaker 2: the wonders of mistletoe when you come back. You are
Speaker 2: listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two five eight seven four. You can
Speaker 2: check the out online at gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 2: Lots of good information there. I talked about that fees
Speaker 2: and cross protection. Hey, don't wait until the night of
Speaker 2: the freeze. Download it now. Let this supply you know
Speaker 2: and you'll be ready.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kzy r H garden Line with skimp Richter's so.
Speaker 2: Please crazy trip. Just watch you as will tell us
Speaker 2: so many.
Speaker 3: Gothies to supposy not a side.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad you're listening.
Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us today. It's a good
Speaker 2: day to be inside listening to Garden Line right now.
Speaker 2: I hope you can bundle up and enjoy getting out
Speaker 2: some of the things that you can be out there
Speaker 2: doing today. Begin has had that big event going on.
Speaker 2: I definitely don't want to miss that. Starts right after
Speaker 2: the Garden Line show, by the way, ten o'clock until
Speaker 2: you don't want to delay, get there and enjoy that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're going to have some cover for you.
Speaker 2: I know they do in the greenhouse there. It's a
Speaker 2: good thing.
Speaker 12: Well.
Speaker 2: Medina Products has been a fixture of Garden Line for long,
Speaker 2: long before I sat down in this chair. And Medina
Speaker 2: is loved by gardeners because they have a number of
Speaker 2: different products and they work. That's kind of the bottom
Speaker 2: line on it. One of them i'd like to feature
Speaker 2: right now is called Medina Plus now Medinasol Activator, a
Speaker 2: different product. Medinosol Activator has been around for a long time,
Speaker 2: very popular with gardners. Medina Plus takes that Medinosol Activator
Speaker 2: adds about forty different trace elements natural growth hormones from
Speaker 2: seaweed like side of kindness for example. It's got additional
Speaker 2: elements like magnesium and iron and zinc and so on,
Speaker 2: of vitamins, and other things. It's going to be the
Speaker 2: kind of thing you would use as a folier feed,
Speaker 2: won't burn your plants. It is especially helpful at transplanting time.
Speaker 2: You can drench that new transplant in with Medina Plus
Speaker 2: and it helps establish roots. It helps early growth. You're
Speaker 2: going to have better establishment, You're going to have better
Speaker 2: growth in everything. When a plant is healthy, everything is improved,
Speaker 2: so increasing blooming and promoting fruit set and other things
Speaker 2: like that by just making the plant very very healthy,
Speaker 2: very very vigorous. Now when you're using it, you can
Speaker 2: you can buy it by the court and mix it up,
Speaker 2: put it in a wateringkin. That's how I would apply
Speaker 2: it as I do apply it. Or you could do
Speaker 2: a hose in sprayer. That's another option, so you could
Speaker 2: use it on lawns and things like that if you wished, Uh,
Speaker 2: but you could what are your plants in with that?
Speaker 2: Just go over the whole garden with that hose en sprayer,
Speaker 2: applying it to the foliage and the and the roots
Speaker 2: as well. Medina Plus from the folks at Medina and
Speaker 2: Medina products again widely available here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: You're not going to mean trouble finding those products. Now
Speaker 2: I've been talking about coming in and discussing missiletoe, so
Speaker 2: let's jump in to the mistletoe discussion. So the mistletoe
Speaker 2: is a parasitic plant that essentially lives off of other plants.
Speaker 2: So you see it in trees. For example, some trees
Speaker 2: are especially prone to it. Hackberries very prone to mistletoe,
Speaker 2: but not the only variety. In fact, a lot of
Speaker 2: different trees are attacked by mistletoe. Did you know they're
Speaker 2: over thirteen hundred species of mistletoe worldwide. Fortunately, they don't
Speaker 2: all grow here. We just have a couple of types
Speaker 2: here in North America that are native and then a
Speaker 2: few species that have found their way in to North
Speaker 2: America as well. But they can only live on a
Speaker 2: host plant. So what they do is the mistletoe sea
Speaker 2: lands on the plant bark and it sprouts in its
Speaker 2: sends the equivalent of a root's actually called a hostoria
Speaker 2: into the tree branch, and then the root like structure
Speaker 2: just populates that area and it draws the nutrients and
Speaker 2: the water the minerals in the water from the tree.
Speaker 2: Mistletoe is green, the stems are green, and so they
Speaker 2: can photosynthesize and make their own carbohydrates on the plant. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's how they live now. Interestingly enough, in the America,
Speaker 2: mistletoe the primarily one we deal with this called phorodendron.
Speaker 2: That's the genus of it, and what it means is
Speaker 2: thief of the tree in Greek. So it literally is drawing.
Speaker 2: It is sucking water nutrients out of the tree through
Speaker 2: those Australia roots and they can live many, many, many years,
Speaker 2: and it generally doesn't kill trees, although it can get
Speaker 2: to be so bad that it really severely weakens the tree.
Speaker 2: Second fun fact about mistletoe. Did you know they're separate
Speaker 2: male and female plants. Yeah, separate male and female plants
Speaker 2: and mistletoe. So the female plants produce the berries, those
Speaker 2: little white, gelatinous, kind of sticky berries. If you've ever
Speaker 2: grabbed one and squeezed on it and everything, it's it's
Speaker 2: just it's a gooey mess. But here's another fun fact,
Speaker 2: a cool thing. The seeds. The berries have seeds inside.
Speaker 2: They pump water into the seed and there is so
Speaker 2: much pressure in that berry that when it explodes, those
Speaker 2: seeds just shoot out of there and they've actually you know,
Speaker 2: with slow moo photography determined that up to sixty miles
Speaker 2: per hour as far as fifty feet away. So you
Speaker 2: got mistletoe in your tree, Boom, a berry pops and
Speaker 2: there go. Seeds fly in whichever direction and it's they're sticky.
Speaker 2: They have sicky substance, so they stick where they land
Speaker 2: and then they germinate. Now you got mistletoe over there.
Speaker 2: Another way they can occur is birds eat them. They
Speaker 2: like the berries, and then the birds digest the berries
Speaker 2: and out the back end of the bird comes the seed.
Speaker 2: And when they do their little droppings and they land
Speaker 2: on a plant. That's another way that's gets into the
Speaker 2: plant that we have now. Now, yeah, controlling mistletoe is
Speaker 2: very difficult and almost almost impossible. I've seen a lot
Speaker 2: of different things recommended, from wrapping a tree with burrowlap
Speaker 2: covered with black plastic and leaving it on for a
Speaker 2: long time because remember it truly is a plant that
Speaker 2: has to have sunlight to grow, but that it does
Speaker 2: just say it's impractical to try to do that. There
Speaker 2: are products containing hormones like ethophon that caused the missletoe
Speaker 2: to essentially be cast out of the tree that has
Speaker 2: break often come out. That is a temporary effix, not
Speaker 2: going to last a super long time. You can do that.
Speaker 2: Did you know that? In Oklahoma mistletoe is the state
Speaker 2: floral emblem. Okay, I think you can do better than that,
Speaker 2: but we're going to go with it. In that tradition
Speaker 2: of kissing under the mistletoe goes back at least to
Speaker 2: the seventeen hundreds, and I don't know how that actually
Speaker 2: got started. But if you're underneath the mistletoe and someone
Speaker 2: finds you, they're supposed to be able to get away
Speaker 2: with a holiday kiss. Good luck with that to an
Speaker 2: unwilling victim. Approach the mistletoe anyway. Mistletoe is hung up
Speaker 2: in our houses and stuff. Just remember it has a
Speaker 2: reputation of being a poisonous plant, but it's the European
Speaker 2: spee one European species. It's reportedly toxic. The American mistletoe
Speaker 2: is not deadly. I'm sure it doesn't taste good and
Speaker 2: it would be good for you to eat it, but
Speaker 2: it's not the toxic one. But it is one we
Speaker 2: use a lot for our decorations. A lot of birds
Speaker 2: depend on the mistletoe berries. Other animals, deer, elk, squirrels, chipmunks,
Speaker 2: even porcupines will eat the leaves of mistletoe when fresh
Speaker 2: food is scarce. So you know what surprised me though?
Speaker 2: One other thing, and that is that it is an
Speaker 2: important nectar and palmen plant for honeybees and other native bees.
Speaker 2: So there you go, more about mistletoe than you ever thought.
Speaker 2: I think the most amazing fact that I learned reading
Speaker 2: up about it was that those berries could burst and
Speaker 2: send sixty mile an hour seeds as much as fifty
Speaker 2: feet away. That's like, wow, that's cool stuff. All right,
Speaker 2: Time for me to take a break and we will
Speaker 2: be right back. Welcome back, folks. I tell the lad
Speaker 2: you're listening into garden Line today, how can we help
Speaker 2: you have a more downtiful garden, a more beautiful landscape
Speaker 2: and more fun in the process. That's what we want
Speaker 2: to do here. I'll tell you how you have more
Speaker 2: success in your garden, and that is to get the
Speaker 2: products you need to do what you need to do.
Speaker 2: Do you need to fertilize, Do you need to control insects,
Speaker 2: our diseases or pests? Do you need tools? Quality tools
Speaker 2: that will help you to get the job done better?
Speaker 2: With less effort, less strain on your joints and hands
Speaker 2: and things like that. Southwest Fertilizer. As he answered all
Speaker 2: those questions, it's also the answer to other questions. Who
Speaker 2: sells in bulk? Also, where you get those scoops and
Speaker 2: you scoop out. There's the most economical way to buy seeds.
Speaker 2: Southwest Fertilizer. You know, where can you go and get
Speaker 2: your lawnmower blade sharpened, small engine repaired? Southwest Fertilizer. It's
Speaker 2: it's the answer to a lot of questions. It's been
Speaker 2: around since nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty five, and they've
Speaker 2: got every fertilizer or product you'll ever hear coming out
Speaker 2: of my mouth on guard line. They just do. They
Speaker 2: carry it all. If Southwest doesn't have it, you don't
Speaker 2: need it. It's as simple as that. Southwest Fertilizer dot
Speaker 2: Com is the website phone number seven to one three
Speaker 2: six six six one seven four four seven one three
Speaker 2: six six six one seven four four. They're located on
Speaker 2: the corner of Byssinet and Renwick in southwest Houston. It
Speaker 2: is where veteran gardeners have long known to go for
Speaker 2: anything you're looking for, especially things that might be hard
Speaker 2: to find in other places. By the way, it's a
Speaker 2: good place to get some cool Christmas gifts, like a
Speaker 2: soil knife. One of my favorite tools. If I were
Speaker 2: to say, like, what are my top five favorite tools,
Speaker 2: I think on that list would be a soil knife
Speaker 2: and the kneeling bench, and Bob's got both of those.
Speaker 2: By the way, I was talking to someone earlier about
Speaker 2: how to build a weed wiper. Go to my website
Speaker 2: gardening with Skip dot com. It'll tell you how to
Speaker 2: build a weed wiper. But the first tool you need,
Speaker 2: the suction cup grabber tool. Bob's got it at south
Speaker 2: West Fertilizer. See this is what I'm talking about. Bob
Speaker 2: and I talk pretty often about things and what's in
Speaker 2: the market and what might be an item that gardeners
Speaker 2: are needing or looking for and things. And I'm telling
Speaker 2: you the guy stays up to date and then some
Speaker 2: on all these kinds of things. Southwest Fertilizer. I was
Speaker 2: visiting with the wild Birds store owner recently, and I
Speaker 2: always call them because they if there's a question about birds,
Speaker 2: they know what they're talking about. They are experts at it.
Speaker 2: You know, there's six different wallbirds stores around Houston. You
Speaker 2: can go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston and
Speaker 2: find the store near you. Now, right now, you need
Speaker 2: to be there picking up the Wildbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend.
Speaker 2: Wildbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend that is packed with protein
Speaker 2: and fat helps the birds out. You know, today's the
Speaker 2: day where it's kind of hard to get out and
Speaker 2: about looking for food, and the birds are going to
Speaker 2: be coming back to our feeders in large numbers as
Speaker 2: the natural food sources becomes more and more scarce out there,
Speaker 2: and Wildbird's Unlimited Winter Super Blend is excellent for that.
Speaker 2: Another reason to go to Wildbirds right now, though, is
Speaker 2: for your holiday gifts. There are wonderful options you can do.
Speaker 2: My favorite feeder is a squirrel eliminating feeder. It is
Speaker 2: a Cadillac and it really really works. It's an excellent feeder.
Speaker 2: They can do replacement parts on in. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: real simple to operate and it works. Uh. But maybe
Speaker 2: a beautiful hummingbird feeder, maybe a bird house of Some
Speaker 2: people want to learn to attract blue birds and they
Speaker 2: can help you do that and they can even provide
Speaker 2: you with a variety of different kinds of bird out.
Speaker 2: How about Purple Martins. By the time we get to February,
Speaker 2: Purple Martins are going to be here and a nice
Speaker 2: quality Purple Martin house. It's on a telescoping pole or
Speaker 2: something that allows you to take it down and clean
Speaker 2: it out the part the little sections come out. It's
Speaker 2: real easy. They have a really nice Purple Martin house.
Speaker 2: They also have the kind that are that look like
Speaker 2: white gourds that but they're plastic. But they also are
Speaker 2: well designed for Purple Martin. What a good gift. What
Speaker 2: a good gift from Wilbirds. You are listening to garden Line.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to give me a call, the phone
Speaker 2: number is seven one three two one two five eight
Speaker 2: seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 2: seventy four. We'll be happy to help you in any
Speaker 2: way we can. I saw something the other day, this
Speaker 2: from the Saturday Evening Post in nineteen oh three. Saturday
Speaker 2: Evening Post nineteen oh three, someone said, you've heard that
Speaker 2: you reap what you sew, but that does not always
Speaker 2: apply to the pictures on seed packets. Is that not true?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's we get better at it. Maybe
Speaker 2: it applies more and more to you report yourself.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I look at at gardening catalog seed cat packets
Speaker 2: and stuff. Or my favorite is the companies that sell
Speaker 2: fruit trees. They had the catalogs, you know, And I
Speaker 2: don't pick on any one company, but you know, there
Speaker 2: are companies out there that do. And you'll see this
Speaker 2: branch with like fifteen apples in a foot long branch,
Speaker 2: and they're all big and gorgeous and everything're like, okay,
Speaker 2: come on, man, really give me a break here. That's it.
Speaker 2: And I tell you the one job, one of many
Speaker 2: jobs I would not like to have a is writing
Speaker 2: descriptions for let's say, vegetables and flowers, especially vegetables for
Speaker 2: seed packets. Oh my gosh, some of these sea companies
Speaker 2: carry dozens of types of tomatoes, and what are you
Speaker 2: going to say? It's red, it tastes like a tomato,
Speaker 2: it's sweet, and I mean, there's only so much you
Speaker 2: can say about a vegetable, and yet they've got to
Speaker 2: write another one and not make it sound like the
Speaker 2: one they just wrote and could go read a packet.
Speaker 2: Sometimes there are seed companies that specialize in tomatoes. There's one,
Speaker 2: what's it called Tomato Grower supply. There's another one totally tomatoes.
Speaker 2: They're not really justtimated. They may have peppers and eggplant
Speaker 2: things in them, but they have more Dutch of tomatoes
Speaker 2: than you can imagine, most of which you shouldn't grow here, right,
Speaker 2: because not every part of the country needs to plant
Speaker 2: the same varieties. But I just think about how on
Speaker 2: earth do you write those descriptions. But anyway, that's a
Speaker 2: fun part of gardening. Hey, A good gardening gift would
Speaker 2: be a seed starting kit. And by a kit, it
Speaker 2: could include things like a tray, one of those seventy
Speaker 2: two cell trays like you see. They're long about eleven
Speaker 2: inches nine inches wide and twenty inches long something close
Speaker 2: to that. Anyway, they're close to that nine or eleven
Speaker 2: and twenty inches long. And then they come with a
Speaker 2: little dome over the top of plastic dome. And then
Speaker 2: you just put the potting soil in them and you
Speaker 2: start your seeds and throw in a heating mat. Would
Speaker 2: be a nice addition to that. By throwing in a
Speaker 2: heating mat. I start my seeds now in the garage,
Speaker 2: and it's a cold garage. I mean there's no heat
Speaker 2: out there. I mean it's protected, so it's nice cold
Speaker 2: as outside, but it's just a cold garage. But I
Speaker 2: have heating mats underneath the covers and then a plastic
Speaker 2: cover over that kind of holes creats a dead air
Speaker 2: space of some warmth in there, and it does well.
Speaker 2: In fact, did you know that young seedlings you're growing
Speaker 2: yourself mention that not enough light makes them spinley. Another
Speaker 2: thing that helps that causes a lack of good strong,
Speaker 2: stocky transplants, or is temperatures. When when temperatures are very warm,
Speaker 2: plants tend to grow luxuriantly. If you could put a
Speaker 2: heating mat under a pad and keep the media you're
Speaker 2: growing the seeds in warm, but let the air be cool,
Speaker 2: that helps create a very stocky transplant. While I'm talking
Speaker 2: about stocky transplants, I'll just throw one more thing that
Speaker 2: helps stocky transplants, and this one I think is cool
Speaker 2: moving the plants, I mean brushing over them in a greenhouse.
Speaker 2: It may be an oscillating fan blowing by that causes
Speaker 2: movement in the plants in your little few trays you're
Speaker 2: starting at home. It could be running your hands over
Speaker 2: the top of the seedlings, just brushing over them, petting pets,
Speaker 2: your plants, and each time you move them, it stimulates
Speaker 2: responses to create a stockier stem and a stronger transplant.
Speaker 9: It does.
Speaker 2: And the fancy word. I try to give you a
Speaker 2: fancy word each week if I can. This week's fancy
Speaker 2: word is thig mo morphogenesis. Big mo morphogenesis. What does
Speaker 2: that mean? It means if you touch it, it gets stronger.
Speaker 2: So thig momorphogenesis is why I say when you stake
Speaker 2: a plant, you shouldn't stake it perfectly still. For that
Speaker 2: trunk of the tree to bend a little bit in
Speaker 2: the wind. That stretching causes the tree trunk to grow stronger.
Speaker 2: The heading over the surface of your little tomato seedlings
Speaker 2: causes those seedlings to become stockier. It does. It's a
Speaker 2: natural reaction that nature does to plants. And we bring
Speaker 2: them inside and put them in a real still, a
Speaker 2: very still air space where they don't move at all.
Speaker 2: We put them in not quite enough light and maybe
Speaker 2: it's a little warm in there. We're putting too much
Speaker 2: nitrogen fertilize all of those things, recreating that sp seedling
Speaker 2: that doesn't survive well. Take advantage of big momorphogenesis and
Speaker 2: you can be the cliff Claven of your neighborhood horticultural
Speaker 2: Cliff Claven. Remember the the postman on Cheers who knew everything,
Speaker 2: or at least he thought he did, and he talked
Speaker 2: like he did. You can be the Cliff Clavin by
Speaker 2: just knowing great words like big moo, morpho, genesis. For
Speaker 2: those of you who grew up with Julian Andrews, supercrags
Speaker 2: are super catifragilistic, expieladoches. You thank me later. We're going
Speaker 2: to take a break. I'll be right back. Actually, we
Speaker 2: got just a minute left. I don't have to stop
Speaker 2: talking quite yet. That's a good thing. I love quotes,
Speaker 2: you know. I was giving you a quote a little
Speaker 2: bit ago, one quote that I like. It was written back,
Speaker 2: oh gosh, I don't know when, by an unlingering English aristocrat,
Speaker 2: author and gardner. It goes this way. The most noteworthy
Speaker 2: thing about gardeners is that they always are optimistic. They
Speaker 2: always are enterprising, and they're never satisfied. They always look
Speaker 2: forward to doing something better than they've ever done before. Man,
Speaker 2: is that ever true? I can tell you this. The
Speaker 2: best garden I've ever grown in my life is the
Speaker 2: one come in this spring. It is I always feel
Speaker 2: that way, not about spring, but all the time because
Speaker 2: I'm learning more, I'm trying something new, and I'm going
Speaker 2: to have success with I just know I am. I
Speaker 2: just know I am. That's a fun thing. I think
Speaker 2: that's one of the beneficial things of gardening. In addition
Speaker 2: to the physical exercise, In addition to getting out there
Speaker 2: in nature, breathing the air and stuff like that, one
Speaker 2: of the best things about gardening is the hope and
Speaker 2: the optimism that it bills in us as gardeners. All right,
Speaker 2: I'll leave you with that. We'll be right back, folks.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, welcome back to guarden Line. Hey, if
Speaker 2: you'd like to give me a call, we are in
Speaker 2: our last half hour of the day here. Seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two five eight seven four seven three
Speaker 2: two one two five eight seven four. I hope you're
Speaker 2: enjoying the weather we're having. And I know some people
Speaker 2: are going, wait a minute, I don't enjoy wet, forty
Speaker 2: degree whatever temperatures. Well, I know, but isn't it a
Speaker 2: nice break from the summer we just went through. And
Speaker 2: you can always here's how I look at it. When
Speaker 2: it's hot, it's hot. I mean, you can put on shorts,
Speaker 2: sleeves and shorts and all that. But it's still hot.
Speaker 2: But in the cold weather, you can always bundle up.
Speaker 2: That's what I love. I love cold weather. I don't
Speaker 2: like being cold. I like cold weather. I just do.
Speaker 2: It's a nice, nice break. So here we are finally
Speaker 2: getting to it. And I'll tell you another reason it's
Speaker 2: important our plants. Plants go through a process called hardening off.
Speaker 2: Hardening off means that the plant is shutting down growth
Speaker 2: and storing up carbohydrates and preparing for winter as it
Speaker 2: goes into dormancy. Even if it's a plant that doesn't
Speaker 2: really go into dormancy, it's still is going through those
Speaker 2: the processes. When a plant properly and fully hardens off,
Speaker 2: it is quite cold, hardy. I mean, you take really
Speaker 2: cool weather and that that plant does fine. When it
Speaker 2: doesn't properly harden off, a freeze, even a freeze that
Speaker 2: shouldn't kill that plant, suddenly becomes a big problem. And
Speaker 2: it happened. I noticed it, especially in the northern parts
Speaker 2: of this listening area. But a couple of Decembers ago,
Speaker 2: we had a mid teen frieze that occurred in December,
Speaker 2: way early for the area, and also our crpe myrtles
Speaker 2: were not hardened off fully and we had crape myrtles
Speaker 2: killed to the ground. The next summer they sprouted out
Speaker 2: and we had this big bushy mess coming out of
Speaker 2: the bottom of the ground where they're where the crape
Speaker 2: myrtle trunk had died back, sometimes the only partial die back.
Speaker 2: But that's an example of why hardening off is important.
Speaker 2: And when we have temperatures like today, it helps those
Speaker 2: plants to harden off, and that is important so that
Speaker 2: we don't have the significant cold damage that can occur
Speaker 2: when plants are not properly hardened off. So you can
Speaker 2: be glad we're having the day. Plus, if you got
Speaker 2: a fireplace in your house, I always I've always thought
Speaker 2: it was humorous that we have fireplaces in Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2: Of why, I tell you why, because of the ambiance.
Speaker 2: It's cool, it's fine. It just I mean, there's just
Speaker 2: there's just an ambiance. You know. When it comes to winter,
Speaker 2: we don't get a lot of the cold spells. So
Speaker 2: all these Christmas songs which we're starting to hear, and
Speaker 2: we'll be hearing a lot, it's hard to relate. As
Speaker 2: the Texan you know, dashing through the snow. What snow
Speaker 2: on a one horse open sleigh? What's a sleigh? Chestnuts
Speaker 2: roasting on an open Wait a minute, what are chestnuts? Anyway? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I could go on and on about that one. All right,
Speaker 2: noth of that. Let's go out and take some of
Speaker 2: your calls. We're going to go to Clear Lake and
Speaker 2: talk to Jane Heyan. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: I thank you very much for taking quare coal.
Speaker 18: I understand that I can dig up my hybiscus and
Speaker 18: take it in because I'm worried about it being cold,
Speaker 18: but I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 7: Can you help me?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, so you just dig wider more than deeper, okay,
Speaker 2: And so if you can get out about oh, let's
Speaker 2: say eight inches from the plant in all directions. If
Speaker 2: it could go a little wider, they'd be fine, and
Speaker 2: then slider shovel underneath it. To dig underneath it, you
Speaker 2: only need to go about maybe four to six inches deep.
Speaker 2: But if you can't get that wide and everything, that's fine.
Speaker 2: But just get a little more of the roots. I
Speaker 2: would lift it up and kind of shake some of
Speaker 2: the excess soil off the roots and then bring it
Speaker 2: in to put in a container. The size of the
Speaker 2: roots you dug, so that was a sixteen inch wide
Speaker 2: if I said eight inches on each side, so you
Speaker 2: would need a bigger container for that. I have mine
Speaker 2: and about a two thirds of size. It looks like
Speaker 2: an old whiskey barrel, but it's it's plastic, so it's
Speaker 2: about two thirds the size of a whiskey barrel. And
Speaker 2: it does really well in there. And just fill it
Speaker 2: full of quality potting, soil, quality page so water. Okay, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: after you transport it inside, after you get it planted, yes,
Speaker 2: give it a good watering, make sure the container has
Speaker 2: drainage holes, and then just bring it into a protected spot.
Speaker 2: Now mine I leave out a lot during the cool season,
Speaker 2: but when it's going to be freezing, I take my
Speaker 2: dolly and put a strap around it and bring it
Speaker 2: into the garage and then take it back out again
Speaker 2: because it'll still have some leaves on it. If you
Speaker 2: can give it a decent amount of light as much
Speaker 2: as possible, but that's it. And don't worry about fertilizing
Speaker 2: it a lot. Just keep it adequately moist, not soggy,
Speaker 2: adequately moist, and you can get it through the wintertime,
Speaker 2: and then I would that are leaving a container outdoors
Speaker 2: as well. It just makes it a little bit easier
Speaker 2: to bring it in and out. You don't have to
Speaker 2: redig it every year.
Speaker 16: That sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 2: I'll remember that.
Speaker 7: I don't want to have to.
Speaker 11: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Very much, Well, you bet, you bet, Gene, thanks for
Speaker 2: the call. I appreciate I appreciate that very much. We
Speaker 2: are I wanted to talk about Nelson Water Garden. They're
Speaker 2: out there in Katie. So basically you go out I
Speaker 2: ten to Katie and when you get to Katie Fort
Speaker 2: Ben Road, you're going to turn right. That's going north
Speaker 2: across over the tracks. You're you're there. It's just a
Speaker 2: little bit up the road on the right. Nelson Nursery
Speaker 2: and water Garden. Of course, they're a water garden place
Speaker 2: are nationally known for that have been for a very
Speaker 2: very long time. But Nelson Water Gardens is also an
Speaker 2: really outstanding nursery from fruit tree plants to annual color,
Speaker 2: to vegetables, to herbs, you name it. Of course they
Speaker 2: carry the plants for water garden as well. If you've
Speaker 2: been thinking about getting a watergarden. That would be a
Speaker 2: fun thing to do during the end of the winter season,
Speaker 2: getting it all set up and ready to go so
Speaker 2: as the weather worms up, you can get that thing
Speaker 2: stocked with fish and plants and other things. Nelson's will
Speaker 2: build those for you. They will also tell you how
Speaker 2: to do it. So if you want one of the
Speaker 2: disappearing fountains that they designed and created, you just get
Speaker 2: a really nice large glazed pottery urned from them. It's
Speaker 2: set up to have water spout out the top, roll
Speaker 2: over the sides into a bed of gravel where it
Speaker 2: recirculates back up through the container. A beautiful feature, a
Speaker 2: nice feature. So you can get that thing out there
Speaker 2: and set up and weather worms up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Take off. Good to go. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery,
Speaker 2: Katie fort Benroad. Go to the website Nelson Watergardens dot
Speaker 2: com Nelson Watergardens dot com. When you get there you
Speaker 2: will find out all lot more about them, and boy,
Speaker 2: they are set up for the holidays right now. From
Speaker 2: trees to poinsettas, to holiday cactus to all kinds of
Speaker 2: other holiday decor. They have got you covered at Nelsonwatergardens
Speaker 2: dot com. I'm going to have to take a quick
Speaker 2: break here when we come back, Saviian and Beaumont, you
Speaker 2: will be our very first up. All right here, we're
Speaker 2: going to go out to Beaumont. Actually we're going to
Speaker 2: go to Wharton. Excuse me first to Jeff and Wharton. Hey, Jeff,
Speaker 2: welcome to Guardline. Good morning.
Speaker 18: Well, you were advertising Medena products just a little while ago,
Speaker 18: and it reminded me. We moved to Wharton in nineteen
Speaker 18: seventy six and Dewey was still on the air, and
Speaker 18: remember he was telling us, and you may know this story.
Speaker 18: He was talking about the magical qualities of the products
Speaker 18: and he said, you know, there was a fell and
Speaker 18: I may be best in this story up that lost
Speaker 18: his hand in an industrial accident and.
Speaker 2: He put the stump.
Speaker 18: Of his hand where the hand had gone the arm
Speaker 18: into Medina and the Henri group. And he used to
Speaker 18: tell that story about Medina products and you know, all
Speaker 18: you got to do is go down the Honda Texas
Speaker 18: and pick up those products. And it was in he'd
Speaker 18: loved telling that story.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I don't we don't talk about that because yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't. We don't talk about that because we don't
Speaker 2: want to put all the plastic surgeons out of business.
Speaker 2: They could do that.
Speaker 18: It was a hilarious he was great.
Speaker 2: That sounds like they called him old old dude.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was a character. Yeah, and that tells me how
Speaker 2: long Medina has been a sponsor Reguard Line. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: I'm looking.
Speaker 18: I went online just before I called you, and he
Speaker 18: died in that plane crash in October nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that was.
Speaker 18: Incredible and most of the Compton family was all on
Speaker 18: that plane. It was near Somerville.
Speaker 2: That's all right.
Speaker 18: I thought that would your Bedina folks would like to hear.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Yeah, thanks, thanks for the My gosh. You know,
Speaker 2: now you've caused me a problem, though, Jeff, because people
Speaker 2: hear stuff and either they don't listen to what I
Speaker 2: said and they tell me I said something I didn't say,
Speaker 2: or they they hear something that's a joke and they
Speaker 2: think it's for real. So I got to be extra
Speaker 2: careful with that. I'm going to go out to Beaumont
Speaker 2: now and talk to Sabian. Hey, Sabyan, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Hey. I did some pictures of a foreign
Speaker 11: grass in baying my Saint Augustine lawn and you asked
Speaker 11: me to call back. That's what to do with it?
Speaker 11: And what type of grass this is?
Speaker 2: When did you send the email?
Speaker 9: I think it was.
Speaker 2: November teat or Okay, let me go back, let me
Speaker 2: go back here. Uh, I don't have the name Sabian
Speaker 2: in my emails. It's a Fabian. Okay, okay, got you
Speaker 2: got you. Let me let me find that right quick here.
Speaker 2: I do remember getting that one in and now I'm
Speaker 2: not finding that either. Good night, nurse. Could you do it?
Speaker 2: Could you do a quick rescind for me? I don't
Speaker 2: know why, but it's I remember seeing it and I
Speaker 2: don't see it here. If you could hit a quick rescind,
Speaker 2: I will. I will try to look at I'm trying
Speaker 2: to remember what the grass. Oh, was this the little
Speaker 2: small kind of shiny leaf grass that was just growing
Speaker 2: real thick in the lawn that I remember that that was? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is called kai linga k y l I n
Speaker 2: g A. I think it has two l's actually, but
Speaker 2: Kayalinga is kind of nutgrass, but it doesn't have nuts underground.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you go online to go to my website, it
Speaker 2: is it is gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with
Speaker 2: Skip dot Com. And when you get to the website,
Speaker 2: there is a publication on there called nuts edge an
Speaker 2: in depth look okay, and the products that it mentions
Speaker 2: are good for ki linga. The products are good for kylingka.
Speaker 2: So uh. The it's also on the herbicides to use
Speaker 2: on my weed wiper publication too. You'll find it on that.
Speaker 2: So let me let me pull that up right here
Speaker 2: and just give you a couple of examples. Uh. Here
Speaker 2: we go. Halo sulfur on methyl halo sulfur on like
Speaker 2: halo like uh uh around your head and sulfur on
Speaker 2: s u L h h A l O s u
Speaker 2: l f u r O N. And I'm gonna stop
Speaker 2: spelling it out there. If anything that starts off with
Speaker 2: halto sulfur on on the garden market, that's it. So
Speaker 2: brand names sedge Hammer plus, get the sedge hammer that
Speaker 2: says sedgehammer plus uh. And Monterey. If you go where
Speaker 2: Moneray products are sold, it's called nutgrass Killer. Two. If
Speaker 2: you go where Martin's products are sold, it's nutgrass Eliminator.
Speaker 2: And if you go where they carry high yield products,
Speaker 2: it's high yield nutsedge and horsetail control, but sedgehammer plus
Speaker 2: is the one most people find. It's a little one.
Speaker 2: It makes a one gallon. It's a little little small packet,
Speaker 2: very small packet that you put in water makes a gallon.
Speaker 2: And the hedge sedgehammer plus, I said, the plus this
Speaker 2: is important. It has a surfactant that makes it stick
Speaker 2: to those shiny Kailinga leaves because Kalinga and that said
Speaker 2: you're very closely related. That'll work. You're going to have
Speaker 2: to redo it. You're going to be ready to do it,
Speaker 2: and maybe but doing it right now, you can do that.
Speaker 2: It'll do some good now, but especially when things warm
Speaker 2: up and it begins actively growing again in the spring.
Speaker 2: You want to you want to hit it then.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: You bet, Thank you very much. Appreciate appreciate your call. God.
Speaker 2: We resolve resolved that uh Ace Hardware stores are set
Speaker 2: up for the holidays. I mean, do you need gifts?
Speaker 2: They got great gifts. They got toys too, by the way,
Speaker 2: and some of those old antique toy stuff that you
Speaker 2: remember growing up with you is that still around? Yes,
Speaker 2: it is. At Ace Hardware. They have tools for the
Speaker 2: do it yourselfers on your list of all kinds and genders.
Speaker 2: I used to say, for the guys that do it
Speaker 2: just no, no, no, no, we got We've got ladies that are
Speaker 2: bigger do it yourselfers than their spouses are or significant others.
Speaker 2: ACE has got you cut up are set up for that.
Speaker 2: If you need lights or decorations, things inside the house,
Speaker 2: things outside the house, things for the patio, Christmas lights,
Speaker 2: lights by the foot, which I think is really cool.
Speaker 2: You can buy a string exactly as long as you
Speaker 2: want it to be. Ace has got that.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: Ace has a thing called round Up for Kids, and
Speaker 2: at what it is. It's a fundraiser for the Children's
Speaker 2: Miracle Network, which supports our Texas Children's Hospital here in Houston.
Speaker 2: Round Up for Kids is when you go to the register,
Speaker 2: you have this option to round up to the next
Speaker 2: dollar and that money and you know what, when you
Speaker 2: take all the people that check out at all the
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware stores throughout Houston, that adds up to a
Speaker 2: significant amount of money. Now. Ace Hardware stores are everywhere
Speaker 2: all through the Houston area. The K and M Hardware
Speaker 2: has got a location in Kingwood and one in a
Speaker 2: Tascasita All Stories Hardware has got two locations. One is
Speaker 2: in the Spring, one is in Magnolia. For those of
Speaker 2: you up around Lake Conroe, you got Lake Conroe ACE Hardware.
Speaker 2: Over on the east Side you've got U Valdie Ace Hardware.
Speaker 2: And up in Brenham you got Brenham Ace Hardware. And
Speaker 2: of course all through the Greater Houston area. Easy to
Speaker 2: find an ACE and when you go in there, you're
Speaker 2: going to find stuff that you need for a beautiful garden,
Speaker 2: a beautiful landscape, beautiful decorations. That's why they say ACE
Speaker 2: is the place. Well, I've talked all the way through
Speaker 2: the show today, four hours of garden Line, along with
Speaker 2: some of you calling in to talk. Appreciate that. I'll
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow morning six am. I hope everyone is
Speaker 2: go ahead and get up at five so you can
Speaker 2: have coffee and be alert and ready to go, and
Speaker 2: we will hit the ground running at six o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning answering your gardening questions or maybe even saying
Speaker 2: some crazy things or playing some crazy music for some
Speaker 2: of that as well. Thanks for being a garden Line listener.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I just want to remind you my
Speaker 2: website gardening with skip dot com go check it out
Speaker 2: and download the publication on frosts and Freezes