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Speaker 2: Well, good Sunday morning. Welcome to Garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Skip Richtor, and I'm really glad you are listening in today.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of things to talk about. You know,
Speaker 2: the the gardening season never ends here in our area.
Speaker 2: We can grow twelve months out of the year, and
Speaker 2: there's always something be doing, and there's always something to
Speaker 2: be learning. Uh. There's I guess an old adage that
Speaker 2: says something about when you know, if you're a if
Speaker 2: you're a lumberjack and you're cutting down trees, you gotta start.
Speaker 2: You got to stop every now and then to sharpen
Speaker 2: the saw. And I don't know if any of you
Speaker 2: ever used a axe or hatchet or saw, and if
Speaker 2: it gets a little bit dull, it takes a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot more work and effort to try to
Speaker 2: accomplish something in terms of cutting down a tree. It's
Speaker 2: just it's just harder. So you's at some point you
Speaker 2: just stop and you sharpen the saw. Well with gardening.
Speaker 2: Saw sharpening is a constant process. And I'm not talking
Speaker 2: about literal sauce. I'm talking about the gardener. I learned
Speaker 2: something every day of the week about gardening. I do
Speaker 2: because I read about it. I watch stuff, I listen
Speaker 2: to stuff, I get out in the garden and do stuff.
Speaker 2: And that is one of the coolest things. It's not
Speaker 2: like there's this limited amount of info out there. You
Speaker 2: learn it and you're done, and now you're a good gardener.
Speaker 2: Now it's a constant learning because things changed too, so
Speaker 2: we constantly are sharpening the saw. We go to educational events,
Speaker 2: botanical gardens, you know, master gardener programming offered, agrolife extension
Speaker 2: programs that are offered. Garden centers are constantly offering great
Speaker 2: programs for you to come out and learn. And the
Speaker 2: more you learn, the better you get. The better you get,
Speaker 2: the greener your thumb, the green of your thumb, the
Speaker 2: more you can enjoy gardening because it's not frustrating. You
Speaker 2: start to get to see the fruit of your success.
Speaker 2: And that is just kind of a philosophical thought. I
Speaker 2: guess to start the day, but with a question of
Speaker 2: are you sharpening the saw. What have you learned lately
Speaker 2: about gardening? What new kind of plant have you grown
Speaker 2: that you hadn't grown before? If you're a vegetable gardener,
Speaker 2: there is a lot to be growing in the cool
Speaker 2: season garden. It's one of the best gardening seasons that
Speaker 2: there is. All the blue leaf vegetables, I call them
Speaker 2: blue leaf broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, col robbie, collareds, kale, Brussels sprouts,
Speaker 2: all of those that are part of the cruciferous vegetables,
Speaker 2: super super healthy, lots of different things including cancer fighting
Speaker 2: compounds in those plants. They're easy to grow, and you
Speaker 2: can grow them in the cool season, and you know,
Speaker 2: occasionally we're gonna have a real hard freeze, throw something
Speaker 2: over the top just to kind of the keep the
Speaker 2: cold down just a bit, and they do just fine
Speaker 2: through the season. We've got great greens that we can
Speaker 2: grow to season up our salads with outs lathering on.
Speaker 2: You know, a bucket full of thousand island dressing things
Speaker 2: like sorel that are lemony. There are a number of
Speaker 2: different kinds of greens that provide a different flavor profile.
Speaker 2: Ridicio something you never hear people talk about it looks
Speaker 2: like a small cabbage sort of, and it adds a
Speaker 2: bitter taste, which actually mixed in at the proper amounts,
Speaker 2: is a really nice twist to ask to add to
Speaker 2: some salads. We've got other greens like plantain. That is
Speaker 2: one that can be added into salads, the vegetable types
Speaker 2: of plantain in the cool season. Let's see corn salad
Speaker 2: also called mosh m ag. That is another green that
Speaker 2: we can grow in the cool seed. Of course, there's lettuce,
Speaker 2: and then there's spinach, and on and on down the line.
Speaker 2: It's just lots of things we can grow. The root
Speaker 2: crops carrots, for example, we'd be planting those things now
Speaker 2: and just taking care of them when they're little. They'll
Speaker 2: do just fine. They're pretty cold hardy. But what are
Speaker 2: you gonna grow new? What flowers have you never grown before?
Speaker 2: Have you ever grown stock? Have you ever grown colendula?
Speaker 2: These are cool seasoned flowers that you don't see around
Speaker 2: a lot. Those would be good examples. How about a
Speaker 2: rose bush? How about a fruit tree? You know, maybe
Speaker 2: a citrus in a large container on the patio. That
Speaker 2: would be a new thing for some people to try.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you when citrus ballooms. The fragrance of those
Speaker 2: ballooms are unbelievable. They're great. I just love the scent
Speaker 2: of citrus blooms. They do really well. Well. I'll be
Speaker 2: talking about a number of different things today, but hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll be talking to you about the questions you might
Speaker 2: have or anything related to gardening that we can help with.
Speaker 2: Our phone number is seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t r H seven to one three two one
Speaker 2: two k t r H. A number of you have
Speaker 2: emailed me through the past weeks and uh photos and
Speaker 2: things to then follow up with a call in on.
Speaker 2: So go for it. Let's talk about those things as
Speaker 2: well help you get off to a really good start
Speaker 2: with your garden. I have a number of topic. Today's
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of kind of fyi things
Speaker 2: of interest perhaps that you might you may be interested
Speaker 2: in knowing and finding I have. I'll just start off
Speaker 2: with talking about when you want to have a beautiful,
Speaker 2: cool season container, how do you select plants? How do
Speaker 2: you build one of those? You know you walk by them,
Speaker 2: or you see them, maybe even you know in a
Speaker 2: shopping district there'll be these beautiful containers along the sidewalk
Speaker 2: out front that are just gorgeous. How do you make
Speaker 2: one of those for home? Well, there's a few things
Speaker 2: to think about as you do that. First of all
Speaker 2: is the sunlight exposure. Most plants that you want to
Speaker 2: grow on a container for beauty are going to want
Speaker 2: good sunlight. There are plants that can grow in less sunlight,
Speaker 2: but choosing the plants accordingly is very important. In the
Speaker 2: cool season, things that used to be areas that used
Speaker 2: to be shady or often now sunny because the leaves
Speaker 2: fill off the tree, or at least partially sunny. But
Speaker 2: you want to select plants that like to be in
Speaker 2: the same amount of sunlight. So if you take something
Speaker 2: that wants to be in a break from the sun
Speaker 2: and then you put it in full sun with something
Speaker 2: that wants to be in full sun, that combination doesn't
Speaker 2: work really well. Never forget that foliage is a color too, Okay,
Speaker 2: So we want blooms and so pansies and violas, colegulas, snapdragons.
Speaker 2: What am I leaving out a bunch gosh stock I
Speaker 2: mentioned before a lessen. These are all plants are dianthus
Speaker 2: a very important cool season plant. These are all plants
Speaker 2: that do well in the cool season that bloom. But
Speaker 2: we have plants also for our cool season that are
Speaker 2: just foliage. We have the beautiful grayish color of Dusty Miller,
Speaker 2: and it really is an interesting dramatic especially when you
Speaker 2: use it with flowers that have a bluish color to them.
Speaker 2: Gray and blue really work well together. So violas that
Speaker 2: are darker blue, lighter blue with gray Dusty Miller, it
Speaker 2: just really looks good. All Right, I'm gonna leave you
Speaker 2: hanging there. We're coming back. Got a lot more to
Speaker 2: talk about on container plants, and then a few other
Speaker 2: topics as well. Just remember the number seven one three
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Speaker 2: Simple as that, we'll talk about the things that you
Speaker 2: are interested in. I was talking about putting together a
Speaker 2: beautiful container, and you know, there's so many options for plants,
Speaker 2: and what I'm doing right now is giving you a
Speaker 2: few tips, a few concepts to think about when you're
Speaker 2: wanting to have success with the container. By the way,
Speaker 2: a lot of our garden centers if you, in fact,
Speaker 2: I would say pretty much everyone I talk about. If
Speaker 2: you walk in there and you go, hey, I want
Speaker 2: to do a container, and I like this color and that,
Speaker 2: but I don't know what plants to grab, they'll walk
Speaker 2: you around and show you exactly your options and how
Speaker 2: to do it. There are a few of the garden
Speaker 2: centers they'll even go make it for you, you know, if
Speaker 2: you want them to, they'll they'll put it together. I'm
Speaker 2: for a charge, and then you just take the container homets,
Speaker 2: you set it up and it's instant. You got everything
Speaker 2: you want right there. So however you want to go
Speaker 2: about it, it works. It works either way. But when
Speaker 2: you're the second concept that I'm talking I believe we're
Speaker 2: on number two. That is the plant form. There's a
Speaker 2: concept that it has catchy name, so I'll use it
Speaker 2: because it helps people remember. But it's called thriller, filler, spiller.
Speaker 2: So thriller is something that's upright, A filler is something
Speaker 2: that fills in around the base, and a spiller is
Speaker 2: something that spills over the side. So basically, you're talking
Speaker 2: about a upright plant, a more bushy plant, and a
Speaker 2: more trailing slash binding type of plant. So something that
Speaker 2: would be upright could be like a cast iron plant
Speaker 2: that is a really hardy plant. There's one called milky way.
Speaker 2: There's a little yellow spots in the in the foliage.
Speaker 2: That's nice there. And during the summer we often use
Speaker 2: ornamental grasses in that way. Then for filling in around them. Gosh,
Speaker 2: most of our flowers, everything from zinnias in their bush
Speaker 2: form to you know, anything that's more of a compact
Speaker 2: filling type plant would work for that. And in the
Speaker 2: cool season we have those as well. And then the
Speaker 2: trailing plants would be things like a lissome sweet lessome
Speaker 2: trailing over the sides. And so it just creates a
Speaker 2: nice connection. And that could be done in shady areas
Speaker 2: with ferns, and it could be done in sunny areas
Speaker 2: with a lot of plants. But having a group of
Speaker 2: different forms of plants also helps a lot. Well, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna pause just for a moment on that, and we're
Speaker 2: going to go to Magnolia and talk to Tim. Good morning, Tim,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, do we have a
Speaker 2: Tim out there.
Speaker 5: Yes, don't all right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hey, good welcome regarding line Tim. What's up?
Speaker 6: I had to my lawns turning brown? And I sent
Speaker 6: some pictures yesterday. I was gonna get you to comment
Speaker 6: on those.
Speaker 7: See what you thought? That what I need to do?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do, recall. Hang on one second and let me.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find the picture connection. I know you
Speaker 2: had some attached here. Huh. Now I'm not seeing them.
Speaker 2: Were they embedded in the text or were they attached
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 6: In the text or in the email? Yeah, just attached
Speaker 6: to it, not where you didn't have to open it.
Speaker 2: Ah, boy, darn it, I'm not They're not showing up here,
Speaker 2: and I don't know why. Sometimes I have trouble with
Speaker 2: embedded embedded pictures. Let me, can we do this? Can
Speaker 2: you do a rescend and instead of embed them in
Speaker 2: the text, attach them to the email and let's try
Speaker 2: this again. You can call back if you like, or
Speaker 2: I can just talk about them in the air. Either way,
Speaker 2: I'm happy to do it, admit, but I am not
Speaker 2: able to open for some for longer reason. Okay, thank you,
Speaker 2: you bet. I appreciate that. Since we're talking about that.
Speaker 2: There are several things that make it easier for me
Speaker 2: to help you. One of them is when you take pictures,
Speaker 2: take sharp focused pictures, and sometimes people you know, Like
Speaker 2: if you hold up a plant at arm's length and
Speaker 2: then with your camera phone you take a picture of it,
Speaker 2: Sometimes the phone focuses on the background and not on
Speaker 2: the plant in the foreground, and so it's too fuzzy
Speaker 2: and fuzzy pictures. I'll give you fuzzy answers, and you
Speaker 2: don't want fuzzy answers. You want sharp back your answers.
Speaker 2: But make sure it's in sharp focus. Secondly, get in
Speaker 2: as close as you can. You know, you got a
Speaker 2: bush with a tiny white flower on it, and you
Speaker 2: stand back four feet, I'm not going to be able
Speaker 2: to really look at that flower or that bug or
Speaker 2: whatever is on it. So the closer you can get,
Speaker 2: the better. So sometimes it also helps to have a
Speaker 2: picture in its context. So a shrub is the branches
Speaker 2: you turning brown or yellow or dyeing or whatever. If
Speaker 2: I see the whole flower bed with that shrub in it,
Speaker 2: I may see things on other plants that help me
Speaker 2: connect a diagnosis to it. So a picture like that,
Speaker 2: and then a picture up really close if the question
Speaker 2: is appropriate for a close up picture, and it usually is,
Speaker 2: that helps more than one picture is usually a good
Speaker 2: idea too, different angles and stuff. So anyway, just a
Speaker 2: few things to think about. Sometimes you're taking a picture
Speaker 2: in a bush and it's like the camera doesn't know
Speaker 2: which branch to focus on, and just putting your hand
Speaker 2: in there or something like holding a leaf, now you
Speaker 2: get a better focus on that sharp focus on that leaf.
Speaker 2: So just a few tips like that for doing it. Finally,
Speaker 2: the third one is We're a visit with Tim about
Speaker 2: is the attaching versus embedding. When you paste a picture
Speaker 2: into the text. If it's a really large file, like
Speaker 2: a nice multi megapixel photo, when I get it and
Speaker 2: open the email, it it's like three screens wide, and
Speaker 2: so I have trouble, you know, seeing into it as well.
Speaker 2: When it's an attachment, I can open it separate, and
Speaker 2: I can open several of them and look at all
Speaker 2: of them at the same time. So you send me
Speaker 2: four pictures of your yard, the kinds of pictures I
Speaker 2: was just talking about, and I can look at them
Speaker 2: all and then it helps. Embedded in the text, it's
Speaker 2: just a little more trouble to get to and so
Speaker 2: just a few tips on that sort of thing. We'll
Speaker 2: get back with Tim here in a bet. So I
Speaker 2: was talking what was I talking about? I was talking
Speaker 2: about the different ways and tips on creating a beautiful
Speaker 2: outdoor container. Another concept in containers, and I'm gonna mention
Speaker 2: this one. Just remember this about all all the rules
Speaker 2: of gardening and things. Sometimes often they're important if you
Speaker 2: want to have success, and then often they're an esthetic opinion. Okay,
Speaker 2: color combinations are an esthetic opinion. We have colors that
Speaker 2: do complement each other. Interior designers use it all the
Speaker 2: time when they're creating that beautiful indoor scape that you want.
Speaker 2: When it comes to outdoor colors, there are colors that
Speaker 2: combine better together. But you plant what you want. You
Speaker 2: plant the colors you like that appeal to you. But
Speaker 2: consider this. There's not a right or wrong way to
Speaker 2: use colors in a container. But these guidelines I think
Speaker 2: are really helpful because it helps you create things that
Speaker 2: are pleasing to the eye. So a riot of bright
Speaker 2: bowl colors can really be eye catching, and in the
Speaker 2: summertime especially gives that hot tropical look, you know. The
Speaker 2: gaudy colors, the things that are like a pink flamingo
Speaker 2: in the yard that scream look at me. Those are important.
Speaker 2: Another concept, well, in the cool season, often we're dealing
Speaker 2: with a more subdued color palette, not always, but some
Speaker 2: a more subdued color palette, and either one is okay.
Speaker 2: It's like, do you like bright primary colors? Do you
Speaker 2: like pastels? Everything has its place. The other thing is
Speaker 2: when you look at a color wheel, and you can
Speaker 2: just type color wheel into a search engine and you'll
Speaker 2: get a lot of examples of color wheels, especially if
Speaker 2: you put the word plant in there with it, it'll
Speaker 2: help you even find some plants that are in that color,
Speaker 2: but opposite sides of the color wheel seem to be
Speaker 2: complementary to the eye. So blue and orange, green and red,
Speaker 2: blue and orange, green and red, yellow and violet would
Speaker 2: be another example. Those are examples that cross the color wheel,
Speaker 2: so that is nice. But then you can also do
Speaker 2: colors that are considered adjacent on the color wheel. So
Speaker 2: purple and violet and magenta are all adjacent and they
Speaker 2: look well together. They match together really well. Yellow orange
Speaker 2: and red, that's another one. Think about that yellow orange
Speaker 2: and red. So the summer shrub, we have the Pride
Speaker 2: of Barbados se Salpinia. What's the other name, redbird of
Speaker 2: pair lace is the name for it too. Boys, that
Speaker 2: every that group yellow, orange and red, just bald bright
Speaker 2: colors and it goes well together. I mean, it's the
Speaker 2: planet itself is doing the color combo for you in
Speaker 2: that case. But considering that, and so in the cool season,
Speaker 2: I like using a light blue viola with a maybe
Speaker 2: a darker viola, blue viola with some white and with
Speaker 2: some dusty miller gray grayish silver foliage that looks really
Speaker 2: good put together. But again your garden centers can help
Speaker 2: you with those kinds of things. Very important for that,
Speaker 2: and I mentioned already you know the important of foliage
Speaker 2: and foliage color. A lot of these things apply. We
Speaker 2: have more opportunity to use them in the summertime than
Speaker 2: we do in the cool season. The cool season are
Speaker 2: palate's quite different. And a lot of the plants I
Speaker 2: would mention as examples to these are basically color plants.
Speaker 2: Maybe how to put this on the web? Two that
Speaker 2: may be helpful anyway. And then finally water requirements. You know,
Speaker 2: to put a cactus in an azilia in the same container.
Speaker 2: Aside from other issues with that, they don't need the
Speaker 2: same water retirement requirement. And you water enough to keep
Speaker 2: the plant that uses the most water happy, and when
Speaker 2: you do that, what you end up with is a
Speaker 2: very soggy, unhappy other plant. So just think about water
Speaker 2: can amount. Finally, a less thing I'll add is volume
Speaker 2: of soil. You may see online TV shows on gardening
Speaker 2: where they have like a little boot and it's got
Speaker 2: all these flowers spilling out. They filled the boot with
Speaker 2: potting soil. Well, that's cute and cool, but here in
Speaker 2: our area, the more soul volume you can give plants,
Speaker 2: the less often you water, and the better they do.
Speaker 2: So just be careful to not create too small of
Speaker 2: a containers with too many or too large of plants.
Speaker 2: All right, it's time for me to take a quick break.
Speaker 2: I'll be back with more tips and if you'd like
Speaker 2: to give me a call seven one three two one two,
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to garden Line. Good morning. I
Speaker 2: hope you got the sand out of your eyes. Mister
Speaker 2: send me to sleep. We are here to answer your
Speaker 2: gardening questions. Uh, and I just wanted to continue a
Speaker 2: little bit on some tips while we wait. Did receive
Speaker 2: the photos, Tim, and so if you'd like to discuss those,
Speaker 2: we can do it. If not, if I don't hear
Speaker 2: from me, I'll just talk about them inside myself. It
Speaker 2: is important when you want to have success with plants
Speaker 2: that you consider a few basic concepts. And now, I
Speaker 2: always stress the soil because that's the thing I see
Speaker 2: people often not do they prop They, as I like
Speaker 2: to say it, they PLoP a poor plant into an
Speaker 2: unprepared plot, and that just doesn't give it a chance
Speaker 2: to get going. Soil. Soil is so important. You get
Speaker 2: the soil right. The plant thrives, the root system expands,
Speaker 2: it has access to lots of water, lots of nutrients
Speaker 2: because it's expanded in a good soil, and the plant's
Speaker 2: going to do better. Another thing, though, that's very important
Speaker 2: is sunlight. If you are wanting to have success with
Speaker 2: a plant, you need to give it the amount of
Speaker 2: light it needs. Now, there are a few plants that
Speaker 2: do not want to be in the blazing sun. They
Speaker 2: just don't like that intense, especially in summer, the intense,
Speaker 2: blazing hot summer sun, and they we typically relegate them
Speaker 2: to shadier spots. Most ferns kind of fall into that category.
Speaker 2: Not all, but most ferns kind of fall in that category.
Speaker 2: Impatients tend to go in the Kaladiums used to go
Speaker 2: in that category, but breeders now have kolladiums that thrive
Speaker 2: in the full sun. Colius used to be in that category,
Speaker 2: but breeders have colius cultivars now that just thrive and
Speaker 2: absolute full sun. But some plants don't want much sun, Okay.
Speaker 2: Hydrange is a good example of one that you can
Speaker 2: overdo it. Now, other plants are going to need as
Speaker 2: much light as they can get. Some will put up
Speaker 2: with part day shade, part day sun, and some just
Speaker 2: want to be in full day. And full day means
Speaker 2: about eight hours if you can get eight hours. In fact,
Speaker 2: we usually say a minimum of six Okay, when we're
Speaker 2: looking at a plant that wants full sun, if you
Speaker 2: can get a a minimum and that's a minimum of
Speaker 2: six hours, they usually do pretty good. But here's a
Speaker 2: quick way, especially like let's just take a vegetable garden
Speaker 2: for example, a quick way to know where do I
Speaker 2: need to put this plant? Like, okay, here's this scenario.
Speaker 2: You've got a spot and it's some of its full sun,
Speaker 2: some of its partnation sun and some of it not
Speaker 2: a whole lot. I mean it gets it gets a
Speaker 2: lot of light, but not much direct full sun. Well,
Speaker 2: if it's gonna grow roots or fruit, so roots that
Speaker 2: would be turnips, that would be carrots. We're talking about
Speaker 2: radishes were from a sweet potatoes. So those are storage
Speaker 2: structures for carbohydrates. And the only way you get carbohydrates
Speaker 2: is by having the sun shine on a leaf. So
Speaker 2: can you grow that in less than full cent yes?
Speaker 2: Will your production be the same, No, it'll be less
Speaker 2: because there's less energy shining on that plant. Fruit, tomatoes, peppers, squash,
Speaker 2: green beans, peas, southern peas, cool seasoned peas. Those are
Speaker 2: all fruit. And I know, how can eyed peebe fruit?
Speaker 2: But it's the fruit of the plant. So if you're
Speaker 2: going to grow those, you need to give them full sun.
Speaker 2: For the same reason. There's a lot of carbohydrates in
Speaker 2: a black eyed pea or a tomato or even a squash,
Speaker 2: and so the best results are found when you give
Speaker 2: them the most sun you can. Leafy greens things that
Speaker 2: their only use is for harvesting the foliage. Lettuce and
Speaker 2: spinach are two good examples.
Speaker 8: Of that.
Speaker 2: Kale would be another example of that, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the blue vegetables kind of fall into that category.
Speaker 2: They can take a partial sun. Now they don't have
Speaker 2: to have partial sun. They can grow in full sun,
Speaker 2: but they can take less because all they're doing is
Speaker 2: making a leaf. They are not creating tons of carbohydrates
Speaker 2: to go in to create a bloom and then a
Speaker 2: fruit or a root. So those are some choices now.
Speaker 2: In flowers, again, it's the same kind of thing. Even
Speaker 2: though it's not a fruit or a root. The blooms
Speaker 2: themselves do need some sunlight. There are flowers that can
Speaker 2: flower in shade, like a wishbone flower and impatience being
Speaker 2: two examples. They can bloom in quite a bit of shade.
Speaker 2: But a lot of flowers if you don't give them sun,
Speaker 2: you're not going to get the production. And roses are
Speaker 2: a good example. You know. Typically I've more than a
Speaker 2: thousand times been asked something like the essential. The essence
Speaker 2: of the question is can I grow a tomato in
Speaker 2: four hours of sun? Or can I grow a rose
Speaker 2: in three hour or four hours of sun? And the
Speaker 2: answer is absolutely, you can grow a rose bush or
Speaker 2: a tomato bush in that amount of light, can you
Speaker 2: have blooms and fruit, Well, not as much. It's going
Speaker 2: to go down progressively as the light intensity goes down.
Speaker 2: So that's just it kind of how that works. But
Speaker 2: imagine think of it this way. Leaves are solar panels.
Speaker 2: So if you bought solar pan panels to put it
Speaker 2: in your house and you wanted to make lots of
Speaker 2: energy for the house, that's where you put them on
Speaker 2: the roof. One reason you didn't imagine if that you
Speaker 2: put them on a part of your roof that was
Speaker 2: shaded by a big giant tree, how much electricity would
Speaker 2: you get out of solar panels. Same thing is true
Speaker 2: with carbohydrates. That's how that works. So just picture your
Speaker 2: leaves of solar panels. And if a plant needs to
Speaker 2: make a lot of energy a lot of carbohydrates, then
Speaker 2: you've got to provide it that thing that it needs.
Speaker 2: So we talked about the importance of soil and the
Speaker 2: importance of sunlight as well. And then the final step
Speaker 2: and we will come to this and after this break
Speaker 2: is the amount of drainage that a plant needs, the
Speaker 2: kind of sol moisture that a plant needs. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to take a break right here, and we'll come
Speaker 2: back to your questions. We'll also come back to my
Speaker 2: continuing comments about success tips for success with your plants.
Speaker 2: Our phone number seven one three two one two kt
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Speaker 2: RH if you'd like to give me a call. Get
Speaker 2: a little bit of sunshine in here and get this
Speaker 2: day going. We're gonna have a great Sunday, by the way, UH,
Speaker 2: gardening weather tip's Looking at the weather yesterday, I believe
Speaker 2: and saw that we've got a lot of nice sunny weather,
Speaker 2: really good temperatures to be out and about working in
Speaker 2: the garden. So maybe this afternoon you can plan on
Speaker 2: getting yourself a little bit of sunshine and enjoying the
Speaker 2: garden outside.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then about midweek or so, we turn into a
Speaker 2: little bit of rainy weather for a good while, and
Speaker 2: so that's gonna hamper things as far as outdoor work.
Speaker 2: So just tip to the wires get try to get
Speaker 2: that stuff done by midweek if you can. All right, well,
Speaker 2: let's see phone number seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t r H. If you'd like to give me
Speaker 2: a call. We can visit about the things that are
Speaker 2: of most interest to you. I've been talking about containers
Speaker 2: and container color and things like that. I'd like to
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about And this is gonna get
Speaker 2: a little nerdy just for a minute, so bear with me,
Speaker 2: though I think this is important. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of myths in gardening, and gardening myths in general are
Speaker 2: usually based on truth, a bit of truth. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: just like, Okay, that just came out of space. I
Speaker 2: don't know where you got that. But a lot of
Speaker 2: times I can see why they're saying it, but it's
Speaker 2: just not true. And often when you take the truth
Speaker 2: and apply it too far outside of the box, it's
Speaker 2: becomes not true, right. That's kind of how that goes.
Speaker 2: So I would I would suggest this to consider something
Speaker 2: about the way water behaves in the soil as a
Speaker 2: example of a myth, and that has that we can
Speaker 2: bring some truth to. Water is pulled by gravity, so
Speaker 2: when you water, something goes down in the soil, and
Speaker 2: in a real loose soil like a sandy soil, the
Speaker 2: water just flows through the sand and moves on down
Speaker 2: and very little water sticks to the sand. Some does,
Speaker 2: but for a very short time. So that's why sandy
Speaker 2: soils tend to have to be fertilized a little more
Speaker 2: often water a little more often in order to keep
Speaker 2: the plants happy. And water is also influenced by something
Speaker 2: called capillary action, and that is the way particles pull
Speaker 2: the water to themselves. So if you were to take
Speaker 2: a paper towel, and let's say you had a little
Speaker 2: few drops of water on your catching counter, and you
Speaker 2: take the corner of the towel and set it down
Speaker 2: right and touch that water drop, what happens. The water
Speaker 2: goes up in the towel. That's capillar reaction. Okay, soil
Speaker 2: does that too. The smaller the soil particles, the more
Speaker 2: pull of capillar reaction like that that it can have,
Speaker 2: the more it can take up in the end, but slowly,
Speaker 2: but the more so. Whenever we have a clay soil,
Speaker 2: it has a lot strong pull on the water, but
Speaker 2: we see a little less movement by gravity, or at
Speaker 2: least not as fast, because the soil is holding it
Speaker 2: better than a sandy soil would. When we add organic
Speaker 2: matter to soil, it improves either kind of soil because
Speaker 2: in a sand think of organic matter. This is a
Speaker 2: don't it's just an it's just a concept idea. It's
Speaker 2: not don't take this literally, but think of organic matter
Speaker 2: as little tiny sponges, okay, and you mix them into sand,
Speaker 2: which you will think of as little pieces of broken glass.
Speaker 2: And now when water and nutrients go in, those sponges
Speaker 2: are holding on to more of the water that the
Speaker 2: sand would just let run through. So it helps organic
Speaker 2: matter are compost helps the sand in that way. In
Speaker 2: a clay soil, what it does is that massive clay.
Speaker 2: Remember when your kid and you played with modeling clay.
Speaker 2: You can make a little bowl with your fingers and
Speaker 2: then you pour water in the bowl and it just
Speaker 2: sits there and it holds water. It's like a farm pond.
Speaker 2: They line farm ponds with bent night clay to help
Speaker 2: them hold water. But now water soaks in, but it's
Speaker 2: really slow. Our typical Houston black clay. Then listen to this,
Speaker 2: Our typical Houston black clay with no organic matter, just
Speaker 2: the clay, no roots going through opening channels, just the
Speaker 2: clay takes in water at about one eighth of an
Speaker 2: inch an hour. Now, a lot of times when we water,
Speaker 2: we'd like to put an inch of water down, But
Speaker 2: if you're taking it in at an eighth of an
Speaker 2: inch an hour. Can you imagine watering an eighth of
Speaker 2: an inch an hour for eight hours to get an
Speaker 2: inch in the rain? Doesn't happen that way. Our irrigation
Speaker 2: systems can't even put it on that slow. But the
Speaker 2: concept to remember is that you have to soak clay
Speaker 2: soil slowly over time. But the organic matter in that
Speaker 2: clay now, suddenly those particles start to clump together and
Speaker 2: you get airspace. It's called structure in the soil. It's
Speaker 2: what the term friable means. You grab a dirt clod
Speaker 2: and it's just hard dried clay, and you might as
Speaker 2: well be squeezing concrete. You grab a dirt clod and
Speaker 2: you have it has a lot of organic matter in it,
Speaker 2: and it crumbles apart in your hand. So that's the
Speaker 2: benefit of the organic matter in the soil. And I'm
Speaker 2: gonna continue, but I've just remembered something I was talking
Speaker 2: a while ago about the importance, you know, of having
Speaker 2: sunlight for plants and the energy and things that plants need.
Speaker 2: Microlife has a product that I haven't really talked about
Speaker 2: much before. It's called Microlife Ultimate. It is an eight
Speaker 2: four six now normally you think in the cool season, well,
Speaker 2: we're moving away from a lot of nitrogen. But when
Speaker 2: you have a blooming bed like pansies or petuna or
Speaker 2: pansies or alyssum or violas or things like that, and
Speaker 2: you need flowers and energy, you need nitrogen because nitrogen
Speaker 2: makes the plant grow leaves and leaves or solar panels,
Speaker 2: and solar panels make carbohydrates for more blooms. So if
Speaker 2: you put your panzi's in the shade, they can't get sunlight,
Speaker 2: they don't bloom as much. You put your pansies in
Speaker 2: the soil and you don't give them good nitrogen content,
Speaker 2: they bloom them. We say bloom themselves to death. That's
Speaker 2: an exaggeration, but they put all their energy into blooms,
Speaker 2: and then the weakened plant just can't produce more blooms.
Speaker 2: Microlife Ultimate eight four six provides that boost of nitrogen
Speaker 2: in a gradual release form. Now, in addition to the nitrogen,
Speaker 2: it's got all kinds of things in it. It has
Speaker 2: a lot of essential like rock mineral types of nutrients.
Speaker 2: It's got endo microurza and ectomycrourza that associate with the
Speaker 2: plant roots and cause that plant to be more productive more.
Speaker 2: It increases the health and every aspect of the benefit
Speaker 2: to the plant. So Microlife Ultimate eight six four. You
Speaker 2: can buy it in a bag, you can bite in
Speaker 2: a canister. It's a blue label and it is one
Speaker 2: that if you're going to do cool season color, it
Speaker 2: is important to provide those kind of nutrients to your
Speaker 2: plants to keep them floriferous. Doesn't that sound magnificent? Floriferous?
Speaker 2: Microlife will do that. You can find micro Life products
Speaker 2: everywhere the website Microlife Fertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 2: You can find out more about Microlife Ultimate and you
Speaker 2: can find out where to get Microlife products there as well.
Speaker 2: This morning is flying by. Maybe it's just because I'm
Speaker 2: doing all the talking. I don't know. We're going to
Speaker 2: take a little break here pretty quick for the top
Speaker 2: of the hour in the news, and when I come back,
Speaker 2: I'm going to continue on with some of this. I
Speaker 2: did want to say on water movement and soil, I
Speaker 2: want to go a little further into that, and I'll
Speaker 2: talk out into the music a little bit here. There's
Speaker 2: a concept because it's true that water flows through real
Speaker 2: chunky stuff you know, gravel, sand, those things much more
Speaker 2: readily than it does a tight clay type soil, a
Speaker 2: fine textured soil. We think, well, if we put gravel
Speaker 2: and sand and stuff in the bottom of a planting hole,
Speaker 2: that makes it drain well. And that is absolutely not true.
Speaker 2: Here's what happens. You dig a hole in clay and
Speaker 2: you have created an underground bathtub that holds water. Throwing
Speaker 2: gravel in the bottom of that does nothing for drainage.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had an aquarium there's gravel in the
Speaker 2: bottom of an aquarium. Does that gravel make the water
Speaker 2: get out of there? Does it know? When you fill
Speaker 2: the aquarium with water, it is it's water logged, right,
Speaker 2: same thing as a hole. Don't do that. I'll talk
Speaker 2: a little bit more about why that is.
Speaker 5: I don't We've done that.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 2: All right, guess what we chase the grumlins out of
Speaker 2: the system? Back. I know you enjoyed listening to more
Speaker 2: and more of our bumper song. But anyway, we're back here.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and hey,
Speaker 2: we're here to answer your question. So if you'd like
Speaker 2: to give us a call seven one three, two one
Speaker 2: two five eight seven four. I was in the middle
Speaker 2: of a nerd Alert comment on soil and water, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to continue that right now because these are
Speaker 2: things that are one of the most common misconceptions about
Speaker 2: planting and gardening and things like that, especially watering plants
Speaker 2: and whatnot. And we talked about the fact that water
Speaker 2: moves is drawn more toward finer textured soil than toward
Speaker 2: coarse textured soil. And why is that important. Well, here
Speaker 2: here is an example. As the as the poor space
Speaker 2: gets larger, the only the primary movement of that water
Speaker 2: is by gravity down into the soil. As a poorer
Speaker 2: space gets smaller, it's the soil itself that pulls on
Speaker 2: the water, just like I use the example of putting
Speaker 2: a corner of a paper towel down on a wet
Speaker 2: spot on the counter and watching the water go upward
Speaker 2: away from gravity into the towel. That works in the
Speaker 2: soil too, And so why does that matter? Well, here's
Speaker 2: why that matters. Well, one thing I pointed out was
Speaker 2: if you throw a bunch of gravel in the bottom
Speaker 2: of a planting hole, because you know, the area is
Speaker 2: too soggy, and then you plant on top of it.
Speaker 2: That did nothing. It's like gravel in an aquarium does
Speaker 2: not pull the water out of the aquarium. It just
Speaker 2: fills up with the water. And so that doesn't don't
Speaker 2: do that. Don't put that kind of stuff in there
Speaker 2: when it comes to an above ground container. So you say, okay,
Speaker 2: well that's an underground bathtub in the garden. What about
Speaker 2: a container? Should I put pot shards, broken pottery and
Speaker 2: gravel and styrofoam, peanuts and gosh, we've heard all kinds
Speaker 2: of things over the years in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: pot so they drain better, Because doesn't it make sense
Speaker 2: that water will run out of that better than it
Speaker 2: would if it was solid soil the inches, of course,
Speaker 2: yes it does. But the only way water water moves
Speaker 2: from fine texture into a courser texture, and the courser texture,
Speaker 2: let's we're going to use the word gravel just as
Speaker 2: a general example. The only way it moves from your
Speaker 2: potting soil down into gravel is primarily by getting so
Speaker 2: saturated in the potting soil that it literally drips out
Speaker 2: of the potting soil and down into the gravel. So
Speaker 2: what happens is you've got this container. Let's say you've
Speaker 2: got a little two gallon container on the patio and
Speaker 2: you're going to grow things, and you put it two
Speaker 2: inches of gravel in the bottom, and then you fill
Speaker 2: it up with potting soil. Okay, what you've done is
Speaker 2: you've reduced the volume of soil that roots can get
Speaker 2: water in their nutrients from, because they're not going to
Speaker 2: go down the gravel and there's not hardly anything there
Speaker 2: for them, So you've reduced your soil volume. And I
Speaker 2: said earlier, soal volume is important. Bigger pots are important,
Speaker 2: especially here in Texas, and especially in the summer when
Speaker 2: the demands are so high. What doesn't happen is the
Speaker 2: gravel doesn't pull water out of the potting salt to
Speaker 2: make it drain, but it just gets so saturated that
Speaker 2: it drips out. So if instead you just fill the
Speaker 2: pot full of soil, no gravel, pot full of soil,
Speaker 2: it would be the same thing. You just lowered that
Speaker 2: saturated zone. And so the water moves down and as
Speaker 2: the soil begins to get drier, you bring air in
Speaker 2: behind it, and that water saturated line is at the
Speaker 2: bottom and when it's so saturated at the bottom of
Speaker 2: your pot, it just drips out of a hole. The
Speaker 2: gravity pushes the water below it. The water above is
Speaker 2: pushing the water below it down as gravity pulls on
Speaker 2: both of them, and so it goes out. So don't
Speaker 2: put gravel into a pot. It just doesn't work. I
Speaker 2: could go on and give more examples and why that is,
Speaker 2: but that is a myth that just won't die, and
Speaker 2: I see it all the time. I hear it from
Speaker 2: people that ought to know better about that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Take advantage of the full pot size with quality potting soil.
Speaker 2: It is very important that your container has drainage holes
Speaker 2: and that they're not plugged up, and that they're not
Speaker 2: Sometimes pots have one hole in the middle at the bottom,
Speaker 2: and then people set them on a clay soil in
Speaker 2: the yard or whatever. Well, now for the water to
Speaker 2: get out, it has to go into a clay, which
Speaker 2: is going to happen really slow. So you want to
Speaker 2: have something that lifts the pot a little bit up
Speaker 2: off the ground. A lot of pots are made little
Speaker 2: indentations underneath, so water goes out to the side. If
Speaker 2: you are going to plant in something and set it
Speaker 2: on the ground, like those water troughs, you know, the
Speaker 2: oval cattle water troughs, galvanized metal. Those have kind of
Speaker 2: become popular as a little planting bed. That's fine, you
Speaker 2: can do that, But if you just drill holes in
Speaker 2: the bottom of it and set it on a clay
Speaker 2: soil is going to be really slow without water to
Speaker 2: get out of there. Drill the holes on the sides
Speaker 2: down near the bottom, like maybe oh an inch up
Speaker 2: from the base around the sides, and let the water
Speaker 2: also be able to get out from the sides to
Speaker 2: do that. All right, I know I nerd it out
Speaker 2: on that, but I see a lot of people make
Speaker 2: that mistake, and I keep hearing about it, and gosh,
Speaker 2: when you go on social media, which is it is
Speaker 2: the vault of misinformation about planting. There's so much stuff
Speaker 2: on social media just not true. And I just picked
Speaker 2: apart the water one. I mean, we could do a
Speaker 2: season of shows just taking myth by myth by myth
Speaker 2: and talking about why it's not true, why it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: And myths are perpetuated because they make sense. Right. We
Speaker 2: know water runs through gravel, so why not put gravel
Speaker 2: in the bottom of the pot so water will run
Speaker 2: out better. See see how that that is based on
Speaker 2: common sense and what we know to be true. It's
Speaker 2: not all right, I'll stop right there. You can spare
Speaker 2: your fellow listeners the diatribe by calling seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two k t r H seven one three
Speaker 2: two and two k tr a T. If you like
Speaker 2: to ask a question, talk about some things that are
Speaker 2: related to your gardening goals and things.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: ACE Hardware Stores are the place. That's their motto. Ace
Speaker 2: is the place right and it's the place for so
Speaker 2: many things right now. ACE is in addition to, of
Speaker 2: course they still have all our gardening supplies we've been
Speaker 2: talking about all year. But ACE is a place for
Speaker 2: lights by the foot. You know, if you ever bought
Speaker 2: a Christmas light and it's so long and you needed
Speaker 2: it to be a little longer, you know you got
Speaker 2: some extra at the end and need it to be
Speaker 2: a little shorter, why not go to Ason get lights
Speaker 2: by the foot. Incredible assortment of lights at ACE Harder
Speaker 2: all kinds. But you can also just get lights by
Speaker 2: the foot where you say I want a I want
Speaker 2: a string of lights that is seventeen and a half
Speaker 2: feet long, and you can have that you can get that,
Speaker 2: they'll show you how to do it. Now. ACE has
Speaker 2: lots of indoor decord that's really cool. That's an awesome
Speaker 2: place for gifts. I was walking through an AC other
Speaker 2: day looking at some of the power tools and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, and it's like yeah, yeah, And when I
Speaker 2: go to the barbecue section, I have to wear a
Speaker 2: bit because I really start drilling the Tregger grills, the
Speaker 2: Weber grills, the big green eggs and all the stuff
Speaker 2: they care. It's just really cool, good stocking stuffer. A
Speaker 2: lot of cool kid toys too. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you have ever gone in an ACE and noticed this,
Speaker 2: but I was in one the other day looking at
Speaker 2: a lot of the old retro cool toys that I
Speaker 2: remember from decades past. That ACE still has versions of those.
Speaker 2: They're kind of cool, I think. And they have something
Speaker 2: called Brewder Toys that's a one to sixteenth scale, very realistic,
Speaker 2: a detailed little toy vehicle, so you know you're playing
Speaker 2: with little cars. You got somebody that's kind of into that,
Speaker 2: the Brewder toy. They got to check out the Brewer Toys.
Speaker 2: Just go in there and ask them. I want to
Speaker 2: see Brewder Toys and that's kind of cool. Now, remember
Speaker 2: every Ace Hardware store is independently owned, so they can
Speaker 2: carry what they want or don't want to carry. But
Speaker 2: you see a lot of these things in common between
Speaker 2: our Ace Hardware stores. Don't forget that the U Valley
Speaker 2: location has been newly remodeled, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: You want to go visit that. The one in Baycliff
Speaker 2: down south of Seabrook is a newly opened store in
Speaker 2: the Ace Hardware group here in our area. So anyway,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of good Ace Hardware stores to visit.
Speaker 2: Just go to Ace Hardware dot com and click on
Speaker 2: the store locator and you can find the ones that
Speaker 2: are closest to you. But I encourage you just trust
Speaker 2: me on this one. Go buy and check one out.
Speaker 2: Maybe this afternoon be a good time. Go buy and
Speaker 2: check one out and see the kinds of things that have.
Speaker 2: I think you'll see why I am so excited about
Speaker 2: the fact that we have those wonderful stores all over
Speaker 2: the Houston area. They carry I promise you things you
Speaker 2: didn't know they carry. All right, Well, you are listening
Speaker 2: to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our
Speaker 2: phone number is seven to one three two to one
Speaker 2: two KTRH seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 2: r Age. You give us a call if you got
Speaker 2: a question, we'll be happy to visit about that. Plants
Speaker 2: for All Seasons is a garden center in on Tomball Parkway.
Speaker 2: It's Highway two forty nine for those of you new
Speaker 2: to the area, that's Tomball Parkway. It goes from Houston
Speaker 2: out to Tomball and as you're going out that direction,
Speaker 2: you want to exit Luetta, cross over Luetta and you're
Speaker 2: at Plants for All Seasons. It's been around since nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy three when the Flowery family founded it. Flowery Family
Speaker 2: still operates, owns and operates the ACE Hardware. Ace Hardware.
Speaker 2: Here I go the Plants for All Seasons store. And
Speaker 2: when you walk into Plants for All Seasons, what you're
Speaker 2: walking into is a place where you know you're going
Speaker 2: to get plants that will be successful here, and you're
Speaker 2: going to get advice to make sure they are successful here.
Speaker 2: So listen, plants have problems. Things happen. You know, there's bugs,
Speaker 2: there's diseases, there's issues with amount of sunlight or drainage
Speaker 2: or all those kinds of things that can happen. And
Speaker 2: when you go into Plants for All Seasons, you take
Speaker 2: them a photo, you take them a sample of a
Speaker 2: plant and go, what's this bug? Or what's you know,
Speaker 2: what's wrong here? Or even a maybe an area of
Speaker 2: your yard where nothing wants to grow and you just say,
Speaker 2: what what do you think might grow there? And they
Speaker 2: can help you with that. They are true lawn and
Speaker 2: garden experts, So take advantage of that wonderful opportunity. You
Speaker 2: know that it's a full service retail garden center and
Speaker 2: whether it's education or selection or delivery, yes, they do
Speaker 2: delivery and even custom potting. I mentioned that earlier. You
Speaker 2: know the cool season container. Some of our garden centers
Speaker 2: will do custom potting for you. Well. Plants for All
Speaker 2: Seasons will do that their websites Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 2: dot Com, the phone number two eight one, three seven six,
Speaker 2: sixteen forty six. When you check out, by the way,
Speaker 2: you have to walk through the fertilizers and the soil products,
Speaker 2: because we all know brown stuff before green stuff. Don't
Speaker 2: go home with a plant without going home with compost
Speaker 2: or maltz or fertilizer or all of the above. That's
Speaker 2: just a general good shopping tip for shopping in our
Speaker 2: area for plants and things. I was, We've been having
Speaker 2: family in for the Thanksgiving holiday, and I've got my
Speaker 2: garden is outside being ignored and abandoned right now. I
Speaker 2: had some people out there who were willing to stand
Speaker 2: still long enough for me to explain oak or breeding
Speaker 2: to them. Poor things. But anyway, I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2: I think they did too. We were just talking about
Speaker 2: the different concepts and what we do. You know, with gardening,
Speaker 2: there is a lot of levels of gardening. Now, the
Speaker 2: standard garden is you hire somebody and you say I
Speaker 2: want a beautiful flowerbed, go make one out there, and
Speaker 2: they do it. That's like bottom line. The next level
Speaker 2: up is I need a flower bed created, but I
Speaker 2: would like to plant some things in it, and you
Speaker 2: go planch up and you come home you plant them
Speaker 2: in your beds. But you know, it's kind of a
Speaker 2: blend right there in that. Another level, as you go
Speaker 2: up is where you start to get into some of them.
Speaker 2: I don't have a word far, but the higher level
Speaker 2: aspects of gardening, and so that would be stuff like
Speaker 2: seed starting. See the standard level, people go to the
Speaker 2: garden center, they buy containers and good for that, or
Speaker 2: go to the garden center buy your seeds. That's good,
Speaker 2: but a lot of people it's like I'm a tomato
Speaker 2: afiicionado or I'm a pepper fish nato and I've got
Speaker 2: to have this variety. And you can buy those online,
Speaker 2: you can get the seeds in or if it's if
Speaker 2: it's fairly common, you're going to find them in garden
Speaker 2: centers as well. And then you go home and you
Speaker 2: grow your own transplant. So if you want a tomato
Speaker 2: that is so big that it already has fruit on
Speaker 2: it by the time you plant it out, when it's
Speaker 2: safe to plant it out of side, you can start
Speaker 2: it yourself. Start right after the Christmas season, right around
Speaker 2: New Year's and you get a little before New Year's
Speaker 2: and grow it and move it to a bigger pot,
Speaker 2: and then move it to eventually a gallum pot as
Speaker 2: long as you got the lighting for it and you
Speaker 2: get a big plant to grow. That's another level of gardening.
Speaker 2: Another version of that is plant propagation. Well, of course
Speaker 2: seed planting is plant propagation, but I'm talking about cuttings
Speaker 2: or divisions or things like that, grafting of plants. Those
Speaker 2: are all things that most gardeners don't do. But as
Speaker 2: you get more into gardening, you start to do those things.
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, when you learn how to propagate
Speaker 2: a cutting, the world is your oyster. I have on
Speaker 2: many occasions been. In fact, just the other day, I
Speaker 2: was driving through the countryside and there is a relative
Speaker 2: of blueberry that grows wild up north of the Houstern area,
Speaker 2: into the woods and stuff, and I was taking some cuttings,
Speaker 2: I mean, some seeds off of it on a roadside.
Speaker 2: They're just beautiful seeds. But I was looking at the
Speaker 2: plants because some of them have a beautiful fall burgundy
Speaker 2: color more so than others. You know, plants are. That's
Speaker 2: how we select plants, as we find ones that have
Speaker 2: what we want and we continue to propagate those. And
Speaker 2: so I was finding some that were a deep deep burgundy,
Speaker 2: really pretty maroon color, and on those I was just
Speaker 2: collecting seeds, and they're they're in my garage right now
Speaker 2: waiting for me a little bit here. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: ahead and plant them, get them started under lights, and
Speaker 2: put them out, and as they grow, I'll probably find
Speaker 2: the ones that are the most burgundy of those and
Speaker 2: just keep saving them. This is a little edible berry.
Speaker 2: It's not allowed to write home about the seeds hard
Speaker 2: and a lot of the inside of the berry is
Speaker 2: filled with seeds. But still it's something you can do.
Speaker 2: I think that's a cool native plant that has not
Speaker 2: been developed, and we need to we need to keep
Speaker 2: doing that. It's called a farkle berry, by the way,
Speaker 2: and then a weird name farkle berry. Farkleberry native plant. Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way too. It's growing on soils that are
Speaker 2: not very acidic, and it is graft compatible with blueberry.
Speaker 2: So thing about that you live in an area, you
Speaker 2: can't turn it into this beautiful, acid loving soil that
Speaker 2: makes blueberries and Azelia's happy. You take the soil you
Speaker 2: got and work with it. And farkleberry expands the ability
Speaker 2: or the range of that if you do the grafting
Speaker 2: on them. But again most of you are going, I
Speaker 2: ain't going to do that. Well, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: It is there's levels of gardening, there's things you get
Speaker 2: interested in. But if you learn how to at least
Speaker 2: how about this this year, learned how to propagate a
Speaker 2: plant from cuttings, and if you want the easiest plants
Speaker 2: in the world to propagate. I would say Colius is one.
Speaker 2: You walk up to Colius and you just take a
Speaker 2: cutting stick it and water stick it and soil at
Speaker 2: roots it grows. It's easy, easy, easy. Actually, rosemary is
Speaker 2: easier than most plants to propagate too, but each one
Speaker 2: has its own how you do it. But try that
Speaker 2: this year? Why not try that this year? I bet
Speaker 2: most people have at least taken a section apothos ivy
Speaker 2: growing in the house, the most common house plant on earth,
Speaker 2: and stuck it in a glass of water and just
Speaker 2: let it root and let it grow out of the water. Right.
Speaker 2: That's that One's another one that's pretty easy. All right,
Speaker 2: I think you get the idea of what we're talking
Speaker 2: about here. The folks at Nelson Plant Food have created
Speaker 2: a number of different fertilizers and I talk about them
Speaker 2: through the year. You know, we got the Turf Star line.
Speaker 2: Those are all the things we put on our turf
Speaker 2: through the year. Things that are for springing, summer fertilizing,
Speaker 2: things for the fallertilizing. There's a wide variety of options
Speaker 2: in the Turf Star line from Nelson. Now there's the
Speaker 2: nutri Star line, nutri Star is typically there are a
Speaker 2: lot of very specific kinds of fertilizers. You know, there's
Speaker 2: a nutral Star tree and shrub. It's a twenty one
Speaker 2: sixty eight. That's just an example of a nutri star.
Speaker 2: There's nutril stars for a lot of different kinds of plants.
Speaker 2: But color Star is the one that provides the boost
Speaker 2: of color that has just been so successful for people.
Speaker 2: Landscapers use it. They I actually was talking to Dean
Speaker 2: a while back and just asking about that particular product,
Speaker 2: and he was saying, oh, yeah, we ship it. I
Speaker 2: don't know how many states. He said that people out
Speaker 2: of state find it. They find it works. And I
Speaker 2: say people, I mean landscapers and I mean gardeners, and
Speaker 2: they use it. And if you want to keep your
Speaker 2: color beds going strong, you got to give them a
Speaker 2: boost through the cool season, and color Star does just that.
Speaker 2: It's good for cool seasoned gardens beds, it's good for
Speaker 2: warm season garden beds. Use it year round, about every
Speaker 2: three or four months, make another application to it. It's
Speaker 2: got five sources of nitrogen, bone meal, organic bone meal,
Speaker 2: and blood meal to feed the soil in your plants.
Speaker 2: And you can find in a lot of places in
Speaker 2: the little canisters, little jars screw top lids. And by
Speaker 2: the way, we have about a dozen places around the
Speaker 2: Greater Houston area where you can take your empty jars
Speaker 2: in and refill them. Number one, you don't put that
Speaker 2: plastic back in the environment. Number two, it's a little
Speaker 2: bit more economical to do that because you know, refilling
Speaker 2: is less expensive than buying a brand new jar, as
Speaker 2: it should be. Well, so we got a lot of
Speaker 2: different options there. But I think another mistake people make
Speaker 2: is they don't they don't fertilize their plants enough. You
Speaker 2: can overfertilize a plant, but think about the plants around
Speaker 2: your yard, or think about your yard. When was the
Speaker 2: last time you've flized this past year? How many times
Speaker 2: were those plants fertilized. It doesn't mean the more of
Speaker 2: the merrier, It just means for a lot of plants
Speaker 2: that we have. It's like I've got house plants that
Speaker 2: I just didn't get around to fertilizing this year. I
Speaker 2: know I know better, but I hate to admit that.
Speaker 2: But it's just you and me listening right now anyway,
Speaker 2: So you know, don't tell anybody, But if I want
Speaker 2: them to grow better. I should do that. I've got
Speaker 2: some beautiful orchids I've kept from past years. You know.
Speaker 2: You buy those orchids, that's the moth orchid. Uh, and
Speaker 2: it just they're sold everywhere by the bazilions. But they
Speaker 2: are the easiest orkid I think to grow. And I
Speaker 2: buy one, and then I buy another one, or someone
Speaker 2: gives me one or whatever. And I probably have probably
Speaker 2: eight of those now that are sitting around the house,
Speaker 2: and most of them need repotting and fertilizing and a
Speaker 2: boost and they'd keep blooming. And some of them bloomed
Speaker 2: despite me. But how often do you fertilize? You need
Speaker 2: to keep plants adequately fed, because if a plant is
Speaker 2: going to grow, it's going to need sunlight on the leaves,
Speaker 2: it's going to need water on the roots, and it's
Speaker 2: going to need the nutrients that they are the building
Speaker 2: blocks of growth and production on the plant. So that's it.
Speaker 2: That's not a big secret, right, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 2: It's very very simple. But sunlight to grow, water for
Speaker 2: the roots, and nutrients in the soil that it can
Speaker 2: take up to make the building blocks. All right, it
Speaker 2: is time for us to take a little break here. O. Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back, Welcome back to the Garden Line. We are
Speaker 2: glad you are listening in today. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 2: and you can give us a call. We're gonna right now.
Speaker 2: We've got a full load on the boards for this
Speaker 2: last segment, but we will be the next segment talking
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Speaker 2: a mystery coming to really really soon here. You know,
Speaker 2: if you are seeing sticking doors in your house that
Speaker 2: used to not stick, if you see cracks in the
Speaker 2: sheet rock, cracks in the brick on the outside, that
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Speaker 2: been here in Houston, his whole life. He's a fifth
Speaker 2: generation Texan and he knows our soils. So we're talking
Speaker 2: about the soils while ago, the black clay, and how
Speaker 2: they take in water and you know, they get dry,
Speaker 2: they shrink. When they get wet, they swell and that
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Speaker 2: back in a few years. All right, I'm going to
Speaker 2: head out to the phones. We're going to talk to
Speaker 2: Susan in Pattison. Hey, Susan, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 10: Hey, skip things for taking my call. I'm sorry you're
Speaker 10: having groomlins this morning, but I do like that your
Speaker 10: theme song, so it was kind of nice to get
Speaker 10: to hear it all the way through to the end.
Speaker 10: My question is the church I work for the church
Speaker 10: I worked for planet if you got talked into planning
Speaker 10: oak trees and about four foot by ten foot wide islands,
Speaker 10: and three of them have died. They've been hanging onto
Speaker 10: the brown leaves for like months now. But similarly to
Speaker 10: when you lose you know, when the citrus freezes, you
Speaker 10: know how the rootstock starts putting little branches out from
Speaker 10: right at the ground level, right, these oak trees are
Speaker 10: doing that. And and one of the guys there asked
Speaker 10: me what I thought they should do. And I'm assuming
Speaker 10: they're never going to grow into a big oak tree.
Speaker 10: But I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2: Uh were these live oaks, do you know?
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure they were. I'm pretty sure there were lipics,
Speaker 10: but I'm not positive.
Speaker 5: And I don't know what riding Yeah, so I.
Speaker 2: Don't know where the where the thumbs are the thumbs
Speaker 2: the leaves about the size of your thumb are more
Speaker 2: like the size of your hand. Now some Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: it's probably a live oak. They kind of that's the
Speaker 2: most planted. Uh. So you can cut the trunk off
Speaker 2: and you can select one shoot to become the new
Speaker 2: trunk and just work with training it. You're gonna have
Speaker 2: to cut off suckers at the bottom, cut them off
Speaker 2: right where attached. Don't leave a little stub, or you'll
Speaker 2: just get lots of bushy suckers coming out of the
Speaker 2: base of that. So you can pick one and regrow it,
Speaker 2: or you could replace it. Of course, the advantage of
Speaker 2: regrowing it is it doesn't question any money. The advantager
Speaker 2: replacing it is you got a tree faster. But if
Speaker 2: it's got a decent root system with some bigger in it,
Speaker 2: that may get back up to a good size pretty fast.
Speaker 2: So those are your options.
Speaker 10: Okay, So even though they're kind of growing out, almost
Speaker 10: laterally they will one of those will eventually if you
Speaker 10: train it, it'll it'll become a straight upright trunk.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and I would you know, I can't quite
Speaker 2: picture what you're saying. Usually those things do come they
Speaker 2: come out, but they turn straight up. But if you
Speaker 2: if you want, you can bend them up to a
Speaker 2: vertical position. You could either tie them, cut the trunk off,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple a couple of feet high, and
Speaker 2: then tie them to it, and then later cut it
Speaker 2: all off at the bay where it attached down there.
Speaker 2: Just don't leave a stub. But you want those things
Speaker 2: to get going and fast and close that over so
Speaker 2: there's not this like dead opening into the interior wood
Speaker 2: for very long. That's the trade. There's not a right
Speaker 2: or wrong, but each has its advantages, all right.
Speaker 10: Susan, Okay, all right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Hi, you bet, good luck. Thanks for the call. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that. We're going to go now to Jerry. Hey Jerry,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Hi Skip, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 11: I have some fruit trees that I planted and they
Speaker 11: survived the summer. It's fine, and some have rooted real
Speaker 11: tightly in their their planting. But I have a couple
Speaker 11: of apple trees that are just loose as can be.
Speaker 11: I wondering if I should dig the tree up, prune
Speaker 11: it back, spread the roots out, and try again. It's
Speaker 11: like the root ball might be dying back or something.
Speaker 2: Right, how long could you plan them.
Speaker 11: I planned them all about I guess about about middle
Speaker 11: of winter last year. Okay, well, you know there's not
Speaker 11: a good option.
Speaker 2: Leaving it is probably not a good thing. Digging them
Speaker 2: up if you're going to do it, now would be
Speaker 2: the time. Probably what happened is they had circling roots
Speaker 2: that just didn't go out and establish in the soil,
Speaker 2: and therefore they kind of move around a little bit.
Speaker 2: Cutting all those roots at this time. I know it's
Speaker 2: a tough time to do it, but go ahead and
Speaker 2: do it. Cut them back and put it back in
Speaker 2: the ground watered in really well. Do not put potting
Speaker 2: soil around it. Just use the soil from the site,
Speaker 2: and let's give them one more shot before we give
Speaker 2: up on them. Jerry, I'm running short on time on it,
Speaker 2: so I'm not able to elaborate further. But that's the
Speaker 2: quick answer, and that's what I would do if they
Speaker 2: were in my yard.
Speaker 11: All right, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, thank you very much. All Right, we're going
Speaker 2: to go to a break and I'll be right back
Speaker 2: with a special guest. Welcome back to Guardenline, folks. Glad
Speaker 2: to have you with us. Looking forward to that. By
Speaker 2: the way Tim called earlier. Tim, I took a look
Speaker 2: at the photos that you sent me, and my assessment
Speaker 2: of the lawn is it's probably take all root rot,
Speaker 2: take all patch, or take all root rot. It's a
Speaker 2: fungal disease. It kills roots, kills runners, kills grass. It's
Speaker 2: not like brown patch in the winner that makes big
Speaker 2: brown circles and then it regrains. Take all kills whenever
Speaker 2: a plant is stressed, whenever your turf is stressed, take
Speaker 2: all has the advantage to move in and cause a
Speaker 2: lot of more problems. It adds insult to injury. It's
Speaker 2: what we call an opportunist disease. So the bottom line
Speaker 2: on it is go online to gardening with skip dot com,
Speaker 2: find Plant my Lawn, pest disease and weed schedule. There
Speaker 2: are three times to treat for take all. There is
Speaker 2: October and November. I know it's past November, go ahead
Speaker 2: and do the November, and then there's one in spring,
Speaker 2: and it lists the products that you want to use
Speaker 2: to do that. And so that would be my suggestion.
Speaker 2: If you can keep some water on those areas. I
Speaker 2: think they got a little droughty this summer based on
Speaker 2: some overall look of it, and when it gets drought,
Speaker 2: that is a stress and that is one of the
Speaker 2: ways that take all enters a weekend plan. I hope
Speaker 2: that is helpful. All right, Well, I've got a special
Speaker 2: guest right now, a friend of mine, actually a good
Speaker 2: friend of mine from Texas Gardener magazine. Jay White is
Speaker 2: the publisher of Texas Gardener. Jay and his wife are
Speaker 2: the publishers of the Texas Gardener magazine. Texas Gardner's been
Speaker 2: around a long long time, and I tell you it
Speaker 2: is a gardening magazine if you've never seen it. It
Speaker 2: is written by Texas gardeners for Texas gardeners. And I'm
Speaker 2: telling you they have a lot of author I've written
Speaker 2: for a long time myself in there, but they have
Speaker 2: a lot of excellent, excellent authors with really good advice,
Speaker 2: a lot of people that save all their old Texas
Speaker 2: Gardeners because they go back and they refer to the
Speaker 2: articles that they've read in the past in there. So
Speaker 2: what I want to do is go over here and
Speaker 2: see if I can get Jay live on the air. Jay,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey, Skip, thanks for having us this morning.
Speaker 2: All right, good, you're a little scratchy on the sound,
Speaker 2: so just letting you know it is so good. I've
Speaker 2: been looking forward to talking to you, and I asked
Speaker 2: Jay to come on and I wanted to talk. We
Speaker 2: have a very brief time here, but I would like
Speaker 2: to talk about some gift ideas that for Texas Gardener,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure the magazine itself will be the main one,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna turn it over to you Jay and
Speaker 2: let us let you give us some ideas for people
Speaker 2: that are looking for the Gardener or the want to
Speaker 2: be Gardener on their list.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you, Skip. I mean I agree with you.
Speaker 5: If you're a gardener, I think you're.
Speaker 12: Going to find something that you will like, especially if
Speaker 12: you're into education. I mean, like you say, the magazine
Speaker 12: a great, great gift. We're starting our forty fourth year.
Speaker 12: We have been around a long time, and so like
Speaker 12: I say, like you said, I think people keep mind
Speaker 12: us because the people are right for us. We really
Speaker 12: have great work horticulturalists that writer articles, so the subscription
Speaker 12: is always a great gift.
Speaker 7: The other thing that we have that's really done well
Speaker 7: is what we call.
Speaker 12: Our Planning Guide, and the Planning Guy is a large calendar,
Speaker 12: but that Calendars has one hundred and eighty tips that
Speaker 12: tell you what you need to do in your.
Speaker 7: Garden right now.
Speaker 12: And in addition to those tips, it gives you a
Speaker 12: place to record what you did weather events, pest events,
Speaker 12: make the do list. It also has you know, our
Speaker 12: recommended plant varieties for your yard and your garden, and
Speaker 12: in case you're worried about this, it even has a
Speaker 12: poison ivy identification chart on the back cover.
Speaker 7: So that's a possibler gift. And when people combine.
Speaker 12: Those, you know, we've got extra savings for them this holiday,
Speaker 12: So uh a subscription and a Planet.
Speaker 7: Guide kind of our our top gift.
Speaker 12: Another thing that we're doing this year is that if
Speaker 12: you buy any book off of our website, we're going
Speaker 12: to include a package of tomato seeds from Davids Garden
Speaker 12: Steeds in tote Texas. You're going to get the option
Speaker 12: on it either You're you're going to get a choice.
Speaker 5: Of Celebrity or Sun Gold, which as.
Speaker 12: You know, are two really really great varieties for Texas.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 7: Absolutely they are very good.
Speaker 12: And in fact, Bill Adams, you know, Texas Tomatic being
Speaker 12: everybody loves you know, he says he believes the sun Gold.
Speaker 7: Is the best tasting tomato you can grow, which.
Speaker 12: Kind of cracks me out because it's so easy and
Speaker 12: so prolific. But but and then finally, Skiff, we finally
Speaker 12: got some merchandise. And so if you like our plant
Speaker 12: Happiness y'all tagline, well you can now probably wear that tagline.
Speaker 7: On your body. We've got some.
Speaker 2: There you go, there we go.
Speaker 12: They kind of kind of a maroonish color.
Speaker 13: I would call it a pinkish color and a kind
Speaker 13: of greenish color. So you want to head out check
Speaker 13: out our new merchandise as well. And so, like I say,
Speaker 13: if you are a gardener looking for stocking stuffers for
Speaker 13: your gardening friends, I think you're going to find something
Speaker 13: you like on the website.
Speaker 2: All right, Jay, well you you are cutting a little
Speaker 2: bit in and out. That last thing you said, it
Speaker 2: came in back real clear again, So I uh, maybe
Speaker 2: you need to move or something a little bit to
Speaker 2: get a good connection. You know. One thing you didn't
Speaker 2: mention is you can get the magazine as a magazine.
Speaker 2: People like the whole paper in their hands and read.
Speaker 2: Plus it's easy to reference like that. Or you can
Speaker 2: do an online subscription or both right, I mean that's right.
Speaker 7: Get our digital subscription. What everybody likes about.
Speaker 12: That everything a magazine has. But it also comes with
Speaker 12: a ten year archive. So if you really want to
Speaker 12: learn about tomatoes, you can get a digital subscription, go
Speaker 12: back ten years and read everything of people like you
Speaker 12: and Patty Leander have written about them.
Speaker 2: Well, that's I like the digital I mean it's real
Speaker 2: easy to do. But I still like that magazine in
Speaker 2: my hands, so I do that as well. Plus, if
Speaker 2: you when you're done with the magazine, if you want,
Speaker 2: you can take the pages apart and use it as
Speaker 2: maultz over the weeds in your garden, and that just contributes.
Speaker 2: But if it's an article I wrote, I always warned
Speaker 2: people if I wrote the article, it's probably got too
Speaker 2: much nitrogen in it, if you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and you might burn your plants. But that would be
Speaker 2: the only caveat that I would have, you know what, Jay,
Speaker 2: I looked back recently, and I think it was ninety
Speaker 2: eight or ninety nine, over twenty or twenty five or
Speaker 2: more years ago that I wrote the first article for
Speaker 2: Texas Gardner. So I have loved that magazine for a
Speaker 2: long time. And as I know a lot of other
Speaker 2: people have.
Speaker 7: Well thank yeah.
Speaker 12: I'm like I say, the magazine just wouldn't be what
Speaker 12: it is without you. I tell people, if they don't
Speaker 12: get enough on you on garden Line, be sure to
Speaker 12: subscribe and they can have you in their homes every day.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you don't need to threaten my listeners
Speaker 2: like that. Thank you very much. Well, it's a great deal.
Speaker 2: And I know in the magazine you guys have some
Speaker 2: merch and stuff like you said, and they just need
Speaker 2: to check that out. And uh, Texas Gardener dot.
Speaker 12: Com, Texas Gardener dot com and follow us on social
Speaker 12: media Texas Gardner Magazine, okay on both Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 2: Well that is good. We're going to keep talking until
Speaker 2: music fills my ears telling me I have to shut up.
Speaker 2: But it's coming pretty close here. But I I think
Speaker 2: that it's almost a you can't go wrong gift to
Speaker 2: give somebody Texas Gardener Magazine because there's a lot of
Speaker 2: gardening magazines that are out there that are no longer
Speaker 2: in print. Over the years, one by one they've dropped,
Speaker 2: and so finding a good gardening magazine other than just
Speaker 2: some foo food thing to put on the coffee table
Speaker 2: from the northeast or wherever Texas gardener is down in
Speaker 2: the dirt here, how to do it? Get your hands dirty,
Speaker 2: practical advice.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I think we're the only state that's still that
Speaker 2: now still has a private gardening magazine for that state,
Speaker 2: and that is a rare.
Speaker 12: Thing, that is so, and you are correct, we are
Speaker 12: the last one.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, support support your local gardener. And by
Speaker 2: and Jay, thanks so much for being on the air
Speaker 2: with me today. I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 5: Thank ye.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of things we want to accomplish
Speaker 2: this hour. Uh. First of all, I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: I'm going to head out now. I have another special guests.
Speaker 2: In fact, I have a bunch of them that I'm
Speaker 2: telling you about that we've been wanting to talk to
Speaker 2: about all kinds of things. And right now I'm going
Speaker 2: to head out to the phones to Cyprus and talk
Speaker 2: to Bill Murph. Bill is with the Ace Hardware store
Speaker 2: there in the Cypress area. It's on Jones Road. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this. When I lived just Arthur Jersey Village,
Speaker 2: the Jon Jroit Ace Hardware Store was where we went.
Speaker 2: That's where we did our shopping and things. That was
Speaker 2: our local closest Ace hardware store that we had. And
Speaker 2: I've been in there and I'm telling you that you
Speaker 2: got to check it out. It is quite a place. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 5: Good morning shift. Thanks you for having me on this morning.
Speaker 2: You bet you bet well. I'd like you to tell us,
Speaker 2: you know, Ace Hardersts in generals, we got a bunch
Speaker 2: of them here in the Houston area. What would be
Speaker 2: some the kinds of gifts maybe people haven't thought of
Speaker 2: that they would find that you would say, hey, Ace,
Speaker 2: Haarder be a great place for something really cool. And
Speaker 2: here's an example.
Speaker 5: Oh, there's a ton of them. I'm not sure we
Speaker 5: have time to go through all of them, but.
Speaker 2: There's maybe a handful a.
Speaker 5: Handful of theah. I mean, if you're hunting for something
Speaker 5: grilling this season and you want to give somebody a
Speaker 5: gift for a grill, I mean, we've got the Weber,
Speaker 5: Big Green Egg, Grectex, Trager Blackstone. Our store has a
Speaker 5: super killer deal on some local grittles that we've got
Speaker 5: in and they're at a few other air stores as well.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've got a full line of yetty products Milwaukee,
Speaker 5: just to name a few. I mean, we've got holiday
Speaker 5: lights by the foot. We saw a lot of Christmas lights.
Speaker 5: It's not too late to get your Christmas lights up
Speaker 5: and decorated for the holiday.
Speaker 2: Season as well. Well, and you've got more than just
Speaker 2: Christmas light decorations. I know, I've gotten some strings of
Speaker 2: lights to go out on the patio. You know, I
Speaker 2: call them beer garden lights, but you know the little
Speaker 2: strings of lights like that that are really cool. And
Speaker 2: you've got everything, certainly in terms of decorations for the
Speaker 2: holidays too.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I mean we've got a full line of it. Uh.
Speaker 5: We've got the Christmas lights, We've got the trees, we've
Speaker 5: got really anything to do with the holiday seasons. We've
Speaker 5: got we've got a we've got a full gift apartment
Speaker 5: on our shore. We just finished a remodel. Uh, we've
Speaker 5: been going through the remodel for about three months now. Uh,
Speaker 5: just in time for our Ladies' Night coming up on
Speaker 5: Monday night. We just finished our our new far we
Speaker 5: just added truffle. So Monday night from six to nine
Speaker 5: we have we have Ladies Night. We're gonna be giving
Speaker 5: away beer wine, Margarita's, uh most items in the store.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of an unheard of discount for us.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 5: We've we're gonna have uh well, we'll probably have between
Speaker 5: five to seven hundred women uh and men men are
Speaker 5: welcome as well. Show up at the store from six
Speaker 5: to nine on Monday night. We're gonna be We've got
Speaker 5: uh uh Consoila, We've got Beara Bradley, We've got Kendri Scott,
Speaker 5: another dose fifty Judy Blue Jean's all going to be
Speaker 5: twenty percent off. So it's an unheard of discount just
Speaker 5: in time for the Christmas season. If you haven't bought
Speaker 5: that last minute gift, we got it.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 2: I tell people all the time that it's a hardware store,
Speaker 2: of course, but it's things you can't even imagine. You
Speaker 2: wouldn't and you just talked about you know, I know,
Speaker 2: to get back to the garden section, I got to
Speaker 2: walk past your fudge bar, which now you're making it
Speaker 2: unfair by adding truffles to it. But you said the
Speaker 2: word kender Scott. Who would have thought you go to
Speaker 2: a hardware store to get Kinderstott jewelry. But that's Ace,
Speaker 2: isn't it. I mean, with each Ace hardware being independently owned,
Speaker 2: you just you just don't know what all kinds of
Speaker 2: cool things are going to be in there.
Speaker 5: You know, we just passed our one hundred year anniversary
Speaker 5: and that's unheard of in today's time and businesses that
Speaker 5: a store turns one hundred years old. And ACE has
Speaker 5: turned one hundred years old in twenty twenty four. And
Speaker 5: there's sober forty local owned A stores in the Houston market.
Speaker 5: So you're not far from one any direction you go.
Speaker 5: And we're all unique, we're all different, but we all
Speaker 5: have a core uh commonality, and that's where key and
Speaker 5: hardware first and foremost we're hardware store, and then we
Speaker 5: add everything else to the to the mix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a good way to put it.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's one of the things I like about ACE. You know,
Speaker 2: I do stop in at aces all over the place
Speaker 2: just from time to time to see what's new, what's
Speaker 2: going on, uh, And there's always there's always some other
Speaker 2: kind of cool and creative thing in addition to all
Speaker 2: the stuff you already carry. As mentioned earlier, though, I
Speaker 2: think some of the power tools that you carry are
Speaker 2: great gifts. You know, there's there's a lot of lines
Speaker 2: that you might not know are available right there in
Speaker 2: your ACE store and top quality stuff.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we've got the full line of craftsmen, We've
Speaker 5: got Milwaukee the wall, uh, doub ball. You know, it's
Speaker 5: if you're going to fix it, we probably have the
Speaker 5: tools that you're going to need to take care of.
Speaker 2: The job with it. That's good, That is good. I
Speaker 2: know a lot of stores you know, okry the Ego
Speaker 2: power electric power equipment things. I've seen a number of
Speaker 2: different brands and that you know, I have a lot
Speaker 2: of de Wault kind of stuff and I've seen those
Speaker 2: in some ACE hardware stores and uh so it would
Speaker 2: be a good place to make someone on your left happy,
Speaker 2: including you know, as we look into the kitchen and
Speaker 2: kitchen gadgets and some of the decorations and stuff for that,
Speaker 2: there's some really cool stuff there too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, with with Ego, you know the battery power tools
Speaker 5: also weaves carried. Most of our stores carry steel as well.
Speaker 5: So if you're ready to gear up for the spring
Speaker 5: season and you want to give give your special someone
Speaker 5: a gift of power tools so they can work in
Speaker 5: the yard in the spring, we're definitely that destination. We
Speaker 5: also have a ton of bird seed and uh some
Speaker 5: bird feeders definitely for the fall season. You know, the
Speaker 5: birds are our key and they.
Speaker 2: Help with the Sorry, go ahead, it sounds like you
Speaker 2: have everything. So just get buy an ACE. That's that
Speaker 2: people need to do. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to run the I'm about they're about to cut me
Speaker 2: here for a break.
Speaker 5: But one last word, one last word, if we do
Speaker 5: give back a lot back to our community. Over the
Speaker 5: last year, we've given over a half a million dollars
Speaker 5: to Texas Children's Hospital, and since nineteen ninety one, ACE
Speaker 5: as a whole has given over two hundred million back
Speaker 5: to children's hospitals across the US, with a lot of
Speaker 5: our money going right back to Texas Children. So everybody's
Speaker 5: been affected by Texas Children's I can promise you that.
Speaker 5: If you don't, if you haven't been there, thank god,
Speaker 5: but you probably know someone that has. So stop into
Speaker 5: an ACE and help help Texas children.
Speaker 2: Well, Bill, thanks for being on. I appreciate that very much. Good.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry our time is so short, but it's good
Speaker 2: to have you.
Speaker 10: Were rich girl, and you're gone too far cause you
Speaker 10: know it.
Speaker 14: Don't about it anyway.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, welcome back. Good to have you with
Speaker 2: us today. You'd like to give us a call. We
Speaker 2: got a little bit of time here during this segment
Speaker 2: where we can take a call or two just doll
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two k t R eight
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two k t R H
Speaker 2: look forward to helping you with whatever kinds of gardening
Speaker 2: questions that you might have. We got a bunch of
Speaker 2: different guests. We're gonna talk to you today about different things.
Speaker 2: I know we're approaching the holiday season and people are
Speaker 2: interested in purchasing gifts for those on their list something different.
Speaker 2: You know how many times have you gone, Okay, what
Speaker 2: do you get the person who has everything? I would
Speaker 2: like to get them something nice, but I don't know
Speaker 2: what would be a good idea. I don't want to
Speaker 2: do the same old kinds of things, you know, package
Speaker 2: of pajamas. I mean, come on, let's do something with
Speaker 2: a plant that would be cool. Well, you know, Buchanans
Speaker 2: Native Plants is a great place to visit. They have
Speaker 2: a wide selection of all kinds of different products and
Speaker 2: gifts and things like that. They're on Eleventh Street in
Speaker 2: the Heights. Their gift shops right now are stunning. They
Speaker 2: are holiday decorated out. I mean they are gorgeous, and
Speaker 2: whether it's something for your own home or something you're
Speaker 2: purchasing someone else, you really should stop by there. Buchanan's
Speaker 2: is a place where you're going to find things that
Speaker 2: are not just the plain old, same old that you
Speaker 2: find in many other locations. When you go into Buchanans,
Speaker 2: first of all, native plants or their thing. That's what
Speaker 2: they do, that's what they specialize in. And we are
Speaker 2: in the big important season to get native plants planted
Speaker 2: that there's no other way to say it. It's very
Speaker 2: important to get all woody ornamental shrubs and trees done. Now,
Speaker 2: Now when you go in there, do you need a
Speaker 2: Christmas tree? Do you need some cyclomen for gorgeous pink, white,
Speaker 2: and red color in your landscape? Or on a table
Speaker 2: adorning a table? Do you need points at us? They've
Speaker 2: got all of that there. Don't forget that their holiday
Speaker 2: centerpiece workshop is coming up December twenty second. I know
Speaker 2: that's a long time away, but I think this is
Speaker 2: going to fill up. It is from noon to one pm,
Speaker 2: and this it's an eighty five dollars ticketed event. But
Speaker 2: here is why you will build. You will learn how
Speaker 2: to do decorations for holidays. The principles a lot of
Speaker 2: the basics incorporating greenery and natural elements and floral styles
Speaker 2: and techniques for creating centerpieces. And at the end of
Speaker 2: the workshop you go home with your own hand crafted piece,
Speaker 2: ready to brighten your home during a cool Chiley holiday season.
Speaker 2: Coming up. Buchan's Native Plants at on eleven Street in
Speaker 2: the Heights. If I were you, I would just go
Speaker 2: to their website because that is a very cool spot
Speaker 2: where you find a lot of good information, including events
Speaker 2: like I just mentioned if Buchanansplants dot com Bukenansplants dot com.
Speaker 2: To some point is that you know Southwest Fertilizer, Gosh,
Speaker 2: it's just a Houston institution. It's one of those places
Speaker 2: that has survived that tests the time, and it's just
Speaker 2: you can depend on it. You know. People know when
Speaker 2: you go into Southwest Fertilizer, if there's a fertilizer you're
Speaker 2: looking for, Bob's got it. He does if something comes
Speaker 2: out of my mouth on garden line regarding this fertilizer
Speaker 2: or that fungicide or this insecticide or that organic product.
Speaker 2: He has the biggest selection of organic products in town
Speaker 2: at Southwest Fertilizer. You can go there and it's going
Speaker 2: to be there, and some cool gifts are there as well.
Speaker 2: Anybody that's looking for a quality guarding tool, you're going
Speaker 2: to find it at Southwest Fertilizer. A lot of things.
Speaker 2: You know, I keep telling you about my weed wiper tool.
Speaker 2: Well I don't know that that's a gift item, but
Speaker 2: if you want to build one, he's got the thing
Speaker 2: you start with. It's very inexpensive and you can build
Speaker 2: your own weed wiper out of it. The kneeling bench
Speaker 2: that I like a lot, he's got him there and
Speaker 2: they work super super well. If you need to go
Speaker 2: to your knees and get back up again out working
Speaker 2: in the garden, or you need a place to set
Speaker 2: this bench does them both. It falls up its stores away.
Speaker 2: It's really really easy to do. Southwest Fertilizers on the
Speaker 2: corner Abyssinet and Renwick in Southwest Houston, so makes it
Speaker 2: really easy to get to. And I don't care where
Speaker 2: you are, it's worth the drive to get there. Southwest
Speaker 2: Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. You are listening
Speaker 2: to garden Line and my goal here is to help
Speaker 2: you have a more bountiful garden, to help you have
Speaker 2: a more beautiful landscape. And to help you have more
Speaker 2: fun in the process. You know, it's not just about information.
Speaker 2: It's about having some fun as we go along here,
Speaker 2: and we try to do some of that here on
Speaker 2: garden Line. I enjoy getting to visit with gardeners. I
Speaker 2: always look forward to talking to you when you call,
Speaker 2: because every call is different. You never know what's going
Speaker 2: to happen. Someone asked me one time, he goes, how
Speaker 2: do you sit there not knowing what that call is
Speaker 2: going to be about, or what that person's going to say,
Speaker 2: or do? I say, Well, you just do. It's fun.
Speaker 2: It's part of the excitement of it all. And sometimes
Speaker 2: train wrecks make for good radio too, so I am
Speaker 2: not worried about about that either. I enjoy that. I
Speaker 2: was visiting with some folks the other day about gardening tools,
Speaker 2: and you know, what are your favorite gardening tools and
Speaker 2: what do you like? And there are a lot of
Speaker 2: really cool tools around town that I think are must have,
Speaker 2: you know, when it comes to gardening. It just they
Speaker 2: provide that extra let's say benefit. For example, you get
Speaker 2: a quality tool like quality printers or something, and they
Speaker 2: fit in your hand and they work well. There's even
Speaker 2: versions of printers that have handles that roll a little bit,
Speaker 2: so as you're squeezing down to cut a branch, it's
Speaker 2: ergonomically easier in your hand. You know, some people deal
Speaker 2: with issues from arthritis to similar types of things, or
Speaker 2: if you're printing a lot, your hand just gets tired
Speaker 2: of doing it, and a quality printing tool that's kept
Speaker 2: sharp really works well for that. One of my favorite
Speaker 2: tools in gardening is the soil knife. A soil knife
Speaker 2: is just you know, picture of booie knife, but thicker
Speaker 2: and made for dirt. They have little marks on them
Speaker 2: so you can see one inch two inch three inch
Speaker 2: when you're planning things deep. One side has kind of
Speaker 2: scalloped the it's like the whole blade is curved a
Speaker 2: little bit, and so it's easy for digging out soil.
Speaker 2: I use it for digging holes. I use it for
Speaker 2: removing plants. You know. I do a lot of no
Speaker 2: tail gardening in my vegetables, and so at the end
Speaker 2: of the season, I can pull the plan out and
Speaker 2: rip a lot of roots out of the ground. Or
Speaker 2: I can just take my soil knife and just make
Speaker 2: some cuts around it and pull the top out and
Speaker 2: leave those roots in the ground to decompose. That's how
Speaker 2: nature does it. By the way, do you know that
Speaker 2: nature doesn't own rot hotellers? But the soul knifes are
Speaker 2: really cool too. You can get them in a nice
Speaker 2: sheet and it works really well. Lopper prunters, now, we
Speaker 2: have these things that are battery operated power prunters and
Speaker 2: it's just like you hold in your hand like you
Speaker 2: would a drill or some other tool, and it's got
Speaker 2: regular printing blades out front like a regular punter would,
Speaker 2: but you go up to squeeze the trigger and a
Speaker 2: very well designed system allows it to cut through a
Speaker 2: large and very hard branch really easily. It's amazing what
Speaker 2: those things will do. Keep your fingers away from them.
Speaker 2: But as somebody who's going to do a lot of
Speaker 2: printing and just can't do that physical squeezing and stuff,
Speaker 2: those power prunters are really a cool tool also for that.
Speaker 2: Gardeners are always looking for information and events. Are some
Speaker 2: great guard events information. There's some great gardening books on
Speaker 2: the market that do very very well for you, and
Speaker 2: if you want to give those a try, you will
Speaker 2: find that they work super well. Also, I would recommend
Speaker 2: I actually have a book I don't never talk about
Speaker 2: our online a lot. But it's month by month gardening
Speaker 2: in Texas. It's about cool springs press and there is
Speaker 2: a Texas gardener. Is a Texas gardner. Doctor Bill Welsh
Speaker 2: wrote it. Now excuse me, doctor Doug Welsh. Dougwell, we
Speaker 2: had two Welshes in the wart department. Doug Welsh wrote
Speaker 2: that one, and it is a similar month by month
Speaker 2: through the garden that's designed for Texas. That's very important
Speaker 2: to do that. There are a lot of the other
Speaker 2: really good books that are helpful resources if you're an
Speaker 2: organic gardener. There's books if you are someone who's into
Speaker 2: a particular type of plants, like you want to do perennials.
Speaker 2: Doctor Bill Welch wrote Perennial Garden Color many years ago,
Speaker 2: and that is just a Texas You got to have
Speaker 2: that on your shelf if you're going to have beautiful
Speaker 2: perennials throughout your gardens out the year. Here in our landscape,
Speaker 2: from bulbs to Salvius to you name it. He's got
Speaker 2: a lot of great ideas in there and it works
Speaker 2: very very well. Let's see here we are, oh a
Speaker 2: Wabird's unlimited. That's another good idea. You know, wabirds has
Speaker 2: some beautiful feeders, it's got beautiful bird houses of all types,
Speaker 2: and other merchandise that anyone interested in birds would like.
Speaker 2: So maybe you've got someone on your list that's not
Speaker 2: a big time gardener, but I bet they would like
Speaker 2: to at least bring some birds up to the patio
Speaker 2: where they can watch them and enjoy them, or get
Speaker 2: out in the morning with a cup of coffee and
Speaker 2: listen to their songs. It's one of my favorite times
Speaker 2: a day and one of my favorite things to do
Speaker 2: is to enjoy the music of the birds first thing
Speaker 2: in the boy they wake up. I am not a
Speaker 2: morning person. Birds are mourning people. I know. I said,
Speaker 2: I'm not a morning person, and here I am on
Speaker 2: garden line just generally in my natural habitat. You know,
Speaker 2: more and more I'm becoming a morning person. But I
Speaker 2: just have not been a wake up and start singing
Speaker 2: kind of person. But your birds here are and they
Speaker 2: have some wonderful books also at Warbirds Unlimited. That makes
Speaker 2: a really nice nice gift as well. Remember that it
Speaker 2: is time to get your winter super Blend Winter super
Speaker 2: Blend from Wabirds Unlimited. And you know with their bird seeds.
Speaker 2: Many of the types, there is a no mess version,
Speaker 2: which means that if it has sunflower seeds and it
Speaker 2: doesn't have the hulls, they're already hulled sunflower seeds. So
Speaker 2: when you put a pound of that into the bird feeder,
Speaker 2: there is a pound that goes into the bird's stomach,
Speaker 2: not on the ground. They it's not the red bebes.
Speaker 2: They kick out because they don't want to eat, but
Speaker 2: it's the kind of things that they are very, very
Speaker 2: interested in. Well, we're getting close here to a break.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna stop talking right here and we
Speaker 2: will be right back. Welcome back to Guardline, folks. Good
Speaker 2: to have you with us. Got another special guess that
Speaker 2: I would like to bring on to visit with you,
Speaker 2: and that is Richard from Walbird's Unlimited rich Eddie, Eat Eddie,
Speaker 2: thank you for being on garden Line.
Speaker 7: It's Edie.
Speaker 2: I know that I'm sorry. Anyway, we are so glad
Speaker 2: to have you. I appreciate you coming on because I
Speaker 2: wanted you from a store owner standpoint. You you run
Speaker 2: the Wildbirds store over west side of Houston. You know
Speaker 2: there's six warbird wild good night. I can't even talk
Speaker 2: to day six Wildbirds stores here in the Greater Houston area, right,
Speaker 2: you're over on the Moorial Drive.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I've got one, Okay, all right, good, Well, if
Speaker 15: people want to know more about those, I'm going to
Speaker 15: say this before I forget, but they go to w
Speaker 15: b U dot com forward slash Houston and find your
Speaker 15: Wallbird store nearby.
Speaker 2: Why don't you tell us about out from a storm
Speaker 2: understandpoint what you think would be some really cool items
Speaker 2: that someone might be interested in gifting as Christmas gifts
Speaker 2: for friends on their gifts.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 16: So we we always say, you know, we're a great
Speaker 16: destination for people on your lists that are nature lovers,
Speaker 16: so not even just bird feeders, but also you know,
Speaker 16: people who just like to.
Speaker 7: Enjoy nature, work in their yard work, in their gardens.
Speaker 16: So we have we have lots of different gift ideas.
Speaker 16: I think you know some of the most popular things
Speaker 16: this time of year we have. We we offer seed
Speaker 16: cylinders all year long, but during the holiday season we
Speaker 16: have some special seed characters. We have buttons of snowman
Speaker 16: impressed in the peguin. These are these are tightly packed
Speaker 16: seed cylinders that are shaped in the in the uh
Speaker 16: in a fun shape like snowman in a penguin, and
Speaker 16: those go on a cylinder feeder, and those those make
Speaker 16: great gifts instead of just giving you.
Speaker 7: Know, a back of seed.
Speaker 16: You know, you've got a character that looks like the holidays,
Speaker 16: so it's great. Yeah, you can never go ahead.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was just saying, those tightly packed seeds they
Speaker 2: last a while because birds have to kind of work
Speaker 2: at it to get those out of there, which makes
Speaker 2: them wholes still, so you can watch them longer.
Speaker 7: That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And yeah, you don't
Speaker 7: have to go out and fill the feeder every day.
Speaker 16: So seed cylinders are great, and the characters are a
Speaker 16: really fun Christmas gift for sure. You can never go
Speaker 16: wrong with our squirrel proofeeders, our eliminator, and our fundamentals.
Speaker 16: I think that's you know, those are always a go
Speaker 16: to for the holiday season because people do some people
Speaker 16: do not like to.
Speaker 7: Feed the squirrels.
Speaker 16: So if you've got a somebody on your list who
Speaker 16: is constantly fighting the squirrels, you can never go wrong
Speaker 16: with the squirrel proofeeder as well.
Speaker 7: And then also that's true.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I've got the squirrel eliminator, and
Speaker 2: it's my favor that I have. It is amazing. I
Speaker 2: video to scroll the other day, coming down and trying
Speaker 2: to figure it out and they just give up. They
Speaker 2: can't do it.
Speaker 16: Yeah, they're very They're very effective, for sure. So and
Speaker 16: then and then the also the other thing that is
Speaker 16: is not only timely, but makes a really good gift
Speaker 16: as well. Or nesting boxes. So if you really start
Speaker 16: thinking about it. We're entering into the month of December
Speaker 16: and people don't think about nesting, but bluebirds will begin
Speaker 16: looking for nest boxes in January. So getting someone who's
Speaker 16: trying to attract bluebirds to their yard giving them a
Speaker 16: really nice bluebird nest box makes a great gift. And
Speaker 16: then also purple Martins, they'll return in February, So if
Speaker 16: somebody's wanting to put a Purple Martin system in their yard,
Speaker 16: and now's the time to be thinking about looking at
Speaker 16: installing a Purple Martin system right after the holiday sometime
Speaker 16: and be ready for them to return in February.
Speaker 2: And you guys have really cool feeders too. From the
Speaker 2: plastics that look like white gords, you know, the big
Speaker 2: they're designed in a special way that really makes it
Speaker 2: easier and more attractive for the birds. But then you've
Speaker 2: got those houses that telescope or that come down off
Speaker 2: the pole where you can get in, move things around
Speaker 2: and do a good job of cleaning them out very easily.
Speaker 7: That's exactly right.
Speaker 16: So yeah, everything from simple gorge systems to you know,
Speaker 16: some very very nice houses that you can raise and
Speaker 16: lower with a wench or a rope, lots of different
Speaker 16: styles to hit different price points. So yeah, So, like
Speaker 16: I say, Martin systems.
Speaker 7: Make a great gift this time of year as well.
Speaker 2: So and then Purple Martins keep down bugs. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm having a talk over your problem. Purple
Speaker 2: Martins have keep down some of the insect issues that
Speaker 2: we deal with too.
Speaker 7: That's correct.
Speaker 16: They eat exclusively from the sky and they drink from
Speaker 16: the sky, so you know, they they definitely will keep
Speaker 16: the flying insects and check if you've got a good
Speaker 16: strong colony of Martins for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, now you just you just didn't drigue meat. What
Speaker 2: do you mean drink from the sky? They literally drink rain.
Speaker 16: No, they they they have to have a water source nearby,
Speaker 16: you know, roughly, you know, not right, you like retention
Speaker 16: ponds and things like that. Yeah, they swooped down and
Speaker 16: they never land the drink. They get right down to
Speaker 16: the surface of the water, scoop water, and take back
Speaker 16: off again.
Speaker 2: So yep, that's cool.
Speaker 7: It's very cool.
Speaker 16: You can actually see and I see folks who have
Speaker 16: purple Martin houses in their backyard who happen to have
Speaker 16: a pool. You'll see the Martins actually swoop down and
Speaker 16: drink out of their swimming pool. So it can be
Speaker 16: it could be pretty entertaining for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is very very cool. Well, anything else that
Speaker 2: might be an item for gifting that people might be
Speaker 2: interested in.
Speaker 16: Well, if you've got somebody on your list that you
Speaker 16: know shops at a wild Bird store, giving them the
Speaker 16: gift of a daily Savings Club membership. Folks may or
Speaker 16: may not be familiar with our loyalty program, but it
Speaker 16: is a certain amount of money every year and you
Speaker 16: get fifteen percent off of your bird food every day,
Speaker 16: and for every two hundred you spend in the store,
Speaker 16: you get a ten dollars bird buck, which is basically
Speaker 16: a ten dollars discount once you earn that. So somebody
Speaker 16: constantly is you know, uses wild Birds unlimited and they're
Speaker 16: on your list. Giving them the gift of a daily
Speaker 16: membership Daily Savings club membership is also a really great
Speaker 16: way to help them feed the birds because they can
Speaker 16: save money and earn discounts all year long, so that
Speaker 16: works really well.
Speaker 7: And then never and never forget.
Speaker 16: Also, we will ship pretty much everywhere, so if somebody
Speaker 16: wants to come in shop around and they need to
Speaker 16: ship it pretty much anywhere in the lower forty eight,
Speaker 16: we can take care of that as well. You can
Speaker 16: shop online at our at our e commerce store and
Speaker 16: order it and have it shipped directly to your to
Speaker 16: your gift recipient, or you can come in and we
Speaker 16: can arrange to have it shipped for you as well.
Speaker 7: So we try to make it just as easy as possible.
Speaker 2: Now, when you say the e commerce store, you're talking
Speaker 2: about overall Wild Bird store, are you talking about like
Speaker 2: each store has its own connection.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, each store has its own e commerce store.
Speaker 16: So when people shop with us online, it comes directly
Speaker 16: to our stores. We pick, pack and ship good right
Speaker 16: from our store. That's exactly right. So if they go
Speaker 16: to they go to WBU dot com slash Houston, pick
Speaker 16: the store that's nearest them. Go to their website. Then
Speaker 16: there is a shop now button that you can click
Speaker 16: on and that'll take you to the e commerce store
Speaker 16: you're actually buying from the backstore directly.
Speaker 2: Yep, very good. And I'm just we're I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: just a second longer than our break here. But the
Speaker 2: also books. I know, the creator of all birds has
Speaker 2: written a really good bird book. And there's a there's
Speaker 2: you guys carry that would be a really nice gift too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 16: So The Joy of Bird Feeding is a book that
Speaker 16: was written by Jim Carpenter, the founder and CEO of
Speaker 16: Wildbirds Unlimited. It's a great birding guide for somebody who
Speaker 16: wants to learn how to start feeding the birds, but
Speaker 16: it also has a great guide in there to help
Speaker 16: you identify birds across the across the country, so it's
Speaker 16: not just it's not just tied to one particular region
Speaker 16: of the country. It's a good overall book on how
Speaker 16: to get started bird feeding and then also help you
Speaker 16: identify birds.
Speaker 7: And then another new very good we are good. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: So yep, I'm gonna have to cut us. I ran
Speaker 2: a littlelong, but now they're they're threatening to cut my
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Speaker 2: be right back after this break. Hey, welcome back to
Speaker 2: the garden line. Good to have you with us. You're
Speaker 2: the lads. You are here. We are looking forward to
Speaker 2: visiting with you about the things that might be of
Speaker 2: interest to you. Our garden. Our garden, our garden, our
Speaker 2: goals are. My goal is for you to have a
Speaker 2: better time gardening. I like to put it this way,
Speaker 2: a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and more
Speaker 2: fun in the process. That's what we're here about. And
Speaker 2: because gardening should be fun, it should be rewarding, it
Speaker 2: should be fulfilling. The mental benefits of gardening, the physical
Speaker 2: benefits of gardening, the esthetic benefits of gardening, I mean,
Speaker 2: even the community benefits of gardening are huge. And we
Speaker 2: had to get out there and have fun doing it,
Speaker 2: and we can help you do that. You do not
Speaker 2: hear public service announcement. You do not have repeat after me.
Speaker 2: I do not have a brown thumb. If anything's not growing,
Speaker 2: it's because my thumb needs to be informed a little better.
Speaker 2: And that's what we're here to do. That's also what
Speaker 2: our home garden centers are here to do. You walk
Speaker 2: into a quality independent garden center, as they say, the
Speaker 2: mom and pop garden centers, and you will find people
Speaker 2: that are eager to help you and know what they're
Speaker 2: talking about. And without dissing national chains and local chains
Speaker 2: and all the other stuff, I'm just tell you this,
Speaker 2: a mom and pop garden center has folks that know
Speaker 2: how to garden. They know how to take care of plants.
Speaker 2: They know what grows here and what doesn't, and they
Speaker 2: can help you with that. You can walk into a
Speaker 2: place and maybe you bought some plants somewhere and it's
Speaker 2: not doing good, and you walk into one of our
Speaker 2: independent garden centers and you say, look, I got this plant,
Speaker 2: here's a picture of it, here's a problem with it.
Speaker 2: They'll help you. They will take time to help you
Speaker 2: have success. That's what they're about because they know that
Speaker 2: when you have success with plants, you're going to come back,
Speaker 2: because when you come back, you're going to get a
Speaker 2: plant that actually should be planted here instead of being
Speaker 2: shipped all over the country to all the chain locations
Speaker 2: and not for here. They know that your plant's going
Speaker 2: to do well because they have picked one just for that,
Speaker 2: and they advise you on how to have success with it.
Speaker 2: And that's what it's all about. Man, it is fun, fun, fun.
Speaker 2: We gotta make gardening more fun, make gardening fun again.
Speaker 2: I guess there's a way to put it. It already
Speaker 2: is fun, but seriously, we want you to have fun
Speaker 2: with that. So that's that's kind of a goal for
Speaker 2: doing that. Well, you are listening to garden Line, and
Speaker 2: we're going to come up here a little bit on
Speaker 2: the top of the hour break. I want to come back.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have open lines and if you would
Speaker 2: like to call in anytime from now through even during
Speaker 2: the break time, my producer will get you on the
Speaker 2: board and we can visit briefly about your gardening questions.
Speaker 2: I got some more special guests coming up later as
Speaker 2: we into the next hour, but this is your chance
Speaker 2: if you'd like to give a call seven to one
Speaker 2: three two one two KTRH seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two kt r H. So I've been going over a
Speaker 2: number of different things that I think are of interest
Speaker 2: in gardening. We've talked about all kinds of things, propagating
Speaker 2: plants and some of the principles of success with plants.
Speaker 2: Why we don't put gravel in the bottom of pots
Speaker 2: to make the drainage better, because it does not make
Speaker 2: the drainage better, it just gives you less soul volume
Speaker 2: to work with. I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about seed saving. There are many many plants that we
Speaker 2: can save seed from and it's a fun thing to do.
Speaker 2: The thing you need to know a few things you
Speaker 2: need to know. First of all, when you save seed
Speaker 2: from a plant, it needs to be what's called an
Speaker 2: open pollinated plant, not a hybrid plant. So a hybrid
Speaker 2: is a mixture of two different parents that creates this
Speaker 2: special offspring that has special features. Okay, when you take
Speaker 2: the seed out of that, you're going to end up
Speaker 2: going back to the random genetics in the background, and
Speaker 2: what you grow will not look like what you pull
Speaker 2: the seeds out of in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 2: If it's a fruit. It may not be as swede
Speaker 2: or as large, or it's timing maybe different, or maybe
Speaker 2: it's a peach. It doesn't color, boil, or you see
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Well, so make sure it's not an
Speaker 2: open pollen. If it's a native plant, save seed from
Speaker 2: it if you want. If it is just a flower
Speaker 2: garden or a vegetable garden, you can save seed from them.
Speaker 2: But number one, make sure it's not a hybrid. Number two,
Speaker 2: I mean, you can save a hybrid if you want,
Speaker 2: but you know you're gonna get something different. Number two,
Speaker 2: you need to get those seeds dry so that they
Speaker 2: can be stored. You don't store seed wet. And the
Speaker 2: seed is produced, it's got a lot of the oils
Speaker 2: and proteins and things like that that are necessary to
Speaker 2: fuel the growth, but it also has moisture in it.
Speaker 2: And do you know, even pecans when they fall, they
Speaker 2: have appeared where they kind of dry out and you
Speaker 2: get down to the you know, the real solid oil
Speaker 2: protein parts of the kernel. But it's important to let
Speaker 2: seeds dry out before you store them. Number three, you
Speaker 2: need to provide a dry cool storage location. Dry cool
Speaker 2: if you got some of those packets of desscont that
Speaker 2: come in I don't know supplements or when you buy electronics,
Speaker 2: you get those little packets in there. Save those things.
Speaker 2: You can throw them in with your seed and a jar,
Speaker 2: seal it tightly, put it in the refrigerator. You can
Speaker 2: store seed in the freezer two for super long term storage,
Speaker 2: but it's not necessary. A refrigerator will give you at
Speaker 2: least several year extension on your seeds storing time. So
Speaker 2: get out there, look at your garden, look at your points.
Speaker 2: What do you want to save seeds up? That's a
Speaker 2: new thing to try, this puss. You'll do a.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r h Garden line with Scared Ricard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as many give thanks to sup.
Speaker 2: Botas welcome back, Welcome back on a wonderful Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: I hope you are doing well today. I hope you
Speaker 2: survived Thanksgiving. Irobby has some people still around hanging out
Speaker 2: in the house. If if they drove over the river
Speaker 2: and through the woods to Grandma's house. We're glad you're here.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of things we can talk about
Speaker 2: on gardening on a boat, gardening on any day, actually
Speaker 2: today certainly is no exception for that. Uh, you've heard
Speaker 2: me talk about Medina products before, and Medina products have
Speaker 2: been around for a very long time because they have
Speaker 2: proven themselves effective and gardeners swear by them. They love
Speaker 2: Medina products. There's a lot of different products on the
Speaker 2: market that Medina has. I just want to feature one
Speaker 2: right now, and that's Medina Plus. Medina Plus is Medina
Speaker 2: Soul Activator Plus over twenty trace elements. It's got sight
Speaker 2: of Canon, which is a natural growth hormone that comes
Speaker 2: from seaweed extract in it. It's got things like magnesium
Speaker 2: and iron and zinc for example. In there, various kinds
Speaker 2: of vitamins, a lot of ingredients that basically help plants
Speaker 2: to grow. Just to put it really simply now, it
Speaker 2: comes in a gallon container and it also comes in
Speaker 2: a quart sized sprayable jar. The sprayable jar you just
Speaker 2: took up to a garden hose and you just turn
Speaker 2: it loose. You can do it in the yard, you
Speaker 2: can do it in the flowerbed, you can do it
Speaker 2: in the vegetable gardens. Wherever you want to do it,
Speaker 2: just do it. It is a very effective product that
Speaker 2: can be used. Here's a tip if you will buy
Speaker 2: the court jar. The next time you need some, just
Speaker 2: buy the gallon jug and refill your court jar. You
Speaker 2: know you can do that and then hook it back
Speaker 2: up again and go to town with it. And that gallon
Speaker 2: is a very economical way to approach it. So I
Speaker 2: would suggest you try giving that Medina plus a try.
Speaker 2: You're gonna find it good in your flower gardens. You're
Speaker 2: gonna find it good in your vegetable gardens herbs. If
Speaker 2: it's a plant, Medina plus will be very helpful. I
Speaker 2: recommend it for transplanting. Drench those plants in with Medina plus.
Speaker 2: Get it on the leaves, not gonna burn them. You'll
Speaker 2: get some folier benefit. But get it down in the
Speaker 2: soil and drench that root system every time you plant
Speaker 2: a plant. And I generally will say do it when
Speaker 2: you plant, drench it well, do it again a week later,
Speaker 2: and again a week later, and those three applications will
Speaker 2: help your plant become very well established and therefore more successful.
Speaker 2: We're going to head out to Tomball now and visit
Speaker 2: with David.
Speaker 17: Hello, David, good morning, sir, Hey where god ant problem?
Speaker 17: And about a month ago I put down nitrofalles bug max,
Speaker 17: and two weeks later, they're still.
Speaker 5: Little mounds popping up. I put down more two weeks ago,
Speaker 5: and lo and behold.
Speaker 17: This morning, I go out, I got another couple of
Speaker 17: more ant beds, and I'm going, what is the deal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 8: Are we talking about fire ants or some of the
Speaker 8: little sugar type little sugar ants or whatever I don't know,
Speaker 8: and mainly hang around the driveway.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, you can kill them if you want. They're
Speaker 2: not doing any harm to any plants or anything, and
Speaker 2: so my approach should be just ignore them, don't worry
Speaker 2: about them. They're not hurting anything. The fire ants hurt things.
Speaker 2: Those things are us, that's for sure. And carpenter ants
Speaker 2: will get up in trees and chew on wood, and
Speaker 2: that's not good. Some ants will take aphis up on
Speaker 2: your plants and treat them like dairy cattle and milk
Speaker 2: them and hurt them up there. They actually do that,
Speaker 2: but in general turn a problem. Now if you're if
Speaker 2: you're wanting to control them, though, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: do repeated applications periodically of different sprays. Remind me the
Speaker 2: one you said that you used on them, David it was.
Speaker 5: The Niker files like bug Max or the bad Grain.
Speaker 2: Bug Max, bug Out bug Out Max. Okay, if if
Speaker 2: that didn't work, that's great for using in the lawns.
Speaker 2: For some of our lawn issues, you may want to
Speaker 2: just switch over to a general purpose insecticide. There are
Speaker 2: some organic options. There's somethingthetic options.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 2: It depends on where you're going to spray them as
Speaker 2: to what product you can use. For example, there's something
Speaker 2: like by Fenthren that is a very it's a persistent
Speaker 2: and it kills pretty much every insect that would be
Speaker 2: there on it.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 2: And but it has labels like maybe you can't use
Speaker 2: it in your vegetables, but you can in your flowers
Speaker 2: or vice versa. So you just have to read the
Speaker 2: label on those.
Speaker 5: Well, I thought that's what the bug Max.
Speaker 7: Is is, my bear friend.
Speaker 2: It is a great annual. I don't I need to
Speaker 2: check the label. I didn't think it was labeled for
Speaker 2: use in some of the garden spots. I mean, if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong about that, then I am wrong about that.
Speaker 2: I think of it as a terf insect problem pests
Speaker 2: that we have, and so I would just I would
Speaker 2: stay with I think the ingredient is good, but it's
Speaker 2: the way you apply it, and so you can you
Speaker 2: can do dusts, you can do sprays any way you
Speaker 2: want to go about it. You ought to be able
Speaker 2: to kill the ants though. Anything that has by fentre
Speaker 2: should kill the ants. So something is happening where the
Speaker 2: ants are not getting exposed to the product. If you tried,
Speaker 2: if you.
Speaker 5: Tried that one, okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do that. I mean there, I consider
Speaker 2: a name one hundred insecticides that people use for things
Speaker 2: out there. But ants are not that difficult to kill
Speaker 2: if you can get the pest side right there on them.
Speaker 2: Whether it's a dust you know, like seven dust or
Speaker 2: ortheene dust that kills ants, or whether it's a drench
Speaker 2: a liquid that you drenched down, you may have more
Speaker 2: success with that. Now that I'm thinking about this, David
Speaker 2: is just to get an insecticide that is that he
Speaker 2: mixes a liquid and water and drench it down so
Speaker 2: it goes not only on the surface, but down deeper
Speaker 2: into the soil. All right, thank you, all right, sir,
Speaker 2: thanks very much, appreciate your call. Okay, here, well we've
Speaker 2: got a couple of minutes here. Hello, Bob and Porter.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you here on Guardenline see how we
Speaker 2: can help.
Speaker 7: Hote doing sir.
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you. What's up today?
Speaker 9: Hey, I've got a neighbor's got some lemon tree clippings.
Speaker 9: I wondered if I can propagate them, and if I
Speaker 9: do propagate them, how do I get lemons eventually?
Speaker 2: If you can propagate them, you'll get lemons eventually. On
Speaker 2: many kinds of plant, Rooting the stems, you know, the
Speaker 2: branches and things is difficult, so it's a challenge. But
Speaker 2: if you have a rootstock of a lemon, or maybe
Speaker 2: you have a different kind of lemon or a lime tree,
Speaker 2: and you want to graft that lemon onto another plant,
Speaker 2: you can use those cuttings for that. But they got
Speaker 2: to be kept cool and fresh, and you need to
Speaker 2: get it done within a few days of cutting them
Speaker 2: off the mother plant. Wrap them in a moist paper towel,
Speaker 2: put in a zip like bag, set it in the refrigerator,
Speaker 2: and just kind of keep them cool, and then when
Speaker 2: you take them out, you can do the grafting with
Speaker 2: them if you choose to do that.
Speaker 5: There's not a.
Speaker 7: Easy method.
Speaker 9: Just put them in some like roots timber later and
Speaker 9: let them try to get a march stigma in dirt
Speaker 9: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can get some growth that's fairly new,
Speaker 2: not super woody already but not succulent, but kind of
Speaker 2: just starting to turn a little woody, cut them off
Speaker 2: and then get you a good quality root stimulator. I
Speaker 2: would take a knife and make little slits along the bark,
Speaker 2: just three or four on the sides, and then your
Speaker 2: fresh cutoff d dip that into the root rooting hormone.
Speaker 2: It could be a liquid, it could be a powder.
Speaker 2: Put them into something that's got a little peep but
Speaker 2: a lot of pearl light in it, very well drained,
Speaker 2: and then put a clear cover over and put it
Speaker 2: in a bright spot. And that's everything you can do
Speaker 2: in your power to try to encourage them to root
Speaker 2: good light, not direct sun.
Speaker 5: Much give up.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Appreciate you all right, all right.
Speaker 2: You care, Thanks, appreciate your call. All right, folks, it
Speaker 2: is time for me take another break. I'll be back
Speaker 2: back shortly.
Speaker 9: Ahi.
Speaker 2: Folks, welcome back to Guardline. Glad to have you with us. Hey,
Speaker 2: we're in our last hour of the weekend, so I
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Speaker 2: if you got a neighbor that's not taking care of
Speaker 2: their property and it looks terrible and it is hurting
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Speaker 2: We need to help you out a little bit there
Speaker 2: by letting them hear some good advice on gardening. All right,
Speaker 2: thank you very much for tuning in today. I was
Speaker 2: talking earlier about seed saving tips, and I mentioned that
Speaker 2: number one, you need to save seed that's not hybrid,
Speaker 2: that's open pollinated. Number two, you need to dry the
Speaker 2: seed out before you store it. If you take wet seed,
Speaker 2: it's not going to store very well at all. In fact,
Speaker 2: it'll mold and you'll have problem. And I store seeds
Speaker 2: in the freezer sometimes for longer term storage. And if
Speaker 2: you freeze seed that has a high moisture content, it'll
Speaker 2: it'll the ice crystals will form and you'll damage that
Speaker 2: seed too. So dry it out, dry it out, dry up,
Speaker 2: dry out, and then store it in a air tight container.
Speaker 2: I have two kinds.
Speaker 8: I use.
Speaker 2: Number one, I just use like a mason, a Manna's jar.
Speaker 2: You know, put the seed in there, screw the lead
Speaker 2: down tight and no air is gonna no moisture and
Speaker 2: air is going to move in and out of that.
Speaker 2: The other thing is there are some little containers that
Speaker 2: have a nice rubber seal with a clamp down lid.
Speaker 2: You've seen them for storing. You know, you have green
Speaker 2: beans for dinner and you don't eat them all, so
Speaker 2: you put a few in one of these little containers
Speaker 2: in the fridge. Those are pretty good too, and so
Speaker 2: that's another option. A lot of my seeds are stored
Speaker 2: in those as well. Refrigerator storage, though generally, is adequate.
Speaker 2: You don't need to go cooler than that. Now, if
Speaker 2: you are a person who wants to play around and
Speaker 2: do some black some like different kinds of like a
Speaker 2: black poppy, I couldn't even say the word poppy or
Speaker 2: other kinds of unusual plants and things. Those can be
Speaker 2: really valuable seeds to save. And all we have to
Speaker 2: do is help you to find the right way for
Speaker 2: each of the seeds that you want to save to
Speaker 2: get the best results. For most of them, it's simple.
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of drying a mountain store them
Speaker 2: and they do just fine. Now I do want to
Speaker 2: I did mention putting a dessicant packet in there. That
Speaker 2: is important. One thing to remember on stored seeds. Here's
Speaker 2: a mistake people make. They know they need to be dried.
Speaker 2: They need to be stored dry, So you put them
Speaker 2: in the freezer or i'll say worsh yet the freezer
Speaker 2: of refrigerator or worshipt the freezer. You pull it out
Speaker 2: and you open it up. Well, what happens when you
Speaker 2: take something freezing cold and expose it to a countertop
Speaker 2: in your house. All the moisture in the air condenses
Speaker 2: on it. So now you've taken dry seeds and you've
Speaker 2: just wet the seed packets. Just like you know, you
Speaker 2: get a drink that's got ice in it and on
Speaker 2: the glass sides, you get that condensation happening. Don't do that.
Speaker 2: Put them on the counter, let them reach him room temperature,
Speaker 2: and then open them up. So just keep that in
Speaker 2: mind when you're saving seed. Avoid disease plants. Avoid plants,
Speaker 2: especially with virus infections. Do not save a seed from
Speaker 2: a plant that's been virus infected. That it's not going
Speaker 2: to be good. And if you want to play around
Speaker 2: a little bit and have some fun, you can take
Speaker 2: seeds and cross them yourself. And people do this with
Speaker 2: squash all the time. Squash a big old fat flower.
Speaker 2: That's easy. You know, you got male flowers and you
Speaker 2: got female flowers, and that's true of watermelons, squash, cantelope, cucumbers,
Speaker 2: all of those. You got those two kinds of flowers.
Speaker 2: And so you can easily pick a male flower, pull
Speaker 2: the pedals off, and use the little dab a pollen
Speaker 2: on the to go around pollinating female flowers with it.
Speaker 2: So if you want to cross two types of squash,
Speaker 2: you can save seed and start to create the new squash.
Speaker 2: You can name it after yourself. It'll be this new
Speaker 2: unusual squash that you created. And a lot of different
Speaker 2: kinds of squash can be crossed. I can't go into
Speaker 2: the details, and you probably don't care about the details
Speaker 2: of that, but if you want more information, you can
Speaker 2: email me about which kinds of squashes cross with what.
Speaker 2: In general, things like pumpkins cross with hard winter squashes
Speaker 2: like that, and in general summer squashes will cross, but
Speaker 2: there's exceptions, so don't take that too far. And then
Speaker 2: finally there is the fun mystery seed selection, and that
Speaker 2: would be things like, Okay, this Thanksgiving, my wife got
Speaker 2: some little tiny pumpkins, you know, the little tiny size
Speaker 2: as big as your fists are a little bit bigger
Speaker 2: than that. And one of them was white, and one
Speaker 2: of them was modeled, and one of them was orange,
Speaker 2: but it was minute. And so I've seed the seeds
Speaker 2: out of all three, and I marked them as this
Speaker 2: one came out of a minute. I took a picture
Speaker 2: of them, marked them this came out of the small
Speaker 2: white when this came in. And I'll plant those in
Speaker 2: the garden next year and they're going to grow some
Speaker 2: sort of a squash, slash pumpkin, a winter squash or pumpkin,
Speaker 2: but I don't know which. Who knows what field they
Speaker 2: were grown in, if they'd been grown side by side,
Speaker 2: who knows what those seeds hold. They're going to be dukes,
Speaker 2: mixtures of all kinds of stuff. So you can just
Speaker 2: play around and have some fun like that. If you
Speaker 2: see plants you like along the roadside that have some
Speaker 2: seed pack or seed you know, pods on them, you
Speaker 2: can select those and save them. One last thought about
Speaker 2: seed saving is some kinds of plant throw their seed,
Speaker 2: they cast them. These are typically plants with little pods
Speaker 2: like a blue bonnet, and a blue bonnet pod looks
Speaker 2: like just like a miniature green bean pod. But when
Speaker 2: it breaks open, when the seed's dry, that suiture splits
Speaker 2: and it literally is like putting put your hands together.
Speaker 2: They're like, you know, praying hands form like that, and
Speaker 2: then just push your thumbs out and through the middle.
Speaker 2: As the sides fly out, you do that push away
Speaker 2: from you, prying, push away. That's what bluebonets do, and
Speaker 2: they throw their seed a long way. So if you
Speaker 2: want to save blue bonnet seeds, maybe you grew someome
Speaker 2: and and I don't know, maybe you have some maroon
Speaker 2: ones or something or white ones in the in the
Speaker 2: group and you want to save them. You need to
Speaker 2: throw a organza bag with draw strings over the top.
Speaker 2: When the seed pods a form, just put that over
Speaker 2: the top and let them fully dry and when they do,
Speaker 2: they'll pop and they'll throw those seeds and they'll all
Speaker 2: be in your little draw string bag. And that way
Speaker 2: you can do that. Another way is to pick the
Speaker 2: pods as they're turning brown, but before they hit the
Speaker 2: point of splitting. Put all those in a bunch of
Speaker 2: in an a draw string bag. Put a bunch of
Speaker 2: them in a draw string bag, pull the draw string
Speaker 2: and just sort of hang it up in a warm, dry,
Speaker 2: well aerated place. And next thing you know, you're gonna
Speaker 2: come by and there's gonna be a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: bluebonet seed that explodes it in there. But you got
Speaker 2: them all, all right. That's probably enough information on seed starting,
Speaker 2: but it is, I mean seed collecting, but it is
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Just remember time varies on seed viability.
Speaker 2: Some last a year only some of them will keep
Speaker 2: over five years depending on the seed pod. But if
Speaker 2: you put them in refrigerated storage, most seed you should
Speaker 2: get two to three good viable years out of them.
Speaker 2: If you've got seed that are stored and you don't
Speaker 2: know if they're still good, what you do. Okay, here's
Speaker 2: another tip for the day. Boy, we are full of
Speaker 2: those tips for the day. Is you take the seed,
Speaker 2: take ten of them, lay them on a paper towel
Speaker 2: that has been moistened, fold the towel over and put
Speaker 2: that folded paper towel section with seeds inside in a
Speaker 2: zipplot bag. Don't squeeze it down tight. Leave some air
Speaker 2: in there. They need some air exchange. And put those
Speaker 2: in a dark spot. Or you can just put them
Speaker 2: on the counter and check them back two days later,
Speaker 2: three day, five days. You know, just keep checking and
Speaker 2: as they start to sprout, you will see how many sprout. So,
Speaker 2: just as an example, if you put ten seeds in
Speaker 2: and three sprouted and seven didn't, you've got a thirty
Speaker 2: percent germination rate. So when you take the seeds that
Speaker 2: you have saved and you don't know how viable they are,
Speaker 2: now you know to plant more of those accordingly in
Speaker 2: order to get the number of plants you're trying to plant. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a lot, a lot of information, I know, but
Speaker 2: we want you to have success, and that's why we're
Speaker 2: providing that kind of information for you. Gardening is a fun, fun,
Speaker 2: fun hobby. It is good for your mind, it's good
Speaker 2: for your soul, it's good for your your physical body.
Speaker 2: It's just good in all kinds of ways. And as
Speaker 2: you go from being just a peripheral gardener, which is
Speaker 2: perfectly okay, you go, you buy some plants, you put
Speaker 2: them in, you're done, take care of them and things,
Speaker 2: and you start getting into it. I got to warn you.
Speaker 2: It's addictive. It's addictive. Next thing you know, you'll be
Speaker 2: rooting cuttings, and you'll be saving seeds, and you'll be
Speaker 2: starting your own transplants of unusual things you found along
Speaker 2: the road side and other things. And it just goes
Speaker 2: on and on and on. There's no end to it.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, there's no end. But of all the addictions
Speaker 2: in the world, it is a great a great one
Speaker 2: to have. And I hope you'll take care of that,
Speaker 2: take it to heart. And again my challenge to you
Speaker 2: this year I got several I've been given you. One
Speaker 2: of them is to try something new. What are you
Speaker 2: going to do that you haven't done before? Have you
Speaker 2: never grown vegetables and containers? This is a season to
Speaker 2: do it. One, there's a great time to do that.
Speaker 2: Have you never grown vegetables period, grown your own edibles.
Speaker 2: Have you never tried growing herbs? This is the time
Speaker 2: to do it. What have you not tried doing? Have
Speaker 2: you ever tried seeds starting, propagating, seed saving. There's lots
Speaker 2: and lots in gardening. That's a lot of fun. And
Speaker 2: the more you get into it, the more fun you have.
Speaker 2: And then you meet people who have the same addiction
Speaker 2: and it even gets more fun. And if you run
Speaker 2: in and he bumps along the way. Go to your
Speaker 2: local independent garden centers. We got them north, south, east, west,
Speaker 2: central here in the greater Houston area. And go there.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get expert advice. They'll help you with it.
Speaker 2: They'll help you get you over the hump, make you
Speaker 2: a better gardener as you do, or just give me
Speaker 2: a call on garden line. Be happy to visit with
Speaker 2: you and help you along the process. Because this is
Speaker 2: the greatest hobby in the world. It absolutely is. You
Speaker 2: can argue with me if you want, but I'm right.
Speaker 2: I may be biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: All right, time for me to take a break. We're
Speaker 2: gonna come back with a special guest. Right after the break,
Speaker 2: we got another guest today that we're going to visit
Speaker 2: with about some great Christmas gift ideas. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: the Garden Line. Glad to have you with us today.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening in. I want to head straight the phones.
Speaker 2: I got a special guest that we're going to visit with,
Speaker 2: and that guest is Joey Linderman from Enchanted Gardens down
Speaker 2: in Richmond Rosenberg area. Hey Joey, welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 8: How's everybody doing today.
Speaker 2: We're doing good. We're having a lot of fun. I
Speaker 2: tell you I survived Thanksgiving. I think I only ate
Speaker 2: once in the last twenty four hours, and I still
Speaker 2: don't feel like eating again because I ate so much.
Speaker 2: I can understand that. All right. Well, hey Joey, I
Speaker 2: appreciate you coming on the air with me. I would
Speaker 2: like you to give us some ideas about what you
Speaker 2: think would be some really good Christmas gift ideas for
Speaker 2: folks that would want to come out and visit in
Speaker 2: Chended Gardens. And you think, you know it might be
Speaker 2: some gifts not only for themselves but for people on
Speaker 2: their list.
Speaker 5: Sure, no problem.
Speaker 8: There's lots of pretty things out here that would be
Speaker 8: a fit for anyone on your list. One of my
Speaker 8: favorites is going to be the things like statuary and
Speaker 8: bird baths. There's got to be something unique to anybody
Speaker 8: that you're shopping for. Uh.
Speaker 2: They last forever.
Speaker 8: It's something you know, permanent in your garden that even
Speaker 8: a non gardener can can keep alive. Right, no watering needed.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 8: They'll take the heat, they'll take the cold.
Speaker 2: So you know there's there you go.
Speaker 8: Angelic type statues, there's animal statues, there's different types of
Speaker 8: bird baths, you know, all across the board, something for everyone.
Speaker 2: Well, I've seen your selection and you've got you've got
Speaker 2: a lot of different ones there to choose from. So
Speaker 2: what's another good item?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 8: A popular one is wind times. You know, everyone likes
Speaker 8: sitting outside on a beautiful day like this and adding
Speaker 8: a little natural music to the to the atmosphere is
Speaker 8: always great. We carry the music of the spheres wind chimes.
Speaker 8: They are a superb windchime that almost lasts forever, just
Speaker 8: about like piece of statue. But they come in different.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what. Yeah, one cool thing about those
Speaker 2: is they're really tuned. You know, some wind chimes are
Speaker 2: not quite in tune, but these are perfect notes that
Speaker 2: go together. Right, Yeah, it's amazing how they do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, well let's just keep going.
Speaker 8: You got some other ideas, sure, you know they always
Speaker 8: talk about a gift that keeps on giving. Fruit trees
Speaker 8: are also a very popular gift. You know, they'll remember
Speaker 8: that you gave it to them year after year when
Speaker 8: they're harvesting the fruit. So that's a good one. This
Speaker 8: time of year, it's best to plant stone fruit, you know,
Speaker 8: things like apples, peaches, pears, plums, things that are not
Speaker 8: sensitive to the cold. We also have citrus trees this
Speaker 8: time of year, but depending on our winter, they may
Speaker 8: need to be protected in the wintertime. But a good
Speaker 8: selection of fruit trees and also blackberries, blueberries, things of
Speaker 8: that sort this time of year.
Speaker 2: I saw a while back you guys had strawberries with
Speaker 2: the little strawberry jars as well.
Speaker 8: Yep, yep, we've got those still also, So that would
Speaker 8: be a good one.
Speaker 2: Sooner you get your sooner you get your strawberries planted,
Speaker 2: the more time that crown has to develop, even make
Speaker 2: multiple crowns for a better harvest. So get that done soon,
Speaker 2: if guys, if you want to do that, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the things go ahead.
Speaker 8: A lot of folks don't know that they'll take the
Speaker 8: the cold, cold weather this time of year.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you're right, planting them this time of year
Speaker 5: is definitely key.
Speaker 2: There you go. You mentioned fruit trees is something people
Speaker 2: would remember. I like to say that same thing about
Speaker 2: rose bushes. Everybody loves roses. It's a queen of the flowers,
Speaker 2: you know, in the in the landscape. And when you
Speaker 2: plant a rose bush, maybe one that has a nice
Speaker 2: scent or just a beautiful, you know flower, every year,
Speaker 2: people uh will remember you as that thing blooms. Who
Speaker 2: gave them that bush? I got planter on my landscape
Speaker 2: that I remember who gave it to me?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was one of the next ones on my list.
Speaker 5: Roses are always a good one to give.
Speaker 8: And with this warm weather, you know, they're still blooming,
Speaker 8: so now it's a good time to choose one.
Speaker 2: That's a good point and something I suggest people.
Speaker 8: Do.
Speaker 2: You know there's gifts that's like, here's your gift, Merry Christmas, whatever,
Speaker 2: and you move on. And then there's gifts that give
Speaker 2: a gift of time in them. And so think about this.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's someone in your family or friend or someone
Speaker 2: on the street that's a shut in, and you would
Speaker 2: go over there. You would give them a gift of
Speaker 2: a certificate for coming and planting a special rose at
Speaker 2: their house and schedule of time. You could call it
Speaker 2: the ros and Coffee date. You go over there, have
Speaker 2: some time with them. Maybe they're not able to plant themselves,
Speaker 2: but you could plant it with them and then sit,
Speaker 2: drink a cup of coffee and just spend a little
Speaker 2: bit of time. And I'm telling you that that is
Speaker 2: one of the most amazing gifts that they may ever receive,
Speaker 2: because time with a memorial gift like that is so cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're you're like reading my mind here, because that
Speaker 8: was also you know, one of my most important things
Speaker 8: on the list is you know, getting out and visiting
Speaker 8: with someone or helping someone with some yard work or
Speaker 8: like you say, bringing somebody a plant or a rose
Speaker 8: and planting it with them and yeah, spending some time
Speaker 8: with them. That that is a very important thing. And
Speaker 8: you know, it's memorable long far beyond anything else you
Speaker 8: could give.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that's a good point. That's a good point. Now,
Speaker 2: I know you guys have some really awesome gift shops.
Speaker 2: I always have to wander through when I'm out there.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, there's lots of things, anything from you know,
Speaker 8: bird seed and bird feeders to different types of gardening
Speaker 8: books and cookbooks and hand towels and games, you know,
Speaker 8: just you name it something again for everybody in the
Speaker 8: gift shop.
Speaker 2: I think those are great too, because you know, you
Speaker 2: go to somebody's house, maybe there's a holiday party or
Speaker 2: a like Thanksgiving meal, Christmas meal, you go over and
Speaker 2: you just bring a gift a housewarming gulf or whatever
Speaker 2: when you go. I think people really appreciate that. And
Speaker 2: I know you guys carry like the forced bulbs, that's
Speaker 2: another good gift to bring in as you're going to
Speaker 2: visit someone.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we've got plenty of paper white bulbs and emeryless bulbs.
Speaker 8: Those are definitely always popular. You can leave them inside
Speaker 8: this time of year, let them bloom for the holiday season,
Speaker 8: and then they can transplant it outside for them to
Speaker 8: come back year to year.
Speaker 2: That's cool. Well, Joey, I got just about twenty seconds
Speaker 2: left here. Can you think of anything else to throw
Speaker 2: on the list?
Speaker 8: Oh, gift cards are always popular. If you can't figure
Speaker 8: out what somebody wants, then I bet they can figure
Speaker 8: it out themselves if you get them a gift card.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, a good gardener will have no problem
Speaker 2: figuring out what to do with that, right, Joey, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot. Appreciate you coming in from Shanny Gardens just
Speaker 2: to give us a few more ideas. We're trying to
Speaker 2: get people ideas for not only gardeners on your list,
Speaker 2: but I think when you heard Joey talk, you heard
Speaker 2: about things for people that aren't even gardeners that would
Speaker 2: love to have as a special gift. Who knows, maybe
Speaker 2: we'll convert them into real gardeners with that. Joey, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for being on.
Speaker 14: Oh ma'am.
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Speaker 2: I've talked about Star Hope a number of times and
Speaker 2: I just wanted to mention again that during this season,
Speaker 2: you know, we are all looking forward to the holidays,
Speaker 2: but for a lot of people, it's looking forward to
Speaker 2: the next meal. And people that are homeless for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: maybe don't falter their own need our help. They do.
Speaker 2: And that's when my wife and I are supporters of
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Speaker 2: can tell you this that I've seen the different things
Speaker 2: they do, their ministries, their compassion work out in the community,
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Speaker 2: for people that could really use them this time of year.
Speaker 2: By the way, our phone lines are open if you'd
Speaker 2: like to give us call again. We're in our last segment,
Speaker 2: so not a lot of time, but we're going to
Speaker 2: go to the phones and talk to Jim and Sugarland.
Speaker 2: Hey Jim, welcome reguardline. Yes, good morning, Yes, skip up.
Speaker 14: You've got a magnolia tree that's probably about fifty foot high,
Speaker 14: and uh, it's got at the base it's about eighteen
Speaker 14: inch diameter, and then it has goes up.
Speaker 2: And it has two main Uh.
Speaker 14: Well, it's got a main branch going vertically, but then
Speaker 14: it's got a side branch that's maybe nine inch diameter,
Speaker 14: and it crosses over the main branch, and it's rubbing
Speaker 14: against the main branch.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, and it's and.
Speaker 14: It's got an indentation.
Speaker 5: Against the main branch. Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, So on those kind of things, you know,
Speaker 2: you have to look at it. Each situation is different.
Speaker 2: If you if you can remove one or the other,
Speaker 2: that would be best, so they don't rub and do
Speaker 2: that because it wears a spot that's a place where
Speaker 2: the cake can get in, you know, as it damages
Speaker 2: the the living bark or living tissues around the outside
Speaker 2: of the branch. But if you can't, it can be left.
Speaker 2: You know, as branches get bigger, it seems to be
Speaker 2: a little bit less of a problem with the movement
Speaker 2: and stuff. It's your call. There's not a black and
Speaker 2: white issue on this one. So if you can remove it,
Speaker 2: if not, you live with it.
Speaker 14: If you do remove it, what should you do anything
Speaker 14: where you cut that side branch off.
Speaker 2: Well, you just know you just cut it off and
Speaker 2: don't do any wound treatment on that That is not necessary.
Speaker 2: In fact, it'll heal better if you just leave it alone.
Speaker 2: Keep the tree healthy and growing, and it'll close over
Speaker 2: that wound in time. Cut it back to where it
Speaker 2: attaches to the mother tree, the trull of the trunk,
Speaker 2: and don't leave a stub. But as you go close
Speaker 2: to the trunk, right before you get to the trunk,
Speaker 2: it flares out to attach a little bit, and you
Speaker 2: want to cut it right on the outside of that flare.
Speaker 2: So you may have an one inch a little bit
Speaker 2: sticking out there or something along those lines, depending on
Speaker 2: how big the branch is.
Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, well I appreciate the information.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All right, Jim, good luck with your magnolia tree, and
Speaker 2: thank you very much for calling into garden Line this morning. Well,
Speaker 2: we've covered a lot of ground today. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think of all the different things we talk about seed
Speaker 2: saving and all kinds of interesting things. If I'm going
Speaker 2: to be posting some more stuff to garden Line, this week.
Speaker 2: I promised yesterday that I would put some information up there.
Speaker 2: We're going to go ahead and get on that, but
Speaker 2: I want to remind you, I say post to guard
Speaker 2: Line to my website that I use for garden Line,
Speaker 2: that is skip gardening with skip dot com. So it's
Speaker 2: really real easy to remember gardening with skip dot com. Uh,
Speaker 2: just go there. My new publications are listed with the
Speaker 2: newest at the top. I think right now the newest
Speaker 2: one is on Nema todes. I believe I wrote something
Speaker 2: on Nemo todes, but we'll be adding more to it.
Speaker 2: So either way, look forward to, you know, helping you
Speaker 2: have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape
Speaker 2: by providing that evergreen information.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: The funny thing about garden Line. I've noticed. One funny
Speaker 2: thing about guard line is that I'll get a call
Speaker 2: and then right after it, I get a call with
Speaker 2: the same question, or two calls later or an hour later.
Speaker 2: And I realized, you know, people don't sit there and
Speaker 2: listen to guard Line from six am to ten am. Pardon,
Speaker 2: people don't listen to the garden Line.
Speaker 15: And so.
Speaker 2: I don't mind repeating things. But that's why I put
Speaker 2: stuff on the website too, so I can just point
Speaker 2: you there and you can go read about it, and
Speaker 2: people that are listening don't have to hear the same
Speaker 2: thing over and over and over again. That way I
Speaker 2: want to tell you again today we talked about ACE
Speaker 2: Hardware earlier. Several times. ACE Hardware is stocked up for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Their Black Friday sales are good through December second. That's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: No excuse me, December second. Tuesday or in December second
Speaker 2: are at the same day. Call your local, they'll tell
Speaker 2: you what it is. The bottom line is go ahead
Speaker 2: and get it done. It may be Monday, December second. Anyway,
Speaker 2: folks are decorating. Check out their lights by the foot.
Speaker 2: That is a really cool deal where you can buy
Speaker 2: the light length you need. You tell them they'll create
Speaker 2: that light to exactly the link that you need. Why
Speaker 2: you're at ACE, check out the incredible list of gifts
Speaker 2: from really cool kids toys to wonderful power tools and
Speaker 2: things that any do it yourself or would be glad
Speaker 2: to have. There is beautiful indoor decorations and all kinds
Speaker 2: of gift ideas, including stocking stuffers, all the way up
Speaker 2: to the Cadillac stuff like that Beautiful or Big Green
Speaker 2: Egg or Weber or Grill. They they are stocked up
Speaker 2: there for the barbecue or on your list. What you're
Speaker 2: gonna find when you get into acis stuff you didn't
Speaker 2: expect that. That's just true. Every Ace Hardware is independently owned,
Speaker 2: and there are things when you walk in it's like
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I was talking to someone earlier
Speaker 2: who carried a certain brand of jewelry in the Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware store. That's a very popular brand. Depending on the
Speaker 2: issue you go into, they're gonna have some cool stuff,
Speaker 2: and so you just gotta check them out. Go to
Speaker 2: Acehardware dot com, Forward sized Houston and that's where you
Speaker 2: find the Ace Hardware stores near you. All Right, you've
Speaker 2: been listening to garden Line and music means I need
Speaker 2: to hush and put the microphone away for a week.
Speaker 2: Have a wonderful week out in your garden. I remember
Speaker 2: to have fun, enjoy those people in your life, and
Speaker 2: hold those gifts to make a really meaningful relational benefit
Speaker 2: difference