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Speaker 2: Glad to have you with us though. We're here to
Speaker 2: answer your gardening questions today. So let's do some Let's
Speaker 2: do some gardening, or let's get official here and do
Speaker 2: some horticulture this morning. We're going to talk about the
Speaker 2: kinds of things we might be needing to do this
Speaker 2: time of year. Maybe a few ideas for you and
Speaker 2: for your gardening this year. Whatever is of interest to you,
Speaker 2: And of course those are your calls. You have some
Speaker 2: questions about identifying things or diagnosing some issues that you
Speaker 2: might have, or even some suggestions for how to have
Speaker 2: more luck with your lawn or your garden, perhaps trees
Speaker 2: and the landscape. You name it, you get to make
Speaker 2: the call. The only thing I can help you with
Speaker 2: is getting your spouse to do more work outside in
Speaker 2: the garden. I am not I can't do that. I've
Speaker 2: told people more on one occasion over my career. Listen,
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Speaker 2: you'd pay for it from me, but anyway, that's what
Speaker 2: we're here for. Seven one three two one two ktrh.
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Speaker 5: This is uh.
Speaker 2: By the way, I had a great time yesterday done
Speaker 2: in Fort Benk County at the Epicenter at the Home
Speaker 2: and Garden show down there. I had a good time.
Speaker 2: So all of the folks from Enchanted Forest that were there, Boy,
Speaker 2: they had a nice spread out. And thanks to everybody
Speaker 2: who came out and sat and listened and asked questions,
Speaker 2: and boy, we had a good time. We covered a
Speaker 2: lot of things about warming out on questions, but that's
Speaker 2: what we're there for, lots of good advice and we
Speaker 2: had some fun in the process. We always try to
Speaker 2: do that as well, So thanks for coming on out
Speaker 2: and visiting with me about those kinds of things. Just
Speaker 2: kind of as a reminder. My next appearance coming up
Speaker 2: is going to be February fifteenth at Enchanted Gardens, and
Speaker 2: I'm also going to be giving a talk out there.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be talking about ways to have more
Speaker 2: success with gardening for less work. Okay, the way I
Speaker 2: like to put it is get more out of your
Speaker 2: garden with less sweat or less ibuprofen, if you know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about there, And we're going to I've
Speaker 2: got a lot of ideas on that. So we don't
Speaker 2: want our physical limitations to stop us from gardening. And
Speaker 2: it's so cool, you know. It used to be that
Speaker 2: there was not the help out there to help someone
Speaker 2: who maybe had was dealing with arthritis in their arms
Speaker 2: or bad knees or whatever you know condition that kind
Speaker 2: of limited their ability to garden. And now we have
Speaker 2: so many helpful tools, lots of ergonomic tools that work
Speaker 2: really well. Depending on what your limitation is, it need
Speaker 2: not necessarily be a limitation anymore, with some really really
Speaker 2: cool things that help a lot. I've talked about the
Speaker 2: kneeling bench before, but that's a simple little thing. It's
Speaker 2: just a folding up bench you because it folds its
Speaker 2: stores real easily. But it's it's something you can sit
Speaker 2: on and you flip it upside down. It's something you
Speaker 2: can kneel on, and the legs that were holding it
Speaker 2: up when you sat on it become the handles that
Speaker 2: help you get up and down. I think that is
Speaker 2: pretty cool, you know. I remember how many of you remember,
Speaker 2: those of you who are somewhere north of forty remember
Speaker 2: the first time you woke up sore and you didn't
Speaker 2: know why do you know what I'm talking about? It's like, Wow,
Speaker 2: I'm sore? Why am I sore? Did I hurt myself sleeping?
Speaker 2: And by the way, that can also happen somewhere north
Speaker 2: of forty, but anyway, you know, and then you get
Speaker 2: to thinking, I seriously, I've had that happen more than once,
Speaker 2: and I just couldn't figure out what was it that
Speaker 2: I did. And then finally it dawned to me, Well,
Speaker 2: I walked around the yard all day. But then I
Speaker 2: kind of realized, No, I walked around the yard and
Speaker 2: I got on my hands and knees to pull a
Speaker 2: weed or to plant a plan, or to dig a
Speaker 2: dirt or you know, whatever we're doing, and up and
Speaker 2: down and I kind of did the numbers, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: probably about ten thousand times getting up and down and
Speaker 2: up and down. And if it's not muscles you normally
Speaker 2: use well, you gets sore in the morning. So good
Speaker 2: tools like that, like that kneeling bunch, they're really helpful.
Speaker 2: This is one of my top five tools. Another one
Speaker 2: is I guess we're just gonna talk about tools here
Speaker 2: this morning. Another one is the soil knife. Soil knives
Speaker 2: imagine a big, old giant butcher knife, but sharp on
Speaker 2: both sides, not you know, like blade on one side
Speaker 2: and no, you don't cut on the other side. This
Speaker 2: is like both sides, and it's slightly scalloped so you
Speaker 2: can use it almost like a imagine a knife that's
Speaker 2: kind of scalloped a little like a shovel, so you
Speaker 2: could use it to dig out a hole. I do
Speaker 2: it for planting. You know, I'm put a transplant on
Speaker 2: the ground, a four inch pot or something. Just take
Speaker 2: that knife and dig it right out. One side has
Speaker 2: a serration on it, and so when you run into roots.
Speaker 2: I talked yesterday about my no dig no till garden,
Speaker 2: excuse me, no till garden. And so when I take
Speaker 2: out cornstalks or tomato plants or whatever. I just use
Speaker 2: that serrated side of my soil knife good on there,
Speaker 2: and a couple of stabs into the soil, and that
Speaker 2: thing comes right out and leaves all the roots behind,
Speaker 2: which is helpful. Roots decomposed roots open up pathways down
Speaker 2: into the soil, and nature leaves roots in the ground.
Speaker 2: That's what nature does and what happens to those roots
Speaker 2: they decompose. The microbes get all happy because they got
Speaker 2: something to break down. That's their food and it works well.
Speaker 2: But anyway, sol knife is good for that. They have
Speaker 2: markings on them, so you know one inch deep, two
Speaker 2: inches deep, three inches if you own to do that.
Speaker 2: And then some of them, most of them have a
Speaker 2: little scabbard too to put them in, which looks cool.
Speaker 2: You know, you kind of feel like you got your
Speaker 2: bowie knife there walking around the garden. But some of
Speaker 2: them even have other features like a little hook that
Speaker 2: will cut twine, a little sharp hook. And perhaps important
Speaker 2: as well, especially for some of you, is a little
Speaker 2: bottle opener. So you're out there in the garden and
Speaker 2: you need you get some refreshment out of a bottle,
Speaker 2: you can just pop that lid right off and there
Speaker 2: you go, you're intent, you're in business, so anyway, so
Speaker 2: knife's good, good duol. That's another one. Our quality pruners
Speaker 2: are very important. If you're gonna get quality pruners, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have things that last and that are easier to get.
Speaker 2: The cheap o's the cheap prunters, you will pay for those.
Speaker 2: You'll pay for them in two ways. Number One, it's
Speaker 2: more wear and tear in your hands, and you'll just
Speaker 2: notice it, even if you don't have authortis or anything.
Speaker 2: Just pruning with cheap prunters is harder in your hands.
Speaker 2: The way they cut, the way they move, the way
Speaker 2: they kind of get sprung out where they don't cut right,
Speaker 2: that's not good. And when they quit working well, and
Speaker 2: when you're trying to keep them sharp and having trouble
Speaker 2: with that, you just get tired of them. Throw them
Speaker 2: in a bucket, throw them in the trash, and then
Speaker 2: you go buy another one. And after you bought a
Speaker 2: few cheap pruners, you could have just bought a nice
Speaker 2: pair of punters that have replaceable blades that are easy
Speaker 2: to sharpen. The quality brands, you know, a brand like
Speaker 2: Corona just being one example. Those kinds of things. They
Speaker 2: will sell you replacement braids. I'll eave and sell you
Speaker 2: a little tool for sharpening them as you use them.
Speaker 2: They come in length that you can get a nice
Speaker 2: leather scabbard for them. They're just worthwhile. So whether it's
Speaker 2: a big lopper that you cut en off larger limbs with,
Speaker 2: or a hand printer, or even a good quality printing
Speaker 2: saw for removing small limbs, that is that group. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna make those one group, that group of quality cutting
Speaker 2: tools very very important. Well, I'm gonna take a little
Speaker 2: break here. It looks like the first quick break that
Speaker 2: always come so fast. Every hour's time for that. I
Speaker 2: just will be right back with your calls if you'd like.
Speaker 2: You know, early in the morning is the time when
Speaker 2: the phones are a little quieter. So if you were
Speaker 2: some of folks yesterday, we're having to wait a while
Speaker 2: if you'd like to get a good quick start, and
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Speaker 2: When's the last time you heard that? Welcome back to
Speaker 2: garden line. Ah, let's see here, we're gonna go run
Speaker 2: out to the phones. Now, I think a few people
Speaker 2: took some good advice. Get get in early in the
Speaker 2: morning and get a first first end of the phone.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go to Copperfield and talk to Donna this morning. Hey, Donna,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning. I have two questions. One of them is
Speaker 6: about my elephant ears. They are mush. I had quite
Speaker 6: a few elephant ears around a couple of trees. All right,
Speaker 6: I'm supposed to understand cut that mush down. Is that true?
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, you can.
Speaker 8: If you leave it.
Speaker 2: It's not the end of the world. It's not like
Speaker 2: it's going to mess up your plant. But just because
Speaker 2: it's mush and it's ugly and you know it has
Speaker 2: to come out, you can cut it out. But I'll
Speaker 2: tell you this, Leaven, if you do remove it, then
Speaker 2: throw some some little bit of compost mult or something
Speaker 2: over the top of that plant, the base of the plant,
Speaker 2: and that'll that'll protect it, because even the dead mushy
Speaker 2: stuff is kind of a shell of protection against let's
Speaker 2: say we do have another real hard cold snap. So
Speaker 2: you can leave it or let it dry out, or
Speaker 2: you can just pull it out because it is not
Speaker 2: going to get better. There's no problem of pulling it
Speaker 2: out other than just exposing the base. And now you
Speaker 2: want to throw at a mult over it, and you're
Speaker 2: still good to.
Speaker 9: Go that way.
Speaker 6: But I could cut it down maybe so that maybe
Speaker 6: six inches of the stalk are exposed on top and
Speaker 6: let that dry out. Would that work?
Speaker 2: You could do that. That's not gonna be a lot
Speaker 2: of protection, but you could do that. I would just
Speaker 2: you know, it's just always a good idea to have
Speaker 2: a mult over the base of perennials, especially ones that
Speaker 2: are a little marginally hardy. Now, elephant ears are pretty tough.
Speaker 2: You're going to be okay on those either way. But okay,
Speaker 2: I just a tip.
Speaker 6: If I just pile up those long leaves on top
Speaker 6: of it, would that be okay and not cut anything?
Speaker 2: You could do that. Yeah, you could also do that.
Speaker 2: It's fine either way. It's just most a lot of people,
Speaker 2: you know, when we're talking about like woody plants and
Speaker 2: things that are above ground, we're leaving that material to
Speaker 2: continue to protect against futureses, but we're also not sure
Speaker 2: what we're to prune sometimes because you don't know how
Speaker 2: far back the real stem damage has occurred on things
Speaker 2: that are more suckulent, like an elephant air that are
Speaker 2: just going to turn to mush. Well, you know it's gone,
Speaker 2: so it's going to need to come out at the
Speaker 2: ground eventually. It's just a question is do you do
Speaker 2: it now or do you do it later? And like
Speaker 2: I said, either one is really okay.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you. My second question is about an area
Speaker 6: that I lost a very very large red oak last
Speaker 6: year during the storms and had the air stump ground
Speaker 6: and it's still raised area and it's like when I
Speaker 6: walk over this kind of mound of mush dirt stuff,
Speaker 6: it sinks where I walk, so it's still going down.
Speaker 6: Is there anything I should do with this area to
Speaker 6: help it heal or whatever? It's just awful big area
Speaker 6: to deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what you're saying. You know, that's one
Speaker 2: of the things about stump grinding, and for other folks
Speaker 2: that are listening that are having stumps ground or need
Speaker 2: to have a stump ground or whatever, all that would
Speaker 2: First of all, the grinding itself fluffs up the soil.
Speaker 2: You know, you're you're loosening everything up, and now you're
Speaker 2: chunking that stump into pieces of wood or chopping it
Speaker 2: up into pieces of wood that are going to decompose.
Speaker 2: And when that happens, the soil is going to settle.
Speaker 2: It'll be very mushy, as you say, like walking on
Speaker 2: sifted flour is very soft, and then it decomposes and
Speaker 2: sinks down. So whenever you do a stump grinding, the
Speaker 2: more of the wood you can get out of there,
Speaker 2: rake out of there kind of you know, use a
Speaker 2: little pitchforky kind of scoop, whatever it takes to get
Speaker 2: some out of there, the better off you'll be. But
Speaker 2: then I usually recommend getting some good soil and just
Speaker 2: making more of a mound like a pitcher's mound on
Speaker 2: a baseball field over that area. How high, I don't
Speaker 2: know how. It depends on the size of the stump
Speaker 2: and thing. But basically you're saying, I know you're going
Speaker 2: to settle, so I'm going to mound you up just
Speaker 2: a little bit, just a little bit, so that when
Speaker 2: you settle your you're close to level and that that
Speaker 2: would be what at this point, Donna, that I would
Speaker 2: suggest you do is put a little bit of soil
Speaker 2: in there, maybe a little bit mounded up a few
Speaker 2: two or three inches up a little bit because it's
Speaker 2: going to settle some more, and you that way, you're
Speaker 2: closer to ending up level than the depression in that
Speaker 2: tart around.
Speaker 6: Two feet high now in the middle, and it's just
Speaker 6: a huge, huge mound, you know, like ten by eight
Speaker 6: or something like that, very close to the house. And
Speaker 6: I was just trying to do something with it too
Speaker 6: high hopefully yes, in the center. Yet it's just from
Speaker 6: the ground level, it's it's it's still bad and I
Speaker 6: did break out a lot of the wood out of it.
Speaker 6: It's it was a big tree.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, if that's the case, well part of it
Speaker 2: too is as trees get bigger and their roots get bigger,
Speaker 2: it heaves the soil up around them. There is already
Speaker 2: a little mound at the base of a tree as
Speaker 2: the roots have gotten bigger and heaved it. So in
Speaker 2: this case, I wouldn't add more soil to the top.
Speaker 2: Two feet is really high, but it's going to settle
Speaker 2: in and so you just can end up occasionally kind
Speaker 2: of raking it and managing the settling over time. But
Speaker 2: two feet is yeah, I wouldn't add more soil to that.
Speaker 6: So I might look at I might be looking at
Speaker 6: it a year or two before I can do anything
Speaker 6: with that area.
Speaker 2: It depends on what you want to do. You know,
Speaker 2: if you're going to plant something like, let's say a
Speaker 2: groundcover over it, or even just a flower bed, then
Speaker 2: you can go ahead and do that, and each season
Speaker 2: as you're putting in new flowers, or each year as
Speaker 2: you're doing things, you may need to add some as
Speaker 2: it settles down. So you could go that route. If
Speaker 2: you're going to plant another tree there, yeah, then the
Speaker 2: settling is more of a problem, and so I would
Speaker 2: probably if you could go a little bit to the
Speaker 2: side for a shrub or a tre tree, I would
Speaker 2: do that. It sounds like it may be a little
Speaker 2: too close to your house for a tree anyway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, may have been. It barely missed the house when
Speaker 6: it went down, so okay, wow, but I'm I'm thankful
Speaker 6: it didn't hit the house. It was a very huge
Speaker 6: tree to deal with. But thank you for your advice.
Speaker 6: I saw you last at Langam Creek Ace Hardware and
Speaker 6: you always give it.
Speaker 2: Oh you did well.
Speaker 5: Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for coming out the You're in Copperfield, so
Speaker 2: that's just your backyard Ace hardware store right there.
Speaker 6: That's right there.
Speaker 2: You came out all right. Hey, thanks don I appreciate
Speaker 2: that a lot. You take care. Let's head out now
Speaker 2: to Orange, Texas. We're going to talk to Darren. Hey, Darren,
Speaker 2: welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 9: Thank you. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well this morning.
Speaker 4: So I've got in my yard.
Speaker 5: I've got some.
Speaker 4: Your stickers is what I've always called them. It almost
Speaker 4: looks like it's right now. It's really green, and it
Speaker 4: almost looks like a curly leaf, small leafs. But during
Speaker 4: the summer there's so many stickers in it you can't
Speaker 4: hardly even kids can't play barefoot outside. So I was
Speaker 4: going to know, Yeah, you knew what it was and
Speaker 4: how to take care of it, and when would be
Speaker 4: a good time to treat it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's more than one kind of plant that can
Speaker 2: have a stickery seed pod. You know, grasspurs are one
Speaker 2: that everybody knows about those, But those are true grass plants.
Speaker 2: Which you have is a broad leaf plant, even though
Speaker 2: the leaves aren't broad it's broad leaf as opposed to grass.
Speaker 2: And so what you would want to do right now
Speaker 2: is apply a product that is for broad leaf weeds,
Speaker 2: post emergent product, not a pre emergent that prevents weed
Speaker 2: seeds from come from establishing, but a post emergent, and
Speaker 2: there are a number of them out there. We'd beat her. Uh,
Speaker 2: we'd beat our ultra those kind of things of a fertiloam.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I'm trying to think of it. We'd free zone.
Speaker 2: There's a number of brands out there on that. And
Speaker 2: so you get yourself over to one of your I
Speaker 2: think you've got some ACE hardware stores over there in
Speaker 2: the Great the Orange area, and just just talk to
Speaker 2: them and say, I need a broad leaf weed control here.
Speaker 2: Here's why you would want to do that now. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you've got Child's building supply over there on sixteenth Street.
Speaker 2: You would when it gets hot, spraying weeds in your
Speaker 2: Saint Augustine is hard on your Saint Augustine, and hot
Speaker 2: means in the upper eighties, even mid to upper eighties
Speaker 2: is when we were starting to go, hey, let's let's
Speaker 2: watch out for these things. They could hurt our grass.
Speaker 2: Well we're far from that right now. So A secondly,
Speaker 2: once those weeds start to get those burrs on them,
Speaker 2: they actually have a tiny bloom you don't even notice,
Speaker 2: and then they get the burrs on them. Then it's
Speaker 2: harder to kill them with those products. We said. I.
Speaker 2: The way I put it is, once the weed becomes reproductive,
Speaker 2: it starts producing blooms and seed. Uh, it's hard to
Speaker 2: kill them. So now's up is your window where you
Speaker 2: can do the most good with the least damage.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I appreciate you him. I'll get that taken
Speaker 4: care of you, bet.
Speaker 2: Darren, thanks for the call. Have a good days, stay
Speaker 2: dry today. Yeah, it's supposed to rain. In fact, I
Speaker 2: was getting a little misty coming back yesterday. We were
Speaker 2: driving through the finest mist and it's supposed to be
Speaker 2: a little bit more of a rain day today. Let's
Speaker 2: head out to Magnolia now and talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff,
Speaker 2: good morning, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Skid. Thank you for picking up the call here.
Speaker 9: In weeks or maybe months past, you commented on a
Speaker 9: certain area. I have a front yard that got uh
Speaker 9: redone with with new grass and everything, and there are
Speaker 9: certain areas that were a little lower and every time
Speaker 9: it rains really heavy it it gets submerged in water
Speaker 9: and the grass is really never taken over. Okay, do
Speaker 9: I need to redo that area or I think there
Speaker 9: is something you recommended, a mulch or something to cover
Speaker 9: that with, and then when the season starts again, I
Speaker 9: guess in the spring that would be in better shape.
Speaker 2: So so the problem is that it you don't have
Speaker 2: you don't have grass doing well. But the area also
Speaker 2: is it tends to stand in water. Did I understand
Speaker 2: that right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a little low and just a little low,
Speaker 9: and if it rains really heavy, it's like an inch
Speaker 9: or so underwater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got you, all right, I got to run to
Speaker 2: a break here right quick. Hang on just a second,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to come right back to you when
Speaker 2: we when we get right back just one second, Jeff,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good Sunday morning. By the way, I hope
Speaker 2: you're having a nice, peaceful morning so far. If you're
Speaker 2: listening to Guardline, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
Speaker 2: here to answer your gardening questions. All just give me
Speaker 2: a call seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 2: R H. And we're going to go back to Jeff
Speaker 2: in Magnolia. Jeff, sorry for that interruption. We had to
Speaker 2: pay some bills, but let's continue on with you with
Speaker 2: your questions.
Speaker 5: Sir.
Speaker 9: Yeah, maybe I have an area in my yard, and
Speaker 9: I was thinking that because it's a little lower, Maig,
Speaker 9: I should but till the whole area that resided again,
Speaker 9: or I think you've been the past had recommended a
Speaker 9: sort of sort of a mult or something to put
Speaker 9: in there instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you have a couple of options. If the
Speaker 2: area is low, it's always that's kind of problematic because
Speaker 2: when we do get our big rains or extended rain
Speaker 2: periods several days here that that is an issue. So
Speaker 2: you know, the going all out solution is to put
Speaker 2: in a fringe drain in that area, have someone install
Speaker 2: one that takes the excess water off to a lower
Speaker 2: area off site somewhere, and that that would be one option.
Speaker 2: The next step would be to bring soil in and
Speaker 2: raise the area up so the water naturally has to
Speaker 2: go somewhere. But you kind of have to watch because
Speaker 2: you maybe just be moving a problem from one spot
Speaker 2: to another when by bringing soil in, you just we
Speaker 2: have another spot that was fine now it's web. So
Speaker 2: those are those are two options. The other is just
Speaker 2: to live with it if it's not too bad, and
Speaker 2: it's pretty much lawns are pretty tolerant of wet conditions.
Speaker 2: By and large, they do okay on that. In that case,
Speaker 2: it's just a matter of you know, getting good aeration
Speaker 2: in the soil if it's a little compacted, and that's
Speaker 2: part of the issue, having a core aeration done, doing
Speaker 2: some compost top dressing on it, and trying to get
Speaker 2: that lawn is healthy, the root system is healthy as
Speaker 2: you can. So those are kind of the three levels
Speaker 2: of addressing that. Now, why it died, it could have
Speaker 2: been due to to just compaction and excessive moisture, but
Speaker 2: it may also have been a root disease. It could
Speaker 2: have been a lack of sunlight due to shade. It
Speaker 2: could be you know, some droughty periods that open the
Speaker 2: door for for some issues like disease related. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of hard for me to know the answer to
Speaker 2: the why right now.
Speaker 9: But how much sun I cut back way on some
Speaker 9: trees that were in that area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. I tell you, Jeff
Speaker 2: that what I found is when grass is struggling due
Speaker 2: to marginal light amounts, you know, it's not enough to
Speaker 2: just kill it, but it's just barely hanging on. When
Speaker 2: it starts declining, it's hard to turn it around. It's
Speaker 2: just because it doesn't have the energy to get better.
Speaker 2: You know, the patient is so weak that it's just
Speaker 2: trying to Trying to recover is something that may not happen.
Speaker 2: And so the more you can get it, the better.
Speaker 2: If you can get it at least six hours of sun,
Speaker 2: that's good. If you can't do that, then with each
Speaker 2: hour less you get, it's going to be marginally weaker
Speaker 2: in order to do. And when I say sun, it's
Speaker 2: a matter of total light. So if you have a
Speaker 2: very bright dapple shade all day, that's pretty good. If
Speaker 2: you have a few hours of direct sun and then
Speaker 2: deep shade, you know, there's an equivalency in there somewhere.
Speaker 2: So it's not just direct sun. But the more direct
Speaker 2: it is, the more light you're going to get to
Speaker 2: that grass.
Speaker 9: Okay, as you're a compost of dressing, you'd recommend that.
Speaker 7: What you say.
Speaker 2: The folks at Heirloom saw as I say, you're in, oh,
Speaker 2: you're up in magnolia area there over an heirloom says
Speaker 2: that's important. They have a blend they put together that
Speaker 2: it's got some sand in it and it's got some
Speaker 2: compost in it as well, and they'll they can deliver
Speaker 2: bulk of it, or you can get a go over
Speaker 2: and get it yourself and bring it back closer to you.
Speaker 2: Would be Nature's Way, which is on Interstate forty five
Speaker 2: just south of Conroe. So you're a Magnoias so right
Speaker 2: where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five is yeah,
Speaker 2: And I would call talk to Ian over there or
Speaker 2: one of the folks at Nature's Way and say, you know,
Speaker 2: what do you what do you have for something like this?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: And they're going to have lens, they're going to have options,
Speaker 2: and they'll be able to tell you on that. Do
Speaker 2: you do you need a phone number for them?
Speaker 9: No, I've been by there before.
Speaker 7: I use them occasionally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so okay, good, all right, Well that's what I
Speaker 2: would do. But just to remember that the more it's
Speaker 2: more of a soil, a sandy or sandy loam type soil,
Speaker 2: the more what you build up is going to stay up,
Speaker 2: the more organic matter it has in it, the more
Speaker 2: it's going to tend to sink back down over time.
Speaker 2: Is that organic matter decomposes away?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, all right, thank you so.
Speaker 2: Much, Yes, sir, thanks for the call. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2: Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 2: eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
Speaker 2: eight seven four. We definitely want you to have success,
Speaker 2: and if we can help you with something, give me
Speaker 2: a call. Let's do that. I one of the things
Speaker 2: I've said this before, one of the things that that
Speaker 2: makes me sad is to have a gardener or someone
Speaker 2: who wants to be a gardener who just throws their
Speaker 2: hands up, throws in the trowel in this case literally
Speaker 2: the trial, not the towel, and says I can't, I can't,
Speaker 2: I can't do this, I'm not good. I got a
Speaker 2: brown thumb, and all those kinds of things we say
Speaker 2: when we can when plants die on us. Look, I
Speaker 2: just want to let me comfort you. I'll try to
Speaker 2: use my most soothing voice. You are not a brown
Speaker 2: thumb person. You're not. You do not have a b
Speaker 2: I promise you you do not have a brown thumb.
Speaker 2: Plants need certain things. They need sunlight, they need moisture
Speaker 2: but not too much. They nutrients and a balance. They
Speaker 2: need soil that drains well but wholesome moisture. And as
Speaker 2: we give plants those things they want, suddenly let's just
Speaker 2: say go back to the thumb color your thumb starts
Speaker 2: turning green. Okay, and you can do this. It is
Speaker 2: something you can do. And gardening it, you know, people
Speaker 2: are in it for a lot of reasons. Some people
Speaker 2: it's like I want a pretty place. I'm gonna pay
Speaker 2: somebody to come make it pretty. And that's okay, that's legit.
Speaker 2: You can do that. We can help advise you so
Speaker 2: you can help guide the people that come to make
Speaker 2: your place pretty. Other people want to do it all themselves,
Speaker 2: and they want to walk through it step by step
Speaker 2: by step, build their own perkilas. I mean, lay their
Speaker 2: own side. I mean you can go that route too
Speaker 2: if you want to, and we can help you with that.
Speaker 2: My goal here is for you to have a bountiful
Speaker 2: garden and a beautiful landscape. And the third one is
Speaker 2: very important and more fun in the process. Gardening should
Speaker 2: be fun, it should be rewarding. But know this, to
Speaker 2: be a great gardener, you got to kill a lot
Speaker 2: of plants. So if you've been getting frustrated because you're
Speaker 2: killing plants, you're just on your way to being a
Speaker 2: great gardener. Because each time something goes wrong, we learn
Speaker 2: from it and we get better at it, and so
Speaker 2: that's my encouragement for the morning. You can do this.
Speaker 2: This is really not all that difficult. Well, it's getting
Speaker 2: close to time for me to take another break, and
Speaker 2: I want to give you the phone number one more
Speaker 2: time seven one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 2: And I want to remind you that my website, Gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip, I just keep adding more and more things
Speaker 2: to it that help answer the questions I get here.
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for over thirty five years gardening
Speaker 2: advice and quite a few years in Radio two, and
Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of questions, and I know the
Speaker 2: kinds of things people are going to ask, and so
Speaker 2: I put these things together on the website so that
Speaker 2: you can get the help you need. So Gardening with
Speaker 2: Skip dot com, go check it out and find some
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Speaker 2: are free downloads up there be right back. Alrighty, we're
Speaker 2: back and we mugging around on caurn line this morning. Hey,
Speaker 2: give me a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: kat r H. We'll talk about the things that you
Speaker 2: are interested in, try to help you have some success
Speaker 2: with your garden. As I was saying, you do not
Speaker 2: have a brown thumb. You really have a green thumb.
Speaker 2: You just haven't informed your thumb enough to get it
Speaker 2: to turn green. And that's what we're gonna do right now.
Speaker 2: We're we're gonna talk about the things that help you
Speaker 2: have success with garden, because that's what's all about. Who
Speaker 2: wants to buy a plant go to the trouble of
Speaker 2: planting and watching it die. That's discouraging. We don't want
Speaker 2: to have that. So we got to get the soil right.
Speaker 2: We want to make sure the plant's in the spot
Speaker 2: it wants to be. Does it like lots of sun
Speaker 2: or not too much sun? Does it need certain conditions
Speaker 2: of soil, like acidic soil like a blueberries and azaleas
Speaker 2: and camellias and puris. I never talked about puris. Puris
Speaker 2: is a wonderful plant. Virginia sweetspar there's another one I
Speaker 2: don't talk about. A native plant to the southeastern parts
Speaker 2: of the US, including parts of Texas, that has beautiful
Speaker 2: little long blooms on them, little clusters of long blooms,
Speaker 2: and it's a great one. But it likes the citic
Speaker 2: soil conditions, and you can create that for your plants.
Speaker 2: So when you do that, you make them feel at home.
Speaker 2: If you make them feel at home, they will be
Speaker 2: happy and they will grow and perform for you, kind
Speaker 2: of like the show field of dreams. How many y'all
Speaker 2: remember that if you build it, they will come. If
Speaker 2: you build the soil and the site, your plants will thrive.
Speaker 2: That's just how it works. It can happen. So that's
Speaker 2: my encouragement for the day. Our garden centers are loading
Speaker 2: up out there on plants. Just going and visiting some
Speaker 2: of our great garden centers that we have here in
Speaker 2: this area. Oh my gosh, I was getting spring fever
Speaker 2: just looking at the plants that they have. And it
Speaker 2: is time to get going on that now.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: Listen, today it's out there and it's raining. I don't
Speaker 2: want to go to a garden center's rain and all that.
Speaker 2: That's a to you. I'd throw a raincoat on and go.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I love. Here's the deal. When you
Speaker 2: go and it's kind of a you know, not a
Speaker 2: bright sunny day, well, a lot of people are staying away,
Speaker 2: so you got the place to yourself. You can talk
Speaker 2: to them and ask them questions and get all kinds
Speaker 2: of help and whatnot. But anyway, whenever you go and
Speaker 2: do it, get those plants, but make sure you got
Speaker 2: the soil ready. Remember brown stuff before green stuff. So
Speaker 2: when you go to someplace, get a bag of compost
Speaker 2: or molt or bed mix or whatever you're going to do.
Speaker 2: Maybe you just need to mix a little compost into
Speaker 2: the soil and that'll do it. Maybe you want to
Speaker 2: build a whole raised bed, and that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: You know, for years my vegetable gardens were down in
Speaker 2: the soil. In other words, you go in the backyard,
Speaker 2: scrape off all the grass or weeds, whatever you got,
Speaker 2: and your rototilet up and you plant in it. That's
Speaker 2: a vegetable garden. Well, since then I have learned that
Speaker 2: that first of all, that's fine. I mean, can garden
Speaker 2: that way. That's how we farm, by the way. But
Speaker 2: I now have raised bed boxes. And whether you I've
Speaker 2: done it with just a mound of soil, you know,
Speaker 2: where you create a mound of soil that's like uh,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe eight ten inches high and it'll settle
Speaker 2: a little in time, but kind of packed the sides
Speaker 2: a little bit as you're making it, and it makes it.
Speaker 2: It makes a decent bed, or you can put it
Speaker 2: in a container of some sort. Maybe it is wood
Speaker 2: that is that is rot resistant, wood, that's a box.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is one of the nice corrugated metal containers
Speaker 2: that are painted and they're very attractive and they last forever.
Speaker 2: They're very they're rust resistant. That you know, all of that,
Speaker 2: you can do that. Maybe you want to do a
Speaker 2: rock bed and do a beautiful stone on the sides
Speaker 2: of the bed, or those little landscaping bed stones that
Speaker 2: are for creating a little retaining wall in the landscape.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. Plants do not care what they're growing in.
Speaker 2: I want you to think about that fella I know
Speaker 2: in Mississippi a lot of you probably heard him. He
Speaker 2: comes over here and speaks every none. Then I fell
Speaker 2: to rushing. He made a statement. He said, you cannot
Speaker 2: embarrass a plant with a pot, And that is true.
Speaker 2: I mean literally, You get you a toilet fixture, stick
Speaker 2: it out in the garden, drill holes in the bottom,
Speaker 2: get ready for letters from the hoa by the way,
Speaker 2: and put a plant in it. And that plant will
Speaker 2: grow because it's a container and it holds a toilet
Speaker 2: holds a lot of soil. My point is not to
Speaker 2: do that. My point is that they didn't care where
Speaker 2: it's growing in. It says how much soil do I
Speaker 2: have so I can get through the Texas summer days.
Speaker 2: Number two, do I have good drainage? And number three
Speaker 2: did you put a good soil in me? And it'll grow?
Speaker 2: So when you're going to grow in something, it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what I mean. You can lay logs on the
Speaker 2: ground and make a box bed. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: work and they will ride away and you'll be doing
Speaker 2: it again. So it's not what I would recommend. The
Speaker 2: plants don't care. I like now growing and raised box
Speaker 2: beds because when you do that, you can put the
Speaker 2: best quality soil mix in there and from day one
Speaker 2: you're growing and you're having good luck with it. To
Speaker 2: get out and bang through on a rototiller and try
Speaker 2: to improve the soil and you can that it is
Speaker 2: more work, and I just find that I have my
Speaker 2: best performance and a good quality boxed bed and it's
Speaker 2: so easy. And like I said, if you were to
Speaker 2: decide I'm going to have a garden this week, and
Speaker 2: you're going to go do it today, and you go
Speaker 2: out there aside from any drizzlies, and you put a
Speaker 2: box anywhere. It could be on the soil, it could
Speaker 2: be on the driveway, it could be on a patio plant.
Speaker 2: I didn't care what it's on, and you felt it
Speaker 2: full of good mix. Later today you're planting your garden
Speaker 2: and it's a ranky tat and it's as easy as that.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about. And so that's one way
Speaker 2: to have good success. Now in flowerbeds, you're not gonna
Speaker 2: have boxes all out in front of the house everywhere
Speaker 2: for flowers, but those we do build up. Those we
Speaker 2: get a good bed mikes in to have success. But
Speaker 2: start with the soil. Start with the soil it. I
Speaker 2: guess one analogy was if you're going to build a
Speaker 2: house and you went out there and you just laid
Speaker 2: a bunch of two bay fours on the ground and
Speaker 2: started hammering up walls and making it. How long is
Speaker 2: that house gonna last? Not very long. You get a
Speaker 2: good solid foundation and then you build right on it
Speaker 2: and correctly on it, and you're gonna have a house
Speaker 2: that lasts for decades and decades. Okay, that's what we
Speaker 2: do with the garden if we want to have success,
Speaker 2: not waste money. You can have success that way. My
Speaker 2: phone number is seven one three two one two k
Speaker 2: t r H seven one three two k t r H.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be taking our top of the Hour
Speaker 2: break here for the news in just a minute. But
Speaker 2: if you'd like to be first up, that'd be a
Speaker 2: time to call and talk to Jonathan. Say, hey, get
Speaker 2: me on there. If you've got some pictures of something
Speaker 2: you want to talk about, call us up and get
Speaker 2: the email to send those two and then follow that
Speaker 2: up with a phone call of the show.
Speaker 9: Maybe.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people call and they go, well, I got this weed,
Speaker 2: and it's They sort of describe it, and I'm doing
Speaker 2: my best to try to make sure identify it. But
Speaker 2: if I don't picture what you're describing correctly, then I
Speaker 2: may send you off down the wrong path, and I
Speaker 2: don't want to do that. So it's always good to
Speaker 2: have a photo for identifying a plant, or for identifying
Speaker 2: a bug or a disease, or for diagnosing, you know,
Speaker 2: whatever kind of problem. Just give us a good photo.
Speaker 9: We'll do that.
Speaker 2: Do that all the time. Appreciate that too, by the way,
Speaker 2: makes it a lot easier, all right, Well, I hear
Speaker 2: music which means time to wind this one up. We're
Speaker 2: going to be back with your calls here in a bit.
Speaker 2: I do want to remind you that we are in
Speaker 2: we are on the verge, the doorstep of the spring season,
Speaker 2: and it really is here in our area. So getting seeds,
Speaker 2: buying your seeds, getting them ready, Starting your transplants. We
Speaker 2: talked about that yesterday down at the Fort Ben Garden Show.
Speaker 2: Starting your transplants, getting good, healthy transplants, growing all of
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Now's the time to do it.
Speaker 2: I can't think of anything better than the one day
Speaker 2: to be inside growing your own transplants.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as many good thanks to super Crazy.
Speaker 2: Sorry, well, good morning, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm
Speaker 2: your host, Skip Rictor, and it's good to be visiting
Speaker 2: with you on a nice Sunday morning. I know it's
Speaker 2: a little drizzly out there. It's gonna be a little
Speaker 2: bit drizzly er as we go through the show today,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. That's why we can enjoy gardening from inside.
Speaker 2: We're talking about gardening on the radio, but maybe starting
Speaker 2: some seeds, starting some cuttings, getting out a seed catalog
Speaker 2: and doing some planning and thinking or a little online research,
Speaker 2: reading up on some stuff. You know, they say in
Speaker 2: order when you're cutting wood, when you're you know, logging
Speaker 2: the forest, if you will, you got to keep the
Speaker 2: saw sharp sharp. But it's not just about cutting down trees.
Speaker 2: It's about keeping the saw sharp because the dollar of
Speaker 2: the saw gets the harder it is to cut wood,
Speaker 2: and the less you get done. I guess the same
Speaker 2: thing is true about gardening. Making sure that we are
Speaker 2: continually learning more, growing more. I guess sharpening the saw,
Speaker 2: this saw beeing the gardener in this case that is important,
Speaker 2: and it makes gardening more fun and it's exciting. You know,
Speaker 2: there are so many kinds of plants in gardening that
Speaker 2: you're never gonna get the end of it. And you
Speaker 2: may start and you're all about, I just want a
Speaker 2: good lawn, I want a perfect, beautiful lawn. But then
Speaker 2: you discover I don't know, it could be something really random,
Speaker 2: like orchids. Enjoying growing orchids. The moth orchid is the
Speaker 2: one that you see everywhere for sale, and it is
Speaker 2: an easy one to grow. I neglect, don't tell anybody this,
Speaker 2: I neglect mine and they still bloom as long as
Speaker 2: I don't just like kill them. I mean they're easy
Speaker 2: to grow. Maybe you get into that and you want
Speaker 2: to do that. Took somebody the other day that was
Speaker 2: into African violets, and I mean they grew miniature African violets,
Speaker 2: they grew the large type African violets. They were into
Speaker 2: something else called a pieces that's another related cousin of
Speaker 2: African violets that is really cool and beautiful. And they
Speaker 2: just get all into that, and that's cool. Maybe you
Speaker 2: are about eating and you want vegetables and you want fruit,
Speaker 2: and you want to grow herbs, and that's your new
Speaker 2: thing on guarding. It always is something new, always something new.
Speaker 2: A couple of days, a couple of shows ago, I
Speaker 2: mentioned terrariums and how you know that used to be
Speaker 2: a really popular thing, terrariums, and they kind of waned.
Speaker 2: And I see an interest coming back in that now too.
Speaker 2: And that's a whole other thing. So somebody, I mean
Speaker 2: somebody that is completely shut in. They can't get out
Speaker 2: and do anything, maybe physically, you know, for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: a little terrarium to put some plants in and to grow,
Speaker 2: get a little light over it, and stuff that is
Speaker 2: a kind of gardening that is also kind of fun
Speaker 2: to do. You can get some really creative designs that
Speaker 2: way people go to great links, kind of like building
Speaker 2: a ship in a bottle. You know you can. You
Speaker 2: can kind of let the sky be the limit. But
Speaker 2: find something you like and try something new. Hey, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five New Year. Time to try something new. Do
Speaker 2: something you haven't done before in gardening. Try something you
Speaker 2: haven't tried before in gardening. There is for the rest
Speaker 2: of your life. You live to be five hundred years old,
Speaker 2: you are not going to run out of new things
Speaker 2: to do and try and learn when it comes to gardening.
Speaker 2: That's just how that works. Well, let's do this. Let's
Speaker 2: head out to Brenham, Texas, and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Mike. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Hey, Hey, Skip, thank you.
Speaker 4: I just have a question.
Speaker 12: I've got a plan to improve my yard and we
Speaker 12: do a lot of organic, but I'm not sure that
Speaker 12: we're gonna be able to do that entirely. I want
Speaker 12: to try and kill off some weeds and stuff that
Speaker 12: are growing in the yard, and I'm thinking about using
Speaker 12: two four deep products and then I use Balen's And
Speaker 12: I was wondering if if I did that, would that
Speaker 12: affect the Bermuda beheya wild grass that I have grown,
Speaker 12: And would it affect the soil as far as the
Speaker 12: bugs and the quality of the soil and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, well two D is not going to effect grasses
Speaker 2: like that, so there won't be a negative effect on
Speaker 2: your turf, and its effect on microbes is minimal. If anything,
Speaker 2: nature is pretty resilient. I would probably not just us
Speaker 2: two for D. That's fine. It works on things. You
Speaker 2: just got to be careful because it kills broad leaf
Speaker 2: plants and your petunias, your shrubs, your trees, your flowers,
Speaker 2: those are all broad leaf plants, and so it's easy
Speaker 2: to have secondary damage that you don't intend. So you
Speaker 2: got to be really careful with spraying those things. If
Speaker 2: you've got broad leaf weeds, those are winter weeds and
Speaker 2: you can spray them. Now, there are a number of
Speaker 2: products out there. There's product blends from fur loam and
Speaker 2: from Monterey from a high Yield and what's the other
Speaker 2: one on bone eye is another one. There's those blends
Speaker 2: like that for controlling a variety weeds. They put more
Speaker 2: than one product together and that way it covers better
Speaker 2: range of weeds out there. But uh, do all that
Speaker 2: before it gets temperatures get up above mid eighties. Up
Speaker 2: it definitely up in the upper eighties. Get that done
Speaker 2: before then, because then you can damage some types of
Speaker 2: grass depending on the product you use and the type
Speaker 2: of grass that you have. Anytime you can spot spray, Yeah, anytime,
Speaker 2: eating spot spray Mike is good. And also make your spray.
Speaker 2: Don't pump up your sprayer very much. You would like
Speaker 2: of course droplets going out from the spray. If you
Speaker 2: pump it up a lot, you end up almost creating
Speaker 2: like a foggy mist that will drift off site under
Speaker 2: that higher pressure spray. So keep this, keep the spray
Speaker 2: pressure down a little bit, and that that is also
Speaker 2: a safety factor.
Speaker 12: All right, So I have an acre of land, is
Speaker 12: there is there a granular product that you like?
Speaker 2: Well all the time? No, I don't have to be
Speaker 2: sprayed if you're killing existing weeds. There are products if
Speaker 2: the weeds are wet you can put out. I know
Speaker 2: nitrophoss has a number of those kinds of things. If
Speaker 2: you're talking about a whole acre. There are also a
Speaker 2: versions of some of these things, but you can get
Speaker 2: you a product that if the leaves are wet, it's
Speaker 2: like putting out fertilizer with a product in it and
Speaker 2: it sticks to the weed leaves and kills them that way.
Speaker 2: But you need the leaves to be wet in order
Speaker 2: to do that. A normal acre, it's not like you
Speaker 2: can just turn the water on out there. So that's
Speaker 2: where a spray is a little more helpful because you
Speaker 2: can target it. And we're talking about killing the existing weeds. Now,
Speaker 2: preventing weeds. You put a granular down and the next
Speaker 2: time it rains, it moves into the soil and then
Speaker 2: it's there to prevent weed seeds from coming out.
Speaker 4: Gotcha is Balin's one that you like?
Speaker 2: Baylan is one I would I would probably go with
Speaker 2: uh something that has pendamethylene in it, or something that
Speaker 2: has a die thiope here in it. If you'll go
Speaker 2: to my website gardening with Skip dot com and look
Speaker 2: at the disease, pest and weed schedule, I list a
Speaker 2: couple of options there and you can see the ingredients,
Speaker 2: and those are the ones that I would go after
Speaker 2: as a pre emergent, and if you're going to be
Speaker 2: post emergent, that's a that's a different thing. All right. Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm up against a heartbreak, Mike, but good luck getting
Speaker 2: getting that under control. Thank you, Bett, Thank you for
Speaker 2: the call. All right, folks, I'll be right back.
Speaker 13: There we go.
Speaker 2: We need to start having contests here on Guarden Line
Speaker 2: where the caller that calls in and can tell me
Speaker 2: who's singing that gets a free I don't know what
Speaker 2: I've come up with something like that. That'd be fun.
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Speaker 2: this morning, Donna, that lives over near Champions Area, And
Speaker 2: excuse me, the Copperfield area. She goes to Langham Creek
Speaker 2: all the time, Memorial Ace Hardware on the Memorial area,
Speaker 2: and you go out to Richmond and you got, for example,
Speaker 2: the Plantation. Ace Hardware a great store out there. Have
Speaker 2: been there more than one time, really enjoy that store.
Speaker 2: But go to Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator,
Speaker 2: find a store near you, And that is how you
Speaker 2: go about it, because Ace is the place. And I'm
Speaker 2: telling you not long when we talking about go get
Speaker 2: this fertilizer, Go get that product or control weeds or
Speaker 2: insects or diseases or whatever, and Ice is going to
Speaker 2: have it ready to go for you when you just
Speaker 2: show up. All right, I'm gonna talk about a couple
Speaker 2: of things this morning, And first of all, I'm going
Speaker 2: to talk about a little bit about transplanting. I had
Speaker 2: some questions yesterday down at the Fort beIN County Home
Speaker 2: Show about transplanting plants, and as a question was evolving,
Speaker 2: I kind of realized this person had a plant that
Speaker 2: the roots were all wrapped up in the container, wrapping around,
Speaker 2: and that's what happens. It's a round container that most
Speaker 2: plants are grown in and the roots hit the side
Speaker 2: and they just have to turn left or right or something,
Speaker 2: and they just start going around in circles. And when
Speaker 2: you pull that plant out of the ground and put
Speaker 2: it in out of the pot and put it in
Speaker 2: the ground, the plant the roots are not going to
Speaker 2: unwind underground.
Speaker 8: And so what do you do?
Speaker 2: Because a pot bound plant is not going to establish
Speaker 2: as fast or as well in some cases, if it
Speaker 2: were like a little tree, those winding roots are going
Speaker 2: to get bigger month by month, year by year, as
Speaker 2: the trunk gets bigger month by month, year by year.
Speaker 2: And the next thing you know, those roots are literally
Speaker 2: strangling the base of the trunk of that plant. And that,
Speaker 2: unfortunately happens way too often. You got to cut the roots,
Speaker 2: and don't be afraid to cut them. People buy this
Speaker 2: big old plant and it's probably too small of a
Speaker 2: pot and you pull it out and it's just white
Speaker 2: with circling roots, and they don't want to cut those roots.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hurt my plant. I got this big beautile
Speaker 2: cut the roots. You if it's you know, something smaller,
Speaker 2: a little shrub, The roots aren't that big. Take a
Speaker 2: box cutter knife, push that little one inch blade out
Speaker 2: there and slice vertically down through that root system in
Speaker 2: three or four places around it. Here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Wherever you cut a root, roots are going to branch
Speaker 2: out new roots. Just like if you have a branch
Speaker 2: above ground and you were to lop it off or
Speaker 2: snip it off with punters, what happens. New shoots come
Speaker 2: out from behind the cut. That's what roots do. One time,
Speaker 2: I was at Arbigate Garden Center up in Tambol and
Speaker 2: visiting with Beverly, and there were some trees that they've
Speaker 2: gotten in and I noticed a circling root on them,
Speaker 2: because that's what happens at pots. If you've got a
Speaker 2: plants grown in a round pot, it's gonna have some
Speaker 2: circling roots. And I got a permission and went in
Speaker 2: there and took handprinters and just snipped the roots on
Speaker 2: one of those plants. Came back two weeks later and
Speaker 2: there were fresh white little roots, several three or four
Speaker 2: coming out of each cut surface. Everywhere I'd cut a root,
Speaker 2: there were three or four fresh, tender white roots coming out.
Speaker 2: That's what's going to happen underground for you when you
Speaker 2: cut the plant roots before you put them in the ground.
Speaker 2: Don't be afraid to do it. Another reason why it's
Speaker 2: so important to plants sooner rather than later. If you
Speaker 2: do that in July, it's a little more stress on
Speaker 2: a plant than if you do it now in January.
Speaker 2: So get that done, but ruthless. Now, if you have
Speaker 2: a little maybe a bedding plant, a tomato or a
Speaker 2: petunia or whatever you're gonna put in the ground, you
Speaker 2: will often see those when they've been in the pot
Speaker 2: for too long, have a massive roots. The whole site.
Speaker 2: You can't even see dirt. The whole side of the
Speaker 2: pot is just solid white right in most cases tan
Speaker 2: brown roots because they typically start dying out when they're
Speaker 2: that pot bound. Cut those two or just kind of
Speaker 2: tease them apart. Sometimes I just with a little tiny transplant,
Speaker 2: just rip the roots on the outside with my fingers
Speaker 2: off and stick it in the ground and watered in
Speaker 2: really good. Get some get some roots stimulator in there.
Speaker 2: Get the kinds of products you know, you hear me
Speaker 2: talk about things well, For example, nutri Star Genesis. That's
Speaker 2: a great one, a great one by the folks at Nelson.
Speaker 2: I mix that every time I'm going to transplant a plant.
Speaker 2: Nutri Star gets mixed in with the soil in the
Speaker 2: planting hole, or in the case of a container plant,
Speaker 2: it gets mixed in with the potting soil that's going
Speaker 2: to be put around that new plant in the container,
Speaker 2: and it takes off and it grows fast. There are
Speaker 2: products that you can dip them in. You know has
Speaker 2: to grow by medina. That's when you can drench it
Speaker 2: with a watering can or like I mentioned yesterday, I'll
Speaker 2: often take put a little has to Grow in a
Speaker 2: bucket or something and then just dip the set the
Speaker 2: plant in there while I'm getting the whole dug and
Speaker 2: then pull it out. Now you got a root ball
Speaker 2: soaked with the has to Grow six twelve six plant
Speaker 2: food and you just put it right in the ground.
Speaker 2: And we have other examples of that. But take care
Speaker 2: of those roots. Don't expect it to fix itself underground.
Speaker 2: It won't. And trust me if you do. If you
Speaker 2: bought two plants and they're both equally root bound, and
Speaker 2: one of them you just put in the ground, and
Speaker 2: the other one you did what I've been saying to do,
Speaker 2: come back in June and look at those plants, and
Speaker 2: then give me a call and tell me how they're doing,
Speaker 2: and you're going to see that difference. Trust me on
Speaker 2: this one. It is important to do that. Now we
Speaker 2: have the ability to buy a plant that's not so
Speaker 2: terribly root bound, take advantage of not doing that, buying
Speaker 2: one that's not so terribly root bound. But if you
Speaker 2: have them and if you cut them, the plants will
Speaker 2: survive and they'll do well. All right. I spend a
Speaker 2: lot of time on that. But that is again one
Speaker 2: of these days, I think I need to come up
Speaker 2: with maybe the top twenty five mistakes gardeners make. That
Speaker 2: sounds like such a negative list, but it would help
Speaker 2: you not make those mistakes. And one of the ones
Speaker 2: is planting root bound plants without doing something for that
Speaker 2: root system. That would belong on the list. All right,
Speaker 2: you're listening to Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter our
Speaker 2: number for gardeners to call in. This is a call
Speaker 2: in show. Seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 2: r H seven one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 2: By the way, that nutri Star that Genesis Nelson Plant
Speaker 2: Food has, they have their fertilizers are kind of grouped.
Speaker 2: There's a nature Star that's more organic types of fertilizer.
Speaker 2: There is a turf Star that's products for your lawn.
Speaker 2: Turf Star. There is a Nutristar line, and those tend
Speaker 2: to be things like fertilizer for your plumeria, or fertilizer
Speaker 2: for your fruit trees, or fertilizer for your vegetable. That's
Speaker 2: the kind of the nutri Star line. But there is
Speaker 2: a Nutristar genesis that I've been talking about, and it's
Speaker 2: got the reason it works so well and the reason
Speaker 2: I use it well. The reason I use it is
Speaker 2: I tried it and I was shocked and how well
Speaker 2: it worked. It really surprised me how well it worked.
Speaker 2: But it's got the endo and the ectomiciza. You're sitting
Speaker 2: there going, what the heck does that even mean? Well,
Speaker 2: micariza are little. There are fung fungal strands that live
Speaker 2: in an association with roots, that's called a mic orhizal association.
Speaker 2: And these fungi go into the root, doesn't hurt the plant,
Speaker 2: it helps the plant, and then they go out in
Speaker 2: the soil and they may grab a phosphorus molecule from
Speaker 2: way out in the swell that the plant can't reach
Speaker 2: and bring it back to the plant. Or they may
Speaker 2: cut act two plants together like a telegraph line or
Speaker 2: a telephone line between the two plants for communication. But
Speaker 2: this has both the ones that are on the outside
Speaker 2: of the root and the ones that are in the
Speaker 2: root as an endow versus ecto. It's got those, it's
Speaker 2: got bacteria and other fungi that benefit that soil microbiome,
Speaker 2: and then it's got the humantes and of course it's
Speaker 2: got some nutrition in it as well. Now you mix
Speaker 2: them in the soil. You do that, then as those
Speaker 2: plants are growing, then you do your regular fertilizing like
Speaker 2: you would do. The genesis is for the transplant mixed
Speaker 2: potting soil or soil or whatever you're putting in. It's
Speaker 2: specifically designed to be mixed in the soil. Okay, but
Speaker 2: don't forget. Get you some color Star or other nutri
Speaker 2: Stars or nutri Star whatever you're going to use, and
Speaker 2: have those on hand for ongoing fertilization. But before you
Speaker 2: put a plant in the ground, have that nutri Star
Speaker 2: genesis around because I'm telling you it works, and I'm
Speaker 2: telling you that because I have used it. Della experiment
Speaker 2: with it a while back. Alrighty, well, I am up
Speaker 2: against another hard break here. If you would like to
Speaker 2: get us a call and be on garden Line to
Speaker 2: ask your question seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to start off with
Speaker 2: Brad out there in Pasadena. Brad will be right with
Speaker 2: you in just a bit. Here, I want to remind
Speaker 2: you my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, is where
Speaker 2: you're going to find things that I'm often referring to
Speaker 2: during the show. Someone asked me nuts Edge was all
Speaker 2: over my garden last year and now it's all frozen back.
Speaker 7: Is it gone?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no no, it's not gone, unfortunately, But
Speaker 2: I have a publication Nutsedge and in depth look that
Speaker 2: will tell you how you can, I promise successfully get
Speaker 2: rid of Nutsedge if you follow my advice in that publication.
Speaker 2: Just an example of one of the things on the website.
Speaker 2: Folks will be right back. You know how to jitterbug,
Speaker 2: It's okay to be doing that right now. Let's get
Speaker 2: back to the phones here on garden Line. We're going
Speaker 2: to go straight out to Pasadena, Texas and talk to Brad.
Speaker 2: Hello Brad, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Hi Skip. I've got a backyard just full of crab grass.
Speaker 10: Should I put the pre mergent down right now?
Speaker 2: I would. I would wait just a little bit. On
Speaker 2: my schedule. I've got the pre emergent starting in mid
Speaker 2: January and going going through February. You can do it now,
Speaker 2: but with where you live, if you did it a
Speaker 2: little bit later, that would be fine. Here's the thing,
Speaker 2: you don't want to wait too long. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, by doing it too early, then it ends
Speaker 2: up breaking down a little earlier too, And so the
Speaker 2: extend how far it goes out is not as far.
Speaker 2: Do you see what I'm saying. I mean, they only
Speaker 2: last a certain amount of time before they break down
Speaker 2: and you have to reapply them. So I would probably
Speaker 2: do mine maybe a next maybe next week after something
Speaker 2: like that would probably be about ideal for your area.
Speaker 2: Could could even come a little bit later now.
Speaker 10: Okay, good? Uh this well, pro diamine do the job.
Speaker 2: For diamond Yeah, oh yeah, that would be fine. Uh
Speaker 2: you know that the uh, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: ingredients out there that are that are pre emergence and
Speaker 2: I liked for for this area. I found that the
Speaker 2: barricade products just work really well. Nitrophoss has its barricade
Speaker 2: version and stuff, and I would I would recommend that
Speaker 2: you just use.
Speaker 10: That very good okay, thank you, Skip yeah.
Speaker 2: And just remember when you do this that you need
Speaker 2: uh you need to water it in after after you
Speaker 2: you apply it, so it only starts working when you
Speaker 2: move it down into the soil surface area. That that's important.
Speaker 2: And by the way, barricade is par diming that you
Speaker 2: were talking about.
Speaker 10: All right, thanks again, Skip.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you take care, good luck with that all ready,
Speaker 2: and let's go now to Huntsville, Texas. Talk to Linda. Hey, Linda,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 2: Morning.
Speaker 14: I have a question about some rows of sharing cuttings
Speaker 14: that I made last ball. They've been in the greenhouse
Speaker 14: on a warming pad under grow lights for probably two
Speaker 14: and a half months now, and they're really starting to
Speaker 14: grow and get lots of leaves, and I'm wondering when
Speaker 14: I can move them outside, take them off of that
Speaker 14: heating pad and grow lights and put them outside.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we don't know what the weather is
Speaker 2: going to be. And let's just say that we're up
Speaker 2: in Huntsville, so you go further north in the hearing
Speaker 2: listening area. Let's just say, you know, a week or
Speaker 2: two from now, you're going to drop back down into
Speaker 2: the mid teens. That'd be kind of hard on those
Speaker 2: brand new plants that are not hardened off. They've been
Speaker 2: living the life of Riley in your nice greenhouse under
Speaker 2: the lights and stuff with the heating mat. So I
Speaker 2: wouldn't put them out too soon. I'd give them a
Speaker 2: little more time. What I would do, though, is go
Speaker 2: ahead and lift them up out of there and pot
Speaker 2: them up. Pot them up into something, you know, whatever size.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a giant pot, but just
Speaker 2: get them, get them growing. With a little more root space,
Speaker 2: you can get them off the heating mat, provide them
Speaker 2: a little continue to give them the light that they have,
Speaker 2: and then once we get past the freeze damages, let's
Speaker 2: say we get somewhere into oh, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: mid March or something like that, then then go ahead
Speaker 2: and put them out or gradually acclimate them like, pot
Speaker 2: them up, get them growing, set them outside, and let
Speaker 2: them let them experience the cool weather we're having. But
Speaker 2: that way you can bring them in if it gets
Speaker 2: freezing cold. If you plant them, you're going to definitely
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 5: Would you say, is too cold.
Speaker 15: You know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not a it's not a black and white line.
Speaker 2: It's not that temperatures above freezing that worry me. It's
Speaker 2: it's a plant that is not hardened off being subjected
Speaker 2: to temperatures that are very, very cold. And since I
Speaker 2: don't have my crystal ball on the weather, i'd rather
Speaker 2: be conservative. And that's why I said put them up.
Speaker 2: Maybe put them outside, but be able to bring them
Speaker 2: in and they'll continue to develop roots. Even if temperatures
Speaker 2: are in you know, the highs in the fifties and
Speaker 2: at night it's in the low forties or upper thirties.
Speaker 2: They'll be okay, and they'll be developing root systems and
Speaker 2: getting acclimated. And then when you plant them out, your
Speaker 2: chance of success is going to be even better.
Speaker 14: But for right now, I could turn that heating pad off.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, if they have growth on top, that
Speaker 2: means they have roots. Yeah, a cutting that is is
Speaker 2: growing has roots. Those cuttings sit there and when that's
Speaker 2: one way I know they're rooting is because you start
Speaker 2: to see new growth appearing.
Speaker 14: Okay, so I could at least turn the heating pad off. Yeah,
Speaker 14: when it's warm and move them back inside when it's
Speaker 14: going to be cool at Yes.
Speaker 2: That would that would be That would be great. It
Speaker 2: sure would get you somebody genesis from Nelson. Get some
Speaker 2: genesis from Nelson. Plant foods so that when you plant them,
Speaker 2: whether you pop them up or put them in the ground,
Speaker 2: mix some of that in the soil they're being planted
Speaker 2: into and you're going to see a good benefit from
Speaker 2: that as they they will establish better. Okay, genesis genesis
Speaker 2: from Nelson. Oh, I thank you for that. You take care, Linda.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call very much. Well, oh my, Barbara
Speaker 2: and Hempstead, you're gonna be our first up when we
Speaker 2: come back from a break here. I don't have time
Speaker 2: to give your question the time I would like to
Speaker 2: provide it, So we're gonna hold you over and come
Speaker 2: back to you right when we get back from break.
Speaker 2: Remember on plants, plants go through a hardening off process
Speaker 2: as as things cool off in the fall, and that
Speaker 2: makes them more winter hardy. When we don't allow that,
Speaker 2: a plant that should be hardy won't be. For example,
Speaker 2: crate myrtles. A couple of years ago in December we
Speaker 2: had warm temperatures, they were not hardened off and ready.
Speaker 2: We had a seventeen degree I believe temperature where I
Speaker 2: live and crate myrtles killed the ground that re sprouted
Speaker 2: out of the base because they weren't ready. All right,
Speaker 2: I'll be right back in just a moment. All right,
Speaker 2: folks were back. Let's do this. You are listening to
Speaker 2: garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to
Speaker 2: help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape
Speaker 2: that is as simple as I can put it. Oh
Speaker 2: and one more thing, and have fun in the process.
Speaker 2: And never forget that gardening is supposed to be fun,
Speaker 2: and it is. You know, it's like getting to play
Speaker 2: in the dirt when you're an adult. And it's a
Speaker 2: good excuse for that. Right, Calvin and Hobbs, you remember
Speaker 2: the Cavin and Hobbes comic strip, The Little Tiger and
Speaker 2: the Little Boy. There's one of those, and it said,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, if your genes aren't
Speaker 2: grass stained, you need to seriously reconsider your life. I
Speaker 2: love that one.
Speaker 8: I get it.
Speaker 2: I agree that's true. Hey, let's go out to the phones.
Speaker 9: Here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna head all the way out to Hempstead and
Speaker 2: talk to Barbara. Hey, Barbara, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Thank you, Kim.
Speaker 13: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am? How can we help? How can we help?
Speaker 13: Okay? I thought a tumbler to do compost because I thought,
Speaker 13: why not use all the things out of the kitchen. Okay,
Speaker 13: Well there the tumbler got too heavy for me to turn.
Speaker 13: So the other day I got frustrated and I unloaded
Speaker 13: it and I put I dug it down into my
Speaker 13: raised beds, which I sow vegetables as my raised bed.
Speaker 13: So if I made a huge mistake, that's going to
Speaker 13: let me this spring? Or is it gonna be okay?
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be okay. Well, can I ask
Speaker 2: you about how far along the composting process do you
Speaker 2: think you got? Does it about halfway to compost? Or what.
Speaker 13: The bottom of it looked like?
Speaker 5: I mean, wonderful soil.
Speaker 13: It didn't have a bad smell the top the top
Speaker 13: has you know, it has like eggshells and some avocado
Speaker 13: and things like that. I haven't broken down yet that
Speaker 13: dark and believe it mostly broken down because I have
Speaker 13: an old.
Speaker 17: Tree to like.
Speaker 13: You think it's okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's okay. And the eggshells are almost
Speaker 2: never going to break down. I mean they'll they'll be
Speaker 2: all dark brown, black stained. If you come back five
Speaker 2: years from now and an eggshell is still going to
Speaker 2: look shaped like an eggshell, they don't break down much.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: The avocados or those old leathery skins are tough, and
Speaker 2: that's going to be very slow. So that's understandable. But
Speaker 2: the other rest of it is fine. What you probably
Speaker 2: ought to try to do, though, is as you get
Speaker 2: it in there, turn it more often, because what happens
Speaker 2: is you're going to get decomposition and now you have
Speaker 2: this heggy, heavy, soggy thing sitting on one side. So
Speaker 2: when you try to crank that around to the top,
Speaker 2: that's what's making it so hard to crank. So the
Speaker 2: more often you turn it, the less that's going to
Speaker 2: have happen, and you'll be able to continue to do
Speaker 2: turning as you need to.
Speaker 13: Okay, well, different ones, Okay, never mind. I also have
Speaker 13: a question for a friend of mine. He has a
Speaker 13: lemon trees that are in thought that she put in
Speaker 13: her baron and wrapped the blankets. Well, when she took
Speaker 13: the blankets off to take him back out, something has
Speaker 13: eaten all the bark off of those trees. That's like
Speaker 13: five trees. So she was thinking it was spping mice
Speaker 13: or something like that. But are those trees gonna be
Speaker 13: okay with no bark?
Speaker 2: Well maybe not. The things like rats and mice and
Speaker 2: some are cretain. Other creatures can gnaw on the base
Speaker 2: of a tree, uh and chew the bark on it.
Speaker 2: I would my question would be for her to check
Speaker 2: and see is the bark eaten all the way around
Speaker 2: on the trees and how wide of a section is that.
Speaker 2: So if it's just like on one side they choose
Speaker 2: some bark, then all the rest of the trunk is
Speaker 2: connected still from the top to the bottom. It goes
Speaker 2: all the way around.
Speaker 13: It's get me pictures, and it looks like all the
Speaker 13: way around. I mean they went from okay, you know,
Speaker 13: the soul level as far as they could get into everything.
Speaker 2: Oh well, then that's going to be too inside. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so what that's going to be too big of a
Speaker 2: gap for it to callous and close over Sometimes with
Speaker 2: a small we call that girdling. By the way, when
Speaker 2: they go when something removes the bark all the way
Speaker 2: around a trunk, If it's just a small area, you're
Speaker 2: going to get callous and it may close back over
Speaker 2: but and it but if it's very big, it never will.
Speaker 2: And and that tree it'll look like it's living for
Speaker 2: a while, But what's happening is the roots are getting
Speaker 2: starved for carbohydrates and it will go downhill and you
Speaker 2: won't be able to turn it around. Now she has
Speaker 2: a couple of options. The simplest, easiest thing is just
Speaker 2: get new trees, because then you know where you are
Speaker 2: and you know you're gonna do it. But if she
Speaker 2: wants to try to save those, she might try planting
Speaker 2: it a little bit deeper in a pot and getting
Speaker 2: some soil up against the bark, living bark that's still
Speaker 2: on that stem. Take a little pocket knife and make
Speaker 2: some little vertical slits in it, like the direction of
Speaker 2: the trunk, Just little slits with that little wound will callous.
Speaker 2: And where you get callous, you can get roots, and
Speaker 2: you may be able to get the top part above
Speaker 2: that chewed to go ahead and root and save the tree.
Speaker 8: That way.
Speaker 2: It's a long shot, but I'm using the term maybe
Speaker 2: on that, but that is a possibility. Those trees are
Speaker 2: too small to do bridge graphs on and so I
Speaker 2: don't I don't think that's going to be feasible. But
Speaker 2: if she wants to try to save them, that's how
Speaker 2: to try. Otherwise, just get you a good new tree
Speaker 2: and get some rat killer to put out there in
Speaker 2: the meantime.
Speaker 13: All right, sorry to tell her that, but okay, i'd
Speaker 13: thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Barbara. Take care good to talk to you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was a fun, fun story, funny story. I worked
Speaker 2: in Missouri for three years as a fruit grower advisor
Speaker 2: for Missouri State at that time it's called Southwest Missouri
Speaker 2: State anyway, and I would go out all over the
Speaker 2: state and help people that were grown fruit trees, primarily
Speaker 2: commercial growers, but you know, some homeowners. And went out
Speaker 2: to see a fella who had his trees had been
Speaker 2: girdled by rabbits. Now, what happens sometimes in areas where
Speaker 2: you get lost snow is the rabbits go hopping up
Speaker 2: to the trunk. They're hopping up on snow, and they
Speaker 2: chew the bark all the way around the trunk. They
Speaker 2: literally girdled the tree that way. And this was a
Speaker 2: sizeable probably about a four or five inch trunk on
Speaker 2: this apple tree that they had chewed off. And so
Speaker 2: there's a thing called a bridge graft where you cut
Speaker 2: a branch and you essentially connect the top part that
Speaker 2: was to above where it was chewed off, to the
Speaker 2: rootstock part below where it was chewed off. So you
Speaker 2: have these little bands of branches going across there. It's
Speaker 2: called a bridge graft. And I was sitting there doing
Speaker 2: this for him for free, just to help the guy.
Speaker 2: And I looked up and there's a little bunny rabbit
Speaker 2: like twenty feet away, and I go, there's your culprit.
Speaker 2: And the guy laughed and he goes, yeah, he's our
Speaker 2: pet rabbit. He hangs out around here. And I'm sitting here.
Speaker 2: I'm not helping a guy. I'm feeding a rabbit. Why
Speaker 2: am I doing this? Anyway? Fun story, all right, we're
Speaker 2: at the end of an hour here. We're gonna be
Speaker 2: back in a little bit, and when we do, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk to Glenn in Lake Jackson, And if
Speaker 2: you'd like to be up then just get Jonathan m
Speaker 2: call seven one three two one two kat r h
Speaker 2: and we will talk to you about that too. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about grafting. Grafting is kind of a fun
Speaker 2: thing and so is budding and it's not hard to learn.
Speaker 2: Now early on you're going to not have great success
Speaker 2: because you kind of to get the neck of it.
Speaker 2: But as I was talking earlier, what have you never
Speaker 2: done that you're going to do a new and try
Speaker 2: this year? How about trying to bud? Budding doesn't cut
Speaker 2: off the whole branch, and so if you fail at it,
Speaker 2: you haven't lost much. Do you know you could bud
Speaker 2: four or five different kinds of peaches on your peach tree?
Speaker 2: Would that be cool?
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, welcome to kt RH Guarded Line with
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Speaker 2: if you go outside and look at your landscape, I
Speaker 2: bet it looks pretty bleak. You know that freeze we
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Speaker 2: now to Lake Jackson and talk to Glenn this morning.
Speaker 2: Hello Glenn, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Thank you. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm well, sir, I'm well.
Speaker 8: I've got I covered up my high biscus trees and
Speaker 8: a palm tree, and they stayed covered up with a
Speaker 8: frost protection cloth, and uh huh. When I took them off,
Speaker 8: they looked pretty. The leaves looked darker and very wilted.
Speaker 8: I didn't know whether the sun or the freeze got him.
Speaker 2: The lack of sun, rather it would be and I
Speaker 2: would be the freeze. The freeze got them Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's it. You may still you may still have some
Speaker 2: life though in the stems, the trunk and branches. I
Speaker 2: would give it a little time, and that plant will
Speaker 2: tell you where it's, what's alive, and what's not alive
Speaker 2: when it begins to push out new buds, and just
Speaker 2: cut it back to wherever there's new growth at that time.
Speaker 8: Okay, So covering them up just didn't do very much.
Speaker 5: Did it? Well?
Speaker 2: It can. There are a number of factors. Number one,
Speaker 2: how hardy is the plant for covering. That's a big difference.
Speaker 2: Number Two, if you wrap it like a landscape lollipop
Speaker 2: tied around the trunk, it's not going to do much good.
Speaker 2: If you drape it to the ground where soil heat
Speaker 2: can rise up, it does more good. Then the next
Speaker 2: thing would be adding heat underneath it, like a flood
Speaker 2: lamp or a heat lamp underneath to provide warmth underneath
Speaker 2: the cover would be another I've got a publication online,
Speaker 2: Glenn on my website Gardening with Skip dot com that
Speaker 2: tells you how to do it. But when you look
Speaker 2: at pictures of that on the publication, suddenly it'll all
Speaker 2: makes sense. But it's a matter of that how cold.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, I had lollipopped. They were all lollipopped. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Well check out my publication. I'm telling you, when you
Speaker 2: look at it one time for now on, you'll know
Speaker 2: how to cover a plant. And it's a matter of
Speaker 2: how cold does it get, how tough is the plant,
Speaker 2: how well do you cover it, and do you add
Speaker 2: heat and it you know, if it's going to be
Speaker 2: thirty one degrees, we're not so worried. If it's going
Speaker 2: to be you know, low twenties, we got a big problem.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna have to do a lot to save
Speaker 2: a tropical, very cold sensitive plant like you described.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm having trouble keeping high biscus here because you know,
Speaker 8: one freeze a year takes it out.
Speaker 2: Well, that's true. Yeah. You know one thing you can do,
Speaker 2: and this is just another step, is just get some
Speaker 2: soil or a real nice composting mix and make a
Speaker 2: big old volcano cone at the bottom of the plant. Normally,
Speaker 2: I don't say do that because that's not how you
Speaker 2: normally treat plants. But if that had been done, then
Speaker 2: that highbiscus would have been killed back to the soil.
Speaker 2: But when you pull that cone dirt away from the base,
Speaker 2: you would have had living tissues that could re sprout,
Speaker 2: and at least your plant will be back in business
Speaker 2: pretty quick that way. So that's another tip I'll throw you.
Speaker 2: Of course, you can't go backwards in time, but going forward.
Speaker 2: Keep that in mind.
Speaker 8: Do I need to take the dead leaves off?
Speaker 9: Nah?
Speaker 2: Just wait, I would right now. I would leave it
Speaker 2: and wait if we have another phraeze, you know, then
Speaker 2: you know, covering the base a little bit with some
Speaker 2: soil may help. But once it starts growing, either it's
Speaker 2: all dead or you may get some sprouting somewhere along
Speaker 2: the trunk or around the base. I wouldn't give up
Speaker 2: quite yet. Okay, Well, we're going to just be We're
Speaker 2: going to be hopeful, not confident, but hopeful, all right, Okay.
Speaker 2: Appreciation Oh yes, yeah, you bet, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that a lot. You take care alrighty. Yeah, that
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Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 2: Martin spoon Moore at Affordable Tree is our go to
Speaker 2: guy for treecare here on garden Line, and it's because
Speaker 2: Martin knows what he's doing. He's been doing this a
Speaker 2: very long time. He is an expert at things. And listen,
Speaker 2: our winter weather is unpredictable. As we just saw. We
Speaker 2: got winds, we got freezing temperatures. Our trees in general
Speaker 2: need to be taken care of. Last summer two storms
Speaker 2: were horrible, took trees down, took our power out. It
Speaker 2: was a mess. You need to call Martin now and
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Speaker 2: from getting into trouble going off somewhere they don't need
Speaker 2: to go. He does planting. It is transplanting. He does,
Speaker 2: like I said, deep root feeding. He does it all
Speaker 2: but right now have him come out. He stays busy.
Speaker 2: He does a good job. People call him to come back.
Speaker 2: So give him a call. Tell him you're a Guardenline listener,
Speaker 2: by the way, and have him come out and check
Speaker 2: out your tree, see what needs to be done. He'll
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Speaker 2: for me to take a little break. When I come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Karen in West Houston and
Speaker 2: Ryan in Brazoria. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: the garden Line. We're going to run straight after the
Speaker 2: phone's got Spookes have been out there waiting. Head to
Speaker 2: West Houston and talk to Karen. Hey, Karen, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 18: Hey there, Skip. I have an LSU purple fig tree,
Speaker 18: about fifteen years old. It's about twenty feet tall. I
Speaker 18: didn't get it pruned in the fall. Can I still
Speaker 18: prune it before it buds out? And can I take
Speaker 18: can I root some of the cuttings?
Speaker 2: Okay, you can print it. I would wait a little bit.
Speaker 2: Even if it starts to butt out, you can still
Speaker 2: prun it, and there's no problem with printing it at
Speaker 2: that time. Printing is an invigorating process, and so you
Speaker 2: cut into living wood and it is more likely to
Speaker 2: sprout sooner than if it wasn't prinned. So what we
Speaker 2: don't want is, let's say you print it today and
Speaker 2: then next week and the next week. And I haven't
Speaker 2: looked at the weather, but we have temperatures up in
Speaker 2: the seventies and then it drops down and we have
Speaker 2: another hard freeze. You're going to get damage from that
Speaker 2: hard freeze. So I try not to invigorate a fig
Speaker 2: treek since their marginal in their heartiness anyway, So I
Speaker 2: would wait to do it. But yes, you can do it.
Speaker 2: That's fine as far as rooting. Just find you some
Speaker 2: of the ends of the shoots, you know, the sections
Speaker 2: that are about the size your little finger, the branches
Speaker 2: and that that's last year's growth. And if you cut
Speaker 2: those off, I would wrap them, put them in some
Speaker 2: moist sand, or wrap them in moist paper towels in
Speaker 2: a zip lock bag, put them in the refrigerator upside down,
Speaker 2: literally upside down. You can do that. You don't have to,
Speaker 2: but you can do it that way. And then when
Speaker 2: you bring them out and stick them in the ground
Speaker 2: to root, they're they're going to root very easily. Figs
Speaker 2: are easy to root. The only thing you don't want
Speaker 2: to do is use older wood, the gray wood, you
Speaker 2: know that grew the year before. You want to use
Speaker 2: the more recent growth. That's why I said the size.
Speaker 18: Your little finger, and how long would I leave them
Speaker 18: in the refrigerator.
Speaker 2: I'd leave them in there a few weeks and then
Speaker 2: when the weather warms up and they're gonna want to
Speaker 2: be outside, then pull them out and you can just
Speaker 2: put them outside. You can stick them in a one
Speaker 2: gallum pot full of potting soil if you want, put
Speaker 2: a little cover over them to hold in a little
Speaker 2: bit of moisture. Figs are pretty easy to root. I
Speaker 2: know people that go under the eaves of their house,
Speaker 2: maybe on the north side where it's kind of shady
Speaker 2: but still bright, and they're just stick them in the
Speaker 2: ground there, and the ones that managed to root and
Speaker 2: come up, then they dig them up move them. I
Speaker 2: like to use the one gallum pots myself.
Speaker 18: That's great information.
Speaker 6: Thank you for the help.
Speaker 2: All right. Good luck with that. Lsu purple is a
Speaker 2: good fig that's for sure. Thanks for the call, Karen,
Speaker 2: You take care all right. We're gonna go now to
Speaker 2: talk to Ryan in Brazaria. Hey, Ryan, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 7: Good Marra Skip, thank you for taking my call. I've
Speaker 7: got We purchased a property that's got about a fifteen
Speaker 7: acre cam orchard on it that was planted from what
Speaker 7: I've found about back in the eighties, but it's been
Speaker 7: let go for probably the last.
Speaker 2: Twenty years, and I'm been working on.
Speaker 7: The Chinese tallow you know that's not supposed to be
Speaker 7: in there, so I've been doing some hacking squork in
Speaker 7: there and around those trees.
Speaker 17: Some of the research says that you need to stop
Speaker 17: doing that as the spring comes it because it becomes
Speaker 17: less effective. Are you familiar with that or where or
Speaker 17: you know anything about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to stop. It's just that the
Speaker 2: best time to do a herbicide treatment on the base
Speaker 2: of a tree, a stump or at the base to
Speaker 2: kill it is in the fall because the tree is
Speaker 2: pulling all its carbohydrates down into storage for winter, and
Speaker 2: it takes that product in very well. In the spring,
Speaker 2: it's kind of like the growth is going the other direction.
Speaker 2: You got a lot of flow going outward. It's not
Speaker 2: that the herbicides won't do any good, they're just not
Speaker 2: as effective then, and so you may want to wait,
Speaker 2: let it want to get some growth and settle in
Speaker 2: and do it a little bit after the weather warms
Speaker 2: up pretty good, and try it then and get because
Speaker 2: you don't want to wait until you don't have to
Speaker 2: wait until next fall to try it again.
Speaker 7: Okay, And then are you do you know of anybody
Speaker 7: that can help me with that with this orchard? I
Speaker 7: don't know much about countries and orchards, any recommendations on
Speaker 7: somebody might be able to give me some guidance. I'm
Speaker 7: maybe re establishing it.
Speaker 2: Uh Well, first of all, I would are you in
Speaker 2: Brazoria County or what county are you in?
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, Brazoria County.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I would talk to your county Extension office and
Speaker 2: they have a connection with the specialists in horticulture at
Speaker 2: the university. We have some specialists and fruit growing and
Speaker 2: nut growing things like that that they can connect with.
Speaker 2: If you call your Brazoria County Extension Office and ask
Speaker 2: for the horticulture agent and speak with her and she
Speaker 2: can get you connected. Also there at the Aggie Horticulture website,
Speaker 2: just do a search for Aggie Horticulture. There's a page
Speaker 2: on fruit and nut fact sheets, and on that page
Speaker 2: you're going to find information on there's a publication on
Speaker 2: improved pecans that's grafted ones, publication on native pecans, and
Speaker 2: either one of those can help you understand a little
Speaker 2: bit about caring for your trees. What it's basically going
Speaker 2: to amount to is you want to keep the grass
Speaker 2: down low, keep it mode around them very low, so
Speaker 2: that you can minimize the competition from that. If you're
Speaker 2: able to water, that's good. If you're not, that's okay.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of unirrigated pecans, especially in the south
Speaker 2: and east parts of Texas where it does rain quite
Speaker 2: a bit. But I think you'll find some help on
Speaker 2: those websites as well.
Speaker 7: Very good, Thank you for the information.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Brazoria County website. Talk to your horticulture agent.
Speaker 2: She's good and she will put you in touch with
Speaker 2: the folks at Texas A and M, or she'll bring
Speaker 2: them in if she needs to to provide some additional
Speaker 2: help in helping you. All right, sir, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: You have a great day, Yes, you take care alrighty,
Speaker 2: there we go. Yeah, Brazouri County's got a very active
Speaker 2: extension of it. They got educational programs going on all
Speaker 2: the time out there. And if you're a gardener at
Speaker 2: Brazouria County, you need to you need to get a call,
Speaker 2: get on the schedule, find out what are the master
Speaker 2: gardeners up to, what kind of programs are going on,
Speaker 2: what kind of programs is extension putting on. They've done
Speaker 2: everything from you know, programs on figs to a really
Speaker 2: good annual strawberry program they put on out there every year.
Speaker 2: That's excellent. Uh so yeah, I would, I would definitely
Speaker 2: get involved, find out at least at least be notified
Speaker 2: of what's going on so you can take advantage of
Speaker 2: some really good educational opportunities. And by the way, extension
Speaker 2: offices are all one hundred excuse me, all two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty four counties in Texas are served by an
Speaker 2: extension office. The vast majority have their own extension office.
Speaker 2: If you go out west, we're so far west that
Speaker 2: there's more jack rabbits than our people then that you
Speaker 2: may have two counties out there they're served by one
Speaker 2: office or something. But around here in our area you
Speaker 2: got an extension office. Around the Greater Houston area, you
Speaker 2: have a horticulture agent. All office is going to have
Speaker 2: an agriculture agent which covers horticulture. But in Brass County,
Speaker 2: in Conrad, Montgomery County, in Harris County, in Houston, in
Speaker 2: Orange County, out east Brazoria County south for ben County
Speaker 2: to the west, southwest, Galveston County down south. I'm probably
Speaker 2: leaving them. I leaving out. I think that's it. Anyway,
Speaker 2: all those counties have a horticulture agent too, and they
Speaker 2: have a master gardner program. In master gardner put on
Speaker 2: educational programs. They're volunteers trade by extension to serve the public.
Speaker 2: They help extension reach more people. They extend extension. The
Speaker 2: way I used to say it when I was a
Speaker 2: horticulture agent is extension takes the university to the people,
Speaker 2: and master gardeners take extension to the people. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. They help extend what one horticulture agent
Speaker 2: can accomplish or one agriculture agent. In counties that just
Speaker 2: have an agriculture agent. So that is a resource that
Speaker 2: you should take advantage of. That's where you go get
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Speaker 16: Line, Ken Maury, thanks you for taking my call. I
Speaker 16: have two questions. I have a dwarf magnolia that I've
Speaker 16: put in a spot that wasn't the wisest division, and
Speaker 16: I'm wondering if I can move it this time of
Speaker 16: year or do.
Speaker 10: I need to work?
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, when you say dwarf, do you know the
Speaker 2: name of the magnolia by any chance?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, dwarp Southern?
Speaker 2: Southern? Okay, southern? Okay?
Speaker 5: How long?
Speaker 2: Wo'd you plan it?
Speaker 9: About?
Speaker 16: Two years ago?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, magnolia does not like to be moved. Now,
Speaker 2: you're kind of It's been in in a while, so
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to cut quite a few roots to
Speaker 2: move it. But if you're going to do it, I
Speaker 2: would do it a S A P. And I would
Speaker 2: worry more about getting wider than deeper. When you dig
Speaker 2: it up if you can get down about you know,
Speaker 2: ten inches or so deep, but especially try to go wider.
Speaker 2: And what I would recommend so that you don't kill
Speaker 2: your back trying to move it is I will cut
Speaker 2: a little trench around the tree. Let's just say you
Speaker 2: were going to go two feet out in all directions,
Speaker 2: just as an example, you would dig a little trench
Speaker 2: two feet out down about ten eight eight inches ten
Speaker 2: inches deep, and then you would use your shovel horizontal
Speaker 2: it's better here for a flat shovel, and go underneath
Speaker 2: it and cut maybe halfway under as you kind of
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Speaker 2: need some help with us, and then slide a tarp
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Speaker 2: enough under there, and a very little soil disturbance, almost
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Speaker 2: a cup maybe four people, two to four people, you
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Speaker 2: don't have to stoop, and you just lift it up
Speaker 2: and carry it like you're carrying a stretcher over to
Speaker 2: where it goes. You slide it right in. And that's
Speaker 2: the minimum damage, the minimum back injury, and the greatest
Speaker 2: success chance that you're going to have trying to move
Speaker 2: that because they're not they don't like being moved.
Speaker 16: Okay, all right, And the same fo wax myrtles. I
Speaker 16: also have a seat wax myrtles that I would like
Speaker 16: to yes, move okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: On the wax myrtles, I would prune the top back
Speaker 2: pretty good, you can. They're tough, and so I would
Speaker 2: probably cut them back. How tall are they right now?
Speaker 16: Probably about five feet.
Speaker 2: Told, okay, you might cut them back to even like
Speaker 2: three feet or something, and just so they're easier to
Speaker 2: handle too. But go ahead and move them the same
Speaker 2: way at the same time now and get them in
Speaker 2: this new spot. Make sure either of those plants is
Speaker 2: put at the same level that it was growing before.
Speaker 2: Don't make it deeper, don't make it shallower, and then
Speaker 2: watered in really really good. And I would get a
Speaker 2: good roots stimulator solution at your local wherever you do
Speaker 2: your shopping. You know what you were up there in
Speaker 2: Willis You got all seasons Ace Hardware right there on
Speaker 2: I forty five north up in Willis area. I would
Speaker 2: just turn by there and grab some of their stuff.
Speaker 2: By the way, put it on your calendar. I'm going
Speaker 2: to be heading up that way. Let's see what a
Speaker 2: want to be up there February twenty second, Saturday. So
Speaker 2: come out and see me. If you get a chance,
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbors to come on out. I'll be up
Speaker 2: there at all seasons as then. But anyway, grab a
Speaker 2: root stimulator solution if you can get some something called
Speaker 2: medina has to grow six twelve six medina. It's a liquid,
Speaker 2: and then water your new plants in with that with
Speaker 2: a good he just you put you mix it in
Speaker 2: a watering can and just drench, drench the plants and
Speaker 2: that'll give you one more little bit of a measure
Speaker 2: of success.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, sounds great.
Speaker 2: Thanks all right, Kim, Thanks for the call. You take care,
Speaker 2: good luck with that. Time for me to take a break.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back, but just lunatic there you go.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to garden line, little Billy Joel for us
Speaker 2: this morning. See if you would like to give me
Speaker 2: a call and ask a gardening question. I'll be happy
Speaker 2: to take that call seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t R H. And we'll see if we can
Speaker 2: get to the bottom of things so that you can
Speaker 2: have success. I was mentioning the fact that I'm going
Speaker 2: to be at All Seasons Ace Hardware a little bit
Speaker 2: ago with a caller, and that will be coming up
Speaker 2: later on. I've got a number of pretty busy spring
Speaker 2: of appearances going on out there, and I hope some
Speaker 2: of you will get a chance to come out and
Speaker 2: see me one or two places surprise me. Sometimes people
Speaker 2: to more than two or three places just to ask
Speaker 2: the next question that they might have. And that's all good,
Speaker 2: and that's all fun. By the way, Ace Hardware's you know,
Speaker 2: the super Bowl coming up. Time to get the grills out.
Speaker 2: You know, you got to have that Super Bowl party.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to grills, you're not going to
Speaker 2: do better in Ace Hardware. I'm talking about grills and
Speaker 2: quality grills like Big Green Egg and Blackstone and Weber
Speaker 2: and Trigger Rectech. I'm talking about grilling supplies and seasonings,
Speaker 2: even really amazing grilling seasonings and all kinds of things
Speaker 2: you need to be the true barbecue champion of your street.
Speaker 2: That's it. Now, Remember if you're an ACE Reward member,
Speaker 2: which everybody should be, because anytime you buy something at ACE,
Speaker 2: it goes on your rewards and it builds up and
Speaker 2: it matters. But ACE Rewards member at a lot of stores,
Speaker 2: they'll even assemble and deliver the grill for you. You
Speaker 2: just have to talk to your ACE store. Each one's
Speaker 2: independently owned. They're each different what they choose and able
Speaker 2: to do. But that's a super extra plus. Now, if
Speaker 2: you want to get your garage in order, which I
Speaker 2: need to do. If you saw mine, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: it was in order at one time. Have you noticed
Speaker 2: how garages have a tendency to collect junk. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you have this big expense of a well
Speaker 2: cleaned garage and you're soper out of it. Next thing
Speaker 2: you know, you're having to walk sideways to get to
Speaker 2: the garage door to go in the house because it's
Speaker 2: so filed with junk. ACE will fix that. They got
Speaker 2: shelby units, they got storage toads, they got any kind
Speaker 2: of cleaning supplies you need for inside and outside the home.
Speaker 2: ACE hardware and where are ACE Hardware's everywhere? There's Victoria
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware. There's Bay City ACE Hardware down in Galveston,
Speaker 2: Chalmers Ace Hardware. It's easy to find an ACE Hardware
Speaker 2: store near you by going to Acehardware dot com and
Speaker 2: finding the store locator. Simple as that. I was also
Speaker 2: just talking to him up in Willis and I mentioned
Speaker 2: that she's transplanting a couple of things, and you want
Speaker 2: to water those plants in with a roof stimulator. You
Speaker 2: also want to have things that provide the nutrients that
Speaker 2: plants need.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Phosphorus is an important nutrient in rooting, and that's why
Speaker 2: the folks at Medina created has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 2: Plant food now has to grow six twelve six. It's
Speaker 2: got the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphors, packed with
Speaker 2: phosphors and six percent potassium. That is very helpful for
Speaker 2: helping a new plant get off to a good start
Speaker 2: as it tries to rebuild a root system, whether you
Speaker 2: took it out of a pot, maybe you did some
Speaker 2: root trimming because of circling roots, or if in the
Speaker 2: case of transplanting, you dig it up and you're cutting
Speaker 2: all these roots off. It needs to get new roots
Speaker 2: started and has to grow six twelve six helps that
Speaker 2: has to grow. Six twelve six isn't just fertilizer. It's
Speaker 2: got medina sool activator simulate biological activity. It's got humate
Speaker 2: humic acid which improves soil structure. You know, when organic
Speaker 2: matter decomposes, it starts off as grass clippings or leaves
Speaker 2: or whatever form of organic matter. It turns into compost,
Speaker 2: which is broken down, and then compost keeps going and
Speaker 2: it breaks down until it's just humous the final decomposing stage.
Speaker 2: It's got acids in it, good acids that help. First
Speaker 2: of all, microbes get real excited about that and they
Speaker 2: rule the world when it comes to improving our soil
Speaker 2: for our plants. But also those humic acids help with
Speaker 2: soil structure and the creation and the release of nutrients
Speaker 2: from the soil. And then it's got seaweed extract. Do
Speaker 2: you see what I'm talking about. This is a concoction
Speaker 2: that is very helpful and people use it for folio
Speaker 2: applications all through the year. I'm telling you right now
Speaker 2: you're planting. This is planting season. Use it when you plant,
Speaker 2: put it in a watering can, mix it up according
Speaker 2: to the label. Watered in a little bit goes a
Speaker 2: long way. When you put that plant in the ground,
Speaker 2: soak it with Medina, has to grow six twelve six
Speaker 2: mixed up in water. A week later, Do it again,
Speaker 2: a week later, do it again. When you do that
Speaker 2: three times, you're giving that plant it's best chance. It's
Speaker 2: starting and having trands planting success again from the folks
Speaker 2: at Medina. I was Disney with Andy from Medina out
Speaker 2: in four Bank County yesterday at the home and Garden
Speaker 2: show that we had out there. We were just talking
Speaker 2: about some of their products and they have a large
Speaker 2: line of really really cool stuff. So there you go again.
Speaker 2: The phone number here if you'd like to give me
Speaker 2: a call seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 2: seventy four. We are entering our last hour of the weekend,
Speaker 2: not just today but the weekend here on garden line
Speaker 2: and so if you got some questions, can't hold till
Speaker 2: next Saturday, Well this would be a good time to
Speaker 2: give me a call so we can help you have success.
Speaker 2: That is what we want. We want you to have fun.
Speaker 2: We want you to have success. Listen, Gardening is not
Speaker 2: rocket science. You know if you are, if you're trained
Speaker 2: in rocket science, rocket science is not rocket science either.
Speaker 2: It's just a simple matter of formulas and facts and
Speaker 2: physics and all kinds of things like that. Same with
Speaker 2: the gardening. You know what you're doing, you know what
Speaker 2: plants want, you know how to give them what they want.
Speaker 2: It sort of gets simple. But to people on the
Speaker 2: outside it may seem like, I don't know, you got
Speaker 2: to hold your tongue right and have some magic dust
Speaker 2: to sprinkle on to make everything work. It's not the case,
Speaker 2: just a matter of knowing what you're doing, even if
Speaker 2: it's rocket science that works. I want to visit with
Speaker 2: you a little bit about pruning our plants. Late winter
Speaker 2: is the best pruning season of the year, the best.
Speaker 2: That's when, especially if you need to do a lot
Speaker 2: of pruning, that's when you need to get it done.
Speaker 2: It's important to have quality tools that are sharp, whether
Speaker 2: it's a saw, hand pruners, or looppers that you're cutting
Speaker 2: off a larger limb with what Always keep your tools
Speaker 2: sharp because sharp tools make good clean cuts that heal
Speaker 2: fast and or less strain. They put less strain on
Speaker 2: your joints and muscles when you're doing it, so sharp
Speaker 2: tools are important. I like the bypass prunters that is
Speaker 2: like a pair of scissors. There's one side of the
Speaker 2: printer is more of a flat ish surface to kind
Speaker 2: of hold the branch. The other side is the blade
Speaker 2: that cuts through the branch. That's a bypass prunter. The
Speaker 2: other kind of printer is an anvil prunter, and it
Speaker 2: has a flat bar and the blade comes down on
Speaker 2: the bar as if you took a hatchet and chopped
Speaker 2: down on top of an anvil. You know, it cuts
Speaker 2: that way. I don't anvile printers don't print as well
Speaker 2: for me. I don't care for them as much. Biprisced
Speaker 2: punters work really really well. Keep them sharp, keep them sharp.
Speaker 2: Prune near where the branch attaches. And I have a
Speaker 2: little video out on this. It's on our Facebook page
Speaker 2: and you have to kind of scroll back to find it.
Speaker 2: It's been a while. But if you leave a stub,
Speaker 2: the stub dies and the branch can't close over because
Speaker 2: there's dead wood in the way, and so you have
Speaker 2: this entryway decay to get into the stem or trunk
Speaker 2: or branch or your plant. So you don't want to
Speaker 2: leave a stub. On the other hand, as a branch
Speaker 2: approaches where it attaches. Like picture a vertical trunk with
Speaker 2: a branch coming in from the sides. That branch is
Speaker 2: a certain diameter as it approaches the trunk, and then
Speaker 2: right when it gets near the trunk, it flares out
Speaker 2: at the point of attachment. When it starts to flare,
Speaker 2: the closer you get to the trunk, the bigger the
Speaker 2: wound you're making, because it's getting bigger, the branch is
Speaker 2: getting bigger, and you want to leave the tissues in
Speaker 2: that ring that's called the callous I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 2: the collar of the attachment point. You want to leave
Speaker 2: those tissues because they heal fast, and it's actually the
Speaker 2: trunk that is healing over that wound, not the branch
Speaker 2: tissues themselves, So leave the collar.
Speaker 8: You can go.
Speaker 2: Online and learn about this. Find the video I did
Speaker 2: on Facebook to learn about it. There's kind of a
Speaker 2: sweet spot in there. You don't want to cut too
Speaker 2: close because it makes a big wound and you're removing
Speaker 2: the best healing tissues. You don't want to cut too
Speaker 2: far away because that leaves a stub that will die
Speaker 2: and prevent closure. So find that sweet spot. It's not
Speaker 2: that hard to do. The simplest way I would describe
Speaker 2: it is as you follow the branch down where it
Speaker 2: starts to flare out cut there. Now that's a generalization.
Speaker 2: Lots of different kinds of plants, but at least I
Speaker 2: get you in the ballpark. All right, love of that,
Speaker 2: you want to take a break top of the hour,
Speaker 2: I'll be back with our last hour a garden Line.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with skin Rictor.
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Speaker 2: one two fifty eight seventy four and let's head out
Speaker 2: to Montgomery now and we're going to talk to Benson.
Speaker 2: Hey Benson, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Thank you. The reason I was calling, I'm thinking about
Speaker 10: making a raised bed and I was calling to see
Speaker 10: if using treated lumber was safe for vegetable garden.
Speaker 2: That is a good question, and I don't no matter
Speaker 2: what I say, there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 2: debate about it. People that are concerned about chemicals are
Speaker 2: not going to ever consider treated lumber safe. But the
Speaker 2: old treatments that were used, the CCA treatments that were used,
Speaker 2: could leach out and did have concerns for help. There's
Speaker 2: a not a question about that. The treatment has changed
Speaker 2: over the years. They've evolved through different kinds of com
Speaker 2: agal that they used to treat lumber. And the nermans
Speaker 2: tend to move less much less in the soil because
Speaker 2: you know, if something leached out of the board, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be there to protect the board, So they tend
Speaker 2: to not leach out as bad. If you're concerned about it,
Speaker 2: I would say the concern it potentially could be, well,
Speaker 2: what if a root grows up against the board and
Speaker 2: takes up something and it gets in your tomato kind
Speaker 2: of thing, And I understand that concern. That hasn't been
Speaker 2: shown to be a significant factor at all. Now, if
Speaker 2: you're concerned about it, the couple of things you can do.
Speaker 2: First of all, there's a question does it leach out?
Speaker 2: And second is the question does the plant take it up?
Speaker 2: And third is a question is does that plant move
Speaker 2: it to like Let's say that let's say it was
Speaker 2: a tomato, but does it actually put it in the
Speaker 2: tomato or not? And those are three levels of things
Speaker 2: that in general there doesn't seem to be a big
Speaker 2: concern about it. But again I respect folks that are concerned.
Speaker 2: So here's what you can do. You can line those
Speaker 2: beds with plastic. It gets you a good thick plastic
Speaker 2: sheeting something six metal or more, and line the beds
Speaker 2: with the plastic. You can also paint over them some
Speaker 2: sort of a se lunt to kind of hold that on.
Speaker 2: That would be another option that you could do, or
Speaker 2: you could just go with something that's not treated.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: The one of the best raised bed products is the
Speaker 2: corrugated metal that has paint. It's kind of a the
Speaker 2: equivalent of galvanized, but it's even better than galvanized. And
Speaker 2: then it has a paint coating on the top of it.
Speaker 2: And that's another option too. So it's up to you.
Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, I just the wife was kind of worried
Speaker 10: about if it leached into the into the soul that
Speaker 10: the plant pick it up and cheating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's that's a factor. You know, when it
Speaker 2: comes to chemicals and life and dangers and stuff. They
Speaker 2: there's a term they say that dose makes the poison,
Speaker 2: and that's really true. You know, aspirn is can kill
Speaker 2: you if you take enough of it, so can table salt.
Speaker 2: Now that's not to say that we shouldn't care or
Speaker 2: be concerned about chemicals. It just means that you know
Speaker 2: that it's a good question, your question a lot of
Speaker 2: people ask, and it does come down to, so how
Speaker 2: much are you're getting and how concerning is that? Because
Speaker 2: we're exposed to a lot of things that we would
Speaker 2: rather not be exposed to every day, and so that's
Speaker 2: where you kind of have to balance it out. And
Speaker 2: I think most people land on the hey, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be I don't want to add that to
Speaker 2: my life. You know, I don't want to add that
Speaker 2: chemical to my life. And that's fine. You can do
Speaker 2: that direction as well. Another factor with treated wood is
Speaker 2: in an advantage of a treat of wood bed as
Speaker 2: you can sit on the sides as opposed to a
Speaker 2: little piece of tin you know that you can't sit on.
Speaker 2: But when you have treated wood, then there is the
Speaker 2: skin contact too that you could get from it, and
Speaker 2: so you know, you're out there. Little kids are out
Speaker 2: there in their shorts sitting down on the side of
Speaker 2: the bed or or something. There's a small potential for
Speaker 2: that being an additional concern. But it's a complex issue
Speaker 2: and nobody's going to be happy with the answers. But
Speaker 2: you do what you what you're comfortable with.
Speaker 10: Okay, right, right, right, okay, Well this sounds good. I
Speaker 10: sure appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: You have a thank you you two bensent, thank you,
Speaker 2: and thanks for calling and asking about that, because a
Speaker 2: lot of people, I'm sure have that question. Yeah, I've
Speaker 2: dealt with that question for years. It used to be raredized.
Speaker 2: We talked about and I've had a rare road tie
Speaker 2: bed before because you can get old rovertized for cheap,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 2: Now there, you've got that tar that will when they're
Speaker 2: it's hot in the summer, you sit on them and
Speaker 2: it sticks to your clothing and stuff. That's a mess.
Speaker 2: But hey, you do what you want to do. I
Speaker 2: know what I do and and so uh it's when
Speaker 2: when we get into trying to answer a question in
Speaker 2: a non emotionally reactive way, but trying to get as
Speaker 2: much facts as we can, it's always a little more complicated.
Speaker 2: It's easier to just go that stuff will kill you,
Speaker 2: run away, don't do it. But in general, what I
Speaker 2: just said there is what I what I believe. And
Speaker 2: so did I tell you to use it or not
Speaker 2: use it? I didn't tell you either one of those.
Speaker 2: I said, you do what you want to do. Here's
Speaker 2: here's how I understand it is. I've read research and
Speaker 2: all these things. This is what I picked up, and
Speaker 2: so you do it. Do it that is you wish
Speaker 2: to do. Most people are not going to want to
Speaker 2: be in contact with any kind of a chemical treatment,
Speaker 2: and so I get that. So that's fine. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about ACE hardware stores before and all kinds of places
Speaker 2: to get it. You know, as you get over on
Speaker 2: the east side of Houston, there are still ACE hardware
Speaker 2: stores over there too, not as many in that area,
Speaker 2: not as many general commercial places over there. But Deer
Speaker 2: Park has got a really good Ace Hardware store if
Speaker 2: you if you head out, it's just kind of where
Speaker 2: belt Way eight and two twenty five that region, that's
Speaker 2: deer Park on Center Street. In deer Park, they've got
Speaker 2: a nice little Ace Hardware store. For those of you
Speaker 2: out in the Laporte area, this is not too far
Speaker 2: away from you, anyone along Beltway E south of Buffalo
Speaker 2: Bio over that direction. Deer Park Ase Hardware is one
Speaker 2: you need to definitely know about. And if you haven't
Speaker 2: been by there, you need to go check them out.
Speaker 2: That's a good one out in the Deer Park area. Well,
Speaker 2: between talking about treated timbers and I don't know what
Speaker 2: else I've been doing, kind of running short on this
Speaker 2: first little segment. If you have not been to Buchanan's recently,
Speaker 2: you need to go Buchanan's Nati Plants. It's just an
Speaker 2: outstanding place right now. You know, a daylight today, Go
Speaker 2: see them, I know it training. Go see them and
Speaker 2: check out the greenhouse. It's all covered, you know, Gota
Speaker 2: rained on in there. You will not believe the quality
Speaker 2: house plants and things that they have. By the way,
Speaker 2: they've also got plenty of vegetable transplants, they got seeds,
Speaker 2: they got all kinds of things. You know, they specialize
Speaker 2: in Nati plants. They got every Nata plant you can imagine.
Speaker 2: Excellent advice. But I like Buchanans has come up with
Speaker 2: some really really cool things. A little small plants, a
Speaker 2: little miniature like two inch houseplants, foliage plants and you
Speaker 2: can put those together make your own little terrarium. I
Speaker 2: think that's a really cool thing to do, and they'll
Speaker 2: get you set up on it. They are loaded up
Speaker 2: on really cool little small tropical two inch plants. You
Speaker 2: put your terrarium together, and what a great idea for
Speaker 2: a rainy DAA. All right, we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back with your phone calls. Hang around.
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Speaker 2: I'd go today. This afternoon would be a great time
Speaker 2: to go because I'm telling you they've got that beautiful
Speaker 2: greenhouse where you're completely dry and you can pick out
Speaker 2: a project to build your own terrarium or whatever you
Speaker 2: want to grow. I mean, they've got it all there,
Speaker 2: truly really good stuff at Buchanna's Plants. I talked about
Speaker 2: Affordable tree earlier and Martin Spoon Moore. The way I
Speaker 2: would put it is this, he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Martin knows what he's doing, and your trees in time
Speaker 2: can develop some bad habits. Let's say that's why we
Speaker 2: have to train trees if we want to develop the
Speaker 2: strongest branch structure. So if we have another storm God forbid,
Speaker 2: like the two we did last season last summer, your
Speaker 2: trees are strong and they're better able to withstand or
Speaker 2: at least have the best chance of with standing that
Speaker 2: kind of windstorm. Now, if you have not had your
Speaker 2: trees looked at, if you can't remember the last time
Speaker 2: you've had your trees looked at, and I mean prune
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Speaker 2: tell you here's what I see, here's what needs to
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Speaker 2: let's do that or not. But have him come out
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Speaker 2: branch angles, trees that have issues that are developing. Don't
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Speaker 2: working on getting my seeds organized inside. I collect seeds.
Speaker 2: I've I've got seeds that I purchased years ago. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I store them as best I can to extend their life.
Speaker 2: And you know, each type of seed has a different
Speaker 2: lifespan under good conditions, even that it's going to have.
Speaker 2: You know, like a lettuce isn't the same as corn,
Speaker 2: isn't the same as a tomato isn't the same as
Speaker 2: a petunia, and so on. They each have their lifespan.
Speaker 2: But good storage is important. And good storage means air tight,
Speaker 2: dry and cool. One two three air tight, dry and cool. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you store them where moisture can't get in, they're
Speaker 2: gonna last longer. And you know what I do when
Speaker 2: I get a you know, you buy some electronics, some
Speaker 2: sort of electronics. You get that little packet of desiccon
Speaker 2: in it. I save those because you can warm them up,
Speaker 2: kind of drive some of the extra water out of them,
Speaker 2: and put them in with your seeds, and they do
Speaker 2: the same thing. That little tiny area where you've got
Speaker 2: air around your seeds in the glass jar are in
Speaker 2: the one of those little pop down sealable containers. It's
Speaker 2: completely water tight. They're good for doing it, and that
Speaker 2: keeps them dry. If you're saving your own seeds, let
Speaker 2: them fully dry out. Let them dry out, give them
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks and nice mile warm temperatures to
Speaker 2: get as much moisture out of them as you can
Speaker 2: before you store them. And then put them in your refrigerator. Now,
Speaker 2: if you were the International Seed Bank trying to save
Speaker 2: seed forever, you would put them in a very deep, deep,
Speaker 2: deep freeze. But that's not necessary. Just put them refrigerator.
Speaker 2: That's good. Even your air conditioned home space is good
Speaker 2: for storing seeds. Not as good as a fridge, but
Speaker 2: it's good. And so store your seeds right. And I've
Speaker 2: got these boxes and boxes of seeds. I collect seeds,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm on the road side. I'll see some
Speaker 2: plant and I'll gather some seeds off of it. And
Speaker 2: I'm always getting bringing seeds home. By the way, write
Speaker 2: your name on I write the name of what you
Speaker 2: collected on the seed when you save it. Otherwise you'll
Speaker 2: never remember. Trust me, I know the hard way. But anyway,
Speaker 2: save your seeds, store them well, and it's time to
Speaker 2: get them out and start doing that. We got lots
Speaker 2: of things we could be planting right now. And my
Speaker 2: favorite gardening season of the year, I think is that
Speaker 2: springs season where you're getting the fever and you're starting
Speaker 2: siege and you're rooting cuttings, and you're planning things out
Speaker 2: and you're buying transplants from the garden center and plants
Speaker 2: from the garden center and you're bringing them home. Oh gosh,
Speaker 2: that is a fun, fun time and we're right now
Speaker 2: in the big middle of it. Let's see, you've heard
Speaker 2: me talk about Microlife products a lot, and I'll talk
Speaker 2: about a specific this or that or the other product.
Speaker 2: I just don't talk about Microlife just a little bit,
Speaker 2: can I do that? Microlife is the number one selling
Speaker 2: organic fertilizer in Houston. That's the specifically, that's their six
Speaker 2: to four lawn fertilizer and it sells a lot. The
Speaker 2: number one selling organic lawn fertilizer in Houston quantity wise,
Speaker 2: is that Microlife the green bag. But Microlife has so
Speaker 2: many different kinds of products. You know, Microlife has the
Speaker 2: humates plus that helps with soil condition. Microlife has the
Speaker 2: bioenoculant that's got sixty three different strains of microbes in it.
Speaker 2: Good guy, microbe that help your plants. Microlife has micro
Speaker 2: growth liquid AF six or excuse me, eight different strains
Speaker 2: of known disease fighting microbes. There's not a fungicide. It's
Speaker 2: microbes that fight disease naturally. And I could go on
Speaker 2: and on. There's dozens of Microlife products that are out
Speaker 2: there at your feed store, at your ACE hardware store,
Speaker 2: at your garden center, at your Southwest fertilizer. Microlife products
Speaker 2: are widely available, and there's so many, and a lot
Speaker 2: of gardeners call me and they want to garden organically,
Speaker 2: and they want help gardening organically. That's why Microlife was developed.
Speaker 2: And it works. I started ten years ago. I believe
Speaker 2: first time I ever used a Microlife product, and it
Speaker 2: was there green Bag sixty four.
Speaker 5: I liked it.
Speaker 2: I like the way it works, and as a result,
Speaker 2: I still use Microlife product. Got some in the garage
Speaker 2: right now waiting to go out the next time I
Speaker 2: head out and do something to my plants. You are
Speaker 2: listening to garden Line our phone number seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two five eight seven four seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I was talking about getting my seed collections together.
Speaker 2: I got boxes all over the desk I hear in
Speaker 2: my studio actually, but I'll put them in the kitchen
Speaker 2: table typically until my wife runs me out of there
Speaker 2: because I tend to leave stuff. Do you have anybody
Speaker 2: in your life that makes a mess and doesn't clean
Speaker 2: it up? Yeah? My wife does. Anyway, The bottom line
Speaker 2: is I got the seeds all spread out, I'm getting
Speaker 2: them planned, getting you know, doing tests on the germination.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to talk about that germination testing. When
Speaker 2: you've got seeds, I've been sitting there and sitting there,
Speaker 2: and it's like, I don't know how these are. And
Speaker 2: if you turn a pack, if it's a sal a
Speaker 2: package you bought, you turn them over, it'll tell you
Speaker 2: when they were packed for what year. But is it
Speaker 2: still good? I don't know. And so you gonna what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 2: One thing you can do is to a termination TSK.
Speaker 2: And the easiest way to do it is to take
Speaker 2: ten seeds and put a take a paper towel and
Speaker 2: moisten the paper towel, not sopping soggy wet. Just moist
Speaker 2: lay ten seeds on it, and then fold it over
Speaker 2: a couple of times. Put it in a let's say
Speaker 2: a plastic bag, could be a ziplock bag. It could
Speaker 2: be whatever you want, just something, hold that moisture in
Speaker 2: and put it in a mild, warm space. That could
Speaker 2: be the counter in your kitchen if you want to
Speaker 2: do that wherever you'll see it, and every three or
Speaker 2: four days, just check it and see see how what's sprouting.
Speaker 2: Some seeds will sprout in two days, some seeds maybe
Speaker 2: two weeks. But just watch them and check them. And
Speaker 2: if you put ten seeds, then you get the percentage
Speaker 2: real easy, because if eight sprout and two don't, that's
Speaker 2: eighty percent germination. So what does that mean. Let's let's
Speaker 2: make it even worse. Let's say two sprouted in eight didn't.
Speaker 2: It's twenty percent germination. That means you're probably going to
Speaker 2: a plant five times as much of the seed in
Speaker 2: order to get the number of plants you want. Do
Speaker 2: you see what I'm saying how that works? So the
Speaker 2: germination test a do you want to use the seed
Speaker 2: or not? Be If you use it, do you need
Speaker 2: to add a few extras, because you're gonna need some
Speaker 2: extras because not all are going to come up. Another
Speaker 2: thing that I do on germination is I start seeds
Speaker 2: in a little small container and I like to get
Speaker 2: the little containers that you may bring home the sauce
Speaker 2: from a fast food restaurant or ketchup you ketch up
Speaker 2: in those little things. I like the ones that are
Speaker 2: a little bigger, about too inches across. They got will
Speaker 2: pop down plastic lid, but little seed starting mix in
Speaker 2: there just a little bit and sprinkle your seeds in it.
Speaker 2: Mix them in just a little bit, and then moisten
Speaker 2: it and pop the lid on it to hold the
Speaker 2: moisture and set that on your counter. And once they
Speaker 2: start to sprout, they've got to have good light. You
Speaker 2: need to get them under a plant light. Whatever you
Speaker 2: can do to put the most amountain light you can
Speaker 2: on those things to help them sprout and grow. And
Speaker 2: what will happen is that they'll come up and it'll
Speaker 2: be just like a little forest of seedlings in there. Well,
Speaker 2: once they sprout, before they get their first true leaves
Speaker 2: and get very big at all, you can very gently
Speaker 2: lift them up and grab them by one of the
Speaker 2: cottle leadings. That's the little seed leaves. That's the first
Speaker 2: thing that comes up. That's called a cottle eating it's
Speaker 2: not a true leaf. You can hold on by that,
Speaker 2: not the stem, because you'll crush the stem and just
Speaker 2: kind of gently tease them apart and then put those
Speaker 2: into your planting containers that you're going to grow them in.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a big flat seventy two, you know, one
Speaker 2: of those big flats. Maybe it's a little six pack.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a Dixie cup with holes sponged in the bottom.
Speaker 2: But you know, then you can pick your seedlings out,
Speaker 2: and even if only half German ad, you're gonna have
Speaker 2: plenty extras. And we always have more seeds than you
Speaker 2: know to do with. But that's another way you can
Speaker 2: deal with seeds that may not germinate real well. Is
Speaker 2: that way the ones that do come up, then you
Speaker 2: quickly move them and they do not miss a beat.
Speaker 2: They hit the ground running and do really really well.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm ready imbling on here, and I gotta stop.
Speaker 2: I will be back with your phone calls from Paul
Speaker 2: and Mark in just a moment. All right, open your window.
Speaker 2: You can do just that. If it's not raining at
Speaker 2: your house. Now, I will be pretty same here. A
Speaker 2: little bit of rain coming in, but that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Glad to have that. Plenty we can do for gardening
Speaker 2: in the meantime, that's for sure. Hey, let's add straight
Speaker 2: out to the phones and go to Clear Lake and
Speaker 2: talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Well, thank you very much. Good morning on this maybe
Speaker 11: wet morning. We don't have any yet here. And I'm
Speaker 11: going to ask you a question. It may not be
Speaker 11: in your wheelhouse, but I'm pretty sure you have experience
Speaker 11: with it. I've got a problem with squirrels and rats
Speaker 11: with bird feeders. I've got a bird feeder that's suction
Speaker 11: cup to the window, and I got bird spikes on
Speaker 11: all the three sides of it. Like when I open
Speaker 11: the blinds and look at it looks like an alien.
Speaker 11: And I've pretty much fixed that because I've got some
Speaker 11: one hundred thousand heat unit cayenne pepper from Central Market,
Speaker 11: and I put the bird heeds in there, shake it up,
Speaker 11: and then put it in the feeder. That's control of
Speaker 11: the squirrels. But sometimes I'll wake up the next morning
Speaker 11: and it'll be empty. But the only thing I think
Speaker 11: that goes with those is the rats have another feeder out.
Speaker 11: It's a bluebird feeder, has one in three eight square
Speaker 11: hard mesh, and that kind of repels the squirrels. But
Speaker 11: I've seen a rat in there. So the question is
Speaker 11: is there any I get the sensation or the sense,
Speaker 11: the sense that the rats aren't bothered by the heat
Speaker 11: by the peppers. And I was wondering if there's anything
Speaker 11: similar to that, or if I've got it wrong. They
Speaker 11: are repelled if it's hot enough, And is there somebody
Speaker 11: make a spray out of I'd like to make a
Speaker 11: hot spray that I can put all around the area
Speaker 11: where these things are coming in. Help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that. I don't know. I would
Speaker 2: think that rats be in mammals the hot pepper would
Speaker 2: burn their little mouths. But I tell you what, if
Speaker 2: we got any wabirds unlimited managers or owners that are listening,
Speaker 2: please give me a call. I'm talking to Rich yesterday
Speaker 2: down in for Ben County from Wibird Store on Memorial Area. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that rats are going to be burned
Speaker 2: by that. I know that squirrels are burned by the
Speaker 2: hot pepper. The capsation oil that's in pepper, and you
Speaker 2: can buy like directly by seed from walbirds that already
Speaker 2: has that in it. They also there's also the oil
Speaker 2: that you can buy and you can treat your own seeds.
Speaker 2: And those are the two things as far as squirrels
Speaker 2: are concerned, and I think this would this would apply
Speaker 2: to rats too. I've got a feeder called a squirrel eliminator.
Speaker 2: Now I realize you already have feeders and you're trying
Speaker 2: to solve the problem for those, But that squirrel eliminator
Speaker 2: has a little anything of any weight, and you can
Speaker 2: set the tension as to how heavy can something be
Speaker 2: at the feeder. But I've got mindset so even a
Speaker 2: blue jay lens on it and it closes the door
Speaker 2: and it can't get in. It keeps squirrels out well,
Speaker 2: and it will keep rats out well too.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: Those are that is one option, the hot pepper oil
Speaker 2: treated seed. You have a scroirrel excluder, Yes, I mean
Speaker 2: hood with that one, because it's.
Speaker 11: It's where they're good. Yeah, they get on there and
Speaker 11: they entertain me for a little while and then they're gone.
Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, if you listen, you you cannot
Speaker 2: believe the language squirrels use when they go to those
Speaker 2: and get frustrated. It's horrible. I mean, it'll it'll cause
Speaker 2: the sailor to blush. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 11: But anyway I heard, Yes, I would thinking about it,
Speaker 11: putting a remote microphone.
Speaker 2: Out there so I can listen to that's it. That's it.
Speaker 2: If we could get it translated. Oh my gosh. Uh
Speaker 2: definitely not for a Sunday morning, is it? So I
Speaker 2: would talk to your wildbird store and ask them that
Speaker 2: you've got one that right there on Claire Lake Boulevard
Speaker 2: and El Dorado. They're in clar Lake and they can
Speaker 2: help you. They can tell you what works, what doesn't work,
Speaker 2: and how to do it. That would be my best
Speaker 2: guess on that, other than putting something out to get redtorats.
Speaker 2: You know, there are treatments to kill rats and so
Speaker 2: taking the necessary safety precautions, you might try that as well.
Speaker 11: What is this oil that you were talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, the oil in a jalapeno or you know, hobernaro pepper,
Speaker 2: that's capsation is the name of it. And actually you'll
Speaker 2: see it when you have muscle aches. There are creams
Speaker 2: that are capsation based creams and you rub them on
Speaker 2: your and it heats up. You feel the warmth in
Speaker 2: your skin from them for aches and pains. But it
Speaker 2: is the oil that makes a pepper hot. It's oil
Speaker 2: used in some of those creams. And it is also
Speaker 2: the substance that makes bird seed too hot for bird
Speaker 2: for squirrels to eat.
Speaker 11: And you're able to buy that and is it fine?
Speaker 2: Ugh, it's kind of an oil, so I guess you could,
Speaker 2: but be careful, you know, you wouldn't want that and
Speaker 2: they are getting in your eyes or anything, but be
Speaker 2: very careful. I bought it. I think I bought mine
Speaker 2: at Wallbirds. It's a little mine is a it's a
Speaker 2: small bottle, uh, that you have, And I was using
Speaker 2: it to try to talk my dogs out of chewing
Speaker 2: on something they were chewing on, you know, and so
Speaker 2: it was like, yeah, you know, it's kind of like me,
Speaker 2: you grab the wrong pepper and I'm not going to
Speaker 2: eat that pepper again.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: By the way, that didn't work very well, But yeah,
Speaker 2: didn't they They learned what it smelled like and then
Speaker 2: they just stayed away from it. When they were puppies,
Speaker 2: they thought that the well, I guess they they when
Speaker 2: they were puppies. They thought that that little wooden frame
Speaker 2: that goes around your door was for chewing on, and
Speaker 2: so we were having we were trying to work on
Speaker 2: that with them. Anyway. I was desperate. But back to
Speaker 2: your question. I talked to Waldberds and see they're going
Speaker 2: to be the experts on that.
Speaker 11: Okay, Well, thanks very much, marciate it. Take care you met.
Speaker 2: Thank you, appreciate your call very much, very much. We're
Speaker 2: going to go now out to Corpus Christy and talk
Speaker 2: to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to garden Line. Hey, Skip,
Speaker 2: how you doing. Good morning, love your show. I'm doing well,
Speaker 2: thank you, sir. I had a lantana question.
Speaker 9: I've got three different varieties of lantana in the ground
Speaker 9: around the house.
Speaker 10: The freeze, the recent.
Speaker 2: Freeze, of course, happen pretty good.
Speaker 9: Just wanted your opinion of recommendation and when the best
Speaker 9: time to cut those back would be.
Speaker 2: I'm minor frozen down and I'm leaving them because that
Speaker 2: top growth does provide an insulating effect on keeping the
Speaker 2: heat down that's coming up out of the soil, bouncing
Speaker 2: it back down. So I'm going to wait until the
Speaker 2: danger of freeze is past, and then I'll cut mine back.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: If you, or whatever reason esthetically cannot tolerate that, then
Speaker 2: go ahead and cut them back to a few inches high.
Speaker 2: But you're going to need to mulch that area very well.
Speaker 2: And it's likely that in cutting them back, you may
Speaker 2: stimulate a little earlier growth than they would otherwise do,
Speaker 2: which is not good. So i'd wait. Okay, that's my
Speaker 2: bottom line.
Speaker 15: All right, all right, appreciate it, thank you, Thank you
Speaker 15: for the call. Appreciate that, all right, have a good day,
Speaker 15: all right, Paul, Yeah, thanks for listening down in Corpus Christy.
Speaker 15: Appreciate that.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 2: I got to run to a break, folks, and I
Speaker 2: hated I had to jump off with Paul there, but
Speaker 2: I'll be right back, Steve and Southwest Houston. You'll be
Speaker 2: our first s up when we come back. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: welcome back. Glad to have you listening in today on
Speaker 2: Garden Line. We're here to help you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 2: a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. And
Speaker 2: we're going to start on the phones this segment. In fact,
Speaker 2: by the way, this is our last segment of the weekend.
Speaker 2: So here we go. We're going to go talk to
Speaker 2: Steve in south West Houston. Hello Steve, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 19: I have a question for you about trimming or pruning
Speaker 19: apple trees when it comes time. I think it's a
Speaker 19: little soon right now. But when I do, what would
Speaker 19: you recommend doing with the canes? Are there ways to
Speaker 19: root any of that or use those? I mean, the
Speaker 19: only thing I know to do with him right now
Speaker 19: is chop them up and put it in the barbecue
Speaker 19: and smoke stuff with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an option. No, there's not a practical way.
Speaker 2: The fast, simple answer is the wood of an apple
Speaker 2: tree is grafted on to a rootstock, and that wood
Speaker 2: is a mature wood. Juvenile wood will root. Mature wood
Speaker 2: is almost impossible to root, and so I would say, no,
Speaker 2: uh that that's just kind of the bottom line.
Speaker 19: Yeah, young wood like like what you would use for
Speaker 19: the gardenias and rooting those they seem to root pretty easy.
Speaker 9: It is.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to clarify that a little bit. It's
Speaker 2: not that the shoot is new and young. It's that
Speaker 2: the part of the tree is mature or immature. So
Speaker 2: like if a pecan tree Let's say you plant a
Speaker 2: pecan or an acre in the ground and a shot
Speaker 2: comes up out of the ground. That is juvenile wood,
Speaker 2: and it grows up and at some point the trunk
Speaker 2: and the branches it becomes mature wood. And then everything
Speaker 2: that grows up there is mature and hard to root.
Speaker 2: If a sprout came out of the bottom of a
Speaker 2: trunk of a seedling tree, a seated tree, you could
Speaker 2: root that easier, but the older wood you can't. And
Speaker 2: so when you buy an apple tree, what you're buying
Speaker 2: is mature wood drafted onto a rootstock. So I mean,
Speaker 2: from the get go, it's going to be hard to rout,
Speaker 2: even though it's new shoots that spring maybe or something.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, it's still good for smoking. One other quick question.
Speaker 10: It is it is?
Speaker 19: Yeah, it really is. And did you not say sometime
Speaker 19: in the past that you had a place up in Willis, Texas?
Speaker 2: Yes, years ago, rout trees, fruit trees and strawberries. We
Speaker 2: had an orchard.
Speaker 5: Where was that in Willis?
Speaker 2: If you go east of Willis, If you go east
Speaker 2: of Willis, I'm trying to remember what the road was.
Speaker 2: It went out that way, but it was out there
Speaker 2: the road. A road that came into that road right
Speaker 2: at the corner of our property that went down south
Speaker 2: toward the airport and the Lone Star Center down in
Speaker 2: Tumbull on Airport Road, but it wasn't Airport Road. Intersecting
Speaker 2: there's a low road that cut across the Airport Road.
Speaker 2: I honestly can't remember the name of it right now.
Speaker 19: Who's like fourteen eighty four cuts through there and that
Speaker 19: type of thing. Yeah that you know extended, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think there may still be some fruit trees
Speaker 2: on it. People didn't didn't really take care of them
Speaker 2: after we moved away.
Speaker 5: But oh, where what kind of fruit where you growing it?
Speaker 2: Did?
Speaker 5: You have pretty good success?
Speaker 2: Primarily peaches and we had a strawberry patch up there
Speaker 2: at the same time. Yeah, in the strawberry patch, and then.
Speaker 5: Go ahead the peaches.
Speaker 19: Don't you rotate those trees like every fifteen or twenty years.
Speaker 19: Don't they have a kind of a short life or
Speaker 19: shorter life.
Speaker 2: Peaches in the Southeast generally are going to be about
Speaker 2: a twenty year plant. You'll have them that go longer.
Speaker 2: I just remembered where it was is Rose Road and
Speaker 2: County Life Road. That's where orchard was southwest?
Speaker 5: Was it actually line.
Speaker 2: M right off County Line?
Speaker 5: I see, okay, because I are.
Speaker 2: You remembering something or what's it?
Speaker 19: No, I think I know where it is. I think
Speaker 19: I've been by it. Yeah, and you're on County Line Road.
Speaker 19: There's a place where it dips down with a creek
Speaker 19: that when it rains hard out there, it floods, and uh,
Speaker 19: there's some houses along there.
Speaker 5: But I know where Rose Road is because there's stop
Speaker 5: signed there. I believe in a little station corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh gosh, I'm trying to remember the name of
Speaker 2: the creek. Creek was on our property. So it's not
Speaker 2: at Rosen County Line. It's toward Willis a little bit.
Speaker 2: And this is not very exciting radio for everybody else listening. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's where it was. Where it was.
Speaker 19: To find out that something grows as well as pine
Speaker 19: tree is out there, it's pretty exciting because there's a
Speaker 19: lot of pine trees a year. But I think all
Speaker 19: that was owned by the paper companies or something something
Speaker 19: like that, and they they they're rotated crops of pine trees,
Speaker 19: which take a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Well anyway, all right, Hey, thanks.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the talk. About something exciting. Thank you.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah
Speaker 2: that was boy, that's a long time ago. I tell
Speaker 2: you one thing. Uh, it's one thing to go to
Speaker 2: college and get a horticulture degree and learn all about
Speaker 2: the science of gardening. It's another thing to get out
Speaker 2: there and grow something yourself. And uh, I find that
Speaker 2: you are a much better gardener and gardening advisor when
Speaker 2: you've actually done something instead of just reading about it
Speaker 2: in a book. And that is that is definitely the
Speaker 2: case here. Boy, that was. That was a That was
Speaker 2: a fun time and a hard time at the same time.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of work to put in an orchard
Speaker 2: and take care of an orchard. Well, let's see here,
Speaker 2: we're so close to the end of the show that
Speaker 2: I'm not going to even give the phone number out again.
Speaker 2: I was talking yesterday to Rich he's a Wildbird's store
Speaker 2: owner over in the Memorial area, and we were talking
Speaker 2: about different kinds of things Wildbirds and their new deal
Speaker 2: right now, he's over in the Memorial driver the cardinal
Speaker 2: product that they've come out with, it's called Cardinal Confetti.
Speaker 2: It's a blend. Now there's also a Cardinal tube feeder
Speaker 2: and a cardinal. It's called Good Evening Cardinal Feeder. That's
Speaker 2: part of the Cardinal Confetti collection. But this Cardinal Confetti
Speaker 2: is an amazing mix of stuff that most of which
Speaker 2: I would eat, like sapphire, black house, sun black oil, sunflower,
Speaker 2: sunflower chips, nutrisaf, bark butter, pecan have striped sunflower, and
Speaker 2: dried meal worms. I haven't quite made it to eating
Speaker 2: dried wheal worms, but the rest of it makes my
Speaker 2: mouth water, I tell you this. It all makes a
Speaker 2: cardinal and many other types of bird's mouth water too.
Speaker 2: And you can get it. It's a new products, not
Speaker 2: just a spring product, a winter product. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: it all year. They're as unlimited. It's brandy. You got
Speaker 2: to check it out. It is cool and cardinals are
Speaker 2: so cool, you know, they're so beautiful, the birds, and
Speaker 2: there's such a lore behind cardinals. It is really really interesting.
Speaker 2: So gets you some of the Cardinal confetti. Grab those
Speaker 2: feeders while you're out there, make sure and get you
Speaker 2: some bark butter. That's a product created by Jim Carpenter,
Speaker 2: who's the founder of Walberds. Bark butter is something you
Speaker 2: literally like peanut butter. You would just smear it on
Speaker 2: a tree trunk and birds come and just they go crazy.
Speaker 2: They have documented over one hundred and fifty species of
Speaker 2: birds coming to Jim's birdaceous bark butter. Bark butter is
Speaker 2: easier to say. They have bark butter bits, little bite
Speaker 2: sized nuggets. They've got bugs and bits Yep, they got
Speaker 2: meal worms in the bark butter. You can buy those.
Speaker 2: It's super high in calcium, helps egg development and bone growth.
Speaker 2: And listen to your birds are going to be nesting
Speaker 2: and raising young soon. And a high quality food like
Speaker 2: bark butter very good one to have on hand. Plus
Speaker 2: is kind of cool. You can smear it wherever you want.
Speaker 2: You have to put a feeder out if you don't
Speaker 2: want to. All right, there's the music. I kind of
Speaker 2: get sad at the end of every show in the
Speaker 2: music place because that means we're done. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 2: about gardening anymore. Thanks for listening, appreciate that. I want
Speaker 2: to remind you that if you go to my website
Speaker 2: gardeningwiskip dot com, that's where you're gonna find my lawn
Speaker 2: pestiseaes and weed management schedule, my lawn care schedule also
Speaker 2: is on there. The information on protecting plants from cross
Speaker 2: and freezes, how to control nutsedge, how to take a
Speaker 2: soil sample, and on and on and on. We just
Speaker 2: keep posting more to it. It's there. It's free to
Speaker 2: look out online or a download. Have a wonderful weed
Speaker 2: pout in the garden and we'll talk to you next Saturday.