WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.519 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Ricter 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:07.160 Jes Crazy. 3 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:12.400 Gas can use a shrimp. 4 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:15.720 You just watch him as world god. 5 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:18.000 Gas Gas. 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:24.839 That are so many goings to supervision in baysies like 7 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:30.559 gas again you did, almost back again, not a sign, 8 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:37.200 the basses and gas the sun beamon of. 9 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.840 A tree, the gases gas you jam. 10 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:50.960 First starting and dreams like gas you did. Everything is 11 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.039 so can see. 12 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:56.159 Glad to have you with us though. We're here to 13 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.479 answer your gardening questions today. So let's do some Let's 14 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.719 do some gardening, or let's get official here and do 15 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:04.319 some horticulture this morning. We're going to talk about the 16 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.560 kinds of things we might be needing to do this 17 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.079 time of year. Maybe a few ideas for you and 18 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:11.959 for your gardening this year. Whatever is of interest to you, 19 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:14.159 And of course those are your calls. You have some 20 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:18.359 questions about identifying things or diagnosing some issues that you 21 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.280 might have, or even some suggestions for how to have 22 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.680 more luck with your lawn or your garden, perhaps trees 23 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:28.719 and the landscape. You name it, you get to make 24 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.359 the call. The only thing I can help you with 25 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.120 is getting your spouse to do more work outside in 26 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.959 the garden. I am not I can't do that. I've 27 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.840 told people more on one occasion over my career. Listen, 28 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.319 gardening advice is free. Marriage advice is three hundred dollars 29 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:45.239 an hour, so we'll see it's probably not worth what 30 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:48.400 you'd pay for it from me, but anyway, that's what 31 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.760 we're here for. Seven one three two one two ktrh. 32 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:54.840 That's the number. You'd like to give me a call, 33 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:56.760 we will talk gardening with you. 34 00:01:58.239 --> 00:01:58.799 This is uh. 35 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.239 By the way, I had a great time yesterday done 36 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:03.760 in Fort Benk County at the Epicenter at the Home 37 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.040 and Garden show down there. I had a good time. 38 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:08.919 So all of the folks from Enchanted Forest that were there, Boy, 39 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.000 they had a nice spread out. And thanks to everybody 40 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.400 who came out and sat and listened and asked questions, 41 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:17.159 and boy, we had a good time. We covered a 42 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.680 lot of things about warming out on questions, but that's 43 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:25.039 what we're there for, lots of good advice and we 44 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:27.039 had some fun in the process. We always try to 45 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:31.840 do that as well, So thanks for coming on out 46 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.919 and visiting with me about those kinds of things. Just 47 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.479 kind of as a reminder. My next appearance coming up 48 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.159 is going to be February fifteenth at Enchanted Gardens, and 49 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.120 I'm also going to be giving a talk out there. 50 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:48.680 I'm going to be talking about ways to have more 51 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:52.520 success with gardening for less work. Okay, the way I 52 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:54.560 like to put it is get more out of your 53 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:58.479 garden with less sweat or less ibuprofen, if you know 54 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:00.479 what I'm talking about there, And we're going to I've 55 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:03.360 got a lot of ideas on that. So we don't 56 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:07.039 want our physical limitations to stop us from gardening. And 57 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.479 it's so cool, you know. It used to be that 58 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.080 there was not the help out there to help someone 59 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.599 who maybe had was dealing with arthritis in their arms 60 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:21.439 or bad knees or whatever you know condition that kind 61 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.840 of limited their ability to garden. And now we have 62 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.680 so many helpful tools, lots of ergonomic tools that work 63 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:33.800 really well. Depending on what your limitation is, it need 64 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:39.319 not necessarily be a limitation anymore, with some really really 65 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:41.439 cool things that help a lot. I've talked about the 66 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.199 kneeling bench before, but that's a simple little thing. It's 67 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:48.439 just a folding up bench you because it folds its 68 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:51.919 stores real easily. But it's it's something you can sit 69 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:53.960 on and you flip it upside down. It's something you 70 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:58.120 can kneel on, and the legs that were holding it 71 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.680 up when you sat on it become the handles that 72 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:02.680 help you get up and down. I think that is 73 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.400 pretty cool, you know. I remember how many of you remember, 74 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:07.800 those of you who are somewhere north of forty remember 75 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.680 the first time you woke up sore and you didn't 76 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:13.120 know why do you know what I'm talking about? It's like, Wow, 77 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:16.079 I'm sore? Why am I sore? Did I hurt myself sleeping? 78 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.399 And by the way, that can also happen somewhere north 79 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:22.800 of forty, but anyway, you know, and then you get 80 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.439 to thinking, I seriously, I've had that happen more than once, 81 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:28.360 and I just couldn't figure out what was it that 82 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.439 I did. And then finally it dawned to me, Well, 83 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:32.079 I walked around the yard all day. But then I 84 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.279 kind of realized, No, I walked around the yard and 85 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.040 I got on my hands and knees to pull a 86 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:37.800 weed or to plant a plan, or to dig a 87 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.319 dirt or you know, whatever we're doing, and up and 88 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.720 down and I kind of did the numbers, and it's like, yeah, 89 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.079 probably about ten thousand times getting up and down and 90 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.639 up and down. And if it's not muscles you normally 91 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.800 use well, you gets sore in the morning. So good 92 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.800 tools like that, like that kneeling bunch, they're really helpful. 93 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.600 This is one of my top five tools. Another one 94 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.759 is I guess we're just gonna talk about tools here 95 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.439 this morning. Another one is the soil knife. Soil knives 96 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.120 imagine a big, old giant butcher knife, but sharp on 97 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.600 both sides, not you know, like blade on one side 98 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:12.879 and no, you don't cut on the other side. This 99 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.160 is like both sides, and it's slightly scalloped so you 100 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.120 can use it almost like a imagine a knife that's 101 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:21.120 kind of scalloped a little like a shovel, so you 102 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:24.120 could use it to dig out a hole. I do 103 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:26.000 it for planting. You know, I'm put a transplant on 104 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:28.120 the ground, a four inch pot or something. Just take 105 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.199 that knife and dig it right out. One side has 106 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:35.680 a serration on it, and so when you run into roots. 107 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:39.600 I talked yesterday about my no dig no till garden, 108 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:42.680 excuse me, no till garden. And so when I take 109 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.639 out cornstalks or tomato plants or whatever. I just use 110 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.680 that serrated side of my soil knife good on there, 111 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.160 and a couple of stabs into the soil, and that 112 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.399 thing comes right out and leaves all the roots behind, 113 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:56.319 which is helpful. Roots decomposed roots open up pathways down 114 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:01.079 into the soil, and nature leaves roots in the ground. 115 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.040 That's what nature does and what happens to those roots 116 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.759 they decompose. The microbes get all happy because they got 117 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:11.199 something to break down. That's their food and it works well. 118 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.160 But anyway, sol knife is good for that. They have 119 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.040 markings on them, so you know one inch deep, two 120 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:19.839 inches deep, three inches if you own to do that. 121 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:21.920 And then some of them, most of them have a 122 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.360 little scabbard too to put them in, which looks cool. 123 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:25.800 You know, you kind of feel like you got your 124 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:29.839 bowie knife there walking around the garden. But some of 125 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.439 them even have other features like a little hook that 126 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:37.240 will cut twine, a little sharp hook. And perhaps important 127 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.800 as well, especially for some of you, is a little 128 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:41.920 bottle opener. So you're out there in the garden and 129 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.639 you need you get some refreshment out of a bottle, 130 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.639 you can just pop that lid right off and there 131 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.360 you go, you're intent, you're in business, so anyway, so 132 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:53.319 knife's good, good duol. That's another one. Our quality pruners 133 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.160 are very important. If you're gonna get quality pruners, you're 134 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.920 gonna have things that last and that are easier to get. 135 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:05.439 The cheap o's the cheap prunters, you will pay for those. 136 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:07.680 You'll pay for them in two ways. Number One, it's 137 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:09.720 more wear and tear in your hands, and you'll just 138 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.720 notice it, even if you don't have authortis or anything. 139 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.319 Just pruning with cheap prunters is harder in your hands. 140 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:18.000 The way they cut, the way they move, the way 141 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.800 they kind of get sprung out where they don't cut right, 142 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:26.120 that's not good. And when they quit working well, and 143 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.720 when you're trying to keep them sharp and having trouble 144 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.839 with that, you just get tired of them. Throw them 145 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:33.800 in a bucket, throw them in the trash, and then 146 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:35.480 you go buy another one. And after you bought a 147 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:37.639 few cheap pruners, you could have just bought a nice 148 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.639 pair of punters that have replaceable blades that are easy 149 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:43.839 to sharpen. The quality brands, you know, a brand like 150 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:47.040 Corona just being one example. Those kinds of things. They 151 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.040 will sell you replacement braids. I'll eave and sell you 152 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.040 a little tool for sharpening them as you use them. 153 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:53.839 They come in length that you can get a nice 154 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:57.319 leather scabbard for them. They're just worthwhile. So whether it's 155 00:07:57.360 --> 00:07:59.399 a big lopper that you cut en off larger limbs with, 156 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:03.000 or a hand printer, or even a good quality printing 157 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:07.000 saw for removing small limbs, that is that group. I'm 158 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:10.000 gonna make those one group, that group of quality cutting 159 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:14.639 tools very very important. Well, I'm gonna take a little 160 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:17.160 break here. It looks like the first quick break that 161 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:20.279 always come so fast. Every hour's time for that. I 162 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:22.839 just will be right back with your calls if you'd like. 163 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.600 You know, early in the morning is the time when 164 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:27.839 the phones are a little quieter. So if you were 165 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.079 some of folks yesterday, we're having to wait a while 166 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.440 if you'd like to get a good quick start, and 167 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:34.639 now'd be a time seven to one three two one 168 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.360 two k t r H seven one three two one 169 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:43.960 two k t r HW. Right back there you go. 170 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.679 When's the last time you heard that? Welcome back to 171 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:53.919 garden line. Ah, let's see here, we're gonna go run 172 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:55.919 out to the phones. Now, I think a few people 173 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:59.360 took some good advice. Get get in early in the 174 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.960 morning and get a first first end of the phone. 175 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:05.440 We're gonna go to Copperfield and talk to Donna this morning. Hey, Donna, 176 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:06.440 welcome to garden Line. 177 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.679 Good morning. I have two questions. One of them is 178 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:15.240 about my elephant ears. They are mush. I had quite 179 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:19.000 a few elephant ears around a couple of trees. All right, 180 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:24.559 I'm supposed to understand cut that mush down. Is that true? 181 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:26.799 Okay, yeah, you can. 182 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:29.919 If you leave it. 183 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.440 It's not the end of the world. It's not like 184 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:35.720 it's going to mess up your plant. But just because 185 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:37.799 it's mush and it's ugly and you know it has 186 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:39.679 to come out, you can cut it out. But I'll 187 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:43.320 tell you this, Leaven, if you do remove it, then 188 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:45.879 throw some some little bit of compost mult or something 189 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.480 over the top of that plant, the base of the plant, 190 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.879 and that'll that'll protect it, because even the dead mushy 191 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.799 stuff is kind of a shell of protection against let's 192 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.240 say we do have another real hard cold snap. So 193 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:00.919 you can leave it or let it dry out, or 194 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:02.399 you can just pull it out because it is not 195 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.600 going to get better. There's no problem of pulling it 196 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:06.919 out other than just exposing the base. And now you 197 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:08.639 want to throw at a mult over it, and you're 198 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:09.159 still good to. 199 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:09.720 Go that way. 200 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.360 But I could cut it down maybe so that maybe 201 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.759 six inches of the stalk are exposed on top and 202 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:18.399 let that dry out. Would that work? 203 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:21.240 You could do that. That's not gonna be a lot 204 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:23.519 of protection, but you could do that. I would just 205 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.440 you know, it's just always a good idea to have 206 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:28.759 a mult over the base of perennials, especially ones that 207 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.559 are a little marginally hardy. Now, elephant ears are pretty tough. 208 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:34.480 You're going to be okay on those either way. But okay, 209 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:36.039 I just a tip. 210 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:41.759 If I just pile up those long leaves on top 211 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:44.200 of it, would that be okay and not cut anything? 212 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.399 You could do that. Yeah, you could also do that. 213 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.480 It's fine either way. It's just most a lot of people, 214 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.360 you know, when we're talking about like woody plants and 215 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.200 things that are above ground, we're leaving that material to 216 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:02.320 continue to protect against futureses, but we're also not sure 217 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:05.159 what we're to prune sometimes because you don't know how 218 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:10.279 far back the real stem damage has occurred on things 219 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:12.960 that are more suckulent, like an elephant air that are 220 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.320 just going to turn to mush. Well, you know it's gone, 221 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.720 so it's going to need to come out at the 222 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:19.799 ground eventually. It's just a question is do you do 223 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:21.919 it now or do you do it later? And like 224 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.840 I said, either one is really okay. 225 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:28.399 Okay, thank you. My second question is about an area 226 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:33.080 that I lost a very very large red oak last 227 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.799 year during the storms and had the air stump ground 228 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:42.279 and it's still raised area and it's like when I 229 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.960 walk over this kind of mound of mush dirt stuff, 230 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.360 it sinks where I walk, so it's still going down. 231 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:53.679 Is there anything I should do with this area to 232 00:11:53.840 --> 00:12:00.360 help it heal or whatever? It's just awful big area 233 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:00.919 to deal. 234 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.720 Yeah, I see what you're saying. You know, that's one 235 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.120 of the things about stump grinding, and for other folks 236 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:09.000 that are listening that are having stumps ground or need 237 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.440 to have a stump ground or whatever, all that would 238 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:15.240 First of all, the grinding itself fluffs up the soil. 239 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.120 You know, you're you're loosening everything up, and now you're 240 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.879 chunking that stump into pieces of wood or chopping it 241 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.279 up into pieces of wood that are going to decompose. 242 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.159 And when that happens, the soil is going to settle. 243 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.559 It'll be very mushy, as you say, like walking on 244 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:33.440 sifted flour is very soft, and then it decomposes and 245 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:36.440 sinks down. So whenever you do a stump grinding, the 246 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:37.919 more of the wood you can get out of there, 247 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:40.519 rake out of there kind of you know, use a 248 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:43.879 little pitchforky kind of scoop, whatever it takes to get 249 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.600 some out of there, the better off you'll be. But 250 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.679 then I usually recommend getting some good soil and just 251 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.600 making more of a mound like a pitcher's mound on 252 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:58.000 a baseball field over that area. How high, I don't 253 00:12:58.000 --> 00:12:59.720 know how. It depends on the size of the stump 254 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.320 and thing. But basically you're saying, I know you're going 255 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:04.000 to settle, so I'm going to mound you up just 256 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.279 a little bit, just a little bit, so that when 257 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:09.919 you settle your you're close to level and that that 258 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.120 would be what at this point, Donna, that I would 259 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:15.679 suggest you do is put a little bit of soil 260 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.240 in there, maybe a little bit mounded up a few 261 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:20.879 two or three inches up a little bit because it's 262 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:23.480 going to settle some more, and you that way, you're 263 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:27.240 closer to ending up level than the depression in that 264 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:28.360 tart around. 265 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.919 Two feet high now in the middle, and it's just 266 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:36.600 a huge, huge mound, you know, like ten by eight 267 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.000 or something like that, very close to the house. And 268 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.320 I was just trying to do something with it too 269 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.879 high hopefully yes, in the center. Yet it's just from 270 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.960 the ground level, it's it's it's still bad and I 271 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:53.159 did break out a lot of the wood out of it. 272 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:54.559 It's it was a big tree. 273 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.639 Yeah. Well, if that's the case, well part of it 274 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.039 too is as trees get bigger and their roots get bigger, 275 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.519 it heaves the soil up around them. There is already 276 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.639 a little mound at the base of a tree as 277 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.000 the roots have gotten bigger and heaved it. So in 278 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.159 this case, I wouldn't add more soil to the top. 279 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.519 Two feet is really high, but it's going to settle 280 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:16.720 in and so you just can end up occasionally kind 281 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.440 of raking it and managing the settling over time. But 282 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.200 two feet is yeah, I wouldn't add more soil to that. 283 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:26.440 So I might look at I might be looking at 284 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:28.840 it a year or two before I can do anything 285 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:29.519 with that area. 286 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:33.480 It depends on what you want to do. You know, 287 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.279 if you're going to plant something like, let's say a 288 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:40.120 groundcover over it, or even just a flower bed, then 289 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:43.159 you can go ahead and do that, and each season 290 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:45.720 as you're putting in new flowers, or each year as 291 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:48.360 you're doing things, you may need to add some as 292 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.639 it settles down. So you could go that route. If 293 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:54.360 you're going to plant another tree there, yeah, then the 294 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.759 settling is more of a problem, and so I would 295 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.559 probably if you could go a little bit to the 296 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.360 side for a shrub or a tre tree, I would 297 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.480 do that. It sounds like it may be a little 298 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.559 too close to your house for a tree anyway. 299 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:09.919 Yeah, may have been. It barely missed the house when 300 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:15.320 it went down, so okay, wow, but I'm I'm thankful 301 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:19.279 it didn't hit the house. It was a very huge 302 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.720 tree to deal with. But thank you for your advice. 303 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.720 I saw you last at Langam Creek Ace Hardware and 304 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:25.440 you always give it. 305 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:26.559 Oh you did well. 306 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:27.279 Thanks, thank you. 307 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.919 Yeah, thanks for coming out the You're in Copperfield, so 308 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:32.320 that's just your backyard Ace hardware store right there. 309 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:33.360 That's right there. 310 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.399 You came out all right. Hey, thanks don I appreciate 311 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.879 that a lot. You take care. Let's head out now 312 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:43.720 to Orange, Texas. We're going to talk to Darren. Hey, Darren, 313 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:44.679 welcome to Guardenline. 314 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:46.559 Thank you. How are you. 315 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:49.240 I'm doing well this morning. 316 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.840 So I've got in my yard. 317 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:54.799 I've got some. 318 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.840 Your stickers is what I've always called them. It almost 319 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:03.879 looks like it's right now. It's really green, and it 320 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:09.960 almost looks like a curly leaf, small leafs. But during 321 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:13.639 the summer there's so many stickers in it you can't 322 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:17.159 hardly even kids can't play barefoot outside. So I was 323 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:20.080 going to know, Yeah, you knew what it was and 324 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:22.159 how to take care of it, and when would be 325 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:23.159 a good time to treat it. 326 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:26.720 Yeah, there's more than one kind of plant that can 327 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:30.559 have a stickery seed pod. You know, grasspurs are one 328 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:33.840 that everybody knows about those, But those are true grass plants. 329 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:36.600 Which you have is a broad leaf plant, even though 330 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:40.000 the leaves aren't broad it's broad leaf as opposed to grass. 331 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.759 And so what you would want to do right now 332 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:47.840 is apply a product that is for broad leaf weeds, 333 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:53.399 post emergent product, not a pre emergent that prevents weed 334 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:57.799 seeds from come from establishing, but a post emergent, and 335 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.559 there are a number of them out there. We'd beat her. Uh, 336 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:06.079 we'd beat our ultra those kind of things of a fertiloam. 337 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.759 Oh gosh, I'm trying to think of it. We'd free zone. 338 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:13.160 There's a number of brands out there on that. And 339 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:15.359 so you get yourself over to one of your I 340 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:17.519 think you've got some ACE hardware stores over there in 341 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:22.079 the Great the Orange area, and just just talk to 342 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.640 them and say, I need a broad leaf weed control here. 343 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:29.200 Here's why you would want to do that now. But yeah, 344 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.960 you've got Child's building supply over there on sixteenth Street. 345 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.799 You would when it gets hot, spraying weeds in your 346 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:41.440 Saint Augustine is hard on your Saint Augustine, and hot 347 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.559 means in the upper eighties, even mid to upper eighties 348 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.039 is when we were starting to go, hey, let's let's 349 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.039 watch out for these things. They could hurt our grass. 350 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:52.640 Well we're far from that right now. So A secondly, 351 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.680 once those weeds start to get those burrs on them, 352 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.279 they actually have a tiny bloom you don't even notice, 353 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:00.799 and then they get the burrs on them. Then it's 354 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.200 harder to kill them with those products. We said. I. 355 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.440 The way I put it is, once the weed becomes reproductive, 356 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.000 it starts producing blooms and seed. Uh, it's hard to 357 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:13.119 kill them. So now's up is your window where you 358 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:15.240 can do the most good with the least damage. 359 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:20.319 Okay, well, I appreciate you him. I'll get that taken 360 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:22.559 care of you, bet. 361 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:25.440 Darren, thanks for the call. Have a good days, stay 362 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:29.880 dry today. Yeah, it's supposed to rain. In fact, I 363 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.000 was getting a little misty coming back yesterday. We were 364 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.079 driving through the finest mist and it's supposed to be 365 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:40.359 a little bit more of a rain day today. Let's 366 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:42.799 head out to Magnolia now and talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, 367 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:44.759 good morning, Welcome to garden Line. 368 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.160 Good morning, Skid. Thank you for picking up the call here. 369 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.559 In weeks or maybe months past, you commented on a 370 00:18:55.640 --> 00:19:01.279 certain area. I have a front yard that got uh 371 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:09.039 redone with with new grass and everything, and there are 372 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:11.119 certain areas that were a little lower and every time 373 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.440 it rains really heavy it it gets submerged in water 374 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:18.680 and the grass is really never taken over. Okay, do 375 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.079 I need to redo that area or I think there 376 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:24.039 is something you recommended, a mulch or something to cover 377 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:27.480 that with, and then when the season starts again, I 378 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:30.920 guess in the spring that would be in better shape. 379 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.160 So so the problem is that it you don't have 380 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.680 you don't have grass doing well. But the area also 381 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:40.119 is it tends to stand in water. Did I understand 382 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:40.480 that right? 383 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:43.319 Yeah, it's a little low and just a little low, 384 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:45.640 and if it rains really heavy, it's like an inch 385 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:46.599 or so underwater. 386 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:50.359 Yeah, got you, all right, I got to run to 387 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:52.160 a break here right quick. Hang on just a second, 388 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:53.559 and I'm going to come right back to you when 389 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:55.880 we when we get right back just one second, Jeff, 390 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:03.599 Good morning, Good Sunday morning. By the way, I hope 391 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:07.279 you're having a nice, peaceful morning so far. If you're 392 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:09.480 listening to Guardline, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're 393 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:11.599 here to answer your gardening questions. All just give me 394 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.000 a call seven one three two one two k t 395 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.519 R H. And we're going to go back to Jeff 396 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:19.559 in Magnolia. Jeff, sorry for that interruption. We had to 397 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:22.359 pay some bills, but let's continue on with you with 398 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:23.240 your questions. 399 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:24.000 Sir. 400 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:26.960 Yeah, maybe I have an area in my yard, and 401 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.000 I was thinking that because it's a little lower, Maig, 402 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:32.920 I should but till the whole area that resided again, 403 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.000 or I think you've been the past had recommended a 404 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:39.640 sort of sort of a mult or something to put 405 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:40.480 in there instead. 406 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:44.920 Yeah, well you have a couple of options. If the 407 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.279 area is low, it's always that's kind of problematic because 408 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:51.599 when we do get our big rains or extended rain 409 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:55.720 periods several days here that that is an issue. So 410 00:20:56.480 --> 00:21:00.279 you know, the going all out solution is to put 411 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.240 in a fringe drain in that area, have someone install 412 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:05.799 one that takes the excess water off to a lower 413 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.440 area off site somewhere, and that that would be one option. 414 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:12.960 The next step would be to bring soil in and 415 00:21:13.119 --> 00:21:15.960 raise the area up so the water naturally has to 416 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:17.759 go somewhere. But you kind of have to watch because 417 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.880 you maybe just be moving a problem from one spot 418 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.480 to another when by bringing soil in, you just we 419 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:27.000 have another spot that was fine now it's web. So 420 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:28.960 those are those are two options. The other is just 421 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:31.079 to live with it if it's not too bad, and 422 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:35.200 it's pretty much lawns are pretty tolerant of wet conditions. 423 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:40.400 By and large, they do okay on that. In that case, 424 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:43.720 it's just a matter of you know, getting good aeration 425 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:47.119 in the soil if it's a little compacted, and that's 426 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:50.359 part of the issue, having a core aeration done, doing 427 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.480 some compost top dressing on it, and trying to get 428 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.960 that lawn is healthy, the root system is healthy as 429 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:58.680 you can. So those are kind of the three levels 430 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:01.799 of addressing that. Now, why it died, it could have 431 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:06.440 been due to to just compaction and excessive moisture, but 432 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:10.359 it may also have been a root disease. It could 433 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:12.559 have been a lack of sunlight due to shade. It 434 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:15.720 could be you know, some droughty periods that open the 435 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:19.960 door for for some issues like disease related. So it's 436 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:21.599 kind of hard for me to know the answer to 437 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:23.000 the why right now. 438 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:26.799 But how much sun I cut back way on some 439 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:28.559 trees that were in that area. 440 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:35.599 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. I tell you, Jeff 441 00:22:35.640 --> 00:22:39.079 that what I found is when grass is struggling due 442 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:42.640 to marginal light amounts, you know, it's not enough to 443 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.200 just kill it, but it's just barely hanging on. When 444 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:47.759 it starts declining, it's hard to turn it around. It's 445 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:50.000 just because it doesn't have the energy to get better. 446 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:54.240 You know, the patient is so weak that it's just 447 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:58.000 trying to Trying to recover is something that may not happen. 448 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.119 And so the more you can get it, the better. 449 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:03.240 If you can get it at least six hours of sun, 450 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.400 that's good. If you can't do that, then with each 451 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:09.599 hour less you get, it's going to be marginally weaker 452 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:12.480 in order to do. And when I say sun, it's 453 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:16.119 a matter of total light. So if you have a 454 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:19.839 very bright dapple shade all day, that's pretty good. If 455 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:21.720 you have a few hours of direct sun and then 456 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:25.480 deep shade, you know, there's an equivalency in there somewhere. 457 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:29.039 So it's not just direct sun. But the more direct 458 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:30.920 it is, the more light you're going to get to 459 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:31.480 that grass. 460 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:35.960 Okay, as you're a compost of dressing, you'd recommend that. 461 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:36.680 What you say. 462 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:41.640 The folks at Heirloom saw as I say, you're in, oh, 463 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:45.680 you're up in magnolia area there over an heirloom says 464 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.839 that's important. They have a blend they put together that 465 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.200 it's got some sand in it and it's got some 466 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:55.400 compost in it as well, and they'll they can deliver 467 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:57.720 bulk of it, or you can get a go over 468 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:00.640 and get it yourself and bring it back closer to you. 469 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:04.240 Would be Nature's Way, which is on Interstate forty five 470 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:07.079 just south of Conroe. So you're a Magnoias so right 471 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:10.319 where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five is yeah, 472 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:12.920 And I would call talk to Ian over there or 473 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.000 one of the folks at Nature's Way and say, you know, 474 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:17.720 what do you what do you have for something like this? 475 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:18.359 Uh? 476 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.839 And they're going to have lens, they're going to have options, 477 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:24.000 and they'll be able to tell you on that. Do 478 00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:27.279 you do you need a phone number for them? 479 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:29.880 No, I've been by there before. 480 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:31.160 I use them occasionally. 481 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:34.640 Yeah, so okay, good, all right, Well that's what I 482 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:38.160 would do. But just to remember that the more it's 483 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:42.039 more of a soil, a sandy or sandy loam type soil, 484 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:45.839 the more what you build up is going to stay up, 485 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:48.359 the more organic matter it has in it, the more 486 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:50.680 it's going to tend to sink back down over time. 487 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.680 Is that organic matter decomposes away? 488 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:53.759 Yeah? 489 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:57.160 Okay, all right, all right, thank you so. 490 00:24:57.319 --> 00:25:00.960 Much, Yes, sir, thanks for the call. Good luck with that. 491 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:04.319 Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 492 00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:07.640 eight seventy four seven one three two one two five 493 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:12.720 eight seven four. We definitely want you to have success, 494 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:15.559 and if we can help you with something, give me 495 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.200 a call. Let's do that. I one of the things 496 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.440 I've said this before, one of the things that that 497 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:24.039 makes me sad is to have a gardener or someone 498 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:27.200 who wants to be a gardener who just throws their 499 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:29.839 hands up, throws in the trowel in this case literally 500 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:34.079 the trial, not the towel, and says I can't, I can't, 501 00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:36.000 I can't do this, I'm not good. I got a 502 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:38.119 brown thumb, and all those kinds of things we say 503 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:41.200 when we can when plants die on us. Look, I 504 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.319 just want to let me comfort you. I'll try to 505 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:49.119 use my most soothing voice. You are not a brown 506 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.279 thumb person. You're not. You do not have a b 507 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:54.759 I promise you you do not have a brown thumb. 508 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:58.920 Plants need certain things. They need sunlight, they need moisture 509 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.960 but not too much. They nutrients and a balance. They 510 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:05.960 need soil that drains well but wholesome moisture. And as 511 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:09.960 we give plants those things they want, suddenly let's just 512 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:12.519 say go back to the thumb color your thumb starts 513 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:16.640 turning green. Okay, and you can do this. It is 514 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:19.839 something you can do. And gardening it, you know, people 515 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:22.079 are in it for a lot of reasons. Some people 516 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.279 it's like I want a pretty place. I'm gonna pay 517 00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:27.200 somebody to come make it pretty. And that's okay, that's legit. 518 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:29.480 You can do that. We can help advise you so 519 00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:31.880 you can help guide the people that come to make 520 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:35.480 your place pretty. Other people want to do it all themselves, 521 00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:37.400 and they want to walk through it step by step 522 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.039 by step, build their own perkilas. I mean, lay their 523 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:43.640 own side. I mean you can go that route too 524 00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:45.640 if you want to, and we can help you with that. 525 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:48.640 My goal here is for you to have a bountiful 526 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:51.720 garden and a beautiful landscape. And the third one is 527 00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:55.160 very important and more fun in the process. Gardening should 528 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:58.160 be fun, it should be rewarding. But know this, to 529 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.720 be a great gardener, you got to kill a lot 530 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.759 of plants. So if you've been getting frustrated because you're 531 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:05.880 killing plants, you're just on your way to being a 532 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:09.000 great gardener. Because each time something goes wrong, we learn 533 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:11.440 from it and we get better at it, and so 534 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:15.519 that's my encouragement for the morning. You can do this. 535 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:20.640 This is really not all that difficult. Well, it's getting 536 00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:23.000 close to time for me to take another break, and 537 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:24.680 I want to give you the phone number one more 538 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:28.039 time seven one three two one two kt r H. 539 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:30.680 And I want to remind you that my website, Gardening 540 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.240 with Skip, I just keep adding more and more things 541 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:37.039 to it that help answer the questions I get here. 542 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:39.960 I've been doing this for over thirty five years gardening 543 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:43.440 advice and quite a few years in Radio two, and 544 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:45.559 I've heard a lot of questions, and I know the 545 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:47.640 kinds of things people are going to ask, and so 546 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.039 I put these things together on the website so that 547 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:54.160 you can get the help you need. So Gardening with 548 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:56.440 Skip dot com, go check it out and find some 549 00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:58.119 things that can be helpful to you. All of them 550 00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:04.240 are free downloads up there be right back. Alrighty, we're 551 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:08.359 back and we mugging around on caurn line this morning. Hey, 552 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:10.200 give me a call seven one three two one two 553 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:12.720 kat r H. We'll talk about the things that you 554 00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.440 are interested in, try to help you have some success 555 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.880 with your garden. As I was saying, you do not 556 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:20.960 have a brown thumb. You really have a green thumb. 557 00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:24.200 You just haven't informed your thumb enough to get it 558 00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:26.480 to turn green. And that's what we're gonna do right now. 559 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:29.359 We're we're gonna talk about the things that help you 560 00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:31.839 have success with garden, because that's what's all about. Who 561 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:33.400 wants to buy a plant go to the trouble of 562 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.480 planting and watching it die. That's discouraging. We don't want 563 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:38.599 to have that. So we got to get the soil right. 564 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:40.400 We want to make sure the plant's in the spot 565 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.160 it wants to be. Does it like lots of sun 566 00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:47.799 or not too much sun? Does it need certain conditions 567 00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:50.720 of soil, like acidic soil like a blueberries and azaleas 568 00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:54.640 and camellias and puris. I never talked about puris. Puris 569 00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:57.680 is a wonderful plant. Virginia sweetspar there's another one I 570 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:01.480 don't talk about. A native plant to the southeastern parts 571 00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:04.640 of the US, including parts of Texas, that has beautiful 572 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:09.359 little long blooms on them, little clusters of long blooms, 573 00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:12.079 and it's a great one. But it likes the citic 574 00:29:12.440 --> 00:29:14.920 soil conditions, and you can create that for your plants. 575 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:17.240 So when you do that, you make them feel at home. 576 00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:20.319 If you make them feel at home, they will be 577 00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:22.559 happy and they will grow and perform for you, kind 578 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:25.200 of like the show field of dreams. How many y'all 579 00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:27.519 remember that if you build it, they will come. If 580 00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:30.960 you build the soil and the site, your plants will thrive. 581 00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:35.160 That's just how it works. It can happen. So that's 582 00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:38.240 my encouragement for the day. Our garden centers are loading 583 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:42.680 up out there on plants. Just going and visiting some 584 00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:44.519 of our great garden centers that we have here in 585 00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:47.640 this area. Oh my gosh, I was getting spring fever 586 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:51.160 just looking at the plants that they have. And it 587 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:52.680 is time to get going on that now. 588 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:52.920 I know. 589 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.400 Listen, today it's out there and it's raining. I don't 590 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:58.640 want to go to a garden center's rain and all that. 591 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:01.640 That's a to you. I'd throw a raincoat on and go. 592 00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:05.000 I mean, like I love. Here's the deal. When you 593 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:07.279 go and it's kind of a you know, not a 594 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:10.119 bright sunny day, well, a lot of people are staying away, 595 00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:12.319 so you got the place to yourself. You can talk 596 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:15.000 to them and ask them questions and get all kinds 597 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:17.480 of help and whatnot. But anyway, whenever you go and 598 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:20.559 do it, get those plants, but make sure you got 599 00:30:20.599 --> 00:30:23.680 the soil ready. Remember brown stuff before green stuff. So 600 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.519 when you go to someplace, get a bag of compost 601 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:28.680 or molt or bed mix or whatever you're going to do. 602 00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:31.200 Maybe you just need to mix a little compost into 603 00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:33.119 the soil and that'll do it. Maybe you want to 604 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:35.559 build a whole raised bed, and that's a good idea. 605 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:40.640 You know, for years my vegetable gardens were down in 606 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:43.240 the soil. In other words, you go in the backyard, 607 00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:46.400 scrape off all the grass or weeds, whatever you got, 608 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:49.400 and your rototilet up and you plant in it. That's 609 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.000 a vegetable garden. Well, since then I have learned that 610 00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:55.200 that first of all, that's fine. I mean, can garden 611 00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:58.200 that way. That's how we farm, by the way. But 612 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:03.039 I now have raised bed boxes. And whether you I've 613 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:05.200 done it with just a mound of soil, you know, 614 00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:08.480 where you create a mound of soil that's like uh, 615 00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:12.640 you know, maybe eight ten inches high and it'll settle 616 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:15.119 a little in time, but kind of packed the sides 617 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:17.480 a little bit as you're making it, and it makes it. 618 00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:19.559 It makes a decent bed, or you can put it 619 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:24.559 in a container of some sort. Maybe it is wood 620 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:28.000 that is that is rot resistant, wood, that's a box. 621 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:33.119 Maybe it is one of the nice corrugated metal containers 622 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:36.400 that are painted and they're very attractive and they last forever. 623 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:40.000 They're very they're rust resistant. That you know, all of that, 624 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:42.480 you can do that. Maybe you want to do a 625 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:46.519 rock bed and do a beautiful stone on the sides 626 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:51.839 of the bed, or those little landscaping bed stones that 627 00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:54.920 are for creating a little retaining wall in the landscape. 628 00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:58.200 It doesn't matter. Plants do not care what they're growing in. 629 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:01.799 I want you to think about that fella I know 630 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:06.079 in Mississippi a lot of you probably heard him. He 631 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:07.839 comes over here and speaks every none. Then I fell 632 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:10.160 to rushing. He made a statement. He said, you cannot 633 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:12.680 embarrass a plant with a pot, And that is true. 634 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:15.680 I mean literally, You get you a toilet fixture, stick 635 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:17.640 it out in the garden, drill holes in the bottom, 636 00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:20.880 get ready for letters from the hoa by the way, 637 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:24.279 and put a plant in it. And that plant will 638 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:26.960 grow because it's a container and it holds a toilet 639 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.160 holds a lot of soil. My point is not to 640 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.480 do that. My point is that they didn't care where 641 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:34.119 it's growing in. It says how much soil do I 642 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.160 have so I can get through the Texas summer days. 643 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.200 Number two, do I have good drainage? And number three 644 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:41.440 did you put a good soil in me? And it'll grow? 645 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:43.720 So when you're going to grow in something, it doesn't 646 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.279 matter what I mean. You can lay logs on the 647 00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:48.960 ground and make a box bed. There's a lot of 648 00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:51.160 work and they will ride away and you'll be doing 649 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:54.000 it again. So it's not what I would recommend. The 650 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:57.599 plants don't care. I like now growing and raised box 651 00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.279 beds because when you do that, you can put the 652 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:04.519 best quality soil mix in there and from day one 653 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:08.240 you're growing and you're having good luck with it. To 654 00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:11.720 get out and bang through on a rototiller and try 655 00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:15.440 to improve the soil and you can that it is 656 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:17.680 more work, and I just find that I have my 657 00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.880 best performance and a good quality boxed bed and it's 658 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.000 so easy. And like I said, if you were to 659 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.039 decide I'm going to have a garden this week, and 660 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:29.640 you're going to go do it today, and you go 661 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:33.160 out there aside from any drizzlies, and you put a 662 00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:36.160 box anywhere. It could be on the soil, it could 663 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:38.920 be on the driveway, it could be on a patio plant. 664 00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:41.240 I didn't care what it's on, and you felt it 665 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:44.839 full of good mix. Later today you're planting your garden 666 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:47.720 and it's a ranky tat and it's as easy as that. 667 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:51.200 That's what I'm talking about. And so that's one way 668 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:53.400 to have good success. Now in flowerbeds, you're not gonna 669 00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:55.160 have boxes all out in front of the house everywhere 670 00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:59.279 for flowers, but those we do build up. Those we 671 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.160 get a good bed mikes in to have success. But 672 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.039 start with the soil. Start with the soil it. I 673 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.480 guess one analogy was if you're going to build a 674 00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:12.440 house and you went out there and you just laid 675 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:14.079 a bunch of two bay fours on the ground and 676 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:16.760 started hammering up walls and making it. How long is 677 00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:19.440 that house gonna last? Not very long. You get a 678 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.440 good solid foundation and then you build right on it 679 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:25.199 and correctly on it, and you're gonna have a house 680 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:28.079 that lasts for decades and decades. Okay, that's what we 681 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:31.159 do with the garden if we want to have success, 682 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:34.719 not waste money. You can have success that way. My 683 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.360 phone number is seven one three two one two k 684 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.960 t r H seven one three two k t r H. 685 00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:42.840 I'm going to be taking our top of the Hour 686 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.079 break here for the news in just a minute. But 687 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:46.760 if you'd like to be first up, that'd be a 688 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:48.920 time to call and talk to Jonathan. Say, hey, get 689 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.679 me on there. If you've got some pictures of something 690 00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:56.679 you want to talk about, call us up and get 691 00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:59.159 the email to send those two and then follow that 692 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:00.480 up with a phone call of the show. 693 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:01.199 Maybe. 694 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:01.639 You know. 695 00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:04.280 Sometimes people call and they go, well, I got this weed, 696 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:06.679 and it's They sort of describe it, and I'm doing 697 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:08.920 my best to try to make sure identify it. But 698 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:14.119 if I don't picture what you're describing correctly, then I 699 00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:16.079 may send you off down the wrong path, and I 700 00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:17.559 don't want to do that. So it's always good to 701 00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:20.760 have a photo for identifying a plant, or for identifying 702 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.440 a bug or a disease, or for diagnosing, you know, 703 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:29.039 whatever kind of problem. Just give us a good photo. 704 00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:29.760 We'll do that. 705 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:33.320 Do that all the time. Appreciate that too, by the way, 706 00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:38.519 makes it a lot easier, all right, Well, I hear 707 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:41.840 music which means time to wind this one up. We're 708 00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:45.159 going to be back with your calls here in a bit. 709 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:48.639 I do want to remind you that we are in 710 00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.519 we are on the verge, the doorstep of the spring season, 711 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:57.320 and it really is here in our area. So getting seeds, 712 00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.719 buying your seeds, getting them ready, Starting your transplants. We 713 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:03.360 talked about that yesterday down at the Fort Ben Garden Show. 714 00:36:03.960 --> 00:36:08.199 Starting your transplants, getting good, healthy transplants, growing all of 715 00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:10.199 that kind of stuff. Now's the time to do it. 716 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:12.360 I can't think of anything better than the one day 717 00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:15.079 to be inside growing your own transplants. 718 00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:20.840 Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard. 719 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:38.480 It's just watch him as many good thanks to super Crazy. 720 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:54.239 Sorry, well, good morning, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm 721 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:57.119 your host, Skip Rictor, and it's good to be visiting 722 00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:59.920 with you on a nice Sunday morning. I know it's 723 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:02.159 a little drizzly out there. It's gonna be a little 724 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:04.480 bit drizzly er as we go through the show today, 725 00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:09.079 but that's okay. That's why we can enjoy gardening from inside. 726 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:12.480 We're talking about gardening on the radio, but maybe starting 727 00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:15.679 some seeds, starting some cuttings, getting out a seed catalog 728 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:19.960 and doing some planning and thinking or a little online research, 729 00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:22.199 reading up on some stuff. You know, they say in 730 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:26.400 order when you're cutting wood, when you're you know, logging 731 00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:28.360 the forest, if you will, you got to keep the 732 00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:31.599 saw sharp sharp. But it's not just about cutting down trees. 733 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:34.119 It's about keeping the saw sharp because the dollar of 734 00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:36.119 the saw gets the harder it is to cut wood, 735 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:40.000 and the less you get done. I guess the same 736 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:43.960 thing is true about gardening. Making sure that we are 737 00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:48.280 continually learning more, growing more. I guess sharpening the saw, 738 00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:51.480 this saw beeing the gardener in this case that is important, 739 00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:55.039 and it makes gardening more fun and it's exciting. You know, 740 00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:58.039 there are so many kinds of plants in gardening that 741 00:37:58.159 --> 00:37:59.599 you're never gonna get the end of it. And you 742 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:01.880 may start and you're all about, I just want a 743 00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:04.599 good lawn, I want a perfect, beautiful lawn. But then 744 00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:07.719 you discover I don't know, it could be something really random, 745 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:12.840 like orchids. Enjoying growing orchids. The moth orchid is the 746 00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:15.519 one that you see everywhere for sale, and it is 747 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:19.079 an easy one to grow. I neglect, don't tell anybody this, 748 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:23.679 I neglect mine and they still bloom as long as 749 00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:25.719 I don't just like kill them. I mean they're easy 750 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:27.880 to grow. Maybe you get into that and you want 751 00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:29.400 to do that. Took somebody the other day that was 752 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:32.760 into African violets, and I mean they grew miniature African violets, 753 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:35.320 they grew the large type African violets. They were into 754 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:39.679 something else called a pieces that's another related cousin of 755 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:42.880 African violets that is really cool and beautiful. And they 756 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.280 just get all into that, and that's cool. Maybe you 757 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:49.719 are about eating and you want vegetables and you want fruit, 758 00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.920 and you want to grow herbs, and that's your new 759 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:56.599 thing on guarding. It always is something new, always something new. 760 00:38:57.719 --> 00:38:59.400 A couple of days, a couple of shows ago, I 761 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:02.760 mentioned terrariums and how you know that used to be 762 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:06.880 a really popular thing, terrariums, and they kind of waned. 763 00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.119 And I see an interest coming back in that now too. 764 00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:13.079 And that's a whole other thing. So somebody, I mean 765 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:18.199 somebody that is completely shut in. They can't get out 766 00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.880 and do anything, maybe physically, you know, for whatever reason, 767 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:26.639 a little terrarium to put some plants in and to grow, 768 00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:28.880 get a little light over it, and stuff that is 769 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.199 a kind of gardening that is also kind of fun 770 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:33.880 to do. You can get some really creative designs that 771 00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:36.760 way people go to great links, kind of like building 772 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.599 a ship in a bottle. You know you can. You 773 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:41.079 can kind of let the sky be the limit. But 774 00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:44.559 find something you like and try something new. Hey, twenty 775 00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.599 twenty five New Year. Time to try something new. Do 776 00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:50.679 something you haven't done before in gardening. Try something you 777 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:55.679 haven't tried before in gardening. There is for the rest 778 00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:57.920 of your life. You live to be five hundred years old, 779 00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:01.079 you are not going to run out of new things 780 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:03.840 to do and try and learn when it comes to gardening. 781 00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:07.760 That's just how that works. Well, let's do this. Let's 782 00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.079 head out to Brenham, Texas, and we're going to talk 783 00:40:11.159 --> 00:40:13.679 to Mike. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line. 784 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:15.840 Hey, Hey, Skip, thank you. 785 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.960 I just have a question. 786 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:22.320 I've got a plan to improve my yard and we 787 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:26.039 do a lot of organic, but I'm not sure that 788 00:40:26.119 --> 00:40:29.719 we're gonna be able to do that entirely. I want 789 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.920 to try and kill off some weeds and stuff that 790 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.599 are growing in the yard, and I'm thinking about using 791 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:40.440 two four deep products and then I use Balen's And 792 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:45.800 I was wondering if if I did that, would that 793 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.400 affect the Bermuda beheya wild grass that I have grown, 794 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.960 And would it affect the soil as far as the 795 00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:56.599 bugs and the quality of the soil and stuff like that. 796 00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.800 Okay, well two D is not going to effect grasses 797 00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:03.519 like that, so there won't be a negative effect on 798 00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:08.519 your turf, and its effect on microbes is minimal. If anything, 799 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:13.639 nature is pretty resilient. I would probably not just us 800 00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:18.079 two for D. That's fine. It works on things. You 801 00:41:18.199 --> 00:41:21.400 just got to be careful because it kills broad leaf 802 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:27.079 plants and your petunias, your shrubs, your trees, your flowers, 803 00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:31.079 those are all broad leaf plants, and so it's easy 804 00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:34.559 to have secondary damage that you don't intend. So you 805 00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.320 got to be really careful with spraying those things. If 806 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:40.320 you've got broad leaf weeds, those are winter weeds and 807 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:42.679 you can spray them. Now, there are a number of 808 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:46.599 products out there. There's product blends from fur loam and 809 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:52.239 from Monterey from a high Yield and what's the other 810 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.239 one on bone eye is another one. There's those blends 811 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.840 like that for controlling a variety weeds. They put more 812 00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:00.280 than one product together and that way it covers better 813 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:04.119 range of weeds out there. But uh, do all that 814 00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:08.119 before it gets temperatures get up above mid eighties. Up 815 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:10.280 it definitely up in the upper eighties. Get that done 816 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:13.840 before then, because then you can damage some types of 817 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.800 grass depending on the product you use and the type 818 00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:23.000 of grass that you have. Anytime you can spot spray, Yeah, anytime, 819 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:28.800 eating spot spray Mike is good. And also make your spray. 820 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.639 Don't pump up your sprayer very much. You would like 821 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:37.039 of course droplets going out from the spray. If you 822 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:39.440 pump it up a lot, you end up almost creating 823 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:42.760 like a foggy mist that will drift off site under 824 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.199 that higher pressure spray. So keep this, keep the spray 825 00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:48.719 pressure down a little bit, and that that is also 826 00:42:48.760 --> 00:42:49.760 a safety factor. 827 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.360 All right, So I have an acre of land, is 828 00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:56.639 there is there a granular product that you like? 829 00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:02.559 Well all the time? No, I don't have to be 830 00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:06.440 sprayed if you're killing existing weeds. There are products if 831 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:09.239 the weeds are wet you can put out. I know 832 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:11.639 nitrophoss has a number of those kinds of things. If 833 00:43:11.639 --> 00:43:14.239 you're talking about a whole acre. There are also a 834 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:18.119 versions of some of these things, but you can get 835 00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:20.800 you a product that if the leaves are wet, it's 836 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.239 like putting out fertilizer with a product in it and 837 00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:26.440 it sticks to the weed leaves and kills them that way. 838 00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:29.079 But you need the leaves to be wet in order 839 00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.559 to do that. A normal acre, it's not like you 840 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:35.119 can just turn the water on out there. So that's 841 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.440 where a spray is a little more helpful because you 842 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.920 can target it. And we're talking about killing the existing weeds. Now, 843 00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.119 preventing weeds. You put a granular down and the next 844 00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.400 time it rains, it moves into the soil and then 845 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:49.000 it's there to prevent weed seeds from coming out. 846 00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.039 Gotcha is Balin's one that you like? 847 00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:57.360 Baylan is one I would I would probably go with 848 00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:04.039 uh something that has pendamethylene in it, or something that 849 00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:07.079 has a die thiope here in it. If you'll go 850 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:10.400 to my website gardening with Skip dot com and look 851 00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:14.280 at the disease, pest and weed schedule, I list a 852 00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:17.760 couple of options there and you can see the ingredients, 853 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:19.840 and those are the ones that I would go after 854 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.360 as a pre emergent, and if you're going to be 855 00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:25.880 post emergent, that's a that's a different thing. All right. Hey, 856 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:29.159 I'm up against a heartbreak, Mike, but good luck getting 857 00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:33.360 getting that under control. Thank you, Bett, Thank you for 858 00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:37.039 the call. All right, folks, I'll be right back. 859 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:39.719 There we go. 860 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:44.840 We need to start having contests here on Guarden Line 861 00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:47.519 where the caller that calls in and can tell me 862 00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:53.760 who's singing that gets a free I don't know what 863 00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:56.719 I've come up with something like that. That'd be fun. 864 00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.840 All right, folks, you are listening to Garden Line. We're 865 00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:01.760 here to help you have success. So give me a 866 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:04.079 call if you would like to ask a question. Seven 867 00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:07.360 one three two one two kt r H seven one 868 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:09.519 three two one two k t r H. Al Right, 869 00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:11.280 we got the super Bowl coming. I was talking to 870 00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:13.599 somebody that about that the other day, and I realized 871 00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:16.639 that we broke our heart to have the Texans drop 872 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:19.679 out of the running for it. But it's still coming, 873 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.039 and it is the super Bowl, and you know super 874 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:25.159 bowls or parties and grilling. I love to grill outside. 875 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:30.400 Ace Hardware Store has got the best selection of quality 876 00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:35.239 grills and grilling equipment many place you're gonna find, for example, 877 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:39.400 uh trade names like Trager, names like Weber and Rectech 878 00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:42.880 and Big Green Egg and Blackstone. You know those are 879 00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:46.639 those are Cadillacs. And I'm telling you they have all 880 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:49.079 kinds of supplies to go with them, everything you need 881 00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:51.719 if you are an ACEH Rewards member. Some of the 882 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:54.320 stores now each each a store is independently owned. So 883 00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:56.480 call your local a store if you're going to get 884 00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.199 a grill. A lot of them will assemble and deliver 885 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:01.760 it to your home for you. Not IFBA does that, 886 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:07.400 but some do, and so ACE Rewards is well worthwhile 887 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:10.159 for many reasons, I belong to a rewards. It's simple. 888 00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:12.320 You just sign up, you get the card. You can 889 00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:13.559 just give me a phone number if you want to 890 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:15.440 use it, and you don't have to carry the card 891 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.880 around with you or anything. But the bottom line is 892 00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:21.679 you're gonna get points and it's gonna save you in 893 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:25.159 the long run. And it's it's absolutely painless, effortless. Just 894 00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:27.880 just do it. And every time you go into Grace, 895 00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:32.079 Grace ace you Sunday morning. I guess everything you go 896 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:35.400 into Ace, you are you are doing yourself a favor 897 00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:39.079 by having that uh A rewards members own. Now it's 898 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:41.440 also time to do spring cleaning in the house and 899 00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:44.159 in the garage. So do you need some spring spring 900 00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:46.760 cleaning supplies? Do you need some shelving? Do you need 901 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:49.679 some toats to get that garage in order? Isn't it 902 00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:54.440 weird how our garages just collect junk? You know, you 903 00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:57.159 get it all cleaned up, and it's like it's like 904 00:46:57.199 --> 00:47:00.400 a junk magnet in the garage and next you know 905 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:03.440 you're climbing over stuff and having to turn sideways to 906 00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:05.320 get from your car to the back door. You know 907 00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.440 what I mean, the garage door. Well, ACE has got 908 00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:10.519 you covered on getting all of that back in order, 909 00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:12.760 and they can do that. Now you're gonna find an 910 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:16.639 ACE all around the place near you. There are a 911 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:18.800 whole bunch of stores here in the Greater Houston area 912 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:21.039 all the way, you know, throughout my whole listening area 913 00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:24.000 there are ACE stores. But places like Champions Ace Harbor 914 00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:27.599 up in Champion Forests, northwest Houston, Langham Creek. ACE Hardware 915 00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:29.400 is right there in Copperfield. We're just talking to somebody 916 00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:34.400 this morning, Donna, that lives over near Champions Area, And 917 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:38.679 excuse me, the Copperfield area. She goes to Langham Creek 918 00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:41.599 all the time, Memorial Ace Hardware on the Memorial area, 919 00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:44.559 and you go out to Richmond and you got, for example, 920 00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:47.320 the Plantation. Ace Hardware a great store out there. Have 921 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:50.519 been there more than one time, really enjoy that store. 922 00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.480 But go to Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator, 923 00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:56.079 find a store near you, And that is how you 924 00:47:56.199 --> 00:47:58.960 go about it, because Ace is the place. And I'm 925 00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.519 telling you not long when we talking about go get 926 00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:04.360 this fertilizer, Go get that product or control weeds or 927 00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:07.119 insects or diseases or whatever, and Ice is going to 928 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:09.880 have it ready to go for you when you just 929 00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.639 show up. All right, I'm gonna talk about a couple 930 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.639 of things this morning, And first of all, I'm going 931 00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:19.760 to talk about a little bit about transplanting. I had 932 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.800 some questions yesterday down at the Fort beIN County Home 933 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:28.159 Show about transplanting plants, and as a question was evolving, 934 00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:30.880 I kind of realized this person had a plant that 935 00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:34.639 the roots were all wrapped up in the container, wrapping around, 936 00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.159 and that's what happens. It's a round container that most 937 00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:39.880 plants are grown in and the roots hit the side 938 00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:42.880 and they just have to turn left or right or something, 939 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:45.800 and they just start going around in circles. And when 940 00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:47.519 you pull that plant out of the ground and put 941 00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:48.920 it in out of the pot and put it in 942 00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:50.320 the ground, the plant the roots are not going to 943 00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:51.679 unwind underground. 944 00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:53.679 And so what do you do? 945 00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:57.639 Because a pot bound plant is not going to establish 946 00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:01.159 as fast or as well in some cases, if it 947 00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:04.360 were like a little tree, those winding roots are going 948 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:06.880 to get bigger month by month, year by year, as 949 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.920 the trunk gets bigger month by month, year by year. 950 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:12.159 And the next thing you know, those roots are literally 951 00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:15.880 strangling the base of the trunk of that plant. And that, 952 00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:21.239 unfortunately happens way too often. You got to cut the roots, 953 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:24.760 and don't be afraid to cut them. People buy this 954 00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:27.400 big old plant and it's probably too small of a 955 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.199 pot and you pull it out and it's just white 956 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:32.440 with circling roots, and they don't want to cut those roots. 957 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:34.400 I'm gonna hurt my plant. I got this big beautile 958 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:39.079 cut the roots. You if it's you know, something smaller, 959 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:41.599 a little shrub, The roots aren't that big. Take a 960 00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:44.440 box cutter knife, push that little one inch blade out 961 00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:47.360 there and slice vertically down through that root system in 962 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:50.880 three or four places around it. Here's what's going to happen. 963 00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:54.480 Wherever you cut a root, roots are going to branch 964 00:49:54.519 --> 00:49:57.000 out new roots. Just like if you have a branch 965 00:49:57.039 --> 00:49:59.119 above ground and you were to lop it off or 966 00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:03.159 snip it off with punters, what happens. New shoots come 967 00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:07.039 out from behind the cut. That's what roots do. One time, 968 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:11.880 I was at Arbigate Garden Center up in Tambol and 969 00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:14.440 visiting with Beverly, and there were some trees that they've 970 00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:17.440 gotten in and I noticed a circling root on them, 971 00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:19.840 because that's what happens at pots. If you've got a 972 00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:21.559 plants grown in a round pot, it's gonna have some 973 00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:24.679 circling roots. And I got a permission and went in 974 00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:27.480 there and took handprinters and just snipped the roots on 975 00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.119 one of those plants. Came back two weeks later and 976 00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:33.440 there were fresh white little roots, several three or four 977 00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:37.320 coming out of each cut surface. Everywhere I'd cut a root, 978 00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:41.239 there were three or four fresh, tender white roots coming out. 979 00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:44.000 That's what's going to happen underground for you when you 980 00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:46.960 cut the plant roots before you put them in the ground. 981 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.119 Don't be afraid to do it. Another reason why it's 982 00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.960 so important to plants sooner rather than later. If you 983 00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:54.800 do that in July, it's a little more stress on 984 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:57.000 a plant than if you do it now in January. 985 00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:01.039 So get that done, but ruthless. Now, if you have 986 00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:05.679 a little maybe a bedding plant, a tomato or a 987 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:08.000 petunia or whatever you're gonna put in the ground, you 988 00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:10.440 will often see those when they've been in the pot 989 00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:13.559 for too long, have a massive roots. The whole site. 990 00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:15.480 You can't even see dirt. The whole side of the 991 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:19.039 pot is just solid white right in most cases tan 992 00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:22.519 brown roots because they typically start dying out when they're 993 00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:26.480 that pot bound. Cut those two or just kind of 994 00:51:26.519 --> 00:51:29.519 tease them apart. Sometimes I just with a little tiny transplant, 995 00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:32.199 just rip the roots on the outside with my fingers 996 00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:34.760 off and stick it in the ground and watered in 997 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.599 really good. Get some get some roots stimulator in there. 998 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:39.719 Get the kinds of products you know, you hear me 999 00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:42.760 talk about things well, For example, nutri Star Genesis. That's 1000 00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.400 a great one, a great one by the folks at Nelson. 1001 00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:49.199 I mix that every time I'm going to transplant a plant. 1002 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:52.280 Nutri Star gets mixed in with the soil in the 1003 00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:55.280 planting hole, or in the case of a container plant, 1004 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:57.400 it gets mixed in with the potting soil that's going 1005 00:51:57.480 --> 00:51:59.760 to be put around that new plant in the container, 1006 00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:03.480 and it takes off and it grows fast. There are 1007 00:52:03.559 --> 00:52:06.199 products that you can dip them in. You know has 1008 00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:10.320 to grow by medina. That's when you can drench it 1009 00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:14.079 with a watering can or like I mentioned yesterday, I'll 1010 00:52:14.159 --> 00:52:16.119 often take put a little has to Grow in a 1011 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:18.280 bucket or something and then just dip the set the 1012 00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:20.880 plant in there while I'm getting the whole dug and 1013 00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:23.159 then pull it out. Now you got a root ball 1014 00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:26.039 soaked with the has to Grow six twelve six plant 1015 00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:28.000 food and you just put it right in the ground. 1016 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.000 And we have other examples of that. But take care 1017 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:34.960 of those roots. Don't expect it to fix itself underground. 1018 00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.920 It won't. And trust me if you do. If you 1019 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.480 bought two plants and they're both equally root bound, and 1020 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:41.920 one of them you just put in the ground, and 1021 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.679 the other one you did what I've been saying to do, 1022 00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.719 come back in June and look at those plants, and 1023 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:49.360 then give me a call and tell me how they're doing, 1024 00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:52.000 and you're going to see that difference. Trust me on 1025 00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:54.760 this one. It is important to do that. Now we 1026 00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:57.039 have the ability to buy a plant that's not so 1027 00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:01.559 terribly root bound, take advantage of not doing that, buying 1028 00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:04.639 one that's not so terribly root bound. But if you 1029 00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:06.960 have them and if you cut them, the plants will 1030 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:09.320 survive and they'll do well. All right. I spend a 1031 00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:12.599 lot of time on that. But that is again one 1032 00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:14.360 of these days, I think I need to come up 1033 00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:18.039 with maybe the top twenty five mistakes gardeners make. That 1034 00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:21.679 sounds like such a negative list, but it would help 1035 00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:25.360 you not make those mistakes. And one of the ones 1036 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:29.599 is planting root bound plants without doing something for that 1037 00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:33.400 root system. That would belong on the list. All right, 1038 00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:35.920 you're listening to Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter our 1039 00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:38.559 number for gardeners to call in. This is a call 1040 00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:42.119 in show. Seven one three two one two k t 1041 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:46.440 r H seven one three two one two kt r H. 1042 00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:52.599 By the way, that nutri Star that Genesis Nelson Plant 1043 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.880 Food has, they have their fertilizers are kind of grouped. 1044 00:53:56.119 --> 00:53:58.920 There's a nature Star that's more organic types of fertilizer. 1045 00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:02.039 There is a turf Star that's products for your lawn. 1046 00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.360 Turf Star. There is a Nutristar line, and those tend 1047 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:12.599 to be things like fertilizer for your plumeria, or fertilizer 1048 00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:16.039 for your fruit trees, or fertilizer for your vegetable. That's 1049 00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:18.239 the kind of the nutri Star line. But there is 1050 00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:21.000 a Nutristar genesis that I've been talking about, and it's 1051 00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:23.400 got the reason it works so well and the reason 1052 00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:25.039 I use it well. The reason I use it is 1053 00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:26.800 I tried it and I was shocked and how well 1054 00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:29.400 it worked. It really surprised me how well it worked. 1055 00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:33.599 But it's got the endo and the ectomiciza. You're sitting 1056 00:54:33.639 --> 00:54:36.639 there going, what the heck does that even mean? Well, 1057 00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:41.880 micariza are little. There are fung fungal strands that live 1058 00:54:41.960 --> 00:54:46.679 in an association with roots, that's called a mic orhizal association. 1059 00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:50.519 And these fungi go into the root, doesn't hurt the plant, 1060 00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:52.360 it helps the plant, and then they go out in 1061 00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:55.400 the soil and they may grab a phosphorus molecule from 1062 00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:57.280 way out in the swell that the plant can't reach 1063 00:54:57.679 --> 00:54:59.679 and bring it back to the plant. Or they may 1064 00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:04.599 cut act two plants together like a telegraph line or 1065 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.679 a telephone line between the two plants for communication. But 1066 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:09.800 this has both the ones that are on the outside 1067 00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:11.159 of the root and the ones that are in the 1068 00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:14.559 root as an endow versus ecto. It's got those, it's 1069 00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:18.800 got bacteria and other fungi that benefit that soil microbiome, 1070 00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:21.239 and then it's got the humantes and of course it's 1071 00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:24.440 got some nutrition in it as well. Now you mix 1072 00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:26.800 them in the soil. You do that, then as those 1073 00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:29.800 plants are growing, then you do your regular fertilizing like 1074 00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:33.239 you would do. The genesis is for the transplant mixed 1075 00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:38.840 potting soil or soil or whatever you're putting in. It's 1076 00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:41.800 specifically designed to be mixed in the soil. Okay, but 1077 00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:45.320 don't forget. Get you some color Star or other nutri 1078 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:47.760 Stars or nutri Star whatever you're going to use, and 1079 00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:50.800 have those on hand for ongoing fertilization. But before you 1080 00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:52.679 put a plant in the ground, have that nutri Star 1081 00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:55.760 genesis around because I'm telling you it works, and I'm 1082 00:55:55.760 --> 00:55:58.559 telling you that because I have used it. Della experiment 1083 00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:03.559 with it a while back. Alrighty, well, I am up 1084 00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:07.079 against another hard break here. If you would like to 1085 00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:09.239 get us a call and be on garden Line to 1086 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:13.079 ask your question seven one three two one two KTRH. 1087 00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.000 When we come back, we're going to start off with 1088 00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:18.559 Brad out there in Pasadena. Brad will be right with 1089 00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:21.360 you in just a bit. Here, I want to remind 1090 00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:24.079 you my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, is where 1091 00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:26.239 you're going to find things that I'm often referring to 1092 00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:29.920 during the show. Someone asked me nuts Edge was all 1093 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:33.599 over my garden last year and now it's all frozen back. 1094 00:56:33.719 --> 00:56:34.199 Is it gone? 1095 00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:37.599 Oh no, no, no no, it's not gone, unfortunately, But 1096 00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:41.199 I have a publication Nutsedge and in depth look that 1097 00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:44.320 will tell you how you can, I promise successfully get 1098 00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.119 rid of Nutsedge if you follow my advice in that publication. 1099 00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:49.719 Just an example of one of the things on the website. 1100 00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:54.400 Folks will be right back. You know how to jitterbug, 1101 00:56:54.440 --> 00:57:00.760 It's okay to be doing that right now. Let's get 1102 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:03.119 back to the phones here on garden Line. We're going 1103 00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:06.440 to go straight out to Pasadena, Texas and talk to Brad. 1104 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:08.320 Hello Brad, welcome to garden Line. 1105 00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:14.199 Hi Skip. I've got a backyard just full of crab grass. 1106 00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:17.400 Should I put the pre mergent down right now? 1107 00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.000 I would. I would wait just a little bit. On 1108 00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:25.760 my schedule. I've got the pre emergent starting in mid 1109 00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:32.079 January and going going through February. You can do it now, 1110 00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:34.679 but with where you live, if you did it a 1111 00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:37.000 little bit later, that would be fine. Here's the thing, 1112 00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:38.519 you don't want to wait too long. But at the 1113 00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:42.480 same time, by doing it too early, then it ends 1114 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:46.920 up breaking down a little earlier too, And so the 1115 00:57:47.079 --> 00:57:50.719 extend how far it goes out is not as far. 1116 00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:52.280 Do you see what I'm saying. I mean, they only 1117 00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:54.280 last a certain amount of time before they break down 1118 00:57:54.320 --> 00:57:56.880 and you have to reapply them. So I would probably 1119 00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:01.039 do mine maybe a next maybe next week after something 1120 00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:03.440 like that would probably be about ideal for your area. 1121 00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:05.440 Could could even come a little bit later now. 1122 00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:11.440 Okay, good? Uh this well, pro diamine do the job. 1123 00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:15.840 For diamond Yeah, oh yeah, that would be fine. Uh 1124 00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:20.079 you know that the uh, there are a lot of 1125 00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:23.400 ingredients out there that are that are pre emergence and 1126 00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:27.599 I liked for for this area. I found that the 1127 00:58:27.719 --> 00:58:32.000 barricade products just work really well. Nitrophoss has its barricade 1128 00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:35.920 version and stuff, and I would I would recommend that 1129 00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:36.800 you just use. 1130 00:58:36.719 --> 00:58:41.840 That very good okay, thank you, Skip yeah. 1131 00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:44.639 And just remember when you do this that you need 1132 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:50.320 uh you need to water it in after after you 1133 00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:55.480 you apply it, so it only starts working when you 1134 00:58:55.719 --> 00:59:00.000 move it down into the soil surface area. That that's important. 1135 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:04.039 And by the way, barricade is par diming that you 1136 00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:04.719 were talking about. 1137 00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:09.000 All right, thanks again, Skip. 1138 00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:14.519 Yes, sir, you take care, good luck with that all ready, 1139 00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:18.280 and let's go now to Huntsville, Texas. Talk to Linda. Hey, Linda, 1140 00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:19.320 welcome to garden Line. 1141 00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:21.639 Good morning, Skip. 1142 00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:24.199 Morning. 1143 00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:28.679 I have a question about some rows of sharing cuttings 1144 00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:32.679 that I made last ball. They've been in the greenhouse 1145 00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:39.400 on a warming pad under grow lights for probably two 1146 00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:42.159 and a half months now, and they're really starting to 1147 00:59:42.239 --> 00:59:45.519 grow and get lots of leaves, and I'm wondering when 1148 00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:47.599 I can move them outside, take them off of that 1149 00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:53.239 heating pad and grow lights and put them outside. 1150 00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:58.480 Well, you know, we don't know what the weather is 1151 00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:02.559 going to be. And let's just say that we're up 1152 01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:04.599 in Huntsville, so you go further north in the hearing 1153 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:08.199 listening area. Let's just say, you know, a week or 1154 01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:11.159 two from now, you're going to drop back down into 1155 01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:13.239 the mid teens. That'd be kind of hard on those 1156 01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:16.199 brand new plants that are not hardened off. They've been 1157 01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:18.960 living the life of Riley in your nice greenhouse under 1158 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.679 the lights and stuff with the heating mat. So I 1159 01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:24.559 wouldn't put them out too soon. I'd give them a 1160 01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:26.760 little more time. What I would do, though, is go 1161 01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:28.719 ahead and lift them up out of there and pot 1162 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:32.480 them up. Pot them up into something, you know, whatever size. 1163 01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:34.559 It doesn't have to be a giant pot, but just 1164 01:00:34.679 --> 01:00:37.559 get them, get them growing. With a little more root space, 1165 01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:40.679 you can get them off the heating mat, provide them 1166 01:00:40.719 --> 01:00:43.000 a little continue to give them the light that they have, 1167 01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:47.239 and then once we get past the freeze damages, let's 1168 01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:50.400 say we get somewhere into oh, I don't know, maybe 1169 01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:53.119 mid March or something like that, then then go ahead 1170 01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:56.599 and put them out or gradually acclimate them like, pot 1171 01:00:56.639 --> 01:00:59.480 them up, get them growing, set them outside, and let 1172 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:02.159 them let them experience the cool weather we're having. But 1173 01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:04.079 that way you can bring them in if it gets 1174 01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:07.800 freezing cold. If you plant them, you're going to definitely 1175 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:09.400 go ahead. 1176 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:12.480 Would you say, is too cold. 1177 01:01:14.119 --> 01:01:14.440 You know that. 1178 01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:20.280 Yeah, it's not a it's not a black and white line. 1179 01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:23.360 It's not that temperatures above freezing that worry me. It's 1180 01:01:23.559 --> 01:01:27.320 it's a plant that is not hardened off being subjected 1181 01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:31.519 to temperatures that are very, very cold. And since I 1182 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:33.920 don't have my crystal ball on the weather, i'd rather 1183 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:37.079 be conservative. And that's why I said put them up. 1184 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:39.880 Maybe put them outside, but be able to bring them 1185 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:43.920 in and they'll continue to develop roots. Even if temperatures 1186 01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:46.559 are in you know, the highs in the fifties and 1187 01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:49.039 at night it's in the low forties or upper thirties. 1188 01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:53.320 They'll be okay, and they'll be developing root systems and 1189 01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:57.280 getting acclimated. And then when you plant them out, your 1190 01:01:57.400 --> 01:01:59.320 chance of success is going to be even better. 1191 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:03.880 But for right now, I could turn that heating pad off. 1192 01:02:05.239 --> 01:02:08.280 Oh yeah, yeah, if they have growth on top, that 1193 01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:12.760 means they have roots. Yeah, a cutting that is is 1194 01:02:12.920 --> 01:02:16.280 growing has roots. Those cuttings sit there and when that's 1195 01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:18.280 one way I know they're rooting is because you start 1196 01:02:18.320 --> 01:02:19.440 to see new growth appearing. 1197 01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:26.239 Okay, so I could at least turn the heating pad off. Yeah, 1198 01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:31.639 when it's warm and move them back inside when it's 1199 01:02:31.679 --> 01:02:32.960 going to be cool at Yes. 1200 01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:36.800 That would that would be That would be great. It 1201 01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:40.559 sure would get you somebody genesis from Nelson. Get some 1202 01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.960 genesis from Nelson. Plant foods so that when you plant them, 1203 01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:45.719 whether you pop them up or put them in the ground, 1204 01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:48.280 mix some of that in the soil they're being planted 1205 01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:51.679 into and you're going to see a good benefit from 1206 01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:58.320 that as they they will establish better. Okay, genesis genesis 1207 01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:04.280 from Nelson. Oh, I thank you for that. You take care, Linda. 1208 01:03:04.559 --> 01:03:09.559 I appreciate the call very much. Well, oh my, Barbara 1209 01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:11.559 and Hempstead, you're gonna be our first up when we 1210 01:03:11.679 --> 01:03:13.920 come back from a break here. I don't have time 1211 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:16.360 to give your question the time I would like to 1212 01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:19.559 provide it, So we're gonna hold you over and come 1213 01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:22.000 back to you right when we get back from break. 1214 01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:28.119 Remember on plants, plants go through a hardening off process 1215 01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:30.599 as as things cool off in the fall, and that 1216 01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:33.960 makes them more winter hardy. When we don't allow that, 1217 01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:37.000 a plant that should be hardy won't be. For example, 1218 01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:40.239 crate myrtles. A couple of years ago in December we 1219 01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:43.400 had warm temperatures, they were not hardened off and ready. 1220 01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:46.599 We had a seventeen degree I believe temperature where I 1221 01:03:46.679 --> 01:03:49.800 live and crate myrtles killed the ground that re sprouted 1222 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:52.559 out of the base because they weren't ready. All right, 1223 01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:57.000 I'll be right back in just a moment. All right, 1224 01:03:57.119 --> 01:04:02.039 folks were back. Let's do this. You are listening to 1225 01:04:02.119 --> 01:04:04.000 garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to 1226 01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:06.480 help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape 1227 01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:08.960 that is as simple as I can put it. Oh 1228 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:11.599 and one more thing, and have fun in the process. 1229 01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:14.559 And never forget that gardening is supposed to be fun, 1230 01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.800 and it is. You know, it's like getting to play 1231 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:21.119 in the dirt when you're an adult. And it's a 1232 01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:24.840 good excuse for that. Right, Calvin and Hobbs, you remember 1233 01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:27.639 the Cavin and Hobbes comic strip, The Little Tiger and 1234 01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:31.519 the Little Boy. There's one of those, and it said, 1235 01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:35.679 at the end of the day, if your genes aren't 1236 01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:40.079 grass stained, you need to seriously reconsider your life. I 1237 01:04:40.239 --> 01:04:40.880 love that one. 1238 01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:41.679 I get it. 1239 01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:44.760 I agree that's true. Hey, let's go out to the phones. 1240 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:44.920 Here. 1241 01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:46.920 We're gonna head all the way out to Hempstead and 1242 01:04:47.079 --> 01:04:50.039 talk to Barbara. Hey, Barbara, welcome to garden Line. 1243 01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:52.039 Thank you, Kim. 1244 01:04:55.199 --> 01:04:55.760 Can you hear me? 1245 01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:59.960 Yes, ma'am? How can we help? How can we help? 1246 01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:06.079 Okay? I thought a tumbler to do compost because I thought, 1247 01:05:06.599 --> 01:05:10.159 why not use all the things out of the kitchen. Okay, 1248 01:05:10.199 --> 01:05:14.400 Well there the tumbler got too heavy for me to turn. 1249 01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:20.000 So the other day I got frustrated and I unloaded 1250 01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:22.400 it and I put I dug it down into my 1251 01:05:22.840 --> 01:05:26.920 raised beds, which I sow vegetables as my raised bed. 1252 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.559 So if I made a huge mistake, that's going to 1253 01:05:32.039 --> 01:05:35.760 let me this spring? Or is it gonna be okay? 1254 01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:39.639 I think it's gonna be okay. Well, can I ask 1255 01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:42.280 you about how far along the composting process do you 1256 01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:45.519 think you got? Does it about halfway to compost? Or what. 1257 01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:48.599 The bottom of it looked like? 1258 01:05:48.840 --> 01:05:50.880 I mean, wonderful soil. 1259 01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:54.840 It didn't have a bad smell the top the top 1260 01:05:54.960 --> 01:05:59.320 has you know, it has like eggshells and some avocado 1261 01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:05.119 and things like that. I haven't broken down yet that 1262 01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:11.360 dark and believe it mostly broken down because I have 1263 01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:11.880 an old. 1264 01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:12.440 Tree to like. 1265 01:06:13.960 --> 01:06:14.760 You think it's okay? 1266 01:06:16.159 --> 01:06:20.000 Yeah, I know it's okay. And the eggshells are almost 1267 01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:22.159 never going to break down. I mean they'll they'll be 1268 01:06:22.280 --> 01:06:25.880 all dark brown, black stained. If you come back five 1269 01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:28.360 years from now and an eggshell is still going to 1270 01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:31.719 look shaped like an eggshell, they don't break down much. 1271 01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:32.360 Uh. 1272 01:06:32.599 --> 01:06:36.159 The avocados or those old leathery skins are tough, and 1273 01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:38.760 that's going to be very slow. So that's understandable. But 1274 01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:40.840 the other rest of it is fine. What you probably 1275 01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:43.039 ought to try to do, though, is as you get 1276 01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:46.840 it in there, turn it more often, because what happens 1277 01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:49.159 is you're going to get decomposition and now you have 1278 01:06:49.280 --> 01:06:52.480 this heggy, heavy, soggy thing sitting on one side. So 1279 01:06:52.559 --> 01:06:54.719 when you try to crank that around to the top, 1280 01:06:55.159 --> 01:06:57.079 that's what's making it so hard to crank. So the 1281 01:06:57.159 --> 01:06:59.800 more often you turn it, the less that's going to 1282 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:01.760 have happen, and you'll be able to continue to do 1283 01:07:01.880 --> 01:07:02.880 turning as you need to. 1284 01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:08.320 Okay, well, different ones, Okay, never mind. I also have 1285 01:07:08.440 --> 01:07:11.480 a question for a friend of mine. He has a 1286 01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:15.599 lemon trees that are in thought that she put in 1287 01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:19.760 her baron and wrapped the blankets. Well, when she took 1288 01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:23.920 the blankets off to take him back out, something has 1289 01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:27.840 eaten all the bark off of those trees. That's like 1290 01:07:28.119 --> 01:07:32.880 five trees. So she was thinking it was spping mice 1291 01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:35.960 or something like that. But are those trees gonna be 1292 01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:37.079 okay with no bark? 1293 01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:47.639 Well maybe not. The things like rats and mice and 1294 01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:50.440 some are cretain. Other creatures can gnaw on the base 1295 01:07:50.519 --> 01:07:52.760 of a tree, uh and chew the bark on it. 1296 01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:57.800 I would my question would be for her to check 1297 01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:01.199 and see is the bark eaten all the way around 1298 01:08:01.960 --> 01:08:04.800 on the trees and how wide of a section is that. 1299 01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:08.119 So if it's just like on one side they choose 1300 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:11.480 some bark, then all the rest of the trunk is 1301 01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:14.679 connected still from the top to the bottom. It goes 1302 01:08:14.719 --> 01:08:15.440 all the way around. 1303 01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:19.680 It's get me pictures, and it looks like all the 1304 01:08:19.760 --> 01:08:23.000 way around. I mean they went from okay, you know, 1305 01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:26.960 the soul level as far as they could get into everything. 1306 01:08:31.119 --> 01:08:35.920 Oh well, then that's going to be too inside. Yeah, 1307 01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:38.479 so what that's going to be too big of a 1308 01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.920 gap for it to callous and close over Sometimes with 1309 01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:44.680 a small we call that girdling. By the way, when 1310 01:08:44.680 --> 01:08:46.960 they go when something removes the bark all the way 1311 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:50.880 around a trunk, If it's just a small area, you're 1312 01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:53.359 going to get callous and it may close back over 1313 01:08:54.039 --> 01:08:57.840 but and it but if it's very big, it never will. 1314 01:08:58.239 --> 01:09:01.159 And and that tree it'll look like it's living for 1315 01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:04.079 a while, But what's happening is the roots are getting 1316 01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:07.640 starved for carbohydrates and it will go downhill and you 1317 01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:11.000 won't be able to turn it around. Now she has 1318 01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:17.239 a couple of options. The simplest, easiest thing is just 1319 01:09:17.319 --> 01:09:19.359 get new trees, because then you know where you are 1320 01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:20.600 and you know you're gonna do it. But if she 1321 01:09:20.680 --> 01:09:24.920 wants to try to save those, she might try planting 1322 01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:27.199 it a little bit deeper in a pot and getting 1323 01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:31.439 some soil up against the bark, living bark that's still 1324 01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:34.680 on that stem. Take a little pocket knife and make 1325 01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:38.159 some little vertical slits in it, like the direction of 1326 01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:41.720 the trunk, Just little slits with that little wound will callous. 1327 01:09:42.359 --> 01:09:45.680 And where you get callous, you can get roots, and 1328 01:09:45.800 --> 01:09:48.239 you may be able to get the top part above 1329 01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:53.319 that chewed to go ahead and root and save the tree. 1330 01:09:53.399 --> 01:09:53.760 That way. 1331 01:09:54.399 --> 01:09:57.439 It's a long shot, but I'm using the term maybe 1332 01:09:57.840 --> 01:10:02.159 on that, but that is a possibility. Those trees are 1333 01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:05.039 too small to do bridge graphs on and so I 1334 01:10:05.119 --> 01:10:07.960 don't I don't think that's going to be feasible. But 1335 01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:11.840 if she wants to try to save them, that's how 1336 01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:14.479 to try. Otherwise, just get you a good new tree 1337 01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:16.680 and get some rat killer to put out there in 1338 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:17.279 the meantime. 1339 01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:23.880 All right, sorry to tell her that, but okay, i'd 1340 01:10:24.079 --> 01:10:24.439 thank you. 1341 01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:31.000 Thank you, Barbara. Take care good to talk to you. Yeah, 1342 01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:36.479 I was a fun, fun story, funny story. I worked 1343 01:10:36.479 --> 01:10:39.439 in Missouri for three years as a fruit grower advisor 1344 01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:43.159 for Missouri State at that time it's called Southwest Missouri 1345 01:10:43.199 --> 01:10:46.239 State anyway, and I would go out all over the 1346 01:10:46.279 --> 01:10:48.800 state and help people that were grown fruit trees, primarily 1347 01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:52.279 commercial growers, but you know, some homeowners. And went out 1348 01:10:52.359 --> 01:10:55.600 to see a fella who had his trees had been 1349 01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:59.520 girdled by rabbits. Now, what happens sometimes in areas where 1350 01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:02.039 you get lost snow is the rabbits go hopping up 1351 01:11:02.119 --> 01:11:05.199 to the trunk. They're hopping up on snow, and they 1352 01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:07.840 chew the bark all the way around the trunk. They 1353 01:11:07.960 --> 01:11:10.359 literally girdled the tree that way. And this was a 1354 01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:13.119 sizeable probably about a four or five inch trunk on 1355 01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:16.439 this apple tree that they had chewed off. And so 1356 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:18.880 there's a thing called a bridge graft where you cut 1357 01:11:18.880 --> 01:11:24.199 a branch and you essentially connect the top part that 1358 01:11:24.439 --> 01:11:26.399 was to above where it was chewed off, to the 1359 01:11:26.760 --> 01:11:28.760 rootstock part below where it was chewed off. So you 1360 01:11:28.800 --> 01:11:32.199 have these little bands of branches going across there. It's 1361 01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:35.119 called a bridge graft. And I was sitting there doing 1362 01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:37.840 this for him for free, just to help the guy. 1363 01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:41.079 And I looked up and there's a little bunny rabbit 1364 01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:44.439 like twenty feet away, and I go, there's your culprit. 1365 01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:47.119 And the guy laughed and he goes, yeah, he's our 1366 01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:49.520 pet rabbit. He hangs out around here. And I'm sitting here. 1367 01:11:49.720 --> 01:11:53.119 I'm not helping a guy. I'm feeding a rabbit. Why 1368 01:11:53.199 --> 01:11:58.199 am I doing this? Anyway? Fun story, all right, we're 1369 01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:00.000 at the end of an hour here. We're gonna be 1370 01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:04.359 back in a little bit, and when we do, we're 1371 01:12:04.399 --> 01:12:07.039 going to talk to Glenn in Lake Jackson, And if 1372 01:12:07.079 --> 01:12:09.760 you'd like to be up then just get Jonathan m 1373 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:12.680 call seven one three two one two kat r h 1374 01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:16.720 and we will talk to you about that too. You know, 1375 01:12:17.079 --> 01:12:19.600 I'm talking about grafting. Grafting is kind of a fun 1376 01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:22.119 thing and so is budding and it's not hard to learn. 1377 01:12:22.239 --> 01:12:24.640 Now early on you're going to not have great success 1378 01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:26.720 because you kind of to get the neck of it. 1379 01:12:27.319 --> 01:12:29.479 But as I was talking earlier, what have you never 1380 01:12:29.600 --> 01:12:30.920 done that you're going to do a new and try 1381 01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:36.039 this year? How about trying to bud? Budding doesn't cut 1382 01:12:36.079 --> 01:12:38.840 off the whole branch, and so if you fail at it, 1383 01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:41.479 you haven't lost much. Do you know you could bud 1384 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:44.359 four or five different kinds of peaches on your peach tree? 1385 01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:45.399 Would that be cool? 1386 01:12:46.520 --> 01:12:51.359 I'm just saying, welcome to kt RH Guarded Line with 1387 01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:52.359 scam Rictor. 1388 01:12:52.479 --> 01:12:59.800 It's trim. 1389 01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:02.800 You just watch him as. 1390 01:13:08.039 --> 01:13:18.199 Many things. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to Guardenline'm good 1391 01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:20.840 to have you with us this morning. You know, right now, 1392 01:13:20.920 --> 01:13:22.720 if you go outside and look at your landscape, I 1393 01:13:22.800 --> 01:13:25.079 bet it looks pretty bleak. You know that freeze we 1394 01:13:25.159 --> 01:13:28.960 had my Saint Augustine grass and and Zuysey I've got 1395 01:13:28.960 --> 01:13:31.920 a little of beach. Uh they really got fried and 1396 01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:34.199 burned back and that looks so great out there this 1397 01:13:34.319 --> 01:13:37.600 time of year. But I'll tell you who can fix that, 1398 01:13:37.840 --> 01:13:41.239 and that is Peerce Scapes. I'm just every time I 1399 01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:43.800 go to their website and I would ask that you 1400 01:13:44.079 --> 01:13:45.960 just go look at it. Please go look at it. 1401 01:13:46.039 --> 01:13:49.439 It's Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Look at the 1402 01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:53.439 work they can do. It is amazing, it is outstanding. 1403 01:13:53.960 --> 01:13:55.920 You'll you'll look there, maybe you'll look at the hard 1404 01:13:56.000 --> 01:13:57.960 escape work that they do and you just go, oh 1405 01:13:58.039 --> 01:14:00.399 my gosh. I have to have a pat or a 1406 01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:04.520 walkway like that. I have got to create a water 1407 01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:07.039 feature like they create. I've got to create that outdoor 1408 01:14:07.119 --> 01:14:12.039 barbecue pit area like they show. Landscape lighting unbelievable, the 1409 01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:15.119 difference it makes in your home, both in safety, you know, 1410 01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:17.399 we can see around the house kind of a security thing, 1411 01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:20.359 but also just in beauty, and Pierscapes does all of that. 1412 01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:23.439 They also do maintenance. So maybe you just want somebody 1413 01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:25.600 to come out and four times a year, I want 1414 01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:27.439 you to get in here, get the flowerbeds, put some 1415 01:14:27.479 --> 01:14:30.000 new flowers in, put some mulch in, make sure the 1416 01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:33.520 irrigation's work, and right, do a little trimming here and there, 1417 01:14:33.560 --> 01:14:35.960 I mean fertilizing. They do all that. That's part of 1418 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:39.159 their quarterly maintenance program. But you got to call them 1419 01:14:39.920 --> 01:14:43.720 and connect and get you know, get them on board 1420 01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:45.800 to do what you need done. Now, if it's a 1421 01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:48.199 big landscape job, it's gonna take some time. Sit on 1422 01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:50.760 with the designers, show them some pictures and let them 1423 01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:52.880 do it. Maybe it's just a bed you want to redo. 1424 01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:54.960 Maybe you just want to have them come in quarterly 1425 01:14:55.119 --> 01:14:57.680 and do the maintenance. Whatever it is you need. Two 1426 01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:01.479 eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three 1427 01:15:01.600 --> 01:15:05.520 seven o five zero six zero are better than that. 1428 01:15:05.720 --> 01:15:10.119 Phone numbers on the website to Pierce escapes dot com. 1429 01:15:11.239 --> 01:15:13.720 Take a look. See what you think. We're gonna go 1430 01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:16.800 now to Lake Jackson and talk to Glenn this morning. 1431 01:15:16.880 --> 01:15:18.840 Hello Glenn, and welcome to garden Line. 1432 01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:21.439 Thank you. How are you doing today? 1433 01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:24.079 I'm well, sir, I'm well. 1434 01:15:25.640 --> 01:15:29.479 I've got I covered up my high biscus trees and 1435 01:15:29.680 --> 01:15:34.279 a palm tree, and they stayed covered up with a 1436 01:15:34.439 --> 01:15:39.359 frost protection cloth, and uh huh. When I took them off, 1437 01:15:39.399 --> 01:15:42.600 they looked pretty. The leaves looked darker and very wilted. 1438 01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:45.880 I didn't know whether the sun or the freeze got him. 1439 01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:49.880 The lack of sun, rather it would be and I 1440 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.760 would be the freeze. The freeze got them Yeah, that's 1441 01:15:52.880 --> 01:15:55.720 that's it. You may still you may still have some 1442 01:15:55.880 --> 01:15:58.840 life though in the stems, the trunk and branches. I 1443 01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:01.880 would give it a little time, and that plant will 1444 01:16:02.279 --> 01:16:05.319 tell you where it's, what's alive, and what's not alive 1445 01:16:05.399 --> 01:16:07.399 when it begins to push out new buds, and just 1446 01:16:07.479 --> 01:16:10.279 cut it back to wherever there's new growth at that time. 1447 01:16:11.239 --> 01:16:15.239 Okay, So covering them up just didn't do very much. 1448 01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:17.439 Did it? Well? 1449 01:16:17.800 --> 01:16:22.479 It can. There are a number of factors. Number one, 1450 01:16:22.520 --> 01:16:25.159 how hardy is the plant for covering. That's a big difference. 1451 01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:28.520 Number Two, if you wrap it like a landscape lollipop 1452 01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:31.000 tied around the trunk, it's not going to do much good. 1453 01:16:31.199 --> 01:16:33.479 If you drape it to the ground where soil heat 1454 01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:37.039 can rise up, it does more good. Then the next 1455 01:16:37.159 --> 01:16:39.600 thing would be adding heat underneath it, like a flood 1456 01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:44.239 lamp or a heat lamp underneath to provide warmth underneath 1457 01:16:44.279 --> 01:16:47.319 the cover would be another I've got a publication online, 1458 01:16:47.720 --> 01:16:51.399 Glenn on my website Gardening with Skip dot com that 1459 01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:53.479 tells you how to do it. But when you look 1460 01:16:53.520 --> 01:16:56.119 at pictures of that on the publication, suddenly it'll all 1461 01:16:56.199 --> 01:16:59.199 makes sense. But it's a matter of that how cold. 1462 01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:06.560 Go ahead, I had lollipopped. They were all lollipopped. Yeah, yeah, 1463 01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:09.920 Well check out my publication. I'm telling you, when you 1464 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.079 look at it one time for now on, you'll know 1465 01:17:12.159 --> 01:17:14.119 how to cover a plant. And it's a matter of 1466 01:17:14.199 --> 01:17:16.640 how cold does it get, how tough is the plant, 1467 01:17:17.039 --> 01:17:19.279 how well do you cover it, and do you add 1468 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:20.760 heat and it you know, if it's going to be 1469 01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:24.079 thirty one degrees, we're not so worried. If it's going 1470 01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:27.600 to be you know, low twenties, we got a big problem. 1471 01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:29.199 And you're gonna have to do a lot to save 1472 01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:32.800 a tropical, very cold sensitive plant like you described. 1473 01:17:33.359 --> 01:17:36.680 Yeah, I'm having trouble keeping high biscus here because you know, 1474 01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:38.359 one freeze a year takes it out. 1475 01:17:40.279 --> 01:17:44.520 Well, that's true. Yeah. You know one thing you can do, 1476 01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:47.520 and this is just another step, is just get some 1477 01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:51.039 soil or a real nice composting mix and make a 1478 01:17:51.119 --> 01:17:54.159 big old volcano cone at the bottom of the plant. Normally, 1479 01:17:54.239 --> 01:17:55.880 I don't say do that because that's not how you 1480 01:17:56.000 --> 01:17:59.720 normally treat plants. But if that had been done, then 1481 01:17:59.800 --> 01:18:02.319 that highbiscus would have been killed back to the soil. 1482 01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:05.960 But when you pull that cone dirt away from the base, 1483 01:18:06.560 --> 01:18:08.960 you would have had living tissues that could re sprout, 1484 01:18:09.079 --> 01:18:11.239 and at least your plant will be back in business 1485 01:18:11.319 --> 01:18:14.319 pretty quick that way. So that's another tip I'll throw you. 1486 01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:16.840 Of course, you can't go backwards in time, but going forward. 1487 01:18:17.199 --> 01:18:18.000 Keep that in mind. 1488 01:18:19.880 --> 01:18:21.560 Do I need to take the dead leaves off? 1489 01:18:23.359 --> 01:18:23.520 Nah? 1490 01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:25.760 Just wait, I would right now. I would leave it 1491 01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:28.840 and wait if we have another phraeze, you know, then 1492 01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:31.439 you know, covering the base a little bit with some 1493 01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:35.199 soil may help. But once it starts growing, either it's 1494 01:18:35.239 --> 01:18:37.880 all dead or you may get some sprouting somewhere along 1495 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:39.920 the trunk or around the base. I wouldn't give up 1496 01:18:40.079 --> 01:18:44.560 quite yet. Okay, Well, we're going to just be We're 1497 01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:49.279 going to be hopeful, not confident, but hopeful, all right, Okay. 1498 01:18:49.319 --> 01:18:52.800 Appreciation Oh yes, yeah, you bet, Thanks for the call. 1499 01:18:52.840 --> 01:18:57.119 Appreciate that a lot. You take care alrighty. Yeah, that 1500 01:18:57.439 --> 01:18:59.600 is the case, folks. It's on the website. It's on 1501 01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:02.239 the website. Please take advantage of it and check it out. 1502 01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:02.760 Uh. 1503 01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:05.840 Martin spoon Moore at Affordable Tree is our go to 1504 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:09.039 guy for treecare here on garden Line, and it's because 1505 01:19:09.239 --> 01:19:11.479 Martin knows what he's doing. He's been doing this a 1506 01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:15.279 very long time. He is an expert at things. And listen, 1507 01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:18.399 our winter weather is unpredictable. As we just saw. We 1508 01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:23.479 got winds, we got freezing temperatures. Our trees in general 1509 01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:26.319 need to be taken care of. Last summer two storms 1510 01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:28.840 were horrible, took trees down, took our power out. It 1511 01:19:28.960 --> 01:19:31.680 was a mess. You need to call Martin now and 1512 01:19:31.760 --> 01:19:33.920 have him come out and look. Listen. If you can't 1513 01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:36.000 remember the last time you hid your trees pruned and 1514 01:19:36.079 --> 01:19:39.199 evaluated for their health, right now is the time to 1515 01:19:39.239 --> 01:19:42.239 call Martin. And here's a number seven one three six 1516 01:19:42.399 --> 01:19:46.319 nine nine two six sixty three. Seven one three, six 1517 01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:53.119 nine nine twenty six sixty three. Here's his website, Afftree 1518 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:57.920 Service dot com. Aff as an Affordable aff Tree Service 1519 01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:03.079 dot com. Seven three two six six three. Martin does 1520 01:20:03.159 --> 01:20:06.720 pruning and maintenance. He removes trees, He grinds stumps. He 1521 01:20:06.840 --> 01:20:10.319 does barricades under the ground to keep your tree roots 1522 01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:13.159 from getting into trouble going off somewhere they don't need 1523 01:20:13.239 --> 01:20:15.520 to go. He does planting. It is transplanting. He does, 1524 01:20:15.640 --> 01:20:18.079 like I said, deep root feeding. He does it all 1525 01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:21.199 but right now have him come out. He stays busy. 1526 01:20:21.319 --> 01:20:23.439 He does a good job. People call him to come back. 1527 01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:25.920 So give him a call. Tell him you're a Guardenline listener, 1528 01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:28.600 by the way, and have him come out and check 1529 01:20:28.680 --> 01:20:30.840 out your tree, see what needs to be done. He'll 1530 01:20:31.199 --> 01:20:33.319 shoot straight with you, tell you what you need, do 1531 01:20:33.399 --> 01:20:36.720 an evaluation for you and then let you know and 1532 01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:38.520 you can make a decision on where you want to 1533 01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:41.680 go from there. Affordable tree service, Martin Spoon More time 1534 01:20:41.720 --> 01:20:43.520 for me to take a little break. When I come back, 1535 01:20:43.880 --> 01:20:45.920 we're going to talk to Karen in West Houston and 1536 01:20:46.119 --> 01:20:55.760 Ryan in Brazoria. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back. Welcome back to 1537 01:20:55.800 --> 01:20:57.920 the garden Line. We're going to run straight after the 1538 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:00.760 phone's got Spookes have been out there waiting. Head to 1539 01:21:00.840 --> 01:21:03.479 West Houston and talk to Karen. Hey, Karen, welcome to 1540 01:21:03.560 --> 01:21:04.039 garden Line. 1541 01:21:04.800 --> 01:21:09.279 Hey there, Skip. I have an LSU purple fig tree, 1542 01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:14.880 about fifteen years old. It's about twenty feet tall. I 1543 01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:19.119 didn't get it pruned in the fall. Can I still 1544 01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:23.239 prune it before it buds out? And can I take 1545 01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:25.800 can I root some of the cuttings? 1546 01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:31.239 Okay, you can print it. I would wait a little bit. 1547 01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:33.479 Even if it starts to butt out, you can still 1548 01:21:33.520 --> 01:21:35.319 prun it, and there's no problem with printing it at 1549 01:21:35.359 --> 01:21:38.840 that time. Printing is an invigorating process, and so you 1550 01:21:38.960 --> 01:21:41.960 cut into living wood and it is more likely to 1551 01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:47.159 sprout sooner than if it wasn't prinned. So what we 1552 01:21:47.279 --> 01:21:50.319 don't want is, let's say you print it today and 1553 01:21:50.520 --> 01:21:52.960 then next week and the next week. And I haven't 1554 01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:55.640 looked at the weather, but we have temperatures up in 1555 01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:59.039 the seventies and then it drops down and we have 1556 01:21:59.079 --> 01:22:01.399 another hard freeze. You're going to get damage from that 1557 01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:04.960 hard freeze. So I try not to invigorate a fig 1558 01:22:05.079 --> 01:22:08.800 treek since their marginal in their heartiness anyway, So I 1559 01:22:08.840 --> 01:22:11.399 would wait to do it. But yes, you can do it. 1560 01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:14.000 That's fine as far as rooting. Just find you some 1561 01:22:14.159 --> 01:22:17.199 of the ends of the shoots, you know, the sections 1562 01:22:17.239 --> 01:22:20.039 that are about the size your little finger, the branches 1563 01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:24.800 and that that's last year's growth. And if you cut 1564 01:22:24.840 --> 01:22:28.479 those off, I would wrap them, put them in some 1565 01:22:28.600 --> 01:22:31.399 moist sand, or wrap them in moist paper towels in 1566 01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:34.439 a zip lock bag, put them in the refrigerator upside down, 1567 01:22:35.239 --> 01:22:37.239 literally upside down. You can do that. You don't have to, 1568 01:22:37.359 --> 01:22:39.680 but you can do it that way. And then when 1569 01:22:39.720 --> 01:22:41.439 you bring them out and stick them in the ground 1570 01:22:41.479 --> 01:22:44.319 to root, they're they're going to root very easily. Figs 1571 01:22:44.319 --> 01:22:46.680 are easy to root. The only thing you don't want 1572 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:49.760 to do is use older wood, the gray wood, you 1573 01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:52.760 know that grew the year before. You want to use 1574 01:22:52.880 --> 01:22:56.000 the more recent growth. That's why I said the size. 1575 01:22:55.800 --> 01:22:58.920 Your little finger, and how long would I leave them 1576 01:22:58.960 --> 01:22:59.920 in the refrigerator. 1577 01:23:01.239 --> 01:23:03.119 I'd leave them in there a few weeks and then 1578 01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:05.520 when the weather warms up and they're gonna want to 1579 01:23:05.560 --> 01:23:07.800 be outside, then pull them out and you can just 1580 01:23:07.840 --> 01:23:10.279 put them outside. You can stick them in a one 1581 01:23:10.359 --> 01:23:12.960 gallum pot full of potting soil if you want, put 1582 01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:14.760 a little cover over them to hold in a little 1583 01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:17.199 bit of moisture. Figs are pretty easy to root. I 1584 01:23:17.279 --> 01:23:19.439 know people that go under the eaves of their house, 1585 01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:21.680 maybe on the north side where it's kind of shady 1586 01:23:21.720 --> 01:23:23.640 but still bright, and they're just stick them in the 1587 01:23:23.680 --> 01:23:26.119 ground there, and the ones that managed to root and 1588 01:23:26.239 --> 01:23:28.680 come up, then they dig them up move them. I 1589 01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:31.119 like to use the one gallum pots myself. 1590 01:23:33.000 --> 01:23:34.680 That's great information. 1591 01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:36.319 Thank you for the help. 1592 01:23:37.640 --> 01:23:40.520 All right. Good luck with that. Lsu purple is a 1593 01:23:40.640 --> 01:23:44.039 good fig that's for sure. Thanks for the call, Karen, 1594 01:23:44.359 --> 01:23:47.840 You take care all right. We're gonna go now to 1595 01:23:47.960 --> 01:23:51.560 talk to Ryan in Brazaria. Hey, Ryan, welcome to Guardline. 1596 01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:55.880 Good Marra Skip, thank you for taking my call. I've 1597 01:23:55.920 --> 01:23:59.159 got We purchased a property that's got about a fifteen 1598 01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:02.880 acre cam orchard on it that was planted from what 1599 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:07.000 I've found about back in the eighties, but it's been 1600 01:24:07.119 --> 01:24:08.640 let go for probably the last. 1601 01:24:08.479 --> 01:24:11.520 Twenty years, and I'm been working on. 1602 01:24:11.600 --> 01:24:14.319 The Chinese tallow you know that's not supposed to be 1603 01:24:14.439 --> 01:24:17.399 in there, so I've been doing some hacking squork in 1604 01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:18.840 there and around those trees. 1605 01:24:19.720 --> 01:24:22.840 Some of the research says that you need to stop 1606 01:24:23.159 --> 01:24:26.479 doing that as the spring comes it because it becomes 1607 01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:30.119 less effective. Are you familiar with that or where or 1608 01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:31.359 you know anything about that. 1609 01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:35.079 Yeah, you don't have to stop. It's just that the 1610 01:24:35.159 --> 01:24:38.439 best time to do a herbicide treatment on the base 1611 01:24:38.520 --> 01:24:41.000 of a tree, a stump or at the base to 1612 01:24:41.439 --> 01:24:43.760 kill it is in the fall because the tree is 1613 01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:46.760 pulling all its carbohydrates down into storage for winter, and 1614 01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:49.840 it takes that product in very well. In the spring, 1615 01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:51.920 it's kind of like the growth is going the other direction. 1616 01:24:52.039 --> 01:24:54.319 You got a lot of flow going outward. It's not 1617 01:24:54.479 --> 01:24:56.479 that the herbicides won't do any good, they're just not 1618 01:24:56.640 --> 01:24:59.520 as effective then, and so you may want to wait, 1619 01:24:59.640 --> 01:25:01.680 let it want to get some growth and settle in 1620 01:25:01.880 --> 01:25:04.119 and do it a little bit after the weather warms 1621 01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:07.199 up pretty good, and try it then and get because 1622 01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:08.960 you don't want to wait until you don't have to 1623 01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:10.600 wait until next fall to try it again. 1624 01:25:12.119 --> 01:25:15.279 Okay, And then are you do you know of anybody 1625 01:25:15.359 --> 01:25:18.159 that can help me with that with this orchard? I 1626 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:23.319 don't know much about countries and orchards, any recommendations on 1627 01:25:23.399 --> 01:25:26.479 somebody might be able to give me some guidance. I'm 1628 01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:27.760 maybe re establishing it. 1629 01:25:29.319 --> 01:25:32.239 Uh Well, first of all, I would are you in 1630 01:25:32.359 --> 01:25:36.399 Brazoria County or what county are you in? 1631 01:25:37.520 --> 01:25:38.800 Yes, sir, Brazoria County. 1632 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:42.680 Yeah. I would talk to your county Extension office and 1633 01:25:42.760 --> 01:25:45.680 they have a connection with the specialists in horticulture at 1634 01:25:45.720 --> 01:25:49.960 the university. We have some specialists and fruit growing and 1635 01:25:50.079 --> 01:25:52.840 nut growing things like that that they can connect with. 1636 01:25:54.079 --> 01:25:58.640 If you call your Brazoria County Extension Office and ask 1637 01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:02.279 for the horticulture agent and speak with her and she 1638 01:26:02.399 --> 01:26:08.000 can get you connected. Also there at the Aggie Horticulture website, 1639 01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:11.960 just do a search for Aggie Horticulture. There's a page 1640 01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:14.960 on fruit and nut fact sheets, and on that page 1641 01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:19.399 you're going to find information on there's a publication on 1642 01:26:19.560 --> 01:26:24.359 improved pecans that's grafted ones, publication on native pecans, and 1643 01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:27.479 either one of those can help you understand a little 1644 01:26:27.520 --> 01:26:30.159 bit about caring for your trees. What it's basically going 1645 01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:32.520 to amount to is you want to keep the grass 1646 01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:36.920 down low, keep it mode around them very low, so 1647 01:26:37.119 --> 01:26:40.399 that you can minimize the competition from that. If you're 1648 01:26:40.479 --> 01:26:42.800 able to water, that's good. If you're not, that's okay. 1649 01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:47.920 There's a lot of unirrigated pecans, especially in the south 1650 01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:50.439 and east parts of Texas where it does rain quite 1651 01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:53.039 a bit. But I think you'll find some help on 1652 01:26:53.119 --> 01:26:55.319 those websites as well. 1653 01:26:57.399 --> 01:26:58.960 Very good, Thank you for the information. 1654 01:27:00.520 --> 01:27:04.079 Yeah yeah, Brazoria County website. Talk to your horticulture agent. 1655 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:06.560 She's good and she will put you in touch with 1656 01:27:07.399 --> 01:27:09.640 the folks at Texas A and M, or she'll bring 1657 01:27:09.720 --> 01:27:12.840 them in if she needs to to provide some additional 1658 01:27:13.159 --> 01:27:16.159 help in helping you. All right, sir, thank you very much. 1659 01:27:16.520 --> 01:27:22.319 You have a great day, Yes, you take care alrighty, 1660 01:27:22.479 --> 01:27:26.600 there we go. Yeah, Brazouri County's got a very active 1661 01:27:26.640 --> 01:27:29.600 extension of it. They got educational programs going on all 1662 01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:32.279 the time out there. And if you're a gardener at 1663 01:27:32.399 --> 01:27:35.239 Brazouria County, you need to you need to get a call, 1664 01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:37.399 get on the schedule, find out what are the master 1665 01:27:37.479 --> 01:27:39.359 gardeners up to, what kind of programs are going on, 1666 01:27:39.520 --> 01:27:42.439 what kind of programs is extension putting on. They've done 1667 01:27:42.479 --> 01:27:47.560 everything from you know, programs on figs to a really 1668 01:27:47.640 --> 01:27:51.079 good annual strawberry program they put on out there every year. 1669 01:27:51.159 --> 01:27:55.079 That's excellent. Uh so yeah, I would, I would definitely 1670 01:27:56.560 --> 01:27:59.920 get involved, find out at least at least be notified 1671 01:28:00.039 --> 01:28:01.920 of what's going on so you can take advantage of 1672 01:28:02.079 --> 01:28:05.640 some really good educational opportunities. And by the way, extension 1673 01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:10.319 offices are all one hundred excuse me, all two hundred 1674 01:28:10.319 --> 01:28:12.399 and fifty four counties in Texas are served by an 1675 01:28:12.439 --> 01:28:16.159 extension office. The vast majority have their own extension office. 1676 01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:18.279 If you go out west, we're so far west that 1677 01:28:18.359 --> 01:28:21.720 there's more jack rabbits than our people then that you 1678 01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:23.760 may have two counties out there they're served by one 1679 01:28:23.800 --> 01:28:26.520 office or something. But around here in our area you 1680 01:28:26.600 --> 01:28:29.039 got an extension office. Around the Greater Houston area, you 1681 01:28:29.119 --> 01:28:31.359 have a horticulture agent. All office is going to have 1682 01:28:31.399 --> 01:28:36.840 an agriculture agent which covers horticulture. But in Brass County, 1683 01:28:37.119 --> 01:28:40.880 in Conrad, Montgomery County, in Harris County, in Houston, in 1684 01:28:41.039 --> 01:28:46.000 Orange County, out east Brazoria County south for ben County 1685 01:28:46.199 --> 01:28:51.960 to the west, southwest, Galveston County down south. I'm probably 1686 01:28:52.039 --> 01:28:55.239 leaving them. I leaving out. I think that's it. Anyway, 1687 01:28:55.560 --> 01:28:57.640 all those counties have a horticulture agent too, and they 1688 01:28:57.680 --> 01:29:00.319 have a master gardner program. In master gardner put on 1689 01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:05.239 educational programs. They're volunteers trade by extension to serve the public. 1690 01:29:05.319 --> 01:29:09.960 They help extension reach more people. They extend extension. The 1691 01:29:10.000 --> 01:29:11.279 way I used to say it when I was a 1692 01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:16.319 horticulture agent is extension takes the university to the people, 1693 01:29:16.720 --> 01:29:20.319 and master gardeners take extension to the people. You know 1694 01:29:20.399 --> 01:29:23.840 what I'm saying. They help extend what one horticulture agent 1695 01:29:23.880 --> 01:29:27.279 can accomplish or one agriculture agent. In counties that just 1696 01:29:27.399 --> 01:29:30.479 have an agriculture agent. So that is a resource that 1697 01:29:30.640 --> 01:29:33.039 you should take advantage of. That's where you go get 1698 01:29:33.079 --> 01:29:35.760 information on soil testing. That's where you get help with 1699 01:29:35.840 --> 01:29:39.359 all kinds of things and really cool educational programs too. 1700 01:29:40.439 --> 01:29:43.359 All right, that was your little extension commercial for the day. 1701 01:29:43.680 --> 01:29:48.600 Southwest Fertilizer is the one stop, go to place for 1702 01:29:48.680 --> 01:29:51.359 anything you need to have a more bountiful gardener, more 1703 01:29:51.399 --> 01:29:53.840 beautiful landscape. And do you need to control weeds? Do 1704 01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:57.159 you need to prevent weeds? Do you need to control 1705 01:29:57.279 --> 01:29:59.920 insects or diseases? Do you need to get your plan 1706 01:30:00.039 --> 01:30:03.880 it's growing, Get the pah right, get the fertilizer nutrients 1707 01:30:03.960 --> 01:30:06.880 you need down. Do you need a tool it's pruning season. 1708 01:30:06.920 --> 01:30:10.680 How about a high quality tool from Southwest Fertilizer. Bob 1709 01:30:10.760 --> 01:30:13.760 carries good stuff there, and he carries everything you need. 1710 01:30:13.800 --> 01:30:15.479 If he doesn't have it, you don't need it. I'll 1711 01:30:15.479 --> 01:30:17.760 trust you trust me on that one. He doesn't. He 1712 01:30:17.920 --> 01:30:21.199 has like pruning tools from Falco and Corona and Barnell. 1713 01:30:22.479 --> 01:30:25.720 He's got the largest organic selection in the entire city. 1714 01:30:25.760 --> 01:30:27.479 And if you hear a product name come out of 1715 01:30:27.520 --> 01:30:30.800 my mouth, you're gonna find that product at Southwest Fertilizer 1716 01:30:31.439 --> 01:30:36.760 great service, expert advice, friendly service, quality, quality products and 1717 01:30:37.039 --> 01:30:39.840 excellent selection. I mean, what else do you need there 1718 01:30:39.880 --> 01:30:42.720 in Southwest Houston corner of Bisinat and Renwick. Been around 1719 01:30:42.760 --> 01:30:48.199 since nineteen fifty five. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Here's a 1720 01:30:48.279 --> 01:30:50.079 number if you want to give me a call, seven 1721 01:30:50.079 --> 01:30:55.840 to one three six sixty six seventeen forty four. I 1722 01:30:57.760 --> 01:30:59.720 love going in there. I can tell you this. When 1723 01:30:59.760 --> 01:31:01.159 you go in there, you're going to learn something to 1724 01:31:01.600 --> 01:31:04.319 take them a sample or take them a picture on 1725 01:31:04.439 --> 01:31:06.520 your phone and say, hey, what is this weed? And 1726 01:31:06.600 --> 01:31:08.239 how do I control it? And what do I do 1727 01:31:08.520 --> 01:31:10.720 and when do I do it? And they're gonna get 1728 01:31:10.760 --> 01:31:12.319 you off on a good start. They got a real 1729 01:31:12.359 --> 01:31:13.680 cool They got a lot of seeds too, and they 1730 01:31:13.720 --> 01:31:17.680 have one of these old time time seed cabinets, you 1731 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:19.880 know where you have a little scoop and you open 1732 01:31:19.960 --> 01:31:22.479 the drawer and you scoop out seed. That is the 1733 01:31:22.640 --> 01:31:25.960 most economical way to buy seeds. And they've got that there, 1734 01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:28.000 so it's really cool. All right. Time for me to 1735 01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:30.039 take a break, if you would like to give me 1736 01:31:30.039 --> 01:31:32.680 a call seven one three two one two kt. 1737 01:31:32.680 --> 01:31:33.000 R H. 1738 01:31:36.239 --> 01:31:41.199 Alrighty, here we are, we're back listen uh, I want 1739 01:31:42.239 --> 01:31:48.439 a public service announcement if you are into David Austin roses. 1740 01:31:48.560 --> 01:31:53.000 David Austin is an English rose and it's a more 1741 01:31:53.079 --> 01:31:57.279 modern breeder of roses, but they breed roses that look 1742 01:31:57.600 --> 01:32:01.520 like old time roses. They just are. They're really gorgeous 1743 01:32:01.560 --> 01:32:03.880 and many of them are fragrant. You know, there's Gertrude 1744 01:32:03.920 --> 01:32:07.520 Jekyl that is an English climbing rose. It's really good 1745 01:32:07.600 --> 01:32:10.880 at flowering, good for fragrance. They're just great ros there's 1746 01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:13.000 lots of goodness. I mentioned I shouldn't even have mentioned 1747 01:32:13.039 --> 01:32:16.359 one because there's a whole bunch of them and they're awesome. Well, 1748 01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:18.600 Plants for all Seasons. Has got them in and they 1749 01:32:18.640 --> 01:32:20.720 got them in and the big tubs are bear root. 1750 01:32:20.960 --> 01:32:24.640 Now bear root, this is the season, bear root fruit trees, 1751 01:32:24.680 --> 01:32:27.000 bear root roses. You can plant bear root plants, bear 1752 01:32:27.079 --> 01:32:29.520 root pecans this time of year. But you don't want 1753 01:32:29.520 --> 01:32:32.159 to delay because at some point they're gonna have to 1754 01:32:32.199 --> 01:32:33.760 pot them up, and when they pot them up, the 1755 01:32:33.840 --> 01:32:36.680 price goes up. And that's makes sense. I mean, they're 1756 01:32:36.680 --> 01:32:39.760 putting time and money into doing it. But if you 1757 01:32:39.800 --> 01:32:41.920 would like to get a David Austin Rose and a 1758 01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:45.359 really nice one. Now's the time to swing by Plants 1759 01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:47.000 for All Seasons and grab you one of those. It's 1760 01:32:47.039 --> 01:32:50.359 a family owned operation. It's right there at Luetta and 1761 01:32:51.119 --> 01:32:53.800 Tomball Parkway two forty nine just north of Luetta, actually 1762 01:32:54.600 --> 01:32:57.840 Tombo Parkway high Way two forty nine, which is Highway 1763 01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:00.960 two forty nine just north of Luetta for all seasons. 1764 01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:03.680 They're lawn and garden experts. They can help you out 1765 01:33:03.920 --> 01:33:06.039 and get you up to speed on whatever you need 1766 01:33:06.119 --> 01:33:08.159 to know. They help diagnose. Oh, by the way, they 1767 01:33:08.239 --> 01:33:12.439 also have strawberries in stock and their blooms already on them. 1768 01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:15.439 I mean to get those things. Don't delay, you know, 1769 01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:17.560 we plant strawberries in the fall. We can still plan 1770 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:21.119 them now, but get them in the ground, get them going, 1771 01:33:21.359 --> 01:33:24.439 and go ahead and start. Find you a strawberry shortcake 1772 01:33:24.479 --> 01:33:27.119 recipe because you're going to need it. Grab you some 1773 01:33:27.199 --> 01:33:29.560 strawberries there too. While you're at Plants for All Seasons. 1774 01:33:30.520 --> 01:33:33.800 Plants for All Seasons dot com. That's the website Plants 1775 01:33:33.840 --> 01:33:35.279 for All Seasons dot com. If you want to give 1776 01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:38.560 them a call two eight, one, three, seven, six sixteen 1777 01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:41.039 forty six and they have a giant wall of seeds 1778 01:33:41.119 --> 01:33:44.199 and it is seed starting season. So go in there 1779 01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:47.600 while supplies are good and grab you some seeds when 1780 01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:50.439 you swing by. Plants for all seasons. I'm going to 1781 01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:53.079 head now out to Willis and we're going to talk 1782 01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:55.840 to Kim. Well, hello Kim, and welcome to garden. 1783 01:33:55.680 --> 01:34:00.159 Line, Ken Maury, thanks you for taking my call. I 1784 01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:07.760 have two questions. I have a dwarf magnolia that I've 1785 01:34:07.840 --> 01:34:13.039 put in a spot that wasn't the wisest division, and 1786 01:34:13.279 --> 01:34:15.880 I'm wondering if I can move it this time of 1787 01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:17.560 year or do. 1788 01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:18.119 I need to work? 1789 01:34:18.159 --> 01:34:23.039 Okay, Uh, when you say dwarf, do you know the 1790 01:34:23.199 --> 01:34:25.079 name of the magnolia by any chance? 1791 01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:27.159 Oh? 1792 01:34:27.720 --> 01:34:29.880 No, dwarp Southern? 1793 01:34:31.880 --> 01:34:33.159 Southern? Okay, southern? Okay? 1794 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:33.720 How long? 1795 01:34:33.800 --> 01:34:34.560 Wo'd you plan it? 1796 01:34:35.960 --> 01:34:36.279 About? 1797 01:34:36.319 --> 01:34:37.039 Two years ago? 1798 01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:43.039 Okay? Well, magnolia does not like to be moved. Now, 1799 01:34:44.479 --> 01:34:46.560 you're kind of It's been in in a while, so 1800 01:34:46.680 --> 01:34:48.479 you're gonna have to cut quite a few roots to 1801 01:34:48.560 --> 01:34:50.319 move it. But if you're going to do it, I 1802 01:34:50.359 --> 01:34:53.279 would do it a S A P. And I would 1803 01:34:53.319 --> 01:34:57.000 worry more about getting wider than deeper. When you dig 1804 01:34:57.079 --> 01:34:59.640 it up if you can get down about you know, 1805 01:35:00.239 --> 01:35:04.079 ten inches or so deep, but especially try to go wider. 1806 01:35:05.359 --> 01:35:08.640 And what I would recommend so that you don't kill 1807 01:35:08.720 --> 01:35:11.960 your back trying to move it is I will cut 1808 01:35:12.279 --> 01:35:14.960 a little trench around the tree. Let's just say you 1809 01:35:15.039 --> 01:35:16.920 were going to go two feet out in all directions, 1810 01:35:17.119 --> 01:35:20.079 just as an example, you would dig a little trench 1811 01:35:20.159 --> 01:35:22.680 two feet out down about ten eight eight inches ten 1812 01:35:22.720 --> 01:35:26.279 inches deep, and then you would use your shovel horizontal 1813 01:35:26.640 --> 01:35:29.279 it's better here for a flat shovel, and go underneath 1814 01:35:29.319 --> 01:35:32.680 it and cut maybe halfway under as you kind of 1815 01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:34.560 pull on the plant, leaning it to one side you 1816 01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:36.960 need some help with us, and then slide a tarp 1817 01:35:37.039 --> 01:35:39.760 underneath that half then go to the other side and 1818 01:35:39.920 --> 01:35:42.880 cut underneath it toward the tarp and you can just 1819 01:35:43.039 --> 01:35:45.359 slide it up onto the tarp when you get far 1820 01:35:45.439 --> 01:35:49.680 enough under there, and a very little soil disturbance, almost 1821 01:35:49.880 --> 01:35:52.720 no lifting, because you literally can drag it with the 1822 01:35:52.800 --> 01:35:55.479 tarp from one spot to another, or if you have 1823 01:35:55.720 --> 01:35:58.640 a cup maybe four people, two to four people, you 1824 01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:00.920 can grab corners of the tar and it's very you 1825 01:36:01.000 --> 01:36:03.000 don't have to stoop, and you just lift it up 1826 01:36:03.079 --> 01:36:06.439 and carry it like you're carrying a stretcher over to 1827 01:36:06.520 --> 01:36:09.039 where it goes. You slide it right in. And that's 1828 01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:13.199 the minimum damage, the minimum back injury, and the greatest 1829 01:36:13.279 --> 01:36:15.920 success chance that you're going to have trying to move 1830 01:36:16.000 --> 01:36:18.039 that because they're not they don't like being moved. 1831 01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:25.800 Okay, all right, And the same fo wax myrtles. I 1832 01:36:25.800 --> 01:36:28.760 also have a seat wax myrtles that I would like 1833 01:36:28.960 --> 01:36:33.239 to yes, move okay, yeah. 1834 01:36:33.319 --> 01:36:36.399 On the wax myrtles, I would prune the top back 1835 01:36:36.520 --> 01:36:40.760 pretty good, you can. They're tough, and so I would 1836 01:36:40.840 --> 01:36:43.119 probably cut them back. How tall are they right now? 1837 01:36:45.319 --> 01:36:46.720 Probably about five feet. 1838 01:36:46.520 --> 01:36:50.159 Told, okay, you might cut them back to even like 1839 01:36:50.239 --> 01:36:53.439 three feet or something, and just so they're easier to 1840 01:36:53.520 --> 01:36:57.159 handle too. But go ahead and move them the same 1841 01:36:57.239 --> 01:37:00.600 way at the same time now and get them in 1842 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:03.920 this new spot. Make sure either of those plants is 1843 01:37:04.640 --> 01:37:06.760 put at the same level that it was growing before. 1844 01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:09.720 Don't make it deeper, don't make it shallower, and then 1845 01:37:09.840 --> 01:37:12.119 watered in really really good. And I would get a 1846 01:37:12.159 --> 01:37:16.600 good roots stimulator solution at your local wherever you do 1847 01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:19.199 your shopping. You know what you were up there in 1848 01:37:19.640 --> 01:37:22.800 Willis You got all seasons Ace Hardware right there on 1849 01:37:23.920 --> 01:37:27.199 I forty five north up in Willis area. I would 1850 01:37:27.239 --> 01:37:29.920 just turn by there and grab some of their stuff. 1851 01:37:29.960 --> 01:37:32.199 By the way, put it on your calendar. I'm going 1852 01:37:32.239 --> 01:37:34.680 to be heading up that way. Let's see what a 1853 01:37:34.760 --> 01:37:38.399 want to be up there February twenty second, Saturday. So 1854 01:37:38.479 --> 01:37:39.880 come out and see me. If you get a chance, 1855 01:37:40.439 --> 01:37:42.159 Tell your neighbors to come on out. I'll be up 1856 01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:45.560 there at all seasons as then. But anyway, grab a 1857 01:37:45.640 --> 01:37:49.199 root stimulator solution if you can get some something called 1858 01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:56.199 medina has to grow six twelve six medina. It's a liquid, 1859 01:37:56.680 --> 01:38:00.640 and then water your new plants in with that with 1860 01:38:00.800 --> 01:38:03.079 a good he just you put you mix it in 1861 01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:06.000 a watering can and just drench, drench the plants and 1862 01:38:06.119 --> 01:38:09.239 that'll give you one more little bit of a measure 1863 01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:09.960 of success. 1864 01:38:10.039 --> 01:38:13.199 Okay, okay, sounds great. 1865 01:38:13.319 --> 01:38:16.760 Thanks all right, Kim, Thanks for the call. You take care, 1866 01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:19.399 good luck with that. Time for me to take a break. 1867 01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:24.880 I'll be right back, but just lunatic there you go. 1868 01:38:26.079 --> 01:38:28.960 Welcome back to garden line, little Billy Joel for us 1869 01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:33.399 this morning. See if you would like to give me 1870 01:38:33.439 --> 01:38:36.600 a call and ask a gardening question. I'll be happy 1871 01:38:36.640 --> 01:38:38.560 to take that call seven one three two one two 1872 01:38:38.680 --> 01:38:40.079 k t R H. And we'll see if we can 1873 01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:42.000 get to the bottom of things so that you can 1874 01:38:42.079 --> 01:38:44.720 have success. I was mentioning the fact that I'm going 1875 01:38:44.760 --> 01:38:47.319 to be at All Seasons Ace Hardware a little bit 1876 01:38:47.399 --> 01:38:49.720 ago with a caller, and that will be coming up 1877 01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:52.840 later on. I've got a number of pretty busy spring 1878 01:38:53.000 --> 01:38:55.079 of appearances going on out there, and I hope some 1879 01:38:55.279 --> 01:38:56.920 of you will get a chance to come out and 1880 01:38:56.960 --> 01:38:59.800 see me one or two places surprise me. Sometimes people 1881 01:39:00.199 --> 01:39:03.079 to more than two or three places just to ask 1882 01:39:03.239 --> 01:39:05.600 the next question that they might have. And that's all good, 1883 01:39:05.640 --> 01:39:08.800 and that's all fun. By the way, Ace Hardware's you know, 1884 01:39:09.079 --> 01:39:11.840 the super Bowl coming up. Time to get the grills out. 1885 01:39:12.720 --> 01:39:14.439 You know, you got to have that Super Bowl party. 1886 01:39:14.880 --> 01:39:16.600 And when it comes to grills, you're not going to 1887 01:39:16.640 --> 01:39:18.800 do better in Ace Hardware. I'm talking about grills and 1888 01:39:19.199 --> 01:39:21.800 quality grills like Big Green Egg and Blackstone and Weber 1889 01:39:21.880 --> 01:39:26.520 and Trigger Rectech. I'm talking about grilling supplies and seasonings, 1890 01:39:26.600 --> 01:39:30.560 even really amazing grilling seasonings and all kinds of things 1891 01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:35.039 you need to be the true barbecue champion of your street. 1892 01:39:35.600 --> 01:39:38.279 That's it. Now, Remember if you're an ACE Reward member, 1893 01:39:38.319 --> 01:39:41.079 which everybody should be, because anytime you buy something at ACE, 1894 01:39:41.119 --> 01:39:43.640 it goes on your rewards and it builds up and 1895 01:39:43.760 --> 01:39:46.520 it matters. But ACE Rewards member at a lot of stores, 1896 01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:49.279 they'll even assemble and deliver the grill for you. You 1897 01:39:49.399 --> 01:39:51.079 just have to talk to your ACE store. Each one's 1898 01:39:51.159 --> 01:39:54.039 independently owned. They're each different what they choose and able 1899 01:39:54.119 --> 01:39:57.760 to do. But that's a super extra plus. Now, if 1900 01:39:57.800 --> 01:39:59.600 you want to get your garage in order, which I 1901 01:39:59.720 --> 01:40:01.720 need to do. If you saw mine, oh my gosh, 1902 01:40:01.840 --> 01:40:04.079 it was in order at one time. Have you noticed 1903 01:40:04.119 --> 01:40:08.960 how garages have a tendency to collect junk. I mean, 1904 01:40:09.199 --> 01:40:11.800 you know, you have this big expense of a well 1905 01:40:11.880 --> 01:40:13.880 cleaned garage and you're soper out of it. Next thing 1906 01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:15.600 you know, you're having to walk sideways to get to 1907 01:40:15.600 --> 01:40:17.880 the garage door to go in the house because it's 1908 01:40:17.960 --> 01:40:20.359 so filed with junk. ACE will fix that. They got 1909 01:40:20.399 --> 01:40:23.439 shelby units, they got storage toads, they got any kind 1910 01:40:23.479 --> 01:40:26.359 of cleaning supplies you need for inside and outside the home. 1911 01:40:27.159 --> 01:40:31.399 ACE hardware and where are ACE Hardware's everywhere? There's Victoria 1912 01:40:31.479 --> 01:40:35.119 Ace Hardware. There's Bay City ACE Hardware down in Galveston, 1913 01:40:35.199 --> 01:40:38.960 Chalmers Ace Hardware. It's easy to find an ACE Hardware 1914 01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:41.479 store near you by going to Acehardware dot com and 1915 01:40:41.600 --> 01:40:44.960 finding the store locator. Simple as that. I was also 1916 01:40:46.199 --> 01:40:49.239 just talking to him up in Willis and I mentioned 1917 01:40:49.319 --> 01:40:52.399 that she's transplanting a couple of things, and you want 1918 01:40:52.439 --> 01:40:55.439 to water those plants in with a roof stimulator. You 1919 01:40:55.520 --> 01:40:59.000 also want to have things that provide the nutrients that 1920 01:40:59.119 --> 01:40:59.640 plants need. 1921 01:40:59.720 --> 01:40:59.840 Now. 1922 01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:03.279 Phosphorus is an important nutrient in rooting, and that's why 1923 01:41:03.720 --> 01:41:07.479 the folks at Medina created has to grow six twelve six. 1924 01:41:07.880 --> 01:41:11.000 Plant food now has to grow six twelve six. It's 1925 01:41:11.079 --> 01:41:15.279 got the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphors, packed with 1926 01:41:15.359 --> 01:41:19.760 phosphors and six percent potassium. That is very helpful for 1927 01:41:19.880 --> 01:41:21.800 helping a new plant get off to a good start 1928 01:41:21.880 --> 01:41:24.439 as it tries to rebuild a root system, whether you 1929 01:41:24.520 --> 01:41:26.159 took it out of a pot, maybe you did some 1930 01:41:26.319 --> 01:41:29.039 root trimming because of circling roots, or if in the 1931 01:41:29.119 --> 01:41:32.119 case of transplanting, you dig it up and you're cutting 1932 01:41:32.159 --> 01:41:34.119 all these roots off. It needs to get new roots 1933 01:41:34.159 --> 01:41:36.840 started and has to grow six twelve six helps that 1934 01:41:37.399 --> 01:41:40.119 has to grow. Six twelve six isn't just fertilizer. It's 1935 01:41:40.159 --> 01:41:44.079 got medina sool activator simulate biological activity. It's got humate 1936 01:41:44.560 --> 01:41:48.199 humic acid which improves soil structure. You know, when organic 1937 01:41:48.279 --> 01:41:51.640 matter decomposes, it starts off as grass clippings or leaves 1938 01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:55.159 or whatever form of organic matter. It turns into compost, 1939 01:41:55.640 --> 01:41:58.720 which is broken down, and then compost keeps going and 1940 01:41:58.840 --> 01:42:02.920 it breaks down until it's just humous the final decomposing stage. 1941 01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:07.520 It's got acids in it, good acids that help. First 1942 01:42:07.520 --> 01:42:10.239 of all, microbes get real excited about that and they 1943 01:42:10.439 --> 01:42:13.000 rule the world when it comes to improving our soil 1944 01:42:13.079 --> 01:42:17.039 for our plants. But also those humic acids help with 1945 01:42:17.359 --> 01:42:20.960 soil structure and the creation and the release of nutrients 1946 01:42:21.039 --> 01:42:23.199 from the soil. And then it's got seaweed extract. Do 1947 01:42:23.199 --> 01:42:25.560 you see what I'm talking about. This is a concoction 1948 01:42:26.079 --> 01:42:28.199 that is very helpful and people use it for folio 1949 01:42:28.279 --> 01:42:31.399 applications all through the year. I'm telling you right now 1950 01:42:31.600 --> 01:42:35.640 you're planting. This is planting season. Use it when you plant, 1951 01:42:35.720 --> 01:42:38.039 put it in a watering can, mix it up according 1952 01:42:38.079 --> 01:42:40.119 to the label. Watered in a little bit goes a 1953 01:42:40.159 --> 01:42:42.760 long way. When you put that plant in the ground, 1954 01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:46.279 soak it with Medina, has to grow six twelve six 1955 01:42:46.359 --> 01:42:49.079 mixed up in water. A week later, Do it again, 1956 01:42:49.239 --> 01:42:51.079 a week later, do it again. When you do that 1957 01:42:51.239 --> 01:42:55.000 three times, you're giving that plant it's best chance. It's 1958 01:42:55.039 --> 01:42:59.239 starting and having trands planting success again from the folks 1959 01:42:59.279 --> 01:43:03.159 at Medina. I was Disney with Andy from Medina out 1960 01:43:03.279 --> 01:43:06.920 in four Bank County yesterday at the home and Garden 1961 01:43:07.000 --> 01:43:08.520 show that we had out there. We were just talking 1962 01:43:08.560 --> 01:43:12.119 about some of their products and they have a large 1963 01:43:12.319 --> 01:43:18.119 line of really really cool stuff. So there you go again. 1964 01:43:18.199 --> 01:43:19.800 The phone number here if you'd like to give me 1965 01:43:19.840 --> 01:43:22.600 a call seven one three two one two fifty eight 1966 01:43:22.760 --> 01:43:26.439 seventy four. We are entering our last hour of the weekend, 1967 01:43:26.560 --> 01:43:29.079 not just today but the weekend here on garden line 1968 01:43:29.960 --> 01:43:32.439 and so if you got some questions, can't hold till 1969 01:43:32.520 --> 01:43:35.000 next Saturday, Well this would be a good time to 1970 01:43:35.039 --> 01:43:37.640 give me a call so we can help you have success. 1971 01:43:38.000 --> 01:43:40.159 That is what we want. We want you to have fun. 1972 01:43:40.279 --> 01:43:43.000 We want you to have success. Listen, Gardening is not 1973 01:43:43.199 --> 01:43:47.760 rocket science. You know if you are, if you're trained 1974 01:43:48.000 --> 01:43:51.319 in rocket science, rocket science is not rocket science either. 1975 01:43:51.399 --> 01:43:53.760 It's just a simple matter of formulas and facts and 1976 01:43:53.800 --> 01:43:56.600 physics and all kinds of things like that. Same with 1977 01:43:56.680 --> 01:43:59.000 the gardening. You know what you're doing, you know what 1978 01:43:59.159 --> 01:44:01.560 plants want, you know how to give them what they want. 1979 01:44:02.079 --> 01:44:04.920 It sort of gets simple. But to people on the 1980 01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:07.520 outside it may seem like, I don't know, you got 1981 01:44:07.600 --> 01:44:09.800 to hold your tongue right and have some magic dust 1982 01:44:09.920 --> 01:44:12.600 to sprinkle on to make everything work. It's not the case, 1983 01:44:13.159 --> 01:44:15.600 just a matter of knowing what you're doing, even if 1984 01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:21.000 it's rocket science that works. I want to visit with 1985 01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:26.560 you a little bit about pruning our plants. Late winter 1986 01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:30.039 is the best pruning season of the year, the best. 1987 01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:32.439 That's when, especially if you need to do a lot 1988 01:44:32.520 --> 01:44:34.479 of pruning, that's when you need to get it done. 1989 01:44:35.079 --> 01:44:38.000 It's important to have quality tools that are sharp, whether 1990 01:44:38.119 --> 01:44:42.479 it's a saw, hand pruners, or looppers that you're cutting 1991 01:44:42.520 --> 01:44:46.479 off a larger limb with what Always keep your tools 1992 01:44:46.520 --> 01:44:50.199 sharp because sharp tools make good clean cuts that heal 1993 01:44:50.319 --> 01:44:54.680 fast and or less strain. They put less strain on 1994 01:44:54.840 --> 01:44:57.720 your joints and muscles when you're doing it, so sharp 1995 01:44:57.800 --> 01:45:03.880 tools are important. I like the bypass prunters that is 1996 01:45:04.039 --> 01:45:06.720 like a pair of scissors. There's one side of the 1997 01:45:06.800 --> 01:45:09.640 printer is more of a flat ish surface to kind 1998 01:45:09.640 --> 01:45:11.880 of hold the branch. The other side is the blade 1999 01:45:11.920 --> 01:45:14.880 that cuts through the branch. That's a bypass prunter. The 2000 01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:17.680 other kind of printer is an anvil prunter, and it 2001 01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:21.159 has a flat bar and the blade comes down on 2002 01:45:21.319 --> 01:45:25.039 the bar as if you took a hatchet and chopped 2003 01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:27.920 down on top of an anvil. You know, it cuts 2004 01:45:28.000 --> 01:45:30.199 that way. I don't anvile printers don't print as well 2005 01:45:30.279 --> 01:45:32.720 for me. I don't care for them as much. Biprisced 2006 01:45:32.760 --> 01:45:36.239 punters work really really well. Keep them sharp, keep them sharp. 2007 01:45:37.000 --> 01:45:42.079 Prune near where the branch attaches. And I have a 2008 01:45:42.079 --> 01:45:45.399 little video out on this. It's on our Facebook page 2009 01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:48.920 and you have to kind of scroll back to find it. 2010 01:45:49.000 --> 01:45:52.760 It's been a while. But if you leave a stub, 2011 01:45:52.960 --> 01:45:55.840 the stub dies and the branch can't close over because 2012 01:45:55.920 --> 01:45:58.359 there's dead wood in the way, and so you have 2013 01:45:58.560 --> 01:46:02.199 this entryway decay to get into the stem or trunk 2014 01:46:02.319 --> 01:46:05.119 or branch or your plant. So you don't want to 2015 01:46:05.199 --> 01:46:07.479 leave a stub. On the other hand, as a branch 2016 01:46:07.560 --> 01:46:11.520 approaches where it attaches. Like picture a vertical trunk with 2017 01:46:11.640 --> 01:46:14.439 a branch coming in from the sides. That branch is 2018 01:46:14.479 --> 01:46:17.640 a certain diameter as it approaches the trunk, and then 2019 01:46:17.760 --> 01:46:20.119 right when it gets near the trunk, it flares out 2020 01:46:20.720 --> 01:46:24.000 at the point of attachment. When it starts to flare, 2021 01:46:24.119 --> 01:46:26.119 the closer you get to the trunk, the bigger the 2022 01:46:26.199 --> 01:46:28.800 wound you're making, because it's getting bigger, the branch is 2023 01:46:28.840 --> 01:46:32.560 getting bigger, and you want to leave the tissues in 2024 01:46:32.680 --> 01:46:35.000 that ring that's called the callous I mean, excuse me, 2025 01:46:35.119 --> 01:46:39.520 the collar of the attachment point. You want to leave 2026 01:46:39.560 --> 01:46:42.760 those tissues because they heal fast, and it's actually the 2027 01:46:42.920 --> 01:46:46.560 trunk that is healing over that wound, not the branch 2028 01:46:46.920 --> 01:46:50.359 tissues themselves, So leave the collar. 2029 01:46:50.520 --> 01:46:50.840 You can go. 2030 01:46:50.880 --> 01:46:53.039 Online and learn about this. Find the video I did 2031 01:46:53.119 --> 01:46:55.920 on Facebook to learn about it. There's kind of a 2032 01:46:55.960 --> 01:46:57.720 sweet spot in there. You don't want to cut too 2033 01:46:57.800 --> 01:46:59.920 close because it makes a big wound and you're removing 2034 01:47:00.079 --> 01:47:02.399 the best healing tissues. You don't want to cut too 2035 01:47:02.439 --> 01:47:04.720 far away because that leaves a stub that will die 2036 01:47:04.760 --> 01:47:08.000 and prevent closure. So find that sweet spot. It's not 2037 01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:10.640 that hard to do. The simplest way I would describe 2038 01:47:10.680 --> 01:47:12.560 it is as you follow the branch down where it 2039 01:47:12.640 --> 01:47:16.159 starts to flare out cut there. Now that's a generalization. 2040 01:47:16.359 --> 01:47:18.840 Lots of different kinds of plants, but at least I 2041 01:47:19.000 --> 01:47:21.439 get you in the ballpark. All right, love of that, 2042 01:47:21.920 --> 01:47:24.520 you want to take a break top of the hour, 2043 01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:27.520 I'll be back with our last hour a garden Line. 2044 01:47:29.119 --> 01:47:32.880 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with skin Rictor. 2045 01:47:32.960 --> 01:47:51.439 It's just watch you as worthies spy. 2046 01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:02.520 Not a sad All right, folks, here we go. We 2047 01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:05.399 are saddled up and ready to ride the last hour 2048 01:48:05.560 --> 01:48:08.279 of garden Line today with your calls. If you'd like 2049 01:48:08.359 --> 01:48:10.720 to give me a call seven to one three two 2050 01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:13.720 one two five eight seven four seven one three two 2051 01:48:13.760 --> 01:48:17.199 one two fifty eight seventy four and let's head out 2052 01:48:17.239 --> 01:48:19.600 to Montgomery now and we're going to talk to Benson. 2053 01:48:19.800 --> 01:48:21.560 Hey Benson, welcome to garden Line. 2054 01:48:22.800 --> 01:48:27.279 Thank you. The reason I was calling, I'm thinking about 2055 01:48:27.800 --> 01:48:29.960 making a raised bed and I was calling to see 2056 01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:33.720 if using treated lumber was safe for vegetable garden. 2057 01:48:35.600 --> 01:48:38.199 That is a good question, and I don't no matter 2058 01:48:38.359 --> 01:48:41.159 what I say, there's going to be a lot of 2059 01:48:41.199 --> 01:48:44.600 debate about it. People that are concerned about chemicals are 2060 01:48:44.720 --> 01:48:51.359 not going to ever consider treated lumber safe. But the 2061 01:48:51.560 --> 01:48:55.640 old treatments that were used, the CCA treatments that were used, 2062 01:48:56.239 --> 01:48:59.560 could leach out and did have concerns for help. There's 2063 01:48:59.640 --> 01:49:04.399 a not a question about that. The treatment has changed 2064 01:49:04.479 --> 01:49:07.239 over the years. They've evolved through different kinds of com 2065 01:49:07.279 --> 01:49:10.039 agal that they used to treat lumber. And the nermans 2066 01:49:10.119 --> 01:49:12.600 tend to move less much less in the soil because 2067 01:49:12.640 --> 01:49:14.199 you know, if something leached out of the board, it 2068 01:49:14.239 --> 01:49:16.399 wouldn't be there to protect the board, So they tend 2069 01:49:16.479 --> 01:49:21.680 to not leach out as bad. If you're concerned about it, 2070 01:49:22.680 --> 01:49:25.880 I would say the concern it potentially could be, well, 2071 01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:27.800 what if a root grows up against the board and 2072 01:49:27.920 --> 01:49:30.079 takes up something and it gets in your tomato kind 2073 01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:34.319 of thing, And I understand that concern. That hasn't been 2074 01:49:34.439 --> 01:49:39.960 shown to be a significant factor at all. Now, if 2075 01:49:40.000 --> 01:49:42.760 you're concerned about it, the couple of things you can do. 2076 01:49:42.880 --> 01:49:45.039 First of all, there's a question does it leach out? 2077 01:49:45.159 --> 01:49:48.000 And second is the question does the plant take it up? 2078 01:49:48.159 --> 01:49:50.279 And third is a question is does that plant move 2079 01:49:50.359 --> 01:49:52.079 it to like Let's say that let's say it was 2080 01:49:52.079 --> 01:49:53.760 a tomato, but does it actually put it in the 2081 01:49:53.800 --> 01:49:57.119 tomato or not? And those are three levels of things 2082 01:49:57.239 --> 01:50:00.279 that in general there doesn't seem to be a big 2083 01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:03.279 concern about it. But again I respect folks that are concerned. 2084 01:50:03.319 --> 01:50:05.600 So here's what you can do. You can line those 2085 01:50:05.680 --> 01:50:08.479 beds with plastic. It gets you a good thick plastic 2086 01:50:08.920 --> 01:50:13.000 sheeting something six metal or more, and line the beds 2087 01:50:13.039 --> 01:50:16.720 with the plastic. You can also paint over them some 2088 01:50:17.039 --> 01:50:19.159 sort of a se lunt to kind of hold that on. 2089 01:50:19.359 --> 01:50:21.920 That would be another option that you could do, or 2090 01:50:22.199 --> 01:50:24.399 you could just go with something that's not treated. 2091 01:50:24.680 --> 01:50:24.840 You know. 2092 01:50:25.000 --> 01:50:28.960 The one of the best raised bed products is the 2093 01:50:29.079 --> 01:50:33.039 corrugated metal that has paint. It's kind of a the 2094 01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:36.000 equivalent of galvanized, but it's even better than galvanized. And 2095 01:50:36.079 --> 01:50:37.840 then it has a paint coating on the top of it. 2096 01:50:38.039 --> 01:50:40.159 And that's another option too. So it's up to you. 2097 01:50:40.279 --> 01:50:43.960 Okay, Yeah, I just the wife was kind of worried 2098 01:50:43.960 --> 01:50:47.439 about if it leached into the into the soul that 2099 01:50:47.520 --> 01:50:49.800 the plant pick it up and cheating. 2100 01:50:50.359 --> 01:50:56.760 Yeah, And that's that's a factor. You know, when it 2101 01:50:56.800 --> 01:50:59.880 comes to chemicals and life and dangers and stuff. They 2102 01:51:00.039 --> 01:51:02.159 there's a term they say that dose makes the poison, 2103 01:51:02.239 --> 01:51:05.279 and that's really true. You know, aspirn is can kill 2104 01:51:05.359 --> 01:51:07.920 you if you take enough of it, so can table salt. 2105 01:51:08.520 --> 01:51:10.479 Now that's not to say that we shouldn't care or 2106 01:51:10.520 --> 01:51:13.800 be concerned about chemicals. It just means that you know 2107 01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:16.880 that it's a good question, your question a lot of 2108 01:51:16.960 --> 01:51:19.920 people ask, and it does come down to, so how 2109 01:51:20.000 --> 01:51:22.159 much are you're getting and how concerning is that? Because 2110 01:51:22.159 --> 01:51:24.079 we're exposed to a lot of things that we would 2111 01:51:24.159 --> 01:51:27.399 rather not be exposed to every day, and so that's 2112 01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:29.119 where you kind of have to balance it out. And 2113 01:51:29.239 --> 01:51:31.279 I think most people land on the hey, I don't 2114 01:51:31.319 --> 01:51:32.960 want to be I don't want to add that to 2115 01:51:33.079 --> 01:51:34.520 my life. You know, I don't want to add that 2116 01:51:34.600 --> 01:51:36.800 chemical to my life. And that's fine. You can do 2117 01:51:36.920 --> 01:51:40.439 that direction as well. Another factor with treated wood is 2118 01:51:41.399 --> 01:51:43.279 in an advantage of a treat of wood bed as 2119 01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:44.960 you can sit on the sides as opposed to a 2120 01:51:45.039 --> 01:51:47.720 little piece of tin you know that you can't sit on. 2121 01:51:48.800 --> 01:51:51.680 But when you have treated wood, then there is the 2122 01:51:51.760 --> 01:51:54.840 skin contact too that you could get from it, and 2123 01:51:55.000 --> 01:51:57.680 so you know, you're out there. Little kids are out 2124 01:51:57.680 --> 01:51:59.560 there in their shorts sitting down on the side of 2125 01:51:59.600 --> 01:52:03.079 the bed or or something. There's a small potential for 2126 01:52:03.560 --> 01:52:07.560 that being an additional concern. But it's a complex issue 2127 01:52:07.600 --> 01:52:10.600 and nobody's going to be happy with the answers. But 2128 01:52:11.279 --> 01:52:13.000 you do what you what you're comfortable with. 2129 01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:16.720 Okay, right, right, right, okay, Well this sounds good. I 2130 01:52:16.760 --> 01:52:18.479 sure appreciate it. Thank you very much. 2131 01:52:18.640 --> 01:52:22.079 You have a thank you you two bensent, thank you, 2132 01:52:22.600 --> 01:52:24.640 and thanks for calling and asking about that, because a 2133 01:52:24.720 --> 01:52:27.359 lot of people, I'm sure have that question. Yeah, I've 2134 01:52:27.560 --> 01:52:29.920 dealt with that question for years. It used to be raredized. 2135 01:52:29.960 --> 01:52:32.000 We talked about and I've had a rare road tie 2136 01:52:32.039 --> 01:52:34.720 bed before because you can get old rovertized for cheap, 2137 01:52:34.920 --> 01:52:35.079 you know. 2138 01:52:35.800 --> 01:52:35.880 Uh. 2139 01:52:36.119 --> 01:52:38.720 Now there, you've got that tar that will when they're 2140 01:52:39.000 --> 01:52:40.800 it's hot in the summer, you sit on them and 2141 01:52:40.800 --> 01:52:42.960 it sticks to your clothing and stuff. That's a mess. 2142 01:52:43.520 --> 01:52:45.680 But hey, you do what you want to do. I 2143 01:52:45.760 --> 01:52:49.720 know what I do and and so uh it's when 2144 01:52:49.840 --> 01:52:52.399 when we get into trying to answer a question in 2145 01:52:52.560 --> 01:52:56.359 a non emotionally reactive way, but trying to get as 2146 01:52:56.479 --> 01:52:58.960 much facts as we can, it's always a little more complicated. 2147 01:52:59.159 --> 01:53:01.039 It's easier to just go that stuff will kill you, 2148 01:53:01.159 --> 01:53:05.720 run away, don't do it. But in general, what I 2149 01:53:05.880 --> 01:53:08.560 just said there is what I what I believe. And 2150 01:53:09.560 --> 01:53:11.640 so did I tell you to use it or not 2151 01:53:11.800 --> 01:53:13.359 use it? I didn't tell you either one of those. 2152 01:53:13.439 --> 01:53:14.960 I said, you do what you want to do. Here's 2153 01:53:15.079 --> 01:53:17.680 here's how I understand it is. I've read research and 2154 01:53:18.560 --> 01:53:20.560 all these things. This is what I picked up, and 2155 01:53:21.239 --> 01:53:23.079 so you do it. Do it that is you wish 2156 01:53:23.159 --> 01:53:25.039 to do. Most people are not going to want to 2157 01:53:25.079 --> 01:53:28.119 be in contact with any kind of a chemical treatment, 2158 01:53:28.359 --> 01:53:31.600 and so I get that. So that's fine. I'm talking 2159 01:53:31.600 --> 01:53:35.840 about ACE hardware stores before and all kinds of places 2160 01:53:35.920 --> 01:53:38.439 to get it. You know, as you get over on 2161 01:53:38.880 --> 01:53:41.439 the east side of Houston, there are still ACE hardware 2162 01:53:41.479 --> 01:53:43.800 stores over there too, not as many in that area, 2163 01:53:43.920 --> 01:53:47.439 not as many general commercial places over there. But Deer 2164 01:53:47.520 --> 01:53:50.159 Park has got a really good Ace Hardware store if 2165 01:53:50.199 --> 01:53:52.399 you if you head out, it's just kind of where 2166 01:53:52.479 --> 01:53:54.960 belt Way eight and two twenty five that region, that's 2167 01:53:55.000 --> 01:53:57.920 deer Park on Center Street. In deer Park, they've got 2168 01:53:58.079 --> 01:53:59.920 a nice little Ace Hardware store. For those of you 2169 01:54:00.199 --> 01:54:03.039 out in the Laporte area, this is not too far 2170 01:54:03.119 --> 01:54:05.760 away from you, anyone along Beltway E south of Buffalo 2171 01:54:05.880 --> 01:54:10.439 Bio over that direction. Deer Park Ase Hardware is one 2172 01:54:10.680 --> 01:54:12.640 you need to definitely know about. And if you haven't 2173 01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:14.039 been by there, you need to go check them out. 2174 01:54:14.359 --> 01:54:18.720 That's a good one out in the Deer Park area. Well, 2175 01:54:19.079 --> 01:54:22.880 between talking about treated timbers and I don't know what 2176 01:54:23.000 --> 01:54:25.840 else I've been doing, kind of running short on this 2177 01:54:26.000 --> 01:54:30.680 first little segment. If you have not been to Buchanan's recently, 2178 01:54:30.720 --> 01:54:33.359 you need to go Buchanan's Nati Plants. It's just an 2179 01:54:33.439 --> 01:54:36.640 outstanding place right now. You know, a daylight today, Go 2180 01:54:36.800 --> 01:54:39.159 see them, I know it training. Go see them and 2181 01:54:39.279 --> 01:54:41.800 check out the greenhouse. It's all covered, you know, Gota 2182 01:54:41.960 --> 01:54:45.640 rained on in there. You will not believe the quality 2183 01:54:46.119 --> 01:54:48.399 house plants and things that they have. By the way, 2184 01:54:48.439 --> 01:54:53.560 they've also got plenty of vegetable transplants, they got seeds, 2185 01:54:53.560 --> 01:54:55.560 they got all kinds of things. You know, they specialize 2186 01:54:55.560 --> 01:54:58.079 in Nati plants. They got every Nata plant you can imagine. 2187 01:54:58.600 --> 01:55:02.720 Excellent advice. But I like Buchanans has come up with 2188 01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:05.399 some really really cool things. A little small plants, a 2189 01:55:05.439 --> 01:55:10.399 little miniature like two inch houseplants, foliage plants and you 2190 01:55:10.439 --> 01:55:12.840 can put those together make your own little terrarium. I 2191 01:55:12.920 --> 01:55:14.960 think that's a really cool thing to do, and they'll 2192 01:55:14.960 --> 01:55:16.840 get you set up on it. They are loaded up 2193 01:55:17.039 --> 01:55:20.920 on really cool little small tropical two inch plants. You 2194 01:55:21.039 --> 01:55:23.840 put your terrarium together, and what a great idea for 2195 01:55:23.920 --> 01:55:26.520 a rainy DAA. All right, we're gonna take a break. 2196 01:55:26.560 --> 01:55:28.880 I'll be right back with your phone calls. Hang around. 2197 01:55:32.840 --> 01:55:37.000 All right, we're back back for the last hour garden line. 2198 01:55:37.159 --> 01:55:38.680 And by the way, if you'd like to give me 2199 01:55:38.720 --> 01:55:41.720 a calls seven one three, two one two five eight 2200 01:55:41.840 --> 01:55:44.039 seven four, kind of quiet on the phone right this moment, 2201 01:55:44.279 --> 01:55:45.920 so it'd be a good time. Whoever can doll the 2202 01:55:46.079 --> 01:55:49.960 phone fastest to not have to wait when you call in. 2203 01:55:50.640 --> 01:55:54.319 I was talking about Buchanans Plants and just the incredible 2204 01:55:54.640 --> 01:55:56.880 selection of everything that they have. By the way, their 2205 01:55:56.920 --> 01:56:00.279 website is Buchanansplants dot com. You need to go there, 2206 01:56:00.680 --> 01:56:03.319 and you need to sign up for the newsletter. Sign up. 2207 01:56:03.479 --> 01:56:07.720 Trust me on this one. They will send you incredible 2208 01:56:08.119 --> 01:56:11.479 helpful information about things going on, about events that are 2209 01:56:11.600 --> 01:56:15.760 going on to Buchanans, about special products and fun facts too, 2210 01:56:15.960 --> 01:56:18.279 and a lot of good educational things. It is a 2211 01:56:18.520 --> 01:56:22.159 very valuable newsletter to do. They are on Eleventh Street 2212 01:56:22.199 --> 01:56:24.560 in the Heights. For those of you who are new 2213 01:56:24.600 --> 01:56:26.680 to Houston or have been here but just living under 2214 01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:29.600 a rock and don't know where Buchanans is, well, eleventh 2215 01:56:29.640 --> 01:56:32.000 Street in the Heights, and you gotta go. And again, 2216 01:56:32.600 --> 01:56:34.800 I'd go today. This afternoon would be a great time 2217 01:56:34.840 --> 01:56:37.520 to go because I'm telling you they've got that beautiful 2218 01:56:37.560 --> 01:56:41.119 greenhouse where you're completely dry and you can pick out 2219 01:56:41.680 --> 01:56:44.560 a project to build your own terrarium or whatever you 2220 01:56:44.640 --> 01:56:46.479 want to grow. I mean, they've got it all there, 2221 01:56:46.640 --> 01:56:51.199 truly really good stuff at Buchanna's Plants. I talked about 2222 01:56:51.199 --> 01:56:56.560 Affordable tree earlier and Martin Spoon Moore. The way I 2223 01:56:56.600 --> 01:56:58.199 would put it is this, he knows what he's doing. 2224 01:56:59.039 --> 01:57:02.800 Martin knows what he's doing, and your trees in time 2225 01:57:03.039 --> 01:57:05.520 can develop some bad habits. Let's say that's why we 2226 01:57:05.600 --> 01:57:08.560 have to train trees if we want to develop the 2227 01:57:08.680 --> 01:57:12.000 strongest branch structure. So if we have another storm God forbid, 2228 01:57:12.159 --> 01:57:17.279 like the two we did last season last summer, your 2229 01:57:17.319 --> 01:57:19.920 trees are strong and they're better able to withstand or 2230 01:57:19.960 --> 01:57:21.760 at least have the best chance of with standing that 2231 01:57:21.880 --> 01:57:25.359 kind of windstorm. Now, if you have not had your 2232 01:57:25.399 --> 01:57:28.479 trees looked at, if you can't remember the last time 2233 01:57:28.520 --> 01:57:31.279 you've had your trees looked at, and I mean prune 2234 01:57:31.319 --> 01:57:33.760 evaluated for their health, how they doing, what do they 2235 01:57:33.800 --> 01:57:36.359 need and so on, You've got a callm maartin now. 2236 01:57:36.720 --> 01:57:37.159 Just do it. 2237 01:57:37.319 --> 01:57:40.239 It's seven one three six nine nine two six sixty 2238 01:57:40.279 --> 01:57:44.399 three seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty 2239 01:57:44.479 --> 01:57:50.319 three the website aff tree Service dot com. Aff Tree 2240 01:57:50.359 --> 01:57:53.399 Service dot com. Call, get on his schedule, have him 2241 01:57:53.439 --> 01:57:56.119 come out. He'll do an assessment, he'll look at things, 2242 01:57:56.600 --> 01:57:58.359 tell you here's what I see, here's what needs to 2243 01:57:58.399 --> 01:58:00.680 be done, here's what we can do, and then you 2244 01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:03.079 pull the plug, decide to pull the plugs, go for it, 2245 01:58:03.199 --> 01:58:05.840 let's do that or not. But have him come out 2246 01:58:05.880 --> 01:58:09.119 and give you a professional advice on it. Because narrow 2247 01:58:09.199 --> 01:58:13.039 branch angles, trees that have issues that are developing. Don't 2248 01:58:13.079 --> 01:58:15.680 wait until a storm tells you you should have had 2249 01:58:15.760 --> 01:58:19.079 that done. Call him now and get on his schedule. 2250 01:58:19.159 --> 01:58:22.279 This is prime time for getting printing done and it's 2251 01:58:22.399 --> 01:58:25.880 very important that you not delay because he does stay busy. 2252 01:58:25.920 --> 01:58:29.279 He does a good job, affordable tree service seven three 2253 01:58:29.359 --> 01:58:34.680 six n nine two six six three. I have been 2254 01:58:35.319 --> 01:58:41.199 working on getting my seeds organized inside. I collect seeds. 2255 01:58:41.239 --> 01:58:45.439 I've I've got seeds that I purchased years ago. Unfortunately, 2256 01:58:45.560 --> 01:58:49.359 I store them as best I can to extend their life. 2257 01:58:49.439 --> 01:58:52.640 And you know, each type of seed has a different 2258 01:58:52.840 --> 01:58:56.159 lifespan under good conditions, even that it's going to have. 2259 01:58:56.319 --> 01:58:58.960 You know, like a lettuce isn't the same as corn, 2260 01:58:59.039 --> 01:59:01.159 isn't the same as a tomato isn't the same as 2261 01:59:01.199 --> 01:59:04.359 a petunia, and so on. They each have their lifespan. 2262 01:59:04.760 --> 01:59:08.600 But good storage is important. And good storage means air tight, 2263 01:59:09.920 --> 01:59:16.760 dry and cool. One two three air tight, dry and cool. Okay, 2264 01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:22.039 if you store them where moisture can't get in, they're 2265 01:59:22.079 --> 01:59:24.439 gonna last longer. And you know what I do when 2266 01:59:24.479 --> 01:59:27.960 I get a you know, you buy some electronics, some 2267 01:59:28.119 --> 01:59:30.800 sort of electronics. You get that little packet of desiccon 2268 01:59:30.920 --> 01:59:33.640 in it. I save those because you can warm them up, 2269 01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:36.520 kind of drive some of the extra water out of them, 2270 01:59:36.840 --> 01:59:38.680 and put them in with your seeds, and they do 2271 01:59:38.800 --> 01:59:40.840 the same thing. That little tiny area where you've got 2272 01:59:40.920 --> 01:59:44.560 air around your seeds in the glass jar are in 2273 01:59:44.720 --> 01:59:47.880 the one of those little pop down sealable containers. It's 2274 01:59:48.000 --> 01:59:52.039 completely water tight. They're good for doing it, and that 2275 01:59:52.199 --> 01:59:54.960 keeps them dry. If you're saving your own seeds, let 2276 01:59:55.039 --> 01:59:57.079 them fully dry out. Let them dry out, give them 2277 01:59:57.119 --> 02:00:00.520 a couple of weeks and nice mile warm temperatures to 2278 02:00:00.600 --> 02:00:02.600 get as much moisture out of them as you can 2279 02:00:02.720 --> 02:00:05.479 before you store them. And then put them in your refrigerator. Now, 2280 02:00:06.760 --> 02:00:09.680 if you were the International Seed Bank trying to save 2281 02:00:09.800 --> 02:00:12.760 seed forever, you would put them in a very deep, deep, 2282 02:00:12.800 --> 02:00:16.039 deep freeze. But that's not necessary. Just put them refrigerator. 2283 02:00:16.119 --> 02:00:20.039 That's good. Even your air conditioned home space is good 2284 02:00:20.119 --> 02:00:22.680 for storing seeds. Not as good as a fridge, but 2285 02:00:22.960 --> 02:00:25.800 it's good. And so store your seeds right. And I've 2286 02:00:25.880 --> 02:00:31.000 got these boxes and boxes of seeds. I collect seeds, 2287 02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:33.199 you know, I'm on the road side. I'll see some 2288 02:00:33.319 --> 02:00:35.439 plant and I'll gather some seeds off of it. And 2289 02:00:35.840 --> 02:00:38.960 I'm always getting bringing seeds home. By the way, write 2290 02:00:39.000 --> 02:00:41.359 your name on I write the name of what you 2291 02:00:41.479 --> 02:00:44.359 collected on the seed when you save it. Otherwise you'll 2292 02:00:44.399 --> 02:00:48.000 never remember. Trust me, I know the hard way. But anyway, 2293 02:00:48.079 --> 02:00:50.720 save your seeds, store them well, and it's time to 2294 02:00:50.720 --> 02:00:53.199 get them out and start doing that. We got lots 2295 02:00:53.239 --> 02:00:55.960 of things we could be planting right now. And my 2296 02:00:56.079 --> 02:00:59.399 favorite gardening season of the year, I think is that 2297 02:00:59.560 --> 02:01:02.640 springs season where you're getting the fever and you're starting 2298 02:01:02.720 --> 02:01:05.640 siege and you're rooting cuttings, and you're planning things out 2299 02:01:05.680 --> 02:01:08.760 and you're buying transplants from the garden center and plants 2300 02:01:08.800 --> 02:01:12.199 from the garden center and you're bringing them home. Oh gosh, 2301 02:01:12.279 --> 02:01:14.640 that is a fun, fun time and we're right now 2302 02:01:14.760 --> 02:01:18.800 in the big middle of it. Let's see, you've heard 2303 02:01:18.880 --> 02:01:21.800 me talk about Microlife products a lot, and I'll talk 2304 02:01:21.800 --> 02:01:24.039 about a specific this or that or the other product. 2305 02:01:24.079 --> 02:01:26.520 I just don't talk about Microlife just a little bit, 2306 02:01:26.560 --> 02:01:29.680 can I do that? Microlife is the number one selling 2307 02:01:29.800 --> 02:01:33.520 organic fertilizer in Houston. That's the specifically, that's their six 2308 02:01:33.680 --> 02:01:37.720 to four lawn fertilizer and it sells a lot. The 2309 02:01:37.800 --> 02:01:42.039 number one selling organic lawn fertilizer in Houston quantity wise, 2310 02:01:42.239 --> 02:01:46.159 is that Microlife the green bag. But Microlife has so 2311 02:01:46.279 --> 02:01:48.760 many different kinds of products. You know, Microlife has the 2312 02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:53.800 humates plus that helps with soil condition. Microlife has the 2313 02:01:53.880 --> 02:01:58.399 bioenoculant that's got sixty three different strains of microbes in it. 2314 02:01:58.760 --> 02:02:02.560 Good guy, microbe that help your plants. Microlife has micro 2315 02:02:02.680 --> 02:02:06.479 growth liquid AF six or excuse me, eight different strains 2316 02:02:06.920 --> 02:02:12.359 of known disease fighting microbes. There's not a fungicide. It's 2317 02:02:12.560 --> 02:02:15.960 microbes that fight disease naturally. And I could go on 2318 02:02:16.079 --> 02:02:19.119 and on. There's dozens of Microlife products that are out 2319 02:02:19.159 --> 02:02:22.399 there at your feed store, at your ACE hardware store, 2320 02:02:22.680 --> 02:02:27.880 at your garden center, at your Southwest fertilizer. Microlife products 2321 02:02:27.920 --> 02:02:30.520 are widely available, and there's so many, and a lot 2322 02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:32.920 of gardeners call me and they want to garden organically, 2323 02:02:33.119 --> 02:02:38.399 and they want help gardening organically. That's why Microlife was developed. 2324 02:02:38.680 --> 02:02:43.000 And it works. I started ten years ago. I believe 2325 02:02:43.359 --> 02:02:45.600 first time I ever used a Microlife product, and it 2326 02:02:45.680 --> 02:02:47.319 was there green Bag sixty four. 2327 02:02:48.239 --> 02:02:48.760 I liked it. 2328 02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:51.079 I like the way it works, and as a result, 2329 02:02:51.319 --> 02:02:53.680 I still use Microlife product. Got some in the garage 2330 02:02:53.720 --> 02:02:56.359 right now waiting to go out the next time I 2331 02:02:56.479 --> 02:03:00.319 head out and do something to my plants. You are 2332 02:03:00.359 --> 02:03:02.840 listening to garden Line our phone number seven one three 2333 02:03:02.960 --> 02:03:05.840 two one two five eight seven four seven one three 2334 02:03:06.000 --> 02:03:08.800 two one two fifty eight seventy four. 2335 02:03:10.520 --> 02:03:10.640 Uh. 2336 02:03:10.840 --> 02:03:14.079 Anyway, I was talking about getting my seed collections together. 2337 02:03:14.199 --> 02:03:17.319 I got boxes all over the desk I hear in 2338 02:03:17.439 --> 02:03:20.279 my studio actually, but I'll put them in the kitchen 2339 02:03:20.359 --> 02:03:24.079 table typically until my wife runs me out of there 2340 02:03:24.520 --> 02:03:27.479 because I tend to leave stuff. Do you have anybody 2341 02:03:27.520 --> 02:03:29.479 in your life that makes a mess and doesn't clean 2342 02:03:29.560 --> 02:03:33.960 it up? Yeah? My wife does. Anyway, The bottom line 2343 02:03:34.079 --> 02:03:36.079 is I got the seeds all spread out, I'm getting 2344 02:03:36.119 --> 02:03:39.800 them planned, getting you know, doing tests on the germination. 2345 02:03:40.399 --> 02:03:43.239 And I wanted to talk about that germination testing. When 2346 02:03:43.279 --> 02:03:45.239 you've got seeds, I've been sitting there and sitting there, 2347 02:03:45.359 --> 02:03:47.600 and it's like, I don't know how these are. And 2348 02:03:47.680 --> 02:03:49.239 if you turn a pack, if it's a sal a 2349 02:03:49.279 --> 02:03:51.079 package you bought, you turn them over, it'll tell you 2350 02:03:51.159 --> 02:03:54.119 when they were packed for what year. But is it 2351 02:03:54.239 --> 02:03:57.560 still good? I don't know. And so you gonna what 2352 02:03:57.640 --> 02:03:58.119 are you gonna do? 2353 02:03:58.239 --> 02:03:58.439 Well? 2354 02:03:58.800 --> 02:04:00.840 One thing you can do is to a termination TSK. 2355 02:04:01.279 --> 02:04:02.960 And the easiest way to do it is to take 2356 02:04:03.119 --> 02:04:06.960 ten seeds and put a take a paper towel and 2357 02:04:07.319 --> 02:04:11.359 moisten the paper towel, not sopping soggy wet. Just moist 2358 02:04:12.239 --> 02:04:15.159 lay ten seeds on it, and then fold it over 2359 02:04:15.960 --> 02:04:18.239 a couple of times. Put it in a let's say 2360 02:04:18.279 --> 02:04:20.600 a plastic bag, could be a ziplock bag. It could 2361 02:04:20.600 --> 02:04:23.760 be whatever you want, just something, hold that moisture in 2362 02:04:24.359 --> 02:04:26.960 and put it in a mild, warm space. That could 2363 02:04:27.000 --> 02:04:28.880 be the counter in your kitchen if you want to 2364 02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:33.239 do that wherever you'll see it, and every three or 2365 02:04:33.279 --> 02:04:36.800 four days, just check it and see see how what's sprouting. 2366 02:04:37.119 --> 02:04:40.199 Some seeds will sprout in two days, some seeds maybe 2367 02:04:40.279 --> 02:04:43.760 two weeks. But just watch them and check them. And 2368 02:04:44.239 --> 02:04:46.720 if you put ten seeds, then you get the percentage 2369 02:04:46.760 --> 02:04:49.479 real easy, because if eight sprout and two don't, that's 2370 02:04:49.600 --> 02:04:53.039 eighty percent germination. So what does that mean. Let's let's 2371 02:04:53.119 --> 02:04:55.600 make it even worse. Let's say two sprouted in eight didn't. 2372 02:04:56.039 --> 02:04:58.760 It's twenty percent germination. That means you're probably going to 2373 02:04:58.800 --> 02:05:01.279 a plant five times as much of the seed in 2374 02:05:01.479 --> 02:05:03.199 order to get the number of plants you want. Do 2375 02:05:03.239 --> 02:05:05.239 you see what I'm saying how that works? So the 2376 02:05:05.359 --> 02:05:08.159 germination test a do you want to use the seed 2377 02:05:08.279 --> 02:05:10.199 or not? Be If you use it, do you need 2378 02:05:10.279 --> 02:05:12.319 to add a few extras, because you're gonna need some 2379 02:05:12.399 --> 02:05:15.159 extras because not all are going to come up. Another 2380 02:05:15.319 --> 02:05:19.119 thing that I do on germination is I start seeds 2381 02:05:19.199 --> 02:05:25.319 in a little small container and I like to get 2382 02:05:26.199 --> 02:05:31.119 the little containers that you may bring home the sauce 2383 02:05:31.279 --> 02:05:34.159 from a fast food restaurant or ketchup you ketch up 2384 02:05:34.199 --> 02:05:35.800 in those little things. I like the ones that are 2385 02:05:35.800 --> 02:05:37.600 a little bigger, about too inches across. They got will 2386 02:05:37.640 --> 02:05:41.119 pop down plastic lid, but little seed starting mix in 2387 02:05:41.199 --> 02:05:43.399 there just a little bit and sprinkle your seeds in it. 2388 02:05:43.479 --> 02:05:45.840 Mix them in just a little bit, and then moisten 2389 02:05:45.920 --> 02:05:47.880 it and pop the lid on it to hold the 2390 02:05:47.920 --> 02:05:51.560 moisture and set that on your counter. And once they 2391 02:05:51.680 --> 02:05:53.840 start to sprout, they've got to have good light. You 2392 02:05:53.920 --> 02:05:56.359 need to get them under a plant light. Whatever you 2393 02:05:56.399 --> 02:05:58.119 can do to put the most amountain light you can 2394 02:05:58.239 --> 02:06:01.239 on those things to help them sprout and grow. And 2395 02:06:01.359 --> 02:06:04.479 what will happen is that they'll come up and it'll 2396 02:06:04.520 --> 02:06:07.439 be just like a little forest of seedlings in there. Well, 2397 02:06:07.920 --> 02:06:11.479 once they sprout, before they get their first true leaves 2398 02:06:11.520 --> 02:06:14.119 and get very big at all, you can very gently 2399 02:06:14.319 --> 02:06:16.119 lift them up and grab them by one of the 2400 02:06:16.199 --> 02:06:18.319 cottle leadings. That's the little seed leaves. That's the first 2401 02:06:18.359 --> 02:06:20.159 thing that comes up. That's called a cottle eating it's 2402 02:06:20.199 --> 02:06:22.479 not a true leaf. You can hold on by that, 2403 02:06:22.880 --> 02:06:25.119 not the stem, because you'll crush the stem and just 2404 02:06:25.199 --> 02:06:27.560 kind of gently tease them apart and then put those 2405 02:06:27.840 --> 02:06:30.399 into your planting containers that you're going to grow them in. 2406 02:06:30.600 --> 02:06:32.960 Maybe it's a big flat seventy two, you know, one 2407 02:06:32.960 --> 02:06:35.039 of those big flats. Maybe it's a little six pack. 2408 02:06:35.359 --> 02:06:37.840 Maybe it's a Dixie cup with holes sponged in the bottom. 2409 02:06:38.159 --> 02:06:41.399 But you know, then you can pick your seedlings out, 2410 02:06:41.600 --> 02:06:44.119 and even if only half German ad, you're gonna have 2411 02:06:44.159 --> 02:06:46.079 plenty extras. And we always have more seeds than you 2412 02:06:46.119 --> 02:06:48.640 know to do with. But that's another way you can 2413 02:06:48.680 --> 02:06:50.960 deal with seeds that may not germinate real well. Is 2414 02:06:51.039 --> 02:06:52.760 that way the ones that do come up, then you 2415 02:06:52.920 --> 02:06:56.079 quickly move them and they do not miss a beat. 2416 02:06:56.119 --> 02:06:58.960 They hit the ground running and do really really well. 2417 02:06:59.119 --> 02:07:01.359 All right, I'm ready imbling on here, and I gotta stop. 2418 02:07:01.760 --> 02:07:03.880 I will be back with your phone calls from Paul 2419 02:07:03.960 --> 02:07:10.880 and Mark in just a moment. All right, open your window. 2420 02:07:11.680 --> 02:07:13.640 You can do just that. If it's not raining at 2421 02:07:13.680 --> 02:07:16.760 your house. Now, I will be pretty same here. A 2422 02:07:16.760 --> 02:07:19.239 little bit of rain coming in, but that's a good thing. 2423 02:07:19.720 --> 02:07:22.399 Glad to have that. Plenty we can do for gardening 2424 02:07:22.439 --> 02:07:25.319 in the meantime, that's for sure. Hey, let's add straight 2425 02:07:25.439 --> 02:07:27.760 out to the phones and go to Clear Lake and 2426 02:07:27.880 --> 02:07:30.439 talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line. 2427 02:07:31.039 --> 02:07:33.920 Well, thank you very much. Good morning on this maybe 2428 02:07:34.039 --> 02:07:39.279 wet morning. We don't have any yet here. And I'm 2429 02:07:39.319 --> 02:07:40.600 going to ask you a question. It may not be 2430 02:07:40.680 --> 02:07:43.359 in your wheelhouse, but I'm pretty sure you have experience 2431 02:07:43.439 --> 02:07:47.520 with it. I've got a problem with squirrels and rats 2432 02:07:48.039 --> 02:07:51.680 with bird feeders. I've got a bird feeder that's suction 2433 02:07:51.840 --> 02:07:54.560 cup to the window, and I got bird spikes on 2434 02:07:54.800 --> 02:07:57.159 all the three sides of it. Like when I open 2435 02:07:57.239 --> 02:07:59.000 the blinds and look at it looks like an alien. 2436 02:07:59.600 --> 02:08:03.720 And I've pretty much fixed that because I've got some 2437 02:08:04.399 --> 02:08:08.840 one hundred thousand heat unit cayenne pepper from Central Market, 2438 02:08:08.920 --> 02:08:12.600 and I put the bird heeds in there, shake it up, 2439 02:08:12.680 --> 02:08:15.680 and then put it in the feeder. That's control of 2440 02:08:15.720 --> 02:08:21.359 the squirrels. But sometimes I'll wake up the next morning 2441 02:08:21.399 --> 02:08:23.600 and it'll be empty. But the only thing I think 2442 02:08:23.640 --> 02:08:27.279 that goes with those is the rats have another feeder out. 2443 02:08:28.159 --> 02:08:30.800 It's a bluebird feeder, has one in three eight square 2444 02:08:31.960 --> 02:08:36.199 hard mesh, and that kind of repels the squirrels. But 2445 02:08:36.399 --> 02:08:39.680 I've seen a rat in there. So the question is 2446 02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:43.279 is there any I get the sensation or the sense, 2447 02:08:43.840 --> 02:08:46.520 the sense that the rats aren't bothered by the heat 2448 02:08:46.920 --> 02:08:49.359 by the peppers. And I was wondering if there's anything 2449 02:08:49.560 --> 02:08:52.199 similar to that, or if I've got it wrong. They 2450 02:08:52.520 --> 02:08:55.439 are repelled if it's hot enough, And is there somebody 2451 02:08:57.359 --> 02:08:59.079 make a spray out of I'd like to make a 2452 02:08:59.159 --> 02:09:01.199 hot spray that I can put all around the area 2453 02:09:01.239 --> 02:09:03.479 where these things are coming in. Help. 2454 02:09:04.159 --> 02:09:07.880 Yeah, yeah, I like that. I don't know. I would 2455 02:09:07.920 --> 02:09:11.880 think that rats be in mammals the hot pepper would 2456 02:09:11.880 --> 02:09:14.520 burn their little mouths. But I tell you what, if 2457 02:09:14.560 --> 02:09:19.760 we got any wabirds unlimited managers or owners that are listening, 2458 02:09:19.800 --> 02:09:22.000 please give me a call. I'm talking to Rich yesterday 2459 02:09:22.079 --> 02:09:27.279 down in for Ben County from Wibird Store on Memorial Area. Anyway, 2460 02:09:28.439 --> 02:09:30.520 I'm pretty sure that rats are going to be burned 2461 02:09:30.520 --> 02:09:33.640 by that. I know that squirrels are burned by the 2462 02:09:33.960 --> 02:09:37.439 hot pepper. The capsation oil that's in pepper, and you 2463 02:09:37.520 --> 02:09:40.279 can buy like directly by seed from walbirds that already 2464 02:09:40.319 --> 02:09:43.399 has that in it. They also there's also the oil 2465 02:09:43.520 --> 02:09:45.560 that you can buy and you can treat your own seeds. 2466 02:09:45.840 --> 02:09:48.039 And those are the two things as far as squirrels 2467 02:09:48.039 --> 02:09:50.319 are concerned, and I think this would this would apply 2468 02:09:50.439 --> 02:09:55.319 to rats too. I've got a feeder called a squirrel eliminator. 2469 02:09:55.439 --> 02:09:57.359 Now I realize you already have feeders and you're trying 2470 02:09:57.359 --> 02:09:59.840 to solve the problem for those, But that squirrel eliminator 2471 02:10:00.359 --> 02:10:03.760 has a little anything of any weight, and you can 2472 02:10:03.840 --> 02:10:06.079 set the tension as to how heavy can something be 2473 02:10:06.159 --> 02:10:09.279 at the feeder. But I've got mindset so even a 2474 02:10:09.319 --> 02:10:11.600 blue jay lens on it and it closes the door 2475 02:10:11.600 --> 02:10:13.960 and it can't get in. It keeps squirrels out well, 2476 02:10:14.039 --> 02:10:15.560 and it will keep rats out well too. 2477 02:10:16.000 --> 02:10:16.119 Uh. 2478 02:10:17.319 --> 02:10:20.439 Those are that is one option, the hot pepper oil 2479 02:10:21.880 --> 02:10:27.920 treated seed. You have a scroirrel excluder, Yes, I mean 2480 02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:30.399 hood with that one, because it's. 2481 02:10:30.560 --> 02:10:33.199 It's where they're good. Yeah, they get on there and 2482 02:10:33.239 --> 02:10:36.239 they entertain me for a little while and then they're gone. 2483 02:10:36.279 --> 02:10:40.920 There you go. Yeah, if you listen, you you cannot 2484 02:10:40.920 --> 02:10:43.039 believe the language squirrels use when they go to those 2485 02:10:43.079 --> 02:10:45.600 and get frustrated. It's horrible. I mean, it'll it'll cause 2486 02:10:45.640 --> 02:10:47.560 the sailor to blush. It's unbelievable. 2487 02:10:47.720 --> 02:10:50.479 But anyway I heard, Yes, I would thinking about it, 2488 02:10:50.560 --> 02:10:52.399 putting a remote microphone. 2489 02:10:51.920 --> 02:10:54.640 Out there so I can listen to that's it. That's it. 2490 02:10:54.760 --> 02:10:57.680 If we could get it translated. Oh my gosh. Uh 2491 02:10:57.920 --> 02:11:01.199 definitely not for a Sunday morning, is it? So I 2492 02:11:01.760 --> 02:11:03.640 would talk to your wildbird store and ask them that 2493 02:11:03.840 --> 02:11:05.920 you've got one that right there on Claire Lake Boulevard 2494 02:11:05.960 --> 02:11:08.520 and El Dorado. They're in clar Lake and they can 2495 02:11:08.640 --> 02:11:11.800 help you. They can tell you what works, what doesn't work, 2496 02:11:11.920 --> 02:11:14.279 and how to do it. That would be my best 2497 02:11:14.319 --> 02:11:18.359 guess on that, other than putting something out to get redtorats. 2498 02:11:18.399 --> 02:11:20.720 You know, there are treatments to kill rats and so 2499 02:11:22.279 --> 02:11:25.760 taking the necessary safety precautions, you might try that as well. 2500 02:11:26.119 --> 02:11:28.119 What is this oil that you were talking about. 2501 02:11:29.720 --> 02:11:34.279 Well, the oil in a jalapeno or you know, hobernaro pepper, 2502 02:11:35.000 --> 02:11:38.039 that's capsation is the name of it. And actually you'll 2503 02:11:38.119 --> 02:11:41.159 see it when you have muscle aches. There are creams 2504 02:11:41.199 --> 02:11:43.920 that are capsation based creams and you rub them on 2505 02:11:44.000 --> 02:11:46.640 your and it heats up. You feel the warmth in 2506 02:11:46.760 --> 02:11:51.159 your skin from them for aches and pains. But it 2507 02:11:51.359 --> 02:11:53.399 is the oil that makes a pepper hot. It's oil 2508 02:11:53.520 --> 02:11:55.640 used in some of those creams. And it is also 2509 02:11:55.760 --> 02:12:00.560 the substance that makes bird seed too hot for bird 2510 02:12:00.720 --> 02:12:01.760 for squirrels to eat. 2511 02:12:02.199 --> 02:12:05.359 And you're able to buy that and is it fine? 2512 02:12:05.520 --> 02:12:11.920 Ugh, it's kind of an oil, so I guess you could, 2513 02:12:12.000 --> 02:12:14.359 but be careful, you know, you wouldn't want that and 2514 02:12:14.399 --> 02:12:16.119 they are getting in your eyes or anything, but be 2515 02:12:16.239 --> 02:12:18.479 very careful. I bought it. I think I bought mine 2516 02:12:18.479 --> 02:12:21.600 at Wallbirds. It's a little mine is a it's a 2517 02:12:21.680 --> 02:12:25.760 small bottle, uh, that you have, And I was using 2518 02:12:25.840 --> 02:12:28.560 it to try to talk my dogs out of chewing 2519 02:12:28.680 --> 02:12:32.399 on something they were chewing on, you know, and so 2520 02:12:32.800 --> 02:12:34.760 it was like, yeah, you know, it's kind of like me, 2521 02:12:34.920 --> 02:12:36.399 you grab the wrong pepper and I'm not going to 2522 02:12:36.479 --> 02:12:37.279 eat that pepper again. 2523 02:12:37.720 --> 02:12:37.840 Uh. 2524 02:12:38.119 --> 02:12:42.680 By the way, that didn't work very well, But yeah, 2525 02:12:43.600 --> 02:12:45.520 didn't they They learned what it smelled like and then 2526 02:12:45.560 --> 02:12:48.720 they just stayed away from it. When they were puppies, 2527 02:12:48.800 --> 02:12:52.680 they thought that the well, I guess they they when 2528 02:12:52.680 --> 02:12:55.840 they were puppies. They thought that that little wooden frame 2529 02:12:55.920 --> 02:12:58.600 that goes around your door was for chewing on, and 2530 02:12:58.800 --> 02:13:01.319 so we were having we were trying to work on 2531 02:13:01.439 --> 02:13:04.680 that with them. Anyway. I was desperate. But back to 2532 02:13:04.760 --> 02:13:07.880 your question. I talked to Waldberds and see they're going 2533 02:13:07.960 --> 02:13:08.920 to be the experts on that. 2534 02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:13.039 Okay, Well, thanks very much, marciate it. Take care you met. 2535 02:13:13.159 --> 02:13:16.319 Thank you, appreciate your call very much, very much. We're 2536 02:13:16.359 --> 02:13:18.399 going to go now out to Corpus Christy and talk 2537 02:13:18.439 --> 02:13:22.319 to Paul. Hey, Paul, welcome to garden Line. Hey, Skip, 2538 02:13:22.399 --> 02:13:25.560 how you doing. Good morning, love your show. I'm doing well, 2539 02:13:26.000 --> 02:13:28.720 thank you, sir. I had a lantana question. 2540 02:13:29.119 --> 02:13:32.399 I've got three different varieties of lantana in the ground 2541 02:13:32.479 --> 02:13:33.159 around the house. 2542 02:13:33.960 --> 02:13:35.399 The freeze, the recent. 2543 02:13:35.199 --> 02:13:36.600 Freeze, of course, happen pretty good. 2544 02:13:36.920 --> 02:13:39.359 Just wanted your opinion of recommendation and when the best 2545 02:13:39.359 --> 02:13:41.000 time to cut those back would be. 2546 02:13:42.600 --> 02:13:45.680 I'm minor frozen down and I'm leaving them because that 2547 02:13:45.840 --> 02:13:50.159 top growth does provide an insulating effect on keeping the 2548 02:13:50.239 --> 02:13:52.720 heat down that's coming up out of the soil, bouncing 2549 02:13:52.760 --> 02:13:55.199 it back down. So I'm going to wait until the 2550 02:13:55.279 --> 02:13:57.880 danger of freeze is past, and then I'll cut mine back. 2551 02:13:58.560 --> 02:13:58.680 Now. 2552 02:13:58.800 --> 02:14:03.960 If you, or whatever reason esthetically cannot tolerate that, then 2553 02:14:04.119 --> 02:14:06.159 go ahead and cut them back to a few inches high. 2554 02:14:06.399 --> 02:14:09.119 But you're going to need to mulch that area very well. 2555 02:14:09.520 --> 02:14:12.239 And it's likely that in cutting them back, you may 2556 02:14:12.359 --> 02:14:15.840 stimulate a little earlier growth than they would otherwise do, 2557 02:14:16.000 --> 02:14:20.479 which is not good. So i'd wait. Okay, that's my 2558 02:14:20.560 --> 02:14:21.119 bottom line. 2559 02:14:21.119 --> 02:14:24.479 All right, all right, appreciate it, thank you, Thank you 2560 02:14:24.560 --> 02:14:28.560 for the call. Appreciate that, all right, have a good day, 2561 02:14:29.199 --> 02:14:32.520 all right, Paul, Yeah, thanks for listening down in Corpus Christy. 2562 02:14:32.560 --> 02:14:33.119 Appreciate that. 2563 02:14:33.880 --> 02:14:34.199 All right. 2564 02:14:34.239 --> 02:14:36.399 I got to run to a break, folks, and I 2565 02:14:36.479 --> 02:14:38.239 hated I had to jump off with Paul there, but 2566 02:14:38.880 --> 02:14:41.560 I'll be right back, Steve and Southwest Houston. You'll be 2567 02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:46.159 our first s up when we come back. All right, folks, 2568 02:14:46.199 --> 02:14:50.760 welcome back. Glad to have you listening in today on 2569 02:14:51.000 --> 02:14:53.479 Garden Line. We're here to help you have a bountiful garden, 2570 02:14:53.640 --> 02:14:57.359 a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. And 2571 02:14:57.439 --> 02:15:00.560 we're going to start on the phones this segment. In fact, 2572 02:15:00.720 --> 02:15:03.399 by the way, this is our last segment of the weekend. 2573 02:15:03.800 --> 02:15:05.479 So here we go. We're going to go talk to 2574 02:15:05.600 --> 02:15:10.319 Steve in south West Houston. Hello Steve, Welcome to garden Line. 2575 02:15:11.359 --> 02:15:11.960 Good morning. 2576 02:15:12.800 --> 02:15:15.840 I have a question for you about trimming or pruning 2577 02:15:16.079 --> 02:15:19.760 apple trees when it comes time. I think it's a 2578 02:15:19.800 --> 02:15:24.439 little soon right now. But when I do, what would 2579 02:15:24.479 --> 02:15:26.800 you recommend doing with the canes? Are there ways to 2580 02:15:26.960 --> 02:15:31.119 root any of that or use those? I mean, the 2581 02:15:31.199 --> 02:15:32.520 only thing I know to do with him right now 2582 02:15:32.640 --> 02:15:34.640 is chop them up and put it in the barbecue 2583 02:15:34.680 --> 02:15:35.720 and smoke stuff with it. 2584 02:15:37.159 --> 02:15:41.000 Yeah, that's an option. No, there's not a practical way. 2585 02:15:41.680 --> 02:15:46.600 The fast, simple answer is the wood of an apple 2586 02:15:46.680 --> 02:15:50.960 tree is grafted on to a rootstock, and that wood 2587 02:15:51.119 --> 02:15:55.279 is a mature wood. Juvenile wood will root. Mature wood 2588 02:15:55.520 --> 02:15:59.359 is almost impossible to root, and so I would say, no, 2589 02:16:00.159 --> 02:16:03.520 uh that that's just kind of the bottom line. 2590 02:16:06.680 --> 02:16:10.079 Yeah, young wood like like what you would use for 2591 02:16:10.960 --> 02:16:15.119 the gardenias and rooting those they seem to root pretty easy. 2592 02:16:16.119 --> 02:16:16.520 It is. 2593 02:16:16.760 --> 02:16:19.600 But I'm going to clarify that a little bit. It's 2594 02:16:19.720 --> 02:16:22.840 not that the shoot is new and young. It's that 2595 02:16:23.079 --> 02:16:27.680 the part of the tree is mature or immature. So 2596 02:16:28.000 --> 02:16:30.479 like if a pecan tree Let's say you plant a 2597 02:16:30.520 --> 02:16:32.959 pecan or an acre in the ground and a shot 2598 02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:35.360 comes up out of the ground. That is juvenile wood, 2599 02:16:36.000 --> 02:16:39.120 and it grows up and at some point the trunk 2600 02:16:39.200 --> 02:16:42.920 and the branches it becomes mature wood. And then everything 2601 02:16:43.000 --> 02:16:46.200 that grows up there is mature and hard to root. 2602 02:16:46.559 --> 02:16:48.440 If a sprout came out of the bottom of a 2603 02:16:48.520 --> 02:16:52.600 trunk of a seedling tree, a seated tree, you could 2604 02:16:52.680 --> 02:16:56.879 root that easier, but the older wood you can't. And 2605 02:16:57.120 --> 02:16:59.040 so when you buy an apple tree, what you're buying 2606 02:16:59.239 --> 02:17:02.000 is mature wood drafted onto a rootstock. So I mean, 2607 02:17:02.079 --> 02:17:04.159 from the get go, it's going to be hard to rout, 2608 02:17:04.239 --> 02:17:06.719 even though it's new shoots that spring maybe or something. 2609 02:17:07.719 --> 02:17:11.040 Okay, well, it's still good for smoking. One other quick question. 2610 02:17:11.280 --> 02:17:12.600 It is it is? 2611 02:17:12.920 --> 02:17:17.159 Yeah, it really is. And did you not say sometime 2612 02:17:17.239 --> 02:17:21.959 in the past that you had a place up in Willis, Texas? 2613 02:17:22.319 --> 02:17:28.680 Yes, years ago, rout trees, fruit trees and strawberries. We 2614 02:17:28.719 --> 02:17:29.319 had an orchard. 2615 02:17:31.719 --> 02:17:32.920 Where was that in Willis? 2616 02:17:34.520 --> 02:17:37.680 If you go east of Willis, If you go east 2617 02:17:37.719 --> 02:17:39.719 of Willis, I'm trying to remember what the road was. 2618 02:17:39.760 --> 02:17:42.079 It went out that way, but it was out there 2619 02:17:42.879 --> 02:17:46.239 the road. A road that came into that road right 2620 02:17:46.280 --> 02:17:48.360 at the corner of our property that went down south 2621 02:17:48.399 --> 02:17:51.760 toward the airport and the Lone Star Center down in 2622 02:17:51.840 --> 02:17:56.360 Tumbull on Airport Road, but it wasn't Airport Road. Intersecting 2623 02:17:56.399 --> 02:17:58.440 there's a low road that cut across the Airport Road. 2624 02:17:58.520 --> 02:18:00.360 I honestly can't remember the name of it right now. 2625 02:18:00.719 --> 02:18:03.639 Who's like fourteen eighty four cuts through there and that 2626 02:18:03.840 --> 02:18:09.719 type of thing. Yeah that you know extended, Yeah. 2627 02:18:10.680 --> 02:18:14.440 Okay, I think there may still be some fruit trees 2628 02:18:14.520 --> 02:18:17.520 on it. People didn't didn't really take care of them 2629 02:18:17.520 --> 02:18:18.399 after we moved away. 2630 02:18:19.440 --> 02:18:24.440 But oh, where what kind of fruit where you growing it? 2631 02:18:24.479 --> 02:18:24.600 Did? 2632 02:18:24.639 --> 02:18:25.680 You have pretty good success? 2633 02:18:27.399 --> 02:18:30.200 Primarily peaches and we had a strawberry patch up there 2634 02:18:30.239 --> 02:18:34.239 at the same time. Yeah, in the strawberry patch, and then. 2635 02:18:35.760 --> 02:18:37.840 Go ahead the peaches. 2636 02:18:38.159 --> 02:18:41.200 Don't you rotate those trees like every fifteen or twenty years. 2637 02:18:41.239 --> 02:18:44.079 Don't they have a kind of a short life or 2638 02:18:44.159 --> 02:18:44.799 shorter life. 2639 02:18:48.239 --> 02:18:52.680 Peaches in the Southeast generally are going to be about 2640 02:18:52.719 --> 02:18:56.399 a twenty year plant. You'll have them that go longer. 2641 02:18:57.200 --> 02:18:59.440 I just remembered where it was is Rose Road and 2642 02:18:59.520 --> 02:19:02.639 County Life Road. That's where orchard was southwest? 2643 02:19:04.360 --> 02:19:06.440 Was it actually line. 2644 02:19:07.799 --> 02:19:09.319 M right off County Line? 2645 02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:13.840 I see, okay, because I are. 2646 02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:15.200 You remembering something or what's it? 2647 02:19:16.360 --> 02:19:18.399 No, I think I know where it is. I think 2648 02:19:18.440 --> 02:19:21.639 I've been by it. Yeah, and you're on County Line Road. 2649 02:19:21.719 --> 02:19:23.959 There's a place where it dips down with a creek 2650 02:19:24.040 --> 02:19:27.639 that when it rains hard out there, it floods, and uh, 2651 02:19:28.319 --> 02:19:29.719 there's some houses along there. 2652 02:19:29.760 --> 02:19:31.680 But I know where Rose Road is because there's stop 2653 02:19:31.760 --> 02:19:36.000 signed there. I believe in a little station corner. 2654 02:19:36.840 --> 02:19:40.079 Yeah. Oh gosh, I'm trying to remember the name of 2655 02:19:40.079 --> 02:19:42.440 the creek. Creek was on our property. So it's not 2656 02:19:42.680 --> 02:19:45.559 at Rosen County Line. It's toward Willis a little bit. 2657 02:19:45.680 --> 02:19:49.959 And this is not very exciting radio for everybody else listening. Anyway, 2658 02:19:50.840 --> 02:19:52.760 that's where it was. Where it was. 2659 02:19:52.959 --> 02:19:55.879 To find out that something grows as well as pine 2660 02:19:55.920 --> 02:19:58.639 tree is out there, it's pretty exciting because there's a 2661 02:19:58.719 --> 02:20:01.440 lot of pine trees a year. But I think all 2662 02:20:01.559 --> 02:20:04.399 that was owned by the paper companies or something something 2663 02:20:04.520 --> 02:20:08.319 like that, and they they they're rotated crops of pine trees, 2664 02:20:08.360 --> 02:20:09.280 which take a while. 2665 02:20:10.680 --> 02:20:14.760 Yeah, that's it. Well anyway, all right, Hey, thanks. 2666 02:20:14.719 --> 02:20:16.879 Thanks for the talk. About something exciting. Thank you. 2667 02:20:17.959 --> 02:20:22.079 There you go, there you go. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah 2668 02:20:22.159 --> 02:20:23.840 that was boy, that's a long time ago. I tell 2669 02:20:23.840 --> 02:20:26.360 you one thing. Uh, it's one thing to go to 2670 02:20:26.520 --> 02:20:29.319 college and get a horticulture degree and learn all about 2671 02:20:29.319 --> 02:20:31.879 the science of gardening. It's another thing to get out 2672 02:20:31.879 --> 02:20:35.239 there and grow something yourself. And uh, I find that 2673 02:20:35.639 --> 02:20:39.280 you are a much better gardener and gardening advisor when 2674 02:20:39.319 --> 02:20:42.879 you've actually done something instead of just reading about it 2675 02:20:42.959 --> 02:20:45.239 in a book. And that is that is definitely the 2676 02:20:45.319 --> 02:20:47.600 case here. Boy, that was. That was a That was 2677 02:20:47.600 --> 02:20:49.440 a fun time and a hard time at the same time. 2678 02:20:49.639 --> 02:20:51.399 It's a lot of work to put in an orchard 2679 02:20:51.440 --> 02:20:54.680 and take care of an orchard. Well, let's see here, 2680 02:20:54.719 --> 02:20:56.760 we're so close to the end of the show that 2681 02:20:56.799 --> 02:20:58.680 I'm not going to even give the phone number out again. 2682 02:20:59.360 --> 02:21:04.680 I was talking yesterday to Rich he's a Wildbird's store 2683 02:21:04.719 --> 02:21:07.479 owner over in the Memorial area, and we were talking 2684 02:21:07.479 --> 02:21:10.360 about different kinds of things Wildbirds and their new deal 2685 02:21:10.600 --> 02:21:17.360 right now, he's over in the Memorial driver the cardinal 2686 02:21:18.680 --> 02:21:21.879 product that they've come out with, it's called Cardinal Confetti. 2687 02:21:22.000 --> 02:21:24.600 It's a blend. Now there's also a Cardinal tube feeder 2688 02:21:24.639 --> 02:21:27.280 and a cardinal. It's called Good Evening Cardinal Feeder. That's 2689 02:21:27.319 --> 02:21:30.680 part of the Cardinal Confetti collection. But this Cardinal Confetti 2690 02:21:30.959 --> 02:21:34.879 is an amazing mix of stuff that most of which 2691 02:21:35.040 --> 02:21:38.719 I would eat, like sapphire, black house, sun black oil, sunflower, 2692 02:21:38.760 --> 02:21:44.000 sunflower chips, nutrisaf, bark butter, pecan have striped sunflower, and 2693 02:21:44.719 --> 02:21:47.200 dried meal worms. I haven't quite made it to eating 2694 02:21:47.280 --> 02:21:49.120 dried wheal worms, but the rest of it makes my 2695 02:21:49.239 --> 02:21:51.680 mouth water, I tell you this. It all makes a 2696 02:21:51.760 --> 02:21:54.440 cardinal and many other types of bird's mouth water too. 2697 02:21:54.879 --> 02:21:56.399 And you can get it. It's a new products, not 2698 02:21:56.600 --> 02:21:58.879 just a spring product, a winter product. They're gonna have 2699 02:21:58.920 --> 02:22:01.719 it all year. They're as unlimited. It's brandy. You got 2700 02:22:01.799 --> 02:22:03.719 to check it out. It is cool and cardinals are 2701 02:22:03.760 --> 02:22:06.239 so cool, you know, they're so beautiful, the birds, and 2702 02:22:06.559 --> 02:22:11.079 there's such a lore behind cardinals. It is really really interesting. 2703 02:22:11.399 --> 02:22:13.440 So gets you some of the Cardinal confetti. Grab those 2704 02:22:13.479 --> 02:22:17.319 feeders while you're out there, make sure and get you 2705 02:22:17.440 --> 02:22:20.600 some bark butter. That's a product created by Jim Carpenter, 2706 02:22:20.639 --> 02:22:24.440 who's the founder of Walberds. Bark butter is something you 2707 02:22:24.840 --> 02:22:27.239 literally like peanut butter. You would just smear it on 2708 02:22:27.360 --> 02:22:30.319 a tree trunk and birds come and just they go crazy. 2709 02:22:30.520 --> 02:22:33.280 They have documented over one hundred and fifty species of 2710 02:22:33.319 --> 02:22:37.760 birds coming to Jim's birdaceous bark butter. Bark butter is 2711 02:22:37.760 --> 02:22:40.799 easier to say. They have bark butter bits, little bite 2712 02:22:40.840 --> 02:22:43.520 sized nuggets. They've got bugs and bits Yep, they got 2713 02:22:43.639 --> 02:22:46.040 meal worms in the bark butter. You can buy those. 2714 02:22:46.840 --> 02:22:50.319 It's super high in calcium, helps egg development and bone growth. 2715 02:22:50.440 --> 02:22:52.799 And listen to your birds are going to be nesting 2716 02:22:52.959 --> 02:22:55.879 and raising young soon. And a high quality food like 2717 02:22:55.959 --> 02:22:59.000 bark butter very good one to have on hand. Plus 2718 02:22:59.079 --> 02:23:00.520 is kind of cool. You can smear it wherever you want. 2719 02:23:00.559 --> 02:23:02.000 You have to put a feeder out if you don't 2720 02:23:02.040 --> 02:23:07.959 want to. All right, there's the music. I kind of 2721 02:23:08.000 --> 02:23:09.559 get sad at the end of every show in the 2722 02:23:09.639 --> 02:23:12.280 music place because that means we're done. I'm gonna talk 2723 02:23:12.280 --> 02:23:17.200 about gardening anymore. Thanks for listening, appreciate that. I want 2724 02:23:17.239 --> 02:23:20.360 to remind you that if you go to my website 2725 02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:24.399 gardeningwiskip dot com, that's where you're gonna find my lawn 2726 02:23:24.479 --> 02:23:28.440 pestiseaes and weed management schedule, my lawn care schedule also 2727 02:23:28.639 --> 02:23:31.879 is on there. The information on protecting plants from cross 2728 02:23:31.920 --> 02:23:34.520 and freezes, how to control nutsedge, how to take a 2729 02:23:34.680 --> 02:23:37.360 soil sample, and on and on and on. We just 2730 02:23:37.479 --> 02:23:40.639 keep posting more to it. It's there. It's free to 2731 02:23:40.760 --> 02:23:44.479 look out online or a download. Have a wonderful weed 2732 02:23:44.639 --> 02:23:47.040 pout in the garden and we'll talk to you next Saturday.