WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:05.000 Welcome to Kati r H Garden Line with skip rictor. 2 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:12.240 Essy gas can trim. 3 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.720 You just watch him as well, go. 4 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:25.519 Gasso many both things to seep back passes a gasp 5 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:32.479 and again you dass backing. They're not a salmon glasses 6 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:40.759 a gas. The sun beamon of teases the gas. 7 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.679 Starting out treating. 8 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:53.520 Well, good morning, good morning, and welcome to garden Line. 9 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.240 We are glad to have you with us this morning, 10 00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:59.039 and we're here to talk about gardening. What do you 11 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.320 want to talk about. We've got a four hours ahead 12 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.760 of us. We can pretty much cover anything that is 13 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:06.799 of interest to you, and we're going to Here's how 14 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:09.079 you do it, you doll seven one three two one 15 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:14.000 two KTRH and we talk and hopefully give you some ideas, 16 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.439 some inspiration, solve a few gardening types of problems that 17 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:20.359 you might have. That's the way it works here on 18 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:22.879 garden Line. I'm going to start off with a few 19 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.079 thoughts that I've been pondering here these last couple of 20 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.599 days regarding common questions that I get when people give 21 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.519 me a call on garden Line. Anytime someone. 22 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:35.120 You know. 23 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.959 For forty years, forty years I worked with the Agrolife 24 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:44.079 Extension Office as a County Extension agent, And for those 25 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:48.879 of you who aren't familiar, County Extension is a program 26 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.719 through Texas and University. Actually it's in all of the states. 27 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:58.959 Each state has a lang Grant College, LSU, Oklahoma State, Cornell, 28 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.000 those are all Lange Grant colleges. Each state has one, 29 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.200 and the Extension service reaches out and takes the university 30 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:07.239 to the people. That's kind of how they put it. Well, 31 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.520 it's horticultures to My job was to bring research based 32 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.199 information to folks, and so through emails or questions, through programs, 33 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.719 all kinds of ways people would ask gardening questions, kind 34 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:21.719 of like here on guarden Line. And so over the years, 35 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.479 I think I've heard just about all the questions that 36 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.159 are out there. We have a lot of different things 37 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.759 to wonder about when it comes to, you know, success 38 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.879 with gardening, and so having heard all those questions over 39 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.080 the years, I'm kind of familiar with the kind of 40 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:39.319 things that people tend to wonder about and ask about. 41 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:47.280 And I basically there's more question possibilities and you can 42 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.080 imagine when you think about horticulture and gardening, covering everything 43 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.199 from your lawn to the house plants in your house, 44 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.319 to what's a good kind of orchid? To why does 45 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:01.360 my plum tree not bear fruit? See how do you 46 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.280 properly prune a crape myrtle? To what's a good tree 47 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.919 to provide shade on the west side of the house. 48 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.439 It just goes on and on. What's the best to 49 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.639 mate at a plant? You know? Why do my radishes 50 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:19.199 not produce bulbs just tops and all our roots? It's 51 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:23.400 that kind of thing. Lots of different kinds of questions. 52 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:25.319 So what I would like to start off with this 53 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:31.479 morning is pruning mistakes that I see people make, questions 54 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:34.759 that I get about pruning and things along those lines, 55 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.719 And I'm going to talk about nine pruning mistakes that 56 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:43.719 I see people make that you certainly can avoid. It 57 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.400 is pruning season. Mid to late winter is probably the 58 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.400 prime time to do pruning, but we can do pruning. 59 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:51.919 You know, right now is a great time to get 60 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:56.439 it done. And when you make pruning cuts on a tree, 61 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:03.599 pruning is a invigorous process. And so one of the 62 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:07.120 things we want to keep in mind is whenever we're 63 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:10.520 doing printing, the tree is going to respond with growth 64 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.280 in that area and depending on the kind of cuts 65 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:16.040 we make, the growth will either be desirable types of 66 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.519 growth or it may be undesirable types of growth. Pruning 67 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:23.680 is something that starts when you put the plant in 68 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.480 the ground, the tree in the ground, and we call 69 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:29.800 it training. During that time, you know, the first I 70 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.160 don't know, five to ten years, you're doing training on 71 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:36.920 the tree, especially the first five years, and then after 72 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.399 that there is more of a maintenance printing that we 73 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:43.399 do to keep things in order. But just like a 74 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.439 lot of things in life, the sooner you get on 75 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.600 something and get it going in the right direction, the 76 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:54.319 better off things are. If you ignore training during the 77 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.240 first two or three or four years, you're going to 78 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.000 have a problem tree or plant. You're going to have 79 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:05.279 to do more serious pruning to get back in bounds. 80 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.160 I like to tell people that to pull out a 81 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:13.399 saw is an admission of guilt. Here's what I mean 82 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.360 by that. If you were to take a tree and 83 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:18.720 you have your ham pruners and your loppers, and from 84 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.639 the time you plant it print it correctly day by 85 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:25.600 day by day, the need for a saw goes down 86 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:30.279 to very very little, very very little, because you're making 87 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.600 these decisions and cuts early in that tree's life, and 88 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.639 it's small wounds that you make with ham pruners and loppers. 89 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:40.600 But when you don't do the things you should do. 90 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.879 Now you're looking at a branch that you know, maybe 91 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:47.279 you know the size of I don't know, your arm 92 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.879 or a leg or something else, and you're basically pulling 93 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.519 out the saw to make those cuts. Nay, you got 94 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.439 a big wound that has to heal over there's the 95 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.920 exposed inner wood where the cake can get in and 96 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.399 on and on down the line. So if you think 97 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.160 about it that way, it is not one hundred percent 98 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.639 true to say I saw pulling out a saw's admission 99 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:08.920 to guilt. But it's a true, true concept that I 100 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.079 think it's worth thinking about before you go out to prune. 101 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:16.199 Get some education on the best way to prune the 102 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.519 kind of plant that you're pruning. Don't look at what 103 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:22.879 other people do. And primary point number one is crepe myrtles. 104 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:28.839 The way crape myrtles get pruned is ninety five percent wrong. 105 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.600 Around the Greater Houston area, a lot of it happens 106 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.040 with landscape crews, and you know, you got guys that 107 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.079 mowlawns and do all the summer cares of carrying of 108 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.439 landscapes and stuff, and here comes winter time. Is not 109 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:43.360 much of that to do. 110 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:44.639 So what do you do. 111 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.120 You hand them a saw and you say, cut off 112 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.079 everything about as high as you can reach with those 113 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.759 are lappers. Cut off everything that you can reach with 114 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.560 those lappers, you know. And so there we get these 115 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:59.240 these topped off crape myrtles that then put out crows 116 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:03.279 feed type of growth that are just not They're not 117 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.800 structurally strong, they're unsightful. That ruins the beautiful structure of 118 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.600 a crape myrtle, And so everybody else thinks that's how 119 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.000 you prun. That's also, by the way, how we get 120 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:15.639 landscape volcanoes. Those mounds of malts, you know what I'm 121 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.560 talking about, giant mounds of malts that are piled up 122 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.720 against the base of a tree. There is horticulturally botanically 123 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.360 in nature. There is no reason for that. That is 124 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.199 not done. We shouldn't do that, but that's how things are. 125 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.279 We did it because somebody else did it. So mature ornamentals, 126 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:36.439 when they're established, need very little printing if they were 127 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:39.600 prinned well through their life. You remove broken limbs, if 128 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:41.879 you've got a disease limb, If you've got some rubbing 129 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.600 limbs and things, you can do that. But in general, 130 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:47.680 our goal is to get the printing done earlier in 131 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:52.439 the tree's life and create the strongest, most beautiful structure 132 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.399 that you can. All Right, that kind of sets us 133 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:59.040 up for these nine printing mistakes we're going to avoid. 134 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.040 I'm going to be going through them through the course 135 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.560 of the show this day, and in the meantime you 136 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.439 can give us a call at seven one three two 137 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.639 one two k t r H and we'll talk about 138 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:10.519 your questions. I'm gonna take a little break here and 139 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.519 i'll be right back with the pruning mistake number one. Well, 140 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:18.839 good morning, welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good to 141 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.600 have you with us today. We are going through nine 142 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.240 pruning mistakes to avoid. Now I suspect there's probably more 143 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.240 than nine, but well, we're just going to pick on 144 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:31.360 nine today, things that I see often made and that 145 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:35.120 we can definitely definitely avoid. So here we go. Pruning 146 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.759 mistake numero number one, not necessarily the biggest one, just 147 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:44.919 the one we're starting with dull, poorly adjusted tools. If 148 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.639 you want to make a really clean cut and you 149 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:51.480 want to make a cut that, let's say, causes less 150 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.840 wear and tear on your joints, your hands, your elbows, 151 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.960 your shoulders, spinning on whether using hand punters or loppers 152 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.679 or whatever. A nice sharp pair of prunters is important. 153 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.639 That is very important. That kind of cut will heal 154 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:11.200 the fastest. Poorly adjusted pruners that are the blade doesn't 155 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.799 like scissor slide right past the other side of the 156 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:21.480 pruners nice and smooth and tight. It ends up stripping 157 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:24.320 away wood. And when you strip away wood, when you 158 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:29.360 make a cut, that causes the area that heals the 159 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:33.919 best to be sort of torn through and it ends 160 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.519 up being a much lower healing wound where you run 161 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:38.639 into all kinds of problems. You want to sharpen your prunters, 162 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.639 keep them sharp. It's easier to make that cut. And 163 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:43.559 you know, if you're done quite a bit of pruning, 164 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:45.759 it does take a wear and tear on your hands. 165 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:48.039 It does take aware and tearing also in your elbows. 166 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.039 I used to have a peach orchard and we were 167 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.639 through that orchard all the time pruning and lopping, and 168 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.120 I'm telling you you'd be surprised your elbows and shoulders 169 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:59.360 get pretty tired on that. I'm a sort of biased 170 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.960 toward by pass type pruners as opposed to the anvil types. 171 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:06.440 So the bypass types again, that's the scissor types where 172 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.039 the two blades pass by right up against each other. 173 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.519 The anvil types is where a blade comes down on 174 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.080 a flat surface on the other side of the prunter. 175 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.960 It's almost like you're taking a hatchet and chopping down 176 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.080 on a wood block. That kind of pruning. Those kind 177 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:26.799 I find often are more difficult to do a good 178 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.639 job on pruning with. So keep them sharp, keep them adjusted, 179 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.279 and certainly you're going to do a better job. Number Two, 180 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:41.240 pruning plants that only bloom in the spring in the wintertime. 181 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.320 So here's what I'm saying. If you have a plant 182 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:47.799 that only blooms in the spring, you know, for those 183 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.720 of you who used to live further north, that would 184 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.799 be like Forsythia. Down here, we got the azaleas, a spyrieas, 185 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:59.480 a flowering quints what we call once blooming roses like 186 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:01.840 lady By that blooms in the spring, but it doesn't 187 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.440 bloom again all year until next spring. You don't want 188 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:06.559 to prune those in the winter. Because you're cutting away 189 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.159 the bloom buds that they have, and they've already set 190 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:13.559 their bloom buds. They do that in late summer and 191 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:18.279 fall for next year, and so pruning them now means 192 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.480 you're cutting away your bloom buds. So wait until after 193 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:25.679 they bloom and then prune them. Wait until after they 194 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:27.240 bloom and then prune them. 195 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:27.399 Now. 196 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.720 Someone may say, well, wait a minute, Like a peach 197 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:32.320 tree only blooms in the string spring, but we bloom 198 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:35.440 it and we prune it in the winter. Yes, on 199 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:39.200 fruit trees, we are not worried about cutting away some 200 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.039 of the bloom buds. We're most concerned about bringing light 201 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:44.360 in because there's going to be plenty of blooms all 202 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:46.159 over and we're going to have to thin it anyway. 203 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.840 So doing winter pruning for those is fine because we're 204 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:53.000 trying to have a select number of fruit that get 205 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:57.799 large and tasty. Whereas with the ornamental plant, our goal 206 00:11:57.879 --> 00:11:59.519 is just to have as many blooms as we can 207 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.879 over it. So if it only blooms in the spring 208 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:06.000 aside from fruit, if it only blooms in the spring 209 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.879 and not through the year, don't proNT it in the winter. 210 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:14.320 Wait until after it blooms. Let's see another one, shearing 211 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:22.320 or hedging plants that don't necessarily need to be shared 212 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:28.840 or hedged. I have seen a number of different kinds 213 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:32.399 of plants that are beautiful in a natural shape but 214 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:38.159 look ridiculous when they're hedged. One would be the sage 215 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:43.639 Soniso Texas sage silver leaf, usually a silver leafed kind 216 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:47.480 of plant that blooms the colored a barometer bush because 217 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:53.120 it blooms in conjunction with rainstorms that come through. That 218 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:56.679 one looks better in a natural form. If you hedge it, 219 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:59.559 it just doesn't look right. It just doesn't look right 220 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:05.039 at all. A glossy abelia another one that blooms in 221 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.080 a natural form and looks so much better that way 222 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.679 than when you hedge it. Now there are plants that 223 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.440 we hedge. We want to create a hedge a wall 224 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:17.360 of shrub. I understand that, But think about the plant 225 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.279 and how it looks the best, Especially things that have 226 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:23.399 arching branches that kind of arch over and weep down 227 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:26.200 to the sides, like a spurrea, for example, That would 228 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:31.159 look ridiculous hedge. So make that decision. There is a 229 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:37.240 there is a difference between a head a heading cut 230 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.360 and a thinning cut. And here's what I mean by that. 231 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:43.440 If you go out and you cut a branch off 232 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:47.399 and just lop it off, that's a heading cut. When 233 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.279 you're through prining, it looks like the top of a 234 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:52.559 broom handle. You just chopped it right off there. What 235 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:54.919 the plant does in response is it grows a bunch 236 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.200 of shoots up just below that cut. And you've seen 237 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.919 this before. This is what happens to craigles all the time. 238 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:04.279 Heading cuts. They just lop them off, and so here 239 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.799 comes this crows foot of growth. Like if you were 240 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.360 to hold your arm upward and take your fingers and 241 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.120 then just kind of spread them outward. That kind of 242 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.000 crows foot of growth going up and out in all directions. 243 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.000 That's what a heading cut does. If you're making a hedge, 244 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.600 you want that because where there was one shoot, now 245 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:23.919 you got several shoots, and then you hedge those. And 246 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:25.720 where you had several shoots, now you have a whole 247 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.639 bunch of shoots and you create a nice wall of foliage. 248 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:31.480 That's for hedges, But when you want to make a 249 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.799 natural form, you use something called a thinning cut. A 250 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:37.879 thinning cut, I'm going to keep using the hand as 251 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.639 The analogy here is if you hold your hand up 252 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.000 and your fingers are together, but your thumb is going 253 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.559 out to the side, and you wanted to remove your 254 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:50.679 hand with the part of the fingers, you cut it 255 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.200 right above where your thumb attaches, and what would be 256 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.759 left is your arm coming up and then your thumb 257 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.200 going out. Think of it like a highway with an 258 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:04.240 exit ramp. If you put a block, a blockade, a 259 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:08.759 barrier on the highway just past the exit ramp, all 260 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:12.159 the traffic coming down the highway would have to exit 261 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.360 that exit ramp. That's a thinning cut. And that's how 262 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.840 a thinning cut works. You don't get as much stimulation 263 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.919 of all this brushy new crowsfoot growth there unless the 264 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:27.000 sizes of the two are dramatically different. But you direct 265 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.480 the traffic outward. Now, when you use thinning cuts, let's 266 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:33.440 go back to that Texas stage that I was talking about. 267 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:35.879 When you use thinning cuts, you may have a couple 268 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:38.159 of wild hairs. This is what happened on Azelia too. 269 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:41.120 By the way, you get this gangly shoot, this wild 270 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.039 hair coming out, it's like I want to get rid 271 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.639 of that. Follow it down to where it joined where 272 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.320 it has a side shoot and cut it off right there. 273 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.159 And when you do thinning cuts and you finish pruning, 274 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:55.120 you step back and you look at the plant, and 275 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.720 had you not known that it was just prune, someone 276 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:01.000 walking up to it wouldn't hardly notice that had been pruned. 277 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:04.399 It would still have that natural form to it. By 278 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.159 thinning cuts, And that is important. That's what we should 279 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:08.960 be doing. If we have to prune a great myrtle, 280 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.159 that's what we should be doing for that. All right, 281 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.080 that's certainly true with fruit trees and bushes. Heading cuts 282 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:21.159 are almost never a good idea. We do thinning cuts 283 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.480 on our peaches and apples and pears and fruit in general. 284 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:28.320 All right. Number four, where are we on time? I 285 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:31.720 got to watch my time here. Number four is letting 286 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:38.200 hedges get top heavy. This happens all the time. Hedges 287 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:43.120 tend to grow outward at the top. So instead of 288 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:48.879 that you know, straight walled hedge that you're making, what 289 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.919 it ends up doing is becoming a capital V. The 290 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.960 top gets wider and wider, and when that happens, the 291 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.039 light can't reach down into the lower sections of the hedge, 292 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.200 so that hedge that you put up to block a 293 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:08.079 view to create a landscape. Wall suddenly becomes see through 294 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.240 and your neighbor who likes to uh somebaye than his speedo's. 295 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.599 Now unfortunately we have that unsightly view well because we've 296 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.799 lost the foliage in the hedge. So what you want 297 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.519 to do is keep the tops of hedges, at least 298 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:27.240 the walls vertical. But it's better to go a little 299 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:31.119 narrower at the top. So I'll use I use the 300 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:35.079 letter capital V as what happens as it goes wrong. 301 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.200 Now i'll just say capital A. But of course you're 302 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:40.480 not going to make it, you know, like a Christmas 303 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:43.279 tree shape. But you want the top being a little 304 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:46.480 more narrow. That's what we're aiming for, and that way 305 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:48.799 light shines on the top. The top's always going to 306 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:50.599 be fine, and the top's always going to be where 307 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:54.240 moot growth occurs. But all the lower parts of the 308 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:57.079 hedge now get light and they maintain foliage, and you 309 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.400 have the nice wall that you were looking for. And 310 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.240 when I use the term capital A, I don't mean 311 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:05.079 that slanted narrow at the top, but just a little 312 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:08.680 more narrow at the top. That is one of the 313 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:11.920 most common mistakes I make. I see it everywhere, and 314 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:15.119 plants are going to fight you on this. They you know, 315 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.240 you cut narrower at the top, and you come back 316 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.759 when it's time to prune again, and the bottom hadn't 317 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:23.400 grown out much at all, and the top is just 318 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:26.720 pushing out, and so people keep letting it do that, 319 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:28.680 and it just gets worse and worse and worse. This 320 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:32.680 happens to boxwoods, this happens to yo pine hedges, happens 321 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.319 to a lot of different things. You got to keep 322 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:38.680 those hedges more narrow at the top. And remember, pruning 323 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.640 is a stimulating process, so when you cut, it stimulates 324 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:46.839 new growth to occur, and you're guiding and controlling how 325 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:50.240 that growth occurs, so that whatever kind of plants you're pruning, 326 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:53.079 all we've talked about a bunch of different kinds of plants, 327 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:55.599 whatever kind of plant your punting, you achieve the goal 328 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.680 that you're trying to achieve by doing that kind of 329 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:03.839 pruning to it. We are about here, time for another 330 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.400 quick break. I will be back in just a moment. 331 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:10.200 We're going to give you continue on with our nine 332 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:15.559 common pruning mistakes. As we get to pruning mistake number five, 333 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:19.039 I want to remind you that my website, Gardening with 334 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:24.839 Skip dot com contains a new publication on growing transplants, 335 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:27.880 the lighting that you need to grow transplants. I'll be 336 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:31.079 adding to it one about how to grow transplants. This 337 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:34.000 one is just about the lighting. We'll be right back 338 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.920 all right, folks, welcome back to Guardline. We're going to 339 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:44.039 jump right back into our list of nine common pruning 340 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:47.519 mistakes the people make, and we are hopping back in 341 00:19:47.559 --> 00:19:54.480 here at number five. Number five is leaving stubs. What 342 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:56.279 is a stub? A stub is when you cut a 343 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:01.640 branch off, and when you don't cut it off at 344 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.279 the proper spot, pretty close to where it joins the 345 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.559 trunk or another branch, and so you leave this little 346 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:11.319 stub maybe an inch long, two inches long, sometimes longer. 347 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.799 But those stubs tend to die back. They don't heal over, 348 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:17.400 and now you've got this dead little piece of wood 349 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:20.759 that prevents the branch from being able to close that 350 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:23.960 wound over. I use the term I used the term heal. 351 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:27.440 Trees don't heal, They close over the wound, that's what happens. 352 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.720 But the stub is in the way and it will 353 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.400 not close over right, and now decayb comes gets in 354 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.160 that branch and it then enters the interior of the tree. 355 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:39.640 And so now eventually you end up with a hollow 356 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:43.519 trunk tree if it goes that far. But don't leave stubs. 357 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.079 You don't want it'll just die and be a place 358 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:50.920 for problems. There are proper ways to prune where you 359 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:55.720 don't leave shrubs are stubs. There's inproper ways to prune, 360 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:01.279 and so let's just talk about that. In fact, this 361 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:04.799 is sort of a it's number five is leaving stubs. 362 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:06.440 We're going to make it a little longer than just 363 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:10.319 leaving stubs and stretch into a little bit the proper 364 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:13.920 way to make that cut when a branch comes into 365 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:16.440 a tree. And by the way, I posted something to 366 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:19.839 the garden line facebook page, a little video clip where 367 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:23.000 I marked on a plant and then showed you exactly 368 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:24.720 with the marks on the planet where to print. And 369 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:26.720 we're not to print. You don't want to leave a stub, 370 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:28.400 But on the other hand, you don't want to flush 371 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:33.000 cut right up against the trunk. So if you were 372 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:37.480 to look at a cross section of a branch, it's 373 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:41.279 a certain size. Whatever size the branch is going toward 374 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:43.160 the trunk, and all of a sudden, when it gets 375 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.400 to the trunk, it flares out where it attaches to 376 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:50.559 the trunk. So once it starts to flare, the further 377 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:53.279 the closer to the trunk you prune, the bigger that 378 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.200 wound is getting. So what might let's say it's a 379 00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:59.920 small branch what might have been like an inch size wound, 380 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:03.240 Then as you go closer, may end up becoming a 381 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:05.839 two and a half inch size wound. And that's a 382 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:08.240 lot larger wound, And of course on bigger plants it's 383 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:12.759 even more exaggerated. That larger wound is going to have 384 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:16.839 to go further closing over, and we wanted to close fast, 385 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.079 So that's not good. Also, where a branch attaches to 386 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:22.720 the trunk on many types of trees, there is called 387 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.759 a branch collar, and the tissues in that branch collar 388 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:31.920 are the best for healing or for closing over the 389 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:36.839 wound callousen closing over that wound quickly. So when you 390 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:40.079 cut too close to the trunk, you remove the branch collar. 391 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:42.680 So not only do you have a bigger wound, but 392 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:46.440 it's going to now heal slower or close over slower. 393 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:50.680 In the meantime, So the goal is to follow that. 394 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:54.079 In general, every species grows differently. You know, pines are 395 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:57.799 different than maples, and maples are different than oaks and 396 00:22:58.920 --> 00:23:02.599 the way they attach things. But follow the branch toward 397 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:05.680 the trunk and right where it begins to fly out. 398 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.480 That's about where you make the cut. Now, I know 399 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:11.160 that's you know, go online look it up. You can 400 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:13.720 kind of see there's some good information online on where 401 00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:16.000 to make that cut. But in general, just a quick 402 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:18.119 way is just follow it down and where it's where 403 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:21.759 the branch diameter starts to get bigger as it attaches. 404 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:24.319 Right about there is where you make that cut that 405 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:27.599 leaves the branch collar on. It still is a very 406 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:31.039 small wound and it's going to close over much much faster. 407 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:35.839 So don't leave stubs, don't flush cut, leave the leave 408 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:38.000 the branch collar. Make that cut at the right place. 409 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:46.599 That is important. Number six is waiting too long to 410 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:50.599 decide which of two vigorous upright shoots to leave is 411 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:52.359 the main trunk. Have you ever had a little tree 412 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:55.440 and it sort of has two trunks or two branches 413 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:57.720 coming up, and it's like either of those could be 414 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:01.160 the main trunk and they are in competition, and it 415 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.640 is a competition on the plant between those And if 416 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:08.039 you think that it's hard to decide which one to 417 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:10.079 take off, that's why people leave them. It's like I 418 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.000 don't know which one to leave. I'll come back think 419 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:16.079 about it later. Well, it'll be harder later when you 420 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.599 make that decision. And if you keep leaving it and 421 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:21.440 you go a couple of years into the process, now 422 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:24.920 you've got When you make that cut, you're gonna have 423 00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:28.440 a lopsided tree because all the branches from one trunk 424 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.000 are going one direction and all the branches from the 425 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:33.279 other trunk are going the other direction. So when you 426 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:35.079 take one of those trunks out, now you have this 427 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:38.880 tree looks like it was split cut in half. What 428 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:41.680 you need to do is do it sooner. Always, always 429 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:42.480 do it sooner. 430 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:43.319 Even. 431 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.559 Let me put it this way, don't worry about picking 432 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:49.400 the right one. Pick one, Pick one that you think 433 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:52.079 is the right one, and you'll be fine. You'll be fine. 434 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:55.880 Just don't leave it. The longer you leave it, the 435 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:58.240 bigger the wound will be when you cut it, the 436 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:03.319 more malformed the tree will be after you remove the 437 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.359 one that needs to be removing and the kind of 438 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:10.079 wound you make, there's not a branch collar on that 439 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:13.000 kind of cut, and it's going to be very slow 440 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.799 to heal. Make that decision, and if you have to 441 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:19.880 use a saw to make the decision, you've waited too long. 442 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:23.519 But go ahead and saw it now, don't wait. I 443 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:27.160 hope I pressed that hard enough, because that is a 444 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:29.640 common mistake people may. Here's what happens if you don't 445 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:33.799 remove them. These two branches are growing close to each 446 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:38.119 other and in a narrow angle, a narrow V shaped 447 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:43.519 branch angle. As each branch gets bigger, it grows in diameter, 448 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:47.200 and at some point they start pressing together. And they're 449 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:50.480 continuing to grow in diameter. So it's like you know 450 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:52.480 two kids in the back seat that are sitting too 451 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:54.160 close together and they can keep their hands on it. 452 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:58.839 They pushing on each other and fighting. They're just pressing apart, 453 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:03.920 and that is pressing, causing a split pressure to form 454 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:06.039 there in the branch. Now, when you get a storm, 455 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:09.240 it's gonna split. And when it splits, you'll see all 456 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:13.640 this black rotting bark on the one that's left upright. 457 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:15.640 The other one split off and fell off to the 458 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:20.319 side that's that included bark that it can't heal across there, 459 00:26:20.359 --> 00:26:24.799 it cannot join across there. And so that's what happens 460 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:28.079 when you have competing narrow branch angles and you let 461 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:31.079 it go and go and go, and if you don't 462 00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:34.279 make the decision, a storm will make it for you later. 463 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.039 Think of it that way. I think that probably makes 464 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:41.279 some sense there, right, storm will make that decision for 465 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:46.200 you later. So that was number six. Waiting too long 466 00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:48.519 to do that. We're going to come back in a 467 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:54.039 while here with some other tips for these nine printing mistakes, 468 00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:58.319 starting with let's see number seven. But for right now, 469 00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:59.960 I just want to say, you're talking about printing. 470 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:00.799 Uh. 471 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:05.200 Martin spoon Moore at Affordable Tree, he is an expert 472 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:07.480 in knowing how to prunt and when to print and 473 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:11.160 when not to print. Martin can come out and he 474 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:13.680 can take a look at your trees and see what 475 00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:16.440 is and what is not needed. A lot of folks 476 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:19.119 come out and just because they're there, they're gonna cut something, 477 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:21.680 you know, I mean, they're gonna they're gonna do some 478 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:23.920 sort of butcher job. I drive down the streets all 479 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:28.559 the time and see people that a bad printing service 480 00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:31.440 if you will, has has done damage to the tree 481 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:33.799 that is not it's not going to recover from. You know, 482 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:36.359 they look like hat racks sometimes when they get through 483 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:38.039 with them. Martin didn't do that kind of work. He 484 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:41.519 does proper work. That's why he is very busy because 485 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.319 he does a good job and people have him come back. 486 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.400 You can get Martin to call at seven one three 487 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.240 six ninety nine twenty six sixty three. That's seven one 488 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:54.720 three six nine nine two six sixty three and have 489 00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:57.640 him come out and take a look at your plants 490 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:00.559 when you do that call, or your trees. When you 491 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:02.319 do that call, you're going to talk to Martin or Joe. 492 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.119 And uh. If you don't hear Martin or Joe, hang up, 493 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:07.279 you call the wrong place. Dallas seven to one three 494 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:12.480 six ninety nine two six six three. We are in 495 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.640 the Christmas season and it is time to find that 496 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.240 gift for that hard to buy for person on your list, 497 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:24.759 and I would suggest Warbirds Unlimited. Warbirds Unlimited has all 498 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:28.279 kinds of beautiful bird feeders and bird houses. They have 499 00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:30.680 birds seed, they have you know, maybe you just get 500 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:32.720 one of the little suit cakes with the little cage 501 00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:34.880 they go in and you put that out there on 502 00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:38.000 the tree. Maybe you need a hummingbird feeder. There are 503 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:41.680 a lot of cool, beautiful gifts that Wallbird's Unlimited. For 504 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.039 people that are really into birds. There is a book 505 00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:48.960 by the founder that is outstanding, all about bird. Just 506 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:51.240 going to Walbirds. I want the book about birds by 507 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:54.920 the founder of Warbirds and it is an awesome, awesome book. Now, 508 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:57.519 while you're in there for yourself, grab some of the 509 00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:01.279 Wallbirds Unlimited Winter super blows and it is the feed 510 00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.519 that is best to be feeding. Right now, I'm gonna 511 00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:06.799 take a little break and we'll be back with more 512 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.920 of the nine priunting mistakes. Welcome back to garden Line. 513 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:14.440 Thanks for joining us today. By the way, this is 514 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:16.240 a call in show. Don't you don't have to just 515 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:18.039 listen to me dron on here. You can give me 516 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:19.640 a call if you got a question. Seven to one 517 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:22.519 three two one two k t r H seven one 518 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.279 three two one two kt r H. We are going 519 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.200 through nine common pruning mistakes that I see people make, 520 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:32.640 taking them one at a time here as we go through. 521 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:33.200 Uh. 522 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:36.960 I wanted to mention something first though, and that is 523 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.880 if you are looking for a quality product to take 524 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.000 care of your soil, to prepare for planting, to uh 525 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.160 cover the surface of your soil, to make sure that 526 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.000 it is well malt so the weeds are kept down, 527 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:54.640 so that rain and erosion and temperature fluctuations and all 528 00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:57.400 the things that the weather can give us don't affect 529 00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:00.160 your plants. Well, do what nature does. Nature puts some 530 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.359 molts of organic material on the ground, and Landscaper's Pride 531 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:04.960 has got you covered on that. They've got a black 532 00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:10.039 velvet multch. It's naturally black, not dyed. It is a 533 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:14.039 really beautiful and as you put it down, it is 534 00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:17.599 bulky enough to cover properly and just make a nice 535 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:20.039 covering on the surface, and the plants thrive from it. 536 00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:23.279 Look at nature. Nature does not like bear soil. Nature 537 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:26.160 is either going to drop dead leaves on it like 538 00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:28.599 it does in the forest, or it's going to cover 539 00:30:28.640 --> 00:30:30.519 it with weeds, which we don't want it to do 540 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:32.759 in our flower beds and our gardens and things. Black 541 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:36.599 velvet molts does it. Cedar malts very. I love the 542 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:39.400 fragrance of fresh cedar mults going out and the color 543 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:43.680 of it too. Landscaper's Pride has that They also have 544 00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:45.599 a topsoil material. And I've talked to a lot of 545 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:47.920 people this year that have had problems with their lawn 546 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:50.839 areas dying out. They're talking about re sotting some things. 547 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.319 This is a good time go in there with their 548 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.039 top soil. It's a sandy loam mixed with some compost 549 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:58.759 fill in those low spots. Level it out. If you've 550 00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:01.839 got a garden bed your building up. You know, organic 551 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:05.119 matters that decomposes kind of shrinks back down again, and 552 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:08.200 that's why the pots on your patio that you put 553 00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:10.680 you filled two years ago now are about half full 554 00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:15.000 of soil because it's oxidized away. But this topsoil material, 555 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:17.759 with the sandy loam and compost, you've got a good 556 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:19.880 solid sandy loam in there. So it'd be good for 557 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.680 building up into a bed, for refreshing that bed, for 558 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:26.559 mixing into the soil, and also, like I said, for 559 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:31.039 repairing those areas. Landscapers Pride products are widely available in 560 00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:35.000 our area. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com and 561 00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:38.680 find out exactly where to buy them in your area. 562 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:43.519 But they are very widely available and they work. I 563 00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:46.880 was looking at some of the products and things that 564 00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:49.119 they have at Plants for all seasons, and you know 565 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:53.519 they always have whatever is well, look at the name 566 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:57.200 Plants for all seasons. They always have whatever you need 567 00:31:57.240 --> 00:31:59.160 for the season you're in. You know, right now you 568 00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:01.720 want winter color, they've got it. Blanch for all seasons. 569 00:32:01.880 --> 00:32:04.200 Maybe you want some bulbs for forcing or for planting 570 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:08.160 outdoors for spring, they've got it. Maybe you are looking 571 00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:10.720 for some decorations for the holiday, well, of course they 572 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:13.640 got that, plenty of it. They're seed drag a whole 573 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:16.119 wall full of seeds, and it is time to be 574 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:20.240 starting seeds. Remember my publication on lighting for growing plants 575 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:22.799 plant transplants is on the website. It's free. You can 576 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.640 go download it and take a look at it and 577 00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:28.000 grab you some seed plant for all seasons and go 578 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.680 after it. They also have other supplies that you need 579 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:33.880 for seed starting. You know, they've been around since nineteen 580 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:38.039 seventy three. They're located just north of Lueta on FM 581 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:43.359 two forty nine to forty nine. That is the Tomball Parkway, 582 00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:46.799 just north of Lueta. You can call them up at 583 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.359 two eight one, three seven six sixteen forty six or 584 00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:53.480 go to the website Plants for All seasons dot com. 585 00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:55.319 When you go in there, you're gonna get good advice, 586 00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.599 You're gonna get good plants, You're gonna get things that 587 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:01.599 want to grow here and help solving some of the 588 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:04.319 plant problems that may arise down the line with your 589 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.519 lawns and your gardens and trees and shrubs, plants for 590 00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:13.880 all seasons. They're experts at that, true lawn and garden experts. Well, 591 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:17.880 let's go back into our nine pruning mistakes that people 592 00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:20.640 tend to make, and we are going to go to 593 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:25.799 number seven, and that is not using what we call 594 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.599 the three cut method when we remove a large limb. 595 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:33.319 So I don't know if this has ever happened to you, 596 00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:35.640 but it happens a lot to people. People are going 597 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.200 to cut a large branch off and they try to 598 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:40.680 do it with one cut, and they go right to 599 00:33:40.680 --> 00:33:42.839 where you should cut, or wherever they make the cut. 600 00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:46.079 They start cutting down, and then the weight of that 601 00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:50.319 branch causes it to fall, and as it falls, it 602 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:53.079 strips the bark off the trunk or the branch that 603 00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:56.920 it's attached to. And now you've got this long strip 604 00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:59.880 where the bark's been removed that is going to heal 605 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.720 extremely slow because you've torn through the branch collar and 606 00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:07.920 torn down the side of the trunk, and it's a 607 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:11.079 bad wound that takes a very long time to close 608 00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:15.719 back over. Instead of doing that, you can use what's 609 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.480 called the three cut method. Okay, And here's what you do. 610 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.079 And there are lots of diagrams out there online if 611 00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:29.199 you just do three cut method pruning to just type 612 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:31.920 something like that into your search three cut method printing. 613 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:35.360 But basically here it is. Now you know from listening 614 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.599 to what I said earlier, that you want to prune 615 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.239 the branch off right outside the branch collar, almost to 616 00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:46.599 the trunk, but not quite. Okay, Now that's going to 617 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:49.440 be the last cut that you make. The first cut. 618 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:51.840 You go out from there, and it depends on the branch. 619 00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:53.480 And the branch may be as big as your wrist, 620 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:57.039 it may be as big as your leg, I mean, 621 00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.800 you know, So just go out maybe I would say, 622 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:04.360 probably about about a foot somewhere between six inches and 623 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:07.519 a foot out, probably more closer to a foot, and 624 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:11.440 prune upward from underneath the branch only a third of 625 00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:13.679 the way through. If you go too far, it's going 626 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.360 to sag down and pinch your saw and you're not 627 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:17.719 gonna be able to get your saw out of there. 628 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:21.239 So about a third of the way cut upward, then 629 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:27.119 go further out and from the top prune downward. When 630 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:29.239 I say further out, I mean like, oh, it could 631 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:33.000 be you know, four inches or six inches further out. 632 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:35.960 Prune down and what's going to happen? At some point 633 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.199 that branch is going to fall and break. But by 634 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:42.880 making that first cut you prevent it from stripping down. 635 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.679 It just snaps off there, and now you're left with 636 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:48.719 this big stub which you can hold to one hand 637 00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:51.679 and cut down in the final cut, which is right 638 00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:55.079 at the outside the branch collar. So one, two three. 639 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:58.480 If that didn't make sense, go online. There's plenty of pictures. 640 00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:02.440 But if this brand is too heavy for you to 641 00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:07.000 hold with one hand, don't overestimate your ability there. Uh, 642 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.480 then it needs to be removed with a three cut 643 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.840 method or you will be sorry. All right, Well, that 644 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:19.320 was seven of our nine printing mistakes people make. We're 645 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:23.039 gonna come back with number eight and nine here in 646 00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:25.599 just a moment. I appreciate you listening to the Garden 647 00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:27.320 Line our phone number if you'd like to get on 648 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:30.719 the line with with Jonathan seven one three two one 649 00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:32.639 two k t R SO and we'll talk to you 650 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:33.480 when we come back. 651 00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:40.039 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skin Rictor. 652 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:50.480 It's just watch as. 653 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:14.320 Hey. 654 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:17.039 Welcome back, Welcome back to the guard Line. We are 655 00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:19.280 glad to have you with us. 656 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:19.840 Uh. 657 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:23.960 If you uh had issues with the storms that we 658 00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:26.920 had this year that took out trees and knocked out 659 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.280 power and all of that, you you probably have been 660 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:32.480 thinking about, uh, maybe I ought to get a generator 661 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:34.519 for the house. And you know there's the kind you 662 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.000 have to put gas in and pull out, pull out 663 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:39.679 and fire up in order to get them to work. 664 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:43.880 And you know, they generally cover a small amount of 665 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.000 the different things that you would need power for in 666 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:48.719 the house. But then there's the whole house generators. 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They'll ask you questions 684 00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:50.079 and you know, figure out what kind of generator, what 685 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:51.800 size and all of that, how do you want to 686 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:53.519 what do you want it to be able to do? 687 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:57.559 And then they'll walk through every stage of the process 688 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:01.519 from getting the proper permits and regulations to getting it 689 00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:04.760 set up. And then of course, as I have already said, 690 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:09.079 uh service after the sale. That is the most important 691 00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:12.400 thing when you were making a purchase, and Quality Home 692 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:16.559 Products excels at that you were listening to Guardline, We're 693 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:19.840 gonna go out to the phones here. First thing right now, 694 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:25.280 and talk to Earl up in or out in Bay Cliff, Texas. Hey, Earl, 695 00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:32.239 welcome to garden Line. Early there. Yes, I am all right, 696 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:34.519 Welcome to garden Line. How can we help today. 697 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:40.599 I've got a problem with jungle rice in my Saint 698 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:45.000 Augustine Gres. I've had that problem three or four years ago. 699 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.239 I went to Moss Nursery and they gave me a 700 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.320 couple of products, but they said at that time there 701 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:52.519 was no cure for jungle rice. And I'm just check 702 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.519 it back two or three years later with you guys 703 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:58.599 to see if there is any cure for it now. 704 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:05.199 Well, the problem is when you try to kill a 705 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:08.239 grass in a grass, grass killers kill the lawn and 706 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:17.599 the grassy weed right right, And yeah, I think what 707 00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:19.400 I would do first is I would consider a pre 708 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:25.280 emergent a pre emergent, excuse me. The what what we 709 00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:28.039 have found is if you can just stop it from 710 00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:31.719 even coming up from seed, that is probably the easiest 711 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:36.199 way to be able to control it. And and once 712 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.719 it comes up, the next step would be to consider 713 00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:45.559 doing a wiper type application to the jungle rice. It 714 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.840 comes up vertically above your lawn, right, and so you 715 00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:52.639 can you can use a wiper to get the herbicide 716 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:57.559 on jungle rice that translocates down and kills it without 717 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:01.519 getting it on your lawn grass, So that that would 718 00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:06.519 be a wiper. A wiper is just a sponge or 719 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:10.360 a sponge or some some thing that soaks up the 720 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:13.800 herbicide and and then when you brush it against the planet, 721 00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.119 wipes it on there. If you go, if you go 722 00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:21.599 to my website Gardening with Skip dot com, there is 723 00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:26.400 a thing on there called Skips Herbicide weed wiper or 724 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:29.119 Skip's weed wiper, and it tells you how to build one. 725 00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:35.800 They're very simple and expensive to build. Yeah, it's just 726 00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:39.320 it works, and you know, it's a little tedious to 727 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.360 use on something that's all over the lawn, but the 728 00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:46.599 bottom line is it will work, and so I use 729 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:49.519 it on for a lot of different kinds of things 730 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:53.159 that we have to deal with, So that that would 731 00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:58.199 be Yeah, So that that is what I would try. 732 00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.679 Okay, I appreciate it enough, Thank you very much. 733 00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:11.440 Yeah, you bet, take care alrighty, you bet? Thanks? All right, 734 00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:15.159 there we go. Uh yeah, jungle riding. I first, I 735 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:18.320 first found jungle rice in Austin, Texas when I was 736 00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:21.679 a horticulturist over there and uh, you know, we looked 737 00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:23.679 at it and what is that? I mean? And it 738 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:26.480 was coming up like crazy and somebody's lawn. We don't 739 00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:29.519 see it everywhere, but it is across the country. And 740 00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:34.199 you know, there's even been uh uh glyfhasate resistant glaf 741 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:36.639 states the ingredient and round up. There's even been now 742 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:40.119 glyphasate resistant types of jungle rice popping up where people 743 00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:42.719 are just using glaphasate on it over and over again, 744 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.719 and you have one that sprouts and it's resistant, and 745 00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:49.480 the next thing you know, you've got a a lot 746 00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:52.199 of these weeds that a product that used to work 747 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:56.000 does not work anymore. That's true with insecticides, that's true 748 00:42:56.000 --> 00:43:01.639 with fungicides, that's true with the weeds as well. Another 749 00:43:01.679 --> 00:43:05.679 reason not to misuse products for sure. All right, Well, 750 00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:07.880 where were we we were in the process. I'm talking 751 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:11.800 about nine pruning mistakes. Nine pruning mistakes that I see 752 00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:15.719 made a lot and we are now on number eight 753 00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:20.159 and that is leaving too many branches on fruit trees. Now, 754 00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.119 I know you can overdo pruning, but many people just 755 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:27.559 hate to remove branches even that need to be removed, 756 00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:32.159 Unlike ornamental plants. The goal with your fruit trees is 757 00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.400 to produce a really nice yield, and so in order 758 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.360 to do that, you gotta do quite a bit of pruning. 759 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:41.719 You know, on grapes you may remove ninety percent of 760 00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:44.079 the growth that occurred that year and go back to 761 00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:47.119 just some little stubs with buds on them. If you 762 00:43:47.159 --> 00:43:51.440 look at how vineyards get pruned, even peach trees need 763 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.199 quite a bit of pruning. Now, your trees are going 764 00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:56.920 to produce many times more blooms than they need to 765 00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:59.679 set a full load of fruit, and you got to 766 00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:02.679 get light into the tree. As light moves down in 767 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:06.760 that fruit tree, it will cause bloom buds to set 768 00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.159 all the way down. If you don't let light. It's 769 00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:10.840 kind of like that shrub I was talking about before. 770 00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:13.480 If you don't let light in. Now you've got all 771 00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:15.159 your fruit up on the top of the branch and 772 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:17.679 a bunch of dead sticks down in the bottom. You 773 00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:20.639 open those up. We prune peaches and plums in a 774 00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:24.599 bowl type or chalice type shape to let light get 775 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:27.320 into the bottom. And you're picking peaches from your knees 776 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:28.920 all the way up as high as you can reach, 777 00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:31.280 rather than getting on a ladder to get to the verse. 778 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:34.199 Peaches that are on the tree, you got to remove those. 779 00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:36.119 You got to take out the water sprouts, the tall 780 00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:39.880 shoots that come from the interior of the tree, the 781 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:42.239 suckers that come from the base of the tree, you 782 00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:45.000 clean those out. You clean those out, and just follow 783 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:49.119 the instructions. If you look at a publication on Aggie Horticulture, 784 00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:51.559 Let's say you want to prune a peach. On Aggie 785 00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:56.320 Horticulture website, there's a fruit section and a particular publication 786 00:44:56.719 --> 00:44:59.800 just on all about grown peaches, including pruningum and that 787 00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:02.559 and guide you on that. But just know this, with 788 00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:06.000 fruit trees, we do quite a bit of pruning, more 789 00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:08.119 than most people think that they would want to do. 790 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:10.599 All right, it was time for me to take another break. 791 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:15.199 I'll be back with our final of the nine pruning mistakes. 792 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:19.760 All right, welcome back to garden line. Well, shoot tops, Hey, 793 00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:22.320 I'm going to continue talking about some pruning things. But 794 00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:24.079 if you would like to get us call, maybe you 795 00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:27.360 get a question. All you gotta do is doll seven 796 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:30.159 one three two one two k t R eight seven 797 00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:33.880 to one three two one two k t R eight. 798 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:38.920 Simple as that be Canni's Plants and the Heights. Boy there, 799 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:42.800 it's so festive there at the holiday season. The decorations 800 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:46.119 and things that they have, it's just fun. It's always 801 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:48.320 a fun place. They always have great events and stuff. 802 00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:52.119 Speaking of decorations and things, right now, you can get 803 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:56.960 thirty percent off all the wreaths and stems and garland 804 00:45:57.039 --> 00:46:00.039 and outdoor holiday decor that they have. You know, the 805 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:04.079 are the faux wreaths that just they look so real. 806 00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:06.559 They're gorgeous and if you haven't done all your holiday 807 00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:08.679 decorating yet, you got to get over there. I mean, 808 00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:12.719 they have a ton of really nice cool stuff. Really, 809 00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:16.239 I'm serious. It's the gift shop is unbelievable in there. 810 00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:22.000 I think those little nutcracker figurines or statues whatever you 811 00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:24.559 call them, are so cool and they have some of 812 00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:29.159 the most unique attractive ones that I've seen. They just 813 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.000 I have a spot on my fireplace mantle I need 814 00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:34.000 to put something like that, I think, right next to 815 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:36.920 the Christmas gnomes that are sitting up there hanging their 816 00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:39.840 feet off the side of the mantle. Buchanans can get 817 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:42.119 you fixed up on then. Of course, Buchanans is all 818 00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:44.599 about Native plants and all kinds of plants as a 819 00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:47.719 matter of fact. But there's some great natives for winter. 820 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:47.880 You know. 821 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:51.639 I was talking yesterday about planting a landscape to bring 822 00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:55.679 in for holiday decoration. I mentioned the yopon. Well, they 823 00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:57.599 have the Pride to Houston, which is one of the 824 00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:02.559 best cultivars of yopon. It up really really well, looks gorgeous. 825 00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:06.280 It's a nice plant, does well. I mentioned American Beauty Barrier. 826 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:08.360 They've got those there, but they have a lot of 827 00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:10.400 things there. You can get your coral honeysuckle there. The 828 00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:13.360 Gulf Coast mulely one of the best grasses for our area. 829 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.320 It does super well there. And even things like inland 830 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:21.360 sea oats that have sort of like a their seedhead 831 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:23.800 looks sort of like oats, and that's where it gets 832 00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:26.920 its name, but a lot bigger than oats seedheads. But 833 00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:32.159 it's a great groundcover, does good in shade. The plant 834 00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:37.360 seed heads are excellent for indoor decorating anyway. Just some examples. 835 00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:39.920 Buchanans plants. That's where you go. You ask the question, 836 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:41.920 they give you the answer, and you go home and 837 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:46.760 have a more beautiful garden landscape and indoors as a 838 00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:48.880 result of that. By the way, they're located on Eleventh 839 00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:52.719 Street in the heights here in the Greater Houston area 840 00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:58.199 or in Central Houston area. Let's see, I was on 841 00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:03.800 number was I number nine. The final pruning mistake that 842 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:07.239 I'm going to talk about right now is over pruning 843 00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:10.880 a plant. Now, some people get busy cutting and they 844 00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:13.880 don't know when to stop, and the end result is 845 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.920 some pretty bizarre landscape plants. It would seem more at 846 00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:22.800 home in a doctor Seuss book about that. I've seen 847 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:28.079 some printing jobs where it's like, Okay, I don't know 848 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.800 what to say about that. Only prune as much as 849 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.800 is needed to accomplish a gol of training. Really, maybe 850 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:37.199 you need to do some shaping, maybe you need to 851 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:40.440 correct some things. Then put down the printers and step 852 00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:43.119 away so no one gets hurt, including the plant that 853 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:48.440 you're pruning. That that is really true. Common examples of 854 00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:53.320 over pruning and miss pruning are prime example are lovely 855 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:57.360 southern crepe myrtles their hack backed every year. I'll advise 856 00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:01.840 practice that. That is a good example. People don't know 857 00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:04.119 when to stop. Do you know that you cannot prune 858 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:08.320 a great myrtle? Now? During its development and growth. I 859 00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:11.800 would recommend training. It don't go untrained, because then that 860 00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:14.480 makes a mess. It grows into a mess. But a 861 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:17.880 little training, but then after that you kind of don't 862 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:20.280 really prune them. I mean just a little bit here 863 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:23.199 and there when something's not quite right, but they don't 864 00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:25.559 have to be pruned every year like you see people doing. 865 00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:30.400 Another example is pollarding trees. If you're not familiar with 866 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:34.400 the pollarding, pollarding is where you take a nice tree 867 00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:37.159 and you cut it back to look like a hat rack. 868 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.880 You got these big giant branches that are just cut 869 00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:43.039 off on the end, and then you get that crows 870 00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.280 foot of growth that comes out, and then they hack 871 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:48.159 them back like that again. And this is done in Europe. 872 00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:50.679 You can go online to a search for pollarding p 873 00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:53.280 O L L A r D. It's done as an 874 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:58.360 ornamental practice actually, but it is horrible in terms of 875 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:02.840 branch structure, the the structural integrity of a tree, and 876 00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:05.760 I just think it looks ridiculous. So that's my opinion. 877 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:10.719 But seriously, you can do some serious self education on 878 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:14.239 puning before you head outside with the tools in hand. 879 00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.519 Your landscape plants, your orchard plants will be much more beautiful, 880 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:23.199 much more productive for years to come with just doing 881 00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:26.480 a little bit of education. There's good books out there 882 00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:30.360 on printing. There's good websites out there on printing, and 883 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:34.440 learn about the plant you're going to grow and how 884 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.199 to take care of that plant. And I you know, 885 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:39.920 I could take a whole show just talking about how 886 00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:42.400 to prine this, how to print that. There are some 887 00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:48.039 things like, okay, here's an example Nandina. Nandina sometimes called 888 00:50:48.079 --> 00:50:51.039 heavenly bamboo. The old type got really tall, over six 889 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:53.440 feet high, and had berries on it, and it had 890 00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:57.599 underground little suckers that came out, and it's sort of 891 00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:00.480 the clump got bigger and bigger. The modern types are 892 00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:04.719 more compact. They don't tend to spread as fast as 893 00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:08.400 the other. I see people prune Inndina like a shrub. 894 00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:12.039 They share it. It looks ridiculous. It does look ridiculous 895 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.000 if you cut it back then it just looks like 896 00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:17.280 you chop the top off of it. The way to 897 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:21.119 print an indena is to remove the entire shoot at 898 00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:24.000 the ground. Now in Indina, think of it. It's kind 899 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:26.039 of like bamboo and that you've got all these shoots 900 00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:28.800 coming out of the ground and growing straight up. You 901 00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:33.639 cut an old shoot that's not attractive, not productive, or 902 00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:36.400 maybe too tall for where you want it, cut it 903 00:51:36.440 --> 00:51:38.599 off at the ground, and new shoots will come up. 904 00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:41.199 So you could prone one fifth of the shoots out 905 00:51:41.239 --> 00:51:42.960 each year. You could go a couple of years and 906 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.320 do no printing and then come in and do something. 907 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:47.480 But the way to print inn Adena is just to 908 00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:50.400 cut the whole trunk, whole trunk shoot down off at 909 00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:53.000 the ground and pull it out of there. And that's 910 00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:55.840 real simple. But that's very unique to prune. I bet 911 00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:59.760 we prune bamboo that way too, by the way, But anyway, 912 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.119 learn not each plant needs to be pruned, and then 913 00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:08.159 go out and do the pruning. Once you have done 914 00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:12.320 the work of pruning, you can't put things back. And 915 00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:16.639 this happens a lot on trees, but bad pruning practices 916 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:21.079 or forever that when you truly ruin the structural integrity 917 00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:24.679 of a tree like that pollarding kind of thing, you're 918 00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:27.880 never going to get back to a nice, beautiful, well shaped, strong, 919 00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:32.920 good branch attachment tree. It's just not going to happen again. Well, 920 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.039 I'm talking about pruning some things. We can also be 921 00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:41.400 pruning some of our groundcovers. And now what I mean 922 00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:43.960 by that, well, at the end of winter, before the 923 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:49.400 new growth occurs, I recommend with loriope and with cast 924 00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.519 iron plant, for example, that you cut those back to 925 00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:55.719 near the ground. Over the course of a summer season. 926 00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:59.239 With some leaf diseases, maybe spider mites in the case 927 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:02.920 of the loriiopy, and just the rag and tag of 928 00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:05.599 summer droughts and heat, they get to looking kind of 929 00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.119 shaggy and not so good. And if you cut it 930 00:53:08.159 --> 00:53:11.079 all back to the ground in early spring, it's gonna 931 00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:13.880 start popping up new growth out of that clump. And 932 00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:15.880 either you're gonna have a mix of old growth and 933 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:18.639 new growth, or if you cut off all the old growth, 934 00:53:18.760 --> 00:53:22.400 now you have a fresh new lariope plant or plants 935 00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:26.159 or solid groundcover. Some people do and it looks good. 936 00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:30.239 Cast iron plants the same way. That is a tough plant. 937 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.599 It can take shade, it can take sun, it can 938 00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:37.960 take drought. It is just a tough plant. But it 939 00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:41.599 starts looking ragged and each leaf is a big petiole 940 00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:43.599 coming out of the ground with a big fat leaf 941 00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:45.519 on the top. And you can just get on your 942 00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:47.440 hands and knees down there and cut all those off. 943 00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:50.039 I know some people that will cut the whole thing 944 00:53:50.079 --> 00:53:51.840 off and just rake it all out of there, so 945 00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:53.599 it's like they mot it off at the ground like 946 00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:57.199 your lawn, and then the fresh growth comes out. I 947 00:53:57.239 --> 00:53:59.000 know some people that just go in and cut the 948 00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:02.719 ugliest ones out and keep it fresh looking. It will 949 00:54:02.760 --> 00:54:05.440 come back and it will look good, and that is pruning. 950 00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:08.559 For those kind of groundcovers. Some people will mow things 951 00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:12.199 like an English ivy back or some other types of groundcovers. 952 00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:15.119 Mow it back to get fresh new growth coming out. 953 00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:18.800 And the other item that I want to mention in 954 00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:25.400 along the same lines, or ornamental grasses. Ornamental grasses are 955 00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:29.639 pruned back to just a kind of a stump. So 956 00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:33.079 perhaps you have what's called maiden grass or one of 957 00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:36.840 the mules. You can cut it back to just I 958 00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:40.239 don't know, maybe four inches six inches depending on the 959 00:54:40.800 --> 00:54:43.880 size of the plant high above the ground. Take all 960 00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:47.199 that growth out and fresh new growth comes out. Otherwise 961 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:50.920 you got the mix and it doesn't look good. If 962 00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:53.599 you're going to do that, there's some techniques that work 963 00:54:53.639 --> 00:54:56.840 a little bit better. I like to take some twine 964 00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:00.960 and tie the ornamental grass that's spreading all out in 965 00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:04.000 all directions, tie it up. So you make a column 966 00:55:04.119 --> 00:55:06.119 out of that grass by tying it in a couple 967 00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:09.480 of places with twine, and then you just cut the 968 00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:13.039 grass off at the bottom and you pick the whole 969 00:55:13.039 --> 00:55:16.719 thing up and it's clean, nice, easy, all tidy. You 970 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:18.320 carry it off, do what you're gonna do with it, 971 00:55:18.760 --> 00:55:21.519 and it looks good. If you go pruning, then now 972 00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:24.000 you're having to, you know, try to cut through it, 973 00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:25.880 and you got grass ling and everywhere. It's just a 974 00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:29.000 messier process. But if you bind it up first, you 975 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:30.840 can use a bungee cord or twine or whatever you 976 00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:33.760 want to do, it really makes it a lot easier 977 00:55:33.800 --> 00:55:35.800 to do that. And that's just a tip for pruning 978 00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:39.000 the ornamental grasses. But whether you're pruning a loriapi or 979 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:41.800 cast iron or ornamental grasses, get it done before the 980 00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:44.159 new growth comes. Like with the loriope, if you wait 981 00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:45.880 until new growth starts, I'll say you do it in 982 00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:49.239 mid February, you probably already got new growth. Then you're 983 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:51.599 gonna have all these stubbed off new growth leaves that 984 00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:55.400 don't look right. So make that kind of pruning decision 985 00:55:55.800 --> 00:55:59.920 and get that done sooner rather than later. We could 986 00:55:59.920 --> 00:56:02.639 go on go on talking about how to prune this, 987 00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:06.639 how to prune that. There is if you want one 988 00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:09.840 resource that I can give you as a tip for pruning, 989 00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:16.000 the University of Georgia Extension Service. University of Georgia Extension Service. 990 00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:19.079 Do a search on there. I'm not going to read 991 00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:21.159 the whole urlt you, but do a search on there 992 00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:26.480 for pruning landscape plants or I think the title of 993 00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:31.480 it now is Basic Principles of Pruning woody plants or 994 00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:34.679 Pruning ornamental plants in the landscape those kinds of things. 995 00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:38.639 Is a really good publication. It explains heading cuts and 996 00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:42.679 pruning cuts. It explains the proper way to prune to 997 00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:48.519 you know, successfully cut these things off and end up 998 00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:51.679 with good results. And it helps you understand how plants 999 00:56:51.679 --> 00:56:54.760 respond to pruning, so you can make you can prune 1000 00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:58.159 in a more educated way. Well, I'm going to take 1001 00:56:58.159 --> 00:57:00.559 a break now and we'll come back with other types 1002 00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:03.760 of topics as well as a conversation with Leon. You'll 1003 00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:06.199 be our first up Leon when we come back. Welcome 1004 00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:09.039 back to the garden line. I'm going to head straight 1005 00:57:09.199 --> 00:57:12.320 to the phones and talk to Leon. Hello, Leon, welcome 1006 00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:12.960 to garden Line. 1007 00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:16.360 Thank you. How are you doing today? 1008 00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:19.159 I'm doing well. I'm doing well. 1009 00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:24.239 How can help well? I have a Myers lemon bush 1010 00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:28.920 about it? They said it was a tree. We planted 1011 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:31.519 it and kept getting shorter and shorter till it turned 1012 00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:36.880 into a bush. But this thing is about ten years 1013 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:44.440 old and it's got The leaves are black, and you know, 1014 00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:49.360 when it's dry, I tried rubbing them and nothing comes off. 1015 00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:51.519 But after a rain or something, you go out there 1016 00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:55.039 and you can rub the leaves and this black stuff, yeah, 1017 00:57:55.199 --> 00:58:00.159 starts coming off. And I checked with the local nursery. 1018 00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.239 I said that probably would use some copper fung aside 1019 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:08.639 and what you know, water the bush real good and 1020 00:58:08.679 --> 00:58:11.679 then put mix up a gallon of it and pour 1021 00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:15.159 around the base. Well I did that and it really 1022 00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:17.159 didn't help. And it said you might have to do 1023 00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:21.239 it every seven to ten days till it's time to 1024 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:25.519 get the fruit off. Now, well that's back in February. 1025 00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:31.599 First of all, do not do that anymore. Do not 1026 00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:36.360 get copper around the base of the plant. That didn't 1027 00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:40.159 accomplish it will not accomplish that. It's not systemic product. 1028 00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:44.280 And you can cause issues and the soil by overloading 1029 00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:48.079 it with copper. So what's happening on your lemon what's 1030 00:58:48.079 --> 00:58:50.800 happening in your lemon tree? Leon is there are some 1031 00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:54.760 small insects that are sucking the juices, the sugary sap 1032 00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:59.800 out of the leaves or the stem and then they 1033 00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:04.079 basically get the nutrients out of it and essentially just 1034 00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:06.760 pee out a bunch of sugar water. They don't use 1035 00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:09.599 the sugar part of it, and so that falls on 1036 00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:13.559 the leaves is a mist, and the city mold grows 1037 00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:15.840 on that. That's where the black is. The black is 1038 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:20.000 just a fungus growing on sugary substances on the leaf. 1039 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:25.199 So the black secondary it does shade out the leaves 1040 00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:27.360 a little and so you have less of little synthesis 1041 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:29.079 and stuff. So you do want to get rid of it, right, 1042 00:59:29.679 --> 00:59:32.639 So what insect is it? There's a bunch of insects 1043 00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:35.239 that can do that. Aphids can do that, white flies, 1044 00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:41.079 mealy bugs, and scale most likely your on your tree. 1045 00:59:41.159 --> 00:59:45.880 You're looking at white flies or scale insects and they 1046 00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:49.440 could be on the stems or they could be underneath 1047 00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:52.320 the leaves. If you turn some leaves over you should 1048 00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:55.360 see some really flat little things on there. White flies 1049 00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:58.840 look like little fish scales. Now I know I use 1050 00:59:58.920 --> 01:00:02.440 the word scale with white scale. Insects and white flies 1051 01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:05.440 are two separate things. But the white fly pupa look 1052 01:00:05.639 --> 01:00:09.320 like little flat fish scales, very small, like a lowercase 1053 01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:12.760 typed o letter O on the bottom of a leaf. 1054 01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:16.559 And so what you do with those is probably I 1055 01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:20.320 would get a horticultural oil spray, and I would spray 1056 01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:24.159 it upward from beneath the plant and make sure you 1057 01:00:24.199 --> 01:00:27.559 coat all the undersides of all the leaves, and that 1058 01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:32.280 smothers the scale and kills them. It smothers the white 1059 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:35.719 fly pupa also that are under the leaf, if they're 1060 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.000 part of what's causing it. I don't think you have 1061 01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:42.199 aphids on your citrus, so I will eliminate aphids, which 1062 01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:47.239 also produce or create city mole. But so it's going 1063 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:49.639 to be one of those two, most likely white flies 1064 01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:53.360 and scale. I don't think it's mealy bugs. Those would 1065 01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:57.840 look as like little puffy, cottony things typically like where 1066 01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:00.679 a leaf comes off the stem some product. 1067 01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:06.639 But yeah, I've kind of looked it over, and you know, 1068 01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:09.599 I really don't see any insects or anything like that 1069 01:01:09.719 --> 01:01:14.360 on there. This doesn't affect the fruit at all, does it. 1070 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:18.199 No, it doesn't. But the only way that it would 1071 01:01:18.199 --> 01:01:21.039 affect is by cutting down on It's like you shaded 1072 01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:24.239 your your tree with a shade over it, so you 1073 01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:28.960 get less carbohydrate production, therefore less fruit set and the 1074 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:33.360 sugar and fruit is carbohydrates too. So yeah, yeah, that's 1075 01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:36.360 what I There are systemics that you can put on 1076 01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:38.760 the ground and the roots take it up and they 1077 01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:41.760 get in the plumbing of the plant and they kill 1078 01:01:41.840 --> 01:01:45.400 the insects that are sucking those juices out of the plant. 1079 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:47.880 I don't know if I'm going to eat the fruit. 1080 01:01:48.119 --> 01:01:53.280 I just prefer not to use a systemic insecticide. There's 1081 01:01:53.280 --> 01:01:56.079 some that are labeled for that, but I have to 1082 01:01:56.119 --> 01:01:58.400 mention that they're there. But I think you're going to 1083 01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:00.760 do okay with horticultural oil. You're gonna have to do 1084 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:03.119 it repeatedly, and remember it's only going to work as 1085 01:02:03.159 --> 01:02:07.159 good as your spray coverage was. So if one leaf 1086 01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:11.079 birks your spray from hitting another leaf, then you're not 1087 01:02:11.119 --> 01:02:13.519 going to get control in those areas where you didn't 1088 01:02:13.559 --> 01:02:14.039 get oil. 1089 01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:18.079 Okay, what I had a buddy of mine down at 1090 01:02:18.119 --> 01:02:23.599 the local hardware store. He said, maybe use nimzol on 1091 01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:24.880 it oil. 1092 01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:30.719 Nim oil is it is a plant based type of oil, 1093 01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:34.199 and you may have some results from that. You may 1094 01:02:34.239 --> 01:02:36.800 have decent results from that too, depends on what you're 1095 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:40.199 going after. Check also the branches of the plant for 1096 01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:43.599 little bumps or structures that might be scale insects, just 1097 01:02:43.639 --> 01:02:46.519 to make sure out in the twigs and out there 1098 01:02:46.599 --> 01:02:49.920 that there's not that that is another possibility. But again, 1099 01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:52.760 a good oil spray will smother those as well. 1100 01:02:53.719 --> 01:02:57.599 Yeah, have you ever heard of anybody using pine old 1101 01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:00.320 pine of not? 1102 01:03:01.039 --> 01:03:06.199 Well, I've heard of a lot of household cleaning kinds 1103 01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:09.679 of products being used on plants for various things. Sometimes 1104 01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:13.119 they work and sometimes they don't. They're definitely not labeled 1105 01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:15.159 for that. But now I don't I don't think that 1106 01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:17.880 is gonna it'll make it smell nice. 1107 01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:21.559 Oh yeah, I've got a buddy that that's what he says. 1108 01:03:21.639 --> 01:03:25.719 It's a natural plant or you know, and it's not 1109 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:30.199 going to hurt anything. We use that, uh back when 1110 01:03:30.239 --> 01:03:34.039 the raspberry and for running rampant. You know, you can 1111 01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:38.639 spray that on them and it would suffocate him you 1112 01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:41.280 know you had to get spray it on them. You 1113 01:03:41.320 --> 01:03:43.599 know it didn't do any good. Spray it out somewhere 1114 01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:46.679 and let them walk through it. 1115 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.119 Right, got you? Okay, Well, I'm going to leave the 1116 01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:52.920 home remedies on the shelf. On just stick with the 1117 01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:57.599 being labeled for those purposes, Haleon. I appreciate your call. 1118 01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:00.559 Where's a good place to get to his own or 1119 01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:01.639 cultureal all. 1120 01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:09.119 Where do you live? Seabrook, Seabrook your a software stores 1121 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:11.559 done in that area are going to have it. You 1122 01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:16.360 probably can get it at Moss Nursery too, Moss nurseres 1123 01:04:16.440 --> 01:04:18.639 just you're real close to you if you're in Seabrook. 1124 01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:25.599 Some products. Yeah, all right, Hey, I've got to run 1125 01:04:25.639 --> 01:04:27.960 for a break. Good luck with that, and if it works, 1126 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:30.119 I just ask you to bring half the lemons that 1127 01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:32.280 you grow to the station and we'll call it even 1128 01:04:32.800 --> 01:04:37.320 take care, Bye bye, all right, folks, I'll be right back. 1129 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.840 All right, welcome, welcome back to the Garden Line. I'm 1130 01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:42.599 your host, skip Ricktor and we're here to help you 1131 01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:46.960 have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun 1132 01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:49.840 in the process. That's what it's all about, you know, 1133 01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:54.039 gardening has so many benefits. I know, you know that 1134 01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:56.039 if you eat healthy food, you're going to have a 1135 01:04:56.039 --> 01:04:59.760 healthy life, right, that's important. We can grow fresh food. 1136 01:05:00.519 --> 01:05:06.239 We also know that beautiful esthetics have mental benefits for us. 1137 01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:10.480 Beautiful flowers, beautiful gardens, those kinds of things. We know 1138 01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:13.719 the physical benefits of gardening. You get out, you do 1139 01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:16.559 some exercise, you walk around, you get up, you get down, 1140 01:05:16.679 --> 01:05:19.679 you do things. Gardening is great for that. And you 1141 01:05:19.679 --> 01:05:22.760 know exercise doesn't mean going to the gym only and 1142 01:05:22.840 --> 01:05:25.239 pumping a bunch of weights until you barely can lift. 1143 01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:29.320 When we look at health benefits, have you ever heard that, 1144 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:31.199 you know you're sitting at a desk all day, just 1145 01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:34.920 getting up, walking around every a little bit is beneficial 1146 01:05:34.920 --> 01:05:37.800 for your health. Well, gardening is walking around a little 1147 01:05:37.800 --> 01:05:41.119 bit and then some very very good And then of 1148 01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:46.000 course the cognitive benefits, everything from fighting depression, dealing with dementia's, 1149 01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:51.079 children with ADHD struggles. There are many benefits that the 1150 01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:55.400 research has shown gardening does provide us when it comes 1151 01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.119 to cognitive benefits too, and we could go on and on. 1152 01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:01.679 Plus the social benefits, you know, getting together with gardeners, 1153 01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:06.360 visiting with people sharing things, cuttings and seeds and stories. 1154 01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:10.639 It's just a fun thing. Ask anybody in a garden 1155 01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.039 club or master gardener group. They can tell you all 1156 01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:16.599 about the benefits like that. So I think we've got 1157 01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:20.000 one of the best hobbies in the whole world. And 1158 01:06:20.599 --> 01:06:23.039 I would even say best professions too, for those of 1159 01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:26.719 us that have had horticulture as profession our whole life. 1160 01:06:27.719 --> 01:06:29.639 That's what it's about. So let's have some fun here 1161 01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:31.880 on garden line. Give me a call. Seven one three 1162 01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:35.039 two one two kt r H seven one three two 1163 01:06:35.039 --> 01:06:39.639 one two k t r H. Ace Hardware stores are 1164 01:06:40.039 --> 01:06:43.400 always stocked with whatever you need to have success in 1165 01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:46.159 your garden and in your landscape. You know, from fertilizers 1166 01:06:46.199 --> 01:06:50.239 to pest control, to insects, disease and weed management, to 1167 01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:55.000 pruning tools, watering tools. Whatever you need, it's there at 1168 01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:58.159 the ACE Hardware store. But this is the season, the 1169 01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:03.159 holiday season when ACE loads up on really cool holiday lights, 1170 01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:06.719 like there lights by the Foot, where you can purchase 1171 01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:10.239 a string of lights by the foot exactly as long 1172 01:07:10.280 --> 01:07:13.480 as you want it to be. Holiday lights, indoor and outdoor, 1173 01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:19.239 holiday decorations, indoor and outdoor holiday gifts from toys, for kids, 1174 01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:22.599 to tools for the do it yourselfers on your list, 1175 01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:28.159 to gadgets for the kitchen and the home, decorating the home. 1176 01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:31.599 It's all there at ACE Hardware makes it really easy. 1177 01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:34.320 You know, you can find ACE Hardware's all over the place. 1178 01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:37.960 Go to Acehardware dot com and there you will see 1179 01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:41.800 a list in the store locator of the Ace Hardware 1180 01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:45.519 stores near you. Now. For example, you're going to have 1181 01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:49.039 an ACE Hardware Chalmers Ace out there on Galveston Island 1182 01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:51.840 if your way up in Porter JY and R's in 1183 01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:55.599 Porter Jnr's. ACE Importer is another one. Been to that store. 1184 01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:59.400 It's a pretty cool one. Out in the Crosby area. 1185 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:02.159 There's Cross in the Bay City area. There's a Base 1186 01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:05.280 City ACE. There's ACE all over the place. Wherever you live. 1187 01:08:05.440 --> 01:08:13.679 ACE is the place I was visiting conversation via text 1188 01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:18.199 and email. We need Nelson the other day, and you know, 1189 01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:22.840 Nelson's plant Food just has so many good products, so 1190 01:08:22.920 --> 01:08:26.880 many different lines. They've got a plant food called Nutristar 1191 01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:31.359 indoor plants now the Nutri Star line of fertilizers. There's 1192 01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:34.920 a lot of different specific types of plant food in 1193 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:39.359 the Nutri Star line. Nutristar indoor plants is everything that 1194 01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:42.800 you need for your houseplants, your indoor plants. You know, 1195 01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:45.600 you think about this, that house plant out in nature 1196 01:08:45.640 --> 01:08:48.640 would have roots going everywhere, drawing from water and nutrients 1197 01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:51.439 and things like that. In a house everything comes out 1198 01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:53.920 of the small amount of soil in that container. That 1199 01:08:54.039 --> 01:08:57.800 putting soil in the container, so supplementing it with nutristar 1200 01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:02.960 indoor plants provides both slow and fast release nutrient sources 1201 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:07.560 to help maintain vitality, some healthy growth, some good beautiful 1202 01:09:07.640 --> 01:09:09.880 leaf growth. Most of our houseplants we grow for the 1203 01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:12.840 foliage itself. You can apply it once or twice during 1204 01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:15.760 the winter season and then more often during the growing season. 1205 01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:19.239 You know that even though the temperature inside is pretty 1206 01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:23.760 consistent through the year, not fully, but the day length changes. 1207 01:09:23.800 --> 01:09:28.119 In our indoor plants, they grow less in the wintertime 1208 01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:31.560 it's a little cooler, and it also the day length 1209 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:33.800 is different. So once or twice during the winter and 1210 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:36.680 more often during the growing season for Nelson's plant food 1211 01:09:37.159 --> 01:09:40.199 nutri Star for the indoor plants. I also wanted to 1212 01:09:40.239 --> 01:09:44.800 mention that Dane Nelson set up a scholarship in memory 1213 01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:49.279 of Randy Lemon. Randy was a legendary Greater Houston area 1214 01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:52.640 gardening guru for many many years here over twenty five 1215 01:09:52.720 --> 01:09:55.560 years here on garden Line. He had that those of 1216 01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:58.319 you who've heard Randy, I'm not telling anything you don't 1217 01:09:58.359 --> 01:10:03.479 know here, but was so entertaining and he provided helpful 1218 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:06.960 advice that really benefited a lot of people over the years, 1219 01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:09.840 and you may be one of those people. This scholarship 1220 01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:13.600 was set up in Randy's name to honor his life 1221 01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:15.960 and his contribution to the gardening world here in the 1222 01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:19.960 Houston area. And each year a scholarship will be given 1223 01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:22.760 to a horticulture student at Texas A and M. I 1224 01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:25.399 know Randy. He and I both love our alma mater, 1225 01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:28.880 and he would be so proud to know that his 1226 01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:32.680 legacy lives on at his alma mater in the horticulture 1227 01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:35.439 department there at Texas A and M. Would you consider 1228 01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:40.800 making a donation to that scholarship fund. Small amounts, large amounts, 1229 01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:45.560 everything is helpful. We are trying to increase that fund 1230 01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:50.039 because it is an ongoing scholarship that each year is 1231 01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:51.920 going to be given. So the more that we put 1232 01:10:51.960 --> 01:10:54.680 in there, the more it can be provided for students 1233 01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:58.399 to help raise up the next generation of horticulturists. I'm 1234 01:10:58.399 --> 01:11:02.800 a product of that program off and so I'm always 1235 01:11:02.880 --> 01:11:07.479 thinking about, well, who is coming along that is learning 1236 01:11:07.520 --> 01:11:11.279 and being trained and ready to help people have more 1237 01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:13.840 success in their gardening. So I see it as a 1238 01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:18.239 good cause on many different fronts. Now you can go 1239 01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:21.399 online and give, you can send in a check to give. 1240 01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:24.760 And I'm not gonna give you all the details right 1241 01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:27.439 now online because it's confusing to hear all that on 1242 01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:31.560 the radio. Just go to my website, Gardening with Skip 1243 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:35.760 dot com, and the newest updated publication right there on 1244 01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:38.359 that list, right on the front page of the website, 1245 01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:41.520 is the Randy Lemon Scholarship. Click on that and it'll 1246 01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:43.920 tell you how to give online and how to give 1247 01:11:44.359 --> 01:11:46.199 if you want to write a check and mail it in. 1248 01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:50.359 But please consider that this holiday season, those of you 1249 01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:55.800 who have enjoyed Randy's advice over the years, I think 1250 01:11:55.840 --> 01:12:00.319 it is a wonderful way to continue to or his 1251 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:04.119 memory and also to do a lot of good for 1252 01:12:04.359 --> 01:12:06.920 some folks that are going through school to get their 1253 01:12:07.119 --> 01:12:11.800 degree in horticulture so they can help other people. Alrighty, 1254 01:12:11.840 --> 01:12:15.479 there you have it. Boy, this morning is flying you 1255 01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:19.199 know time flies. Well, they say time flies when you're 1256 01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:23.319 having fun. I'm having fun now, kurnit the frog says 1257 01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:28.439 time is fun when you're having flies. But that's just 1258 01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:34.000 another way to look at it. Well, I have talked 1259 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:36.920 about a number of different things this morning. I did 1260 01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:40.560 want to before we go here, mention that Star of 1261 01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:45.239 Hope is a ministry here in the Houston area that 1262 01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:48.800 makes a difference in people's lives. It's the holiday season, 1263 01:12:49.880 --> 01:12:51.920 you know, we're trying to figure out what what is 1264 01:12:51.960 --> 01:12:54.399 the next gift we're getting for somebody or the next 1265 01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:57.840 you know, gathering we're preparing for. Many homeless people are 1266 01:12:57.840 --> 01:13:00.000 just looking forward to their next meal. And you can 1267 01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.760 provide a meal for two dollars and eighty five cents 1268 01:13:02.760 --> 01:13:05.680 and Star Hope gives over six thousand meals a week. 1269 01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:09.840 That's a lot of meals. How many will you provide? Billy? 1270 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:12.359 You can join me in my wife in giving the 1271 01:13:12.439 --> 01:13:16.279 Star of Hope. Just go to s o H Mission 1272 01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:21.680 dot Org, s o H Mission dot Art and put 1273 01:13:21.760 --> 01:13:26.279 your compassion to work for a very good cob. I'll 1274 01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:27.880 be back after the top of the hour and the 1275 01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:30.840 weeks and we'll continue discussions about. 1276 01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:36.840 Gardening Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Rickard's. 1277 01:13:44.840 --> 01:13:52.399 Just watch him as so many give. 1278 01:13:52.399 --> 01:13:54.119 These to Supt Basic in. 1279 01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:06.479 Welcome back to garden Line, folks. We got more garden 1280 01:14:06.520 --> 01:14:09.640 talk to go. Got two hours more gardening talk to 1281 01:14:09.720 --> 01:14:12.079 go this morning. If you would like to give me 1282 01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:16.119 a call discuss whatever's on your mind regarding your gardening. 1283 01:14:16.479 --> 01:14:20.560 That includes housepens, house plants too, by the way, just 1284 01:14:20.840 --> 01:14:23.000 give me a call it seven one three two one 1285 01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:27.159 two kt r H seven to one three two one 1286 01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:33.079 two kt r H. I mentioned uh the website a 1287 01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:36.159 little bit earlier. I did want to also let you 1288 01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:39.039 know today that I have put up a publication called 1289 01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:44.479 Quality Lighting for growing Transplants. We are about to start 1290 01:14:44.800 --> 01:14:50.640 the transplant growing season. I begin uh in after the 1291 01:14:50.800 --> 01:14:55.199 Christmas before New Year's. Typically try to get my transplants 1292 01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:58.359 started at that time. Uh wait a little bit later 1293 01:14:58.359 --> 01:15:00.399 if you want to, but I like to get get 1294 01:15:00.399 --> 01:15:02.600 them going earlier so I have a bigger transplant when 1295 01:15:02.600 --> 01:15:04.279 it's time to put them out in the garden. Now, 1296 01:15:04.319 --> 01:15:06.520 that requires some space. You know, if you're just growing 1297 01:15:07.159 --> 01:15:12.920 one of those little six pack four pack trays of transplants, 1298 01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:14.960 you can get seventy two of them in about a 1299 01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:18.640 nine by I don't know what are those things nine 1300 01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:24.359 by twenty I believe something like that anyway, tray. But 1301 01:15:24.520 --> 01:15:26.239 when you bump them to four inch pots now it 1302 01:15:26.279 --> 01:15:28.039 takes a lot more time, and then I end up 1303 01:15:28.079 --> 01:15:30.920 bumping some tomatoes up to gallum pots by the time 1304 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:33.319 I'm done, So I have tomatoes with blims and freight 1305 01:15:33.359 --> 01:15:35.399 on them, and I put them out after the last 1306 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:40.119 frost danger on average is passed. So that can take 1307 01:15:40.159 --> 01:15:42.359 some space to do that. If you don't have the space, 1308 01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:43.800 then you might want to wait a little bit later 1309 01:15:44.199 --> 01:15:48.239 to start. It takes about six weeks to grow a 1310 01:15:48.319 --> 01:15:51.800 tomato transplant or pepper transplant. Eight weeks is a little 1311 01:15:51.800 --> 01:15:53.680 bit better, but you can do it in about six weeks. 1312 01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:57.119 Many other things are in the six week range if 1313 01:15:57.119 --> 01:16:01.680 you're talking about warm seasoned vegetables like that are in 1314 01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:05.960 the cucurbits like squash, for example. In cucumbers, normally we 1315 01:16:06.079 --> 01:16:08.760 direct seed those right out into the garden, but if 1316 01:16:08.760 --> 01:16:10.319 you want a little bit of a headstart, you can 1317 01:16:10.359 --> 01:16:12.119 do that. But you're only going to give them about 1318 01:16:12.119 --> 01:16:15.479 two or three weeks at the most to grow inside, 1319 01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:18.039 because if they get pop bound, they don't transplant out 1320 01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:23.039 very well. So whatever you're going to grow, count back 1321 01:16:23.039 --> 01:16:26.119 in time and start them at the proper time for that. 1322 01:16:26.199 --> 01:16:29.359 This publication on lighting, I put it up first because 1323 01:16:29.399 --> 01:16:31.439 it is the number one thing I see people do 1324 01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:34.520 wrong when they try to grow their own transplants is 1325 01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:42.640 not give them enough quality light. And when we start 1326 01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:47.920 thinking about lighting, the quantity of light is important. If 1327 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:50.159 light is too dim, the plants are going to get 1328 01:16:50.199 --> 01:16:54.920 stretchy and lanky and not perform well at all. The 1329 01:16:55.319 --> 01:16:59.359 Quantity of light, the quality of light is important. The 1330 01:16:59.880 --> 01:17:05.279 lighting you buy for your home is a wavelength, or 1331 01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:09.479 there are various wavelengths that are more for our eyes 1332 01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:13.840 and that create I guess mood is a way to 1333 01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:16.560 put it. You know, we have cool white that's kind 1334 01:17:16.560 --> 01:17:19.760 of a bluish light, a very bright bluish light. And 1335 01:17:19.800 --> 01:17:21.720 then we have warm white, like you know, you go 1336 01:17:21.720 --> 01:17:23.760 into a restaurant and you're there in the boot at 1337 01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:26.279 a restaurant and you got that kind of yellowy light 1338 01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:30.319 that's shining. That's a warm white, and it is an 1339 01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:33.680 ambience kind of light too. There's times and places for that, 1340 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:40.279 but those are visuals for us and lighting for plants 1341 01:17:40.840 --> 01:17:46.039 is different. Now you can use human lighting for plants, 1342 01:17:46.319 --> 01:17:48.760 but you're going to have less performance, and in some 1343 01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:53.239 cases the very poor performance when it comes to the spectrum. 1344 01:17:53.279 --> 01:17:56.640 The quality of the light, and certainly the quantity as well. 1345 01:17:57.239 --> 01:18:01.760 And then finally the duration. That's a third thing, quality duration. 1346 01:18:01.920 --> 01:18:03.960 Those three things, how long do you leave the lights 1347 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:08.840 on when I'm growing transplants, I, once the seedlings are up, 1348 01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:12.000 I go to about fourteen hours a day, about twelve 1349 01:18:12.039 --> 01:18:15.720 to fourteen hours a day, and that gives them enough 1350 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:20.800 light to do well. In my publication that I put online, 1351 01:18:20.880 --> 01:18:23.319 Quality Lighting for Growing Houseplants, by the way, you need 1352 01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:24.560 to look at it's really cool. You even have a 1353 01:18:24.600 --> 01:18:27.279 little gift in there that shows how light comes out 1354 01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:30.800 of a light fixture and spreads out as it gets 1355 01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:33.119 to the plant. So the further you get from the fixture, 1356 01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:37.640 the dimmer the light is. And it is dramatic the 1357 01:18:37.680 --> 01:18:40.000 difference it makes as you move from like let's say 1358 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:43.640 one foot away to two feet away or something. But anyway, 1359 01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:48.399 that publication is there to help you have success with lighting, 1360 01:18:48.439 --> 01:18:51.079 because lighting is so important, and if you've never tried 1361 01:18:51.119 --> 01:18:55.319 grown your own transplants, you gotta try it. I do 1362 01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:58.920 a lot of things with lights gardening wise. For example, 1363 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:01.920 my house plants that have been outside, I've got too 1364 01:19:01.920 --> 01:19:05.279 many now, they're too big, too many to put in 1365 01:19:05.479 --> 01:19:08.159 my house. It would be a jungle, and I just 1366 01:19:08.199 --> 01:19:11.479 don't want quite that ambiance in the house. So I 1367 01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:13.640 have something that I put in the garage in the 1368 01:19:13.680 --> 01:19:17.760 wintertime underneath a nice light that provides a moderate amount 1369 01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.640 of light to keep them going. And so that's one 1370 01:19:20.720 --> 01:19:23.479 way I'm used lighting. I'm using it to grow transplants. 1371 01:19:24.039 --> 01:19:27.920 I'm also using it to start cuttings. When I'm trying 1372 01:19:27.920 --> 01:19:29.680 to root some cuttings and I want to get them 1373 01:19:29.680 --> 01:19:31.720 going good. It doesn't take much light to do that. 1374 01:19:31.760 --> 01:19:33.880 By the way, that's the lowest light level thing that 1375 01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:37.319 we do gardening wises, is just starting the cuttings. They 1376 01:19:37.640 --> 01:19:40.520 they need light, but they don't need bright light shining 1377 01:19:40.520 --> 01:19:43.560 on them like a ceiling does. And I also use 1378 01:19:43.600 --> 01:19:46.079 it This year, I'm going to try to produce some 1379 01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:51.840 things indoors under light. Still, like tomatoes. I grow tomato transplants, 1380 01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:54.680 but what about keeping that tomato and going all the 1381 01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:59.279 way to growing tomatoes indoors? That takes a lot more light, 1382 01:19:59.439 --> 01:20:02.119 a lot higher quality light and I'm going to be 1383 01:20:02.119 --> 01:20:04.760 doing some of that as well this year. But it's 1384 01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:06.720 a lot of fun to do that. It also makes 1385 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:10.000 good Christmas gifts, good quality lighting heating mat to go 1386 01:20:10.079 --> 01:20:14.560 underneath the tray of seedlings, the potting soil and the tray. 1387 01:20:14.680 --> 01:20:17.319 Some of the trays have little domes over them that 1388 01:20:17.760 --> 01:20:19.840 help hold in the moisture and allow the light to 1389 01:20:19.880 --> 01:20:23.760 go through. Those are helpful. I use those. So however 1390 01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:25.520 you want to go about it, there's a way to 1391 01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:25.760 do it. 1392 01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:25.880 Now. 1393 01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:30.079 I have gardened and started transplants and everything from like 1394 01:20:30.199 --> 01:20:38.119 this official transplant growing tray, to dishes that you get 1395 01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:40.600 from restaurants to take your food home. You know, you 1396 01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:43.000 go to Salata and you get this little yellow bottom 1397 01:20:43.079 --> 01:20:45.359 dish with a clear top on it that clicks down 1398 01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:49.520 you go to the grocery store. You can even buy 1399 01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:54.359 dishes or plastics for carrying food around that have a 1400 01:20:54.439 --> 01:20:57.279 clear top. I've started a lot of things and a 1401 01:20:57.319 --> 01:20:59.279 lot of things like that, and you can do it 1402 01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:01.199 and do it and dig cops if you want to. 1403 01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:05.039 But however you go about it, just have fun doing it. 1404 01:21:05.159 --> 01:21:07.159 And I'm going to also be putting up an article 1405 01:21:07.199 --> 01:21:09.960 on how to grow transplants, not just lighting, but everything 1406 01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:12.560 about growing successful transplants. That's the next one to go 1407 01:21:12.640 --> 01:21:17.000 up on the website at Gardening with Skip dot com 1408 01:21:17.039 --> 01:21:20.560 Gardening with Skip dot com. Well, it is time for 1409 01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:22.920 us to go to our first break this hour. When 1410 01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:26.000 we come back, I'll be entering your calls if you 1411 01:21:26.039 --> 01:21:28.039 would like to give us a call seven one three 1412 01:21:28.119 --> 01:21:31.920 two one two kt RH. Welcome back to garden Line. 1413 01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:37.319 I'm glad you're with us. Hey, anything you need for 1414 01:21:37.439 --> 01:21:41.960 your garden. I'm talking about products to fertilize, products to 1415 01:21:42.000 --> 01:21:45.279 control pests and diseases and weeds. I'm talking about tools. 1416 01:21:45.319 --> 01:21:49.319 I'm talking about fertilizer spreaders. I'm talking about everything, including 1417 01:21:49.359 --> 01:21:51.640 even getting your lawnmower blade sharpened, which, by the way, 1418 01:21:51.680 --> 01:21:53.239 now would be a good time to get that done. 1419 01:21:54.159 --> 01:21:57.279 Is it Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizers on the corner of 1420 01:21:57.319 --> 01:22:02.279 Bisinett and Renwick in southwest Houston around since nineteen fifty five, 1421 01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:04.760 and boy, I'm telling you they have it. If they 1422 01:22:04.760 --> 01:22:06.880 don't have it, you don't need it. That I just 1423 01:22:07.000 --> 01:22:09.680 like to put it that way because that is the truth. 1424 01:22:10.399 --> 01:22:13.880 If you're looking for a Christmas gift, even go by there, 1425 01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:15.479 talk to them, ask Bob, say, hey, I want to 1426 01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:18.479 see that kneeling bench Skip keeps talking about on garden line, 1427 01:22:18.520 --> 01:22:21.520 the one where you it folds up and then unfolds. 1428 01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:23.600 You flip it one way and it's a seat to 1429 01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:25.079 sit on. You flip it the other way and you 1430 01:22:25.159 --> 01:22:27.399 kneel down on it. And the cool part about it is, 1431 01:22:27.439 --> 01:22:30.439 and anyone over forty needs to hear this. You grab 1432 01:22:30.680 --> 01:22:32.880 what was the legs of it and it's a handle 1433 01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:35.680 to get back up off your knees. Now do you 1434 01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:38.079 go to your knees and back up again? Gardening about 1435 01:22:38.119 --> 01:22:41.359 eight thousand times on a Saturday, and you wake up 1436 01:22:41.399 --> 01:22:45.880 the next day in the prenatal position because you used 1437 01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:49.760 muscles that don't get used enough. Well, kneeling bench fix 1438 01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:52.279 is at It works really well for that. Also, cool 1439 01:22:52.319 --> 01:22:54.840 tools like a soil knife on one of my favorite tools, 1440 01:22:54.920 --> 01:22:58.079 is it soil Myebob's got those there at Southwest fern Lager, 1441 01:22:58.159 --> 01:23:00.960 corner of Bestinett and Redwick phone number seven one three 1442 01:23:01.159 --> 01:23:05.199 six six six one seven four four. We're going to 1443 01:23:05.239 --> 01:23:07.039 go back to the phones now and head out to 1444 01:23:07.079 --> 01:23:10.199 Conroe and talk to Richard. Hello, Richard, Welcome to garden mine. 1445 01:23:11.880 --> 01:23:12.239 Thank you. 1446 01:23:14.279 --> 01:23:17.359 Grandy Lemon says in his book that I was pulling 1447 01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:21.000 out the other day that for my brown patch used 1448 01:23:21.079 --> 01:23:23.319 two year old leaf mold mult twice a year. 1449 01:23:24.239 --> 01:23:26.079 Is it too late to do it this year? 1450 01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:30.239 No, it's never too late. That you can do leapmomulta 1451 01:23:30.279 --> 01:23:31.560 anytime you want to put it down. 1452 01:23:34.159 --> 01:23:37.039 Marley did a fantastic job, But the. 1453 01:23:38.800 --> 01:23:39.840 Fungus got to me. 1454 01:23:42.680 --> 01:23:45.800 When you use the leaf mold, it got to you. 1455 01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:48.439 No, I say it did a fantastic job because it 1456 01:23:48.479 --> 01:23:52.039 was a new yard. Oh we had a perfect wawn 1457 01:23:52.119 --> 01:23:53.600 until till it's fall. 1458 01:23:54.960 --> 01:23:57.520 Yeah. Well, this has been a bad year for brown patch. 1459 01:23:57.920 --> 01:23:59.880 I was just driving to the neighborhood the other day 1460 01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:02.800 and just like almost ever long had it in it 1461 01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:04.960 and normally we don't see that. It's kind of here 1462 01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:08.319 and there. But the key on brown patch is number one. 1463 01:24:08.479 --> 01:24:12.439 We can make it worse by continuing to water late 1464 01:24:12.520 --> 01:24:14.760 into the season when our plants don't need as much 1465 01:24:14.800 --> 01:24:17.720 water as they needed during the summer. That more often 1466 01:24:17.720 --> 01:24:19.439 you keep it wet, the more brown patch you're going 1467 01:24:19.520 --> 01:24:23.319 to have. By fertilizing too much with nitrogen going late 1468 01:24:23.359 --> 01:24:27.279 into the season, and we can aggravate it that way too, 1469 01:24:28.960 --> 01:24:30.479 So all. 1470 01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:34.199 Righty, yeah, one, can I ask you one other thing, 1471 01:24:34.600 --> 01:24:39.359 cutting back, uh like abescus and three sisters things like that. 1472 01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:42.600 Once should you cut them back so that they can 1473 01:24:42.840 --> 01:24:44.720 climatize before the freeze? 1474 01:24:47.880 --> 01:24:52.239 Are you bringing them indoors? No, in the garage or something. 1475 01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:54.880 No, they're in the They're in the ground. 1476 01:24:54.920 --> 01:24:57.920 I just wondered how early I should cut them back 1477 01:24:58.279 --> 01:24:59.439 so they're beautiful right now? 1478 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:03.479 Yeah? Is this hibiscus the kind that dies to the 1479 01:25:03.479 --> 01:25:05.359 ground and comes back out of the ground, or is 1480 01:25:05.399 --> 01:25:10.680 this the tropical type that has the really beautiful flowers 1481 01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:16.199 of all kinds of different colors and things. 1482 01:25:13.960 --> 01:25:16.079 It dies back to the ground. 1483 01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:20.800 Okay, the perennial hibiscus. I would let the frieze kill 1484 01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:23.239 it back to the ground and then cut off all 1485 01:25:23.239 --> 01:25:27.079 the old dead stalks, maults the base of it, and 1486 01:25:27.399 --> 01:25:29.439 it'll come back out in the spring down. If it's 1487 01:25:29.520 --> 01:25:33.680 that type of hibiscus, the perennial hibiscus. The perennial hibiscus, 1488 01:25:33.720 --> 01:25:38.399 the flowers are almost dinner plate size, and they're either red, pink, white, 1489 01:25:38.600 --> 01:25:41.439 or some version of those three colors. 1490 01:25:44.319 --> 01:25:47.000 Yeah, we get nice blooms now and we had a 1491 01:25:47.079 --> 01:25:50.119 three sisters that does real well that. I didn't know 1492 01:25:50.119 --> 01:25:53.239 whether we should cut that back prematurely or let it 1493 01:25:53.560 --> 01:25:54.119 die back. 1494 01:25:55.680 --> 01:25:58.600 Which can you think of another name for that plant 1495 01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:03.039 or a description of it what you're calling because sisters. 1496 01:26:03.880 --> 01:26:06.039 It has a fushi color to it. 1497 01:26:07.760 --> 01:26:17.439 Okay, Mwaian well Hawaiian Hawaiian. Oh, okay, okay, yes, okay, 1498 01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:23.520 all right, well that one. Yeah, I let's see where 1499 01:26:23.560 --> 01:26:25.560 are you. You're up in Conros. You're going to get 1500 01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:32.680 a little bit colder up there. In the past, have 1501 01:26:32.760 --> 01:26:33.560 you cut it back? 1502 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:38.840 Yes, we just moved here. We used to be up 1503 01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:43.199 on the lake Conrod and we cut them back in. 1504 01:26:43.520 --> 01:26:48.239 But I didn't know that whether assume we should cut 1505 01:26:48.279 --> 01:26:50.439 them back because they look so beautiful right now. 1506 01:26:51.800 --> 01:26:55.279 Yeah, there. I would most the base of those really 1507 01:26:55.279 --> 01:26:57.359 well too. I mean I would leave them and then 1508 01:26:57.399 --> 01:27:00.960 when you get cold, that's kind of ruined the than 1509 01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:04.239 if you wanted to cut him back and whatnot, you could. 1510 01:27:07.399 --> 01:27:08.800 Okay, thank you very much. 1511 01:27:09.119 --> 01:27:10.039 Enjoy your program. 1512 01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:14.039 Yeah good well, uh and enjoy your new uh new 1513 01:27:14.039 --> 01:27:15.479 place up there. I don't know how long you've been 1514 01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:18.319 in the new place, but uh, that Conroy area is 1515 01:27:18.399 --> 01:27:21.199 really beautiful. And I love the love it out at 1516 01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:26.039 the lake too. By the way, I know you did too, probably, all. 1517 01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:27.439 Right, thank you. 1518 01:27:28.920 --> 01:27:33.560 Yeah, just remember that Hawaiian tie Okay, yeah, I don't. 1519 01:27:33.680 --> 01:27:36.119 Just remember that Hawaiian tie is not a not a 1520 01:27:36.159 --> 01:27:39.079 real cold hearty plant. So it's more of a tropical Yeah, 1521 01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:42.760 I know. Okay, So it takes a lot of mulch 1522 01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:45.560 at the base to protect it. Okay, all right, Well, 1523 01:27:45.560 --> 01:27:51.039 thank you Richard, take care, Thank you. We're going to 1524 01:27:51.079 --> 01:27:54.960 go now to Tim. Hey, Tim, welcome to garden Line. 1525 01:27:55.000 --> 01:27:55.760 How can we help. 1526 01:27:56.920 --> 01:28:01.319 I have a question about to get a soil sample. 1527 01:28:01.359 --> 01:28:04.760 What's the best way to do a soil sample for so. 1528 01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:07.680 I know what my garden needs or my yard needs 1529 01:28:07.760 --> 01:28:08.279 or whatever. 1530 01:28:08.880 --> 01:28:12.600 Yeah, good question, glad you ask. I should talk about 1531 01:28:12.600 --> 01:28:13.680 soil sampling more. 1532 01:28:14.359 --> 01:28:14.600 Uh. 1533 01:28:14.680 --> 01:28:19.960 If you go to the website soil testing, one word 1534 01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:24.840 dot t a m U dot e d u. So 1535 01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:28.479 it's soil Testing dot TAMU Texas and m University t 1536 01:28:28.600 --> 01:28:32.479 A m U dot e d u on. There is 1537 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:38.079 the pub the soil sampling forms, so you can get instructions. 1538 01:28:38.119 --> 01:28:40.399 On the front page. There's a thing that says sampling 1539 01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:45.680 and shipping instructions okay. And so when you click on that, 1540 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:48.079 it will it will, it will take you to where 1541 01:28:48.119 --> 01:28:51.239 you ship it, and uh, it's going to have There's 1542 01:28:51.319 --> 01:28:54.800 several soil forms. There is one that says it's just 1543 01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:58.199 the standard soil form that's more for pastures and cattle 1544 01:28:58.319 --> 01:29:03.039 in farms and places like that. There's one called urban soil. Now, 1545 01:29:03.199 --> 01:29:05.600 urban soil just means it's a garden, and it tells 1546 01:29:05.640 --> 01:29:08.560 you where to take the samples, how to collect the samples. 1547 01:29:09.039 --> 01:29:12.199 But the urban soil sample form is the one that 1548 01:29:12.279 --> 01:29:16.680 you want. But basically to make to really simplify it, 1549 01:29:17.079 --> 01:29:21.199 you're going to probably take oh about in maybe eight 1550 01:29:21.239 --> 01:29:24.640 different places around the yard or around a garden. You're 1551 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:27.119 going to take a vertical core of soil out of 1552 01:29:27.119 --> 01:29:28.920 the ground. So you have the same amount of soil 1553 01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:31.039 from one inch deep as you do from about six 1554 01:29:31.079 --> 01:29:35.560 inches deep, okay, And so you you mix that all 1555 01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:38.159 up and you send that in. About a pint of 1556 01:29:38.239 --> 01:29:41.560 soil out of that send that in for your sample, 1557 01:29:41.680 --> 01:29:46.000 and that gives them a nice blend of soil to sample. 1558 01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:47.840 If you just take a sample in one place, maybe 1559 01:29:47.880 --> 01:29:50.079 it was a place where the neighborhood dog stopped and 1560 01:29:50.119 --> 01:29:52.960 went to the bathroom last fall, and you know so 1561 01:29:53.039 --> 01:29:56.119 that that would be a sample that's not accurate and 1562 01:29:56.199 --> 01:30:00.279 representative of your lawn. So that soil testing dot TAMU 1563 01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:04.560 did et You do the urban Soil Sampling form and 1564 01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:07.119 send it into the lab. The results will come back 1565 01:30:07.680 --> 01:30:10.079 and if you have questions about the results, you can 1566 01:30:10.119 --> 01:30:13.159 either go to your county extension office and talk to 1567 01:30:13.239 --> 01:30:15.680 your county agg or horticulture agent about it, or if 1568 01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:16.840 you want, you can give me a call here on 1569 01:30:16.880 --> 01:30:19.399 Guarden Line. What I'll what I'll end up doing is 1570 01:30:19.439 --> 01:30:21.640 having you send me the form and then then we 1571 01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:24.600 can we can talk about it on the air about 1572 01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:28.000 you know, because I like to answer things where other 1573 01:30:28.039 --> 01:30:31.239 people can hear the answers too. I think they'll right. 1574 01:30:31.960 --> 01:30:37.399 That will be very helpful. Okay, I appreciate it all right, sir, 1575 01:30:37.560 --> 01:30:41.039 Thank you very much. Appreciate your call. You take you 1576 01:30:41.119 --> 01:30:47.520 take care. Uh. Microlife fertilizers are high quality products that 1577 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:52.319 are designed with nature and mind. You know what how 1578 01:30:52.319 --> 01:30:56.079 does nature? How did the redwood forests become giant trees? 1579 01:30:56.319 --> 01:30:57.680 Who was running through there? 1580 01:30:58.279 --> 01:30:58.479 You know? 1581 01:30:59.239 --> 01:31:03.640 Rototillings, oil and fertilizing and watering and do all the 1582 01:31:03.680 --> 01:31:06.000 things we do well. Nature has a way of taking 1583 01:31:06.039 --> 01:31:09.239 care of plants. You know the Great Plains with grass 1584 01:31:09.279 --> 01:31:11.840 as deep as the horse's belly. When the settlers came across, 1585 01:31:12.600 --> 01:31:15.159 how is the grass growing that well? Well, nature was 1586 01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:17.279 taking care of the soil. And nature can do that, 1587 01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:21.960 and microlife helps you give nature a boost a natural way. 1588 01:31:22.439 --> 01:31:26.039 So you take organic materials, you put them in a 1589 01:31:26.119 --> 01:31:30.520 product that can be microbially broken down and to release 1590 01:31:30.560 --> 01:31:34.119 those nutrients in the ratios that plants need. Microlife has 1591 01:31:34.119 --> 01:31:37.159 products like the green bag, the lawn fertilizer. It can 1592 01:31:37.239 --> 01:31:40.800 be used for anything but lawn fertilizer. That's the green bag. 1593 01:31:40.840 --> 01:31:43.680 That's sixty four. They've got one for acidic plants. If 1594 01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:47.840 you got blueberries or camellias or azaleas or you know, 1595 01:31:48.159 --> 01:31:51.199 Virginia sweet spire, those kinds of things, the acidic product 1596 01:31:51.279 --> 01:31:53.880 works well for. They got ones for fruit trees. They 1597 01:31:53.960 --> 01:31:56.199 got a lot of different products out there on the market, 1598 01:31:56.399 --> 01:31:59.359 but they're all designed with the same thing in mind, 1599 01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:05.399 and that is providing natural substances for microbe activity. And 1600 01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:07.840 by the way, they also these products by Microlife are 1601 01:32:07.880 --> 01:32:11.720 chock full of microbes. You can find more from Microlife 1602 01:32:11.760 --> 01:32:15.000 Fertilizer dot com website. They're widely available. They'll tell you 1603 01:32:15.039 --> 01:32:16.560 where you can get them on there too, But I 1604 01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:19.600 can just tell you this. Garden centers, Ace hardware stores, 1605 01:32:19.920 --> 01:32:26.960 feed stores, and Southwest Fertilized. All these places carry Microlife products. 1606 01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:31.800 That is important. I'm gonna have to go to a 1607 01:32:31.880 --> 01:32:35.560 break here and when we come back, let's see David 1608 01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:38.680 and John will be our first two up. Welcome back 1609 01:32:39.039 --> 01:32:41.840 to garden Line. We are glad you are with us today. 1610 01:32:41.960 --> 01:32:44.479 We've got lots of things to talk about regarding garden 1611 01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:46.680 as we always do. What I'm gonna do right now 1612 01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:49.359 is head out to the phone. Suddenly, I think a 1613 01:32:49.359 --> 01:32:52.239 bunch of people woke up and started calling garden Lines, 1614 01:32:52.279 --> 01:32:56.159 So let's do this. David in Crosby, Welcome to garden Line. 1615 01:32:56.159 --> 01:32:57.079 How can we help today? 1616 01:32:57.640 --> 01:32:59.760 Thank you, Skiff, thank you for taking my call morning. 1617 01:33:02.520 --> 01:33:05.720 I like your comments and uh stuff on your your 1618 01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:09.000 betting plants, especially grown from seas. I like the use 1619 01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:13.159 of a warming pad. I hadn't tried that before. But 1620 01:33:13.199 --> 01:33:15.720 I've got a problem in my guard with nuts edge, 1621 01:33:16.720 --> 01:33:20.359 and I've tried the the betting fabric. I've tried Hay 1622 01:33:20.560 --> 01:33:24.560 straw un till once a week, and and that nuts 1623 01:33:24.640 --> 01:33:26.880 edge is just a just a bear to get rid of. 1624 01:33:28.479 --> 01:33:36.319 And control. Well, yeah, so what I've done that that's 1625 01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:39.000 the answer to that is a little bit involved. And 1626 01:33:39.039 --> 01:33:42.960 so what I've done is online on my website Gardening 1627 01:33:43.239 --> 01:33:47.800 with Skip dot com. I have a publication and it's 1628 01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:53.000 called nuts Edge an in depth Look, and it's three pages, uh, 1629 01:33:53.039 --> 01:33:55.560 but it goes into the two kinds of nuts edge, 1630 01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:56.640 purple and yellow. 1631 01:33:56.800 --> 01:33:57.000 Uh. 1632 01:33:57.039 --> 01:33:59.680 There's some differences and and changes the way we go 1633 01:33:59.720 --> 01:34:01.880 about controlling it, and it tells you how to go 1634 01:34:01.880 --> 01:34:04.840 about getting in control of it. And if you look 1635 01:34:04.880 --> 01:34:08.640 at that and kind of understand this creature called nuts edge, 1636 01:34:09.079 --> 01:34:13.119 it helps you better to control it successfully. A lot 1637 01:34:13.159 --> 01:34:15.560 of things people try, they say don't work. And the 1638 01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:19.119 main reason things don't work is because either number one, 1639 01:34:19.520 --> 01:34:23.840 they're not effective or they don't consistently stick with it. 1640 01:34:24.319 --> 01:34:27.880 And so whether you're hand digging it, whether you're spraying 1641 01:34:27.920 --> 01:34:31.439 it with a herd aside, whether you're shading it out 1642 01:34:31.560 --> 01:34:33.279 with there's a lot of things you can do to 1643 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:36.279 nuts edge, but you have to stay with it one 1644 01:34:36.399 --> 01:34:40.039 year just to kind of learn about this. I had 1645 01:34:40.039 --> 01:34:42.439 one nutsedge plant, and I let it come up in 1646 01:34:42.479 --> 01:34:45.560 the spring and didn't do anything about it. And about 1647 01:34:45.600 --> 01:34:49.479 May I carefully dug it up and it had eight 1648 01:34:49.680 --> 01:34:52.840 daughter plants tubers. You didn't see the plant chet. They 1649 01:34:52.840 --> 01:34:56.199 were underground. The nuts were underground. The tubers eight of 1650 01:34:56.239 --> 01:35:00.159 them that were viable. So by waiting until May, I 1651 01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:03.880 had eight hundred percent increase in nutsedge in that bed. 1652 01:35:04.359 --> 01:35:08.760 One plant becomes eight plants, right, and so that's lesson 1653 01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:12.600 number one, start early. Less than number two is once 1654 01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:15.720 the nutsedge comes up and gets three to five leaves, 1655 01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:20.039 it is already or it is about to start producing 1656 01:35:20.079 --> 01:35:23.920 the daughter plants to the sides, and so you need 1657 01:35:23.960 --> 01:35:25.600 to do whatever you're going to do to it then, 1658 01:35:25.960 --> 01:35:29.520 or you've already gone backwards in time. There's like you're 1659 01:35:29.600 --> 01:35:33.439 killing one, but you're you've already got more coming. So 1660 01:35:34.119 --> 01:35:36.600 there are products that are very effective. There's one called 1661 01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:40.119 sedge hammer that's labeled for lawn use that is very effective. 1662 01:35:40.159 --> 01:35:43.279 One called sedge ender that's very effective. And these are 1663 01:35:43.319 --> 01:35:45.920 all in that publication so you can you can go 1664 01:35:45.960 --> 01:35:48.159 look at them. I also have a thing called a 1665 01:35:48.199 --> 01:35:51.600 weed wiper. How to build one on there? And if 1666 01:35:51.640 --> 01:35:53.680 you look at how to build a weed wiper. That's 1667 01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:56.319 what I use for nutsedge in all my beds. So 1668 01:35:56.439 --> 01:35:59.239 if nutsedge is coming up underneath your rose bushes or 1669 01:35:59.239 --> 01:36:02.479 in your land hannah or whatever, you with the weed wiper. 1670 01:36:02.640 --> 01:36:04.359 You reach it on, you grab the nuts edge, and 1671 01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:07.079 you wipe product right on the nuts edge. So if 1672 01:36:07.079 --> 01:36:08.960 it were a product that we're going to hurt another planet, 1673 01:36:08.960 --> 01:36:10.920 it won't because you're not getting it on the other planet. 1674 01:36:10.920 --> 01:36:14.319 You're not spraying it. But the combination of nutsedge and 1675 01:36:14.319 --> 01:36:16.520 in depth look and the weed wiper will walk you 1676 01:36:16.560 --> 01:36:19.560 through it. Bottom line is start early. When a plant 1677 01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:21.439 has three to five leaves, you need to be doing 1678 01:36:21.520 --> 01:36:25.000 something to it because it's about to increase your woes 1679 01:36:25.279 --> 01:36:25.840 if you don't. 1680 01:36:28.359 --> 01:36:28.760 Very good. 1681 01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:34.520 So what was the website again, Gardening with Skip that's 1682 01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:41.720 me gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. Yeah, 1683 01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:43.680 and there's a lot of good good stuff on there, 1684 01:36:44.840 --> 01:36:45.239 all right. 1685 01:36:45.479 --> 01:36:50.439 And the article about the nutsedge was called. 1686 01:36:51.399 --> 01:36:53.720 Uh well, there's two of them on there about nutsedge. 1687 01:36:53.760 --> 01:36:57.199 The longer one that explains it better is called nutsedge 1688 01:36:57.239 --> 01:36:58.680 and in depth look. 1689 01:37:01.560 --> 01:37:03.600 Very good. It's a lot of help. I will look 1690 01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:04.000 that up. 1691 01:37:04.000 --> 01:37:04.319 Thank you. 1692 01:37:04.359 --> 01:37:07.600 Sir, all right, David, thank you for the call. Appreciate 1693 01:37:07.640 --> 01:37:10.239 you being a listener to Garden Line. We're going to 1694 01:37:10.279 --> 01:37:13.560 go now to John and Katie. Hey, John, welcome to Garth. 1695 01:37:13.520 --> 01:37:16.920 Good Moire, Skip, good Morse, Skip, appreciate your program. A 1696 01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:20.119 couple of questions about peach trees. So I've got. 1697 01:37:19.920 --> 01:37:20.560 Four of them. 1698 01:37:20.640 --> 01:37:23.399 It's my first year growing them, and some of them 1699 01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:28.279 still have leaves and other ones they're dropping leaves. Does 1700 01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:31.840 it make sense to continue to feed them right now? 1701 01:37:32.239 --> 01:37:35.720 Because I mean, okay, yeah. 1702 01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:38.199 Now I wouldn't. I don't fertilize my fruit trees after 1703 01:37:39.680 --> 01:37:43.680 about August. Really you can do it in September. But 1704 01:37:44.119 --> 01:37:45.960 the bottom line is as we go to at the 1705 01:37:46.079 --> 01:37:49.520 end of the year, those trees are they are slow 1706 01:37:49.560 --> 01:37:52.760 in growth, they're getting ready for winter, They're developing the 1707 01:37:52.800 --> 01:37:55.199 heartiness that they will need to go into winter. Part 1708 01:37:55.239 --> 01:37:58.319 of that is losing their leaves and going dormant and whatnot, 1709 01:37:58.840 --> 01:38:01.279 and pushing them with fertilize are kind of goes in 1710 01:38:01.319 --> 01:38:03.439 the other direction. You know, it's saying, hey, put out 1711 01:38:03.479 --> 01:38:05.960 some fresh new growth and that's not going to survive 1712 01:38:05.960 --> 01:38:10.239 a freeze. So we wane down on those at the 1713 01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:13.079 end of summer or early fall at the latest. 1714 01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:14.079 Gotcha. 1715 01:38:14.119 --> 01:38:17.840 It just seems weird because we're almost January and it 1716 01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:19.279 seems like we're in spring. 1717 01:38:19.399 --> 01:38:20.119 Eighty degrees. 1718 01:38:21.479 --> 01:38:24.880 I know. Welcome to Texas, Welcome to Houston area at least. 1719 01:38:25.199 --> 01:38:30.039 Another question is about big trees. So you've described before 1720 01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:32.640 peaches as the queen of the garden. How would you 1721 01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:33.760 describe fig trees? 1722 01:38:36.640 --> 01:38:39.760 That's a good question. I've ever thought about that. I like, 1723 01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:42.600 I grew up eating figs. I love figs. My mom 1724 01:38:42.680 --> 01:38:46.920 would take strawberry jello and make fig jam with not strawberries, 1725 01:38:47.000 --> 01:38:52.680 strawberry jello and figs. So I love figs. What would 1726 01:38:52.680 --> 01:38:53.279 I call figs? 1727 01:38:53.279 --> 01:38:53.600 I don't know. 1728 01:38:53.600 --> 01:38:55.119 I need to think about that one. I don't have 1729 01:38:55.159 --> 01:38:58.920 a name for them. They are easy to grow. They 1730 01:38:58.920 --> 01:39:05.119 are almost dizy and pest free almost, and so yeah, 1731 01:39:05.239 --> 01:39:07.319 if you want to grow something organically, figs are a 1732 01:39:07.319 --> 01:39:08.000 good one to do. 1733 01:39:08.520 --> 01:39:09.239 Yeah, I plan on. 1734 01:39:09.319 --> 01:39:11.800 I just ordered some cuttings online and I'm about to 1735 01:39:11.960 --> 01:39:14.920 start to try to root fourteen different varieties and hopefully, 1736 01:39:15.359 --> 01:39:16.800 oh my backyard. 1737 01:39:18.640 --> 01:39:21.960 Have fun, have fun. That's good. That's good. I'd like 1738 01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:24.600 to hear as those begin to grow, how you like. 1739 01:39:24.560 --> 01:39:27.960 Them, fair enough. Another question is tomatoes. When do they 1740 01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:36.239 normally start dying back in the in the grounds. 1741 01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:37.199 Well, with the first frost. Basically they slow grow some 1742 01:39:37.279 --> 01:39:41.119 stuff they're not growing and producing and developing very fast 1743 01:39:41.199 --> 01:39:43.479 right now. At some point we picked the green tomatoes 1744 01:39:43.520 --> 01:39:46.239 up before the first frost and hopefully some of those 1745 01:39:46.279 --> 01:39:47.720 will ripen indoors. 1746 01:39:48.119 --> 01:39:50.119 Yeah, fair enough, because I have I've used the Medina 1747 01:39:50.199 --> 01:39:52.760 hast to grow and that stuff's phenomenal. I still have 1748 01:39:52.800 --> 01:39:56.520 one plant on my backyard. It's got probably over one 1749 01:39:56.600 --> 01:40:00.279 hundred and twenty tomatoes still on it with flowers. 1750 01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:07.000 I still grow good. Yeah, I appreciate that. I'm gonna 1751 01:40:07.039 --> 01:40:08.560 have to run to a break here, but thank you 1752 01:40:08.640 --> 01:40:11.399 very much. I really appreciate that call. You know, the 1753 01:40:11.399 --> 01:40:15.560 folks that Nelson Water Gardens have put together a wonderful 1754 01:40:15.640 --> 01:40:18.319 garden center and nursery in addition to all the water 1755 01:40:18.399 --> 01:40:20.920 garden stuff. Right now, if you buy a Christmas tree, 1756 01:40:20.920 --> 01:40:22.880 you get a free point seta from them. They've got 1757 01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:27.600 some wonderful already wrapped up and decorated houseplants as Christmas 1758 01:40:27.600 --> 01:40:30.159 gifts that are just gorgeous. You need to go see 1759 01:40:30.199 --> 01:40:33.359 those things, of course, they're all about watergardens, but they 1760 01:40:33.439 --> 01:40:36.720 all they also are a nursery and they have all 1761 01:40:36.840 --> 01:40:39.439 kinds of wonderful plants all through the year. Go to 1762 01:40:39.560 --> 01:40:42.920 Nelson Watergardens dot com or drive out there. Just head 1763 01:40:42.920 --> 01:40:45.199 out to Katie. When you get to Katie Fort Benrod, 1764 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:47.680 turn right, it's just a little bit, uh, just a 1765 01:40:47.680 --> 01:40:50.800 little bit north of iten on the right hand side, 1766 01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:53.800 and you that are there at a very very special place. 1767 01:40:54.279 --> 01:40:56.239 I'm gonna take a break, folks, and we will be 1768 01:40:56.359 --> 01:40:59.000 right back with your calls. Uh when we get back, 1769 01:40:59.079 --> 01:41:04.159 we'll be talking to Daniel and Paula and Bill. Welcome back, folks, 1770 01:41:06.159 --> 01:41:08.600 Glad to have you with us. Have you ever noticed 1771 01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:12.319 that all these Christmas songs are about snow and sleigh rides? 1772 01:41:12.600 --> 01:41:21.479 And I don't know, I've seen pictures of snow before. Okay, 1773 01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:24.079 here we go. Let's see. We are going to head 1774 01:41:24.239 --> 01:41:28.359 out to Cypress, Texas and talk to Daniel. Hey, Daniel, 1775 01:41:28.720 --> 01:41:29.920 how can we help Hey? 1776 01:41:30.800 --> 01:41:35.840 Yeah, I'm trying to get a Christmas tree and I've 1777 01:41:35.840 --> 01:41:41.399 been looking for Douglas fur and I can't find them anywhere. 1778 01:41:43.760 --> 01:41:50.479 Douglas fur. I am not sure what trees everybody is 1779 01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:54.479 carrying specifically, there's a variation out there. You're in the 1780 01:41:54.520 --> 01:41:57.399 Cypress area, and I have you tried, like Plants for 1781 01:41:57.439 --> 01:42:02.640 All Seasons and Arborgate they're pretty close to you. 1782 01:42:02.720 --> 01:42:05.000 What was the first one you said? 1783 01:42:06.199 --> 01:42:08.840 Plants for All Seasons is on Highway two forty nine. 1784 01:42:09.039 --> 01:42:11.920 Arborgate is on twenty nine to twenty just a little 1785 01:42:11.920 --> 01:42:15.760 west of Tombull, the west side of Tumbull. They both 1786 01:42:15.840 --> 01:42:18.720 carry a lot of Christmas trees, and I would call 1787 01:42:18.840 --> 01:42:22.279 them before you make the trip, although both places are 1788 01:42:22.279 --> 01:42:25.479 fun to visit and just see if they have the 1789 01:42:25.560 --> 01:42:28.600 kind you're looking for, and if they don't, they might 1790 01:42:28.720 --> 01:42:31.760 be able to suggest something for you. But those two 1791 01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:35.279 garden centers do really carry some really nice trees up 1792 01:42:35.319 --> 01:42:39.079 in your area. If you're not successful there, I know 1793 01:42:39.439 --> 01:42:43.600 that Buchanans Native Plants on Eleventh Street and the Heights 1794 01:42:43.920 --> 01:42:47.000 has a lot of really good quality Christmas trees as well, 1795 01:42:47.920 --> 01:42:50.960 not too terribly far from you, but a little further. 1796 01:42:52.239 --> 01:42:55.520 Okay, so arbor Gate and what was the other one. 1797 01:42:56.479 --> 01:43:02.960 Plants for All Seasons? Highway two forty nine and Louetta. 1798 01:43:04.159 --> 01:43:14.199 Okay, they all right, yes, sir? Thanks all right? 1799 01:43:14.239 --> 01:43:20.279 Good luck with that, yes, sir, Thank you. Bye. Let's 1800 01:43:20.279 --> 01:43:24.560 see who's next here. We got Paula in Richmond. Hey, Paula, 1801 01:43:24.600 --> 01:43:25.680 Welcome to garden Line. 1802 01:43:26.520 --> 01:43:28.439 Hi, Hi, thanks for taking my call. 1803 01:43:29.920 --> 01:43:30.479 I have. 1804 01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:33.000 Four quick questions. 1805 01:43:33.039 --> 01:43:35.000 Well one is not quick, so I'm going to go 1806 01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:39.119 to that one first, if that's okay. I live in 1807 01:43:39.159 --> 01:43:42.880 a master planned community and I'm right next door to 1808 01:43:42.960 --> 01:43:46.720 one of the neighborhood playgrounds where there are six very 1809 01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:52.880 large live oak trees, and I noticed there's a very 1810 01:43:52.920 --> 01:43:56.640 big route growing from one of them straight under my house. 1811 01:43:56.920 --> 01:44:00.239 So I imagine if I can see that one, there 1812 01:44:00.279 --> 01:44:04.600 was probably a lot more. So okay, one, what do 1813 01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:06.920 I do about it too? I had to have a 1814 01:44:06.960 --> 01:44:11.800 new floor put in my second bathroom, and when the 1815 01:44:12.119 --> 01:44:15.600 handyman took the toilet off, roots are growing up in 1816 01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:21.279 the toilet pipe. But he said he needed to go 1817 01:44:21.359 --> 01:44:24.000 on and put the toilet back and finish the floor, 1818 01:44:24.079 --> 01:44:28.399 which I understand. And I got a product called root 1819 01:44:28.520 --> 01:44:32.119 killer from one of the big box stores and put 1820 01:44:32.119 --> 01:44:35.560 it in, but I'm not sure if it's working or 1821 01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:40.159 how you know, how often I need to use it. Also, 1822 01:44:41.039 --> 01:44:45.039 I can't find the drain clean out anywhere in the 1823 01:44:45.079 --> 01:44:47.399 front yard where it would be I know where the 1824 01:44:47.479 --> 01:44:48.239 kitchen one. 1825 01:44:48.159 --> 01:44:52.640 Is ring thinking tub. 1826 01:44:52.680 --> 01:44:56.479 We're draining slow, and he used a product that was 1827 01:44:56.840 --> 01:44:59.680 he said, the best drain cleaner. But first he cleaned 1828 01:44:59.680 --> 01:45:03.319 out the hair and there wasn't very much. Or three 1829 01:45:03.359 --> 01:45:06.520 months later, it still smells very bad, like burning hair. 1830 01:45:06.880 --> 01:45:08.880 I have to run water and the stink every day 1831 01:45:08.920 --> 01:45:10.239 to try to reduce the odor. 1832 01:45:11.000 --> 01:45:13.479 And that's all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna cut to 1833 01:45:13.520 --> 01:45:16.039 the chase on this one. I'm good at horticulture, but 1834 01:45:16.199 --> 01:45:18.119 plumbing is not my strong suit. But I can tell 1835 01:45:18.119 --> 01:45:19.640 you this, if you get a plumber in there that 1836 01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:21.680 knows what he's doing, he can find that clean out. 1837 01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:24.279 And I think you're gonna need a rotarutor out some 1838 01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:26.920 physically rotor utter out some of the roots that have 1839 01:45:27.039 --> 01:45:31.600 invaded your sewer line, apparently, and then products that contain 1840 01:45:31.760 --> 01:45:36.039 copper are often flushed down into the system and that 1841 01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:39.439 burns the root tips. It doesn't kill the whole root. 1842 01:45:39.520 --> 01:45:42.800 It just basically kills the tips and ends of the roots, 1843 01:45:43.359 --> 01:45:45.600 and you got to do them periodically. But a plumber 1844 01:45:45.640 --> 01:45:48.359 could also tell you on that what were your other 1845 01:45:48.760 --> 01:45:50.920 I'm running short on time, so let's go to the 1846 01:45:51.319 --> 01:45:52.600 questions that you had real quick. 1847 01:45:52.640 --> 01:45:55.920 Okay, my crate myrtles. 1848 01:45:56.279 --> 01:46:00.520 When to cut them? Because my lawnmen always up them 1849 01:46:00.600 --> 01:46:03.000 back in January. And I know. 1850 01:46:03.039 --> 01:46:06.960 Randy used to always say, don't do crape murder. And 1851 01:46:07.039 --> 01:46:10.039 also they have holes, big holes under the roots and 1852 01:46:10.239 --> 01:46:14.000 big galls or something growing on the branches. 1853 01:46:16.760 --> 01:46:19.319 Okay, I'm not quite picturing the gall on the branch. 1854 01:46:19.439 --> 01:46:20.960 You'd have to send me a photo on that. But 1855 01:46:22.000 --> 01:46:26.239 the crape murder pruning, I was discussing that earlier. And 1856 01:46:26.520 --> 01:46:29.840 you can listen to this show as a podcast. After 1857 01:46:29.880 --> 01:46:32.319 the show, they'll post it to the ktr each website. 1858 01:46:32.359 --> 01:46:34.319 Of the podcast, you can listen to some comments I 1859 01:46:34.359 --> 01:46:35.000 made about. 1860 01:46:35.039 --> 01:46:35.800 I have it pulled up. 1861 01:46:35.840 --> 01:46:38.119 I'm going to do that, okay. 1862 01:46:38.920 --> 01:46:42.840 And the bottom line is you're just you're not butchering 1863 01:46:42.840 --> 01:46:46.199 them back like Ebye does. You're just removing some of 1864 01:46:46.239 --> 01:46:48.680 the shoots that are growing in the wrong directions back 1865 01:46:48.720 --> 01:46:51.600 to where they join another shoot. And you can you 1866 01:46:51.640 --> 01:46:55.760 can go online and there's some really good information if 1867 01:46:55.800 --> 01:47:00.920 you do a search online for crape myrtle pruning. And 1868 01:47:01.039 --> 01:47:03.319 after the search, do you have a pen or pencil handy? 1869 01:47:04.279 --> 01:47:04.600 Yes? 1870 01:47:05.880 --> 01:47:13.920 Okay, right down? S I t e colon dot e 1871 01:47:14.279 --> 01:47:20.239 d u so crate myrtal pruning, and then s I 1872 01:47:20.439 --> 01:47:23.159 t e colon dot e d u. It will give 1873 01:47:23.199 --> 01:47:27.000 you results from extension services around the country on how 1874 01:47:27.039 --> 01:47:30.359 to prune crepe myrtles, and they will guide you in 1875 01:47:30.399 --> 01:47:33.319 the right way. They'll be diagrams, pictures and other things 1876 01:47:33.359 --> 01:47:35.560 to help you do it the right way. That's there's 1877 01:47:35.560 --> 01:47:38.199 no way I could describe it on the air effectively 1878 01:47:38.239 --> 01:47:39.119 in the short time. 1879 01:47:38.960 --> 01:47:39.279 That we have. 1880 01:47:39.399 --> 01:47:41.560 Okay, did you have another follow. 1881 01:47:41.359 --> 01:47:43.479 Up question before we before we go? 1882 01:47:43.640 --> 01:47:47.680 Yeah, my last one. So my flower beds. My house 1883 01:47:47.760 --> 01:47:49.199 is a model at one time. 1884 01:47:49.840 --> 01:47:53.000 It's twenty years old now, and they stuffed all the 1885 01:47:53.039 --> 01:47:57.560 flower beds front and back, including the crate myrtles. 1886 01:47:56.560 --> 01:47:59.439 Too close together, too close to the fences. And I 1887 01:47:59.479 --> 01:48:05.239 have two I think the soil in those beds is totally. 1888 01:48:04.840 --> 01:48:09.399 Depleted because the shrubs and all are now growing so puny. 1889 01:48:10.720 --> 01:48:13.880 And the lawn seems okay because I use the neutripross 1890 01:48:14.359 --> 01:48:16.039 so schedule all. 1891 01:48:16.000 --> 01:48:18.960 Right, So before I run out of time to answer you, 1892 01:48:19.039 --> 01:48:21.840 I'm gonna I would pull out some of the ones 1893 01:48:22.159 --> 01:48:24.079 that are too thick in there, take out every other 1894 01:48:24.119 --> 01:48:27.279 one or something make give yourself something in there. Get 1895 01:48:27.359 --> 01:48:31.600 you a lawn fertilizer, a lawn fertilizer and sprinkle it 1896 01:48:31.640 --> 01:48:34.399 in those beds. Scratch it into the surface with a 1897 01:48:34.479 --> 01:48:36.439 rake or you know, a hoe, just kind of get 1898 01:48:36.439 --> 01:48:39.800 it underneath the surface and watered in really good. You 1899 01:48:40.560 --> 01:48:43.800 if it's trees and shrubs and things, you can give 1900 01:48:43.800 --> 01:48:46.840 it one or two cups per inch of trunk diameter, 1901 01:48:47.399 --> 01:48:51.279 one to two cups per inch of trunk diameter, spread 1902 01:48:51.359 --> 01:48:53.920 evenly all through the bed and watered in really good, 1903 01:48:54.479 --> 01:48:56.520 and that will get your I would wait to do 1904 01:48:56.600 --> 01:48:59.640 that until spring because the plants aren't going to be 1905 01:48:59.640 --> 01:49:03.199 growing much until then. Uh, and then watered in real good. 1906 01:49:03.640 --> 01:49:05.720 I'm hearing the music, so I am going to. 1907 01:49:05.760 --> 01:49:06.520 Have to run all of it. 1908 01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:10.319 Good luck with all of that, I wish you will. Thanks, thanks, 1909 01:49:10.840 --> 01:49:13.560 thank you for here. Call Bill and Kingwood. We just 1910 01:49:13.600 --> 01:49:15.359 weren't able to get to you this hour. You will 1911 01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:17.680 be first up if you want to hang around until 1912 01:49:17.680 --> 01:49:20.479 we come back after the top of the hour. News, folks, 1913 01:49:20.479 --> 01:49:22.600 you're listening to guard Line. I'm your host. Skip Richter 1914 01:49:23.239 --> 01:49:27.840 keep referring to the website gardening Whip skip dot com 1915 01:49:27.880 --> 01:49:30.439 with a lot of information on there and more being 1916 01:49:30.520 --> 01:49:31.399 at it all the time. 1917 01:49:32.319 --> 01:49:36.880 Welcome to Katie r H. Guarden Line with Skip Richter's. 1918 01:49:44.880 --> 01:49:52.359 Just watching as many. 1919 01:49:52.439 --> 01:49:53.800 Thanks to set. 1920 01:49:59.600 --> 01:49:59.720 Us. 1921 01:50:16.000 --> 01:50:19.680 All right, welcome back. We are back in the saddle again, 1922 01:50:19.880 --> 01:50:22.680 ready to do our last hour of garden Line this morning. 1923 01:50:23.159 --> 01:50:24.760 If you'd like to give us a call seven one 1924 01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:27.600 three two one two k t r H. And we're 1925 01:50:27.600 --> 01:50:31.560 gonna have a straight out to Kingwood and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, 1926 01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:32.960 Welcome to garden. 1927 01:50:32.800 --> 01:50:36.159 Line, Thank Jim. 1928 01:50:36.520 --> 01:50:39.279 This is about the pigs. Whenever I was a child, 1929 01:50:39.319 --> 01:50:41.920 which is about sixty five years ago, we used to 1930 01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:44.079 go to the Devil's River. Every year there was a 1931 01:50:44.119 --> 01:50:47.399 gigantic fig ticket right there on the Devil's River, and 1932 01:50:47.439 --> 01:50:50.800 my family went down there voluntarily, even though it seemed 1933 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:53.880 like slave labor at this point, because we would pick 1934 01:50:54.119 --> 01:50:57.239 five gallon buckets of pigs, and my mother in camp 1935 01:50:57.279 --> 01:51:01.600 would make big jam unbelievable. So I know your love 1936 01:51:01.640 --> 01:51:03.199 of figs and I love it too. 1937 01:51:03.239 --> 01:51:03.800 It just bound. 1938 01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:10.399 The name I would give now is Nematod victim. Nematod victims. 1939 01:51:12.079 --> 01:51:17.199 That's true victories in my because Nemo Toad just kill them. 1940 01:51:17.279 --> 01:51:23.119 Yeah, yeah, they they are figs and okra nematod's will 1941 01:51:23.159 --> 01:51:26.000 walk them all to find figs or okra in your 1942 01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:30.520 in your U, in your place. That's it's true. But 1943 01:51:31.159 --> 01:51:33.640 you know, I mean, there's there's things we can do 1944 01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:39.279 to sort of minimize, you know, the the the problem. 1945 01:51:39.479 --> 01:51:41.920 But it doesn't doesn't totally get rid of it, that's 1946 01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:42.359 for sure. 1947 01:51:43.840 --> 01:51:48.159 Maybe from A and M would be the answer. We 1948 01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:52.239 need to check that would and tell them get moving. 1949 01:51:53.439 --> 01:51:55.560 That's it, and get them get them going here. You know, 1950 01:51:55.640 --> 01:52:02.560 the the nematod if we had a rootstock that that's 1951 01:52:02.560 --> 01:52:04.720 what we do in peaches. We have a rootstock called 1952 01:52:04.800 --> 01:52:09.720 Nina guard that we graft our peaches here on. We 1953 01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:13.560 need a nematode resistant fig. I don't know that one exists. 1954 01:52:13.840 --> 01:52:17.159 I did a This is off topic, but I breed 1955 01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:20.920 Okra and Okra is also hammered by Nema toades. And 1956 01:52:21.159 --> 01:52:23.560 there are a few strains around the world that claim 1957 01:52:23.640 --> 01:52:26.960 some resistance to nematodes, and so I have been trying 1958 01:52:27.000 --> 01:52:29.960 to collect those and test them out. And my thought 1959 01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:33.479 is if I could cross good Okrah with these old 1960 01:52:33.600 --> 01:52:35.760 things from all over the world that are resistant, maybe 1961 01:52:35.760 --> 01:52:38.359 we come up with a nematode resistant. Okra, I'll probably 1962 01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:40.720 be long gone before that happens, but at least it's 1963 01:52:40.760 --> 01:52:41.319 fun trying. 1964 01:52:42.680 --> 01:52:43.600 Well, we should. 1965 01:52:43.359 --> 01:52:45.720 Work that out on pigs too, I mean, that would 1966 01:52:45.720 --> 01:52:49.199 be just a godsendis are so great you just can't 1967 01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:50.880 raise them in certain areas. 1968 01:52:51.720 --> 01:52:58.800 Yeah, well that's true, that is true. Well, sure, thanks 1969 01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:02.159 a lot for your time. Thanks and thanks for that memory. 1970 01:53:02.880 --> 01:53:06.479 Back over near Amistad Reservoir in the Del Rio area, 1971 01:53:06.560 --> 01:53:07.840 right Devils. 1972 01:53:07.439 --> 01:53:11.359 River, probably about fifty miles north on the Devil's River, 1973 01:53:11.479 --> 01:53:13.640 just out kind of in the middle, Well, Dolan's Creek 1974 01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:16.520 comes out of the comes out of the eastern side 1975 01:53:16.640 --> 01:53:19.760 down into the uh down the river there and that's 1976 01:53:19.800 --> 01:53:22.399 right there at that junction where the gigantic thing think 1977 01:53:22.439 --> 01:53:23.359 it probably still is. 1978 01:53:24.880 --> 01:53:28.319 All right, very good, Well, hey, thanks appreciate that. 1979 01:53:28.359 --> 01:53:28.600 Bill. 1980 01:53:28.680 --> 01:53:32.359 You take care all right. 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There 2013 01:55:22.119 --> 01:55:24.560 are a lot of great Medina products out there. One 2014 01:55:24.600 --> 01:55:27.399 of the ones that I like to use that I 2015 01:55:27.479 --> 01:55:30.640 find to be very very effective is Medina Plus. Medina 2016 01:55:30.680 --> 01:55:36.319 Plus is Medina soil activators. That's a long time famous, 2017 01:55:36.600 --> 01:55:40.960 well loved product by Medina. It's Medina soil activator fortified 2018 01:55:40.960 --> 01:55:44.359 with the central micronutrients and growth hormones. Get them from 2019 01:55:44.439 --> 01:55:49.159 seaweed extract. So those are all kinds of substances that 2020 01:55:49.239 --> 01:55:54.079 are apart. You know, plants need more than just nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, 2021 01:55:54.119 --> 01:55:58.319 for example, they need trace minerals, and Medina Plus has 2022 01:55:58.359 --> 01:56:00.800 got the trace minerals in it. It's got things like 2023 01:56:00.880 --> 01:56:06.359 iron and zinc. It's got things like vitamin rival, flavent, diamond, biotin, 2024 01:56:06.399 --> 01:56:09.239 nicotinic acid, and others. It's got sight of kind and 2025 01:56:09.279 --> 01:56:11.359 a natural growth hormone that I was talking about from 2026 01:56:11.479 --> 01:56:15.439 sebeed extract. It helps with bloom set, it helps with growth, 2027 01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:18.479 it helps with establishment. I would soak seed in it. 2028 01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:22.800 Soak seed in Medina plus, dilute it down. Follow the instructions, 2029 01:56:22.840 --> 01:56:25.000 dilute it down, soak your seed in it. When the 2030 01:56:25.039 --> 01:56:27.039 seeds swell up, then take them out and plant them, 2031 01:56:27.039 --> 01:56:30.039 and you will see fast germination and good results. I 2032 01:56:30.079 --> 01:56:33.760 would use it when I'm transplanting to soak the root 2033 01:56:33.800 --> 01:56:36.800 ball of materials that are going to be transplanted, like 2034 01:56:36.800 --> 01:56:40.159 a tree or shrub in the Medina Plus, or to 2035 01:56:40.399 --> 01:56:43.840 just plant and then drench over it very well and 2036 01:56:43.880 --> 01:56:46.600 repeat that drench about twice more about a week apart, 2037 01:56:47.039 --> 01:56:50.680 and you will see a very good early response on 2038 01:56:50.720 --> 01:56:53.399 those plants that you're putting in the ground. One of 2039 01:56:53.399 --> 01:56:57.560 the many good products from the folks at Medina. Let's 2040 01:56:57.560 --> 01:57:00.960 see here, where are we on our top. I believe 2041 01:57:01.159 --> 01:57:03.239 that I'm about out of time, so we're going to 2042 01:57:03.279 --> 01:57:05.239 take a quick break here, and when I come back, 2043 01:57:05.560 --> 01:57:07.960 Mike and Spring and Rachel out in Chapel Hill, you're 2044 01:57:07.960 --> 01:57:10.680 gonna be our first two up. All right, welcome back 2045 01:57:10.920 --> 01:57:13.199 to the garden line. We're gonna go straight out to 2046 01:57:13.279 --> 01:57:15.960 the phones, and let's see where were starting. We're going 2047 01:57:16.039 --> 01:57:19.680 to head to spring and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, 2048 01:57:19.800 --> 01:57:20.920 welcome to garden Line. 2049 01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:23.000 Hey, Skip, how you doing. 2050 01:57:24.439 --> 01:57:24.800 Well? 2051 01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:27.600 Thank you? Oh hey, sir, I'm here. 2052 01:57:28.880 --> 01:57:32.399 I've planted some asparagus a few months ago that I 2053 01:57:32.520 --> 01:57:36.800 ordered online, and I'm just curious. It's real spinley and 2054 01:57:36.920 --> 01:57:40.399 has some really thin like I guess you call them 2055 01:57:40.479 --> 01:57:44.560 leaves that they're Yes, I don't know what, dude. If 2056 01:57:44.560 --> 01:57:47.279 there's something I can do to it, yeah. 2057 01:57:47.159 --> 01:57:49.840 It's normal. And so what you're going to do is 2058 01:57:49.960 --> 01:57:53.359 continue to fertilize and care for it. The big thing 2059 01:57:53.399 --> 01:57:56.319 with asparagus is keep the weeds away their competition. So 2060 01:57:56.439 --> 01:58:00.840 a good thick molt is very helpful, and then fertilizing 2061 01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:03.079 it through the season. And as you build that up, 2062 01:58:03.239 --> 01:58:06.319 what the asparagus does is it stores down in its 2063 01:58:06.640 --> 01:58:10.079 storage roots system. We call that the crown of the plant. 2064 01:58:10.119 --> 01:58:13.640 That's what you planted, was an asparagus crown. Those roots 2065 01:58:13.680 --> 01:58:16.279 get really thick and they store all the carbohydrates. So 2066 01:58:16.319 --> 01:58:18.800 when you come out of winter, you want to cut 2067 01:58:18.800 --> 01:58:22.359 that asparagus back to the ground and then the new 2068 01:58:22.399 --> 01:58:24.920 spears that come up will have some size to them 2069 01:58:24.960 --> 01:58:27.239 like you're looking for. And then as you harvest them, 2070 01:58:27.680 --> 01:58:30.600 the crown gets weaker and weaker because it's spending energy 2071 01:58:30.640 --> 01:58:32.920 to grow spears, and then you're cutting them off and 2072 01:58:32.960 --> 01:58:34.800 it's never getting them up in the sunlight because you're 2073 01:58:34.800 --> 01:58:37.319 cutting them off to eat. At some point when they're 2074 01:58:37.319 --> 01:58:41.000 about pencil size, you stop harvesting it and then let 2075 01:58:41.039 --> 01:58:44.079 it replenish and go through the season. And that's kind 2076 01:58:44.079 --> 01:58:46.720 of a cycle for asparagus. But the key is to 2077 01:58:47.479 --> 01:58:52.239 get a good strong plant established that can send up 2078 01:58:52.279 --> 01:58:54.520 some better spears than what you're seeing right now. 2079 01:58:55.680 --> 01:59:00.319 Well, they're in a raised mego bed, and so I 2080 01:59:00.399 --> 01:59:01.520 cut them back in the spring. 2081 01:59:03.680 --> 01:59:06.119 Yeah, you can cut that back in the spring. People 2082 01:59:06.199 --> 01:59:09.399 experiment with different things about it. You know, asparagus is 2083 01:59:09.880 --> 01:59:13.600 mostly grown further north than here, mostly and there you 2084 01:59:13.640 --> 01:59:15.479 have a hard winter that kills it back to the 2085 01:59:15.520 --> 01:59:18.039 ground and so when it comes out in the spring 2086 01:59:18.079 --> 01:59:21.239 it's all fresh. Sometime down here, our winters are so mild. 2087 01:59:21.279 --> 01:59:25.479 Asparagus never never gets killed back fully and it continues 2088 01:59:25.680 --> 01:59:29.479 to you know, use energy and stuff in the cool season, 2089 01:59:29.840 --> 01:59:33.840 and we just don't get the volume of harvest that 2090 01:59:33.960 --> 01:59:35.920 you would. You know, if you went up to Kansas 2091 01:59:36.000 --> 01:59:41.840 or Missouri or someplace, okay from the asparagus. So I've 2092 01:59:42.279 --> 01:59:45.039 talked to people who've tried cutting it back at different times, 2093 01:59:45.359 --> 01:59:47.079 you know, to get some fresh growth out. Maybe a 2094 01:59:47.119 --> 01:59:50.760 little bit earlier in the winter, but in general that 2095 01:59:51.079 --> 01:59:52.800 what I told you before is that's kind of the 2096 01:59:52.840 --> 01:59:54.960 process that we do for asparagus. 2097 01:59:55.279 --> 01:59:59.239 All right, I appreciate it, all right, sir, thank you. 2098 01:59:59.319 --> 02:00:01.359 And if you do have success, you know, all I 2099 02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:04.600 ask is that you bring half your sparagus crop to 2100 02:00:04.720 --> 02:00:07.640 the station. That's all I asked, just to thank you, Mike. 2101 02:00:08.079 --> 02:00:10.119 Appreciate that. All right, We're going to run out to 2102 02:00:10.319 --> 02:00:11.880 Chapel Hill and talk to Rachel. 2103 02:00:12.000 --> 02:00:14.960 Hey, Rachel, Hi, Stith, how are you doing. 2104 02:00:16.319 --> 02:00:18.520 I'm welcome, good, thank you. 2105 02:00:19.600 --> 02:00:23.039 So we got some we planted some seat potatoes, the 2106 02:00:23.039 --> 02:00:28.239 red ones, and they produced quite nicely. But the skin 2107 02:00:28.359 --> 02:00:31.319 is really really tough, like we have to peel them, 2108 02:00:31.560 --> 02:00:33.760 as opposed to the ones we buy in the store. 2109 02:00:33.800 --> 02:00:36.159 We don't have to peel those. We can just cook 2110 02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:38.760 those with the skins on. So I was looking for 2111 02:00:38.840 --> 02:00:42.800 a way to eat her. 2112 02:00:43.079 --> 02:00:43.520 Go ahead. 2113 02:00:45.520 --> 02:00:48.880 I was looking for a way to basically plant the 2114 02:00:48.920 --> 02:00:51.479 ones that we get from the store with the thinner skin. 2115 02:00:53.760 --> 02:00:57.880 Okay, So where did you get the potatoes that you 2116 02:00:58.000 --> 02:00:59.680 planted at? 2117 02:00:59.720 --> 02:01:07.000 A yeah, or a local I think like a roadside 2118 02:01:07.319 --> 02:01:09.560 you know where they were selling seet potatoes. 2119 02:01:09.880 --> 02:01:10.960 Okay. 2120 02:01:11.479 --> 02:01:15.840 So that kind of potato does have a very thin skin. 2121 02:01:16.199 --> 02:01:19.479 And what can happen is there's things that happen underground. 2122 02:01:19.520 --> 02:01:22.760 There's a disease called skurf, and there's some other things. 2123 02:01:23.199 --> 02:01:28.119 They can cause the skin to become thickened and rough. Uh. 2124 02:01:28.159 --> 02:01:33.199 And so it's not what I would do is I 2125 02:01:33.239 --> 02:01:35.600 would buy them from a low I wouldn't go to 2126 02:01:35.600 --> 02:01:38.600 the grocery store. Sometimes those are treated with a sprout 2127 02:01:38.640 --> 02:01:41.199 inhibitor and they don't want to the eyes don't want 2128 02:01:41.239 --> 02:01:42.880 to push out buds because they don't want them doing 2129 02:01:42.920 --> 02:01:45.319 that in storage, so they treat them with that. I 2130 02:01:45.359 --> 02:01:48.079 would just go to a local garden center, local feed store, 2131 02:01:48.439 --> 02:01:50.359 you know the places where you get that locally and 2132 02:01:50.399 --> 02:01:54.680 buy your new potatoes from them. There's red kennebec. Red 2133 02:01:54.760 --> 02:02:00.199 kennebec is a common red pontiac is another one that 2134 02:02:00.279 --> 02:02:02.439 you can get locally. Those will be at your local 2135 02:02:02.479 --> 02:02:05.760 places and if you plant those, you should have good results. Now, 2136 02:02:05.800 --> 02:02:08.439 if it keeps happening. We need to get a good 2137 02:02:08.479 --> 02:02:11.640 look at exactly what that potato looks like when it's 2138 02:02:11.720 --> 02:02:15.000 as you describe, and maybe figure out is it a 2139 02:02:15.039 --> 02:02:17.800 disease in the soil or is it something else going on? 2140 02:02:18.640 --> 02:02:22.239 But I think trying fresh next spring. You know, February 2141 02:02:22.319 --> 02:02:25.479 is when you're going to be planting seed potatoes, and 2142 02:02:25.560 --> 02:02:29.720 so just go ahead and get some fresh ones locally, 2143 02:02:29.760 --> 02:02:30.600 and that's what I would do. 2144 02:02:31.640 --> 02:02:32.880 Okay, great, thank. 2145 02:02:32.760 --> 02:02:33.439 You so much. 2146 02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:37.840 All right, Rachel, good luck, and you know when you 2147 02:02:38.239 --> 02:02:40.199 if this all works and you have a good crop, 2148 02:02:40.359 --> 02:02:42.800 then just bring half the potatoes to the station. We'll 2149 02:02:42.800 --> 02:02:45.960 call it even there you go. That's all I ask. 2150 02:02:46.039 --> 02:02:49.159 It's not too much, all right, bye bye, We're going 2151 02:02:49.239 --> 02:02:51.159 to go to Friends with and talk to Alan. Hey Allen, 2152 02:02:51.239 --> 02:02:54.720 welcome to garden Line. Hey skipping, thanks for all you do. 2153 02:02:55.920 --> 02:02:59.640 Got a question about Peggy Martin roses. I currently have 2154 02:02:59.760 --> 02:03:02.239 three growing in pots and I'd like to put them 2155 02:03:02.279 --> 02:03:05.159 in the yard as a hedge row. I just wondering 2156 02:03:05.159 --> 02:03:07.760 what the proper spacing on that would. 2157 02:03:07.600 --> 02:03:09.800 Be, because as you know, they get a little they 2158 02:03:09.800 --> 02:03:11.439 get the long runners on them, and I just don't 2159 02:03:11.479 --> 02:03:12.119 know how close to do. 2160 02:03:12.199 --> 02:03:15.239 They sure do. Yeah, they'll they'll cover a large area. 2161 02:03:15.600 --> 02:03:21.319 I would say probably I would do ten feet apart 2162 02:03:21.560 --> 02:03:26.800 just to make a thicker row. They'll go way more 2163 02:03:26.840 --> 02:03:31.199 than five feet in all the options. But but you 2164 02:03:31.239 --> 02:03:33.199 could you could put them further than that a part 2165 02:03:33.239 --> 02:03:35.960 if you want. I would get them something to grow on. 2166 02:03:36.359 --> 02:03:39.960 Now you could do. You could do like a livestock 2167 02:03:40.000 --> 02:03:43.239 panel that's on posts that's up a little higher in 2168 02:03:43.279 --> 02:03:45.279 the air, if you want to do that, and and 2169 02:03:45.399 --> 02:03:47.680 just tie them to it or weave them through it 2170 02:03:47.880 --> 02:03:51.479 as they grow. That would make a wall of foliage. 2171 02:03:51.520 --> 02:03:54.520 That hedged term you used, it would be more like 2172 02:03:54.560 --> 02:03:59.600 a hedge like growth to it. Okay, Yeah, that's the thing. 2173 02:03:59.640 --> 02:04:01.560 They just need to support. Some people just have a 2174 02:04:01.600 --> 02:04:04.159 single rail like a rail fence, and they tie them 2175 02:04:04.199 --> 02:04:06.840 to that and then they send out their new shoots 2176 02:04:06.840 --> 02:04:09.039 sprawling in all directions from that, and you just keep 2177 02:04:09.079 --> 02:04:09.800 them trimmed back. 2178 02:04:10.640 --> 02:04:14.039 And I've also seen a hedge of those out of 2179 02:04:14.119 --> 02:04:18.079 Nature's way resources and it was free standing. It was 2180 02:04:18.119 --> 02:04:20.640 out in the middle of their garden. It was just beautiful. 2181 02:04:20.920 --> 02:04:23.159 They just without any support, and I just didn't I 2182 02:04:23.159 --> 02:04:26.600 would that would be my preference versus you know the support. 2183 02:04:27.079 --> 02:04:28.720 You know there is a fence behind it, but I 2184 02:04:28.760 --> 02:04:30.439 was hoping to get far enough away from the fence 2185 02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:32.239 that it didn't train on the fence. 2186 02:04:33.520 --> 02:04:35.960 Okay, well you can do that. I would think that 2187 02:04:35.960 --> 02:04:38.840 would be a pretty thick hedge, right that you saw. 2188 02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:39.359 Yes, it was. 2189 02:04:39.640 --> 02:04:43.720 It was wo pretty thick, probably three four foot yeah wide, 2190 02:04:44.479 --> 02:04:47.079 But it looked like they trimmed it and kept it 2191 02:04:47.119 --> 02:04:49.600 as it was kind of a squarish hedge, but it 2192 02:04:49.680 --> 02:04:50.399 was beautiful when it was. 2193 02:04:50.520 --> 02:04:54.119 Okay, well, you could do that. You could certainly do 2194 02:04:54.199 --> 02:04:56.800 that as well. Just just trim the things that are 2195 02:04:56.840 --> 02:04:59.199 growing in directions you don't want it to grow and 2196 02:04:59.479 --> 02:05:02.039 leave everything else. That would be another approach to it. 2197 02:05:04.199 --> 02:05:06.680 I've never tried that. I've never tried it that way. 2198 02:05:07.600 --> 02:05:10.279 Okay, Well, I appreciate your help. And I was a 2199 02:05:10.319 --> 02:05:12.600 little surprised by the ten foot spacing. I would have 2200 02:05:12.600 --> 02:05:14.039 thought it had been closer to three or four. 2201 02:05:14.079 --> 02:05:18.840 But if if well, I mean you can put them closer. Well, 2202 02:05:18.920 --> 02:05:22.279 what I'm telling you is my way would be taking 2203 02:05:22.319 --> 02:05:26.359 all the growth and training those long gangly shoots down 2204 02:05:26.439 --> 02:05:30.359 that fence. Uh. And so I've got one. I have 2205 02:05:30.359 --> 02:05:33.239 a peggy Martin on one corner of an arbor in 2206 02:05:33.279 --> 02:05:37.880 my backyard, and it is already going probably ten feet 2207 02:05:39.119 --> 02:05:42.960 across the arbor and spreading everywhere. And that's just that's 2208 02:05:43.039 --> 02:05:45.039 just that one. And that's after the dogs chooted for 2209 02:05:45.039 --> 02:05:49.560 the ground twice. But that's another story. But anyway, you know. 2210 02:05:50.119 --> 02:05:52.279 Yeah, they just don't they don't seem to do as 2211 02:05:52.279 --> 02:05:53.720 well in pots. So I wanted to get these in 2212 02:05:53.760 --> 02:05:54.159 the ground. 2213 02:05:55.520 --> 02:05:57.840 Okay, Yeah, that's true. No, they do, they do, and 2214 02:05:57.880 --> 02:06:00.880 they will grow vigorously. And if you line them closer, 2215 02:06:01.039 --> 02:06:03.159 you know, than ten feet, you can do that, it's 2216 02:06:03.159 --> 02:06:06.960 just gonna it's gonna fill in faster. So there's there's 2217 02:06:07.000 --> 02:06:10.560 not a magical certain distance that you would plant based 2218 02:06:10.560 --> 02:06:11.840 on what you're trying to achieve. 2219 02:06:12.720 --> 02:06:14.760 Okay, I might try to bring those together where, like 2220 02:06:14.760 --> 02:06:16.239 you said, get a quicker fill. 2221 02:06:17.640 --> 02:06:20.800 The yes, that that would give you quicker fill for sure. Hey, 2222 02:06:20.800 --> 02:06:23.520 thanks for the call. I appreciate it. All right, you 2223 02:06:23.600 --> 02:06:27.920 take take care, bye bye bye. All right, we're gonna 2224 02:06:28.119 --> 02:06:30.199 where we know Okay, I got time. We're gonna go 2225 02:06:30.399 --> 02:06:35.479 to Westbury and talk to Anthony. Hey, Anthony, good morning. 2226 02:06:37.199 --> 02:06:40.199 My rose Bush is doing something really awkward. I have 2227 02:06:40.239 --> 02:06:44.199 one stem from the trunk. It's really shot up. It's 2228 02:06:44.199 --> 02:06:47.560 about five feet tall. I was looking to prune it. However, 2229 02:06:48.359 --> 02:06:52.439 the upper half has very healthy pedals. In fact, there's 2230 02:06:52.439 --> 02:06:56.399 a bloom coming up and there's nothing on the lower half. 2231 02:06:56.520 --> 02:06:58.880 No, no petals, no stems or anything. 2232 02:06:59.560 --> 02:07:00.640 If five pruning. 2233 02:07:00.399 --> 02:07:04.880 It too down, will the pedals start coming up from 2234 02:07:04.920 --> 02:07:05.600 the lower half? 2235 02:07:07.239 --> 02:07:08.840 Is this a climbing rose? 2236 02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:10.560 No? 2237 02:07:12.600 --> 02:07:15.439 Do you know the variety? 2238 02:07:16.279 --> 02:07:21.760 Yes, I've got the car here his works. We're giveaways 2239 02:07:21.800 --> 02:07:26.479 from where I work, and I didn't realize. Uh they okay, 2240 02:07:26.640 --> 02:07:34.239 from one of those box stores. And it's called let 2241 02:07:34.239 --> 02:07:41.840 me see here, Uh for bunda angel face that mean anything? 2242 02:07:41.880 --> 02:07:46.800 Okay, angel face. It's a flora flora flora bunder rose. Okay. So, uh, 2243 02:07:47.239 --> 02:07:51.319 Roses bloom at the end of shoots. So if you 2244 02:07:51.479 --> 02:07:53.800 have one shoot coming up, it's gonna have a rose 2245 02:07:53.880 --> 02:07:57.359 up at the top. That's how that works. Or a 2246 02:07:57.399 --> 02:08:00.319 cluster of roses Flora bundas will produce you They get 2247 02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:03.279 a cluster of roses on it. But if you prune 2248 02:08:03.359 --> 02:08:06.720 that shoot and now three shoots sprout out as a 2249 02:08:06.760 --> 02:08:09.680 result of cutting the shoot back a little bit, then 2250 02:08:09.720 --> 02:08:13.720 you can have three terminals with blooms on them. And 2251 02:08:13.800 --> 02:08:17.680 so as you develop a more bushy rose instead of 2252 02:08:17.720 --> 02:08:21.119 a long lanky shoot, you have a fuller amount of shoots, 2253 02:08:21.159 --> 02:08:23.640 you're going to have more and more blooms produced as 2254 02:08:23.680 --> 02:08:26.199 a result, and they'll be down lower as well. You know, 2255 02:08:26.279 --> 02:08:28.159 as you described this one went way up and out 2256 02:08:28.159 --> 02:08:31.159 of bloom at the top, So you can bring that 2257 02:08:31.199 --> 02:08:34.479 down a little bit. But that's the pruning process. You 2258 02:08:34.479 --> 02:08:37.119 prune it as it regrows, it blooms, and then you 2259 02:08:37.439 --> 02:08:40.000 print it back again. If it's a shrub type rose, 2260 02:08:40.439 --> 02:08:42.840 you just prune it back again. And the more shoots 2261 02:08:42.880 --> 02:08:46.279 that break out and grow from that pruning, the more 2262 02:08:46.319 --> 02:08:47.680 blooming you're going to have on it. 2263 02:08:49.279 --> 02:08:55.319 Okay, so then I should feel comfortable that the stems 2264 02:08:55.359 --> 02:08:59.560 will start to come out where there is it's bear 2265 02:08:59.640 --> 02:09:02.960 stem right now. Absolutely, there's nothing, yes, except on the 2266 02:09:03.079 --> 02:09:03.560 upper half. 2267 02:09:04.199 --> 02:09:07.479 Okay. Yes, you can print it back and think about 2268 02:09:07.560 --> 02:09:10.479 like hybrid te roses in a formal herb gard or 2269 02:09:10.560 --> 02:09:13.840 rose garden. They cut those things back to like two 2270 02:09:13.840 --> 02:09:16.199 feet high, you know, I mean they and they just 2271 02:09:16.239 --> 02:09:18.479 look like a bunch of sticks when they get through. 2272 02:09:19.039 --> 02:09:21.159 But all the fresh new growth comes out and they 2273 02:09:21.199 --> 02:09:23.720 bloom beautifully, so don't be afraid to cut those things 2274 02:09:23.760 --> 02:09:25.920 back to the height that you want. Cut them a 2275 02:09:25.960 --> 02:09:27.840 little shorter than you want, because they're going to grow 2276 02:09:27.880 --> 02:09:31.079 back up a little bit from where you cut them. Right, 2277 02:09:31.640 --> 02:09:35.800 very well. Thank you all right, sir, Thank you appreciate 2278 02:09:35.880 --> 02:09:37.920 the call. Good luck with that. Send me a picture 2279 02:09:37.960 --> 02:09:40.319 whenever you get the whene of you get some blooms 2280 02:09:40.359 --> 02:09:42.760 on that, I'd love to see how they look. That 2281 02:09:42.800 --> 02:09:45.279 would be fun. Well, it is time for me to 2282 02:09:45.319 --> 02:09:47.279 take a break. I will be right back with more 2283 02:09:47.319 --> 02:09:50.279 of your calls. Seven one three two one two kat 2284 02:09:50.720 --> 02:09:55.760 r H. Welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, 2285 02:09:55.760 --> 02:09:58.159 if you'd like to give us a call, we have 2286 02:09:58.279 --> 02:10:01.760 got thirty minutes in the show today. I'd be happy 2287 02:10:01.760 --> 02:10:04.359 to help you before. If not, we can wait till 2288 02:10:04.359 --> 02:10:06.479 next week and do it on Saturday or Sunday next week. 2289 02:10:06.479 --> 02:10:09.079 We're here every Saturday and Sunday from six am to 2290 02:10:09.279 --> 02:10:12.239 ten am. Thanks for being a guarden Line listener. And 2291 02:10:12.279 --> 02:10:15.319 tell your family and friends and neighbors, especially the neighbor 2292 02:10:15.359 --> 02:10:17.880 that won't you take care of his landscape, tell them 2293 02:10:17.920 --> 02:10:19.960 about garden Line so they can listen in too. You 2294 02:10:20.000 --> 02:10:24.239 can hear us live on KTRH seven forty am. You 2295 02:10:24.279 --> 02:10:26.479 can listen to us on your computer if you'd aluck 2296 02:10:26.560 --> 02:10:30.640 to do that, or you can download the iHeart Media 2297 02:10:30.720 --> 02:10:34.600 app and listen live on the iHeartMedia app. Oh my gosh, 2298 02:10:34.600 --> 02:10:37.079 I got music going here. I'm trying to shut it 2299 02:10:37.159 --> 02:10:39.680 down and I do not know how to do that. 2300 02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:43.199 Let me there we go, coming in off the side. 2301 02:10:43.680 --> 02:10:46.439 The iHeartMedia app will allow you to listen live. So 2302 02:10:46.520 --> 02:10:48.439 you can take your phone, go out in the garden, 2303 02:10:49.039 --> 02:10:51.600 turn the phone upside down, turn the speaker on loud, 2304 02:10:51.760 --> 02:10:54.319 and listen to Guarden Line while your garden, and who knows, 2305 02:10:54.319 --> 02:10:56.640 maybe you'll take a picture and email it to me 2306 02:10:56.640 --> 02:10:58.840 and call in and we can talk about it. There. 2307 02:10:59.479 --> 02:11:03.399 Other other you know, podcasting types of apps carry Guardline 2308 02:11:03.439 --> 02:11:06.039 as well, of course, but for the live listen, the 2309 02:11:06.079 --> 02:11:08.880 iHeart Media apps the way to go. So just some 2310 02:11:08.960 --> 02:11:12.319 different ways to do that. I've talked about the folks 2311 02:11:12.319 --> 02:11:16.680 that fix my slab foundation repair, specifically Ty Strickland, the owner, 2312 02:11:17.279 --> 02:11:20.560 many many times. You know, I don't know anyone who 2313 02:11:20.600 --> 02:11:25.840 has got the experience and the business perspective that I 2314 02:11:25.960 --> 02:11:27.880 find so helpful. And what I mean by that is 2315 02:11:27.880 --> 02:11:30.000 TI's been doing this for twenty three years. You know 2316 02:11:30.039 --> 02:11:34.399 he's a native Heystonian, fifth generation Texan. Tye knows what 2317 02:11:34.680 --> 02:11:37.479 he's doing. He understands our soils, the way they shrink 2318 02:11:37.520 --> 02:11:40.960 and swell and move and cause problems in your sidewalk, 2319 02:11:41.000 --> 02:11:43.600 problems in your driveway, and worst of all, problems in 2320 02:11:43.640 --> 02:11:47.279 your home foundation. The thing I like about Tye's approach 2321 02:11:47.319 --> 02:11:49.920 to business is he looks at it this way. When 2322 02:11:49.960 --> 02:11:52.279 he shows up for a job, Number one, he's going 2323 02:11:52.319 --> 02:11:55.520 to show up on time. That is important. Had a 2324 02:11:55.600 --> 02:11:58.840 plumber come out to the house when was this just 2325 02:11:58.920 --> 02:12:02.439 a few days a week ago? And he said, I'll 2326 02:12:02.479 --> 02:12:05.880 be there Saturday morning. Well, Saturday morning canan mo went 2327 02:12:06.640 --> 02:12:08.840 Finally late in the day. I call him, Hey, what's 2328 02:12:08.880 --> 02:12:10.560 going on? And he shows up at the end of 2329 02:12:10.560 --> 02:12:12.439 the day. I was lucky even came the same day. 2330 02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:17.760 Ty shows up on time. Tye prices his work fairly. 2331 02:12:18.119 --> 02:12:22.960 That is important fair pricing. And also very important is 2332 02:12:23.000 --> 02:12:26.039 when ty fixes it, he fixes it right. It's not 2333 02:12:26.319 --> 02:12:28.720 like halfway. It's not like he fixed it but it 2334 02:12:28.760 --> 02:12:30.920 broke again kind of thing. He knows what he's doing. 2335 02:12:31.359 --> 02:12:32.800 You can give him a call at two eight one 2336 02:12:32.840 --> 02:12:35.760 two five, five forty nine forty nine two eight one 2337 02:12:36.199 --> 02:12:38.439 two five forty nine forty nine. Tell him you reguard 2338 02:12:38.520 --> 02:12:42.560 one listener free estimates for garden line listeners. So when 2339 02:12:42.560 --> 02:12:44.840 you see cracks in the brick on the outside, when 2340 02:12:44.880 --> 02:12:47.640 you see cracks in the sheet rock on the inside, 2341 02:12:47.680 --> 02:12:50.319 when you got doors that are sticking, that is just 2342 02:12:50.399 --> 02:12:53.199 something's moving. You need to give him a call. Go 2343 02:12:53.239 --> 02:12:58.520 to the website fix myslab dot com. Fix myslab dot 2344 02:12:58.560 --> 02:13:02.800 com to eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. 2345 02:13:04.720 --> 02:13:08.199 Nobody wants foundation problems. I mean, it's like, oh my gosh, 2346 02:13:08.279 --> 02:13:10.600 kind of like me with my plumbing. It's like, oh man, 2347 02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:13.720 I don't want to deal with this. But don't be 2348 02:13:13.760 --> 02:13:15.560 an ostrich and put your head in the sand. Go 2349 02:13:15.560 --> 02:13:17.640 ahead and get it taken care of. What you'll find 2350 02:13:17.640 --> 02:13:19.880 a lot of times too is you may be surprised 2351 02:13:20.039 --> 02:13:23.119 at Tie's assessment. I talked to him a long while 2352 02:13:23.159 --> 02:13:26.840 back about a situation one of my daughters had at 2353 02:13:26.840 --> 02:13:29.039 their house and what we were looking at and all 2354 02:13:29.039 --> 02:13:31.159 the information and stuff, and you know, he said, you 2355 02:13:31.239 --> 02:13:34.920 know what, that is not worth fixing right now. It's 2356 02:13:35.079 --> 02:13:38.000 it's within the range of what is acceptable you know, 2357 02:13:38.079 --> 02:13:40.439 and I wouldn't. I wouldn't go into the time, money 2358 02:13:40.479 --> 02:13:43.720 and expensive fixing it. I was surprised. I thought if 2359 02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:45.960 there was any kind of an issue, you had to 2360 02:13:45.960 --> 02:13:49.239 do something right away on it. Well, not necessarily. Each 2361 02:13:49.279 --> 02:13:52.680 situation is different, and Tyle shoot straight with you on that. 2362 02:13:54.800 --> 02:13:56.840 You were listening to garden Line. We've been talking about 2363 02:13:56.840 --> 02:13:59.880 a lot of folks to a lot of folks today. 2364 02:14:00.760 --> 02:14:02.479 It's kind of quiet right now on the phones if 2365 02:14:02.479 --> 02:14:03.640 you'd like to get through on a call, and that 2366 02:14:03.680 --> 02:14:07.079 would be a good time. This is our second to 2367 02:14:07.199 --> 02:14:10.800 last segment that we're winding up here. It is important 2368 02:14:11.279 --> 02:14:13.640 when you are going to have success in the garden 2369 02:14:14.039 --> 02:14:18.279 to just understand some basic things. Plants need. Plants need 2370 02:14:18.319 --> 02:14:22.359 good drainage, plants need good light, plants need good soil. 2371 02:14:22.560 --> 02:14:26.359 That's first, first of all, soil quality, and need to 2372 02:14:26.439 --> 02:14:31.439 plant things that are adapted to here. Sometimes that means 2373 02:14:31.600 --> 02:14:34.840 it's a species that grows here. That are species that 2374 02:14:34.880 --> 02:14:37.640 doesn't grow here that you don't want to plant. Sometimes 2375 02:14:37.640 --> 02:14:41.119 it's a cult of our variety that grows here. And 2376 02:14:41.399 --> 02:14:45.920 sometimes it just understanding which ones will do best. Sometimes 2377 02:14:45.920 --> 02:14:48.640 it means going, hey, you know what I need to 2378 02:14:48.760 --> 02:14:52.399 have a second variety to pollinate the first briety. Like, 2379 02:14:52.520 --> 02:14:55.239 how about this, If you're going to plant a peach tree, 2380 02:14:55.239 --> 02:14:57.520 do you need two trees so they can pollinate each other? 2381 02:14:58.920 --> 02:15:02.479 There's no a self pollinating If you're going to plant 2382 02:15:02.479 --> 02:15:05.279 a plum tree, do you need two to pollinate each other? 2383 02:15:06.079 --> 02:15:09.800 In most cases, but there are some that are self 2384 02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:13.279 pollinating with beaches. They are all self pollinating with plums some, 2385 02:15:13.800 --> 02:15:16.760 but it never hurts the plant a second variety. Take blueberries, 2386 02:15:16.760 --> 02:15:21.159 for example, a blueberry can produce berries itself without a 2387 02:15:21.199 --> 02:15:25.479 partner plant, but you will get more and bigger berries 2388 02:15:25.960 --> 02:15:29.600 if you put a second variety with your first variety. 2389 02:15:29.760 --> 02:15:32.119 Now why is that? Well, have you ever been into 2390 02:15:32.159 --> 02:15:34.840 a blueberry and seen the little, tiny soft seeds inside? 2391 02:15:35.239 --> 02:15:39.279 You know, there can be dozens of seeds in a blueberry, 2392 02:15:39.680 --> 02:15:45.239 and everyone that gets pollinated makes that berry bigger. Seeds 2393 02:15:45.239 --> 02:15:49.239 give off hormones that make fruit bigger, and so a 2394 02:15:49.279 --> 02:15:55.119 well pollinated blueberry will be larger than a poorly pollinated blueberry. 2395 02:15:55.239 --> 02:15:59.119 That's why we do two varieties for that. Apples generally 2396 02:15:59.159 --> 02:16:02.199 are going to require pollination pairs kind of a mixed 2397 02:16:02.199 --> 02:16:05.439 bag there, but they it's generally good to have a 2398 02:16:05.479 --> 02:16:08.640 second variety, but they can self pollinate. It's not a problem. 2399 02:16:08.920 --> 02:16:12.159 So what do you do when you've got a fruit 2400 02:16:12.159 --> 02:16:15.680 tree that is a lonely Hearts club fruit tree. Let's 2401 02:16:15.720 --> 02:16:20.880 say it is an apple and it needed a variety, 2402 02:16:20.960 --> 02:16:23.600 but you only have one. It needs another one. Well, 2403 02:16:23.680 --> 02:16:25.840 you could go find a neighbor with a different variety, 2404 02:16:26.000 --> 02:16:28.079 cut a little branch off, put it in a little 2405 02:16:28.119 --> 02:16:30.399 pail of water, stick it underneath the tree, or hang it. 2406 02:16:30.439 --> 02:16:33.159 Put in a coke can hang it from the branches 2407 02:16:33.600 --> 02:16:36.319 and let the bees visit that trimmed off branch from 2408 02:16:36.360 --> 02:16:40.639 your neighbors and yours and pollinate itself while you plant 2409 02:16:40.760 --> 02:16:43.319 and get another one up to speed so you can 2410 02:16:43.360 --> 02:16:46.520 have the cross pollination. Right there, Just an idea, a 2411 02:16:46.600 --> 02:16:49.159 way to deal with things when you need a pollinator 2412 02:16:49.200 --> 02:16:51.680 and you ain't got one. Well, it'll get you through. 2413 02:16:51.760 --> 02:16:54.319 But in the meantime, find some that's going to be 2414 02:16:54.360 --> 02:16:57.040 a good pollinator and add it to your planting so 2415 02:16:57.079 --> 02:16:58.719 you can have success. All right, we're going to take 2416 02:16:58.719 --> 02:17:01.840 a little break. We'll be back for our last segment. 2417 02:17:01.879 --> 02:17:03.600 The phone number if you'd like to call seven one 2418 02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:08.440 three two one two kt RH. Hey, we're gonna jump 2419 02:17:08.559 --> 02:17:10.280 right in here on Guardline. We've got a couple of 2420 02:17:10.280 --> 02:17:13.399 calls we're gonna finish up with today. I did want 2421 02:17:13.440 --> 02:17:15.680 to remind you again that if you're looking for some 2422 02:17:15.719 --> 02:17:19.719 holiday shopping, ACE Hardware has got you covered, from kids 2423 02:17:19.799 --> 02:17:23.559 toys to adult toy. You know, the tools for the 2424 02:17:23.639 --> 02:17:26.760 do it yourself, the tools for the in the kitchen, 2425 02:17:26.920 --> 02:17:30.239 for the cooker, the cooking, the chef, the whatever you 2426 02:17:30.280 --> 02:17:33.600 got in there. They just have a lot of things. 2427 02:17:33.600 --> 02:17:35.520 You walk in there and you look at the decorations 2428 02:17:35.559 --> 02:17:37.639 that they have, it is amazing. You're going to find 2429 02:17:37.719 --> 02:17:39.719 so many cool things when you go into an ACE 2430 02:17:39.719 --> 02:17:43.959 Hardware store. Each is independently, open owned, so each has 2431 02:17:44.000 --> 02:17:46.360 its own flavor. They're all Ace. They have the standard 2432 02:17:46.360 --> 02:17:48.840 A stuff, but each has its own flavor, and you 2433 02:17:49.079 --> 02:17:51.000 be really surprised. You know, you can find ACE Hardware 2434 02:17:51.040 --> 02:17:54.799 stores all over the place. For example, there is Wharton 2435 02:17:54.840 --> 02:17:57.159 Feed and Ace down in Wharton, Texas. I was there 2436 02:17:57.159 --> 02:18:00.920 given a talk earlier this year. Plantation out there in 2437 02:18:01.040 --> 02:18:05.399 Richmond and Rosenberg. There's the Sinko ranch Ase in Katie. 2438 02:18:05.600 --> 02:18:08.399 I was at that one as well this year. You 2439 02:18:08.440 --> 02:18:11.200 can go all the way up to Lake Conroe. ACE 2440 02:18:11.239 --> 02:18:14.000 for all seasons. Ace and willis forty of them around 2441 02:18:14.040 --> 02:18:18.159 the area. Just go to Acehardware dot com and look 2442 02:18:18.200 --> 02:18:21.120 for the store locator and find the ones near you. 2443 02:18:21.559 --> 02:18:24.280 While you're there, pick up your holiday lights for indoors 2444 02:18:24.280 --> 02:18:28.280 and outdoors. Pick up your holiday decorations for indoors and outdoors. Because, 2445 02:18:28.680 --> 02:18:31.680 as they like to say, ACE is the place. We're 2446 02:18:31.680 --> 02:18:33.559 going to go. Now to the phones, and I'm gonna 2447 02:18:33.600 --> 02:18:36.319 go to Southwest Houston. We're gonna talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, 2448 02:18:36.360 --> 02:18:37.440 Welcome to garden line. 2449 02:18:38.280 --> 02:18:43.879 Oh hi, I have two questions. My peach tree didn't 2450 02:18:43.879 --> 02:18:47.600 get enough water when I was out of town, and 2451 02:18:48.040 --> 02:18:50.879 then when I watered it when I came back, it bloomed. 2452 02:18:51.319 --> 02:18:53.920 Does that mean I want to shake peaches next year? 2453 02:18:55.360 --> 02:18:58.639 Probably? That is a stress response. When they go into 2454 02:18:58.639 --> 02:19:01.440 a late season drought and then they're perked up again, 2455 02:19:02.479 --> 02:19:04.920 they will It's almost like they went through winter and 2456 02:19:04.959 --> 02:19:07.200 they come back out with blooms in the fall. And 2457 02:19:07.239 --> 02:19:10.639 so it's possible that there were a few blooms that 2458 02:19:10.680 --> 02:19:12.639 didn't open that will open in spring, but I would 2459 02:19:12.639 --> 02:19:16.079 I would not expect that, Okay. 2460 02:19:15.799 --> 02:19:18.600 And then I have a very large oak tree is 2461 02:19:18.639 --> 02:19:22.840 probably you know, like sixty seventy years old, and if 2462 02:19:22.879 --> 02:19:26.879 I cut it down, you know it's getting old. Do 2463 02:19:27.040 --> 02:19:31.680 I and I have the stump ground? How long until 2464 02:19:31.680 --> 02:19:33.520 I can plant a contry in that area? 2465 02:19:35.600 --> 02:19:37.639 You can plant one a little off to the side 2466 02:19:37.840 --> 02:19:41.000 at any time you want. When you grind a plant, 2467 02:19:41.040 --> 02:19:42.840 they try to get all the wood chips out, but 2468 02:19:43.040 --> 02:19:45.680 they don't. They get mixed in the soil and all 2469 02:19:45.719 --> 02:19:48.360 that wood initially ties up a lot of nitrogen as 2470 02:19:48.360 --> 02:19:51.760 it begins to decompose. And then that area that you 2471 02:19:51.799 --> 02:19:55.479 thought was level sinks down because as the soil settles 2472 02:19:55.559 --> 02:19:58.479 and as the wood rots away, it just drops the 2473 02:19:58.559 --> 02:20:02.399 level down. So how the mounded up when you're when 2474 02:20:02.399 --> 02:20:04.959 you're done, and that way, when it sinks down, it'll 2475 02:20:05.040 --> 02:20:07.000 end up more on the level. Get as much of 2476 02:20:07.000 --> 02:20:10.239 the woodchips out as you can. Once it is sunken down, 2477 02:20:10.840 --> 02:20:13.239 then you can go ahead and plant in it. It's 2478 02:20:13.280 --> 02:20:15.040 just you don't want to plant a pecan and then 2479 02:20:15.120 --> 02:20:17.920 suddenly now it's too deep because it's it's sunken down 2480 02:20:17.920 --> 02:20:25.879 a little bit. Okay, So the best time of year 2481 02:20:26.000 --> 02:20:32.040 to plant up a country, all right, is well you 2482 02:20:32.079 --> 02:20:35.799 now fall is good winter is good. Spring is Okay. 2483 02:20:36.559 --> 02:20:38.760 You can plant them in the summer, but it's a 2484 02:20:38.799 --> 02:20:41.479 lot more stressful time. It's more touch and go and 2485 02:20:41.559 --> 02:20:45.639 difficult to have success compared to planting in the fall 2486 02:20:45.760 --> 02:20:46.120 or winter. 2487 02:20:47.719 --> 02:20:49.000 Okay, thank you so much. 2488 02:20:50.399 --> 02:20:52.719 All right now, I would say bring me half the 2489 02:20:52.719 --> 02:20:55.200 pecans you get, but I can't wait that long, Sandy, 2490 02:20:55.239 --> 02:20:57.040 So we're gonna let you have this one for free. 2491 02:20:57.760 --> 02:20:58.200 Take care. 2492 02:20:58.440 --> 02:20:59.280 Thank you so much. 2493 02:20:59.479 --> 02:21:03.200 Fight By, We're gonna go out to Hockley now and 2494 02:21:03.239 --> 02:21:07.680 talk to Rob. Hey, Rob, welcome to garden Line, Thanks sir, 2495 02:21:07.799 --> 02:21:08.159 Thank you. 2496 02:21:08.280 --> 02:21:08.440 Hey. 2497 02:21:08.479 --> 02:21:10.920 I've got a little a little tree issue. 2498 02:21:11.200 --> 02:21:11.920 Uh. 2499 02:21:12.200 --> 02:21:15.559 I bought an Eagleston holly uh about a year ago 2500 02:21:16.520 --> 02:21:18.959 and I've planted in my side yard over there and 2501 02:21:18.959 --> 02:21:21.680 it's about I guess six seven feet tall and it's 2502 02:21:21.799 --> 02:21:24.360 grown a little bit. But over the over the year 2503 02:21:24.479 --> 02:21:26.120 it's looks it looks. 2504 02:21:25.959 --> 02:21:26.799 Kind of puney. It. 2505 02:21:26.879 --> 02:21:28.520 We went through the heat and I said, well, I'm 2506 02:21:28.520 --> 02:21:33.719 not watering enough and then you go over water. So 2507 02:21:33.719 --> 02:21:36.239 so so I took my auger out there the other 2508 02:21:36.319 --> 02:21:39.120 day and just around the outside, I just kind of 2509 02:21:39.200 --> 02:21:42.120 drilled it along where the dirt edge was where it 2510 02:21:42.200 --> 02:21:45.600 was planted and it went down and it's and it's 2511 02:21:45.639 --> 02:21:48.200 it's mostly clay down there. But anyhow, when I got 2512 02:21:48.239 --> 02:21:51.079 to the bottom, it was just it was just soaking wet, 2513 02:21:51.319 --> 02:21:53.239 and and then so I'll pulled up all this mud 2514 02:21:53.600 --> 02:21:57.440 and got and so I said, well to make it, 2515 02:21:57.959 --> 02:21:59.879 I went all the way around it with that and 2516 02:21:59.920 --> 02:22:03.520 I actually pulled it out of the ground. And so 2517 02:22:03.719 --> 02:22:06.440 is that savablele Can I clean it up? And it's 2518 02:22:06.440 --> 02:22:08.120 still has leaves and it's still green. 2519 02:22:08.200 --> 02:22:13.479 It's just yeah, it was just yeah, it is, yeah. Absolutely. 2520 02:22:13.879 --> 02:22:17.159 You know, Rob, when you used your augur, how deep 2521 02:22:17.239 --> 02:22:18.879 did you have to go to get to soggy? 2522 02:22:19.440 --> 02:22:19.600 Uh? 2523 02:22:20.959 --> 02:22:25.280 I guess about a flip? Okay, all right, good, well 2524 02:22:25.360 --> 02:22:31.280 that's sunning decent. Yeah, that's some decent depth. Now, Hollys 2525 02:22:31.280 --> 02:22:33.159 don't want to grow in a swamp, so you need 2526 02:22:33.200 --> 02:22:39.200 to set your irrigation to avoid overwatering. But the first 2527 02:22:39.399 --> 02:22:42.559 two or three years of a holly's life it needs 2528 02:22:42.639 --> 02:22:46.440 to be kind of pampered along. I usually tell people 2529 02:22:46.479 --> 02:22:50.120 to hand water them as much as you can because 2530 02:22:50.239 --> 02:22:51.959 they have stiff leaves. And let's say you had a 2531 02:22:51.959 --> 02:22:54.079 sprink order that was in the bed and it was 2532 02:22:54.079 --> 02:22:57.959 spraying water one way, and anything that blocks that spray 2533 02:22:58.399 --> 02:23:00.879 prevents a section of soil from getting the water it 2534 02:23:00.920 --> 02:23:04.120 was supposed to get on it. And with hollyes, you 2535 02:23:04.159 --> 02:23:06.000 want to wet all the way around them with a 2536 02:23:06.000 --> 02:23:09.319 good soaking on a frequent basis to keep them moist. 2537 02:23:09.959 --> 02:23:12.639 And that's why I like canned watering because there you're 2538 02:23:12.639 --> 02:23:15.200 in charge. You know everything's getting watered properly at a 2539 02:23:15.200 --> 02:23:17.319 good depth, and your ideal with the auger is a 2540 02:23:17.319 --> 02:23:19.360 good one. By the way, you can you know how 2541 02:23:19.360 --> 02:23:22.959 we do aeration in our lawns and compost top dressing. 2542 02:23:23.479 --> 02:23:26.040 When you auger out, you could throw a compost down 2543 02:23:26.040 --> 02:23:29.639 in those holes too and let that decompose hollies or 2544 02:23:29.959 --> 02:23:33.719 love a forest floor environment. So adding composts down in 2545 02:23:33.799 --> 02:23:36.559 there just creates more of a rich soil over time 2546 02:23:37.040 --> 02:23:39.879 as you do auguring and compost top dressing and stuff. 2547 02:23:40.120 --> 02:23:43.120 And that's not something everybody the plants a holly needs 2548 02:23:43.120 --> 02:23:45.399 to do, but since you got the auger, I would 2549 02:23:45.399 --> 02:23:48.399 take advantage of that, but mainly keep them moist and 2550 02:23:48.559 --> 02:23:51.079 just remember the first three years until it gets a 2551 02:23:51.120 --> 02:23:54.520 good strong root system established, it's more touching go because 2552 02:23:54.520 --> 02:23:57.239 the roots are confined. The demands are high, especially in 2553 02:23:57.319 --> 02:24:00.760 summer heat this time of year. It's shouldn't need nearly 2554 02:24:00.799 --> 02:24:03.639 as much water. In fact, probably no supplemental water. But 2555 02:24:03.760 --> 02:24:05.079 just kind of watch it and see. 2556 02:24:05.840 --> 02:24:08.600 So can I take around the outside? I didn't go 2557 02:24:08.639 --> 02:24:10.280 out far enough when I made it, But can I 2558 02:24:10.319 --> 02:24:12.799 take a tiller and kind of just go down and 2559 02:24:12.840 --> 02:24:14.680 just till that and make the dirt a little bit 2560 02:24:15.520 --> 02:24:16.600 better for root? 2561 02:24:18.159 --> 02:24:20.920 What I would do? And yeah, instead of that, what 2562 02:24:20.959 --> 02:24:25.920 I would do is get a spading fork and put 2563 02:24:25.959 --> 02:24:28.799 some compost on top of the soil and push that 2564 02:24:28.840 --> 02:24:30.600 fork down. You may kind of wiggle it back and 2565 02:24:30.639 --> 02:24:32.159 forth with your foot on it to get it to 2566 02:24:32.159 --> 02:24:34.680 go straight down in the soil, and then pull back 2567 02:24:34.719 --> 02:24:37.040 on the handle and sort of crack open the soil. 2568 02:24:37.079 --> 02:24:38.879 We're not going to lift it and turn it over 2569 02:24:38.959 --> 02:24:41.319 and bend over and harder back, and we're just cracking 2570 02:24:41.360 --> 02:24:44.479 it open, and the compost will fall into those fissures 2571 02:24:44.520 --> 02:24:48.120 and things. It'll loosen the soil plenty for that, Holly, 2572 02:24:48.159 --> 02:24:50.000 you do not need to do a rototail. And I 2573 02:24:50.000 --> 02:24:52.399 think the way I'm describing it as better even than 2574 02:24:52.799 --> 02:24:53.639 trying to roll. 2575 02:24:53.440 --> 02:24:58.280 It towards that area. Yeah, excellent, excellent, Thanks sir. 2576 02:24:58.719 --> 02:25:02.840 You bet, thanks for the call, Lob. All right, there's 2577 02:25:02.879 --> 02:25:05.920 another guardenline in the books. Folks, the music is playing, 2578 02:25:06.600 --> 02:25:08.959 they say, it's not over until the fat Lady sings. 2579 02:25:09.319 --> 02:25:11.520 I don't have anyone to sing like that for you, 2580 02:25:11.639 --> 02:25:14.159 and you would not want me to, I promise you. 2581 02:25:15.159 --> 02:25:18.200 So we'll just say see you next weekend. In the meantime, 2582 02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:22.040 don't forget the Randy Lemon Scholarship on my website, Gardening 2583 02:25:22.360 --> 02:25:24.120 with Skip dot com.