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Speaker 4: Well. Welcome, Welcome to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 4: and we're here to answer gardening questions. Actually, why I'm
Speaker 4: here is so that you can have more bountiful garden
Speaker 4: and more beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. Boy,
Speaker 4: if we could achieve those three things, I would feel
Speaker 4: like that's a home run. You know, gardening is supposed
Speaker 4: to be a blast, and we have the ability to
Speaker 4: create a little spot of eden whatever that looks like
Speaker 4: to you in your property.
Speaker 5: We do.
Speaker 4: Maybe you're a lawn ranger, one of the guys that
Speaker 4: likes large expenses expenses excuse me, oh, maybe expensive to
Speaker 4: large expenses of turf grass. That's that's what you like,
Speaker 4: the perfect cut, the weedless lawn. Uh, just seeing everything
Speaker 4: nice and edged and pretty. Maybe you're on the other
Speaker 4: end of the spectrum and you like it wild, native plants,
Speaker 4: cottage gardens. You know, no straight lines, no orders, no,
Speaker 4: definitely not an engineer. If you feel that well, maybe not.
Speaker 4: If you feel that way, maybe you're somewhere in between.
Speaker 4: Do you like vegetable gardening? Grownk things you can eat,
Speaker 4: vegetables and fruit and herbs. Oh my gosh, we can
Speaker 4: grow all kinds here in the Greater Houston area. We
Speaker 4: are fortunate. You know, we're about to get into some
Speaker 4: cold and we'll be talking about that a lot today.
Speaker 4: I bet, and yes that that's a rough one. But
Speaker 4: by and large, this is a very temperate climate and
Speaker 4: the amount of really hard freezes that we have are
Speaker 4: very few and far between. That's why you see cetresol
Speaker 4: over the place. That's why you see avocado trees down here.
Speaker 4: For crying out loud, I mean, this is a great
Speaker 4: place to grow a lot of things. It's not. There
Speaker 4: are not a lot of places where you can grow
Speaker 4: apples and avocados in the same spot. But this is
Speaker 4: actually one where it could be done as long as
Speaker 4: you're willing to go to some links in order to
Speaker 4: do it well. The way we get from here to
Speaker 4: there is for you to give me a call. Seven
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Speaker 4: success that you're looking for. All Right, we'll start off
Speaker 4: with the elephant in the room, and we'll come back
Speaker 4: to the elephant. I bet a bunch of times today
Speaker 4: the elephant in the room is it's going to get
Speaker 4: really cold. And I realized that I've talked to someone
Speaker 4: the other day that listens over almost to San Antonio
Speaker 4: in that area, listens on the radio to the show,
Speaker 4: and some folks down Corpus direction over Louisiana and Huntsville.
Speaker 4: It's kind of hard to say how cold's going to
Speaker 4: get at your house when we're covering that kind of area.
Speaker 4: But we're looking at everything from the teens maybe down
Speaker 4: to just a little bit into the twenties below thirty,
Speaker 4: depending on where you live as you're listening to this broadcast. Well,
Speaker 4: that means that what you need to do has a
Speaker 4: big range as well, you know, and we're going to
Speaker 4: get down in the mid twenties. We got a lot
Speaker 4: of plants that are commonly grown here that are really
Speaker 4: going to need some protection to not have a significant
Speaker 4: loss to them. Fortunately, we have a lot of plants
Speaker 4: that are able or resprout from the base. I was
Speaker 4: just out doing a video, which by the way, I
Speaker 4: posted to Facebook yesterday on protecting plants from the cold,
Speaker 4: just kind of real quick went over basically how to
Speaker 4: cover a plant and put heat underneath it and so on.
Speaker 4: And I was using a plant that's kind of a
Speaker 4: semi tender one. And we have a number of plants
Speaker 4: like that, you know, the Pride of Barbados, sometimes called
Speaker 4: Redbird of Paradise. That's one that is not hard to
Speaker 4: kill that to the ground. It cannot take much cold
Speaker 4: at all and it'll go to the ground. But if
Speaker 4: you mound soil or compost or mulch over the base,
Speaker 4: I like to use finer textured things because they don't
Speaker 4: allow the air to move through as easily. Like a
Speaker 4: big old chunky mulch isn't as much unless you put
Speaker 4: it read deep. Isn't as much protection let's say per
Speaker 4: inch of depth as would be compost or soil. But
Speaker 4: either way you go, you want to mount something over
Speaker 4: the base of it, and it killed it to the ground,
Speaker 4: that's fine, and it'll come right back out of the ground.
Speaker 4: In fact, plants like that do well if they get
Speaker 4: killed of the ground. They just come out fresh and
Speaker 4: same as true with esperanza yellow bells. Plant it all
Speaker 4: over the place. Those plants are marginally hardy. Depending on
Speaker 4: where you live in the listening area, they're gonna get
Speaker 4: killed part way to the or killed back a little bit,
Speaker 4: or often killed all the way to the ground. When
Speaker 4: we have a good coal snap. If you have a
Speaker 4: plant like that and it gets half killed back and
Speaker 4: it looks horrible, cut it to the ground. I cut
Speaker 4: mine to the ground every year because they come right
Speaker 4: back out of the ground. And if you do that,
Speaker 4: the plant won't be so scraggedly. You know, you had
Speaker 4: one long stem that kind of half survived and then
Speaker 4: sums coming back out of the ground. Cut it all
Speaker 4: the ground, have it all fresh, come back out again,
Speaker 4: and you'll be good to go. Don't forget. Don't forget that.
Speaker 4: You can do that. Thry Alice. Thrialice is a well
Speaker 4: it would be evergreen if it didn't freeze. Hard bush
Speaker 4: that has yellow blooms, and it blooms probably more months
Speaker 4: of the year than almost any plant you're going to
Speaker 4: put in your landscape really continues blooming. Mine has a
Speaker 4: little bloom on it still. I don't know what that's about.
Speaker 4: We went through upper twenties. The other day, it's underneath
Speaker 4: the eaves of the house on the south side, and
Speaker 4: it didn't kill it back. I was a little surprised.
Speaker 4: I figured that might take it down. Well, we're going
Speaker 4: to take it down this week because I'm going to
Speaker 4: be down in the upper teens probably where I live,
Speaker 4: and so that is going to take it back. But
Speaker 4: I was talking about those. That's another one thry alis.
Speaker 4: It could be killed to the ground and it'll come
Speaker 4: right back out again. Duranta Golden showers is another name
Speaker 4: people use for that. Duranta will be killed the ground.
Speaker 4: Just mulch the base. I would say, don't worry about
Speaker 4: trying to protect those plants unless you're way south and
Speaker 4: you're in an area where you almost never killed those
Speaker 4: back to the ground. Then if you want to give
Speaker 4: some protection protect the above ground parts, you can. I
Speaker 4: just like coming out fresh with them. That's my approach.
Speaker 4: So you choose how you want to go about that.
Speaker 4: But that's that's like cold protection. One oh one is
Speaker 4: mult the base, Well, you don't have to cut it
Speaker 4: back now. In fact, I would suggest you don't cut
Speaker 4: them back prior to mulching uh. And the reason is
Speaker 4: pruning is an invigorating process. Pruning is an invigorating process,
Speaker 4: and I want to I want to make a couple
Speaker 4: of comments about that. We're gonna take a little break
Speaker 4: here in a minute, and when I come back, I
Speaker 4: want to discuss what happens to a plant when you
Speaker 4: prune it, and why we do or don't prune prior
Speaker 4: to going into a cold season or a cold weather
Speaker 4: and coming up soon. So we'll do that in just
Speaker 4: a moment. I do want to remind you if you'd
Speaker 4: like to give us a call and get on the boards.
Speaker 4: It's always quiet as early in the morning, so you
Speaker 4: kind of have first shot without waiting in line seven
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Speaker 4: Stay tuned. We'll be right back to talk about pruning
Speaker 4: and its effect on plants. All right, folks, we're back.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4: We've got a lot of things to cover today. I'll
Speaker 4: be talking about freeze and frost protection, certainly that some
Speaker 4: other concepts talk about printing here in just a little bit.
Speaker 4: As we get going, you know, when it comes to
Speaker 4: the cold weather, though, you need to be ready for it.
Speaker 4: And ACE Hardware stores have got you covered. Boy are they.
Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody from ASA other day and
Speaker 4: they are stocked up. They have everything you're gonna need.
Speaker 4: Do you need things like faucet covers? They've got that.
Speaker 4: Do you need that gadget called the freeze miser. You
Speaker 4: screw it into the end of your faucet and you
Speaker 4: turn your faucet on, just crank it up full force,
Speaker 4: and nothing happens. It just sits there and it as
Speaker 4: a temperature coals, something inside shrinks up and it starts
Speaker 4: to trickle water. And so the colder it gets, the
Speaker 4: more it's protecting that faucet. Doesn't that make sense? And
Speaker 4: then when the weather warms up, it stops dripping again,
Speaker 4: so you're not running water all night at a trickle
Speaker 4: trying to protect your lines. Fustymiser's really good. They got
Speaker 4: those at ACE. You can get insulation for your pipes.
Speaker 4: You can get that tape that you wrap around them,
Speaker 4: you know things. They have all kinds of things. Do
Speaker 4: you need to maintain your generator, make sure fires up
Speaker 4: in case there's some sort of issue with the power.
Speaker 4: They also can refill your propane tanks. They have propeane heaters,
Speaker 4: all kinds of heaters, electric heaters, overtype. You can imagine.
Speaker 4: You need some lugs for the fireplace. We always get
Speaker 4: excited when it gets cold because we get to run
Speaker 4: our fireplace. And so they've got that for you. Heat
Speaker 4: lamps for your for your plants, and I talk about
Speaker 4: that on that video by the way that I did
Speaker 4: on Facebook. Heat lamps for your plants and how to
Speaker 4: use them properly, and on and on and on. At
Speaker 4: your Houston Ace Hardware stores and I'm telling you Ace Hardware,
Speaker 4: they're a bunch of them all over the place. You
Speaker 4: can go to Ace Hardware dot Com find the one
Speaker 4: near you, or I'm just this. You've got Sinco Ranch
Speaker 4: on South Mason Road. There's an Ace Hardware right there.
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware, Sinco Ranch, Evaldie. Ace is on the east
Speaker 4: side of town, Crosby up in Crosby, Ace Hardware, Bay
Speaker 4: Cliff Ace Hardware just just south of the Chema and
Speaker 4: then Spring Ace Hardware. Those are just a few examples
Speaker 4: of the many Ace Hardware that we have. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: head out to the phone, said boy. I said Colin,
Speaker 4: it's quiet. Nick sorted, be not so quiet. We're gonna
Speaker 4: go to Mary in Houston. Hey Mary, good morning and
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line. All right, Mary, are you there?
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Well, welcome to garden Line. How can I
Speaker 4: help this morning?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 6: So I want to get someone a like a fruit
Speaker 6: tree or something like that that they can put on
Speaker 6: their patio and plant later. But they live in Brian
Speaker 6: Hollis Station. Is there a good okay nursery and nerbar?
Speaker 6: Is there a good fruit tree that you could recommend
Speaker 6: for that air.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: There are a couple of places up there that do
Speaker 4: carry some fruit trees, not going to quite have the
Speaker 4: same selection as you would find if you know you're
Speaker 4: it's about an hour from from Arborgate up up to there,
Speaker 4: and so I would you're not gonna find a better
Speaker 4: selection of fruit they then Beverly has there at Arborgate.
Speaker 4: I think that's worth the drive just to have the
Speaker 4: selection that you're looking for. As far as the types,
Speaker 4: pretty much everybody likes peaches, that's a safe one to
Speaker 4: go with. They do require pruning and care, and so
Speaker 4: if this is somebody that wants the least care fruit
Speaker 4: they can have, then it might be something like a fig,
Speaker 4: a fig tree. You can grow satsuma oranges up in
Speaker 4: Brian College Station. You just occasionally need to throw a
Speaker 4: cover over the top. Once they get established, they're going
Speaker 4: to take it down in the low twenties and so
Speaker 4: without cover, and so that that would be a sis
Speaker 4: type of option. Plus they get the fragrances from it.
Speaker 4: I mean, there are a lot of other kinds of fruit,
Speaker 4: but those are just a few that come to my
Speaker 4: mind when I just think about either easy or very
Speaker 4: very popular, or or offering some extra bonuses in addition
Speaker 4: to the fruit that you get off of.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's a good option, thank you. I was thinking
Speaker 6: about some kind of citrus tree.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. If you're going to give a citrus to
Speaker 4: someone in Brian Collis Station, it needs to be a setsuma. Now,
Speaker 4: there is a bush of a citrus called kumquat, and
Speaker 4: those are the little green, the little orange things the
Speaker 4: size of the end of your thumb that you basically
Speaker 4: make marmalade with because the skin tastes probably even better
Speaker 4: than the inside. They're heartier than satsumas. But it's a
Speaker 4: little bush and so a lot of people aren't wanting
Speaker 4: citrus for just marmalade.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, that works, thank you so much. I'll
Speaker 6: have to head head out to heart Gate.
Speaker 4: Then there you go, yeah, go down, and when you
Speaker 4: go there, they're going to tell you about some other
Speaker 4: things too.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: Another option. I don't know how much of a gift
Speaker 4: you want to make this, but if it was in
Speaker 4: a large container one of those looks like a half
Speaker 4: whiskey barrel, but it's it's plastic, you know, something with
Speaker 4: size on it, then you could be growing a mere
Speaker 4: lemon or even some types of limes. They just would
Speaker 4: have to roll them into the garage when it's going
Speaker 4: to get you know, below the upper twenties for sure.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, that could be Thanks, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Bye, yeah you bet bye bye. See here we're going
Speaker 4: to go now to Spring Branch and talk to Sally. Hey, Sally,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning.
Speaker 9: I'm concerned about by and ever littlest bulbs and irish bulbs,
Speaker 9: spider plants and wandering jew How can that particular?
Speaker 4: Okay, well, Emeralist is going to be fine. It's just
Speaker 4: that's what winner does. They die to the ground. It's
Speaker 4: not a problem. They'll be okay. You may find that
Speaker 4: they make it through. You know, in the in the
Speaker 4: city we have a little bit warmer temperatures than you
Speaker 4: do in the outskirts. There's that heat island effect of
Speaker 4: the city. If you want to throw a cover over them,
Speaker 4: just to protect that foliage that's there, you could throw
Speaker 4: any kind of a blanket or something over just to
Speaker 4: hole some of that warm soil heat in. But the
Speaker 4: bulbs won't be killed by this, nor will the iris
Speaker 4: bulbs be killed by this. They're pretty tough.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 4: The wandering jew is probably gonna gonna get top frozen,
Speaker 4: but it'll it won't die out completely again. A cover,
Speaker 4: just a sheet or blanket or anything over it, just
Speaker 4: to just to hold that soil heat in a little
Speaker 4: bit is going to be enough to get it through.
Speaker 4: If you don't want to have a lot of die
Speaker 4: back on the top.
Speaker 9: What about crotons.
Speaker 4: Crotons are very cold, tender, and you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: put a cover over them and then put light under them.
Speaker 4: And if you will, do you happen to be on
Speaker 4: Facebook by any chance? Yes, okay, fine, garden line Facebook page,
Speaker 4: my Facebook page, garden Line Facebook and I just posted
Speaker 4: yesterday a video on how to cover and this would
Speaker 4: apply very much to your crotons. It's a cover over it,
Speaker 4: a light under it, and it explains how did I
Speaker 4: explain how to do it? And I can do a
Speaker 4: better job if you watch that video than trying to
Speaker 4: describe it to you.
Speaker 9: Okay, any protection for the wandering jail or just leave
Speaker 9: it just a cover?
Speaker 4: Well you could leave it alone, or you could throw
Speaker 4: a cover over it to just maybe you know, not
Speaker 4: have freeze damage on the top part above ground parts
Speaker 4: and stuff.
Speaker 11: Oh I see.
Speaker 12: Alright, Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: All right you bet Sally, thanks for the call. Appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Are we on time? All right, We're good here. Let's
Speaker 4: go to Scott in Houston. Hey, Scott, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Thanks. Yeah, I recently removed the shed from my backyard
Speaker 5: and I've got a big dirt patch back there. Is
Speaker 5: there anything I can put on their rye grass or
Speaker 5: something or which one do you suggest until I can
Speaker 5: resaw it in the spring.
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a couple of approaches to it. One
Speaker 4: would be to try to side, but then we're kind
Speaker 4: of late and if we have some cold weather that
Speaker 4: that rye grass is not going to grow much until
Speaker 4: it's we have milder temperatures. I think you might consider
Speaker 4: like a bail of hay that you just spread over
Speaker 4: across that as something to kind of walk on and
Speaker 4: maltz the ground, or even some bags of compost and
Speaker 4: mulch or mulch itself would make it something you you
Speaker 4: could walk on, wouldn't be so muddy, and things like that,
Speaker 4: and then you just rake that up when it's time
Speaker 4: to serve. But you could you could do the rye grass.
Speaker 4: I just think at this point, I don't know that
Speaker 4: you would get the size of rye grass plants that
Speaker 4: would accomplish what you want before it's about times but
Speaker 4: sawed down anyway.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, well, thank you, all.
Speaker 4: Right, you've got thank you appreciate that. I'll zip right
Speaker 4: through these here. We're going to go out now to
Speaker 4: Seabrook and talk to Carol. Hello, Carol, Hi, I.
Speaker 13: Have a potted manned vilia and it has decided to
Speaker 13: start blooming. So I'm wondering if I should just let
Speaker 13: it treze and you know, let it come up from
Speaker 13: the roots, or should I move it into the garage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know down at Seabrook, your your amount of
Speaker 4: cold is less. If it were me, I would move
Speaker 4: it into the garage because Vanderville as an almost tropical
Speaker 4: kind of plant and it's not going to take a
Speaker 4: lot of hard cold and in a pot. Now instead
Speaker 4: of the roots being insult the soil, those roots are
Speaker 4: exposed to essentially below thirty air temperatures and that you
Speaker 4: can get significant killing damage to the crown and roots
Speaker 4: of the plant too there. So I would roll that
Speaker 4: thing into the garage and that way you're on the
Speaker 4: safe side. Plus you don't lose all the top growth
Speaker 4: that you have.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, I do have one more question, if I may,
Speaker 13: is there a day lily society.
Speaker 4: In the area, say that one more time, please a.
Speaker 13: Day lily society or club.
Speaker 4: There is. I don't have a contact for them. If
Speaker 4: I find that, I'll mention it on the air. But
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. Let's do this. If anybody's listening
Speaker 4: from a daily society or group, give me a call
Speaker 4: on guarden Line and let us know about how people
Speaker 4: can get in touch with you. Well, we'll do it
Speaker 4: that way as well.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, thank you very much. Have a good day.
Speaker 4: You you bet you as well. Thank you very much
Speaker 4: for the call. Appreciate that you All right, folks, there
Speaker 4: we go, we got that caught back up again. That's good.
Speaker 4: Let's see, we're looking at coming pretty close up to
Speaker 4: a a break here. I'm not going to get into
Speaker 4: let me think about Yeah, I'll tell you what I will.
Speaker 4: I will. I told you there was talk a little
Speaker 4: bit about some of the issues with pruning and plants.
Speaker 4: Pruning is a invigorating process. So when you prune, it
Speaker 4: causes new growth to take off and push out. And
Speaker 4: so although if you know, if it's freezing, there's not
Speaker 4: going to be much of that happening, but if you
Speaker 4: do it prior to a freeze, it actually is. There's
Speaker 4: a decrease in heartiness of the parts of the plant
Speaker 4: there that you're pruning, especially because it is going to
Speaker 4: push new growth. So I would not prune which is stimulating,
Speaker 4: prior to going into cold weather. And I don't mean
Speaker 4: just the day before, but I mean, you know, if
Speaker 4: you do it, we don't prune things in the fall
Speaker 4: for that reason. That's one reason you get a good
Speaker 4: hard freeze. So what you're going to want to do
Speaker 4: is hold off on that pruning until after the winner,
Speaker 4: and then cut all the dead stuff out and do
Speaker 4: the pruning at that point. Just go ahead, and sometimes
Speaker 4: the covering even helps protect underneath. I also did a
Speaker 4: video just a little while ago on leave your dead
Speaker 4: antanas and dead Mexican heather tops and things because they
Speaker 4: are protecting the plant's base. We'll be right back, all right,
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Guardline. If you're planning any fishing in
Speaker 4: the dark, you better be getting it done while it's
Speaker 4: dark now, because it's fixing to get cold and we're
Speaker 4: going to get some wind in here and the chills
Speaker 4: are going to be a little high to be up there.
Speaker 4: And I have been up on a lake with the
Speaker 4: wind blowing, and I can tell you this, it's better
Speaker 4: bring an extra coat for that. Well, you're listening to
Speaker 4: garden Line. We're here to help you have a more
Speaker 4: beautiful landscape, a bountiful garden, and like I like to say,
Speaker 4: it more fun in the process. That's important, you know,
Speaker 4: it's not. Some people get real I don't know, anxious
Speaker 4: about trying to garden. And I've had gosh, I have
Speaker 4: so many people tell me like, yeah, I tried that
Speaker 4: and it didn't work. And I can just tell they
Speaker 4: just feel like frustrated and that's too hard. I can't
Speaker 4: do it. I don't have a green thumb. Nope, no, no,
Speaker 4: none of that is true. None of you you. It's
Speaker 4: your thumb doesn't have a color. If you want to
Speaker 4: say brown and green thumbs, then I'll say it this way.
Speaker 4: All you need is to educate your thumb, and it
Speaker 4: makes it turn from brown to green. That's how that works.
Speaker 4: Grandma the reason she could do anything in the garden.
Speaker 4: It seemed to grow everything she touched. It's because you
Speaker 4: know how to take our plants. She just had some
Speaker 4: base sick understanding of what plants need and she provided
Speaker 4: them that along with picking plants that are going to
Speaker 4: do well in the area. And that just makes it
Speaker 4: look like you have a green thumb. So let's let's
Speaker 4: get that thumb educated. Give me a call. Seven one
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Speaker 4: talk about the kinds of things that are of interest
Speaker 4: to you. Answer those gardening questions. Uh RCW RCW nursery.
Speaker 4: You've probably been there many times before, but it's the
Speaker 4: one right there where Beltway eight and Highway two forty
Speaker 4: nine Tomball Parkway come together. They have gotten in their roses.
Speaker 4: And when RCW gets in roses, it is it is
Speaker 4: like an invasion. I mean, they have over two hundred
Speaker 4: varieties of the finest roses you're going to find in Houston,
Speaker 4: and they're available bars now two forty nine and belt
Speaker 4: wag eight. That's where you go by the way. They're
Speaker 4: open Monday through Friday seven am to four pm, today,
Speaker 4: eight am to five pm, and tomorrow ten am to
Speaker 4: five pm. So go by there and get that. I
Speaker 4: got a copy of that. In fact, I printed out
Speaker 4: you can do this off their website RCW nurseries dot com.
Speaker 4: I printed out their roselist, and I mean it is
Speaker 4: a chart that tells you about each rose, what growth
Speaker 4: hapen of row is a climber or a shrub ros
Speaker 4: for example? What class is a grand of flora, a
Speaker 4: Flora bunda. You know that kind of thing, whether it's
Speaker 4: fragrant or not, how big it gets a disease resistance.
Speaker 4: And let's see turn it over here, almost six pages
Speaker 4: like five and three quarter pages of roses. Yeah, two hundred.
Speaker 4: So if you're looking for a rose and you want
Speaker 4: some selection, and you want some people that know roses.
Speaker 4: RCWZ RCW nurseries dot Com. Again easy to get to
Speaker 4: Timball parkway bo wait eight, just put it in your
Speaker 4: maps and head that way. Grab you some really quality plants.
Speaker 4: Of course, they have a lot of other kinds of plants.
Speaker 4: They have some frost clout there as well. Of course
Speaker 4: they're ready to go on that. You need fertilizers to
Speaker 4: go along with the plants you purchased. They've got that
Speaker 4: other kind of supplies and good advice. They know what
Speaker 4: they're doing, very very important. RCW. Let's see, we're going
Speaker 4: to head out and now to Manville, Texas or Manville
Speaker 4: and talk to Patty. Hey, Patty, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 14: How are you this morning?
Speaker 4: I'm well thanks.
Speaker 14: I have a question about where I can send soil
Speaker 14: samples locally. Are there companies in the Houston area that
Speaker 14: will test my lawn soil to see why my Santa
Speaker 14: Augustine grass keeps dying?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 15: Well that's that keeps dying.
Speaker 4: Well, that's several questions in one. What what I would
Speaker 4: recommend you do is is send it. Just send it
Speaker 4: to the soil lab. It's I mean, it just up
Speaker 4: at college station. You can mail it if you don't
Speaker 4: want to drive it up there, you certainly can mail
Speaker 4: it in if you go to my website gardening with
Speaker 4: Skip dot com. There is a publication on soil testing
Speaker 4: tells you how to take a sample. It's very important
Speaker 4: that you take the sample right when you send it in.
Speaker 4: They have just hundreds of thousand dollars worth of equipment
Speaker 4: that will do a much better job of analyzing soil.
Speaker 4: Then you know, these little kits you buy, or maybe
Speaker 4: someone sticks their own pH meter or in it or something.
Speaker 4: You'll get a much better answer to it. And you
Speaker 4: can just do the standard soil test. When you get
Speaker 4: the results, if you want, you can email them to
Speaker 4: me and I could take a look at them and
Speaker 4: then call in and we'll disc us what you might need.
Speaker 4: If you're Saint Augustine is struggling, though, Patty, I would
Speaker 4: think soil would be probably about five down the list
Speaker 4: of what's likely a mount of sunlight, the watering diseases, insects,
Speaker 4: those are all more important than soil, I mean, than
Speaker 4: the nutrient.
Speaker 14: We treated it for everything. Since we had a chinch
Speaker 14: bug infestation, and then we got you know, associated farm
Speaker 14: dyeing whatnot. Because it was weakened from that. We have
Speaker 14: treated it with everything we can think of, and it
Speaker 14: just it keeps dying.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you what we need. Yeah, those are
Speaker 4: great products. You need to We probably need to take
Speaker 4: this kind of a month at a time, going into
Speaker 4: it and look at what's happening at that time. Do
Speaker 4: you have you ever seen my schedule online or printed
Speaker 4: it out?
Speaker 14: Oh no, I haven't.
Speaker 4: Okay, if you go to gardening, yes, okay, Well you
Speaker 4: may have one that Randy had done. I've done one
Speaker 4: that has multiple colors and goes into all of the
Speaker 4: different things. You might just check and make sure you
Speaker 4: have the most current one that that is gardening with
Speaker 4: skip dot com. If you look on there as you
Speaker 4: go across, it tells you when chinch bugs might be attacking,
Speaker 4: It tells you when sod webworms might be attacking, when
Speaker 4: to treat for take all root rot, when to treat
Speaker 4: for brown patch or gray leaf spot or whatever. And
Speaker 4: I think looking at that timing is going to be
Speaker 4: very important. And then be careful when you use products
Speaker 4: that prevent weeds or that kill existing weeds. If you
Speaker 4: misuse them in application or in timing of it, you
Speaker 4: can cause problems that also weaken your lawn and make
Speaker 4: it more likely to have to be killed by something
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 14: Okay, all right, well I'll print that out and we'll
Speaker 14: change it over to that schedule. And I've often thought
Speaker 14: that I'd rather not use any products that prevent we
Speaker 14: just pull them up.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you for getting Yeah, and as you go
Speaker 4: into twenty twenty five launch season, anytime you see a problem,
Speaker 4: take a picture, send it to me, and then give
Speaker 4: me a call. Let's let's get to the bottom of it,
Speaker 4: because I think we can solve this. Thank you very
Speaker 4: much for the call. I have to run to break you.
Speaker 4: Take care. We'll be right back. Folks. Hey, welcome back
Speaker 4: to garden Line. Glad to have you with us. We
Speaker 4: have got a lot of stuff to talk about. We
Speaker 4: have got all kinds of things talk about regarding the
Speaker 4: freeze and whatnot. Before I do that, though, I just
Speaker 4: want to bring up a topic that you're probably not
Speaker 4: thinking about today, and that is the foundation of your house.
Speaker 4: The Houston soils, the heavy clay, the black Houston clay soil,
Speaker 4: and the other kinds of soils that have a lot
Speaker 4: of shrink and swell potential can wreck havoc on your
Speaker 4: sidewalks and your foundations and certainly your driveways as well
Speaker 4: and fixed. MYSH Lab Foundation Repair is the company you
Speaker 4: need to call if you have any kinds of questions
Speaker 4: about that. Ty Strickland is native Houstonian, fifth generation Texan.
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, he has been doing this
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Speaker 4: he knows what he's doing. So you know signs of this.
Speaker 4: Of course, you see the visible, like when your sidewalk
Speaker 4: heaves or your driveway heaves up. But inside the house,
Speaker 4: you'll notice sticking doors. You know, they stick sometimes and
Speaker 4: they don't stick sometimes that's movement. You'll see cracks. Typically
Speaker 4: they start at the corner of a window, but they
Speaker 4: could be anywhere, could be in the ceiling, can be
Speaker 4: you know, all over on the outside. He cracks in
Speaker 4: the brick. Those are all signs you need to call Ty,
Speaker 4: and he will not oversay you on this. I have
Speaker 4: called him before and asked him questions about things, said,
Speaker 4: you know what, that's not worth even having to worry about.
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Speaker 4: to worry about that. That's okay. So that's that's kind
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Speaker 4: Here's the phone number two eight one two five five
Speaker 4: forty nine forty nine. Two eight one two fi five
Speaker 4: forty nine forty nine. Now write that down. And you
Speaker 4: may have friends or family or whatever and you're at
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Speaker 4: I Skip talks about this guy all the time. He
Speaker 4: says he's honest, he does good work and reasonably priced.
Speaker 4: Give them the phone number. Because foundation problems are not
Speaker 4: something you want to put off. Don't stick your head
Speaker 4: in the sound like an ostrich. Just go ahead and
Speaker 4: call them, find out, and you will know exactly what
Speaker 4: you need to do to protect one of the largest
Speaker 4: investments you've ever made that's in your home. Let's head
Speaker 4: out to sugar Land and we're going to talk to Lynn.
Speaker 4: Hey Lynn, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hi, good morning.
Speaker 16: Yes, I want to know do I need to cover
Speaker 16: my back boxwoods and my.
Speaker 4: Hedges box woods? Probably not. I don't know what what
Speaker 4: other kinds of plants do you do you have that
Speaker 4: you're wondering about?
Speaker 16: The wax leaf, lagostrum.
Speaker 4: M generally not you your way. You know, sugar Land
Speaker 4: is pretty far away from where it's going to get
Speaker 4: the kinds of cold where we would expect a lot
Speaker 4: of burn. If you wanted to throw, you know, something
Speaker 4: over the top just to kind of hold hold some
Speaker 4: of the heat of the soil in there, you could
Speaker 4: do it. It's it's not going to be the kind
Speaker 4: of cold probably that you get the damage in your
Speaker 4: area that would really say no, you've got to get
Speaker 4: out there and cover these things. So if you've got
Speaker 4: if it's easy enough to do, you can get to it,
Speaker 4: go ahead and do it. Prevent a little bit of
Speaker 4: leaf burn and some of that kind of thing.
Speaker 16: Well, I had some wonderful friends who came yesterday and
Speaker 16: we covered all my high biscus and my burn of paradise,
Speaker 16: hoping that all that and I didn't even look at
Speaker 16: the hedges, and I thought, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Well the ones you covered, No, the ones you covered
Speaker 4: are much more coal sensitive than the hedges you mentioned.
Speaker 4: So I think you're gonna be all.
Speaker 16: Right, Okay, great, have a good day, all.
Speaker 4: Right you two. Our phone number is seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two k t r H. Seven one three
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Speaker 4: not been by plants for all seasons there on two
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Speaker 4: If you want to give me a call seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two KTRH, we can do that. We're
Speaker 4: coming up on a break here. I'm going to take
Speaker 4: a call real quick and then we can take your calls.
Speaker 4: You may be the first up if if you want
Speaker 4: a call now and hang on until we come back
Speaker 4: from break. Let's head out now to Cypress and talk
Speaker 4: to Melanie. Hello, Melanie.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 18: Oh no, Randy Yip got a question.
Speaker 8: That's what my familia is.
Speaker 19: They've got all these they're starting to bloom now, so
Speaker 19: I was going to go ahead and cover them.
Speaker 11: Should I put some heat under there.
Speaker 5: To try to keep those just a lost call for
Speaker 5: the blooms?
Speaker 4: Well, now you protect them a little heat, would I
Speaker 4: did a video It's on my Facebook page. It's the
Speaker 4: garden Line facebook page. A video just posted yesterday that
Speaker 4: shows you how to properly cover a plant and how
Speaker 4: to put heat under it and what to watch out for.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to refer you to that because it'll
Speaker 4: give you a better answer than I have in the
Speaker 4: short time we have before break here. But I would
Speaker 4: do that. Make sure the break goes all the cover
Speaker 4: goes all the way to the ground. Don't wrap the
Speaker 4: camellia like a lollipop, don't wrap it around the trun
Speaker 4: let the cover goes straight down. You need to get
Speaker 4: some weights to hold that cover down, whether you scubas soiled, Okay,
Speaker 4: whatever it takes, you gotta hold it down because we're
Speaker 4: gonna have breezes it'll blow it right off of there.
Speaker 4: And then the lighting is the extra. You probably don't
Speaker 4: need the lighting, but just to be safe to protect
Speaker 4: the blooms and things, I would put at least one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty watt flood lamp bulb on a clamp light.
Speaker 4: I don't think you need a heat lamp under there
Speaker 4: for this. And now, if it's a huge plant, it
Speaker 4: comes down to this, Melanie, what's the volume of air
Speaker 4: you're trying to warm up? You know, if it were
Speaker 4: a little plant, one hundred and fifty what we find.
Speaker 4: If it was a big, old giant thing, you're gonna
Speaker 4: need blood, heat lamps inder there to do it.
Speaker 18: So just watch it.
Speaker 4: It'll really tell you what you need. Yeah. Also on
Speaker 4: my website Gardening with Skip dot com, there's that publication
Speaker 4: in a freeze protection. Thank you man, good luck protecting
Speaker 4: those all right, folks. One hour in the books, we'll
Speaker 4: be back with your calls.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Kate r. H. Garden Line with Skip, Richard's.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back, Glad to have you with us
Speaker 4: here on garden Line. We are looking at a cold
Speaker 4: spell coming through here. It's gonna be a long one too.
Speaker 4: Some areas are going to have below freezing temper days
Speaker 4: or nights that drip down below dip down below freezing
Speaker 4: for about five nights, and so it depends on where
Speaker 4: you live. In the listening area. We've got varying degrees
Speaker 4: of cold. The bottom line is going to be cold
Speaker 4: for a long time, and so you need to be
Speaker 4: ready for that. Get those things done ahead of time,
Speaker 4: get ready to go so you're when you do go
Speaker 4: out there and try to protect your plants. You've got
Speaker 4: the supplies and things that you need on hand. That
Speaker 4: is important. I was the other day looking around at
Speaker 4: some supplies I had in my storage shed, and I
Speaker 4: couldn't find some things that I thought I had. I
Speaker 4: think they may have gotten thrown away or something like that. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I thought I was ready to go for yesterday to
Speaker 4: load up some stuff, get it prepared and ready for
Speaker 4: the freeze. And sure enough I'm not so anyway, got
Speaker 4: to do it, get some of those supplies. Picked up
Speaker 4: a couple of things yesterday, so I'm good to go now. Anyway,
Speaker 4: this week, someone who was it I think Ronnie. Yeah,
Speaker 4: ron had emailed me talking about his memories of feed
Speaker 4: store growing up, and you know, the the fragrance of
Speaker 4: the feed store, you know, it's that pleasant, enjoyable feed
Speaker 4: store experience. And he was bragging on D and D
Speaker 4: feed He loves going in there, visiting with Jeff and
Speaker 4: and of course that's understandable. It's a great place. They
Speaker 4: take good care of you in there. But I love
Speaker 4: going into feed stores, you know that. I just there
Speaker 4: is a there's a certain ambiance and fragrance to a
Speaker 4: feed store that I just really enjoy. I grew up
Speaker 4: raising animals for this dock show, and so that was
Speaker 4: part of the experience. We had a little small cattle operation,
Speaker 4: and so we were often taking care of the cows
Speaker 4: going in, taking care of getting the things that we needed.
Speaker 4: But D and D is that kind of feed store,
Speaker 4: you know, any kind of feed you can imagine they're
Speaker 4: going to have, by the way, they have their onion
Speaker 4: transplants and their seed potatoes in at D and D.
Speaker 4: And it is time to get those in the ground.
Speaker 4: You know, not to plant them today right for the
Speaker 4: hard freeze, but go ahead and get them, get the bundles,
Speaker 4: because what happens is they get picked over and they
Speaker 4: sell out in time. So go ahead and get those there.
Speaker 4: And they carry the kinds of onions, the kinds of
Speaker 4: potatoes you need for your garden when you're there. While
Speaker 4: you're there, you're going to find a good supply of
Speaker 4: heat lamps and the little shields that can hold the
Speaker 4: heat lamps and the flood lamps too, not just the
Speaker 4: heat By the way, when you're purchasing a shield, a
Speaker 4: clamp on shield for a lamp, if it's a heat lamp,
Speaker 4: you know they kind of have the red glass cover.
Speaker 4: You need to get a quality when don't put it
Speaker 4: in a little dinky shield. They're not made to hold that.
Speaker 4: You need the kind with a little ceramic a place
Speaker 4: where you screw the bulbin. But when you go by
Speaker 4: D and D, they can explain to you what you
Speaker 4: need and what will work. You know, if you need
Speaker 4: to wrap your pipes, they got the stuff of that too,
Speaker 4: and certainly all the supplies for your lawn and garden,
Speaker 4: from fertilizers to pesticide to weak controlled disease control. Everything
Speaker 4: they've got all that there, uh and a really nice
Speaker 4: selection of high quality pet food and other kinds of
Speaker 4: supplies that the pets like as well. D and Defeed. Oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, whereas it D and Defeed is on
Speaker 4: twenty nine to twenty west to Tomball. So if you're
Speaker 4: in the big middle of Tomball from two forty nine,
Speaker 4: you just head out twenty nine to twenty to the
Speaker 4: west and you do not have to go out very far,
Speaker 4: and D and D be right there on your left
Speaker 4: hand side, and you will enjoy it when you go.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that they treat you right. You
Speaker 4: were listening to Garden Line. A phone number is seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two KTRH. If you'd like to
Speaker 4: give me a call, we'd be happy to visit with
Speaker 4: you about the kinds of questions that you might have
Speaker 4: out in the garden. I've got some soil work that
Speaker 4: I need to do, and that's kind of been postponed
Speaker 4: a combination of some real wet conditions where I couldn't
Speaker 4: get in there without slashing through some muddy areas. I'm
Speaker 4: going to be getting that done because I'm putting in
Speaker 4: some fruit tree and I'm also revamping a section of
Speaker 4: my vegetable garden where I need to add some soil in,
Speaker 4: mix it up and get those beds ready to go,
Speaker 4: and don't plant until you get the soil ready. It's
Speaker 4: very important to have the soil right first. If you've
Speaker 4: listened to Garden Line once, you've heard me say brown
Speaker 4: stuff before green stuff. And that's the simplest way I
Speaker 4: can put the fact that you need to get the
Speaker 4: soil right before you put the plants in very important,
Speaker 4: especially for plants that are going to be there a while.
Speaker 4: You know, an annual maybe in for a season, part
Speaker 4: of a season, and then you pull it out. So
Speaker 4: that's not you can always fix it after you that
Speaker 4: season if you need to. But when you're putting in
Speaker 4: something like a perennial or a shrub, a rose bush,
Speaker 4: or fruit trees and things, those are long term and
Speaker 4: so you've got to get that soil right for those
Speaker 4: kinds of plants, and that is very important to be
Speaker 4: able to do that. If you're doing planting, By the way,
Speaker 4: I would recommend that when you put the plant in,
Speaker 4: you put a quality drench over that root ball. And
Speaker 4: we are in the big middle of planting season for
Speaker 4: perennials and for woody ornamentals especially. There certainly are annuals
Speaker 4: and herbs and things we can plant now. But I'm
Speaker 4: talking about a product like has to Grow six twelve six.
Speaker 4: Has to Grow six twelve six is a combination product
Speaker 4: by the folks at Medina. By the way they carry
Speaker 4: Medina products there at d and de Feed, as well
Speaker 4: as a lot of other quality brands. The has to
Speaker 4: Grow six to twelve six has Medina Soil Activator in it.
Speaker 4: That's a product in and of itself that stimulates biological activity.
Speaker 4: It's got humate, which is humic acid, improves your soil structure,
Speaker 4: helps with nutrient more effective nutrient update as that happens.
Speaker 4: It's got seaweed extracts in it. You can use it
Speaker 4: as a folier spray. But I'm talking about right now
Speaker 4: being planting season. When you put a plant in the ground,
Speaker 4: drench that plant after you plant with it. Or what
Speaker 4: I will do sometimes is just have a little container
Speaker 4: and I take the plant out of the pot and
Speaker 4: set it in the container, and I can feel that
Speaker 4: container full of a root soak like has to grow
Speaker 4: six twelve six, and you just let that soak into
Speaker 4: the root ball, put it in the ground, and you've
Speaker 4: done your work. You're ready to go. You can do
Speaker 4: another drench a week later. You can do another drench
Speaker 4: a week later. After that, you can do all three
Speaker 4: of those, helping that plant get well established. NaSTA grows
Speaker 4: six twelve six has many uses. One is the planting use.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about transplanting use. One is just going into
Speaker 4: the flower bed or the vegetable garden and drenching it
Speaker 4: down the row. That's legit, and then there's full of
Speaker 4: your applications, not gonna burn your plants. You use about
Speaker 4: a tablespoon per gallon and just spray the foliage with
Speaker 4: your plant. Now, that's primarily I use that during the
Speaker 4: growing season as things are warming up and plants are
Speaker 4: starting to grow. Not so important to do the folier
Speaker 4: right now, although you can. Some people believe that it
Speaker 4: does help with some of the cold heartiness and things
Speaker 4: like that, so I totally would support that approach to
Speaker 4: it as well. Well, let's do this. I'm going to
Speaker 4: head out to Cypress now and we're going to visit
Speaker 4: with Joe, Hey, Joe, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hello Skip. I have a few questions. First is on asparagus.
Speaker 7: I planted asparagus for the first time in my organic garden,
Speaker 7: and so now it's like six em feet tall, but
Speaker 7: it's starting to get brownish and some of the tall
Speaker 7: you might be familiar with asparagus, like, some people cut
Speaker 7: it down for the winner and some people just let
Speaker 7: it go. I have straw around the base of it now,
Speaker 7: so just let it go through this cold period.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would definitely for sure now if this cold
Speaker 4: period were to kill back the tops even more, which
Speaker 4: up in Cyprus, I bet it does. Go ahead and
Speaker 4: then cut it down and get ready to begin a
Speaker 4: harvest asparagus. We are so far south that asparagus doesn't
Speaker 4: know what to do with our weather. If you were
Speaker 4: to go if you were to go up, you know,
Speaker 4: if you were to go up into warmer, I mean
Speaker 4: further north, asparagus does really well, you know, Joe. They're
Speaker 4: telling me I'm hitting a hard break. Will you hang
Speaker 4: on just a second. I want to spend some more
Speaker 4: time on this with you, and I'll pick you right
Speaker 4: back up when we come back from break.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, welcome back to Guardline. I'm going to
Speaker 4: head back out and continue the conversation that we have
Speaker 4: going with Joe. Hey, Joe, welcome back. So we're talking
Speaker 4: about asparagus, and I was just making the point that
Speaker 4: further north, we have long cold winter, asparagus dies to
Speaker 4: the ground and stays dormant and all the stored carbohydrates
Speaker 4: then when it does come out in the spring produce nice, strong, thick,
Speaker 4: healthy spears for a good while. Down here, it just
Speaker 4: kind of keeps going in the winter and never really
Speaker 4: dies back well, and so we don't get the volume
Speaker 4: of harvests that you would further north. So what we
Speaker 4: kind of have to do is cut it back and
Speaker 4: create that top freeze back event. And if after this
Speaker 4: freeze at some point, I would just cut all the
Speaker 4: dead or whether dead or not, the top growth back
Speaker 4: and begin your harvests. It's a little early for that
Speaker 4: because we're probably gonna get some more freezes, but I
Speaker 4: still if you want to, if you want to get
Speaker 4: going on it, you could cut that top back and
Speaker 4: start your harvest season well after the freeze.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's good. I was thinking of putting some straw around.
Speaker 7: I have some straw ready around it right now for
Speaker 7: the cold, I thought, and to get it through, help
Speaker 7: get it through. And then it's only the first year,
Speaker 7: so they say, wait, maybe to the second or third,
Speaker 7: Well the third d yes, that's right through the same process.
Speaker 4: So okay, all right, yeah, that's absolutely that's absolutely true.
Speaker 7: Okay, good, good, good. And two peach trees. Do you
Speaker 7: think I'm gonna cover them up with some I have
Speaker 7: like they call plankets or blankets, like do you think
Speaker 7: that a peach trees?
Speaker 4: Are your peaches? Are the buds swelling or are they
Speaker 4: still dorm fully dormant?
Speaker 7: They're dormant. Now the trees they're only about okay, some tall.
Speaker 7: Now they they're one year old.
Speaker 4: Basically all right, no need to cover them. Don't worry
Speaker 4: about them. They're good. Okay. They have buds where you
Speaker 4: could see pink. If they had blues under one, I
Speaker 4: would cover them.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay, in variegated Pitt's form. It's like a
Speaker 7: shrub kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Cover that that is actually little coal tender. And what
Speaker 4: will happen is not just the killing of the leaves,
Speaker 4: but you'll get splits in the trunk at the base
Speaker 4: underneath of those plants when they get ural cold. I
Speaker 4: would definitely cover those, put a cover over them to
Speaker 4: the ground, weigh it down on the ground so it
Speaker 4: doesn't blow off, and a cover should be sufficient in
Speaker 4: your area to get them through the cold we're going
Speaker 4: to have. But yes, I would cover the barrigated pit
Speaker 4: of s form. Thank you so much. All right, man,
Speaker 4: good luck getting all that taken care of. Appreciate you call.
Speaker 4: We're gonna go out to the port now and talk
Speaker 4: to JC. Hey, JC, what's up?
Speaker 22: Good good morning. I have a question on some soil testing.
Speaker 22: I've got eighteen raised beds, four twelve and they just
Speaker 22: don't seem to be producing like they used to. One
Speaker 22: bed will have giant green foliage and the other one
Speaker 22: will be squatty looking. And over the years I've added
Speaker 22: composts and organics as I could get my hands on
Speaker 22: them and whatnot, and I just feel like, right now
Speaker 22: it's not producing like it should be, and I want
Speaker 22: to know where I can get some tests done and
Speaker 22: how to do it. Is it going to be one
Speaker 22: the charge for each bed or should I just take
Speaker 22: a sample from each bed?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, no, it's it's per sample that you
Speaker 4: pay for it, but it is well worth it, especially
Speaker 4: a troubleshoot, the fact that one bed does good and
Speaker 4: another bed does not. So I would, because you tend
Speaker 4: to fertilize crops in a vegetable garden by the bed
Speaker 4: you even have tomatoes in this bed, and I don't
Speaker 4: know green beans in the other. Well, you're not gonna
Speaker 4: put some nitrogen on your green beans as you do
Speaker 4: on your tomatoes, and so over time those bed levels
Speaker 4: are going to get different, and you know, and so
Speaker 4: I would, I would fertilize. Make a note though, to yourself.
Speaker 4: You can you can say sample one A is good
Speaker 4: and maybe use a letter A for good or B
Speaker 4: for bad if you want.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: And they don't need to know that. But when you
Speaker 4: get the results back, you'll go, oh, this is from
Speaker 4: the bed that didn't do good, and this is from
Speaker 4: the bed that did do good.
Speaker 5: A and M still do it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's the best place I would
Speaker 4: recommend for getting your soil tested. And the website is
Speaker 4: really easy. It's the it's one word soil testing, soil
Speaker 4: testing and then dot T A m U which stands
Speaker 4: for Texas and M University t A m U dot
Speaker 4: e ed U sell Testing dot TAMU dot ed U.
Speaker 4: You want here's the important part, and I do this
Speaker 4: in the on my website. I've got a soil testing
Speaker 4: publication at Gardening with skip dot com that tells you
Speaker 4: about this. But you want to make sure your sample
Speaker 4: is a good representative of that whole bed. So take
Speaker 4: some here, some there, you know, put and mix them together,
Speaker 4: and then take your pint of soil out of that
Speaker 4: to send in. You want to use the urban soil test.
Speaker 4: There's agriculture seal test, it just said, and then there's
Speaker 4: an urban salt test. You want the urban because on
Speaker 4: that form it'll allow you to say this is roses,
Speaker 4: or this is vegetables, or this is lawn, you know,
Speaker 4: and that's the urban and use that form. You can
Speaker 4: do the regular, which is fine if you want to
Speaker 4: go a little further, which if you haven't had to
Speaker 4: soil test in a long time, you might do the regular.
Speaker 4: Plus the micro nutrients costs a little bit more. But
Speaker 4: that way, if iron or zinc or some other thing
Speaker 4: like that is an issue, you'll know it.
Speaker 22: Okay, you don't have an all time better how much
Speaker 22: less yards you know, I haven't had it done.
Speaker 4: That's a good question. Yeah, let me, uh, let me
Speaker 4: see what we're talking. I'll just go I'll just go
Speaker 4: check and see that. I'm going to guess, but I
Speaker 4: don't want to guess. Things change on me, and then
Speaker 4: i'd be I'd be lying to you.
Speaker 5: We're on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I can tell you about two seconds here anyway.
Speaker 4: But when the results do come in, you're going to
Speaker 4: want to make sure and do all those amendments, mix
Speaker 4: them down as far far as you can down into
Speaker 4: the soil. And when you do that, then you're going
Speaker 4: to be able to have a good, even uniform soil test.
Speaker 4: Now that the routine analysis at A and M is
Speaker 4: twelve dollars, the routine plus micro nutrients is nineteen dollars.
Speaker 4: That's the current.
Speaker 18: Okoyd, all right, sir, I appreciate you.
Speaker 4: All right, you take care.
Speaker 18: I have a good one.
Speaker 4: As well. Thank you. Oh where are we here? Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're going to go to Orange and talk to Susan. Hey, Susan,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Thank you, thank you, Skipp And just a note, I'm
Speaker 11: no longer in Orange. We've moved to for Glynn. A
Speaker 11: question for you the first thing. I found this nasty
Speaker 11: weed in my yard yesterday. I emailed you pictures of it,
Speaker 11: wondering what it is and how what I need to
Speaker 11: do to get rid of it.
Speaker 4: Uh, you sent me pictures of it. Let me go
Speaker 4: put good it up? Did you say, did you say, Brooklyn?
Speaker 11: Yes, it's right near Sam right.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 4: Okay? Are you listening on the radio or about on
Speaker 4: the internet?
Speaker 11: I am well no, I can't get it on the
Speaker 11: radio anymore.
Speaker 15: Time listening to it through I hearts.
Speaker 4: Okay. Would this have come from MG? Yes, Okay, that
Speaker 4: weed is Uh, it's It's called pig weed or amaranth
Speaker 4: is another name for it, and it is a prolific receder.
Speaker 4: One amaranth plant can make two hundred thousand seed. That's
Speaker 4: what you're up now. So you got to if you
Speaker 4: if you get all those out of there, all try
Speaker 4: to not shake them a lot, because all the ones
Speaker 4: that are mature, you're just gonna shake the seeds loose
Speaker 4: in the ground, off onto the ground. Get as much
Speaker 4: of it out as you can, and then it's not
Speaker 4: gonna shouldn't be a problem until we get back to
Speaker 4: warm weather and it starts re sprouting a lot then,
Speaker 4: and all you need is a good mult over the
Speaker 4: soil and it will not come up if you if
Speaker 4: you shade the soil surface really well.
Speaker 15: Okay, perfect, all right, we'll do that.
Speaker 11: Also, I tuned in like this morning, so you may
Speaker 11: have already covered this. But as far as the freeze,
Speaker 11: I've got guardenas and dwarf as alias that we find
Speaker 11: to do about six months ago. Do I need to cover.
Speaker 4: Vm, you know, just to be safe? I would, Uh,
Speaker 4: They're probably going to be okay, especially the azalia, but
Speaker 4: a new plant isn't as hardy asn't a state abolished
Speaker 4: plant of the same species. It just doesn't work that way,
Speaker 4: So I would, I would, I would give them a
Speaker 4: cover just to be safe. You're you're you're north up
Speaker 4: in sam Rayburns.
Speaker 11: So yes, yes we are, we are.
Speaker 4: What is your what's your forecast? Uh for the coldest Tuesday?
Speaker 11: Well it's it's going to get cold. I'm not as
Speaker 11: cold as county where we used to be, but we
Speaker 11: definitely will have a hard freeze, possible snow.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Well I'd be safe and cover them, all.
Speaker 11: Right, And one one last thing quick quickly skipped last
Speaker 11: weekend you said it was good, good time to plant
Speaker 11: the Amarilla's bulbs, and.
Speaker 15: So we did.
Speaker 11: Yes, Is that going to be an issue?
Speaker 4: Oh no, not at all. They're they're fine bulbs you
Speaker 4: just put in the ground. They're going to be perfectly Okay,
Speaker 4: you don't have to you have to worry about them.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, great, right, thanks, Skip, have a good day.
Speaker 11: I enjoy your show.
Speaker 4: You bet, Okay, take care, Bobby. All right, it's time
Speaker 4: for me to run to a break, folks, so I'll
Speaker 4: be right back with your calls at seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two KTRH. All right, folks, welcome back. Good
Speaker 4: to have you with us. A number of things to
Speaker 4: talk about this morning. You know, the landscape's gonna look
Speaker 4: a little rough when we get out of the freeze.
Speaker 4: It's just the way it is. And uh, this may
Speaker 4: be a good time for you to consider some renovations.
Speaker 4: I For example, maybe you got some plants that are
Speaker 4: a little bit too cold tender. They're just not going
Speaker 4: to be good for the long term for you. Maybe
Speaker 4: you're looking at your landscapes and it's kind of bleak.
Speaker 4: I could use some more evergreen bushes here there. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of things we can do to make
Speaker 4: our landscapes better, but I tell you peerscapes can take
Speaker 4: care of all of it. Pierscapes they do everything from
Speaker 4: landscape design. If you want to like create a landscapeer
Speaker 4: on your pool, they're very good at that. If you
Speaker 4: have poor drainage areas, maybe you need some French drains installed,
Speaker 4: pier scapes can they got you covered. They absolutely are
Speaker 4: professionals when it comes to landscape designing, landscape installation. They
Speaker 4: even do seasonal maintenance. You know, come have them come
Speaker 4: out every quarter and do maintenance in your garden beds.
Speaker 4: You know, do some weeding or adding fresh mulch out,
Speaker 4: checking the irrigation, make sure everything's working. Doing color changes,
Speaker 4: you know, from one type of flower to another type
Speaker 4: of flower as the season's change. They can do a
Speaker 4: dry creek bread bed, so you know, you get the
Speaker 4: extra rain and the water is just kind of gully
Speaker 4: washing off in an area. Create a dry creek bed
Speaker 4: and it's attractive, and yet it's a channel that when
Speaker 4: we do have too much water, it can drain away.
Speaker 4: Those are just a few examples of what peer scapes
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Speaker 4: the season is still a little distance away. It's time
Speaker 4: to go ahead and start that process and have them
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Speaker 4: by the way, if you need landscape lighting, they are
Speaker 4: awesome at creating beautiful landscape lighting around your home, around
Speaker 4: your pool, around your patio, you name it. I'm going
Speaker 4: to head out to Richmond now and we're going to
Speaker 4: talk to Karen. Hey, Karen, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 11: I'm out in the garden this morning.
Speaker 19: Pronouncing distances on those things I'm not going to attempt
Speaker 19: to save and okay, a way of salvation for the
Speaker 19: ones that I am. My question is on my broccoli
Speaker 19: crop I have here. I've cut the heads that I
Speaker 19: believe you know are completely ready. I have quite a
Speaker 19: few that are nice that they're not as large as
Speaker 19: I would normally like to get them. Do I need
Speaker 19: to cover those?
Speaker 8: Will?
Speaker 5: Be? Okay?
Speaker 4: Well, it would help to when broccoli is cold hardy,
Speaker 4: like all those blue leaf vegetables are. But when you
Speaker 4: have a really good hard freeze, especially the areas in
Speaker 4: between the veins on the leaves, you'll get burned back there,
Speaker 4: you get some burn and the broccoli heads, those little
Speaker 4: buds will get cold damage to them, and so I
Speaker 4: would especially be concerned about the heads. So just throwing
Speaker 4: any kind of a cover over them, just to hold
Speaker 4: a little soil warmth in it should be sufficient for
Speaker 4: the kind of cold that you're going to be getting.
Speaker 19: The ones that I have cut. Should I go ahead
Speaker 19: and pull the plant.
Speaker 4: Out, well, they will re sprout and you will get
Speaker 4: side shoots from below where you cut. They won't be
Speaker 4: big heads, but they'll be worth and keeping them to
Speaker 4: harvest those.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 19: I only have two rows of this and they've done
Speaker 19: so well. Another question is in the same bed, I
Speaker 19: planted two little rows of broccoli, and I skipped a row,
Speaker 19: and then I planted cauliflowers. The cauliflower. I have beautiful plants.
Speaker 19: You wouldn't couldn't ask for more beautiful plants, but they
Speaker 19: have not made a single head of cauliflower.
Speaker 3: What the broccoli? She's gone.
Speaker 4: Well, the two possibilities. Number one, it's not cauliflower. Sometimes
Speaker 4: I have bought I had a friend one time who
Speaker 4: bought collars and he was eating the leaves off the colors,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden they started producing broccoli heads
Speaker 4: because it was really broccoli. But the cauliflower, just give
Speaker 4: it time. You should get some heads forming in the
Speaker 4: interior of that. It just may take a little bit
Speaker 4: more time for some reason.
Speaker 19: Okay, should I cover them? I mean I did not
Speaker 19: cover them well, and they seem to have done well.
Speaker 4: But yeah, well this one's going to be a little
Speaker 4: bit colder, so you know, like the broccoli, if you
Speaker 4: want to be safe, throw a cover over them. It
Speaker 4: may be that they'll get through just fine. But we're
Speaker 4: gonna get kind of cold, so I would I would
Speaker 4: be a little safe on it.
Speaker 19: Okay, okay, well all right.
Speaker 4: Hey, you got some happy birds there. I hear happy birds.
Speaker 4: I wonder, I wonder what kind of birds those are?
Speaker 4: They are happy to be in the garden.
Speaker 19: This neighborhood that is a very old neighborhood. And I've
Speaker 19: only been here about three years, and I've taken down
Speaker 19: some old trash trees that you know, they weren't good
Speaker 19: trees to create more light for my garden. But my
Speaker 19: neighbors have consider.
Speaker 5: Fifty years old.
Speaker 19: I mean they're huge, and the birds just flock, you know,
Speaker 19: they're in the neighbor's yard. I keep out some feed
Speaker 19: and stuff around. But yes, of a morning, I'm surprised
Speaker 19: you're not hearing the roosters. They're not quite out for
Speaker 19: it because several of them.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, all right, Well if hey, if you
Speaker 4: want something cool, there's an app called Merlin, as in
Speaker 4: Merlin the Magician, and this Merlin app you It's free
Speaker 4: from Cornell University. It's free and you can tell it
Speaker 4: listen and tell me what bird that is, and it
Speaker 4: will listen and tell you what bird is making that
Speaker 4: sound I'm hearing in the book. It's pretty cool app. Anyway,
Speaker 4: you want to have some fun, you may check that out. Hey,
Speaker 4: and thank you for thank you for calling in this morning.
Speaker 4: I'm all run, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 19: Good luck with the get to cover in these things
Speaker 19: takes me in most people. I'm a little older to
Speaker 19: be gardening.
Speaker 4: So you oh no, no, no, you're never too old.
Speaker 4: A garden gardening keeps you young.
Speaker 19: You do slow down.
Speaker 4: So yeah, all right, bye bye, all right, folks, I'm
Speaker 4: right up on a break right here, Wesley. We're going
Speaker 4: to come to you and Lawrence when we come back
Speaker 4: from this break. Just hang on, we'll be right back
Speaker 4: with you. All right, we're back. Welcome to garden Line again.
Speaker 4: We are going to head now out to Lawrence and
Speaker 4: talk to Wesley. Hey, Wesley, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Hello.
Speaker 15: All right, So my question is I have planets some
Speaker 15: craig myrtles me October and that last freeze we had,
Speaker 15: I left them wrapped probably a little too long in
Speaker 15: blue tarp and not knowing I should have used burlap
Speaker 15: or something like that, and I unwrapped them and the
Speaker 15: leaves are crunchy. Uh. I was wondering if possibly did
Speaker 15: I kill them because the inside of the tarp may
Speaker 15: have gotten too hot on those warmer days.
Speaker 4: I am not sure I'm following. What could you elaborate
Speaker 4: a little bit more on this? Did you say crape myrtle.
Speaker 15: Crape myrtles?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, sir, uh.
Speaker 4: Huh okay, And it was under a tarp and it's it's.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I wrapped them when it got cold, and I put
Speaker 15: three steaks around it, those labs, and I wrapped it
Speaker 15: really good and that blue tarp like that plastic material,
Speaker 15: and uh, there was pretty much no airflow. And I
Speaker 15: may have left them wrapped too long, and I know
Speaker 15: I got the temperature got way above freezing, and whenever
Speaker 15: I did uncover them, the leafs are really crunchy.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, yeah, that's hard to say, but it could be
Speaker 4: the heat also from building up in there. I don't
Speaker 4: know on that, but basically, when you're are you wanting
Speaker 4: to cover them again for the cold that's coming.
Speaker 15: Or what yeah I need. Yeah, I was gonna go
Speaker 15: ahead and cover them. But if I may have killed them,
Speaker 15: I might may not wrap them. It might be hard
Speaker 15: to say. I had to wait till I guess marks
Speaker 15: when they start, if they start blooming, I know they're alive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're probably gonna be. Okay, you can
Speaker 4: take your thumbnail and scratch back. Find a little stem
Speaker 4: that's about size of a pencil or something. Just scratch
Speaker 4: the bark back on it. And if you see a
Speaker 4: little bit of a green or creamy white color, it's fine.
Speaker 4: If you see pecan brown or paper sack brown, it's dead. Uh.
Speaker 4: So that it should be showing that by now. But
Speaker 4: when you ever you cover a plant, you want to
Speaker 4: just put a cover over the whole plant and straight
Speaker 4: down to the side. Don't wrap them up.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 4: And and if it's something like a tarp, just leave
Speaker 4: it on overnight and take it off the next day
Speaker 4: to allow sun in and air and you know, to
Speaker 4: ventilation that is, and then you can put it back
Speaker 4: down on it again the next day. Are you it,
Speaker 4: says Lawrence, Are you up in the Dallas.
Speaker 15: Area, No, sir, I'm an orange orange Taxas.
Speaker 4: Oh orange, okay, okay, okay, got you got youa. I
Speaker 4: just had it wrong, all right, Yeah, no Orange, that's fine. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you should never have to cover a crape myrtle
Speaker 4: an orange Texas.
Speaker 15: Okay, even with it being so young. Yeah October okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be fine. They're hardy now, there's nothing
Speaker 4: wrong with covering them. It's just great. Myrtles are pretty hardy.
Speaker 4: The only time we run into problems with creat myrtles
Speaker 4: is when we have a real warmfall and then suddenly
Speaker 4: we get like into the teens, that hits real suddenly
Speaker 4: and they're not ready for it. We have seen those
Speaker 4: kind of problems before.
Speaker 15: Okay, right, one more question. I have a rosebush that's
Speaker 15: four years old. Should I be rapping? Should I go
Speaker 15: ahead and wrap that one as well?
Speaker 4: You shouldn't have to if it's got tender new If
Speaker 4: it has tender new growth coming out. Roses are willing
Speaker 4: to grow in some pretty cold weather, and if it
Speaker 4: sends out some tender growth, I would cover it to
Speaker 4: protect that. If it's gonna get what is your predicted
Speaker 4: temperature Tuesday, the coldest it's gonna get.
Speaker 15: I believe low twenty.
Speaker 4: I believe, yeah, yeah, if it's gonna just to be safe,
Speaker 4: if you want to cover it, if it has new growth,
Speaker 4: if it's not really pushing new growth already, then I
Speaker 4: would I would just leave it. It should be fine.
Speaker 15: Okay, all right, well, thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks appreciate that call. You take care. Let's
Speaker 4: see here, we're gonna go to Candy and Spring. Hey Candy,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 24: I have a ton of iris that because of the
Speaker 24: warm weather, have all come up and they're big.
Speaker 23: Do I need to cover those or will they survive?
Speaker 4: They'll survive. You may get a little cold damage on them.
Speaker 4: I've never tried to take an iris into you know,
Speaker 4: the kinds of temperatures we have, and paid attention to
Speaker 4: that with with new growth. But I think I think
Speaker 4: that they'll be fine. You shouldn't need to cover them
Speaker 4: with the temperatures we're having. If it's getting down, you know,
Speaker 4: down weigh in the teens, maybe we would think about
Speaker 4: it a little bit. But I think you're all.
Speaker 24: Right, okay, very good, thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And even if they get burned back, they're gonna
Speaker 4: come right back just fine. All right, Thank you, Kenny.
Speaker 4: Appreciate appreciate that very much.
Speaker 18: Boy.
Speaker 4: I tell you, the folks that enchanted forest are ready
Speaker 4: to go on the freeze. I mean they've got the
Speaker 4: frost cloth by the foot. By the way. That's a
Speaker 4: nice way to buy it, because you just roll out
Speaker 4: this big roll and you know, you say, I want
Speaker 4: twenty feet of it or I want five feet of it,
Speaker 4: I mean, whatever you want, They'll roll it right out
Speaker 4: there and you can get out there. It's like it's
Speaker 4: they have the heavy kind, the kind that is better
Speaker 4: at holding in heat and with frost colth. You don't
Speaker 4: have to take it off every day. You can you
Speaker 4: can leave it on for a few days if you
Speaker 4: need to, We're not going to have that much cold,
Speaker 4: but if you if, we are going to have several
Speaker 4: nights below freezing, so you can just cover it and
Speaker 4: leave it on till you take it off, really really good.
Speaker 4: They also have got a nice selection of camellia still.
Speaker 4: If you need color like pansies and flowering kale, they've
Speaker 4: got that. They've got some dowar feupon Holly's Little Nana Nana,
Speaker 4: a variety that does so well here, and a lot
Speaker 4: of other things. And by the way, Enchanted just kind
Speaker 4: of a little news out there from Enchended. Enchanted just
Speaker 4: had Danny Millican join the team. He probably heard Danny before.
Speaker 4: He has been around this area for a long time,
Speaker 4: got a good horticulture background, done a lot of environmental education,
Speaker 4: sustainable design. It just brings a lot of years of
Speaker 4: experience to that team out there at Enchanted Forest. He's
Speaker 4: going to be working on educational programs out there at
Speaker 4: Enchanted enhancing the experience for visitors and supporting their conservation
Speaker 4: initiatives that are going on. So stop, I say hello
Speaker 4: to Danny out there at Enchanted Forest, and we look
Speaker 4: forward to working with Danny as well in the months
Speaker 4: to come. You are listening to Gardenline our phone number
Speaker 4: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 4: seven to one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 4: By the way, Enchended Forest is on FM twenty seven
Speaker 4: fifty nine out there in Richmond, Texas. It's a great
Speaker 4: nursery to go visit. And again, I just want to
Speaker 4: one more thing. Don't forget they got that rollout long
Speaker 4: rolls of frost cloth that can really help you with
Speaker 4: the frost that we're about to get. They're going to
Speaker 4: be with me at the Home and Garden show that's
Speaker 4: coming up down there in the the Richmond Rosenberg area,
Speaker 4: and I'm really looking forward to getting out and doing
Speaker 4: that very soon. It's next Saturday, next next Saturday, so
Speaker 4: you want to come out and see us there. I'll
Speaker 4: talk about that more in a little bit here. It's
Speaker 4: never a bad time to prepare your soil. It's always
Speaker 4: a good time to prepare your soil. Nature's Way resources
Speaker 4: they know how to prepare your soil. You go out there,
Speaker 4: talk to Ian, talk to any of the staff out there,
Speaker 4: and they can get you fixed up with rose soil,
Speaker 4: with leaf mole compost with various types of quality mulches.
Speaker 4: You can go out and buy it and pick it
Speaker 4: up on your trailer or pickup. You can have them
Speaker 4: deliver it, and a lot of areas around town will
Speaker 4: sell many of their products by the bag as well.
Speaker 4: Nine three six, three two one sixty nine ninety. They're
Speaker 4: up I forty five right where fourteen eighty eight comes
Speaker 4: in from Magnolia. You turn right, cross the railroad tracks
Speaker 4: and that is there street. Right there Sherwood Circle right
Speaker 4: there in that area, Nature's way resources well worth your visit.
Speaker 4: Uh sit here, looking at my watch, it looks like
Speaker 4: we're about to go to a break here. I should
Speaker 4: hear music starting out pretty quick here, So I've quit talking.
Speaker 4: Just remember that if everybody's going to be hole up
Speaker 4: inside because it is getting really cold. But you need
Speaker 4: to get ready because spring preps. We are in the
Speaker 4: middle of spring prep. There's there's planting to be done,
Speaker 4: there's soil building to be done. You need to get
Speaker 4: those pruning chores done. Its best to prune before the
Speaker 4: plants begin their growth in the spring. If you miss it,
Speaker 4: you can prune a little bit later, it's fine, But
Speaker 4: go ahead and get the pruning chores done. We're gonna
Speaker 4: be talking about pruning, uh and not this weekend. But
Speaker 4: once we get past those freeze, I'll start talking a
Speaker 4: little bit more about some of the printing tasks that
Speaker 4: we have how to do them for so that you
Speaker 4: can have success. All right, would you like to give
Speaker 4: us a call beyond the board when I come back
Speaker 4: seven one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rickards.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as well.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back to guard Line. I'm gonna jump
Speaker 4: in right here. Somebody left the gate open while we
Speaker 4: were in. All the cows have gotten out and called
Speaker 4: garden Line. I don't know that that was a weird
Speaker 4: way to put it. Anyway, we got a lot of calls.
Speaker 4: I gotta get to that is the bottom line. We're
Speaker 4: going to start by going out to Scott in Tumbull. Hey, Scott,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 25: Hey, thank you very much. A quick question for you.
Speaker 25: I got my soil test results back and it's showing
Speaker 25: my PHS DOULB five like right around a four point
Speaker 25: nine I think, And I was doing a little bit
Speaker 25: of research, said lime is the best way to correct that.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is a is this a bed that had
Speaker 4: been acidified or they put a lot of peat moss
Speaker 4: in or what's the story there.
Speaker 25: So we're coming up on this is gonna be my
Speaker 25: first full season with the house. We moved in back
Speaker 25: in June, so I kind of just started doing a
Speaker 25: little bit more soil tests when I moved in. So
Speaker 25: this year I kind of started with my soil test
Speaker 25: and was going to kind of implement my program coming
Speaker 25: this year. So I'm not sure what happened there beforehand.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well, what you're going to need to do.
Speaker 4: Lime is the best way to raise the soil pH.
Speaker 4: There are other things that are higher pH that you
Speaker 4: know can work in that direction. But if you go
Speaker 4: online and look at do a search for lime, you
Speaker 4: know to raise soil pH and you're going to find
Speaker 4: In fact, let me let me give you one other tip.
Speaker 4: If you have a pen or pencil handy, if after
Speaker 4: you put any search into Google or whatever search you're using,
Speaker 4: you put in the word site colon dot e d u,
Speaker 4: So it's s I T E a colon a period
Speaker 4: an e ed u. That tells the search engine that
Speaker 4: I want you to look for raising soil pH with
Speaker 4: lime and then but I only want you to look
Speaker 4: in in sights that are university related sites. What you're
Speaker 4: going to get is some real good, accurate information and
Speaker 4: it'll tell you if you have a clay soil, it
Speaker 4: takes more lime than if you have a sandy soil
Speaker 4: that's going up or down with the pH it takes
Speaker 4: more of something. So it'll tell you exactly how many pounds.
Speaker 4: You know, be very careful to follow that because you
Speaker 4: don't want to move it too far. But you can
Speaker 4: raise the soil pH significantly by using lime, but you
Speaker 4: have to mix it down into the soil for it
Speaker 4: to actually have that effect on down deep.
Speaker 25: Okay, real quick question for you then, So this is
Speaker 25: on my lawn. I have seen augustine grass, clay soil.
Speaker 25: Is there anything different than I need to go about
Speaker 25: knowing that that information.
Speaker 4: On the lawn. You're not going to be able to
Speaker 4: mix it in, of course, and so I would just
Speaker 4: maybe gradually put a little bit of line in it
Speaker 4: with some air rating. You're going to get things down
Speaker 4: in the soil. But I'll tell you this, our soils
Speaker 4: number one, I'm kind of questioning if that four point
Speaker 4: something pH was accurate, because that is incredibly low. But
Speaker 4: assuming it is, you can gradually bring it down in
Speaker 4: a lawn. But lawns are pretty tolerant of a range
Speaker 4: of soil phs. So is it Saint Augustine grass or
Speaker 4: bermuda or what do you have?
Speaker 25: I have Saint Augustine and right I took my soil sample.
Speaker 25: It was just from the front yard, and I took
Speaker 25: it from multiple spots in the front yard. I mean,
Speaker 25: I don't have a very big front yard, so I
Speaker 25: just get it there because the backyard kind of needs
Speaker 25: a whole renovation on its own at some point when
Speaker 25: I got time.
Speaker 4: But okay, yeah, well it sounded like you took a
Speaker 4: good soil sample. So that's that's what I would say.
Speaker 4: If the lawn looks okay, I wouldn't worry about it
Speaker 4: a lot. But if you wanted to add a little
Speaker 4: bit of lime, you could, but do it very gradually
Speaker 4: in the lawn watered in really good and then provide
Speaker 4: maybe some aerration. You just want to watch it because
Speaker 4: when you get the surface of the lawn really higher
Speaker 4: in pH you're gonna have more problems. Will take all
Speaker 4: a root rot on that lawn, and so I my
Speaker 4: first thought is, don't do anything if the lawn looks
Speaker 4: halfway okay with proper care.
Speaker 25: Okay, so the lawn, you know, like I said, the
Speaker 25: lawn from the road looks be so once you get
Speaker 25: up and you can see some issues with it. So
Speaker 25: if I was gonna plan this year, don't try to
Speaker 25: from what I read getting into like the right around
Speaker 25: pace level six is kind of ideal. My goal was
Speaker 25: need to try to get to six of this year,
Speaker 25: it'd be kind of trying to just bite at it
Speaker 25: a little bit at a time.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So so yeah, because here here's the problem when
Speaker 4: you when you go to raise the pH in a garden,
Speaker 4: you can mix a lot of linemen and raise the
Speaker 4: pH throughout that root zone. But when you're when you're
Speaker 4: looking at a lawn, uh, you're putting it right on
Speaker 4: the surface and it doesn't just go way down in
Speaker 4: the soil. So you end up with a real high
Speaker 4: pH at the top and not as much of a
Speaker 4: raising pH as you go down. And so that's what
Speaker 4: I'm trying to say is, uh, you want to be
Speaker 4: extra extra careful with that because it's not good to
Speaker 4: have a high pH, right up there where your runners
Speaker 4: are when it comes to certain things like the disease.
Speaker 4: Take all root rot.
Speaker 25: Okay, I appreciate the information.
Speaker 4: Thank you, you bet you take care. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 4: All right here, we're gonna we're gonna now head out
Speaker 4: to Jill and full Sure. Hey Jill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 26: Hey, good morning, Skip. My question is concerning you pawn.
Speaker 26: And we have property up in Centerville, and we have
Speaker 26: a lot of ypon on our property, and so we're
Speaker 26: slowly clearing it. But I just I wonder about my
Speaker 26: my other trees on my property. We're spraying. We cut
Speaker 26: it and we spray it with remedy and diesel, but
Speaker 26: is that going to impast my freeze?
Speaker 4: So you're spraying the cut stumps of theypon? Yeah, no,
Speaker 4: uh it doesn't, you know. I mean, if you you
Speaker 4: can overdo it, but you're All you need to do
Speaker 4: is barely get that stump wet. And you need to
Speaker 4: do it right after you cut it. Don't don't wait
Speaker 4: hours later to come in and and and spray it.
Speaker 4: Get it done as soon as possible.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: So it doesn't take much product just to wet those
Speaker 4: little stumps. Uh. And you know you'll miss a few
Speaker 4: and you come back later and do it. But no,
Speaker 4: it won't hurt the other plants as long as you
Speaker 4: don't misapply it.
Speaker 26: So it really does matter that you cut it, that
Speaker 26: you spray it immediately.
Speaker 4: I mean we I say immediately. Okay, yeah, Well, here's
Speaker 4: here's the thing. The the the tricle peer, which is
Speaker 4: what's in remedy. Uh. It has taken up best when
Speaker 4: the cut is fresh. As that cut begins to dry
Speaker 4: out and the tissues die up there at the surface
Speaker 4: of the cut, it you're not able to get the
Speaker 4: tricle peer in as well. You'll get you'll get some result,
Speaker 4: but not as well. And so if you're using the
Speaker 4: diesel oil that helps it stick. And you can even
Speaker 4: spray diesel a trickle pair on the sides of the
Speaker 4: base of those yopons without doing the cut, and it'll
Speaker 4: kill them because it soaks through the tender thin bark
Speaker 4: thats have down there. But just just you know, it's
Speaker 4: it's a relative thing. It's just that the sooner you
Speaker 4: do it, the more results you're going to get. The
Speaker 4: better the results will be.
Speaker 26: All right, thank you, thank you, you.
Speaker 4: Bet good luck with that. Yep, bye bye. All right,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to go to break here. Jill and
Speaker 4: a task Asita will be with you first when we
Speaker 4: come back. Well, welcome back, welcome back to the garden line.
Speaker 4: We are now, I said, go to talk to Jill.
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk to Cheryl in a task Asita. Hey, Cheryl,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 12: I have a two quick questions about plants to cover.
Speaker 27: M you hear me?
Speaker 12: Open? Okay, Yes, I can a dwarf upon on the
Speaker 12: west side up against the windows. Uh, and they're two
Speaker 12: years old. And then I have ginger plants under an
Speaker 12: oak tree and I covered them last year, but they
Speaker 12: they're friendly off they came back. Do I have to
Speaker 12: cover them? Even though they're going.
Speaker 15: To die back?
Speaker 4: You shouldn't have to cover them. It'd be nice to
Speaker 4: have a nice little mult around them. A lot of
Speaker 4: ginger has its rhizomes right up near the surface, and
Speaker 4: you could get a little coal damage to an exposed rhizome.
Speaker 4: But if you got a little mulch over them, they
Speaker 4: should be fine. What kind of ginger do you have?
Speaker 4: Do you happen to know?
Speaker 12: No, they're they're they they're the yellow and green leaves
Speaker 12: on the end. They're mainly yellow.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, huh, that's a variegated alpinia type of ginger.
Speaker 4: And yeah, you know those. I got some of my
Speaker 4: ginger through the last frost just by having it. I
Speaker 4: had them in the pot, but I just moved it
Speaker 4: under the eaves of a house. If you wanted to
Speaker 4: throw a cover on, you can protect some of the
Speaker 4: top growth. If you still like that ornamental color. Uh,
Speaker 4: it might be enough to protect the top growth. But
Speaker 4: I would just let it do its normal thing, die
Speaker 4: to the ground, then leave it dead and ugly until
Speaker 4: you know, we get a little past the dangers of freezes,
Speaker 4: and then you can clean out all the dead and
Speaker 4: let the fresh new come through.
Speaker 12: Okay, And how about the dwarf you find up against
Speaker 12: the house on the west.
Speaker 8: Side years old?
Speaker 4: They will be Yeah, they'll be fine. No problem for them,
Speaker 4: no problem, all right, all right, hopefully we've saved you
Speaker 4: a little bit of work there. Thanks, appreciate your appreciate
Speaker 4: your call. All right seven one three two one two
Speaker 4: k t R H. If you'd like to give us
Speaker 4: a call talk about gardening kinds of things, well, we're
Speaker 4: happy to do that. That's why we're here help you
Speaker 4: have a bountiful garden, beautiful landscape and more fun in
Speaker 4: the process, is how I would put it. You know,
Speaker 4: there are a lot of natural microbes that are ruling
Speaker 4: the world out there, taking care of our plants and microlife.
Speaker 4: The folks at Microlife they're all about that. Their products
Speaker 4: contain microbes. Their products enhance microbial activity and growth. Now,
Speaker 4: so all you got to do is apply one of
Speaker 4: the products and you're going to be adding some of
Speaker 4: those to the soil. There's one in particular I just
Speaker 4: want to talk about. It's a liquid. It's called micro
Speaker 4: Grow liquid AF. Micro Grow liquid AF. It's a beautiful
Speaker 4: maroon label for those of you non Aggie's out there.
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful burgundy label, all right. And what it is,
Speaker 4: it's loaded with eight extremely dominating beneficial microbes that get
Speaker 4: down in your soil and do good to plants. These
Speaker 4: are good guy microbes. I talked about it last weekend
Speaker 4: quite a bit. But it's got things like strupt, a
Speaker 4: certain type of two types of structo mices that are
Speaker 4: actually disease fighting. It's got two types of trichoderma that
Speaker 4: help fight disease. Several types of Bacillus one, specifically basilla
Speaker 4: subtless is even can be applied to foliage to help
Speaker 4: prevent disease sportes that fungal spores that land and attack
Speaker 4: the plants. Micro grow liquid AF the maroon jug. You
Speaker 4: can get it by the gallon or I believe they
Speaker 4: have about a quart as well. But all you do
Speaker 4: is you apply it with You can put some in
Speaker 4: some molasses in a gallon of water to drench around
Speaker 4: the soil. You can do it to spray the foliage
Speaker 4: on the leaves. Either way, it's going to work very
Speaker 4: very well. Micro Grow liquid AF. We're gonna head out
Speaker 4: now to Spring and talk to Jonathan. Hey, Jonathan, welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 17: I've got two Mexican fan palms and one Canary Island
Speaker 17: Day and they've all got about a foot in a
Speaker 17: half of trump foot heights. They're all super healthy, and
Speaker 17: they're all in a bed of lavarack. And I just
Speaker 17: wanted to make sure that I was doing the right
Speaker 17: thing to the freeze. I've got the fronds tied up
Speaker 17: to where it kind of covers the kind of covers
Speaker 17: the heart and the new growth, and I wanted to know.
Speaker 17: I've got the burlap sack to cover the plant with.
Speaker 17: Do I need to wrap the base in the trunks
Speaker 17: in a in a in a blanket at all or
Speaker 17: should the burlap sack and the front thought that'd be enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, wrapping the trunk slows the cooling of
Speaker 4: the trunk, and uh so that is helpful in that
Speaker 4: it slows the cooling. Uh the most important part of
Speaker 4: your palm trees or the buds at the top of
Speaker 4: the trunk. That's the growth point, and so that's where
Speaker 4: we most need to protect it. So I mean, you
Speaker 4: could you can throw a cover over it up there
Speaker 4: if you can, if it's not too big to do
Speaker 4: that or reach it. I've known people that take like
Speaker 4: the little it's the gosh. I don't know how the
Speaker 4: proper term for it, but it's a little heating cable.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a wire coated wire that you plug
Speaker 4: in to an extension core and you wrap it around
Speaker 4: a pipe to barely keep that pipe warm, warm enough
Speaker 4: to protect protect against freeze. You could wrap some of
Speaker 4: that around up at the top and put a little
Speaker 4: cover over it, and that would provide a little bit
Speaker 4: of heat for the top of that palm tree as well.
Speaker 4: You just have to run extension cord up to the
Speaker 4: top on those. But anyway, however you want to go
Speaker 4: about it, it's that that key bud that's the growing point.
Speaker 4: And if it dies. On most types of palms, if
Speaker 4: it dies, the whole tree is dead. Some palms will
Speaker 4: re sprout at the bottom, and Mexican fan is a
Speaker 4: it's a pretty tough palm anyway.
Speaker 17: The end the Canary Island day, the same thing, a
Speaker 17: little less, a little less cold, hardy on the Canary
Speaker 17: Island date. Okay, all right, perfect, well, thank you very
Speaker 17: much for the information.
Speaker 4: All right, you take care, appreciate that. We are going
Speaker 4: to now go out to Full sher and talk to David.
Speaker 23: Hello, David marin Skip, how are you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm doing well, Thank you good.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 23: I was just going to call in and suggest to
Speaker 23: some of the listeners out there about uh I've talked
Speaker 23: to you before. I have a bunch of fruit trees
Speaker 23: out in Full Shrik and I wrap them. I wrap
Speaker 23: them with drop claws on the construction company and I
Speaker 23: wrap them with drop clalls and protect them. And uh,
Speaker 23: so far the little c seven lights have worked perfect
Speaker 23: keep anything from freezing, and I wrapped the trunk as well.
Speaker 23: And uh, now with this the with the real cold
Speaker 23: weather coming, I'm going to put little tiny heaters in
Speaker 23: there to keep them a little warm. And I was
Speaker 23: going to suggest that today with our technology that we have,
Speaker 23: there's these little things you can buy and you can
Speaker 23: hang them in the in the wrap. Whatever kind of
Speaker 23: bush or tree you have, you can hang it in
Speaker 23: there away from your heater, and it can tell you
Speaker 23: what the temperature is inside there, and you can stay
Speaker 23: in the house to monitor it to see what you're
Speaker 23: doing and how effective it is.
Speaker 4: That's pretty cool stuff. Hey, I appreciate that those are
Speaker 4: Those are good tips there, David. Thank you. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to run. I got some more callers I need
Speaker 4: to get to, but I appreciate those tips. And good
Speaker 4: luck with your trees, keeping them, showing them nice and protected.
Speaker 4: We're going to run now to Spring, Texas and doctor Connie.
Speaker 4: Hey Connie, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 28: Hi, Skip, thank you for taking my call. I've got
Speaker 28: this bush and I want to say I'm going to
Speaker 28: call it a Rose of Sharon, although I don't think
Speaker 28: that's the right name.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 28: It has kind of little arrow shaped leaves that are
Speaker 28: kind of fluted on the ends. You know, it has
Speaker 28: three different.
Speaker 24: Forks to it.
Speaker 28: I guess you'd say, okay, And I'm wondering if I
Speaker 28: need to cover it. I didn't cover it this last time,
Speaker 28: and it's fine. It is trying to put new leaves
Speaker 28: on already. I don't know, what do you think?
Speaker 4: Well, if it really is Rosa Sharon, you you should
Speaker 4: you shouldn't have to cover.
Speaker 7: It, okay, Yeah, well I don't know that will be my.
Speaker 13: Okay?
Speaker 8: And what about jasmine?
Speaker 4: Uh, like Asian jasmine, the groundcover no, no, the oh mine, Yes,
Speaker 4: Carolina Jessamine should not need to be covered either, okay.
Speaker 28: And the so that's the yellow one. And then I
Speaker 28: have one and I don't know the proper name for
Speaker 28: that one either, but it's it has the white flowers
Speaker 28: that blooms pretty much all the time in the summer.
Speaker 4: Uh. There are some true jasmines that are a little
Speaker 4: bit cold tender. I would cover those. Since we don't
Speaker 4: know for sure which one it is, I'd suggest you
Speaker 4: cover it, okay.
Speaker 28: And my zail user trying to put buds on, they'll
Speaker 28: be fine.
Speaker 4: That should be okay. I mean, if you don't throw
Speaker 4: a little blanket or something over the top, just to
Speaker 4: minimize any kind of damage, that azelias should be okay. Anyway,
Speaker 4: they can take freeze, but if you want to, you know,
Speaker 4: just avoid a little bit of that, you could throw
Speaker 4: some cover over them. That would be fine.
Speaker 28: Okay, Well, thank you, yes, thanks.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you appreciate that very much. Thanks for
Speaker 4: being a caller. For those of you who have not
Speaker 4: been out to the Arborgate recently, you've got to go
Speaker 4: check it out. They have loaded up on fruit trees,
Speaker 4: a extensive selection of fruit trees and berries and grapes,
Speaker 4: and you know talking the other day about some grape
Speaker 4: varieties that do really well here, of course Arbrogate's got those.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for apples or blackberries or dragon fruit
Speaker 4: I mean figs, and then unusual things like elderberries. You
Speaker 4: know what they grow wild, But did you know their
Speaker 4: cultivars of elderberries that you can buy that do really well.
Speaker 4: They have their selection of avocados, their selection of blueberries,
Speaker 4: or selection of palmgranites, and I could just talk and
Speaker 4: talk about all the things they have at Arborgate. Now
Speaker 4: they also have seed starting kits. It's time to get
Speaker 4: the seed starting done, so you need to go ahead
Speaker 4: and get those done as well. They've got wonderful selection
Speaker 4: of cool season color and it's still okay to plant
Speaker 4: cool season color, so you can carry you on in
Speaker 4: to when we get all past all the freezes and
Speaker 4: things and we might start to think about the warm
Speaker 4: season color then, but go ahead and get some things
Speaker 4: in now and make things look good out there. They
Speaker 4: also I want to mention this. The parking lot is
Speaker 4: the way to go. That's in back. You just turned
Speaker 4: down Trasher Road before or after Arburgate. He goes right
Speaker 4: around to the back of Arburgate. You can pull in there.
Speaker 4: It's an all weather parking lot, super easy access, super safe, easy, easy,
Speaker 4: easy to do, and I highly recommend you use that.
Speaker 4: That's the parking lot I prefer to use. And don't
Speaker 4: forget that their soil and their compost materials that we
Speaker 4: talk about, they're also available in bulk and they will deliver.
Speaker 4: So talk to Beverly kennon the whole group there at
Speaker 4: Arburgate if you're interested in having a bulk delivery of
Speaker 4: their soil and compost types of products. Well, It's time
Speaker 4: for me to take a break. Got a lot of
Speaker 4: folks holding on here, y'all. Hang on, I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: to you as quick as I can when we come
Speaker 4: right back. Welcome back to the garden Line. Just go
Speaker 4: jump right back in here. So we get out and
Speaker 4: get us some bundy of these taking care of here.
Speaker 4: We're going to go to let's see, we're gonna head
Speaker 4: out to Nadville and talk to Vernon. Hey, Vernon, Welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 22: Hey, Hey, you doing.
Speaker 29: I got a couple of questions for you real quick.
Speaker 29: The only time I've got left in my garden is
Speaker 29: onions and cabbage, and I wonder if I need to
Speaker 29: cover those. I'm not too worried about the cabbage, but
Speaker 29: the onions need to be covered.
Speaker 4: Well, it kind of depends how cold it's going to
Speaker 4: get for you there. I leave mine uncovered in minor cold.
Speaker 4: You know, when we're gonna get down and the I
Speaker 4: don't know, the mid twenties or lower, I start to think,
Speaker 4: you know, we better, we better do something about that.
Speaker 4: And so it wouldn't hurt to cover them. It just
Speaker 4: try to have something to hold the cover up a
Speaker 4: little bit. So you don't just crush the plants with
Speaker 4: the cover. Put some steaks down the row or whatever
Speaker 4: works for you to hold it up, off the off
Speaker 4: the plants.
Speaker 29: Okay, and one more thing, and when it gets closer
Speaker 29: to spring, I'm gonna do a lot of cutting on
Speaker 29: my plamreas and my pencil cactus with a Rosealvka with
Speaker 29: pearlit spin ord. I need a cactus soil.
Speaker 4: I would get a cactus soil. There's a good mix
Speaker 4: that airlom soils makes them cells. It's a cactus mix
Speaker 4: comes in little bags and it's got a lot of
Speaker 4: grit in it.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: The others like you mentioned, they don't have that the
Speaker 4: amount of grit. And with cactus, you do want it
Speaker 4: to be very very well super well drained. That that's
Speaker 4: very important. And and so that's what I would do.
Speaker 4: And you're gonna find airroom soils mixes in a lot
Speaker 4: of different places, so that would be pretty easy to find.
Speaker 29: Okay, when I cut that pencil cactus, I've got one
Speaker 29: branch that's probably a half inch. Do you just had
Speaker 29: the milk run out of it?
Speaker 15: Or is there a way to stop that?
Speaker 4: Oh? I mean you can just leave it it's gonna
Speaker 4: drip and stuff on some things, Like when I'm cutting
Speaker 4: a ficus tree, I usually have like like a handkerchif
Speaker 4: not a handkerchief, Kleenex stop there, and I'll cut it,
Speaker 4: and I'll just stick that cleanex up against and it
Speaker 4: just absorbs that sap and then it drives on there
Speaker 4: and you got to pull it off, but it's just
Speaker 4: a little absorbent thing there to keep it from dripping
Speaker 4: all over, because those kinds of SAPs often will really
Speaker 4: stain your clothing or carpet or wherever it's whatever it's
Speaker 4: fallen on.
Speaker 29: Yeah, I know they're toxic, all right, But that's all
Speaker 29: I needed, all right.
Speaker 4: So thank you, appreciate, appreciate very much your call. We're
Speaker 4: gonna go to Nick and Cypress. Now, Hey, Nick, welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 30: Hey you ship, how you doing? Hey, I'm here.
Speaker 20: A beautiful lives the list, and.
Speaker 30: She's got me kind of in the She got me
Speaker 30: kind of basically into the planting thing.
Speaker 8: And she had a question for you regarding our high buscus.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 31: So we had her in a really big pot for
Speaker 31: a while and she got her root system just got
Speaker 31: too big. So we finally planted her in the ground
Speaker 31: this summer, so she's been in the ground for about
Speaker 31: three months or so. The last cold snap we did
Speaker 31: cover her, but she is still kind of trying to
Speaker 31: bounce back. Her leaves are very wilted, and with this
Speaker 31: next breeze coming, we're just a little concerned if just
Speaker 31: the the plant wrap is good enough or if we
Speaker 31: should be doing something different for her so she can
Speaker 31: bounce back the spring.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, about how tall is it?
Speaker 31: It's probably about three foot tall.
Speaker 4: And probably about the same three Okay, I've got one
Speaker 4: like that, and it's Mine's in a container, but I
Speaker 4: don't know. I'm experimenting with mine. I'm going to leave
Speaker 4: it out in the container and do what I'm about
Speaker 4: to tell you. If you will, get you some pieces
Speaker 4: of PVC pipe, half inch pvc, it's very inexpensive. Get
Speaker 4: the gray type if you have, if you're able to.
Speaker 4: If not, the white is fine. The white is just
Speaker 4: it breaks down in sunlight faster. But anyway, I'll get
Speaker 4: a little eighteen inch piece of rebar at a good
Speaker 4: lumber type store, hammered into the ground in four places
Speaker 4: around that plant, and then get that PVC stick it
Speaker 4: over the rebar, bend it, stick it over the rebar
Speaker 4: on the opposite side. So let's say you have a
Speaker 4: north south and an east west piece, and then take
Speaker 4: a zip tie or some twine and tie the PVC together.
Speaker 4: So now you've created a little igloo over that plant.
Speaker 4: Then cover it. Then secure the edges, yes, like a frame.
Speaker 4: Secure the edges, and you've created dead airspace. You got it.
Speaker 4: Not let air blow up underneath there or it defeats
Speaker 4: what you're trying to accomplish. Then get you a clamp
Speaker 4: light and one hundred and fifty watt flood light bulb
Speaker 4: should be enough. You can use a heat lamp, but
Speaker 4: it shouldn't be needed on the coal we're having. And
Speaker 4: put it not shining onto the plant or the stems
Speaker 4: of the leaves. Shine it down on the ground and
Speaker 4: that heat will rise up underneath there, and that will
Speaker 4: that will do the trick. If you've created dead air space.
Speaker 4: I use plastic because I'm going over the PVC and
Speaker 4: plastic absolutely doesn't allow any air to move through it,
Speaker 4: And so that's how I do it.
Speaker 31: Yeah, we had bought one of those plant bags, but
Speaker 31: I don't think that was enough. During this last one,
Speaker 31: so I'm really concerned about her this time. So we'll
Speaker 31: follow your advice and I'll get some plastic and some
Speaker 31: PVC and rework. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the plat bags are fine for slowing the
Speaker 4: cooling of the plant itself. But what we're trying to
Speaker 4: do is create a bare soil area underneath it. By
Speaker 4: the way, pull the multz back where the warmth of
Speaker 4: the soil rises up and is helping with that. You know,
Speaker 4: when you just create a landscape lollipop it oftentimes at
Speaker 4: the very base of the trunk you'll get damage where
Speaker 4: it's not covered or it just you can't get the
Speaker 4: heat in there like you can the way I described it.
Speaker 31: Okay, perfect, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: All right, you bet, thank you. Thanks for the call.
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Speaker 4: We're going to take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 4: Sue and Houston and Addie Huffman, you'll be our first
Speaker 4: two up. All right, welcome back to Garden nine. We
Speaker 4: are glad you're listening. Continuing on with our phones this morning,
Speaker 4: we are going to go to Sue in Houston. Hello, Sue,
Speaker 4: welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning. Several months ago, I noticed I lived in
Speaker 8: an apartment building. I'm on the fourth floor. I had
Speaker 8: looked over the balcony and I noticed that the flower
Speaker 8: bed was completely clear of any kind of weeds. The
Speaker 8: knockout roses were there, but the weeds weren't there. And
Speaker 8: I know flower beds have weeds. Some of my plants
Speaker 8: were dying. And one of the things that I was
Speaker 8: concerned with is any residual chemical that the cat may
Speaker 8: walk through on the floor of the balcony. So I
Speaker 8: called two different vest offices and they said, call your
Speaker 8: apartment office. They have to tell you what they've been using.
Speaker 8: Of course, they said nothing. So I called Texas Apartment
Speaker 8: of Agriculture.
Speaker 26: And I asked for.
Speaker 8: Some help to see if there was an herba said
Speaker 8: news that had drifted up and the guy came out.
Speaker 12: And the report said.
Speaker 8: No pesticide found. And I talked to the guy after
Speaker 8: the report and I said, did you take a soil
Speaker 8: sample in that flower bed?
Speaker 24: He said no.
Speaker 18: I said, did you.
Speaker 8: Take any samples from my plants or the dirt in
Speaker 8: the plants? He said no. So I'm back to starting
Speaker 8: all over again. Now I'm seeing weeds in the flower bed.
Speaker 8: So now I'm thinking the apartment has been alerted that. Uh, oh,
Speaker 8: she's aware of something. We need to knock this soft well.
Speaker 8: Can't use anything. So since there's weeds growing, I know
Speaker 8: there's no erbit said, and it's been too long, so
Speaker 8: uh the herb said is dissolved or you know it
Speaker 8: can't be tested right now.
Speaker 4: Well, the herbicides they don't, Yeah, they don't. They don't
Speaker 4: last forever. I mean they go away different length of
Speaker 4: time for different ones, but in general they break down
Speaker 4: and they have to be reapplied, so that what was
Speaker 4: done before, I wouldn't be worried about it now. Uh.
Speaker 4: In general, there's not a threat from most herbicides to
Speaker 4: a cat walking across, scratching through the soil or something
Speaker 4: and like that, just unless you know, like they walked
Speaker 4: on it with their wet wet with their paws or something.
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't worry about that, I think, and I
Speaker 4: don't think the you know, the apartment company is trying
Speaker 4: to hide anything. They just they hire somebody to go
Speaker 4: take care of the weeds and the beds and things.
Speaker 4: As to what they use, I don't even know. But
Speaker 4: the company ought to be able to tell you they
Speaker 4: they There ought to be a way for them to
Speaker 4: provide that information if you're curious, I would say in
Speaker 4: the meantime, just you know, try to keep an eye
Speaker 4: out on it out there, and you should be. Did
Speaker 4: you say, when you looked at it, did you see
Speaker 4: weeds that had been growing, that had been killed, that
Speaker 4: were dead and dried up?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Yes, And I pointed that out to him. And
Speaker 8: also in a different location at on the property, but
Speaker 8: a different location, you can see where something was clearly sprayed.
Speaker 8: I mean there's a spray line that is not weed
Speaker 8: eat or damage.
Speaker 27: It was clearly spray.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well, I think you know that's kind
Speaker 4: of what I can tell you at this point. There
Speaker 4: should be there should be a way for them to
Speaker 4: tell you what we've used. That information is supposed to
Speaker 4: be made available. So that's all I know to tell you.
Speaker 4: In general, it's I don't think the actual risk is
Speaker 4: going to be that significant for the animal. You know,
Speaker 4: if you had something sprayed on foliage and the animal
Speaker 4: was eating you know, the weed, which sometimes animals will,
Speaker 4: you know, go out. My dog goes out and eat
Speaker 4: eats grass out of the yard and stuff, So that
Speaker 4: would be different. But as far as just walking on it,
Speaker 4: there shouldn't be a great Once it's dried, fully dried
Speaker 4: and stuff, there shouldn't be a great concern.
Speaker 8: Well, now that you say that I have put lemon
Speaker 8: seed in a pot and I probably have six little
Speaker 8: twelve inch lemon trees coming up, and I have a
Speaker 8: cat that is attracted for whatever reason to those leaves
Speaker 8: and who will chew on them so much. I just
Speaker 8: don't like the idea of that, you know, and something
Speaker 8: especially that I don't know what they're using and why
Speaker 8: they would keep that a secret of it is concerning
Speaker 8: to me.
Speaker 4: Well, it's I doubt that it's a conspiracy thing, you know,
Speaker 4: where they're keeping it a secret. They probably just don't
Speaker 4: know most of those places, you know, it's the harsh
Speaker 4: somebody to go out there and take care of it,
Speaker 4: and that's all they're worried about.
Speaker 8: If it happens again. Who do I How do I
Speaker 8: get a soil sample for something like that.
Speaker 4: I can just tell you there's not going to be
Speaker 4: a good way for you to do that. And you
Speaker 4: can search for chemicals in an analysis. It costs a
Speaker 4: ton of money, and you got to tell them what
Speaker 4: to look for. They can't just look for quote chemicals.
Speaker 4: You got to say is there this chemical in that?
Speaker 4: And they can search and say yes or no, or
Speaker 4: how much or whatever. But I think I've helped you
Speaker 4: about as much as I can on this one. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know where else to go on this one.
Speaker 4: But I do appreciate your call. Thank you very much,
Speaker 4: and give us a call back if we can help
Speaker 4: with them. Let's see who was next here. We were
Speaker 4: gonna trying to think of who. There we go. We're
Speaker 4: gonna go out to Huffman and talk to Betty. Hey, Betty,
Speaker 4: good morning.
Speaker 32: I'm wondering what to do with my guardenia bush. My
Speaker 32: daughter bought me this for Mother's Day last year and
Speaker 32: there was no flowers on it, and so I gave
Speaker 32: it so coffee grounds, and all of a sudden it's
Speaker 32: sprouted a lot of like maybe four or five six
Speaker 32: branches and they were good okay, two feet tall, but
Speaker 32: no flowers.
Speaker 7: I still don't have any flowers. So should I okay?
Speaker 3: What should I do?
Speaker 15: I need?
Speaker 8: I want to.
Speaker 4: All right real quick because I'm about to run out
Speaker 4: of time on us or the leaves a healthy green color. Yes, okay,
Speaker 4: I would get an acid loving plant food. They number
Speaker 4: of different manufacturers make plants foods for acid loving plants.
Speaker 4: Microlife has one that is in kind of a pinkish
Speaker 4: bag that is for acid loving plants like Gardenia's adrangea, azalea, blueberry, camellia,
Speaker 4: those kinds of things. And I would use that as
Speaker 4: you fertilize, continue to water as needed to support good
Speaker 4: growth when it's dry, and get good growth on it.
Speaker 4: If it has good growth and good light, it will
Speaker 4: settle down and start blooming for you. But it does
Speaker 4: need good light, doesn't necessarily need full sun. It just
Speaker 4: needs good light, good nutrition, good growth, and it ought
Speaker 4: to bloom for you well. So that would be my
Speaker 4: suggestion going through this twenty twenty five year to try
Speaker 4: to turn that around.
Speaker 32: Betty, So an eastern side of the building is okay,
Speaker 32: you say it?
Speaker 4: East is fine? Yeah, that east is a great place
Speaker 4: for a GUARDENA sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll just I'll wait and see.
Speaker 4: Thank you all right, Thank you very much. I appreciate
Speaker 4: appreciate your call very much. Let's see here, we're about
Speaker 4: to hit our out time. I believe for this hour.
Speaker 4: You know, this morning is going fast again. I know
Speaker 4: this happens all the time, kay, apparently, and I wanted
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Speaker 4: to give time for your call. So we're going to
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Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with skin Rickyard.
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Speaker 4: All right, folks, glad to have you back. Let's do this.
Speaker 4: We are entering our last hour of the morning here
Speaker 4: Saturday on guarden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and
Speaker 4: we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden,
Speaker 4: more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. We're
Speaker 4: going to start by going out to kay in Pairland.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 4: Okay, welcome to garden Line, and thanks for hanging on.
Speaker 33: Yes, thank you, that's no problem.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 33: I have a question about covering the plant. How long
Speaker 33: i'd like to cover my plants that I'm going to
Speaker 33: cover today while it's not so cold, and I just
Speaker 33: wonder if it goes if the freeze goes on, you know,
Speaker 33: that's kind of a little uncertain about how long it's.
Speaker 4: Going to be.
Speaker 33: If it's two or three or four days of you know,
Speaker 33: freezing temperatures, that's kind of a long time to keep
Speaker 33: a plant covered, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Now, if you're going to use something that blocks
Speaker 4: all the light out, like a tarp, for example, I
Speaker 4: would suggest not leaving it under there for more than
Speaker 4: a day or two. Open it up and let it
Speaker 4: have some light. It's it's not like it's going to
Speaker 4: die on day three. It's just you know, the longer
Speaker 4: you leave it shaded, the more likely it is it's
Speaker 4: going to drop leaves and things. If you use something
Speaker 4: like freeze blankets.
Speaker 33: I have freeze blankets.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think they let some light through, don't they right?
Speaker 4: Are they white or are they like dark green or
Speaker 4: green green? Okay, I'm not sure how much light is
Speaker 4: going to go through those. You may hold some up
Speaker 4: to the light and you know it's God's ide, and
Speaker 4: hold it up, look through it and see what you think.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 5: Well, I can.
Speaker 33: See my work glowing through it when I had it coverage.
Speaker 4: Okay, last week. So okay, well they're gonna allow a
Speaker 4: little light through then uh, you're probably good to go.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, we down in Pairland is not
Speaker 4: going to be as cold uh as it is going
Speaker 4: to be you know, further north in the listening area,
Speaker 4: So you're you're probably okay, we're talking about, uh, just
Speaker 4: trying to get them through. It's going to come down
Speaker 4: to a cave depending on the plant. So you know,
Speaker 4: if you're trying to keep a tropical hibiscus from freezing,
Speaker 4: versus if you're just trying to keep you know, something
Speaker 4: that's fairly cold hardy from freezing, Uh, the tropic hibiscus,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to leave it on. Okay, Well that's you're.
Speaker 33: Gonna is the other one?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well they're gonna be on for a while,
Speaker 4: so I think they'll be okay. I would if you
Speaker 4: don't mind going out and letting them have a sunny
Speaker 4: day or something that would be good. That also warms
Speaker 4: the soil and allows a little bit of warmth to
Speaker 4: rise up around the plants as well taking the cover off.
Speaker 4: But uh, it's there's not a black and white line
Speaker 4: on this one.
Speaker 28: Okay.
Speaker 33: Well, I just thought it's not too good to leave
Speaker 33: them too long. And I don't know that it's going
Speaker 33: to be that cold that long, but we'll see.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're going to hope not. But yes, all right,
Speaker 4: good luck with that. Thanks for the car you as well.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much our phone number seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two k t r H seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two k t r H. Listen. It's always
Speaker 4: a good time to malt It is always a good
Speaker 4: time to build your soil. It just is twelve months
Speaker 4: out of the year. Unless the soil soggy, sop and wet,
Speaker 4: it's a good time to build the soil. And it's
Speaker 4: a good time to always replenish your malts. Maults in
Speaker 4: the wintertime deters weeds and it also helps moderate soil temperature,
Speaker 4: protects the crown of that plant against extreme drops in
Speaker 4: temperature as well. Cnimalts noticed malts in the name Cnimaltch
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Speaker 4: plants will thrive, and money spent on the soil is
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Speaker 4: it this way, spend a dollar in your soil before
Speaker 4: you spend a dollar in your plants. Are do them
Speaker 4: both at the same time. Take care of the soil
Speaker 4: and then put the plant in. That's how you do it.
Speaker 4: And see anumult is where you can get the kind
Speaker 4: of quality products that you need. I mentioned that, you
Speaker 4: know they have products by Nelson, and Nelson Fertilizer has
Speaker 4: a number of lines. They've got the Turf Star line.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that when we get back to lawn
Speaker 4: fertilizing discussions again. They've got the color Star line, which
Speaker 4: if you're going to have a flower bed and you
Speaker 4: want flowers in it, you want color. Colorstar is an
Speaker 4: awesome product for it's been around for forty years now
Speaker 4: and it's used not just here in our area, not
Speaker 4: just in Texas. I mean they shift that stuff all
Speaker 4: over the country. People figure out it works and they
Speaker 4: go send me some because it's worked for me. If
Speaker 4: it ain't broke, I ain't gonna fix it. In other words,
Speaker 4: and it's popular. They also have Nelson has a product
Speaker 4: called Nutristar Genesis, and this is a plant food designed
Speaker 4: to blend into the soil at planting. It's got indo
Speaker 4: and ectomycroiza that helped that root to reach more nutrients.
Speaker 4: It has bacteria and other fungi that benefit that soul microbiome.
Speaker 4: It's got hum maates in it. It's designed to be
Speaker 4: mixed in so you just when you dig your planting hole,
Speaker 4: just mix some into the soil. As you plant that
Speaker 4: plant and put that soil back in. Have some of
Speaker 4: the Nelson nutristarch genesis in the planning hale. If you're
Speaker 4: growing transplants, you're gonna bump them up from a six
Speaker 4: pack to a four inch pot, or a four inch
Speaker 4: pot to a six inch or gallum pot. That new
Speaker 4: potting mix mix the Nelson genesis. That's how I use
Speaker 4: it during this time of the year because I'm growing transplants,
Speaker 4: I'm potting them up Nelson's neutral star genesis. It really
Speaker 4: helps after the plant gets going, then you can use
Speaker 4: things like Colorstar and other fertilizers on top of the soil.
Speaker 4: But this will help them get them off to a
Speaker 4: good start. Well, I am looking at a break coming
Speaker 4: here too fast to go out to Huffman and talk
Speaker 4: to Jerry. Jerry, if you can hang on when I
Speaker 4: come back from break, you will be our first call
Speaker 4: up and we will visit you at that point. I
Speaker 4: want to remind you again my website, Gardening with Skip
Speaker 4: dot com, is where you're going to find information about
Speaker 4: all kinds of things, including protecting plants from cold, if
Speaker 4: you will follow garden Line on Facebook. Just yesterday I
Speaker 4: posted a little video on how to cover a plant,
Speaker 4: put light underneath it and protect it and some of
Speaker 4: the things you need to know, things to avoid, things
Speaker 4: to do. It's all there on the Facebook page and
Speaker 4: we post periodically to that. I've got some others that
Speaker 4: are coming up pretty quick here to post a Facebook
Speaker 4: so you always need to follow us on Facebook. In
Speaker 4: the meantime, I'm going to take a break. I'll be
Speaker 4: right back. All right, folks, welcome back to Guardline. Good
Speaker 4: have you with us. We are going to head straight
Speaker 4: out to Huffman and talk to Jerry. Hello Jerry, and
Speaker 4: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 34: Well, I'm calling about that person that called about this
Speaker 34: to pray something on our plants, and they do you
Speaker 34: know what it was? Anytime you do that, you're supposed
Speaker 34: to have a material Safety data sheet. It's called a
Speaker 34: MSDS tells you what's in the stuffs to put in
Speaker 34: your property.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's the rules. Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 15: So that's all I had brought.
Speaker 34: Thank you for your program, but.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you providing that that information. You take care, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's true. You know, I try to try to stay
Speaker 4: out of some of the weeds on this stuff. You know, people,
Speaker 4: I'm hearing what somebody is telling me on the air,
Speaker 4: and I don't know, I don't know how to put
Speaker 4: it other than I'm not going to get entangled in that.
Speaker 4: There there is a way to find out if somebody
Speaker 4: apply something. It's it's true what he said. They're supposed
Speaker 4: to provide information, so whoever they apply it for. In
Speaker 4: this case of be an apartment company should have received
Speaker 4: that information. And if the apartment receives the information, they
Speaker 4: should be able to provide it for you. That's not
Speaker 4: a secret. But anyway, well, you are listening to guard Line.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to
Speaker 4: help you have a bountiful garden. Help you have a
Speaker 4: bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. So my suggestion would
Speaker 4: be give us a call seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two k T right, seven to one three two one
Speaker 4: two k T right, and we are gonna be happy
Speaker 4: to visit with you and help you have success. You know,
Speaker 4: one way that you can have success is to stop
Speaker 4: myself as a fertilizer. I don't care what it is
Speaker 4: you need for your plants. They're going to have it.
Speaker 4: Do you need to fertilize them? They have more fertilizers
Speaker 4: than you can imagine. Everything I talk about on guarden
Speaker 4: Line and way way past that, they've got the best
Speaker 4: selection of organic fertilizers of anybody in the whole region.
Speaker 4: The same thing is true with insect control, The same
Speaker 4: thing is true with disease control. The same thing is
Speaker 4: true with weed control. If you need tools, quality tools,
Speaker 4: like maybe you went on my website and saw that
Speaker 4: grab or weed wiper tool that I have. Well, the
Speaker 4: little thing you start with, the tool you start with.
Speaker 4: Bob's got him at Southwest Fertilized. You can make your
Speaker 4: own if you don't do that, but he's got him there.
Speaker 4: When you go to Southwest Fertilizer, you're gonna find selection,
Speaker 4: but you're also going to find expertise. You walk in
Speaker 4: with a picture with a plant samples could always bring
Speaker 4: in a plant sample, and they're gonna be able to
Speaker 4: tell you what's wrong with it and what to do
Speaker 4: about it. And I frequently stop by there to check
Speaker 4: on what's the latest, because you know, a company comes
Speaker 4: up with some new product, organic or synthetic, they're not
Speaker 4: going to call me up and say, hey, we got
Speaker 4: this new product. I have to find out myself and
Speaker 4: I go into Southwest. If it's a new product on
Speaker 4: the market, it's probably gonna be there, and we bought
Speaker 4: and I discuss things like that all the time. What works,
Speaker 4: what doesn't work, how's it working? You know what's available,
Speaker 4: and it's just that kind of place. It's been around
Speaker 4: since nineteen fifty five. Corner Abyssinet and Renwick. And here's
Speaker 4: the website, Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilize dot com.
Speaker 4: I don't care where you live. When you drive over there,
Speaker 4: you'll see why I am so big on that place,
Speaker 4: and why pretty much if you don't if they don't
Speaker 4: have it, you don't need it. I think that's the
Speaker 4: simplest way to put it. We're going to head out
Speaker 4: now to friends would and talk to Ed this morning.
Speaker 4: Hello Ed, Welcome to Garden line, Hi, skip power.
Speaker 11: You all.
Speaker 4: Doing well, sir, thank you.
Speaker 10: We have three date palms and they're probably about twenty
Speaker 10: five years old, and okay, we lose to frons every
Speaker 10: time it can get a hard freeze. But how much
Speaker 10: freeze can they can they take before the fronds turn
Speaker 10: brown and die?
Speaker 4: You know, you can go online and see numbers that
Speaker 4: people have posted. Palm companies even have posted as to
Speaker 4: how cold it gets. It's a it's a function of
Speaker 4: several things. There is a roughly it can take this
Speaker 4: cold kind of number, but the condition of the plant
Speaker 4: a lot of course how cold it gets, but the
Speaker 4: conditions going into that cold. You know, any of our plants,
Speaker 4: when we are just having nice, mild conditions and suddenly
Speaker 4: that temperature drops way down, it's going to cause more
Speaker 4: damage than had there been a natural slowing and cooling
Speaker 4: of a plant in terms of what it could take.
Speaker 4: Date palms are not among the heartier palms. They're among
Speaker 4: the less hardy palms. They can be grown, but when
Speaker 4: it comes to freezes that separate one palm from another,
Speaker 4: date palm's going to be one that is going to
Speaker 4: sustain more damage than some of our hardier palms. That
Speaker 4: we have. The most important thing to remember on any
Speaker 4: palms is the terminal bud at the top of the trunk.
Speaker 4: That is where new growth comes out of. A few
Speaker 4: palms can reach sprout from the bottom. Date palm can't.
Speaker 4: Most palms can't. So if you can get something up
Speaker 4: there in the top, like a little cable on an
Speaker 4: extension cord the kind you wrap around a pie that
Speaker 4: keeps a pipe from freezing, provides a little bit of warmth,
Speaker 4: and then have any kind of cover over there on
Speaker 4: the top, you can get them through a lot. You
Speaker 4: can have damage to the trunk during a freeze.
Speaker 15: Go ahead, they throve They survived. Glass too freezes the
Speaker 15: blast you heart freezes.
Speaker 10: So hopefully this one will be as bad as those.
Speaker 10: But uh yeah, I guess it takes probably about a
Speaker 10: good solid year to throw those wrong back into a
Speaker 10: bull a bullet umbrella brown.
Speaker 29: How tall are they The trunks are probably about.
Speaker 25: Anywhere from ten to twelve feet.
Speaker 4: Well, it is feasibly pop.
Speaker 30: They're they're probably about it.
Speaker 4: We're talking over each other. Okay, Well, uh, it is
Speaker 4: possible to get up there and throw a cover over
Speaker 4: the whole thing. Use the tarp or whatever. You got.
Speaker 4: That's handy. Put a little bit of warm th underneath it,
Speaker 4: just a little bit, just like those little pipeworm and things.
Speaker 4: Wrap it up around. This is one time when a
Speaker 4: landscape lollipop would be the thing to do, because draping
Speaker 4: it all the way to the ground is going to
Speaker 4: be very difficult to do. Although if you can do that,
Speaker 4: that's even better. But at least warm warm the fronds
Speaker 4: and the top bud in it, and you should be
Speaker 4: good to go. And you can leave that on there
Speaker 4: for a few days if you need to, if it's
Speaker 4: gonna keep stay cold on you.
Speaker 25: Okay, all right, well thanks three time.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Yeah, I wish there was a way to
Speaker 4: protect them other than that, but it's just not a tree.
Speaker 4: That's why you don't see those palm trees up further north.
Speaker 4: They're just really hard to protect, all right, ed, Thank
Speaker 4: you appreciate that. Our phone number seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two kt r H seven to one three two
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Speaker 4: the Richmond Rosenberg area. It's an outstanding place to go
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Speaker 4: They are loaded up. They got a really good list
Speaker 4: of fruit trees now that they've got in. By the way,
Speaker 4: they got a program coming up next Saturday as January.
Speaker 4: No excuse me to day. I'm sorry. I'm looking at
Speaker 4: my calendar wrongs today January the eighteenth, and it's this morning,
Speaker 4: and it was John Penzarella, and I'm looking now. It
Speaker 4: starts at ten am, so basically when garden Line ends
Speaker 4: is when it kicks off. So I don't know. We'll
Speaker 4: give you permission to quit listening to the Garden Line,
Speaker 4: to put it on the radio on the car and
Speaker 4: head over there. John has been growing citrus on the
Speaker 4: Gulf Coast for a very long time. He knows how
Speaker 4: to grow all kinds of centrus. And this is a
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Speaker 4: That's FM three fifty on the Katie fullsher the north
Speaker 4: side of Richmond and Chanty Gardens and go check that out.
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm going to be out there on
Speaker 4: February fifteenth, about a month from now, from twelve noon
Speaker 4: to one thirty, and I'm going to be talking about
Speaker 4: tips for making gardening less work. Does that not sound appealing? It's,
Speaker 4: in other words, the way I like to put the subtitle,
Speaker 4: how to get more from your gardens with less sweat
Speaker 4: and less abuprofen. Okay, tips for making gardening less work.
Speaker 4: We'll make it more easier, more fun, more productive. Out there.
Speaker 4: That's February fifth. I'll tell you more about that as
Speaker 4: we get close to it. By the way, in Chanty
Speaker 4: Gardens is open Saturdays, Monday through Saturdays eight to five
Speaker 4: and Sundays eight to four. So get out there. When
Speaker 4: you're out there, you're going to find all the many,
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Speaker 4: they got your seed potatoes. They're ready to go out there,
Speaker 4: got products for frost protection, and their seed selection is outstanding.
Speaker 4: Inside the building there really good selection of all kinds
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Speaker 4: see John Penzrella today. I'm telling you it is. It'll
Speaker 4: be one of the best talks you ever heard on
Speaker 4: how to grow all kinds of centrus and answers your
Speaker 4: questions too. All right. I don't know how I can
Speaker 4: promote it any more than that. I wish I was
Speaker 4: at that moment I could get out there and get
Speaker 4: time to get there in time, I would go, I
Speaker 4: love love hearing that guy talk. Well, you're listening to
Speaker 4: Garden Line. Here's the phone number seven to one three
Speaker 4: two one two fifty eight seventy four, seven to one
Speaker 4: three two one two five eight seven four. We love
Speaker 4: our feed stores here on Garden Line and down south
Speaker 4: of Houston. League City feed in League City, Texas is
Speaker 4: an outstanding when it's got that old time feed store feel.
Speaker 4: I even like. I just like the fragrance going into
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Speaker 4: and things. And League City is that it ain't s
Speaker 4: been around for forty years. It's on Highway three, just
Speaker 4: a few blocks south of ninety six in League Sity.
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Speaker 4: They carry heirloom soils for example, anything you need to
Speaker 4: crow pass weeds and diseases. They've got it there at
Speaker 4: League City Feed, as well as some real premium types
Speaker 4: of pet food as well. All right, I'm going to
Speaker 4: head out now to Conroe and we're going to talk
Speaker 4: to Sym Hello, Cyan.
Speaker 18: Hice, Diane.
Speaker 24: But I like to listen to your show and on
Speaker 24: my way to work, so I've been going to do this.
Speaker 24: I said, this is a time while I'm sitting in
Speaker 24: a car. I'm fine, Rose, So I have that horrible
Speaker 24: play for soil. My yard is nothing but weeds. I
Speaker 24: bought the house new, so they just want to look
Speaker 24: cute till you get some closing and you're done. So
Speaker 24: I'm trying to get the yard aerrated. I'm seventy three,
Speaker 24: so I not a strong person.
Speaker 18: They used to be.
Speaker 24: I did go to one place to a piece of equipment.
Speaker 24: They want three hundred and sixty dollars for one day
Speaker 24: and then three hundred and twenty dollars for delivery and
Speaker 24: pick up, which is outrageous. And that's not even do anything.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to hey saying, I'm I'm sorry. I have
Speaker 4: to cut you off here. We're there. We got a
Speaker 4: heartbreak coming. When we come back, I will tell you
Speaker 4: about that and answer any other questions you have. Just
Speaker 4: hang on for one second, folks will be right back.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, we're back. We're going to head straight
Speaker 4: out to the phones and continue our conversation with Saying
Speaker 4: and Conro. You were discussing wanting to do some aeration
Speaker 4: and what I'm having a.
Speaker 8: Problem finding what I'm looking for.
Speaker 5: To do it?
Speaker 4: Got you? Well, if you're having to pay three almost
Speaker 4: four hundred dollars just to rent equipment, I got a
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Speaker 4: and they will do the compost top dressing and aeration both. Uh.
Speaker 4: And you know it's the prices will start. I believe
Speaker 4: they still start around five seventy five. But that's all
Speaker 4: the equipment, better equipment than you can rent. And that's
Speaker 4: the compost top dressing, couple of yards of composts going
Speaker 4: out there on it. You will be way better off
Speaker 4: than trying to rent a machine and find somebody to
Speaker 4: run it and buy all the composts and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I would just call it Greenpro. There. If you have
Speaker 4: a pen or pencil handy and give you a phone number.
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Speaker 4: I'll repeat it one more time. Two eight one three
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Speaker 4: go online, it's Greenpro dot net. That's an easy way
Speaker 4: to get hold of them. But they can do they'll
Speaker 4: do the job right, and they got the equipment that
Speaker 4: does it better.
Speaker 24: That's gonna be like half priced and getting more done.
Speaker 24: So it sounds like a.
Speaker 4: Well it is and it yeah, you bet, good luck
Speaker 4: with that. Thanks for the call. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 4: go to Sugarland now and talk to Fred. Hey, Fred,
Speaker 4: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 22: Good morning, sir. I want to ask you about Carolina
Speaker 22: jasmine in the freeze.
Speaker 4: We replaced our Asian.
Speaker 22: Jasmine after we've lost it before with Carolina jasmine.
Speaker 11: Is that or not?
Speaker 4: It is hardy Carolina jasmine. Oh, I know it'll go
Speaker 4: to a zone seven, which is way north of us,
Speaker 4: and so yeah, you shouldn't have a problem with that
Speaker 4: at all. It's a it's a very tough, hearty plant
Speaker 4: native in the southeastern United States.
Speaker 7: Good well, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Is that it just okay? Well that was easy? You
Speaker 4: take care? Hey, yeah, there you go. All right, we
Speaker 4: beat that. Well. I got a weird, funky song that
Speaker 4: I'm going to play for you every nine and then
Speaker 4: I like to play some stuff. I promise you you
Speaker 4: never heard before if you have called me and tell
Speaker 4: me I'm wrong. But I'll do that when we come
Speaker 4: back from break here in a little bit. You know,
Speaker 4: I talk about ACE all the time, and it's like,
Speaker 4: where do you begin? You know, ACE Hardware. Their motto
Speaker 4: is ACE is the place, or at least it has
Speaker 4: been for a long time, and it is it is
Speaker 4: the place for all kinds of things that you might need.
Speaker 4: I mean, right now, it's all about cold weather, right,
Speaker 4: That's what we're worried about, is cold weather. How do
Speaker 4: we you know, how do we protect our plants? Well,
Speaker 4: when you go to ACE, you're going to find things
Speaker 4: like the pipe insulation to wrap around your pipe, the
Speaker 4: heat lamps that you need under your plants. By the way,
Speaker 4: if you want to know how to use one, go
Speaker 4: on Facebook garden Line facebook page. I did a video
Speaker 4: yesterday explaining how to do that. And you want to
Speaker 4: be careful when you use those. There's a right way
Speaker 4: and wrong way to do it, but it's on there.
Speaker 4: ACE has got that. ACE is going to be the
Speaker 4: place where you find all kinds of interior heaters. Maybe
Speaker 4: you want to put something out in the garage to
Speaker 4: keep it a little bit warmer because you put all
Speaker 4: some plants in there. Brought a bunch of plants into there.
Speaker 4: They've got that the frost covers to go over your plants.
Speaker 4: They've got everything you need when you think of cold weather.
Speaker 4: You know the covers that go over your faucets outside
Speaker 4: the miser, the freeze miser that is a gadget. You
Speaker 4: just screw it into the garden fawcet bib. You turn
Speaker 4: it on all the way. Nothing comes out because it's
Speaker 4: not until it gets cold cold that that freeze miser
Speaker 4: starts to water trickle out. So you don't waste water
Speaker 4: all night like you do when you have to leave
Speaker 4: your faucets trickling. But it works, and ACE has got it.
Speaker 4: Ace has got every kind of thing you might possibly need.
Speaker 4: For example, they've they've got those ac film that you need.
Speaker 4: In fact, the hardware city of Memorial may have the
Speaker 4: largest selection of AC filters in all of Houston. But
Speaker 4: we got Ace stores all over the place. You can
Speaker 4: go to fullshre Ace Hardware up in Spring. There's All
Speaker 4: Star Ace Hardware. There's another All Star Ace Hardware in
Speaker 4: Magnolia and Port Lavaca. Ace Hardware just another example of
Speaker 4: the many Ace Hardware is in the greater Houston area.
Speaker 4: If you went to Acehardware dot com and find the
Speaker 4: store locator, you can find the one near you. And
Speaker 4: it's as simple as that. And I could just sit here,
Speaker 4: item after item reading off everything you need from Ace Hardware.
Speaker 4: The cause we're getting into cold, cold weather, so get
Speaker 4: by there, don't alike, get by there and get that
Speaker 4: taken care of. And then when things warm up a
Speaker 4: little bit, I want to tell you about some of
Speaker 4: their gardening supplies that they carry, because they have a
Speaker 4: nice full supply of gardening options at your local Ace
Speaker 4: Hardware store. Ace is the place that is true. Well
Speaker 4: let's see here, where are we. We're getting pretty close
Speaker 4: to the break. Well, I've got time for a call.
Speaker 4: If someone'd like to, you might call it seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two k t r H. Seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two k t r H. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: talk a little bit about some non freeze type of thing. Uh,
Speaker 4: and that would be This is the time to get
Speaker 4: your fruit trees in the ground, any kind of woody ornamental.
Speaker 4: The sooner you plant it, the better. Our garden centers
Speaker 4: are loaded with ones. Now, when you go to a
Speaker 4: good mom and pop garden center, I'm not talking about
Speaker 4: national chains that sell hammers and everything else. I'm talking
Speaker 4: about a garden center that's locally owned. You're gonna they're
Speaker 4: gonna be able to tell you what are the best
Speaker 4: cultivars for your area. Because you know, the cultivar of
Speaker 4: peach you would grow on Galveston and Huntsville are very different.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be able to tell you do you need
Speaker 4: a pollinator for that kind of fruit? Peaches don't need
Speaker 4: a second pollinator out do. And then I'm not going
Speaker 4: to go through every fruit tree, but they'll be able
Speaker 4: to tell you that, they'll be able to tell you
Speaker 4: how to plant it, They'll be able to provide the
Speaker 4: products you need to have success with it. That's true
Speaker 4: with fruit trees. That's also true with camellias. It's true
Speaker 4: with tho zalias. It's true with all kinds of shrubs
Speaker 4: and trees that you might want to plant there at
Speaker 4: your property. The best time to plant a tree is
Speaker 4: forty years ago. Second best times today. So if you're
Speaker 4: looking for a nice shade tree or a nice blooming tree,
Speaker 4: my favorite spring bloomer is a tree called Chinese fringe tree.
Speaker 4: There's a native fringe f East Texas Native fringe. The
Speaker 4: showiest thing is the Chinese fringe and I love it.
Speaker 4: It is absolutely wonderful, has nice fragrance to it as well.
Speaker 4: So anyway, go to a good, trustable local garden center.
Speaker 4: We got them north, south, East, and West. We're lucky
Speaker 4: here in Houston. I'm going to take a break and
Speaker 4: when I come back, Danny, you'll be our first up.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I don't even know where to start,
Speaker 4: so I'm just not gonna say anything. I promised you
Speaker 4: something you haven't heard before. If you've heard that before,
Speaker 4: number one, I don't believe you, but call in tell
Speaker 4: me you're wrong. Skip. I have heard that. It's probably
Speaker 4: some barbershop enthusiast out there. Hey, we're going to go
Speaker 4: out to the phones now and talk to Breen in Hitchcock. Hello, Bring,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 27: Oh yeah, Hi, Hi, Skip love your show. I had
Speaker 27: a raised flower bed with three established hibiscus. One is
Speaker 27: a cage in one, one's a double bloom, and the
Speaker 27: other one is I think it was called Americana.
Speaker 18: It's got yellow, yellow, red, and pink blooms on it.
Speaker 18: I think it's a hybrid.
Speaker 27: But they've gone on the ground, so probably at least
Speaker 27: three years. I did hear you say something this morning
Speaker 27: about putting.
Speaker 18: My PBC pipe in and maybe.
Speaker 27: A flood lamp, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 18: It's like a eight to ten foot long bed.
Speaker 27: The largest hyperscus is the Cajun and it probably stands
Speaker 27: four four and a half feet tall. So do I
Speaker 27: just need to wrap it in plastic and put a
Speaker 27: couple of flood lamps in there between each plant?
Speaker 4: Well you could? What would you could? Yeah, you could
Speaker 4: do that. I think if it were mine, it or
Speaker 4: eight feet long. I would take PVC and make arches
Speaker 4: to go over the plant, so you're making like a tunnel,
Speaker 4: and then you put the plastic over the whole tunnel,
Speaker 4: and then you put a couple of lamps. You know
Speaker 4: it's eight feet long, so put the lamps about four
Speaker 4: feet apart underneath there, and that would definitely protect them.
Speaker 4: The the PVC holds plastic up, plastic keeps air from moving.
Speaker 4: You don't want plastic to touch plants. But with those hibiscus,
Speaker 4: you know they're already the leaves are probably falling off
Speaker 4: and not looking very great anyway, and fresh growth will
Speaker 4: come out next spring. But if you go to the
Speaker 4: if you go to garden line Facebook page, I just
Speaker 4: kind of show you how to do it on one plant.
Speaker 4: It may make it easier to kind of picture what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about.
Speaker 27: Okay, I think I can get kind of a mental
Speaker 27: picture because you're talking about the PDC pipe that those
Speaker 27: really long.
Speaker 18: They're probably at least ten twelve feet.
Speaker 11: Tall or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably.
Speaker 27: Okay, what about what about blankets on the ground? Does
Speaker 27: that help it all?
Speaker 4: Well? You could you could put anything over the PVC.
Speaker 4: I mean you could use tarps, you could use rope,
Speaker 4: the thick row cover fabric, if you had a blanket
Speaker 4: that size, you could use it. We're just trying to
Speaker 4: create a dead air space underneath there so that the
Speaker 4: soil warmth rises up underneath that tunnel or underneath that
Speaker 4: PVC hoop, and it helps protect the plant and when
Speaker 4: you warm the air a little bit, it kind of
Speaker 4: stays warm because wind is not blowing the air right
Speaker 4: out from under there. That that's the goal. So uh yeah,
Speaker 4: you can. You can go about that either way.
Speaker 27: Okay, Well, I understand that. I was thinking though of
Speaker 27: putting like some old comforters or whatever to cover the
Speaker 27: ground to keep it warm with the flood lambs under it.
Speaker 27: Bit at that point it would probably block the heat
Speaker 27: from rising.
Speaker 4: I see, yes, that's correct. You do not want. In fact,
Speaker 4: I have a plant that I've covered like that, and
Speaker 4: first thing I did is scrape all the mult back
Speaker 4: from underneath that PVC hoop because the soil will warm
Speaker 4: and the soil will radiate that heat up, and molts
Speaker 4: help pull the soil in the soil warm thing. So yeah,
Speaker 4: you want you want bear soil. You don't want to
Speaker 4: blanket over it. You don't want mulch over it for
Speaker 4: best results. Now, these are all, you know, like ten
Speaker 4: different things you can do that each one helps a
Speaker 4: little bit. So if you don't do them all, that's okay.
Speaker 18: But okay, okay, well they're they're like my babies.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: I know, well, I have a cajun hibescus that I
Speaker 4: really love. Those are outstanding.
Speaker 27: Yeah, they're just you know, and I just stumbled across
Speaker 27: it in a flea market and it has just been
Speaker 27: the most beautiful plan. I get so many compliments on it.
Speaker 18: So okay, well, thank you.
Speaker 27: I really appreciate your health.
Speaker 18: It was very informative.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, good, that's good. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you being listener.
Speaker 18: Have a great thank.
Speaker 4: You as well. We're gonna go out now to Houston.
Speaker 4: Talk to Danny. Hey, Danny, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 30: Hey, yeah, good morning, sir, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 30: I have two mule palms that are still in their
Speaker 30: pots pots, meaning they're big. They're like, you know, four
Speaker 30: foot circles.
Speaker 22: Right.
Speaker 30: You just scared me when you were talking to that
Speaker 30: other young lady about the mult because I went and
Speaker 30: bought like eight bags of mulch and I put it
Speaker 30: inside the pot around the base to keep it warm
Speaker 30: during the last little Coltsville. Can you give me some
Speaker 30: suggestions on how to take care of these during this
Speaker 30: hard reason?
Speaker 4: You bet so. For everybody listening, I want to clarify
Speaker 4: that mult thing that I said. When I said the
Speaker 4: molt thing, I'm talking about where you completely cover a
Speaker 4: plant and you got the bare soil warmth rising up.
Speaker 4: When you're talking about a palm tree, you're talking a
Speaker 4: big old trunk up there with something at the top,
Speaker 4: and that doesn't really apply. You're not putting the same
Speaker 4: kind of cover over it. So for you to mound
Speaker 4: up soil or cover soil or put a tarp over
Speaker 4: that root ball and protect the roots and things, that's fine.
Speaker 4: Meal palm is very cold hearty. They can take temperatures
Speaker 4: down into the teens when they're you know, in decent shape.
Speaker 4: I just wouldn't necessarily want to try that with the
Speaker 4: roots getting that cold. But yeah, once they're established, they're
Speaker 4: quite hearty. But for this one, let's just protect the
Speaker 4: base of it, the roots a little bit there. And
Speaker 4: I don't see what the kind of weather we're having
Speaker 4: here in Houston area that you need to you need
Speaker 4: to be that concerned about a mule pom.
Speaker 30: Okay, so so so me stacking the mult all the
Speaker 30: way around the base and they're still in their pots
Speaker 30: and putting that most all around there, then it should
Speaker 30: be okay.
Speaker 4: Yes, because you're insulating the roots. Okay, that's what the
Speaker 4: mulch is doing for that palm tree, then saying, I
Speaker 4: don't know that that's necessary. It may it may not be,
Speaker 4: but I'm just saying, don't what I said about mult
Speaker 4: does not apply to what you're doing to that move.
Speaker 30: No, I totally understand, sir. I totally understand, Thank you.
Speaker 30: But I did hear the previous conversation.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, right, so, yeah, that happens a
Speaker 4: lot on garden line, and I always like that to clarify, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you picked a you picked a great palm. Mule palms
Speaker 4: are awesome. They're hearty, they're fast growing, they're they're just
Speaker 4: they're great.
Speaker 30: Okay, one more question, sir. So I haven't put them
Speaker 30: in the ground because when we got them, which was
Speaker 30: like a month ago, I thought to myself that it's
Speaker 30: not a good time to plant them. Right, So when
Speaker 30: when is a good time to put them in the ground.
Speaker 30: What would you think?
Speaker 4: We usually plant palms when the weather worms up a
Speaker 4: little bit. You know, they they don't really want to
Speaker 4: mess with growing and stuff until things warm up. So
Speaker 4: whereas with a lot of our trees and stuff, we're saying, hey,
Speaker 4: get them planted and fall in winter, you know, before
Speaker 4: the heat of the summer arrives. People plant palm trees
Speaker 4: in the middle of hot summer, so you don't you're
Speaker 4: not in a hurry. But when it warms up a
Speaker 4: little bit, you can get that thing in the ground.
Speaker 30: Okay, all right, thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 30: love to shows.
Speaker 17: You're awesome.
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate that. Good luck with that. Well, there
Speaker 4: we did it. We put another, put another show in
Speaker 4: the books. Wish you well, stay warm this this week.
Speaker 4: This is the kind of weather that gives our fruit
Speaker 4: trees great chilling. Chilling hours occur primarily around forty degrees
Speaker 4: forty five thirty five somewhere in there. We're going to
Speaker 4: have a lot of that weather as we go through.
Speaker 4: So who knows, maybe you have a good bloom and
Speaker 4: a good fruit production coming there with fruit. Talk to
Speaker 4: you tomorrow.