WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:05.639 Welcome to kat r h Garden Line with Skip Rictor's. 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:12.400 Shoes, crazy gas a trim. 3 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:21.079 You can just watch him as well. So many good 4 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.719 things to supop raising in great. 5 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:30.160 Gas not a. 6 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:37.399 Sun glass gas sun beamon of. 7 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.719 All right, let's get this rolling this morning. Welcome to 8 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:49.560 garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor. We're here to 9 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:53.280 help you have a bountiful garden, beautiful landscape and more 10 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.159 fun in the process. That's what we want to do. 11 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.560 Gardening should be fun, and it is fun a lot 12 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:01.640 of things. One of the things I like best about 13 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:07.319 gardening is it's renewing abilities. It just you know, you 14 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.799 get outside, you clean up a messy bed. Even that's work. 15 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:15.000 I know it's eight outside, but you stand up, you 16 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.200 look at the work you've done, the accomplishment, and there 17 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.200 is that is a good thing. It feels so good. 18 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:25.319 You know, for years when I was in my main 19 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.920 career of my life Agrolfe Extension County horticulture agent with 20 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.959 Texas a and named Agrolife Extension. You know, you go 21 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.959 to work like any job, and sometimes at the end 22 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:37.159 of the day you look back and you go, what 23 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.879 did I do today? I know I pushed papers around 24 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.280 and talk to people. But what did I do today? 25 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.359 And with gardening, you can see what you do today. 26 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:50.280 I'm going to be doing some planting later today and 27 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.920 I'll go outside. I got the beds already, I keep 28 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:55.799 mulch on them, and I put those seeds in the 29 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.359 ground and just sit back, or put the transplants in 30 00:01:58.400 --> 00:01:59.920 the ground. I say, back and look at it, and 31 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.560 it looks good and it gives you hope. And when 32 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:04.040 you put a seed in the ground and you know 33 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:06.799 you're going to get something from that, a flower of fruit, 34 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.280 a vegeable, whatever you're growing, there's an accomplishment that anyway. 35 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:13.080 I think that's a great thing. I do want to 36 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:15.400 talk a little bit about the lawns right now. Our 37 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:18.840 lawns are growing fast, and I mean they are. If 38 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:21.439 your lawn, if your soil is moist, your lawn is 39 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.520 growing fast. And so we need to make sure and 40 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:26.759 mow as regularly as we can. The more often you mow, 41 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.919 the better it looks. It's as simple as that. Now, 42 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:33.199 someone a turf specialist, told me that one time. He said, 43 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.360 the most important single thing you do to your lawn 44 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:37.879 is mow it regularly. And I thought, come on man. 45 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:40.599 I thought you'd say water, fertilize something else, but those 46 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:45.960 are all important. But mowing regularly creates the densest, most 47 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.680 beautiful turf, just like hedging a hedge regularly creates the densest, 48 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.879 most beautiful hedge. So as simple as that, I've noticed 49 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.840 out and about in the lawn there's still a little 50 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:58.240 gray leaf spot out there. We're going to be heating 51 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.639 up enough and kind of growing our way out of that. 52 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.560 But there's a product by night Frog can used called 53 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.719 Eagle And one of my family members has a yard 54 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.360 that has a lot of gray leaf spot in it 55 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.400 because they're putting a new turf in and watering it, 56 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:12.280 you know, twice a day for a while, once a 57 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:14.639 day for a while, and all that water created a 58 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.879 lot of gray leaf spot opportunity and there it goes. 59 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.759 So Eagle Turf shuts it down. It's a systemic. It 60 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.360 also works on other diseases too. You can use it 61 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.439 on the other things that plague your lawns, whether it's 62 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:28.120 Saint Augustine or another type of grass. You're gonna find 63 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:31.479 night Foss products places like Plantation, Ace Hardware in Richmond 64 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.520 Rosenberg and i FM three fifty nine Langham Creek Ase Hardware, 65 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.520 which is raped by Copperfield in the north west part 66 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:41.080 of Houston. FM five twenty nine RCW Nursery on Tomball 67 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:43.599 Parkway and head down to Angleton Inclute. You got to 68 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.800 show a couple of lake hardwares there that both carry 69 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:49.680 night foss products as well. We're going to run out 70 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:53.520 to the phones real quick here and talk to Beth. Hello, Beth, 71 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.479 welcome to garden Line. Congratulations on being the arderbird. 72 00:03:59.199 --> 00:03:59.879 I need to want that. 73 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.240 I know you can plant beans snap beans again this year. 74 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:07.520 It's when's a good time? September? O Can I plant 75 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:12.280 them now? I don't want I don't I don't want 76 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.280 the climbing beans. I want snap beans. 77 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:20.160 I would I would probably plant those in August uh 78 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.639 and and they're going to be It depends on the 79 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.000 variety contenders about a forty eight day to harvest variety. 80 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.759 But you want them harvesting when the bulk of a 81 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:35.399 heat is past because they just don't set well in 82 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:40.399 the heat. So maybe October, maybe August. If you do September, 83 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.680 then it's getting a little late for you to have 84 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.759 a really good long harvest from them. But probably believe 85 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:48.199 late in the August. 86 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:50.560 It's too hardly to plan them now. 87 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.720 Huh, you're not gonna I don't think you're going to 88 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:56.519 get good for it. Said, if you plan them now 89 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:57.879 that yes, that is correct. 90 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:01.319 Yeah, okay, So so you think you say, my my vegetable. 91 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.920 Yeah, August, I would say probably for your area, maybe 92 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.639 you could start in mid August, be pretty good. I'd 93 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.120 probably finish up by the end of the first week 94 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.720 of September, somewhere in that range. You may want to 95 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:17.839 make more than one planting just to head your bet. 96 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:19.240 Yeah, you could. 97 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:24.000 So you recommend contenders, well, contender is. 98 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:26.480 A good old old variety. There's a lot of other 99 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.000 great new varieties out there. I haven't done a green 100 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:31.759 bean trial in a while. Back when we did them, 101 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:36.879 Derby was a good variety. There's I would I would 102 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.160 probably look for a contender. It's good, it's dependable. But 103 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:42.959 one thing I do in my garden's bed is every year, 104 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.040 if I'm going to plant, like green beans, I'll plant 105 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:48.279 maybe two varieties. Sometimes I'll do three and just see 106 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:50.120 how they do. And then you'll find out for you 107 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.920 and for what you like, how they perform. But you 108 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:54.199 can't go wrong with contender. 109 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:56.399 Okay, well, thank you so much. 110 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:00.600 All right, thank you for the call. Appreciate that a lot. 111 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:05.480 You take care. Yeah, that is true with our vegetables 112 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.560 and things. D and D feed is just outside of Tumball, 113 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.560 in fact, it's about three miles west of Highway two 114 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.480 forty nine on twenty nine to twenty and you're going 115 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.000 to find at D and D the fertilizers I talk about, 116 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:20.920 you know, turf Star, Nelson Fertilizer, turf Star line, the 117 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:25.480 Microlife line, the Nitrofoss line. If you looking for soils 118 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.920 and by the bag from heirloom soils, they carry that 119 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:33.279 out there. They have Medina fertilizer products and supplement products 120 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.240 as well. Of course, they got high quality feed of 121 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:39.839 all types, including for pets, high end lines like Origin 122 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.279 and Victor Star Pro Diamond, those kinds of things. But 123 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:45.560 when it comes to anything to control pest weeds and 124 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.279 diseases at your house, they're going to have you covered 125 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:50.560 for that too. They do a very good job of 126 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.920 keeping a wide variety of things. I'm most surprised when 127 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:56.079 I go in there and seeing all the different things 128 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:01.560 that they carry. Go to a break here in about 129 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:03.920 one minute. Woody and Kingwood, you'll be our first when 130 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:06.759 we come back. I just don't have enough time to 131 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.360 give you the time you need right before we go, 132 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:11.639 So we're gonna take a little break and I'll come 133 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:14.399 back and start with you when we come back. If 134 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.480 you're looking for a beautiful landscape, don't look any further 135 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:19.879 than Piercescapes. I talk about them all the time, and 136 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:21.879 I keep telling you the same thing, and that is 137 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:26.519 go to the website pierce Scapes dot com or give 138 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.639 them a call. Two eight one three seven oh fifty 139 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:32.639 sixty two eight one three seven fifty sixty. They can 140 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:36.000 do anything you need done, from a complete new landscape 141 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:38.879 to some renovation. You want to add lighting, you want 142 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:40.920 to fix the drainage, You want to get your irrigation 143 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.360 working right. You want somebody to come out and quarterly. 144 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.240 Come out quarterly to your place and get those beds 145 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.319 looking good, get the weeds out, replenish the mults, make 146 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:53.000 sure irrigation's working well on them. Replace some flowers went 147 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.839 seasonally as we need to do that. Piercescapes dot com 148 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.199 two eight one three seven o five zero zero. We'll 149 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.800 be right back. Just a ride welcome back. Good to 150 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.680 have you here with us on garden line this morning. 151 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:12.839 If you are planning on doing some soil work, and 152 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:15.120 I hope you are, because I'm doing soil work twelve 153 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:16.879 months out of the year just about. I mean it'd 154 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.360 mean every day I'm doing it. But I'm always when 155 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.920 I pull out a maybe I had tomatoes growing and 156 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.839 I pull them out, playing something for the fall or 157 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:27.160 something else. I'm always working on the soil. And Cienamulch 158 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.759 is a place that you go where no matter what 159 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:32.720 you need, they're gonna have it there. Everything for as 160 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:35.120 we say, do the brown stuff before the green stuff. 161 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.720 That's the place to go. Sanamulch is on Highway or 162 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:41.519 on FM of five point twenty one, kind of over 163 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.879 near Highway six and two eighty eight south of Houston. 164 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.840 Just go to the website Sienna Mulch dot com cinamals 165 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.960 dot com. You'll find mulches. You'll find all kinds of 166 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.720 quality mults by the way, lots of bed mixes and 167 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:56.519 other things including sand and gravel. If you're putting out 168 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:58.879 a little stone patio, they've got it. They'll deliver within 169 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.720 about twenty miles the location and before you head out 170 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.960 the door. Just make sure you grab some good quality 171 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:06.519 fertilizers that I talk about here on garden Line, from 172 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.840 Microlife and from Nelson's and from Medina and from Nitrophoss. 173 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.240 They've got azemite as well, including products by the back 174 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.559 from here heirloom soil if you want to just get 175 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.840 a small amountain sanemals. All right, let's head out. We're 176 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.919 going to go to Kingwood now and visit with Woody 177 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:28.000 this morning. Hello Woody, Welcome to garden Line Point Skip. 178 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.840 I'm thinking about planting a red maple tree in the 179 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.039 fall and was wondering if they'll grow in our zone 180 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:35.519 or our word. 181 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:40.559 I would get one of those, it will. I would 182 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:43.720 probably talk to h let's see what can wear you. 183 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.720 I would probably you might find some out there at 184 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:49.919 Warren's Southern Garden. Just ask them that they're going to 185 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.159 be getting those in. That's that's pretty close to you. 186 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:54.440 I know RCW carries a lot of trees and they 187 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.159 grow on themselves, and they're over on kind of the 188 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:01.000 northwest west corner of the Beltway there where two for 189 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.399 twenty nine comes into the Beltway. Red maple will grow here. 190 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:11.360 My problem with maples these red maples and others. The 191 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.159 branch angles are so narrow, and so you really have 192 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.600 to watch it as you train it to make sure 193 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:19.039 you don't have these real narrow vs. Because those are 194 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:22.240 not strong in a storm. As that tree gets older 195 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.919 and it presses bark against bark and you don't have 196 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.480 a good attachment. So with good training you can do 197 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.159 a red maple, but that, in my opinion, is one 198 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:33.320 of its shortcomings. 199 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:37.320 Okay, terrific, Well, thank you for your help. I just 200 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:39.080 wanted to make sure for I went out looking for 201 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:40.960 one boy. 202 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.679 I'm glad you called, and anybody listening, I hope you'll 203 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:45.879 do that because you're talking out a tree that hopefully 204 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.799 is going to give you beauty and shade for fifty years. 205 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:58.799 We're going to live another fifty years, right, wouldy? Thank 206 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:04.759 you for the call. I appreciate that. What is this statement? 207 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:10.799 A society is great when old men plant trees under 208 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.879 which shade they will never set or something like that. 209 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.080 I don't know, you know, in other words, I'm planting 210 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.120 a tree for somebody else. I'll enjoy it in the meantime. 211 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.600 That works really well. If you're listening to Guardline good 212 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.320 heavy with us this morning. If you I mentioned earlier 213 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:29.039 that you know I get out and I do planting. 214 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:32.879 Just all kinds of stuff going on this week. If 215 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:34.919 you want to pick up some quality plants and you're 216 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:38.799 in West Houston, Neilson Nursery and Water Gardens is a 217 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:42.600 place you need to go. Nelson's always has good quality stuff. 218 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:44.919 You know how they specialize in water gardens. I mean 219 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.559 they're nationally famous for that. But they also carry a 220 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:53.320 wide variety of plants, some gorgeous pottery, absolutely gorgeous pottery, 221 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:55.960 and everything that you might need if you learn for 222 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.679 a gift plant. But I have some nice little indoor 223 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.840 house plants that are just beautiful and perfect to give 224 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.279 us a gift or grab two and keep on yourself. 225 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.279 There you go, what's going on now? Up there is 226 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.559 their ding Dang Sale. Did you know they have a 227 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:14.639 sale called the ding Dang Sale. It is on Saturday, 228 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:18.279 June twenty eighth, which happens to be today, and all 229 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:21.639 their clearance items, all kinds of things that you can 230 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:23.960 pick up. Just go buy and check it out. It 231 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.399 is one of the best opportunities, I think for you 232 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.039 to pick up some really cool stuff. If you've been 233 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.240 thinking about putting some containers on your patio. Boy. They 234 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.120 have an excellent selection of containers. By the way, if 235 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.360 you want to get there, head out I ten West. 236 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:42.679 When you get to Katie Fort Ben Road, out Katie 237 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.240 turn north and it's just upstreet a little bit there. 238 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:50.279 West Houston's full service destination garden center. I would say 239 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.919 Nelson Nursery and Watergardens if you want to go to 240 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:58.679 the website Nelson Watergardens dot com. You're listening to garden 241 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:00.440 Line if you'd like to give me a call. Number 242 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:04.000 is seven to one three two one two five eight 243 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:08.720 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight 244 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:15.879 seventy four. I'm gonna get Ty Strickland from fix my 245 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.000 Slab on the air here. We're going to have him 246 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.720 a little bit later sometime in July, uh and I 247 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:27.200 want to pick his brain about foundational issues because a 248 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.600 lot of you know, we got the black clays here 249 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:33.000 in the Houston areas even named after us. It's called 250 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:36.480 Houston black clay. That's the soil scientist's name for it. 251 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.759 The the clay shrinks and swells, you know, it gets 252 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:42.120 wet and it swells, it gets dry, shrinks and it 253 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.840 directs havoc. That's where you see these sidewalks that are 254 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:49.120 heaved up, and and that and and some tree roots. 255 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.120 That's way he cracks in the in the driveways and 256 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:55.559 it affects our slabs too, and ties. He's the expert, 257 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.600 and I do want to get him on to talk 258 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:01.000 about the details of this, what people need to know, 259 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.399 what they can look for and things. He's been doing 260 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.320 this twenty three years. He's an expert. If you want 261 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.120 to check, check his website out in the meantime, fixmiyslab 262 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:13.679 dot com. It's fixmyslab dot com. His phone number two 263 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:17.559 eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine. It's 264 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:21.320 been here his whole life. Nati Fewstonian, fifth generation Texan. 265 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.120 I guess the thing I like most about uh well, 266 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:25.759 I don't know if it's the most, but a lot 267 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.200 about the company. It's something anytime you're going to hire 268 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.080 somebody to come to your house to do anything, you're 269 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:34.279 gonna want these three things. And these three things describe 270 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:37.759 fix my slab and ty Strickland. That's on time, fair 271 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.919 price fixed right, on time, fair price fixed right. That's 272 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.399 what we want. So anyway we're gonna get him in 273 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.320 here and I'm gonna pick his brain. If you got 274 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.600 some questions. When I have these guests in, you're welcome 275 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:53.679 to call in on the topic that they are talking about. Today. 276 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:55.639 I'm going to have starting at the eight o'clock hour, 277 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:00.279 someone from tex A and M Horticulture Department who is 278 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:02.840 a fruit specialist. We're gonna be talking about fruit trees 279 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:04.879 for your yard and all kinds of things. You got 280 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:08.000 some questions you want to call in for well eight o'clock. 281 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:09.919 We may run all the way to ten on that one, 282 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.720 but we'll be glad to take your questions on those things. 283 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.480 The summer days are a little slower and I try 284 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:19.240 to cover as many of the different topics as we can. 285 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:21.519 I know a lot of you have enjoyed some of 286 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:25.519 the guests that we've had, and so that's what we're 287 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.200 going to be doing here in the summertime. Tey, what, 288 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:33.000 let's's run out to Kingwood again and we are going 289 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.480 to visit with Howard. Hello, Howard, welcome to garden Line. 290 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:41.200 Good morning, Thank you. I have a couple of lots 291 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:44.879 up there on the lake. Let me sten and they 292 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:51.360 were the bullhead was blown out back in August. Rough 293 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:56.159 whenever the hurricane came through and I finally got it fixed. 294 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:01.600 Apparently there were a lot of bull kids boat houses destroyed. 295 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:06.600 But anyway, I got the bulkhead in, I got a 296 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:10.840 lot of dirt put in, and now I was thinking 297 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:16.360 about to putting grass down. And uh, the guy I 298 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:18.799 was talking to, well, you may not want to put 299 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.879 permuta in, just put some. 300 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:23.399 This or that. 301 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:26.159 Now what should I put down over this dirt that 302 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:29.320 was put back down over the lots? 303 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.120 Okay? Is this a Is this an area where you 304 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.240 want a really nice lawn where kids are rolling around 305 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:39.200 and playing and things, or is this an area where 306 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.000 you just want something green on the ground and you're 307 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:42.919 in a mow it. But but it needs to be 308 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:49.000 tough and and not need as much TLC right the 309 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:50.120 second second one. 310 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:52.440 I'm not going to plant a tree for somebody else, 311 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.679 but I don't want to spend a fortune already spend 312 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:56.919 a fortune with bulkheads. 313 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:03.000 Yeah, well, you know that every grass has its pros 314 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.079 and cons. Saint Augustine, you need to water pretty often 315 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:10.079 and uh, but it's pros. It grows in deeper shade 316 00:17:10.119 --> 00:17:14.480 than than most anything. Uh Uh, there is Bermuda takes 317 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.000 over the world. It'll crawl into every flower bed you got. 318 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.160 The more it regularly, it gets tiggers if the kids 319 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:20.160 are rolling around in it. 320 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:20.920 Uh. 321 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:23.759 And then there's Zoisia, which is a good tough grass, 322 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.119 but it needs regular mowing to look its best. And 323 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:28.599 and uh with a good good mower. 324 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:29.359 Uh. 325 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:33.279 There is a grass that is some people love it 326 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.400 and some people don't, and that is Behea grass. Behea 327 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:40.960 grass does very well in areas like yours, but it 328 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:44.440 sends up seed heads almost knee high, you know, the 329 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.039 little seed heads, like a few days after you mow, 330 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:50.000 you got them coming up. I mean they I guess 331 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:52.279 they detract from it a little bit. But if you 332 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:54.319 want a grass that you can drive a car on, 333 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.599 and I mean you can just just nobody has to 334 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.119 really water unless we go into a drought. Uh, it's 335 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:03.000 one you can do that. You just got to keep 336 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.680 it mode down so it doesn't because it will get taller. 337 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:08.240 But it makes a decent lawn. They use it in 338 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:14.640 Florida for lawns quite a bit. My hey, BAJE like 339 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:15.799 the mission b. 340 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.799 A, but I really don't know the grass. 341 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:23.200 Yeah, well, you know, if I jump on you know 342 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:26.359 your search engine, Google or whatever and and just type 343 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:31.000 in baheya b a h I A grass and learn 344 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:33.240 a little bit about it. University of Florida has got 345 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.440 some really good information out there on it. We don't 346 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.319 have it as a turf grass on our anim Texas 347 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:42.359 turf page, at least I haven't seen it on there, 348 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.759 but I have been around a new Christmas tree farm. 349 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:48.920 They used it for the parking area. Kept it mode 350 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:50.799 so short you felt like you were walking on the lawn. 351 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:56.720 And it's tough. It's tough, all right, Hey, yeah, I 352 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:57.279 am too. 353 00:18:58.359 --> 00:19:02.640 Well congressibly class sixty any. 354 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.400 Well, well, good, hey, but just look at it carefully 355 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:12.640 because anybody who's thinking lawn bhea is not, you know, 356 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:15.480 in the top for a lawn, but for a mode 357 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:17.359 area that you don't have to worry about a lot. 358 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:20.000 You just need a good more to get out there 359 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:24.680 and get over it. Okay, Well, thank you, skip all right, 360 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:26.960 make sure you like it. I don't want you calling 361 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:30.599 me back and saying, well, yes, no lawn. I thank you, 362 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:35.680 Howard and Gig you take care all right? Uh yeah, 363 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:36.640 appreciate that. 364 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:37.440 Uh. 365 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:42.319 Boss Nursery is down in Kingwood, Texas. Kingwood, Texas. Good night. 366 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:46.920 Where am I coming from? Seabrook, Texas. Seabrook, everybody in 367 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.720 that region knows Moss Nursery. Moss has an awesome, awesome 368 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.599 selection of anything that you could possibly want, and they 369 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:57.440 really do. It's a bit right now. I'm excited about 370 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.640 the hibiscus that they've gotten in. These are the perennial hibiscus, 371 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.400 the kind they come back each year. They do really, 372 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:06.440 really well. And if you are a collector of plants 373 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:08.759 and you like things, you want something for a very 374 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.559 wet area, or you need something for a shady area, 375 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:14.279 or you want something that just bowls people over with 376 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:19.079 gaudy color. Mos Nursery's got that and more. M AA 377 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:23.160 S Nursery dot com. M aa S Nursery dot com 378 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:27.440 two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight 379 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:31.160 two eight one four seven four two four eight eight. 380 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:34.319 Better yet, go down and visit them. It's eight acres 381 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:37.279 to wander around. It is a family owned operation, has 382 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:39.720 been for a very long time. I love going down 383 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.519 to Mos Nursery. Take a lottle break for the news 384 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:46.200 here and I'll be back. Good morning, and welcome back 385 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:48.640 to the garden line. Good to have you with us. Hey, 386 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:51.799 if you got a gardening question seven one three two 387 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:55.480 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two 388 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:58.960 one two fifty eight seventy four, or simply K t 389 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:04.599 r H. Makes it really easy. I was outside yesterday 390 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:10.799 with a friend and we're walking around just I don't know, 391 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:13.319 standing over in an area kind of where actually where 392 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:16.200 we put our trash cans to roll out of the 393 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:20.559 road and little secluded spots like that are always mosquito magnets, 394 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:22.680 you know, you go around to. But it was a 395 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:24.359 time of day toward the end of the day too, 396 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:30.240 and I just I just noticed I wasn't getting bitten 397 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.359 by mosquitos, and it's like, that's wonderful. That is a 398 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:39.039 good thing. Best Bros. Is the one that provides the 399 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:43.519 mosquito buckets that I use, and it basically they come 400 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:45.960 out and they service them. But you need to you 401 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:47.240 need to give them a call and find out more 402 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:49.880 about these things. They are great. I mean they attract 403 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:53.200 the mosquitos in the mosquitos lay eggs. The eggs never 404 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.519 become adult mosquitoes, and the mosquitos when they do that, 405 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:58.920 they carry with them stuff. And one of the things 406 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.240 they carry with them keeps mosquitos from growing in another location. 407 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:04.000 These are things that aren't going to hurt your birds 408 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:07.160 and fish, and you know, all kinds of things like that. 409 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:10.880 One of them is a disease that kills the mosquito itself, 410 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:13.400 which I think is the best thing for a mosquito 411 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:17.119 to die, along agonizing death from a fungus. That's my 412 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:20.359 idea of a happy thought for those of you who 413 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:22.880 don't like mosquitos, you know what I'm talking about. If 414 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:24.359 you want to get in touch with the pest Bros 415 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:26.680 for other things, you know, fire ants out in the yard, 416 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.119 termite protection. They can do a ten year termite protection 417 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.279 around your house. It's a little trench and it's just 418 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:36.480 the minimum amount of concern. You know, you got your 419 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:39.359 pets out there. You don't want to nuke everything with insecticides. 420 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:41.599 They know how to do it, they know how to 421 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:43.519 treat effectively, they know how to do it in a 422 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:45.880 safe manner, and they cover other things. You know, if 423 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:48.559 you've got rodents outside, they're causing a problem. If you've 424 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:53.559 got cockroaches inside, they'll cover you on those things. Thepestbros 425 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:58.240 dot Com. The pestbros dot Com two eight one two 426 00:22:58.319 --> 00:23:00.880 oh six forty six and give them a call to 427 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.359 eight one two oh six forty six seventy. Let them 428 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:07.799 come out and take a look at your place. Make it, 429 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:10.400 you know. And I don't want to say mosquito free, 430 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:16.319 because in nature there's no such thing as past free. Okay. 431 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:19.480 I can have a yard where I don't think I 432 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:21.880 have any fire ins, and almost a sudden one day 433 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:23.759 I walk by and there's a firet mound over there. 434 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:25.599 And it takes a whall to do that. But you 435 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:28.759 can do that. But mosquito's down to a level where 436 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:32.200 you hardly notice them here and there. Because that's just great. 437 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:35.359 My neighbor told me the other day that they've had 438 00:23:35.480 --> 00:23:38.319 less mosquitos in their yard as a result of my 439 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:40.400 buckets over there, and that's true. I got a couple 440 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:43.079 of buckets that are on our shared line, so they're 441 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:46.000 even benefiting from it. Boy, if you could get a 442 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:50.400 whole neighborhood to do that, we might get close to 443 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:54.079 mosquito free from that as well. Have you ever been 444 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:57.640 to Enchanted Forest, it's down there in if you're in 445 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:01.599 Richmond Rosenberg area and your head up fifty nine or 446 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:05.480 sixty nine, it's down twenty seven fifty nine. 447 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:06.720 Just do this. 448 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:12.079 Go to the website. It's a great website. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, 449 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:17.079 TX dot com. Enchented Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. They 450 00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:20.160 have all kinds of cool stuff right now. They got 451 00:24:20.200 --> 00:24:23.039 a lot of good shade loving stuff. Stuff that's kind 452 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:25.079 of off the radar a lot of times for folks. 453 00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:29.160 But things like the rock rose, a little Mexican petunia 454 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:31.680 called Katie. The stays real short. It's almost like a 455 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:35.559 little a rioty sized plant. American beauty beary. Now there's 456 00:24:35.599 --> 00:24:38.160 a good one that in the fall when it loses 457 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:41.839 its leaves, the berries are just gorgeous on it. They 458 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:44.359 have turk's cap. I've got turks got in my yard. 459 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:49.359 It is a hummingbird magnet. They love that and sun shade. 460 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:54.119 It is Unfazed Texas native wonderful plant. Of course. They 461 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:56.880 have it down there while you're there. If you need 462 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:01.000 to do some things to create a more type of soil. 463 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:04.720 They carry microlife s acidifire fertilizer, they carry a rosa 464 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:08.559 from nature's way, and and they just know how to 465 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.039 provide you with the plants that are going to do 466 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:12.920 well here. I love it every time. I go by 467 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.359 the way. You know, it's getting hot out there. When 468 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:19.200 you go to Enchanted Forest, you're going to stroll through 469 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:22.200 the shade of some big old trees that I just 470 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.400 think that's wonderful and I enjoy getting to shop around 471 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:29.759 the place. Still good time to plant herbs, and they've 472 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:35.319 got them Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Go check 473 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:40.559 them out. Last time I was down there, I was 474 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:47.480 just amazed by the pollinator plants that they have. So many. 475 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:50.359 If you want to attract butterflies, they'll sell you the 476 00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:52.559 things that the adults come to. They'll sell you the 477 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:55.880 things that the larva feet on. So you're raising baby 478 00:25:55.920 --> 00:26:01.079 butterflies right there on your property, and they oftentimes even 479 00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:03.400 have a larva or two around. They'll let you take 480 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:06.240 it home. You can take them home on those plants 481 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:08.160 and get your own It's kind of like a sour 482 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.880 dough starter, right, get your own starter going on on those. 483 00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:16.839 I was mentioning that I'm gonna do some planning this afternoon. 484 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:19.200 Something else. I'm gonna be away from the house a 485 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:25.440 little bit and I've got to do some preparations for that. 486 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:28.680 And I've got some plants that they need to be 487 00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:34.000 watered more often, and with me around, that's fine. But 488 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:36.960 when I'm gone, I don't, I can't do it. I'll 489 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:41.359 typically get a kiddie pool, a kitty waiting pool, you 490 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.000 know those things I'm talking about. And when I had that, 491 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:50.039 I will take that pool, put about maybe maybe two 492 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.119 inches of water, and depends on the plants that I'm 493 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:54.519 setting in there, and I set them in that pool, 494 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.799 and that's a quantity of water in a wide area, 495 00:26:57.279 --> 00:26:59.640 and it wakes up from the bottom of the plants. 496 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:02.519 And so I can be gone for two weeks and 497 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:04.599 you know they'll be getting dry by the time I 498 00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:07.920 get back because the water level drops. But that really 499 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.599 works well. The only thing you need to do is 500 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:11.759 throw some mosquito dunks in there, or I say some 501 00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:14.920 throw a mosquito dunk in there, because it'll float and 502 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:18.400 release the disease of mosquitoes keeps the larvae from growing 503 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:20.839 for like a month. Those of you who heard us 504 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:24.039 last week, I talked to someone from a mosquito dunks 505 00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:25.680 and kind of picked their brains on all of this. 506 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:29.359 But if you have a little waiting pool, those are cheap, cheap, cheap. 507 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:33.759 Buy them at any kind of store that sells cheap stuff. 508 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:38.400 The addition of a mosquito dunk will allow you to 509 00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:41.680 be gone. I would say two weeks. If just watch 510 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:43.960 your plants. A little four inch plant will be drowning 511 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:46.440 in two inches of water, but a taller one won't. 512 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:50.319 But anyway, this will work. Just don't forget to do 513 00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:52.240 the mosquito dunks. You can buy them anywhere. They got 514 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:54.039 them at feed stores, they got them at the garden 515 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.599 centers I talk about all the time. Ace hardware stores 516 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.720 have mosquito dunks. Wherever you want to go, You're going 517 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.839 to find plenty of opportunities for that. So there's a 518 00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:07.160 little tip for those you're planning on going on a vacation. 519 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:11.480 Be gone a little bit. That's a great way to 520 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:14.640 do it. Phone number is seven one three two one 521 00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:17.640 two k t r H seven one three two one 522 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:20.119 two kt r H. Also, need to get out and 523 00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:22.960 put new bird seed in the feeders. I looked out 524 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.160 the other day and it's all gone. They just cleaned 525 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:28.160 it out, and they like it. Because I'm using the 526 00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:33.000 Wildbirds Unlimited Nesting super Blend, and this is one designed 527 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.200 by wild Birds Unlimited. It's sold only at Wildbirds Unlimited 528 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:40.480 it's got really cool stuff. They love, you know, sunflower chips, 529 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.359 dried mealworms, Oh my gosh, they love those, bark butter bits, sap, 530 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:47.279 flower tree nuts. It's it's got the calcium in things. 531 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:49.799 Birds are still nesting, by the way, so keep on 532 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.000 feeding it. There's six wild Birds Unlimited stores in the 533 00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:57.240 Greater Houston area, so you can go to this website 534 00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:03.960 WBU dot com forward Slash Houston. WBU like wild Birds 535 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:07.839 Unlimited WBU dot com Forward Slash Houston. If you are 536 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:10.319 over in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, if you're in clear 537 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.519 Lake on Eldrado Boulevard. In Parland, there's one on East 538 00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:18.559 Broadway in West Houston on Memorial Drive, in Southwest Houston 539 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.440 on bel Air and then up in Cypress on Barker Cypress. 540 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:24.920 It's easy to find a wild Bird's Unlimited store. They 541 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:29.079 carry the best blends of seeds that are stuff birds 542 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:31.000 want to eat, not stuff they're going to kick on 543 00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:33.559 the ground. Take a little break here and we'll be 544 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:35.720 back if you'd like to be first up seven one 545 00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:39.759 three two one two k t RH Welcome back to 546 00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:43.079 guard Line. Good to have you with us. If you 547 00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:46.519 are looking for a place that has every kind of 548 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.880 supply tool you name it, that you might need. It's 549 00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:52.799 Southwest Fertilizer. And I don't care where you live, It's 550 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.240 worth a trip over there. It's been in Houston lawn 551 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:59.240 and garden tradition since nineteen fifty five, long time, because 552 00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.240 they do it right. Every fertilizer that you hear me 553 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:06.440 talk about, is it Southwest fertilizer. And then some when 554 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:08.880 you talk about weed control products, when you talk about 555 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:13.240 insect controls, when you talk about fungicide, and you may 556 00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:16.480 be hearing that going well, I'm organic, okay. The largest 557 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:19.599 organic selection in the greater Houston area that I've ever seen. 558 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:24.839 It is huge, huge, ninety foot wall of tools. You know, Felco, 559 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:28.400 Corona quality brands like that. You hear me talk about 560 00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:32.319 the garden kneeling bench or kneeling seat. They've got that 561 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:34.160 you want to make my weed wiper. They got the 562 00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.480 little tool you used to make the weed bay. They 563 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:38.599 have it all. And you can carry a problem in 564 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:39.440 there on a picture. 565 00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:39.720 You can. 566 00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.039 You can have a little sample in a bag. Let 567 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:44.440 them put a pair of eyes on it. Southwest Bob 568 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:46.759 and his team, they'll figure out what it is and 569 00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:48.720 they'll point you at the product that works for it. 570 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.680 Corner of Bissonet and Runwick in Southwest Houston. Southwest Fertilizer 571 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.519 dot Com seven to one, three sixty six six seventeen 572 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.759 forty four. We're going to go now out to Galveston 573 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:02.720 and talk to Laura. Hello, Laura, Welcome to garden Line. 574 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:04.440 Good morning. 575 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:06.000 It's nice to talk to you. 576 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:08.599 Good to talk to you. 577 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:13.799 And Uh, I had sent you some pictures last night 578 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:19.920 and I'm calling about the largest yew tree in Texas. Uh, 579 00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:22.599 we have a certificate that they came down and gave 580 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.359 us for this. You is on the property of Grace 581 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:32.279 Episcopal Church in Galveston, and it has a ground cover 582 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:37.559 that's growing around it. To me, it looks like asiatic jasmine, 583 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:42.319 something like that, and it climbing, yeah, climbing up into 584 00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:46.000 the tree and in the branches it's completely encircled drunk. 585 00:31:46.599 --> 00:31:49.759 And I need to know whether that's dangerous to the 586 00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:53.119 tree and we should remove it, or it's harmless. 587 00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:57.160 But it's really a great Most people will, yeah, most 588 00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.200 people trim the jasmine around the bottom and any thing 589 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.759 above where you cut is going to turn brown and die. 590 00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:09.319 But eventually jasmine is. If it was English ivy, I 591 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:11.079 would say it's going to crawl all over your tree 592 00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:13.640 and shade out all the leaves and not going to 593 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:17.000 be good. I would trim it just for aesthetic reasons, 594 00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:20.759 but it's not as far as is it going to 595 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:25.359 hurt the tree? Probably not? Uh, probably not. But uh, 596 00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:28.200 trimming it is easy. You just cut it all at 597 00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.160 the bottom and then everything above that's going to die. 598 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:32.200 If somebody wants to pull out some of it that 599 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:34.799 is at the base that's brown, because you don't want 600 00:32:34.839 --> 00:32:36.839 to see the dead jasmine, you can do. 601 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.799 That, okay, Okay, well, yep, that's what We'll clean the 602 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:43.400 trunk off. And I have some of it growing in 603 00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:45.920 my yard. What what can you do to get rid 604 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:46.119 of it? 605 00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:54.319 Asian Asian jasmine? Uh huh uh yeah there. It depends 606 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:57.599 on where it's growing. Is it growing among desirable plants 607 00:32:58.400 --> 00:32:58.880 or is it. 608 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:00.440 In the gras a lawn? 609 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:06.799 Oh, Asian chasmine and the lawn, I would just I 610 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:08.599 would pull it. You're gonna have to pull it out. 611 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:09.920 Okay. 612 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:13.599 There are sprays that will kill it, but they're not. 613 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:16.359 Your lawn's not going to do well with those sprays, 614 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:19.039 So okay, all right, cut it. 615 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:21.359 Border. 616 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.160 Well, I guess just create a border and just make 617 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:27.640 that when it crosses the line, you just chop it, 618 00:33:27.880 --> 00:33:29.880 you know, take a WEEEDI or whatever cut it back 619 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:32.240 when it cuts the line. But it will get out 620 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:34.720 of hand in time. But it looks happy. Everything looks happy, 621 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.839 including that huge, very good tree. 622 00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:42.160 It is, thank you, gorgeous tree. It fell over in 623 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.640 Hurricane Carla, and everybody said, oh, we got to chop 624 00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:48.480 it down, and the people pulled it back up and 625 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:52.559 braced it for years and years and so it survived. 626 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:54.119 It's a very big, happy tree. 627 00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:56.799 Do they know how old it is? 628 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:03.880 I would say easily sixty sixty to seventy years old. 629 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:07.880 Well, that's that is cool. I appreciate that. Hey, Laura, 630 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:10.119 thank you for the call. You take care and good 631 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:14.000 luck with the That's a wonderful, wonderful tree. If you 632 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.679 have out the Arborgate, you need to go. I don't 633 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:18.719 care what season it is. You could be the middle 634 00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:21.159 of summer and there's a ton of stuff you can't 635 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:24.199 live without at the Arburgate. At least that's how I 636 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:28.480 feel when I walk through a beautiful, beautiful, heat tolerant 637 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.840 shade tolerant. Whatever you're looking for, they've got it there 638 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:34.400 at the Arborgate. Now they're a mile and a half 639 00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:36.840 west of two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty, 640 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.559 just west of Humble. I'm always talking about preparing your soil. 641 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:44.519 They've got bags of their one two three completely easy system, 642 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:47.320 and that's a food that feeds anything with roots, a fertilizer, 643 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.079 a soil for any application, and a compost that improves 644 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.599 any and all soil. And the soil and the compost 645 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.159 both have some expended shale in them as well, which 646 00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:59.320 is a very longer term benefit to the clay. You 647 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:01.800 can buy the last to the soil and the compost 648 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.639 by bulk and they'll deliver it to you wherever you live. 649 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.719 Just give them a call there at Arbrogate, talk to them. 650 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:11.639 The Arborgate is a place to anybody who's garden here 651 00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:14.920 for two minutes has already known about and been out there. 652 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.119 Remember they got that nice parking lot in the back. 653 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:20.960 And whether you're looking for landscape, bling or a plant 654 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:24.760 that laughs at our Houston summers, they're going to be 655 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:27.159 able to get you covered there at Arburgate. They take 656 00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:29.639 time to walk through with you It's just a great place, 657 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:33.000 great place to visit. I love it. I always love it, 658 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:38.079 and I do swing by there because there's always something 659 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:40.400 new coming in. I just don't think I've ever been 660 00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:42.480 there where wass not a shipment in the back being 661 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:50.199 unloaded of plants. Someone called a while ago from Livingstone 662 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:52.760 talking about the storm, the hurricane that came through and 663 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.920 what the damage that it did. Affordable Tree Service is 664 00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:58.280 who you need to call, not after the hurricane, but 665 00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:01.280 now it's hurricanes. See is here and is your is 666 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:04.039 your yard ready? That's what you need to know. A 667 00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:06.960 top heavy tree, a weak limb can turn into really 668 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:10.920 major damage. Don't wait until it's too late. You're want 669 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:13.239 to protect your home. You want to protect your trees 670 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:16.000 and themselves. You do in order to break apart your 671 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:21.039 fences and God forbid your neighbor's home. And Affordable Tree 672 00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:25.960 Service is our garden line recommended arborist for this area, 673 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:28.440 and they have been for a very long time because 674 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.239 they have decades of experience. Martin Spoon Moore give them 675 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.639 a call seven to one three six nine nine twenty 676 00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:38.639 six sixty three seven one three six nine nine two 677 00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:40.840 six six three. If you want to go to the 678 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:44.920 website see all the services they offer a fftree Service 679 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:48.840 dot com and they do anything you're gonna need, printing, 680 00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:52.440 deeper feeding, pests, disease control, stump grinding. If you're gonna 681 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.599 do any kind of construction around a tree that can 682 00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:58.360 that is a potential for great damage to a tree, 683 00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:01.280 called Martin having come out there and look at it, 684 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:03.960 advise you and they know what to do. But do 685 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.239 it before the problem, whether the problem is construction or 686 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:10.400 a hurricane. And it's time. We're there in the season. 687 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:14.440 Affordable Tree Service seven to one three six ninety nine 688 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:18.159 two six six three. They will take care of it 689 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.039 and make sure it's done right. Well, let's see here. 690 00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.599 I'm about to hear some music in my ears because 691 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:27.079 we're hitting the top of the hour. We'll be back 692 00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:29.920 with your calls if you'd like to be first up 693 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.559 when we come back. Seven one three two one two KTRH. 694 00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:38.920 Seven one three two one two KTRH. Remember during the 695 00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:42.199 eight o'clock and probably nine o'clock hour, we're going to 696 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:46.559 have doctor Tim Hartman, who is a fruit specialist with 697 00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:49.599 texas A and m Agrolife Extension. Term's a friend. I'm 698 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:52.000 going to work with for many years. Come in and 699 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:54.559 talk to us about backyard fruit. So if you got 700 00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:56.960 a fruit question, that'd be a great time to call. 701 00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:59.519 We'll have him here for a couple hours. Uh, just 702 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:03.679 give us a call. You are wanting to plant fruit, 703 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:07.639 If you've got fruit that's having some issues, let's let's 704 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.519 talk about it. Between Tim and and myself, we probably 705 00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:13.239 put our heads together and and tackle whatever kinds of 706 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:16.199 questions you might have. Looking forward to that. It's been 707 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:20.119 a while since I've seen Tim doctor Hartman. There you go, 708 00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:24.559 all right, go get you a cup of coffee. That's 709 00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:38.559 what I'm about to do. Alrighty, we're back. Hey, thanks 710 00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:42.440 for thanks for tuning in this morning. We always appreciate 711 00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.079 the opportunity to visit with you about gardening. You'd like 712 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:48.559 to give me a call about that, and you can 713 00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:51.559 do so at seven one three two one two k 714 00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:54.280 t r H seven to one three two one two 715 00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:59.039 k t r H began as Native Plants has some 716 00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:02.239 events that's going on. I want to just let you 717 00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:04.519 know about these. And you know how I always tell 718 00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:06.400 you to listen to Garden Line with a pen and 719 00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:09.679 paper nearby so you can write some stuff down on 720 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:17.519 let's see on July the nineteenth, creating the Garden of 721 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:19.719 your Dreams. They're gonna have a free class on creating 722 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:23.880 the Garden of your Dreams July nineteenth. On August second, 723 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.199 there'll be one on starting a cut flower garden. You 724 00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:27.760 want to go to this one because this fall you 725 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:32.599 could start your cut flower garden. On August sixteenth, they'll 726 00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:35.920 be growing fall tomatoes. The one on raised bed gardening 727 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:39.880 on the twenty third, and one on starting Texas Native 728 00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:43.320 Plants on August thirtieth. Then you know Buchanan specializes in natives. 729 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.519 They are, you know, just the leader when it comes 730 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:49.360 to that. You're not gonna find a bigger selection in 731 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.159 natives anywhere than Buchanna's plants as well as experts that 732 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.159 know about them. You can give them a call seven 733 00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:58.719 one three eight six one fifty seven two. You can 734 00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:01.159 give them a call there. All right, just go see 735 00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:03.800 him a little eleventh Street in the Heights, by the way. 736 00:40:03.880 --> 00:40:05.920 The website you need to write this one down and 737 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:11.480 bookmarket Buchanan's Plants dot com. We're going to go now 738 00:40:11.639 --> 00:40:15.480 to Richmond, Texas and talk to Linda. Hello, Linda, Welcome 739 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:16.119 to garden Line. 740 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:17.559 Thank you. 741 00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:22.320 Can I help you. 742 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:25.039 Yes, I. 743 00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:29.920 Have a brick home with the driveway, just a typical 744 00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:34.239 Texas home. Built it ten years ago and the builder 745 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.840 put in a crape myrtle right by the corner of 746 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:38.639 my garage. 747 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:39.320 It was the. 748 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.960 Midnight lilac, one of the smaller but it is a tree, 749 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:47.880 not a bush, and it got out of hand and 750 00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:52.719 last fall it was messy and dirty and just got 751 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:55.400 a bit too big for where it was placed by 752 00:40:55.480 --> 00:40:58.559 the builder. I had my landscaper take it out and 753 00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:02.679 put in a smaller shrub in that spot last November 754 00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:08.719 and this year in June. Guess what popped up through 755 00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:09.480 the mult. 756 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:13.840 I kind of I know what happens when you've cut 757 00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:17.280 a great myrtle off. Yeah, that's right. So you want 758 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:18.039 to have to get rid of it. 759 00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:21.440 How do I get rid of it without damaging the 760 00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:22.119 other bush? 761 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:25.119 M what you do? 762 00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:26.880 Have to dig the whole thing up? 763 00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:34.440 No, No, here's what you're gonna do. If you can 764 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:36.000 go to my web. First of all, if you go 765 00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:38.039 to my website, everything I'm about to tell you, you 766 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:40.840 can see picture of it. You can. It gives you 767 00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:43.480 detailed instructions on how to get rid of it. 768 00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:44.400 Forgive me. 769 00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:48.800 I'm elderly and don't don't use the computer, so I 770 00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:50.280 depend on you. 771 00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:54.880 Not a problem here we go, all right, You want 772 00:41:55.000 --> 00:42:00.800 to get a product ingredient called tri clo peer t 773 00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:06.960 r I c l O p y R. That's the ingredient. 774 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:11.039 That's not the brand name. There's many brands of it, 775 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:14.760 but t R I c l O p y R. 776 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:17.760 If you're in Richmond, you've got some ACE Hardware stores 777 00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:21.239 there that are gonna carry it. You're gonna be able 778 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:24.039 to find it at your at your local your local 779 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:32.320 Ace Hardware's you know which direction that I don't know. 780 00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:35.679 I haven't been in there. I usually don't do that 781 00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:40.639 because I need people that are and what we're talking about. 782 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:46.840 So if you go out to uh Richmond Rosenberg UH 783 00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:51.360 area Ace Hardware is find triclop pere, find a product 784 00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.960 with that. Now, what's gonna somebody cut that off? Cut 785 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:58.920 it off again, but not until you got the triclopere 786 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:03.119 right there. And taking a little like a little sponge 787 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:05.920 paint stick. If you go to you know, like you said, 788 00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:07.559 home depot, you go to home depot and get those 789 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:09.960 little sticks in the paint department that have a sponge 790 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:12.880 on the end. That's that's what you want. And you're 791 00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.559 going to put the triclo piers straight, not cutting it 792 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:18.159 and not spraying it. You're going to dab it straight 793 00:43:18.239 --> 00:43:21.719 onto the fresh cuts that you make. So let's just 794 00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:24.159 say this gets cut off within an hour. You need 795 00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:26.679 to be putting the tricle pair on there just so. Okay, 796 00:43:26.920 --> 00:43:30.039 you're wait too long and it's not as effective. So anyway, 797 00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:32.760 dab it on and it'll move down in the plant 798 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:35.079 and it'll work. Now you may have another resprout, but 799 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.599 you can dab it on again. It's not hard to do. 800 00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:41.559 Put the minimum amount of pesticide out there in the environment. 801 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:46.320 Do you thank you? Do you know if those roots 802 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:50.880 go you know, several feet in yards underground, are they 803 00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.400 just kind of localized around it? 804 00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:57.280 They probably go out in all directions as high as 805 00:43:57.360 --> 00:43:58.639 the crape myrtle tree is. 806 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:03.199 Understand. Okay, so you can't pull it out necessarily, you 807 00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:03.920 have to kill it. 808 00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:08.199 Well, I mean with a lot of work in digging 809 00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:13.800 and Thomas sprout shows up, you can dig that root out. Hey, 810 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:16.559 I got to run, Linda, good luck with that. I 811 00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.960 appreciate appreciate you calling in Yeah, that technique is on 812 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:25.559 what on my website it's called it's called controlling woody 813 00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:28.719 Weeds in the landscape, and it tells you exactly what 814 00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:31.280 to do. Whether we could be talking about yo ponts, 815 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:33.159 we could be talking about poison ivy, we could be 816 00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:35.719 talking about hackberry coming up along the fence line. Because 817 00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:38.440 the birds spoop the seeds out there, it works. 818 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:39.320 Uh. 819 00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:44.079 Jorge Hiding Gardens down south of the Houston area is 820 00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:46.960 it's just a great garden center to find all kinds 821 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.639 of things. You know, seasonally you're gonna find different kinds 822 00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:53.559 of vegetables and flowers and whatnot. He is an outstanding 823 00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:56.320 selection of all kinds of fruit. You know, if you're 824 00:44:56.360 --> 00:45:00.920 looking for avocados, you're looking for various kinds of citrus, 825 00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:04.239 all blueberries. And then I was over there this spring 826 00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:06.320 and my gosh, I couldn't believe on any peaches and 827 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:09.159 apples and pears and everything else he had. He is 828 00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:13.119 on Elizabeth Street. It's an Alvin, Texas address, but he's 829 00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:18.360 actually located in between Alvin and Santa Fe And so 830 00:45:18.519 --> 00:45:20.320 you just head down six and you're gonna end up 831 00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:27.039 turning south and to Elizabeth Street. Once I can't say 832 00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.599 the number one even seven Elizabeth Street south of Highway 833 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:33.679 six between Alvin and Santa Fe. Go check him out, 834 00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:35.519 all of you down there in those areas, like I'll 835 00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:39.239 go on Arcadia and Alta Loma and Hillcrest and certainly 836 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:42.760 Santa Fe and Alvin. This is your hometown garden center 837 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:47.400 seven one three six three two fifty two ninety seven 838 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:50.000 one three six three two fifty two ninety. By the way, 839 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:52.679 he carries that three sixty tree stabilizer I talk about 840 00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:58.639 all the time as well. So there, he's a great 841 00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:01.960 guy too, has a lot of fun, and you will 842 00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:04.119 enjoy shopping. I've had more than one person tell me 843 00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:06.719 how much they enjoy shopping there. I was talking about 844 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:10.239 ACE Hardware just a second ago with Linda, and you 845 00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:15.000 know ACE Hardware's are all over the place. Let's just well, 846 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:18.360 if you go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace 847 00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:23.199 Hardware Texas dot Com, and you can find all the 848 00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.320 ones that are in the Greater Houston area. And when 849 00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:26.920 I say Greater Houston, I mean all the way down 850 00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:29.119 to Corpus and all the way over to Orange and everything. 851 00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:33.159 They got you covered. So League City, ACE on West 852 00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:35.440 League City Parkway is an example. You go up to 853 00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:39.079 Porter Jnr's ACE on FM thirteen fourteen out in Lake 854 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:42.199 Conroe one oh five West Highway one oh five West, 855 00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:46.440 there's Lake Conroy's Hardware, Rockport, Texas. Hello, all of you 856 00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:51.679 listening from Rockport, Rockport ACE on State Highway thirty five North, 857 00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:55.880 Hardware City on Memorial Drive on the west side of Houston. 858 00:46:55.920 --> 00:46:58.320 See what I mean. They're everywhere, But there's a lot 859 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:01.239 more than that. Whether you need quality tools, if you 860 00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:04.079 need fertilizer for the summer fertilizing we're doing. If you 861 00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:07.280 need pest control, if you need gardening gardening tools as 862 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:10.480 well as well as quality hand tools for building and 863 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:13.920 fixing stuff, They've got you covered at ACE Hardware. I'm 864 00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:15.960 gonna take a little break and we'll be right back 865 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:20.519 with your calls. Alrighty, welcome back to guarden Line. Good 866 00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:25.639 have you with us this week. By the way, if 867 00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:30.159 you don't follow me on on Facebook, it is a gardener. 868 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:33.119 It's garden Line. My name is garden Line on Facebook. 869 00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:36.880 You should because we post stuff up there that is 870 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:42.360 I think very helpful and informative. Just yesterday I posted 871 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:46.000 something pictures of a plant my daughter she has a 872 00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:53.000 little ficus, it's the Fiddley fig ficus, and it was 873 00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:55.920 like pale yellow and it wasn't looking good and it 874 00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:58.679 wasn't growing, and I was afraid that thing, maybe it's 875 00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:01.960 got root rides, can die. I gave her some Medina 876 00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:04.159 has to grow six twelve six plant food. I got 877 00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:06.840 little sample bottles. They give those out, a little tiny 878 00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.480 sample bottles, and it just said put this in the 879 00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:11.639 water and watered a couple of times, you know, a 880 00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:14.320 little sample bottle made made two gallons of it. So 881 00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:16.480 she made it and watered it with it and did 882 00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:19.079 it again. And I posted the pictures and it's the 883 00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:23.920 before and then twice over the course of about a month, 884 00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:29.719 the after, and it is. It's obviously helped. It's a 885 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:33.360 turning darker green and it's already putting out new growth. 886 00:48:33.519 --> 00:48:35.559 And Medina has to grow six to twelve six is 887 00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:38.280 a great plant food period. I use it a lot, 888 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:41.159 and when we come to transplanting, because at hyphosphorus you 889 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:43.920 had a really good boost for your root system there. 890 00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:47.440 But this product at bottom lines, it works. It's got 891 00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:51.000 the six twelve six nutrients and it it also has 892 00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:54.719 Medina sol activator humate humic acid which helps the sole 893 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:58.920 structure and the seaweed extracts too. It's it's a concoction 894 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:03.239 that really works. And so follow me on a Facebook 895 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:06.159 a garden line. Follow garden line on Facebook and check 896 00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:09.480 it out. I think that you'll see it's pretty amazing. 897 00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:10.880 I was like, man, I got to post this thing. 898 00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:14.440 This is cool. Medina products are available everywhere. You know, 899 00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:16.000 you go to feed store, you go to an ace 900 00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:18.760 hardware store, you go to a garden center, you're not 901 00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:22.199 gonna have trouble finding Medina products. And there's a whole 902 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:28.800 bunch of them. Someone had sent me a question about 903 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:33.599 a lawns and with some photos, and the lawn just 904 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:37.840 is not doing good. It's struggling. It's I don't know. 905 00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:41.559 They tell me they're fertilizing it. You know, they're watering 906 00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:44.440 it and stuff, but it just kind of, I don't know, 907 00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:46.559 it's just thin. And when it's thin, you get weeds. 908 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:48.960 And nobody wants weeds, and nobody wants to have to 909 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:50.800 put out all the products to control weeds. If you 910 00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:54.719 can avoid having to do that, well, BMB churros Well. 911 00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:57.039 I told the person that I call me, is you 912 00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:00.239 need to get it corrated and then have accomplished top 913 00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:03.559 dressing put down on it. It really does work. And 914 00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:07.280 BnB turf Pros they're the ones down south of Houston. 915 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:10.440 They cover the area from Sugarland and Missouri City on 916 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.199 the northeast east end all the way down Highway six 917 00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:16.159 and over across forty five to Dickinson and League City 918 00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:20.880 Pairland Friends with all those communities they cover. BB turf 919 00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:25.119 Pros in the website, there's not an end. BB Turfpros 920 00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:28.840 dot com. Bbturfpros dot com. Take a look at what 921 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:31.960 they do. They really are about. I've talked to them 922 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.719 a number of times about a different things, but bottom 923 00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:38.320 line is they are about making sure the customer is happy. 924 00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:41.599 And it's because it's a relationship to them. They want 925 00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:44.159 to ensure your satisfaction and they do a great job. 926 00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:48.239 Prices start around five hundred dollars depending on the yard size. 927 00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:51.199 Not far they have to travel because it is a 928 00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:55.559 bulky process, but compared to putting in a new lawn, 929 00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:58.280 if you've got some good grass in there, let them 930 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:01.519 come to a compost top dressing a corporation and you 931 00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:07.079 will see some good results. BB Turpros dot com. We're 932 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.519 gonna go out now to Deer Park and talk to Alan. Hello, Alan, 933 00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:11.519 welcome to garden Line. 934 00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:14.360 Good morning. How you doing today? 935 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:16.480 Doing well? 936 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:22.559 I got a question about zoysia grass. What's a good fertilizer. 937 00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:27.400 Yeah, the fertilizers that I talk about here on garden 938 00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.559 Line are all good for ysia. Zosia needs a little 939 00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:34.239 less fertilizer than Saint Augustine because you don't want to 940 00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:38.159 you don't want to overstimulate it to grow. It's thick 941 00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:39.079 enough as it is. 942 00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:41.960 But you do. 943 00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:42.840 You prefer. 944 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:48.679 Huh and nitre Foss Imperial and I was told not 945 00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:50.400 to use that on soy shoe. 946 00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:56.360 That's not correct. Nitrofuss Imperial, the red bag is fine 947 00:51:56.519 --> 00:51:57.320 on any grass. 948 00:51:58.280 --> 00:51:58.400 Uh. 949 00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:01.519 Now, they may have told you that because it's an 950 00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:06.079 immediate release. When you put it out, it dissolves with water, 951 00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:11.360 irrigation or rain, and it's immediately available usually during the summertime. 952 00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:13.800 If you look at my schedule which is online at 953 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:19.360 Gardeningwithskip dot com, I'm recommending silver releases. So you mentioned nitrophas, 954 00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:24.039 the silver bag, Nitrofos superturf is the one that you're 955 00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:27.679 going to want to go go with super turf will 956 00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:31.559 give you about Yeah, it'll give you like four months 957 00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:33.199 of feeding, so it'll carry you all the way up 958 00:52:33.239 --> 00:52:35.840 into your fall fertilization, which is going to be in October. 959 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:41.360 But go with the super turf and it gives you 960 00:52:41.480 --> 00:52:43.920 a gradual feed and you don't just get a flush 961 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.079 of growth and you're mowing a lot. And when you 962 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:49.440 overfertilize with nitrogen, it means the grass has less roots, 963 00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:51.760 which is a weird thing, but that's how it is. 964 00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:57.079 So switch over to the superturf now. And yes, yeah, 965 00:52:57.239 --> 00:52:59.880 if it you know, if it's looking great and everything, 966 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:02.679 you don't have fertilized as much. But if you're trying 967 00:53:02.719 --> 00:53:05.119 to get it and give it a boost, that's very important. 968 00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:10.719 Yeah. Well it's not looking it's looking good, but I've 969 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:13.119 seen it look better. So I'm just curious what would 970 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:14.599 be a good fertilizer to put. 971 00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:17.039 On it and help it out. And you've helped it 972 00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:21.320 a lot. All right, sir, thanks for call. Appreciate that, Alan, 973 00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:26.760 Good luck with that. Yep, Zlisia does need to be fertilized, 974 00:53:27.159 --> 00:53:31.440 just not as much as Saint Augustine. If you've been 975 00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:34.239 to plants for all seasons. Plants for All Seasons is 976 00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:38.400 up there on FM two forty nine, which is Tomball Parkway, 977 00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:42.159 just north of where Lueta comes in to Tomball Parkway. 978 00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:44.719 And it's been there a long time since the seventies. 979 00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:50.559 You know, these folks, they've lived here, they've gardened here, 980 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:54.960 They've answered ten bazillion questions from customers helping them have success. 981 00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:58.199 I've been in so many many times, and you walk in, 982 00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:00.400 you look around, and I can tell you that they 983 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:04.360 carry products for what you need done. They do from 984 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:07.159 the fertilizers to pest and weed and disease control to 985 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:09.320 really quality tools. They've got a lot of new tool 986 00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:14.119 a new tool wall section that has really quality tools. 987 00:54:14.239 --> 00:54:16.199 Can you buy once and there are a lifetime tool 988 00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:19.239 to take care of them. Now, right now, you're going 989 00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:22.079 to find some beautiful plants for summer, some dazzling color, 990 00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:26.000 and you're going to find plants for shady areas. Whatever 991 00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:28.039 you need, it's there at Plants for All Seasons. Just 992 00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:29.760 remember when you go in, if you've got a photo 993 00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:32.000 or a sample, you can take it in and they'll 994 00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:33.960 diagnose it for you and point you in the right 995 00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:37.039 direction if you if you would like to have that 996 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:41.639 kind of assistance. Plants for all seasons dot com two eight, one, three, seven, six, 997 00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:46.760 sixteen forty six. You are listening to Garden Line. I'm 998 00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:49.199 your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you 999 00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:53.119 have a bountiful garden and beautiful garden, beautiful landscape as well, 1000 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:56.159 and as I like to say, and the most important part, 1001 00:54:56.480 --> 00:54:59.960 more fun, more fun in the process. I was talking 1002 00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:02.599 to somebody the other day and we were talking about 1003 00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:07.880 weeds and lawns, and you know, what one person's idea 1004 00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:10.800 of a beautiful lawn is and what another's isn't always 1005 00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:14.599 the same. Some people want perfect green lawns, as if 1006 00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:17.239 it looks like AstroTurf out. I mean, it's just solid green, 1007 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:20.880 not a weed insight. Other people know that certain kinds 1008 00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:23.920 of weeds are food for bees. I had a lady 1009 00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:27.679 on Doctor Wrangel the other day on the show, and 1010 00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:31.000 we were talking about bees, honey bees and the things 1011 00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:32.719 they like. And I'm telling you there's a lot of 1012 00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:35.800 the lawn weeds, not all lawn weaeds, but some that 1013 00:55:36.079 --> 00:55:40.320 attract honeybees. And for some people that is a plus. Okay, 1014 00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:42.480 Now I know some of you are going I don't 1015 00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.960 understand that. Well, a lot of things I don't understand too, 1016 00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:49.280 But however you want to do it. That's a fun 1017 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:51.880 thing about gardening. It's between you and the hoa. Let 1018 00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:54.519 me just say that, make the front yard look good. 1019 00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:56.559 In the backyard, do what you want to do. But 1020 00:55:56.679 --> 00:56:00.679 if you want perfect gardening, perfect gardens and everything, you 1021 00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:03.000 can do that. We can advise you. You can do that. 1022 00:56:03.199 --> 00:56:06.920 It's easy to have success. And when you just get 1023 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:10.000 good information, that's the most important part. Like I like 1024 00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:12.440 to say, you don't have a brown thumb, you have 1025 00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:15.880 an uninformed thumb. And if you'll call in the garden line, 1026 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:20.239 we will inform your thumb. And then suddenly the landscape, 1027 00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:24.039 the garden, the orchard, everything just looks a lot lot 1028 00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:25.920 better and we can do that. Happy to do that, 1029 00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:31.440 but to each his own U. There is a German 1030 00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:35.000 phrase yeadis tirkin sign pleasirkin. Why am I saying that 1031 00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:39.119 every creature has this pleasure? And boy is that true 1032 00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:42.280 with gardening. Go have fun, don't feel like you got 1033 00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:44.760 to do it a certain way and all this and 1034 00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:46.840 you know, if I talk to them in one time 1035 00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:49.719 that was worried about their flowers and are these colors 1036 00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:52.119 going to go well together. Do you like them together? 1037 00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:54.880 Land them? I don't care where they are on the 1038 00:56:54.920 --> 00:56:58.719 color wheel. You do what you want. Have fun in 1039 00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:01.039 your garden. There you go. I just gave you permission 1040 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:04.480 to do whatever you want to do in your guard. 1041 00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:07.719 It's it's let it make you happy. Let it be 1042 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:12.800 fulfilling to you. For me, it's therapy, and it's a 1043 00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:15.519 lot cheaper in therapy too. By the way, Houston Powder 1044 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:18.199 Coaders is the biggest powder coder here in this region. 1045 00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:21.400 They're up there in North Houston. If you send them 1046 00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:25.519 a picture of your metal, your outdoor metal, furniture or 1047 00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:28.440 decorative or any outdoor metal that you want to get 1048 00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:30.199 a powder coat on. By the way, powder coating is 1049 00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:34.400 way better than painting, they will send you a quote. 1050 00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:39.320 Sales at Houstoncoders dot Com is the email, or just 1051 00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:44.960 go to their website Houston Powdercoders dot com. Houston Powdercoders 1052 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:48.440 dot com. If your stuff's a little not so great, 1053 00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:51.159 maybe it's a little rusty, or maybe bolts are falling 1054 00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:54.159 out that are holding it together, or the straps, you know, 1055 00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:56.920 the straps and sling fabric and everything on. Some kinds 1056 00:57:56.920 --> 00:57:59.440 of furniture. They can fix that up and when you 1057 00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:01.519 get back, it's going to be like new. Over one 1058 00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:05.000 hundred collars that you get to choose from. Here's the 1059 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:09.400 website Houston Powdercoders dot com. Here's the number two eight 1060 00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:13.360 one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight two eight 1061 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:16.480 one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight. They do 1062 00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:18.840 free pick up and delivery in the Greater Houston area 1063 00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:23.119 as well. Oh well, I'm looking at the clock and 1064 00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:26.639 the clock says time for the news at the bottom 1065 00:58:26.679 --> 00:58:28.119 of the hour here, So we're gonna go ahead and 1066 00:58:28.199 --> 00:58:30.719 do that. We'll be back with your questions. If you'd 1067 00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:34.400 like to be first up, give my producer Alejandro call 1068 00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:36.960 and we will get you on the board and talk 1069 00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:38.960 about the things that are of interest to you at 1070 00:58:39.079 --> 00:58:43.199 seven one three two one two kt r H seven 1071 00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:47.159 one three two one two kt r H. When I 1072 00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:50.440 come back, I want to talk a little bit about 1073 00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:56.639 using combinations of plants to have beauty around the landscape 1074 00:58:56.719 --> 00:58:59.719 or to have bounty if you're growing vegetables around the landscape. 1075 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:02.000 So don't let me forget. I want to spend a 1076 00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:04.760 little bit of time on that as well as your 1077 00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:07.840 calls appreciate the fact that you're listening to your guardline. 1078 00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:10.599 By the way, this morning. I love talking to gardeners. 1079 00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:13.280 That and sitting in my gardener my two happy places 1080 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:17.239 that I enjoy and so appreciate you listening, and we 1081 00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:20.400 do not take that for granted. All right. Nelson Plant 1082 00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:23.559 Food has a number of different products, and I want 1083 00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:25.239 to tell you about the turf Star line. Turf Star 1084 00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:30.000 is several fertilizers that are in the Turf Star line, 1085 00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:32.039 but the Slow and Easy is the one that I 1086 00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:33.719 want to talk about right now. I was just talking 1087 00:59:33.719 --> 00:59:37.599 to somebody about drag out your fertilizing. Don't dump it 1088 00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:40.360 all on you know, all the nitrogen at one time 1089 00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:44.880 on your summer lawn. Slow and Easy does that for you. 1090 00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:47.000 You put it down now and it's going to feed 1091 00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:49.960 you all the way up to your fall fertilization. It's 1092 00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:53.159 got great nutritions. There are some substances in it that 1093 00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:55.679 help us sidify the soil as well, which when you 1094 00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:58.000 get that pH if it's a little high, you start 1095 00:59:58.079 --> 00:59:59.880 to see that yellowing in your grass, you know, the 1096 01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:02.800 light yellowing in the green and yellow striped grass blades. 1097 01:00:03.239 --> 01:00:07.039 That's ourn deficiency bringing the pH down slowly over time, 1098 01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:11.679 can help grow yourself out of that situation. Very good 1099 01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.800 nutrient supplies of carbon for microbes. It's a good product. 1100 01:00:16.119 --> 01:00:18.760 Turf Stars Slow and Easy from Nelson Plant Food. You're 1101 01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:21.800 going to find these products everywhere. While you're there shopping 1102 01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:23.960 for your lawn, you need to pick up a couple 1103 01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:27.079 of their specialty products. They have a Palm and Ornamental 1104 01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:30.960 grasses product that's in the Nutri Star line Palm and 1105 01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:33.239 Ornamental Grasses, and they have a boog and vill you 1106 01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:35.960 one too. Whatever kind of plant you're looking for, that 1107 01:00:36.119 --> 01:00:40.119 Nutri star Line is going to carry the probably a 1108 01:00:40.199 --> 01:00:42.599 fertilizer with your plant's name on it, and if not, 1109 01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:44.880 one that goes very well with your plant. I use 1110 01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:47.159 the boot and Billy on several other different species as 1111 01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:51.840 well because it works very very well. And you can 1112 01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:54.559 refill the jars two in about a dozen places around town, 1113 01:00:54.760 --> 01:00:57.559 which is economical and keeps from throwing that plastic in 1114 01:00:57.639 --> 01:01:00.400 the environment. Let's go to the heights. We're going to 1115 01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:03.519 talk to Ron this morning. Hey, Ron, welcome to garden Line. 1116 01:01:03.559 --> 01:01:03.800 Good on. 1117 01:01:04.280 --> 01:01:07.079 Good morning, Skip. I send you a picture of my 1118 01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:10.480 weed that's in the front yard, and I asked you 1119 01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:14.800 last week if I should just sowd over it or 1120 01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:15.599 do I need to kill it? 1121 01:01:18.719 --> 01:01:19.559 Yeah, that's a booger. 1122 01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:19.960 Uh. 1123 01:01:20.519 --> 01:01:24.599 The weeds, weeds that are in that same family as 1124 01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:28.400 a wandering jew. Uh, they're kind of sort of in 1125 01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:31.719 between grasses and broad leaves in a sense. Grassy killers 1126 01:01:31.719 --> 01:01:33.840 aren't that great on them. Broad leaf killers aren't that 1127 01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:34.519 great on them. 1128 01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:35.159 Uh. 1129 01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:39.840 Some people hand removal as a possibility, but boys, that 1130 01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:42.000 ever work and you don't get it all. So you 1131 01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:44.679 have to be so diligent at it that most people 1132 01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:47.320 are not gonna are not going to be able. 1133 01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:51.960 To And of course, and that's what I have. 1134 01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:55.960 Yes, yes, that's what you have. Yeah that Uh, it's 1135 01:01:56.119 --> 01:01:59.800 not basket grass, but it's it's closely related to that 1136 01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:05.239 same kind of results. It does well in shady areas, 1137 01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:07.679 even a little too shady for your lawn. You have 1138 01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:09.920 this stuff growing in it and doing well. 1139 01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:10.199 Yeah. 1140 01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:17.280 Some people, Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, some people will what 1141 01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:22.039 they'll do run as they'll they'll just kill an area 1142 01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:25.239 and then put grass back in it. And that is drastic. 1143 01:02:26.199 --> 01:02:29.000 But if it's spread too far, that's probably not practical 1144 01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:33.400 to do. But it can be controlled. It just I 1145 01:02:33.800 --> 01:02:38.239 can't point you at a specific we control product that 1146 01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:41.199 you can put on it. If you hire a landscaper, 1147 01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:43.559 they're going to have access to some things that you 1148 01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:48.119 don't that might be able to to kind of shut 1149 01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:50.360 it down a little bit. The main thing is don't 1150 01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:52.360 let it get it, get a start, and pull it 1151 01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:54.519 back and stay on it pulling it back. 1152 01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:59.400 Oh, it's already got because I don't have I don't 1153 01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:01.840 have good QUI answers for those weeds. I hate them 1154 01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:07.079 because they know it's I'm yeah, I'm behind the power 1155 01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:10.440 curve on this one, so I guess I'll Yeah, I 1156 01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:13.639 was thinking about just weed eating it, down it to nothing, 1157 01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:16.280 but you said it'll grow back even with new sad 1158 01:03:16.320 --> 01:03:19.079 over the top. You're saying, okay, well. 1159 01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:24.119 I'll have to I've never tried. Yeah, I've never tried 1160 01:03:24.199 --> 01:03:27.000 putting new sawd over it. But yeah, you could kill 1161 01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:29.800 it with gliphas as you said, it will kill that. 1162 01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:34.920 But okay, yeah, not good options. 1163 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:35.159 I know. 1164 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:37.840 Hey, Hey, keep listening. I'm gonna and a break. I'm 1165 01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:40.119 gonna check on and see if I can find any 1166 01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:43.079 suggestion on that. I'm gonna look at some other state 1167 01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:46.320 information because there's anything out there. I want to be 1168 01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:49.519 able to provide it all right, Thank you, Ron, I 1169 01:03:49.559 --> 01:03:55.719 appreciate the calls. Mhm, you bet yeah. Those weeds are 1170 01:03:55.840 --> 01:03:59.599 a bugger. Have you ever tried to kill purple heart? 1171 01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:04.639 I love purple heart, d purple in a sunny areas, 1172 01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:07.159 a lighter purple and in the shady air, it's great. 1173 01:04:07.599 --> 01:04:09.920 But you spray that with round up and it won't 1174 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:12.599 kill it. I'm telling you it won't kill it. Some 1175 01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:19.039 crazy crazy thing anyway. RCW Nursery is having a sale 1176 01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:21.000 right now. By the way, I didn't want to forget 1177 01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:24.440 to tell you that, twenty five percent off of crate myrtles. 1178 01:04:25.039 --> 01:04:28.599 And they've got all kinds, you know. Creat myrtles are red. 1179 01:04:28.639 --> 01:04:32.519 Great myrtles are write and pink and lavender. They have 1180 01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:35.480 the purples, they have different sizes. You go out there 1181 01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:37.119 and you say, look, I've got it. I need a 1182 01:04:37.159 --> 01:04:39.960 crepe myrtle, and I need it to be just twelve 1183 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:42.639 feet high, no taller than that, or I want a 1184 01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:44.920 big one to make a shade tree. Natchez is a 1185 01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:48.239 good one for that, by the way. But they've got them, 1186 01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:50.519 and again, twenty five percent off's a good sale. And 1187 01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:52.800 can you plant a great myrtle in June. Yes, you can. 1188 01:04:53.360 --> 01:04:55.519 You're just gonna want to water it regularly at the 1189 01:04:55.599 --> 01:05:00.719 base and it will establish. People plant all through the year. 1190 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:03.760 They can do that. While you're out at RCW two, 1191 01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:05.719 by the way, check out their other color still got 1192 01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:08.679 boom and Ballos. They've got the out the shrub rows 1193 01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:12.559 of Sharon is another name for it. It looks outstanding. Listen, 1194 01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:15.679 we got plants that can look good, and we just 1195 01:05:15.800 --> 01:05:18.159 need to plant the ones that can. You know, the 1196 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:21.599 gold Star Esperanza looks good even in the heat. We 1197 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:23.920 have the Pride of Barbados. It looks good even in 1198 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:27.400 the out At RCW they got the Cajun series of 1199 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:33.280 hibiscus that are outstanding even in the heat. RCW Nurseries, 1200 01:05:33.320 --> 01:05:35.800 by the way, is where Tamball Park went and Beltwegh 1201 01:05:35.880 --> 01:05:41.599 eight come together. RCW Nurseries dot Com, RCW Nurseries dot Com. 1202 01:05:43.559 --> 01:05:46.440 Let's now head out to sugar Land and we're going 1203 01:05:46.519 --> 01:05:50.239 to visit with Craig. Hello, Craig, Hey, good morning, Skip. 1204 01:05:52.639 --> 01:05:56.480 Hey, I got a problem with my front flower bed. 1205 01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:57.639 It gets full song. 1206 01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:00.880 You know, I have a couple of rosebushes of sago palms. 1207 01:06:01.679 --> 01:06:04.719 I just can't keep it weed free. And what I'm 1208 01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:10.039 noticed over the years, it's like a vine like weed 1209 01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:14.079 that grows and it's got deep, a deep root. It's 1210 01:06:14.119 --> 01:06:17.880 like the motherboard that creates these vines. But if you 1211 01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:20.480 find that main one which is very deep and it's 1212 01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:23.719 hard to pull out at the doug on near, you know, 1213 01:06:23.880 --> 01:06:26.599 shovel it out with a small hand shovel. But I 1214 01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:28.039 just can't keep it weed free. 1215 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:29.599 What can I do? 1216 01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:32.280 I just I don't want to kill my rose bushes on. 1217 01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:38.320 So yeah, for sure. So there's there's two ways that 1218 01:06:38.639 --> 01:06:41.440 that these weeds are invaded in your bed. One is 1219 01:06:41.519 --> 01:06:44.440 from seeds and that can be pretty much controlled with 1220 01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:47.480 a good thick mulch and then when they do sprout 1221 01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:50.039 and getting them when they're very young and easy easy 1222 01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:51.960 to get rid of. The other one is for perennial 1223 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:54.480 kinds of things. They either climb into your bed or 1224 01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:57.119 you know, like bermuda grass, it can come up you 1225 01:06:57.239 --> 01:06:59.440 chop all the bermudograss off the top of the or 1226 01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:01.840 it just popped stuck out of the ground again. And 1227 01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:03.559 for those kind of weeds, you're going to have to 1228 01:07:03.679 --> 01:07:07.840 use some sort of of a product that is effective 1229 01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:11.440 I think what I would suggest, and I'm not seeing 1230 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:13.599 the situation. I don't even really know what weed we're 1231 01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:17.320 talking about. But if you will go on my website 1232 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:20.599 Gardening with Skip dot Com and look at skip'sweed wiper, 1233 01:07:21.079 --> 01:07:22.880 I tell you how to build one. It's real simple, 1234 01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:25.320 and then you can put products on there that will 1235 01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:29.360 kill those broad leaf weeds but won't kill the good 1236 01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:31.599 plants because you're not getting them on the good plants. 1237 01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:34.400 It's a little like two sponges that come together and 1238 01:07:34.440 --> 01:07:37.599 squeeze the weed leaves. Take a look at it. I 1239 01:07:37.719 --> 01:07:42.280 also have a publication on herbicides where if you're looking 1240 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:44.119 at a grassy weed, if you're looking at a broad 1241 01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:46.440 leaf weed, if you know if those kind of things, 1242 01:07:46.519 --> 01:07:49.159 it tells you what product to use on that weed wiper. 1243 01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:52.639 That's the best way I know. You've been out pulling 1244 01:07:52.719 --> 01:07:54.800 and pulling and pulling trying to get them all. If 1245 01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:58.920 you can get a product on there, have it translocated down, 1246 01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:01.199 it'll work for you. I use it in my beds 1247 01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:06.039 as well. But Gardening with Skip dot Com is the website. 1248 01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:08.039 Look for the weed wiper and look for the list 1249 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:12.320 for for the herbicides to put on it okay, all right, 1250 01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:15.760 and you're in Sugarland, so you just drive up to 1251 01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:19.600 Southwest Fertilizer Besson that and runwick and Bob's got the 1252 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:21.960 little tool that you used to build a weed wiper. 1253 01:08:22.159 --> 01:08:23.840 Once you get one, you're gonna use it a lot. 1254 01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:26.640 I keep mind hanging in the grab it all the time. 1255 01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:30.399 I got to run for a break. Thank you, appreciate 1256 01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:32.960 your call, sir. All right, folks, we'll be right back. 1257 01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:36.680 Welcome back, Welcome back to Garden Line. Folks. Good to 1258 01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:39.600 have you with us. If you'd like to give me 1259 01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:41.239 a call. By the way, it's seven one three two 1260 01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:44.159 one two k t r H. Those of you down 1261 01:08:44.199 --> 01:08:48.520 in League City or that whole area Clearlakes, Elkam into 1262 01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:52.279 Reale Baycliff, Lamart, Dickenson, San Leon, that that whole region 1263 01:08:52.359 --> 01:08:55.479 down there. Your hometown feed store is League City feed 1264 01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.119 It is in League City, of course, on Highway three, 1265 01:08:59.399 --> 01:09:02.239 just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six. So 1266 01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:05.359 that's where it's located. Now you just need to go, 1267 01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:08.279 and when can you go, Well, Monday through Saturday nine 1268 01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:10.600 am to six pm, so after work you swing by 1269 01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:12.920 there close on Sunday. By the way, if you want 1270 01:09:12.920 --> 01:09:14.960 to get m call two eight one three three two 1271 01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:18.560 sixteen twelve. Now why would you go, Well, it's old 1272 01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:21.880 fashioned service. It's that old time feed store service. Carry 1273 01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:23.800 the bags out for you. This is the third generation 1274 01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:26.520 in the Thunderberg family is running this store. That's what 1275 01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:29.640 I'm That's what I'm talking about. If you need anything 1276 01:09:29.720 --> 01:09:33.239 to control weeds, pest and diseases, they have an excellent selection. 1277 01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:36.720 And if you're looking for fertilizers for your garden and 1278 01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:40.359 your lawn, they have the nitrofoss line, they have Microlifeline, 1279 01:09:40.760 --> 01:09:43.760 they have Nelson Plant Food Line. You're going to find 1280 01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:46.600 soils by the bag from Heirloom Soils there, so you 1281 01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:48.600 can just swing by there and pick that up again. 1282 01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:51.520 They're on Highway three, a few blocks south Highway ninety six. 1283 01:09:52.039 --> 01:09:56.600 League City Feed two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. 1284 01:09:56.760 --> 01:09:59.600 Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. I was 1285 01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:03.199 at my yard the other day and notice that I 1286 01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:05.199 had a fire at Mount popping back up in there. 1287 01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:08.039 I thought I had those guys under control. Well you 1288 01:10:08.279 --> 01:10:11.840 never get them completely forever gone night Fiss has a 1289 01:10:11.880 --> 01:10:16.039 product called fire ant Killer, And you know, normally I 1290 01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:20.079 would say use, use baits here and there through the 1291 01:10:20.159 --> 01:10:23.119 year to suppress the fire ants. But what if you've 1292 01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:24.520 got a mount and you need to get rid of 1293 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:26.199 it now, Well that it's not going to work that 1294 01:10:26.359 --> 01:10:31.199 fast on it. Fire ant killer from Nitrofuss does. It 1295 01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:35.720 is a very effective you know, just you've got a 1296 01:10:35.800 --> 01:10:38.239 party tomorrow and you want to knock those out. This 1297 01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:39.960 is what you're going to need to use. Fire Ant 1298 01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:43.960 killer from Nitropos and night Fuss products are available all 1299 01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:46.880 over the place. I know Hiden and feed On Student 1300 01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:50.920 or Airline has it. All the Fissures hardwares in Pasadena, Laporte, 1301 01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:55.079 Mont Bellevue and even Baytown they carry it. Stanton Shopping 1302 01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:58.119 Center down there in Alvin. For those of you who 1303 01:10:58.239 --> 01:11:01.680 are up in the Cypress area, you've got M and 1304 01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:04.840 D Cypress and Langham Creek Ase Hardware too, all carry 1305 01:11:04.920 --> 01:11:08.680 night Foss products. You're listening to the guard line and 1306 01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:11.079 we're here to try to helpe you have success. That's 1307 01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:14.159 kind of my goal in doing this. If you want 1308 01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:17.239 to give us a call, I'm about to the next hour. 1309 01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:21.399 We're going to have doctor Tim Hartman, who is a horticulturist, 1310 01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:24.560 a fruit specialist from Texas A and m agrolife extension 1311 01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:28.520 on the show. And if you've got fruit tree questions, 1312 01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:30.159 give us a call on that. I'm going to try 1313 01:11:30.199 --> 01:11:33.479 to focus on fruit trees for these for these next 1314 01:11:33.560 --> 01:11:36.840 couple hours. But this is your chance to pick his brain. 1315 01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:39.279 You want suggestions for planting a fruit tree, you want 1316 01:11:39.319 --> 01:11:41.199 you dealing with a problem on a fruit tree. He 1317 01:11:41.319 --> 01:11:45.960 can help you with all those things. If you walked 1318 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:47.560 in my attic. I went up in my attic the 1319 01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:51.039 other day and oh my gosh, I thought I was 1320 01:11:51.119 --> 01:11:54.119 gonna melt, you know, like a wax candle up there 1321 01:11:54.239 --> 01:11:59.279 is so hot. Arctic insulation solutions can help cut down 1322 01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:02.760 your bills. You know, the thing runs all day practically 1323 01:12:02.840 --> 01:12:05.359 trying to keep up. There's a lot of ways they help. 1324 01:12:05.439 --> 01:12:08.479 They've got foil radiant barriers that can go in the roof, 1325 01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:12.720 the ceiling of the attic rafters and thirty degrees or 1326 01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:15.880 more get that temperature down. They have fiberglass insulation that 1327 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:17.840 they can blow in, or they can do any kind 1328 01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:21.680 of insulation you need up there, and it really makes 1329 01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:26.239 a difference. And then going in and sealing those holes 1330 01:12:26.439 --> 01:12:29.720 around like your light fixtures and switches and plugs and things. 1331 01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:33.239 Hot air can leak through that and does leak through that, 1332 01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:36.159 and that can make a big difference. One study they 1333 01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:38.720 did is that just like having an open window in 1334 01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:41.399 a room and closing it, that's the difference it makes 1335 01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:45.000 Solar Attic fans another thing. Just go to their website. 1336 01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:48.640 If you're like me, you can't spell Arctic. There's a 1337 01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:51.119 C in the middle that I keep forgetting about a 1338 01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:57.479 rc TIC Houston dot com Arctic Houston dot com eight three, 1339 01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:01.199 two five, eight six, twenty eight ninety three. Give them 1340 01:13:01.239 --> 01:13:05.279 a call right out here to Liberty, Texas now and 1341 01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:08.520 visit with Jason. Hello, Jason, Welcome to garden line. 1342 01:13:12.119 --> 01:13:13.399 Anyway, I got a question. 1343 01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:14.640 Get me and my daughter. 1344 01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:18.359 We planted a little some seeds. We had some really 1345 01:13:18.359 --> 01:13:21.439 good oranges and were planted some seeds. That was the oranges. 1346 01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:27.239 It was a brown Hurricane Ike before Hurricane Ike came in. Anyway, Well, 1347 01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:29.279 they all blew away, and I seen one out there. 1348 01:13:29.279 --> 01:13:31.319 I found one that a little sprout was coming out of, 1349 01:13:31.880 --> 01:13:34.800 so I transplanted it. Make a long story short, it 1350 01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:38.520 grew to a really big orange tree, had big thorns 1351 01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:41.640 on it and everything, but it made really really good oranges. Okay, 1352 01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:44.840 I got two seasons of it. We made good oranges, 1353 01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:47.720 and then it froze when we had a twenty twenty 1354 01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:50.600 freeze or whenever that hard freeze was okay, Well, it 1355 01:13:51.119 --> 01:13:53.199 died all the way down to the root system, and 1356 01:13:53.239 --> 01:13:54.720 then it came back up. It was like eight or 1357 01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:57.720 ten feet tall. Never seen a blossom on it that year, 1358 01:13:58.640 --> 01:14:00.119 Never seen a blosom on the next year. And then 1359 01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:02.000 we had that other breeze and it killed it back again, 1360 01:14:02.239 --> 01:14:04.000 and now it's like eight or ten beats all again. 1361 01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:07.399 I haven't seen a blossom. My question is I'm gonna 1362 01:14:07.399 --> 01:14:09.279 have to wait another fourteen years. So that's how long 1363 01:14:09.319 --> 01:14:12.680 it took for the fort to ever produced any fruit 1364 01:14:12.920 --> 01:14:14.439 from the time we planted it. 1365 01:14:16.479 --> 01:14:16.520 That. 1366 01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:18.319 I don't know if it's going to take that long, 1367 01:14:18.399 --> 01:14:21.560 but it can take a while. This just so I'm 1368 01:14:22.079 --> 01:14:26.479 absolutely sure you're talking about a seedling, not a grafted one, right. 1369 01:14:26.720 --> 01:14:30.800 The originally original of the orange. 1370 01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:34.880 So so just to put it in a real fast nutshell, 1371 01:14:35.119 --> 01:14:37.960 when when a fruit tree starts to grow from a seed, 1372 01:14:38.359 --> 01:14:41.479 it's in a stage called juvenile. It cannot reproduce. It 1373 01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:44.199 does not able. It's like a you know, a very 1374 01:14:44.279 --> 01:14:45.079 young human being. 1375 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:45.920 Uh. 1376 01:14:46.119 --> 01:14:49.640 And then it reaches the stage at some point where 1377 01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:54.079 it starts to produce mature wood and it can bloom 1378 01:14:54.319 --> 01:14:59.199 and fruit. That that's plant reproduction there, And so yours 1379 01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:01.439 died back to the around so you're starting with juvenile 1380 01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:04.760 wood again. It's going to take some time to get 1381 01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:07.319 to that stage. That's why we buy grafted plants. If 1382 01:15:07.319 --> 01:15:10.600 you had a grafted plant, the grafted part is mature wood. 1383 01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:13.479 So if you died back to like an inch above 1384 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.479 the graft, if you protect the graft, then it is 1385 01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:19.279 going to re sprout with wood that can that is 1386 01:15:19.319 --> 01:15:21.960 already ready to be able to bloom and set. 1387 01:15:22.520 --> 01:15:22.640 Uh. 1388 01:15:22.760 --> 01:15:24.600 So on yours, I think it's going to take a while. 1389 01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:29.359 So your options are to try butting or grafting it, 1390 01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:31.960 or buy a plant or something, or just wait. 1391 01:15:33.239 --> 01:15:36.000 Okay, it was like the trunk of this thing was 1392 01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:40.960 like almost tentages are or was about tentages in diameter, 1393 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:45.560 you know, it was. It was big years. Yeah, it 1394 01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:47.439 was a huge arm tree and it played like a 1395 01:15:47.479 --> 01:15:49.720 truckload of oranges and they were really good. 1396 01:15:50.279 --> 01:15:50.479 Yeah. 1397 01:15:52.039 --> 01:15:54.319 Well anyway, okay, well I guess that makes sense. 1398 01:15:56.039 --> 01:15:59.000 Oh it's well, I think I think time. 1399 01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:04.680 So yeah, I just I think it's it's gonna be. 1400 01:16:04.840 --> 01:16:07.279 It's just going to take time. But thank I hate Jason, 1401 01:16:07.319 --> 01:16:09.800 I've got to run for the break at the top 1402 01:16:09.840 --> 01:16:12.119 of the are, but thank you for the call. Good 1403 01:16:12.239 --> 01:16:14.640 luck with it. I feel your pain on having to 1404 01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:17.640 wait on that one though, I certainly do. Uh, we're 1405 01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:19.479 going to take a break. I want to remind you 1406 01:16:19.800 --> 01:16:23.640 that next hour we're going to have doctor Tim Hartman 1407 01:16:24.119 --> 01:16:26.880 from the horticulture department at Texas A and M University. 1408 01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:31.119 Tim is a expert on all kinds of things fruit, 1409 01:16:31.279 --> 01:16:32.800 and so you can give us a call. Between the 1410 01:16:32.840 --> 01:16:34.800 two of us putting their heads together here, I bet 1411 01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:37.720 we can come on answer for you if you're thinking 1412 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:40.760 about planning fruit. If you got a fruit problem that uh, 1413 01:16:41.199 --> 01:16:45.079 you know, like we just had that call on oranges, Uh, 1414 01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:48.520 that that started from a seedling. That's a that's a 1415 01:16:48.600 --> 01:16:51.880 great question. So feel free to give me a call 1416 01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:54.439 seven one three two one two k t r H. 1417 01:16:54.560 --> 01:16:56.800 I just want to ask that let's keep it fruit 1418 01:16:57.399 --> 01:16:59.760 for these next couple hours, uh, and then I'll be 1419 01:16:59.800 --> 01:17:02.920 back again tomorrow morning with your calls on whatever you 1420 01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:05.840 want to call and talk about. At the seven or 1421 01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:08.920 six o'clock and seven o'clock hour and the nine o'clock hour. 1422 01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:11.680 I have a guest at eight o'clock tomorrow, so anyway, 1423 01:17:12.239 --> 01:17:14.479 thanks for being a listener. We'll be right back. 1424 01:17:31.600 --> 01:17:33.720 Starting out an ache. 1425 01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:38.359 All right, gardeners, welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good 1426 01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:41.399 to have you with us. My guest for these next 1427 01:17:41.439 --> 01:17:44.920 two hours doctor Tim Hartman from the Texas A and 1428 01:17:45.079 --> 01:17:48.000 M Horticulture Department, part of the Texas and M Agrolife 1429 01:17:48.039 --> 01:17:51.560 Extension Service. He's a fruit specialist. So here's your chance. 1430 01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:54.439 You want to ask us some questions about fruit growing, 1431 01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:57.279 maybe what to plant or you know, we just went 1432 01:17:57.359 --> 01:18:00.239 in to break from that last one talking about an 1433 01:18:00.279 --> 01:18:02.880 orange tree that came up from a seed and didn't 1434 01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:05.560 produce for a long time, and so we're we're happy 1435 01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:08.199 to take all those kinds of questions. Seven one three 1436 01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:12.560 two one two kt r H. You know, I talk 1437 01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:15.800 all the time about brown stuff before green stuff, brown 1438 01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:18.359 stuff before green stuff. In other words, prepare the soil 1439 01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:22.000 before you plant the plants. And if you do that, 1440 01:18:22.479 --> 01:18:25.039 you are gonna have the best chance at success. And 1441 01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:29.119 Nature's Way Resources has built a tradition about creating the 1442 01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:33.760 best compost products, the best mult type products. They've got 1443 01:18:33.800 --> 01:18:35.239 it all. There a great selection. 1444 01:18:35.359 --> 01:18:35.479 You know. 1445 01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:38.439 John Ferguson when he created that place, he called it 1446 01:18:38.600 --> 01:18:41.399 Nature's Way because it was all about recognizing the fact 1447 01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:44.439 that nature knows how to build soil over a long time, 1448 01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:47.359 and we get to cut that short by buying a 1449 01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:51.039 few cubic yards and creating a flower bed or improving 1450 01:18:51.600 --> 01:18:54.560 the soil that we have Nature's Way Resources dot Com. 1451 01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:58.119 That's the website, Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Don't forget 1452 01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:01.560 that ever. Friday is Fungal Friday. Ten percent off bags 1453 01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:05.159 of fungal based compost, and there is a twenty percent 1454 01:19:05.239 --> 01:19:08.760 off deal on Fridays on bulk compost. That is a 1455 01:19:09.079 --> 01:19:10.960 good deal, whether you go there and get it, whether 1456 01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:12.560 you have them deliver it, or whether you buy it 1457 01:19:12.600 --> 01:19:16.640 buy the bag in area stores. Nature's Way Resources products 1458 01:19:16.800 --> 01:19:19.119 will help you take care of that brown stuff. So 1459 01:19:19.239 --> 01:19:21.960 the green stuff is happy. I like to say the 1460 01:19:22.000 --> 01:19:25.279 plants hit the ground running because they're in good soil. Well, 1461 01:19:25.319 --> 01:19:28.399 doctor Hartman, Tim, I'm gonna call you Tim today. Please 1462 01:19:29.119 --> 01:19:31.000 welcome to garden Line. It's good to have you. 1463 01:19:31.199 --> 01:19:32.760 Yeah, thanks for having me here this morning. 1464 01:19:33.159 --> 01:19:38.079 You bet well, we've got just so many fruit, so 1465 01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:41.239 little time I know as to where to begin. What 1466 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:45.359 if someone were wanting to plant I don't know, let's 1467 01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:48.840 just say one, two, or three fruit trees or bushes 1468 01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:52.760 or whatever in their landscape, what would you recommend as 1469 01:19:52.920 --> 01:19:55.319 being kind of like, this is a good one to 1470 01:19:55.359 --> 01:19:57.760 start with. You're not gonna go nuts, You're not gonna 1471 01:19:57.800 --> 01:19:59.880 spray it every other day and have a lot of 1472 01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:02.239 trouble with it. But it would be a good fruit 1473 01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:04.520 that you would recommend. Yeah. 1474 01:20:04.640 --> 01:20:06.520 Two that come to mind right off the bat would 1475 01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:10.119 be fig There's a lot of interesting figs, so many 1476 01:20:10.159 --> 01:20:13.239 different varieties. We have over one hundred varieties that we're 1477 01:20:13.239 --> 01:20:16.119 looking at right now between myself and doctor Dave Creech 1478 01:20:16.159 --> 01:20:20.000 at SFA. They grew very well in Houston. 1479 01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:21.560 A hundred varieties of figs. 1480 01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:23.439 Yeah, and there's so many more out there. 1481 01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:25.720 We kind of gave up on trying to collect them all, 1482 01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:30.000 like the pokemon or whatever. But but yeah, a lot 1483 01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:32.640 of different ones are super easy to propagate. A lot 1484 01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:35.239 of people like to trade them, but they're just easy. 1485 01:20:35.760 --> 01:20:38.920 They really have very few pests and disease issues, and 1486 01:20:39.119 --> 01:20:41.159 Houston is an excellent place to grow them. 1487 01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:43.680 Yeah. It is you know, we had a fake industry 1488 01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:46.399 in Houston at one time. Yeah, that's what I understand. Yeah, 1489 01:20:46.399 --> 01:20:48.880 I think it was over one hundred acres or one. 1490 01:20:48.800 --> 01:20:51.439 Hundred I want to say thousands of acres actually is 1491 01:20:51.520 --> 01:20:54.039 what from the Texas Historical Commission. 1492 01:20:54.119 --> 01:20:57.319 Yeah, a lot. I wasn't there obviously, but yeah, I grew. 1493 01:20:57.239 --> 01:20:59.359 Up with a fig tree in the backyard and that's 1494 01:20:59.399 --> 01:21:02.239 a fun memory. Figs are pretty easy. You know, they 1495 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:04.920 get the rust, but yeah, you know it's kind of 1496 01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:09.880 ye yeah, not a lot of pestive diseases. But what 1497 01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:12.199 would you say in terms of getting a fig and 1498 01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:16.399 choosing a variety? First of all, what are the characteristics 1499 01:21:16.479 --> 01:21:19.000 of that fruit that you think are most important in 1500 01:21:19.159 --> 01:21:20.079 choosing that variety? 1501 01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:20.760 Uh? 1502 01:21:21.319 --> 01:21:27.079 And the also the ones that you enjoyed the most 1503 01:21:27.159 --> 01:21:30.039 that you think people would would be happiest with. Yeah. 1504 01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:33.279 Yeah, So one of the first considerations I think we're 1505 01:21:33.319 --> 01:21:35.920 on the same page on this skip is that we're 1506 01:21:35.920 --> 01:21:36.880 selecting a varieties. 1507 01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:40.039 We want to go with a closed eye variety. 1508 01:21:40.319 --> 01:21:43.199 So a fig is a some conium people refer to 1509 01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:45.800 it basically, well, it's I think technically now considered a 1510 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:49.680 hollowed out peduncle. But it's basically an inside out flower, 1511 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:54.279 and that eye or ostiole would normally be to facilitate 1512 01:21:54.399 --> 01:21:58.239 pollination via the fig wasp. We don't have it in Texas. 1513 01:21:58.319 --> 01:21:58.640 We don't. 1514 01:21:58.760 --> 01:22:01.119 We're not worried about that because are common fig that 1515 01:22:01.239 --> 01:22:06.319 we grow doesn't require fruit. It sets seedless fruit poll 1516 01:22:06.760 --> 01:22:07.760 I'm sorry, thank you for. 1517 01:22:08.199 --> 01:22:10.319 All the all the female parts of the flower, all 1518 01:22:10.359 --> 01:22:13.920 the flower parts are inside the fig inside. 1519 01:22:14.960 --> 01:22:17.000 Yeah, And unlike a lot of other figs, like the 1520 01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:21.239 Smyrna capra san pedro, they don't need pollination. And so 1521 01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:25.399 what we have is this this eye that we don't 1522 01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:28.359 need because we don't need the pollination. It serves as 1523 01:22:28.399 --> 01:22:31.439 an entry way. So we get dried fruit, beetle, leather, 1524 01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:34.319 insects in there. They they don't take their shoes off 1525 01:22:34.359 --> 01:22:37.479 when they come in. They track in uh A, Cido, 1526 01:22:37.600 --> 01:22:40.880 bacter and and all kinds of germs, and you get souring. 1527 01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:43.840 It's souring and it almost is a fermenting kind of 1528 01:22:43.920 --> 01:22:48.920 thing because wasps like to go there. Another reason you 1529 01:22:49.079 --> 01:22:52.199 don't want an open eye for all possible What what 1530 01:22:52.279 --> 01:22:54.880 are two or three varieties that you think people would 1531 01:22:54.920 --> 01:22:55.439 be happy with? 1532 01:22:55.960 --> 01:22:57.960 Yes, there are obviously a lot of them out there, 1533 01:22:58.880 --> 01:23:02.199 so less at least as far as closed eye. That's 1534 01:23:02.239 --> 01:23:05.520 what I think of as a closed eye celestis. It's 1535 01:23:05.840 --> 01:23:08.800 it's very tight. There are a lot of figs out there. 1536 01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:11.520 I like green, the green Issha variety. It's got a 1537 01:23:11.560 --> 01:23:15.520 great flavor. It's really pretty on the inside, but it 1538 01:23:15.640 --> 01:23:18.000 does have a bit more of an open eye. Now 1539 01:23:18.039 --> 01:23:23.800 there's some varieties that have a very open eye, and 1540 01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:26.079 there's you've kind of got a spectrum in there. But 1541 01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:29.960 especially in Houston, where it's humid, it's rainy, you definitely 1542 01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:30.840 want to closed eye. 1543 01:23:31.119 --> 01:23:34.159 Okay, all right, good, Well. Figs are a good one. 1544 01:23:34.640 --> 01:23:38.159 I've always been a fan of per simmons because I 1545 01:23:38.319 --> 01:23:40.560 like the way they taste. Some people don't care for them. 1546 01:23:40.960 --> 01:23:44.399 I like the the astringent types and let them get 1547 01:23:44.600 --> 01:23:46.479 fully ripe. It's like a bag of jelly. And the 1548 01:23:46.560 --> 01:23:48.840 only way to eat an astringent per semon when it's 1549 01:23:48.880 --> 01:23:52.039 fully ripe is to get into the bathtub and have 1550 01:23:52.199 --> 01:23:55.560 someone handy so you can just enjoy it and then 1551 01:23:55.720 --> 01:23:59.039 just shower off because you're gonna make a mess. But 1552 01:23:59.359 --> 01:24:03.560 I love those. They're the non astringent types that don't 1553 01:24:03.600 --> 01:24:06.600 pucker your mouth so much. But that's another one, not 1554 01:24:06.800 --> 01:24:09.680 really pest and disease issues or that you're having to 1555 01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:10.920 spray for now. 1556 01:24:11.039 --> 01:24:15.039 I absolutely love her simmons. We've got to skip. 1557 01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:17.640 I'm sure you've heard me talk about this, but I'm 1558 01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:20.199 a collector. We have about eighty varieties of Asian per 1559 01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:22.560 simon at our research farm. In fact, I was just 1560 01:24:22.680 --> 01:24:23.720 grafting yesterday. 1561 01:24:25.640 --> 01:24:25.840 Yeah. 1562 01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:29.600 Yeah, they're just they're super easy. 1563 01:24:29.680 --> 01:24:32.479 They're very ornamental as well, and I agree with you 1564 01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:34.600 the a stringent variety, even though they're a mess. I 1565 01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:37.640 think they have a more rich flavor. But most people 1566 01:24:37.760 --> 01:24:41.600 prefer the non astringen, the saruga, the fuou, the moto, 1567 01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:46.000 you know those types that remain firm when they're ripe, 1568 01:24:46.079 --> 01:24:47.840 And yeah, you can eat the skin and everything. 1569 01:24:47.880 --> 01:24:49.239 You basically eat it like an apple. 1570 01:24:49.760 --> 01:24:52.640 Now, if you're listening and you're going, what did he 1571 01:24:52.800 --> 01:24:55.119 just say on those varieties? If you go to the 1572 01:24:55.199 --> 01:24:58.039 Aggie Horticulture website, and we need to mention there's more 1573 01:24:58.079 --> 01:25:02.279 than once. While we're visiting Aggie Horticulture website, there's a 1574 01:25:02.319 --> 01:25:05.399 fruit section right on the front page lower to the left. 1575 01:25:05.720 --> 01:25:08.920 You'll click on fruit and you have a publication full 1576 01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:12.800 color multi page for free on every kind of fruit 1577 01:25:12.840 --> 01:25:15.960 you can imagine, from avocado to I don't know what 1578 01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:20.319 fruit begins with the Z but size of it. There 1579 01:25:20.359 --> 01:25:23.279 you go, the genus of there's one and there's a 1580 01:25:23.319 --> 01:25:26.840 precimon publication and it talks about varieties. In these publications 1581 01:25:26.880 --> 01:25:28.520 talk about how to perunem and how to plan them 1582 01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:31.359 and take care of them. And they're all free. So Aggie, 1583 01:25:31.359 --> 01:25:35.159 Horticulture website Fruit section. Uh, everything we're going to talk 1584 01:25:35.159 --> 01:25:37.239 about today, you're going to find good information like that 1585 01:25:37.520 --> 01:25:39.960 on there. I got to take a little break here 1586 01:25:40.279 --> 01:25:44.239 for some paying the bills, as I say, and we 1587 01:25:44.359 --> 01:25:46.720 will be right back with doctor Tim Hartman and your 1588 01:25:46.840 --> 01:25:50.079 questions at seven one three two one two kt R. 1589 01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:54.720 H's welcome back to Guardline folks. Good to have you 1590 01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:58.079 with us. Hey, we have doctor Tim Hartman, who's associate 1591 01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:01.920 professor in the horticulture department here at Texas A and 1592 01:26:02.079 --> 01:26:06.079 M and a statewide fruit specialist. So any kinds of 1593 01:26:06.159 --> 01:26:08.119 things fruit, that's what we're going to be talking about 1594 01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:10.640 for the rest of this hour and next you'd like 1595 01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:12.720 to give me a call and ask him a question. 1596 01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:16.199 Seven to one three two one two kt R h 1597 01:26:16.479 --> 01:26:19.399 seven one three two one two k t R H. 1598 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:21.439 You were talking about per Simmons before we went to break. 1599 01:26:22.199 --> 01:26:24.399 The one thing that I forgot to mention, which is 1600 01:26:24.439 --> 01:26:27.720 why I like to recommend persons, is they are ornamental. 1601 01:26:28.319 --> 01:26:31.319 The foliage turns beautiful fall colors. I mean you have 1602 01:26:31.399 --> 01:26:33.880 to drive to the northeast to see colors pretty as 1603 01:26:33.880 --> 01:26:41.479 at oranges. Yeah, that is true. The other thing is 1604 01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:45.399 the fact that they occurred a time of year when 1605 01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:47.840 we don't have a lot of fruit ripening and so 1606 01:26:48.199 --> 01:26:52.720 the holiday baking and whatnot. I love per Simon bread. Well, 1607 01:26:52.760 --> 01:26:54.720 what would be another fruit? You know, you were talking 1608 01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:56.960 about figs, We talked about per Simmons. What's another one 1609 01:26:57.000 --> 01:26:59.079 that you would recommend for people kind of getting started 1610 01:26:59.199 --> 01:27:01.199 or wanted to try. Yeah. 1611 01:27:01.319 --> 01:27:04.359 So when you're talking about in the backyard and kind 1612 01:27:04.399 --> 01:27:08.920 of small spaces, I think you can't go wrong with 1613 01:27:09.159 --> 01:27:12.399 a BlackBerry. I think more people should be growing blackberries. 1614 01:27:12.439 --> 01:27:16.760 I say that all the time. Blackberries are small, they 1615 01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:18.640 don't take a lot of room. We usually space them 1616 01:27:18.680 --> 01:27:23.039 about three feet apart. You really need some type of trails, 1617 01:27:23.079 --> 01:27:25.720 but it could be very rudimentary, just some steaks or 1618 01:27:25.760 --> 01:27:29.520 even a tomato cage. The other cool thing about blackberries 1619 01:27:29.840 --> 01:27:33.439 is that they're very precocious. They come into fruit very quickly. 1620 01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:37.239 You can have fruit certainly by the second year. By 1621 01:27:37.279 --> 01:27:39.800 the third year you should be looking at a full 1622 01:27:39.880 --> 01:27:43.159 crop already. They can be grown in containers. I've grown 1623 01:27:43.199 --> 01:27:46.319 them in you know, half whiskey barrel size twenty five 1624 01:27:46.439 --> 01:27:50.359 gallon pots. We have a lot of varieties out there too. 1625 01:27:51.079 --> 01:27:55.399 I want to give a mention to Steven Yannick. Steve 1626 01:27:55.439 --> 01:27:57.880 and Yannick, one of my colleagues here at A and M, 1627 01:27:58.520 --> 01:28:01.479 is a program specialist and actually working on his PhD 1628 01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:05.199 in blackberries. He's down in the Hallettsville area, not too 1629 01:28:05.279 --> 01:28:07.720 far away, and he's doing a lot of variety trialing. 1630 01:28:09.039 --> 01:28:11.239 But if you're not familiar, we do have a lot 1631 01:28:11.279 --> 01:28:15.479 of varieties of BlackBerry. We've got thorn less varieties. We 1632 01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:19.119 also have from the University of Arkansas what we call 1633 01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:21.479 primo caine fruiting blackberries. 1634 01:28:21.880 --> 01:28:25.279 Yeah, that's cool. That's a fairly new development in the 1635 01:28:25.359 --> 01:28:28.119 history of blackberries. But tell us about that. 1636 01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:32.479 Yeah, so blackberries, we say that they produce on biennial canes. Okay, 1637 01:28:32.600 --> 01:28:35.439 so what that means is is, let's say during twenty 1638 01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:39.840 twenty five, We've got a leafy prime ocine. It's primarily 1639 01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:43.640 or basically just going to be vegetative. Okay, it'll grow 1640 01:28:43.760 --> 01:28:46.520 this year, and then that same cane over the wintertime 1641 01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:50.960 transitions to become a flora caane, think flowers flora caanes, 1642 01:28:51.960 --> 01:28:55.279 and then it produces fruit the next year. In twenty 1643 01:28:55.359 --> 01:28:58.520 twenty six, that cane dies, but we have new ones 1644 01:28:58.600 --> 01:29:02.479 that replace it. Only these primo canes, these first year 1645 01:29:02.560 --> 01:29:05.600 canes are only vegetative. Well, we get to throw that 1646 01:29:05.720 --> 01:29:07.960 out the window with some of these primate cane fruiting 1647 01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:12.800 varieties Primark Freedom, Primark Traveler, Primark Horizon, Primark forty five 1648 01:29:13.319 --> 01:29:16.960 again from University of Arkansas. And the idea is that 1649 01:29:17.079 --> 01:29:20.960 you can actually get a crop early on. Usually I 1650 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:23.439 would say in your area, Primark Freedom is going to 1651 01:29:23.479 --> 01:29:27.439 be ripe late April, pretty pretty early. But then you 1652 01:29:27.520 --> 01:29:31.439 can potentially get another crop. Uh here in College Station, 1653 01:29:31.560 --> 01:29:34.000 it's going to be around July fourth or so, and 1654 01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:37.760 then sometimes another crop or two in the fall. Now, 1655 01:29:37.800 --> 01:29:41.800 you can't count on those additional crops because sometimes it's 1656 01:29:41.880 --> 01:29:44.560 too hot, the fruit don't set, they're not very good. 1657 01:29:45.119 --> 01:29:47.920 But I mean I've there have been years where I 1658 01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:50.800 pick blackberries all the way from late April into November 1659 01:29:51.439 --> 01:29:54.319 where there was not a two week break in between there. 1660 01:29:54.600 --> 01:29:57.840 And they're thornless too. They're thornless. That's a good deal. Hey, 1661 01:29:57.920 --> 01:29:59.600 we Gota. We got a call here I want to 1662 01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:03.439 go to and bring in. We have Beta in Paarland. Hey, 1663 01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:04.640 welcome to garden Line Beta. 1664 01:30:06.159 --> 01:30:06.960 Hiki, are you. 1665 01:30:08.880 --> 01:30:10.319 Doing good? What's your question? 1666 01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:16.159 My question is I grew alvocado trees this for fun. 1667 01:30:16.239 --> 01:30:18.920 I probably have about fifty to one hundred. 1668 01:30:18.680 --> 01:30:22.960 Trees, and you have fifty avocado trees. 1669 01:30:23.079 --> 01:30:27.960 Oh man, wow, wow, all of them in my backyard. 1670 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:33.119 When at what point do they all need to be 1671 01:30:33.239 --> 01:30:37.439 grafted or the same thing with lemon tree. 1672 01:30:37.840 --> 01:30:38.479 You planted them? 1673 01:30:40.800 --> 01:30:42.560 Yeah, I planted them by planted. 1674 01:30:42.279 --> 01:30:48.439 Them from seed from a store bought avocado. Okay, all right, 1675 01:30:48.960 --> 01:30:52.960 so the question, well, let's start with that question. Beata's 1676 01:30:53.000 --> 01:30:56.319 question is h And by the way, my guest doesn't 1677 01:30:56.359 --> 01:30:58.239 have a head set of headphone, so I'm gonna have 1678 01:30:58.279 --> 01:31:02.720 to repeat these uh today, I'd provide him one. I 1679 01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:07.199 should have the planting seeds of avocados from the store, 1680 01:31:07.279 --> 01:31:12.399 A fifty plus one hundred seed, got it? And how 1681 01:31:12.439 --> 01:31:14.640 does she graft them and when does she graft them 1682 01:31:14.680 --> 01:31:15.760 in any advice on that? 1683 01:31:16.479 --> 01:31:20.279 Okay, yeah, great question, and I'm just going to kind 1684 01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:21.600 of preface that a little bit with. 1685 01:31:25.520 --> 01:31:28.800 Grafting. Okay, So avocados do have to be crafted. 1686 01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:32.199 Okay, So most fruit don't come true from seeds, so 1687 01:31:32.840 --> 01:31:34.600 basically you don't know what you're going to get. 1688 01:31:34.640 --> 01:31:36.279 It's the whole box of chocolate's thing. 1689 01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:36.680 You know. 1690 01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:39.399 You may get something good, you may get something not good, 1691 01:31:39.479 --> 01:31:42.199 but it's not going to be like the parent. Avocados 1692 01:31:42.199 --> 01:31:44.399 are especially like that, so you have to graft. The 1693 01:31:44.479 --> 01:31:48.319 other reason is an avocado from seed can take ten 1694 01:31:48.399 --> 01:31:51.880 to twenty plus years to make fruit, so they have 1695 01:31:52.000 --> 01:31:54.600 a very long juvenile period. So grafting is something you 1696 01:31:54.600 --> 01:31:57.800 would definitely want to do. As far as how to 1697 01:31:57.960 --> 01:32:01.560 do that, they're fairly easy to graft, different ways to 1698 01:32:01.640 --> 01:32:04.199 do it. I've butted them before. I've used a lot 1699 01:32:04.239 --> 01:32:08.520 of different techniques. Commercially, what's done most commonly is going 1700 01:32:08.600 --> 01:32:11.239 to be a cleft graft, where some people refer to 1701 01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:13.760 it as a top wedge. I've seen a lot of 1702 01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:17.439 nursery producers that will actually graft them in a very 1703 01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:20.760 young stage a few months old seedlings. As soon as 1704 01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:24.359 they start to get a little bit stiff, just coming 1705 01:32:24.439 --> 01:32:26.399 right out of the pit, you can graft that. Shoot 1706 01:32:27.399 --> 01:32:30.079 my experience though, when you're selecting that graft wood, and 1707 01:32:30.119 --> 01:32:32.479 again you'd want to get it from a tree that 1708 01:32:32.600 --> 01:32:35.840 is producing a known variety that's going to of course 1709 01:32:36.760 --> 01:32:40.199 you'll be able to propagate that variety, but you'll also 1710 01:32:41.560 --> 01:32:44.600 have something that is matured and will start flowering and 1711 01:32:44.680 --> 01:32:48.840 fruiting very quickly. But anyway, selecting that wood, I like 1712 01:32:48.920 --> 01:32:52.720 to get wood that's a little bit stiffer. From my experience, 1713 01:32:52.760 --> 01:32:55.920 if you're using cyan wood, a graft wood on avocado 1714 01:32:56.039 --> 01:32:58.920 that is kind of so green and really kind of 1715 01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:01.880 flaccid and suck doesn't work too well. So I like 1716 01:33:01.960 --> 01:33:03.439 to kind of go back and get stuff that's a 1717 01:33:03.479 --> 01:33:08.119 little bit older. But but yeah, cleft graft is probably 1718 01:33:08.159 --> 01:33:11.840 one of the oldest uh graphs out there, and the 1719 01:33:11.920 --> 01:33:16.159 Bible talks about grafting Roman's eleven. I always picture that 1720 01:33:16.319 --> 01:33:19.119 being a cleft graft. Of course you can find lots 1721 01:33:19.119 --> 01:33:20.039 of videos on that. 1722 01:33:20.359 --> 01:33:23.800 See ancient woodcut photos of cleft graph. Yeah, yeah, what 1723 01:33:23.880 --> 01:33:25.800 do you what do you wrap that with? When you 1724 01:33:25.920 --> 01:33:26.520 make the graft. 1725 01:33:27.000 --> 01:33:29.760 Yeah, so a lot of things you could use. Personally, 1726 01:33:30.199 --> 01:33:32.279 I when I graft, I like to use a product 1727 01:33:32.319 --> 01:33:35.159 called buddy tape. You can get it on Amazon b 1728 01:33:35.279 --> 01:33:39.560 U d d Y Buddy tape. But people use parafilm. 1729 01:33:39.760 --> 01:33:43.800 I've used white poly butting tape, basically something that is 1730 01:33:43.920 --> 01:33:45.840 going to seal that graft. You want to make sure 1731 01:33:45.840 --> 01:33:49.039 that all those cuts where the sign and roots dot 1732 01:33:49.119 --> 01:33:50.960 come together, You want to make sure that that is 1733 01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:54.920 sealed off so it doesn't try out. And then I like, 1734 01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:59.119 if I'm not using like a plastic butting tape, I 1735 01:33:59.199 --> 01:34:01.760 actually like to use is like a rubber band strip 1736 01:34:01.880 --> 01:34:04.079 to to really get a little more tension on there, 1737 01:34:04.439 --> 01:34:05.680 just to help bind it better. 1738 01:34:06.000 --> 01:34:08.680 All right, will Beta. There's a lot of info right there, 1739 01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:09.359 and there are a. 1740 01:34:09.359 --> 01:34:11.039 Lot of videos online about it too. 1741 01:34:11.359 --> 01:34:14.680 Crafting avocados yeah, so it has to be with an 1742 01:34:14.760 --> 01:34:17.039 avocado tree that's producing. 1743 01:34:19.239 --> 01:34:22.199 Yes, if you have a neighbor that has an avocado 1744 01:34:22.359 --> 01:34:25.479 that is producing, almost all the well, the trees you 1745 01:34:25.600 --> 01:34:28.920 buy are probably all going to be grafted on avocado. 1746 01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:32.439 They should be so that they're already they already have 1747 01:34:32.760 --> 01:34:35.079 mature wood on them. If you will so that thing 1748 01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:38.119 about waiting twenty years, you don't have to worry about. 1749 01:34:38.640 --> 01:34:42.399 Just get a little okay, go online for reading first. 1750 01:34:43.920 --> 01:34:44.640 Yeah, I've done that. 1751 01:34:44.880 --> 01:34:47.359 I'm just scared to take the I'm scared to take 1752 01:34:47.439 --> 01:34:48.000 the plunge. 1753 01:34:48.359 --> 01:34:50.520 But what about is it the same for a lemon tree? 1754 01:34:50.600 --> 01:34:53.239 Because I have about fourteen or fifteen lemon trees. 1755 01:34:55.520 --> 01:35:01.319 Are these all seedlings too? Yes, your love, I'm sorry. 1756 01:35:01.520 --> 01:35:03.720 They came from a they came from a seed. 1757 01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:09.439 Yes, okay, about fifteen lemons from seed? Same recommendation or 1758 01:35:09.479 --> 01:35:12.079 would you shift to a different propagation like a tea 1759 01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:13.920 bud or something. Yeah. 1760 01:35:14.039 --> 01:35:16.399 So if lemons, I will say, they have a shorter 1761 01:35:16.520 --> 01:35:20.279 juvenile period, it's only a few, maybe three or four years. 1762 01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:23.600 It's a lot shorter than that twenty years. If you don't, 1763 01:35:24.239 --> 01:35:26.319 if you don't graft them so they will make seed, 1764 01:35:26.920 --> 01:35:29.680 you're gonna get something that's a little bit different, but 1765 01:35:29.880 --> 01:35:33.640 you could get something pretty interesting. Citrus can be grafted 1766 01:35:33.720 --> 01:35:36.840 by by what we call butting, or some people call 1767 01:35:36.920 --> 01:35:41.359 it bud grafting. Tea bud is most common, but they'll 1768 01:35:41.399 --> 01:35:46.159 cleft graft really easily too. Actually, and you can pretty 1769 01:35:46.239 --> 01:35:49.039 much graft citrus any time of year. Spring is always 1770 01:35:49.079 --> 01:35:52.399 a nice time as long as it's not too hot. 1771 01:35:52.479 --> 01:35:54.039 You don't want to be doing it when you're you know, 1772 01:35:54.359 --> 01:35:56.439 up well up into the nineties or one hundred degrees. 1773 01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:01.520 Okay, okay, that's nice, great, Thanks so much. I appreciate it. 1774 01:36:02.000 --> 01:36:05.000 Thank you. Yeah, thanks a lot you got I think 1775 01:36:05.079 --> 01:36:08.479 we he just puts you to work. Thanks, Meta, I 1776 01:36:08.560 --> 01:36:11.720 appreciate your call. Uh, you're listening to garden line seven 1777 01:36:11.760 --> 01:36:14.119 one three two one two ktr H. I'm visiting with 1778 01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:19.239 doctor Tim Hartman from Taxi and M Extension Service Horticulture Department, 1779 01:36:19.359 --> 01:36:22.880 State fruit specialist and assistant professor there in the department. 1780 01:36:23.880 --> 01:36:27.560 Let's see, I have probably thirty seconds before break, so 1781 01:36:27.640 --> 01:36:30.800 I'm gonna ask you another question, but you can call 1782 01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:34.159 in and ask any kinds of fruit related questions you 1783 01:36:34.199 --> 01:36:37.520 want of doctor Hartman. I'm sure he will have the answer. 1784 01:36:37.640 --> 01:36:40.359 I learned something from him every time I talk to him, 1785 01:36:41.079 --> 01:36:44.439 and fruit is so much fun. I'm going to pick 1786 01:36:44.479 --> 01:36:48.199 your brain about some of the types of centa s 1787 01:36:48.239 --> 01:36:50.800 when we come back, if we can do that, Doc Harmon, 1788 01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:55.199 I just planted a satsuma and a blood orange. I 1789 01:36:55.319 --> 01:36:57.960 know blood orange is a little far north, but anyway, 1790 01:36:58.239 --> 01:37:02.520 we'll talk about that. Welcome back to garden Line seven 1791 01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:05.920 three two one two k t R H. I'm visiting 1792 01:37:06.039 --> 01:37:08.800 with doctor Tim Hartman from Texas A and m Agrilife 1793 01:37:09.079 --> 01:37:12.319 Horticulture Department about all things fruit. If you want to 1794 01:37:12.319 --> 01:37:15.479 give us a call that related to fruit, here's the 1795 01:37:15.720 --> 01:37:19.039 here's the opportunity. We'll call it the stump the chumps 1796 01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:22.479 and see if you can. If you can can stomp 1797 01:37:22.560 --> 01:37:24.560 us with the fruit. I shouldn't challenge you like that. 1798 01:37:25.000 --> 01:37:26.680 I know people out there that will make up a 1799 01:37:26.840 --> 01:37:31.159 question about Okay, we're going to go now to out 1800 01:37:31.199 --> 01:37:34.880 to Houston and talk to Joshua. Hello Joshua, Welcome to 1801 01:37:34.960 --> 01:37:35.439 garden Line. 1802 01:37:37.399 --> 01:37:42.720 Hi, good morning. I got a couple of avocados that 1803 01:37:42.760 --> 01:37:46.359 I planted from seed also and I'm going to grab them, 1804 01:37:46.479 --> 01:37:49.640 but might have some neighbors that talk to me, you know, 1805 01:37:49.680 --> 01:37:51.399 about a little bit about avocados. So they told me 1806 01:37:51.479 --> 01:37:55.359 you can't really plant them over here, uh, And I 1807 01:37:55.560 --> 01:37:58.199 just I don't know if I should. If it's protection 1808 01:37:58.319 --> 01:38:00.520 from the winter time, they say they freeze, and I 1809 01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:02.079 don't know if I should just put them in a 1810 01:38:02.159 --> 01:38:05.079 bigger pot and be able to try to put them 1811 01:38:05.079 --> 01:38:06.479 in a place where I can wheel them in, or 1812 01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:08.560 if I can plant them and put them, you know, 1813 01:38:08.720 --> 01:38:12.319 close to a building to protect them and know what 1814 01:38:12.359 --> 01:38:12.880 I just got you. 1815 01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:18.239 Okay, So yeah, they're they're trying to grow an avocado 1816 01:38:18.279 --> 01:38:20.920 in a pot is going to be a big challenge. 1817 01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:24.159 But I'm not saying it's impossible. Everything's possible, but that's 1818 01:38:24.159 --> 01:38:29.279 gonna be a challenge. Did when you were set you're 1819 01:38:29.319 --> 01:38:33.159 going to graft them? Or are you'd or what's the plan? 1820 01:38:33.600 --> 01:38:37.800 Because they're from seeds? Okay, So I just want to 1821 01:38:37.920 --> 01:38:39.560 offer I'm going to turn this over to you, Tim, 1822 01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:43.000 but when we've had two now that are planning avocados 1823 01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:45.359 seeds from the grocery store that is not a super 1824 01:38:45.479 --> 01:38:50.039 hardy avocado, and the kind that we recommend here, the 1825 01:38:50.119 --> 01:38:54.520 smoother skins types are pretty hardy, but on any kind 1826 01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:57.000 of a fruit, even ceteras, where you know, we could 1827 01:38:57.079 --> 01:38:59.399 have one of those winners. When we get into the 1828 01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:01.600 cool season and the cold is coming, mound up a 1829 01:39:01.680 --> 01:39:04.119 bunch of soil or compost around the base of that plant, 1830 01:39:04.199 --> 01:39:06.920 even like a foot or more high, and you don't 1831 01:39:06.920 --> 01:39:09.640 want to leave it there. We don't like multi volcanoes 1832 01:39:09.720 --> 01:39:12.359 but it will protect the graft, and even if it 1833 01:39:12.439 --> 01:39:15.199 freezes down to that, you still have your tree that 1834 01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:20.159 will take off growing like crazy. So the question is 1835 01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:24.479 again a seeded avocados in a pot going to be grafted. 1836 01:39:25.479 --> 01:39:28.319 Where would you plant them? And would you recommend trying 1837 01:39:28.359 --> 01:39:29.159 to grow them in a pot? 1838 01:39:31.079 --> 01:39:33.960 You can grow them in a pot. They want to 1839 01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:36.640 be really large trees, but they can be grown in pots. 1840 01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:39.279 I've got a Chuckhette variety that I've had for about 1841 01:39:39.359 --> 01:39:41.199 ten years actually in a twenty five now. 1842 01:39:41.199 --> 01:39:45.239 It's a pretty good sized pot and it's done fairly well. 1843 01:39:45.399 --> 01:39:47.359 But yeah, if you want to put in the ground, 1844 01:39:47.439 --> 01:39:49.960 and you should certainly be able to do that again 1845 01:39:50.079 --> 01:39:51.800 being ready to protect it. 1846 01:39:52.600 --> 01:39:54.319 This really goes for all fruit trees. 1847 01:39:54.399 --> 01:39:57.119 Okay, if you think about a fruit tree is taking 1848 01:39:57.199 --> 01:40:00.159 that solar energy converting it into chemical energy show or 1849 01:40:00.199 --> 01:40:04.319 in this case oils. Okay, So the more sun the better, Okay, 1850 01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:08.319 so full sun. The other thing is drainage. Okay, fruit 1851 01:40:08.359 --> 01:40:12.439 trees need drainage, I don't care what it is. Especially peach, 1852 01:40:12.520 --> 01:40:16.920 especially avocado, they need drainage. So if you're especially kind 1853 01:40:16.920 --> 01:40:19.640 of in the southern long it ten and kind of 1854 01:40:19.680 --> 01:40:22.239 in that more southern coastal area where you've got a 1855 01:40:22.319 --> 01:40:25.159 lot of that gumbo soil. You have got a plant 1856 01:40:25.319 --> 01:40:28.359 on a mound or raised bed that is really going 1857 01:40:28.439 --> 01:40:33.960 to pay off, all right, if it's avocado or something 1858 01:40:34.079 --> 01:40:37.039 like that, a citrus that you want to protect from 1859 01:40:37.720 --> 01:40:39.640 from the cold. Putting it on the south side of 1860 01:40:39.680 --> 01:40:41.880 a structure like a house can also help. 1861 01:40:42.840 --> 01:40:45.680 Okay, good, all right, Joshua, Hey, I appreciate your call. 1862 01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:50.079 Good luck with that. Sounds like a fun project, except 1863 01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:53.359 for the part about moving it indoors. All right, you 1864 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:57.000 take care. Good to talk with you. So let's see, 1865 01:40:57.079 --> 01:41:00.680 we've talked about blackberries as a is a pretty easy 1866 01:41:00.720 --> 01:41:04.359 crop to grow. Peaches, in my opinion, are the queen 1867 01:41:04.439 --> 01:41:07.720 of the fruit garden here at least, and a lot 1868 01:41:07.800 --> 01:41:09.960 of people love to grow peaches as well as other 1869 01:41:10.000 --> 01:41:14.199 fruit other than drainage which is critical for a peach 1870 01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:19.119 especially and good sunlight. Like you said, what are some 1871 01:41:19.319 --> 01:41:23.920 tips that you would give people for choosing planting or 1872 01:41:23.960 --> 01:41:26.560 growing peach tree? 1873 01:41:26.800 --> 01:41:30.560 Kind of in a nutshell, yeah, so with any kind 1874 01:41:30.600 --> 01:41:33.039 of what we'd call temperate fruit. Okay, these are gonna 1875 01:41:33.039 --> 01:41:36.159 be things like pears, apples, and peaches and things like that. 1876 01:41:36.800 --> 01:41:39.560 They need winter chilling. Okay, they have to have a 1877 01:41:39.600 --> 01:41:42.279 certain amount of cold. We're not tom that below freeze 1878 01:41:42.279 --> 01:41:45.920 and kind of you think refrigerator temperatures below forty five fahrenheit. 1879 01:41:46.560 --> 01:41:49.560 They need a certain number of hours, depends this various 1880 01:41:49.600 --> 01:41:53.640 by variety, by species, and if they don't get that chilling, 1881 01:41:53.960 --> 01:41:55.640 they are not going to be able to flour and 1882 01:41:55.720 --> 01:41:58.960 produce a good crop. Okay for you in your area, 1883 01:41:59.079 --> 01:42:01.840 especially the Houston are your child is going to be 1884 01:42:01.880 --> 01:42:05.399 getting enough chilling. Well, guess what on peaches, we fortunately 1885 01:42:05.479 --> 01:42:09.039 have a lot of options for you. Doctor Dave Byrne 1886 01:42:09.159 --> 01:42:12.199 peach longtime peach breeder Texas A and M who has 1887 01:42:12.319 --> 01:42:17.119 just retired, has developed about forty varieties of peach and nectarine. 1888 01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:20.600 Most of these are low chill. We have varieties that 1889 01:42:20.640 --> 01:42:23.479 are even as low chill as one hundred and fifty hours. 1890 01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:23.960 They could grow. 1891 01:42:24.159 --> 01:42:25.680 You could almost go in Galveston with that. 1892 01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:28.520 Oh easily, oh easily. Yeah, a lot of two fifties, 1893 01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:32.760 three fifties. We've even got some doughnut shaped peaches, lots 1894 01:42:32.800 --> 01:42:35.760 of nectarines, and these are bread for Texas. 1895 01:42:36.239 --> 01:42:41.279 Okay, sounds good. Well, there you go. We had a 1896 01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:45.680 question come in from Evelyn in Katie, and I'm going 1897 01:42:45.720 --> 01:42:48.880 to go to that now. Hey Evelyn, welcome to garden Line. 1898 01:42:49.640 --> 01:42:50.560 Good morning. 1899 01:42:52.319 --> 01:42:52.640 Morning. 1900 01:42:53.600 --> 01:42:56.680 I am calling. I am going to plant fruit trees 1901 01:42:56.760 --> 01:43:00.079 this fall, and I wanted to know what do I 1902 01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:01.720 need to do to prepare the whole. 1903 01:43:01.840 --> 01:43:03.800 I don't want to just dig a hole and stick 1904 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:05.159 the trees down in or because. 1905 01:43:04.960 --> 01:43:07.359 I really want them to have the right soil and 1906 01:43:07.960 --> 01:43:10.880 whatever to plant that tree and have a. 1907 01:43:12.560 --> 01:43:13.079 Survival. 1908 01:43:13.159 --> 01:43:18.560 Rates well that you got the right instincts on that, Evelyn. 1909 01:43:18.680 --> 01:43:22.159 And the question is about how do you prepare the 1910 01:43:22.279 --> 01:43:26.039 soil for planting a fruit tree. You talked about physically 1911 01:43:26.239 --> 01:43:28.960 raising the soil up so it can drain off from there, 1912 01:43:29.560 --> 01:43:32.199 but this is definitely another case of brown stuff before 1913 01:43:32.279 --> 01:43:34.640 green stuff. To just buy the tree and bring it 1914 01:43:34.720 --> 01:43:37.720 home and plant it without any prep is probably not 1915 01:43:37.800 --> 01:43:41.000 a good idea. How would you recommend a homeowner prepare 1916 01:43:41.079 --> 01:43:42.560 soil for putting in a fruit tree. 1917 01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:46.279 Yeah, that's a great question, and I love getting back 1918 01:43:46.319 --> 01:43:51.039 to basics the foundations. So unless you have deep deep sands, 1919 01:43:51.279 --> 01:43:54.319 really on any fruit tree, I would recommend planning on 1920 01:43:54.600 --> 01:43:57.279 a mound. And I want to be clear that what 1921 01:43:57.399 --> 01:43:59.880 we're talking about here, we're talking about making a mouth, 1922 01:44:00.039 --> 01:44:02.560 and a foot two feet is great, but even a 1923 01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:04.640 foot is going to make a big difference. I always 1924 01:44:05.159 --> 01:44:07.520 kind of describe it as a picture's mound. If you're 1925 01:44:07.560 --> 01:44:10.960 doing one tree, like a peach tree, a six by 1926 01:44:11.119 --> 01:44:15.159 six square area about a foot high. And yes, that 1927 01:44:15.279 --> 01:44:17.439 means you would probably need to bring in some soil 1928 01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:21.359 or at least kind of scrape it together. This can 1929 01:44:21.439 --> 01:44:24.520 be done, you know, like you do a vegetable garden, 1930 01:44:24.680 --> 01:44:27.039 raised bed with lumber, or you could just simply have 1931 01:44:27.119 --> 01:44:29.920 it mounded and gently sloping down pitts. 1932 01:44:29.960 --> 01:44:31.439 Some mulch pictures mound. 1933 01:44:31.520 --> 01:44:37.000 Yeah, yeah, an organic material okay, we love brown as 1934 01:44:37.079 --> 01:44:37.960 much carbon as you. 1935 01:44:37.920 --> 01:44:41.520 Can get into that soil. Compost amendments like skipped. 1936 01:44:41.680 --> 01:44:43.640 I know it has talked about a lot that is 1937 01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:46.000 really going to help that tree, and I want to 1938 01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:48.800 be clear that when you plant that tree on a mound, okay, 1939 01:44:49.279 --> 01:44:52.239 you're literally going to plant it the bottom of that 1940 01:44:52.760 --> 01:44:58.159 root ball above the existing grade. So it's almost imagined 1941 01:44:58.239 --> 01:45:00.920 like putting that tree on the ground and put piling 1942 01:45:01.000 --> 01:45:03.960 soil around it, rather than digging a deep hole and 1943 01:45:04.039 --> 01:45:05.960 planting it and always plant it at the same depth 1944 01:45:06.079 --> 01:45:06.920 it was originally. 1945 01:45:07.479 --> 01:45:10.279 Did that cover your your question, Evolent? 1946 01:45:10.960 --> 01:45:14.520 Well, it kind of My question is if I buy 1947 01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:17.119 do I need to I live in the country, so 1948 01:45:17.319 --> 01:45:18.960 do I need to just dig a hole, put it 1949 01:45:19.039 --> 01:45:21.279 in there and put the stuff around it? Or do 1950 01:45:21.399 --> 01:45:25.520 I need to put like garden soil, fruit tree soil. 1951 01:45:25.600 --> 01:45:28.319 They have so many different soils, So do I need 1952 01:45:28.359 --> 01:45:30.520 to put something in that hole when I dig it 1953 01:45:30.800 --> 01:45:33.239 or just put the tree in there and then prepare 1954 01:45:33.319 --> 01:45:34.600 it around with the mound. 1955 01:45:36.760 --> 01:45:41.399 If you can get a quality truly a sandy loan 1956 01:45:41.479 --> 01:45:44.399 type soil, a top true top soil. Sometimes things are 1957 01:45:44.439 --> 01:45:47.680 sold that are not that and create a mound out 1958 01:45:47.720 --> 01:45:49.720 of that. But a lot of organic matter is good too. 1959 01:45:49.840 --> 01:45:52.960 And I know the folks at Nature's Way they make 1960 01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:57.680 a fruit tree blend specifically for use in that, and 1961 01:45:57.760 --> 01:46:00.199 I would I would talk to them about that. But 1962 01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:03.479 that here's here's what I want you to picture. It's 1963 01:46:03.560 --> 01:46:06.279 not exactly accurate, but if you picture this, you'll do 1964 01:46:06.359 --> 01:46:08.600 it right. Go out and set your fruit tree on 1965 01:46:08.680 --> 01:46:11.960 the ground and then bring in soil all around it 1966 01:46:12.119 --> 01:46:14.520 up to the top of the fruit tree soil. Okay, 1967 01:46:15.079 --> 01:46:17.600 So that what does that end? Up being that ends 1968 01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:20.439 up being that that picture's mound, you know, and then 1969 01:46:20.800 --> 01:46:22.520 and then you've got it the right. Now, you're not 1970 01:46:22.600 --> 01:46:24.159 going to put the bed that way. You're going to 1971 01:46:24.239 --> 01:46:26.000 create a bed and then dig a hole. But you 1972 01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:28.880 want to dig the hole into the soil that the 1973 01:46:28.960 --> 01:46:30.880 fruit tree is going to be growing in. And don't 1974 01:46:30.920 --> 01:46:32.800 put compost in the hole, don't put a bunch of 1975 01:46:32.920 --> 01:46:36.960 especially fast release fertilizer in the hole. Just just give 1976 01:46:37.000 --> 01:46:39.560 it its best chance. But get those roots up out 1977 01:46:39.600 --> 01:46:42.520 of the sagi wet for the best results. 1978 01:46:43.119 --> 01:46:44.640 Right, Okay, great, okay. 1979 01:46:44.800 --> 01:46:47.159 That will help me to get these fruit trees in 1980 01:46:47.199 --> 01:46:49.199 the ground and hopefully they'll be successful. 1981 01:46:49.680 --> 01:46:50.000 Thank you. 1982 01:46:50.840 --> 01:46:53.079 Uh and you know you know my rule on guarden Line. 1983 01:46:53.640 --> 01:46:56.399 My advice is free, but I do expect half of 1984 01:46:56.479 --> 01:46:58.960 the fruit that you grow because of this good advice 1985 01:46:59.039 --> 01:47:02.079 you've heard on Gardenline from doctor Puttin. I just bring it. 1986 01:47:02.199 --> 01:47:05.720 I'll spe I might even share some with him, all right, 1987 01:47:06.199 --> 01:47:08.399 Thanks Evelyn. Hey, we gotta take a break. Karen in 1988 01:47:08.399 --> 01:47:10.600 the Woodlands and Russell and Pearland. You'll be our first 1989 01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:13.760 two up. Welcome back to Guardenline. It is good to 1990 01:47:13.840 --> 01:47:16.560 have you with us today. Hey, if you are looking 1991 01:47:16.680 --> 01:47:20.079 for quality organic products you can use on your plants, 1992 01:47:20.079 --> 01:47:22.960 I won't tell you about two liquid products from Microlife. 1993 01:47:23.359 --> 01:47:25.920 The Biomatrix is an orange label. It's a seven to 1994 01:47:25.960 --> 01:47:30.039 one to three organic product that high nitrogen. Is good 1995 01:47:30.119 --> 01:47:33.079 for your house plants, especially because you know, basically a 1996 01:47:33.119 --> 01:47:36.119 foliage plant. And I use it online as a water 1997 01:47:36.560 --> 01:47:39.279 and it works. Another one is Ocean Harvest. That's a 1998 01:47:39.319 --> 01:47:41.760 blue label. It's a four to two three and it's 1999 01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:44.520 a fish based fertilizer. Now I would use that one outside. 2000 01:47:44.600 --> 01:47:47.079 You can use either one outside because it has a 2001 01:47:47.119 --> 01:47:48.600 little bit of a fish oder, so if you have 2002 01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:51.399 family cats, they're gonna have an opinion about that. But 2003 01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:55.119 the Ocean Harvest blue labe as that's melly. It's just 2004 01:47:55.479 --> 01:47:57.800 I prefer to use that one outside. But it works 2005 01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:00.600 so well, and I can tell you a number of 2006 01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:03.399 different plant pots that I've put it in that and 2007 01:48:03.520 --> 01:48:06.520 the results that I've gotten from it. And Microlife products 2008 01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:09.279 are as easy to find as anything in the world. 2009 01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:12.319 You can go to Microlifefertilizer dot com to find places 2010 01:48:12.399 --> 01:48:14.319 you can get them and to learn about some of 2011 01:48:14.359 --> 01:48:16.600 their other products. But always keep a couple of those 2012 01:48:17.359 --> 01:48:19.920 jugs on hand because you need to give a real 2013 01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:23.960 quick watering in of something and it works. Doctor Hartman, 2014 01:48:24.079 --> 01:48:26.479 Doctor Tim Hartman is my guest today. We're talking about 2015 01:48:26.560 --> 01:48:29.039 all kinds of things related to fruit, and we're going 2016 01:48:29.119 --> 01:48:31.920 to go to the woodlands and talk to Karen. Hello, Karen, 2017 01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:32.800 welcome to garden Line. 2018 01:48:33.960 --> 01:48:34.520 Good morning. 2019 01:48:35.119 --> 01:48:36.000 How are you this morning? 2020 01:48:36.680 --> 01:48:38.359 Morning? Doing well? 2021 01:48:40.079 --> 01:48:40.279 Good? 2022 01:48:40.439 --> 01:48:44.560 I'm calling because we have a nectarine tree in our 2023 01:48:44.640 --> 01:48:48.560 backyard that has started producing fruit the last couple of years, 2024 01:48:48.680 --> 01:48:52.319 and we are at our wits end trying to figure 2025 01:48:52.319 --> 01:48:57.159 out how to keep the squirrels and critters and bugs 2026 01:48:57.359 --> 01:48:59.960 from eating all of them. We haven't gotten any. 2027 01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:03.600 Wow for us either year well, and we've. 2028 01:49:03.520 --> 01:49:04.680 Tried a few different things. 2029 01:49:04.800 --> 01:49:06.479 Wondering if you have any suggestions. 2030 01:49:08.039 --> 01:49:12.880 Okay, Doc Harmon. The question is you got a nectarine 2031 01:49:12.960 --> 01:49:15.680 tray and they don't get to enjoy any of the 2032 01:49:15.720 --> 01:49:18.319 fruit because their squirrels are running around there. What are 2033 01:49:18.359 --> 01:49:22.319 those solutions? Remember, we can't recommend any ballistic solutions because 2034 01:49:22.359 --> 01:49:27.279 it's yeah, so you can't eat. If you can't eat nectarine, 2035 01:49:27.319 --> 01:49:29.720 you can eat squirrel if it tastes like ne Greene. 2036 01:49:30.199 --> 01:49:33.560 They don't taste like all right, joking aside, Doc Harmon, 2037 01:49:33.640 --> 01:49:34.439 what would you recommend? 2038 01:49:34.600 --> 01:49:37.560 So, one humane solution that I've actually come up with 2039 01:49:37.720 --> 01:49:41.560 that works pretty well is basically making a cage out 2040 01:49:41.600 --> 01:49:45.560 of cylindrical cage out of chicken wire, poultry netting around 2041 01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:49.920 the trunk, and you have to have it supported with 2042 01:49:50.079 --> 01:49:52.960 something like PVC pipe or something like that. That's going 2043 01:49:53.039 --> 01:49:56.840 to be an insulator, non conductive, non conductive. And then 2044 01:49:56.960 --> 01:50:00.479 I actually run an electric fence charger. Already have an 2045 01:50:00.479 --> 01:50:02.880 electric fence for the deer around my orchard, but I 2046 01:50:03.000 --> 01:50:04.520 just run a hot wire over to that. 2047 01:50:05.000 --> 01:50:07.079 It's going to shock the squirrel, but it's not going 2048 01:50:07.119 --> 01:50:08.640 to kill it. It's not really going to hurt it. 2049 01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:11.880 And if you can keep it from jumping from another tree, 2050 01:50:12.920 --> 01:50:14.800 if you basically prevent it from going up that tree, 2051 01:50:14.800 --> 01:50:16.199 it does work pretty well usually. 2052 01:50:16.319 --> 01:50:18.960 And I can tell you squirrels can jump about eight feet, 2053 01:50:19.840 --> 01:50:22.119 especially if they get a higher because I've had him 2054 01:50:22.119 --> 01:50:24.520 get into a feeder that was eight feet away from 2055 01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:24.880 a fence. 2056 01:50:24.880 --> 01:50:27.319 That's amazing, I know, not even a flying squirrel. 2057 01:50:27.560 --> 01:50:30.520 Yeah, there you go, Karen. You've got any thoughts on. 2058 01:50:30.560 --> 01:50:34.640 That, well, yeah, that's something we haven't tried. 2059 01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:35.960 So I'm happy to try it. 2060 01:50:36.079 --> 01:50:42.039 We clean that haven't worked, so yeah, anyway, Yeah. 2061 01:50:42.479 --> 01:50:46.159 What happened to the climbshells? Well, Karen, tell me what 2062 01:50:46.239 --> 01:50:47.399 happened with the clamshells? 2063 01:50:47.439 --> 01:50:51.840 What the squirrels were able to open them? Either squirrels 2064 01:50:51.880 --> 01:50:52.399 or raccoons. 2065 01:50:52.640 --> 01:50:53.239 Oh they open them. 2066 01:50:55.840 --> 01:50:58.159 Well, I've talked to and they still got through them. 2067 01:51:00.479 --> 01:51:01.159 Oh my gosh. 2068 01:51:01.560 --> 01:51:04.840 Okay, squalls are smart. If you want to be entertained, 2069 01:51:04.920 --> 01:51:08.199 go on YouTube and look at the contraptions people have 2070 01:51:08.359 --> 01:51:12.479 tried to thwart squirrels with and watch the squirrels. It's sad, 2071 01:51:12.600 --> 01:51:17.880 but it's very thanks Karry, I do okay, Yeah, appreciate, 2072 01:51:17.960 --> 01:51:20.800 appreciate you call very much. Let's see here. We're going 2073 01:51:20.840 --> 01:51:23.760 to go now to Russell in Paarland. Hey Russell, welcome 2074 01:51:23.760 --> 01:51:24.399 to garden Line. 2075 01:51:25.720 --> 01:51:26.520 Good morning. 2076 01:51:27.399 --> 01:51:30.720 Got a grapefruit tree that's just three years old ish. 2077 01:51:31.159 --> 01:51:34.720 Our previous one was killed in the freeze, and boy, 2078 01:51:34.760 --> 01:51:38.520 I'm glad to hear the information that y'all gave about 2079 01:51:38.600 --> 01:51:41.880 how to protect them from getting freeze. So it's about 2080 01:51:41.920 --> 01:51:46.079 three years old and I'm really having trouble controlling the 2081 01:51:46.199 --> 01:51:50.119 leaf miners. I'm using kneem oil, but that's all I'm using. 2082 01:51:50.199 --> 01:51:51.920 Do you have any other suggestions? 2083 01:51:52.880 --> 01:51:55.840 So you've been using the neeme oil, what would you 2084 01:51:55.920 --> 01:51:59.560 recommend for citrus leaf miners and how do you go 2085 01:51:59.640 --> 01:51:59.920 about it? 2086 01:52:00.640 --> 01:52:03.479 Yeah, so what's most commonly recommended for homeowners? It's going 2087 01:52:03.520 --> 01:52:06.960 to be UH spinosid. That's the active ingredients spinosid. 2088 01:52:07.159 --> 01:52:08.039 It is UH. 2089 01:52:08.119 --> 01:52:11.319 There's conserve a lot of brands out there, but it 2090 01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:15.840 is labeled for organic use. Mixed that with UH, and 2091 01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:19.079 of course always make sure you follow the label, but 2092 01:52:19.680 --> 01:52:22.680 a lot of people will mix that with oil, with 2093 01:52:22.800 --> 01:52:25.720 a summer oil and will spray that on the shoots 2094 01:52:25.720 --> 01:52:28.039 when they're a few inches long. And basically you want 2095 01:52:28.119 --> 01:52:32.399 to kill those leaf minor larvae before they really get going. 2096 01:52:33.640 --> 01:52:35.920 Of course, every time you've got a new flush of growth, 2097 01:52:35.960 --> 01:52:37.319 you'll have to you'll have to repeat this. 2098 01:52:39.159 --> 01:52:41.520 Oh okay, and what did you call that? That first? 2099 01:52:42.119 --> 01:52:42.239 UH? 2100 01:52:42.800 --> 01:52:48.439 Chemical spin spins It's it's spin like s p I 2101 01:52:48.680 --> 01:52:53.159 N the letter O and then sad like you're sad 2102 01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:58.399 because mixed? Okay with what mix it with? 2103 01:52:58.560 --> 01:52:58.600 What? 2104 01:52:59.560 --> 01:53:04.279 Mix it? Mix? The spinocid with summer oil. Summer oil, 2105 01:53:04.960 --> 01:53:08.640 a light, very lightweight oil. Oil kind of evaporate. So yeah, 2106 01:53:08.720 --> 01:53:13.079 a summer. Oh, would you be concerned about time of 2107 01:53:13.159 --> 01:53:15.199 day spraying a summer oil on citrus. 2108 01:53:15.920 --> 01:53:20.319 Citrus are really are renowned for being very tolerant of oil, 2109 01:53:21.079 --> 01:53:23.520 whereas other plants you would burn them. But yeah, if 2110 01:53:23.520 --> 01:53:25.520 you could do it like in the evening, is probably 2111 01:53:25.520 --> 01:53:27.760 a safer bad. Yeah, if you really, if you're concerned 2112 01:53:27.800 --> 01:53:28.159 about that. 2113 01:53:28.359 --> 01:53:31.199 I might be What about even trying to do a 2114 01:53:31.279 --> 01:53:33.359 little bit upward from underneath the leaf, because I know 2115 01:53:33.439 --> 01:53:36.399 there's there's scale, insects and sometimes are up underneath. 2116 01:53:36.439 --> 01:53:38.239 There will summer oil work on those or is it 2117 01:53:38.399 --> 01:53:40.680 just too light weight? No, it'll it'll work. 2118 01:53:41.000 --> 01:53:43.479 Yeah. Oil's not a poison. It's mothers them. So that's 2119 01:53:43.520 --> 01:53:46.600 why spraying upward where if a pest are hiding underneath 2120 01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:50.520 the leaf, like sometimes sometimes spider manks, sometimes scale, certain 2121 01:53:50.600 --> 01:53:53.039 kinds of scale will. 2122 01:53:52.840 --> 01:53:56.319 Be up under Okay, wonderful, thank you so much. 2123 01:53:58.279 --> 01:54:00.960 All right, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. 2124 01:54:01.479 --> 01:54:01.600 Well. 2125 01:54:01.640 --> 01:54:03.520 We're having a good time here on garden Line. Lots 2126 01:54:03.520 --> 01:54:05.800 of questions and lots of things to talk about, and 2127 01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:07.880 I'm about to hear the music that says we're at 2128 01:54:07.920 --> 01:54:11.640 the top of the hour for the news. Tim I 2129 01:54:11.680 --> 01:54:13.800 don't know where to go next. I mean, my brain 2130 01:54:13.920 --> 01:54:16.159 is going in a thousand directions, but I let's do this. 2131 01:54:16.399 --> 01:54:18.760 Let's when we come back, talk about some not so 2132 01:54:19.039 --> 01:54:22.159 common fruits. That's good that people, And just to give 2133 01:54:22.159 --> 01:54:24.600 you a little teaser, don't go away. If you've got 2134 01:54:24.640 --> 01:54:26.840 friends that are interested in fruit, tell them to tune 2135 01:54:26.880 --> 01:54:28.359 in the garden Line. If you want to give me 2136 01:54:28.439 --> 01:54:30.560 a call seven to one to three two one two 2137 01:54:31.159 --> 01:54:35.520 kt RH. We might talk about golden kiwi's who knows 2138 01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:38.560 what that is? How about pineapple, guava? There's another one. 2139 01:54:38.840 --> 01:54:41.600 We're going to get into some not so common fruit 2140 01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:44.239 yet and yes, the quick answer is you can grow 2141 01:54:44.319 --> 01:54:48.680 some of this stuff here. All right, all right, well, 2142 01:54:49.079 --> 01:54:53.199 I just want to remind you that, uh when for 2143 01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:55.079 the rest of today we're gonna be talking with doctor 2144 01:54:55.079 --> 01:54:57.560 Hartman on fruit trees. I'll be back with just regular 2145 01:54:57.680 --> 01:55:00.560 calls in the morning. We hear from six am to 2146 01:55:00.680 --> 01:55:02.920 ten am. You can listen to garden Line on the radio. 2147 01:55:03.520 --> 01:55:08.000 You can also listen to garden Line on the app, 2148 01:55:08.119 --> 01:55:11.279 the iHeartMedia app, and I know people that do that. 2149 01:55:11.840 --> 01:55:13.600 That way, you take your phone with you out in 2150 01:55:13.680 --> 01:55:15.319 the garden. You could be right now you could be 2151 01:55:15.359 --> 01:55:17.920 in your garden. I won't say pulling weeds. I know 2152 01:55:18.000 --> 01:55:19.800 you don't allow weeds in your garden. You could be 2153 01:55:19.840 --> 01:55:23.399 in your garden harvesting flowers and beautiful things. Listening to 2154 01:55:23.520 --> 01:55:25.680 garden line. You see a bug, take a picture, email 2155 01:55:25.720 --> 01:55:28.720 it to me and live from your garden. Is garden line. 2156 01:55:28.760 --> 01:55:32.720 That's how that would work, all right. I'm not hearing 2157 01:55:32.960 --> 01:55:35.199 music here in my ear, and I think we're about 2158 01:55:35.399 --> 01:55:38.199 at that time. I see, okay, there we go. Just 2159 01:55:38.279 --> 01:55:41.640 looking at my clock a little bit wrong. I want 2160 01:55:41.640 --> 01:55:44.800 to remind you that OBA Palooza is coming up on 2161 01:55:45.000 --> 01:55:51.920 August second, Saturday, August second. If you guys follow Joe Gardner, 2162 01:55:52.359 --> 01:55:55.800 Joe Lample, he is outstanding. He's going to be speaking, 2163 01:55:55.840 --> 01:55:57.960 given two talks there. I'll be giving a talk there 2164 01:55:58.520 --> 01:56:02.560 myself on beneficial in a key ingredient and sustainable landscapes, 2165 01:56:03.439 --> 01:56:07.159 all kinds of good organic information here now, it's at 2166 01:56:07.239 --> 01:56:10.039 the United Way on wad Drive, the United Way of 2167 01:56:10.119 --> 01:56:14.279 Greater Houston. If you want more information, go to OBA online. 2168 01:56:14.359 --> 01:56:20.199 That's HbA online dot org. Slash register that's how you 2169 01:56:20.239 --> 01:56:23.720 can register and find out more information about it. So 2170 01:56:24.520 --> 01:56:26.239 there you go. Hope to be able to see you 2171 01:56:26.439 --> 01:56:30.920 on Saturday, August second for the Obapalooza. I Love it 2172 01:56:31.920 --> 01:56:41.319 Oba Police eight a m. Before pm. All right, all right, folks, 2173 01:56:41.359 --> 01:56:44.159 we're back here we go. We are with today. I've 2174 01:56:44.199 --> 01:56:48.680 got as a special guest doctor Tim Hartman, Assistant professor 2175 01:56:48.800 --> 01:56:51.239 in the horticulture department at Texas A and M, but 2176 01:56:51.359 --> 01:56:56.600 also state wide statewide fruit extension specialists. So if there 2177 01:56:56.680 --> 01:57:00.920 is a fruit out there is he has probably either 2178 01:57:01.039 --> 01:57:03.159 grown it. Every time I talk about some of these, 2179 01:57:03.199 --> 01:57:06.600 go yeah, I got three of those at my house. Tim. 2180 01:57:06.680 --> 01:57:09.159 One of the things I appreciate about the work you 2181 01:57:09.279 --> 01:57:13.199 have done is being willing to jump out beyond just 2182 01:57:13.359 --> 01:57:18.039 the peaches, plums, apples, pears, basics of fruit, and look 2183 01:57:18.119 --> 01:57:20.439 at some of these other fruit that are quite unusual. 2184 01:57:21.199 --> 01:57:22.960 And I'd like you to talk about that because you've 2185 01:57:22.960 --> 01:57:26.199 actually done the research on some of these. Let's start 2186 01:57:26.239 --> 01:57:29.920 with pineapple guava. That's a plant people plant for a hedge, 2187 01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:32.800 and it's a beautiful hedge. The flowers are edible, with 2188 01:57:32.920 --> 01:57:37.279 the pink flowers almost a cotton candy kind of fluffiness 2189 01:57:37.359 --> 01:57:41.479 to them. Not that sweet, but you can grow it here. 2190 01:57:41.760 --> 01:57:43.600 But if you just go down this store to buy 2191 01:57:43.840 --> 01:57:47.840 a pineapple guava and you get two or three of them, 2192 01:57:48.079 --> 01:57:50.800 they may not fruit well. And why is that and 2193 01:57:51.119 --> 01:57:54.000 how would you tell somebody to have success with pineapple guava. 2194 01:57:54.680 --> 01:57:57.239 Yes, so, just like we talked about avocado, you started 2195 01:57:57.239 --> 01:57:59.800 from sea. They're not true to type. Same thing with 2196 01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:04.199 pineapple guava. Generally, any plant you're going to get from 2197 01:58:04.199 --> 01:58:07.600 a nursery, if it's a landscape to be a landscape plant, 2198 01:58:07.640 --> 01:58:10.239 that pineapple guava is going to be from seed. 2199 01:58:10.439 --> 01:58:10.720 Okay. 2200 01:58:11.119 --> 01:58:13.119 The fruit in two or three years usually or be 2201 01:58:13.159 --> 01:58:15.119 able to bloom in two or three years, but the 2202 01:58:15.239 --> 01:58:18.840 quality may not be that good. Pineapple guavas also need 2203 01:58:19.000 --> 01:58:22.960 cross pollinations, so you need two different ones. They have 2204 01:58:23.079 --> 01:58:25.640 different genetics that bloom at the same time. So you 2205 01:58:25.720 --> 01:58:28.600 usually recommend if you're trying to get fruit and you're 2206 01:58:28.640 --> 01:58:30.720 just going with, you know, the run of the mill nursery, 2207 01:58:30.800 --> 01:58:33.960 one do at least three and you can probably get fruit. 2208 01:58:34.960 --> 01:58:36.880 But there are a lot of varieties out there too. 2209 01:58:37.000 --> 01:58:37.840 Improve varieties. 2210 01:58:38.760 --> 01:58:41.279 Okay, and tell me a little bit about you did 2211 01:58:41.359 --> 01:58:45.079 some heartiness research up in college station on pineapple guava 2212 01:58:45.159 --> 01:58:47.079 and what kinds of things have we learned about them? 2213 01:58:47.439 --> 01:58:50.720 In terms of their ability to take cold and then 2214 01:58:50.800 --> 01:58:54.560 maybe a few varieties that you think might be superior. 2215 01:58:55.079 --> 01:58:58.119 Yeah, Doctor Dave Creech at SFA and I have been 2216 01:58:58.159 --> 01:59:01.119 working for several years on a pineapple guava research project 2217 01:59:01.640 --> 01:59:04.119 and we've got a little over forty varieties named varieties 2218 01:59:04.199 --> 01:59:04.960 up in College station. 2219 01:59:05.399 --> 01:59:06.479 Of course you do. 2220 01:59:07.880 --> 01:59:12.800 And usually we say cold hardiness is around ten degrees fahrenheit. 2221 01:59:12.920 --> 01:59:15.960 Now that varies so much depending on you know, how 2222 01:59:16.119 --> 01:59:18.279 hardened off they are, but I can tell you that 2223 01:59:18.399 --> 01:59:22.399 you get below ten certainly six fahrenheit, which doesn't happen 2224 01:59:22.479 --> 01:59:26.680 off and thank goodness, yes, I know South Louisiana got 2225 01:59:26.720 --> 01:59:30.960 even colder than that this this past winter. That will 2226 01:59:31.039 --> 01:59:35.760 do some damage to them. But yeah, varieties, a lot 2227 01:59:35.800 --> 01:59:38.119 of them out there. One that we really like, and 2228 01:59:38.199 --> 01:59:41.560 it's fairly easy to find, as easy as a pineapple 2229 01:59:41.600 --> 01:59:43.720 guava variety is going to be defined, which is not 2230 01:59:43.880 --> 01:59:44.479 super easy. 2231 01:59:44.880 --> 01:59:47.279 But Apollo has done really well for us. It's an 2232 01:59:47.279 --> 01:59:47.960 old variety. 2233 01:59:48.640 --> 01:59:50.920 We've gotten pretty large fruit the size of you know, 2234 01:59:51.079 --> 01:59:53.640 pretty about the size of a chicken egg or a 2235 01:59:53.760 --> 01:59:58.640 large chicken egg. Pretty good sized, great quality, very productive 2236 01:59:58.880 --> 02:00:01.920 ripens early, and we've been pretty happy with that variety. 2237 02:00:02.199 --> 02:00:05.640 Okay, Well, most of our listening area is way south 2238 02:00:06.359 --> 02:00:10.000 College Station, and I think you would have less problems 2239 02:00:10.119 --> 02:00:13.239 with how cold it gets. You mentioned the term hardening off, 2240 02:00:13.319 --> 02:00:16.520 and for those of you who don't know what that means, 2241 02:00:16.600 --> 02:00:19.720 basically that's does a tree is it out there? And 2242 02:00:19.800 --> 02:00:22.439 it's bermuda shorts and flowery shirt one day and the 2243 02:00:22.560 --> 02:00:25.640 next day it needs a parka. Okay, it wasn't. It 2244 02:00:25.720 --> 02:00:27.840 didn't have time to get ready for that cold front. 2245 02:00:28.279 --> 02:00:31.560 And so gradually cooling off is what you mean by 2246 02:00:31.640 --> 02:00:34.680 hardening off, and that's important. So we could have a 2247 02:00:34.840 --> 02:00:38.079 not hardened off guava even down south where it doesn't 2248 02:00:38.079 --> 02:00:40.520 get as cold, but then a good hard cold could 2249 02:00:40.560 --> 02:00:41.000 come through. 2250 02:00:41.119 --> 02:00:42.399 And absolutely, Yeah. 2251 02:00:42.479 --> 02:00:44.439 That reminds me of a few years ago when we 2252 02:00:44.520 --> 02:00:46.439 had that December freeze that killed a lot of our 2253 02:00:46.800 --> 02:00:50.239 crepe myrtles to the ground to the station. Yeah, it's 2254 02:00:50.319 --> 02:00:53.319 all about that, that conditioning beforehand. 2255 02:00:53.640 --> 02:00:57.560 Yeah, very important to do. So pineapple guava is a 2256 02:00:57.600 --> 02:01:01.680 possibility now, that's uh. You said the ones in the 2257 02:01:02.439 --> 02:01:05.239 stores are typically seedlings. Seedlings, did you. 2258 02:01:05.279 --> 02:01:07.560 Get the nursery. Yeah, usually they're going to be seedlings. 2259 02:01:08.119 --> 02:01:10.640 There are some nurseries mostly online, but there are some 2260 02:01:10.800 --> 02:01:14.720 nurseries out there. The Douce sell name varieties. They're usually 2261 02:01:14.760 --> 02:01:16.920 going to be grafted. They don't root from cuttings. We've 2262 02:01:16.960 --> 02:01:19.720 been trying to prove that we're actually looking at tissue 2263 02:01:19.760 --> 02:01:23.760 culture now, but most nurseries including uh, you know that's 2264 02:01:23.800 --> 02:01:26.119 what we do as we propagate by grafting. 2265 02:01:26.399 --> 02:01:30.680 Okay, we are talking with doctor Tim Hartman, fruit specialists 2266 02:01:30.720 --> 02:01:33.720 for Texas with Texas A and m Aggrlife Extension Service. 2267 02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:36.279 If you'd like to give us a call and ask 2268 02:01:36.359 --> 02:01:39.199 a fruit question seven one three two to one two 2269 02:01:39.840 --> 02:01:43.279 kt r age. Before we went to a break, I 2270 02:01:43.399 --> 02:01:47.920 kind of teased the listeners with this thing called golden kiwi. 2271 02:01:48.760 --> 02:01:51.199 What is a golden kiwi? And what have you learned 2272 02:01:51.239 --> 02:01:52.319 in your research from them? 2273 02:01:52.359 --> 02:01:52.520 Here? 2274 02:01:53.039 --> 02:01:55.159 So golden kiwi fruit, if you haven't tried them, you 2275 02:01:55.600 --> 02:01:55.960 need to. 2276 02:01:56.760 --> 02:02:00.880 Sixty six last I checked sixty six species of kiwi 2277 02:02:01.000 --> 02:02:01.760 of actin India. 2278 02:02:02.439 --> 02:02:03.920 This is actin India, cheninzus. 2279 02:02:03.960 --> 02:02:05.760 So do you have five at your house? 2280 02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:06.600 What's that? 2281 02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:09.039 Do you have fifty five of the species at your house? 2282 02:02:09.279 --> 02:02:09.319 No? 2283 02:02:09.560 --> 02:02:11.600 I think at our research from I think we have 2284 02:02:11.680 --> 02:02:13.560 about maybe forty or something. 2285 02:02:13.399 --> 02:02:18.039 That Okay, I shouldn't. Don't encourage him. You're saying you're 2286 02:02:18.039 --> 02:02:20.319 working with a new crop. You know, you want to 2287 02:02:20.560 --> 02:02:24.720 cast that net wide in terms of genetics. But yeah, 2288 02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:27.239 it's just a cousin of that kind of funky fuzzy 2289 02:02:27.319 --> 02:02:32.079 green kiwi fruit and it is native to China. But 2290 02:02:32.199 --> 02:02:35.039 this is a yellow version and it's basically smooth. It 2291 02:02:35.119 --> 02:02:39.439 has very little to no fuzz. Generally, yellow flesh tends 2292 02:02:39.479 --> 02:02:42.560 to have less acid, tends to have a sweeter profile, 2293 02:02:43.199 --> 02:02:45.319 more vitamin seed. I don't know if you've seen these. 2294 02:02:45.520 --> 02:02:47.880 I've heard there at Kroger. I tasted them when I 2295 02:02:47.960 --> 02:02:49.880 was in there's a red one now. 2296 02:02:49.920 --> 02:02:51.319 Oh, you gave me a few from the lab, but 2297 02:02:52.199 --> 02:02:52.920 they were all yellow. 2298 02:02:53.119 --> 02:02:56.239 Okay, yeah, there is a red one now. When I 2299 02:02:56.319 --> 02:02:58.720 was in New Zealand setting kiwi fruit in twenty eighteen, 2300 02:02:58.800 --> 02:03:01.439 I got to taste it. It was or less experimental. 2301 02:03:01.520 --> 02:03:03.960 Now they're apparently in the on the shelves here, and 2302 02:03:04.039 --> 02:03:06.600 that's a red version, red flesh version of the golden kiwi. 2303 02:03:06.640 --> 02:03:08.319 All right, So we have trouble with kiwis and a 2304 02:03:08.399 --> 02:03:11.399 lot that is fluctuating temperatures big time. So what's the 2305 02:03:11.399 --> 02:03:13.880 difference between a golden kiwi and a regular kiwi in 2306 02:03:14.000 --> 02:03:15.479 terms of trying to get it to live here. 2307 02:03:16.079 --> 02:03:17.560 Well, the good news is for all of us who 2308 02:03:17.720 --> 02:03:21.640 prefer golden kiwi based on my research, and I've worked 2309 02:03:21.720 --> 02:03:23.920 a lot with Dave Preach at SFA on this too, 2310 02:03:24.119 --> 02:03:28.079 we're partners in crime on this research. But the gold 2311 02:03:28.199 --> 02:03:30.920 is actually much better adapted to us than the green. 2312 02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:35.079 Why so, the issue with kiwi is cold heartiness. If 2313 02:03:35.119 --> 02:03:38.159 you haven't seen it, think with steria, okay, with steria 2314 02:03:38.239 --> 02:03:42.079 on steroids. It's a big deciduous vine. The twines around 2315 02:03:42.600 --> 02:03:44.560 in Alabama where they do a lot of research, they 2316 02:03:44.640 --> 02:03:47.560 call them cut zoo. Don't worry, they're not invasive like that. 2317 02:03:49.119 --> 02:03:51.439 But this is so trellis would almost be like a 2318 02:03:51.640 --> 02:03:56.039 roof of of something overhead. Yes, that they're growing on 2319 02:03:56.119 --> 02:03:56.840 a flat top. 2320 02:03:57.000 --> 02:03:58.479 They want to be flat more or less. 2321 02:03:58.720 --> 02:04:01.119 Yeah, yes, not like a you're gonna have to have 2322 02:04:01.199 --> 02:04:03.239 a really beefed up grape trellis if you want to, 2323 02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:05.520 if you want to do that. But but yeah, so 2324 02:04:05.560 --> 02:04:10.880 woody vine. And we've seen measured cold heartiness below zero fahrenheit. 2325 02:04:11.000 --> 02:04:13.800 The problem is they've got to be like Skip and 2326 02:04:13.880 --> 02:04:16.000 I were talking about they've got to be asleep. They 2327 02:04:16.079 --> 02:04:19.960 have to really be well hardened off. So I've also 2328 02:04:20.159 --> 02:04:23.680 seen plants killed to the ground, young plants by twenty 2329 02:04:23.800 --> 02:04:26.840 five fahrenheit just because it was in the fall. They 2330 02:04:26.880 --> 02:04:30.039 were not ready. They were going full throttle, full steam ahead. 2331 02:04:30.560 --> 02:04:33.640 That plant wasn't conditioned and it got hit by an 2332 02:04:33.680 --> 02:04:35.880 early hard freeze and killed to the ground. 2333 02:04:36.079 --> 02:04:39.079 Yeah. Boy, when that happened to creat myrtles up in 2334 02:04:39.199 --> 02:04:42.279 the am area, I was shocked because it was myrtles 2335 02:04:42.359 --> 02:04:44.680 or bread up north of Washington, d C. 2336 02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:45.640 Twenty twenty one. 2337 02:04:45.680 --> 02:04:46.319 Did you do that? 2338 02:04:46.760 --> 02:04:46.960 Yeah? 2339 02:04:47.199 --> 02:04:52.119 So is this a golden kiwis typically grafted or un rated? 2340 02:04:52.600 --> 02:04:55.880 Uh, they're usually grafted commercially, like in New Zealand and 2341 02:04:56.319 --> 02:04:58.520 in Chile. They're going to be grafted onto a green 2342 02:04:58.680 --> 02:05:03.680 kiwi roots to However, I'm actually advocating if you're going 2343 02:05:03.720 --> 02:05:05.680 to try them here to grow them own rooted. They 2344 02:05:05.760 --> 02:05:10.159 do root pretty easily from cuttings, okay, because it's the 2345 02:05:10.239 --> 02:05:13.359 green key that is actually really susceptible to that to 2346 02:05:13.479 --> 02:05:16.720 that freeze. Okay, the gold tends to go to sleep earlier. 2347 02:05:16.720 --> 02:05:19.399 It didn't stay up and party late into the night 2348 02:05:19.479 --> 02:05:20.079 into the fall. 2349 02:05:21.479 --> 02:05:24.279 Yeah, good. Well, we're gonna hold that thought. I will 2350 02:05:24.359 --> 02:05:26.039 probably come back to those. We've got a couple of 2351 02:05:26.119 --> 02:05:27.800 callers on the line. Ruthie, you'll be first when we 2352 02:05:27.920 --> 02:05:33.840 come back. Hang on, folks, lots about fruit today. Welcome 2353 02:05:33.880 --> 02:05:35.359 back to the Garden Line. Good to have you with us. 2354 02:05:35.560 --> 02:05:37.520 If you'd like to give me a call. I'm with 2355 02:05:37.720 --> 02:05:41.600 doctor Tim Hartman today talking fruit. Uh seven one three 2356 02:05:41.720 --> 02:05:43.920 two one two K t r H. We're gonna go 2357 02:05:43.960 --> 02:05:46.720 out to Humble now and talk to Ruthie. Hey, Ruthie, 2358 02:05:46.960 --> 02:05:47.840 welcome to the Garden Line. 2359 02:05:48.159 --> 02:05:50.520 More, good morning, Thank you so much. 2360 02:05:50.600 --> 02:05:52.560 And I do love that song though it's so cute. 2361 02:05:53.920 --> 02:05:57.079 I am calling about my low quots I've had forever 2362 02:05:57.199 --> 02:06:00.199 and they grow just really really well. There's specially to 2363 02:06:00.279 --> 02:06:04.079 me because it's something that's kind of like a I 2364 02:06:04.119 --> 02:06:06.680 don't know, an heirloom. I guess I've had them since 2365 02:06:06.720 --> 02:06:11.560 I was a little kid in Victoria. But anyway, about 2366 02:06:11.640 --> 02:06:13.960 three or four, about three or four years ago, I 2367 02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:18.319 lost my kumquat tree to this strange looking thing. I 2368 02:06:18.439 --> 02:06:20.960 learned a new word called fraft. There was these little 2369 02:06:21.000 --> 02:06:25.000 white things sticking out of my kumquat, and I didn't 2370 02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:25.319 know what to. 2371 02:06:25.359 --> 02:06:25.720 Do with it? 2372 02:06:25.840 --> 02:06:26.880 And were they anyway? 2373 02:06:27.119 --> 02:06:33.199 Were they like toothpicks, Yeah, like toothpicks sticking Okay, yes, 2374 02:06:33.439 --> 02:06:34.680 like little white toothticks. 2375 02:06:34.920 --> 02:06:38.560 And I just knowed it about two months ago on 2376 02:06:38.720 --> 02:06:41.600 my low quat. Is there any way to say that. 2377 02:06:41.760 --> 02:06:46.319 I heard the word promethrin uh and tried that. But 2378 02:06:46.760 --> 02:06:47.880 it's looking kind of. 2379 02:06:47.960 --> 02:06:51.880 Sad because of where they live and what they feed on. 2380 02:06:52.039 --> 02:06:55.079 It's very difficult. But I'm going to have doctor Hartmann comment, 2381 02:06:55.479 --> 02:06:58.840 We've got a question about Ambrosia beetles on a low quat. 2382 02:06:58.880 --> 02:07:02.279 They lost another different kind of plant to them, but 2383 02:07:02.399 --> 02:07:04.720 it's definitely the tipics sticking out. 2384 02:07:05.560 --> 02:07:09.000 Yeah, sorry, sorry to hear that to start off. Yes, 2385 02:07:09.119 --> 02:07:15.399 Skip mentioned that's a tricky one because they really minor. 2386 02:07:15.479 --> 02:07:16.720 I'm not in them all. I just don't want to. 2387 02:07:17.119 --> 02:07:18.119 I want to offer that up. 2388 02:07:18.199 --> 02:07:22.960 But they are actually uh, not really feeding on the 2389 02:07:23.000 --> 02:07:25.680 wood itself, as my understanding, They're actually feeding on a 2390 02:07:25.760 --> 02:07:28.720 fungus that that grows in those galleries, those tunnels that 2391 02:07:28.840 --> 02:07:30.319 they make, and it's that fungus. 2392 02:07:33.000 --> 02:07:33.199 Yeah. 2393 02:07:33.439 --> 02:07:37.640 Yeah, So for that reason, I don't think that the 2394 02:07:37.680 --> 02:07:41.880 stemic insecticide like a metacloprid uh dinoteph ran are going 2395 02:07:41.960 --> 02:07:47.319 to be that effective. There may be some topical insecticides 2396 02:07:47.319 --> 02:07:50.880 you could spray to try to keep them, you know, 2397 02:07:50.960 --> 02:07:54.359 prevent them from getting into a healthy tree. Now, most 2398 02:07:54.439 --> 02:07:57.800 of these bores and bro should be to Wallso now 2399 02:07:57.840 --> 02:08:01.079 they will sometimes attack health the trees, but they tend 2400 02:08:01.159 --> 02:08:04.319 to really go after they they kind of pick the uh, 2401 02:08:05.079 --> 02:08:07.760 the straddlers and the herd. They go after the the old, 2402 02:08:07.920 --> 02:08:11.680 that the weak or the really young trees. And so 2403 02:08:11.800 --> 02:08:13.800 just trying to keep your tree as healthy as possible. 2404 02:08:14.239 --> 02:08:14.800 That that's it. 2405 02:08:15.239 --> 02:08:15.720 I think that. 2406 02:08:19.039 --> 02:08:22.079 Yeah, well that one got a little distressed from from 2407 02:08:22.119 --> 02:08:22.720 the freeze. 2408 02:08:24.600 --> 02:08:28.199 Yeah. Well I've seen those going to growers fields, you know, 2409 02:08:28.840 --> 02:08:30.760 nursery growers that are growing containers, and. 2410 02:08:30.840 --> 02:08:33.680 It just the will to have a stated golden Kiwi 2411 02:08:33.760 --> 02:08:34.840 free even too golden. 2412 02:08:35.199 --> 02:08:37.960 Okay, well ruthy uh didn't give you a lot of 2413 02:08:38.359 --> 02:08:39.199 silver bullets. 2414 02:08:40.880 --> 02:08:43.159 What should I do with the tree? Are they alive 2415 02:08:43.239 --> 02:08:46.039 in there? And and they'll like you know, go through 2416 02:08:46.119 --> 02:08:50.039 some kind of a larva pupa something stage and lay 2417 02:08:50.079 --> 02:08:51.720 eggs and go to another tree. 2418 02:08:51.840 --> 02:08:55.720 Yeah, they do, they do have the life cycle. Well, yeah, 2419 02:08:56.000 --> 02:08:58.520 you could, I mean you could burn the branches that 2420 02:08:58.640 --> 02:09:00.640 have it. It's not going to be they're not there, 2421 02:09:00.760 --> 02:09:02.960 you know. Obviously they showed up from where was it, 2422 02:09:03.079 --> 02:09:06.279 you know, on this tree. So but I wouldn't I 2423 02:09:06.319 --> 02:09:10.239 wouldn't just leave it. Yeah, you could do that, all right, 2424 02:09:12.680 --> 02:09:14.000 Thank you, thank you so much. 2425 02:09:15.319 --> 02:09:15.680 By bye. 2426 02:09:16.039 --> 02:09:19.199 Okay, bye bye. We're going to now go out to 2427 02:09:20.239 --> 02:09:23.239 uh Tomball and talk to Keith. Hello, Keith, welcome to 2428 02:09:23.319 --> 02:09:23.800 garden Line. 2429 02:09:25.119 --> 02:09:27.479 Hey, good morning, guys, thanks for taking my call. I 2430 02:09:27.560 --> 02:09:31.399 have a couple of meer lemons and they're in large 2431 02:09:31.520 --> 02:09:34.840 pots and they every spring they bloom beautifully, they start 2432 02:09:34.920 --> 02:09:38.039 to sprout fruit, but when the fruit gets to be 2433 02:09:38.119 --> 02:09:43.159 about a quarter of an inch, they just disappear over 2434 02:09:43.800 --> 02:09:46.960 a matter of a few days that I know something's 2435 02:09:47.159 --> 02:09:49.399 eating them. I don't know if it's geckos, because it's 2436 02:09:49.399 --> 02:09:51.319 got lots of geckos running around. I don't know if 2437 02:09:51.359 --> 02:09:54.479 it's rodents, rats or mice. Is there anything that you 2438 02:09:54.560 --> 02:09:57.920 guys can recommend that I can keep that from happening? 2439 02:09:58.359 --> 02:10:02.279 I bet I had one hundred flowers, Yeah, two lemons. 2440 02:10:02.359 --> 02:10:07.520 Now, okay, Well, Keith's got my lemon and a blue 2441 02:10:07.560 --> 02:10:09.600 black crazy one hundred flowers and you've got two lemons. 2442 02:10:09.600 --> 02:10:11.359 They hit about a quarter anch and fall off. And 2443 02:10:11.680 --> 02:10:15.680 I know, uh, citrus will abort fruit that's not pollinated, 2444 02:10:15.720 --> 02:10:16.760 but any thoughts. 2445 02:10:16.479 --> 02:10:20.239 On them, they will go through several different waves of 2446 02:10:20.399 --> 02:10:20.960 fruit drop. 2447 02:10:21.680 --> 02:10:23.279 I'm sorry, go ahead to say that, Keith. 2448 02:10:24.239 --> 02:10:27.479 They're not being they're not being dropped. You're being eaten 2449 02:10:28.600 --> 02:10:29.199 by a pet. 2450 02:10:29.319 --> 02:10:32.960 Okay, he said there, he's not finding dropped fruit that 2451 02:10:33.079 --> 02:10:35.760 it's being it's he thinks something's come in and eating 2452 02:10:35.840 --> 02:10:39.319 because they're gone. Yeah, we need to go over there 2453 02:10:39.319 --> 02:10:43.079 at night with a game cam up or some Yeah. 2454 02:10:44.279 --> 02:10:47.520 I don't know anything that would just come in and 2455 02:10:47.640 --> 02:10:50.159 nip the fruit. Are you seeing damage to the ends 2456 02:10:50.239 --> 02:10:52.079 of shoots or leaves or anything. 2457 02:10:52.199 --> 02:10:54.439 Yeah, yeah, definitely, they're just they're just like they're a 2458 02:10:54.439 --> 02:10:55.159 little sald off. 2459 02:10:58.199 --> 02:10:59.920 The leaves and stems are so. 2460 02:11:01.640 --> 02:11:05.800 Well, the stem where the fruit bud is just just 2461 02:11:05.920 --> 02:11:08.319 completely like it's been snapped off. 2462 02:11:08.920 --> 02:11:10.239 The shoots still there on the grounds. 2463 02:11:11.000 --> 02:11:12.960 Okay, so they're not shoots missing. 2464 02:11:13.199 --> 02:11:16.760 Also, it's just the fruit that's missing fruit. 2465 02:11:16.880 --> 02:11:22.640 Yes, Okay, gotcha on that one, Keith. We're not going 2466 02:11:22.720 --> 02:11:24.840 to have an answer, are you on this? I don't 2467 02:11:24.880 --> 02:11:28.920 know what would do it other than mischief. There's not 2468 02:11:29.239 --> 02:11:31.640 a pest and we've been doing this for a long 2469 02:11:31.760 --> 02:11:35.239 time that goes around and just nips the tiny lemons 2470 02:11:35.239 --> 02:11:38.359 off a tree. Now, okay, let me throw one thing 2471 02:11:38.439 --> 02:11:41.520 out there. I don't know if squirrels or rats would 2472 02:11:41.560 --> 02:11:43.479 do something like that. I don't know why they went 2473 02:11:43.640 --> 02:11:47.279 road would be my only guess. That's our best guess. 2474 02:11:47.560 --> 02:11:51.079 So if you wanted to try dealing with it like 2475 02:11:52.399 --> 02:11:56.880 a rodent problem, getting rid of rodents, that might help 2476 02:11:57.199 --> 02:12:00.840 you might. Yeah, so that'd be a shot. And that's 2477 02:12:01.079 --> 02:12:02.199 that's a shot from the hip. 2478 02:12:02.239 --> 02:12:07.119 Okay, okay, all right, thank you, all right, you bet 2479 02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:08.520 appreciate that call. 2480 02:12:09.000 --> 02:12:13.039 Now, Mark in Brenham, Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line. 2481 02:12:14.199 --> 02:12:15.239 Thank you for taking my call. 2482 02:12:15.399 --> 02:12:16.439 Two quick questions. 2483 02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:17.079 I have a. 2484 02:12:18.880 --> 02:12:22.960 Nectarine tree and a low quat tree and they both 2485 02:12:23.199 --> 02:12:24.399 fruit like crazy. 2486 02:12:24.720 --> 02:12:24.840 Uh. 2487 02:12:25.319 --> 02:12:27.399 A low quat we typically can get some fruit off of. 2488 02:12:27.600 --> 02:12:28.840 My daughter makes jelly out of it. 2489 02:12:29.479 --> 02:12:32.920 But the nectarine tree something is like like stinging it, 2490 02:12:34.000 --> 02:12:37.119 boring holes in the fruit. And I'm looking to know 2491 02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:40.760 two things. What can I do to really stimulate production 2492 02:12:40.920 --> 02:12:46.119 even more? And also what is a good organic insecticide 2493 02:12:46.239 --> 02:12:47.359 to spray that fruit with? 2494 02:12:47.600 --> 02:12:48.560 Once it's set. 2495 02:12:50.159 --> 02:12:52.399 All right, Mark's got a question about it. He's got 2496 02:12:52.479 --> 02:12:56.079 nectarines and loquats said, fruit like crazy loqus getting some 2497 02:12:56.159 --> 02:12:58.119 fruit off of it. But the nectarines, you said, do 2498 02:12:58.159 --> 02:13:00.600 you feel like something stinging the fruit? Is the fruit 2499 02:13:00.880 --> 02:13:03.399 kind of turning dimpled because of that? 2500 02:13:04.760 --> 02:13:08.239 It actually the fruit will get you know, a small 2501 02:13:08.319 --> 02:13:09.279 baseball size. 2502 02:13:09.560 --> 02:13:12.439 And then it's when I go out to try and 2503 02:13:12.680 --> 02:13:14.560 pick it, you know, trying to let it ripen on 2504 02:13:14.640 --> 02:13:15.920 the tree where it gets a little softer. 2505 02:13:16.279 --> 02:13:19.680 There are actually holes in it that that are rotted. 2506 02:13:19.760 --> 02:13:23.520 Around these holes, it appears that that something is either 2507 02:13:24.079 --> 02:13:27.279 again stinging it or boring into it and eating the fruit. 2508 02:13:27.359 --> 02:13:28.119 I'm just not sure. 2509 02:13:28.760 --> 02:13:31.319 Then the fruit, have you split any of them open 2510 02:13:31.439 --> 02:13:33.840 and looked for Have you split any of them open 2511 02:13:33.920 --> 02:13:37.279 and looked for a little worm around the seed? You know? 2512 02:13:37.399 --> 02:13:42.359 Skip, I haven't, okay, As I said, Unfortunately, I go 2513 02:13:42.520 --> 02:13:44.880 out there one day it's pristine and beautiful and it 2514 02:13:44.920 --> 02:13:47.079 seems like I'm trying to let ripe it on the tree, 2515 02:13:47.079 --> 02:13:49.199 and then the next next day or two, it's all 2516 02:13:49.279 --> 02:13:49.760 on the ground. 2517 02:13:51.439 --> 02:13:54.680 Something is bored into these doctor Harmon and uh, it 2518 02:13:54.840 --> 02:13:59.199 just sounds like plumb corculio to me, But do you 2519 02:13:59.239 --> 02:14:01.720 know anything else from the outside of a peach just 2520 02:14:01.840 --> 02:14:03.000 boor straight on into it. 2521 02:14:03.159 --> 02:14:05.119 It kind of sounds like peach twig or maybe they 2522 02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:07.119 will go on the fruit itself. Yeah, they will go 2523 02:14:07.239 --> 02:14:11.359 straight in, yeah, before pit hardening, peach twig bor and 2524 02:14:11.359 --> 02:14:12.920 it'll also attack the shoots too. 2525 02:14:13.479 --> 02:14:18.640 Okay, so there you go, that's a possibility. Uh, you 2526 02:14:18.720 --> 02:14:20.920 know you're not going to want to spray your fruit 2527 02:14:21.119 --> 02:14:22.960 at that stage. Are you trying to deal with it 2528 02:14:23.119 --> 02:14:25.560 at a time or is it when they're young or well, 2529 02:14:25.600 --> 02:14:28.239 there's almost a baseball side. I mean you used toy 2530 02:14:28.239 --> 02:14:31.039 attacked a little bit earlier. But I mean we do 2531 02:14:31.600 --> 02:14:34.239 for you know, peach and nectarine, they are a tricky crop. 2532 02:14:34.319 --> 02:14:36.520 They are a high input crop, and so we do 2533 02:14:36.880 --> 02:14:40.159 typically if we're really trying to maximize production, we'll do 2534 02:14:40.239 --> 02:14:43.119 a cover spray every ten to fourteen days, a fung 2535 02:14:43.199 --> 02:14:45.800 aside and insect aside. Now you don't have to do that, 2536 02:14:45.920 --> 02:14:49.279 but again that's if you want maximum yield and fruit 2537 02:14:49.359 --> 02:14:52.479 quality and everything. Yeah. Paches have a list of enemies, 2538 02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:55.359 including a plumb curculio, which when you open that fruit 2539 02:14:55.399 --> 02:14:58.159 you'll find a little worm inside the extra protein. Yeah, 2540 02:14:58.319 --> 02:15:01.640 extra protein for you. The stink bugs will get on 2541 02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:03.920 them and mess with the fruit. We've got leaf diseases 2542 02:15:04.000 --> 02:15:08.640 and other things. But if you're up there in the 2543 02:15:09.439 --> 02:15:11.760 Brenna mar you can talk to your AGR Life Extension 2544 02:15:11.800 --> 02:15:15.800 office picture too. Yeah, and you could also send me 2545 02:15:15.840 --> 02:15:17.880 a picture if you want to do that. Yeah, I 2546 02:15:17.920 --> 02:15:20.119 can pass that along. Make sure, in fact, if you 2547 02:15:20.159 --> 02:15:26.039 could do it in the next fifteen twenty minutes, we'll 2548 02:15:26.079 --> 02:15:27.880 take a look at it here live on the show today. 2549 02:15:28.319 --> 02:15:33.319 But if not, just unfortunately yeah, unfortunately no, but and 2550 02:15:33.399 --> 02:15:34.680 I have seen quite a few. 2551 02:15:34.920 --> 02:15:37.039 The foliage is beautiful, but as I said, the fruit 2552 02:15:37.159 --> 02:15:39.439 just are getting zapped, and I have seen quite a 2553 02:15:39.479 --> 02:15:40.119 few stink. 2554 02:15:39.960 --> 02:15:41.479 Bugs in and around. 2555 02:15:41.720 --> 02:15:43.760 So yeah, but I will try to get a picture 2556 02:15:43.800 --> 02:15:45.560 of the fruit if there's any left on the ground, 2557 02:15:45.760 --> 02:15:48.520 and I will get an email and send it to you. 2558 02:15:48.560 --> 02:15:51.680 Skip all right, Yeah, show me the outside of the 2559 02:15:51.720 --> 02:15:54.319 fruit and then cut Yeah, show me the outside of 2560 02:15:54.359 --> 02:15:56.319 the fruit and then cut it open and let's look 2561 02:15:56.359 --> 02:15:58.760 in the inside. See if you've seen any worms inside, 2562 02:15:59.439 --> 02:16:02.880 and make sure of those two. Thanks, thanks a lot, Mark, 2563 02:16:02.960 --> 02:16:06.000 I appreciate your call. Yeah, we're going to go to 2564 02:16:06.079 --> 02:16:09.520 break here Liam in Brazoria. We will come to you 2565 02:16:09.920 --> 02:16:12.479 first when we get with this news break in about 2566 02:16:12.560 --> 02:16:15.319 ten seconds, so just hang on for the rest of you. 2567 02:16:15.439 --> 02:16:17.640 Seven one three two one two K t R H. 2568 02:16:17.760 --> 02:16:21.239 We'd like to visit with doctor Hartman about fruit. Hey, 2569 02:16:21.359 --> 02:16:23.199 welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us. 2570 02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:25.800 You would like to give us a call. I'm visiting 2571 02:16:25.960 --> 02:16:29.479 with doctor Tim Hartman, who is an assistant professor tex 2572 02:16:29.560 --> 02:16:32.399 A and M Horticulture Department and state wide fruit specialist, 2573 02:16:32.920 --> 02:16:35.000 and we're talking about every kind of fruit you can imagine, 2574 02:16:35.159 --> 02:16:38.600 entering all kinds of calls about fruit questions. Uh, and 2575 02:16:38.680 --> 02:16:40.520 I'm going to go straight to the calls. We're going 2576 02:16:40.600 --> 02:16:44.520 to head out to Brazoria and talk to Liam this morning. Hello, Liam, 2577 02:16:44.559 --> 02:16:49.159 Welcome to Garden Line. Patty skip. 2578 02:16:51.440 --> 02:16:52.399 A contry. 2579 02:16:54.520 --> 02:16:55.559 A few years ago, the. 2580 02:16:57.120 --> 02:17:00.360 Cawer company come in and put a guy whire. 2581 02:17:00.959 --> 02:17:02.760 We're almost right in the middle. 2582 02:17:03.079 --> 02:17:08.840 Run over a pecan tree that was okay uh uh 2583 02:17:09.760 --> 02:17:13.760 A friend of mine gave me and uh it was 2584 02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:18.120 a graph tree, and I was wanting to know if 2585 02:17:18.200 --> 02:17:23.639 I could take a branch of it and actually get uh. 2586 02:17:25.280 --> 02:17:29.159 Off of it and start rooting it from off of 2587 02:17:29.239 --> 02:17:29.639 a limb. 2588 02:17:30.239 --> 02:17:34.200 Yeah, okay, well, uh earlier I don't know if you're 2589 02:17:34.239 --> 02:17:39.040 listening to the show, but okay, we were talking about 2590 02:17:39.120 --> 02:17:42.120 juvenile versus mature and how we want would to be 2591 02:17:42.440 --> 02:17:44.159 mature in order to be able to bear in this 2592 02:17:44.319 --> 02:17:48.520 case pecans or not. But it is essentially impossible to 2593 02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:51.639 root a cutting from a pecan. It just you're not 2594 02:17:51.719 --> 02:17:54.079 going to have success. But what you can do if 2595 02:17:54.159 --> 02:17:56.920 you go to the Aggie Horticulture website and look at 2596 02:17:56.959 --> 02:17:59.680 the fruit and nut resources. It's a little click right 2597 02:17:59.719 --> 02:18:02.360 there on the front page. You will see in the 2598 02:18:02.479 --> 02:18:05.319 section of all the stuff on fruit trees there's something 2599 02:18:05.440 --> 02:18:10.360 called the inlay and four flap graph methods. And so 2600 02:18:10.600 --> 02:18:12.959 if you got a seedling and plant it, just get 2601 02:18:12.959 --> 02:18:15.600 a pecan somewhere, plant them in a pot, do several 2602 02:18:15.639 --> 02:18:17.159 pots so you make sure you get one out of it, 2603 02:18:17.760 --> 02:18:20.959 and when they get up to a certain size, you 2604 02:18:21.120 --> 02:18:24.840 could then take a bud i mean a stick off 2605 02:18:24.920 --> 02:18:28.000 of your pecan tree in the winter and graft it 2606 02:18:28.120 --> 02:18:31.959 onto the seedling tree that you plant, so you could 2607 02:18:32.079 --> 02:18:34.559 propagate it that way, but you need to watch the 2608 02:18:34.680 --> 02:18:37.879 videos and take some time. It's not super easy to do. 2609 02:18:38.040 --> 02:18:42.280 But it's very doable. I've done it myself. Okay, Well 2610 02:18:42.360 --> 02:18:46.440 thanks all right, sir, you bet, thanks, thanks for the call. 2611 02:18:46.479 --> 02:18:50.760 Appreciate that. So we were talking about the golden kiwis 2612 02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:53.440 a minute ago, and a question I had was about 2613 02:18:53.600 --> 02:18:55.760 the chilling hours. You know it with so many fruit, 2614 02:18:56.159 --> 02:18:59.920 that's very important, and so what about those chilling hours 2615 02:19:00.079 --> 02:19:02.200 on that? Where can you plant golden kiwis around? 2616 02:19:03.520 --> 02:19:05.840 So that's that's the hard part, because you've got the 2617 02:19:05.840 --> 02:19:08.840 cold hardiness in, You've got the chilling issue. So for 2618 02:19:08.920 --> 02:19:12.959 a plant that is modestly cold hardy kiwi Also, most 2619 02:19:12.959 --> 02:19:15.479 of the varieties have a pretty high chilling requirement. So 2620 02:19:15.879 --> 02:19:19.360 by high, I mean we're talking seven hundred to one 2621 02:19:19.399 --> 02:19:25.360 thousand hours. The Auburn varieties has that really both totally. 2622 02:19:25.479 --> 02:19:31.440 Both gold Golden Dragon, AU Golden Dragon AU Golden Sunshine 2623 02:19:31.520 --> 02:19:34.239 Dragon has done the best for us. It's an Auburn 2624 02:19:34.360 --> 02:19:38.319 University variety, but it needs at least seven hundred hours 2625 02:19:38.440 --> 02:19:42.440 to bear. And so you know you're looking at being 2626 02:19:42.479 --> 02:19:44.840 pretty far north, you know, probably toward I twenty and 2627 02:19:44.920 --> 02:19:48.040 of course then you got that cold hardinessue cold heartiness issue. 2628 02:19:48.399 --> 02:19:51.600 I still think dragon Golden Dragon and it's a female. 2629 02:19:51.760 --> 02:19:54.399 They're separate male and female plants. You would need the 2630 02:19:54.639 --> 02:20:00.200 male c K Dash three, also known as meteor. That's 2631 02:20:00.239 --> 02:20:03.479 the mail the pollenizer that goes with it. I still 2632 02:20:03.520 --> 02:20:06.360 think those are the best for Texas. Now we are 2633 02:20:06.600 --> 02:20:09.600 testing some lower chill varieties. We think they only need 2634 02:20:09.680 --> 02:20:13.639 about three to four hundred hours. Unfortunately, they're not available 2635 02:20:13.680 --> 02:20:16.520 to the public yet, but maybe that'll hopefully that'll change 2636 02:20:16.520 --> 02:20:17.600 in the next several years. 2637 02:20:18.840 --> 02:20:22.159 Okay, well, that's a lot of good information on this. 2638 02:20:22.879 --> 02:20:25.559 By the way, we're talking about unusual fruits and stuff 2639 02:20:25.559 --> 02:20:27.799 that I just want to make it really clear that 2640 02:20:28.000 --> 02:20:31.000 on these kind of obscure things. Please, if you are 2641 02:20:31.040 --> 02:20:34.000 thinking about commercial fruit production, we're not talking to you 2642 02:20:34.360 --> 02:20:37.239 when we're talking about these. We're talking about homeowners that 2643 02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:39.719 are wanting to go to great links to try to 2644 02:20:39.760 --> 02:20:41.959 grow something in the house. Doctor Hartman and I were 2645 02:20:42.000 --> 02:20:44.000 just talking a while ago about, you know, in the 2646 02:20:44.040 --> 02:20:46.399 backyard you can do all kinds of things that are 2647 02:20:46.440 --> 02:20:50.920 not practical commercially, and so I just want people to 2648 02:20:51.040 --> 02:20:53.440 not go away thinking, oh, I live in Huntsville, I'm 2649 02:20:53.479 --> 02:20:57.079 going to plan an avocado tree. Well, no, don't do that. 2650 02:20:57.559 --> 02:21:01.399 Go to the store. They have avocados there. Now back 2651 02:21:01.440 --> 02:21:04.600 to the phones to Marty in Fairfield. Hey Marty, welcome 2652 02:21:04.639 --> 02:21:05.159 to Guardline. 2653 02:21:06.520 --> 02:21:07.920 Good morning she both of you. 2654 02:21:08.440 --> 02:21:11.079 Hey, I have I got the tail end of your 2655 02:21:11.319 --> 02:21:17.440 discussion on blackberries. But I was donated a punka BlackBerry. 2656 02:21:17.840 --> 02:21:18.680 It's in a pot. 2657 02:21:19.799 --> 02:21:22.000 He told me to put it in my garden that 2658 02:21:22.120 --> 02:21:24.639 I don't have a room for it. How big does 2659 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:27.879 it get? Can I put it in a big pot? 2660 02:21:28.840 --> 02:21:29.920 And what do I see? 2661 02:21:29.959 --> 02:21:30.000 It? 2662 02:21:31.920 --> 02:21:32.040 All? 2663 02:21:32.120 --> 02:21:32.239 Right? 2664 02:21:32.319 --> 02:21:32.680 Here we go? 2665 02:21:33.200 --> 02:21:33.319 Uh? 2666 02:21:34.000 --> 02:21:36.879 Punkah BlackBerry was given in a pot stowing a pot? 2667 02:21:37.120 --> 02:21:39.000 Can she grow it in a bigger pot? 2668 02:21:39.120 --> 02:21:39.200 Yes? 2669 02:21:40.000 --> 02:21:41.680 And you how do you feed it? How do you 2670 02:21:41.760 --> 02:21:44.639 take care of it to have success? On a punka? Yeah? 2671 02:21:44.840 --> 02:21:49.280 So blackberries they can be grown in a pot. They're 2672 02:21:49.319 --> 02:21:52.239 not a woody plant. They're not, you know, a shrub 2673 02:21:52.360 --> 02:21:56.600 or tree. I think in general twenty twenty five gallon 2674 02:21:56.719 --> 02:21:59.239 pots should be adequate. Doesn't mean you have to provide 2675 02:21:59.280 --> 02:22:03.840 that size right now, but but ultimately that's what's going 2676 02:22:03.920 --> 02:22:07.040 to be best. I would fertilize it with a slower 2677 02:22:07.120 --> 02:22:10.360 least fertilizer. You could use Osma code or something like that. 2678 02:22:11.040 --> 02:22:13.760 Most of these plants, including blackberries, most of these fruiting 2679 02:22:13.799 --> 02:22:19.479 plants primarily need nitrogen. We also want to fertilize pretty 2680 02:22:19.520 --> 02:22:23.360 early in the spring and then not really fertilized after 2681 02:22:23.719 --> 02:22:27.680 after June. We're talking about acclamation hardiness. We want those 2682 02:22:27.719 --> 02:22:30.079 plants to kind of slow down after June, not be 2683 02:22:30.200 --> 02:22:31.319 really juicy going. 2684 02:22:31.239 --> 02:22:33.840 Into the fall. Not as big of a deal for BlackBerry. 2685 02:22:34.040 --> 02:22:38.520 But now, what about in a container for tralising a punko? 2686 02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:42.680 What would you do because it's got some long vigorous shoots. 2687 02:22:43.479 --> 02:22:45.559 Yeah, punka is kind of unique in that it's it's 2688 02:22:45.719 --> 02:22:49.239 not a really vigorous plant. It has it's pretty dwarfy 2689 02:22:50.000 --> 02:22:53.040 the internet, the internetes. The buds are really close together, 2690 02:22:53.520 --> 02:22:57.200 so it's pretty erect on its own. So tipping, we 2691 02:22:57.479 --> 02:23:00.639 we recommend just pinching the tip out of the really 2692 02:23:00.760 --> 02:23:02.319 tall shoots induced branching. 2693 02:23:02.440 --> 02:23:02.959 That'll help. 2694 02:23:04.079 --> 02:23:06.200 But you could make a trail us out of cattle 2695 02:23:06.280 --> 02:23:10.040 panel or something like that. Even a tomato cage, what 2696 02:23:10.159 --> 02:23:12.280 are the real the largest tomato cage you could get 2697 02:23:13.079 --> 02:23:14.399 would probably at least help. 2698 02:23:14.559 --> 02:23:16.799 You'd have to secure it to the pot and then 2699 02:23:16.920 --> 02:23:18.879 be ready when the wind blows for that pot not 2700 02:23:19.000 --> 02:23:19.520 to blow over. 2701 02:23:19.760 --> 02:23:23.440 Yeah, yeah, so on your pot, make sure that you've 2702 02:23:23.520 --> 02:23:25.520 got some weight in there or maybe a little bit 2703 02:23:25.520 --> 02:23:27.280 of sand or something in that substrate. 2704 02:23:27.719 --> 02:23:29.479 All right, Marty, did that answer it? 2705 02:23:29.879 --> 02:23:30.079 Yeah? 2706 02:23:30.799 --> 02:23:31.920 Yes, thank you so much. 2707 02:23:32.280 --> 02:23:32.600 Good one. 2708 02:23:34.280 --> 02:23:36.600 All right, Hey, I've never had a punk BlackBerry, but 2709 02:23:36.639 --> 02:23:38.760 I'm so looking forward to half of the ones you grow. 2710 02:23:38.920 --> 02:23:40.879 Thank you, Thank you ahead of time for doing it. 2711 02:23:41.600 --> 02:23:46.120 Bye bye, bye bye. Oh, don't quite have enough time 2712 02:23:46.200 --> 02:23:48.719 to take Tom here before we go to a break, 2713 02:23:48.959 --> 02:23:52.319 Tom and Montgomery. I tell you what, let's start. Let's 2714 02:23:52.319 --> 02:23:53.920 start this call and see if we may have to 2715 02:23:53.959 --> 02:23:57.280 carry you over. Hey, Tom, welcome to garden line. Hey you, 2716 02:23:57.319 --> 02:23:57.959 good morning guys. 2717 02:23:58.200 --> 02:23:59.120 Just a quick question. 2718 02:23:59.280 --> 02:24:03.040 God yellows washed cercodillo squash lees are beautiful, growing just nicely. 2719 02:24:03.120 --> 02:24:06.239 But my fruit seems to come out about let's just 2720 02:24:06.280 --> 02:24:08.159 call it three inches, and then they start to shrivel up. 2721 02:24:08.280 --> 02:24:10.280 I just can't get them to go past that. 2722 02:24:12.280 --> 02:24:15.440 Okay, do you see whiskery growth out on the belly 2723 02:24:15.479 --> 02:24:21.360 button under the fruit or not? You may not be 2724 02:24:21.479 --> 02:24:24.159 at the end of it, or does it, Yeah, at 2725 02:24:24.159 --> 02:24:25.840 the end of it, or does it just shrivel where 2726 02:24:25.879 --> 02:24:27.120 the bloom attached to the fruit. 2727 02:24:28.239 --> 02:24:30.799 Yeah, it starts to shrivel up, but the fruit itself. 2728 02:24:30.879 --> 02:24:32.879 I guess it starts to shrivel up as well. 2729 02:24:33.040 --> 02:24:35.040 So okay, I don't know how long. 2730 02:24:35.120 --> 02:24:36.079 So what that is. 2731 02:24:37.319 --> 02:24:40.040 Yeah, on your squash, you have separate male and female blossoms. 2732 02:24:40.200 --> 02:24:43.319 And what's happening is it's not getting pollinated or it's 2733 02:24:43.399 --> 02:24:45.280 it's not it may you know. It could be a 2734 02:24:45.360 --> 02:24:47.959 lack of bees carrying the pollen. It could be because 2735 02:24:47.959 --> 02:24:51.760 of temperatures and things. Whatever reason, it doesn't make it 2736 02:24:52.239 --> 02:24:55.840 in pollination, and it does shrivel up. Now, sometimes when 2737 02:24:55.920 --> 02:24:57.840 we have rainy weather, like we've had a lot of here, 2738 02:24:58.159 --> 02:24:59.920 and when the bloom falls off, it's like a little 2739 02:25:00.079 --> 02:25:02.079 wet wound on the end of the fruit and you'll 2740 02:25:02.120 --> 02:25:04.600 get a disease that called chow and offer a rot 2741 02:25:04.680 --> 02:25:07.799 that actually starts to rot into the fruit. But just 2742 02:25:07.879 --> 02:25:08.959 the shriveling itself. 2743 02:25:09.559 --> 02:25:09.680 Uh. 2744 02:25:09.920 --> 02:25:13.399 For for whatever reason, viable seed did not develop and 2745 02:25:13.520 --> 02:25:17.040 that and that that or has died and that squash 2746 02:25:17.159 --> 02:25:19.879 is not gonna yeah, not gonna make it for that reason. 2747 02:25:20.200 --> 02:25:21.959 So not a lot you can do other than don't 2748 02:25:22.040 --> 02:25:22.639 kill your bees. 2749 02:25:25.000 --> 02:25:31.360 Yeah you can, you out there. Yeah, I see cucumber 2750 02:25:31.399 --> 02:25:31.719 as well. 2751 02:25:32.120 --> 02:25:33.559 They seem to love the cucumber. 2752 02:25:33.559 --> 02:25:35.520 I think one bee just hopping back and forth. 2753 02:25:35.600 --> 02:25:39.360 But well, and you can go out with a little 2754 02:25:39.840 --> 02:25:43.040 you can artist paint brush. Uh, just get some pollen 2755 02:25:43.120 --> 02:25:45.280 from the male flower, take it to the female flower 2756 02:25:45.360 --> 02:25:46.959 and do that. You need to do it every morning 2757 02:25:47.040 --> 02:25:49.959 early in the morning for the blooms shrink up. 2758 02:25:50.440 --> 02:25:50.520 Uh. 2759 02:25:50.719 --> 02:25:53.200 Sometimes I'll just pick a male bloom, pull the petals 2760 02:25:53.239 --> 02:25:55.719 off and use that anther just to go around dabbing 2761 02:25:55.799 --> 02:25:58.479 it on the female blooms without the brush. But either 2762 02:25:58.520 --> 02:26:00.239 way you go about it or work. All right, sir, 2763 02:26:01.280 --> 02:26:05.680 time forth, thank you, kay, thank you, all bye. All right, folks, 2764 02:26:05.799 --> 02:26:07.559 take a quick break. We'll be right back with our 2765 02:26:07.639 --> 02:26:11.239 last short segment with doctor Hartman. All right, welcome back 2766 02:26:11.239 --> 02:26:14.120 to Guardline, folks. We got our last segment of the morning, 2767 02:26:14.239 --> 02:26:17.959 and we had been enjoying picking the brain of doctor 2768 02:26:18.079 --> 02:26:21.840 Tim Hartman. He is a Associate professor in the Department 2769 02:26:21.879 --> 02:26:23.959 of Horticulture at Texas A and M, and state wide 2770 02:26:24.000 --> 02:26:27.079 fruit specialist. He deals with commercial fruit growers all over 2771 02:26:27.200 --> 02:26:30.120 the state and does a lot of research both in 2772 02:26:30.159 --> 02:26:33.920 college station and elsewhere, looking into hey, can you grow 2773 02:26:34.040 --> 02:26:36.840 pineapple gava here? What's the best variety? And on and on. 2774 02:26:36.959 --> 02:26:39.840 We've talked about some of that already, and so it's 2775 02:26:39.920 --> 02:26:42.319 been a great opportunity to have you as a resource. 2776 02:26:42.559 --> 02:26:46.959 I appreciate that very much. Any other tip that you 2777 02:26:47.079 --> 02:26:51.239 might give a home fruit grower in general about having 2778 02:26:51.319 --> 02:26:53.600 success or it could be about a specific fruit, or 2779 02:26:53.760 --> 02:26:56.799 just in general, because people go they spent a considerable 2780 02:26:56.799 --> 02:26:59.319 amount of money on a fruit tree, and then we 2781 02:26:59.360 --> 02:27:02.600 don't want them to and disappointment. You mentioned importance of 2782 02:27:02.639 --> 02:27:04.079 sunlight and importance of drainage. 2783 02:27:04.200 --> 02:27:06.760 Earlier on talked a little bit about fertilizer. 2784 02:27:07.319 --> 02:27:09.959 We don't when we plant a new tree, especially a 2785 02:27:10.000 --> 02:27:12.399 bear root tree, we do not fertilize it. We want 2786 02:27:12.440 --> 02:27:15.479 that thing to develop a root system before we push 2787 02:27:15.559 --> 02:27:19.520 a lot of shoot growth on it. Later in the spring, 2788 02:27:19.600 --> 02:27:21.760 you can give it a little bit of fertilizer, but 2789 02:27:21.840 --> 02:27:24.959 otherwise we don't want to really put anything but soil 2790 02:27:25.159 --> 02:27:26.559 back in that hole when we plant. 2791 02:27:26.760 --> 02:27:28.479 So now we've got a lot of fruit being grown 2792 02:27:28.680 --> 02:27:32.000 in containers and we have the circling root issue that 2793 02:27:32.399 --> 02:27:35.520 can happen. I always tell people to cut the roots 2794 02:27:35.559 --> 02:27:38.639 on the outside. I know that's a shock to the plant, 2795 02:27:38.799 --> 02:27:41.840 but I did I think at an Arborgate Garden Center 2796 02:27:42.239 --> 02:27:45.200 nursery up in Tumble where we pulled a tree out 2797 02:27:45.239 --> 02:27:47.000 of a pot, cut the roots, put it in, and 2798 02:27:47.200 --> 02:27:49.280 came back two weeks later and there's all these fresh 2799 02:27:49.360 --> 02:27:52.079 white roots coming right out of that cuts. Don't be 2800 02:27:52.159 --> 02:27:54.440 afraid to do it, but that's important if you wanted 2801 02:27:54.479 --> 02:27:55.399 to establish well. 2802 02:27:55.479 --> 02:27:58.959 Yeah, especially per simmons and pecans are the worst about that. 2803 02:27:59.360 --> 02:28:02.360 Yeah, because they're going to get real big. Yeah, they 2804 02:28:02.440 --> 02:28:04.959 will really do that temperate circling, Okay. 2805 02:28:05.639 --> 02:28:07.600 So make sure and take care of that so you 2806 02:28:07.639 --> 02:28:09.760 can have success. Looks like we may have time for 2807 02:28:09.799 --> 02:28:13.840 a quick call here, got one coming in. Just thinking 2808 02:28:13.879 --> 02:28:17.079 about fruit and mistakes that people often make. I do 2809 02:28:17.239 --> 02:28:19.520 see the lack of sunlight on a lot of plants, 2810 02:28:20.319 --> 02:28:23.079 even in a vegetable garden. If you're growing leafy greens, 2811 02:28:23.159 --> 02:28:25.040 it can take some. Shade doesn't want it, but it 2812 02:28:25.079 --> 02:28:27.200 can take some. But if it's got roots and fruit 2813 02:28:27.280 --> 02:28:29.120 that are full of carbohydrates, you got to put it 2814 02:28:29.159 --> 02:28:30.879 in the sun. So roots and fruit in the most 2815 02:28:30.959 --> 02:28:34.040 sun and leafy greens, if you've got to shove something 2816 02:28:34.079 --> 02:28:36.600 in the shade, they'll take it. But with fruit, we 2817 02:28:36.760 --> 02:28:39.680 have some that do, okay. I've seen some citrus in 2818 02:28:40.079 --> 02:28:42.959 a little bit of shade, or maybe a fig tree 2819 02:28:43.000 --> 02:28:43.920 and a little bit of shade. 2820 02:28:43.959 --> 02:28:46.799 Blueberries, especially blueberry berries, are pretty forgiving. 2821 02:28:47.040 --> 02:28:49.760 Okay, So if you're determined to have one and you 2822 02:28:50.000 --> 02:28:53.399 just can't sell your trees down, blueberry might be one, 2823 02:28:53.559 --> 02:28:54.600 but not a lot of shade. 2824 02:28:54.959 --> 02:28:57.239 Yeah, you still want at least six hours of full sun, 2825 02:28:57.719 --> 02:28:59.680 and try to if you're going to give it shade, 2826 02:28:59.680 --> 02:29:02.000 try to give it afternoon shades. So you would plant 2827 02:29:02.079 --> 02:29:04.959 that tree, that plant to the east if your tree 2828 02:29:05.120 --> 02:29:06.760 or your house or whatever is blocking it. 2829 02:29:08.040 --> 02:29:10.280 All right, well, let's we got a call here. We're 2830 02:29:10.280 --> 02:29:12.280 going to run try to get him in here. Allan 2831 02:29:12.399 --> 02:29:16.319 in Texas City. Hey, welcome to garden mane Alan. Good morning. 2832 02:29:16.680 --> 02:29:19.719 My quick question is I just planted a couple a 2833 02:29:19.879 --> 02:29:23.159 lemon and a lime tree, probably just a few months ago, 2834 02:29:23.600 --> 02:29:25.040 out in the middle of the yard. It gets about 2835 02:29:25.079 --> 02:29:29.120 ten hours of aur longer of sunlight. But they're not 2836 02:29:29.239 --> 02:29:31.479 doing too well, and I thought I planted them properly. 2837 02:29:31.600 --> 02:29:35.399 My question is, can I do playing them the way 2838 02:29:35.399 --> 02:29:37.799 I've been listening to y'all today, tight them correctly? 2839 02:29:38.559 --> 02:29:42.879 Okay, boy, that's a very good question. Doc Harmon Allen's 2840 02:29:42.920 --> 02:29:46.520 planted elemon and a lime and they're just not doing well. 2841 02:29:46.559 --> 02:29:48.520 They get plenty of sun, like ten hours of sun. 2842 02:29:49.079 --> 02:29:52.920 But at this point, would he dig them up? He 2843 02:29:53.079 --> 02:29:55.840 was listening to us talk about the soil. Would he 2844 02:29:55.879 --> 02:29:58.639 dig him up now and then redo that bed, make 2845 02:29:58.680 --> 02:30:01.040 it right and then replant them or I don't know, 2846 02:30:01.120 --> 02:30:02.959 I'm just thinking out loud. Would you have him wait 2847 02:30:03.040 --> 02:30:03.479 till fall? 2848 02:30:03.799 --> 02:30:03.959 Or what? 2849 02:30:04.639 --> 02:30:07.239 Yeah, if if you're convinced it's kind of a lose 2850 02:30:07.319 --> 02:30:10.479 lose situation with respect to the soil, yeah you could 2851 02:30:10.520 --> 02:30:12.079 dig them up, but yeah, I would wait till fall 2852 02:30:12.159 --> 02:30:12.440 to do it. 2853 02:30:12.559 --> 02:30:14.079 This is just such a I mean, we're going to 2854 02:30:14.159 --> 02:30:16.079 the heat of summer. This is such a tough time. 2855 02:30:16.040 --> 02:30:18.360 Because no matter how careful you are, alan when you 2856 02:30:18.440 --> 02:30:20.440 dig it up, you're going to tear up a lot 2857 02:30:20.639 --> 02:30:24.280 of the active uptaking root system of those plants. 2858 02:30:24.719 --> 02:30:27.239 Okay, Like where I live at it used to be 2859 02:30:27.360 --> 02:30:31.639 like a cow pasture, so nothing but a sandy soily area. 2860 02:30:31.719 --> 02:30:33.719 So I added some soil to it, and you know, 2861 02:30:34.040 --> 02:30:36.360 dug it and made the rootball ground level. 2862 02:30:36.879 --> 02:30:38.600 But now I want to like that. I don't think 2863 02:30:38.600 --> 02:30:41.239 they're doing too well. So I just thought about what 2864 02:30:41.319 --> 02:30:47.680 I'm doing well. I don't know. It's situation doesn't sound 2865 02:30:47.719 --> 02:30:50.399 too bad to me. Lots of sand. Now, when you 2866 02:30:50.440 --> 02:30:52.399 said you made the root ball ground level, you're talking 2867 02:30:52.440 --> 02:30:54.760 about the top of the of the cylinder of roots 2868 02:30:54.799 --> 02:30:56.559 that you bought in the pot, or are you talking 2869 02:30:56.559 --> 02:30:59.040 about you your whole plant was above ground level? 2870 02:31:00.239 --> 02:31:02.239 What the black better dug a hole out? I would 2871 02:31:02.239 --> 02:31:04.719 have set the pot in the ground. That top of 2872 02:31:04.799 --> 02:31:06.319 that root ball would have been ground level. 2873 02:31:07.040 --> 02:31:09.399 Oh good, okay, well, that's good. You didn't plant it 2874 02:31:09.479 --> 02:31:12.600 too deep. But in a lot of sand. I don't know. 2875 02:31:12.879 --> 02:31:16.920 You shouldn't shouldn't have you do have a lot of sand? 2876 02:31:18.479 --> 02:31:20.680 Yes, nothing, but practically that. 2877 02:31:23.840 --> 02:31:26.559 Sind and clay. Well, the bottom line is this, does 2878 02:31:26.600 --> 02:31:28.280 it drain well or not? And I don't know what 2879 02:31:28.440 --> 02:31:30.719 how high that clay level is and the underneath there. 2880 02:31:31.280 --> 02:31:34.040 But you can dig a hole with a little postolele 2881 02:31:34.040 --> 02:31:37.159 egger or just dig straight down. H Maybe I would 2882 02:31:37.200 --> 02:31:39.680 go like a foot and a half and fill it 2883 02:31:39.799 --> 02:31:41.600 with water and see how long it takes for the 2884 02:31:41.639 --> 02:31:44.200 water to drain out of that hole. If it drains 2885 02:31:44.239 --> 02:31:48.079 out in eight hours, you're good. You're good. If it 2886 02:31:48.200 --> 02:31:51.159 takes it twenty four hours. You're okay. If it takes 2887 02:31:51.239 --> 02:31:53.879 it two days, you got it. You definitely need to 2888 02:31:53.959 --> 02:31:54.760 raise good for. 2889 02:31:54.840 --> 02:31:57.440 That, Okay, Okay, I do see a lot of spiders 2890 02:31:57.479 --> 02:32:02.440 in it. That calls me poet of the seven does. 2891 02:32:03.000 --> 02:32:06.000 No, sir, there, No spiders are good. They're there to 2892 02:32:06.079 --> 02:32:09.479 eat their their cornivores, and they're they're eating other insects. 2893 02:32:09.600 --> 02:32:10.239 Love spiders. 2894 02:32:10.600 --> 02:32:11.719 We love to see spiders. 2895 02:32:12.120 --> 02:32:12.399 Spider. 2896 02:32:12.799 --> 02:32:15.280 I love spiders. That's right, that's right. 2897 02:32:15.360 --> 02:32:17.520 I've never seen so many spiders in my and in 2898 02:32:17.639 --> 02:32:20.200 my backyard. I haven't any place I've lived in my life. 2899 02:32:21.000 --> 02:32:25.360 But but okay, thank you. 2900 02:32:26.200 --> 02:32:28.479 There you go. Well, let them live until you know, 2901 02:32:28.600 --> 02:32:30.559 we said Faull. But if if you can let them 2902 02:32:30.600 --> 02:32:34.600 go into even a cooler season, it's a little you know, 2903 02:32:34.879 --> 02:32:37.600 a little less stress on them. But late fall, maybe November, 2904 02:32:38.000 --> 02:32:40.000 it might be a good time to do the digging. Yeah, 2905 02:32:40.440 --> 02:32:43.159 all right, thank you, Ellen, appreciate that. A couple of 2906 02:32:43.239 --> 02:32:45.479 minutes here, how do we wind up our time on 2907 02:32:45.959 --> 02:32:49.879 so many more questions and so little time? Okay, here, 2908 02:32:49.959 --> 02:32:54.440 here's the thing. Subpruit requires pollinators, and some don't. Peaches don't, 2909 02:32:55.399 --> 02:32:58.719 and figs don't, and per simmons really don't need it. 2910 02:32:59.280 --> 02:32:59.399 Uh. 2911 02:33:00.159 --> 02:33:03.120 But then we got these things like blueberries and plums 2912 02:33:03.399 --> 02:33:06.319 and pears, apple that are kind of in between. You know, 2913 02:33:06.879 --> 02:33:10.159 so what what would you recommend on those things and 2914 02:33:10.239 --> 02:33:12.159 what like? Why would you I'm just going to cut 2915 02:33:12.200 --> 02:33:14.440 to the chack. Why would you plant two different blueberries 2916 02:33:15.760 --> 02:33:18.440 because one blueberry could have some fruit on it? Right? 2917 02:33:19.559 --> 02:33:21.040 Yeah, So I get this question all the time. I'll 2918 02:33:21.079 --> 02:33:23.159 give away a tree or whatever do I need to okay, 2919 02:33:23.319 --> 02:33:28.200 And the question is do we need cross pollination? Okay, apples, pears, 2920 02:33:29.479 --> 02:33:35.559 a lot of plums, I'm sure, blueberries in general. Okay, 2921 02:33:36.479 --> 02:33:38.920 A lot of these crops need cross pollination. They are 2922 02:33:38.959 --> 02:33:41.840 not capable of pollinating themselves. 2923 02:33:41.879 --> 02:33:42.159 Okay. 2924 02:33:42.319 --> 02:33:46.440 So if you're looking at I don't know, saying a 2925 02:33:46.520 --> 02:33:51.319 Dorset gold apple, okay, you need another apple tree to 2926 02:33:51.479 --> 02:33:54.879 pollinate that tree. Okay, doesn't do any good to have 2927 02:33:55.040 --> 02:33:57.719 another Dorset gold. That is, basically, if you have two 2928 02:33:57.920 --> 02:34:01.399 Dorset Golds, you're basically doing self pollination. Still you plant 2929 02:34:01.479 --> 02:34:05.680 something like an anna apple though next to it, you're 2930 02:34:05.760 --> 02:34:08.719 basically you have two varieties that are genetically different. They 2931 02:34:08.799 --> 02:34:12.000 bloom at the same time, they are swapping pollen with 2932 02:34:12.120 --> 02:34:15.200 each other. They swap pollen and they will set fruit. 2933 02:34:15.280 --> 02:34:18.360 And even varieties like Anna is a self fruitful apple, 2934 02:34:19.079 --> 02:34:24.079 Methley is a self fruitful plum. Even these self fruitful varieties, 2935 02:34:25.200 --> 02:34:28.120 in these crops that normally need cross pollination, they will 2936 02:34:28.200 --> 02:34:31.680 set better. Actually you'll get more fruit generally, like when 2937 02:34:31.680 --> 02:34:35.879 blueberries get larger fruit if you get that cross pollination. Okay, 2938 02:34:35.879 --> 02:34:38.520 And of course you need the insects to move that 2939 02:34:38.639 --> 02:34:39.639 pollen around. 2940 02:34:40.600 --> 02:34:42.959 All right, And that's very important and a good point. 2941 02:34:43.200 --> 02:34:46.159 And when someone has a lonely hearts club tree that 2942 02:34:46.280 --> 02:34:48.879 needs a pollinator and it's blooming, you could go to 2943 02:34:48.959 --> 02:34:51.600 a neighbor of a different variety, put it in a 2944 02:34:51.680 --> 02:34:53.239 coke can full of lot or tie up to the 2945 02:34:53.680 --> 02:34:55.440 and let the bees visit both. How often do you 2946 02:34:55.479 --> 02:34:57.600 think you ought to replace those branches? Maybe every couple 2947 02:34:57.639 --> 02:34:58.239 of days. 2948 02:34:58.440 --> 02:35:00.600 Depends on the crop, but yeah, probably twice a week 2949 02:35:00.719 --> 02:35:01.319 or something like that. 2950 02:35:01.680 --> 02:35:03.639 Well, that'll give you time to go buy that other 2951 02:35:03.799 --> 02:35:06.079 tree so that your poor tree has a partner and 2952 02:35:07.120 --> 02:35:07.719 have good fruit. 2953 02:35:07.959 --> 02:35:10.159 Or if you're feeling really adventurous, you could try grafting 2954 02:35:10.239 --> 02:35:10.600 a branch. 2955 02:35:10.639 --> 02:35:12.879 O there you go, oh wow, you got fruit fruit cock. 2956 02:35:14.239 --> 02:35:16.440 We've been talking with doctor Tim Hartman today from the 2957 02:35:16.479 --> 02:35:19.600 Horticulture Department in Texas, A and M fruit specialists. Tim, 2958 02:35:19.760 --> 02:35:21.920 I can't thank you enough. This has been great, as 2959 02:35:22.280 --> 02:35:24.040 as you could tell from the calls that we're coming in. 2960 02:35:24.479 --> 02:35:27.719 People love fruit, good topic, good information. This has been fun. 2961 02:35:27.799 --> 02:35:30.200 Thank you for having me, all right, thank you very 2962 02:35:30.280 --> 02:35:33.239 much for coming. Well, folks, there you go. I'll be 2963 02:35:33.319 --> 02:35:35.639 back on guard Line six am tomorrow morning. I'll be 2964 02:35:35.680 --> 02:35:37.600 there with a cup of coffee. Will you show up. 2965 02:35:37.760 --> 02:35:40.760 I hope you will be there from six to ten. Remember, 2966 02:35:40.799 --> 02:35:42.639 you can listen on the radio, you can listen on 2967 02:35:42.680 --> 02:35:46.040 the iHeartMedia app either way, and we'll be wide open 2968 02:35:46.120 --> 02:35:48.920 for questions during the six and seven o'clock hour at 2969 02:35:49.040 --> 02:35:49.280 least