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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Do you enjoy the music? Welcome,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line on what is a great, great
Speaker 1: day for gardening. We are glad you are listening in
Speaker 1: with us today and we've got a lot to talk about,
Speaker 1: as we always do on garden Line. You know, one
Speaker 1: nice thing about gardening is no matter what day of
Speaker 1: the year it is, there is something to talk about,
Speaker 1: something to be doing out there in the garden, something
Speaker 1: to be harvesting, something to be planting. There's just that's
Speaker 1: the cool thing about gardening. It is constant renewal, just
Speaker 1: the renewal of the seasons. You know, the traditional it's
Speaker 1: spring and the flowers come out, and it's summer and
Speaker 1: it's warm, and then it's autumn and its harvest season
Speaker 1: of pumpkins and fall colors, at least in some parts
Speaker 1: of the country, and in then winter. That's the change.
Speaker 1: But every day's a change. Every day is something new,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot going on. I was visiting with
Speaker 1: a neighbor who's got an issue with his lawn not
Speaker 1: looking really good, and it's kind of a I don't know,
Speaker 1: a sharp truce, a light shark true color, so not yellow,
Speaker 1: but it's getting close to yellow, and I'm talking about
Speaker 1: what to do. It's tone. Well, you know super turf
Speaker 1: nightrofive super turf, the silver bag that'll do it. It's
Speaker 1: got a pack of nutrients in it and it's going
Speaker 1: to release so slowly. It's going to release them slowly
Speaker 1: over time. It's easy to find super turf. When you
Speaker 1: look for the silver bag. You can stand at the
Speaker 1: front door of the garden center and look through the
Speaker 1: place and see it. Are your Ace hardware store, are
Speaker 1: your feed store, Southwest Fertilized. All these places carry it.
Speaker 1: You're going to find it up at shades of Texas
Speaker 1: in the Woodlands on fourteen eighty eight, for example, down
Speaker 1: in more Ace, Hardware City has got it, so it's
Speaker 1: easy to find. Just know that when you put on
Speaker 1: super turfy, you're going to get that gradual release over
Speaker 1: time anyway, So that was just the point, you know,
Speaker 1: lawns sometimes just start to lack in the nutrients when
Speaker 1: we get a lot of water, for example, wash rain
Speaker 1: washes all the soluble nutrients through the soil or off
Speaker 1: the property in some cases when it's a gully washer,
Speaker 1: and so we have to replace them. That's kind of
Speaker 1: how that works. Now, if you were just looking at
Speaker 1: your lawn as this wild place, then fertilizing so often
Speaker 1: wouldn't be as important. But when you're mowing it and
Speaker 1: trying to get density and trying to have you know,
Speaker 1: a beauty to the lawn, returning those clippings is important.
Speaker 1: But fertilizing regularly is important too. When I was out
Speaker 1: and about this week, I noticed in a number of
Speaker 1: yards where watering has not been done much. If well,
Speaker 1: it looks like none because we've had decent amount of
Speaker 1: rain this year compared to a lot of summers. But
Speaker 1: there's some browning, and boy, the weeds showed through and
Speaker 1: interesting how the long grass turns brown and the weeds,
Speaker 1: a lot of them stay green. They are tough. Weeds
Speaker 1: are tough. Someone once said that if you don't know
Speaker 1: if a plant's a weed or not, pull it up,
Speaker 1: it comes back it was a weed. It's about right.
Speaker 1: They are. They're very tough and difficult, difficult to deal with.
Speaker 1: But now's the time to continue to stay diligent about that.
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about herbicides and pre emergent post
Speaker 1: emergent herbicides and which one can I use for this
Speaker 1: weed in this lawn at this time of the year.
Speaker 1: The number one we control we do is building a dense,
Speaker 1: healthy lawn through proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing. And so
Speaker 1: if you don't do any of that and you just
Speaker 1: want to fight weeds, then you're just going to be
Speaker 1: treating your lawn all the time and your grass is
Speaker 1: going to suffer anyway from it. It's better to start
Speaker 1: with a good, healthy, strong, dense grass and mow, water, fertilized.
Speaker 1: As boring as that those three are, that's the secret.
Speaker 1: That's how we have success. Another way you have success
Speaker 1: is getting good plants I was checking out in Channa
Speaker 1: Gardens down there. They are in Richmond on the Katie
Speaker 1: Fullsher side. So if you're in Richmond and you're going
Speaker 1: to go north toward Katie Fullsher direction on FM three
Speaker 1: point fifty nine, that's Encined Gardens. In Chenna Gardens is
Speaker 1: a wonderland of places to go. I mean it is
Speaker 1: just it's a destination. People love to go there because
Speaker 1: there's always always something out there and in Chenna Gardens
Speaker 1: a beautiful place. Right now, your fall decorations, oh man,
Speaker 1: or they ever loaded up? If you need anything for
Speaker 1: Halloween and Thanksgiving and all that, that stuff is already arriving.
Speaker 1: They're at in Chenet Gardens. They also have some excellent
Speaker 1: opportunities for color, some beautiful perennials. You know. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite plants is the bird. It's not Bird of Paradise,
Speaker 1: Pride of Barbados, also called red Bird of Paradise. I
Speaker 1: like Pride of Barbados better because we have another plant
Speaker 1: called Bird of Paradise. Beautiful deep deep orange, red and
Speaker 1: yellow blooms. And I'm telling you, every time I see
Speaker 1: that plant, I see butterflies, especially the swallowtail. The swallowtails
Speaker 1: love some of the swallow tails love that plant, and
Speaker 1: it's just gaudy. I've been seeing them all around town
Speaker 1: at garden centers, different places. They got them there, chanted gardens,
Speaker 1: beautiful plants. They're perennials, so die the ground here in
Speaker 1: the winter. It's okay. Maybe the first year throw a
Speaker 1: little mulch over them, just to be sure in case
Speaker 1: we have a doozy of a winter, but a little
Speaker 1: moundu mulch over the top to protect that base in
Speaker 1: the winter. They'll be fine. They just come back here
Speaker 1: after hear and never gets too hot for them. They
Speaker 1: put up with some drought. They're really a wonderful tough plant. Again.
Speaker 1: You can go to Chened Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted
Speaker 1: Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open Monday through Saturday from
Speaker 1: eight to five and Tomorrow Sunay they'll be open from
Speaker 1: ten am to four pm. So it's a good day
Speaker 1: to get out there. And I promise you this, when
Speaker 1: you go, you're always going to see stuff that you
Speaker 1: cannot live without. That's my problem going to garden centers.
Speaker 1: There's stuff I can't live without.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Gardener. Hey, good to have you with
Speaker 1: us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here
Speaker 1: to talk about gardening, to help you have a more beautiful,
Speaker 1: bountiful garden and landscape. And I'd tell you everybody seems
Speaker 1: to want a gorgeous lawn. Imagine that. Well, your lawn
Speaker 1: is the carpet of your landscape. It's one of the carpets, lawns,
Speaker 1: of groundcovers. I think they are the outdoor carpeting. And
Speaker 1: you want it to be beautiful, you want it to
Speaker 1: be done. So one of the ways we do that
Speaker 1: is through periodic deep core aeration followed by compost top dressing.
Speaker 1: That's how that works. So here's here's what that means.
Speaker 1: That means we punch a hole in the soil and
Speaker 1: pull the plug out, not just squeeze a hole open,
Speaker 1: like you know, you're shoving a post down into the ground.
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Speaker 1: leave it on the surface. That leaves this hollow hole
Speaker 1: in the soil in the turf area down in the
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Speaker 1: top dressing, and it just over time, it just gets
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Speaker 1: the phones now and head out to clear Lake and
Speaker 1: talk to Wendy. Hello, Wendy, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, I last tweek about this time, you were
Speaker 7: talking about planning small potatoes and you talked about putting
Speaker 7: them whole in you could like jump start them by
Speaker 7: putting them in a little pot. And I did that. Okay,
Speaker 7: Now what do I plant them in the ground? Do
Speaker 7: I plant them plant them that pot? Do I heal
Speaker 7: them up? Do I not?
Speaker 1: You know it, when you say a small potter, I
Speaker 1: think I was talking about four inch pot Lit't be
Speaker 1: small one.
Speaker 2: That's that's all.
Speaker 7: That's that's what I put them in a four inch
Speaker 7: pot with some soil.
Speaker 1: They are there and Wendy just to sprout and get
Speaker 1: some roots started for you. That's what they're there for.
Speaker 1: So I would put them. I wouldn't put them in
Speaker 1: the full brunt of the sun right now, although you
Speaker 1: know they can take sun. But let's get them a
Speaker 1: little more happy by keeping them in a slight, cooler area,
Speaker 1: by giving them a very bright maybe some mornings sound
Speaker 1: or bright shay. Let them get up and going. And
Speaker 1: once they get going, well, then you can move them
Speaker 1: out into your garden. And so this is an unconventional
Speaker 1: way to do potatoes. Most people just cut them up
Speaker 1: and they drop them down in a trench. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, in the summer heat that soil, those fresh
Speaker 1: cut potatoes will rot even if you let them scab
Speaker 1: over a little bit. So transplant thing that I talked about,
Speaker 1: and you're doing that is just another option. If you
Speaker 1: have an acre of potatoes, you're not going to do
Speaker 1: it with the transplant way, that's for sure.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 7: Well, what I'm what I'm going at for here is
Speaker 7: now that I've got them, and you know, once I
Speaker 7: get them planted, once I get some roots and something growing,
Speaker 7: can I plant them in a container. Do I plant
Speaker 7: them in the ground, And if I plant them either way,
Speaker 7: do I heal them up or do I just plant
Speaker 7: them at the bottom of the pot And all right, yeah,
Speaker 7: what do I do?
Speaker 1: Good question? Okay, So here's how the new potatoes, the
Speaker 1: Irish potatoes, all the everything, but like sweet potatoes, the
Speaker 1: other the normal standard potato grows. You start off with
Speaker 1: what we call a seed piece. It really is either
Speaker 1: a whole potato or a potato cut, so they's got
Speaker 1: a couple of eyes on it. The potatoes will grow
Speaker 1: above that. They're not roots. So the roots go down
Speaker 1: and the stem comes up, and then we have to
Speaker 1: cover the stem so that the potatoes as they are
Speaker 1: offshoots of that stem, they have a place to go
Speaker 1: out and grow. So if you're going to use a container,
Speaker 1: you could do one or two things. I've seen people
Speaker 1: put a container on the ground, excuse me, and have
Speaker 1: holes in the bottom where the roots can go down
Speaker 1: in the soil from there, and then they just sort
Speaker 1: of fill that container as the potato stems come up,
Speaker 1: so that they have to come up. You don't want
Speaker 1: them to have to crawl through like twelve inches of
Speaker 1: soil to get to the sunlight. That would not be good.
Speaker 1: So as they grow, where we call it heling them up,
Speaker 1: but we're bringing soil in around the stem. So you
Speaker 1: can do that in a pot too, or you could
Speaker 1: just use a larger pot and make room for it
Speaker 1: that way. I've known people that drill the hole maybe
Speaker 1: the size of a gull off ball in a five
Speaker 1: gallon bucket and set the potato down at the bottom
Speaker 1: at that hole and then covered it up with about
Speaker 1: four inches of potting mix and just watered and the
Speaker 1: roots go down in the soil below where the bucket's
Speaker 1: sitting on the ground, and they just end up with
Speaker 1: a bucket full of potatoes.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, Well I have tried growing potatoes for
Speaker 7: five years and I might have gotten ten potatoes over
Speaker 7: that time. So I keep trying to figure out what
Speaker 7: am I doing wrong. I've tried the healing up process.
Speaker 7: I've tried the just planning them in a you know
Speaker 7: container from the you know on top basically, and okay,
Speaker 7: and then of course, now when should okay, so at
Speaker 7: this time of year, when should they How long will
Speaker 7: it take them to actually mature?
Speaker 1: You know? You can you can start going in and
Speaker 1: stealing some small potatoes off the plants, you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of dig in there, get one out, and kind
Speaker 1: of back up whenever they're the size it's acceptable to you.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people like the little golf ball size new potatoes,
Speaker 1: you know. Or you can just wait until it's about
Speaker 1: time for frost and that's going to kill the tops
Speaker 1: and you just dig them at that time. It's not
Speaker 1: a right. They don't ripen. There's not a right or
Speaker 1: wrong way.
Speaker 7: So I don't have to wait until the top dies
Speaker 7: down or anything like that.
Speaker 1: You don't have to know. Most people wait because they
Speaker 1: want to get the most pounds of potato out of
Speaker 1: each plant as they can, and so they wait to
Speaker 1: give them every day they possibly can. But there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with removing some along the way if they're an
Speaker 1: acceptable size. So your success is going to be good
Speaker 1: sun good sunlight when they're growing. Once you get past
Speaker 1: this transplant stage, then you want to make sure they
Speaker 1: get adequate water, and then they you held them up
Speaker 1: and get as much If you can get about ten
Speaker 1: inches of soil above the seed piece above that potato
Speaker 1: you're planning, it's going to settle down. It won't be
Speaker 1: ten inches but if you want to give them a
Speaker 1: good section of soil there that they can send out
Speaker 1: roots in no need to get more than ten inches.
Speaker 7: So I is the bottomless pot basically, and put them
Speaker 7: at the bottom and heal them up a five gallons top.
Speaker 7: So a bucket like a five gallon bucket would be sufficient.
Speaker 1: You could use that, yeah, because that's plenty tall. And
Speaker 1: I've seen people use, you know, wicker baskets and those
Speaker 1: fellas bags that people are. Hey, Wendy, I got to
Speaker 1: run to some calls. Time you want to go about.
Speaker 1: Give it good good luck, and if you have any success,
Speaker 1: bring half the potatoes to kt rch studio. Yeah, good luck,
Speaker 1: Thank you, bye bye. All right, We're going to go
Speaker 1: out to Fairland and talk to Chuck. Hey Chuck, thanks
Speaker 1: for waiting. Welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 4: Good morning. I appreciate you taking my call. I have
Speaker 4: two quick questions for you. The first one is I
Speaker 4: have seven or eight what I called medium sized crpe
Speaker 4: myrtles in the front of my yard in front of
Speaker 4: my house. And when I say medium size, up to
Speaker 4: the knuckles it's probably ten feet. Yeah, So I'm one
Speaker 4: of those guys that cuts them down every year to
Speaker 4: the knuckles, and last year I got the little white
Speaker 4: aphid z on it, and I waited probably a couple
Speaker 4: of three or four months too long before I treated them,
Speaker 4: but I finally didn't.
Speaker 1: I killed them.
Speaker 4: Now this year, when they started growing again, they had
Speaker 4: a black residue on the top of the knuckles and
Speaker 4: on probably half of the trees. The branches only came
Speaker 4: out on half of these stalks, if you will.
Speaker 1: Okay, well the second part of that, the branch is
Speaker 1: not coming out. I don't know. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: had some cold damage in the past that when a
Speaker 1: December freeze came to early. Normally there plenty cold trapes
Speaker 1: are plenty cold hardy, but we had a freeze that
Speaker 1: cut them off guard. That was that. The black you're
Speaker 1: seeing is city mold growing on a sugary substance called
Speaker 1: honeydew that's produced by several different kinds of insects. Can
Speaker 1: do it on a crpe myrtle. It's almost always crpe
Speaker 1: myrtle bark scale. That's the number one. Those are little
Speaker 1: white flecks along the trunk and branches.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: It can also be aphids that do that. Either one
Speaker 1: can produce honeydew, and from honeydew you get the city modles.
Speaker 1: So the city is not the the disease, it's the
Speaker 1: it's the insect that's causing the problem.
Speaker 4: So I should wonder you worried at the moment about.
Speaker 1: The well crape myrtles live with both of those just
Speaker 1: fine if they get If it's really bad, it's worth
Speaker 1: giving a treating for. But that that will be a
Speaker 1: whole nother discussion is depending on which which insects you have,
Speaker 1: how you go about it. Aphids are easy, that's easy
Speaker 1: to control.
Speaker 4: Showing the stalks that got no branches this year, I
Speaker 4: shouldn't just cut those knuckles off and let them regrow
Speaker 4: next year, or just wait and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got if it's if it's dead up there
Speaker 1: then and you can scrape the bark back a little pocket,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of go under the bark a
Speaker 1: little bit and look and see if it's creamy, creamy
Speaker 1: white to light green. If you just see like paper
Speaker 1: sack brown, that's dead, and you might as well cut
Speaker 1: it back, sometimes removing the whole stalk and letting a
Speaker 1: new one come up by the ground. If it's fun
Speaker 1: if it's dead that far back, Chuck, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: make sure it's not alive before you did that, but
Speaker 1: sometimes sure we've had to cut on back to the ground.
Speaker 4: I thought that's what you're going to say. Okay, last question.
Speaker 1: Case is different, but those are the principles. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, question is. Hey, I'm gonna have on hold and
Speaker 1: go to a break and I will come back to
Speaker 1: your chuck right after break. All right, folks, we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Houston's welcome back to the guard Line. Good
Speaker 1: to have you with us today.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: You know Nelson Plant Food. You heard me talk about
Speaker 1: them before. We Normally when I think of Nelson Plant Food,
Speaker 1: I think about all the different lines that they have.
Speaker 1: I mean, they got the turf Star line, things like
Speaker 1: Bruce's Brew, which is good for a quick green up
Speaker 1: when you need that in your lawn. It even feeds
Speaker 1: a little bit gradually over time. But I want to
Speaker 1: tell you something. Their nutri Star line and their color
Speaker 1: Star is just these fertilizers are very popular because people
Speaker 1: know when you put them down, they're going to work,
Speaker 1: and they last, and they provide you if you want
Speaker 1: one for let's say nutri star tree and shrub. Maybe
Speaker 1: you plant it a shrub or even a tree recently
Speaker 1: and you're wanting to give it a boost, you know,
Speaker 1: like we say, the goal is how fast can I
Speaker 1: hang a hammock in that thing? Well, nutristar tree and
Speaker 1: shrub will help speed that process up. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: got products for tropicals, products for blooming vines. Nelson Plant
Speaker 1: Food's array of products that are in the canisters, widely
Speaker 1: available and very very effective. Now the thing I like
Speaker 1: too is a lot of our places now offer canister refill.
Speaker 1: So you buy that plastic canister with a screw top lid,
Speaker 1: and when it's time to go refill, you get a
Speaker 1: better deal on the fertilizer. Plus you're not throwing away plastic.
Speaker 1: It just makes sense. Next time you go to the
Speaker 1: garden center, take your empty canister with you and refill
Speaker 1: it again. Again. A great idea, Nelson Plant Food. And
Speaker 1: look at all the different products when you're out there
Speaker 1: that they carry. There's one for pretty much anything that
Speaker 1: you would want to grow. We're going to head now
Speaker 1: back to Chuck. Chuck, I think you had one follow
Speaker 1: up real quick.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, thank you. In my backyard. I have three
Speaker 4: or four spots at every spring, the dollar weeds come
Speaker 4: out furious and I treat them with weed Beater ultra
Speaker 4: and that thills them off. After two or three weeks,
Speaker 4: and then three or four months later, they're right back
Speaker 4: just as they were before.
Speaker 1: Okay, we just have to stay with them. There are
Speaker 1: other products you can use. Get a little warmer. Celsius
Speaker 1: is not as hard on the grass as some of
Speaker 1: the other combo broad leaf post emergent products like the
Speaker 1: ones you mentioned, and you can switch over and try
Speaker 1: some of that too, But you just have to stay
Speaker 1: with them on it. And the more you allow that
Speaker 1: lawn to dry out a little bit between waterings, like
Speaker 1: a good soaking so there's a big volume bank account
Speaker 1: of moisture, and then let it dry out a little bit,
Speaker 1: that doesn't cause the dollar weed to proliferate, like when
Speaker 1: you keep it wet. It's hard to hold dollar weed
Speaker 1: back when you're keeping it soggy wet, because it loves
Speaker 1: living in that wet condition. So culturally, let the lawn
Speaker 1: dry out a little bit and then stay with it.
Speaker 1: Follow up your early spring applications or whenever you did
Speaker 1: that product to with something like celsius as it warms
Speaker 1: up a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a good way to treat it during the
Speaker 4: hot summer, but I'll try that then.
Speaker 1: Well, celsius in the early morning in the summer is okay,
Speaker 1: but just get it done in the morning before temperatures
Speaker 1: get up, you know, above ninety for the day. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to run. Thanks, thank you for that call.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Montgomery. Now we're going to talk
Speaker 1: to Scott. Hello, Scott, Hey, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 10: Yep, Hey, Yeah, I got problem my cedar tree in
Speaker 10: my front yard. I've had a problem with my sprinter system,
Speaker 10: and I've been watered manually with the mottos. But the
Speaker 10: top habits about seven foot tall. In the top half
Speaker 10: of it is kind of brown it up and stuff,
Speaker 10: and a bottle half is greenier it could be.
Speaker 1: All right, here's the deal. Yeah, I got bad news.
Speaker 1: The top is never going to come back alive and
Speaker 1: reach sprout or anything like that. Whenever a cedar, when
Speaker 1: the needles turn brown on any branch or the whole
Speaker 1: tree of a cedar, it cannot reach sprout. It's not
Speaker 1: like other trees are mom off at the ground. With
Speaker 1: a chainsaw and they come back out of a stump.
Speaker 1: Cedars can't do that. And so when you lose that foliage,
Speaker 1: now what your to do is go in and trim
Speaker 1: out all the branches that have no living needles, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna end up with a very unusual looking tree.
Speaker 1: But so the options are either to live with that
Speaker 1: or to pull it up in plants, plant, replant, or
Speaker 1: do something like that.
Speaker 10: What about you're talking about the trimming, what about the
Speaker 10: main stalk or the tree, leave it or just turn
Speaker 10: the dead off of it.
Speaker 1: Well, in order for a seedar to send out a
Speaker 1: new shoot, it's got to be where there are living
Speaker 1: needles living in a little scaly like leaf needles that
Speaker 1: a ceedar has. Junipers, you know, all the junipers and
Speaker 1: arbor bide and stuff are like that. Uh. And so
Speaker 1: you know, if if the top the branches have no
Speaker 1: if a trunk or a branch there's no living needles
Speaker 1: out that branch, then it's dead. It's not going to
Speaker 1: come back. Yeah, boy, now you can give it a
Speaker 1: little time if you want to be sure. I know
Speaker 1: I told you wouldn't like what I had to say, but.
Speaker 10: I'm just telling you how I love that tree about
Speaker 10: seven foot tall, and it's been gorgeous and I'm just
Speaker 10: that problem with my sprinter system. And now the top
Speaker 10: half of it, you know, the bottom of green is
Speaker 10: ever gorgeous, but the top is just gone.
Speaker 1: I understand.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a possibility if you've got a branch
Speaker 1: that's somewhat upright on the side, that you could kind
Speaker 1: of train that back up into become a new tree.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna still be kind of weird looking.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's standing up straight and every day there's nothing
Speaker 10: no lem, no little limbs or anything grouping, but it's
Speaker 10: just brown.
Speaker 1: Yeah stuff. Well but what about.
Speaker 10: What about bend in the limbs sick and see if
Speaker 10: they're if they're sturdy, just leave them, don't crim them off.
Speaker 10: But you know, as far as the stem of the
Speaker 10: limb itself on the tree, you're talking about the parts
Speaker 10: of the brown, yes, sir, or the green? Yeah, well
Speaker 10: going away brown. See if it's dead, just kind of bending,
Speaker 10: see it breaks, And there's word about the top being
Speaker 10: dead that lem it so being dead.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if you don't wait, just watch it
Speaker 1: a while and see if what I'm telling you is
Speaker 1: the truth. Uh, you can do that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Cedars a little brittle anyway, so when you bund them,
Speaker 1: they're gonna snap. Even when they're alive, they're gonna snap
Speaker 1: because they're they're stiff and brittle.
Speaker 10: I'll just give me some good loving and there's all right, tell.
Speaker 1: That plant, go tell that part what I said. All right,
Speaker 1: you take care. Maybe the maybe the plant will prove
Speaker 1: me wrong. That's what we're gonna that's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: hope for, because you know, nobody wants to lose. You
Speaker 1: got a nice little tree going, you don't have to
Speaker 1: go backwards. But if you've got pine trees, if you've
Speaker 1: got juniper's cedar, arbor vity, all of that kind of thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's how they are. So Christmas tree growers. They have
Speaker 1: this beautiful little Christmas tree they're making, and if one
Speaker 1: branch dies, it's gonna be a hole in a Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: which is not a syllable mystery. And so it's just
Speaker 1: the nature of the beasts. So always make sure that
Speaker 1: those are tough. Cedars are tough. But I saw a
Speaker 1: lot of seedars throughout the Greater Houston area, especially up
Speaker 1: north and to the west where there's a lot of
Speaker 1: seedars out there that they're just turn brown, completely brown.
Speaker 1: The drought last year just was too much and it
Speaker 1: led to a bunch of things like that. Hey, you
Speaker 1: been to the Plants for All Seasons garden center right
Speaker 1: there on just north of Luetta on Highway two forty nine.
Speaker 1: You ought to stop by and check them out. They
Speaker 1: always have good stuff going on, always cool stuff going
Speaker 1: on out there. Number One. When you go in, you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna get plants that belong here, that'll do
Speaker 1: well here, and you know you're gonna get advice on
Speaker 1: how to grow them successfully. The website is Plants for
Speaker 1: All Seasons dot com. The location just exit two forty
Speaker 1: nine for Luetta and it's just just north of Luetta
Speaker 1: on the east side of two forty nine, right. They're
Speaker 1: easy to get to phone number two eight one, three
Speaker 1: seven six sixteen forty six. Go in there and you
Speaker 1: may think you have a brown thumb, but they'll they'll
Speaker 1: turn it grain for you with good advice and good
Speaker 1: plant You can also bring samples and questions you have
Speaker 1: and they're really good about helping all. Right, time for
Speaker 1: a quick break. I'll be right back yes, today our
Speaker 1: phone number if you'd like to give me a call
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two ktr H seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two kt r H. You know, the
Speaker 1: folks at Medina have a number of great products that
Speaker 1: are out there, and it's been Medina's been around since
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties, I believe, and gardeners have long known
Speaker 1: the benefits of the various products they have. One of
Speaker 1: them that I haven't talked about in a good while.
Speaker 1: At least has to grow six twelve six plant food
Speaker 1: has to grow six twelve six. Yes, it's got six
Speaker 1: twelve six. That's an NPK nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in it.
Speaker 1: A good arrangement by the way for fruiting and blooming
Speaker 1: of plants to stimulate that. But it also has medinosol
Speaker 1: activator to stimulate the biological activity. It's got humate humic acid.
Speaker 1: You know, humus improves soul, structured improves nutrient uptake. It's
Speaker 1: got seaweed extracts which also help with fruiting and blooming.
Speaker 1: You can use it as a folio. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: burn with it. It's not this salty, salty fertilizer you
Speaker 1: might mix too strong and sprowl. You just follow the label.
Speaker 1: It's real easy to use. But you can use it
Speaker 1: as a folier. You can drench it into new transplants.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's a great way to use it. You
Speaker 1: put a new plant transplant in the ground and just
Speaker 1: watered in with a watering can full mixed with water
Speaker 1: and has to grow six trove six simple as that
Speaker 1: very effective and a good way to give a little
Speaker 1: bit of insurance to that plant that you just purchased
Speaker 1: and have now put in the ground. And by the
Speaker 1: way fall this planting season, so grab you some has
Speaker 1: to grow six twelve six, so you can have good
Speaker 1: success with that. You know, when we pull a plant
Speaker 1: out of the pot and put it in the ground,
Speaker 1: the root system is still a cylinder of roots right
Speaker 1: shape of the pot, and it takes time for those
Speaker 1: roots to go out and get in the soil, and
Speaker 1: so you need to take extra good care of those roots.
Speaker 1: Everything the plant can get water and nutrient wise is
Speaker 1: still coming out of that cylinder of soil. And then
Speaker 1: as we get a few weeks a couple of months
Speaker 1: into the line, now we got roots that are going
Speaker 1: out and they've started to move out into the soil
Speaker 1: around it, and we have a little larger area that
Speaker 1: we're taking care of. But just remember, especially in hot weather,
Speaker 1: when you plant, that whole root system is still wound
Speaker 1: up in that little container sized cylinder of roots. And
Speaker 1: that's where something you know is mentioning the haster grows
Speaker 1: watered in. That's where something like that helps and helps
Speaker 1: it get established successfully. You hear me all the time
Speaker 1: talk about brown stuff before green stuff right here on
Speaker 1: garden line, and I don't know if that makes sense
Speaker 1: or not, but by basically all trying to say is this,
Speaker 1: get the soil right and ready and then put in
Speaker 1: your wonderful plants. I don't care if it's a tomato plant,
Speaker 1: a flower, a groundcover, a tree or a shrub or
Speaker 1: a perennial flower, whatever it is, you'll have better success
Speaker 1: with it. And Siena Maltz, if you're down south of
Speaker 1: Houston southeastern area, just north of Roach Sharon, Ciena Maltch
Speaker 1: is down there and there your go to place. Let
Speaker 1: me give you the website because there you can find
Speaker 1: phone numbers, times, all that stuff when you need to
Speaker 1: know later. Sienna Multch dot com, Sienamultch dot com, all
Speaker 1: of you out there in a Iowa colony, Quell Valley,
Speaker 1: riverstone Man both any Point, Lake or Pomona and Lake
Speaker 1: Olympia both that whole region. Cianna Maltz is your one stop.
Speaker 1: They deliver within about twenty miles for a small fee.
Speaker 1: You can buy bulk, you can buy bags, and all
Speaker 1: the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline are at Siena
Speaker 1: Mulch as well. I'm telling you the way to put
Speaker 1: it is when you drive off the property having visited
Speaker 1: Ciena Mulch, you have everything you need to make the
Speaker 1: brown stuff right, so you have wonderful success with the
Speaker 1: green stuff that you plant, the wonderful plants that you have.
Speaker 1: Cenamulch is open Monday through Friday till five, seven thirty
Speaker 1: to five and on Saturday, that would be today from
Speaker 1: seven thirty to two pm. Close tomorrow. So we get
Speaker 1: through a garden line. You need to head out there
Speaker 1: and start preparing for fall. Important to prepare for fall.
Speaker 1: You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
Speaker 1: r KTRH. Sometimes I give numbers, sometimes I give letters.
Speaker 1: I hate pecking through a phone looking for Okay, where's
Speaker 1: that letter? You know, I don't know. I know it's
Speaker 1: not rocket science, but it just seems tedious to me.
Speaker 1: But it's easier to remember letters. So we'll do that.
Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two kt r H. When
Speaker 1: was the last time you were out at Kingwood Garden Center?
Speaker 1: Are at Warren's Southern Gardens? You know they're both out
Speaker 1: there in Kingwood. You guys are spoiled at Kingwood. You've
Speaker 1: got two great garden centers right there, right there in
Speaker 1: the same area. Well, both of them are two go
Speaker 1: destination centers. You just have to go there. You got
Speaker 1: to see them. Warren Southern Gardens has a beautiful array
Speaker 1: of color right now and they have all the products
Speaker 1: you need to have success with it. Got some really
Speaker 1: good sales going on.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Late summer is always a good time people lose some
Speaker 1: gardening enthusiasm, and that's where smart gardeners go. Hey, is
Speaker 1: a great time to pick up some plants. And they
Speaker 1: go out there and they get them and they get
Speaker 1: them planted and they take care of them and they do. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's not a problem with that. Warren Southern Gardens. You
Speaker 1: got to go visit them just no matter what you're
Speaker 1: looking for, they're going to have plenty of it right
Speaker 1: out there, including the brown stuff in the bags that
Speaker 1: you want to take home with you to have success.
Speaker 1: And the fertilizers like the ones you hear me talk
Speaker 1: about here on garden Line. Warren Southern Gardens out there.
Speaker 1: They're actually out there on North Park Drive two eight
Speaker 1: one three, five four sixty one eleven two eight one
Speaker 1: three five four six one one one. Or you can
Speaker 1: just go to visit them on the web. I mean
Speaker 1: you can go. Actually, the website's pretty pretty beautiful. They
Speaker 1: did a real new revamp of it. I kind of
Speaker 1: like the new the new look. It's Warren's Southern Gardens
Speaker 1: dot com. Warren Southern Gardens dot com. Go check it out.
Speaker 1: That's a really good helpful information. Well, you're listening to
Speaker 1: garden Line. Let's see here we are about short on
Speaker 1: being able to take another call right now, But if
Speaker 1: you would like to get on the phones with Chris
Speaker 1: and we can have you first up next hour. Just
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Speaker 1: buying a house and looking at some different things that
Speaker 1: you know, import on on the property in terms of
Speaker 1: having success and things. And I was just I always
Speaker 1: kind of always check the outside. When you're gonna buy
Speaker 1: a house, check the brick and see if there's cracks
Speaker 1: in the brick. If you got a house, do the
Speaker 1: same thing. Cracks in the sheet rock inside, cracks running
Speaker 1: from the corner of a window down the wall. Those
Speaker 1: are all signs that you may have some foundation problems.
Speaker 1: And our clay soil that shrinks and swells and literally
Speaker 1: moves it wrecks havoc on foundations and sidewalks and driveways.
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Speaker 1: Tell him you're a guardenline listener. If you think you
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Speaker 1: Would not mess around with that kind of issue because
Speaker 1: it's your home. Buy of your home. Well, I want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about vegetable guarding. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to wait until we get into our
Speaker 1: next segment to be able to do that, but we
Speaker 1: will be right back. I want to remind you that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be at the Fall Home, an outdoor
Speaker 1: living show up in Conroe, Texas next weekend September seventh
Speaker 1: and eight. September seventh and eight. I'll be there on
Speaker 1: the seventh, that's Saturday, the DIF from twelve to two.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be answering gardening questions. First of all,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a little talk on fall gardening, so
Speaker 1: come on in and hear that. Also, while you're out there,
Speaker 1: I'll be sticking around for lots of Q and A.
Speaker 1: You folks normally about whereby brain now with questions and answers.
Speaker 1: And I enjoy visiting with gardeners and meeting our show
Speaker 1: listeners and things, So come on out the Fall Home
Speaker 1: and Outdoor Living Show next Saturday, September seventh. They'll also
Speaker 1: be going on the eighth as well. Let's see, it
Speaker 1: is at the Lone Star Convention and Expost Center out
Speaker 1: there across from the County Extension Office on Airport Road,
Speaker 1: Lone Star Convention and Expost Center, So anyone up in
Speaker 1: that region, hope you come on out. Given away a
Speaker 1: lot of really nice micro life products that have been
Speaker 1: provided and you need to kind of get some of
Speaker 1: those sample and try anounce yourself. We'll be right back.
Speaker 12: You hear more and more about idline.
Speaker 1: We are glad you're listening, looking forward to talking to you.
Speaker 1: You can call in if you like seven to one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r H seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r H. Buchannan's Plants
Speaker 1: in the Heights is another one of those wonderful destination
Speaker 1: independent garden centers that there's just nothing like it here
Speaker 1: in the greater Houston area. You know, we're so fortunate
Speaker 1: here type places like Buchanan. Buchanan's Native Plants is actually
Speaker 1: the proper name, because they do specialize in all kinds
Speaker 1: of natives, and I mean they have. They had to
Speaker 1: post recently. You got to follow them on Facebook, by
Speaker 1: the way, and subscribe to their newsletter, but there to
Speaker 1: post recently about ten plants that you can plant for
Speaker 1: the cold and flu season, things that you know help
Speaker 1: with cold severity or boosting the moon immune systems, and
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. If you want to go in
Speaker 1: there and get the native plants from this area, they're
Speaker 1: going to have a wide variety and be able to
Speaker 1: tell you how to do that. If you want to
Speaker 1: go in and say, hey, I like hummingbirds, what can
Speaker 1: I plan to attract hummingbirds. They're going to have stuff
Speaker 1: like that. That's the kind of place it is. And
Speaker 1: you're going to be surprised if you haven't been there
Speaker 1: and you walk in and you see the house plant greenhouse,
Speaker 1: it's going to be like, this is huge. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought this was just a native No, it's not
Speaker 1: a native plant place only. It's a native plant place
Speaker 1: and a lot more. I love going into Buchanans and
Speaker 1: you will too, those of you already go. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Buchanans Plants dot Com on a lease.
Speaker 1: That's the website Bukinsplants dot Com on East eleven Street.
Speaker 1: They're in the heights today. It would be a great
Speaker 1: day to go and check them out. Let's go up
Speaker 1: to Willis, Texas and talk to Ann. Hello Anne, Hi,
Speaker 1: welcome to gardener.
Speaker 13: Thank you. I spoke to you a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 13: We recently built a house and the pad that it's
Speaker 13: on is clay, of course, and you had said to
Speaker 13: till in decomposed granite and rose soil. But I didn't
Speaker 13: ask how much how.
Speaker 1: Flower bed? Yes for a flower bed, yes, And I
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't tell you decomposed. Granted, it's it's expanded
Speaker 1: shale that you.
Speaker 7: Put in shale. Okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: You scared me to death right there for just a moment.
Speaker 13: Sorry about that. So expanded shale and rose soil? How much?
Speaker 13: How thick of a layer and how far do I
Speaker 13: till it?
Speaker 11: In?
Speaker 1: Well? To get the full effect of expanded shale, you
Speaker 1: need to put three or four inches down and mix
Speaker 1: the things deep as is practical. You know, a rotortiller
Speaker 1: only goes so deep, a spade only goes so much.
Speaker 1: But it's the it's having a good volume of it,
Speaker 1: you know, just like a granule here and a granule
Speaker 1: there with clay all in between them, that's not going
Speaker 1: to be as helpful. So if anything you put down
Speaker 1: and maybe next year when you're replanting things or whatever,
Speaker 1: put more down or whatever. But expanded shell lasts and
Speaker 1: so several inches of that and as far as the
Speaker 1: what was the bed mix you mentioned? Just roast soil,
Speaker 1: roasts oil, thank you. Yeah, and the roast soil. I
Speaker 1: would if you can go like at least thirty percent
Speaker 1: with the soil that you have. If you can go
Speaker 1: more than that, that's even better. So like, if you
Speaker 1: are you using a spade and fork or a rototiller
Speaker 1: to do this?
Speaker 13: Well, I was going to use a tiller, but okay,
Speaker 13: I would have but either one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, I mean if you go as deep
Speaker 1: as that tiller is going to go, you're probably looking
Speaker 1: at about five inches, right, probably not that well, no,
Speaker 1: I mean it's fine. You can break the soil up
Speaker 1: a little lower with that. But here's what I'm just thinking.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna go like, let's say you can mix
Speaker 1: six inches deep. If you add three inches and mix
Speaker 1: it of rose oil and mix it in as deeply
Speaker 1: as you can, then add another six inches and mix
Speaker 1: it again. You're getting a lot of volume mixed with
Speaker 1: those two. And the bed just keeps getting higher as
Speaker 1: you do that, which is important for drainage. Also.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1: All right, have fun.
Speaker 13: That's appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, take care, Thanks for the call. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Have you guys ever tried sweet green from
Speaker 1: nitrofoss I talk about it from time to time, and
Speaker 1: you know, sweet green is an eleven percent nitrogen fertilized
Speaker 1: which is really high for an organic type product. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a molasses based type product, and that's why
Speaker 1: it has its name sweet green because it literally smells
Speaker 1: sweet and it's got that sugar in it that those
Speaker 1: carbon chains feed beneficial bacteria and they're just good for
Speaker 1: stimulating microbial activity and the soil. Sweet grain is available
Speaker 1: widely across this area. If you're up to hide and
Speaker 1: feed on Student Air Airline, you're going to find it out.
Speaker 1: RCW Nursery on tom A Parkway is going to have it.
Speaker 1: If you got to Kingwood to the Ace Hardware on
Speaker 1: Kingwood Drive, you're going to find it there. Sweet Grain
Speaker 1: from nitrofoss It works well at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: I would apply about half of it and a few
Speaker 1: weeks later apply the other half. Just kind of spread
Speaker 1: it out a little bit more. You can apply it
Speaker 1: all at once if you want. That's also okay. Just
Speaker 1: know that we got fall fertilizing season coming soon and
Speaker 1: sweet grain will get you that quick boost for the
Speaker 1: end of the gardening summer gardening, lawn care season to
Speaker 1: give you a quick greening up of the sod that
Speaker 1: you have. So if your area is struggling and needs
Speaker 1: a little boost, sweet grain be excellent, excellent product just
Speaker 1: to do exactly that. You're listening to garden Line, and
Speaker 1: the number, if you'd like to give me a call
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Speaker 1: resources up toward Conro. In fact, if you're going up
Speaker 1: Highway forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in, that's
Speaker 1: the road that comes in from Montgomery or Magnolia. Excuse me, Magnolia.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: If you turn right and go across the railroad tracks
Speaker 1: Nature's Ways right there, and Nature's Way has been building
Speaker 1: quality soils for a very long time. That is the
Speaker 1: birthplace of rose soil that we were just talking about
Speaker 1: within Nature's Ways, the birthplace of the leaf mold composts
Speaker 1: that we put on the top of this the ground
Speaker 1: when we're doing aeration and compost top dressing and a lawn.
Speaker 1: Super high quality product. You're going to find at Nature's
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Speaker 1: You can have them deliver it either way you want
Speaker 1: to go. And while you're out there, if you go
Speaker 1: pick it up, check out their native plants and other
Speaker 1: plants in the nursery, a very nice little garden center
Speaker 1: of plants that they put together. Also out there on site,
Speaker 1: they're at Nature's Way Resources, and the whole crew out
Speaker 1: there has done an outstanding job. It just keeps getting
Speaker 1: better every time I go visit. I'm just oh, look
Speaker 1: this is new. That's that's cool. I like what you
Speaker 1: guys have done. That's just how it's going out there
Speaker 1: at Nature's Way resources. I was wanting to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about vegetables. You know, fall vegetable gardening is
Speaker 1: really kind of here, and when we come back, if
Speaker 1: I got time, I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about what we can plant and when. So stay tuned.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back or looking forward to talking to you.
Speaker 1: And if you'd like to give a scalt, the number
Speaker 1: is seven to one three two one two kt r
Speaker 1: H seven to one three two one two kt RH.
Speaker 1: I was talking about vegetables, and I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say that it's time. It's you know, we're already been
Speaker 1: playing for a while now. We've been planning tomatoes and
Speaker 1: peppers and eggplant for the fall garden. You know, they
Speaker 1: have to have time to grow and to set fruit.
Speaker 1: And once we get a little bit of a break
Speaker 1: in the temperature, then things like tomatoes that don't like
Speaker 1: to set in the heat, especially the big slicer types,
Speaker 1: they'll begin to set. But you got to get them
Speaker 1: far enough along so when we finally do get the
Speaker 1: first frost, you've gotten a harvest in the meantime. That
Speaker 1: is important. As we get into September, we start to
Speaker 1: get a coal front in. That always reminds me, hey,
Speaker 1: it's time to get out there. And by the way,
Speaker 1: a September coal front should be called a slightly cooler front.
Speaker 1: That's about what it amounts to, but tied to plant
Speaker 1: the coal crops, which are also called cruciferous vegetables, which
Speaker 1: are also I like to just say the blue leaf vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower,
Speaker 1: a cole, robbie, collards, kale, Brussels sprouts. What did I
Speaker 1: leave out to say cauliflower. Anyway, those all begin to
Speaker 1: go in in September when it cools off a little bit.
Speaker 1: More lettuce and spinach will be added to the mix
Speaker 1: as we go along into the cool season. Carrots also,
Speaker 1: they don't like the heat, to do a little bit
Speaker 1: better when we wait a little bit on planting them.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of great vegetables out there. And now,
Speaker 1: if you don't have a vegetable garden, don't think you
Speaker 1: have to plow up the back forty to have one.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is get you some good sized
Speaker 1: containers and you can grow anything that we grow. Typically
Speaker 1: for fall, you can grow in a container at least
Speaker 1: five gallons I like to do that because it just
Speaker 1: makes it easy to care for them. A little bit
Speaker 1: of container. You're trying to water them twice a day
Speaker 1: when it's so hot and things, it's not worth it.
Speaker 1: About five gallons are larger. Larger is fine. You can
Speaker 1: grow carrots, You can grow all the things I talked
Speaker 1: about in a container. So if you got kids, especially
Speaker 1: get them involved. You know, when kids grow their own vegetables,
Speaker 1: they are much more likely to eat them and maybe
Speaker 1: set them on their way to a healthier lifestyle. Which
Speaker 1: we know that our number one health issues are caused
Speaker 1: by the things we put in our mouth. Basically, that
Speaker 1: and a lack of moving around. Those two things. It's
Speaker 1: easy to fix those two things. Especially you're a gardener
Speaker 1: and all you need is some containers to be a
Speaker 1: vegetable gardener. You can do it. So never done it before,
Speaker 1: Try it. Try it out this spring in Chanted Forest
Speaker 1: down in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are they would be
Speaker 1: a great place to go get your plants. They got
Speaker 1: a wonderful selection of herbs down there and their new
Speaker 1: vegetable I say house. It's kind of a pull barn
Speaker 1: type structure. Wow, pull Bard's not a good description of it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they just put that up and it's loaded with vegetables.
Speaker 1: They're always going to have whatever's timely for the season.
Speaker 1: And Enchanted Forest, and they're not just a vegetable place.
Speaker 1: I mean they've got every kind of flour and shrub
Speaker 1: and tree. I don't know, what are you looking for?
Speaker 1: Are you looking for shade plants? You're looking for blooming plants.
Speaker 1: You want things that'll bring in hummingbirds and things. They've
Speaker 1: got that down there. All you have to do. Chanted Forest.
Speaker 1: It's on FMS twenty seven fifty nine, So if you're
Speaker 1: in Richmond heading towards sugar Land up fifty nine, it's
Speaker 1: off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. Check
Speaker 1: out their their website. It's Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 1: Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X dot com. They have an
Speaker 1: outstanding website, very very good website, and it will give
Speaker 1: you a lot of good information and it'll inspire you
Speaker 1: want to go visit. And today'd be a good day
Speaker 1: to get out of Enchanted for us too. By the way, See,
Speaker 1: let's let's go back the phone here. We're going to
Speaker 1: go to the Woodlands and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 14: Morn you skip. I have some sure knockout roses that
Speaker 14: are played in the ground about five foot tall. I
Speaker 14: was wondering if it's a time that cuts them back
Speaker 14: for like a fall bloom right now, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You can. I would cut them back by I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe a fourth or something like that. We're getting a
Speaker 1: you know, it's still a good time to cut them back.
Speaker 1: You cut them back by third some people, we'll do that.
Speaker 1: And then when we get to the end of winter,
Speaker 1: if you want to keep those knockouts smaller, if you
Speaker 1: want to, you don't have to do this, but you
Speaker 1: can cut them back significantly at the end of winter,
Speaker 1: and then just be ready to prune them once or
Speaker 1: twice more as we go through the season with a
Speaker 1: lighter shearing to maintain a more compact size.
Speaker 14: So a quarter to a third then right now, a.
Speaker 1: Quarter to a third, Yeah, something in that range. Follow
Speaker 1: that up. Get you some you know, gets you some
Speaker 1: good fertilizer sprinkled on the ground, watered in really good,
Speaker 1: and get those things up and growing again. You know
Speaker 1: you want to. After you cut them back, it's going
Speaker 1: to invigorate them. And so you just want to provide
Speaker 1: them some nutrition so that as they begin to grow,
Speaker 1: they they've got all the nutrients they need to support
Speaker 1: that new regrowth that comes because you prune them back.
Speaker 14: Ay fertilizer you recommend.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of great ones out there. Nitroposs
Speaker 1: has a special fertilizer for the for roses specifically. They've
Speaker 1: got a number of significant quality fertilizers. There are a
Speaker 1: couple of different hibiscus blends, but they do have a
Speaker 1: really excellent rose fertilizer comes in a little canister, typically
Speaker 1: in the garden center. She would find it like that
Speaker 1: and it would work very well. Roses respond to a
Speaker 1: boost a fertilizer following the pruning. You're gonna have one
Speaker 1: heck of an October if you get that done real soon.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it off too much.
Speaker 14: By the way, great, Thank you all.
Speaker 1: Right, sir, Thanks very much, appreciate your call. Let's see
Speaker 1: here if you'd like to give as call seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two five eight seven four. That is
Speaker 1: the number. We love. Feed stores on guard Line and
Speaker 1: League City Feed is no exception. I mean, it is
Speaker 1: a perfect example of one of the good old mom
Speaker 1: and pop type feed stores, you know, still carries the
Speaker 1: bags out for you and you go in there and
Speaker 1: it just of course they got feed. I'm more interested
Speaker 1: in the gardening part. They've got all the fertilizers that
Speaker 1: I talk about here on guarden Line. They're going to
Speaker 1: have some of the soil blends too, by the way,
Speaker 1: some real high quality they carry. I know they carry
Speaker 1: heirloom soils down there in the feed store. They also
Speaker 1: have the things you need to control pests and insects
Speaker 1: and diseases that are there. So it's really a one
Speaker 1: stop shop. They're open money through Saturday, nine to six,
Speaker 1: closed tomorrow, closed on Sunday, but nine to six alives
Speaker 1: you to swing by after work if you need to.
Speaker 1: So all of you down in that whole region, Oh Comino, Ria,
Speaker 1: Webster Bay, Cliff, League City, Stanley owned Lamark all through there.
Speaker 1: This is your hometown feed store. Here's a phone number
Speaker 1: two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight
Speaker 1: one three three two sixteen twelve. That's it. League City
Speaker 1: feed Store. Just what are they now about? Just a
Speaker 1: few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three.
Speaker 1: It's real easy to get to. While you're listening to
Speaker 1: garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here
Speaker 1: to answer your gardening questions. What are your questions? What
Speaker 1: would you like to talk about today. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot of things we can be visiting about, for sure.
Speaker 1: I was talking about vegetables and the things that we
Speaker 1: can be planting at different points in this fall season.
Speaker 1: I just want to remind you with any kind of
Speaker 1: thing you're growing, but vegetables are certainly no exception, the
Speaker 1: higher quality the soil is, the better off you are.
Speaker 1: And that includes adding organic matter into the soil, bed mixes,
Speaker 1: veggie nerd mix those kinds of things. It includes adding
Speaker 1: nutrients to the soil quality fertilizers for example, asamite is
Speaker 1: a micro nutrient. And I talk about azimite all the
Speaker 1: time for applying to the lawn, and that's fine. I
Speaker 1: mean that's primarily what people use asmite for applying to
Speaker 1: the lawn to give the trace minerals into the soil
Speaker 1: bank account so the turf grass can draw from that
Speaker 1: as it needs them. But you use azimite in a garden,
Speaker 1: I would say put it out. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: looking at a vegetable garden, about ten pounds per thousand
Speaker 1: square feet, one pound per hundred square feet and a
Speaker 1: vegetable garden. It goes a long way. But remember this
Speaker 1: is a trace mineral. You know, it's not like we're
Speaker 1: putting out, you know, forty pounds of fertilizer for a
Speaker 1: lawn or something over an area. This is a trace mineral,
Speaker 1: so we doesn't need as much. Goes a long way.
Speaker 1: Azamite Texas dot com Asomite Texas dot com. That is
Speaker 1: the website. If you want to learn more, you're going
Speaker 1: to find this everywhere you go. There's a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of places here in the Greater Houston area. Feed stores,
Speaker 1: garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilized. All those places
Speaker 1: you're going to find azamite. I always like it when
Speaker 1: people carry stuff, so, you know, the most frustrating thing
Speaker 1: in the world is to be told, oh, you need
Speaker 1: to go get some of this, and then you go
Speaker 1: and you can't find it. Well, we try to avoid
Speaker 1: that from happening here on Garden Line. The Nelson Watergardens
Speaker 1: out there in Katie is a place that I suspect
Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners have not been out there,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a good road trip suggestion,
Speaker 1: and grab some people when you go, get some friends,
Speaker 1: gardening friends or whatever at Halm out there, because it
Speaker 1: is not just going to a garden center. This is
Speaker 1: a place. They have set up water gardens all through
Speaker 1: the back end of that property and you walk through there.
Speaker 1: They ought a charge a mission just for the peace
Speaker 1: of mind. Maybe give you a lawn chair and charged
Speaker 1: mission just to sit among the sound of the moving water. Oh,
Speaker 1: it is therapeutic. It is wonderful. You're going to want
Speaker 1: to put some of that in your house, in your
Speaker 1: landscape or rather, and they're going to be able to
Speaker 1: tell you how to do it or do it for you.
Speaker 1: They'll do both. They have an excellent selection of plants,
Speaker 1: always plenty of things to choose from there. And if
Speaker 1: you want to do a water garden or a waterfall
Speaker 1: or a disappearing fountain, which they invented at Nelson's by
Speaker 1: the way, they are nationally known for that. Nelson Watergardens
Speaker 1: dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Just head out ten
Speaker 1: to Katie Turn north on Katie Fort Benroad and it's
Speaker 1: just a stone's throw up the street there on the
Speaker 1: right hand side. I'm telling you that. I keep trying
Speaker 1: to talk everybody into going out and seeing the place
Speaker 1: because it is really really cool. I put some water
Speaker 1: in my backyard. I have a little multi layer fountain
Speaker 1: in the backyard, and just the sound of that, and
Speaker 1: you know, you go out and you sit outside and
Speaker 1: it just it's wonderful. And birds hear that too, by
Speaker 1: the way. They hear the sound of splashing water and
Speaker 1: they come and boy along with my feeders. The birds
Speaker 1: just they love that, absolutely love it. And other things
Speaker 1: that are important to us need water, you know, like
Speaker 1: beneficial insects. There's a lot of beneficials, including our pollinating
Speaker 1: bees for example, that need a place where they can
Speaker 1: get a little drink of water. And it is hot
Speaker 1: in some places, it's been pretty dry as well, and
Speaker 1: so it doesn't have to be hot and dry for
Speaker 1: very long for these insects and birds and things to
Speaker 1: need a place. So i'd encourage you to think about
Speaker 1: doing something like that. You are listening to Guardline. Our
Speaker 1: phone number is seven to one three. Excuse me, let
Speaker 1: me give you the right number, seven to one three
Speaker 1: number seven one three two one two k t R H.
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Speaker 1: great blends, including the fruit berry and citrus mix. They've
Speaker 1: got the veggie and herb mix. They've got cactus and succulent,
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Speaker 1: the Greater Houston area. You won't have any trouble finding it. Well,
Speaker 1: it's time for me to take a break for the
Speaker 1: news today. Hey, if you'd like to give me a
Speaker 1: call and talk gardening, well, here's the number you need
Speaker 1: to do that. It is seven to one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t r H. Seven to one three
Speaker 1: two to one two k t r H. I was
Speaker 1: discussing doing some vegetable gardening in the fall, and it
Speaker 1: is time. It is time to start doing that. If
Speaker 1: you were going to start your coal crops by seed
Speaker 1: that again, coal crops, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, co Robbie Collared's
Speaker 1: kale am I forgetting Brussels sprouts. I love Brussels sprouts out.
Speaker 1: You can start those seeds, but you need to get
Speaker 1: that done really soon because you're going to want to
Speaker 1: get those things planted. Definitely about four weeks after seeding.
Speaker 1: It'd be good if they could last a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: It's probably better at this state to just go ahead
Speaker 1: and get you some transplants. That makes it easy and
Speaker 1: may if you're planting an acre of it, okay, start
Speaker 1: some transplants yourself. But if you're just putting some plants
Speaker 1: out there and the gardener and containers, just go buy
Speaker 1: a transplant and do it that way. It's off to
Speaker 1: a good start. When you get that transplant home, you
Speaker 1: want to put it in the ground and you want
Speaker 1: to give it a good start. And I would suggest
Speaker 1: that you take a product like Microlife Biomatrix that's an
Speaker 1: orange labeled liquid. It's a gallon or a quart, two sizes.
Speaker 1: You can buy Biomatrix liquid. It's a seven to one
Speaker 1: to three fertilizer. It would be great for watering those
Speaker 1: plants in. There are many other great microlife products that
Speaker 1: you could use. Certainly the dry the dry fertilizers down
Speaker 1: into the ground. And this is you know, normally I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the green bag and say put it on
Speaker 1: your lawn and things. Use a green bag in your
Speaker 1: vegetable and if you want. But they have many others.
Speaker 1: They've got products for citrus and fruit trees, for example.
Speaker 1: They have products that are designed for different times of
Speaker 1: the year. For example, we're going to be talking about
Speaker 1: some of their fall fertilizer a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm thinking more in terms of transplants. You know,
Speaker 1: they've got the humates, plus they've got the the microlife molasses.
Speaker 1: They've got the Microlife ocean harvest, which is a fish based,
Speaker 1: the seaweed Microlife super seaweed, the combination. If you're going
Speaker 1: to do seaweed, I would do the ocean harvest and
Speaker 1: the seaweed together. Just get the right amount put in,
Speaker 1: put in a gallon of water, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit of this, a little bit of that, Put them
Speaker 1: together and use them as a folier feed. They work
Speaker 1: really well. But back to the watering d there's a
Speaker 1: Microlife soil and plant energy product. It's kind of a okay,
Speaker 1: here I go I'm color challenged. Pink ish, maybe violet pink,
Speaker 1: I don't know what color that is. But anyway, Microlife
Speaker 1: soil and energy it works very well, as does the biometrix.
Speaker 1: Just by the way, I use biometrics on houseplants and
Speaker 1: it works super super well or for them as well.
Speaker 1: Offer microlife go to microlifefertilizer dot com. You find out
Speaker 1: where to buy it, which is pretty much everywhere. In fact,
Speaker 1: if I talk about a gardens or a feet store,
Speaker 1: talk about Ace hardware stores and Southwest Fertilizers, all those
Speaker 1: places and more. Down at Ciena Mulch they carry these
Speaker 1: microlife products. So when you're down there, remember I said,
Speaker 1: that's a place where you get everything. You need to
Speaker 1: have good brown stuff, so you can have good green stuff.
Speaker 1: All microlife products also available down at Cenamulch. You're listening
Speaker 1: to Guardline. Our number is seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two five eight seven four, and that'd be a good
Speaker 1: time to call. We've got some open lines here seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I
Speaker 1: want to remind you if you are into strawberries or
Speaker 1: you would like to grow your own strawberries, there's an
Speaker 1: event coming on out in Lake Jackson, Texas at the
Speaker 1: Lake Jackson Rec Center. The Recreation Center on at ninety
Speaker 1: one Lake Drive and Lake Jackson. This is September the
Speaker 1: twenty first. That would be a Saturday from eight a m.
Speaker 1: Till twelve noon. I can annual Strawberry Jamboree by the
Speaker 1: Brazoria County Agrolife Extension Office Horticulture Department. Now the time
Speaker 1: to apply strawberries here is really you know, October is
Speaker 1: a great time to do it. Late September is okay too.
Speaker 1: October is a great time to do it. And if
Speaker 1: you go to this event, you're going to learn how
Speaker 1: to grow strawberries from a number of super speakers. I
Speaker 1: was at the event last year and very impressed with
Speaker 1: the quality of speakers that they had. They're going to
Speaker 1: have exhibitors there and they're also going to have strawberry
Speaker 1: pluge that you can pre order if you'd like to
Speaker 1: do that. But here's the most important part of the
Speaker 1: whole event. Strawberry shortcake contest. I'm just saying. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: if you think you can make strawberry shortcake, well step
Speaker 1: up prove it. This is a free event. If you
Speaker 1: want more information called nine seventy nine eight six four
Speaker 1: fifteen fifty eight nine seven nine eight six four one
Speaker 1: five five eight, or just go to the Brazoria County
Speaker 1: Agra Life Extension Office, go to their website, give them
Speaker 1: a call. They can get you all set up with
Speaker 1: the information that you need to know. Don't delay, though,
Speaker 1: because these kind of things they tend to fill up,
Speaker 1: so I would I would go ahead and get that
Speaker 1: done sooner rather than later. And I don't care where
Speaker 1: you live in the Greater Houston area, it's worth the
Speaker 1: drive over to Lake Jackson for the second annual Strawberry
Speaker 1: Jamboree September twenty first, from eight am until twelve noon.
Speaker 1: Need to you know, I always tell people when when
Speaker 1: I give advice on vegetables, that they have to bring
Speaker 1: half the vegetables or half the fruit that they produce
Speaker 1: to the to the KTRH and we'll call it even.
Speaker 1: That's fair enough, right, don't charge for advice. But I
Speaker 1: can be paid in fruit and vegetables. Maybe I should
Speaker 1: be paid in strawberry shortcake on this one. That would
Speaker 1: That's just what I need is more more strawberry short
Speaker 1: cake to put in my mouth. I love that stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, Well we're gonna I'm gonna quit mumbling around.
Speaker 1: We've got to talk. We've got to share own tech Rose, Sharon,
Speaker 1: I believe and talk to Gary Gerry.
Speaker 9: Are you and road sharing, yes, sir, ROAs shar in Texas.
Speaker 9: But my question is about some property that I have
Speaker 9: up in Livingston, Texas. Okay, so it's mostly it's mostly
Speaker 9: pine trees, but I've got about an acre and a
Speaker 9: half field that I would like to get some kind
Speaker 9: of color up there, some flowers growing on the edges
Speaker 9: or something. And I was reading about periwinkle, which is
Speaker 9: pretty prolific. Do you think that would be a good
Speaker 9: idea for that sandy soil up there? Would a take
Speaker 9: root and grow well?
Speaker 1: Perry periwinkle is a really summer tolerant plant. And the
Speaker 1: only thought about periwinkle. You could do that now, But
Speaker 1: when it cools off, that periwinkle is gonna kind of
Speaker 1: quit doing its thing. And then with the first frost
Speaker 1: it's gonna or freeze, it's gonna kill it back. So
Speaker 1: you may get a little more bang out of your
Speaker 1: buck going with some other things that maybe wait a
Speaker 1: little bit, make sure and get that soil, right, and
Speaker 1: then plant something that's a little more of a cool,
Speaker 1: cooler weather plant.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Are you wanting to do it by seed?
Speaker 15: Is that the Is that the well?
Speaker 9: Either either way? Either either way?
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 9: I was thinking I was really wanting something that would
Speaker 9: come back every year, and I thought Perry Winkles were
Speaker 9: I thought they would come back from reading about it,
Speaker 9: but maybe not. Any suggestions you have.
Speaker 11: Would be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that would be a good one for summertime
Speaker 1: if you're going to do that. Another option, did you
Speaker 1: say this was an acre that was.
Speaker 9: Cleared up and it's about an acre and a half
Speaker 9: acre and a half yes, sir, And I don't want
Speaker 9: to do the whole thing. I just want to do
Speaker 9: around that, Okay.
Speaker 1: I was going to suggest wallflowers. Fall is an excellent
Speaker 1: time to plant wildflowers. You could throw out, you know,
Speaker 1: things like seeds of blue bonnets and other wildflowers. Plant
Speaker 1: them in the fall and you have a beautiful spring
Speaker 1: and then they recede and come back. As you said, okay,
Speaker 1: well then that's so.
Speaker 9: And then suggestions on where to get seeds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, for that volume, there's two places that I
Speaker 1: would suggest you consider. One is called wild Seed Farms
Speaker 1: and it's in Fredericksburg wild Seed Farms. And the other
Speaker 1: one is in Junction, also out West Hill Country area Junction,
Speaker 1: Texans called Native American Seed and they both have wildflower
Speaker 1: mixes for every area. For your area, you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to make sure and get blue bonnets that are the
Speaker 1: sandy land blue bonnet for up there. Sandy lands a
Speaker 1: little different than the blue bonnet you see down here
Speaker 1: in most places. Okay, you can go online, go online
Speaker 1: to those websites and you'll see the difference. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to try to describe it on the air, but
Speaker 1: it's a little different, but it does good in sandy soils.
Speaker 1: And then another option, I would get some seeds of
Speaker 1: different kinds of puppies. I know that these places, I
Speaker 1: know wild seed farms cells like the red core corn poppy,
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of different kinds of poppies
Speaker 1: that will recede. I would not use the bread seed
Speaker 1: poppy in that big of an area that uh well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we need to go into that
Speaker 1: or not, but I would use the corn poppy. Uh
Speaker 1: California poppy woil would all be good for you up
Speaker 1: in that area.
Speaker 9: Okay, well, I sure appreciate your advice this morning, and
Speaker 9: hopefully I can make my field look beautiful.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, thanks La Carl. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you got a beautiful thing going on up there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a little break and I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Happened to be cleared out, so I guess they knew
Speaker 1: you wanted to call. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: k t r H. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: k t r H. I was down at Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 1: the other day, which I often go by there because
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Southwest Fertilizer has everything you could possibly need.
Speaker 1: I need to pick up some products for some weed
Speaker 1: killing that I've been doing, and Bob just has a selection.
Speaker 1: If he Southwist doesn't have it, you don't need it.
Speaker 1: And I really mean that. That's not just a joke.
Speaker 1: That is serious because they have everything that you need
Speaker 1: to have success. Are you an organic gardener? Are you
Speaker 1: you know not organic? Don't you don't care? You use
Speaker 1: organic or synthetic? Bob has products for everything, fertilizers and
Speaker 1: past control and weed control and whatnot. I was getting
Speaker 1: some stuff I'm still experimenting around on some different approaches
Speaker 1: to nutsedge control. We posted something to the garden line
Speaker 1: Facebook page just yesterday. Reposted something which, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you don't follow garden Line on Facebook, you should
Speaker 1: just go to Facebook. Do go type in garden line,
Speaker 1: what word garden line, and you'll find that post. It's
Speaker 1: easy to find it as you scroll down. It's a
Speaker 1: picture of me with a shotgun in my MD pointing
Speaker 1: it at a nut sedge. Do you ever feel that way?
Speaker 1: Do a lot? Anyways? I put up their instructions on
Speaker 1: first of all, I put something that's a little linkedy.
Speaker 1: It's three pages, but it explains the different types of
Speaker 1: nutsedge we have, how they grow, and why that's important,
Speaker 1: and knowing how to control them. Most people fail at
Speaker 1: controlling nutsedge because they way too long to start, or
Speaker 1: they do a good job starting and then they stop
Speaker 1: for a while, they get busy, life goes on. I
Speaker 1: know how that is, and the nutsedge has time to
Speaker 1: recover and then they go back again. And just remember
Speaker 1: nuts edge. If you cannot ever let it have air,
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Speaker 1: Port Natchus and talk to Janet. Janette. Yeah, hey Janet,
Speaker 1: Welcome Toguardline. Hello, good morning, more, good question.
Speaker 7: I had two questions about tulip bups. When I bought
Speaker 7: them a long time ago.
Speaker 16: Someone told me to put them in the refridgerr rator
Speaker 16: about four weeks.
Speaker 10: Before you plan them.
Speaker 16: And I was sisted also in knowing what months to
Speaker 16: plant them.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we typically buy bulbs in the fall. Tulips,
Speaker 1: most tulips, there's a few very obscure exceptions, but most
Speaker 1: tulips are what we call one shot wonder. You know,
Speaker 1: you plan them, they bloom and they just don't naturalize
Speaker 1: and come back year after year after year like some
Speaker 1: of the other bulls can. So what we typically do
Speaker 1: is when we get the tulips, just go ahead and
Speaker 1: store them in the fridge, put them down, put them
Speaker 1: in a crisper or something. But make sure there's no
Speaker 1: apples or other vegetables in that crisper because those give
Speaker 1: off ethylene, or they can give off ethylene, and that
Speaker 1: messes up the bloom that's inside that bulb you put
Speaker 1: in there, So don't store them with fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 1: Then when we get to I typically would say between
Speaker 1: Christmas and New Year's you would begin to put them out.
Speaker 1: You want to get them in the ground and they'll
Speaker 1: get established, they'll get roots, and then they're going to
Speaker 1: come up and bloom. And if you wait it until
Speaker 1: let's say February to put them out, it would just
Speaker 1: be so fast and it'd be so warm that your
Speaker 1: blood times even shorter. So I like to start between
Speaker 1: Christmas and New Year's. The way I like to put it, Janet,
Speaker 1: is about the time the relative that have been hanging
Speaker 1: out at your house over the holidays you start to
Speaker 1: get away from them. That's a good time to walk
Speaker 1: outside and plant your tulips. That's how you know when
Speaker 1: it's time to plant.
Speaker 11: That's good.
Speaker 1: And how many ways in the fridge.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh, you can leave them as long as you want.
Speaker 1: But the typically they're stored just you know, when you
Speaker 1: buy them, they're just you know, in a box in
Speaker 1: the garden center, sitting on a shelf or something, so
Speaker 1: they don't have to live in a refrigerator. It's just
Speaker 1: before you put them out, you know, leave them in there.
Speaker 1: I would say, give them a month in there if
Speaker 1: you can. A lot of times. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times those would be pre chilled, but I would
Speaker 1: just store them in there to keep them in top shape.
Speaker 1: Because if you just go months sitting out in warm,
Speaker 1: hot weather in a garage or something, that's not gonna
Speaker 1: be good for you.
Speaker 8: Okay, I sure do.
Speaker 2: Thank you for all your hap.
Speaker 1: Have a nice I have fun. Send me pictures tulips
Speaker 1: when you when they started, you're real. Thank you, Bye bye, Janet.
Speaker 1: Tulips are interesting, interesting things. They're so beautiful. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you look at the pictures. Oh gosh, it's just
Speaker 1: I've never been to Holland to see tulips. I guess
Speaker 1: that's a trip I need to make. Not made that
Speaker 1: trip yet, and I need to that would that would
Speaker 1: certainly be good. I wanted to. Since we're talking about
Speaker 1: bulbs and things, when fall comes it is prime time
Speaker 1: for planting bulbs, and I would encourage you this fall
Speaker 1: to add a perennial bulb to your landscape. I mean,
Speaker 1: certainly I had several different types, but at least one
Speaker 1: it could be the ox blood lilies. Those are the ones.
Speaker 1: They're also called schoolhouse lilies because they typically bloom in September.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been parched, hot sun ground, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden we get a little co front and
Speaker 1: some cool rain down on the ground, and here they
Speaker 1: come up with their little red tubular flowers. They don't
Speaker 1: last a long time, but they are tough. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see these in homesteads where no one is taking
Speaker 1: care of them for decades and they're still going strong.
Speaker 1: That's a great bulb to have. You could consider iris.
Speaker 1: The cemetery iris is a beautiful iris. It does just well.
Speaker 1: Some types of bearded iris do well. There are certain
Speaker 1: daffodils that do well. The big larger flowered, and then
Speaker 1: the little clusters the paper white. It's the type of
Speaker 1: narcissus that they also there are certain ones that do well,
Speaker 1: and you go to a good here's another reason to
Speaker 1: go to a good independent garden center. They're going to
Speaker 1: carry ones that will naturalize you, or they'll be able
Speaker 1: to tell you if they do or not. And to
Speaker 1: buy one that naturalizes is an investment because think about this,
Speaker 1: that bulb is just going to multiply over the years.
Speaker 1: It's going to come back every spring or every fall,
Speaker 1: or every whenever. The thing blooms every summer. Rain lilies
Speaker 1: bloom typically in the summer, as do copper lilies. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of great naturalism books, some of those
Speaker 1: garden our garden centers, as they may already start getting
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I suspend I hadn't, but anyway,
Speaker 1: it's a great time, great time, and it just gives
Speaker 1: you those rewards. I like to plant mine in a
Speaker 1: way where when they die down in the village, I
Speaker 1: cut it back to she hollowed and done. Uh, you
Speaker 1: don't even know that they are. All of a sudden surprise.
Speaker 1: I walked around the corner of my house the other day,
Speaker 1: and I've got some ox blood lilies or scull block
Speaker 1: squaws lilies, and they were in an old black nursery pot,
Speaker 1: been setting up for years. The soil is almost all
Speaker 1: gone out of the pot from oxidizing, and the little
Speaker 1: boogers had balloons on them already because they got a
Speaker 1: little rain the other day. That is the kind of
Speaker 1: blow by life like one of my mentors, doctor Bill Welts, says,
Speaker 1: get your flowers, find your flowers and roses and cemeteries,
Speaker 1: because if dead people can grow it, you can to.
Speaker 2: Have und.
Speaker 1: All Right, folks, welcome back to guard Line. We're glad
Speaker 1: you are with us today. Always like to have folks
Speaker 1: listening in. And even better than talk to folks, find
Speaker 1: out how we can help you have a more bountiful
Speaker 1: garden and a more beautiful landscape. Do you live down
Speaker 1: south of Houston, Down south to Houston, and you know
Speaker 1: down direction of Alvin Well in Alvin on Elizabeth Street,
Speaker 1: you've got a garden center Jorges Hidden Gardens Horaes Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 1: If you haven't been by there, you need to swing
Speaker 1: by and check it out. They're open on Friday and
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday Friday from nine to three, Saturday from
Speaker 1: eight am to four pm, and on Sunday from eight
Speaker 1: am to four pm again, so it's easy to find
Speaker 1: all kinds of things out there. They really have a
Speaker 1: lot of different kinds of fruit trees too that you
Speaker 1: know contain our fruit trees. So whatever kinds of fruit
Speaker 1: you want for that area, well they've got the load
Speaker 1: shell stuff and that that's what you need for down there.
Speaker 1: You need apples and things that don't require a lot
Speaker 1: of chilling hours, plums, pears, avocados, peaches, all of that
Speaker 1: they seasonally will get in their vegetab plants and tomato
Speaker 1: plants specifically Peggy Martin roses and just on and on.
Speaker 1: If you need a tree or a shrub, they're an
Speaker 1: outstanding source for those. You got them right there on
Speaker 1: site and they'll come out and plant them if you
Speaker 1: need them to, happy to do that. On Elizabeth Street
Speaker 1: in Alvin. This is Horges Hidden Gardens seventeen seven twenty
Speaker 1: one Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of the Highway six.
Speaker 1: So all of you down there in Alvin and certainly
Speaker 1: Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, al Goo, Arcadia, Alta, Looma, all
Speaker 1: those communities. You got a little garden center there. You
Speaker 1: need to go check out, and I think you'll be
Speaker 1: very pleased with what you find when you get there.
Speaker 1: You are listening to garden Line and we're about to
Speaker 1: head out to the phones. Now to Spring Branch and
Speaker 1: talk to Herta. Hello, Hrta, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning. I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, hurt, I hope you're doing well. Oh
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: Thank you. My questions about shrip plants a friend of mine,
Speaker 3: I have a number of them, and she wants a
Speaker 3: couple of them, but she wants them in a pot
Speaker 3: until she decides or she's going to put them in
Speaker 3: her yard. What's the best method?
Speaker 10: Is that good?
Speaker 3: And when do we do that?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You go, it's the garden center her till you see
Speaker 1: those things in gallum pots. That's how people buy them typically,
Speaker 1: and so you can recreate that. So what I would
Speaker 1: do is if she's not in a hurry to put
Speaker 1: them in the ground, then I wouldn't be in a
Speaker 1: hurry to dig them. Let's get into fall. Let's get
Speaker 1: into late October, even early November. If you want, uh,
Speaker 1: and get them dug. Then the cooler it gets, the
Speaker 1: easier it is to get them dug and in a
Speaker 1: pot and watered in in that pot so that they
Speaker 1: have success. It's just so stressful to try to do
Speaker 1: it right now.
Speaker 3: Oh I agree with that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: Stressful on you too.
Speaker 3: Oh well, yeah, that's true. Well thanks a lot, take
Speaker 3: care all.
Speaker 1: Right, you bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate you bet.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that a lot.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I like birds, if you listen to garden
Speaker 1: Line more than once. I used to not be a
Speaker 1: bird person, but now I just enjoy them, and I'm
Speaker 1: not into the thing where I can hear every song
Speaker 1: and know what they are. I got a lap that'll
Speaker 1: do that though, by the way. But wild Birds Unlimited.
Speaker 1: That is the place for everything you need. Quality bird seed.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean cheap stuff full of red bebes
Speaker 1: that junk the birds kick out. I'm talking about if
Speaker 1: you buy it and it's in a bag at wild Birds,
Speaker 1: it goes into a bird's stomach. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: feed we want to feed the birds want to eat. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, there's things like sunflower seeds that they'll shell
Speaker 1: out and drop the shells on the ground. But you
Speaker 1: can even buy a no no waste, no mess. They
Speaker 1: call it blend of seeds. There it's hummingbird season though.
Speaker 1: You got to get your bird feeders. To go to
Speaker 1: Wallbirds and ask for the high perch hummingbird feeder. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite one. There. I've got several hummingbird feeders. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite one high perch from Walbirds. You go to
Speaker 1: WBU dot com forward Slash Houston w BU dot Com
Speaker 1: forward Slash Houston that sells all shows you all six
Speaker 1: wallbirds that are here in the Greater Houston area. The
Speaker 1: hummingbirds are here. I've already had them in my yard,
Speaker 1: and you got to get those feeders out there, take
Speaker 1: care of them because they are a long trip ahead
Speaker 1: of them, and as some of them head down south
Speaker 1: further than this, so we need to get those taken
Speaker 1: care of. Any kind of bird seed though, any kind
Speaker 1: of bird feeders, any kind of bird houses, and probably
Speaker 1: most important of all, quality bird advice. I always ask
Speaker 1: those Wildbird Unlimited manager soore managers and their staff bird
Speaker 1: questions every time I go in because there's something I
Speaker 1: need to know. All right, We're going to go now
Speaker 1: to talk to Dan. Hello Dan, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Morning skiff. But that you're doing well today, and I
Speaker 17: am than you had another addition to your fall vegetables
Speaker 17: and probably don't think about it as much as I do,
Speaker 17: but turnips and most oh yeah, and beets I left.
Speaker 17: I left the beats out as well.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 17: And another thing that I have hadn't had a chance
Speaker 17: to talk to you about is uh turf grass for
Speaker 17: shade areas. I have had Saint Augustine for years, and
Speaker 17: my trees kept getting bigger and bigger in the shade
Speaker 17: and got more dense, and the august is going away.
Speaker 17: So I did some grass, some some medium bladed soyge
Speaker 17: of grass some in there, and if uh it has
Speaker 17: thrived and has filled in where I had take all
Speaker 17: patch and then killed the sat And so my my
Speaker 17: grass has been transitioned from Saint Augustine in spots to
Speaker 17: Zorzia grass.
Speaker 1: And did you say palisades was the one? Okay, just
Speaker 1: one variety.
Speaker 17: There's some other other varieties, but that was that was
Speaker 17: one that I had access to and used it. It
Speaker 17: has a wide enough blade that it doesn't contrast that
Speaker 17: much with the with the width of the Saint Augustine.
Speaker 17: It's a dark green than the than the Saint Augustine.
Speaker 17: It's a beautiful grass and very good.
Speaker 1: I've got some palisades in my yard. It is a
Speaker 1: very beautiful grass, very tough and and versatile too.
Speaker 17: Yes, and as I say it, it stands to shade.
Speaker 17: And I've never seen the problem with all Right, say Dan, Dan?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 1: Did you have a question or just kind of reporting
Speaker 1: on some things?
Speaker 17: I just wanted to tell you feel to that end.
Speaker 1: That's perfectly okay. Hey Dan, I'm gonna I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go to a break, and so if you want
Speaker 1: to hang around, go ahead. We'll hold on to you.
Speaker 1: But I got to run here before before they cut
Speaker 1: me off. All Right, folks, I'll be right back. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the garden line, have you here? We're gonna
Speaker 1: head back to the phones here, Dan, I think you
Speaker 1: may have had a follow up question.
Speaker 17: Well one more comment?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 6: You interested in oakrah?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 17: And I have an oakrah variety that I have not
Speaker 17: been able to find in any seed catalog. But it's
Speaker 17: it's something that was planted out in my pasture. I
Speaker 17: guess carried it out there by birds, and it is.
Speaker 17: It's a wonderful spineless okra long slender pods and I've
Speaker 17: i'd just like to share seed with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be happy to do that. Yeah, I'd be
Speaker 1: interested in looking at it. So you don't know, though,
Speaker 1: how it got there. You just know somehow it got
Speaker 1: out there, right.
Speaker 17: Well, the only thing I can figure is in the pasture,
Speaker 17: and the birds abound to have carried it because there
Speaker 17: was a long ways from any any other gardens or
Speaker 17: any other place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, hey, thanks, I'm going to put you on hold.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on hold and uh, Chris
Speaker 1: producer will give you an email address, and if you
Speaker 1: would just email me, then we'll figure out how to
Speaker 1: get those seeds straight out. I may even trade you
Speaker 1: some seeds if you don't try something else. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. Appreciate, appreciate you call very much. You're
Speaker 1: listening to Guardline folks, and we're here to answer your
Speaker 1: gardening questions. Yes, I have an idea. You have an
Speaker 1: okra problem. I don't know if there's a wing of
Speaker 1: the Betty Ford Clinic for Okra growers, but if there is,
Speaker 1: I need to be admitted pretty quick, because my whole
Speaker 1: garden is basically okra right now, because I breed okra,
Speaker 1: cross okra different varieties and then take the out from
Speaker 1: that and plan them out and pick the ones that
Speaker 1: are best out and cross some more, and just I'm
Speaker 1: always messing with okra, and I think it's fun. It's
Speaker 1: easy to do, and boy, it likes the heat. You
Speaker 1: know what I was reading the other day. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a let me nerd out here just a little bit.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people turn their nose up at
Speaker 1: okra because it's slimy. Well, first of all, let me
Speaker 1: expand your vocabulary. We do not say us okra. People
Speaker 1: do not say slimy. We say mucilaginous because it sounds better.
Speaker 1: But if we grill ours, put a little olive oil
Speaker 1: on the outside, sprinkle them with sea salt, put them
Speaker 1: on a grill two minutes on each, two sides, and
Speaker 1: you're done. And it's not as a mucilaginous that way.
Speaker 1: When you cook it with acidic things like tomatoes and whatnot,
Speaker 1: it is not as musiclagins. But sometimes it's worth accepting
Speaker 1: the mucilage because it helps thicken soups and other things.
Speaker 1: I actually dry and grind the ocre up into a
Speaker 1: powder and my vitamins and basically turn it into something
Speaker 1: that could be added by the spoonfuld anything from a
Speaker 1: smoothie to a soup to you name it, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why this is important. Okra has two kinds
Speaker 1: of fiber. One fiber soluble, one is not soluble, insoluble
Speaker 1: and soluble fiber. One type helps with things like heart issues,
Speaker 1: you know, when we're dealing with things like cholesterol and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Another type helps with your intestinal track. You know, we
Speaker 1: all know that fiber is important in terms of good
Speaker 1: healthy microbes and let's just say it, things function properly
Speaker 1: in the intestinal tract. And Okra does all of that
Speaker 1: and a lot of other things. So there's my little
Speaker 1: mini Okra commercial. This was brought to you by the
Speaker 1: National OCRA Board. There's not one to my knowledge, but anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm basically like Rodney Dangerfield can't get no respect. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get Okra some respect here because it is
Speaker 1: a it is a good vegetable and I can tell
Speaker 1: you a lot of ways to use it you probably
Speaker 1: haven't heard of before that are very helpful because it
Speaker 1: is a good, healthy, healthy thing to have. All right,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you just one second.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 1: We were talking, I was talking just a minute ago.
Speaker 1: You know about vegetable gardening and the fall gardening and things.
Speaker 1: Fall is also for herbs. And if you are looking
Speaker 1: for any kind of herbs for seasoning your food, you know,
Speaker 1: a regular time those kind of things chives, garlic and onion,
Speaker 1: chives and all all those are yes, that's fall is
Speaker 1: the time to plant those. Anything you don't plant and
Speaker 1: fall that comes to mind immediately would be basil. Basil
Speaker 1: likes hot weather. But the rest of them, yes, plant
Speaker 1: them now. If you look for herbs, for flowers like
Speaker 1: Mexican met marigold blooms in the fall, Copper Canyon daisy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they count that as an herb,
Speaker 1: but it has. It's a fragrant one. You wouldn't eat it,
Speaker 1: but it's fragrant h And also Mexican met maragol blooms
Speaker 1: in the fall. Those are herbs. Make plans. Do an
Speaker 1: herb container, Put herbs at the end of your vegetable beds.
Speaker 1: Put herbs in an herb garden. Put herbs and flower
Speaker 1: beds herbs. You can grow your own tasty meal enhancing
Speaker 1: herbs easy, easy here in the Greater Houston area. Let's see,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out now to bel Air and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to is it Zefel.
Speaker 17: Right?
Speaker 1: Well, like heifeltower? But what disease gotcha Zeifel? How can
Speaker 1: we help today?
Speaker 6: How you doing? Good morning?
Speaker 11: A backyard? I got patches of clover like grass.
Speaker 18: It's starting to take over the.
Speaker 11: Whole entire backyard.
Speaker 15: I've heard some phosphorus mix some of the soil might help,
Speaker 15: but I deferred your judgment that long time listener, the
Speaker 15: first time caller.
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks for colling. Tell me again the specific weeds
Speaker 1: that you said.
Speaker 11: It's like clover like looking weeds.
Speaker 1: It's just okay, it's trying to take over. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, do not put more phosphorus on your lawn.
Speaker 1: The chances of your lawn needing phosphorus are extremely low. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: just not to say lawns don't need phosphorus. It's just
Speaker 1: that they're there's probably enough in your lawn, and they
Speaker 1: do a soul test and prove me wrong. But in general,
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, I'd say, don't don't add
Speaker 1: much more phosphorus. But as far as those weeds, the
Speaker 1: thicker you get your lawn, the less clover like weeds
Speaker 1: you're going to have, whether it's a medic or a
Speaker 1: clover or you know, all those kinds of plants that
Speaker 1: you're just gonna have lass. So that is number one.
Speaker 1: I've got a schedule. I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: ever been to my website. It's gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: Gardening with Skip dot Com. There's a schedule there that
Speaker 1: tells you. It's the mow, water and fertilized schedule. It's
Speaker 1: a law. It's called the lawn Care schedule, and it
Speaker 1: tells you exactly how to do all the things you
Speaker 1: do to make that lun denser and these problems go
Speaker 1: away over time as you build density. Secondly, there's the
Speaker 1: weed Disease and Pest schedule. It's also free online, just
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Speaker 1: products you would use to prevent weeds from sprouting and
Speaker 1: what products you use to kill existing weeds. And with
Speaker 1: those clover utweeds, you can approach them both ways. You
Speaker 1: can prevent them with products like nitrofoss barricade, or you
Speaker 1: can kill them once they're growing. But you just have
Speaker 1: to follow that schedule because there are certain products that
Speaker 1: will hurt your lawn and you don't want to use those.
Speaker 11: Yes, sir, all right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Hey, thanks for the Oh, good
Speaker 1: luck with that. Good luck with getting that under control.
Speaker 1: I get my hang I turned trouble here in my
Speaker 1: computer this morning. It's not cooperating with me. There we go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I Uh friend of mine out in Mississippi, his name
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Speaker 1: Uh Veelder has an interesting approach. He has a la
Speaker 1: faire approach to lawn care, very lisi fair. And I
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Speaker 1: And there's some people that are lawn Nazis. I call
Speaker 1: them the lawn rangers. On the weekend, they are going
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Speaker 1: mow a weedy lawn and take off your glasses and
Speaker 1: look at it and it looks birty good. Now, some
Speaker 1: people aren't tolerant of that, and I think most of
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Speaker 1: fall is a good time for herbs. Fall is a
Speaker 1: good time for everything, and I just I really want
Speaker 1: to stress the importance of fall planting. If I could
Speaker 1: change one, well, you know, one thing. If I could
Speaker 1: change ten things, this would be one of the ten.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things I'd like to change in gardening,
Speaker 1: but this is one, and that is if I could
Speaker 1: take some of that spring fever and bottle it up
Speaker 1: and spring everybody's itching to get out and plant, and
Speaker 1: everybody's a gardener, it seems like fall. We need to
Speaker 1: take that bottle of spring fever and put it in
Speaker 1: the water supply for fall, because fall is the best
Speaker 1: planting season of the year. Anything perennial, anything, woody trub trees,
Speaker 1: woody vines, any perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, a cool season color,
Speaker 1: all of that. Fall is prime time for that. And
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Speaker 1: they have all winter to grow a good root system
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Speaker 1: We're going to go out to Baytown now and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk to Carol. Hello Carol, and welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 7: I'm in the military, and you a couple of pictures.
Speaker 1: Hang on one second, okay, Hey, let me put you
Speaker 1: on hold and let you send those and I'll come
Speaker 1: right back to you. How about that.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: You've got it. You've got it. We're going to go
Speaker 1: now to Carol in Spring, Texas.
Speaker 18: Hey Carol, another Carol.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I hate to admit, but I was not able
Speaker 11: to do my.
Speaker 18: Summer fertilizing when they usually do in July the nineteen fourteen.
Speaker 1: No problem.
Speaker 4: Can I do now to make up for anything?
Speaker 1: You can do a couple of things. You could put
Speaker 1: on something temporary to give a little boost if your
Speaker 1: lawn is not looking real great. Uh, and that could
Speaker 1: be a number of different products. The Bruces brew from
Speaker 1: Nelson's is a good good one for that.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: The oh gosh, it just went blank. Sweet Green from
Speaker 1: nitroposs is another good One's going to give a good
Speaker 1: quick release and do that. Fall fertilizing is coming. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been to my website and looked at my
Speaker 1: lawnch schedule on there?
Speaker 15: No, I just usually look, okay, book.
Speaker 1: Well that's fine. Here here I want to give you.
Speaker 1: I want to give you a It's gardening with Skip
Speaker 1: dot com and on there I tell you exactly when
Speaker 1: to fertilize through the year and what to use. And
Speaker 1: it's similar to Randy schedules. I've I've I've developed them
Speaker 1: a little further along, and so I encourage you to
Speaker 1: go take a look. There's a lot of information on there.
Speaker 1: But we're going to be doing fall fertilizing at the
Speaker 1: end of September or in early October. We'll be doing
Speaker 1: fall fertilizing and things. So that's right, kind of caught
Speaker 1: in between. But you could do a little. If the
Speaker 1: lawn doesn't look good, go ahead and give it a
Speaker 1: little something that's quick release, right.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, very good.
Speaker 18: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, you bet appreciate the call. We're going to
Speaker 1: go now. I believe this is the original Carol. Is
Speaker 1: that right?
Speaker 8: Just send me an email I did.
Speaker 7: I did.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go looking for that right.
Speaker 1: I hope that darn thing comes through real quick here
Speaker 1: so we can take a look at it. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and start asking me your question.
Speaker 19: And okay, well, I've never grown to sparagus before, and
Speaker 19: so I decided.
Speaker 3: To do it.
Speaker 19: But I put it in a bed that had zinias,
Speaker 19: and then some morning glories have come over it. I
Speaker 19: bought it as a bulb, and I heard you weren't
Speaker 19: supposed to a read you weren't supposed to cut it
Speaker 19: until like year.
Speaker 1: Three or something.
Speaker 7: Well, it looks like a hairy child. Okay, yeah, And
Speaker 7: I don't know whether to cut it back or not.
Speaker 7: But if you see the pictures, there's morning glories all
Speaker 7: in it, and I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I haven't gotten the pictures, but I
Speaker 1: don't need them for this question. What you're going to
Speaker 1: want to do the morning glory follow that line wherever
Speaker 1: it comes out of the ground. There's a little tuber
Speaker 1: under the ground, swollen root like a sweet potato, because
Speaker 1: they're kin to sweet potatoes, and just dig those up.
Speaker 1: That's the best approach in a crop that is edible
Speaker 1: that you don't want to kill with herbicide. Trying to
Speaker 1: kill the morning glory, you kill the asparagus too, So
Speaker 1: just hand dig those if you can. If there are
Speaker 1: too many of them. There's some other approaches to that.
Speaker 1: We could talk about that maybe on another call. But
Speaker 1: and as far as you're asparagus, when we get into
Speaker 1: winter and have some really good cold weather, cut it
Speaker 1: back to the ground and then in the spring as
Speaker 1: it comes up, if they have a decent size shoot
Speaker 1: coming out of the ground, you can go ahead and
Speaker 1: harvest them, but at some point those shoots are going
Speaker 1: to get smaller where they aren't like pencil size, and
Speaker 1: then you got to stop harvesting and let that asparagus
Speaker 1: plant send up shoots to capture sunlight to replenish its
Speaker 1: stored reserves.
Speaker 19: Yeah, because that's what the weeds are doing right now,
Speaker 19: or the greenery right it's storing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they're doing. But when we get into
Speaker 1: a good, good freeze, then go ahead and cut it
Speaker 1: back and then you can harvest in spring. Which spring
Speaker 1: here for asparagus comes really early. It's probably January February.
Speaker 7: Oh really, okay okay, And I grow okra and I
Speaker 7: got a purple okra from.
Speaker 19: Buchanans and I love it if I have one, been
Speaker 19: sixt plant, and then I got two purple ones.
Speaker 7: And yes, we roasted all the time.
Speaker 1: So all right, sounds good. Thank you appreciate that. You bet,
Speaker 1: you bet. We're gonna let's see here. We've got to
Speaker 1: take a little break and when we come back, Tom,
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Speaker 1: now going to go out to Beaumont and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 1: welcome to the garden Line. Do we have a mic?
Speaker 1: All right, Mike, I'm gonna have to put you on hole.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to Janice in Katie. Hello, Jennis, Yes, Hi,
Speaker 1: good morning morning.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 8: I was calling him because I have some sort of
Speaker 8: issue with my tree and I sit pictures. I'm wondering
Speaker 8: if you get help me with that. It looks like
Speaker 8: spiders or something. Is our email the leaves?
Speaker 1: Okay, Jennie, I do not have any emails from a
Speaker 1: Janics in my box. Let's need this. Would you try
Speaker 1: res sending. I'm gonna put you on hold. Just make
Speaker 1: sure you got the right email. If you've already, If
Speaker 1: you already talked to the producer about that, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But I want you to resend and if I can
Speaker 1: see them, I will take a look and see if
Speaker 1: we can help you. But I just don't have those
Speaker 1: photos right now.
Speaker 20: Okay, I'm looking for it now, I'll send it again,
Speaker 20: because I'll send it all right.
Speaker 1: Well, I've looked back that far and I don't see him.
Speaker 1: If maybe if the email addresses something other than Janice.
Speaker 2: Uh, but.
Speaker 11: I'll see.
Speaker 1: But I'll all right send it again and call in.
Speaker 1: If we don't get the pictures, I'll still try to help. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. I appreciate that. I'm gonna go out
Speaker 1: to Mike and Beaumont. Mike you there, Hey, Mike, how
Speaker 1: can we help?
Speaker 11: No, this is Russell. I guess we have the wrong name,
Speaker 11: but this is Ruffll and Beaumart okay, O good. Yeah,
Speaker 11: And what I got here is peaches. And I'm trying
Speaker 11: to fan out.
Speaker 21: But the peach tree that I have in Beaumart, when
Speaker 21: it gives this, it gives them about the size of
Speaker 21: a ping pong ball. And then I noticed other trees
Speaker 21: that I've seen in the area. They're about the same
Speaker 21: side back, the side of.
Speaker 11: The ping punk ball, you know, not very big like okay,
Speaker 11: and I'm trying to see is that their size? If
Speaker 11: you know what tree I'm talking about, Can they get
Speaker 11: up to about a pool ball size?
Speaker 1: Oh no, they'll get bigger, even bigger than a poolball.
Speaker 1: They can. Uh, Mike, did you plant this from a
Speaker 1: seed or did you purchase a peach tree and planet?
Speaker 21: No, this is one that was fun in the yard
Speaker 21: that I have, and it's been given pieces. But it's
Speaker 21: a part of one that was throwed out and it.
Speaker 1: Growed got you gotcha? Okay? Well, Uh, so that could
Speaker 1: be part of the problem. You know, it's not an
Speaker 1: improved variety, it's just a seedling.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 1: It'll still make an edible peach. But in order to
Speaker 1: have good size on your peaches, you need a good
Speaker 1: healthy tree. So I say out all the weeds and
Speaker 1: grass from around it as far out as the branches,
Speaker 1: if you can go that far, and just have a
Speaker 1: big mulch bed underneath there so that tree doesn't have
Speaker 1: to compete with things. Secondly, you're want to print it
Speaker 1: so that it gets good sunlight all through the tree.
Speaker 1: And there's instructions online how to prun peach trees and stuff.
Speaker 1: But the more you open it up and get good
Speaker 1: sunlight and it the better. And then here's the last thing.
Speaker 1: You need to thin those peaches so that if you
Speaker 1: were to open your hand as wide as you can,
Speaker 1: like you raise your hand, all your fingers are sticking
Speaker 1: out in all directions, from the tip of your little
Speaker 1: finger to the tip of your thumb. That's how far
Speaker 1: peaches should be apart on a branch. If they're closer
Speaker 1: than that, something's got to go. I know that's hard
Speaker 1: to do. But when you make them stay at least
Speaker 1: that far apart, which is going to be over six
Speaker 1: inches probably across, you're going to end up with a
Speaker 1: bigger peach by thinning them out. So thinning and then
Speaker 1: adequate water. As we're getting into summer and it's hot.
Speaker 1: If the water lacking, the peach is going to be smaller.
Speaker 11: Oh okay, And I got the prone and part. When
Speaker 11: is a good time to do that? Pune? And since
Speaker 11: the piece is off now, but it still have leave
Speaker 11: on that on the tree.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're into winter before the new spring growth begins
Speaker 1: when it. Don't wait until it's already blooming. But I'll
Speaker 1: get on into winter. Once all the leaves are off
Speaker 1: of it, you can prone it. But it's better to
Speaker 1: prune later in the winter than early in the winter.
Speaker 1: It's better to prune mid to late winter.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, all right, and then just do a good
Speaker 11: pro life and uh, yeah, around the base of the tree. Okay,
Speaker 11: we'll do.
Speaker 1: All right. And when they occur, all I ask is
Speaker 1: you bring me half the peaches to the radio station,
Speaker 1: drop them off here and we'll call it even Mike,
Speaker 1: you take care of stay out of trouble, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna go now to let's see where
Speaker 1: are we going next?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Texas to talk to Wally.
Speaker 4: Hello Wally, Hello Scart, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Good beat. How can I help?
Speaker 11: Okay?
Speaker 18: I have a twenty two year old Japanese magnolia sitting
Speaker 18: outside my kitchen window. And typically in the leafs all
Speaker 18: come off in the December time frame, and then about
Speaker 18: mid February it buds in the little Uh. I guess
Speaker 18: it's the buds for the flowers. And then it's leaves
Speaker 18: out and it's green all year. Well, last week all
Speaker 18: the leave turned brown and they all dropped and guess what,
Speaker 18: I got buds on the tree all over again. Is
Speaker 18: that normal for a It's magnolia in the middle of something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what happened. You know, Normally that's
Speaker 1: what it would do in a drought or if it
Speaker 1: had root injury or something like that. It would it
Speaker 1: would do that. I don't know what caused it on
Speaker 1: your tree specifically, but if it's putting out new buds,
Speaker 1: let it go ahead and do it. It's not a
Speaker 1: great thing to happen, but there's plenty of time for
Speaker 1: those new shoots. It's using stored energy to grow new
Speaker 1: shoots and leaves, and when it uses that, then those
Speaker 1: leaves can capture sunlight and strengthen it before we hit
Speaker 1: real winter. Okay, but that's about water. What is in
Speaker 1: your control. Make sure it doesn't lack for water, but
Speaker 1: don't keep it soggy wet either.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 18: It we water about three times a week and that
Speaker 18: bed only gets it for about ten minutes, so it's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably needs probably needs a little more of a
Speaker 1: deep soaking when we get into hot weather than that.
Speaker 1: That would be okay my suggestion. All right, Hey, Wally,
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Speaker 8: Yes, did you receive the picture?
Speaker 1: I did not. I do not know what's going on.
Speaker 1: I'm going to look into it. We're about to have
Speaker 1: to have at the top of the hour break here, Jennis.
Speaker 1: I will look at it and keep listening. I will
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Speaker 1: I will pick that up. Thank you. I hear the music.
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Speaker 1: Right, all right, and you're listening to garden Line. I'm
Speaker 1: just jumping right in on the music this time. We
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Speaker 1: you don't waste money on plastic, and you even save
Speaker 1: money on fertilizer when you refill those things. Just another
Speaker 1: good deal, another reason to go with Nelson's products. I'm
Speaker 1: going to head back to Katie now, Jennis, I found
Speaker 1: what we're looking for, and I think I had sent you, sir,
Speaker 1: I sent you a reply to your email back. This
Speaker 1: was a good while back. But anyway, what that was
Speaker 1: a red bud tree right blooms in the spring. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that tree, there's nothing you need to worry about
Speaker 1: right now. I know it looks bad, but it's got
Speaker 1: lots of green leaves on it that are producing carbohydrates,
Speaker 1: and it's going to set bloom buds and it's going
Speaker 1: to bloom beautiful next spring. You had some old caterpillar
Speaker 1: damage and they have moved on. And if you look
Speaker 1: whenever you see a leaf that's been chewed, if you
Speaker 1: get up in the morning and you go out and
Speaker 1: look at it, if it was a caterpillar that was feeding,
Speaker 1: you know, during the night or whatever, you would see
Speaker 1: fresh cuts on those leaves. But where you see the
Speaker 1: little brown edge around where the feeding has been done,
Speaker 1: it means it was done days ago. And now that
Speaker 1: edge has dried and turned brown. And so that's why
Speaker 1: I'm thinking there aren't any check it over. But the
Speaker 1: culprit's going to be a caterpillar if they're still around,
Speaker 1: and if you find if you find one sprays a
Speaker 1: b T B as in boy Tea is in tom
Speaker 1: bt BT will control them. I'm going to put my
Speaker 1: money in the basket that says you don't need to
Speaker 1: worry about it. They're long gone. Some bird ate them,
Speaker 1: some wasp carried them away. Those paper wasp beat caterpillars
Speaker 1: all day, so who knows, they probably went in there
Speaker 1: and cleaned them up for you.
Speaker 20: Oh okay, so I just just ignored. Next year, it'll
Speaker 20: blow them as it normally does later this year.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I know we get all nervous when we
Speaker 1: see holes in leaves and brown spots and things like that,
Speaker 1: and that's natural. But the bottom line is trees do
Speaker 1: not and plants do not need all their leaves to
Speaker 1: be able to succeed and do well. And so a
Speaker 1: little bit of damage here and there, while we don't
Speaker 1: like the look of it, it's no cause for alarm.
Speaker 1: You don't need to go spend money and spend Saturday
Speaker 1: afternoons spray and stuff.
Speaker 20: Oh great, because this is the first year this has
Speaker 20: ever happened. I've had the tree about seven years and
Speaker 20: it looked like it was like a spider web at
Speaker 20: one point on their Okay, it was.
Speaker 1: It was that particular. If you saw that, that is
Speaker 1: the fall webworm. The fall webworm. Now they'll be coming
Speaker 1: back to one degree or another. That this is usually
Speaker 1: when we see them coming back. But if you see
Speaker 1: the spiderwebs, you can just take a strong blast of
Speaker 1: water and blast those thing open and squirt them in
Speaker 1: the face with a little bt Let them eat that
Speaker 1: and it'll get them too.
Speaker 11: Okay, oh great, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, Jenny's thank you for the call. All Right, folks,
Speaker 1: we got a little bit of room here on the
Speaker 1: phones if you'd like to give a skull seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two kt r H seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two kt r H. I want to remind
Speaker 1: you this weekend listen, if you are anywhere in the
Speaker 1: northwest quadron of the Houston area, you need to run
Speaker 1: down to the Ace Hardware store at Barker Cypress and
Speaker 1: FM five twenty nine. Barker Cypress and FM five twenty
Speaker 1: nine right on the edge of the Copperfield neighborhood over
Speaker 1: there Langham Creek. Ace Hardware. This is their grand reopening.
Speaker 1: I was there this spring. We had a great time
Speaker 1: at an event out there, and they kind of said, well,
Speaker 1: they told me, then they go, we're going to be
Speaker 1: kind of closing down here a little bit, getting it
Speaker 1: redone and having a grand reopening. So they got all
Speaker 1: that work done. I mean, they didn't completely shut down,
Speaker 1: but boy it is. They're having a party out there.
Speaker 1: Yesterday they gave away an Eggo power string turmer two
Speaker 1: undred and fifty dollars value. Today they're giving away a
Speaker 1: Weber Spirit to gas grill four hundred and fifty dollars value.
Speaker 1: They're doing demonstrations on the Big Green Egg and the
Speaker 1: Gosny pizza oven, the best one of the top pizza
Speaker 1: ovens on the market. You got to see that thing.
Speaker 1: If you need any kind of steel power equipment, fifteen
Speaker 1: percent off today only at Langham Creek Ace Hardware at
Speaker 1: the corner of Barker, Cyprus and FM five twenty nine
Speaker 1: Northwest Houston. Fifteen percent off today only. Don't go tomorrow
Speaker 1: and look for that deal. It's today. Tomorrow they'll be
Speaker 1: doing a giving away a painting room makeover two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars value and doing a demo on trigger grills another
Speaker 1: great grill. Ace Hardware always carries lots of good grills.
Speaker 1: You know, if you need an ACE Hardware in your area,
Speaker 1: you just have to go to acehardware dot Com find
Speaker 1: the store locator, and there's forty of them to choose
Speaker 1: from in the greater Houston area. I'm going to head
Speaker 1: now out to Spring, Texas, and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: to Carl. Hello, Carl, Hi, Skip, How are you doing
Speaker 1: this this morning? I'm good, I'm good. How can we
Speaker 1: help you before I have to go to a break here?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 17: I've got an oak tree that's about a foot around
Speaker 17: in diameter and it's losing its bark in chunks. Got
Speaker 17: one piece that's about palm size and another that's about
Speaker 17: double the size of your hand.
Speaker 1: The diameter of the tree is what did you say,
Speaker 1: it's about twelve inches. Are those bark chunks coming off
Speaker 1: on the south west side of the tree, Yes, it is, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's old coal damage that occurred from just a freezing
Speaker 1: temperature when the bark had warmed up a little bit
Speaker 1: and it got that damage. The tree is now healing
Speaker 1: that area back over and the loose barks coming off
Speaker 1: just pull off the loose bark so that interior wood
Speaker 1: dries out real quick after it gets wet, and it
Speaker 1: should be okay. Make sure you give them adequate fertilizer
Speaker 1: and what it needs. I really have to run here,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to get you that answer. Just
Speaker 1: fertilize and water and I think it'll be okay. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: I got a break for the news here and I'll
Speaker 1: be right back. If you are dealing with insects in
Speaker 1: the lawn that could be chinchbugs, that could be the
Speaker 1: fall not the fall web worm, side web worm, that's
Speaker 1: the one that gets in the grass. You never know
Speaker 1: every year where it's going to be a bad side
Speaker 1: web worm year or not. But if it is, night
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Speaker 1: find nitrofoss products like bug Out Max. I want to
Speaker 1: heading out of the phones. We're going to go up
Speaker 1: to Humble and talk to Bernie. Hello, Bernie, welcome to gardenline.
Speaker 10: Hello, Yeah, theys take my call.
Speaker 22: I have an evergreen tree I planted a couple of
Speaker 22: years ago, and it's been growing well. But all of
Speaker 22: a sudden, it start turning brown and ask completely brown,
Speaker 22: and I don't know what would have happened to it.
Speaker 1: Do you know anything about what kind it is? By
Speaker 1: any chance?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 6: No, I really don't.
Speaker 1: Let me. Let me ask you this. Does it have larger,
Speaker 1: you know, broad leaves, flat leaves like most plants do,
Speaker 1: or is it more like a cedar or a juniper planet?
Speaker 6: Yes, it's more like a cedar.
Speaker 1: Okay, good. So those plants can only put new shoots
Speaker 1: out where they have green leaves. They have a scaly
Speaker 1: like leaf. It's sometimes called a needle, but it's a
Speaker 1: scally like leaf. And if those die, that shoot can't
Speaker 1: reach sprout like it would on most other plants. So
Speaker 1: any branches on that tree or shrub that are brown,
Speaker 1: it's it's just going to go away. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: never going to come back. So if you want to
Speaker 1: give it a little more time to be sure, you can.
Speaker 1: But I think you need to look at that tree
Speaker 1: and imagine it without all the limbs that don't have
Speaker 1: a green needle on them, And that is going to
Speaker 1: be the decision. Do I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: pull it up because that's too ugly, or do I
Speaker 1: want to leave it and live with it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: That the way it looks now, it looks like it
Speaker 6: needs to be pulled up. I don't know what it
Speaker 6: all to die, but it just it's gone.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We lost a lot of those during last year's hot,
Speaker 1: hot summer and drought outright kills some partially killed others
Speaker 1: and weakened some others that had started to continue to
Speaker 1: die this year. Uh, And it's just, you know, just
Speaker 1: too much of stress on that particular plant. But they're
Speaker 1: tough plants, but one day hit that point where the
Speaker 1: needles turn brown, that branch, or if the whole plants brown,
Speaker 1: the whole plant is lost, all right, Bernie. Sorry to
Speaker 1: be the bearer of bad news. But uh, the only
Speaker 1: other thing will be wait and watch a little bit.
Speaker 1: And maybe the plant proved me to be a liar,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I would bet my ys take the case. Sir,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very much. We're going to go
Speaker 1: now to Mark in Cyprus. Hey, Mark, how can we help?
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I don't
Speaker 6: dug what they call a vertical drain. I got a
Speaker 6: low spot in my yard, and I think I dug
Speaker 6: about eighteen inches in or down.
Speaker 23: It seemed like it worked, but I don't know if
Speaker 23: I dug like further, like far enough down?
Speaker 6: Do you have any recommendations?
Speaker 1: Well, a vertical drain doesn't hold a whole lot of
Speaker 1: water because it's just a hole, right, Are you talking
Speaker 1: about a trench that leads off somewhere else.
Speaker 23: No, I dug about eighteen inches and I lined it
Speaker 23: with that like fiber, like that yard fiber. I don't
Speaker 23: know what it's called. Then I put okay, some some
Speaker 23: gravel not gravel, but you know, rock.
Speaker 6: Rock in it. And then I put like one grates
Speaker 6: over it. So it worked. But yeah, you know, I
Speaker 6: just don't know.
Speaker 1: How well it holds a little bit of water. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you start looking at the amount of
Speaker 1: water that can run off, you may be looking at
Speaker 1: hundreds of gallons of water that could potentially run to
Speaker 1: that area. I don't know. I'm not there at your site,
Speaker 1: but so partially effective. Normally, what's done is either a
Speaker 1: subsurface drain sideways pipe is put in through the ground
Speaker 1: like a sewer line, except it's going to work backwards.
Speaker 1: It's going to bring water in and drain it away
Speaker 1: to a lower area. That's called a French drain. Or
Speaker 1: you can create that pit like what you described and
Speaker 1: have a sump pump in it that when it gets
Speaker 1: water in it, the pump kicks on and a pipe
Speaker 1: takes the water off somewhere else. That can also be
Speaker 1: underground so you don't see it. But so either a
Speaker 1: natural gravity drain to a lower spot, or like a
Speaker 1: pit with a sump pump in it, to a lower
Speaker 1: spot and they make containers you sink in the ground
Speaker 1: that the water it goes through the grade, it goes
Speaker 1: into the container, and then when water gets in there,
Speaker 1: the pump kicks on just like a sump pump would
Speaker 1: normally work. Those are your two options for going past
Speaker 1: what you've already done.
Speaker 6: Okay, I appreciate it, sir.
Speaker 1: You met, thanks for the call. Mark. I appreciate appreciate
Speaker 1: that lot. And by the way, folks, Piercecapes does this
Speaker 1: kind of work. Pierscapes is a landscape company. They do
Speaker 1: all kinds of things. They'll fix you irrigation system it's
Speaker 1: got problems. Do you want landscape lighting? Do you want
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Speaker 1: a stone barbecue pit, enclosure kind of thing. They do
Speaker 1: all of that, but they also do drainage work. And
Speaker 1: here in Houston, where we have clay sools and it
Speaker 1: rains a lot, most years, we end up with these
Speaker 1: areas that stay two wet, you know, just like Andy's
Speaker 1: having to deal with out there, and Piercecapes can come out.
Speaker 1: They've got all the equipment to do it right, to
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Speaker 1: We're going to go now to the woodlands and talk
Speaker 1: to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to Gardline.
Speaker 15: Hey, good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 4: Went down the spring Guardens nursery.
Speaker 15: The other day and bought a real red grapefruit in
Speaker 15: a Miho satsuma. They were in two gallon containers. We
Speaker 15: transplanted them into twenty gallon containers that they still have
Speaker 15: the support steaks. And I was listening to your show
Speaker 15: earlier and a couple weeks ago, maybe in you mentioned
Speaker 15: that the wind helped strengthen the root system and all
Speaker 15: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: I was wondering when I could pull those those steaks
Speaker 4: off of those plants.
Speaker 1: You can do it kind of when you want, And
Speaker 1: it's actually the stems that it strengthens whenever. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a principle in nature that, Matt, when do you
Speaker 1: stress something that's living, it gets stronger. You know, you
Speaker 1: go to the gym and you work your muscles out
Speaker 1: and so we you can hardly lift your arms up,
Speaker 1: and you do that week after week, and your muscles
Speaker 1: get stronger. Well, the same thing happens to a tree
Speaker 1: branch or trunk. When the wind bends and stresses it,
Speaker 1: it just gets more lignant and it gets stronger.
Speaker 11: And so.
Speaker 1: I don't see the tree that you have. I'm not
Speaker 1: there looking at it. But could you could give it
Speaker 1: a little looser wrap where it can move a little bit,
Speaker 1: just so you don't take the steak away if it's
Speaker 1: a little if it's a little skinny, scrawny, you know, branch,
Speaker 1: I might not want to take it off just suddenly,
Speaker 1: and it may just kind of break or something. But
Speaker 1: just take a look at it and get a feel
Speaker 1: for it. If you think it's strong enough to hold
Speaker 1: on its own, take the steak out. If you want
Speaker 1: to leave it for a while, that's fine. Just allow
Speaker 1: it to move a little bit. Just move in a
Speaker 1: little bit, is all. It takes a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And by the way, Miho's one you can I've seen
Speaker 1: satsuma's in half whiskey barrel size containers and you can
Speaker 1: grow them in that. They do want to get bigger
Speaker 1: than that, but you can do that. The grape root
Speaker 1: may be a little more of a challenge to keeping
Speaker 1: a really small container because it's an even bigger stature
Speaker 1: tree in nature, but you can give it a try.
Speaker 1: Maybe at some point you have to you have to
Speaker 1: move it out of the ground. Just just keep an
Speaker 1: eye on it.
Speaker 4: No, I appreciate that, Skip, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate
Speaker 1: that very much. Let's see here. We're going to go
Speaker 1: now to Andy in spring. Hey, Andy, welcome to guardline.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks, Kip.
Speaker 14: Is it too late to plant a second crop of
Speaker 14: tomatoes for a fall harvest?
Speaker 1: We're on the line. Normally I would get it done
Speaker 1: before now, so it has time for those plants to
Speaker 1: grow to a good size. So you can have more
Speaker 1: of a tomato harvest if you did it now and
Speaker 1: you had a tomato that was very quick to harvest,
Speaker 1: not something like a brandywine that takes a days to
Speaker 1: get there, but something like, I don't know, something that's
Speaker 1: going to be more of a seventy five or seventy
Speaker 1: two or even shorter day to harvest variety. You might
Speaker 1: get some from it. You have to do a little
Speaker 1: bit of protecting it if we have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a frost and keep it going. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing about tomatoes. As we go into fall and the
Speaker 1: nights get cooler and cooler, the growth slows down, so
Speaker 1: that you know, I say sixty days to harvest in
Speaker 1: you and think, well, I got sixty days before the
Speaker 1: first freeze. But it's going to slow down, so it's
Speaker 1: going to take even longer than that normal time that
Speaker 1: it would take because it's getting cooler and cooler on it.
Speaker 1: So it's a little bit of a roll of the dice.
Speaker 1: If you're determined to give it a try, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: talk you out of it, but in general I try
Speaker 1: to get that done a little bit earlier. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: thanks so much, Skip, take care, thank you. Let me
Speaker 1: let me Yeah, you bet, Thanks Andy, I appreciate I
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Speaker 1: to go to Valdo and Pasadena. Valdo, I'm going to
Speaker 1: have about thirty seconds here before I have to go
Speaker 1: to break, But can you just give me the initial
Speaker 1: question and then we'll come back to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I have a maple tree. I put in
Speaker 5: a couple of years back, thirty gallons, and it was
Speaker 5: doing great. Then a real strong, strong windstorm came through
Speaker 5: and broke it, and it broke out the right at
Speaker 5: the top. Anyhow, that's where we're at. And then I'll
Speaker 5: wait when you come back and finish the.
Speaker 9: Rest of it.
Speaker 1: All right, you take care, I'll be right back. You'll
Speaker 1: be the first stup when I come back. Folks, is
Speaker 1: time for news break. We'll be right back. Did you
Speaker 1: have you back on garden line. We're going to go
Speaker 1: straight back out to Valdo and Pasadena. Hey, Valdo, we
Speaker 1: were talking about your tree and when how long has
Speaker 1: it been in the ground, Like months years it's.
Speaker 2: Been in the ground.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been in the ground for It was thirty gallons.
Speaker 1: I put it in in twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: Two and it was a thirty gallon maple. Some wind
Speaker 5: came through Pasadena, a really strong wind, and it broke it,
Speaker 5: leaving me about a two foot you know, two foot left,
Speaker 5: and so I basically didn't do anything with it. I
Speaker 5: just took what was broken, took it off, and I
Speaker 5: left it in the ground. Well, sure enough, we're here
Speaker 5: today and it's branched off like a bush. So it
Speaker 5: now the middle is still damaged, and you can see
Speaker 5: where it's split, but it's like branched off, and it's
Speaker 5: it's it looks like a bush now. So my question is,
Speaker 5: outside of the aesthetics, do I leave it in there?
Speaker 5: Or should I take it out?
Speaker 6: Is it how?
Speaker 11: You know, it's kind of what I'm wondering, But it's blooming.
Speaker 1: If it were yeah, if it were mine, i'd take
Speaker 1: it out and put a new one in. I think
Speaker 1: overall that's the simplest and the best long term. If
Speaker 1: you were trying to keep it, the way you would
Speaker 1: do that is you would cut everything off except a
Speaker 1: very upright shoot coming out of it. Anything upright coming
Speaker 1: out of it. Cut off the trunk right above that
Speaker 1: about an answer above that, and then in time that
Speaker 1: would become the new trunk. But in the meantime you're
Speaker 1: going to be taking away other branches and shoots from that,
Speaker 1: pruning and whatnot. And it's really set back. So again,
Speaker 1: going back to my first answer, I would replace it
Speaker 1: if it were mine. Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 5: I never thought again, I thought it was going to
Speaker 5: be done.
Speaker 6: But apparently, yeah, it's bloomed like crazy. All right, I
Speaker 6: appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, sir, apparently I had a will to live.
Speaker 1: Let's go out to Parallel now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
Speaker 1: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 12: Hey man, I am sitting here at the ground up
Speaker 12: and I'm ready to get some two year old leap
Speaker 12: polst composts. I just aerated my grass yesterday and a
Speaker 12: beautiful day to do it. And if one of what
Speaker 12: else should I drop in there?
Speaker 11: That might be good for my lawn.
Speaker 12: I had some bug damage and some fungus damage and
Speaker 12: it's coming back.
Speaker 11: But I'm throwing down.
Speaker 12: I'm throwing down some two year old leap polst compost today.
Speaker 12: What else do you get to drop in there? Since
Speaker 12: I just did it so that just erated, I would.
Speaker 1: Oh, you've done the aerration. You put the compost on,
Speaker 1: rake it around a little bit. Make sure it's a
Speaker 1: very finally ground compost, not anything chunky, because you want
Speaker 1: it to some of it at least to fall down
Speaker 1: in those holes. And then I'd wait, we're coming up
Speaker 1: on fall fertilization season, and that's not far away, about
Speaker 1: a month away, and so let's just hold on and
Speaker 1: then the next thing you do is that fall fertilizer.
Speaker 1: And if you go online to my website Gardening with
Speaker 1: Skip dot com, that's where the schedule is and it
Speaker 1: tells you when and what.
Speaker 7: Got it?
Speaker 4: Okay, perfect, all right, thanks, all right.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that lawn getting it back in shape.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. You know, one of the quality of fertilizer
Speaker 1: blends that are out there is Microlife. You know, Microlife
Speaker 1: has a wide variety of things for the lawn. Typically
Speaker 1: through the summer, we put on the green bag. We'll
Speaker 1: be putting on the brown patch here pretty soon. That's
Speaker 1: the brown bag that's designed for fall fertilization. And so
Speaker 1: that's coming. But I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about some of the other great products that Microlife has
Speaker 1: some outstanding liquid products, and they don't talk about those enough,
Speaker 1: so I just kind of will mention those a little bit.
Speaker 1: Microlife has one called Soil and Plant Energy. Now that
Speaker 1: is not a fertilizer, that is something to think of
Speaker 1: it as food for the microbes. And that is one.
Speaker 1: It's got over sixty three minerals in it. By the way,
Speaker 1: good good simulation of the root system. So drench it
Speaker 1: in whenever you're going to plant a plant. And by
Speaker 1: the way, it fall, and I hope you're planning on
Speaker 1: planting a plant. Falls the best planting season of the year.
Speaker 1: Mix up some of the Microlife liquid energy. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a I got somebody. I gotta get somebody who
Speaker 1: knows colors to tell me what color this is. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a pink, kind of a periwinkle. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's some I'm gonna quit. I'm I'm saying something I
Speaker 1: know nothing about. And that's the names of all these colors.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's the bottle. It's cork bottle. You can
Speaker 1: get in a gallon two and mix it up and
Speaker 1: put it in together. I also like a lot Microlife's Biomatrix.
Speaker 1: It's a seven to one to three fertilizer that'll give
Speaker 1: any plant you have growing a boost. You can use
Speaker 1: both of these foliar feet too, by the way, that
Speaker 1: you want. But when you provide these kinds of products
Speaker 1: for the soil. It's not just the nutrients and them,
Speaker 1: it's the addition of microbial life. It's the addition of
Speaker 1: the things that stimulate root growth, that help the soil
Speaker 1: to be a better structure, to help it to form well,
Speaker 1: to help the roots to get off and get started.
Speaker 1: And that's the main thing. We've got to get those
Speaker 1: roots off to a good start. Good start on the roots,
Speaker 1: get them off to a good start, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have success. And you're about to be putting perennials, ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees,
Speaker 1: woody vines, lots of things are going to be going
Speaker 1: on the ground this fall. And when they go in,
Speaker 1: they need to be watered in like this to get
Speaker 1: them off to a good start. I like to jokingly say,
Speaker 1: you want them to hit the ground running, Just don't
Speaker 1: hold your head above the plant because it may take
Speaker 1: off growing so fast it hits you in the chin.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be good? Wouldn't it be nice if plants
Speaker 1: grew that fast. By the way, those products are off
Speaker 1: of Microlife, and you can go to Microlife furlizer dot
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Speaker 1: widely widely available. Yeah, wouldn't it be great if plants
Speaker 1: took off growing that fast? I always say when you
Speaker 1: plant a tree, you know, my question when I plant
Speaker 1: a tree is how soon can I hang a hammock
Speaker 1: in it? In other words, how do I get that
Speaker 1: thing up to where it's a tree and not just
Speaker 1: a broomstick out there in the yard. Well, take care
Speaker 1: of it, provide good soil, provide these good products when
Speaker 1: you plant them, and then continue to feed gradually over time,
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Speaker 1: So here we go. We're going to head out to
Speaker 1: New Caney and talk to John. Now, Hey John, Hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing.
Speaker 24: I got these two paar trees that I've had for
Speaker 24: fifteen years, and they just make tons and tons of pairs,
Speaker 24: and one of them bit the dust. So well, I'm
Speaker 24: thinking I've tried planting pairs and they don't grow.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I need to just go buy a new one.
Speaker 24: But I need to know where to go buy one,
Speaker 24: and how I can make sure I'm getting the same
Speaker 24: variety as the one I've already got, if there even
Speaker 24: are different varieties.
Speaker 1: There are many different varieties, and pairs do best if
Speaker 1: you have some cross pollinating. There are a few that
Speaker 1: will pollinate themselves, but in general it's better to have
Speaker 1: two different varieties. When you do that, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to tell you which one you have. The shape
Speaker 1: it can affect that you can depending on the shape
Speaker 1: of the pair. I could give a guess as to
Speaker 1: what variety you have, but that'd be about as good
Speaker 1: as I can get. You're out a new canny. You're
Speaker 1: not too far away from Kingwood over Warren's Garden Center
Speaker 1: there in Kingwood would be a place to go. I
Speaker 1: would call them first and say, do you guys have
Speaker 1: pairs in stock? I know they will by the end
Speaker 1: of the winter time, but they may have some now
Speaker 1: as well. But you can eed the plant. You can
Speaker 1: plant something now. The best time to plant is in
Speaker 1: fall or in late winter. And so that that is
Speaker 1: how I would go about it. Uh well, if possible,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 24: The only reason I was concerned about the variety is
Speaker 24: so they would cross pollinate. So if it doesn't matter
Speaker 24: regarding the cross pollination, I can just get any kind
Speaker 24: of par tree right.
Speaker 1: Well, if they if they bloom at the same time
Speaker 1: and they're not genetically not the same variety, they'll cross pollinate.
Speaker 1: But if if it is the same variety, it may
Speaker 1: or may not pollinate itself, which is basically, even though
Speaker 1: it's two trees, if it's the same variety, it's like
Speaker 1: pollinated itself. It's the same same difference. So they may
Speaker 1: or not may not do that. But I can't guess
Speaker 1: as to which one you currently have. But anyway that
Speaker 1: hopefully that will That's the best advice I can give
Speaker 1: you at this point with as much as we know
Speaker 1: right now, I think I'll just get any old par
Speaker 1: tree and see what happens. Sounds like a plan. Good
Speaker 1: luck with it. You can always use more pairs right.
Speaker 24: Oh brandy wine. Yeah, I gotta still I make brandy.
Speaker 6: I make wine from him.
Speaker 1: It's bush. Oh wow. Well you know normally I say
Speaker 1: bring half the produce to the to the radio station.
Speaker 1: We will accept that product as well. Take care of John,
Speaker 1: stay out of trouble. We're gonna go to Texas City
Speaker 1: now and talk to Brian. Hey, Brian, Hey, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 17: How are you, sir?
Speaker 1: I'm good, sir. How can we help? Just a real
Speaker 1: quick question.
Speaker 24: I'm trying to get rid of an overgrown corner of
Speaker 24: bamboo in.
Speaker 11: My car other than a shovel and a good act.
Speaker 1: Any suggestions, yes, yes, When the new shoots are coming
Speaker 1: up out of the ground, Uh, you want to treat
Speaker 1: those with either a grass only killer. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of products like that, or you want to or you
Speaker 1: want to use something that contains a glyphosate which used
Speaker 1: to be called round up. The stuff called round up
Speaker 1: RW in the garden center is not glyphosate, So either
Speaker 1: one of those. If you go online to my website
Speaker 1: Gardening with Skip, I have a instructions on how to
Speaker 1: build a weed wiper which would allow you to treat bamboo.
Speaker 1: If you don't want to spray it. Maybe your spray
Speaker 1: would get on something you care about. The weed wiper
Speaker 1: is a way to do it. But even if you
Speaker 1: don't do the weed wiper way, you can go online
Speaker 1: and there's a list of herbicides for the weed wiper.
Speaker 1: And if you look under grass grass killers, it has
Speaker 1: a list of the different ingredients that will kill grass.
Speaker 1: And Brent Bamboo's a grass excellent.
Speaker 6: I will give that a look.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, you take care, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see we are now going to head out to Connie.
Speaker 1: Hello Connie, Welcome to garden Line. Hi, Hi, how could
Speaker 1: we help?
Speaker 15: Okay?
Speaker 16: So, so I lost two trees in the in the
Speaker 16: freeze last winter, and I kept thinking they would come back,
Speaker 16: but they didn't. So the mountains that the trees were
Speaker 16: in are completely overtaken with ants. So I need to
Speaker 16: plant two new trees. But I don't want to kill
Speaker 16: the ants if it's going to kill the future trees
Speaker 16: that I plant too, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So what do I know with that? I would say
Speaker 1: the ants aren't a concern. Do you feel like they're
Speaker 1: like carpenter ants that are going into the old wood
Speaker 1: of the tree that died.
Speaker 16: Or or I don't know one of the trees. All
Speaker 16: three we have three, and all three of them we
Speaker 16: thought were dead, and one of them came back.
Speaker 1: That's why I thought the other two may come back.
Speaker 1: And but are the ants on the tree trunks?
Speaker 2: Pardon?
Speaker 1: Are they are the ants on the growth the tree
Speaker 1: trunk or the tree that's coming back, or are they
Speaker 1: done in the soil?
Speaker 7: They're the soil?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 17: Uh?
Speaker 1: You know how big a fire ant is, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I honestly don't.
Speaker 16: I'll look again whenever I go home today.
Speaker 11: But I don't know.
Speaker 16: I just know that there's it's it's like a huge colony.
Speaker 7: Ye.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, if there's something about the size of a
Speaker 1: fire ant or smaller, uh, that's probably fire ants. But
Speaker 1: if it's like four times that big, it might be
Speaker 1: a carpenter ant, and that would be one you probably
Speaker 1: would want to treat. You could, you could deal with.
Speaker 1: But if it's small, I would ignore them. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and plant, do what you want to do. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem.
Speaker 16: So don't kill the ants.
Speaker 1: I would not unless they're really large ants, very large.
Speaker 1: That might be a.
Speaker 16: Cause they're not gonna. They're not going to like kill
Speaker 16: a new tree being planted right at Absolutely not awesome.
Speaker 2: That's what I needed.
Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, you bet, you bet, take care.
Speaker 1: Let's here. We're gonna now. Run out to Katie and
Speaker 1: talk to Catherine. Hey, Catherine, welcome to guard Are you?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Well? Thank you? Okay.
Speaker 25: So I have a main cando that I have had,
Speaker 25: and I have moved it from house to house to house.
Speaker 25: I've moved a few times. It's been in ground and
Speaker 25: in a pot, and right now it's in ground. It's
Speaker 25: done a little well, worried him.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 25: Last year FROs down and I cut it back because
Speaker 25: everything looks like it was closed. It came back, but
Speaker 25: this year the league it's kind of a yellow green
Speaker 25: with like black brown spots on them, and it's covered
Speaker 25: and it's like power, not powdery. It is like fuzz
Speaker 25: like yellow white brown and a few flowers out of
Speaker 25: it first and the flower and then y'all fall died.
Speaker 25: And it only had it happened a couple of times.
Speaker 9: I just was wondering what it was and have I
Speaker 9: lost my plant forever?
Speaker 1: Well, if slantana, you might be looking at a meatly
Speaker 1: bug or something like that that's out there on it.
Speaker 1: It's probably not powdery.
Speaker 25: You'll do bugs on it a little bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, Catherine, one thing I hate to
Speaker 1: do is send people out to buy chemicals and spray
Speaker 1: them when we don't know what we're going after for sure.
Speaker 1: Why do we do this? You take some pictures of
Speaker 1: it as close as you can get, make sure they're
Speaker 1: in very sharp focus. The closer you can get in
Speaker 1: the better. Show me the whole plant, show me the
Speaker 1: leaves that you're describing as the color, and then show
Speaker 1: me is the white stuff as close as you can
Speaker 1: get to it. I'm going to put you on hold. Chris,
Speaker 1: my producer, will give you an email. Send me those pictures.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at them. It may be that
Speaker 1: nothing needs to be done. And on the other hand,
Speaker 1: that way, if something does need to be done, I
Speaker 1: send you in the right direction. Rather than waste some
Speaker 1: time and money, it needless spray all right, you bet.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on hold and Chris will
Speaker 1: pick you right up. Wow, Well, this morning I went fast.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we went fast for you, be
Speaker 1: sure went fast for me. This morning. We're about out
Speaker 1: of time here on garden Line for the day. I
Speaker 1: will be back in the morning six am in the morning.
Speaker 1: Just a little tip, this is how it often goes
Speaker 1: at the end. We got so many calls. If you
Speaker 1: want to call me first thing in the morning, it's
Speaker 1: a lot quieter right then, and you won't stress the
Speaker 1: host of garden Line as much by filling up the
Speaker 1: boards when I'm trying to walk in two gum At
Speaker 1: the same time, I want to remind you I'm going
Speaker 1: to be at the Montgomery County Fall Home and Outdoor
Speaker 1: Living Show next weekend. Next weekend, the show is Saturday
Speaker 1: and Sunday, the seventh and eighth. I'll be there on
Speaker 1: Saturday after garden Line. I'll head that way from noon
Speaker 1: to two. I'm going to be getting to talking fall gardening.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be answering your gardening questions. And also
Speaker 1: we'll have some free giveaways from micro Life Fertilizers. You
Speaker 1: don't want to miss that. And most of all, we're
Speaker 1: just going to have a really good time. That's always
Speaker 1: a great show to go. There's that love going up
Speaker 1: there and doing that. If you listen where up in
Speaker 1: the northern areas of the listening area. Come on out,
Speaker 1: love to meet you if you want to bring me samples.
Speaker 1: You know, we're just talking there with Connie about or
Speaker 1: not Conny anyway, talking about the lantana and the little
Speaker 1: bitty bugs that are on it. Throw that in a
Speaker 1: ziplock bags, zip it up and bring it up there.
Speaker 1: If you've got a picture, some good quality pictures. Remember
Speaker 1: that the diagnosis or identification is only as good as
Speaker 1: a photo. Give me a fuzzy photo. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a fuzzy answer, and I don't want it. Mongemmy Canyon
Speaker 1: Home and Garden Show Next Saturday, drawled the two. Come on,
Speaker 1: maybe you'll win a micro Life giveaway