WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.639 Her services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katy r. H. 2 00:00:05.799 --> 00:00:08.039 Garden Line with Skip rictor. 3 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:16.640 The bases here the basis gas can you shrimp? Just 4 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:24.359 watch him as well? Go gas? Can you so many proteins? 5 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:28.640 The suap black basic ways, the basses and gas and 6 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:33.759 again you did sars becos back ticking, not a sound, 7 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:42.320 the glasses and gas and sun, themon of a dreams, 8 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:43.640 the gases like gas. 9 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:45.079 Maybe can you jam. 10 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.640 Starting out of dreams in the gases? 11 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:52.320 I guess became you did. 12 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.280 Everything is so clean. 13 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:59.479 And see and every day Sunday in. 14 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:25.879 All right, here we go. Do you enjoy the music? Welcome, 15 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.040 Welcome to garden Line on what is a great, great 16 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:31.439 day for gardening. We are glad you are listening in 17 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:33.480 with us today and we've got a lot to talk about, 18 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:36.000 as we always do on garden Line. You know, one 19 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:39.680 nice thing about gardening is no matter what day of 20 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:42.280 the year it is, there is something to talk about, 21 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:44.799 something to be doing out there in the garden, something 22 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:49.560 to be harvesting, something to be planting. There's just that's 23 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.200 the cool thing about gardening. It is constant renewal, just 24 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.640 the renewal of the seasons. You know, the traditional it's 25 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:58.319 spring and the flowers come out, and it's summer and 26 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.079 it's warm, and then it's autumn and its harvest season 27 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:04.719 of pumpkins and fall colors, at least in some parts 28 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.159 of the country, and in then winter. That's the change. 29 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:10.520 But every day's a change. Every day is something new, 30 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.159 and there's a lot going on. I was visiting with 31 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:16.719 a neighbor who's got an issue with his lawn not 32 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.599 looking really good, and it's kind of a I don't know, 33 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:24.759 a sharp truce, a light shark true color, so not yellow, 34 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.759 but it's getting close to yellow, and I'm talking about 35 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.479 what to do. It's tone. Well, you know super turf 36 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.400 nightrofive super turf, the silver bag that'll do it. It's 37 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.039 got a pack of nutrients in it and it's going 38 00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:39.439 to release so slowly. It's going to release them slowly 39 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:42.639 over time. It's easy to find super turf. When you 40 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:44.919 look for the silver bag. You can stand at the 41 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.240 front door of the garden center and look through the 42 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.080 place and see it. Are your Ace hardware store, are 43 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.319 your feed store, Southwest Fertilized. All these places carry it. 44 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.800 You're going to find it up at shades of Texas 45 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:58.599 in the Woodlands on fourteen eighty eight, for example, down 46 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.199 in more Ace, Hardware City has got it, so it's 47 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.520 easy to find. Just know that when you put on 48 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.400 super turfy, you're going to get that gradual release over 49 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.319 time anyway, So that was just the point, you know, 50 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:15.000 lawns sometimes just start to lack in the nutrients when 51 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.439 we get a lot of water, for example, wash rain 52 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:21.280 washes all the soluble nutrients through the soil or off 53 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:24.000 the property in some cases when it's a gully washer, 54 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:26.199 and so we have to replace them. That's kind of 55 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:29.000 how that works. Now, if you were just looking at 56 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:33.039 your lawn as this wild place, then fertilizing so often 57 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:35.080 wouldn't be as important. But when you're mowing it and 58 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:37.360 trying to get density and trying to have you know, 59 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:40.960 a beauty to the lawn, returning those clippings is important. 60 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:47.879 But fertilizing regularly is important too. When I was out 61 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.680 and about this week, I noticed in a number of 62 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:55.919 yards where watering has not been done much. If well, 63 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.400 it looks like none because we've had decent amount of 64 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.439 rain this year compared to a lot of summers. But 65 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.800 there's some browning, and boy, the weeds showed through and 66 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:07.360 interesting how the long grass turns brown and the weeds, 67 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:10.840 a lot of them stay green. They are tough. Weeds 68 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:12.680 are tough. Someone once said that if you don't know 69 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:14.599 if a plant's a weed or not, pull it up, 70 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:18.319 it comes back it was a weed. It's about right. 71 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:22.399 They are. They're very tough and difficult, difficult to deal with. 72 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.720 But now's the time to continue to stay diligent about that. 73 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:29.920 You know, we talk about herbicides and pre emergent post 74 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.560 emergent herbicides and which one can I use for this 75 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.959 weed in this lawn at this time of the year. 76 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.720 The number one we control we do is building a dense, 77 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:42.399 healthy lawn through proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing. And so 78 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.800 if you don't do any of that and you just 79 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.079 want to fight weeds, then you're just going to be 80 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.279 treating your lawn all the time and your grass is 81 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:53.279 going to suffer anyway from it. It's better to start 82 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:58.079 with a good, healthy, strong, dense grass and mow, water, fertilized. 83 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:02.639 As boring as that those three are, that's the secret. 84 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:06.079 That's how we have success. Another way you have success 85 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:11.000 is getting good plants I was checking out in Channa 86 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.480 Gardens down there. They are in Richmond on the Katie 87 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.079 Fullsher side. So if you're in Richmond and you're going 88 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.600 to go north toward Katie Fullsher direction on FM three 89 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:23.920 point fifty nine, that's Encined Gardens. In Chenna Gardens is 90 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:28.480 a wonderland of places to go. I mean it is 91 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.399 just it's a destination. People love to go there because 92 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:35.040 there's always always something out there and in Chenna Gardens 93 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:40.000 a beautiful place. Right now, your fall decorations, oh man, 94 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:42.360 or they ever loaded up? If you need anything for 95 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.639 Halloween and Thanksgiving and all that, that stuff is already arriving. 96 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:50.879 They're at in Chenet Gardens. They also have some excellent 97 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:55.000 opportunities for color, some beautiful perennials. You know. One of 98 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.720 my favorite plants is the bird. It's not Bird of Paradise, 99 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.000 Pride of Barbados, also called red Bird of Paradise. I 100 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:07.319 like Pride of Barbados better because we have another plant 101 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:12.199 called Bird of Paradise. Beautiful deep deep orange, red and 102 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.560 yellow blooms. And I'm telling you, every time I see 103 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.680 that plant, I see butterflies, especially the swallowtail. The swallowtails 104 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:22.439 love some of the swallow tails love that plant, and 105 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:24.680 it's just gaudy. I've been seeing them all around town 106 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.040 at garden centers, different places. They got them there, chanted gardens, 107 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.160 beautiful plants. They're perennials, so die the ground here in 108 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.800 the winter. It's okay. Maybe the first year throw a 109 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:35.800 little mulch over them, just to be sure in case 110 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:38.160 we have a doozy of a winter, but a little 111 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.319 moundu mulch over the top to protect that base in 112 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:42.480 the winter. They'll be fine. They just come back here 113 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.480 after hear and never gets too hot for them. They 114 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:49.240 put up with some drought. They're really a wonderful tough plant. Again. 115 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:54.199 You can go to Chened Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted 116 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.720 Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open Monday through Saturday from 117 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.120 eight to five and Tomorrow Sunay they'll be open from 118 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.439 ten am to four pm. So it's a good day 119 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.879 to get out there. And I promise you this, when 120 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:08.600 you go, you're always going to see stuff that you 121 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.040 cannot live without. That's my problem going to garden centers. 122 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:13.879 There's stuff I can't live without. 123 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:15.240 Well. 124 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.879 Garden Line, thanks for listening, is a call in show. 125 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:20.399 So wouldn't it help if I gave you a phone 126 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.199 number to call in? Well, let's do that. Seven one three, two, 127 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.680 one two five eight seven four seven one three two 128 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:31.199 one two fifty eight seventy four. Give us a call. 129 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:33.759 We'll visit with you about the things that are of 130 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:37.879 interest to you. And as I've said before, uh, you know, 131 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.519 the secret to getting through fast on Guarden Line is 132 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:43.920 to call early in the day. We get to the 133 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:45.959 end of the day and pretty much everybody's going to 134 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:47.839 be going, oh, I was going to ask this question, 135 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.879 and the phone rings and sometimes can't get to everybody. 136 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.920 So early in the day is a good time to 137 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:57.800 give a call if you are interested in doing so. 138 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:00.759 You hear me brag about Ace hard restores all the 139 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.480 time because Ace Hardware is everywhere. I mean forty stores 140 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.439 are in the Greater Houston area. It's easy to find 141 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.199 an Ace Hardware store. They're independently owned. Each has its 142 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:12.439 own unique flavor, its own you know unique. It's got 143 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:14.399 the standards. I mean, you're always going to find all 144 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:17.439 the standards stuff at ACE, but each owner is able 145 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.319 to do some things a little bit different as they 146 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:22.160 wish bring in some different kinds of items and things. 147 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:23.920 I think it makes it really interesting. In fact, I 148 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.480 enjoy going to different aces all the time just so 149 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.680 I can see what is at the latest. One. Langham 150 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.639 Creek Ace Hardware this weekend is a big one. They 151 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:37.679 on Friday, yesterday they already began with their grand reopening. 152 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:40.679 They gave away an Ego Power Tremor two hundred and 153 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:43.120 fifty dollars one. They did a demo of Weber grills 154 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.399 today today at Langham Creek Ase Hardware that's on FM 155 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.600 five twenty nine in Cyprus at the intersection of Barker 156 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.480 Cypress and five twenty nine. They're going to give away 157 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.039 a Weber Spirit grill that is a four hundred and 158 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.320 fifty buck grill. They're going to do demos on the 159 00:08:58.320 --> 00:08:59.960 Big Green Egg and you've got to go see their 160 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:01.879 guys need pizza oven, they're gonna do a demo with 161 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.919 that too today. If you need a piece of steel equipment, 162 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:08.759 fifteen percent off all still units today and then they'll 163 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:10.799 be doing this again tomorrow with a painter of room 164 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:14.279 makeover giveaway and demos of Tregger Gross. You gotta run 165 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.639 over there if you're anywhere near a northwest direction of 166 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.600 Houston Langley Creek case Horderer five twenty nine, FM five 167 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:23.759 twenty nine at the intersection of Barker Cypress and FM 168 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:25.799 five twenty nine. All right, I'm gonna take a little 169 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:29.039 break here for some information and I'll be right back. 170 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:33.960 Welcome back to Gardener. Hey, good to have you with 171 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.840 us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here 172 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:40.039 to talk about gardening, to help you have a more beautiful, 173 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:44.440 bountiful garden and landscape. And I'd tell you everybody seems 174 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:48.919 to want a gorgeous lawn. Imagine that. Well, your lawn 175 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.600 is the carpet of your landscape. It's one of the carpets, lawns, 176 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:55.159 of groundcovers. I think they are the outdoor carpeting. And 177 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:56.799 you want it to be beautiful, you want it to 178 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:58.559 be done. So one of the ways we do that 179 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:05.600 is through periodic deep core aeration followed by compost top dressing. 180 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.799 That's how that works. So here's here's what that means. 181 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:09.360 That means we punch a hole in the soil and 182 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.519 pull the plug out, not just squeeze a hole open, 183 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:15.279 like you know, you're shoving a post down into the ground. 184 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.320 To open a no it's it's pull a plug out, 185 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.440 leave it on the surface. 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That whole region down there, 208 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:40.240 that is their service area. And they only use products 209 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.559 that I trust here on garden Line, which is another 210 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.720 reason top quality. They don't cut corners on you bb 211 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:49.480 B and B turf pros seven one, three, two, three, four, 212 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.799 five to five ninety eight. We're going to go to 213 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:54.080 the phones now and head out to clear Lake and 214 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:56.879 talk to Wendy. Hello, Wendy, Welcome to garden Line. 215 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:57.200 Hello. 216 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.720 Uh yeah, I last tweek about this time, you were 217 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:07.200 talking about planning small potatoes and you talked about putting 218 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.480 them whole in you could like jump start them by 219 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:14.639 putting them in a little pot. And I did that. Okay, 220 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:19.960 Now what do I plant them in the ground? Do 221 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.279 I plant them plant them that pot? Do I heal 222 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:25.960 them up? Do I not? 223 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.600 You know it, when you say a small potter, I 224 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:30.840 think I was talking about four inch pot Lit't be 225 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:31.320 small one. 226 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:32.559 That's that's all. 227 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:34.799 That's that's what I put them in a four inch 228 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:35.919 pot with some soil. 229 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.240 They are there and Wendy just to sprout and get 230 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:42.519 some roots started for you. That's what they're there for. 231 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:44.519 So I would put them. I wouldn't put them in 232 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.039 the full brunt of the sun right now, although you 233 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.799 know they can take sun. But let's get them a 234 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.080 little more happy by keeping them in a slight, cooler area, 235 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:55.279 by giving them a very bright maybe some mornings sound 236 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:57.679 or bright shay. Let them get up and going. And 237 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:00.360 once they get going, well, then you can move them 238 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:04.679 out into your garden. And so this is an unconventional 239 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:06.720 way to do potatoes. Most people just cut them up 240 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.360 and they drop them down in a trench. But I'm 241 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.080 telling you, in the summer heat that soil, those fresh 242 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.480 cut potatoes will rot even if you let them scab 243 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:19.360 over a little bit. So transplant thing that I talked about, 244 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:22.000 and you're doing that is just another option. If you 245 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:23.679 have an acre of potatoes, you're not going to do 246 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:26.159 it with the transplant way, that's for sure. 247 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:26.559 Okay. 248 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.320 Well, what I'm what I'm going at for here is 249 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.600 now that I've got them, and you know, once I 250 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.639 get them planted, once I get some roots and something growing, 251 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:39.519 can I plant them in a container. Do I plant 252 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.080 them in the ground, And if I plant them either way, 253 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.559 do I heal them up or do I just plant 254 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.759 them at the bottom of the pot And all right, yeah, 255 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:49.440 what do I do? 256 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.720 Good question? Okay, So here's how the new potatoes, the 257 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.200 Irish potatoes, all the everything, but like sweet potatoes, the 258 00:13:57.279 --> 00:14:01.440 other the normal standard potato grows. You start off with 259 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.799 what we call a seed piece. It really is either 260 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:06.639 a whole potato or a potato cut, so they's got 261 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:10.000 a couple of eyes on it. The potatoes will grow 262 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:13.559 above that. They're not roots. So the roots go down 263 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:15.840 and the stem comes up, and then we have to 264 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:19.320 cover the stem so that the potatoes as they are 265 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.960 offshoots of that stem, they have a place to go 266 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.960 out and grow. So if you're going to use a container, 267 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.559 you could do one or two things. I've seen people 268 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.320 put a container on the ground, excuse me, and have 269 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.799 holes in the bottom where the roots can go down 270 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.200 in the soil from there, and then they just sort 271 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:39.519 of fill that container as the potato stems come up, 272 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:41.799 so that they have to come up. You don't want 273 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.000 them to have to crawl through like twelve inches of 274 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.399 soil to get to the sunlight. That would not be good. 275 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:49.120 So as they grow, where we call it heling them up, 276 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:51.440 but we're bringing soil in around the stem. So you 277 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:53.399 can do that in a pot too, or you could 278 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.000 just use a larger pot and make room for it 279 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.799 that way. I've known people that drill the hole maybe 280 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.320 the size of a gull off ball in a five 281 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:04.200 gallon bucket and set the potato down at the bottom 282 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:06.519 at that hole and then covered it up with about 283 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:11.200 four inches of potting mix and just watered and the 284 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.519 roots go down in the soil below where the bucket's 285 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.240 sitting on the ground, and they just end up with 286 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:17.559 a bucket full of potatoes. 287 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.600 Okay, all right, Well I have tried growing potatoes for 288 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.879 five years and I might have gotten ten potatoes over 289 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:32.240 that time. So I keep trying to figure out what 290 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.799 am I doing wrong. I've tried the healing up process. 291 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.720 I've tried the just planning them in a you know 292 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:46.600 container from the you know on top basically, and okay, 293 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.840 and then of course, now when should okay, so at 294 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:54.159 this time of year, when should they How long will 295 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.519 it take them to actually mature? 296 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:00.039 You know? You can you can start going in and 297 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.559 stealing some small potatoes off the plants, you know, just 298 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:05.399 kind of dig in there, get one out, and kind 299 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:09.159 of back up whenever they're the size it's acceptable to you. 300 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:12.080 Sometimes people like the little golf ball size new potatoes, 301 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.840 you know. Or you can just wait until it's about 302 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.120 time for frost and that's going to kill the tops 303 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.360 and you just dig them at that time. It's not 304 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:21.480 a right. They don't ripen. There's not a right or 305 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:22.039 wrong way. 306 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:25.240 So I don't have to wait until the top dies 307 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:26.440 down or anything like that. 308 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:30.519 You don't have to know. Most people wait because they 309 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:33.600 want to get the most pounds of potato out of 310 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.320 each plant as they can, and so they wait to 311 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.039 give them every day they possibly can. But there's nothing 312 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:42.759 wrong with removing some along the way if they're an 313 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.559 acceptable size. So your success is going to be good 314 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.440 sun good sunlight when they're growing. Once you get past 315 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.360 this transplant stage, then you want to make sure they 316 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.799 get adequate water, and then they you held them up 317 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.519 and get as much If you can get about ten 318 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.840 inches of soil above the seed piece above that potato 319 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.559 you're planning, it's going to settle down. It won't be 320 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.319 ten inches but if you want to give them a 321 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:07.480 good section of soil there that they can send out 322 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:09.599 roots in no need to get more than ten inches. 323 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:14.400 So I is the bottomless pot basically, and put them 324 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:19.400 at the bottom and heal them up a five gallons top. 325 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:23.799 So a bucket like a five gallon bucket would be sufficient. 326 00:17:24.519 --> 00:17:27.759 You could use that, yeah, because that's plenty tall. And 327 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:31.839 I've seen people use, you know, wicker baskets and those 328 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.519 fellas bags that people are. Hey, Wendy, I got to 329 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:37.759 run to some calls. Time you want to go about. 330 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:39.839 Give it good good luck, and if you have any success, 331 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:43.920 bring half the potatoes to kt rch studio. Yeah, good luck, 332 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.880 Thank you, bye bye. All right, We're going to go 333 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.160 out to Fairland and talk to Chuck. Hey Chuck, thanks 334 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:50.519 for waiting. Welcome to guarden Line. 335 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.799 Good morning. I appreciate you taking my call. I have 336 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.559 two quick questions for you. The first one is I 337 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:01.359 have seven or eight what I called medium sized crpe 338 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:03.400 myrtles in the front of my yard in front of 339 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.440 my house. And when I say medium size, up to 340 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.000 the knuckles it's probably ten feet. Yeah, So I'm one 341 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:12.880 of those guys that cuts them down every year to 342 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.640 the knuckles, and last year I got the little white 343 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.759 aphid z on it, and I waited probably a couple 344 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:21.359 of three or four months too long before I treated them, 345 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:22.200 but I finally didn't. 346 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:22.759 I killed them. 347 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:25.960 Now this year, when they started growing again, they had 348 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.759 a black residue on the top of the knuckles and 349 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:34.000 on probably half of the trees. The branches only came 350 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:37.000 out on half of these stalks, if you will. 351 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.359 Okay, well the second part of that, the branch is 352 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:43.079 not coming out. I don't know. I mean, we have 353 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.759 had some cold damage in the past that when a 354 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:50.000 December freeze came to early. Normally there plenty cold trapes 355 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.359 are plenty cold hardy, but we had a freeze that 356 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:55.319 cut them off guard. That was that. The black you're 357 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:59.319 seeing is city mold growing on a sugary substance called 358 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:03.160 honeydew that's produced by several different kinds of insects. Can 359 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.759 do it on a crpe myrtle. It's almost always crpe 360 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:08.640 myrtle bark scale. That's the number one. Those are little 361 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.960 white flecks along the trunk and branches. 362 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:11.880 Uh. 363 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:15.319 It can also be aphids that do that. Either one 364 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.400 can produce honeydew, and from honeydew you get the city modles. 365 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.119 So the city is not the the disease, it's the 366 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:26.240 it's the insect that's causing the problem. 367 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:31.000 So I should wonder you worried at the moment about. 368 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:34.920 The well crape myrtles live with both of those just 369 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:37.599 fine if they get If it's really bad, it's worth 370 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:39.720 giving a treating for. But that that will be a 371 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.960 whole nother discussion is depending on which which insects you have, 372 00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:47.839 how you go about it. Aphids are easy, that's easy 373 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:48.440 to control. 374 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:53.160 Showing the stalks that got no branches this year, I 375 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:55.920 shouldn't just cut those knuckles off and let them regrow 376 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:59.039 next year, or just wait and see what happens. 377 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.759 Yeah, you got if it's if it's dead up there 378 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:04.440 then and you can scrape the bark back a little pocket, 379 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:05.920 and I just kind of go under the bark a 380 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.720 little bit and look and see if it's creamy, creamy 381 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.720 white to light green. If you just see like paper 382 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:14.000 sack brown, that's dead, and you might as well cut 383 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:16.599 it back, sometimes removing the whole stalk and letting a 384 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:20.000 new one come up by the ground. If it's fun 385 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:23.240 if it's dead that far back, Chuck, I'm not saying 386 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:27.119 make sure it's not alive before you did that, but 387 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:29.839 sometimes sure we've had to cut on back to the ground. 388 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:34.920 I thought that's what you're going to say. Okay, last question. 389 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:38.759 Case is different, but those are the principles. Yeah, that's true. 390 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:39.440 That's true. 391 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:43.680 Yeah, question is. Hey, I'm gonna have on hold and 392 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:45.640 go to a break and I will come back to 393 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:48.519 your chuck right after break. All right, folks, we'll be 394 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:56.680 right back. Houston's welcome back to the guard Line. Good 395 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:57.559 to have you with us today. 396 00:20:57.599 --> 00:20:57.759 Hey. 397 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.720 You know Nelson Plant Food. You heard me talk about 398 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.759 them before. We Normally when I think of Nelson Plant Food, 399 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:05.759 I think about all the different lines that they have. 400 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:07.680 I mean, they got the turf Star line, things like 401 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:10.559 Bruce's Brew, which is good for a quick green up 402 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:13.160 when you need that in your lawn. It even feeds 403 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:14.960 a little bit gradually over time. But I want to 404 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:20.079 tell you something. Their nutri Star line and their color 405 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:25.880 Star is just these fertilizers are very popular because people 406 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:27.559 know when you put them down, they're going to work, 407 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:31.319 and they last, and they provide you if you want 408 00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:34.079 one for let's say nutri star tree and shrub. Maybe 409 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:38.160 you plant it a shrub or even a tree recently 410 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:39.920 and you're wanting to give it a boost, you know, 411 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:42.400 like we say, the goal is how fast can I 412 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.119 hang a hammock in that thing? Well, nutristar tree and 413 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:47.880 shrub will help speed that process up. I mean, they've 414 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.759 got products for tropicals, products for blooming vines. Nelson Plant 415 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:57.480 Food's array of products that are in the canisters, widely 416 00:21:57.519 --> 00:21:59.960 available and very very effective. Now the thing I like 417 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.599 too is a lot of our places now offer canister refill. 418 00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:06.640 So you buy that plastic canister with a screw top lid, 419 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:09.000 and when it's time to go refill, you get a 420 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.079 better deal on the fertilizer. Plus you're not throwing away plastic. 421 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:14.279 It just makes sense. Next time you go to the 422 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:17.039 garden center, take your empty canister with you and refill 423 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:21.559 it again. Again. A great idea, Nelson Plant Food. And 424 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:23.680 look at all the different products when you're out there 425 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:26.359 that they carry. There's one for pretty much anything that 426 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:29.880 you would want to grow. We're going to head now 427 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:32.680 back to Chuck. Chuck, I think you had one follow 428 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:33.720 up real quick. 429 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:37.960 Yes, sir, thank you. In my backyard. I have three 430 00:22:38.039 --> 00:22:41.920 or four spots at every spring, the dollar weeds come 431 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.759 out furious and I treat them with weed Beater ultra 432 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.759 and that thills them off. After two or three weeks, 433 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.519 and then three or four months later, they're right back 434 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:53.960 just as they were before. 435 00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:58.319 Okay, we just have to stay with them. There are 436 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:02.160 other products you can use. Get a little warmer. Celsius 437 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.160 is not as hard on the grass as some of 438 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:10.480 the other combo broad leaf post emergent products like the 439 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:13.480 ones you mentioned, and you can switch over and try 440 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:16.119 some of that too, But you just have to stay 441 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:19.920 with them on it. And the more you allow that 442 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.400 lawn to dry out a little bit between waterings, like 443 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:25.680 a good soaking so there's a big volume bank account 444 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:28.079 of moisture, and then let it dry out a little bit, 445 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:31.559 that doesn't cause the dollar weed to proliferate, like when 446 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:35.519 you keep it wet. It's hard to hold dollar weed 447 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:38.440 back when you're keeping it soggy wet, because it loves 448 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:42.359 living in that wet condition. So culturally, let the lawn 449 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:44.480 dry out a little bit and then stay with it. 450 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:47.920 Follow up your early spring applications or whenever you did 451 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:51.400 that product to with something like celsius as it warms 452 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:52.079 up a little bit. 453 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:54.880 Yeah, I'm a good way to treat it during the 454 00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:56.920 hot summer, but I'll try that then. 455 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:00.799 Well, celsius in the early morning in the summer is okay, 456 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:03.720 but just get it done in the morning before temperatures 457 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:06.359 get up, you know, above ninety for the day. All right, 458 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:08.480 I'm gonna have to run. Thanks, thank you for that call. 459 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:10.599 Let's go back to Montgomery. Now we're going to talk 460 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:15.160 to Scott. Hello, Scott, Hey, good morning, good morning. 461 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.720 Yep, Hey, Yeah, I got problem my cedar tree in 462 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:21.839 my front yard. I've had a problem with my sprinter system, 463 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.480 and I've been watered manually with the mottos. But the 464 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.440 top habits about seven foot tall. In the top half 465 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:33.039 of it is kind of brown it up and stuff, 466 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:35.079 and a bottle half is greenier it could be. 467 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:39.039 All right, here's the deal. Yeah, I got bad news. 468 00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:41.680 The top is never going to come back alive and 469 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.079 reach sprout or anything like that. Whenever a cedar, when 470 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:48.240 the needles turn brown on any branch or the whole 471 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.400 tree of a cedar, it cannot reach sprout. It's not 472 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:53.319 like other trees are mom off at the ground. With 473 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:55.319 a chainsaw and they come back out of a stump. 474 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:59.039 Cedars can't do that. And so when you lose that foliage, 475 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:01.519 now what your to do is go in and trim 476 00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:05.039 out all the branches that have no living needles, and 477 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:07.559 you're gonna end up with a very unusual looking tree. 478 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:10.519 But so the options are either to live with that 479 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:13.200 or to pull it up in plants, plant, replant, or 480 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:14.160 do something like that. 481 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.799 What about you're talking about the trimming, what about the 482 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:21.039 main stalk or the tree, leave it or just turn 483 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:21.960 the dead off of it. 484 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:25.839 Well, in order for a seedar to send out a 485 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:29.319 new shoot, it's got to be where there are living 486 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:33.519 needles living in a little scaly like leaf needles that 487 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:36.960 a ceedar has. Junipers, you know, all the junipers and 488 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:39.839 arbor bide and stuff are like that. Uh. And so 489 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:43.640 you know, if if the top the branches have no 490 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:47.079 if a trunk or a branch there's no living needles 491 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:50.000 out that branch, then it's dead. It's not going to 492 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:52.519 come back. Yeah, boy, now you can give it a 493 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:54.440 little time if you want to be sure. I know 494 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:56.880 I told you wouldn't like what I had to say, but. 495 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:00.000 I'm just telling you how I love that tree about 496 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:03.279 seven foot tall, and it's been gorgeous and I'm just 497 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:05.680 that problem with my sprinter system. And now the top 498 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:08.559 half of it, you know, the bottom of green is 499 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:10.880 ever gorgeous, but the top is just gone. 500 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:12.359 I understand. 501 00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:12.640 Now. 502 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:15.559 You know, there's a possibility if you've got a branch 503 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.839 that's somewhat upright on the side, that you could kind 504 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:21.359 of train that back up into become a new tree. 505 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:24.000 But it's gonna still be kind of weird looking. 506 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:27.119 Yeah, it's standing up straight and every day there's nothing 507 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:30.200 no lem, no little limbs or anything grouping, but it's 508 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:31.160 just brown. 509 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:36.880 Yeah stuff. Well but what about. 510 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:40.160 What about bend in the limbs sick and see if 511 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.960 they're if they're sturdy, just leave them, don't crim them off. 512 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:45.279 But you know, as far as the stem of the 513 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:49.000 limb itself on the tree, you're talking about the parts 514 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:52.400 of the brown, yes, sir, or the green? Yeah, well 515 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.319 going away brown. See if it's dead, just kind of bending, 516 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:58.759 see it breaks, And there's word about the top being 517 00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:01.000 dead that lem it so being dead. 518 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:02.079 Yeah. 519 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:03.960 Well, I mean, if you don't wait, just watch it 520 00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:05.720 a while and see if what I'm telling you is 521 00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:08.240 the truth. Uh, you can do that, that's for sure. 522 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:13.960 Cedars a little brittle anyway, so when you bund them, 523 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:16.920 they're gonna snap. Even when they're alive, they're gonna snap 524 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:18.559 because they're they're stiff and brittle. 525 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:26.000 I'll just give me some good loving and there's all right, tell. 526 00:27:27.480 --> 00:27:31.519 That plant, go tell that part what I said. All right, 527 00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:34.880 you take care. Maybe the maybe the plant will prove 528 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.319 me wrong. That's what we're gonna that's what we're gonna 529 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:40.000 hope for, because you know, nobody wants to lose. You 530 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:41.839 got a nice little tree going, you don't have to 531 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.480 go backwards. But if you've got pine trees, if you've 532 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:49.680 got juniper's cedar, arbor vity, all of that kind of thing. Uh, 533 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:52.960 that's how they are. So Christmas tree growers. They have 534 00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:55.559 this beautiful little Christmas tree they're making, and if one 535 00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:58.319 branch dies, it's gonna be a hole in a Christmas tree, 536 00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:02.720 which is not a syllable mystery. And so it's just 537 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:05.480 the nature of the beasts. So always make sure that 538 00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:08.440 those are tough. Cedars are tough. But I saw a 539 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:11.799 lot of seedars throughout the Greater Houston area, especially up 540 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:14.559 north and to the west where there's a lot of 541 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:19.960 seedars out there that they're just turn brown, completely brown. 542 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:24.119 The drought last year just was too much and it 543 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:27.759 led to a bunch of things like that. Hey, you 544 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:31.400 been to the Plants for All Seasons garden center right 545 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:34.640 there on just north of Luetta on Highway two forty nine. 546 00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:37.119 You ought to stop by and check them out. They 547 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:40.000 always have good stuff going on, always cool stuff going 548 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.680 on out there. Number One. When you go in, you 549 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:44.799 know you're gonna get plants that belong here, that'll do 550 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:47.000 well here, and you know you're gonna get advice on 551 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:51.400 how to grow them successfully. The website is Plants for 552 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:56.519 All Seasons dot com. The location just exit two forty 553 00:28:56.599 --> 00:28:59.759 nine for Luetta and it's just just north of Luetta 554 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:01.920 on the east side of two forty nine, right. They're 555 00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:04.839 easy to get to phone number two eight one, three 556 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:09.880 seven six sixteen forty six. Go in there and you 557 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:11.799 may think you have a brown thumb, but they'll they'll 558 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:13.960 turn it grain for you with good advice and good 559 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.559 plant You can also bring samples and questions you have 560 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:20.440 and they're really good about helping all. Right, time for 561 00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:23.799 a quick break. I'll be right back yes, today our 562 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:25.319 phone number if you'd like to give me a call 563 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:29.359 seven one three two one two ktr H seven one 564 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:32.400 three two one two kt r H. You know, the 565 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:35.119 folks at Medina have a number of great products that 566 00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:38.440 are out there, and it's been Medina's been around since 567 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:41.799 the nineteen fifties, I believe, and gardeners have long known 568 00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:45.039 the benefits of the various products they have. One of 569 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:47.920 them that I haven't talked about in a good while. 570 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.480 At least has to grow six twelve six plant food 571 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:53.920 has to grow six twelve six. Yes, it's got six 572 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:57.839 twelve six. That's an NPK nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in it. 573 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:02.079 A good arrangement by the way for fruiting and blooming 574 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:05.920 of plants to stimulate that. But it also has medinosol 575 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:10.400 activator to stimulate the biological activity. It's got humate humic acid. 576 00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:14.200 You know, humus improves soul, structured improves nutrient uptake. It's 577 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.880 got seaweed extracts which also help with fruiting and blooming. 578 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:19.759 You can use it as a folio. You're not gonna 579 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:23.960 burn with it. It's not this salty, salty fertilizer you 580 00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:27.799 might mix too strong and sprowl. You just follow the label. 581 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:29.960 It's real easy to use. But you can use it 582 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:32.799 as a folier. You can drench it into new transplants. 583 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:34.880 In fact, that's a great way to use it. You 584 00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:37.119 put a new plant transplant in the ground and just 585 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:40.920 watered in with a watering can full mixed with water 586 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.319 and has to grow six trove six simple as that 587 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.519 very effective and a good way to give a little 588 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:49.960 bit of insurance to that plant that you just purchased 589 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.200 and have now put in the ground. And by the 590 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:55.519 way fall this planting season, so grab you some has 591 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.880 to grow six twelve six, so you can have good 592 00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:02.359 success with that. You know, when we pull a plant 593 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:04.279 out of the pot and put it in the ground, 594 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:07.400 the root system is still a cylinder of roots right 595 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.480 shape of the pot, and it takes time for those 596 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:13.319 roots to go out and get in the soil, and 597 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:15.680 so you need to take extra good care of those roots. 598 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:19.640 Everything the plant can get water and nutrient wise is 599 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:22.759 still coming out of that cylinder of soil. And then 600 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:24.599 as we get a few weeks a couple of months 601 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:26.640 into the line, now we got roots that are going 602 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:28.519 out and they've started to move out into the soil 603 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:30.440 around it, and we have a little larger area that 604 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.640 we're taking care of. But just remember, especially in hot weather, 605 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.920 when you plant, that whole root system is still wound 606 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.480 up in that little container sized cylinder of roots. And 607 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:43.799 that's where something you know is mentioning the haster grows 608 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.519 watered in. That's where something like that helps and helps 609 00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:51.720 it get established successfully. You hear me all the time 610 00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:54.519 talk about brown stuff before green stuff right here on 611 00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:57.559 garden line, and I don't know if that makes sense 612 00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:00.799 or not, but by basically all trying to say is this, 613 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:06.359 get the soil right and ready and then put in 614 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.119 your wonderful plants. I don't care if it's a tomato plant, 615 00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:15.559 a flower, a groundcover, a tree or a shrub or 616 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:18.880 a perennial flower, whatever it is, you'll have better success 617 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.400 with it. And Siena Maltz, if you're down south of 618 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.960 Houston southeastern area, just north of Roach Sharon, Ciena Maltch 619 00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:27.440 is down there and there your go to place. Let 620 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:29.440 me give you the website because there you can find 621 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:31.920 phone numbers, times, all that stuff when you need to 622 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:37.599 know later. Sienna Multch dot com, Sienamultch dot com, all 623 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.720 of you out there in a Iowa colony, Quell Valley, 624 00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:44.160 riverstone Man both any Point, Lake or Pomona and Lake 625 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:48.039 Olympia both that whole region. Cianna Maltz is your one stop. 626 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:50.880 They deliver within about twenty miles for a small fee. 627 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.200 You can buy bulk, you can buy bags, and all 628 00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:57.559 the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline are at Siena 629 00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:00.279 Mulch as well. I'm telling you the way to put 630 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:02.599 it is when you drive off the property having visited 631 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:05.960 Ciena Mulch, you have everything you need to make the 632 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.799 brown stuff right, so you have wonderful success with the 633 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:12.720 green stuff that you plant, the wonderful plants that you have. 634 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.640 Cenamulch is open Monday through Friday till five, seven thirty 635 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:19.799 to five and on Saturday, that would be today from 636 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:23.279 seven thirty to two pm. Close tomorrow. So we get 637 00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:25.000 through a garden line. You need to head out there 638 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:29.880 and start preparing for fall. Important to prepare for fall. 639 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.359 You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is 640 00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:37.160 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 641 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:40.880 r KTRH. Sometimes I give numbers, sometimes I give letters. 642 00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:44.720 I hate pecking through a phone looking for Okay, where's 643 00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:46.920 that letter? You know, I don't know. I know it's 644 00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:49.680 not rocket science, but it just seems tedious to me. 645 00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:53.119 But it's easier to remember letters. So we'll do that. 646 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:59.519 Seven one three two one two kt r H. When 647 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.960 was the last time you were out at Kingwood Garden Center? 648 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:06.160 Are at Warren's Southern Gardens? You know they're both out 649 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:08.679 there in Kingwood. You guys are spoiled at Kingwood. You've 650 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:11.679 got two great garden centers right there, right there in 651 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:16.159 the same area. Well, both of them are two go 652 00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:20.599 destination centers. You just have to go there. You got 653 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.719 to see them. Warren Southern Gardens has a beautiful array 654 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:27.119 of color right now and they have all the products 655 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.559 you need to have success with it. Got some really 656 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:31.400 good sales going on. 657 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:31.719 You know. 658 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:34.599 Late summer is always a good time people lose some 659 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:38.119 gardening enthusiasm, and that's where smart gardeners go. Hey, is 660 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.599 a great time to pick up some plants. And they 661 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:41.880 go out there and they get them and they get 662 00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:44.039 them planted and they take care of them and they do. Okay, 663 00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:47.119 there's not a problem with that. Warren Southern Gardens. You 664 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:49.559 got to go visit them just no matter what you're 665 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.320 looking for, they're going to have plenty of it right 666 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:56.039 out there, including the brown stuff in the bags that 667 00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:58.119 you want to take home with you to have success. 668 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.719 And the fertilizers like the ones you hear me talk 669 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:04.599 about here on garden Line. Warren Southern Gardens out there. 670 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:07.480 They're actually out there on North Park Drive two eight 671 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:11.519 one three, five four sixty one eleven two eight one 672 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:17.760 three five four six one one one. Or you can 673 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:20.880 just go to visit them on the web. I mean 674 00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:24.280 you can go. Actually, the website's pretty pretty beautiful. They 675 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:26.440 did a real new revamp of it. I kind of 676 00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:30.480 like the new the new look. It's Warren's Southern Gardens 677 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.320 dot com. Warren Southern Gardens dot com. Go check it out. 678 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:39.000 That's a really good helpful information. Well, you're listening to 679 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:41.639 garden Line. Let's see here we are about short on 680 00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:45.679 being able to take another call right now, But if 681 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:48.440 you would like to get on the phones with Chris 682 00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:51.480 and we can have you first up next hour. Just 683 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:55.079 all seven one three two one two k t R 684 00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:59.840 eight seven one three two one two k t R eight. 685 00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:04.679 I was visiting with one of my children. Who is 686 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:08.639 buying a house and looking at some different things that 687 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:11.559 you know, import on on the property in terms of 688 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:14.400 having success and things. And I was just I always 689 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.679 kind of always check the outside. When you're gonna buy 690 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:18.480 a house, check the brick and see if there's cracks 691 00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:20.360 in the brick. If you got a house, do the 692 00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:24.320 same thing. Cracks in the sheet rock inside, cracks running 693 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.639 from the corner of a window down the wall. Those 694 00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:29.800 are all signs that you may have some foundation problems. 695 00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:34.000 And our clay soil that shrinks and swells and literally 696 00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:38.320 moves it wrecks havoc on foundations and sidewalks and driveways. 697 00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:42.639 Fix my slab. Foundation repair is our go to place 698 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:46.400 for all foundation types of issues here in the Greater 699 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:48.719 Houston area. Ty Strickland has been doing this for twenty 700 00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:52.400 three years. He knows what he's doing. Ty is committed 701 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:54.559 to giving you a fair price, and when he says 702 00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:57.079 he's going to show up, he shows up. Is that 703 00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:00.360 unfortunately a little on the rare side, and the service 704 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:03.320 to industries today, Well, he shows up when he says 705 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.039 he's going to show up, and he fixes it, and 706 00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:07.519 he gives you a fair price. It's all that's what 707 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:10.360 all you would ask, right, fix it right, give me 708 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:12.360 a fair price, show up when you're going to show up, 709 00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:16.039 when you say you're going to show up. Fixmslab dot com. 710 00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:18.880 That's his website. Go check it out. Fix myslab dot com. 711 00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:21.199 Tell him you're a guardenline listener. If you think you 712 00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:22.960 got a problem, call him out to do a free 713 00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:26.199 estimate for garden line listeners. And I've talked to Tie 714 00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:28.679 about a number of different things and if it there 715 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:30.440 may be a little bit of an issue starting, but 716 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:32.559 it's not something that needs to be dealt with at 717 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:34.679 this point. He'll tell you that, but if he needs 718 00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:37.840 to be he'll tell you that too. Two eight one 719 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:41.320 two five five forty nine forty nine two eight one 720 00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:47.039 two five five forty nine forty nine for fixmyslab dot com. 721 00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:51.920 Would not mess around with that kind of issue because 722 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:56.440 it's your home. Buy of your home. Well, I want 723 00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:58.800 to talk a little bit about vegetable guarding. I think 724 00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.199 I'm gonna have to wait until we get into our 725 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:04.239 next segment to be able to do that, but we 726 00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:06.719 will be right back. I want to remind you that 727 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:10.360 I'm going to be at the Fall Home, an outdoor 728 00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:14.519 living show up in Conroe, Texas next weekend September seventh 729 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:17.480 and eight. September seventh and eight. I'll be there on 730 00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:20.280 the seventh, that's Saturday, the DIF from twelve to two. 731 00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:22.639 I'm going to be answering gardening questions. First of all, 732 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:24.480 I'm gonna give a little talk on fall gardening, so 733 00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:28.159 come on in and hear that. Also, while you're out there, 734 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.960 I'll be sticking around for lots of Q and A. 735 00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:35.280 You folks normally about whereby brain now with questions and answers. 736 00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:38.679 And I enjoy visiting with gardeners and meeting our show 737 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:40.920 listeners and things, So come on out the Fall Home 738 00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:45.079 and Outdoor Living Show next Saturday, September seventh. They'll also 739 00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:48.400 be going on the eighth as well. Let's see, it 740 00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:51.480 is at the Lone Star Convention and Expost Center out 741 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:54.239 there across from the County Extension Office on Airport Road, 742 00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:57.920 Lone Star Convention and Expost Center, So anyone up in 743 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.719 that region, hope you come on out. Given away a 744 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:05.360 lot of really nice micro life products that have been 745 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.320 provided and you need to kind of get some of 746 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:11.320 those sample and try anounce yourself. We'll be right back. 747 00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.599 You hear more and more about idline. 748 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.480 We are glad you're listening, looking forward to talking to you. 749 00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.119 You can call in if you like seven to one 750 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:25.719 three two one two k t r H seven one 751 00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:30.440 three two one two k t r H. Buchannan's Plants 752 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.400 in the Heights is another one of those wonderful destination 753 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:38.960 independent garden centers that there's just nothing like it here 754 00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:41.800 in the greater Houston area. You know, we're so fortunate 755 00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:45.800 here type places like Buchanan. Buchanan's Native Plants is actually 756 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.920 the proper name, because they do specialize in all kinds 757 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.280 of natives, and I mean they have. They had to 758 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.679 post recently. You got to follow them on Facebook, by 759 00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:57.000 the way, and subscribe to their newsletter, but there to 760 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:59.760 post recently about ten plants that you can plant for 761 00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:02.679 the cold and flu season, things that you know help 762 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:06.159 with cold severity or boosting the moon immune systems, and 763 00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:07.960 all kinds of stuff. If you want to go in 764 00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:10.599 there and get the native plants from this area, they're 765 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:12.440 going to have a wide variety and be able to 766 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:13.599 tell you how to do that. If you want to 767 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.480 go in and say, hey, I like hummingbirds, what can 768 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:18.280 I plan to attract hummingbirds. They're going to have stuff 769 00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:20.480 like that. That's the kind of place it is. And 770 00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:23.920 you're going to be surprised if you haven't been there 771 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:26.639 and you walk in and you see the house plant greenhouse, 772 00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:29.400 it's going to be like, this is huge. Yeah. Yeah, 773 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:31.920 I thought this was just a native No, it's not 774 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.920 a native plant place only. It's a native plant place 775 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.519 and a lot more. I love going into Buchanans and 776 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:39.360 you will too, those of you already go. You know 777 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:43.639 what I'm talking about. Buchanans Plants dot Com on a lease. 778 00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:48.159 That's the website Bukinsplants dot Com on East eleven Street. 779 00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:51.519 They're in the heights today. It would be a great 780 00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:55.199 day to go and check them out. Let's go up 781 00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:59.000 to Willis, Texas and talk to Ann. Hello Anne, Hi, 782 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:01.280 welcome to gardener. 783 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:05.360 Thank you. I spoke to you a couple of weeks ago. 784 00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:10.960 We recently built a house and the pad that it's 785 00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:15.000 on is clay, of course, and you had said to 786 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:20.679 till in decomposed granite and rose soil. But I didn't 787 00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:23.800 ask how much how. 788 00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:29.039 Flower bed? Yes for a flower bed, yes, And I 789 00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:32.480 wouldn't I wouldn't tell you decomposed. Granted, it's it's expanded 790 00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:33.480 shale that you. 791 00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:37.079 Put in shale. Okay, okay, yeah. 792 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:39.440 You scared me to death right there for just a moment. 793 00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:46.679 Sorry about that. So expanded shale and rose soil? How much? 794 00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:50.559 How thick of a layer and how far do I 795 00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:50.880 till it? 796 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:51.000 In? 797 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:56.159 Well? To get the full effect of expanded shale, you 798 00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:59.119 need to put three or four inches down and mix 799 00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:02.599 the things deep as is practical. You know, a rotortiller 800 00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:04.880 only goes so deep, a spade only goes so much. 801 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.960 But it's the it's having a good volume of it, 802 00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:10.280 you know, just like a granule here and a granule 803 00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:13.079 there with clay all in between them, that's not going 804 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.679 to be as helpful. So if anything you put down 805 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:18.719 and maybe next year when you're replanting things or whatever, 806 00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:21.920 put more down or whatever. But expanded shell lasts and 807 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.199 so several inches of that and as far as the 808 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:28.800 what was the bed mix you mentioned? Just roast soil, 809 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:33.119 roasts oil, thank you. Yeah, and the roast soil. I 810 00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:36.079 would if you can go like at least thirty percent 811 00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:37.920 with the soil that you have. If you can go 812 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:40.840 more than that, that's even better. So like, if you 813 00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:43.559 are you using a spade and fork or a rototiller 814 00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:44.480 to do this? 815 00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.079 Well, I was going to use a tiller, but okay, 816 00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.840 I would have but either one. 817 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:56.440 Yeah, well, yeah, I mean if you go as deep 818 00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:58.280 as that tiller is going to go, you're probably looking 819 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:04.239 at about five inches, right, probably not that well, no, 820 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:06.639 I mean it's fine. You can break the soil up 821 00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:09.360 a little lower with that. But here's what I'm just thinking. 822 00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:11.400 If you're gonna go like, let's say you can mix 823 00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:14.760 six inches deep. If you add three inches and mix 824 00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:17.880 it of rose oil and mix it in as deeply 825 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:20.320 as you can, then add another six inches and mix 826 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:24.280 it again. You're getting a lot of volume mixed with 827 00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:26.840 those two. And the bed just keeps getting higher as 828 00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:28.960 you do that, which is important for drainage. Also. 829 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:32.599 Okay, okay, sounds good. 830 00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:34.480 All right, have fun. 831 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:36.599 That's appreciate it. 832 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:41.119 Yeah, all right, take care, Thanks for the call. I 833 00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:44.800 appreciate that. Have you guys ever tried sweet green from 834 00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:48.119 nitrofoss I talk about it from time to time, and 835 00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:51.400 you know, sweet green is an eleven percent nitrogen fertilized 836 00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.400 which is really high for an organic type product. It's 837 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:58.440 a it's a molasses based type product, and that's why 838 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:00.719 it has its name sweet green because it literally smells 839 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:03.199 sweet and it's got that sugar in it that those 840 00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:08.639 carbon chains feed beneficial bacteria and they're just good for 841 00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:12.800 stimulating microbial activity and the soil. Sweet grain is available 842 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.000 widely across this area. If you're up to hide and 843 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:17.280 feed on Student Air Airline, you're going to find it out. 844 00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:20.119 RCW Nursery on tom A Parkway is going to have it. 845 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.119 If you got to Kingwood to the Ace Hardware on 846 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:24.719 Kingwood Drive, you're going to find it there. Sweet Grain 847 00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:28.480 from nitrofoss It works well at this point in the season. 848 00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:30.559 I would apply about half of it and a few 849 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:32.920 weeks later apply the other half. Just kind of spread 850 00:44:32.960 --> 00:44:34.639 it out a little bit more. You can apply it 851 00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:37.800 all at once if you want. That's also okay. Just 852 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:41.239 know that we got fall fertilizing season coming soon and 853 00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:44.039 sweet grain will get you that quick boost for the 854 00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:49.280 end of the gardening summer gardening, lawn care season to 855 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:53.639 give you a quick greening up of the sod that 856 00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:56.079 you have. So if your area is struggling and needs 857 00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:59.079 a little boost, sweet grain be excellent, excellent product just 858 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:04.079 to do exactly that. You're listening to garden Line, and 859 00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:05.800 the number, if you'd like to give me a call 860 00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:09.960 is seven one three two one two kt RH seven 861 00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:14.039 to one three two one two kt RH. Nature's Way 862 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:17.960 resources up toward Conro. In fact, if you're going up 863 00:45:18.239 --> 00:45:21.880 Highway forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in, that's 864 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:26.000 the road that comes in from Montgomery or Magnolia. Excuse me, Magnolia. 865 00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:26.559 Uh. 866 00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:28.960 If you turn right and go across the railroad tracks 867 00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:33.079 Nature's Ways right there, and Nature's Way has been building 868 00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:35.760 quality soils for a very long time. That is the 869 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:39.599 birthplace of rose soil that we were just talking about 870 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:45.119 within Nature's Ways, the birthplace of the leaf mold composts 871 00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:47.039 that we put on the top of this the ground 872 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:50.079 when we're doing aeration and compost top dressing and a lawn. 873 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:54.159 Super high quality product. You're going to find at Nature's 874 00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:58.760 Way lots and lots of different compost blends for whatever 875 00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:01.400 you need, including other products. They've got it in bulk, 876 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:04.000 they've got it by the bag. Tell them that you 877 00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:06.440 heard about it on garden Listen. Listen to that. I 878 00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:08.639 need your attention for just a minute. I want to 879 00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:11.199 save you some money here, tell them that you heard 880 00:46:11.239 --> 00:46:14.239 about them on garden Line, and you get a significant 881 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.159 discount on all of the products, whether you're buying mulches, 882 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.840 whether you're buying a composts, whether you're buying a vegetable 883 00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:25.920 soil mix, a fruit and you know, growing mix, a rose, 884 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:29.119 soil leaf, molcump all of that bag or bulk. But 885 00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:30.599 you got to tell them you heard about it on 886 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:32.440 guard line for that to work. Hey, here's our phone 887 00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:36.280 number seven. Excuse me nine three six three two one 888 00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:41.079 sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty 889 00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:43.599 nine ninety You can go there and pick it up. 890 00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.119 You can have them deliver it either way you want 891 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:47.840 to go. And while you're out there, if you go 892 00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:50.639 pick it up, check out their native plants and other 893 00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:54.159 plants in the nursery, a very nice little garden center 894 00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:57.280 of plants that they put together. Also out there on site, 895 00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:01.400 they're at Nature's Way Resources, and the whole crew out 896 00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:04.639 there has done an outstanding job. It just keeps getting 897 00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:06.800 better every time I go visit. I'm just oh, look 898 00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.320 this is new. That's that's cool. I like what you 899 00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:12.239 guys have done. That's just how it's going out there 900 00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:17.079 at Nature's Way resources. I was wanting to talk a 901 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:20.679 little bit about vegetables. You know, fall vegetable gardening is 902 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:23.719 really kind of here, and when we come back, if 903 00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:25.320 I got time, I want to talk a little bit 904 00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:28.320 about what we can plant and when. So stay tuned. 905 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:31.599 I'll be right back or looking forward to talking to you. 906 00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:33.760 And if you'd like to give a scalt, the number 907 00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:37.280 is seven to one three two one two kt r 908 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:41.639 H seven to one three two one two kt RH. 909 00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:44.159 I was talking about vegetables, and I just wanted to 910 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:47.280 say that it's time. It's you know, we're already been 911 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:49.880 playing for a while now. We've been planning tomatoes and 912 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.119 peppers and eggplant for the fall garden. You know, they 913 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.440 have to have time to grow and to set fruit. 914 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.320 And once we get a little bit of a break 915 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.320 in the temperature, then things like tomatoes that don't like 916 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:03.320 to set in the heat, especially the big slicer types, 917 00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:05.639 they'll begin to set. But you got to get them 918 00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.920 far enough along so when we finally do get the 919 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:11.559 first frost, you've gotten a harvest in the meantime. That 920 00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:14.559 is important. As we get into September, we start to 921 00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:16.599 get a coal front in. That always reminds me, hey, 922 00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:19.039 it's time to get out there. And by the way, 923 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:22.280 a September coal front should be called a slightly cooler front. 924 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:26.760 That's about what it amounts to, but tied to plant 925 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:32.320 the coal crops, which are also called cruciferous vegetables, which 926 00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:37.440 are also I like to just say the blue leaf vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, 927 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:42.360 a cole, robbie, collards, kale, Brussels sprouts. What did I 928 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.280 leave out to say cauliflower. Anyway, those all begin to 929 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:48.840 go in in September when it cools off a little bit. 930 00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:54.800 More lettuce and spinach will be added to the mix 931 00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:58.159 as we go along into the cool season. Carrots also, 932 00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:00.719 they don't like the heat, to do a little bit 933 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.119 better when we wait a little bit on planting them. 934 00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:05.199 But there's a lot of great vegetables out there. And now, 935 00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:07.159 if you don't have a vegetable garden, don't think you 936 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.719 have to plow up the back forty to have one. 937 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:13.760 All you gotta do is get you some good sized 938 00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:17.239 containers and you can grow anything that we grow. Typically 939 00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:20.320 for fall, you can grow in a container at least 940 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:23.039 five gallons I like to do that because it just 941 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:25.519 makes it easy to care for them. A little bit 942 00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:27.519 of container. You're trying to water them twice a day 943 00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:29.800 when it's so hot and things, it's not worth it. 944 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:33.199 About five gallons are larger. Larger is fine. You can 945 00:49:33.239 --> 00:49:35.760 grow carrots, You can grow all the things I talked 946 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.480 about in a container. So if you got kids, especially 947 00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:43.199 get them involved. You know, when kids grow their own vegetables, 948 00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:46.480 they are much more likely to eat them and maybe 949 00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:49.159 set them on their way to a healthier lifestyle. Which 950 00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:52.159 we know that our number one health issues are caused 951 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:54.400 by the things we put in our mouth. Basically, that 952 00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:57.559 and a lack of moving around. Those two things. It's 953 00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:00.679 easy to fix those two things. Especially you're a gardener 954 00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:03.840 and all you need is some containers to be a 955 00:50:03.960 --> 00:50:06.559 vegetable gardener. You can do it. So never done it before, 956 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:10.519 Try it. Try it out this spring in Chanted Forest 957 00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:15.119 down in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are they would be 958 00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:17.039 a great place to go get your plants. They got 959 00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:20.880 a wonderful selection of herbs down there and their new 960 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.519 vegetable I say house. It's kind of a pull barn 961 00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:28.400 type structure. Wow, pull Bard's not a good description of it. Anyway, 962 00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:31.239 they just put that up and it's loaded with vegetables. 963 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:34.119 They're always going to have whatever's timely for the season. 964 00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:37.440 And Enchanted Forest, and they're not just a vegetable place. 965 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.480 I mean they've got every kind of flour and shrub 966 00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:43.159 and tree. I don't know, what are you looking for? 967 00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:46.320 Are you looking for shade plants? You're looking for blooming plants. 968 00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.000 You want things that'll bring in hummingbirds and things. They've 969 00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.719 got that down there. All you have to do. Chanted Forest. 970 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:56.840 It's on FMS twenty seven fifty nine, So if you're 971 00:50:56.840 --> 00:50:59.760 in Richmond heading towards sugar Land up fifty nine, it's 972 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:04.440 off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. Check 973 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:10.880 out their their website. It's Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. 974 00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:15.239 Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X dot com. They have an 975 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:20.000 outstanding website, very very good website, and it will give 976 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:22.800 you a lot of good information and it'll inspire you 977 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:24.679 want to go visit. And today'd be a good day 978 00:51:24.719 --> 00:51:28.119 to get out of Enchanted for us too. By the way, See, 979 00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:30.039 let's let's go back the phone here. We're going to 980 00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:32.639 go to the Woodlands and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, 981 00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:33.599 Welcome to Guardline. 982 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:38.320 Morn you skip. I have some sure knockout roses that 983 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:42.280 are played in the ground about five foot tall. I 984 00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:44.360 was wondering if it's a time that cuts them back 985 00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:48.480 for like a fall bloom right now, Yeah. 986 00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:50.719 You can. I would cut them back by I don't know, 987 00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:54.639 maybe a fourth or something like that. We're getting a 988 00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:58.239 you know, it's still a good time to cut them back. 989 00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:00.880 You cut them back by third some people, we'll do that. 990 00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:02.920 And then when we get to the end of winter, 991 00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:05.599 if you want to keep those knockouts smaller, if you 992 00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:07.719 want to, you don't have to do this, but you 993 00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:10.960 can cut them back significantly at the end of winter, 994 00:52:11.559 --> 00:52:13.760 and then just be ready to prune them once or 995 00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:16.599 twice more as we go through the season with a 996 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:20.000 lighter shearing to maintain a more compact size. 997 00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:24.280 So a quarter to a third then right now, a. 998 00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:27.519 Quarter to a third, Yeah, something in that range. Follow 999 00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:29.719 that up. Get you some you know, gets you some 1000 00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:33.239 good fertilizer sprinkled on the ground, watered in really good, 1001 00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:37.840 and get those things up and growing again. You know 1002 00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:40.199 you want to. After you cut them back, it's going 1003 00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:42.679 to invigorate them. And so you just want to provide 1004 00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:45.760 them some nutrition so that as they begin to grow, 1005 00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:48.320 they they've got all the nutrients they need to support 1006 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.559 that new regrowth that comes because you prune them back. 1007 00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:55.360 Ay fertilizer you recommend. 1008 00:52:56.239 --> 00:52:59.440 We got a lot of great ones out there. Nitroposs 1009 00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:05.639 has a special fertilizer for the for roses specifically. They've 1010 00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:09.239 got a number of significant quality fertilizers. There are a 1011 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:11.800 couple of different hibiscus blends, but they do have a 1012 00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:16.239 really excellent rose fertilizer comes in a little canister, typically 1013 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:18.079 in the garden center. She would find it like that 1014 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.360 and it would work very well. Roses respond to a 1015 00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.920 boost a fertilizer following the pruning. You're gonna have one 1016 00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:28.159 heck of an October if you get that done real soon. 1017 00:53:28.199 --> 00:53:29.320 I wouldn't put it off too much. 1018 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:33.280 By the way, great, Thank you all. 1019 00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:36.880 Right, sir, Thanks very much, appreciate your call. Let's see 1020 00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:39.159 here if you'd like to give as call seven one 1021 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:42.559 three two one two five eight seven four. That is 1022 00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:45.880 the number. We love. Feed stores on guard Line and 1023 00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:49.199 League City Feed is no exception. I mean, it is 1024 00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:52.079 a perfect example of one of the good old mom 1025 00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:54.280 and pop type feed stores, you know, still carries the 1026 00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:56.719 bags out for you and you go in there and 1027 00:53:56.840 --> 00:53:59.920 it just of course they got feed. I'm more interested 1028 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:02.760 in the gardening part. They've got all the fertilizers that 1029 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:04.559 I talk about here on guarden Line. They're going to 1030 00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:07.639 have some of the soil blends too, by the way, 1031 00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:10.079 some real high quality they carry. I know they carry 1032 00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:13.719 heirloom soils down there in the feed store. They also 1033 00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:16.239 have the things you need to control pests and insects 1034 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:18.480 and diseases that are there. So it's really a one 1035 00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:21.199 stop shop. They're open money through Saturday, nine to six, 1036 00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:25.079 closed tomorrow, closed on Sunday, but nine to six alives 1037 00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:26.920 you to swing by after work if you need to. 1038 00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:29.760 So all of you down in that whole region, Oh Comino, Ria, 1039 00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:34.039 Webster Bay, Cliff, League City, Stanley owned Lamark all through there. 1040 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:36.800 This is your hometown feed store. Here's a phone number 1041 00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:40.679 two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight 1042 00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:47.159 one three three two sixteen twelve. That's it. League City 1043 00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:49.960 feed Store. Just what are they now about? Just a 1044 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:53.639 few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three. 1045 00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:57.280 It's real easy to get to. While you're listening to 1046 00:54:57.400 --> 00:54:59.440 garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here 1047 00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:02.960 to answer your gardening questions. What are your questions? What 1048 00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.039 would you like to talk about today. We've got a 1049 00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:08.320 lot of things we can be visiting about, for sure. 1050 00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:11.239 I was talking about vegetables and the things that we 1051 00:55:11.320 --> 00:55:14.199 can be planting at different points in this fall season. 1052 00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:16.880 I just want to remind you with any kind of 1053 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:20.280 thing you're growing, but vegetables are certainly no exception, the 1054 00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.440 higher quality the soil is, the better off you are. 1055 00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:28.159 And that includes adding organic matter into the soil, bed mixes, 1056 00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:31.440 veggie nerd mix those kinds of things. It includes adding 1057 00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:36.960 nutrients to the soil quality fertilizers for example, asamite is 1058 00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:39.639 a micro nutrient. And I talk about azimite all the 1059 00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:41.920 time for applying to the lawn, and that's fine. I 1060 00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:46.760 mean that's primarily what people use asmite for applying to 1061 00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:50.199 the lawn to give the trace minerals into the soil 1062 00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:53.159 bank account so the turf grass can draw from that 1063 00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:56.320 as it needs them. But you use azimite in a garden, 1064 00:55:56.519 --> 00:55:58.599 I would say put it out. You know, if you're 1065 00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:02.440 looking at a vegetable garden, about ten pounds per thousand 1066 00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:05.320 square feet, one pound per hundred square feet and a 1067 00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:07.519 vegetable garden. It goes a long way. But remember this 1068 00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.599 is a trace mineral. You know, it's not like we're 1069 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:14.199 putting out, you know, forty pounds of fertilizer for a 1070 00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:17.079 lawn or something over an area. This is a trace mineral, 1071 00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:19.000 so we doesn't need as much. Goes a long way. 1072 00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:25.239 Azamite Texas dot com Asomite Texas dot com. That is 1073 00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:27.760 the website. If you want to learn more, you're going 1074 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:31.840 to find this everywhere you go. There's a lot a 1075 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.039 lot of places here in the Greater Houston area. Feed stores, 1076 00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:39.960 garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilized. All those places 1077 00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:43.280 you're going to find azamite. I always like it when 1078 00:56:43.679 --> 00:56:46.960 people carry stuff, so, you know, the most frustrating thing 1079 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:48.719 in the world is to be told, oh, you need 1080 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:50.679 to go get some of this, and then you go 1081 00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:53.079 and you can't find it. Well, we try to avoid 1082 00:56:53.159 --> 00:56:59.920 that from happening here on Garden Line. The Nelson Watergardens 1083 00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:04.159 out there in Katie is a place that I suspect 1084 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:06.639 a lot of our listeners have not been out there, 1085 00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:10.639 and I think this is a good road trip suggestion, 1086 00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:13.199 and grab some people when you go, get some friends, 1087 00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:16.519 gardening friends or whatever at Halm out there, because it 1088 00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:19.400 is not just going to a garden center. This is 1089 00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:22.519 a place. They have set up water gardens all through 1090 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:25.639 the back end of that property and you walk through there. 1091 00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:28.840 They ought a charge a mission just for the peace 1092 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:31.679 of mind. Maybe give you a lawn chair and charged 1093 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:35.360 mission just to sit among the sound of the moving water. Oh, 1094 00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:38.000 it is therapeutic. It is wonderful. You're going to want 1095 00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:40.119 to put some of that in your house, in your 1096 00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:42.719 landscape or rather, and they're going to be able to 1097 00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:44.159 tell you how to do it or do it for you. 1098 00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:47.480 They'll do both. They have an excellent selection of plants, 1099 00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:51.280 always plenty of things to choose from there. And if 1100 00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:53.559 you want to do a water garden or a waterfall 1101 00:57:53.760 --> 00:57:56.880 or a disappearing fountain, which they invented at Nelson's by 1102 00:57:56.880 --> 00:58:01.480 the way, they are nationally known for that. Nelson Watergardens 1103 00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:05.920 dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Just head out ten 1104 00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:09.159 to Katie Turn north on Katie Fort Benroad and it's 1105 00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:12.159 just a stone's throw up the street there on the 1106 00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:16.000 right hand side. I'm telling you that. I keep trying 1107 00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:18.760 to talk everybody into going out and seeing the place 1108 00:58:18.800 --> 00:58:24.519 because it is really really cool. I put some water 1109 00:58:24.679 --> 00:58:28.239 in my backyard. I have a little multi layer fountain 1110 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:32.039 in the backyard, and just the sound of that, and 1111 00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:34.000 you know, you go out and you sit outside and 1112 00:58:34.159 --> 00:58:36.760 it just it's wonderful. And birds hear that too, by 1113 00:58:36.760 --> 00:58:39.480 the way. They hear the sound of splashing water and 1114 00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:43.320 they come and boy along with my feeders. The birds 1115 00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:48.360 just they love that, absolutely love it. And other things 1116 00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:50.400 that are important to us need water, you know, like 1117 00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:54.440 beneficial insects. There's a lot of beneficials, including our pollinating 1118 00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:57.079 bees for example, that need a place where they can 1119 00:58:57.079 --> 00:58:59.440 get a little drink of water. And it is hot 1120 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:03.440 in some places, it's been pretty dry as well, and 1121 00:59:03.559 --> 00:59:04.960 so it doesn't have to be hot and dry for 1122 00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:07.760 very long for these insects and birds and things to 1123 00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:10.360 need a place. So i'd encourage you to think about 1124 00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:16.719 doing something like that. You are listening to Guardline. Our 1125 00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:20.119 phone number is seven to one three. Excuse me, let 1126 00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:21.599 me give you the right number, seven to one three 1127 00:59:21.719 --> 00:59:25.519 number seven one three two one two k t R H. 1128 00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:29.679 The folks at Heirloom soils have a wide variety of 1129 00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:34.719 great blends, including the fruit berry and citrus mix. They've 1130 00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:37.480 got the veggie and herb mix. They've got cactus and succulent, 1131 00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:39.519 which I was just using that as repotting some of 1132 00:59:39.599 --> 00:59:42.000 our products here the expanded shale I talked about. You 1133 00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:45.840 can get it from them Heirlooms Soils off Texas dot com. 1134 00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:49.920 Heirloomsoils of Texas dot com. Grab a bag too, are 1135 00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:54.039 their works potting soil, high quality stuff all from Heirloom 1136 00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:57.599 Soils of Texas dot Com. Widely widely available here in 1137 00:59:57.639 --> 01:00:00.920 the Greater Houston area. You won't have any trouble finding it. Well, 1138 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:02.960 it's time for me to take a break for the 1139 01:00:03.039 --> 01:00:04.679 news today. Hey, if you'd like to give me a 1140 01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:07.000 call and talk gardening, well, here's the number you need 1141 01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:09.840 to do that. It is seven to one three two 1142 01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:13.559 one two k t r H. Seven to one three 1143 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:18.480 two to one two k t r H. I was 1144 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:22.159 discussing doing some vegetable gardening in the fall, and it 1145 01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:24.599 is time. It is time to start doing that. If 1146 01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:27.199 you were going to start your coal crops by seed 1147 01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:31.840 that again, coal crops, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, co Robbie Collared's 1148 01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:37.719 kale am I forgetting Brussels sprouts. I love Brussels sprouts out. 1149 01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:40.760 You can start those seeds, but you need to get 1150 01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:43.440 that done really soon because you're going to want to 1151 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:47.599 get those things planted. Definitely about four weeks after seeding. 1152 01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:49.679 It'd be good if they could last a little bit longer. 1153 01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:52.400 It's probably better at this state to just go ahead 1154 01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:54.920 and get you some transplants. That makes it easy and 1155 01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:57.599 may if you're planting an acre of it, okay, start 1156 01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:00.320 some transplants yourself. But if you're just putting some plants 1157 01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:02.719 out there and the gardener and containers, just go buy 1158 01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:05.239 a transplant and do it that way. It's off to 1159 01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:09.199 a good start. When you get that transplant home, you 1160 01:01:09.400 --> 01:01:11.440 want to put it in the ground and you want 1161 01:01:11.480 --> 01:01:14.960 to give it a good start. And I would suggest 1162 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:19.239 that you take a product like Microlife Biomatrix that's an 1163 01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:24.599 orange labeled liquid. It's a gallon or a quart, two sizes. 1164 01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:27.679 You can buy Biomatrix liquid. It's a seven to one 1165 01:01:27.679 --> 01:01:30.920 to three fertilizer. It would be great for watering those 1166 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:34.599 plants in. There are many other great microlife products that 1167 01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:37.639 you could use. Certainly the dry the dry fertilizers down 1168 01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:40.480 into the ground. And this is you know, normally I'm 1169 01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:42.239 talking about the green bag and say put it on 1170 01:01:42.320 --> 01:01:44.639 your lawn and things. Use a green bag in your 1171 01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:47.119 vegetable and if you want. But they have many others. 1172 01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:51.159 They've got products for citrus and fruit trees, for example. 1173 01:01:51.239 --> 01:01:54.800 They have products that are designed for different times of 1174 01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:56.559 the year. For example, we're going to be talking about 1175 01:01:56.800 --> 01:01:59.159 some of their fall fertilizer a little bit later on. 1176 01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:02.159 Right now, I'm thinking more in terms of transplants. You know, 1177 01:02:02.239 --> 01:02:07.199 they've got the humates, plus they've got the the microlife molasses. 1178 01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:10.880 They've got the Microlife ocean harvest, which is a fish based, 1179 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:14.840 the seaweed Microlife super seaweed, the combination. If you're going 1180 01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:16.920 to do seaweed, I would do the ocean harvest and 1181 01:02:17.079 --> 01:02:20.519 the seaweed together. Just get the right amount put in, 1182 01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:22.480 put in a gallon of water, you know, a little 1183 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:23.880 bit of this, a little bit of that, Put them 1184 01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:26.960 together and use them as a folier feed. They work 1185 01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:29.760 really well. But back to the watering d there's a 1186 01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:33.440 Microlife soil and plant energy product. It's kind of a okay, 1187 01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:40.440 here I go I'm color challenged. Pink ish, maybe violet pink, 1188 01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:43.639 I don't know what color that is. But anyway, Microlife 1189 01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:47.519 soil and energy it works very well, as does the biometrix. 1190 01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:50.199 Just by the way, I use biometrics on houseplants and 1191 01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:52.679 it works super super well or for them as well. 1192 01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:55.760 Offer microlife go to microlifefertilizer dot com. You find out 1193 01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:58.679 where to buy it, which is pretty much everywhere. In fact, 1194 01:02:58.719 --> 01:03:00.800 if I talk about a gardens or a feet store, 1195 01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:04.480 talk about Ace hardware stores and Southwest Fertilizers, all those 1196 01:03:04.559 --> 01:03:08.960 places and more. Down at Ciena Mulch they carry these 1197 01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:11.679 microlife products. So when you're down there, remember I said, 1198 01:03:11.719 --> 01:03:13.360 that's a place where you get everything. You need to 1199 01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:15.800 have good brown stuff, so you can have good green stuff. 1200 01:03:16.760 --> 01:03:22.880 All microlife products also available down at Cenamulch. You're listening 1201 01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:25.599 to Guardline. Our number is seven one three two one 1202 01:03:25.719 --> 01:03:28.440 two five eight seven four, and that'd be a good 1203 01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:31.599 time to call. We've got some open lines here seven 1204 01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:35.119 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I 1205 01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:38.199 want to remind you if you are into strawberries or 1206 01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:41.079 you would like to grow your own strawberries, there's an 1207 01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:44.960 event coming on out in Lake Jackson, Texas at the 1208 01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:49.679 Lake Jackson Rec Center. The Recreation Center on at ninety 1209 01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:53.800 one Lake Drive and Lake Jackson. This is September the 1210 01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:57.199 twenty first. That would be a Saturday from eight a m. 1211 01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:01.960 Till twelve noon. I can annual Strawberry Jamboree by the 1212 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:07.760 Brazoria County Agrolife Extension Office Horticulture Department. Now the time 1213 01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:11.840 to apply strawberries here is really you know, October is 1214 01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:13.880 a great time to do it. Late September is okay too. 1215 01:04:14.159 --> 01:04:17.000 October is a great time to do it. And if 1216 01:04:17.039 --> 01:04:18.679 you go to this event, you're going to learn how 1217 01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:21.079 to grow strawberries from a number of super speakers. I 1218 01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:23.440 was at the event last year and very impressed with 1219 01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:25.880 the quality of speakers that they had. They're going to 1220 01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:28.239 have exhibitors there and they're also going to have strawberry 1221 01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:30.039 pluge that you can pre order if you'd like to 1222 01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:32.280 do that. But here's the most important part of the 1223 01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:37.199 whole event. Strawberry shortcake contest. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, 1224 01:04:37.599 --> 01:04:41.199 if you think you can make strawberry shortcake, well step 1225 01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:44.920 up prove it. This is a free event. If you 1226 01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:48.159 want more information called nine seventy nine eight six four 1227 01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:51.800 fifteen fifty eight nine seven nine eight six four one 1228 01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:55.400 five five eight, or just go to the Brazoria County 1229 01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:59.559 Agra Life Extension Office, go to their website, give them 1230 01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:02.440 a call. They can get you all set up with 1231 01:05:02.519 --> 01:05:04.880 the information that you need to know. Don't delay, though, 1232 01:05:04.920 --> 01:05:08.320 because these kind of things they tend to fill up, 1233 01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:09.920 so I would I would go ahead and get that 1234 01:05:10.079 --> 01:05:13.000 done sooner rather than later. And I don't care where 1235 01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:14.760 you live in the Greater Houston area, it's worth the 1236 01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:18.239 drive over to Lake Jackson for the second annual Strawberry 1237 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:22.880 Jamboree September twenty first, from eight am until twelve noon. 1238 01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:26.880 Need to you know, I always tell people when when 1239 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.960 I give advice on vegetables, that they have to bring 1240 01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:32.800 half the vegetables or half the fruit that they produce 1241 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:36.360 to the to the KTRH and we'll call it even. 1242 01:05:37.159 --> 01:05:39.599 That's fair enough, right, don't charge for advice. But I 1243 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:42.639 can be paid in fruit and vegetables. Maybe I should 1244 01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:46.159 be paid in strawberry shortcake on this one. That would 1245 01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:50.039 That's just what I need is more more strawberry short 1246 01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:52.800 cake to put in my mouth. I love that stuff. 1247 01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:55.880 All right, Well we're gonna I'm gonna quit mumbling around. 1248 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:59.320 We've got to talk. We've got to share own tech Rose, Sharon, 1249 01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:01.159 I believe and talk to Gary Gerry. 1250 01:06:01.199 --> 01:06:04.760 Are you and road sharing, yes, sir, ROAs shar in Texas. 1251 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:07.280 But my question is about some property that I have 1252 01:06:07.519 --> 01:06:11.719 up in Livingston, Texas. Okay, so it's mostly it's mostly 1253 01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:13.639 pine trees, but I've got about an acre and a 1254 01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:16.559 half field that I would like to get some kind 1255 01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:19.119 of color up there, some flowers growing on the edges 1256 01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:22.599 or something. And I was reading about periwinkle, which is 1257 01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:26.239 pretty prolific. Do you think that would be a good 1258 01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:29.760 idea for that sandy soil up there? Would a take 1259 01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:31.960 root and grow well? 1260 01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:37.880 Perry periwinkle is a really summer tolerant plant. And the 1261 01:06:38.079 --> 01:06:41.119 only thought about periwinkle. You could do that now, But 1262 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:43.480 when it cools off, that periwinkle is gonna kind of 1263 01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:46.039 quit doing its thing. And then with the first frost 1264 01:06:46.119 --> 01:06:47.960 it's gonna or freeze, it's gonna kill it back. So 1265 01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:50.159 you may get a little more bang out of your 1266 01:06:50.199 --> 01:06:54.079 buck going with some other things that maybe wait a 1267 01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:56.679 little bit, make sure and get that soil, right, and 1268 01:06:56.800 --> 01:06:59.159 then plant something that's a little more of a cool, 1269 01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:01.400 cooler weather plant. 1270 01:07:01.960 --> 01:07:02.079 Uh. 1271 01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:04.159 Are you wanting to do it by seed? 1272 01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:05.960 Is that the Is that the well? 1273 01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:08.480 Either either way? Either either way? 1274 01:07:08.679 --> 01:07:08.880 I was. 1275 01:07:09.079 --> 01:07:11.559 I was thinking I was really wanting something that would 1276 01:07:11.639 --> 01:07:15.519 come back every year, and I thought Perry Winkles were 1277 01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:18.440 I thought they would come back from reading about it, 1278 01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:22.800 but maybe not. Any suggestions you have. 1279 01:07:22.880 --> 01:07:23.480 Would be great. 1280 01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:26.559 Yeah, well that would be a good one for summertime 1281 01:07:26.679 --> 01:07:29.280 if you're going to do that. Another option, did you 1282 01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:30.760 say this was an acre that was. 1283 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.360 Cleared up and it's about an acre and a half 1284 01:07:33.480 --> 01:07:35.480 acre and a half yes, sir, And I don't want 1285 01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:37.000 to do the whole thing. I just want to do 1286 01:07:37.079 --> 01:07:39.519 around that, Okay. 1287 01:07:40.119 --> 01:07:43.760 I was going to suggest wallflowers. Fall is an excellent 1288 01:07:43.800 --> 01:07:47.280 time to plant wildflowers. You could throw out, you know, 1289 01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:50.400 things like seeds of blue bonnets and other wildflowers. Plant 1290 01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:52.199 them in the fall and you have a beautiful spring 1291 01:07:52.320 --> 01:07:56.159 and then they recede and come back. As you said, okay, 1292 01:07:56.239 --> 01:07:56.960 well then that's so. 1293 01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:00.960 And then suggestions on where to get seeds. 1294 01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:05.760 Yeah, well, for that volume, there's two places that I 1295 01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:10.679 would suggest you consider. One is called wild Seed Farms 1296 01:08:10.760 --> 01:08:15.800 and it's in Fredericksburg wild Seed Farms. And the other 1297 01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:20.359 one is in Junction, also out West Hill Country area Junction, 1298 01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:24.600 Texans called Native American Seed and they both have wildflower 1299 01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:28.840 mixes for every area. For your area, you're gonna want 1300 01:08:28.880 --> 01:08:31.319 to make sure and get blue bonnets that are the 1301 01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:35.760 sandy land blue bonnet for up there. Sandy lands a 1302 01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:38.199 little different than the blue bonnet you see down here 1303 01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:42.399 in most places. Okay, you can go online, go online 1304 01:08:42.439 --> 01:08:44.479 to those websites and you'll see the difference. I'm not 1305 01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:46.000 going to try to describe it on the air, but 1306 01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:49.399 it's a little different, but it does good in sandy soils. 1307 01:08:50.479 --> 01:08:53.000 And then another option, I would get some seeds of 1308 01:08:53.319 --> 01:08:57.119 different kinds of puppies. I know that these places, I 1309 01:08:57.239 --> 01:09:00.560 know wild seed farms cells like the red core corn poppy, 1310 01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:03.279 but there are a lot of different kinds of poppies 1311 01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:06.000 that will recede. I would not use the bread seed 1312 01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:10.000 poppy in that big of an area that uh well, 1313 01:09:10.239 --> 01:09:11.479 I don't know if we need to go into that 1314 01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:14.000 or not, but I would use the corn poppy. Uh 1315 01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:18.000 California poppy woil would all be good for you up 1316 01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:18.600 in that area. 1317 01:09:20.399 --> 01:09:23.520 Okay, well, I sure appreciate your advice this morning, and 1318 01:09:24.039 --> 01:09:26.159 hopefully I can make my field look beautiful. 1319 01:09:27.159 --> 01:09:29.840 All right, all right, thanks La Carl. Good luck with that. 1320 01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:32.319 Sounds like you got a beautiful thing going on up there. 1321 01:09:32.720 --> 01:09:35.239 We're gonna take a little break and I'll be right back. 1322 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:38.760 Happened to be cleared out, so I guess they knew 1323 01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:41.720 you wanted to call. Seven one three two one two 1324 01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:44.640 k t r H. Seven one three two one two 1325 01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:51.039 k t r H. I was down at Southwest Fertilizer 1326 01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:53.680 the other day, which I often go by there because 1327 01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:58.119 I'm telling you, Southwest Fertilizer has everything you could possibly need. 1328 01:09:58.199 --> 01:10:01.039 I need to pick up some products for some weed 1329 01:10:01.199 --> 01:10:05.680 killing that I've been doing, and Bob just has a selection. 1330 01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:08.239 If he Southwist doesn't have it, you don't need it. 1331 01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:10.760 And I really mean that. That's not just a joke. 1332 01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:14.479 That is serious because they have everything that you need 1333 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:17.640 to have success. Are you an organic gardener? Are you 1334 01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:21.039 you know not organic? Don't you don't care? You use 1335 01:10:21.159 --> 01:10:25.119 organic or synthetic? Bob has products for everything, fertilizers and 1336 01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:28.199 past control and weed control and whatnot. I was getting 1337 01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:32.119 some stuff I'm still experimenting around on some different approaches 1338 01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:36.199 to nutsedge control. We posted something to the garden line 1339 01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:41.399 Facebook page just yesterday. Reposted something which, by the way, 1340 01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:44.439 if you don't follow garden Line on Facebook, you should 1341 01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:48.520 just go to Facebook. Do go type in garden line, 1342 01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:53.359 what word garden line, and you'll find that post. It's 1343 01:10:53.439 --> 01:10:55.119 easy to find it as you scroll down. It's a 1344 01:10:55.119 --> 01:10:57.279 picture of me with a shotgun in my MD pointing 1345 01:10:57.359 --> 01:10:59.399 it at a nut sedge. Do you ever feel that way? 1346 01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:05.359 Do a lot? Anyways? I put up their instructions on 1347 01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:07.479 first of all, I put something that's a little linkedy. 1348 01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:10.359 It's three pages, but it explains the different types of 1349 01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:15.399 nutsedge we have, how they grow, and why that's important, 1350 01:11:15.439 --> 01:11:18.760 and knowing how to control them. Most people fail at 1351 01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:23.199 controlling nutsedge because they way too long to start, or 1352 01:11:23.319 --> 01:11:27.279 they do a good job starting and then they stop 1353 01:11:27.359 --> 01:11:29.520 for a while, they get busy, life goes on. I 1354 01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:32.920 know how that is, and the nutsedge has time to 1355 01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:35.880 recover and then they go back again. And just remember 1356 01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:41.279 nuts edge. If you cannot ever let it have air, 1357 01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:43.199 don't let it up for air. Think of it that 1358 01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:45.720 way when it sticks its head above the ground. Has 1359 01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:47.560 three to five leaves on it. You need to do 1360 01:11:47.720 --> 01:11:51.560 something hand digging, spraying, whatever you do, you need to 1361 01:11:51.640 --> 01:11:54.680 do something at that stage and you will wear it 1362 01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:56.960 out and you will win if you use the right products. 1363 01:11:57.000 --> 01:11:59.840 And this publication tells you all about it and it's free. 1364 01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:03.359 Also up there as a publication on making your own 1365 01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:04.159 weed wiper. 1366 01:12:04.399 --> 01:12:04.520 Now. 1367 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:08.600 Weed wiper is a nice little tunes made from a 1368 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:13.720 climbing tool with suction cups and you just put sponges 1369 01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:16.640 where the suction cups where Bob's got that tool at 1370 01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:20.520 Southwest Fertilizer, Those suction cup type grabber tools. You know, 1371 01:12:20.640 --> 01:12:23.479 they're not that hard to find, but he's got some 1372 01:12:23.680 --> 01:12:25.399 there and he's got all the products that you would 1373 01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:27.439 put on it. So go online download that. How do 1374 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:29.720 you build your own weed wiper? The reason I like 1375 01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:33.640 it is it allows you to treat weeds. It doesn't 1376 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:35.640 have to just be nuts edge. It could be poison ivy, 1377 01:12:35.720 --> 01:12:38.520 it could be some grassyweed. It allows you to treat 1378 01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:40.920 them in areas where if you spray, you'd hurt your plants. 1379 01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:43.640 It also allows you to treat them without putting a 1380 01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:46.319 lot of product out there in the environment. Takes very 1381 01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:48.840 little when you just apply it to the sponges of 1382 01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:52.000 a weed wiper. But Southwest Fertilizer has that tool and 1383 01:12:52.039 --> 01:12:54.199 they've got everything you need to go on it. Southwest 1384 01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:59.000 Fertilizer dot Com is the website Southwest Fertilizer dot Com 1385 01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:03.199 and the phone number seven one three six sixty six 1386 01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:07.880 seventeen forty four seven one three six six six seventeen 1387 01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:11.159 forty four, and you swing by there and check it out. 1388 01:13:11.279 --> 01:13:14.640 It's in Southwest Houston. Been ronsis nineteen fifty five corner 1389 01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:19.039 of Bissonette and Runwick. We're going to go now to 1390 01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:23.640 Port Natchus and talk to Janet. Janette. Yeah, hey Janet, 1391 01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:28.000 Welcome Toguardline. Hello, good morning, more, good question. 1392 01:13:28.760 --> 01:13:33.479 I had two questions about tulip bups. When I bought 1393 01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:34.520 them a long time ago. 1394 01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:38.119 Someone told me to put them in the refridgerr rator 1395 01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:39.800 about four weeks. 1396 01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:40.800 Before you plan them. 1397 01:13:41.720 --> 01:13:45.880 And I was sisted also in knowing what months to 1398 01:13:46.039 --> 01:13:46.520 plant them. 1399 01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:52.439 Okay, so we typically buy bulbs in the fall. Tulips, 1400 01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:57.960 most tulips, there's a few very obscure exceptions, but most 1401 01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:00.439 tulips are what we call one shot wonder. You know, 1402 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:03.439 you plan them, they bloom and they just don't naturalize 1403 01:14:03.479 --> 01:14:06.039 and come back year after year after year like some 1404 01:14:06.159 --> 01:14:08.640 of the other bulls can. So what we typically do 1405 01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:10.640 is when we get the tulips, just go ahead and 1406 01:14:10.680 --> 01:14:13.119 store them in the fridge, put them down, put them 1407 01:14:13.159 --> 01:14:15.119 in a crisper or something. But make sure there's no 1408 01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:19.079 apples or other vegetables in that crisper because those give 1409 01:14:19.119 --> 01:14:22.079 off ethylene, or they can give off ethylene, and that 1410 01:14:22.359 --> 01:14:25.720 messes up the bloom that's inside that bulb you put 1411 01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:28.520 in there, So don't store them with fruits and vegetables. 1412 01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:34.880 Then when we get to I typically would say between 1413 01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:38.199 Christmas and New Year's you would begin to put them out. 1414 01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:40.960 You want to get them in the ground and they'll 1415 01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:43.079 get established, they'll get roots, and then they're going to 1416 01:14:43.159 --> 01:14:45.239 come up and bloom. And if you wait it until 1417 01:14:45.279 --> 01:14:48.600 let's say February to put them out, it would just 1418 01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:51.600 be so fast and it'd be so warm that your 1419 01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:54.920 blood times even shorter. So I like to start between 1420 01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:58.199 Christmas and New Year's. The way I like to put it, Janet, 1421 01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:00.840 is about the time the relative that have been hanging 1422 01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:03.199 out at your house over the holidays you start to 1423 01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:05.600 get away from them. That's a good time to walk 1424 01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:07.880 outside and plant your tulips. That's how you know when 1425 01:15:07.960 --> 01:15:08.760 it's time to plant. 1426 01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:09.920 That's good. 1427 01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:13.000 And how many ways in the fridge. 1428 01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:13.760 I'm sorry. 1429 01:15:14.560 --> 01:15:15.960 Oh, you can leave them as long as you want. 1430 01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:19.680 But the typically they're stored just you know, when you 1431 01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:22.039 buy them, they're just you know, in a box in 1432 01:15:22.119 --> 01:15:24.880 the garden center, sitting on a shelf or something, so 1433 01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:27.520 they don't have to live in a refrigerator. It's just 1434 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:30.439 before you put them out, you know, leave them in there. 1435 01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:32.359 I would say, give them a month in there if 1436 01:15:32.439 --> 01:15:37.039 you can. A lot of times. I don't know how 1437 01:15:37.079 --> 01:15:39.279 many times those would be pre chilled, but I would 1438 01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:41.239 just store them in there to keep them in top shape. 1439 01:15:41.399 --> 01:15:44.119 Because if you just go months sitting out in warm, 1440 01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:46.720 hot weather in a garage or something, that's not gonna 1441 01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:47.159 be good for you. 1442 01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:49.479 Okay, I sure do. 1443 01:15:49.680 --> 01:15:50.920 Thank you for all your hap. 1444 01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:54.600 Have a nice I have fun. Send me pictures tulips 1445 01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:59.399 when you when they started, you're real. Thank you, Bye bye, Janet. 1446 01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:05.640 Tulips are interesting, interesting things. They're so beautiful. I mean, 1447 01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:08.079 do you look at the pictures. Oh gosh, it's just 1448 01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:11.399 I've never been to Holland to see tulips. I guess 1449 01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:13.880 that's a trip I need to make. Not made that 1450 01:16:14.640 --> 01:16:17.159 trip yet, and I need to that would that would 1451 01:16:17.199 --> 01:16:21.479 certainly be good. I wanted to. Since we're talking about 1452 01:16:21.640 --> 01:16:25.880 bulbs and things, when fall comes it is prime time 1453 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:29.600 for planting bulbs, and I would encourage you this fall 1454 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:33.000 to add a perennial bulb to your landscape. I mean, 1455 01:16:33.079 --> 01:16:35.439 certainly I had several different types, but at least one 1456 01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:38.560 it could be the ox blood lilies. Those are the ones. 1457 01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:42.920 They're also called schoolhouse lilies because they typically bloom in September. 1458 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:47.119 You know, it's been parched, hot sun ground, and all 1459 01:16:47.159 --> 01:16:48.720 of a sudden we get a little co front and 1460 01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:51.000 some cool rain down on the ground, and here they 1461 01:16:51.039 --> 01:16:53.880 come up with their little red tubular flowers. They don't 1462 01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:56.720 last a long time, but they are tough. I mean, 1463 01:16:56.760 --> 01:16:59.680 you see these in homesteads where no one is taking 1464 01:16:59.720 --> 01:17:02.439 care of them for decades and they're still going strong. 1465 01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:06.840 That's a great bulb to have. You could consider iris. 1466 01:17:07.279 --> 01:17:10.279 The cemetery iris is a beautiful iris. It does just well. 1467 01:17:10.920 --> 01:17:13.720 Some types of bearded iris do well. There are certain 1468 01:17:13.880 --> 01:17:18.119 daffodils that do well. The big larger flowered, and then 1469 01:17:18.159 --> 01:17:20.880 the little clusters the paper white. It's the type of 1470 01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:24.960 narcissus that they also there are certain ones that do well, 1471 01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:26.960 and you go to a good here's another reason to 1472 01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:29.760 go to a good independent garden center. They're going to 1473 01:17:29.800 --> 01:17:32.000 carry ones that will naturalize you, or they'll be able 1474 01:17:32.039 --> 01:17:34.640 to tell you if they do or not. And to 1475 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:38.439 buy one that naturalizes is an investment because think about this, 1476 01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:41.720 that bulb is just going to multiply over the years. 1477 01:17:42.319 --> 01:17:45.000 It's going to come back every spring or every fall, 1478 01:17:45.319 --> 01:17:48.600 or every whenever. The thing blooms every summer. Rain lilies 1479 01:17:48.640 --> 01:17:51.760 bloom typically in the summer, as do copper lilies. But 1480 01:17:51.840 --> 01:17:55.119 there's a lot of great naturalism books, some of those 1481 01:17:55.479 --> 01:17:59.319 garden our garden centers, as they may already start getting 1482 01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:03.560 I was like, man, I suspend I hadn't, but anyway, 1483 01:18:03.880 --> 01:18:07.840 it's a great time, great time, and it just gives 1484 01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:09.840 you those rewards. I like to plant mine in a 1485 01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:12.399 way where when they die down in the village, I 1486 01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:14.920 cut it back to she hollowed and done. Uh, you 1487 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:16.920 don't even know that they are. All of a sudden surprise. 1488 01:18:17.039 --> 01:18:19.199 I walked around the corner of my house the other day, 1489 01:18:19.279 --> 01:18:21.560 and I've got some ox blood lilies or scull block 1490 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:26.039 squaws lilies, and they were in an old black nursery pot, 1491 01:18:26.199 --> 01:18:28.560 been setting up for years. The soil is almost all 1492 01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:31.199 gone out of the pot from oxidizing, and the little 1493 01:18:31.239 --> 01:18:33.159 boogers had balloons on them already because they got a 1494 01:18:33.199 --> 01:18:35.880 little rain the other day. That is the kind of 1495 01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:39.560 blow by life like one of my mentors, doctor Bill Welts, says, 1496 01:18:40.399 --> 01:18:43.720 get your flowers, find your flowers and roses and cemeteries, 1497 01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:47.000 because if dead people can grow it, you can to. 1498 01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:49.319 Have und. 1499 01:18:56.239 --> 01:18:59.000 All Right, folks, welcome back to guard Line. We're glad 1500 01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:03.279 you are with us today. Always like to have folks 1501 01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:06.039 listening in. And even better than talk to folks, find 1502 01:19:06.079 --> 01:19:07.920 out how we can help you have a more bountiful 1503 01:19:07.920 --> 01:19:10.960 garden and a more beautiful landscape. Do you live down 1504 01:19:11.119 --> 01:19:14.279 south of Houston, Down south to Houston, and you know 1505 01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:19.119 down direction of Alvin Well in Alvin on Elizabeth Street, 1506 01:19:19.239 --> 01:19:24.680 you've got a garden center Jorges Hidden Gardens Horaes Hidden Gardens. 1507 01:19:24.680 --> 01:19:25.960 If you haven't been by there, you need to swing 1508 01:19:26.039 --> 01:19:29.159 by and check it out. They're open on Friday and 1509 01:19:29.359 --> 01:19:32.520 Saturday and Sunday Friday from nine to three, Saturday from 1510 01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:35.439 eight am to four pm, and on Sunday from eight 1511 01:19:35.479 --> 01:19:37.800 am to four pm again, so it's easy to find 1512 01:19:38.319 --> 01:19:40.560 all kinds of things out there. They really have a 1513 01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:43.199 lot of different kinds of fruit trees too that you 1514 01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:46.439 know contain our fruit trees. So whatever kinds of fruit 1515 01:19:46.520 --> 01:19:49.239 you want for that area, well they've got the load 1516 01:19:49.319 --> 01:19:52.000 shell stuff and that that's what you need for down there. 1517 01:19:52.039 --> 01:19:54.399 You need apples and things that don't require a lot 1518 01:19:54.479 --> 01:19:57.479 of chilling hours, plums, pears, avocados, peaches, all of that 1519 01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:01.359 they seasonally will get in their vegetab plants and tomato 1520 01:20:01.439 --> 01:20:05.119 plants specifically Peggy Martin roses and just on and on. 1521 01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:07.079 If you need a tree or a shrub, they're an 1522 01:20:07.119 --> 01:20:09.399 outstanding source for those. You got them right there on 1523 01:20:10.199 --> 01:20:11.560 site and they'll come out and plant them if you 1524 01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:14.800 need them to, happy to do that. On Elizabeth Street 1525 01:20:14.920 --> 01:20:20.600 in Alvin. This is Horges Hidden Gardens seventeen seven twenty 1526 01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:23.800 one Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of the Highway six. 1527 01:20:24.319 --> 01:20:26.479 So all of you down there in Alvin and certainly 1528 01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:30.560 Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, al Goo, Arcadia, Alta, Looma, all 1529 01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:32.600 those communities. You got a little garden center there. You 1530 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:34.920 need to go check out, and I think you'll be 1531 01:20:35.039 --> 01:20:37.279 very pleased with what you find when you get there. 1532 01:20:38.079 --> 01:20:39.960 You are listening to garden Line and we're about to 1533 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:42.520 head out to the phones. Now to Spring Branch and 1534 01:20:42.680 --> 01:20:45.479 talk to Herta. Hello, Hrta, Welcome to garden Line. 1535 01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:49.239 Good morning. I hope you're doing well. 1536 01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:53.600 I'm doing well, hurt, I hope you're doing well. Oh 1537 01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:54.359 I am. 1538 01:20:55.199 --> 01:21:01.640 Thank you. My questions about shrip plants a friend of mine, 1539 01:21:02.239 --> 01:21:05.600 I have a number of them, and she wants a 1540 01:21:05.720 --> 01:21:09.000 couple of them, but she wants them in a pot 1541 01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:13.239 until she decides or she's going to put them in 1542 01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:17.159 her yard. What's the best method? 1543 01:21:18.439 --> 01:21:19.079 Is that good? 1544 01:21:19.359 --> 01:21:20.720 And when do we do that? 1545 01:21:22.039 --> 01:21:22.239 Yeah? 1546 01:21:22.600 --> 01:21:26.800 You go, it's the garden center her till you see 1547 01:21:26.840 --> 01:21:29.800 those things in gallum pots. That's how people buy them typically, 1548 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.000 and so you can recreate that. So what I would 1549 01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:35.119 do is if she's not in a hurry to put 1550 01:21:35.159 --> 01:21:36.560 them in the ground, then I wouldn't be in a 1551 01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:39.319 hurry to dig them. Let's get into fall. Let's get 1552 01:21:39.319 --> 01:21:43.159 into late October, even early November. If you want, uh, 1553 01:21:43.359 --> 01:21:46.279 and get them dug. Then the cooler it gets, the 1554 01:21:46.439 --> 01:21:48.840 easier it is to get them dug and in a 1555 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:51.880 pot and watered in in that pot so that they 1556 01:21:51.960 --> 01:21:54.960 have success. It's just so stressful to try to do 1557 01:21:55.039 --> 01:21:55.560 it right now. 1558 01:21:56.479 --> 01:21:59.119 Oh I agree with that wholeheartedly. 1559 01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:01.079 Stressful on you too. 1560 01:22:01.960 --> 01:22:06.760 Oh well, yeah, that's true. Well thanks a lot, take 1561 01:22:06.840 --> 01:22:07.399 care all. 1562 01:22:07.399 --> 01:22:10.560 Right, you bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate you bet. 1563 01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:12.319 Appreciate that a lot. 1564 01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:13.079 Uh. 1565 01:22:13.680 --> 01:22:15.520 You know, I like birds, if you listen to garden 1566 01:22:15.560 --> 01:22:18.119 Line more than once. I used to not be a 1567 01:22:18.159 --> 01:22:20.680 bird person, but now I just enjoy them, and I'm 1568 01:22:20.760 --> 01:22:23.359 not into the thing where I can hear every song 1569 01:22:23.479 --> 01:22:25.680 and know what they are. I got a lap that'll 1570 01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:28.840 do that though, by the way. But wild Birds Unlimited. 1571 01:22:29.119 --> 01:22:32.359 That is the place for everything you need. Quality bird seed. 1572 01:22:32.479 --> 01:22:34.680 And I don't mean cheap stuff full of red bebes 1573 01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:38.079 that junk the birds kick out. I'm talking about if 1574 01:22:38.159 --> 01:22:40.840 you buy it and it's in a bag at wild Birds, 1575 01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:43.880 it goes into a bird's stomach. That's the kind of 1576 01:22:43.920 --> 01:22:47.039 feed we want to feed the birds want to eat. Now, 1577 01:22:47.399 --> 01:22:50.359 of course, there's things like sunflower seeds that they'll shell 1578 01:22:50.399 --> 01:22:52.399 out and drop the shells on the ground. But you 1579 01:22:52.479 --> 01:22:56.079 can even buy a no no waste, no mess. They 1580 01:22:56.159 --> 01:23:00.279 call it blend of seeds. There it's hummingbird season though. 1581 01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:03.079 You got to get your bird feeders. To go to 1582 01:23:03.199 --> 01:23:06.760 Wallbirds and ask for the high perch hummingbird feeder. That's 1583 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:09.560 my favorite one. There. I've got several hummingbird feeders. That's 1584 01:23:09.640 --> 01:23:12.720 my favorite one high perch from Walbirds. You go to 1585 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:17.600 WBU dot com forward Slash Houston w BU dot Com 1586 01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:20.439 forward Slash Houston that sells all shows you all six 1587 01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:24.199 wallbirds that are here in the Greater Houston area. The 1588 01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:26.760 hummingbirds are here. I've already had them in my yard, 1589 01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:29.680 and you got to get those feeders out there, take 1590 01:23:29.680 --> 01:23:31.800 care of them because they are a long trip ahead 1591 01:23:31.840 --> 01:23:34.319 of them, and as some of them head down south 1592 01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:36.399 further than this, so we need to get those taken 1593 01:23:36.479 --> 01:23:38.680 care of. Any kind of bird seed though, any kind 1594 01:23:38.680 --> 01:23:42.000 of bird feeders, any kind of bird houses, and probably 1595 01:23:42.079 --> 01:23:46.119 most important of all, quality bird advice. I always ask 1596 01:23:46.399 --> 01:23:50.960 those Wildbird Unlimited manager soore managers and their staff bird 1597 01:23:51.079 --> 01:23:53.039 questions every time I go in because there's something I 1598 01:23:53.159 --> 01:23:55.520 need to know. All right, We're going to go now 1599 01:23:55.720 --> 01:23:59.239 to talk to Dan. Hello Dan, and welcome to garden Line. 1600 01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:04.600 Morning skiff. But that you're doing well today, and I 1601 01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:10.399 am than you had another addition to your fall vegetables 1602 01:24:12.039 --> 01:24:15.720 and probably don't think about it as much as I do, 1603 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:21.319 but turnips and most oh yeah, and beets I left. 1604 01:24:21.600 --> 01:24:23.119 I left the beats out as well. 1605 01:24:24.319 --> 01:24:24.520 Yeah. 1606 01:24:26.079 --> 01:24:29.119 And another thing that I have hadn't had a chance 1607 01:24:29.199 --> 01:24:33.880 to talk to you about is uh turf grass for 1608 01:24:34.159 --> 01:24:39.880 shade areas. I have had Saint Augustine for years, and 1609 01:24:40.199 --> 01:24:43.399 my trees kept getting bigger and bigger in the shade 1610 01:24:43.439 --> 01:24:48.359 and got more dense, and the august is going away. 1611 01:24:49.720 --> 01:24:56.039 So I did some grass, some some medium bladed soyge 1612 01:24:56.039 --> 01:25:00.800 of grass some in there, and if uh it has 1613 01:25:00.960 --> 01:25:05.960 thrived and has filled in where I had take all 1614 01:25:06.159 --> 01:25:12.399 patch and then killed the sat And so my my 1615 01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:17.279 grass has been transitioned from Saint Augustine in spots to 1616 01:25:17.800 --> 01:25:18.600 Zorzia grass. 1617 01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:26.000 And did you say palisades was the one? Okay, just 1618 01:25:26.079 --> 01:25:26.720 one variety. 1619 01:25:27.800 --> 01:25:31.399 There's some other other varieties, but that was that was 1620 01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:37.279 one that I had access to and used it. It 1621 01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:41.720 has a wide enough blade that it doesn't contrast that 1622 01:25:41.920 --> 01:25:45.880 much with the with the width of the Saint Augustine. 1623 01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:50.920 It's a dark green than the than the Saint Augustine. 1624 01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:54.239 It's a beautiful grass and very good. 1625 01:25:55.680 --> 01:25:57.720 I've got some palisades in my yard. It is a 1626 01:25:57.960 --> 01:26:00.920 very beautiful grass, very tough and and versatile too. 1627 01:26:01.920 --> 01:26:04.920 Yes, and as I say it, it stands to shade. 1628 01:26:05.439 --> 01:26:09.680 And I've never seen the problem with all Right, say Dan, Dan? 1629 01:26:10.000 --> 01:26:10.119 Uh? 1630 01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:13.399 Did you have a question or just kind of reporting 1631 01:26:13.479 --> 01:26:14.119 on some things? 1632 01:26:14.960 --> 01:26:17.000 I just wanted to tell you feel to that end. 1633 01:26:17.760 --> 01:26:21.680 That's perfectly okay. Hey Dan, I'm gonna I'm gonna have 1634 01:26:21.760 --> 01:26:23.560 to go to a break, and so if you want 1635 01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:25.920 to hang around, go ahead. We'll hold on to you. 1636 01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:29.199 But I got to run here before before they cut 1637 01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:31.960 me off. All Right, folks, I'll be right back. You're 1638 01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:34.279 listening to the garden line, have you here? We're gonna 1639 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:36.359 head back to the phones here, Dan, I think you 1640 01:26:36.439 --> 01:26:37.640 may have had a follow up question. 1641 01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:40.399 Well one more comment? 1642 01:26:41.079 --> 01:26:41.199 Uh? 1643 01:26:41.680 --> 01:26:43.960 You interested in oakrah? 1644 01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:45.479 Yes? 1645 01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:48.199 And I have an oakrah variety that I have not 1646 01:26:48.359 --> 01:26:51.399 been able to find in any seed catalog. But it's 1647 01:26:52.199 --> 01:26:55.359 it's something that was planted out in my pasture. I 1648 01:26:55.479 --> 01:26:57.960 guess carried it out there by birds, and it is. 1649 01:26:58.520 --> 01:27:07.319 It's a wonderful spineless okra long slender pods and I've 1650 01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:09.680 i'd just like to share seed with you. 1651 01:27:10.079 --> 01:27:12.640 Yeah, I'd be happy to do that. Yeah, I'd be 1652 01:27:12.680 --> 01:27:15.439 interested in looking at it. So you don't know, though, 1653 01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:17.479 how it got there. You just know somehow it got 1654 01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:18.199 out there, right. 1655 01:27:18.760 --> 01:27:21.800 Well, the only thing I can figure is in the pasture, 1656 01:27:21.880 --> 01:27:24.960 and the birds abound to have carried it because there 1657 01:27:25.119 --> 01:27:28.880 was a long ways from any any other gardens or 1658 01:27:28.920 --> 01:27:30.399 any other place. 1659 01:27:32.279 --> 01:27:34.560 Yeah, well, hey, thanks, I'm going to put you on hold. 1660 01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:38.359 I'm going to put you on hold and uh, Chris 1661 01:27:38.640 --> 01:27:41.720 producer will give you an email address, and if you 1662 01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:46.680 would just email me, then we'll figure out how to 1663 01:27:46.760 --> 01:27:48.600 get those seeds straight out. I may even trade you 1664 01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:51.159 some seeds if you don't try something else. All right, Okay, 1665 01:27:51.279 --> 01:27:54.039 thanks a lot. Appreciate, appreciate you call very much. You're 1666 01:27:54.119 --> 01:27:56.640 listening to Guardline folks, and we're here to answer your 1667 01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:00.399 gardening questions. Yes, I have an idea. You have an 1668 01:28:00.439 --> 01:28:02.439 okra problem. I don't know if there's a wing of 1669 01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:05.199 the Betty Ford Clinic for Okra growers, but if there is, 1670 01:28:05.359 --> 01:28:08.439 I need to be admitted pretty quick, because my whole 1671 01:28:08.520 --> 01:28:12.319 garden is basically okra right now, because I breed okra, 1672 01:28:12.520 --> 01:28:17.760 cross okra different varieties and then take the out from 1673 01:28:17.880 --> 01:28:19.720 that and plan them out and pick the ones that 1674 01:28:19.760 --> 01:28:22.159 are best out and cross some more, and just I'm 1675 01:28:22.199 --> 01:28:24.800 always messing with okra, and I think it's fun. It's 1676 01:28:24.880 --> 01:28:27.319 easy to do, and boy, it likes the heat. You 1677 01:28:27.399 --> 01:28:29.399 know what I was reading the other day. Okay, this 1678 01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:32.119 is a let me nerd out here just a little bit. 1679 01:28:33.119 --> 01:28:35.239 But a lot of people turn their nose up at 1680 01:28:35.279 --> 01:28:38.199 okra because it's slimy. Well, first of all, let me 1681 01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:41.880 expand your vocabulary. We do not say us okra. People 1682 01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:45.399 do not say slimy. We say mucilaginous because it sounds better. 1683 01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:49.399 But if we grill ours, put a little olive oil 1684 01:28:49.439 --> 01:28:51.760 on the outside, sprinkle them with sea salt, put them 1685 01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:54.520 on a grill two minutes on each, two sides, and 1686 01:28:54.760 --> 01:28:58.039 you're done. And it's not as a mucilaginous that way. 1687 01:28:58.119 --> 01:29:02.079 When you cook it with acidic things like tomatoes and whatnot, 1688 01:29:02.239 --> 01:29:05.880 it is not as musiclagins. But sometimes it's worth accepting 1689 01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:09.399 the mucilage because it helps thicken soups and other things. 1690 01:29:09.479 --> 01:29:11.960 I actually dry and grind the ocre up into a 1691 01:29:12.039 --> 01:29:16.279 powder and my vitamins and basically turn it into something 1692 01:29:16.359 --> 01:29:18.680 that could be added by the spoonfuld anything from a 1693 01:29:18.760 --> 01:29:22.520 smoothie to a soup to you name it, and I'll 1694 01:29:22.520 --> 01:29:24.520 tell you why this is important. Okra has two kinds 1695 01:29:24.520 --> 01:29:29.319 of fiber. One fiber soluble, one is not soluble, insoluble 1696 01:29:29.399 --> 01:29:34.920 and soluble fiber. One type helps with things like heart issues, 1697 01:29:35.039 --> 01:29:37.600 you know, when we're dealing with things like cholesterol and whatnot. 1698 01:29:37.920 --> 01:29:42.439 Another type helps with your intestinal track. You know, we 1699 01:29:42.560 --> 01:29:45.720 all know that fiber is important in terms of good 1700 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:51.000 healthy microbes and let's just say it, things function properly 1701 01:29:51.159 --> 01:29:54.279 in the intestinal tract. And Okra does all of that 1702 01:29:54.520 --> 01:29:56.479 and a lot of other things. So there's my little 1703 01:29:56.520 --> 01:29:58.800 mini Okra commercial. This was brought to you by the 1704 01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:02.439 National OCRA Board. There's not one to my knowledge, but anyway, 1705 01:30:03.439 --> 01:30:07.279 I'm basically like Rodney Dangerfield can't get no respect. I'm 1706 01:30:07.319 --> 01:30:09.479 trying to get Okra some respect here because it is 1707 01:30:09.560 --> 01:30:12.399 a it is a good vegetable and I can tell 1708 01:30:12.439 --> 01:30:14.279 you a lot of ways to use it you probably 1709 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:16.920 haven't heard of before that are very helpful because it 1710 01:30:17.039 --> 01:30:19.760 is a good, healthy, healthy thing to have. All right, 1711 01:30:20.479 --> 01:30:24.880 thanks for thanks for bearing with me through that green 1712 01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:28.520 Pro green Pro. You've heard me talk about green Pro 1713 01:30:28.840 --> 01:30:32.840 when you need to have your lawn core air rated, 1714 01:30:33.760 --> 01:30:40.159 followed by a quality compost top dressing. Green Pro is 1715 01:30:40.600 --> 01:30:42.960 a number on a company and a number you're going 1716 01:30:43.039 --> 01:30:45.920 to need to have green Pro. The phone number is 1717 01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:49.960 two eight one three five one Green two eight one 1718 01:30:50.119 --> 01:30:53.640 three five to one green, or you can just go 1719 01:30:53.760 --> 01:30:58.680 to Greenpro dot net Greenpro dot net. Now, Greenpro services 1720 01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:02.720 about a forty five mile radius of Magnolia, So if 1721 01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:06.880 you're north to north central over and around maybe too, 1722 01:31:07.199 --> 01:31:11.239 you know High ten in the northwest quadrant. Pretty much 1723 01:31:11.319 --> 01:31:13.399 that's their area right there. They're not going to go 1724 01:31:13.439 --> 01:31:16.960 all over the listening area, but Greenpro up in that area. 1725 01:31:17.079 --> 01:31:23.439 So Porter missouris the Cypress, Kadie Tomball, all of that. 1726 01:31:24.079 --> 01:31:26.800 Those are all areas of green Pro Services, and they'll 1727 01:31:26.800 --> 01:31:28.159 come out and they'll do a good job. They are 1728 01:31:28.239 --> 01:31:31.359 experts in the field and they will turn that soil 1729 01:31:31.479 --> 01:31:36.000 that's compacted into something where your grassroots can grow. That's important. 1730 01:31:36.039 --> 01:31:39.680 They use quality tompos compost, not top soil, high quality 1731 01:31:40.039 --> 01:31:42.720 leaf mold composts. They put it down there, and as 1732 01:31:42.800 --> 01:31:46.199 you build that lawn by improving the soil. That's you know, 1733 01:31:47.039 --> 01:31:49.800 with a garden, you can rototoil compost into the soil. 1734 01:31:49.920 --> 01:31:52.720 What do you do for a lawn, Well, the roots 1735 01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:55.560 themselves live and die and they add some organic matter. 1736 01:31:56.000 --> 01:31:59.720 But the deep aeration, the core aeration, followed by compost 1737 01:31:59.760 --> 01:32:02.840 top dressing. That's how you slowly, overtime build that lawn 1738 01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:05.600 root zone healthier and healthier, and you get the roots 1739 01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:07.680 healthy and your lawn's gonna look better. It's one of 1740 01:32:07.720 --> 01:32:09.720 the most single most important things we can do for 1741 01:32:09.760 --> 01:32:12.640 our lawns. Not it's not cheap. It is not cheap 1742 01:32:12.680 --> 01:32:18.000 to do, but it works and it gives long term results, 1743 01:32:18.119 --> 01:32:21.199 and that is important if you want to have success. 1744 01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:27.000 Let's see here, I am. We got a phone call here. 1745 01:32:27.000 --> 01:32:28.520 I'm gonna take you just one second. 1746 01:32:29.319 --> 01:32:29.640 I did. 1747 01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:32.119 We were talking, I was talking just a minute ago. 1748 01:32:32.680 --> 01:32:35.079 You know about vegetable gardening and the fall gardening and things. 1749 01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:38.840 Fall is also for herbs. And if you are looking 1750 01:32:39.239 --> 01:32:43.720 for any kind of herbs for seasoning your food, you know, 1751 01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:47.880 a regular time those kind of things chives, garlic and onion, 1752 01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:51.079 chives and all all those are yes, that's fall is 1753 01:32:51.119 --> 01:32:52.960 the time to plant those. Anything you don't plant and 1754 01:32:53.039 --> 01:32:56.680 fall that comes to mind immediately would be basil. Basil 1755 01:32:56.800 --> 01:32:59.319 likes hot weather. But the rest of them, yes, plant 1756 01:32:59.359 --> 01:33:01.399 them now. If you look for herbs, for flowers like 1757 01:33:01.920 --> 01:33:06.479 Mexican met marigold blooms in the fall, Copper Canyon daisy. 1758 01:33:06.680 --> 01:33:08.079 I don't know if they count that as an herb, 1759 01:33:08.119 --> 01:33:10.640 but it has. It's a fragrant one. You wouldn't eat it, 1760 01:33:10.680 --> 01:33:14.279 but it's fragrant h And also Mexican met maragol blooms 1761 01:33:14.319 --> 01:33:17.000 in the fall. Those are herbs. Make plans. Do an 1762 01:33:17.039 --> 01:33:19.399 herb container, Put herbs at the end of your vegetable beds. 1763 01:33:19.479 --> 01:33:21.720 Put herbs in an herb garden. Put herbs and flower 1764 01:33:21.800 --> 01:33:27.119 beds herbs. You can grow your own tasty meal enhancing 1765 01:33:27.359 --> 01:33:31.199 herbs easy, easy here in the Greater Houston area. Let's see, 1766 01:33:31.199 --> 01:33:32.960 I'm going to go out now to bel Air and 1767 01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:35.520 we're going to talk to is it Zefel. 1768 01:33:38.399 --> 01:33:38.520 Right? 1769 01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:42.800 Well, like heifeltower? But what disease gotcha Zeifel? How can 1770 01:33:42.880 --> 01:33:43.439 we help today? 1771 01:33:44.720 --> 01:33:46.119 How you doing? Good morning? 1772 01:33:46.359 --> 01:33:52.119 A backyard? I got patches of clover like grass. 1773 01:33:52.680 --> 01:33:54.159 It's starting to take over the. 1774 01:33:54.199 --> 01:33:55.279 Whole entire backyard. 1775 01:33:55.359 --> 01:33:58.840 I've heard some phosphorus mix some of the soil might help, 1776 01:33:58.920 --> 01:34:02.680 but I deferred your judgment that long time listener, the 1777 01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:03.560 first time caller. 1778 01:34:04.520 --> 01:34:07.520 Oh, thanks for colling. Tell me again the specific weeds 1779 01:34:07.680 --> 01:34:08.279 that you said. 1780 01:34:09.560 --> 01:34:12.399 It's like clover like looking weeds. 1781 01:34:12.520 --> 01:34:16.880 It's just okay, it's trying to take over. Okay, Well, 1782 01:34:16.920 --> 01:34:19.680 first of all, do not put more phosphorus on your lawn. 1783 01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:26.079 The chances of your lawn needing phosphorus are extremely low. Okay. Now, 1784 01:34:26.359 --> 01:34:30.039 just not to say lawns don't need phosphorus. It's just 1785 01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:34.840 that they're there's probably enough in your lawn, and they 1786 01:34:34.920 --> 01:34:37.319 do a soul test and prove me wrong. But in general, 1787 01:34:37.439 --> 01:34:39.199 if I had to guess, I'd say, don't don't add 1788 01:34:39.279 --> 01:34:43.479 much more phosphorus. But as far as those weeds, the 1789 01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:46.920 thicker you get your lawn, the less clover like weeds 1790 01:34:47.079 --> 01:34:49.720 you're going to have, whether it's a medic or a 1791 01:34:49.840 --> 01:34:54.840 clover or you know, all those kinds of plants that 1792 01:34:55.399 --> 01:34:58.319 you're just gonna have lass. So that is number one. 1793 01:34:58.359 --> 01:34:59.960 I've got a schedule. I don't know if you've ever 1794 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:04.000 ever been to my website. It's gardening with Skip dot com. 1795 01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:07.399 Gardening with Skip dot Com. There's a schedule there that 1796 01:35:07.520 --> 01:35:10.560 tells you. It's the mow, water and fertilized schedule. It's 1797 01:35:10.560 --> 01:35:12.520 a law. It's called the lawn Care schedule, and it 1798 01:35:12.600 --> 01:35:14.960 tells you exactly how to do all the things you 1799 01:35:15.039 --> 01:35:17.600 do to make that lun denser and these problems go 1800 01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:21.039 away over time as you build density. Secondly, there's the 1801 01:35:21.159 --> 01:35:24.880 weed Disease and Pest schedule. It's also free online, just 1802 01:35:24.960 --> 01:35:28.640 download it, uh, And that one tells you about what 1803 01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:32.039 products you would use to prevent weeds from sprouting and 1804 01:35:32.119 --> 01:35:35.399 what products you use to kill existing weeds. And with 1805 01:35:35.520 --> 01:35:38.079 those clover utweeds, you can approach them both ways. You 1806 01:35:38.119 --> 01:35:44.159 can prevent them with products like nitrofoss barricade, or you 1807 01:35:44.239 --> 01:35:46.800 can kill them once they're growing. But you just have 1808 01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:49.319 to follow that schedule because there are certain products that 1809 01:35:49.359 --> 01:35:51.079 will hurt your lawn and you don't want to use those. 1810 01:35:52.840 --> 01:35:57.640 Yes, sir, all right, I appreciate it. 1811 01:35:57.760 --> 01:36:00.560 Thank you so much. Hey, thanks for the Oh, good 1812 01:36:00.640 --> 01:36:03.279 luck with that. Good luck with getting that under control. 1813 01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:10.119 I get my hang I turned trouble here in my 1814 01:36:10.199 --> 01:36:14.039 computer this morning. It's not cooperating with me. There we go. Yeah, 1815 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:19.920 I Uh friend of mine out in Mississippi, his name 1816 01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:22.399 is Builder Rushing. I say, he's a friend, we're an acquaintance. 1817 01:36:23.039 --> 01:36:27.640 Uh Veelder has an interesting approach. He has a la 1818 01:36:28.039 --> 01:36:31.119 faire approach to lawn care, very lisi fair. And I 1819 01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:33.560 realized that when I'm talking to a lot of people 1820 01:36:33.640 --> 01:36:35.359 here on the air, right, it's not just you and me. 1821 01:36:35.960 --> 01:36:39.159 And there's some people that are lawn Nazis. I call 1822 01:36:39.239 --> 01:36:41.560 them the lawn rangers. On the weekend, they are going 1823 01:36:41.640 --> 01:36:45.800 to have that long, perfect, immaculate, not a weed in sight, 1824 01:36:46.560 --> 01:36:51.039 cut regularly, beautiful, edged, perfectly. Okay, that's one end of 1825 01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:53.960 the spectrum, and good, go for it. If that's you, 1826 01:36:54.159 --> 01:36:56.800 go for it on the other end of the spectrum. 1827 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:00.399 Or people that just want something green out there. And 1828 01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:05.239 I know that's you know, Felder says, why does he 1829 01:37:05.319 --> 01:37:06.920 put it? Oh, if you want to make all your 1830 01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:10.359 weeds go away, take off your glasses. It's true. You 1831 01:37:10.520 --> 01:37:12.720 mow a weedy lawn and take off your glasses and 1832 01:37:12.760 --> 01:37:15.359 look at it and it looks birty good. Now, some 1833 01:37:15.439 --> 01:37:17.239 people aren't tolerant of that, and I think most of 1834 01:37:17.239 --> 01:37:20.159 you probably fall somewhere in between the two. But it 1835 01:37:20.199 --> 01:37:21.920 doesn't matter how you go about. It's your yard. You 1836 01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:24.880 can do what you want steen you and the homeowners Association, 1837 01:37:25.079 --> 01:37:27.800 I guess, but we try to help you have as 1838 01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:29.760 good a lot as you want to have here on 1839 01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:32.239 Guardline and that's why we create these schedule That's why 1840 01:37:32.279 --> 01:37:35.960 I put them both online gardening with skip dot com. 1841 01:37:36.920 --> 01:37:40.199 I want to tell you about RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries 1842 01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:42.800 is at Tambaw Parkway where it comes into belt Wag eight. 1843 01:37:43.239 --> 01:37:45.439 Now the website, you want to write this down r 1844 01:37:45.640 --> 01:37:48.720 Cwnurseries dot com. I call them to get it. Got 1845 01:37:48.800 --> 01:37:51.279 it nursery? What does that mean? It means if they 1846 01:37:51.319 --> 01:37:53.880 don't have it, they'll get it for you. They can 1847 01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:57.279 get it. And they carry huge selectious herbs and perennials 1848 01:37:57.359 --> 01:37:59.399 and annuals and shrubs and native plants. They got some 1849 01:37:59.520 --> 01:38:02.159 great deal is going on on woody ornamentals and shrubs, 1850 01:38:02.239 --> 01:38:07.279 trees by the way, including their ceterus too. Uh RCW 1851 01:38:07.680 --> 01:38:10.560 RCW nurseres dot com on the corner Tomball Parkway in 1852 01:38:10.640 --> 01:38:13.279 belt Wag eight. Easy to get to Monday through Saturday 1853 01:38:13.359 --> 01:38:16.800 eight to five, Sunday ten to five. I'll be right 1854 01:38:16.880 --> 01:38:20.319 back in just a moment with more of garden line. 1855 01:38:23.359 --> 01:38:25.079 I'm good to have you with us. If you would 1856 01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:26.800 like to give me a call and talk gardening, that 1857 01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:29.479 would be a good time. Seven to one three two 1858 01:38:29.520 --> 01:38:32.319 one two k t r H. Seven one three two 1859 01:38:32.359 --> 01:38:37.039 one two k t r H. The folks at Landscaper's 1860 01:38:37.079 --> 01:38:41.039 Pride they have I don't know, twenty over two dozen, 1861 01:38:41.960 --> 01:38:44.479 twenty five or six or seven, I don't know. Different 1862 01:38:44.560 --> 01:38:47.560 kinds of products and bags. It's crazy. We're talking about 1863 01:38:47.600 --> 01:38:50.960 soil products from about Moltz products, all kinds of blends 1864 01:38:51.000 --> 01:38:55.359 and mixes. Their rose mix is outstanding. A rosemix from 1865 01:38:55.439 --> 01:38:58.439 Landscaper's Pride is going to give you a boost of 1866 01:38:58.560 --> 01:39:01.800 nutrients that will carry your roses on end to fall 1867 01:39:01.960 --> 01:39:04.199 really well. Now you can build a rose bed from that. 1868 01:39:04.840 --> 01:39:07.680 You can you can use just straight mix and plant 1869 01:39:07.720 --> 01:39:09.479 the roses in it. You mix it with the soil 1870 01:39:09.560 --> 01:39:10.880 that you have, if you want to go about that, 1871 01:39:11.319 --> 01:39:16.039 about it that way. Their premium potting mix another outstanding 1872 01:39:16.760 --> 01:39:20.439 product from Landscaper's Pride. And here here's why I say that. 1873 01:39:21.079 --> 01:39:23.600 When you look at their premium potting mix, you are 1874 01:39:23.680 --> 01:39:27.479 looking at a product that not only contains a wonderful 1875 01:39:27.600 --> 01:39:30.479 blend of all the different things that you might need 1876 01:39:31.159 --> 01:39:34.199 in terms of loosening the soil. Like spagnum base, it's 1877 01:39:34.239 --> 01:39:37.560 got rich compost ingredients in it, but it also has 1878 01:39:37.600 --> 01:39:40.000 color Star slow release fertilizer that's going to give you 1879 01:39:40.119 --> 01:39:43.199 three months of feeding. So when you get some landscaper 1880 01:39:43.279 --> 01:39:45.840 spride potting mix, put it in a container. You're gonna 1881 01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:49.319 have great root development in that container. And by the way, 1882 01:39:49.359 --> 01:39:52.399 it's good for outdoor and indoor planting either one. But 1883 01:39:52.520 --> 01:39:56.239 with that boost of nutrient additionally to it UH and 1884 01:39:56.359 --> 01:39:58.680 then the pearlite to help keep it open, you're gonna 1885 01:39:58.680 --> 01:40:01.399 have good drainage and you're gonn have beautiful color all 1886 01:40:01.439 --> 01:40:03.880 the way into the fall season. I would even plant 1887 01:40:03.960 --> 01:40:06.439 vegetables in a container in that by the way, I 1888 01:40:06.479 --> 01:40:09.239 think that would be an excellent choice for that now 1889 01:40:09.279 --> 01:40:11.239 that there is a number of other products they have. 1890 01:40:11.359 --> 01:40:16.119 The topsoil is a sandy loam kind of material with 1891 01:40:16.319 --> 01:40:18.039 some composts added to it. So if you want to 1892 01:40:18.039 --> 01:40:21.079 feel divots in the yard, got some lower areas or 1893 01:40:21.119 --> 01:40:23.680 sunken spots, you're trying to level it out, don't just 1894 01:40:23.760 --> 01:40:26.319 youse straight organic matter for that, because it's just going 1895 01:40:26.399 --> 01:40:28.840 to decompose away and you'll be back with a hole again. 1896 01:40:29.279 --> 01:40:31.720 But this tops one mix with a little of the 1897 01:40:31.800 --> 01:40:34.319 compost in it. But also that sandy loam is an 1898 01:40:34.359 --> 01:40:36.359 excellent choice. And then on top of the ground, it's 1899 01:40:36.439 --> 01:40:39.800 always a good time to malt. The black velvet. It's 1900 01:40:40.000 --> 01:40:44.319 not dyed, it's naturally very dark, velvety color and it's 1901 01:40:44.319 --> 01:40:48.199 an outstanding product. Again, another of the mini products from 1902 01:40:48.319 --> 01:40:51.640 Landscapers Pride. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find 1903 01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:56.159 out more about the products they carry. You are listening 1904 01:40:56.239 --> 01:40:58.520 to Guardenline and our phone number is seven to one 1905 01:40:58.680 --> 01:41:03.960 three two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two 1906 01:41:04.000 --> 01:41:08.560 one two five eight seven four. I mentioned this is 1907 01:41:08.680 --> 01:41:10.880 fall is a good time for herbs. Fall is a 1908 01:41:10.880 --> 01:41:16.199 good time for everything, and I just I really want 1909 01:41:16.239 --> 01:41:21.840 to stress the importance of fall planting. If I could 1910 01:41:21.920 --> 01:41:24.760 change one, well, you know, one thing. If I could 1911 01:41:24.800 --> 01:41:27.079 change ten things, this would be one of the ten. 1912 01:41:27.279 --> 01:41:29.840 There's a lot of things I'd like to change in gardening, 1913 01:41:30.239 --> 01:41:32.439 but this is one, and that is if I could 1914 01:41:32.439 --> 01:41:34.840 take some of that spring fever and bottle it up 1915 01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:38.560 and spring everybody's itching to get out and plant, and 1916 01:41:38.720 --> 01:41:42.439 everybody's a gardener, it seems like fall. We need to 1917 01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:45.159 take that bottle of spring fever and put it in 1918 01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:48.439 the water supply for fall, because fall is the best 1919 01:41:48.680 --> 01:41:54.239 planting season of the year. Anything perennial, anything, woody trub trees, 1920 01:41:54.319 --> 01:41:59.159 woody vines, any perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, a cool season color, 1921 01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:01.960 all of that. Fall is prime time for that. And 1922 01:42:02.079 --> 01:42:04.840 the reason is especially for these perennials and woodies, is 1923 01:42:04.880 --> 01:42:07.000 they have all winter to grow a good root system 1924 01:42:07.439 --> 01:42:11.640 before next summer arrives. So fall gives you the biggest 1925 01:42:11.720 --> 01:42:14.479 head start on that and you need to take advantage 1926 01:42:14.520 --> 01:42:17.199 of that. We got all these folks you heard me 1927 01:42:17.279 --> 01:42:21.000 talk about our sponsors that have quality saw mixes. Sponsor 1928 01:42:21.079 --> 01:42:23.279 to have quality plants. That's how you go about it. 1929 01:42:23.800 --> 01:42:25.800 We're going to go out to Baytown now and we're 1930 01:42:25.840 --> 01:42:28.439 going to talk to Carol. Hello Carol, and welcome to 1931 01:42:28.479 --> 01:42:29.039 garden Line. 1932 01:42:30.000 --> 01:42:30.479 Good morning. 1933 01:42:30.840 --> 01:42:33.520 I'm in the military, and you a couple of pictures. 1934 01:42:33.560 --> 01:42:38.119 Hang on one second, okay, Hey, let me put you 1935 01:42:38.239 --> 01:42:39.960 on hold and let you send those and I'll come 1936 01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:41.000 right back to you. How about that. 1937 01:42:41.159 --> 01:42:42.199 Okay, thank you, thank you. 1938 01:42:43.640 --> 01:42:45.319 You've got it. You've got it. We're going to go 1939 01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:47.800 now to Carol in Spring, Texas. 1940 01:42:47.880 --> 01:42:50.239 Hey Carol, another Carol. 1941 01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:53.880 Yeah, I hate to admit, but I was not able 1942 01:42:53.960 --> 01:42:54.439 to do my. 1943 01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:58.239 Summer fertilizing when they usually do in July the nineteen fourteen. 1944 01:42:59.479 --> 01:42:59.920 No problem. 1945 01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:01.840 Can I do now to make up for anything? 1946 01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:05.079 You can do a couple of things. You could put 1947 01:43:05.199 --> 01:43:08.439 on something temporary to give a little boost if your 1948 01:43:08.479 --> 01:43:12.000 lawn is not looking real great. Uh, and that could 1949 01:43:12.039 --> 01:43:14.600 be a number of different products. The Bruces brew from 1950 01:43:14.680 --> 01:43:17.960 Nelson's is a good good one for that. 1951 01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:18.720 Uh. 1952 01:43:18.880 --> 01:43:23.479 The oh gosh, it just went blank. Sweet Green from 1953 01:43:23.600 --> 01:43:25.640 nitroposs is another good One's going to give a good 1954 01:43:25.680 --> 01:43:29.039 quick release and do that. Fall fertilizing is coming. Have 1955 01:43:29.159 --> 01:43:31.079 you ever been to my website and looked at my 1956 01:43:31.199 --> 01:43:32.279 lawnch schedule on there? 1957 01:43:33.359 --> 01:43:37.159 No, I just usually look, okay, book. 1958 01:43:37.520 --> 01:43:39.960 Well that's fine. Here here I want to give you. 1959 01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:42.159 I want to give you a It's gardening with Skip 1960 01:43:42.239 --> 01:43:44.800 dot com and on there I tell you exactly when 1961 01:43:44.960 --> 01:43:47.439 to fertilize through the year and what to use. And 1962 01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:50.960 it's similar to Randy schedules. I've I've I've developed them 1963 01:43:50.960 --> 01:43:53.640 a little further along, and so I encourage you to 1964 01:43:53.720 --> 01:43:56.560 go take a look. There's a lot of information on there. 1965 01:43:56.600 --> 01:43:58.720 But we're going to be doing fall fertilizing at the 1966 01:43:58.800 --> 01:44:01.960 end of September or in early October. We'll be doing 1967 01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:05.920 fall fertilizing and things. So that's right, kind of caught 1968 01:44:05.960 --> 01:44:07.760 in between. But you could do a little. If the 1969 01:44:07.880 --> 01:44:09.479 lawn doesn't look good, go ahead and give it a 1970 01:44:09.520 --> 01:44:11.319 little something that's quick release, right. 1971 01:44:11.279 --> 01:44:13.439 Okay, okay, very good. 1972 01:44:14.319 --> 01:44:15.000 I appreciate it. 1973 01:44:15.159 --> 01:44:18.880 Thank you, you bet appreciate the call. We're going to 1974 01:44:18.920 --> 01:44:21.560 go now. I believe this is the original Carol. Is 1975 01:44:21.640 --> 01:44:22.000 that right? 1976 01:44:22.359 --> 01:44:25.239 Just send me an email I did. 1977 01:44:25.560 --> 01:44:25.920 I did. 1978 01:44:26.479 --> 01:44:29.279 Okay, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go looking for that right. 1979 01:44:29.439 --> 01:44:31.600 I hope that darn thing comes through real quick here 1980 01:44:31.640 --> 01:44:32.720 so we can take a look at it. Go ahead 1981 01:44:32.720 --> 01:44:34.000 and start asking me your question. 1982 01:44:34.199 --> 01:44:37.159 And okay, well, I've never grown to sparagus before, and 1983 01:44:37.239 --> 01:44:38.399 so I decided. 1984 01:44:38.079 --> 01:44:38.479 To do it. 1985 01:44:39.720 --> 01:44:43.119 But I put it in a bed that had zinias, 1986 01:44:43.279 --> 01:44:46.199 and then some morning glories have come over it. I 1987 01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:48.239 bought it as a bulb, and I heard you weren't 1988 01:44:48.239 --> 01:44:50.760 supposed to a read you weren't supposed to cut it 1989 01:44:50.880 --> 01:44:51.920 until like year. 1990 01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:52.720 Three or something. 1991 01:44:53.319 --> 01:44:56.880 Well, it looks like a hairy child. Okay, yeah, And 1992 01:44:57.399 --> 01:44:59.079 I don't know whether to cut it back or not. 1993 01:44:59.319 --> 01:45:02.439 But if you see the pictures, there's morning glories all 1994 01:45:02.600 --> 01:45:04.399 in it, and I don't know what to do. 1995 01:45:04.560 --> 01:45:06.760 All right, Well, I haven't gotten the pictures, but I 1996 01:45:06.800 --> 01:45:09.239 don't need them for this question. What you're going to 1997 01:45:09.319 --> 01:45:12.239 want to do the morning glory follow that line wherever 1998 01:45:12.319 --> 01:45:14.119 it comes out of the ground. There's a little tuber 1999 01:45:14.319 --> 01:45:18.039 under the ground, swollen root like a sweet potato, because 2000 01:45:18.039 --> 01:45:22.319 they're kin to sweet potatoes, and just dig those up. 2001 01:45:22.479 --> 01:45:26.079 That's the best approach in a crop that is edible 2002 01:45:26.319 --> 01:45:28.399 that you don't want to kill with herbicide. Trying to 2003 01:45:28.479 --> 01:45:31.039 kill the morning glory, you kill the asparagus too, So 2004 01:45:31.279 --> 01:45:33.520 just hand dig those if you can. If there are 2005 01:45:33.560 --> 01:45:36.039 too many of them. There's some other approaches to that. 2006 01:45:36.159 --> 01:45:38.079 We could talk about that maybe on another call. But 2007 01:45:38.840 --> 01:45:41.479 and as far as you're asparagus, when we get into 2008 01:45:41.560 --> 01:45:44.880 winter and have some really good cold weather, cut it 2009 01:45:44.960 --> 01:45:47.479 back to the ground and then in the spring as 2010 01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:51.560 it comes up, if they have a decent size shoot 2011 01:45:51.680 --> 01:45:53.199 coming out of the ground, you can go ahead and 2012 01:45:53.279 --> 01:45:55.399 harvest them, but at some point those shoots are going 2013 01:45:55.439 --> 01:45:57.920 to get smaller where they aren't like pencil size, and 2014 01:45:58.039 --> 01:46:01.720 then you got to stop harvesting and let that asparagus 2015 01:46:01.800 --> 01:46:04.920 plant send up shoots to capture sunlight to replenish its 2016 01:46:05.000 --> 01:46:06.000 stored reserves. 2017 01:46:07.159 --> 01:46:08.840 Yeah, because that's what the weeds are doing right now, 2018 01:46:09.000 --> 01:46:10.720 or the greenery right it's storing. 2019 01:46:11.880 --> 01:46:14.359 Yeah, that's what they're doing. But when we get into 2020 01:46:14.439 --> 01:46:16.880 a good, good freeze, then go ahead and cut it 2021 01:46:17.000 --> 01:46:20.119 back and then you can harvest in spring. Which spring 2022 01:46:20.239 --> 01:46:23.880 here for asparagus comes really early. It's probably January February. 2023 01:46:24.399 --> 01:46:28.880 Oh really, okay okay, And I grow okra and I 2024 01:46:29.000 --> 01:46:31.199 got a purple okra from. 2025 01:46:31.119 --> 01:46:34.760 Buchanans and I love it if I have one, been 2026 01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:37.920 sixt plant, and then I got two purple ones. 2027 01:46:38.439 --> 01:46:39.840 And yes, we roasted all the time. 2028 01:46:40.600 --> 01:46:45.000 So all right, sounds good. Thank you appreciate that. You bet, 2029 01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:47.760 you bet. We're gonna let's see here. We've got to 2030 01:46:47.800 --> 01:46:49.840 take a little break and when we come back, Tom, 2031 01:46:49.920 --> 01:46:52.800 you'll be our first up. You're listening to garden line, 2032 01:46:53.000 --> 01:46:55.239 hang around. We've got more to talk about Bill in 2033 01:46:55.439 --> 01:46:58.760 storm season and it doesn't have to be storm season, 2034 01:46:58.840 --> 01:47:03.479 have a storm come through. We Affordable Tree Service specializes 2035 01:47:03.600 --> 01:47:05.800 in coming out, taking a look at your trees, seeing 2036 01:47:05.880 --> 01:47:07.920 if anything needs to be done, and if it does, 2037 01:47:08.640 --> 01:47:10.840 recommending what they would do. They charged a little bit 2038 01:47:10.880 --> 01:47:14.119 for you to come out. It's a it's an inspection fee, 2039 01:47:14.199 --> 01:47:17.199 it's a you know, what do you call it consultation 2040 01:47:17.359 --> 01:47:19.399 out there, and if you decide to go ahead and 2041 01:47:19.479 --> 01:47:21.560 hire them, it just goes right into the price that 2042 01:47:21.640 --> 01:47:23.359 you're paying for the work being done. 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Barn's been doing this for 2054 01:47:58.079 --> 01:48:00.359 a very long time. And he knows what he's talking about. 2055 01:48:00.479 --> 01:48:04.039 That's why here's our go to fellow. You're at garden 2056 01:48:04.119 --> 01:48:09.880 Line Affordable Tree Service Afftree Service dot com. We are 2057 01:48:09.960 --> 01:48:12.800 now going to go out to Beaumont and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, 2058 01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:18.479 welcome to the garden Line. Do we have a mic? 2059 01:48:19.680 --> 01:48:21.279 All right, Mike, I'm gonna have to put you on hole. 2060 01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:26.199 We're gonna go to Janice in Katie. Hello, Jennis, Yes, Hi, 2061 01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:28.600 good morning morning. 2062 01:48:29.720 --> 01:48:29.920 Yes. 2063 01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:32.680 I was calling him because I have some sort of 2064 01:48:32.720 --> 01:48:38.760 issue with my tree and I sit pictures. I'm wondering 2065 01:48:38.800 --> 01:48:40.520 if you get help me with that. It looks like 2066 01:48:40.680 --> 01:48:42.920 spiders or something. Is our email the leaves? 2067 01:48:44.119 --> 01:48:47.119 Okay, Jennie, I do not have any emails from a 2068 01:48:47.279 --> 01:48:52.439 Janics in my box. Let's need this. Would you try 2069 01:48:52.600 --> 01:48:54.960 res sending. I'm gonna put you on hold. Just make 2070 01:48:55.039 --> 01:48:57.520 sure you got the right email. If you've already, If 2071 01:48:57.520 --> 01:48:59.880 you already talked to the producer about that, that's fine. 2072 01:49:00.279 --> 01:49:02.680 But I want you to resend and if I can 2073 01:49:02.800 --> 01:49:05.000 see them, I will take a look and see if 2074 01:49:05.000 --> 01:49:06.399 we can help you. But I just don't have those 2075 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:07.159 photos right now. 2076 01:49:08.079 --> 01:49:11.520 Okay, I'm looking for it now, I'll send it again, 2077 01:49:11.800 --> 01:49:14.880 because I'll send it all right. 2078 01:49:14.960 --> 01:49:17.520 Well, I've looked back that far and I don't see him. 2079 01:49:17.520 --> 01:49:20.800 If maybe if the email addresses something other than Janice. 2080 01:49:21.479 --> 01:49:21.920 Uh, but. 2081 01:49:25.000 --> 01:49:25.399 I'll see. 2082 01:49:25.840 --> 01:49:29.600 But I'll all right send it again and call in. 2083 01:49:29.720 --> 01:49:33.640 If we don't get the pictures, I'll still try to help. Okay, thanks, 2084 01:49:34.000 --> 01:49:36.439 thanks a lot. I appreciate that. I'm gonna go out 2085 01:49:36.439 --> 01:49:42.920 to Mike and Beaumont. Mike you there, Hey, Mike, how 2086 01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:43.520 can we help? 2087 01:49:43.720 --> 01:49:47.039 No, this is Russell. I guess we have the wrong name, 2088 01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:51.520 but this is Ruffll and Beaumart okay, O good. Yeah, 2089 01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:55.319 And what I got here is peaches. And I'm trying 2090 01:49:55.319 --> 01:49:55.800 to fan out. 2091 01:49:55.840 --> 01:49:59.119 But the peach tree that I have in Beaumart, when 2092 01:49:59.239 --> 01:50:02.239 it gives this, it gives them about the size of 2093 01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:06.000 a ping pong ball. And then I noticed other trees 2094 01:50:06.119 --> 01:50:09.399 that I've seen in the area. They're about the same 2095 01:50:09.760 --> 01:50:11.000 side back, the side of. 2096 01:50:10.960 --> 01:50:14.880 The ping punk ball, you know, not very big like okay, 2097 01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:18.840 and I'm trying to see is that their size? If 2098 01:50:18.880 --> 01:50:21.800 you know what tree I'm talking about, Can they get 2099 01:50:21.880 --> 01:50:24.039 up to about a pool ball size? 2100 01:50:25.039 --> 01:50:27.359 Oh no, they'll get bigger, even bigger than a poolball. 2101 01:50:27.439 --> 01:50:29.760 They can. Uh, Mike, did you plant this from a 2102 01:50:29.800 --> 01:50:33.079 seed or did you purchase a peach tree and planet? 2103 01:50:34.159 --> 01:50:37.359 No, this is one that was fun in the yard 2104 01:50:37.439 --> 01:50:40.720 that I have, and it's been given pieces. But it's 2105 01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:42.760 a part of one that was throwed out and it. 2106 01:50:42.880 --> 01:50:48.159 Growed got you gotcha? Okay? Well, Uh, so that could 2107 01:50:48.159 --> 01:50:49.840 be part of the problem. You know, it's not an 2108 01:50:49.840 --> 01:50:51.800 improved variety, it's just a seedling. 2109 01:50:52.359 --> 01:50:52.479 Uh. 2110 01:50:52.760 --> 01:50:55.640 It'll still make an edible peach. But in order to 2111 01:50:55.760 --> 01:50:58.439 have good size on your peaches, you need a good 2112 01:50:58.520 --> 01:51:01.239 healthy tree. So I say out all the weeds and 2113 01:51:01.359 --> 01:51:03.920 grass from around it as far out as the branches, 2114 01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:05.920 if you can go that far, and just have a 2115 01:51:05.960 --> 01:51:08.399 big mulch bed underneath there so that tree doesn't have 2116 01:51:08.479 --> 01:51:11.880 to compete with things. Secondly, you're want to print it 2117 01:51:12.079 --> 01:51:14.600 so that it gets good sunlight all through the tree. 2118 01:51:14.680 --> 01:51:17.800 And there's instructions online how to prun peach trees and stuff. 2119 01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:19.840 But the more you open it up and get good 2120 01:51:19.880 --> 01:51:23.239 sunlight and it the better. And then here's the last thing. 2121 01:51:23.920 --> 01:51:26.840 You need to thin those peaches so that if you 2122 01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:29.359 were to open your hand as wide as you can, 2123 01:51:29.520 --> 01:51:31.840 like you raise your hand, all your fingers are sticking 2124 01:51:31.880 --> 01:51:34.199 out in all directions, from the tip of your little 2125 01:51:34.239 --> 01:51:37.159 finger to the tip of your thumb. That's how far 2126 01:51:37.279 --> 01:51:40.159 peaches should be apart on a branch. If they're closer 2127 01:51:40.239 --> 01:51:43.439 than that, something's got to go. I know that's hard 2128 01:51:43.520 --> 01:51:46.119 to do. But when you make them stay at least 2129 01:51:46.199 --> 01:51:48.000 that far apart, which is going to be over six 2130 01:51:48.079 --> 01:51:52.039 inches probably across, you're going to end up with a 2131 01:51:52.119 --> 01:51:55.279 bigger peach by thinning them out. So thinning and then 2132 01:51:55.359 --> 01:51:58.880 adequate water. As we're getting into summer and it's hot. 2133 01:51:59.319 --> 01:52:01.720 If the water lacking, the peach is going to be smaller. 2134 01:52:03.000 --> 01:52:07.279 Oh okay, And I got the prone and part. When 2135 01:52:07.399 --> 01:52:09.079 is a good time to do that? Pune? And since 2136 01:52:09.119 --> 01:52:11.199 the piece is off now, but it still have leave 2137 01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:12.399 on that on the tree. 2138 01:52:13.399 --> 01:52:16.479 Yes, they're into winter before the new spring growth begins 2139 01:52:17.039 --> 01:52:21.039 when it. Don't wait until it's already blooming. But I'll 2140 01:52:21.319 --> 01:52:23.439 get on into winter. Once all the leaves are off 2141 01:52:23.479 --> 01:52:25.119 of it, you can prone it. But it's better to 2142 01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:27.720 prune later in the winter than early in the winter. 2143 01:52:27.800 --> 01:52:30.199 It's better to prune mid to late winter. 2144 01:52:31.199 --> 01:52:34.560 Okay, okay, all right, and then just do a good 2145 01:52:34.920 --> 01:52:40.119 pro life and uh, yeah, around the base of the tree. Okay, 2146 01:52:41.039 --> 01:52:41.479 we'll do. 2147 01:52:44.520 --> 01:52:46.880 All right. And when they occur, all I ask is 2148 01:52:46.920 --> 01:52:48.960 you bring me half the peaches to the radio station, 2149 01:52:49.119 --> 01:52:52.520 drop them off here and we'll call it even Mike, 2150 01:52:52.600 --> 01:52:54.680 you take care of stay out of trouble, all right, 2151 01:52:55.239 --> 01:52:57.840 all right, we're gonna go now to let's see where 2152 01:52:57.840 --> 01:52:58.640 are we going next? 2153 01:52:58.840 --> 01:52:58.960 Uh? 2154 01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:01.520 Texas to talk to Wally. 2155 01:53:01.600 --> 01:53:06.199 Hello Wally, Hello Scart, thanks for taking my call. 2156 01:53:07.319 --> 01:53:08.399 Good beat. How can I help? 2157 01:53:09.439 --> 01:53:09.760 Okay? 2158 01:53:10.319 --> 01:53:15.720 I have a twenty two year old Japanese magnolia sitting 2159 01:53:15.760 --> 01:53:22.680 outside my kitchen window. And typically in the leafs all 2160 01:53:22.800 --> 01:53:26.439 come off in the December time frame, and then about 2161 01:53:26.520 --> 01:53:29.920 mid February it buds in the little Uh. I guess 2162 01:53:29.960 --> 01:53:33.560 it's the buds for the flowers. And then it's leaves 2163 01:53:33.640 --> 01:53:38.239 out and it's green all year. Well, last week all 2164 01:53:38.319 --> 01:53:41.600 the leave turned brown and they all dropped and guess what, 2165 01:53:42.000 --> 01:53:45.279 I got buds on the tree all over again. Is 2166 01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:50.399 that normal for a It's magnolia in the middle of something. 2167 01:53:51.119 --> 01:53:53.640 Yeah, I don't know what happened. You know, Normally that's 2168 01:53:53.680 --> 01:53:55.119 what it would do in a drought or if it 2169 01:53:55.159 --> 01:53:57.720 had root injury or something like that. It would it 2170 01:53:57.720 --> 01:54:00.159 would do that. I don't know what caused it on 2171 01:54:00.239 --> 01:54:03.359 your tree specifically, but if it's putting out new buds, 2172 01:54:03.680 --> 01:54:05.199 let it go ahead and do it. It's not a 2173 01:54:05.720 --> 01:54:08.680 great thing to happen, but there's plenty of time for 2174 01:54:08.800 --> 01:54:11.399 those new shoots. It's using stored energy to grow new 2175 01:54:11.439 --> 01:54:14.560 shoots and leaves, and when it uses that, then those 2176 01:54:14.640 --> 01:54:17.399 leaves can capture sunlight and strengthen it before we hit 2177 01:54:17.479 --> 01:54:21.079 real winter. Okay, but that's about water. What is in 2178 01:54:21.159 --> 01:54:23.279 your control. Make sure it doesn't lack for water, but 2179 01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:24.800 don't keep it soggy wet either. 2180 01:54:26.039 --> 01:54:26.079 No. 2181 01:54:26.319 --> 01:54:32.680 It we water about three times a week and that 2182 01:54:32.840 --> 01:54:36.560 bed only gets it for about ten minutes, so it's it. 2183 01:54:36.720 --> 01:54:39.560 Yeah, probably needs probably needs a little more of a 2184 01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:41.920 deep soaking when we get into hot weather than that. 2185 01:54:42.359 --> 01:54:45.800 That would be okay my suggestion. All right, Hey, Wally, 2186 01:54:45.920 --> 01:54:49.000 thank you appreciate your call very much. Good luck with 2187 01:54:49.119 --> 01:54:51.760 getting that under control. You know, with storm season. I 2188 01:54:51.840 --> 01:54:53.720 was talking about it on trees, but a lot of 2189 01:54:53.720 --> 01:54:57.279 people right now are looking for generators because what twice 2190 01:54:57.479 --> 01:55:01.119 we lost power for a very long time. Well quality 2191 01:55:01.159 --> 01:55:03.760 home products of Texas that is the place where you 2192 01:55:03.960 --> 01:55:07.319 get not only a quality generator like a generat automatic 2193 01:55:07.439 --> 01:55:11.840 standby generator. By the way, if you give them a call, 2194 01:55:12.640 --> 01:55:14.800 because they have a trade in summer special right now, 2195 01:55:15.680 --> 01:55:18.000 you turn in some old portable generator you got and 2196 01:55:18.119 --> 01:55:21.479 you get a discount on a generator purchase. The phone 2197 01:55:21.560 --> 01:55:24.960 numbers seven to one three Quality seven one three Quality. 2198 01:55:25.039 --> 01:55:31.000 The website Quality tx dot com. Listen. This company takes 2199 01:55:31.079 --> 01:55:33.720 care of you from the point when you first contact 2200 01:55:33.800 --> 01:55:36.159 them to getting you in the generator size and type 2201 01:55:36.199 --> 01:55:39.399 you need to do in the whole process, including getting 2202 01:55:39.760 --> 01:55:42.520 permits or anything like that that's required with the city 2203 01:55:42.600 --> 01:55:47.039 or whoever. Quality Home Products of Texas. They have award 2204 01:55:47.119 --> 01:55:50.439 winning service with the Better Business Bureau and over fourteen 2205 01:55:50.479 --> 01:55:52.600 thousand and five star reviews, and that's because they take 2206 01:55:52.680 --> 01:55:56.960 care of their customers. We're going to head out now 2207 01:55:58.000 --> 01:56:04.760 to Genus in Hello Jennis, Yeah, Hello Ah, this is 2208 01:56:04.800 --> 01:56:06.560 the Jennis that I was talking to while ago. 2209 01:56:07.720 --> 01:56:10.960 Yes, did you receive the picture? 2210 01:56:12.319 --> 01:56:14.720 I did not. I do not know what's going on. 2211 01:56:14.840 --> 01:56:16.359 I'm going to look into it. We're about to have 2212 01:56:16.439 --> 01:56:18.840 to have at the top of the hour break here, Jennis. 2213 01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:21.840 I will look at it and keep listening. I will 2214 01:56:22.520 --> 01:56:24.760 either say Jennis call back or I will tell you 2215 01:56:24.840 --> 01:56:26.920 the answer when I finally get the picture. But I 2216 01:56:26.960 --> 01:56:29.000 don't know what's going on. I'm gonna put you on 2217 01:56:29.039 --> 01:56:32.239 home Ale more time. Let's just make reels all right. 2218 01:56:32.439 --> 01:56:35.560 We'll just make sure we got the right email and 2219 01:56:35.680 --> 01:56:38.840 I will pick that up. Thank you. I hear the music. 2220 01:56:38.920 --> 01:56:41.800 That means I got to quit talking, but not until 2221 01:56:41.840 --> 01:56:47.079 I tell you that. Next Saturday, September seventh, Montgomery County 2222 01:56:47.199 --> 01:56:50.600 fall Home an Outdoor Living Show Montgomery County Falling Out 2223 01:56:50.640 --> 01:56:53.800 to Home Living Show Saturday, I will be there from 2224 01:56:53.840 --> 01:56:56.239 a twelve until two. I'm going to be given a 2225 01:56:56.359 --> 01:56:58.840 talk on Faulk gardening. Hope you can come and hear that, 2226 01:56:59.319 --> 01:57:01.439 and then I'm going to be answering gardening questions till 2227 01:57:01.439 --> 01:57:03.000 the cows come home. I don't know when the cows 2228 01:57:03.039 --> 01:57:04.920 come home in Montgomery County, but I'll still be there 2229 01:57:04.960 --> 01:57:09.560 engine righty til two o'clock. Seriously, I'll be giving away 2230 01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:14.479 some really cool products from micro Life Fertilizer, and you 2231 01:57:14.680 --> 01:57:16.439 definitely want to get some of these samples in there, 2232 01:57:16.479 --> 01:57:19.159 so show up, show up with your questions. If you 2233 01:57:19.239 --> 01:57:21.479 got some samples, put them in a ziplock bag, bring 2234 01:57:21.560 --> 01:57:24.039 a photo on your phone of something you need identified 2235 01:57:24.119 --> 01:57:26.720 or diagnosed. We're gonna get it all done. Mainly, we're 2236 01:57:26.760 --> 01:57:29.880 gonna have a really good time. Fall Home an outdoor 2237 01:57:29.960 --> 01:57:33.000 Living Show Montgomery County at the Lone Star Convention and 2238 01:57:33.119 --> 01:57:40.680 Expo Center next Saturday and Sunday or that wows f 2239 01:57:43.359 --> 01:57:47.199 Welcome to Katie R. H. Guarden Line with Scamp Richard. 2240 01:57:47.279 --> 01:58:04.079 It's just watch as all. 2241 01:58:00.920 --> 01:58:03.479 Right, all right, and you're listening to garden Line. I'm 2242 01:58:03.600 --> 01:58:05.520 just jumping right in on the music this time. We 2243 01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:07.359 got a lot of things to talk about, and so 2244 01:58:07.520 --> 01:58:10.880 let's get on to it. First of all, I wanted 2245 01:58:10.880 --> 01:58:12.399 to talk to you a little bit about some of 2246 01:58:12.439 --> 01:58:15.439 the quality products that Nilson Plant Food has to offer. 2247 01:58:15.800 --> 01:58:17.880 You know, people often will call and say, well, what's 2248 01:58:17.880 --> 01:58:20.760 a good fertilizer for you know fill in the blank. Well, 2249 01:58:22.079 --> 01:58:24.439 my answer is, I don't know. Ask Nelson. They've got 2250 01:58:24.520 --> 01:58:28.640 fertilizers for everything hibiscus and flowering tropicals. That's one of 2251 01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:32.239 their nutri Star fertilizer lines. Comes in a jar a jug, which, 2252 01:58:32.319 --> 01:58:35.600 by the way, their jugs can be refilled at certain 2253 01:58:35.680 --> 01:58:38.239 places that have the low refill stations. And if you 2254 01:58:38.279 --> 01:58:40.680 don't know what a refill station is. You've been in 2255 01:58:40.760 --> 01:58:43.199 a grocery store and you see that wall of little 2256 01:58:43.239 --> 01:58:45.039 things where you pull the handle down and it gives 2257 01:58:45.079 --> 01:58:47.720 you peanuts or whatever your you know whatever kind of 2258 01:58:47.800 --> 01:58:51.039 deal snacks. Well, that's what it's like, except that's got 2259 01:58:51.199 --> 01:58:54.079 Nelson fertilizer in it. They've also got an indoor plant 2260 01:58:54.159 --> 01:58:58.680 nutri Star. They they have some really quality stuff for 2261 01:58:58.800 --> 01:59:01.520 outdoor trees and shrubs. The nutrient Star tree and shrub 2262 01:59:01.640 --> 01:59:05.800 is very very good. Nelson Plant Food makes quality products, 2263 01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:09.119 that quality products that put the nutrients your plants need 2264 01:59:09.199 --> 01:59:12.239 in the ground and in the case of nitrogen, releasing 2265 01:59:12.279 --> 01:59:14.960 them over a period of time in many cases so 2266 01:59:15.159 --> 01:59:18.760 that you get a continual, gradual feeding of the plant. 2267 01:59:18.840 --> 01:59:22.800 That's how plants eat, that's how the fertilizer releases gets 2268 01:59:22.840 --> 01:59:25.039 it in the ground. I would encourage you to do that. 2269 01:59:25.199 --> 01:59:27.439 And one of the best, one of the best coolest 2270 01:59:27.520 --> 01:59:30.359 things that kind of new to me over the last 2271 01:59:30.520 --> 01:59:34.399 five years as seeing these little refill stations everywhere. So 2272 01:59:34.520 --> 01:59:36.800 you don't waste money on plastic, and you even save 2273 01:59:36.880 --> 01:59:39.720 money on fertilizer when you refill those things. Just another 2274 01:59:39.800 --> 01:59:44.479 good deal, another reason to go with Nelson's products. I'm 2275 01:59:44.479 --> 01:59:47.720 going to head back to Katie now, Jennis, I found 2276 01:59:47.840 --> 01:59:50.800 what we're looking for, and I think I had sent you, sir, 2277 01:59:51.880 --> 01:59:54.079 I sent you a reply to your email back. This 2278 01:59:54.399 --> 01:59:57.359 was a good while back. But anyway, what that was 2279 01:59:57.399 --> 02:00:01.840 a red bud tree right blooms in the spring. Okay, 2280 02:00:02.279 --> 02:00:06.119 so that tree, there's nothing you need to worry about 2281 02:00:06.199 --> 02:00:08.920 right now. I know it looks bad, but it's got 2282 02:00:09.039 --> 02:00:12.399 lots of green leaves on it that are producing carbohydrates, 2283 02:00:12.520 --> 02:00:14.399 and it's going to set bloom buds and it's going 2284 02:00:14.439 --> 02:00:17.640 to bloom beautiful next spring. You had some old caterpillar 2285 02:00:17.760 --> 02:00:21.600 damage and they have moved on. And if you look 2286 02:00:21.960 --> 02:00:24.279 whenever you see a leaf that's been chewed, if you 2287 02:00:24.319 --> 02:00:25.600 get up in the morning and you go out and 2288 02:00:25.640 --> 02:00:28.640 look at it, if it was a caterpillar that was feeding, 2289 02:00:29.000 --> 02:00:31.479 you know, during the night or whatever, you would see 2290 02:00:31.560 --> 02:00:34.560 fresh cuts on those leaves. But where you see the 2291 02:00:34.600 --> 02:00:37.319 little brown edge around where the feeding has been done, 2292 02:00:37.600 --> 02:00:40.560 it means it was done days ago. And now that 2293 02:00:40.800 --> 02:00:43.439 edge has dried and turned brown. And so that's why 2294 02:00:43.479 --> 02:00:46.479 I'm thinking there aren't any check it over. But the 2295 02:00:46.920 --> 02:00:50.439 culprit's going to be a caterpillar if they're still around, 2296 02:00:50.520 --> 02:00:53.199 and if you find if you find one sprays a 2297 02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:56.560 b T B as in boy Tea is in tom 2298 02:00:56.880 --> 02:01:02.560 bt BT will control them. I'm going to put my 2299 02:01:02.680 --> 02:01:05.039 money in the basket that says you don't need to 2300 02:01:05.119 --> 02:01:08.000 worry about it. They're long gone. Some bird ate them, 2301 02:01:08.119 --> 02:01:11.840 some wasp carried them away. Those paper wasp beat caterpillars 2302 02:01:11.880 --> 02:01:13.800 all day, so who knows, they probably went in there 2303 02:01:13.840 --> 02:01:14.680 and cleaned them up for you. 2304 02:01:15.880 --> 02:01:20.800 Oh okay, so I just just ignored. Next year, it'll 2305 02:01:20.840 --> 02:01:23.479 blow them as it normally does later this year. 2306 02:01:24.920 --> 02:01:26.880 Yes, And I know we get all nervous when we 2307 02:01:26.960 --> 02:01:29.479 see holes in leaves and brown spots and things like that, 2308 02:01:29.640 --> 02:01:32.520 and that's natural. But the bottom line is trees do 2309 02:01:32.680 --> 02:01:35.880 not and plants do not need all their leaves to 2310 02:01:36.000 --> 02:01:38.560 be able to succeed and do well. And so a 2311 02:01:38.600 --> 02:01:41.239 little bit of damage here and there, while we don't 2312 02:01:41.319 --> 02:01:43.680 like the look of it, it's no cause for alarm. 2313 02:01:43.720 --> 02:01:46.279 You don't need to go spend money and spend Saturday 2314 02:01:46.279 --> 02:01:47.520 afternoons spray and stuff. 2315 02:01:48.399 --> 02:01:51.119 Oh great, because this is the first year this has 2316 02:01:51.159 --> 02:01:53.840 ever happened. I've had the tree about seven years and 2317 02:01:53.960 --> 02:01:56.359 it looked like it was like a spider web at 2318 02:01:56.439 --> 02:02:00.279 one point on their Okay, it was. 2319 02:02:01.560 --> 02:02:04.720 It was that particular. If you saw that, that is 2320 02:02:04.840 --> 02:02:09.319 the fall webworm. The fall webworm. Now they'll be coming 2321 02:02:09.479 --> 02:02:13.800 back to one degree or another. That this is usually 2322 02:02:13.840 --> 02:02:16.279 when we see them coming back. But if you see 2323 02:02:16.319 --> 02:02:19.479 the spiderwebs, you can just take a strong blast of 2324 02:02:19.560 --> 02:02:21.960 water and blast those thing open and squirt them in 2325 02:02:22.039 --> 02:02:24.039 the face with a little bt Let them eat that 2326 02:02:24.199 --> 02:02:25.119 and it'll get them too. 2327 02:02:26.000 --> 02:02:28.319 Okay, oh great, okay, thank you so much. 2328 02:02:29.439 --> 02:02:34.239 All right, Jenny's thank you for the call. All Right, folks, 2329 02:02:34.279 --> 02:02:36.279 we got a little bit of room here on the 2330 02:02:36.319 --> 02:02:38.079 phones if you'd like to give a skull seven one 2331 02:02:38.199 --> 02:02:42.199 three two one two kt r H seven one three 2332 02:02:42.720 --> 02:02:45.960 two one two kt r H. I want to remind 2333 02:02:46.039 --> 02:02:48.600 you this weekend listen, if you are anywhere in the 2334 02:02:48.680 --> 02:02:51.520 northwest quadron of the Houston area, you need to run 2335 02:02:51.600 --> 02:02:55.600 down to the Ace Hardware store at Barker Cypress and 2336 02:02:56.279 --> 02:02:59.399 FM five twenty nine. Barker Cypress and FM five twenty 2337 02:02:59.439 --> 02:03:01.640 nine right on the edge of the Copperfield neighborhood over 2338 02:03:01.680 --> 02:03:06.880 there Langham Creek. Ace Hardware. This is their grand reopening. 2339 02:03:06.960 --> 02:03:08.880 I was there this spring. We had a great time 2340 02:03:08.920 --> 02:03:11.479 at an event out there, and they kind of said, well, 2341 02:03:11.520 --> 02:03:12.960 they told me, then they go, we're going to be 2342 02:03:13.119 --> 02:03:14.800 kind of closing down here a little bit, getting it 2343 02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:18.439 redone and having a grand reopening. So they got all 2344 02:03:18.479 --> 02:03:21.000 that work done. I mean, they didn't completely shut down, 2345 02:03:21.520 --> 02:03:24.039 but boy it is. They're having a party out there. 2346 02:03:24.199 --> 02:03:28.159 Yesterday they gave away an Eggo power string turmer two 2347 02:03:28.199 --> 02:03:31.239 undred and fifty dollars value. Today they're giving away a 2348 02:03:31.319 --> 02:03:35.159 Weber Spirit to gas grill four hundred and fifty dollars value. 2349 02:03:35.439 --> 02:03:38.279 They're doing demonstrations on the Big Green Egg and the 2350 02:03:38.399 --> 02:03:41.560 Gosny pizza oven, the best one of the top pizza 2351 02:03:41.560 --> 02:03:43.439 ovens on the market. You got to see that thing. 2352 02:03:44.039 --> 02:03:47.359 If you need any kind of steel power equipment, fifteen 2353 02:03:47.439 --> 02:03:52.279 percent off today only at Langham Creek Ace Hardware at 2354 02:03:52.319 --> 02:03:55.439 the corner of Barker, Cyprus and FM five twenty nine 2355 02:03:55.479 --> 02:03:58.960 Northwest Houston. Fifteen percent off today only. Don't go tomorrow 2356 02:03:59.399 --> 02:04:02.159 and look for that deal. It's today. Tomorrow they'll be 2357 02:04:02.239 --> 02:04:04.800 doing a giving away a painting room makeover two hundred 2358 02:04:04.840 --> 02:04:08.920 dollars value and doing a demo on trigger grills another 2359 02:04:09.039 --> 02:04:11.479 great grill. Ace Hardware always carries lots of good grills. 2360 02:04:11.560 --> 02:04:13.239 You know, if you need an ACE Hardware in your area, 2361 02:04:13.319 --> 02:04:16.680 you just have to go to acehardware dot Com find 2362 02:04:16.720 --> 02:04:19.159 the store locator, and there's forty of them to choose 2363 02:04:19.199 --> 02:04:22.600 from in the greater Houston area. I'm going to head 2364 02:04:22.720 --> 02:04:26.159 now out to Spring, Texas, and we're going to talk 2365 02:04:26.199 --> 02:04:29.520 to Carl. Hello, Carl, Hi, Skip, How are you doing 2366 02:04:29.600 --> 02:04:32.720 this this morning? I'm good, I'm good. How can we 2367 02:04:32.800 --> 02:04:34.560 help you before I have to go to a break here? 2368 02:04:35.319 --> 02:04:35.800 I'm sorry. 2369 02:04:35.840 --> 02:04:38.399 I've got an oak tree that's about a foot around 2370 02:04:38.479 --> 02:04:42.800 in diameter and it's losing its bark in chunks. Got 2371 02:04:42.880 --> 02:04:46.640 one piece that's about palm size and another that's about 2372 02:04:46.680 --> 02:04:47.880 double the size of your hand. 2373 02:04:49.359 --> 02:04:51.359 The diameter of the tree is what did you say, 2374 02:04:52.159 --> 02:04:59.079 it's about twelve inches. Are those bark chunks coming off 2375 02:04:59.119 --> 02:05:05.279 on the south west side of the tree, Yes, it is, Okay, 2376 02:05:05.720 --> 02:05:11.560 that's old coal damage that occurred from just a freezing 2377 02:05:11.720 --> 02:05:15.079 temperature when the bark had warmed up a little bit 2378 02:05:15.399 --> 02:05:18.560 and it got that damage. The tree is now healing 2379 02:05:18.640 --> 02:05:21.079 that area back over and the loose barks coming off 2380 02:05:21.199 --> 02:05:24.239 just pull off the loose bark so that interior wood 2381 02:05:24.319 --> 02:05:26.880 dries out real quick after it gets wet, and it 2382 02:05:26.960 --> 02:05:29.800 should be okay. Make sure you give them adequate fertilizer 2383 02:05:29.880 --> 02:05:32.159 and what it needs. I really have to run here, 2384 02:05:32.640 --> 02:05:34.399 but I just wanted to get you that answer. Just 2385 02:05:34.479 --> 02:05:38.000 fertilize and water and I think it'll be okay. All right, folks, 2386 02:05:38.039 --> 02:05:39.640 I got a break for the news here and I'll 2387 02:05:39.680 --> 02:05:44.000 be right back. If you are dealing with insects in 2388 02:05:44.119 --> 02:05:47.239 the lawn that could be chinchbugs, that could be the 2389 02:05:47.520 --> 02:05:50.279 fall not the fall web worm, side web worm, that's 2390 02:05:50.319 --> 02:05:52.479 the one that gets in the grass. You never know 2391 02:05:52.600 --> 02:05:54.199 every year where it's going to be a bad side 2392 02:05:54.239 --> 02:05:57.600 web worm year or not. But if it is, night 2393 02:05:57.640 --> 02:05:59.880 Fross Bugout Max has got you covered. It kills over 2394 02:06:00.000 --> 02:06:02.279 one hundred and thirty different kinds of insects within forty 2395 02:06:02.319 --> 02:06:04.960 eight hours. It's done its work and it lasts. It's 2396 02:06:05.000 --> 02:06:07.479 six round, so it's going to give you a number 2397 02:06:07.520 --> 02:06:10.600 of weeks through really through that season of control. Nitro 2398 02:06:10.600 --> 02:06:13.239 Foss Bugout Max is easy to find. You can go 2399 02:06:13.399 --> 02:06:15.880 up to the Arborgate in Tomball. You're going to go 2400 02:06:16.000 --> 02:06:19.239 down to shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff in 2401 02:06:19.319 --> 02:06:21.560 South Houston, or maybe out to plants and things out 2402 02:06:21.600 --> 02:06:24.920 in Brunham, all places among many places where you're gonna 2403 02:06:24.920 --> 02:06:29.199 find nitrofoss products like bug Out Max. I want to 2404 02:06:29.239 --> 02:06:30.920 heading out of the phones. We're going to go up 2405 02:06:30.960 --> 02:06:33.760 to Humble and talk to Bernie. Hello, Bernie, welcome to gardenline. 2406 02:06:33.800 --> 02:06:38.479 Hello, Yeah, theys take my call. 2407 02:06:39.239 --> 02:06:41.600 I have an evergreen tree I planted a couple of 2408 02:06:41.680 --> 02:06:45.439 years ago, and it's been growing well. But all of 2409 02:06:45.520 --> 02:06:48.279 a sudden, it start turning brown and ask completely brown, 2410 02:06:48.760 --> 02:06:50.760 and I don't know what would have happened to it. 2411 02:06:51.960 --> 02:06:54.720 Do you know anything about what kind it is? By 2412 02:06:54.760 --> 02:06:55.279 any chance? 2413 02:06:56.720 --> 02:06:56.880 Uh? 2414 02:06:57.720 --> 02:06:59.039 No, I really don't. 2415 02:07:00.079 --> 02:07:02.760 Let me. Let me ask you this. Does it have larger, 2416 02:07:02.880 --> 02:07:06.039 you know, broad leaves, flat leaves like most plants do, 2417 02:07:06.760 --> 02:07:10.880 or is it more like a cedar or a juniper planet? 2418 02:07:11.640 --> 02:07:13.039 Yes, it's more like a cedar. 2419 02:07:14.039 --> 02:07:17.920 Okay, good. So those plants can only put new shoots 2420 02:07:17.920 --> 02:07:21.000 out where they have green leaves. They have a scaly 2421 02:07:21.199 --> 02:07:23.800 like leaf. It's sometimes called a needle, but it's a 2422 02:07:23.960 --> 02:07:28.520 scally like leaf. And if those die, that shoot can't 2423 02:07:28.560 --> 02:07:32.000 reach sprout like it would on most other plants. So 2424 02:07:32.199 --> 02:07:36.600 any branches on that tree or shrub that are brown, 2425 02:07:38.000 --> 02:07:40.560 it's it's just going to go away. I mean, it's 2426 02:07:40.600 --> 02:07:42.720 never going to come back. So if you want to 2427 02:07:42.720 --> 02:07:44.399 give it a little more time to be sure, you can. 2428 02:07:45.119 --> 02:07:47.199 But I think you need to look at that tree 2429 02:07:47.239 --> 02:07:49.880 and imagine it without all the limbs that don't have 2430 02:07:50.000 --> 02:07:53.640 a green needle on them, And that is going to 2431 02:07:53.680 --> 02:07:55.199 be the decision. Do I want to go ahead and 2432 02:07:55.199 --> 02:07:57.399 pull it up because that's too ugly, or do I 2433 02:07:57.439 --> 02:07:58.840 want to leave it and live with it? 2434 02:08:00.600 --> 02:08:00.800 Yeah? 2435 02:08:01.119 --> 02:08:02.920 That the way it looks now, it looks like it 2436 02:08:03.000 --> 02:08:06.079 needs to be pulled up. I don't know what it 2437 02:08:06.199 --> 02:08:09.479 all to die, but it just it's gone. 2438 02:08:10.720 --> 02:08:10.920 Yeah. 2439 02:08:10.960 --> 02:08:14.359 We lost a lot of those during last year's hot, 2440 02:08:14.439 --> 02:08:18.680 hot summer and drought outright kills some partially killed others 2441 02:08:18.800 --> 02:08:22.039 and weakened some others that had started to continue to 2442 02:08:22.119 --> 02:08:25.680 die this year. Uh, And it's just, you know, just 2443 02:08:26.279 --> 02:08:30.319 too much of stress on that particular plant. But they're 2444 02:08:30.399 --> 02:08:32.800 tough plants, but one day hit that point where the 2445 02:08:32.840 --> 02:08:37.000 needles turn brown, that branch, or if the whole plants brown, 2446 02:08:37.039 --> 02:08:40.319 the whole plant is lost, all right, Bernie. Sorry to 2447 02:08:40.359 --> 02:08:43.680 be the bearer of bad news. But uh, the only 2448 02:08:43.760 --> 02:08:45.279 other thing will be wait and watch a little bit. 2449 02:08:45.359 --> 02:08:47.079 And maybe the plant proved me to be a liar, 2450 02:08:47.159 --> 02:08:51.039 but I don't. I would bet my ys take the case. Sir, 2451 02:08:51.239 --> 02:08:54.680 Thank you, thank you very much. We're going to go 2452 02:08:54.760 --> 02:08:57.479 now to Mark in Cyprus. Hey, Mark, how can we help? 2453 02:08:58.199 --> 02:09:01.039 Hey, good morning, thanks for taking my call. I don't 2454 02:09:01.239 --> 02:09:03.680 dug what they call a vertical drain. I got a 2455 02:09:03.720 --> 02:09:06.520 low spot in my yard, and I think I dug 2456 02:09:06.520 --> 02:09:08.520 about eighteen inches in or down. 2457 02:09:09.439 --> 02:09:11.800 It seemed like it worked, but I don't know if 2458 02:09:11.840 --> 02:09:14.479 I dug like further, like far enough down? 2459 02:09:15.000 --> 02:09:16.319 Do you have any recommendations? 2460 02:09:18.039 --> 02:09:20.119 Well, a vertical drain doesn't hold a whole lot of 2461 02:09:20.199 --> 02:09:22.960 water because it's just a hole, right, Are you talking 2462 02:09:23.000 --> 02:09:24.920 about a trench that leads off somewhere else. 2463 02:09:26.159 --> 02:09:28.680 No, I dug about eighteen inches and I lined it 2464 02:09:28.760 --> 02:09:31.680 with that like fiber, like that yard fiber. I don't 2465 02:09:31.680 --> 02:09:34.720 know what it's called. Then I put okay, some some 2466 02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:37.119 gravel not gravel, but you know, rock. 2467 02:09:38.560 --> 02:09:41.840 Rock in it. And then I put like one grates 2468 02:09:42.359 --> 02:09:45.640 over it. So it worked. But yeah, you know, I 2469 02:09:45.800 --> 02:09:46.159 just don't know. 2470 02:09:46.199 --> 02:09:50.600 How well it holds a little bit of water. But 2471 02:09:51.199 --> 02:09:52.880 you know, when you start looking at the amount of 2472 02:09:52.960 --> 02:09:54.840 water that can run off, you may be looking at 2473 02:09:54.920 --> 02:09:57.800 hundreds of gallons of water that could potentially run to 2474 02:09:57.880 --> 02:10:01.119 that area. I don't know. I'm not there at your site, 2475 02:10:02.000 --> 02:10:10.680 but so partially effective. Normally, what's done is either a 2476 02:10:11.319 --> 02:10:15.079 subsurface drain sideways pipe is put in through the ground 2477 02:10:15.640 --> 02:10:17.840 like a sewer line, except it's going to work backwards. 2478 02:10:17.880 --> 02:10:20.359 It's going to bring water in and drain it away 2479 02:10:20.439 --> 02:10:23.359 to a lower area. That's called a French drain. Or 2480 02:10:23.920 --> 02:10:26.600 you can create that pit like what you described and 2481 02:10:26.760 --> 02:10:29.319 have a sump pump in it that when it gets 2482 02:10:29.439 --> 02:10:31.960 water in it, the pump kicks on and a pipe 2483 02:10:32.039 --> 02:10:34.319 takes the water off somewhere else. That can also be 2484 02:10:34.399 --> 02:10:38.319 underground so you don't see it. But so either a 2485 02:10:38.439 --> 02:10:43.560 natural gravity drain to a lower spot, or like a 2486 02:10:43.640 --> 02:10:46.520 pit with a sump pump in it, to a lower 2487 02:10:46.560 --> 02:10:49.119 spot and they make containers you sink in the ground 2488 02:10:49.600 --> 02:10:51.520 that the water it goes through the grade, it goes 2489 02:10:51.560 --> 02:10:54.159 into the container, and then when water gets in there, 2490 02:10:54.199 --> 02:10:56.239 the pump kicks on just like a sump pump would 2491 02:10:56.279 --> 02:10:59.119 normally work. Those are your two options for going past 2492 02:10:59.760 --> 02:11:00.720 what you've already done. 2493 02:11:01.600 --> 02:11:03.119 Okay, I appreciate it, sir. 2494 02:11:04.199 --> 02:11:06.760 You met, thanks for the call. Mark. I appreciate appreciate 2495 02:11:06.840 --> 02:11:09.760 that lot. And by the way, folks, Piercecapes does this 2496 02:11:09.960 --> 02:11:13.199 kind of work. Pierscapes is a landscape company. They do 2497 02:11:13.520 --> 02:11:16.000 all kinds of things. They'll fix you irrigation system it's 2498 02:11:16.039 --> 02:11:19.640 got problems. Do you want landscape lighting? Do you want 2499 02:11:19.720 --> 02:11:23.680 hard scapes? You know, beautiful outdoor, a patio area with 2500 02:11:23.800 --> 02:11:27.840 a stone barbecue pit, enclosure kind of thing. They do 2501 02:11:28.000 --> 02:11:30.479 all of that, but they also do drainage work. And 2502 02:11:30.920 --> 02:11:32.840 here in Houston, where we have clay sools and it 2503 02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:36.479 rains a lot, most years, we end up with these 2504 02:11:36.680 --> 02:11:39.199 areas that stay two wet, you know, just like Andy's 2505 02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:42.119 having to deal with out there, and Piercecapes can come out. 2506 02:11:42.439 --> 02:11:45.159 They've got all the equipment to do it right, to 2507 02:11:45.279 --> 02:11:47.880 make it work, and I would encourage you to get 2508 02:11:47.880 --> 02:11:49.520 them a call. You can go to the website. It's 2509 02:11:49.640 --> 02:11:55.039 Piercescapes dot com, Pierce Scapes dot com, or you can 2510 02:11:55.119 --> 02:11:58.560 call them two eight one three seven o five zero 2511 02:11:59.119 --> 02:12:03.560 six zero two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. 2512 02:12:04.119 --> 02:12:06.039 We're going to go now to the woodlands and talk 2513 02:12:06.079 --> 02:12:08.000 to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to Gardline. 2514 02:12:08.840 --> 02:12:10.840 Hey, good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call. 2515 02:12:11.720 --> 02:12:13.800 Went down the spring Guardens nursery. 2516 02:12:14.399 --> 02:12:17.680 The other day and bought a real red grapefruit in 2517 02:12:17.880 --> 02:12:22.760 a Miho satsuma. They were in two gallon containers. We 2518 02:12:22.920 --> 02:12:26.600 transplanted them into twenty gallon containers that they still have 2519 02:12:26.880 --> 02:12:31.039 the support steaks. And I was listening to your show 2520 02:12:31.560 --> 02:12:36.760 earlier and a couple weeks ago, maybe in you mentioned 2521 02:12:36.840 --> 02:12:41.239 that the wind helped strengthen the root system and all 2522 02:12:41.279 --> 02:12:42.000 that kind of stuff. 2523 02:12:42.079 --> 02:12:45.600 I was wondering when I could pull those those steaks 2524 02:12:45.640 --> 02:12:46.520 off of those plants. 2525 02:12:47.920 --> 02:12:49.560 You can do it kind of when you want, And 2526 02:12:49.680 --> 02:12:52.720 it's actually the stems that it strengthens whenever. You know, 2527 02:12:52.800 --> 02:12:57.640 there's a principle in nature that, Matt, when do you 2528 02:12:57.760 --> 02:13:00.840 stress something that's living, it gets stronger. You know, you 2529 02:13:00.960 --> 02:13:02.800 go to the gym and you work your muscles out 2530 02:13:02.840 --> 02:13:04.800 and so we you can hardly lift your arms up, 2531 02:13:05.279 --> 02:13:07.840 and you do that week after week, and your muscles 2532 02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:10.000 get stronger. Well, the same thing happens to a tree 2533 02:13:10.520 --> 02:13:13.960 branch or trunk. When the wind bends and stresses it, 2534 02:13:14.199 --> 02:13:16.680 it just gets more lignant and it gets stronger. 2535 02:13:17.600 --> 02:13:17.920 And so. 2536 02:13:19.720 --> 02:13:21.359 I don't see the tree that you have. I'm not 2537 02:13:21.479 --> 02:13:24.359 there looking at it. But could you could give it 2538 02:13:24.399 --> 02:13:26.800 a little looser wrap where it can move a little bit, 2539 02:13:27.439 --> 02:13:29.680 just so you don't take the steak away if it's 2540 02:13:29.720 --> 02:13:34.319 a little if it's a little skinny, scrawny, you know, branch, 2541 02:13:34.920 --> 02:13:37.439 I might not want to take it off just suddenly, 2542 02:13:37.560 --> 02:13:40.119 and it may just kind of break or something. But 2543 02:13:41.239 --> 02:13:42.479 just take a look at it and get a feel 2544 02:13:42.520 --> 02:13:44.039 for it. If you think it's strong enough to hold 2545 02:13:44.079 --> 02:13:46.319 on its own, take the steak out. If you want 2546 02:13:46.359 --> 02:13:48.199 to leave it for a while, that's fine. Just allow 2547 02:13:48.279 --> 02:13:50.199 it to move a little bit. Just move in a 2548 02:13:50.239 --> 02:13:54.159 little bit, is all. It takes a little bit. Yeah, 2549 02:13:54.319 --> 02:13:56.920 And by the way, Miho's one you can I've seen 2550 02:13:57.640 --> 02:14:02.239 satsuma's in half whiskey barrel size containers and you can 2551 02:14:02.319 --> 02:14:04.600 grow them in that. They do want to get bigger 2552 02:14:04.680 --> 02:14:06.920 than that, but you can do that. The grape root 2553 02:14:07.000 --> 02:14:08.800 may be a little more of a challenge to keeping 2554 02:14:08.880 --> 02:14:12.319 a really small container because it's an even bigger stature 2555 02:14:12.399 --> 02:14:15.520 tree in nature, but you can give it a try. 2556 02:14:15.640 --> 02:14:17.479 Maybe at some point you have to you have to 2557 02:14:17.560 --> 02:14:19.720 move it out of the ground. Just just keep an 2558 02:14:19.760 --> 02:14:20.119 eye on it. 2559 02:14:21.239 --> 02:14:23.039 No, I appreciate that, Skip, Thanks so much. 2560 02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:26.880 All right, Matt, take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate 2561 02:14:26.960 --> 02:14:30.600 that very much. Let's see here. We're going to go 2562 02:14:30.760 --> 02:14:34.560 now to Andy in spring. Hey, Andy, welcome to guardline. 2563 02:14:35.880 --> 02:14:36.640 Hey, thanks, Kip. 2564 02:14:37.039 --> 02:14:40.279 Is it too late to plant a second crop of 2565 02:14:40.399 --> 02:14:41.840 tomatoes for a fall harvest? 2566 02:14:43.640 --> 02:14:46.560 We're on the line. Normally I would get it done 2567 02:14:46.640 --> 02:14:49.079 before now, so it has time for those plants to 2568 02:14:49.159 --> 02:14:51.359 grow to a good size. So you can have more 2569 02:14:51.399 --> 02:14:54.279 of a tomato harvest if you did it now and 2570 02:14:54.399 --> 02:14:57.359 you had a tomato that was very quick to harvest, 2571 02:14:57.920 --> 02:15:00.640 not something like a brandywine that takes a days to 2572 02:15:00.720 --> 02:15:04.720 get there, but something like, I don't know, something that's 2573 02:15:04.800 --> 02:15:07.560 going to be more of a seventy five or seventy 2574 02:15:07.640 --> 02:15:11.079 two or even shorter day to harvest variety. You might 2575 02:15:11.159 --> 02:15:12.920 get some from it. You have to do a little 2576 02:15:12.920 --> 02:15:14.560 bit of protecting it if we have a little bit 2577 02:15:14.600 --> 02:15:16.880 of a frost and keep it going. But here's the 2578 02:15:17.000 --> 02:15:18.960 thing about tomatoes. As we go into fall and the 2579 02:15:19.079 --> 02:15:22.760 nights get cooler and cooler, the growth slows down, so 2580 02:15:22.920 --> 02:15:25.119 that you know, I say sixty days to harvest in 2581 02:15:25.159 --> 02:15:27.159 you and think, well, I got sixty days before the 2582 02:15:27.199 --> 02:15:29.680 first freeze. But it's going to slow down, so it's 2583 02:15:29.720 --> 02:15:32.960 going to take even longer than that normal time that 2584 02:15:33.039 --> 02:15:35.640 it would take because it's getting cooler and cooler on it. 2585 02:15:36.159 --> 02:15:38.760 So it's a little bit of a roll of the dice. 2586 02:15:40.199 --> 02:15:42.199 If you're determined to give it a try, I wouldn't 2587 02:15:42.199 --> 02:15:44.479 talk you out of it, but in general I try 2588 02:15:44.520 --> 02:15:47.720 to get that done a little bit earlier. All right, Well, 2589 02:15:47.920 --> 02:15:50.199 thanks so much, Skip, take care, thank you. Let me 2590 02:15:50.439 --> 02:15:52.840 let me Yeah, you bet, Thanks Andy, I appreciate I 2591 02:15:52.880 --> 02:15:56.840 appreciate your call very much. All right, folks, Ana Plants 2592 02:15:56.840 --> 02:16:00.399 and Produce up in Montgomery. That is the place to 2593 02:16:00.479 --> 02:16:04.520 go for all of you up there in the Montgomery area, 2594 02:16:04.720 --> 02:16:08.119 the Lake Conroe area, really all those neighborhoods around Lake Conroe. 2595 02:16:08.199 --> 02:16:10.680 This is your backyard garden center. 2596 02:16:10.760 --> 02:16:10.920 You know. 2597 02:16:11.039 --> 02:16:16.359 A and A has been providing high quality and great selection, 2598 02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:21.039 outstanding selection of all kinds of things for a long 2599 02:16:21.119 --> 02:16:24.600 long time. This operation has been going on for a 2600 02:16:24.680 --> 02:16:27.760 good while. And you know, those of you who drive by, 2601 02:16:28.159 --> 02:16:29.560 I used to drive by all the time, and I 2602 02:16:29.640 --> 02:16:33.000 was living in the Conroe Willis area, and I don't 2603 02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:35.079 always see it, and just over the years watching it 2604 02:16:35.239 --> 02:16:38.559 develop and grow, it is just so cool. There's always 2605 02:16:38.639 --> 02:16:40.920 something going on out there, by the way. Right now 2606 02:16:41.520 --> 02:16:45.000 Friday and Saturday and Sunday. This is Saturday of the sale. 2607 02:16:45.680 --> 02:16:49.440 Three days sale going on. Twenty five percent off all 2608 02:16:49.559 --> 02:16:53.280 their bagged products. That includes and they have the whole 2609 02:16:53.440 --> 02:16:57.520 selection of garden line fertilizer, they got nitroposs, they got Microlife, 2610 02:16:58.079 --> 02:17:01.079 you know, they have the Nelson's Turf Star line, the 2611 02:17:01.200 --> 02:17:05.239 Ladybug stuff. They got the Heirloom soils and Landscaper's Pride 2612 02:17:05.319 --> 02:17:08.600 mixes too. They got azamite there. Yeah, they've got it all. 2613 02:17:08.680 --> 02:17:10.520 So I'm telling you they got all. So you want 2614 02:17:10.520 --> 02:17:12.559 to get the brown stuff right swing by a na 2615 02:17:12.680 --> 02:17:16.159 Plants and produce right now today or tomorrow. Twenty five 2616 02:17:16.280 --> 02:17:21.600 percent off all bag product, so don't delay. They're out 2617 02:17:21.639 --> 02:17:23.399 there on the east side of Montgomery on one oh 2618 02:17:23.520 --> 02:17:25.559 five and it's just a hop, skipping or jump for 2619 02:17:25.680 --> 02:17:28.079 all of you folks that are out in the beautiful 2620 02:17:28.520 --> 02:17:31.479 Lake Conroe area, by the way, that is a gorgeous, 2621 02:17:31.959 --> 02:17:36.280 gorgeous area out there. Let's see here, we are going 2622 02:17:36.360 --> 02:17:39.680 to go to Valdo and Pasadena. Valdo, I'm going to 2623 02:17:39.719 --> 02:17:42.360 have about thirty seconds here before I have to go 2624 02:17:42.479 --> 02:17:44.520 to break, But can you just give me the initial 2625 02:17:44.639 --> 02:17:46.120 question and then we'll come back to it. 2626 02:17:47.159 --> 02:17:49.680 Yeah, So I have a maple tree. I put in 2627 02:17:50.120 --> 02:17:53.159 a couple of years back, thirty gallons, and it was 2628 02:17:53.239 --> 02:17:57.079 doing great. Then a real strong, strong windstorm came through 2629 02:17:57.399 --> 02:18:00.760 and broke it, and it broke out the right at 2630 02:18:00.799 --> 02:18:03.639 the top. Anyhow, that's where we're at. And then I'll 2631 02:18:03.680 --> 02:18:05.440 wait when you come back and finish the. 2632 02:18:05.479 --> 02:18:05.840 Rest of it. 2633 02:18:06.520 --> 02:18:08.319 All right, you take care, I'll be right back. You'll 2634 02:18:08.360 --> 02:18:10.079 be the first stup when I come back. Folks, is 2635 02:18:10.120 --> 02:18:13.399 time for news break. We'll be right back. Did you 2636 02:18:13.479 --> 02:18:15.920 have you back on garden line. We're going to go 2637 02:18:16.000 --> 02:18:19.159 straight back out to Valdo and Pasadena. Hey, Valdo, we 2638 02:18:19.280 --> 02:18:22.079 were talking about your tree and when how long has 2639 02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:24.680 it been in the ground, Like months years it's. 2640 02:18:24.559 --> 02:18:25.159 Been in the ground. 2641 02:18:25.600 --> 02:18:28.079 Yeah, it's been in the ground for It was thirty gallons. 2642 02:18:28.120 --> 02:18:30.399 I put it in in twenty twenty. 2643 02:18:31.319 --> 02:18:36.200 Two and it was a thirty gallon maple. Some wind 2644 02:18:36.280 --> 02:18:39.079 came through Pasadena, a really strong wind, and it broke it, 2645 02:18:39.639 --> 02:18:46.399 leaving me about a two foot you know, two foot left, 2646 02:18:46.440 --> 02:18:48.479 and so I basically didn't do anything with it. I 2647 02:18:48.520 --> 02:18:50.920 just took what was broken, took it off, and I 2648 02:18:51.040 --> 02:18:53.799 left it in the ground. Well, sure enough, we're here 2649 02:18:53.879 --> 02:18:56.600 today and it's branched off like a bush. So it 2650 02:18:56.760 --> 02:19:00.200 now the middle is still damaged, and you can see 2651 02:19:00.239 --> 02:19:03.159 where it's split, but it's like branched off, and it's 2652 02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:06.000 it's it looks like a bush now. So my question is, 2653 02:19:06.319 --> 02:19:08.799 outside of the aesthetics, do I leave it in there? 2654 02:19:09.479 --> 02:19:10.680 Or should I take it out? 2655 02:19:10.840 --> 02:19:11.799 Is it how? 2656 02:19:12.239 --> 02:19:14.520 You know, it's kind of what I'm wondering, But it's blooming. 2657 02:19:14.760 --> 02:19:16.760 If it were yeah, if it were mine, i'd take 2658 02:19:16.760 --> 02:19:18.200 it out and put a new one in. I think 2659 02:19:18.360 --> 02:19:21.959 overall that's the simplest and the best long term. If 2660 02:19:22.079 --> 02:19:24.239 you were trying to keep it, the way you would 2661 02:19:24.280 --> 02:19:28.399 do that is you would cut everything off except a 2662 02:19:28.600 --> 02:19:32.000 very upright shoot coming out of it. Anything upright coming 2663 02:19:32.040 --> 02:19:34.159 out of it. Cut off the trunk right above that 2664 02:19:34.600 --> 02:19:39.280 about an answer above that, and then in time that 2665 02:19:39.360 --> 02:19:42.360 would become the new trunk. But in the meantime you're 2666 02:19:42.399 --> 02:19:45.399 going to be taking away other branches and shoots from that, 2667 02:19:45.520 --> 02:19:49.639 pruning and whatnot. And it's really set back. So again, 2668 02:19:49.799 --> 02:19:52.040 going back to my first answer, I would replace it 2669 02:19:52.079 --> 02:19:55.000 if it were mine. Okay, sounds good. 2670 02:19:55.040 --> 02:19:57.239 I never thought again, I thought it was going to 2671 02:19:57.280 --> 02:19:57.559 be done. 2672 02:19:57.639 --> 02:20:00.760 But apparently, yeah, it's bloomed like crazy. All right, I 2673 02:20:00.799 --> 02:20:01.280 appreciate it. 2674 02:20:01.559 --> 02:20:04.719 Yeah, yes, sir, apparently I had a will to live. 2675 02:20:04.879 --> 02:20:07.879 Let's go out to Parallel now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, 2676 02:20:07.920 --> 02:20:08.799 welcome to guard Line. 2677 02:20:09.559 --> 02:20:11.799 Hey man, I am sitting here at the ground up 2678 02:20:11.879 --> 02:20:13.680 and I'm ready to get some two year old leap 2679 02:20:13.680 --> 02:20:16.120 polst composts. I just aerated my grass yesterday and a 2680 02:20:16.399 --> 02:20:18.440 beautiful day to do it. And if one of what 2681 02:20:18.520 --> 02:20:19.639 else should I drop in there? 2682 02:20:19.680 --> 02:20:20.600 That might be good for my lawn. 2683 02:20:20.600 --> 02:20:22.840 I had some bug damage and some fungus damage and 2684 02:20:23.159 --> 02:20:23.799 it's coming back. 2685 02:20:23.840 --> 02:20:24.440 But I'm throwing down. 2686 02:20:24.959 --> 02:20:28.040 I'm throwing down some two year old leap polst compost today. 2687 02:20:28.239 --> 02:20:29.639 What else do you get to drop in there? Since 2688 02:20:29.680 --> 02:20:33.159 I just did it so that just erated, I would. 2689 02:20:33.239 --> 02:20:35.719 Oh, you've done the aerration. You put the compost on, 2690 02:20:35.920 --> 02:20:37.680 rake it around a little bit. Make sure it's a 2691 02:20:37.760 --> 02:20:41.360 very finally ground compost, not anything chunky, because you want 2692 02:20:41.399 --> 02:20:43.319 it to some of it at least to fall down 2693 02:20:43.360 --> 02:20:46.440 in those holes. And then I'd wait, we're coming up 2694 02:20:46.479 --> 02:20:50.799 on fall fertilization season, and that's not far away, about 2695 02:20:50.840 --> 02:20:53.959 a month away, and so let's just hold on and 2696 02:20:54.040 --> 02:20:56.120 then the next thing you do is that fall fertilizer. 2697 02:20:56.159 --> 02:20:58.520 And if you go online to my website Gardening with 2698 02:20:58.879 --> 02:21:01.520 Skip dot com, that's where the schedule is and it 2699 02:21:01.600 --> 02:21:02.440 tells you when and what. 2700 02:21:03.719 --> 02:21:04.040 Got it? 2701 02:21:04.280 --> 02:21:07.520 Okay, perfect, all right, thanks, all right. 2702 02:21:07.440 --> 02:21:09.360 Good luck with that lawn getting it back in shape. 2703 02:21:10.079 --> 02:21:14.360 Appreciate that. You know, one of the quality of fertilizer 2704 02:21:14.440 --> 02:21:18.159 blends that are out there is Microlife. You know, Microlife 2705 02:21:18.200 --> 02:21:20.920 has a wide variety of things for the lawn. Typically 2706 02:21:21.000 --> 02:21:23.000 through the summer, we put on the green bag. We'll 2707 02:21:23.040 --> 02:21:25.360 be putting on the brown patch here pretty soon. That's 2708 02:21:25.399 --> 02:21:29.079 the brown bag that's designed for fall fertilization. And so 2709 02:21:29.360 --> 02:21:31.719 that's coming. But I want to talk a little bit 2710 02:21:31.719 --> 02:21:35.319 about some of the other great products that Microlife has 2711 02:21:36.000 --> 02:21:39.520 some outstanding liquid products, and they don't talk about those enough, 2712 02:21:39.600 --> 02:21:41.840 so I just kind of will mention those a little bit. 2713 02:21:42.239 --> 02:21:45.079 Microlife has one called Soil and Plant Energy. Now that 2714 02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:49.159 is not a fertilizer, that is something to think of 2715 02:21:49.239 --> 02:21:51.840 it as food for the microbes. And that is one. 2716 02:21:51.920 --> 02:21:53.959 It's got over sixty three minerals in it. By the way, 2717 02:21:54.319 --> 02:21:57.239 good good simulation of the root system. So drench it 2718 02:21:57.360 --> 02:21:59.360 in whenever you're going to plant a plant. And by 2719 02:21:59.399 --> 02:22:01.600 the way, it fall, and I hope you're planning on 2720 02:22:01.760 --> 02:22:04.799 planting a plant. Falls the best planting season of the year. 2721 02:22:05.280 --> 02:22:08.120 Mix up some of the Microlife liquid energy. That's kind 2722 02:22:08.200 --> 02:22:10.600 of a I got somebody. I gotta get somebody who 2723 02:22:10.600 --> 02:22:12.520 knows colors to tell me what color this is. It's 2724 02:22:12.600 --> 02:22:16.120 kind of a pink, kind of a periwinkle. I don't know. 2725 02:22:16.440 --> 02:22:21.440 It's some I'm gonna quit. I'm I'm saying something I 2726 02:22:21.600 --> 02:22:23.920 know nothing about. And that's the names of all these colors. 2727 02:22:24.639 --> 02:22:26.959 But anyway, that's the bottle. It's cork bottle. You can 2728 02:22:27.000 --> 02:22:28.719 get in a gallon two and mix it up and 2729 02:22:28.760 --> 02:22:33.200 put it in together. I also like a lot Microlife's Biomatrix. 2730 02:22:33.280 --> 02:22:35.920 It's a seven to one to three fertilizer that'll give 2731 02:22:36.079 --> 02:22:38.000 any plant you have growing a boost. You can use 2732 02:22:38.079 --> 02:22:40.840 both of these foliar feet too, by the way, that 2733 02:22:41.000 --> 02:22:45.120 you want. But when you provide these kinds of products 2734 02:22:45.200 --> 02:22:48.319 for the soil. It's not just the nutrients and them, 2735 02:22:48.600 --> 02:22:51.719 it's the addition of microbial life. It's the addition of 2736 02:22:51.799 --> 02:22:55.799 the things that stimulate root growth, that help the soil 2737 02:22:56.120 --> 02:22:59.040 to be a better structure, to help it to form well, 2738 02:22:59.200 --> 02:23:01.280 to help the roots to get off and get started. 2739 02:23:01.280 --> 02:23:03.799 And that's the main thing. We've got to get those 2740 02:23:03.879 --> 02:23:06.920 roots off to a good start. Good start on the roots, 2741 02:23:07.000 --> 02:23:09.360 get them off to a good start, and you're gonna 2742 02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:15.239 have success. And you're about to be putting perennials, ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees, 2743 02:23:16.000 --> 02:23:18.200 woody vines, lots of things are going to be going 2744 02:23:18.280 --> 02:23:20.239 on the ground this fall. And when they go in, 2745 02:23:20.399 --> 02:23:22.280 they need to be watered in like this to get 2746 02:23:22.319 --> 02:23:25.040 them off to a good start. I like to jokingly say, 2747 02:23:25.120 --> 02:23:27.360 you want them to hit the ground running, Just don't 2748 02:23:27.399 --> 02:23:29.360 hold your head above the plant because it may take 2749 02:23:29.360 --> 02:23:31.200 off growing so fast it hits you in the chin. 2750 02:23:32.159 --> 02:23:34.120 Wouldn't it be good? Wouldn't it be nice if plants 2751 02:23:34.159 --> 02:23:36.600 grew that fast. By the way, those products are off 2752 02:23:36.639 --> 02:23:38.920 of Microlife, and you can go to Microlife furlizer dot 2753 02:23:39.000 --> 02:23:41.079 com if you want to learn more about them. They're 2754 02:23:41.200 --> 02:23:43.959 widely widely available. Yeah, wouldn't it be great if plants 2755 02:23:44.000 --> 02:23:46.760 took off growing that fast? I always say when you 2756 02:23:46.840 --> 02:23:49.399 plant a tree, you know, my question when I plant 2757 02:23:49.399 --> 02:23:51.440 a tree is how soon can I hang a hammock 2758 02:23:51.520 --> 02:23:53.959 in it? In other words, how do I get that 2759 02:23:54.159 --> 02:23:56.079 thing up to where it's a tree and not just 2760 02:23:56.159 --> 02:23:59.719 a broomstick out there in the yard. Well, take care 2761 02:23:59.760 --> 02:24:03.399 of it, provide good soil, provide these good products when 2762 02:24:03.440 --> 02:24:07.479 you plant them, and then continue to feed gradually over time, 2763 02:24:08.200 --> 02:24:12.280 and it does well. You're listening to garden Line. Our 2764 02:24:12.319 --> 02:24:15.319 phone number is seven to one three two one two 2765 02:24:15.760 --> 02:24:18.760 five eight seven four R seven one three two one 2766 02:24:18.840 --> 02:24:23.040 two KTRH. It's another way you go about it. KTR 2767 02:24:23.440 --> 02:24:26.600 makes it easy to dial in. We got oh, We're 2768 02:24:26.600 --> 02:24:28.479 about to go to a little breaker in a couple 2769 02:24:28.520 --> 02:24:31.360 of minutes and then we'll enter our last segment of 2770 02:24:31.440 --> 02:24:33.319 the morning. If you got any questions today, and i'd 2771 02:24:33.319 --> 02:24:36.239 be a good time to ask, We'll be back tomorrow morning. 2772 02:24:36.360 --> 02:24:40.760 Remember that garden Line is here every Saturday and Sunday 2773 02:24:40.799 --> 02:24:43.440 from six am to ten am. If you're just choosing in, 2774 02:24:44.319 --> 02:24:47.920 if you're just tuning in, welcome. We're glad to have you. 2775 02:24:48.200 --> 02:24:50.559 Tell your friends and neighbors about it. I don't care 2776 02:24:50.559 --> 02:24:52.239 if they live here or not. We've got people that 2777 02:24:52.399 --> 02:24:56.159 listen to garden Line from other states that they listen online. 2778 02:24:56.559 --> 02:24:59.159 By the way, you can listen on your old radio, 2779 02:24:59.479 --> 02:25:01.479 the old t way. We listen to a lot of 2780 02:25:01.559 --> 02:25:05.159 things right still around. You can also listen online on 2781 02:25:05.280 --> 02:25:08.239 your computer, go to the website, or if you like, 2782 02:25:08.879 --> 02:25:11.280 you can go I said to call in, and I 2783 02:25:11.479 --> 02:25:13.959 just watched the boards light up like a Christmas tree. 2784 02:25:14.000 --> 02:25:17.920 Oh my god. Okay. You can also listen on your phone, 2785 02:25:18.079 --> 02:25:19.840 and that's how I listened to a lot of things. 2786 02:25:20.200 --> 02:25:20.319 You know. 2787 02:25:20.440 --> 02:25:24.200 With the iHeartMedia Past podcast app, you can listen to 2788 02:25:24.280 --> 02:25:27.040 live radio. But you can also listen to podcasts, which 2789 02:25:27.120 --> 02:25:29.840 garden Line is available like that too, So either way 2790 02:25:29.920 --> 02:25:31.959 you go about it, you can listen to garden A 2791 02:25:32.000 --> 02:25:34.760 lot of gardeners turn that phone upside down in their pockets, 2792 02:25:34.799 --> 02:25:37.440 so the speaker's pointing up and they just take off 2793 02:25:38.040 --> 02:25:41.559 and listen while they're doing their morning gardening chores. We'll 2794 02:25:41.600 --> 02:25:45.440 take a break, we'll be right back. Boy did you respond? 2795 02:25:45.600 --> 02:25:47.440 So here we go. We're going to head out to 2796 02:25:47.520 --> 02:25:51.399 New Caney and talk to John. Now, Hey John, Hey, 2797 02:25:51.520 --> 02:25:52.120 how you doing. 2798 02:25:52.600 --> 02:25:54.600 I got these two paar trees that I've had for 2799 02:25:54.719 --> 02:25:57.559 fifteen years, and they just make tons and tons of pairs, 2800 02:25:57.600 --> 02:26:00.360 and one of them bit the dust. So well, I'm 2801 02:26:00.399 --> 02:26:03.879 thinking I've tried planting pairs and they don't grow. 2802 02:26:04.440 --> 02:26:06.639 I'm thinking I need to just go buy a new one. 2803 02:26:07.200 --> 02:26:09.559 But I need to know where to go buy one, 2804 02:26:09.799 --> 02:26:11.920 and how I can make sure I'm getting the same 2805 02:26:12.079 --> 02:26:14.360 variety as the one I've already got, if there even 2806 02:26:14.440 --> 02:26:15.719 are different varieties. 2807 02:26:17.159 --> 02:26:20.000 There are many different varieties, and pairs do best if 2808 02:26:20.040 --> 02:26:22.000 you have some cross pollinating. There are a few that 2809 02:26:22.040 --> 02:26:24.959 will pollinate themselves, but in general it's better to have 2810 02:26:25.040 --> 02:26:27.840 two different varieties. When you do that, I don't know 2811 02:26:27.920 --> 02:26:30.799 how to tell you which one you have. The shape 2812 02:26:31.399 --> 02:26:35.120 it can affect that you can depending on the shape 2813 02:26:35.159 --> 02:26:37.319 of the pair. I could give a guess as to 2814 02:26:37.440 --> 02:26:39.360 what variety you have, but that'd be about as good 2815 02:26:39.399 --> 02:26:41.520 as I can get. You're out a new canny. You're 2816 02:26:41.559 --> 02:26:45.040 not too far away from Kingwood over Warren's Garden Center 2817 02:26:45.120 --> 02:26:47.399 there in Kingwood would be a place to go. I 2818 02:26:47.440 --> 02:26:49.079 would call them first and say, do you guys have 2819 02:26:49.200 --> 02:26:52.120 pairs in stock? I know they will by the end 2820 02:26:52.159 --> 02:26:54.000 of the winter time, but they may have some now 2821 02:26:54.079 --> 02:26:56.840 as well. But you can eed the plant. You can 2822 02:26:56.879 --> 02:26:59.440 plant something now. The best time to plant is in 2823 02:26:59.600 --> 02:27:02.760 fall or in late winter. And so that that is 2824 02:27:02.840 --> 02:27:06.319 how I would go about it. Uh well, if possible, 2825 02:27:06.920 --> 02:27:07.280 go ahead. 2826 02:27:08.200 --> 02:27:08.399 Yeah. 2827 02:27:08.479 --> 02:27:10.760 The only reason I was concerned about the variety is 2828 02:27:10.799 --> 02:27:13.440 so they would cross pollinate. So if it doesn't matter 2829 02:27:14.840 --> 02:27:17.799 regarding the cross pollination, I can just get any kind 2830 02:27:17.879 --> 02:27:18.879 of par tree right. 2831 02:27:20.079 --> 02:27:22.280 Well, if they if they bloom at the same time 2832 02:27:22.440 --> 02:27:26.760 and they're not genetically not the same variety, they'll cross pollinate. 2833 02:27:27.559 --> 02:27:31.479 But if if it is the same variety, it may 2834 02:27:31.600 --> 02:27:36.079 or may not pollinate itself, which is basically, even though 2835 02:27:36.079 --> 02:27:38.079 it's two trees, if it's the same variety, it's like 2836 02:27:38.159 --> 02:27:41.840 pollinated itself. It's the same same difference. So they may 2837 02:27:41.920 --> 02:27:44.040 or not may not do that. But I can't guess 2838 02:27:44.079 --> 02:27:47.559 as to which one you currently have. But anyway that 2839 02:27:48.079 --> 02:27:51.559 hopefully that will That's the best advice I can give 2840 02:27:51.600 --> 02:27:53.280 you at this point with as much as we know 2841 02:27:53.440 --> 02:27:56.280 right now, I think I'll just get any old par 2842 02:27:56.399 --> 02:28:00.440 tree and see what happens. Sounds like a plan. Good 2843 02:28:00.520 --> 02:28:03.280 luck with it. You can always use more pairs right. 2844 02:28:04.600 --> 02:28:10.719 Oh brandy wine. Yeah, I gotta still I make brandy. 2845 02:28:10.799 --> 02:28:11.840 I make wine from him. 2846 02:28:12.159 --> 02:28:17.200 It's bush. Oh wow. Well you know normally I say 2847 02:28:17.319 --> 02:28:21.040 bring half the produce to the to the radio station. 2848 02:28:21.920 --> 02:28:25.799 We will accept that product as well. Take care of John, 2849 02:28:26.079 --> 02:28:28.760 stay out of trouble. We're gonna go to Texas City 2850 02:28:28.840 --> 02:28:32.159 now and talk to Brian. Hey, Brian, Hey, good morning, Skip. 2851 02:28:32.200 --> 02:28:32.760 How are you, sir? 2852 02:28:33.959 --> 02:28:36.680 I'm good, sir. How can we help? Just a real 2853 02:28:36.799 --> 02:28:37.280 quick question. 2854 02:28:37.399 --> 02:28:40.760 I'm trying to get rid of an overgrown corner of 2855 02:28:40.959 --> 02:28:41.840 bamboo in. 2856 02:28:41.920 --> 02:28:46.040 My car other than a shovel and a good act. 2857 02:28:47.239 --> 02:28:51.239 Any suggestions, yes, yes, When the new shoots are coming 2858 02:28:51.319 --> 02:28:53.520 up out of the ground, Uh, you want to treat 2859 02:28:53.600 --> 02:28:57.159 those with either a grass only killer. There's a couple 2860 02:28:57.200 --> 02:28:59.239 of products like that, or you want to or you 2861 02:28:59.319 --> 02:29:02.319 want to use something that contains a glyphosate which used 2862 02:29:02.360 --> 02:29:04.680 to be called round up. The stuff called round up 2863 02:29:04.719 --> 02:29:08.680 RW in the garden center is not glyphosate, So either 2864 02:29:08.760 --> 02:29:11.319 one of those. If you go online to my website 2865 02:29:11.399 --> 02:29:15.479 Gardening with Skip, I have a instructions on how to 2866 02:29:15.520 --> 02:29:19.200 build a weed wiper which would allow you to treat bamboo. 2867 02:29:19.719 --> 02:29:21.559 If you don't want to spray it. Maybe your spray 2868 02:29:21.600 --> 02:29:25.360 would get on something you care about. The weed wiper 2869 02:29:25.440 --> 02:29:26.959 is a way to do it. But even if you 2870 02:29:27.000 --> 02:29:30.040 don't do the weed wiper way, you can go online 2871 02:29:30.200 --> 02:29:32.600 and there's a list of herbicides for the weed wiper. 2872 02:29:32.719 --> 02:29:36.120 And if you look under grass grass killers, it has 2873 02:29:36.159 --> 02:29:38.639 a list of the different ingredients that will kill grass. 2874 02:29:38.680 --> 02:29:41.520 And Brent Bamboo's a grass excellent. 2875 02:29:42.120 --> 02:29:43.079 I will give that a look. 2876 02:29:43.159 --> 02:29:43.840 Thank you so much. 2877 02:29:45.040 --> 02:29:48.079 All right, you take care, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Okay, 2878 02:29:49.079 --> 02:29:52.319 let's see we are now going to head out to Connie. 2879 02:29:52.440 --> 02:29:57.639 Hello Connie, Welcome to garden Line. Hi, Hi, how could 2880 02:29:57.639 --> 02:29:57.959 we help? 2881 02:29:59.319 --> 02:29:59.600 Okay? 2882 02:29:59.719 --> 02:30:02.959 So, so I lost two trees in the in the 2883 02:30:03.399 --> 02:30:07.959 freeze last winter, and I kept thinking they would come back, 2884 02:30:08.000 --> 02:30:12.559 but they didn't. So the mountains that the trees were 2885 02:30:12.639 --> 02:30:18.280 in are completely overtaken with ants. So I need to 2886 02:30:18.719 --> 02:30:24.040 plant two new trees. But I don't want to kill 2887 02:30:24.079 --> 02:30:27.559 the ants if it's going to kill the future trees 2888 02:30:27.600 --> 02:30:28.879 that I plant too, you know what I mean? 2889 02:30:29.079 --> 02:30:33.840 So what do I know with that? I would say 2890 02:30:33.840 --> 02:30:35.600 the ants aren't a concern. Do you feel like they're 2891 02:30:35.639 --> 02:30:37.959 like carpenter ants that are going into the old wood 2892 02:30:38.319 --> 02:30:39.600 of the tree that died. 2893 02:30:39.840 --> 02:30:43.239 Or or I don't know one of the trees. All 2894 02:30:43.319 --> 02:30:46.399 three we have three, and all three of them we 2895 02:30:46.479 --> 02:30:49.280 thought were dead, and one of them came back. 2896 02:30:49.319 --> 02:30:51.079 That's why I thought the other two may come back. 2897 02:30:51.799 --> 02:30:55.840 And but are the ants on the tree trunks? 2898 02:30:57.159 --> 02:30:57.440 Pardon? 2899 02:30:58.719 --> 02:31:00.719 Are they are the ants on the growth the tree 2900 02:31:00.760 --> 02:31:02.840 trunk or the tree that's coming back, or are they 2901 02:31:02.879 --> 02:31:03.600 done in the soil? 2902 02:31:04.520 --> 02:31:05.239 They're the soil? 2903 02:31:06.639 --> 02:31:06.920 Okay? 2904 02:31:07.639 --> 02:31:07.760 Uh? 2905 02:31:07.840 --> 02:31:14.639 You know how big a fire ant is, right, Yeah, 2906 02:31:14.719 --> 02:31:15.520 I honestly don't. 2907 02:31:16.040 --> 02:31:18.319 I'll look again whenever I go home today. 2908 02:31:18.440 --> 02:31:19.760 But I don't know. 2909 02:31:20.040 --> 02:31:23.760 I just know that there's it's it's like a huge colony. 2910 02:31:23.920 --> 02:31:24.000 Ye. 2911 02:31:24.920 --> 02:31:27.399 Okay. Well, if there's something about the size of a 2912 02:31:27.479 --> 02:31:31.639 fire ant or smaller, uh, that's probably fire ants. But 2913 02:31:31.920 --> 02:31:34.159 if it's like four times that big, it might be 2914 02:31:34.200 --> 02:31:36.920 a carpenter ant, and that would be one you probably 2915 02:31:36.959 --> 02:31:39.639 would want to treat. You could, you could deal with. 2916 02:31:39.799 --> 02:31:41.840 But if it's small, I would ignore them. Go ahead 2917 02:31:41.840 --> 02:31:43.319 and plant, do what you want to do. It's not 2918 02:31:43.360 --> 02:31:44.079 gonna be a problem. 2919 02:31:44.719 --> 02:31:46.159 So don't kill the ants. 2920 02:31:48.319 --> 02:31:52.680 I would not unless they're really large ants, very large. 2921 02:31:52.840 --> 02:31:53.680 That might be a. 2922 02:31:53.719 --> 02:31:56.879 Cause they're not gonna. They're not going to like kill 2923 02:31:56.920 --> 02:32:01.840 a new tree being planted right at Absolutely not awesome. 2924 02:32:02.200 --> 02:32:02.920 That's what I needed. 2925 02:32:03.000 --> 02:32:06.520 Thank you, all right, you bet, you bet, take care. 2926 02:32:07.319 --> 02:32:11.120 Let's here. We're gonna now. Run out to Katie and 2927 02:32:11.239 --> 02:32:14.799 talk to Catherine. Hey, Catherine, welcome to guard Are you? 2928 02:32:15.600 --> 02:32:18.360 Thank you? Well? Thank you? Okay. 2929 02:32:18.440 --> 02:32:20.440 So I have a main cando that I have had, 2930 02:32:20.600 --> 02:32:22.639 and I have moved it from house to house to house. 2931 02:32:22.639 --> 02:32:24.799 I've moved a few times. It's been in ground and 2932 02:32:24.920 --> 02:32:27.760 in a pot, and right now it's in ground. It's 2933 02:32:27.760 --> 02:32:28.879 done a little well, worried him. 2934 02:32:28.920 --> 02:32:29.040 Now. 2935 02:32:29.440 --> 02:32:32.040 Last year FROs down and I cut it back because 2936 02:32:32.040 --> 02:32:35.120 everything looks like it was closed. It came back, but 2937 02:32:35.239 --> 02:32:37.239 this year the league it's kind of a yellow green 2938 02:32:37.319 --> 02:32:39.959 with like black brown spots on them, and it's covered 2939 02:32:40.559 --> 02:32:43.079 and it's like power, not powdery. It is like fuzz 2940 02:32:43.239 --> 02:32:48.000 like yellow white brown and a few flowers out of 2941 02:32:48.040 --> 02:32:51.280 it first and the flower and then y'all fall died. 2942 02:32:51.840 --> 02:32:53.399 And it only had it happened a couple of times. 2943 02:32:53.879 --> 02:32:56.360 I just was wondering what it was and have I 2944 02:32:56.440 --> 02:32:57.239 lost my plant forever? 2945 02:32:59.600 --> 02:33:01.639 Well, if slantana, you might be looking at a meatly 2946 02:33:01.680 --> 02:33:04.120 bug or something like that that's out there on it. 2947 02:33:04.360 --> 02:33:05.799 It's probably not powdery. 2948 02:33:05.840 --> 02:33:09.799 You'll do bugs on it a little bit. 2949 02:33:09.879 --> 02:33:13.760 But yeah, you know, Catherine, one thing I hate to 2950 02:33:13.840 --> 02:33:16.440 do is send people out to buy chemicals and spray 2951 02:33:16.520 --> 02:33:18.760 them when we don't know what we're going after for sure. 2952 02:33:19.159 --> 02:33:21.079 Why do we do this? You take some pictures of 2953 02:33:21.200 --> 02:33:23.239 it as close as you can get, make sure they're 2954 02:33:23.319 --> 02:33:26.319 in very sharp focus. The closer you can get in 2955 02:33:26.440 --> 02:33:28.879 the better. Show me the whole plant, show me the 2956 02:33:29.000 --> 02:33:32.280 leaves that you're describing as the color, and then show 2957 02:33:32.360 --> 02:33:34.479 me is the white stuff as close as you can 2958 02:33:34.520 --> 02:33:37.440 get to it. I'm going to put you on hold. Chris, 2959 02:33:37.879 --> 02:33:41.000 my producer, will give you an email. Send me those pictures. 2960 02:33:41.200 --> 02:33:43.000 Let's take a look at them. It may be that 2961 02:33:43.239 --> 02:33:45.399 nothing needs to be done. And on the other hand, 2962 02:33:45.760 --> 02:33:47.719 that way, if something does need to be done, I 2963 02:33:47.959 --> 02:33:50.280 send you in the right direction. Rather than waste some 2964 02:33:50.360 --> 02:33:53.600 time and money, it needless spray all right, you bet. 2965 02:33:53.639 --> 02:33:55.200 I'm going to put you on hold and Chris will 2966 02:33:55.239 --> 02:34:00.680 pick you right up. Wow, Well, this morning I went fast. 2967 02:34:00.719 --> 02:34:02.120 I don't know if we went fast for you, be 2968 02:34:02.239 --> 02:34:05.079 sure went fast for me. This morning. We're about out 2969 02:34:05.120 --> 02:34:07.760 of time here on garden Line for the day. I 2970 02:34:07.840 --> 02:34:10.639 will be back in the morning six am in the morning. 2971 02:34:10.840 --> 02:34:12.879 Just a little tip, this is how it often goes 2972 02:34:12.920 --> 02:34:15.319 at the end. We got so many calls. If you 2973 02:34:15.360 --> 02:34:18.280 want to call me first thing in the morning, it's 2974 02:34:18.319 --> 02:34:20.879 a lot quieter right then, and you won't stress the 2975 02:34:20.920 --> 02:34:23.479 host of garden Line as much by filling up the 2976 02:34:23.520 --> 02:34:25.719 boards when I'm trying to walk in two gum At 2977 02:34:25.760 --> 02:34:27.719 the same time, I want to remind you I'm going 2978 02:34:27.799 --> 02:34:30.479 to be at the Montgomery County Fall Home and Outdoor 2979 02:34:30.559 --> 02:34:35.000 Living Show next weekend. Next weekend, the show is Saturday 2980 02:34:35.040 --> 02:34:37.319 and Sunday, the seventh and eighth. I'll be there on 2981 02:34:37.520 --> 02:34:41.399 Saturday after garden Line. I'll head that way from noon 2982 02:34:41.479 --> 02:34:43.879 to two. I'm going to be getting to talking fall gardening. 2983 02:34:43.959 --> 02:34:47.520 I'm going to be answering your gardening questions. And also 2984 02:34:47.799 --> 02:34:50.879 we'll have some free giveaways from micro Life Fertilizers. You 2985 02:34:50.879 --> 02:34:53.440 don't want to miss that. And most of all, we're 2986 02:34:53.479 --> 02:34:55.559 just going to have a really good time. That's always 2987 02:34:55.600 --> 02:34:57.399 a great show to go. There's that love going up 2988 02:34:57.440 --> 02:35:00.559 there and doing that. If you listen where up in 2989 02:35:00.600 --> 02:35:04.000 the northern areas of the listening area. Come on out, 2990 02:35:04.360 --> 02:35:06.600 love to meet you if you want to bring me samples. 2991 02:35:06.639 --> 02:35:10.000 You know, we're just talking there with Connie about or 2992 02:35:10.079 --> 02:35:14.200 not Conny anyway, talking about the lantana and the little 2993 02:35:14.200 --> 02:35:16.280 bitty bugs that are on it. Throw that in a 2994 02:35:16.360 --> 02:35:18.360 ziplock bags, zip it up and bring it up there. 2995 02:35:19.000 --> 02:35:21.799 If you've got a picture, some good quality pictures. Remember 2996 02:35:22.000 --> 02:35:25.680 that the diagnosis or identification is only as good as 2997 02:35:25.680 --> 02:35:28.600 a photo. Give me a fuzzy photo. I'll give you 2998 02:35:28.719 --> 02:35:32.680 a fuzzy answer, and I don't want it. Mongemmy Canyon 2999 02:35:33.239 --> 02:35:37.159 Home and Garden Show Next Saturday, drawled the two. Come on, 3000 02:35:37.559 --> 02:35:39.360 maybe you'll win a micro Life giveaway