Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as so many good things to
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Speaker 3: All right, all right, here we go. Good morning on
Speaker 3: a good Saturday morning, and welcome to garden Line. We
Speaker 3: are so glad to have you with us. I will
Speaker 3: be talking about all kinds of things this morning regarding gardening.
Speaker 3: There's I know it's a holiday season. You're probably in
Speaker 3: a Turkey coma right now or were recovering from one.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: But there's a lot to do outside, a lot of
Speaker 3: fun things. And if the relatives are overstaying their visit,
Speaker 3: gardening would be a great way to get outside. And
Speaker 3: well you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, there are
Speaker 3: a lot of things that can be planted in our
Speaker 3: gardens right now. I just did you know I talked
Speaker 3: about last week finishing my patio that I was laying
Speaker 3: a dry stone patio in the back, and I'm relocating
Speaker 3: a garden gate now to another location that suits it
Speaker 3: better for the patio. It's time for me to get
Speaker 3: out in the garden and get some things done. I've
Speaker 3: a gardener's kind of taken the vegetable garden's taken a
Speaker 3: back seat to a lot of other things, and I
Speaker 3: know you can relate to that. We get busy with
Speaker 3: one thing or another, and all of a sudden we realize, boy,
Speaker 3: we've let that go. I need to catch up. Fortunately,
Speaker 3: I've got plenty of multch out there, so I'm not
Speaker 3: dealing with weeds. But it's just a reminder that all
Speaker 3: the cool season weeds germinate once the temperatures start to
Speaker 3: drop in the soil, which, of course, when temperatures begin
Speaker 3: to drop in the air around us, we start to
Speaker 3: slowly drop that soil temperature and the weed seeds start
Speaker 3: to germinate. According to whatever species they are, some germinate
Speaker 3: and very barely cool soil at all. It has to
Speaker 3: go down a little bit more for them to germinate.
Speaker 3: In the lawn. We've been talking all fall about applying
Speaker 3: things to stop the weed seeds from germinating, and that
Speaker 3: would be barricade. Barricade, you know, as a night frost
Speaker 3: product that we talked about all the time. And you
Speaker 3: know there's also a product from Nelson. Nelson's has They
Speaker 3: have a number of really great products, but turf Star.
Speaker 3: Turf Star is an excellent one that they do. And
Speaker 3: we've been talking about putting things like that out and
Speaker 3: the importance of making sure that we get those and
Speaker 3: get them watered in to get ahead of the weeds.
Speaker 3: Just a reminder, I'm not going to go into a
Speaker 3: lot of detail on it now, but weed seeds continue
Speaker 3: to germinate. What I said, turf Star I met, I
Speaker 3: met carbo loads specifically, turf Star is a group of
Speaker 3: different fertilizers by Nelson. But anyway, the fact is that
Speaker 3: all the weeds do begin to germinate earlier. They can
Speaker 3: germinate any time. So like if you had a garden
Speaker 3: bed that was completely mulched and you pulled the mulch back,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you'd see weed seeds start to
Speaker 3: germinate and sprout and come on up because they are
Speaker 3: exposed to light, they're exposed to the ability to establish themselves,
Speaker 3: and so always keep that mulch on. I have a
Speaker 3: bed that I pulled the mulch back on. I was
Speaker 3: going to get out and plan something, and then I didn't,
Speaker 3: And now I'm looking at it and it's all the
Speaker 3: little tiny weed seeds starting to look like a chia
Speaker 3: pet out there. Because the seeds are there anyway. Mults
Speaker 3: most much always keep the mulch on. It's important. It
Speaker 3: does so many good things for our gardens. You know,
Speaker 3: there are a couple of products and they're not like commercial,
Speaker 3: well they can be commercial, but there's a couple of
Speaker 3: things items that we can put in our gardens that
Speaker 3: are just miracle workers. And one of them is compost.
Speaker 3: When you add organic matter to the soil, it does
Speaker 3: all kinds of things. I'll talk about that a little
Speaker 3: bit later. I'll come come back to that one. But
Speaker 3: maltz is the other one. You know, malts is there
Speaker 3: are so many types of mulch out there. You can
Speaker 3: get molts that are processed by our great companies here
Speaker 3: in the Greater Houston area that do that, and those
Speaker 3: processed malts. Multches come in many forms, many types, you know,
Speaker 3: from pine barks to shredded hardwoods to on and on
Speaker 3: down the line. But they're just organic materials from nature
Speaker 3: that are being put on top of the soil to
Speaker 3: stop weeds from germinating. To moderate soil temperature so that
Speaker 3: if it's too hot or too cold, the root system
Speaker 3: is sort of it sort of has an insulating blanket
Speaker 3: to protect it, to prevent crusting of the soil. When
Speaker 3: it rains on specially silty types of soil, you get
Speaker 3: a crust that forms when that surface dries, and it's
Speaker 3: hard for seeds to push through. They also stop erosion.
Speaker 3: You get too much rain, it just washes, you know,
Speaker 3: little mini gullies all over your garden beds, and that's
Speaker 3: not good either. So that's one product that does all that.
Speaker 3: And it's the same thing you see in nature. Nature mulches.
Speaker 3: It drops in the forest, they drop tree leaves on
Speaker 3: the ground on the surface, and here we are nature's
Speaker 3: molt in meadows. You know, as grass blades dye and
Speaker 3: fall to the surface or lay over onto the surface,
Speaker 3: you get a protective surface covering. Isn't that neat? Nature
Speaker 3: does it and we can too. But that's molting. That's
Speaker 3: very important. Keep your soil moltz. If you didn't maltz
Speaker 3: and you got weed seeds coming up just when they're
Speaker 3: real small, I can just use a little rake kind
Speaker 3: of tool, whether it's a handheld tool or a long
Speaker 3: stand up rake and just scratch the surface around and
Speaker 3: it'll destroy those seedlings they had. Little tiny roots are
Speaker 3: not able to withstand just a little bit of soil
Speaker 3: disturbance like that. That works fine, Or just throw mult
Speaker 3: on top of them. You know, if a weed seed
Speaker 3: is an inch or so high and you throw some
Speaker 3: good multch on it, it smothers it from light. Smother
Speaker 3: not from air, but from light. It cannot get light
Speaker 3: and it'll dime. So that'll save you from having to mulch.
Speaker 3: One other tip on maulting, by the way, you know,
Speaker 3: it would be a good idea occasionally if I tell
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Speaker 3: you like to call with a question. Let's see where
Speaker 3: I lost my train of thought there when I took
Speaker 3: off on that. Anyway, uh oh, a tip for mulching. Now,
Speaker 3: not many people take the physical newspaper compared to what
Speaker 3: used to be. Right, It used to be everybody got
Speaker 3: the paper thrown in the front yard. Now I've kind
Speaker 3: of gotten away from that. But if you have access
Speaker 3: to newspapers or any kind of a paper like that
Speaker 3: craft paper in a rolls oh rolls of paper or
Speaker 3: something that is an awesome underlayment for the mulch that
Speaker 3: you put down. So, for example, uh, for a long
Speaker 3: time I have in garden beds when either after I
Speaker 3: planted or before laid down four to six sheets a
Speaker 3: newspaper and wet it. Have a garden hose there with
Speaker 3: a little spray hand spray nozzle on the end and
Speaker 3: wet it with that and then let it let it.
Speaker 3: That helps hold it down, and then put the mulch
Speaker 3: on top of it. Now I'm gonna take a little
Speaker 3: break here, but when I come back, I want to
Speaker 3: finish with telling you that really easy way to get
Speaker 3: an extended use out of your mulch in just a moment.
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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back. All right,
Speaker 3: I was in the big middle of a multing tips story.
Speaker 3: I learned this a long long time ago. I've been
Speaker 3: writing about it for a number of years now. But
Speaker 3: it's the newspaper technique. And again, there's nothing magic about
Speaker 3: the newspaper. It just used to be plentiful piling up
Speaker 3: in people's garages. But it works, and any kind of
Speaker 3: paper will work like that. So anyway, what we do
Speaker 3: four to six sheets of newspaper, lay it down and
Speaker 3: spray it. That holds it in place. If not, the
Speaker 3: slightest breeze picks the newspaper up and it flies across
Speaker 3: to your neighbor's yard. So just spray it with just
Speaker 3: barely wet it with the spray. Lay some more newspaper.
Speaker 3: I overlapped the edges about two inches on all sides,
Speaker 3: and then pretty quick after that just go ahead and
Speaker 3: put some mulch on top of it, and that mult
Speaker 3: if you dried grass clippings from your yard. If you
Speaker 3: haven't used a post emergent weed control product in the yard,
Speaker 3: it could be you know, you may be access to
Speaker 3: spent hay or some other kind of a mault. I
Speaker 3: usually use shredded leaves from the neighborhood in my vegetable
Speaker 3: garden because you know, wood chunks and things of your
Speaker 3: traditional landscape mulches. Getting that on your soil and then
Speaker 3: you're trying to plant tiny seeds, it's a little more
Speaker 3: difficult to deal with. But anyway, whatever you use for
Speaker 3: a maltz, throw it on top of the newspaper and
Speaker 3: it doesn't take much. Four to six sheets of newspaper
Speaker 3: is blocking a lot of the light out, almost all
Speaker 3: the light out, and then throw a little mulch on
Speaker 3: top of it and it'll stay like that and it
Speaker 3: will last for a long time, like several months, two
Speaker 3: or three months at least that it'll give you in
Speaker 3: weed protection just because that newspaper will decompose. It's organic.
Speaker 3: Any kind of paper you know it decomposes away. Works
Speaker 3: really good for this. And I'm telling you this because
Speaker 3: the ways you can use it are pretty cool. For example,
Speaker 3: you can you can go in before your plant and
Speaker 3: you know you've wrote a till the soil. Now weed
Speaker 3: seeds are getting light that are up near the surface.
Speaker 3: You put the newspaper over it. And then when you
Speaker 3: want to put transplants in, if the newspaper is wet,
Speaker 3: just spread it and wet it. You can just take
Speaker 3: your trowel, stick it down through the newspaper into the soil,
Speaker 3: pull back on it to create like a V shape opening,
Speaker 3: put your transplant in, press the soil in around it,
Speaker 3: and now you right up to that plant is it's
Speaker 3: still mulched with newspaper. If I'm going to plant like
Speaker 3: a row of seeds, I say I'm going to do
Speaker 3: some rows of radishes or lettuce or something across the bed.
Speaker 3: When I lay the newspaper, I'll just leave a little gap,
Speaker 3: the one inch gap between the sheets of paper, and
Speaker 3: that's where my row of seeds goes. And I'm telling
Speaker 3: you this is really easy. Then you throw something attractive
Speaker 3: on top, and just remember that newspaper is going to
Speaker 3: go away. You're not gonna have to look at it
Speaker 3: and tie. It's just going to ride away. So that
Speaker 3: works well. The other thing you can do with it
Speaker 3: is use it to recapture lost ground. So let's say
Speaker 3: you had a garden bed and I've got some pictures
Speaker 3: when I did this several times that I've done it,
Speaker 3: and the bed just looks like a chip out of weeds.
Speaker 3: There is just solid green. The weeds are coming up everywhere,
Speaker 3: but they're still small. And if they're small enough to
Speaker 3: where when you take your spray wand and water it,
Speaker 3: they kind of lay over a little bit. Just do
Speaker 3: that and then lay the newspaper on top of them
Speaker 3: and wet the newspaper, put the mulch on it, and
Speaker 3: all those weeds that were little, tender growing weeds now
Speaker 3: become decomposing, releasing nutrients back to your soil plant food,
Speaker 3: and I guess molt in and of themselves as they die.
Speaker 3: They're dead organic matter on the surface. And I have
Speaker 3: recaptured lost ground like that. I had a bed one
Speaker 3: time that got so far away from me that it
Speaker 3: had some kind of almost wiry stemmed weeds that were
Speaker 3: sticking up about six inches high of course, you can't
Speaker 3: lay newspaper on that, so we just broke them over,
Speaker 3: you know, just grab the weed and bend it and
Speaker 3: break it down flat to the surface, lay the newspaper
Speaker 3: on it, covered up, and we never weeded that bed.
Speaker 3: And it would have taken a couple hours to weed
Speaker 3: that bed, but we just wet it, put the newspaper
Speaker 3: on top, and none put You got to put mult
Speaker 3: on top of the newspaper and it really works. So
Speaker 3: if you know about anybody that takes the paper, if
Speaker 3: you have some of those advertising things that you know,
Speaker 3: come that newspaper based advertisements come in the mail, whatever
Speaker 3: you do, it is a tip that works pretty well
Speaker 3: for you. Now, speaking of tips that work pretty well
Speaker 3: for you, asmite is a product that provides those micro
Speaker 3: nutrients the things that we need in small amounts and
Speaker 3: without going nerdy into plant soil, nutrition, science, chemical all
Speaker 3: that stuff, there are three kinds of basic groups of
Speaker 3: nutrients that we have in our soil for our plants.
Speaker 3: One are the macro nutrients that would be nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,
Speaker 3: that's the three numbers on fertilizer bags. That's the three
Speaker 3: nutrients that plants need the most. Of Then there's secondary
Speaker 3: nutrients that would be calcium, things like sulfur and magnesium.
Speaker 3: There's secondary nutrients. We need a lot of them, but
Speaker 3: not as much as the big three. And then there's
Speaker 3: trace minerals, and we need a lot of trace minerals.
Speaker 3: You know, there's over a dozen different trace minerals that
Speaker 3: we put down for our plants, say over a dozen
Speaker 3: depending on the plant and the plant grows, stage and
Speaker 3: stuff as to what it needs. Those are the trace minerals.
Speaker 3: And that's what azemite is for, is to put on
Speaker 3: trace minerals. It's a mind product. You can go to
Speaker 3: azamite Texas dot com and find out more about it,
Speaker 3: or you can just go to the store where you shop.
Speaker 3: Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer and
Speaker 3: Southwest US all these places carry asmite. It can be
Speaker 3: done anytime of year. Again, it's not associated with the
Speaker 3: growth season. It's restocking the soil bank account or building
Speaker 3: up the soil bank account of nutrients. And I like
Speaker 3: that analogy of a bank account because it really describes, well,
Speaker 3: what's going on. We're creating a bank account of nutrients.
Speaker 3: So when that plant, whether that plan is your lawn,
Speaker 3: or that planet is a broccoli plant in your garden.
Speaker 3: When it needs a little bit of a trace mineral,
Speaker 3: it just goes to the bank account and makes its
Speaker 3: withdrawal because it's there. I like our bank accounts. If
Speaker 3: I don't stock them first, there's not gon't be no
Speaker 3: money there when I need it later. So that's that's
Speaker 3: what we're talking about with asamite works pretty well here
Speaker 3: our phone number seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 3: eight seventy four. If you got some gardening questions you
Speaker 3: would like to ask, well, give me a call. We'll
Speaker 3: visit about whatever you're interested in. For those of you
Speaker 3: up in the Tombol area, you have D and D
Speaker 3: Feed just three miles west of Highway to forty nine
Speaker 3: on FM twenty nine twenty. So if you're in Tombo
Speaker 3: and you say you know what I need to make
Speaker 3: a BUCkies run, you're going to head across the country
Speaker 3: to it, Well, you will go right past D and
Speaker 3: D Feed. The Dover family opened that up in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty nine. They have continued to grow the place expand
Speaker 3: the place. You're gonna find plants there, You're gonna find
Speaker 3: the fertilizers I talk about from nitro foss from Microlife,
Speaker 3: from Nelson Turf Star line, other Nelson fertilizers, from Medina products.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find soils from Airloom soils and other soils,
Speaker 3: and mulches and Landscaper's Pride products are there as well.
Speaker 3: It is just a great place to go visit. And
Speaker 3: you're going to also find super high quality dog foods,
Speaker 3: you know, high end lines like Origin, Diamond, Victor Starpro.
Speaker 3: They carry all that stuff as well as of course
Speaker 3: your livestock feeds and feed for their pets. And if
Speaker 3: you got something you need to control from those rats
Speaker 3: that are loving to come out in the winter and
Speaker 3: you know, crawl around looking for a place to live
Speaker 3: in our place. Well, they have pests and rodent supplies
Speaker 3: as well, d and de feed. Three miles that's the
Speaker 3: tumble On Highway to forty nine. Well, let's take a
Speaker 3: trip down to the galleria and we're going to talk
Speaker 3: to Harry. Good morning, Harry, welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 12: Thank you, good morning. I have been growing some herbs
Speaker 12: on the patio and I was wondering with the coal
Speaker 12: weather coming, what I should expect from things like basil
Speaker 12: and time and oreguano, things like that, and now keep
Speaker 12: up the good work. Really enjoy the show. You're doing
Speaker 12: a great job. And I'll take the answer on the
Speaker 12: radio if it's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine, Harry. Thank you for the coal well herbs.
Speaker 3: We can plant herbs in any pretty much any month
Speaker 3: of the year. Bay you mentioned in basil, basil is
Speaker 3: probably the most cold intolerant herb we have. If it
Speaker 3: gets in the forties, basil is not happy at all,
Speaker 3: not happy, and it'll go downhill fast, and certainly a
Speaker 3: freezer will take it out. But all the other herbs
Speaker 3: pretty much. And when I say all the others, I'm
Speaker 3: thinking about things like rosemary, oregano, times, summer savory, oh gosh,
Speaker 3: what else is the chives? And all pretty much all
Speaker 3: the other herbs For the most part. We're talking about
Speaker 3: perennials if you are coal tender, but not many, and
Speaker 3: those are best planted in the fall. And we'll when
Speaker 3: I say in the fall, I mean anywhere from fall
Speaker 3: all the way through the winter season. But the sooner
Speaker 3: you get implanted, the better established they'll be when summer
Speaker 3: heat comes next year. And so you can plant herbs
Speaker 3: anytime of the year. If you've got herbs, you can
Speaker 3: leave them out. If you have herbs and you want
Speaker 3: to continue harvesting them through the cool season, you know,
Speaker 3: let's say you're going to get to I don't know,
Speaker 3: January and you want to go out and pick some
Speaker 3: oregano or something like that, well, you can always bring
Speaker 3: them in. Where you live has a good hard freeze.
Speaker 3: They can take moderate freezes, okay, but if you want to,
Speaker 3: you know, keep them lush, then if they're in a container,
Speaker 3: just put them into a protected spot. When we're going
Speaker 3: to truly get way down, you know, below freezing for sure,
Speaker 3: to maintain freshness and healthy and harvestable growth. But as
Speaker 3: far as I'm surviving, they're very tough. Now. One last
Speaker 3: point to make about this, and this holds true not
Speaker 3: just for herbs but for all plants, is when you
Speaker 3: have a plant and a container, it's more susceptible to
Speaker 3: the cold because of the root system. If you were
Speaker 3: to take a plant that's say that is quite hardy
Speaker 3: for the area where you live, and you move it
Speaker 3: from the soil and instead you plant water, you have
Speaker 3: one in the soil and one in a container. On
Speaker 3: the patio, well, the one in the soil. The soil
Speaker 3: temperature is not going to drop much below about fifty degrees.
Speaker 3: I mean it may be up near the surface you'll
Speaker 3: get colder a little bit. But even when it gets
Speaker 3: cold cold, the soil is an is a source of
Speaker 3: some residual warmth and as a result, those roots are protected.
Speaker 3: Now you put that in a container and all around
Speaker 3: the container, on all sides, in the top. Now, cold
Speaker 3: air is making that container get cold, and that container
Speaker 3: can freeze free solid on a good hard freeze night.
Speaker 3: And if you have one full of moisture and you
Speaker 3: can see that in the morning you reach in there,
Speaker 3: it's like a rock. So those would need to be
Speaker 3: protected a little bit more. But if it's in a container.
Speaker 3: I'll talk a little bit later this morning about protecting
Speaker 3: container plants from cold, so stay tuned for that. But
Speaker 3: it as far as herbs are concerned, boy, now is
Speaker 3: a great time. And herbs are so easy to grow.
Speaker 3: You know that, it's just you plant them and it's
Speaker 3: almost a plant and forget. I mean, yeah, it's good
Speaker 3: to fertilize them. Yes, of course, you gotta water them
Speaker 3: in the summer when it's hot, but they they just
Speaker 3: are good, tough plants, and they don't have to go
Speaker 3: in an herb garden. If you want to make a beautiful,
Speaker 3: you know, one of these symmetrical herb gardens like you see,
Speaker 3: you know in fancy estates and things, you can do that.
Speaker 3: That's good, go for it. But if you just want
Speaker 3: to use herbs, why not use a regino as a
Speaker 3: groundcover or time is a groundcover underneath other plants, as
Speaker 3: long as they can get sunlight. They need a little
Speaker 3: bit of sunlight of course.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: And there are many other uses for herbs that are ornamental.
Speaker 3: So just something to think about. I'm gonna take a
Speaker 3: little break here. I will be back seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two KTRH if you'd like to give us
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, we're back. Welcome to Garden Line. I'm
Speaker 3: your host, Skip Richer, and we're here to answer gardening
Speaker 3: questions or just provide garden I know a lot of
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Speaker 3: and they go, I love listening to the show, but
Speaker 3: I don't want to call and be on the air.
Speaker 3: All right, Well that's your call, so to speak. I
Speaker 3: tell you this though. We it will be a pleasant
Speaker 3: experience for you. I promise you that we don't. We
Speaker 3: don't shame callers on garden line. We know you know
Speaker 3: we don't. I don't know fuss at you if you
Speaker 3: quote do something wrong, that's it's your garden. Hey, you
Speaker 3: call me, I help you. I used to say this
Speaker 3: all the time. I should say it more. But uh,
Speaker 3: there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 3: I know you're thinking, yeah, no, I've heard stupid questions
Speaker 3: in life before, but don't think of it that way.
Speaker 3: Here's how I think of it. I worry about stupid answers.
Speaker 3: The pressure's on me. If you've got a question, somebody
Speaker 3: else has that question. It's just a fact they do,
Speaker 3: and so ask away. I'm not here for gardening experts
Speaker 3: only to call in. I'm here for someone who has
Speaker 3: never gardened before and needs to be told things like
Speaker 3: you put the green side up when you plant a plant. Right,
Speaker 3: that's okay. We'll go with those questions to whatever you're interested.
Speaker 3: I want everybody to be a gardener. I want everybody
Speaker 3: to have success, and I want everybody to have fun.
Speaker 3: And the way I put it, is I'm here to
Speaker 3: make your garden more beautiful, more bountiful, and more fun.
Speaker 3: That's what I want to do. So let's let's go
Speaker 3: for that, all right. In the meantime, Microlife has a
Speaker 3: number of products and you hear me talk about them
Speaker 3: from time to time. I use the bio Matrix a
Speaker 3: lot for my indoor plants. That's an orange label, an
Speaker 3: orange label. It is a seven to one to three
Speaker 3: fertilizers nitrogen, one percent phosphors, three percent potassium, and it's
Speaker 3: a good that's a good balance for pushing foliage growth
Speaker 3: and good health of the plant in general. And so
Speaker 3: I use it on houseplants a lot. But it's not
Speaker 3: an indoor plant fertilizer. It's a plant fertilizer. So if
Speaker 3: you're want to go outside and water something with it,
Speaker 3: that's good. It works for that. A lot of folks
Speaker 3: love to use fisher mulsion and seaweed blends, and Microlife
Speaker 3: has their Ocean Harvest, which is a four to two
Speaker 3: three fish based fertilizer, and then the Microlife Super Seaweed,
Speaker 3: which contains a lot you know, seaweed has a lot
Speaker 3: of plant growth hormone type ingredients in it. As well
Speaker 3: as others for the plant. And that combo of super
Speaker 3: seaweed and ocean harvest is something that organic gardeners have
Speaker 3: used for years as a combo way of instead of
Speaker 3: using like a soluble one of those dissolving water blue
Speaker 3: or green, you know kind of product things. Well, organic
Speaker 3: garners have always done the super seaweed, the ocean harvest
Speaker 3: or the equivalents and seaweed and fish and motion fertilizers.
Speaker 3: They also have the liquid AF micro Girl. Liquid AF
Speaker 3: is an excellent product to use for any kinds of plants,
Speaker 3: including our indoor plants. You know indoor plants too. They
Speaker 3: need microbial content and the soil to do well unless
Speaker 3: you're just gonna provide every single thing they possibly could
Speaker 3: want through your fertilizing, which is difficult to do. So
Speaker 3: I would have these on the shelf. You can buy
Speaker 3: them in a gallon, earn a quart and just mix
Speaker 3: them up. And that's what I do when it's time
Speaker 3: for me to fertilize. I've got these products, buy liquid,
Speaker 3: and I can do however I wish with them, and
Speaker 3: I'm starting off something new. A lot of times I'll
Speaker 3: put in the Microlife liquid humates plus and water with that,
Speaker 3: especially in larger containers outdoors. I find that to be
Speaker 3: very helpful. Anyway, all these products are from Microlife. You
Speaker 3: can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and learn more
Speaker 3: about their products, or you can just go to pretty
Speaker 3: much anywhere shop for gardening and you're going to find
Speaker 3: micro Life products here throughout and beyond our Greater Houston area.
Speaker 3: We were talking this morning about using newspaper for malts
Speaker 3: or other papers for maltz products and the importance of that,
Speaker 3: and I mentioned that I would be talking about protecting
Speaker 3: plants that are containers from frosts and freeze damage. I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: my brain is trying to do two things at once here. Anyway,
Speaker 3: if you have a bunch of container plants and a
Speaker 3: hard freeze is coming, if those plants are at all cold, tender,
Speaker 3: or again, because the root system will get way colder
Speaker 3: than it will in the soil, you can take your
Speaker 3: containers and you can group them together and you put
Speaker 3: them in a protected location, so like if you have
Speaker 3: a south side of the high house or someplace where
Speaker 3: the cold north wind isn't just going to blast them,
Speaker 3: actually just grouping them together in a interior corner of
Speaker 3: the home. I don't mean inside the home, I mean
Speaker 3: not a corner pointing out, but a corner pointing in
Speaker 3: where you can put them all together, group them close together,
Speaker 3: and then throw any kind of a covering over them
Speaker 3: to kind of block the wind. I've known people to
Speaker 3: throw a bunch of leaves over the whole thing and
Speaker 3: just sort of create that little area. Whatever you do
Speaker 3: that grouping too tightly together and throwing something over them
Speaker 3: in that protected location to further protect them will help
Speaker 3: get them through even some pretty significant cold weather that
Speaker 3: we occasionally have in our listening area here. But that
Speaker 3: little tip makes it easy. Now as far as how
Speaker 3: do you get them there. You know you may have
Speaker 3: large containers, and goodness sakes, don't bend over and pick
Speaker 3: those up unless you want to put your chiropractor's kids
Speaker 3: through college. Just get a dolly or a hand truck,
Speaker 3: whichever term you use for it. Slide the lip of
Speaker 3: it underneath the container, put a strap from one side
Speaker 3: of the dolly around the container, attach it to the
Speaker 3: other side that keeps a container from falling off the dolly,
Speaker 3: and just with one hand and almost no effort, you
Speaker 3: can tilt it back and roll it wherever you want.
Speaker 3: And I moved large I mean, you know, half whiskey
Speaker 3: barrel sized containers that way. You just have to make
Speaker 3: sure you strap it to the dolly, and it works
Speaker 3: really well. I've got a dolly just a little rope
Speaker 3: that I use on it, and it just sits there.
Speaker 3: And when I need to move a container, I just
Speaker 3: use that rope and tie it on there or any
Speaker 3: kind of strap. You can move a lot of big
Speaker 3: containers that way. Maybe you have a citrus growing in
Speaker 3: a really large container and or you would like to Yes,
Speaker 3: you can do that. And I don't care if it
Speaker 3: is a lime or a lemon, you know, something's a
Speaker 3: little more cold tender. You can move it right into
Speaker 3: the garage that way and get it through the worst
Speaker 3: of the cold and then move it back out, you know,
Speaker 3: out in front of my garage on the driveway off
Speaker 3: to the side, I have some container. I got a
Speaker 3: beautiful hibiscus that I love. I don't have a greenhouse
Speaker 3: space for it, and so it just goes into the
Speaker 3: garage on the coldest nights, and so it may have
Speaker 3: spent a few days in there and then come back
Speaker 3: out again, just a little tip for you on that.
Speaker 3: Let's see here we Oh, I did want to I
Speaker 3: didn't want to mention or talk about something else that
Speaker 3: I think is important. I mentioned earlier that I had
Speaker 3: been in my garden and doing, you know, doing I
Speaker 3: need to do a little bit of weeding where some
Speaker 3: weeds had just started to come back up. Uh. My
Speaker 3: walkways are leaves in the garden. Uh. And so if
Speaker 3: you have just if your garden is just like a
Speaker 3: single bed or something, well this doesn't work. But if
Speaker 3: you have a traditional garden area also where it's like
Speaker 3: a bed or walkway, a bed or walkway, I will
Speaker 3: put in the walkways all the leaves that I get
Speaker 3: from my property and from a neighbor's properties. You know,
Speaker 3: they're so nice they put those leaves out for you
Speaker 3: at the curb because they know you're a gardener. And
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, one gardener can take care of several
Speaker 3: streets of a neighborhood's full of leaves over the course
Speaker 3: of a season. If you have a shredder to shred
Speaker 3: them up, that's fine. I just I layman down in
Speaker 3: the garden floor and then just run over the lawnmower
Speaker 3: that chops them up. I also have on the little
Speaker 3: string trim or grinder grinders that works pretty good. Medium good.
Speaker 3: But put them in the walkways and pile them deep
Speaker 3: in there. I mean, you know, I may go pile
Speaker 3: them a foot deep and just walk on them, and
Speaker 3: and and as they get wet and walked on, they
Speaker 3: compress down and they decompose. And after several months of
Speaker 3: warmer weather, you can pull the dry surface leaves that
Speaker 3: still look like they did when you put them down.
Speaker 3: Rake those back, and underneath you're gonna have a lot
Speaker 3: of what we call leaf mold. It's a it's a
Speaker 3: black chocolate or not black chocolate, brown crumbly leaf material.
Speaker 3: Let's say it's halfway to compost. Okay, it's decomposing, it's
Speaker 3: falling apart, but it's not truly completely composted. But you
Speaker 3: have that, and that can be used whenever you're redoing
Speaker 3: your soil. Maybe you're going to rework the soil, add
Speaker 3: some organic matter to it. I will get that and
Speaker 3: harvest it, and I'll run it through a little screen
Speaker 3: and put it in to add to my putting mixes
Speaker 3: if they need something like that in them. So when
Speaker 3: I say a screen. I'm talking about a half inch
Speaker 3: hardware cloth that I have a two by four frame
Speaker 3: that sits on top of the wheelbarrow. It's the size
Speaker 3: that would be the inside of the wheelbarrow size, and
Speaker 3: I just throw the leaves in it, rake them around
Speaker 3: and all that small stuff falls through, and then anything
Speaker 3: larger you just throw back in the walkway or do
Speaker 3: whatever you want to do. Use it as a mault.
Speaker 3: It also makes a very good mault as well. So
Speaker 3: just another little tip full of tips today on gardening.
Speaker 3: If you'd like to give us a call our phone
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Speaker 3: We're going to go to a little break here and
Speaker 3: want to come back. I'm going to continue with some
Speaker 3: tips for the garden, some ideas that will help you
Speaker 3: have more success with your garden and hopefully more fun
Speaker 3: in the process. All right, folks, let me see here. Yep,
Speaker 3: it is time for me to quit talking this morning.
Speaker 3: Oh one last thought before before we go, uh, we've
Speaker 3: got I'll talk about some of our garden centers and
Speaker 3: things going on right now. But I'm telling you this
Speaker 3: is a great time to be making purchases for both
Speaker 3: gifts for the garden and also to take advantage of
Speaker 3: some really good sales that are going on out there
Speaker 3: on certain kinds of plant, especially trees and shrubs, and
Speaker 3: things ten to be a good deal at this time
Speaker 3: of the year. So talk to you in just a minute.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to Garden Line. We are going
Speaker 3: to continue with some tips and ideas for this gardening season.
Speaker 3: I do want to remind you that we do have
Speaker 3: some great garden centers that are having a lot of
Speaker 3: real cool stuff going on. You need to get out there.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about a few of them as we
Speaker 3: go through the show this morning, but just kind of
Speaker 3: putting that bug in your ear. I know, it is
Speaker 3: the holiday shopping season, and if you got a gardener
Speaker 3: on your list, I mean, anyone with any interesting gardening
Speaker 3: there are a lot of cool tools and you know,
Speaker 3: for example, there are things that I wouldn't buy myself
Speaker 3: because I just I'm just not interested in doing that,
Speaker 3: but there are other people that would. And what does
Speaker 3: that even mean. Well, I mean there's all kinds of
Speaker 3: different things. Regarding some people, they you know, they'll spend
Speaker 3: a million dollars on a nice little lamp that sits
Speaker 3: on a desk. I shouldn't say a million. That is
Speaker 3: all designed for the right wavelengths for plants. To put
Speaker 3: a little plant under, you know, as a gift item. Well,
Speaker 3: that's cool stuff. I've got my own places where I
Speaker 3: have my light arrangements set up where I take care
Speaker 3: of my plants and things in But for some people
Speaker 3: that is as far as they want to get into gardening.
Speaker 3: It's taking care of a really nice houseplant with a
Speaker 3: very attractive light feature on that plant. See what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: little self contained. One of my daughters has a self
Speaker 3: contained hydroponic in it and it's a little thing that
Speaker 3: sits on the counter. It has a nutrient water in
Speaker 3: it that recirculates, and then it has a little top
Speaker 3: on it that has lights that provide those plants side.
Speaker 3: So you can grow your herbs in a kitchen on
Speaker 3: a counter where there's not near enough light for herbs.
Speaker 3: You can do that. Now, I don't garden in that way.
Speaker 3: I've got herbs outside. I put a cover over them
Speaker 3: and things. That's what I mean when I say I
Speaker 3: may not be interested in it, but people are. And
Speaker 3: I tend to not always have the most esthetic arrangement
Speaker 3: of things as some of these real nice products will
Speaker 3: provide you. So just be thinking about that. Any gardener
Speaker 3: in your list will be happy to get a quality tool.
Speaker 3: I mean a tool that makes their work easier and
Speaker 3: is effective. You know, a pair of hand pruners that
Speaker 3: will last forever, a quality brand, and there's some good
Speaker 3: quality brands out there that comes in a little leather
Speaker 3: sheet that goes on your belt. For some gardeners that
Speaker 3: is a home run, yet an excellent one to do.
Speaker 3: Almost anybody will appreciate gift certificates to places where they
Speaker 3: like to shop. You know, if you're if you're a
Speaker 3: gardener and you like to go get things, that's a
Speaker 3: nice thing. And then I keep telling you about plants.
Speaker 3: Plants are a great way to provide a super super
Speaker 3: gift for things. Now for example, you know Ace hardware stores.
Speaker 3: I talk about them a lot, but it's just a
Speaker 3: great place to shop for all kinds of things guardening.
Speaker 3: They have gifts, they have stocking stuffers. If you got
Speaker 3: a guy or a gal either way that loves to barbecue,
Speaker 3: they have grills that would boy put a big bread
Speaker 3: bow on that and you got something quality tools for
Speaker 3: any kind of do it yourselfing from indoors to outdoors.
Speaker 3: They have Legos. My granddaughter is playing with legos. She's
Speaker 3: at our house right now and she's playing with legos.
Speaker 3: So when I walked through the living room this morning
Speaker 3: on my way out, stepping on legos with the bare
Speaker 3: feet as you're going across the floor, that's an experience.
Speaker 3: But anyway, you can get those kind of legos at
Speaker 3: your Ace Hardware store. They have also they got a
Speaker 3: toy called They're called Brooder Toys, but they're one sixteenth
Speaker 3: scale realistic detail hailed toy vehicles. These are really cool.
Speaker 3: I've been in Ace Hardware store has had a lot
Speaker 3: of the old retro toys that you probably played with
Speaker 3: growing up, and they still are available at an Ace hardward.
Speaker 3: See what I'm talking about. Their Black Friday sales are
Speaker 3: good through Tuesday December second, say that again. Black Friday
Speaker 3: sales good through Tuesday, December second. You can go to
Speaker 3: Acehardware dot com and find the Ace Hardware store near you.
Speaker 3: They have a store locator stores and places like the
Speaker 3: League City store out by Hobby. The Gateway Store is
Speaker 3: an excellent one over in Galena Park. There's a good
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware store there. Kigole Lumber is another Ace hardware story.
Speaker 3: See what I mean. Uh, there's a newly opened one
Speaker 3: down in the Bay Cliff Store just south of Seabrook
Speaker 3: and their remodeled Uvaldi location is another great one. I
Speaker 3: don't mean u LD Texas, I mean Cee Valdy East
Speaker 3: Hardware in Houston area. All right, just some other ideas
Speaker 3: for great places for gifts. If you love garden centers,
Speaker 3: and you know I keep talking about how great our
Speaker 3: garden centers are Narth, North, South, East and West. Well,
Speaker 3: Buchanan's Native Plants is in the Heights and that is
Speaker 3: an outstanding place. Now I know you can go in
Speaker 3: there right now. You can get you some awesome Christmas trees.
Speaker 3: A lot of people do their Christmas tree shopping after Thanksgiving. Newsflash,
Speaker 3: it's after Thanksgiving. Go get you a Christmas tree from Buchanans. There,
Speaker 3: Buchanans Plants, they always have cool stuff going on. There
Speaker 3: is actually and this is way ahead of time. I'm
Speaker 3: just going to tell you about it. There's a holiday
Speaker 3: centerpiece workshop. Now this is not just a little you know,
Speaker 3: ten minute. Oh that was interesting This is like a
Speaker 3: workshop taught by Ponderosa Blooms. Ticket sure, eighty five dollars,
Speaker 3: but you are going to get an outstanding training of
Speaker 3: how to do stunning holiday centerpieces, lots of techniques for
Speaker 3: incorporating greenery and natural elements, different types of floor styles.
Speaker 3: At the end of the workshop, you will leave with
Speaker 3: your own handcrafted piece ready to brighten your home during
Speaker 3: this winter season. That is December twenty second, So Sunday,
Speaker 3: December twenty second, from twelve to one. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: about it when we get to that day too. At
Speaker 3: Buchanans Plants and the Heights, that is going to be
Speaker 3: a really cool event, and they always have cool events there,
Speaker 3: So Buchanans Plants eleven Street in the Heights, go to
Speaker 3: their website Buchanansplants dot com. And then as you know,
Speaker 3: as family and friends come in, always remember a great
Speaker 3: garden center like Buchanans is a great place to get out,
Speaker 3: you know, stretch your legs, get outside, get a little
Speaker 3: fresh air, and let them see something really cool that
Speaker 3: we have here in the Houston area that I'm telling
Speaker 3: you you're not going to find the kinds of garden
Speaker 3: centers and the number of garden centers that we have
Speaker 3: here in Houston and other locations. That's just the fact
Speaker 3: I've been around. I do garden center tourism. When I
Speaker 3: go to other cities, always want to go see, show
Speaker 3: me the best garden center. She got, See how those are?
Speaker 3: But I like that, Oh gosh, what were we? What
Speaker 3: was that tiring?
Speaker 8: About?
Speaker 3: A second ago? I had a oh in the garden
Speaker 3: and looking at everything from weed control to recycling in
Speaker 3: the walkways. You know, the walkways are an area where
Speaker 3: you need a all weather pathway. And that's one reason
Speaker 3: I like leaves and things in the pathways like that,
Speaker 3: because you just create an all weather pathway. When I
Speaker 3: was in Conroe in Montgomery County as a horticulturist at
Speaker 3: the extension office there many many years ago, we created
Speaker 3: a garden and did an all weather pathway and we
Speaker 3: put I'm not exaggerating this, three hundred bags of leaves
Speaker 3: in a thirty five by thirty five garden over the
Speaker 3: course of a season. Now, every walkway we would put
Speaker 3: like a foot of leaves and walk on them and
Speaker 3: they would they shrink down. Any of you who made
Speaker 3: composts know that you can have a pile of leaves
Speaker 3: as high as your shoulders, and when you get through,
Speaker 3: you got about two inches of compost at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the deal right, Actually a little more than that,
Speaker 3: but that's how that works. So we'd fill up the
Speaker 3: walkways between the beds and walk on them, and as
Speaker 3: they sunk down, we put more leaves on it and
Speaker 3: walk on until they sunk down. And when we got
Speaker 3: through we would have because these are real high beds,
Speaker 3: we'd have about ten inches of just beautiful dark chocolate
Speaker 3: brown leaf moulls slash compost that when we work rework
Speaker 3: the beds, we just rake the leaves off the top
Speaker 3: of the walkway which aren't decomposed, took that, put it
Speaker 3: in the beds, worked it into the soil. I would
Speaker 3: put it in wheelbarrows too, because then maybe you got
Speaker 3: a bed out front by the where the I don't
Speaker 3: know your mailbox is or something out front, and you
Speaker 3: would just take the compost there to rework the soil.
Speaker 3: So I was using my walkways in the garden to
Speaker 3: create all kinds of good soil materials for all over
Speaker 3: the place. That that's a good tip, I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: that really really works. And it's handy, So think that way.
Speaker 3: Take advantage of things. You know, nature, you how to
Speaker 3: recycle things long before before we showed up. Uh, think
Speaker 3: advantage of those good things. Yeah, a good gardener can
Speaker 3: take care of a neighborhood full of leaves, and we
Speaker 3: need to take advantage of that. If you have pine trees,
Speaker 3: don't be afraid of using pine straw. The pine needles
Speaker 3: they break down faster if you chop them up a
Speaker 3: little bit, but you can just use them as a
Speaker 3: mulch and they make a really good monk. I have
Speaker 3: put them a little bit thicker to block the light.
Speaker 3: That sure works. All right, more tips when we come back.
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Speaker 3: Well, well, welcome, welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter, and we're entering our second hour this morning.
Speaker 3: You know this show is on from six am to
Speaker 3: ten am. For anyone that is new to garden Line,
Speaker 3: just found the show and started listening. Well, we're here
Speaker 3: every weekend on Saturday morning and Sunday morning from six
Speaker 3: am to ten am to answer your gardening questions. If
Speaker 3: you missed the show or want to go back and
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Speaker 3: the interesting things that I think technology has a lot
Speaker 3: of cool stuff. But I listened to I listened to
Speaker 3: different things throughout the day live on my phone. And
Speaker 3: so let's say you're out in the garden and you're working,
Speaker 3: and if you just take your phone with you, turn
Speaker 3: the speaker on and get out there and do your stuff,
Speaker 3: listen to guard Line and if you run across something
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Speaker 3: and then follow up with a call. That way you
Speaker 3: get on the spot. It's kind of like having me
Speaker 3: hanging out there. I'm on the porch while you're working
Speaker 3: in the garden. What do you think about that? What
Speaker 3: about that setup? I'm on the porch and you're out
Speaker 3: working in the garden and you go, hey, Scot, what
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Speaker 3: there's your chance right there by listening to Guardline on
Speaker 3: your iHeartMedia app. All right. Interestingly enough, I've talked about
Speaker 3: a number of different things this morning. One thing I
Speaker 3: want to remind you of is that if you go
Speaker 3: to my website, there's a lot of stuff on there
Speaker 3: that will help help you in your gardening efforts. They
Speaker 3: it just makes it much much easier for your for
Speaker 3: your gardening efforts. For example, I put a publication on
Speaker 3: that I did with an A and M horticulture specialist
Speaker 3: a few years ago, and it is about protecting your
Speaker 3: landscapes and gardens from frosts and freeze damage. It's it's
Speaker 3: got a number of pages, lots of color pictures. It
Speaker 3: goes into the nerdy details of frosts and freezes, and
Speaker 3: if you don't want to read all that, just skip
Speaker 3: past it. You can go right to the point. There's
Speaker 3: a little paragraph on protecting containers like I was talking
Speaker 3: about while ago. There's there's information on you know, should
Speaker 3: I sprinkle my plants with water? I see that my
Speaker 3: neighbors do that. You know, they spread with water and
Speaker 3: there's ice all over them and ice is an insulator. Well, uh,
Speaker 3: there is truth in that, but mostly that's not true
Speaker 3: because the way people do it makes it not true.
Speaker 3: But if you want to do it, I tell you
Speaker 3: how to do it in a way that works. And
Speaker 3: then the same thing for what about putting lights and
Speaker 3: heat underneath the covers to protect plant. All of that
Speaker 3: information is in there and I think it's really helpful
Speaker 3: and you should just go ahead and book market and
Speaker 3: have it ready to go because you're going to need
Speaker 3: to get out and cover some plants at some point
Speaker 3: coming up here, and that information is there. Also there
Speaker 3: my gardening or my lawn care schedules, the one about
Speaker 3: things we do to help the lawn grow, mow, water,
Speaker 3: fertilized kind of things, add some mineral supplements like the
Speaker 3: azmite do the aeration very important for our lawns. And
Speaker 3: then the other schedule is the pest Disease and weed
Speaker 3: management schedule. And that is just as the name implies,
Speaker 3: what's going wrong in your yard? I got weeds? How
Speaker 3: do I control them? When do I control them? What
Speaker 3: do I use? I've got chinch budge? Or when do
Speaker 3: you inchbugs occur? I just moved down here from somewhere
Speaker 3: else and I hear you got chinchbugs or side web
Speaker 3: worms or some of It's all there on the schedule
Speaker 3: January through December. Makes it really really easy for you.
Speaker 3: And it's free. It's free. You can give it as
Speaker 3: a Christmas gift if you're a tightwad. It's free. So
Speaker 3: get download those schedules and find that information. I'm putting
Speaker 3: more stuff up all the time. I just did something
Speaker 3: a while back on nuts Edge, A number of things
Speaker 3: on controlling nuts Edge did a thing on nematodes recently,
Speaker 3: and I'll be putting up We're working on redoing the
Speaker 3: website and revamping it and just adding a ton of stuff,
Speaker 3: and so there's always something new coming up on there,
Speaker 3: so I encourage you to bookmark that and go check
Speaker 3: it out. As far as the you know, the frost
Speaker 3: and the freezes are concerned, I am putting an orchard
Speaker 3: in on the side of my house.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 3: Orchard is a big word for what I'm putting in.
Speaker 3: It's gonna have about four fruit tree in it. But
Speaker 3: this is just an area where it was a bunch
Speaker 3: of lawn that I had to mow and I never
Speaker 3: walked over there. I didn't need lawn there, and so
Speaker 3: I've taken that out and redone the soil, done some
Speaker 3: irrigation work and things in there. I've got the beds
Speaker 3: ready to go, and just this winter I'll be planting
Speaker 3: the fruit trees there and one of them is going
Speaker 3: to be a satsuma. Satsuma is a type of citrus
Speaker 3: that is very cold hearty, you know, citrus ranges, and
Speaker 3: cold heartiness from the minor freeze causes damage to pretty
Speaker 3: hardy and probably the hardiest of the citrus, or close
Speaker 3: to it is the cumquat. The kumquat is the little
Speaker 3: thumb sized orange citrus. It's not an orange, it's a kumquat. Actually,
Speaker 3: the skin is probably better tasting than the interior of it.
Speaker 3: They're used for marmalade and other things. Real cool, but boy,
Speaker 3: those things can take temperatures down. It's twenty degrees if
Speaker 3: they're if they're properly hardened off, and sometimes I hear
Speaker 3: even a little colder than that. But they're very hearty citrus.
Speaker 3: Satsumas are probably second on the list. They can take it.
Speaker 3: If it's an established tree, they can take temperatures down
Speaker 3: I would say probably mid maybe a little below mid twenties.
Speaker 3: But if they're hardened off in an established tree, if
Speaker 3: you've got a brand new satsuma you planted this year,
Speaker 3: no no, no. When it gets into the upper twenties,
Speaker 3: for sure you better cover that thing up. And but
Speaker 3: again I'll be putting a satsum in. I'll talk a
Speaker 3: little bit more about that when we come back. I
Speaker 3: need to take a little break here, and if you
Speaker 3: would like to call and get on the board, we
Speaker 3: can visit with you about your questions. Just call us
Speaker 3: at seven one three two one two five eight seven
Speaker 3: four Guarden Line. We are glad to have you with us,
Speaker 3: looking forward to your call if you'd like to ask
Speaker 3: a question this morning. You know, a lot of times
Speaker 3: i'll Garden Line, we kind of have a backup and
Speaker 3: yet the way hold and I don't like for that
Speaker 3: to happen, so we try to clear those out as
Speaker 3: fast as we can. Uh. But when we're looking at
Speaker 3: these holiday seasons, it slows down a lot. And if
Speaker 3: it's a good time, if you'd like to call and
Speaker 3: never called before, or just you know, only got a minute,
Speaker 3: got to get it done, well, this is a good
Speaker 3: time to do that. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: kt r H seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 3: r H. If you haven't been out to the Anti
Speaker 3: Crosing Porium, you need to go. I've told you this before,
Speaker 3: but it is a wonderful destination for gardeners and families.
Speaker 3: It's been around since nineteen eighty three and it is
Speaker 3: just a it's just a cool place. It's like you've
Speaker 3: gone back. The word antique is a great, a great
Speaker 3: way to start the title of the place, because I
Speaker 3: mean they focus on antique roses, but they go beyond,
Speaker 3: way beyond that. I mean they have roses of all types.
Speaker 3: They have so so much more than just roses too.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for herbs, we were talking about those earlier.
Speaker 3: They are loaded up on herbs, so they have plenty
Speaker 3: of that. If you like native plants, they do have
Speaker 3: native plants. If you wanted to plant a fig tree,
Speaker 3: for example, the Anti Rose Imperium has fig tree. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they have fig trees that you can get it in
Speaker 3: the ground now before spring arrives. It's easy to do.
Speaker 3: And when you go out there, you're going to find
Speaker 3: some really fun events too. They have an event actually
Speaker 3: on December first, which is tomorrow, that is part of
Speaker 3: the very Merry Savings weekend event. And say that again,
Speaker 3: Very Merry Savings Weekend event started on Friday, but it'll
Speaker 3: go today and tomorrow. All roses are rolled back to
Speaker 3: twenty You're not going to find a better deal than that.
Speaker 3: And they have a nice, well grown rose. They do
Speaker 3: an excellent job of growing a very strong, healthy plant there.
Speaker 3: In their materials that they have, they have extra savings
Speaker 3: on other plant materials up to fifty percent off just
Speaker 3: in time. Now here for the holidays. I would recommend
Speaker 3: that you follow them on social media, that you join
Speaker 3: their email list, and just do this. Go to the
Speaker 3: website Antique Roseemporium dot com, Antique Roseemporium dot com look
Speaker 3: at the upcoming events. They will have extended hours at
Speaker 3: the Rose Imporium till seven pm for an event called
Speaker 3: Lights in the Garden and that is on these dates
Speaker 3: September sixth, thirteenth, and fourteenth, and they'll be Santa there.
Speaker 3: Kids can get pictures with Santa. They're also hosting a
Speaker 3: charity day Christmas Classic car show with the Chili Cookoff.
Speaker 3: Well that's an interesting combo on December fourteenth, but you
Speaker 3: got to go to the web page you find out
Speaker 3: about it, get the tickets and stuff like that for it.
Speaker 3: And anytime you're dropping out there this month and well
Speaker 3: this month today is the last day and next December,
Speaker 3: tell them I sent you and they'll give you ten
Speaker 3: percent off of your purchase. Come on, man, am I
Speaker 3: giving you? Can you do you need more reasons to
Speaker 3: run out to the antiq rosing forium. You got you
Speaker 3: got family hanging out in the house and you need
Speaker 3: to get them outside and do something different for a
Speaker 3: little bit, take a little trip out there. You have
Speaker 3: a great, great idea. And again this is going on
Speaker 3: the deal with telling them I sent you goes all
Speaker 3: the way through the end of December. Tell them I
Speaker 3: sent you. You get ten percent off. Now you can
Speaker 3: also order plants from Anti CROs online. You can order
Speaker 3: the ship online, makes it really easy. I personally would
Speaker 3: love to go out there myself, but if you want
Speaker 3: to just order them in you can do that. Just
Speaker 3: use the coupon code skip twenty twenty four Skip twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four and you get that same ten percent discount.
Speaker 3: So it's just telling them, look, we heard about you
Speaker 3: guys on guardline and they like to know that Anti
Speaker 3: Crows importum. They're out in Independence, Texas, just north of Brunham.
Speaker 3: It's not a long drive at all to get out there,
Speaker 3: very very fun and easy and beautiful drive country too.
Speaker 3: I love going out there every time I go. It's
Speaker 3: like going back in time to a really really cool place.
Speaker 3: You're listening to garden Line. The number here if you'd
Speaker 3: like to call us A seven one three two one
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Speaker 3: is so important that we prepare this soil before we
Speaker 3: plant the plants. I'm a broken record on saying every show,
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Speaker 3: green stuff. I try to keep things simple, right, brown
Speaker 3: stuff before green stuff? What does that mean? Okay, everything
Speaker 3: below the ground is brown stuff. That's soil, that is compost,
Speaker 3: that is fertilizers, nutrients. That's the brown stuff. The green
Speaker 3: stuff stuff grows on top. That's what we're wanting to
Speaker 3: look at. But if you want something to look at,
Speaker 3: you better take care of the soil first. That is
Speaker 3: the secrets of success, the secret sauce, as they say,
Speaker 3: and it's very important. I was talking earlier about, you know,
Speaker 3: making composted leaves or decomposing leaves to add into the soil,
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Speaker 3: It is all. It's your one stop shop up for
Speaker 3: setting the foundation for success with your plants. It is
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Speaker 3: out in the gardens and landscapes. This would be a
Speaker 3: perfect time to get your soil built, to get the
Speaker 3: head start on fall planting, winter planting, and definitely spring gardening.
Speaker 3: There at Siena Moltz, I'm want to run out now
Speaker 3: to Sharpstown and we're going to talk to Mike this morning.
Speaker 3: Hey Mike, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Thank you, sir. How are you doing today?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
Speaker 16: How are you well? It's a little chili, but I
Speaker 16: got a couple of large questions that I would imagine
Speaker 16: is is kind of on the minds of most people
Speaker 16: in my area. Where I grew up, I had a
Speaker 16: lot of magnolia trees and honeysuckle, and it was really
Speaker 16: wonderful to wake up and smell the outside. Now where
Speaker 16: I live in Sharpstown, you can't smell anything when you
Speaker 16: go outside, and I'd like to plant something that is,
Speaker 16: shall I say, less labor intensive, but you can go
Speaker 16: out and not only see colors, but smell. I have
Speaker 16: smelled so many flowers that have hardly any scent to
Speaker 16: them at all, much less you know, you know you
Speaker 16: can smell when you first walk out the back door. Now,
Speaker 16: the other question that I have is that, in the
Speaker 16: addition that I live in in Sharpstown, I have noticed
Speaker 16: over the years, and I've lived in this house for
Speaker 16: sixty years, is that the level of the yards are
Speaker 16: sloping quite badly, and that hardly any of them have
Speaker 16: you know, what I would call built up soil foundations
Speaker 16: enough to you know, when you edge your yard you
Speaker 16: could not see the dirt underneath the grass. But unfortunately
Speaker 16: I'm seeing more dirt than I am grass nowadays. Do
Speaker 16: I need to just start building up the soil and
Speaker 16: then plant monthy grass around the edges to keep the soil.
Speaker 3: Well. I can't quite picture exactly what's happening there. If
Speaker 3: you're getting erosion, away from it, getting more getting the
Speaker 3: grass healthier with things like aerating, fertilizing, watering moderately in
Speaker 3: an appropriate way, And that's all I want today. I
Speaker 3: do that, okay, then I think I think you're probably
Speaker 3: okay unless you're just growing grass so much that all
Speaker 3: the runners are coming up, and so you got this big, thick,
Speaker 3: spongy runner. Yeah, is that what you're talking about? Or
Speaker 3: are you talking about just there's no grass and you
Speaker 3: see soil right through it.
Speaker 16: No, no, no, I've got plenty of grass. But I've
Speaker 16: noticed that my yard sloping down to the street is
Speaker 16: getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Do I just need
Speaker 16: to add more dirt?
Speaker 3: I guess so, if you're talking about it it's like
Speaker 3: below the level of the curb now or something like that.
Speaker 16: Well, there's just not as lush as it used to
Speaker 16: be when I used to mow the grass. I mean,
Speaker 16: you know, you take off the tops of the blades,
Speaker 16: and it was real close you could walk on it.
Speaker 16: Now it feels like you're walking on the dirt.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, let's do this. I can answer your other
Speaker 3: question for this one. I want you to take some pictures.
Speaker 3: Show me a picture of your yard and then go
Speaker 3: up close to this area toward the street where you're
Speaker 3: saying it's shrunk or whatever, and show me some pictures
Speaker 3: kind of close up of that. At the end of
Speaker 3: our call, i'll put you on hold and that we'll
Speaker 3: come back to. You can send me pictures and I
Speaker 3: can I can comment on it or whatever. That probably
Speaker 3: be the best thing as far as scents smells, there
Speaker 3: are many plants that are wonderfully fragrant, and the examples
Speaker 3: of these, and now I'm gonna give you some that
Speaker 3: are just like intoxicating, lots of fragrance in them. You know.
Speaker 3: The kind of poster plant for natives in Texas is
Speaker 3: called Texas Mountain Laurel, and it just has a great
Speaker 3: bubblegum smell if you remember great super bubble bubble gum.
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, how about lavender.
Speaker 3: That lavender smells good, but it struggles to grow here.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have trouble getting it to grow here. Another
Speaker 3: one that is a strong scent is almond verbina. It
Speaker 3: kind of has a vanilla scent to it. But it's
Speaker 3: a huge bush, makes a very big bush. But I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, when it blooms, you meet fifty feet away
Speaker 3: if the wind's blowing right, and you will smell that plant.
Speaker 3: It's a good I've got.
Speaker 8: I've got.
Speaker 16: I got a big Eastman out in my backyard and
Speaker 16: I can plant that bush and it sure would help.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be good. I think citrus smells good
Speaker 3: when it's blooming. So if you got a little patio place,
Speaker 3: you're sitting a container citrus and those bloom. They have
Speaker 3: a nice fragrance, a very refreshing fragrance to the blooms.
Speaker 3: We could go on and on. You know, there's there's
Speaker 3: roses that have wonderful scent, but it's not like five
Speaker 3: feet away you're gonna smell them so much like these
Speaker 3: other plants, but it would be more like just enjoying
Speaker 3: the fragrance of a rose. There's a lot of old
Speaker 3: time garden flowers, like old time petunias that have a
Speaker 3: nice fragrance that.
Speaker 16: I've been through roses and gurdenas and that, and they
Speaker 16: just didn't work out.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was, let's do this. I'm gonna do this.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put you on whole Mike. I gotta go
Speaker 3: to a break and my producer will give you an
Speaker 3: email during that time and I'll come back to you
Speaker 3: when we get back from break. I just got a
Speaker 3: hold for now, all right, folks, I'll be right back.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, welcome back to the garden Line. Good
Speaker 3: to have you with us. We are in the middle
Speaker 3: of a visit with let's see Mike in Sharpstown and
Speaker 3: I think I guess Mike was going off to take
Speaker 3: the pictures in an email. So all right, call back
Speaker 3: Mike when you get those pictures sent, give me a
Speaker 3: few minutes to have a chance to look over them,
Speaker 3: and we'll continue that discussion as we go. The folks
Speaker 3: at League City Feed down there in League City have
Speaker 3: been a great old time feed store since I don't
Speaker 3: know what, probably forty years ago something like that. Leake
Speaker 3: City Feed is on It's on Highway three. So if
Speaker 3: you're in League City, just a few blocks south of
Speaker 3: Highway ninety six on Highway three, it's on the east
Speaker 3: side is League City Feed and so it serves that
Speaker 3: whole area. So when I say hometown feeds here, I
Speaker 3: mean if you're in Baycliffe, Lamarx, San Leone, Dickinson, Santa Fe,
Speaker 3: League City, Webster Clare, Lake City, I'll come in to
Speaker 3: real all those regions down there, this is your hometown
Speaker 3: feed store, and they it's it is the old time
Speaker 3: feed store. You know. If you I remember as a
Speaker 3: kid growing up, and you know, we would go into
Speaker 3: feed stores to buy feed for the cattle or whatever,
Speaker 3: and I just love the smell, you know. I was
Speaker 3: sitting on a sack of feed there while my dad
Speaker 3: did what he was doing in the store and taking
Speaker 3: care of things and just enjoying that. That the smell
Speaker 3: of a feature. I love it. And at Leake City
Speaker 3: Feed you've got that old time service too. They carry
Speaker 3: the sacks out for you. It's it's just a fun
Speaker 3: place to shop. You're going to find premium pet food there.
Speaker 3: You're going to find fertilizers you hear me talk about
Speaker 3: like nitrofoss and microlife for example, and Nelson plant food
Speaker 3: for example. They carry asmite there as well. They carry
Speaker 3: heirloom soil products there as well. It just is that
Speaker 3: kind of place where you go in and whatever you
Speaker 3: need for your lawn and garden and landscape, they're going
Speaker 3: to have it. That includes any kind of things to
Speaker 3: control pests or to manage weeds, or to deal with
Speaker 3: diseases in your plants. Even if you have backyard chickens
Speaker 3: and you need feed or feeders or watering or bedding
Speaker 3: or things like that. Everything but the chickens, isaaha, I
Speaker 3: would put it. They've got that for you at League
Speaker 3: City Feed. They're open Monday through Saturday nine to six.
Speaker 3: They're closed on Sunday, and the phone number two eight
Speaker 3: one three three two sixteen twelve one three three two
Speaker 3: one six one two at League City Fee. I like
Speaker 3: going in there. Uh, there's now League City is now
Speaker 3: in the third generation of Thunderberg's running that store. The
Speaker 3: grandfather built it forty years ago.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: And now you you uh, you just you go in
Speaker 3: and it's still it's I think it's still kind of
Speaker 3: like the same place.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: And uh, if you're lucky, you may get to see
Speaker 3: the I don't know if it's a mascot or not,
Speaker 3: but Ruorshak the Dalmatian, which of course is the perfect
Speaker 3: name for a dalmatian rorshack. So it's kind of like
Speaker 3: a psychiatrist. It just would have to have that rush
Speaker 3: act there in the office and and say, now I
Speaker 3: want you to look at the dog and tell me
Speaker 3: what you see. I think that'd be that'd be a
Speaker 3: good I'd go to that kind of place, get to
Speaker 3: see a dog, all right, League City feet noo of
Speaker 3: that around you're listening to garden Line. The phone number
Speaker 3: is seven one three two one two ktr H seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t r H. I
Speaker 3: in the front yard, I have this big patch of
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine. It's cobalt Saint Augustine from the Texas and
Speaker 3: M breeding program. It's one of the newest Saint Augustine's
Speaker 3: that they have out of the Texas and M breeding program.
Speaker 3: In fact, now southern turf grasses across the South.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: These universities, you know, if you're talking about the University
Speaker 3: of Georgia, University of Florida, a lot of these places
Speaker 3: that are doing breeding of turf grasses. Uh. They collaborate
Speaker 3: on their breeding and they test it in a lot
Speaker 3: of different areas. And cobalt is that my cobalt looks
Speaker 3: perfectly good, except one low spot. I've got some brown
Speaker 3: patch in large patch in and it's very kind of irregular.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it's gonna be fine. Large patch just rots of
Speaker 3: leaves off, the grass comes back again. But it's very
Speaker 3: interesting that this one low spot is where it occurred.
Speaker 3: And I'm trying to figure out why that is. Because
Speaker 3: it's not a wet spot. It's not, you know, some
Speaker 3: spot that gets wet and stays wet longer, which promotes
Speaker 3: that disease. It just is the way it is. It's
Speaker 3: just the way it is. All right, Is it time
Speaker 3: for me to take another break? I just heard something
Speaker 3: in my ear. All right, good, all right. Well, the
Speaker 3: last time I was down visiting with Danny at an
Speaker 3: enchented forest done in Richmond Rosenberg, they had just gotten
Speaker 3: a shipment of some plants. They had vegetables at herbs
Speaker 3: and things, and they it's just always going on down there.
Speaker 3: If you need like fall color, there's no reason for
Speaker 3: your landscape in the winter to look bad. Just go
Speaker 3: grab pansies, go grab violas. The cycloman is a beautiful
Speaker 3: fall color plant. It looks good. Someone was talking about
Speaker 3: ken What about planting herbs now, Oh my gosh, you're
Speaker 3: not gonna find a better selection of herbs than an
Speaker 3: enchanted forest. It is the time to make sure you
Speaker 3: get all your woody ornamentals established. The sooner you do
Speaker 3: it between now and spring, the better off you'll be.
Speaker 3: And if you're looking for a spring blooming tree like
Speaker 3: a red bud or my favorite, the Chinese friend, they
Speaker 3: have those there. If you're looking for a shade tree
Speaker 3: like a red maple, they've got those there. If you're
Speaker 3: looking for holly's, many varieties of holly's, or they're at
Speaker 3: enchanted forest. And as far as holidays are concerned, their
Speaker 3: gift shop is loaded with wonderful gifts and beautiful things
Speaker 3: for decorating your home for the holidays and Enchanted Forest Now.
Speaker 3: They are located on FM twenty seven fifty nine. If
Speaker 3: you're heading from Richmond to sugar Land, they're off to
Speaker 3: the right twenty seven fifty nine. Go to the website.
Speaker 3: I hope you got a penhandy. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
Speaker 3: dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. All right,
Speaker 3: I'm having a little trouble in my headphones here here
Speaker 3: am I needing to take a break. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take a little break right here. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Come back to garden Line. Glad to have you with
Speaker 3: us this morning on guarden Line. Hey, if you would
Speaker 3: like to ask a question, how about this seven one
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Speaker 3: It has to be about plants. I can't help you
Speaker 3: if you have been oh, I don't know, let's say,
Speaker 3: around family for a little too long, and it's kind
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Speaker 3: I can't help if the dishes are piling up in
Speaker 3: the sink and nobody's helping with that. You know, you
Speaker 3: work and slave and do all the cooking and everything,
Speaker 3: and nobody is helping you with you get the idea. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we we like to have some fun here on guarden
Speaker 3: line if you would like talk gardening or maybe some
Speaker 3: gardening planning. You know, a lot of times of gardening
Speaker 3: people wait until I don't know it, it's too late
Speaker 3: to start to do things, and there's no need for that.
Speaker 3: You know. For example, if you want to plant plants,
Speaker 3: don't wait until spring when it warms up and everybody
Speaker 3: there's flowers everywhere, and you want a plant to start,
Speaker 3: start now. Prepare your soil now, get the soil right now.
Speaker 3: That is really really important. If you are looking for
Speaker 3: starting your own seeds that first of all, I think
Speaker 3: that is one of the most fun things to do,
Speaker 3: is to start your own seeds for let's say next
Speaker 3: your's tomatoes or something, peppers, something you want to grow, Well,
Speaker 3: now's the time to order seeds. Start ordering seeds. Get
Speaker 3: those things in because you can find varieties you're not
Speaker 3: find anywhere when you mail order a seed in, then
Speaker 3: go get you your supplies, get the trays, the seed
Speaker 3: starting mixes and things like that. Our garden setters have
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, So do you know Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware stores, office fertilizers, got things like that. Get those
Speaker 3: all set up and you're going to find that. Then
Speaker 3: when it's time to do it, you're ready to go.
Speaker 3: That seed you want isn't out of stock because everybody
Speaker 3: else bought them all up, or anything along those lines.
Speaker 3: If you want to start seed, now's the time to
Speaker 3: be getting your your light fixtures set up and ready
Speaker 3: to go. Because I'm telling you this pretty much at
Speaker 3: the end of December, I'm starting to put seeds in
Speaker 3: the ground for all kinds of things for spring. You
Speaker 3: be planting transplants of broccoli and things like that now,
Speaker 3: because that can be planted out sometime in January or February.
Speaker 3: You know we're just about to that time. So don't delay,
Speaker 3: get it done and take advantage of that opportunity. Speaking
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Speaker 3: an easy this is a no brain I got my
Speaker 3: mother in law a beautiful little humming bird feeder that
Speaker 3: it just just very very attractive and effective at bringing
Speaker 3: in the low birds. Maybe someone in your house or
Speaker 3: in your Christmas list household would like a particular type
Speaker 3: of bird house or bird feeder, maybe a suet feeder
Speaker 3: for the winter season, maybe a thistle feeder for certain
Speaker 3: kinds of bird. You know, not all birds eat thistles,
Speaker 3: not all birds eat other kinds of seed. Each kind
Speaker 3: of bird you want to attract is going to be
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Speaker 3: for that. For example, right now, I would recommend the
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Speaker 3: late summer and fall season. They kind of quiet because
Speaker 3: birds have had plenty to peck around on out there
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Speaker 3: the six wildbird stores in our area. I have to
Speaker 3: take a break coming up here in a little bit,
Speaker 3: but let's see you do. I have time to get
Speaker 3: out to a call right quick. Let's go to Jim
Speaker 3: in Montgomery. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hey. I was talking about I need to ask you
Speaker 13: a question about wild violets. I sent off and I
Speaker 13: got some seeds and I'm not real sure. They said
Speaker 13: they're edible, and you know, that's one thing. I also
Speaker 13: have a comment. If people are looking for holly, either
Speaker 13: American holly, Berfort holly or the Epon holly, right now
Speaker 13: is the time to go to the nursery to find
Speaker 13: them because they'll have the red berries on them, and
Speaker 13: that's the ones you want. The female.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. Yeah, it's true with youpons as well, Jim.
Speaker 3: The wild violet, I have never planted them from seed.
Speaker 3: They're basically like a weed. In places where people have them,
Speaker 3: they just they come up and you know they're wild.
Speaker 3: But I've never tried grown them from seed. But that
Speaker 3: would be a little bit of a time in that process,
Speaker 3: but I would think you could do that. As far
Speaker 3: as the bloom's being edible. I don't know. They may be.
Speaker 3: I'd have to do an online search on that one.
Speaker 3: Since it's not a common blooming plant for us here.
Speaker 3: It doesn't it hasn't made my list of things I
Speaker 3: know that you can eat the blooms of, you know,
Speaker 3: like you can eat colendulas, and you can eatn astertium
Speaker 3: ballooms and squashed and so on.
Speaker 13: The reason I got them is because of that, is
Speaker 13: because they were edible. I checked out too. I got
Speaker 13: a bunch of other herbs as well, and I'm going
Speaker 13: to grow some in a in a in an area
Speaker 13: and by my southwest window. And I got grow lights
Speaker 13: as well, and I've been successful growing some of the
Speaker 13: stuff there. I got a toothache plant and some uh
Speaker 13: some other stuff. But it seems to that I wanted
Speaker 13: to grow something that I can, you know, grow like
Speaker 13: a micro garden or whatever you call it. I got
Speaker 13: some of that grass, that wheat grass and some other
Speaker 13: things that I got a packet, And so I'm gonna
Speaker 13: see if I needed to plant the wild violets now
Speaker 13: or wait till the spring, or what if I.
Speaker 3: If you've got now, if you've got the indoor place
Speaker 3: to be able to grow them then start them and stuff.
Speaker 3: You go ahead and start them now and have a
Speaker 3: transplant to put out in the spring if you'd like
Speaker 3: to do that. Okay, I think that that'd be better
Speaker 3: in trying to start them, you know, later in the
Speaker 3: spring and then have to plant them out in summer.
Speaker 3: That it'd be better to go ahead and get that
Speaker 3: done now. It sounds like you got a good plan
Speaker 3: there starting your mac greens and other things.
Speaker 13: Right. I wanted to make a comment too. I got
Speaker 13: Fiddley ficus. I know you have to and I've got
Speaker 13: one that's like fifteen feet tall right now. It's it's
Speaker 13: grown out of the pod and into the ground. I'm
Speaker 13: gonna have to dig it up and move it. And
Speaker 13: it got down to thirty sixth last night here at
Speaker 13: least that's what they said, And I was wondering, you
Speaker 13: know what about tomorrow night? Is it gonna when? Is
Speaker 13: it got breeze?
Speaker 3: You know, I know, I don't know know that it
Speaker 3: should be warming up. We should be going toward warmer
Speaker 3: than like this morning is colder than tomorrow morning. But
Speaker 3: did thirty nine not damage that fiddle fig?
Speaker 13: Well, I haven't checked on the ones that I got
Speaker 13: planted on the side of the house or on the outside.
Speaker 13: But the one on the poor seems to be doing
Speaker 13: just fine. And I also have a spot'sphilium plant there
Speaker 13: next to it, and it it's still doing well in
Speaker 13: the high biscuits hadn't dropped its leaves yet, so I figured,
Speaker 13: you know, I uh dodged a bullet, so to speak.
Speaker 3: Well, you can, you can wait till the last minute.
Speaker 3: I don't see any I'm looking at weather forecast ten
Speaker 3: day and there's not a colder day than this morning
Speaker 3: that I see up ahead. But you string me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well Montgomery, No, I'm looking at Houston. I'm sorry, excuse me,
Speaker 3: but if the weather's going, if it's warming here, it's
Speaker 3: warming there.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 3: But anyway, well, hope that helps.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, great deal.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you getting your call. Yeah, thanks n thanks for
Speaker 3: calling you. Appreciate your calling me.
Speaker 15: Jim.
Speaker 3: You know I ron in the Woodlands. You will be
Speaker 3: next up. Wasn't wasn't able to quite squeeze you in
Speaker 3: this this segment. But when we come back at the top,
Speaker 3: we will. We will go straight to you. I want
Speaker 3: to remind you you're listening to the Garden Line. I'm
Speaker 3: your host, Skip Rector, and we are here every Saturday
Speaker 3: and Sunday from six am to ten am, where you
Speaker 3: can call in and ask about whatever questions you have
Speaker 3: related to horticulture. If you've got you got teams that
Speaker 3: won't help you in the garden, I can't help with that.
Speaker 3: If you've got a spouse that has different opinions about
Speaker 3: where things that ought to be planted, I can't help.
Speaker 3: But I can't help you with gardening questions. That's what
Speaker 3: we do when we come right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as well. So many things to see botas.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm
Speaker 3: your host, Rick, and we're here to talk about gardening.
Speaker 3: The way I like to put it is, we're here
Speaker 3: to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more
Speaker 3: beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. How about
Speaker 3: that Does that work? It worked for me. Well, we're
Speaker 3: going to head straight to the phones. By the way,
Speaker 3: the number if you'd like to call seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two KTRH. We're going to go out to
Speaker 3: the Woodlands talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, welcome to Garlandski.
Speaker 20: Hi, thanks for taking my call. Hey, it's a pretty
Speaker 20: simple question. I need to plant some oak tree seed saplings,
Speaker 20: and so what's the best time of the year to
Speaker 20: do that?
Speaker 3: Is it now? Is it summertime?
Speaker 20: Can you help me with that?
Speaker 3: Are these things? Are these things you've been growing in
Speaker 3: a container? Are things you're digging and moving both?
Speaker 20: I lost so many trees cast bad weather, hurricanes and
Speaker 20: stuff that I'm my my yard's pretty sparse right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. Well, as far as digging and moving a plant,
Speaker 3: fall an early winter or the best time to get
Speaker 3: that done. So now the leaves are falling off, the
Speaker 3: demands are gone to zero. Get whatever root system you
Speaker 3: can get with those saplings that are coming up. The
Speaker 3: smaller the plant you're digging, the more successful you're going
Speaker 3: to be at moving it. The bigger it gets, the
Speaker 3: more shock there is to the system because the amount
Speaker 3: of root loss has increased percentage wise, Move it to
Speaker 3: the new spot, put it in water, it in really
Speaker 3: good settle in the soil. Don't put fertilizer in the
Speaker 3: planting hole. Now, as far as things that were growing
Speaker 3: in a container, when you put them out of the container,
Speaker 3: lay it over, slide them out of the container. You
Speaker 3: may have to bump the bottomer sides to get loose
Speaker 3: to slide out. Any circling roots, go ahead and cut those.
Speaker 3: If they're small, you can cut them with a utility
Speaker 3: blade or otherwise just use handpooters. But cut circling roots
Speaker 3: in three or four places around the plant. Those cut
Speaker 3: roots will re sprout quickly and within a few weeks
Speaker 3: you'll have new root growth coming out on them. So
Speaker 3: make sure and cut them and then plant them at
Speaker 3: the same level they were growing in the container. Okay,
Speaker 3: very good. I have one more question for you if
Speaker 3: you have time.
Speaker 20: Yeah, looks like a couple of my couple of my
Speaker 20: pine trees are getting attacked. I assume it's pine beetles.
Speaker 20: What's the best to use to knock those guys out?
Speaker 8: Kill the beetles?
Speaker 3: All right, Well, tell me about tell me what you're seeing.
Speaker 3: What are the symptoms that are making you think maybe
Speaker 3: pine beetles.
Speaker 20: So the I'm getting some holes in the bark kind
Speaker 20: of circumfrenchly around the tree, and then there's some sap
Speaker 20: that looks like coming out to I guess to plug
Speaker 20: those holes. I guess the tree's defence is doing that.
Speaker 20: And then the leaves, the needle needles way up high,
Speaker 20: they're turning brown.
Speaker 3: Okay, so are the are the sap globs you're seeing?
Speaker 3: Are they from ten feet high down or they go
Speaker 3: way up the.
Speaker 20: Trunk they're Yeah, I really couldn't. I would say they're
Speaker 20: six feet or higher.
Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, that is some type of a pine beetle.
Speaker 3: There's several different types. There's probably four different types that
Speaker 3: might fit you what I hear you describing there. When
Speaker 3: needles turn brown, that is not going to recover. Like
Speaker 3: if you lose all the green needles on a branch,
Speaker 3: that branch will not reach sprout. In a pine it's
Speaker 3: not able to do. It can only reach sprout at
Speaker 3: the base of green needles. So as long as you
Speaker 3: have green needles, you can bring that plant back around. Now,
Speaker 3: there's not a spray systemically to go up in there
Speaker 3: and kill the pine bark beetles. External sprays only prevent
Speaker 3: new beetles from tunneling in, and so the problem with
Speaker 3: external sprays is you need to reach if you can,
Speaker 3: eighty percent of the height of the tree. All sides
Speaker 3: all bark into the crevices with a spray, and what
Speaker 3: ends up happening then is you're standing down low, squirting
Speaker 3: way up too much vertically. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: That the mist is drifting down and it's very dangerous
Speaker 3: to do that. So hiring a professional to come in
Speaker 3: is an option. But my only hesitation on saying iago
Speaker 3: get somebody to spray it is that it may be
Speaker 3: a little late to save them. So if you see
Speaker 3: fifty percent of the needles are still green, well they
Speaker 3: may be okay, But just know this, the spraying will
Speaker 3: not kill what's in the tree. It'll only prevent additional attack.
Speaker 20: So there's nothing that could be planted around the bark
Speaker 20: in the ground that systemically the roots would pick that
Speaker 20: up and travel it up to the entire system.
Speaker 3: Then, to my knowledge, there is not I know that
Speaker 3: in the past there wasn't a good systemic There may
Speaker 3: have been something come on the market that I'm not
Speaker 3: aware of, but I think the problem is that usually
Speaker 3: when pine bark beetles hit, they hit hard and they
Speaker 3: hit fast, and so as a result, you know you're
Speaker 3: gonna you're gonna end up with the tree goes down
Speaker 3: before the product, before the product gets up there and
Speaker 3: is present to kill the bugs.
Speaker 20: So yeah, it looks like I'm going to be down
Speaker 20: to pine trees then.
Speaker 3: So listen, Skip.
Speaker 20: I really appreciate your time, Thanks for the thanks for
Speaker 20: the information.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ron, And one quick tip. You know, we recommend
Speaker 3: Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore for for treework like that.
Speaker 3: But whoever you are using this, sooner you get them
Speaker 3: in there after. We truly have a brown pine tree,
Speaker 3: the better because that pine bark starts to slip and
Speaker 3: come off pretty quick compared to other trees. And when
Speaker 3: you're trying to climb a tree and you got huge
Speaker 3: chunks of barc slipping it is, it is dangerous and
Speaker 3: so it's better to get it done sooner. And like
Speaker 3: I said, if there's no green needles, there is no
Speaker 3: regrowth on the pine, so it's a done.
Speaker 20: Yea, there's there. Okay, Clely Brown, thank you very much
Speaker 20: for your time.
Speaker 3: Okay, have a good day, Yes, sir, thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Take care. I'll bye. That is unfortunate, but that is
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Speaker 3: They've got plenty of cool season vegetables. If you're interested
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Speaker 3: the red, white, and yellow onions are all available there.
Speaker 3: And then the bulbs a nice source of bulbs. You know,
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Speaker 3: as well as well as everything else you would expect
Speaker 3: from a quality garden center, including all the things you
Speaker 3: need to make the brown stuff good, so mixes and fertilizers,
Speaker 3: any different types and plants for all seasons. I had
Speaker 3: moved some bulbs. Speaking of bulbs, I had moved some
Speaker 3: bulbs myself from another location. Sometimes, you know, someone will
Speaker 3: offer to give me bulbs that they have at the
Speaker 3: garden and dig them up. I've been in situations where
Speaker 3: you know something's about to be done to a property
Speaker 3: and these bulbs are there, and either you dig them
Speaker 3: and get them out of there now, or they're gonna
Speaker 3: be a concrete slab over them later on. And so
Speaker 3: I end up with bulbs a lot of different ways,
Speaker 3: and I typically abuse the heck out of my bulbs.
Speaker 3: You know, these are things that are the re appearing bulbs,
Speaker 3: the kind that bloom year after year that established that
Speaker 3: can grow in our landscape as a true perennial. And
Speaker 3: you know, maybe things like paper white. Some of the
Speaker 3: paper whites, a few of the daffodils are that way.
Speaker 3: There's just a lot of different kinds of bulbs that
Speaker 3: do really well. But anyway, bottom line is I'm always
Speaker 3: moving around and they're just a pleasure because every year
Speaker 3: you get this surprise they pop out of the ground,
Speaker 3: they bloom, and that I call that a dividend on
Speaker 3: your investment. Time for me to take a break. I'll
Speaker 3: be back with your calls at seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two ktrh. Welcome back to Garden Line, folks. We
Speaker 3: are ready to go here for another segment here this morning,
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Speaker 3: You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor
Speaker 3: and the phone number here is seven to one three
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Speaker 3: can I do here? We're going to do in this bed,
Speaker 3: what plants will do well, Redesigning beds and things like that. Uh,
Speaker 3: irrigation season hits big time again next year. They do
Speaker 3: irrigation repairs and things, and so there's you know, get
Speaker 3: them on the schedule to come out take a look,
Speaker 3: fix the things that need fixing. Would you love to
Speaker 3: have that beautiful patio that has a special ambience of
Speaker 3: lighting in it, landscape lighting. They can do that kind
Speaker 3: of thing. You can get them on the schedule to
Speaker 3: do quarterly maintenance where they come out and they do
Speaker 3: the weeding, they do the mulching, they do the fertilizing,
Speaker 3: any kind of trimming that might be done. Make sure
Speaker 3: the irrigation's working on that too. They can do that.
Speaker 3: Would you like to create some hard scape pathways or patios,
Speaker 3: They can do that. Pierscapes pierscapes dot com. That the
Speaker 3: numbers two eight, one, three, seven oh fifty sixty. But
Speaker 3: just go to piercescapes dot com. You can find the
Speaker 3: phone number there and you can also find photos and
Speaker 3: examples of the kind of work that they can do.
Speaker 3: I'm going to head out now to Guarden Oaks and
Speaker 3: talk to Frank.
Speaker 21: Hello, Frank, Well, they were going to you.
Speaker 3: What's up, dude? What's up? All right?
Speaker 21: I've got I've got some property in Grian's County and
Speaker 21: I planted a number of pine trees a while back,
Speaker 21: and they're all about fifteen eighteen feet tall. Now, unfortunately,
Speaker 21: some of those trees have got really low hanging limbs.
Speaker 21: You know, they're probably four to six inches in diameter
Speaker 21: at this point, and they are a hassle or you know,
Speaker 21: getting them riding lawn more can't get them under Yeah,
Speaker 21: So I guess my question is can I cut them back?
Speaker 21: Is now that you know a good time of the
Speaker 21: year to do that, And how do I go about that?
Speaker 21: Do I cut back maybe six inches from the trunk
Speaker 21: or what? You know? What's your advice on gotcha?
Speaker 3: Okay? Good question. Thanks for asking, because a lot of
Speaker 3: times I wish people would have asked for did it
Speaker 3: good help? More? Pine trees cannot rea sprout from a
Speaker 3: cut like other trees. You cut them off six inches
Speaker 3: from the trunk and they would sprout out branches, from
Speaker 3: that point, not that you'd ever want to do that. Though.
Speaker 3: Pine trees, I would cut them all the way back
Speaker 3: to the trunk. And this is a case where you
Speaker 3: cut them off flesh against the trunk, or leave maybe
Speaker 3: a couple of inches at the most, at the most
Speaker 3: an inch or two of color on the base of
Speaker 3: the pine tree. Other trees we leave a little bit
Speaker 3: more of a collar, depending on the size of the branch.
Speaker 3: But with a pine I would just pretty much cut
Speaker 3: them back to the to where they joined the trunk,
Speaker 3: and then there's a little slowly close over that wound
Speaker 3: in time. Yes, now's a good time. Winter's a good time.
Speaker 3: You can even do it in early spring if you want.
Speaker 21: Okay, So there's no restriction on that, and I don't
Speaker 21: have to worry about putting anything on it to cover
Speaker 21: it up or anything like that.
Speaker 3: No, no, we're going to do that, not at all.
Speaker 3: Find you're fine. This would be good to go.
Speaker 21: Thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for the call. You take care all right, folks.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take a low break if you would like
Speaker 3: to be first up when we come back. Seven to
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t R H seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t R H. We
Speaker 3: will be back with your questions, and I've got a
Speaker 3: few more tips. I've kind of gotten away from tips
Speaker 3: this morning. We'll go back to them a few more
Speaker 3: tips to help you have success. Hey, welcome back to
Speaker 3: the guarden Line. I'm your host, stip Rictor. We're here
Speaker 3: to help you have a bountiful garden, certainly a beautiful
Speaker 3: landscape and more fun in the process. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: straight back out to the phones here and talk to Scott. Hello, Scott,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Hey, how are you.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 15: I've got a question. I love out in Belleville. Talk
Speaker 15: to you a few times already. Very very sandy soil,
Speaker 15: I mean like beach sand throughout the whole property almost.
Speaker 15: I want to start transplanting or planting some trees. And
Speaker 15: I think that I've read enough where I heard that
Speaker 15: now is a good time to actually put trees in
Speaker 15: the ground because they can concentrate on roots and seat
Speaker 15: of leaves. Is that true?
Speaker 3: That's correct. It's a low stress time to plant a
Speaker 3: tree or shrub.
Speaker 13: Very good.
Speaker 15: So I've got a by text that I was actually
Speaker 15: able to save. I had to cut the tap root
Speaker 15: it busted through the plastic thing and put a tap
Speaker 15: root down. But I cut it off and dumped it
Speaker 15: in a bucket of water and it sprouted leaves back.
Speaker 15: Those things are Those things are hardy. What do you
Speaker 15: suggest for doing for the hole that I'm going to
Speaker 15: put it in. It's in like a tent five gallon
Speaker 15: container something like that.
Speaker 3: So what you're going to do is when it comes
Speaker 3: out of the container, make I don't know how long
Speaker 3: it's been in the container, but if it's had time
Speaker 3: to develop circling roots, cut those on the outside of
Speaker 3: the container wall where they hit the wall, and go
Speaker 3: in a circle. Cut those three or four places around. Uh.
Speaker 3: Then dig a hole in a sandy soil, normally we
Speaker 3: say dig a hole two and a half times the
Speaker 3: size of the container. Well, in a sandy soil, that
Speaker 3: kind of isn't necessary. It's such a loose soil. What
Speaker 3: I would do to save you some work is dig
Speaker 3: a hole just a little bigger than the container so
Speaker 3: you can slide that down in it. Try to make
Speaker 3: sure and dig it only as deep as the container. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: And the reason the reason for that is soil settles.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 3: And if you dig a hole, have a loose soil
Speaker 3: in the bottom. That plant will settle deeper, and it's
Speaker 3: important to get it at the right depth. So just
Speaker 3: dig it as deep a measure the depth in the container,
Speaker 3: measure the depth of the hole. Set it in the hole,
Speaker 3: fill the soil in around it. Don't put fertilizer in
Speaker 3: the hole. Don't put compost in the hole. Just no,
Speaker 3: no fertilizer, No compost in the in the whole for
Speaker 3: this tree. For what you're doing right now, once it
Speaker 3: starts to grow in the spring, then begin to fertilize it,
Speaker 3: and especially nitrogen. Nitrogen is the most important thing to
Speaker 3: get that tree growing. But a good I'll tell you
Speaker 3: there are tree and shrub fertilizers out there, but you
Speaker 3: can also use a lawn a turf fertilizer. If you
Speaker 3: got some to your lawn, you got some extra, just
Speaker 3: use it to fertilize your trees and shrubs because it's
Speaker 3: good for that and water.
Speaker 15: I've got a really good I've got a thirteen thirteen
Speaker 15: thirteen that I use on my plam areas. Is that
Speaker 15: is that fine?
Speaker 3: You could use that? That's higher phosphorus than you need
Speaker 3: for trees. And shrubs. But I don't know what your
Speaker 3: soil test would say, so it may be Okay, a
Speaker 3: soil test is really the best way to go to
Speaker 3: know how to furtiz.
Speaker 15: Would they do that?
Speaker 3: I would do that.
Speaker 15: There's a agriculture I can't remember the name of it,
Speaker 15: but there's one right here in Belleville. I would Would
Speaker 15: they test it there or do they sell the Oh?
Speaker 3: Your county extension Your county extension office. Here's what you're
Speaker 3: talking about. Yeah, you've got uh no, here's what you do.
Speaker 3: You if you have a pin or pencil handy, you
Speaker 3: go to Soil Testing dot T A m U, dot
Speaker 3: E ed U. Now that I've said that, you can
Speaker 3: also go to my website gardening with skip dot com
Speaker 3: and on my soil I'm and all my lawn care schedule.
Speaker 3: There's a hopper hyperlink to the soil testing site. But
Speaker 3: you want to at soil testing, there's a bunch of
Speaker 3: different soil tests they can do. You want the urban
Speaker 3: soil test, Yeah, and all it means is that it's
Speaker 3: for yards and homes and residential rather than pasture. Okay,
Speaker 3: so do the urban soil test. Tell them it's a
Speaker 3: tree and and they'll give you the results and they
Speaker 3: come in. You have questions about you can email me
Speaker 3: and send me a copy of it and I'll look
Speaker 3: at it for you. Or very cool since you got
Speaker 3: that county Extension office. And I'm saying this because there's
Speaker 3: listeners from all over Everett County in this whole region
Speaker 3: of Texas has its own county Extension office. And you
Speaker 3: got an agent in there, and you can contact that
Speaker 3: person and you can get help with soil testing results
Speaker 3: and what to do because they know the soils, they
Speaker 3: know their county.
Speaker 15: Well, yeah, well that's a good idea because they're literally,
Speaker 15: you know, ten minutes away. It's it's a good sized
Speaker 15: piece of property outside of town, and it is it
Speaker 15: was it. It used to be pasture land. But there's
Speaker 15: a lot of trees and oaks and hickoryes and all
Speaker 15: that stuff on it. But I want to plant some
Speaker 15: other trees around the property. I've got a bunch of
Speaker 15: Asian lime trees. I'm scared to plant them because when
Speaker 15: it gets cold, they kind of freeze and die. And
Speaker 15: they've been they've been in buckets for so long that
Speaker 15: they're just kind of suffering, you know what I mean.
Speaker 13: So I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 15: I'm kind of torn about what to do on those.
Speaker 15: Any any suggestions, I'm sorry, Tell me what kind of
Speaker 15: plant that was?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 15: They they said that they were an Asian lime tree.
Speaker 15: They they have. It's a lime tree, but it's not
Speaker 15: like the typical Mexican line that let you the flavor
Speaker 15: that you would put in your your margarita or anything.
Speaker 15: It's a very mild lime flavor they make. They make
Speaker 15: awesome pies, but they're just and I planted them from
Speaker 15: seed from one that I had down in Cyprus area,
Speaker 15: and I've got half a dozen of them now, and
Speaker 15: then I've also got just regular limes and and and
Speaker 15: you know, grapefruit, and I just want to scatter them
Speaker 15: across the property.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'm not sure exactly which one that is,
Speaker 3: but if it's an edible lime, you can do that.
Speaker 3: They're they're true limes are not cold hearty. Now, if
Speaker 3: this were a rootstock type of plant, they grow wild,
Speaker 3: and but I don't know why you would want one
Speaker 3: of those really, So yeah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 15: Now, these are all lime trees that I bought at
Speaker 15: nurseries out here in up above Brenham. There's there's a
Speaker 15: nice tree nursery and and the other ones. It is
Speaker 15: very edible and it put out limes like crazy until
Speaker 15: we had that really really bad freeze back in what
Speaker 15: twenty twenty one or something like that. Yeah, it killed
Speaker 15: my tree off. But I had I had collected the
Speaker 15: seeds and planted a dozen of them, and they came
Speaker 15: up and they're you know, four three or four five
Speaker 15: feet tall now.
Speaker 3: So but they're in Mukay, Well yeah, I would. Uh,
Speaker 3: you can plant them. They are going to be subject
Speaker 3: to freezes, but you can certainly plant them the same
Speaker 3: way I was describing before about dig the hold of
Speaker 3: right depth and put them in watermen really good on
Speaker 3: any kind of new plant like that in a highly
Speaker 3: sandy soil, you're going to want to provide supplemental irrigation,
Speaker 3: especially the first summer. Uh, And so that could take
Speaker 3: a number of forms. There. There are things called tree gators.
Speaker 3: You put around a tree. You can go dry by
Speaker 3: fill it up with water and then it slowly leaks out.
Speaker 3: Or you can create a worm of soil around it
Speaker 3: a doughnut and fill that berm full of water and
Speaker 3: it sinks down in But they need pretty regular watering
Speaker 3: that first year to get that good root system developed
Speaker 3: so they have some resilience to them.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, well we can do that now that we
Speaker 15: actually live out here, we've finished the house, we can
Speaker 15: we can water them up regular.
Speaker 3: So all right, well, good, well, your your agent, your
Speaker 3: a county agent out there. Her name is Stacy via
Speaker 3: Reel and she's a good one visit for our retire Okay,
Speaker 3: you take care, have a great day, by you, bet,
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. All right, time for me to
Speaker 3: take a break. I'll be right back. Folks. All right,
Speaker 3: welcome back to the garden line. Glad you are with
Speaker 3: us this morning. Got a lot to talk about, always
Speaker 3: always have a lot to talk about on gardening.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 3: It is just when I was a county extension Horticulture
Speaker 3: is the Texa and m Agro Life Extension Service. I
Speaker 3: used to tell my co workers, you know, I had
Speaker 3: egg agents that I worked with. I had family and
Speaker 3: Community health agents that I worked with. I had four
Speaker 3: h agents that I worked with. That's how extension is.
Speaker 3: We cover pretty much tall areas and I used to
Speaker 3: tell them that I have the biggest clientele in the
Speaker 3: county because anybody in the county who has a front
Speaker 3: yard or a houseplant is my clientele. Meaning anybody with
Speaker 3: a yard would call I would because of all the
Speaker 3: issues with the yards. But you could go down into
Speaker 3: the entered the skyscraper region of Houston, go to the
Speaker 3: nineteenth floor of some building and some little person's just
Speaker 3: sitting there in their little tiny apartment with a house plant,
Speaker 3: and they could call me and ask for a question.
Speaker 3: That's how it is on garden Line here too. So
Speaker 3: everybody has at least plant curiosities, if not questions, and
Speaker 3: that's why we're here. I'm going to head out now
Speaker 3: to Galveston and we're going to talk to you. Key. Hello, Kevin, Hello,
Speaker 3: how you doing, buddy. Welcome to Guarden Line.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 14: I've got a garden and this year I grew some
Speaker 14: Okrah and I got an Okra plant, and I knew
Speaker 14: I had something pretty special because this one was extremely.
Speaker 8: Thick the stock.
Speaker 14: So I measured it with some string and I taped
Speaker 14: it on all the way to the base, all the
Speaker 14: way up and came out, pulled the tape down, and
Speaker 14: it measured twenty four feet. The Guinness Book of World
Speaker 14: Records is some guy in New Orleans.
Speaker 8: That had it at sixteen feets, so I didn't. I
Speaker 8: haven't applied for it yet. But anyway, my main question
Speaker 8: to you is do I do I cut it.
Speaker 14: Down when it stops producing because it's still producing? Do
Speaker 14: I just leave the roots in the in the soil
Speaker 14: or what do you recommend?
Speaker 3: Okay, it will die completely to the ground when you
Speaker 3: have a good hard freeze. Now Gobston, you're pretty far sout.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I've never I never wondered if you
Speaker 3: could get Okre to survive at the base and re
Speaker 3: sprout out or not. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't even
Speaker 3: try it. I mean, even if it did, it wouldn't
Speaker 3: be worth keeping it. First of all, you got to
Speaker 3: take a picture of that and send it to me.
Speaker 3: I want to. I want to see that with something
Speaker 3: in scale in the picture, if you would, But if
Speaker 3: you wouldn't mind sharing a picture of that. I don't
Speaker 3: know what is it? Yeah, I guess it's because I
Speaker 3: talk about Okra all.
Speaker 14: I built a Trellis system for the garden and I
Speaker 14: have a four by four post and that I have
Speaker 14: like a long galvan I spence post across holding it up,
Speaker 14: you know, suspending.
Speaker 8: It, okay, and it's just continually traveling along that, along that,
Speaker 8: along that galvet I spence post up at the top.
Speaker 8: Y'all send you.
Speaker 3: A do you own a do you own a helicopter?
Speaker 3: Or how do you pick that thing?
Speaker 8: No, it just it travels pretty much.
Speaker 14: It went straight kind of straight up at an angle
Speaker 14: and now it's just growing laterally, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, but I.
Speaker 8: Do have I do have. I did have a ladder at.
Speaker 14: First, but I kind of it's kind of dip it
Speaker 14: a little, but it grows, you know, sideways.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I want to see a picture of it.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see that, and just let me know
Speaker 3: I have permission to use it if you would.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: Now, I've had a lot of calls on I had
Speaker 3: somebody call about a fifteen footter I believe it's fifteen
Speaker 3: feet the other or send me a text or email
Speaker 3: about it. But yeah, no, just just take it out.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's done. Plan the next one again
Speaker 3: next summer when when we get late spring some warm weather.
Speaker 3: Do you remember what variety it was?
Speaker 8: I do.
Speaker 14: I've got the seed package right here. It's fairy Morris
Speaker 14: okra Emerald.
Speaker 3: Oh, Emerald, Yes, okay, Well, uh, there there's not a
Speaker 3: huge difference in OKRA sizes. You know that there are
Speaker 3: some that stay smaller. There's a few varieties that only
Speaker 3: get like two or three feet tall, and then there
Speaker 3: the standard kinds get can get pretty tall. But that's interesting.
Speaker 3: Did you enjoy that the flavor or quality?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, it's excellent. It's excellent.
Speaker 14: And I played at about five about five plants, but
Speaker 14: like I said, I knew it had something a little
Speaker 14: remarkable because this one, the stalk on it was just
Speaker 14: it looked like something out of a dinosaur that the
Speaker 14: way the okay grew so thick, and it had like scales,
Speaker 14: but it was just really really really large, very good.
Speaker 3: I hate to put you to work, but Kevin, if
Speaker 3: you could put a ruler up around the base and
Speaker 3: take a picture of that, I'd be interested in that
Speaker 3: as well. That's that's interesting. I have a problem on
Speaker 3: an obsession with.
Speaker 14: Okrah like a tape measure, like a tailor tape.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just something that would kind of give a rough
Speaker 3: idea you know how big it is? Okay, Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: so I will take a picture that I would replant
Speaker 3: it and if you if you don't want to have
Speaker 3: such tall opra, you could next year cut it off
Speaker 3: at about let's say, maybe three feet as it's growing,
Speaker 3: just cut the top out and then it'll branch and
Speaker 3: so you'll you'll have a giant bush, but maybe it'll
Speaker 3: be pickable for a little longer. You know where you
Speaker 3: can reach.
Speaker 14: And one other question before I go, all of the
Speaker 14: cherry tomatoes, by the way, they're still produce and do
Speaker 14: just cut those off at the base and leave the
Speaker 14: roots and the soil.
Speaker 3: Well down there. You might be able to do that. Generally,
Speaker 3: I replace them. There's things like soil diseases, there's pestant
Speaker 3: things that will maybe stick around. But if you can
Speaker 3: cut them off at the base and mult it well,
Speaker 3: you might get them to come back and do that,
Speaker 3: or you can cut the tips out.
Speaker 8: I wasn't worried about him coming back.
Speaker 14: I just heard that it was beneficial for the soil
Speaker 14: to leave the roots and all that down in there.
Speaker 3: Oh oh oh, I see, okay, yeah, no, you can
Speaker 3: do that. Yeah, that's called no tail gardening. And I
Speaker 3: do that myself and a lot of a lot of
Speaker 3: the beds and areas you just just cut it off
Speaker 3: and let the root trot. That's what happens in nature
Speaker 3: to annuals. Every annual that grows in nature, the roots
Speaker 3: become part of the soil. All right, thank you, sir,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 8: What do I send that picture to?
Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on hold and my producer
Speaker 3: Jonathan will pick it up and he will give you
Speaker 3: an email. Thank you, Hey, Jonathan at you. If you
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Speaker 3: to go to the break here for the top of
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Speaker 3: some more tips on having success with your vegetable garden
Speaker 3: and your flower bins during this cool season. And Gary
Speaker 3: and Katie, you will be our first collar up to
Speaker 3: come back after the top of the hour. I appreciate
Speaker 3: you guys being listeners to garden Line. I love visiting
Speaker 3: with gardeners. I just do and said, how can you
Speaker 3: talk for so long? First, I've never run out of
Speaker 3: things that I'm excited about to talk about around We'll
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with skimp Richard's.
Speaker 2: Shoes trim just watch him as many good things to
Speaker 2: see Bay.
Speaker 22: Again, not a.
Speaker 3: Sorry, welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Good
Speaker 3: to have you with us listening this morning. Uh, this
Speaker 3: is gonna be a good day for gardening. Get out there.
Speaker 3: By the way, I was looking at the weather going forward,
Speaker 3: and we've got an interesting week. All week, we're going
Speaker 3: to be in the in the Houston area. Now I
Speaker 3: know some of you're listening from other areas. I can't
Speaker 3: give a weather report on every area, but it's going
Speaker 3: to basically be low's in the mid to upper forties
Speaker 3: and highs in the mid to upper sixties. That's really good.
Speaker 3: Then about Wednesday, the rain hits and the highs go
Speaker 3: up a little bit. We'll be in the lower to
Speaker 3: mid seventies all the way up until next weekend, with
Speaker 3: quite a bit of rain chances in the last few
Speaker 3: days or so of that week going through the weekend.
Speaker 3: So time to get what is the reason for me
Speaker 3: give the weather. It's time to get things done. You
Speaker 3: need to get your work done by next Tuesday if
Speaker 3: you got outdoor things to get done in the garden.
Speaker 3: So that's your public service announcement for the morning. We're
Speaker 3: going to go out to Katie Now on Guardline. We're
Speaker 3: going to talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 13: Skip.
Speaker 8: A couple of quick questions.
Speaker 23: One is I have a biscus that suffered in the
Speaker 23: twenty one freeze and had two other teep breezes as well,
Speaker 23: so it keeps coming back from the ground.
Speaker 3: It's a good, healthy plant. It's probably I put tall,
Speaker 3: very blushy. It won't bloom.
Speaker 23: I've tried hitting it with high phosphorus fertilizer a couple
Speaker 23: of times. I just wonder if it's one of those
Speaker 23: things it's just not ever gonna bloom.
Speaker 3: No, it should. This is a tropical type of hibiscus,
Speaker 3: not the perennial that normally dies to the ground every
Speaker 3: winter and comes back normally. So are the blooms bigger
Speaker 3: than a solid plate you know?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're about the smaller.
Speaker 8: They're bigger, they're bigger.
Speaker 3: They red pink. Are they red, white or pink? Or
Speaker 3: are they other colors? I think it's red or orange.
Speaker 23: It's been so long I can't remember what color it lost.
Speaker 3: It's okay, yeah, that's all right. I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: figure out what kind you have. What I would recommen
Speaker 3: and you do. Definitely protect them at the end of
Speaker 3: now that we're at the end of the season from
Speaker 3: a hard phreeze that might come, if you can just
Speaker 3: throw something over it to protect it next year, hold
Speaker 3: back on the nitrogen a little bit, and if you
Speaker 3: need to do some pruning back, wait until late winter
Speaker 3: when we're past the danger of freeze to do the
Speaker 3: pruning back on them if you want to maintain the
Speaker 3: size at a different size. And finally is what's out
Speaker 3: of your control, and that's the sunlight. They need lots
Speaker 3: of sun and as the sun amount decreases, the blooming
Speaker 3: potential decreases. So do you think that could be contributing
Speaker 3: to this. No, it's got plenty of sun. Now.
Speaker 23: What I have done in the past is trim it
Speaker 23: right before a freeze. I can tell a blanket over it.
Speaker 23: That's one thing historically always done is cut it back
Speaker 23: right before free sauce.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well if you need If you need to do that,
Speaker 3: that's fine. I don't know why a biscus would not
Speaker 3: bloom other than lack of sunlight or excessive amounts of
Speaker 3: nitrogen pushing a lot of vegetative growth at the expense
Speaker 3: of you know, settling in and blooming. And even that
Speaker 3: is a little bit of a long shot on it,
Speaker 3: but I'd give it one more shot on I don't
Speaker 3: I don't know why the different thing isn't blooming if
Speaker 3: it's getting good light. Obviously it's in good health because
Speaker 3: of the size that it is.
Speaker 23: Yeah, it's it's very healthy, and it's it baffles me
Speaker 23: because I have other ones that have cut and they
Speaker 23: bloom come back blooming, and I was just informed it's
Speaker 23: a tangerine color. I don't know if that makes a difference.
Speaker 3: Tangering. Yeah, that tells me what kind of hibiscus it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so hmm. Yeah, bosporus is important on blooming, but really
Speaker 3: all nutrients are to do a degree. It's just the
Speaker 3: excess nitrogen the first number they want to stay away from.
Speaker 3: So maybe using a biscus type fertilizer from We've got
Speaker 3: some folks like Nelson plant Food has that.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 3: The nitrophoss also produces a biscus type fertilizer in small
Speaker 3: plastic square jars. Both of those do and you can
Speaker 3: you can find those at a lot of our garden
Speaker 3: centers and things, uh being out there in Katie you
Speaker 3: got Katie's hardware, uh and there's Katie Hardware out of
Speaker 3: Sinco ranch area. So that would be the only other
Speaker 3: thing I could suggest.
Speaker 13: For you on it.
Speaker 23: I just may not have done into enough time, but
Speaker 23: I did it with liquid and then then throwing the
Speaker 23: Osma coke type high fosterus fertilizer type stuff.
Speaker 3: Slow release, So.
Speaker 23: I'll give another shot and see. The other question I
Speaker 23: have is I was moving my ponytail palm. I had
Speaker 23: to go underneath the garage type area and kind of
Speaker 23: pulled off some of the tip of the leaves, kind
Speaker 23: of pulled out where it actually looks like I got
Speaker 23: some of the like then and look and look to it.
Speaker 23: We're kind of pulled out as that's going underneath. Is
Speaker 23: that an or it's not going to come back or
Speaker 23: is it got Yeah.
Speaker 3: There's primarily an apoco meristem on that ponytail. Sometimes you
Speaker 3: get a little bit of branching on them, and strangely enough,
Speaker 3: but I would wait and see. You may not have
Speaker 3: gotten truly that bud that's down in there, So give
Speaker 3: it some time and see. I think that thing will
Speaker 3: find a way to come back. But that that's my
Speaker 3: best guess, uh, not really being there to examine it
Speaker 3: closely and all of that. But I think the chances
Speaker 3: are you're going to be okay, we'll see. Okay, Well,
Speaker 3: thank you so much. All right, be patient with them.
Speaker 3: They're pretty darn resilient, all right, they may find a way.
Speaker 3: Thanks Garry. You take care. I was talking earlier. I
Speaker 3: just now mentioned the ACE out there at Sinko. You know,
Speaker 3: Ace hardware stores are all over the place. They are
Speaker 3: literally all over the place, stores all over the Greater
Speaker 3: Houston area. And I've had some questions, you know, from
Speaker 3: people that live down maybe South and West, and boy,
Speaker 3: you've got a lot of Aces down there. If you
Speaker 3: if you're on forty five going you know, toward Galveston direction,
Speaker 3: you've got League City Ace Hardware. It's just just not
Speaker 3: far off League forty five right there on League City
Speaker 3: Leake City Parkway, that is, if you head over to
Speaker 3: the east of there some of you. I've had a
Speaker 3: question kind of out that direction to Bay Cliff, Texas.
Speaker 3: There's Ace Hardware there in Bay Cliff. You've got the
Speaker 3: one that is Kilgore's clear Lake clear Lake excuse me
Speaker 3: Hardware also there in League City. So those are those
Speaker 3: are all easy to get to run. Space Center Houston, MND.
Speaker 3: Clear Lake is out in that direction. And then up
Speaker 3: on Beamer Road, which is just off of the Beltway
Speaker 3: eight also southwest. That's another one down by the Hobby Airport.
Speaker 3: You've got Gateway Hardware and rental. It's on telephone right
Speaker 3: right behind Hobby Airport there. So there, Yeah, you got
Speaker 3: plenty of the the course of the Paarland, Elvin Deer
Speaker 3: Park all out that direction, Galena Park. You got a
Speaker 3: lot of Ace Hardware stores down in your region. Makes
Speaker 3: it really easy to take care of the things you need.
Speaker 3: For example, their Black Friday sales are still good through Tuesday,
Speaker 3: December second, so you what is it Tuesday? Yeah, on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: December second, I believe is when those wind up. If
Speaker 3: you're decorating, they have sort an assortment of Christmas lights.
Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable. They have a really cool thing called
Speaker 3: lights by the foot at ACE Hardware. And I'm not
Speaker 3: talking about just these aces that I mentioned, but all
Speaker 3: around the greater uscenario lights by the foot. So basically,
Speaker 3: you go in, you go, I need, you know, fifteen
Speaker 3: feet of lights or I need seventeen or twelve feet
Speaker 3: of lights. You literally pick the custom length of holiday
Speaker 3: lighting and you can purchase them that way as well.
Speaker 3: And then of course the indoor decor is outstanding. While
Speaker 3: you're in there, check out their cool old time toys,
Speaker 3: you know, things like Legos. And I consider and name
Speaker 3: all these old time toys that I've been seeing in
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware's the brewder toys one sixteenth scale realistic detailed
Speaker 3: toy vehicles a really cool thing, you know. And of
Speaker 3: course you know Ace, You're gonna get great grills, great tools,
Speaker 3: great stocking stocker stuffers at ACEH Hardware. So when you're
Speaker 3: thinking about holiday shopping, think about ACE Hardware. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to take a little break. I will be back
Speaker 3: with your calls at seven one three, two one two KTRH.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you
Speaker 3: with us. As always, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 3: we're here to answer gardening questions. The way I like
Speaker 3: to put it is, I want to help you have
Speaker 3: a beautiful, beautiful landscape, a bountiful guard of whatever kinds
Speaker 3: of things, vegetables and herds and flowers. And I want
Speaker 3: you to have more fun in the process, because gardening
Speaker 3: should be fun. That it's just as simple as that
Speaker 3: gardening should be fun. I was talking about some of
Speaker 3: the Ace hardware stores down south and east of Houston area.
Speaker 3: A lot of options down there. Don't just know you've
Speaker 3: got plenty of options. Well, you also have a wonderful
Speaker 3: garden center, Moss Nursery. They're on Toddville Road in Seabrook,
Speaker 3: and I always like going to Moss to stroll through.
Speaker 3: And by the way, it's going to be perfect weather
Speaker 3: to get down to Moss, even gonna go this weekend.
Speaker 3: You want to go all the way at least through
Speaker 3: the mid part of the week and then things start
Speaker 3: to rain and stuff. So get out there and enjoy
Speaker 3: a stroll through Moss. I can't describe for you adequately
Speaker 3: what Moss Nursery is like. I can tell you it's
Speaker 3: eight acres. I can tell you that it is a
Speaker 3: long time family operated garden center. I can tell you that.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that every time you turn a corner,
Speaker 3: you don't know what you're going to see. It could
Speaker 3: be some carved wooden totem, it could be it could
Speaker 3: be some unusual concrete statuary that is just something like
Speaker 3: you've never seen before, an African mask, a mineral specimen,
Speaker 3: a taxidermy. I mean there, it's crazy. It's fun. It's
Speaker 3: absolute fun right right down there now. I mean their
Speaker 3: point set a selection is outstanding. They got plenty of
Speaker 3: vegetables in stock for those of you who are wanting
Speaker 3: to do a little vegetable guarding this winter. The house
Speaker 3: plant greenhouse is always a good place to go. Beautiful
Speaker 3: water features and fountains, anything blooming, you know, holiday plants,
Speaker 3: things like forest amros, bulbs and holiday cactus, Thanksgiving Christmas
Speaker 3: cactus and all that kind of thing. They got plenty
Speaker 3: of those down there. Remember that the Moss Nurseryes Open
Speaker 3: House and Market is going to be Saturday, December seventh,
Speaker 3: that's a week from today, from ten am at three pm.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have local vendors. They're gonna be arts and
Speaker 3: crafts and food. It's just a lot of fun. Tina's
Speaker 3: Brought Worst is going to be out there. Man, I'm
Speaker 3: getting hungry talking about that. Tina's Brought Worst is going
Speaker 3: to be out there providing food as well. Uh it
Speaker 3: just go. It's Toddville Road in Seabrook. If you want
Speaker 3: more information, go to their website Moss Nursery dot com
Speaker 3: Maas Nursery dot com. Allow some time to wander through,
Speaker 3: enjoy yourself out there. I'm telling you, Moss Nursery is
Speaker 3: a fun adventure to go visit. I know people that
Speaker 3: just go just for the what do you call it,
Speaker 3: the ambiance, the mental, psychological whatever benefits of just wandering
Speaker 3: through a beautiful nature place that is stock full of
Speaker 3: plants that you're going to want to have. I can't
Speaker 3: go there without bringing something home from the Greenhouse, one
Speaker 3: of their houseplots, because oh my gosh, the selection is incredible, incredible,
Speaker 3: including landscape points like cactie too. They've got really nice
Speaker 3: specimens like you just don't see everywhere, I mean, really
Speaker 3: special place. Let's go to Houston and talk to Cliff. Hey, Cliff,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning.
Speaker 24: I'm calling about my Saint Augustine Lawn, who that seems
Speaker 24: to have been taken over by we especially this thing that's.
Speaker 15: Like a wild strawberry plant.
Speaker 24: Actually, if I let big enough that you actually have
Speaker 24: a little tiny strawberries and I can't seem to get
Speaker 24: rid of them.
Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, what have you tried? Have you tried any
Speaker 3: sprays on it?
Speaker 13: No? I have not.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would get you something that is for broad
Speaker 3: leaf weeds. There are products that have terms like oh gosh,
Speaker 3: I just just like on the on the terms oh gosh.
Speaker 3: Celsius is one that you can use it that's uh you.
Speaker 3: It's not as widely available as some of the other things,
Speaker 3: but Celsius is a good one for that, uh, anything
Speaker 3: that is for controlling broadleaf post emergent. Let's see you
Speaker 3: where roughly are you located in the Houston.
Speaker 24: Area, Montrose Upper Kirby.
Speaker 3: Okay, so if you're if you're going to go in,
Speaker 3: you know, in that area, let's see Montres Upper Kirby.
Speaker 3: You're not too far away from Buchanan's native plants. I
Speaker 3: know they got some things there that you're gonna be
Speaker 3: able to purchase to help you control and manage weeds
Speaker 3: and things. If something says broadleaf weed control post emergent
Speaker 3: that that's what you want. You mix it up, LA,
Speaker 3: don't over mix it. Post emergent broad leaf weed control.
Speaker 3: That if you walk into Buchanans or someplace and just
Speaker 3: say I need I need broad leaf weeds and I
Speaker 3: don't kill grass, I won't kill broadly weeds, and I'll
Speaker 3: want post emergent, they can put you in the right
Speaker 3: ballpark of the things. You mix them up. You spraym
Speaker 3: according to the label on the weeds. Be careful. Broad
Speaker 3: leafs kill broad leaf plants. So if you have let's
Speaker 3: say some pansies and you spray it on those, it'll
Speaker 3: kill those because they're broadly plants. But you know it
Speaker 3: makes up a strong, strong pressure because that creates mist
Speaker 3: that drifts. So just just a little bit of pressure
Speaker 3: on the spray and spread directly on those weeds. Now's
Speaker 3: a good time for that because the temperatures are so
Speaker 3: cool that you're not going to hurt your Saint Augustine
Speaker 3: with those products, but you will hurt the weeds and
Speaker 3: you're not going to get rid of them all at
Speaker 3: one time. You may have to do it again. Start
Speaker 3: in an early spring. Just remember summer's your enemy.
Speaker 13: On that.
Speaker 3: So the more you can do your spray in when
Speaker 3: temperatures are not above the mid eighties, the better off
Speaker 3: you'll be.
Speaker 13: Well.
Speaker 24: I used to think that the Saint Augustine choke out anything,
Speaker 24: but I've learned otherwise. So all right, thanks for your healt.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's that, that's true. But Saint Augustine has its issues,
Speaker 3: you know, where it gets a little bit thin or
Speaker 3: something like that. I thought of the other the two
Speaker 3: other products I was trying to think of, bonn eyed
Speaker 3: weed beater ultra and fertile zone. Weed beater ultra and
Speaker 3: fertil weed free zone are two broad leaf post emergent
Speaker 3: examples to go along with celia. Okay, that will do
Speaker 3: well on those. They'll, they'll, they'll, they should do a
Speaker 3: good job. Now's there's a thousand different weeds out there,
Speaker 3: and not everything responds to every product, but that that
Speaker 3: should get you in the ballpark.
Speaker 24: Great, I appreciate it, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: All right, Cliff, you take care. Yeah, that that is
Speaker 3: the case. My approach on Guardline is not to just
Speaker 3: look for a spray for every problem that there is,
Speaker 3: because our number one goal on taking care of anything,
Speaker 3: number one goal is cultural Okay, So if you want
Speaker 3: a weed free lawn, you fertilize it properly at the
Speaker 3: right time, You water it properly, not too much, certainly
Speaker 3: not too little, and you mow it regularly, and you
Speaker 3: create a dense lawn and you choke out the problem.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be on a treadmill where every year,
Speaker 3: three times a year, you're having to kill something. Right,
Speaker 3: you do everything you can. Now, there are weeds that
Speaker 3: despite your cultural control, there are going to be a problem,
Speaker 3: and that's just the way it is. But the main
Speaker 3: thing you're wanting to do is culturally to avoid the
Speaker 3: problems you can to take the best options that you
Speaker 3: can to avoid things and avoid the need to spray.
Speaker 3: And then when you have to spray or treat to
Speaker 3: put a granule out, you do that. But in most
Speaker 3: cases we can avoid the majority of our problems with
Speaker 3: cultural practices. You know. The the importance of fertilizing can't
Speaker 3: be overstated. The more you supplement with the right blends
Speaker 3: and products, the better off you're going to do. And Medina,
Speaker 3: for example, the folks at Medina have something called has
Speaker 3: to grow six twelve six. I would definitely have that
Speaker 3: on hand all the time because any time you're going
Speaker 3: to plant a plant. Six twelve six has to grow
Speaker 3: is an outstanding products out Medina soil activator in it
Speaker 3: to stimulate biological activity. It's got the six twelve six
Speaker 3: which is a high phosphorus fertilizer that's important for good
Speaker 3: root development. It's got hum humic acid in it, which
Speaker 3: improves soil structure. It's just excellent for transplanting. You can
Speaker 3: use it for things other than transplanting, but it's outstanding
Speaker 3: for transplanting. It's one of the many products by Medina
Speaker 3: that is just effective. I've used these, I know them.
Speaker 3: They're good, they work, and that's why I recommend them.
Speaker 3: Medina Plus is another example. It's a good for folier feeding.
Speaker 3: It's got the Medina soil activator in it. Also, it's
Speaker 3: got forty different trace elements side of kinon, which is
Speaker 3: a natural growth hormone from seaweed extracts. I could just
Speaker 3: list the ingredients on and it's a mile long of
Speaker 3: good things to help your plants survive, thrive and produce
Speaker 3: the things you want like fruit or foliage or beautiful blooms.
Speaker 3: Medina Plus and Medina has to Grow six to off
Speaker 3: six plat food by the folks at Medina, and you're
Speaker 3: going to find them all over the place. They are
Speaker 3: widely available and as I said, they work. Time for
Speaker 3: me to take a little break here. We'll be back
Speaker 3: with your calls in a moment if you'd like to
Speaker 3: dial in seven one three two one two KTRH. All right,
Speaker 3: we are back, folks. We got a less than a
Speaker 3: half hour left to guard line today. If you'd like
Speaker 3: to give me a call and now it would be
Speaker 3: a good time to do it or talk to you
Speaker 3: next weekend. Seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 3: r H. Seven one three two one two ktr H.
Speaker 3: I am doing a number of things to get ready
Speaker 3: for the seed starting season. And if you have not
Speaker 3: ever tried growing your own transplants, you should try that.
Speaker 3: And there are a number of reasons to do that.
Speaker 3: First of all, it allows you to grow things that
Speaker 3: you cannot buy. Maybe there's a brand new tomato variety
Speaker 3: just came out and you want to try it out,
Speaker 3: or some obscure one that just doesn't get carried. Because
Speaker 3: you know you can't carry every variety of everything. You
Speaker 3: can grow it yourself and you can have it that way.
Speaker 3: Number two, it's just fun. It's absolutely fun to grow
Speaker 3: your own seedlings. And there are a few tips for
Speaker 3: doing that. And I'm going to post something to the
Speaker 3: website this week on success with growing your own seedlings,
Speaker 3: so be watching Gardening with Skip dot Com. I'll post
Speaker 3: it there Gardening with Skip dot Com on how to
Speaker 3: do that. It's very important to get the lighting right.
Speaker 3: That's probably the single most important thing. And where people
Speaker 3: go wrong is lighting. Spindley, scrawny transplants trying to reach
Speaker 3: light are not going to do well out in the garden.
Speaker 3: They're going to break over. They're just not going to
Speaker 3: perform well for you. But you can avoid that with
Speaker 3: good lighting. But get you some good supplies and materials
Speaker 3: to do that. I'll put some information on that. In fact,
Speaker 3: I may put two different things up, one on lighting
Speaker 3: and one on success with just general seed starting tips.
Speaker 3: But I think you should give that a try. That
Speaker 3: would be a good gift too, by the way, for
Speaker 3: someone on your list, somebody who would love to get
Speaker 3: maybe seed trays, plants, starting supplies, you know, all of
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. Once you see my article on
Speaker 3: the website, then you can even have a little bit
Speaker 3: better idea on how to go about shopping for that
Speaker 3: and lighting. You know you can get by with cheap lighting.
Speaker 3: For years I used a fluorescent four foot shop light
Speaker 3: with a cool white tube and a warm white tube
Speaker 3: in it to provide a wider spectrum. And if you're
Speaker 3: just growing a little transplant and you keep that light
Speaker 3: down on the plant, I do mean, I mean like
Speaker 3: an inch away from the plant. You can grow a
Speaker 3: decent transplant that way. Of course, now everything's led, so
Speaker 3: now we're starting to look again at spectrum carefully. You
Speaker 3: can spend a significant amount of money or a modern
Speaker 3: amount of money on a quality plant growth light. So
Speaker 3: you can do that, but be real careful when you're
Speaker 3: out there shopping because there's a lot of Bologney information.
Speaker 3: And I'll go into this in a lighting article that
Speaker 3: I'm going to put up, But just remember what it
Speaker 3: says on packages that the light is designed for our
Speaker 3: eyes is different than what you need to know for
Speaker 3: a light designed for plants. Okay, lumens are for humans.
Speaker 3: So if a light bulb so many lumens, that's basically
Speaker 3: for lighting a room. It doesn't tell you about light quality.
Speaker 3: And plants have an opinion about the wavelengths and things.
Speaker 3: But lumens are for human par actually par photosynthetically active radiation. Okay,
Speaker 3: there's your nerd alert for the day. That's for plants,
Speaker 3: lumens for humans, pars are for plants. And I'll put
Speaker 3: that article up. I try to weed through all the information.
Speaker 3: I might make it real simple, fast, easy and interesting
Speaker 3: to do. But why not give something like that to
Speaker 3: the gardener in your list, or give a really big
Speaker 3: hint to those people who don't listen to garden Line
Speaker 3: that you would like something like that. Let's set out
Speaker 3: to Cyprus, Texas. We're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 22: Yeah, thanks, good morning.
Speaker 15: How are you today?
Speaker 3: I am doing well. I'm doing very well.
Speaker 21: How can we help you to do?
Speaker 22: My problem is I've got some older wax ugustrooms in
Speaker 22: the backyard and they're green. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 22: one side of it is just turned black brown and
Speaker 22: died off it and it's bouncing all around in the
Speaker 22: backyard on that back wall where those the customer a
Speaker 22: growing are. Do they just eventually, once they get twenty
Speaker 22: twenty five years old, start dying?
Speaker 3: No, No, they don't. I'm not a fan of lagustrum
Speaker 3: because they typically get a little leaf spot that causes
Speaker 3: brown spots with yellow all around the on the leaf,
Speaker 3: and it really plagues them. Uh at what you am
Speaker 3: battling that? Also? Yeah, yeah, And it's just a it's
Speaker 3: a battle and it always looks bad. And the way
Speaker 3: to control it is every time it rains to run
Speaker 3: out and spray. If on your side and nobody wants
Speaker 3: to do that, you're always going to get around to
Speaker 3: doing that. So I would, I would at this point,
Speaker 3: I would just and this is your call, Uh do
Speaker 3: I want these things or don't want to put something
Speaker 3: else in here? And this would be a time to
Speaker 3: make a good decision on that if you want to
Speaker 3: keep them. We're going to have to figure out what's
Speaker 3: wrong in the soil, and it's probably a root rot.
Speaker 3: Now there are root rots that are brought on by
Speaker 3: soggy soil. There are actually some fungi that have tails
Speaker 3: like tadpoles that the spores swim through the soil to
Speaker 3: attack plants. And it's weird. That means quit watering so much.
Speaker 3: That means put underground drainage in. That means, you know,
Speaker 3: whatever it takes to avoid soggy will help with those
Speaker 3: kind of root rots. There are fungicide drenches you can
Speaker 3: put on roots, and then there's some root roights you
Speaker 3: can't treat for oak root rot called urmilaria. Now you
Speaker 3: and I can't know which one it is if it's
Speaker 3: a root rot, but if you were to dig down
Speaker 3: around a plant and kind of scrape the roots with
Speaker 3: a pocket knife on the side where the dying is occurring,
Speaker 3: if you can do that and you see like water
Speaker 3: soaked brown gray looks like an old stained cigarette filter
Speaker 3: kind of look that, that's typically typical of a root
Speaker 3: rot having affected that plant.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so what do you do now? Well, either you
Speaker 3: try a drench that may or may not work, or yeah,
Speaker 3: there's just not a good solution to those kind of
Speaker 3: root rocks. So either too much water or just a
Speaker 3: root rock that you're not gonna be able to treat anyway.
Speaker 15: Okay, and I have seen what you described under the mulch.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, uh, I'm gonna have to go to break here,
Speaker 3: but I'll just leave you this, Jim. If you go
Speaker 3: to plant clinic plant clinic dot T A m U
Speaker 3: dot E d U you can dig one up that
Speaker 3: is on its way down, that's so ugly and damaged
Speaker 3: you don't want to keep it, but it's not dead. Fully,
Speaker 3: it's still alive. You dig it up, get some of
Speaker 3: the roots. You can cut the top back that's not
Speaker 3: so important, put it in a box and ship it
Speaker 3: to a college station, or drive it up there to
Speaker 3: the plant clinic, and they will analyze it and culture
Speaker 3: it out in a petri dish and tell you exactly
Speaker 3: what the root right is, if there's one, and what
Speaker 3: to do about it, if you can do anything about it. So,
Speaker 3: if you want to keep those legustrums and not replace them,
Speaker 3: save the whole row, I would do the plant clinic thing.
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry you'd have to be brief here, but
Speaker 3: I'm going to have to run. Good luck with that.
Speaker 3: In Cyprus. Are not that far of a drive. You're
Speaker 3: about an hour and fifteen minutes from the Plank clinic.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, we're going to take a little break.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. Well, well, welcome back. We are
Speaker 3: in our last segment. Well the day. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: By the way, we got any questions, By the way,
Speaker 3: if you have, folks, staying with you during this holiday weekend.
Speaker 3: Tell them about garden Line. I don't care where they live,
Speaker 3: they are welcome to listen in. We'd love to have them.
Speaker 3: Guardline reaches all the way across the Louisiana border a
Speaker 3: little bit, and I know past Huntsville definitely up there.
Speaker 3: In fact, we have folks from up Gosh all the
Speaker 3: way up in Leon County the Call and then over
Speaker 3: toward New Bromfels direction and down to Corpus Christie. We've
Speaker 3: got pretty wide area that's covered there. So you certainly
Speaker 3: can tell your friends and family to listen to garden Line.
Speaker 3: We'd love to have them. I wanted to say something
Speaker 3: about a Southwest Fertilizer. I brag on them all the time,
Speaker 3: and I say, you know, if they don't have it,
Speaker 3: you don't need it. And it's really true. You know.
Speaker 3: Southwest Fertilizer has been around since nineteen fifty five, and
Speaker 3: they have over the years established themselves as the go
Speaker 3: to place for anything you're looking for. I don't care
Speaker 3: what the product. It may be some obscure thing to
Speaker 3: control pests or weeds or diseases. It may be. Certainly,
Speaker 3: all the fertilizers I talk about on garden Line all
Speaker 3: the product recommendations. I go, ah, you need to go.
Speaker 3: I tell someone them earlier, you need to go get
Speaker 3: some bown eyed beat her old to a fertile loan
Speaker 3: weed free zone. Yeah, Bob's got those and much much,
Speaker 3: much more. It's got a ninety foot wall of tools.
Speaker 3: So if you are looking for a quality tool for
Speaker 3: a family member as a gift, you should tell them
Speaker 3: to go buy there. That kneeling bench that I keep
Speaker 3: bragging on, it's a it's a you sit on it
Speaker 3: or you flip it over and you kneel on it
Speaker 3: and the legs become handles to help you get back
Speaker 3: up again. It's cool. It is very cool. If you
Speaker 3: want to make my homemade weed wiper that's on my
Speaker 3: website Gardening with Skip dot com. Bob's got the suction
Speaker 3: cup based grabber tool that we use in all the
Speaker 3: free diagrams on my website for how to build your own.
Speaker 3: It's not expensive at all and it really really works.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what you need. If you got a
Speaker 3: plant problem, you on taking a picture a sample, let
Speaker 3: them put their eyes on it.
Speaker 6: Do that.
Speaker 3: They can do that there. It's Outwst Fertilizer. It's time
Speaker 3: to get stocked up on things when it comes time
Speaker 3: for planting, whether package seeds or bulk seeds. Have these
Speaker 3: great bulk seed bends where you can get a really
Speaker 3: good price. Bulksy draw is less expensive than packages. You
Speaker 3: can get a really good price on a lot of
Speaker 3: good quality seeds there, so check them out. I'm just
Speaker 3: telling you it is a place you need to go,
Speaker 3: and you need to see Southwest Fertilizer dot Com, corner
Speaker 3: Abyssinet and Runwick in Houston. We're going to go now
Speaker 3: to Spring Branch, Spring Branch, I believe and talk to Bill.
Speaker 25: Hello Bill, Hello, Skip, how you doing today?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm good, I'm good. What's up?
Speaker 21: Oh?
Speaker 25: Back on November ninth, you and Dan from Nitrofoss we're
Speaker 25: out of Katie Hardware on Pinoak and I showed you
Speaker 25: all pictures of my law and uh Dan you said
Speaker 25: I needed to get a zoxystroban, but the Scott's disease
Speaker 25: had such a small amount. I haven't been able to
Speaker 25: get back in touch with Dan, and I was wondering
Speaker 25: if you could tell me would Southwest Fertilizer have a
Speaker 25: stronger uh A zoxy stroban that I could get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that particular product, if you put it at
Speaker 3: the right rate, it works. It'll do that. Now, some
Speaker 3: diseases like take all root rot are difficult because you
Speaker 3: don't just treat one, so you're probably gonna have to
Speaker 3: treat it again. If you look at my schedule at
Speaker 3: Gardening with Skip dot com website, it has two treatments
Speaker 3: in the fall and one in the spring for take
Speaker 3: all root rot. But yes, Bob at Southwest does carry
Speaker 3: Scott's disease X. That's the name of that one. I
Speaker 3: don't know if he has another azoxystrobin. There are others
Speaker 3: out there, but the one that used to be used
Speaker 3: a lot is called Heritage, and it's kind of difficult
Speaker 3: to find now. I think they're pulling back on their
Speaker 3: retail supplies or something. I don't something like that.
Speaker 8: Okay, already.
Speaker 13: Yeah, a.
Speaker 25: Dark grayish brown and you can see all the way
Speaker 25: through the dirt.
Speaker 3: So do you know what that disease was? Well, if
Speaker 3: it's if it's take all. If it's take all. When
Speaker 3: you pull up some roots, they're all dead except the
Speaker 3: ones at the very end of the runner. Of course.
Speaker 3: Now the grass is not doing rooting. It's it's not
Speaker 3: creating a bunch of new roots, but that all the
Speaker 3: old roots are brown and dead. You grab me with
Speaker 3: your finger and pull on them, the outside slops off
Speaker 3: and you just have this little worry interior. If even that, yeah,
Speaker 3: that would be an example of the symptoms. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, well yeah, go by Sea Bob. They'll be
Speaker 3: able to fix you up. But down with my schedule
Speaker 3: from the website because it tells you exactly what and when. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, thank you sir, Yes, sir, thank you for
Speaker 3: the call. I appreciate that. In Chinned Gardens out there
Speaker 3: on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond is a place
Speaker 3: that it's a you got to take people to see it.
Speaker 3: There's always something cool going on out in Chanty Gardens.
Speaker 3: They always have stock of some of the best plants
Speaker 3: and best things that you just don't see all the time.
Speaker 3: Maybe something really new that's cool that you need for
Speaker 3: your gardens. Just head out there southwest southwest of Houston,
Speaker 3: Chended Gardens, Richmond. It's on FM three fifty nine between
Speaker 3: Richmond and Katie full Shirt direction. All right, you can
Speaker 3: find that when you get out there. Their holiday selections
Speaker 3: is unrivaled. It is absolutely amazing. Place is just gorgeous
Speaker 3: and they have things that you would want for this
Speaker 3: time of year, cool season, color of course, stuff like that.
Speaker 3: If you Christmas trees and holiday trees like that, they've
Speaker 3: got those. They had strawberry plants while back. I don't
Speaker 3: know if there's still someone stock or not, but you
Speaker 3: can still plant strawberries down here to get a headstart
Speaker 3: on the spring. If you're looking for herbs or any
Speaker 3: kind of a chrisp skift, you should see their gift shops.
Speaker 3: They are outstanding right now, loaded with some cool stuff.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com is the website. If you've
Speaker 3: got color beds in your landscape like pansies, petunias, a
Speaker 3: lissome ornamental cabbaging, kale dianthus, you need to have color
Speaker 3: Star on hand. Color Stars are product by Nelson. It
Speaker 3: comes in a little plastic jar screw top lid nineteen
Speaker 3: thirteen six. That's the numbers, nineteen thirteen six. It's one
Speaker 3: of their most universal blends for anything that has flowers.
Speaker 3: Pretty much, I mean that's the way to think about it.
Speaker 3: Do it about every three to four months and keep
Speaker 3: those plants growing. So it's got five sources of nitrogen
Speaker 3: in it, and it has organic bow meal and blood
Speaker 3: meal also to feed the soil. They designed this over
Speaker 3: forty years ago, and I'm telling you professional landscapers use
Speaker 3: it and home gardeners all over Texas and they shep
Speaker 3: a lot of it out of Steak because people discovered
Speaker 3: over there and they want it because it works. Color
Speaker 3: Star by Nelson Plant Food, So check it out. I
Speaker 3: think you'll find good success. By the way, the secret
Speaker 3: to having good blooms all through the winner is to
Speaker 3: keep pushing them along with regular applications of small amounts
Speaker 3: of fertilizer. That's how you do it. If your pansies
Speaker 3: last year just kind of wimped out and put blooming
Speaker 3: so well you didn't have color Star, put some color
Speaker 3: Star on them every three months and they're going to
Speaker 3: do really good. The music, it's one of my sad
Speaker 3: songs because it means the show's over. Shutting down to
Speaker 3: the day. I'll be back in the morning, bright eyed
Speaker 3: and dish retailing pat people six am. In the meantime,
Speaker 3: check out my website Gardening with Skip dot Com.