WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:05.120 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Rictor. 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:21.839 It's just watch him as so many good things to 3 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:31.039 supasya again not a sign. 4 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:41.000 All right, all right, here we go. Good morning on 5 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:44.280 a good Saturday morning, and welcome to garden Line. We 6 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.000 are so glad to have you with us. I will 7 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:51.039 be talking about all kinds of things this morning regarding gardening. 8 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:53.960 There's I know it's a holiday season. You're probably in 9 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.799 a Turkey coma right now or were recovering from one. 10 00:00:59.359 --> 00:00:59.479 Uh. 11 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:01.920 But there's a lot to do outside, a lot of 12 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:07.120 fun things. And if the relatives are overstaying their visit, 13 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.159 gardening would be a great way to get outside. And 14 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:14.159 well you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, there are 15 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:15.879 a lot of things that can be planted in our 16 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:20.400 gardens right now. I just did you know I talked 17 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:22.760 about last week finishing my patio that I was laying 18 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:27.319 a dry stone patio in the back, and I'm relocating 19 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:31.200 a garden gate now to another location that suits it 20 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:33.599 better for the patio. It's time for me to get 21 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:35.439 out in the garden and get some things done. I've 22 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:39.200 a gardener's kind of taken the vegetable garden's taken a 23 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:42.200 back seat to a lot of other things, and I 24 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:44.640 know you can relate to that. We get busy with 25 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:48.079 one thing or another, and all of a sudden we realize, boy, 26 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.760 we've let that go. I need to catch up. Fortunately, 27 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:53.760 I've got plenty of multch out there, so I'm not 28 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.879 dealing with weeds. But it's just a reminder that all 29 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.599 the cool season weeds germinate once the temperatures start to 30 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.120 drop in the soil, which, of course, when temperatures begin 31 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.360 to drop in the air around us, we start to 32 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.840 slowly drop that soil temperature and the weed seeds start 33 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:15.319 to germinate. According to whatever species they are, some germinate 34 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.960 and very barely cool soil at all. It has to 35 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:22.080 go down a little bit more for them to germinate. 36 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:26.319 In the lawn. We've been talking all fall about applying 37 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:31.080 things to stop the weed seeds from germinating, and that 38 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.400 would be barricade. Barricade, you know, as a night frost 39 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.919 product that we talked about all the time. And you 40 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:42.840 know there's also a product from Nelson. Nelson's has They 41 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:48.240 have a number of really great products, but turf Star. 42 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.680 Turf Star is an excellent one that they do. And 43 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.960 we've been talking about putting things like that out and 44 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.240 the importance of making sure that we get those and 45 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.199 get them watered in to get ahead of the weeds. 46 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.039 Just a reminder, I'm not going to go into a 47 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:08.000 lot of detail on it now, but weed seeds continue 48 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:11.960 to germinate. What I said, turf Star I met, I 49 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.879 met carbo loads specifically, turf Star is a group of 50 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:21.639 different fertilizers by Nelson. But anyway, the fact is that 51 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.479 all the weeds do begin to germinate earlier. They can 52 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.840 germinate any time. So like if you had a garden 53 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:31.960 bed that was completely mulched and you pulled the mulch back, 54 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:34.319 all of a sudden, you'd see weed seeds start to 55 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:38.560 germinate and sprout and come on up because they are 56 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:43.879 exposed to light, they're exposed to the ability to establish themselves, 57 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:47.240 and so always keep that mulch on. I have a 58 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.879 bed that I pulled the mulch back on. I was 59 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:51.800 going to get out and plan something, and then I didn't, 60 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.199 And now I'm looking at it and it's all the 61 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.520 little tiny weed seeds starting to look like a chia 62 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:00.840 pet out there. Because the seeds are there anyway. Mults 63 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:04.360 most much always keep the mulch on. It's important. It 64 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:08.400 does so many good things for our gardens. You know, 65 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.479 there are a couple of products and they're not like commercial, 66 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.719 well they can be commercial, but there's a couple of 67 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.079 things items that we can put in our gardens that 68 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:22.000 are just miracle workers. And one of them is compost. 69 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:25.600 When you add organic matter to the soil, it does 70 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.079 all kinds of things. I'll talk about that a little 71 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:31.040 bit later. I'll come come back to that one. But 72 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.639 maltz is the other one. You know, malts is there 73 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.560 are so many types of mulch out there. You can 74 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:40.439 get molts that are processed by our great companies here 75 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:44.279 in the Greater Houston area that do that, and those 76 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:48.439 processed malts. Multches come in many forms, many types, you know, 77 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.360 from pine barks to shredded hardwoods to on and on 78 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:56.639 down the line. But they're just organic materials from nature 79 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.000 that are being put on top of the soil to 80 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:04.079 stop weeds from germinating. To moderate soil temperature so that 81 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.560 if it's too hot or too cold, the root system 82 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.360 is sort of it sort of has an insulating blanket 83 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.959 to protect it, to prevent crusting of the soil. When 84 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:17.399 it rains on specially silty types of soil, you get 85 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.560 a crust that forms when that surface dries, and it's 86 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.839 hard for seeds to push through. They also stop erosion. 87 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.959 You get too much rain, it just washes, you know, 88 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.199 little mini gullies all over your garden beds, and that's 89 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:33.480 not good either. So that's one product that does all that. 90 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:37.759 And it's the same thing you see in nature. Nature mulches. 91 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:40.120 It drops in the forest, they drop tree leaves on 92 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.600 the ground on the surface, and here we are nature's 93 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:48.879 molt in meadows. You know, as grass blades dye and 94 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.439 fall to the surface or lay over onto the surface, 95 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:55.720 you get a protective surface covering. Isn't that neat? Nature 96 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.199 does it and we can too. But that's molting. That's 97 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:02.680 very important. Keep your soil moltz. If you didn't maltz 98 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:07.279 and you got weed seeds coming up just when they're 99 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.879 real small, I can just use a little rake kind 100 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:12.279 of tool, whether it's a handheld tool or a long 101 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.319 stand up rake and just scratch the surface around and 102 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.759 it'll destroy those seedlings they had. Little tiny roots are 103 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.480 not able to withstand just a little bit of soil 104 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.560 disturbance like that. That works fine, Or just throw mult 105 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:27.759 on top of them. You know, if a weed seed 106 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.000 is an inch or so high and you throw some 107 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.639 good multch on it, it smothers it from light. Smother 108 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.600 not from air, but from light. It cannot get light 109 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.160 and it'll dime. So that'll save you from having to mulch. 110 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.399 One other tip on maulting, by the way, you know, 111 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:46.279 it would be a good idea occasionally if I tell 112 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.839 you what our phone number is, since this is a 113 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:52.399 call in show, well, I may be suffering from too 114 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:57.680 much turkey here myself, but the phone number is seven 115 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:01.000 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 116 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.120 one three two and two five eight seven foere if 117 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:07.279 you like to call with a question. Let's see where 118 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:09.560 I lost my train of thought there when I took 119 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:14.319 off on that. Anyway, uh oh, a tip for mulching. Now, 120 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.639 not many people take the physical newspaper compared to what 121 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:22.319 used to be. Right, It used to be everybody got 122 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:25.079 the paper thrown in the front yard. Now I've kind 123 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:27.680 of gotten away from that. But if you have access 124 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.800 to newspapers or any kind of a paper like that 125 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.959 craft paper in a rolls oh rolls of paper or 126 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:38.439 something that is an awesome underlayment for the mulch that 127 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:42.199 you put down. So, for example, uh, for a long 128 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:46.240 time I have in garden beds when either after I 129 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:51.360 planted or before laid down four to six sheets a 130 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:54.480 newspaper and wet it. Have a garden hose there with 131 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:57.000 a little spray hand spray nozzle on the end and 132 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:00.079 wet it with that and then let it let it. 133 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.120 That helps hold it down, and then put the mulch 134 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.000 on top of it. Now I'm gonna take a little 135 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:06.800 break here, but when I come back, I want to 136 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.839 finish with telling you that really easy way to get 137 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.839 an extended use out of your mulch in just a moment. 138 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:15.560 In the meantime, if you'd like to give us a 139 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:19.120 call seven one three, two one two five eight seven. 140 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.160 Four leftovers, it should be left in the fridge till 141 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:28.240 you're hungary again. Your news, however, should be served up fresh, 142 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.000 love it. 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But 219 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:23.000 it's the newspaper technique. And again, there's nothing magic about 220 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.039 the newspaper. It just used to be plentiful piling up 221 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:29.519 in people's garages. But it works, and any kind of 222 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:33.639 paper will work like that. So anyway, what we do 223 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:36.360 four to six sheets of newspaper, lay it down and 224 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.559 spray it. That holds it in place. If not, the 225 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.600 slightest breeze picks the newspaper up and it flies across 226 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.519 to your neighbor's yard. So just spray it with just 227 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:49.080 barely wet it with the spray. Lay some more newspaper. 228 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:52.200 I overlapped the edges about two inches on all sides, 229 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.080 and then pretty quick after that just go ahead and 230 00:12:57.559 --> 00:12:59.799 put some mulch on top of it, and that mult 231 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.320 if you dried grass clippings from your yard. If you 232 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:05.679 haven't used a post emergent weed control product in the yard, 233 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:09.200 it could be you know, you may be access to 234 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.039 spent hay or some other kind of a mault. I 235 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.720 usually use shredded leaves from the neighborhood in my vegetable 236 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.000 garden because you know, wood chunks and things of your 237 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.799 traditional landscape mulches. Getting that on your soil and then 238 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.200 you're trying to plant tiny seeds, it's a little more 239 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.600 difficult to deal with. But anyway, whatever you use for 240 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.399 a maltz, throw it on top of the newspaper and 241 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:36.360 it doesn't take much. Four to six sheets of newspaper 242 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:39.480 is blocking a lot of the light out, almost all 243 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:42.159 the light out, and then throw a little mulch on 244 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.240 top of it and it'll stay like that and it 245 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:49.960 will last for a long time, like several months, two 246 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:53.159 or three months at least that it'll give you in 247 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:58.440 weed protection just because that newspaper will decompose. It's organic. 248 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.080 Any kind of paper you know it decomposes away. Works 249 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.320 really good for this. And I'm telling you this because 250 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.519 the ways you can use it are pretty cool. For example, 251 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:13.960 you can you can go in before your plant and 252 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.120 you know you've wrote a till the soil. Now weed 253 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.279 seeds are getting light that are up near the surface. 254 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.679 You put the newspaper over it. And then when you 255 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.080 want to put transplants in, if the newspaper is wet, 256 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.399 just spread it and wet it. You can just take 257 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:29.759 your trowel, stick it down through the newspaper into the soil, 258 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:34.200 pull back on it to create like a V shape opening, 259 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.960 put your transplant in, press the soil in around it, 260 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.679 and now you right up to that plant is it's 261 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.519 still mulched with newspaper. If I'm going to plant like 262 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.120 a row of seeds, I say I'm going to do 263 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:47.720 some rows of radishes or lettuce or something across the bed. 264 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.879 When I lay the newspaper, I'll just leave a little gap, 265 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:55.480 the one inch gap between the sheets of paper, and 266 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.000 that's where my row of seeds goes. And I'm telling 267 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.600 you this is really easy. Then you throw something attractive 268 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.519 on top, and just remember that newspaper is going to 269 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:04.960 go away. You're not gonna have to look at it 270 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:08.039 and tie. It's just going to ride away. So that 271 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.519 works well. The other thing you can do with it 272 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.320 is use it to recapture lost ground. So let's say 273 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.399 you had a garden bed and I've got some pictures 274 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:19.120 when I did this several times that I've done it, 275 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.200 and the bed just looks like a chip out of weeds. 276 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.799 There is just solid green. The weeds are coming up everywhere, 277 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.519 but they're still small. And if they're small enough to 278 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.399 where when you take your spray wand and water it, 279 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.919 they kind of lay over a little bit. Just do 280 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.720 that and then lay the newspaper on top of them 281 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.000 and wet the newspaper, put the mulch on it, and 282 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.960 all those weeds that were little, tender growing weeds now 283 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:49.039 become decomposing, releasing nutrients back to your soil plant food, 284 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.519 and I guess molt in and of themselves as they die. 285 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.919 They're dead organic matter on the surface. And I have 286 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:57.240 recaptured lost ground like that. I had a bed one 287 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:59.279 time that got so far away from me that it 288 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.879 had some kind of almost wiry stemmed weeds that were 289 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.399 sticking up about six inches high of course, you can't 290 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:07.600 lay newspaper on that, so we just broke them over, 291 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:09.200 you know, just grab the weed and bend it and 292 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:13.240 break it down flat to the surface, lay the newspaper 293 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:15.639 on it, covered up, and we never weeded that bed. 294 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.559 And it would have taken a couple hours to weed 295 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.000 that bed, but we just wet it, put the newspaper 296 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.000 on top, and none put You got to put mult 297 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:26.679 on top of the newspaper and it really works. So 298 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:30.639 if you know about anybody that takes the paper, if 299 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.240 you have some of those advertising things that you know, 300 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:39.279 come that newspaper based advertisements come in the mail, whatever 301 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:41.960 you do, it is a tip that works pretty well 302 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.759 for you. Now, speaking of tips that work pretty well 303 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:48.240 for you, asmite is a product that provides those micro 304 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.559 nutrients the things that we need in small amounts and 305 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.879 without going nerdy into plant soil, nutrition, science, chemical all 306 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:02.799 that stuff, there are three kinds of basic groups of 307 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.279 nutrients that we have in our soil for our plants. 308 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:09.680 One are the macro nutrients that would be nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, 309 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:13.400 that's the three numbers on fertilizer bags. That's the three 310 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:17.480 nutrients that plants need the most. Of Then there's secondary 311 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:22.039 nutrients that would be calcium, things like sulfur and magnesium. 312 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:25.680 There's secondary nutrients. We need a lot of them, but 313 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:28.160 not as much as the big three. And then there's 314 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.759 trace minerals, and we need a lot of trace minerals. 315 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:34.039 You know, there's over a dozen different trace minerals that 316 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.400 we put down for our plants, say over a dozen 317 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.079 depending on the plant and the plant grows, stage and 318 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:42.759 stuff as to what it needs. Those are the trace minerals. 319 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:44.480 And that's what azemite is for, is to put on 320 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.599 trace minerals. It's a mind product. You can go to 321 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:50.200 azamite Texas dot com and find out more about it, 322 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:51.880 or you can just go to the store where you shop. 323 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:56.519 Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer and 324 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.480 Southwest US all these places carry asmite. It can be 325 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.400 done anytime of year. Again, it's not associated with the 326 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:08.960 growth season. It's restocking the soil bank account or building 327 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:13.160 up the soil bank account of nutrients. And I like 328 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:17.519 that analogy of a bank account because it really describes, well, 329 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:21.279 what's going on. We're creating a bank account of nutrients. 330 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.119 So when that plant, whether that plan is your lawn, 331 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.960 or that planet is a broccoli plant in your garden. 332 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.720 When it needs a little bit of a trace mineral, 333 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.400 it just goes to the bank account and makes its 334 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:39.039 withdrawal because it's there. I like our bank accounts. If 335 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.720 I don't stock them first, there's not gon't be no 336 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.119 money there when I need it later. So that's that's 337 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:49.119 what we're talking about with asamite works pretty well here 338 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:51.960 our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 339 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.440 eight seventy four. If you got some gardening questions you 340 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:57.960 would like to ask, well, give me a call. We'll 341 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:00.519 visit about whatever you're interested in. For those of you 342 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:03.160 up in the Tombol area, you have D and D 343 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.079 Feed just three miles west of Highway to forty nine 344 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:09.880 on FM twenty nine twenty. So if you're in Tombo 345 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:11.279 and you say you know what I need to make 346 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.440 a BUCkies run, you're going to head across the country 347 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:17.240 to it, Well, you will go right past D and 348 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:20.039 D Feed. The Dover family opened that up in nineteen 349 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:24.039 eighty nine. They have continued to grow the place expand 350 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:26.440 the place. You're gonna find plants there, You're gonna find 351 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:30.960 the fertilizers I talk about from nitro foss from Microlife, 352 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:36.880 from Nelson Turf Star line, other Nelson fertilizers, from Medina products. 353 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.400 You're gonna find soils from Airloom soils and other soils, 354 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.519 and mulches and Landscaper's Pride products are there as well. 355 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.839 It is just a great place to go visit. And 356 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.480 you're going to also find super high quality dog foods, 357 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.519 you know, high end lines like Origin, Diamond, Victor Starpro. 358 00:19:55.640 --> 00:19:58.039 They carry all that stuff as well as of course 359 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:01.240 your livestock feeds and feed for their pets. And if 360 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:03.759 you got something you need to control from those rats 361 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:06.720 that are loving to come out in the winter and 362 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:09.880 you know, crawl around looking for a place to live 363 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:13.839 in our place. Well, they have pests and rodent supplies 364 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.160 as well, d and de feed. Three miles that's the 365 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:20.839 tumble On Highway to forty nine. Well, let's take a 366 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:22.880 trip down to the galleria and we're going to talk 367 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:25.599 to Harry. Good morning, Harry, welcome to Guardenline. 368 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:28.920 Thank you, good morning. I have been growing some herbs 369 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:31.839 on the patio and I was wondering with the coal 370 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:35.480 weather coming, what I should expect from things like basil 371 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:39.359 and time and oreguano, things like that, and now keep 372 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:41.519 up the good work. Really enjoy the show. You're doing 373 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:44.759 a great job. And I'll take the answer on the 374 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:45.920 radio if it's okay. 375 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:52.519 Yeah, that's fine, Harry. Thank you for the coal well herbs. 376 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:57.279 We can plant herbs in any pretty much any month 377 00:20:57.319 --> 00:21:01.160 of the year. Bay you mentioned in basil, basil is 378 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:04.400 probably the most cold intolerant herb we have. If it 379 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.279 gets in the forties, basil is not happy at all, 380 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.359 not happy, and it'll go downhill fast, and certainly a 381 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:14.480 freezer will take it out. But all the other herbs 382 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.160 pretty much. And when I say all the others, I'm 383 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:24.920 thinking about things like rosemary, oregano, times, summer savory, oh gosh, 384 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:28.079 what else is the chives? And all pretty much all 385 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:30.759 the other herbs For the most part. We're talking about 386 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.640 perennials if you are coal tender, but not many, and 387 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:37.640 those are best planted in the fall. And we'll when 388 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:39.559 I say in the fall, I mean anywhere from fall 389 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:42.279 all the way through the winter season. But the sooner 390 00:21:42.279 --> 00:21:45.960 you get implanted, the better established they'll be when summer 391 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:48.920 heat comes next year. And so you can plant herbs 392 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:51.039 anytime of the year. If you've got herbs, you can 393 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:54.119 leave them out. If you have herbs and you want 394 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:59.000 to continue harvesting them through the cool season, you know, 395 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:03.480 let's say you're going to get to I don't know, 396 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:05.559 January and you want to go out and pick some 397 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:09.640 oregano or something like that, well, you can always bring 398 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.519 them in. Where you live has a good hard freeze. 399 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:15.759 They can take moderate freezes, okay, but if you want to, 400 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:18.599 you know, keep them lush, then if they're in a container, 401 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:21.160 just put them into a protected spot. When we're going 402 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:24.200 to truly get way down, you know, below freezing for sure, 403 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:32.359 to maintain freshness and healthy and harvestable growth. But as 404 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:36.279 far as I'm surviving, they're very tough. Now. One last 405 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.759 point to make about this, and this holds true not 406 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:42.240 just for herbs but for all plants, is when you 407 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:46.720 have a plant and a container, it's more susceptible to 408 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:50.200 the cold because of the root system. If you were 409 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:53.799 to take a plant that's say that is quite hardy 410 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:57.119 for the area where you live, and you move it 411 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:59.799 from the soil and instead you plant water, you have 412 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:01.759 one in the soil and one in a container. On 413 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:04.559 the patio, well, the one in the soil. The soil 414 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:08.160 temperature is not going to drop much below about fifty degrees. 415 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:10.640 I mean it may be up near the surface you'll 416 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:13.440 get colder a little bit. But even when it gets 417 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:16.599 cold cold, the soil is an is a source of 418 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:22.279 some residual warmth and as a result, those roots are protected. 419 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:25.480 Now you put that in a container and all around 420 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.559 the container, on all sides, in the top. Now, cold 421 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.480 air is making that container get cold, and that container 422 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:37.079 can freeze free solid on a good hard freeze night. 423 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:39.400 And if you have one full of moisture and you 424 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:41.359 can see that in the morning you reach in there, 425 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:45.759 it's like a rock. So those would need to be 426 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.400 protected a little bit more. But if it's in a container. 427 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.839 I'll talk a little bit later this morning about protecting 428 00:23:52.960 --> 00:24:00.039 container plants from cold, so stay tuned for that. But 429 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:02.640 it as far as herbs are concerned, boy, now is 430 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:05.039 a great time. And herbs are so easy to grow. 431 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:10.079 You know that, it's just you plant them and it's 432 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.720 almost a plant and forget. I mean, yeah, it's good 433 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:14.799 to fertilize them. Yes, of course, you gotta water them 434 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.599 in the summer when it's hot, but they they just 435 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:20.839 are good, tough plants, and they don't have to go 436 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:23.640 in an herb garden. If you want to make a beautiful, 437 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:28.200 you know, one of these symmetrical herb gardens like you see, 438 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.920 you know in fancy estates and things, you can do that. 439 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:34.839 That's good, go for it. But if you just want 440 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:37.640 to use herbs, why not use a regino as a 441 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.000 groundcover or time is a groundcover underneath other plants, as 442 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:42.720 long as they can get sunlight. They need a little 443 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:43.759 bit of sunlight of course. 444 00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:44.680 Uh. 445 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.920 And there are many other uses for herbs that are ornamental. 446 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:50.680 So just something to think about. I'm gonna take a 447 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:53.480 little break here. I will be back seven one three 448 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:55.960 two one two KTRH if you'd like to give us 449 00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:58.000 a call. 450 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:01.440 By us. 451 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:06.839 All right, folks, we're back. Welcome to Garden Line. I'm 452 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:10.200 your host, Skip Richer, and we're here to answer gardening 453 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.240 questions or just provide garden I know a lot of 454 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:16.359 folks will never call. I talk to people all day 455 00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:18.279 and they go, I love listening to the show, but 456 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:19.960 I don't want to call and be on the air. 457 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:24.039 All right, Well that's your call, so to speak. I 458 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:28.000 tell you this though. We it will be a pleasant 459 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.440 experience for you. I promise you that we don't. We 460 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:32.720 don't shame callers on garden line. We know you know 461 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:36.440 we don't. I don't know fuss at you if you 462 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:39.599 quote do something wrong, that's it's your garden. Hey, you 463 00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:42.640 call me, I help you. I used to say this 464 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.720 all the time. I should say it more. But uh, 465 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:48.640 there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. 466 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:48.839 Now. 467 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:52.200 I know you're thinking, yeah, no, I've heard stupid questions 468 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:55.160 in life before, but don't think of it that way. 469 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:59.000 Here's how I think of it. I worry about stupid answers. 470 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.759 The pressure's on me. If you've got a question, somebody 471 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:05.599 else has that question. It's just a fact they do, 472 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:10.559 and so ask away. I'm not here for gardening experts 473 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.400 only to call in. I'm here for someone who has 474 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:18.119 never gardened before and needs to be told things like 475 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:22.720 you put the green side up when you plant a plant. Right, 476 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:26.519 that's okay. We'll go with those questions to whatever you're interested. 477 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:28.960 I want everybody to be a gardener. I want everybody 478 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:31.000 to have success, and I want everybody to have fun. 479 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:32.799 And the way I put it, is I'm here to 480 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:36.480 make your garden more beautiful, more bountiful, and more fun. 481 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:39.480 That's what I want to do. So let's let's go 482 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:44.920 for that, all right. In the meantime, Microlife has a 483 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.160 number of products and you hear me talk about them 484 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:49.240 from time to time. I use the bio Matrix a 485 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:54.039 lot for my indoor plants. That's an orange label, an 486 00:26:54.039 --> 00:26:58.079 orange label. It is a seven to one to three 487 00:26:58.160 --> 00:27:03.960 fertilizers nitrogen, one percent phosphors, three percent potassium, and it's 488 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:08.000 a good that's a good balance for pushing foliage growth 489 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.759 and good health of the plant in general. And so 490 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:14.359 I use it on houseplants a lot. But it's not 491 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:17.480 an indoor plant fertilizer. It's a plant fertilizer. So if 492 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:19.400 you're want to go outside and water something with it, 493 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:22.480 that's good. It works for that. A lot of folks 494 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.599 love to use fisher mulsion and seaweed blends, and Microlife 495 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:29.559 has their Ocean Harvest, which is a four to two 496 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:34.640 three fish based fertilizer, and then the Microlife Super Seaweed, 497 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:38.160 which contains a lot you know, seaweed has a lot 498 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:43.160 of plant growth hormone type ingredients in it. As well 499 00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:47.119 as others for the plant. And that combo of super 500 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:50.000 seaweed and ocean harvest is something that organic gardeners have 501 00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:52.680 used for years as a combo way of instead of 502 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.759 using like a soluble one of those dissolving water blue 503 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:00.359 or green, you know kind of product things. Well, organic 504 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.000 garners have always done the super seaweed, the ocean harvest 505 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:07.200 or the equivalents and seaweed and fish and motion fertilizers. 506 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.279 They also have the liquid AF micro Girl. Liquid AF 507 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:14.079 is an excellent product to use for any kinds of plants, 508 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:17.839 including our indoor plants. You know indoor plants too. They 509 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:21.319 need microbial content and the soil to do well unless 510 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:24.359 you're just gonna provide every single thing they possibly could 511 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:27.839 want through your fertilizing, which is difficult to do. So 512 00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:30.640 I would have these on the shelf. You can buy 513 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.119 them in a gallon, earn a quart and just mix 514 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:34.759 them up. And that's what I do when it's time 515 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:37.960 for me to fertilize. I've got these products, buy liquid, 516 00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:40.640 and I can do however I wish with them, and 517 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:43.079 I'm starting off something new. A lot of times I'll 518 00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:46.200 put in the Microlife liquid humates plus and water with that, 519 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:49.799 especially in larger containers outdoors. I find that to be 520 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.599 very helpful. Anyway, all these products are from Microlife. You 521 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.920 can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and learn more 522 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.359 about their products, or you can just go to pretty 523 00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:02.160 much anywhere shop for gardening and you're going to find 524 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:07.559 micro Life products here throughout and beyond our Greater Houston area. 525 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:12.519 We were talking this morning about using newspaper for malts 526 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:15.559 or other papers for maltz products and the importance of that, 527 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:22.160 and I mentioned that I would be talking about protecting 528 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:31.880 plants that are containers from frosts and freeze damage. I'm sorry, 529 00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:36.880 my brain is trying to do two things at once here. Anyway, 530 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:39.480 if you have a bunch of container plants and a 531 00:29:39.519 --> 00:29:45.160 hard freeze is coming, if those plants are at all cold, tender, 532 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.400 or again, because the root system will get way colder 533 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:51.160 than it will in the soil, you can take your 534 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:54.880 containers and you can group them together and you put 535 00:29:54.920 --> 00:29:58.400 them in a protected location, so like if you have 536 00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:03.039 a south side of the high house or someplace where 537 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:05.799 the cold north wind isn't just going to blast them, 538 00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:09.680 actually just grouping them together in a interior corner of 539 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:11.480 the home. I don't mean inside the home, I mean 540 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:14.279 not a corner pointing out, but a corner pointing in 541 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.279 where you can put them all together, group them close together, 542 00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:21.960 and then throw any kind of a covering over them 543 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.279 to kind of block the wind. I've known people to 544 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.720 throw a bunch of leaves over the whole thing and 545 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.880 just sort of create that little area. Whatever you do 546 00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:35.319 that grouping too tightly together and throwing something over them 547 00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:39.319 in that protected location to further protect them will help 548 00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:43.279 get them through even some pretty significant cold weather that 549 00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:47.039 we occasionally have in our listening area here. But that 550 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:50.839 little tip makes it easy. Now as far as how 551 00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:52.480 do you get them there. You know you may have 552 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:55.920 large containers, and goodness sakes, don't bend over and pick 553 00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.400 those up unless you want to put your chiropractor's kids 554 00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:03.720 through college. Just get a dolly or a hand truck, 555 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:06.960 whichever term you use for it. Slide the lip of 556 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.279 it underneath the container, put a strap from one side 557 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:13.240 of the dolly around the container, attach it to the 558 00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:15.920 other side that keeps a container from falling off the dolly, 559 00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:18.880 and just with one hand and almost no effort, you 560 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:20.920 can tilt it back and roll it wherever you want. 561 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.319 And I moved large I mean, you know, half whiskey 562 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:27.279 barrel sized containers that way. You just have to make 563 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.079 sure you strap it to the dolly, and it works 564 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:31.920 really well. I've got a dolly just a little rope 565 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:34.079 that I use on it, and it just sits there. 566 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:35.920 And when I need to move a container, I just 567 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:38.559 use that rope and tie it on there or any 568 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:41.200 kind of strap. You can move a lot of big 569 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:43.720 containers that way. Maybe you have a citrus growing in 570 00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:48.079 a really large container and or you would like to Yes, 571 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:50.359 you can do that. And I don't care if it 572 00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:52.640 is a lime or a lemon, you know, something's a 573 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:55.200 little more cold tender. You can move it right into 574 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:58.200 the garage that way and get it through the worst 575 00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:00.440 of the cold and then move it back out, you know, 576 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:02.640 out in front of my garage on the driveway off 577 00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:05.319 to the side, I have some container. I got a 578 00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.839 beautiful hibiscus that I love. I don't have a greenhouse 579 00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:11.319 space for it, and so it just goes into the 580 00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:15.960 garage on the coldest nights, and so it may have 581 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:18.279 spent a few days in there and then come back 582 00:32:18.279 --> 00:32:21.920 out again, just a little tip for you on that. 583 00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:25.880 Let's see here we Oh, I did want to I 584 00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.240 didn't want to mention or talk about something else that 585 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.680 I think is important. I mentioned earlier that I had 586 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:35.440 been in my garden and doing, you know, doing I 587 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.160 need to do a little bit of weeding where some 588 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.359 weeds had just started to come back up. Uh. My 589 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:46.400 walkways are leaves in the garden. Uh. And so if 590 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:48.480 you have just if your garden is just like a 591 00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:51.160 single bed or something, well this doesn't work. But if 592 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:54.880 you have a traditional garden area also where it's like 593 00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:57.759 a bed or walkway, a bed or walkway, I will 594 00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:01.160 put in the walkways all the leaves that I get 595 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.119 from my property and from a neighbor's properties. You know, 596 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.359 they're so nice they put those leaves out for you 597 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.359 at the curb because they know you're a gardener. And 598 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:11.720 I'm telling you, one gardener can take care of several 599 00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:14.880 streets of a neighborhood's full of leaves over the course 600 00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.279 of a season. If you have a shredder to shred 601 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:19.599 them up, that's fine. I just I layman down in 602 00:33:19.640 --> 00:33:24.440 the garden floor and then just run over the lawnmower 603 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:26.200 that chops them up. I also have on the little 604 00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:29.799 string trim or grinder grinders that works pretty good. Medium good. 605 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:33.160 But put them in the walkways and pile them deep 606 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:35.680 in there. I mean, you know, I may go pile 607 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.319 them a foot deep and just walk on them, and 608 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:41.240 and and as they get wet and walked on, they 609 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:46.279 compress down and they decompose. And after several months of 610 00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:50.119 warmer weather, you can pull the dry surface leaves that 611 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.240 still look like they did when you put them down. 612 00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.079 Rake those back, and underneath you're gonna have a lot 613 00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:57.519 of what we call leaf mold. It's a it's a 614 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:03.799 black chocolate or not black chocolate, brown crumbly leaf material. 615 00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:07.960 Let's say it's halfway to compost. Okay, it's decomposing, it's 616 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:11.800 falling apart, but it's not truly completely composted. But you 617 00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:15.079 have that, and that can be used whenever you're redoing 618 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:19.199 your soil. Maybe you're going to rework the soil, add 619 00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:21.599 some organic matter to it. I will get that and 620 00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.400 harvest it, and I'll run it through a little screen 621 00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:30.079 and put it in to add to my putting mixes 622 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:34.079 if they need something like that in them. So when 623 00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:36.440 I say a screen. I'm talking about a half inch 624 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:42.559 hardware cloth that I have a two by four frame 625 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:46.119 that sits on top of the wheelbarrow. It's the size 626 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:51.440 that would be the inside of the wheelbarrow size, and 627 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:53.599 I just throw the leaves in it, rake them around 628 00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:57.639 and all that small stuff falls through, and then anything 629 00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:59.880 larger you just throw back in the walkway or do 630 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:01.559 whatever you want to do. Use it as a mault. 631 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:03.639 It also makes a very good mault as well. So 632 00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:07.880 just another little tip full of tips today on gardening. 633 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:09.719 If you'd like to give us a call our phone 634 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.639 number seven to one three two one two kt r 635 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:18.920 H seven one three two one two k t r H. 636 00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:21.119 We're going to go to a little break here and 637 00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:24.440 want to come back. I'm going to continue with some 638 00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:27.960 tips for the garden, some ideas that will help you 639 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:31.800 have more success with your garden and hopefully more fun 640 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:34.960 in the process. All right, folks, let me see here. Yep, 641 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:38.679 it is time for me to quit talking this morning. 642 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:43.000 Oh one last thought before before we go, uh, we've 643 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:44.840 got I'll talk about some of our garden centers and 644 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.280 things going on right now. But I'm telling you this 645 00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:50.880 is a great time to be making purchases for both 646 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.159 gifts for the garden and also to take advantage of 647 00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:56.679 some really good sales that are going on out there 648 00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:59.440 on certain kinds of plant, especially trees and shrubs, and 649 00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:02.320 things ten to be a good deal at this time 650 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:05.239 of the year. So talk to you in just a minute. 651 00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:10.559 All right, welcome back to Garden Line. We are going 652 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:15.440 to continue with some tips and ideas for this gardening season. 653 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:20.239 I do want to remind you that we do have 654 00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.639 some great garden centers that are having a lot of 655 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:24.519 real cool stuff going on. You need to get out there. 656 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:25.880 I'm gonna talk about a few of them as we 657 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:29.280 go through the show this morning, but just kind of 658 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:31.239 putting that bug in your ear. I know, it is 659 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:35.039 the holiday shopping season, and if you got a gardener 660 00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:39.679 on your list, I mean, anyone with any interesting gardening 661 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:43.119 there are a lot of cool tools and you know, 662 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:47.480 for example, there are things that I wouldn't buy myself 663 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:51.320 because I just I'm just not interested in doing that, 664 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:56.000 but there are other people that would. And what does 665 00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:58.239 that even mean. Well, I mean there's all kinds of 666 00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:02.079 different things. Regarding some people, they you know, they'll spend 667 00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:04.519 a million dollars on a nice little lamp that sits 668 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.639 on a desk. I shouldn't say a million. That is 669 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:11.000 all designed for the right wavelengths for plants. To put 670 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.320 a little plant under, you know, as a gift item. Well, 671 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:18.400 that's cool stuff. I've got my own places where I 672 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:21.000 have my light arrangements set up where I take care 673 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.079 of my plants and things in But for some people 674 00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:26.039 that is as far as they want to get into gardening. 675 00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:28.800 It's taking care of a really nice houseplant with a 676 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:32.679 very attractive light feature on that plant. See what I'm saying, 677 00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:36.159 little self contained. One of my daughters has a self 678 00:37:36.199 --> 00:37:40.519 contained hydroponic in it and it's a little thing that 679 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:44.159 sits on the counter. It has a nutrient water in 680 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:47.920 it that recirculates, and then it has a little top 681 00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:51.800 on it that has lights that provide those plants side. 682 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.400 So you can grow your herbs in a kitchen on 683 00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:56.960 a counter where there's not near enough light for herbs. 684 00:37:57.440 --> 00:37:59.639 You can do that. Now, I don't garden in that way. 685 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:02.039 I've got herbs outside. I put a cover over them 686 00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:03.800 and things. That's what I mean when I say I 687 00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:06.760 may not be interested in it, but people are. And 688 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:10.599 I tend to not always have the most esthetic arrangement 689 00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:13.119 of things as some of these real nice products will 690 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:17.360 provide you. So just be thinking about that. Any gardener 691 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:21.440 in your list will be happy to get a quality tool. 692 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.000 I mean a tool that makes their work easier and 693 00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:29.159 is effective. You know, a pair of hand pruners that 694 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:32.599 will last forever, a quality brand, and there's some good 695 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:36.400 quality brands out there that comes in a little leather 696 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:39.239 sheet that goes on your belt. For some gardeners that 697 00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:43.519 is a home run, yet an excellent one to do. 698 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:48.840 Almost anybody will appreciate gift certificates to places where they 699 00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:50.960 like to shop. You know, if you're if you're a 700 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:53.440 gardener and you like to go get things, that's a 701 00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:55.719 nice thing. And then I keep telling you about plants. 702 00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:58.920 Plants are a great way to provide a super super 703 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.360 gift for things. Now for example, you know Ace hardware stores. 704 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:05.679 I talk about them a lot, but it's just a 705 00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:08.159 great place to shop for all kinds of things guardening. 706 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:11.400 They have gifts, they have stocking stuffers. If you got 707 00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:15.599 a guy or a gal either way that loves to barbecue, 708 00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:19.039 they have grills that would boy put a big bread 709 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:23.000 bow on that and you got something quality tools for 710 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:27.480 any kind of do it yourselfing from indoors to outdoors. 711 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:32.000 They have Legos. My granddaughter is playing with legos. She's 712 00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:34.800 at our house right now and she's playing with legos. 713 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:38.639 So when I walked through the living room this morning 714 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:44.239 on my way out, stepping on legos with the bare 715 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:48.400 feet as you're going across the floor, that's an experience. 716 00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:50.800 But anyway, you can get those kind of legos at 717 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.239 your Ace Hardware store. They have also they got a 718 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.840 toy called They're called Brooder Toys, but they're one sixteenth 719 00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:02.719 scale realistic detail hailed toy vehicles. These are really cool. 720 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:04.239 I've been in Ace Hardware store has had a lot 721 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.639 of the old retro toys that you probably played with 722 00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:10.639 growing up, and they still are available at an Ace hardward. 723 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:12.719 See what I'm talking about. Their Black Friday sales are 724 00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:16.960 good through Tuesday December second, say that again. Black Friday 725 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:20.360 sales good through Tuesday, December second. You can go to 726 00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:24.719 Acehardware dot com and find the Ace Hardware store near you. 727 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.639 They have a store locator stores and places like the 728 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.559 League City store out by Hobby. The Gateway Store is 729 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:33.480 an excellent one over in Galena Park. There's a good 730 00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:36.960 Ace Hardware store there. Kigole Lumber is another Ace hardware story. 731 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:40.239 See what I mean. Uh, there's a newly opened one 732 00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:43.840 down in the Bay Cliff Store just south of Seabrook 733 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.840 and their remodeled Uvaldi location is another great one. I 734 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:50.000 don't mean u LD Texas, I mean Cee Valdy East 735 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:53.519 Hardware in Houston area. All right, just some other ideas 736 00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:59.639 for great places for gifts. If you love garden centers, 737 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:01.840 and you know I keep talking about how great our 738 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:06.079 garden centers are Narth, North, South, East and West. Well, 739 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:10.480 Buchanan's Native Plants is in the Heights and that is 740 00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:13.079 an outstanding place. Now I know you can go in 741 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:15.920 there right now. You can get you some awesome Christmas trees. 742 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:21.199 A lot of people do their Christmas tree shopping after Thanksgiving. Newsflash, 743 00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:25.280 it's after Thanksgiving. Go get you a Christmas tree from Buchanans. There, 744 00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:30.239 Buchanans Plants, they always have cool stuff going on. There 745 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:32.239 is actually and this is way ahead of time. I'm 746 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:34.039 just going to tell you about it. There's a holiday 747 00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:38.039 centerpiece workshop. Now this is not just a little you know, 748 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.280 ten minute. Oh that was interesting This is like a 749 00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:45.679 workshop taught by Ponderosa Blooms. Ticket sure, eighty five dollars, 750 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:50.039 but you are going to get an outstanding training of 751 00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:55.079 how to do stunning holiday centerpieces, lots of techniques for 752 00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:00.920 incorporating greenery and natural elements, different types of floor styles. 753 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:03.000 At the end of the workshop, you will leave with 754 00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:06.679 your own handcrafted piece ready to brighten your home during 755 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:10.960 this winter season. That is December twenty second, So Sunday, 756 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.159 December twenty second, from twelve to one. I'll tell you 757 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.480 about it when we get to that day too. At 758 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:18.039 Buchanans Plants and the Heights, that is going to be 759 00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:20.960 a really cool event, and they always have cool events there, 760 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:25.400 So Buchanans Plants eleven Street in the Heights, go to 761 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:29.280 their website Buchanansplants dot com. And then as you know, 762 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.320 as family and friends come in, always remember a great 763 00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:35.079 garden center like Buchanans is a great place to get out, 764 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:37.880 you know, stretch your legs, get outside, get a little 765 00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:40.599 fresh air, and let them see something really cool that 766 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:43.519 we have here in the Houston area that I'm telling 767 00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:46.199 you you're not going to find the kinds of garden 768 00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:48.840 centers and the number of garden centers that we have 769 00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:52.679 here in Houston and other locations. That's just the fact 770 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:56.760 I've been around. I do garden center tourism. When I 771 00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:58.719 go to other cities, always want to go see, show 772 00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:01.280 me the best garden center. She got, See how those are? 773 00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:07.159 But I like that, Oh gosh, what were we? What 774 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:07.639 was that tiring? 775 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:07.880 About? 776 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.840 A second ago? I had a oh in the garden 777 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:15.480 and looking at everything from weed control to recycling in 778 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:19.760 the walkways. You know, the walkways are an area where 779 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:23.840 you need a all weather pathway. And that's one reason 780 00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:26.880 I like leaves and things in the pathways like that, 781 00:43:26.960 --> 00:43:30.199 because you just create an all weather pathway. When I 782 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:34.519 was in Conroe in Montgomery County as a horticulturist at 783 00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.840 the extension office there many many years ago, we created 784 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:40.920 a garden and did an all weather pathway and we 785 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:46.800 put I'm not exaggerating this, three hundred bags of leaves 786 00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:50.000 in a thirty five by thirty five garden over the 787 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:54.400 course of a season. Now, every walkway we would put 788 00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:56.599 like a foot of leaves and walk on them and 789 00:43:56.639 --> 00:44:00.400 they would they shrink down. Any of you who made 790 00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:02.760 composts know that you can have a pile of leaves 791 00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:05.320 as high as your shoulders, and when you get through, 792 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:07.599 you got about two inches of compost at the bottom 793 00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:09.679 of the deal right, Actually a little more than that, 794 00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:12.559 but that's how that works. So we'd fill up the 795 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:14.840 walkways between the beds and walk on them, and as 796 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:16.719 they sunk down, we put more leaves on it and 797 00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:18.960 walk on until they sunk down. And when we got 798 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.599 through we would have because these are real high beds, 799 00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:27.159 we'd have about ten inches of just beautiful dark chocolate 800 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:31.199 brown leaf moulls slash compost that when we work rework 801 00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:33.559 the beds, we just rake the leaves off the top 802 00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:36.840 of the walkway which aren't decomposed, took that, put it 803 00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:38.800 in the beds, worked it into the soil. I would 804 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.599 put it in wheelbarrows too, because then maybe you got 805 00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.079 a bed out front by the where the I don't 806 00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:48.000 know your mailbox is or something out front, and you 807 00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:50.559 would just take the compost there to rework the soil. 808 00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:53.599 So I was using my walkways in the garden to 809 00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:57.039 create all kinds of good soil materials for all over 810 00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:02.639 the place. That that's a good tip, I'm telling you, 811 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:06.599 that really really works. And it's handy, So think that way. 812 00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:10.079 Take advantage of things. You know, nature, you how to 813 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:16.000 recycle things long before before we showed up. Uh, think 814 00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:18.760 advantage of those good things. Yeah, a good gardener can 815 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:23.159 take care of a neighborhood full of leaves, and we 816 00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.360 need to take advantage of that. If you have pine trees, 817 00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:30.920 don't be afraid of using pine straw. The pine needles 818 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:33.920 they break down faster if you chop them up a 819 00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:36.320 little bit, but you can just use them as a 820 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:38.960 mulch and they make a really good monk. I have 821 00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:40.880 put them a little bit thicker to block the light. 822 00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:44.760 That sure works. All right, more tips when we come back. 823 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:46.880 Here's the number if you want to call in seven 824 00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:49.599 one three two one two kt r H. 825 00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.320 Welcome to kt RH guarden Line with Skin Richt. 826 00:45:54.480 --> 00:46:11.000 It's just watch him as us. So many good things 827 00:46:11.039 --> 00:46:12.119 to set. 828 00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:20.519 Not a sign. 829 00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:25.559 Sun. 830 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:31.400 Well, well, welcome, welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, 831 00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:34.960 Skip Richter, and we're entering our second hour this morning. 832 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.480 You know this show is on from six am to 833 00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:42.360 ten am. For anyone that is new to garden Line, 834 00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:46.239 just found the show and started listening. Well, we're here 835 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.400 every weekend on Saturday morning and Sunday morning from six 836 00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:53.440 am to ten am to answer your gardening questions. If 837 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:55.760 you missed the show or want to go back and 838 00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.760 hear previous shows, you can do that by going to 839 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:03.760 the website, OK website and finding garden Line and listening 840 00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.800 to the past shows there. If I think one of 841 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:08.760 the best ways to listen to garden Line is to 842 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:12.800 use your phone and get the iHeart Media app. It's 843 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:15.960 a red Heart if you're looking for it on whatever 844 00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:20.119 store you use for your Android or your Apple phone 845 00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:25.360 and iHeartMedia app. You can follow garden Line on there, 846 00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:28.280 and that way you would also have access to pass 847 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.639 shows and you could listen live. That is one of 848 00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:35.199 the interesting things that I think technology has a lot 849 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.559 of cool stuff. But I listened to I listened to 850 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:43.360 different things throughout the day live on my phone. And 851 00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:45.880 so let's say you're out in the garden and you're working, 852 00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:49.239 and if you just take your phone with you, turn 853 00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:51.519 the speaker on and get out there and do your stuff, 854 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:53.840 listen to guard Line and if you run across something 855 00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:55.760 you can take a picture of send it to me 856 00:47:55.800 --> 00:47:58.719 and say, hey, what is this? And I can't I 857 00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.000 can't do text and emails and stuff during the show, 858 00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:05.559 but you can call in, send the text to or 859 00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:08.599 excuse me, send an email with a photo to us, 860 00:48:08.679 --> 00:48:12.280 and then call me and we'll talk about it. If 861 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:14.320 you call the producer here at the number I keep 862 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.840 giving out throughout the show, he will provide you with 863 00:48:18.199 --> 00:48:21.119 an email that you can send the picture in whip 864 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:23.239 and then follow up with a call. That way you 865 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:25.400 get on the spot. It's kind of like having me 866 00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:27.599 hanging out there. I'm on the porch while you're working 867 00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:31.000 in the garden. What do you think about that? What 868 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:34.159 about that setup? I'm on the porch and you're out 869 00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:36.480 working in the garden and you go, hey, Scot, what 870 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:39.440 is this? What do I do here? What's wrong? Well, 871 00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:42.920 there's your chance right there by listening to Guardline on 872 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:50.599 your iHeartMedia app. All right. Interestingly enough, I've talked about 873 00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:53.599 a number of different things this morning. One thing I 874 00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:55.679 want to remind you of is that if you go 875 00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:58.800 to my website, there's a lot of stuff on there 876 00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:03.360 that will help help you in your gardening efforts. They 877 00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:06.320 it just makes it much much easier for your for 878 00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:10.679 your gardening efforts. For example, I put a publication on 879 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:13.960 that I did with an A and M horticulture specialist 880 00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:18.239 a few years ago, and it is about protecting your 881 00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:22.760 landscapes and gardens from frosts and freeze damage. It's it's 882 00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:26.199 got a number of pages, lots of color pictures. It 883 00:49:26.320 --> 00:49:32.199 goes into the nerdy details of frosts and freezes, and 884 00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:35.000 if you don't want to read all that, just skip 885 00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:36.559 past it. You can go right to the point. There's 886 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:40.000 a little paragraph on protecting containers like I was talking 887 00:49:40.039 --> 00:49:43.920 about while ago. There's there's information on you know, should 888 00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:45.920 I sprinkle my plants with water? I see that my 889 00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:47.719 neighbors do that. You know, they spread with water and 890 00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:51.639 there's ice all over them and ice is an insulator. Well, uh, 891 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.119 there is truth in that, but mostly that's not true 892 00:49:55.679 --> 00:49:58.360 because the way people do it makes it not true. 893 00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:00.400 But if you want to do it, I tell you 894 00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:03.360 how to do it in a way that works. And 895 00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:06.239 then the same thing for what about putting lights and 896 00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:10.119 heat underneath the covers to protect plant. All of that 897 00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:14.199 information is in there and I think it's really helpful 898 00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.199 and you should just go ahead and book market and 899 00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:18.440 have it ready to go because you're going to need 900 00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:21.000 to get out and cover some plants at some point 901 00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:25.880 coming up here, and that information is there. Also there 902 00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:29.039 my gardening or my lawn care schedules, the one about 903 00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:33.840 things we do to help the lawn grow, mow, water, 904 00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:37.679 fertilized kind of things, add some mineral supplements like the 905 00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:43.679 azmite do the aeration very important for our lawns. And 906 00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:46.519 then the other schedule is the pest Disease and weed 907 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.199 management schedule. And that is just as the name implies, 908 00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.719 what's going wrong in your yard? I got weeds? How 909 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:55.760 do I control them? When do I control them? What 910 00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:59.719 do I use? I've got chinch budge? Or when do 911 00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:02.400 you inchbugs occur? I just moved down here from somewhere 912 00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:05.039 else and I hear you got chinchbugs or side web 913 00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:07.639 worms or some of It's all there on the schedule 914 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.920 January through December. Makes it really really easy for you. 915 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:14.159 And it's free. It's free. You can give it as 916 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:18.599 a Christmas gift if you're a tightwad. It's free. So 917 00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:23.559 get download those schedules and find that information. I'm putting 918 00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:26.559 more stuff up all the time. I just did something 919 00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:29.639 a while back on nuts Edge, A number of things 920 00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:33.599 on controlling nuts Edge did a thing on nematodes recently, 921 00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.119 and I'll be putting up We're working on redoing the 922 00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:40.480 website and revamping it and just adding a ton of stuff, 923 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:43.159 and so there's always something new coming up on there, 924 00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:45.159 so I encourage you to bookmark that and go check 925 00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:50.280 it out. As far as the you know, the frost 926 00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:54.000 and the freezes are concerned, I am putting an orchard 927 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:55.039 in on the side of my house. 928 00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:55.280 Now. 929 00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:58.360 Orchard is a big word for what I'm putting in. 930 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.280 It's gonna have about four fruit tree in it. But 931 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:04.440 this is just an area where it was a bunch 932 00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:06.280 of lawn that I had to mow and I never 933 00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:09.000 walked over there. I didn't need lawn there, and so 934 00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:13.039 I've taken that out and redone the soil, done some 935 00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:16.239 irrigation work and things in there. I've got the beds 936 00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:18.920 ready to go, and just this winter I'll be planting 937 00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:20.679 the fruit trees there and one of them is going 938 00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:23.800 to be a satsuma. Satsuma is a type of citrus 939 00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:28.239 that is very cold hearty, you know, citrus ranges, and 940 00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:35.599 cold heartiness from the minor freeze causes damage to pretty 941 00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:39.079 hardy and probably the hardiest of the citrus, or close 942 00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:43.559 to it is the cumquat. The kumquat is the little 943 00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:49.960 thumb sized orange citrus. It's not an orange, it's a kumquat. Actually, 944 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:54.519 the skin is probably better tasting than the interior of it. 945 00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:57.880 They're used for marmalade and other things. Real cool, but boy, 946 00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:02.519 those things can take temperatures down. It's twenty degrees if 947 00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:05.679 they're if they're properly hardened off, and sometimes I hear 948 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:09.760 even a little colder than that. But they're very hearty citrus. 949 00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:12.880 Satsumas are probably second on the list. They can take it. 950 00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:15.760 If it's an established tree, they can take temperatures down 951 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:21.239 I would say probably mid maybe a little below mid twenties. 952 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.800 But if they're hardened off in an established tree, if 953 00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:27.960 you've got a brand new satsuma you planted this year, 954 00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:31.039 no no, no. When it gets into the upper twenties, 955 00:53:31.079 --> 00:53:34.039 for sure you better cover that thing up. And but 956 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:36.679 again I'll be putting a satsum in. I'll talk a 957 00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:38.679 little bit more about that when we come back. I 958 00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:41.119 need to take a little break here, and if you 959 00:53:41.159 --> 00:53:43.480 would like to call and get on the board, we 960 00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:46.159 can visit with you about your questions. Just call us 961 00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:50.000 at seven one three two one two five eight seven 962 00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:54.079 four Guarden Line. We are glad to have you with us, 963 00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:56.960 looking forward to your call if you'd like to ask 964 00:53:57.039 --> 00:53:59.800 a question this morning. You know, a lot of times 965 00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:02.840 i'll Garden Line, we kind of have a backup and 966 00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:05.159 yet the way hold and I don't like for that 967 00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:07.719 to happen, so we try to clear those out as 968 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:11.679 fast as we can. Uh. But when we're looking at 969 00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:15.000 these holiday seasons, it slows down a lot. And if 970 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:16.719 it's a good time, if you'd like to call and 971 00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:21.360 never called before, or just you know, only got a minute, 972 00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:23.079 got to get it done, well, this is a good 973 00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:25.960 time to do that. Seven one three two one two 974 00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:30.519 kt r H seven one three two one two kt 975 00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:35.440 r H. If you haven't been out to the Anti 976 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:39.199 Crosing Porium, you need to go. I've told you this before, 977 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:42.920 but it is a wonderful destination for gardeners and families. 978 00:54:43.559 --> 00:54:47.239 It's been around since nineteen eighty three and it is 979 00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:50.000 just a it's just a cool place. It's like you've 980 00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:53.920 gone back. The word antique is a great, a great 981 00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:56.320 way to start the title of the place, because I 982 00:54:56.320 --> 00:54:59.960 mean they focus on antique roses, but they go beyond, 983 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:02.280 way beyond that. I mean they have roses of all types. 984 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:06.000 They have so so much more than just roses too. 985 00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:08.559 If you're looking for herbs, we were talking about those earlier. 986 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:11.000 They are loaded up on herbs, so they have plenty 987 00:55:11.079 --> 00:55:13.159 of that. If you like native plants, they do have 988 00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:17.119 native plants. If you wanted to plant a fig tree, 989 00:55:17.159 --> 00:55:20.360 for example, the Anti Rose Imperium has fig tree. Yeah, 990 00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:22.920 they have fig trees that you can get it in 991 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.000 the ground now before spring arrives. It's easy to do. 992 00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:29.000 And when you go out there, you're going to find 993 00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:34.840 some really fun events too. They have an event actually 994 00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:40.199 on December first, which is tomorrow, that is part of 995 00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:45.679 the very Merry Savings weekend event. And say that again, 996 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:50.320 Very Merry Savings Weekend event started on Friday, but it'll 997 00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:54.199 go today and tomorrow. All roses are rolled back to 998 00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:57.239 twenty You're not going to find a better deal than that. 999 00:55:57.400 --> 00:56:01.320 And they have a nice, well grown rose. They do 1000 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:04.559 an excellent job of growing a very strong, healthy plant there. 1001 00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:07.480 In their materials that they have, they have extra savings 1002 00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:10.280 on other plant materials up to fifty percent off just 1003 00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:13.480 in time. Now here for the holidays. I would recommend 1004 00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:16.239 that you follow them on social media, that you join 1005 00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:19.159 their email list, and just do this. Go to the 1006 00:56:19.159 --> 00:56:27.039 website Antique Roseemporium dot com, Antique Roseemporium dot com look 1007 00:56:27.079 --> 00:56:31.360 at the upcoming events. They will have extended hours at 1008 00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:34.639 the Rose Imporium till seven pm for an event called 1009 00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:38.400 Lights in the Garden and that is on these dates 1010 00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:43.320 September sixth, thirteenth, and fourteenth, and they'll be Santa there. 1011 00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:47.079 Kids can get pictures with Santa. They're also hosting a 1012 00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:51.360 charity day Christmas Classic car show with the Chili Cookoff. 1013 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:55.000 Well that's an interesting combo on December fourteenth, but you 1014 00:56:55.079 --> 00:56:56.920 got to go to the web page you find out 1015 00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:59.119 about it, get the tickets and stuff like that for it. 1016 00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:03.960 And anytime you're dropping out there this month and well 1017 00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:07.440 this month today is the last day and next December, 1018 00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:09.800 tell them I sent you and they'll give you ten 1019 00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:13.199 percent off of your purchase. Come on, man, am I 1020 00:57:13.239 --> 00:57:16.159 giving you? Can you do you need more reasons to 1021 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:18.800 run out to the antiq rosing forium. You got you 1022 00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:21.599 got family hanging out in the house and you need 1023 00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:23.679 to get them outside and do something different for a 1024 00:57:23.719 --> 00:57:25.639 little bit, take a little trip out there. You have 1025 00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:29.119 a great, great idea. And again this is going on 1026 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:32.800 the deal with telling them I sent you goes all 1027 00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:34.840 the way through the end of December. Tell them I 1028 00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:36.599 sent you. You get ten percent off. Now you can 1029 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:40.400 also order plants from Anti CROs online. You can order 1030 00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:43.599 the ship online, makes it really easy. I personally would 1031 00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:45.960 love to go out there myself, but if you want 1032 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.239 to just order them in you can do that. Just 1033 00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:53.480 use the coupon code skip twenty twenty four Skip twenty 1034 00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:56.199 twenty four and you get that same ten percent discount. 1035 00:57:56.320 --> 00:57:58.320 So it's just telling them, look, we heard about you 1036 00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:02.639 guys on guardline and they like to know that Anti 1037 00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:06.639 Crows importum. They're out in Independence, Texas, just north of Brunham. 1038 00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:09.320 It's not a long drive at all to get out there, 1039 00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:13.280 very very fun and easy and beautiful drive country too. 1040 00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:16.079 I love going out there every time I go. It's 1041 00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:20.239 like going back in time to a really really cool place. 1042 00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:23.639 You're listening to garden Line. The number here if you'd 1043 00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:26.039 like to call us A seven one three two one 1044 00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:29.880 two five eight seven four seven to one three two 1045 00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:34.320 one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh you know, it 1046 00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:37.239 is so important that we prepare this soil before we 1047 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:42.519 plant the plants. I'm a broken record on saying every show, 1048 00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:47.519 pretty much many times the show sometimes brown stuff before 1049 00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:50.239 green stuff. I try to keep things simple, right, brown 1050 00:58:50.239 --> 00:58:53.199 stuff before green stuff? What does that mean? Okay, everything 1051 00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:57.480 below the ground is brown stuff. That's soil, that is compost, 1052 00:58:57.800 --> 00:59:02.280 that is fertilizers, nutrients. That's the brown stuff. The green 1053 00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:05.000 stuff stuff grows on top. That's what we're wanting to 1054 00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:06.960 look at. But if you want something to look at, 1055 00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:09.760 you better take care of the soil first. That is 1056 00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:12.559 the secrets of success, the secret sauce, as they say, 1057 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:16.480 and it's very important. I was talking earlier about, you know, 1058 00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:21.199 making composted leaves or decomposing leaves to add into the soil, 1059 00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:24.400 and the importance of those things when you're doing a 1060 00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:28.920 significant amount of soil work, whether you are creating a 1061 00:59:29.039 --> 00:59:32.440 raised bed or creating a whole new garden, or even 1062 00:59:32.519 --> 00:59:36.239 just looking for things for containers. Ciena Moltz has got 1063 00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:40.360 you covered there south of Houston near Highway six and 1064 00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:43.119 two eighty eight. The road there on is FM five 1065 00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:46.199 twenty one, FM five twenty one. You need to just 1066 00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:51.239 write down the website Siennamultch dot com, CNA maltch dot com. 1067 00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:55.280 It is a one stop shop for homeowners all of 1068 00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:59.400 you through that region. Meridian First Colony, Sweetwater, Iowa Colony, Pomona, 1069 01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:02.679 Sun Creek to stay all of that region down there. 1070 01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:06.000 This is in your backyard. They are known for their 1071 01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:08.760 premium hardwood molts. You can get it in bulk. They 1072 01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:11.480 have native hardwood. They got double ground. They've got a 1073 01:00:11.519 --> 01:00:15.719 two inch screen product. Beautiful dark chocolate color, not dyed, 1074 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:19.480 beautiful dark color. It smells so good, smells so good. 1075 01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:24.320 Also you can get in bulk Louisanner Louisiana. Excuse me, 1076 01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:29.159 Landscaper's Pride black velvet that is again not a dieed 1077 01:00:29.239 --> 01:00:31.280 mol It's a great mast. They got roasts soal. They 1078 01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:34.679 got again it compost molts. Compost if you want sand, gravel, 1079 01:00:35.079 --> 01:00:40.039 decomposed stuff, the stone on pallets that deliver within twenty 1080 01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:41.960 miles for a feet and while you're there, part of 1081 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:47.199 the brown stuff. Microlife fertilizers, Azamite turf Star Line from 1082 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:53.320 Nelson's and other Nelson fertilizers, heirloom soil products. They're landscapers 1083 01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:57.440 Pride products they're nitrophost fertilizers, their medina products are there. 1084 01:00:57.599 --> 01:01:00.880 It is all. It's your one stop shop up for 1085 01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:04.320 setting the foundation for success with your plants. It is 1086 01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:09.119 very important. And this season not a lot going on 1087 01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:11.920 out in the gardens and landscapes. This would be a 1088 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.599 perfect time to get your soil built, to get the 1089 01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:18.639 head start on fall planting, winter planting, and definitely spring gardening. 1090 01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:22.719 There at Siena Moltz, I'm want to run out now 1091 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.920 to Sharpstown and we're going to talk to Mike this morning. 1092 01:01:26.360 --> 01:01:28.119 Hey Mike, welcome to garden Line. 1093 01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:30.079 Thank you, sir. How are you doing today? 1094 01:01:31.480 --> 01:01:32.480 I'm doing well. 1095 01:01:33.599 --> 01:01:37.079 How are you well? It's a little chili, but I 1096 01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:43.280 got a couple of large questions that I would imagine 1097 01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:47.199 is is kind of on the minds of most people 1098 01:01:47.239 --> 01:01:50.440 in my area. Where I grew up, I had a 1099 01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:54.280 lot of magnolia trees and honeysuckle, and it was really 1100 01:01:54.400 --> 01:02:01.239 wonderful to wake up and smell the outside. Now where 1101 01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:05.239 I live in Sharpstown, you can't smell anything when you 1102 01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:10.039 go outside, and I'd like to plant something that is, 1103 01:02:12.119 --> 01:02:16.159 shall I say, less labor intensive, but you can go 1104 01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:22.400 out and not only see colors, but smell. I have 1105 01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:27.480 smelled so many flowers that have hardly any scent to 1106 01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:32.199 them at all, much less you know, you know you 1107 01:02:32.199 --> 01:02:35.320 can smell when you first walk out the back door. Now, 1108 01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:38.760 the other question that I have is that, in the 1109 01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:42.400 addition that I live in in Sharpstown, I have noticed 1110 01:02:42.519 --> 01:02:45.239 over the years, and I've lived in this house for 1111 01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:50.599 sixty years, is that the level of the yards are 1112 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:56.079 sloping quite badly, and that hardly any of them have 1113 01:02:56.480 --> 01:03:00.159 you know, what I would call built up soil foundations 1114 01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.320 enough to you know, when you edge your yard you 1115 01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:08.159 could not see the dirt underneath the grass. But unfortunately 1116 01:03:08.599 --> 01:03:11.880 I'm seeing more dirt than I am grass nowadays. Do 1117 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:15.360 I need to just start building up the soil and 1118 01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:20.400 then plant monthy grass around the edges to keep the soil. 1119 01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:26.079 Well. I can't quite picture exactly what's happening there. If 1120 01:03:26.079 --> 01:03:29.519 you're getting erosion, away from it, getting more getting the 1121 01:03:29.559 --> 01:03:36.599 grass healthier with things like aerating, fertilizing, watering moderately in 1122 01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:39.599 an appropriate way, And that's all I want today. I 1123 01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:45.119 do that, okay, then I think I think you're probably 1124 01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:48.239 okay unless you're just growing grass so much that all 1125 01:03:48.280 --> 01:03:51.639 the runners are coming up, and so you got this big, thick, 1126 01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:54.960 spongy runner. Yeah, is that what you're talking about? Or 1127 01:03:54.960 --> 01:03:57.360 are you talking about just there's no grass and you 1128 01:03:57.400 --> 01:03:58.679 see soil right through it. 1129 01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:02.719 No, no, no, I've got plenty of grass. But I've 1130 01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:09.400 noticed that my yard sloping down to the street is 1131 01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:14.039 getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Do I just need 1132 01:04:14.079 --> 01:04:15.840 to add more dirt? 1133 01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:20.440 I guess so, if you're talking about it it's like 1134 01:04:20.519 --> 01:04:23.119 below the level of the curb now or something like that. 1135 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:28.400 Well, there's just not as lush as it used to 1136 01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:30.320 be when I used to mow the grass. I mean, 1137 01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:33.159 you know, you take off the tops of the blades, 1138 01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:37.519 and it was real close you could walk on it. 1139 01:04:37.960 --> 01:04:40.920 Now it feels like you're walking on the dirt. 1140 01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:45.519 Okay, well, let's do this. I can answer your other 1141 01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:48.159 question for this one. I want you to take some pictures. 1142 01:04:48.199 --> 01:04:50.440 Show me a picture of your yard and then go 1143 01:04:50.559 --> 01:04:53.280 up close to this area toward the street where you're 1144 01:04:53.280 --> 01:04:56.159 saying it's shrunk or whatever, and show me some pictures 1145 01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:58.599 kind of close up of that. At the end of 1146 01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:02.559 our call, i'll put you on hold and that we'll 1147 01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:05.119 come back to. You can send me pictures and I 1148 01:05:05.159 --> 01:05:09.760 can I can comment on it or whatever. That probably 1149 01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:13.000 be the best thing as far as scents smells, there 1150 01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:19.800 are many plants that are wonderfully fragrant, and the examples 1151 01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:21.440 of these, and now I'm gonna give you some that 1152 01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:25.079 are just like intoxicating, lots of fragrance in them. You know. 1153 01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:28.719 The kind of poster plant for natives in Texas is 1154 01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:32.480 called Texas Mountain Laurel, and it just has a great 1155 01:05:32.679 --> 01:05:37.400 bubblegum smell if you remember great super bubble bubble gum. 1156 01:05:37.719 --> 01:05:38.960 Oh yeah, how about lavender. 1157 01:05:39.039 --> 01:05:43.800 That lavender smells good, but it struggles to grow here. 1158 01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:46.960 You're gonna have trouble getting it to grow here. Another 1159 01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:51.800 one that is a strong scent is almond verbina. It 1160 01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:55.320 kind of has a vanilla scent to it. But it's 1161 01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:58.280 a huge bush, makes a very big bush. But I'm 1162 01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:01.760 telling you, when it blooms, you meet fifty feet away 1163 01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:04.760 if the wind's blowing right, and you will smell that plant. 1164 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:05.800 It's a good I've got. 1165 01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:06.239 I've got. 1166 01:06:07.800 --> 01:06:10.320 I got a big Eastman out in my backyard and 1167 01:06:10.519 --> 01:06:12.880 I can plant that bush and it sure would help. 1168 01:06:14.119 --> 01:06:17.079 Yeah, that would be good. I think citrus smells good 1169 01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:19.199 when it's blooming. So if you got a little patio place, 1170 01:06:19.239 --> 01:06:22.639 you're sitting a container citrus and those bloom. They have 1171 01:06:22.679 --> 01:06:27.119 a nice fragrance, a very refreshing fragrance to the blooms. 1172 01:06:27.960 --> 01:06:30.159 We could go on and on. You know, there's there's 1173 01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:33.480 roses that have wonderful scent, but it's not like five 1174 01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:35.840 feet away you're gonna smell them so much like these 1175 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:38.840 other plants, but it would be more like just enjoying 1176 01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:41.079 the fragrance of a rose. There's a lot of old 1177 01:06:41.079 --> 01:06:44.760 time garden flowers, like old time petunias that have a 1178 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:45.960 nice fragrance that. 1179 01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:52.159 I've been through roses and gurdenas and that, and they 1180 01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:53.119 just didn't work out. 1181 01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:59.159 Yes, I was, let's do this. I'm gonna do this. 1182 01:06:59.159 --> 01:07:01.000 I'm gonna put you on whole Mike. I gotta go 1183 01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:03.400 to a break and my producer will give you an 1184 01:07:03.400 --> 01:07:05.440 email during that time and I'll come back to you 1185 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:07.360 when we get back from break. I just got a 1186 01:07:07.360 --> 01:07:09.719 hold for now, all right, folks, I'll be right back. 1187 01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:16.800 Houston's News, Why there were traffic plus Breaking News twenty 1188 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:17.400 four to seven. 1189 01:07:17.719 --> 01:07:21.559 This is US Radio seven forty k t RH. 1190 01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:23.320 Five everywhere with the IRPP. 1191 01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:28.480 More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services Studios. 1192 01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:32.400 Trudeau, Trump and tariff talks. I'm Jared Lewis. It's seven 1193 01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:35.199 thirty one now on news Radio seven forty khrh with 1194 01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:36.559 traffic and whether together. 1195 01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:37.480 Gary Mack is here. 1196 01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:41.639 Long term roadwork continues on Spur five. Nothing new this 1197 01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:45.320 one both ways University to Elgin and two alternating lanes. 1198 01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:48.440 The latter has just a left link closed and that's 1199 01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:52.039 from University to Oeste. Also, if you see something out 1200 01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:54.559 on the roadways, holler at me. Our traffic tip line 1201 01:07:54.639 --> 01:07:57.679 number is is seven three two one two tips. Gary 1202 01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:00.360 mac The Generator Supercenter dot com traffics. 1203 01:08:02.239 --> 01:08:05.840 Must Sunday Saturday only going up into the low sixties 1204 01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:07.840 of her sixties is where we are supposed to be 1205 01:08:07.880 --> 01:08:10.039 for this time of year. Now for the overnight low 1206 01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:12.760 actually a little warm, partly cloudy overnight low fifty. 1207 01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:15.239 I'm Jeff Eno from the Weather Channel. 1208 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:18.479 Cloudy forty one at the k Trighs Generator Supercenter, twenty 1209 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:20.920 four hour Weather Center, k triogs News time seven to 1210 01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:24.560 thirty two. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is meeting with 1211 01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:26.720 President elect Trump this week at mar A Lago for 1212 01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:31.279 talks on possible tariffs. Trump reportedly also having secret discussions 1213 01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:34.880 with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond about the upcoming 1214 01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:38.560 White House agenda. President Biden is seen holding an anti 1215 01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:42.520 Israel book while Black Friday shopping in Nantucket, Massachusetts. 1216 01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:43.600 To Houston. 1217 01:08:43.600 --> 01:08:46.159 Firefighters are expected to make a full recovery after battling 1218 01:08:46.199 --> 01:08:49.560 a house fire Friday afternoon. A mother is claiming that 1219 01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:52.119 her son was on lace drugs before allegedly killing his 1220 01:08:52.199 --> 01:08:55.279 sister and niece. A woman is accused of beating her 1221 01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:58.239 friend's four month old daughter, leaving her in critical condition, 1222 01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:01.880 and funeral arrangements are made for next week for the 1223 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:04.479 Precinct five deputy constable and her daughter who were killed 1224 01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:07.439 in a crash from earlier this month. News on demand 1225 01:09:07.479 --> 01:09:10.039 at kreach dot com. Our next update is at eight. 1226 01:09:10.079 --> 01:09:12.840 I'm Jared Lewis on Houston's news, weather and traffic station 1227 01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:26.399 News Radio seven forty KJIRH. 1228 01:09:26.520 --> 01:09:28.920 All right, folks, welcome back to the garden Line. Good 1229 01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:31.279 to have you with us. We are in the middle 1230 01:09:31.319 --> 01:09:35.920 of a visit with let's see Mike in Sharpstown and 1231 01:09:36.119 --> 01:09:39.520 I think I guess Mike was going off to take 1232 01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:43.359 the pictures in an email. So all right, call back 1233 01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:45.760 Mike when you get those pictures sent, give me a 1234 01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:48.039 few minutes to have a chance to look over them, 1235 01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:55.119 and we'll continue that discussion as we go. The folks 1236 01:09:55.159 --> 01:09:58.079 at League City Feed down there in League City have 1237 01:09:58.239 --> 01:10:03.760 been a great old time feed store since I don't 1238 01:10:03.800 --> 01:10:07.920 know what, probably forty years ago something like that. Leake 1239 01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:11.319 City Feed is on It's on Highway three. So if 1240 01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:14.399 you're in League City, just a few blocks south of 1241 01:10:14.479 --> 01:10:18.199 Highway ninety six on Highway three, it's on the east 1242 01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:21.319 side is League City Feed and so it serves that 1243 01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:23.720 whole area. So when I say hometown feeds here, I 1244 01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:26.840 mean if you're in Baycliffe, Lamarx, San Leone, Dickinson, Santa Fe, 1245 01:10:26.920 --> 01:10:29.199 League City, Webster Clare, Lake City, I'll come in to 1246 01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:32.960 real all those regions down there, this is your hometown 1247 01:10:33.159 --> 01:10:36.199 feed store, and they it's it is the old time 1248 01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:38.760 feed store. You know. If you I remember as a 1249 01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:41.399 kid growing up, and you know, we would go into 1250 01:10:41.399 --> 01:10:44.000 feed stores to buy feed for the cattle or whatever, 1251 01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:47.600 and I just love the smell, you know. I was 1252 01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:49.640 sitting on a sack of feed there while my dad 1253 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:51.479 did what he was doing in the store and taking 1254 01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:55.159 care of things and just enjoying that. That the smell 1255 01:10:55.199 --> 01:10:58.079 of a feature. I love it. And at Leake City 1256 01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:01.520 Feed you've got that old time service too. They carry 1257 01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:04.640 the sacks out for you. It's it's just a fun 1258 01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:08.640 place to shop. You're going to find premium pet food there. 1259 01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:11.720 You're going to find fertilizers you hear me talk about 1260 01:11:12.199 --> 01:11:17.119 like nitrofoss and microlife for example, and Nelson plant food 1261 01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:20.920 for example. They carry asmite there as well. They carry 1262 01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:25.800 heirloom soil products there as well. It just is that 1263 01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:28.119 kind of place where you go in and whatever you 1264 01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:30.239 need for your lawn and garden and landscape, they're going 1265 01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:32.720 to have it. That includes any kind of things to 1266 01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:35.479 control pests or to manage weeds, or to deal with 1267 01:11:35.560 --> 01:11:40.199 diseases in your plants. Even if you have backyard chickens 1268 01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:43.239 and you need feed or feeders or watering or bedding 1269 01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:46.239 or things like that. Everything but the chickens, isaaha, I 1270 01:11:46.239 --> 01:11:49.640 would put it. They've got that for you at League 1271 01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:53.000 City Feed. They're open Monday through Saturday nine to six. 1272 01:11:53.359 --> 01:11:56.359 They're closed on Sunday, and the phone number two eight 1273 01:11:56.479 --> 01:12:01.359 one three three two sixteen twelve one three three two 1274 01:12:01.560 --> 01:12:06.479 one six one two at League City Fee. I like 1275 01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:10.159 going in there. Uh, there's now League City is now 1276 01:12:10.159 --> 01:12:13.720 in the third generation of Thunderberg's running that store. The 1277 01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:15.319 grandfather built it forty years ago. 1278 01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:16.159 Uh. 1279 01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:19.399 And now you you uh, you just you go in 1280 01:12:19.439 --> 01:12:21.800 and it's still it's I think it's still kind of 1281 01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:22.680 like the same place. 1282 01:12:23.239 --> 01:12:23.439 Uh. 1283 01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:26.520 And uh, if you're lucky, you may get to see 1284 01:12:27.039 --> 01:12:29.479 the I don't know if it's a mascot or not, 1285 01:12:29.680 --> 01:12:32.960 but Ruorshak the Dalmatian, which of course is the perfect 1286 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:36.159 name for a dalmatian rorshack. So it's kind of like 1287 01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:39.279 a psychiatrist. It just would have to have that rush 1288 01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:42.000 act there in the office and and say, now I 1289 01:12:42.079 --> 01:12:43.760 want you to look at the dog and tell me 1290 01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.840 what you see. I think that'd be that'd be a 1291 01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:49.640 good I'd go to that kind of place, get to 1292 01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:52.840 see a dog, all right, League City feet noo of 1293 01:12:52.880 --> 01:12:57.399 that around you're listening to garden Line. The phone number 1294 01:12:57.479 --> 01:13:01.359 is seven one three two one two ktr H seven 1295 01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:07.720 one three two one two k t r H. I 1296 01:13:08.199 --> 01:13:11.560 in the front yard, I have this big patch of 1297 01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:16.199 Saint Augustine. It's cobalt Saint Augustine from the Texas and 1298 01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:19.079 M breeding program. It's one of the newest Saint Augustine's 1299 01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:21.840 that they have out of the Texas and M breeding program. 1300 01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:25.800 In fact, now southern turf grasses across the South. 1301 01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:26.439 Uh. 1302 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:29.520 These universities, you know, if you're talking about the University 1303 01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:32.840 of Georgia, University of Florida, a lot of these places 1304 01:13:32.840 --> 01:13:37.960 that are doing breeding of turf grasses. Uh. They collaborate 1305 01:13:38.119 --> 01:13:39.840 on their breeding and they test it in a lot 1306 01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:42.439 of different areas. And cobalt is that my cobalt looks 1307 01:13:42.479 --> 01:13:46.359 perfectly good, except one low spot. I've got some brown 1308 01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:50.279 patch in large patch in and it's very kind of irregular. 1309 01:13:50.760 --> 01:13:50.880 Uh. 1310 01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:53.800 And it's gonna be fine. Large patch just rots of 1311 01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:56.159 leaves off, the grass comes back again. But it's very 1312 01:13:56.199 --> 01:13:58.720 interesting that this one low spot is where it occurred. 1313 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:01.159 And I'm trying to figure out why that is. Because 1314 01:14:01.199 --> 01:14:03.640 it's not a wet spot. It's not, you know, some 1315 01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:07.560 spot that gets wet and stays wet longer, which promotes 1316 01:14:07.560 --> 01:14:10.880 that disease. It just is the way it is. It's 1317 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:12.479 just the way it is. All right, Is it time 1318 01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:14.560 for me to take another break? I just heard something 1319 01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:25.039 in my ear. All right, good, all right. Well, the 1320 01:14:25.119 --> 01:14:27.960 last time I was down visiting with Danny at an 1321 01:14:28.039 --> 01:14:32.479 enchented forest done in Richmond Rosenberg, they had just gotten 1322 01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:35.960 a shipment of some plants. They had vegetables at herbs 1323 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:39.880 and things, and they it's just always going on down there. 1324 01:14:40.199 --> 01:14:43.319 If you need like fall color, there's no reason for 1325 01:14:43.359 --> 01:14:45.840 your landscape in the winter to look bad. Just go 1326 01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:51.560 grab pansies, go grab violas. The cycloman is a beautiful 1327 01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:54.119 fall color plant. It looks good. Someone was talking about 1328 01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:56.960 ken What about planting herbs now, Oh my gosh, you're 1329 01:14:56.960 --> 01:14:59.000 not gonna find a better selection of herbs than an 1330 01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:02.800 enchanted forest. It is the time to make sure you 1331 01:15:02.960 --> 01:15:06.760 get all your woody ornamentals established. The sooner you do 1332 01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:08.960 it between now and spring, the better off you'll be. 1333 01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:12.720 And if you're looking for a spring blooming tree like 1334 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:16.119 a red bud or my favorite, the Chinese friend, they 1335 01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:18.000 have those there. If you're looking for a shade tree 1336 01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:20.159 like a red maple, they've got those there. If you're 1337 01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:23.760 looking for holly's, many varieties of holly's, or they're at 1338 01:15:23.880 --> 01:15:28.960 enchanted forest. And as far as holidays are concerned, their 1339 01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:33.079 gift shop is loaded with wonderful gifts and beautiful things 1340 01:15:33.119 --> 01:15:37.479 for decorating your home for the holidays and Enchanted Forest Now. 1341 01:15:37.479 --> 01:15:41.920 They are located on FM twenty seven fifty nine. If 1342 01:15:41.920 --> 01:15:44.239 you're heading from Richmond to sugar Land, they're off to 1343 01:15:44.319 --> 01:15:49.199 the right twenty seven fifty nine. Go to the website. 1344 01:15:49.319 --> 01:15:54.720 I hope you got a penhandy. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX 1345 01:15:55.279 --> 01:16:01.640 dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. All right, 1346 01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:05.279 I'm having a little trouble in my headphones here here 1347 01:16:05.439 --> 01:16:09.279 am I needing to take a break. Okay, I'm gonna 1348 01:16:09.279 --> 01:16:11.000 take a little break right here. Thank you very much. 1349 01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:15.479 Come back to garden Line. Glad to have you with 1350 01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:18.439 us this morning on guarden Line. Hey, if you would 1351 01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:21.439 like to ask a question, how about this seven one 1352 01:16:21.479 --> 01:16:23.880 three two one two kt r H. That's how you 1353 01:16:23.880 --> 01:16:27.199 reach me seven one three two one two k t 1354 01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:29.560 r H. We'll talk about the things that you are 1355 01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:32.319 interested in. It in well, it has to be about plants. 1356 01:16:32.720 --> 01:16:35.600 It has to be about plants. I can't help you 1357 01:16:36.279 --> 01:16:39.439 if you have been oh, I don't know, let's say, 1358 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:43.119 around family for a little too long, and it's kind 1359 01:16:43.119 --> 01:16:45.279 of time to move on. I can't help you with that. 1360 01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:47.079 I can't help if the dishes are piling up in 1361 01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:49.119 the sink and nobody's helping with that. You know, you 1362 01:16:49.279 --> 01:16:51.520 work and slave and do all the cooking and everything, 1363 01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:56.319 and nobody is helping you with you get the idea. Anyway, 1364 01:16:56.479 --> 01:16:58.880 we we like to have some fun here on guarden 1365 01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:02.720 line if you would like talk gardening or maybe some 1366 01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:05.920 gardening planning. You know, a lot of times of gardening 1367 01:17:06.239 --> 01:17:11.560 people wait until I don't know it, it's too late 1368 01:17:12.079 --> 01:17:15.039 to start to do things, and there's no need for that. 1369 01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:18.359 You know. For example, if you want to plant plants, 1370 01:17:18.399 --> 01:17:21.199 don't wait until spring when it warms up and everybody 1371 01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:24.239 there's flowers everywhere, and you want a plant to start, 1372 01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:28.119 start now. Prepare your soil now, get the soil right now. 1373 01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:32.560 That is really really important. If you are looking for 1374 01:17:32.760 --> 01:17:35.720 starting your own seeds that first of all, I think 1375 01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:37.600 that is one of the most fun things to do, 1376 01:17:37.720 --> 01:17:39.880 is to start your own seeds for let's say next 1377 01:17:39.920 --> 01:17:43.560 your's tomatoes or something, peppers, something you want to grow, Well, 1378 01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:46.520 now's the time to order seeds. Start ordering seeds. Get 1379 01:17:46.520 --> 01:17:48.920 those things in because you can find varieties you're not 1380 01:17:49.000 --> 01:17:51.720 find anywhere when you mail order a seed in, then 1381 01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:56.920 go get you your supplies, get the trays, the seed 1382 01:17:56.960 --> 01:17:59.319 starting mixes and things like that. Our garden setters have 1383 01:17:59.319 --> 01:18:01.640 all that kind of stuff, So do you know Ace 1384 01:18:01.720 --> 01:18:05.479 Hardware stores, office fertilizers, got things like that. Get those 1385 01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:09.199 all set up and you're going to find that. Then 1386 01:18:09.439 --> 01:18:11.119 when it's time to do it, you're ready to go. 1387 01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:14.680 That seed you want isn't out of stock because everybody 1388 01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:17.399 else bought them all up, or anything along those lines. 1389 01:18:17.439 --> 01:18:19.279 If you want to start seed, now's the time to 1390 01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:23.079 be getting your your light fixtures set up and ready 1391 01:18:23.119 --> 01:18:26.640 to go. Because I'm telling you this pretty much at 1392 01:18:26.680 --> 01:18:29.880 the end of December, I'm starting to put seeds in 1393 01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:33.199 the ground for all kinds of things for spring. You 1394 01:18:33.520 --> 01:18:37.680 be planting transplants of broccoli and things like that now, 1395 01:18:38.239 --> 01:18:41.720 because that can be planted out sometime in January or February. 1396 01:18:42.039 --> 01:18:45.359 You know we're just about to that time. So don't delay, 1397 01:18:45.479 --> 01:18:50.079 get it done and take advantage of that opportunity. Speaking 1398 01:18:50.119 --> 01:18:54.520 of opportunities, oh my goodness, Wall Bird's Unlimited is stocked 1399 01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:58.640 up on perfect gifts for Christmas. And this is such 1400 01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:02.520 an easy this is a no brain I got my 1401 01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:06.760 mother in law a beautiful little humming bird feeder that 1402 01:19:06.960 --> 01:19:11.920 it just just very very attractive and effective at bringing 1403 01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:16.079 in the low birds. Maybe someone in your house or 1404 01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:21.359 in your Christmas list household would like a particular type 1405 01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:25.520 of bird house or bird feeder, maybe a suet feeder 1406 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:30.039 for the winter season, maybe a thistle feeder for certain 1407 01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:32.800 kinds of bird. You know, not all birds eat thistles, 1408 01:19:33.199 --> 01:19:37.399 not all birds eat other kinds of seed. Each kind 1409 01:19:37.399 --> 01:19:40.000 of bird you want to attract is going to be 1410 01:19:40.039 --> 01:19:43.520 attracted to different things in seeds, and they have blends 1411 01:19:43.560 --> 01:19:46.359 for that. For example, right now, I would recommend the 1412 01:19:46.399 --> 01:19:50.640 wild Birds Unlimited Winter Super Blend. It's packed with fat 1413 01:19:50.640 --> 01:19:54.960 and protein. And my feeders have been quiet for the 1414 01:19:55.079 --> 01:19:57.920 late summer and fall season. They kind of quiet because 1415 01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:00.159 birds have had plenty to peck around on out there 1416 01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:03.159 in the neighborhood. But they're about to come back, and 1417 01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:07.319 they're coming back like big time knocking on the door. 1418 01:20:07.319 --> 01:20:09.279 Hey we're hungry. You got to be ready for it. 1419 01:20:09.399 --> 01:20:12.479 Go to Wildbirds. But while you're there, I'm telling you 1420 01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:15.600 you're going to find a number of awesome, awesome gifts. 1421 01:20:15.600 --> 01:20:19.680 Go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston to find 1422 01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:22.720 the six wildbird stores in our area. I have to 1423 01:20:22.760 --> 01:20:25.640 take a break coming up here in a little bit, 1424 01:20:26.319 --> 01:20:28.319 but let's see you do. I have time to get 1425 01:20:28.359 --> 01:20:35.159 out to a call right quick. Let's go to Jim 1426 01:20:35.239 --> 01:20:38.000 in Montgomery. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line. 1427 01:20:38.439 --> 01:20:42.920 Hey. I was talking about I need to ask you 1428 01:20:42.960 --> 01:20:46.399 a question about wild violets. I sent off and I 1429 01:20:46.479 --> 01:20:49.079 got some seeds and I'm not real sure. They said 1430 01:20:49.079 --> 01:20:53.760 they're edible, and you know, that's one thing. I also 1431 01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:58.119 have a comment. If people are looking for holly, either 1432 01:20:58.199 --> 01:21:03.119 American holly, Berfort holly or the Epon holly, right now 1433 01:21:03.199 --> 01:21:05.359 is the time to go to the nursery to find 1434 01:21:05.399 --> 01:21:07.279 them because they'll have the red berries on them, and 1435 01:21:07.319 --> 01:21:08.800 that's the ones you want. The female. 1436 01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:13.800 That's a good point. Yeah, it's true with youpons as well, Jim. 1437 01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:17.079 The wild violet, I have never planted them from seed. 1438 01:21:17.119 --> 01:21:20.319 They're basically like a weed. In places where people have them, 1439 01:21:20.359 --> 01:21:22.159 they just they come up and you know they're wild. 1440 01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:25.760 But I've never tried grown them from seed. But that 1441 01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:28.159 would be a little bit of a time in that process, 1442 01:21:28.199 --> 01:21:30.359 but I would think you could do that. As far 1443 01:21:30.359 --> 01:21:32.960 as the bloom's being edible. I don't know. They may be. 1444 01:21:33.199 --> 01:21:35.680 I'd have to do an online search on that one. 1445 01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:39.640 Since it's not a common blooming plant for us here. 1446 01:21:40.760 --> 01:21:43.640 It doesn't it hasn't made my list of things I 1447 01:21:44.159 --> 01:21:45.800 know that you can eat the blooms of, you know, 1448 01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:48.560 like you can eat colendulas, and you can eatn astertium 1449 01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:51.840 ballooms and squashed and so on. 1450 01:21:51.960 --> 01:21:54.439 The reason I got them is because of that, is 1451 01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:57.600 because they were edible. I checked out too. I got 1452 01:21:57.640 --> 01:22:00.199 a bunch of other herbs as well, and I'm going 1453 01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:04.039 to grow some in a in a in an area 1454 01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:08.079 and by my southwest window. And I got grow lights 1455 01:22:08.119 --> 01:22:11.159 as well, and I've been successful growing some of the 1456 01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:16.720 stuff there. I got a toothache plant and some uh 1457 01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:23.079 some other stuff. But it seems to that I wanted 1458 01:22:23.119 --> 01:22:25.359 to grow something that I can, you know, grow like 1459 01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:29.000 a micro garden or whatever you call it. I got 1460 01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:32.319 some of that grass, that wheat grass and some other 1461 01:22:32.439 --> 01:22:38.359 things that I got a packet, And so I'm gonna 1462 01:22:39.159 --> 01:22:41.960 see if I needed to plant the wild violets now 1463 01:22:42.319 --> 01:22:47.359 or wait till the spring, or what if I. 1464 01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:49.119 If you've got now, if you've got the indoor place 1465 01:22:49.239 --> 01:22:51.319 to be able to grow them then start them and stuff. 1466 01:22:51.359 --> 01:22:53.199 You go ahead and start them now and have a 1467 01:22:53.239 --> 01:22:55.279 transplant to put out in the spring if you'd like 1468 01:22:55.359 --> 01:22:58.640 to do that. Okay, I think that that'd be better 1469 01:22:58.680 --> 01:23:01.199 in trying to start them, you know, later in the 1470 01:23:01.239 --> 01:23:03.319 spring and then have to plant them out in summer. 1471 01:23:03.840 --> 01:23:05.399 That it'd be better to go ahead and get that 1472 01:23:05.520 --> 01:23:07.920 done now. It sounds like you got a good plan 1473 01:23:08.039 --> 01:23:10.960 there starting your mac greens and other things. 1474 01:23:11.319 --> 01:23:13.880 Right. I wanted to make a comment too. I got 1475 01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:17.800 Fiddley ficus. I know you have to and I've got 1476 01:23:17.840 --> 01:23:21.239 one that's like fifteen feet tall right now. It's it's 1477 01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:23.359 grown out of the pod and into the ground. I'm 1478 01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:25.359 gonna have to dig it up and move it. And 1479 01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:28.239 it got down to thirty sixth last night here at 1480 01:23:28.359 --> 01:23:31.359 least that's what they said, And I was wondering, you 1481 01:23:31.399 --> 01:23:37.279 know what about tomorrow night? Is it gonna when? Is 1482 01:23:37.319 --> 01:23:38.159 it got breeze? 1483 01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:42.119 You know, I know, I don't know know that it 1484 01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:44.760 should be warming up. We should be going toward warmer 1485 01:23:44.960 --> 01:23:48.399 than like this morning is colder than tomorrow morning. But 1486 01:23:49.279 --> 01:23:52.199 did thirty nine not damage that fiddle fig? 1487 01:23:52.960 --> 01:23:55.800 Well, I haven't checked on the ones that I got 1488 01:23:55.800 --> 01:23:58.279 planted on the side of the house or on the outside. 1489 01:23:58.439 --> 01:24:01.720 But the one on the poor seems to be doing 1490 01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:06.279 just fine. And I also have a spot'sphilium plant there 1491 01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:10.680 next to it, and it it's still doing well in 1492 01:24:10.720 --> 01:24:13.239 the high biscuits hadn't dropped its leaves yet, so I figured, 1493 01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:18.520 you know, I uh dodged a bullet, so to speak. 1494 01:24:18.279 --> 01:24:21.039 Well, you can, you can wait till the last minute. 1495 01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:23.640 I don't see any I'm looking at weather forecast ten 1496 01:24:23.720 --> 01:24:26.359 day and there's not a colder day than this morning 1497 01:24:26.479 --> 01:24:31.279 that I see up ahead. But you string me. Yeah, 1498 01:24:31.319 --> 01:24:34.560 well Montgomery, No, I'm looking at Houston. I'm sorry, excuse me, 1499 01:24:34.840 --> 01:24:37.479 but if the weather's going, if it's warming here, it's 1500 01:24:37.760 --> 01:24:38.520 warming there. 1501 01:24:39.159 --> 01:24:39.680 Okay. 1502 01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:41.560 But anyway, well, hope that helps. 1503 01:24:42.199 --> 01:24:43.600 I appreciate it, great deal. 1504 01:24:43.640 --> 01:24:46.680 Appreciate you getting your call. Yeah, thanks n thanks for 1505 01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:48.800 calling you. Appreciate your calling me. 1506 01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:50.920 Jim. 1507 01:24:51.199 --> 01:24:53.720 You know I ron in the Woodlands. You will be 1508 01:24:53.800 --> 01:24:56.359 next up. Wasn't wasn't able to quite squeeze you in 1509 01:24:56.399 --> 01:24:59.359 this this segment. But when we come back at the top, 1510 01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:02.239 we will. We will go straight to you. I want 1511 01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:04.079 to remind you you're listening to the Garden Line. I'm 1512 01:25:04.079 --> 01:25:06.600 your host, Skip Rector, and we are here every Saturday 1513 01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:10.319 and Sunday from six am to ten am, where you 1514 01:25:10.359 --> 01:25:13.560 can call in and ask about whatever questions you have 1515 01:25:13.640 --> 01:25:17.520 related to horticulture. If you've got you got teams that 1516 01:25:17.560 --> 01:25:19.520 won't help you in the garden, I can't help with that. 1517 01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:22.319 If you've got a spouse that has different opinions about 1518 01:25:22.319 --> 01:25:24.600 where things that ought to be planted, I can't help. 1519 01:25:24.720 --> 01:25:27.199 But I can't help you with gardening questions. That's what 1520 01:25:27.239 --> 01:25:28.560 we do when we come right back. 1521 01:25:29.560 --> 01:25:34.159 Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's. 1522 01:25:42.159 --> 01:25:51.439 Just watch him as well. So many things to see botas. 1523 01:25:55.359 --> 01:25:59.600 All right, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm 1524 01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:02.199 your host, Rick, and we're here to talk about gardening. 1525 01:26:02.279 --> 01:26:03.720 The way I like to put it is, we're here 1526 01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:05.960 to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more 1527 01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:10.960 beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. How about 1528 01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:13.680 that Does that work? It worked for me. Well, we're 1529 01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:15.640 going to head straight to the phones. By the way, 1530 01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:17.880 the number if you'd like to call seven one three 1531 01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:20.720 two one two KTRH. We're going to go out to 1532 01:26:20.800 --> 01:26:24.680 the Woodlands talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, welcome to Garlandski. 1533 01:26:25.800 --> 01:26:28.319 Hi, thanks for taking my call. Hey, it's a pretty 1534 01:26:28.319 --> 01:26:33.720 simple question. I need to plant some oak tree seed saplings, 1535 01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:35.840 and so what's the best time of the year to 1536 01:26:35.880 --> 01:26:36.079 do that? 1537 01:26:36.239 --> 01:26:37.640 Is it now? Is it summertime? 1538 01:26:37.880 --> 01:26:38.680 Can you help me with that? 1539 01:26:39.239 --> 01:26:41.319 Are these things? Are these things you've been growing in 1540 01:26:41.399 --> 01:26:45.359 a container? Are things you're digging and moving both? 1541 01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:50.279 I lost so many trees cast bad weather, hurricanes and 1542 01:26:50.279 --> 01:26:53.800 stuff that I'm my my yard's pretty sparse right now. 1543 01:26:55.119 --> 01:26:58.920 Yeah, okay. Well, as far as digging and moving a plant, 1544 01:26:59.199 --> 01:27:02.600 fall an early winter or the best time to get 1545 01:27:02.600 --> 01:27:05.800 that done. So now the leaves are falling off, the 1546 01:27:05.880 --> 01:27:10.319 demands are gone to zero. Get whatever root system you 1547 01:27:10.359 --> 01:27:14.479 can get with those saplings that are coming up. The 1548 01:27:14.560 --> 01:27:18.000 smaller the plant you're digging, the more successful you're going 1549 01:27:18.039 --> 01:27:20.760 to be at moving it. The bigger it gets, the 1550 01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:24.039 more shock there is to the system because the amount 1551 01:27:24.079 --> 01:27:28.000 of root loss has increased percentage wise, Move it to 1552 01:27:28.079 --> 01:27:30.119 the new spot, put it in water, it in really 1553 01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:32.560 good settle in the soil. Don't put fertilizer in the 1554 01:27:32.600 --> 01:27:35.039 planting hole. Now, as far as things that were growing 1555 01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:37.600 in a container, when you put them out of the container, 1556 01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:40.800 lay it over, slide them out of the container. You 1557 01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:43.239 may have to bump the bottomer sides to get loose 1558 01:27:43.279 --> 01:27:47.039 to slide out. Any circling roots, go ahead and cut those. 1559 01:27:47.479 --> 01:27:50.520 If they're small, you can cut them with a utility 1560 01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:55.520 blade or otherwise just use handpooters. But cut circling roots 1561 01:27:55.520 --> 01:27:59.039 in three or four places around the plant. Those cut 1562 01:27:59.119 --> 01:28:02.600 roots will re sprout quickly and within a few weeks 1563 01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:04.960 you'll have new root growth coming out on them. So 1564 01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:07.479 make sure and cut them and then plant them at 1565 01:28:07.520 --> 01:28:10.880 the same level they were growing in the container. Okay, 1566 01:28:10.960 --> 01:28:12.600 very good. I have one more question for you if 1567 01:28:12.640 --> 01:28:13.159 you have time. 1568 01:28:14.279 --> 01:28:16.439 Yeah, looks like a couple of my couple of my 1569 01:28:16.560 --> 01:28:19.439 pine trees are getting attacked. I assume it's pine beetles. 1570 01:28:19.479 --> 01:28:22.199 What's the best to use to knock those guys out? 1571 01:28:22.840 --> 01:28:23.479 Kill the beetles? 1572 01:28:23.520 --> 01:28:25.960 All right, Well, tell me about tell me what you're seeing. 1573 01:28:26.239 --> 01:28:28.920 What are the symptoms that are making you think maybe 1574 01:28:28.960 --> 01:28:29.640 pine beetles. 1575 01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:34.520 So the I'm getting some holes in the bark kind 1576 01:28:34.560 --> 01:28:37.399 of circumfrenchly around the tree, and then there's some sap 1577 01:28:37.439 --> 01:28:39.439 that looks like coming out to I guess to plug 1578 01:28:39.479 --> 01:28:41.760 those holes. I guess the tree's defence is doing that. 1579 01:28:42.319 --> 01:28:45.800 And then the leaves, the needle needles way up high, 1580 01:28:46.279 --> 01:28:47.239 they're turning brown. 1581 01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:52.359 Okay, so are the are the sap globs you're seeing? 1582 01:28:52.520 --> 01:28:55.560 Are they from ten feet high down or they go 1583 01:28:55.680 --> 01:28:56.279 way up the. 1584 01:28:56.239 --> 01:29:03.880 Trunk they're Yeah, I really couldn't. I would say they're 1585 01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:05.800 six feet or higher. 1586 01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:12.439 Okay, So yeah, that is some type of a pine beetle. 1587 01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:15.800 There's several different types. There's probably four different types that 1588 01:29:16.159 --> 01:29:20.359 might fit you what I hear you describing there. When 1589 01:29:20.399 --> 01:29:25.960 needles turn brown, that is not going to recover. Like 1590 01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:28.119 if you lose all the green needles on a branch, 1591 01:29:28.159 --> 01:29:31.560 that branch will not reach sprout. In a pine it's 1592 01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:33.520 not able to do. It can only reach sprout at 1593 01:29:33.560 --> 01:29:35.720 the base of green needles. So as long as you 1594 01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:40.479 have green needles, you can bring that plant back around. Now, 1595 01:29:40.520 --> 01:29:43.439 there's not a spray systemically to go up in there 1596 01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:47.760 and kill the pine bark beetles. External sprays only prevent 1597 01:29:48.560 --> 01:29:53.359 new beetles from tunneling in, and so the problem with 1598 01:29:53.479 --> 01:29:57.039 external sprays is you need to reach if you can, 1599 01:29:57.239 --> 01:29:59.880 eighty percent of the height of the tree. All sides 1600 01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:03.800 all bark into the crevices with a spray, and what 1601 01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:07.000 ends up happening then is you're standing down low, squirting 1602 01:30:07.159 --> 01:30:09.920 way up too much vertically. You know what I'm saying, 1603 01:30:09.960 --> 01:30:13.000 That the mist is drifting down and it's very dangerous 1604 01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:16.840 to do that. So hiring a professional to come in 1605 01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:20.840 is an option. But my only hesitation on saying iago 1606 01:30:20.920 --> 01:30:24.199 get somebody to spray it is that it may be 1607 01:30:24.279 --> 01:30:27.279 a little late to save them. So if you see 1608 01:30:27.680 --> 01:30:31.560 fifty percent of the needles are still green, well they 1609 01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:34.439 may be okay, But just know this, the spraying will 1610 01:30:34.479 --> 01:30:39.720 not kill what's in the tree. It'll only prevent additional attack. 1611 01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:43.479 So there's nothing that could be planted around the bark 1612 01:30:44.119 --> 01:30:46.640 in the ground that systemically the roots would pick that 1613 01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:49.239 up and travel it up to the entire system. 1614 01:30:49.239 --> 01:30:55.800 Then, to my knowledge, there is not I know that 1615 01:30:55.880 --> 01:30:58.720 in the past there wasn't a good systemic There may 1616 01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:00.399 have been something come on the market that I'm not 1617 01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:05.359 aware of, but I think the problem is that usually 1618 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:07.800 when pine bark beetles hit, they hit hard and they 1619 01:31:07.840 --> 01:31:11.800 hit fast, and so as a result, you know you're 1620 01:31:11.840 --> 01:31:18.520 gonna you're gonna end up with the tree goes down 1621 01:31:18.600 --> 01:31:21.039 before the product, before the product gets up there and 1622 01:31:21.560 --> 01:31:23.079 is present to kill the bugs. 1623 01:31:23.319 --> 01:31:25.760 So yeah, it looks like I'm going to be down 1624 01:31:25.800 --> 01:31:27.039 to pine trees then. 1625 01:31:26.920 --> 01:31:28.000 So listen, Skip. 1626 01:31:28.039 --> 01:31:30.119 I really appreciate your time, Thanks for the thanks for 1627 01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:30.720 the information. 1628 01:31:31.960 --> 01:31:35.039 Yeah, Ron, And one quick tip. You know, we recommend 1629 01:31:35.079 --> 01:31:39.279 Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore for for treework like that. 1630 01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:44.199 But whoever you are using this, sooner you get them 1631 01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:48.159 in there after. We truly have a brown pine tree, 1632 01:31:48.880 --> 01:31:51.399 the better because that pine bark starts to slip and 1633 01:31:51.439 --> 01:31:54.960 come off pretty quick compared to other trees. And when 1634 01:31:55.039 --> 01:31:57.119 you're trying to climb a tree and you got huge 1635 01:31:57.199 --> 01:32:00.119 chunks of barc slipping it is, it is dangerous and 1636 01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:03.239 so it's better to get it done sooner. And like 1637 01:32:03.239 --> 01:32:05.239 I said, if there's no green needles, there is no 1638 01:32:05.359 --> 01:32:07.359 regrowth on the pine, so it's a done. 1639 01:32:07.439 --> 01:32:12.079 Yea, there's there. Okay, Clely Brown, thank you very much 1640 01:32:12.079 --> 01:32:12.439 for your time. 1641 01:32:12.479 --> 01:32:15.239 Okay, have a good day, Yes, sir, thanks for the call. 1642 01:32:16.640 --> 01:32:21.279 Take care. I'll bye. That is unfortunate, but that is 1643 01:32:21.319 --> 01:32:24.000 the case of what it is. Hey plans for all seasons. 1644 01:32:24.640 --> 01:32:27.560 They are on Highway two forty nine. We call that 1645 01:32:27.640 --> 01:32:31.880 Tomball Parkway. Tomball Parkway. Plants for All Seasons is a 1646 01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:34.479 great place to go to get any kinds of plans 1647 01:32:34.560 --> 01:32:36.920 at any season of the year. You know they're experts. 1648 01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:40.439 This family owned operation has been around since nineteen seventy 1649 01:32:40.520 --> 01:32:45.600 three two forty nine, was pretty much a cow trail 1650 01:32:46.000 --> 01:32:50.439 back in nineteen seventy three, not much past that. But seriously, 1651 01:32:50.479 --> 01:32:53.399 they are truly lawn and garden experts. And if you 1652 01:32:53.439 --> 01:32:55.840 are a green thumb and you take pride in your garden, 1653 01:32:55.960 --> 01:32:58.760 you need to visit Plants for All Seasons. If you 1654 01:32:58.840 --> 01:33:01.520 have a brown thumb and you think you're hopelessly lost 1655 01:33:01.520 --> 01:33:03.920 as a gardener, don't worry about it. Go in there, 1656 01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:06.800 take them samples, take them pictures. They'll turn the thumb 1657 01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:09.680 green for you and you to worry about that. You 1658 01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:11.359 can give them a call at two eight, one, three, 1659 01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:14.640 seven six, sixteen forty six, or go to the website 1660 01:33:14.640 --> 01:33:18.760 Plants for All Seasons dot com. They are loaded up 1661 01:33:18.760 --> 01:33:22.399 with color right now, like cyclemans and biolas and pansies. 1662 01:33:22.680 --> 01:33:26.279 They've got plenty of cool season vegetables. If you're interested 1663 01:33:26.319 --> 01:33:30.279 in doing some vegetables, including different kinds of onions, you know, 1664 01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:34.279 the red, white, and yellow onions are all available there. 1665 01:33:34.560 --> 01:33:37.159 And then the bulbs a nice source of bulbs. You know, 1666 01:33:37.199 --> 01:33:41.039 if you're on the plant, some things that come up 1667 01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:44.720 and give you a real traditional quick bulb show, like 1668 01:33:44.840 --> 01:33:48.399 hyacinth and tulips. They've got plenty of bulbs for those, 1669 01:33:48.479 --> 01:33:51.560 as well as well as everything else you would expect 1670 01:33:51.840 --> 01:33:55.239 from a quality garden center, including all the things you 1671 01:33:55.359 --> 01:33:59.720 need to make the brown stuff good, so mixes and fertilizers, 1672 01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:07.239 any different types and plants for all seasons. I had 1673 01:34:07.560 --> 01:34:10.199 moved some bulbs. Speaking of bulbs, I had moved some 1674 01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:15.600 bulbs myself from another location. Sometimes, you know, someone will 1675 01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:17.159 offer to give me bulbs that they have at the 1676 01:34:17.199 --> 01:34:20.359 garden and dig them up. I've been in situations where 1677 01:34:20.680 --> 01:34:22.960 you know something's about to be done to a property 1678 01:34:23.039 --> 01:34:25.399 and these bulbs are there, and either you dig them 1679 01:34:25.439 --> 01:34:27.560 and get them out of there now, or they're gonna 1680 01:34:27.560 --> 01:34:31.359 be a concrete slab over them later on. And so 1681 01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:33.399 I end up with bulbs a lot of different ways, 1682 01:34:33.960 --> 01:34:36.880 and I typically abuse the heck out of my bulbs. 1683 01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:40.920 You know, these are things that are the re appearing bulbs, 1684 01:34:41.039 --> 01:34:44.279 the kind that bloom year after year that established that 1685 01:34:44.800 --> 01:34:48.239 can grow in our landscape as a true perennial. And 1686 01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:51.640 you know, maybe things like paper white. Some of the 1687 01:34:51.640 --> 01:34:54.159 paper whites, a few of the daffodils are that way. 1688 01:34:55.039 --> 01:34:57.479 There's just a lot of different kinds of bulbs that 1689 01:34:57.960 --> 01:35:02.199 do really well. But anyway, bottom line is I'm always 1690 01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:05.960 moving around and they're just a pleasure because every year 1691 01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:08.079 you get this surprise they pop out of the ground, 1692 01:35:08.159 --> 01:35:11.439 they bloom, and that I call that a dividend on 1693 01:35:11.479 --> 01:35:14.640 your investment. Time for me to take a break. I'll 1694 01:35:14.640 --> 01:35:17.000 be back with your calls at seven one three two 1695 01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:22.359 one two ktrh. Welcome back to Garden Line, folks. We 1696 01:35:22.560 --> 01:35:27.399 are ready to go here for another segment here this morning, 1697 01:35:27.399 --> 01:35:31.319 we're going to talk about some things related to activities 1698 01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:34.520 outside right now, things we need to be doing. If 1699 01:35:34.520 --> 01:35:36.319 you'd like to give me a call. Seven one three 1700 01:35:36.399 --> 01:35:39.640 two one two ktr h seven one three two one 1701 01:35:39.680 --> 01:35:44.960 two kt r h. Soil, soil, so, it's all about 1702 01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:48.079 the soil. So it is so important and nature's way 1703 01:35:48.119 --> 01:35:55.560 resources is basically a wonderland of soil products. A good 1704 01:35:55.560 --> 01:35:57.920 way to put it. I think so much of soil 1705 01:35:57.920 --> 01:35:59.520 and if you listen to garden line. You know that. 1706 01:36:00.199 --> 01:36:01.960 But I love it so much. I could just run 1707 01:36:01.960 --> 01:36:04.840 out of Nature's way, jump into a pile of compost 1708 01:36:04.880 --> 01:36:06.119 and make compost angels. 1709 01:36:06.159 --> 01:36:06.319 You know. 1710 01:36:06.479 --> 01:36:08.800 Can you picture that? Laying on my back, weaving my 1711 01:36:08.840 --> 01:36:11.279 hands in the air. I think it's cool stuff because 1712 01:36:11.359 --> 01:36:14.840 it works. It is the stuff that makes soil or 1713 01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:18.039 makes plants thrive. And if you look at nature and 1714 01:36:18.079 --> 01:36:21.399 you look at the way that soil gets built naturally 1715 01:36:21.520 --> 01:36:25.720 over a long long time, as nature decomposes organic matter 1716 01:36:25.800 --> 01:36:29.239 into the soil, it just gets better. But Nature's way 1717 01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:34.000 gives you a head start, a huge headstart. For example, 1718 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:36.800 you go there and you buy some of their quality 1719 01:36:36.800 --> 01:36:40.000 composting materials. They have a number of bed mixes. They 1720 01:36:40.039 --> 01:36:43.039 have all kinds of mulches and things to put on 1721 01:36:43.199 --> 01:36:46.319 surface of the soil, various products. If you're looking for 1722 01:36:46.840 --> 01:36:50.840 blends for acid loving plants, for fruit trees, for vegetables 1723 01:36:50.840 --> 01:36:52.960 and herbs and things, they can get you fixed up. 1724 01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:56.800 John Ferguson long ago became a student of the soil, 1725 01:36:57.039 --> 01:37:00.880 and it just it was like a snow all going downhill, 1726 01:37:00.960 --> 01:37:03.239 picking up steam and size as it went. You know it. 1727 01:37:04.479 --> 01:37:08.840 His knowledge, the amount of professional journals and things and 1728 01:37:08.840 --> 01:37:12.600 books he reads and studies have made Nature's way what 1729 01:37:12.640 --> 01:37:16.199 it is, and I and his son there to continue 1730 01:37:16.199 --> 01:37:20.319 in that tradition, just putting out quality products that work, 1731 01:37:20.920 --> 01:37:23.560 that will help you have if you want to, if 1732 01:37:23.600 --> 01:37:25.560 you want people to think you have a green thumb. 1733 01:37:25.560 --> 01:37:28.960 And by the way you do, thumbs don't really turn 1734 01:37:29.039 --> 01:37:31.319 green or brown. We say that, but they don't. What 1735 01:37:31.520 --> 01:37:35.359 happens is your thumb gets informed and when it informs, 1736 01:37:35.439 --> 01:37:37.359 that makes it greener. If you know what I'm saying, 1737 01:37:37.479 --> 01:37:42.239 and I'm informing you, the quality soil products make it 1738 01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:44.399 make your thumb green, make it look like you have 1739 01:37:44.399 --> 01:37:46.399 a green thumb, because you do because you know how 1740 01:37:46.439 --> 01:37:49.079 to do it. Go by Nature's way. By the way, 1741 01:37:49.079 --> 01:37:52.359 on Fungal Fridays, that's ever Friday, twenty percent off their 1742 01:37:52.399 --> 01:37:57.199 fungal composts. It's a great deal. You just swing by 1743 01:37:57.199 --> 01:37:58.640 on a Friday to do that. You can go out 1744 01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:00.920 there with your trailer truck, pick it up. You can 1745 01:38:00.920 --> 01:38:02.720 buy by the bagging, buy it by the boat. You 1746 01:38:02.720 --> 01:38:04.359 can call them up and say deliver it. You can 1747 01:38:04.399 --> 01:38:08.439 go to local garden centers and other outlets of gardening 1748 01:38:08.520 --> 01:38:12.039 supplies here in the Houston area. And many of those 1749 01:38:12.119 --> 01:38:15.560 will carry Nature's Way products. That makes it really simple 1750 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:17.359 if you'd like to give them a call. Nine three 1751 01:38:17.439 --> 01:38:22.439 six two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two 1752 01:38:22.479 --> 01:38:25.920 seven three twelve hundred. The only thing you need to 1753 01:38:25.920 --> 01:38:29.000 not do is put it off and delay. Go ahead 1754 01:38:29.079 --> 01:38:32.560 and get it done. They have the products you need. 1755 01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:37.199 Getting the soil built now enables you to plant whenever 1756 01:38:37.239 --> 01:38:40.880 you want a plant. I've talked to gardeners before. In fact, 1757 01:38:41.079 --> 01:38:44.560 the truth be known, I've done this myself. I put 1758 01:38:44.600 --> 01:38:46.640 it off and put it off, and it was time 1759 01:38:46.760 --> 01:38:50.159 to get those tomatoes into the vegetable garden, let's say. 1760 01:38:50.600 --> 01:38:52.520 And all of a sudden it starts raining, and I 1761 01:38:52.560 --> 01:38:56.000 just said, rainy days, rainy days. This soil is too 1762 01:38:56.000 --> 01:38:59.000 wet to work. I wish I'd prepared it before. Prepare 1763 01:38:59.039 --> 01:39:03.359 it now. Ninety year old fellow I knew in Conroad, Texas, 1764 01:39:03.439 --> 01:39:07.000 at the Friendship Garden, a community garden on the north 1765 01:39:07.199 --> 01:39:10.199 north side up by the airport. He used to say, 1766 01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:12.760 you can always add water, but you can't take it away. 1767 01:39:12.800 --> 01:39:16.520 And what he meant by that was when the soil 1768 01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:19.479 is dry and you can work with it, that's great. 1769 01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:22.079 You can always add water later, but when it rains 1770 01:39:22.119 --> 01:39:24.960 too much, now you got a soggy mess that you 1771 01:39:25.039 --> 01:39:28.560 don't want to mix up and mess with. His point was, 1772 01:39:29.760 --> 01:39:33.199 make soil while the sunshining. I like to say, make 1773 01:39:33.199 --> 01:39:36.319 hay while the sunshine. Makes soil while the sunshining. That's 1774 01:39:36.359 --> 01:39:38.800 a tip for the wise. I know it's a holiday season, 1775 01:39:38.800 --> 01:39:40.640 you're busy, you got all kinds of things going on. 1776 01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:43.760 But you get a little time here and there, get 1777 01:39:43.800 --> 01:39:48.000 that done. You will be so much better off if 1778 01:39:48.000 --> 01:39:50.279 you get that done. And Nature's Way Resources will help 1779 01:39:50.319 --> 01:39:54.000 you help you do just that. By the way, if 1780 01:39:54.039 --> 01:39:57.159 you are interested, you can go by there and pick 1781 01:39:57.199 --> 01:39:59.279 it up, or you can go to the website, you know, 1782 01:39:59.359 --> 01:40:06.119 Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature's Way Resources dot com. 1783 01:40:07.119 --> 01:40:09.880 You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor 1784 01:40:09.920 --> 01:40:12.279 and the phone number here is seven to one three 1785 01:40:12.439 --> 01:40:16.199 two one two kt R h seven one three two 1786 01:40:16.319 --> 01:40:22.439 one two kt r h Uh. If you are like 1787 01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:27.279 many people, including myself, whenever company's gonna come over, you 1788 01:40:27.399 --> 01:40:30.079 have to kind of spruce up the place a little bit. 1789 01:40:30.279 --> 01:40:33.319 You know, maybe the leaves need raking, the lawn needs mowing, 1790 01:40:33.800 --> 01:40:35.399 get those weeds out of the flower bed or al 1791 01:40:35.560 --> 01:40:37.079 mulch on top. I don't know how far you go 1792 01:40:37.159 --> 01:40:40.279 with that. I know indoors we go to we often 1793 01:40:40.319 --> 01:40:43.279 go to great links getting that house in a very 1794 01:40:43.359 --> 01:40:48.920 unusually pristine position, position or condition before people show up. 1795 01:40:49.680 --> 01:40:49.800 Uh. 1796 01:40:49.920 --> 01:40:52.680 Well, the landscape can be kind of the same way too. 1797 01:40:53.039 --> 01:40:56.800 And if you are looking to really revamp your landscape 1798 01:40:56.800 --> 01:40:59.199 and make it look good, and it's let's say, it's 1799 01:40:59.239 --> 01:41:01.039 just more work you're going to be able to do, 1800 01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:04.399 or maybe it requires some skills that you lack. Uh, 1801 01:41:04.960 --> 01:41:08.039 Pierce Scapes has got you covered. They've got designers on 1802 01:41:08.119 --> 01:41:11.960 staff that can create that beautiful design beds, you know, 1803 01:41:12.039 --> 01:41:14.600 the aesthetics, the they have the eye for that, they 1804 01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:16.399 have the skill for that, and they can do that. 1805 01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:19.199 And if you would give them a call now, I 1806 01:41:19.239 --> 01:41:21.560 know it's holidays now and you're not going to have 1807 01:41:21.600 --> 01:41:24.000 them come out now, well that's that's okay. Just give 1808 01:41:24.000 --> 01:41:27.319 them a call and get this scheduled and let's get 1809 01:41:27.319 --> 01:41:28.319 the process going. 1810 01:41:28.880 --> 01:41:29.119 Uh. 1811 01:41:29.960 --> 01:41:32.079 When they're when you and they are able to get 1812 01:41:32.119 --> 01:41:34.399 together and get the and get the work started, you 1813 01:41:34.439 --> 01:41:37.319 can go in. You can do a consultation in terms 1814 01:41:37.359 --> 01:41:41.560 of you know, what can I do at the front 1815 01:41:41.600 --> 01:41:44.600 of the house here that it just there's too much shade. 1816 01:41:44.680 --> 01:41:46.359 Everything that uster to grow is not growing out. What 1817 01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:48.239 can I do here? We're going to do in this bed, 1818 01:41:48.319 --> 01:41:52.680 what plants will do well, Redesigning beds and things like that. Uh, 1819 01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:57.359 irrigation season hits big time again next year. They do 1820 01:41:57.479 --> 01:42:01.680 irrigation repairs and things, and so there's you know, get 1821 01:42:01.720 --> 01:42:03.920 them on the schedule to come out take a look, 1822 01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:07.079 fix the things that need fixing. Would you love to 1823 01:42:07.119 --> 01:42:12.359 have that beautiful patio that has a special ambience of 1824 01:42:12.439 --> 01:42:16.279 lighting in it, landscape lighting. They can do that kind 1825 01:42:16.319 --> 01:42:18.399 of thing. You can get them on the schedule to 1826 01:42:18.479 --> 01:42:20.920 do quarterly maintenance where they come out and they do 1827 01:42:21.000 --> 01:42:24.039 the weeding, they do the mulching, they do the fertilizing, 1828 01:42:24.840 --> 01:42:26.920 any kind of trimming that might be done. Make sure 1829 01:42:26.960 --> 01:42:29.640 the irrigation's working on that too. They can do that. 1830 01:42:30.279 --> 01:42:34.079 Would you like to create some hard scape pathways or patios, 1831 01:42:34.159 --> 01:42:39.000 They can do that. Pierscapes pierscapes dot com. That the 1832 01:42:39.079 --> 01:42:43.119 numbers two eight, one, three, seven oh fifty sixty. But 1833 01:42:43.319 --> 01:42:46.800 just go to piercescapes dot com. You can find the 1834 01:42:46.800 --> 01:42:50.239 phone number there and you can also find photos and 1835 01:42:50.319 --> 01:42:52.319 examples of the kind of work that they can do. 1836 01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:55.720 I'm going to head out now to Guarden Oaks and 1837 01:42:55.800 --> 01:42:56.560 talk to Frank. 1838 01:42:56.880 --> 01:43:02.560 Hello, Frank, Well, they were going to you. 1839 01:43:03.079 --> 01:43:05.279 What's up, dude? What's up? All right? 1840 01:43:05.359 --> 01:43:10.239 I've got I've got some property in Grian's County and 1841 01:43:10.960 --> 01:43:14.560 I planted a number of pine trees a while back, 1842 01:43:14.600 --> 01:43:18.520 and they're all about fifteen eighteen feet tall. Now, unfortunately, 1843 01:43:18.520 --> 01:43:22.399 some of those trees have got really low hanging limbs. 1844 01:43:22.479 --> 01:43:26.520 You know, they're probably four to six inches in diameter 1845 01:43:26.640 --> 01:43:30.000 at this point, and they are a hassle or you know, 1846 01:43:30.159 --> 01:43:33.199 getting them riding lawn more can't get them under Yeah, 1847 01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.680 So I guess my question is can I cut them back? 1848 01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:38.600 Is now that you know a good time of the 1849 01:43:38.680 --> 01:43:41.960 year to do that, And how do I go about that? 1850 01:43:42.119 --> 01:43:44.520 Do I cut back maybe six inches from the trunk 1851 01:43:45.279 --> 01:43:47.079 or what? You know? What's your advice on gotcha? 1852 01:43:48.000 --> 01:43:50.840 Okay? Good question. Thanks for asking, because a lot of 1853 01:43:50.840 --> 01:43:53.319 times I wish people would have asked for did it 1854 01:43:54.279 --> 01:43:58.640 good help? More? Pine trees cannot rea sprout from a 1855 01:43:58.720 --> 01:44:01.680 cut like other trees. You cut them off six inches 1856 01:44:01.720 --> 01:44:04.840 from the trunk and they would sprout out branches, from 1857 01:44:04.840 --> 01:44:07.039 that point, not that you'd ever want to do that. Though. 1858 01:44:07.800 --> 01:44:10.399 Pine trees, I would cut them all the way back 1859 01:44:10.439 --> 01:44:12.800 to the trunk. And this is a case where you 1860 01:44:12.840 --> 01:44:16.319 cut them off flesh against the trunk, or leave maybe 1861 01:44:16.359 --> 01:44:20.640 a couple of inches at the most, at the most 1862 01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:24.600 an inch or two of color on the base of 1863 01:44:24.680 --> 01:44:27.359 the pine tree. Other trees we leave a little bit 1864 01:44:27.399 --> 01:44:30.279 more of a collar, depending on the size of the branch. 1865 01:44:30.439 --> 01:44:32.399 But with a pine I would just pretty much cut 1866 01:44:32.479 --> 01:44:34.520 them back to the to where they joined the trunk, 1867 01:44:34.840 --> 01:44:37.399 and then there's a little slowly close over that wound 1868 01:44:37.439 --> 01:44:42.880 in time. Yes, now's a good time. Winter's a good time. 1869 01:44:43.680 --> 01:44:45.479 You can even do it in early spring if you want. 1870 01:44:46.600 --> 01:44:50.960 Okay, So there's no restriction on that, and I don't 1871 01:44:50.960 --> 01:44:53.239 have to worry about putting anything on it to cover 1872 01:44:53.319 --> 01:44:55.000 it up or anything like that. 1873 01:44:55.159 --> 01:44:57.840 No, no, we're going to do that, not at all. 1874 01:44:58.039 --> 01:45:01.560 Find you're fine. This would be good to go. 1875 01:45:01.760 --> 01:45:02.600 Thank you very much, sir. 1876 01:45:03.760 --> 01:45:06.520 Hey, thanks for the call. You take care all right, folks. 1877 01:45:06.520 --> 01:45:08.239 I'm gonna take a low break if you would like 1878 01:45:08.279 --> 01:45:10.119 to be first up when we come back. Seven to 1879 01:45:10.119 --> 01:45:13.119 one three two one two k t R H seven 1880 01:45:13.199 --> 01:45:17.039 one three two one two k t R H. We 1881 01:45:17.039 --> 01:45:19.520 will be back with your questions, and I've got a 1882 01:45:19.520 --> 01:45:21.560 few more tips. I've kind of gotten away from tips 1883 01:45:21.640 --> 01:45:23.359 this morning. We'll go back to them a few more 1884 01:45:23.359 --> 01:45:27.079 tips to help you have success. Hey, welcome back to 1885 01:45:27.039 --> 01:45:30.359 the guarden Line. I'm your host, stip Rictor. We're here 1886 01:45:30.359 --> 01:45:34.399 to help you have a bountiful garden, certainly a beautiful 1887 01:45:34.439 --> 01:45:37.600 landscape and more fun in the process. I'm gonna go 1888 01:45:37.640 --> 01:45:41.479 straight back out to the phones here and talk to Scott. Hello, Scott, 1889 01:45:41.520 --> 01:45:42.640 Welcome to garden Line. 1890 01:45:43.239 --> 01:45:44.199 Hey, how are you. 1891 01:45:47.439 --> 01:45:47.720 Good. 1892 01:45:47.920 --> 01:45:50.199 I've got a question. I love out in Belleville. Talk 1893 01:45:50.239 --> 01:45:54.159 to you a few times already. Very very sandy soil, 1894 01:45:54.520 --> 01:45:58.039 I mean like beach sand throughout the whole property almost. 1895 01:45:59.520 --> 01:46:03.279 I want to start transplanting or planting some trees. And 1896 01:46:03.399 --> 01:46:06.399 I think that I've read enough where I heard that 1897 01:46:06.640 --> 01:46:08.399 now is a good time to actually put trees in 1898 01:46:08.439 --> 01:46:12.039 the ground because they can concentrate on roots and seat 1899 01:46:12.079 --> 01:46:13.479 of leaves. Is that true? 1900 01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:18.760 That's correct. It's a low stress time to plant a 1901 01:46:18.800 --> 01:46:19.560 tree or shrub. 1902 01:46:21.079 --> 01:46:21.479 Very good. 1903 01:46:21.600 --> 01:46:25.199 So I've got a by text that I was actually 1904 01:46:25.560 --> 01:46:27.720 able to save. I had to cut the tap root 1905 01:46:27.760 --> 01:46:30.880 it busted through the plastic thing and put a tap 1906 01:46:30.960 --> 01:46:32.960 root down. But I cut it off and dumped it 1907 01:46:33.000 --> 01:46:35.800 in a bucket of water and it sprouted leaves back. 1908 01:46:35.880 --> 01:46:39.560 Those things are Those things are hardy. What do you 1909 01:46:39.680 --> 01:46:43.680 suggest for doing for the hole that I'm going to 1910 01:46:43.720 --> 01:46:47.920 put it in. It's in like a tent five gallon 1911 01:46:48.680 --> 01:46:50.319 container something like that. 1912 01:46:50.720 --> 01:46:52.760 So what you're going to do is when it comes 1913 01:46:52.800 --> 01:46:54.439 out of the container, make I don't know how long 1914 01:46:54.479 --> 01:46:56.680 it's been in the container, but if it's had time 1915 01:46:56.720 --> 01:46:59.439 to develop circling roots, cut those on the outside of 1916 01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:02.640 the container wall where they hit the wall, and go 1917 01:47:02.640 --> 01:47:06.800 in a circle. Cut those three or four places around. Uh. 1918 01:47:06.920 --> 01:47:11.760 Then dig a hole in a sandy soil, normally we 1919 01:47:11.800 --> 01:47:13.359 say dig a hole two and a half times the 1920 01:47:13.399 --> 01:47:15.760 size of the container. Well, in a sandy soil, that 1921 01:47:16.000 --> 01:47:18.840 kind of isn't necessary. It's such a loose soil. What 1922 01:47:18.920 --> 01:47:21.199 I would do to save you some work is dig 1923 01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:23.279 a hole just a little bigger than the container so 1924 01:47:23.319 --> 01:47:26.720 you can slide that down in it. Try to make 1925 01:47:26.760 --> 01:47:30.600 sure and dig it only as deep as the container. Okay, okay, 1926 01:47:31.399 --> 01:47:34.760 And the reason the reason for that is soil settles. 1927 01:47:35.039 --> 01:47:35.159 Uh. 1928 01:47:35.319 --> 01:47:37.640 And if you dig a hole, have a loose soil 1929 01:47:37.640 --> 01:47:40.079 in the bottom. That plant will settle deeper, and it's 1930 01:47:40.119 --> 01:47:43.239 important to get it at the right depth. So just 1931 01:47:43.319 --> 01:47:45.800 dig it as deep a measure the depth in the container, 1932 01:47:45.960 --> 01:47:48.279 measure the depth of the hole. Set it in the hole, 1933 01:47:48.960 --> 01:47:51.399 fill the soil in around it. Don't put fertilizer in 1934 01:47:51.439 --> 01:47:57.359 the hole. Don't put compost in the hole. Just no, 1935 01:47:57.640 --> 01:48:00.199 no fertilizer, No compost in the in the whole for 1936 01:48:00.239 --> 01:48:03.359 this tree. For what you're doing right now, once it 1937 01:48:03.439 --> 01:48:06.439 starts to grow in the spring, then begin to fertilize it, 1938 01:48:06.800 --> 01:48:10.920 and especially nitrogen. Nitrogen is the most important thing to 1939 01:48:10.960 --> 01:48:14.119 get that tree growing. But a good I'll tell you 1940 01:48:14.359 --> 01:48:16.840 there are tree and shrub fertilizers out there, but you 1941 01:48:16.840 --> 01:48:19.319 can also use a lawn a turf fertilizer. If you 1942 01:48:19.359 --> 01:48:21.680 got some to your lawn, you got some extra, just 1943 01:48:22.039 --> 01:48:25.239 use it to fertilize your trees and shrubs because it's 1944 01:48:25.239 --> 01:48:26.840 good for that and water. 1945 01:48:26.840 --> 01:48:31.479 I've got a really good I've got a thirteen thirteen 1946 01:48:31.560 --> 01:48:34.159 thirteen that I use on my plam areas. Is that 1947 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:35.560 is that fine? 1948 01:48:36.960 --> 01:48:39.920 You could use that? That's higher phosphorus than you need 1949 01:48:39.920 --> 01:48:42.600 for trees. And shrubs. But I don't know what your 1950 01:48:42.640 --> 01:48:46.039 soil test would say, so it may be Okay, a 1951 01:48:46.079 --> 01:48:48.119 soil test is really the best way to go to 1952 01:48:48.119 --> 01:48:49.039 know how to furtiz. 1953 01:48:49.640 --> 01:48:50.319 Would they do that? 1954 01:48:50.640 --> 01:48:51.239 I would do that. 1955 01:48:52.680 --> 01:48:56.800 There's a agriculture I can't remember the name of it, 1956 01:48:56.840 --> 01:49:01.960 but there's one right here in Belleville. I would Would 1957 01:49:01.960 --> 01:49:04.800 they test it there or do they sell the Oh? 1958 01:49:04.800 --> 01:49:08.439 Your county extension Your county extension office. Here's what you're 1959 01:49:08.439 --> 01:49:11.560 talking about. Yeah, you've got uh no, here's what you do. 1960 01:49:11.680 --> 01:49:14.079 You if you have a pin or pencil handy, you 1961 01:49:14.199 --> 01:49:20.399 go to Soil Testing dot T A m U, dot 1962 01:49:20.560 --> 01:49:23.840 E ed U. Now that I've said that, you can 1963 01:49:23.880 --> 01:49:27.319 also go to my website gardening with skip dot com 1964 01:49:27.840 --> 01:49:31.439 and on my soil I'm and all my lawn care schedule. 1965 01:49:31.880 --> 01:49:35.640 There's a hopper hyperlink to the soil testing site. But 1966 01:49:35.720 --> 01:49:38.399 you want to at soil testing, there's a bunch of 1967 01:49:38.439 --> 01:49:41.439 different soil tests they can do. You want the urban 1968 01:49:42.399 --> 01:49:47.880 soil test, Yeah, and all it means is that it's 1969 01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:53.960 for yards and homes and residential rather than pasture. Okay, 1970 01:49:54.720 --> 01:49:57.199 so do the urban soil test. Tell them it's a 1971 01:49:57.239 --> 01:49:59.640 tree and and they'll give you the results and they 1972 01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:01.479 come in. You have questions about you can email me 1973 01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:02.920 and send me a copy of it and I'll look 1974 01:50:02.920 --> 01:50:05.199 at it for you. Or very cool since you got 1975 01:50:05.239 --> 01:50:08.000 that county Extension office. And I'm saying this because there's 1976 01:50:08.079 --> 01:50:12.159 listeners from all over Everett County in this whole region 1977 01:50:12.199 --> 01:50:15.319 of Texas has its own county Extension office. And you 1978 01:50:15.439 --> 01:50:18.000 got an agent in there, and you can contact that 1979 01:50:18.039 --> 01:50:22.159 person and you can get help with soil testing results 1980 01:50:22.199 --> 01:50:24.520 and what to do because they know the soils, they 1981 01:50:24.520 --> 01:50:25.279 know their county. 1982 01:50:25.319 --> 01:50:29.239 Well, yeah, well that's a good idea because they're literally, 1983 01:50:29.439 --> 01:50:31.960 you know, ten minutes away. It's it's a good sized 1984 01:50:31.960 --> 01:50:35.079 piece of property outside of town, and it is it 1985 01:50:35.119 --> 01:50:37.640 was it. It used to be pasture land. But there's 1986 01:50:37.680 --> 01:50:39.880 a lot of trees and oaks and hickoryes and all 1987 01:50:39.920 --> 01:50:43.560 that stuff on it. But I want to plant some 1988 01:50:43.680 --> 01:50:46.560 other trees around the property. I've got a bunch of 1989 01:50:47.399 --> 01:50:50.920 Asian lime trees. I'm scared to plant them because when 1990 01:50:50.960 --> 01:50:54.279 it gets cold, they kind of freeze and die. And 1991 01:50:54.319 --> 01:50:56.279 they've been they've been in buckets for so long that 1992 01:50:56.319 --> 01:50:58.640 they're just kind of suffering, you know what I mean. 1993 01:50:59.079 --> 01:50:59.680 So I don't. 1994 01:50:59.680 --> 01:51:00.000 I don't. 1995 01:51:00.159 --> 01:51:02.000 I'm kind of torn about what to do on those. 1996 01:51:04.479 --> 01:51:08.479 Any any suggestions, I'm sorry, Tell me what kind of 1997 01:51:08.479 --> 01:51:09.119 plant that was? 1998 01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:09.439 Again? 1999 01:51:10.680 --> 01:51:14.079 They they said that they were an Asian lime tree. 2000 01:51:14.279 --> 01:51:18.159 They they have. It's a lime tree, but it's not 2001 01:51:18.279 --> 01:51:21.279 like the typical Mexican line that let you the flavor 2002 01:51:21.279 --> 01:51:23.520 that you would put in your your margarita or anything. 2003 01:51:23.560 --> 01:51:29.279 It's a very mild lime flavor they make. They make 2004 01:51:29.319 --> 01:51:33.279 awesome pies, but they're just and I planted them from 2005 01:51:33.359 --> 01:51:35.760 seed from one that I had down in Cyprus area, 2006 01:51:36.399 --> 01:51:38.920 and I've got half a dozen of them now, and 2007 01:51:38.960 --> 01:51:42.000 then I've also got just regular limes and and and 2008 01:51:42.680 --> 01:51:45.199 you know, grapefruit, and I just want to scatter them 2009 01:51:45.239 --> 01:51:47.239 across the property. 2010 01:51:47.720 --> 01:51:52.279 Okay, well, I'm not sure exactly which one that is, 2011 01:51:52.359 --> 01:51:54.640 but if it's an edible lime, you can do that. 2012 01:51:55.920 --> 01:51:59.239 They're they're true limes are not cold hearty. Now, if 2013 01:51:59.279 --> 01:52:05.920 this were a rootstock type of plant, they grow wild, 2014 01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:07.960 and but I don't know why you would want one 2015 01:52:07.960 --> 01:52:14.000 of those really, So yeah, I don't. I don't know. 2016 01:52:14.880 --> 01:52:17.399 Now, these are all lime trees that I bought at 2017 01:52:17.520 --> 01:52:21.520 nurseries out here in up above Brenham. There's there's a 2018 01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:26.239 nice tree nursery and and the other ones. It is 2019 01:52:26.359 --> 01:52:29.840 very edible and it put out limes like crazy until 2020 01:52:29.840 --> 01:52:32.039 we had that really really bad freeze back in what 2021 01:52:32.119 --> 01:52:35.479 twenty twenty one or something like that. Yeah, it killed 2022 01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:38.319 my tree off. But I had I had collected the 2023 01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:41.960 seeds and planted a dozen of them, and they came 2024 01:52:42.039 --> 01:52:44.920 up and they're you know, four three or four five 2025 01:52:44.960 --> 01:52:45.680 feet tall now. 2026 01:52:45.840 --> 01:52:54.319 So but they're in Mukay, Well yeah, I would. Uh, 2027 01:52:54.680 --> 01:52:57.119 you can plant them. They are going to be subject 2028 01:52:57.159 --> 01:52:59.800 to freezes, but you can certainly plant them the same 2029 01:52:59.800 --> 01:53:02.359 way I was describing before about dig the hold of 2030 01:53:02.720 --> 01:53:05.640 right depth and put them in watermen really good on 2031 01:53:05.760 --> 01:53:07.760 any kind of new plant like that in a highly 2032 01:53:07.840 --> 01:53:11.840 sandy soil, you're going to want to provide supplemental irrigation, 2033 01:53:12.239 --> 01:53:15.279 especially the first summer. Uh, And so that could take 2034 01:53:15.319 --> 01:53:18.560 a number of forms. There. There are things called tree gators. 2035 01:53:18.600 --> 01:53:21.079 You put around a tree. You can go dry by 2036 01:53:21.359 --> 01:53:25.000 fill it up with water and then it slowly leaks out. 2037 01:53:25.239 --> 01:53:27.720 Or you can create a worm of soil around it 2038 01:53:27.760 --> 01:53:30.119 a doughnut and fill that berm full of water and 2039 01:53:30.159 --> 01:53:35.640 it sinks down in But they need pretty regular watering 2040 01:53:35.720 --> 01:53:38.319 that first year to get that good root system developed 2041 01:53:38.319 --> 01:53:40.520 so they have some resilience to them. 2042 01:53:40.960 --> 01:53:43.479 Okay, okay, well we can do that now that we 2043 01:53:43.560 --> 01:53:46.159 actually live out here, we've finished the house, we can 2044 01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:47.880 we can water them up regular. 2045 01:53:48.079 --> 01:53:51.640 So all right, well, good, well, your your agent, your 2046 01:53:51.640 --> 01:53:54.279 a county agent out there. Her name is Stacy via 2047 01:53:54.359 --> 01:54:00.680 Reel and she's a good one visit for our retire Okay, 2048 01:54:00.880 --> 01:54:04.880 you take care, have a great day, by you, bet, 2049 01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:07.520 Thank you very much. All right, time for me to 2050 01:54:07.560 --> 01:54:12.560 take a break. I'll be right back. Folks. All right, 2051 01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:15.039 welcome back to the garden line. Glad you are with 2052 01:54:15.119 --> 01:54:18.119 us this morning. Got a lot to talk about, always 2053 01:54:18.319 --> 01:54:20.000 always have a lot to talk about on gardening. 2054 01:54:20.039 --> 01:54:20.239 You know. 2055 01:54:21.119 --> 01:54:24.560 It is just when I was a county extension Horticulture 2056 01:54:24.600 --> 01:54:27.199 is the Texa and m Agro Life Extension Service. I 2057 01:54:27.319 --> 01:54:29.600 used to tell my co workers, you know, I had 2058 01:54:29.680 --> 01:54:32.119 egg agents that I worked with. I had family and 2059 01:54:32.199 --> 01:54:34.680 Community health agents that I worked with. I had four 2060 01:54:34.880 --> 01:54:37.680 h agents that I worked with. That's how extension is. 2061 01:54:37.720 --> 01:54:39.960 We cover pretty much tall areas and I used to 2062 01:54:40.000 --> 01:54:42.239 tell them that I have the biggest clientele in the 2063 01:54:42.279 --> 01:54:47.479 county because anybody in the county who has a front 2064 01:54:47.560 --> 01:54:52.399 yard or a houseplant is my clientele. Meaning anybody with 2065 01:54:52.479 --> 01:54:56.279 a yard would call I would because of all the 2066 01:54:56.359 --> 01:54:59.720 issues with the yards. But you could go down into 2067 01:54:59.760 --> 01:55:04.720 the entered the skyscraper region of Houston, go to the 2068 01:55:05.640 --> 01:55:09.479 nineteenth floor of some building and some little person's just 2069 01:55:09.520 --> 01:55:12.800 sitting there in their little tiny apartment with a house plant, 2070 01:55:12.840 --> 01:55:14.800 and they could call me and ask for a question. 2071 01:55:14.920 --> 01:55:17.359 That's how it is on garden Line here too. So 2072 01:55:17.479 --> 01:55:21.439 everybody has at least plant curiosities, if not questions, and 2073 01:55:21.800 --> 01:55:24.199 that's why we're here. I'm going to head out now 2074 01:55:24.239 --> 01:55:28.960 to Galveston and we're going to talk to you. Key. Hello, Kevin, Hello, 2075 01:55:29.159 --> 01:55:31.640 how you doing, buddy. Welcome to Guarden Line. 2076 01:55:33.159 --> 01:55:33.520 Thank you. 2077 01:55:35.680 --> 01:55:38.399 I've got a garden and this year I grew some 2078 01:55:38.520 --> 01:55:41.239 Okrah and I got an Okra plant, and I knew 2079 01:55:41.279 --> 01:55:45.319 I had something pretty special because this one was extremely. 2080 01:55:45.319 --> 01:55:46.920 Thick the stock. 2081 01:55:47.920 --> 01:55:49.880 So I measured it with some string and I taped 2082 01:55:49.920 --> 01:55:52.479 it on all the way to the base, all the 2083 01:55:52.520 --> 01:55:56.439 way up and came out, pulled the tape down, and 2084 01:55:56.479 --> 01:56:00.640 it measured twenty four feet. The Guinness Book of World 2085 01:56:00.680 --> 01:56:02.760 Records is some guy in New Orleans. 2086 01:56:02.439 --> 01:56:05.239 That had it at sixteen feets, so I didn't. I 2087 01:56:05.279 --> 01:56:08.439 haven't applied for it yet. But anyway, my main question 2088 01:56:08.560 --> 01:56:10.960 to you is do I do I cut it. 2089 01:56:10.920 --> 01:56:13.680 Down when it stops producing because it's still producing? Do 2090 01:56:13.760 --> 01:56:15.680 I just leave the roots in the in the soil 2091 01:56:16.520 --> 01:56:17.520 or what do you recommend? 2092 01:56:19.960 --> 01:56:23.520 Okay, it will die completely to the ground when you 2093 01:56:23.520 --> 01:56:26.680 have a good hard freeze. Now Gobston, you're pretty far sout. 2094 01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:29.119 I don't know. I've never I never wondered if you 2095 01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:31.239 could get Okre to survive at the base and re 2096 01:56:31.399 --> 01:56:35.119 sprout out or not. But I wouldn't. I wouldn't even 2097 01:56:35.319 --> 01:56:37.840 try it. I mean, even if it did, it wouldn't 2098 01:56:37.880 --> 01:56:40.239 be worth keeping it. First of all, you got to 2099 01:56:40.239 --> 01:56:41.720 take a picture of that and send it to me. 2100 01:56:42.359 --> 01:56:44.920 I want to. I want to see that with something 2101 01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:46.840 in scale in the picture, if you would, But if 2102 01:56:46.880 --> 01:56:49.399 you wouldn't mind sharing a picture of that. I don't 2103 01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:51.199 know what is it? Yeah, I guess it's because I 2104 01:56:51.199 --> 01:56:52.039 talk about Okra all. 2105 01:56:54.840 --> 01:56:57.800 I built a Trellis system for the garden and I 2106 01:56:57.800 --> 01:57:00.359 have a four by four post and that I have 2107 01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:03.600 like a long galvan I spence post across holding it up, 2108 01:57:03.680 --> 01:57:05.800 you know, suspending. 2109 01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:09.199 It, okay, and it's just continually traveling along that, along that, 2110 01:57:10.119 --> 01:57:12.359 along that galvet I spence post up at the top. 2111 01:57:13.319 --> 01:57:13.840 Y'all send you. 2112 01:57:13.800 --> 01:57:16.960 A do you own a do you own a helicopter? 2113 01:57:17.079 --> 01:57:18.239 Or how do you pick that thing? 2114 01:57:19.720 --> 01:57:22.039 No, it just it travels pretty much. 2115 01:57:22.079 --> 01:57:24.119 It went straight kind of straight up at an angle 2116 01:57:24.159 --> 01:57:26.399 and now it's just growing laterally, you know. 2117 01:57:27.159 --> 01:57:28.000 Okay, but I. 2118 01:57:28.000 --> 01:57:30.199 Do have I do have. I did have a ladder at. 2119 01:57:30.079 --> 01:57:32.119 First, but I kind of it's kind of dip it 2120 01:57:32.199 --> 01:57:35.640 a little, but it grows, you know, sideways. 2121 01:57:35.920 --> 01:57:38.039 Okay, Well, I want to see a picture of it. 2122 01:57:38.079 --> 01:57:40.439 I'd love to see that, and just let me know 2123 01:57:40.640 --> 01:57:42.199 I have permission to use it if you would. 2124 01:57:42.640 --> 01:57:42.760 Uh. 2125 01:57:42.880 --> 01:57:44.399 Now, I've had a lot of calls on I had 2126 01:57:44.439 --> 01:57:47.600 somebody call about a fifteen footter I believe it's fifteen 2127 01:57:47.640 --> 01:57:50.840 feet the other or send me a text or email 2128 01:57:50.840 --> 01:57:54.760 about it. But yeah, no, just just take it out. 2129 01:57:55.239 --> 01:58:00.479 It's you know, it's done. Plan the next one again 2130 01:58:00.560 --> 01:58:04.000 next summer when when we get late spring some warm weather. 2131 01:58:04.399 --> 01:58:06.039 Do you remember what variety it was? 2132 01:58:06.880 --> 01:58:07.119 I do. 2133 01:58:07.720 --> 01:58:12.000 I've got the seed package right here. It's fairy Morris 2134 01:58:12.239 --> 01:58:14.000 okra Emerald. 2135 01:58:15.119 --> 01:58:20.600 Oh, Emerald, Yes, okay, Well, uh, there there's not a 2136 01:58:20.840 --> 01:58:24.039 huge difference in OKRA sizes. You know that there are 2137 01:58:24.119 --> 01:58:27.319 some that stay smaller. There's a few varieties that only 2138 01:58:27.359 --> 01:58:30.800 get like two or three feet tall, and then there 2139 01:58:31.119 --> 01:58:34.640 the standard kinds get can get pretty tall. But that's interesting. 2140 01:58:35.119 --> 01:58:37.680 Did you enjoy that the flavor or quality? 2141 01:58:37.800 --> 01:58:39.960 Oh yeah, yeah, it's excellent. It's excellent. 2142 01:58:40.159 --> 01:58:43.359 And I played at about five about five plants, but 2143 01:58:43.439 --> 01:58:45.119 like I said, I knew it had something a little 2144 01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:48.840 remarkable because this one, the stalk on it was just 2145 01:58:49.720 --> 01:58:52.600 it looked like something out of a dinosaur that the 2146 01:58:52.640 --> 01:58:56.600 way the okay grew so thick, and it had like scales, 2147 01:58:56.680 --> 01:59:01.000 but it was just really really really large, very good. 2148 01:59:01.079 --> 01:59:05.239 I hate to put you to work, but Kevin, if 2149 01:59:05.239 --> 01:59:07.640 you could put a ruler up around the base and 2150 01:59:07.640 --> 01:59:09.399 take a picture of that, I'd be interested in that 2151 01:59:09.479 --> 01:59:12.239 as well. That's that's interesting. I have a problem on 2152 01:59:12.279 --> 01:59:13.159 an obsession with. 2153 01:59:13.159 --> 01:59:16.319 Okrah like a tape measure, like a tailor tape. 2154 01:59:17.159 --> 01:59:19.479 Yeah, just something that would kind of give a rough 2155 01:59:19.520 --> 01:59:22.840 idea you know how big it is? Okay, Well, yeah, 2156 01:59:22.880 --> 01:59:26.479 so I will take a picture that I would replant 2157 01:59:26.560 --> 01:59:28.199 it and if you if you don't want to have 2158 01:59:28.640 --> 01:59:35.560 such tall opra, you could next year cut it off 2159 01:59:35.760 --> 01:59:41.560 at about let's say, maybe three feet as it's growing, 2160 01:59:41.680 --> 01:59:44.800 just cut the top out and then it'll branch and 2161 01:59:44.880 --> 01:59:48.880 so you'll you'll have a giant bush, but maybe it'll 2162 01:59:48.880 --> 01:59:53.119 be pickable for a little longer. You know where you 2163 01:59:53.119 --> 01:59:53.520 can reach. 2164 01:59:55.000 --> 01:59:57.119 And one other question before I go, all of the 2165 01:59:57.279 --> 01:59:59.720 cherry tomatoes, by the way, they're still produce and do 2166 02:00:00.119 --> 02:00:01.920 just cut those off at the base and leave the 2167 02:00:02.000 --> 02:00:03.119 roots and the soil. 2168 02:00:05.600 --> 02:00:08.520 Well down there. You might be able to do that. Generally, 2169 02:00:08.600 --> 02:00:12.479 I replace them. There's things like soil diseases, there's pestant 2170 02:00:12.600 --> 02:00:16.520 things that will maybe stick around. But if you can 2171 02:00:16.520 --> 02:00:18.159 cut them off at the base and mult it well, 2172 02:00:18.239 --> 02:00:20.479 you might get them to come back and do that, 2173 02:00:20.680 --> 02:00:22.119 or you can cut the tips out. 2174 02:00:23.560 --> 02:00:25.159 I wasn't worried about him coming back. 2175 02:00:25.239 --> 02:00:27.399 I just heard that it was beneficial for the soil 2176 02:00:27.520 --> 02:00:29.680 to leave the roots and all that down in there. 2177 02:00:30.039 --> 02:00:32.920 Oh oh oh, I see, okay, yeah, no, you can 2178 02:00:32.960 --> 02:00:35.760 do that. Yeah, that's called no tail gardening. And I 2179 02:00:35.800 --> 02:00:38.680 do that myself and a lot of a lot of 2180 02:00:38.680 --> 02:00:41.439 the beds and areas you just just cut it off 2181 02:00:41.479 --> 02:00:43.680 and let the root trot. That's what happens in nature 2182 02:00:43.840 --> 02:00:46.439 to annuals. Every annual that grows in nature, the roots 2183 02:00:46.439 --> 02:00:48.479 become part of the soil. All right, thank you, sir, 2184 02:00:49.239 --> 02:00:49.680 thank you. 2185 02:00:50.239 --> 02:00:51.439 What do I send that picture to? 2186 02:00:52.640 --> 02:00:55.000 I'm going to put you on hold and my producer 2187 02:00:55.439 --> 02:00:57.920 Jonathan will pick it up and he will give you 2188 02:00:57.960 --> 02:01:01.920 an email. Thank you, Hey, Jonathan at you. If you 2189 02:01:02.159 --> 02:01:06.039 are looking for a quality garden center with right now 2190 02:01:06.079 --> 02:01:09.279 some really good deals on RCW Nurseries is a place 2191 02:01:09.279 --> 02:01:14.239 you need to go to. RCW is It's just a 2192 02:01:14.319 --> 02:01:19.239 dependable garden center conveniently located here in the Houston area, 2193 02:01:19.279 --> 02:01:22.279 northwest Houston where oh what is it? Belt Way eight 2194 02:01:22.399 --> 02:01:25.920 comes into two forty nine Tomball Parkway. They have fifteen 2195 02:01:25.920 --> 02:01:29.199 percent off all their trees right now. They have twenty 2196 02:01:29.279 --> 02:01:33.960 percent off all their shrubs right now. Cajun Hibiscus, my 2197 02:01:34.079 --> 02:01:38.399 favorite series of hibiscus, fifty percent off of those. You 2198 02:01:38.520 --> 02:01:40.880 just goin' to protect them during the winter, but my gosh, 2199 02:01:40.920 --> 02:01:42.920 what a deal, and they'll come out strong in the spring. 2200 02:01:43.159 --> 02:01:47.000 And ten dollars off of or ten dollars select roses. 2201 02:01:47.119 --> 02:01:51.279 My gosh, that's crazy. RCW nurseries is the kind of 2202 02:01:51.319 --> 02:01:54.479 place you go. You get expert advice, you get quality plants. 2203 02:01:54.920 --> 02:01:59.239 They always have something interesting. They have beautiful, beautiful, bright 2204 02:01:59.479 --> 02:02:02.560 red married Hollis right now. You can go see they 2205 02:02:02.600 --> 02:02:04.880 grow their own trees and shrubs up there in Plannersville. 2206 02:02:05.159 --> 02:02:07.399 So you know you're getting a species that wants to 2207 02:02:07.399 --> 02:02:10.960 grow here and a quality, quality plant that wants to 2208 02:02:10.960 --> 02:02:17.479 grow here. Rcwnurseries dot Com is the website. I did 2209 02:02:17.520 --> 02:02:19.319 want to mention I talked earlier. I talked a little 2210 02:02:19.319 --> 02:02:23.439 bit about ACE Hardware stores, and ACE Hardware is loaded 2211 02:02:23.479 --> 02:02:25.920 for the Christmas season. I want to take I'm going 2212 02:02:26.000 --> 02:02:28.079 to go to the break here for the top of 2213 02:02:28.119 --> 02:02:30.000 the hour, but when I come back, I want to 2214 02:02:30.039 --> 02:02:32.199 tell you about some of the things about ACE that 2215 02:02:32.279 --> 02:02:36.119 you probably are not aware of that are really really cool, 2216 02:02:36.479 --> 02:02:39.279 So stick around for that. I'll also be giving you 2217 02:02:39.319 --> 02:02:43.520 some more tips on having success with your vegetable garden 2218 02:02:43.640 --> 02:02:47.720 and your flower bins during this cool season. And Gary 2219 02:02:47.760 --> 02:02:50.399 and Katie, you will be our first collar up to 2220 02:02:50.479 --> 02:02:53.319 come back after the top of the hour. I appreciate 2221 02:02:53.359 --> 02:02:57.239 you guys being listeners to garden Line. I love visiting 2222 02:02:57.399 --> 02:03:00.760 with gardeners. I just do and said, how can you 2223 02:03:00.800 --> 02:03:03.920 talk for so long? First, I've never run out of 2224 02:03:04.000 --> 02:03:08.039 things that I'm excited about to talk about around We'll 2225 02:03:08.079 --> 02:03:09.039 have a few more of those. 2226 02:03:11.039 --> 02:03:15.640 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with skimp Richard's. 2227 02:03:15.119 --> 02:03:31.520 Shoes trim just watch him as many good things to 2228 02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:33.159 see Bay. 2229 02:03:38.880 --> 02:03:40.159 Again, not a. 2230 02:03:40.399 --> 02:03:47.000 Sorry, welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Good 2231 02:03:47.000 --> 02:03:50.359 to have you with us listening this morning. Uh, this 2232 02:03:50.479 --> 02:03:52.560 is gonna be a good day for gardening. Get out there. 2233 02:03:52.680 --> 02:03:54.840 By the way, I was looking at the weather going forward, 2234 02:03:55.439 --> 02:03:59.359 and we've got an interesting week. All week, we're going 2235 02:03:59.439 --> 02:04:01.199 to be in the in the Houston area. Now I 2236 02:04:01.239 --> 02:04:03.159 know some of you're listening from other areas. I can't 2237 02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:05.960 give a weather report on every area, but it's going 2238 02:04:06.000 --> 02:04:09.560 to basically be low's in the mid to upper forties 2239 02:04:09.840 --> 02:04:14.000 and highs in the mid to upper sixties. That's really good. 2240 02:04:14.119 --> 02:04:18.479 Then about Wednesday, the rain hits and the highs go 2241 02:04:18.600 --> 02:04:20.199 up a little bit. We'll be in the lower to 2242 02:04:20.319 --> 02:04:24.000 mid seventies all the way up until next weekend, with 2243 02:04:24.199 --> 02:04:27.199 quite a bit of rain chances in the last few 2244 02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:29.920 days or so of that week going through the weekend. 2245 02:04:30.039 --> 02:04:32.720 So time to get what is the reason for me 2246 02:04:32.800 --> 02:04:35.720 give the weather. It's time to get things done. You 2247 02:04:35.840 --> 02:04:37.840 need to get your work done by next Tuesday if 2248 02:04:37.880 --> 02:04:40.239 you got outdoor things to get done in the garden. 2249 02:04:41.159 --> 02:04:45.920 So that's your public service announcement for the morning. We're 2250 02:04:45.960 --> 02:04:48.800 going to go out to Katie Now on Guardline. We're 2251 02:04:48.800 --> 02:04:52.119 going to talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, welcome to guard Line. 2252 02:04:52.920 --> 02:04:53.359 Good morning. 2253 02:04:53.439 --> 02:04:53.720 Skip. 2254 02:04:54.439 --> 02:04:55.600 A couple of quick questions. 2255 02:04:56.000 --> 02:04:58.479 One is I have a biscus that suffered in the 2256 02:04:58.520 --> 02:05:01.920 twenty one freeze and had two other teep breezes as well, 2257 02:05:03.079 --> 02:05:04.920 so it keeps coming back from the ground. 2258 02:05:05.079 --> 02:05:08.279 It's a good, healthy plant. It's probably I put tall, 2259 02:05:08.439 --> 02:05:10.159 very blushy. It won't bloom. 2260 02:05:10.359 --> 02:05:13.159 I've tried hitting it with high phosphorus fertilizer a couple 2261 02:05:13.199 --> 02:05:15.560 of times. I just wonder if it's one of those 2262 02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:17.199 things it's just not ever gonna bloom. 2263 02:05:18.520 --> 02:05:21.640 No, it should. This is a tropical type of hibiscus, 2264 02:05:22.199 --> 02:05:25.079 not the perennial that normally dies to the ground every 2265 02:05:25.119 --> 02:05:34.039 winter and comes back normally. So are the blooms bigger 2266 02:05:34.119 --> 02:05:36.760 than a solid plate you know? 2267 02:05:37.399 --> 02:05:37.439 No? 2268 02:05:38.840 --> 02:05:40.079 Oh yeah, they're about the smaller. 2269 02:05:41.600 --> 02:05:42.720 They're bigger, they're bigger. 2270 02:05:44.840 --> 02:05:48.079 They red pink. Are they red, white or pink? Or 2271 02:05:48.119 --> 02:05:51.680 are they other colors? I think it's red or orange. 2272 02:05:52.319 --> 02:05:54.560 It's been so long I can't remember what color it lost. 2273 02:05:55.359 --> 02:05:57.600 It's okay, yeah, that's all right. I'm just trying to 2274 02:05:57.640 --> 02:06:00.000 figure out what kind you have. What I would recommen 2275 02:06:00.000 --> 02:06:03.680 and you do. Definitely protect them at the end of 2276 02:06:04.880 --> 02:06:07.039 now that we're at the end of the season from 2277 02:06:07.199 --> 02:06:09.800 a hard phreeze that might come, if you can just 2278 02:06:10.199 --> 02:06:13.359 throw something over it to protect it next year, hold 2279 02:06:13.439 --> 02:06:18.039 back on the nitrogen a little bit, and if you 2280 02:06:18.159 --> 02:06:21.960 need to do some pruning back, wait until late winter 2281 02:06:22.039 --> 02:06:24.239 when we're past the danger of freeze to do the 2282 02:06:24.359 --> 02:06:26.960 pruning back on them if you want to maintain the 2283 02:06:27.119 --> 02:06:32.479 size at a different size. And finally is what's out 2284 02:06:32.560 --> 02:06:35.880 of your control, and that's the sunlight. They need lots 2285 02:06:35.920 --> 02:06:40.239 of sun and as the sun amount decreases, the blooming 2286 02:06:40.359 --> 02:06:43.880 potential decreases. So do you think that could be contributing 2287 02:06:43.920 --> 02:06:47.399 to this. No, it's got plenty of sun. Now. 2288 02:06:47.479 --> 02:06:50.079 What I have done in the past is trim it 2289 02:06:50.199 --> 02:06:52.439 right before a freeze. I can tell a blanket over it. 2290 02:06:53.920 --> 02:06:57.239 That's one thing historically always done is cut it back 2291 02:06:57.399 --> 02:06:58.560 right before free sauce. 2292 02:06:58.640 --> 02:07:03.159 Yeah, well if you need If you need to do that, 2293 02:07:03.279 --> 02:07:06.000 that's fine. I don't know why a biscus would not 2294 02:07:06.119 --> 02:07:10.279 bloom other than lack of sunlight or excessive amounts of 2295 02:07:10.359 --> 02:07:14.239 nitrogen pushing a lot of vegetative growth at the expense 2296 02:07:14.319 --> 02:07:17.000 of you know, settling in and blooming. And even that 2297 02:07:17.239 --> 02:07:18.880 is a little bit of a long shot on it, 2298 02:07:19.920 --> 02:07:22.159 but I'd give it one more shot on I don't 2299 02:07:22.199 --> 02:07:24.239 I don't know why the different thing isn't blooming if 2300 02:07:24.279 --> 02:07:26.800 it's getting good light. Obviously it's in good health because 2301 02:07:26.840 --> 02:07:27.960 of the size that it is. 2302 02:07:29.680 --> 02:07:32.640 Yeah, it's it's very healthy, and it's it baffles me 2303 02:07:32.800 --> 02:07:34.840 because I have other ones that have cut and they 2304 02:07:35.199 --> 02:07:38.279 bloom come back blooming, and I was just informed it's 2305 02:07:38.319 --> 02:07:40.720 a tangerine color. I don't know if that makes a difference. 2306 02:07:41.319 --> 02:07:44.159 Tangering. Yeah, that tells me what kind of hibiscus it is. Yeah, 2307 02:07:45.119 --> 02:07:50.039 so hmm. Yeah, bosporus is important on blooming, but really 2308 02:07:50.119 --> 02:07:53.119 all nutrients are to do a degree. It's just the 2309 02:07:53.279 --> 02:07:56.680 excess nitrogen the first number they want to stay away from. 2310 02:07:56.840 --> 02:08:03.319 So maybe using a biscus type fertilizer from We've got 2311 02:08:03.439 --> 02:08:06.319 some folks like Nelson plant Food has that. 2312 02:08:06.720 --> 02:08:06.800 Uh. 2313 02:08:07.000 --> 02:08:11.840 The nitrophoss also produces a biscus type fertilizer in small 2314 02:08:12.439 --> 02:08:16.680 plastic square jars. Both of those do and you can 2315 02:08:16.840 --> 02:08:18.479 you can find those at a lot of our garden 2316 02:08:18.560 --> 02:08:21.439 centers and things, uh being out there in Katie you 2317 02:08:21.520 --> 02:08:25.000 got Katie's hardware, uh and there's Katie Hardware out of 2318 02:08:25.079 --> 02:08:29.960 Sinco ranch area. So that would be the only other 2319 02:08:30.039 --> 02:08:31.439 thing I could suggest. 2320 02:08:31.119 --> 02:08:31.840 For you on it. 2321 02:08:32.840 --> 02:08:34.640 I just may not have done into enough time, but 2322 02:08:34.680 --> 02:08:36.359 I did it with liquid and then then throwing the 2323 02:08:36.640 --> 02:08:39.840 Osma coke type high fosterus fertilizer type stuff. 2324 02:08:41.079 --> 02:08:42.319 Slow release, So. 2325 02:08:43.119 --> 02:08:46.560 I'll give another shot and see. The other question I 2326 02:08:46.640 --> 02:08:48.680 have is I was moving my ponytail palm. I had 2327 02:08:48.680 --> 02:08:52.279 to go underneath the garage type area and kind of 2328 02:08:52.319 --> 02:08:54.279 pulled off some of the tip of the leaves, kind 2329 02:08:54.319 --> 02:08:56.439 of pulled out where it actually looks like I got 2330 02:08:56.960 --> 02:09:01.119 some of the like then and look and look to it. 2331 02:09:01.199 --> 02:09:05.439 We're kind of pulled out as that's going underneath. Is 2332 02:09:05.479 --> 02:09:08.800 that an or it's not going to come back or 2333 02:09:08.960 --> 02:09:10.039 is it got Yeah. 2334 02:09:12.159 --> 02:09:16.880 There's primarily an apoco meristem on that ponytail. Sometimes you 2335 02:09:17.000 --> 02:09:19.520 get a little bit of branching on them, and strangely enough, 2336 02:09:19.600 --> 02:09:22.439 but I would wait and see. You may not have 2337 02:09:22.560 --> 02:09:26.720 gotten truly that bud that's down in there, So give 2338 02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:30.439 it some time and see. I think that thing will 2339 02:09:30.439 --> 02:09:33.680 find a way to come back. But that that's my 2340 02:09:33.800 --> 02:09:37.279 best guess, uh, not really being there to examine it 2341 02:09:37.359 --> 02:09:40.319 closely and all of that. But I think the chances 2342 02:09:40.319 --> 02:09:43.520 are you're going to be okay, we'll see. Okay, Well, 2343 02:09:43.560 --> 02:09:46.680 thank you so much. All right, be patient with them. 2344 02:09:46.720 --> 02:09:51.000 They're pretty darn resilient, all right, they may find a way. 2345 02:09:51.159 --> 02:09:54.640 Thanks Garry. You take care. I was talking earlier. I 2346 02:09:54.840 --> 02:09:57.279 just now mentioned the ACE out there at Sinko. You know, 2347 02:09:57.359 --> 02:09:59.760 Ace hardware stores are all over the place. They are 2348 02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:03.000 literally all over the place, stores all over the Greater 2349 02:10:03.079 --> 02:10:06.079 Houston area. And I've had some questions, you know, from 2350 02:10:06.159 --> 02:10:11.359 people that live down maybe South and West, and boy, 2351 02:10:11.439 --> 02:10:13.079 you've got a lot of Aces down there. If you 2352 02:10:13.399 --> 02:10:16.680 if you're on forty five going you know, toward Galveston direction, 2353 02:10:17.039 --> 02:10:20.279 you've got League City Ace Hardware. It's just just not 2354 02:10:20.479 --> 02:10:23.760 far off League forty five right there on League City 2355 02:10:26.520 --> 02:10:28.680 Leake City Parkway, that is, if you head over to 2356 02:10:28.840 --> 02:10:30.920 the east of there some of you. I've had a 2357 02:10:31.039 --> 02:10:34.960 question kind of out that direction to Bay Cliff, Texas. 2358 02:10:35.199 --> 02:10:38.119 There's Ace Hardware there in Bay Cliff. You've got the 2359 02:10:38.239 --> 02:10:43.479 one that is Kilgore's clear Lake clear Lake excuse me 2360 02:10:43.600 --> 02:10:47.199 Hardware also there in League City. So those are those 2361 02:10:47.239 --> 02:10:50.199 are all easy to get to run. Space Center Houston, MND. 2362 02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:54.399 Clear Lake is out in that direction. And then up 2363 02:10:54.479 --> 02:10:58.439 on Beamer Road, which is just off of the Beltway 2364 02:10:58.520 --> 02:11:03.920 eight also southwest. That's another one down by the Hobby Airport. 2365 02:11:04.479 --> 02:11:08.000 You've got Gateway Hardware and rental. It's on telephone right 2366 02:11:08.159 --> 02:11:11.720 right behind Hobby Airport there. So there, Yeah, you got 2367 02:11:11.760 --> 02:11:14.640 plenty of the the course of the Paarland, Elvin Deer 2368 02:11:14.720 --> 02:11:17.199 Park all out that direction, Galena Park. You got a 2369 02:11:17.239 --> 02:11:20.359 lot of Ace Hardware stores down in your region. Makes 2370 02:11:20.399 --> 02:11:22.479 it really easy to take care of the things you need. 2371 02:11:22.640 --> 02:11:26.520 For example, their Black Friday sales are still good through Tuesday, 2372 02:11:26.640 --> 02:11:32.079 December second, so you what is it Tuesday? Yeah, on Tuesday, 2373 02:11:32.159 --> 02:11:35.199 December second, I believe is when those wind up. If 2374 02:11:35.239 --> 02:11:39.720 you're decorating, they have sort an assortment of Christmas lights. 2375 02:11:39.800 --> 02:11:42.600 It's just unbelievable. They have a really cool thing called 2376 02:11:42.680 --> 02:11:45.359 lights by the foot at ACE Hardware. And I'm not 2377 02:11:45.399 --> 02:11:48.159 talking about just these aces that I mentioned, but all 2378 02:11:48.199 --> 02:11:51.800 around the greater uscenario lights by the foot. So basically, 2379 02:11:52.239 --> 02:11:55.039 you go in, you go, I need, you know, fifteen 2380 02:11:55.159 --> 02:11:58.520 feet of lights or I need seventeen or twelve feet 2381 02:11:58.560 --> 02:12:03.119 of lights. You literally pick the custom length of holiday 2382 02:12:03.199 --> 02:12:06.880 lighting and you can purchase them that way as well. 2383 02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:10.439 And then of course the indoor decor is outstanding. While 2384 02:12:10.479 --> 02:12:14.399 you're in there, check out their cool old time toys, 2385 02:12:14.479 --> 02:12:17.319 you know, things like Legos. And I consider and name 2386 02:12:17.439 --> 02:12:20.000 all these old time toys that I've been seeing in 2387 02:12:20.079 --> 02:12:25.119 ACE Hardware's the brewder toys one sixteenth scale realistic detailed 2388 02:12:25.319 --> 02:12:28.359 toy vehicles a really cool thing, you know. And of 2389 02:12:28.479 --> 02:12:31.600 course you know Ace, You're gonna get great grills, great tools, 2390 02:12:31.720 --> 02:12:35.680 great stocking stocker stuffers at ACEH Hardware. So when you're 2391 02:12:35.720 --> 02:12:40.199 thinking about holiday shopping, think about ACE Hardware. I'm gonna 2392 02:12:40.199 --> 02:12:41.880 have to take a little break. I will be back 2393 02:12:41.920 --> 02:12:45.560 with your calls at seven one three, two one two KTRH. 2394 02:12:46.279 --> 02:12:49.079 Welcome back, Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you 2395 02:12:49.199 --> 02:12:51.960 with us. As always, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 2396 02:12:52.039 --> 02:12:54.079 we're here to answer gardening questions. The way I like 2397 02:12:54.159 --> 02:12:56.640 to put it is, I want to help you have 2398 02:12:56.800 --> 02:13:01.720 a beautiful, beautiful landscape, a bountiful guard of whatever kinds 2399 02:13:01.760 --> 02:13:05.039 of things, vegetables and herds and flowers. And I want 2400 02:13:05.079 --> 02:13:07.359 you to have more fun in the process, because gardening 2401 02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:10.399 should be fun. That it's just as simple as that 2402 02:13:10.600 --> 02:13:13.359 gardening should be fun. I was talking about some of 2403 02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:16.960 the Ace hardware stores down south and east of Houston area. 2404 02:13:17.039 --> 02:13:20.119 A lot of options down there. Don't just know you've 2405 02:13:20.199 --> 02:13:22.880 got plenty of options. Well, you also have a wonderful 2406 02:13:22.920 --> 02:13:26.680 garden center, Moss Nursery. They're on Toddville Road in Seabrook, 2407 02:13:27.239 --> 02:13:30.800 and I always like going to Moss to stroll through. 2408 02:13:30.960 --> 02:13:33.520 And by the way, it's going to be perfect weather 2409 02:13:33.840 --> 02:13:35.800 to get down to Moss, even gonna go this weekend. 2410 02:13:35.880 --> 02:13:38.000 You want to go all the way at least through 2411 02:13:38.039 --> 02:13:40.359 the mid part of the week and then things start 2412 02:13:40.439 --> 02:13:42.680 to rain and stuff. So get out there and enjoy 2413 02:13:42.880 --> 02:13:47.680 a stroll through Moss. I can't describe for you adequately 2414 02:13:48.199 --> 02:13:50.359 what Moss Nursery is like. I can tell you it's 2415 02:13:50.359 --> 02:13:52.520 eight acres. I can tell you that it is a 2416 02:13:52.880 --> 02:13:56.840 long time family operated garden center. I can tell you that. 2417 02:13:57.359 --> 02:13:59.119 I can tell you that every time you turn a corner, 2418 02:13:59.239 --> 02:14:01.079 you don't know what you're going to see. It could 2419 02:14:01.159 --> 02:14:04.840 be some carved wooden totem, it could be it could 2420 02:14:04.880 --> 02:14:10.279 be some unusual concrete statuary that is just something like 2421 02:14:10.560 --> 02:14:13.960 you've never seen before, an African mask, a mineral specimen, 2422 02:14:14.199 --> 02:14:18.520 a taxidermy. I mean there, it's crazy. It's fun. It's 2423 02:14:18.560 --> 02:14:22.119 absolute fun right right down there now. I mean their 2424 02:14:22.520 --> 02:14:26.039 point set a selection is outstanding. They got plenty of 2425 02:14:26.159 --> 02:14:28.760 vegetables in stock for those of you who are wanting 2426 02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:31.680 to do a little vegetable guarding this winter. The house 2427 02:14:31.720 --> 02:14:36.239 plant greenhouse is always a good place to go. Beautiful 2428 02:14:36.359 --> 02:14:42.319 water features and fountains, anything blooming, you know, holiday plants, 2429 02:14:42.399 --> 02:14:47.079 things like forest amros, bulbs and holiday cactus, Thanksgiving Christmas 2430 02:14:47.159 --> 02:14:49.560 cactus and all that kind of thing. They got plenty 2431 02:14:49.600 --> 02:14:53.439 of those down there. Remember that the Moss Nurseryes Open 2432 02:14:53.479 --> 02:14:57.079 House and Market is going to be Saturday, December seventh, 2433 02:14:57.119 --> 02:15:00.760 that's a week from today, from ten am at three pm. 2434 02:15:00.920 --> 02:15:03.319 They're gonna have local vendors. They're gonna be arts and 2435 02:15:03.439 --> 02:15:06.359 crafts and food. It's just a lot of fun. Tina's 2436 02:15:06.359 --> 02:15:08.159 Brought Worst is going to be out there. Man, I'm 2437 02:15:08.199 --> 02:15:10.680 getting hungry talking about that. Tina's Brought Worst is going 2438 02:15:10.720 --> 02:15:14.600 to be out there providing food as well. Uh it 2439 02:15:15.199 --> 02:15:19.720 just go. It's Toddville Road in Seabrook. If you want 2440 02:15:19.760 --> 02:15:22.800 more information, go to their website Moss Nursery dot com 2441 02:15:23.199 --> 02:15:28.439 Maas Nursery dot com. Allow some time to wander through, 2442 02:15:29.199 --> 02:15:32.399 enjoy yourself out there. I'm telling you, Moss Nursery is 2443 02:15:32.479 --> 02:15:35.800 a fun adventure to go visit. I know people that 2444 02:15:36.000 --> 02:15:38.880 just go just for the what do you call it, 2445 02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:45.239 the ambiance, the mental, psychological whatever benefits of just wandering 2446 02:15:45.359 --> 02:15:49.079 through a beautiful nature place that is stock full of 2447 02:15:49.159 --> 02:15:52.000 plants that you're going to want to have. I can't 2448 02:15:52.039 --> 02:15:55.279 go there without bringing something home from the Greenhouse, one 2449 02:15:55.319 --> 02:16:00.000 of their houseplots, because oh my gosh, the selection is incredible, incredible, 2450 02:16:00.600 --> 02:16:04.319 including landscape points like cactie too. They've got really nice 2451 02:16:04.359 --> 02:16:07.800 specimens like you just don't see everywhere, I mean, really 2452 02:16:07.880 --> 02:16:14.319 special place. Let's go to Houston and talk to Cliff. Hey, Cliff, 2453 02:16:14.479 --> 02:16:15.520 welcome to garden Line. 2454 02:16:17.159 --> 02:16:17.720 Good morning. 2455 02:16:18.600 --> 02:16:22.880 I'm calling about my Saint Augustine Lawn, who that seems 2456 02:16:22.920 --> 02:16:26.800 to have been taken over by we especially this thing that's. 2457 02:16:26.680 --> 02:16:28.279 Like a wild strawberry plant. 2458 02:16:28.640 --> 02:16:31.680 Actually, if I let big enough that you actually have 2459 02:16:31.760 --> 02:16:33.840 a little tiny strawberries and I can't seem to get 2460 02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:34.360 rid of them. 2461 02:16:35.719 --> 02:16:38.399 Yep. Yeah, what have you tried? Have you tried any 2462 02:16:38.440 --> 02:16:39.079 sprays on it? 2463 02:16:40.920 --> 02:16:41.520 No? I have not. 2464 02:16:43.040 --> 02:16:46.920 Okay, I would get you something that is for broad 2465 02:16:47.000 --> 02:16:54.120 leaf weeds. There are products that have terms like oh gosh, 2466 02:16:54.200 --> 02:17:01.319 I just just like on the on the terms oh gosh. 2467 02:17:02.040 --> 02:17:05.159 Celsius is one that you can use it that's uh you. 2468 02:17:05.399 --> 02:17:08.600 It's not as widely available as some of the other things, 2469 02:17:09.680 --> 02:17:14.159 but Celsius is a good one for that, uh, anything 2470 02:17:14.239 --> 02:17:17.639 that is for controlling broadleaf post emergent. Let's see you 2471 02:17:18.079 --> 02:17:20.840 where roughly are you located in the Houston. 2472 02:17:20.520 --> 02:17:23.200 Area, Montrose Upper Kirby. 2473 02:17:24.920 --> 02:17:27.879 Okay, so if you're if you're going to go in, 2474 02:17:28.319 --> 02:17:31.159 you know, in that area, let's see Montres Upper Kirby. 2475 02:17:31.559 --> 02:17:33.799 You're not too far away from Buchanan's native plants. I 2476 02:17:33.879 --> 02:17:36.719 know they got some things there that you're gonna be 2477 02:17:36.719 --> 02:17:41.319 able to purchase to help you control and manage weeds 2478 02:17:41.399 --> 02:17:45.360 and things. If something says broadleaf weed control post emergent 2479 02:17:45.479 --> 02:17:48.200 that that's what you want. You mix it up, LA, 2480 02:17:48.520 --> 02:17:52.719 don't over mix it. Post emergent broad leaf weed control. 2481 02:17:52.879 --> 02:17:55.559 That if you walk into Buchanans or someplace and just 2482 02:17:55.600 --> 02:17:57.360 say I need I need broad leaf weeds and I 2483 02:17:57.399 --> 02:17:59.959 don't kill grass, I won't kill broadly weeds, and I'll 2484 02:18:00.079 --> 02:18:04.360 want post emergent, they can put you in the right 2485 02:18:04.479 --> 02:18:07.040 ballpark of the things. You mix them up. You spraym 2486 02:18:07.079 --> 02:18:09.479 according to the label on the weeds. Be careful. Broad 2487 02:18:09.559 --> 02:18:13.319 leafs kill broad leaf plants. So if you have let's 2488 02:18:13.399 --> 02:18:15.799 say some pansies and you spray it on those, it'll 2489 02:18:15.879 --> 02:18:18.680 kill those because they're broadly plants. But you know it 2490 02:18:18.719 --> 02:18:22.280 makes up a strong, strong pressure because that creates mist 2491 02:18:22.600 --> 02:18:25.879 that drifts. So just just a little bit of pressure 2492 02:18:25.920 --> 02:18:29.120 on the spray and spread directly on those weeds. Now's 2493 02:18:29.159 --> 02:18:31.079 a good time for that because the temperatures are so 2494 02:18:31.319 --> 02:18:33.799 cool that you're not going to hurt your Saint Augustine 2495 02:18:34.040 --> 02:18:37.159 with those products, but you will hurt the weeds and 2496 02:18:37.520 --> 02:18:39.319 you're not going to get rid of them all at 2497 02:18:39.360 --> 02:18:41.159 one time. You may have to do it again. Start 2498 02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:44.200 in an early spring. Just remember summer's your enemy. 2499 02:18:44.319 --> 02:18:44.520 On that. 2500 02:18:44.959 --> 02:18:49.000 So the more you can do your spray in when 2501 02:18:49.239 --> 02:18:52.000 temperatures are not above the mid eighties, the better off 2502 02:18:52.079 --> 02:18:52.319 you'll be. 2503 02:18:54.120 --> 02:18:54.280 Well. 2504 02:18:54.559 --> 02:18:57.440 I used to think that the Saint Augustine choke out anything, 2505 02:18:57.559 --> 02:19:03.079 but I've learned otherwise. So all right, thanks for your healt. 2506 02:19:03.520 --> 02:19:07.959 Yeah that's that, that's true. But Saint Augustine has its issues, 2507 02:19:08.000 --> 02:19:09.479 you know, where it gets a little bit thin or 2508 02:19:09.520 --> 02:19:13.239 something like that. I thought of the other the two 2509 02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:15.680 other products I was trying to think of, bonn eyed 2510 02:19:15.760 --> 02:19:24.000 weed beater ultra and fertile zone. Weed beater ultra and 2511 02:19:24.200 --> 02:19:29.399 fertil weed free zone are two broad leaf post emergent 2512 02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:32.639 examples to go along with celia. Okay, that will do 2513 02:19:32.760 --> 02:19:36.399 well on those. They'll, they'll, they'll, they should do a 2514 02:19:36.440 --> 02:19:38.719 good job. Now's there's a thousand different weeds out there, 2515 02:19:38.760 --> 02:19:43.079 and not everything responds to every product, but that that 2516 02:19:43.159 --> 02:19:44.239 should get you in the ballpark. 2517 02:19:45.319 --> 02:19:47.079 Great, I appreciate it, Thanks so much. 2518 02:19:48.159 --> 02:19:52.280 All right, Cliff, you take care. Yeah, that that is 2519 02:19:52.399 --> 02:19:56.639 the case. My approach on Guardline is not to just 2520 02:19:56.760 --> 02:19:59.280 look for a spray for every problem that there is, 2521 02:19:59.600 --> 02:20:03.639 because our number one goal on taking care of anything, 2522 02:20:04.079 --> 02:20:08.479 number one goal is cultural Okay, So if you want 2523 02:20:08.600 --> 02:20:12.079 a weed free lawn, you fertilize it properly at the 2524 02:20:12.200 --> 02:20:16.040 right time, You water it properly, not too much, certainly 2525 02:20:16.159 --> 02:20:20.159 not too little, and you mow it regularly, and you 2526 02:20:20.319 --> 02:20:22.239 create a dense lawn and you choke out the problem. 2527 02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:24.920 You don't want to be on a treadmill where every year, 2528 02:20:25.239 --> 02:20:27.520 three times a year, you're having to kill something. Right, 2529 02:20:28.399 --> 02:20:30.799 you do everything you can. Now, there are weeds that 2530 02:20:31.399 --> 02:20:33.760 despite your cultural control, there are going to be a problem, 2531 02:20:33.920 --> 02:20:36.479 and that's just the way it is. But the main 2532 02:20:36.600 --> 02:20:39.760 thing you're wanting to do is culturally to avoid the 2533 02:20:39.840 --> 02:20:43.000 problems you can to take the best options that you 2534 02:20:43.159 --> 02:20:47.399 can to avoid things and avoid the need to spray. 2535 02:20:47.479 --> 02:20:49.239 And then when you have to spray or treat to 2536 02:20:49.280 --> 02:20:53.440 put a granule out, you do that. But in most 2537 02:20:53.520 --> 02:20:56.239 cases we can avoid the majority of our problems with 2538 02:20:56.319 --> 02:21:03.040 cultural practices. You know. The the importance of fertilizing can't 2539 02:21:03.040 --> 02:21:08.000 be overstated. The more you supplement with the right blends 2540 02:21:08.079 --> 02:21:11.319 and products, the better off you're going to do. And Medina, 2541 02:21:11.440 --> 02:21:14.799 for example, the folks at Medina have something called has 2542 02:21:14.879 --> 02:21:18.520 to grow six twelve six. I would definitely have that 2543 02:21:18.639 --> 02:21:20.639 on hand all the time because any time you're going 2544 02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:23.559 to plant a plant. Six twelve six has to grow 2545 02:21:24.079 --> 02:21:27.159 is an outstanding products out Medina soil activator in it 2546 02:21:27.280 --> 02:21:30.719 to stimulate biological activity. It's got the six twelve six 2547 02:21:30.760 --> 02:21:33.680 which is a high phosphorus fertilizer that's important for good 2548 02:21:33.840 --> 02:21:37.399 root development. It's got hum humic acid in it, which 2549 02:21:37.479 --> 02:21:41.040 improves soil structure. It's just excellent for transplanting. You can 2550 02:21:41.159 --> 02:21:44.639 use it for things other than transplanting, but it's outstanding 2551 02:21:44.840 --> 02:21:47.920 for transplanting. It's one of the many products by Medina 2552 02:21:48.360 --> 02:21:52.559 that is just effective. I've used these, I know them. 2553 02:21:52.559 --> 02:21:55.559 They're good, they work, and that's why I recommend them. 2554 02:21:55.879 --> 02:21:59.559 Medina Plus is another example. It's a good for folier feeding. 2555 02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:03.159 It's got the Medina soil activator in it. Also, it's 2556 02:22:03.159 --> 02:22:06.520 got forty different trace elements side of kinon, which is 2557 02:22:06.559 --> 02:22:10.239 a natural growth hormone from seaweed extracts. I could just 2558 02:22:10.399 --> 02:22:13.120 list the ingredients on and it's a mile long of 2559 02:22:13.319 --> 02:22:17.879 good things to help your plants survive, thrive and produce 2560 02:22:17.959 --> 02:22:22.559 the things you want like fruit or foliage or beautiful blooms. 2561 02:22:22.959 --> 02:22:26.719 Medina Plus and Medina has to Grow six to off 2562 02:22:26.760 --> 02:22:29.159 six plat food by the folks at Medina, and you're 2563 02:22:29.200 --> 02:22:31.040 going to find them all over the place. They are 2564 02:22:31.079 --> 02:22:36.639 widely available and as I said, they work. Time for 2565 02:22:36.719 --> 02:22:38.440 me to take a little break here. We'll be back 2566 02:22:38.559 --> 02:22:40.680 with your calls in a moment if you'd like to 2567 02:22:40.760 --> 02:22:48.079 dial in seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, 2568 02:22:49.520 --> 02:22:52.399 we are back, folks. We got a less than a 2569 02:22:52.440 --> 02:22:54.479 half hour left to guard line today. If you'd like 2570 02:22:54.559 --> 02:22:56.120 to give me a call and now it would be 2571 02:22:56.159 --> 02:22:59.399 a good time to do it or talk to you 2572 02:22:59.479 --> 02:23:03.399 next weekend. Seven one three two one two k t 2573 02:23:03.639 --> 02:23:07.040 r H. Seven one three two one two ktr H. 2574 02:23:08.440 --> 02:23:12.239 I am doing a number of things to get ready 2575 02:23:12.360 --> 02:23:15.399 for the seed starting season. And if you have not 2576 02:23:16.440 --> 02:23:20.399 ever tried growing your own transplants, you should try that. 2577 02:23:20.760 --> 02:23:23.600 And there are a number of reasons to do that. 2578 02:23:24.639 --> 02:23:27.600 First of all, it allows you to grow things that 2579 02:23:27.760 --> 02:23:31.399 you cannot buy. Maybe there's a brand new tomato variety 2580 02:23:31.479 --> 02:23:32.879 just came out and you want to try it out, 2581 02:23:34.120 --> 02:23:37.319 or some obscure one that just doesn't get carried. Because 2582 02:23:37.479 --> 02:23:39.520 you know you can't carry every variety of everything. You 2583 02:23:39.559 --> 02:23:41.639 can grow it yourself and you can have it that way. 2584 02:23:42.760 --> 02:23:45.399 Number two, it's just fun. It's absolutely fun to grow 2585 02:23:45.440 --> 02:23:48.280 your own seedlings. And there are a few tips for 2586 02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:50.319 doing that. And I'm going to post something to the 2587 02:23:50.360 --> 02:23:55.200 website this week on success with growing your own seedlings, 2588 02:23:55.280 --> 02:23:59.799 so be watching Gardening with Skip dot Com. I'll post 2589 02:23:59.840 --> 02:24:03.159 it there Gardening with Skip dot Com on how to 2590 02:24:03.319 --> 02:24:06.440 do that. It's very important to get the lighting right. 2591 02:24:06.600 --> 02:24:11.000 That's probably the single most important thing. And where people 2592 02:24:11.079 --> 02:24:15.280 go wrong is lighting. Spindley, scrawny transplants trying to reach 2593 02:24:15.440 --> 02:24:18.079 light are not going to do well out in the garden. 2594 02:24:18.079 --> 02:24:20.280 They're going to break over. They're just not going to 2595 02:24:20.360 --> 02:24:22.959 perform well for you. But you can avoid that with 2596 02:24:23.040 --> 02:24:27.040 good lighting. But get you some good supplies and materials 2597 02:24:27.159 --> 02:24:29.440 to do that. I'll put some information on that. In fact, 2598 02:24:29.479 --> 02:24:31.479 I may put two different things up, one on lighting 2599 02:24:31.559 --> 02:24:35.879 and one on success with just general seed starting tips. 2600 02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:38.959 But I think you should give that a try. That 2601 02:24:39.000 --> 02:24:40.680 would be a good gift too, by the way, for 2602 02:24:40.799 --> 02:24:43.920 someone on your list, somebody who would love to get 2603 02:24:44.280 --> 02:24:47.559 maybe seed trays, plants, starting supplies, you know, all of 2604 02:24:47.639 --> 02:24:50.959 that kind of thing. Once you see my article on 2605 02:24:51.120 --> 02:24:54.319 the website, then you can even have a little bit 2606 02:24:54.440 --> 02:24:56.879 better idea on how to go about shopping for that 2607 02:24:57.079 --> 02:25:00.600 and lighting. You know you can get by with cheap lighting. 2608 02:25:00.840 --> 02:25:06.000 For years I used a fluorescent four foot shop light 2609 02:25:06.319 --> 02:25:09.799 with a cool white tube and a warm white tube 2610 02:25:09.959 --> 02:25:13.120 in it to provide a wider spectrum. And if you're 2611 02:25:13.239 --> 02:25:15.479 just growing a little transplant and you keep that light 2612 02:25:15.680 --> 02:25:17.520 down on the plant, I do mean, I mean like 2613 02:25:17.559 --> 02:25:19.959 an inch away from the plant. You can grow a 2614 02:25:20.040 --> 02:25:23.680 decent transplant that way. Of course, now everything's led, so 2615 02:25:24.159 --> 02:25:27.440 now we're starting to look again at spectrum carefully. You 2616 02:25:27.520 --> 02:25:30.399 can spend a significant amount of money or a modern 2617 02:25:30.440 --> 02:25:33.719 amount of money on a quality plant growth light. So 2618 02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:36.040 you can do that, but be real careful when you're 2619 02:25:36.040 --> 02:25:38.680 out there shopping because there's a lot of Bologney information. 2620 02:25:39.319 --> 02:25:41.280 And I'll go into this in a lighting article that 2621 02:25:41.319 --> 02:25:45.280 I'm going to put up, But just remember what it 2622 02:25:45.479 --> 02:25:49.600 says on packages that the light is designed for our 2623 02:25:49.719 --> 02:25:53.079 eyes is different than what you need to know for 2624 02:25:53.200 --> 02:25:58.200 a light designed for plants. Okay, lumens are for humans. 2625 02:25:59.120 --> 02:26:01.959 So if a light bulb so many lumens, that's basically 2626 02:26:02.079 --> 02:26:04.920 for lighting a room. It doesn't tell you about light quality. 2627 02:26:05.520 --> 02:26:08.479 And plants have an opinion about the wavelengths and things. 2628 02:26:08.559 --> 02:26:15.639 But lumens are for human par actually par photosynthetically active radiation. Okay, 2629 02:26:15.719 --> 02:26:20.200 there's your nerd alert for the day. That's for plants, 2630 02:26:20.319 --> 02:26:22.920 lumens for humans, pars are for plants. And I'll put 2631 02:26:22.959 --> 02:26:26.280 that article up. I try to weed through all the information. 2632 02:26:26.360 --> 02:26:29.040 I might make it real simple, fast, easy and interesting 2633 02:26:29.840 --> 02:26:33.040 to do. But why not give something like that to 2634 02:26:33.159 --> 02:26:35.520 the gardener in your list, or give a really big 2635 02:26:35.639 --> 02:26:37.879 hint to those people who don't listen to garden Line 2636 02:26:38.200 --> 02:26:42.600 that you would like something like that. Let's set out 2637 02:26:42.639 --> 02:26:45.559 to Cyprus, Texas. We're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, 2638 02:26:45.639 --> 02:26:46.559 welcome to garden Line. 2639 02:26:48.159 --> 02:26:49.479 Yeah, thanks, good morning. 2640 02:26:49.520 --> 02:26:50.120 How are you today? 2641 02:26:51.719 --> 02:26:53.959 I am doing well. I'm doing very well. 2642 02:26:55.319 --> 02:26:56.280 How can we help you to do? 2643 02:26:57.920 --> 02:27:01.920 My problem is I've got some older wax ugustrooms in 2644 02:27:02.000 --> 02:27:05.959 the backyard and they're green. Then all of a sudden, 2645 02:27:07.120 --> 02:27:10.120 one side of it is just turned black brown and 2646 02:27:10.280 --> 02:27:12.799 died off it and it's bouncing all around in the 2647 02:27:12.879 --> 02:27:15.600 backyard on that back wall where those the customer a 2648 02:27:15.680 --> 02:27:19.399 growing are. Do they just eventually, once they get twenty 2649 02:27:19.479 --> 02:27:21.159 twenty five years old, start dying? 2650 02:27:22.760 --> 02:27:27.159 No, No, they don't. I'm not a fan of lagustrum 2651 02:27:27.319 --> 02:27:30.680 because they typically get a little leaf spot that causes 2652 02:27:30.920 --> 02:27:33.840 brown spots with yellow all around the on the leaf, 2653 02:27:34.920 --> 02:27:38.159 and it really plagues them. Uh at what you am 2654 02:27:38.319 --> 02:27:42.440 battling that? Also? Yeah, yeah, And it's just a it's 2655 02:27:42.479 --> 02:27:45.639 a battle and it always looks bad. And the way 2656 02:27:45.680 --> 02:27:47.680 to control it is every time it rains to run 2657 02:27:47.760 --> 02:27:50.239 out and spray. If on your side and nobody wants 2658 02:27:50.280 --> 02:27:52.239 to do that, you're always going to get around to 2659 02:27:52.319 --> 02:27:55.520 doing that. So I would, I would at this point, 2660 02:27:55.959 --> 02:27:59.159 I would just and this is your call, Uh do 2661 02:27:59.239 --> 02:28:01.079 I want these things or don't want to put something 2662 02:28:01.120 --> 02:28:02.920 else in here? And this would be a time to 2663 02:28:03.000 --> 02:28:05.360 make a good decision on that if you want to 2664 02:28:05.479 --> 02:28:07.959 keep them. We're going to have to figure out what's 2665 02:28:08.000 --> 02:28:11.200 wrong in the soil, and it's probably a root rot. 2666 02:28:11.680 --> 02:28:13.920 Now there are root rots that are brought on by 2667 02:28:14.079 --> 02:28:17.520 soggy soil. There are actually some fungi that have tails 2668 02:28:17.639 --> 02:28:20.920 like tadpoles that the spores swim through the soil to 2669 02:28:21.000 --> 02:28:25.879 attack plants. And it's weird. That means quit watering so much. 2670 02:28:26.079 --> 02:28:28.799 That means put underground drainage in. That means, you know, 2671 02:28:28.920 --> 02:28:32.239 whatever it takes to avoid soggy will help with those 2672 02:28:32.360 --> 02:28:35.239 kind of root rots. There are fungicide drenches you can 2673 02:28:35.280 --> 02:28:37.159 put on roots, and then there's some root roights you 2674 02:28:37.200 --> 02:28:41.239 can't treat for oak root rot called urmilaria. Now you 2675 02:28:41.399 --> 02:28:43.639 and I can't know which one it is if it's 2676 02:28:43.680 --> 02:28:46.200 a root rot, but if you were to dig down 2677 02:28:46.239 --> 02:28:51.000 around a plant and kind of scrape the roots with 2678 02:28:51.120 --> 02:28:55.520 a pocket knife on the side where the dying is occurring, 2679 02:28:55.959 --> 02:28:59.600 if you can do that and you see like water 2680 02:28:59.760 --> 02:29:04.159 soaked brown gray looks like an old stained cigarette filter 2681 02:29:04.360 --> 02:29:07.479 kind of look that, that's typically typical of a root 2682 02:29:07.559 --> 02:29:09.200 rot having affected that plant. 2683 02:29:09.799 --> 02:29:09.920 Uh. 2684 02:29:10.200 --> 02:29:12.280 And so what do you do now? Well, either you 2685 02:29:12.520 --> 02:29:17.040 try a drench that may or may not work, or yeah, 2686 02:29:17.360 --> 02:29:19.799 there's just not a good solution to those kind of 2687 02:29:19.879 --> 02:29:23.200 root rocks. So either too much water or just a 2688 02:29:23.319 --> 02:29:25.440 root rock that you're not gonna be able to treat anyway. 2689 02:29:27.079 --> 02:29:30.360 Okay, and I have seen what you described under the mulch. 2690 02:29:32.520 --> 02:29:36.639 Okay, well, uh, I'm gonna have to go to break here, 2691 02:29:36.680 --> 02:29:38.520 but I'll just leave you this, Jim. If you go 2692 02:29:38.639 --> 02:29:43.760 to plant clinic plant clinic dot T A m U 2693 02:29:44.760 --> 02:29:48.479 dot E d U you can dig one up that 2694 02:29:48.680 --> 02:29:51.399 is on its way down, that's so ugly and damaged 2695 02:29:51.440 --> 02:29:53.520 you don't want to keep it, but it's not dead. Fully, 2696 02:29:53.600 --> 02:29:56.200 it's still alive. You dig it up, get some of 2697 02:29:56.239 --> 02:29:58.920 the roots. You can cut the top back that's not 2698 02:29:59.040 --> 02:30:01.559 so important, put it in a box and ship it 2699 02:30:01.639 --> 02:30:04.360 to a college station, or drive it up there to 2700 02:30:04.520 --> 02:30:07.959 the plant clinic, and they will analyze it and culture 2701 02:30:07.959 --> 02:30:10.360 it out in a petri dish and tell you exactly 2702 02:30:10.440 --> 02:30:12.399 what the root right is, if there's one, and what 2703 02:30:12.559 --> 02:30:15.200 to do about it, if you can do anything about it. So, 2704 02:30:15.280 --> 02:30:18.000 if you want to keep those legustrums and not replace them, 2705 02:30:18.120 --> 02:30:21.600 save the whole row, I would do the plant clinic thing. 2706 02:30:21.680 --> 02:30:23.280 And I'm sorry you'd have to be brief here, but 2707 02:30:23.360 --> 02:30:25.280 I'm going to have to run. Good luck with that. 2708 02:30:26.239 --> 02:30:28.360 In Cyprus. Are not that far of a drive. You're 2709 02:30:28.360 --> 02:30:30.639 about an hour and fifteen minutes from the Plank clinic. 2710 02:30:31.120 --> 02:30:32.719 All right, folks, we're going to take a little break. 2711 02:30:32.760 --> 02:30:37.920 I'll be right back. Well, well, welcome back. We are 2712 02:30:39.000 --> 02:30:42.879 in our last segment. Well the day. We'll be back tomorrow. 2713 02:30:42.959 --> 02:30:47.000 By the way, we got any questions, By the way, 2714 02:30:47.000 --> 02:30:51.079 if you have, folks, staying with you during this holiday weekend. 2715 02:30:52.200 --> 02:30:54.239 Tell them about garden Line. I don't care where they live, 2716 02:30:54.760 --> 02:30:56.920 they are welcome to listen in. We'd love to have them. 2717 02:30:58.239 --> 02:31:01.440 Guardline reaches all the way across the Louisiana border a 2718 02:31:01.479 --> 02:31:06.639 little bit, and I know past Huntsville definitely up there. 2719 02:31:06.680 --> 02:31:09.639 In fact, we have folks from up Gosh all the 2720 02:31:09.639 --> 02:31:11.600 way up in Leon County the Call and then over 2721 02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:16.520 toward New Bromfels direction and down to Corpus Christie. We've 2722 02:31:16.520 --> 02:31:19.840 got pretty wide area that's covered there. So you certainly 2723 02:31:20.079 --> 02:31:22.879 can tell your friends and family to listen to garden Line. 2724 02:31:22.920 --> 02:31:27.319 We'd love to have them. I wanted to say something 2725 02:31:27.360 --> 02:31:30.479 about a Southwest Fertilizer. I brag on them all the time, 2726 02:31:31.200 --> 02:31:33.000 and I say, you know, if they don't have it, 2727 02:31:33.079 --> 02:31:35.559 you don't need it. And it's really true. You know. 2728 02:31:35.719 --> 02:31:38.799 Southwest Fertilizer has been around since nineteen fifty five, and 2729 02:31:39.040 --> 02:31:42.559 they have over the years established themselves as the go 2730 02:31:42.719 --> 02:31:45.840 to place for anything you're looking for. I don't care 2731 02:31:45.920 --> 02:31:48.239 what the product. It may be some obscure thing to 2732 02:31:48.360 --> 02:31:51.760 control pests or weeds or diseases. It may be. Certainly, 2733 02:31:51.799 --> 02:31:54.200 all the fertilizers I talk about on garden Line all 2734 02:31:54.239 --> 02:31:56.639 the product recommendations. I go, ah, you need to go. 2735 02:31:56.680 --> 02:31:58.719 I tell someone them earlier, you need to go get 2736 02:31:58.760 --> 02:32:00.840 some bown eyed beat her old to a fertile loan 2737 02:32:01.079 --> 02:32:04.440 weed free zone. Yeah, Bob's got those and much much, 2738 02:32:04.600 --> 02:32:07.479 much more. It's got a ninety foot wall of tools. 2739 02:32:07.680 --> 02:32:09.920 So if you are looking for a quality tool for 2740 02:32:10.000 --> 02:32:12.920 a family member as a gift, you should tell them 2741 02:32:12.959 --> 02:32:15.680 to go buy there. That kneeling bench that I keep 2742 02:32:15.719 --> 02:32:18.000 bragging on, it's a it's a you sit on it 2743 02:32:18.120 --> 02:32:19.879 or you flip it over and you kneel on it 2744 02:32:20.040 --> 02:32:22.479 and the legs become handles to help you get back 2745 02:32:22.559 --> 02:32:26.079 up again. It's cool. It is very cool. If you 2746 02:32:26.159 --> 02:32:28.680 want to make my homemade weed wiper that's on my 2747 02:32:28.799 --> 02:32:32.719 website Gardening with Skip dot com. Bob's got the suction 2748 02:32:32.840 --> 02:32:35.639 cup based grabber tool that we use in all the 2749 02:32:35.879 --> 02:32:38.360 free diagrams on my website for how to build your own. 2750 02:32:38.399 --> 02:32:42.239 It's not expensive at all and it really really works. 2751 02:32:42.559 --> 02:32:44.079 It doesn't matter what you need. If you got a 2752 02:32:44.120 --> 02:32:46.360 plant problem, you on taking a picture a sample, let 2753 02:32:46.399 --> 02:32:47.319 them put their eyes on it. 2754 02:32:48.000 --> 02:32:48.239 Do that. 2755 02:32:48.879 --> 02:32:51.879 They can do that there. It's Outwst Fertilizer. It's time 2756 02:32:51.920 --> 02:32:53.840 to get stocked up on things when it comes time 2757 02:32:53.879 --> 02:32:57.399 for planting, whether package seeds or bulk seeds. Have these 2758 02:32:57.479 --> 02:32:59.719 great bulk seed bends where you can get a really 2759 02:32:59.799 --> 02:33:03.799 good price. Bulksy draw is less expensive than packages. You 2760 02:33:03.799 --> 02:33:05.280 can get a really good price on a lot of 2761 02:33:05.399 --> 02:33:09.559 good quality seeds there, so check them out. I'm just 2762 02:33:09.680 --> 02:33:12.479 telling you it is a place you need to go, 2763 02:33:12.600 --> 02:33:15.760 and you need to see Southwest Fertilizer dot Com, corner 2764 02:33:15.840 --> 02:33:21.319 Abyssinet and Runwick in Houston. We're going to go now 2765 02:33:21.440 --> 02:33:25.159 to Spring Branch, Spring Branch, I believe and talk to Bill. 2766 02:33:25.479 --> 02:33:28.959 Hello Bill, Hello, Skip, how you doing today? 2767 02:33:30.360 --> 02:33:32.159 Well, I'm good, I'm good. What's up? 2768 02:33:33.360 --> 02:33:33.520 Oh? 2769 02:33:34.280 --> 02:33:37.680 Back on November ninth, you and Dan from Nitrofoss we're 2770 02:33:37.680 --> 02:33:40.440 out of Katie Hardware on Pinoak and I showed you 2771 02:33:40.479 --> 02:33:44.879 all pictures of my law and uh Dan you said 2772 02:33:45.000 --> 02:33:48.440 I needed to get a zoxystroban, but the Scott's disease 2773 02:33:48.559 --> 02:33:51.159 had such a small amount. I haven't been able to 2774 02:33:51.200 --> 02:33:53.680 get back in touch with Dan, and I was wondering 2775 02:33:53.719 --> 02:33:56.840 if you could tell me would Southwest Fertilizer have a 2776 02:33:56.920 --> 02:34:00.120 stronger uh A zoxy stroban that I could get it. 2777 02:34:02.479 --> 02:34:05.680 Yeah, well, that particular product, if you put it at 2778 02:34:05.719 --> 02:34:09.280 the right rate, it works. It'll do that. Now, some 2779 02:34:09.600 --> 02:34:12.879 diseases like take all root rot are difficult because you 2780 02:34:13.000 --> 02:34:15.000 don't just treat one, so you're probably gonna have to 2781 02:34:15.040 --> 02:34:17.479 treat it again. If you look at my schedule at 2782 02:34:17.559 --> 02:34:21.440 Gardening with Skip dot com website, it has two treatments 2783 02:34:21.639 --> 02:34:25.000 in the fall and one in the spring for take 2784 02:34:25.040 --> 02:34:30.159 all root rot. But yes, Bob at Southwest does carry 2785 02:34:30.399 --> 02:34:33.760 Scott's disease X. That's the name of that one. I 2786 02:34:33.879 --> 02:34:37.680 don't know if he has another azoxystrobin. There are others 2787 02:34:37.719 --> 02:34:40.120 out there, but the one that used to be used 2788 02:34:40.120 --> 02:34:42.920 a lot is called Heritage, and it's kind of difficult 2789 02:34:42.959 --> 02:34:45.559 to find now. I think they're pulling back on their 2790 02:34:45.639 --> 02:34:48.920 retail supplies or something. I don't something like that. 2791 02:34:49.159 --> 02:34:52.760 Okay, already. 2792 02:34:52.920 --> 02:34:53.360 Yeah, a. 2793 02:34:55.200 --> 02:34:57.520 Dark grayish brown and you can see all the way 2794 02:34:57.600 --> 02:34:58.319 through the dirt. 2795 02:34:59.120 --> 02:35:06.200 So do you know what that disease was? Well, if 2796 02:35:06.239 --> 02:35:09.040 it's if it's take all. If it's take all. When 2797 02:35:09.120 --> 02:35:12.280 you pull up some roots, they're all dead except the 2798 02:35:12.319 --> 02:35:15.079 ones at the very end of the runner. Of course. 2799 02:35:15.200 --> 02:35:18.639 Now the grass is not doing rooting. It's it's not 2800 02:35:18.879 --> 02:35:21.760 creating a bunch of new roots, but that all the 2801 02:35:21.879 --> 02:35:24.479 old roots are brown and dead. You grab me with 2802 02:35:24.559 --> 02:35:26.799 your finger and pull on them, the outside slops off 2803 02:35:26.840 --> 02:35:30.520 and you just have this little worry interior. If even that, yeah, 2804 02:35:30.639 --> 02:35:34.159 that would be an example of the symptoms. Yeah yeah, 2805 02:35:35.159 --> 02:35:38.120 all right, well yeah, go by Sea Bob. They'll be 2806 02:35:38.159 --> 02:35:41.000 able to fix you up. But down with my schedule 2807 02:35:41.200 --> 02:35:45.200 from the website because it tells you exactly what and when. Okay, 2808 02:35:46.559 --> 02:35:50.159 all right, thank you sir, Yes, sir, thank you for 2809 02:35:50.239 --> 02:35:54.280 the call. I appreciate that. In Chinned Gardens out there 2810 02:35:54.559 --> 02:35:58.159 on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond is a place 2811 02:35:58.559 --> 02:36:02.000 that it's a you got to take people to see it. 2812 02:36:02.559 --> 02:36:06.559 There's always something cool going on out in Chanty Gardens. 2813 02:36:06.639 --> 02:36:09.760 They always have stock of some of the best plants 2814 02:36:09.879 --> 02:36:13.040 and best things that you just don't see all the time. 2815 02:36:13.079 --> 02:36:15.760 Maybe something really new that's cool that you need for 2816 02:36:15.840 --> 02:36:20.680 your gardens. Just head out there southwest southwest of Houston, 2817 02:36:21.280 --> 02:36:25.680 Chended Gardens, Richmond. It's on FM three fifty nine between 2818 02:36:26.600 --> 02:36:29.680 Richmond and Katie full Shirt direction. All right, you can 2819 02:36:29.760 --> 02:36:33.360 find that when you get out there. Their holiday selections 2820 02:36:33.719 --> 02:36:38.760 is unrivaled. It is absolutely amazing. Place is just gorgeous 2821 02:36:39.600 --> 02:36:41.719 and they have things that you would want for this 2822 02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:44.280 time of year, cool season, color of course, stuff like that. 2823 02:36:45.120 --> 02:36:48.360 If you Christmas trees and holiday trees like that, they've 2824 02:36:48.399 --> 02:36:50.920 got those. They had strawberry plants while back. I don't 2825 02:36:50.920 --> 02:36:52.959 know if there's still someone stock or not, but you 2826 02:36:53.079 --> 02:36:56.239 can still plant strawberries down here to get a headstart 2827 02:36:56.360 --> 02:36:59.280 on the spring. If you're looking for herbs or any 2828 02:36:59.399 --> 02:37:02.239 kind of a chrisp skift, you should see their gift shops. 2829 02:37:02.239 --> 02:37:05.399 They are outstanding right now, loaded with some cool stuff. 2830 02:37:06.840 --> 02:37:14.079 Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com is the website. If you've 2831 02:37:14.200 --> 02:37:18.680 got color beds in your landscape like pansies, petunias, a 2832 02:37:18.840 --> 02:37:25.000 lissome ornamental cabbaging, kale dianthus, you need to have color 2833 02:37:25.079 --> 02:37:27.559 Star on hand. Color Stars are product by Nelson. It 2834 02:37:27.639 --> 02:37:30.920 comes in a little plastic jar screw top lid nineteen 2835 02:37:31.280 --> 02:37:34.559 thirteen six. That's the numbers, nineteen thirteen six. It's one 2836 02:37:34.600 --> 02:37:37.680 of their most universal blends for anything that has flowers. 2837 02:37:37.719 --> 02:37:39.760 Pretty much, I mean that's the way to think about it. 2838 02:37:40.200 --> 02:37:42.479 Do it about every three to four months and keep 2839 02:37:42.559 --> 02:37:47.000 those plants growing. So it's got five sources of nitrogen 2840 02:37:47.440 --> 02:37:50.200 in it, and it has organic bow meal and blood 2841 02:37:50.239 --> 02:37:53.799 meal also to feed the soil. They designed this over 2842 02:37:53.879 --> 02:37:56.920 forty years ago, and I'm telling you professional landscapers use 2843 02:37:56.959 --> 02:37:59.719 it and home gardeners all over Texas and they shep 2844 02:37:59.760 --> 02:38:01.879 a lot of it out of Steak because people discovered 2845 02:38:01.959 --> 02:38:05.000 over there and they want it because it works. Color 2846 02:38:05.040 --> 02:38:09.200 Star by Nelson Plant Food, So check it out. I 2847 02:38:09.280 --> 02:38:11.840 think you'll find good success. By the way, the secret 2848 02:38:12.280 --> 02:38:15.120 to having good blooms all through the winner is to 2849 02:38:15.319 --> 02:38:19.879 keep pushing them along with regular applications of small amounts 2850 02:38:19.879 --> 02:38:23.520 of fertilizer. That's how you do it. If your pansies 2851 02:38:23.639 --> 02:38:27.479 last year just kind of wimped out and put blooming 2852 02:38:27.600 --> 02:38:30.639 so well you didn't have color Star, put some color 2853 02:38:30.680 --> 02:38:33.040 Star on them every three months and they're going to 2854 02:38:33.120 --> 02:38:38.959 do really good. The music, it's one of my sad 2855 02:38:39.079 --> 02:38:42.200 songs because it means the show's over. Shutting down to 2856 02:38:42.280 --> 02:38:44.239 the day. I'll be back in the morning, bright eyed 2857 02:38:44.280 --> 02:38:48.879 and dish retailing pat people six am. In the meantime, 2858 02:38:49.000 --> 02:38:51.559 check out my website Gardening with Skip dot Com.