WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:09.560 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rickard's. 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:12.480 Shoes, crazy gas you trim. 3 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.960 You can just watch him as world. 4 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:20.280 Us. 5 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:23.879 So many goodies to sepotusy great. 6 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:33.439 Gas against a sorry glass gas. 7 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:37.280 Sun beam and. 8 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:47.520 Hey, good morning, welcome to garden Line. We are glad 9 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:50.320 to have you with us this morning. That a little 10 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.200 bit of drizzle going on outside, some cloud news, but 11 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:56.439 my goodness, the temperatures are great. In fact, this whole 12 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.479 week is is pretty nice. If you just want to 13 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:02.000 get outside, I not have to bundle up or not 14 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:05.079 have to I don't know, carry an air conditioner with you. 15 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:07.799 It's sure is a good week for that. I am 16 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:10.159 going to be out in the yard today. I've got 17 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:14.200 some flower bedwork to do. There's a bed that we've 18 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:16.920 been preparing, and you know how I always say bronze 19 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.079 stuff before green stuff. Well, I'm actually going to take 20 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.200 my own advice and get out there and mix in 21 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.920 some quality compost materials, get that bed up a little bit. 22 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.120 The area it's not poorly drained, but it's not you know, 23 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.159 wonderfully drained either. So I'm going to raise the bed 24 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:35.120 level up a little bit just so when it rains 25 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:38.000 too much, which at times it does. We're going to 26 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:40.400 make sure we have good drainage. You know, plant roots 27 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.000 do not like to be underwater. There are very few 28 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:48.560 plants that survive in a swamp like environment where there 29 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:50.879 just isn't good oxygen to the root system. So that's 30 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.760 that's important to get that, get that right and make 31 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.400 sure that we can give those plants the setting that 32 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.879 they want. I've got a few other things to do. 33 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:04.959 I've got some planting to do. I started planting alliums 34 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.199 the other day, and I'm late getting this done. I'll 35 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:09.960 just say right up front, this should have been done 36 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.400 a couple of months ago, probably, but anyway, it's still 37 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:17.960 okay to do it. The garlic is something I just 38 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.240 got in the other day, a couple of different kinds 39 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.120 of garlic that we're going to have going through the wintertime. 40 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.000 It's pretty hardy, pretty cold hardy here. Unless we just 41 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:31.159 have one of those absolute unusually hard freezes, we'll carry 42 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.800 it through so harvested next year. I've got some shallots 43 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.319 that are already growing, looking really good, and I need 44 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.120 to plant my onions. I got a lot of different 45 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:40.479 kinds of onions we're trying. I always like to try 46 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.960 different ones. You know, there's red onions, white onions, yellow onions, 47 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.479 and a lot of different types. And when you go 48 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:50.599 to a local place that is a let's say mom 49 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.240 and pop that is an independent garden center and you 50 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.280 purchase your stuff there or a feed store. A lot 51 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.120 of our feed stores carry onions as well. They're going 52 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.240 to carry the kind that want to grow here. Same 53 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:03.879 is true with potatoes. When you're planting potatoes, it's coming 54 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.919 up in February, you want to make sure and get 55 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.199 the cultivars that do well here, because not all onions 56 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.680 do here do well here. I won't drone on and 57 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:14.960 bore you, but there are short day onions and long 58 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:18.319 day onions, and it depends on what part of the 59 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.560 country you're in as to what kind you might want 60 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.439 to plant. But I got to finish getting that done. 61 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.360 For those of you who haven't tried onions, A lot 62 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:29.039 of our garden centers and feed stores still have a 63 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.840 supply out there for you. You can still put them 64 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.199 in the ground the sooner of the batter too, by 65 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.439 the way, but you want to make sure when you 66 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:38.680 plan them, plant them about as deep as the first 67 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.439 joint on your index finger. Okay, so look at your 68 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.319 finger first joint with that little lesson an inch. Go 69 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.439 ahead and plant them at that depth and then keep 70 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.080 them going. We like to say, I haven't hit the 71 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:56.039 ground running. When you put them in the ground, you'll 72 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:58.719 start of course, keeping them moist. Roots will start to form, 73 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.199 very important time. Take care of them then and then 74 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:06.280 small amounts of nitrogen gradually pretty much all through from 75 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:12.080 now until harvest time. And here's why. An onion is 76 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.599 the base of the leaves of the plant. The onion 77 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:19.360 bulb that we eat is the swollen base of the leaves. 78 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:21.920 So you cut an onion in half, and you see 79 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:26.040 the rings right. Each ring is the base of one 80 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:29.279 of the leaves up on the plant. So if you 81 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.360 have an onion that has struggled along, survived but not thrived, 82 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.879 and it's got five leaves on it, how big of 83 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.199 a bulb can you have? Not very big? You got 84 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.360 about five rings. That's that's what it can do. The 85 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.680 bigger that onion gets, the stronger it gets, the thicker 86 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:47.199 and more rings that you're going to have, and they 87 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:48.000 just do well. 88 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:48.720 So what do we do? 89 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.920 We make sure they never lack for nitrogen and water, 90 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.160 we keep them growing on through the cool season as 91 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:57.600 best we can, and that way we have the best 92 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.040 crop we can. Now, I have to have a softball 93 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.079 sized onion. A golf ball sized onion tastes like a 94 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.399 softball sized onion. Okay, So if you feel like, well 95 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:09.680 like I failed it, I know you didn't. You didn't 96 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.519 fail at grown onions. You just grew smaller onions. And 97 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.519 that's okay. They're still good to eat. Well. We like 98 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.399 to have them bigger. It's less tedious to chop a 99 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:21.480 bunch of them up that way. But anyway, there's a 100 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:23.839 few tips there on growing onions. Now, if you'd like 101 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:25.360 to give us a call, this is, by the way, 102 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:27.680 a call in show, not a monologue. So let me 103 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.480 give you a phone number. Seven one three two one 104 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:34.839 two five eight seven four seven one three two one 105 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:38.600 two fifty eight seventy four. For those of you that 106 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:41.199 have a Christmas tree in your house, don't forget that 107 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.720 you need to keep a good supply of water, especially 108 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:45.800 when you first set that thing up. You know, they 109 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.199 do a fresh cut on the trunk. You PLoP it 110 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:50.600 down in a in some water, and it's going to 111 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:52.800 drink quite a bit of water. That'll slow down a 112 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:55.360 lot as time goes on, but you got to always 113 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.800 keep water in there, don't let it dry out. That 114 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:04.439 is important for maintaining as best you can nice supple 115 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.199 needles for as long as you can into the season. 116 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:11.399 There's nothing like a fresh Christmas tree. The scent of 117 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.480 a fresh Christmas tree is so good, so take care 118 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.879 of that. We do not have a cat in our house, 119 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.439 but I was looking. I was looking this week at 120 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:24.240 I don't know, just cats and Christmas trees. You know 121 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.199 something somebody posted online. There were just a series of 122 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.079 Oh my gosh, it was every kind of disaster you 123 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.160 can imagine, and some that you can't. So you might 124 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:38.720 want to have a conversation with kitty if you got 125 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:42.639 one around the house, and make sure that they understand 126 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:49.439 what they're not to do in your Christmas tree outside 127 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:52.560 in the garden. This is a time of year when 128 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:58.920 we appreciate the fact that we have planted burying plants. 129 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.959 Plants are produced in the winter, and we have some 130 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.959 really good choices out there. Of course, Holly's that's number one. 131 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:11.279 Holly's are the most common famous plant for holiday decorating. 132 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.720 Through the cool season that there is that would include 133 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.959 a number of different types of hollies that produce berries. 134 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.839 Cut the little branches sections of branches often use them 135 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:26.160 for decorating around perhaps a nice meal table, or creating 136 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:29.040 a wreath or something along those lines. For those of 137 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.680 you who live out in the country and you got 138 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:35.399 some of the ash or not ash juniper Eastern red 139 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:40.319 cedar ash juniper Central Texas, the eastern red cedar branches 140 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:43.160 can be cut and they make a wonderful wreath as 141 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:47.079 well have a nice fragrance to them. Also, I'm going 142 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:49.160 to come back and talk a little bit about plants 143 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:51.920 to put in the landscape for decorating. In a moment. 144 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:54.720 Right now, we're going to go to a break. Good morning, 145 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:58.879 we got sleepyheads. We got a show to do here. 146 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.319 We are going to be talking gardening until ten am 147 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.000 to day. Welcome to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 148 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:08.399 and let's talk about the things you're interested in. You 149 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:10.920 can give me a call at seven one three two 150 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.240 one two five eight seven four seven one three two 151 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:19.120 one two fifty eight seventy four. If you are looking 152 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:23.920 for a show place during the holidays, Pierce Caapes is 153 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.480 the one you need to call they you know, they 154 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.120 absolutely can do anything pretty much that you need done outside. 155 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.480 Do you do you need beautiful landscape lighting? Do you 156 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:38.039 want to have a complete rehaul of the landscape, maybe 157 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.279 just creation of a beautiful stone patio area with the 158 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.919 landscape lighting. 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Now they're 168 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:20.159 numbers two, eight, one, three, seven, fifty sixty, but you 169 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:24.159 can find that on the website too, piercescapes dot com. 170 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.399 Pierscapes dot com. You can also get on board with 171 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.639 them to do quarterly maintenance. That's once every three months 172 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.519 they come out they spruce up the flower beds, do 173 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:35.440 any weeding, any mulching, and any trimming that needs to 174 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.559 be done, some fertilizing, making sure irrigation is right, changing 175 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.200 the seasonal color out. You know, as we go from 176 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:44.679 season to season, we put in fresh new annuals so 177 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.000 it always looks good. Pierscapes is good at that. In fact, 178 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.240 they are absolute professionals when it comes to that. You 179 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.200 are listening to Gardenline and I'm your host, Skip Richter, 180 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:57.960 and we're here to talk about the things that make 181 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.559 gardening more success. The way I like to put it is, 182 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.200 I want to help you have a beautiful garden, a 183 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.679 bountiful garden, and more fun in the process. That's what 184 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:12.039 we're aiming for. Gardening should be fun, and it is. 185 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:16.159 I was starting to set up my lens, my light 186 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.960 on lighting, my lighting for growing plants. Yesterday. I've got 187 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:23.240 the I've got a couple of racks that I set 188 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:25.480 up that I do that with, and I was putting 189 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:29.559 the lights in it and finishing up a publication on 190 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:35.000 landscape lighting, and I wanted to I want to just 191 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.440 talk about that. Just Oh, it's already online. My web 192 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.960 guys already got it up online. If you go to 193 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.279 gardening with skip dot com. I have a publication I 194 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.399 just put up hot off the presses. You may be 195 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.279 the first to see it if you go click right now. 196 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.639 Quality lighting for growing transplants. A lack of good light 197 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:58.039 is probably the number one mistake we gardeners make when 198 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.879 starting our own transplants, and it's gitting to be that time. 199 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:04.799 Get You need to get your supplies together. That would 200 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:08.159 include trays for growing them in, and I sometimes I 201 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.120 use the you know, the regular what they call seventy 202 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.759 two cell trays, and I grow in those. You can 203 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:18.000 get them with a little mini greenhouse clear cover over it. 204 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:20.919 If you want to do that. You need to get 205 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.559 your seed starting mix. Seed starting mix is basically potting 206 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.279 soil that's been ground up really really fine, so it's 207 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.679 perfect for planting seeds at just the right depth. That's 208 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:34.960 not real chunky stuff, it's very finely ground stuff. That 209 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.399 would include heating mats if you're going to start them 210 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.519 in a cold area. I start mining a garage. It 211 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:41.919 gets quite cool in there, and I use a little 212 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:43.879 heating mat under them and that works well. And then 213 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:47.080 of course lighting well, lighting is the mistake we make. 214 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:49.720 You know, you start some seeds. You have these, You 215 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.840 have this vision of beautiful landscape plants or transplants, and 216 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:59.000 what happens is you end up with something that's lanky, 217 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.360 stretching to ward lights, spinley. It's gonna break if you 218 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:04.840 mess with it. It gets out in the gard, it's 219 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.679 not going to perform. Well, I know, I've been there. 220 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:10.159 And all you need is a little bit of knowledge 221 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:13.559 plant lighting and some reasonly priced fixtures, and you can 222 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:15.720 do this. You know, if you want to go on 223 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:21.759 the cheap, you can basically get a fixture. I refer 224 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:24.360 to them as shop lights, but I just mean it's 225 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.320 a long, skinny fixture with a couple of tubes in it. 226 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.600 That's basically what I'm talking about. You can get a 227 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.879 fixture like that that has a very bluish light that 228 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:37.799 would be called cool white bulb. You know, having you 229 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.919 go in the store, you got daylight bulbs. You've got 230 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:46.679 those kind of orange e fireplace glow color, red light 231 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.039 reddish into the spectrum bulbs, and you know, you can 232 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:51.639 set it for each kind of room of your house, 233 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:53.639 the kind of mood and everything like that. You want 234 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:56.360 to cool white and a warm white, cool white, blue, 235 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:01.279 worm white I'll say yellow color lighting, and that range 236 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:07.639 gets you the amount of each part of the spectrum 237 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:10.519 as close as you can get without just diving in 238 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:13.879 and buying a quality plant light. But it'll get you 239 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:16.600 by I'm growing a tomato or a pepper seedling, because 240 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:18.080 you're only going to do that for a few weeks, 241 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:21.600 and you specially need the blue light on the end 242 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.039 of it. But anyway, I've done that before. I used 243 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.360 to when I use fluorescent tubes, I would put one 244 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:30.000 fluorescent tube cool white, one fluorescent tube warm white, and 245 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.919 I grew transplants for years that way. I had two 246 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.679 shop fixtures, so I had four bulbs, two cool, too warm, 247 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.519 and they were alternating. You put those things fluorescent tubes. 248 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:42.879 I had to get them down about two or three 249 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:45.360 inches from the plants to get the outaode amount of light. 250 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:49.240 I know, read the article. I make a statement in 251 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:53.240 there that in here. Let me just say it right now. 252 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:55.679 This is going to be hard for you to believe. 253 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.399 But if you put a light one foot above a plant, 254 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:02.000 a bright light or a dim light or whatever kind 255 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.360 of light you have, doesn't matter. Put it one foot 256 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:07.440 away from the plant, and you measure the light intensity 257 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.000 level on that plant, and then you move the light 258 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.720 two feet away from the plant. Most people would say, well, 259 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.399 it's a little dimmer, but not much. No, it's a lot. 260 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:20.679 Did you know that it is one for its twenty 261 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:24.720 five percent of what the light was at one foot. 262 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:28.320 When you moved to two feet, you doubled that distance, 263 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:32.240 and you didn't get half the light or more. You 264 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:37.000 got a fourth the light. Now read the article, explain 265 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:38.840 it why in there. Give you a link if you 266 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.279 are information, if you'll learn more. But it's very important 267 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:46.080 to keep your lights down where the plants need a 268 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:49.159 high intensity light. Now, some lights are so bright you 269 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:51.200 put them down low and you'll fright. I mean, your 270 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:53.720 plants will get all weird because it is just way 271 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:57.879 too bright for them. But follow the lighting quality. You 272 00:14:57.879 --> 00:14:59.399 can do it, like I said, on the cheap if 273 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.440 you don't do it that way. But if you're really 274 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.120 serious about growing transplants, and maybe you want to grow 275 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:07.360 some to the point of blooming, so your tomatoes when 276 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.679 they go out in the garden already have blooms on them. 277 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:14.039 There you need quality lighting. And I talk about what 278 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:18.519 quality lighting is. Uh, it's I think it's an interesting article. 279 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.399 Personally because as I learned this material years ago, as 280 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.600 I learned about plant lighting, I just was fascinated by 281 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.639 what it takes, what plants use, how this works. And 282 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:33.120 I can just cut, you know, kind of give you 283 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.639 a little preview here of the article and it is 284 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:40.960 or the publication. Basically, what we see with our eyes 285 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.200 and what plants get with their leaves are different things. 286 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:49.840 It's light. Light is light, but we see light in 287 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:53.480 terms of it's you know, it's a white light because 288 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.519 it has all the colors of the spectrum in it. 289 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.840 Plants see it in the different wavelengths because those wavelengths 290 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.000 do different things in plants. If you get them on 291 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:05.759 the red end of the wavelength, that is helping them 292 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:08.879 bloom and fruit, and it does some other things that's 293 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.679 in the article. If you get on the blue end, 294 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.799 that's the vegetative growth end of lighting. But then each 295 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.200 of the wavelengths has the functions that it has and 296 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.039 so your light needs to do that. So you can 297 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.919 buy a nice quality grow light and that will help 298 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.080 you to have success with your transplants or with growing 299 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:27.759 things out more. 300 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:28.440 I have. 301 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:32.480 A bunch of houseplants, too many to be in the 302 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:35.240 house because we leave them outside during the summer. What 303 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:36.519 am I going to do with them when it's going 304 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.840 to get thirty two degrees outside or even not even 305 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:42.960 that cold. Well, I have them in the garage underneath 306 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:46.600 a really decent little grow light that covers a large area, 307 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:50.440 and my plants are grouped underneath it, and it's a 308 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.360 little cool in there for them, but they'll be okay, 309 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.840 they'll get through that and the light will help keep 310 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:58.120 them strong. So go to my website gardening with skip 311 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:02.360 dot com and find quality lighting for growing transplants. It's 312 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:07.799 a brand new publication I just put online. If you 313 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:12.079 live down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, you're fortunate to 314 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.319 have in Jenny Gardens right there in your backyard. You know, 315 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:16.279 you can go, oh, I don't know what is it 316 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:20.359 FM three fifty nine just north of Richmond on the 317 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:23.960 Katie fullsher side on FM three point fifty nine right 318 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.960 where it comes in there to FM seven twenty three, 319 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:31.240 And Jenny Gardens is the kind of place where it 320 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.240 doesn't matter what month of the year you go out there, 321 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.160 you're going to find some really cool stuff. An unmatched 322 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:43.480 selection of plants, shrubs, trees, vegetables, herbs, flowers, you know, 323 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:48.079 in anything you can imagine out there. They they always 324 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.519 have a good selection of the very best plants. Of course, 325 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:55.279 they also have a very helpful team about as enthusiastic 326 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.240 as you can get. They bring in all kinds of 327 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.400 expertise to the place so that when you go up 328 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:04.400 and ask someone a question, you get expert advice. You 329 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.519 can take them photos and samples and things if you 330 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:09.079 want to get help with stuff. You can also find 331 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.559 wonderful Christmas gifts right now, any kind of holiday gifts 332 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.200 where I'm talking about you know, wind chimes all the 333 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:22.480 way into special beautiful indoor decorations, whimsicle garden art. Oh gosh, 334 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.359 they got a ton of that stuff. It's really really nice. 335 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:28.759 They have a good selection of seeds for those of 336 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:30.839 you who are going to be doing some seeds starting. 337 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:32.599 And then you know, when you get there, you're going 338 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.319 to find all the quality products I talk about on Gardenline, 339 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:38.880 products from Microlife and nitrofoss and Nilsen plant food and 340 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:43.720 Medina soil products and molts, Nature's Way, airloom soils and 341 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:48.519 Landscaper's Pride. It's really easy to find anything you need there, 342 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:56.400 including help for success. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's 343 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:01.680 the website, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Well, here we are. 344 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:04.559 It feels like these breaks are coming so fast. Today 345 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.319 it's time for another one. I'm going to quit talking 346 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:09.440 here and I'll be back in a minute if you 347 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:11.119 would like to give me a call in the meantime 348 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.599 seven one three two one two k t RH seven 349 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:19.240 to one three two one two k t r H. 350 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:20.079 We'll be back. 351 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:24.839 I'm going to continue talking about landscape plants that help 352 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:28.880 us decorating indoors for the holidays. Wen, We're glad to 353 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:33.559 have you with us this holiday season. It comes around 354 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.519 every year. I don't know what your plans are. You're 355 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:39.160 gonna be doing any traveling, You're gonna be having some 356 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:43.920 people in, some relatives, family friends, things like that. It's 357 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:48.319 time to decorate indoors, and we can decorate indoors from 358 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.599 our landscapes and gardens. There is a lot of things 359 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:54.400 we can grow here that work really well. I was 360 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:58.400 mentioning earlier the fact that you can use yopon berries 361 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:01.880 or holly berry in general. Yopon is a type of holly, 362 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.759 but all kinds of holly berries are great for decorating. 363 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.359 Yopon's great too. Just remember the scientific name, the proper 364 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:12.440 botanical name of yopon is ready for this ilix, which 365 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:16.720 is the genus of Holly's vomittoria. You heard it here first, 366 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.119 maybe not first, but that means don't put it in 367 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:21.759 your mouth. It is a purjective. So if you got 368 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:24.640 little kids that don't understand, just because it's pretty in red, 369 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:26.880 it doesn't mean it's candy to go in the mouth, 370 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:31.400 don't bring the yopons in, the berries in because you 371 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.359 know it's not poisonous in the sense of like some 372 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:37.160 points like plants like an oleander or something that would be. 373 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:39.640 But it is a purgative, and you don't want to 374 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:44.000 do that. So Yopon's a good one. I like to 375 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:48.079 use some of the holly fern. There's a holly fern 376 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.240 that is just a real leathery leaf, real beautiful. Makes 377 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:55.279 an excellent greenery and arrangements. It works really well. Holly 378 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.640 fern's a great easy fern to grow here. Doesn't have 379 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:01.920 the fern like leaf when you picture a fern that 380 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:05.279 kind of frond leaf, it's not quite like that. It's 381 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:09.279 dark green, glossy and a little bit broader leaf than 382 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:14.319 standard ferns, but it's a great one. Beauty berry. Beauty 383 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.119 berry is a native plant here in our area. It 384 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:23.200 drops its foliage in the fall to reveal beautiful purplish colored, purple, 385 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.799 lavender colored berries that are in clusters and they look 386 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.240 really nice in arrangements. Depending on the time of year, 387 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:32.680 you can find some nice arrangement there. There's a lot 388 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:34.599 of other plants that we can bring in. I mentioned 389 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:38.000 the eastern red cedar is a good one. Grows wild 390 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.400 out in the countryside, even on a road side. You'll 391 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:45.559 get some cedar branches that would be good for decorating 392 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:49.799 as well. Also, it has a nice scent, So think 393 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:52.920 about that when you're planting plants. Look at your landscape 394 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.119 right now, where might you want to plant some things 395 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:58.960 that could also be used for decorating and not just 396 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:02.440 holiday decorating, but decorating all through the year. I mean, 397 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:03.880 you know, you think about this. You go to a 398 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:07.200 florist and you get arrangements all year that have greenery 399 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.000 and flowers in them. What are some things you can 400 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:13.400 plant so that your landscape or your garden becomes a 401 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:16.319 source of those kinds of things. I think that would 402 00:22:16.359 --> 00:22:20.160 work well now when we're putting in plants of any kind, 403 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:23.359 and there is not a better planting season of the 404 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:26.200 year than we're in right now. I know it's holidays, 405 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:28.039 we're busy, and we got things going, but just know this, 406 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:33.279 preparing your soil, getting ready for planting, planting as soon 407 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:35.960 as you can. Just I'll leave it that way, as 408 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:37.720 soon as you can get it into the ground, give 409 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:40.920 it every day possible before next summer arrives. That's the 410 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:44.960 goal now. Landscaper's Pride has a number of quality products 411 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:49.759 of over two dozen different quality products for soil blends, 412 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:52.440 for growing pretty much anything you can grow. They also 413 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.039 have quality mulches and twelve months out of the year 414 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:58.160 three hundred and sixty five days out of the year 415 00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:02.559 is the time to mulch. Is always it's time to molt. 416 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:05.400 You want to keep a blanket malts over the surface 417 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:08.559 to protect the soil, stop erosion, prevent crusting, keep the 418 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:13.279 soil temperatures moderated and winter and in summer, and keep 419 00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:17.039 weeds down. Who loves pulling weeds well? Keep sol multed 420 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:20.079 with their black velvet molts. It's a hardwood malt. It's 421 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:24.319 basically an immature compost you know, hadn't really fully composted, 422 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:28.759 but it's a decomposing hardwood mult naturally dark, full of life. 423 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.359 It's screened to be bulky enough to make a really 424 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:35.880 quality malt. And it's beautiful, and it's not dyed. Black 425 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:39.200 velvet is not dyed malts. That's a natural black color. 426 00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:42.759 Cedar malts really attractive for the holidays. Got that nice 427 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:46.079 cedar or aroma in it, a beautiful reddish color when 428 00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:49.400 you put it out fresh. And then there's topsoil from 429 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:53.480 Landscaper's Pride. Now this is a sandy loam compost mix. 430 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:56.240 You can use it as top dressing. If you've got 431 00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:58.440 some low spots in your yard. You know you're trying 432 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:01.519 to repair your yard, get it back right again. Maybe 433 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:04.319 next spring you're gon be doing some more sodding some 434 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:08.559 areas that struggled. Landscapers Pride top soil is great for 435 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:12.359 filling in those low areas, for leveling things out, or 436 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:15.920 even just in part of your bedprop A quality sandy 437 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.960 loam with compost mix is a good part of making 438 00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:21.279 quality bed now. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com 439 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:22.279 find out more about it. 440 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:22.519 There. 441 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:27.440 It's easy, easy to find all over the Greater Houston area. 442 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:32.119 A while back, I was visiting with some of the 443 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:35.039 folks at Microlife. It's been a good while ago now, 444 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:37.799 but we're talking about all the different products that they 445 00:24:37.880 --> 00:24:40.680 have and some of the ingredients and things in them. 446 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:46.000 And you know, microlife is basically built on using nature's 447 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:52.440 lead in turning our landscapes and gardens into beautiful, productive places. 448 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:57.480 You know, in nature, think about the forests of the world. 449 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:01.079 Think about the meadows of the world, who running around 450 00:25:01.640 --> 00:25:04.079 doing all kinds of soil prep and stuff to them. 451 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:10.160 What's happened is, year after year for ages, plants and 452 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.559 plant parts have been growing and dying and falling on 453 00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:17.440 the ground, creating malts, creating soil and making it richer 454 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:21.200 and richer, more beautiful, more beautiful. That is how microlife 455 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:26.160 helps is by shortcutting that same natural process. So when 456 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.240 you get a microlife fertilizer, you're getting a natural, plant 457 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:36.599 based organic fertilizer that is loaded with microbes of all types. 458 00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:41.200 You put that out on the ground and it does 459 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:44.000 what organic matter does in nature. It becomes part of 460 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:47.559 the soil and improves soil structure. It helps stimulate biological 461 00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:51.519 activity and you get one of these microlife products, and 462 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.759 that is exactly what you're doing. You are helping move 463 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:58.880 nature forward quickly if you will. We don't want to 464 00:25:58.920 --> 00:26:02.319 wait eighty years for the tropical rainforest to build soil. 465 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.599 We want it now because we've got a plant. Microlife 466 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.119 helps do that. It gives this natural source of nutrients. 467 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:13.440 It decompose away as microbes chew them up. And all 468 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:19.079 microlife products are loaded with quality microbes and quality nutrients 469 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:22.480 from nature. That's how it works. Microlife Fertilizer dot Com 470 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:26.400 is the website. It's widely available here in the Houston area. 471 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:29.480 Makes it really really easy for you to have success 472 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:32.720 with your gardens and landscapes. I don't care if it's 473 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:35.160 a lawn, if it's a flower bed, if it's a 474 00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:39.759 vegetable garden. Microlife products are designed for all of those. 475 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:42.680 They got. They have products for acid loving plants, they 476 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:47.000 have products for fruit and fruit trees, and certainly for 477 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:50.279 the lawn and flower beds. You just pick the product 478 00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:54.839 and it will help you to have that kind of success. Well, 479 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:56.960 you're listening to garden Line our phone number, I'm gonna 480 00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:58.559 give you the number before I go to break here 481 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:01.119 because you can give a call and be the very 482 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.400 first up when we come back. Seven to one three 483 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.440 two one two five eight seven four, seven to one 484 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:12.000 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Don't forget 485 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:14.559 to go buy my website and check out the Quality 486 00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:18.839 Lighting for Growing Transplants article. It is hot off the presses, 487 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.519 and I would say this. Everybody needs to grow some 488 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:25.759 transplants for fun. And if you want to do it, 489 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:28.319 don't do it until you read this article so that 490 00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:31.400 you can have the best chance of success possible. We'll 491 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:33.799 be right back because sometimes I can just sit and 492 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:35.680 listen to music and I forget I'm supposed to do 493 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.720 it radio shows. Well here we are, welcome to Garden Line. 494 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:44.519 I'm back. I'm back on tasks at last. Oh goosh yeah. 495 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.279 The uh. 496 00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:49.200 The folks that plans for all seasons, the Fowerty family, 497 00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:52.440 they've been they have been around since what nineteen seventy three. 498 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:55.480 Plans for all seasons is the Garden Center. As you're 499 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:58.799 going up two forty nine Tombol Parkway twurd Tomboal, just 500 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:02.759 exit Luetta and it's right across Luetta, just within a 501 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:05.839 block on the right hand side right there. When you 502 00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:08.440 go in there, I'll tell you this, You're going to 503 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.160 find good plants. You're going to find quality plants. You're 504 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:13.559 going to find lots of quality products. You hear me 505 00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:16.160 talk about fertilizers and soils and things on guardline, You're 506 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:18.640 going to find them there. It Plants for all seasons. 507 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.759 But probably the most important thing that a lot of 508 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.079 people don't think about is the quality of advice that 509 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.960 you get, the quality of guidance that you get. You're 510 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:34.079 not shopping at some big box store where people are 511 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:37.880 hired to do the garden center that may not know 512 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:40.440 hardly anything about gardening, or may think they do, but 513 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.240 they don't. You're talking to people that have been gardeners 514 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:47.319 in our area for a very long time. They've been 515 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.680 helping gardeners for a very long time. And that's what 516 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:51.799 you get at Plants for All Seasons. You can take 517 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:54.640 them pictures, you can take them samples in a bag, 518 00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:58.200 you know, for diagnosis or for identification, to get a 519 00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:02.279 solution to help help you to have success. This is 520 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:06.680 a full service retail garden center. It's located again just 521 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:09.279 north of Luetta on two forty nine on the northbound 522 00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:13.359 feeder road Plants for all seasons. Dot com is a website. 523 00:29:13.400 --> 00:29:16.000 Here's a phone number two eight one, three seven six 524 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.240 sixteen forty six. Right now. They are loaded up with 525 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:23.680 some wonderful ideas for Christmas gifts for everyone on your list, 526 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:28.720 So go check it out. Plans for all Seasons. I 527 00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:32.160 always love going in there visiting with the whole team. 528 00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:35.640 They are a pleasure to visit with because they know 529 00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:39.759 what they're talking about and they're friendly. That's important too. 530 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:45.319 I wanted to tell you about something that I just 531 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:49.839 put this on my website a while back. Do you, guys, 532 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:53.119 I know pretty much all the listeners unless you just 533 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:57.400 joined recently garden Line listening audience, you knew Randy Lemon. 534 00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:01.039 Randy Lemon held the chair I'm sitting in for over 535 00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:04.079 twenty five years. He was a legend in the greater 536 00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:08.599 Houston area and certainly the gardening world. Everyone knew Randy. 537 00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:12.400 Randy had an entertaining style, he had very helpful advice. 538 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:16.039 He benefited I don't know countless people over the years 539 00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:20.039 his host here garden Line. You, in fact, me exactly 540 00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:23.359 be one of those kind of people. Randy and I 541 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:25.880 go way back. We lived in a dorm at A 542 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:29.519 and M together Moses Hall. And I've known Randy, knew 543 00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:33.640 Randy for a very very long time. You know Randy 544 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:37.400 just he was he was let's just say this, he 545 00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:40.240 was a presidentce. You couldn't miss Randy when he was 546 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:43.359 in the room, that is for sure. Well, Dean Nelson 547 00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:46.559 Nelson Plant Food set up a scholarship in Randy's name 548 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:49.720 to honor and remember Randy's wife and his contribution to 549 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:53.039 the gardening world. And that scholarship. We've talked about it 550 00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.400 a while back, but we're making another push for that now. 551 00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.119 This scholarship, by the way, goes every year to a 552 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:03.000 horticulture student at Texas A and M. Now, if you 553 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.000 knew Randy, you know how much he loved Texas A 554 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:09.400 and M, and how you can just imagine how proud 555 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:12.079 he would be knowing that there's a scholarship in his 556 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:18.000 name going to train a new generation of horticulture folks. 557 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:20.839 I think that is a really really cool thing, and 558 00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:23.400 I'd like to ask you if you would would you 559 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:27.240 consider making a donation toward that scholarship. We are trying 560 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.640 to raise some more money. We'll continue to build it up. 561 00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:34.519 The more we can produce, the more good we can 562 00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.640 do with it. This will be something that goes goes 563 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.720 on year after year after year. And you can give 564 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:43.240 a couple of ways. You can go online to the 565 00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:48.240 Texas A and M Foundation website and give that way 566 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.160 online with a correct card. You can also get by 567 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.640 check by making a checkout to Texas A and M 568 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.480 Foundation and in the memo writing Lemon Scholarship. Now, I'm 569 00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:59.559 not going to read you all the address in the 570 00:31:59.880 --> 00:32:02.279 r L and all that kind of stuff. Go to 571 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.039 my website Gardening with Skip dot com. It is the 572 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:11.480 most recent post on the website, the Randy Lemon Scholarship. 573 00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:13.599 It tells you how to give online. It tells you 574 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:15.119 how to get by check. If you would do that, 575 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:18.880 But for those of you who enjoyed listening to Randy 576 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.319 all those years, who benefited from Randy's advice all those years, 577 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.480 I would just make that appeal. Would you consider doing that. 578 00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:28.960 I think it is a wonderful cause, and I think 579 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:33.200 that the dividends of you being generous in that way 580 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.119 really help the gardening world here in the Greater Houston area. 581 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:41.039 I'm a product of the NM Horticulture program that is 582 00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:43.559 where I got my start in horticulture in terms of 583 00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:48.200 professional knowledge and learning, and I think it would be 584 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:53.240 great to start preparing more generations a horticulturist, and this 585 00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:58.279 scholarship will do just that. That is near and dear 586 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.960 to my heart. I think it would be a great 587 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.000 way to remember Randy. You're listening to garden Line. 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We're going 628 00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:34.599 to take a break at the top of the hour. 629 00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:36.800 In the meantime, though, I did want to, I did 630 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:40.159 want to go on a little bit more about doing 631 00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:46.320 some decorations indoors all through the season long there. If 632 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:49.719 you've never grown cut flowers, you should right now be 633 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:53.880 thinking about preparing a bed that's dedicated just to that. 634 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:56.199 Now you can mix cut flowers all through the landscape. 635 00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:57.920 We have a couple of beds in my garden, my 636 00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.840 vegetable garden where we grow as any as and other 637 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:03.719 things like that. My life. My wife loves cosmos. She's 638 00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:06.039 got some in her garden. Yes, we have separate gardens, 639 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:08.239 not that we can't go in each other's garden, but 640 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.239 she just kind of has her nice, pretty garden off 641 00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:13.400 to the side where she grows flowers. But it is 642 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:17.639 so easy to grow cut flowers in the landscape or 643 00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:20.920 in a garden. I would say the number one simplest 644 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.840 gardening cut flower gardening one on one is Zenias. Zennias 645 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:28.199 you can buy a bunch of seeds are not very expensive. 646 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:31.119 You can get all kinds. You can get tall types, 647 00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:33.599 you can get bedding plant types. You can get single 648 00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:36.480 flower types that would be more like a daisy like flower. 649 00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:40.119 You can get a multiple double flowers that almost look 650 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:42.679 like well they do look like a mom, a chrysanthemum, 651 00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:47.639 a mom. Just beautiful, absolutely beautiful. It's easy, easy to do. 652 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:50.920 But lots of good information online. That's another fact sheet 653 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.679 I need to write up as on growing cut flowers. 654 00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:57.599 Put that on the website too. Well, you get the idea. 655 00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:01.239 But think about as you play your landscape, so as 656 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:04.840 you do your garden plantings, as you create even shrubs 657 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:09.559 down to shrubs in the landscape. What is beautiful for decorations? 658 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:13.280 And there are so many really cool things out there, 659 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:18.800 uh Chinese witch, hazel oil pedal on that beautiful burgundy foliage, 660 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:24.360 especially with some sun on the foliage, A little lots 661 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:27.159 of other things we can choose. How do you make 662 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:31.760 your landscape? Source of the door? All right, can't take 663 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:34.000 it break, Let me come back, Frank from Houston. 664 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:35.840 Here are first up. 665 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:40.599 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with scape. Ricord's 666 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:51.360 just watch him as the world. 667 00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:58.039 So many sea blot basic. 668 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:16.320 Welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line on a nice 669 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.679 Saturday morning. We've got a little drizzle going on out there, 670 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.880 some cloudy today, but good night. The temperatures are wonderful 671 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:25.559 and they're going to be wonderful for a good while 672 00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:28.960 here that let me say counter blessings. We're gonna we're 673 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:30.880 gonna look at it that way. We are glad to 674 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.039 have some nice, moderate temperatures where we can get out 675 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:36.599 and about and get some things, get some things done. 676 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:38.880 We're going to start this hour off by going straight 677 00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:41.800 to the phones to talk to Frank. Hello, Frank, welcome 678 00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:42.440 to garden Line. 679 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:45.039 Hello, thank you, what are you doing? 680 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:48.920 I'm well, sir, how can we help? 681 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:59.719 All right? I will receive some uh tragicke dragging which Jim, 682 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:05.159 I'm has a blank out. Have some bluves in desert 683 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:10.960 rose and okay, I was trying to see what's the 684 00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:12.400 best in the planum and I. 685 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:19.159 Well, desert rose isn't a bulb like a tulip would 686 00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.079 be a bull, but it has a swollen base to 687 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.360 the plant. Or do you think are we talking about 688 00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:25.360 desert rose? For sure? 689 00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:28.039 Yes, yes, sir, desert rose. 690 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:34.320 Oh, okay, desert rose likes very well drained soil, so 691 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:36.519 you need to get it in a container with kind 692 00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:40.199 of a cactus mix, you know, something you would grow 693 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.000 for very very gritty, uh, just really well drained not 694 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:48.480 just not just pure potting soil kind of thing, but 695 00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:52.360 something that drains better than that. I cannot take the cold, 696 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:56.480 cold weather. But it likes sunshine. It likes to be 697 00:39:56.679 --> 00:40:00.199 you know, fed gradually over time. But it's not that 698 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:02.199 hard to grow if you give it good light and 699 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:02.960 good drainage. 700 00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:05.880 Okay, what's the best time to plant it? 701 00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:10.079 You can plan it anytime you want. You're going to 702 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.119 grow it in a container, right, yes, sir, Yeah, you 703 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:17.199 can plan it anytime. You can plan one right now 704 00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:19.079 if you want, just get it. 705 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:23.119 If I'm plan it right now, do I keep it 706 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:23.719 in the house. 707 00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:29.719 Well, if you can give it a light, that would 708 00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:31.880 be better. If you have some sort of an artificial 709 00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:33.920 light you can put it under to help it out. 710 00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.639 If you haven't purchased it yet, you could also wait 711 00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:39.639 and just do it in the spring and then you're 712 00:40:39.679 --> 00:40:43.079 not having to take care of it through winter through winter, uh, 713 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:45.719 you know, with trying to give it adequate light and 714 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:46.519 everything like that. 715 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:57.400 So okay, so like received already glad you just hold 716 00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.119 them over to the spring with a naked glad to 717 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:01.000 doing the thing too. 718 00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:04.159 No, if you've already got them in your hand, I'd 719 00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:07.320 get them potted up, Get them potted up and uh 720 00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.280 go go get you a uh the like airlom soils 721 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:17.639 makes a cactus, uh and succulent food. Uh, it's potting soil. 722 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:22.519 You buy it in small bags. Garden centers are some 723 00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:24.159 of the I don't. 724 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:30.239 Know you Yeah, I'll ordered a bag of it on Amazon, 725 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:34.159 so I have a bag there. 726 00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:34.360 You go. 727 00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.360 Yeah, well that's it. Just get it potted up real 728 00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:40.840 good and uh make you know it's a it's a 729 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:45.159 plant that is built. It's designed to be able to 730 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:47.800 hold some water so that you know, if it if 731 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:50.239 it doesn't get watered all the time, it's going to 732 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:52.559 be okay. In fact, it's better to not keep them 733 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:53.559 too wet for sure. 734 00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:57.199 So it's like a cactus or such a little. 735 00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:03.360 It's a succulent h yeah, ok, yeah it is. Yeah. 736 00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:08.119 Gosh they're a beautiful though. You bet good luck with that. 737 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:12.000 Those are gorgeous plants. Congratulations on getting one of those. 738 00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:14.480 I appreciate your call. 739 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:18.039 All right, there you have it, Hey, if you'd like 740 00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:20.639 to give us a call seven one three two one 741 00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:24.920 two five eight seven four seven one three two one 742 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:30.039 two fifty eight seventy four. We are here to answer 743 00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.000 your gardening questions. Well, I like to put it as 744 00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:35.079 we're here to help you have a what is it, 745 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.840 A bountiful garden, A beautiful landscape and more fun in 746 00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:44.119 the process. A bountiful garden, beautiful landscape and more fun 747 00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:46.159 in the process. I like to put it that way. 748 00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:49.840 You know, sometimes we get all kind of I don't 749 00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:52.639 know what the word is, but kind of tied up 750 00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:56.199 and not about whether we're having success or how do 751 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:57.760 you garden? I don't know how to do this. I 752 00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:00.760 don't have a green thumb. You know. People worry about 753 00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:05.000 that and it becomes a stress to try to have success. 754 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.960 You know, I think that plant's going to die. Relax, 755 00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:12.519 just relax, listen. You have got to kill a lot 756 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:16.000 of plants to become a good gardener. I'm going to 757 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:18.920 put it that way. I'm giving you permission to kill 758 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:22.400 some plants or to have some struggle. That's how we learn. No, 759 00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:25.440 we're here to help you cut down on the number 760 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:28.760 you kill and the number of the struggle. But just 761 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:31.400 relax and have fun. As you learn about it, it 762 00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:34.400 becomes more fun. And once you figure out what a 763 00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:37.199 plant wants, whether that plant is an azalea or a 764 00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:40.719 desert rose, once you figure out kind of the knack 765 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:42.719 of it, the amount of light, the amount of the 766 00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:46.119 temperatures it takes, the soils and things. Once you figure 767 00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:48.519 that out, it just becomes fun and it looks easy. 768 00:43:48.599 --> 00:43:50.679 And people say you got a green thumb, and you 769 00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:52.320 just look at them, and if you want to take 770 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:54.239 credit for it, you can say yes, I do. I 771 00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:56.559 would prefer you look at them and say no, I 772 00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:59.960 just have an informed thumb. Skip helped inform my moumb 773 00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:04.880 on garden Line. Your thumb gets smarter, your plants do better. 774 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:07.199 That's kind of how it works. So let's educate that 775 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.800 thumb and get you off to success. You can do 776 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:13.119 that listening here to Gardenline. You also do that going 777 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:16.079 into our quality garden centers. You know a place like 778 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:20.599 RCW Nursery. RCW is the nursery that is on Tomball 779 00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:23.519 Parkway at Beltway eight right where those two come together. 780 00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:26.119 Two forty nine and belt Way eight. That is where 781 00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:32.000 RCW is. The website is RCW Nurseries dot com. RCW 782 00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:35.800 nurseries dot com. You know, with RCW you have got 783 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:39.039 folks that have been doing this a long time. By 784 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:42.400 the way, they grow their own trees and large shrubs 785 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:45.960 up in Plantersville, and they have got as some of 786 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:50.000 the best deals you're going to find anytime anywhere right now. 787 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:55.599 For example, twenty percent off camellias, two kinds of committees, 788 00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:59.440 Japonicas and Susanquez. One blooms in the December time, one 789 00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:03.079 blooms in the January time. That just to may oversimplify it. Uh, 790 00:45:03.239 --> 00:45:07.320 they have azaleas twenty percent, all their shrubs twenty percent off. 791 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:11.000 If you like metal yard art and arbors, and boy 792 00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:12.719 do I ever I'm talking about the you know, the 793 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:17.039 metal structure and arbor as well as the hilarious uh 794 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:20.800 yard art that they have there at plants at the RCW. 795 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:23.159 Uh they've got thirty percent off that. 796 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:23.840 Uh. 797 00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:25.199 Every time I go in there, it's one of the 798 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:26.639 first things I do is go over and see what 799 00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:28.880 kind of crazy stuff have they posted to the wall 800 00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.599 with metal the yard art out there, all their trees 801 00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:36.800 are fifteen percent off at r CW Nurseries. If you'd 802 00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.239 like to give them a call to eight one four 803 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:43.199 four zero fifty one sixty one or go to r 804 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:47.599 c W Nurseries dot com. They're gonna be open today. 805 00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:49.559 You know you should get out there and check that out. 806 00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:52.800 You need to see these camelleas that are blooming. They 807 00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:57.199 are gorgeous. Camellias are almost like a winter rows on 808 00:45:57.320 --> 00:45:59.599 an evergreen plant. I guess that's one way you could 809 00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:04.400 look at it. I love those things. Lots of perennials 810 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:09.079 at RCWS, lots of annual color. They always have what's 811 00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:14.920 in season. I'm sitting here checking my time again. I 812 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:17.199 gotta go take a little break and we'll come back 813 00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:18.559 and talk to you more. If you'd like to give 814 00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:20.000 me a call, go ahead and get on the boards 815 00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:24.599 now with Jonathan seven one three two one two KTRH. 816 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.880 We'll talk to you when we come back. Welcome back 817 00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:29.239 to guard Light. You know, ACE Hardware stores are the 818 00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:32.360 place you go when you need fill in the blank, 819 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:35.760 and that's why they say ACE is the place right now. 820 00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:38.679 ACE is an awesome place to go for your holiday 821 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:43.719 lights and your holiday decorations. That's indoor and outdoor. They 822 00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:46.159 have something called lights by the foot. I think that's 823 00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:49.360 the coolest thing. So instead of buying this light that's 824 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.920 a given length, you know, ten foot, twenty foot whatever, 825 00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:56.440 maybe you need one that's seventeen feet seventeen feet long. Well, 826 00:46:56.679 --> 00:47:00.639 you can purchase by the foot your holiday light strings. 827 00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:02.239 Just go by there and ask them how on earth 828 00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:04.760 do you do that? And they'll tell you. ACE is 829 00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:08.400 a place for really cool gifts as well. Do you 830 00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:10.280 have a do it yourself or on your list? Maybe 831 00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:13.079 some tools that would work well. Do you need things 832 00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:15.159 for the shop? Do you need things for the kitchen? 833 00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:18.679 Do you need things for decorating indoors? Do you need 834 00:47:18.760 --> 00:47:22.360 toys for the kids? Ace Hardware has all the above? 835 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:24.719 All the above. Now we have a lot of ACE 836 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:28.039 Hardware stores around the listening area. For example, out there 837 00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:31.440 in Orange you've got Child's Building Supply on Highway six 838 00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.360 near Bear Creek. There's Hamilton Hardware just off Highway six 839 00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:38.239 near Bear Creek Park. There's Auspas Ace up in the Woodlands. 840 00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:41.079 And then you can go to either Kingwood or a 841 00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:44.079 task Asita and find a K and Mace Hardware two 842 00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:48.039 locations Kingwood and a task aseda just examples. Go to 843 00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:51.280 acehardware dot com, find the store locator, find the store 844 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:57.480 near you. Let's go out to Fairfield. Now we're gonna 845 00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.320 head to Fairfield and talk to Marty. Hey, welcome to. 846 00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:05.639 Garden Line morning Skips. Thank you for taking my call, Hay. Question, 847 00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:09.639 since nobody really called in, I thought i'd throw this 848 00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:11.760 out there. It doesn't have to be answered right now. 849 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:16.480 But I had a friend that retired and her husband 850 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:20.480 loves to plant outside, I mean just anything and everything, 851 00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.320 and he's really good at it. She, on the other hand, 852 00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:27.239 doesn't like to plant. But I thought I would try 853 00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:31.320 to get her interested by giving her something she could 854 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:38.159 keep inside, something interesting or a cool plant, or something 855 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:42.960 hydro upon it. I don't know what might you think 856 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.480 off the top of your head or you can answer 857 00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:46.239 later whichever. 858 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:51.360 Yeah, that's a good question, so you know, probably you know, 859 00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:55.760 hydroponics is fine. That's pretty elaborate and involved, and we 860 00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:58.239 don't want her to fail at it this first time, 861 00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:01.480 so I would, okay, I would think about like a 862 00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:06.239 quality house plant. I like that that if we're just 863 00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:10.559 if we're just wanting to, you know, get her started. Well, 864 00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:13.880 the two easiest plants to grow our mother in law's tongue. 865 00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:16.880 It's called sense of area snake plants another name for it, 866 00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:21.639 uh and zz plant z Z is another one that 867 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.400 you know, highlight, low light, you water it, you forget 868 00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:29.800 to water it. They're pretty forgoing. They're not necessarily everybody 869 00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:31.960 would think is the most beautiful go. 870 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:35.280 Ahead, Yeah, no, I've never heard of a zz plant. 871 00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:36.440 I know what a mother in law is? 872 00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.639 What is well? They have a. 873 00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:47.719 Well it comes out of the pot with these real thick, large, 874 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.920 fleshy petioles that come out for they're the leaf stems 875 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:54.599 and then the leaves are on the end. It's kind 876 00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:58.440 of a waxy leaf material. There's one type that has 877 00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:01.920 almost a chocolate brown lea and the standard type is 878 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:04.719 just a dark green. They're easy, I mean you can 879 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.679 find them anywhere and anyway. That's an easy one. For 880 00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:10.599 a more beautiful house plant, I think ugly aema or 881 00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:14.000 Chinese evergreen is best. Those. You can get them in 882 00:50:14.119 --> 00:50:18.000 standard green or green with kind of silvery color markings 883 00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:20.280 in the leaf. But I like the kind that have 884 00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:23.480 red or coral in the leaves. They are very beautiful. 885 00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:26.039 Now there are other beautiful houseplants, but again we're trying 886 00:50:26.039 --> 00:50:28.800 to help her have success. So you know, going to 887 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.239 a prayer plant, for example, a moranta, those are a 888 00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:36.840 little more tricky, so I would try a Chinese evergreen. 889 00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:40.280 It takes lower light, not as low as some plants, 890 00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:42.639 not as low as a closet plant, for example, but 891 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.280 if you just give it moderate light, it'll do okay. 892 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.440 The orchids, the little moth orchids that you see for sale, 893 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:53.800 ever wear, that's another pretty easy plant. It has some 894 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:57.480 basic care that you give it. But as far as 895 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.920 plants go, I neglect mine so much that I have 896 00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:02.280 to I had to take the phone out of the 897 00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:06.000 room because they kept calling the society cruelty to plants 898 00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:09.719 to turn it in. But they're they're tough, and even 899 00:51:09.800 --> 00:51:12.639 the neglected ones are bloom blooming again this year, and 900 00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:14.960 so that would be an easy one to do. 901 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:15.639 Uh. 902 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.400 You know, you can go in to fancier things like 903 00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:21.199 a little terrarium, or if you wanted to spend a 904 00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:22.639 little more on it, you could do one of those 905 00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:26.719 little aquaponic gardens that you know, it has the light 906 00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:29.559 right above where the plants grow and they can play 907 00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:32.079 around with that. But I think that would be a 908 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:34.239 little more of a challenge, but they might find it 909 00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:36.159 not al enough to really attract them to. 910 00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:41.679 When you said Chinese evergreen, you mentioned the name before that. 911 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:43.039 Did you say aguilera? 912 00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:51.440 Yes, a A g l e o aglio nema an 913 00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:54.760 e m a. That's the proper name for it. Chinese 914 00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:56.320 evergreen is a simple name for it. 915 00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:56.639 Okay. 916 00:51:56.679 --> 00:52:00.199 And what about a Christmas cactus, Chris, This. 917 00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:03.360 Cactus is good, you know right now? You get them 918 00:52:03.400 --> 00:52:08.639 with blooms on them. It's easy mine also, or neglect 919 00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:11.760 that I put them outside underneath the kind of a 920 00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:17.039 covering area I've got kind of a gosh, can't even 921 00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:19.239 say the name for it. Arbor, that's the word I'm 922 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:22.440 looking for. And I water them as I think about it. 923 00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:25.360 They do like to be watered. They're not like a 924 00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:29.440 true cactus. They grow in an area where it rains 925 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:32.800 that I ignore them all year, turn them around a 926 00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:35.000 few times, pull the leaves that have fallen in them off, 927 00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:39.199 and then when the fall comes they bloom again. They 928 00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:41.800 really bloom easy. And I can tell you that's that 929 00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:43.079 thing blooms a neglect. 930 00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:47.559 Yeah, that was not an indoor plant, though I've killed 931 00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:48.079 on mine. 932 00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:53.079 But yeah, okay, I don't know. 933 00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:56.119 Okay, I'll find out what an easy plant is and 934 00:52:56.239 --> 00:52:59.800 then i'll go looking. But those are some great suggestions. 935 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:00.639 I appreciate it. 936 00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:04.719 Yeah, those would be a few I don't I just 937 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:10.960 don't know what their particular interests are. You know, it's gosh, 938 00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:13.320 there's so many things that would be recommending. 939 00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:18.519 I've thought about. Yeah, I thought about an herb garden, 940 00:53:18.519 --> 00:53:19.760 because she does like to cook. 941 00:53:20.079 --> 00:53:23.199 But I don't know. I don't know. 942 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:26.320 I was thinking maybe something. 943 00:53:26.119 --> 00:53:27.840 Like that, but I don't. 944 00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:28.840 I thought maybe you. 945 00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:32.360 Since you like indoor plants. I am not very good 946 00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:33.599 at doing indoor plants. 947 00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:37.679 Yeah, well, I think that a light set up with 948 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:42.920 with herbs would be helpful. Indoor herbs struggle. They get 949 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:45.880 spin lead because they don't get enough light. And so 950 00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:48.559 if you had a light set up. My wife has. 951 00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:50.920 We have a counter where we mounted some lights up 952 00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:55.199 underneath the counter and she sets herbs there underneath those 953 00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:57.760 lights so you don't resee the lights that are mounted up, 954 00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:02.519 you know, underneath the overhang of the counter. But that 955 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:05.320 way you can grobs indoors. But other than that, it's 956 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:07.119 a little bit more of a challenge. And like I said, 957 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:09.639 we wanted to have success. That's that's the main thing. 958 00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:14.519 Great idea. Her husband just puts them up underneath their 959 00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:15.400 cabinet's perfect. 960 00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:16.199 Perfect. 961 00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:21.199 Okay, all right, thank you well, thanks, ok thanks Marty, 962 00:54:21.239 --> 00:54:25.400 appreciate the call. You take care, good luck. Uh yeah, 963 00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:31.239 Christmas holiday, whatever the event is. Gifts. That is a 964 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:34.280 fun thing to think about when it comes time for 965 00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:38.199 gardening gifts because there's so many things. You know, what 966 00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:42.360 people on your list that you know might be interested 967 00:54:42.440 --> 00:54:45.599 in birds, bird houses, bird feeders, be all that, all 968 00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:49.039 that kind of thing that people that might be interested in. 969 00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.199 Fragrant plants. There are plants plants that have a wonderful 970 00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:55.719 fragrance that could be that could be planted and grown. 971 00:54:55.800 --> 00:54:59.480 There's a lot of things that go along with standard gardening. 972 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:03.519 If you got to Moss Nursery and Seabrook, I love 973 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:06.239 going there, by the way. It is a true destination. 974 00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:09.400 Everybody down that area, Chemon, Seabrook and everything they know. 975 00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:13.159 Moss Nursery been around long long time. Eight acres eight 976 00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:16.480 acre Gardener's paradise is what it amounts to right now. 977 00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:19.280 Moss has got as they always do everything that is 978 00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:21.800 for the seasons, and if you're looking for house plants, 979 00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:25.039 easy to grow houseplants, everything from like a little four 980 00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:28.800 inch pot, very very economical, up to a six foot 981 00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:33.800 tall beautiful plant. They're greenhouse for house plants is outstanding 982 00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:36.440 and I would even recommend you go there. You're going 983 00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:38.239 to be wanting to buy fruit trees soon, you're going 984 00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:40.840 to be putting in vegetables and flowers and things. Moss 985 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:43.639 has got you covered on all that. Here's the website 986 00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:52.079 Maas Nursery dot com. Maas Nursery dot com. They're on 987 00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:55.920 Toddville Road out there in Seabrook and onf you go. 988 00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:00.760 First of all, allow yourself some time because there is 989 00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:04.239 a lot to see wandering through that eight acres A 990 00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:09.000 lot are really cool, aren't garden ornament? You know, statuaries 991 00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:16.199 and fountains and all concrete, uh, figurines and all. It's 992 00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:19.239 just cool. I promise this. Every time you turn the corner, 993 00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:21.239 it's gonna be like, oh wow, I've never seen one 994 00:56:21.239 --> 00:56:24.039 of those before. That's that's how it is out there 995 00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:27.559 at Moss Nursery. You were listening to the garden line. 996 00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:29.559 If you'd like to give us a call seven one 997 00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:32.679 three two one two fifty eight seventy four, seven to 998 00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:36.920 one three two one two five eight seven four. The 999 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:39.800 uh as we get close to the holidays, you know, 1000 00:56:39.880 --> 00:56:43.000 people get busy and things, and uh it gets quieter 1001 00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:46.039 on the phones, and so if you've ever you know, 1002 00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:49.039 I'd call in, but I don't want to wait online 1003 00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:52.159 or anything. Well, first of all, we work at not 1004 00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:55.320 letting people wait online, do our best at that. But 1005 00:56:55.480 --> 00:56:57.320 right now is a good time. Days like this are 1006 00:56:57.360 --> 00:56:58.920 a good time. If you'd like to give it, give 1007 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:02.320 us a call. If you want to have success with plants, 1008 00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:04.639 you got to fix the soil first, brown stuff before 1009 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.840 green stuff. And the one stop shop for all brown 1010 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:12.559 stuff is CNA Malts. Cienamlch is south of Houston near 1011 00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:15.280 Highway six and two eighty eight. They're actually on FM 1012 00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:21.039 five twenty one now. Cienamltch has every kind of soil 1013 00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:24.719 amendment product that you would need, certainly composts in every 1014 00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:28.960 type and form. They carry products from Landscaper's Pride, They 1015 00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:33.039 carry products from heirloom soils. For example. They have that 1016 00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:35.960 if you need fertilizers that you hear me talk about. 1017 00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:37.960 That's part of the brown stuff, part of the soil 1018 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:45.480 microlife Azamite, Nelson, turf Star, Nitrefoss products, and Medina products. 1019 00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:45.800 There. 1020 00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:50.079 You're going to find the Vegian Nerb mix from Airloom 1021 00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:53.039 Soils there. You're going to find Landscaper's Pride black Velvet there. 1022 00:57:53.079 --> 00:57:56.440 You're going to find Rose Soil blends there. They deliver 1023 00:57:56.639 --> 00:58:00.320 within about twenty miles of their location, and it's just 1024 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:02.679 a place to go. When you walk into Sea Aamals, 1025 00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:05.000 you're going to find everything you need for success. So 1026 00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:09.079 don't start thinking about planting until you go there or 1027 00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:11.599 have them deliver what you need. Time for us to 1028 00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:14.159 take a break, I'll be right back. Welcome back to 1029 00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:18.199 garden Line. We are glad you are listening today. I 1030 00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:21.440 appreciate that. I hope you enjoy garden Line. And if 1031 00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:25.039 we can help you have success, then I'll call that 1032 00:58:25.159 --> 00:58:28.599 a good day, a very very good day. That is 1033 00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:31.039 what we're here for. We want you to have success. 1034 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:35.440 You know that I was talking to Marty a minute 1035 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:38.519 ago about holiday gift plants and the folks out at 1036 00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:42.360 Neilson water Gardens. You know, and now you think about 1037 00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:46.320 water gardens, what's water gardens and nursery right, So anything 1038 00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:51.639 water garden, they're the experts, just absolutely nationally recognized experts, 1039 00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.480 from beautiful water gardens to those disappearing fountains, to the fish, 1040 00:58:55.599 --> 00:58:58.239 to the plants and them to everything else. But do 1041 00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:00.679 you know they also have a really good selection of 1042 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:03.920 plants in the garden center and right now inside the 1043 00:59:04.039 --> 00:59:07.079 nursery house plants. We're talking about gift plants with Marty 1044 00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:10.360 a minute ago, and I mentioned a number of different plants. 1045 00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:13.239 Well they've got them all there decorating and you know 1046 00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:16.760 the zzy plant that I was talking about, they have those. 1047 00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:21.519 They're beautifully decorated. They also, by the way, have a 1048 00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:24.920 great sense of humor. They say that all their plants 1049 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:30.639 are sugar free, calorie free, gluten free, so that's hilarious. 1050 00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:35.679 Twenty five percent off all of those interior plants, including 1051 00:59:35.800 --> 00:59:40.960 succulents until December twenty eighth, So get it done if 1052 00:59:41.039 --> 00:59:44.039 you need a quality gift, a beautiful gift. By the way, 1053 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:47.000 their houseplant section is just awesome, awesome. They still have 1054 00:59:47.079 --> 00:59:49.679 Christmas trees too, by the way, and with each Christmas 1055 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:52.079 tree you get a free point seta so that's kind 1056 00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:54.239 of cool. If you haven't gotten your tree yet, you 1057 00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:56.719 put it off. Maybe you like trees to stay fresh 1058 00:59:57.000 --> 00:59:58.679 as long as possible, so you don't want to buy 1059 00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:01.840 them too early. Whatever, Well, go get it. Now's the time. 1060 01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:05.079 Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. They're in Katie Fort Benroad. 1061 01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:07.679 You go out to Katie I ten turn north on 1062 01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:10.480 Katie Fort Benroad. That would be turning right coming out 1063 01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:13.119 of Houston and it's just a little bit up there 1064 01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:18.360 on the right hand side. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Check them out. 1065 01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:24.639 That's kind of cool. Gluten free plants, sugar free, calorie free. 1066 01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:28.039 It seems like that's the deal. I see that put 1067 01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.840 on stuff that never had gluten to begin with. Kind 1068 01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:33.320 of like plants. Well, or at least not you're not 1069 01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:37.119 going to eat it, but anyway, I appreciate a good 1070 01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:40.239 sense of humor. You are listening to Garden Line and 1071 01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:42.800 we're here to help you have a bountiful garden. We're 1072 01:00:43.320 --> 01:00:47.000 help you have a beautiful landscape and hopefully more fun 1073 01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:49.280 in the process. You know, We've got a lot of 1074 01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:52.360 different things that we can talk about today. I'd like 1075 01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:54.119 to kind of shift gears a little bit. I've been 1076 01:00:54.119 --> 01:00:57.840 talking about some indoor decore and whatnot, and talk a 1077 01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:02.079 little bit about planning for spring gardening, you know that 1078 01:01:03.239 --> 01:01:06.760 once we come out of the Christmas season, sometimes in 1079 01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:10.760 Christmas and New Year's typically I'll begin planting my spring 1080 01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:15.159 garden transplants indoors that would be tomatoes and peppers and 1081 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:18.320 things like that. Now it's early, right, it is early, 1082 01:01:18.800 --> 01:01:20.599 and you're going to think, well, the tomato is going 1083 01:01:20.639 --> 01:01:22.960 to outgrow that little six pack, Well, yes it will, 1084 01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:25.119 but then it goes into a four inch pot, and 1085 01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:27.880 then it even goes into a six inch or a 1086 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:32.039 gallon pot before it makes it out into my garden. Now, 1087 01:01:32.119 --> 01:01:34.000 and if you're going to plan an agro tomatoes, you 1088 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:37.559 don't want gallon sized plants. But that would be crazy. 1089 01:01:38.039 --> 01:01:40.880 But if you're just putting a few into a vegetable garden, 1090 01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:43.800 why not why not have a tomato that is already blooming, 1091 01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:47.000 maybe even fruiting by the time it goes out super 1092 01:01:47.119 --> 01:01:50.960 super head start that way and you can start these indoors. 1093 01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:55.239 I have put up on my website gardening with skip 1094 01:01:55.559 --> 01:02:01.719 dot com publications called quality Lighting for Growing Transplants, And 1095 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:04.920 I think this is really going to help you. I 1096 01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:07.960 spend a lot of time working on it, just trying 1097 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:10.440 to get the basics down what I do on there 1098 01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:13.519 as I talk about. First of all, poor lighting is 1099 01:02:13.599 --> 01:02:15.800 the number one thing that goes wrong when people try 1100 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:20.840 to grow transplants, those spindley transplants that are not getting 1101 01:02:20.920 --> 01:02:26.119 the light they need. Light drives everything is good quality 1102 01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:29.239 seed starting mix important. Yes, is the right amount of 1103 01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:36.280 moisture important? Yes. Are temperatures helpful? Yes? But lighting light 1104 01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:39.360 shines on the leaves and makes plant food. We talk 1105 01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:43.400 about fertilizers plant food, but really fertilizer goes in the plant, 1106 01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:46.960 sun shines on the leaf, and the plant makes plant 1107 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.440 food ca carbohydrates. So the quality of your light, the 1108 01:02:50.519 --> 01:02:55.119 amount of your light is very important to successful transplants. Now, 1109 01:02:55.119 --> 01:02:57.199 if you want to keep a plant over winter, Like 1110 01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:00.639 I mentioned earlier, a lot of my houseplants of outside 1111 01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:03.280 during the summer, and I don't have room for them inside. 1112 01:03:03.880 --> 01:03:06.840 The place could look like a jungle. I guess it could, 1113 01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:09.920 but we're just not quite into that type of decorating. 1114 01:03:10.039 --> 01:03:12.239 Of a lot of plants, but not that many, So 1115 01:03:12.320 --> 01:03:14.960 I put them out in the garage underneath a really 1116 01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:17.719 good quality light and keep them there for the wintertime. 1117 01:03:18.559 --> 01:03:21.079 Cooler tempts in the garage slow them down a lot. 1118 01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.639 I mean, they basically just sit there. I don't have 1119 01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:26.000 to water them much, but it's easy. So look at 1120 01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:29.679 that publication Quality Lighting for Growing Transplants. It is free. 1121 01:03:29.880 --> 01:03:32.239 You can't top me down on that price. It is free. 1122 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:36.280 And it goes into the spectrum of light. You know, remember, 1123 01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:38.639 did you in school, when you're in science, have a 1124 01:03:38.800 --> 01:03:41.239 prism where you shine the light in and like the 1125 01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:44.480 rainbow and out the other side. What we see is 1126 01:03:44.599 --> 01:03:49.039 white is really a mix of almost all the colors. Essentially, 1127 01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:56.199 plants see those colors individually, and they do individual things 1128 01:03:56.800 --> 01:04:02.280 blue light, to oversimplify, blue light helps with vegetative growth. 1129 01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.760 The red part of the spectrum helps with blooming and fruiting. 1130 01:04:07.119 --> 01:04:08.960 Now they do other things as well. I go into 1131 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:12.639 it in the publication a little bit more. But those 1132 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:15.559 parts of the spectrum are important. And when you buy 1133 01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:20.400 a light for your home, for home lighting, that is 1134 01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:24.239 a light you're buying for your eyes, right, And it 1135 01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:27.719 has things on the package like the number of lumens 1136 01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:30.840 that it has and the watts that it has. That 1137 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:36.760 stuff's not important for plants. Plants care about the light 1138 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:41.760 bands that are photosynthetically active. In other words, when a 1139 01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:45.800 blue light or a red light, or an orange spectrum 1140 01:04:46.199 --> 01:04:49.159 or a green spectrum, yellow spectrum. When that shines on 1141 01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:53.000 a plant leaf, does it stimulate photosynthesis or not? Now, 1142 01:04:53.079 --> 01:04:55.400 there's other factors that are very important, and each of 1143 01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:59.119 the bands do that. So when you buy a human light, 1144 01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:04.519 you are getting an attractive light to our eyes, but 1145 01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:08.679 probably not a mix of colors in the amounts that 1146 01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:12.800 plants want. Can you get by with some human lights? Yes? 1147 01:05:13.400 --> 01:05:16.639 I grew up with a wow. Grew up during all 1148 01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:20.719 my early plant seeds starting time, I would use a 1149 01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:25.920 warm white fluorescent tube and a cool white fluorescent tube 1150 01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:28.559 in one of those shop light fixtures, And I had 1151 01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:31.880 two shop like fixtures, two four foot fixtures, cool white, 1152 01:05:31.960 --> 01:05:35.320 worm white, cool white, warm white in the fixtures, and 1153 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:37.000 I would hang them right over the plants, about three 1154 01:05:37.039 --> 01:05:39.559 inches above them. And I would get by with growing 1155 01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:42.400 a tomato transplant or a basal transplant whatever I was 1156 01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.679 trying to grow under those. But when you start carrying 1157 01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:47.880 plants further in, you're trying to get them to bloom, 1158 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:50.280 or you're wanting to care for a longer term, or 1159 01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:53.599 you want them you grow tomatoes indoors and have them fruit. 1160 01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:56.159 If you have the right kind of lighting to do it. 1161 01:05:56.920 --> 01:05:58.920 That's where we got to start looking for that. So 1162 01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:02.239 remember lumens the way they put it as lumens or 1163 01:06:02.280 --> 01:06:07.599 for humans, par Is for plants, par is the photosynthetically 1164 01:06:07.719 --> 01:06:10.280 active radiation. So I'm not gonna get too nerdy on you. 1165 01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:12.840 It's all in the publication. Talks about the amount of light. 1166 01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:15.400 How long do you run your lights when you're starting seats. 1167 01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:20.320 It's in there talks about that are what are the 1168 01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:24.000 concepts about distance from the light. It makes a huge 1169 01:06:24.599 --> 01:06:28.039 difference to get that light as close as you can 1170 01:06:28.360 --> 01:06:30.880 to the plants. And then there's some other tips. It's 1171 01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:34.079 all free. It's all on gardening with skip dot com. 1172 01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:38.800 So this year I would challenge you to grow some 1173 01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:41.719 transplants if you never had before. If you have before, 1174 01:06:42.039 --> 01:06:44.239 I would challenge you to take your game up a 1175 01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:48.039 notch and get you a better setup to do better 1176 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:52.440 with it. And by the way, talking about gifts and stuff, 1177 01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:55.440 a plant lighting system would be a great gift for 1178 01:06:55.559 --> 01:06:57.280 the gardener in your list. All right, we're gonna take 1179 01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:59.840 a break. I'll be right back. All right, welcome back 1180 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:04.639 to guard Line. Did you know that Tom Hanks wrote 1181 01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:07.719 most of the music for that movie that it was 1182 01:07:07.760 --> 01:07:09.199 a great movie. By the way, we set back in 1183 01:07:09.239 --> 01:07:14.039 the nineteen fifties bands trying to get on the radio 1184 01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:17.519 with that early rock. What's going on? Anyway, I'm impressed. 1185 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:20.639 He's a great, great actor, one of those actors when 1186 01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:23.079 he's in a show, you know he's not going to disappoint. 1187 01:07:23.960 --> 01:07:26.599 But to have the talent also to write music for 1188 01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:30.039 it period music like that was pretty cool. Anyway, you 1189 01:07:30.119 --> 01:07:35.320 can tell I'm impressed. So, speaking of impressed, if you 1190 01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:39.039 love a hometown feed store, if you like that old 1191 01:07:39.159 --> 01:07:42.840 time feed store, I feel League City feed is that, 1192 01:07:43.079 --> 01:07:46.159 and I've been impressed when I go in there because 1193 01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:49.079 I love that. I love the smell of a feed store. 1194 01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:50.840 You know, you go in and it just has a 1195 01:07:51.760 --> 01:07:53.679 I don't know, earthy. I don't have a better adjective 1196 01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:57.199 for it, but a nice fragrance that just I just 1197 01:07:57.599 --> 01:07:59.360 it makes me happy because I grew up going into 1198 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:02.719 feedstore Sloe like League City feed. Now, for those of 1199 01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:05.480 you down in League City, of course, all the communities 1200 01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:09.719 around it, from San Leone, Webster, El Cominarial, Santa Fe, Dickinson, 1201 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:13.199 all that region, this is your hometown feed store and 1202 01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:16.399 they are open Monday through Saturday nine to six, so 1203 01:08:16.479 --> 01:08:18.119 you can swing by after work if you need to 1204 01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:21.920 pick up something closed on Sundays. Here's a phone number. 1205 01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:24.439 You write this down to eight one three three two 1206 01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:28.399 sixteen twelve to eight one three three two sixteen twelve. 1207 01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:31.399 The Thunderbergs have been operating this store since oh gosh, 1208 01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:34.640 over forty years now, and it's the kind of place 1209 01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:37.920 where you go and you find the fertilizers I talk about, 1210 01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:42.159 like products from nitrofoss or from microlife, or from Nilsen 1211 01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:47.199 plant food or maybe azamite, that very important ingredient in 1212 01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:50.720 taking care of our lawns, and I think vegetable gardens too. 1213 01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:53.720 It's there you're going to find the things to control 1214 01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:56.279 pests and weeds and diseases. You're going to find premium 1215 01:08:56.319 --> 01:08:59.000 pet foods. And if you got backyard chickens, they have 1216 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:01.800 the products you need for your backyard chickens, from feed 1217 01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:05.279 to feeders to bedding, as they like say, everything but 1218 01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:08.640 the chickens. They've got it covered at League City Feed. 1219 01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:11.199 Where is it now? It's on Highway three, just a 1220 01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:15.079 few blocks south of Highway ninety six in League City, 1221 01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:18.560 and you should swing by there. Tell them skips it 1222 01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:23.479 high from garden line when you swing by. I was 1223 01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:25.239 what was I talking about before? When I was talking 1224 01:09:25.279 --> 01:09:29.720 about quality? Oh, I know, Christmas gifts are any time 1225 01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:31.119 of the year gifts. You know, you don't have to 1226 01:09:31.159 --> 01:09:34.760 wait for some special holiday to give a gout of 1227 01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:38.399 lighting for plants if you know a gardener who wants 1228 01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:42.319 to take it up a notch. Quality lighting is important 1229 01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:44.760 most of our homes. It's hard to even grow a 1230 01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:49.239 house plant in due to the poor light levels, lack 1231 01:09:49.279 --> 01:09:52.680 of quality lighting in the plants. And you could buy 1232 01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:55.600 you could buy something that's like the whole setup. You know, 1233 01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:57.479 you buy it. It's got a rack, it's got the 1234 01:09:57.560 --> 01:10:01.239 lights on it and everything. Those are pricey, but it's beautiful. 1235 01:10:01.279 --> 01:10:03.680 I mean, it's something that's attractive to put in the house. 1236 01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:06.000 You know, hanging a shop light over the kitchen counter 1237 01:10:06.439 --> 01:10:10.000 may not be esthetically acceptable, and so you can buy 1238 01:10:10.039 --> 01:10:12.560 a nice one. But you can also put together a 1239 01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:17.920 package of things. My article on lighting recommends a certain 1240 01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:20.800 kinds of light. And you can go online and buy 1241 01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:23.000 a high quality light and someone can figure out where 1242 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:24.520 to put it themselves. You know, they put it in 1243 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:27.800 their garage like I have mine. Maybe you would just 1244 01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:31.000 want to buy the whole package for starting seed, like 1245 01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:33.760 a tray with the seventy two cells in it, a 1246 01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.199 bag of seed starting mix. Those trays come with a 1247 01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:40.560 little clear dome that goes over them, or real real 1248 01:10:40.680 --> 01:10:43.399 easy to find. You can buy a more expensive version, 1249 01:10:43.479 --> 01:10:46.319 so that same thing too, and then maybe a pack 1250 01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:48.800 of seeds. If you know they like to grow vegetables, 1251 01:10:48.840 --> 01:10:50.600 we'll get them a pack of tomato seeds or pack 1252 01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:53.680 of pepper seeds, and a pack of eggplant seeds, or 1253 01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:56.760 maybe some spinach or whatever you want to give them. 1254 01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:00.600 Just let them have at it. But a quality light, 1255 01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:03.399 a heating mat, there's another one that you could do. 1256 01:11:04.399 --> 01:11:06.560 If you're going to I guard, I start my seeds 1257 01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:10.520 in the garage. It's cold in the garage, not too cold, 1258 01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:12.720 but it's cool in the garage. So in order to 1259 01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:14.720 get the seeds up and going, you want that soil 1260 01:11:14.800 --> 01:11:17.520 temperature to be about seventy eight to eighty degrees for 1261 01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:21.119 a lot of the warm season plant seeds. And so 1262 01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:24.560 when the garage is fifty degrees, you just put a 1263 01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:27.640 little heating mat underneath it. It warms the soil in 1264 01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:31.640 the little trays. And to have warm soil for the 1265 01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:36.039 roots but cool air for the tops is a great 1266 01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:40.000 combination for growing a good stocky houseplant. And to have 1267 01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:42.760 a quality light and know how to use it is 1268 01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:45.920 very important. Now when you go online to buy lights, 1269 01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:48.399 you know you're going online, or if you even go 1270 01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:53.800 shopping around different businesses for lights, a lot of times 1271 01:11:54.119 --> 01:11:57.880 what you see is not very good quality. It's not 1272 01:11:57.960 --> 01:12:00.640 going to work. They may call it a plant light, 1273 01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:03.399 but it's not. You know, you go on a place 1274 01:12:03.520 --> 01:12:05.840 like Amazon and you see these lights that look like 1275 01:12:05.960 --> 01:12:09.000 spiders sticking out in all directions, and they're they're kind 1276 01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:11.920 of that purple color which is a combination of blue 1277 01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:16.319 and red wavelengths. First of all, that horrible looking on 1278 01:12:16.399 --> 01:12:19.800 your eyes in the house. But you can do better 1279 01:12:19.880 --> 01:12:22.920 than that. And so a lot of those don't tell 1280 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:25.520 you the specifics of the plant. I saw a plant 1281 01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:29.199 light the other day and when the fine print it 1282 01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:37.399 said how many how much available plant available wavelengths are there, 1283 01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:40.079 And you'd have to stick that thing about four inches 1284 01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:43.600 from a plant to do any good, I mean just about. 1285 01:12:44.439 --> 01:12:46.840 And that's you know, they show pictures of it hanging 1286 01:12:46.960 --> 01:12:49.800 from a ceiling, you know, ten feet away from a plant, 1287 01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:52.760 it's not going to work. You need a quality light 1288 01:12:52.880 --> 01:12:55.920 that's made for that. So go to your local garden centers, 1289 01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:57.720 go to a place that knows what they're talking about, 1290 01:12:58.159 --> 01:13:01.000 or if you do shop online for them, make sure 1291 01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:04.600 you're getting a quality plant. And if you don't see 1292 01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:11.119 letters like pa R or PPFD, those are two things 1293 01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:15.600 to look for, then you're probably talking to a seller 1294 01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:18.640 who really doesn't know what they're talking about. Or maybe 1295 01:13:18.680 --> 01:13:20.880 they know, but they're not going to tell you that 1296 01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:23.720 the light just is inadequate. So get a good quality 1297 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:26.800 light if you want to grow things in a longer term. 1298 01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:31.079 There are houseplants that take a little bit more light 1299 01:13:31.279 --> 01:13:34.920 to look good, and you can even get home fixtures. 1300 01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:38.319 You know, a light that chines from the ceiling or 1301 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:41.439 hangs down from the ceiling. I use the stand up 1302 01:13:41.640 --> 01:13:44.800 kind of a gooseneck like structure that for where you 1303 01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:46.880 put it behind the couch so you come over your 1304 01:13:46.920 --> 01:13:48.880 shoulder and you could read. And I just put a 1305 01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:52.039 quality plant like bulb in that, and I've got a 1306 01:13:53.680 --> 01:13:56.920 Norfolk Island pine that's now about four and a half 1307 01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:00.319 feet tall and just thick and lush, and one for 1308 01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:04.479 that light. It would be a mess, but great gift, 1309 01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:08.520 great gift idea. Well, you're listening to garden Line. Our 1310 01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:12.920 phone number is seven one three two one two five 1311 01:14:13.039 --> 01:14:18.000 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 1312 01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:20.840 eight seventy four. You can give me a call, talk 1313 01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:23.880 to Jonathan, have him get you on the boards. And 1314 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:26.239 when we come back from the break that we're about 1315 01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:30.119 to take here, you will be the first step. What 1316 01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:32.680 kind of gardening questions can we help you? Then that's 1317 01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:35.119 what we're here for. I just want to remind you 1318 01:14:35.239 --> 01:14:40.359 again that on my website is a new post, the 1319 01:14:40.479 --> 01:14:45.039 newest thing on the website, the Randy Lemon Scholarship. Randy 1320 01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:48.000 was a legend here in the Greater Houston area for 1321 01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:53.079 decades as a host of garden Line. If you knew Randy, 1322 01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:54.920 or if you heard Randy on the air, you knew 1323 01:14:54.960 --> 01:14:58.720 he was one of a kind. For sure. He loved text, 1324 01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:02.079 A and M and there has been a scholarship set up. 1325 01:15:02.119 --> 01:15:06.600 I emails from Nelson Platforms and Randy you can get to. 1326 01:15:07.279 --> 01:15:10.479 I would like you to check it out on my website, Stott. 1327 01:15:11.119 --> 01:15:13.399 I think it's a great cause and I know Randy 1328 01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:14.079 would be trapped. 1329 01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:18.439 Welcome to kt R h Guarden Line with Skip Ricord. 1330 01:15:27.159 --> 01:15:28.760 Just watch you as. 1331 01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:34.079 All right, folks, we're gonna jump right in here. I 1332 01:15:34.159 --> 01:15:36.720 don't know what happened, but everybody grabbed the phone at 1333 01:15:36.720 --> 01:15:39.600 one time. So we're gonna dive dive straight into it. 1334 01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:40.359 Uh. 1335 01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:43.960 Today we're gonna start with going out to Hockley and 1336 01:15:44.319 --> 01:15:47.159 talking to Scott. Hello, Scott, welcome to Guarden Line. 1337 01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:49.279 How you doing today? 1338 01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:53.159 I'm well, sir, Thank you good. 1339 01:15:53.199 --> 01:15:56.279 I've got two creat myrtles. They're about fifteen feet apart, 1340 01:15:56.359 --> 01:15:59.479 and one of them the stalks and everything look wonderful. 1341 01:15:59.479 --> 01:16:01.199 And the other one and they're all. 1342 01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:06.079 Like blackish, almost like it, uh huh some sort of 1343 01:16:06.119 --> 01:16:08.119 disease or something. I'm just wondering what I could. 1344 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:08.319 Do to it. 1345 01:16:10.119 --> 01:16:14.000 Yeah, good question. That is caused by an insect, Scott. 1346 01:16:14.079 --> 01:16:16.800 It's called the crate myrtle bark scale. And if you 1347 01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:20.880 look closely at those trunks, the blackish city trunks, you'll 1348 01:16:20.880 --> 01:16:23.560 see little white things in there. That's actually the scale 1349 01:16:23.640 --> 01:16:28.119 insects there. They're really difficult to control. You know, if 1350 01:16:28.159 --> 01:16:30.560 it's a small crpe myrtle, you know you can you 1351 01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:33.399 can tillow brush and brush them off and you do 1352 01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:36.119 some oil sprays on them while they're dormant. It helps 1353 01:16:36.119 --> 01:16:39.640 a little bit. The thing most people do is put 1354 01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:43.880 a systemic insecticide in the ground and the roots take 1355 01:16:43.960 --> 01:16:47.760 it up, and then the insects that are sucking juices 1356 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:51.119 out of your crpe myrtle stems, they pick up that 1357 01:16:51.199 --> 01:16:53.520 poison and it kills them that way, and it doesn't 1358 01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:56.319 That way is not killing you know, some beneficial insect 1359 01:16:56.399 --> 01:17:00.600 that's out there on the plant. That would be after 1360 01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:03.359 we get a little bit of warming and the crank 1361 01:17:03.439 --> 01:17:07.239 myrtle begins to grow and it's actively taking up nutrients 1362 01:17:07.479 --> 01:17:10.000 and things. That's when you do that trench for that. 1363 01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:14.039 But that's basically the option. You can ignore them. They 1364 01:17:14.119 --> 01:17:15.800 are not going to kill your creape myrtle. They make 1365 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:18.239 it look bad, but they do have natural enemies which 1366 01:17:18.359 --> 01:17:21.680 build up to help keep them moderately under control. 1367 01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:25.640 Okay, and I'll try that when it warms up a 1368 01:17:25.680 --> 01:17:28.119 little bit. And appreciate your help. 1369 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:33.239 Yeah, thanks a lot for the call. Appreciate that. Take 1370 01:17:33.319 --> 01:17:39.039 care all right, bye bye. I'm sitting here is cracking 1371 01:17:39.079 --> 01:17:43.520 me up. The phones are like popcorn going off here, 1372 01:17:44.439 --> 01:17:47.039 just popping up here. Okay, we're gonna go to David 1373 01:17:47.159 --> 01:17:50.159 in Southwest Houston. Hey David, welcome to garden Line. 1374 01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:51.680 Good morning. 1375 01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:54.039 Got a couple of questions for you. First of all, 1376 01:17:54.159 --> 01:17:56.359 is this a good time to do organic fertilizing for 1377 01:17:56.840 --> 01:17:57.479 my yard? 1378 01:18:01.239 --> 01:18:04.399 And the reason is the your lawn grass has just 1379 01:18:04.680 --> 01:18:08.319 almost quit taking up nutrients. It's taken up a little bit. 1380 01:18:08.840 --> 01:18:11.439 The roach are growing a little bit, but not much. 1381 01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:13.159 And so save your money. Or if you got the 1382 01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:15.760 fertilizer in hand, just put it in the garage and 1383 01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:18.199 then once we get into spring put it on. Then 1384 01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:21.760 I have put a schedule on my website, David, David, 1385 01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:26.039 that's free. It's gardening with Skip dot com. And the 1386 01:18:26.119 --> 01:18:29.079 lawn care schedule tells you exactly when to fertilize through 1387 01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:30.079 the year and what do you use? 1388 01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:31.159 Okay. 1389 01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:33.840 And the other question is I have a river birch 1390 01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:37.960 tree that didn't make it last summer. It's been dead 1391 01:18:38.840 --> 01:18:41.560 all summer until now obviously it's gone. 1392 01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:43.199 It's about twenty feet. 1393 01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:45.279 Tall, all the branches are off. It's like it's a 1394 01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:48.239 skinny poole. And actually it doesn't look bad at all 1395 01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:50.399 of me. It's in the middle of a huge garden. 1396 01:18:52.319 --> 01:18:53.920 I'm wondering do I have to cut it down or 1397 01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:55.680 can I leave it there for woodpeckers? 1398 01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:01.319 Well, you can leave it. What what's the diameter of 1399 01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:02.960 the trunk on that river bird? 1400 01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:09.079 Oh gosh, not not real wide. I mean it's about 1401 01:19:09.119 --> 01:19:14.239 twenty years old. But yeah, that's all okay, Well maybe 1402 01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:16.199 maybe maybe six inches I guess. 1403 01:19:17.439 --> 01:19:20.920 Yeah, okay, Well that's big enough for woodpeckers. But they 1404 01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:23.039 like to be up higher, so I don't know how 1405 01:19:23.119 --> 01:19:25.680 tall it is, but you know, down low you're not 1406 01:19:25.720 --> 01:19:27.520 going to get the woodpecker houses. They want to get 1407 01:19:27.560 --> 01:19:29.600 up in the air a little bit. But there's no 1408 01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:31.159 wrong then wrong with leaving. 1409 01:19:31.039 --> 01:19:33.159 It if you if you there's no danger to following. 1410 01:19:33.199 --> 01:19:35.279 You don't think because there's no branches at all anymore, 1411 01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:36.279 and it seems so solid. 1412 01:19:37.880 --> 01:19:39.680 Well yeah, I would just say every now and then 1413 01:19:39.720 --> 01:19:41.319 go grab it and kind of move it a little bit. 1414 01:19:41.439 --> 01:19:41.640 Yeah. 1415 01:19:41.720 --> 01:19:44.239 See, the river birch is not a it's not a 1416 01:19:44.279 --> 01:19:46.920 super strong wooded plant. So as it begins to get 1417 01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:50.359 decay in the dead stem or trunk, uh, it will 1418 01:19:50.439 --> 01:19:53.159 get weak and it will eventually fall. But you ought 1419 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:54.359 to be able to pull on it a little bit 1420 01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:57.199 and and kind of tell without the leaves to catch 1421 01:19:57.239 --> 01:19:59.880 in the wind. It's probably okay for a while. 1422 01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:04.239 Okay, and tell me then the website again to get 1423 01:20:04.279 --> 01:20:06.439 to the advice that you have skipped with. 1424 01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:15.800 Yeah, yeah, gardening with garden skip gardening skip you take care. 1425 01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:19.279 Thanks for the call. Man. HM. We're gonna go now 1426 01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:22.119 to Houston and talk to Ruth. Hello, Ruth, welcome to 1427 01:20:22.199 --> 01:20:22.680 guard Line. 1428 01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:27.600 All right, I'm looking for a recommendation for a good 1429 01:20:27.720 --> 01:20:33.239 place to buy a plant. My daughter is wanting a 1430 01:20:33.479 --> 01:20:36.520 house plant that maybe's three and a half four feet tall. 1431 01:20:37.720 --> 01:20:40.800 Uh, and she lives just east of the Heights. 1432 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:47.760 Well, I would go to Buchanan's Native Plants in the 1433 01:20:47.880 --> 01:20:52.760 Heights on Eleventh Street. They have a cage greenhouse full 1434 01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:57.640 full of all kinds of plants, lots of options there. 1435 01:20:57.720 --> 01:20:59.359 It's just down the street from your daughter. 1436 01:21:00.479 --> 01:21:03.520 Okay, great, well, thank you so much. 1437 01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:05.199 Merry Christmas. 1438 01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:08.760 Merry Christmas you as well. Thank you. 1439 01:21:09.560 --> 01:21:09.680 Uh. 1440 01:21:10.239 --> 01:21:13.640 We're just going through them here. Scott in Houston, Welcome 1441 01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:20.319 to garden Line. How can we help? Good morning, good morning. 1442 01:21:22.439 --> 01:21:27.399 I'm looking for a soil top dressing compost. 1443 01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:28.199 That's fine. 1444 01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:29.760 I have a. 1445 01:21:31.720 --> 01:21:36.399 One of those roll around spreaders that spread soil and yeah, 1446 01:21:37.560 --> 01:21:40.960 I'm looking. Yeah, they're awesome. I'm looking for something that 1447 01:21:41.079 --> 01:21:45.840 will not only help my soil but green my grass. 1448 01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:49.039 I used to buy one here in Houston and it's 1449 01:21:49.119 --> 01:21:52.840 not bagged anymore. So I'm looking for something that really 1450 01:21:53.199 --> 01:21:57.119 okay because I don't have to use normal fertilizers when 1451 01:21:57.159 --> 01:21:58.159 I use that product. 1452 01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:01.039 M Uh so. 1453 01:22:03.079 --> 01:22:05.640 Is this a you just need some bags of it? 1454 01:22:05.800 --> 01:22:08.079 Or do you need to order a amount of it 1455 01:22:08.520 --> 01:22:11.720 or which way? Okay? 1456 01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:12.359 Bag? 1457 01:22:12.479 --> 01:22:12.600 Uh? 1458 01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:16.399 Well you the uh the folks up at Nature's Way 1459 01:22:16.439 --> 01:22:21.159 Resources in Conro almost to Conroe. Uh, they sell a 1460 01:22:22.079 --> 01:22:28.000 leaf mold compost and they sell a fungal compost and 1461 01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:31.119 both of them can be screened down or are screened 1462 01:22:31.159 --> 01:22:34.800 down to a very fine texture. I would have. I 1463 01:22:34.840 --> 01:22:36.560 haven't had those in my hands in a while, and 1464 01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:39.960 so I'm I know the kind of uh uh spreader 1465 01:22:40.039 --> 01:22:42.359 you're talking about. Uh, it just you just got to 1466 01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:44.520 get it fine enough where it falls through those holes. 1467 01:22:44.680 --> 01:22:47.000 Is this the kind that the holes in it are 1468 01:22:47.079 --> 01:22:48.239 kind of diamond shaped? 1469 01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:51.560 Yeah, it's spanding is banded metal. 1470 01:22:52.199 --> 01:22:55.159 Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, so you're going to need a 1471 01:22:55.279 --> 01:22:58.000 very fine textured uh. But you know, if if you 1472 01:22:58.119 --> 01:23:00.479 roll it across the yard and most if it goes 1473 01:23:00.520 --> 01:23:02.439 out and a littles left behind, you know, we just 1474 01:23:02.560 --> 01:23:06.359 dump it in your bed as a mult But the 1475 01:23:06.520 --> 01:23:10.880 leaf mold compost and the fungal compost from Nature's Way 1476 01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:14.199 Resources now they do sell that by the bag. You 1477 01:23:14.439 --> 01:23:17.159 may have to go get it, but you're gonna want 1478 01:23:17.159 --> 01:23:19.399 to get a bunch of it, so and they may 1479 01:23:20.479 --> 01:23:23.800 it may be retail available also as well somewhere near you. 1480 01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:27.359 I would try that. I know that Heirloom Soils also 1481 01:23:27.520 --> 01:23:31.399 has a leaf mault compost that is screening Europe and Porter. 1482 01:23:31.640 --> 01:23:37.439 But Heirloom Soils they are up in the Porter area, 1483 01:23:38.000 --> 01:23:41.000 but they sell all over town. They have a wide 1484 01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:46.479 number of outlets across the area, and you may find 1485 01:23:46.600 --> 01:23:50.359 their leaf mold compost as well. Either way, you've got 1486 01:23:50.399 --> 01:23:52.279 a quality product with the of those two. 1487 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:59.199 Okay, I heard you speak about Siana Malt. Do they 1488 01:23:59.279 --> 01:23:59.920 carry anything? 1489 01:24:00.279 --> 01:24:00.439 Yes? 1490 01:24:01.640 --> 01:24:04.560 Oh yeah. Where are you located? It just says Houston 1491 01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:05.319 on my board here. 1492 01:24:06.039 --> 01:24:11.960 Yeah, I'm basically southwest Houston West Timer in the Beltway area, 1493 01:24:12.760 --> 01:24:14.760 so I have access to jump on a beltway and 1494 01:24:14.840 --> 01:24:15.800 be anywhere I want to be. 1495 01:24:16.039 --> 01:24:21.520 So okay, well, yeah, run down, run down to Siena Molts. 1496 01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:23.720 They are on five point twenty one. You can just 1497 01:24:23.800 --> 01:24:26.279 go to Ciena Malts dot com the website and find 1498 01:24:26.319 --> 01:24:30.159 them u They only deliver within twenty miles, so they 1499 01:24:30.239 --> 01:24:33.079 probably not going to deliver to your area, but you 1500 01:24:33.199 --> 01:24:35.159 can go down. Just give them a call, talk to 1501 01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:39.239 Ashley or one of the folks there and tell them 1502 01:24:39.279 --> 01:24:41.159 what you're wanting to do and they can get you 1503 01:24:41.279 --> 01:24:43.479 fixed up too. I'm sure they carry that as well. 1504 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:47.359 They're going to make a or produce a fine malt. 1505 01:24:49.600 --> 01:24:54.000 They probably carry heirloom soils, leap mold compost. But I 1506 01:24:54.399 --> 01:24:58.399 just can't keep up with everything that everybody carries, so no. 1507 01:24:58.479 --> 01:24:59.000 I understand. 1508 01:24:59.039 --> 01:25:02.199 Okay, all right, well I'm gonna have to run for 1509 01:25:02.279 --> 01:25:04.319 a break, but good luck with it. And sounds like 1510 01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:06.159 you're doing a good thing there to your long that's 1511 01:25:06.239 --> 01:25:09.760 for sure. Thanks thanks for calling in. I'm gonna have 1512 01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:11.960 to go to a break, Leslie and Conro you'll be 1513 01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:14.199 our first up when we come back. Welcome back to 1514 01:25:14.319 --> 01:25:15.239 guard Line folks. 1515 01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:17.039 Glad to have you with us. 1516 01:25:19.039 --> 01:25:21.720 Before before we went to break, I was talking about 1517 01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:27.159 Nature's way resources, you know, Nature's way. They were making composts, 1518 01:25:27.439 --> 01:25:31.119 before you know quality compost was cool. I guess you 1519 01:25:31.159 --> 01:25:34.159 could put it that way. John Ferguson's long been a 1520 01:25:34.239 --> 01:25:37.600 student of the soil science, and he knows how to 1521 01:25:37.720 --> 01:25:40.359 make quality compost. And when you go to Nature's Way, 1522 01:25:40.800 --> 01:25:44.079 whether it's compost, whether it's soil blends, whether it's mulch's, 1523 01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:46.720 they've got it all. They still have twenty percent off 1524 01:25:46.760 --> 01:25:50.159 their fungal compost. It's called the Fungal Friday Sale. You 1525 01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:53.159 gotta do it on Friday, Fungal Friday. Twenty percent off 1526 01:25:53.520 --> 01:25:57.359 fungal compost. If you're looking for veggie and herbicx. If 1527 01:25:57.359 --> 01:26:01.399 you're looking for a top dressing leaf old compost, they 1528 01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:04.199 have got that there. I was just talking with someone 1529 01:26:04.239 --> 01:26:07.279 a moment ago about that. That Nature's Way. They sell 1530 01:26:07.319 --> 01:26:10.399 it by the bag. It's available in some stores around 1531 01:26:10.439 --> 01:26:12.079 our community, or you can just go up there and 1532 01:26:12.119 --> 01:26:16.560 get it. They're up on the road to Tombaal Highway 1533 01:26:17.039 --> 01:26:20.159 forty five. You get to where fourteen eighty eight comes 1534 01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:23.319 in from the west and you turn right across the 1535 01:26:23.399 --> 01:26:26.600 railroad tracks right there Nature's Way. They're on Sherbrook Circle. 1536 01:26:26.760 --> 01:26:29.039 Nature's Way Resources the phone number if you'd like to 1537 01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:32.319 give them a call, get the specifics nine three six 1538 01:26:32.760 --> 01:26:37.000 two seven three twelve one hundred ninety three six seven 1539 01:26:37.039 --> 01:26:39.880 three twelve hundred. You will not go wrong with products 1540 01:26:39.920 --> 01:26:43.479 that are made right and have long been a leader 1541 01:26:43.720 --> 01:26:47.920 in this industry and our region. We're going to go 1542 01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:52.079 to the phones now and talk to Leslie in Conroe. Hello, Leslie, 1543 01:26:52.279 --> 01:26:53.199 Welcome to garden Line. 1544 01:26:54.159 --> 01:26:55.479 Good morning, happy holidays. 1545 01:26:56.479 --> 01:26:57.199 I have a question. 1546 01:26:57.760 --> 01:26:59.800 During Burrol, we had a tree pole on our house 1547 01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:01.920 and when they cut it down, they had to take 1548 01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:04.479 out all the crape myrtles that we had in a 1549 01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:08.039 small area. They were probably about twenty feet high. And 1550 01:27:08.960 --> 01:27:11.880 now they have come back, but they've come back as 1551 01:27:11.960 --> 01:27:15.199 a grow So should I let them continue to grow 1552 01:27:15.319 --> 01:27:17.840 as bigar or cuff them back? 1553 01:27:19.520 --> 01:27:23.039 So are you saying, basically you have crpe myrtle shrubs 1554 01:27:23.159 --> 01:27:24.159 coming up everywhere? 1555 01:27:25.359 --> 01:27:26.359 Yes, I guess that's it. 1556 01:27:26.640 --> 01:27:30.279 They're just bushes. Okay, So you can do a couple 1557 01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:33.000 of things. I'm assuming you want to keep the crape myrtles, 1558 01:27:33.159 --> 01:27:37.439 and so what I would do is for each crpe myrtle, 1559 01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:44.960 select three of the shoots coming up to be three 1560 01:27:45.119 --> 01:27:47.760 new trunks. If you want a single trunk, you can 1561 01:27:47.840 --> 01:27:50.560 do that, but generally crape myrtles come in about three 1562 01:27:50.600 --> 01:27:54.520 trunks at a time. Cut everything off other than that, 1563 01:27:54.960 --> 01:27:58.600 and cut it as close to where they attach as possible. 1564 01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:01.640 Don't leave any stuff just I mean right up against 1565 01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:03.560 because there's a bunch of bugs at the bottom and 1566 01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:06.159 you don't want it to continue to sprout like that. 1567 01:28:07.199 --> 01:28:12.079 There is a product called sucker stopper. Sucker stopper it's 1568 01:28:12.119 --> 01:28:15.279 a plant hormone and you spray it on those cuts 1569 01:28:15.479 --> 01:28:19.560 and it helps prevent them from re sprouting so fast. 1570 01:28:19.720 --> 01:28:21.720 It's not going to eliminate all of it, but it helps. 1571 01:28:22.319 --> 01:28:25.920 And then take those three that are growing and train them. 1572 01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:28.520 Let you know, they'll come up a distance and then 1573 01:28:28.560 --> 01:28:30.920 they'll fork into two, and then each of those will 1574 01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:33.880 fork into two more, and you're just kind of snipping 1575 01:28:33.960 --> 01:28:37.600 and guiding and creating this beautiful structure that's aesthetic to 1576 01:28:37.760 --> 01:28:43.039 you as they grow. But you can wait until late 1577 01:28:43.159 --> 01:28:45.359 winter to do that pruning. You don't have to do 1578 01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:47.840 it now. But when you do have some of that 1579 01:28:47.960 --> 01:28:50.640 sucker stopper around where you can spray on them. 1580 01:28:52.039 --> 01:28:56.840 Okay, and if I left them as bushes, would it 1581 01:28:57.239 --> 01:28:57.920 hamper anything? 1582 01:29:02.720 --> 01:29:05.960 No, you can just let them grows bushes, but it's 1583 01:29:06.039 --> 01:29:09.640 going to be just this thick tangle that in time, 1584 01:29:09.800 --> 01:29:11.840 as it gets bigger and bigger, is going to be 1585 01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:16.640 pretty crowded. So I guess you know it's your plant. 1586 01:29:16.960 --> 01:29:19.279 You go with what aesthetically is pleasing. 1587 01:29:19.000 --> 01:29:22.359 To you, right, Okay, thank you so much. 1588 01:29:22.479 --> 01:29:25.760 I appreciate it, all right, you, bet Leslie, thank you 1589 01:29:25.960 --> 01:29:29.760 very much. Appreciate the call. I was talking with Ruth 1590 01:29:29.800 --> 01:29:32.640 a minute ago about houseplant recommendations. Or daughter lives just 1591 01:29:32.680 --> 01:29:36.640 down street from Buchanans practically, and Buchanans is on eleven 1592 01:29:36.680 --> 01:29:38.079 Street in the Heights, so I was telling her about 1593 01:29:38.079 --> 01:29:41.880 that their houseplant greenhouse is just outstanding. I mean it is. 1594 01:29:42.119 --> 01:29:48.479 It is absolutely beautiful, very beautiful now this weekend there. 1595 01:29:48.840 --> 01:29:51.840 You know, there's always things going on out there at Buchanans. 1596 01:29:52.520 --> 01:29:56.520 There's plants right now, the holiday gift plants, you know 1597 01:29:56.720 --> 01:29:59.760 that things like Christmas cactus, Thanksgiving cactus, those kinds of 1598 01:29:59.800 --> 01:30:02.920 things are there. If you're looking for gifts for kids, 1599 01:30:03.439 --> 01:30:06.039 they're Bungalow, which is a little gift shop area. There 1600 01:30:06.359 --> 01:30:10.720 have some wonderful little holiday books for kids and other 1601 01:30:10.840 --> 01:30:13.680 things as well. They have gifts for the lady on 1602 01:30:13.760 --> 01:30:16.960 the list. They've got gifts, you know, for anybody that's 1603 01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:20.000 interested in plants. They're going to be having on December 1604 01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:24.199 twenty second, right before the holiday. They're going to having 1605 01:30:24.239 --> 01:30:27.520 a holiday centerpiece workshop. Now you need to do this. Now, 1606 01:30:27.600 --> 01:30:30.199 it's a ticketed event. It's eighty five bucks. But here 1607 01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:34.479 is the deal. You'll go in there on December that's 1608 01:30:34.520 --> 01:30:38.359 a Sunday, by the way, December twenty second, and you 1609 01:30:38.560 --> 01:30:43.439 will build your own holiday centerpiece and it will be 1610 01:30:43.560 --> 01:30:45.479 epic and you get to take it home. So not 1611 01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:48.239 only do you have fun and learn how to do it, 1612 01:30:48.960 --> 01:30:52.920 but you make this wonderful arrangement that you can take 1613 01:30:52.960 --> 01:30:56.680 home if you want. You can just you know, go 1614 01:30:57.000 --> 01:31:00.159 and purchase holiday decor already ready to go. They've got uh, 1615 01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:05.279 fall wreaths, stems, garland, outdoor decor, all kinds of stuff 1616 01:31:05.399 --> 01:31:08.199 like that ready to go. When you go to Buchanans, 1617 01:31:08.239 --> 01:31:10.760 you're gonna get good advice, you're gonna get quality plants 1618 01:31:10.840 --> 01:31:13.039 and quality products, and you're gonna have a good time. 1619 01:31:13.119 --> 01:31:15.720 I can just tell you that Buchanan's Native Plants on 1620 01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:22.399 Eleventh Street in the Heights. I always wander the place 1621 01:31:22.800 --> 01:31:25.279 just to see what's new. What did they have now? 1622 01:31:25.439 --> 01:31:27.159 What new kind of thing they have? In Boy, if 1623 01:31:27.199 --> 01:31:30.600 you're in if you're into natives, fall is for planting, 1624 01:31:30.760 --> 01:31:33.279 so is winter. By the way, go ahead and get 1625 01:31:33.359 --> 01:31:36.760 those things and get them in the ground. They have 1626 01:31:37.399 --> 01:31:39.680 the best supply of native plants of anybody in the 1627 01:31:39.720 --> 01:31:43.920 whole region. And they can point you to the one 1628 01:31:44.039 --> 01:31:46.199 that does what you wanted to do. For example, I 1629 01:31:46.279 --> 01:31:49.039 want one for butterflies, or I want one for pollinators, 1630 01:31:49.159 --> 01:31:51.760 or I want one that's evergreen. You just tell them 1631 01:31:51.960 --> 01:31:58.039 they know what they're doing. I love birds, and I 1632 01:31:58.279 --> 01:32:03.159 got to tell you that the folks at Wallbirds they 1633 01:32:03.319 --> 01:32:06.239 just have the best stuff that. It's the case. You 1634 01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:08.399 take bird seed, for example, you go hying buy bird 1635 01:32:08.439 --> 01:32:11.920 seed anywhere, Well, yes you can, but look at a 1636 01:32:11.960 --> 01:32:15.640 bag of bird seed, cheap bird seed, and you'll see 1637 01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:19.079 little red bebes in it. And those are not eaten 1638 01:32:19.199 --> 01:32:21.640 much by birds. They generally kind of get kicked on 1639 01:32:21.680 --> 01:32:23.960 the ground so they can sprout under your bird feeders. 1640 01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:27.000 And now you got another thing to do with Wallbirds. 1641 01:32:27.039 --> 01:32:31.479 Unlimited creates seed blends that birds will eat one hundred 1642 01:32:31.479 --> 01:32:35.079 percent of this stuff in the seed blend, and so 1643 01:32:35.279 --> 01:32:37.560 It's really a more economical way to go about it 1644 01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:40.399 because instead of buying a bag of seed and half 1645 01:32:40.479 --> 01:32:43.640 of it is unused, you get all the seed that 1646 01:32:43.680 --> 01:32:46.279 you purchased when you buy from Wallbirds. Now, right now, 1647 01:32:46.359 --> 01:32:51.279 I would recommend their Wilbirds Unlimited Winter super blend loaded 1648 01:32:51.319 --> 01:32:55.279 with fat, loaded with protein, much needed by birds as 1649 01:32:55.359 --> 01:32:58.760 we get colder and colder and their natural food supplies 1650 01:32:58.800 --> 01:33:02.319 out in nature become more and more sparse. Very important 1651 01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:05.720 to do that. Wildbirds is the place for gifts to 1652 01:33:07.439 --> 01:33:10.159 someone you know. I had a call earlier about a 1653 01:33:10.279 --> 01:33:13.960 plant recommendation for someone that wasn't a gardener. Well, an 1654 01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:18.039 anybody on your list, gardener or not, will appreciate being 1655 01:33:18.119 --> 01:33:20.560 able to see the birds and hear the birds that 1656 01:33:20.600 --> 01:33:23.600 are attracted in by a quality feeder, for a bird house, 1657 01:33:23.720 --> 01:33:25.680 for all kinds of things that Wilbirds has. And if 1658 01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:28.319 you have a bird lover on your list, the book 1659 01:33:28.479 --> 01:33:30.880 written by Wilbird's founder, you can find it at All Birds. 1660 01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:32.479 Just say I want the book written by your founder. 1661 01:33:32.560 --> 01:33:35.880 It is an outstanding book on the birds of the 1662 01:33:35.960 --> 01:33:40.199 region and how to take care of them. Well, let's 1663 01:33:40.239 --> 01:33:43.079 see here I mentioned what was I talking about earlier? 1664 01:33:43.960 --> 01:33:47.399 I get going here and I sort of sidetracked myself. Oh, 1665 01:33:47.720 --> 01:33:50.119 I think it was more about lighting and gifts and 1666 01:33:50.520 --> 01:33:55.079 things like that. I think a gift certificate is another 1667 01:33:55.159 --> 01:33:57.439 good way to go when it comes to people on 1668 01:33:57.560 --> 01:34:01.319 your list. Gift certificates allowed them to get what they want. 1669 01:34:01.680 --> 01:34:04.479 And when you get a gift certificate from one of 1670 01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:07.159 the places we talk about here on garden Line, we're 1671 01:34:07.159 --> 01:34:09.880 talking about places that have everything. I mean, if you 1672 01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:13.439 can't walk into you know, we can as plants and 1673 01:34:13.640 --> 01:34:17.600 find something that interests you. You may not even want 1674 01:34:17.640 --> 01:34:21.079 to grow a touch of plant, go into the bungalow 1675 01:34:21.319 --> 01:34:24.640 and you'll find really cool gifts in there. And are 1676 01:34:25.319 --> 01:34:28.720 our folks just are good at carrying quality equipment, And 1677 01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:31.960 so why not a gift certificate from someone that is 1678 01:34:32.079 --> 01:34:35.039 on your list. I think that's a good idea. I 1679 01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:37.800 would love getting a gift certificate, by the way, And 1680 01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:40.479 for gardeners, you can never have enough tools. Maybe we'll 1681 01:34:40.520 --> 01:34:42.439 talk about maybe I'll talk about that when I come back. 1682 01:34:42.840 --> 01:34:46.479 What are my favorite tools that would make good gifts 1683 01:34:47.119 --> 01:34:49.640 for the gardeners on your list? You know, if you 1684 01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:52.520 know someone that's a wood shop guy, Oh, there's always 1685 01:34:52.600 --> 01:34:54.720 a new tool they have to have, right, you know, 1686 01:34:54.960 --> 01:34:58.720 do it yourself repair guy. The tools are their life. 1687 01:34:59.199 --> 01:35:03.199 It's the same thing for gardeners. Quality quality tools make 1688 01:35:03.239 --> 01:35:05.960 gardening more fun and they help you out better success 1689 01:35:06.399 --> 01:35:09.319 because they just do a better job and they're less 1690 01:35:09.359 --> 01:35:13.760 wear and tear on your joints in the process. Plus 1691 01:35:13.880 --> 01:35:16.279 some of them are just too cool, just too cool. 1692 01:35:16.800 --> 01:35:18.439 All right, I'm going to take a break. If you'd 1693 01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:19.640 like to give me a call and get on the 1694 01:35:19.680 --> 01:35:23.520 boards seven to one three two one two KTRH will 1695 01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:26.680 be right back. A little boogie woogie. Welcome back to 1696 01:35:26.680 --> 01:35:30.079 the garden Line. Glad you're with us today. We got 1697 01:35:30.199 --> 01:35:33.920 a lot more things to discuss. One thing that I 1698 01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:37.119 did want to talk to you about is a product 1699 01:35:37.199 --> 01:35:41.199 that Nelson Plant Food created over forty years ago. It's 1700 01:35:41.239 --> 01:35:43.319 called color Star. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's 1701 01:35:43.479 --> 01:35:47.680 famous in the in the industry. A color Star is 1702 01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:52.760 a fertilizer to help keep your flowering plants blooming. And 1703 01:35:53.039 --> 01:35:54.640 in order to do that, you need to feed them. 1704 01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:56.640 You need to give them nitrogen. Believe it or not, 1705 01:35:57.239 --> 01:35:59.960 because when you get foliage growth, you catch carbohydrates. When 1706 01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:04.279 you catch carbohydrates or make carbohydrates. You create blooms, and 1707 01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:07.680 that's what color strais. It is well known. They ship 1708 01:36:07.840 --> 01:36:10.119 I don't know how much of it to states all 1709 01:36:10.239 --> 01:36:13.439 around the country. I mean it's a popular product because 1710 01:36:13.479 --> 01:36:17.560 it works. Professional landscapers know and purchase color Star for 1711 01:36:17.920 --> 01:36:20.239 doing just that. You apply it about every three to 1712 01:36:20.319 --> 01:36:22.760 four months during the growing season. You can apply it. 1713 01:36:22.960 --> 01:36:25.920 You should apply it now for your cool season bed, 1714 01:36:26.039 --> 01:36:29.399 your pansies and violas and things like that. You want 1715 01:36:29.439 --> 01:36:32.079 to keep them growing and blooming up their best. You 1716 01:36:32.199 --> 01:36:35.199 do color straw you buy by the canister. Many places 1717 01:36:35.239 --> 01:36:39.399 around town will do refills of your Nelson plant food products. 1718 01:36:39.840 --> 01:36:42.920 So that just makes it an even more economical way 1719 01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:47.239 to go. Widely available with better garden centers, feed stores, 1720 01:36:47.319 --> 01:36:51.439 ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer, you can find color Star 1721 01:36:51.600 --> 01:36:53.920 easy to find and it really does work. We're going 1722 01:36:54.000 --> 01:36:58.119 to go now to Kingwood and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, 1723 01:36:58.159 --> 01:36:59.000 Welcome to garden Line. 1724 01:37:00.760 --> 01:37:01.319 Good morning. 1725 01:37:03.239 --> 01:37:05.600 I had a couple of different things I want to discussed. 1726 01:37:05.720 --> 01:37:08.840 One of those is we have a lot of bread 1727 01:37:09.159 --> 01:37:12.520 pairs planted decoratively all over the place around her head. 1728 01:37:12.560 --> 01:37:17.199 They're pluming, and I wondered if you've had a way 1729 01:37:17.239 --> 01:37:19.680 to explain to those trees that it was the wrong season. 1730 01:37:20.399 --> 01:37:22.720 Maybe they're doing it to avoid the fire black. 1731 01:37:25.439 --> 01:37:28.560 Well, well, here's what happens when a bread when any 1732 01:37:28.640 --> 01:37:31.079 pair really but a bradbird, when it goes through stress 1733 01:37:31.199 --> 01:37:33.359 at the end of summer, could be drought, could be heat, 1734 01:37:33.399 --> 01:37:35.880 could be a lot of things. It goes into what 1735 01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:38.479 we call a false garmancy. Maybe the leaves drop off 1736 01:37:38.640 --> 01:37:41.760 or something like that happens, and it stresses it and 1737 01:37:41.880 --> 01:37:44.800 it's almost like it went through winter, and so then 1738 01:37:44.840 --> 01:37:46.800 it comes out and it blooms. You know, it doesn't 1739 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:49.880 understand what month of the year we're in, but that 1740 01:37:50.079 --> 01:37:52.920 is just a stress response and you can't do anything 1741 01:37:52.920 --> 01:37:55.560 about it. Those ballooms enjoy them while you haven't. They'll 1742 01:37:55.600 --> 01:37:58.319 be gone and hopefully next year we'll get back in 1743 01:37:58.640 --> 01:37:59.399 and sink. 1744 01:38:01.960 --> 01:38:02.199 Good. 1745 01:38:02.359 --> 01:38:04.560 Well, I appreciate you telling me that. The other thing 1746 01:38:04.600 --> 01:38:06.640 I was going to tell you is one of your advertisers, 1747 01:38:06.760 --> 01:38:10.359 Nelson's planted back in the day when he first started, 1748 01:38:10.439 --> 01:38:12.239 and I don't know how many years, but at least 1749 01:38:12.279 --> 01:38:17.079 forty years ago, they the people were handling that he 1750 01:38:17.319 --> 01:38:21.239 was one of the prime people you actonite, And so 1751 01:38:21.560 --> 01:38:24.279 I have a little place here at the Kami, and 1752 01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:29.119 I ordered from him, and he brought it himself and 1753 01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:34.159 unloaded in my barn himself. And so I really have 1754 01:38:34.319 --> 01:38:36.960 always been to use Nelson stuff because I just think 1755 01:38:37.000 --> 01:38:39.680 that he's a really hard worker and a really really 1756 01:38:39.760 --> 01:38:40.279 bright guy. 1757 01:38:42.119 --> 01:38:45.079 Well, and that is that is absolutely true. 1758 01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:45.479 And you're. 1759 01:38:47.359 --> 01:38:49.920 Well, you're not the first person to observe that. Uh 1760 01:38:50.039 --> 01:38:53.359 and and and Dean, he cares, you know, I cared 1761 01:38:53.439 --> 01:38:55.800 enough that when Randy passed, he set up that scholarship 1762 01:38:56.199 --> 01:38:58.319 for Randy up at text A and M. And that's 1763 01:38:58.399 --> 01:39:00.520 just the kind of thing Dean does. So that surprise 1764 01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:03.560 me at all. Thanks for thanks for sharing that, Bill, 1765 01:39:03.600 --> 01:39:04.399 I appreciate that. 1766 01:39:05.800 --> 01:39:08.359 Well, it's a real pleasure speaking with you, and I 1767 01:39:08.800 --> 01:39:10.960 listen to your program as much as I possibly can. 1768 01:39:11.119 --> 01:39:12.840 You're really good information. Thank you. 1769 01:39:14.439 --> 01:39:16.399 Glad to hear that. And you take care. We're going 1770 01:39:16.479 --> 01:39:22.319 to go now to Patterson and talk to Leanne. Hello, Liamne, Hey, 1771 01:39:22.439 --> 01:39:25.119 good morning, good morning. 1772 01:39:26.199 --> 01:39:27.359 Hey Micha. 1773 01:39:27.479 --> 01:39:28.439 I have a question for you. 1774 01:39:28.560 --> 01:39:32.439 We have property out weekend place, and I have a 1775 01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:35.079 lot of sand and I need to know what would 1776 01:39:35.119 --> 01:39:37.760 be the best kind of grass to plant our grass 1777 01:39:37.760 --> 01:39:39.760 seats put out there to get some grass growing. 1778 01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:45.279 Okay, is this for a lawn, I assume not a pastor? 1779 01:39:45.439 --> 01:39:47.279 Yes, well there's. 1780 01:39:47.239 --> 01:39:50.319 Target pasture also, but mostly up by the house. 1781 01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:52.319 Uh huh. 1782 01:39:52.479 --> 01:39:56.159 And how irrigatable is this area? Can you can you 1783 01:39:56.199 --> 01:39:56.960 get water to it? 1784 01:39:58.479 --> 01:39:58.680 Yes? 1785 01:40:00.439 --> 01:40:03.960 Okay? And so you're wanting just a quality lawn, attractive 1786 01:40:04.199 --> 01:40:09.880 quality long grass, I assume not that's something a little okay. Well, 1787 01:40:10.479 --> 01:40:13.479 you know, Saint augustine is fine, and it'll root down 1788 01:40:13.560 --> 01:40:15.800 in a sand just fine. You're just gonna have to 1789 01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:18.880 water it a little more often, and you need to 1790 01:40:18.880 --> 01:40:21.880 fertilize it on a regular basis because sand does not 1791 01:40:22.119 --> 01:40:26.159 hold water and nutrients. Well, there are some other grasses 1792 01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:30.079 you could plant, like zoisia or like bermuda grass. But 1793 01:40:30.960 --> 01:40:33.479 anything you grow that you want to look good, you 1794 01:40:33.600 --> 01:40:36.800 got to water, fertilize, and mow it. And those three 1795 01:40:36.920 --> 01:40:40.119 things mow, water, fertilize or the secret to success. So 1796 01:40:40.720 --> 01:40:44.159 you could go with a drought. There is a Saint 1797 01:40:44.199 --> 01:40:47.600 augustine called cobalt was released by A and M not 1798 01:40:47.720 --> 01:40:52.680 too long ago, cobalt, and it is quite drought resistant 1799 01:40:53.000 --> 01:40:55.840 because it has such a good, deep, robust roots system. 1800 01:40:56.439 --> 01:40:58.840 And so if you're doing Saint Augustine in that spot, 1801 01:40:58.960 --> 01:41:01.319 I think I would recommend that one for you. 1802 01:41:02.000 --> 01:41:02.119 Uh. 1803 01:41:02.439 --> 01:41:06.439 Then there are certainly Bermuda grasses are very tough. Even 1804 01:41:06.520 --> 01:41:08.800 if they go into drought and look bad, they bounce 1805 01:41:08.880 --> 01:41:11.680 right back, and so that would be another The problem 1806 01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:13.880 with bermuda though, is you got to mow it regularly 1807 01:41:14.039 --> 01:41:16.840 for it to look good. It's not forgiving when you 1808 01:41:16.920 --> 01:41:20.880 don't mow often. And also bermuda if you got kiddos 1809 01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:24.159 that like to roll around in the lawn Bermuda grass, 1810 01:41:24.560 --> 01:41:27.840 tiggers love bermuda grass, and you know, if you ever 1811 01:41:27.960 --> 01:41:30.119 grew up doing that, you know what a trigger is. 1812 01:41:30.199 --> 01:41:34.039 And that's no fun. Makes it all scratchy. Yeah, yeah, 1813 01:41:34.159 --> 01:41:37.319 that's one. Those are in it and invades flower bed. 1814 01:41:37.439 --> 01:41:40.479 That's I'm kind of going off on bermuda here, but 1815 01:41:40.880 --> 01:41:43.720 those are its drawbacks. Its strengths are if you mow 1816 01:41:43.760 --> 01:41:46.359 it regularly, it's the prettiest grass on earth. I mean, 1817 01:41:46.439 --> 01:41:48.439 that's what golf course greens are made out of. 1818 01:41:49.479 --> 01:41:52.800 Yeah, okay, all right, great Jim, all right, Well I 1819 01:41:52.880 --> 01:41:55.079 think I'll go with the Saint Augustine. 1820 01:41:54.680 --> 01:41:55.439 So thank you. 1821 01:41:56.359 --> 01:41:58.439 All right, Well, see see if you can find Cobalt. 1822 01:41:58.560 --> 01:42:01.920 I'm pretty sure. I'm sure you're pretty sure it's available 1823 01:42:02.119 --> 01:42:06.279 widely here in the Greater Houston area. Thanks again, appreciate 1824 01:42:06.399 --> 01:42:12.680 that call. Bye bye. That is the case. Oh gosh. Well, 1825 01:42:14.000 --> 01:42:17.239 if you are in the Tomba area, your hometown feed 1826 01:42:17.359 --> 01:42:21.039 store is League City Feed. League City feeds about three 1827 01:42:21.119 --> 01:42:24.319 miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty 1828 01:42:24.800 --> 01:42:27.720 and League City Feed is a traditional feed store. You're 1829 01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:32.199 going to find everything you can imagine for livestock, for pets, 1830 01:42:33.159 --> 01:42:35.880 you name it. If you want one of the fertilizers 1831 01:42:35.920 --> 01:42:38.239 I talk about on Guardline, they carry it at D 1832 01:42:38.359 --> 01:42:40.960 and D Feed. Did I say I think I crossed 1833 01:42:41.000 --> 01:42:43.640 over there? My brain switched D and E feed outside 1834 01:42:43.640 --> 01:42:46.520 of Tombo. Now, one thing that's really cool about D 1835 01:42:46.640 --> 01:42:49.479 and D is that you can order online. That's a 1836 01:42:49.640 --> 01:42:52.279 new thing. Just give them a call two eight, one 1837 01:42:52.800 --> 01:42:57.000 three five, one seventy one forty four. You can go 1838 01:42:57.039 --> 01:42:59.680 to their online store. Just give them a call, they'll 1839 01:42:59.720 --> 01:43:01.640 te to do it and you can just do the 1840 01:43:01.840 --> 01:43:04.479 ordering right there online. It makes it really really simple 1841 01:43:04.560 --> 01:43:07.119 and easy to do if you're looking for a cool 1842 01:43:07.199 --> 01:43:10.520 gift too. By the way, Leak City carries case knives, cases, 1843 01:43:10.560 --> 01:43:14.039 a quality pocket knife, very high quality pocket knife, and 1844 01:43:14.119 --> 01:43:16.720 they have a bunch of different options and so pretty much, 1845 01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:20.960 jaybody on your list would appreciate having a quality case knife. 1846 01:43:21.000 --> 01:43:22.319 And when you're in there at D and D, just 1847 01:43:22.399 --> 01:43:25.119 ask them to see the knives. I think that you'll 1848 01:43:25.119 --> 01:43:27.199 be impressed with what they have. They're also going to 1849 01:43:27.279 --> 01:43:30.159 carry things like the heirloom soils that I talk about, 1850 01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:35.760 the turf Star by Nelson, micro Life Products, nitrofoss Products, 1851 01:43:35.920 --> 01:43:40.479 Medina products. You get the idea. It's it's just everything 1852 01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:43.439 you need to have success. They're at League City feet again. 1853 01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:46.800 If you're looking for them, go on twenty nine to 1854 01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:49.680 twenty west from Tomball about three miles out and there 1855 01:43:49.720 --> 01:43:52.159 on the left hand side. Two eight, one three five, 1856 01:43:52.319 --> 01:43:57.159 one seventy one forty four. Well, it's time for me 1857 01:43:57.279 --> 01:43:59.079 to take a break. Jim and Houston. You will be 1858 01:43:59.159 --> 01:44:04.039 our first when we come right back. All right, we're back. 1859 01:44:04.560 --> 01:44:07.399 Welcome by the Garden Line. Glad to have you with 1860 01:44:07.520 --> 01:44:10.920 us today. I'm going to head straight out to the 1861 01:44:11.000 --> 01:44:15.239 phones here and we're going to talk to Jim in Houston. Hello, Jim, 1862 01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:17.279 good morning. 1863 01:44:19.479 --> 01:44:22.680 Yes, I have a I have a question regarding putting 1864 01:44:22.720 --> 01:44:29.239 a palmero plant plant to bed for the winner. It's 1865 01:44:29.560 --> 01:44:34.439 gotten very large. Sever you know, it's that Hawaiian plant. 1866 01:44:34.520 --> 01:44:36.079 I may be mispronouncing it. 1867 01:44:37.319 --> 01:44:38.159 Oh plumeria. 1868 01:44:38.439 --> 01:44:45.039 Uh huh yeah, close enough. Anyway, we brought the cutting 1869 01:44:45.119 --> 01:44:49.199 home from Hawaiian. It has done well as far as 1870 01:44:49.239 --> 01:44:52.479 a plant, but not many blooms this year. But I 1871 01:44:52.640 --> 01:44:55.479 understand that in the winter time you just put it, 1872 01:44:56.439 --> 01:44:59.079 put it in the garage and forget it or you know, 1873 01:44:59.279 --> 01:45:02.319 just so it'll or easier. And how to promulgate it. 1874 01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:06.079 Yeah, you can, you can do that. You can put 1875 01:45:06.119 --> 01:45:08.560 them in the garage. I've even known people that shook 1876 01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:10.239 the dirt off the roots when they had one in 1877 01:45:10.319 --> 01:45:13.039 the landscape. Shook the dirt off the roots and hung 1878 01:45:13.079 --> 01:45:14.960 them upside down in the garage for the winter. They're 1879 01:45:15.039 --> 01:45:18.079 they're a big, old, thick succulent stem and they go 1880 01:45:18.199 --> 01:45:20.840 into that kind of dormancy due to the temperatures. 1881 01:45:21.159 --> 01:45:21.279 Uh. 1882 01:45:21.399 --> 01:45:23.000 And then you just bring them back out, pot them 1883 01:45:23.039 --> 01:45:26.479 back up again. You you propagate it by taking sections 1884 01:45:26.880 --> 01:45:30.199 of the stems and letting the letting the you cut 1885 01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:33.159 cut it loose, let it kind of heel or dry 1886 01:45:33.319 --> 01:45:34.600 over that that cut. 1887 01:45:35.199 --> 01:45:35.319 Uh. 1888 01:45:35.399 --> 01:45:38.039 And then they can be stuck and rooted in a 1889 01:45:38.159 --> 01:45:41.359 potting mix. Now here, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm 1890 01:45:41.359 --> 01:45:45.520 gonna anyone out there who's part of the Plumeria Society, 1891 01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:48.920 our local Plumeria Society. Would you give me a call, 1892 01:45:49.119 --> 01:45:51.479 let's talk about this, and I'd love to visit briefly 1893 01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:53.720 with you about it. You can kind of give them 1894 01:45:53.760 --> 01:45:58.760 some advice on overwintering a plumeria and on propagating plumerius. 1895 01:45:58.840 --> 01:46:00.720 We'll just have a real quick look brief talk if 1896 01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:03.359 someone Plumerius Society will give me a call on doing that. 1897 01:46:03.439 --> 01:46:05.880 But Jim, it's a wonderful plant. I know y'all fell 1898 01:46:05.920 --> 01:46:08.199 in love with them out there in Hawaii, uh, and 1899 01:46:08.319 --> 01:46:10.880 we need to help you have more blooming success this 1900 01:46:11.079 --> 01:46:13.479 year with it. Part of that is a good quality 1901 01:46:13.880 --> 01:46:14.520 plant food. 1902 01:46:15.239 --> 01:46:15.600 Yeah, I know. 1903 01:46:15.720 --> 01:46:20.600 Nelson Nelson Plant Food has plume aria food. You can 1904 01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:24.239 buy little canisters and I would recommend that that's one 1905 01:46:24.760 --> 01:46:29.760 quality uh plant food for plumerius. Good sunlight, good drainage, 1906 01:46:30.119 --> 01:46:34.680 adequate moisture, and good fertilizing to help that plant have 1907 01:46:34.760 --> 01:46:37.399 the best chance of blooming. But none of that till 1908 01:46:37.439 --> 01:46:38.600 it warms up in the spring. 1909 01:46:39.840 --> 01:46:42.840 Well, that's good. Enjoy your show. 1910 01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:47.279 Thanks a lot, Well, thank you, I appreciate that. Good 1911 01:46:47.359 --> 01:46:50.279 luck with you with your plumeria. Yeah, yeah, I know 1912 01:46:50.640 --> 01:46:53.399 people love those things and they're really not that hard 1913 01:46:53.479 --> 01:46:55.800 to grow. I mean, every plant has its challenges and 1914 01:46:55.920 --> 01:46:57.840 some things you have to do to make sure it's happy, 1915 01:46:57.920 --> 01:47:01.640 but in general, plumerias are not. It's not rocket science. 1916 01:47:02.199 --> 01:47:04.119 This is any plant you can pull o the ground, 1917 01:47:04.199 --> 01:47:06.079 hang upside down in the garage over winter, and stick 1918 01:47:06.119 --> 01:47:09.119 back in the ground again. That's the kind of plant 1919 01:47:09.199 --> 01:47:13.840 that I like to grow. One of my mentors, doctor 1920 01:47:13.880 --> 01:47:17.319 Bill Welch, oh gosh, the man, is a walking encyclopedia. 1921 01:47:17.399 --> 01:47:21.199 He is the author of Perennial Garden Color and Plants 1922 01:47:21.399 --> 01:47:25.119 of Gardening, books on old roses and other things. He 1923 01:47:25.640 --> 01:47:28.720 said something, and this is where I first hearted. At least, 1924 01:47:29.159 --> 01:47:32.319 he's talking about old rose growers that go to like 1925 01:47:32.479 --> 01:47:36.199 cemeteries and they find rose bushes just growing there among 1926 01:47:36.279 --> 01:47:40.039 the headstones, you know, that were planted. Nobody's fufuing them 1927 01:47:40.079 --> 01:47:43.239 and babying and spraying them with fungicides and all that. 1928 01:47:43.399 --> 01:47:47.720 They're just living on nature out there, doctor Weltch. Bill's 1929 01:47:48.159 --> 01:47:50.359 statement on it is if dead people can grow it, 1930 01:47:50.720 --> 01:47:55.880 you can too. I like that Plumeria is not quite 1931 01:47:55.920 --> 01:48:00.279 a seminary plant. It's not that hard. If dead people 1932 01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:05.920 can grow it, you can too. Gosh, well, you're listening 1933 01:48:05.960 --> 01:48:08.239 to garden Line, and I wanted to tell you a 1934 01:48:08.279 --> 01:48:12.119 little bit about encented forest down there in the Richmond 1935 01:48:12.439 --> 01:48:16.640 Rosenberg area. Chented Forest, as you know, is the place 1936 01:48:16.720 --> 01:48:18.880 to go for pretty much any kind of plant you 1937 01:48:19.000 --> 01:48:22.359 need at any time, but right now, right now, in 1938 01:48:22.439 --> 01:48:28.119 addition to an outstanding gift shop full of quality items, 1939 01:48:28.680 --> 01:48:31.840 just really beautiful, one of the kind stuff that you 1940 01:48:31.960 --> 01:48:37.880 will love, they've got a forty discount on what's called hollaballs, 1941 01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:43.279 inflated hollaballs, So imagine giant ornaments. I mean when I 1942 01:48:43.319 --> 01:48:46.479 say giant, I mean up to like what two and 1943 01:48:46.479 --> 01:48:48.960 a half three feet or something in size and down 1944 01:48:49.319 --> 01:48:51.159 and you hang them underneath your trees. You've got a 1945 01:48:51.159 --> 01:48:53.359 big gold live oak tree in the front yard, and 1946 01:48:53.399 --> 01:48:56.039 you got these ornaments hanging off the tree. They're really cool. 1947 01:48:56.119 --> 01:49:00.319 Forty percent off the inflated hollaballs for your land skate. 1948 01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:04.960 But also they've gotten in some strawberries, new strawberries. They 1949 01:49:05.000 --> 01:49:09.640 got Sequoia and Chandler and eversweet, and it's a really 1950 01:49:09.680 --> 01:49:11.800 good deal. You got a whole bundle of them and 1951 01:49:11.880 --> 01:49:13.840 get them in the ground. Now, if you get them 1952 01:49:13.880 --> 01:49:18.439 in the ground right away, water them in, plant them 1953 01:49:18.640 --> 01:49:22.000 at the depth that they originally grew. And here's the 1954 01:49:22.039 --> 01:49:25.159 secret on strawberries that you know at the very base 1955 01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:27.920 of the plant, that's where the leaves come out of, 1956 01:49:28.000 --> 01:49:30.279 and that's where the roots come out of. Right in 1957 01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:33.399 that line between leaves and roots, that's the depth of 1958 01:49:33.520 --> 01:49:37.239 strawberry planting. Water them in well and then begin to 1959 01:49:37.359 --> 01:49:42.239 give them fertilization on through the wintertime. Strawberries grow in 1960 01:49:42.439 --> 01:49:45.800 the winter slowly, but they grow and they get stronger 1961 01:49:45.840 --> 01:49:48.239 and stronger. And the better the plant is when we 1962 01:49:48.359 --> 01:49:50.600 come out into spring, the better your production is going 1963 01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:54.119 to be. So stop in at Enchanted Forest and get 1964 01:49:54.199 --> 01:49:57.640 you some there on FM twenty seven fifty nine outside 1965 01:49:57.680 --> 01:50:00.079 of Richmond, Texas. So if you're going towards sugar and 1966 01:50:00.359 --> 01:50:03.680 you twenty seven to fifty nine is off to the right, uh. 1967 01:50:04.279 --> 01:50:08.159 Enchanted for us. Here's the website that write this one down. 1968 01:50:08.399 --> 01:50:13.960 It's a great website with lots of good information. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, 1969 01:50:14.600 --> 01:50:22.399 TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. You're 1970 01:50:22.439 --> 01:50:24.880 listening to garden Line and our phone number finally got 1971 01:50:24.960 --> 01:50:27.479 quite on the phones again here phone number seven one 1972 01:50:27.560 --> 01:50:31.560 three two one two kt r H seven to one 1973 01:50:31.680 --> 01:50:35.439 three two one two k t r H. You can 1974 01:50:35.479 --> 01:50:37.880 give us a call. I don't know, We're probably going 1975 01:50:37.960 --> 01:50:40.439 to go to a break here pretty quick, but if 1976 01:50:40.479 --> 01:50:41.800 you want to go ahead and get on the board, 1977 01:50:42.039 --> 01:50:44.800 you can be the first up when we come right back. 1978 01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:45.399 Uh. 1979 01:50:45.560 --> 01:50:50.560 The folks at Medina have been producing quality products basically forever. 1980 01:50:51.119 --> 01:50:51.359 I know. 1981 01:50:51.479 --> 01:50:53.640 They were on the first sponsors of garden Line back 1982 01:50:53.680 --> 01:50:56.039 in the nineteen fifties. Four is even called garden Line. 1983 01:50:56.520 --> 01:50:56.640 Uh. 1984 01:50:56.840 --> 01:50:59.840 They have a product called humate humic acid. Now basic. 1985 01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:05.720 This is like liquid humus, so's it's a compost concentrated 1986 01:51:05.880 --> 01:51:09.760 in a bottle. You know, compost is decomposed organic matter. 1987 01:51:10.279 --> 01:51:13.479 Humus is decomposed compost. It just keeps going to the 1988 01:51:13.560 --> 01:51:17.199 form of humus and humic humate. Liquid humus has got 1989 01:51:17.319 --> 01:51:18.880 that humic acid in it. 1990 01:51:19.359 --> 01:51:19.479 Now. 1991 01:51:19.840 --> 01:51:23.399 Humus benefits moisture retention in the soil, like if you 1992 01:51:23.479 --> 01:51:25.880 have especially if you have sandy soil. It helps with 1993 01:51:25.960 --> 01:51:28.680 the soil structure. The physical properties too, so even a 1994 01:51:28.800 --> 01:51:33.640 clay is benefited by it. It provides micronutrients, provides some macronutrients. 1995 01:51:34.439 --> 01:51:38.199 It just enhances the nutrient uptake of the plant by 1996 01:51:38.359 --> 01:51:43.079 improving those soil qualities. Now you can buy humate humic 1997 01:51:43.159 --> 01:51:45.520 acid from aDNA in a quart a gallon. They even 1998 01:51:45.560 --> 01:51:49.279 have larger sizes if you want. But basically, when you're planning, 1999 01:51:49.439 --> 01:51:51.119 just get a couple of tablespoons, put them in a 2000 01:51:51.159 --> 01:51:54.560 gallon of water and watered in real good. I'll tell 2001 01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:57.439 you what I'll also do is soak the root system 2002 01:51:57.680 --> 01:51:59.359 in it. You know you've got a tree or shrub 2003 01:51:59.439 --> 01:52:01.560 or something, just put it in a bucket. Is that 2004 01:52:01.680 --> 01:52:05.239 the container in a bucket or a whatteb or whatever, 2005 01:52:05.960 --> 01:52:08.319 and put some of that in the tub to soak 2006 01:52:08.399 --> 01:52:10.640 up in that root system. And then when you get 2007 01:52:10.680 --> 01:52:13.199 ready to plant, you're ready to go. So it makes 2008 01:52:13.239 --> 01:52:16.039 it really easy. I will also soak seeds. If I'm 2009 01:52:16.039 --> 01:52:19.079 going to do some seed starting in, put a tablespoon 2010 01:52:19.319 --> 01:52:22.119 of humid humic acid in a gallon of water and 2011 01:52:22.319 --> 01:52:25.960 soak them until the seed swells up and they're ready 2012 01:52:26.039 --> 01:52:28.920 to go. And you will have success with that. All 2013 01:52:29.439 --> 01:52:32.399 part of another one of the wonderful products that the 2014 01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:37.399 folks at Medina have come up with. You are listening 2015 01:52:37.439 --> 01:52:39.760 to garden Line and we're here to try to help 2016 01:52:39.840 --> 01:52:43.720 you have fun in gardening. We want you to have success. 2017 01:52:43.920 --> 01:52:46.560 We want you to get beauty and bounty out of 2018 01:52:46.680 --> 01:52:49.520 the things that you grow, and that is exactly what 2019 01:52:49.640 --> 01:52:52.520 we do. Going to the last break, I think music 2020 01:52:52.600 --> 01:52:53.760 kind of cut me out a little bit, but I 2021 01:52:53.880 --> 01:52:56.720 just wanted to say it again. The Randy Lemon Scholarship. 2022 01:52:56.760 --> 01:53:00.279 We're rejuvenating that, bringing it back to the fore front. 2023 01:53:00.319 --> 01:53:02.720 You know, Randy, he was a legend here in the 2024 01:53:02.920 --> 01:53:06.560 scenario in the gardening world. I mean his entertaining style, 2025 01:53:07.399 --> 01:53:11.159 the helpful advice he provided to people for over two 2026 01:53:11.279 --> 01:53:16.039 decades here in the Houston area on garden Line helped 2027 01:53:16.039 --> 01:53:17.920 a lot of people have more success. You may be 2028 01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:21.079 one of those people. Dean Nelson set up a scholarship 2029 01:53:21.199 --> 01:53:24.319 a while back in Randy's name at Texas A and 2030 01:53:24.479 --> 01:53:26.840 M for a horticulture student, and that is what we're 2031 01:53:26.840 --> 01:53:29.159 talking about. If you will go to my website Gardening 2032 01:53:29.279 --> 01:53:33.640 with Skip dot com, the top item is Randy Lemons Scholarship. 2033 01:53:33.800 --> 01:53:36.239 You can go online and give it tells you how 2034 01:53:36.840 --> 01:53:39.520 you can give by check It tells you how. Just 2035 01:53:39.600 --> 01:53:42.000 go to that website. Would you consider making a donation 2036 01:53:42.119 --> 01:53:45.720 to the scholarship fund that lives on in remembrance of 2037 01:53:45.840 --> 01:53:50.000 Randy benefitings horticulture students at his alma mater and Mine, 2038 01:53:50.319 --> 01:53:55.520 Texas and M University. Well let's see here. I hear music, 2039 01:53:55.560 --> 01:53:57.279 which means I got to quit talk to him? And 2040 01:53:57.720 --> 01:53:59.319 what does it else? I mean it means you are 2041 01:53:59.399 --> 01:54:02.159 one more hour left and the show today? You'd like 2042 01:54:02.239 --> 01:54:04.119 to give us a call? Seven one three two one 2043 01:54:04.199 --> 01:54:05.880 two k t r H. 2044 01:54:06.600 --> 01:54:11.119 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Ricord's. 2045 01:54:17.640 --> 01:54:17.840 Rim. 2046 01:54:19.199 --> 01:54:34.680 Just watch him as many give things to Susy again 2047 01:54:35.439 --> 01:54:36.199 not a sign. 2048 01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:44.720 Hey, welcome to garden Lines. Good to have you back. Well, well, 2049 01:54:44.880 --> 01:54:47.840 we got some things we can be discussing today. I 2050 01:54:47.960 --> 01:54:50.199 want to get onto those here in just a bit. 2051 01:54:50.720 --> 01:54:52.479 If you would like to give me a call, all 2052 01:54:52.520 --> 01:54:55.720 you gotta do is dial seven one three two one 2053 01:54:55.800 --> 01:54:59.640 two k t r H seven one three two one 2054 01:54:59.720 --> 01:55:04.359 two kt r H. Every time I hear the word 2055 01:55:04.439 --> 01:55:06.760 dial come out of my mouth, it amuses me because 2056 01:55:06.880 --> 01:55:09.720 we used to dial. Now we just punch buttons. Right, 2057 01:55:10.640 --> 01:55:13.239 all you gotta do is punch buttons seven to one 2058 01:55:13.359 --> 01:55:17.319 three two kt rh and we'd be glad to visit 2059 01:55:17.399 --> 01:55:19.640 with you. How do we help you so that you 2060 01:55:19.720 --> 01:55:22.680 can have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, 2061 01:55:22.680 --> 01:55:24.640 and more fun in the process. That's kind of what 2062 01:55:24.720 --> 01:55:29.840 it's all about. Let's see, I had a few things 2063 01:55:29.920 --> 01:55:32.960 that I wanted to go over to. I talked about 2064 01:55:34.720 --> 01:55:39.600 wanting to encourage you to try transplants this year, growing 2065 01:55:39.640 --> 01:55:41.600 your own translists. I don't mean all of them. You 2066 01:55:41.640 --> 01:55:45.840 don't grow everything you're grow, but try growing some. Get 2067 01:55:45.880 --> 01:55:48.520 your little light set up and do that. I think 2068 01:55:48.720 --> 01:55:51.359 you will find that it is a really fun thing 2069 01:55:51.720 --> 01:55:54.439 because listen, you know we're talking about the end of 2070 01:55:54.520 --> 01:55:58.319 December and in January. You are inside when you don't 2071 01:55:58.359 --> 01:56:01.880 want to be outside, probably, and you're starting little seeds 2072 01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:03.960 under a light. You're watching them grow. You're getting the 2073 01:56:04.039 --> 01:56:07.079 full experience. But the real reason that I like to 2074 01:56:07.239 --> 01:56:10.359 do this is if you wanted to start things from cuttings, 2075 01:56:10.520 --> 01:56:12.359 you can start those under your lights. I mean, you 2076 01:56:12.439 --> 01:56:14.439 have some cuttings of different kinds of plants you'd like 2077 01:56:14.520 --> 01:56:18.079 to propagate, or if you want a variety, you just 2078 01:56:18.199 --> 01:56:21.039 can't find locally. And that's true. You know, they're probably 2079 01:56:21.079 --> 01:56:23.960 a thousand tomato varieties out there. I don't know how 2080 01:56:23.960 --> 01:56:26.600 many there are, but there are a lot of tomato varieties. 2081 01:56:27.239 --> 01:56:29.640 And you go into the best garden centers we got, 2082 01:56:29.920 --> 01:56:32.760 and I mean they may carry a couple dozen different 2083 01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:35.880 ones in some places, but there's going to be things 2084 01:56:35.920 --> 01:56:39.199 that are too new or that just aren't asked for anymore. 2085 01:56:39.319 --> 01:56:42.039 But they are good old varieties that are fun to grow. 2086 01:56:42.880 --> 01:56:45.239 You can grow those yourself and all you got to 2087 01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:47.000 do is get a back of a seed, the supplies 2088 01:56:47.039 --> 01:56:49.119 you need and go for it. And it's a lot 2089 01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:52.720 of fun. And once you learn how to start seeds, 2090 01:56:52.760 --> 01:56:55.960 once you learn how to start cuttings, it just adds 2091 01:56:56.119 --> 01:57:00.079 another aspect to gardening, another fun aspect to gardening. And 2092 01:57:00.159 --> 01:57:02.279 the best part about it is, well, take a day 2093 01:57:02.399 --> 01:57:04.760 like today. We kind of had some misty, drizzly weather 2094 01:57:04.840 --> 01:57:09.119 this morning. You could be inside gardening with your new setup. 2095 01:57:09.359 --> 01:57:12.119 So I want to encourage you to give that a 2096 01:57:12.239 --> 01:57:14.479 try this year. We'll help you have success. Just give 2097 01:57:14.560 --> 01:57:16.960 us a call here on Guardline and we will be 2098 01:57:17.279 --> 01:57:21.039 happy to work with you. We're going to go out 2099 01:57:21.159 --> 01:57:25.000 now to Chapel Hill and talk to Rachel. Hello, Rachel, 2100 01:57:25.039 --> 01:57:26.039 welcome to garden Mine. 2101 01:57:27.439 --> 01:57:27.760 Thank you. 2102 01:57:27.920 --> 01:57:28.479 How are you doing. 2103 01:57:30.119 --> 01:57:31.079 I'm well, thank you. 2104 01:57:32.840 --> 01:57:33.039 Good. 2105 01:57:34.239 --> 01:57:36.399 I wanted to ask if there's a way to get 2106 01:57:36.520 --> 01:57:39.000 my orchid to bloom. Someone gave me an orchid and 2107 01:57:39.079 --> 01:57:44.439 it bloomed beautifully, and then it stopped blooming, and I 2108 01:57:44.520 --> 01:57:46.880 don't know if I should cut a little stem where 2109 01:57:46.960 --> 01:57:50.439 the blooms come out, or just let it continue. 2110 01:57:50.039 --> 01:57:50.760 To get longer. 2111 01:57:54.000 --> 01:57:56.520 It's probably not going to bloom again on that stem. 2112 01:57:56.680 --> 01:57:59.720 It can, but it normally doesn't. Sometimes you'll get a 2113 01:57:59.760 --> 01:58:02.159 lot slideshoot coming out that'll bloom for you on it. 2114 01:58:03.359 --> 01:58:07.000 I'm assuming you have a moth orchid. That's the ninety 2115 01:58:07.760 --> 01:58:09.880 five percent of the orchids you see sold out there 2116 01:58:09.920 --> 01:58:15.720 are moth orchids, it seems like, especially in our area. 2117 01:58:17.920 --> 01:58:19.880 The thing you want to do is, once we get 2118 01:58:19.960 --> 01:58:23.680 through this cool season, take a look at your orchid 2119 01:58:23.960 --> 01:58:25.359 and you can put it up out of the pot. 2120 01:58:25.439 --> 01:58:27.680 It's going to be growing in either moss or little 2121 01:58:27.680 --> 01:58:32.079 wood chips, and take a look at the root system. 2122 01:58:32.399 --> 01:58:36.159 If some of it looks kind of brown, kind of gray, brown, 2123 01:58:36.279 --> 01:58:39.600 water soaked, rotting, kind of shriveling kind of things. You 2124 01:58:39.680 --> 01:58:42.159 can cut all of those off and then repot it 2125 01:58:42.279 --> 01:58:46.000 with a little fresh orchid bark or sphagnum moss in 2126 01:58:46.479 --> 01:58:49.920 the container. And when we get into when we get 2127 01:58:49.960 --> 01:58:54.720 past the wintertime, start to fertilize it lightly and water 2128 01:58:54.880 --> 01:58:57.600 it periodically. Now, you don't want to keep them too wet, 2129 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:00.479 but if you take any fertilizer and you take it 2130 01:59:00.560 --> 01:59:04.479 down to the lowest level on the label, you can 2131 01:59:04.560 --> 01:59:07.640 even cut down from that a little more. And each 2132 01:59:07.720 --> 01:59:09.720 time you water, you just give it a drench with 2133 01:59:09.880 --> 01:59:12.960 that with that solution it could be an organic product 2134 01:59:13.039 --> 01:59:16.920 or synthetic product, and just gradually get it in a 2135 01:59:17.319 --> 01:59:20.279 very bright light location. I keep mine in the bathroom. 2136 01:59:20.520 --> 01:59:23.920 We got a real bright window in there. Uh and uh, 2137 01:59:24.680 --> 01:59:28.319 and it it's bright, but it's not direct sun. And 2138 01:59:28.520 --> 01:59:31.720 and they do well in that location. And it's not 2139 01:59:31.880 --> 01:59:34.199 hard keeping them going, but you just need to kind 2140 01:59:34.239 --> 01:59:36.359 of rejuvenate them and get them going again. You may 2141 01:59:36.439 --> 01:59:38.600 want to wait a while, though, because sometimes they'll send 2142 01:59:38.640 --> 01:59:42.319 out a little side shoot. If it just recently finished blooming. 2143 01:59:42.159 --> 01:59:46.039 Well, it's already got a side shoot. Actually, I don't 2144 01:59:46.039 --> 01:59:48.920 know ge it's a side shoot it's a new shoot. Yeah, 2145 01:59:48.960 --> 01:59:51.279 it's a new shoot basically, but. 2146 01:59:51.359 --> 01:59:52.880 It's all coming from the bottom. 2147 01:59:53.920 --> 01:59:54.159 Yeah. 2148 01:59:54.239 --> 01:59:57.960 And it hadn't it hadn't it hadn't bloomed yet. 2149 01:59:58.079 --> 01:59:59.800 But it's short still. 2150 02:00:00.039 --> 02:00:07.039 So okay, okay, well take care of it. Good light, 2151 02:00:07.319 --> 02:00:10.000 good light is the important thing, not direct sun, but 2152 02:00:10.279 --> 02:00:13.479 nice bright light. And you want to keep it going 2153 02:00:13.600 --> 02:00:16.840 as well as you can. And maybe that new shoot 2154 02:00:16.920 --> 02:00:18.960 will give you a little bit of a reward here. 2155 02:00:20.119 --> 02:00:24.479 Yeah, thank you very much, you bet, thanks, Rachel. 2156 02:00:24.560 --> 02:00:28.199 I appreciate, appreciate your call. Thank you very much for that. 2157 02:00:28.920 --> 02:00:29.039 Uh. 2158 02:00:29.159 --> 02:00:32.279 You know, Southwest Fertilizer is the place you go for 2159 02:00:32.479 --> 02:00:35.000 any kind of supply you need to have garden success. 2160 02:00:35.119 --> 02:00:37.760 I don't care if it's your lawn, your vegetables, your herbs, 2161 02:00:37.840 --> 02:00:42.000 your flowers, your fruit trees, your landscape trees. They've got 2162 02:00:42.079 --> 02:00:45.800 it all there. Fertilizers of every type you can imagine, 2163 02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:49.399 you know, from big bags the lawn fertilizer to canisters 2164 02:00:49.520 --> 02:00:53.159 of products, you know, like micro life products. You know 2165 02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:56.920 that we've got Nelson plant food product. Anything that comes 2166 02:00:56.960 --> 02:00:58.600 out of my mouth on garden line is going to 2167 02:00:58.640 --> 02:01:01.119 be there. Southwest Fertilizer. That's just how it is. If 2168 02:01:01.159 --> 02:01:04.000 you're an organic gardener. They have the biggest selection of 2169 02:01:04.119 --> 02:01:08.600 organic products in the whole region. They do Southwest Fertilizer 2170 02:01:08.680 --> 02:01:10.800 in the southwest side of Houston, corner Bus and Nutt 2171 02:01:10.800 --> 02:01:14.520 and Renwick. When you go in there, grab your lawnmower blade, 2172 02:01:14.560 --> 02:01:16.960 take them in and get those things sharpened because it's 2173 02:01:17.000 --> 02:01:19.119 going to be mowing season again for you know it. 2174 02:01:19.680 --> 02:01:21.600 Don't wait for the rush, go ahead and get them 2175 02:01:21.680 --> 02:01:22.039 doing that. 2176 02:01:22.600 --> 02:01:22.720 Uh. 2177 02:01:22.760 --> 02:01:24.840 They have a small engine repair shop in the back 2178 02:01:24.880 --> 02:01:28.760 as well. The website is Southwest Fertilizer dot com. The 2179 02:01:28.840 --> 02:01:32.600 phone number seven one three sixty sixty six one seven 2180 02:01:33.079 --> 02:01:36.079 four four. And while you're at it, it's a great 2181 02:01:36.159 --> 02:01:39.680 place to buy quality tools for the gardeners on your 2182 02:01:39.720 --> 02:01:42.319 list or for yourself. You're allowed to buy yourself a 2183 02:01:42.399 --> 02:01:45.399 Christmas bread. We're going to go now to Richmond and 2184 02:01:45.680 --> 02:01:48.079 talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line. 2185 02:01:49.640 --> 02:01:52.720 Yes, sir, I uh, I fell behind on my on 2186 02:01:52.840 --> 02:01:56.960 my fertilization schedule, and I'm never I wasn't ready for 2187 02:01:57.119 --> 02:01:59.880 the fall. I didn't I didn't get anything huh down 2188 02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:03.960 as far as wind or or anything like that. Is 2189 02:02:04.039 --> 02:02:05.960 it too late for me to do anything right now. 2190 02:02:07.520 --> 02:02:09.880 Yeah, I don't worry about it right now. Wait until spring. 2191 02:02:10.199 --> 02:02:12.960 Wait until spring comes, when your lawn starts to wake 2192 02:02:13.079 --> 02:02:16.920 up and grow, do your fertilizing then I usually will 2193 02:02:16.960 --> 02:02:19.520 do in my yard, I do my first fertilizing when 2194 02:02:19.520 --> 02:02:22.760 I mowed the lawn twice. Now on my schedule, there's 2195 02:02:22.840 --> 02:02:27.079 an early greenup application, and if you haven't seen my schedule, 2196 02:02:27.319 --> 02:02:31.359 it's at the website gardening with skip dot com. You 2197 02:02:31.439 --> 02:02:34.640 can download it there. I generally don't do the early 2198 02:02:34.720 --> 02:02:37.399 green up, but you can't. And then there is the 2199 02:02:37.920 --> 02:02:40.560 regular first fertilization. It's about the time you've mowed the 2200 02:02:40.600 --> 02:02:43.600 lawn twice, but it's on the schedule, okay. 2201 02:02:44.680 --> 02:02:47.159 And as far as weeds that I have growing right now, 2202 02:02:47.800 --> 02:02:51.399 I just can I put something down for it? Or 2203 02:02:51.800 --> 02:02:55.039 do I just keep on just cutting for now? 2204 02:02:55.439 --> 02:02:59.359 It's the weeds. Like you're seeing the weeds right, they're 2205 02:02:59.399 --> 02:03:03.600 there now, right right right? Okay. So I would what 2206 02:03:03.760 --> 02:03:07.239 I would do is as we get into later in 2207 02:03:07.359 --> 02:03:12.199 the winter before let's say, maybe in early February or 2208 02:03:12.279 --> 02:03:15.479 late January something like that, late January, pray better time, 2209 02:03:15.920 --> 02:03:19.439 get you a broad leaf post emergent weed control product 2210 02:03:19.560 --> 02:03:21.479 and spray it on them, and it will kill them. 2211 02:03:21.840 --> 02:03:24.520 If you wait until they start getting big and flowering 2212 02:03:25.520 --> 02:03:28.279 and sitting seed, those products aren't going to work as well. 2213 02:03:28.760 --> 02:03:31.079 So catch them before they start growing. 2214 02:03:31.680 --> 02:03:31.800 Uh. 2215 02:03:32.000 --> 02:03:35.279 And that's also the least stressful time to your lawn 2216 02:03:35.399 --> 02:03:40.960 grass for you to be spraying the weeds. Okay, all right, okay, 2217 02:03:41.000 --> 02:03:43.279 good luck with that. Don appreciate it. Appreciate your call. 2218 02:03:44.000 --> 02:03:46.279 Thank you. We're going to run to break. I'll be 2219 02:03:46.399 --> 02:03:48.479 right back. Welcome back. We are glad to have you 2220 02:03:48.560 --> 02:03:49.800 with us. If you'd like to give me a call. 2221 02:03:49.880 --> 02:03:53.600 Seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three 2222 02:03:54.039 --> 02:03:57.119 two one two KTRH. I saw my Southwest fertilizer and 2223 02:03:57.279 --> 02:04:00.279 having everything they also carry a's of mind, of course 2224 02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:03.319 they do. They have everything, you know. Azamite is a 2225 02:04:03.960 --> 02:04:09.039 micro nutrient or trace mineral, same thing, trace minerals supplement 2226 02:04:09.159 --> 02:04:10.960 that we put out on our lawns, and we put 2227 02:04:11.000 --> 02:04:13.119 it on our vegetable garden. You put in flower beds too. 2228 02:04:14.000 --> 02:04:17.720 Asumite provides those trace minerals that are essential for plant growth, 2229 02:04:17.880 --> 02:04:21.000 but not needed in large amounts. That's why we say trace, 2230 02:04:21.199 --> 02:04:23.720 just a trace of them is all you need. Now 2231 02:04:24.119 --> 02:04:26.039 you have a salt test done and see where you 2232 02:04:26.159 --> 02:04:28.439 are on nutrients. That's the best way to fertilize, whether 2233 02:04:28.479 --> 02:04:32.800 you're using lawn fertilizer or azmite or anything else. But 2234 02:04:32.960 --> 02:04:35.960 as a general guide, I would recommend that you put 2235 02:04:36.079 --> 02:04:40.399 out the asamite. You put out periodically. It's up to you. 2236 02:04:40.600 --> 02:04:43.920 Just depends on the actual nutrient levels in your soil 2237 02:04:44.079 --> 02:04:45.560 at the time as to how much or how often 2238 02:04:45.600 --> 02:04:47.840 you want to use it. But it goes a long way. 2239 02:04:47.880 --> 02:04:49.880 A forty four pound bag will cover about six to 2240 02:04:49.960 --> 02:04:52.920 twelve thousand square feet now in the vegetable garden. I 2241 02:04:53.119 --> 02:04:56.359 use it at ten pounds per thousand square feet. Ten 2242 02:04:56.439 --> 02:05:00.880 pounds per thousand square feet in a vegetable garden. There's 2243 02:05:00.920 --> 02:05:06.319 a thing in soul science called li bigs. Let's see 2244 02:05:06.359 --> 02:05:10.880 libigs barrel. It's called the law of medicnce minimum li 2245 02:05:11.039 --> 02:05:13.600 bigs barrel. So imagine I want you to picture this 2246 02:05:13.760 --> 02:05:16.479 for me. You know what a a whiskey barrel wine 2247 02:05:16.479 --> 02:05:20.880 barrel looks like, right, So imagine that you took the 2248 02:05:21.079 --> 02:05:23.439 staves going up in that barrel and on one of 2249 02:05:23.520 --> 02:05:27.039 them you wrote in for nitrogen, and on one p 2250 02:05:27.399 --> 02:05:30.399 for phosphorus, and on one K for potassium, and all 2251 02:05:30.479 --> 02:05:32.479 the way around the barrel to where you're writing, like 2252 02:05:32.760 --> 02:05:36.399 zinc and iron and manganese and all these trace minerals. 2253 02:05:37.159 --> 02:05:40.760 And then you cut those staves off at a certain 2254 02:05:40.880 --> 02:05:43.760 height and let's say almost all of them were up 2255 02:05:43.760 --> 02:05:46.000 at the top, but one stave is only halfway up 2256 02:05:46.039 --> 02:05:48.880 the barrel. How much water could you put in the barrel? 2257 02:05:49.680 --> 02:05:54.720 Only as much as the most limiting height stave will allow. 2258 02:05:56.399 --> 02:05:59.399 That makes sense. Well, that's how it is with nutrients. 2259 02:06:00.119 --> 02:06:03.119 If a nutrient, maybe you have plenty of everything in 2260 02:06:03.159 --> 02:06:05.880 your soil, but you have a nutrient that is limited. 2261 02:06:06.800 --> 02:06:10.600 That is how much plant production, growth, health you're going 2262 02:06:10.680 --> 02:06:12.720 to be able to have. So you want to bring 2263 02:06:13.279 --> 02:06:16.359 the even the trace minerals up to a good amount 2264 02:06:16.840 --> 02:06:19.800 in the soil bank account. And think of it as 2265 02:06:19.960 --> 02:06:22.079 that you're not feeding a plant like you know here 2266 02:06:22.159 --> 02:06:24.279 you give it a spoonful of fertilizer and it eats it. 2267 02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:29.560 You're building the soil when you fertilize, so that when 2268 02:06:29.600 --> 02:06:36.479 those roots need twenty different nutrients out there sixteen primaries, 2269 02:06:36.680 --> 02:06:39.800 but we have some others that are important too, and 2270 02:06:39.880 --> 02:06:42.319 when it needs some of that, it's there in the 2271 02:06:42.439 --> 02:06:46.039 soil bank account, and your grass lawn can grow, your 2272 02:06:46.399 --> 02:06:50.600 peach tree can grow and produce well, your rosemary herb 2273 02:06:50.840 --> 02:06:53.239 can grow and produce well. At the flowers, the vegetables, 2274 02:06:53.399 --> 02:06:55.680 whatever you're growing. And that that is why we talk 2275 02:06:55.720 --> 02:06:59.680 about azemiti as a trace mineral supplement, very very important. 2276 02:07:01.760 --> 02:07:04.920 So hopefully that made a little bit of sense. People 2277 02:07:04.920 --> 02:07:08.680 get a little confused on minerals and nutrients, like is 2278 02:07:08.720 --> 02:07:10.520 it too late to use as might No, it's never 2279 02:07:10.600 --> 02:07:13.239 too late. It is not something we're putting on like 2280 02:07:13.399 --> 02:07:15.439 nitrogen we do certain times of the year to make 2281 02:07:15.479 --> 02:07:18.279 the grass grow. It's something we're putting on to build 2282 02:07:18.319 --> 02:07:21.239 a saw bank account. So when the grass wants that 2283 02:07:21.560 --> 02:07:27.000 particular element, it's there, it's ready to go. Hope that helps. 2284 02:07:29.079 --> 02:07:31.680 If you have had some trees that have had some 2285 02:07:31.800 --> 02:07:34.039 issues this year, you probably ought to give Martin spoon 2286 02:07:34.119 --> 02:07:39.039 Moore a call. Martin is that Affordable Tree Service. Affordable 2287 02:07:39.079 --> 02:07:42.640 Tree Service is our go to company on garden Line 2288 02:07:42.640 --> 02:07:45.800 when it comes to tree trimming. Now, this October through 2289 02:07:45.880 --> 02:07:49.640 February cooler season window is when a lot of pruning 2290 02:07:49.720 --> 02:07:52.159 gets done. It's the best time to get most types 2291 02:07:52.199 --> 02:07:54.720 of pruning done. Although you can prune all times of 2292 02:07:54.760 --> 02:07:58.239 the year, and the Martin stays busy. Martin does excellent work. 2293 02:07:58.279 --> 02:07:59.880 And when you do a good job, when you have 2294 02:08:00.079 --> 02:08:02.920 good service, good price, good job, you stay busy. And 2295 02:08:03.079 --> 02:08:07.079 so don't delay. Tell him you're from you heard about 2296 02:08:07.159 --> 02:08:09.359 him on guarden line. Get you up toward the front 2297 02:08:09.359 --> 02:08:13.399 of the line. Give him a call seven one, three, six, nine, nine, 2298 02:08:13.800 --> 02:08:17.000 twenty six sixty three. Have him come out. Take a 2299 02:08:17.079 --> 02:08:19.680 look at your trees. Look at the overall health. How 2300 02:08:19.720 --> 02:08:23.199 are they doing, or any branches needing to be removed. 2301 02:08:23.640 --> 02:08:26.159 If you have young trees, do they need any training 2302 02:08:26.560 --> 02:08:28.119 to help them get off to a good start. You know, 2303 02:08:28.159 --> 02:08:30.520 if you don't train a tree when it's young, when 2304 02:08:30.560 --> 02:08:32.520 it gets old, you're gonna have a mess, and you're 2305 02:08:32.520 --> 02:08:34.479 gonna get out of chainsaw and you're gonna make big 2306 02:08:34.560 --> 02:08:37.359 wounds trying to get things back to where they should 2307 02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:39.640 have been trained to a long time ago. Martin can 2308 02:08:39.720 --> 02:08:42.119 advise you on that. If you're gonna have any construction 2309 02:08:42.279 --> 02:08:45.479 done around a tree, he can advise you on that 2310 02:08:45.680 --> 02:08:47.000 and tell you how to do it so you don't 2311 02:08:47.079 --> 02:08:50.039 hurt your tree. Listen, Martin knows what he's talking about. 2312 02:08:50.359 --> 02:08:52.399 He's been doing this a long time here in the 2313 02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:58.279 Greater Houston area. His website is a fftree Service dot com. 2314 02:08:58.840 --> 02:09:01.600 Or you can call seven one three six nine twenty 2315 02:09:01.680 --> 02:09:03.760 six sixty three. You're gonna need to talk to Martin 2316 02:09:03.840 --> 02:09:06.000 or Joe. If you don't, you call the wrong place 2317 02:09:06.119 --> 02:09:10.800 seven to one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 2318 02:09:10.920 --> 02:09:13.319 Get on his schedule so he can come out and 2319 02:09:13.399 --> 02:09:15.840 take care of your trees. They are the single most 2320 02:09:16.000 --> 02:09:19.800 valuable plants in your landscape. They do a lot of 2321 02:09:19.920 --> 02:09:25.920 things for us, very very important. I was talking about 2322 02:09:25.960 --> 02:09:31.000 gifts for gardeners and ideas for gifts and items for gardeners. 2323 02:09:31.479 --> 02:09:35.399 Gardening books are another great idea. You know, if someone 2324 02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:39.840 is really into herb growing. Now there's a book produced 2325 02:09:39.920 --> 02:09:42.319 a long time ago, and oh my gosh, the names 2326 02:09:42.439 --> 02:09:45.319 escaping me now. Madeline Hill and Gwyn Barclay are the 2327 02:09:45.399 --> 02:09:48.920 authors of it, Texas Herb Growing. Maybe the name of 2328 02:09:48.960 --> 02:09:51.479 it my brain just went blank on it. I'll figure 2329 02:09:51.479 --> 02:09:54.880 it out anyway. That is a good book. Doug Wells 2330 02:09:55.000 --> 02:09:58.239 wrote a book called a Garden Almanac for Texas and 2331 02:09:58.399 --> 02:09:59.960 it tells you what to do each month of the year. 2332 02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:03.920 I've got one out there called Texas month by month gardening, 2333 02:10:04.000 --> 02:10:07.560 same kind of thing. There are books that are excellent 2334 02:10:07.720 --> 02:10:12.079 on flowers, books that are excellent on antique roses. Doctor 2335 02:10:12.119 --> 02:10:16.439 Welch I had one called Perennial Garden Color that is 2336 02:10:16.800 --> 02:10:22.840 the standard for Texas perennials, the old time perennials on 2337 02:10:22.880 --> 02:10:26.399 the new ones. Perennial Garden Color a great gift book 2338 02:10:26.720 --> 02:10:28.439 for that, And there are many other books out there. 2339 02:10:28.439 --> 02:10:30.239 I guess I ought to put a list of recommended 2340 02:10:30.239 --> 02:10:33.479 books on the website. That'd be a probably a good edition, 2341 02:10:34.279 --> 02:10:36.680 but a good quality book. You know, it can be 2342 02:10:37.039 --> 02:10:41.159 a freezing coals leading day outside and you can get 2343 02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:43.960 open that book and you've gone back into gardening again. 2344 02:10:44.079 --> 02:10:48.680 You're dreaming and you're learning, and you're getting better getting 2345 02:10:48.760 --> 02:10:51.319 more information on it. So a book is a good 2346 02:10:51.840 --> 02:10:54.760 a good gift for gardeners. Now they're they're coffee table books. 2347 02:10:54.840 --> 02:10:57.600 I'm not a huge fan of coffee table books, but 2348 02:10:57.760 --> 02:11:00.760 they are beautiful for looking at you know, you put 2349 02:11:00.800 --> 02:11:03.560 them on the table and people look at them and 2350 02:11:03.640 --> 02:11:08.199 get inspired. But I like the blue collar meat and potatoes, 2351 02:11:08.279 --> 02:11:10.439 get down in the dirt and get it done kind 2352 02:11:10.439 --> 02:11:13.439 of book. But we mentioned before a subscription to Texas 2353 02:11:13.479 --> 02:11:18.119 Gardener magazine is a gift. Texas Gardener is, to my knowledge, 2354 02:11:18.199 --> 02:11:22.239 the last remaining private gardening magazine for state, for a 2355 02:11:22.359 --> 02:11:25.399 state in the country, Texas the last one to still 2356 02:11:25.479 --> 02:11:29.239 have a gardening magazine for Texas. Or's not a Nebraska 2357 02:11:29.359 --> 02:11:33.479 Gardening or a New Jersey Gardening and so on. But 2358 02:11:33.560 --> 02:11:37.640 there's a Texas Gardener magazine written by Texas gardeners. I 2359 02:11:37.840 --> 02:11:40.760 know almost all the authors in it, and they're excellent, 2360 02:11:41.399 --> 02:11:45.359 and it's written for Texas gardeners. So anybody who either 2361 02:11:45.640 --> 02:11:48.520 is a gardener or wants to be a gardener, get 2362 02:11:48.560 --> 02:11:51.039 them a subscription to that. You can do a print subscription, 2363 02:11:51.560 --> 02:11:54.239 you can do an online subscription where you view the 2364 02:11:54.279 --> 02:11:57.319 magazine online. That's kind of popular now, or you can 2365 02:11:57.359 --> 02:11:59.039 do both. You can do it either way. Anyway you 2366 02:11:59.119 --> 02:12:02.119 go by Texas garden is the website for that if 2367 02:12:02.159 --> 02:12:06.720 you want to be part of that good local inspiration. 2368 02:12:06.840 --> 02:12:08.720 And by the way, if you're heard the term that 2369 02:12:08.800 --> 02:12:11.760 all politics is local, have you ever heard that, well, 2370 02:12:11.800 --> 02:12:14.920 I would like to say all gardening advice is local too. 2371 02:12:15.760 --> 02:12:16.079 It is. 2372 02:12:16.840 --> 02:12:19.439 And I go online a lot and I see things, 2373 02:12:19.600 --> 02:12:23.399 I listen to shows, and I hear things said, whether 2374 02:12:23.479 --> 02:12:27.840 it's TV or radio, and I think, well, yeah, that's 2375 02:12:28.079 --> 02:12:31.760 true in New Jersey, but not here in Texas, not 2376 02:12:32.039 --> 02:12:34.960 in our location. Or maybe it's true in Austin but 2377 02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:39.680 not in Houston. Yeah, we have differences even within a 2378 02:12:39.960 --> 02:12:43.560 section of the state like that. So you need to 2379 02:12:43.600 --> 02:12:46.000 get good local advice in Some of the books written 2380 02:12:46.039 --> 02:12:49.039 here in Texas are helpful, very helpful for that. The 2381 02:12:49.159 --> 02:12:53.640 magazine written in Texas helpful for that. And gardening shows. 2382 02:12:53.720 --> 02:12:56.000 Local gardening shows like garden Line here in the Greater 2383 02:12:56.079 --> 02:12:59.319 Houston are very helpful for getting good local advice. You 2384 02:12:59.319 --> 02:13:01.640 can also get the kind of advice when you go 2385 02:13:01.840 --> 02:13:06.000 visit one of our independent garden centers here in the 2386 02:13:06.119 --> 02:13:08.800 Grider Houston area. I talk about them on garden Line 2387 02:13:08.960 --> 02:13:13.239 all the time. You know, they are north, south, east, west, 2388 02:13:13.399 --> 02:13:17.039 and central, no matter where they live, all directions and central. 2389 02:13:17.560 --> 02:13:21.319 We have got quality garden centers with staff that know 2390 02:13:21.479 --> 02:13:24.279 what they're talking about. And you know you've heard me 2391 02:13:25.079 --> 02:13:27.920 ripe about this before, but I had been into big 2392 02:13:28.000 --> 02:13:33.680 box stores, and here we go big box stores and 2393 02:13:33.960 --> 02:13:41.520 stores that sell everything from pajamas to microwaves to plants, 2394 02:13:42.439 --> 02:13:46.359 those kind of places. The likelihood of getting good advice 2395 02:13:46.479 --> 02:13:49.279 or slim. I went into one one time, and I'd 2396 02:13:49.319 --> 02:13:51.119 set up to train employees at it. I was saying, 2397 02:13:51.159 --> 02:13:53.880 I'm doing a good thing here, just getting some training in. 2398 02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:56.359 And I went to talk to the manager and he 2399 02:13:56.520 --> 02:13:58.640 was gone. The garden center manager was gone, and the 2400 02:13:58.680 --> 02:14:00.880 new guy was in. I said, oh, I'm supposed to 2401 02:14:00.920 --> 02:14:03.640 be here doing her training. Okay. I said, well, so 2402 02:14:03.720 --> 02:14:05.159 where are you from? And he goes, oh, I was 2403 02:14:05.199 --> 02:14:09.359 at the jewelry counter and they moved me to gardening. Okay, 2404 02:14:09.920 --> 02:14:12.239 and you're selling chemicals that people are going to use 2405 02:14:12.279 --> 02:14:15.840 on their lawns. I've been to a big box store before. 2406 02:14:16.319 --> 02:14:19.159 I was looking at the wall of products up there 2407 02:14:19.199 --> 02:14:22.039 on the wall, and a young lady walked up, May 2408 02:14:22.079 --> 02:14:24.560 I help you? And I always like to ask a 2409 02:14:24.680 --> 02:14:27.279 question or two just to see if they are able 2410 02:14:27.319 --> 02:14:30.840 to help, And turns out I asked, oh, what were 2411 02:14:30.840 --> 02:14:31.439 you doing for this? 2412 02:14:31.640 --> 02:14:31.760 Oh? 2413 02:14:31.840 --> 02:14:34.920 I was cutting hair in a beauty shop, all right, 2414 02:14:35.399 --> 02:14:37.479 not setting you up for gardening. Go to your mom 2415 02:14:37.560 --> 02:14:40.079 and pops. That's the bottom line. Time for a break. 2416 02:14:40.239 --> 02:14:44.279 We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to 2417 02:14:44.399 --> 02:14:46.720 garden Line. We are glad you're with us today. Hey, 2418 02:14:46.760 --> 02:14:48.880 if you'd like to give me a call, we're on 2419 02:14:49.000 --> 02:14:51.960 open lines. It's seven one three two one two k 2420 02:14:52.119 --> 02:14:54.439 t r H seven one three two and two kt 2421 02:14:55.039 --> 02:14:59.720 r H. I've been talking about holiday gift ideas and 2422 02:15:00.119 --> 02:15:04.720 and things to consider giving someone. Uh there I mentioned 2423 02:15:04.880 --> 02:15:08.000 gift certificates and the importance of that. I mentioned that 2424 02:15:08.239 --> 02:15:11.960 our local garden centers, of course have the quality plants 2425 02:15:12.000 --> 02:15:15.119 and advice and many products in their gift shops that 2426 02:15:16.399 --> 02:15:20.680 just are outstanding for gift ideas, that is for sure. 2427 02:15:21.600 --> 02:15:24.600 Do you know Ace Hardware also has some really good 2428 02:15:24.640 --> 02:15:27.720 gift ideas I love. I was in an ACE gosh 2429 02:15:27.760 --> 02:15:30.920 when was this about three weeks ago? And looking at 2430 02:15:31.119 --> 02:15:34.359 the kids toys? Do you think of Ace when you 2431 02:15:34.399 --> 02:15:36.960 think of kid's toys? Were you should? And there were 2432 02:15:37.039 --> 02:15:39.520 a lot of cool stuff, a lot of and some 2433 02:15:40.159 --> 02:15:42.359 some of the retro kinds of things, you know, like 2434 02:15:42.840 --> 02:15:45.600 Lincoln logs. How many of you remember Lincoln logs. I 2435 02:15:45.720 --> 02:15:47.800 played with Lincoln logs to the cows came home and 2436 02:15:47.840 --> 02:15:50.640 the dogs chewed them up. I loved those things. And 2437 02:15:50.760 --> 02:15:53.960 you can still buy some cool ptro types of toys 2438 02:15:54.039 --> 02:15:57.760 like that at ACE Hardware's as well. Remember every Ace 2439 02:15:57.800 --> 02:16:01.640 Hardware stores independently owned, so each although it is an 2440 02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:04.720 ACE and has the standard ACE things there, it's going 2441 02:16:04.800 --> 02:16:07.199 to have the flavor, if you will, of the owner. 2442 02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:11.039 It's going to have its own unique version of all 2443 02:16:11.079 --> 02:16:12.720 the kinds of things that they can carry. But I 2444 02:16:12.800 --> 02:16:14.720 can tell you this, when you walk into ACE you 2445 02:16:14.760 --> 02:16:17.079 will find at least a dozen things that you did 2446 02:16:17.159 --> 02:16:19.800 not know you could buy locally at your local Ace 2447 02:16:19.840 --> 02:16:22.720 Hardware store. By the way, time to get in there, 2448 02:16:22.800 --> 02:16:27.079 get your landscape lighting, get your decorations outdoors, get your 2449 02:16:27.159 --> 02:16:30.520 lighting and decorations for indoors as well. They are ready 2450 02:16:30.560 --> 02:16:33.479 to go at ACE Hardware store for this holiday season 2451 02:16:33.639 --> 02:16:36.239 and they are stocked up. You need to get by 2452 02:16:36.319 --> 02:16:39.319 there and check it out. All Star Ace Hardware, for example, 2453 02:16:39.479 --> 02:16:42.399 is in Spring and in Magnolia, two different locations. You know, 2454 02:16:42.479 --> 02:16:45.319 there's a lot of ACE Hardware's in the Greater Houston area, 2455 02:16:45.559 --> 02:16:48.639 Lake Conroe Ace Hardware another place for those of you 2456 02:16:48.799 --> 02:16:52.239 on the side you Valdi Street Ace Hardware and up 2457 02:16:52.280 --> 02:16:55.000 in brunn and Brunna Ace Hardware just examples of the 2458 02:16:55.079 --> 02:16:57.680 many ACE Hardware stores in our area. You can go 2459 02:16:57.719 --> 02:17:01.639 to Acehardware dot com find the st Or locator and 2460 02:17:01.799 --> 02:17:05.920 find the stores. Yes that's plural, the East Hardburre stores 2461 02:17:06.520 --> 02:17:10.520 near you. We're going to head out to Richmond now 2462 02:17:10.680 --> 02:17:13.920 and talk to Margaret. Hello, Margaret, welcome to garden Line. 2463 02:17:15.799 --> 02:17:16.799 Thank you, good morning. 2464 02:17:20.280 --> 02:17:20.760 So I. 2465 02:17:22.639 --> 02:17:25.000 Was asked what the problem is, and it's my front lawn. 2466 02:17:25.879 --> 02:17:30.399 I'm seeing the browning of the grass. A few patches 2467 02:17:30.479 --> 02:17:35.319 are like circular in shape. Uh huh, and the grass 2468 02:17:35.360 --> 02:17:39.280 is very brown around it. Most of it is so green, 2469 02:17:39.959 --> 02:17:44.360 but just those particular areas. Uh, what do you recommend? 2470 02:17:44.520 --> 02:17:48.840 Okay, good, Well, that's a disease called brown patch or 2471 02:17:49.079 --> 02:17:52.200 large patch. It kind of has two names now, large 2472 02:17:52.280 --> 02:17:55.200 patch in brown patch, and it's a fungus. And what 2473 02:17:55.360 --> 02:17:59.680 it does, Margaret, is it rots the leaves off the runner. 2474 02:18:00.000 --> 02:18:03.319 That's why you get the yellowing turning to tan, turning 2475 02:18:03.399 --> 02:18:07.760 to brown circles and the lawn they're not all perfect circles, 2476 02:18:07.840 --> 02:18:13.399 but they are typically circulure in their shape. And so 2477 02:18:14.079 --> 02:18:17.040 the good news is it's not killing your grass, and 2478 02:18:17.280 --> 02:18:20.120 those runners stay alive, and when it warms up a 2479 02:18:20.159 --> 02:18:23.360 little bit, they'll start to grow new grass blades and 2480 02:18:23.479 --> 02:18:27.600 it'll fill back in green again. Then bad news. While 2481 02:18:27.760 --> 02:18:31.840 they're well, you don't have to treat. The bad news 2482 02:18:31.959 --> 02:18:34.799 is is those bear is now sunlight is hitting the 2483 02:18:34.920 --> 02:18:38.000 soil and you're more likely to have weed seeds start 2484 02:18:38.079 --> 02:18:40.559 to grow. So you can put a pre emergent herbicide 2485 02:18:40.600 --> 02:18:43.120 out to stop weed seeds, or just know that you're 2486 02:18:43.159 --> 02:18:44.959 going to be dealing with them in those areas and 2487 02:18:45.079 --> 02:18:50.280 be ready to do that. There are fungicides that will 2488 02:18:50.600 --> 02:18:54.719 stop brown patch from occurring, but once you have the circles, 2489 02:18:54.799 --> 02:18:57.680 they don't make the circle green. It's already you missed 2490 02:18:57.719 --> 02:19:00.959 the boat on those spots. Some people, when they get 2491 02:19:01.000 --> 02:19:02.920 a few of those circles, they'll go ahead and treat 2492 02:19:03.000 --> 02:19:05.159 with the fungicide so that you don't get more of 2493 02:19:05.239 --> 02:19:08.399 them to stop more from forming. And if you if 2494 02:19:08.440 --> 02:19:12.200 you go to my website, it's an easy website to remember, 2495 02:19:12.280 --> 02:19:17.879 I'm Skip Rickter. The website is gardening with Skip, Gardening 2496 02:19:18.000 --> 02:19:21.200 with Skip dot com. I have lawn care schedules to 2497 02:19:21.319 --> 02:19:23.239 tell you how to mow, water and fertilize, and then 2498 02:19:23.280 --> 02:19:26.719 I have a schedule that's the lawn pest and disease 2499 02:19:26.799 --> 02:19:30.280 and weed management schedule. And as you go from January 2500 02:19:30.399 --> 02:19:33.760 through December, it's a big chart January to December, and 2501 02:19:33.799 --> 02:19:36.159 there'll be a line for weed prevention, a line for 2502 02:19:36.280 --> 02:19:39.760 weed control of existing weeds. There's a line for insects, 2503 02:19:39.840 --> 02:19:42.799 a line for diseases, and it tells you when all 2504 02:19:42.959 --> 02:19:45.079 that needs to be done so you can avoid those 2505 02:19:45.159 --> 02:19:45.760 in the future. 2506 02:19:46.879 --> 02:19:49.680 Okay, I appreciate it because I was thinking we'd need 2507 02:19:49.799 --> 02:19:54.040 to take those areas out and plug in some new grass. 2508 02:19:54.920 --> 02:19:57.280 So that's not necessary, is it. 2509 02:19:57.440 --> 02:20:01.440 Not at all? No, don't worry about at all. There 2510 02:20:01.639 --> 02:20:04.600 there's no no need to do that. That they will 2511 02:20:04.680 --> 02:20:06.559 be back, all right. 2512 02:20:06.920 --> 02:20:07.680 Thank you so much. 2513 02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:10.280 I appreciate it, and thanks for all of the helpful 2514 02:20:10.319 --> 02:20:12.319 information that you impart with us. 2515 02:20:13.719 --> 02:20:16.639 Well, thank you. I appreciate that. Thanks for listening. Glad, 2516 02:20:16.879 --> 02:20:31.319 glad to have you around. Okay, I'm gonna had a 2517 02:20:31.360 --> 02:20:36.479 caller call in about a question about a nursery. I'm 2518 02:20:36.520 --> 02:20:39.479 gonna need some more information I believe on that or 2519 02:20:39.600 --> 02:20:41.639 just speak to them directly. Either way, I'll be happy 2520 02:20:41.680 --> 02:20:46.079 to do it. So let's see here we were talking 2521 02:20:46.079 --> 02:20:51.079 about gifting and whatnot for the holiday season. Some ideas 2522 02:20:51.360 --> 02:20:55.600 for people on your list. A good tool is always 2523 02:20:56.719 --> 02:20:59.920 a good gift, it is. I mean, if someone's a woodworker. 2524 02:21:00.200 --> 02:21:03.719 There's a bazillion woodworking tools. If someone is in a 2525 02:21:03.959 --> 02:21:10.520 kind of home repair, do it yourself, do it yourselfers 2526 02:21:10.600 --> 02:21:15.159 and things like that, then you know a good tool 2527 02:21:15.239 --> 02:21:17.559 is going to be happy, happiness for them when they 2528 02:21:17.639 --> 02:21:21.239 get it. If it is a gardener on your list 2529 02:21:21.399 --> 02:21:23.799 or somebody who wants to be a gardener, a quality 2530 02:21:23.920 --> 02:21:28.360 tool for them is important as well. And listen, I 2531 02:21:28.559 --> 02:21:32.799 have owned a lot of tools over time over my time, 2532 02:21:33.319 --> 02:21:36.920 and sometimes they are cheap, and cheap is a good 2533 02:21:37.000 --> 02:21:40.680 word for them because they don't last. They don't last. 2534 02:21:41.239 --> 02:21:44.680 Buy I'm a quality tool. Buy I'm a quality pruner 2535 02:21:44.959 --> 02:21:49.719 set that is excellent idea. Pruners are saws. One of 2536 02:21:49.799 --> 02:21:53.120 my favorite tools is a soil knife. Soil knife is 2537 02:21:53.399 --> 02:21:56.440 like a big old booie knife with a curve cupped 2538 02:21:56.520 --> 02:22:00.159 blade with serrated on one side. It is excellent for 2539 02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.559 working in the soil. There are other ideas on tools 2540 02:22:03.760 --> 02:22:06.280 like the kneeling bench. I always talk about Southwest Fertilizer. 2541 02:22:06.319 --> 02:22:09.840 Bob's got the kneeling benches down there. It folds up, 2542 02:22:09.959 --> 02:22:12.079 you store it, you bring it out. It's a seat. 2543 02:22:12.319 --> 02:22:14.000 If you'll turn it one way, you flip it over 2544 02:22:14.040 --> 02:22:16.719 it's a kneeling bench and the legs become handles to 2545 02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:19.079 get back up off your knees. If you're north of 2546 02:22:19.159 --> 02:22:21.639 forty you know what I'm talking about. Lots of good 2547 02:22:21.680 --> 02:22:24.000 tools out there for gardeners. We're gonna take a little 2548 02:22:24.000 --> 02:22:26.479 break here and we'll be back. Welcome back to garden Line. 2549 02:22:26.520 --> 02:22:28.479 Good to have you with us today. Hey, we got 2550 02:22:28.600 --> 02:22:31.040 a short amount of time here. Got a few calls 2551 02:22:31.079 --> 02:22:34.200 to get through. I did have someone that asked about 2552 02:22:34.280 --> 02:22:38.239 last week. Luis Tomorrow called in and we were talking 2553 02:22:38.280 --> 02:22:41.520 about Christmas gift ideas from Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood 2554 02:22:41.559 --> 02:22:43.840 Garden Center, and someone asked about what were the locations 2555 02:22:43.879 --> 02:22:47.879 for those. Warren Southern Gardens is in Kingwood, Texas and 2556 02:22:48.000 --> 02:22:52.879 it is on North Park Drive. Kingwood Garden Center is 2557 02:22:53.319 --> 02:22:57.600 on in Kingwood, Texas and it's on Stone Hollow Drive. 2558 02:22:57.680 --> 02:23:01.200 Both are open seven days a week. Run Southern Gardens, 2559 02:23:01.520 --> 02:23:04.840 North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Center, Stonehaller Drive. It is 2560 02:23:04.920 --> 02:23:07.600 not fair that the people in Kingwood have both of 2561 02:23:07.680 --> 02:23:10.600 those garden centers right in the backyard right there. That 2562 02:23:10.840 --> 02:23:12.920 is a that is a great thing. All right, We're 2563 02:23:12.959 --> 02:23:15.159 gonna run out to the phones here and talk to 2564 02:23:15.360 --> 02:23:19.520 Billy and Tomball. Hey Billy, welcome to garden Line. Hey, hey, 2565 02:23:19.879 --> 02:23:22.799 I just going Thanks for taking my call. 2566 02:23:23.040 --> 02:23:25.959 I am I've been toying with the idea of some 2567 02:23:26.159 --> 02:23:28.840 above ground vegetable gardening. 2568 02:23:29.639 --> 02:23:29.760 Uh. 2569 02:23:30.000 --> 02:23:34.479 But I'm a little confused by, you know, the issue 2570 02:23:34.559 --> 02:23:38.840 of what types of material should I use or not 2571 02:23:39.239 --> 02:23:40.200 use in. 2572 02:23:40.520 --> 02:23:41.639 Building the box? 2573 02:23:42.360 --> 02:23:42.479 Uh? 2574 02:23:42.879 --> 02:23:49.719 Treated metal? Whatever got you? Now when you say above ground, 2575 02:23:49.840 --> 02:23:51.959 or you mean like a box that sits on top 2576 02:23:52.000 --> 02:23:53.600 of the ground, or do you mean a box that 2577 02:23:54.040 --> 02:23:55.760 is on legs up in the air. 2578 02:23:57.600 --> 02:24:02.600 I'm guessing on the ground above above crowd, but on it. 2579 02:24:04.319 --> 02:24:06.600 Yeah, that's a that's a good way to go. Well, 2580 02:24:06.760 --> 02:24:10.399 there's you know, plants don't care what they're in, and 2581 02:24:10.559 --> 02:24:13.719 so I have had beds that were just a mound 2582 02:24:13.799 --> 02:24:16.000 of soil with slope sides. 2583 02:24:16.760 --> 02:24:16.879 Uh. 2584 02:24:17.159 --> 02:24:19.280 And then you know that you can grow in that. 2585 02:24:19.959 --> 02:24:20.079 Uh. 2586 02:24:20.280 --> 02:24:23.239 If you want something that it doesn't tend to wash 2587 02:24:23.280 --> 02:24:26.479 away as much, then you can begin putting a border 2588 02:24:26.600 --> 02:24:29.559 around that kind of thing of stone. For example, I 2589 02:24:29.680 --> 02:24:33.719 built beds out of treated lumber before. Now there's naturally 2590 02:24:34.159 --> 02:24:38.200 rot resistant wood like redwood is a little that way, 2591 02:24:38.719 --> 02:24:41.479 cedars a little that way, and then there's treatments you 2592 02:24:41.559 --> 02:24:43.959 can put on wood to paint over the wood to 2593 02:24:44.120 --> 02:24:47.920 help seal it and slow decay. But any wood will 2594 02:24:48.000 --> 02:24:52.280 decay in time, even pressure treated lumber. But I've made 2595 02:24:52.319 --> 02:24:55.879 beds out like two by ten pressure treated lumber before, 2596 02:24:56.680 --> 02:24:59.280 and you can do that. Some people don't want to 2597 02:24:59.319 --> 02:25:01.760 do that because there's chemicals in it, and that's fine. 2598 02:25:01.920 --> 02:25:05.920 That's fine. The other way to go probably the I 2599 02:25:06.000 --> 02:25:08.600 think one of the best ways to go is to 2600 02:25:08.840 --> 02:25:13.399 use a metal bed that has a treatment to the 2601 02:25:13.520 --> 02:25:16.840 metal like galvanization. Usually they have even better stuff now 2602 02:25:17.200 --> 02:25:20.399 to do that, and then is painted on the outside. 2603 02:25:20.600 --> 02:25:23.760 That gives you the most life out of that bed. 2604 02:25:24.680 --> 02:25:27.239 It doesn't rust away like a piece of tin would rust. 2605 02:25:27.920 --> 02:25:32.040 So those I used to have a sponsor called Vego 2606 02:25:32.399 --> 02:25:35.360 Garden Beds. They are in North Houston, located in North Houston. 2607 02:25:35.440 --> 02:25:38.120 They produce a lot of those products. As you get 2608 02:25:38.159 --> 02:25:40.479 to a nicer, nicer bed like that, the prices do 2609 02:25:40.680 --> 02:25:43.680 go up, but I think they're pretty reasonably priced, and 2610 02:25:43.799 --> 02:25:47.079 you can find some that have corrugated sides. You can 2611 02:25:47.120 --> 02:25:50.079 get them in various colors that are earth tones, you know, 2612 02:25:50.239 --> 02:25:53.079 like a tan or a brown or other variations on that, 2613 02:25:54.120 --> 02:25:56.000 and they work really well. The thing I like about 2614 02:25:56.079 --> 02:26:00.440 those is they're very The walls are thin enough to 2615 02:26:00.520 --> 02:26:03.079 where if you've got a small area and you want 2616 02:26:03.079 --> 02:26:05.120 to fit a bunch of beds in, it doesn't the 2617 02:26:05.239 --> 02:26:08.479 bed itself doesn't take up as much space. I used 2618 02:26:08.479 --> 02:26:11.280 to make beds out of cinder blocks, which you could 2619 02:26:11.319 --> 02:26:14.559 also do by cinder blocks a couple of bucks apiece 2620 02:26:14.600 --> 02:26:16.360 and lay them on the ground. And now you've got 2621 02:26:16.360 --> 02:26:18.479 an eight inch tall bed that you put soil on. 2622 02:26:19.479 --> 02:26:23.559 But there you're losing. You're losing eight inches on both 2623 02:26:23.639 --> 02:26:26.559 sides of a bed, and so you start taking up 2624 02:26:26.639 --> 02:26:28.639 more of your yard that way. Sure. 2625 02:26:29.000 --> 02:26:32.280 Sure, So it sounds like it really doesn't matter from 2626 02:26:32.319 --> 02:26:37.719 a health perspective what the material is, even treated lumber. 2627 02:26:39.000 --> 02:26:42.879 Well, people will debate that, and I don't have time 2628 02:26:42.959 --> 02:26:45.879 to go into the nerdy details Billy on the air. 2629 02:26:46.399 --> 02:26:50.399 But the products that are made to treat wood are 2630 02:26:50.479 --> 02:26:52.600 made to stick to the wood and not wash away, 2631 02:26:52.799 --> 02:26:56.920 or they wouldn't work, and so they don't leach out 2632 02:26:57.040 --> 02:27:01.200 into beds that much. But I understand people have concerns 2633 02:27:01.360 --> 02:27:04.399 about things. We did a study years ago and a 2634 02:27:04.680 --> 02:27:09.000 grife on railroad ties, and does it leach into the soil. 2635 02:27:09.159 --> 02:27:11.319 And if it leaches into the soil, do the plants 2636 02:27:11.399 --> 02:27:13.639 take it up so that your tomato has it in 2637 02:27:13.760 --> 02:27:17.959 it for example? Right, And we found minimal, minimal amount 2638 02:27:18.000 --> 02:27:22.040 of that. But some people will put plastic lining around 2639 02:27:22.440 --> 02:27:25.600 the bed wood that they don't want to leach in. 2640 02:27:26.440 --> 02:27:28.639 It's good to everybody, but I do know that like 2641 02:27:28.719 --> 02:27:31.639 a Vego bed made out of that not galvanized bit. 2642 02:27:31.639 --> 02:27:35.520 It's like galvanizing and then painting it. Those things, they'll 2643 02:27:35.559 --> 02:27:38.680 have their food grade. There's nothing to leach or anything 2644 02:27:38.799 --> 02:27:40.559 like that. So it's just up to you. Some people 2645 02:27:41.319 --> 02:27:44.639 worry about fly ash put into cinder blocks as being 2646 02:27:44.760 --> 02:27:49.200 a potential health hazard. I don't worry about that stuff myself, 2647 02:27:49.399 --> 02:27:51.920 but I respect the fact that people do. So it's 2648 02:27:51.959 --> 02:27:52.520 all up to you. 2649 02:27:52.680 --> 02:27:52.799 Men. 2650 02:27:53.639 --> 02:27:56.639 Hey, thanks a lot. I appreciate the information. You've cleared 2651 02:27:56.639 --> 02:28:00.479 it up for me. All right, Billy, you take care. Thanks, 2652 02:28:00.639 --> 02:28:02.639 thanks for that very much. I'm going to run now 2653 02:28:02.719 --> 02:28:06.040 to Cyprus and we're going to talk to Donna. Hey, Donna, 2654 02:28:06.159 --> 02:28:07.120 welcome to garden Line. 2655 02:28:08.120 --> 02:28:13.600 Well, good morning, good morning, good morning. I want to 2656 02:28:13.680 --> 02:28:17.079 speak to you about some plumeria putting up. 2657 02:28:18.680 --> 02:28:21.319 Okay, okay, that's good. 2658 02:28:21.600 --> 02:28:26.079 The Plumerius Society recommends that when the weather is forty 2659 02:28:26.120 --> 02:28:31.559 degrees or less over a consistent amount of time, that 2660 02:28:31.680 --> 02:28:35.360 all your plumerias be brought into a warm spot. I 2661 02:28:35.479 --> 02:28:39.559 heard the gentleman asking about bringing in his plumeria if 2662 02:28:39.600 --> 02:28:40.079 he could. 2663 02:28:39.920 --> 02:28:40.559 Bear root it. 2664 02:28:42.159 --> 02:28:48.360 We do that a lot with our large plumerius. Yes, okay, 2665 02:28:48.799 --> 02:28:49.479 was there our question? 2666 02:28:49.799 --> 02:28:55.440 You ask you basically? Dig it? Yeah, you're digging it up, 2667 02:28:56.159 --> 02:28:57.559 shaking the off, and. 2668 02:28:57.600 --> 02:29:01.040 You'll find that that tree is not a huge root 2669 02:29:01.159 --> 02:29:04.079 system under that ground. It's fairly easy to dig up. 2670 02:29:04.200 --> 02:29:07.719 Dig it up, shake it off. Don't let it be wet. 2671 02:29:08.200 --> 02:29:10.360 That's the problem this time of year, when the weather 2672 02:29:10.639 --> 02:29:14.479 is maybe rain, maybe not. You don't want to put 2673 02:29:14.559 --> 02:29:20.079 up wet plumeria roots. So dry roots bear rooted. I 2674 02:29:20.360 --> 02:29:23.760 like to put them either in a box or in 2675 02:29:23.920 --> 02:29:26.879 a like a cardboard big cardboard box, a bunch of 2676 02:29:27.000 --> 02:29:30.280 them together. That way you have less area of your 2677 02:29:30.360 --> 02:29:35.399 garage or wherever you're storing them taken up right, Okay, 2678 02:29:35.520 --> 02:29:36.000 water them? 2679 02:29:38.079 --> 02:29:40.879 Okay, that sounds good. 2680 02:29:42.040 --> 02:29:43.040 Yeah, m. 2681 02:29:45.000 --> 02:29:48.159 All right, Hey, donad real quick, how do you root 2682 02:29:48.200 --> 02:29:52.159 a plumara? Cutting and just okay? The briefest version. 2683 02:29:53.000 --> 02:29:57.159 Okay, you take that plumeria cutting in the spring and 2684 02:29:57.559 --> 02:30:01.520 you put it into some good, good fresh soil. I 2685 02:30:01.639 --> 02:30:06.000 love ocean forest. I love it, and don't water it 2686 02:30:06.719 --> 02:30:09.799 and wait for a little leaf to show up. And 2687 02:30:09.840 --> 02:30:12.120 when that first little leaf shows up and you get 2688 02:30:12.239 --> 02:30:14.719 another one and another one, about three little leafs. 2689 02:30:14.559 --> 02:30:15.920 Uh huh, start watering it. 2690 02:30:16.319 --> 02:30:17.959 Okay, it's really all right. 2691 02:30:18.079 --> 02:30:21.840 Hey, the music is ending my show. Thank you for 2692 02:30:21.959 --> 02:30:26.799 calling in. I appreciate that. Very good information. Folks. Wow, 2693 02:30:27.680 --> 02:30:30.520 time flies when you're having fun, and we did today. 2694 02:30:30.959 --> 02:30:33.000 Talk to you tomorrow morning, six am.