WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:10.439 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Richards. 2 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:35.520 Just watch him as pats to seep bats not a 3 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:42.560 sign s beamon. 4 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:50.320 Alrighty, let's do this. Welcome to garden Line. I'm your host, 5 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.520 Skip Rictor, and where you're to talk gardening. The way 6 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:56.039 I like to put it is, I'm here to help 7 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.960 you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more 8 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.920 fun in the process. My goodness, gardening should be fun. 9 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:04.040 By the way, we had a great time, a fun 10 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:08.319 time out there at Engented Garden Yesturdy. Thanks to everybody 11 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:13.439 that came out. It was great. Quite a quite a 12 00:01:13.519 --> 00:01:18.920 group they were. I don't know, you know, I love 13 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.280 talking to gardeners and people that want to be gardeners. 14 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:29.560 And there's just what an optimism, a positiveness about things. 15 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:33.040 You know, every year is different, but when you when 16 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:34.719 you buy a packet of seeds and you see the 17 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.359 picture on them, you just get excited. I'm gonna have 18 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.200 something like that. That's I can't wait to taste that 19 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:44.640 tomato or to see that flower or whatever. And then 20 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:48.560 you take this little piece of detritus. It looks like 21 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.920 a tiny wet piece of bark, chip or something you 22 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.719 put it in the ground and suddenly life comes out 23 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.879 of it and it pushes out of the ground into 24 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.280 the sunlight, and I just every time it happens, it's 25 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:03.400 just like that's a miracle. That is That is really 26 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.599 cool stuff. And with gardeners, the best garden we're ever 27 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.599 going to have is the next one, right, isn't that true? 28 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:13.680 I hope it's true. Of you. We want to do 29 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:17.159 everything we can to realize the hopes that we have 30 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.199 for our gardens, and that's one of the reasons we 31 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.360 do what we do here on guarden Line is so 32 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.560 that you can enjoy that. Gardening should be fun. And 33 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.680 I was telling the group yesterday that to be a 34 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:30.800 good gardener, you got to kill a lot of plants. 35 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.280 In other words, you have permission to kill some plants. 36 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.680 And not on purpose, I'm saying, but just you know, 37 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.680 it happens. You try this, you try that, nature throws 38 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.759 its curves and every here some different curves and that's okay. 39 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:48.000 You always get to start over. And I just just 40 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:51.000 out looking at the energy, just feeling the energy of 41 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:53.840 the group and the and the hope and stuff out there. 42 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:59.120 Well that that is cool. There's a they were loaded 43 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.719 up and stocked up out there at Nelson Nelson my goodness, 44 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:09.199 at Enchanted Gardens, and I was just kind of perusing 45 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:11.680 through and wandering through and looking at all the vegetables 46 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:14.120 and herbs and flowers and shrubs and trees and just 47 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:17.120 everything that they had, and some of the really beautiful 48 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.120 pottery too. And by the way, the gift shop looked 49 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.439 good too, as it always does out there. But thanks 50 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:25.280 for everybody that came out, Thanks for going along with 51 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:28.759 all my craziness, and we having a good time with 52 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.240 the rest of us. Well, this normally is a call 53 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:34.039 in show, So how about I give you a phone 54 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:39.680 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 55 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:41.960 or if you like to dial by letters or that 56 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.800 makes it easier to remember seven one three two one 57 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.800 two kat r H. Well, we're going to go straight 58 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.360 out the phone this morning and talk to Ralph and Katie. Hey, Ralph, 59 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.080 welcome to garden Line. 60 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.400 Skip, Good morning, good morning. 61 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:05.759 Tell you what Hey Ralph? 62 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:06.840 Ralph? 63 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:10.639 Yes, Ralph, I'm sorry to interrupt you. I'm I didn't 64 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.080 hear any of that. You're kind of coming across garbled there. 65 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.680 Can we try that now? Is this better, a little better, 66 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:19.399 a little better, yes. 67 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:20.759 All right? 68 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:27.480 The nitrophoss with UH in the purple bag that had 69 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:33.800 the extra wheat killer, is that okay to yes? Okay, 70 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:40.759 and put that in the barricade down, now, can we use. 71 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:48.759 You're talking about the one with trimec right, it'll say 72 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:55.399 on their trimec yes, okay, so it is uh you 73 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.120 want to But here's how what you want to do. 74 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.040 You put the barricade down, and then you want to 75 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.120 water the barricade in with about a half inch of 76 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.519 water to get it down into the soil surface. And 77 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:10.959 then you're free to put the the ncrofoss with the 78 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:15.079 barricade on it right after you water while the leaves 79 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:19.519 of the weeds are still wet. That helps the products 80 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:23.800 stick to the weed leaves because they're wet, and you 81 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.480 get much better benefit from it. So don't you know, 82 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.800 don't put it all on and then water, put the 83 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:32.079 barricade on, water the barricade in, and now take those 84 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.680 wet weeds and go right immediately, Just go right back 85 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:36.839 in there and do the other one. 86 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:41.399 All right, fantastic. Well, when the sun comes up, I'll 87 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:42.759 be out there, thank. 88 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:50.360 You, all right, you bet have fun take care. Yes, sir, well, 89 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:54.000 that is that is true. You know that. I let 90 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:57.079 me make a couple of comments since the topic of 91 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:03.680 you know, herbicide came up. One thing that I often 92 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:06.560 think about here on Garden Line is that we're talking 93 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:10.519 about utilizing various kinds of products to control various kinds 94 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.720 of things. Could be insects, could be diseases, could be weeds. 95 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.319 And I always wonder because I know that a lot 96 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:20.839 of times we don't follow directions, right. I mean, if 97 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.120 you've got a bad headache, you take more of that 98 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.279 title and al or ibuprofen or whatever you're talking about. 99 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.240 And sometimes we don't follow the label, and that can 100 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:34.879 get us into trouble. When you underapply something, you don't 101 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:40.680 get the benefit that it should provide for you. When 102 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:48.079 you over apply something, you can introduce your plant, whether 103 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.279 it's a lawn grass plant or a flower or whatever, 104 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.560 you can introduce it to some damage that you don't 105 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:58.560 want to have. There's a reason the label says what 106 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.839 it says, and just this whole thinking like if a 107 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.759 teaspoons good, a tablespoons better is not true and will 108 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.199 get you into trouble. And so you want to be 109 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:11.480 really careful with that. So if the label says put 110 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.360 a certain amount on, that is the amount that has 111 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.879 been determined by research to work the best for that 112 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:23.319 product without causing unnecessary damage to a plant. And so 113 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:27.240 you got to follow that. Always follow that carefully, because 114 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:33.120 well it's important and you don't need secondary issues. And 115 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:37.000 you know, it's what we call operator error. It's not 116 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:41.079 the product's fault. It's the fact that you know the 117 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:44.079 way we put it on, put it on evenly. You 118 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.800 know you're applying let's say you're playing a herbicide and 119 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.040 you you know, you spread it across the yard this way, 120 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.240 you come back through and you over double, overlap, you know, 121 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.360 on those on those applications. Well, now you've got areas 122 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.680 that have too much of the product put down. So 123 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.720 be careful, apply it properly and you get the results 124 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:02.959 you're hoping for. Time for me to take a break. 125 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:09.120 I'll be right back. All right, We're back back with 126 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.600 your gardening questions at garden Line. By the way. The 127 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:13.639 phone number if you like it, I like it to 128 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.639 give a call in and ask a gardening question. Seven 129 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.439 one three two one two k t r H seven 130 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:23.240 one three two one two K t r H. I 131 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:28.199 was talking with someone out at enchanted gardens yesterday and 132 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:35.279 they were asking questions about nutrients and just basically about 133 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:38.720 micro nutrients and trace minerals. And I think it's kind 134 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:42.279 of surprises, is me. It catches me off guard the 135 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:46.559 confusion that can be there over nutrients. It's because you know, 136 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.600 I went through school, learned all this stuff and got 137 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.399 quizzed on it and everything else. Make sure we understand it. Uh, 138 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:57.240 But I can see how it can be a little 139 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:01.600 bit confusing because we talk about macrotriants and micronutrients and 140 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.799 trace minerals and what does all that mean. Well, basically 141 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:08.799 it's this our I'm gonna use lawns as an example, 142 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:13.519 but plant or plants. Okay, So in your lawn, there 143 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.600 are three things that you need a lot of, and 144 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:21.039 that's nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Now, oftentimes the soil has 145 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.600 enough potassium because it doesn't wash away like some of 146 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:28.600 the other nutrients can. But anyway, those are the quantity 147 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.279 that you need. Then there's nutrients that your lawn needs 148 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:36.440 a medium amount of, and things like sulfur and magnesium 149 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:40.039 and calcium for example, would be examples of a medium amount. 150 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:42.159 And then there's things that your lawn just needs a 151 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.000 tiny amount of, and those are trace minerals, and that 152 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:48.519 would be things like zinc and manganese and boron and 153 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.399 all kinds of stuff like that. And the misconception is 154 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.120 if it needs just a tiny amount, that that's not 155 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:01.799 as important of a nutrient as some like nitrogen, and 156 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:06.600 that is false. It is equally important to the plant 157 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.080 because these are required by the plant. So like if 158 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.799 you were gonna how would I do this? If you're 159 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:16.360 gonna build bricks and you you have to have some clay, 160 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:18.759 and you have to have some water, and you know, 161 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:21.600 I don't know, some other ingredients in there to create 162 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:26.200 this brick that holds together, drys and works, right, you 163 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:29.799 can't do without any of those, even if something was 164 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:33.320 needed in tiny tiny amounts. If it's needed, it's needed. 165 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:36.559 And that's how it is with trace minerals that in 166 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.799 order to have a plant, let me do this. Pick 167 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.159 up a grass blade, hold it up and look at it. 168 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.399 And in that grass blade there is zinc, and there's 169 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.039 there is a silica, and there is a boron and 170 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:53.039 there and you never hear me say it's time to 171 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:56.440 put boron on your lawns, but it has it's required 172 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.039 to make a plant, required to make a plant part. 173 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:03.399 Just tiny amount, but it's essential. And that's why I 174 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.759 talk about asmite all the time because that is a 175 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:11.279 product that is utilized to put some trace minerals into 176 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:14.000 the soil so that when our plants need them, they're there. 177 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.120 And you can do asmada anytime of the year. A 178 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.399 lot of people do it when they put their other 179 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.919 fertilizer down because it's easy to go through the yard, 180 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.600 put on your fertilizer, go back through the yard, put 181 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.480 on your as mite, and then just water them in. 182 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:29.399 You can do it that way, but you could do 183 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.279 it at any time of the year. These are not 184 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.200 nutrients that are going to evaporate and go off into 185 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.960 the atmosphere. You know, they don't easily wash out of 186 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.919 the soil, and so it doesn't matter when you do it, 187 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.159 but you just want to do it. And as far 188 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:44.240 as how often you need to do it, that's that's 189 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:46.399 kind of up to you, and it's up to your soil. 190 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.559 What is your soil need. Soil tests are a good 191 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.559 way to find out that kind of thing. But you 192 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:52.360 can do azmite once a year some people do it 193 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:55.600 twice a year. But the bottom line is it is 194 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:59.480 it is important to recognize it. Just because something is 195 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:02.519 a micro I need just a little of it doesn't 196 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:05.240 mean that it's not absolutely essential. We have We used 197 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:07.799 to always say sixteen nutrients that are essential. Now we're 198 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:10.080 looking at probably close to twenty, depending on the plant 199 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:14.919 and the plant growth stage. But anyway, that's how it 200 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.879 works with ayse might And by the way, that it's 201 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:21.080 for sale everywhere, you know pretty much the feed stores, 202 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:25.360 the garden centers, ace hardware stores, you know, Southwest Fertilizer, 203 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.279 all these kinds of places are going to carry the 204 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:29.080 a's of min I. 205 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:30.039 Know they. 206 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:35.639 Most places that are going to carry the quality good 207 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.000 fertilizers are going to under I have that on hand. 208 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.240 All right. Well that was a long drawn out explanation, 209 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.759 but after the conversations that I had yesterday, it's kind 210 00:12:44.759 --> 00:12:46.879 of like, well, maybe I need to talk about that again. 211 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.919 One of my favorite places to go just for fun 212 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:57.360 is Arborgate Garden Center. And why do I say that, Well, 213 00:12:57.720 --> 00:12:59.879 every time I walk around arbor Gate, I see something 214 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:03.320 I hadn't seen before because they're always getting something new 215 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:05.559 in there, and you know, I just walked through. I 216 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.440 look at the plants, I look at the brand new 217 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.279 kinds of annuals and perennials that they bring in, and 218 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.000 it's like that is cool, you know, visiting with Beverly 219 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:20.080 or some of the other staff out there, it's it's 220 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:22.840 just like wow that I hadn't seen that one before. 221 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.279 It's a very new one and they're going to have 222 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.440 that kind of thing at Arburicate because they're always stand 223 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.559 up to date. Twelve months out of the year. You 224 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.399 can buy fruit, fruit, trees, berries, grapes at Arburgate. They 225 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:35.879 keep them in stock right now. They have lots of 226 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.919 beautiful color, beautiful color, and vegetables, all the vegetables that 227 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:44.240 you need and herbs. The roses are just gorgeous in 228 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.600 bloom and here comes Valentine's Day. Be a great place 229 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:52.519 to stop in. You see the whole building that they 230 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:57.600 have dedicated, a roofless building dedicated to two herb roses. 231 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:02.080 Then they're just gorgeous. They're lotle gorgeous. Remember that when 232 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:04.480 you're there, bronze stuff before green stuff. So when you 233 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.159 go home with the plant, go home with one of 234 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:10.320 their one two three or their one two three easy system. 235 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:14.000 It's a soil, it's a fertilizer, and it is a compost. 236 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:18.879 The soil and compost have a extra bonus in that 237 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:22.120 you get some expanded shale in those which really helps 238 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:27.399 our clay soils and the nutrients organic organic plant food 239 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:29.720 for anything with roots, so you can and by the way, 240 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.879 the soil in the compost can be delivered in bulk. 241 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.639 So if you live somewhere and you hear my voice 242 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:38.480 on this radio show, they probably can deliver it from Arburgate. 243 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:42.000 And I realize that's going pretty far out, but they 244 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.720 do deliver in a wide area and you can buy 245 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.799 that in bulk. So remember to use that back parking lot. 246 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:53.480 It is really nice, all weather, easy access and a 247 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.000 very safe, very safe to get in and out, and 248 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:01.720 I basically love to use it myself. Well let's see 249 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.879 here we are on garden Line and we are a 250 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.639 call in show, so if you like to call in 251 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.399 seven to one three two one two kt r H 252 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.840 seven one three two one two k t r H. 253 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:17.039 I was visiting with someone with a from ACE last week. 254 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:19.360 In fact, I was visiting with a number of different 255 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:23.279 employees from ACE and some of the managers and they 256 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:28.639 just are stocked and ready for spring, and they've got 257 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:32.039 some really good deals going on right now. For example, 258 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:34.759 they're going to have a President's Day sail on all 259 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.559 kinds of painting supplies. So if you need to paint 260 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.039 or maybe stained some wood or you know that deck, 261 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:43.080 don't forget your deck needs a wooden deck needs to 262 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.399 be resealed periodically or before you know it, you're going 263 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.720 to get decay and then you get to build a 264 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.120 whole new deck. And Ace Hardware has got you covered 265 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.879 on that as well as the paints and things. They're 266 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:58.480 Mowen faucets this month February are twenty percent off. So 267 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.440 if you're going to replace a foster it in a 268 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.559 bathroom or in a kitchen or wherever you have it, 269 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:06.759 stop by Ace. This is a good deal, good opportunity 270 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.200 to do that. I need to replace my air filters. 271 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:11.919 I was just thinking the other day, I need to 272 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.759 put this on my calendar because you know you're supposed 273 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:16.279 to replace them about monthly, especially when the unit's are 274 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:19.000 running a lot, and you can buy three and get 275 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:23.519 one free. So that's also a good deal at Ace 276 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.720 Hardware Store. And these things don't last forever. So go 277 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.639 ahead and take advantage of it. Anything you need to 278 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.159 make your home more beautiful, more enjoyable to live in, 279 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.799 to make your outdoor areas better. The fertilizers I'm talking 280 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.399 about for your lawn, the pest and weed and disease 281 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.399 and everything else. They've got it at Ace Hardware. And 282 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:46.120 we have so many Ace Hardware is here in the 283 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:48.600 Greater Houston area. You can go to a place like 284 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.480 Sinkle Ranch, Ace Hardware, or k and m Ace Hardware 285 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:55.799 in Kingwood or Lake Conroe, Ace Hardware, Wharton Feed and 286 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.960 Ace Bay City, Ace on and on to go to 287 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:02.159 Acehardware dot com and find the store locator and you 288 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.440 can find the ones near you. They make it easy 289 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.200 at ACE. I think I said this yesterday, but I 290 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.640 got my eyes on a Trager barbecue. They had the 291 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:16.000 top of top brands, you know, Big Green Egg, Trager, 292 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:20.480 Weber and on, then Minimal Well and others, and then 293 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:22.799 all the stuff you need to go with your barbecue pit, 294 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:28.160 all the the peripheral things that are part of just 295 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.039 having a great time out there as the girl master 296 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.079 of your own neighborhood at least of your own patio. 297 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:42.359 That Ace has got you covered so earlier on I had, 298 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.799 you know, talking about nutrients and the importance of trace 299 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:51.799 metals and other things like that. The big three nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. 300 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.160 It's important to get those out at the right time 301 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.400 and in the right amounts. And nitrogen is the single 302 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:01.480 nutrient of all the nutrient insider out there. Nitrogen is 303 00:18:01.480 --> 00:18:05.640 a one that we most often are really needing to supplement. 304 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.920 Now there's others that we do need to supplement for sure, 305 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:11.880 but nitrogen will volatilize as a gas and go in 306 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.799 the atmosphere. It can it can dissolve and wash away 307 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.440 down through the soil, across the surface of the soil. 308 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:21.640 It is a nutrient that's always on the move. Bacteria, 309 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:27.559 microbes take up nitrogen and when they do it becomes, 310 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:29.480 you know, part of their bodies. Then they die and 311 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.319 they release that nitrogen back into the soil, and so 312 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.839 nitrogen is always on the move. There's several different forms 313 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:39.640 of nitrogen in the soil and it's always going from 314 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.279 one form to another, and our goal is to continue 315 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:45.599 to add it in small amounts. And if you're looking 316 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.799 for something for an early greenup for your lawn, well, 317 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.319 nitrofos has got you covered with nitrofos imperial. That's the 318 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.519 fifteen five P ten. We say that's a three one 319 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:58.960 two ratio, three being the nitrogen the most of that, 320 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.200 less of the phosphorus, and a medium amount of the potassium. 321 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.599 It's designed based on research at A and M over 322 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:08.920 the years that have proven that is the blend that 323 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:11.200 you most need for your lawns. If you're going to 324 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:14.839 replenish what typically is needed in a lawn, A three 325 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.240 one two four one two even those ratios are, you're 326 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.359 in the right ballpark there, and nitroposs imperial is going 327 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:24.000 to release quickly. So if you use it as a 328 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:26.240 green up, if you follow my schedule, there's a green 329 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:28.559 up on there. You can do that. That's an optional one, 330 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.960 but you can do that and get that early green 331 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.319 that a lot of people are looking for with the 332 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:35.519 nitrophoss and pear. That's a red bag, by the way. 333 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:39.559 Red bag, by the way. But remember this above all 334 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:43.119 that if you're going to try to prevent summer weeds, 335 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:45.720 you got to get the barricade from nitroposs down. Now, 336 00:19:46.359 --> 00:19:49.400 barricades put down watered in with a half inch and 337 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:51.400 it goes to the soil and it ties up to 338 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:53.720 the surface. Barricade does a better job of that than 339 00:19:53.799 --> 00:19:56.440 a lot of pre emergence do it ties up, and 340 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.799 then when a weed tries to sprout and go through there, 341 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.119 it sets it down and you never see the weed. 342 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:03.759 But if you wait too long and the weeds are 343 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:06.960 all up, well, barricade is not going to do what 344 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:09.759 it should do for you. You gotta do it ahead of time, 345 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.119 and now is ahead of time. Now now, now, all right, 346 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:14.920 time for me to take a break, and I'll be 347 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:22.799 right back. Alrighty, welcome back to garden Line. Very glad 348 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.960 to have you with us and looking forward to visiting 349 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:27.000 with you about the things that are of interest to you. 350 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.559 What are your questions? You got a bug and got 351 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.599 a leaf spot a disease, plant diying, and you don't 352 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:37.200 know why need a suggestion for the best tomato on earth? Boy, 353 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.839 that would be a controversial answer, right there. Everybody has 354 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:47.839 their favorites, right I do too. I bought a sun 355 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:51.880 gold yesterday. Sun Gold is a cherry type tomato that's 356 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:56.000 kind of a golden orange color. Golden yellow orange color, 357 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.839 really pretty and good night, that thing is sweet. There's 358 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:02.640 gold and sun sugar are two of my favorites there. 359 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.039 But I think there's probably a thousand varieties of tomatoes 360 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:10.240 out there on the market, or have been over the years, 361 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:14.119 and there's so many good ones, so many good ones, 362 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:16.839 and you need to try different ones. I never plant 363 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:21.319 just one variety. I always try maybe two or three 364 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.240 at least. Sometimes I go crazy and do a whole 365 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:26.839 bunch of them just in a trial. But I always 366 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:30.680 try something new because you never know each variety. It 367 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.359 depends on the season, but it also depends on the 368 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.079 particular growing conditions and pasts that you're dealing with. For example, 369 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:41.160 Celebrity tomato that's been around since the nineteen seventies. It's 370 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:44.400 an All America selection from way back then, and it's 371 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:49.039 one of the few tomatoes that is nematode resistant, not proof, 372 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:53.799 but resistant celebrity. There just aren't a lot of tomatoes 373 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.960 that have Nema toad resistance in them. But anyway, that 374 00:21:58.119 --> 00:22:01.000 is an old time tomat a long time. It's not 375 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:04.839 what we would call an antique heirloom tomato, but I 376 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:06.799 guess if it hangs around long enough, it will be. 377 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:09.759 But I love that tomatoes. They're a good one. But 378 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.839 I don't just plant celebrity. I plan all kinds of things, 379 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.559 try different ones out and see how they do it, 380 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:18.960 and I would suggest you do that too, try something fun. 381 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:25.119 One year, I planted every stuffing tomato I could find. So, 382 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:28.200 what's a stuffing tomato. Well, you know when you cut 383 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:31.799 open a bell pepper, it's hollow inside, and then you 384 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:33.759 have all the seeds kind of wided up at the 385 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.880 top of the bell pepper where the stem attaches. There 386 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:40.480 are tomatoes that are sort of like that, and they're 387 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:44.319 made and even stuff any tomato, but they're made to 388 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.079 basically clear out and stuff them, put them on a 389 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.799 plate with I don't know what, you know, chicken salad 390 00:22:51.880 --> 00:22:54.200 or whatever you want to put in your tomato. And 391 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:56.759 I tried all those and I'll tell you this, it 392 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:59.279 was fun. It was kind of cool, but most of 393 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:01.440 them took so long to reach harvest that I only 394 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:03.640 got a few off each bush. You know, in tomatoes, 395 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:06.720 when we get into summer it gets hot, they quit setting. 396 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.279 The big slicers, especially small free to types, are better 397 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:14.160 setting in the summer, which, by the way, is another 398 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:16.480 reason why you should have some cherries when you do 399 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:18.960 have your slicers, because the cherries will carry you further 400 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:22.960 into summer. And I say cherry also mean grape. Grape types. 401 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:25.400 Both cherry and grape will carry into the heap better. 402 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.480 But anyway, I try some different ones. But if you're 403 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.079 looking for tomatoes, always look at the days to harvest. 404 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.400 If it's a faster tomato, you're probably going to get 405 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:40.119 more production out of it because it'll start producing sooner, 406 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:42.960 so that when that hot weather and it's both hot 407 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:46.680 days and hot nights too, when that arrives, you have 408 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:49.599 gotten more of a harvest off that plant than something 409 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:52.319 that takes a long time. And some of the most 410 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.079 famous tomato names like brandywines probably one of the most 411 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.400 well known names of heirlooms. Brandywine takes a long time, 412 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:02.279 and I know people that grow it because they love 413 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:04.759 the tomato. I get it, go for it. But I'll 414 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:07.119 tell you this, if you were to say how much 415 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:09.039 harvest do I get out of a celebrity and how 416 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:11.319 much harvest do I get out of brandywine, it is 417 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:14.599 hugely different because brandywine about the time it starts setting, 418 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:17.400 it quits setting because of the heat. Thing. That's a 419 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.720 little bit of an exaggeration, but just something to think 420 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:22.519 about when you're out there looking at varieties. Well, I 421 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:25.839 love paste tomatoes too. By the way, I'm droning on 422 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.799 here about tomatoes, but I want to paste tomatoes are 423 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:34.079 very meaty. Instead of having a lot of that like 424 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:37.640 jelly around all the seeds in between the sections of 425 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:42.599 the tomato, they have more of actually the tomato wall, 426 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:47.160 the solid part of the tomato in a paste tomato. 427 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:50.160 And they're used for making paste and other things. I 428 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:52.200 like to take them and cut them and dry them. 429 00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:56.440 I think they make a really good dried tomato, and 430 00:24:55.359 --> 00:24:59.759 I sprinkle different kinds of herbs and spices on them. 431 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:02.759 You want something that's a little bit of like maybe 432 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:05.680 a taco type seasoning at maybe a little spicy. If 433 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.519 you want something that's more of I want some rosemary 434 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:10.880 or thyme or whatever. You can do them however, you 435 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:13.680 want whatever flavor you like. Season all these one of 436 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:17.599 those seasonal type products. But boy, dried tomatoes last a 437 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:20.920 long time, and when you dry them and you have 438 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:24.000 a little bit of seasoning on them, it really concentrates 439 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:27.039 that flavor down. So I always grow paste tomatoes not 440 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:29.640 to make sauce, which is kind of what they're for, 441 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:33.680 but to use this dried tomatoes. So there you go. 442 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:38.559 I droned on out loud about tomatoes because tomatoes are 443 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.119 the queen of the garden. You know that they're the 444 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:43.839 queen of the garden. And that means that when it 445 00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:47.000 comes to vegetables, that's the number one vegetable people want 446 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:49.400 to grow. That's what we obsess over. That's what every 447 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:52.039 year we have to try some new varieties of is 448 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.519 a tomato especially, And that's just the way it is. 449 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:00.880 Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery is out there and Katie, 450 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:03.079 and if you haven't been, you ought to go. You 451 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:05.240 just had out I ten. When you get to Katie 452 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:08.759 Fort Ben Road there you turn north, turn right right 453 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.759 if you're going out from Houston, and it's just a 454 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:14.319 little bit up the road, not very far at all. 455 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:17.720 On the right hand side, when you go to Nelson 456 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:21.480 Nursery and Water Gardens, you're going to find just an 457 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:27.000 unbelievable selection of both the nursery items, the plants, and 458 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:31.079 the things associated with water gardens. So for example, one 459 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:36.559 of a kind fish fountains, water plants and pots for water. 460 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:40.039 In fact, Nelson's can help you. You can buy a 461 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:43.160 beautiful pot there and Nelson's can help you. Have them 462 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:46.200 turn it into a disappearing fountain, you know. That's the 463 00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:48.920 It's like a tall pottery and the water runs over 464 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.680 the sides and then recirculates. They invented that system and 465 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.480 they are experts at it, and you can have them 466 00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:57.319 do it, or they can help you with your do 467 00:26:57.400 --> 00:26:59.640 it yourselfing. If you want to do some do it yourself, 468 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:02.640 get some help from the Nelson's experts. They can help 469 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:04.720 you with that too. For those of you who are 470 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:08.079 so inclined, I like to walk through Nelson's just for 471 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:12.440 the inspiration number one, the sound of water. I've told 472 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:14.319 them this and I still think they have a charge 473 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:17.960 admission because it's cheaper than therapy. You go out there 474 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.440 and you just sit and listen to the water all 475 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:26.319 around you. There's water splashing out of waterfalls and containers 476 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.160 and everything else, and it's just it's cathartic. It's really nice. 477 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:32.480 They are nationally known have been for a long time 478 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:36.960 for all kinds of things water garden, but don't just 479 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:39.519 think of them as water. They have a very good 480 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:42.960 nursery with everything that you would want to you know, 481 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:47.480 your vegetables, your herbs, you know, your fruit trees, your shrubs, 482 00:27:47.759 --> 00:27:51.240 and it is a place you got to go and 483 00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.400 check out the house plants that are inside. You kind 484 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.480 of walk through that on your way in beautiful selection, 485 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.880 which would be a great Valentine's Day gift as well. Well, 486 00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:03.599 I'm gonna have to take a little quick break here. 487 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.680 When we come back, I will go to Pam in 488 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:11.319 Pearland and John in fullsher and maybe your call if 489 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:13.359 you want to give us a call it seven one 490 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:17.440 three two one two. Katie r h. All right, welcome 491 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:21.359 back to the Garden Line. Let's run straight out to the phones. 492 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:24.720 Now we're going to go to Pearland and talk to Pam. Hey, Pam, 493 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:26.519 welcome to guard Line. 494 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:28.079 Good morning, yep. 495 00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:34.799 I have a question about the native product. Was going 496 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:37.559 to put down the barricade, but I'm thinking the whedon 497 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.240 nator has a little pre emergent in it or is 498 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:42.000 that not the case? 499 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:42.559 Could I do this? 500 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:48.359 It's it, Yeah, Nelson's we enator is primarily we're putting 501 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.839 it down as a post emergent to stick to stick 502 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:55.599 to the weeds and whatnot. Of course, it also has 503 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:59.960 the nutrients in it, the nitrogen, you know, nitrogen poster 504 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.440 for some potassium things like that. So that's that is 505 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.200 the primary a thing that we're going to accomplish with 506 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:10.160 the weed inator. Uh it's it does also cause your 507 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:13.759 grass to not grow upwards as much to it still 508 00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:16.119 has horizontal growth, but it has a growth regulator, so 509 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:18.799 you're not mowing quite as much uh in it. 510 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.359 Yes, I used it last year and I was satisfied. 511 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.559 I didn't get that forced growth that cost fungus later 512 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:27.240 in the years. 513 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:28.480 So satisfied with that. 514 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:31.799 But I do want it to do the bear paid 515 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.880 now and wait a few weeks to do the weed in. 516 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:37.880 Uh. 517 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:42.359 Well, yes you could uh the bear If you're going 518 00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:44.960 to do primerging, you've got to do that now. Now's 519 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:46.680 the time, you know, you want to get it ahead 520 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.240 of as many of the weeds as you can the 521 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:53.039 uh weed enator. Don't wait too long on it because 522 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:56.240 it kills the broad leaf weeds. But as all these 523 00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:00.839 winter weeds are going into spring, there to be blooming 524 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:04.799 and setting seeds soon, and all post emergent products work 525 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:07.960 better on a weed before it gets too far into 526 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:10.400 that process. Do you know what I'm saying? 527 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:11.720 I don't know. 528 00:30:11.839 --> 00:30:16.160 I don't know which what to do. To do the 529 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:18.880 barricade or the whedonator. 530 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:24.960 Do the barricade now and after we get you know, 531 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:28.759 past this freeze, and in the next week or two 532 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.640 or three you need to get the weedinator down. I'd 533 00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:33.039 say week or two if you could. 534 00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:37.079 Okay, okay, that'll look okay, thank you so much. 535 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.880 All right, thank you appreciate your call very much. Okay. 536 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:43.799 I hope that. I hope that makes sense. I hope 537 00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:48.279 that makes sense for you. Airloom Soils is one of 538 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:54.279 those companies that does things right. You know, all through 539 00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:56.279 life you have these companies and you go you know, 540 00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:58.440 those people have it together. They know how to do it. 541 00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:00.880 And Airlom Soils is that way. You look at their 542 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:04.440 products and whether you want to grow vegetables and herbs 543 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.359 and they're using their veggie and herb mix, well, of 544 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.000 course they got you covered on that. Maybe you're looking 545 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.160 for some indoor potting soil like called the Works. That's 546 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:17.720 what they call. There's the Works, and it worked really 547 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.599 really well for all those tropicals we grow indoors. They 548 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:24.279 have things for cactus and succulents, they have things maybe 549 00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:28.000 you're gonna plant fruit and berries or citrus. They have 550 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:31.759 stuff for that. They have rose soil, they have whatever 551 00:31:31.799 --> 00:31:34.240 you're looking for, They've got it, and you can. They 552 00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:36.920 give you the option because it's widely available around town 553 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:40.319 by the bag. Wherever you shop, buy by the bag. 554 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:43.160 Or you can go out and get it on your 555 00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:45.319 pickup or your trailer, go out to porter and get 556 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:47.640 it out there, or you can have them deliver it 557 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.559 and they can dump it in the driveway, or they 558 00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.960 can bring it cubic yard at a time in supersacks 559 00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:58.279 not too long. I got two supersacks of products for 560 00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:02.039 my gardening and whatnot. So all you have to do 561 00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:04.440 is make the decision how you want to go about it, 562 00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.799 and call Airloom Soils, you know, go check them out. 563 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:09.799 I like to go to the website because there's a 564 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:13.240 lot of good information there, including a little calculator that 565 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:16.440 will help you determine how much of a product you need. 566 00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:18.519 You know, you're going to put in a bed that's 567 00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:21.200 so wide by so long, Well, how many cubic yards 568 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.640 is out? Well? The calculator does all that. All that 569 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.720 for you makes it really easy. Airloom Soils good products, 570 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:32.440 widely available and they work. That's about as simple as 571 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:35.000 I can put it. Let's go out to full Shore 572 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:36.839 now and we're going to talk to John. Hey, John, 573 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:38.200 Welcome to garden Line. 574 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:40.079 Good morning. 575 00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:42.039 Morning. 576 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:46.960 I was spraying ant hells on my ten acre tractia 577 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.720 the day using bison. It it works well, okay for 578 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:57.079 killing It doesn't matter if it's a fire ant or 579 00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:02.519 a leaf cut or ant. It works well. Had a 580 00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:05.400 neighbor stop and ask me what I was using and 581 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:10.160 I told her, and she called me yesterday and asked me, 582 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:16.160 can I use this around my fig trees? And I 583 00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:24.920 said I wouldn't recommend it. She also has a garden that. 584 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:29.440 Is on the ground with you know, wood around it, 585 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:34.039 and the ants have made ant holes or ant beds 586 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:36.200 around the garden. 587 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:40.319 Bed, and she, you know, she's concerned about using it there. 588 00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:45.160 Wanted to know if the plants would suck up the poison. 589 00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:51.079 Okay, Well here's the answer to Can I use it 590 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:55.000 in filling the blank where the labels the law and 591 00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.880 so that I can never tell you, oh, it's okay, 592 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:00.880 just use it on that even though it's even though 593 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:04.119 that location is not on the label, uh, the label's law, 594 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.559 and so that I would just read the label on 595 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:10.119 your bike in this case Biffen, But it's true of 596 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:12.960 anything you buy, uh and see what it says, and 597 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:17.880 that that is where it has been determined to be 598 00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:22.360 safe to use according to the label. So that that's 599 00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:25.519 what I would say. Biffen is not something that just 600 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:29.800 washes all over the place. It sticks pretty good and 601 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:33.000 uh so wherever you put it, unless you just get 602 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:36.119 gully washers, it's gonna it's gonna pretty well stay around 603 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:38.840 in that spot and it does last a while. It's 604 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:42.199 a fairly persistent insecticide. 605 00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:46.639 Well I know it works well very well. 606 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:51.079 Yeah, well that would be. 607 00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.119 I take a stick with a survey stick, you know, 608 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.840 and poke a hole in their ant bed and then 609 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:05.840 let them come up. They not spray all them and 610 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:11.679 it's amazing, Okay, how well it kills these ants? Thank you? 611 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:16.039 Alrighty, thanks for the Carl, appreciate that, John. Take care 612 00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:20.599 out there, and for sure Intended Forrest Garden Center down 613 00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:25.000 in the Richmond Rosenberg area is stocked up on all 614 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:28.639 kinds of things. And you know what Valentine, Valentine's Day coming, 615 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.280 we think about roses and they've got they've got a 616 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:33.079 couple of lists. I just wanted to share with you 617 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:34.920 Iran in these the other day. I think Danny sent 618 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:38.960 them over. The top ten shrub in Flora bunder roses 619 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:42.000 for the Houston region starts off the list with Belinda's Dream, 620 00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:44.400 probably one of the best all around roses in my 621 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:47.000 opinion that you're going to have because it makes a shrub, 622 00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:50.880 which is nice. It has beautiful flowers that look rose 623 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:53.440 like you know some rose flowers. If they're single blooms, 624 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:55.519 people go, well, that's not a rose. Well it is 625 00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:58.639 a rose, but some people like that look of a 626 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:01.199 kind of a hybrid t thing. But this is on 627 00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:03.480 a bush and it has a nice, nice fragrance and 628 00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:07.880 really good disease resistance as well. But anyway, they've got 629 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.639 a whole list of the top ten shrubs and floor 630 00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:13.639 bunder roses. They also have the top ten best selling 631 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:18.639 and best smelling roses. What do you want a plant 632 00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:22.679 to get that wonderful fragrances that roses offer, Well, just 633 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:25.639 run out to Encented Forest and Richmond. They got a 634 00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:28.400 good stock of roses and that really helpful lists and 635 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.159 that will kind of get you going off to the 636 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:35.280 to the races with I guess what you need in 637 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:39.320 order to buy a wonderful gift for Valentine's Day in 638 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:42.639 Chenny Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine. And 639 00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:46.239 when you're out there, check out their fruit trees. They 640 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:48.320 now's the time to plant, by the way, They've got 641 00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:51.119 load chow varieties of apples and peaches and plums. They 642 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.599 even have trees that are called three and one where 643 00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:57.480 they've grafted three different varieties of something onto the same tree. 644 00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.440 That's kind of cool for those of you who don't 645 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:02.559 have room for a lot of trees. They've got some 646 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:05.920 really nice satsumas. They got brown select and Arctic frost 647 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:10.280 and others. And when you're there, you're gonna find everything 648 00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:12.199 you need for any part of your yard and garden, 649 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:17.679 from herbs to vegetable transplants to flowers, you name it. 650 00:37:18.199 --> 00:37:20.840 Enchanted Forest Plus it's fun to go. That's on FM 651 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:25.440 twenty seven fifty nine in between Richmond, Rosenberg and sugar Land, 652 00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:31.880 just south of fifty nine. Alrighty well, I think I'm 653 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:34.119 gonna hear music here in my ear, which means I 654 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.800 got quit talking. That's okay, I can talk for a 655 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.360 low while. Don't forget my website, and you know I 656 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:42.639 talk about it all the time, because that's where I 657 00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.719 put the stuff that you asked questions about. So here 658 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:47.679 comes another freeze. And by the way, we're going to 659 00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:50.880 talk about that this morning, so stay tuned. Here comes 660 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.800 another freeze. I have a publication that I wrote with 661 00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:57.440 a specialist at AY and M and doctor money Nesbitt, 662 00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:00.440 and basically it tells you everything you need to know 663 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.840 about protecting plants from frost and freeze problems. It's there 664 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.559 on the website. Everything they're free. My schedules are there 665 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:11.639 if you are calling. When do I fertilize, what do 666 00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:14.480 I use? How do I control weeds? What do I use? 667 00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:17.320 When do I put it on? It's all on the schedule. 668 00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:20.679 If you're organic, if you're synthetic, there are options for 669 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:25.400 everyone on that speed Go grab a cup of coffee, 670 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:28.039 but come on back. I'll be here in just a moment. 671 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:33.519 Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Skip Rictor. 672 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:50.920 Just watch him as spray. 673 00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:59.679 Hey, good morning, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, 674 00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:01.559 Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a 675 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:06.000 bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That's what I would 676 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:08.320 like to see happen because I want you to have 677 00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:10.880 more fun in the process. Gardening should be fun. Let's 678 00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:13.440 figure out how to make it fun for you. And 679 00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:15.679 one of the main things we need to do is 680 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:18.280 to help you have success on garden line, I say 681 00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:20.719 that there's no such thing as a brown thumb, only 682 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:25.039 uninformed thumbs. So bring both your thumbs with you this morning, 683 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:29.440 and let's talk about gardening so they can learn something 684 00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:34.840 and turn green in the process. How's that all right? Well, 685 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:38.679 I wanted to talk a little bit about some things 686 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:41.519 that go on in the soil that I think are important. 687 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.039 I've talked about nutrients and the important you know, macronutrients 688 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:48.719 and micronutrients and whatnot. But the thing that really runs 689 00:39:48.760 --> 00:39:51.840 the whole plant system or the microbes in the soil. 690 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.840 You know, in nature, it is basically decaying organic matter 691 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:01.599 and microbes that are making everything happen to keep plants 692 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:05.960 growing and happy and healthy and so on. Microbes break 693 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:09.880 down organic matter. Different ones have different jobs. Bacteria work 694 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:13.559 on simple things, simple carbohydrates, like those grass clippings that 695 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:17.280 you return to the lawn. Then you got actinom seeds, 696 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:23.039 which work on a little bit more difficult to decompose substances. Certainly, 697 00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:26.960 we have bacteria and fungi. Fungi break can break down 698 00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:32.920 almost anything. They literally bone, you know, fingernails, rock. You know, 699 00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:38.480 fungi can exude an acid substance to dissolve away the 700 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:41.719 mineral in rock. Now that's pretty cool. So all of 701 00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:45.280 these things are also doing things like fighting disease. And 702 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.679 the soil we have bacteria that fight other bacteria and 703 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.960 from infection. Let me do this. Have you ever used 704 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:56.639 triple anaboutic ointment, the neomyce and neo mix and all 705 00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:01.199 that kind of stuff. Well, those are substances by soil bacteria. 706 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:04.519 Now the pharmaceutical company is making them in a big 707 00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:10.639 vat in a different way, but that those were created 708 00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:13.400 if you will buy the bacteria and the soil, that's 709 00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.079 where they started. And they do that kind of for 710 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:17.679 our plant roots. So anything we do that enhances the 711 00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:20.679 microbes is going to enhance plant growth. And you know 712 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:25.840 that's why years ago Mike Curant decided to create a 713 00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:31.480 fertilizer called Microlife and to focus on something that's natural, 714 00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:35.639 something that is enhanced also with additional microbes in it. 715 00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:39.079 And now there's a wideline of Microlife products. You know, 716 00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:42.559 we're looking at everything from the standard green bag that 717 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:45.960 is good for pretty much everything. The six two four. 718 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:50.880 They have fertilizers for acidic plants and kind of a 719 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.639 pink hot, pink kind of colored bag that I will 720 00:41:54.639 --> 00:42:00.199 cover your blueberries. Your gosh, I just went bland on 721 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:02.679 the plant. I was trying to say, oh, azalias, thank 722 00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:09.000 you azaleas, and things like Virginia sweet spire. We want 723 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.840 to grow more of that here. It's the nice attic plant, 724 00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:16.039 loving plant uh and hydranges. You know, whatever it is, 725 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:18.519 that product is good for it. They got products for 726 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:23.719 fertilizing fruit trees of various kinds. They just have a 727 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:26.079 lot of products. They got them dry and granular that 728 00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:28.480 you can spread with your spreader or however you want 729 00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:31.079 to you know, spread them out there. They also have 730 00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:33.719 liquids that you can spray both as a folier feed. 731 00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:36.159 Because microlife products are not going to burn, they're not 732 00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:38.039 salt based or not. You're not going to burn your 733 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:40.679 plants with them. You can use them as drenching into 734 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:43.920 the soil however you want to use them. There's a 735 00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:46.159 Microlife product for pretty much anything you want to do, 736 00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:53.400 including their humus. The humate is. I think probably if 737 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.440 I were just to kind of look at one of 738 00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:59.039 the less understood of the microlife products, it's probably the 739 00:42:59.119 --> 00:43:04.079 hum mats plus and the humites plus is basically constentrated 740 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.760 compost in a bag. You take leaves and grass clippings, 741 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:10.679 you compost them down. That's called compost. You take compost 742 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:13.000 and you let it break down to its final stage, 743 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:17.360 and that's called humus. And humus is very helpful in 744 00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:23.599 opening up our highly resistant to drainage clay soils. It 745 00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:27.239 helps form structure in the soil and so it benefits 746 00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:29.280 in that way, which of course in turn makes the 747 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:32.599 microbes happier. So all around, with Microlife, you're getting something 748 00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:34.840 that is going to make your microbes happy. And if 749 00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:36.400 they're happy, your plants are going to be happy. And 750 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:38.119 if your plants happy, you're going to be happy. That's 751 00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:42.480 kind of how this works. Microw Life products are available widely. 752 00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.239 You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out more. 753 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:49.719 But whatever you do, hug a microbe today, because they 754 00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:52.800 are running a lot of things down there in the 755 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:55.360 soil forests. I was talking to the group out it 756 00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:58.599 in Chinna Garden yesterday about the role that microbes play. 757 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.119 You know, they were kind of listening and stuff like that, 758 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:04.599 and then when I mentioned that you couldn't have beer 759 00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.480 without microbes, suddenly a bunch of people perked up, and 760 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:14.039 now microbes became important. All right, well whatever, we can 761 00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:16.440 go that route. 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So not only they have they 771 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:54.599 seen everything in the many decades now of helping gardeners 772 00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:58.880 have success, but they grow things themselves, and so they're experts. 773 00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:00.960 You can take stuff in there, show them something, Hey 774 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:03.119 what is this? What do I do about it? Or 775 00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:05.360 walk in and you go, you know, I got this 776 00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:07.960 area and it's real shady, and I need some plants 777 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:09.480 that would do well, and they'll just take you right 778 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:12.000 to them. They know exactly what it takes, they know 779 00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:13.960 exactly what grows here. They're not going to say you 780 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:18.639 a plant that doesn't belong here, because they are garden experts. 781 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:21.519 The website is Plants for All Seasons dot com. If 782 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:24.039 you want to give them a call two eight one 783 00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:28.280 three seven six one six four six two eight one 784 00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:32.920 three seven six one six four six and you can 785 00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:37.199 get your green on their Plants for All Seasons. Someone 786 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:38.880 was asking me the other day what to do about 787 00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:42.400 an area that doesn't drain well between two houses and 788 00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.039 it's a it's kind of a low spot where the 789 00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:48.199 water from both houses sort of drains down into a 790 00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:51.000 weather and it just stays soggy all the time. And 791 00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:53.440 what I told them was, well, give Pier Scapes a call. 792 00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:56.280 The folks at pair Escapes they know how to fix 793 00:45:56.440 --> 00:46:00.679 drainage problems. Put in those French drains underground, whatever's going 794 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:03.079 to take, get that water out of that area so 795 00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:05.079 you're not dealing with a bog and then you can 796 00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:09.039 plant things that are gonna do well in that spot. 797 00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:12.639 Peerscapes dot com is the website. Uh, just go there. 798 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:15.400 The phone numbers there, the information's there, and a lot 799 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:19.480 of really really good pictures. These are experts their license. 800 00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:24.199 They're experienced from design to whatever you need. Peerscapes is 801 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:26.239 the place you need to call. 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Maybe maybe we can help out with that. 869 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:05.440 We certainly would be more than happy to visit with 870 00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:08.880 you about the kinds of questions that you have. Someone 871 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.440 asked me one time, have you heard every gardening question 872 00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:13.719 that's ever been asked? Because I've you know, I spent 873 00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:18.079 thirty five years as a county extension horticulturist, and basically 874 00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:22.760 that just means the answer grape. Remember that California raising commercial, 875 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:26.760 the answer person for all kinds of questions people call in. 876 00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:30.480 I've done radio shows now garden Line, and it's it's 877 00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:34.119 just questions and questions. And first of all, I really 878 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:36.360 enjoy doing that because I can help you have success 879 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:41.119 and not waste your money by doing that. But no, 880 00:50:41.239 --> 00:50:45.679 I haven't heard every question. I always find new questions 881 00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:47.840 that people have come up with. It's like, yeah, well 882 00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:51.000 I haven't heard that one before. That's a that's a 883 00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:54.840 new one for me. So it is kind of a 884 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:59.159 challenge to, you know, kind of take a phone call 885 00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:01.880 and wonder what people are going to ask because sometimes 886 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:05.079 I think folks like to play stump the chump and 887 00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:11.920 that that is a possibility here. Well, anyway, when you 888 00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:14.440 want to when you want to have success with plants, 889 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:17.360 it comes down to some simple principles. You know, it 890 00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:20.960 can get complicated. We can you know, make it complicated. Uh, 891 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.960 and we can go into all the details and whatnot, 892 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:24.880 and I try to avoid going too much into that. 893 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.880 But the bottom line is plants want sunlight. A. Plants 894 00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:30.960 want sunlight. Are they in a spot where they get 895 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:34.880 them out of sunlight? They want b Plants want water. 896 00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:38.519 Are they getting the right amount of water? Some plants, 897 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:41.199 you know azaleas, they like to be kept moist all 898 00:51:41.239 --> 00:51:47.320 the time to do well. But if you overwater them 899 00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:49.440 and put them in a swamp, then you create problems. 900 00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:53.079 So the right amount of water, sunlight, water, and then 901 00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:58.159 plants need soil. And that soil is a huge category 902 00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:01.760 because it includes the type of soil, sand, silk, clay, 903 00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:05.480 It includes the structure of the soil. Is let's you 904 00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:07.880 say you have a clay. It could be like modeling 905 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.840 clay where you take your fingers and you make a 906 00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:12.280 little bowl and fill it with water and it holds 907 00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:15.360 water like a farm pond. Or it could be a 908 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:18.360 clay that has nice structure so that you grab a 909 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:20.960 clod when it's drying out and it just crumbles apart 910 00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:24.000 in your hand. So that that's important. Does it have 911 00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:25.199 organic matter in it? 912 00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:25.880 Uh? 913 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:28.320 And that you know, our good our good mixes by 914 00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:33.599 the way, they are designed to have high organic matter content. UH. 915 00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:37.079 To hold water, hold the extra water especially I mean 916 00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:40.960 to hold enough water for the plants, but drain away 917 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:47.840 the extra water. So sun water and soils. Those those 918 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:51.039 are three of the most important things. Now there are 919 00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:54.599 other aspects. You got bugs and diseases and things like 920 00:52:54.679 --> 00:52:59.039 that that can attack and whatnot. But those three things 921 00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:01.719 are the first three things. And you can keep most 922 00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:03.679 plants happy if you give them the three things that 923 00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:07.840 they want each of those and so it's not that 924 00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:14.159 hard to do that. Now the curve comes when we 925 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:16.800 deal with weather, and when we deal with you know, 926 00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:19.599 not just the heating cold, but excessive amounts of rain. 927 00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:22.960 When we deal with insect invasions. You know, some years 928 00:53:23.480 --> 00:53:26.199 we just have a ton of insects of various types, 929 00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:28.760 and other years it's like they're not there where they go, Well, 930 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:32.320 they're there. They just aren't having an outbreak. Have you 931 00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:34.639 Have you ever noticed that if you have a Saint 932 00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:38.000 Augustine long, especially sid web worms can take a releaf 933 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:41.639 off your grass. And when they occur, and you can 934 00:53:41.679 --> 00:53:45.639 go to my schedule and see when they occur, it's 935 00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:48.480 a it's a summer thing later in the summer. But 936 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:51.880 some years we don't even see side web worms. It's 937 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:55.800 like they're they're there. You know, the species doesn't take 938 00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:58.360 a plane off to another continent and then come back 939 00:53:58.599 --> 00:54:01.880 in three years from now. They're there, but they just 940 00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:05.920 don't have an outbreak. And so it's constantly a dance 941 00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:09.199 with all the aspects of nature and our desire to 942 00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:12.800 grow good plants. But I just don't want to let 943 00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:18.119 you get it too complicated. Remember it is simple. Sunlight 944 00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:21.840 and soil and water. Those three things are the keys 945 00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:25.960 to success. Now in your lawns, right now you're at 946 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:29.559 a crossroads. We are getting rid of the existing weeds, 947 00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:32.360 the ones that are cool season weeds. Ever weed you 948 00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:34.480 see in your lawn right now is a cool season weed. 949 00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:37.679 Right now. You do not see warm season weeds right now. 950 00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:42.760 They're about to sprout and barricade stops that process. You 951 00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:46.440 put barricade from nitrofoss down follow the label. It goes 952 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:49.519 a long way. One ten pound bag of barricade will 953 00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:52.360 cover up to five thousand square feet and then you 954 00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:55.159 have to water it in. It's called activating it. It 955 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:58.239 moves the product down to the soil where it sticks 956 00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:01.159 to the soil surface. It doesn't go very deep into 957 00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:03.519 the soil because up at the surface that's where the 958 00:55:03.559 --> 00:55:06.199 weeds are coming through. That's where the seeds are sprouting 959 00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:09.760 up in that area, and barricade is sitting there waiting. 960 00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:12.360 Then when that crabgrass tries to sprout or whatever the 961 00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:15.199 weed is, barricade says no and it shuts it down 962 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:17.440 and you never even see the weed. But if you 963 00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:19.199 wait too long, the weeds are all going to be 964 00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:22.159 up and growing and then it's too late because it's 965 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:25.639 a pre emergent. It's not a post emergent. It works 966 00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:28.159 very well. It's run the folks at Nitrofoss. So you're 967 00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:30.400 going to find it all over the place. You know, 968 00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:35.159 night Foss products are widely available through our Greater Houston 969 00:55:35.239 --> 00:55:37.360 area here. You're going to find them at places like 970 00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:41.960 in Chinted Forest down in Richmond, Rosenberg Ace Hardware, Sinko Ranch, 971 00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.800 allspas Ace up in the Woodlands, or the Arborgate in Tomball. 972 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:49.960 Those are all places that carry nitrofoss products. Let's go 973 00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:51.960 to the phones now. We're going to go to Kingwood 974 00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:55.039 and talk to Sammy. Hey, Sammy, welcome to garden Line. 975 00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:58.880 Well, actually it's Sandy, but I'll answer almost anything. 976 00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:03.199 Skiff, Sandy, sorry to butcher your name. 977 00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:07.159 Yeah, I have a bed that I talked to you 978 00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:08.119 previously about. 979 00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:10.920 It's underneath the live oak and I killed the grass 980 00:56:11.039 --> 00:56:14.760 underneath it, and I plan a dwarf Mundo grass and 981 00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:17.519 a bunch of composts and it's done. 982 00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:20.840 They're all living, which is a. 983 00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:23.440 Big success for me. But I now have dollar weed 984 00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:26.159 all in it, and I wanted to know what could 985 00:56:26.159 --> 00:56:28.880 I put on the bed to get rid of the 986 00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:33.920 dollar weed obviously, but keep my dwarf Mundo grass. 987 00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:39.599 Okay, you need a post emergent product that will control 988 00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:43.280 broad leaf weeds, and there are a number of different 989 00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:46.440 things out there. Dollar weed can be a little bit 990 00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.320 of resistant to our attempts to control it, and so 991 00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:54.320 you may have to reapply. But there are a lot 992 00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:56.719 of good products and you can go to your local 993 00:56:56.880 --> 00:56:59.159 garden centers out there in Kingwood. Un let's say go 994 00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:02.119 over to Warren's than Gardens and explain to him you've 995 00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:04.360 got that, and they'll point you to the some of 996 00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:06.800 the product options that you have there in their store 997 00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:12.239 for that. But that and also ACE Hardware is you've 998 00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:15.679 got some good Ace hardware is out there too, So 999 00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:18.079 I would I want to focus on that. I would 1000 00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:18.599 focus on that. 1001 00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:19.440 You want to grow? 1002 00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:22.639 Say that one more time? 1003 00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:25.360 Do I need to know? 1004 00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:29.679 It does? Find it? Yeah? It does fine without it, 1005 00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:31.320 but it doesn't hurt to put a little bit on. 1006 00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:33.239 You just don't have to overdo it. It's going to 1007 00:57:33.320 --> 00:57:36.280 grow slow. That's the way that is. It's a wonderful plant. 1008 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:39.480 It's very dark, beautiful green, puts up with more shade 1009 00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:43.360 than almost anything. But it's just gonna grow slow. And 1010 00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.199 so a little fertilizer is fine. I just wouldn't try 1011 00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:47.800 to overdo it. You're not going to make it cover 1012 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:50.360 fast with fertilizer, okay. 1013 00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:53.440 And what I'm trying to do is while it takes 1014 00:57:53.480 --> 00:57:54.400 time to cover. 1015 00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:57.880 The ground, and I've been planting a little flowers in it, 1016 00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:02.079 like I had some impatience last did it okay in there, 1017 00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:04.480 and I actually have some blue bonnets that's got to 1018 00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:08.679 come up from the seeds, so that weed killer won't 1019 00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:12.880 bother those blue bonnets, right, it. 1020 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:15.239 Will kill the blue bonnets. The weed killer for dollar 1021 00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:19.599 weed will kill the blue bonnets. So you dollar weed, 1022 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:22.559 you might want to wait then let the blue bonnets 1023 00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:25.599 finish their cycle, you know, go to see it or whatever, 1024 00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:28.719 and then when the plants are declining. Uh, that would 1025 00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:32.360 be the time that you would you would do the 1026 00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:34.360 dollar weed. Let me ask you, this is dollar weed 1027 00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:37.079 widespread throughout that area? 1028 00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:40.239 Well it beginning in other. 1029 00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:41.519 Words, do you have do you have just like a 1030 00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:44.039 one square foot of it? Or do you have a 1031 00:58:44.119 --> 00:58:45.239 thousand square feet of it? 1032 00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:49.480 Or or I know what you're gonna tell me to 1033 00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:51.960 pull it? 1034 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:57.679 No, no, I'm not No I did, okay, No I was. 1035 00:58:58.039 --> 00:59:00.239 I wasn't gonna make you go pull. It is not 1036 00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:03.280 that effective to try to pull dollar weed. It just doesn't. 1037 00:59:03.320 --> 00:59:05.159 It doesn't cooperate with that. 1038 00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:06.199 It's really. 1039 00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:12.320 Well, if it's a small area, you can dab products 1040 00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:15.559 on it with a sponge type applicator, uh and and 1041 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:19.639 take care of it that way. But what you may 1042 00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:24.119 want to what you may want to try. Excuse me. 1043 00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:28.880 Nitrovis has a product for lawns that is a fifteen 1044 00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:31.840 to five to ten fertilizer and it has trimec in it, 1045 00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:36.559 and so if the if the dollar weed was wet, 1046 00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:40.079 then the granules would stick to the dollar weed and 1047 00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:42.440 probably do a good job. That would be an option 1048 00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:45.400 out there for it. But there are there are a 1049 00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:48.880 lot of products that contain various things that will do 1050 00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:54.360 a pretty good job on dollar weed. So it just uh, 1051 00:59:54.519 --> 00:59:56.719 you know it. That's why I said, you know, go 1052 00:59:56.719 --> 00:59:59.519 to your ace, go to your worn Southern gardens, and 1053 01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:05.920 let them point you at the things that they carry. 1054 01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:10.119 Some of the three way weed control products, you know, 1055 01:00:10.159 --> 01:00:13.199 like the trimech is a three way uh that does 1056 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:16.599 pretty good on controlling dollar wee. In fact, it does 1057 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:19.719 actually a good job controlling the dollar weed. 1058 01:00:21.039 --> 01:00:24.159 Okay, well, thanks for the info, Skips, and I'm glad 1059 01:00:24.199 --> 01:00:26.400 I asked about the blue bonnets. I would be sorely 1060 01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:28.360 disappointed if I killed them before they. 1061 01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:33.280 Bloomed, that's right. Well, you know, weeds can all be 1062 01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:37.119 divided into three groups. They're either sedges, their broad leafs, 1063 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.559 or their grasses. And if you buy a broad leaf 1064 01:00:39.679 --> 01:00:43.360 killer every plant is a weed to that broad leaf killer. 1065 01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:46.239 You spray that on your zalias, you spray that on 1066 01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:49.039 your blue bonnet, you spray that on anything broad leaf, 1067 01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:51.760 and it's going to have some effect on it. So 1068 01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:53.039 you have to be real careful. 1069 01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:56.400 Good luck, Thank you, and you have. 1070 01:00:56.360 --> 01:00:56.800 A good day. 1071 01:00:56.800 --> 01:00:57.159 Bye bye. 1072 01:00:57.480 --> 01:01:02.800 Thanks Sam, you too, take care Yep, that is the case. 1073 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.159 Well let's see here, Oh Moss Nursery. I wanted to 1074 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:11.960 tell you about Moss. Moss has stocked up on so 1075 01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:15.800 much stuff. They're getting like six to eight shipments a day. 1076 01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:18.519 I said that, right, six to eight shipments a day. 1077 01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:22.679 I mean while back they just got like three shipments 1078 01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:25.079 of small cacti for those of you who loved the 1079 01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:27.519 succulents and cac and by the way, four shipments of 1080 01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:31.559 succulents in addition to that. Right now, I was looking 1081 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:35.079 at some photos from their social media out there, and 1082 01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:37.840 it's like the whole ground is covered with like vegetables 1083 01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:41.719 and herbs and flowers just by the flat. They're everywhere there. 1084 01:01:42.199 --> 01:01:44.199 And the fun thing about Moss, if you haven't been, 1085 01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:45.639 you got to go. I don't care where you live, 1086 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:47.639 you need to drive down there and see it because 1087 01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:51.679 it is amazing. It's eight acres eight acres, been around 1088 01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:55.000 for seventy years as family owned operation. And when you 1089 01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:58.159 walk through, it's like, I don't know how to describe it. 1090 01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:02.000 You turn a corner and you see some carved mask, 1091 01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:06.599 wooden mask, like a totem pole. There, you see unusual 1092 01:02:06.920 --> 01:02:09.599 art for the yard. You see fountains everywhere. You turn 1093 01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:12.440 around a corner, they have a lot of pottery. And 1094 01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:14.719 then you turn and all of a sudden, there's this 1095 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:18.280 big greenhouse that is huge and it's loaded with all 1096 01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:22.000 kinds of houseplants and it is cool. It's fun to 1097 01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:24.119 go there and walk through, and you need to do that. 1098 01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:27.639 It's on Toddville Road down in Seabrook, Texas. All right, 1099 01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:32.360 Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. Mos Nursery dot com, Maas Nursery 1100 01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:35.400 dot com. Here's a phone number having any questions for 1101 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:39.320 them two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty 1102 01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:43.519 eight to eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. 1103 01:02:43.559 --> 01:02:45.239 And by the way, they have a nice selection in 1104 01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:50.239 Japanese maples right now down there too. It's time for 1105 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:53.880 me to hang up the microphone for just a second here, 1106 01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:56.280 because we got some some how do they say we 1107 01:02:56.360 --> 01:02:58.760 got to pay the bills. We got some that to 1108 01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:00.760 do and a little bit of new too. Yeah, were 1109 01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:02.320 at the half hour, got a little bit of news 1110 01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:05.480 as well. I want to remind you that I will 1111 01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:10.119 be now this is a next Saturday at All Seasons 1112 01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:14.639 Ace Hardware and Willis from twelve to two All Seasons 1113 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:18.199 Ace Hardware up there in Willis. You need to come 1114 01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:20.480 up and see it. We're going to be given away 1115 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:23.760 quite a bit of products that some of our suppliers 1116 01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:26.760 are donating. It is a really cool place. I'll tell 1117 01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:30.960 you more about it as we go through the day. 1118 01:03:32.039 --> 01:03:37.280 I could just listen to Pure periodly. All right, folks, 1119 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:39.639 you are listening to guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. 1120 01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:42.159 We're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a 1121 01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:46.480 beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That would 1122 01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:50.679 be one of my goals in doing this show. Gardening 1123 01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:53.280 is a great hobby. It's a greatest hobby in my opinion. 1124 01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:56.920 I may be biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. 1125 01:03:58.079 --> 01:04:01.400 It is the best hobby. Gives you exercise, it gives 1126 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:06.840 you mental benefits that are just outstanding. A pile of 1127 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:10.920 research I'm foot deep sitting on my desk. Literally that 1128 01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:17.400 that expouses all the benefits of gardening, from helping kids 1129 01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:22.760 with ADHD to seniors that are struggling with the dementia, 1130 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:27.480 to across your life, peace of mind, lowering blood pressure, 1131 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:32.159 just on and on and on. There have been studies 1132 01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:36.719 hospital patients sitting in a hospital room bed looking out 1133 01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:39.119 the window at a parking lot or looking out the 1134 01:04:39.159 --> 01:04:43.960 window at nature, and the healing is measurably different. The 1135 01:04:44.039 --> 01:04:46.880 benefits to physical healing is measurably Do you see what 1136 01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:49.480 I'm saying? You know, I could do literally, I really 1137 01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:51.599 could do a whole four hour show and not not 1138 01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:55.719 finish covering all the benefits that gardening has for us. 1139 01:04:56.119 --> 01:04:59.440 I think it's important. I talked to someone yesterday out 1140 01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:03.559 in enf or A Chanda Gardens. They were saying how 1141 01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:06.800 they were getting their kids involved in gardening, and that 1142 01:05:06.920 --> 01:05:09.920 is so important. You know, if you want your kids 1143 01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:13.519 to eat well, to have a healthy lifestyle, gardening is 1144 01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:16.199 a way to do it. Help them get excited about that, 1145 01:05:17.639 --> 01:05:20.559 to find ways to get them involved in gardening where 1146 01:05:20.599 --> 01:05:23.360 they get something out of it. And there's there's strategies 1147 01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:26.320 and ways we can do that. There's a great amount 1148 01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:31.079 of resources up and the Junior Master Gardener Program at 1149 01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:34.679 Texas A and M. That is an international program. Literally 1150 01:05:34.719 --> 01:05:37.719 other countries come and I've been part of their trainings 1151 01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:42.280 before and it's just outstanding. It's JMG. That's that's the 1152 01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:47.519 initials for it. The JMG. When you go and look 1153 01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:49.679 at some of the material they have on hand, it 1154 01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:55.559 is great. Now it's designed. If it's designed so that 1155 01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:58.880 you could use it in a classroom, they have curriculums, 1156 01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:04.320 but it also is just fine for a family to use. 1157 01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:10.159 And the website is called JMG kids dot com JMG 1158 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:14.719 kids dot com and it is cool. When you go there, 1159 01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:16.719 you see what I'm talking about. You need to check 1160 01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:19.079 it out. They have a number of different curriculum and stuff. 1161 01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:22.480 But if you've got a little homeschool group, if you've 1162 01:06:22.519 --> 01:06:24.960 got a you know, a public school that is interested 1163 01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:28.920 in participating with JMG, a private school that's interested, you 1164 01:06:28.920 --> 01:06:30.719 need to get in touch with those folks because they 1165 01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:34.679 have got it figured out, research based information on teaching 1166 01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:37.159 kids to garden. And when you do that, in the 1167 01:06:37.239 --> 01:06:41.400 process we teach kids how to eat right. And you know, 1168 01:06:42.119 --> 01:06:46.239 broccoli may be one of those things that kids are like, Eh, broccoli. 1169 01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:50.320 I remember when the first George Bush was president, he 1170 01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:53.239 made a statement that now that he's president, he doesn't 1171 01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:57.000 have to eat broccoli. In the words, his mom couldn't 1172 01:06:57.000 --> 01:06:59.760 make him eat broccoli anymore, and people got all upset. 1173 01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:02.960 A guy in a giant broccoli outfit looked like gumby 1174 01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:05.880 marching in front of the White House protesting that the 1175 01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:12.239 president senters get a life anyway. But if you grow something, 1176 01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:14.519 you're more likely to eat it, And that's true with kids. 1177 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:17.719 Let them grow something to try out to eat themselves. 1178 01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:21.559 You'll find that it helps. And what is our number 1179 01:07:21.599 --> 01:07:25.480 one Well I'm not a medical expert, so someone can 1180 01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:27.159 correct me on this, but I would say one of 1181 01:07:27.239 --> 01:07:29.880 our number one health problems that we have is because 1182 01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.320 of what we put in our mouth. That's the bottom line. 1183 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.480 If it goes in your mouth, it can lead to 1184 01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:38.400 health or it can lead to long term health problems. 1185 01:07:38.719 --> 01:07:40.639 So we want our kids to you right all right? There? 1186 01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:43.440 That was a commercial. I guess I don't know anyway. 1187 01:07:44.719 --> 01:07:49.119 It's true, it's true. Yes I'm a gardener. Yes I'm biased, 1188 01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:52.679 but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Just remember that, just 1189 01:07:53.159 --> 01:07:56.000 I used to have a teacher. Oh gosh, I'm really 1190 01:07:56.039 --> 01:07:58.400 wandering here. I used to have a teacher in high 1191 01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:01.119 school and he said, just because you're doesn't mean they're 1192 01:08:01.159 --> 01:08:08.079 not out to get you. That corrects me up anyway. 1193 01:08:08.159 --> 01:08:11.239 That's it, Hey, it's time to furtize your lawn. Time 1194 01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:13.440 to do post emergent weed control on weeds that are 1195 01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:15.400 already growing cool seed. It's time to do per emergent 1196 01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:18.199 weed control, that is, to prevent the warm season weeds. 1197 01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:21.039 Those are all things we do at this point. This 1198 01:08:21.159 --> 01:08:23.479 is like the traffic jam of the lawn going on 1199 01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:26.640 right here. But I'll tell you something else that is 1200 01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:30.479 one of the practices actually too that will help your lawn. 1201 01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:33.720 And that is core aeration, where you pull a plug 1202 01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:35.960 of dirt out of the ground and drop it on 1203 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:38.600 the surface. Plug a soil. For those of you who 1204 01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:41.079 are out there correcting me and your mind's already plug 1205 01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:44.439 a soil, dropping it on top of the ground. As 1206 01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:48.720 it as that, core washes a part in the rain 1207 01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:52.560 and irrigation. It covers thatch and causes it to break 1208 01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:55.600 down faster. So core iration is the single best thing 1209 01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:57.600 you can do to get rid of that. It is 1210 01:08:57.600 --> 01:08:59.760 the single best thing you can do to get quickly 1211 01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:02.479 air down in the soil to enhance the root system. 1212 01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:04.720 And then you follow that with a compost top dressing. 1213 01:09:05.119 --> 01:09:06.840 A lot of that composts will fall down in the 1214 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:10.279 hole and it just enriches the soil. You know, you 1215 01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:13.640 can't rototill your lawn to improve the soil, right, but 1216 01:09:13.720 --> 01:09:17.279 you can core air rate and year round Hoston is 1217 01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:21.279 one of our garden line Core aeration companies. Now, core 1218 01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:24.600 aeration companies tend to serve a certain area because they 1219 01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:27.000 have very expensive equipment to haul around and they have 1220 01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:31.000 the bulk of hauling something like a quality compost around 1221 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:35.000 Year round Houston serves inside the Beltway and they serve 1222 01:09:35.039 --> 01:09:38.640 out in the Richmond Rosenberg area as well. The website 1223 01:09:38.760 --> 01:09:42.479 is what I just said, year round Houston dot com. 1224 01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:45.880 Year round Houston dot com. Go there, you find the 1225 01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:48.319 phone narming, you find out more information about them. They 1226 01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:51.800 use quality screened composts. It's plant based. There's no smell 1227 01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:53.600 to it. They're not gonna make your yard smell by 1228 01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:55.920 putting composts all over it. In fact, I like the 1229 01:09:56.479 --> 01:10:00.640 smell of fresh, earthy composts. But again, if you're inside 1230 01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:02.760 the Beltway, or if you're on the west side, this 1231 01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:05.239 is the company to call. Save yourself the hassle of 1232 01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:08.239 renting equipment which will be inferior to what they use, 1233 01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:12.880 transporting it, cleaning it, returning it, big pols of composts 1234 01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:15.319 delivered into your driveway, and having a shovel it around. 1235 01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:18.079 Just call your run Houston having come out and take 1236 01:10:18.079 --> 01:10:19.960 care of it, and they will. They do a good 1237 01:10:20.039 --> 01:10:25.319 job of that. Someone had called earlier was asking me 1238 01:10:25.520 --> 01:10:32.239 about Weedenator. Weedenator's and Nelson product an unusual product. It's 1239 01:10:32.279 --> 01:10:36.439 not like your typical weed and feed type fertilizers. Weedenator 1240 01:10:36.479 --> 01:10:39.000 does have nutrients in it, of course, it's a fertilizer. 1241 01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:43.000 It has a turf growth regulator in it too. Our 1242 01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:45.600 long grasses grow up, and the faster they grow up, 1243 01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:47.840 the more often you have to mow with weed Enator. 1244 01:10:48.279 --> 01:10:51.520 It causes a suppression of that upper growth, but it 1245 01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:54.319 still spreads. The runners can still go out. It just 1246 01:10:54.359 --> 01:10:57.279 doesn't take off in you're momo mowing because you're fertilized 1247 01:10:57.319 --> 01:10:59.640 your lawn. It works well for that. It is a 1248 01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:04.520 post emergent that controls a wide range of weeds. Chickweed, clover, dandelion, 1249 01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:07.800 dollar weed, we were just talking about dollar weed, graspbur 1250 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:12.640 person lane, ragweed, sperch, all these. You first wet the 1251 01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:15.520 lawn and the weeds. What you're really wetting is wanting 1252 01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:18.199 to wet as the weed leaves. You put weed itter 1253 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:22.399 out a dry granular fertilizer. It sticks to those wet 1254 01:11:22.479 --> 01:11:26.520 leaf surfaces and it soaks in. It soaks in, and 1255 01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:30.439 when it soaks in, then you have the weed control 1256 01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:33.159 going in and taking care of those weeds. Now the 1257 01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:36.760 fertilizer is going to release with three different groups of 1258 01:11:36.920 --> 01:11:40.039 types of nitrogen. In other words, it's not just dissolves 1259 01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:42.520 and it's all there. You're going to get some initial 1260 01:11:42.680 --> 01:11:46.239 release of ammonium and urea types of nitrogen to stimulate growth. 1261 01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:49.760 You're going to get a little bit later or continuing on, 1262 01:11:49.880 --> 01:11:54.479 I should say, a slowly available water soluble nitrogen UH 1263 01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:58.039 with sole microbes are very active in that. And then 1264 01:11:58.119 --> 01:12:02.720 finally later you're going to get water insoluble nitrogen, which 1265 01:12:02.760 --> 01:12:05.960 is about the time that our turf grass really is 1266 01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:10.079 putting on the fast growth as warming temperatures kicking into gear. 1267 01:12:10.319 --> 01:12:13.359 All right, that's how it works. That's the details. The 1268 01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:16.039 bottom line as it works turf grass weed edor by Nelson. 1269 01:12:16.600 --> 01:12:19.159 It does work. It gives you about six months up 1270 01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:24.439 to six months of feeding of your lawn. Time for 1271 01:12:24.479 --> 01:12:26.520 me to take a break. 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Actually there 1355 01:16:42.399 --> 01:16:44.600 on the way to Conroe, as you're going up forty five, 1356 01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:47.399 right where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, 1357 01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:50.119 you turn right and you go across the railroad tracks 1358 01:16:50.319 --> 01:16:53.760 and that is going to be Sherbrooke Circle. Turn right 1359 01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:56.479 in your Nature's Way. They're right there and they have 1360 01:16:56.560 --> 01:16:59.479 been building quality soils for a very long time. When 1361 01:16:59.520 --> 01:17:02.479 you when I think about Nature's Way products, I think 1362 01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:06.079 about the ones that were born at Nature's Way, for example, 1363 01:17:06.199 --> 01:17:08.520 roast soil. Now everybody talks about roast oil, Well that's 1364 01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:12.159 where it first started, is that Nature's Way Resources I 1365 01:17:12.199 --> 01:17:15.960 think about things like leaf mold compost, you know, for 1366 01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:19.000 your compost, top dressing, for mixing into the soil to 1367 01:17:19.079 --> 01:17:22.199 improve the soil. It's really good for that that was 1368 01:17:22.239 --> 01:17:24.800 born in Nature's Way. But they have many other things 1369 01:17:24.800 --> 01:17:29.000 they have composted. Native multz double aid or native aged 1370 01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:33.880 double ground maltz is a two time grinding process to 1371 01:17:33.880 --> 01:17:36.920 get the particle size really nice. And then there's Azalia 1372 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:40.840 multz for example. It doesn't matter are you gonna grow blueberries, 1373 01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:42.319 just go in there and say, hey, I need a 1374 01:17:42.359 --> 01:17:44.359 mix for blueberries, which also, by the way, is good 1375 01:17:44.359 --> 01:17:48.439 for azalias and caboos and gardenias and hydrangees. No matter 1376 01:17:48.479 --> 01:17:52.239 what plant you have, Nature's Way has a quality product 1377 01:17:52.239 --> 01:17:54.920 for it. Now you can find them in some of 1378 01:17:54.960 --> 01:17:59.479 our local garden centers retail outlets. By the bag. You 1379 01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:02.199 can go out to Nature's Way with your vehicle and 1380 01:18:02.479 --> 01:18:05.079 bring back a bulk amount home, or you can call 1381 01:18:05.119 --> 01:18:07.119 them and say, hey, I need you to deliver it 1382 01:18:07.359 --> 01:18:12.600 and they will deliver it also wherever in the reasonably 1383 01:18:12.680 --> 01:18:15.399 close by area to our Houston here. You know, I 1384 01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:19.239 think about sometimes I do these these shows and people 1385 01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:22.000 are listening. Somebody called the other day is listening almost 1386 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:25.720 in Austin to that far out and then certainly towards 1387 01:18:25.760 --> 01:18:27.800 the Louisiana board it well. I doubt that they're going 1388 01:18:27.840 --> 01:18:30.119 to drive out to Austin, although they might if you're 1389 01:18:30.159 --> 01:18:33.840 willing to pay the delivery fee. But the bottom line 1390 01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:36.319 is when you go with Nature's way soil, you're going 1391 01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:40.399 to improve the soil health. That's the bottom line, and 1392 01:18:40.439 --> 01:18:44.359 that's what it's all about. Nature builds soil very slowly 1393 01:18:44.560 --> 01:18:48.840 over time. With Nature's way, you can take the processes 1394 01:18:48.920 --> 01:18:53.079 of nature and get there in it almost in a daytime. 1395 01:18:53.159 --> 01:18:55.039 You bring in a quality mix, you mix it into 1396 01:18:55.079 --> 01:18:57.479 your soil. You bring the bed mix. It's ready to go. 1397 01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:00.600 You fill your beds with it. However you go about it, 1398 01:19:01.199 --> 01:19:03.720 that is the secrets of success. Remember I said plants, 1399 01:19:03.760 --> 01:19:05.880 it's simple. They need three things. They need sunlight, they 1400 01:19:05.880 --> 01:19:09.600 need salt, they need water. Soil the middle one. Nature's 1401 01:19:09.640 --> 01:19:12.720 way is all about improving the health of your soil 1402 01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:16.840 and therefore the health of your plants. Brown stuff before 1403 01:19:16.920 --> 01:19:19.760 green stuff. Start with Nature's way, and you end up 1404 01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:22.960 with the plants that you purchased, that's called the green 1405 01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:28.479 stuff doing much much better as a result. We're gonna 1406 01:19:28.479 --> 01:19:30.079 go out to Tomball now and we're going to talk 1407 01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:33.119 to David. Hello, David, Welcome to garden Line. 1408 01:19:34.520 --> 01:19:39.520 Good morning, sir, Hey oncoming greens. I've got some sit 1409 01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:43.119 trees that I always partet real well. 1410 01:19:43.600 --> 01:19:48.399 And but I kind of a big a pomegranate. 1411 01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:51.359 And a plum that are kind of immature ground about 1412 01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:52.000 six months. 1413 01:19:52.279 --> 01:19:53.079 Are they any. 1414 01:19:52.920 --> 01:19:55.760 More resilient than are they? 1415 01:19:56.199 --> 01:19:59.600 Are they spreads or are they living more resision. 1416 01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:01.560 Well? 1417 01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:07.359 As species are more resilient to cold. The thing that's 1418 01:20:07.399 --> 01:20:10.319 worrying me about the freeze this week is we had 1419 01:20:10.479 --> 01:20:13.600 some really warm weather last week and a lot of plants. 1420 01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:18.119 As the weather gets warm, they come out of dormancy, 1421 01:20:18.319 --> 01:20:20.760 and as they come out of dormancy, they lose their 1422 01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:25.000 natural cold heartiness that that species might have. And so 1423 01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:27.479 we're kind to kind of watch and see and learn 1424 01:20:27.560 --> 01:20:30.279 from this. But I would just say in general to 1425 01:20:30.359 --> 01:20:33.640 people that it doesn't hurt to be a little extra careful. 1426 01:20:33.920 --> 01:20:36.800 I don't think that this freeze is going to be 1427 01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:40.800 one that kills those plants for you or kills them back, 1428 01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:44.319 but I'm not certain of that, and so I would 1429 01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:46.600 just be a little extra careful. All you have to 1430 01:20:46.640 --> 01:20:48.680 do is throw any kind of a cover over them, 1431 01:20:48.800 --> 01:20:52.199 in a bedsheet, even anything that just protects them a 1432 01:20:52.199 --> 01:20:54.600 little bit. If you got some row cover fabric from 1433 01:20:54.600 --> 01:20:57.079 one of your local garden centers there, you can go 1434 01:20:57.159 --> 01:21:01.319 that route. But the bottom line is probably be a 1435 01:21:01.359 --> 01:21:05.680 little extra extra careful when plants are young, when they're 1436 01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:09.600 newly planted getting established in things, they're somewhat less cold 1437 01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:14.600 hearty than one that's very well established. But yeah, so 1438 01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:18.520 the answer is we'll see. But I wouldn't take a 1439 01:21:18.640 --> 01:21:20.920 chance on it. I would just be sure about covering them. 1440 01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:26.279 Bob three, I got a little budd just popping out. 1441 01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:27.279 All over it. 1442 01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:34.840 Well that then I'm even more sure you need to 1443 01:21:34.880 --> 01:21:38.520 cover it up. Listen, the last time I looked at 1444 01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:41.159 weather up in Tumball, I think you guys were going 1445 01:21:41.239 --> 01:21:45.000 to get down to about twenty degrees or twenty three. 1446 01:21:45.800 --> 01:21:48.079 Have you looked lately? How cold is it supposed to 1447 01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:58.680 get there? Okay, okay, well, mid mid twenties and below 1448 01:21:59.079 --> 01:22:01.680 is too low. And so for things that are butting out, 1449 01:22:01.720 --> 01:22:03.520 you need to get a cover over them. It might 1450 01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:05.399 not even hurt to put a little clamp light with 1451 01:22:05.479 --> 01:22:08.159 a with a one of those one hundred and fifty 1452 01:22:08.159 --> 01:22:11.079 watt floodlights or even a heat lamb shining down at 1453 01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:14.960 the ground, not up in, not against the plant tissues, 1454 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:17.840 the trunk and the branches. It may even help to 1455 01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:20.880 do that. But again, I'd rather be extra conservative and 1456 01:22:20.960 --> 01:22:25.279 not wish I had been, than just take a chance. 1457 01:22:26.920 --> 01:22:30.159 All right, all. 1458 01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:34.439 Right, David, take care, Thanks for the call. All right, man, 1459 01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:37.800 that is the way it is. Yeah, I you know, 1460 01:22:38.199 --> 01:22:41.119 I always I would hate to tell somebody something like, yeah, 1461 01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:43.680 I don't worry about it'll be fine. Maybe it will 1462 01:22:43.720 --> 01:22:49.159 be fine. But this last week kind of got me wondering. 1463 01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:55.479 And recent memory is a couple of years ago in December, 1464 01:22:56.439 --> 01:22:59.279 we had a drop in temperature that went down into 1465 01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:03.159 the teens upper teens, and we saw crate myrtles killed 1466 01:23:03.199 --> 01:23:05.560 all the way to the ground in the northern part 1467 01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:08.199 of the listening area here up you know, when you 1468 01:23:08.239 --> 01:23:11.960 get up Conroe College Station, huntsvilleup in that direction, we 1469 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:15.039 saw some loss of crape myrtles. And create myrtle is 1470 01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:17.359 a hardy species. It should we should not have to 1471 01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:21.119 worry about crape myrtles freezing here. But those crape myrtles 1472 01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:24.640 had had warm temperatures and they had not gone fully dormant, 1473 01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:28.960 and it just reminded us that dormant, Yes they're hardy, 1474 01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:32.039 but they're hardy when they're dormant, not you know, you 1475 01:23:32.119 --> 01:23:35.000 go in the middle of spring and drop the temperature 1476 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:36.840 down to twenty and you're going to cause a lot 1477 01:23:36.880 --> 01:23:40.720 of damage to plants. So that's kind of the question 1478 01:23:40.880 --> 01:23:44.039 right now is how much are these plants moving? And 1479 01:23:44.079 --> 01:23:46.479 you know, David indicated that starting to see some little 1480 01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:49.279 green buds pushing out, and so that tells me right 1481 01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:52.039 there it's not dormant. If it was dormant, it wouldn't 1482 01:23:52.039 --> 01:23:54.720 be pushing new growth. They cannot push new growth until 1483 01:23:55.800 --> 01:24:02.039 the plant comes out of dormancy. Let me just give 1484 01:24:02.079 --> 01:24:04.439 you a real quick description on that. I think this 1485 01:24:04.520 --> 01:24:07.479 may be helpful for you. When a plant, when a 1486 01:24:07.479 --> 01:24:11.840 fruit tree, let's say, goes dormant, there are chemicals that 1487 01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:14.520 inhibit the budge from growing. So if in the middle 1488 01:24:14.560 --> 01:24:18.079 of January we have eighty degree weather, it doesn't just 1489 01:24:18.159 --> 01:24:21.800 immediately pop out and start growing because it's dormant. Those 1490 01:24:21.880 --> 01:24:27.239 chemicals break down in cold weather conditions, cold really actually 1491 01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:30.560 being forty to forty five degrees and that range and 1492 01:24:31.039 --> 01:24:35.479 over hours of that that inhibiting chemical completely breaks down, 1493 01:24:35.640 --> 01:24:40.840 and when that happens, then then it can begin growth 1494 01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:42.680 and come out of dormancy. You have a few warm 1495 01:24:42.760 --> 01:24:45.199 days and boom, the peach trees are covered with blooms 1496 01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:48.840 because the chilling that's what you call chilling hours, because 1497 01:24:48.840 --> 01:24:51.840 the chilling hours had been received adequate to bring it 1498 01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:55.960 out of dormancy. And that is the key to whether 1499 01:24:56.000 --> 01:24:58.000 a plant is hardy or not. It's has it had 1500 01:24:58.039 --> 01:25:01.319 its chilling hours. And sometimes we don't get enough chilling 1501 01:25:01.359 --> 01:25:02.840 hours in the winter and a plant comes out in 1502 01:25:02.880 --> 01:25:05.960 the spring and doesn't really begin growing. It just sputters 1503 01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:08.119 and doesn't do well. And that's because of a lot 1504 01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:10.560 of chilling hours. That's why when you pick your fruit trees, 1505 01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:13.520 you need to pick ones that are for this area 1506 01:25:13.640 --> 01:25:16.319 or for the area you live in. What you plant 1507 01:25:16.319 --> 01:25:18.600 in Huntsville and what you plant in Galveston are vastly 1508 01:25:18.640 --> 01:25:22.199 different when it comes to peach varieties, for example. But anyway, 1509 01:25:22.239 --> 01:25:24.960 that's what's going on, and I'm just a little concerned 1510 01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:29.239 about that this week. So when in doubt, be conservative 1511 01:25:29.279 --> 01:25:32.640 with it. Those are valuable plants to you, even if 1512 01:25:32.760 --> 01:25:35.840 it turns out you wouldn't and needed to. It's better 1513 01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:39.039 safe than sorry, as they say. So there we go. 1514 01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:44.960 All right, Well, I believe that I'm probably running out 1515 01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:46.960 of time here. In the next couple of seconds, I 1516 01:25:47.000 --> 01:25:50.079 want to remind you about my website, Gardening with Skip 1517 01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:52.560 dot Com. On the website you will find my law 1518 01:25:52.560 --> 01:25:55.880 and care scheduled tells you when and what to use 1519 01:25:55.960 --> 01:25:59.159 and fertilizing to have success in your lawn. Also tells 1520 01:25:59.199 --> 01:26:03.600 you about mowing and watering and adding the micronutrient supplements, 1521 01:26:04.239 --> 01:26:07.359 erraating the soil, things like that. The other schedules, the 1522 01:26:07.399 --> 01:26:11.600 plant disease and weed management schedule and that. Basically, if 1523 01:26:11.640 --> 01:26:14.039 I were to reword it, make it simpler, I would 1524 01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:17.279 just say things that go wrong in your lawn, things 1525 01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:19.800 that go wrong? So what about those? How do you 1526 01:26:20.199 --> 01:26:22.680 How do you know when chinchbugs might show up? 1527 01:26:23.279 --> 01:26:23.439 Well? 1528 01:26:23.439 --> 01:26:25.520 Will they be here next month? No, they won't be 1529 01:26:25.520 --> 01:26:27.760 a next one. There's a time when they occur. What 1530 01:26:27.800 --> 01:26:30.920 about soid web words? What about brown patch? What about 1531 01:26:31.000 --> 01:26:34.880 take our root rot? When do the seeds sprout? So 1532 01:26:34.960 --> 01:26:37.079 you need a pre emergent in your lawn if you're 1533 01:26:37.079 --> 01:26:39.920 going to prevent that, when do you use a person emergence. 1534 01:26:39.960 --> 01:26:42.199 It's all on the schedule. And again we give you 1535 01:26:42.319 --> 01:26:47.079 organic and synthetic options wherever available, and it's free. Don't 1536 01:26:47.119 --> 01:26:52.319 be at that time, It's free. 1537 01:26:53.159 --> 01:26:57.760 Welcome to ks RH garden line with scip Richter's. 1538 01:27:05.720 --> 01:27:13.960 Just watch him as so many gives to soup. 1539 01:27:22.760 --> 01:27:26.840 All right, we're back. Let's keep going here on our 1540 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:30.960 morning of talking all things plants. What kinds of questions 1541 01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:36.439 do you have about lawns, flowers, vegetables, herbs, shrubs, trees, 1542 01:27:36.560 --> 01:27:42.079 fruit trees, fruit plants, little strawberry plants. Strawberries are getting 1543 01:27:42.119 --> 01:27:46.279 ready to burst forth and produce those blooms and the 1544 01:27:46.319 --> 01:27:49.159 tasty berries we have from those of you who got 1545 01:27:49.159 --> 01:27:52.640 them planted last fall, and for those of you who 1546 01:27:52.720 --> 01:27:56.000 planted them in the spring, keep them growing, keep them moving, 1547 01:27:56.000 --> 01:27:58.680 because they are also going to begin to produce for 1548 01:27:58.760 --> 01:27:59.399 you pretty soon. 1549 01:27:59.479 --> 01:27:59.680 Here. 1550 01:28:01.479 --> 01:28:04.239 One of the fun things to grow is strawberries. We 1551 01:28:04.279 --> 01:28:07.319 used to have a strawberry patch up in Willis, Willis, Texas, 1552 01:28:07.920 --> 01:28:10.720 half acre half acre of strawberries, which is a lot 1553 01:28:10.920 --> 01:28:15.479 of work to grow, uh, And it was it was 1554 01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:17.960 good though. I enjoyed that and my kids enjoyed it, 1555 01:28:18.000 --> 01:28:21.279 their faces around their mouths were pretty much stained red 1556 01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:25.479 the whole time during strawberry season because you can just 1557 01:28:25.560 --> 01:28:29.600 run out there in grayze on the strawberry patch. That's 1558 01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:35.600 a good thing. When I was talking earlier about weather 1559 01:28:35.800 --> 01:28:37.920 and things like that, I just I do want to 1560 01:28:38.119 --> 01:28:42.520 just kind of go remind you again that last week 1561 01:28:42.680 --> 01:28:46.000 was warm and some plants are starting to push new growth. 1562 01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:48.600 And when a plant does that, it's no longer dormant, 1563 01:28:48.600 --> 01:28:53.079 which means whatever the normal minimum temperature that that plant 1564 01:28:53.199 --> 01:28:56.920 can take is whatever it is when it starts to 1565 01:28:56.920 --> 01:28:59.479 come out of dormancy, it's it's not able to take 1566 01:28:59.479 --> 01:29:02.640 as much and it's easier to kill something that may 1567 01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:04.479 take it in the mid twenties. When it's coming out 1568 01:29:04.479 --> 01:29:07.800 of dormancy, you know, you get a low below freezing 1569 01:29:07.840 --> 01:29:10.279 and you can get damage on it because the plant 1570 01:29:10.399 --> 01:29:13.079 just isn't isn't ready for that. So if you don't 1571 01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:15.560 know what to do with a plant, I say air 1572 01:29:15.680 --> 01:29:17.720 on the side of caution, go ahead and covered up. 1573 01:29:18.079 --> 01:29:22.640 If it is a mounded soil plant like a perennial 1574 01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:25.479 or a ornamental grass or whatever like that. First of all, 1575 01:29:25.520 --> 01:29:28.720 ornamental grasses are pretty they're they're pretty much fine. If 1576 01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:31.520 they're perennial here in our area, but I have seen 1577 01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:33.199 people are cutting them back, and that's fine. You can 1578 01:29:33.199 --> 01:29:36.439 go ahead and do that. Perennials throw a little mound 1579 01:29:36.479 --> 01:29:39.439 of whatever compost or mult over the top of them, 1580 01:29:40.119 --> 01:29:43.279 just to kind of insulate that, especially if they're starting 1581 01:29:43.319 --> 01:29:45.359 to push new growth. If you see new growth coming 1582 01:29:45.359 --> 01:29:48.039 out of that mound, that base, that crown of the plant, 1583 01:29:48.800 --> 01:29:52.199 go ahead and covered up and let's protect it. Because 1584 01:29:52.239 --> 01:29:54.720 some areas are going to get down twenty if you're 1585 01:29:54.760 --> 01:29:57.119 far enough north in the listening area, down in the 1586 01:29:57.199 --> 01:29:59.880 upper teens, and we don't want to mess with that. 1587 01:30:00.199 --> 01:30:05.319 Too cold for these plants. So little extra cost is 1588 01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:08.600 just remember that if you're going to cover a plant, 1589 01:30:08.680 --> 01:30:11.760 don't wrap it like a landscape lollipop. You want to 1590 01:30:11.760 --> 01:30:13.920 put a cover over it, drape it over it and 1591 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:18.079 straight to the ground. And whether you use some support 1592 01:30:18.239 --> 01:30:20.800 underneath the cover, that's okay. You can use bent PBC 1593 01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:23.439 pipe or make you a PBC box if you want 1594 01:30:24.119 --> 01:30:26.239 to cover with, but go all the way to the 1595 01:30:26.239 --> 01:30:28.600 ground and seal it so air can't blow underneath it, 1596 01:30:28.680 --> 01:30:31.960 wind can't get underneath it, and that way you create 1597 01:30:32.000 --> 01:30:35.000 dead air space. The soil warmth comes up and helps. 1598 01:30:35.439 --> 01:30:38.000 You want to throw in a clamp light or two 1599 01:30:38.159 --> 01:30:40.800 or three, depending on the size of the plant, you 1600 01:30:40.880 --> 01:30:43.680 can add even more heat. So there's the regular one 1601 01:30:43.720 --> 01:30:46.039 hundred and fifty what floodlights. They produce a little bit 1602 01:30:46.079 --> 01:30:48.239 of heat, not a lot, but a little bit, and 1603 01:30:48.319 --> 01:30:50.760 sometimes all you need is a little bit. Then there's 1604 01:30:50.840 --> 01:30:56.239 the heat lamps, the red shining radiate radiating their heat 1605 01:30:56.239 --> 01:30:58.560 out and they produce a lot of heat. So anyway, 1606 01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:02.239 whichever way you want to go about it probably ought 1607 01:31:02.239 --> 01:31:05.239 to be a little more cautious than normal because of 1608 01:31:05.279 --> 01:31:08.720 the weather we just had. Let's set out to West 1609 01:31:08.840 --> 01:31:11.600 u and we're going to talk to Jonas. Hey, Jonas, 1610 01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:12.880 welcome to garden Line. 1611 01:31:13.560 --> 01:31:15.600 Good morning, Thank you Skive for taking my call. I 1612 01:31:15.640 --> 01:31:17.640 have two questions once a little bit of an off 1613 01:31:17.640 --> 01:31:21.399 season question. At Christmas time, I bought two point sets 1614 01:31:21.439 --> 01:31:24.880 and they're beautiful, big, and of course all the red 1615 01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:26.960 leaves have fallen off now and what I have and 1616 01:31:27.039 --> 01:31:30.199 now are just the twigs and everything else. Is there 1617 01:31:30.279 --> 01:31:34.439 any merit in me keeping these? We're taking care of 1618 01:31:34.439 --> 01:31:37.920 them or growing them for next season. They're indoors right now. 1619 01:31:38.239 --> 01:31:42.760 Yeah, yeah, most people don't go through the process of 1620 01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:45.760 doing that because it's months and months of caring for 1621 01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:50.399 them in order to have them again for the next year. 1622 01:31:50.520 --> 01:31:55.520 But you can they can't take cold at all at all. 1623 01:31:56.439 --> 01:31:59.880 But once the cold is gone and passed behind us, 1624 01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:02.640 you can put them outside, move them up to a 1625 01:32:02.680 --> 01:32:06.159 bigger container, or some people plant them in their yard, 1626 01:32:06.880 --> 01:32:09.359 or sink the container in the ground. You know, if 1627 01:32:09.399 --> 01:32:11.680 the container has holes in the bottom where the roots 1628 01:32:11.680 --> 01:32:15.039 can come out, you can just sink the container in 1629 01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:19.479 the ground and let them grow and either leave them 1630 01:32:19.520 --> 01:32:22.319 as a landscape plant until the first cold gets there, 1631 01:32:22.600 --> 01:32:26.119 or if they're in a container, then when you approach 1632 01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:29.680 the holidays, you're going to start making the plant think 1633 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:34.119 the days are shorter than they are, and so for 1634 01:32:34.399 --> 01:32:39.840 holiday blooming plants, typically in September, I will start to 1635 01:32:40.399 --> 01:32:44.399 cover them up. I like to say, use the normal 1636 01:32:44.399 --> 01:32:46.239 eight to five work schedule. When you get up in 1637 01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:50.119 the morning and go to work, you take the cover off, 1638 01:32:50.600 --> 01:32:52.439 leave it off all day, and then when you come 1639 01:32:52.479 --> 01:32:54.960 home five o'clock put the cover back on. That means 1640 01:32:54.960 --> 01:32:57.600 it gets dark sooner than it normally would for that plant. 1641 01:32:58.039 --> 01:33:01.880 And by doing that for a few weeks, that initiates 1642 01:33:02.039 --> 01:33:05.720 the development in the case of Point Settus of those 1643 01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:09.520 red bracts that we enjoy. If you don't do that, 1644 01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:12.520 it'll be very late to start to develop its color. 1645 01:33:12.720 --> 01:33:18.119 When nature itself gives the plant shorter day length. Sounds 1646 01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:20.439 it sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it. 1647 01:33:20.439 --> 01:33:22.920 It sounds like a lot of work. It sounds like 1648 01:33:22.920 --> 01:33:24.159 it's yeah, that's. 1649 01:33:24.039 --> 01:33:26.960 Why most people don't do it. Now. I saw two 1650 01:33:27.039 --> 01:33:29.319 or three folks this year that had that are doing that. 1651 01:33:29.439 --> 01:33:31.920 But most people it's like and if you e even 1652 01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:34.479 with the best of intentions, you know, get to water 1653 01:33:34.600 --> 01:33:38.119 them or something. But anyway, right, it's an option. 1654 01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:41.680 That's an option. The other question is I have about 1655 01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:45.079 maybe eight post hype biscuits. You're in about ten gallon pots. 1656 01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:47.960 And during the cold episodes that we had a big 1657 01:33:48.000 --> 01:33:51.119 two ones we had, I had them brought indoors and 1658 01:33:51.159 --> 01:33:53.399 they're just tooing beautiful. They're big. I've haend for three 1659 01:33:53.479 --> 01:33:56.199 or four years, and so the question I have a 1660 01:33:56.199 --> 01:34:01.479 couple of questions. Number One, now we're is prognosticated to 1661 01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:04.119 be about thirty two degrees in Houston around midweek or so. 1662 01:34:04.960 --> 01:34:07.560 I don't want to go through the lake brought indoors 1663 01:34:07.600 --> 01:34:10.479 and all that. Do you think they can tolerate thirty 1664 01:34:10.479 --> 01:34:13.119 two degrees? And I'll put covers around their roots and 1665 01:34:13.119 --> 01:34:14.399 all that kind of stuff. 1666 01:34:15.720 --> 01:34:19.880 All right, okay, So if you can put them on 1667 01:34:19.920 --> 01:34:21.960 the south side of your house, right up against the house, 1668 01:34:22.039 --> 01:34:25.279 underneath the eaves, or in an entrance way that has 1669 01:34:25.279 --> 01:34:28.520 a cover over it, they'll probably be okay. In terms 1670 01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:30.760 of the plant dying, it won't be happy, but you 1671 01:34:30.800 --> 01:34:34.920 can get away with that. On the continue on this question, 1672 01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:37.880 I'm going to need to come back from break. We 1673 01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:39.880 need to take a break right here, Jonas. If you 1674 01:34:39.920 --> 01:34:42.479 want to continue, just hang on and we will. We 1675 01:34:42.520 --> 01:34:49.199 will come back to you. There you go, all right, Billy, 1676 01:34:49.479 --> 01:34:52.560 you gotta do a gardening show. Here you are listening 1677 01:34:52.560 --> 01:34:55.439 to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are 1678 01:34:55.479 --> 01:34:58.119 here for your gardening questions. If you want to give 1679 01:34:58.119 --> 01:35:01.560 me a call seven one three two kt r H 1680 01:35:01.840 --> 01:35:05.319 seven three two in two ktr H. 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It's a friendly, it's 1712 01:36:56.960 --> 01:37:01.279 just a pleasure to do to do business with the 1713 01:37:01.359 --> 01:37:05.479 folks there at cnmulch. All right, I'm going to go 1714 01:37:05.520 --> 01:37:10.039 back to Jonas in West U and Jonas, let's continue 1715 01:37:10.079 --> 01:37:14.439 on with our questions. You were talking about a hibiscus. 1716 01:37:15.000 --> 01:37:17.000 You're thinking you're going to get to about thirty two, 1717 01:37:17.119 --> 01:37:18.439 and I was saying, well, if you can get it 1718 01:37:18.479 --> 01:37:22.960 underneath the eves up against the house, it's probably going 1719 01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:25.760 to be okay there. If truly thirty two is what 1720 01:37:25.880 --> 01:37:28.279 it hit, what you hit, Yes. 1721 01:37:28.159 --> 01:37:32.560 Sir, Unfortunately these pots are facing north, and yeah, I 1722 01:37:32.600 --> 01:37:36.119 think maybe you can bring them intoors. They're very cool sensitive, 1723 01:37:36.119 --> 01:37:36.560 weren't they. 1724 01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:42.000 Yeah, they are free sensitive. They're very free sensitive. Yeah. 1725 01:37:42.119 --> 01:37:44.840 I had some that I've left outdoors. I covered them 1726 01:37:44.880 --> 01:37:47.840 during the last good phrase we had and they're still going. 1727 01:37:47.960 --> 01:37:51.079 But uh, if you want to make them happy, you know, 1728 01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:53.199 bring them to a warmer spot. 1729 01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:56.560 Right right, they're even blooming now. The other question that 1730 01:37:56.600 --> 01:37:59.680 I have is I have not pruned these at all. 1731 01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:03.000 Have these big branches. They're big and a little bit 1732 01:38:03.000 --> 01:38:07.239 out of control, but they're beautiful. When should ahibiscus be pruned? 1733 01:38:07.279 --> 01:38:12.560 If ever, if you need to do pruning, I would 1734 01:38:12.640 --> 01:38:16.000 do it after we're past the cold weather and the 1735 01:38:16.039 --> 01:38:20.079 hibiscus is about ready to start growing again, because you know, 1736 01:38:20.159 --> 01:38:22.560 the temperatures are warm enough to support new growth. You 1737 01:38:22.560 --> 01:38:25.319 can do your pruning at that time. However, maybe you 1738 01:38:25.359 --> 01:38:27.960 need to shorten the height of the plant, or shape 1739 01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:30.600 it a little bit, or remove some branches that are 1740 01:38:30.600 --> 01:38:34.079 going in the wrong direction. That's kind of up to you. 1741 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:37.520 There's not just a standard hibiscus pruning regiment. 1742 01:38:37.119 --> 01:38:40.119 That we have, so maybe ap or so it might 1743 01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:42.119 be a good time around that time. 1744 01:38:42.199 --> 01:38:43.039 Yeah, that'd be fine. 1745 01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:47.880 Sure, Okay, Well, thank you very much. This has been 1746 01:38:48.079 --> 01:38:51.079 most important to man. All right, Okay, thank. 1747 01:38:50.920 --> 01:38:54.359 You sir, You take care, appreciate the call. Thanks a lot. 1748 01:38:55.199 --> 01:38:59.680 Medina products have been around, well, how about this, they've 1749 01:38:59.680 --> 01:39:02.600 been around. It's dirt. Dirt's been around a long time. 1750 01:39:03.239 --> 01:39:07.239 Medina literally was a sponsor of what was not called 1751 01:39:07.319 --> 01:39:10.000 Garden Line, but when Gardenline began back in the Dewey 1752 01:39:10.039 --> 01:39:13.680 Compton days, Medina was a sponsor and people over the 1753 01:39:13.760 --> 01:39:18.119 years have come to depend on Medina's many kinds of 1754 01:39:18.119 --> 01:39:20.279 products that they have. One of the ones I just 1755 01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:22.960 want to feature right now is Medinas has to grow 1756 01:39:23.279 --> 01:39:26.560 six twelve to six plant food six twelve six, so 1757 01:39:26.640 --> 01:39:30.560 that's six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphors, six percent potassium. 1758 01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:34.920 It also has Medina Soil Activator to stimulate biological activity. 1759 01:39:34.960 --> 01:39:40.600 It's got humate, humic acid, humus, humic acids full of 1760 01:39:40.640 --> 01:39:43.880 the gs. All of that improves soil structure, improves nutrient 1761 01:39:43.960 --> 01:39:46.920 uptake as a result. It's got seaweed extract in it. 1762 01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:49.199 Now it's not a salt based product, so you can 1763 01:39:49.279 --> 01:39:52.840 spray it on foliage and do folier applications as much 1764 01:39:52.840 --> 01:39:55.319 as you want. I would say, at this time of 1765 01:39:55.359 --> 01:39:58.560 the year, this is big time planting season. We're still 1766 01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:00.800 planting trees and shrubs. And by the if you've got 1767 01:40:00.800 --> 01:40:02.399 a plant when you need to hurry up and get 1768 01:40:02.399 --> 01:40:06.119 that done, because them every week you give that tree 1769 01:40:06.159 --> 01:40:09.319 or show before summer is an extra week for it 1770 01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:12.279 to start getting some roots established. So get those done. 1771 01:40:12.399 --> 01:40:14.680 If you're gonna do any kind of transplanting like that, 1772 01:40:14.760 --> 01:40:19.079 including your flowers, your vegetables, your herbs, everything, just take 1773 01:40:19.359 --> 01:40:22.920 the medina has to grow six twelve six, Put about 1774 01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:25.600 one ounce in a gallon of water, put in a 1775 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:28.439 sprinkling can, and just soak that root ball, soak that 1776 01:40:28.560 --> 01:40:31.680 base of the plant roots with it. That especially that 1777 01:40:31.760 --> 01:40:35.439 hyphosphorus the middle number is very important for roots. And 1778 01:40:35.760 --> 01:40:37.720 I like to do that at planting. And then I 1779 01:40:37.800 --> 01:40:40.600 repeated a week later, and repeated a third time another 1780 01:40:40.600 --> 01:40:42.640 week later, and that will get you off to a 1781 01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:44.680 good start. Now this is used all through the season. 1782 01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:48.960 It's not just used for watering implants. But that is 1783 01:40:49.279 --> 01:40:51.640 how I would recommend you look at it. At this 1784 01:40:51.880 --> 01:40:55.479 particular time of the season. Medina has to grow six 1785 01:40:55.479 --> 01:40:58.880 to twelve six plant food. Let's head out now to 1786 01:40:59.079 --> 01:41:02.239 New Caney and we're going to talk to Banina, Hey, Banina. 1787 01:41:03.199 --> 01:41:03.720 How are you. 1788 01:41:05.760 --> 01:41:07.319 I'm doing well. How can it help? 1789 01:41:09.000 --> 01:41:09.239 Well? 1790 01:41:09.319 --> 01:41:13.960 I just wanted to piggyback off that point setup. We've 1791 01:41:14.039 --> 01:41:17.119 for six years. I have been taking care of our 1792 01:41:17.119 --> 01:41:21.079 point setus and they are beautiful. But we leave them 1793 01:41:21.119 --> 01:41:24.199 out in a big old pot and we putn't leave 1794 01:41:24.239 --> 01:41:28.279 them outside until the first freeze, so when the time changes, 1795 01:41:28.399 --> 01:41:30.800 that is the same way as covering it. We don't 1796 01:41:30.840 --> 01:41:33.640 bring them in the house. We leave them outside into 1797 01:41:33.720 --> 01:41:37.199 first freeze, then we bring them into the garage. Okay, 1798 01:41:38.159 --> 01:41:41.119 and so but they have been this is I've had 1799 01:41:41.159 --> 01:41:44.159 them for six years. They bloomed beautiful. That's the first 1800 01:41:44.159 --> 01:41:48.239 time they've ever bloomed since we started doing that. So 1801 01:41:48.319 --> 01:41:49.720 I just wanted to piggyback off of that. 1802 01:41:50.199 --> 01:41:50.359 Good. 1803 01:41:51.600 --> 01:41:57.079 Yeah. And you know, different kinds of holiday plants bloom 1804 01:41:57.079 --> 01:41:59.000 at different day links and if you do leave them, 1805 01:41:59.119 --> 01:42:02.239 the days will get short enough in time. Sometimes people 1806 01:42:02.279 --> 01:42:04.720 like to get an early start on them. And that's 1807 01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:08.279 you know, like we have Thanksgiving cactus, who have Christmas cactus. 1808 01:42:08.319 --> 01:42:12.600 And the difference basically there for all practical purposes is 1809 01:42:13.119 --> 01:42:15.760 the days don't have to be as short for Thanksgiving 1810 01:42:15.800 --> 01:42:18.479 cactus to bloom as they do for the Christmas cactus 1811 01:42:18.520 --> 01:42:21.319 and your points out us the same way. Yeah, you 1812 01:42:21.359 --> 01:42:24.000 cannot cover them. You cannot cover them, but if you 1813 01:42:24.039 --> 01:42:28.279 wanted to have gorgeous color at Thanksgiving, cover them a 1814 01:42:28.319 --> 01:42:31.600 little early and speeding up that arrival the short days 1815 01:42:31.880 --> 01:42:34.239 helps a little bit. How tall are your plants now? 1816 01:42:35.560 --> 01:42:39.279 Oh my goodness, they're probably about four foot tall. And 1817 01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:43.199 my husband cuts them back into here and they get 1818 01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:48.560 that tall. Okay, but mine start blooming about the end 1819 01:42:48.600 --> 01:42:52.000 of October to November. They bloom all that time until 1820 01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:54.239 I put them on. Well, they still continue blooming, but 1821 01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:57.399 they bloom all that time. And I don't know what 1822 01:42:57.560 --> 01:42:59.800 furtilizer he uses. I don't know any of that. I've 1823 01:42:59.840 --> 01:43:05.359 just I just look at the beautiful flowers, to be honest. 1824 01:43:05.680 --> 01:43:08.319 Well, and I know, I know some people like to 1825 01:43:08.399 --> 01:43:11.359 keep them, but y'all must be very faithful and keeping 1826 01:43:11.359 --> 01:43:14.319 those things watered in the summer and carrying them through 1827 01:43:14.359 --> 01:43:17.600 the long season as we get ready for the next 1828 01:43:17.640 --> 01:43:20.239 holiday season. Well, Benita, thank you for that call, Thanks 1829 01:43:20.239 --> 01:43:21.000 for that information. 1830 01:43:22.960 --> 01:43:25.119 Every year we have to buy five more because we 1831 01:43:25.199 --> 01:43:27.319 just love Point settus, so we just we just have 1832 01:43:27.359 --> 01:43:28.920 whole bunch of them. But I just want to tell 1833 01:43:28.960 --> 01:43:31.119 that guy that you can leave it out to you know. 1834 01:43:32.600 --> 01:43:35.680 Yeah, So so you need to start. You need to 1835 01:43:35.680 --> 01:43:38.239 become a tourist attraction around there. And you know, some 1836 01:43:38.279 --> 01:43:41.000 people during the holidays decorate with lights and every room 1837 01:43:41.039 --> 01:43:43.800 in the house is covered with Christmas stuff. And well, 1838 01:43:43.840 --> 01:43:45.920 you can just be the point setter ranch that everybody 1839 01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:50.720 goes and visits. 1840 01:43:50.800 --> 01:43:51.359 That's true. 1841 01:43:52.479 --> 01:43:58.239 I'm all right, thank you, Benita, appreciate that. That's interesting. 1842 01:43:58.640 --> 01:43:58.720 Uh. 1843 01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:02.960 One thing you never do, one thing you should never 1844 01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:05.760 do is tell somebody they can't do something. That's for sure, 1845 01:44:06.039 --> 01:44:09.399 they'll prove you wrong. There's probably someone who's got a 1846 01:44:09.399 --> 01:44:12.640 blue spruce tree in Houston that's keeping it alive somehow, 1847 01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:15.039 I don't know. And I tell but don't bring those 1848 01:44:15.079 --> 01:44:18.439 things back. They're not going to grow here. I've seen 1849 01:44:18.479 --> 01:44:21.720 attempts at it though, that's for sure. Well up in 1850 01:44:21.760 --> 01:44:25.800 Willis is a place called Growers Outlet, and that is 1851 01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:29.000 the website too, Growers Outlet in Willis, that's part of 1852 01:44:29.039 --> 01:44:32.279 the website Growers Outlet in Willis. They're on Highway seventy 1853 01:44:32.279 --> 01:44:34.920 five in Willis, just a few minutes away from forty five, 1854 01:44:35.520 --> 01:44:38.079 and they serve that whole area. So whether you live 1855 01:44:38.359 --> 01:44:41.159 you know, out in Woodlands or up in Willis or 1856 01:44:41.399 --> 01:44:43.760 some of the lake neighborhoods, you know bunt Water, April 1857 01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:46.960 Sound out there a republic grand ranch folks that are 1858 01:44:46.960 --> 01:44:49.760 living out there, moving out there. Seven coves. These are 1859 01:44:49.840 --> 01:44:54.800 all in the region where shoppers come to the Grower's 1860 01:44:54.800 --> 01:44:58.319 Outlet in Willis. Now they've got fertilizers that you hear 1861 01:44:58.319 --> 01:45:01.319 me talk about on there, like microlife, nitroposs and medina 1862 01:45:01.399 --> 01:45:04.960 for example. It's a garden center, so they have a 1863 01:45:05.039 --> 01:45:07.479 variety of other products that you need for your gardens. 1864 01:45:07.800 --> 01:45:09.880 You're going to find a really good selection of betting 1865 01:45:09.920 --> 01:45:12.840 plants and vegetables right now. They've got perennials by the 1866 01:45:12.840 --> 01:45:17.560 one gallon size and ferns and they're hanging baskets are amazing. 1867 01:45:17.720 --> 01:45:20.960 I saw some of the biggest burn baskets I've ever 1868 01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:24.279 seen last time I was out there at grows Outlet 1869 01:45:24.359 --> 01:45:28.640 in Willis. Other kinds of color plants, you know, teraneums, urbina. 1870 01:45:30.000 --> 01:45:32.479 They grow a lot of that in house. They have 1871 01:45:32.520 --> 01:45:34.960 a greenhouses there and they grow it themselves. They got 1872 01:45:34.960 --> 01:45:37.159 a good gift shop. It's just a fun place to 1873 01:45:37.279 --> 01:45:39.479 visit now it's on Highway seventy five in will It's 1874 01:45:39.520 --> 01:45:43.600 just minutes away from Interstate forty five. Go to the website, 1875 01:45:43.720 --> 01:45:46.560 learn more about it and find out everything you need 1876 01:45:46.600 --> 01:45:49.319 to know. They have a really good on their website. 1877 01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:54.920 They have a really good list of plants by type, 1878 01:45:55.000 --> 01:45:57.520 for example, do you want fragrant plants? Do you want 1879 01:45:57.560 --> 01:45:59.880 deer resistant plants? Do you want plants that are t 1880 01:46:00.800 --> 01:46:03.319 bird bees and butterflies. They've got all that and you 1881 01:46:03.359 --> 01:46:07.239 can find a nice selection. It's very educational. Website. Growers 1882 01:46:07.439 --> 01:46:09.800 outlet in Wellis and then go by there and get 1883 01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:12.800 you some good plans. We're gonna go now out to 1884 01:46:12.920 --> 01:46:17.039 Laporte and talk to Brenda. Hey, Brenda, welcome to garden Line. 1885 01:46:18.279 --> 01:46:18.800 Thank you for. 1886 01:46:18.760 --> 01:46:19.479 Taking my call. 1887 01:46:19.560 --> 01:46:19.840 Skip. 1888 01:46:20.479 --> 01:46:22.399 I sent an email in with a picture and the 1889 01:46:22.439 --> 01:46:25.840 subject was Katrina Rose. I had some questions about my 1890 01:46:26.159 --> 01:46:32.640 Katrina rosebush. 1891 01:46:32.640 --> 01:46:35.119 Oh this has been a few days ago. Yes, okay, 1892 01:46:35.119 --> 01:46:35.520 I got it. 1893 01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:40.520 Yes, yeah, well okay, really two questions. One is is 1894 01:46:40.560 --> 01:46:42.279 I'm having a lot of problem. It looks to me 1895 01:46:42.479 --> 01:46:45.600 like black spide on yell leaves, and so I'm using 1896 01:46:45.640 --> 01:46:49.079 fung aside and I can keep it under control. But 1897 01:46:49.439 --> 01:46:52.039 it looks like I have large areas of the cane. 1898 01:46:52.199 --> 01:46:55.399 The cane appear healthy, but I have no leaves on there. 1899 01:46:55.520 --> 01:46:57.800 All the leaves are now on the outer portion, so 1900 01:46:57.840 --> 01:47:01.239 I'm not sure one where the got you do the 1901 01:47:01.239 --> 01:47:05.000 bud start on new growth or old growth on Katrina Roads? 1902 01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:09.199 All right, gotcha, I'm gonna hit a hard break right now. 1903 01:47:10.479 --> 01:47:15.279 All right, folks, we are back back on guard line 1904 01:47:15.359 --> 01:47:17.960 and we're going to continue the discussion we're having with 1905 01:47:18.199 --> 01:47:23.279 Brenda out in Laporte. Brenda, we were talking about your roses, 1906 01:47:23.359 --> 01:47:25.039 and it took a look at the photos and the 1907 01:47:25.079 --> 01:47:29.000 things you described. One thing before I forget the rose 1908 01:47:29.119 --> 01:47:32.039 is showing a little bit of iron deficiency. So that 1909 01:47:32.199 --> 01:47:33.760 could be due to a lack of iron, but it 1910 01:47:33.800 --> 01:47:36.439 also could be due to the so being too soggy 1911 01:47:36.520 --> 01:47:39.359 there for for the aeration not good enough for the 1912 01:47:39.439 --> 01:47:43.359 roots to thrive, and therefore not taking up the iron 1913 01:47:43.840 --> 01:47:46.399 that may even be present. So you may want to 1914 01:47:46.399 --> 01:47:47.920 look into that a little bit. If you if you 1915 01:47:48.079 --> 01:47:51.039 decide it's not soggy soil, then get you an iron 1916 01:47:51.159 --> 01:47:56.359 key late or sometimes the other way around, keylated iron 1917 01:47:56.399 --> 01:48:01.119 and apply it to that. Your your plant performed as expected, 1918 01:48:02.840 --> 01:48:08.279 that particular rose. It is primarily a spring bloomer. That's 1919 01:48:08.279 --> 01:48:10.199 when we get our most blooms out of it, and 1920 01:48:10.239 --> 01:48:12.399 you don't get a lot out for the rest of 1921 01:48:12.439 --> 01:48:14.479 the year, and that's true of a lot of climbers. 1922 01:48:15.439 --> 01:48:18.439 It looks I think it looks fine. In what you're 1923 01:48:18.479 --> 01:48:21.640 describing about losing some older foliage and stuff, that's normal. 1924 01:48:22.119 --> 01:48:25.439 I have one of those Peggy Martins and I don't 1925 01:48:25.520 --> 01:48:28.479 spray mine at all, and you are going to get 1926 01:48:28.520 --> 01:48:31.680 some spots here or there, but generally not enough to 1927 01:48:31.720 --> 01:48:35.000 worry about, So you might want to consider just backing 1928 01:48:35.039 --> 01:48:38.680 off of that. It has really good vigor and your 1929 01:48:38.680 --> 01:48:42.319 plant looks good. It's obviously happy and growing. So what's 1930 01:48:42.359 --> 01:48:44.159 going to happen in the spring is you're going to 1931 01:48:44.199 --> 01:48:47.399 get crazy amount of blooms on that plant. And then 1932 01:48:47.720 --> 01:48:50.720 after the blooms are gone, that's when you may want 1933 01:48:50.720 --> 01:48:52.720 to decide are you going to trell us it or 1934 01:48:52.720 --> 01:48:55.239 are you gonna, well, how are you going to grow it? 1935 01:48:55.560 --> 01:48:58.079 And go ahead and prone it and get it into 1936 01:48:58.159 --> 01:49:00.479 the form you want and then let it grow through 1937 01:49:00.479 --> 01:49:02.800 the summer and then next spring it'll have all its 1938 01:49:02.840 --> 01:49:06.079 bloom show. But don't print it in between don't print 1939 01:49:06.119 --> 01:49:08.680 it after mid to late summer for sure. 1940 01:49:09.800 --> 01:49:10.439 Oh okay, good. 1941 01:49:10.479 --> 01:49:12.159 So I was going to go out there as soon 1942 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:14.800 as it warmed up and with my with my sheares 1943 01:49:14.800 --> 01:49:17.560 and start cutting back, but I'm afraid I'd becotting any 1944 01:49:17.600 --> 01:49:19.800 new growth with potential buds. 1945 01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:23.760 Yeah, the buds are there for this coming spring, So 1946 01:49:23.880 --> 01:49:26.159 don't hold off and enjoy it because you're going to 1947 01:49:26.199 --> 01:49:28.079 see a lot of nice, beautiful blooms on it. But 1948 01:49:28.119 --> 01:49:30.079 you're going to need to give it something to grow 1949 01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:32.520 on because that that lady is going to want to 1950 01:49:32.560 --> 01:49:35.119 take off here even more. Okay, yeah, I. 1951 01:49:35.119 --> 01:49:37.359 Didn't realize how fast they grow. But well, thank you 1952 01:49:37.359 --> 01:49:39.680 so much. So I have some planning to do. I 1953 01:49:39.760 --> 01:49:41.039 really appreciate taking my call. 1954 01:49:42.920 --> 01:49:46.720 Okay, bye bye, you take care. Than is the case. 1955 01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:49.680 I love I love Belinda's dream. It's a it's a 1956 01:49:49.720 --> 01:49:52.159 really nice rose. And of course there's a lot of 1957 01:49:52.239 --> 01:49:54.840 nice roses out there, but that one became famous after 1958 01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:59.479 after the hurricane down in New Orleans and it's surviving underwater. 1959 01:49:59.760 --> 01:50:02.159 It sort of became a legend of a rose, and 1960 01:50:02.239 --> 01:50:04.439 now everybody loves it and wants to plant it, and 1961 01:50:04.479 --> 01:50:07.840 it is worth planting. But there are a lot of 1962 01:50:07.840 --> 01:50:12.359 other great roses out there as well. So anyway, did 1963 01:50:12.439 --> 01:50:15.880 I say Belinda's dream? I think I just heard myself 1964 01:50:16.520 --> 01:50:20.920 say Belinda's dream. No, we're talking about the Katrina Rose. Okay, 1965 01:50:21.319 --> 01:50:26.239 all right, Well anyway, let's go to San Leone if 1966 01:50:26.279 --> 01:50:29.079 I can find my mouse here. There we go San Leone. 1967 01:50:29.119 --> 01:50:31.720 We're going to talk to Ted. Hey, Ted, welcome to 1968 01:50:31.760 --> 01:50:32.239 guard Line. 1969 01:50:33.079 --> 01:50:33.960 Hey, you're so cool. 1970 01:50:34.039 --> 01:50:37.520 Y'all got my name on call there? You know who 1971 01:50:37.560 --> 01:50:37.880 I am? 1972 01:50:38.000 --> 01:50:38.880 Just want to there you go. 1973 01:50:40.439 --> 01:50:40.680 Hey. 1974 01:50:41.520 --> 01:50:45.520 Yeah, my good friends at Texas City Feet ordered me 1975 01:50:46.640 --> 01:50:49.479 five gallons of the Medina plus seeing by in a 1976 01:50:49.560 --> 01:50:54.920 five gallon container and it saved me about you about 1977 01:50:54.920 --> 01:50:58.640 twenty five you know, run out of it. It's aggravating, said, 1978 01:50:58.680 --> 01:51:00.119 I don't run out now, man. 1979 01:51:02.079 --> 01:51:03.600 Right, how can I help today? 1980 01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:06.520 Ted, I've got about three quarters of a gallon of 1981 01:51:07.039 --> 01:51:12.079 Medina molasses and I'm on to get rid of it. 1982 01:51:12.119 --> 01:51:13.840 Is it more of a folier feeder? 1983 01:51:16.920 --> 01:51:17.119 You know? 1984 01:51:17.520 --> 01:51:22.560 Molasses is basically basically sugar. When sugar is basically carbon, 1985 01:51:22.720 --> 01:51:25.079 and when you put that in the ground, in the soil, 1986 01:51:25.199 --> 01:51:29.159 it stimulates certain types of microbial activity that can be 1987 01:51:29.239 --> 01:51:33.359 very helpful. So I would generally use the molasses more 1988 01:51:33.399 --> 01:51:37.439 as a soil amendment or as a soil addition. Some 1989 01:51:37.479 --> 01:51:39.800 people do put it on as a folier spray, but 1990 01:51:40.399 --> 01:51:43.039 I would primarily focus on the fact that it's a 1991 01:51:43.039 --> 01:51:43.960 good soil amendment. 1992 01:51:44.439 --> 01:51:46.439 It'd be okay to go ahead and water it in 1993 01:51:46.600 --> 01:51:50.199 then I guess, huh, Or I can put down and 1994 01:51:50.239 --> 01:51:52.840 the spray the medina plus on top of it. 1995 01:51:56.439 --> 01:51:58.199 Yes, yes, you could do both. 1996 01:51:59.079 --> 01:52:02.199 Okay, okay, all right, that's what I wanted to know. 1997 01:52:04.119 --> 01:52:06.319 There you go. Well, I'm glad you found the bulk 1998 01:52:06.600 --> 01:52:08.920 bulk supply of it. I don't I don't talk about 1999 01:52:08.960 --> 01:52:12.199 that a lot on the air because most people aren't 2000 01:52:12.199 --> 01:52:16.279 going to buy five gallons, you know. But it sounds 2001 01:52:16.279 --> 01:52:16.760 like you said. 2002 01:52:17.840 --> 01:52:22.119 Randy used to say, when you use it, saturated, saturated, 2003 01:52:22.199 --> 01:52:23.560 that's what Randy used to say. 2004 01:52:23.880 --> 01:52:29.000 Yeah, that's true. That's true. Horticultural molasses that they have 2005 01:52:29.159 --> 01:52:31.279 is a it's a it's a very good product. All right, 2006 01:52:31.600 --> 01:52:36.880 you take care, all right, right, Yeah, you're listening to 2007 01:52:36.960 --> 01:52:39.920 Guardline the phone number seven one three two one two 2008 01:52:40.479 --> 01:52:43.279 k t r H. Seven one three two one two 2009 01:52:43.880 --> 01:52:47.960 k t r H. The molasses is a it is 2010 01:52:48.079 --> 01:52:51.159 like a rocket fuel for a lot of the microbes, 2011 01:52:51.359 --> 01:52:54.000 microbes that are in the soil that benefits your plants. 2012 01:52:55.399 --> 01:52:58.720 That is for sure not bad on pancakes. Although I 2013 01:52:58.840 --> 01:53:01.319 wasn't anoyed, I shouldn't say that on there. I would 2014 01:53:01.319 --> 01:53:05.199 not put Medina molasses on your pancakes. I don't know 2015 01:53:05.239 --> 01:53:08.000 that that is okay, or I don't know that it's 2016 01:53:08.039 --> 01:53:10.560 not okay. But I got to watch what comes out 2017 01:53:10.600 --> 01:53:13.560 of my mouth, that's for sure, because I'll try it. 2018 01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:16.600 I guarantee you someone will try it. Well. You are 2019 01:53:16.640 --> 01:53:19.079 listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 2020 01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:20.920 we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a 2021 01:53:20.920 --> 01:53:24.399 beautiful landscape, and almost most important of all, more fun 2022 01:53:24.520 --> 01:53:29.319 in the process. 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Yes, I have an issue with Laura Pebbulham. 2066 01:55:55.119 --> 01:55:55.520 And I. 2067 01:55:58.760 --> 01:56:00.479 Yes, I got them. Got them. 2068 01:56:00.600 --> 01:56:03.680 Uh you can take a look at that. 2069 01:56:03.960 --> 01:56:11.119 Yeah, so let me let me comment on them, because 2070 01:56:11.119 --> 01:56:12.880 I have. I've been looking at your pictures. They you 2071 01:56:13.079 --> 01:56:16.079 the Laura pedlums were growing nice and healthy, nice long 2072 01:56:16.119 --> 01:56:19.600 shoe growth and everything, and then the collapsed. You know 2073 01:56:19.560 --> 01:56:22.880 what I'm saying that. You know I had three. 2074 01:56:22.640 --> 01:56:26.279 Of those that were just beautiful, and they have over 2075 01:56:26.359 --> 01:56:29.640 the past about three years, they've all died and now 2076 01:56:29.680 --> 01:56:33.000 I've got the fourth one doing the same thing, and 2077 01:56:33.039 --> 01:56:34.359 I cannot figure it out. 2078 01:56:36.079 --> 01:56:36.239 Well. 2079 01:56:36.279 --> 01:56:38.680 Here, here, here, here's what's going on. There is a 2080 01:56:38.760 --> 01:56:42.279 root rot in those plants. Now, if the area stays 2081 01:56:42.279 --> 01:56:44.279 a little on the wet side, there are certain root 2082 01:56:44.359 --> 01:56:47.880 rots that are that the plant is going to be 2083 01:56:47.880 --> 01:56:50.760 more prone to and extra wet conditions. But there are others, 2084 01:56:50.800 --> 01:56:53.000 you know, so it could be something like what's called 2085 01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:56.119 oak root rot. It doesn't just attack oaks, but but uh, 2086 01:56:56.279 --> 01:56:59.920 it certainly is present in your area up there, uh 2087 01:57:00.079 --> 01:57:04.000 in the woodlands. It The only way to know for sure, 2088 01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:06.920 Ken is to send a sample into the plant clinic. 2089 01:57:07.319 --> 01:57:10.479 And do you have a pin or paper handy and 2090 01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:18.640 end paper? Okay, plant clinic one word dot t a 2091 01:57:19.000 --> 01:57:25.039 m U, dot e d U plant clinic dot TAMU 2092 01:57:25.439 --> 01:57:29.920 dot ed U. Go there, download the form. You could 2093 01:57:30.119 --> 01:57:32.920 drive the plant up there. You're in the woodlands, you're 2094 01:57:32.960 --> 01:57:35.399 not that far away from college station. Or you can 2095 01:57:35.439 --> 01:57:37.640 mail it. If you mail it, you really wanted to 2096 01:57:37.640 --> 01:57:40.000 get there early in the week so it doesn't just 2097 01:57:40.079 --> 01:57:43.680 set in a you know, as a mail box over 2098 01:57:43.720 --> 01:57:48.319 the weekend. Get a plant that is alive but dying. 2099 01:57:49.000 --> 01:57:52.880 If it is completely dead, they can't do autopsies, but 2100 01:57:53.000 --> 01:57:58.159 if it's sick, they can culture out the disease that's 2101 01:57:58.279 --> 01:58:01.199 causing it. So you want to get a plant that 2102 01:58:01.319 --> 01:58:04.920 isn't completely gone. You can cut some of the top 2103 01:58:04.960 --> 01:58:07.000 off to make it fit in a box and kind 2104 01:58:07.000 --> 01:58:09.840 of shove those in with it, or if you can 2105 01:58:09.840 --> 01:58:11.920 take the whole thing up, put a trash bag around 2106 01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:14.319 the whole thing, But you want it to be in 2107 01:58:14.359 --> 01:58:17.640 a fresh state so that they're able to culture out 2108 01:58:17.640 --> 01:58:20.039 the problem and they'll tell you what the disease is. Now, 2109 01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:22.920 depending on which root right it is, you may or 2110 01:58:22.960 --> 01:58:25.760 may not be able to control it with a fungicidal 2111 01:58:25.880 --> 01:58:30.479 drench over the plants. But I could I if I 2112 01:58:30.520 --> 01:58:32.479 knew what it was, I could tell you what to use, 2113 01:58:32.600 --> 01:58:34.520 But I don't, and we don't want to go wasting 2114 01:58:34.560 --> 01:58:37.359 your time and money trying things that are not going 2115 01:58:37.439 --> 01:58:42.359 to work. But with that, with that analysis, you will 2116 01:58:42.399 --> 01:58:45.159 know exactly what you need to do before you put 2117 01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:48.119 more money into more plants for that area. Laura, Pedulum's 2118 01:58:48.159 --> 01:58:51.560 a wonderful plant. It should do good in your area, 2119 01:58:52.119 --> 01:58:53.840 and so we just got to figure out what's going 2120 01:58:53.880 --> 01:58:54.319 on with. 2121 01:58:54.239 --> 01:58:55.760 These Yeah, they are. 2122 01:58:55.880 --> 01:58:58.920 I mean, like I said, I had them there for 2123 01:58:59.000 --> 01:59:02.039 ten or fifteen years, and then a couple of years ago, 2124 01:59:02.439 --> 01:59:05.960 nothing's I haven't changed watering or anything else, and suddenly 2125 01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:10.399 they started dying. I tried caf cam on them, you know, 2126 01:59:10.439 --> 01:59:13.039 a branch of capcam on the ones in the past, 2127 01:59:13.119 --> 01:59:15.119 and it just you know, didn't seem to right. 2128 01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:20.199 Yeah, just hold off on all treatments. Hold off on 2129 01:59:20.239 --> 01:59:22.560 all treatments because I won't captain won't work on this, 2130 01:59:22.680 --> 01:59:25.520 as you already know. But your description that had started 2131 01:59:25.560 --> 01:59:27.319 with a couple of branches and then the whole bush 2132 01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:30.119 was gone. That kind of progression that's real typical of 2133 01:59:30.199 --> 01:59:33.119 some types of root rots. So that's the bottom line. 2134 01:59:33.239 --> 01:59:35.319 You just got to get it analyzed because when you 2135 01:59:35.399 --> 01:59:37.159 know what the culprit is kind of like a doctor. 2136 01:59:37.159 --> 01:59:38.840 You know, they send stuff off to the labs and 2137 01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:41.560 then they know what medicine to give you. That's kind 2138 01:59:41.560 --> 01:59:42.520 of how this works. 2139 01:59:43.319 --> 01:59:48.279 Does that also that type of disease also affect elm trees. 2140 01:59:50.039 --> 01:59:54.760 Depending on which root right it is. Yeah, depending on 2141 01:59:54.800 --> 01:59:57.840 which root right it is, it can affect a number 2142 01:59:57.840 --> 02:00:00.640 of different kinds of species. Oak root rot, for example, 2143 02:00:01.439 --> 02:00:04.239 kills a lot of different kinds of woody plants. 2144 02:00:04.800 --> 02:00:11.119 Okay, well, I've had some elm trees and horn beam 2145 02:00:11.439 --> 02:00:14.720 and uh, you know, I call them ironwood or whatever. 2146 02:00:14.560 --> 02:00:16.239 That you know, they're natives that. 2147 02:00:18.199 --> 02:00:22.239 Have done fine, you know, I mean they're mature tree. 2148 02:00:22.600 --> 02:00:22.880 Uh. 2149 02:00:23.479 --> 02:00:26.479 And then and they're getting you know, plenty of water. 2150 02:00:26.880 --> 02:00:27.319 Uh. 2151 02:00:27.399 --> 02:00:33.119 And it varies. But I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I have 2152 02:00:33.159 --> 02:00:35.199 to cut it short, but I'm gonna I'm gonna have 2153 02:00:35.199 --> 02:00:37.199 to run here. We got the top of the hour 2154 02:00:37.239 --> 02:00:40.239 coming on. But uh do that. Feel free to send 2155 02:00:40.239 --> 02:00:43.119 me the results, email me the results of what they 2156 02:00:43.159 --> 02:00:45.399 tell you, and call back and we'll be we'll be 2157 02:00:45.439 --> 02:00:46.920 happy to continue this on. 2158 02:00:47.800 --> 02:00:47.920 Uh. 2159 02:00:48.039 --> 02:00:51.680 I've talked about micro life products many times, many types 2160 02:00:51.760 --> 02:00:53.640 of microlife products, and I just want to tell you 2161 02:00:53.680 --> 02:00:56.920 a little bit about the Biomatrix. That's the orange labeled 2162 02:00:57.119 --> 02:00:59.039 liquid product. You can get it in a quirk, you 2163 02:00:59.039 --> 02:01:01.159 can get it in a gallon, and I use it 2164 02:01:01.199 --> 02:01:03.439 on my houseplants because it is a seven to one 2165 02:01:03.439 --> 02:01:07.119 to three fertilizer. It has a good boost of nitrogen. 2166 02:01:07.439 --> 02:01:10.359 So anything that where you're wanting to enhance the foliage 2167 02:01:10.399 --> 02:01:14.119 growth that would be a good choice. Biomatrix and houseplants 2168 02:01:14.439 --> 02:01:18.479 basically their foliage. I don't have any fruiting or flowering houseplants. 2169 02:01:18.479 --> 02:01:21.359 I mean you could use it on those. But biomatrix 2170 02:01:21.399 --> 02:01:24.359 works really really well, doesn't take much of it, and 2171 02:01:25.439 --> 02:01:28.479 you just apply it as per the label. You can 2172 02:01:28.600 --> 02:01:32.119 use it outdoors too. I just used my houseplants as 2173 02:01:32.159 --> 02:01:35.479 a foliage example. But any kind of plant you want 2174 02:01:35.479 --> 02:01:37.479 to give your tomatoes a boost, you can even mix 2175 02:01:37.479 --> 02:01:40.159 it in water and folio or spraym and then drench 2176 02:01:40.239 --> 02:01:43.720 the soil. Biomatrix from Microlife works. I'll tell you that 2177 02:01:43.760 --> 02:01:48.199 because I've used it. I know. Microlifefertilizer dot com is 2178 02:01:48.239 --> 02:01:49.800 where you go if you want to find out more 2179 02:01:49.960 --> 02:01:54.640 information about that. Let's go out now to Wharton and 2180 02:01:54.680 --> 02:01:55.680 talk to Angie. 2181 02:01:55.880 --> 02:01:58.920 Hello Angie, good morning, Skip. 2182 02:01:59.000 --> 02:02:01.439 How are you today. 2183 02:02:01.600 --> 02:02:03.840 I'm doing well, Benjie. Let's see if we can get 2184 02:02:03.880 --> 02:02:06.319 you here in about a minute and a half before break. 2185 02:02:06.399 --> 02:02:08.520 If not, we'll we'll continue on after break. 2186 02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:12.600 All right, Well, my Texas Mountain larrel is covered in 2187 02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:18.039 little bloom buds, and I'm really worried about them with this. 2188 02:02:18.439 --> 02:02:20.840 You know, trees that's coming up. Should I cover that 2189 02:02:20.880 --> 02:02:25.680 whole plant and protect it or will they be okay? 2190 02:02:25.720 --> 02:02:28.199 You know, how is this supposed to get what's the 2191 02:02:28.279 --> 02:02:31.439 latest on the weather for your area down there? Do 2192 02:02:31.479 --> 02:02:31.680 you know? 2193 02:02:32.319 --> 02:02:32.920 Thirties? 2194 02:02:33.079 --> 02:02:34.399 I think it's going to be in the thirties. 2195 02:02:34.800 --> 02:02:38.439 Thirties, it doesn't go below freezing, Mountain Laurel'll be fine. 2196 02:02:38.520 --> 02:02:41.199 If it goes below freezing, the new growth pushing out 2197 02:02:41.359 --> 02:02:43.399 is going to have a problem with it. I don't 2198 02:02:43.520 --> 02:02:47.640 think if that's the case that in the thirties, I 2199 02:02:47.640 --> 02:02:50.039 think you're okay. It's got it close, But I think 2200 02:02:50.079 --> 02:02:52.319 you're okay, okay. 2201 02:02:52.359 --> 02:02:56.319 Well, I just don't want to lose that wonderful smelling flower, 2202 02:02:56.960 --> 02:02:59.640 you know, Oh, I know, as you. 2203 02:02:59.600 --> 02:03:05.039 Know, I think that Mountain Laurel fragrance is probably the 2204 02:03:05.039 --> 02:03:07.760 only thing that we smell with our nose that I 2205 02:03:07.760 --> 02:03:12.800 would call gaudy. Gaudy is usually a visual comment. It 2206 02:03:12.840 --> 02:03:17.039 has a gaudy fragrance, But I love it. Thanks for 2207 02:03:17.119 --> 02:03:17.439 the call. 2208 02:03:17.680 --> 02:03:18.640 It's the backyard. 2209 02:03:18.720 --> 02:03:20.479 Thank you, Chip. Have a wonderful. 2210 02:03:20.159 --> 02:03:26.000 Day, all right, you take care. That is absolutely true. 2211 02:03:26.720 --> 02:03:29.279 You know, I was out at uh I was out 2212 02:03:29.319 --> 02:03:33.319 at the in Chenned gardens yesterday, and that's just a 2213 02:03:33.359 --> 02:03:35.199 great place to go. You really need to go there 2214 02:03:35.560 --> 02:03:39.319 in Chennet Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website. It's 2215 02:03:39.359 --> 02:03:42.399 been around since nineteen ninety five when the Lenderman family 2216 02:03:42.439 --> 02:03:45.720 formed it. It's an unforgettable experience. I was walking around 2217 02:03:45.720 --> 02:03:47.800 looking at their garden art and their fountains and their 2218 02:03:47.880 --> 02:03:51.239 chimes and their plants, and they have everything. And while 2219 02:03:51.239 --> 02:03:53.159 you're out there, you know brown soft for a green stuff, 2220 02:03:53.159 --> 02:03:56.039 they got microlife, they got nitrophoss, they got Nelson plant food, 2221 02:03:56.079 --> 02:03:59.680 and Medina, soils from Nature's Way, soils from heirlooms, soils. 2222 02:03:59.720 --> 02:04:02.960 I mean, they have everything you need. Where is it. 2223 02:04:02.960 --> 02:04:05.199 It's on FM three fifty nine. Those of you who 2224 02:04:05.199 --> 02:04:07.560 didn't come out is thirty f M three fifty nine. 2225 02:04:07.680 --> 02:04:11.800 Try that Katie foolsher side of Richmond. You will enjoy it. 2226 02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:14.399 But go to the website. It's full of good information. 2227 02:04:14.720 --> 02:04:20.439 Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Alrighty, well there you got it. 2228 02:04:21.479 --> 02:04:24.119 We sure had a good time out there. That was 2229 02:04:24.239 --> 02:04:27.119 that was fun. I always like going to that place. Uh, 2230 02:04:28.279 --> 02:04:29.960 why don't we do this. Let's take us a little 2231 02:04:30.000 --> 02:04:32.920 break here. You get some coffee, I'll get some coffee 2232 02:04:32.960 --> 02:04:35.680 and we'll come back and we'll keep talking about the 2233 02:04:35.680 --> 02:04:37.479 things that are of interest to you. How do we 2234 02:04:37.520 --> 02:04:41.000 help you have success? Well, you got a question seven 2235 02:04:41.039 --> 02:04:44.560 one three two one two kt r H. I got 2236 02:04:44.560 --> 02:04:47.039 an open board. Hurry you might be one of the 2237 02:04:47.039 --> 02:04:47.720 first ones out. 2238 02:04:55.119 --> 02:04:59.319 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Richter's so. 2239 02:05:01.079 --> 02:05:06.359 Crazy trim. 2240 02:05:07.720 --> 02:05:15.159 Just watch him as many. 2241 02:05:15.000 --> 02:05:23.319 Birthdays to Sup bazas. 2242 02:05:23.960 --> 02:05:25.079 Not a sign. 2243 02:05:29.800 --> 02:05:29.840 S. 2244 02:05:31.880 --> 02:05:35.920 All right, folks, good morning. Guess what. We're entering our 2245 02:05:35.960 --> 02:05:38.119 fourth and final hour of the Garden Line this morning. 2246 02:05:39.199 --> 02:05:41.359 For those of you who are new to the show, 2247 02:05:41.520 --> 02:05:44.119 first of all, welcome. Second of all, you can hear 2248 02:05:44.199 --> 02:05:47.119 us every Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten 2249 02:05:47.159 --> 02:05:51.520 am here on kt r H seven forty uh. The 2250 02:05:51.640 --> 02:05:55.479 way I suggest people listen if you're a gardener is 2251 02:05:55.840 --> 02:05:59.000 on your phone. Download the iHeartMedia app and you can 2252 02:05:59.039 --> 02:06:02.840 listen to garden Line both both past shows and live 2253 02:06:03.159 --> 02:06:05.439 on the iHeartMedia app. So I was telling the folks 2254 02:06:05.479 --> 02:06:10.239 out at intended gardens yesterday. Download the app. Just when 2255 02:06:10.239 --> 02:06:13.079 it's garden Line time, open it up and start listening 2256 02:06:13.119 --> 02:06:15.319 on your phone. Put your phone in your pocket and 2257 02:06:15.359 --> 02:06:17.600 go out in the garden and do what you do. 2258 02:06:17.800 --> 02:06:19.520 I mean, maybe you're out there and you see a 2259 02:06:19.560 --> 02:06:21.640 weed and you're wondering, well, how do I get rid 2260 02:06:21.680 --> 02:06:24.039 of this? It's all over the place. Take a picture 2261 02:06:24.079 --> 02:06:27.319 of it. Call up the show, talk to my producer. 2262 02:06:27.359 --> 02:06:28.920 He'll give you an email. You can send it to 2263 02:06:28.960 --> 02:06:30.960 me and then follow up with a phone call and 2264 02:06:31.000 --> 02:06:33.399 we'll talk about the weed. So live from your garden. 2265 02:06:33.560 --> 02:06:36.439 It's garden line. You know, that's how that works. We 2266 02:06:36.479 --> 02:06:38.880 can do it that way as well. However you want 2267 02:06:38.880 --> 02:06:41.800 to listen though, I do welcome you and glad you're here. 2268 02:06:41.880 --> 02:06:44.159 Tell you friends and neighbors about it, and family. We've 2269 02:06:44.199 --> 02:06:47.359 got people that listen, even out of state. So certainly 2270 02:06:47.720 --> 02:06:50.720 the more the merrier, love to have more folks listening in. 2271 02:06:52.399 --> 02:06:56.960 I talk about and brag on Southwest Fertilizer all the 2272 02:06:57.000 --> 02:07:02.840 time because Southwest Fertilizer is it's just an institution here 2273 02:07:02.880 --> 02:07:04.880 in the Houston area in a been around since nineteen 2274 02:07:04.920 --> 02:07:09.640 fifty five, so this is there. Basically, they're celebrating their 2275 02:07:09.760 --> 02:07:12.760 seventieth year. So happy birthday to Bob and the whole 2276 02:07:12.880 --> 02:07:18.079 crew out there Southwest Fertilizer. Glad so glad to see 2277 02:07:18.079 --> 02:07:20.279 that kind of staying power. And you know what, you 2278 02:07:20.279 --> 02:07:23.439 don't last seventy years if you're not doing a whole 2279 02:07:23.439 --> 02:07:26.159 lot of things right. And what do they do right? Well, 2280 02:07:26.279 --> 02:07:29.800 first of all, they have every fertilizer, every insect aside, 2281 02:07:29.800 --> 02:07:35.479 every fungicide, every herbicide that you need, every kind of 2282 02:07:35.479 --> 02:07:38.039 a supplement. You know, I talk about medina and use 2283 02:07:38.119 --> 02:07:41.119 this and that supplement in microlife and other things. They've 2284 02:07:41.119 --> 02:07:44.159 got all of it. Everything related to plant growth they've got. 2285 02:07:44.239 --> 02:07:46.720 Do you need a tool like a quality pruning tool 2286 02:07:46.760 --> 02:07:51.199 by Falco or Corona, show up there. Southwest Fertilizer and 2287 02:07:51.239 --> 02:07:54.600 they've got a ninety foot long wall of tools to 2288 02:07:54.680 --> 02:07:57.560 choose from. They do carry that kneeling bench that I 2289 02:07:57.600 --> 02:08:00.920 talk about all the time. They do carry the grabber 2290 02:08:01.000 --> 02:08:04.840 gadget that you use to make my homemade weed wiper, 2291 02:08:05.399 --> 02:08:07.680 my Skip's homemade weed wiper. If you don't know what 2292 02:08:07.720 --> 02:08:10.079 that is, go to gardening with Skip dot com and 2293 02:08:10.119 --> 02:08:12.239 look at it. It's the coolest things. And slice bread. 2294 02:08:12.279 --> 02:08:16.159 In my opinion, I'm biased, but I'm not wrong on that. 2295 02:08:16.720 --> 02:08:16.840 Uh. 2296 02:08:17.079 --> 02:08:20.520 And they carry everything you need. They carry soils, multious 2297 02:08:20.560 --> 02:08:24.840 soil amendments, you know things well, nutrient products like azemite two, 2298 02:08:25.079 --> 02:08:29.680 of course Nature's Way Resources, Landscaper's Pride, heirloom soils, Medina 2299 02:08:30.239 --> 02:08:33.560 more wonderful selection to seed. They've got those big old 2300 02:08:33.920 --> 02:08:35.800 that package to seed, but they also have those big 2301 02:08:35.840 --> 02:08:37.760 bins where you take a little scoop and you get 2302 02:08:37.760 --> 02:08:39.600 your seat out of that and put it in an envelope. 2303 02:08:39.920 --> 02:08:42.000 That is the most economical way to buy seed that 2304 02:08:42.039 --> 02:08:44.359 there is, and they've got that also there. But of 2305 02:08:44.399 --> 02:08:47.479 course they have that there. This is Southwest Fertilizer. If 2306 02:08:47.520 --> 02:08:49.760 they don't have it, you don't need it. And if 2307 02:08:49.760 --> 02:08:53.159 you have a question, maybe maybe there's a weed and 2308 02:08:53.199 --> 02:08:55.600 it's Wednesday and we're not doing garden line to call in. 2309 02:08:55.960 --> 02:08:58.479 Go into Southwest Fertilizer, take the weed with you, show 2310 02:08:58.520 --> 02:09:01.520 it to them. They'll tell you exactly what you need 2311 02:09:01.560 --> 02:09:04.079 to do to manage it. They are experts when it 2312 02:09:04.119 --> 02:09:08.680 comes to that kind of service, and they are also 2313 02:09:09.079 --> 02:09:12.039 specialists when it comes to that good old fashioned service 2314 02:09:12.119 --> 02:09:14.960 that you know we all used to appreciate so much 2315 02:09:15.079 --> 02:09:17.760 and nowadays is a little less common than it used 2316 02:09:17.760 --> 02:09:22.600 to be. Friendly service, great products, great selection. Corner of 2317 02:09:22.600 --> 02:09:28.159 Bisonette and Renwick. Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Say 2318 02:09:28.199 --> 02:09:30.800 hey to them from SKIP. When you go in there, 2319 02:09:32.039 --> 02:09:34.079 you are listening to Guardenline. The phone number if you'd 2320 02:09:34.079 --> 02:09:36.479 like to call in have a question seven one three 2321 02:09:36.600 --> 02:09:40.119 two one two k t r H. Seven one three 2322 02:09:40.239 --> 02:09:44.880 two one two k t r H. So Valentine's is 2323 02:09:45.199 --> 02:09:47.239 upon us. Actually we just passed it, but we're going 2324 02:09:47.279 --> 02:09:49.680 to pretend we didn't because there's still time. There's still 2325 02:09:49.680 --> 02:09:52.399 time to redeem yourself. You need a good gift. How 2326 02:09:52.399 --> 02:09:56.920 about a rose? A rose bush is a wonderful gift. 2327 02:09:56.960 --> 02:09:59.520 You know, February's for roses. We all know we punum 2328 02:09:59.560 --> 02:10:02.159 in February. We plant them in February, although we can 2329 02:10:02.159 --> 02:10:05.079 do it in other months as well. But if you 2330 02:10:05.199 --> 02:10:08.319 want a great selection of roses, RCW Nursery has got 2331 02:10:08.319 --> 02:10:11.439 you covered. They get in more roses than anybody I've seen. 2332 02:10:11.600 --> 02:10:15.720 I mean six pages of different rose cultivars that are 2333 02:10:15.800 --> 02:10:19.520 available from RCW Nursries. That's the garden center that's at 2334 02:10:19.560 --> 02:10:21.920 the corner of belt Way eight and Tomball Parkway, Hiaby 2335 02:10:21.960 --> 02:10:25.359 two forty nine. You can go to the website RCW 2336 02:10:25.720 --> 02:10:28.560 Nurseries dot com or just go buy there Tomball Parkway 2337 02:10:28.600 --> 02:10:34.640 belt Way eight easy to get to RCW Nurseries. Whether 2338 02:10:34.720 --> 02:10:38.159 you want roses or pretty much any kind of plant, 2339 02:10:38.319 --> 02:10:41.640 you're gonna find it there. They also carry fertilizers from 2340 02:10:41.720 --> 02:10:46.439 nitrofoss and Microlife and Nelson Turf Star Line. They just 2341 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:49.520 make sure they have on hand what you need for success. Now, 2342 02:10:49.560 --> 02:10:52.760 when it comes to trees and shrubs, hurry up, get 2343 02:10:52.800 --> 02:10:55.000 it done. If you're going to plant one, don't do 2344 02:10:55.079 --> 02:10:57.800 it two months from now when it's hotter. Do it now. 2345 02:10:58.359 --> 02:11:00.680 You can plant a tree or shrub twelve months out 2346 02:11:00.720 --> 02:11:03.199 of the year. The hotter it gets, the more touch 2347 02:11:03.239 --> 02:11:05.279 and go it is, the more difficult it is to 2348 02:11:05.319 --> 02:11:06.960 make sure you don't let it get too dry or 2349 02:11:07.000 --> 02:11:09.720 too wet or whatever. Now it's a great time. They 2350 02:11:09.720 --> 02:11:13.199 grow their own shrubs and trees. They grow the species 2351 02:11:13.239 --> 02:11:16.359 and varieties that do best here and they can advise 2352 02:11:16.479 --> 02:11:22.880 you with professional advice. They're at RCW Nurseries. By the way, 2353 02:11:22.880 --> 02:11:25.840 there a tree farm, Williamson Tree Farm. You can go 2354 02:11:25.920 --> 02:11:28.960 to Williamsontreefarm dot com and it's open to the public 2355 02:11:29.039 --> 02:11:31.680 on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. You just have to make 2356 02:11:31.680 --> 02:11:35.000 an appointment on the website. Don't just show up out there. 2357 02:11:35.039 --> 02:11:38.319 This is a wholesale nursery and they're busy. They're not 2358 02:11:38.399 --> 02:11:40.520 set up to just have five hundred people show up 2359 02:11:40.560 --> 02:11:42.720 at once and want to buy a tree. Make an 2360 02:11:42.720 --> 02:11:45.279 appointment with them, and they're happy to greet you out 2361 02:11:45.279 --> 02:11:48.439 there and you get to see a really beautiful selection 2362 02:11:48.560 --> 02:11:51.439 of some cool stuff, or just go buy RCW Nurseries 2363 02:11:51.880 --> 02:11:59.439 and get them there. Well, I in my yard right now, 2364 02:11:59.479 --> 02:12:02.039 out in the I've got a little bit of cold 2365 02:12:02.119 --> 02:12:05.720 damage from the last cold because I tend to let 2366 02:12:05.760 --> 02:12:09.479 my plants kind of fend for themselves unless I know 2367 02:12:09.880 --> 02:12:12.039 cold is gonna take them out. So I need to 2368 02:12:12.039 --> 02:12:13.760 get in there and clean them out. But I'm gonna wait. 2369 02:12:14.079 --> 02:12:16.960 All that dead material on top is just a little 2370 02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:19.479 bit of help with insulation for the next freeze it 2371 02:12:19.479 --> 02:12:21.520 may occur, and we got one. I got one coming 2372 02:12:21.560 --> 02:12:23.640 this week, so I'm going to wait a little bit, 2373 02:12:24.159 --> 02:12:26.439 get past it, and then I'll get my crystal ball 2374 02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:29.760 out and decide if there's any more freezes and then 2375 02:12:30.439 --> 02:12:32.600 go from there. I think I may have one more 2376 02:12:32.680 --> 02:12:36.119 still to come. We'll see. You never know, but that 2377 02:12:37.000 --> 02:12:40.760 dead material is helpful in protecting the base of the plant, 2378 02:12:40.880 --> 02:12:44.800 so my coufia or Mexican heather is an example. In 2379 02:12:44.840 --> 02:12:48.159 my lantanas. They look horrible right now, but I've learned 2380 02:12:48.199 --> 02:12:52.239 to embrace ugly and be patient because there's plenty of 2381 02:12:52.279 --> 02:12:54.880 time to prune them back before the new growth comes 2382 02:12:54.920 --> 02:12:57.039 out and gets in the way of that. I'm going 2383 02:12:57.079 --> 02:13:02.640 to take a break. We'll be right back with your calls. 2384 02:13:03.159 --> 02:13:12.159 All right, we're back. We are back. Welcome to garden Line. 2385 02:13:12.239 --> 02:13:15.520 Welcome back to garden Line. We're continuing on today answering 2386 02:13:15.520 --> 02:13:19.720 gardening questions and getting ready for some cold weather coming up. 2387 02:13:20.640 --> 02:13:23.560 Just remember if you need advice on any kind of 2388 02:13:23.560 --> 02:13:26.399 plant covering and how do I protect a plan against 2389 02:13:26.399 --> 02:13:29.840 a freeze and all the whatnot of it. Oh, you 2390 02:13:29.880 --> 02:13:31.840 have to is go to my website Gardening with Skip 2391 02:13:31.840 --> 02:13:35.680 dot com. Find the publication that is protecting landscape plants 2392 02:13:36.199 --> 02:13:39.840 from frosts and freezes and it will guide you in 2393 02:13:39.960 --> 02:13:43.439 doing that. It's free, It is absolutely free. Can't tap 2394 02:13:43.479 --> 02:13:47.159 me down on that price, So check it out. I 2395 02:13:47.159 --> 02:13:48.840 hope it will be helpful. That's why we put those 2396 02:13:48.840 --> 02:13:51.640 things up there, is to help you to have success. Also, 2397 02:13:51.680 --> 02:13:55.079 my schedules are up there, the lawn care schedule, the 2398 02:13:55.159 --> 02:13:58.920 lawn pest disease, and we'd management schedule both of them 2399 02:13:59.439 --> 02:14:02.319 full color, easy to follow, and they tell you what 2400 02:14:02.399 --> 02:14:05.800 to use, when to use it, whether you're organic or synthetic. 2401 02:14:05.840 --> 02:14:10.800 There are options for everyone on that schedule. I was 2402 02:14:10.840 --> 02:14:16.359 outside yesterday and just noticed the song of some birds 2403 02:14:16.479 --> 02:14:19.840 and I love I love listening to the different songs. 2404 02:14:19.880 --> 02:14:23.920 And by the way, if you there's an app, and 2405 02:14:23.960 --> 02:14:28.000 it is called the Merlin App, as in Merlin the 2406 02:14:28.000 --> 02:14:30.880 Magician me r l I N. It's done by Cornell 2407 02:14:31.039 --> 02:14:36.159 University's Department or of Ornithology, which I think is a 2408 02:14:36.159 --> 02:14:40.960 word designed because it was too hard to say birds anyway. 2409 02:14:41.359 --> 02:14:43.359 Orentthology is a study of birds. I've got a good 2410 02:14:43.439 --> 02:14:46.119 orthology joke. But you got to see it's it's a 2411 02:14:46.159 --> 02:14:50.359 performance jogging. I see me perform anyway, Department of Ornithology. 2412 02:14:50.439 --> 02:14:52.520 It's a free app and you can take a picture 2413 02:14:52.520 --> 02:14:54.079 of a bird and you'll tell you what kind of 2414 02:14:54.079 --> 02:14:57.359 bird it is. You can listen to a bird sing, 2415 02:14:57.479 --> 02:14:59.840 and there's also a little like a microphone thing on 2416 02:14:59.840 --> 02:15:02.600 the and you click that and you can watch it 2417 02:15:02.640 --> 02:15:05.399 as it goes across the page, listening to the sounds 2418 02:15:05.399 --> 02:15:07.640 that it's hearing, and all of a sudden, a bird 2419 02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:09.479 pops up and a tas your what kind of birded? 2420 02:15:09.640 --> 02:15:13.239 Is that cool? And guess what? How much does it cost? Free? 2421 02:15:13.880 --> 02:15:18.159 Free the Merlin app? So there you go, Now I learned. 2422 02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:21.640 Where did I learn about the app? Well, it's about birds, right, 2423 02:15:21.960 --> 02:15:24.000 Where do you learn about anything birds? Where do you 2424 02:15:24.000 --> 02:15:28.319 get anything you need? Birds? Wild Birds Unlimited, wild Bird's Unlimited. 2425 02:15:28.479 --> 02:15:30.359 That's the place they just came out with their new 2426 02:15:30.399 --> 02:15:33.960 Cardinal Confetti Blend. It's got all kinds of things that 2427 02:15:34.000 --> 02:15:37.399 make birds absolutely. If they're open the windows and let 2428 02:15:37.399 --> 02:15:40.840 birds hear this and you watch them, they're gonna start slobbering. Safflower, 2429 02:15:41.119 --> 02:15:47.520 black oil, sunflower, sunflower chips, nutrisaft bark, butter bits, peanut halves, 2430 02:15:48.159 --> 02:15:50.600 dried mealworms. Okay, I was with them up until. I 2431 02:15:50.600 --> 02:15:52.600 don't know if I'll eat dried mealworms, but the rest 2432 02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:57.640 sounds tasty and striped sunflower all in this Cardinal Confetti Blend. 2433 02:15:57.680 --> 02:16:00.000 They even have a Cardinal evening feeder and a cardinal 2434 02:16:00.079 --> 02:16:02.760 tube feeder. You just got to go buy wild Birds 2435 02:16:02.880 --> 02:16:05.600 and check it out. There's six stores here in Houston 2436 02:16:05.600 --> 02:16:07.520 that are Wildbirds, so you can find one near you. 2437 02:16:07.840 --> 02:16:11.359 They're fun to go into because it's not just you know, 2438 02:16:11.399 --> 02:16:13.640 stacks of bird seed, although they have plenty of bird 2439 02:16:13.640 --> 02:16:17.239 seed of all different types, but there's beautiful things that 2440 02:16:17.239 --> 02:16:21.000 you would decorate your home with. There's books, there's bird houses, 2441 02:16:21.119 --> 02:16:25.000 there's bird feeders there, but mainly there are people in 2442 02:16:25.039 --> 02:16:27.479 there that know all about birds and they can help 2443 02:16:27.520 --> 02:16:30.960 you have success. So one thing I like about wild 2444 02:16:31.000 --> 02:16:35.520 bird seed is it is designed for the kinds of 2445 02:16:35.520 --> 02:16:38.959 birds you want to attract. And they even have something 2446 02:16:38.959 --> 02:16:43.159 called They're no Mess blends, which means there's not going 2447 02:16:43.239 --> 02:16:45.159 to be a bunch of debris under the feeder because 2448 02:16:45.159 --> 02:16:48.959 they've already shelled the sunflowers, for example, and it's no mess. 2449 02:16:49.280 --> 02:16:51.239 And the other thing I like about it is listen, 2450 02:16:51.280 --> 02:16:53.600 you go buy cheap bird seed anywhere and you're going 2451 02:16:53.639 --> 02:16:55.479 to see a lot of the little red bebies, and 2452 02:16:55.600 --> 02:16:59.520 that is not a favorite of birds at all. Wildbirds 2453 02:16:59.719 --> 02:17:03.959 see is one things that are going to go into 2454 02:17:03.959 --> 02:17:08.319 the bird's mouth and tummy and help them with getting 2455 02:17:08.360 --> 02:17:12.239 through winter weather, with help them getting ready for nesting season, 2456 02:17:12.280 --> 02:17:15.559 which we're there, we're there at nesting season. It's quality 2457 02:17:15.600 --> 02:17:21.319 feed that goes into the bird that is important at wildbirds. Now, 2458 02:17:21.360 --> 02:17:23.360 I could go on and on and on about wildbirds, 2459 02:17:23.360 --> 02:17:26.159 but first of all, go download that Merlin app and 2460 02:17:26.239 --> 02:17:29.120 check it out, and then go into Wildbirds and let them. 2461 02:17:29.360 --> 02:17:31.719 You can say, hey, look, Merlin said, I've got a 2462 02:17:32.319 --> 02:17:35.879 tufted tip mouse here. Well that's an unusual bird. How 2463 02:17:35.920 --> 02:17:38.159 do I track those? And they'll just go follow me. 2464 02:17:38.319 --> 02:17:40.559 They'll take you right to the seeds and show you 2465 02:17:40.600 --> 02:17:44.280 exactly what you need to do. That's easy, that's fun. 2466 02:17:45.440 --> 02:17:51.159 That's wildbirds, that's for sure. Nelson Plant Food has a 2467 02:17:51.280 --> 02:17:53.959 number of products. I've been talking about their turf Star line, 2468 02:17:53.959 --> 02:17:56.000 and I will off and on as we go forward, 2469 02:17:56.319 --> 02:17:57.479 but I want to tell you a little about the 2470 02:17:57.680 --> 02:18:02.879 Nutros Star line. Nutris Star is generally people purchase it 2471 02:18:02.920 --> 02:18:05.680 as a canister of food with a little screwtop cap 2472 02:18:06.159 --> 02:18:08.120 like a jar, but a plastic clear jar with a 2473 02:18:08.120 --> 02:18:11.520 screwtop cap. And they have things like the Tree and Shrub, 2474 02:18:11.680 --> 02:18:15.000 which is for guess what, trees and shrubs five different 2475 02:18:15.040 --> 02:18:18.799 sources of nitrogen that gradually feed those plants over the 2476 02:18:18.840 --> 02:18:22.040 coming months to provide them what they need to grow fast. 2477 02:18:22.239 --> 02:18:24.159 And when you've got a young tree or a shrub, 2478 02:18:24.200 --> 02:18:26.959 you want it to fill in. It also has micronutrients 2479 02:18:27.000 --> 02:18:29.159 in it. By the way, they got their citrus fruit 2480 02:18:29.239 --> 02:18:33.440 and avocado feed, which provides the nutrients that really any 2481 02:18:33.559 --> 02:18:36.200 kind of fruiting plant needs. They could just say nutri 2482 02:18:36.280 --> 02:18:40.040 star fruit, but so people understand that includes citrus, that 2483 02:18:40.079 --> 02:18:43.840 includes avocados, but it also includes pomegranates, any kind of 2484 02:18:43.840 --> 02:18:48.200 fruit that you have nutri stars, citrus fruit and avocado. Again, 2485 02:18:48.280 --> 02:18:51.520 about every three months, give it some food with that. 2486 02:18:51.639 --> 02:18:53.360 Just the label tells you how much to put on, 2487 02:18:53.799 --> 02:18:57.120 but it really does make a difference. You will sprinkle 2488 02:18:57.120 --> 02:19:01.000 these around beneath the branch spread of the plant. So 2489 02:19:01.319 --> 02:19:04.159 if it's a little fruit tree how far the branches go, 2490 02:19:04.360 --> 02:19:09.040 primarily focus on that area underneath and your plants will 2491 02:19:09.200 --> 02:19:11.959 respond with good growth. Those are from the folks at 2492 02:19:12.159 --> 02:19:15.920 Nelson Fertilizer and they are widely available throughout the Houston area. 2493 02:19:16.040 --> 02:19:19.799 Some places even will allow you to refill your jars 2494 02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:22.680 of certain kinds of Nelson plant food that comes in 2495 02:19:22.719 --> 02:19:25.360 the jars, and that saves you some money because you 2496 02:19:25.440 --> 02:19:30.120 just buy directly the fertilizer right out of a dispenser 2497 02:19:30.200 --> 02:19:31.799 kind of like those in the grocery store where you 2498 02:19:31.799 --> 02:19:35.280 buy peanuts and different things. Well, it's that way saves 2499 02:19:35.280 --> 02:19:38.719 them the plastic too, I think i's smart way to go. 2500 02:19:40.399 --> 02:19:42.639 You are listening to Garden Line, and we're here to 2501 02:19:42.680 --> 02:19:46.239 help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. 2502 02:19:46.360 --> 02:19:49.719 That is my goal. That is what I hope happens 2503 02:19:49.719 --> 02:19:52.840 for you, because I want you to have fun. Listen gardening. Okay. 2504 02:19:53.520 --> 02:19:55.959 You know how at the end of commercials they have 2505 02:19:56.000 --> 02:19:58.399 to have a lawyer talking so fast you can't understand 2506 02:19:58.479 --> 02:20:01.680 the words, and it's their disclaimer. Here's my disclaimer. I 2507 02:20:01.719 --> 02:20:07.000 won't talk fast. Gardening is addictive. It can be habit forming. 2508 02:20:07.719 --> 02:20:11.879 People have been known to get so into gardening that 2509 02:20:12.680 --> 02:20:15.479 it's like it's the only thing that exists, and then 2510 02:20:16.120 --> 02:20:19.639 it's contagious and then their spouse gets the fever, or 2511 02:20:19.680 --> 02:20:22.399 their friends or you know whatever. Next thing, you know, 2512 02:20:22.440 --> 02:20:27.280 you're going to gardening clubs, You're visiting nurseries. Every time 2513 02:20:27.280 --> 02:20:29.520 you go to a town where someone else is you know, 2514 02:20:29.520 --> 02:20:33.719 you go to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you know, or Philadelphia? How 2515 02:20:33.719 --> 02:20:36.239 about that Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to see that crack in the 2516 02:20:36.280 --> 02:20:38.639 liberty bell. But all you want to do is go 2517 02:20:38.680 --> 02:20:41.159 find all the cool garden centers up in Philadelphia. I 2518 02:20:41.280 --> 02:20:45.680 know you, I know you, I am you. Gardening is addictive, 2519 02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:48.719 but it's the best addiction that you could have. That 2520 02:20:48.879 --> 02:20:52.799 is for sure. That is for sure. Let's go out 2521 02:20:52.799 --> 02:20:55.520 to Cyprus. We're going to talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, 2522 02:20:55.760 --> 02:20:57.440 welcome to garden line. 2523 02:20:57.600 --> 02:21:01.040 Oh, thanks so much. Take them a call. I have 2524 02:21:01.159 --> 02:21:06.680 a bottle brush that are planned. The last fall blown beautifully, 2525 02:21:07.079 --> 02:21:12.719 but now the freeze hit it pards So is it 2526 02:21:12.799 --> 02:21:16.719 going to come back from the bottom or is it dead? 2527 02:21:16.959 --> 02:21:20.440 Probably? Yeah? Probably? So is this one of the little 2528 02:21:20.479 --> 02:21:22.799 short ones that's like waist high or lower? Or is 2529 02:21:22.840 --> 02:21:23.680 this a taller bird? 2530 02:21:23.879 --> 02:21:26.479 Yeahst tie? 2531 02:21:27.440 --> 02:21:31.000 Okay, that may be one called little John. But anyway, 2532 02:21:31.600 --> 02:21:34.440 bottle brush is marginally hardy. And when we have warm 2533 02:21:34.479 --> 02:21:36.840 weather and then get a good cold especially, you're going 2534 02:21:36.920 --> 02:21:39.559 to get frozen back on it. Usually you get a 2535 02:21:39.600 --> 02:21:42.760 re sprout from the bottom. Uh. And if you love 2536 02:21:42.799 --> 02:21:45.120 bottle brush, and there's lots of reasons to love them, 2537 02:21:45.159 --> 02:21:49.000 are several of the pollinators like bees do too. I 2538 02:21:49.040 --> 02:21:51.559 would recommend when you get cold weather, come and mount 2539 02:21:51.600 --> 02:21:54.040 something up around the trunk at the bottom, just to 2540 02:21:54.079 --> 02:21:57.719 protect that for sure, And that good root system is 2541 02:21:57.760 --> 02:22:00.680 still not frozen back. It's still intact, and it'll send 2542 02:22:00.760 --> 02:22:02.760 up press new growth and you'll be back in business 2543 02:22:02.840 --> 02:22:03.399 pretty quick. 2544 02:22:04.479 --> 02:22:07.760 But not in my case, since I didn't mound anything up. 2545 02:22:10.280 --> 02:22:12.479 I think it's going to come back. I think it's 2546 02:22:12.520 --> 02:22:14.879 going to come back anyway, based on where you live 2547 02:22:15.079 --> 02:22:17.399 and based on the kind of cold we've had. But 2548 02:22:17.520 --> 02:22:20.159 don't give up on it. It's gonna sit there and 2549 02:22:20.200 --> 02:22:22.920 look dead and pound for a while. But when the 2550 02:22:22.959 --> 02:22:25.879 weather worm's up, I would say, by May you should 2551 02:22:25.920 --> 02:22:28.600 be seeing new growth, and if you're not, then maybe 2552 02:22:28.600 --> 02:22:31.520 you lost the plan. You're probably gonna see new growth 2553 02:22:31.520 --> 02:22:32.680 though in March or April. 2554 02:22:33.079 --> 02:22:35.159 Okay, okay, good, thanks so much. 2555 02:22:36.159 --> 02:22:39.959 Right, all right, thank you sir. Appreciate that call very much. 2556 02:22:40.840 --> 02:22:45.879 Let's see here. Let's go to Michelle in Webster. Hey, Michelle, 2557 02:22:45.920 --> 02:22:47.040 welcome to garden Line. 2558 02:22:47.840 --> 02:22:47.959 Hi. 2559 02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:51.440 Ask if I have a question about Texas lawflower. In 2560 02:22:51.479 --> 02:22:55.680 my flower bit they're long stalks with a little purpleish 2561 02:22:55.840 --> 02:22:59.440 like all at the end they're dried up, including the 2562 02:22:59.479 --> 02:23:03.479 flower and the stalk, and the homeowners don't like this 2563 02:23:03.639 --> 02:23:08.040 dried plant here. So I was just wondering do if 2564 02:23:08.120 --> 02:23:10.799 I pull up the entire stock. Well, it looks like 2565 02:23:10.879 --> 02:23:13.079 the little flower seeds. Will they come back or do 2566 02:23:13.159 --> 02:23:15.239 I need to them? 2567 02:23:15.879 --> 02:23:21.159 Okay, okay, Michelle, I'm having a little trouble hearing you. 2568 02:23:21.559 --> 02:23:25.120 What I didn't catch was you said Texas and then something, 2569 02:23:25.120 --> 02:23:26.239 what kind of plant is it? 2570 02:23:26.319 --> 02:23:26.959 Wildflower? 2571 02:23:27.120 --> 02:23:28.879 It's a Texas wildflower? 2572 02:23:29.239 --> 02:23:34.959 Oh, oh, wildflower. So in those pods up there there 2573 02:23:34.959 --> 02:23:37.799 should be seeds. If it's truly a wildflower and not 2574 02:23:37.920 --> 02:23:41.079 a special hybrid type variety, you can just crumble those 2575 02:23:41.159 --> 02:23:43.440 up and sprinkle them around and get those stalks out 2576 02:23:43.479 --> 02:23:45.840 of there. Now, some kinds of dried stalks people like 2577 02:23:45.920 --> 02:23:49.319 to use in arrangements. They sounds like what you're describing 2578 02:23:49.360 --> 02:23:52.440 sounds kind of pretty. That may be worth keeping the 2579 02:23:52.479 --> 02:23:55.920 stalk itself, but sprinkling the seeds around, then the wildflowers 2580 02:23:55.920 --> 02:23:56.760 will come back up. 2581 02:23:57.559 --> 02:23:59.879 Okay, So I need to probably pull out the entire 2582 02:23:59.840 --> 02:24:03.959 stalk then, because they're kind of looking like they're dry. 2583 02:24:04.360 --> 02:24:08.319 Guess that's why you don't like you Yeah, and well yeah, 2584 02:24:08.440 --> 02:24:11.360 and you know it looks like you know, there's a 2585 02:24:11.399 --> 02:24:14.239 lot of ways to garden. Some ways it's just always 2586 02:24:14.239 --> 02:24:16.639 looking perfect, and other ways it looks like nature and 2587 02:24:16.719 --> 02:24:19.239 nature does not look perfect all the time. It's got 2588 02:24:19.280 --> 02:24:21.799 dead things, you know, in it, and stuff like that. 2589 02:24:22.280 --> 02:24:24.520 So if there's not a tolerance for that, just just 2590 02:24:24.559 --> 02:24:26.600 pull them up. But I would if you don't want 2591 02:24:26.600 --> 02:24:28.920 to sprinkle the seeds right there, at least take those 2592 02:24:28.920 --> 02:24:31.559 seed heads inside and you break them up, get the 2593 02:24:31.600 --> 02:24:34.280 seeds out of them, put them in a glass jar 2594 02:24:34.360 --> 02:24:37.200 that seals well. Write down the name if you know 2595 02:24:37.280 --> 02:24:39.479 the name of it. If you send me a picture 2596 02:24:39.479 --> 02:24:41.760 of the seed stalks, I might be able to tell 2597 02:24:41.799 --> 02:24:44.920 you the name if you'd like that. Oh but anyway. 2598 02:24:44.719 --> 02:24:47.879 Yeah, okay, all right, well, thank you very much. 2599 02:24:48.920 --> 02:24:49.639 Enjoy your show. 2600 02:24:49.760 --> 02:24:50.559 Very informative. 2601 02:24:50.600 --> 02:24:55.639 All right, thank you appreciate that very much. All righty well, 2602 02:24:55.680 --> 02:24:57.920 here we are. It's time for me to turn it 2603 02:24:57.959 --> 02:25:00.959 over for the news and other infor and I'll be 2604 02:25:01.040 --> 02:25:03.479 back with the last thirty minutes of garden Line. If 2605 02:25:03.479 --> 02:25:06.559 you would like to ask a question, times running short 2606 02:25:06.639 --> 02:25:09.760 seven one three two one two k t r H. 2607 02:25:12.479 --> 02:25:15.600 You are no Houston's News, Why there were traffic? 2608 02:25:15.639 --> 02:25:17.760 Plus breaking news twenty four to seventh. 2609 02:25:18.040 --> 02:25:22.399 This is News Radio seven forty kt RH five Everywhere 2610 02:25:22.559 --> 02:25:26.760 with r more of what's happening now from the John 2611 02:25:26.760 --> 02:25:28.079 Morris Services Studios. 2612 02:25:28.120 --> 02:25:31.639 Trump letting go of multiple immigration jetches. I'm Jarre at 2613 02:25:31.680 --> 02:25:34.840 Lewis six nine thirty on news Radio seven forty KHRH 2614 02:25:34.840 --> 02:25:35.840 with another look at traffic. 2615 02:25:35.879 --> 02:25:36.760 Here's Gary Mack. 2616 02:25:37.399 --> 02:25:40.200 One accident that being on two eighty eight northbound and 2617 02:25:40.239 --> 02:25:43.719 wheeler blocks a couple of bright lanes. Just minor delays 2618 02:25:43.840 --> 02:25:47.840 thus far. Also roadwork, Let's discuss our two roadway closures 2619 02:25:47.879 --> 02:25:51.799 this weekend, six hits Athlete westbound being one from fan 2620 02:25:51.920 --> 02:25:54.360 In to Kirby Drive. I've got that as a five 2621 02:25:54.399 --> 02:25:57.559 minute delay currently around the same little less maybe two 2622 02:25:57.600 --> 02:25:59.559 twenty five east bound Red Bluff to Richie Road and 2623 02:25:59.680 --> 02:26:03.360 pass Gerry Mack and Degenerator Supercenter dot Contraveck Center. 2624 02:26:03.719 --> 02:26:05.319 It will be a drive breezy and call into the 2625 02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:07.639 weekend on this Sunday with signe shine gusty wins out 2626 02:26:07.639 --> 02:26:09.319 of the north of times at a high fifty five 2627 02:26:09.559 --> 02:26:11.799 tonight clear of the low falling to thirty eight. I'm 2628 02:26:11.799 --> 02:26:14.319 meteorologist Jeff mar from the Weather Channel. 2629 02:26:14.159 --> 02:26:17.000 Sunny and forty three at the k H Generator Supercenter, 2630 02:26:17.120 --> 02:26:19.520 twenty fo hour Weather Center. It's nine thirty one. 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I just had a call and 2704 02:30:10.319 --> 02:30:12.440 I think something went wrong and it got cut off there, 2705 02:30:12.479 --> 02:30:14.479 so feel free to call back in if you like. 2706 02:30:16.079 --> 02:30:19.520 I want to talk about a plant type I haven't 2707 02:30:19.559 --> 02:30:22.440 been discussing a lot of today, and that's fruit trees. 2708 02:30:22.760 --> 02:30:26.639 Fruit trees are wonderful to grow here in the Greater 2709 02:30:26.680 --> 02:30:29.159 Houston area. We have a lot of good ones that 2710 02:30:29.159 --> 02:30:31.600 we can grow. You can grow pretty much, can grow 2711 02:30:31.639 --> 02:30:35.120 almost anything down here. But when it comes to peaches 2712 02:30:35.200 --> 02:30:38.440 and pears and plums, there are even some apples that 2713 02:30:38.479 --> 02:30:41.239 will grow down this far south. When it comes to 2714 02:30:41.360 --> 02:30:45.079 figs and per simmons, those figs and percimons are two 2715 02:30:45.159 --> 02:30:50.639 of the most pest free and disease free problems that 2716 02:30:50.719 --> 02:30:54.040 you can have figs and per semons. They do really well. Here. 2717 02:30:54.319 --> 02:30:57.799 We have berries like blackberries and strawberries. There are some 2718 02:30:57.920 --> 02:31:02.280 raspberries that you can get to, but yeah, I wouldn't 2719 02:31:02.280 --> 02:31:04.399 start a raspberry farm. You're not gonna make a lot 2720 02:31:04.399 --> 02:31:08.120 of money off that, just not that much production. And 2721 02:31:08.159 --> 02:31:12.840 then there's the tropical and the semi tropical fruits. You know, citrus. 2722 02:31:13.639 --> 02:31:15.680 A lot of people move here and they're just excited 2723 02:31:15.719 --> 02:31:17.959 that you can grow citrus in the Greater Houston area 2724 02:31:17.959 --> 02:31:21.079 and you can. There are citrus it's very cold, tender, 2725 02:31:21.399 --> 02:31:24.239 and then there's citrus it's very hearty. One of the 2726 02:31:24.239 --> 02:31:27.120 hardiest types of citrus is the kind that is often 2727 02:31:27.200 --> 02:31:30.600 used for marmalade, and it's called kumquats. The little oranges 2728 02:31:30.760 --> 02:31:34.239 look like the end of your thumb. One type is round. 2729 02:31:34.280 --> 02:31:37.479 One type's a little more elongated, and the skin tastes 2730 02:31:37.520 --> 02:31:39.959 better on the inside even and people like those in 2731 02:31:40.000 --> 02:31:43.120 they're extreme hearty and it's a bush. Then there's satsumas. 2732 02:31:43.280 --> 02:31:47.360 Satsumas are a mandarin type citrus. So if you're going 2733 02:31:47.440 --> 02:31:49.120 I don't know what a satsuma is, I don't know 2734 02:31:49.120 --> 02:31:51.559 what a mandarin type citrus is. When you're in the 2735 02:31:51.559 --> 02:31:54.159 grocery store and you see those little oranges that are 2736 02:31:54.200 --> 02:31:56.719 called kuties I think is one of the brand names 2737 02:31:56.719 --> 02:31:59.319 for them, and you grab them and the skin just 2738 02:31:59.360 --> 02:32:02.159 comes right off. It's not even attached to the fruit hardly. 2739 02:32:02.159 --> 02:32:05.440 It's just loose, a baggy skin. Well, that's what a 2740 02:32:05.520 --> 02:32:10.159 setsuma's like, a baggy skinned fruit that is hardy when 2741 02:32:10.479 --> 02:32:14.479 established down to the upper teens. Even some people have 2742 02:32:14.559 --> 02:32:18.079 told me they made mid teens. But that's crazy hardy. Now, 2743 02:32:18.200 --> 02:32:21.159 No brandy setsuma stuck in the ground this last year 2744 02:32:21.600 --> 02:32:23.440 is not going to be that hardy in your yard. 2745 02:32:24.159 --> 02:32:27.520 And how the cold arrives determines how hardy it is. 2746 02:32:27.559 --> 02:32:30.000 So if we slowly cool off and we don't get 2747 02:32:30.000 --> 02:32:33.079 that thing growing again during the wintertime, it's gonna have 2748 02:32:33.120 --> 02:32:37.120 more heartiness. So anyway, satsumas, if you're listening up in 2749 02:32:37.799 --> 02:32:42.040 Huntsville or in Conroe or in College Station, you know, 2750 02:32:42.200 --> 02:32:45.879 low further north. I guess I could call those the 2751 02:32:46.000 --> 02:32:49.680 northern hinterlands, but people up there would laugh at that, right, 2752 02:32:50.079 --> 02:32:52.680 But anyway, satsuma may be the one for you. Now, 2753 02:32:52.680 --> 02:32:54.440 it doesn't mean, you'll never have to cover it. You 2754 02:32:54.479 --> 02:32:58.239 will need to cover it occasionally. But they are moderate 2755 02:32:58.319 --> 02:33:00.719 sized trees. They're not they don't as big as like 2756 02:33:00.959 --> 02:33:05.399 a grapefruit might get. So a satsuma can easily be 2757 02:33:05.520 --> 02:33:09.479 capped in maybe a six to eight foot range something 2758 02:33:09.600 --> 02:33:12.360 like that easily, and they'd taken a long time to 2759 02:33:12.399 --> 02:33:15.600 get eight feet. But anyway, those are things you can 2760 02:33:15.639 --> 02:33:18.719 grow down here too. Avocados if you're down south of 2761 02:33:18.760 --> 02:33:22.680 by ten, especially avocados or something you may want to 2762 02:33:22.719 --> 02:33:25.440 try now in a very protected spot. If we can 2763 02:33:25.479 --> 02:33:27.760 get a few winters that aren't that bad, they'll go 2764 02:33:27.840 --> 02:33:30.239 right through the winter without a problem. I was looking 2765 02:33:30.280 --> 02:33:31.879 at somebody sent me a picture the other day of 2766 02:33:31.920 --> 02:33:33.959 an avocado tree that was near the eaves of the 2767 02:33:34.000 --> 02:33:37.520 house on the south side, and he said it's frozen 2768 02:33:37.600 --> 02:33:39.360 back twice, and I was looking at it was way 2769 02:33:39.399 --> 02:33:41.559 taller than the eaves, and he was starting to get 2770 02:33:41.600 --> 02:33:44.639 avocados again. So even if they freeze back, you protect 2771 02:33:44.680 --> 02:33:47.079 the base of it and you're back in business. So 2772 02:33:47.159 --> 02:33:50.479 avocados are a little iffy, but oh my gosh, they're 2773 02:33:50.479 --> 02:33:55.079 so good. Now, do not plant fruit trees. Here's your 2774 02:33:55.600 --> 02:33:59.120 advice on fruit trees for the day. Quick quick tip, 2775 02:33:59.719 --> 02:34:03.120 don't pick your fruit varieties out of the in the supermarket. 2776 02:34:03.520 --> 02:34:09.520 Haas avocados are not for here. There are avocados varieties 2777 02:34:09.559 --> 02:34:11.760 that are for here, And if you go to a 2778 02:34:11.799 --> 02:34:14.239 good independent garden center, that's all they're going to sell 2779 02:34:14.280 --> 02:34:17.559 you is the heartier, smooth skin type of avocado that's 2780 02:34:17.600 --> 02:34:21.079 grown here. But don't pick those out of the supermarket. 2781 02:34:21.239 --> 02:34:23.600 You see bing cherries in the super Mario, you see 2782 02:34:23.600 --> 02:34:26.680 other things in the supermarket. You'll see high bush blueberries 2783 02:34:26.680 --> 02:34:30.079 in the super market, regular high bush, not southern. Don't 2784 02:34:30.079 --> 02:34:34.360 plant those here. Pick your varieties based on information that's local. 2785 02:34:34.719 --> 02:34:38.159 All right, we're gonna head out to Conro now and 2786 02:34:38.319 --> 02:34:40.639 talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to guarden Line. 2787 02:34:43.200 --> 02:34:44.200 Oh yes, good morning. 2788 02:34:46.639 --> 02:34:50.520 I have ways in my yard, but I also have 2789 02:34:50.639 --> 02:34:53.159 a dog, and I was wanting to know if there's 2790 02:34:53.200 --> 02:34:55.840 something I can put on to kiel the weeds. But 2791 02:34:56.040 --> 02:34:57.120 not a fact my dog. 2792 02:35:00.239 --> 02:35:02.719 You said you're you're wanting to kill weeds, not fleas. 2793 02:35:02.840 --> 02:35:05.200 Right first, I thought you said, please. 2794 02:35:06.360 --> 02:35:09.639 I don't want to put anything that's gonna harm my doll. 2795 02:35:10.680 --> 02:35:13.479 Okay, all right, well let me start with what your 2796 02:35:13.520 --> 02:35:18.000 long term UH effort should be and that is growing 2797 02:35:18.079 --> 02:35:21.719 a denser, healthier lawn by mowing and watering and fertilizing. 2798 02:35:22.159 --> 02:35:24.479 Mowing as often as you can. The more often you mow, 2799 02:35:24.520 --> 02:35:29.040 the denser the lawn. Watering only with a good soaking periodically, 2800 02:35:29.319 --> 02:35:33.319 not don't water three times a week uh and UH. 2801 02:35:33.479 --> 02:35:37.879 Then fertilizing moderately, and I talk about all the fertilizers 2802 02:35:37.920 --> 02:35:41.040 every every day on guard line. UH and and grow 2803 02:35:41.360 --> 02:35:44.200 the densest lawn you can get, and those weed problems 2804 02:35:44.280 --> 02:35:47.920 will plummet. Now you can use something like a barricade 2805 02:35:48.159 --> 02:35:52.399 to prevent warm seasoned weeds from coming up. You're gonna 2806 02:35:52.399 --> 02:35:54.360 put it down and then you're gonna water it in 2807 02:35:54.399 --> 02:35:57.879 with about a half inch of irrigation and that will 2808 02:35:57.879 --> 02:36:00.319 move it down into the soil. And then once those 2809 02:36:00.399 --> 02:36:03.200 plants dry off, the dogs can go out there on 2810 02:36:03.280 --> 02:36:05.920 it because it's you've moved it down into the soil. 2811 02:36:06.799 --> 02:36:12.520 If you spray existing weeds, Jim, that herbicide product will 2812 02:36:12.520 --> 02:36:15.159 be present on the leaves because that's what you're spraying 2813 02:36:15.280 --> 02:36:18.040 on to kill that existing weed that you may see 2814 02:36:18.079 --> 02:36:20.719 out there now. And if dogs go out and eat those, 2815 02:36:20.799 --> 02:36:22.520 then they're going to get exposed to it. 2816 02:36:24.479 --> 02:36:26.159 The dog won't be exposed of us. 2817 02:36:26.239 --> 02:36:30.680 Go ahead, yeah, I mean it'll be present. It'll be 2818 02:36:30.719 --> 02:36:33.399 present on the surface of the plant. Now, everything breaks 2819 02:36:33.440 --> 02:36:37.239 down after a period of time, and the different broad 2820 02:36:37.399 --> 02:36:42.319 leaf control post emergent broad leaf control products vary in 2821 02:36:42.360 --> 02:36:46.159 their toxicity, their persistence, and other things. But just know 2822 02:36:46.360 --> 02:36:48.319 that if your dogs like to go out and eat leaves, 2823 02:36:48.959 --> 02:36:52.000 then a sprayed leaf is gonna get eaten, just because 2824 02:36:52.000 --> 02:36:54.799 that's what they do. If you can keep the dogs 2825 02:36:55.040 --> 02:36:59.239 off of the grass for let's say a week and 2826 02:36:59.680 --> 02:37:02.200 so so, just as an example, let's say you go 2827 02:37:02.319 --> 02:37:06.280 out and you spray, and once it dries, give it 2828 02:37:06.319 --> 02:37:09.159 about a week. Don't let the dogs go out and 2829 02:37:09.200 --> 02:37:12.639 be unsupervised out there on it. Don't let them eat anything. 2830 02:37:13.079 --> 02:37:16.120 After about a week, that products moved down in the 2831 02:37:16.120 --> 02:37:19.000 weeds to kill the weed, and then you could go 2832 02:37:19.079 --> 02:37:22.639 out with a mower and mow that all off and 2833 02:37:22.680 --> 02:37:25.159 get all the weeds everything that got sprayed up there 2834 02:37:25.280 --> 02:37:29.000 you're mowing it away. Then that would be another safety 2835 02:37:29.079 --> 02:37:32.840 measure for a post emergent spray. But it needs it 2836 02:37:32.959 --> 02:37:35.120 needs some days to be able to move down in 2837 02:37:35.200 --> 02:37:37.879 the weed and do its job before you let the 2838 02:37:37.879 --> 02:37:38.479 dogs out. 2839 02:37:40.000 --> 02:37:42.079 Okay, I appreciate it. 2840 02:37:42.200 --> 02:37:43.120 Thank you all hard much. 2841 02:37:44.040 --> 02:37:48.200 Okay. I hope that helps Jim. Thanks a lot. I 2842 02:37:48.239 --> 02:37:50.639 love Conro used to live in Conroe. I lived in 2843 02:37:50.719 --> 02:37:55.680 Conroe and I lived in Willis during my ventures around 2844 02:37:55.719 --> 02:38:01.559 the state as a Horticulture Texas and Eggerlife extension. Well, 2845 02:38:01.600 --> 02:38:03.360 it's time for me to take a quick break. Let's 2846 02:38:03.399 --> 02:38:05.680 do that and we'll come back with our last segment 2847 02:38:05.760 --> 02:38:08.280 and your calls at seven one three two one two 2848 02:38:08.600 --> 02:38:09.319 k t R H. 2849 02:38:11.600 --> 02:38:11.879 Store. 2850 02:38:14.040 --> 02:38:17.520 Let's do this last segment of garden Line. You got 2851 02:38:17.520 --> 02:38:20.000 a question, got room for a caller here seven one 2852 02:38:20.040 --> 02:38:23.200 three two one two k t R h Uh. Ace 2853 02:38:23.239 --> 02:38:26.680 hardware stores are stocked up for what you need to 2854 02:38:26.719 --> 02:38:28.479 take care of spring. I don't I don't care what 2855 02:38:28.479 --> 02:38:31.360 it is you're doing. I am in the middle of 2856 02:38:31.360 --> 02:38:36.040 some spring cleaning. It started several months ago, way before spring. 2857 02:38:36.360 --> 02:38:38.760 But I'm trying to get my my garage in shape. 2858 02:38:38.799 --> 02:38:41.680 And you know, I got shelving out there, got some 2859 02:38:41.719 --> 02:38:44.120 of those binds to put things in and organize it 2860 02:38:44.200 --> 02:38:47.239 and everything. Well, Ace has got you covered on things 2861 02:38:47.319 --> 02:38:49.799 like that. If you're doing true cleaning, they've got the 2862 02:38:49.840 --> 02:38:53.040 cleaning supplies. They've got every everything that you might need. 2863 02:38:53.280 --> 02:38:56.319 Maybe it's outdoors, maybe you're redoing your deck or or 2864 02:38:56.559 --> 02:39:00.120 resealing your deck rather, uh, they've got the supplies for that. 2865 02:39:00.200 --> 02:39:02.280 Of course, he has stains and paints. In fact, they've 2866 02:39:02.360 --> 02:39:05.479 just announced a President's Day sale on all kinds of 2867 02:39:05.479 --> 02:39:08.799 painting supplies. Just stop by there and see it for yourself. 2868 02:39:09.680 --> 02:39:13.559 Propane tanks, barbecue and season coming up here, folks. They 2869 02:39:13.760 --> 02:39:18.879 have the exchangeable propane canisters. Sometimes propane vfills also available. 2870 02:39:19.639 --> 02:39:22.239 And it doesn't matter which of the ACE stores you 2871 02:39:22.280 --> 02:39:24.959 are looking at, they are going to have you covered 2872 02:39:25.000 --> 02:39:28.760 and set up. Maybe it is the Baycliff Ace on 2873 02:39:28.879 --> 02:39:31.799 Grand Avenue in Bakeliff, Maybe it is the Uvaldi Ace 2874 02:39:31.879 --> 02:39:35.440 on the east side U Valley Road in Houston. Perhaps 2875 02:39:35.479 --> 02:39:39.440 the Langham Creek Ace Hardware in Cypress, Texas, or the 2876 02:39:39.479 --> 02:39:42.920 East Hardware Champions on Spring Cypress. Those are just examples. 2877 02:39:42.959 --> 02:39:44.680 You can go to ACE Hardware dot com find out 2878 02:39:44.680 --> 02:39:47.360 the ones near you, and there's a lot of them 2879 02:39:47.399 --> 02:39:49.799 here in the Greater Houston area. While you're in there, 2880 02:39:49.879 --> 02:39:53.120 check out this is a twenty percent off Mowen Fawcetts. 2881 02:39:53.440 --> 02:39:56.920 This month. So any faucets that you've been thinking about 2882 02:39:56.959 --> 02:40:01.200 replacing with something nice, something more attractive, or that his 2883 02:40:01.319 --> 02:40:04.799 works better, well go for it. Grab some air filters 2884 02:40:04.799 --> 02:40:08.719 while you're in buy three, get one free. Whatever you're doing. 2885 02:40:08.879 --> 02:40:11.559 It's spring. It's time to get all kinds of things done. 2886 02:40:11.600 --> 02:40:15.680 And then outside in your yard, fertilizers, test control, we 2887 02:40:15.799 --> 02:40:20.440 control disease control, tools for the garden hoses, time for 2888 02:40:20.559 --> 02:40:24.719 new hos ace hardware. As you covered on everything indoors 2889 02:40:24.840 --> 02:40:31.319 and out, well, let's see here. Uh okay, I was 2890 02:40:31.639 --> 02:40:35.840 thinking we had a all right, excuse me while I 2891 02:40:35.879 --> 02:40:39.799 think out loud to myself. Here you are listening to 2892 02:40:39.840 --> 02:40:43.159 guard Line, and we come every Saturday and every Sunday 2893 02:40:43.159 --> 02:40:45.879 morning from six to ten to help you have success. 2894 02:40:46.120 --> 02:40:48.120 The way I usually say it is, I want you 2895 02:40:48.159 --> 02:40:50.600 to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more 2896 02:40:50.639 --> 02:40:53.000 fun in the process. Those are the three goals that 2897 02:40:53.040 --> 02:40:55.399 we try to have, and in order to do that, 2898 02:40:55.600 --> 02:40:59.760 you need good advice. Because green thumbs are only thumbs 2899 02:40:59.799 --> 02:41:01.920 that are informed. That's the difference in green thumb and 2900 02:41:01.920 --> 02:41:05.879 a brown thumb. Is a brown thumb has been informed 2901 02:41:05.920 --> 02:41:08.719 about what plants want. I made it simple. Earlier today, 2902 02:41:08.719 --> 02:41:11.879 I said basically the big three. I want sunlight, I 2903 02:41:11.959 --> 02:41:16.840 want adequate soil moisture, and I want quality soil, and 2904 02:41:17.040 --> 02:41:20.360 that's important. Well, A fourth I want is a plant 2905 02:41:20.360 --> 02:41:24.120 that wants to grow there. And you know, you can't 2906 02:41:24.159 --> 02:41:26.639 do more local in terms of a plant wanting to 2907 02:41:26.639 --> 02:41:28.959 be here and grow here than a native plant. And 2908 02:41:29.000 --> 02:41:31.200 when I think of native plants, I think of Buchanans. 2909 02:41:31.280 --> 02:41:33.920 They're in the Heights. In fact, it's in their name 2910 02:41:34.200 --> 02:41:39.440 Buchanans Native Plants Eleventh Street and the Heights, and they 2911 02:41:39.520 --> 02:41:43.280 specialize in natives, not just Texas natives. They have that, 2912 02:41:43.399 --> 02:41:45.920 of course, but they even have a table where it's 2913 02:41:46.000 --> 02:41:49.520 the Houston native plants that are native right here where 2914 02:41:49.520 --> 02:41:52.479 you live, and then plants that are from the region 2915 02:41:52.559 --> 02:41:55.440 we live in and so on. They're excellent for that, 2916 02:41:55.600 --> 02:41:58.479 and you can go in. They know what they're talking about. 2917 02:41:58.559 --> 02:42:00.520 They know how to help you find what you need. 2918 02:42:00.559 --> 02:42:02.520 So you could go in and say something like, okay, 2919 02:42:02.520 --> 02:42:04.799 I want to I want native plant, but I want 2920 02:42:04.879 --> 02:42:07.399 native plant that attracts hummingbirds, or I want one that 2921 02:42:07.440 --> 02:42:12.079 attracts butterflies, for example. They just walk right over and 2922 02:42:12.159 --> 02:42:14.319 show you what you need. They know what they're talking about. 2923 02:42:14.680 --> 02:42:17.719 They also know that brown stuff comes before green stuff, 2924 02:42:17.760 --> 02:42:22.520 and they stock up on fertilizers. Soils, composts, have full 2925 02:42:22.559 --> 02:42:25.600 line of microlife. They got nitrophoss, they got Nelson plant food. 2926 02:42:25.959 --> 02:42:29.840 They carry soils from Nature's Way resources, carry sols from 2927 02:42:29.879 --> 02:42:32.920 airloom soils, for example. They have their own life below 2928 02:42:33.120 --> 02:42:36.760 soil blend, and then one called Tropicore, which is a 2929 02:42:36.799 --> 02:42:40.879 peed free blend for tropical and indoor plants. The pottery 2930 02:42:40.959 --> 02:42:45.120 selection is awesome. The gift shop is awesome. If you're 2931 02:42:45.120 --> 02:42:48.479 looking for any kind of gift, any kind of occasion 2932 02:42:48.639 --> 02:42:52.120 or no occasion, you can't go wrong at Buchanni's Plants. 2933 02:42:52.520 --> 02:42:55.120 You just can't. And I say this when I talk 2934 02:42:55.120 --> 02:42:58.000 about Buchanans, but I really want you to hear me. 2935 02:42:58.639 --> 02:43:04.040 Go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. Sign up for 2936 02:43:04.079 --> 02:43:09.760 the newsletter. Go to their YouTube page. They have instructional videos. 2937 02:43:09.760 --> 02:43:14.760 They have lots of good information at Buchanans Plants dot com. 2938 02:43:15.040 --> 02:43:18.280 Sign up for that newsletter. That newsletter will let you 2939 02:43:18.360 --> 02:43:20.479 know the latest things that have come in that I'm 2940 02:43:20.520 --> 02:43:22.200 just looking at one right now. They just got a 2941 02:43:22.200 --> 02:43:28.239 bunch of really rare houseplants. Columbia philodendron. Let's see escualletto 2942 02:43:28.760 --> 02:43:33.959 monstera silver and amidrium a midrium that's a new one 2943 02:43:33.959 --> 02:43:38.360 even to me. Seed starting mixes are in lots of 2944 02:43:38.399 --> 02:43:42.159 cool stuff. If you want companion planting, Buchanans has got 2945 02:43:42.159 --> 02:43:44.280 you coverage, says right here in the newsletter. What's the 2946 02:43:44.360 --> 02:43:47.719 native plan of the week. The hairy tube tongue. Isn't 2947 02:43:47.719 --> 02:43:50.760 that interesting type of Justicia? We grow other Justichias in 2948 02:43:50.840 --> 02:43:54.079 our landscapes. Here sign up for the newsletter. It's free 2949 02:43:54.360 --> 02:43:56.840 and it'll tell you things like right now four inches 2950 02:43:57.239 --> 02:44:01.239 four inch winter veggies or two dollars four inch winter annuals, 2951 02:44:01.319 --> 02:44:04.760 or a dollar fifty percent off their chimneyas and pinion 2952 02:44:04.840 --> 02:44:08.479 would to go in your chiminya to enjoy outdoors. And 2953 02:44:08.520 --> 02:44:11.000 then the classes and on and on. I'm just telling 2954 02:44:11.040 --> 02:44:17.200 you go check them out Buchanansplants dot Com. We're going 2955 02:44:17.239 --> 02:44:21.159 to go out to Cove, Texas and talk to Rufus. Now, hey, Rufus, 2956 02:44:21.159 --> 02:44:22.280 Welcome to garden Line. 2957 02:44:23.479 --> 02:44:26.600 Yes, yep, I'm looking around my garden and you know, 2958 02:44:26.680 --> 02:44:30.319 during to freeze my onion and my childs did real 2959 02:44:30.360 --> 02:44:33.040 good with the snow, and I even had some cilantro 2960 02:44:33.200 --> 02:44:35.879 that survived. Is there anything else I could plant this 2961 02:44:35.959 --> 02:44:37.799 time of the year? Was really the cold that will 2962 02:44:37.879 --> 02:44:39.959 survived in the herb sessions. 2963 02:44:43.319 --> 02:44:48.120 Yeah, Oregano goes through our cold just fine. Rosemary does 2964 02:44:48.159 --> 02:44:53.000 okay here in cold uh. The uh time is another. 2965 02:44:53.399 --> 02:44:56.479 Those are all perennial herbs, as is time that does 2966 02:44:56.520 --> 02:45:00.120 well going through the herb season. Most of our herbs, 2967 02:45:00.120 --> 02:45:01.840 most of the good herbs that you think about and 2968 02:45:01.920 --> 02:45:05.000 use and whatnot, are going to be okay here. Basil 2969 02:45:05.280 --> 02:45:07.559 does not even want to be at forty degrees much 2970 02:45:07.639 --> 02:45:11.440 less freezing, So basil's one for the warm season. But 2971 02:45:11.600 --> 02:45:14.959 a lot of the other herbs do well. Chives is excellent. 2972 02:45:15.000 --> 02:45:17.680 There's an onion chives and a garlic chives that do 2973 02:45:17.879 --> 02:45:21.280 very well here. So those are a few examples. 2974 02:45:22.479 --> 02:45:25.559 Can can mint hang in the cold temperatures too? 2975 02:45:27.719 --> 02:45:33.239 Unfortunately? Yes, I say unfortunately. Mint will take over underground. 2976 02:45:33.239 --> 02:45:35.719 It's like it's like putting more mutagrass in your beds. 2977 02:45:35.760 --> 02:45:38.280 It just takes over. So you got to contain mint. 2978 02:45:38.319 --> 02:45:40.559 But yes, it can freeze it to the ground and 2979 02:45:40.639 --> 02:45:42.399 it just comes right out of the ground. You're not 2980 02:45:42.440 --> 02:45:44.200 going to kill mint with. 2981 02:45:44.840 --> 02:45:48.120 Okay, but does it ever put a flower on? 2982 02:45:50.639 --> 02:45:50.799 It? 2983 02:45:50.840 --> 02:45:54.040 Can? Some types of mint will flower, and I just 2984 02:45:54.120 --> 02:45:55.440 off the top of my head, I can't tell you 2985 02:45:55.520 --> 02:45:59.239 which types flower better than others, but some types will 2986 02:45:59.280 --> 02:46:03.280 generally fly. I have not seen peppermint flower, but somebody's 2987 02:46:03.319 --> 02:46:06.680 gonna call and say, yes it does. But anyway, there 2988 02:46:07.440 --> 02:46:10.639 there are dozens of kinds of mint. I'd never I 2989 02:46:10.680 --> 02:46:12.520 had no idea how many kinds of mint there were 2990 02:46:12.680 --> 02:46:16.239 till I went to places that carry on all of them. 2991 02:46:16.559 --> 02:46:19.040 Chocolate mint, who ever heard of that? It is? 2992 02:46:19.959 --> 02:46:22.239 I'm like you, I never heard chocolate either, but it's 2993 02:46:22.280 --> 02:46:23.079 out there probably. 2994 02:46:23.760 --> 02:46:26.319 But yeah, but if you live in the South, you 2995 02:46:26.440 --> 02:46:30.280 gotta have peppermint. You can have spearmint too. Spearmint is good. Uh, 2996 02:46:30.319 --> 02:46:34.520 there's many other good mints, orange mint, and like I said, chocolate, 2997 02:46:35.680 --> 02:46:38.799 but I like peppermint. Go ahead. 2998 02:46:39.760 --> 02:46:43.600 Does the smell encourage good bugs or bad bugs? 2999 02:46:45.479 --> 02:46:45.600 Uh? 3000 02:46:45.760 --> 02:46:50.239 Well it doesn't. It doesn't encourage good bugs. There may 3001 02:46:50.280 --> 02:46:53.959 be some insects that are repelled by that smell. I 3002 02:46:54.040 --> 02:46:57.120 don't you know. I just you don't really associate it 3003 02:46:57.159 --> 02:46:59.760 with bugs, because there are there. I can't think of 3004 02:46:59.799 --> 02:47:04.600 any significant pests of mint, so you know you never 3005 02:47:04.680 --> 02:47:06.440 have to spray your mint, that's for sure. 3006 02:47:07.639 --> 02:47:09.680 Okay, well those are the good. 3007 02:47:09.520 --> 02:47:12.360 But I tell you what, you you can't make a 3008 02:47:12.479 --> 02:47:15.719 Southern mint jule up without it or put a sprag 3009 02:47:15.799 --> 02:47:18.239 in your iced tea. You know, it's a law in Texas. 3010 02:47:18.239 --> 02:47:20.600 You have to be an iced tea drinker. You can 3011 02:47:20.680 --> 02:47:22.760 drink coffee if you want, but you got to drink 3012 02:47:22.799 --> 02:47:28.600 ice tea. It's it's an official law. Yeah, lighter, there 3013 02:47:28.639 --> 02:47:33.680 you go, Thanks, Ruth. Appreciate that. All right, folks, we 3014 02:47:33.760 --> 02:47:38.000 put another garden line in the books. Thanks for listening. 3015 02:47:38.200 --> 02:47:42.959 We're here every Saturday and Sunday six am ten am. 3016 02:47:43.280 --> 02:47:46.520 Follow us on our social media. We have a garden 3017 02:47:46.600 --> 02:47:50.159 Line Facebook page, lots of good info on there. We 3018 02:47:50.239 --> 02:47:53.879 have a garden Line Instagram garden Line Instagram as well. 3019 02:47:55.479 --> 02:47:57.959 Follow us on those. Go to my website gardening with 3020 02:47:58.040 --> 02:48:01.920 Skip dot com. I just met with my website guru 3021 02:48:02.040 --> 02:48:04.479 the other day and we are planning a bunch of 3022 02:48:04.680 --> 02:48:07.680 new cool stuff to go up to the website. So 3023 02:48:08.280 --> 02:48:10.879 we're just here to help you have a success in 3024 02:48:10.959 --> 02:48:13.639 your garden. Let us do that. Stick around and tell 3025 02:48:13.639 --> 02:48:15.760 your friends and family about it, and we'll talk to 3026 02:48:15.799 --> 02:48:16.600 you next weekend.