Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Richards.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as pats to seep bats not a
Speaker 2: sign s beamon.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, let's do this. Welcome to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Rictor, and where you're to talk gardening. The way
Speaker 3: I like to put it is, I'm here to help
Speaker 3: you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more
Speaker 3: fun in the process. My goodness, gardening should be fun.
Speaker 3: By the way, we had a great time, a fun
Speaker 3: time out there at Engented Garden Yesturdy. Thanks to everybody
Speaker 3: that came out. It was great. Quite a quite a
Speaker 3: group they were. I don't know, you know, I love
Speaker 3: talking to gardeners and people that want to be gardeners.
Speaker 3: And there's just what an optimism, a positiveness about things.
Speaker 3: You know, every year is different, but when you when
Speaker 3: you buy a packet of seeds and you see the
Speaker 3: picture on them, you just get excited. I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: something like that. That's I can't wait to taste that
Speaker 3: tomato or to see that flower or whatever. And then
Speaker 3: you take this little piece of detritus. It looks like
Speaker 3: a tiny wet piece of bark, chip or something you
Speaker 3: put it in the ground and suddenly life comes out
Speaker 3: of it and it pushes out of the ground into
Speaker 3: the sunlight, and I just every time it happens, it's
Speaker 3: just like that's a miracle. That is That is really
Speaker 3: cool stuff. And with gardeners, the best garden we're ever
Speaker 3: going to have is the next one, right, isn't that true?
Speaker 3: I hope it's true. Of you. We want to do
Speaker 3: everything we can to realize the hopes that we have
Speaker 3: for our gardens, and that's one of the reasons we
Speaker 3: do what we do here on guarden Line is so
Speaker 3: that you can enjoy that. Gardening should be fun. And
Speaker 3: I was telling the group yesterday that to be a
Speaker 3: good gardener, you got to kill a lot of plants.
Speaker 3: In other words, you have permission to kill some plants.
Speaker 3: And not on purpose, I'm saying, but just you know,
Speaker 3: it happens. You try this, you try that, nature throws
Speaker 3: its curves and every here some different curves and that's okay.
Speaker 3: You always get to start over. And I just just
Speaker 3: out looking at the energy, just feeling the energy of
Speaker 3: the group and the and the hope and stuff out there.
Speaker 3: Well that that is cool. There's a they were loaded
Speaker 3: up and stocked up out there at Nelson Nelson my goodness,
Speaker 3: at Enchanted Gardens, and I was just kind of perusing
Speaker 3: through and wandering through and looking at all the vegetables
Speaker 3: and herbs and flowers and shrubs and trees and just
Speaker 3: everything that they had, and some of the really beautiful
Speaker 3: pottery too. And by the way, the gift shop looked
Speaker 3: good too, as it always does out there. But thanks
Speaker 3: for everybody that came out, Thanks for going along with
Speaker 3: all my craziness, and we having a good time with
Speaker 3: the rest of us. Well, this normally is a call
Speaker 3: in show, So how about I give you a phone
Speaker 3: number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four,
Speaker 3: or if you like to dial by letters or that
Speaker 3: makes it easier to remember seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two kat r H. Well, we're going to go straight
Speaker 3: out the phone this morning and talk to Ralph and Katie. Hey, Ralph,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Skip, Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3: Tell you what Hey Ralph?
Speaker 4: Ralph?
Speaker 3: Yes, Ralph, I'm sorry to interrupt you. I'm I didn't
Speaker 3: hear any of that. You're kind of coming across garbled there.
Speaker 3: Can we try that now? Is this better, a little better,
Speaker 3: a little better, yes.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 6: The nitrophoss with UH in the purple bag that had
Speaker 6: the extra wheat killer, is that okay to yes? Okay,
Speaker 6: and put that in the barricade down, now, can we use.
Speaker 3: You're talking about the one with trimec right, it'll say
Speaker 3: on their trimec yes, okay, so it is uh you
Speaker 3: want to But here's how what you want to do.
Speaker 3: You put the barricade down, and then you want to
Speaker 3: water the barricade in with about a half inch of
Speaker 3: water to get it down into the soil surface. And
Speaker 3: then you're free to put the the ncrofoss with the
Speaker 3: barricade on it right after you water while the leaves
Speaker 3: of the weeds are still wet. That helps the products
Speaker 3: stick to the weed leaves because they're wet, and you
Speaker 3: get much better benefit from it. So don't you know,
Speaker 3: don't put it all on and then water, put the
Speaker 3: barricade on, water the barricade in, and now take those
Speaker 3: wet weeds and go right immediately, Just go right back
Speaker 3: in there and do the other one.
Speaker 6: All right, fantastic. Well, when the sun comes up, I'll
Speaker 6: be out there, thank.
Speaker 3: You, all right, you bet have fun take care. Yes, sir, well,
Speaker 3: that is that is true. You know that. I let
Speaker 3: me make a couple of comments since the topic of
Speaker 3: you know, herbicide came up. One thing that I often
Speaker 3: think about here on Garden Line is that we're talking
Speaker 3: about utilizing various kinds of products to control various kinds
Speaker 3: of things. Could be insects, could be diseases, could be weeds.
Speaker 3: And I always wonder because I know that a lot
Speaker 3: of times we don't follow directions, right. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you've got a bad headache, you take more of that
Speaker 3: title and al or ibuprofen or whatever you're talking about.
Speaker 3: And sometimes we don't follow the label, and that can
Speaker 3: get us into trouble. When you underapply something, you don't
Speaker 3: get the benefit that it should provide for you. When
Speaker 3: you over apply something, you can introduce your plant, whether
Speaker 3: it's a lawn grass plant or a flower or whatever,
Speaker 3: you can introduce it to some damage that you don't
Speaker 3: want to have. There's a reason the label says what
Speaker 3: it says, and just this whole thinking like if a
Speaker 3: teaspoons good, a tablespoons better is not true and will
Speaker 3: get you into trouble. And so you want to be
Speaker 3: really careful with that. So if the label says put
Speaker 3: a certain amount on, that is the amount that has
Speaker 3: been determined by research to work the best for that
Speaker 3: product without causing unnecessary damage to a plant. And so
Speaker 3: you got to follow that. Always follow that carefully, because
Speaker 3: well it's important and you don't need secondary issues. And
Speaker 3: you know, it's what we call operator error. It's not
Speaker 3: the product's fault. It's the fact that you know the
Speaker 3: way we put it on, put it on evenly. You
Speaker 3: know you're applying let's say you're playing a herbicide and
Speaker 3: you you know, you spread it across the yard this way,
Speaker 3: you come back through and you over double, overlap, you know,
Speaker 3: on those on those applications. Well, now you've got areas
Speaker 3: that have too much of the product put down. So
Speaker 3: be careful, apply it properly and you get the results
Speaker 3: you're hoping for. Time for me to take a break.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. All right, We're back back with
Speaker 3: your gardening questions at garden Line. By the way. The
Speaker 3: phone number if you like it, I like it to
Speaker 3: give a call in and ask a gardening question. Seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t r H seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two K t r H. I
Speaker 3: was talking with someone out at enchanted gardens yesterday and
Speaker 3: they were asking questions about nutrients and just basically about
Speaker 3: micro nutrients and trace minerals. And I think it's kind
Speaker 3: of surprises, is me. It catches me off guard the
Speaker 3: confusion that can be there over nutrients. It's because you know,
Speaker 3: I went through school, learned all this stuff and got
Speaker 3: quizzed on it and everything else. Make sure we understand it. Uh,
Speaker 3: But I can see how it can be a little
Speaker 3: bit confusing because we talk about macrotriants and micronutrients and
Speaker 3: trace minerals and what does all that mean. Well, basically
Speaker 3: it's this our I'm gonna use lawns as an example,
Speaker 3: but plant or plants. Okay, So in your lawn, there
Speaker 3: are three things that you need a lot of, and
Speaker 3: that's nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Now, oftentimes the soil has
Speaker 3: enough potassium because it doesn't wash away like some of
Speaker 3: the other nutrients can. But anyway, those are the quantity
Speaker 3: that you need. Then there's nutrients that your lawn needs
Speaker 3: a medium amount of, and things like sulfur and magnesium
Speaker 3: and calcium for example, would be examples of a medium amount.
Speaker 3: And then there's things that your lawn just needs a
Speaker 3: tiny amount of, and those are trace minerals, and that
Speaker 3: would be things like zinc and manganese and boron and
Speaker 3: all kinds of stuff like that. And the misconception is
Speaker 3: if it needs just a tiny amount, that that's not
Speaker 3: as important of a nutrient as some like nitrogen, and
Speaker 3: that is false. It is equally important to the plant
Speaker 3: because these are required by the plant. So like if
Speaker 3: you were gonna how would I do this? If you're
Speaker 3: gonna build bricks and you you have to have some clay,
Speaker 3: and you have to have some water, and you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know, some other ingredients in there to create
Speaker 3: this brick that holds together, drys and works, right, you
Speaker 3: can't do without any of those, even if something was
Speaker 3: needed in tiny tiny amounts. If it's needed, it's needed.
Speaker 3: And that's how it is with trace minerals that in
Speaker 3: order to have a plant, let me do this. Pick
Speaker 3: up a grass blade, hold it up and look at it.
Speaker 3: And in that grass blade there is zinc, and there's
Speaker 3: there is a silica, and there is a boron and
Speaker 3: there and you never hear me say it's time to
Speaker 3: put boron on your lawns, but it has it's required
Speaker 3: to make a plant, required to make a plant part.
Speaker 3: Just tiny amount, but it's essential. And that's why I
Speaker 3: talk about asmite all the time because that is a
Speaker 3: product that is utilized to put some trace minerals into
Speaker 3: the soil so that when our plants need them, they're there.
Speaker 3: And you can do asmada anytime of the year. A
Speaker 3: lot of people do it when they put their other
Speaker 3: fertilizer down because it's easy to go through the yard,
Speaker 3: put on your fertilizer, go back through the yard, put
Speaker 3: on your as mite, and then just water them in.
Speaker 3: You can do it that way, but you could do
Speaker 3: it at any time of the year. These are not
Speaker 3: nutrients that are going to evaporate and go off into
Speaker 3: the atmosphere. You know, they don't easily wash out of
Speaker 3: the soil, and so it doesn't matter when you do it,
Speaker 3: but you just want to do it. And as far
Speaker 3: as how often you need to do it, that's that's
Speaker 3: kind of up to you, and it's up to your soil.
Speaker 3: What is your soil need. Soil tests are a good
Speaker 3: way to find out that kind of thing. But you
Speaker 3: can do azmite once a year some people do it
Speaker 3: twice a year. But the bottom line is it is
Speaker 3: it is important to recognize it. Just because something is
Speaker 3: a micro I need just a little of it doesn't
Speaker 3: mean that it's not absolutely essential. We have We used
Speaker 3: to always say sixteen nutrients that are essential. Now we're
Speaker 3: looking at probably close to twenty, depending on the plant
Speaker 3: and the plant growth stage. But anyway, that's how it
Speaker 3: works with ayse might And by the way, that it's
Speaker 3: for sale everywhere, you know pretty much the feed stores,
Speaker 3: the garden centers, ace hardware stores, you know, Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 3: all these kinds of places are going to carry the
Speaker 3: a's of min I.
Speaker 5: Know they.
Speaker 3: Most places that are going to carry the quality good
Speaker 3: fertilizers are going to under I have that on hand.
Speaker 3: All right. Well that was a long drawn out explanation,
Speaker 3: but after the conversations that I had yesterday, it's kind
Speaker 3: of like, well, maybe I need to talk about that again.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite places to go just for fun
Speaker 3: is Arborgate Garden Center. And why do I say that, Well,
Speaker 3: every time I walk around arbor Gate, I see something
Speaker 3: I hadn't seen before because they're always getting something new
Speaker 3: in there, and you know, I just walked through. I
Speaker 3: look at the plants, I look at the brand new
Speaker 3: kinds of annuals and perennials that they bring in, and
Speaker 3: it's like that is cool, you know, visiting with Beverly
Speaker 3: or some of the other staff out there, it's it's
Speaker 3: just like wow that I hadn't seen that one before.
Speaker 3: It's a very new one and they're going to have
Speaker 3: that kind of thing at Arburicate because they're always stand
Speaker 3: up to date. Twelve months out of the year. You
Speaker 3: can buy fruit, fruit, trees, berries, grapes at Arburgate. They
Speaker 3: keep them in stock right now. They have lots of
Speaker 3: beautiful color, beautiful color, and vegetables, all the vegetables that
Speaker 3: you need and herbs. The roses are just gorgeous in
Speaker 3: bloom and here comes Valentine's Day. Be a great place
Speaker 3: to stop in. You see the whole building that they
Speaker 3: have dedicated, a roofless building dedicated to two herb roses.
Speaker 3: Then they're just gorgeous. They're lotle gorgeous. Remember that when
Speaker 3: you're there, bronze stuff before green stuff. So when you
Speaker 3: go home with the plant, go home with one of
Speaker 3: their one two three or their one two three easy system.
Speaker 3: It's a soil, it's a fertilizer, and it is a compost.
Speaker 3: The soil and compost have a extra bonus in that
Speaker 3: you get some expanded shale in those which really helps
Speaker 3: our clay soils and the nutrients organic organic plant food
Speaker 3: for anything with roots, so you can and by the way,
Speaker 3: the soil in the compost can be delivered in bulk.
Speaker 3: So if you live somewhere and you hear my voice
Speaker 3: on this radio show, they probably can deliver it from Arburgate.
Speaker 3: And I realize that's going pretty far out, but they
Speaker 3: do deliver in a wide area and you can buy
Speaker 3: that in bulk. So remember to use that back parking lot.
Speaker 3: It is really nice, all weather, easy access and a
Speaker 3: very safe, very safe to get in and out, and
Speaker 3: I basically love to use it myself. Well let's see
Speaker 3: here we are on garden Line and we are a
Speaker 3: call in show, so if you like to call in
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Speaker 3: I was visiting with someone with a from ACE last week.
Speaker 3: In fact, I was visiting with a number of different
Speaker 3: employees from ACE and some of the managers and they
Speaker 3: just are stocked and ready for spring, and they've got
Speaker 3: some really good deals going on right now. For example,
Speaker 3: they're going to have a President's Day sail on all
Speaker 3: kinds of painting supplies. So if you need to paint
Speaker 3: or maybe stained some wood or you know that deck,
Speaker 3: don't forget your deck needs a wooden deck needs to
Speaker 3: be resealed periodically or before you know it, you're going
Speaker 3: to get decay and then you get to build a
Speaker 3: whole new deck. And Ace Hardware has got you covered
Speaker 3: on that as well as the paints and things. They're
Speaker 3: Mowen faucets this month February are twenty percent off. So
Speaker 3: if you're going to replace a foster it in a
Speaker 3: bathroom or in a kitchen or wherever you have it,
Speaker 3: stop by Ace. This is a good deal, good opportunity
Speaker 3: to do that. I need to replace my air filters.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking the other day, I need to
Speaker 3: put this on my calendar because you know you're supposed
Speaker 3: to replace them about monthly, especially when the unit's are
Speaker 3: running a lot, and you can buy three and get
Speaker 3: one free. So that's also a good deal at Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware Store. And these things don't last forever. So go
Speaker 3: ahead and take advantage of it. Anything you need to
Speaker 3: make your home more beautiful, more enjoyable to live in,
Speaker 3: to make your outdoor areas better. The fertilizers I'm talking
Speaker 3: about for your lawn, the pest and weed and disease
Speaker 3: and everything else. They've got it at Ace Hardware. And
Speaker 3: we have so many Ace Hardware is here in the
Speaker 3: Greater Houston area. You can go to a place like
Speaker 3: Sinkle Ranch, Ace Hardware, or k and m Ace Hardware
Speaker 3: in Kingwood or Lake Conroe, Ace Hardware, Wharton Feed and
Speaker 3: Ace Bay City, Ace on and on to go to
Speaker 3: Acehardware dot com and find the store locator and you
Speaker 3: can find the ones near you. They make it easy
Speaker 3: at ACE. I think I said this yesterday, but I
Speaker 3: got my eyes on a Trager barbecue. They had the
Speaker 3: top of top brands, you know, Big Green Egg, Trager,
Speaker 3: Weber and on, then Minimal Well and others, and then
Speaker 3: all the stuff you need to go with your barbecue pit,
Speaker 3: all the the peripheral things that are part of just
Speaker 3: having a great time out there as the girl master
Speaker 3: of your own neighborhood at least of your own patio.
Speaker 3: That Ace has got you covered so earlier on I had,
Speaker 3: you know, talking about nutrients and the importance of trace
Speaker 3: metals and other things like that. The big three nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium.
Speaker 3: It's important to get those out at the right time
Speaker 3: and in the right amounts. And nitrogen is the single
Speaker 3: nutrient of all the nutrient insider out there. Nitrogen is
Speaker 3: a one that we most often are really needing to supplement.
Speaker 3: Now there's others that we do need to supplement for sure,
Speaker 3: but nitrogen will volatilize as a gas and go in
Speaker 3: the atmosphere. It can it can dissolve and wash away
Speaker 3: down through the soil, across the surface of the soil.
Speaker 3: It is a nutrient that's always on the move. Bacteria,
Speaker 3: microbes take up nitrogen and when they do it becomes,
Speaker 3: you know, part of their bodies. Then they die and
Speaker 3: they release that nitrogen back into the soil, and so
Speaker 3: nitrogen is always on the move. There's several different forms
Speaker 3: of nitrogen in the soil and it's always going from
Speaker 3: one form to another, and our goal is to continue
Speaker 3: to add it in small amounts. And if you're looking
Speaker 3: for something for an early greenup for your lawn, well,
Speaker 3: nitrofos has got you covered with nitrofos imperial. That's the
Speaker 3: fifteen five P ten. We say that's a three one
Speaker 3: two ratio, three being the nitrogen the most of that,
Speaker 3: less of the phosphorus, and a medium amount of the potassium.
Speaker 3: It's designed based on research at A and M over
Speaker 3: the years that have proven that is the blend that
Speaker 3: you most need for your lawns. If you're going to
Speaker 3: replenish what typically is needed in a lawn, A three
Speaker 3: one two four one two even those ratios are, you're
Speaker 3: in the right ballpark there, and nitroposs imperial is going
Speaker 3: to release quickly. So if you use it as a
Speaker 3: green up, if you follow my schedule, there's a green
Speaker 3: up on there. You can do that. That's an optional one,
Speaker 3: but you can do that and get that early green
Speaker 3: that a lot of people are looking for with the
Speaker 3: nitrophoss and pear. That's a red bag, by the way.
Speaker 3: Red bag, by the way. But remember this above all
Speaker 3: that if you're going to try to prevent summer weeds,
Speaker 3: you got to get the barricade from nitroposs down. Now,
Speaker 3: barricades put down watered in with a half inch and
Speaker 3: it goes to the soil and it ties up to
Speaker 3: the surface. Barricade does a better job of that than
Speaker 3: a lot of pre emergence do it ties up, and
Speaker 3: then when a weed tries to sprout and go through there,
Speaker 3: it sets it down and you never see the weed.
Speaker 3: But if you wait too long and the weeds are
Speaker 3: all up, well, barricade is not going to do what
Speaker 3: it should do for you. You gotta do it ahead of time,
Speaker 3: and now is ahead of time. Now now, now, all right,
Speaker 3: time for me to take a break, and I'll be
Speaker 3: right back. Alrighty, welcome back to garden Line. Very glad
Speaker 3: to have you with us and looking forward to visiting
Speaker 3: with you about the things that are of interest to you.
Speaker 3: What are your questions? You got a bug and got
Speaker 3: a leaf spot a disease, plant diying, and you don't
Speaker 3: know why need a suggestion for the best tomato on earth? Boy,
Speaker 3: that would be a controversial answer, right there. Everybody has
Speaker 3: their favorites, right I do too. I bought a sun
Speaker 3: gold yesterday. Sun Gold is a cherry type tomato that's
Speaker 3: kind of a golden orange color. Golden yellow orange color,
Speaker 3: really pretty and good night, that thing is sweet. There's
Speaker 3: gold and sun sugar are two of my favorites there.
Speaker 3: But I think there's probably a thousand varieties of tomatoes
Speaker 3: out there on the market, or have been over the years,
Speaker 3: and there's so many good ones, so many good ones,
Speaker 3: and you need to try different ones. I never plant
Speaker 3: just one variety. I always try maybe two or three
Speaker 3: at least. Sometimes I go crazy and do a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of them just in a trial. But I always
Speaker 3: try something new because you never know each variety. It
Speaker 3: depends on the season, but it also depends on the
Speaker 3: particular growing conditions and pasts that you're dealing with. For example,
Speaker 3: Celebrity tomato that's been around since the nineteen seventies. It's
Speaker 3: an All America selection from way back then, and it's
Speaker 3: one of the few tomatoes that is nematode resistant, not proof,
Speaker 3: but resistant celebrity. There just aren't a lot of tomatoes
Speaker 3: that have Nema toad resistance in them. But anyway, that
Speaker 3: is an old time tomat a long time. It's not
Speaker 3: what we would call an antique heirloom tomato, but I
Speaker 3: guess if it hangs around long enough, it will be.
Speaker 3: But I love that tomatoes. They're a good one. But
Speaker 3: I don't just plant celebrity. I plan all kinds of things,
Speaker 3: try different ones out and see how they do it,
Speaker 3: and I would suggest you do that too, try something fun.
Speaker 3: One year, I planted every stuffing tomato I could find. So,
Speaker 3: what's a stuffing tomato. Well, you know when you cut
Speaker 3: open a bell pepper, it's hollow inside, and then you
Speaker 3: have all the seeds kind of wided up at the
Speaker 3: top of the bell pepper where the stem attaches. There
Speaker 3: are tomatoes that are sort of like that, and they're
Speaker 3: made and even stuff any tomato, but they're made to
Speaker 3: basically clear out and stuff them, put them on a
Speaker 3: plate with I don't know what, you know, chicken salad
Speaker 3: or whatever you want to put in your tomato. And
Speaker 3: I tried all those and I'll tell you this, it
Speaker 3: was fun. It was kind of cool, but most of
Speaker 3: them took so long to reach harvest that I only
Speaker 3: got a few off each bush. You know, in tomatoes,
Speaker 3: when we get into summer it gets hot, they quit setting.
Speaker 3: The big slicers, especially small free to types, are better
Speaker 3: setting in the summer, which, by the way, is another
Speaker 3: reason why you should have some cherries when you do
Speaker 3: have your slicers, because the cherries will carry you further
Speaker 3: into summer. And I say cherry also mean grape. Grape types.
Speaker 3: Both cherry and grape will carry into the heap better.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I try some different ones. But if you're
Speaker 3: looking for tomatoes, always look at the days to harvest.
Speaker 3: If it's a faster tomato, you're probably going to get
Speaker 3: more production out of it because it'll start producing sooner,
Speaker 3: so that when that hot weather and it's both hot
Speaker 3: days and hot nights too, when that arrives, you have
Speaker 3: gotten more of a harvest off that plant than something
Speaker 3: that takes a long time. And some of the most
Speaker 3: famous tomato names like brandywines probably one of the most
Speaker 3: well known names of heirlooms. Brandywine takes a long time,
Speaker 3: and I know people that grow it because they love
Speaker 3: the tomato. I get it, go for it. But I'll
Speaker 3: tell you this, if you were to say how much
Speaker 3: harvest do I get out of a celebrity and how
Speaker 3: much harvest do I get out of brandywine, it is
Speaker 3: hugely different because brandywine about the time it starts setting,
Speaker 3: it quits setting because of the heat. Thing. That's a
Speaker 3: little bit of an exaggeration, but just something to think
Speaker 3: about when you're out there looking at varieties. Well, I
Speaker 3: love paste tomatoes too. By the way, I'm droning on
Speaker 3: here about tomatoes, but I want to paste tomatoes are
Speaker 3: very meaty. Instead of having a lot of that like
Speaker 3: jelly around all the seeds in between the sections of
Speaker 3: the tomato, they have more of actually the tomato wall,
Speaker 3: the solid part of the tomato in a paste tomato.
Speaker 3: And they're used for making paste and other things. I
Speaker 3: like to take them and cut them and dry them.
Speaker 3: I think they make a really good dried tomato, and
Speaker 3: I sprinkle different kinds of herbs and spices on them.
Speaker 3: You want something that's a little bit of like maybe
Speaker 3: a taco type seasoning at maybe a little spicy. If
Speaker 3: you want something that's more of I want some rosemary
Speaker 3: or thyme or whatever. You can do them however, you
Speaker 3: want whatever flavor you like. Season all these one of
Speaker 3: those seasonal type products. But boy, dried tomatoes last a
Speaker 3: long time, and when you dry them and you have
Speaker 3: a little bit of seasoning on them, it really concentrates
Speaker 3: that flavor down. So I always grow paste tomatoes not
Speaker 3: to make sauce, which is kind of what they're for,
Speaker 3: but to use this dried tomatoes. So there you go.
Speaker 3: I droned on out loud about tomatoes because tomatoes are
Speaker 3: the queen of the garden. You know that they're the
Speaker 3: queen of the garden. And that means that when it
Speaker 3: comes to vegetables, that's the number one vegetable people want
Speaker 3: to grow. That's what we obsess over. That's what every
Speaker 3: year we have to try some new varieties of is
Speaker 3: a tomato especially, And that's just the way it is.
Speaker 3: Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery is out there and Katie,
Speaker 3: and if you haven't been, you ought to go. You
Speaker 3: just had out I ten. When you get to Katie
Speaker 3: Fort Ben Road there you turn north, turn right right
Speaker 3: if you're going out from Houston, and it's just a
Speaker 3: little bit up the road, not very far at all.
Speaker 3: On the right hand side, when you go to Nelson
Speaker 3: Nursery and Water Gardens, you're going to find just an
Speaker 3: unbelievable selection of both the nursery items, the plants, and
Speaker 3: the things associated with water gardens. So for example, one
Speaker 3: of a kind fish fountains, water plants and pots for water.
Speaker 3: In fact, Nelson's can help you. You can buy a
Speaker 3: beautiful pot there and Nelson's can help you. Have them
Speaker 3: turn it into a disappearing fountain, you know. That's the
Speaker 3: It's like a tall pottery and the water runs over
Speaker 3: the sides and then recirculates. They invented that system and
Speaker 3: they are experts at it, and you can have them
Speaker 3: do it, or they can help you with your do
Speaker 3: it yourselfing. If you want to do some do it yourself,
Speaker 3: get some help from the Nelson's experts. They can help
Speaker 3: you with that too. For those of you who are
Speaker 3: so inclined, I like to walk through Nelson's just for
Speaker 3: the inspiration number one, the sound of water. I've told
Speaker 3: them this and I still think they have a charge
Speaker 3: admission because it's cheaper than therapy. You go out there
Speaker 3: and you just sit and listen to the water all
Speaker 3: around you. There's water splashing out of waterfalls and containers
Speaker 3: and everything else, and it's just it's cathartic. It's really nice.
Speaker 3: They are nationally known have been for a long time
Speaker 3: for all kinds of things water garden, but don't just
Speaker 3: think of them as water. They have a very good
Speaker 3: nursery with everything that you would want to you know,
Speaker 3: your vegetables, your herbs, you know, your fruit trees, your shrubs,
Speaker 3: and it is a place you got to go and
Speaker 3: check out the house plants that are inside. You kind
Speaker 3: of walk through that on your way in beautiful selection,
Speaker 3: which would be a great Valentine's Day gift as well. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to take a little quick break here.
Speaker 3: When we come back, I will go to Pam in
Speaker 3: Pearland and John in fullsher and maybe your call if
Speaker 3: you want to give us a call it seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two. Katie r h. All right, welcome
Speaker 3: back to the Garden Line. Let's run straight out to the phones.
Speaker 3: Now we're going to go to Pearland and talk to Pam. Hey, Pam,
Speaker 3: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, yep.
Speaker 7: I have a question about the native product. Was going
Speaker 7: to put down the barricade, but I'm thinking the whedon
Speaker 7: nator has a little pre emergent in it or is
Speaker 7: that not the case?
Speaker 2: Could I do this?
Speaker 3: It's it, Yeah, Nelson's we enator is primarily we're putting
Speaker 3: it down as a post emergent to stick to stick
Speaker 3: to the weeds and whatnot. Of course, it also has
Speaker 3: the nutrients in it, the nitrogen, you know, nitrogen poster
Speaker 3: for some potassium things like that. So that's that is
Speaker 3: the primary a thing that we're going to accomplish with
Speaker 3: the weed inator. Uh it's it does also cause your
Speaker 3: grass to not grow upwards as much to it still
Speaker 3: has horizontal growth, but it has a growth regulator, so
Speaker 3: you're not mowing quite as much uh in it.
Speaker 7: Yes, I used it last year and I was satisfied.
Speaker 7: I didn't get that forced growth that cost fungus later
Speaker 7: in the years.
Speaker 2: So satisfied with that.
Speaker 7: But I do want it to do the bear paid
Speaker 7: now and wait a few weeks to do the weed in.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Well, yes you could uh the bear If you're going
Speaker 3: to do primerging, you've got to do that now. Now's
Speaker 3: the time, you know, you want to get it ahead
Speaker 3: of as many of the weeds as you can the
Speaker 3: uh weed enator. Don't wait too long on it because
Speaker 3: it kills the broad leaf weeds. But as all these
Speaker 3: winter weeds are going into spring, there to be blooming
Speaker 3: and setting seeds soon, and all post emergent products work
Speaker 3: better on a weed before it gets too far into
Speaker 3: that process. Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't know which what to do. To do the
Speaker 7: barricade or the whedonator.
Speaker 3: Do the barricade now and after we get you know,
Speaker 3: past this freeze, and in the next week or two
Speaker 3: or three you need to get the weedinator down. I'd
Speaker 3: say week or two if you could.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, that'll look okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you appreciate your call very much. Okay.
Speaker 3: I hope that. I hope that makes sense. I hope
Speaker 3: that makes sense for you. Airloom Soils is one of
Speaker 3: those companies that does things right. You know, all through
Speaker 3: life you have these companies and you go you know,
Speaker 3: those people have it together. They know how to do it.
Speaker 3: And Airlom Soils is that way. You look at their
Speaker 3: products and whether you want to grow vegetables and herbs
Speaker 3: and they're using their veggie and herb mix, well, of
Speaker 3: course they got you covered on that. Maybe you're looking
Speaker 3: for some indoor potting soil like called the Works. That's
Speaker 3: what they call. There's the Works, and it worked really
Speaker 3: really well for all those tropicals we grow indoors. They
Speaker 3: have things for cactus and succulents, they have things maybe
Speaker 3: you're gonna plant fruit and berries or citrus. They have
Speaker 3: stuff for that. They have rose soil, they have whatever
Speaker 3: you're looking for, They've got it, and you can. They
Speaker 3: give you the option because it's widely available around town
Speaker 3: by the bag. Wherever you shop, buy by the bag.
Speaker 3: Or you can go out and get it on your
Speaker 3: pickup or your trailer, go out to porter and get
Speaker 3: it out there, or you can have them deliver it
Speaker 3: and they can dump it in the driveway, or they
Speaker 3: can bring it cubic yard at a time in supersacks
Speaker 3: not too long. I got two supersacks of products for
Speaker 3: my gardening and whatnot. So all you have to do
Speaker 3: is make the decision how you want to go about it,
Speaker 3: and call Airloom Soils, you know, go check them out.
Speaker 3: I like to go to the website because there's a
Speaker 3: lot of good information there, including a little calculator that
Speaker 3: will help you determine how much of a product you need.
Speaker 3: You know, you're going to put in a bed that's
Speaker 3: so wide by so long, Well, how many cubic yards
Speaker 3: is out? Well? The calculator does all that. All that
Speaker 3: for you makes it really easy. Airloom Soils good products,
Speaker 3: widely available and they work. That's about as simple as
Speaker 3: I can put it. Let's go out to full Shore
Speaker 3: now and we're going to talk to John. Hey, John,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 3: Morning.
Speaker 8: I was spraying ant hells on my ten acre tractia
Speaker 8: the day using bison. It it works well, okay for
Speaker 8: killing It doesn't matter if it's a fire ant or
Speaker 8: a leaf cut or ant. It works well. Had a
Speaker 8: neighbor stop and ask me what I was using and
Speaker 8: I told her, and she called me yesterday and asked me,
Speaker 8: can I use this around my fig trees? And I
Speaker 8: said I wouldn't recommend it. She also has a garden that.
Speaker 9: Is on the ground with you know, wood around it,
Speaker 9: and the ants have made ant holes or ant beds
Speaker 9: around the garden.
Speaker 8: Bed, and she, you know, she's concerned about using it there.
Speaker 8: Wanted to know if the plants would suck up the poison.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well here's the answer to Can I use it
Speaker 3: in filling the blank where the labels the law and
Speaker 3: so that I can never tell you, oh, it's okay,
Speaker 3: just use it on that even though it's even though
Speaker 3: that location is not on the label, uh, the label's law,
Speaker 3: and so that I would just read the label on
Speaker 3: your bike in this case Biffen, But it's true of
Speaker 3: anything you buy, uh and see what it says, and
Speaker 3: that that is where it has been determined to be
Speaker 3: safe to use according to the label. So that that's
Speaker 3: what I would say. Biffen is not something that just
Speaker 3: washes all over the place. It sticks pretty good and
Speaker 3: uh so wherever you put it, unless you just get
Speaker 3: gully washers, it's gonna it's gonna pretty well stay around
Speaker 3: in that spot and it does last a while. It's
Speaker 3: a fairly persistent insecticide.
Speaker 8: Well I know it works well very well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that would be.
Speaker 8: I take a stick with a survey stick, you know,
Speaker 8: and poke a hole in their ant bed and then
Speaker 8: let them come up. They not spray all them and
Speaker 8: it's amazing, Okay, how well it kills these ants? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Alrighty, thanks for the Carl, appreciate that, John. Take care
Speaker 3: out there, and for sure Intended Forrest Garden Center down
Speaker 3: in the Richmond Rosenberg area is stocked up on all
Speaker 3: kinds of things. And you know what Valentine, Valentine's Day coming,
Speaker 3: we think about roses and they've got they've got a
Speaker 3: couple of lists. I just wanted to share with you
Speaker 3: Iran in these the other day. I think Danny sent
Speaker 3: them over. The top ten shrub in Flora bunder roses
Speaker 3: for the Houston region starts off the list with Belinda's Dream,
Speaker 3: probably one of the best all around roses in my
Speaker 3: opinion that you're going to have because it makes a shrub,
Speaker 3: which is nice. It has beautiful flowers that look rose
Speaker 3: like you know some rose flowers. If they're single blooms,
Speaker 3: people go, well, that's not a rose. Well it is
Speaker 3: a rose, but some people like that look of a
Speaker 3: kind of a hybrid t thing. But this is on
Speaker 3: a bush and it has a nice, nice fragrance and
Speaker 3: really good disease resistance as well. But anyway, they've got
Speaker 3: a whole list of the top ten shrubs and floor
Speaker 3: bunder roses. They also have the top ten best selling
Speaker 3: and best smelling roses. What do you want a plant
Speaker 3: to get that wonderful fragrances that roses offer, Well, just
Speaker 3: run out to Encented Forest and Richmond. They got a
Speaker 3: good stock of roses and that really helpful lists and
Speaker 3: that will kind of get you going off to the
Speaker 3: to the races with I guess what you need in
Speaker 3: order to buy a wonderful gift for Valentine's Day in
Speaker 3: Chenny Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine. And
Speaker 3: when you're out there, check out their fruit trees. They
Speaker 3: now's the time to plant, by the way, They've got
Speaker 3: load chow varieties of apples and peaches and plums. They
Speaker 3: even have trees that are called three and one where
Speaker 3: they've grafted three different varieties of something onto the same tree.
Speaker 3: That's kind of cool for those of you who don't
Speaker 3: have room for a lot of trees. They've got some
Speaker 3: really nice satsumas. They got brown select and Arctic frost
Speaker 3: and others. And when you're there, you're gonna find everything
Speaker 3: you need for any part of your yard and garden,
Speaker 3: from herbs to vegetable transplants to flowers, you name it.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Forest Plus it's fun to go. That's on FM
Speaker 3: twenty seven fifty nine in between Richmond, Rosenberg and sugar Land,
Speaker 3: just south of fifty nine. Alrighty well, I think I'm
Speaker 3: gonna hear music here in my ear, which means I
Speaker 3: got quit talking. That's okay, I can talk for a
Speaker 3: low while. Don't forget my website, and you know I
Speaker 3: talk about it all the time, because that's where I
Speaker 3: put the stuff that you asked questions about. So here
Speaker 3: comes another freeze. And by the way, we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about that this morning, so stay tuned. Here comes
Speaker 3: another freeze. I have a publication that I wrote with
Speaker 3: a specialist at AY and M and doctor money Nesbitt,
Speaker 3: and basically it tells you everything you need to know
Speaker 3: about protecting plants from frost and freeze problems. It's there
Speaker 3: on the website. Everything they're free. My schedules are there
Speaker 3: if you are calling. When do I fertilize, what do
Speaker 3: I use? How do I control weeds? What do I use?
Speaker 3: When do I put it on? It's all on the schedule.
Speaker 3: If you're organic, if you're synthetic, there are options for
Speaker 3: everyone on that speed Go grab a cup of coffee,
Speaker 3: but come on back. I'll be here in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as spray.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
Speaker 3: bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That's what I would
Speaker 3: like to see happen because I want you to have
Speaker 3: more fun in the process. Gardening should be fun. Let's
Speaker 3: figure out how to make it fun for you. And
Speaker 3: one of the main things we need to do is
Speaker 3: to help you have success on garden line, I say
Speaker 3: that there's no such thing as a brown thumb, only
Speaker 3: uninformed thumbs. So bring both your thumbs with you this morning,
Speaker 3: and let's talk about gardening so they can learn something
Speaker 3: and turn green in the process. How's that all right? Well,
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk a little bit about some things
Speaker 3: that go on in the soil that I think are important.
Speaker 3: I've talked about nutrients and the important you know, macronutrients
Speaker 3: and micronutrients and whatnot. But the thing that really runs
Speaker 3: the whole plant system or the microbes in the soil.
Speaker 3: You know, in nature, it is basically decaying organic matter
Speaker 3: and microbes that are making everything happen to keep plants
Speaker 3: growing and happy and healthy and so on. Microbes break
Speaker 3: down organic matter. Different ones have different jobs. Bacteria work
Speaker 3: on simple things, simple carbohydrates, like those grass clippings that
Speaker 3: you return to the lawn. Then you got actinom seeds,
Speaker 3: which work on a little bit more difficult to decompose substances. Certainly,
Speaker 3: we have bacteria and fungi. Fungi break can break down
Speaker 3: almost anything. They literally bone, you know, fingernails, rock. You know,
Speaker 3: fungi can exude an acid substance to dissolve away the
Speaker 3: mineral in rock. Now that's pretty cool. So all of
Speaker 3: these things are also doing things like fighting disease. And
Speaker 3: the soil we have bacteria that fight other bacteria and
Speaker 3: from infection. Let me do this. Have you ever used
Speaker 3: triple anaboutic ointment, the neomyce and neo mix and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. Well, those are substances by soil bacteria.
Speaker 3: Now the pharmaceutical company is making them in a big
Speaker 3: vat in a different way, but that those were created
Speaker 3: if you will buy the bacteria and the soil, that's
Speaker 3: where they started. And they do that kind of for
Speaker 3: our plant roots. So anything we do that enhances the
Speaker 3: microbes is going to enhance plant growth. And you know
Speaker 3: that's why years ago Mike Curant decided to create a
Speaker 3: fertilizer called Microlife and to focus on something that's natural,
Speaker 3: something that is enhanced also with additional microbes in it.
Speaker 3: And now there's a wideline of Microlife products. You know,
Speaker 3: we're looking at everything from the standard green bag that
Speaker 3: is good for pretty much everything. The six two four.
Speaker 3: They have fertilizers for acidic plants and kind of a
Speaker 3: pink hot, pink kind of colored bag that I will
Speaker 3: cover your blueberries. Your gosh, I just went bland on
Speaker 3: the plant. I was trying to say, oh, azalias, thank
Speaker 3: you azaleas, and things like Virginia sweet spire. We want
Speaker 3: to grow more of that here. It's the nice attic plant,
Speaker 3: loving plant uh and hydranges. You know, whatever it is,
Speaker 3: that product is good for it. They got products for
Speaker 3: fertilizing fruit trees of various kinds. They just have a
Speaker 3: lot of products. They got them dry and granular that
Speaker 3: you can spread with your spreader or however you want
Speaker 3: to you know, spread them out there. They also have
Speaker 3: liquids that you can spray both as a folier feed.
Speaker 3: Because microlife products are not going to burn, they're not
Speaker 3: salt based or not. You're not going to burn your
Speaker 3: plants with them. You can use them as drenching into
Speaker 3: the soil however you want to use them. There's a
Speaker 3: Microlife product for pretty much anything you want to do,
Speaker 3: including their humus. The humate is. I think probably if
Speaker 3: I were just to kind of look at one of
Speaker 3: the less understood of the microlife products, it's probably the
Speaker 3: hum mats plus and the humites plus is basically constentrated
Speaker 3: compost in a bag. You take leaves and grass clippings,
Speaker 3: you compost them down. That's called compost. You take compost
Speaker 3: and you let it break down to its final stage,
Speaker 3: and that's called humus. And humus is very helpful in
Speaker 3: opening up our highly resistant to drainage clay soils. It
Speaker 3: helps form structure in the soil and so it benefits
Speaker 3: in that way, which of course in turn makes the
Speaker 3: microbes happier. So all around, with Microlife, you're getting something
Speaker 3: that is going to make your microbes happy. And if
Speaker 3: they're happy, your plants are going to be happy. And
Speaker 3: if your plants happy, you're going to be happy. That's
Speaker 3: kind of how this works. Microw Life products are available widely.
Speaker 3: You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out more.
Speaker 3: But whatever you do, hug a microbe today, because they
Speaker 3: are running a lot of things down there in the
Speaker 3: soil forests. I was talking to the group out it
Speaker 3: in Chinna Garden yesterday about the role that microbes play.
Speaker 3: You know, they were kind of listening and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and then when I mentioned that you couldn't have beer
Speaker 3: without microbes, suddenly a bunch of people perked up, and
Speaker 3: now microbes became important. All right, well whatever, we can
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Speaker 3: All right, we're back. Welcome regard line. What do you
Speaker 3: wanna talk about today? What are you curious about? What
Speaker 3: are you having to deal with? That's kind of the
Speaker 3: you occur. Maybe maybe we can help out with that.
Speaker 3: We certainly would be more than happy to visit with
Speaker 3: you about the kinds of questions that you have. Someone
Speaker 3: asked me one time, have you heard every gardening question
Speaker 3: that's ever been asked? Because I've you know, I spent
Speaker 3: thirty five years as a county extension horticulturist, and basically
Speaker 3: that just means the answer grape. Remember that California raising commercial,
Speaker 3: the answer person for all kinds of questions people call in.
Speaker 3: I've done radio shows now garden Line, and it's it's
Speaker 3: just questions and questions. And first of all, I really
Speaker 3: enjoy doing that because I can help you have success
Speaker 3: and not waste your money by doing that. But no,
Speaker 3: I haven't heard every question. I always find new questions
Speaker 3: that people have come up with. It's like, yeah, well
Speaker 3: I haven't heard that one before. That's a that's a
Speaker 3: new one for me. So it is kind of a
Speaker 3: challenge to, you know, kind of take a phone call
Speaker 3: and wonder what people are going to ask because sometimes
Speaker 3: I think folks like to play stump the chump and
Speaker 3: that that is a possibility here. Well, anyway, when you
Speaker 3: want to when you want to have success with plants,
Speaker 3: it comes down to some simple principles. You know, it
Speaker 3: can get complicated. We can you know, make it complicated. Uh,
Speaker 3: and we can go into all the details and whatnot,
Speaker 3: and I try to avoid going too much into that.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is plants want sunlight. A. Plants
Speaker 3: want sunlight. Are they in a spot where they get
Speaker 3: them out of sunlight? They want b Plants want water.
Speaker 3: Are they getting the right amount of water? Some plants,
Speaker 3: you know azaleas, they like to be kept moist all
Speaker 3: the time to do well. But if you overwater them
Speaker 3: and put them in a swamp, then you create problems.
Speaker 3: So the right amount of water, sunlight, water, and then
Speaker 3: plants need soil. And that soil is a huge category
Speaker 3: because it includes the type of soil, sand, silk, clay,
Speaker 3: It includes the structure of the soil. Is let's you
Speaker 3: say you have a clay. It could be like modeling
Speaker 3: clay where you take your fingers and you make a
Speaker 3: little bowl and fill it with water and it holds
Speaker 3: water like a farm pond. Or it could be a
Speaker 3: clay that has nice structure so that you grab a
Speaker 3: clod when it's drying out and it just crumbles apart
Speaker 3: in your hand. So that that's important. Does it have
Speaker 3: organic matter in it?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: And that you know, our good our good mixes by
Speaker 3: the way, they are designed to have high organic matter content. UH.
Speaker 3: To hold water, hold the extra water especially I mean
Speaker 3: to hold enough water for the plants, but drain away
Speaker 3: the extra water. So sun water and soils. Those those
Speaker 3: are three of the most important things. Now there are
Speaker 3: other aspects. You got bugs and diseases and things like
Speaker 3: that that can attack and whatnot. But those three things
Speaker 3: are the first three things. And you can keep most
Speaker 3: plants happy if you give them the three things that
Speaker 3: they want each of those and so it's not that
Speaker 3: hard to do that. Now the curve comes when we
Speaker 3: deal with weather, and when we deal with you know,
Speaker 3: not just the heating cold, but excessive amounts of rain.
Speaker 3: When we deal with insect invasions. You know, some years
Speaker 3: we just have a ton of insects of various types,
Speaker 3: and other years it's like they're not there where they go, Well,
Speaker 3: they're there. They just aren't having an outbreak. Have you
Speaker 3: Have you ever noticed that if you have a Saint
Speaker 3: Augustine long, especially sid web worms can take a releaf
Speaker 3: off your grass. And when they occur, and you can
Speaker 3: go to my schedule and see when they occur, it's
Speaker 3: a it's a summer thing later in the summer. But
Speaker 3: some years we don't even see side web worms. It's
Speaker 3: like they're they're there. You know, the species doesn't take
Speaker 3: a plane off to another continent and then come back
Speaker 3: in three years from now. They're there, but they just
Speaker 3: don't have an outbreak. And so it's constantly a dance
Speaker 3: with all the aspects of nature and our desire to
Speaker 3: grow good plants. But I just don't want to let
Speaker 3: you get it too complicated. Remember it is simple. Sunlight
Speaker 3: and soil and water. Those three things are the keys
Speaker 3: to success. Now in your lawns, right now you're at
Speaker 3: a crossroads. We are getting rid of the existing weeds,
Speaker 3: the ones that are cool season weeds. Ever weed you
Speaker 3: see in your lawn right now is a cool season weed.
Speaker 3: Right now. You do not see warm season weeds right now.
Speaker 3: They're about to sprout and barricade stops that process. You
Speaker 3: put barricade from nitrofoss down follow the label. It goes
Speaker 3: a long way. One ten pound bag of barricade will
Speaker 3: cover up to five thousand square feet and then you
Speaker 3: have to water it in. It's called activating it. It
Speaker 3: moves the product down to the soil where it sticks
Speaker 3: to the soil surface. It doesn't go very deep into
Speaker 3: the soil because up at the surface that's where the
Speaker 3: weeds are coming through. That's where the seeds are sprouting
Speaker 3: up in that area, and barricade is sitting there waiting.
Speaker 3: Then when that crabgrass tries to sprout or whatever the
Speaker 3: weed is, barricade says no and it shuts it down
Speaker 3: and you never even see the weed. But if you
Speaker 3: wait too long, the weeds are all going to be
Speaker 3: up and growing and then it's too late because it's
Speaker 3: a pre emergent. It's not a post emergent. It works
Speaker 3: very well. It's run the folks at Nitrofoss. So you're
Speaker 3: going to find it all over the place. You know,
Speaker 3: night Foss products are widely available through our Greater Houston
Speaker 3: area here. You're going to find them at places like
Speaker 3: in Chinted Forest down in Richmond, Rosenberg Ace Hardware, Sinko Ranch,
Speaker 3: allspas Ace up in the Woodlands, or the Arborgate in Tomball.
Speaker 3: Those are all places that carry nitrofoss products. Let's go
Speaker 3: to the phones now. We're going to go to Kingwood
Speaker 3: and talk to Sammy. Hey, Sammy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Well, actually it's Sandy, but I'll answer almost anything.
Speaker 3: Skiff, Sandy, sorry to butcher your name.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I have a bed that I talked to you
Speaker 18: previously about.
Speaker 17: It's underneath the live oak and I killed the grass
Speaker 17: underneath it, and I plan a dwarf Mundo grass and
Speaker 17: a bunch of composts and it's done.
Speaker 19: They're all living, which is a.
Speaker 18: Big success for me. But I now have dollar weed
Speaker 18: all in it, and I wanted to know what could
Speaker 18: I put on the bed to get rid of the
Speaker 18: dollar weed obviously, but keep my dwarf Mundo grass.
Speaker 3: Okay, you need a post emergent product that will control
Speaker 3: broad leaf weeds, and there are a number of different
Speaker 3: things out there. Dollar weed can be a little bit
Speaker 3: of resistant to our attempts to control it, and so
Speaker 3: you may have to reapply. But there are a lot
Speaker 3: of good products and you can go to your local
Speaker 3: garden centers out there in Kingwood. Un let's say go
Speaker 3: over to Warren's than Gardens and explain to him you've
Speaker 3: got that, and they'll point you to the some of
Speaker 3: the product options that you have there in their store
Speaker 3: for that. But that and also ACE Hardware is you've
Speaker 3: got some good Ace hardware is out there too, So
Speaker 3: I would I want to focus on that. I would
Speaker 3: focus on that.
Speaker 17: You want to grow?
Speaker 3: Say that one more time?
Speaker 4: Do I need to know?
Speaker 3: It does? Find it? Yeah? It does fine without it,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't hurt to put a little bit on.
Speaker 3: You just don't have to overdo it. It's going to
Speaker 3: grow slow. That's the way that is. It's a wonderful plant.
Speaker 3: It's very dark, beautiful green, puts up with more shade
Speaker 3: than almost anything. But it's just gonna grow slow. And
Speaker 3: so a little fertilizer is fine. I just wouldn't try
Speaker 3: to overdo it. You're not going to make it cover
Speaker 3: fast with fertilizer, okay.
Speaker 18: And what I'm trying to do is while it takes
Speaker 18: time to cover.
Speaker 17: The ground, and I've been planting a little flowers in it,
Speaker 17: like I had some impatience last did it okay in there,
Speaker 17: and I actually have some blue bonnets that's got to
Speaker 17: come up from the seeds, so that weed killer won't
Speaker 17: bother those blue bonnets, right, it.
Speaker 3: Will kill the blue bonnets. The weed killer for dollar
Speaker 3: weed will kill the blue bonnets. So you dollar weed,
Speaker 3: you might want to wait then let the blue bonnets
Speaker 3: finish their cycle, you know, go to see it or whatever,
Speaker 3: and then when the plants are declining. Uh, that would
Speaker 3: be the time that you would you would do the
Speaker 3: dollar weed. Let me ask you, this is dollar weed
Speaker 3: widespread throughout that area?
Speaker 4: Well it beginning in other.
Speaker 3: Words, do you have do you have just like a
Speaker 3: one square foot of it? Or do you have a
Speaker 3: thousand square feet of it?
Speaker 18: Or or I know what you're gonna tell me to
Speaker 18: pull it?
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not No I did, okay, No I was.
Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna make you go pull. It is not
Speaker 3: that effective to try to pull dollar weed. It just doesn't.
Speaker 3: It doesn't cooperate with that.
Speaker 19: It's really.
Speaker 3: Well, if it's a small area, you can dab products
Speaker 3: on it with a sponge type applicator, uh and and
Speaker 3: take care of it that way. But what you may
Speaker 3: want to what you may want to try. Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Nitrovis has a product for lawns that is a fifteen
Speaker 3: to five to ten fertilizer and it has trimec in it,
Speaker 3: and so if the if the dollar weed was wet,
Speaker 3: then the granules would stick to the dollar weed and
Speaker 3: probably do a good job. That would be an option
Speaker 3: out there for it. But there are there are a
Speaker 3: lot of products that contain various things that will do
Speaker 3: a pretty good job on dollar weed. So it just uh,
Speaker 3: you know it. That's why I said, you know, go
Speaker 3: to your ace, go to your worn Southern gardens, and
Speaker 3: let them point you at the things that they carry.
Speaker 3: Some of the three way weed control products, you know,
Speaker 3: like the trimech is a three way uh that does
Speaker 3: pretty good on controlling dollar wee. In fact, it does
Speaker 3: actually a good job controlling the dollar weed.
Speaker 17: Okay, well, thanks for the info, Skips, and I'm glad
Speaker 17: I asked about the blue bonnets. I would be sorely
Speaker 17: disappointed if I killed them before they.
Speaker 3: Bloomed, that's right. Well, you know, weeds can all be
Speaker 3: divided into three groups. They're either sedges, their broad leafs,
Speaker 3: or their grasses. And if you buy a broad leaf
Speaker 3: killer every plant is a weed to that broad leaf killer.
Speaker 3: You spray that on your zalias, you spray that on
Speaker 3: your blue bonnet, you spray that on anything broad leaf,
Speaker 3: and it's going to have some effect on it. So
Speaker 3: you have to be real careful.
Speaker 18: Good luck, Thank you, and you have.
Speaker 4: A good day.
Speaker 8: Bye bye.
Speaker 3: Thanks Sam, you too, take care Yep, that is the case.
Speaker 3: Well let's see here, Oh Moss Nursery. I wanted to
Speaker 3: tell you about Moss. Moss has stocked up on so
Speaker 3: much stuff. They're getting like six to eight shipments a day.
Speaker 3: I said that, right, six to eight shipments a day.
Speaker 3: I mean while back they just got like three shipments
Speaker 3: of small cacti for those of you who loved the
Speaker 3: succulents and cac and by the way, four shipments of
Speaker 3: succulents in addition to that. Right now, I was looking
Speaker 3: at some photos from their social media out there, and
Speaker 3: it's like the whole ground is covered with like vegetables
Speaker 3: and herbs and flowers just by the flat. They're everywhere there.
Speaker 3: And the fun thing about Moss, if you haven't been,
Speaker 3: you got to go. I don't care where you live,
Speaker 3: you need to drive down there and see it because
Speaker 3: it is amazing. It's eight acres eight acres, been around
Speaker 3: for seventy years as family owned operation. And when you
Speaker 3: walk through, it's like, I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 3: You turn a corner and you see some carved mask,
Speaker 3: wooden mask, like a totem pole. There, you see unusual
Speaker 3: art for the yard. You see fountains everywhere. You turn
Speaker 3: around a corner, they have a lot of pottery. And
Speaker 3: then you turn and all of a sudden, there's this
Speaker 3: big greenhouse that is huge and it's loaded with all
Speaker 3: kinds of houseplants and it is cool. It's fun to
Speaker 3: go there and walk through, and you need to do that.
Speaker 3: It's on Toddville Road down in Seabrook, Texas. All right,
Speaker 3: Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. Mos Nursery dot com, Maas Nursery
Speaker 3: dot com. Here's a phone number having any questions for
Speaker 3: them two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty
Speaker 3: eight to eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight.
Speaker 3: And by the way, they have a nice selection in
Speaker 3: Japanese maples right now down there too. It's time for
Speaker 3: me to hang up the microphone for just a second here,
Speaker 3: because we got some some how do they say we
Speaker 3: got to pay the bills. We got some that to
Speaker 3: do and a little bit of new too. Yeah, were
Speaker 3: at the half hour, got a little bit of news
Speaker 3: as well. I want to remind you that I will
Speaker 3: be now this is a next Saturday at All Seasons
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware and Willis from twelve to two All Seasons
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware up there in Willis. You need to come
Speaker 3: up and see it. We're going to be given away
Speaker 3: quite a bit of products that some of our suppliers
Speaker 3: are donating. It is a really cool place. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you more about it as we go through the day.
Speaker 3: I could just listen to Pure periodly. All right, folks,
Speaker 3: you are listening to guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter.
Speaker 3: We're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
Speaker 3: beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That would
Speaker 3: be one of my goals in doing this show. Gardening
Speaker 3: is a great hobby. It's a greatest hobby in my opinion.
Speaker 3: I may be biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: It is the best hobby. Gives you exercise, it gives
Speaker 3: you mental benefits that are just outstanding. A pile of
Speaker 3: research I'm foot deep sitting on my desk. Literally that
Speaker 3: that expouses all the benefits of gardening, from helping kids
Speaker 3: with ADHD to seniors that are struggling with the dementia,
Speaker 3: to across your life, peace of mind, lowering blood pressure,
Speaker 3: just on and on and on. There have been studies
Speaker 3: hospital patients sitting in a hospital room bed looking out
Speaker 3: the window at a parking lot or looking out the
Speaker 3: window at nature, and the healing is measurably different. The
Speaker 3: benefits to physical healing is measurably Do you see what
Speaker 3: I'm saying? You know, I could do literally, I really
Speaker 3: could do a whole four hour show and not not
Speaker 3: finish covering all the benefits that gardening has for us.
Speaker 3: I think it's important. I talked to someone yesterday out
Speaker 3: in enf or A Chanda Gardens. They were saying how
Speaker 3: they were getting their kids involved in gardening, and that
Speaker 3: is so important. You know, if you want your kids
Speaker 3: to eat well, to have a healthy lifestyle, gardening is
Speaker 3: a way to do it. Help them get excited about that,
Speaker 3: to find ways to get them involved in gardening where
Speaker 3: they get something out of it. And there's there's strategies
Speaker 3: and ways we can do that. There's a great amount
Speaker 3: of resources up and the Junior Master Gardener Program at
Speaker 3: Texas A and M. That is an international program. Literally
Speaker 3: other countries come and I've been part of their trainings
Speaker 3: before and it's just outstanding. It's JMG. That's that's the
Speaker 3: initials for it. The JMG. When you go and look
Speaker 3: at some of the material they have on hand, it
Speaker 3: is great. Now it's designed. If it's designed so that
Speaker 3: you could use it in a classroom, they have curriculums,
Speaker 3: but it also is just fine for a family to use.
Speaker 3: And the website is called JMG kids dot com JMG
Speaker 3: kids dot com and it is cool. When you go there,
Speaker 3: you see what I'm talking about. You need to check
Speaker 3: it out. They have a number of different curriculum and stuff.
Speaker 3: But if you've got a little homeschool group, if you've
Speaker 3: got a you know, a public school that is interested
Speaker 3: in participating with JMG, a private school that's interested, you
Speaker 3: need to get in touch with those folks because they
Speaker 3: have got it figured out, research based information on teaching
Speaker 3: kids to garden. And when you do that, in the
Speaker 3: process we teach kids how to eat right. And you know,
Speaker 3: broccoli may be one of those things that kids are like, Eh, broccoli.
Speaker 3: I remember when the first George Bush was president, he
Speaker 3: made a statement that now that he's president, he doesn't
Speaker 3: have to eat broccoli. In the words, his mom couldn't
Speaker 3: make him eat broccoli anymore, and people got all upset.
Speaker 3: A guy in a giant broccoli outfit looked like gumby
Speaker 3: marching in front of the White House protesting that the
Speaker 3: president senters get a life anyway. But if you grow something,
Speaker 3: you're more likely to eat it, And that's true with kids.
Speaker 3: Let them grow something to try out to eat themselves.
Speaker 3: You'll find that it helps. And what is our number
Speaker 3: one Well I'm not a medical expert, so someone can
Speaker 3: correct me on this, but I would say one of
Speaker 3: our number one health problems that we have is because
Speaker 3: of what we put in our mouth. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 3: If it goes in your mouth, it can lead to
Speaker 3: health or it can lead to long term health problems.
Speaker 3: So we want our kids to you right all right? There?
Speaker 3: That was a commercial. I guess I don't know anyway.
Speaker 3: It's true, it's true. Yes I'm a gardener. Yes I'm biased,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Just remember that, just
Speaker 3: I used to have a teacher. Oh gosh, I'm really
Speaker 3: wandering here. I used to have a teacher in high
Speaker 3: school and he said, just because you're doesn't mean they're
Speaker 3: not out to get you. That corrects me up anyway.
Speaker 3: That's it, Hey, it's time to furtize your lawn. Time
Speaker 3: to do post emergent weed control on weeds that are
Speaker 3: already growing cool seed. It's time to do per emergent
Speaker 3: weed control, that is, to prevent the warm season weeds.
Speaker 3: Those are all things we do at this point. This
Speaker 3: is like the traffic jam of the lawn going on
Speaker 3: right here. But I'll tell you something else that is
Speaker 3: one of the practices actually too that will help your lawn.
Speaker 3: And that is core aeration, where you pull a plug
Speaker 3: of dirt out of the ground and drop it on
Speaker 3: the surface. Plug a soil. For those of you who
Speaker 3: are out there correcting me and your mind's already plug
Speaker 3: a soil, dropping it on top of the ground. As
Speaker 3: it as that, core washes a part in the rain
Speaker 3: and irrigation. It covers thatch and causes it to break
Speaker 3: down faster. So core iration is the single best thing
Speaker 3: you can do to get rid of that. It is
Speaker 3: the single best thing you can do to get quickly
Speaker 3: air down in the soil to enhance the root system.
Speaker 3: And then you follow that with a compost top dressing.
Speaker 3: A lot of that composts will fall down in the
Speaker 3: hole and it just enriches the soil. You know, you
Speaker 3: can't rototill your lawn to improve the soil, right, but
Speaker 3: you can core air rate and year round Hoston is
Speaker 3: one of our garden line Core aeration companies. Now, core
Speaker 3: aeration companies tend to serve a certain area because they
Speaker 3: have very expensive equipment to haul around and they have
Speaker 3: the bulk of hauling something like a quality compost around
Speaker 3: Year round Houston serves inside the Beltway and they serve
Speaker 3: out in the Richmond Rosenberg area as well. The website
Speaker 3: is what I just said, year round Houston dot com.
Speaker 3: Year round Houston dot com. Go there, you find the
Speaker 3: phone narming, you find out more information about them. They
Speaker 3: use quality screened composts. It's plant based. There's no smell
Speaker 3: to it. They're not gonna make your yard smell by
Speaker 3: putting composts all over it. In fact, I like the
Speaker 3: smell of fresh, earthy composts. But again, if you're inside
Speaker 3: the Beltway, or if you're on the west side, this
Speaker 3: is the company to call. Save yourself the hassle of
Speaker 3: renting equipment which will be inferior to what they use,
Speaker 3: transporting it, cleaning it, returning it, big pols of composts
Speaker 3: delivered into your driveway, and having a shovel it around.
Speaker 3: Just call your run Houston having come out and take
Speaker 3: care of it, and they will. They do a good
Speaker 3: job of that. Someone had called earlier was asking me
Speaker 3: about Weedenator. Weedenator's and Nelson product an unusual product. It's
Speaker 3: not like your typical weed and feed type fertilizers. Weedenator
Speaker 3: does have nutrients in it, of course, it's a fertilizer.
Speaker 3: It has a turf growth regulator in it too. Our
Speaker 3: long grasses grow up, and the faster they grow up,
Speaker 3: the more often you have to mow with weed Enator.
Speaker 3: It causes a suppression of that upper growth, but it
Speaker 3: still spreads. The runners can still go out. It just
Speaker 3: doesn't take off in you're momo mowing because you're fertilized
Speaker 3: your lawn. It works well for that. It is a
Speaker 3: post emergent that controls a wide range of weeds. Chickweed, clover, dandelion,
Speaker 3: dollar weed, we were just talking about dollar weed, graspbur
Speaker 3: person lane, ragweed, sperch, all these. You first wet the
Speaker 3: lawn and the weeds. What you're really wetting is wanting
Speaker 3: to wet as the weed leaves. You put weed itter
Speaker 3: out a dry granular fertilizer. It sticks to those wet
Speaker 3: leaf surfaces and it soaks in. It soaks in, and
Speaker 3: when it soaks in, then you have the weed control
Speaker 3: going in and taking care of those weeds. Now the
Speaker 3: fertilizer is going to release with three different groups of
Speaker 3: types of nitrogen. In other words, it's not just dissolves
Speaker 3: and it's all there. You're going to get some initial
Speaker 3: release of ammonium and urea types of nitrogen to stimulate growth.
Speaker 3: You're going to get a little bit later or continuing on,
Speaker 3: I should say, a slowly available water soluble nitrogen UH
Speaker 3: with sole microbes are very active in that. And then
Speaker 3: finally later you're going to get water insoluble nitrogen, which
Speaker 3: is about the time that our turf grass really is
Speaker 3: putting on the fast growth as warming temperatures kicking into gear.
Speaker 3: All right, that's how it works. That's the details. The
Speaker 3: bottom line as it works turf grass weed edor by Nelson.
Speaker 3: It does work. It gives you about six months up
Speaker 3: to six months of feeding of your lawn. Time for
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Speaker 3: You fill your beds with it. However you go about it,
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Speaker 3: stuff doing much much better as a result. We're gonna
Speaker 3: go out to Tomball now and we're going to talk
Speaker 3: to David. Hello, David, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 25: Good morning, sir, Hey oncoming greens. I've got some sit
Speaker 25: trees that I always partet real well.
Speaker 6: And but I kind of a big a pomegranate.
Speaker 25: And a plum that are kind of immature ground about
Speaker 25: six months.
Speaker 5: Are they any.
Speaker 26: More resilient than are they?
Speaker 27: Are they spreads or are they living more resision.
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: As species are more resilient to cold. The thing that's
Speaker 3: worrying me about the freeze this week is we had
Speaker 3: some really warm weather last week and a lot of plants.
Speaker 3: As the weather gets warm, they come out of dormancy,
Speaker 3: and as they come out of dormancy, they lose their
Speaker 3: natural cold heartiness that that species might have. And so
Speaker 3: we're kind to kind of watch and see and learn
Speaker 3: from this. But I would just say in general to
Speaker 3: people that it doesn't hurt to be a little extra careful.
Speaker 3: I don't think that this freeze is going to be
Speaker 3: one that kills those plants for you or kills them back,
Speaker 3: but I'm not certain of that, and so I would
Speaker 3: just be a little extra careful. All you have to
Speaker 3: do is throw any kind of a cover over them,
Speaker 3: in a bedsheet, even anything that just protects them a
Speaker 3: little bit. If you got some row cover fabric from
Speaker 3: one of your local garden centers there, you can go
Speaker 3: that route. But the bottom line is probably be a
Speaker 3: little extra extra careful when plants are young, when they're
Speaker 3: newly planted getting established in things, they're somewhat less cold
Speaker 3: hearty than one that's very well established. But yeah, so
Speaker 3: the answer is we'll see. But I wouldn't take a
Speaker 3: chance on it. I would just be sure about covering them.
Speaker 27: Bob three, I got a little budd just popping out.
Speaker 8: All over it.
Speaker 3: Well that then I'm even more sure you need to
Speaker 3: cover it up. Listen, the last time I looked at
Speaker 3: weather up in Tumball, I think you guys were going
Speaker 3: to get down to about twenty degrees or twenty three.
Speaker 3: Have you looked lately? How cold is it supposed to
Speaker 3: get there? Okay, okay, well, mid mid twenties and below
Speaker 3: is too low. And so for things that are butting out,
Speaker 3: you need to get a cover over them. It might
Speaker 3: not even hurt to put a little clamp light with
Speaker 3: a with a one of those one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: watt floodlights or even a heat lamb shining down at
Speaker 3: the ground, not up in, not against the plant tissues,
Speaker 3: the trunk and the branches. It may even help to
Speaker 3: do that. But again, I'd rather be extra conservative and
Speaker 3: not wish I had been, than just take a chance.
Speaker 14: All right, all.
Speaker 3: Right, David, take care, Thanks for the call. All right, man,
Speaker 3: that is the way it is. Yeah, I you know,
Speaker 3: I always I would hate to tell somebody something like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't worry about it'll be fine. Maybe it will
Speaker 3: be fine. But this last week kind of got me wondering.
Speaker 3: And recent memory is a couple of years ago in December,
Speaker 3: we had a drop in temperature that went down into
Speaker 3: the teens upper teens, and we saw crate myrtles killed
Speaker 3: all the way to the ground in the northern part
Speaker 3: of the listening area here up you know, when you
Speaker 3: get up Conroe College Station, huntsvilleup in that direction, we
Speaker 3: saw some loss of crape myrtles. And create myrtle is
Speaker 3: a hardy species. It should we should not have to
Speaker 3: worry about crape myrtles freezing here. But those crape myrtles
Speaker 3: had had warm temperatures and they had not gone fully dormant,
Speaker 3: and it just reminded us that dormant, Yes they're hardy,
Speaker 3: but they're hardy when they're dormant, not you know, you
Speaker 3: go in the middle of spring and drop the temperature
Speaker 3: down to twenty and you're going to cause a lot
Speaker 3: of damage to plants. So that's kind of the question
Speaker 3: right now is how much are these plants moving? And
Speaker 3: you know, David indicated that starting to see some little
Speaker 3: green buds pushing out, and so that tells me right
Speaker 3: there it's not dormant. If it was dormant, it wouldn't
Speaker 3: be pushing new growth. They cannot push new growth until
Speaker 3: the plant comes out of dormancy. Let me just give
Speaker 3: you a real quick description on that. I think this
Speaker 3: may be helpful for you. When a plant, when a
Speaker 3: fruit tree, let's say, goes dormant, there are chemicals that
Speaker 3: inhibit the budge from growing. So if in the middle
Speaker 3: of January we have eighty degree weather, it doesn't just
Speaker 3: immediately pop out and start growing because it's dormant. Those
Speaker 3: chemicals break down in cold weather conditions, cold really actually
Speaker 3: being forty to forty five degrees and that range and
Speaker 3: over hours of that that inhibiting chemical completely breaks down,
Speaker 3: and when that happens, then then it can begin growth
Speaker 3: and come out of dormancy. You have a few warm
Speaker 3: days and boom, the peach trees are covered with blooms
Speaker 3: because the chilling that's what you call chilling hours, because
Speaker 3: the chilling hours had been received adequate to bring it
Speaker 3: out of dormancy. And that is the key to whether
Speaker 3: a plant is hardy or not. It's has it had
Speaker 3: its chilling hours. And sometimes we don't get enough chilling
Speaker 3: hours in the winter and a plant comes out in
Speaker 3: the spring and doesn't really begin growing. It just sputters
Speaker 3: and doesn't do well. And that's because of a lot
Speaker 3: of chilling hours. That's why when you pick your fruit trees,
Speaker 3: you need to pick ones that are for this area
Speaker 3: or for the area you live in. What you plant
Speaker 3: in Huntsville and what you plant in Galveston are vastly
Speaker 3: different when it comes to peach varieties, for example. But anyway,
Speaker 3: that's what's going on, and I'm just a little concerned
Speaker 3: about that this week. So when in doubt, be conservative
Speaker 3: with it. Those are valuable plants to you, even if
Speaker 3: it turns out you wouldn't and needed to. It's better
Speaker 3: safe than sorry, as they say. So there we go.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to ks RH garden line with scip Richter's.
Speaker 28: Just watch him as so many gives to soup.
Speaker 3: All right, we're back. Let's keep going here on our
Speaker 3: morning of talking all things plants. What kinds of questions
Speaker 3: do you have about lawns, flowers, vegetables, herbs, shrubs, trees,
Speaker 3: fruit trees, fruit plants, little strawberry plants. Strawberries are getting
Speaker 3: ready to burst forth and produce those blooms and the
Speaker 3: tasty berries we have from those of you who got
Speaker 3: them planted last fall, and for those of you who
Speaker 3: planted them in the spring, keep them growing, keep them moving,
Speaker 3: because they are also going to begin to produce for
Speaker 3: you pretty soon.
Speaker 23: Here.
Speaker 3: One of the fun things to grow is strawberries. We
Speaker 3: used to have a strawberry patch up in Willis, Willis, Texas,
Speaker 3: half acre half acre of strawberries, which is a lot
Speaker 3: of work to grow, uh, And it was it was
Speaker 3: good though. I enjoyed that and my kids enjoyed it,
Speaker 3: their faces around their mouths were pretty much stained red
Speaker 3: the whole time during strawberry season because you can just
Speaker 3: run out there in grayze on the strawberry patch. That's
Speaker 3: a good thing. When I was talking earlier about weather
Speaker 3: and things like that, I just I do want to
Speaker 3: just kind of go remind you again that last week
Speaker 3: was warm and some plants are starting to push new growth.
Speaker 3: And when a plant does that, it's no longer dormant,
Speaker 3: which means whatever the normal minimum temperature that that plant
Speaker 3: can take is whatever it is when it starts to
Speaker 3: come out of dormancy, it's it's not able to take
Speaker 3: as much and it's easier to kill something that may
Speaker 3: take it in the mid twenties. When it's coming out
Speaker 3: of dormancy, you know, you get a low below freezing
Speaker 3: and you can get damage on it because the plant
Speaker 3: just isn't isn't ready for that. So if you don't
Speaker 3: know what to do with a plant, I say air
Speaker 3: on the side of caution, go ahead and covered up.
Speaker 3: If it is a mounded soil plant like a perennial
Speaker 3: or a ornamental grass or whatever like that. First of all,
Speaker 3: ornamental grasses are pretty they're they're pretty much fine. If
Speaker 3: they're perennial here in our area, but I have seen
Speaker 3: people are cutting them back, and that's fine. You can
Speaker 3: go ahead and do that. Perennials throw a little mound
Speaker 3: of whatever compost or mult over the top of them,
Speaker 3: just to kind of insulate that, especially if they're starting
Speaker 3: to push new growth. If you see new growth coming
Speaker 3: out of that mound, that base, that crown of the plant,
Speaker 3: go ahead and covered up and let's protect it. Because
Speaker 3: some areas are going to get down twenty if you're
Speaker 3: far enough north in the listening area, down in the
Speaker 3: upper teens, and we don't want to mess with that.
Speaker 3: Too cold for these plants. So little extra cost is
Speaker 3: just remember that if you're going to cover a plant,
Speaker 3: don't wrap it like a landscape lollipop. You want to
Speaker 3: put a cover over it, drape it over it and
Speaker 3: straight to the ground. And whether you use some support
Speaker 3: underneath the cover, that's okay. You can use bent PBC
Speaker 3: pipe or make you a PBC box if you want
Speaker 3: to cover with, but go all the way to the
Speaker 3: ground and seal it so air can't blow underneath it,
Speaker 3: wind can't get underneath it, and that way you create
Speaker 3: dead air space. The soil warmth comes up and helps.
Speaker 3: You want to throw in a clamp light or two
Speaker 3: or three, depending on the size of the plant, you
Speaker 3: can add even more heat. So there's the regular one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty what floodlights. They produce a little bit
Speaker 3: of heat, not a lot, but a little bit, and
Speaker 3: sometimes all you need is a little bit. Then there's
Speaker 3: the heat lamps, the red shining radiate radiating their heat
Speaker 3: out and they produce a lot of heat. So anyway,
Speaker 3: whichever way you want to go about it probably ought
Speaker 3: to be a little more cautious than normal because of
Speaker 3: the weather we just had. Let's set out to West
Speaker 3: u and we're going to talk to Jonas. Hey, Jonas,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 29: Good morning, Thank you Skive for taking my call. I
Speaker 29: have two questions once a little bit of an off
Speaker 29: season question. At Christmas time, I bought two point sets
Speaker 29: and they're beautiful, big, and of course all the red
Speaker 29: leaves have fallen off now and what I have and
Speaker 29: now are just the twigs and everything else. Is there
Speaker 29: any merit in me keeping these? We're taking care of
Speaker 29: them or growing them for next season. They're indoors right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, most people don't go through the process of
Speaker 3: doing that because it's months and months of caring for
Speaker 3: them in order to have them again for the next year.
Speaker 3: But you can they can't take cold at all at all.
Speaker 3: But once the cold is gone and passed behind us,
Speaker 3: you can put them outside, move them up to a
Speaker 3: bigger container, or some people plant them in their yard,
Speaker 3: or sink the container in the ground. You know, if
Speaker 3: the container has holes in the bottom where the roots
Speaker 3: can come out, you can just sink the container in
Speaker 3: the ground and let them grow and either leave them
Speaker 3: as a landscape plant until the first cold gets there,
Speaker 3: or if they're in a container, then when you approach
Speaker 3: the holidays, you're going to start making the plant think
Speaker 3: the days are shorter than they are, and so for
Speaker 3: holiday blooming plants, typically in September, I will start to
Speaker 3: cover them up. I like to say, use the normal
Speaker 3: eight to five work schedule. When you get up in
Speaker 3: the morning and go to work, you take the cover off,
Speaker 3: leave it off all day, and then when you come
Speaker 3: home five o'clock put the cover back on. That means
Speaker 3: it gets dark sooner than it normally would for that plant.
Speaker 3: And by doing that for a few weeks, that initiates
Speaker 3: the development in the case of Point Settus of those
Speaker 3: red bracts that we enjoy. If you don't do that,
Speaker 3: it'll be very late to start to develop its color.
Speaker 3: When nature itself gives the plant shorter day length. Sounds
Speaker 3: it sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it.
Speaker 29: It sounds like a lot of work. It sounds like
Speaker 29: it's yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: Why most people don't do it. Now. I saw two
Speaker 3: or three folks this year that had that are doing that.
Speaker 3: But most people it's like and if you e even
Speaker 3: with the best of intentions, you know, get to water
Speaker 3: them or something. But anyway, right, it's an option.
Speaker 29: That's an option. The other question is I have about
Speaker 29: maybe eight post hype biscuits. You're in about ten gallon pots.
Speaker 29: And during the cold episodes that we had a big
Speaker 29: two ones we had, I had them brought indoors and
Speaker 29: they're just tooing beautiful. They're big. I've haend for three
Speaker 29: or four years, and so the question I have a
Speaker 29: couple of questions. Number One, now we're is prognosticated to
Speaker 29: be about thirty two degrees in Houston around midweek or so.
Speaker 29: I don't want to go through the lake brought indoors
Speaker 29: and all that. Do you think they can tolerate thirty
Speaker 29: two degrees? And I'll put covers around their roots and
Speaker 29: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: All right, okay, So if you can put them on
Speaker 3: the south side of your house, right up against the house,
Speaker 3: underneath the eaves, or in an entrance way that has
Speaker 3: a cover over it, they'll probably be okay. In terms
Speaker 3: of the plant dying, it won't be happy, but you
Speaker 3: can get away with that. On the continue on this question,
Speaker 3: I'm going to need to come back from break. We
Speaker 3: need to take a break right here, Jonas. If you
Speaker 3: want to continue, just hang on and we will. We
Speaker 3: will come back to you. There you go, all right, Billy,
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Speaker 3: on with our questions. You were talking about a hibiscus.
Speaker 3: You're thinking you're going to get to about thirty two,
Speaker 3: and I was saying, well, if you can get it
Speaker 3: underneath the eves up against the house, it's probably going
Speaker 3: to be okay there. If truly thirty two is what
Speaker 3: it hit, what you hit, Yes.
Speaker 29: Sir, Unfortunately these pots are facing north, and yeah, I
Speaker 29: think maybe you can bring them intoors. They're very cool sensitive,
Speaker 29: weren't they.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are free sensitive. They're very free sensitive. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had some that I've left outdoors. I covered them
Speaker 3: during the last good phrase we had and they're still going.
Speaker 3: But uh, if you want to make them happy, you know,
Speaker 3: bring them to a warmer spot.
Speaker 29: Right right, they're even blooming now. The other question that
Speaker 29: I have is I have not pruned these at all.
Speaker 29: Have these big branches. They're big and a little bit
Speaker 29: out of control, but they're beautiful. When should ahibiscus be pruned?
Speaker 3: If ever, if you need to do pruning, I would
Speaker 3: do it after we're past the cold weather and the
Speaker 3: hibiscus is about ready to start growing again, because you know,
Speaker 3: the temperatures are warm enough to support new growth. You
Speaker 3: can do your pruning at that time. However, maybe you
Speaker 3: need to shorten the height of the plant, or shape
Speaker 3: it a little bit, or remove some branches that are
Speaker 3: going in the wrong direction. That's kind of up to you.
Speaker 3: There's not just a standard hibiscus pruning regiment.
Speaker 29: That we have, so maybe ap or so it might
Speaker 29: be a good time around that time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be fine.
Speaker 29: Sure, Okay, Well, thank you very much. This has been
Speaker 29: most important to man. All right, Okay, thank.
Speaker 3: You sir, You take care, appreciate the call. Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 9: How are you.
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Speaker 29: Well?
Speaker 19: I just wanted to piggyback off that point setup. We've
Speaker 19: for six years. I have been taking care of our
Speaker 19: point setus and they are beautiful. But we leave them
Speaker 19: out in a big old pot and we putn't leave
Speaker 19: them outside until the first freeze, so when the time changes,
Speaker 19: that is the same way as covering it. We don't
Speaker 19: bring them in the house. We leave them outside into
Speaker 19: first freeze, then we bring them into the garage. Okay,
Speaker 19: and so but they have been this is I've had
Speaker 19: them for six years. They bloomed beautiful. That's the first
Speaker 19: time they've ever bloomed since we started doing that. So
Speaker 19: I just wanted to piggyback off of that.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And you know, different kinds of holiday plants bloom
Speaker 3: at different day links and if you do leave them,
Speaker 3: the days will get short enough in time. Sometimes people
Speaker 3: like to get an early start on them. And that's
Speaker 3: you know, like we have Thanksgiving cactus, who have Christmas cactus.
Speaker 3: And the difference basically there for all practical purposes is
Speaker 3: the days don't have to be as short for Thanksgiving
Speaker 3: cactus to bloom as they do for the Christmas cactus
Speaker 3: and your points out us the same way. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: cannot cover them. You cannot cover them, but if you
Speaker 3: wanted to have gorgeous color at Thanksgiving, cover them a
Speaker 3: little early and speeding up that arrival the short days
Speaker 3: helps a little bit. How tall are your plants now?
Speaker 19: Oh my goodness, they're probably about four foot tall. And
Speaker 19: my husband cuts them back into here and they get
Speaker 19: that tall. Okay, but mine start blooming about the end
Speaker 19: of October to November. They bloom all that time until
Speaker 19: I put them on. Well, they still continue blooming, but
Speaker 19: they bloom all that time. And I don't know what
Speaker 19: furtilizer he uses. I don't know any of that. I've
Speaker 19: just I just look at the beautiful flowers, to be honest.
Speaker 3: Well, and I know, I know some people like to
Speaker 3: keep them, but y'all must be very faithful and keeping
Speaker 3: those things watered in the summer and carrying them through
Speaker 3: the long season as we get ready for the next
Speaker 3: holiday season. Well, Benita, thank you for that call, Thanks
Speaker 3: for that information.
Speaker 19: Every year we have to buy five more because we
Speaker 19: just love Point settus, so we just we just have
Speaker 19: whole bunch of them. But I just want to tell
Speaker 19: that guy that you can leave it out to you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so you need to start. You need to
Speaker 3: become a tourist attraction around there. And you know, some
Speaker 3: people during the holidays decorate with lights and every room
Speaker 3: in the house is covered with Christmas stuff. And well,
Speaker 3: you can just be the point setter ranch that everybody
Speaker 3: goes and visits.
Speaker 19: That's true.
Speaker 3: I'm all right, thank you, Benita, appreciate that. That's interesting.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: One thing you never do, one thing you should never
Speaker 3: do is tell somebody they can't do something. That's for sure,
Speaker 3: they'll prove you wrong. There's probably someone who's got a
Speaker 3: blue spruce tree in Houston that's keeping it alive somehow,
Speaker 3: I don't know. And I tell but don't bring those
Speaker 3: things back. They're not going to grow here. I've seen
Speaker 3: attempts at it though, that's for sure. Well up in
Speaker 3: Willis is a place called Growers Outlet, and that is
Speaker 3: the website too, Growers Outlet in Willis, that's part of
Speaker 3: the website Growers Outlet in Willis. They're on Highway seventy
Speaker 3: five in Willis, just a few minutes away from forty five,
Speaker 3: and they serve that whole area. So whether you live
Speaker 3: you know, out in Woodlands or up in Willis or
Speaker 3: some of the lake neighborhoods, you know bunt Water, April
Speaker 3: Sound out there a republic grand ranch folks that are
Speaker 3: living out there, moving out there. Seven coves. These are
Speaker 3: all in the region where shoppers come to the Grower's
Speaker 3: Outlet in Willis. Now they've got fertilizers that you hear
Speaker 3: me talk about on there, like microlife, nitroposs and medina
Speaker 3: for example. It's a garden center, so they have a
Speaker 3: variety of other products that you need for your gardens.
Speaker 3: You're going to find a really good selection of betting
Speaker 3: plants and vegetables right now. They've got perennials by the
Speaker 3: one gallon size and ferns and they're hanging baskets are amazing.
Speaker 3: I saw some of the biggest burn baskets I've ever
Speaker 3: seen last time I was out there at grows Outlet
Speaker 3: in Willis. Other kinds of color plants, you know, teraneums, urbina.
Speaker 3: They grow a lot of that in house. They have
Speaker 3: a greenhouses there and they grow it themselves. They got
Speaker 3: a good gift shop. It's just a fun place to
Speaker 3: visit now it's on Highway seventy five in will It's
Speaker 3: just minutes away from Interstate forty five. Go to the website,
Speaker 3: learn more about it and find out everything you need
Speaker 3: to know. They have a really good on their website.
Speaker 3: They have a really good list of plants by type,
Speaker 3: for example, do you want fragrant plants? Do you want
Speaker 3: deer resistant plants? Do you want plants that are t
Speaker 3: bird bees and butterflies. They've got all that and you
Speaker 3: can find a nice selection. It's very educational. Website. Growers
Speaker 3: outlet in Wellis and then go by there and get
Speaker 3: you some good plans. We're gonna go now out to
Speaker 3: Laporte and talk to Brenda. Hey, Brenda, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Thank you for.
Speaker 30: Taking my call.
Speaker 3: Skip.
Speaker 30: I sent an email in with a picture and the
Speaker 30: subject was Katrina Rose. I had some questions about my
Speaker 30: Katrina rosebush.
Speaker 3: Oh this has been a few days ago. Yes, okay,
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 30: Yes, yeah, well okay, really two questions. One is is
Speaker 30: I'm having a lot of problem. It looks to me
Speaker 30: like black spide on yell leaves, and so I'm using
Speaker 30: fung aside and I can keep it under control. But
Speaker 30: it looks like I have large areas of the cane.
Speaker 30: The cane appear healthy, but I have no leaves on there.
Speaker 30: All the leaves are now on the outer portion, so
Speaker 30: I'm not sure one where the got you do the
Speaker 30: bud start on new growth or old growth on Katrina Roads?
Speaker 3: All right, gotcha, I'm gonna hit a hard break right now.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, we are back back on guard line
Speaker 3: and we're going to continue the discussion we're having with
Speaker 3: Brenda out in Laporte. Brenda, we were talking about your roses,
Speaker 3: and it took a look at the photos and the
Speaker 3: things you described. One thing before I forget the rose
Speaker 3: is showing a little bit of iron deficiency. So that
Speaker 3: could be due to a lack of iron, but it
Speaker 3: also could be due to the so being too soggy
Speaker 3: there for for the aeration not good enough for the
Speaker 3: roots to thrive, and therefore not taking up the iron
Speaker 3: that may even be present. So you may want to
Speaker 3: look into that a little bit. If you if you
Speaker 3: decide it's not soggy soil, then get you an iron
Speaker 3: key late or sometimes the other way around, keylated iron
Speaker 3: and apply it to that. Your your plant performed as expected,
Speaker 3: that particular rose. It is primarily a spring bloomer. That's
Speaker 3: when we get our most blooms out of it, and
Speaker 3: you don't get a lot out for the rest of
Speaker 3: the year, and that's true of a lot of climbers.
Speaker 3: It looks I think it looks fine. In what you're
Speaker 3: describing about losing some older foliage and stuff, that's normal.
Speaker 3: I have one of those Peggy Martins and I don't
Speaker 3: spray mine at all, and you are going to get
Speaker 3: some spots here or there, but generally not enough to
Speaker 3: worry about, So you might want to consider just backing
Speaker 3: off of that. It has really good vigor and your
Speaker 3: plant looks good. It's obviously happy and growing. So what's
Speaker 3: going to happen in the spring is you're going to
Speaker 3: get crazy amount of blooms on that plant. And then
Speaker 3: after the blooms are gone, that's when you may want
Speaker 3: to decide are you going to trell us it or
Speaker 3: are you gonna, well, how are you going to grow it?
Speaker 3: And go ahead and prone it and get it into
Speaker 3: the form you want and then let it grow through
Speaker 3: the summer and then next spring it'll have all its
Speaker 3: bloom show. But don't print it in between don't print
Speaker 3: it after mid to late summer for sure.
Speaker 16: Oh okay, good.
Speaker 30: So I was going to go out there as soon
Speaker 30: as it warmed up and with my with my sheares
Speaker 30: and start cutting back, but I'm afraid I'd becotting any
Speaker 30: new growth with potential buds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the buds are there for this coming spring, So
Speaker 3: don't hold off and enjoy it because you're going to
Speaker 3: see a lot of nice, beautiful blooms on it. But
Speaker 3: you're going to need to give it something to grow
Speaker 3: on because that that lady is going to want to
Speaker 3: take off here even more. Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 30: Didn't realize how fast they grow. But well, thank you
Speaker 30: so much. So I have some planning to do. I
Speaker 30: really appreciate taking my call.
Speaker 3: Okay, bye bye, you take care. Than is the case.
Speaker 3: I love I love Belinda's dream. It's a it's a
Speaker 3: really nice rose. And of course there's a lot of
Speaker 3: nice roses out there, but that one became famous after
Speaker 3: after the hurricane down in New Orleans and it's surviving underwater.
Speaker 3: It sort of became a legend of a rose, and
Speaker 3: now everybody loves it and wants to plant it, and
Speaker 3: it is worth planting. But there are a lot of
Speaker 3: other great roses out there as well. So anyway, did
Speaker 3: I say Belinda's dream? I think I just heard myself
Speaker 3: say Belinda's dream. No, we're talking about the Katrina Rose. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, Well anyway, let's go to San Leone if
Speaker 3: I can find my mouse here. There we go San Leone.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk to Ted. Hey, Ted, welcome to
Speaker 3: guard Line.
Speaker 25: Hey, you're so cool.
Speaker 5: Y'all got my name on call there? You know who
Speaker 5: I am?
Speaker 19: Just want to there you go.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my good friends at Texas City Feet ordered me
Speaker 5: five gallons of the Medina plus seeing by in a
Speaker 5: five gallon container and it saved me about you about
Speaker 5: twenty five you know, run out of it. It's aggravating, said,
Speaker 5: I don't run out now, man.
Speaker 3: Right, how can I help today?
Speaker 5: Ted, I've got about three quarters of a gallon of
Speaker 5: Medina molasses and I'm on to get rid of it.
Speaker 5: Is it more of a folier feeder?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Molasses is basically basically sugar. When sugar is basically carbon,
Speaker 3: and when you put that in the ground, in the soil,
Speaker 3: it stimulates certain types of microbial activity that can be
Speaker 3: very helpful. So I would generally use the molasses more
Speaker 3: as a soil amendment or as a soil addition. Some
Speaker 3: people do put it on as a folier spray, but
Speaker 3: I would primarily focus on the fact that it's a
Speaker 3: good soil amendment.
Speaker 5: It'd be okay to go ahead and water it in
Speaker 5: then I guess, huh, Or I can put down and
Speaker 5: the spray the medina plus on top of it.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you could do both.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, all right, that's what I wanted to know.
Speaker 3: There you go. Well, I'm glad you found the bulk
Speaker 3: bulk supply of it. I don't I don't talk about
Speaker 3: that a lot on the air because most people aren't
Speaker 3: going to buy five gallons, you know. But it sounds
Speaker 3: like you said.
Speaker 5: Randy used to say, when you use it, saturated, saturated,
Speaker 5: that's what Randy used to say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. That's true. Horticultural molasses that they have
Speaker 3: is a it's a it's a very good product. All right,
Speaker 3: you take care, all right, right, Yeah, you're listening to
Speaker 3: Guardline the phone number seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H. The molasses is a it is
Speaker 3: like a rocket fuel for a lot of the microbes,
Speaker 3: microbes that are in the soil that benefits your plants.
Speaker 3: That is for sure not bad on pancakes. Although I
Speaker 3: wasn't anoyed, I shouldn't say that on there. I would
Speaker 3: not put Medina molasses on your pancakes. I don't know
Speaker 3: that that is okay, or I don't know that it's
Speaker 3: not okay. But I got to watch what comes out
Speaker 3: of my mouth, that's for sure, because I'll try it.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you someone will try it. Well. You are
Speaker 3: listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 3: we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
Speaker 3: beautiful landscape, and almost most important of all, more fun
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Speaker 3: about looking at let's say, you know, goose neck trailers,
Speaker 3: they got like a sixty five foot area that they
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Speaker 3: but with powder coating it's better than painting because this stuff,
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Speaker 3: for me to quit talking. When I come back, I'm
Speaker 3: going to go out to Wharton and we're going to
Speaker 3: talk to Angie. Alrighty, welcome back, Welcome back to Gardenline.
Speaker 3: We are gonna head out to Ken in the Woodlands. Hey, Ken,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning.
Speaker 25: Skip sent an email this morning. Uh, just a few
Speaker 25: minutes ago. Yes, I have an issue with Laura Pebbulham.
Speaker 23: And I.
Speaker 3: Yes, I got them. Got them.
Speaker 25: Uh you can take a look at that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so let me let me comment on them, because
Speaker 3: I have. I've been looking at your pictures. They you
Speaker 3: the Laura pedlums were growing nice and healthy, nice long
Speaker 3: shoe growth and everything, and then the collapsed. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying that. You know I had three.
Speaker 25: Of those that were just beautiful, and they have over
Speaker 25: the past about three years, they've all died and now
Speaker 25: I've got the fourth one doing the same thing, and
Speaker 25: I cannot figure it out.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Here, here, here, here's what's going on. There is a
Speaker 3: root rot in those plants. Now, if the area stays
Speaker 3: a little on the wet side, there are certain root
Speaker 3: rots that are that the plant is going to be
Speaker 3: more prone to and extra wet conditions. But there are others,
Speaker 3: you know, so it could be something like what's called
Speaker 3: oak root rot. It doesn't just attack oaks, but but uh,
Speaker 3: it certainly is present in your area up there, uh
Speaker 3: in the woodlands. It The only way to know for sure,
Speaker 3: Ken is to send a sample into the plant clinic.
Speaker 3: And do you have a pin or paper handy and
Speaker 3: end paper? Okay, plant clinic one word dot t a
Speaker 3: m U, dot e d U plant clinic dot TAMU
Speaker 3: dot ed U. Go there, download the form. You could
Speaker 3: drive the plant up there. You're in the woodlands, you're
Speaker 3: not that far away from college station. Or you can
Speaker 3: mail it. If you mail it, you really wanted to
Speaker 3: get there early in the week so it doesn't just
Speaker 3: set in a you know, as a mail box over
Speaker 3: the weekend. Get a plant that is alive but dying.
Speaker 3: If it is completely dead, they can't do autopsies, but
Speaker 3: if it's sick, they can culture out the disease that's
Speaker 3: causing it. So you want to get a plant that
Speaker 3: isn't completely gone. You can cut some of the top
Speaker 3: off to make it fit in a box and kind
Speaker 3: of shove those in with it, or if you can
Speaker 3: take the whole thing up, put a trash bag around
Speaker 3: the whole thing, But you want it to be in
Speaker 3: a fresh state so that they're able to culture out
Speaker 3: the problem and they'll tell you what the disease is. Now,
Speaker 3: depending on which root right it is, you may or
Speaker 3: may not be able to control it with a fungicidal
Speaker 3: drench over the plants. But I could I if I
Speaker 3: knew what it was, I could tell you what to use,
Speaker 3: But I don't, and we don't want to go wasting
Speaker 3: your time and money trying things that are not going
Speaker 3: to work. But with that, with that analysis, you will
Speaker 3: know exactly what you need to do before you put
Speaker 3: more money into more plants for that area. Laura, Pedulum's
Speaker 3: a wonderful plant. It should do good in your area,
Speaker 3: and so we just got to figure out what's going
Speaker 3: on with.
Speaker 10: These Yeah, they are.
Speaker 25: I mean, like I said, I had them there for
Speaker 25: ten or fifteen years, and then a couple of years ago,
Speaker 25: nothing's I haven't changed watering or anything else, and suddenly
Speaker 25: they started dying. I tried caf cam on them, you know,
Speaker 25: a branch of capcam on the ones in the past,
Speaker 25: and it just you know, didn't seem to right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just hold off on all treatments. Hold off on
Speaker 3: all treatments because I won't captain won't work on this,
Speaker 3: as you already know. But your description that had started
Speaker 3: with a couple of branches and then the whole bush
Speaker 3: was gone. That kind of progression that's real typical of
Speaker 3: some types of root rots. So that's the bottom line.
Speaker 3: You just got to get it analyzed because when you
Speaker 3: know what the culprit is kind of like a doctor.
Speaker 3: You know, they send stuff off to the labs and
Speaker 3: then they know what medicine to give you. That's kind
Speaker 3: of how this works.
Speaker 25: Does that also that type of disease also affect elm trees.
Speaker 3: Depending on which root right it is. Yeah, depending on
Speaker 3: which root right it is, it can affect a number
Speaker 3: of different kinds of species. Oak root rot, for example,
Speaker 3: kills a lot of different kinds of woody plants.
Speaker 25: Okay, well, I've had some elm trees and horn beam
Speaker 25: and uh, you know, I call them ironwood or whatever.
Speaker 3: That you know, they're natives that.
Speaker 25: Have done fine, you know, I mean they're mature tree.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 25: And then and they're getting you know, plenty of water.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it varies. But I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I have
Speaker 3: to cut it short, but I'm gonna I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to run here. We got the top of the hour
Speaker 3: coming on. But uh do that. Feel free to send
Speaker 3: me the results, email me the results of what they
Speaker 3: tell you, and call back and we'll be we'll be
Speaker 3: happy to continue this on.
Speaker 31: Uh.
Speaker 3: I've talked about micro life products many times, many types
Speaker 3: of microlife products, and I just want to tell you
Speaker 3: a little bit about the Biomatrix. That's the orange labeled
Speaker 3: liquid product. You can get it in a quirk, you
Speaker 3: can get it in a gallon, and I use it
Speaker 3: on my houseplants because it is a seven to one
Speaker 3: to three fertilizer. It has a good boost of nitrogen.
Speaker 3: So anything that where you're wanting to enhance the foliage
Speaker 3: growth that would be a good choice. Biomatrix and houseplants
Speaker 3: basically their foliage. I don't have any fruiting or flowering houseplants.
Speaker 3: I mean you could use it on those. But biomatrix
Speaker 3: works really really well, doesn't take much of it, and
Speaker 3: you just apply it as per the label. You can
Speaker 3: use it outdoors too. I just used my houseplants as
Speaker 3: a foliage example. But any kind of plant you want
Speaker 3: to give your tomatoes a boost, you can even mix
Speaker 3: it in water and folio or spraym and then drench
Speaker 3: the soil. Biomatrix from Microlife works. I'll tell you that
Speaker 3: because I've used it. I know. Microlifefertilizer dot com is
Speaker 3: where you go if you want to find out more
Speaker 3: information about that. Let's go out now to Wharton and
Speaker 3: talk to Angie.
Speaker 23: Hello Angie, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 32: How are you today.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Benjie. Let's see if we can get
Speaker 3: you here in about a minute and a half before break.
Speaker 3: If not, we'll we'll continue on after break.
Speaker 32: All right, Well, my Texas Mountain larrel is covered in
Speaker 32: little bloom buds, and I'm really worried about them with this.
Speaker 32: You know, trees that's coming up. Should I cover that
Speaker 32: whole plant and protect it or will they be okay?
Speaker 3: You know, how is this supposed to get what's the
Speaker 3: latest on the weather for your area down there? Do
Speaker 3: you know?
Speaker 6: Thirties?
Speaker 32: I think it's going to be in the thirties.
Speaker 3: Thirties, it doesn't go below freezing, Mountain Laurel'll be fine.
Speaker 3: If it goes below freezing, the new growth pushing out
Speaker 3: is going to have a problem with it. I don't
Speaker 3: think if that's the case that in the thirties, I
Speaker 3: think you're okay. It's got it close, But I think
Speaker 3: you're okay, okay.
Speaker 32: Well, I just don't want to lose that wonderful smelling flower,
Speaker 32: you know, Oh, I know, as you.
Speaker 3: Know, I think that Mountain Laurel fragrance is probably the
Speaker 3: only thing that we smell with our nose that I
Speaker 3: would call gaudy. Gaudy is usually a visual comment. It
Speaker 3: has a gaudy fragrance, But I love it. Thanks for
Speaker 3: the call.
Speaker 19: It's the backyard.
Speaker 32: Thank you, Chip. Have a wonderful.
Speaker 3: Day, all right, you take care. That is absolutely true.
Speaker 3: You know, I was out at uh I was out
Speaker 3: at the in Chenned gardens yesterday, and that's just a
Speaker 3: great place to go. You really need to go there
Speaker 3: in Chennet Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website. It's
Speaker 3: been around since nineteen ninety five when the Lenderman family
Speaker 3: formed it. It's an unforgettable experience. I was walking around
Speaker 3: looking at their garden art and their fountains and their
Speaker 3: chimes and their plants, and they have everything. And while
Speaker 3: you're out there, you know brown soft for a green stuff,
Speaker 3: they got microlife, they got nitrophoss, they got Nelson plant food,
Speaker 3: and Medina, soils from Nature's Way, soils from heirlooms, soils.
Speaker 3: I mean, they have everything you need. Where is it.
Speaker 3: It's on FM three fifty nine. Those of you who
Speaker 3: didn't come out is thirty f M three fifty nine.
Speaker 3: Try that Katie foolsher side of Richmond. You will enjoy it.
Speaker 3: But go to the website. It's full of good information.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Alrighty, well there you got it.
Speaker 3: We sure had a good time out there. That was
Speaker 3: that was fun. I always like going to that place. Uh,
Speaker 3: why don't we do this. Let's take us a little
Speaker 3: break here. You get some coffee, I'll get some coffee
Speaker 3: and we'll come back and we'll keep talking about the
Speaker 3: things that are of interest to you. How do we
Speaker 3: help you have success? Well, you got a question seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two kt r H. I got
Speaker 3: an open board. Hurry you might be one of the
Speaker 3: first ones out.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Richter's so.
Speaker 2: Crazy trim.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, good morning. Guess what. We're entering our
Speaker 3: fourth and final hour of the Garden Line this morning.
Speaker 3: For those of you who are new to the show,
Speaker 3: first of all, welcome. Second of all, you can hear
Speaker 3: us every Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten
Speaker 3: am here on kt r H seven forty uh. The
Speaker 3: way I suggest people listen if you're a gardener is
Speaker 3: on your phone. Download the iHeartMedia app and you can
Speaker 3: listen to garden Line both both past shows and live
Speaker 3: on the iHeartMedia app. So I was telling the folks
Speaker 3: out at intended gardens yesterday. Download the app. Just when
Speaker 3: it's garden Line time, open it up and start listening
Speaker 3: on your phone. Put your phone in your pocket and
Speaker 3: go out in the garden and do what you do.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe you're out there and you see a
Speaker 3: weed and you're wondering, well, how do I get rid
Speaker 3: of this? It's all over the place. Take a picture
Speaker 3: of it. Call up the show, talk to my producer.
Speaker 3: He'll give you an email. You can send it to
Speaker 3: me and then follow up with a phone call and
Speaker 3: we'll talk about the weed. So live from your garden.
Speaker 3: It's garden line. You know, that's how that works. We
Speaker 3: can do it that way as well. However you want
Speaker 3: to listen though, I do welcome you and glad you're here.
Speaker 3: Tell you friends and neighbors about it, and family. We've
Speaker 3: got people that listen, even out of state. So certainly
Speaker 3: the more the merrier, love to have more folks listening in.
Speaker 3: I talk about and brag on Southwest Fertilizer all the
Speaker 3: time because Southwest Fertilizer is it's just an institution here
Speaker 3: in the Houston area in a been around since nineteen
Speaker 3: fifty five, so this is there. Basically, they're celebrating their
Speaker 3: seventieth year. So happy birthday to Bob and the whole
Speaker 3: crew out there Southwest Fertilizer. Glad so glad to see
Speaker 3: that kind of staying power. And you know what, you
Speaker 3: don't last seventy years if you're not doing a whole
Speaker 3: lot of things right. And what do they do right? Well,
Speaker 3: first of all, they have every fertilizer, every insect aside,
Speaker 3: every fungicide, every herbicide that you need, every kind of
Speaker 3: a supplement. You know, I talk about medina and use
Speaker 3: this and that supplement in microlife and other things. They've
Speaker 3: got all of it. Everything related to plant growth they've got.
Speaker 3: Do you need a tool like a quality pruning tool
Speaker 3: by Falco or Corona, show up there. Southwest Fertilizer and
Speaker 3: they've got a ninety foot long wall of tools to
Speaker 3: choose from. They do carry that kneeling bench that I
Speaker 3: talk about all the time. They do carry the grabber
Speaker 3: gadget that you use to make my homemade weed wiper,
Speaker 3: my Skip's homemade weed wiper. If you don't know what
Speaker 3: that is, go to gardening with Skip dot com and
Speaker 3: look at it. It's the coolest things. And slice bread.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, I'm biased, but I'm not wrong on that.
Speaker 26: Uh.
Speaker 3: And they carry everything you need. They carry soils, multious
Speaker 3: soil amendments, you know things well, nutrient products like azemite two,
Speaker 3: of course Nature's Way Resources, Landscaper's Pride, heirloom soils, Medina
Speaker 3: more wonderful selection to seed. They've got those big old
Speaker 3: that package to seed, but they also have those big
Speaker 3: bins where you take a little scoop and you get
Speaker 3: your seat out of that and put it in an envelope.
Speaker 3: That is the most economical way to buy seed that
Speaker 3: there is, and they've got that also there. But of
Speaker 3: course they have that there. This is Southwest Fertilizer. If
Speaker 3: they don't have it, you don't need it. And if
Speaker 3: you have a question, maybe maybe there's a weed and
Speaker 3: it's Wednesday and we're not doing garden line to call in.
Speaker 3: Go into Southwest Fertilizer, take the weed with you, show
Speaker 3: it to them. They'll tell you exactly what you need
Speaker 3: to do to manage it. They are experts when it
Speaker 3: comes to that kind of service, and they are also
Speaker 3: specialists when it comes to that good old fashioned service
Speaker 3: that you know we all used to appreciate so much
Speaker 3: and nowadays is a little less common than it used
Speaker 3: to be. Friendly service, great products, great selection. Corner of
Speaker 3: Bisonette and Renwick. Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Say
Speaker 3: hey to them from SKIP. When you go in there,
Speaker 3: you are listening to Guardenline. The phone number if you'd
Speaker 3: like to call in have a question seven one three
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Speaker 3: upon us. Actually we just passed it, but we're going
Speaker 3: to pretend we didn't because there's still time. There's still
Speaker 3: time to redeem yourself. You need a good gift. How
Speaker 3: about a rose? A rose bush is a wonderful gift.
Speaker 3: You know, February's for roses. We all know we punum
Speaker 3: in February. We plant them in February, although we can
Speaker 3: do it in other months as well. But if you
Speaker 3: want a great selection of roses, RCW Nursery has got
Speaker 3: you covered. They get in more roses than anybody I've seen.
Speaker 3: I mean six pages of different rose cultivars that are
Speaker 3: available from RCW Nursries. That's the garden center that's at
Speaker 3: the corner of belt Way eight and Tomball Parkway, Hiaby
Speaker 3: two forty nine. You can go to the website RCW
Speaker 3: Nurseries dot com or just go buy there Tomball Parkway
Speaker 3: belt Way eight easy to get to RCW Nurseries. Whether
Speaker 3: you want roses or pretty much any kind of plant,
Speaker 3: you're gonna find it there. They also carry fertilizers from
Speaker 3: nitrofoss and Microlife and Nelson Turf Star Line. They just
Speaker 3: make sure they have on hand what you need for success. Now,
Speaker 3: when it comes to trees and shrubs, hurry up, get
Speaker 3: it done. If you're going to plant one, don't do
Speaker 3: it two months from now when it's hotter. Do it now.
Speaker 3: You can plant a tree or shrub twelve months out
Speaker 3: of the year. The hotter it gets, the more touch
Speaker 3: and go it is, the more difficult it is to
Speaker 3: make sure you don't let it get too dry or
Speaker 3: too wet or whatever. Now it's a great time. They
Speaker 3: grow their own shrubs and trees. They grow the species
Speaker 3: and varieties that do best here and they can advise
Speaker 3: you with professional advice. They're at RCW Nurseries. By the way,
Speaker 3: there a tree farm, Williamson Tree Farm. You can go
Speaker 3: to Williamsontreefarm dot com and it's open to the public
Speaker 3: on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. You just have to make
Speaker 3: an appointment on the website. Don't just show up out there.
Speaker 3: This is a wholesale nursery and they're busy. They're not
Speaker 3: set up to just have five hundred people show up
Speaker 3: at once and want to buy a tree. Make an
Speaker 3: appointment with them, and they're happy to greet you out
Speaker 3: there and you get to see a really beautiful selection
Speaker 3: of some cool stuff, or just go buy RCW Nurseries
Speaker 3: and get them there. Well, I in my yard right now,
Speaker 3: out in the I've got a little bit of cold
Speaker 3: damage from the last cold because I tend to let
Speaker 3: my plants kind of fend for themselves unless I know
Speaker 3: cold is gonna take them out. So I need to
Speaker 3: get in there and clean them out. But I'm gonna wait.
Speaker 3: All that dead material on top is just a little
Speaker 3: bit of help with insulation for the next freeze it
Speaker 3: may occur, and we got one. I got one coming
Speaker 3: this week, so I'm going to wait a little bit,
Speaker 3: get past it, and then I'll get my crystal ball
Speaker 3: out and decide if there's any more freezes and then
Speaker 3: go from there. I think I may have one more
Speaker 3: still to come. We'll see. You never know, but that
Speaker 3: dead material is helpful in protecting the base of the plant,
Speaker 3: so my coufia or Mexican heather is an example. In
Speaker 3: my lantanas. They look horrible right now, but I've learned
Speaker 3: to embrace ugly and be patient because there's plenty of
Speaker 3: time to prune them back before the new growth comes
Speaker 3: out and gets in the way of that. I'm going
Speaker 3: to take a break. We'll be right back with your calls.
Speaker 3: All right, we're back. We are back. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to garden Line. We're continuing on today answering
Speaker 3: gardening questions and getting ready for some cold weather coming up.
Speaker 3: Just remember if you need advice on any kind of
Speaker 3: plant covering and how do I protect a plan against
Speaker 3: a freeze and all the whatnot of it. Oh, you
Speaker 3: have to is go to my website Gardening with Skip
Speaker 3: dot com. Find the publication that is protecting landscape plants
Speaker 3: from frosts and freezes and it will guide you in
Speaker 3: doing that. It's free, It is absolutely free. Can't tap
Speaker 3: me down on that price, So check it out. I
Speaker 3: hope it will be helpful. That's why we put those
Speaker 3: things up there, is to help you to have success. Also,
Speaker 3: my schedules are up there, the lawn care schedule, the
Speaker 3: lawn pest disease, and we'd management schedule both of them
Speaker 3: full color, easy to follow, and they tell you what
Speaker 3: to use, when to use it, whether you're organic or synthetic.
Speaker 3: There are options for everyone on that schedule. I was
Speaker 3: outside yesterday and just noticed the song of some birds
Speaker 3: and I love I love listening to the different songs.
Speaker 3: And by the way, if you there's an app, and
Speaker 3: it is called the Merlin App, as in Merlin the
Speaker 3: Magician me r l I N. It's done by Cornell
Speaker 3: University's Department or of Ornithology, which I think is a
Speaker 3: word designed because it was too hard to say birds anyway.
Speaker 3: Orentthology is a study of birds. I've got a good
Speaker 3: orthology joke. But you got to see it's it's a
Speaker 3: performance jogging. I see me perform anyway, Department of Ornithology.
Speaker 3: It's a free app and you can take a picture
Speaker 3: of a bird and you'll tell you what kind of
Speaker 3: bird it is. You can listen to a bird sing,
Speaker 3: and there's also a little like a microphone thing on
Speaker 3: the and you click that and you can watch it
Speaker 3: as it goes across the page, listening to the sounds
Speaker 3: that it's hearing, and all of a sudden, a bird
Speaker 3: pops up and a tas your what kind of birded?
Speaker 3: Is that cool? And guess what? How much does it cost? Free?
Speaker 3: Free the Merlin app? So there you go, Now I learned.
Speaker 3: Where did I learn about the app? Well, it's about birds, right,
Speaker 3: Where do you learn about anything birds? Where do you
Speaker 3: get anything you need? Birds? Wild Birds Unlimited, wild Bird's Unlimited.
Speaker 3: That's the place they just came out with their new
Speaker 3: Cardinal Confetti Blend. It's got all kinds of things that
Speaker 3: make birds absolutely. If they're open the windows and let
Speaker 3: birds hear this and you watch them, they're gonna start slobbering. Safflower,
Speaker 3: black oil, sunflower, sunflower chips, nutrisaft bark, butter bits, peanut halves,
Speaker 3: dried mealworms. Okay, I was with them up until. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I'll eat dried mealworms, but the rest
Speaker 3: sounds tasty and striped sunflower all in this Cardinal Confetti Blend.
Speaker 3: They even have a Cardinal evening feeder and a cardinal
Speaker 3: tube feeder. You just got to go buy wild Birds
Speaker 3: and check it out. There's six stores here in Houston
Speaker 3: that are Wildbirds, so you can find one near you.
Speaker 3: They're fun to go into because it's not just you know,
Speaker 3: stacks of bird seed, although they have plenty of bird
Speaker 3: seed of all different types, but there's beautiful things that
Speaker 3: you would decorate your home with. There's books, there's bird houses,
Speaker 3: there's bird feeders there, but mainly there are people in
Speaker 3: there that know all about birds and they can help
Speaker 3: you have success. So one thing I like about wild
Speaker 3: bird seed is it is designed for the kinds of
Speaker 3: birds you want to attract. And they even have something
Speaker 3: called They're no Mess blends, which means there's not going
Speaker 3: to be a bunch of debris under the feeder because
Speaker 3: they've already shelled the sunflowers, for example, and it's no mess.
Speaker 3: And the other thing I like about it is listen,
Speaker 3: you go buy cheap bird seed anywhere and you're going
Speaker 3: to see a lot of the little red bebies, and
Speaker 3: that is not a favorite of birds at all. Wildbirds
Speaker 3: see is one things that are going to go into
Speaker 3: the bird's mouth and tummy and help them with getting
Speaker 3: through winter weather, with help them getting ready for nesting season,
Speaker 3: which we're there, we're there at nesting season. It's quality
Speaker 3: feed that goes into the bird that is important at wildbirds. Now,
Speaker 3: I could go on and on and on about wildbirds,
Speaker 3: but first of all, go download that Merlin app and
Speaker 3: check it out, and then go into Wildbirds and let them.
Speaker 3: You can say, hey, look, Merlin said, I've got a
Speaker 3: tufted tip mouse here. Well that's an unusual bird. How
Speaker 3: do I track those? And they'll just go follow me.
Speaker 3: They'll take you right to the seeds and show you
Speaker 3: exactly what you need to do. That's easy, that's fun.
Speaker 3: That's wildbirds, that's for sure. Nelson Plant Food has a
Speaker 3: number of products. I've been talking about their turf Star line,
Speaker 3: and I will off and on as we go forward,
Speaker 3: but I want to tell you a little about the
Speaker 3: Nutros Star line. Nutris Star is generally people purchase it
Speaker 3: as a canister of food with a little screwtop cap
Speaker 3: like a jar, but a plastic clear jar with a
Speaker 3: screwtop cap. And they have things like the Tree and Shrub,
Speaker 3: which is for guess what, trees and shrubs five different
Speaker 3: sources of nitrogen that gradually feed those plants over the
Speaker 3: coming months to provide them what they need to grow fast.
Speaker 3: And when you've got a young tree or a shrub,
Speaker 3: you want it to fill in. It also has micronutrients
Speaker 3: in it. By the way, they got their citrus fruit
Speaker 3: and avocado feed, which provides the nutrients that really any
Speaker 3: kind of fruiting plant needs. They could just say nutri
Speaker 3: star fruit, but so people understand that includes citrus, that
Speaker 3: includes avocados, but it also includes pomegranates, any kind of
Speaker 3: fruit that you have nutri stars, citrus fruit and avocado. Again,
Speaker 3: about every three months, give it some food with that.
Speaker 3: Just the label tells you how much to put on,
Speaker 3: but it really does make a difference. You will sprinkle
Speaker 3: these around beneath the branch spread of the plant. So
Speaker 3: if it's a little fruit tree how far the branches go,
Speaker 3: primarily focus on that area underneath and your plants will
Speaker 3: respond with good growth. Those are from the folks at
Speaker 3: Nelson Fertilizer and they are widely available throughout the Houston area.
Speaker 3: Some places even will allow you to refill your jars
Speaker 3: of certain kinds of Nelson plant food that comes in
Speaker 3: the jars, and that saves you some money because you
Speaker 3: just buy directly the fertilizer right out of a dispenser
Speaker 3: kind of like those in the grocery store where you
Speaker 3: buy peanuts and different things. Well, it's that way saves
Speaker 3: them the plastic too, I think i's smart way to go.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Garden Line, and we're here to
Speaker 3: help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
Speaker 3: That is my goal. That is what I hope happens
Speaker 3: for you, because I want you to have fun. Listen gardening. Okay.
Speaker 3: You know how at the end of commercials they have
Speaker 3: to have a lawyer talking so fast you can't understand
Speaker 3: the words, and it's their disclaimer. Here's my disclaimer. I
Speaker 3: won't talk fast. Gardening is addictive. It can be habit forming.
Speaker 3: People have been known to get so into gardening that
Speaker 3: it's like it's the only thing that exists, and then
Speaker 3: it's contagious and then their spouse gets the fever, or
Speaker 3: their friends or you know whatever. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 3: you're going to gardening clubs, You're visiting nurseries. Every time
Speaker 3: you go to a town where someone else is you know,
Speaker 3: you go to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, you know, or Philadelphia? How
Speaker 3: about that Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to see that crack in the
Speaker 3: liberty bell. But all you want to do is go
Speaker 3: find all the cool garden centers up in Philadelphia. I
Speaker 3: know you, I know you, I am you. Gardening is addictive,
Speaker 3: but it's the best addiction that you could have. That
Speaker 3: is for sure. That is for sure. Let's go out
Speaker 3: to Cyprus. We're going to talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 4: Oh, thanks so much. Take them a call. I have
Speaker 4: a bottle brush that are planned. The last fall blown beautifully,
Speaker 4: but now the freeze hit it pards So is it
Speaker 4: going to come back from the bottom or is it dead?
Speaker 3: Probably? Yeah? Probably? So is this one of the little
Speaker 3: short ones that's like waist high or lower? Or is
Speaker 3: this a taller bird?
Speaker 4: Yeahst tie?
Speaker 3: Okay, that may be one called little John. But anyway,
Speaker 3: bottle brush is marginally hardy. And when we have warm
Speaker 3: weather and then get a good cold especially, you're going
Speaker 3: to get frozen back on it. Usually you get a
Speaker 3: re sprout from the bottom. Uh. And if you love
Speaker 3: bottle brush, and there's lots of reasons to love them,
Speaker 3: are several of the pollinators like bees do too. I
Speaker 3: would recommend when you get cold weather, come and mount
Speaker 3: something up around the trunk at the bottom, just to
Speaker 3: protect that for sure, And that good root system is
Speaker 3: still not frozen back. It's still intact, and it'll send
Speaker 3: up press new growth and you'll be back in business
Speaker 3: pretty quick.
Speaker 4: But not in my case, since I didn't mound anything up.
Speaker 3: I think it's going to come back. I think it's
Speaker 3: going to come back anyway, based on where you live
Speaker 3: and based on the kind of cold we've had. But
Speaker 3: don't give up on it. It's gonna sit there and
Speaker 3: look dead and pound for a while. But when the
Speaker 3: weather worm's up, I would say, by May you should
Speaker 3: be seeing new growth, and if you're not, then maybe
Speaker 3: you lost the plan. You're probably gonna see new growth
Speaker 3: though in March or April.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, good, thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, thank you sir. Appreciate that call very much.
Speaker 3: Let's see here. Let's go to Michelle in Webster. Hey, Michelle,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 33: Ask if I have a question about Texas lawflower. In
Speaker 33: my flower bit they're long stalks with a little purpleish
Speaker 33: like all at the end they're dried up, including the
Speaker 33: flower and the stalk, and the homeowners don't like this
Speaker 33: dried plant here. So I was just wondering do if
Speaker 33: I pull up the entire stock. Well, it looks like
Speaker 33: the little flower seeds. Will they come back or do
Speaker 33: I need to them?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, Michelle, I'm having a little trouble hearing you.
Speaker 3: What I didn't catch was you said Texas and then something,
Speaker 3: what kind of plant is it?
Speaker 6: Wildflower?
Speaker 33: It's a Texas wildflower?
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, wildflower. So in those pods up there there
Speaker 3: should be seeds. If it's truly a wildflower and not
Speaker 3: a special hybrid type variety, you can just crumble those
Speaker 3: up and sprinkle them around and get those stalks out
Speaker 3: of there. Now, some kinds of dried stalks people like
Speaker 3: to use in arrangements. They sounds like what you're describing
Speaker 3: sounds kind of pretty. That may be worth keeping the
Speaker 3: stalk itself, but sprinkling the seeds around, then the wildflowers
Speaker 3: will come back up.
Speaker 33: Okay, So I need to probably pull out the entire
Speaker 33: stalk then, because they're kind of looking like they're dry.
Speaker 3: Guess that's why you don't like you Yeah, and well yeah,
Speaker 3: and you know it looks like you know, there's a
Speaker 3: lot of ways to garden. Some ways it's just always
Speaker 3: looking perfect, and other ways it looks like nature and
Speaker 3: nature does not look perfect all the time. It's got
Speaker 3: dead things, you know, in it, and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So if there's not a tolerance for that, just just
Speaker 3: pull them up. But I would if you don't want
Speaker 3: to sprinkle the seeds right there, at least take those
Speaker 3: seed heads inside and you break them up, get the
Speaker 3: seeds out of them, put them in a glass jar
Speaker 3: that seals well. Write down the name if you know
Speaker 3: the name of it. If you send me a picture
Speaker 3: of the seed stalks, I might be able to tell
Speaker 3: you the name if you'd like that. Oh but anyway.
Speaker 33: Yeah, okay, all right, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Enjoy your show.
Speaker 30: Very informative.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you appreciate that very much. All righty well,
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about a plant type I haven't
Speaker 3: been discussing a lot of today, and that's fruit trees.
Speaker 3: Fruit trees are wonderful to grow here in the Greater
Speaker 3: Houston area. We have a lot of good ones that
Speaker 3: we can grow. You can grow pretty much, can grow
Speaker 3: almost anything down here. But when it comes to peaches
Speaker 3: and pears and plums, there are even some apples that
Speaker 3: will grow down this far south. When it comes to
Speaker 3: figs and per simmons, those figs and percimons are two
Speaker 3: of the most pest free and disease free problems that
Speaker 3: you can have figs and per semons. They do really well. Here.
Speaker 3: We have berries like blackberries and strawberries. There are some
Speaker 3: raspberries that you can get to, but yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: start a raspberry farm. You're not gonna make a lot
Speaker 3: of money off that, just not that much production. And
Speaker 3: then there's the tropical and the semi tropical fruits. You know, citrus.
Speaker 3: A lot of people move here and they're just excited
Speaker 3: that you can grow citrus in the Greater Houston area
Speaker 3: and you can. There are citrus it's very cold, tender,
Speaker 3: and then there's citrus it's very hearty. One of the
Speaker 3: hardiest types of citrus is the kind that is often
Speaker 3: used for marmalade, and it's called kumquats. The little oranges
Speaker 3: look like the end of your thumb. One type is round.
Speaker 3: One type's a little more elongated, and the skin tastes
Speaker 3: better on the inside even and people like those in
Speaker 3: they're extreme hearty and it's a bush. Then there's satsumas.
Speaker 3: Satsumas are a mandarin type citrus. So if you're going
Speaker 3: I don't know what a satsuma is, I don't know
Speaker 3: what a mandarin type citrus is. When you're in the
Speaker 3: grocery store and you see those little oranges that are
Speaker 3: called kuties I think is one of the brand names
Speaker 3: for them, and you grab them and the skin just
Speaker 3: comes right off. It's not even attached to the fruit hardly.
Speaker 3: It's just loose, a baggy skin. Well, that's what a
Speaker 3: setsuma's like, a baggy skinned fruit that is hardy when
Speaker 3: established down to the upper teens. Even some people have
Speaker 3: told me they made mid teens. But that's crazy hardy. Now,
Speaker 3: No brandy setsuma stuck in the ground this last year
Speaker 3: is not going to be that hardy in your yard.
Speaker 3: And how the cold arrives determines how hardy it is.
Speaker 3: So if we slowly cool off and we don't get
Speaker 3: that thing growing again during the wintertime, it's gonna have
Speaker 3: more heartiness. So anyway, satsumas, if you're listening up in
Speaker 3: Huntsville or in Conroe or in College Station, you know,
Speaker 3: low further north. I guess I could call those the
Speaker 3: northern hinterlands, but people up there would laugh at that, right,
Speaker 3: But anyway, satsuma may be the one for you. Now,
Speaker 3: it doesn't mean, you'll never have to cover it. You
Speaker 3: will need to cover it occasionally. But they are moderate
Speaker 3: sized trees. They're not they don't as big as like
Speaker 3: a grapefruit might get. So a satsuma can easily be
Speaker 3: capped in maybe a six to eight foot range something
Speaker 3: like that easily, and they'd taken a long time to
Speaker 3: get eight feet. But anyway, those are things you can
Speaker 3: grow down here too. Avocados if you're down south of
Speaker 3: by ten, especially avocados or something you may want to
Speaker 3: try now in a very protected spot. If we can
Speaker 3: get a few winters that aren't that bad, they'll go
Speaker 3: right through the winter without a problem. I was looking
Speaker 3: at somebody sent me a picture the other day of
Speaker 3: an avocado tree that was near the eaves of the
Speaker 3: house on the south side, and he said it's frozen
Speaker 3: back twice, and I was looking at it was way
Speaker 3: taller than the eaves, and he was starting to get
Speaker 3: avocados again. So even if they freeze back, you protect
Speaker 3: the base of it and you're back in business. So
Speaker 3: avocados are a little iffy, but oh my gosh, they're
Speaker 3: so good. Now, do not plant fruit trees. Here's your
Speaker 3: advice on fruit trees for the day. Quick quick tip,
Speaker 3: don't pick your fruit varieties out of the in the supermarket.
Speaker 3: Haas avocados are not for here. There are avocados varieties
Speaker 3: that are for here, And if you go to a
Speaker 3: good independent garden center, that's all they're going to sell
Speaker 3: you is the heartier, smooth skin type of avocado that's
Speaker 3: grown here. But don't pick those out of the supermarket.
Speaker 3: You see bing cherries in the super Mario, you see
Speaker 3: other things in the supermarket. You'll see high bush blueberries
Speaker 3: in the super market, regular high bush, not southern. Don't
Speaker 3: plant those here. Pick your varieties based on information that's local.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna head out to Conro now and
Speaker 3: talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, good morning.
Speaker 26: I have ways in my yard, but I also have
Speaker 26: a dog, and I was wanting to know if there's
Speaker 26: something I can put on to kiel the weeds. But
Speaker 26: not a fact my dog.
Speaker 3: You said you're you're wanting to kill weeds, not fleas.
Speaker 3: Right first, I thought you said, please.
Speaker 26: I don't want to put anything that's gonna harm my doll.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well let me start with what your
Speaker 3: long term UH effort should be and that is growing
Speaker 3: a denser, healthier lawn by mowing and watering and fertilizing.
Speaker 3: Mowing as often as you can. The more often you mow,
Speaker 3: the denser the lawn. Watering only with a good soaking periodically,
Speaker 3: not don't water three times a week uh and UH.
Speaker 3: Then fertilizing moderately, and I talk about all the fertilizers
Speaker 3: every every day on guard line. UH and and grow
Speaker 3: the densest lawn you can get, and those weed problems
Speaker 3: will plummet. Now you can use something like a barricade
Speaker 3: to prevent warm seasoned weeds from coming up. You're gonna
Speaker 3: put it down and then you're gonna water it in
Speaker 3: with about a half inch of irrigation and that will
Speaker 3: move it down into the soil. And then once those
Speaker 3: plants dry off, the dogs can go out there on
Speaker 3: it because it's you've moved it down into the soil.
Speaker 3: If you spray existing weeds, Jim, that herbicide product will
Speaker 3: be present on the leaves because that's what you're spraying
Speaker 3: on to kill that existing weed that you may see
Speaker 3: out there now. And if dogs go out and eat those,
Speaker 3: then they're going to get exposed to it.
Speaker 26: The dog won't be exposed of us.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, yeah, I mean it'll be present. It'll be
Speaker 3: present on the surface of the plant. Now, everything breaks
Speaker 3: down after a period of time, and the different broad
Speaker 3: leaf control post emergent broad leaf control products vary in
Speaker 3: their toxicity, their persistence, and other things. But just know
Speaker 3: that if your dogs like to go out and eat leaves,
Speaker 3: then a sprayed leaf is gonna get eaten, just because
Speaker 3: that's what they do. If you can keep the dogs
Speaker 3: off of the grass for let's say a week and
Speaker 3: so so, just as an example, let's say you go
Speaker 3: out and you spray, and once it dries, give it
Speaker 3: about a week. Don't let the dogs go out and
Speaker 3: be unsupervised out there on it. Don't let them eat anything.
Speaker 3: After about a week, that products moved down in the
Speaker 3: weeds to kill the weed, and then you could go
Speaker 3: out with a mower and mow that all off and
Speaker 3: get all the weeds everything that got sprayed up there
Speaker 3: you're mowing it away. Then that would be another safety
Speaker 3: measure for a post emergent spray. But it needs it
Speaker 3: needs some days to be able to move down in
Speaker 3: the weed and do its job before you let the
Speaker 3: dogs out.
Speaker 4: Okay, I appreciate it.
Speaker 26: Thank you all hard much.
Speaker 3: Okay. I hope that helps Jim. Thanks a lot. I
Speaker 3: love Conro used to live in Conroe. I lived in
Speaker 3: Conroe and I lived in Willis during my ventures around
Speaker 3: the state as a Horticulture Texas and Eggerlife extension. Well,
Speaker 3: it's time for me to take a quick break. Let's
Speaker 3: do that and we'll come back with our last segment
Speaker 3: and your calls at seven one three two one two
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Speaker 27: Yes, yep, I'm looking around my garden and you know,
Speaker 27: during to freeze my onion and my childs did real
Speaker 27: good with the snow, and I even had some cilantro
Speaker 27: that survived. Is there anything else I could plant this
Speaker 27: time of the year? Was really the cold that will
Speaker 27: survived in the herb sessions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oregano goes through our cold just fine. Rosemary does
Speaker 3: okay here in cold uh. The uh time is another.
Speaker 3: Those are all perennial herbs, as is time that does
Speaker 3: well going through the herb season. Most of our herbs,
Speaker 3: most of the good herbs that you think about and
Speaker 3: use and whatnot, are going to be okay here. Basil
Speaker 3: does not even want to be at forty degrees much
Speaker 3: less freezing, So basil's one for the warm season. But
Speaker 3: a lot of the other herbs do well. Chives is excellent.
Speaker 3: There's an onion chives and a garlic chives that do
Speaker 3: very well here. So those are a few examples.
Speaker 27: Can can mint hang in the cold temperatures too?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately? Yes, I say unfortunately. Mint will take over underground.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like putting more mutagrass in your beds.
Speaker 3: It just takes over. So you got to contain mint.
Speaker 3: But yes, it can freeze it to the ground and
Speaker 3: it just comes right out of the ground. You're not
Speaker 3: going to kill mint with.
Speaker 27: Okay, but does it ever put a flower on?
Speaker 32: It?
Speaker 3: Can? Some types of mint will flower, and I just
Speaker 3: off the top of my head, I can't tell you
Speaker 3: which types flower better than others, but some types will
Speaker 3: generally fly. I have not seen peppermint flower, but somebody's
Speaker 3: gonna call and say, yes it does. But anyway, there
Speaker 3: there are dozens of kinds of mint. I'd never I
Speaker 3: had no idea how many kinds of mint there were
Speaker 3: till I went to places that carry on all of them.
Speaker 3: Chocolate mint, who ever heard of that? It is?
Speaker 27: I'm like you, I never heard chocolate either, but it's
Speaker 27: out there probably.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but if you live in the South, you
Speaker 3: gotta have peppermint. You can have spearmint too. Spearmint is good. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's many other good mints, orange mint, and like I said, chocolate,
Speaker 3: but I like peppermint. Go ahead.
Speaker 27: Does the smell encourage good bugs or bad bugs?
Speaker 23: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well it doesn't. It doesn't encourage good bugs. There may
Speaker 3: be some insects that are repelled by that smell. I
Speaker 3: don't you know. I just you don't really associate it
Speaker 3: with bugs, because there are there. I can't think of
Speaker 3: any significant pests of mint, so you know you never
Speaker 3: have to spray your mint, that's for sure.
Speaker 27: Okay, well those are the good.
Speaker 3: But I tell you what, you you can't make a
Speaker 3: Southern mint jule up without it or put a sprag
Speaker 3: in your iced tea. You know, it's a law in Texas.
Speaker 3: You have to be an iced tea drinker. You can
Speaker 3: drink coffee if you want, but you got to drink
Speaker 3: ice tea. It's it's an official law. Yeah, lighter, there
Speaker 3: you go, Thanks, Ruth. Appreciate that. All right, folks, we
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