WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.799 Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:13.640 It's crazy. 3 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:12.199 Trip. 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:21.199 Just watch him as so many good. 5 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:22.760 Things to supp crazy. 6 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:35.880 Again, We're not a sorry glass sun. 7 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:42.960 Good morning, gardeners, Good morning, and welcome to garden Mine. 8 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:47.600 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to 9 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.359 talk gardening this morning. We get here at ten am, 10 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.799 so grab a cup of coffee, stick around and if 11 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:55.200 you'd like to give me a call, maybe you have 12 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.200 a question seven one three two one two k t 13 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.079 r H seven one three two into KTRH and we 14 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:06.480 will visit about whatever you are interested in horticulturally. Let's 15 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:09.560 just let's put that limit on it. I don't know, 16 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:13.359 we might stretch that a little bit, but whatever would 17 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:15.760 help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful 18 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.319 landscape and more fun in the process, that's what we 19 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:22.879 want to talk about today. Well, the cold weather is coming. 20 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.799 It's definitely the elephant in the room, so you know, 21 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.040 we might as well visit about that. I know you've 22 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.560 probably been checking the weather apps on a regular basis, 23 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:36.200 trying to, you know, see what's up, what the latest 24 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:40.599 prediction is. I guess it's an exciting thing for kiddos 25 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.280 because they're getting to perhaps face a little bit of snow, 26 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:46.640 which you know, I know growing up. I grew up 27 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.079 South San Antonio, down a little town called Jordenton, Texas. 28 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:56.120 That is, when I lived there, both of the speed 29 00:01:56.359 --> 00:02:00.400 or both of the population signs were on the same post. 30 00:02:00.439 --> 00:02:02.760 It was that small. But it's got a little bit 31 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:07.640 bigger right now. Anyway, I remember like two snows in 32 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.520 my whole life, so it but one of them was 33 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:13.599 really a good one. Anyway, when you're a kid, you 34 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:15.800 love for it to snow. You know, it helps the 35 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:18.520 Christmas songs make sense, like you know, dashing through the 36 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.199 snow and a one horse open slate. What snow, Mama. Well, anyway, 37 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.319 you get to see snow over now, and then that's coming. 38 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:28.919 We got some cold weather coming too. It's going to 39 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.439 be a good week to be spending some time indoors 40 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:37.199 that I try to get as much I can get 41 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:41.560 outside because I get card kevin fever cooped up indoors, 42 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:44.000 so I like to get out and enjoy things on 43 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.080 the outside. And it kind of depends on, you know, 44 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:52.039 what your preferences are. But I need to be outside more, 45 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.599 but not this week. Done in the Houston forecast. From 46 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.199 what I can tell, we're gonna get down about thirty 47 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:02.759 nine about twenty tomorrow night and twenty one, twenty seven, 48 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.120 thirty two. That goes all the way through Thursday, so 49 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.599 it's gonna be a cold one. And then Tuesday, Tuesday 50 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:12.479 evening especially, I believe we've got a really high chance 51 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.840 of getting some precipitation which will be frozen because Tuesday 52 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:19.800 only gets up to thirty four degrees according to the 53 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.080 current Houston forecast that I have. So what are we 54 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:24.879 going to do about it? Well, one thing we're gonna do. 55 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:29.080 They say the three peas are pipes, people and pets 56 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.120 are pipes, plants, and pets. I guess we need a 57 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:35.800 people pee in there too, pipes, plants, and pets. So 58 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:40.599 I hope you've taken care of getting your pipes adequately secured. 59 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.000 There is a lot of ways we can do that. Remember, 60 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.800 all you got to do is keep them from freezing hard, 61 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.479 and so there's already some warmth in the walls of 62 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:54.520 your house, so that's helping a little bit the pipe 63 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.840 sticking out into the cold air. That's why you put 64 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:02.360 those little styrofoam covers over them. You can also get 65 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:08.439 a little electrical. It's a section of electrical coated electrical 66 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:11.000 wire that you wrap around pipes and plug it in 67 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:13.840 and it keeps them warm enough to keep them from freezing. 68 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.720 So that there's that. There's also wrapping pipes with styrofoam strips, 69 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.360 if ice familiar with seeing those. And then there's a 70 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.560 new little device called the freeze miser that is really cool. 71 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.000 I screwed in the faucet and you know how you 72 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.399 try to turn on the faucet's outdoor and let them 73 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:36.160 drip overnight or trickle overnight. That moving water stops it 74 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:39.920 from freeze water from freezing it. You always got, you know, 75 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:43.240 let's say the temperature of water inside your home that's 76 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:45.600 always coming out, so it keeps it from getting too 77 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:48.920 cold out there. And that freezemiser what it does when 78 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:53.160 it gets really cold, it starts to leak water out. 79 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.639 So imagine a little kind of a nipple like thing 80 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.480 you screw into the end of the pipe and then 81 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.920 you on your water full force and nothing comes out. 82 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.439 And then as a temperature drops, something inside starts to 83 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:10.360 shrink and now it's letting water through. So instead of 84 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:13.199 running water all night, wasting a lot of water. You 85 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:16.279 end up just using water when it's needed, when it's 86 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:17.959 cold enough for it. And so that's kind of a 87 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.079 cool thing. From what I can see, they work pretty well. 88 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.759 I'm gonna grab me a couple today. I saw a 89 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:26.199 place where I had them, finally getting around to doing that, 90 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:27.480 and I'll tell you where you can find them is. 91 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.240 You can find them at Ace Hardware stores. You know, 92 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.879 Ace has got everything you need if you are trying 93 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:38.720 to keep your pipes warm, your water from freezing, if 94 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.319 you're trying to keep your pets safe, if you're trying 95 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.240 to protect your plants. So those pipe, those faucet covers, 96 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:51.160 the freeze miser, the tubes of foam star foam or 97 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:54.800 foam material to wrap around your pipes, a duct tape 98 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.439 to hold it all on, Plastic sheeting to cover over 99 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.879 things and protect them, frost blankets to take care of 100 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:06.120 the I mean, it's all there at Ace Hardware, and 101 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:08.240 we got Ace Hardware's all over the place. There's a 102 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.639 lot of them. I mean they are absolutely all over 103 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.560 the Greater Houston area, from all the way out in 104 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.319 Beaumont to all the way down in Wharton and in 105 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:20.879 our listening area and in many places beyond that. All 106 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:23.160 you have to do is go online to acehardware dot com, 107 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:26.319 find the ones near you, and you'll be able to 108 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:28.199 get in there and get everything you need. And for 109 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:31.560 the we say the three piece for the fourth p people, 110 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:35.680 we've got heaters. They've got all kinds of space heaters inside. 111 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:38.800 If you need to do any kind of things for 112 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:41.839 your little generator, you got out there in case, you know, 113 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.040 power to go out or something, they got stuff for 114 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.399 that as well. Everything you need basically is there at 115 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.199 ACE Hardware, So don't delay, go ahead and get it done. 116 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:53.519 We're not having tonight. It's not our worst night by far, 117 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.160 but you do want to make sure that you take 118 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:02.079 care of the pipes, people, plants, and uh what did 119 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.720 I leave out? Pipes, people, plants, I can't tell. Pets, Yeah, 120 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.639 the pets as well. Oh and also those clamp on 121 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.360 lights where you put in either a one hundred and 122 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:16.079 fifty flood light above or you put in an actual 123 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:18.399 heat lamp to really warm things up. I'm going to 124 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:20.600 be putting a heat lamp in. I've got a whole 125 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:23.079 bunch of plants in my garage and they're all grouped 126 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:25.040 together in the back of the garage and it's gonna 127 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.199 stay reasonably warm in there. But just to be sure, 128 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:29.439 I put a little heat lamp in shine it down 129 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.439 on the garage floor, and that is it is. It 130 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:35.639 radiates down and then the heat rises up. We're good 131 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:37.560 to go. Just remember with the heat lamp, don't point 132 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:40.720 it at the plants. And if you if you don't know, 133 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:42.879 if you believe that or not, well turn on a 134 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.439 heat lamp and put your hand, you know, a foot 135 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.839 or two away from it and just hold it there 136 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.839 still for a while and you'll see what I'm talking about. 137 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:52.079 But anyway, I'll get one of those those are a 138 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.759 ACE to clamp on. I've already got those climpon lights. 139 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.000 So all of it's there for you. And we've got 140 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:00.279 Ace hardware's all over the place. You know, if you're 141 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:04.000 done in full shure, there's fulsher Ace hardware. There's an 142 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:06.800 All Star Ace hardware, one in Spring and one in Magnolia, 143 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:10.279 All Star Ace Poor levaka Ace hardware for those of 144 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:13.600 you listening way down in that direction. In Spring Ace 145 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:17.319 hardware up in Spring. So easy to find time for 146 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.519 me to take a break when we come back. I 147 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:22.600 will go straight to your calls and boil somebody. Everybody 148 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:25.439 woke up this morning. All right, we'll be right with you. 149 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:33.399 Melanie and Ann and Robert. Welcome back the Guarden Line. 150 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:36.279 Good to have you with us. We're gonna get out 151 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.679 to the phones here in just one second. I know 152 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:41.159 we're gonna be talking freezes all day. I just want 153 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.960 to make a few comments about freeze and freeze protection. 154 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:50.200 There are things that point toward more plant damage, and 155 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:54.559 there's things that point us toward less plant damage. If 156 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.480 a plant is not ready for cold, the same plant 157 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.080 versus a plant that's had time too as we say, 158 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.399 hardened off, the one that hasn't been able to prepare 159 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.559 for cold is more likely to get cold damage at 160 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.519 the same temperature as one that has been. It's going 161 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:14.440 fine because it was hardened off. That's one things that 162 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:19.360 how sudden the cold comes, and how fast the temperature drops, 163 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.320 how much wind we have when it's cold. You know, 164 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.399 if we say it's going to be twenty six degrees, well, 165 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:26.679 is that twenty six degrees of still air? Or is 166 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.639 that twenty six degrees with a fifteen mile an hour 167 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:31.840 wind blown from the side. You know, it's going to 168 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:36.000 cool off faster, you get more damage. Now, typically when 169 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.639 the wind isn't blown and you don't have clouds, the 170 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.399 temperature will drop lower. But I'm just saying these things 171 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:44.759 affect whether a plant will be damaged or not. Now, 172 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:47.799 the things that help us have plants not get damaged. 173 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.320 A plant that's not drought stressed, soil that has been 174 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:56.879 adequately watered. Water holes heat, and when we say heat, 175 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:01.200 we just mean temperature. You know that is above freezing. 176 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:06.000 That's heat compared to a frozen plant. So water holes heat, 177 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:08.440 so that doesn't mean drowned it and create a swamp. 178 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:12.639 It means just a good deep soaking, making sure there 179 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.879 is moisture there, pulling the mulch away. So when the 180 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:20.360 sun shines during the day, it warms up that dark 181 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:25.440 soil that can then radiate that heat up into the 182 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:28.919 plant in the evening times. Covers over the top of 183 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:32.360 the plant, especially when they go to the ground, and 184 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:36.440 they create a dead air space. So it may be 185 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:41.279 twenty six degrees outside, but underneath the cover, with soil 186 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:43.440 rising up in some dead air space, it's not going 187 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.759 to be as cold. Now, that doesn't mean, you know, 188 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.080 you get to nineteen degrees and you're not going to 189 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:50.240 freeze a plant that's not enough. These are all things 190 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.960 that add together to provide protection or not. So it's 191 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.440 not a black and white issue here. We've got a 192 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.440 lot of factors that are moving putting heat underneath the cover. 193 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:02.879 You know, a little bit of heat versus a lot 194 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:05.799 of heat. And you know, if you've got a small plant, 195 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:09.600 it takes less heat under the cover to protect it 196 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:12.240 at a given temperature than if you have something large, 197 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:15.519 like a big old orange tree, for example. So that's 198 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:18.080 a lot of airspace to provide heat into. It's gonna 199 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:21.559 take more heat. So whether you're using light bulbs to 200 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:23.440 do it or whether you're using some other way to 201 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.919 do it, it's going to take more heat to do that. 202 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.480 And so each of these things, you know, it moves 203 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:31.360 us toward you're probably going to get damage or you're 204 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:32.879 not going to get damage. And of course the plant 205 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.759 species varies a lot too. So what we have to 206 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:38.480 do is we have to do all of these things. 207 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.320 You know, if I had a citrus tree and it 208 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.200 was going to get to nineteen and I was trying 209 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:46.480 to cover it, I would also pull soil or very 210 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:49.080 fine compost up around the trunk and make a big 211 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:50.960 old giant this only time you're gonna hear me say, 212 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:54.600 make a trunk volcano. But this is it because that way, 213 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:58.279 if it froze back and kill the trunk back, typically 214 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:00.399 it's going to be a little warmer under eat that 215 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:04.279 big pile of soil where the trunk touches it, and 216 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.679 maybe you'll get a sprout from above the graft that 217 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:10.159 can grow and replace your tree. So see what I'm saying. 218 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:13.200 We're doing all these things either to move the needle, 219 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:18.080 to order away from coal damage. Nature is doing those too, 220 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.120 And so there are times when we try to cover 221 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.039 and protect a plant and it's not enough. It's just 222 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:25.440 not going to be enough. It's too cold, it's too windy, 223 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.720 the plant's too sensitive, on and on down the cold sensitive. 224 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:32.200 But those are the things that we try to do. 225 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:34.240 So I just wanted to make a mention of that 226 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:40.080 because that is really important to realize and to keep 227 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.039 that into account. So ask yourself, you know, if you're 228 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:45.440 going to put lights underneath the plant, you know how 229 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:47.440 col tender is this? How big of an area am 230 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.120 I trying to recover or to protect rather and make 231 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:53.879 your decisions according to that. Let's go to other phones. 232 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:55.519 Now we're going to head out to Cyprus and talk 233 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.960 to Melanie. Hey, Melanie, good morning, and welcome to garden Line. 234 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:01.000 Morning gift. 235 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.399 And you did enlighten me already about the heat lamps, 236 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:07.519 and you have to because I bought them at eight 237 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.559 yesterday and I had by cross protectors over my camellias. 238 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:17.879 But you want to put them down on the ground, right, yes. 239 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:22.960 And when you well, yes, you want to put them 240 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:26.840 down low because heat rises, you know, so putting them 241 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.639 up in the air and pointing them at the plant 242 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:30.919 is not as helpful as getting them down low and 243 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.159 having the heat ride that. That's a minor thing, but 244 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:34.879 again it's part of what I just said. It's all 245 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:39.159 these factors combined. If you're if you're using just a floodlight, 246 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:41.759 which may be about one hundred and fifty wide or 247 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.399 something like that, that's gonna put on a little bit 248 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.399 of heat and in a small space. If we're talking 249 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:48.559 about just trying to keep the temperature about thirty two, 250 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.120 it may be enough, but if the temperature gets lower outside, 251 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.600 it won't be enough. Okay, if you're using you said 252 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:59.320 the word heat lamp. Those are okay, are they? Is 253 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:03.159 it a red kind of okay? Yeah, those put out 254 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:07.080 more heat. Those put more heat. But again, if if 255 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:10.879 you had a big, old, giant orange tree with a 256 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.320 cover over it, and you just had one of those 257 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.200 underneath it, and the temperature is going to go into 258 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.399 the teens, you know, that's probably not gonna be enough. 259 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.000 You may have to have a second woman or something. 260 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:23.440 So it's just a it's a it's just a factor. 261 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.799 Someone called in yesterday and talked about a little gadget 262 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.960 you hang in the plant where you're on your phone app, 263 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.559 you can tell what the temperature is. Boy, that would 264 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.639 be really helpful because then you would know exactly how 265 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:36.799 things are going out there. Not not that you would 266 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:38.720 want to walk out and tend degree weather and try 267 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:42.240 to add another heat lamp or anything, but but it 268 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:45.200 just just think of it that way that do everything 269 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.600 you can, and remember we don't have to make it 270 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:51.480 warm enough to where we'd be comfortable under the under 271 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.200 the cover. We need to keep it about freezing, and 272 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:57.960 so if we the main thing is if you can 273 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:02.240 create dead air space, then you've got this air that 274 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.679 you heat it up, and it's not like whim just 275 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.240 immediately blows it right up from under there, and so 276 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:10.159 that's also very important. 277 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.120 Okay, thank you, I'll see what I can do. 278 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:15.600 That's all I can do. 279 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.600 All right, good luck, good luck, Melanie, Thank you for 280 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:20.600 the call. We're going to go now to Wharton and 281 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.919 talk to n. Hey n. Welcome to garden line. Yes, 282 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:24.600 good morning. 283 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:34.279 Have about seventy seventy foot of foot of Saint excuse me, 284 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:39.519 A blue bonnet's in Saint Augustine Bermuda yard and they're 285 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:43.720 being inundated with clover. Is there anything that can be 286 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:45.919 done to get rid of the clover? 287 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:52.919 No, there's not a selective spray that would kill clover 288 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:58.399 and not blue bonnets. The blue bonnets will probably be okay, 289 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:02.159 they'll probably I mean they've been doing that in nature 290 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:03.879 for a long time. They know how to deal with 291 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.440 all the weeds around them. But if you you know, 292 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.120 going in and doing some hand pulling, and I realized 293 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.440 that's a huge area you described that may not be practical, 294 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.600 but any little bit that you do helps a little bit. 295 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:19.799 But that's about the only thing you can do. Well. 296 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:22.279 We've had them in the past, but they're getting to 297 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.159 be more prolific and we literally have to go out 298 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:28.919 there with the weed eater and you know, chop them down. 299 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.320 So I just thought there might be something new on 300 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.080 the on the market. Yes, we pulled and whatnot. I 301 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.759 just may have to forego the blue bonnets one year 302 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.960 and totally annihilate that clover and then you know, reced 303 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:48.080 make the next Would that be a good idea? 304 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.919 Well, you can try that. You know, clover's throwing seeds 305 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.879 out there. Some may not hatch this or hatch sprout 306 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.840 this year, some may sprout next year, and so I 307 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.639 don't know that that would get ahead of it. I'll 308 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:06.799 tell you this, if you have the time and able 309 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.559 to any clover plant you get out, you're taking out 310 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:11.920 all the seeds that it would have produced for the 311 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.720 next year, yes, and then probably the year after that. 312 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.519 And there's a little device. I've not used this to 313 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.680 try to get clover out of blue bonnets, but I 314 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:23.279 use it on thistle weeds that come up in flower 315 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:25.960 beds in my yards, called the Grandpa's weeder. And it's 316 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:28.079 got little prongs and you don't have to bend over 317 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:32.480 and pull weeds. You step on it and imagine, you know, 318 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:34.799 take your two fingers and your thumb and push them 319 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.839 down into the ground and then pinch them together. And 320 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:40.160 all you do is pull back on the handle and 321 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:42.640 it pinches and pulls the weeds out, and you could 322 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:44.880 loosen a lot of clover out of the soil that 323 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.759 way without stooping. And then just go in and either 324 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:51.039 rake or pull up the weeds that the clovers that 325 00:17:51.079 --> 00:17:54.240 you have pulled up, So that may be helpful for you. 326 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.920 Right, they understand. There are also look like two different 327 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.160 types of clover, and one has a bigger leaf and 328 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.000 spreads more, and then there's this smaller variety. It's more 329 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:04.279 difficult to pull up. 330 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:10.319 So work with it. Well, good luck, good luck with it, 331 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:11.920 and if it works, send me a picture of the 332 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:13.960 bluebone patcher. If it doesn't, send me a picture of 333 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.599 the bluebone, I'd love to see that. All right, thanks 334 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:20.759 a lot, and I appreciate that you bet you bet. 335 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:23.319 You take care as well. All Right, I'm about to 336 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.240 hit a break here, Robert in Spring Branch. We'll get 337 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.440 to you first when we come right back. In the meantime, 338 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.160 I want to remind you go to my website, Gardening 339 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:35.599 with Skip dot com. Find that publication on freeze and 340 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.160 frost protection. It's free, it's nine pages, it's got color pictures, 341 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:46.559 and it will help. Welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. 342 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.920 Let's keep going this morning. I bet we talked freezes 343 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.079 all day. Whatever you want to talk about though, we 344 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:55.519 can even talk about the tomato agree last year. If 345 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:57.559 you want to go that route. We're going to hit 346 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.519 it out now to Spring Branch and talk to Robert. Hey, Robert, 347 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:01.759 Welcome to guarden Line. 348 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:04.359 Hey, Skip, how you doing this? Want and serve besides 349 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:05.599 cold between the webs. 350 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:10.039 I'm doing good. I'm good. 351 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:11.039 Good, glad to hear it. 352 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:11.799 You're staying warm. 353 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:12.240 Hey. 354 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.480 On the the light bulb thing, the LED versus the 355 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:20.680 incandescent versus a true heat lamp or a halogen type bulb, 356 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:23.200 we need the people to be aware that they're not 357 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:26.240 going to get the heat off of an LED LED 358 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:29.920 light that's not transmit heat like the old incandescent or 359 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:33.680 a Halingen type of light. If they're going to put 360 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:36.519 the LED bulb up under to try and warm the plant, 361 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:39.200 realize that the heat from the LED bulb is in 362 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:39.759 the base. 363 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:40.920 It's in that. 364 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:44.200 White or colored part at the bottom. 365 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.839 So so don't don't leave the bottom of the bulb 366 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.599 out from under the cover. Get it as close as 367 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:51.720 you can, and you don't have to worry about shooting 368 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:54.559 LED light on a plant because it's not going to 369 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.279 carry the light. So just the type of light bulb 370 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.799 they're gonna make a big difference. 371 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:04.799 Yeah, it's important, and hopefully the place they buy it 372 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:08.440 can direct them that way too. Yeah, it's huge. LED's 373 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:12.759 you knows, be a little nerdy about it. When electricity 374 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:17.119 goes into a light, it either comes out as light 375 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:20.160 or as heat. And an incandescent bulb a little the 376 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:24.880 old incandescent you know bulbs we used, about ten percent 377 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:27.599 comes out as light and ninety percent of the energy 378 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:31.359 it gets converted to heat. LED is kind of flipped over, 379 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:36.400 not that efficient like ninety ten, but it's way more 380 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:39.279 efficient on light and therefore you don't get the heat. 381 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:43.599 And we talk sometimes your comment is kind of give 382 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:45.119 me a springboard to make a couple of things that 383 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.359 come to mind as you say that, And we talk 384 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:49.240 often about well, you can put a string of Christmas 385 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:51.960 lights in there, well, not LED Christmas lights and not 386 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.240 the little tiny, twinkly non LED Christmas lights. There's hardly 387 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:58.039 any heat comes out of those. It's the big old 388 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:01.720 what's the number C four or C something. The bulbs 389 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:05.079 that are like little miniature old time light bulbs. Uh, 390 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:07.319 those produce a little bit of heat and you can 391 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:09.039 put a string of those to help a little, but 392 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:11.640 it can't be a very hard freeze for them to 393 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:12.680 do a lot. 394 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:15.400 Yeah, if I was going to use the LED bulbs 395 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:20.119 skip around my precious plants, I would put a couple 396 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:23.359 of the or three of the LEDs for every one 397 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:26.240 of a regular incandescent. They just that's part of what 398 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:28.480 makes them efficient. Yes, sir, and I am a little nerdy, 399 00:21:28.519 --> 00:21:31.480 I'm a double e. Sorry, sorry to throw that at you, 400 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:33.200 but I just I want people to save there. 401 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:33.559 There. 402 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:35.720 There was a lady called in yesterday. She's got names 403 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.160 for her plants, and I think that's precious. But uh, 404 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:41.640 we just got to realize there's an amount of warmth 405 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:42.440 that we do need. 406 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:49.599 Yeah, yeah, that is that's true myself. All right, man. 407 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:52.160 Thanks, I don't know if you had any data about 408 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:52.680 how much work. 409 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:59.119 Yeah, it's it's not and you know, not all needs 410 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.119 or created either. I I buy the LED plant lighting 411 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:07.160 fixtures that have the right wavelengths and a cheap picture 412 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:09.640 like that will produce quite a bit of heat compared 413 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.519 to an LED that is higher quality and does a 414 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:15.880 better job of taking that electricity and turn it into 415 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:16.839 a light red than heat. 416 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:20.359 Are correct, There's a brand new called fight F I 417 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:24.079 E T and they're reasonably low on the efficiency scale, 418 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:26.720 and those are the ones that I would call sacrificial 419 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:29.519 for outside use. Anyway, you have a wonderful day. 420 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:33.640 I appreciate you, all right, man, thanks for the call. 421 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:37.039 Yeah boy, there's a lot of factors here. I mean, 422 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:39.640 we could get we could get done in the in 423 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:43.200 the in the weeds, on on all the details of it. 424 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:47.480 I'll just I'll just say this, you know, basically, what 425 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:49.759 I'm suggesting people do is get a one hundred and 426 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.079 fifty white flood light for a little bit of heat, 427 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:54.799 and a heat lamb for a lot of heat. And 428 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:57.519 just make sure be careful. This has got to say 429 00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:59.759 it again because I know I'll say something five times 430 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:03.640 and not everybody's listening. Don't point a heat lamp at 431 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:06.400 your plants. It just gets too hot. Don't put the 432 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:09.680 bulbs too close to your trunk or leaves or things 433 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:13.440 like that. And one other I gotta warn you again 434 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:19.880 consider fire hazard. I have pictures of plants where it 435 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:22.759 was a little tree, a little fruit tree, and they 436 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.039 had put a cover over it, and then they put 437 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:30.480 some fixture down near the ground and it in dead grass. 438 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:34.519 And the next morning it looked like you'd burned a 439 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:37.920 trash pile out there. It was all gone. It caught 440 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:40.440 on fire and burned it all up. So I mean, 441 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:42.640 that's just common sense. You know, you don't stick an 442 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:46.640 open plug out in rainy weather. You don't put something 443 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:49.599 that could spark done in dry grass or mulch, and 444 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:51.920 so just be careful with that. A low common sense 445 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:55.799 will do that. In the ball, I just put a 446 00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.079 fixture underneath a trialis that I have. I just wanted 447 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:02.000 to try to keep it, you know, even some of 448 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:04.279 the above ground parts alive if I could. It's more 449 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.400 of an experiment. But I drove a steak in the ground, 450 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:10.119 and I put my clamp light on the steak, so 451 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:13.359 I'm sure the bulb will be above the soil and 452 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:16.759 pointing down. You know, if you stick it to PVC pipe, 453 00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:19.960 sometime the weight of that light it'll start to sag 454 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:22.599 down and next thing you know, it's not pointing where 455 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.680 you want it to point or whatever. Anyway, more than 456 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:29.039 you want to know, more than you want to know. 457 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.799 But just because it's gonna get cold doesn't mean you 458 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:35.079 need to quit talking about plants and what to plant now, 459 00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:38.160 and good plants and things out there like that, plants 460 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.480 for all seasons. Up on a highway two forty nine, 461 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:44.160 which is Stunball Parkway. They're just north of Luetta. If 462 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:47.160 you're going up toward Tomball, you exit Luetta and just 463 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:49.599 crossover Luetta. It's a little further up on the right 464 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:53.880 hand side, just a soone's throat from Luena. They've got 465 00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:56.880 lots of great stuff in. They got some good cool 466 00:24:56.920 --> 00:24:59.920 seasoned flowers, you know, pansies and violas and the diantha, 467 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:03.640 one of my favorite cool seasoned flowers. Lots of things 468 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:06.200 like that to choose from. They got a good selection 469 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:10.680 of vegetables, a great selection of seeds inside too. Their 470 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:14.759 indoor seed selection is awesome. So why not go out 471 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:18.039 and grab some of that today, Get you some seeds, 472 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:21.799 start to do your planning. You know, we can take 473 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:24.960 advantage of not being able to go outside to sit 474 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.079 down at the table with paper and pencil kind of 475 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:29.960 figure out, what are you gonna plant next year? Where 476 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:31.680 are you gonna put it? You got the seeds, get 477 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:35.559 them all ready? Maybe you want to start some seeds yourself. 478 00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:42.880 And there is things like seed trays, a seed starting mix, 479 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:45.400 a very fine textured like a pinting soap, a very 480 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.839 fine textured that you can use. Maybe you're going to 481 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:52.640 get a light, an LED light to provide lighting for 482 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:55.640 those plants. Lighting is the single most important thing that 483 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:58.160 people seem to not get right when they try to 484 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:01.000 start to grow their own transplants. So I have a 485 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:05.319 publication on my website lighting for seed Starting. It's actually 486 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:09.279 really interesting. Uh, and you will if you read it, 487 00:26:09.319 --> 00:26:11.920 you will go, oh, I get it. I did not 488 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:15.839 know that because there's a lot of factors about it. Uh, 489 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:18.119 you know, just having an electrical engineer call and talk 490 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:21.880 about you know, uh, plant lighting and heat. The same 491 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.279 is true when it comes to how plant light work. 492 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:27.440 Lights work. So check that publication out. I'm gonna take 493 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:32.000 a break. We'll be right back, And I'm your host, 494 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:35.160 Skip Richter, and you're listening to guard Line. We're here 495 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.960 to talk about the things you need to talk about. 496 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:39.079 And I suspect the cold weather and what to do 497 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:43.160 about this plant, that plant, or what works what doesn't work? 498 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:47.359 I don't know. You tell me whatever you want to 499 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:49.720 talk about, will do it? Seven one three two one 500 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:52.599 two K T R H. We want you to have success. 501 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:54.799 And I'll tell you this, A lot of people are 502 00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:57.240 hesitant to call in, and I get it. You know, 503 00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:59.759 I'm going to be on the radio and everybody's listening, 504 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:02.799 and what if I make a fool of myself or something. Well, 505 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:06.599 Number one, nobody's it's just showing me. Trust me. That's 506 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:08.680 shoeing me out there. I know who you are. You're 507 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:11.559 sitting there listening, and if you call, we'll just visit. 508 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.400 And I if you've listened to guard Line very long, 509 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:19.039 you know that we are very welcome, welcoming of callers here. 510 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:20.920 And I always like to have new folks call in. 511 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:22.839 Love to have the folks who call in at other 512 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:24.960 times as well, but it's always good to meet a 513 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:27.200 new gardener. So what do you want to talk about today? 514 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.720 Let's do that. I promise to be kind. The way 515 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:33.319 I used to say it, and I guess I should 516 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:37.880 still do this is don't be afraid of asking a 517 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:42.200 stupid question. There are no stupid questions just stupid answers. Now, 518 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:44.440 I know you're sitting there thinking, yeah, I've heard some 519 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.279 stupid questions amount time. Well that's not how I look 520 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:50.319 at it. Stupid answers, that's what we're worried about. So 521 00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:54.079 the pressure's on me, not you. Let's talk about gardening. 522 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:56.200 And I'll tell you this, if you have a question 523 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.240 somebody else does, I guarantee you. I can sit here 524 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.599 in a show and answer the same question seven times 525 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:07.079 in the same morning, and that's okay. I can do that. 526 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:10.319 I wish everybody listened all the time, but I understand 527 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:13.799 how things go. You're in, you're out. Well, just ask 528 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:16.160 your question and we will answer it for you. And 529 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:17.839 I don't know if i've answered it before, I may 530 00:28:17.839 --> 00:28:22.000 add something different into the answer, something additional, And so 531 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.279 somebody who's listening through the whole thing gets gets to 532 00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.200 kind of expand on what they're learning and how they 533 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:33.200 can then go have success. I was mentioning plans for 534 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:35.400 all season before we went to break and you know, 535 00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:37.160 plans for all seasons if you if you want to 536 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:39.839 get in contact with them. The website's Plans for All 537 00:28:39.960 --> 00:28:43.039 Seasons dot com and their phone number is two eight 538 00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:47.279 one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one 539 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:52.519 three seven six sixteen forty six. Swing by there and 540 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.079 visit with those folks and get you some supplies to 541 00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:58.240 get ready for gardening. You know this, Like I said, 542 00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:04.440 this week is the week to be gardening indoors, armchair gardening, 543 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.920 if you will. It's the week to be reading seed 544 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:12.119 catalogs and getting inspired. It's the week to be reading 545 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:12.920 stuff online. 546 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:13.200 You know. 547 00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:16.000 I put a couple of new things on my website 548 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:18.960 the other day, a couple of days ago, that are 549 00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:23.680 I think helpful to you. It'd be worth reading one 550 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.079 of them. I mentioned the one about you know, how 551 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:28.640 to control woody weeds, you know, like poison ivy and 552 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:31.160 hackberries coming up in the fence line and stuff like that. 553 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.200 I put one of those up. But I also put 554 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:38.079 up a publication on pasturizing potting soil. Now, I know 555 00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:42.519 most people are not gonna pasteurize their potting soil. I 556 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:46.160 get that go out and buy fresh. We say clean, 557 00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:49.839 meaning it's not full of diseases. Potting soil or seed 558 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:53.960 starting mix. That's good. But there are people who want 559 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:55.880 to kind of make their own stuff. You know, they 560 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.640 make composts and they screen it down really fine, and 561 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:01.359 maybe they add a little bit of purli to it 562 00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:05.240 or sand to it or whatever their concoction is. And 563 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:09.000 then you go start a seed and in a very humid, 564 00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:14.440 moist chamber, diseases can proliferate. And so we have a 565 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.680 disease called damping off. And basically what it means is 566 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:20.279 your little seedling sprout and then they start to rot 567 00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:22.519 at the base and fall over, kind of like Paul 568 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.200 Bunyan went through there chopping them off. They just they 569 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:28.640 just melt right over. And that's that's a fungal disease. 570 00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:33.599 That is a problem because of that very moist, nice 571 00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.720 mild temperature chamber that you've created, which is what seas want. 572 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:40.200 Seeds want moist and mild temperatures, and so how do 573 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:42.680 you avoid that. Well, if you want to make your 574 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:45.880 own soil, or maybe maybe you have potting soil from 575 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.440 a bunch of containers and you're you're done with it, 576 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.960 you can throw it away, you can put it on 577 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:54.720 the ground, just mix it into the soil like organic matter, 578 00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:58.240 like compost. But some people want to try to reuse it, 579 00:30:58.319 --> 00:30:59.759 and how do you how do you do that? Well, 580 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:02.319 the you do that is you have to pasteurize it. 581 00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.920 You have to kill the bad stuff. And in this 582 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:08.799 publication that I wrote and put online, it's very simple. 583 00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:12.240 You know say in a publication sounds like this big deal, 584 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:16.880 it's it's really simple. Basically, you can put that soil 585 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:20.559 in a pan with foil over the top and put 586 00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:23.119 it in an oven. You need to moisten it. It's 587 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:26.759 very important to have good heat transfer, good moisture, not soggy, 588 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.359 just moist you know, Cover the pan with foil, seal 589 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:34.000 it over and put it in a oven away from 590 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.240 the heating element. And then the next step is to 591 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:40.559 raise it to a certain temperature and leave it for 592 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:42.960 about thirty minutes once it hits that temperature. And I 593 00:31:43.079 --> 00:31:47.960 use I've used meat thermometers, I've used candy thermometers, all 594 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:51.359 kinds of you know, little thermometer. Just stick them, pokehole 595 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:53.759 through the soil, stick the thermometer in there and just 596 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.240 watch the temperature on it. Check it out, check it periodically. 597 00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:00.000 Once it hits the temperature you want it, leave it 598 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:03.480 about thirty minutes just to be sure. Now here's the warning. 599 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:11.160 Don't overheat. When you overheat potting soil. It is not pleasant. 600 00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:16.039 We'll just say earthy odor that can can fill the 601 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:19.759 house in the oven as well. So if you are 602 00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:23.039 trying to heat up some soil, I realize right now 603 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:24.880 as I'm saying this, you know, like one in one 604 00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:27.799 hundred people probably is going to do this. But one 605 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.559 hundred and forty degrees for thirty minutes is enough to 606 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.519 kill most fungi that are in the soil. If you 607 00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:37.319 want to kill bacteria and insects, you're probably gonna need 608 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:39.519 to go to about one hundred and sixty degrees because 609 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:42.079 they are a little more some of them are a 610 00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:44.559 little more resistant to the heat. And if you're trying 611 00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:46.359 to get all the weed seeds, we say about one 612 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:48.279 hundred and eighty, but do not go above one hundred 613 00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:51.400 and eighty for anything, and about thirty minutes and that'll 614 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:54.519 do it. An alternative method, and this is the one 615 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:56.720 I like because I don't know, it seems neat or 616 00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:59.440 cleaner to me, is get you all those turkey bags. 617 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:03.359 You know that the bags that you would put around 618 00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:06.400 a turkey, they're made for the oven. They're called oven bags, 619 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:09.039 is really the name for them. I call them turkey 620 00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:12.640 bags because that's the size of the bag, and put 621 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:16.039 your soil in that, your moist soil, pre moistened soil 622 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:18.880 in that, and then put that bag on a tray 623 00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:23.039 in the oven, kind of flatten it out that you 624 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:25.359 wouldn't want to go deeper than about four inches or 625 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:28.119 so because you want heat to get all the way 626 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:31.240 to the center of it effectively. And just poke a 627 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.799 hole in it, a little slid or a hole that 628 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:36.480 allows extra air to escape. And it works really well. 629 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:38.440 It's neat and clean. So those are a couple of ideas. 630 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:41.599 If you didn't catch all that, go online the publications 631 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:45.400 on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com. And it's 632 00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:48.480 even there's even a PDF version that you can print 633 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:51.480 out if you want to do that. All right, Well, 634 00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:54.559 there we kind of went off on a tangent and 635 00:33:54.640 --> 00:34:01.119 some things that I think some gardeners will be interested in. Well, 636 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:04.680 there's the music. We are putting an hour in the 637 00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:06.720 books this morning. Hey, we got three more to go. 638 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:09.360 Give us a call if you'd like to call it 639 00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:11.960 Duram Break. You can be one of the first folks 640 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:16.079 when we come back on the air seven one three 641 00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:19.199 two one two k t r H seven to one 642 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.119 three two one two kt r H. We're gonna be 643 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:25.760 talking about all kinds of things. Uh, your calls, certainly. 644 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:28.239 I have a few topics that I would like to 645 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.519 visit about a little bit, and uh, one of the 646 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:34.800 things is printing tools. Come back, We're and talk a 647 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:38.480 little bit about some basic printing tools things you might 648 00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:41.039 be interested, especially if you're in the market to purchase 649 00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:43.159 a tool, or if you're trying to take care of 650 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.480 your tools, how to keep care of the top round 651 00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:49.400 the forward to talk to you in just a bit. 652 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:55.000 Welcome to kt r H guarded line with skimp rict. 653 00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:22.480 Just watch him as many again signs. 654 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:31.320 So all right, we're back in the saddle again, ready 655 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:34.519 to go for another hour of garden line. If you'd 656 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:36.400 like to give me a call. Seven one three six 657 00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:41.400 two excuse me seven one three two one two fifty 658 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:44.280 eight seventy four seven one three two one two five 659 00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:48.639 eight seven four. I mentioned that I was going to 660 00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:55.800 talk about printing, printing tools, things like that, So let's 661 00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:01.960 let's do that. When it comes to successful pruning, number one, 662 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:03.760 you need to know what you're doing when you go 663 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:06.440 out to cut what needs to be prune this. You 664 00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.960 know how you prune various kinds of plants. That that's 665 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:12.199 all helpful, but having good tools is important. And there 666 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:13.960 are a lot of different pruning tools out there in 667 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.719 the market, a lot of different kinds. In fact, I 668 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:18.039 could spend the whole show talking just about all the 669 00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:20.519 different pruning tools. And I'm just going to give a 670 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:24.599 few quick points here when it comes to pruners that 671 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:27.679 are hand pruners or that are loppers, the long ones 672 00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:29.840 that you know you cut a larger limb off with. 673 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:34.000 There are two types of blade arrangements. One of them 674 00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:36.840 is called a bypass and it works like a pair 675 00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:40.119 of scissors. One blade passes by the other one and 676 00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:45.400 clips off the branch or whatever you're cutting. The other 677 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:48.199 type is called an anvil type, and there you have 678 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:51.639 a flat surface and a blade comes down on it 679 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:55.719 as if you were hitting a hatchet on an anvil top. 680 00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:58.880 You see what I'm saying, It cuts that way. I 681 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:01.920 don't care for the endvie types. They are okay in 682 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:06.199 some situations, but general I find that they often get 683 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:08.400 a little lot of whack and you try to cut 684 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:10.639 and it didn't cut all the way through. Well, So 685 00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:14.159 I like the bypass types of pruners, And I realize 686 00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:17.000 there's reasons for each type, but the bypass types work 687 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.239 a little bit better. When you're using a bypass pruner 688 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.800 the side, like if you're holding scissors, typically the bottom 689 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:27.400 part has a little bit more of a flat surface 690 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.159 and the top part is more of a thin blade. 691 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:37.559 And when you're using scissors that are a bypassed type pruner, 692 00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:43.800 the bottom part may slightly crush the branch that where 693 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.079 it's pressing against it, and the other type slices through. 694 00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:51.320 So I always put the blade against the plant, in 695 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:53.519 other words, the part that's going to be left behind, 696 00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:58.000 put the blade against that, and then prune accordingly. Now 697 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.880 it is I find it a little better when you 698 00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:06.199 can to prune cutting up. So imagine you got a 699 00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:08.199 trunk with a branch going up the side. I'm gonna 700 00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:10.039 get you. Do this, hold your hand up, stick your 701 00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:11.920 thumb out to the side, and your fingers together so 702 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.280 it looks like mittons. Okay, if I were going to 703 00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:16.800 cut the thumb off there, I would slice from the 704 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.000 bottom upward and cut it off. And the reason is, 705 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.800 especially if pruners start to get a little out of 706 00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:28.199 adjustment if you're cutting down, sometimes the blade will drift 707 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:31.199 a little to the side and it won't cut through, 708 00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:33.880 and you'll end up like with this little strip kind 709 00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:36.880 of hanging down. And number one, you need to sharpen 710 00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:39.599 the prunters and fix fix the adjustment if you can. 711 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:42.039 But I just find it better to cut up. It's 712 00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.480 just one thing. I'll not always cut up, sometimes to 713 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:48.719 the side or whatever. Just always remember to put the 714 00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.159 blade against the plant when you can, when the arrangement lies. 715 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.199 Sometimes the way the branches are angled and stuff, you 716 00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:57.000 only have one way to get in there, and you 717 00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:59.159 may not even fully be able to get inside there 718 00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:03.880 and cut. But do that. Always keep your punters sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, 719 00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:08.559 very important. It's less wear and tear on your hands, 720 00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:12.480 so you don't end up with joint strain and muscle 721 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.400 strain on your hands. The same is true with loppers 722 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:17.599 when it comes to your elbows and shoulders and things 723 00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:22.920 like that. Sharp prunters are so important. Very sharp saw too, 724 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.320 by the way, for that matter, So keep them sharp. 725 00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:28.800 Make your cuts. If you're printing something that may be diseased, 726 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.159 like you have a pear tree that had fire blight, 727 00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:35.519 for example, or a pyacantha that had fire blight. Then 728 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:41.320 you want to dip your printers into alcohol and or 729 00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:44.480 spray them with lysol. I like the lysol approach because 730 00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:46.760 you just and I'm using a brand name there, but 731 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:49.320 you get the idea. I like the lysol because it's 732 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.880 fast and easy. You know, carrying around a thing of 733 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:56.199 alcohol is not that not that practical. Sometimes I'll buy 734 00:39:56.239 --> 00:40:00.400 a little pint essentially a pint container of isopropyle alcohol, 735 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.119 cut the top off of it and because they are 736 00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:06.320 like what a dollar for those little things, and then 737 00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.880 just dip the prunters in it. You can use bleach 738 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:12.519 water ten percent bleach water, but I wouldn't bleach water. 739 00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:15.400 Pits metal and it'll cause it to rust worse. Now, 740 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:17.960 if you get through pruning and you clean your pruners 741 00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:21.239 well and oil them, well, it's going to be okay. 742 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:24.559 But most people don't, and so I just stay away 743 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:26.719 from the bleach water because of the fact that it 744 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:31.599 is a corrosive and causes that problem. So anyway, I 745 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:34.079 like lysol too. And if you that way, when you 746 00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:36.440 make a cut, you're going to have sap and things 747 00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.079 on those prunter blades. And let's say it did have 748 00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:41.840 the bacteria that causes fire blade in it and you 749 00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:44.519 go make another cut. Now you're just spreading it. You're 750 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:47.360 creating a wound and infecting the wound at the same time. 751 00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:50.519 See what I'm saying. So anyway, life all works good. 752 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.440 I spurble alcohol works good. Just get a good strong one. 753 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:56.400 Just something to kill the bugs or the diseases it 754 00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:59.719 might be on there. That's a sanitary thing. One other 755 00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.320 t is if you're printing a plant and you got 756 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.239 an area that has issues, prine all the whole plant 757 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.719 except that area, and then prune that last. And that way. 758 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:11.719 That's another way to avoid spreading the disease as you 759 00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:14.320 go from one to the other. Let's see. Those are 760 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:17.360 a couple of tips on prunters. A number three or 761 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:20.519 whatever number we're on. The last while give in this 762 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:26.360 quick review, is that you should buy quality prunters. There 763 00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:29.800 are a lot of brands out there. You get what 764 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:32.679 you pay for when you buy prunters. You go to 765 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:34.880 a big box store and buy a cheap set of prunters, 766 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:37.119 and you may think you're getting a good deal. I 767 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.679 could fill a bucket full of all the pruners I 768 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:44.400 was given or whatever and had, and they were cheap 769 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.280 and they're worthless, and they after a while, I get 770 00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.039 upset and I just throw them in the trash because 771 00:41:49.039 --> 00:41:52.199 they're not working right. A good set of prunters is adjustable. 772 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:55.880 You can replace the blade on a good set of 773 00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:59.559 prunters often and that allows you to keep them sharp, 774 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:02.440 to keep them in good adjustment. It's easier on your hand. 775 00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:08.119 It cuts better. Uh, it doesn't cause you know, problems 776 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:10.199 with the way you make the cup, maybe leaving a 777 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:12.880 strip or tearing a strip off of the bark or 778 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.079 something that's not going to heal well. It's just a 779 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.360 good way to go. Examples would be like fell Co 780 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:22.679 and oh gosh, Corona is another good one, and there's 781 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.760 some others out there. I'm not sponsored by Folk or 782 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:28.599 Corona or anything. It's just those are good brands and 783 00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:31.199 there's some others out there that are good quality punters. 784 00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:33.719 Spend some money on a good quality printers. I got 785 00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:37.519 prunters that I've owned for decades because they're good and 786 00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.800 they last, and it's much better to do that. All right, 787 00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:43.480 Time for me to take a break. We'll come back 788 00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:47.440 with your calls at seven one three two one two KTRH. 789 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:52.159 Welcome back. To the guard line. Folks, what do you 790 00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:54.679 want to talk about today? I suspect when you talk 791 00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:56.840 about the cold a little bit, and that's going to 792 00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.760 wait and let let you tell me and your questions. 793 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.400 We talked about the freezes yesterday. We've been talking about 794 00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:04.679 a lot of this morning. By the way, if you're 795 00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:06.920 just tuning in, you might want to go back. I 796 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:10.800 made some comments earlier on just talking about the fact 797 00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.239 that with freezes, it's not like throw a cover over, 798 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:17.320 put a light bulb under it, and you're good. You know, 799 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:20.840 there's factors. There's things that make a plant more likely 800 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:25.320 to freeze, to suffer freeze damage, and there are things 801 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.199 that you can do or that nature does or doesn't 802 00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:33.800 do that help that plant be a little better at 803 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:37.480 being resilient during a freeze and not suffering cold damage. 804 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.239 And certain things like plant species, of course, but the 805 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:43.360 conditions and things, and so as you're covering your plants, 806 00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:46.280 just remember if I were to give you like one 807 00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.440 or two things to remember, it's like number one, don't 808 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:53.800 do landscape lollipops. The amount of benefit that is is 809 00:43:53.960 --> 00:44:01.199 minimal to none, minimal to none. And instead auto drape 810 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:03.480 down all the way to the ground. The cover ought 811 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:05.000 to drape all the way to the ground. And the 812 00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:07.559 way I describe it is, imagine if you put an 813 00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:11.320 umbrella over the plant that reached out over the outsides 814 00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:13.480 of the plant, and then you if you throw a 815 00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:15.880 cover over that umbrella and let it go straight to 816 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.719 the ground like rain would fall off the umbrella, that's 817 00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:21.360 what we're talking about, and secure it to the soil. 818 00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:25.400 Create dead air space. That is very important. That allows 819 00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:28.639 you to take advantage of the warmth of the soil 820 00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:33.159 coming up. And remember forty degrees soil is warm when 821 00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:39.000 it comes to freeze protection because that's almost ten degrees 822 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:43.559 above freezing, right, and so you're looking at a warming 823 00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:46.400 and we don't have to make that plant comfortable and toasty. 824 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:48.280 It's not like you're going to sit out there all night. 825 00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:50.960 You'd want it really warm. You probably want eighty degrees 826 00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:53.880 in there, but the plant, no, we just have to 827 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:56.639 keep it about freezing. So that covering it right and 828 00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:00.920 creating dead air space so important. No landscape lollipops. Just 829 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.559 think of it that way. Number. Let me go into 830 00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:06.519 that just a second. You may be thinking, well, why 831 00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:10.599 is that you know you I become a couch lollipop. 832 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:13.119 When I wrap up in a blanket on a cold 833 00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:17.719 night watching TV or something, well, my body produces heat 834 00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:21.199 and the blanket holds the heat. In plants don't produce 835 00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:24.159 any significant amount of heat at all. So all a 836 00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:27.599 blanket around a plant does is slow the rate of cooling. 837 00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:31.079 But given enough time, it's just it's going to be 838 00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:34.519 just as cold inside almost as it is outside. And 839 00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:39.119 so just a wrap is slightly helpful. If you're going 840 00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:42.320 to have a temperature that drops down to thirty degrees, 841 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.719 then it's when the sun comes up, it's real quickly 842 00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:48.880 back up above thirty five. Well yeah, okay, then a 843 00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:51.960 wrap would be some helpful for that. But in general, 844 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.960 plants don't produce heat. That's the difference. That's why, So 845 00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:58.960 just remembering that is helpful. Soil has a huge reserve 846 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:03.239 of warmth in it, especially if it's moist soil. The 847 00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:06.639 other thing is when you apply heat, the amount of 848 00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.039 heat you need to apply is going to be based 849 00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:12.159 on how cold does it get and how big is 850 00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:15.079 the space you're trying to warm. So if you have 851 00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:16.880 a little space heater in your house, like you go 852 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:19.039 into a little closet and you put a tiny space 853 00:46:19.079 --> 00:46:20.960 heater and barely turn it on. It's going to get 854 00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:23.119 warm in there because that's a small amount of space 855 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:25.320 burt to heal up. Now, go out to a huge 856 00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:28.039 living room with a vaulted ceiling and have that same 857 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.760 space heater. It's not kind to warm that room, not much. 858 00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:35.119 And the same is true underneath the plant. So something 859 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:37.039 down low to the ground a little bit of heat 860 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.159 is usually good, and something larger you're going to need more. 861 00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:43.480 And I can't tell you when you need to shift 862 00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:46.960 from an incandescent one hundred and fifty white flood light 863 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:52.480 bulb to a incandescent heat lamp bulb underneath the plant, 864 00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:54.639 and you're just going to figure that out depending on 865 00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:57.199 the cold and the plant and all that. I can't 866 00:46:57.199 --> 00:46:59.079 tell you when you need to add a second one 867 00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:01.239 to it, but you can figure it out. But just 868 00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:04.039 remember we don't have to make it warm under there. 869 00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:08.599 We just have to keep it above thirty two. All right, 870 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:13.880 there we go. Hopefully that is helpful. One of the 871 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:16.159 things that we really need to be doing right now 872 00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:20.519 is starting seeds. And if you've never grown transplants before, 873 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:24.039 you're missing a whole aspect of gardening. That is a 874 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.119 lot of fun. Now, some people grow flats and flats 875 00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:32.920 of transplants, of flowers and vegetables for their garden and whatnot. 876 00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:35.800 That's fine, and most people are not going to do that. 877 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:39.000 But can I talk you into at least growing one 878 00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:42.159 transplant or two, maybe grow two or three, just so 879 00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:44.719 you have one for sure that makes it and does well. 880 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:48.719 Try something what would you like to try? Right now? 881 00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:51.960 It's time to plant tomatoes and peppers, and you could 882 00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:57.400 start eggplant now indoors as a transplant. That light is 883 00:47:57.440 --> 00:48:00.960 the most important factor in growing successful trans plants. Sitting 884 00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:04.320 them by a window is generally not going to be adequate. 885 00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.400 It's just not. They're going to stretch and lean and 886 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:11.960 get spindly and not do well. So it's important to 887 00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:14.360 give them good quality lighting. And you can do that 888 00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:16.360 with a lot of different kinds of light. There's plant 889 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:19.280 lights that are like almost perfect light. They have the 890 00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:23.719 wavelengths and everything exactly like the plant wants. I do 891 00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:26.679 have a publication on plant lighting on my website that 892 00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:30.320 explains the difference in plant quantity and plant or like 893 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:35.400 quantity and like quality, and how far away do you 894 00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:38.159 put a light from a plant and all those factors, 895 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:42.559 but try something like that, and I just really would 896 00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:44.960 encourage you to do that. I think it's fun and 897 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.239 as you do it, you get more and more into it. 898 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:48.920 Next thing, you know, you're going to be buying some 899 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.199 really quality lighting. So you can grow a lot of things. 900 00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:55.880 And I do that myself slowly over time. You know, 901 00:48:56.400 --> 00:48:58.800 it's not only break the bank and turn a whole 902 00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:03.800 room into a plant that place. Just start slow. It's 903 00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:06.320 easy to do and it's fun. It's so fun to do. 904 00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:08.280 And another reason why you should grow your own things 905 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:12.599 is you can grow things that you can't buy locally. 906 00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:15.440 We got the best garden centers in the whole United 907 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:18.480 States here, I mean North, South, East, West, and Central 908 00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:21.840 independent mom and pop as they say, garden centers. We 909 00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.559 got them and they're awesome. And some of them carry 910 00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:26.840 a lot of things. Some of them carry dozens of tomatoes, 911 00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:30.519 for example, varieties to choose from. But maybe there's one 912 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:33.159 that you just want to try and grow at yourself. 913 00:49:33.519 --> 00:49:36.159 You can do that. You know, we're we're not talking 914 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.239 about don't buy transplants. We're talking about things that you 915 00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:44.480 want to grow that I've grown before. For example, if 916 00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:46.719 there is a particular kind of flower, or maybe a 917 00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:51.280 new cultivar of flower. There's every year there's new cultivars 918 00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:53.400 of flower and vegetables. In fact, I'm pretty sure the 919 00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:56.719 earth would stop spinning on its axis if there wasn't 920 00:49:56.760 --> 00:49:59.440 eight hundred new tomato varieties every year for us to 921 00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:02.400 choose from. That is just the way it goes. So 922 00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:05.079 you want to try something out, you're probably initially you're 923 00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:10.320 gonna have to probably experiment by going and buying seeds 924 00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:14.079 and growing it yourself. Now, the things that are proven, 925 00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:16.760 that are tried and true, especially some of the famous 926 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:19.679 heirlooms that people like and things like that. We got 927 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:21.639 garden centers are going to carry those for you, so 928 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:23.960 you can call around a lot of them put their 929 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:26.360 information online. If not, just call them if you're looking 930 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:28.800 for a particular type. But what are you going? What 931 00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:31.199 are you gonna try new? Another thing that I would 932 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:33.280 encourage you to do this year, And I've been talking 933 00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:36.760 since we got going here in January about what what 934 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.360 is your gardening resolution for the year. I know, I 935 00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:43.760 don't like the term resolution because usually a New Year's 936 00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:46.920 resolution lasts two weeks and then it's forgotten and we 937 00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:50.880 go on through the year. I'm talking about just a decision. Hey, 938 00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:54.559 I am going to you fell in the blank, and 939 00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:56.840 I think you need to say I am going to 940 00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:00.679 try growing a transplant this year. I think I'm going 941 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:04.400 to try rooting a cutting this year. And if you've 942 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:09.079 never rooted cuttings before, the easiest things on earth to root, 943 00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:17.079 I think our basal rosemary cos colius plants. Once we 944 00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:19.119 get into warm weather and the colius are out there, 945 00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.719 you just basically look at the stem and say root, 946 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:24.760 and roots start popping out of the sides. I mean, 947 00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.039 those are easy. Those are easy ones to root. There's 948 00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:32.079 information online on how to root, how to have success 949 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:37.440 with rooting, So give it a try. Try something. Maybe 950 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:41.639 you have a really tall dressina, you know those strappy 951 00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:44.280 leaf plants with a little stalk like a palm tree 952 00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:48.320 stock going up, and it's too tall and you would 953 00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:50.559 like to make it shorter. You know that you can 954 00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:53.760 do an air layer on that stem. You put soil 955 00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:58.039 around the stem, actually putting mix around the stem up high. 956 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:02.039 Let's say that just for example, let's say it's seven 957 00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:06.239 feet tall and you need it to be bring it 958 00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:08.599 down to about four feet tall. Okay, So here's what 959 00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:10.679 you do. You go up to the top, and about 960 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:14.039 a foot down from the top, you do an air layer. 961 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:15.639 Just go look it up tells you how to do it. 962 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:18.360 It's not hard to do. And once roots form in that, 963 00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:20.800 you cut it off below that, and now you got 964 00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:23.039 a new plant that you can pot up and grow 965 00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:26.239 or give away. And then you go down as far 966 00:52:26.440 --> 00:52:29.039 down as you want that top of the trunk to 967 00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:31.400 be and you cut it off there, and what's gonna happen. 968 00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.039 Our buds are going to form on the sides are 969 00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:35.800 already actually, they're already in the trunk, you just don't 970 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:38.280 see them, and they're going to sprout out. Have you 971 00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:40.960 ever gone to buy a corn plant at a garden 972 00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:44.239 center and you see this stalk that is stubbed off 973 00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:46.480 and then there's shoots coming out the sides of it. 974 00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:49.320 Pretty much every corn plant, that's how it's sold. Well, 975 00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:51.440 that was a tall stalk they cut off, and those 976 00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.559 shoots just popped out of the side. So you can 977 00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:56.679 take a fiddlely fig that's too tall. You can take 978 00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:02.079 a Drsina corn plant, or you can take the drasina 979 00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:05.280 with the little strappy, thin leaves and you can turn 980 00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:10.760 a tall, lanky plant that is just unacceptable into something 981 00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:13.280 that's very attractive and make more plants in the process. 982 00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.440 That's what I'm saying. One thing, one thing. Do you 983 00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:17.840 want to try this year? If you got something around 984 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:19.199 the house and you wont know how to propagate it, 985 00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.440 give me a call. We will help you do that. 986 00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:25.519 We are let's see here. I'm gonna got about a 987 00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:27.920 minute here to go. We're going to go to Paul 988 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:30.920 in Troy, Alabama. Paul, I've got about a minute or so. 989 00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:33.239 If you need be, we can hold you over break. 990 00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:36.079 How can we help the day, No problem, Just give 991 00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:39.320 me a short course on blue button seed the package. 992 00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:42.880 I should have planned them in the fall of the year. 993 00:53:44.239 --> 00:53:47.159 What you know about the best time of plant blue bonnets? Yeah, 994 00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:48.719 the best times in the fall. If you're going to 995 00:53:48.760 --> 00:53:50.480 do it now, I think i'd try to start them 996 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:53.639 as transplants to get ahead. Start if you've got a 997 00:53:53.719 --> 00:53:57.280 place where you can grow transplants. If not, what I 998 00:53:57.280 --> 00:53:59.920 would do is you've got to get that hard sea 999 00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:02.960 coat broken on the outside of the seed, and you 1000 00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:05.800 can do that with a couple pieces of sandpaper, you know, 1001 00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:08.119 rubbing them. Maybe you got sandpaper wrapped around a little 1002 00:54:08.119 --> 00:54:10.639 piece of two by four of them, and you're just 1003 00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:13.440 you're kind of scratching around on them to wear that 1004 00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:16.400 seed coat down so water soaks in, because with blue 1005 00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:19.280 bonnets only a few of them are going to sprout 1006 00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:23.360 unless you break that seed coat loose, get them soaked overnight, 1007 00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:26.880 put them in very warm water, soak them overnight, and 1008 00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:29.360 then in the morning plant them wherever you're going to 1009 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.000 plant them, and that's giving you the best headstart you 1010 00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:35.440 can and they will come up and you will probably 1011 00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:37.880 get some blue butty, we're really late in the season 1012 00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:39.880 to be doing it, but if you've already got the seed, 1013 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:43.000 it's worth the try. That's great. 1014 00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:44.840 We appreciate more about sunflower. 1015 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:49.679 Same thing. Sunflower. Yeah, No, sunflowers are easy. You just 1016 00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:51.840 put them in the ground, plant them about a half 1017 00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:54.800 inch deep inch deep and they will They will come 1018 00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:58.119 up just fine. Yeah, they need warm soil though, so 1019 00:54:58.599 --> 00:55:00.880 that's one that if you try to get a head start, 1020 00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:03.800 you can plan them before we hit our last frost date. 1021 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.360 But otherwise you would have to start them as a 1022 00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:09.760 little transplant to get a little bit of a head start. 1023 00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:13.199 But most people direct seed sunflowers and zenias and things 1024 00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:13.519 like that. 1025 00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:15.639 That's great. 1026 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.719 Appreciate you much. Thanks free time. I'm gonna you bet, 1027 00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:22.239 thanks for the call. All right, folks, time for a break. 1028 00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:27.719 I will be right back. All right, here we go 1029 00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:36.519 second for this hour. I talk a lot about the 1030 00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:40.519 importance of good quality soil, and I just I know it. 1031 00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:43.360 I'm a broken record on it. I'm just telling you, 1032 00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:48.119 I've seen so many people not have success, and it's 1033 00:55:48.199 --> 00:55:54.760 because of not preparing the soil. Here's the typical garden shopper. Unfortunately, 1034 00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:58.840 here's the typical garden shopper. They go to some place 1035 00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:03.280 that sells planned and typically maybe it's a place that 1036 00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:07.159 also sells hammers and other things, and they shouldn't be 1037 00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:10.519 buying plants there because well a lot of reasons. That's 1038 00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:14.119 a whole nother rant. But they go in, they look around, 1039 00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:16.360 they see something pretty, you know. It's a little tiny 1040 00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:20.119 six pack of plants with flowers big as a tennis 1041 00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:23.320 ball on top. And they bring those home and then 1042 00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:26.519 they walk around the yard as to where, looking, where 1043 00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:28.840 am I going to put these things? And they find 1044 00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:30.960 a little spot they scratch out the surface and put 1045 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:35.760 them in the ground. Unprepared soil and the way I 1046 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.719 like to put it, PLoP a poor plant in an 1047 00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:42.159 unprepared plot, and then they start to water it and 1048 00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:44.840 it tries to grow a while, and then first sing. 1049 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:47.480 You know, weeds are in there and plants not doing 1050 00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:49.760 good and it's struggling, and then they just kind of 1051 00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:51.320 give up and say I have a brown thumb. No, 1052 00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:52.679 you don't have a brown thumb. You just did the 1053 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:57.599 wrong thing. You weren't informed. Here's the important thing. Prepare 1054 00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:01.719 the soil. First, create a soil plants live in their roots. 1055 00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:07.039 Create a soil that has good aeration, good nutrient content, 1056 00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:10.159 and the qualities of that so it can hold water, 1057 00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:13.000 but it drains excess water away. It's got that kind 1058 00:57:13.039 --> 00:57:16.199 of quality to it. It's got good microbial activity in 1059 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:19.280 the soil. Then you put a plant in it, and 1060 00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:22.199 it's just going to thrive because the roots take off, 1061 00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:24.599 they hit the ground running, and that plant is happy 1062 00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:27.079 as it can be and you're going to have success. 1063 00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:30.639 So that's why I say spend a dollar in your 1064 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:32.719 soil before you spend a dollar on your plant. That's 1065 00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:36.159 why I say brown stuff before green stuff, just to 1066 00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:39.599 make the point that getting the soil right is important 1067 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:43.719 and you know, if I could just convince you that 1068 00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:47.239 one thing, I would be very happy because that will 1069 00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:50.639 help a lot of people flip the switch from failure 1070 00:57:50.719 --> 00:57:54.119 to success in their gardening. Now, the folks at Microlife, 1071 00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:58.800 you know, they specialize in soil. Really, that's what they do. 1072 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:01.280 I mean, if you think about it, yeah, it's a fertilizer. Well, 1073 00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:04.199 it's building the soil. Microlife products have a lot of 1074 00:58:04.280 --> 00:58:06.840 microbes in them. That is what they're all about. They 1075 00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:09.159 are all loaded with microbes. They are all loaded with 1076 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:13.159 all kinds of minerals. This isn't just you know when 1077 00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:15.719 a product like they're six two four that the only 1078 00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:19.760 thing in it is not just six percent nitrogen, two 1079 00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:23.639 percent phosphorus, four percent potassium. It's a lot of other 1080 00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:26.199 stuff that you get other than that. And you take 1081 00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:29.119 a product like Microlife Humates hum Mats plus that's a 1082 00:58:29.239 --> 00:58:32.960 kind of a bluish purple looking bag. Maybe I don't 1083 00:58:32.960 --> 00:58:35.920 know what color that is. I'd say blue more than anything. Anyway, 1084 00:58:36.599 --> 00:58:39.199 Microlife Heumates plus is zero zero four, so you get 1085 00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:41.719 four percent potassium. But that's not why you're putting it down. 1086 00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:45.599 I mean that helps, but it is loaded with what 1087 00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:49.159 we call concentrated compost in a bag. Meaning when you 1088 00:58:49.280 --> 00:58:53.599 take let's do it this way. Here's the stages of decomposition. 1089 00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:57.039 You start with grass, clippings and leaves or whatever is organic. 1090 00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:01.559 Whatever material you have, you decompose it, and that's called compost. 1091 00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:05.239 You take compost and you let it fully decomposed to 1092 00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:08.840 its final stage, and that's called humus. And humates plus 1093 00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:14.480 is an organic biological soil amendment that you put down. 1094 00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:17.000 You put it in your lawns. You know, we talk 1095 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:21.519 about deep time aerrating and core aerating and compost op 1096 00:59:21.599 --> 00:59:24.559 dressings and things. I would put microlight humates plus like 1097 00:59:24.679 --> 00:59:28.119 that out. It works really well. It takes about only 1098 00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:30.320 ten pounds per thousand square feet that you're going to 1099 00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:31.360 put out, but you're going to do it on a 1100 00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:34.559 regular basis year to year. And when you put it down, 1101 00:59:34.760 --> 00:59:36.519 what it's going to do is it's going to get 1102 00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:39.199 into the soil. It's going to improve soil structure. The 1103 00:59:39.320 --> 00:59:41.519 more humans you can put in the soil, the better 1104 00:59:41.599 --> 00:59:45.159 your soil structure gets. And you can do this in 1105 00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:47.360 flower beds, you can do it in a lot of places. 1106 00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:51.079 Microbes thrive in that environment and that's that's one product 1107 00:59:51.199 --> 00:59:53.239 for Microlife. If you want to find out more about 1108 00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:55.480 other products they have and where you can buy them, 1109 00:59:55.599 --> 00:59:59.599 just go to Microlifefertilizer dot com Microlifefertilizer dot com. You 1110 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.199 can find all right there. I'll tell you one place 1111 01:00:02.239 --> 01:00:06.000 you can buy it, Southwest Fertilizer. I can say that 1112 01:00:06.119 --> 01:00:09.119 without even thinking. You know why, because because Bob at 1113 01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:13.840 Southwest Fertilizer carries everything. I've never had a product name 1114 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:16.320 come out of my mouth that you won't find in 1115 01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:21.480 Southwest Fertilizer. It just they do. They're in Southwest Houston. 1116 01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:25.920 That hence the name corner of Byssineton Runwick, And you 1117 01:00:26.079 --> 01:00:28.719 just got to go by there. In fact, you know, 1118 01:00:29.239 --> 01:00:31.639 when you when you swing by Southwest Fertilizer and walk in, 1119 01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:33.880 take some time and look around. You'll see what I'm 1120 01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:36.920 talking about. You may you know, you may go, wow, 1121 01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:40.119 I'm not into chemicals. I'm an organic gardener. Okay, Then 1122 01:00:40.199 --> 01:00:43.199 go to Southwest Fertilizer. They have the biggest organic selection 1123 01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:47.199 in the region At Southwest Fertilizer. They do. They have 1124 01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:53.239 synthetic and organic options for fertilizing, controlling insects, spider mites, 1125 01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:58.400 plant diseases like fungi and bacteria, for stopping weeds, for 1126 01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:01.960 preventing weeds from growing, killing weeds that are already growing. 1127 01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:04.719 They've got it all and you get to make your 1128 01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:08.239 choices there. I talked earlier about how important quality pruning 1129 01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:11.480 tools are. That's what Bob carries. Quality printer. You didn't 1130 01:01:11.480 --> 01:01:13.400 say you junk. Go in there and say, I want 1131 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:15.760 to know you know, what are your better brands of 1132 01:01:16.440 --> 01:01:20.280 pruning equipment, And it's pretty much everything they carry, and 1133 01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:22.800 you're going to have success with that, and that's important. 1134 01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:26.519 Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is the website if you want 1135 01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:28.719 to find out more their phone numbers on there. I 1136 01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:31.159 realized when I give out all these phone numbers and 1137 01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:34.679 websites and stuff, probably not writing them all down. But 1138 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.559 just go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com. You can find 1139 01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:41.079 out everything you need. When you're in there. The Bob 1140 01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:43.960 has a soul probe you can check out. You have 1141 01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:45.920 to talk to them about the terms of it, but 1142 01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:48.360 you can take that out to your yard. You can 1143 01:01:48.440 --> 01:01:52.719 take a proper core vertical core soil sample and put 1144 01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.639 the results together and send them in for a soil 1145 01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:58.519 test that is very accurate as to what's going on 1146 01:01:58.639 --> 01:02:04.079 in your yard. Just borrow essentially their sol probe, and 1147 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:10.920 then you'll know exactly what fertilizer supplements may be missing 1148 01:02:11.119 --> 01:02:13.400 in your yard to get things balanced back out again. 1149 01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:16.159 You know, we recommend good fertilizers, but the bottom line 1150 01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:18.559 is every yard's a little different, and there may be 1151 01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:21.159 your yard may need something your neighbor doesn't, and you 1152 01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:22.880 can get it fixed that way with a good sol tesk. 1153 01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:25.199 Just go by stop with or the soil probe and 1154 01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:29.239 fertilize intelligently that way. All right, I'm gonna run to break. 1155 01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:31.679 I will be right back with your calls at seven 1156 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:37.400 three two one two ktr H. All right, let's jump 1157 01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:48.000 right back in here on garden line. Winter is the 1158 01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:52.400 prime time for printing almost anything. The one thing you 1159 01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:55.039 don't want to print in the winter is things that 1160 01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:59.519 bloom only in the spring. So, for example, a lot 1161 01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:02.760 of climbs roses or once blooming roses. And there's not 1162 01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:06.000 just climbers. Other roses can be once bloomers, but something 1163 01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:09.440 like a Lady Bank's real cool rose, love love Lady Banks, 1164 01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:12.599 but it only blooms in the spring. Uh, and then 1165 01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:17.280 it doesn't bloom again until next spring there something like 1166 01:03:18.159 --> 01:03:20.360 the old time azaleas were just spring bloomers. Now we 1167 01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:24.199 have repeat types of azalias out there. Spyriea called bridals 1168 01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:28.159 wreath just blooms in the spring. Texas Mountain Laurel just 1169 01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:34.559 blooms in the springtime. Let's see what else. The Chinese 1170 01:03:34.599 --> 01:03:37.119 fringe is an example of something that just blooms in 1171 01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:42.760 the spring. Only flowering quints, those aren't. That's an old 1172 01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:45.679 time plant. You don't see as much of them now 1173 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:47.960 as you used to. But anyway, flowering quints is one 1174 01:03:48.039 --> 01:03:49.960 that just blooms in the spring. All of those are 1175 01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:56.239 blooming on bloom buds basically that were produced last the 1176 01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:59.880 end of summer and fall. Last summer, late summer and fall, 1177 01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:03.599 the plant was setting bloom buds for this big spring bloom. 1178 01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:05.880 So if you prune now in the winter, you're cutting 1179 01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:09.280 off what you would about to enjoy. We're about to 1180 01:04:09.400 --> 01:04:12.679 enjoy in the spring. You wait until after they bloom 1181 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:17.320 to prune those. Now. The one exception of the spring 1182 01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:19.960 only bloomers that comes to mind is fruit trees. Spruit 1183 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.559 trees or spring only bloomers. But we prune those because 1184 01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:26.599 we also need to thin those as well, a peach 1185 01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:30.760 tree produces probably about ninety percent more peaches than it 1186 01:04:30.960 --> 01:04:34.360 needs to carry a crop or a can, and so 1187 01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:37.199 we do pruning and then we also do thinning after 1188 01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:39.480 that on a peach tree or apple tree, pear tree, 1189 01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:41.880 those kinds of things. So if it needs pruning and 1190 01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:43.400 it's a fruit tree, you can print it like you 1191 01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:48.559 do our other plants. But in general, spring bloomers are 1192 01:04:48.679 --> 01:04:52.960 only pruned after they bloom. Spring only bloomers, excuse me, 1193 01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:55.800 So what about other things like trees and shrubs? In 1194 01:04:55.920 --> 01:04:59.360 general we prine those in the wintertime. Hedges we prune 1195 01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:02.280 all through the year when we're sharing a hedge. But 1196 01:05:02.760 --> 01:05:05.199 for your trees, you need to know what you're doing, 1197 01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:07.960 or you need to hire somebody that knows what they're doing. 1198 01:05:08.039 --> 01:05:10.920 An affordable tree Martin spoon Moore knows what he's doing. 1199 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.079 And when you start talking about, you know, a young 1200 01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:15.400 tree and how do you train it right, don't just 1201 01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:17.719 wing it and think I think I can do this. 1202 01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:20.559 You need to know what you're doing to do this. 1203 01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:26.400 When you start looking at a bigger tree, don't climb 1204 01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:28.599 up a ladder and do it yourself. I mean, really, 1205 01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:32.039 come on, man, get somebody that is professional, that knows 1206 01:05:32.119 --> 01:05:34.079 what they're doing, and this is the best time to 1207 01:05:34.119 --> 01:05:36.840 get that done. And Martin stays busy because he does 1208 01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:40.920 a good job. He's got a solid following of customers, 1209 01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:43.920 and so you're gonna have to call him and get 1210 01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:46.880 on the schedule as soon as possible. You know, if 1211 01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:50.599 you want to get this printing done during the winter season, 1212 01:05:51.039 --> 01:05:54.079 you need to call him pretty quick here. Really, in fact, 1213 01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:55.920 they may do a little bit of printing going out 1214 01:05:55.960 --> 01:05:58.480 into the spring, because that's also okay. You can do that. 1215 01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:01.880 You can prune really month of the year. Some we 1216 01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:04.679 don't want to do heavy duty preeing though at sometimes 1217 01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:06.920 of the year. But now's the time. It's not a 1218 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:08.880 long window to do it. So give him a call, 1219 01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:10.639 go ahead and give him a call book now. In fact, 1220 01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:13.679 I would I would do it asap because he does 1221 01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:16.679 stay busy. You can reach him at seven one three 1222 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:20.599 six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Say that again, 1223 01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:25.840 seven one three six nine nine two six six three. 1224 01:06:26.239 --> 01:06:30.400 You can also go to the website aff of Tree 1225 01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:33.599 Service dot com a f F Tree Service dot com. 1226 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:37.199 But when you call uh seven one three six ninety 1227 01:06:37.239 --> 01:06:39.719 nine two six sixty three. You're going to get either 1228 01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:43.519 Martin Or's wife Joe. The owners answer the phone, and 1229 01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:45.800 if somebody else answers the phone, you call the wrong place. 1230 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.239 Hang up seven one, three, six, nine nine two six 1231 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:50.599 sixty three. Give him a call. Get on the schedule. 1232 01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:52.440 You can do other things too. He can come out. 1233 01:06:52.760 --> 01:06:54.440 Martin does deep root feeding. 1234 01:06:55.000 --> 01:06:55.119 Uh. 1235 01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:59.400 Martin can provide uh, you know, advice on on plants. 1236 01:06:59.480 --> 01:07:02.159 Like maybe you got a tree and you're gonna put 1237 01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:06.360 us some trenches in for whatever reason, water or other 1238 01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:09.599 kinds of utilities. Maybe you're gonna throw a slab out there, 1239 01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:12.280 a big old concrete slab under the tree. You need 1240 01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:15.000 to call him because he can advise you on what 1241 01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:17.559 to do, how to prepare for that, or if you 1242 01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:19.719 shouldn't do it, or how you could change things maybe 1243 01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:22.440 to work around it. Because trees it this single most 1244 01:07:22.519 --> 01:07:25.960 valuable plant in your landscape. So don't wait until you've 1245 01:07:26.039 --> 01:07:30.079 butchered it already, or until you've already built this giant 1246 01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:35.880 slab all over the root system. To ask questions. Get 1247 01:07:35.920 --> 01:07:38.159 Martin out there as a consultation. He can come out 1248 01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:41.000 and do that. And he'll come out take a look 1249 01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:44.400 at your trees by the way in general and tell 1250 01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:48.079 you what needs to be done. And so I'm just 1251 01:07:48.159 --> 01:07:50.199 telling you don't put it off. Now's the time. We've 1252 01:07:50.199 --> 01:07:52.320 already put it off long enough to wait until now. 1253 01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:53.920 So let's go ahead and get a hold of him 1254 01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:57.920 and get that done and get it done right. You're 1255 01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:00.239 listening to Guardline. Our phone number is seven one three 1256 01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:03.079 two one two k t r H seven one three 1257 01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:06.039 two one two k TRH. And boy, we are talking 1258 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:11.599 about all kinds of topics today. I've been told before. 1259 01:08:11.800 --> 01:08:13.039 I don't know. You can tell me if this is 1260 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:15.199 true or not. But if I just sit here, going 1261 01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:17.359 deep in the woods talking about all these kinds of 1262 01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:20.720 topics on gardening, people just get to listening and they 1263 01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:23.359 don't call because it's like, no, no, no, I want 1264 01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:25.399 to hear this. I don't I want to talk talk 1265 01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:28.399 right now. I don't know if that's true, but it 1266 01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:30.439 does seem to be the case at times. So over 1267 01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:32.199 now and then I ought to shut up or threaten 1268 01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:35.479 to sing or read out loud war and peace on 1269 01:08:35.600 --> 01:08:39.800 the air. That would probably people. Okay, let's put an 1270 01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:42.800 end of this, especially the singing part. I won't do 1271 01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:46.600 that to you today, though, well you are listening to 1272 01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:48.359 Garden Line, and we're here to help you have a 1273 01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:51.399 bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and to have more fun 1274 01:08:51.520 --> 01:08:54.760 in the process. And I have been encouraging you this spring, 1275 01:08:55.399 --> 01:08:59.159 well this spring, this winter, to do something new, do 1276 01:08:59.520 --> 01:09:01.640 something new, not just for the sake of something new, 1277 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:05.079 but because there's so much to gardening that you have 1278 01:09:05.239 --> 01:09:09.920 not experienced. H and I talked about starting seeds. Start 1279 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:13.520 you one or two transplants this year. Why not let's 1280 01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:14.600 try it out. You don't have to do that in 1281 01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:16.479 the winter. I mean you could you coun wait till 1282 01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:18.439 we get into summer and plant something that's going to 1283 01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:20.199 grow in the heat of summer. You could do that 1284 01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:22.239 if you want it. But now's a good time to 1285 01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:26.279 do it. Why not trying to root a cutting, learning 1286 01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:28.800 how to do an air layer on a plant, or 1287 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:33.640 learning how to root a cutting or whatever, And that's 1288 01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:37.199 a fun thing to do. Here's another one. Here's another. 1289 01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:39.600 How about a terrarium. If you ever built a terraum, 1290 01:09:39.640 --> 01:09:41.279 Those used to be popular. You know, all kinds of 1291 01:09:41.359 --> 01:09:43.159 gardening tend to go in and out of fads, like 1292 01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:49.520 haircuts and clothes. And if if you have never grown 1293 01:09:49.560 --> 01:09:53.399 a terrarium before. You should try that. It's kind of cool. 1294 01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:54.560 Now you can do it a lot of ways. You 1295 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:58.800 can get an old aquarium and use that the light 1296 01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:01.640 in the aquarium right at the top of the thing, 1297 01:10:01.720 --> 01:10:03.479 and that that does a good job for the plants 1298 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:05.720 that are in it. You can plant miniature plants in 1299 01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:10.319 there and enjoy that. You can do arrangement. You can 1300 01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:14.960 add little you know, things like a little rock riverbed 1301 01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:18.880 going through it, or a little figurines or whatever whatever 1302 01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:21.680 makes you excited. You can even make it one that 1303 01:10:21.760 --> 01:10:24.359 has that has animal life in it in the sense 1304 01:10:24.399 --> 01:10:27.359 of a lizard. You better have a screen top on 1305 01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:31.640 top of it, or even insects, certain kinds of insects 1306 01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:33.680 and things that crawl around in there that are kind 1307 01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:37.159 of cool. What do you want to do? Try something 1308 01:10:37.560 --> 01:10:40.119 like that. If you've never grown an African violet before, 1309 01:10:40.159 --> 01:10:44.399 if you've never propagated an African violet before, that is amazing. 1310 01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:46.960 You break a leaf off, stick the pettiole in the 1311 01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:49.399 ground with the bottom of the leaf barely the little 1312 01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:51.359 spoon on the end of the petiole that's the leaf. 1313 01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:53.640 Stick it down to where it touches the ground. That 1314 01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:56.840 sucker will root and it's so cool, yeah, baby African violet. 1315 01:10:56.920 --> 01:10:58.439 So then you can learn how to take care of 1316 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:01.199 those are great things for ay days and days like 1317 01:11:01.239 --> 01:11:04.720 we're about to get into where it is so very 1318 01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:11.159 very cold. Try something you haven't tried before. That's all 1319 01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:15.199 I'm asking if there's a kind of plan, a category 1320 01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:18.319 of plans to never go roun before and do some learning, 1321 01:11:18.880 --> 01:11:20.920 you know. Of course, I'm always playing people to the website, 1322 01:11:20.920 --> 01:11:22.960 because when I get a bunch of questions on something, 1323 01:11:23.319 --> 01:11:24.920 I'll go ahead and write something up about it and 1324 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:28.039 put it on the website. And so we're accumulating a lot. 1325 01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:31.479 I'm about to do a major revamp of it. I'm 1326 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:34.319 working on it with my web designer right now. We're 1327 01:11:34.359 --> 01:11:36.920 gonna really redo it and it's going to change a 1328 01:11:37.039 --> 01:11:39.520 lot and have a lot of categories and information. So 1329 01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:41.760 I'm just telling you that's coming that way. If I 1330 01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:43.399 say it on the air, I have to do it right. 1331 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:46.720 But it's gonna be kind of even more cool really, 1332 01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:50.279 lots of good information up there on that. So what 1333 01:11:50.359 --> 01:11:52.119 are you gonna do new? When you call me, by 1334 01:11:52.159 --> 01:11:54.359 the way, I want to hear it. What are you 1335 01:11:54.399 --> 01:11:57.439 going to do new this year, and I'm gonna do 1336 01:11:57.560 --> 01:11:58.880 right now is take a break and give a new 1337 01:11:58.920 --> 01:11:59.560 cup of coffee. 1338 01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:05.800 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Richard's. 1339 01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:08.039 Mill, crazy. 1340 01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:12.439 Trip. 1341 01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:25.079 Just watch him as many good things to see botasya. 1342 01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:31.199 Not sign. 1343 01:12:35.880 --> 01:12:37.359 Sun Beamon. 1344 01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:42.880 All right, folks, we are back and I'm just going 1345 01:12:42.920 --> 01:12:44.920 to go straight out to the phones right now again 1346 01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:46.800 the number if you'd like to call seven one three 1347 01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:49.279 two one two k t r H. We're gonna head 1348 01:12:49.279 --> 01:12:53.000 out to Conroe and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome 1349 01:12:53.039 --> 01:12:55.560 to garden Line. Good Morning's good. 1350 01:12:57.840 --> 01:12:58.199 You hear me? 1351 01:12:58.680 --> 01:13:00.760 How can we help yir? 1352 01:13:01.319 --> 01:13:06.399 Back in November, I planted an arborquina olive tree in 1353 01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:11.800 the front yard and it's about seven feet tall and 1354 01:13:12.199 --> 01:13:14.359 about an inch and a half trunk is Should I 1355 01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:21.520 be worried about the frost when the weather gets below thirty. 1356 01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:26.800 Yeah? Yeah, you can do significant damage. 1357 01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:29.359 The trunk or the Should I be protecting the whole canopy? 1358 01:13:31.560 --> 01:13:33.840 The whole canopy if you could? He said it's seven 1359 01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:39.520 feet tall? Yes, and about how wide would you say 1360 01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:39.760 it is? 1361 01:13:41.039 --> 01:13:47.279 The canopy is about four four feet wide and maybe 1362 01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:50.079 five The trunks about a inch to inch and a 1363 01:13:50.119 --> 01:13:52.239 half at the base. 1364 01:13:52.680 --> 01:13:57.119 Okay, since I don't know if it was grafted or not, 1365 01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:00.520 I'm going to assume that it was, So I would 1366 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:04.640 start by piling up about a foot foot and a 1367 01:14:04.680 --> 01:14:07.520 half on the trunk. Pile up a big old pile 1368 01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:13.840 of soil, sand, compost, very fine compost, just not loose mulch, 1369 01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:17.840 to create an insulation on that bottom part in case 1370 01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:20.119 you lose. You were to lose the whole thing, then 1371 01:14:20.199 --> 01:14:22.239 you have a place for it to resprout from quickly 1372 01:14:22.359 --> 01:14:26.119 and you'll be back in business. So that's the stopgap measure. 1373 01:14:27.079 --> 01:14:31.039 If if I were you, I would go to a 1374 01:14:31.640 --> 01:14:36.760 hardware type store home store and get the long if 1375 01:14:36.760 --> 01:14:38.680 you can get them in a vehicle somehow to get 1376 01:14:38.720 --> 01:14:42.000 them home. Twenty foot sections of PBC pipe that are gray. 1377 01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:44.359 They have a belt in on one end, so one 1378 01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:48.279 pipe hooks into the other. But I would get two 1379 01:14:48.359 --> 01:14:53.239 of those and take one and go over the plant, 1380 01:14:53.680 --> 01:14:56.479 making a hoop over the plant let's say north south, 1381 01:14:56.560 --> 01:14:59.239 the other one east west, just to give you an idea, 1382 01:14:59.359 --> 01:15:01.279 and then when you put a cover over it, it's 1383 01:15:01.319 --> 01:15:04.600 like you have a little iggluo there. So those twenty 1384 01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:08.159 foot sections should be able to come pretty close to 1385 01:15:08.239 --> 01:15:09.880 going over that planet. It may have to bend some 1386 01:15:09.960 --> 01:15:11.880 branches down to get it to work, but that's okay. 1387 01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:14.439 If you lose a few leaves or twigs, that's fine. 1388 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:17.359 You just don't want to lose whole thing. And then 1389 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:20.920 I will typically use a zip tie up at the 1390 01:15:21.000 --> 01:15:25.239 top to tie those two bows together, the arches together, 1391 01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:28.279 and then put any kind of cover you can over 1392 01:15:28.359 --> 01:15:31.159 it if you can find it. You need something large. 1393 01:15:31.399 --> 01:15:32.680 You know, it's going to have to be a big 1394 01:15:32.760 --> 01:15:35.359 old tarp to go over there, or a really huge 1395 01:15:35.399 --> 01:15:38.640 piece of that rolled up, a thick six mil plastic, 1396 01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:41.079 anything you can to go over the top and create 1397 01:15:41.159 --> 01:15:43.800 dead air space around it. You need to get some 1398 01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:47.079 really good things that are heavy to weigh it down. 1399 01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:50.399 Now I realize this is starting to sound like a 1400 01:15:50.479 --> 01:15:52.800 lot of work, and it is. But that could be 1401 01:15:53.079 --> 01:15:55.520 cinder blocks, that could be you know, little bags of 1402 01:15:55.640 --> 01:15:58.720 sand that you create yourself to weigh it down. Because 1403 01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:00.600 when the wind blows, and it will we got some 1404 01:16:00.720 --> 01:16:03.279 wind coming, I doesn't just blow it right off. And 1405 01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:06.039 then underneath there a couple of heat lamps. I'd put 1406 01:16:06.119 --> 01:16:09.199 two of the red heat lamps in the clamp on 1407 01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:14.239 fixtures and point them down around the plant on two 1408 01:16:14.279 --> 01:16:17.399 different sides. Don't plump, point them against the trunk or anything. 1409 01:16:17.479 --> 01:16:19.600 Just point them down and that heat will rise up 1410 01:16:19.640 --> 01:16:22.319 from the base and it'll it'll keep it warm enough 1411 01:16:22.399 --> 01:16:25.279 to keep it going. You're up in Conra, you're gonna 1412 01:16:25.279 --> 01:16:28.000 get pretty cold up there. But that that would be 1413 01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:30.199 what I would do, because yes, the temperatures we're gonna 1414 01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:33.039 have can can kill on an urbicina olive or any 1415 01:16:33.119 --> 01:16:33.800 variety of olive. 1416 01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:40.000 Back, Okay, I have a supposed to be arriving the 1417 01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:45.840 day an eighth eight foot bag of a cross bag. 1418 01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:50.039 I'm hoping that will go over, yes, but yeah, I 1419 01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:51.079 need to get the PDC. 1420 01:16:51.279 --> 01:16:55.079 That's good, good advice. Yeah, you would. You would end up, Yeah, 1421 01:16:55.119 --> 01:16:59.119 with the frost bag, you would end up kind of 1422 01:16:59.159 --> 01:17:02.159 creating a landscape lollipop around the trunk. And there's just 1423 01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:04.880 no that doesn't protect the base of the trunk or 1424 01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:08.680 provide heat inside, which is what's going to be needed. 1425 01:17:09.079 --> 01:17:13.479 Rous bags are fine for the smaller plants, but yeah, 1426 01:17:13.920 --> 01:17:17.239 so you know, the only other alternative, you know, this 1427 01:17:17.359 --> 01:17:18.720 is going to be a tree half for a while. 1428 01:17:18.840 --> 01:17:23.279 So I've seen people take a PVC pipe that's much 1429 01:17:23.399 --> 01:17:25.119 thicker the kind I was talk I was like a 1430 01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:27.279 half inch, because it's easy to make a bow out 1431 01:17:27.319 --> 01:17:30.199 of a half inch. It's easy to bend. By the way, 1432 01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:33.239 just if you end up doing that, you can at 1433 01:17:33.319 --> 01:17:35.760 those home stores you can also buy little sections of 1434 01:17:35.880 --> 01:17:39.239 rebar that are about twelve eighteen inches long, and you 1435 01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:41.279 can drive those in the ground and then slide that 1436 01:17:41.399 --> 01:17:43.520 PBC right over the top of it, and it makes 1437 01:17:43.560 --> 01:17:46.159 it real easy. Then you easy to bend it and 1438 01:17:46.319 --> 01:17:48.680 slide it onto a PVC I mean a rebar on 1439 01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:53.600 the other side. That works. That's what I do my house, Okay. 1440 01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:56.039 The only other alternative would be to get a thicker PVC, 1441 01:17:56.319 --> 01:17:58.359 like you know, let's say inch and a half two inches, 1442 01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:02.439 and a bunch of t's and l's and make a 1443 01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:06.239 giant box and put it around over the plant and 1444 01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:09.279 that way. Don't glue it together. That way, you just 1445 01:18:09.359 --> 01:18:11.119 take it apart and store it in the garage. And 1446 01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:14.520 if next year you need to cover it again, you 1447 01:18:14.560 --> 01:18:16.640 can just use the same thing, or maybe buy a 1448 01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:19.840 little longer pieces of PBC to expand the box size 1449 01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:22.399 a little bit. But it's like playing with tinker toys. 1450 01:18:22.399 --> 01:18:30.720 If you remember that. Yeah. I'm glad I're called alrighty, Yeah, 1451 01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:33.199 and I just gave you a lot of work. My 1452 01:18:33.319 --> 01:18:36.079 apologies for all the work. But seriously, the olives are 1453 01:18:36.479 --> 01:18:38.399 at risk at the temperature you're going to have on 1454 01:18:38.439 --> 01:18:43.520 our coldest night. So all right, sir, thank you, thank you. 1455 01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:47.039 You you know our advice. Our advice is free on 1456 01:18:47.159 --> 01:18:49.479 garden line, John. But I do ask that you bring 1457 01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:52.000 me half of the olive production for two years and 1458 01:18:52.119 --> 01:18:55.119 drop it off at the kt r H station and 1459 01:18:55.199 --> 01:18:57.199 we'll call it even. Does that sound fair? I hope 1460 01:18:57.199 --> 01:19:02.640 I can do that. I'm not going to get my 1461 01:19:02.760 --> 01:19:06.880 hopes up a lot. Appreciate the car. We got to 1462 01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:08.680 have some fun because I just sent you out to 1463 01:19:08.760 --> 01:19:15.880 do a lot of work. You take care of oh man, 1464 01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:20.039 If you'll press the olive oil, I'll take it. Take 1465 01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:23.479 care of man by all right, folks seven one three 1466 01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:26.000 two two k t r H. If you would like 1467 01:19:26.039 --> 01:19:27.439 to give me a call and talk about the boy, 1468 01:19:27.680 --> 01:19:29.880 I'm glad John call because there are other people out 1469 01:19:29.880 --> 01:19:32.600 there that got olive trees, and olives are not super 1470 01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:36.000 cold hardy, you know, and we had the hard freeze. 1471 01:19:36.319 --> 01:19:39.000 I don't know how many years ago it was a 1472 01:19:39.119 --> 01:19:42.239 number of years ago. I know, you know, parts of 1473 01:19:42.279 --> 01:19:44.760 the area got down in single digits. Parts of the 1474 01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:49.720 listening area. We lost a lot of olive branches and 1475 01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:53.640 tree they typically will live and reach sprout from the ground. 1476 01:19:54.319 --> 01:19:57.039 But oh my gosh, what a mess. Right uh, And 1477 01:19:57.119 --> 01:19:59.600 you got all these suckers and things coming up. But 1478 01:19:59.800 --> 01:20:02.000 it at least at least a polyo dirt up against 1479 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:03.800 the bottom. The same thing is true with citrus. By 1480 01:20:03.840 --> 01:20:05.640 the way, a lot of you are out there going, 1481 01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:08.880 I can't do that to protect my citrus tree. Well, 1482 01:20:09.920 --> 01:20:12.720 if nothing else, what you can do is go buy 1483 01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:17.439 some bags atopsoil or a very fine compost and just 1484 01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:19.720 pile it up against the trunk about a foot and 1485 01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:22.319 a half high. Kind of press it down a little 1486 01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:24.199 bit because you don't want air to blow through this. 1487 01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:26.319 You want it to be a little packed down and 1488 01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:29.279 that will insulate the base of that plant. And when 1489 01:20:29.359 --> 01:20:31.479 we get through all this cold, you can leave it 1490 01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:33.439 on there a little while, but just pulled it back 1491 01:20:33.479 --> 01:20:35.319 out of the way. We don't like swamp aled against 1492 01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:39.239 the trunk. Those multiple volcanoes you see around town are nonsense. 1493 01:20:39.319 --> 01:20:42.399 They shouldn't do that. But when it comes to a 1494 01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:44.840 night or two of protecting the base of a plant. 1495 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:48.239 That's important because those plants are grafted. And think about this. 1496 01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:52.079 Let's say you have a orange tree and it's a 1497 01:20:52.479 --> 01:20:54.880 Republic of Texas. That's a good orange for a run here, 1498 01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:58.000 I'll use that as an example, and it'sted. It's going 1499 01:20:58.039 --> 01:21:03.920 to be grafted almost certainly base. And let's say it's 1500 01:21:03.960 --> 01:21:06.680 eight feet tall, and now you get it killed. All 1501 01:21:06.680 --> 01:21:10.119 the way back to that one foot high base of 1502 01:21:10.159 --> 01:21:13.319 the trunk that you protected. You still have this huge 1503 01:21:13.439 --> 01:21:17.119 root system that was balanced with an eight foot tall top. 1504 01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:20.479 So when the new growth begins, it's going to come 1505 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:22.479 out like a rocket. I mean, it's gonna have to 1506 01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:24.920 warm up. But my point is there's a lot of 1507 01:21:25.079 --> 01:21:27.920 roots to push new growth, and so you're going to 1508 01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:32.880 get back to your tree size fairly quickly, faster than 1509 01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:35.479 you would think, faster than putting a little tiny tree 1510 01:21:35.520 --> 01:21:37.159 out there and waiting for it to grow back up 1511 01:21:37.239 --> 01:21:40.840 to that size. So just something to think about. At 1512 01:21:40.920 --> 01:21:43.600 the very least, you can buy some bags of malts 1513 01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:46.560 and throw them around, or not malts, not molts, soiling 1514 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:48.680 composts to put them around the base. You want density, 1515 01:21:49.239 --> 01:21:51.960 you want it to hold the warmth really really well. 1516 01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:53.680 All right, time for me to take a break. I'll 1517 01:21:53.720 --> 01:21:58.920 be right back. Here we go again. We've got some 1518 01:21:59.000 --> 01:22:01.359 more stuff to talk about today, and if you'd like, 1519 01:22:01.399 --> 01:22:03.960 you can call. The number is seven one three two 1520 01:22:04.039 --> 01:22:07.479 one two KTRH seven one three two one two k 1521 01:22:07.640 --> 01:22:10.159 t RH. How can we help you have success with 1522 01:22:10.239 --> 01:22:12.159 your plants? So we've got some cold weather we can 1523 01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:15.199 talk about that. We've been talking about that today, certainly 1524 01:22:15.319 --> 01:22:19.279 can continue to do that. I would just recommend that 1525 01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:21.640 whatever you do, you do it quickly. You know, as 1526 01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:24.760 you put this off, other people are out there getting 1527 01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:29.960 the things that are needed to protect their plants. And 1528 01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:33.079 so you may show up and you know, head to 1529 01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:37.039 an a store for example, and get that plus it 1530 01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:40.239 freeze miser screws onto faucets, or maybe you're looking for 1531 01:22:40.359 --> 01:22:43.439 some of their other many things that are used to 1532 01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:45.920 help protect our pipes and our plants and our pets 1533 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:49.359 and so on, heat lamps, the heat bulbs and things. 1534 01:22:50.199 --> 01:22:52.079 You get there and they're all gone because somebody else 1535 01:22:52.079 --> 01:22:54.319 went and got them. I know aces stocked up well, 1536 01:22:54.439 --> 01:22:57.399 so that is not likely to happen. But good night, 1537 01:22:58.079 --> 01:23:01.159 don't wait. And this is coming from a person who 1538 01:23:01.359 --> 01:23:04.520 has I'll admit it. This is in my former days 1539 01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:08.399 before I change my ways. Who has been out there 1540 01:23:08.840 --> 01:23:11.479 at dusk where it's the dark, you can hardly see things. 1541 01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:15.399 The wind is blowing. It's thirty five degrees and I'm 1542 01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:18.920 trying to cover a plant and pull something cover over 1543 01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:20.800 the top of a plant and a twenty mile an 1544 01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:25.680 hour wind. Yeah, don't let that be. You learn from 1545 01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:29.399 my mistakes. Maybe it already has been you. I don't know. 1546 01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.880 If you're honest, you may have to admit that. Well. 1547 01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:35.479 I'm going to continue on talking about some of the 1548 01:23:35.600 --> 01:23:37.720 things that I think are pertinent for this time of 1549 01:23:37.800 --> 01:23:41.920 the season that people need to be aware of. If 1550 01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:48.960 you are looking to add something for blooms in your 1551 01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:51.840 landscape this year, and I think that'd be a great idea. 1552 01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:56.279 By the way, can you think back and thinking your landscape, 1553 01:23:56.359 --> 01:23:58.720 what blooms in spring? Where are those flowers or are 1554 01:23:58.760 --> 01:24:00.560 they on a shrub at the corner of house? Are 1555 01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:02.439 they all across the front of the house, or there's 1556 01:24:02.479 --> 01:24:05.760 some trees around that bloom. When do they bloom? Is 1557 01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:08.800 it spring, is it summer, or is it even in 1558 01:24:09.119 --> 01:24:11.600 fall or wintertime? There's a few things that even bloom. 1559 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:15.960 Then what looks good at that time? What could you add? 1560 01:24:16.520 --> 01:24:19.520 Because your landscape should look good twelve months out of 1561 01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:22.039 the year. And that's not putting a weight on you, 1562 01:24:22.159 --> 01:24:25.319 it's just saying pick plants that are that way. So, 1563 01:24:25.439 --> 01:24:28.560 for example, in the spring, everything wants to bloom, I 1564 01:24:28.720 --> 01:24:32.520 mean lots of spring blooming trees and stuff. Then we 1565 01:24:32.600 --> 01:24:36.039 get to summer and then amount of blooms drops dramatically, 1566 01:24:36.199 --> 01:24:39.520 but there's still some great blooming plants that go through 1567 01:24:39.560 --> 01:24:42.880 the heat of summer, especially when it comes to shrubs 1568 01:24:42.920 --> 01:24:45.520 and perennials. And then you get to fall and there 1569 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:48.439 are some fall blooming late summer and fall blooming things 1570 01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:51.920 like Mexican bush staeds for example, things that bloom with 1571 01:24:52.119 --> 01:24:55.560 the change in day length. So fall aster is an 1572 01:24:55.600 --> 01:24:59.960 example of that. And so what would you add to 1573 01:25:00.039 --> 01:25:02.600 your landscape this year? You know, now's a good time 1574 01:25:02.680 --> 01:25:05.960 to plant a fall blooming plant because it's it's winter 1575 01:25:06.039 --> 01:25:08.640 when we plan a lot of things. And the same 1576 01:25:08.800 --> 01:25:10.520 is true. You can do that in spring as well, 1577 01:25:10.920 --> 01:25:12.760 but no need to wait. Go ahead and get those 1578 01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:15.359 in the ground now. After we get through the freeze 1579 01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:17.119 this week, you can buy and bring them home and 1580 01:25:17.119 --> 01:25:18.720 put them in the garage and then you're ready to 1581 01:25:18.760 --> 01:25:20.680 go right out and spray because everybody else can want 1582 01:25:20.760 --> 01:25:24.279 go get one when the freeze is over. But make 1583 01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:27.760 your landscape a year round landscape with blooms and you 1584 01:25:27.880 --> 01:25:30.239 can do that. And if you want some suggestions, we can. 1585 01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:31.960 We can talk to you here about how to put 1586 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:35.960 together ought to put together a sheet on blooms through 1587 01:25:36.039 --> 01:25:37.439 the year, that would be a good one to do. 1588 01:25:37.920 --> 01:25:40.640 Make a note of that. Let's head out to the phones. 1589 01:25:40.680 --> 01:25:43.239 We're going to go up to Willis, Texas and talk 1590 01:25:43.279 --> 01:25:46.760 to Mike. Hey, Mike, Hey, Skip, how do you doing. 1591 01:25:48.640 --> 01:25:48.800 Well? 1592 01:25:49.560 --> 01:25:55.079 Can you hear me? Yes, sir Skip, Yeah, okay, Yeah, 1593 01:25:55.199 --> 01:26:02.279 I'm yes, fruit trees mm hmm yeah. 1594 01:26:02.439 --> 01:26:05.399 And uh should I stop, uh to wait till the 1595 01:26:05.439 --> 01:26:08.119 freeze is over or just keep on going? And it 1596 01:26:08.239 --> 01:26:10.520 includes the blueberries, black and grapes. 1597 01:26:12.520 --> 01:26:16.439 Yeah, that the freeze isn't a big deal. Other than me, 1598 01:26:16.560 --> 01:26:18.439 I want to be out there, you know, when it's 1599 01:26:18.479 --> 01:26:20.920 so cold. But you can prine now, you can proNT 1600 01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:23.199 after the freeze. Either way is fine. If you want 1601 01:26:23.239 --> 01:26:24.880 to wait and put it off a little bit, that's fine. 1602 01:26:25.079 --> 01:26:28.680 There's not a problem either way. No, it's it's you know, 1603 01:26:28.880 --> 01:26:32.880 it's better to be one that's cold for me anyway. Yeah, 1604 01:26:33.439 --> 01:26:37.399 I've got generally they don't want to prune. Uh huh. 1605 01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:42.159 So there's a there's a delay on my broadcast. So 1606 01:26:42.359 --> 01:26:44.199 I don't know if you're if you're hearing a radio 1607 01:26:44.279 --> 01:26:47.159 or something going on in the background, but uh uh, 1608 01:26:48.239 --> 01:26:50.399 if you are, it's gonna throw our cadence off pretty 1609 01:26:50.399 --> 01:26:50.720 good here. 1610 01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:57.760 No, no, I'm listening. I've got burlap bags about one hundred, 1611 01:26:57.880 --> 01:26:59.920 couple of hundred. Can I lay those down to stop 1612 01:27:00.079 --> 01:27:01.960 the weeds around the plants? 1613 01:27:04.000 --> 01:27:06.520 Uh for a while? Uh huh, and then they'll they 1614 01:27:06.600 --> 01:27:12.000 will decompose and so uh you know, they they're not 1615 01:27:12.119 --> 01:27:14.159 going to be a long term thing. But you can 1616 01:27:14.239 --> 01:27:18.720 mult with burlap if you wish. Okay, but you're gonna 1617 01:27:18.760 --> 01:27:20.640 have to You're gonna have to put it mike thick 1618 01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:23.039 enough to where no light comes through. Burlap is kind 1619 01:27:23.079 --> 01:27:27.439 of uh you know, it's sort of a loosely woven fabric, 1620 01:27:27.560 --> 01:27:29.600 and if you hold burlap up to the sky you 1621 01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:32.279 can see light through it. So you're gonna need enough 1622 01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:34.560 of it, or put down burlap and then throw a 1623 01:27:34.640 --> 01:27:38.720 mulch on top. Or something. Uh but that, yeah, that 1624 01:27:38.800 --> 01:27:40.880 would be that you could do that. 1625 01:27:42.159 --> 01:27:42.359 Yeah. 1626 01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:43.039 Well, these are. 1627 01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:47.760 My daughter and some gross coffee from around the world, 1628 01:27:47.840 --> 01:27:50.680 and these are their coffee bags and real heavy duty 1629 01:27:50.880 --> 01:27:52.399 that holds a couple of hundred pounds. 1630 01:27:52.800 --> 01:27:55.119 Oh wow, have coffee beans in them. So they're. 1631 01:27:56.439 --> 01:27:59.239 So they I've got a couple hundred of them that 1632 01:27:59.399 --> 01:28:04.600 they I can get do I do have And so 1633 01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:07.000 I'm just curious if burlap would be Okay. 1634 01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:11.960 It's okay, it's not you know, the best way to maltch. 1635 01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:14.479 But there's nothing wrong with doing it. I tell you 1636 01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:17.079 what I'd do with them. I'd put them on Facebook 1637 01:28:17.159 --> 01:28:19.000 marketplace because there are gonna be people that want to 1638 01:28:19.039 --> 01:28:23.119 buy burlap coffee bags. I'll guarantee you that you can 1639 01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:27.680 make enough money to buy some compost and mult Yeah 1640 01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:35.640 that's true. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm just as 1641 01:28:35.720 --> 01:28:40.880 curious about the pruning and stuff like that. Yeah, that's it, 1642 01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:43.520 you can do it. Here's the thing on pruning we 1643 01:28:43.840 --> 01:28:46.760 would like to avoid. If the if the temperature is 1644 01:28:46.920 --> 01:28:51.720 mild and you prune, it'll start a process in the 1645 01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:54.760 plant of trying to regrow. And then if you know 1646 01:28:54.880 --> 01:28:57.119 a couple of weeks later we get a hard freeze, 1647 01:28:57.720 --> 01:29:00.359 you could get some cold damage where other wise the 1648 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:03.840 plant would have been hardened off and not subjected to 1649 01:29:03.960 --> 01:29:07.439 coldem it. So we generally don't prune in the fall 1650 01:29:07.760 --> 01:29:12.520 for that reason. But pruning a day before a freeze 1651 01:29:12.600 --> 01:29:16.000 is not going to cause that level of lack of heartiness. 1652 01:29:16.119 --> 01:29:19.359 So it doesn't matter at the time you're making this 1653 01:29:19.520 --> 01:29:22.840 call to me, But in general, we don't want to 1654 01:29:22.920 --> 01:29:25.720 prune and then have that done. That's why I usually 1655 01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:28.000 save most of my pruning done till a little bit 1656 01:29:28.079 --> 01:29:32.760 later in the winter season, before the new spring growth 1657 01:29:32.840 --> 01:29:36.439 takes off. But later in the season is just a 1658 01:29:36.520 --> 01:29:39.159 little bit better time. It's not night and day, but 1659 01:29:39.439 --> 01:29:41.239 it's a little better time to do your pruning. 1660 01:29:42.159 --> 01:29:45.079 Yeah, because I've got blooms and the fact today we've 1661 01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:49.079 got some apples and some peaches grown, but I know 1662 01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:51.600 that they're going to be lost because of the freeze. 1663 01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:53.880 So that's the reason why I'm kind of waiting later 1664 01:29:53.960 --> 01:29:55.000 in the season to prune. 1665 01:29:55.279 --> 01:30:02.279 Yeah. Yeah, all right, well, good luck with it. Yeah, okay, thanks, 1666 01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:07.760 you take care, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. I 1667 01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:10.720 appreciate that a lot. Mike, our phone number if you're 1668 01:30:10.720 --> 01:30:11.920 like to get on. I'm going to take a little 1669 01:30:11.920 --> 01:30:13.119 break here, but if you'd like to get on and 1670 01:30:13.239 --> 01:30:15.079 not have to wait. Seven to one three two one 1671 01:30:15.199 --> 01:30:17.880 two k t r eight seven one three two one 1672 01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:22.439 two k t r H. I talked about adding blooms 1673 01:30:22.479 --> 01:30:24.600 to your landscape, and this will be a good time 1674 01:30:24.680 --> 01:30:26.760 to do that. It really is. I mean think about it. 1675 01:30:27.159 --> 01:30:30.439 Think about your landscape from January to December. When are 1676 01:30:30.520 --> 01:30:33.359 their blooming plants out there? And when could you add 1677 01:30:33.439 --> 01:30:36.159 blooming plants? Because we can suggest plants, and I don't 1678 01:30:36.199 --> 01:30:39.600 mean flower beds. I'm talking about shrubs and trees. Shrubs 1679 01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:42.239 and trees even in the summertime. Crape myrtles bloom for 1680 01:30:42.319 --> 01:30:45.880 three months there. They bloom for essentially almost almost one 1681 01:30:45.920 --> 01:30:47.199 hundred days in the summertime. 1682 01:30:47.760 --> 01:30:47.880 Uh. 1683 01:30:48.039 --> 01:30:50.720 And that's a good one to do in the summer. 1684 01:30:50.800 --> 01:30:54.680 Of course, everybody's got creak myrtles already. But the tech 1685 01:30:56.520 --> 01:31:01.319 ytex b techs agnes castis chase tree is another name 1686 01:31:01.399 --> 01:31:04.680 for it has the blue blossoms. And that one is good. 1687 01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:06.880 You just have to watch that one. That one does 1688 01:31:07.000 --> 01:31:11.479 recede and so in some areas it can cause a 1689 01:31:11.560 --> 01:31:14.119 little bit of a spreading of the plant. But in general, 1690 01:31:14.439 --> 01:31:16.239 you know, I have a Vitex in my yard and 1691 01:31:16.439 --> 01:31:19.600 I think I've pulled up three seedlings over two or 1692 01:31:19.640 --> 01:31:22.560 three years, so it's not really a big deal. But 1693 01:31:22.840 --> 01:31:25.079 I just want to mention that that it's a possibility 1694 01:31:25.600 --> 01:31:27.800 something you might want to be aware of. But vitext 1695 01:31:27.920 --> 01:31:30.119 is a great one for summertime, and if you share 1696 01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:33.199 it back after a series of blooms, you'll get regrowth 1697 01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:35.920 and some more blooms. So that's another good one. But 1698 01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:38.600 let's spread that all through the seasons. Let's have some 1699 01:31:38.680 --> 01:31:41.840 beautiful color through perennials and shrubs and trees that bloom 1700 01:31:41.880 --> 01:31:44.039 at all times. And now would be a great time 1701 01:31:44.119 --> 01:31:46.359 to do that. All right, I'm going to take a 1702 01:31:46.359 --> 01:31:48.520 little break. I want to remind you on my website 1703 01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:52.399 is the publication on protecting plants from frosts and freezes. 1704 01:31:52.560 --> 01:31:56.520 The website is gardening with skip dot com. That's also 1705 01:31:56.600 --> 01:31:58.680 where you find some of the other new publication that 1706 01:31:58.760 --> 01:32:01.800 I talked about, dealing with woody weeds like poison ivy 1707 01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:07.640 in the landscape and pasteurizing putting soil. Hey, welcome back, 1708 01:32:10.079 --> 01:32:12.439 let's keep going here. We got stuff to talk about. 1709 01:32:12.439 --> 01:32:15.960 When it comes to gardening and been challenging there this year. 1710 01:32:16.000 --> 01:32:20.880 I'm not challenging that sounds horny. I've been asking you 1711 01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:23.880 to consider doing something new this year. What are you 1712 01:32:23.880 --> 01:32:28.880 gonna try you never tried before? Gardening is Listen, You're 1713 01:32:28.960 --> 01:32:30.399 not going to live long enough to try all the 1714 01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:32.960 kinds of things that you ought to want to try 1715 01:32:33.039 --> 01:32:35.840 that are out there for gardening. And who knows, there 1716 01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:39.760 may be something you have never even considered before that 1717 01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:41.439 you really fall in love with. I mean, there are 1718 01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:44.359 people that get all into various kinds of plants. That's 1719 01:32:44.359 --> 01:32:48.720 why there are plant societies out there, Daylily Society, African 1720 01:32:48.880 --> 01:32:54.079 violet societies, Plumerius societies, rose, oh my gosh, definitely roses, 1721 01:32:54.479 --> 01:32:56.560 and so on and so on. What are you gonna try? 1722 01:32:56.560 --> 01:32:59.319 They haven't tried. Let's try something new. There is some 1723 01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:02.319 real cool and fun things that you can do with gardening, 1724 01:33:02.760 --> 01:33:05.239 and I suggest that you have some things you can 1725 01:33:05.279 --> 01:33:07.960 do indoors and some things that you can do outdoors. 1726 01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:13.359 It's a very rewarding hobby, it really is. What was it? 1727 01:33:13.479 --> 01:33:17.199 The other day? I was reading a quote by somebody, Oh, 1728 01:33:17.880 --> 01:33:20.960 Rooyard Kipling, the guy I believe I think either wrote 1729 01:33:21.039 --> 01:33:25.840 Jungle Book. Anyway, when the world's when the world wearies 1730 01:33:26.119 --> 01:33:32.520 and ceases to satisfy, there's always the garden. That is true. Listen. 1731 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:36.399 There's a lot of fast paced entertainment we have in life, 1732 01:33:36.840 --> 01:33:42.479 especially nowadays, but when it comes to just really fulfillment 1733 01:33:42.600 --> 01:33:45.159 and stuff, it's the simple stuff that really matters. That's 1734 01:33:45.199 --> 01:33:47.560 why relationships and family. Oh my gosh, here I go. 1735 01:33:48.279 --> 01:33:50.880 I'm getting outside of my area of expertise. I'm gonna 1736 01:33:50.920 --> 01:33:52.960 quit talking about it a lot. But bottom line is 1737 01:33:53.319 --> 01:33:58.760 stuff that really matters. Really you really enjoy things like gardening. 1738 01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:02.960 That's the good Okay, that's the good stuff. All right. 1739 01:34:03.439 --> 01:34:06.199 This commercial was brought to you by nobody other than 1740 01:34:06.399 --> 01:34:10.720 just I think it's true. I want to visit a 1741 01:34:10.840 --> 01:34:13.960 little bit about our lawn care. You know, it's early, 1742 01:34:14.279 --> 01:34:15.880 it's too early. You're not going to be putting out 1743 01:34:15.880 --> 01:34:19.960 anything right now on the lawn. But it's coming, and 1744 01:34:20.079 --> 01:34:22.039 when it comes, it's going to come fast. Kind of 1745 01:34:22.079 --> 01:34:23.880 like the blue bonnets on the road side. You know, 1746 01:34:23.960 --> 01:34:25.920 one day there aren't any of the next day, boom, 1747 01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:29.479 here they come and we're we're in full swing. Well, 1748 01:34:29.760 --> 01:34:33.039 when it comes to our lawns, and taking care of them. 1749 01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:36.960 I put two schedules online. One is my lawn care schedule, 1750 01:34:37.039 --> 01:34:38.880 and that's basically, what do you do to make the 1751 01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:42.520 lawn look good? And that would be more water, fertilize, 1752 01:34:42.880 --> 01:34:48.439 add do core errations, add supplemental minerals as needed. That's 1753 01:34:48.479 --> 01:34:52.479 all on that schedule. The other schedule is what makes 1754 01:34:52.520 --> 01:34:54.159 your lawn not look good and what do you do 1755 01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:58.000 about it? And that would be diseases and insects that 1756 01:34:58.159 --> 01:35:01.720 would be weeds they get in the lawn. And these 1757 01:35:01.760 --> 01:35:04.199 schedules are free. They are online, you can download them, 1758 01:35:04.239 --> 01:35:06.119 you print them out, and I'd encourage you to do that. 1759 01:35:06.279 --> 01:35:09.039 That way, when you go shopping, when you're looking for something, 1760 01:35:09.079 --> 01:35:10.920 you don't have to try to remember what it was. 1761 01:35:11.039 --> 01:35:13.000 You can just look on the schedule or put it 1762 01:35:13.079 --> 01:35:15.119 in the face of the person that you're shopping from, 1763 01:35:15.399 --> 01:35:17.000 say Han, any one of these, and they can get 1764 01:35:17.039 --> 01:35:20.680 you on. But those things are coming quickly. When we 1765 01:35:20.840 --> 01:35:24.800 get into February, we're in the season where we need 1766 01:35:24.880 --> 01:35:27.279 to be preventing weeds. If we're going to prevent weeds now, 1767 01:35:27.399 --> 01:35:31.000 remember the best weed prevention is a dense, healthy lawn. 1768 01:35:31.640 --> 01:35:34.680 But I've got some areas of my lawn. Don't tell 1769 01:35:34.680 --> 01:35:36.960 anybody who said this. I got some areas of my 1770 01:35:37.119 --> 01:35:41.199 lawn that are thin. One area underneath a tree that 1771 01:35:41.399 --> 01:35:43.880 was a little too shady is kind of looking thin, 1772 01:35:44.000 --> 01:35:46.239 and I can already see I see some cool season 1773 01:35:46.279 --> 01:35:49.680 weeds popping up in it. Because wherever sunlight hits the soil, 1774 01:35:49.840 --> 01:35:52.359 nature plants a weed. So as your lawn gets thin, 1775 01:35:52.520 --> 01:35:55.800 it becomes weedy. It just works that way. And so 1776 01:35:55.960 --> 01:35:58.119 what do you do. Well, Number one thing you do 1777 01:35:58.319 --> 01:36:01.239 for weed control is go to the first schedule, moll water, 1778 01:36:01.319 --> 01:36:03.800 fertilize and do that right over the course of a 1779 01:36:03.880 --> 01:36:07.600 season and make your lawn dense. The next time we 1780 01:36:07.800 --> 01:36:11.199 go into a weed sprouting season, your lawn's going to 1781 01:36:11.239 --> 01:36:15.079 be shading out most of the weed seed problems that 1782 01:36:15.119 --> 01:36:17.399 you would run into. So that takes the bulk of 1783 01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:19.760 the work out of it for you. But there are 1784 01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:23.279 times when you need something to prevent a weed seed 1785 01:36:23.479 --> 01:36:26.359 from coming up, and the options are there on the schedule. 1786 01:36:27.159 --> 01:36:33.399 Then there's times when weeds are already up and you 1787 01:36:33.479 --> 01:36:36.079 need to kill an existing weed. That's called a post 1788 01:36:36.319 --> 01:36:40.439 emergent weed control product. And I need you to listen 1789 01:36:40.520 --> 01:36:44.600 to this for just a minute post emergent weed control products. 1790 01:36:44.760 --> 01:36:47.079 In other words, what do I spray on my lawn 1791 01:36:47.279 --> 01:36:50.560 to kill you? Fill in the blank weed they're growing 1792 01:36:50.600 --> 01:36:53.520 in my lawn there, The clover is everywhere, the the 1793 01:36:54.560 --> 01:36:56.760 I don't know, whatever your summer, whatever your weeds are 1794 01:36:56.880 --> 01:36:59.159 that you're dealing with, they're everywhere. How do I kill 1795 01:36:59.199 --> 01:37:01.880 them in the lawn. It's a post emergent weed control 1796 01:37:02.840 --> 01:37:05.920 when the weather heats up to the mid eighties, which 1797 01:37:06.600 --> 01:37:10.800 will be there before you know it and above. Those 1798 01:37:10.920 --> 01:37:15.800 products can stress your lawn, especially Saint Augustine, and so 1799 01:37:16.279 --> 01:37:19.800 if you wait to deal with weeds until that stage, 1800 01:37:20.840 --> 01:37:22.960 then you got the issue of trying to pick something 1801 01:37:23.039 --> 01:37:25.520 that's not quite as stressful to the lawn compared to 1802 01:37:25.600 --> 01:37:29.680 other things. But when we take our cool season weeds, 1803 01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:33.600 a chick weed right now, routing it right now potentially 1804 01:37:33.680 --> 01:37:36.960 in your lawn. There is annual bluegrass that's a little 1805 01:37:36.960 --> 01:37:42.640 grassy weed. There is chick weed, There is hendbit, There 1806 01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:46.800 is carpet weed. There is something called cleavers. It's our 1807 01:37:46.920 --> 01:37:49.720 bellcrow weed. That's the one that's kind of like belcra 1808 01:37:49.800 --> 01:37:52.399 It kind of sticks to you. And when you're dealing 1809 01:37:52.479 --> 01:37:56.119 with those kinds of things. Now's the time to get 1810 01:37:56.159 --> 01:37:58.199 out there and do it. And here's why they sprouted 1811 01:37:58.239 --> 01:38:00.239 in the fall. They sit as small plants, just like 1812 01:38:00.279 --> 01:38:03.199 our blue bonets to do all winter long, and then 1813 01:38:03.279 --> 01:38:05.039 in the spring, as it warms up a little bit, 1814 01:38:05.439 --> 01:38:08.720 they are gonna take off growing. They're gonna bloom, they're 1815 01:38:08.760 --> 01:38:11.800 gonna set seed. Once they start blooming and setting seed, 1816 01:38:12.439 --> 01:38:15.439 even effective products that work on those weeds are not 1817 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:22.119 as effective once the weed becomes reproductive, the products are 1818 01:38:22.199 --> 01:38:25.960 not going to be as effective by and large, So 1819 01:38:26.159 --> 01:38:28.239 it's better to deal with it now. If you're gonna 1820 01:38:28.279 --> 01:38:31.399 have to spray those chickweed, hambit clover, all those kinds 1821 01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:33.079 of things that are in your lawn. Now, if you're 1822 01:38:33.119 --> 01:38:34.479 gonna have to spray them, you need to go and 1823 01:38:34.560 --> 01:38:37.039 get that done sooner rather than later. When we get 1824 01:38:37.079 --> 01:38:39.119 past the spreeze and the weather warms up just a 1825 01:38:39.159 --> 01:38:41.119 little bit, we got some warm days and those weeds 1826 01:38:41.119 --> 01:38:44.399 are really busy growing and taking in nutrients and things, 1827 01:38:44.760 --> 01:38:47.359 that's the time to hit them with the spray because 1828 01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:49.760 if you wait too long, it's not gonna work. And 1829 01:38:50.239 --> 01:38:52.239 if you wait long enough, there are already gonna be 1830 01:38:52.319 --> 01:38:55.199 weed seeds everywhere and now you've got two hundred thousand 1831 01:38:55.239 --> 01:38:58.479 times more weeds than you did before because you didn't 1832 01:38:58.560 --> 01:39:01.560 either handpul the weeds spray them. And listen, I'm not 1833 01:39:01.680 --> 01:39:03.920 here to talk you into organic or synthetic, to talk 1834 01:39:03.960 --> 01:39:06.079 you into spray and or not spray and all that. 1835 01:39:06.359 --> 01:39:09.800 That is your yard. I'll just tell you that in 1836 01:39:09.920 --> 01:39:12.239 my yard, I do a lot of ham pulling because 1837 01:39:12.279 --> 01:39:14.239 I don't like to do a lot of spray. But 1838 01:39:14.319 --> 01:39:18.479 if you're going to spray, do it before the weeds 1839 01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:21.279 start to bloom and set seed in the spring. That 1840 01:39:21.920 --> 01:39:24.560 is advice for the wise. All right, time for me 1841 01:39:24.640 --> 01:39:27.479 to take a break. I'll be right back with your calls. 1842 01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:31.119 Seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, folks, 1843 01:39:31.159 --> 01:39:34.600 we're back. We got plenty more things to talk about 1844 01:39:34.680 --> 01:39:38.000 this morning here on guard Line. Hey, I know right 1845 01:39:38.079 --> 01:39:39.439 now you're thinking about what am I going to do 1846 01:39:39.520 --> 01:39:41.479 this week. It's going to get so cold and all that. Well, 1847 01:39:41.479 --> 01:39:43.079 we've been talking about it that all day. We'll keep 1848 01:39:43.119 --> 01:39:45.239 talking about it. But I just want to ask you 1849 01:39:45.600 --> 01:39:47.920 to not forget that when this cold gets over with, 1850 01:39:48.520 --> 01:39:50.720 it's time to get back out there and do some 1851 01:39:50.920 --> 01:39:52.720 things in the garden. And one of the things we 1852 01:39:52.880 --> 01:39:55.479 do in order to have success with our plants is 1853 01:39:55.560 --> 01:39:59.159 provide small amounts of nutrient as a boost to them 1854 01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:02.319 as they grow week to week, month and month, and 1855 01:40:02.479 --> 01:40:05.000 color Star by Nelson is one of the best products 1856 01:40:05.039 --> 01:40:08.520 I know for doing that. It is excellent. For example, 1857 01:40:08.640 --> 01:40:11.199 the color Star has been around for forty years or so, 1858 01:40:12.199 --> 01:40:14.319 very very popular. If you're going to have a bed 1859 01:40:14.399 --> 01:40:17.239 that has color that could be foliage, that could be flowers, 1860 01:40:17.319 --> 01:40:20.199 that could be whatever you want a color bed, just 1861 01:40:20.319 --> 01:40:22.399 get color Star and it's going to be a good 1862 01:40:22.520 --> 01:40:24.800 blend to give the boost you need. Here's what's happened. 1863 01:40:24.840 --> 01:40:27.960 You're blooms on the plant. That takes a lot of 1864 01:40:28.199 --> 01:40:32.000 energy carbohydrates to make the blooms that are your flowers 1865 01:40:32.039 --> 01:40:34.920 that you enjoy. You got to keep that plant growing 1866 01:40:35.159 --> 01:40:38.680 so that it has new growth, new energy, captures more sunlight, 1867 01:40:38.840 --> 01:40:41.920 makes more blooms. Color Star gives it that boost. It's 1868 01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:45.199 fast acting, but it also has organic nutrients sources in 1869 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:48.520 it that really slowly into the ground about every three 1870 01:40:48.600 --> 01:40:51.680 or four months is probably best with Colorstar. So coming 1871 01:40:51.840 --> 01:40:53.560 into this season of winter, we want to get a 1872 01:40:53.560 --> 01:40:56.520 fertilization down, watered in really good scratch it into the 1873 01:40:56.600 --> 01:41:00.920 soil and watered in and have a little push on 1874 01:41:01.000 --> 01:41:03.079 the vigor as we come out of the winter into 1875 01:41:03.119 --> 01:41:06.079 spring to get more growth. Keep those things going, and 1876 01:41:06.159 --> 01:41:07.960 if you pull those out and put some others in, 1877 01:41:08.239 --> 01:41:10.239 it's just all the better. Just start back up with 1878 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.560 color Star again from the folks at Nelson's. Color Stars 1879 01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:17.079 available in many places in town. And those little refill 1880 01:41:17.479 --> 01:41:20.680 canister containers, so you buy a plastic canister of it, 1881 01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:22.640 you just take it back in and refill it. It's 1882 01:41:22.680 --> 01:41:25.359 a little more, a little less expensive, and it also 1883 01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:28.199 helps prevent a little more plastic going out there in 1884 01:41:28.239 --> 01:41:30.600 the environment, which is of course a good thing to stop. 1885 01:41:31.359 --> 01:41:33.279 We're going to go now to Cove, Texas and talk 1886 01:41:33.319 --> 01:41:35.479 to Rufus. Hey, Rufus, welcome to garden Line. 1887 01:41:37.159 --> 01:41:37.800 Well, thank you. 1888 01:41:38.239 --> 01:41:38.439 Hey. 1889 01:41:38.640 --> 01:41:43.520 A while back we talked about think that was disease 1890 01:41:43.600 --> 01:41:46.640 resistance more than the ones I got in my backyard 1891 01:41:46.720 --> 01:41:49.479 just dying on vine kind of deal. But I lost 1892 01:41:49.520 --> 01:41:49.800 the name. 1893 01:41:50.640 --> 01:41:52.000 Yeah remember what that was. 1894 01:41:52.600 --> 01:41:57.960 Uh yeah, there, there's there's two and I think one 1895 01:41:58.000 --> 01:41:59.720 of them may not be on the on the marketing 1896 01:41:59.840 --> 01:42:02.680 or there's one called Cora like the ladies name c 1897 01:42:03.039 --> 01:42:08.239 r A and there's one called Nirvana, and I'm not 1898 01:42:08.359 --> 01:42:11.399 sure Nirvana is still around, but if you see either 1899 01:42:11.479 --> 01:42:15.680 Cora Nirvana, that's that's the kind of vinca we're talking about. Uh. 1900 01:42:15.760 --> 01:42:19.640 There's a disease called uh our top aerial phytoptera that 1901 01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:22.159 gets on them and makes them turned chocolate brown and 1902 01:42:22.399 --> 01:42:25.560 just turns them to toast, and it goes to her 1903 01:42:25.680 --> 01:42:29.119 resistant to that disease at least until the disease figures 1904 01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:32.920 out how to mutate. And that's what diseases do. But uh, Cora, 1905 01:42:33.079 --> 01:42:36.399 nerv Cora, and Nirvana Cora is the one you're gonna find. 1906 01:42:36.279 --> 01:42:39.640 Probably, okay, all right, Well yeah, because when we talk 1907 01:42:39.680 --> 01:42:42.800 about it looked like rose die back. You know, it 1908 01:42:43.239 --> 01:42:45.479 started at the end of them. I started working back 1909 01:42:45.520 --> 01:42:48.600 to the route and I got a hit. I just 1910 01:42:48.720 --> 01:42:53.039 cut it all and you know it's vinegar and water 1911 01:42:53.159 --> 01:42:55.720 on the cutters and stuff that I slowed it down 1912 01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:59.640 a bunch. But I'm not wanting problem next year. 1913 01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:04.319 Uh Yeah. Vinca's real heat tolerant and another thing that 1914 01:43:04.359 --> 01:43:06.159 helps a little bit. This isn't gonna make night and 1915 01:43:06.239 --> 01:43:08.600 day difference, but if you wait until it really heats 1916 01:43:08.680 --> 01:43:10.319 up pretty good to plant trvinka. 1917 01:43:10.880 --> 01:43:11.000 Uh. 1918 01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:14.920 It the the disease isn't quite as active then as 1919 01:43:15.000 --> 01:43:16.640 it is if you try to get it in early 1920 01:43:16.760 --> 01:43:19.680 and it's it's a little milder and maybe more rain 1921 01:43:19.920 --> 01:43:23.039 or you're irrigating too much or something. It's worse than 1922 01:43:23.239 --> 01:43:27.520 those conditions. So that's another tip for it. All right, man? 1923 01:43:28.760 --> 01:43:34.239 Well, from seed, what's the germination to planning on those plants? 1924 01:43:34.720 --> 01:43:37.720 Because I usually do it like, I don't know, six 1925 01:43:37.800 --> 01:43:40.159 weeks before put them in the ground. 1926 01:43:40.880 --> 01:43:48.760 But is it yeah, you know, to give you a 1927 01:43:48.880 --> 01:43:51.399 completely accurate answer, I would need to go look that up, 1928 01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:53.800 but I'm gonna I'm gonna say that I think if 1929 01:43:53.840 --> 01:43:56.520 you can give them, if you can grow the transplants 1930 01:43:56.600 --> 01:43:59.960 for about two weeks, uh, then you should be able 1931 01:43:59.960 --> 01:44:02.960 to move them out into the garden and at some point, 1932 01:44:03.079 --> 01:44:06.960 depending on soul temperatures and whatnot, they will begin to bloom. 1933 01:44:07.760 --> 01:44:09.960 But the time from seed to first bloom is going 1934 01:44:10.000 --> 01:44:15.600 to vary a whole lot with the conditions that's growing in. Okay, okay, 1935 01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:22.680 but i'd allow yourself good good, all right, all right, well, 1936 01:44:22.720 --> 01:44:26.840 thanks for the call, all right, bye bye. That is 1937 01:44:26.920 --> 01:44:31.880 for true. You know, I talk about wallbirds because I 1938 01:44:32.039 --> 01:44:35.760 love wallbird stores. I'll go into wildbirds stores just to 1939 01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:39.199 look around because I learn something every time I go in. 1940 01:44:39.399 --> 01:44:41.239 I go I didn't know they had a gadget for that, 1941 01:44:41.520 --> 01:44:44.319 or I didn't know they've come out with this new seed, 1942 01:44:44.760 --> 01:44:47.680 or you know whatever. And talking to the people there, 1943 01:44:47.760 --> 01:44:50.039 they know so much. So I mean, if you want 1944 01:44:50.079 --> 01:44:52.960 to have success with your birds, go buy there. Now. 1945 01:44:53.039 --> 01:44:55.159 I'll tell you something. You can buy a lot of 1946 01:44:55.239 --> 01:44:57.439 cheap bird seed in a lot of places, and it's 1947 01:44:57.520 --> 01:45:01.800 going to be sometimes way half of the little red bebes, 1948 01:45:02.000 --> 01:45:04.840 way over half. And birds don't like those. They kick 1949 01:45:04.880 --> 01:45:06.840 them out. They don't eat them unless they absolutely have 1950 01:45:07.079 --> 01:45:10.960 to and they're starving to death. But wildbirds seeds are 1951 01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:13.800 made with seeds the birds eat. And you can get 1952 01:45:13.880 --> 01:45:16.520 different blends right now in the winter winter super Blend's 1953 01:45:16.560 --> 01:45:18.479 a good one. But they got a brand new thing out, 1954 01:45:18.560 --> 01:45:21.760 new product, and it's cool. It's called Cardinal Confetti. Cardinal 1955 01:45:21.840 --> 01:45:26.119 is in redbirds. Cardinal Confetti blend is exclusive to wildbirds. 1956 01:45:26.560 --> 01:45:28.800 And they even have a couple of feeders. There's a 1957 01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:32.640 cardinal tube feeder and a good evening cardinal feeder. Ask 1958 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:35.159 them about that. As part of the Cardinal Confetti collection. 1959 01:45:35.760 --> 01:45:39.239 The Cardinal Confetti's got saft flower, it's got black all sunflower. 1960 01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:44.319 It's got sunflower chips, nutris, saff park, excuse me, bark 1961 01:45:44.399 --> 01:45:49.279 butter bits, peanut halves, striped sunflower. It makes me hungry. 1962 01:45:49.359 --> 01:45:51.920 Oh not this last one. It also has dried meal worms. 1963 01:45:51.960 --> 01:45:55.800 I can live without that. But birds love that stuff 1964 01:45:56.039 --> 01:45:57.920 and you can use it year round. They're gonna sell 1965 01:45:57.920 --> 01:46:01.199 it year round. But it is an all some awesome blend, 1966 01:46:01.640 --> 01:46:03.159 so you ought to go check that out. They also 1967 01:46:03.239 --> 01:46:05.760 have something called bark butter. You spread it and smear 1968 01:46:05.800 --> 01:46:07.920 it on a tree trunk or on a feeder or 1969 01:46:08.000 --> 01:46:10.000 where you want to spear it on your neighbor who 1970 01:46:10.039 --> 01:46:11.960 doesn't move around a lot, and the birds will show up, 1971 01:46:12.399 --> 01:46:16.000 and I mean they love that stuff. They It was 1972 01:46:16.079 --> 01:46:21.680 created by Jim Carpenter, who founded Wildbird Anyway. He created 1973 01:46:21.720 --> 01:46:23.880 it and they have documented one hundred and fifty different 1974 01:46:23.960 --> 01:46:26.560 species of birds that come to the bark butter. It's 1975 01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:29.479 available as bark butter bits little bite sized nuggets. Is 1976 01:46:29.520 --> 01:46:31.880 available also as bugs and bits. There we go put 1977 01:46:31.920 --> 01:46:35.720 and dried millworms in it. Again. They absolutely love that stuff. 1978 01:46:35.800 --> 01:46:38.199 It's hig in calcium it's sports, good egg development, and 1979 01:46:38.279 --> 01:46:41.159 birds are going to be nesting very very soon, so 1980 01:46:41.520 --> 01:46:43.079 get that stuff out and you're only going to get 1981 01:46:43.079 --> 01:46:46.960 it at Wildbird's wild Birds Unlimited. It's WBU dot Com 1982 01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:54.199 forward slash Houston. WBU dot Com Forward slash Houston. That 1983 01:46:54.680 --> 01:46:59.239 will do it. Let's see, I'm looking at the clock, Roger, 1984 01:46:59.399 --> 01:47:00.920 I do not have time to take your call for 1985 01:47:01.039 --> 01:47:02.920 we go to break. Sorry about that. I will make 1986 01:47:02.960 --> 01:47:05.159 you first when we come back. Roger out in Deer Park. 1987 01:47:05.560 --> 01:47:06.880 Look forward to talking to you. If you can hang 1988 01:47:06.920 --> 01:47:09.279 around a little bit longer and we'll be right back 1989 01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:10.239 with your calls. 1990 01:47:11.640 --> 01:47:15.680 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Rickards. 1991 01:47:24.199 --> 01:47:25.800 Just watch him as. 1992 01:47:31.680 --> 01:47:34.359 Hey, let's jump right in here. I listen to a 1993 01:47:34.359 --> 01:47:36.560 little bit of an intro. I think I was going 1994 01:47:36.640 --> 01:47:39.159 to get going and get talking and get to your calls. 1995 01:47:39.199 --> 01:47:41.399 In fact, why don't we jump right out here? We 1996 01:47:41.479 --> 01:47:44.800 got Roger waiting from Deer Park. Hey, Roger, welcome to 1997 01:47:44.880 --> 01:47:46.399 garden Line. How can we help. 1998 01:47:47.479 --> 01:47:51.119 Uh built me a little chicken stick frame on the 1999 01:47:51.359 --> 01:47:53.600 south side of the house to cover with plastic and 2000 01:47:53.680 --> 01:47:57.439 not touch the plants, you know, the plastic and left 2001 01:47:57.560 --> 01:48:00.520 home one day to ten or lavish camp went way 2002 01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:03.000 above you know, went on up there. 2003 01:48:03.079 --> 01:48:05.960 So I'm just trying to figure out how to. 2004 01:48:08.439 --> 01:48:12.159 Make sure I don't burn the plant and cook them, 2005 01:48:12.600 --> 01:48:16.560 say yeah, and keep them above that you know, thirty degree. 2006 01:48:18.680 --> 01:48:22.159 Yeah, that's a you know that either you just have 2007 01:48:22.279 --> 01:48:23.880 to go out and check it. I said a little 2008 01:48:23.920 --> 01:48:26.239 timer on the on the phone or watch just to 2009 01:48:26.560 --> 01:48:28.199 remind you to go check it every now and then. 2010 01:48:28.319 --> 01:48:33.439 See sunshining through clear uh makes heat for sure, and 2011 01:48:33.640 --> 01:48:35.520 that's why your cars are warm when you go out 2012 01:48:35.680 --> 01:48:38.279 on a cool day or hot day. Either way, it's 2013 01:48:38.279 --> 01:48:40.640 gonna be a lot warmer inside a clear windshield of 2014 01:48:40.680 --> 01:48:43.720 a car. Uh, So your instincts are right. 2015 01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:44.119 Uh. 2016 01:48:44.760 --> 01:48:47.079 The only other thing you could do, and that's not 2017 01:48:47.199 --> 01:48:50.439 for this year. But there are some gadgets. They're like 2018 01:48:50.760 --> 01:48:53.760 little kind of like a piston, you know, you know 2019 01:48:53.840 --> 01:48:56.479 the old screen door so they didn't slam. There were 2020 01:48:56.560 --> 01:48:58.960 that little piston that yeah, up at the top that 2021 01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:02.039 kind of air compros and slowed it down. There's actually 2022 01:49:02.279 --> 01:49:06.359 a piston like device. It's different than that that when 2023 01:49:06.439 --> 01:49:10.600 a temperature is reached, it pushes a door open and 2024 01:49:10.800 --> 01:49:14.479 it kind of lifts up a little door to allow 2025 01:49:14.600 --> 01:49:17.319 heat to escape out the top and go back down again. 2026 01:49:17.479 --> 01:49:19.760 And you can purchase those. I've never tried using them, 2027 01:49:19.800 --> 01:49:21.920 but I just know they're out there. People used to 2028 01:49:22.000 --> 01:49:25.439 use them on cold frames, which is basically like a 2029 01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:29.199 little box on the ground with a clear top, and 2030 01:49:29.399 --> 01:49:31.399 to lift those up because the same thing happens in 2031 01:49:31.439 --> 01:49:34.000 a cold frame. That would be a long term kind 2032 01:49:34.000 --> 01:49:37.680 of a potential solution. Other than that, I would just say, 2033 01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:42.279 you know, once the temperature gets above thirty two, I 2034 01:49:42.319 --> 01:49:44.800 would just crack a door open on it and you'll 2035 01:49:44.840 --> 01:49:46.439 be good. You just need the heat to be able 2036 01:49:46.479 --> 01:49:48.359 to escape a little bit. You don't have to throw 2037 01:49:48.399 --> 01:49:49.760 it wide open or anything like that. 2038 01:49:50.359 --> 01:49:54.159 Okay, Yeah, it's just kind of like, ah, I was 2039 01:49:54.159 --> 01:49:54.960 supposed to bake them. 2040 01:49:55.279 --> 01:49:58.479 Yeah, I know. Yeah, Oh you can cook them. You 2041 01:49:58.720 --> 01:50:01.239 can cook them in there, for sure, no question about that. 2042 01:50:02.960 --> 01:50:07.199 About what may also ask time. 2043 01:50:08.000 --> 01:50:11.239 I have a BlackBerry bush that's about peaky put long 2044 01:50:11.319 --> 01:50:14.880 on the back fence and citrus. It seemed like a 2045 01:50:14.960 --> 01:50:19.439 couple of the plants, especially with the the blackberries in 2046 01:50:19.479 --> 01:50:22.399 the middle, they're turning yellow. The leaves it's getting a 2047 01:50:22.479 --> 01:50:24.600 yellowsh tint to it, and then there leaves on one 2048 01:50:24.920 --> 01:50:27.319 one plant. The leaves are turning yellow on the citrus, 2049 01:50:29.279 --> 01:50:31.800 just one, and I'm just kind of. 2050 01:50:31.880 --> 01:50:35.720 Can you recall from can you? Yeah, can you recall 2051 01:50:36.239 --> 01:50:38.840 Roger from when you looked at them? Was was it 2052 01:50:39.000 --> 01:50:42.000 the new ends of shoots, the new leaves that were 2053 01:50:42.119 --> 01:50:45.520 losing color, or was it all up and down everywhere? 2054 01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:48.439 Or was it the older leaves further back down the 2055 01:50:48.520 --> 01:50:49.680 shoot that we're losing color. 2056 01:50:50.119 --> 01:50:52.760 It's the older leaves from the It's basically starting from 2057 01:50:52.800 --> 01:50:53.680 the top, older leaves. 2058 01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:57.680 Okay, Yeah, there are a couple of nutrients that a 2059 01:50:57.800 --> 01:51:02.399 lack of of that nutrient can cause that. You know, 2060 01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:05.319 sulfur is one of the ones we never talk about 2061 01:51:05.359 --> 01:51:08.560 as a fertilizer nutrient hardly, but that's one that of 2062 01:51:08.600 --> 01:51:11.159 a lack of sulfur can cause that. That's probably not 2063 01:51:11.279 --> 01:51:13.119 what the problem is with your planet is probably a 2064 01:51:13.239 --> 01:51:18.880 nitrogen a lack of nitrogen, but also environmental conditions can 2065 01:51:18.960 --> 01:51:20.800 do that. I don't know if you ever had Apothus 2066 01:51:20.840 --> 01:51:23.600 ivy in the house and it got too dry and 2067 01:51:23.720 --> 01:51:25.720 it started to wilt, and then you watered it and 2068 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:27.520 all of a sudden, the old leaves start turning yellow 2069 01:51:27.520 --> 01:51:32.039 and falling off after you water it. That's a moisture 2070 01:51:32.199 --> 01:51:36.520 related response, and that can happen to plants soggy wet 2071 01:51:36.600 --> 01:51:41.279 soils or wide fluctuations that can happen to some plant. 2072 01:51:41.760 --> 01:51:45.199 So other than a soil moisture issue, I think it 2073 01:51:45.560 --> 01:51:48.960 probably is a lack of nitrogen, but I generally wouldn't 2074 01:51:48.960 --> 01:51:52.319 worry about it a lot. Usually the older leaves turning 2075 01:51:52.359 --> 01:51:54.680 a little yellow and a cool season of the year, 2076 01:51:55.920 --> 01:51:59.720 that just happens, and so it doesn't mean you necessarily 2077 01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:02.159 need to get out there and do any particular thing 2078 01:52:02.239 --> 01:52:04.399 to it. And if if we get into spring, it 2079 01:52:04.479 --> 01:52:08.600 starts regrowing and that situation doesn't improve. The only yellow 2080 01:52:08.680 --> 01:52:11.479 leaves aren't going to turn green again, but you don't 2081 01:52:11.680 --> 01:52:14.880 continue to have that problem progressing. If you do, then 2082 01:52:15.079 --> 01:52:17.319 go and go ahead and fertilize it with a nitrogen 2083 01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:21.159 nitrogen based fertilizer. Any good centrus foot will have enough 2084 01:52:21.239 --> 01:52:27.239 nitrogen in it well as usual. Thank you again, all right, 2085 01:52:27.399 --> 01:52:29.399 you bet, you bet, And watch those blackberries. The number 2086 01:52:29.439 --> 01:52:31.239 one thing we have with blackberries going on here is 2087 01:52:31.680 --> 01:52:34.239 some people have high pH soils in some parts, and 2088 01:52:35.039 --> 01:52:37.760 blackberries and a heavy clay with a higher pH they 2089 01:52:37.800 --> 01:52:40.840 are always going to have a bleaching out or yellowing 2090 01:52:40.920 --> 01:52:42.840 of the foliage out near the tip. But that's of 2091 01:52:42.920 --> 01:52:45.640 course not what you had. So but I just mentioned 2092 01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:47.279 that because there's gonna be other people going, yeah, I 2093 01:52:47.319 --> 01:52:49.720 got blackberries that our leaves are losing color, and they 2094 01:52:49.800 --> 01:52:52.520 need to know about that too. Well, you take care 2095 01:52:52.560 --> 01:52:56.039 out there, stay warm. Thank you much too. All right, 2096 01:52:56.239 --> 01:53:02.279 thank you, thank you sir. The color that isb be 2097 01:53:02.279 --> 01:53:04.720 another good publication to put up there. My leaves are 2098 01:53:04.760 --> 01:53:08.840 turning color? What's going wrong? Kind of interesting? Actually, do 2099 01:53:08.880 --> 01:53:11.560 you know that nutrients? Okay, here we go a little 2100 01:53:11.600 --> 01:53:14.520 bit of a nerd alert, but this can help you 2101 01:53:14.800 --> 01:53:20.920 diagnose a problem. Nutrients typically are either mobile or immobile 2102 01:53:21.359 --> 01:53:25.560 in a plant. Now, if a nutrient is mobile, that 2103 01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:29.680 means that the plant can steal it from older growth 2104 01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:33.920 and move it to new growth to support that growth. 2105 01:53:34.760 --> 01:53:38.399 A mobile element, it could be moved. If a nutrient 2106 01:53:38.520 --> 01:53:42.000 is immobile, then the older growth may have had enough 2107 01:53:42.079 --> 01:53:44.640 of it. But when it runs short on that nutrient, 2108 01:53:44.720 --> 01:53:47.560 the new growth starts to show the deficiency. So why 2109 01:53:48.119 --> 01:53:51.439 does that matter. We'll think of this like a brick wall, 2110 01:53:52.439 --> 01:53:57.640 that is that has mortar in between the bricks. Versus 2111 01:53:57.840 --> 01:54:01.760 a dry stack brick wall and a drystack brick wall. 2112 01:54:01.800 --> 01:54:03.399 If you're building the wall and you get the end, 2113 01:54:03.439 --> 01:54:06.199 you run out of bricks. Theoretically you go back and 2114 01:54:06.279 --> 01:54:08.560 steal bricks from the original part of the wall and 2115 01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:10.600 bring them forward and keep building the wall. That's a 2116 01:54:10.680 --> 01:54:14.399 mobile element. If it was mortared in. You can't steal 2117 01:54:14.439 --> 01:54:17.079 a brick from back there. It's mortared in, and that's 2118 01:54:17.119 --> 01:54:20.119 an immobile element. So what you see when you look 2119 01:54:20.159 --> 01:54:23.199 at your plants is if the older leaves are turning yellow, 2120 01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:28.239 that's a sign that the element that's missing is a 2121 01:54:28.439 --> 01:54:31.720 mobile element. The plant has stolen it to support new growth. 2122 01:54:32.520 --> 01:54:34.720 If it's occurring on the new growth but not the 2123 01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:37.920 old growth, then that's an immobile and iron is the 2124 01:54:38.079 --> 01:54:43.600 prime poster element for immobile element deficiency. When the new 2125 01:54:43.680 --> 01:54:47.960 growth has bleaching out a yellowing or even whitish on 2126 01:54:48.039 --> 01:54:51.319 some plants, and maybe the veins are main green, but 2127 01:54:51.439 --> 01:54:54.159 in between the veins it starts turning or it doesn't 2128 01:54:54.199 --> 01:54:59.079 develop color, that's an iron deficiency most likely because it's immobile. 2129 01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:02.159 And if it's the old leaves, it's going to be nitrogen, 2130 01:55:02.159 --> 01:55:04.000 it's going to be sulfur. If the old leaves have 2131 01:55:04.199 --> 01:55:06.680 like a green Christmas tree in the middle. Well, that's 2132 01:55:07.279 --> 01:55:11.760 a mobile element called magnesium with the green Christmas tree 2133 01:55:11.760 --> 01:55:14.079 in the middle. All right, that's your NERD alert. We'll 2134 01:55:14.119 --> 01:55:20.479 be right back. We're back. Hey, guess what. It's our 2135 01:55:20.600 --> 01:55:22.680 last hour of the show today. We're going to wind 2136 01:55:22.760 --> 01:55:24.479 us up at ten o'clock. So if you've got a call, 2137 01:55:24.640 --> 01:55:28.279 I can't wait until next Saturday. Where the thing? You 2138 01:55:28.279 --> 01:55:30.880 can give me a call. Seven thirty seven thirty seven 2139 01:55:30.920 --> 01:55:34.239 one three two one two. I didn't drink enough coffee 2140 01:55:34.279 --> 01:55:37.640 this morning kt R seven one three two one two 2141 01:55:37.800 --> 01:55:41.159 kt R h Oh. We've talked about a lot of 2142 01:55:41.199 --> 01:55:44.960 different things this morning. Just got through talking about nutrients 2143 01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:48.640 and mobile versus immobile nutrients. And it's kind of fun 2144 01:55:49.079 --> 01:55:53.880 to diagnose visually what's going on, to think through it. Uh, 2145 01:55:54.159 --> 01:55:56.960 you know, I give you these NERD alerts from time 2146 01:55:57.000 --> 01:55:59.640 to time and I'll talk about you know, Okay, this 2147 01:55:59.760 --> 01:56:02.159 is a little technical, but it helps to know it 2148 01:56:02.760 --> 01:56:04.840 for making decisions. So just the fact that you know 2149 01:56:05.760 --> 01:56:07.960 the difference between a mobile and an immobile element, you 2150 01:56:07.960 --> 01:56:09.880 can go online and say what elements are mobile, what 2151 01:56:10.000 --> 01:56:12.880 elements are immobile, and so you look at a plant. 2152 01:56:13.079 --> 01:56:15.439 It's got, you know, leaves in this place or that place. 2153 01:56:15.920 --> 01:56:17.760 You know, okay, it's going to be one of these 2154 01:56:17.800 --> 01:56:20.319 elements that I'm dealing with here, And so it helps 2155 01:56:20.399 --> 01:56:23.600 you to think through things, and becoming good gardeners isn't 2156 01:56:23.680 --> 01:56:27.279 just memorizing all the facts. It's learning how to think 2157 01:56:27.399 --> 01:56:30.000 about plants. And when I talk about we're going to 2158 01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:32.600 turn your brown thumb, grain that there's no such thing 2159 01:56:32.640 --> 01:56:35.119 as a brown thumb. There's an uninformed thumb. That's what 2160 01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:39.680 I'm talking about. Is the more you gain understanding about 2161 01:56:39.720 --> 01:56:42.600 how things work, the better you are at gardening, the 2162 01:56:43.039 --> 01:56:45.039 easier it is for you to figure things out and 2163 01:56:46.199 --> 01:56:48.760 kind of solve problems. You know, maybe there's some nutrient 2164 01:56:48.840 --> 01:56:51.439 I didn't mention in my little spiel before break, Well, 2165 01:56:51.479 --> 01:56:52.800 now you know at least how to think about it 2166 01:56:52.880 --> 01:56:55.279 and figure out what it might be. And so that's 2167 01:56:55.359 --> 01:56:57.479 what we try to do here. Now, if you're one 2168 01:56:57.720 --> 01:56:59.359 that just wants me to tell you what to get 2169 01:57:00.039 --> 01:57:02.079 and where to get it to apply it, I can 2170 01:57:02.159 --> 01:57:06.359 do that. We can certainly do that, no problem at all. 2171 01:57:06.720 --> 01:57:08.199 But if you're someone who wants to go a low 2172 01:57:08.239 --> 01:57:12.239 step further, maybe a master gardener or just an inquisitive gardener. Yeah, 2173 01:57:12.319 --> 01:57:14.520 there you go. We can help you with that. We're 2174 01:57:14.520 --> 01:57:18.000 gonna go out Tonedville now and talk to an Lisa. Hello, Analsa, 2175 01:57:18.079 --> 01:57:20.359 Welcome to garden line. Hi. 2176 01:57:20.760 --> 01:57:23.640 I have some tulips that I planted a few weeks 2177 01:57:23.680 --> 01:57:26.520 ago that already have buds on them, and I was 2178 01:57:26.560 --> 01:57:28.479 wondering if this is a long enough freeze to make 2179 01:57:28.520 --> 01:57:31.079 it worth covering, or if they're hardy enough to last. 2180 01:57:33.800 --> 01:57:37.920 Tulips are generally pretty heardy. How tall are they? 2181 01:57:39.199 --> 01:57:41.359 They're about six inches? 2182 01:57:44.359 --> 01:57:46.720 Okay, well, it wouldn't be the end of the world. 2183 01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:49.279 I'm assuming you don't have a giant feel fault, so 2184 01:57:50.399 --> 01:57:51.640 it wouldn't be the end of the world to go 2185 01:57:51.640 --> 01:57:53.880 out there and said a few things around to kind 2186 01:57:53.920 --> 01:57:56.680 of hold the cover up and then go throw I 2187 01:57:56.720 --> 01:58:00.960 don't know, a sheet or something over them to be 2188 01:58:01.680 --> 01:58:04.239 sure and safe. I think they're going to be okay. 2189 01:58:04.840 --> 01:58:09.520 Let's see you're in Needville. Yeah, you're I've never tested 2190 01:58:09.560 --> 01:58:11.720 tulips in terms of how cool can they take it, 2191 01:58:12.000 --> 01:58:14.680 To be honest, I just haven't. My gut is that 2192 01:58:14.760 --> 01:58:16.600 they're going to be okay. But if you want to 2193 01:58:16.600 --> 01:58:19.119 be extra careful throw something just over them. No heat 2194 01:58:19.199 --> 01:58:22.239 underneath them is needed. Just something to kind of hold 2195 01:58:22.279 --> 01:58:24.479 the soil moisture a little bit or heat a little bit. 2196 01:58:25.720 --> 01:58:26.800 Okay, thank you so much. 2197 01:58:28.840 --> 01:58:33.119 You bet you take care. Thanks for the call. If 2198 01:58:33.159 --> 01:58:35.520 you want a beautiful landscape, I mean I'm talking about 2199 01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:38.760 a gorgeous landscape, you need to call the folks at Peerscapes. 2200 01:58:38.960 --> 01:58:42.239 I talk about Peerscapes a lot because I am very 2201 01:58:42.319 --> 01:58:45.279 impressed with their work. I've sat down and met with 2202 01:58:45.399 --> 01:58:48.720 their designers and talked to them, and I'm telling you, 2203 01:58:48.920 --> 01:58:51.960 these folks know what they're doing. They really do. And 2204 01:58:52.079 --> 01:58:54.479 no matter what you need. Do you need the irrigation 2205 01:58:54.640 --> 01:58:57.600 work on because that season's coming, they can do that. 2206 01:58:58.119 --> 01:59:01.039 Do you want hardscape put in? Oh my gosh, you 2207 01:59:01.159 --> 01:59:06.199 cannot believe the gorgeous patios and walkways that they create. 2208 01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:10.479 Their landscape lighting services are unbelievable. And they do maintenance too. 2209 01:59:10.560 --> 01:59:11.680 By the way, you can have them come on for 2210 01:59:11.800 --> 01:59:15.359 quarterly maintenance. If you need that done, you need a 2211 01:59:15.479 --> 01:59:18.520 SOD installed, anything like that, they can do it at 2212 01:59:18.560 --> 01:59:24.079 Peer Scapes. Go to piercescapes dot com pierscapes dot com. 2213 01:59:24.399 --> 01:59:25.560 I want you to go there. I want you to 2214 01:59:25.640 --> 01:59:27.399 look at the pictures, even if you're not planning on 2215 01:59:27.520 --> 01:59:29.399 having anything done, I just want you to go and 2216 01:59:29.520 --> 01:59:33.439 see what they can do. It is amazing. And so 2217 01:59:33.560 --> 01:59:35.560 maybe you just need a little project done, maybe you 2218 01:59:35.640 --> 01:59:39.039 need the whole nine yards renovated. They can do either way. 2219 01:59:39.560 --> 01:59:42.920 Peer Scapes. Let's go out to the phones again and 2220 01:59:42.960 --> 01:59:46.079 we're gonna talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, welcome to garden Line. 2221 01:59:47.439 --> 01:59:50.079 Thank you Skip. I've got a question. 2222 01:59:50.640 --> 01:59:52.800 I'm driving back from South Texas and I have a 2223 01:59:52.880 --> 01:59:56.279 friend that his place is just covered up in Mountain Laurel, 2224 01:59:56.880 --> 01:59:58.960 and so I thought, well, I'm gonna dig up some 2225 01:59:59.319 --> 02:00:00.520 individual plants. 2226 02:00:01.119 --> 02:00:02.520 And I had no idea. 2227 02:00:02.640 --> 02:00:04.800 They had a tap root that probably is five feet 2228 02:00:04.880 --> 02:00:08.600 deep and so but I was able to dig, dig 2229 02:00:08.800 --> 02:00:11.479 up a five or six beast wounds and cut the 2230 02:00:11.560 --> 02:00:14.079 tap root about two to three feet. 2231 02:00:15.159 --> 02:00:16.640 Will I be able to transplant? 2232 02:00:16.720 --> 02:00:23.479 Okay, they are not a species that likes transplanting. Now, 2233 02:00:23.520 --> 02:00:25.479 I'm not going to tell you that you can't do it, 2234 02:00:26.199 --> 02:00:29.920 but don't be real surprised if you have trouble with that. 2235 02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:35.439 Bring them back, get them in a spot where they 2236 02:00:35.520 --> 02:00:38.560 have moist definitely not soggy soil. They don't like that. 2237 02:00:39.600 --> 02:00:42.359 Get them in a spot like that planted we say, 2238 02:00:42.399 --> 02:00:44.640 high and dry in or raised bed or someplace that 2239 02:00:45.079 --> 02:00:47.920 had a heavy clay in a low lying area, and 2240 02:00:48.039 --> 02:00:50.560 get them in the grounds quick. Skin is the weather 2241 02:00:50.640 --> 02:00:53.520 worms up in the spring. Maybe a little bit of 2242 02:00:53.560 --> 02:00:55.680 a shade over You can even kind of drape a 2243 02:00:55.720 --> 02:00:57.520 little bit of a shade cloth over them a little bit, 2244 02:00:58.199 --> 02:01:00.640 just to give them some time to us before the 2245 02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:02.800 full demands are made on them, and give them the 2246 02:01:02.880 --> 02:01:04.079 best chance that they have. 2247 02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:04.920 Uh. 2248 02:01:05.039 --> 02:01:06.840 That doesn't mean leave shade on them all year. It 2249 02:01:07.000 --> 02:01:10.560 just it's just they're they're going to be very unhappy 2250 02:01:10.760 --> 02:01:13.239 and trying to recover. Did you happen to get any 2251 02:01:13.319 --> 02:01:14.880 of the seed pods while you're out there? 2252 02:01:15.359 --> 02:01:17.640 Oh yeah, I've got I got a hold, you know, 2253 02:01:18.039 --> 02:01:19.319 old baggy full of them. 2254 02:01:21.079 --> 02:01:24.920 Okay, good, good, Take those red seed pods and uh 2255 02:01:25.920 --> 02:01:28.880 nick the coat. You know, you can take a file 2256 02:01:29.119 --> 02:01:31.399 or you can take a little snippers and just don't 2257 02:01:31.520 --> 02:01:35.000 cut your fingers and nick the coat and uh they 2258 02:01:35.319 --> 02:01:37.760 will germinate. I would put them in moist sand and 2259 02:01:37.840 --> 02:01:42.399 the refrigerator for about a month or two and then 2260 02:01:42.720 --> 02:01:45.800 bring them out and plant them and get them to germinate. 2261 02:01:46.079 --> 02:01:48.760 And that's your backup in case the ones you brought 2262 02:01:48.800 --> 02:01:51.199 home don't work, because you can grow them. You can 2263 02:01:51.319 --> 02:01:54.960 grow them out. Just just have a long tail container 2264 02:01:55.039 --> 02:01:55.520 to diamond. 2265 02:01:56.640 --> 02:01:58.840 What about I mean for the time being, I've got 2266 02:01:58.880 --> 02:01:59.279 a bunch of. 2267 02:01:59.399 --> 02:02:03.279 Old it's like five gallon planner pots. 2268 02:02:03.319 --> 02:02:05.079 Could I put them in that for the time being 2269 02:02:06.920 --> 02:02:07.880 instead of putting them in the. 2270 02:02:07.920 --> 02:02:12.960 Ground the seeds you're talking about or the transfer Oh. 2271 02:02:12.920 --> 02:02:15.159 No, no, the transplant plant. 2272 02:02:15.279 --> 02:02:16.880 Instead of putting them in the ground, put them in 2273 02:02:16.960 --> 02:02:17.279 a pot. 2274 02:02:19.239 --> 02:02:20.039 Yes, you could do that. 2275 02:02:20.520 --> 02:02:25.119 You could do that, okay, because it Oh yeah, yeah, 2276 02:02:25.520 --> 02:02:27.640 I've got I really wanted to take them. I've got 2277 02:02:27.720 --> 02:02:30.359 a little place near Stevenville, Texas, and that's where I 2278 02:02:30.479 --> 02:02:32.439 was wanting to take them and plant them. So I'll 2279 02:02:32.479 --> 02:02:34.960 go get I'll go get some money. What would you 2280 02:02:35.079 --> 02:02:37.560 recommend rose soil with mixed. I've got some of the 2281 02:02:37.680 --> 02:02:40.000 native sand rose sol mixed with that sand. 2282 02:02:42.439 --> 02:02:44.600 You could yeah, you could do that. Uh, you know, 2283 02:02:44.760 --> 02:02:48.199 it's rosso would be fine. A little sound is fine. 2284 02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:51.600 Just make sure you draw. If you use five gallon buckets, 2285 02:02:51.640 --> 02:02:53.439 make sure you draw whole lots of holes in the 2286 02:02:53.439 --> 02:02:56.800 bottom so they're doing well. And uh. The nice thing 2287 02:02:56.800 --> 02:02:58.960 about containers is you can set them in a spot 2288 02:02:59.039 --> 02:03:00.960 that gets a little morning sun but not the full 2289 02:03:01.000 --> 02:03:04.239 brunt of the two to four o'clock hot afternoon sun 2290 02:03:04.800 --> 02:03:07.560 until you get them planted and then put a little. 2291 02:03:11.600 --> 02:03:11.920 You could. 2292 02:03:12.079 --> 02:03:15.119 Yeah, that wouldn't hurt anything. Yeah, that wouldn't That wouldn't 2293 02:03:15.119 --> 02:03:18.039 standing at all. You could, you could, Hey, where did 2294 02:03:18.079 --> 02:03:20.319 you where did you? Where in South Texas did you 2295 02:03:20.399 --> 02:03:21.199 get these things from? 2296 02:03:21.720 --> 02:03:25.359 This was in in Ata, Scotia County, near three rivers 2297 02:03:26.840 --> 02:03:28.079 halfway pwe Corpuses. 2298 02:03:30.600 --> 02:03:33.079 I grew up thirty miles north of there, Jerdany. 2299 02:03:33.439 --> 02:03:38.039 So do you know where? 2300 02:03:38.640 --> 02:03:41.640 Oh why, I know you've been there, because nobody knows 2301 02:03:41.720 --> 02:03:44.279 where wits it is unless you've been there or from there. 2302 02:03:44.520 --> 02:03:49.039 Campbell or Campbellton. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a it's. 2303 02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:53.479 Arm in Cambelton, YEP. It is good place, all right, 2304 02:03:53.520 --> 02:03:55.439 good fun plant, good plant. 2305 02:03:55.920 --> 02:03:56.039 Uh. 2306 02:03:56.119 --> 02:03:58.520 And by the way, when you grow up with those plants, 2307 02:03:59.239 --> 02:04:02.680 especially as mischievous young man, you learn that if you 2308 02:04:02.760 --> 02:04:05.640 take those pods and rub them on a on a 2309 02:04:05.800 --> 02:04:09.039 concrete sidewalk real fast, you can poke them against your 2310 02:04:09.039 --> 02:04:11.399 buddy's arm and burn the heck out of him. They 2311 02:04:11.479 --> 02:04:14.479 heat up really cool. So I'm just saying, not that 2312 02:04:14.640 --> 02:04:15.119 I ever. 2313 02:04:15.119 --> 02:04:18.439 Looked at I was just a little seed. Just I 2314 02:04:18.520 --> 02:04:20.399 could just on the sidewalk, right. 2315 02:04:20.520 --> 02:04:24.439 You said you could, yeah to kind of kind of 2316 02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:26.000 send it down a little bit if you want to 2317 02:04:26.039 --> 02:04:29.560 go that route. But but uh, yeah, not that I 2318 02:04:29.640 --> 02:04:30.119 ever did that. 2319 02:04:30.600 --> 02:04:32.520 I'm going to do that too. That sounds like a 2320 02:04:32.560 --> 02:04:33.600 good idea. Thank you, sir. 2321 02:04:36.960 --> 02:04:38.960 Take care, good luck with that. Let me know how 2322 02:04:39.000 --> 02:04:42.439 that turns out for you. All right, Yep, No, I 2323 02:04:42.479 --> 02:04:44.880 would never do that. I was as pure as the 2324 02:04:45.039 --> 02:04:48.319 wind driven snow, that is for sure. You can you 2325 02:04:48.439 --> 02:04:51.560 can take that to the bank. Just please don't talk 2326 02:04:51.600 --> 02:04:55.640 to any of my teachers that bless their hearts. I 2327 02:04:55.720 --> 02:04:58.640 think some of them have been given sainthood. I'm pretty 2328 02:04:58.680 --> 02:05:02.439 sure of that. Anyway, you listen to guard Line. Hey, 2329 02:05:02.439 --> 02:05:04.520 here's the phone number seven one three two one two 2330 02:05:05.079 --> 02:05:08.680 kt r H seven one three two one two. Where's Mike. 2331 02:05:09.479 --> 02:05:12.520 Mike from Sugarland. He grew up done in Jordan in Texas. 2332 02:05:12.560 --> 02:05:16.119 I don't know if he's listening today, but Mike may 2333 02:05:16.199 --> 02:05:18.800 know what we're talking about here. I talked earlier about 2334 02:05:18.800 --> 02:05:22.039 affordable tree and I'm telling you I would trust my 2335 02:05:22.159 --> 02:05:25.600 trees to Martin Spoon Moore. Martin's been doing this for 2336 02:05:25.720 --> 02:05:28.520 a long time. I mean he knows what he's doing. 2337 02:05:29.239 --> 02:05:32.960 When you call Affordable Tree at seven one, three, six, nine, nine, 2338 02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:36.399 twenty six sixty three, Martin's gonna be the one that 2339 02:05:36.600 --> 02:05:41.399 enters the phone. He absolutely knows his trees. And you 2340 02:05:41.600 --> 02:05:44.520 need to not delay you. It's time to get this done. 2341 02:05:44.560 --> 02:05:45.800 You got to give me a call. You got to 2342 02:05:45.840 --> 02:05:48.119 get this done. It's time to get any kind of 2343 02:05:48.199 --> 02:05:51.199 printing done. The prime time. We're in the prime season 2344 02:05:51.319 --> 02:05:53.279 is not gonna last a lot longer. Now. You can 2345 02:05:53.319 --> 02:05:55.039 get printed on any month of the year, a little 2346 02:05:55.039 --> 02:05:57.720 bit here and there, but you need to have right now, Martin, 2347 02:05:57.800 --> 02:06:00.199 come out and look at your trees, especially if you 2348 02:06:00.279 --> 02:06:02.399 have not had those trees cared for in a few years. 2349 02:06:03.079 --> 02:06:04.520 You need to come out and need to look at them. 2350 02:06:04.640 --> 02:06:07.840 Check the branch angles, check out things are growing. Because 2351 02:06:07.920 --> 02:06:10.439 it's better to guide a tree earlier in its life 2352 02:06:10.479 --> 02:06:12.439 than to try to change it later in its life. 2353 02:06:12.520 --> 02:06:14.920 And Martin knows how to do that. He does all 2354 02:06:15.039 --> 02:06:18.720 kinds of tree services consulting. He does the deep root feeding, 2355 02:06:18.840 --> 02:06:21.960 for example, he can do that. Martin's an expert at this. 2356 02:06:22.399 --> 02:06:26.159 He can go to afftree service dot com or give 2357 02:06:26.520 --> 02:06:29.880 Martin a call seven to one three six nine nine 2358 02:06:30.439 --> 02:06:33.479 two six sixty three. As we say, this is a 2359 02:06:33.560 --> 02:06:35.880 mom and pop operation. Martin and his wife Joe. They 2360 02:06:35.920 --> 02:06:38.039 answer the phones when you call seven to one three 2361 02:06:38.520 --> 02:06:43.960 six nine nine two six six three. Well, I am 2362 02:06:44.119 --> 02:06:47.520 up against a half hour break here. We got a 2363 02:06:47.520 --> 02:06:49.199 half hour left in this show. If you'd like to 2364 02:06:49.279 --> 02:06:53.000 give me a call seven one three two one two KTRH. 2365 02:06:53.279 --> 02:06:55.079 We'll be back with your calls, and we'll start with 2366 02:06:55.159 --> 02:07:01.560 John from Friends with Here. We welcome best pointing to 2367 02:07:01.640 --> 02:07:04.199 talk about there on the garden line. Not a lot 2368 02:07:04.279 --> 02:07:06.119 of time luck to talk about it, so let's get 2369 02:07:06.159 --> 02:07:06.479 down here. 2370 02:07:06.680 --> 02:07:06.880 Lucky. 2371 02:07:06.960 --> 02:07:10.000 You may call seven to one three two one two 2372 02:07:11.039 --> 02:07:14.199 ktr eight seven one three two one two ktr eighth. 2373 02:07:14.600 --> 02:07:17.399 The folks at Medina have a number of quality products 2374 02:07:17.600 --> 02:07:19.880 and some have been around for a long time. Medina 2375 02:07:19.960 --> 02:07:23.640 Plus is one of the earlier ones. A few years 2376 02:07:23.680 --> 02:07:27.000 after they developed the original, the Medina soil Activator that 2377 02:07:27.199 --> 02:07:30.840 people swear by and have used for decades, literally many 2378 02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:34.319 decades now, they came up with Medina plus. So what 2379 02:07:34.479 --> 02:07:37.399 they basically did is they didn't give up the old product. 2380 02:07:37.439 --> 02:07:42.960 They took Medina Plus and it is fortified essentially with 2381 02:07:43.479 --> 02:07:46.680 micro nutrients and also a seweed extract, and it kind 2382 02:07:46.680 --> 02:07:48.880 of took it up a level, if you will. It 2383 02:07:49.039 --> 02:07:52.439 has all the natural soil building advantages that the Medina 2384 02:07:52.840 --> 02:07:56.239 original Medina Soil Activator had, but it also has these 2385 02:07:56.319 --> 02:07:59.439 extra ingredients. It makes it a good folier feed for plants. 2386 02:07:59.520 --> 02:08:02.199 You can use it on flower, strub, trees, lawns, anything, 2387 02:08:02.479 --> 02:08:05.760 put in a hose, in spread and sprayer and mix 2388 02:08:05.840 --> 02:08:08.840 it up or not mix it up, just it mixes 2389 02:08:08.920 --> 02:08:12.119 it as it applies it to your lawn. Sebet extracts 2390 02:08:12.199 --> 02:08:15.640 helps plants get their maximum growth and you'l potential. It 2391 02:08:15.800 --> 02:08:18.199 enhances a lot of the natural processes in a plant 2392 02:08:18.680 --> 02:08:22.119 that protect against the different kinds of abiotic stresses that 2393 02:08:22.239 --> 02:08:25.479 there are also very efficient in nutrient uptake and use. 2394 02:08:25.560 --> 02:08:28.159 As a result of that, you could use it as 2395 02:08:28.199 --> 02:08:31.359 a root drench to stop slow down the transplant shock 2396 02:08:31.439 --> 02:08:34.439 to kind of alleviate that. You could use it in 2397 02:08:34.640 --> 02:08:37.159 flower beds, small areas. You could use a full of 2398 02:08:37.159 --> 02:08:40.239 your feed. It just has many many uses. It comes 2399 02:08:40.279 --> 02:08:43.239 in a quirk comes in a gallon size Medina plus 2400 02:08:43.560 --> 02:08:47.039 by the folks at Medina, And as with all Medina products, 2401 02:08:47.079 --> 02:08:51.159 they're widely available here in the Greater Houston area. Our 2402 02:08:51.239 --> 02:08:54.039 mom and pop garden centers, our feed stores, our ace 2403 02:08:54.079 --> 02:08:59.439 hardware stores, our Southwest Fertilizer, all of those places are 2404 02:08:59.479 --> 02:09:02.359 going to carry is Medina products. We're gonna We're gonna 2405 02:09:02.359 --> 02:09:06.199 go now out to Friendswood and talk to John. Hey, John, 2406 02:09:06.279 --> 02:09:07.199 welcome to garden Line. 2407 02:09:08.479 --> 02:09:11.319 Hey, good morning, Skip. Thanks for the uh all the 2408 02:09:11.399 --> 02:09:15.600 information about the weather we're dealing with. Listen, I've got 2409 02:09:15.680 --> 02:09:19.119 a question though, uh, kind of going back into the 2410 02:09:19.239 --> 02:09:24.720 fall each year, half of my half my front yard 2411 02:09:26.800 --> 02:09:27.800 I fight fungus. 2412 02:09:28.439 --> 02:09:28.560 Uh. 2413 02:09:29.399 --> 02:09:32.079 The sidewalk goes right down the middle up to the house. 2414 02:09:32.159 --> 02:09:36.760 The left side has fungus, the right side is Christine. 2415 02:09:37.560 --> 02:09:40.439 And I did a lot of reading back in the 2416 02:09:40.520 --> 02:09:44.479 fall and probably confused myself. But something I came across, uh, 2417 02:09:44.760 --> 02:09:48.520 it said that there that maybe in the spring I 2418 02:09:48.600 --> 02:09:53.000 should be putting out some fun, fun fungus side to 2419 02:09:54.680 --> 02:09:59.079 help prepare for the fall. Is is there any truth 2420 02:09:59.159 --> 02:10:02.159 in that or or are there any recommendations that you've 2421 02:10:02.239 --> 02:10:05.920 got for anything? I could do in the in the 2422 02:10:06.039 --> 02:10:10.920 spring to maybe ward off the problems I'm going to 2423 02:10:11.000 --> 02:10:11.800 have in the fall. 2424 02:10:13.760 --> 02:10:17.520 Yeah, well, good question, John, And the answer is there's 2425 02:10:17.520 --> 02:10:21.600 absolutely no truth in that. When you apply a fungicide, 2426 02:10:22.119 --> 02:10:25.359 it is for either what is going on on the 2427 02:10:25.439 --> 02:10:28.560 plant or what is about to attack the plant, not 2428 02:10:29.039 --> 02:10:33.279 for months later like that. There are things. It depends 2429 02:10:33.319 --> 02:10:35.359 on the disease that you're looking at. Are these the 2430 02:10:35.399 --> 02:10:38.800 big brown circles are Does it have a different look? 2431 02:10:40.000 --> 02:10:42.840 No, it's I'm convinced it's brown patch. 2432 02:10:44.760 --> 02:10:48.600 Okay, all right, Well, brown patch is around all year 2433 02:10:49.439 --> 02:10:52.520 and when the conditions are right, which means the temperature 2434 02:10:52.600 --> 02:10:54.600 drops a little bit and we get a lot of 2435 02:10:54.680 --> 02:11:01.199 moisture around the active continual wetness of the grass and runners, 2436 02:11:01.800 --> 02:11:04.279 that's when brown patch attacks, which is why we primarily 2437 02:11:04.359 --> 02:11:06.439 see it in the fall, and also in the spring 2438 02:11:06.560 --> 02:11:08.479 and in the winter. If it's a very mild winter, 2439 02:11:08.560 --> 02:11:09.800 we can get some in the middle of the winter. 2440 02:11:10.439 --> 02:11:12.680 But uh that that is a moment in time, So 2441 02:11:12.800 --> 02:11:14.880 you would have to go just before the brown patch 2442 02:11:14.960 --> 02:11:18.399 of tax and do the application. Then have you ever 2443 02:11:18.520 --> 02:11:23.039 downloaded my lawn pest, Disease and weed management schedule from 2444 02:11:23.079 --> 02:11:23.880 my website by. 2445 02:11:23.760 --> 02:11:27.239 Any chance, Yes, yes, I have that. And I'll tell 2446 02:11:27.239 --> 02:11:29.840 you something that I did this year that that worked 2447 02:11:29.920 --> 02:11:33.159 really well. In one section of the lawn I made, 2448 02:11:33.399 --> 02:11:37.600 I made really careful measurements, and I made sure that 2449 02:11:37.720 --> 02:11:42.640 I was doing the application rate properly, and I tried 2450 02:11:42.720 --> 02:11:46.840 to get that into the soil a little bit earlier 2451 02:11:46.920 --> 02:11:49.800 than I have in previous years. And that part of 2452 02:11:49.840 --> 02:11:53.760 the lawn did really well. It's just this one half 2453 02:11:53.880 --> 02:11:57.039 of the lawn just can't seem to get ahead. 2454 02:11:56.800 --> 02:12:03.000 Of Yeah, and I'll you that that bad area probably 2455 02:12:03.600 --> 02:12:07.319 is either more poorly drained or tends to stay a 2456 02:12:07.359 --> 02:12:09.720 little wetter. I mean that could be because of a 2457 02:12:09.800 --> 02:12:11.520 downspout of the house. That could be because of the 2458 02:12:11.560 --> 02:12:13.920 irrigation system. It could be it just could be a 2459 02:12:13.960 --> 02:12:16.439 heavy clay or whatever that's not draining as well. But 2460 02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:19.399 when when you're telling me that every year this spot 2461 02:12:19.479 --> 02:12:22.600 has it and that spot doesn't, it's the conditions and 2462 02:12:22.720 --> 02:12:26.560 that spot that are predisposing it to disease. Because diseases 2463 02:12:26.680 --> 02:12:35.800 are very environmentally influenced for sure, So figuring out what 2464 02:12:35.960 --> 02:12:39.960 that is and alleviating that would also help in that area. 2465 02:12:40.000 --> 02:12:41.840 But yeah, you follow the schedule, and it you know, 2466 02:12:41.880 --> 02:12:45.520 it tells you in October that's when we're starting the 2467 02:12:45.600 --> 02:12:49.720 brown patch applications. And you know, each year's different. Coldfront 2468 02:12:49.760 --> 02:12:52.600 comes in a little sooner with rain or later with rain, 2469 02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:55.600 and that time can vary. But you want to get 2470 02:12:55.640 --> 02:12:57.039 on brown patch. You want to get on ahead of it, 2471 02:12:57.079 --> 02:13:00.399 because once the circles are there, it's too late. Well 2472 02:13:00.439 --> 02:13:03.000 it's too late to change that circle. It may prevent 2473 02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:06.840 an additional one from forming. I had some one little 2474 02:13:06.840 --> 02:13:09.159 spot in my yard got some circles on it in 2475 02:13:09.359 --> 02:13:12.520 this fall, and then another spot all of a sudden, 2476 02:13:12.560 --> 02:13:14.960 they appeared as we got on into what we would 2477 02:13:14.960 --> 02:13:18.199 call winter. You know, back in December, maybe early January, 2478 02:13:18.880 --> 02:13:21.159 I started seeing a little increase in a spot and 2479 02:13:21.199 --> 02:13:23.600 it's just because of the weather. Yeah. 2480 02:13:23.880 --> 02:13:27.319 Right, listen, here's a real quick question. You can almost 2481 02:13:27.359 --> 02:13:29.920 do a yes or no on this. I'm going out 2482 02:13:30.000 --> 02:13:32.199 later today and do the hand pulling on some weeds 2483 02:13:32.199 --> 02:13:34.079 because we've been out of town for nearly a month. 2484 02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:39.680 But is it too cold to apply something like weed 2485 02:13:39.720 --> 02:13:41.920 beat or ultra to do some spot treating. 2486 02:13:44.199 --> 02:13:44.239 No. 2487 02:13:44.640 --> 02:13:47.039 I was just earlier today, I was talking about that 2488 02:13:47.159 --> 02:13:50.039 if you catch those winter weeds now. They're very visible, 2489 02:13:50.600 --> 02:13:53.600 they're very easy to kill now, and don't wait until 2490 02:13:53.640 --> 02:13:56.279 they're blooming and setting seed or they're harder to kill. 2491 02:13:56.359 --> 02:13:58.479 And maybe even they've got a viable seed. So even 2492 02:13:58.520 --> 02:14:00.479 if you killed the weed, you'd still have this need there. 2493 02:14:01.000 --> 02:14:05.039 So yes, yes, handpling now, spraying now is all viable stuff. 2494 02:14:05.439 --> 02:14:07.760 I wouldn't do it right before the freeze. It would 2495 02:14:07.760 --> 02:14:09.760 be nice for the weed to be happy and growing 2496 02:14:09.840 --> 02:14:12.479 when you spray it to have more effective kill. So 2497 02:14:12.640 --> 02:14:15.359 let's get past this freeze, get get a little bit 2498 02:14:15.439 --> 02:14:17.439 of some temperature up and then spray them. 2499 02:14:18.600 --> 02:14:22.039 Okay, that sounds good. Thanks, thanks so much. 2500 02:14:22.119 --> 02:14:26.560 You stay warm, take care, Thanks sir, you as well. 2501 02:14:26.840 --> 02:14:28.800 I have to run to a break. Nancy and Flint, 2502 02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:33.840 you'll be first up when we come back every time. Hey, 2503 02:14:33.960 --> 02:14:36.159 welcome back to the garden line. Glad to have you 2504 02:14:36.239 --> 02:14:39.600 with us today. Listen, Uh, the cold is coming and 2505 02:14:39.800 --> 02:14:44.399 if you need anything anything to protect you against the 2506 02:14:44.520 --> 02:14:47.319 cold issues that are going to happen to our plants 2507 02:14:47.479 --> 02:14:50.680 for and also on our pets, and also on our 2508 02:14:50.760 --> 02:14:53.880 people and also you know you name it. ACE hardware 2509 02:14:53.960 --> 02:14:57.159 is the place they've got it. ACE is stocked up. 2510 02:14:57.319 --> 02:14:59.760 Do you need frost blanket. Do you need faucet covers? 2511 02:15:00.000 --> 02:15:02.000 You got the freeze meser you screw into an outdoor 2512 02:15:02.039 --> 02:15:05.600 faucet that causes it when it gets freezing to start 2513 02:15:05.680 --> 02:15:08.439 leaking water. Yeah, that's cool, and then when it warms 2514 02:15:08.520 --> 02:15:11.560 up it quits. They have those. They have pipe insulation, 2515 02:15:11.800 --> 02:15:15.920 they have the pipe wrap insulating tape. They also have 2516 02:15:16.600 --> 02:15:19.520 anything you need for generator maintenance kits and things they 2517 02:15:19.560 --> 02:15:22.520 can do that they can. They can get you propane 2518 02:15:22.680 --> 02:15:25.119 for your propane tanks, you know, replace a tank or 2519 02:15:25.159 --> 02:15:27.520 something like that. Maybe you need a fitting effix on one. 2520 02:15:28.039 --> 02:15:32.279 They've got propane heaters out there, electric heaters, fire logs, firewood, 2521 02:15:32.439 --> 02:15:36.680 heat lamps, duct tape, handwarmers, gloves, d iicers, and a freeze. 2522 02:15:36.720 --> 02:15:38.880 I mean, what do you need? Do you need clamp 2523 02:15:38.960 --> 02:15:41.359 lights to heat up a little bit? Heat lights and things? 2524 02:15:41.439 --> 02:15:44.880 They got those. ACE is the place. Remember they say 2525 02:15:44.960 --> 02:15:47.560 the three piece plants, pipes and pets and I'll throw 2526 02:15:47.640 --> 02:15:50.600 people in. They've got gloves to keep your hands warm 2527 02:15:50.760 --> 02:15:53.079 and so on at ACE Hardware. ACE Hardware is all 2528 02:15:53.119 --> 02:15:56.119 over the place, all over the place. You can find 2529 02:15:56.159 --> 02:15:58.880 one near you. For example, go down to Port Levaka, 2530 02:15:58.960 --> 02:16:01.199 and they got an ACE Hardware there. Ace Hardware and 2531 02:16:01.399 --> 02:16:03.880 Sinco Ranch that's someone out there on South Mason Road 2532 02:16:03.960 --> 02:16:07.600 as and Senco Euvaldi As on the east side of Houston, Crosby. 2533 02:16:07.680 --> 02:16:10.520 Ace up in Crosby, just south the Chemo there's Bake 2534 02:16:10.600 --> 02:16:14.000 cliff Ace. I'm telling you they're everywhere. Ace Hardware. That's 2535 02:16:14.079 --> 02:16:16.239 the place to go for everything you need for this 2536 02:16:16.439 --> 02:16:19.279 coming freeze and certainly for caring for your plants and 2537 02:16:19.359 --> 02:16:21.479 things as we come out of the freeze as well. 2538 02:16:22.159 --> 02:16:24.119 I'm going to head out now on the phones. We're 2539 02:16:24.159 --> 02:16:27.079 going to go to Nancy and Flint. Hello Nancy, Welcome 2540 02:16:27.119 --> 02:16:27.800 to Garden Line. 2541 02:16:29.000 --> 02:16:31.520 Jim Lloyd, Yip, I can I tell you real quick. 2542 02:16:31.640 --> 02:16:34.959 Last time we talked to you, asked about where Flint was, 2543 02:16:35.079 --> 02:16:38.399 and I explained, But have you ever heard of nongay onions. 2544 02:16:40.200 --> 02:16:40.600 I have. 2545 02:16:41.680 --> 02:16:45.760 I have plants up there. 2546 02:16:48.200 --> 02:16:54.399 Yeah, you're you're up there between Tyler and Jacksonville kind 2547 02:16:54.440 --> 02:16:55.559 of up that direction. 2548 02:16:55.399 --> 02:16:59.760 Right, Yeah, Palestine and Tyler. It's come on the lake Palestine, 2549 02:17:00.159 --> 02:17:06.000 actually late Palestine, not even really in Palestine, but anyway, Yeah, 2550 02:17:06.040 --> 02:17:08.239 noon day. I means they're around here and they are 2551 02:17:08.319 --> 02:17:10.680 so fabulous. I was going to ask you. We have 2552 02:17:10.760 --> 02:17:14.280 about a three year old mimosa and it's been beautif. 2553 02:17:14.399 --> 02:17:16.319 My husband just pointed out he didn't think that we 2554 02:17:16.479 --> 02:17:19.799 covered it last year and it froze and it didn't 2555 02:17:19.840 --> 02:17:23.319 anything happen. But you know, it's just a little any 2556 02:17:23.399 --> 02:17:27.760 little one trump that goes up there and it just 2557 02:17:27.840 --> 02:17:31.680 looks so thrill. Should we try and do that cheepy 2558 02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:34.000 tent that you were talking about with the heat lamp. 2559 02:17:36.200 --> 02:17:39.559 I couldn't quite hear you sound like you said, mimosa. 2560 02:17:39.799 --> 02:17:40.280 Is that right? 2561 02:17:41.479 --> 02:17:43.799 Yes, yes, three year old lamp mimosa? 2562 02:17:43.920 --> 02:17:44.159 True? 2563 02:17:44.319 --> 02:17:45.840 Okay, it's a true. 2564 02:17:46.040 --> 02:17:49.920 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, mossa uh huh. And it's it's 2565 02:17:50.239 --> 02:17:52.840 if it's small enough to cover like you described. Yeah, 2566 02:17:52.840 --> 02:17:53.799 i'd throw one over it. 2567 02:17:54.159 --> 02:17:54.280 Uh. 2568 02:17:54.479 --> 02:17:57.399 It's going to resprout from the base even if the 2569 02:17:57.479 --> 02:18:00.280 top got killed, and it'd come back pretty quick into 2570 02:18:00.280 --> 02:18:02.319 a little soil or compost around the base of it. 2571 02:18:02.399 --> 02:18:04.719 Make a little mound there, just to be extra sure. 2572 02:18:05.239 --> 02:18:07.239 But you put a good cover over it and a 2573 02:18:07.280 --> 02:18:08.719 little bit of heat. I don't know how you're going 2574 02:18:08.959 --> 02:18:10.399 how cold you're going to get up there, but I 2575 02:18:10.479 --> 02:18:11.959 bet it's in the teens for sure. 2576 02:18:12.760 --> 02:18:15.040 Oh oh yeah, definitely. And we're right on the lake, 2577 02:18:15.120 --> 02:18:17.239 so I mean, I've already got plants. It is frozen 2578 02:18:17.319 --> 02:18:20.000 on my back deck and it has cut to freeze 2579 02:18:20.040 --> 02:18:21.280 because it's really cold. 2580 02:18:22.159 --> 02:18:22.799 Yeah, and. 2581 02:18:24.520 --> 02:18:26.079 I thought I heard you say that you don't have 2582 02:18:26.239 --> 02:18:27.600 to cover azilias. 2583 02:18:30.440 --> 02:18:33.159 In general, we don't worry about it. Any plant that 2584 02:18:33.280 --> 02:18:36.319 would be hardy once it's established is going to be 2585 02:18:36.440 --> 02:18:40.719 less hardy if it's fairly newly planted, has an established thing. 2586 02:18:41.559 --> 02:18:46.200 But you may get some leaf burn on them. Yeah, 2587 02:18:46.280 --> 02:18:48.040 you may get a little bit of splitting of some 2588 02:18:48.200 --> 02:18:52.639 trunk here and there. If the azalias are not hardened 2589 02:18:52.680 --> 02:18:56.040 off properly. If you got some time and some extra cover, 2590 02:18:56.159 --> 02:18:57.879 go ahead and throw one over them, you know, just 2591 02:18:58.000 --> 02:19:01.040 give them a little extra protection. But in general, azos 2592 02:19:01.079 --> 02:19:03.600 are pretty tough, and they grow an area is colder 2593 02:19:03.719 --> 02:19:05.920 than us here and they do. 2594 02:19:06.079 --> 02:19:11.120 Okay, Okay, Well, I've got tons of sheets that I've 2595 02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:14.440 got tons of big plants that I've been using your 2596 02:19:14.559 --> 02:19:17.159 dollar meth. They didn't pull them in the house, but 2597 02:19:17.319 --> 02:19:19.440 it's still a lot of work with the dog. You're 2598 02:19:19.520 --> 02:19:22.639 not But what I don't have to bring me in 2599 02:19:22.760 --> 02:19:25.959 I've been covering. So anyway, Well, thank you so much. 2600 02:19:26.440 --> 02:19:27.399 Well, that's certainly. 2601 02:19:29.000 --> 02:19:32.959 Be here. I'm gonna I'm gonna make my garden raccoon 2602 02:19:33.360 --> 02:19:35.959 proof and they won't get my watermeltons this year. 2603 02:19:36.079 --> 02:19:38.639 There you go, Okay, there you go. 2604 02:19:38.879 --> 02:19:41.600 All right, that sounds like a good plan. Well you 2605 02:19:41.760 --> 02:19:44.200 take care up there. Good luck with all that. And yeah, 2606 02:19:44.239 --> 02:19:46.600 you can throw a cover over those as alis, especially 2607 02:19:46.639 --> 02:19:48.200 if you want to kind of keep the leaves from 2608 02:19:48.239 --> 02:19:51.399 getting burned back and some of the twig damage and stuff. 2609 02:19:51.440 --> 02:19:53.120 You can do that if you want. Thank you, Nancy, 2610 02:19:53.159 --> 02:19:55.360 appreciate the call. Thanks for listening. Tell your friends about 2611 02:19:55.399 --> 02:19:57.440 garden Line and that they can listen online on your 2612 02:19:57.520 --> 02:20:01.000 app like you do. All right, folks, Uh, running out 2613 02:20:01.000 --> 02:20:03.959 of time, We're gonna run up to Bill and Galveston. Hey, Bill, 2614 02:20:04.120 --> 02:20:05.079 welcome to garden Line. 2615 02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:06.159 Nice. 2616 02:20:06.200 --> 02:20:08.239 You've got two questions for you. One is I got 2617 02:20:08.280 --> 02:20:10.440 a bunch of knockout roses down here in Gallus. Do 2618 02:20:10.479 --> 02:20:11.200 I need to cover them? 2619 02:20:14.239 --> 02:20:19.120 Well? If if knockouts will make it through the freeze, okay, Uh, 2620 02:20:19.360 --> 02:20:22.000 if you've got tender new growth roses like to start 2621 02:20:22.040 --> 02:20:24.040 growing when it's still kind of cool, And if you've 2622 02:20:24.040 --> 02:20:26.399 got real succulent tender new growth you can throw the 2623 02:20:26.479 --> 02:20:28.559 cover over just to keep that from getting burned back. 2624 02:20:28.680 --> 02:20:30.520 But even if it does, a rose bush is gonna 2625 02:20:30.520 --> 02:20:33.079 sprop back out and be okay. Uh So if you 2626 02:20:33.200 --> 02:20:35.239 got the time and are able and got new growth, 2627 02:20:35.280 --> 02:20:37.319 I would throw something over them just to be sure. 2628 02:20:37.879 --> 02:20:43.760 But yeah, okay, second question, roses ay far north, I've 2629 02:20:43.760 --> 02:20:44.319 got I've got. 2630 02:20:44.280 --> 02:20:47.319 An orange tree. Yeah, it's too big to cover. I get. 2631 02:20:47.559 --> 02:20:51.319 I'm gonna, you know, wrap the trunk in a blanket, 2632 02:20:51.959 --> 02:20:55.120 but I've got to uh, you know, two lamps in 2633 02:20:55.200 --> 02:20:57.600 it with sixty what incandescent bulbs in it? 2634 02:20:58.079 --> 02:20:59.920 Is that gonna do any good? Or shoul I just forget? Okay, 2635 02:21:01.799 --> 02:21:05.879 not a lot. The sixty white doesn't produce much heat, 2636 02:21:09.319 --> 02:21:12.319 you know. Bottom line is you've got to get all 2637 02:21:12.360 --> 02:21:15.920 the tissues of that tree warmer from the trunk on 2638 02:21:16.159 --> 02:21:18.959 up to the outer branches, and so the covers required 2639 02:21:19.040 --> 02:21:22.639 on that. I can suggest ways to get them covered. 2640 02:21:23.079 --> 02:21:25.239 You know, I don't know, we're kind of getting close 2641 02:21:25.319 --> 02:21:28.639 to the time right now. But if you do, the 2642 02:21:28.719 --> 02:21:33.000 little PVC arches over the plant from at least two directions, 2643 02:21:33.079 --> 02:21:38.719 if not three, you can tie a cord to a tarp. 2644 02:21:38.959 --> 02:21:41.799 The little gramits and a tarp, and with a little 2645 02:21:41.799 --> 02:21:44.040 bit of a pole, you can literally pull that tarp 2646 02:21:44.079 --> 02:21:46.799 all the way over a pretty good sized tree. You know, 2647 02:21:47.280 --> 02:21:49.079 you can guide it over there. You don't have to 2648 02:21:49.120 --> 02:21:50.959 get up on a ladder and literally be as high 2649 02:21:50.959 --> 02:21:53.479 as the tree to pull it over and then secure 2650 02:21:53.520 --> 02:21:56.440 it down. And anything you do like that is going 2651 02:21:56.479 --> 02:21:59.440 to help a little bit. So I hope that, hope 2652 02:21:59.479 --> 02:22:04.360 that helps. Okay, thanks so much. All right, good luck 2653 02:22:04.440 --> 02:22:07.879 with that. There you go. I think I'm out of time. 2654 02:22:09.120 --> 02:22:11.959 I think I hear music starting to play. I think 2655 02:22:12.040 --> 02:22:14.280 garden Line's done for today. We'll be back next week. 2656 02:22:14.600 --> 02:22:18.559 Good luck making it through this coldest spell of our 2657 02:22:19.000 --> 02:22:22.879 winter season this year. We hope all things do well. 2658 02:22:23.719 --> 02:22:26.399 Just remember you can garden indoors, you can garden outdoors, 2659 02:22:26.479 --> 02:22:31.280 but have where you garden, have fun. Gardening is for fun. 2660 02:22:32.079 --> 02:22:37.799 It's mental and physical healing and it's just fun. All right, folks, 2661 02:22:38.239 --> 02:22:40.559 Thanks for listening in today. Glad to have you. Remember 2662 02:22:40.600 --> 02:22:43.360 you can go to my website gardening with Skip dot com. 2663 02:22:43.520 --> 02:22:47.120 Gardening with Skip dot Com. Lots of publications are available 2664 02:22:47.200 --> 02:22:50.280 up there, and I'm adding more all the time. We're 2665 02:22:50.280 --> 02:22:53.559 gonna be adding some more information just shortly here, I 2666 02:22:53.639 --> 02:22:56.280 got a couple of publications and adopted stick up there 2667 02:22:56.319 --> 02:22:58.440 on the website to help you I have a more 2668 02:22:58.479 --> 02:23:01.079 boutiful garden, the more beautiful escape and we find in 2669 02:23:01.159 --> 02:23:01.520 the glass