WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:06.280 Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Richard's. 2 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:08.800 Crazy here. 3 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:13.000 Gas can trip. 4 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:21.519 Just watch him as well. Go There are so many 5 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:22.239 good things to. 6 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:29.839 Super brasy gas cans back again. 7 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:38.159 You're not sorry the sun beamon of. 8 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:41.679 A dreams. 9 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:47.159 Can starting. 10 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:52.200 Hey, good morning, good morning on a good Sunday morning. 11 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:56.439 Glad you're listening to us today on garden Line. Okay, 12 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:58.600 t r H. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we've 13 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.039 got plenty to talk about today. First of all, let 14 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:03.960 me get right to business here. If you would like 15 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:05.799 to give us a call today to ask a gardening 16 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:10.760 question seven one three two one two five eight seven 17 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.920 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 18 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:21.879 I have been working outside in my garden taking care 19 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.760 of some things, battling some nutsedge. I know we've talked 20 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.719 about that a lot lately, but you know, if you 21 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:29.599 stay on it, you can win the battle. If you 22 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:32.719 happen to be struggling with nuts edge or also called 23 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.439 nut grass, although it's not a grass. You just go 24 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:39.280 to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. I've put 25 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:43.040 some free stuff up there for you to read. Understand 26 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:47.040 the enemy if you will, We're going to go ahead 27 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.959 and call this a battle. You are at war within nutsedge. 28 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.640 And as you understand the different types of nutsedge, how 29 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.239 they grow, what they do, it helps you to get 30 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.640 ahead of it and control it. That's the problem most 31 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:02.480 people now here. All the time people say things like, 32 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:04.640 well I've tried that, it didn't work. Well, there's a 33 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.920 reason for that, and it's either because you're using the 34 00:02:07.959 --> 00:02:13.400 wrong product or at the wrong time, and or not 35 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.560 sticking with it. Those three things are the things that 36 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.680 help you lose against nutsedge. And this is the deal. 37 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:22.199 No matter how good you control it, no matter what 38 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.599 you do, great product, great timing, it's like it all 39 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.919 goes away and you know it's going to pop back up. 40 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:32.680 If you don't stay on it, it just replenishes its reserves. 41 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:37.319 It even creates more nuts underground, more tubers underground, and 42 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.960 you just get to start over. So go online, go 43 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.159 to gardeningwiskip dot com. There is a couple of nuts 44 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.120 edge publications there. One of them is a one page sheet, 45 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.879 another one it says nuts edge that it's like a 46 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:54.680 three page sheet. It's more of an in depth look 47 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:58.000 is the title. And then there's one called Herbicides for 48 00:02:58.159 --> 00:02:59.960 use with skips weed wiper and how to build a 49 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:03.120 weed wiper, and in some situations when that says that 50 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:10.080 weed wiper is important, it is effective in helping you 51 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.759 manage that saige without hurting the plants around it. So 52 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:15.680 just some things to think about for those of you 53 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.800 dealing with that particular particular pest. And I do feel 54 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.919 your pain. Another thing I've been running into a lot. 55 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:27.319 Really this is something that just goes on all the 56 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.759 time during the growing season, but lately it just seems 57 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:35.199 like I'm getting even more questions about take all root rot. Now, 58 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.560 they don't always come as a question about take off sometimes, 59 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:40.840 you know, it's just like my lawn's dying. Wise my 60 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:45.360 lawn dying, and but it ends up being take all 61 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.120 being the cause. And I'm going to talk off and 62 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:51.479 on today, probably through some of your questions as well 63 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:55.199 about what what do we do, what's going on there, 64 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.400 and how do we battle it, Because there are plant 65 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:04.639 diseases that weakened plants, that disfigure plants brown patch or 66 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:09.319 large patch, for example. It will rop the leaves off 67 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:11.719 the runner, creating those big circles, but the runners are 68 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:14.319 still alive and they regreen when the weather worms up. 69 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.680 Would take all root rot. It kills, it takes all 70 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.879 and it rots the roots. And a plant can't live 71 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:24.199 without roots. And so that's one of probably the elephant 72 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:26.319 in the room when it comes to turf health, I 73 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:30.639 would say is take all root rot, much more widespread 74 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:36.439 and ongoing and a bigger concern even than things like 75 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:41.600 side webworms and and chinchbugs. For example. It's a biggie 76 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.240 and we're still dealing with it a lot around here. 77 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:46.519 Our phone number is seven one three two one two 78 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:48.439 k t r H. If you'd like to give us 79 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.959 a call. I want to make a couple of statements though, 80 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:56.600 also about tree issues. People are concerned about the health 81 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.639 of their trees, and they should be. You know, a 82 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:01.600 tree adds a lot of value to your property, and 83 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:05.519 a tree is a can be a huge, huge plant 84 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.040 that grows slowly over time and develops either a strong 85 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:13.000 or a weak structure. If it's prune properly, you can 86 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.279 have a tree that lives for decades upon decades upon decades, 87 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:20.839 goes a very long time, longer than we're around. But 88 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.480 if it's pruned improperly, or if it's not cared for 89 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.399 right or other issues that can happen. Training trained right 90 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:31.759 in a good strong form, then that what I just 91 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.639 said about it being a long lived changes and it 92 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.959 suddenly becomes not so long lived and you're spending a 93 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.519 lot of money on it because a limb is broken 94 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:45.680 off following the house or just you know, ruined the 95 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:50.399 structure of that tree. Well. Affordable Tree Service Martin spoon Moore. 96 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:54.000 He is our go to guy for dealing with tree issues, 97 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:59.560 from pruning him properly to begin with, to dealing with 98 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.879 prune so that storms don't have the same effect that 99 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:05.759 they might have had on that tree, creating a stronger structure, 100 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:10.040 helping with the effects of wind, and helping a tree 101 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:13.160 be more resilient against that. Martin Spoon Moore's number, and 102 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:14.879 you ought to write this down, just keep it with you. 103 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.319 It's seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty 104 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.800 three and I'll give that again seven to one three 105 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:26.160 six nine nine two six six three. Don't wait until 106 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.360 a fall storm, you know with high winds, takes down 107 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:33.199 a stress tree. Give Martin a call. There's a lot 108 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:35.040 that can be done ahead of time. And you also 109 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:40.519 go to his website. Aff Tree Service dot com. Afftree 110 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.560 Service dot com. He does all kinds of things with trees, 111 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.079 not just pruning them. He can advise you on a 112 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.680 lot of issues that help you maintain good, healthy trees. 113 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:52.959 And that again, it's not just the value to your home, 114 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:55.160 it's it's the value to your lifestyle. You know, that 115 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.000 beautiful tree that's shading the roof and maybe saving on 116 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.319 the electric bill, or shading that patty area you're enjoying, 117 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:05.160 and now the blazing sun is baking down on it 118 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.319 because of the loss of a tree or a major limb. 119 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:10.439 We're going to avoid those things, and proper care along 120 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.639 the way is one of the key elements in avoiding 121 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:17.759 those sort of things. I was at at the Arburgate Nursery. 122 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:21.160 Oh gosh, this has been a couple of weeks now, 123 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.639 I guess a couple of weeks ago. I always stopped 124 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:26.199 by our garden centers and see what's going on, what 125 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.639 they have and how things are going. And boy, it's 126 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:30.879 beautiful out there. I mean they are set up for fall. 127 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:33.720 They've got all kinds of you know, Arbrogates always got 128 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.519 their gift shops and all the I call it lens 129 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.560 Gate bling. You know, when you walk through you see 130 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:40.000 all the kinds of things you can put out in 131 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.120 your yard to beautify or to signal the seasons, like 132 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:47.240 we're coming into the fall season with all harvest themes, 133 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:51.279 with Halloween themes, you know, Thanksgiving things. They've got all 134 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.199 kinds of stuff like that all the time. And now 135 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.240 Arbrogate is up there in tom Ball. It's west to 136 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.560 tom Ball about half a mile from Tomball Parkway two 137 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.279 forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. I just encourage 138 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:04.920 you to go buy and check it out while you're there. 139 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.600 Get their one two three completely easy system. That's a 140 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.639 soil for anything with roots, that is a compost, and 141 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.199 that is a very quality mult as well. And I 142 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.279 think that if you start with that and bring it home, 143 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:19.000 when you bring home your plants, you're going to have 144 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.759 good Sunday morning, Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to 145 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.000 have you with us today. We have plenty of talk about, 146 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.199 you know, going into commercial ops some of our Arbigates 147 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.639 one two three completely easy system. And I think I 148 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:32.480 heard myself echoing in my head after I went to 149 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.559 commercial that I said, the one two three has a 150 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.080 is one of the of them is a multch and 151 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.559 it's not I said that wrong. We're talking about an 152 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:44.759 organic food Complete. That's a fertilizer that is a slow 153 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.519 release organic type fertilizer loaded with microbes as well, including 154 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:52.399 the microhizal fungi that work in connection with plant roots. 155 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.919 It's the organic soil complete and the organic compost complete. 156 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.039 One thing that's kind of cool about those last two products. 157 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:02.159 You know, whenever you or adding good quality organic matter, 158 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:05.639 whenever you're including things that like expanded shale and that's 159 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:11.559 in and arburgates one two three system, the soil benefits 160 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:15.360 go longer term, and so it's not just like you're 161 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.919 doing something that is good right now. It's like you're 162 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.600 doing something that builds the soil and it gets better 163 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:22.720 and better, and it's like a snowball going down a hill. 164 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:24.840 When you start to open up the soil and you 165 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:29.639 start to get oxygen in, it invigorates microbial activity down 166 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.279 in the root system and roots thrive better. And when 167 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:36.159 roots thrive better, it improves the soil. Just in that way, 168 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:40.360 toots exude substances that feed microbes and the roots themselves 169 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:43.080 open up the soil. So it's like you begin doing 170 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.559 things that are helping and it just gets better in 171 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.120 other ways. Do you see what I'm saying? And so 172 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.000 anytime we're working with our soil, we can have that 173 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:55.279 effect on plants. You hear me all the time say, 174 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.080 you know, spend a dollar on your soil before you 175 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:00.879 spend a dollar on your plants, or spend a dollar 176 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:02.720 on your soil at the same time you're spending a 177 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:03.759 dollar on your plants. 178 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:04.279 Uh. 179 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:07.639 And anytime that you're going to take a wonderful plant home, 180 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.600 whether it's a tomato, a flower, a tree, a shrub, 181 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:16.039 whatever your plant is, make sure you're also before that 182 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.360 plant goes in the ground, improving the condition of your soil, 183 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.960 because that's the secrets of success. It really is. I 184 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.440 like to say it this way. Plants live in their roots, 185 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:29.639 meaning as the root system goes, so goes the plant. 186 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:32.759 And if you've got the most wonderful plant in the 187 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:38.279 world and its roots cannot expand cannot get oxygen, don't 188 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:40.799 have the nutrients that they need to take up, that 189 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:43.120 plant is not going to go anywhere. And it's so 190 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:46.080 easy to fix up. If you'd like to give us 191 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.200 a call here on garden Line, it's seven one three, two, 192 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.919 one two, five eight seven four seven, one three, two 193 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.879 one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, talking about 194 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:03.639 improving things in your garden, and you're looking at one 195 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.320 place kind of a one stop shop for everything you 196 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:12.279 could need for insects, diseases and weeds, for nutrients, for fertilizer, 197 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:18.039 nutrients for tools. Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston is that place. 198 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:20.440 If they don't have it, you don't need it. That's 199 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.480 kind of how I like to put it, because I 200 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:24.200 don't care what you need. You hear me talking on 201 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.879 gardenline and I say, well, this fertilizer is what you need, 202 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:28.919 or go buy this product, or go you need to 203 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.159 kill that weed with this, or you need to you 204 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.919 know whatever, organic or synthetic. They have it all at 205 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.519 Southwest Fertilizer. Bob has you know, made sure that his 206 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.720 store just continues to be the one stop shop. Pardon me, 207 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:49.840 and in the Southwest been around since nineteen fifty five. 208 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:51.840 I mean that's a long time for a business to 209 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.919 be around, and yet it's still going strong, stronger than ever, 210 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.559 I would say, And it's because of that. In the service, 211 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:00.320 you know, you walk in there with a sam you 212 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.120 walk in there with a picture and you show it 213 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:04.240 to some of the team there and say, hey, what 214 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.080 is this? What do I do? And they can help 215 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.639 you and provide you with the thing that's going to work, 216 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:12.679 as well as advice on how to use it and 217 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:16.440 what to do, And that alone is worth it. You know. 218 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:18.799 They have that kneeling bench I keep talking about there. 219 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.200 It's one of my top five favorite tools. It folds up. 220 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.159 You can flip it one way and sit on it 221 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:26.360 and work in the garden. You can flip the other 222 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:28.559 way and kneel down and the legs willcome handles for 223 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.639 getting back up. If you're north of forty you know 224 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.080 what I'm talking about. When up and down, the up 225 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:38.000 and down, it can really make you soar the next morning. 226 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:39.440 It's a great twet. You got to check it out 227 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.080 while you're there. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is the website 228 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.600 that's easy. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com the location corner of 229 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.200 Bissonette and Runwick, easy to get to. I don't care 230 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.080 where you live in town. It's worth a trip over 231 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.399 to Southwest Fertilizer just because they have it all right there. 232 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:00.519 We're going to head out now to Cyprus, Texas. And 233 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.120 I believe we're going to talk to Melanie this morning. 234 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.360 Good morning, Melanie, Good morning, Skip. How are you today, 235 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:10.399 I'm doing well, good day. 236 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:11.639 Good day. 237 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:11.840 Well. 238 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:15.639 Thought i'd catch you first thing this morning because we 239 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:17.799 bought a couple of lots up in the hill country 240 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:21.600 in Atlanto, Texas, and they, you know, haven't had any 241 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:25.559 activity on it, but the thorns or stickers or whatever 242 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.559 they are, they are just covered in these lots. I 243 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:29.759 don't even know where to begin. 244 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.519 What do you recommend when you tell me a little 245 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:37.320 more more about the plants. We're probably talking about a 246 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:39.279 lot of different kinds of plants when you say thorns 247 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.039 and stickers. 248 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.639 No, they've had it mode. They've kept it mode down. 249 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:51.240 But it's just I mean, I walked out. There's a 250 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.200 little house on it too, and we're working on it. 251 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.799 I walked out in my socks, and oh my goodness, 252 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:03.919 they became full of stickers, craspers, grasspers, yeah, grassbers yeah. 253 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:07.240 And I've never dealt with this before. 254 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:14.639 Okay, Graspers yeah, grasspers thrive and droughty soil in poor 255 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:18.720 in poor soil conditions, and if it's if it's like 256 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:21.799 a yard area, fertilizing is one of the steps toward 257 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:24.080 getting out of grasspers, you know, getting your lawn thicker 258 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:27.759 if it's out in the pasture. Uh, you know, depending 259 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.799 on the grass, it's probably not going to be practical 260 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:34.200 to try to fertilize a pasture. But premer pre emergent 261 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:37.559 herbicides can prevent that. They sprout in the in the spring. 262 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:40.559 They're a little bit later spout than some other weeds. 263 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:42.919 I'm thinking here, Atlanta, I'm going to give you my 264 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:45.960 best guests for Lanto. Knowing where that is, I would 265 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.480 say you probably need to get the pre emergent down 266 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:53.320 by by the first of March, probably up there, just 267 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.960 to be sure you're ahead of them. But emergent for 268 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:00.120 grassy weeds, you know, stuff like the barricade that U 269 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:04.559 nitroposs has here, spreading that out over a large area. 270 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:08.080 There are other pre emergent ingredients, so we'll control grasspers, 271 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:12.240 but getting ahead of them before they sprout, probably going 272 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:15.000 to need to, maybe sixty days after you do the 273 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:18.480 first one, do it again, because graspers will sprout all summer, 274 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.200 and any product breaks down in time and it doesn't 275 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:22.200 keep working all year. 276 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:26.519 So what happened to them, what happens in the winter time. 277 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:28.720 Do they just go away or watch it? 278 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:33.240 They die? They do die after spending after spending the 279 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.159 season making a lot more graspper seeds for next year. 280 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.279 And so that's why preventing is so important, because if 281 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.080 you mow the grasppers that are up high, when you mow, 282 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.759 the plant starts to set the grasspers down lower and 283 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.799 so it still has seed heads. And so I would 284 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.000 I would recommend that if there's anything you can do 285 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.399 to improve that area, like I said, fertilizing or or whatever, 286 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.840 that that is helpful. Because the things that compete with graspers, 287 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:08.679 like like grasses, you give the grasses the head start 288 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:11.200 on the birds. But that would be it. You have 289 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:16.440 a County Agrolife Extension office there in Lantouh, and I 290 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:18.519 don't know the agent's name, but you have an ag 291 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.000 agent there who deals with pastures and things, and if 292 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.320 you talk to him guide you a little bit further. 293 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.879 My timing might be a little bit off that. That's definitely. 294 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:30.360 You know, spring comes later up there than it does here. 295 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:33.840 But it's pretty pretty close to Austin, and I used 296 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.039 to work in Austin, so I'm thinking which first is 297 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:37.679 a good time. 298 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:42.919 I will certainly try that. Nobody has grass in their 299 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.240 yards very much up there because it's so dry, so 300 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:50.039 I don't I used to I have beautiful grass, and 301 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:51.240 I don't know what I'm going to do with this, 302 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.120 but I'll try that. Calling the County Extension and see 303 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:55.519 if I can get some help from them too. 304 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.039 Yeah, they're doing you can. You can have beautiful grass 305 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:02.080 up there. You know, it depends on if you want 306 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:04.119 the kind of lawn you're used to down in the 307 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:10.400 Houston area. That would be something like Zoezia or Saint Augustine. Okay, 308 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:13.440 if you want to cut back on watering a little bit, 309 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:18.480 then or Bermuda might be your best choices. But just 310 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:21.440 know that even a drop tolerant lawn, when you don't water, 311 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:25.039 it doesn't look good and so it may survive, it 312 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:28.599 doesn't look good. And if you want to go more native, 313 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.759 you know, there's things like buffalo grass that that could 314 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:34.559 be planted. That's a whole different monster. And think of 315 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:39.880 it more as kind of a Western native looking mini meadows. 316 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:46.480 Describe buffalo Okay, I'll try to figure out which one 317 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:48.039 may do the best up there. May have to do 318 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.480 some research on it, but I appreciate your help. I'll 319 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:51.559 try that pre emergent. 320 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:53.880 All right. While you're up there, you got to go 321 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:57.279 eat dinner or lunch at the Badou House. That's stop 322 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:59.880 by Cooper's Barbecue. You're not gonna find oh Cooper. 323 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.000 I know they got a lot of barbecue up there. 324 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.680 Between Cooper's and inman Boy, they get a lot. 325 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:06.960 Of business there. 326 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.279 You go, all right, thank you, Skip, Okay, bye. 327 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:13.680 Bye, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that you're listening to 328 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:16.160 Guarden Line. I'm your host. Skip Richter our phone number 329 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:19.920 seven one three two one two kt r H. Seven 330 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:24.160 one three two one two kt r H. If you 331 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:27.160 haven't done your summer fertilizing yet, you still can put 332 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:30.839 down nitrofass Superturf. Superturf is a slow release fertilizer. It's 333 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:35.400 a nineteen four to ten ratio product, nineteen four to 334 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:39.920 ten and that nineteen it's nitrogen. It's going to gradually 335 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:43.680 release over a long time, and that slow release spreads 336 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.519 out the mowing. It avoids the flushes of nitrogen that 337 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:50.559 can cause issues with our turf when we overdo it. 338 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:52.839 You're going to find super turf in places like Growers 339 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.519 Outlet up there in willis Enchented Forest Nursery down in 340 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.440 the Richmond Rosenberg area and RCW Nursery up on I 341 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:05.200 five North, Night five super Turf. It's easy to find 342 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:07.839 in the store because it's the silver bag. I mean, 343 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:09.880 walk in the front door, look at all the fertilizer 344 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:12.640 from across the store, and you know right where the 345 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:16.440 superturf is with that silver bag really really stands out. 346 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:21.480 Makes it easy. If you had thought it, not thought 347 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.200 about a vegetable gardening this fall, I would encourage you 348 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:26.359 to do that. And a lot of people, you know, 349 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:28.880 they when they think of vegetable gardening, they think of, well, 350 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:32.039 I've got a big this build this big garden and 351 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:34.799 rototil and all this kind of stuff, and I don't 352 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:36.920 have room for it. There's not a big enough sunny spot. 353 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.200 A vegetable garden can be like a little race bed somewhere. 354 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:44.319 It can be a container on your patio. You can 355 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:48.359 grow broccoli and all kinds of healthy grains for salads 356 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.359 and smoothies and any however you go about your cuisine. 357 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.039 You can do all that on a patio. You just 358 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.880 need a good container of good size that drains well. 359 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:00.880 With some quality soil mix, and you're in business, and 360 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:03.640 I encourage you to try that this fall. That would 361 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.160 be the challenge of the day on garden Line. All right, 362 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:08.759 we're going to take a break and we'll be right back. 363 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.799 Houston's News. Why there, we're traffic plus breaking news. 364 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.240 Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. I'm your host, 365 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.720 Skip Richter. We're here to answer gardening questions. In other words, 366 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:25.640 we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden 367 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:28.160 and a more beautiful landscape. That is what I would 368 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:30.759 like to accomplish. Oh and one other thing, to have 369 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:34.319 fun in the process of doing it. Gardening should be fun. Listen, 370 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:37.039 this is not a life or death thing. You know. 371 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:39.440 It's not the days where if we had crop failure 372 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:43.240 we starved to death. But you can have a lot 373 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:45.799 of fun and improve your health with gardening. You it's 374 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:50.039 exercise outside. We know now that just our sedentary lifestyles 375 00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:53.799 are a major cause of long term health problems that 376 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:55.799 we run into. We also know that if you work 377 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:58.440 in a cubicle in an office, just getting up every 378 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:01.039 thirty minutes, walking around a second, sitting back down has 379 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.839 a huge benefit. Well, gardening gives you that and more. 380 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:07.240 It also gives you fresh sunshine, a peace of mind. 381 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.279 There's just a connection with nature that benefits us. It 382 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:14.079 also can give us. I was just talking about do 383 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:16.200 a fall garden this year. It can give you fresh 384 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:20.480 healthy produce. Just eating more good, fresh, healthy produce is 385 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:25.519 very helpful to our health. I have a number of 386 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:29.599 different things in my garden. I'm always experimenting with something. Well. 387 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:34.240 Some people would say something weird, but I don't. I 388 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.200 I like making smoothies in the morning. That's my breakfast 389 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:40.839 of choice. I've got a little, great little blender that 390 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:44.440 can chop anything up, and I make a smoothie. You know, 391 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:47.240 throw some fruit in there, protein powder, whatever kinds of 392 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:49.920 supplements you want to throw in it. And then I'm 393 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:51.720 always throw in some stuff from out in the garden. 394 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:54.240 Right now in the garden, I've got some things that 395 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:55.720 I met a lot of you haven't even heard of. 396 00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:59.319 I have some malabar some people call it malobar spinach, 397 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:04.119 and it is very summer tolerant that goes into a smoothie. 398 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:08.680 I have some okra, and yes, I'll put a little 399 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:10.799 okra pot or two into a smoothie. It helps thicken 400 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:14.799 them up. Oka has that effect when it touches water, 401 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.160 and you don't taste okra when you have your smoothie. 402 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.920 You just don't. I have some maringa. Maringa is a 403 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:26.759 little tree that is kind of a I would call 404 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.359 it a perennial here, and that it often can die 405 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:33.400 way back in a cold but it then comes right 406 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:35.559 back out of the ground the next year, and leaves 407 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:38.480 are kind of a nutty, nutty sort of flavor. I 408 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:41.759 like them anyway, Throw some of that in there. Oh gosh. 409 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:43.839 There's a lot of other things, certainly in the cool season. 410 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:48.160 You know, Kale and whatnot can go into a smoothie 411 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:50.680 and improve on it. Spinach can go into smoothie and 412 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:53.559 improve on it. But I just am always trying some 413 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:57.200 different things. Molekhia is a green that trop popular, especially 414 00:22:57.200 --> 00:22:59.759 in the Middle East and other in that general region 415 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:03.079 of the world. There's a lot of popularity for it. 416 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.079 It also can thicken up a smoothie and goes really well. 417 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:09.079 So there's a lot of things you can grow. And 418 00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:10.960 you know, if you think about it, I could make 419 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:13.880 a smoothie with just protein powder and maybe some strawberries 420 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:17.359 or blueberries or something. But by throwing in all those greens, 421 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:19.839 it doesn't mess up this moothie. It does make the 422 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.960 color a little less appetizing. When you mix green and 423 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:27.599 red together, you get brown. That's how the colors work. 424 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:30.359 But I don't care about that. You know, turn off 425 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.599 the lights and drink your smoothie. Hush, turn off the 426 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:35.559 lights and drink your smoothie. It's good stuff. It's good 427 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:37.880 for your health. That's just what I'm saying. Gardening is 428 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:41.559 good for your health, and it should be fun. If 429 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:44.319 you're driving up to your place and you have to 430 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:46.920 close your eyes driving in the driveway because of the 431 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:50.079 way it looks from the road on the front. And 432 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:52.559 I know, sometimes our places get looking kind of rough. 433 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:56.440 You got to get piercescapes. To call piercescapes is. They're 434 00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:01.559 professionals at turning landscapes into something real, beautiful and magical. 435 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:05.559 They do all the stuff that you need done. Do 436 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:07.880 you need a hard, hard escape? Do you know a 437 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.920 rock pathway? Do you want an outdoor barbecue? Ay? Do 438 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:14.359 you want outdoor lighting? You would you like to create 439 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:18.759 a better drainage in an area that drains poorly? Is 440 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:21.960 your irrigation system on the blinky all that and more. 441 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:26.799 Go to pierce Scapes dot com pierscapes dot com. That's 442 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.279 their website and you can see pictures of the kind 443 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:32.720 of work that they can do. So whether you just 444 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:34.559 need a little bit of work done, or whether you 445 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:37.920 want to revamp the whole place into something stunning, you 446 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:40.920 can call Pierscapes and they can do it. Pierscapes dot com. 447 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:43.440 Here's a phone number right this time, give them a 448 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:46.799 call this week two eight one three seven oh fifty 449 00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:52.119 sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero. 450 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:55.440 They also do quarterly service, so if you when you 451 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.680 drive up at those flower beds are full of weeds 452 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:00.559 or the mult is getting thin or anything, they can 453 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:03.839 come in for a quarterly service. They meltch, they get 454 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:06.480 take care of weeds, they check the irrigation, they do 455 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:09.759 any trimming that's necessary. When the seasons change and you 456 00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:12.079 need some new color plants in there, they'll do that 457 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:16.680 seasonal change. They'll melt all at Peerscapes perscapes dot com. 458 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:20.160 Go see them. We got to be proud of our places, 459 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:22.160 you know, and whether we whether you do it all 460 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:24.079 at once or whether you do things a little bit 461 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:28.759 at a time. Get out there and continue to improve 462 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.480 your landscape in ways that you like. This is your place, 463 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:35.279 what do you want to look at? If you need 464 00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:38.319 some help with that, you can certainly there's a lot 465 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.640 of places where you can get designed suggestions, design help. 466 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:45.200 If you're doing it yourselfer, we can recommend plants here 467 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:50.359 on guard Line for you. In general, our landscapes should 468 00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:55.680 have a very natural, balanced look. Evergreens not just all 469 00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:57.279 on one side of the house. So in the winter, 470 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:02.880 oh that's lopsided. Same with blooming plants, blooming trees. You 471 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.000 should think about the four seasons when you landscape. 472 00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:06.599 What is your. 473 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:08.720 Landscape going to look like? That's fall? I mean just 474 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:11.880 ask yourself that. Do you have anything that hasn't bloomed 475 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:14.079 all year but in fall it takes off in blooms. 476 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:18.599 That's part of that four season approach. Maybe I'll talk 477 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.359 about here a little bit some of the things that 478 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:24.960 you can plant that are good fall blooming plants. So 479 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:27.640 stay tuned for that. I'll come back to that one. 480 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:30.839 And Chanted Forest is a garden center down in the 481 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:35.559 Richmond Rosenberg area that you will love visiting. And Chended 482 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:38.799 Forest is out on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So 483 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:41.319 if you're in Richmond and you're going to head up 484 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:43.440 towards sugar line of fifty nine, it's off to the 485 00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:46.640 right on twenty seven to fifty nine. It is a 486 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:51.279 wonderful place. They always have whatever the latest plants are 487 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:54.119 for the season, they're going to have that. So like 488 00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:58.039 right now, herbs for fall planting, the fall vegetable garden. 489 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:01.960 They're stocked up fall color and flowers, fall decorations for 490 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:06.440 the landscape. Fall is for planting, so shrubs and trees 491 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:09.880 and ornamental grasses and perennial flowers. They've got all that. 492 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.240 They're at Chended Forest. They always have programs going on 493 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.319 in the fall and spring season. Just go to their website. 494 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:25.759 It's Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, 495 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.240 TX dot com. And when you go there, first of all, 496 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.559 it's a wonderful website, but you'll be able to connect 497 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.119 with what's going on, what's in season. You know what 498 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:39.319 do they have right now? It's always the new shipment 499 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:43.079 coming on out there, more great decor for fall, you 500 00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:45.960 name it, they've got it. Enchanted Forest. And you haven't 501 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.079 been there, you owe yourself a trip out there this 502 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:50.720 afternoon be a good time to do it, as a 503 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:54.279 matter of fact. And when you go, take some friends 504 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:57.359 with you because it is a fun, fun place to visit. 505 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.400 I always like going out there visiting with Danny and Clay 506 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.799 and the whole team that enchanted for us. You are 507 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.160 listening to garden Line phone number here if you'd like 508 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:08.799 to give us a call. We're about to go to break, 509 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:10.519 but you can get on the on the board and 510 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.319 be first up when we come back. Seven to one 511 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:15.839 three two one two k t rh at seven one 512 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:19.319 three two one two k t r H. You know 513 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:23.160 yesterday was National Hummingbird Day? Did you know that? That's right? 514 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.599 Hummingbirds asked me to remind you. I'm just reminding you again. 515 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:30.839 So it is past time. It's time to get your 516 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.720 hummingbird feeders out there. Uh, get them set up and 517 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:36.720 they will show up. If you build it, they will 518 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:40.119 come well. Wibirds Unlimited is the place to go for 519 00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:43.079 anything birds and certainly for hummingbirds too. You know, do 520 00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:46.519 you need a bird bath? Do you need a certain 521 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:49.559 kinds of bird feed for In the case of hummingbirds, 522 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:53.319 they have some special little mixes that are slower you know, 523 00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:55.759 when you put sugar water in a hummingbird feeder after 524 00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:58.319 a few days in very warm temperatures, it gets kind 525 00:28:58.319 --> 00:28:59.920 of nasty, and so we always have to put something 526 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.759 rush in there. Well, they have those kinds of feeds, 527 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.559 and they have a feeder that you really need to get. 528 00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.519 It's my favorite hummingbird feeder and I have several the 529 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:12.400 high perch hummingbird feeder from Wallbirds Unlimited. Go try it out. 530 00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:16.519 WBU dot com forward slash Houston. That is the website 531 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:21.319 where you can find the six Wabirds Unlimited stores near you. 532 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:23.480 And I guess what I'm going to be doing. I'm 533 00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:27.200 going to be going to a wild Bird's Unlimited store 534 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:32.400 this next Saturday. I'll be at the Wallbird's Unlimited store 535 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:39.799 out in excuse me, pardon me, good night, Warbird's Unlimited 536 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:44.680 store on El Dorado Boulevard out there in south east 537 00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:46.680 part of Houston. I'll talk about that more when I 538 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:51.319 come back. Good morning, Welcome back to the garden line. 539 00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:53.640 Going in to break there. I was talking about birds 540 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.480 and hummingbirds specifically, but you know right now, not just 541 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:01.160 hummingbirds are coming through, but Baltimore orioles on their migration 542 00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:04.240 as well. They'll be migrating through our area the entire 543 00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:08.119 month of September and really on endo October. Beautiful little 544 00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:11.079 birds with their yellow and black markings or almost orangey 545 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:14.599 yellow and black. They are gorgeous and you can track 546 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:18.559 those to your place with the proper bird seed and feeders, 547 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:21.440 so be on the lookout for those. By the way, 548 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:24.640 the Wolbird's next Saturday, I want to remind you again, 549 00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:29.720 Wibird's next saturday'll be there from clear Lake City Wallbird Unlimited, 550 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.920 clear Lake City, southeast of Houston. I'll be there from 551 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.279 eleven thirty to one thirty. Now, if you don't know 552 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:39.440 where that is, you can go online to whatwbu dot 553 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:42.799 com forward slash Houston to find all the stores. But 554 00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:47.519 this particular one is clear Lake Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard, 555 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:51.559 that intersection clear Lake City Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard, 556 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:54.000 so it's really easy to find. They're going to be 557 00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:56.480 given away a number of different things. They've got that 558 00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:59.319 hummingbird nectar with the nectar defender I was talking about, 559 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:01.680 So I didn't go back so fast out there in 560 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:04.440 the warm conditions. They'll be drawing for a number of 561 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:07.319 products of a variety of bird seed blends, and even 562 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:09.640 more so, I hope you come out. Number one. It's 563 00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:12.039 fun to go to wilbirds. But number two, we'd love 564 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.240 to have you come out and see us next Saturday, 565 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.799 eleven thirty to one thirty. By the way, thanks for 566 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.440 being that came out to the Home and Outdoor Living 567 00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:24.160 show up in Conroe yesterday. That was fun getting to 568 00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:27.119 talk to folks. You guys wore me out. We were 569 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.519 answering questions, as they say, till the cows come home 570 00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:33.359 up there, but that's always fun. Saw a lot of 571 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:35.759 baggies of all kinds of stuff. One guy said he 572 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:40.359 brought me bags a bag full of weed, and I said, 573 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.920 you might want to rephrase that, just say a bag 574 00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.759 full of weeds, and it doesn't sound quite as curious 575 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:51.440 as the other. I'm easily amused. All right, let's go 576 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:53.240 out to Humble. We're going to talk to Lee this 577 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:57.279 morning on guardline. Hey, Lee, welcome, Thank you. 578 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.200 I have a patio facing west and I need to 579 00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:03.680 know what kind of flowering plants I can get to 580 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:04.279 put on it. 581 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:09.200 Okay for going into the fall season, yes, or do 582 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:12.680 you want things that are plants that will be perennials 583 00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:15.079 and just live here after year after year. What are 584 00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:15.640 you aiming for? 585 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.200 I would rather have lived year after year. 586 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.279 Okay. We have a number of plants that are very tough. 587 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:25.440 If they get enough sunlight, they bloom really well. Some 588 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:28.920 of ours Salvias are very good for that. There is 589 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:33.640 Salvia garnitico the which is a taller maybe four foot 590 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:38.920 high sage a beautiful blue to purple colored blooms attracts hummingbirds. 591 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:42.119 That's a good one. Salvia greggy I greg sage states 592 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:44.279 down a little bit lower and it comes and all 593 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:47.279 kinds of colors like pink and coral, and white and 594 00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:52.359 red red some most common color, and others. How tall 595 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:54.680 do you want these plants to be? 596 00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:56.000 Oil? 597 00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:58.920 Not very tall. I have to put them in potts 598 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:03.279 because I'm handicapped and I have to move the pots around. 599 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:07.079 So okay, all right, Well that's that's good information to 600 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.720 know right there. So, by the way, just a tip 601 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:11.680 by the way on moving pots. If you have a 602 00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:15.319 little like a dolly thing that you can put a 603 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:18.640 strap around the pot, it is so easy to stand 604 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:21.160 upright and just pull back on the dolly and roll 605 00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:24.279 it to a new location. And that is the way 606 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:26.279 I move pots so that I don't hurt my back 607 00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:29.440 bending over trying to move something a little too heavy. 608 00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.960 But any tip, yeah, that works really really well. Might 609 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:37.720 have a dolly that just has a little strap always 610 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:40.400 attached to one side because I slip it underneath the 611 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:43.200 edge of a plant, and strap goes around and hooks on, 612 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:46.279 And that's how I'm move it. Some of the plants 613 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:51.759 for hot afternoon that are perennial. First of all, let 614 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.240 me just say something about annuals. This fall. You should 615 00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:58.319 plant some some alyssum. You should plant right now. You 616 00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:02.480 could be putting out petunias. You can be putting out marigolds. 617 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:05.039 Maragoles look great in the fall, but once we hit 618 00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:08.679 the first frost, those are all gone. And then we 619 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:13.599 switched to things like a Lissa, We switched to pansies, 620 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:17.880 Viola's snap dragons. They all look good in the fall 621 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:22.800 season and the cool season and early winter. For things 622 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:26.519 that are going to come back year after year, I 623 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:31.320 would consider to think of there's a oh gosh, I 624 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:32.960 just went blank on the name of what I was 625 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:39.480 trying to to name jumped right out of my head. Yeah, 626 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.480 that's a lot of those. That is true. I do 627 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:46.760 have a lot of those. Oh gosh, I'm gonna have 628 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:48.360 to I'm gonna have to think on it just a 629 00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:51.159 second and come up with some other ideas for you. 630 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:54.079 It just jumped right right out of my head. I 631 00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:56.320 can't believe I did that, but yes, I did. I 632 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:59.039 did that. Oh, there are some. There are some compact 633 00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.960 boodleias or butter fly bushes that would be really good 634 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:04.039 in a container, and they bloom all through the summer 635 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:09.039 with spikes of beautiful blooms. But they're more compact types 636 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:11.280 of that. There is actually a crate myrtle that only 637 00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:14.039 gets about two feet tall, maybe about three feet wide, 638 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.719 but they can grow in a container, which would keep 639 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.800 it even a little bit smaller, And that would be 640 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:22.039 another good one. You're out there in Humble, and if 641 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.440 you go up to Warren Southern Gardens and ask them 642 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:28.960 to see their great myrtle crate myrtle. I know that's 643 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:33.440 almost confusing, but great as in wonderful great myrtle crate myrtle. 644 00:35:33.880 --> 00:35:35.599 That's nice. And if you go in there and ask 645 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:38.400 them that same question, they're gonna be able to show 646 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:40.800 you all the different flowers that would fit the bill 647 00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:43.000 for the exactly the spots you're looking at. 648 00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:47.280 Well, that would be wonderful. Well, thank you for. 649 00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:49.400 Helping me, you bet, you bet. 650 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:50.960 Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. 651 00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:51.239 Lee. 652 00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:55.679 You take care all right. Let's see here, Oh, I 653 00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:57.800 wanted to mention you know, micro life. I talk about 654 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:01.440 a lot of microlife products, and certainly all the dry 655 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:04.199 fertilizers we're talking about those. We'll soon be telling you 656 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.119 all about the brown Patch, which is a fall fertilizer, 657 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:09.679 fertilizer for your lawns. Getting close to the time to 658 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.199 put that out. But microd Grow Liquid is a wonderful 659 00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:16.800 product that you can use and it contains a lot, 660 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:22.280 in fact, eight very beneficial microbes specific it's got more 661 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.719 than that in it, but eight specific ones that are 662 00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:29.199 just outstanding that help support plant growth. They also help 663 00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.679 protect plants against some of the problems that could come 664 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:35.239 against them. Then there's the h I gave away some 665 00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:39.239 of this yesterday out at the home show, the Biomatrix. 666 00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:42.559 It's an orange label. It's just a good nitrogen fertilizer. 667 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:45.039 They have seaweeds, they have fish and molson products. They 668 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:47.920 have a lot of things for microlife. And with microlife, 669 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.440 pretty much wherever you go, you're gonna find it. It's widespread, widely, 670 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:55.199 widely available. You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com 671 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:57.840 if you really want to drill down to exactly where 672 00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:01.280 is it available in your area. Uh, I'm going to 673 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:05.320 head now to pair Land and talk to Pam. Hello, Pam, 674 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:09.280 i' good morning, good morning. 675 00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:15.280 Every year for the past five years I've gotten brown patch. 676 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:18.519 I just heard you talk about the microlife product, and 677 00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:22.480 with the rains coming again this week, I was trying 678 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:24.519 to figure out what I could do to get ahead 679 00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:28.440 of that, and then after the rains what I could do. 680 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:32.079 Okay, you can avoid brown patch a couple of different 681 00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:37.039 ways there. You know, micros micro life makes a fertilizer, 682 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.159 a fall fertilizer for brown patch that you would put 683 00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:43.599 down and sometime this month later later in September is 684 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.760 a fine time to do that. That is a helpful thing. 685 00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:50.000 Anytime you have a lot of microbial activity that is 686 00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:53.119 helping to defend the plant against other microbes. Is that's 687 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:56.920 a good idea. There are fundericides that will fight brown 688 00:37:56.960 --> 00:38:00.679 patch as well, and you know the e is one 689 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:03.599 That night frost makes that is very effective against that. 690 00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:06.639 But with brown patch or now called large patch, you 691 00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:09.519 have to take care of it ahead of time. If 692 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:11.519 you wait until the circles up here, it's a little 693 00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:16.000 late to gain much benefit. You'll stop additional circles, but 694 00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:17.079 you've got to get ahead of it. 695 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:22.000 So I could preemptively put down eagle or a bunch 696 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:22.400 of size. 697 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.039 You could. Yeah, if this is an annual problem in 698 00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:27.280 your lawn, this is one time where I would say 699 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:31.360 preemptively to do something like that. Just know that the 700 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:34.400 more often you water, the more fertilizer you put down 701 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:38.239 that's really green makes a lot of fast, lush growth. 702 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:41.119 That sets it up for brown patchissues too. That's why 703 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:44.599 we like things that release a little bit slower over time. 704 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:50.039 But yeah, I followed for your program this year and 705 00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:53.519 it's made a huge difference because I've had that forced 706 00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:57.639 growth issue. But now with the reins concerned that it 707 00:38:57.719 --> 00:38:58.519 may come back. 708 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:03.000 So okay, Well, if you will just go to gardening 709 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:05.360 with Skip dot com and look at my pest, weez 710 00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:09.039 weed and disease schedule, it tells you exactly when to 711 00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:11.280 apply and what to apply for brown patch. 712 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:13.480 Okay, Okay, very good. 713 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:16.039 I'll do that. Thanks Skip dot Com. You bet. Thanks 714 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.519 appreciate it, Pam, all right, I hear music. That means 715 00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.559 we're going to a break Greg in Northwest Houston. You'll 716 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:24.880 be our first up when we come back. I just 717 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:27.880 want to remind you this next Saturday, eleven thirty to 718 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:30.400 one thirty, I'm going to be at Wabird's Unlimited in 719 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:34.719 Clear Lake. That is just think a corner of El 720 00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:40.840 Dorado and Lake Clare Lake City Boulevard. Also a reminder, 721 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:43.679 poor we are this is right upon us here. The 722 00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:47.400 Brazoria County Extension Office is having their second annual Strawberry 723 00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:53.159 Jamboree September twenty first. Too far away. You need to 724 00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:55.519 get in touch with them. I find out more about it. 725 00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:57.679 It's from It's in the morning from eight till twelve 726 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:01.199 on September twenty first. It's at the Rec Center, Lake 727 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:04.440 Jackson Rex Center in Lake Jackson, Texas. They're going to 728 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:08.079 have a strawberry shortcait contest about pot of great speakers 729 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:11.039 and even the ability to sign up for some strawberry plugs. 730 00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:13.320 If you would like to add them to your garden, 731 00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:14.559 be right back. 732 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:18.119 Hey, garden line with Skip Richard. 733 00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:28.320 It's just watch him as. 734 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:30.880 Hey. 735 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:34.599 Welcome back to garden Line. Glad you're listening in today. 736 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:36.440 Looking forward to talking to you about the things that 737 00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:38.400 interest you. If you would like to give me a call, 738 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:42.039 ask a question seven one three two one two k 739 00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.360 t r H seven one three two one two k 740 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:48.719 t r H plans for all seasons up there on 741 00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:50.880 Highway two forty nine, tom Ball Park. 742 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:51.000 Wee. 743 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.840 They've been around since I guess nineteen seventy three when 744 00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:57.400 the Flwerdi family established that place, and they just keep 745 00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.840 going strong, and everybody in the whole region knows about it. 746 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:02.800 Go in there and shop from all over that area 747 00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:04.840 because they know when they go in there, they're gonna 748 00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:07.199 get good plants. They're gonna get things that want to 749 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.599 grow here, and good products to go with them too. 750 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:13.280 But they're also going to get good advice and good guidance. 751 00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:16.559 You know what would grow in this situation? What do 752 00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:19.199 you think about this planet? Can you suggest some things 753 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.280 to go in a combination container? Do you see what 754 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.920 I'm saying all of that kind of advice. Here's a problem. 755 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:25.519 I got it at a picture, I got a sample 756 00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:27.159 in a bag. Can you help me what do I 757 00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:29.719 do with it? All that kind of stuff. These folks 758 00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:33.000 are professionals, They know their stuff, and when you go 759 00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:36.280 in there, you're going to get that kind of service. Excellent, 760 00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:38.679 excellent service. Plants for All Seasons is on two forty 761 00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:43.280 nine just north of Luetta Road. The websites Plants for 762 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:46.599 All Seasons dot com. The phone number right, write this 763 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:51.320 one down two eight one three seven six one six 764 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.960 four six Plants for All Seasons dot com. They're true 765 00:41:56.199 --> 00:42:01.480 lawn and garden experts. Start now on the phones. We're 766 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:05.079 going to go out to Greg in northwest Houston. Hey, Greg, 767 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:05.840 how can we help? 768 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.880 Yes, good morning, thanks for the taking my call. 769 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.559 Sure, so this is all up to. 770 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:15.519 Calling me. 771 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:20.079 They when that big windstorm event killed an oak tree 772 00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:24.599 in the front yard and the combination of our family 773 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:30.079 and another tree service removed that tree. We had a 774 00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.880 stump and we had them grind the stump for us, 775 00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:39.840 and now we have a pile of dirt and and 776 00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:42.880 then we're going to have a tree plan pretty soon 777 00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.880 to replace that tree. And gentlemen came out in the 778 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:50.079 nursery to check it out and take down a bed 779 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.880 and pointed out that the stump grinding didn't really get 780 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:56.360 every bit of the stump, and proposed that we moved 781 00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:59.320 the center of the tree a bit to the side, 782 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.920 maybe about I feed if I remember quickly. Anyway, So 783 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:06.559 the main thing is he he cautioned us on leaving 784 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:13.039 the sup grindings. They're saying that it would bring termites 785 00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:16.920 to our property. And I had said we were planning 786 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:19.880 to kind of use it as an multi in the gardens, 787 00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.400 and he said that wasn't a good idea. So I 788 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.159 wondered what your thoughts were on that. 789 00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:26.199 Oh, okay, hit. The proposal was. 790 00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:30.039 That they remove the mixture of sawdust and dirt and 791 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.480 then replace it with dirt and grass. What do you 792 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:35.079 think about all that? 793 00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:38.280 Well, if you can get a good quality soil that 794 00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:42.840 matches what your soil is, then that would be fine. 795 00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.119 I mean it. Let I'll just use an extreme example. 796 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:47.079 If your saw was a heavy black clay and they 797 00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:50.920 brought in a very fine sand, then you have this 798 00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:53.280 kind of strange spot where things don't grow the same 799 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:55.519 as in the rest of the art. But if it 800 00:43:55.679 --> 00:43:59.880 match is pretty good, that'd be okay. Termites are ubiquitous 801 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:05.239 out there in nature, and they are all around decomposing wood. 802 00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:09.440 That's what they do. So just having some wood out 803 00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:11.679 is not a big deal. It's not like urmites are 804 00:44:11.719 --> 00:44:13.960 going to fly from across town to come over to 805 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.920 your yard because you have wood, but urmites that are 806 00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:19.440 there will inhabit it. I would not use it as 807 00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.760 malts around the flower beds around the base of my house, 808 00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:26.519 especially piling it up over the wheepholes, because that's where 809 00:44:26.599 --> 00:44:29.760 termites gain entry with one of the places and gain entry. 810 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.679 But as far as just using it somewhere as a 811 00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:37.559 multi that's okay to do. It's not the best quality malts, 812 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:39.360 but but you got it on hand. But if they want, 813 00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:40.840 if you want to have them just hollowed away and 814 00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:43.440 bring something else in, that's fine. One of the problems 815 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:47.760 with piles of stump grindings is you've got fluffed up, 816 00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:51.920 loosened soil filled with wood that is going to decompose away. 817 00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:54.360 So if you leveled that area off where it was 818 00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:58.360 perfectly level in a year or two especially, it is 819 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:01.559 going to have sunk down a lot just because the 820 00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:03.760 soil is going to settle, and then as the wood 821 00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:07.480 decomposes away, then that the soil level is settling even 822 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.599 more so. That would be One advantage of getting it 823 00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:14.719 out of there is to kind of decrease that. Whatever 824 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:17.280 you do, they need to leave it a little bit 825 00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:22.039 mounded up from where the normal soil level is, because 826 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.199 it is going to settle no matter what. Some so 827 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:27.320 those are just some thoughts to kind of guide you 828 00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:28.480 as you make your decision. 829 00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.400 Okay, as far as gardens, I have a garden that 830 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:37.800 is out in my backyard that is adjacent to a 831 00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.800 fence and behind a pool and not really close to 832 00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:43.199 a house. Would that be a suitable place for some 833 00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:44.840 of the Yeah. 834 00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:47.000 You could use the mulch out there. Yeah, it would 835 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:47.320 be fine. 836 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:53.480 Okay, As far as you mentioned replacing the soil, what 837 00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:56.599 would you recommend, I mean something like a roast soil 838 00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:58.400 or or something different. 839 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.760 Now you know things. It's like, all these wonderful soil 840 00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:06.199 mixes for beds are mostly organic matter, and they're great 841 00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:09.440 for growing plants in. But if we're trying to re 842 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:14.440 establish a firm soil grade across your yard, it's better 843 00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:16.960 to have just pretty much soil that goes in a 844 00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:19.679 top soil kind of thing. If your soil is a 845 00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:22.320 heavy clay, then you know something that's clay would be 846 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:27.239 fine to use in there, but that if there were 847 00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:29.360 a way to sift out a lot of that wood 848 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.239 from the grindings, then you could just use the soil 849 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.440 that was there. But it's not going to fully fill 850 00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:43.400 the hole because there is there's just a loss of 851 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:47.079 soil when you do that. The composition, Yeah, and what 852 00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:51.000 was what was wood and a trunk underground or major 853 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:53.880 roots underground that's been ground up, and then as you 854 00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.079 sift it out and all that wood away, what's going 855 00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:59.760 to take its place? You don't have the soil there 856 00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:01.840 to do it, So you're probably gonna have to bring 857 00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:02.599 some soil in. 858 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:08.480 Well, that was part of the proposal. Well, would like 859 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:11.079 an enhanced top soil or what what would what would 860 00:47:11.079 --> 00:47:11.280 it be? 861 00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:15.400 Then I would just get a quality top soil. Just 862 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:17.480 just find a good quality top soil. I don't know 863 00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:20.400 this company, don't need to know who it is, but 864 00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:22.679 they need to bring you a good a good quality 865 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:27.159 so mix in there. That if you can buy a 866 00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:29.960 sandy loan soil, that'd be wonderful. But again, if you 867 00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:32.679 have a clay something that's a little closer to matching, 868 00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:34.719 that would be best. If if you can do. 869 00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:38.480 That Okay, so. 870 00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:42.039 Do you think that would be worth doing or or 871 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:43.880 just leave the pile there the way it is and 872 00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:48.039 add add dirt as needed, and well, you know, we're. 873 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:50.480 Out there look at Yeah, I'm out there looking at it, 874 00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:52.920 you know, so which would help a lot in advising. 875 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:55.199 But if if I had a stump ground out and 876 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:58.199 a big pile of wood chips and stump, I would 877 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:00.599 try to screen it out as best I could, and 878 00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:04.079 you know, into a wheelbarrow to get those wood chips 879 00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:07.360 in there with this, taking as little soil as I could, 880 00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:09.840 and go do whatever I'm gonna do with those wood chips. 881 00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:12.639 And then I would rake the soil in. If it's 882 00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:14.960 not enough to fill in, I'd bring in a little 883 00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:16.519 more to top it off and create a little bit 884 00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:18.679 of a mound because it is going to settle over time. 885 00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:24.960 Okay, okay, thank you. My other question that I've added 886 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:28.280 after listening to a previous call regards brown patch. 887 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:29.760 My backyard. 888 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:32.679 Every year, about three fourths of that yard gets attacked 889 00:48:32.679 --> 00:48:36.639 pretty severely by brown patch. I've tried different techniques. Sometimes 890 00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:40.079 I'm successful a little bit, but usually not. And like 891 00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:43.119 last year, I tried all right, the micro life approach 892 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:48.199 including that extra enhancing uh okay, or you know organisms 893 00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:50.480 and it just it just it may slowed it down, 894 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:51.679 but it didn't really solve it. 895 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:54.960 Okay, And I'm gonna I have to run to break. 896 00:48:55.239 --> 00:48:57.320 I'm after I'm pick of my time, but let me 897 00:48:57.440 --> 00:48:59.960 go to gardening with Skip dot com on my schedule. 898 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:02.559 It tells exactly the things to use and when to 899 00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:05.000 apply them. That's the best ncher it and give you 900 00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:06.679 on the brown patch. I'm sorry, I have to run, 901 00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:08.960 but we're way over time here, Greg, thanks a lot. 902 00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:12.559 I appreciate it for I started using it last year. 903 00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.880 This is a new product and it really really works. 904 00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:17.960 Here is what you need to think of when you 905 00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:19.880 think about Genesis. You need to think of the fact 906 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:24.480 that it is a fertilizer designed for transplanting plants. So 907 00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:26.840 if you grew some plants in a small container and 908 00:49:26.840 --> 00:49:28.760 you're going to move them to a larger pot, the 909 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:31.719 soil in that larger pot mixed Genesis with it. If 910 00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:33.519 you've got a plant that you bought at a garden 911 00:49:33.559 --> 00:49:35.199 center and you're going to take it home and put 912 00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:39.119 it in a container or in the ground, mix Genesis 913 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:43.000 into the soil. That's there it is. It's got micro 914 00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.679 rhizo fungi in it, it's got bacteria in it, a 915 00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:48.559 lot of things that help the soul microbiome, and it 916 00:49:48.679 --> 00:49:52.840 just works. I was really impressed with the results of Genesis. 917 00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:55.079 I did it on some tomato transplants that I was 918 00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:58.719 bumping up at the time, and there was a marked difference, 919 00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:02.079 very very nice difference. Now you can still go on 920 00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:05.320 after that fertilizing with you know, the nutri Star, Color Star, 921 00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:08.320 Nature Star, whatever you're going to use. But for that 922 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:13.960 transplant process, Genesis. It's a neutral star line from Nelson 923 00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:16.800 Plant Food. They got a lot of great products and 924 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:18.920 this is an exciting new one that they put on 925 00:50:18.960 --> 00:50:21.599 the market. We're going to go out now to West 926 00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:24.880 Houston and talk to Jonas. Hello Jonas, Welcome to guard Line. 927 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:29.239 Hey Skip, thanks for getting my call. I am having 928 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:33.280 my azilia bids. We did after many many years, and 929 00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:37.039 I have a few questions. Number one, it's just a 930 00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:39.880 good time for me to fertilize the acilias, and if so, 931 00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:44.039 what fertilizer should I use? And then the fellaw who's 932 00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.360 helped me with this, I suggested that I apply a 933 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:51.760 biodegradable breathable material on that surface before moulsh so as 934 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:54.719 to prevent the weeds from coming back up. And then lastly, 935 00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:56.679 what kind of mulch should I apply? 936 00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:01.719 All right, fertilizer going into fall here, you don't want 937 00:51:01.719 --> 00:51:03.599 to push them with too much nitrogen. You want to 938 00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:05.159 go a little easy on them. So I would go 939 00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:08.159 with Microlife's got a great product for acid loving plants. 940 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:11.320 To organic product that you put out, sprinkled out and 941 00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:13.760 it's going to slowly be available to the plants. It's 942 00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:17.519 kind of a pinkish, pinkish color bag, but it's a 943 00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:20.320 Microlife for acid loving plants. I would use that, follow 944 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:23.280 the label on how much to apply. I don't like 945 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:28.199 the fabrics on the surface for weeds. Initially they work 946 00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.800 and then they become problems and they're hard to get out, 947 00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.280 and the weeds go land on the seeds land on 948 00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:35.320 top and go through the fabric with the roots and 949 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:39.519 it's just a mess. I would use a good quality mulch. 950 00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:42.039 There's a lot of good mulches out there on the market. 951 00:51:43.119 --> 00:51:46.559 You know, you can do it. Can do one that's 952 00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:49.719 pine chips, you can do one that is shredded hardwood. 953 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:52.639 That's fine. All of those mulches will work well, even 954 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:56.719 pine needles or a decent mulch, you know, for around azaleas. 955 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:00.239 But just just a covering over the surface that kind 956 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:03.119 of prevents those weeds heats from getting light, and that 957 00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:03.920 that ought to be good. 958 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:07.440 That'll be good enough. You often say that we should 959 00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:11.800 not use dye colored mulch. I don't like it. 960 00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:14.599 It's just that it's just the artificial nature. It's adding 961 00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:18.760 another chemical in to a die, and I don't know, 962 00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:21.400 it looks artificial to me. I just don't care care 963 00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:24.760 for the appearance of it, and I'd rather do somethings 964 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:27.719 a little more natural around that plant setting. 965 00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:31.079 And the fertilizer as long as it's say, for acid 966 00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:34.840 living plans, it doesn't have to be specifically micro life. 967 00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:36.559 Well yeah, I mean, yeah, it doesn't have to be 968 00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:39.119 micro life, but that that's a good one and a 969 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:42.920 good slow release, and just don't overdo the fertilizer in this. 970 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:46.639 We're kind of at this doorstep of fall season, when 971 00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:49.400 in another month or two you're wanting those plants to 972 00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:53.079 begin to slow down their growth, and so that that's 973 00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:54.159 why we don't overdo it. 974 00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:56.599 All right, Well, thank you, so much for us. 975 00:52:56.639 --> 00:52:58.440 I appreciate you, bet you. 976 00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:00.840 Bet Jonas, thank you. I appreciate your You know, all 977 00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:02.880 these kinds of products like we're talking to Jonas about, 978 00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:05.920 you're gonna find them at ACE Hardware. Microlife, fertilizers. You know, 979 00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:08.679 they got Microlife, they got nitrophoss, they got Nelson's, they 980 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:11.559 got many many more, and they have all the products 981 00:53:11.639 --> 00:53:13.960 you need to control pests and weeds and diseases and 982 00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:18.159 other things in your landscape. ACE Hardware is just a 983 00:53:18.199 --> 00:53:21.320 go to place for everything you need. And the nice 984 00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:23.880 thing with forty stores around, it's easy to find an 985 00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:26.440 ACE near you. And when you walk in there, you're 986 00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:28.519 going to come out with the products you need to 987 00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.840 have success in your lawn and your flower beds and 988 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:35.079 your vegetable garden, or for just creating that beautiful patio environment, 989 00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:38.360 for finally enjoying the outdoors again. Now that the weather 990 00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:40.960 is on the verge of breaking. I know this is 991 00:53:41.079 --> 00:53:43.960 false fall. We call it that meaning it's it's cool now, 992 00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:46.679 but it's yeah, it's gonna get hot again. It will, 993 00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:50.440 but we're there. Summer has to give up, whether it 994 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:53.559 realizes it or not, and that's coming really soon. Go 995 00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:57.199 buy Ace Hardware, Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator, 996 00:53:57.239 --> 00:54:00.400 find your ACE Hardware store and you can and really 997 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:03.199 enjoy it and have success. It's got to Cyprus, and 998 00:54:03.239 --> 00:54:05.280 I believe we're going to talk to moist Am I saying. 999 00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:09.079 That right, mois close, Maurice. 1000 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:12.119 Maurice, Okay, good in the guard line. 1001 00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:15.599 Hey, thanks taking my call. So this a quick question. 1002 00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:22.760 I restarted my yard last year right before summer HOA requirements. 1003 00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:25.880 But everything turned out really well, best yard in the 1004 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:28.960 fuld A sack. But the last few weeks I'm having 1005 00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:31.400 some yellow patches that are forming. I'm trying to figure 1006 00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:33.880 out what's going on. Funny to put something down or 1007 00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:35.280 what's going on with it. 1008 00:54:36.840 --> 00:54:38.639 Get down on your hands and knees and look at 1009 00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:42.760 the yellow leaves and sometimes you see green leaves, and 1010 00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:45.480 then there's a leaf that is pretty uniformly yellow all 1011 00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:49.159 the way across. That could be the first start of 1012 00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:53.320 some bron patch. It could be other things nutrient wise. 1013 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:58.079 If the leaves are striped green and yellow. When you 1014 00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:00.239 pick up grass blade and hold it up to the 1015 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:03.719 light and you see vertical lines of green and yellow alternating, 1016 00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:08.239 that's iron deficiency and you can control that by putting 1017 00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:12.440 down an iron supplement, you can also anything you do 1018 00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:17.119 that improves the soil and root system, from correoration, accomplished 1019 00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:22.719 top dressing, to additions of fertilizers that contain iron, to 1020 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:26.519 just improving drainage. If the drainage is an issue and 1021 00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:30.280 this thing can help that. It typically if it looked 1022 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.079 green earlier and now it's turning yellow, it's probably a fluctuation. 1023 00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:37.119 It may fluctuate back. And then the final not good 1024 00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:39.079 news would be if it was take all root rot, 1025 00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:42.800 and that's a very different thing. There you're seeing the 1026 00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:47.519 not just yellowing but continuing to go downhill. And on 1027 00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:51.679 my schedules on gardening with skip dot com, I address 1028 00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:54.079 take all root rot and what to do about it 1029 00:55:54.239 --> 00:55:57.159 if you see that the roots themselves on the runners 1030 00:55:57.159 --> 00:55:57.599 are dead. 1031 00:55:59.239 --> 00:56:00.519 Okay in Augustine. 1032 00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:03.400 So basically, just look at the blade of grass and 1033 00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:04.840 see if those vertical lines or not. 1034 00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:09.360 Right, vertical lines of yellow and green mean it's iron deficiency. 1035 00:56:09.719 --> 00:56:11.840 But that could be for a lack of iron in 1036 00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:14.920 the soil, for iron that's there but is locked up 1037 00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:18.239 and unavailable, or for lack of roots to take up iron. 1038 00:56:18.440 --> 00:56:20.719 All three could be causing the yellow. 1039 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:23.360 All right, all right, I appreciate time. 1040 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:26.480 Thank you you bet Maurice, thanks to the call. Appreciate 1041 00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:31.519 that a lot Nature's Way resources up on Interstate forty 1042 00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:34.719 five toward Conro. It's right where fourteen eighty eight comes 1043 00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:37.679 in from Montgomery that goes off. If you're going north, 1044 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.559 that goes off the left. You turn right across the 1045 00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:44.840 railroad tracks and you're right there at Nature's Way Resource, 1046 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:48.719 just another right after you cross the railroad tracks. They 1047 00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:54.000 are busy right now stocking up there making compost, soils, mulches. 1048 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:58.039 They're stock bringing it forward for that fall season when 1049 00:56:58.119 --> 00:57:00.079 we are going to be using a lot of those 1050 00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:02.280 kinds of products. And boy do they ever have some 1051 00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:04.559 great products on hand. You know, they've been doing this 1052 00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:06.480 for a very long time. If anybody knows how to 1053 00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:11.360 make composts, mulch, bed mixes, whatever, it's Nature's Way Resources. 1054 00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:12.000 You know. 1055 00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:15.519 John Ferguson started that long time ago, being an expert 1056 00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:19.480 on soils ian running the place right now. They just 1057 00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:24.039 keep on with that tradition. Here's a deal. Fungal Friday 1058 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:27.039 sale is still on. You can save twenty percent on 1059 00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:30.599 their fungal compost and that's okay for top dressing too. 1060 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:32.440 You know, we talk about leaf mo composts, but their 1061 00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:35.840 fungal compost works well for top dressing as well. Just 1062 00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:39.599 a quick heads up on October the twelfth, I'll be 1063 00:57:39.679 --> 00:57:42.679 out there. They're gonna have their Fall Festival on October 1064 00:57:42.760 --> 00:57:45.679 the twelfth. They're gonna have Latin food, local vendors, plant sales. 1065 00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:47.639 I'll be there doing Q and A from eleven thirty 1066 00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:51.079 to one thirty, live music, children's activities. It'll be fun. 1067 00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:53.679 We've done this before and it was a blast. Hope 1068 00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:55.960 you'll come out. Put that on your calendar October twelfth 1069 00:57:56.639 --> 00:57:59.360 and be looking for that. In the meantime, get out there. 1070 00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:02.719 Now's the time to be preparing your soil for fall planting. 1071 00:58:03.119 --> 00:58:05.400 Go by Nature's Way, go by on a Friday and 1072 00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:09.320 take advantage of that twenty percent off fungal compost. That 1073 00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:16.280 is a quality, quality product that they produce. I was 1074 00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:19.079 at a one of my kid's house. They bought a 1075 00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:22.320 new house over in the hill country, and there are 1076 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:25.000 some issues with the foundation, some cracks, and so what 1077 00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:26.519 did I do well? The first thing I do is 1078 00:58:26.519 --> 00:58:28.760 called ty Strickland. It fixed my slab. I know he's 1079 00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:31.599 not going to drive the hill country. But I asked him, 1080 00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:33.320 I say, Ty, this is what I'm seeing. What do 1081 00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:35.880 you think? And and he gave me advice. He told 1082 00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:38.039 me what to look for, what to do, you know, 1083 00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:42.119 those kind of things. Fix my Slab Foundation Repair is 1084 00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:46.119 it's the go to place for this because number one, 1085 00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:49.239 they are honest. They'll tell you if you need something 1086 00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:51.440 or you don't. In fact, in this house situation I 1087 00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:53.000 was talking about, he said, you know what, if you're 1088 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:55.960 not seeing more movement than that, probably not a big deal. 1089 00:58:56.599 --> 00:59:00.320 And so I appreciative of that. Fixmyslab dot com is 1090 00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:02.480 the website. If you see cracks in the brick on 1091 00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:04.960 the outside, the sheet rock in the inside, you got 1092 00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:08.360 doors sticking, you got a sidewalk that's cracked, a driveway 1093 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:10.400 that's cracked. He can do all of that. He's been 1094 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:14.760 doing it twenty three years. Here's the website again, fixmislab 1095 00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:17.440 dot com or you can give Tie a call two 1096 00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:20.960 eight one two five five forty ninety nine two eight 1097 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:25.320 one two five five four nine four nine. Remember when 1098 00:59:25.320 --> 00:59:28.039 you hire Tie with Fix my Slab Foundation Repair, you 1099 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:30.679 know it's going to be on time, it's going to 1100 00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:34.079 be fair priced. And it's going to be fixed right. 1101 00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:38.519 And that is very very important with any kind of 1102 00:59:38.519 --> 00:59:41.599 service you have done, especially the foundation of your home. 1103 00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:45.199 You are listening to your garden line. Our phone number 1104 00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:48.039 is seven one three two one two k t r H. 1105 00:59:48.280 --> 00:59:54.719 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 1106 00:59:54.760 --> 01:00:01.719 I was talking with David from RCW Nurseries, David Williamson, 1107 01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:05.239 and we were talking about trees yesterday morning, and they 1108 01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:09.559 have the Williamson Tree Farm up there in Plantersville, and 1109 01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:12.599 I'm telling you they grow quality trees, have a long 1110 01:00:12.719 --> 01:00:15.039 list of trees, and they know how to grow them right. 1111 01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:17.559 So when they get in your yard, they perform right. 1112 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:21.880 They pick the right varieties and species so they will 1113 01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:23.559 grow here. They know this, They've been doing this a 1114 01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:26.800 very long time. You can swing by RCW Nursery and 1115 01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:29.239 talk to them there. Of course, at RCW you got 1116 01:00:29.239 --> 01:00:32.280 herbs and perennials and annuals and shrubs and native plants. 1117 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:35.360 You've got fertilizers that we recommend here on garden line 1118 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:39.320 and other products for the soil. We recommend on garden line, 1119 01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:43.000 great rose selection and so on. But if you need 1120 01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:45.280 a tree plant at this fault, they'll actually come out 1121 01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:47.519 and do that. Give them a call, talk to them 1122 01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:49.719 about it, or go to the website first. It's r 1123 01:00:50.159 --> 01:00:54.159 cwnurseries dot com. That is the garden Center. That is 1124 01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:59.280 where Beltway eight comes in connection with Tambol Parkway two 1125 01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:02.280 forty nine. It's the intersection between those two. It's easy 1126 01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:05.480 to get to RCW down there. Just go check it out. 1127 01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:09.760 And fall is for planting, so the woody ornamentals they 1128 01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:14.079 carry from roses to trees. Give them a call. Let's 1129 01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:16.440 get this done right, and let's get it done now 1130 01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:19.039 so that you can enjoy that in the years to come. 1131 01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:23.639 Quality trees, quality work, quality plants in general. From RCW. 1132 01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:25.800 Uh. 1133 01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:27.599 Well, you're listening to guard Lines. Time for me to 1134 01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:29.480 take a break, So I'm going to quit talking here. 1135 01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:32.199 If you want to talk seven one three two one 1136 01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:35.000 two kt RI to give us a call. Chris will 1137 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:36.639 get you on the board and when we come back, 1138 01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:39.360 we'll talk with you. 1139 01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:40.639 You are No. 1140 01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:45.320 Houston's News Traffic plus Preck Welcome back to garden Line. 1141 01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:48.519 I'm your host, Skiprechor. We're glad to have you listening today. 1142 01:01:48.599 --> 01:01:52.159 We've got plenty to talk about on this wonderful Sunday morning. Uh, 1143 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.199 just a reminder for those of you who have some 1144 01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:57.519 things to do out in the lawn and garden, which 1145 01:01:57.519 --> 01:02:01.440 we all do. By the way, day is another sunny day, 1146 01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:03.480 and tomorrow is another sunny day. But as we get 1147 01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:05.840 to midweek, we're going to go into some rain and 1148 01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:08.480 it's going to rain for a while. Now's the time 1149 01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:11.880 to get things done, get your soil prepped, get your 1150 01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:15.239 plants in the ground, you know, do whatever it takes 1151 01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:18.800 to move things forward, because when we go into the 1152 01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:22.480 rainy periods, well then you're ready to go when the 1153 01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:24.639 rain does stop and we get back out in the gardens. 1154 01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:27.159 Wren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Gardens Center. There are two 1155 01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:31.480 garden centers in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park, Kingwood 1156 01:02:31.559 --> 01:02:33.920 is on Stone Hollow Dry. Both of them are open 1157 01:02:33.960 --> 01:02:36.800 seven days a week. I would highly recommend you subscribe 1158 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:39.559 to the newsletter online or you can go in the 1159 01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:43.039 store and do it. They have exclusive discount savings and 1160 01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:45.760 gardening tips. But I tell you right now, they're getting 1161 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:50.239 some of that cooler season fall color dianthus and snap dragons, 1162 01:02:50.239 --> 01:02:52.599 for example, but also things like petunias that will carry 1163 01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:54.719 you all the way up to the first freeze. They 1164 01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:57.800 got fall veggies and herbs and strawberries. And fall is 1165 01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:00.519 for planting strawberries, the best season of the year. Don't 1166 01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:02.559 wait till spring if you can get them in in 1167 01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:05.039 the fall. They got a plethora of herbs out there, 1168 01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:08.559 and all the perennial herbs. Great season to be planting 1169 01:03:08.599 --> 01:03:11.760 perennial herbs. Do you need some shrubs Laura peddlum, which 1170 01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:16.639 is called Chinese witch hazel, the encrazalias sunshine lagustriums. They 1171 01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:18.480 have crape myrtles, but you know I have a crate myrtle. 1172 01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:21.519 Only at Warren's Soevn Guarden Center. They've got this crape myrtle. 1173 01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:26.199 It's called the great myrtle. That great myrtle. Crpe myrtle 1174 01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:28.239 is a little sounds a little confusing to me, but 1175 01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:30.840 you get the idea. It's very compact. It only gets 1176 01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:33.320 two feet tall three feet wide. Yes, this is a 1177 01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:36.400 crate myrtle. You think of crate myrtle's is big tree 1178 01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:40.599 like things. This is a little short shrub to twenty 1179 01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:43.239 four inches tall thirty six inches wide. It's got disease 1180 01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:46.239 and insect resistance. A beautiful old plant. I was telling 1181 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:48.199 Lee earlier out of Humble that this would be a 1182 01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:50.599 good one to put in a container on the patio. 1183 01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:53.880 Makes it easy and it's you know, we call crp 1184 01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:57.400 myrtles the tree of one hundred Days, meaning a blooms 1185 01:03:57.400 --> 01:03:59.800 for one hundred days basically three months oft of the year. 1186 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:02.000 You're gonna have ballooms on a cranpe myrtle, and that 1187 01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:04.480 there are not many plants that can do that well. Anyway, 1188 01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:07.199 while you're out there, you can get all the different 1189 01:04:07.199 --> 01:04:09.400 fertilizers that you're going to want to be putting down 1190 01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:11.519 that I talk about here on Guarden Line. You're going 1191 01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:13.639 to get them all out there. We've got some special 1192 01:04:13.679 --> 01:04:18.599 pricing going on with those. But just one last thing. 1193 01:04:19.239 --> 01:04:23.280 Both locations have a tree sale thirty percent off any tree. 1194 01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:25.039 I don't know how. I don't know what else you 1195 01:04:25.039 --> 01:04:27.880 could ask for. It's all out there at Warren Southern Gardens, 1196 01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:32.960 Kingwood Garden Center out in Kingwood, Texas. I like going. 1197 01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:34.480 I need to get back out there. I've been out 1198 01:04:34.480 --> 01:04:36.679 there in low Wall, go back out and see. I 1199 01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:38.880 love going to our garden centers and seeing what's going on. 1200 01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:42.960 You know, I talk about Houston being a destination city. 1201 01:04:43.039 --> 01:04:45.760 For garden centers, and it really is. When I say Houston, 1202 01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:49.239 I mean the greater Houston area. I have been to 1203 01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:52.719 garden centers and cities all over the country, starting here 1204 01:04:52.719 --> 01:04:55.559 in Texas, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio. There's some 1205 01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:58.480 great garden centers in Texas, but there's not a city 1206 01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:02.920 that has this many unbelievably great garden centers. There's just 1207 01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:08.039 not you know, travel all over the place, DC, Atlanta, Richmond, 1208 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:11.559 wherever I go, I go to garden centers, and I 1209 01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:14.039 always come. I see some cool ones, but I always 1210 01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:20.559 come back and go. If you're in Houston, north, south, east, west, central, 1211 01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:24.039 any direction you want to go, there isn't a garden 1212 01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:27.920 center worth taking family when they visit to see it's 1213 01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:30.920 that good. And Warren Southern Gardens is exactly that, that 1214 01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:35.119 kind of garden center. We're fortunate here, so take advantage 1215 01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:38.599 of our great fortune. You know, when it comes to 1216 01:05:38.679 --> 01:05:42.280 fall planting, and fall is the best planting season of 1217 01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:46.639 the year. If you live south of Houston, you've got 1218 01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:50.159 a outstanding place to get everything you need to get 1219 01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:53.360 the soil ready for fall planting. And that is Ciena Malch, 1220 01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:57.960 Cienamulch pristine. I love going in there. I mean about 1221 01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:01.360 molt place is pristine. It's beautiful, they take it. It's 1222 01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:05.039 just well organized. It's just attractive place with quality products. 1223 01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:07.400 I love going in. And you're not going to find 1224 01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:10.760 friendlier staff, then you get it. Ciana Malts. Those folks 1225 01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:15.679 are just wonderful with customers. They're outstanding. They're open Monday 1226 01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:18.960 through Friday, seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two. 1227 01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:21.159 They're closed today, but they'll be back open on Monday. 1228 01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:24.480 They're north of Roast Sharon on FM five twenty one. 1229 01:06:24.599 --> 01:06:27.199 The website, just if you do nothing else, write this 1230 01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:31.280 down cianamaltch dot com. Go check it out. Do you 1231 01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:33.760 need raw do you need composts? Do you need maltz? 1232 01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:35.559 Do you need bed mixes? Do you want some of 1233 01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:38.519 the airrooom soils, veggie nerd mixed? They have that there. 1234 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:43.039 And then every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline, all 1235 01:06:43.079 --> 01:06:45.880 of them are there at cnamals. So when you drive 1236 01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:48.320 off by the way, they deliver within about twenty miles 1237 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:51.320 for a small fee. But when you leave Cianamlts, whether 1238 01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:53.559 you're they're bringing it to you or you're you know, 1239 01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:56.719 going there to get it. You have what you need 1240 01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:00.000 to set your plants up for success this fall. First 1241 01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:04.119 soil then comes plants. Don't delay, make hey while the 1242 01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:07.039 sun shines. The sun will be shining tomorrow. Go buy 1243 01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:10.679 Ciena mulch and get some good stuff so that you 1244 01:07:10.800 --> 01:07:14.800 have a wonderful fall planting season. That's about the the 1245 01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:18.000 best way that I can put it. I was like 1246 01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:21.119 going in there. It's a fun place. You know, you 1247 01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:24.599 know you're a horticulture racet. You know you're a gardener 1248 01:07:25.199 --> 01:07:29.559 when dirt is fun. I know, I know it's called soil, 1249 01:07:29.639 --> 01:07:32.719 not dirt, but some of you call it dirt. That's okay, 1250 01:07:32.920 --> 01:07:35.199 you can do that if you want. But and I 1251 01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:36.960 get excited about the dirt, and I'll go to a 1252 01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:39.880 place like animals. I'll go up to the piles, scratch 1253 01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:42.280 in there, grab a handful and smell it, because I 1254 01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:48.320 love the smell of fresh quality mulches and composts and mixes. 1255 01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:50.000 In fact, one of these days, I'm gonna post a 1256 01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:54.239 picture to Facebook of me making compost angels. You know 1257 01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:57.360 about snow angels, right, I can lay down and compost 1258 01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.239 and make compost angels. I think that would be a'd 1259 01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:04.039 be fun. Get in touch with your enter microbe here 1260 01:08:04.119 --> 01:08:07.639 on garden line. All right, enough of that silliness. Hey, 1261 01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:10.599 seven one three two one two k t rh. That's 1262 01:08:10.639 --> 01:08:14.719 our phone number. Seven one three two one two kt 1263 01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:20.159 r H. I uh in my garden in the back. 1264 01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:23.039 I was out, I was away for a while. And 1265 01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:27.520 you know okra. Okre's kind of like zucchini. Uh, it's 1266 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:32.000 ready today, and it's big enough to build a canoe tomorrow, 1267 01:08:32.199 --> 01:08:36.399 and it moves fast, and so uh there is. I 1268 01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:38.359 had some ochre that I just dropped on the head 1269 01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:40.840 to drop on the ground. Some of it that was 1270 01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:46.560 in between edible and just totally woody. I pick and 1271 01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:49.239 I dry it. And I don't know if you've ever 1272 01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:51.479 done this before, but if you got okra, when it 1273 01:08:51.560 --> 01:08:54.920 starts producing, you have sometimes more okre than you know 1274 01:08:54.960 --> 01:08:57.560 what to do with. Well, if the ones that are 1275 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:01.039 a little past top quality for eating, I bring them inside, 1276 01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:02.640 slice them and dry them. I got a food dryer, 1277 01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:06.159 and I put them in a jar, a sealed jar, 1278 01:09:06.680 --> 01:09:10.520 and keep them. And so this winter, when there's not 1279 01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:13.119 a lot of okra in the garden, you can go in. 1280 01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:14.840 You can take that okra, put it in a soup. 1281 01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:18.159 It reconstitutes pretty well and it works really well. I 1282 01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:20.479 also grind it up. I've got a little VitaminX type 1283 01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:24.399 thing that has a one of the containers grind stuff 1284 01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:27.359 up really well. And I have powdered okra that I 1285 01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:30.000 will use by the tailspoon in soups and things to 1286 01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:32.880 thicken soups. And plus you get all the benefits of okra. 1287 01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:35.760 Okra has you know, two different kinds of spiber, the 1288 01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:39.439 soluble and the insoluble, and both have their own health benefits. 1289 01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:41.840 All right, I'm not going to go back into don't 1290 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:44.279 get me started on okra. You know how that goes. 1291 01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:46.560 Let's take a little break. I'll be right back. Here's 1292 01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:49.159 the number in the meantime seven one three two one 1293 01:09:49.279 --> 01:09:54.239 two kt r H. Be right back, Scott, you doing, 1294 01:09:55.399 --> 01:09:56.239 I'm well, thank you. 1295 01:09:58.279 --> 01:09:58.479 Hey. 1296 01:09:58.560 --> 01:10:02.600 I have a with like a ground covering weed of 1297 01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:06.079 researted and it seems to be a spurred weed or 1298 01:10:06.119 --> 01:10:09.279 something like that or red sam green leaf. And I've 1299 01:10:09.319 --> 01:10:11.880 tried a different spray that's trying to get rid of it, 1300 01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:16.079 not kill my grass. Nothing swerved so far. 1301 01:10:17.199 --> 01:10:21.880 Okay, Uh, you said spurge. I think is that right? 1302 01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:24.800 Yes, I believe it is. 1303 01:10:25.800 --> 01:10:28.199 Have you noticed when you have you noticed when you 1304 01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:32.640 break it, a white, milky sap comes out. Yeah, you're 1305 01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:36.800 trying to pull it sticky. Yeah, that is spurge, and 1306 01:10:36.840 --> 01:10:39.479 it's very difficult to control. The best way to control 1307 01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:42.000 spurge is to don't let the seeds come up. And 1308 01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:45.199 so first step is getting all the seeds out as 1309 01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:48.199 soon as you can. Uh, it does grows, you know, 1310 01:10:48.279 --> 01:10:52.079 comes out and goes horizontal flat, all in all directions. 1311 01:10:52.439 --> 01:10:55.000 And if you can find that center part, if the 1312 01:10:55.039 --> 01:10:57.279 soil is soft, you can pull it. If you've got 1313 01:10:57.319 --> 01:10:59.279 a whole lot of area, you can get a very 1314 01:10:59.319 --> 01:11:01.319 thin hoe. I was talking to some folks up in 1315 01:11:01.399 --> 01:11:05.039 the Conra at the home show yesterday about this. But 1316 01:11:05.159 --> 01:11:08.000 you slide that hole right under the surface horizontally. You're 1317 01:11:08.039 --> 01:11:10.720 not chopping at all. You're just standing upright and just 1318 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:13.399 sliding the whole unto the surface and it just clips 1319 01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:16.359 that single route coming down. And then carefully lift it 1320 01:11:16.439 --> 01:11:19.119 up and throw it away or carefully rake it because 1321 01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:21.359 there's a ton of seed on it, and the more 1322 01:11:21.399 --> 01:11:23.880 you shake it and jostle it, the more seeds get 1323 01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:26.600 back into your soil. So getting the old plants out 1324 01:11:26.640 --> 01:11:29.760 of there and then throwing mulch over the top to 1325 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:33.560 completely block the sunlight is probably the best way to 1326 01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:37.079 deal with spurge. There are pre emergent herbicides that can 1327 01:11:37.079 --> 01:11:42.199 be used, but in garden beds, we moved the soil 1328 01:11:42.199 --> 01:11:44.720 around so much that the pre emergence we sort of 1329 01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:47.279 mess up what they would have done by changing the 1330 01:11:47.319 --> 01:11:51.399 soil around physically. In a lawn, it means your lawn 1331 01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:54.319 is too thin, and you got to get that turf thicker, 1332 01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:57.239 and it'll show spurge is not a problem in a 1333 01:11:57.279 --> 01:12:00.880 dense lawn. And so if it's in a lawn, and yeah, 1334 01:12:01.119 --> 01:12:03.960 just mow, water, fertilize your way back to a denser lawn. 1335 01:12:05.800 --> 01:12:08.720 That's long term. That's long term. 1336 01:12:08.960 --> 01:12:11.920 All right, Yeah, we'll start pulling in I guess like 1337 01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:14.159 Scott's bomats or something like that. 1338 01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:22.880 For surf builder, now I would use I would use nitrophoss. Barricade. 1339 01:12:22.960 --> 01:12:24.640 It took me a second to get the word barricade 1340 01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:28.079 in my head. Barricade is pre emergent. You put it 1341 01:12:28.159 --> 01:12:30.640 down for spurge. You can put it down mid to 1342 01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:33.319 late Let's see where you located. You were up in Connry, Yeah, 1343 01:12:33.399 --> 01:12:37.600 mid to late February would be fine. You may have 1344 01:12:37.680 --> 01:12:42.359 to do another application about sixty days later to extend 1345 01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:47.319 that further along, but you apply it watered into the 1346 01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:51.399 surface and that prevents both grassy and most broad leaf 1347 01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:52.119 weeds as well. 1348 01:12:53.479 --> 01:12:55.319 Okay, thank you very much. 1349 01:12:56.119 --> 01:12:59.079 All right, Donnie, thanks a lot, appreciate your call. I 1350 01:12:59.079 --> 01:13:01.239 want to tell you a talking about lawns. The folks 1351 01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:03.800 at nit Fross have Sweet Green. Sweet Green is that 1352 01:13:03.920 --> 01:13:09.479 molasses based fertilizer that smells sweet because it's molosses. Molasses 1353 01:13:09.720 --> 01:13:13.439 is a sugar, it's a carbon chain and microbes eat 1354 01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:16.359 it up. That's why organic gardeners have always talked about 1355 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:19.319 putting molasses in the soil. Well, you can do that 1356 01:13:19.520 --> 01:13:23.239 and add eleven percent nitrogen, which is what's in Sweet Green, 1357 01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:26.319 to your soil as well. Works good for the lawn 1358 01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:29.159 for giving a little boost to your lawns. And it's 1359 01:13:29.239 --> 01:13:32.239 just an outstanding product because it also does help with 1360 01:13:32.399 --> 01:13:37.159 the organic the microbes, the things that are helping you 1361 01:13:37.199 --> 01:13:39.920 in the soil. And it smells the good as I 1362 01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:41.760 like to put it. You just want to take another 1363 01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:43.800 loop around six ' ten on the way home, because 1364 01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:46.239 just to enjoy the smell in your car all right, 1365 01:13:46.479 --> 01:13:50.159 Sweet Green joking aside, It's available to Katie Ace Hardware 1366 01:13:50.199 --> 01:13:53.399 out there on pin Oak Katie and Single Ranch also 1367 01:13:53.800 --> 01:13:56.399 on Mason Road is another place that you can get 1368 01:13:56.600 --> 01:13:59.880 sweet Green or up and down in a tescasita at 1369 01:13:59.920 --> 01:14:03.039 the It's hard run timber forest. All places that carry 1370 01:14:03.039 --> 01:14:06.319 that product. We are going to now go to Susan 1371 01:14:06.479 --> 01:14:08.800 in League City and Susan, how can we help? 1372 01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:11.920 Goodrying skip? How I am? 1373 01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:14.479 I'm doing well, thank you. 1374 01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:21.479 I'm outside running beautiful weather. But I have a frustrating 1375 01:14:21.560 --> 01:14:25.760 problem with my plans and my planter, and I was 1376 01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:30.439 hoping you can give me some hints. So about months ago, 1377 01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:36.359 I swap out everything that I had just start planning 1378 01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:41.279 for the fall, prep the soil, everything, and I put 1379 01:14:41.279 --> 01:14:45.479 down some seat and I put also a young plan, 1380 01:14:45.960 --> 01:14:53.079 a few squash and some bardishes. Something overnight and just 1381 01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:56.319 keep repeating something overnight would. 1382 01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:00.560 Eat all the leaves. 1383 01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:03.800 And celimoniall come out. See full of sticks, well sometimes 1384 01:15:03.840 --> 01:15:04.720 not even a stick. 1385 01:15:04.760 --> 01:15:06.119 The whole thing's gone eating. 1386 01:15:07.159 --> 01:15:11.600 The weird thing is it won't eat the radish. I 1387 01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:16.760 guess the radish. I eat it. That's a talent. Be leave, okay, 1388 01:15:17.479 --> 01:15:20.319 the radist leaves go a little bit spicy. I'm wondering 1389 01:15:20.359 --> 01:15:21.439 that why it's not eating that. 1390 01:15:22.800 --> 01:15:26.279 I don't know. So things that eat leaves at night 1391 01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:27.680 like that. It could be a beetle, it could be 1392 01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:30.479 a caterpillar, but it also could be deer. And so 1393 01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:33.640 I don't know which did it, but you're gonna have 1394 01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:35.520 to catch the culprit in the act. I'd go out 1395 01:15:35.560 --> 01:15:37.640 with a flashlight at night when you have plants like 1396 01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:39.800 that and just look around see what's on them. Some 1397 01:15:39.880 --> 01:15:43.119 catapillars are nocturnal. Nocturnal they hide during the day and 1398 01:15:43.119 --> 01:15:46.119 come out at night. I can't tell you what did it, 1399 01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:49.079 but I do know if things with mouths that can 1400 01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:52.399 eat leaves are caterpillars and beetles and deer, they are 1401 01:15:52.399 --> 01:15:55.199 also grasshoppers, but grasshoppers don't feed at night like that. 1402 01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:00.000 Okay, I didn't know capitilla has come out at night. 1403 01:16:01.319 --> 01:16:03.720 Some of my some of my friends told me to 1404 01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:05.840 go ahead and spray everything as I put them on 1405 01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:07.039 the ground. Is that a good idea? 1406 01:16:08.319 --> 01:16:10.000 Well, I mean you could that would take care of 1407 01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:12.560 the insect part of it, uh and and put if it. 1408 01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:14.520 If that fixed it, then you know it wasn't dear 1409 01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:15.399 it was an insect. 1410 01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:19.640 Oh, we'll fix the cind of pillow. 1411 01:16:20.920 --> 01:16:22.439 Yes, they're insects too. 1412 01:16:22.520 --> 01:16:22.800 M h. 1413 01:16:25.199 --> 01:16:25.239 O. 1414 01:16:25.600 --> 01:16:29.359 Thanks, have a good run. You take care. Bye bye. 1415 01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:31.960 We're gonna let's see here. We're gonna go to Marty 1416 01:16:32.199 --> 01:16:34.920 in Fairfield. Hello Marty, Welcome to Gardline. 1417 01:16:35.399 --> 01:16:36.199 Well, good morning. 1418 01:16:36.840 --> 01:16:41.159 I have a question about my My opra is like 1419 01:16:41.239 --> 01:16:44.239 going gang Investors too. And you had a couple of recipes. 1420 01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:47.119 Did you put those on Facebook or anything? 1421 01:16:48.359 --> 01:16:48.439 Like? 1422 01:16:48.520 --> 01:16:49.399 I roasted them? 1423 01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:53.960 I love them? Okay, yeah, all right, Yeah, roasting is 1424 01:16:54.039 --> 01:16:56.880 my favorite way because it cuts down on the slime sun. 1425 01:16:56.920 --> 01:16:59.239 But I put them on the barbecue pick because we 1426 01:16:59.279 --> 01:17:01.800 like to cook out a lot. Just brush them with 1427 01:17:01.800 --> 01:17:04.359 olive oil, sprinkle in with sea salt, and two minutes 1428 01:17:04.399 --> 01:17:07.479 on each side. That's the whole recipe for roasting, okra. 1429 01:17:08.039 --> 01:17:12.760 Yeah, I've been trying all different kinds. Okay, my basil 1430 01:17:12.840 --> 01:17:17.159 is bolting and I've pulled the dead bolts off. 1431 01:17:17.199 --> 01:17:17.960 I cut them off. 1432 01:17:18.560 --> 01:17:20.319 Can I plant those next year? 1433 01:17:22.439 --> 01:17:22.640 Well? 1434 01:17:22.680 --> 01:17:26.399 I would. I would take those off and then some 1435 01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:29.159 branches that haven't bolted, I would cut those, put them 1436 01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:31.920 in water and they'll root in your kitchen window. I 1437 01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:34.640 mean you can get roots on those things that you 1438 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:38.479 could carry through the winter and reach brout. Now, if 1439 01:17:38.520 --> 01:17:41.880 you want to save seed from your Okra, I'm okra, basil. 1440 01:17:42.039 --> 01:17:45.640 That's fine. You could and they will come up next 1441 01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:50.720 year if it's a special variety like I've been growing evergreen, 1442 01:17:51.119 --> 01:17:55.840 everleaf emerald towers very upright, Okra, that's a special bread variety, 1443 01:17:55.840 --> 01:17:57.520 and so the seeds aren't going to come back true 1444 01:17:57.560 --> 01:18:01.880 to form. Just Okra, you can save. 1445 01:18:01.640 --> 01:18:07.239 The seeds, okay, And then saying Okra, Marty, I know 1446 01:18:07.399 --> 01:18:11.000 it's ok I am the same way. 1447 01:18:11.119 --> 01:18:13.399 It's okay, it's okay. 1448 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:16.520 I do the same thing all the time. And then 1449 01:18:16.720 --> 01:18:21.680 I went to the TIMU, I mean the website for 1450 01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:25.399 the eed U Texas A and M. Their seed planting 1451 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:29.039 times are not really complete for what I like. Is 1452 01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:32.520 there another website that would be good because I've got 1453 01:18:32.560 --> 01:18:34.560 spinach seeds I want to put out too. 1454 01:18:36.039 --> 01:18:39.439 Yeah, we had a number, Yeah, we have a number 1455 01:18:39.479 --> 01:18:42.079 of good sources around here. When I was in Houston, 1456 01:18:42.159 --> 01:18:45.520 I put together a little green chart for planting that's 1457 01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:50.720 at the Harris County Extension Office website. I planning on 1458 01:18:51.039 --> 01:18:54.079 taking it and it needs some more work and working 1459 01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:55.840 through it and then putting it back up on my 1460 01:18:55.920 --> 01:18:57.600 Guardenline Website's not off there yet. 1461 01:18:58.199 --> 01:18:58.319 Uh. 1462 01:18:58.640 --> 01:19:05.800 The folks at Gosh I just wan to Arburgate have 1463 01:19:05.880 --> 01:19:10.319 a really nice listing online for seats. A lot of 1464 01:19:10.399 --> 01:19:14.640 our garden centers, do you know, intended gardens I know 1465 01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:17.279 has that kind of thing, So I would look in 1466 01:19:17.319 --> 01:19:20.039 those kind of places. I think you'll find you a 1467 01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:21.399 real good success. 1468 01:19:22.159 --> 01:19:25.720 Very good, Thank you. 1469 01:19:24.479 --> 01:19:26.960 You bet, thanks a lot, Marty. I appreciate the call. 1470 01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:31.079 All right, I hear music gardens. So we're going to 1471 01:19:31.159 --> 01:19:34.840 have to talk. Let's see here, I'm going to get 1472 01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:36.800 my producer to speak with you a little bit. We 1473 01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:38.520 may have to have you call us back here in 1474 01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:40.560 a minute. I'm about to have a special guest on 1475 01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:44.119 and we are going to talk about fall gardening, all 1476 01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:47.399 vegetable gardening and some other things as well. So don't 1477 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:49.720 go away, stick around. We'll be right back and I 1478 01:19:49.800 --> 01:19:55.000 promise you you will enjoy this one. 1479 01:19:55.800 --> 01:19:59.800 Welcome to kat rh Garden Line with Skip Richards. 1480 01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:08.960 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to the guarden Line. Hey, it's 1481 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:10.760 good to have you with us today. Thanks for listening 1482 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:13.960 on a wonderful Sunday. We had a great day to day. 1483 01:20:14.119 --> 01:20:16.960 I hope this afternoon you will get out visit some 1484 01:20:17.039 --> 01:20:20.079 of our garden centers, get some soil to get ready 1485 01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:23.800 for fall. Fall is the best planning season of the year. Compost, 1486 01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:26.800 bed mixes, mulchz. You're gonna need all that stuff, so 1487 01:20:26.880 --> 01:20:29.760 make sure take care of the brown stuff and so 1488 01:20:29.960 --> 01:20:32.399 your green stuff will end up being a whole lot 1489 01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:35.920 happier as a result. I've got a special guest coming 1490 01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:38.399 on right now, and we are going to talk about 1491 01:20:38.479 --> 01:20:41.159 all kinds of things. Specifically, we're going to aim ourselves 1492 01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:43.920 at some vegetables for fall, talk a little bit about 1493 01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:50.600 fall gardening. And that is Joey from the Enchanted Gardens 1494 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:55.920 Garden Center in Richmond, Texas. That's just up on toward 1495 01:20:55.960 --> 01:20:59.560 the Katie fullsher direction, Upper Richmond. Joey, Welcome to garden Line. 1496 01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:00.800 Good to have you with us. 1497 01:21:01.319 --> 01:21:02.960 Good morning everybody. Thanks for having me. 1498 01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:06.479 Well, it's a pleasure. And you and I were visiting 1499 01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:09.159 over at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association show a 1500 01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:12.319 few weeks ago, which, by the way, wasn't that a 1501 01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:16.399 fun place. We were talking about some different topics and 1502 01:21:16.479 --> 01:21:19.520 I think fall vegetables came on the list, and I 1503 01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:24.560 know you are enthusiastic about growing your own groceries if 1504 01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:26.840 you will on fall vegetables. You guys have a lot 1505 01:21:26.840 --> 01:21:30.079 of great plants and soils and products to help with that. 1506 01:21:30.239 --> 01:21:31.680 So I just kind of want to turn you loose 1507 01:21:31.680 --> 01:21:34.760 a little bit to give some tips for people that 1508 01:21:34.800 --> 01:21:39.079 are listening that you've learned are important for success with 1509 01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:41.560 a fall vegetable garden. What are some things that you 1510 01:21:41.560 --> 01:21:43.359 would say people need to know. 1511 01:21:44.600 --> 01:21:47.119 I got you. Yeah, it's hard not to be enthusiastic 1512 01:21:47.159 --> 01:21:49.039 on a day like this. It is beautiful out there. 1513 01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:51.640 If you hadn't been outside, get out there and enjoy it. 1514 01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:53.720 This is one of the best days of the year 1515 01:21:53.880 --> 01:21:54.520 in my opinion. 1516 01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:55.840 Yeah it is. 1517 01:21:55.880 --> 01:21:59.239 But yeah, it's time for the actual cool weather plants 1518 01:21:59.239 --> 01:22:04.039 to go in. We're talking about broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, swiss 1519 01:22:04.159 --> 01:22:08.520 charred mustard, greens, collar greens, things of that sort. There 1520 01:22:08.479 --> 01:22:10.479 will be more things to come in the next week 1521 01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:14.479 or so. Lettuce and other types of leafy greens will 1522 01:22:14.920 --> 01:22:18.319 be available soon. One thing that I like to do 1523 01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:21.800 when planning the fall vegetable garden is if you have 1524 01:22:22.159 --> 01:22:25.279 enough room, I like to stagger crops. You know, if 1525 01:22:25.279 --> 01:22:27.920 you're gonna plant twelve broccoli plants, don't plant them all 1526 01:22:27.960 --> 01:22:30.479 at one time because you don't want all that broccoli 1527 01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:32.920 to become ready at the same time. What are you 1528 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:34.800 going to do with it? All? Right, So if you'll 1529 01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:37.520 go to plan you know, three, three or four plants 1530 01:22:37.960 --> 01:22:41.039 every you know, week to ten days, then that'll stagger 1531 01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:44.039 your production some and you won't have broccoli coming after 1532 01:22:44.039 --> 01:22:44.560 your years. 1533 01:22:46.039 --> 01:22:46.279 You know. 1534 01:22:46.720 --> 01:22:49.439 I tell gardeners all the time that just because there's 1535 01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:52.359 a hundred seeds in a pack of lettuce, doesn't mean 1536 01:22:52.399 --> 01:22:56.960 you need one hundred lettuce plants all at once eat 1537 01:22:57.000 --> 01:22:59.560 in a week, right let us. 1538 01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:01.520 Let Us is one of the easiest things to grow 1539 01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:03.359 because you can go out, you don't have to harvest 1540 01:23:03.399 --> 01:23:05.840 the whole thing. Uh, you can go and you pick 1541 01:23:05.960 --> 01:23:09.159 pick enough leaves for you know, one one evening salad 1542 01:23:09.359 --> 01:23:11.880 and leave the rest to grow, and you know it'll 1543 01:23:12.119 --> 01:23:14.920 replace itself in no time. That's Uh, that's one of 1544 01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:17.079 the most used things in my garden for sure. 1545 01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:20.880 Yeah, that's a great one. And uh it's so easy 1546 01:23:20.920 --> 01:23:24.199 to grow healthy stuff here, you know, this far south 1547 01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:27.119 in Texas, It's like we have twelve months of growing. 1548 01:23:27.159 --> 01:23:30.199 In fact, summer is a bigger dormant season than winter 1549 01:23:30.359 --> 01:23:31.000 is for us. 1550 01:23:31.279 --> 01:23:32.720 Yeah, you're exactly right. 1551 01:23:32.800 --> 01:23:35.680 It's uh, you're exactly right, and so boy we can 1552 01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:38.680 garden like crazy. Hey, before I forget this, I want 1553 01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:41.039 to mention on your website in Channa Gardens, you guys 1554 01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:44.239 have a great spring and fall planting schedule. So people 1555 01:23:44.279 --> 01:23:47.720 will go to the website that fall planning schedules there 1556 01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:50.640 and you list the dates, uh to begin I guess 1557 01:23:50.680 --> 01:23:53.119 planting some of those things, or the ideal dates to 1558 01:23:53.199 --> 01:23:53.880 kind of aim for. 1559 01:23:54.079 --> 01:23:56.920 Yes, yeah, somewhere in that in that range. You know, 1560 01:23:56.960 --> 01:24:00.199 within a week or two. Nothing's totally sitting stone. Who 1561 01:24:00.279 --> 01:24:02.000 knows what our weather is going to do around here. 1562 01:24:02.079 --> 01:24:04.680 I sure certainly didn't expect it to be this cool 1563 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:09.560 on September eighth. Generally it's still in the upper nineties 1564 01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:12.439 at this point. So we are well certainly lucky to. 1565 01:24:12.359 --> 01:24:16.119 Have Yeah, we are. And and just to be honest, 1566 01:24:16.520 --> 01:24:20.119 this was an incredibly overall cool and rainy summer. You know, 1567 01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:23.600 compared to especially last year what we went through, this 1568 01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:26.199 has been a it's been you know, if this was 1569 01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:29.159 a tough summer for you, will tough en up a 1570 01:24:29.159 --> 01:24:31.039 little bit, but yeah. 1571 01:24:30.840 --> 01:24:33.720 It was as far as I'm concerned. 1572 01:24:34.199 --> 01:24:36.720 It sure was. It sure was, which is a good thing. 1573 01:24:37.119 --> 01:24:39.960 So you're talking about don't plant too much at one time, 1574 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:42.760 that's really good advice. Planting at the right time is 1575 01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:46.239 important too, because you know, we have things that we're 1576 01:24:46.319 --> 01:24:49.279 like you're talking about planting on your schedule. You've got 1577 01:24:49.600 --> 01:24:51.920 things like the beans that you would put out, or 1578 01:24:52.199 --> 01:24:54.520 our cucumbers or things that you put out. If you 1579 01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:57.319 wait too long on those as it cools off, they 1580 01:24:57.359 --> 01:24:59.319 slow growth so much that you're not going to get 1581 01:24:59.319 --> 01:25:01.680 a harvest. So timing is important, and I think that's 1582 01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:03.680 great that you all have those planting dates on there. 1583 01:25:04.520 --> 01:25:06.920 Yeah, it really helps because going into it, especially for 1584 01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:10.760 a beginner, you know that you know, these poor beginners 1585 01:25:10.760 --> 01:25:13.439 that come in, you know, they're looking for, you know, 1586 01:25:14.239 --> 01:25:17.680 cool other stuff in may you know what you don't 1587 01:25:18.079 --> 01:25:20.119 you don't know, you don't know. So that's why we 1588 01:25:20.119 --> 01:25:22.239 listened all that on our website. We also, of course, 1589 01:25:22.279 --> 01:25:25.239 have lots of knowledgeable people here to help answer any 1590 01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:26.159 questions you might have. 1591 01:25:27.399 --> 01:25:31.319 Yeah, that's true, you do. So as far as gardening, 1592 01:25:32.199 --> 01:25:34.800 the old way of gardening was we kind of had 1593 01:25:34.840 --> 01:25:37.119 a little mini farm in the backyard. You know, we 1594 01:25:37.199 --> 01:25:39.439 plowed up and we had rows that looked like farm 1595 01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:43.239 rows and stuff. And now with most of people living 1596 01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:46.119 in an urban or suburban setting where there's not so 1597 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:49.880 much space, we've sort of shifted to some other ways 1598 01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:52.279 where we get more production even in a small area. 1599 01:25:52.399 --> 01:25:54.760 And like raised beds. I think you I've seen you 1600 01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:57.840 doing some videos on vego bed or some other kind 1601 01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:00.960 of bed talk a little bit about the raised beds 1602 01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:01.880 and the convenience of that. 1603 01:26:03.039 --> 01:26:06.800 Yeah, raised beds are just taking over the whole gardening 1604 01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:12.680 world in our area. In my opinion that the best 1605 01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:16.399 parts about raised beds. They're up high so you don't 1606 01:26:16.439 --> 01:26:19.920 have to bend over so much when you're either planting 1607 01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:24.800 or harvesting or working the soil, working your amendments in there. 1608 01:26:24.840 --> 01:26:27.760 And also having them raised high that makes it less 1609 01:26:27.800 --> 01:26:30.359 likely for weed seeds to blow into the bed. So 1610 01:26:30.359 --> 01:26:32.199 it's just all around left maintenance. 1611 01:26:33.159 --> 01:26:38.239 Yeah, and of course there, yes, yes, yeah, I was 1612 01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:42.600 gonna say you can grow a raised bed anywhere. Years ago, 1613 01:26:42.760 --> 01:26:46.079 when the Galveston Master Gardener County Extinch office was in 1614 01:26:46.119 --> 01:26:49.119 a basically in the middle of a parking lot, the 1615 01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:52.239 Master gardeners went out on asphalt and dropped raised beds 1616 01:26:52.239 --> 01:26:54.000 on the ground, filled them up with the good stuff, 1617 01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:57.520 and put mulched between the road between the beds, and 1618 01:26:57.560 --> 01:26:59.359 when you walked out, you just thought, well, I'm in 1619 01:26:59.399 --> 01:27:02.319 a garden soil underneath me, and you didn't realize there's 1620 01:27:02.439 --> 01:27:06.359 literally asphalt underneath it. So they turned asphalt into a 1621 01:27:06.399 --> 01:27:10.039 garden with a nice quality raised bed. Yeah, it is 1622 01:27:10.039 --> 01:27:10.439 a good thing. 1623 01:27:10.560 --> 01:27:13.079 Yeah, they're really versatile, and if it doesn't work out, 1624 01:27:13.439 --> 01:27:15.720 you can always move it. If you have trees that 1625 01:27:15.880 --> 01:27:18.279 eventually grow and shade that area too much to where 1626 01:27:18.279 --> 01:27:20.079 your vegetables aren't thriving, you can move it. 1627 01:27:20.560 --> 01:27:20.720 You know. 1628 01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:23.880 There's just so many options with raised beds. 1629 01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:28.840 Yeah, that's that, that is true. You know. The something 1630 01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:32.359 I'm often trying to encourage people to do is to 1631 01:27:32.439 --> 01:27:35.600 consider containers too. Now, a raised bed technically is sort 1632 01:27:35.640 --> 01:27:38.239 of a container, but a lot of people just don't. 1633 01:27:38.319 --> 01:27:39.800 They don't want to plow up the ground. They don't 1634 01:27:39.800 --> 01:27:41.960 put a raised bed on their lawn. They have a 1635 01:27:42.000 --> 01:27:45.479 patio though, and you can grow a lot of vegetables 1636 01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:48.920 in a nice sized container on the patio. Do you 1637 01:27:48.920 --> 01:27:50.960 have any thoughts on ideas on tips. 1638 01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:54.399 Maybe you certainly, yeah, especially for a beginner somebody wanting 1639 01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:57.520 to dip their toes in it. They don't want to 1640 01:27:57.560 --> 01:28:01.680 buy a four y eight raised bed, so we sell 1641 01:28:01.720 --> 01:28:05.760 lots and lots of fifteen gallon twenty five gallons, just 1642 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:08.039 the black plastic pots. You know, plants don't care what 1643 01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:09.920 they're growing in. They can growing up. 1644 01:28:09.960 --> 01:28:10.359 That's true. 1645 01:28:10.399 --> 01:28:14.600 One pot or a seven dollars pots, and that is true. 1646 01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:17.800 That is true. Guy named color Rushing from Mississippi says, 1647 01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:20.520 you can't embarrass a plant with a pot. Hey, Joey, 1648 01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:22.199 I got to take a break. Can you stick around 1649 01:28:22.199 --> 01:28:25.840 for the next segment? Sure I can, all right, Thank 1650 01:28:25.880 --> 01:28:30.000 you very much. Folks will be right back. Slenderman from 1651 01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:34.720 Chandy Gardens out there in Richmond area, Joey, welcome back. 1652 01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:36.560 We're glad to have you, and I want to continue 1653 01:28:36.560 --> 01:28:39.960 our discussion about fall veggies, but I'd like to stretch 1654 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:42.439 it out a little bit. Herbs kind of go with 1655 01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:46.520 vegetables being another edible, and boy, fall is definitely the 1656 01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:50.600 season for herbs other than basil. You know, fall planting 1657 01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:54.600 of our perennial herbs is just such a wise idea. 1658 01:28:54.920 --> 01:28:56.800 And I know You guys carry a lot of different 1659 01:28:56.800 --> 01:28:57.880 types of herbs, don't you. 1660 01:28:58.760 --> 01:28:59.479 Yeah, that we do. 1661 01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:03.199 We've got a good selection right now. Mints and time 1662 01:29:03.319 --> 01:29:09.479 and chives and rue gil regino, sage, rosemary, lavender, lots 1663 01:29:09.520 --> 01:29:13.800 of that stuff. There's you mentioned the basil. Basil is 1664 01:29:13.840 --> 01:29:17.359 a warm season plan. It's really sensitive to the cold. 1665 01:29:17.359 --> 01:29:21.119 So it'll do fine until uh, you know, maybe late October, 1666 01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:23.119 mid October. It just depends on how the weather goes. 1667 01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:26.520 But it does not like the cold. Animal just like me. 1668 01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:30.439 Right right, Well, you know, basil, I ran into a 1669 01:29:30.479 --> 01:29:33.319 basil this year. I don't want to sidetrack our conversation, 1670 01:29:33.399 --> 01:29:35.880 but basil actually I grew at last year and this 1671 01:29:35.960 --> 01:29:40.920 year everleaf emerald towers. I believe. It's a very vertical, 1672 01:29:41.079 --> 01:29:45.960 upright basil. And as far as culinary, probably geneviees I 1673 01:29:46.039 --> 01:29:48.600 like a little bit better. But it is so attractive 1674 01:29:48.720 --> 01:29:51.000 ornamental with that plant form. I mean, it's just like 1675 01:29:51.039 --> 01:29:56.960 a little upright yopon or something growing in the garden. Yeah, 1676 01:29:57.039 --> 01:30:00.600 our vegetables can be attractive as well. And so I 1677 01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:03.359 know you guys really are into the containers you guys 1678 01:30:03.359 --> 01:30:07.359 are having. Maria always built outstanding containers out there. But 1679 01:30:07.479 --> 01:30:10.039 you could do a container with vegetables that may have 1680 01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:13.159 some alyssam around the side, you know, to make it attractive, 1681 01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:15.359 or some chives at the room in the center. Oh yeah, 1682 01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:17.720 there's a lot of there's a lot of ways. 1683 01:30:18.319 --> 01:30:21.359 Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, nothing wrong with doing a mixed container. 1684 01:30:22.119 --> 01:30:24.520 It can be pretty and edible. 1685 01:30:25.199 --> 01:30:25.840 So yeah you can. 1686 01:30:25.920 --> 01:30:28.039 Yeah, And even a lot of the herbs are pretty. 1687 01:30:28.039 --> 01:30:31.840 They're not just for culinary uses, you know, the orangos 1688 01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:34.720 and some of the rosemary will trail. You could do 1689 01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:39.000 something upright in the center like chives or lemon grass 1690 01:30:39.039 --> 01:30:40.479 or cilantro or something like that. 1691 01:30:41.439 --> 01:30:43.960 There you go, and we're being in the fall season 1692 01:30:44.199 --> 01:30:48.439 where the daylengths changing, things like pineapple, sage. What was 1693 01:30:48.439 --> 01:30:50.560 the other one I was just thinking of. I just 1694 01:30:50.560 --> 01:30:53.640 just went through my mind. I can't remember now. Oh, 1695 01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:57.399 Mexican met marigold. They bloom in that cool season, and 1696 01:30:57.439 --> 01:31:00.640 so they're both attractive and edible as well. 1697 01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:02.680 Yep, yeah, that's a great fall bloomer. 1698 01:31:03.600 --> 01:31:08.720 Yeah, cool stuff. Well, what do you have any vegetables 1699 01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:11.840 or or herbs that you know, kind of have caught 1700 01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:14.920 your fancy recently that you kind of really like this one. 1701 01:31:15.239 --> 01:31:17.359 Maybe it's new, maybe it's just one. You just kind 1702 01:31:17.359 --> 01:31:18.680 of worked your way back around. 1703 01:31:18.439 --> 01:31:22.399 To one of my favorites. And it's very simple and 1704 01:31:22.439 --> 01:31:24.560 I'd never grown them before a couple of years ago. 1705 01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:28.840 But the Valentino bush green beans, that thing will produce. 1706 01:31:29.199 --> 01:31:31.560 For a little bitty plant, I think produces like crazy. 1707 01:31:31.600 --> 01:31:33.520 I got to tell a quick story about it. We 1708 01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:35.000 were going out of town one time at the end 1709 01:31:35.039 --> 01:31:37.840 of spring and my wife said, Okay, after work, you 1710 01:31:37.880 --> 01:31:40.960 go pick the green beans. And you know, we're heading 1711 01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:42.920 out before you. So I was like, Okay, five minutes, 1712 01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:45.079 I'll be done picking the green beans. It took me 1713 01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:47.359 forty five minutes to pick them all. They were so many, 1714 01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:49.960 it was I was blown away by the production of 1715 01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:51.680 those Valentino green beans. 1716 01:31:51.880 --> 01:31:53.680 You know, I've never grown that one. So now you've 1717 01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:59.399 given me something to look forward to spring for. Yes, yeah, 1718 01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:00.079 all right. 1719 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:02.359 Yeah, and that that one is one that I'm going 1720 01:32:02.439 --> 01:32:04.920 to stagger crops on because I don't need to spend 1721 01:32:05.000 --> 01:32:09.720 forty five minutes picking green beans one day. Oh yeah, 1722 01:32:09.840 --> 01:32:12.479 very very surprising. That a good problem to. 1723 01:32:12.479 --> 01:32:15.279 Have, Yeah, it is. It definitely is. 1724 01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:15.800 Well. 1725 01:32:15.840 --> 01:32:19.640 I have not always been a big greens eater. But 1726 01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:23.359 since you know gardening, it causes you to try things 1727 01:32:23.439 --> 01:32:26.239 you wouldn't have tried before. And I've been getting really 1728 01:32:26.279 --> 01:32:28.800 excited about our close seasoned greens. We have so many 1729 01:32:28.840 --> 01:32:31.520 good greens and whether you're making a salad or a smoothie, 1730 01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:34.199 and I put a lot of greens and smoothies. Uh, 1731 01:32:34.840 --> 01:32:36.680 there are a lot of ones that you can grow. 1732 01:32:36.800 --> 01:32:39.560 I mean things like a regular everybody knows let us 1733 01:32:39.560 --> 01:32:43.119 and spinach, but a regula and you know baby kale. 1734 01:32:43.720 --> 01:32:47.039 You mentioned collars earlier. A good green. Uh, there is 1735 01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:51.159 a plantain. There is a sorrel Srel is kind of cool. 1736 01:32:51.720 --> 01:32:53.600 I like the little red stripe leave one kinds of 1737 01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:57.000 lemony flavor that you can add to soups and salads. Yeah, 1738 01:32:57.079 --> 01:33:00.119 but it just goes on and on and on of 1739 01:33:00.199 --> 01:33:03.239 healthy things that the way I like to put it 1740 01:33:03.319 --> 01:33:06.199 is you can make a really tasty salad without them 1741 01:33:06.199 --> 01:33:09.520 to slather at in a thousand island dressing. If you'd 1742 01:33:09.560 --> 01:33:11.600 like to cut back on some of that stuff. 1743 01:33:12.000 --> 01:33:13.880 Yeah, definitely the regular and you know a lot of 1744 01:33:13.880 --> 01:33:16.640 the greens have kind of a spicy taste to them, 1745 01:33:16.840 --> 01:33:19.199 so it adds natural flavor. It's great. 1746 01:33:20.319 --> 01:33:23.439 Yeah, And then well, we could just keep going on 1747 01:33:23.479 --> 01:33:26.800 and on talking about those things. Tell us about some 1748 01:33:26.920 --> 01:33:29.319 of the other things that are going on as we're 1749 01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:32.439 changing seasons now heading toward the fall. For you guys 1750 01:33:32.439 --> 01:33:36.119 out there at in China Gardens. 1751 01:33:35.479 --> 01:33:38.720 Lots of things change in every week. More fall color 1752 01:33:38.800 --> 01:33:41.199 coming in, more fall vegetables. Of course, it's a great 1753 01:33:41.239 --> 01:33:44.399 time to plant evergreen shrubs or replace some of the 1754 01:33:44.439 --> 01:33:48.560 trees that were knocked out by Hurricane Barrel. That way, 1755 01:33:48.640 --> 01:33:50.640 if you plant them in the fall when they're about 1756 01:33:50.680 --> 01:33:52.680 to go dormant, then they'll have all winter to get 1757 01:33:52.760 --> 01:33:54.720 established before the heat next summer comes along. 1758 01:33:55.760 --> 01:33:57.239 All right, Well, that's good. 1759 01:33:57.239 --> 01:34:02.560 And we'll start some of our events at the end 1760 01:34:02.600 --> 01:34:06.439 of September and those will go through mid December, So 1761 01:34:06.840 --> 01:34:08.520 be sure and check our website in the next week 1762 01:34:08.600 --> 01:34:10.399 or so. Those will be listed on there. Lots of 1763 01:34:10.399 --> 01:34:12.600 exciting things that we're going to have going on up 1764 01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:14.000 here in Chinna Gardens. 1765 01:34:14.359 --> 01:34:17.000 That's good, that's good. It's good to know, you know. 1766 01:34:17.119 --> 01:34:20.760 I since we're talking, you know, about fall planting and stuff, 1767 01:34:21.279 --> 01:34:22.920 I'd like to shift. We got a little bit of 1768 01:34:22.920 --> 01:34:26.960 time here, about five minutes left. Let's talk about the 1769 01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:29.640 flowers that bloom and fall. And I'm not talking about 1770 01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:31.840 you know, like a petunia that you plant which would 1771 01:34:31.840 --> 01:34:33.319 then bloom and fall. By the way, I didn't know 1772 01:34:33.359 --> 01:34:35.439 you guys had Lara bush petunias and I just saw 1773 01:34:35.479 --> 01:34:39.319 that online. That's exciting. I like that petunia. Yeah, but 1774 01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:45.560 the fall bloomers, things like I mentioned Mexican mint marigold 1775 01:34:45.600 --> 01:34:49.880 that blooms in the fall. We have the bush salvia, 1776 01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:55.039 the Salvia leucantha that blooms primarily in the fall, and 1777 01:34:55.079 --> 01:34:59.239 their fall aster is good. You know, I was talking 1778 01:34:59.239 --> 01:35:02.079 earlier on garden Line about the four seasons. Plant for 1779 01:35:02.159 --> 01:35:05.840 the four seasons, and there's always something that looks good, 1780 01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:09.840 and so we often forget to plant for fall blooms. 1781 01:35:10.159 --> 01:35:12.159 Would you talk a little bit about things that you 1782 01:35:12.439 --> 01:35:13.840 like for color in the fall. 1783 01:35:15.239 --> 01:35:17.680 One of my favorites for the fall, not necessarily color, 1784 01:35:18.159 --> 01:35:21.520 but for the texture and the height. All the ornamental 1785 01:35:21.560 --> 01:35:24.840 grasses they you know, this is the time that their 1786 01:35:24.840 --> 01:35:28.640 plumes come up and really show their stuff. One of 1787 01:35:28.680 --> 01:35:31.039 the most popular ones for our area is the Gulf 1788 01:35:31.079 --> 01:35:34.279 Coast muleiue that has the little pink flues. Starting this 1789 01:35:34.359 --> 01:35:37.359 time of years, you'll see even growing on the sides 1790 01:35:37.399 --> 01:35:40.720 of the roads in some of the native fields, and 1791 01:35:40.760 --> 01:35:42.920 it's just beautiful when the sun's going down and the 1792 01:35:42.920 --> 01:35:47.239 sun's shining across those pink plumes, they are gorgeous. But yeah, 1793 01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:50.279 all the the ornamental grasses, this is a great time 1794 01:35:50.279 --> 01:35:51.000 of year for those. 1795 01:35:52.079 --> 01:35:52.439 M hm. 1796 01:35:52.640 --> 01:35:53.039 It is. 1797 01:35:54.479 --> 01:35:57.880 General. Perennials generally take a break into each of the summer. 1798 01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:01.000 So if you you know, trum them by back this 1799 01:36:01.119 --> 01:36:03.560 time of year or maybe a couple of weeks ago, good, 1800 01:36:04.039 --> 01:36:07.720 just a ten percent haircutter, so so that will encourage 1801 01:36:07.760 --> 01:36:09.960 new growth come out and more ballooms and make them 1802 01:36:10.039 --> 01:36:11.319 more full and dense. 1803 01:36:12.399 --> 01:36:16.359 So this is a very goods Yeah, that that is 1804 01:36:16.439 --> 01:36:19.159 a good, very good tip on that. I like Copper 1805 01:36:19.239 --> 01:36:20.920 Canyon daisy too. I wish they would come up with 1806 01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:24.520 a more compact form of it. But people it sort 1807 01:36:24.560 --> 01:36:26.920 of splits the masses on whether they like the scent 1808 01:36:27.079 --> 01:36:30.079 or not. To me, it's a citrus slash pine scent 1809 01:36:30.680 --> 01:36:32.399 and I like it, but some people it's a little 1810 01:36:32.439 --> 01:36:35.520 a little too strong. But boy it blims oh well 1811 01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:38.520 when when these days start to get shorter. That's a 1812 01:36:38.560 --> 01:36:41.199 good n By the way, you mentioned ornamental grasses, and 1813 01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:43.600 I think it's good for people to know. You mentioned 1814 01:36:43.640 --> 01:36:46.600 a light coming through. If you if you put them 1815 01:36:46.640 --> 01:36:49.520 in places where you see them with the sunlight coming 1816 01:36:49.640 --> 01:36:51.920 through the seat heads, it's even more beautiful. Like that 1817 01:36:52.039 --> 01:36:54.760 gulf Newly, you go stand on the sunny side of it, 1818 01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:57.039 it's not as impressive as it is when you go 1819 01:36:57.199 --> 01:36:59.840 stand on the other side, the opposite side. In this 1820 01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:04.840 sun is coming through those kind of ruby colored seed heads. 1821 01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:08.000 Yeah, that's exactly right. If you do a little planning, 1822 01:37:08.199 --> 01:37:09.640 it'll work out great in the long run. 1823 01:37:10.640 --> 01:37:14.279 M Yeah, maiden grass another good one. Penacetums another good 1824 01:37:14.319 --> 01:37:18.239 one for dishes. So many good enough ornamental grass grass. 1825 01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:20.640 Yeah, there's there's lots of great ones out there. 1826 01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:24.880 That's cool. Some other things. You know, we get into 1827 01:37:24.880 --> 01:37:28.680 the into the fall season. Uh, the fall aster is 1828 01:37:28.920 --> 01:37:31.000 just and there's a bunch of them. There's the native 1829 01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:34.640 asters and then there's there's others, uh that just look 1830 01:37:34.680 --> 01:37:37.399 out standing. You know, everybody thinks that chrscentemums in the fall, 1831 01:37:37.479 --> 01:37:39.239 but boy, we have a lot more fall color than 1832 01:37:39.359 --> 01:37:39.560 just that. 1833 01:37:41.079 --> 01:37:41.279 Yeah. 1834 01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:44.159 The fall asters will just sit there all summer and 1835 01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:46.560 just green and not much to look at, but they 1836 01:37:46.720 --> 01:37:48.239 really light up in the fall. 1837 01:37:49.520 --> 01:37:53.640 Yeah, planning for all of the four seasons that are 1838 01:37:53.680 --> 01:37:55.920 out there. Uh, tell us a little bit where you 1839 01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:59.359 guys are located for the people that may be going, Okay, 1840 01:37:59.359 --> 01:38:00.960 I want to come out there. How do I get there? 1841 01:38:01.039 --> 01:38:03.079 I mean I give out the dress all the time. 1842 01:38:03.159 --> 01:38:05.520 But yeah, we're at the corner. 1843 01:38:06.680 --> 01:38:08.520 Got to weare at the corner of seven twenty three 1844 01:38:08.600 --> 01:38:11.159 and three fifty nine in Richmond, near Foster High School. 1845 01:38:11.920 --> 01:38:15.119 We're just five minutes off of ten ninety three, seven 1846 01:38:15.159 --> 01:38:18.199 minutes off of Highway ninety nine and the Grain Park Way, 1847 01:38:19.439 --> 01:38:23.960 so we're between Richmond and Pulster basically, so pretty easy 1848 01:38:24.000 --> 01:38:26.199 to get you from any tricks you're coming from. 1849 01:38:27.399 --> 01:38:31.239 Okay, all right, Well that that is all really good 1850 01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:35.359 information on it. Any last thoughts in terms of we're 1851 01:38:35.479 --> 01:38:37.600 entering fall and just some things you think would be 1852 01:38:37.640 --> 01:38:39.800 good for people to be thinking about as they go forward. 1853 01:38:41.079 --> 01:38:43.159 One thing that we didn't talk about was the things 1854 01:38:43.199 --> 01:38:47.000 that you plant from seed versus planning from trainsplants. So 1855 01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:51.800 definitely all the root crops like rabits, shoes, beets, and carrots, 1856 01:38:51.960 --> 01:38:54.279 you'll want to do those. From seeds, you don't want 1857 01:38:54.319 --> 01:38:56.640 to do those. Some there are some places I've seen 1858 01:38:56.680 --> 01:38:59.279 that sell those plants and containers. But it's not worth 1859 01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:02.720 buying one or two beat plants in a pot. Those 1860 01:39:02.760 --> 01:39:06.640 things will germinate within you know, five or six days 1861 01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:08.399 once you once you plant them in the rear garden. 1862 01:39:08.920 --> 01:39:12.560 So do those those three things by seed. Any root 1863 01:39:12.600 --> 01:39:15.079 crop need to be done by seed. But then they're 1864 01:39:15.159 --> 01:39:18.119 very easy. Don't be afraid to jump in and try it. 1865 01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:21.760 That's a that is a very good point. And remember 1866 01:39:21.840 --> 01:39:24.520 with the root crops, folks, one of the mistakes I 1867 01:39:24.600 --> 01:39:27.600 see most often is not thinning them out. They plant 1868 01:39:27.680 --> 01:39:29.880 them too thick, and so think about how big that 1869 01:39:29.960 --> 01:39:32.319 carrot's going to get, and the plants ought to be 1870 01:39:32.359 --> 01:39:35.039 at least that far apart down in your rows so 1871 01:39:35.159 --> 01:39:37.319 they can form a good carrot. And don't over push 1872 01:39:37.359 --> 01:39:41.239 them with nitrogen either. But it is so easy. I 1873 01:39:41.359 --> 01:39:43.600 grew carrots in a container a couple of years ago 1874 01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:45.439 for the first time. I just had never tried it. 1875 01:39:45.680 --> 01:39:47.960 And they do really well in a container too. 1876 01:39:49.239 --> 01:39:50.880 Yep. Yeah, as long as you got a big enough 1877 01:39:50.880 --> 01:39:53.199 container and you're able to keep up with the watering, 1878 01:39:53.720 --> 01:39:55.000 then nothing wrong with it. 1879 01:39:56.079 --> 01:39:58.800 There you go. Hey, we're talking to Joey Linderman from 1880 01:39:59.119 --> 01:40:01.520 in Channet Gardens Nursery out in Richmond. Joey, thank you 1881 01:40:01.640 --> 01:40:04.239 so much. Time flies when you're having fun and I've 1882 01:40:04.279 --> 01:40:07.319 been having fun. Thanks for being on. I really appreciate it. 1883 01:40:08.039 --> 01:40:09.680 Yes, sir, I enjoyed it. I hope everybody has a 1884 01:40:09.720 --> 01:40:10.079 great day. 1885 01:40:11.239 --> 01:40:11.600 All right. 1886 01:40:11.800 --> 01:40:13.840 You take care, folks. All right, I'm going to go 1887 01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:19.920 to break here. We will be right back. I hope 1888 01:40:19.960 --> 01:40:23.279 you enjoyed it visiting with Joey Linderman at Ingena Gardens 1889 01:40:23.640 --> 01:40:26.279 about all kinds of things vegetables, you know, mostly vegetables, 1890 01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:30.199 a little bit of herbs, and in general fall fall advice. Again, 1891 01:40:30.279 --> 01:40:34.119 I hope that was helpful to you when you're looking 1892 01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:38.239 at products that will provide you with a good boost. 1893 01:40:39.079 --> 01:40:41.560 You've heard me talk about Genesis talk about a little 1894 01:40:41.560 --> 01:40:44.520 bit earlier today. But Nelson plant Food, part of their 1895 01:40:44.600 --> 01:40:46.880 nutri Star line is a product called Genesis. It's the 1896 01:40:46.920 --> 01:40:49.479 newest one that they have, and think of it as 1897 01:40:49.520 --> 01:40:52.840 a transplanting fertilizer. And I was using it last year. 1898 01:40:52.880 --> 01:40:54.920 I had some tomato plants that I needed to bump 1899 01:40:55.039 --> 01:40:56.880 up to a bigger pot, you know, before they went 1900 01:40:56.920 --> 01:40:59.520 out in the garden, and I mixed some genesis into 1901 01:40:59.560 --> 01:41:02.199 that soil for the next pot, and oh my gosh, 1902 01:41:02.439 --> 01:41:05.800 they took off growing. That's what genesis is made for, 1903 01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:08.119 and not just bumping up, you know, from one size 1904 01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:10.880 to another, although it's great for that. But if you're 1905 01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:12.880 going to put something out in the garden, like maybe 1906 01:41:12.880 --> 01:41:15.359 even plant of rosebush or one of these fall ornamental 1907 01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:18.399 grasses or fall perennials that we were talking about earlier, 1908 01:41:18.960 --> 01:41:22.520 put some genesis into that soil as you dig the 1909 01:41:22.560 --> 01:41:25.159 hole and then plant the new plant, and you will 1910 01:41:25.159 --> 01:41:27.520 give it a good head start. It's got microhizel fungi 1911 01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:30.840 in it which helps work with our roots. That whole 1912 01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:34.680 soil microbiome is a very important thing on plant success 1913 01:41:34.800 --> 01:41:37.520 and genesis. Just a head start on that and then 1914 01:41:37.560 --> 01:41:41.159 you continue on with your fertilization, whether it's nutrastar products 1915 01:41:41.239 --> 01:41:44.640 or color Star all from from Nelson Plant Food. They 1916 01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:47.720 also have of course the Nature Star, and I just 1917 01:41:47.840 --> 01:41:49.760 encourage you to give it a try. Anytime you're going 1918 01:41:49.840 --> 01:41:52.399 to put a plant from one pot into another, or 1919 01:41:52.439 --> 01:41:55.159 from one pot into the ground, think about genesis. Just 1920 01:41:55.199 --> 01:41:57.359 have a jar of it on hand on the shelf, 1921 01:41:57.880 --> 01:42:00.560 and whenever you're going to plant stuff which year round, 1922 01:42:01.039 --> 01:42:03.359 you're going to be ready to go. Makes it really 1923 01:42:03.560 --> 01:42:07.319 really easy. You're listening to Guardline and we were talking 1924 01:42:07.560 --> 01:42:12.680 about vegetables, and I want to continue that discussion with 1925 01:42:12.840 --> 01:42:16.800 you just a little bit here. You know, the people 1926 01:42:16.960 --> 01:42:22.520 often ask questions about, you know, what, how do I 1927 01:42:22.600 --> 01:42:25.159 know should I use seed or should I use transplants, 1928 01:42:25.239 --> 01:42:27.000 or what's the best way with this or that? And 1929 01:42:27.039 --> 01:42:28.520 I'm going to just give you a few tips on that. 1930 01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:31.760 First of all, you can as a general guide, you 1931 01:42:31.760 --> 01:42:33.520 can do either way. You have the plant seeds a 1932 01:42:33.560 --> 01:42:38.479 little earlier, and with transplants, you know, you can wait 1933 01:42:38.560 --> 01:42:40.640 until it's the time to get those in the ground 1934 01:42:40.720 --> 01:42:44.880 to plant, and so seed there's more time of things 1935 01:42:44.920 --> 01:42:47.560 that can go wrong between seeds and let's say broccoli, 1936 01:42:47.600 --> 01:42:51.159 for example, plant broccoli seeds earlier, then you would go 1937 01:42:51.239 --> 01:42:54.039 ahead and then put the transplants in later. And so 1938 01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:57.840 with transplants it's faster results and it's a little higher 1939 01:42:58.039 --> 01:43:00.960 chance of success because things can go wrong with seedlings. 1940 01:43:01.479 --> 01:43:06.000 With seeds, it's way cheaper, a lot less expensive than transplants. 1941 01:43:06.199 --> 01:43:08.560 You can go either way. One thing that you don't 1942 01:43:08.600 --> 01:43:11.199 want to use transplants for are things that have long 1943 01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:14.079 roots like carrots, for example, the carrots are going to 1944 01:43:14.159 --> 01:43:16.640 go down no matter what happens, that root is going 1945 01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:19.239 to get We call it burned, but it hits air 1946 01:43:19.439 --> 01:43:22.760 in a container and it kills the end of the root. 1947 01:43:22.880 --> 01:43:25.079 And now you have carrots that have two legs or 1948 01:43:25.239 --> 01:43:29.079 three legs or whatever. They're mouformed. So with root crops, 1949 01:43:29.359 --> 01:43:33.000 I generally like to use those as direct seeded for 1950 01:43:33.119 --> 01:43:35.279 that and for other reasons too. It's just I mean, 1951 01:43:35.319 --> 01:43:37.560 can you imagine you want to a whole row of 1952 01:43:37.880 --> 01:43:40.640 beats or something and you're going to buy that many transplants. 1953 01:43:40.680 --> 01:43:44.640 That's not really practical to go with most things, though, 1954 01:43:44.800 --> 01:43:47.079 you get to choose either way that you want to 1955 01:43:47.119 --> 01:43:50.600 go about it. For another advantage of seeds is that 1956 01:43:50.760 --> 01:43:54.159 with seeds you can get varieties you can't get as transplants. 1957 01:43:54.680 --> 01:43:56.800 You know, there may be a bunch of tomato varieties 1958 01:43:56.800 --> 01:44:00.960 available at a garden center and that's wonderful, But with 1959 01:44:01.159 --> 01:44:04.800 seed you have access to hundreds of tomato varieties should 1960 01:44:04.880 --> 01:44:07.279 you choose to want to try something different. So that's 1961 01:44:07.319 --> 01:44:11.399 another advantage of the seeds versus the transplants. In general, 1962 01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:14.560 we're going to take our root crops we're going to 1963 01:44:14.600 --> 01:44:16.840 take things like sweet corn and green beans, the big old, 1964 01:44:16.960 --> 01:44:19.680 big seeds types of things, and we're going to plant 1965 01:44:19.760 --> 01:44:22.319 those as seeds. And then for the things that may 1966 01:44:22.359 --> 01:44:25.359 take a little bit longer, like tomatoes, for example, or 1967 01:44:25.399 --> 01:44:28.359 peppers or whatever, it's better just to go in with 1968 01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:32.199 a transplant because that way, let's say we're well, let's 1969 01:44:32.239 --> 01:44:34.119 talk about tomatoes. You know, you get a tomato in 1970 01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:38.199 the ground end of August, early early September, and you 1971 01:44:38.359 --> 01:44:40.680 got to have you got to move fast before the 1972 01:44:40.760 --> 01:44:43.439 first frost or cool weather shuts it down, and so 1973 01:44:43.560 --> 01:44:46.720 a transplant gives you that head start. That's another important 1974 01:44:46.800 --> 01:44:49.159 thing because here we have a short spring season, a 1975 01:44:49.239 --> 01:44:52.479 short fall season, and there's long summer season in between, 1976 01:44:52.680 --> 01:44:55.520 and then some freezes in the winter. So while we 1977 01:44:55.680 --> 01:44:59.760 live in an area with twelve month gardening, our actual 1978 01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:02.520 individual garden seasons can be a little bit shorter. You 1979 01:45:02.760 --> 01:45:04.399 go farther north and you can grow stuff all the 1980 01:45:04.439 --> 01:45:08.159 way through the summer that just fries here. So faster 1981 01:45:08.399 --> 01:45:11.479 moving with transplants is an advantage of that. So there's 1982 01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:14.119 a few thoughts for you to think about. Hopefully that'll 1983 01:45:14.159 --> 01:45:16.079 be helpful to you. If you'd like to give us 1984 01:45:16.079 --> 01:45:18.359 a call our phone number seven one three two one 1985 01:45:18.439 --> 01:45:21.960 two k t r H seven one three two one 1986 01:45:22.079 --> 01:45:26.479 two k t r H one. Last tip on seeds. 1987 01:45:26.520 --> 01:45:28.600 This is stuff's going through my head here as I 1988 01:45:28.680 --> 01:45:33.039 think I'm finished talking with seeds, you want to plant 1989 01:45:33.079 --> 01:45:36.520 them at the right depth. That's very important. And if 1990 01:45:36.600 --> 01:45:39.239 you don't know, if the package should tell you. But 1991 01:45:39.319 --> 01:45:42.359 if you don't know, plant a seed about three or 1992 01:45:42.439 --> 01:45:46.520 four times. That's with deep, so a small seed wouldn't 1993 01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:50.119 be planted very deep. A pento bean three or four times. 1994 01:45:50.199 --> 01:45:51.600 It's with You're going to put it in an inch 1995 01:45:51.920 --> 01:45:56.079 or so deep and the soil in order to in 1996 01:45:56.239 --> 01:45:59.159 order to have success with that. There are a few 1997 01:45:59.239 --> 01:46:01.159 seeds that need to on the surface, and I'm not 1998 01:46:01.199 --> 01:46:02.560 going to try to name all of them, but the 1999 01:46:02.640 --> 01:46:06.319 ones that are most practical to mention for the fall 2000 01:46:06.439 --> 01:46:11.159 garden or lettuce and carrots. They need light to germinate, 2001 01:46:11.199 --> 01:46:14.600 specifically the red wavelengths of light, which you don't penetrate 2002 01:46:14.640 --> 01:46:17.039 down under the soil. So you put those on the 2003 01:46:17.119 --> 01:46:19.880 surface and you miss them and keep them moist. First 2004 01:46:19.880 --> 01:46:21.399 of all, the soil should be wet. Put them on 2005 01:46:21.479 --> 01:46:23.920 the surface and then miss them and keep them moist 2006 01:46:24.039 --> 01:46:26.199 and they will sprout there. Now, carrots, you bury just 2007 01:46:26.319 --> 01:46:29.640 that tiny, tiny bed, but not too deep or they'll never, 2008 01:46:29.840 --> 01:46:32.159 as they say, see the light of day. But with 2009 01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:34.600 most seeds, if you don't know three or four times 2010 01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:37.199 the width of the seed deep is a good estimate. 2011 01:46:37.720 --> 01:46:42.439 And final tip. If you soak seeds overnight that are 2012 01:46:42.560 --> 01:46:45.039 the larger ones that are more practical to soak overnight, 2013 01:46:45.439 --> 01:46:48.439 you get a faster germination because they start to pull 2014 01:46:48.520 --> 01:46:52.039 water in and swallow up and that starts the biochemical 2015 01:46:52.119 --> 01:46:56.159 process that makes that seed sprout. So you got okra 2016 01:46:56.279 --> 01:46:59.399 seeds we were talking about ochre earlier today. Put them 2017 01:46:59.439 --> 01:47:02.520 in warm to even hot water and let them sit 2018 01:47:02.560 --> 01:47:04.439 on the counter overnight, and then go out the next 2019 01:47:04.520 --> 01:47:06.720 day and plant them. Even spinach seed, you get a 2020 01:47:06.760 --> 01:47:10.399 better germination stand if you'll soak it overnight and warm water, 2021 01:47:10.720 --> 01:47:12.800 and then the morning go out and plant those things. 2022 01:47:13.600 --> 01:47:18.159 Just a tip. Ace hardware stores are all over Houston, 2023 01:47:18.239 --> 01:47:22.680 which makes them very convenient. Ace hardware stores carry every 2024 01:47:22.760 --> 01:47:26.359 fertilizer I talk about. They carry all the products you're 2025 01:47:26.399 --> 01:47:29.439 going to need to grow insects, diseases, and weeds, which 2026 01:47:29.560 --> 01:47:32.640 makes it very convenient. It's like a one stop shop. 2027 01:47:33.000 --> 01:47:34.800 I mean, you need a garden hose or a tool, 2028 01:47:34.880 --> 01:47:37.039 Aces got it. You want to sprush up your patio 2029 01:47:37.199 --> 01:47:41.119 with some lighting, or a nice barbecue pit. Who fall 2030 01:47:41.359 --> 01:47:44.159 gotta have fall barbecues? Right this good time to get 2031 01:47:44.199 --> 01:47:48.000 buy Ace. Ace Hardware is local, They're convenient, they have 2032 01:47:48.399 --> 01:47:51.760 great help that can help you find success. And it 2033 01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:54.199 doesn't matter what you know. Of course, it's a hardware store. 2034 01:47:54.239 --> 01:47:56.680 You know, they got plumbing, they got electrical, they had 2035 01:47:56.680 --> 01:47:58.640 all that kind of stuff that a hardware store has, 2036 01:47:59.439 --> 01:48:02.560 but they have so so much more. Each is independently owned, 2037 01:48:02.600 --> 01:48:04.600 so when you walk into an ACE you will be 2038 01:48:04.720 --> 01:48:07.359 surprised at some stuff that I didn't know they had 2039 01:48:07.439 --> 01:48:10.039 that in here. I promise you you will feel that 2040 01:48:10.119 --> 01:48:13.159 way walking into one of our forty Houston area Ace 2041 01:48:13.199 --> 01:48:16.960 Hardware stores yesterday. Stopped in to say, hello, I'm going 2042 01:48:17.039 --> 01:48:18.800 to be out there a little bit later this fall 2043 01:48:19.319 --> 01:48:22.560 and or this month actually anyway, I was just checking 2044 01:48:22.600 --> 01:48:24.479 out what all they have. And you know, when I 2045 01:48:24.520 --> 01:48:26.960 think at Ana, not only do they have great plants, 2046 01:48:27.039 --> 01:48:30.159 which they do, lots of them, but they've got landscape 2047 01:48:30.199 --> 01:48:33.079 bling like you just wouldn't believe I mean beautiful arches, 2048 01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:35.319 and I mean like artwork and stuff to hang. 2049 01:48:35.279 --> 01:48:35.720 On the wall. 2050 01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:39.319 They've got that. They've got chimineez to put out on 2051 01:48:39.399 --> 01:48:42.159 the fall patio to enjoy. They've got all that kind 2052 01:48:42.199 --> 01:48:45.199 of stuff. But when you go in, you get good advice, 2053 01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:47.920 you get good service, and it's just a fun place 2054 01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:49.560 to shop. It's just kind of like every time you 2055 01:48:49.640 --> 01:48:51.920 turn a corner there's something new and cool. I was 2056 01:48:51.960 --> 01:48:54.760 looking at their asters that they had a new shipment 2057 01:48:54.840 --> 01:48:58.279 in and oh my gosh, they're gorgeous, gorgeous, plenty of 2058 01:48:58.359 --> 01:49:00.640 annuals to go into your fall color. I was telling 2059 01:49:00.680 --> 01:49:03.319 you earlier. You know, you need to be planting marigals 2060 01:49:03.399 --> 01:49:05.960 for fall. It's the best season for fall. We think 2061 01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:08.680 of them this summer, but fall is better for miragles. 2062 01:49:08.720 --> 01:49:11.119 And they got those there A and A plants and produce. 2063 01:49:11.159 --> 01:49:14.760 They're on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one 2064 01:49:14.800 --> 01:49:16.720 oh five. I mean, you can't miss it when you're 2065 01:49:16.720 --> 01:49:19.279 going down one oh five. And if you live up 2066 01:49:19.319 --> 01:49:22.239 around Lake Conroe, all those great neighborhoods out there, this 2067 01:49:22.399 --> 01:49:24.840 is your backyard garden center, and you got to go 2068 01:49:24.960 --> 01:49:27.039 by and check them out. They also have a landscape 2069 01:49:27.079 --> 01:49:29.680 crew that does some work in that area around the lake. 2070 01:49:29.800 --> 01:49:31.560 So you may want to talk to them about that 2071 01:49:31.640 --> 01:49:34.000 if you'd like a little bit of assistance. But just 2072 01:49:34.079 --> 01:49:36.319 go in and say hi, and I'll be seeing you 2073 01:49:36.399 --> 01:49:38.000 there a little bit later this month. I'll tell you 2074 01:49:38.039 --> 01:49:41.159 more about that in a little bit. Let's go to 2075 01:49:41.199 --> 01:49:44.960 the phones here. We are gonna go to Magnolia and 2076 01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:48.399 talk to Rudy. Hello, Ruddy, Hey, how you doing. 2077 01:49:49.279 --> 01:49:50.319 Thanks for taking my call. 2078 01:49:52.000 --> 01:49:54.319 Well, first of all, I'm really happy to know that 2079 01:49:54.439 --> 01:49:58.199 garden line continued after Randy Lemon left us too soon. 2080 01:49:58.279 --> 01:50:01.319 I was pretty down about that buddy of mine, and 2081 01:50:01.720 --> 01:50:03.720 Katie said, no, no, they're still going and they got 2082 01:50:03.760 --> 01:50:04.439 a great new guy. 2083 01:50:04.520 --> 01:50:07.199 So here I am calling, and uh, all right, thanks 2084 01:50:07.239 --> 01:50:08.760 for calling and hanging around Scott. 2085 01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:15.159 Yeah, but I'm asking about wax myrtle propagation. I have 2086 01:50:15.279 --> 01:50:18.079 a buddy in my neighborhood who's got a bunch of them. 2087 01:50:18.119 --> 01:50:21.640 And from when I understand, you can get the seeds, 2088 01:50:21.760 --> 01:50:24.439 you know when they kind of start blooming or not blooming, 2089 01:50:24.520 --> 01:50:27.800 but you know, showing themselves here between now and like October, 2090 01:50:28.359 --> 01:50:29.800 and I really, I mean, yes, I could go and 2091 01:50:29.880 --> 01:50:32.199 buy them, but I want the satisfaction of growing on 2092 01:50:32.279 --> 01:50:36.159 myself to be honest, so I have any thoughts, tips, 2093 01:50:36.479 --> 01:50:38.399 and any references that I can go to. 2094 01:50:38.640 --> 01:50:41.239 First of all, first of all, I apologize for Conye 2095 01:50:41.279 --> 01:50:46.239 Scott radio very well looking at the board. So yes, 2096 01:50:46.479 --> 01:50:50.680 wax myrtles, southern wax myrtles can be propagated from cuttings. 2097 01:50:51.279 --> 01:50:53.680 Sometimes they will sucker up around the base too, and 2098 01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:56.520 you can divide those away with a sharp sharp shovel 2099 01:50:57.279 --> 01:51:00.239 and separate the plant and get another one. But you 2100 01:51:00.319 --> 01:51:03.520 can use cuttings. I would let the wood. Okay, new 2101 01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:06.439 growth starts off very succulent, like a bean stalk, and 2102 01:51:06.560 --> 01:51:09.399 then it becomes semi woody, and then it becomes like 2103 01:51:09.479 --> 01:51:12.680 a wax myrtle branch, a regular woody shrub. If you 2104 01:51:12.760 --> 01:51:16.560 can catch it in that semi state it is, that's 2105 01:51:16.640 --> 01:51:21.000 the easiest to propagate. Take a cutting about four inches long, 2106 01:51:21.279 --> 01:51:24.119 strip the leaves off the bottom half of it, dip 2107 01:51:24.199 --> 01:51:26.640 it into a rooting hormones. Very important to get a 2108 01:51:26.680 --> 01:51:30.000 good rooting hormone. There's liquids and there's powders. If you 2109 01:51:30.159 --> 01:51:33.399 use a powder you want, then when you stick the cutting, 2110 01:51:33.520 --> 01:51:37.800 don't just shove it into the soil rooting mix because 2111 01:51:37.840 --> 01:51:43.119 that wipes off some of the hormone. Make a little hole, slight, 2112 01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:45.279 set the cutting in it, and then press the soil 2113 01:51:45.359 --> 01:51:48.000 gently around the cutting. Okay, just a little quick tip there. 2114 01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:50.439 Cover it with something clear so light can get in. 2115 01:51:50.840 --> 01:51:52.479 Do not put it in full sun. Put it in 2116 01:51:52.800 --> 01:51:56.000 very very bright light. But when you let full sun 2117 01:51:56.239 --> 01:51:59.119 shine through something clear, well, let me put this way. 2118 01:51:59.239 --> 01:52:01.439 Go out to your car on the sunny day when 2119 01:52:01.479 --> 01:52:03.680 the windows are rolled out, it gets hot in there, right, 2120 01:52:04.199 --> 01:52:06.720 don't do that. Your cuttings so but they do need 2121 01:52:06.840 --> 01:52:10.319 light and it takes a while, but they will root 2122 01:52:10.439 --> 01:52:13.399 that way. That's one option. Another option, if you've got 2123 01:52:13.439 --> 01:52:16.520 a low growing branch is to bend it down to 2124 01:52:16.680 --> 01:52:20.520 the soil and bury a section of it out near 2125 01:52:20.800 --> 01:52:22.720 the end of the branch, very near the end, kind 2126 01:52:22.720 --> 01:52:25.199 of like the cutting I was talking about. Pin it down. 2127 01:52:25.359 --> 01:52:27.680 I've used I've used a brick to hold it down. 2128 01:52:27.680 --> 01:52:31.840 I've used a bent coat hanger to hold it down underground. Again, 2129 01:52:32.039 --> 01:52:34.800 rooting hormoned on it, and while it's still attached to 2130 01:52:34.920 --> 01:52:39.319 mom roots can form where you cracked and bent that branch. 2131 01:52:39.439 --> 01:52:41.319 And when I say crack it, I mean like if 2132 01:52:41.359 --> 01:52:44.239 you bend a woody branch, it cracks and it becomes 2133 01:52:44.359 --> 01:52:47.359 like an elbow. It's hinged, but it's not broken off. 2134 01:52:48.039 --> 01:52:51.159 That's right, I mean, And so that's called a tip layer. 2135 01:52:51.880 --> 01:52:54.680 That would be another option. You just don't make as 2136 01:52:54.720 --> 01:52:56.520 many cuttings that way as you do, I mean, as 2137 01:52:56.560 --> 01:52:58.039 many plants as you do with cuttings. 2138 01:52:59.119 --> 01:53:01.479 What's your opinion of using the actual like seed, like 2139 01:53:01.560 --> 01:53:03.600 the little I should say, the berries that come up 2140 01:53:03.720 --> 01:53:05.159 in the fall to propagate. 2141 01:53:05.199 --> 01:53:06.439 Is that a more difficult process? 2142 01:53:07.479 --> 01:53:11.920 Well, I don't I don't know. I've never tried propagating 2143 01:53:12.039 --> 01:53:14.359 a Southern magnolia from seed, but I can tell you this, 2144 01:53:15.199 --> 01:53:21.800 plants that are grown out Southern magnolia good night. We're 2145 01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:24.520 talking about the I'm talking about the wrong plants. Wax 2146 01:53:25.000 --> 01:53:25.680 the wax myrtle. 2147 01:53:25.840 --> 01:53:26.039 Yep. 2148 01:53:26.640 --> 01:53:29.439 Yeah, I've never tried it. But when you grow a 2149 01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:31.960 plant like that from seed, it takes a long time 2150 01:53:32.680 --> 01:53:35.439 for them to get established and grown, whereas with a cutting, 2151 01:53:36.239 --> 01:53:39.359 you're you're getting a big head start on it. So 2152 01:53:39.520 --> 01:53:42.720 that would be the only thing, but you certainly should 2153 01:53:42.760 --> 01:53:44.880 be able to try it. I just have never tried that. 2154 01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:47.760 Yeah, Well, it sounds like it sounds like the easier 2155 01:53:47.840 --> 01:53:51.039 method is the cutting. Last question, I appreciate it is 2156 01:53:51.399 --> 01:53:54.199 timing wise. When would you say, is it the fall 2157 01:53:54.319 --> 01:53:57.880 now to be you know, get those cuttings and start 2158 01:53:57.920 --> 01:54:01.680 it in the garage or something or yeah, fall fall. 2159 01:54:01.600 --> 01:54:05.319 Is often a good time for doing that. I would 2160 01:54:05.399 --> 01:54:08.840 say you could probably also do it in early summer. 2161 01:54:09.359 --> 01:54:13.279 But if you can get some growth that just recently 2162 01:54:13.680 --> 01:54:17.119 started getting some wittiness to it, you could do that 2163 01:54:17.359 --> 01:54:19.319 in the fall. But just make sure and get a 2164 01:54:19.399 --> 01:54:24.159 good strong rooting hormone to do that. To have some 2165 01:54:24.720 --> 01:54:26.079 it's gonna be a little bit of a it's a 2166 01:54:26.079 --> 01:54:28.920 little bit of a challenge, you know, if you end 2167 01:54:28.960 --> 01:54:30.319 it to do it. 2168 01:54:30.720 --> 01:54:32.000 Like I said, I could go buy them, but I 2169 01:54:32.119 --> 01:54:32.880 want the challenge. 2170 01:54:32.920 --> 01:54:36.000 So oh well, well okay, I mean, if you want 2171 01:54:36.039 --> 01:54:39.399 the challenge of seed, when you pick the seed, put 2172 01:54:39.439 --> 01:54:43.199 it in moist sand or moist ground up peat moss 2173 01:54:43.720 --> 01:54:46.319 in a bag and the refrigerator for two or three 2174 01:54:46.399 --> 01:54:48.680 months and bring it out in spring and planet it 2175 01:54:48.880 --> 01:54:53.119 needs to go through that cold treatment in order to germinate. Okay, 2176 01:54:53.399 --> 01:54:56.479 thank you so much, have a great weekend, all right, man, 2177 01:54:56.640 --> 01:54:59.680 Thanks a lot, appreciate your call. You're listening to guardline 2178 01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:04.319 number seven one three two one two kt r H 2179 01:55:04.479 --> 01:55:09.520 seven one three two one two kt r H Nitropos 2180 01:55:09.600 --> 01:55:12.239 has a product called bug out Max. Bugout Max is 2181 01:55:12.319 --> 01:55:15.000 an insecticide that kills one hundred and thirty different kinds 2182 01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:17.800 of insects. I mean, if you put it down watered 2183 01:55:17.880 --> 01:55:21.760 in the the ingredient comes off those granules. It gets 2184 01:55:21.800 --> 01:55:24.119 in the thatch and if you got chinch bugs hiding 2185 01:55:24.199 --> 01:55:27.880 in there, it'll get them sideweb worms hiding in during 2186 01:55:28.239 --> 01:55:30.439 the daytime and the thatch come out at night to 2187 01:55:30.520 --> 01:55:32.840 feed on the on the grass leaves. Uh, And it 2188 01:55:32.920 --> 01:55:35.600 works on that as well, and it lasts. It's gonna 2189 01:55:35.680 --> 01:55:37.479 last through the whole season, so you don't have to 2190 01:55:37.520 --> 01:55:39.800 apply it and reapply it and reapply it. You're gonna 2191 01:55:39.840 --> 01:55:41.880 find it at RCW Nurseries. If you want to go 2192 01:55:41.920 --> 01:55:43.359 to the Arbor Gate, they've got it there. 2193 01:55:43.840 --> 01:55:43.960 Uh. 2194 01:55:44.039 --> 01:55:46.199 If you go down to Stanton Shopping Center and Alvin, 2195 01:55:46.359 --> 01:55:49.159 you're gonna find it there and Lake Jackson, Lake Harbor 2196 01:55:49.279 --> 01:55:52.840 Clute on Dixie Drive they've also they carry my uh 2197 01:55:53.520 --> 01:55:59.279 nitrophs type products there, including that bug out Max. Well, 2198 01:55:59.399 --> 01:56:03.119 let's see here we are looking Okay, I'm too short 2199 01:56:03.239 --> 01:56:05.600 on time to go to the next call Scott in 2200 01:56:05.720 --> 01:56:09.000 Spring and Mary and Pasadena. You're going to be our 2201 01:56:09.079 --> 01:56:11.720 first two up when we come back. Appreciate you hanging 2202 01:56:11.800 --> 01:56:14.960 on with us, and we will we will make you 2203 01:56:15.119 --> 01:56:17.479 our first two up. I want to remind you that 2204 01:56:17.720 --> 01:56:21.800 this next Saturday, I'm going to be in clear Lake 2205 01:56:22.560 --> 01:56:26.439 at the Wildbird's Unlimited store there in clear Lake, and 2206 01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:28.920 I hope you'll come out and see me. Uh. They're 2207 01:56:28.920 --> 01:56:32.439 gonna be given away like a hummingbird nectar with nectar defender, 2208 01:56:32.640 --> 01:56:35.840 a variety of they're really good seed blends, and I'm 2209 01:56:35.880 --> 01:56:39.119 telling you, nobody makes a seed blend like Wildbirds Unlimited. 2210 01:56:39.199 --> 01:56:41.560 Does you know all that junk those red bebes that 2211 01:56:41.680 --> 01:56:43.840 cheap seed has that birds kick out on the ground 2212 01:56:43.880 --> 01:56:45.920 and don't eat. You think you're getting a good deal, 2213 01:56:46.319 --> 01:56:49.960 But if if they are more personable ends up on 2214 01:56:50.039 --> 01:56:51.800 the ground, how good of a deal was that? 2215 01:56:52.119 --> 01:56:52.279 Right? 2216 01:56:52.960 --> 01:56:55.319 They're gonna have all kinds of giveaways more as well. 2217 01:56:55.680 --> 01:56:57.600 If you haven't been there before, you can go to 2218 01:56:57.840 --> 01:57:02.600 WBU dot com for slash Houston to find all six stores, 2219 01:57:03.000 --> 01:57:04.840 including the one in for a Lake. The one in 2220 01:57:04.920 --> 01:57:08.279 clear Lake is on clear Lake City Boulevard and El 2221 01:57:08.359 --> 01:57:11.920 Dorado Boulevard, then down there before. I love that store. 2222 01:57:12.319 --> 01:57:14.920 It's a great one to come to. Come there, and 2223 01:57:15.000 --> 01:57:16.920 by the way, while you're there, you're gonna want to 2224 01:57:16.920 --> 01:57:20.000 get some bird stuff, but not just that. I mean, 2225 01:57:20.239 --> 01:57:23.239 bring me some samples of plants, bring me some pictures, 2226 01:57:23.760 --> 01:57:26.720 or just come in and brag on your garden. I'll 2227 01:57:26.800 --> 01:57:29.399 listen to it for lo fa. I love to meet 2228 01:57:29.439 --> 01:57:31.760 folks that listen to guarden Line, and here's a chance. 2229 01:57:31.840 --> 01:57:34.159 So I hope all of you done that whole southeast 2230 01:57:34.239 --> 01:57:37.960 region down there. Come on over to clear Lake next Saturday. 2231 01:57:37.960 --> 01:57:41.079 I'll be there from eleven thirty for one thirty. I'll 2232 01:57:41.079 --> 01:57:43.880 tell you more about it next Saturday morning on the show. 2233 01:57:44.039 --> 01:57:47.039 But mark that on your calendar, hey, and we'll be 2234 01:57:47.199 --> 01:57:48.239 right back to the garden. 2235 01:57:48.079 --> 01:57:51.640 Line services advertised on this program. 2236 01:57:53.399 --> 01:57:57.119 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skimp Richt. 2237 01:57:57.279 --> 01:57:57.600 It's so. 2238 01:57:59.199 --> 01:58:13.760 Amazing just watch as the world. So many good things 2239 01:58:13.840 --> 01:58:14.199 to set. 2240 01:58:17.680 --> 01:58:21.640 Welcome to garden Line. So glad you're listening. Look forward 2241 01:58:21.680 --> 01:58:22.960 to talking to you. If you'd like to have us 2242 01:58:23.000 --> 01:58:25.600 called seven one three two one two k t r 2243 01:58:25.960 --> 01:58:29.119 H seven one three two one two k t r H. 2244 01:58:29.199 --> 01:58:34.199 You know, Landscaper's Pride has been making quality blends of 2245 01:58:34.319 --> 01:58:36.760 soil and mulches and things for a long time, and 2246 01:58:37.159 --> 01:58:39.520 right now it's fall and it is time to get 2247 01:58:39.560 --> 01:58:41.479 the soil ready for all kinds of things. Some of 2248 01:58:41.560 --> 01:58:45.039 the landscapers Pride rose mix, for example, it's excellent for 2249 01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:49.319 not just roses, but shrubs, even perennials. Using the rose 2250 01:58:49.399 --> 01:58:51.800 mix to help build and create a bed. Make sure 2251 01:58:51.800 --> 01:58:54.960 it's high and well drained. Outstanding choice right there. 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It doesn't it 2261 01:59:21.039 --> 01:59:24.560 doesn't have the high organic matter content level because organic 2262 01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:27.359 matter decomposes away and you're trying to bring the soil up, 2263 01:59:27.479 --> 01:59:29.000 not bring it up and have it go back down. 2264 01:59:30.159 --> 01:59:33.960 Outstanding choice topsoil and then black velvet molts. What more 2265 01:59:34.000 --> 01:59:36.800 can we say? It's not dyed. Had that conversation with 2266 01:59:36.880 --> 01:59:40.319 someone yesterday out at the Conro Home and Garden Show. No, 2267 01:59:40.479 --> 01:59:43.760 it is not dyed. It's naturally dark colored and beautiful. 2268 01:59:44.119 --> 01:59:47.159 All from Landscaper's Pride. You can find out more at 2269 01:59:47.239 --> 01:59:49.760 Landscaperspride dot com. Like where to find it and I 2270 01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:52.640 tell you this widely available in the Houston area. You 2271 01:59:52.680 --> 01:59:56.680 will not have trouble locating a quality product from Landscaper's Pride. 2272 01:59:57.439 --> 01:59:59.800 I want to go out to the phones. Uh, I think, Uh, 2273 02:00:00.079 --> 02:00:03.640 we've Scott from Spring. I believe you been holding a bit. Scott. 2274 02:00:03.680 --> 02:00:05.840 Thanks for being patient and welcome to Guardenline. 2275 02:00:06.720 --> 02:00:11.000 No problem. I'm being my yards and tested with Sarginia 2276 02:00:11.039 --> 02:00:13.359 button weed and dove wheed. I was just wondering, can 2277 02:00:13.439 --> 02:00:15.880 I spray now because of the rain stop? It seems 2278 02:00:15.880 --> 02:00:16.399 to be cooler? 2279 02:00:17.479 --> 02:00:21.399 It s you can? Okay, time, yeah, yeah, but sooner 2280 02:00:21.520 --> 02:00:24.399 than later. I don't know how many hours it is. 2281 02:00:24.560 --> 02:00:27.359 They say like four hours before rain, but I would 2282 02:00:27.439 --> 02:00:29.239 do it a day before rain if I could. So 2283 02:00:30.239 --> 02:00:32.600 whether it's this afternoon or tomorrow. Go ahead and get 2284 02:00:32.640 --> 02:00:35.000 that done so it has plenty of time to kind 2285 02:00:35.039 --> 02:00:38.920 of soak into the tissues to uh to control those weeds. 2286 02:00:39.960 --> 02:00:41.359 Okay, And I can use can you use the pump 2287 02:00:41.359 --> 02:00:44.399 spray and should just use the spray hose in sprayer 2288 02:00:44.600 --> 02:00:44.960 for this. 2289 02:00:46.159 --> 02:00:48.319 I would use I would use a pump sprayer so 2290 02:00:48.439 --> 02:00:50.680 you can direct it really well and not put so 2291 02:00:50.840 --> 02:00:52.960 much volume out there. The goal is to barely what 2292 02:00:53.159 --> 02:00:55.560 the foliage of the weed, not to drench the soil. 2293 02:00:56.239 --> 02:01:00.439 So get a product called Celsius like the got it, 2294 02:01:00.640 --> 02:01:03.760 all right, and Celsius Celsius the one you want to use. 2295 02:01:04.680 --> 02:01:07.319 Okay, all right, thank you, all. 2296 02:01:07.239 --> 02:01:12.840 Right man, good luck, thank you. All right. By We're 2297 02:01:12.840 --> 02:01:15.319 going to go now to Mary and Pasadena. Hey, Mary, 2298 02:01:15.439 --> 02:01:16.359 welcome to guarden Line. 2299 02:01:17.199 --> 02:01:20.920 Good morning. I do believe you've already answered my question 2300 02:01:21.279 --> 02:01:25.600 in your commercial. I have a little white the little 2301 02:01:25.680 --> 02:01:28.880 white moths all in the yard when i'm mode, and 2302 02:01:28.960 --> 02:01:30.279 I think you should bug out. 2303 02:01:31.720 --> 02:01:35.479 Bug Out max is from nitrofoss and it will get 2304 02:01:35.560 --> 02:01:38.840 down in the thatch. And if those moths are side 2305 02:01:38.880 --> 02:01:41.439 web worms, it is pretty effective for that. There's other 2306 02:01:41.479 --> 02:01:43.079 ways to go about it. I mean, you know, they're 2307 02:01:43.079 --> 02:01:46.119 sprays and things, but that is a good one. Now, 2308 02:01:48.199 --> 02:01:50.000 there are a lot of kinds of moths out there, Mary, 2309 02:01:50.079 --> 02:01:51.920 and so we kind of want to know that they 2310 02:01:51.960 --> 02:01:52.960 are side web worms. 2311 02:01:53.800 --> 02:01:58.039 I'm pretty sure we've yeah, we've had them before. Uh, 2312 02:01:58.439 --> 02:02:02.079 and I do believe that's that's what it is. My question, though, 2313 02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:06.000 was with the rain coming, is now today tomorrow? 2314 02:02:06.279 --> 02:02:10.079 Shut up with it out? You know, that's a good question. 2315 02:02:10.800 --> 02:02:13.600 That does the product does wash off the granule? And 2316 02:02:14.079 --> 02:02:16.800 I don't know how many inches of rain are going 2317 02:02:16.880 --> 02:02:19.319 to occur over than the rest of the week. As 2318 02:02:19.399 --> 02:02:22.960 we get into rainy with right, I probably would hold 2319 02:02:23.039 --> 02:02:24.960 off and then put it down, But then you're gonna 2320 02:02:24.960 --> 02:02:26.960 need to water maybe a half inch of water just 2321 02:02:27.039 --> 02:02:29.399 to get it off the granules and into the thatch area. 2322 02:02:29.720 --> 02:02:33.279 Okay, okay, okay, So we're trying to get it down 2323 02:02:33.520 --> 02:02:36.279 in the root area or the lower. 2324 02:02:36.119 --> 02:02:39.640 Part of the grass. Yeah, more the soil surface and 2325 02:02:39.800 --> 02:02:44.439 thatch is the most important area for them to encounter. Okay, 2326 02:02:45.600 --> 02:02:48.000 said web worms don't go they don't go underground. 2327 02:02:50.279 --> 02:02:55.520 Okay, okay, I didn't really think about that. Okay, Well, 2328 02:02:55.560 --> 02:02:58.720 thank you so much. You have a blessed Sunday. Thank you, 2329 02:02:59.399 --> 02:03:04.880 all right as well, appreciate the color. All Right, here, 2330 02:03:05.039 --> 02:03:07.880 let's see, I wanted to tell you a little bit 2331 02:03:07.880 --> 02:03:10.840 about some of the products from Microlife that you probably 2332 02:03:10.920 --> 02:03:13.319 have not used before. Now you hear me talk about 2333 02:03:13.319 --> 02:03:16.680 the Green bag, the standard fertilizer of the lawns through 2334 02:03:16.720 --> 02:03:18.439 the summer, which is by the way, good for all 2335 02:03:18.560 --> 02:03:21.359 kinds of different plants, not just lawns. You've heard me 2336 02:03:21.399 --> 02:03:23.560 talk about the purple bag hu Mates plus, which is 2337 02:03:23.680 --> 02:03:25.319 concentrated compost in a bag. 2338 02:03:25.720 --> 02:03:27.960 But they have some really quality liquids that you need 2339 02:03:28.000 --> 02:03:32.560 to give a try. Micro Grow liquid AF is stocked 2340 02:03:32.720 --> 02:03:39.359 with eight specific microbes that help benefit your soil. There's 2341 02:03:41.039 --> 02:03:44.119 basically a two kinds of microbes and the soil. You've 2342 02:03:44.159 --> 02:03:46.239 got the kind that are causing plant disease and that 2343 02:03:46.279 --> 02:03:49.279 you've got the kind that are helping fight against problems. 2344 02:03:49.560 --> 02:03:51.319 And these are the good guys and they're in this 2345 02:03:51.479 --> 02:03:55.520 product MicroG Liquid AF. It's like you're putting the natural 2346 02:03:55.600 --> 02:03:59.319 soil biology back to work for you. They also have 2347 02:03:59.479 --> 02:04:01.920 a micro Life soil and plant Energy. It's an all 2348 02:04:02.039 --> 02:04:04.159 organic soil. You can spray plants with it too. By 2349 02:04:04.199 --> 02:04:05.520 the way. You can use it as a foldier if 2350 02:04:05.520 --> 02:04:09.119 you like, over sixty three different minerals. And again, like 2351 02:04:09.199 --> 02:04:13.239 all microlife products, when you enhance the microbial content of 2352 02:04:13.279 --> 02:04:18.520 the soil, you enhance plant growth. Micro Grow is a bioinoculant. 2353 02:04:18.600 --> 02:04:22.800 It's a dry granular product that just is loaded with 2354 02:04:23.199 --> 02:04:27.199 trillions of microbes that are part of colonizing the plant 2355 02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:30.359 root to protect it. Did you know plant root exudes 2356 02:04:30.479 --> 02:04:35.159 substances to attract and support microbes because they are the defenders. 2357 02:04:35.600 --> 02:04:38.359 Imagine like you are in a fort and you've got 2358 02:04:38.520 --> 02:04:42.560 the infantry all around the fort protecting against the invaders. 2359 02:04:42.640 --> 02:04:44.880 That's what the microbes are doing. And when you use 2360 02:04:44.960 --> 02:04:48.239 products like these microlife products, you are enhancing that support 2361 02:04:48.359 --> 02:04:51.760 level outside the walls of the fort. That is exactly 2362 02:04:52.000 --> 02:04:53.840 what's going on. That's the one way to put it, 2363 02:04:54.000 --> 02:04:56.239 and I think it's a good analogy that works for me. 2364 02:04:57.239 --> 02:04:59.840 All Right, let's go to Cyprus, Texas, and we're going 2365 02:04:59.880 --> 02:05:03.920 to Nick. Hello, Nick, welcome to Guardline. Hello. 2366 02:05:04.000 --> 02:05:04.399 Can you hear me? 2367 02:05:04.439 --> 02:05:04.680 Okay? 2368 02:05:05.840 --> 02:05:06.239 Yes, sir? 2369 02:05:06.760 --> 02:05:08.079 Hello, Okay, great. 2370 02:05:08.600 --> 02:05:11.159 I had a question about I'd actually called before about 2371 02:05:11.239 --> 02:05:15.880 the uh purple stage and actually cut it back in 2372 02:05:15.920 --> 02:05:18.279 a real well, so thanks for that. But I had 2373 02:05:18.319 --> 02:05:23.399 a question about replacing common common box would bushes with roses? 2374 02:05:23.439 --> 02:05:25.079 And do I need to turn up that soil or 2375 02:05:25.119 --> 02:05:27.880 do anything special getting rid of what what the box 2376 02:05:28.199 --> 02:05:28.640 was growing in? 2377 02:05:30.159 --> 02:05:32.800 No, not really. Did the box would run into a 2378 02:05:32.880 --> 02:05:34.479 problem or you just wanted to get rid of them. 2379 02:05:35.520 --> 02:05:36.520 I just want to get rid of them. 2380 02:05:36.560 --> 02:05:41.640 They just don't okay. Yeah, you know, if you run 2381 02:05:41.720 --> 02:05:44.159 into some big roogs underground, just pull them out. But 2382 02:05:44.319 --> 02:05:47.199 get you a good quality mix like a rose blend, 2383 02:05:47.520 --> 02:05:50.359 you know, a quality rose blend, and build up that 2384 02:05:50.520 --> 02:05:52.880 soil a little bit, enhance it because you know, once 2385 02:05:52.920 --> 02:05:54.359 you get the roses in, they're gonna be there for 2386 02:05:54.479 --> 02:05:55.920 years and you're not gonna be able to get back 2387 02:05:56.000 --> 02:05:57.880 down in the soil to do stuff. Is your soil 2388 02:05:57.880 --> 02:05:59.960 a heavy clay or is it a pretty decent soil? 2389 02:06:00.079 --> 02:06:03.319 Uh, it's pretty decent now I've been I've been mixing 2390 02:06:03.359 --> 02:06:05.479 it over the past couple of years, so it's been 2391 02:06:05.520 --> 02:06:08.039 doing topressing on top of it, so it's pretty it's 2392 02:06:08.079 --> 02:06:10.560 pretty condensed. I don't you know, it's probably like too 2393 02:06:10.960 --> 02:06:12.039 foot down to get to the clay. 2394 02:06:12.199 --> 02:06:15.319 So that's I don't think that's Okay, well you're you're good. Then, yeah, 2395 02:06:15.479 --> 02:06:18.199 you're you're good. So just a good quality rose rose 2396 02:06:18.319 --> 02:06:20.760 blend mix would be the way I would go with that. 2397 02:06:22.359 --> 02:06:25.920 Okay, and then and then just can you keep them? 2398 02:06:28.000 --> 02:06:29.720 Yeah, you can buy it by the bag, you can 2399 02:06:29.760 --> 02:06:32.199 buy it by the bulk. You know, Airloom Soils makes 2400 02:06:32.239 --> 02:06:35.199 an excellent one that's available in your area and Cypress, 2401 02:06:35.199 --> 02:06:36.920 you can probably find it up at the Ace hardware 2402 02:06:36.960 --> 02:06:39.800 stores up there. I know our garden centers in the 2403 02:06:39.880 --> 02:06:45.680 Cypress region, both uh Let's see uh RCW Nursery, the 2404 02:06:45.840 --> 02:06:48.520 plantrol Seasons and Arbigate all three are going to carry 2405 02:06:48.960 --> 02:06:52.439 mixes like that to enhance the soil. So you know, 2406 02:06:52.560 --> 02:06:54.840 you you don't have far to go to find some 2407 02:06:54.960 --> 02:06:59.119 good stuff. You're lucky to live in that area. Yeah, yeah, 2408 02:06:59.279 --> 02:07:01.199 I got all those all the time. It's kind of funny, 2409 02:07:01.359 --> 02:07:04.920 so I appreciate it. Thank you. It's funny, but it's 2410 02:07:04.960 --> 02:07:08.680 fun too. Thanks Nick. Appreciate the call, appreciate having you 2411 02:07:09.119 --> 02:07:11.800 having you around. Hey, we're gonna go to Tony now 2412 02:07:12.319 --> 02:07:14.600 and hello, Tony, welcome to Guardline. 2413 02:07:15.600 --> 02:07:16.840 Thank you, Good morning. 2414 02:07:18.159 --> 02:07:20.039 All right, Hey, Tony, guess what I just did? I 2415 02:07:20.119 --> 02:07:22.119 messed up? I went to a call right when it's 2416 02:07:22.159 --> 02:07:25.399 time for me to take a break. False alarm. Can 2417 02:07:25.479 --> 02:07:28.800 you hang on for one second. I'll be right operator error. 2418 02:07:29.760 --> 02:07:35.359 All right, Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good 2419 02:07:35.399 --> 02:07:37.439 to have you with us, Glad to have you with 2420 02:07:37.560 --> 02:07:40.600 us today. It is my pleasure to get to visit 2421 02:07:40.680 --> 02:07:45.439 with you and answer questions about various kinds of plants, 2422 02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:48.279 various kinds of diseases and pests and things like that. 2423 02:07:48.880 --> 02:07:51.000 That is what we're here for. We're going to go 2424 02:07:51.079 --> 02:07:53.640 back to the phones now and talk to Tony. Tony, 2425 02:07:53.720 --> 02:07:57.279 thanks for hanging on through that false alarm. I get 2426 02:07:57.319 --> 02:07:59.079 to go in having so much fun here. I forget 2427 02:07:59.119 --> 02:08:02.479 to look at the clock. So I did get. I 2428 02:08:02.640 --> 02:08:08.960 did get the pictures that you sent, and you've got 2429 02:08:09.159 --> 02:08:12.239 You've got two different plants there. One's variegated and one's 2430 02:08:12.399 --> 02:08:16.680 not okay. And so the one I just want to 2431 02:08:16.680 --> 02:08:18.640 make one statement first part I talk about how to 2432 02:08:19.319 --> 02:08:21.840 control them, or I mean, how to prune them. Uh, 2433 02:08:22.159 --> 02:08:24.960 the one that's variegated, it's got the white leaves. If 2434 02:08:25.000 --> 02:08:26.920 you look in the planet, you'll see some leaves that 2435 02:08:27.000 --> 02:08:31.600 are all green. That plant is notorious for reverting back 2436 02:08:31.960 --> 02:08:35.479 to its all green form. So when you see that, 2437 02:08:35.760 --> 02:08:38.039 you want to follow that green branch all the way 2438 02:08:38.079 --> 02:08:40.439 back to where it attaches to another branch and prune 2439 02:08:40.479 --> 02:08:42.760 it out there, or the green will in time take 2440 02:08:42.840 --> 02:08:45.439 over the white of the bush. All right, So you 2441 02:08:45.600 --> 02:08:49.760 have to surgically remove the green because it continues to 2442 02:08:49.880 --> 02:08:53.039 revert its way back. It is a it is a 2443 02:08:53.159 --> 02:08:58.680 lagustrium type plant, and the pruning of it is you 2444 02:08:58.760 --> 02:09:01.439 can do two things. Most people will share them into 2445 02:09:01.520 --> 02:09:04.800 some form that is appealing. So I would take it 2446 02:09:05.199 --> 02:09:07.039 in the stage it's in right now and cut it 2447 02:09:07.159 --> 02:09:10.359 back maybe by about thirty percent, not much more than that. 2448 02:09:12.199 --> 02:09:14.920 It will sprout back out, and as it does, we 2449 02:09:15.079 --> 02:09:17.560 just have to share them periodically. Now we're going into winter, 2450 02:09:17.720 --> 02:09:20.279 so a lot of succulent new growth that will occur 2451 02:09:20.439 --> 02:09:24.159 after you cut back could be winter killed, and so 2452 02:09:24.359 --> 02:09:26.560 we want to go easy with it. But starting next 2453 02:09:26.640 --> 02:09:29.760 spring we can begin to print it more heavily. Because 2454 02:09:29.800 --> 02:09:33.920 that sidewalk, that plant will take over and your guests 2455 02:09:34.000 --> 02:09:36.239 will have to walk out in the yard to get by. 2456 02:09:37.319 --> 02:09:40.199 It'll run them right off the sidewalk there, So don't 2457 02:09:40.239 --> 02:09:44.680 trust it. Yeah, Okay, how long have those been on 2458 02:09:44.760 --> 02:09:51.439 the ground? About a year, about a year, okay, all right, yeah, well, yeah, 2459 02:09:51.520 --> 02:09:55.319 I think it's a great it's a great plant to 2460 02:09:55.479 --> 02:09:58.960 have and I like those, but you just got to 2461 02:09:59.000 --> 02:10:01.039 watch for them. Also watch a little bit for mealy bug. 2462 02:10:01.199 --> 02:10:04.800 Sometimes they're a little bit prone toward meetleabug type issues. 2463 02:10:06.199 --> 02:10:10.920 Well, I know during the spring, I got attacked by caterpillars, 2464 02:10:12.119 --> 02:10:17.119 which I believe they were the Eastern tent caterpillars. Oh yeah, 2465 02:10:18.319 --> 02:10:22.439 a couple of those bushes. They completely ate the leaves 2466 02:10:22.520 --> 02:10:24.279 off of them, but they came right back. 2467 02:10:25.760 --> 02:10:26.000 Yes. 2468 02:10:26.399 --> 02:10:29.720 The other thing was when we had the freeze and 2469 02:10:29.840 --> 02:10:33.159 it got thirteen degrees and we had ice out here. 2470 02:10:33.960 --> 02:10:37.399 When I looked at those bushes, I thought, and they're gone. 2471 02:10:37.479 --> 02:10:40.960 There's no way they survived that. But you know, once 2472 02:10:41.000 --> 02:10:44.680 it heated up, they came right back. So they made 2473 02:10:44.720 --> 02:10:47.359 it through thirteen degrees and ice and did good. 2474 02:10:47.720 --> 02:10:54.479 Wow. Well that's impressive. Yeah, they did a good time. Yeah. Well, anyway, 2475 02:10:54.520 --> 02:10:58.119 those are the gustrooms. Another name for him. By the way, 2476 02:10:58.560 --> 02:11:01.279 a lot of people call them privets, but variegated privet 2477 02:11:01.359 --> 02:11:04.479 and not variegated privet. But anyway, yep, just the more 2478 02:11:04.560 --> 02:11:06.880 you share them, the dnsure they get. Now, the alternative 2479 02:11:06.960 --> 02:11:09.359 to that is to do thinning cuts, which means you 2480 02:11:09.439 --> 02:11:11.760 go in and you take a gangly shoot and you 2481 02:11:11.880 --> 02:11:14.439 cut it back to where it joins another shoot and 2482 02:11:14.600 --> 02:11:17.279 you sort of reduce the size that way. But that's 2483 02:11:17.319 --> 02:11:19.880 a lot more tedious, and I think in the setting 2484 02:11:19.920 --> 02:11:21.840 they're going, you're probably gonna need to share them to 2485 02:11:21.920 --> 02:11:23.840 keep them in bounds with the space. 2486 02:11:23.640 --> 02:11:27.600 That they're Okay, okay, sounds good. 2487 02:11:27.720 --> 02:11:31.520 Thanks for thanks, yeah, thanks thanks for calling. Good luck, 2488 02:11:31.680 --> 02:11:34.479 good luck with those uh with those bushes. Appreciate that 2489 02:11:34.920 --> 02:11:37.520 you're listening to Guardline folks. Our phone number seven one 2490 02:11:37.640 --> 02:11:42.640 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 2491 02:11:42.760 --> 02:11:46.279 three two one two five eight seven four. If you 2492 02:11:46.399 --> 02:11:48.199 can just plants in the heights. I was there the 2493 02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:52.319 other day visiting with Zach and Heather and just taking 2494 02:11:52.359 --> 02:11:53.840 a look at the place, and you know, they are 2495 02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:55.880 set up and ready to go for fall. I mean 2496 02:11:55.920 --> 02:12:00.640 they got fall mums in. They look outstanding, really really nice. 2497 02:12:01.279 --> 02:12:04.359 A lot of annual flowers for color. You never have 2498 02:12:04.439 --> 02:12:07.239 an excuse to not have color around here. Buchanan is 2499 02:12:07.239 --> 02:12:09.800 always going to keep you stocked up on everything that 2500 02:12:09.960 --> 02:12:13.680 you need. If you are interested in native plants. I 2501 02:12:13.720 --> 02:12:16.359 don't know a place that has a bigger selection than 2502 02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:19.760 Buchanans Plants. One plant I was talking to somebody the 2503 02:12:19.800 --> 02:12:21.520 other day. They have it at Buchanans by the way, 2504 02:12:21.800 --> 02:12:25.199 button bush, button bush. If you've got an area that's 2505 02:12:25.239 --> 02:12:28.199 poorly drained and you don't want to spend the money 2506 02:12:28.279 --> 02:12:31.600 on increasing the drainage in that area with subsurface drainage 2507 02:12:32.000 --> 02:12:34.760 plant of button bush. It can grow in a swamp. 2508 02:12:34.840 --> 02:12:37.920 I mean, it is very tough, very tolerant of wet conditions. 2509 02:12:38.479 --> 02:12:41.520 It is a butterfly attracting plant, has very unusual little 2510 02:12:41.920 --> 02:12:45.159 spiked balls as flowers. It's kind of like that you 2511 02:12:45.239 --> 02:12:48.000 know that skyscraper up in Dallas. It's got the little 2512 02:12:48.119 --> 02:12:50.479 round looks like a dandelion head up on top. That's 2513 02:12:50.560 --> 02:12:52.600 kind of what button bush looks like. And they've got 2514 02:12:52.640 --> 02:12:54.720 it at Buchins as well as a lot of other 2515 02:12:54.880 --> 02:12:57.840 native plants. They all that's what they specialize in. That's 2516 02:12:57.880 --> 02:13:02.239 why the name is Buchanans Plants. Again, Eleventh Street in 2517 02:13:02.319 --> 02:13:05.560 the Heights. Go by there. And the other thing you 2518 02:13:05.680 --> 02:13:08.800 need to do is when go online to be Cannonsplas 2519 02:13:08.920 --> 02:13:11.720 dot com and sign up for their newsletter. It is 2520 02:13:12.000 --> 02:13:15.960 outstanding and there's a lot of information on the website 2521 02:13:16.000 --> 02:13:19.279 as well, tips and tricks. For example, they are always 2522 02:13:19.319 --> 02:13:22.800 putting educational material up. If you want to have success, 2523 02:13:23.920 --> 02:13:27.119 trust the folks at Buchanan's Plants on Eleventh Street and 2524 02:13:27.199 --> 02:13:30.760 the Heights. I'm going to go back to the phones 2525 02:13:30.840 --> 02:13:33.800 here and check my clock, make sure I'm making the 2526 02:13:33.840 --> 02:13:37.760 same mistake again. Mary lou and Northwest Houston, Welcome to 2527 02:13:37.840 --> 02:13:38.399 garden Line. 2528 02:13:39.479 --> 02:13:40.079 Good morning. 2529 02:13:40.720 --> 02:13:43.239 I wonder if you could tell me how to save 2530 02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:46.319 or revive a dying climbing rose. 2531 02:13:48.680 --> 02:13:50.840 Well, what why is it dying? Why do we think 2532 02:13:50.880 --> 02:13:51.399 it's dying? 2533 02:13:52.760 --> 02:13:55.439 Mostly he he and neglect. 2534 02:13:57.319 --> 02:14:05.159 Okay, uh, Well, roses need good drainage, they need good 2535 02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:08.439 quality soil with good drainage. They need good nutrition. They 2536 02:14:08.520 --> 02:14:13.159 are heavy feeders, and they need good sunlight. And sometimes 2537 02:14:13.199 --> 02:14:16.119 over the years an area that with sunny becomes less 2538 02:14:16.159 --> 02:14:20.039 and less sunny. And if that has happened, then either 2539 02:14:20.159 --> 02:14:22.920 some pruning to open up light or move in the 2540 02:14:23.039 --> 02:14:25.600 rose would be the two options. If you've got good 2541 02:14:25.680 --> 02:14:28.000 sunlight and if you have good drainage, I would cut 2542 02:14:28.119 --> 02:14:33.840 that rose back after it blooms the bloom season. Buds 2543 02:14:34.000 --> 02:14:37.039 are already forming on that plant, and if you prune 2544 02:14:37.119 --> 02:14:39.960 it now, you're not going to have a bloom show 2545 02:14:40.000 --> 02:14:42.439 in the spring because you're cutting away the bloom buds. 2546 02:14:42.840 --> 02:14:44.720 So if you can wait until after it blooms and 2547 02:14:44.760 --> 02:14:47.520 then cut it back pretty severely and get fresh new 2548 02:14:47.560 --> 02:14:50.279 growth and train that growth in the direction you want 2549 02:14:50.319 --> 02:14:54.159 it to go when it's in your power, Mary, if 2550 02:14:54.199 --> 02:14:58.119 you can orient, we call them canes the shoots of 2551 02:14:58.199 --> 02:15:02.359 a climbing rose. If you can anto shoots horizontally back 2552 02:15:02.439 --> 02:15:05.159 and forth, they bloom better that way because if you 2553 02:15:05.239 --> 02:15:07.479 let it go just straight vertically up in the air, 2554 02:15:07.880 --> 02:15:09.920 you'll get more blooms up on top, but not as 2555 02:15:10.000 --> 02:15:12.279 many up and down around the branch. But as they 2556 02:15:12.399 --> 02:15:15.159 kind of go horizontal, you get more bloom forming all 2557 02:15:15.239 --> 02:15:17.880 along those branches. So some people will weave them back 2558 02:15:17.880 --> 02:15:20.520 and forth on our trellis. If you have the time 2559 02:15:20.560 --> 02:15:21.520 and inclination to. 2560 02:15:21.600 --> 02:15:25.880 Do that, I don't think it's going to bloom much 2561 02:15:26.039 --> 02:15:28.479 because now it really looks ragged. 2562 02:15:29.840 --> 02:15:32.720 Okay, what is the what is the sunlight? How many 2563 02:15:32.760 --> 02:15:34.479 hours do you think it gets the sun. 2564 02:15:36.560 --> 02:15:37.079 It gets? 2565 02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:37.479 Uh? 2566 02:15:38.840 --> 02:15:43.239 Oh, it probably gets enough sunlight. There are trees not 2567 02:15:43.439 --> 02:15:46.479 too close to it, but I think it gets because 2568 02:15:46.560 --> 02:15:48.199 it has the past bloomed. 2569 02:15:49.640 --> 02:15:54.119 All right, well, let's let's do this. Uh Ragged, you know, 2570 02:15:54.319 --> 02:15:56.560 is a general term. I can kind of picture ragged, 2571 02:15:56.640 --> 02:16:01.399 but there is a ragged from lead water right, go ahead? 2572 02:16:01.520 --> 02:16:01.720 Dead? 2573 02:16:02.720 --> 02:16:05.479 Some of the branches look dead. I think it may 2574 02:16:05.600 --> 02:16:07.399 have a little bit of life left in it. 2575 02:16:08.680 --> 02:16:11.520 All right, Well, as we go through this conversation, I'm 2576 02:16:11.560 --> 02:16:13.319 more and more thinking that I need to go over 2577 02:16:13.359 --> 02:16:16.159 there and do last rites on your rosebud. It keeps 2578 02:16:16.239 --> 02:16:20.920 getting worse sounding. I think that probably diseases have played 2579 02:16:20.960 --> 02:16:23.159 a part in that. And it could be spider mites. 2580 02:16:23.319 --> 02:16:26.000 It could be great. It could be a black spot 2581 02:16:26.079 --> 02:16:29.039 on the leaves. It could be there are others gosper 2582 02:16:29.119 --> 02:16:32.440 spot can attack on. There's insects that can chew the leaves. So, 2583 02:16:33.079 --> 02:16:35.360 you know, ragged. I want to know why it's ragged. 2584 02:16:35.520 --> 02:16:38.360 Is a soil well drained? And if not, can we 2585 02:16:38.479 --> 02:16:41.040 fix that? Are you watering it adequately? 2586 02:16:42.239 --> 02:16:49.000 I've just started watering, but but well ahead, I'm sorry 2587 02:16:49.399 --> 02:16:52.879 vines have grown around it, on the soil around it, 2588 02:16:53.079 --> 02:16:56.079 and I have to go and get those out of there. 2589 02:16:57.280 --> 02:16:59.920 Well, okay, so either you or someone you bring in 2590 02:17:00.200 --> 02:17:01.920 to do it. I would have them clean up all 2591 02:17:02.000 --> 02:17:05.680 the competition around that thing, all the vines. Let's throw 2592 02:17:05.799 --> 02:17:08.399 some rose food down on the soil. You know, get 2593 02:17:08.479 --> 02:17:14.159 your good quality rose blend nitrofoss has in canisters, real 2594 02:17:14.280 --> 02:17:17.360 quality rose soil. You'll find that with Nelson's as well. 2595 02:17:17.399 --> 02:17:20.319 They've got that sprinkle it around the plant, working into 2596 02:17:20.360 --> 02:17:22.920 the surface of the soil, watered and really good prune 2597 02:17:22.920 --> 02:17:27.040 out all the dead branches. And then I still would 2598 02:17:27.079 --> 02:17:31.040 wait on the serious pruning until spring, because you don't 2599 02:17:31.040 --> 02:17:33.600 want to force a lot of succulent growth that were 2600 02:17:33.639 --> 02:17:35.680 we to have a good coal winter snap, it would 2601 02:17:35.760 --> 02:17:38.920 kill that growth. And because it's not hardened off, so 2602 02:17:39.079 --> 02:17:43.879 let's hold off on serious pruning until springtime. And that'd 2603 02:17:43.920 --> 02:17:46.760 be my best suggestion. Okay, hey, I've got a run. 2604 02:17:47.280 --> 02:17:50.479 We're taking up against a hard break here, but good 2605 02:17:50.559 --> 02:17:54.719 luck with that rose. And if you need more help, 2606 02:17:54.840 --> 02:17:56.760 call me back, send me some pictures next time and 2607 02:17:56.840 --> 02:17:59.680 we'll talk further. All right, folks, I'm going to take 2608 02:17:59.719 --> 02:18:02.639 a little break seven one three two one two kt 2609 02:18:03.120 --> 02:18:05.319 r H. And when we come back, Divana out and 2610 02:18:05.440 --> 02:18:09.719 Katie you will be our first up handle here and 2611 02:18:09.920 --> 02:18:11.879 help people with In the meantime, I want to tell 2612 02:18:11.879 --> 02:18:16.360 about as mite. Azamite is the micro nutrient source that 2613 02:18:16.479 --> 02:18:20.040 we recommend here on garden Line to provide those essential 2614 02:18:20.200 --> 02:18:22.840 nutrients that are needed in small amounts. Just the fact 2615 02:18:22.840 --> 02:18:25.120 that they're needed in small amounts does not change the 2616 02:18:25.200 --> 02:18:27.799 fact that they are essential. And the way I like 2617 02:18:27.879 --> 02:18:30.280 to put it is, if you could take every molecule 2618 02:18:30.319 --> 02:18:32.959 of manganese out of the soil, a plant cannot live. 2619 02:18:33.079 --> 02:18:35.760 Any plant cannot live. If you take every molecule of 2620 02:18:35.840 --> 02:18:37.959 zinc out of the soil, any plant cannot live. Do 2621 02:18:38.000 --> 02:18:40.959 you see what I'm saying. Asimite provides those nutrients. It 2622 02:18:41.120 --> 02:18:43.120 builds the bank account. You can do it when you 2623 02:18:43.239 --> 02:18:46.319 fertilize in a separate hopper. Fertilize and then come back 2624 02:18:46.399 --> 02:18:48.799 and fill up with azamite and do that, or you 2625 02:18:48.840 --> 02:18:50.280 can do it any month of the year. It does 2626 02:18:50.360 --> 02:18:52.319 not have to be done at the same time you fertilize, 2627 02:18:52.360 --> 02:18:54.120 and let's you just want to save the time because 2628 02:18:54.120 --> 02:18:57.120 you already out there doing it. Asamite Texas dot Com 2629 02:18:57.319 --> 02:19:01.760 is the website. But remember asamite. When you are looking 2630 02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:03.719 at my schedule, you will see that I have on 2631 02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:07.760 there micro nutrients supplements can be done during a wide 2632 02:19:07.799 --> 02:19:09.600 time of the year. Now is find time to go 2633 02:19:09.639 --> 02:19:11.520 ahead and do it with azamite. If you got a 2634 02:19:11.559 --> 02:19:13.399 vegetable garden to you throw some out there. It takes 2635 02:19:13.440 --> 02:19:16.319 about I think it's about ten pounds per thousand square 2636 02:19:16.360 --> 02:19:19.120 feet and a vegetable garden and that way the produce 2637 02:19:19.200 --> 02:19:21.479 that you're eating, you want it to be chalk full 2638 02:19:21.559 --> 02:19:24.200 of all the different nutrients, that nutrients that our bodies 2639 02:19:24.280 --> 02:19:27.559 need to and Asamite Texas can do that. I want 2640 02:19:27.600 --> 02:19:31.799 to go now to let's see Divanna in Katie. Hello Divanna, 2641 02:19:31.840 --> 02:19:32.840 and welcome to guard Line. 2642 02:19:33.680 --> 02:19:36.799 Good morning, thank you for taking my call. I tacked 2643 02:19:36.840 --> 02:19:42.559 a zucchini yesterday that had it was mature, but it 2644 02:19:42.639 --> 02:19:46.680 still had the flower petals on there, and it was 2645 02:19:47.079 --> 02:19:50.399 kind of bulled out at the end and at the 2646 02:19:50.600 --> 02:19:53.239 end I looked at it and inside it looks like 2647 02:19:54.000 --> 02:19:56.479 two or three more zucchinis were trying to grow out 2648 02:19:56.520 --> 02:19:58.239 of that. Have you ever seen anything like that? 2649 02:20:00.319 --> 02:20:04.399 That is a condition called the vippery, not a weird word, 2650 02:20:04.559 --> 02:20:07.079 the vippery, and basically what it means is the seed sprouts. 2651 02:20:07.120 --> 02:20:09.520 Occasionally you'll see pecans on a tree with a sprout 2652 02:20:09.559 --> 02:20:11.559 coming out and the pacan nut hadn't even hit the 2653 02:20:11.559 --> 02:20:14.879 ground yet. That can happen with a number of different things. 2654 02:20:14.959 --> 02:20:17.840 Tomatoes can do that you'll see hit tomato and piercing 2655 02:20:17.959 --> 02:20:20.879 through the skin or little little tomato seeds. It's sprouded 2656 02:20:20.959 --> 02:20:24.920 inside the fruit. Different kinds of stresses can cause It's 2657 02:20:25.040 --> 02:20:27.680 it's not a big concern. You just pull that zucchini off, 2658 02:20:27.879 --> 02:20:29.840 cut away the parts that have it, and keep going. 2659 02:20:30.159 --> 02:20:32.799 You know, it's not going to ruin ruin the other 2660 02:20:32.879 --> 02:20:36.000 parts of the fruit. But yep, that's what it's called. 2661 02:20:37.120 --> 02:20:39.239 Nothing really for you to do about it other than 2662 02:20:39.319 --> 02:20:41.879 provide good care. And I think I don't think it's 2663 02:20:41.920 --> 02:20:43.920 going to be an ongoing problem for your zucchini. 2664 02:20:44.319 --> 02:20:46.479 Well, it was just real unusual looking. 2665 02:20:47.239 --> 02:20:51.280 And thank you so much for taking up off all right, Katie, 2666 02:20:51.280 --> 02:20:52.040 thank you very loud. 2667 02:20:52.159 --> 02:20:53.680 You know, normally I say, when I help you with 2668 02:20:53.760 --> 02:20:56.239 a plant, there's no charge, but you got to drop 2669 02:20:56.319 --> 02:20:59.600 half the produce off at the gart at the KRH studio. 2670 02:20:59.840 --> 02:21:02.680 I can eat too, I think. With zucchini, though, I'm 2671 02:21:02.680 --> 02:21:06.360 going to make an exception to that rule. You know, 2672 02:21:06.399 --> 02:21:09.399 when zucchini starts producing, it's like what do you do. 2673 02:21:09.559 --> 02:21:11.879 That's why the neighbors close the blinds and one answered 2674 02:21:11.879 --> 02:21:13.879 the door. When you're carrying the tenth the basket of 2675 02:21:13.959 --> 02:21:18.000 zucchini across the yard to gift them. Some more said, 2676 02:21:19.159 --> 02:21:21.520 have fun, have fun in the garden, Divanna, thanks for 2677 02:21:21.600 --> 02:21:21.879 the call. 2678 02:21:22.000 --> 02:21:22.319 Thank you. 2679 02:21:24.280 --> 02:21:27.159 All right by by, let's see, we're gonna go now 2680 02:21:27.280 --> 02:21:30.040 to Larry and Alvin. Hey, Larry, welcome to garden Line. 2681 02:21:31.079 --> 02:21:31.680 Good morning. 2682 02:21:32.559 --> 02:21:32.719 Hey. 2683 02:21:32.840 --> 02:21:36.920 Before I ask you my question, I've been curious. I 2684 02:21:37.040 --> 02:21:39.719 don't hear Nicky Courtney on there anymore. 2685 02:21:40.959 --> 02:21:45.159 No, Nikki's retired. She's moved on having a happy, happy, 2686 02:21:45.440 --> 02:21:50.079 happy retired life. Yeah. Yeah, we missed enjoyed her being there. 2687 02:21:51.040 --> 02:21:53.319 Oh yeah, hey, how can I help you help you 2688 02:21:53.360 --> 02:21:54.000 with your question? 2689 02:21:55.159 --> 02:21:59.959 Well, I'm going to sower rise a long flower band 2690 02:22:00.399 --> 02:22:03.280 all the way across front of my house. But I 2691 02:22:03.479 --> 02:22:07.120 also I was wondering should I put some barricade down 2692 02:22:07.319 --> 02:22:12.319 first or wait till get the solarized and then I'm 2693 02:22:12.360 --> 02:22:17.600 on a put down molt on top of it? And 2694 02:22:19.559 --> 02:22:22.120 should I put the malts down before solarize it? 2695 02:22:22.239 --> 02:22:22.760 Does it matter? 2696 02:22:22.840 --> 02:22:24.040 It's just a weed bed. 2697 02:22:27.159 --> 02:22:30.760 Here's the quick answer on that solarizing heats up the 2698 02:22:30.879 --> 02:22:32.440 soil to a point where it kills all the weed 2699 02:22:32.520 --> 02:22:36.280 seeds and the surface not five inches down but the 2700 02:22:36.399 --> 02:22:38.840 top four if you do it right, if it's got 2701 02:22:38.920 --> 02:22:41.920 good sunlight. Now, if that works, you don't need to 2702 02:22:42.000 --> 02:22:44.479 use barricade because you've killed the weed seeds that are 2703 02:22:44.559 --> 02:22:44.840 up there. 2704 02:22:45.360 --> 02:22:47.479 What I reckollec do. 2705 02:22:47.920 --> 02:22:51.040 Do your soil prep and get the bed ready to plant, 2706 02:22:51.799 --> 02:22:55.239 and then solarize, and then when you take the plastic 2707 02:22:55.319 --> 02:22:57.440 clear plastic is what you after you when you take 2708 02:22:57.479 --> 02:23:00.719 that off, you've killed the weed seeds up there, so 2709 02:23:00.840 --> 02:23:04.440 you shouldn't need to do that the barricade. Now, then 2710 02:23:04.760 --> 02:23:07.600 plant your plants and then throw multch down on the surface. 2711 02:23:07.959 --> 02:23:10.680 That's kind of the overall answer to what you're asking. 2712 02:23:11.559 --> 02:23:13.120 Got you got you? Well? 2713 02:23:13.200 --> 02:23:15.559 That's good. That's good to know. I didn't know which 2714 02:23:15.600 --> 02:23:17.799 way to go, where I needed to do or in 2715 02:23:17.920 --> 02:23:20.840 what order I needed to do well. 2716 02:23:20.879 --> 02:23:24.120 And if a solarizing was not fully effective for whatever 2717 02:23:24.200 --> 02:23:27.200 reason lack of light or whatever, if it wasn't fully effective, 2718 02:23:27.479 --> 02:23:29.760 by getting the plant in right away and getting that 2719 02:23:29.879 --> 02:23:32.319 mulch on top, now you've blocked the light and those 2720 02:23:32.360 --> 02:23:33.920 weed seeds are't go be able to come up through 2721 02:23:33.959 --> 02:23:36.840 the mulch anyway, so that's a double insurance. 2722 02:23:37.879 --> 02:23:41.399 I'm probably going way a little bet spring and a 2723 02:23:41.520 --> 02:23:45.399 plant to plant then, so I got plenty of time 2724 02:23:45.840 --> 02:23:47.959 to solarize it. And it gets you. 2725 02:23:48.000 --> 02:23:52.000 Yeah, what are you going to grow in that bed? 2726 02:23:54.120 --> 02:23:56.719 I'm just gonna I think I'm on plant all naighties? 2727 02:23:58.120 --> 02:24:04.159 Okay, all right, yeah, well ad it from you. Yeah, 2728 02:24:04.479 --> 02:24:06.879 you're done in Alvin down there. And I know that 2729 02:24:07.120 --> 02:24:10.159 airlom Soils has bag products at Ace Hardware stores and 2730 02:24:10.719 --> 02:24:14.280 they sell all over. They've got some really good mixes 2731 02:24:14.520 --> 02:24:18.319 and and I would I would seriously consider using their 2732 02:24:18.440 --> 02:24:20.639 landscape bed mix for example. I mean you could also 2733 02:24:20.719 --> 02:24:23.319 even use like a rose and bloomers blend. Even though 2734 02:24:23.319 --> 02:24:25.319 it's native plants, it doesn't mean you can't use roasto. 2735 02:24:25.479 --> 02:24:28.079 Roast oil is for good for woody shrubs of all kinds. 2736 02:24:28.680 --> 02:24:31.200 And so yeah, i'd get some of that stuff and 2737 02:24:31.360 --> 02:24:31.840 mix it in. 2738 02:24:33.520 --> 02:24:36.920 Yeah, I've used your product. I really like it, so 2739 02:24:37.799 --> 02:24:39.079 I'll probably get quality. 2740 02:24:40.639 --> 02:24:42.760 Yeah, you got some Ace Hardware is done in Alvin too, 2741 02:24:42.840 --> 02:24:45.440 that that I bet, I bet will carry it for you. 2742 02:24:46.920 --> 02:24:48.879 And also carries it. 2743 02:24:50.120 --> 02:24:52.559 Oh yeah, yeah, all right, Well hey man, thanks for 2744 02:24:52.639 --> 02:24:55.000 the call. I appreciate that very much. Appreciate you being 2745 02:24:55.040 --> 02:24:57.879 on guarden on. Yeah, Airlom Soils folks. Airloom Soils of 2746 02:24:57.959 --> 02:25:00.639 Texas dot com. Go to that website and look at 2747 02:25:00.719 --> 02:25:04.239 all the stuff they carry. Also look at something called 2748 02:25:04.319 --> 02:25:09.200 the soil calculator. It's a calculator and it'll tell you, like, 2749 02:25:09.520 --> 02:25:12.040 if you've got a bed that's this wide by this 2750 02:25:12.280 --> 02:25:14.120 long and you want to make it that deep, how 2751 02:25:14.200 --> 02:25:16.200 much soil do you need? And if you're gonna buy 2752 02:25:16.239 --> 02:25:18.200 a bulk, it'll tell you. If you're gonna buy in bags, 2753 02:25:18.280 --> 02:25:20.360 it'll tell you, you know, some of these bags or 2754 02:25:20.399 --> 02:25:22.840 one cubic feet from heirloom, some er two cubic feet, 2755 02:25:22.840 --> 02:25:24.760 it'll tell you. He'll even tell you how many five 2756 02:25:24.799 --> 02:25:27.000 gallon buckets it takes to do what you want to do. 2757 02:25:27.079 --> 02:25:30.520 It's a great calculator. And at that Heirloom Soils of 2758 02:25:30.639 --> 02:25:33.319 Texas site, that's where you'll find it. I'm gonna go 2759 02:25:33.440 --> 02:25:39.360 now to uh, let's see here Corey in. We've got 2760 02:25:39.360 --> 02:25:41.319 about a minute. Let's see if we can get started. 2761 02:25:41.399 --> 02:25:42.760 We'll finish up after a break. 2762 02:25:44.200 --> 02:25:50.559 Okay, first question, but Grandpa died a couple of years ago. 2763 02:25:50.559 --> 02:25:51.879 He used to take care of the palm trees in 2764 02:25:51.959 --> 02:25:54.239 the yard. I'm taking care of my grandma now, trying 2765 02:25:54.239 --> 02:25:54.760 to take care of. 2766 02:25:54.760 --> 02:25:55.479 The palm trees. 2767 02:25:55.719 --> 02:25:58.760 So I've cut all of the dead limbs off, but 2768 02:25:58.959 --> 02:26:02.079 some of them were like ligong, And I don't know 2769 02:26:02.399 --> 02:26:06.159 if I'm like stripping the protecting bart or if it's 2770 02:26:06.200 --> 02:26:08.319 already dead and it's okay to come off. I'm just 2771 02:26:08.440 --> 02:26:11.360 trying not to like let the bottom of the tree 2772 02:26:11.479 --> 02:26:11.959 roun again. 2773 02:26:13.120 --> 02:26:15.520 Yeah, I know, pull on it and it comes If 2774 02:26:15.559 --> 02:26:17.760 you pull on it comes off. That's fine. There's different 2775 02:26:17.840 --> 02:26:21.879 kinds of palms. Some of them the whole the palm 2776 02:26:22.000 --> 02:26:24.879 leaf has something called a petiole. That's the branch and 2777 02:26:25.040 --> 02:26:28.239 the palm leaf out there, and it attaches to the trunk. 2778 02:26:28.280 --> 02:26:30.559 And some of them strip away right there. Some of 2779 02:26:30.639 --> 02:26:33.000 them we cut them off and leave that stuff on there. 2780 02:26:33.399 --> 02:26:34.360 Just the nature of that. 2781 02:26:35.840 --> 02:26:38.879 So if it's these are the ones with the sharp teeth, 2782 02:26:39.280 --> 02:26:41.959 these the ones with the sharp teeth, I'm on that thing. 2783 02:26:42.840 --> 02:26:44.000 So I was cutting down I. 2784 02:26:44.040 --> 02:26:45.680 Noticed a couple of the other palm trees, you know, 2785 02:26:45.760 --> 02:26:47.680 cutting them down to that little short stuff. But I 2786 02:26:47.760 --> 02:26:50.920 was also noticing the bottom doesn't on some of the 2787 02:26:51.319 --> 02:26:55.879 neighbor's trees don't look that way. They're like, I don't know, smoothish, 2788 02:26:57.079 --> 02:26:59.120 they're not, you know, jagged and layered. 2789 02:26:59.680 --> 02:27:00.319 Is that good? 2790 02:27:00.479 --> 02:27:00.680 Bad? 2791 02:27:00.760 --> 02:27:01.520 Do I need to do that? 2792 02:27:01.680 --> 02:27:02.319 How do I do that? 2793 02:27:03.520 --> 02:27:06.360 Well, let's come back to that. I'm gonna have to 2794 02:27:06.440 --> 02:27:08.120 hit a break here and I will come back. We'll 2795 02:27:08.159 --> 02:27:11.399 continue with this discussion. But that's a good question. All right, 2796 02:27:11.440 --> 02:27:14.159 folks will be right back with us. We're going to 2797 02:27:14.239 --> 02:27:18.799 run back out to the conversation we had begun with Corey. Corey, 2798 02:27:18.879 --> 02:27:21.600 we're talking about palm trees and you had some branches 2799 02:27:21.719 --> 02:27:24.319 you have, or some palm leads that you've cut off, 2800 02:27:24.399 --> 02:27:26.120 and we're talking about whether or not to lead that 2801 02:27:26.239 --> 02:27:27.319 base on the trunk or not. 2802 02:27:27.680 --> 02:27:29.559 Right, correct? 2803 02:27:30.799 --> 02:27:34.159 Okay, Well, like I said, some palms depends on the 2804 02:27:34.239 --> 02:27:37.399 style of palm. They lead those stubs and issue drive 2805 02:27:37.399 --> 02:27:39.520 around down and you'll see that, and some it just 2806 02:27:39.559 --> 02:27:41.840 strips off. They cut it loose right at the trunk, 2807 02:27:42.000 --> 02:27:44.479 and that's fine too. I wouldn't worry a lot about it. 2808 02:27:44.639 --> 02:27:47.040 If it's gonna pull off. The older ones is are 2809 02:27:47.079 --> 02:27:49.520 decaying away, you know at the base that they're gonna 2810 02:27:49.559 --> 02:27:52.920 put a loose and if that works that way, that's fine. 2811 02:27:53.040 --> 02:27:53.479 Just do that. 2812 02:27:54.000 --> 02:27:56.159 That's not a problem. There are a lot of different 2813 02:27:56.200 --> 02:27:58.440 species of palms out there, and just the fact that 2814 02:27:58.520 --> 02:28:01.639 you mentioned it had the little darns or teeth on 2815 02:28:01.719 --> 02:28:05.600 the side, there's several types that have that, so that 2816 02:28:05.840 --> 02:28:08.120 characteristic alone doesn't really distinguish. 2817 02:28:10.280 --> 02:28:14.040 Gotcha, Okay, Sorry that we use some of the dead 2818 02:28:14.120 --> 02:28:16.360 limbs for the top of the gazebo, and I'm using 2819 02:28:16.399 --> 02:28:19.280 a hatchet, and I just was wondering. I didn't want 2820 02:28:19.280 --> 02:28:21.520 to cut too deep into the tree, and so I 2821 02:28:21.639 --> 02:28:25.000 didn't know pulling that extra bark off with you know, 2822 02:28:25.079 --> 02:28:27.280 allow too much hair or something to rock the tree. 2823 02:28:28.479 --> 02:28:30.600 No, just kind of cutting it loose at the surface 2824 02:28:30.680 --> 02:28:34.440 there of the plant. That's what you're doing. You don't 2825 02:28:34.440 --> 02:28:37.520 want to chop down deep into the trunk, for sure, 2826 02:28:37.639 --> 02:28:40.040 but you could. You could cut those things off if 2827 02:28:40.040 --> 02:28:44.280 you need to, just by more slicing. I guess your 2828 02:28:44.319 --> 02:28:47.600 swing is more in the direction of the trunk, parallel 2829 02:28:47.639 --> 02:28:50.079 of the trunk, more than it is at a right 2830 02:28:50.159 --> 02:28:51.719 angle directly into the trunks. 2831 02:28:51.760 --> 02:28:54.799 You know what I'm saying, Right right, I'm trying to 2832 02:28:54.840 --> 02:28:57.159 give them that because the other trees that I see 2833 02:28:57.239 --> 02:29:00.360 people eating chainsaws with. They're like a nice bevil kind 2834 02:29:00.399 --> 02:29:06.520 of cross ditch live and so I'm trying to equal that. Yeah, 2835 02:29:06.559 --> 02:29:08.040 but I, like I said, at the bottom of the 2836 02:29:08.079 --> 02:29:11.239 tree sometimes it looks grated, and I see they am 2837 02:29:11.360 --> 02:29:13.200 using a tool or whatever to kind of grind the 2838 02:29:13.239 --> 02:29:14.680 tree there. And I didn't know if that was healthy 2839 02:29:14.879 --> 02:29:17.600 or if I needed to do that or in mind 2840 02:29:17.639 --> 02:29:19.040 to just leave alone that don't. 2841 02:29:18.879 --> 02:29:22.799 Have a big budget, I'm not seeing that. I wouldn't 2842 02:29:22.799 --> 02:29:26.319 over overthink this one. The palm trees, you know, in nature, 2843 02:29:26.399 --> 02:29:28.920 nobody's doing anything like that to them, So it's not 2844 02:29:28.959 --> 02:29:31.879 gonna affect life of your big tree what you do. 2845 02:29:32.239 --> 02:29:34.680 It's just a matter of cleanness. And the other thing 2846 02:29:34.879 --> 02:29:37.760 is when you get a big top on a palm 2847 02:29:37.840 --> 02:29:40.040 tree that's full of all those dead leaves and things, 2848 02:29:40.680 --> 02:29:44.040 rats will hide up in there and nest and then 2849 02:29:44.079 --> 02:29:45.879 they'll fall out and hit you on the head with 2850 02:29:46.000 --> 02:29:47.760 that serrated edge of the leaf that can do a 2851 02:29:47.799 --> 02:29:49.520 lot of damage. And that's the main reason why I've 2852 02:29:49.520 --> 02:29:50.920 been friending them for aesthetics and. 2853 02:29:50.959 --> 02:29:51.600 For someone. 2854 02:29:53.719 --> 02:29:56.440 Okay, do I need to do anything to love then, 2855 02:29:58.360 --> 02:30:01.639 or can I just lea alone, the ones that are 2856 02:30:01.680 --> 02:30:05.920 still like half or three quarters green, No, you can 2857 02:30:06.040 --> 02:30:06.639 leave those on. 2858 02:30:07.399 --> 02:30:08.920 Think of it this way. When you look at a 2859 02:30:08.959 --> 02:30:13.040 palm tree, the leaves in nature will form a complete circle. 2860 02:30:13.079 --> 02:30:16.079 There'll be green leaves going up to the sides, and 2861 02:30:16.200 --> 02:30:18.719 at some point, as they get down to let's say 2862 02:30:19.120 --> 02:30:23.440 five o'clock and eight o'clock on a clock, the ones 2863 02:30:23.520 --> 02:30:26.319 below that are all dead hanging around the base. You 2864 02:30:26.440 --> 02:30:29.079 want to prune all dead out, but you never want 2865 02:30:29.120 --> 02:30:33.440 to raise that up until where more than half of 2866 02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:36.360 that ball has been removed. So, in other words, look 2867 02:30:36.399 --> 02:30:38.719 at the pod and think of a clock, and don't 2868 02:30:38.840 --> 02:30:42.280 prune higher than three o'clock and nine o'clock. Does that 2869 02:30:42.360 --> 02:30:43.639 make sense if I do it that way? 2870 02:30:43.760 --> 02:30:44.159 Perfect? 2871 02:30:44.760 --> 02:30:48.399 Yes, yeah, it's perfect that I've always wanted to be 2872 02:30:48.399 --> 02:30:49.799 a college. How you keep your thinking my call? 2873 02:30:51.040 --> 02:30:53.000 Oh? Well, thank you for being a caller. Call back sometime. 2874 02:30:53.239 --> 02:30:53.600 Take care? 2875 02:30:54.200 --> 02:30:55.440 Yes you do at. 2876 02:30:56.920 --> 02:30:57.040 All? 2877 02:30:57.120 --> 02:30:59.360 Right, folks, there you go. It's as simple as that. Hey, 2878 02:30:59.760 --> 02:31:01.719 I'll I want to tell you about Medina products. I 2879 02:31:01.879 --> 02:31:04.559 have talked about a lot of different ones over the weeks. 2880 02:31:05.120 --> 02:31:06.920 I want to tell you about one. This is something 2881 02:31:07.000 --> 02:31:08.680 you need to know about for fall and that is 2882 02:31:08.799 --> 02:31:13.120 Medina Plus and Medina Liquid Humus. Both of them are 2883 02:31:13.159 --> 02:31:15.879 excellent products. But when you're going to be doing transplanting 2884 02:31:15.920 --> 02:31:19.319 and watering something in a Medina Plus I would do it, 2885 02:31:19.600 --> 02:31:24.440 and the Medina Humate liquid humus, which is constantrated compost 2886 02:31:24.520 --> 02:31:27.200 basically in a bottle, follow the label. Put those together 2887 02:31:27.239 --> 02:31:29.719 in a watering can and drench that down over your plants. 2888 02:31:29.799 --> 02:31:32.000 Now that Medina plus, you know, you can use it 2889 02:31:32.079 --> 02:31:34.559 as a folier on all kinds of things. You put 2890 02:31:34.600 --> 02:31:36.799 in a hose in spreader on all kinds of plants. 2891 02:31:36.840 --> 02:31:39.280 You can do it on flower pots and whatnot as 2892 02:31:39.319 --> 02:31:42.920 a sprinkling can over over the plants. But I'm talking 2893 02:31:42.959 --> 02:31:46.120 about for transplanting. This is another use of it. It's 2894 02:31:46.159 --> 02:31:49.200 a very good product. And fall is for planting. You're 2895 02:31:49.239 --> 02:31:51.479 going to be planting vegetables. You're gonna be planting herbs, 2896 02:31:51.520 --> 02:31:53.920 You're gonna be planting shrubs and trees and vines and 2897 02:31:54.000 --> 02:31:57.879 grounds covers, ornamental grasses and all of that. Whatever goes 2898 02:31:57.920 --> 02:32:00.159 in the ground, give it a good drench with the 2899 02:32:00.280 --> 02:32:04.000 Medina plus. The contents of that product are going to 2900 02:32:04.040 --> 02:32:08.239 be very beneficial for your plants. For example, the Medina Plus. 2901 02:32:08.680 --> 02:32:12.479 It's got what is in Medina Soil Activator plus, forty 2902 02:32:12.520 --> 02:32:16.319 different trace elements. It's got growth hormones in it, things 2903 02:32:16.399 --> 02:32:19.879 like magnesium and iron and zinc and a lot of 2904 02:32:20.000 --> 02:32:22.680 the things that enhance plant growth. And the list is 2905 02:32:22.680 --> 02:32:25.479 a mile long that all benefit plants. So if you 2906 02:32:25.559 --> 02:32:28.559 want better blooming, better leaf growth, better fruit set. If 2907 02:32:28.600 --> 02:32:33.360 you want transplanting success, even seed treatment, Medina plus and 2908 02:32:33.479 --> 02:32:36.399 throw some of that humate you maic acid in, especially 2909 02:32:36.760 --> 02:32:41.159 when you're doing watering in of a transplant. All from 2910 02:32:41.200 --> 02:32:44.000 Medina and Medina products are widely available. You can find 2911 02:32:44.000 --> 02:32:45.680 those all over the place. You hear me talk about 2912 02:32:45.680 --> 02:32:49.520 a garden center, a feed store, ace hardware store, Southwest fertilizer, 2913 02:32:49.600 --> 02:32:51.360 all those kind of places or where you're going to 2914 02:32:51.440 --> 02:32:54.399 find Medina. We're going to go now to Spring and 2915 02:32:54.520 --> 02:32:56.920 talk to Bill. Hey Bill, welcome to Guarden Line. 2916 02:32:57.680 --> 02:33:05.319 Hey, Skip, I've got I'm got an infestation of meeae 2917 02:33:05.399 --> 02:33:07.920 bugs and I can't get rid of them. I was 2918 02:33:08.040 --> 02:33:11.319 listening two weeks about two weeks ago, and a lady 2919 02:33:11.399 --> 02:33:13.639 had called in and you told her just to chop 2920 02:33:13.760 --> 02:33:17.520 everything down and start over. Well, I've been trying to 2921 02:33:17.959 --> 02:33:21.920 spray them off and pick them off, and yeah, I've 2922 02:33:21.959 --> 02:33:26.840 got they're on my turks cap, they're on my hostas, 2923 02:33:27.079 --> 02:33:28.760 they're on my airing. 2924 02:33:30.120 --> 02:33:33.159 All right, Well, hey Bill, I'm gonna I'm gonna cut 2925 02:33:33.200 --> 02:33:35.280 your question short because I don't want to run an 2926 02:33:35.360 --> 02:33:36.760 out of time right to run out of time on 2927 02:33:36.799 --> 02:33:38.600 the answer. So I want to give you that. If 2928 02:33:39.399 --> 02:33:42.319 the plant is just covered with meadaie bugs, sometimes the 2929 02:33:42.360 --> 02:33:44.040 best thing is to get rid of it and get 2930 02:33:44.040 --> 02:33:45.760 a new one, or cut it off. If the house 2931 02:33:45.799 --> 02:33:49.239 plan especially, get a new one. You can use things 2932 02:33:49.280 --> 02:33:52.719 to control them. You can spray them if they're small 2933 02:33:52.959 --> 02:33:55.120 meea bugs you know on a house plant kind of thing, 2934 02:33:55.399 --> 02:33:57.760 a little Q tip with alcohol and just every time 2935 02:33:57.799 --> 02:33:59.520 you see anything white, just get in there and kill 2936 02:33:59.559 --> 02:34:03.040 it and do that. If it's an outdoor plant, systemics work. 2937 02:34:03.440 --> 02:34:05.840 You put them in the soil. They're an insecticide. They 2938 02:34:05.920 --> 02:34:08.760 go into the plumbing of the plant. The mealea bug 2939 02:34:08.959 --> 02:34:11.719 sucks the juices and gets the poison that way. The 2940 02:34:11.840 --> 02:34:15.239 only drawback on systemics is if it's a flowering plant 2941 02:34:15.319 --> 02:34:17.959 that bees come to, well it's in the plumbing of 2942 02:34:18.000 --> 02:34:20.159 the plant and that's not good for the bees. So 2943 02:34:20.319 --> 02:34:24.760 that's the drawback on that horticulture oil and sexile soaps. 2944 02:34:24.840 --> 02:34:27.079 When the meadia bugs are young, that works. It's just 2945 02:34:27.200 --> 02:34:29.959 with that cotton you're covering, It's hard to get a 2946 02:34:30.040 --> 02:34:32.239 pesticide to the meai bug. That's why I like to 2947 02:34:32.319 --> 02:34:35.120 go through the plumbing of the plant, because they can't 2948 02:34:35.159 --> 02:34:38.159 survive without sticking their mouth then and sucking juices out 2949 02:34:38.200 --> 02:34:38.680 of the plant. 2950 02:34:39.440 --> 02:34:41.799 Are they in the soil? Where do they come from? 2951 02:34:43.200 --> 02:34:44.799 There are some Meaia bugs that can be down in 2952 02:34:44.840 --> 02:34:47.559 the soil area, in the root area, but in general, 2953 02:34:48.040 --> 02:34:50.959 I don't know that oftentimes they come in with the plant. 2954 02:34:52.040 --> 02:34:55.319 There's a lot of ways bugs can get into our landscape, 2955 02:34:55.840 --> 02:34:59.239 but they are a problem and the natural enemies. As 2956 02:34:59.280 --> 02:35:01.360 we try to kill them bugs, we kill their natural 2957 02:35:01.520 --> 02:35:02.799 enemies and then. 2958 02:35:02.760 --> 02:35:04.239 Yah light bugs. 2959 02:35:04.559 --> 02:35:05.719 Yeah yeah, thank you. 2960 02:35:05.879 --> 02:35:09.680 Yeah yeah, all right, man, Bill, good luck with those. 2961 02:35:10.760 --> 02:35:13.680 A lot of people in Houston definitely feel your pain 2962 02:35:13.719 --> 02:35:16.959 when it comes to me with don't we just did 2963 02:35:17.000 --> 02:35:19.239 another garden line. I'm glad you're with us. It's a 2964 02:35:19.280 --> 02:35:21.520 great weekend. We'll be back next weekend six to ten 2965 02:35:21.799 --> 02:35:25.280 Saturday and Sunday. You can listen to the podcast for 2966 02:35:25.639 --> 02:35:29.559 listening back over shows. You can listen to us online. 2967 02:35:29.600 --> 02:35:31.280 You can listen to us on the radio. Of course, 2968 02:35:31.440 --> 02:35:34.559 you can get your iHeartMedia app, put one on your 2969 02:35:34.600 --> 02:35:36.920 phone and take your phone out in the garden and 2970 02:35:37.000 --> 02:35:40.559 garden on a Saturday and Sunday morning. Listen to Garden 2971 02:35:40.639 --> 02:35:42.920 Line while you're doing it. We can do all the above. Hey, 2972 02:35:43.159 --> 02:35:47.000 don't forget. Next week on Saturday, eleven thirty to twelve thirty, 2973 02:35:47.120 --> 02:35:51.079 I will be at the wild Birds Unlimited in clear Lake. 2974 02:35:51.200 --> 02:35:54.200 It's on the corner of El Dorado and clear Lake 2975 02:35:54.319 --> 02:35:57.600 City Boulevard. There's gonna be lots of giveaways. I'll be 2976 02:35:57.680 --> 02:36:00.079 there answering any kind of gardening questions you have. I 2977 02:36:00.159 --> 02:36:01.440 hope you'll come out and see me. 2978 02:36:03.040 --> 02:36:04.959 Did you know your life insurance is an asset