WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.240 --> 00:00:12.279 Welcome to Katie r h Guarden line with Skip Richards, watch. 2 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:21.280 Trim, just watch him as so many. 3 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:31.239 Good things up brasy not a sign. 4 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:42.000 Well, good morning, good Sunday morning. Glad to have you 5 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:44.079 joined me first thing in the morning. You get the 6 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:47.280 ardy bird award? Who'll be the early bird award on Colin? 7 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:49.880 By the way, I always wonder who did first person 8 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:51.560 to call in on today? By the way, while I'm 9 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:53.759 thinking about it, our phone number is seven one three 10 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.560 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 11 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:04.159 two one two five eight seven For I was looking 12 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.040 outside yesterday and I have got some work to do 13 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.400 in my garden. I made a joke that it's an 14 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.879 old saying it's the cobblers. Kids go barefoot. In other words, 15 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:15.560 a guy who makes shoes his kids don't have me 16 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:18.519 shoes on. And that's true of a horticulturist garden at 17 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:21.319 times as well. I've got to get out there and 18 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:25.879 do some basic cleanup. I use my walkways as compost 19 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.799 producing sites. What am I talking about? Well, in my garden, 20 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:34.239 I have beds, beds of course, the walkways in between 21 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.599 the beds, and in those walkways I put leaves you know, 22 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:40.840 my neighbors put their leaves out at the curb for me. 23 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:43.400 They don't know they're doing it for me, but that's 24 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:46.480 what they're doing. And by the way, you pretty good 25 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:49.640 driving down the street looking at bags on the side, 26 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:51.599 and you can tell one that's full of sticks. You 27 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:53.359 can tell one that they throw a little trash in 28 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.439 or something. And then you can tell those nice leaf bags. 29 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.640 You can just you learn how to do it. After 30 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.280 you grab a few bags you wish you hadn't picked up. 31 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.519 But anyway, I bring those home, put them in the garden, 32 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.319 and I put a lot in the garden. I mean 33 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:13.840 just a lot. Several when I was in Conroe at 34 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:16.280 the Montgomery County Extension Office, we had a little garden 35 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.960 that was about a thirty about thirty garden, and we 36 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:21.680 put in one season, I'm not making this up, three 37 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.400 hundred bags of leaves. Not at one time it'd have 38 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.000 been ten feet deep. But you put them down the 39 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.199 walkways and you walk on them, and what may have 40 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:33.960 been I don't know. Eighteen inches of leaves sinks down 41 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.759 to just a few inches. You add more leaves sinks down. 42 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.840 Add more leaves thinks down. By the time you get through. 43 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:46.520 You have about a foot deep compacted solid leaf material 44 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.240 in those walkways. Every time it rains, it gets wet. 45 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.280 When they get wet, they start to decay. My crubs 46 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:53.800 are out there in nature. I mean, you don't have 47 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.240 to add them to your leaves. But you can't. I mean, 48 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:58.879 you can throw some composts on it if you want 49 00:02:58.879 --> 00:03:01.840 to beat it up a little bit, but that's not necessary. 50 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:07.000 And those walkways sit there and then about It depends 51 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.879 on just you know what the life schedule is doing 52 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.599 at the moment. But I could do it. Probably harvests 53 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.840 those walkways a couple of times a year. I generally 54 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:18.520 do it about once a year, just because I don't 55 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:19.840 get to it. I've had times where I went in 56 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.199 a year and a half. I mean, there's no hurry, 57 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.520 But those leaves break down at the top of the 58 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.520 walkway always looks like a bunch of dead, dried leaves, 59 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.360 not like compost. But the same is true of the 60 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:33.800 forest floor. You walk in the forest and you see 61 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:37.479 leaves everywhere. You're walking on these leaves, but underneath that, 62 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:40.560 if you dig down, as you go down a few inches, 63 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.599 you start to get into those chocoldly brown leaves. The 64 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:49.680 English garden writers called that leaf mold, well whatever, not 65 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:51.960 like bread mold, but basically what it means it's a 66 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:54.680 leaf that is so crumbly if you touch it, it'll 67 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.400 fall apart. But it looks sort of like a leaf, 68 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.680 but it's chocolavy brown. That's kind of a leaf mold 69 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:02.680 type stage. And then they just continue from there into 70 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:07.280 where it just looks like coffee grounds, very very nicely 71 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:11.599 decomposed compost. So pull the top leaves back and then 72 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:17.240 provide a little bit of well, I have a little 73 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:20.480 tiny rototailer, little Mannus type tiller that I'll run through 74 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:24.519 there occasionally, just to mix things up. If you want 75 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.199 to speed up your compost making in the walkways, you 76 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:32.120 can throw a little fertilizer on the top, especially nitrogen. 77 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.720 That's primarily what you needing to add, and then you know, 78 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.879 rototill it in and then keep it moist and it 79 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.560 will decompose. You know, when organic matter touches the soil 80 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.439 and microbes get a shot at it. With some moisture, 81 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:50.639 it will decompose. And so at the you know, at 82 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:52.839 the end of this process, I'll pull those leaves at 83 00:04:52.839 --> 00:04:55.560 the top back and because they're dry, they just they're 84 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.319 just they look like molts, not like composts. And underneath there, 85 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.720 oh my god, it's good stuff. And you can just 86 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:03.839 harvest it and put it right up in your beds, 87 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:07.279 and you can make a lot of compost and walkways 88 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.879 in a compost pile. Let's say had a four x 89 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.759 four compost pile. Fill it up, and by the time 90 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.279 you get through, you probably get about four to six 91 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:18.079 cent mail maybe not even six, maybe four inches a 92 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.920 compost down to the bottom. Well, that's good stop, but 93 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:23.639 then you got to haul it off to the garden 94 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:27.399 and start making it again. Every walkway I have in 95 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.800 my garden's always a compost pile. And it can rain. 96 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.519 We can get eight inches of rain, and I can 97 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:36.000 walk in my garden because I'm walking on a compressed 98 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:39.279 pile of about a foot deep of leaves unless I 99 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.279 just put the pile together or just started adding leaves again, 100 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:44.560 and I'll harvest a walkway and then another, and you 101 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:46.040 know what a nothing you can do if you don't 102 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.879 bring your wheelbarrow in there or a bucket, you can 103 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.120 harvest some and take it to mix into some of 104 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.839 your container beds. If you want a nice mixed compost. 105 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:59.079 I've got a little screen that I created to go 106 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.040 on top of the wheelbar So imagine a two by 107 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:07.319 four box that sits on top of the wheelbarrow. I 108 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.639 made mine so it looks so A couple of the 109 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.000 sides are longer, so that holds it on top of 110 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.720 the wheelbarrow. It doesn't sit down in there, and I 111 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:19.879 just shovel compost on it, shake it and the fine 112 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:22.720 stuff falls through the rest of it. Just throw it 113 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.800 back in the walkway and I can make some fun 114 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:28.439 composts that way, and it really works. It's easy. You 115 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:30.439 don't turn it, you don't stick out thermometer in it. 116 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.399 You don't have to worry about browns and greens and everything. 117 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:36.199 I mean, you know you can if you want to, 118 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.319 But if you just want who worries about browns and 119 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:42.040 greens in the forest. It takes longer to make composts 120 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.839 that way, But who's in a hurry? I mean cuts 121 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:46.279 some me walkways. I don't know what to do with 122 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:48.800 all the composts. Feel that wheelbarrow up. Take it out 123 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.319 of the flower bed in front of the house where 124 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.639 the hoa does not want you to do. What I'm 125 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:57.279 describing in front out a bank sea driving by. But 126 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:59.800 I make that compost now it's available for other areas. 127 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.839 So this is the easiest way I know to compost. 128 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:07.040 I'll put all kinds of things in the walkways. And 129 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:08.920 one time when I was in Montgomery County at the 130 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:13.560 extension office, I what do we do. I went and 131 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.680 got some shredded newspaper, not newspaper, but bank papers, you 132 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:21.600 know where They shred them up so you can't see 133 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:23.879 what they are. And we put those in the walkways 134 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.800 out at the extension office there, and you mix them in. 135 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:29.759 You want to mix those in with a lot of leaves, 136 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.600 because otherwise the wet paper turns into like oatmeal. It's 137 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.439 kind of a mess. But if it's organic, it'll ride 138 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:39.199 again dust Thou art to dust returneth I think that's 139 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.240 how Shakespeare put it. Well, I'm gonna take a little 140 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.399 break here. The number if you'd like to ask me 141 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.160 a question seven one three two one two k t 142 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.600 r H seven one three two one two k t 143 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.199 RH will be right back. I'm gonna finish up this 144 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.000 little discussion about walkway composting, and then we'll get on 145 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:01.319 to your calls. Angelo Kingwood you're the first up. Hey, 146 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:07.040 welcome back. Good to have you back on the garden line. 147 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.720 Let's go on out to the phones here this morning. 148 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.680 First thing, we're going to go to Angelo in Kingwood. 149 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.519 Hey, Angelo doing today? 150 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:19.240 I'm doing good? Thanks. 151 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.680 Okay, Well, tell me about the first or second week 152 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.800 of December. I put in some I went to the 153 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:30.959 grocery store and got some raw garlic bulbs or raw garlic, 154 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.360 and then I took the clothes apart and planted them. Okay, 155 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.600 they have sprouted now, or they will they form into 156 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:42.360 a bulb head, they. 157 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:45.480 Will, will they? I didn't read what's going to happen? 158 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:47.200 Go ahead. 159 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:49.200 I was just going to say I did read some 160 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.000 of the planning or the ball books that oh, no, 161 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.639 you can't do that because they're spray. But these were raw. 162 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.159 These weren't packaged or anything. So I'm thinking that that 163 00:08:58.519 --> 00:08:59.399 would be fine. 164 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:03.679 Yeah, that stuff you read is not accurate. That happens 165 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:05.480 a lot. People get a little bit of fact and 166 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.159 then they apply it in a way that makes it untrue. 167 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.200 Garlic is not sprayed to make garlic is not sprayed 168 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:14.679 to make it not sprout. What you have is a 169 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:17.039 softnet garlic. Most likely if you bought it in the 170 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:19.440 grocery store. Yeah, not, it doesn't have to be. But 171 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:23.879 soft neck, they're they're mild. And what's going to happen 172 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.159 is you want to get that garlic to grow as 173 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:30.000 much as you can. So I would do small doses 174 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:34.559 of nitrogen primarily and get it growing because garlic and 175 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:39.360 onions both are basically you're eating leaves. The base of 176 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:42.159 the leaf is the is the onion ring. The base 177 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.440 of the leaf is the garlic bulb itself. And so 178 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:49.039 the more you get that thing to grow and make 179 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.000 a big plant, the better clothes you're going to have 180 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:55.679 on your garlic. And of course there's types of garlic 181 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.320 that have giant clothes and types that have smaller cloths 182 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.320 and so on. But the key thing now, especially because 183 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.879 you're kind of getting a late start, generally we plant 184 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:08.240 it in the fall. Late fall is our mid fall. 185 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:11.080 You can. You just want to get it growing fast 186 00:10:11.159 --> 00:10:12.639 to get as much out of it as you can. 187 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.720 What do you suggest when you say nitrogen, just a 188 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.799 mall just spray peste. 189 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:22.600 Yeah, you know, you can go a lot of ways. 190 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.039 There's organic, there's synthetic, there's liquid, there's salt, there's granular 191 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:32.120 that is not as important. In the end, nitrogen is 192 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.000 going to go into a form that the plants take up. 193 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:38.159 Whether it has to go through microbial breakdown or whether 194 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:41.559 it is a salt base that dissolves in into the soil, 195 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:43.879 it's going to go into a form that the plants 196 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.799 take up. I would just I would just give small 197 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:48.960 doses of it. So when you look at the label 198 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.639 of a fertilizer, you know you got three numbers. The 199 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:53.679 first number is the one you mont the most of. 200 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:57.720 I'll tell you what. I use lawn fertilizer on my 201 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:02.320 leafy greens and onion in garlic, those called those alliums. 202 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:04.480 I use that a lot because you know, you take 203 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:06.879 a lawn fertilizer and it may have a three one 204 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.200 two ratio like well, for example, microlife has a six 205 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.960 two four uh. And then you know when you look 206 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:16.879 at my lawn care schedule, we've got stuff from Nelson's, 207 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.759 We've got stuff from Medina on the oil. What's the 208 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:24.600 nitrophile couldn't even say nitrophis, so you get their red 209 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.120 bag of the nitrophiles is a fifteen five ten. Those 210 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:31.200 are both three one two ratios and they're mostly nitrogen, 211 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.320 and so those would be fine. I mean, there's not 212 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:38.279 a garlic fertilizer. You may see somebody. I've never seen 213 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:39.919 them sold, but no. 214 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.679 Neither of I. We used to grow up north all 215 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.600 the time. Here's my main question. These are all in 216 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.840 container pots. Okay, I just went around for about six 217 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:52.039 per container plot. Now I haven't a red ant hill 218 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:57.159 that's coming over the top of the container. Now my 219 00:11:57.320 --> 00:11:59.720 question to you is I'm going to try and knock that. 220 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.480 I also wanted to put some of those red you know. 221 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.440 I think it's called bayer where you sprinkle it over 222 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.399 the ant hill and they disappear. Can I do that 223 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:14.519 into that container? Will that affect the garlic? The spreading 224 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:15.840 of the ant killer. 225 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:20.679 Well, it shouldn't affect the garlic. It depends on what 226 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:22.639 ant killer are These fire ants? 227 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.240 Yes, they're the mounting kind. And I have the bayer 228 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.840 fuck an killer ind a little sack where you just 229 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.679 shake it and it does a great job. But I 230 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.679 don't want it to penetrate the soil and to the garlic. 231 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.080 Yeah, you know, I don't. Off the top of my head, 232 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:42.080 I don't know what ingredient is in that product. The 233 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:46.240 bear product you're talking about. I suspect it's not labeled 234 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:51.120 for vegetable gardens. All most things aren't labeled for vegetable 235 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.559 gardens that control fire ants. There is one called Come 236 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.159 and Get It that is an organic product, spinosid based 237 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.399 Come and Get It. It's by fertile O and that 238 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.759 one is labeled for you some vegetable garden. So if 239 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:06.039 you're worried about you know, getting something down that's going 240 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:08.320 to get in your vegetables and stuff, that would be 241 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.519 the safe way to go. And also the labeled way 242 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:12.279 to go is get some come and get it, and 243 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:14.559 it's a bait, so you don't have to put it 244 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:16.840 just in that pot. You can sprinkle a little around 245 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.399 the pot. They're going to find it and bring it 246 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:23.320 back and it will work. Another option would be to, 247 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:26.919 you know, just try to run them out, and I've 248 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.120 done that in different ways. How big are these pots? 249 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:33.440 I want to say about fifteen twenty gallon. They're just 250 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:36.080 you know, your regular run of the meals pit on 251 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:38.759 the patio. You know, I used to grow tomatoes. Okay, 252 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.919 so they're not very you know, they're fine, But I 253 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.240 just was going to sprinkle that stuff it's very popular, 254 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:47.159 it's everywhere, but I just didn't want it to ruin 255 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:49.440 my garlic. You know, I try it this year, see 256 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:53.200 what happens. And it started to work already, the growing 257 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:56.440 of the garlic, not the spring of the ant heliot. 258 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.240 I'm going to wait until you see what I said. 259 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.080 Yeah, okay, I'm pulling it up right here to see 260 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.240 what's in that bear stuff. If I can't, it's got. 261 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.759 A little satchel in there with perforated holes where you 262 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.000 just you know, it'san hell and you just go over. 263 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:16.000 I mean, the there ran an answer gone instantly. I 264 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.960 usually put like a pencil, I dig a little hole 265 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:20.919 into the middle of the mound and then spray it 266 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.519 in the air. So and then I sprayed on the outside. 267 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:25.360 I mean, it's not a big deal because it's really 268 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:27.039 only close to like two cloves. 269 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:29.080 Hmm. 270 00:14:29.159 --> 00:14:33.679 Okay, all right, well anyway, just keep that garlic moist 271 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.679 and continue to push it along in a container. Those 272 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:40.039 are big containers you have, so I'm not as worried 273 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:42.159 about it. But in smaller containers especially, you got to 274 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.200 really watch it. They don't dry out, because anything that 275 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:48.200 slows the garlic down. At this point, and planting. It 276 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:51.200 is going to affect the amount of production that you 277 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:51.960 get for sure. 278 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:54.759 Yeah. I got about a six inch sprig right now, 279 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.759 maybe maybe eight or ten inches. They just came up 280 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.200 out of the crowd. So I'm going to try, said 281 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:02.440 a couple weeks, try something new. So I did. That's 282 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:04.120 see what happens there. 283 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:04.440 You go. 284 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:06.879 Hey, that's a good idea. Let me know what that does. 285 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:09.279 I'd be curious, and if you don't mind, you can 286 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:10.840 even send me a picture of it. I'd like to 287 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.639 see that. I always like to see how people are 288 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.360 doing with various things and it works for you. Hey, 289 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.360 thanks a lot, Tim or Angelo. Sorry, I'm getting back 290 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.399 my next car. All right, Now, let's go to Tim 291 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.320 and Magnolia. Hey, Tim, welcome to garden Line. 292 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:29.039 Hey Skip, Hey, I had a pine tree. We had 293 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:31.679 a ton of pine trees in our front yard and 294 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.759 one of them had the pine bark beetles, and I 295 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.600 had a tree company coming in. They cut it down 296 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:40.440 and had them hauld it completely off. I could tell 297 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.480 there's a few pine trees on the perimeter of it 298 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:47.080 that just had a branch or two that I could 299 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:51.519 tell was was brown, but not many, just like just 300 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:54.519 a few deals. Now that they've hauled it off and 301 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.360 I've got that, is there anything I need or can 302 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:02.159 do to spray any of the remainder trees that would 303 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.399 help in case some of those wanted to get off 304 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.480 get onto the other trees, or just now that I've 305 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.519 removed that, do I need to do anything else? 306 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.960 You know, there are sprays that we've used. Some of 307 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:19.879 the sprays that used to be used or off the 308 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:24.039 market now for good reason. But there are sprays you 309 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:27.840 can do. Here's the problem. Pine bark beetles. First of all, 310 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.879 they like stress trees. That's what attracts them in so 311 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:35.159 keeping your trees not stressed where it's within your power 312 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:39.600 is number one. If you spray, the spray's got to 313 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:41.879 get down in the cracks and crevices between the bark, 314 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.960 and you need to cover. For pine most pinebert beetles, 315 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:46.639 you're gonna need to go about eighty percent of the 316 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.759 height of the tree to get make sure you got 317 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.919 really good coverage on it. And that's just not practical. 318 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:55.279 You might want to give Martin spoon Moore a call 319 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:58.080 an affordable tree talk to him and ask him what 320 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:00.799 he has and what he does for that if he's 321 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.519 able to do that, or he feels like he's got 322 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.039 some product that that's going to be effective in that Uh, 323 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.599 that's the approach I think that I would take. In general. 324 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.839 You know, just spraying all the time in case pine 325 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:16.920 bark beetle shows up is not real practical. But in 326 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:18.920 your case, where you've you know, you kind of got 327 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.279 an active infestation nearby, I think that that might have 328 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.279 might be worth at least looking into. 329 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.920 Okay, all right, I appreciate it. 330 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.599 All right, you bet hey. Let me ask you a question. 331 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:33.880 When when the tree got it? And when the tree 332 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:37.279 got it and died? We we're up to a hard break, 333 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.680 I got I'm sorry, I got a no, not quite yet. 334 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:44.319 When the tree, when the tree uh died, Before it died, 335 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.160 where did you see the globs of sap? Were they 336 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:49.759 in the bottom ten feet? Were they all the way 337 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:50.319 up the tree? 338 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:50.599 Or what? 339 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:53.559 They were? Pretty much all the way up? It was 340 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:55.720 it was unusual. We had a tree company coming through 341 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:57.839 the neighborhood and they're the one that spotted it. We 342 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.200 have so many trees that didn't spot. 343 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:01.400 But yeah, it went. 344 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:02.680 It went pretty good. 345 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:03.160 Show. 346 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.519 Look at all those globs, those are pine barked beetles 347 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:09.359 that's killed killed your jury. Yeah, I didn't really notice 348 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:13.480 it since we have so many trees out there, but they. 349 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:18.359 Were pretty much well the whole way. Yeah, okay, well 350 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.039 there we actually have about five different beetles that bore 351 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:22.960 in pine trees, and a lot of times people just 352 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.000 call them all pine bark beetle, but there are several 353 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:30.440 different ones. But uh, anyway, I'm just curious, just curious 354 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:33.000 on that one. Yeah, I don't know appreciate. 355 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:35.640 It, but he did show me the little things that 356 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:36.559 they were in. 357 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:42.319 So okay, all right, sounds good. Thanks Herbett, Thanks Tim, 358 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:45.599 appreciate that call very much. Well, we're coming up here 359 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.720 on a break if you'd like to give me a 360 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.960 call seven one three two one two five eight seven 361 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:57.039 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 362 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:57.319 Owner. 363 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.720 Remind you that we are about to enter time the 364 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:05.039 lawn care season. I know it's January. Grass didn't grow 365 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:07.559 in yet, but it will by the time we get 366 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.279 into February. We're looking at any kind of a preventative 367 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:15.440 for warm season weeds. You gotta get that done in February, 368 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.000 so you don't want to delay. I would recommend that 369 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:22.319 you download my lawn care schedules. One is lawn Care Schedule, 370 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:25.119 the other is Lawn Pest Disease and Weed Management Schedule. 371 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.400 Both are free and you get both of them at 372 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:31.480 Gardening with Skip dot Com. All right, folks, we'll be 373 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:36.000 right back. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line. Good to 374 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:41.720 have you with us. How many of you remember Abba? 375 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:42.279 Right? 376 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:48.519 I guess most people now learn around when Abba was singing. 377 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:52.160 They probably know Mama Mia from the movie. Right, that's 378 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:54.599 probably the closest we get to Abba. Well, go check 379 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:58.400 it out. Some interesting stuff, very different sound. But this 380 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.960 isn't a show about music, gets a about gardening. So 381 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:06.240 let's talk gardening. Hey. I was talking about taking your 382 00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:09.160 walkways in a garden, and this is a traditional garden, 383 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:11.279 you know, where you got beds and rows and walkways 384 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.039 between the rows and using that as your area to 385 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:18.119 compost leaves and certain other kinds of organic material like 386 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:20.880 grass clippings. As long as you have not sprayed the 387 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.400 grass with a herbicide or something like that, or applied 388 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.519 to herbicide to it, you can do that in the walkways. 389 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:29.079 I would not put food scraps and things like that 390 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:31.559 or otherwise the barmuts will thank you and you will 391 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:34.319 not be happy with that. But anyway you can do that. 392 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:37.559 The thing I want to talk about about all this 393 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.000 is the fact that microbes are the part of the 394 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.720 process that makes everything happen. The way I like to 395 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.240 put its, microbes rule the world, and we are just 396 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:51.839 scratching the surface of knowing some of the things that 397 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:58.519 microbes do. I subscribe to certain research publications and things 398 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:02.559 that always give me notification. Every day in my email box, 399 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:07.400 I get some new research fact that talks about and 400 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:13.599 just microbes interacting with plants, like a certain microbe makes 401 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:17.680 a tomato plant more resistant to a certain disease, for example, 402 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:22.200 a research on that I'm literally every day that's coming in, 403 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.079 and that's just this tiny sliver of the microbe world 404 00:21:25.160 --> 00:21:28.759 and what they do. Microbes turn organic matter back into soil. 405 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:33.160 We're not walking around with a mile deep stack of 406 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:35.799 tree trunks everywhere from all the trees that have ever 407 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:40.200 grown on that particular site over the ages, because microbes 408 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:43.759 took care of that. From fungi to bacteria into my seats, 409 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:46.480 you know, just all kinds of microbes and that's what 410 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:49.079 happens in there. And all you're doing is enlisting them. 411 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:53.240 And we enlist microbes for a lot of things in life. 412 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.319 Do you know that you wouldn't have steak if it 413 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.319 wasn't for microbes. I think about that. Here's why we 414 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.400 can't digest grass. You cannot eat grass and digest it. 415 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:09.640 Neither can a cow. There are complex cellulose type and 416 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:12.880 well other kinds of compounds in a grass that the 417 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:16.920 cow just can't digest well, but microbes can. So in 418 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.039 a cow's series of stomachs, there's all these microbes, and 419 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:22.920 the grass that goes in the front end ends up 420 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:25.480 turning into cow food in the process, and so we 421 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:27.759 get milk and steak and leather and all those kind 422 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:32.920 of things. Thank a microbe. Beer wine would not happen 423 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.200 if it weren't for yeasts, which are a type of 424 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:40.000 microbe that is actually making that process happen. And I 425 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:41.960 could go on and on and on and on and on. 426 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:46.039 But even just with the plants, you have microbes working 427 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:52.599 on the roots provide beneficial services that are amazing. Microbes 428 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:58.039 will fungi soi microbiologies. Fungi connect roots to roots from 429 00:22:58.079 --> 00:23:01.920 other plants, so plants can communicate with each other. There's microbes. 430 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.160 In fact, there's a product that contains a type of 431 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:07.640 Basillis you know, you know b T. That's what we 432 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:10.599 spray on leaves so that when a caterpillar eats the leaves, 433 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:15.519 it kills them b T Basillis thuringiensis. Well, there is 434 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:19.680 a bacillus And I'm not sneezing, I'm actually saying a word. 435 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:24.319 Bacillis amala lico fecions. That's the name of it. Yep, 436 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:26.400 you can be the nerd at the next garden party 437 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:30.759 with that word. Bacillis amelia lico fecians connects with the 438 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.039 root and tells the plant to do things up on 439 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:37.680 top that make it more resistant to certain disease problems. 440 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:40.839 That's cool. There's a lot of micro there's microbes that 441 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:43.200 live in the leaves too. But anyway, my point is 442 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.720 just it's a wonderful, amazing world out there, and the 443 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:50.160 more we can enlist it, the better off we are 444 00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:54.000 and having success with our plants. And as research goes forward, 445 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:59.559 I see our horticultural practices more and more turning toward 446 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:03.599 enlisting and enhancing microbes. Just like we discovered BT, now 447 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.359 we know what to do about caterpillars, right, that is organic. 448 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:10.799 We're going to find more and more of that and 449 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:12.880 less and less of here's a problem, how do I 450 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:15.599 kill it? Kind of approach, the spray and kill approach. 451 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.279 That is the direction that a lot of things are 452 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:22.720 going in. And also the sprays become safer and more 453 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:25.839 in some cases more effective when we use microbes. A 454 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:29.240 BT is an example of that. There there is a 455 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:34.559 Bacillus subtlest that is a fungle protectant that we can 456 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:36.839 use out there. It's a type of bacillus that stops 457 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:39.720 diseases on plants, some of the disease issues that happen 458 00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:41.599 on plants, and we're going to see more of that 459 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:45.559 as time goes on. Well, we don't have to wait 460 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:50.960 until time goes on to you know, take the benefits 461 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:55.440 of microbes and put them to work for us. The 462 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:59.799 folks that microlife have put together a wide range of 463 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:06.319 price a wide range that basically they add microbes to 464 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:11.960 the soil and they enhance microbial activity in the soil. 465 00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:16.960 And for example, one of the products that the folks 466 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:22.400 that microlife have put together is called micro grow bioinoculant 467 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.920 or bioinoculant. It is a granular that you put down 468 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:31.640 and it has a buzzillion different kinds of microbes, just 469 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:36.880 lots of different strain, sixty three different strains and bazillions 470 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:40.880 of individual microbes. And they do things like that. You know, 471 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.480 I mentioned that, Well, I didn't mention Trichoderma, that is 472 00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:49.839 an amazing one. I mentioned Bacillus amelo lico fashions as 473 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:52.839 being a beneficial one. There's four strains of that, Bacillus 474 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:57.519 amla licofasions in micro grow bioinoculant, four different strains. I'm 475 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:01.720 mentioned Bysillus subtless there's ten strains of that, but I'm 476 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:07.000 talking about sixty three different microbe strains in microgrow bianoculant. 477 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:09.359 And you can put it in your soil. Well, it's granular, 478 00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:12.839 put in your soil, you mix it in, you use 479 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:16.240 it in containers, anything where you want to enhance some 480 00:26:16.359 --> 00:26:19.400 microbial growth. That is the beneficial way to go about 481 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:22.319 and doing that. And they also have micro grow liquid 482 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:27.119 AF and liquid AF has eight different strains of beneficial 483 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:29.880 microbes and you can spray it on the foliage. You 484 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.160 can drench it in the soil too. You spray it 485 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:34.640 on the foliage. And now you've got all these good 486 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.279 guys on the leaves that when a bad spore lands, 487 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.319 it's a very hostile environment and you help defend. It's 488 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:46.599 not a fungicite, but it defends against fungaled attack by 489 00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:51.559 putting natural antagonistic organisms on the leaf. Is that cool stuff? Well, 490 00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:54.880 microlife is cool stuff. There's lots of different types of microlife. 491 00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:57.839 You can go to microlifefertilizer dot com for a full 492 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.359 list of all the places where you can get it, 493 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:03.759 as well as the products that they have. Time for 494 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:06.039 me to take a break and when we get back, 495 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:07.680 if you'd like to give me a call. In fact, 496 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:09.680 you can call now and be ready to go. Seven 497 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:16.359 one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to guarden Line. Hey, 498 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:19.759 we're having fun today talking about all kinds of things. 499 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.359 Composting in your garden beds. Easiest way to compost that 500 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:30.319 there is pim marked beetles. Talking about that and microbes 501 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:32.599 are my favorite topic. By the way, what I didn't 502 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:35.240 mention when I was talking about microbes, I usually this 503 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:37.680 is one of the first things I say. Yeah, microbes 504 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:40.839 live in us too. We have like it or not. 505 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:42.960 You have a lot of microbes that are living in you. 506 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.960 And do you know that the feel good chemical serotonin, 507 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:49.640 the things that hits our brain and we feel good 508 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:53.960 about that, Well, serotonin, most serotonin produced in your body 509 00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:56.200 is not done by you. It's done by the microbes 510 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:59.240 in your intestinal tract. Yeah, that's right, So you can 511 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:02.000 thank microbes when you're happy. That makes me happy to 512 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:06.160 think about that. All right, enough of them, I'll stop 513 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:09.279 the microbe thing. I just I can really nerd out 514 00:28:09.319 --> 00:28:12.000 about some of this stuff because it is amazing and cool. 515 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:16.720 It is absolutely stunning. I'm saying about fungi. Well, on 516 00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:20.839 one little tag on, I'm taking about fungal strands that 517 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:25.559 connect two plants together so that they can communicate. They've 518 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:29.079 done studies where let's say you have two tomato I'm 519 00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:31.000 just gonna I don't know this study specifically, it is 520 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:34.279 about tomatoes. Let's have two tomato plants, and you separate 521 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:36.359 them so air can't move from one to the other. 522 00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:43.039 They're completely separated, but underground microhizel fungi can connect the 523 00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:46.440 two roots of the two plants. Okay, there's your telegraph 524 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.960 line that goes from one to the other. If you 525 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:54.519 want telephone line uh and insect choose on the leaf 526 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:58.880 of one plant. That plant is a response to the 527 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.880 In some cases, the saliva in like a caterpillar caterpillar's mouth, 528 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:07.160 if you will, the equivalent of saliva that signals a 529 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:10.400 plant to hay start making some changes to make it 530 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.279 where caterpillars can't eat you so easily. Okay, that make 531 00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:15.839 it more difficult for them, or maybe maybe it's produced 532 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.960 a toxin to the caterpillar or maybe something else. Well, 533 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:22.240 in that study, the plant on the other side that 534 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.680 had no air communicating, no other way of communicating with 535 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:28.359 that plant started making the same kinds of leaf changes. 536 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.640 So the telegraph cable between the roots, which is a 537 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:38.359 fungal strand a microaizal fungal strand sent the message from 538 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.720 one plant to another who knew before recently that that 539 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:43.519 kind of thing was going on. And we just keep 540 00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:46.640 learning more and more. All right now, I will officially 541 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.599 stop for now, if you'd like to give me a 542 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:52.079 call and talk about something else. Seven to one three 543 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:55.960 two one two five eight seven four seven one three 544 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:01.319 two one two ktrh. I we're talking about garlic. Earlier, 545 00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:03.680 I planted some garlic In fact, I've kind of got 546 00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.200 a little allien patch in the garden. You know, I 547 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:09.720 always grow onions every year. That's that's one of my 548 00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:15.440 favorite things to grow. I have some some multipliers like 549 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:19.160 chives and shalots and things like that that will actually 550 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:22.839 multiply into clumps. You plant one clove and at the 551 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:24.559 end you got a bunch of green onions that you 552 00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:27.720 can go with. And I also put in some garlic, 553 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:30.440 a couple kinds of garlic that I'm trying out to 554 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.000 see how they do. I just love we use a 555 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:36.759 lot of that in cooking, and so got a lot 556 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:38.240 of it going in the garden. And every year I 557 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:40.920 try to grow. And you know how I said yesterday 558 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:43.000 I was talking if those of you who are listening yesterday, 559 00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:47.240 I talk a lot about talked a lot about what 560 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:49.039 are you going to do new this year? What do 561 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:51.319 you do you've never done before? Not that we always 562 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:55.079 have to change things, but gardening is way bigger than 563 00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:59.200 what either of us, you or me are doing. There 564 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:02.920 are types of gardening I've never done before. There are 565 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.160 I have, I guess a long time ago I did 566 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.000 a terrarium, but it's been ages since I made a terrarium. 567 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:12.799 But that's a really cool kind of gardening, fun kind 568 00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:15.920 of indoor gardening. So even a shut in can have 569 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:20.160 a nice little terrarium. And so there's types you've never 570 00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:22.200 done before. And I was asking, what are you gonna 571 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:24.480 do different this year? What are you gonna try that's 572 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:26.920 different this year? And every year I do that, and 573 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:31.160 also every year I try something that maybe I try 574 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:34.160 a variety that I haven't tried before. So when it 575 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:39.160 comes to tomatoes, Celebrity is my old dependable variety of 576 00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:42.720 tomatoess been around long time. It's one of the smaller 577 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:46.480 group of very few tomatoes are nematode resistant. Celebrity is 578 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:50.640 and it's just an old gold standby Contender. Green bean 579 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.799 is the green bean that I've done for years. I 580 00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:57.640 was talking with Joey out at a shanty gardens this 581 00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:59.559 past year and he was telling me about how good 582 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.880 that Valentino green bean is. So this next spring it's 583 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.519 going in my garden. I'm gonna try Valentino because you know, 584 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:10.599 if he says it, I'm sure the case, and I'm 585 00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:12.519 gonna find out and see how it does. But I'll 586 00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:16.079 have Contender there, but also grow some Valentinos. In this case, 587 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:19.039 the same thing. I'll grow celebrity, but oh my gosh, 588 00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:22.240 there's nine hundred different tomatoes. I could also grow what 589 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:24.599 am I going to grow with the celebrities, And by 590 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.880 doing that, I always find things that I like a 591 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:30.480 little bit better. Over time, There'll be some I grow 592 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:33.559 and it's like, yeah, okay, well that's fine, but nothing 593 00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:36.400 to write home about. And then there'll be others it's like, Okay, 594 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:40.359 that's cool. Maybe the look of the plant or of 595 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:44.319 the fruit right now, tomatoes that are striped and weird 596 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:48.359 colors and all of that, or the rave, So maybe 597 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:52.240 that's it. Maybe it is the disease resistance that's good. 598 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:56.599 Maybe it is, well, there's other categories of it. Right now, 599 00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:59.079 I'm in search of a good paste tomato. I've grown 600 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:02.079 roma forever, I've grown San Marzano. I've grown a lot 601 00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.119 of different paste tomatoes. I love those because they're good 602 00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:10.400 for making paste and making tomato sauces, and also I 603 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.880 like them for drying. I dry use those for drying 604 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:18.680 and seasoning tomatoes, which are delicious anyway. Paste tomatoes buy 605 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:21.240 and large take a long time to reach. Harvest that 606 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:24.240 you can't find just like a fifty day to harvest 607 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.119 paste tomato very easily, and so I'm always looking for 608 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:31.200 faster paste tomatoes. So every year the garden gets some experimenting, 609 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:34.400 and I would suggest you do that too. You probably 610 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:38.720 have your favorites of different kinds of things. I'll give 611 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:43.200 you one more example. Squash. There's crook neck and straight neck, 612 00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:45.559 and a lot of places they'll just sell you they 613 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:47.200 tell you what it is. It just says this is 614 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:50.519 straight next squash, this is crook neck squash, and that's 615 00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:53.079 all you know about it. But then they're squash varieties, 616 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.599 and there are constant improvements being made to squash varieties, 617 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:06.240 maybe diseases, maybe productivity, and really excellent options there when 618 00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:08.840 it comes to what are the best varieties, And I've 619 00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:12.920 discovered some really new well over the years, I've discovered 620 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:16.639 as they became a new option, squash varieties that were 621 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:21.880 just absolutely beyond anything that I had tried growing before. 622 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.639 Same thing with broccoli and other things. And the same 623 00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:26.639 thing would be true with flowers. You know, there's new 624 00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:32.079 species coming along, there's improvements on species. Maybe you know zenias. 625 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.400 Zenias get all waist high and we'd use them as 626 00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:37.360 cut flowers. Right then they began breeding zenias and now 627 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.800 they're a little mounded bedding plants. So it looked like 628 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:45.239 a little meatballs covered with zenia flowers out there all 629 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:47.800 in the garden. We have a lot of options on 630 00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:51.159 these things, and continue to try, continue to experiment, try 631 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:55.599 something new. If you like some suggestions on things, oh, 632 00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:58.639 we can talk about some of that, but anyway, try 633 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:02.199 something new. I think you find something that you really love. 634 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:06.960 I really want to encourage you to do that. It 635 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.039 doesn't just have to be vegetables. It doesn't have to 636 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:12.840 be vegetables flowers. How about herbs. Have you ever thought 637 00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:17.400 about growing some herbs that you don't currently grow? All right, well, 638 00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.639 I'll tell you this. Chives are super super easy. Just 639 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.000 don't let them go to seed or your whole garden 640 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.760 bed will turned into a chia pet. Chives are easy, 641 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:29.960 easy to grow. Rosemary very drought tolerant. Rosemary is easy 642 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.159 to grow as long as you don't put in a 643 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:35.519 spot that is soggy wet black clay soil. Soggy wet, 644 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:39.199 wet rosemary didn't like that, but it's very very easy 645 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:42.039 to grow. That'd be another example. A regano for a groundcot. 646 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:46.079 Why not try that, Hi, folks, I'll be right about. 647 00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:52.519 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skin grict. 648 00:35:52.719 --> 00:36:09.320 It's just watch him as the world golden. Yea, the 649 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:18.480 sea botts double again, not a sign. 650 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.280 All right, all right, let's do this. Let's do some 651 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:31.480 gardening today. We're going to garden from inside. In other words, 652 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:33.639 I'm a garden from this chair I'm sitting in right now. 653 00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:38.159 If you are indoors, relaxing, enjoying a cup of coffee, 654 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:41.079 trying to get that first eye open, Welcome to garden Line. 655 00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:42.599 We're glad to have you with us. If you'd like 656 00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.039 to give me a call with some gardening questions. Seven 657 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.960 one three two one two k t r H seven 658 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:50.400 one three two one two k t r H. You know, 659 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:54.599 spring fever hits like a load of bricks when it 660 00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:57.920 comes to us gardeners. All of a sudden, as you know, 661 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.400 the weather begins to break a little bit, we just 662 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:03.400 start getting the itch to go outside and do something cool. 663 00:37:03.480 --> 00:37:03.639 You know. 664 00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:06.239 The garden centers start to load up with all kinds 665 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:10.079 of beautiful plants, and it's just my favorite time of 666 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:12.440 the year. I wish I could take spring fever and 667 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.159 put it in the fall, because that equally, if not better, 668 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:18.280 is a time to be doing planting and improvements and 669 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:21.679 things to the garden. But boy, here we go. Spring 670 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:26.119 is here. And I was looking around. You know, I 671 00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:28.320 drive through town a lot of times. I will actually 672 00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:32.440 take a root where I just go downside streets just 673 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.199 because I like to see people's yards and houses and 674 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:37.400 things and what they do. You run into some pretty 675 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:41.440 interesting stuff that way. And landscapes are buying large a 676 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:44.039 little on the bleak side right now. You know, it's winter. 677 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:47.159 The grass is not that great looking. Some people don't 678 00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:50.880 even rake the leaves off yet, and it's just kind 679 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.920 of bleak. And I think about what could be done, 680 00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:56.320 you know, what would it look like. And when you 681 00:37:56.360 --> 00:38:00.000 think about things like a well manicured lawn that is beautiful, 682 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.199 when you think about beautiful shrubs, think about landscapes that 683 00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.199 bloom throughout the year. You know, you've got your spring 684 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:12.800 bloomers like azalea's primarily, or spring bloomers or some ever 685 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:16.679 repeat blooming types now, and then you got your fall bloomers, 686 00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:18.199 things that bloom just in the fall. And then there's 687 00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:20.920 things that bloom just in summer and you're designing those 688 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.480 landscapes and you're creating that beauty. And then there's the 689 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.079 hard scapes. And hard scapes is one of the things 690 00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:31.280 that I think are underutilized in our landscapes. I love grass, 691 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:33.880 I love walking through the grass and every other type 692 00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:35.800 of plant out there in the landscape. But boy, when 693 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:40.760 you create a gorgeous patio that it takes Basically what 694 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:43.920 it does is it extends your home outdoors. You just 695 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.119 now you have a new room that's outside in the 696 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:51.039 fresh air, in the sunshine, where you can smell fragrances 697 00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.760 of plants and all kinds of things like that. Go 698 00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:56.079 out and sit in the evenings and maybe have a 699 00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:59.039 fire table something along those lines. Well, I tell you 700 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:02.440 Purece Scapes is they are the best I know at 701 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:07.239 doing that. It is outstanding. And I would ask you this. 702 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:09.519 I can sit here and describe stuff to you, but 703 00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:13.119 that just doesn't cut it. Go to their website. It's 704 00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:17.519 Peerscapes dot com. Puerscapes dot com and when you go there, 705 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:22.639 you are going to see amazing things. And one of 706 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:27.000 the amazing things that most landscapes don't have is quality 707 00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:30.039 landscape lighting. It may be shining up on your home. 708 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.360 It may be shining up on a pergola. It may 709 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.400 be along steps so people can see as they walk, 710 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:38.719 or you know that you don't stumble and things do that. 711 00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:44.039 Water features like a little waterfall or a fountain of 712 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.880 some type, and a landscape. Peerscapes can do all of 713 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:48.960 that and really they basically just do it all. Do 714 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:51.199 you need it done? Yeah, they probably do that. You know, 715 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:53.239 they do quarterly maintenance if you want them to come 716 00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:56.000 in and just ever quarter, come in. Spruce up your flowerbeds, 717 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:58.400 get them looking good, put new flowers in every quarter 718 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:01.639 if you want them that often. Uh, you know, pull 719 00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:04.400 any weeds, molts, make sure everything's in good shape. Checks 720 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:08.760 the irrigation. They do irrigation work. They do landscape drainage. 721 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:11.360 I've got an area that is poorly drained and that's 722 00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:13.360 one of the next projects coming up is to get 723 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:17.400 that taken care of. Pirescapes dot com is a website. 724 00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:20.280 Go there, look at the pictures, check out what they 725 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.360 can do. Give them a call, let them come out 726 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:25.360 and do a bid for you. Bring them some pictures in, 727 00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:28.239 sit down, talk to the designers. You can do anything 728 00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:31.519 from a small job to a complete revamp of the 729 00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:34.239 whole place and make it look like the taj Mahal. 730 00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:36.599 Although I don't know what the landscape looks like around 731 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:38.840 the taj Mahll, you just always see the building. Anyway, 732 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:42.280 they can make your place look good. Prescapes dot Com 733 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.760 go check it out just for fun. Check that out. 734 00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:49.119 You are listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 735 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:51.159 and we're here to answer your gardening questions. And the 736 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:53.039 way I like to put it is, we are here. 737 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:55.320 We are here to help you have a more bountiful garden, 738 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:58.559 a more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. 739 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.840 That's what we want to happen. If we can give 740 00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:05.159 you some tips, if you can help you diagnose, we 741 00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:08.360 can help you identify something. We love to do, all 742 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:13.079 of those kinds of things. I have been in gardening 743 00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:16.320 and horticulture my whole life. When I was a kid, 744 00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:19.559 we had a garden and worked in the garden mode, 745 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.000 the yard, all that kind of thing. And then I 746 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:25.920 entered a m in the horticulture department back in nineteen 747 00:41:26.039 --> 00:41:29.679 seventy eight and got my degree. Actually the horticulture started 748 00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:33.719 in nineteen eighty three, got my degree and began to 749 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.840 work for Agrolife Extension. I worked in Missouri for three 750 00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:39.800 years prior to coming back to Texas and working Extension 751 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:44.360 for thirty five more years. And anyway, I love this 752 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.480 stuff and it is fun. I loved learning, and gardening 753 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:52.360 gives you a chance to learn every single day. You know, 754 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:56.000 after hearing I don't know how many questions I feelded 755 00:41:56.159 --> 00:42:02.960 over thirty five years now in horticalulture, a bazillion, and 756 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:06.199 it never fails. I get new questions. I've never heard 757 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:09.519 that one before. And that's just how broad and wonderful. 758 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:14.760 The world of gardening is never a dull moment. At 759 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:19.000 least there generally isn't. I've talked to you before about 760 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.679 ACE Hardware Stores, and you know ACE is everywhere. There's 761 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.199 dozens of stores here in the Greater Houston area, and 762 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:28.239 ACE is a place where you get whatever you need. 763 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.960 Right now, we just got through putting up our Christmas stuff, 764 00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:33.760 getting it all stored. Do you need boxes for things 765 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:37.559 like that, organize it, make it a little neater and whatnot. 766 00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.559 When you get ready to do this again next year 767 00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:43.119 or in twenty twenty five at the end of the year, 768 00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:45.639 they've got that do you want to get your garage 769 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:48.280 in order. Maybe you need shelving units. I've been that 770 00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:50.559 is a project I've been working on for a long time. 771 00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.320 Shelving is ACE has got that for you as well. 772 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:57.280 Do you need perhaps a fire pit from Brio or 773 00:42:57.360 --> 00:42:59.960 solo stove, They've got those. Do you need some fire 774 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:02.559 you know I'm gonna have some cool weather coming up. 775 00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:04.360 We got a little break here, but it's coming back. 776 00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:07.519 Get your firewood, get stocked up. Maybe you need your 777 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:10.920 propane tank refilled. We almost went outside and grilled last night, 778 00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:14.880 thought real seriously about it. Well, they've got exchangeable propane 779 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:18.280 canisters as well. If you'd like to do that. You 780 00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:20.840 want to sign up for the ACE Rewards program. That 781 00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:23.639 is a great way to receive discounts. I'll tell you 782 00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:27.000 about special offers. I've been an ACE Rewards member for 783 00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:31.199 a long time and the only ACE Rewards customers receiving 784 00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:34.400 these email directly to you. And you got to do that. 785 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.800 You get more bang for your buck that way. Stocking 786 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.360 up on all kinds of things from light bulbs to 787 00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:42.679 batteries to whatever you need. ACE has got it now. 788 00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.719 There's a lot of ACE stores around. You got into Rockport, Texas. 789 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.159 By the way, anybody listening downe in Rockport, welcome to 790 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:53.320 garden Line, Wharton Feed and Ace Wharton Feed and Ace 791 00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:55.920 Base City Ace Hardware. And then we got a couple 792 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.199 of K and m Ace hardwares won in Kingwood, winning 793 00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:00.800 a Tesca seen it. Those are just examples are the many, 794 00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.719 many Ace hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. Time 795 00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:06.920 for me to take a break and we will be 796 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:14.000 right back with your calls. All right, welcome back, Welcome 797 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.400 back to Guardline. Hey, if you'd like to give me 798 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:19.800 a call, we got open lines. Happy to visit with 799 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:22.199 you about the things that you're interested in. Seven one 800 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:25.599 three two one two kt r H seven one three 801 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:28.159 two one two k t RH. I want to talk 802 00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:33.199 a little bit about fruit, trees, vines and bushes. Fruit trees, 803 00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:36.280 vines and bushes. There are a lot of different kinds 804 00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:38.039 of fruit that you can grow down here in the 805 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:41.079 Greater Houston area. You know, wherever you live in the country, 806 00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:43.960 there are types of fruits you can grow and types 807 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.039 you can't grow. And we're fortunate here to have a 808 00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:51.199 wide range of types of fruit. We can grow. The 809 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:55.480 deciduous fruit like apples, and pears and peaches and plums 810 00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:58.079 for example, that we can grow those here. We can 811 00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:01.840 grow things like upon gran It's actually they're a little 812 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:04.159 bit of a challenge in the rainy seasoned fruit. Rots 813 00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:06.280 can be a little bit of a challenge, but that 814 00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:08.760 you know, we can grow them here. We can grow 815 00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.679 for summons here. That's another deciduous fruit, beautiful ornamental fruit 816 00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:15.679 that you can grow. And then there's the tropicals, the 817 00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:20.800 things like well, let's just do the citrus. For example, 818 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:25.039 among the most hardy citrus that we have are satsuma oranges, 819 00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:28.079 which is a mandarin type orange or baggy loose skin. 820 00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:36.519 And the cumquats and cumquats have extreme ability to withstand 821 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.119 cold weather, I mean down into the upper teens and 822 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:45.360 established kumquat can that those we're eating primmorphous skin, you know, 823 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:48.920 marmalade and whatnot. But they also have wonderful fragrance, as 824 00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:52.000 do mini citrus when they bloom. It is heavenly just 825 00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:55.239 to smell the fragrance of the blooms. Then we have 826 00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:57.840 many other kinds of citrus, you know, there's oranges of course, 827 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:01.599 and lemons and limes and whatnot, and we can grow 828 00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:03.800 those here. Some require a little bit of protection. Some 829 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:07.079 are more cold tender than others. But we can grow 830 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.599 all of that kind of thing here. There's things like blueberries. 831 00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:13.199 Blueberries like acidic soil and high quality water. They do 832 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:15.199 not put up with water with a lot of sodium 833 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.719 in it. So those of you in areas you know, 834 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:20.880 like Brian colors station high sodium levels in the soil 835 00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:23.800 in the water, it's hard to It's hard to grow blueberries. 836 00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:26.519 In fact, if not almost impossible to grow blueberries unless 837 00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:29.360 you use rain water. There but a lot of East Texas, 838 00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:32.719 Southeast Texas, parts of Southeast Texas are naturally acidic and 839 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:35.880 have good quality water, and you can grow blueberries. There's 840 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:39.960 rabbit eye blueberries and Southern high bush blueberries. The Southern 841 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:42.679 high bush is a little bit bigger berry. The rabbit 842 00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:46.199 eye starts off kind of a pink color, like a 843 00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:49.480 albino rabbit's eye. That's where it gets its name and 844 00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.880 then turns to blue. Both of those are good quality 845 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:56.360 berries that you can grow in our area. There are 846 00:46:56.400 --> 00:47:02.079 things like blackberries and strawberries that do well here. Raspberries 847 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:04.320 not so much. There's some that you can get by 848 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:06.599 with get a few berries off of, but not in 849 00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:10.360 the level of production that you might if you're further north. 850 00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:13.760 In general with the raspberries, but people are always trying 851 00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.000 to grow things that are hard to grow here. I 852 00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:19.320 know people that grow dragon fruit and that that is 853 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:24.519 a cool tropical fruit. I know somebody that grows mangoes 854 00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:26.719 and yet to go to Great Links because they will 855 00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:28.760 not tolerate a good hard freeze, and so you've got 856 00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:31.960 to be ready to protect those. But anyway, avocados there's 857 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:35.360 another one, and we have some pretty hardy avocados. Actually, 858 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:37.360 for those of you, especially in the southern part of 859 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:41.079 the listening area, avocados are a viable option. You just 860 00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:43.800 tolerate the fact that occasionally we're gonna have one of 861 00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:47.360 those freezes that knock some way back and they'll regrow. 862 00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:51.400 But that's just part of the deal. I think that 863 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:54.559 we ought to grow more grapes, and you know we have. 864 00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:58.119 We have different kinds of grapes here in southeast in fact, 865 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:02.400 most of the south east Stern portion of Texas. I 866 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:05.239 don't mean just Southeast Texas. I mean, you know, all 867 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:09.239 the way over to San Antonio and in southeast from there, 868 00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:13.639 we have a disease called East and southeast. From there, 869 00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:17.440 we have a disease called Pierce's disease that flat kills grapes. 870 00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:22.440 It kills them outright, and so you have to choose 871 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:27.000 certain grapes that are resistant to Pierce's disease. So there 872 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:31.840 is a white grape called Blanc du bois the L 873 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.440 A N C du and then bois is boi s yep, 874 00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:41.199 Welcome to caden Land. Blanc dubois is a white grape 875 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:44.400 that makes a nice little wine. It's a small grape, 876 00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:48.519 not a fresh eating grape, particularly CD. Then we have 877 00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:54.440 one called Southern Sensation and another one called Victoria Red. 878 00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:57.840 Victoria Red is a nice long cluster grape got its 879 00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:02.800 name from Victoria Tech. It didn't originate there, but I 880 00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:05.639 believe it's an Arkansas breeding line. But it's a good one, 881 00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:09.280 a good one. But a Southern Sensation seedless is seedless, 882 00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:12.039 and it is probably If someone says I want one 883 00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.039 table grape, I would probably point them at Southern Sensation 884 00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:19.840 seedless or Victoria Red. Either those or good options. Amazing grapes. 885 00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:23.960 Can you imagine putting an arbor out in the yard, 886 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:28.000 maybe over a patio, and having grapes overhead that hang 887 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.440 down that you can harvest from. Now, keep in mind 888 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:33.719 that anytime you have a fruiting, deciduous and deciduous plant, 889 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:35.480 you're gonna have a mess. The leaves are gonna fall 890 00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:38.199 on the patio, of course, and you're gonna have to 891 00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:41.920 With grapes, you do need to spray them. The disease 892 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:47.480 pressures here are significant, and so you can try to 893 00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:52.840 use some organic options, but not quite adequate to really 894 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:56.559 give you full protection and protect the crop. But I 895 00:49:56.599 --> 00:49:59.280 think that's a really cool thing to do. There's old 896 00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:02.320 time grapes. There's one called Champannel. There's one called black 897 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:07.880 Spanish also called then. Why it looks like it's spelled 898 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:11.599 lean or l E n R E, I believe is 899 00:50:11.599 --> 00:50:16.239 how they spell it. Anyway, those are old time grapes. 900 00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:20.119 They're tough, they survive despite the issues I've been talking about, 901 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.920 but they're not the highest quality. And then there's muscadines, 902 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:30.199 and muscadines are super cool. Muscadine is a Southern grape. 903 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:33.199 It's a I guess I would say it's not a 904 00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:37.000 true grape, but it is a grape. But it's different 905 00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:40.639 than the vanifera grapes. The kind that every grape you 906 00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:44.440 buy in the supermarket, just about every grape juice you buy, 907 00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:48.599 every wine you buy. Those are typically the vanifera grapes 908 00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:52.840 or hybrids, but the muscadine is a little different structurally. 909 00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:56.320 It's a little different too, make small clusters of very 910 00:50:56.360 --> 00:50:59.199 big berries and they may not ripen the whole cluster 911 00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.960 at a time. But there are some new ones. Well, 912 00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:06.079 there's a new program that a new research project going 913 00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:09.920 on Texas and am Agrolife is involved in it. As 914 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:12.880 is the University of Arkansas, the University of Georgia, and 915 00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:16.360 several other institutions. And here is the goal of it, 916 00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:19.840 improving the muscadine grape. You know, muscadines are one of 917 00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.559 thirteen species of grapes that are native to Texas. Did 918 00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:28.679 you know that Texas has more native grapes than any place, 919 00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:33.400 the more species of native different species of native grapes 920 00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:39.960 in any place, thirteen to be specific, and excuse me. Muscadines. 921 00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:43.800 The native muscadine has been improved through breeding and selection. 922 00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:47.320 And you know, over one hundred years of breeding, they 923 00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:50.840 now have even developed a seedless muscadine, which is amazing. 924 00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:54.280 They have a very tough, leathery skin. But the flavor 925 00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.679 is unique, but it's great. It's different than the typical 926 00:51:57.719 --> 00:52:02.360 grape flavor. They throw in hot, humid areas. Welcome to 927 00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:06.760 Houston muscadine. And they also are pretty tolerant of a 928 00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:10.559 lot of disease and pest issues, so as well as 929 00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:13.480 some decent drought tolerance too. Now they grow rampantly and 930 00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:19.480 they require some pretty judicious and regular attention to the pruning, 931 00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:23.880 but they are really amazing. Now this project is developing 932 00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:27.400 varieties of muscadines for both the fresh market eating that's 933 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:31.840 seedless muscadine, and the wine market as well. There's gonna 934 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:35.320 be like thirty different viticulturists, which is grape specialists. There's 935 00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:38.079 gonna be great breeders and even food scientists that are 936 00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:42.119 involved in this project. And the goal is to support 937 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:46.199 grape growers in propagating new seedless muscadine selections for trials 938 00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.079 all the way across the southeastern US. They'll seek to 939 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:55.280 cross breed muscadines with Vitis vinifera, the common grape. When 940 00:52:55.320 --> 00:52:57.719 you say grapes and you picture grapes, unless you grew 941 00:52:57.760 --> 00:53:00.440 up East Texas, you know eating grapes off the trees, 942 00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:05.280 the travines on the trees grapes is Vias benifita. They're 943 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:09.880 going to cross these two and come up with additional options, 944 00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:12.880 and future generations are going to really enjoy the benefits 945 00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:17.639 of this program. I mean, high quality, climate resilient cultivars 946 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:20.880 for fresh market and wine production. And that's all part 947 00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:25.760 of the Muscadine improvement projects funded by USDA, and I'm 948 00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:28.360 excited about it. These things take time, you know, it'd 949 00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:30.400 be a while before we see the benefits of it. 950 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.960 But what a great idea, you know, as we look 951 00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:36.880 for more resilient plants, plants that can survive, plants that 952 00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:40.119 do well with less sprays and so on, that's a 953 00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:44.199 great kind of project that we need to do well. 954 00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:48.440 I've talked to you before about Medina products, and Medina's 955 00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:51.280 been around for a very long time. In fact, when 956 00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:54.280 Garden Line wasn't even garden Mine, back in the Dewey 957 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:58.400 Compton days, Medina was a sponsor of the show and 958 00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:03.760 has been ever since. And gardeners have long learned about 959 00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:08.239 Medina and love Medina products and use Medina products. Medina 960 00:54:09.320 --> 00:54:12.000 excuse me, Medina soil activator is one of the originals 961 00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:15.039 and it is a very popular product. Well, the folks 962 00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:18.119 at Medina while back, they took Medina sool activator. They 963 00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:22.039 took their humic and fulvic acids. Those are natural acids 964 00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:27.159 from the final stage of a compost decomposition that are 965 00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:31.079 incredibly beneficial in the soil. And they also took seaweed 966 00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:35.199 and combined it with a fertilizer that is six twelve 967 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:39.199 six six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six percent potassium. 968 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:41.800 So you got all that combined in one product to 969 00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:46.039 stimulate biological activity in the soil and to promote blooming 970 00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:49.599 and fruiting in the plant. And so with Medina has 971 00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:54.079 to grow plant six twelve six, there's other has to 972 00:54:54.119 --> 00:54:57.519 grows has to grow plant six twelve six. You are 973 00:54:57.559 --> 00:54:59.239 going to get the ability to use it as a 974 00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:01.840 folier feed. It will not burn you and I get 975 00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:04.800 salt built up, chemical build up, It'll add to the 976 00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:07.960 biological activity and the soil. Increase the biological activity in 977 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.079 the soil, and you can use this as a drench 978 00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:13.440 for new transplants. It's got that higher percent phosphorus the 979 00:55:13.440 --> 00:55:17.159 middle number which is important for root development. So you 980 00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:19.679 use has to grow six twelve six. Anytime you're going 981 00:55:19.679 --> 00:55:22.119 to plan a plant and you're going to see better success, 982 00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:25.079 what you do is you I do it. Sometimes I'll 983 00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:28.000 just take a container of it, you know, make a 984 00:55:28.039 --> 00:55:30.599 gallon more, set the plants in the container and let 985 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:32.519 the root ball soak it up, and then plan them. 986 00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:35.079 Sometimes I'll just plan them and before I fully fill 987 00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.480 the hole with soil, I'll just drench. I'm really good 988 00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:39.880 with it. You can do that a couple more times 989 00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:43.119 after planning, about a week apart, just to give it 990 00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:45.719 the best chance it can to get started. With medinas, 991 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:49.360 it's a has to grow six twelve six. Medina has 992 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.960 to grow six twelve six. I was talking about fruit. 993 00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:56.280 It is important when you're going to grow fruit to 994 00:55:56.440 --> 00:55:58.840 learn about that fruit and get the information you need. 995 00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:02.039 And if you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, it's 996 00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:07.880 Aggie dash Horticulture dot TAMU dot edu. I know you 997 00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:10.719 wrote that down. I know you didn't, So just go 998 00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:14.360 to Aggie Horticulture search for that on there. There's a 999 00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:16.960 fruit and not section on the front page. Click on 1000 00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:20.079 that and you will get publications on everything from avocados 1001 00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:23.199 to you name it that's there, and it tells you 1002 00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:26.440 do you need two varieties for cross pollination? Some fruit 1003 00:56:26.519 --> 00:56:29.840 do some fruit don't. Does it need acidic soil? How 1004 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:31.800 do you prune it? How do you plant it? What 1005 00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:34.599 are some varieties to grow in my part of Texas? 1006 00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:38.159 It's all there and it's free. So before you plant 1007 00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:41.760 any fruit, grab some of those free publications and just 1008 00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.079 peruse them and get up to speed on it, and 1009 00:56:44.119 --> 00:56:45.880 you'll be glad you did that. Way, you won't call 1010 00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:47.719 me in three years going why is my fruit not 1011 00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:50.119 fruiting because I needed a pollinator? All right, we're going 1012 00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:53.519 to take a break. I'll be right back. Hey, welcome 1013 00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:56.639 back to garden Line. Glad to have you with us 1014 00:56:56.639 --> 00:57:01.119 this morning. Let's talk gardening. Of questions you have, give 1015 00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:03.119 me a call. Seven one three two one two k 1016 00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:05.760 t r H seven one three two one two k 1017 00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:09.559 t RH Southwest Fertilizer is a place that I talk 1018 00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:12.280 about all the time because I love to go there. 1019 00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:16.639 Number One, when you walk in, they treat you right 1020 00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:19.880 the everybody you know, they greet you, they ask how 1021 00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:21.800 they can help, and when you ask a question, they 1022 00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:23.400 know the answer to it. I mean, they take you 1023 00:57:23.480 --> 00:57:25.440 right to the product. They explain it toay how to 1024 00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:28.320 do it. You could walk in and just you know, 1025 00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:30.639 say hey, I've got here's a bug in a jar. 1026 00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:32.480 You know what is this and how do I get 1027 00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:35.320 rid of it? Or maybe you've got a weed that 1028 00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:36.840 you're bringing in and you want know what to do 1029 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:40.400 about that, or or print out my schedules, both of them, 1030 00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:43.519 the law care schedule, print out the pest disease and 1031 00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:46.519 weed management schedule, and walk in there and say I 1032 00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:48.800 need this thing, and they're going to have it. There 1033 00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:50.880 is nothing I talk about on the garden line that 1034 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:52.960 Bob doesn't carry, and he carries a lot more. In 1035 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:56.519 addition to all of that, they kind of pride themselves 1036 00:57:56.880 --> 00:58:01.119 in having everything that you need for your garden and 1037 00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:04.360 your lawn and your landscape and your house plants for 1038 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:07.239 that matter. You find tools there. You're going to find 1039 00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.559 fertilizers there, things to control weeds, things to control pests 1040 00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:14.480 and diseases, anything you need. If you're looking at enhancing 1041 00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:17.360 the growth of a plant, they are going to have 1042 00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:19.880 a wide range of products. If you're looking organic, they've 1043 00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:22.320 got it. They've got the best selection of organic products, 1044 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:26.840 the widest selection of any place in town. That's just 1045 00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:28.440 what they do. The way I like to put it 1046 00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:30.639 is if Southwest doesn't have it, you don't need it. 1047 00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:33.360 And that's true, it really is. That's why I like 1048 00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:35.800 going in there because every time I go in, you know, 1049 00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:38.280 see Bob, hey, what's up, what's new? You know what 1050 00:58:38.400 --> 00:58:40.280 we got here? And just seeing all the things on 1051 00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:42.400 the market because there's always new stuff coming out and 1052 00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:46.480 we talk about them. You can take samples in, you 1053 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:48.000 can have them put a pair of eyes on it, 1054 00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:50.480 as they like to say, see what it is and 1055 00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:54.039 see how they can help you. That is the reason 1056 00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:56.800 that it is such a helpful place. The one stop 1057 00:58:56.840 --> 00:59:00.639 shop in Southwest Houston, corner of Bisnett and Renwick. Southwest 1058 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:04.880 Fertilizer dot com. That's the website, Southwest Fertilizer dot com. 1059 00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:07.719 Corner of Byssinet and Renwick. I don't care where you 1060 00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:10.440 live in this whole region, it's worth the drive in 1061 00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:14.119 when you're looking for a place where you can get 1062 00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:18.920 anything that you need and everything that you need. You 1063 00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:21.239 are listening to Garden Line and our phone number here 1064 00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:22.760 if you'd like to give us call a seven to 1065 00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:27.320 one three two one two k t R H seven 1066 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:31.920 one three two one two K T R. H. I 1067 00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:34.800 was talking about fruit trees and the importance of getting 1068 00:59:34.800 --> 00:59:39.119 good information before you plan. Remember this that with the 1069 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:43.440 exception I guess of Mayhaw's, which is a native apple 1070 00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:46.400 like fruit that grows out in the woods in East Texas. 1071 00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:49.480 With the exception of that, fruit trees want really good drainage. 1072 00:59:49.480 --> 00:59:52.719 Mayhaws can put up with some swampy stuff, but in general, 1073 00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:57.119 you want good drainage. Probably the most important thing when 1074 00:59:57.159 --> 01:00:00.599 it comes to fruit tree success is sunlight. And it's 1075 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:03.480 because why do you grow fruit? Because you get you 1076 01:00:03.519 --> 01:00:06.000 want to eat the fruit right, and the fruit is sweet. 1077 01:00:06.199 --> 01:00:09.039 And what is sweet? That's a carbohydrate. Sugar is a carbohydrate. 1078 01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:12.199 And how do you get carbohydrates Sunshine on the leaves. 1079 01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:16.360 So if you grow a peach tree in half the 1080 01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:19.039 sun that it really would like to have, you're going 1081 01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:23.119 to have much less production. And the production you have 1082 01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:26.599 is going to be let's use a big word, insipid. 1083 01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:29.639 You put it in your mouth, not that great to eat. Well, 1084 01:00:30.239 --> 01:00:32.159 why not put it in the sun and have success. 1085 01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:34.840 That's why you're growing fruit. So find the sunniest spots 1086 01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:37.960 you have for your fruit trees. Fruit trees, vines, and bushes. 1087 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:40.400 SAME's true with grapes, same is true blueberries, SAME's true 1088 01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:44.400 with strawberries, and you can have success and so good 1089 01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:48.360 sunlight and good drainage are like. That's first. Good soil 1090 01:00:48.440 --> 01:00:52.599 quality is especially important as we get into things like blueberries. 1091 01:00:52.599 --> 01:00:55.360 That have a very good opinion about that. So do blackberries. 1092 01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:57.760 By the way, you take blackberries and put them in 1093 01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:00.840 a high pH sticky black clay soil, well like we 1094 01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:03.840 have predominantly in this region, and they are not going 1095 01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:06.360 to perform well. They're going to get chlorotic, which means 1096 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.719 the new growth is kind of yellowy white instead of 1097 01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:12.119 nice green as it comes out. If you have to, 1098 01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:15.039 and I've done this before, you can make a raised bedbox. 1099 01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:17.760 You can put some good sandy loam soils in it. 1100 01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:21.880 You add compost into the soil and whatnot, and plant 1101 01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:24.400 your strawberries and plant your blackberries in that. If you've 1102 01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:28.840 got crimy soil that's boggy and whatever, black clay, gouey, 1103 01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:32.519 do that before you plant blackberries and strawberries. For sure. 1104 01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:35.239 Figs can put up with that. Figs can. We used 1105 01:01:35.239 --> 01:01:37.000 to have a huge fig industry here on the Gulf 1106 01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:41.280 coast years ago. They can put up with these rice 1107 01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:44.719 paddy soils that we have in some parts, but for 1108 01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:46.400 the rest of them, take care of those, I mean, 1109 01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:48.519 and then look and see if you need another variety 1110 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.119 for cross pollination. That's very important. And you know what, 1111 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:55.599 just go to a good quality nursery. I talk about 1112 01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:59.639 our independent garden centers all the time and how fortunate 1113 01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:02.440 we are have so many good ones here in the 1114 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:06.000 Houston area. If you live north, south, east, west, or central, 1115 01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:09.039 there is a good garden center near you, and go 1116 01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:13.159 to those. Because a lot of places that sell hammers 1117 01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:20.039 and plants, lumber and plants, jewelry and plants, you know 1118 01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:23.840 what I mean, the jewelry counter at Walmart or someplace 1119 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:27.880 like that. The folks in the garden center, they just 1120 01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:32.039 likely don't know. It would be an exception to find 1121 01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:36.079 somebody that knows what they're doing there. And typically the 1122 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:38.719 things that are shipped in are done kind of on 1123 01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:41.599 a national basis or regional basis, and they may not 1124 01:02:41.719 --> 01:02:44.360 be the best things to grow here. Drives me nuts. 1125 01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:47.320 I'm not going to say that specific name of the place, 1126 01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:49.719 but you can kind of figure out based on what 1127 01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:52.920 I've already said. Was in one of those kind of stores, 1128 01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:58.039 and they had black cap raspberries, and they had concord grapes, 1129 01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:00.320 the kind that they make Welch's Grape juice out of 1130 01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:04.800 and Mogan David wine out of. Well, they won't grow here, 1131 01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:06.880 they shouldn't be sold here. But you go to an 1132 01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:09.440 independent garden center and not only are they going to 1133 01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:11.719 carry the things that should be sold, but when you 1134 01:03:11.760 --> 01:03:14.519 go up and go, well, does this plumb tree need 1135 01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:16.679 a pollinator? Or they would just told you in the 1136 01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:18.360 first place, and here's a good one, but you're going 1137 01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:20.719 to need this one over here to pollinate it, for example, 1138 01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:22.960 or no, you don't need a pollinator for that one. 1139 01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:26.480 Get that good information that is worth something. And then 1140 01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:29.199 when you have any issues or questions from the time 1141 01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:31.679 you plan it, like how do I do this to 1142 01:03:32.199 --> 01:03:34.519 something's going wrong or I have a question about this, 1143 01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:36.360 you can go back in there and they'll help you. 1144 01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:41.280 I'm telling you that is worth it. It is well 1145 01:03:41.320 --> 01:03:44.079 worth it to restrict your shopping to places that know 1146 01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:48.159 what they're talking about. All right, that's a soapbox complaining 1147 01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:50.400 about it, But you know what I'm talking about. A 1148 01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:52.519 time for me to take another little break here. When 1149 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:54.320 we come back, if you would like to give us 1150 01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:56.320 a call, be first up on the board seven one 1151 01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:59.719 three two one two kat R eight seven one three 1152 01:03:59.719 --> 01:04:05.360 two into kt R H. All right, welcome back to 1153 01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:09.960 the garden line. We are today is a day where 1154 01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:13.840 I'm getting an opportunity to talk a lot about some 1155 01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:17.159 specific things, you know, kind of go more in depth. 1156 01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:20.400 And when the when the spring flood hits, I got 1157 01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:22.519 to move fast, but I have a little more time. 1158 01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:24.840 I actually enjoy this, so good to visit. I hope 1159 01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:28.400 you're enjoying it, by the way, hopefully you are. 1160 01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:29.199 Uh. 1161 01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:31.679 Just the more we learn about gardening, the better we 1162 01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:34.920 get it to be as gardener as the more success 1163 01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:37.440 that we have. I like to say there's no such 1164 01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:39.440 thing as a brown thumb, And what I mean is 1165 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:44.039 we have not brown thumbs. We have an uninformed thumb. 1166 01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:47.599 And when your thumb gets informed, you suddenly start to 1167 01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:50.280 grow things, and that thumb starts looking a little greener. 1168 01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:52.559 If you know what I'm talking about. Think about it 1169 01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:55.079 that way. Do not feel like you cannot grow stuff. 1170 01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:58.239 Don't stop it. Don't do that. You give me a call. 1171 01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:00.480 You go to the website, check out the I put 1172 01:05:00.519 --> 01:05:02.599 up there to help you have success. You go to 1173 01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:05.199 places like the Aggy Horticulture website and learn and learn 1174 01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:08.920 and learn, become part of a garden club, or go 1175 01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:11.000 through a master gardening program. You know, we have master 1176 01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:14.440 gardening programs all through the Greater Houston area. They have 1177 01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.880 them in Harris County, They're in Montgomery County. There's some 1178 01:05:18.079 --> 01:05:22.920 up in Brass County con College Station Bryan there down 1179 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:26.639 in Fort Ben County. There's one in Brazoria County. There's 1180 01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:30.519 one named Galveston County. There's one out in Orange too. 1181 01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:33.000 I believe I think they still have one going on 1182 01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:36.480 out there, and I'm probably forgetting one. Who am I forgetting? 1183 01:05:36.639 --> 01:05:38.599 You know, you start making a list, you forget somebody. 1184 01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:41.280 There's a lot of master gardening programs. Let me just 1185 01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:43.480 tell you about that for just a little bit. Master 1186 01:05:43.559 --> 01:05:48.800 Gardening is an intense gardening course. It is not for 1187 01:05:48.840 --> 01:05:50.440 the faint of heart. In other words, if you're just 1188 01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:54.519 kind of curious about seeing pretty pictures and whatnot. Not 1189 01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:57.840 only that, Master Gardening is a volunteer training program done 1190 01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:02.159 by Agra Life Extension Service out of Texa and im University. 1191 01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:06.280 Agerlife Extension is put together the Master Guarding program in 1192 01:06:06.440 --> 01:06:10.719 order to train volunteers to help the folks, and I 1193 01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:15.719 used to. I've run master gardening programs in Conrod, Montgomery County, 1194 01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:19.760 in Travis County, in Austin, Harris County, and in Brass 1195 01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:22.360 County over the course of my career. And I can 1196 01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:24.440 tell you this, master gardner's some of the finest people 1197 01:06:24.440 --> 01:06:27.920 you'll ever meet. They just love what they're doing and 1198 01:06:27.960 --> 01:06:30.840 it's a good group, a good group to be a 1199 01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:35.199 part of. But it is for volunteer service, and so 1200 01:06:35.280 --> 01:06:37.159 you don't go just to learn. You go to learn 1201 01:06:37.199 --> 01:06:39.079 and then to put your learning into action to help 1202 01:06:39.119 --> 01:06:42.199 other people. And it's one of the ways that Extension 1203 01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:48.239 takes the public investment in agrolife extension and it multiplies 1204 01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:52.639 it many times over. When I was running Master Gardening, 1205 01:06:52.719 --> 01:06:55.440 I'll use myself because I've got that firsthand knowledge, but 1206 01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:58.280 it's true of all these programs, I was one agent 1207 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:02.719 in the office that was handling gardening questions and commercial 1208 01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:06.000 horticulture questions and everything all the other duties that the 1209 01:07:06.039 --> 01:07:11.239 agent has, and with volunteers, it was not unusual to 1210 01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:13.760 have ten thousand volunteer hours in the course of a year. 1211 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.519 That's a lot. That's what we call full time equivalents. 1212 01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:18.719 There's a lot of full time equivalents that are to 1213 01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:22.440 be had when you build a volunteer program. So with 1214 01:07:22.519 --> 01:07:25.920 the investment of one horticulture agent, or in many counties 1215 01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:28.559 it's an agriculture agent that's doing it, there's not a 1216 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:34.039 hoard agent, then you get all this additional benefit. Talks 1217 01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:38.400 for groups, other kinds of educational activities, and master gardening 1218 01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:40.239 is a fun thing, but just know that you're doing 1219 01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:42.199 it not just to learn and go home. You're doing 1220 01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:43.800 it to learn and go home and then come back 1221 01:07:44.440 --> 01:07:47.760 and in whatever way is most appropriate for you to 1222 01:07:47.880 --> 01:07:50.960 take what you've learned and apply it. Our master gardeners 1223 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:53.360 would help with our trials, our plant trials that we 1224 01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:56.079 were doing. We had master gardeners that work just with 1225 01:07:56.199 --> 01:07:59.719 youth programs that would create programs for kiddos and learning 1226 01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:03.360 about gardening and helping with school gardening programs and things, 1227 01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:06.199 and it's a really good organization. I've kind of gone 1228 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:08.639 off what I was originally talking about to talk about 1229 01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:11.639 master gardening, but that is just another way that you 1230 01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:15.119 can grow in your horticultural knowledge, and I think that 1231 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:21.520 is important. They say when you're cutting trees in the forest, 1232 01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:23.720 you got to stop every now and then and sharpen 1233 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:25.520 the saw. If you've ever tried to cut a tree 1234 01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:27.239 with a dull saw, you know what I'm talking about. 1235 01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:29.920 It's time to stop and sharpen the saw as well 1236 01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:32.680 worth it. The same is true with gardening. If you 1237 01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:36.479 never sharpen the saw, if you never grow as a gardener, 1238 01:08:36.840 --> 01:08:42.319 learn and expand what you know, you're gonna become obsolete. 1239 01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:45.760 And things that you think are true are you find 1240 01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:49.680 out later are not true. I don't know who it was. 1241 01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:55.279 It probably I don't know, Mark Twain or Will Rogers 1242 01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:57.600 or something like that. I made a statement. They said, 1243 01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:00.319 it's not what I let's see, it's not what I 1244 01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:02.479 don't know that concerns me. It's what I know that 1245 01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:05.600 ain't so. And that is true. A lot of times 1246 01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:08.720 we think we know something when in fact that's not true. 1247 01:09:09.199 --> 01:09:12.720 And times change and research brings new information to light 1248 01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:15.159 and whatnot, and you got to keep improving on it. 1249 01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:18.119 Plus it's fun. That's part of the thing about gardening 1250 01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:23.920 that makes it so rejuvenating is that you you it's 1251 01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:28.960 it's it is a renewing thing to constantly be learning 1252 01:09:29.079 --> 01:09:33.079 new things, interesting new things. It's it's a hobby that 1253 01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:36.720 just keeps growing. I've mentioned this before. You know, you 1254 01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:39.920 start off as the typical bottom line of gardening is 1255 01:09:40.560 --> 01:09:42.680 you get on the phone, call somebody and say, come 1256 01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:44.800 mo and take care of my yard. Know that you 1257 01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:47.800 have the garden, you have the landscape, but somebody's taking 1258 01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:49.279 care of it. But you got You're out there, you're 1259 01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:50.880 enjoying it, and you may say, hey, I'd like this 1260 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:53.239 plant put in it or something. You take it up 1261 01:09:53.279 --> 01:09:55.159 to where you're more of a do it yourselfer uh 1262 01:09:55.319 --> 01:09:58.159 and it and then you you begin to learn. Maybe 1263 01:09:58.199 --> 01:10:01.439 you decide I want to grow herbs, I want to 1264 01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:03.439 grow vegetables, I want to grow flowers. I want to 1265 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:05.760 grow fruit of some fruit trees in the yart or 1266 01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:08.439 a fruit tree in the art. And you expand in 1267 01:10:08.479 --> 01:10:11.279 that way, and then you begin indoor things. Like I 1268 01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:14.840 mentioned earlier, I hadn't done a terrarium in ages. Well, 1269 01:10:14.920 --> 01:10:17.239 terrariums are cool. Why not do one of those? How 1270 01:10:17.239 --> 01:10:19.600 about house plants? And then you grow some more and 1271 01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:21.239 you decide, you know what, I'm going to save my 1272 01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:24.760 own seed and improve my plants. So each year I 1273 01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:27.720 look at all these plants I planted that are open pollinated, 1274 01:10:28.079 --> 01:10:30.159 and I'm going to pick the ones that are doing 1275 01:10:30.239 --> 01:10:32.159 the best, and I'm going to save seed from those. 1276 01:10:32.279 --> 01:10:34.159 And you do that year after year after year, and 1277 01:10:34.199 --> 01:10:37.439 you improve the strain of what you're growing. Maybe you 1278 01:10:37.479 --> 01:10:41.000 then become someone who starts your own seed, grows transplants, 1279 01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:43.239 and you get into that. Boy, is that ever fund 1280 01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:45.439 some one of my favorite parts of gardening, because I 1281 01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:48.079 do a lot of gardening in the winter by taking 1282 01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:50.880 care of my plants that I have inside under lights. 1283 01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:55.359 Maybe you want to learn how to propagate plants, root cuttings, 1284 01:10:55.720 --> 01:10:59.720 how to do air layering. I talked about that yesterday. 1285 01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:03.720 Gardening just keeps expanding as much as you want it to, 1286 01:11:04.199 --> 01:11:07.479 and there are many other things. How about a cut 1287 01:11:07.520 --> 01:11:10.119 flower garden if you've ever done that, have you ever 1288 01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:13.800 looked at your landscape and ask questions like what does 1289 01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:16.840 my landscape smell like? And how could it be better? 1290 01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:21.600 What are some fragrant plants that would be wonderful to 1291 01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:23.399 enjoy the fragrance of? And I'm going to tell you 1292 01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:25.760 what if I can remember this next segment next hour, 1293 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.039 I'm going to talk about that fragrant plant Have you 1294 01:11:29.079 --> 01:11:32.800 ever looked at your landscape and see and ask, what 1295 01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:37.600 does this look like? Spring, summer, fall, and winter? Or 1296 01:11:37.640 --> 01:11:41.640 their flowers or their color? Maybe it's foliage that's all 1297 01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:45.920 twelve months of the year. Where are the evergreens that 1298 01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:51.880 give you extra foundational plants through the dormant season? And 1299 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:53.960 looked at it that way? Have you ever looked at 1300 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:57.600 your landscape and said, what am I able to? I'm 1301 01:11:57.640 --> 01:11:59.560 going to use the word eat, but it could be 1302 01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:03.439 every thing from eat to season your food, to create 1303 01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:06.239 all kinds of different herbal tinctures and things. And you 1304 01:12:06.279 --> 01:12:08.920 looked at it from that standpoint? Have you ever looked 1305 01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:13.199 at your landscape and said, what attracts butterflies? What at 1306 01:12:13.239 --> 01:12:17.640 track's hummingbirds? What attracts birds? How can I add to 1307 01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:21.520 the movement? Butterflies are basically flying flowers? How can I 1308 01:12:21.560 --> 01:12:24.239 add flying flowers to my landscape by planting? Do you 1309 01:12:24.239 --> 01:12:27.399 see what I'm saying? There's always some new fun things 1310 01:12:27.439 --> 01:12:29.840 to do. And you go visit a place, you go 1311 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:32.720 to a botanical garden, you go visit family and friends. 1312 01:12:32.800 --> 01:12:34.319 You do like I do, and drive up and down 1313 01:12:34.359 --> 01:12:37.359 the street when you're going places and just notice what 1314 01:12:37.439 --> 01:12:38.960 you like take a picture of you, go find out 1315 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:40.520 what it is, and get you one for your house. 1316 01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:43.359 That's kind of how that works. So it's a constant 1317 01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:47.680 process that allows us to just grow and grow and 1318 01:12:47.800 --> 01:12:50.399 have so much fun in the process. And I don't 1319 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:53.479 you know, I don't look at this show like it's 1320 01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:56.079 all mechanics. You know, it's like, Okay, you gotta furlize 1321 01:12:56.079 --> 01:12:58.560 your lawn with this at this time and that time. Yeah, 1322 01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:00.920 we talked about all that, but how can you have 1323 01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:03.600 more fun? How can this be more enjoyable for you? 1324 01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:09.319 That's what we want you to do. Juer yard, your landscape, 1325 01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:11.039 do what you want with it. It's gene you in 1326 01:13:11.079 --> 01:13:13.199 the in the first of the front yard especially, it's 1327 01:13:13.239 --> 01:13:17.960 gene you and the hoa. But have fun. Get out 1328 01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:20.359 there and enjoy it. If you want to talk rules 1329 01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:23.960 of gardening, I can talk that, But at your gardener 1330 01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:26.800 are no rules. The rule is you got out there 1331 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:28.359 and do what you want and have fun a bunch 1332 01:13:28.399 --> 01:13:32.039 of whole garden to be a Zenian fall doesn't go 1333 01:13:32.119 --> 01:13:36.520 fall yours? All right, folks, here's a number you can 1334 01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:38.319 give us a call and be first up when we 1335 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:41.439 come back. Seven one three two one two kt R h. 1336 01:13:44.760 --> 01:13:50.279 This is use Radio seven kt RH Houston everywhere with 1337 01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:53.720 now the latest news weather. 1338 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.680 It's more of what matters to you. From the John 1339 01:13:57.720 --> 01:13:59.560 Moore Services Studios. 1340 01:13:59.159 --> 01:14:02.079 House Freedom calling this meeting with Trump. I'm Jarre at 1341 01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:04.720 Lewis at eight o'clock on news Radio seven forty h 1342 01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:07.520 age time for looking at traffic, caing weather. Hello, Gary Mack. 1343 01:14:07.680 --> 01:14:11.079 Sixty nine Southwest Freeway south bound at University Boulevard that 1344 01:14:11.159 --> 01:14:14.439 remains closed this one due to a major accident. You 1345 01:14:14.479 --> 01:14:17.359 can use New Territory as an alternate others and we 1346 01:14:17.439 --> 01:14:20.520 have plenty off the way, wild and welly. Start this Sunday. 1347 01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:23.640 South SAM east bound on the entrance ramp to South 1348 01:14:23.680 --> 01:14:26.680 Post Oaks. South SAM southbound on the exit to sixty 1349 01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:29.920 ninth to Southwest Freeway. Clear a couple two I ten 1350 01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:32.560 to Katie Freeway eastbound at the sixth hid West. It 1351 01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:35.039 was on the left shoulder, then was on a right 1352 01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:38.640 forty five Goal Freeway northbound at Monroe Harry Mack the 1353 01:14:38.720 --> 01:14:40.960 Generator Supercenter dot Com Traffic Center. 1354 01:14:43.359 --> 01:14:45.640 Expect some clowns, some cool conditions, and a few scattered 1355 01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:47.439 showers ahead of a front on this Sunday with the 1356 01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:49.600 high fifty three and he rang will move out this 1357 01:14:49.680 --> 01:14:51.680 evening to the party. Cloudy and windy overnight with the load 1358 01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:54.279 dropping down to forty one heading through the afternoon. Monday 1359 01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:55.920 sunny and wendy with the high of fifty five and 1360 01:14:55.960 --> 01:14:58.199 a little bit cooler under clouds. Tuesday is the highits 1361 01:14:58.199 --> 01:15:01.279 fifty three. I can meteorle just Jeff Maher from the 1362 01:15:01.279 --> 01:15:01.840 Weather Channel. 1363 01:15:01.880 --> 01:15:05.119 Cloudy with some drizzlin sponse forty seven at the k 1364 01:15:05.319 --> 01:15:08.319 Cherry Top Tax Defenders twenty four hour Weather Center, it's 1365 01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:11.560 eight h one our top story. Some top Republican lawmakers, 1366 01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:15.279 including Texas Representative Chip Roy, meeting President ELEC. Donald Trump 1367 01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:18.800 at mar A Lago to discuss his legislative agenda and 1368 01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:23.319 policy goals. Members indicated that the discussions focused on advancing 1369 01:15:23.479 --> 01:15:27.760 Trump's agenda, particularly with border security, energy policies, and government spending. 1370 01:15:28.239 --> 01:15:31.239 Starting this week, President elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees are 1371 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:33.439 set to begin their confirmation hearings. 1372 01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:37.439 The long awaited confirmation hearing for Department of Defense nominee 1373 01:15:37.479 --> 01:15:41.600 Pete Hegsath will take place before the Senate Armed Services Committee, 1374 01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:44.560 as Hexath will have a chance to convince senators and 1375 01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:47.560 the public that he's fit to lead the nation's military. 1376 01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:51.279 Hexath is one of several President elect Trump's nominees set 1377 01:15:51.319 --> 01:15:55.560 to testify before senators this week. CIA Director nominee John 1378 01:15:55.640 --> 01:15:59.720 Radcliffe will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Other closely 1379 01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:03.600 watched noees, like Tulci Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, 1380 01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:05.840 have not had their hearings scheduled yet. 1381 01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:10.079 Fox's Ryan Schmeltz reporting a final speech upcoming from the President. 1382 01:16:10.239 --> 01:16:12.680 Joe Biden says he will deliver his farewell address from 1383 01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:16.359 the Oval Office on Wednesday. President Biden was adamant that 1384 01:16:16.439 --> 01:16:18.960 had he stayed in he would have beaten Trump in 1385 01:16:19.079 --> 01:16:22.600 the presidential race. The man tasked with investigating claims that 1386 01:16:22.640 --> 01:16:26.239 President elect Trump was involved in twenty twenty election interference 1387 01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:30.159 has resigned Special counsel Jack Smith, and his report on 1388 01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:34.279 his investigation is expected soon as. His resignation comes as 1389 01:16:34.279 --> 01:16:37.159 no surprise, since Trump has indicated Smith would be fired 1390 01:16:37.199 --> 01:16:40.399 once he takes office. Smith was employed as special counsel 1391 01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:45.439 by the US Justice Department Texas firefighters heading to Los Angeles. 1392 01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:48.920 A group of Houston firefighters included in that trip to 1393 01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:51.199 LA Governor Greg Abbott says the state is assist in 1394 01:16:51.279 --> 01:16:55.399 California and their wildfire response. Firefighting resources have been deployed, 1395 01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:59.439 including fire engines and equipment following a request from cal Fire. 1396 01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.119 Sixteen people are dead now and nearly forty thousand acres 1397 01:17:03.159 --> 01:17:06.039 of land burned due to the LA wildfires. 1398 01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:09.800 We drove up into Mandevil Canyon Road. We saw the 1399 01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:13.640 firefighters still battling little areas, but they're worried that if 1400 01:17:13.680 --> 01:17:15.359 it moves a little closer to the four five, it 1401 01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:18.479 could get into the Brentwood area and threaten things. We 1402 01:17:18.520 --> 01:17:21.079 hear the helicopters overhead, and the other thing we're seeing 1403 01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:24.960 out here is a lot of police going through looking 1404 01:17:25.279 --> 01:17:28.800 into all of the destroyed homes and businesses looking for looters. 1405 01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:31.880 Twenty two was the latest count that we have seen 1406 01:17:32.039 --> 01:17:35.760 from officials have been arrested in the area out there looting. 1407 01:17:35.840 --> 01:17:39.279 Fox's Griff Jenkins. With the latest in LA, effects of 1408 01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:41.720 the wildfires are starting to mount up. Although the five 1409 01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:44.479 oil refineries in the area are not threatened by the fires, 1410 01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:48.199 several pipelines are and those lines could be shut down. 1411 01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:52.319 California's Governor Gavin Newsom calling for an investigation also into 1412 01:17:52.359 --> 01:17:55.600 a loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants, placing 1413 01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:59.000 the blame on LA local authorities. A man is taken 1414 01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:02.880 into custody this week charge with intoxication manslaughter in the 1415 01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:05.000 death of his wife. The Harris Kind Of Sheriff's Office 1416 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:06.680 says the man was banking his car out of their 1417 01:18:06.760 --> 01:18:09.640 driveway and ran her over. The car then hit a 1418 01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:13.399 tree at the home along Spring Cypress near Grant. Another 1419 01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:15.680 man is in the hospital following a high speed chase 1420 01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:18.800 and crash in Cyprus. Investigators say a man was speeding 1421 01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:21.760 on Barker Cypress Road when he lost control of his 1422 01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:25.000 car and crashed at around eleven pm last night. The 1423 01:18:25.039 --> 01:18:27.239 Texans pulling away from the Chargers in the wild card 1424 01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:30.840 round Saturday, Houston defending home Turf, winning thirty two to 1425 01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:33.479 twelve and moving on to the divisional round. News on 1426 01:18:33.520 --> 01:18:35.960 demand at KTERH dot com. Our next update is at 1427 01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:38.800 eight thirty. Back to Garden Line with Skip Richter. I'm 1428 01:18:38.840 --> 01:18:41.399 Jerret Lewis News Radio seven forty k TRH. 1429 01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.800 KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the 1430 01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:49.600 products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH 1431 01:18:49.720 --> 01:18:51.600 Garden Line with Skip Richter. 1432 01:19:00.439 --> 01:19:12.520 Just watch him as. 1433 01:19:08.000 --> 01:19:10.600 All right, let's jump in here. We're gonna get going 1434 01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:14.840 on this next hour of Garden Line with your gardening questions. 1435 01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:18.079 The phone number seven one three two one two fifty 1436 01:19:18.119 --> 01:19:20.199 eight seventy four, and we're going to start by heading 1437 01:19:20.279 --> 01:19:26.279 out to Houston area for Michael. Hello, Michael, welcome to 1438 01:19:26.319 --> 01:19:26.840 garden Line. 1439 01:19:26.880 --> 01:19:30.479 Hey, hey, Skip, thanks for taking the call. I was 1440 01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:32.840 listening to see you talking about our clay soil and 1441 01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:36.439 awkward drainage earlier, and I was thinking about my backyard. 1442 01:19:36.479 --> 01:19:40.479 It is so lumpy and bumpy, it's horrible. What kind 1443 01:19:40.520 --> 01:19:43.079 of options would you suggest for maybe kind of trying 1444 01:19:43.119 --> 01:19:45.520 to level that off? And do they all involve using 1445 01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:47.920 a shovel and a pickaxe and a lot of elbow grease? 1446 01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:49.439 No? 1447 01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:52.199 Not really, not in the grass, not in the grass lawn. 1448 01:19:53.319 --> 01:19:57.000 Is it lumpy primarily because the soil level is lumpy? 1449 01:19:57.039 --> 01:19:59.119 Like if there weren't any grass there, the soil would 1450 01:19:59.159 --> 01:20:01.800 be lumpy. Or do you think you're getting lumps because 1451 01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:03.960 grass is doing better in some places and not as 1452 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:06.319 well in others, or what do you think is going on? 1453 01:20:07.159 --> 01:20:10.600 It's actually combinational. I have some points where the dirt 1454 01:20:10.720 --> 01:20:13.079 is like built up and then drops off and then 1455 01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:15.199 also I have that weird kind of grass where the 1456 01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:17.960 grass itself just builds up this little tought and I 1457 01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:22.199 can't hardly hit it with the lawn mower anymore. Wow. 1458 01:20:22.479 --> 01:20:25.920 Okay, well that makes sense. So what I would do 1459 01:20:26.039 --> 01:20:29.359 is I would start with kind of a loamy type 1460 01:20:29.399 --> 01:20:32.640 of soil mix to fill in the areas. You don't 1461 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:36.479 have to shovel and pickaxe down. You just spread it 1462 01:20:36.520 --> 01:20:38.600 around to kind of level it out a little bit. 1463 01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:42.800 And I wouldn't do more than about maybe an inch 1464 01:20:42.960 --> 01:20:46.239 or so in each area. I mean, you could do 1465 01:20:46.279 --> 01:20:47.960 it deeper. You could do two or three inches if 1466 01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:49.960 you need to, but the grass is going to then 1467 01:20:50.039 --> 01:20:52.319 have to come back in it. Is this a Saint 1468 01:20:52.319 --> 01:20:55.279 Augustine lawn? 1469 01:20:55.439 --> 01:20:57.680 You know, I'm not quite sure. I'm wanting to say 1470 01:20:57.720 --> 01:20:59.680 crab grass. It's that one that grows and then it 1471 01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:01.520 puts potensils out all over the place. 1472 01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:07.279 Okay, probably you're dealing with Saint Augustine. So basically I 1473 01:21:07.279 --> 01:21:10.720 would I would, Yeah, I would. I would spread some 1474 01:21:10.800 --> 01:21:16.000 of that out there. Is the folks that heirloom soils 1475 01:21:16.199 --> 01:21:20.560 have a product called a lawn mix, and you can 1476 01:21:20.600 --> 01:21:24.720 buy they can deliver what's called a supersack. It's a 1477 01:21:24.720 --> 01:21:28.359 cubic yard sack of it to your driveway. It's about 1478 01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:31.000 seventy four bucks per yard, and then that priced me 1479 01:21:31.039 --> 01:21:32.960 a change. That's what it was last time I checked it. 1480 01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:33.479 Right on it. 1481 01:21:34.279 --> 01:21:36.159 Or you can go out to porter and get it. 1482 01:21:36.199 --> 01:21:38.119 I don't know where are you going from, but anyway 1483 01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:40.199 porter you can go get it. If you've got to 1484 01:21:40.199 --> 01:21:43.239 pick a trailer or something, but anyway you bring it in. 1485 01:21:43.439 --> 01:21:45.079 And then you would just put it in a wheelbarrow 1486 01:21:45.119 --> 01:21:46.880 and go around your lawn and just spread it out 1487 01:21:47.000 --> 01:21:48.800 and try to smooth it out a little bit. You're 1488 01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:52.560 not going to get it the first time. Yeah, just 1489 01:21:52.600 --> 01:21:55.079 sprinkle it over and you may have some areas that 1490 01:21:55.199 --> 01:21:56.880 you don't see anything but dirt because you had to 1491 01:21:56.920 --> 01:21:59.359 put quite a bit out. Or you could gradually add 1492 01:21:59.399 --> 01:22:02.560 it over time, small amounts to bring it up. But 1493 01:22:02.640 --> 01:22:04.479 either way you go about it. If you can get 1494 01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:07.960 that lawn in good growing shape, it'll cover over quickly 1495 01:22:08.760 --> 01:22:12.279 once we get the warm weather. Then then go online 1496 01:22:12.319 --> 01:22:16.119 to my website gardening with Skip dot com and there 1497 01:22:16.239 --> 01:22:19.880 is a free lawn care schedule and it tells you 1498 01:22:20.359 --> 01:22:23.199 when to fertilize and what do you use the options 1499 01:22:23.199 --> 01:22:23.640 that you have. 1500 01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:27.399 Because right now I figure with the weather it's probably 1501 01:22:27.479 --> 01:22:30.039 not the best time to do any gardening, but the 1502 01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:32.159 time will be here upon us pretty quick. 1503 01:22:33.560 --> 01:22:37.960 Yeah, so that the lawn mix is good, it's actually 1504 01:22:39.359 --> 01:22:42.079 it's got mason sand and compost and some of the 1505 01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:44.079 bed mix in there that you can use. You could 1506 01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:47.159 also get out just with a sandy loam type material 1507 01:22:47.199 --> 01:22:50.560 if you can find it, uh, and use that either 1508 01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:52.399 way you want to go. It's just a top dressing 1509 01:22:52.399 --> 01:22:55.000 you're putting over those areas. But we don't just use 1510 01:22:55.039 --> 01:22:59.359 straight compost because that is going to decompose a way 1511 01:22:59.399 --> 01:23:01.960 over time. So what it may look like the holes 1512 01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:05.039 are filled and then two years from now their holes 1513 01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:08.720 again because they've sunk them back. So you need some 1514 01:23:08.840 --> 01:23:11.520 kind of a you need some kind of a sand 1515 01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:15.760 or sandy loam kind of material in there to fill 1516 01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:20.960 those areas. So all right, that's that's what I would. 1517 01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:28.039 Do, just as a general sense on clay soil. Would 1518 01:23:28.079 --> 01:23:30.119 you think bermuda grass would be okay for most parts 1519 01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:30.600 of Houston? 1520 01:23:32.760 --> 01:23:35.560 It is. Every grass has its pros and cons. The 1521 01:23:35.600 --> 01:23:39.479 pros of bermuda is it's very wear and tear resistant. 1522 01:23:39.520 --> 01:23:41.720 That's why they use it on football fields and baseball 1523 01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:45.159 fields here in this area. He even pound it to 1524 01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:48.079 death and it comes right back. A golf courses are 1525 01:23:47.680 --> 01:23:52.800 almost all bermuda. Then the negatives of it are it 1526 01:23:52.840 --> 01:23:56.600 invades all your flower beds and you're dealing with it 1527 01:23:56.600 --> 01:23:58.720 in flower beds, and if you got little kids like 1528 01:23:58.760 --> 01:24:01.720 can roll around in the grass. If you've ever experienced 1529 01:24:01.760 --> 01:24:04.199 siggers before, you come inside and it's like you're itching 1530 01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:06.479 all over because there's a little tiny things are chewing 1531 01:24:06.520 --> 01:24:10.439 on you. Bermudas sugars really well, so that's kind of 1532 01:24:10.439 --> 01:24:13.680 one of the negatives of it. One final thing about 1533 01:24:13.720 --> 01:24:15.760 bermuda is the more often you know it, the better 1534 01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:19.520 it looks. So if you can't mow often, Saint Augustine 1535 01:24:19.640 --> 01:24:22.000 is a better choice because it's more forgiving of an 1536 01:24:22.039 --> 01:24:24.039 irregular mowing schedule than bermuda. 1537 01:24:24.119 --> 01:24:31.600 Is Okay, good stuff, all right, all right, well, thank 1538 01:24:31.640 --> 01:24:33.680 you so much for the help this morning. I'm gonna 1539 01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:37.920 look to find me the loam. The loan filler. 1540 01:24:41.079 --> 01:24:45.319 Yes, well, it's actually if you do the heirloom soils 1541 01:24:45.359 --> 01:24:49.319 product that's sand based, it's got some of the bedms 1542 01:24:49.319 --> 01:24:52.479 and things in it. But if you're just looking for 1543 01:24:52.600 --> 01:24:56.039 sandy loam. You may just have to look around for 1544 01:24:56.159 --> 01:24:58.279 some place to sell soil and get some of that. 1545 01:24:58.439 --> 01:25:00.880 Just be careful because a lot of you bring weeds 1546 01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:04.239 in with that because they just go out and scoops 1547 01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:09.000 scoop soil out of someplace and load it up. That varies. 1548 01:25:09.039 --> 01:25:11.159 But if you have weeging, deal with them and there's 1549 01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:12.279 a way to deal with that too. 1550 01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:16.399 Cool. All right, Well, thank you so much for your home. 1551 01:25:16.680 --> 01:25:17.399 I appreciate it. 1552 01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:20.279 All right, man, thanks a lot. Take care. We're going 1553 01:25:20.359 --> 01:25:23.560 to go down to League City and talk to Rick. Hello. Rick, 1554 01:25:23.680 --> 01:25:24.560 welcome to guarden Line. 1555 01:25:26.279 --> 01:25:31.840 Hey, thank you very much. I've got a couple of questions. 1556 01:25:32.439 --> 01:25:35.199 I've been living in the south for since two thousand. 1557 01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:38.800 Got two great big oak trees in the front. I've 1558 01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:40.920 had him trimmed back to try to get more sunlight 1559 01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:45.119 down to the grass. And even with that being done, 1560 01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:51.039 it's very very patchy. And I hear you talk about 1561 01:25:51.119 --> 01:25:54.439 all right, put the brown down before the green, right. 1562 01:25:55.920 --> 01:25:57.880 Take care of the soil before you plant the plants. 1563 01:25:57.920 --> 01:26:05.399 Yeah, I've tried your uh, your your schedule once or 1564 01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:07.960 plus I just got retired so I can work on it. 1565 01:26:08.000 --> 01:26:10.279 Now because I spent a lot of time working out 1566 01:26:10.279 --> 01:26:10.640 of town. 1567 01:26:12.079 --> 01:26:12.319 M H. 1568 01:26:13.079 --> 01:26:15.079 Where can I stand by soul be tested? 1569 01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:20.840 All right? Uh, the fasting I got about twenty seconds 1570 01:26:20.880 --> 01:26:22.960 before break and then we'll pick you up after break. 1571 01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:25.399 But the fast answer is you go to a website. 1572 01:26:25.479 --> 01:26:32.720 It's Soil Testing dot t A m U dot edu. 1573 01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:35.279 If you go to my website, there's a link to 1574 01:26:35.319 --> 01:26:39.079 it on there. There's an article on soil testing and 1575 01:26:39.119 --> 01:26:41.319 that'll tell you more. Just hang on them. We'll put 1576 01:26:41.359 --> 01:26:42.920 you on hold. We're going to go to break and 1577 01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:45.039 I will be right back to continue with your question. 1578 01:26:48.560 --> 01:26:51.239 All right, folks, welcome back. Good to have you. We're 1579 01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:56.279 going to continue our conversation with Rick out in League City. So, Rick, 1580 01:26:56.319 --> 01:26:58.800 we're talking about turning that yard around and getting more 1581 01:26:58.800 --> 01:27:00.560 out of it. And I think you've done pruning on 1582 01:27:00.600 --> 01:27:03.600 your trees and still not quite seeing the results. Is that? 1583 01:27:03.800 --> 01:27:05.399 Am I right? Is that what you said? 1584 01:27:06.199 --> 01:27:06.359 Yes? 1585 01:27:06.439 --> 01:27:06.640 Sure? 1586 01:27:08.159 --> 01:27:12.680 Okay. First of all, you know I'm not there standing 1587 01:27:12.720 --> 01:27:15.239 in your yard on a sunny day looking around. But 1588 01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:18.720 make sure you're getting at least six hours of sun 1589 01:27:18.760 --> 01:27:21.800 if you can. If it's less than that, you can 1590 01:27:21.840 --> 01:27:25.720 grow grass, but it is weaker and it's harder to 1591 01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:30.319 get it dense, and it's less tolerant of foot traffic 1592 01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:32.720 and things like that, So do what you can to 1593 01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:34.680 get the light as good as you can, and then 1594 01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:37.199 I would just go to you mentioned my schedule. It's 1595 01:27:37.239 --> 01:27:41.960 on my website Gardening with Skip dot com. That's also 1596 01:27:42.039 --> 01:27:44.880 where there's the free publication. It's just a very short 1597 01:27:44.920 --> 01:27:47.239 one telling you about soil sampling, how to do it 1598 01:27:47.279 --> 01:27:50.159 and where to send it and all of that. But 1599 01:27:50.279 --> 01:27:53.279 on that lun care schedule it tells you exactly when 1600 01:27:53.319 --> 01:27:54.960 to apply it and then it gives you a list 1601 01:27:55.000 --> 01:27:57.960 of options organic and synthetic that you can put down 1602 01:27:58.000 --> 01:28:01.239 and if you'll follow that. Also on the schedule it 1603 01:28:01.239 --> 01:28:03.520 talks about mowing. Believe it or not, mowing is one 1604 01:28:03.560 --> 01:28:05.520 of the single most important things you do to have 1605 01:28:05.560 --> 01:28:09.520 a nice dense lawn. Mowing on a regular schedule creates 1606 01:28:09.720 --> 01:28:14.359 good density. Mowing on an irregular schedule stresses the grass 1607 01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:19.920 and it works against good density. And then watering is 1608 01:28:19.960 --> 01:28:22.399 on there too, mow, water, fertilize. Those are the three 1609 01:28:22.960 --> 01:28:25.720 air rating. If you go out in the in the 1610 01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:30.119 soil and it's very dense clay that when it's dry 1611 01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:32.039 it's very very hard. You know, if you had a 1612 01:28:32.039 --> 01:28:33.920 spading for it, you pushed it down, it wouldn't eyveone 1613 01:28:34.000 --> 01:28:36.520 go in the ground. Then air rating is going to 1614 01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:40.760 be very important to have that done. But some people 1615 01:28:40.800 --> 01:28:44.840 will do compost top dressing also, and when they're trying 1616 01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:49.079 to rejuvenate a yard. You can hire this done if 1617 01:28:49.079 --> 01:28:51.520 you got the time and the inclination. You can do 1618 01:28:51.600 --> 01:28:53.119 it as you do it yourself, or it's a lot 1619 01:28:53.119 --> 01:28:55.640 of messy work, but you can do it, or you 1620 01:28:55.640 --> 01:28:57.039 can just hire somebody to come out and do it. 1621 01:28:57.079 --> 01:29:00.880 But air rating opens up that tight so oil and 1622 01:29:00.920 --> 01:29:04.039 it gets oxygen down in the roots and composts then 1623 01:29:04.159 --> 01:29:06.880 falls down in there as you top dress with compost, 1624 01:29:06.960 --> 01:29:09.760 and by top dressing I just mean spreading it very 1625 01:29:09.800 --> 01:29:11.760 thin and raking it around evenly. 1626 01:29:14.119 --> 01:29:17.399 Okay, how deep would you to get started on it? 1627 01:29:17.479 --> 01:29:20.920 How deep do you go with air rating inch to itch? 1628 01:29:21.319 --> 01:29:26.880 Well, well, if you deeper as deep as you can realistically, 1629 01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:30.960 if the soil is moderately moist and an errating machine 1630 01:29:31.039 --> 01:29:33.640 can get down there. If you hire somebody, they have 1631 01:29:33.720 --> 01:29:36.640 machines that do a better job, but they'll get down 1632 01:29:36.680 --> 01:29:40.479 about two or three inches on the air rating possibly 1633 01:29:40.520 --> 01:29:44.520 a little further, but not much. There are do it 1634 01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:46.560 yourself for tools where you can go out and it 1635 01:29:46.600 --> 01:29:48.840 takes a long time because you're basically walking around punching 1636 01:29:48.840 --> 01:29:51.119 holes in the ground, which if you've got a big 1637 01:29:51.159 --> 01:29:55.479 area that is not practical to do. There are if 1638 01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:59.039 you do rent an errator, get one that is called 1639 01:29:59.079 --> 01:30:03.039 a core. So there's two kinds of aer rators. One 1640 01:30:03.600 --> 01:30:07.920 just think of it as a rolling spike cylinder that 1641 01:30:08.119 --> 01:30:10.720 pushes holes into the ground, just like you took a 1642 01:30:10.840 --> 01:30:13.840 spading fork and pushed it in the ground. It squeezes 1643 01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:16.479 the hole open and compacts the sides of the hole 1644 01:30:16.520 --> 01:30:20.039 in the process. A core aerator is a hollow tube 1645 01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:22.359 that goes down and pops a plug out of the 1646 01:30:22.359 --> 01:30:25.000 ground and leaves it on the surface. So when you 1647 01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:27.239 get through core aerrating, it looks like they had a 1648 01:30:27.279 --> 01:30:29.439 small dog convention on your yard, if you know what 1649 01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:33.159 I'm talking about, All these little droppings everywhere, right, that's 1650 01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:36.359 the better way to aerrate as a core aerator, and 1651 01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:41.840 getting your lawn soil not soggy, wet, but moist is 1652 01:30:42.039 --> 01:30:46.239 important in order to have a better effect of core aerating. Also, 1653 01:30:46.279 --> 01:30:48.520 if you have an automatic system. Make sure and get 1654 01:30:48.520 --> 01:30:51.640 those little wire flags and turn it on the system 1655 01:30:51.640 --> 01:30:54.920 and flag every sprinkler head or else you'll get to 1656 01:30:54.920 --> 01:30:59.000 play a sprinkler repair after you air rate by damaging 1657 01:30:59.000 --> 01:31:00.560 those heads. 1658 01:31:01.560 --> 01:31:04.760 Okay, what about the tree roots? Does my trees are 1659 01:31:04.840 --> 01:31:10.239 very well established, they're over twenty years old. Do you 1660 01:31:10.279 --> 01:31:12.119 work around that or do I gotta. 1661 01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:17.279 Yeah, it'll well, it'll be it'll hit them. Yeah, it'll 1662 01:31:17.359 --> 01:31:19.960 hit them and either cut through them at their tiny 1663 01:31:20.159 --> 01:31:23.720 or or bounce off of them. Basically not not puncture there. 1664 01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:28.840 If you're getting really close to a tree, you're probably 1665 01:31:29.319 --> 01:31:31.119 not air rating in an area you don't need to 1666 01:31:31.159 --> 01:31:35.960 be going anyway. So I would just do that accordingly. 1667 01:31:36.399 --> 01:31:41.800 But in general, these are all practices. It's not like 1668 01:31:41.920 --> 01:31:45.880 everyone has to be done, but everyone helps. Watering properly helps, 1669 01:31:45.920 --> 01:31:50.760 mowing regularly helps. Fertilizing on a regular basis to get 1670 01:31:50.800 --> 01:31:53.199 the nutrient content like you want it with the right 1671 01:31:53.279 --> 01:31:57.279 kinds of fertilizer. That's important. Air Rating would be another 1672 01:31:57.359 --> 01:32:00.039 factor in a compacted soil, And if you had a 1673 01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:02.600 big sandy soil out there, air rating isn't gonna help much. 1674 01:32:03.359 --> 01:32:06.159 But if you if you've got some compaction and tight 1675 01:32:06.239 --> 01:32:08.920 clay type things. Air Rating is very helpful, and then 1676 01:32:09.000 --> 01:32:11.479 compost top dressing is the last one, and that just 1677 01:32:11.520 --> 01:32:15.079 puts composted organic matter around the runners of the plant, 1678 01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:17.560 because you're only putting about a about a half inch 1679 01:32:17.600 --> 01:32:20.279 of compost out maybe a third of an in, I mean, 1680 01:32:20.439 --> 01:32:23.159 not much at all, and then it falls down in 1681 01:32:23.199 --> 01:32:26.079 those aerration holes. You won't do that after you airrate, 1682 01:32:26.720 --> 01:32:30.319 and that again you're you're creating a root system that thrives, 1683 01:32:30.319 --> 01:32:31.640 and therefore your lawn thrives. 1684 01:32:33.920 --> 01:32:38.399 Okay, So all right, short term, short term is okay. 1685 01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:44.039 Air rate at the top dressing on didn't fertilize would 1686 01:32:44.039 --> 01:32:44.399 be bad. 1687 01:32:46.159 --> 01:32:48.399 Actually, I'm going to change that because of where we 1688 01:32:48.479 --> 01:32:52.119 are in the season. I would say you're going to 1689 01:32:52.159 --> 01:32:55.640 start fertilizing your lawn when it's grown enough to mow it. 1690 01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:58.199 A couple of times. You can fertilize a little earlier 1691 01:32:58.239 --> 01:33:00.399 for green up, but as far as just you know, 1692 01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.920 really taking getting the most out of your fertilizer, by 1693 01:33:03.960 --> 01:33:06.600 the time you've mowed the lawn twice so done in 1694 01:33:06.680 --> 01:33:09.680 League City, you know that's probably going to be early 1695 01:33:09.760 --> 01:33:13.520 April that you're fertilizing, maybe even late March, you're putting 1696 01:33:13.520 --> 01:33:20.359 the first fertilizer down, and then once we get into 1697 01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:24.720 some time in April, the lawn is growing enough where 1698 01:33:24.720 --> 01:33:27.479 you can do the core aeration. We try not to 1699 01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:31.159 air rate while the lawn is dormant. It can be done, 1700 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:33.800 but it's a little better if you let the lawn 1701 01:33:33.840 --> 01:33:37.720 get growing because air rating can be somewhat damaging to turf. 1702 01:33:37.760 --> 01:33:41.119 You know, those times are going to hit turf runners 1703 01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:44.159 and things. There's going to be some amount of damage 1704 01:33:44.159 --> 01:33:48.560 that occurs, which during a good growing period time is 1705 01:33:48.600 --> 01:33:51.479 not a factor to worry about. So that we try 1706 01:33:51.520 --> 01:33:53.640 to let the grass get growing good before we start 1707 01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:54.239 the aer rating. 1708 01:33:56.000 --> 01:33:58.039 Okay, I appreciate this. 1709 01:33:59.520 --> 01:34:01.479 That's everything you need to know except somebody to come 1710 01:34:01.479 --> 01:34:05.199 out there and help you do it. Have fun taking 1711 01:34:05.199 --> 01:34:09.000 care of that rick. Thank you. All right, don't forget 1712 01:34:09.039 --> 01:34:15.960 to go sold testing dot soeld testing dot tamo, dot 1713 01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:18.159 ed you. But just go to gardening with skip dot com. 1714 01:34:18.159 --> 01:34:20.000 It's up there, plus a lot of other things you 1715 01:34:20.079 --> 01:34:23.079 might have an interest in, uh, but it'll link you direct. 1716 01:34:23.079 --> 01:34:25.359 It'll also tell you which test on the website, tells 1717 01:34:25.399 --> 01:34:28.840 you which tests to use, and all that kind of stuff. 1718 01:34:28.840 --> 01:34:31.199 That's important. So thanks for the call man. Good luck 1719 01:34:31.239 --> 01:34:33.479 down there in League City getting that long back in shape. 1720 01:34:36.239 --> 01:34:38.239 All right, you're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, 1721 01:34:38.279 --> 01:34:41.399 Skip Richter, and the phone number here seven one three 1722 01:34:42.039 --> 01:34:46.239 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 1723 01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:51.680 two one two five eight seven four. Uh Nelson's has 1724 01:34:51.720 --> 01:34:55.600 several fertilizer lines that are really excellent for plants. They've 1725 01:34:55.640 --> 01:34:58.359 got their Color Star line, which is probably their most 1726 01:34:58.359 --> 01:35:02.880 famous of all, been around forty years, the Color Star 1727 01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:05.880 for anything with color. I mean, that makes it real easy. 1728 01:35:05.960 --> 01:35:08.039 They've got their Turf Star line, and we're going to 1729 01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:10.159 start talking about that a lot as we get into 1730 01:35:10.239 --> 01:35:13.159 turf fertilizing season here. But they have a number of 1731 01:35:13.159 --> 01:35:15.359 different products in Turf Star. Then they have a nutri 1732 01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:18.119 Star line. That's not the only lines they have, but 1733 01:35:18.159 --> 01:35:22.680 that's the next one. Nutristar has a number of different products, 1734 01:35:22.840 --> 01:35:26.439 typically designed for specific plants, you know, like for hibiscus 1735 01:35:26.520 --> 01:35:29.680 or for plumeria or something like that. But there's one 1736 01:35:29.720 --> 01:35:32.520 I want to tell it and that's Nutristar Genesis, and 1737 01:35:32.560 --> 01:35:36.960 it's a transplant mix. Now it's got six percent nitrogen, 1738 01:35:37.000 --> 01:35:41.680 one percent phosphate, and three percent potassium in it. But 1739 01:35:42.039 --> 01:35:45.159 it also has in it a lot of other good things. 1740 01:35:45.239 --> 01:35:50.399 It's got two different categories of microhizal fungi that associate 1741 01:35:50.439 --> 01:35:53.319 with the roots and make the plants better. It's got 1742 01:35:53.399 --> 01:35:56.399 bacteria that are beneficial. It's got other fungi that help 1743 01:35:56.479 --> 01:35:59.720 benefit that soul microbiome. It has humates in it. It's 1744 01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:02.479 designed to be mixed into the soil and a lot 1745 01:36:02.479 --> 01:36:04.880 of fertilizer. You should throw them on the top, water 1746 01:36:04.920 --> 01:36:06.920 them in, or scratch them in with a rake or whatever. 1747 01:36:07.319 --> 01:36:11.479 This one. When you're gonna transplant something, you dig a hole, 1748 01:36:11.680 --> 01:36:13.760 you put the plant in it, and as you refill it, 1749 01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:17.600 mix some of the nutristar genesis into the soil that 1750 01:36:17.680 --> 01:36:21.319 goes in around that plant. If you're gonna bump up plants, 1751 01:36:21.359 --> 01:36:23.600 maybe you're growing a little six pack of tomatoes. You're 1752 01:36:23.600 --> 01:36:26.000 gonna bump them up to a four inch pots each one. 1753 01:36:26.880 --> 01:36:30.600 That soil you use the potting mix, you use mix 1754 01:36:30.720 --> 01:36:34.239 nutristar genesis in that. Think of it as a transplant mix, 1755 01:36:34.279 --> 01:36:38.039 because that's what is designed for. And you will see 1756 01:36:38.199 --> 01:36:41.520 amazing early growth and response to that. After you do 1757 01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:43.760 the transplanting. After you do the planting out in the 1758 01:36:43.840 --> 01:36:46.840 yard whatever. You're gonna see fast growth as a result. 1759 01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:49.920 That's just how it works. Then afterwards you can use 1760 01:36:49.960 --> 01:36:53.239 other fertilizers, you know, like their color Star, their nature Star, 1761 01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:55.920 their nutri Star. You can use those on the surface later, 1762 01:36:56.079 --> 01:36:58.119 just like you do all the time when you fertilize. 1763 01:36:58.239 --> 01:37:00.159 But get hold. Some of that comes in low cans, 1764 01:37:01.119 --> 01:37:04.439 really easy to use and it works really really well. 1765 01:37:04.520 --> 01:37:12.079 That's Nutristar Genesis transplant Mix from the folks at Nelson. Okay, 1766 01:37:12.199 --> 01:37:15.199 I talking about there was something I was going to 1767 01:37:15.279 --> 01:37:17.119 tell you. Oh, I know what it was. I said 1768 01:37:17.119 --> 01:37:20.279 that I would talk about plants that are fragrant. There 1769 01:37:20.279 --> 01:37:23.600 are a lot of plants that are wonderfully fragrant, and 1770 01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:26.560 why not make that the thing you do this year 1771 01:37:26.640 --> 01:37:29.239 that's new or that's different. Maybe you got one fragrant 1772 01:37:29.239 --> 01:37:31.840 plant and you want to have more. How about that. 1773 01:37:31.920 --> 01:37:35.880 The nose knows what a good landscape smells like, and 1774 01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:38.239 a good landscape would have things. And here's a few 1775 01:37:39.039 --> 01:37:41.880 almond verbina. Oh my gosh, that makes a big old bush. 1776 01:37:42.039 --> 01:37:44.920 It's got white, spiky blooms that are pretty pretty, but 1777 01:37:45.039 --> 01:37:47.199 nothing to write home about. I mean, they're cool, but 1778 01:37:47.359 --> 01:37:50.359 oh my gosh, the fragrance. The vanilla fragrance is like, 1779 01:37:50.520 --> 01:37:53.439 you know, you stuck a bottle of vanilla extract under 1780 01:37:53.439 --> 01:37:56.199 your nose and it just has that wonderful fragrance. Texas 1781 01:37:56.239 --> 01:38:03.279 Mountain barrel grape clusters. Grape cluster looking bloom clusters that 1782 01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:07.960 are they smell like grape bubblegum, the strong grape smell. 1783 01:38:08.399 --> 01:38:11.520 Chinese fringe one of my favorite small to medium sized trees. 1784 01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:15.039 Chinese fringe has a pleasant little fragrance. It's a spring 1785 01:38:15.079 --> 01:38:22.399 bloomer confederate jasmine. Oh gosh, that vine is intoxicating. Here's 1786 01:38:22.439 --> 01:38:28.039 another one, white butterfly ginger. It's but probably one of 1787 01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:31.039 the most easy gingers to grow, easiest gingers to grow, 1788 01:38:31.520 --> 01:38:33.720 big old tall stalks. It puts up with more sun 1789 01:38:33.760 --> 01:38:36.840 than a lot of gingers do, and it blooms typically 1790 01:38:36.920 --> 01:38:38.119 at the end of the year. Remember were going to 1791 01:38:38.119 --> 01:38:40.439 spread these things out ballooms of the India. It's a 1792 01:38:40.479 --> 01:38:45.479 wonderful one. You want fragrant foliage, Mexican marigolds smells like 1793 01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:49.439 black jelly beans, copper canyon daisies, citrus and pine smelling, 1794 01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:54.319 and then all kinds of different herbs rosemary smells good. Okay, 1795 01:38:54.640 --> 01:38:56.880 there's a start. Go out there and have fun. Plant 1796 01:38:56.880 --> 01:38:58.279 some of those. I'll be right back. 1797 01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:00.479 Back. 1798 01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:04.520 Hey, thanks for listening into garden Line today. I hope 1799 01:39:04.600 --> 01:39:08.439 you are enjoying it. I'm certainly having fun. We are 1800 01:39:08.479 --> 01:39:10.640 talking about all kinds of different tips and things. Just 1801 01:39:10.640 --> 01:39:13.119 got through telling you a whole bunch of plants. Squeeze 1802 01:39:13.159 --> 01:39:15.640 those in right at the end of the last hour 1803 01:39:15.880 --> 01:39:19.960 or last segment that are fragrant that you can plant. 1804 01:39:20.279 --> 01:39:24.880 I'm just continuing to basically the theme I started yesterday, 1805 01:39:24.920 --> 01:39:27.960 I guess, and that is what are you going to 1806 01:39:28.000 --> 01:39:29.840 do different this year? What are you gonna do new 1807 01:39:29.920 --> 01:39:31.520 this year? What are you going to try that you've 1808 01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:35.119 never tried? And looking at gardening is way more than 1809 01:39:35.279 --> 01:39:38.560 just the standard picture people get when they picture a 1810 01:39:38.640 --> 01:39:42.000 landscape or they picture a garden or a lawn. Try 1811 01:39:42.079 --> 01:39:45.680 some new things, Try some things you haven't grown, and anyway, 1812 01:39:46.239 --> 01:39:49.039 I hope you will do that. Hopefully you will, because 1813 01:39:49.079 --> 01:39:50.520 it is a lot of fun. You're missing out on 1814 01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:52.720 a lot when you don't try a few new things. 1815 01:39:53.479 --> 01:39:59.680 Who knows, maybe it'll become your favorite thing. I can 1816 01:39:59.760 --> 01:40:01.840 kind of get boring when it comes to food. You know, 1817 01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:04.399 I basically if I'm going to go out to eat, 1818 01:40:04.520 --> 01:40:13.439 it's like, uh, inchiladas, what else? Chicken? Enchiladas? It's I'm 1819 01:40:13.560 --> 01:40:15.640 kind of a one trick pony when it comes to 1820 01:40:15.920 --> 01:40:18.640 gunna dat. But you got to try new things. And 1821 01:40:19.399 --> 01:40:22.399 my kids they come back and give me all these 1822 01:40:22.479 --> 01:40:25.680 strange things. In fact, my wife made a thing It's 1823 01:40:25.720 --> 01:40:28.479 a Greek called Greek bowls, and I don't know what 1824 01:40:28.600 --> 01:40:30.520 all was in it. It was good, it was good. 1825 01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:33.560 It had keen wah, which I used to not know 1826 01:40:33.600 --> 01:40:35.640 how to say and what it was, and now I do. 1827 01:40:35.920 --> 01:40:38.680 It was actually pretty good Greek balls, real healthy stuff 1828 01:40:38.720 --> 01:40:41.039 like that. See, I would never discover that on myself. 1829 01:40:41.079 --> 01:40:42.520 It would just be like, what do you want to 1830 01:40:42.520 --> 01:40:47.640 eat chiladas? I need a shirt that says something like that. 1831 01:40:47.680 --> 01:40:51.199 Maybe we'll try that. One of the main food groups 1832 01:40:51.239 --> 01:40:54.000 is enchiladas. All right, Well, if you like to give 1833 01:40:54.039 --> 01:40:56.359 us a call and talk gardening seven one three two 1834 01:40:56.399 --> 01:41:00.359 one two kt r H seven one three two into 1835 01:41:00.640 --> 01:41:03.720 kt r AH, we'll talk about the things that you 1836 01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:07.000 are interested in. If you have not had your soil testing. 1837 01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:12.520 We were just visiting with Rick and Michael talking about 1838 01:41:12.560 --> 01:41:14.920 getting your lawn in good shape, and you know, having 1839 01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:18.439 success with those kinds of things. It is important if 1840 01:41:18.479 --> 01:41:20.960 you're going to do that, to make sure that you 1841 01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:25.319 know what your soil nutrients are before you're fertilized. Now 1842 01:41:25.399 --> 01:41:27.439 Here on guard Line, I talk all the time about 1843 01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:30.920 use this fertilizer, use that fertilizer, and those are good 1844 01:41:31.279 --> 01:41:35.119 general blends. For most people, that's going to be just fine. 1845 01:41:35.520 --> 01:41:39.560 But if you really want to drill down, really get 1846 01:41:39.600 --> 01:41:42.319 into it and go to the bottom of all this. 1847 01:41:43.439 --> 01:41:46.880 Having a soil test tells you what you need to 1848 01:41:46.960 --> 01:41:52.039 fertilize with. So for example, there's your yard in your 1849 01:41:52.039 --> 01:41:55.840 neighbor's yard, and we're both we're gonna put the same 1850 01:41:55.840 --> 01:42:00.399 fertilizer on both yards. But what if your neighbor had 1851 01:42:00.439 --> 01:42:04.279 a phosphorus content that was through the roof. Therefore they're 1852 01:42:04.279 --> 01:42:07.600 getting a lot of iron, iron, chleurosis, and some other 1853 01:42:07.640 --> 01:42:10.800 issues caused by too much phosphorus. What if your yard 1854 01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.439 had almost no potassium in it in your soil, well, 1855 01:42:15.479 --> 01:42:18.199 would you use the same fertilizer. Well, no, A soil 1856 01:42:18.279 --> 01:42:21.079 test would tell you, yeah, I get your standard fertilizer, 1857 01:42:21.159 --> 01:42:25.319 but you need to supplement with this or you see 1858 01:42:25.319 --> 01:42:27.760 what I'm saying. In other words, you would guide your 1859 01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:30.760 fertilizing based on your soil test. Now that doesn't mean 1860 01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:33.239 in every place you garden every year you're doing a 1861 01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:36.359 soil test, not at all, even on the lawn. Once 1862 01:42:36.439 --> 01:42:40.760 every three years or so is probably enough. I haven't 1863 01:42:40.760 --> 01:42:42.680 sold tested my garden in a good while because I 1864 01:42:42.840 --> 01:42:46.199 just keep adding composted organic matter, and every time I 1865 01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:48.560 test it, all the levels are good. They're all high 1866 01:42:48.600 --> 01:42:51.680 because I just add a little bit of nitrogen, especially 1867 01:42:51.680 --> 01:42:54.920 for things like corn that need extra nitrogen. But soil 1868 01:42:55.039 --> 01:42:57.880 testing is the simplest way to find out where you are. 1869 01:42:58.239 --> 01:43:01.760 It's like the starting point. At least do a soil 1870 01:43:01.840 --> 01:43:05.000 test once to find out where you are, and if 1871 01:43:05.039 --> 01:43:08.960 you're way off, then plan on making the amendments you 1872 01:43:09.039 --> 01:43:11.119 need and coming back in a year or two and 1873 01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:13.720 checking it again and seeing where you are, if you've 1874 01:43:13.720 --> 01:43:16.279 fixed it, if you've improved it, or if you need 1875 01:43:16.319 --> 01:43:19.319 to do some more additions. If you go to my 1876 01:43:19.359 --> 01:43:23.119 website gardeningoskip dot com, there is a bar across it 1877 01:43:23.199 --> 01:43:27.640 that says all publications. The new publications are on the 1878 01:43:27.640 --> 01:43:30.079 front page, but there's a lot more publication. If you 1879 01:43:30.119 --> 01:43:33.680 go to all publications, you'll see one called Soil Testing 1880 01:43:33.720 --> 01:43:36.399 made Simple, and it just gives you the basics of 1881 01:43:36.439 --> 01:43:38.279 how to take a soil test and where to send 1882 01:43:38.319 --> 01:43:42.359 it and stuff. And you want your soil test, this 1883 01:43:42.479 --> 01:43:47.800 is important to be representative of the soil in the 1884 01:43:47.880 --> 01:43:50.800 area where you're growing that particular kind of plant, whether 1885 01:43:50.840 --> 01:43:53.760 it's a lawn or a tomato patch. And so that 1886 01:43:53.800 --> 01:43:56.039 doesn't mean you got in your lawn and you just 1887 01:43:56.079 --> 01:43:58.199 scoop some soil off the surface, throw it in a 1888 01:43:58.239 --> 01:44:00.640 bag and send it to the lab. The lab will 1889 01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:03.199 tell you what's in the soil you put in that bag. 1890 01:44:03.279 --> 01:44:07.800 But the soil in that bag is not accurately representing 1891 01:44:08.159 --> 01:44:11.399 the soil in your yard. You know, if the neighbors 1892 01:44:11.399 --> 01:44:13.439 stop buy and let their dog go to the bathroom 1893 01:44:13.479 --> 01:44:17.359 in your yard in that spot last fall, I suspect 1894 01:44:17.399 --> 01:44:19.720 the nutrient levels will be a little different there than 1895 01:44:19.760 --> 01:44:22.520 they are in general through your yard. So by taking 1896 01:44:22.560 --> 01:44:25.800 a variety of samples and putting them in a bucket 1897 01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:28.399 and mixing them up, then you can take a composite 1898 01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:31.039 out of there and now you've got on average, this 1899 01:44:31.079 --> 01:44:35.439 is what my lawn is like. And then you fertilize accordingly. Secondly, 1900 01:44:35.680 --> 01:44:38.680 it's important when you do a soil test in an 1901 01:44:38.720 --> 01:44:42.399 area that's not rototilled, it's not mixed up or spaded 1902 01:44:42.479 --> 01:44:47.319 a lot to do a core that's vertical of soil 1903 01:44:47.640 --> 01:44:52.239 in your sample. Phosphorus. When you put phosphorus on the ground, 1904 01:44:52.600 --> 01:44:54.760 you're putting your fertilizer spruder and going back and forth 1905 01:44:54.800 --> 01:44:57.800 over your lawn every time you put some phosphorus out 1906 01:44:57.840 --> 01:45:01.560 typically and when you do, basically goes down to the 1907 01:45:01.600 --> 01:45:04.199 surface and doesn't go very deep at all. An inch 1908 01:45:04.439 --> 01:45:06.800 maybe two is about how far phosphorus is going to 1909 01:45:06.880 --> 01:45:10.199 naturally move down. It ties up. So if you scooped 1910 01:45:10.359 --> 01:45:13.520 the top inch or two out of your lawn and 1911 01:45:13.560 --> 01:45:17.119 that was your sample, the phosphorus would be higher than 1912 01:45:17.119 --> 01:45:20.159 it really is in the plant's root zone. If you 1913 01:45:20.239 --> 01:45:22.600 dug a hole and took soil out of the bottom 1914 01:45:22.680 --> 01:45:26.039 of the hole, the phosphorus would be lower. It would 1915 01:45:26.039 --> 01:45:28.840 not be representative. You want a vertical core of soil 1916 01:45:28.880 --> 01:45:33.520 from top to bottom and just follow those simple guidelines. 1917 01:45:33.920 --> 01:45:37.399 Go to Soil Testing dot tmu U and it'll tell 1918 01:45:37.439 --> 01:45:40.079 you exactly what you need to do. Send your soil 1919 01:45:40.079 --> 01:45:43.079 in and get it tested. And then you know exactly 1920 01:45:43.439 --> 01:45:47.479 how to fertilize. Well, I'm pressing up against a break here. 1921 01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:49.560 We'll come back with more tips and your calls, and 1922 01:45:49.640 --> 01:45:51.640 John and Katie, you will be our first up when 1923 01:45:51.680 --> 01:45:53.640 we come back. For the rest of you. If you'd 1924 01:45:53.680 --> 01:45:55.840 like to get on board, be ready to go. Seven 1925 01:45:55.840 --> 01:45:58.920 to one three two one two. K t r H 1926 01:45:59.079 --> 01:46:02.960 seven one three two went to KTRH that it's been 1927 01:46:03.000 --> 01:46:07.359 a while since you heard this one. All right, both, 1928 01:46:07.439 --> 01:46:11.000 we're back with guard line and your calls. We're gonna 1929 01:46:11.600 --> 01:46:14.159 start this segment by heading straight out to Katie to 1930 01:46:14.199 --> 01:46:16.760 talk to John. Hello, John, what kind of guard line? 1931 01:46:17.199 --> 01:46:19.279 Good mornings. I appreciate you taking my call. 1932 01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:22.840 Uh so you said take advantage of new opportunities, and 1933 01:46:22.880 --> 01:46:24.760 that's what exactly I'm planning on doing. 1934 01:46:24.800 --> 01:46:29.960 But feel a bit overwhelmed. Good avocados. Me and my 1935 01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:30.960 wife both love them. 1936 01:46:31.159 --> 01:46:34.159 We have space for a couple of trees, and then 1937 01:46:34.199 --> 01:46:37.039 you have the A types, B types, California types, Florida 1938 01:46:37.079 --> 01:46:42.239 types cold heartiness. So just curious if you had room 1939 01:46:42.399 --> 01:46:48.760 for two avocado trees, you want them to increase the yield, 1940 01:46:49.600 --> 01:46:52.199 and then which two varieties would you picked? I'd be 1941 01:46:52.239 --> 01:46:54.760 able to give you the most avocados during the year. 1942 01:46:56.439 --> 01:46:59.720 Well, that's a good question, and avocados are a wonderful 1943 01:46:59.720 --> 01:47:02.399 plan that is marginally col hardy for us. We got 1944 01:47:02.399 --> 01:47:03.680 to kind of watch it and take care of it. 1945 01:47:04.279 --> 01:47:06.840 Just remember, and I'll just say this up front, as 1946 01:47:06.840 --> 01:47:09.399 you go through the seasons with your avocado, you always 1947 01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:12.000 want to be ready to mound up some soil around 1948 01:47:12.039 --> 01:47:14.000 the base. So if we go back into one of 1949 01:47:14.039 --> 01:47:18.640 those seven degree cold cold spells or something like that, 1950 01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:20.680 you're going to be able to at least protect it 1951 01:47:20.720 --> 01:47:23.000 down to that and it'll re sprout and grow real fast. 1952 01:47:23.640 --> 01:47:25.960 As far as varieties, there's a lot of good ones. 1953 01:47:27.119 --> 01:47:31.920 There is one called Joey. There's one called Brazos Bell. 1954 01:47:33.039 --> 01:47:40.159 There's one called Mexicola. There's also a Mexicola Grande. There's 1955 01:47:40.199 --> 01:47:44.880 one called Laila l I l A. There's one I've 1956 01:47:44.880 --> 01:47:47.439 not grown it called Fantastic that other people have told 1957 01:47:47.439 --> 01:47:51.119 me it does well. Then Don Juan I mentioned Don Juan. 1958 01:47:51.279 --> 01:47:56.119 That's another good one. Yeah, Poncho is another good one. 1959 01:47:57.600 --> 01:47:59.920 Oo La la. Those are all ones that are grown here. 1960 01:48:00.239 --> 01:48:04.439 The standard type of avocado that you grow that you 1961 01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:09.079 get in the supermarket the dark, dark skin with bumps. 1962 01:48:09.600 --> 01:48:11.920 That's a different kind of avocado than we grow in 1963 01:48:11.920 --> 01:48:15.039 our yards here we grow a smooth skin type of 1964 01:48:15.079 --> 01:48:18.399 avocado because those are much more cold hearty. So when 1965 01:48:18.439 --> 01:48:21.199 you see has in the grocery store, you don't grow 1966 01:48:21.239 --> 01:48:23.640 hass here. Oh, I mean if you do, you won't 1967 01:48:23.680 --> 01:48:27.399 have success. Uh that's what I'm That's what I'm talking about. 1968 01:48:27.439 --> 01:48:29.800 But you go to a good quality garden center and 1969 01:48:29.840 --> 01:48:32.439 you're going to find the kind of avocados that want 1970 01:48:32.439 --> 01:48:34.680 to grow here, you know, and from you, you know 1971 01:48:34.760 --> 01:48:37.239 down there in the Kati area. I mean you I 1972 01:48:37.279 --> 01:48:39.439 don't know where you normally like shop, but they're they're 1973 01:48:39.439 --> 01:48:41.520 probably going to have a good quality avocado. If it's 1974 01:48:41.560 --> 01:48:43.800 a mom and pop home and independent garden center, youn 1975 01:48:43.800 --> 01:48:46.000 go down from you and go direct south down to 1976 01:48:47.319 --> 01:48:50.479 let's see, Antenna Gardens is probably the closest one to 1977 01:48:50.520 --> 01:48:51.119 where you are. 1978 01:48:51.199 --> 01:48:54.720 Right there sair enough. I've been there before. In Channet Forrest. 1979 01:48:54.880 --> 01:48:59.159 The Arborgates, all of them are. 1980 01:48:58.319 --> 01:49:01.319 All three of these, all three of them are outstanding. 1981 01:49:01.399 --> 01:49:06.159 I know, I know Arborgate's got probably they probably have 1982 01:49:06.239 --> 01:49:09.560 eight or nine different avocados that they that they sell 1983 01:49:09.560 --> 01:49:11.479 and they're all going to be ones that would be 1984 01:49:11.520 --> 01:49:13.239 recommended in this area. 1985 01:49:14.479 --> 01:49:15.359 Look, I appreciate it. 1986 01:49:16.479 --> 01:49:18.720 Yeah, all three of those, both of the Enchanted's and 1987 01:49:18.880 --> 01:49:22.319 Arborgator outstanding. You're not going to go wrong. You're not 1988 01:49:22.359 --> 01:49:25.920 going to go wrong. Uh planet to think about when 1989 01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:27.960 you plant it. You know, it does want sunlight. And 1990 01:49:28.199 --> 01:49:31.079 avocado tree is huge. They get huge in time. Here, 1991 01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:33.600 they tend to get frozen back, so they make more 1992 01:49:33.720 --> 01:49:36.960 like a giant bush a small tree kind of thing. 1993 01:49:37.600 --> 01:49:39.960 But if you have it in a place, especially early 1994 01:49:40.000 --> 01:49:42.119 in its life, where you can try to do some 1995 01:49:42.239 --> 01:49:45.159 kind of covering of it, whether it's you know, giant 1996 01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:48.199 PVC structure or something, just to get it going and 1997 01:49:48.239 --> 01:49:53.239 get it better established. I would do that if possible. 1998 01:49:53.359 --> 01:49:54.680 Or just put it in a pod and bring it 1999 01:49:54.680 --> 01:49:56.239 in like a citrus plant. 2000 01:49:57.439 --> 01:49:59.520 Well you could, I mean, you know, but that'd be like, 2001 01:50:01.640 --> 01:50:03.680 you know, taking a tree that wants to be real big, 2002 01:50:03.760 --> 01:50:05.359 you put it in a pot. It's going to confine 2003 01:50:05.399 --> 01:50:07.239 it a lot. And when you do that, you end 2004 01:50:07.319 --> 01:50:09.840 up with the roots filling the pot and then some 2005 01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:13.399 so you're watering very frequently. You know, every day in 2006 01:50:13.439 --> 01:50:16.159 the summertime, you're having to secure it so it doesn't 2007 01:50:16.199 --> 01:50:20.319 blow over and whatnot. That is not a bad strategy 2008 01:50:20.399 --> 01:50:23.520 for at least the first year or so, but also 2009 01:50:23.520 --> 01:50:27.079 typically they get planted out in the ground. It was 2010 01:50:27.119 --> 01:50:30.159 a huge pot. Is a huge pot. You might be 2011 01:50:30.239 --> 01:50:31.920 able to manage it in a way where you get 2012 01:50:31.920 --> 01:50:32.800 some meals out of it. 2013 01:50:33.199 --> 01:50:36.279 Yeah, fair enough, appreciate it. 2014 01:50:37.960 --> 01:50:39.439 You know what we need to do. I just this 2015 01:50:39.640 --> 01:50:41.880 just occurred to me. I'm thinking out loud here. So 2016 01:50:42.159 --> 01:50:47.760 uh oh, if you were to take an avocado and 2017 01:50:47.840 --> 01:50:50.520 plant it in a pot, a giant pot that you 2018 01:50:50.560 --> 01:50:52.960 could lay over. I'm talking of a pot that's five 2019 01:50:53.039 --> 01:50:55.760 or six feet across, and then you just get a 2020 01:50:55.760 --> 01:50:57.920 crane and lay it over flat, and then you could 2021 01:50:57.920 --> 01:51:00.760 throw a tarp over it when we're having freezes, and 2022 01:51:00.800 --> 01:51:02.479 then the next year bring the crane and bring it 2023 01:51:02.520 --> 01:51:05.479 back up again. That's insane. 2024 01:51:06.359 --> 01:51:08.800 They went by RCW yesterday. 2025 01:51:08.920 --> 01:51:09.600 That is huge. 2026 01:51:09.640 --> 01:51:13.600 I don't know where they get to two hundred gallon 2027 01:51:14.239 --> 01:51:15.279 huge plastic plot. 2028 01:51:16.880 --> 01:51:23.159 Yeah, yeah, well yeah, RCW. David Walliamson owns RTW. He 2029 01:51:23.199 --> 01:51:26.079 also is part of the Williamson Tree Farm up there 2030 01:51:26.119 --> 01:51:28.520 in Plannersville, and that's where they grow all their big 2031 01:51:28.560 --> 01:51:31.359 containers and stuff. So when you go there, yeah, they'll 2032 01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:35.520 they can get you a big tree. Uh, and they'll 2033 01:51:35.560 --> 01:51:37.640 they'll plant it for you too, so you don't have 2034 01:51:37.720 --> 01:51:41.680 to put your chiropractors kids through college, if you know 2035 01:51:41.720 --> 01:51:47.680 what I'm saying. Yes, sir, all right, we'll have fun 2036 01:51:47.720 --> 01:51:50.600 with those. By the way, go to the Haggi horticulture 2037 01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:54.159 website that I was talking about before, uh, and there 2038 01:51:54.239 --> 01:51:58.479 is a publication just on avocados. Now it's going to 2039 01:51:58.520 --> 01:52:01.760 have a limited number of variety that it lists, but 2040 01:52:02.239 --> 01:52:06.000 it'll tell you about growing an avocado successfully. And it's free. 2041 01:52:06.039 --> 01:52:07.920 You just look at it online or download and print 2042 01:52:07.920 --> 01:52:09.359 it out if you want. It's multicolor. 2043 01:52:10.560 --> 01:52:11.239 No, I appreciate it. 2044 01:52:11.279 --> 01:52:14.840 Thanky horticulture. All right, sir, take care of John. Good luck. 2045 01:52:14.880 --> 01:52:17.119 Now all we ask on guarden Line. We don't charge 2046 01:52:17.119 --> 01:52:18.880 for advice, but we do ask you to bring half 2047 01:52:18.920 --> 01:52:21.479 the avocados you grow and drop them off at KTRH 2048 01:52:21.520 --> 01:52:22.119 and we'll call it. 2049 01:52:22.079 --> 01:52:23.239 Even fair enough. 2050 01:52:24.680 --> 01:52:28.000 Thank you. That sounds thank you. Thanks for the call man, 2051 01:52:28.239 --> 01:52:32.039 have a good day. One of these days will show 2052 01:52:32.119 --> 01:52:37.079 up with some groceries at the state. That is a joke. 2053 01:52:37.119 --> 01:52:40.199 By the way, though, don't start feeling like you're gonna 2054 01:52:40.239 --> 01:52:44.520 bring me your vegetables, all right, you're listening to Garden 2055 01:52:44.520 --> 01:52:48.520 line seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 2056 01:52:48.560 --> 01:52:51.159 four or if you like to just dial by letters 2057 01:52:51.239 --> 01:52:54.560 seven one three two one two KTRH ktr that's what 2058 01:52:54.600 --> 01:52:56.600 we're on here. You know, you can listen to KTRH. 2059 01:52:56.680 --> 01:52:59.239 Of course, you can listen to seven forty am live 2060 01:52:59.319 --> 01:53:01.000 on the radio. We go all the way up to 2061 01:53:01.079 --> 01:53:03.920 Huntsville area, all the way to Louisiana, and I have 2062 01:53:04.079 --> 01:53:07.039 listened to KTRH on the other side of New Bronfuls, 2063 01:53:07.119 --> 01:53:09.159 on the other side of thirty five. It doesn't quite 2064 01:53:09.159 --> 01:53:11.319 go into San Antonio. They have their own station there, 2065 01:53:11.920 --> 01:53:13.800 but it goes a wide area apup. But a lot 2066 01:53:13.800 --> 01:53:17.359 of people listen on the computer or even yet better yet, 2067 01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:23.000 on the app. If you haven't downloaded the iHeart Media app, 2068 01:53:23.680 --> 01:53:26.359 that one allows you to listen to the show live. 2069 01:53:26.479 --> 01:53:29.239 There's other ways, other apps you can listen to pass 2070 01:53:29.239 --> 01:53:34.039 shows as a podcast. But if you do iHeartMedia, you 2071 01:53:34.079 --> 01:53:36.680 can listen to KTRH live no matter where you are. 2072 01:53:37.439 --> 01:53:41.239 You know, cousin Millie up in timbuck To, Canada can 2073 01:53:41.319 --> 01:53:46.159 listen to Garden line on the iHeart Media app live 2074 01:53:46.560 --> 01:53:49.079 or listen to pass shows. A lot of gardeners I've 2075 01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:52.279 talked to like to put on their phone. Just put 2076 01:53:52.359 --> 01:53:54.319 on the phone and turn it on, and you know 2077 01:53:54.319 --> 01:53:56.560 it's daylight outside. Now you can be outside getting some 2078 01:53:56.560 --> 01:53:59.239 stuff done, listening in the garden and who knows, maybe 2079 01:53:59.279 --> 01:54:00.800 you find a little bit and you will know what 2080 01:54:00.840 --> 01:54:02.920 it is. Take a picture of it with the phone 2081 01:54:02.920 --> 01:54:05.640 you got in your hand, give my producer a call. 2082 01:54:05.680 --> 01:54:07.000 He'll tell you how to send it to me and 2083 01:54:07.039 --> 01:54:09.760 we can do a live answer to what's going on. 2084 01:54:10.159 --> 01:54:13.119 Just another way to listen to guardenline. I think that's 2085 01:54:13.119 --> 01:54:17.960 pretty cool. I spend a lot of time listening to 2086 01:54:18.079 --> 01:54:22.680 podcasts because I'm in the road. I'm staring at a windshield, 2087 01:54:22.760 --> 01:54:24.920 and podcasts are a great way to do that. So 2088 01:54:24.960 --> 01:54:26.720 you can go back and listen to past shows as 2089 01:54:26.800 --> 01:54:29.319 well if you'd like to. Earlier, I gave a whole 2090 01:54:29.359 --> 01:54:31.800 bunch of different fragrant plants, and I bet you couldn't 2091 01:54:31.800 --> 01:54:34.119 write those down that fast. You want to go back, 2092 01:54:34.359 --> 01:54:37.239 listen to the Today Show. It'll be posted online and 2093 01:54:37.319 --> 01:54:39.279 you can get that list of fragrant plants or the 2094 01:54:39.319 --> 01:54:42.800 comments that I made about soil testing or all the 2095 01:54:42.840 --> 01:54:46.199 other things we've talked about today. Well, it is the 2096 01:54:46.199 --> 01:54:49.039 top of the hour and the music which means I 2097 01:54:49.119 --> 01:54:52.800 need to quit talking. We will be back for our 2098 01:54:52.880 --> 01:54:55.880 last hour of the weekend here in just a little bit. 2099 01:54:56.039 --> 01:54:57.680 If you'd like to get on the board to be 2100 01:54:57.720 --> 01:55:00.119 first up when we come back. Seven to one three 2101 01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:02.520 two one two k t R. 2102 01:55:05.079 --> 01:55:07.960 Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 2103 01:55:08.000 --> 01:55:10.960 of the products or services advertised on this program. 2104 01:55:11.239 --> 01:55:15.840 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's. 2105 01:55:22.199 --> 01:55:23.800 Trim. 2106 01:55:23.840 --> 01:55:31.279 Just watch him as so many. 2107 01:55:31.079 --> 01:55:32.319 Good things to set. 2108 01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:45.960 All right, let's do this. We got an hour of 2109 01:55:46.039 --> 01:55:49.279 garden Line left in US today. Well, can we cover 2110 01:55:49.479 --> 01:55:51.520 I'll tell you what you tell me what to cover? 2111 01:55:52.399 --> 01:55:56.239 A call with your questions. Things you're interested in, uh things, 2112 01:55:56.479 --> 01:55:58.279 Maybe there's plant you want to identify. Do you know 2113 01:55:58.319 --> 01:56:01.479 you can send me photos of things if you will 2114 01:56:01.520 --> 01:56:03.720 follow that up with a call in the garden Line 2115 01:56:03.720 --> 01:56:06.319 so we can talk about it. It is kind of 2116 01:56:06.319 --> 01:56:10.039 hard to diagnose and identify certain things just based on 2117 01:56:10.840 --> 01:56:14.960 a verbal description of them. You know, sometimes we get 2118 01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:17.239 lucky we can get that done, but in general it's 2119 01:56:17.279 --> 01:56:19.079 better if you can just send me a photo. Let's 2120 01:56:19.199 --> 01:56:21.560 take a look at those and we'll get to the 2121 01:56:21.560 --> 01:56:23.800 bottom of it. Try to help you with what you're doing. 2122 01:56:25.199 --> 01:56:28.520 We are on the doorstep of spring, and so things 2123 01:56:28.600 --> 01:56:31.560 are about to really break out here and not too 2124 01:56:31.600 --> 01:56:33.680 long for those of you down south, you know spring 2125 01:56:33.720 --> 01:56:37.880 begins and definitely in February. We're already in the big 2126 01:56:37.920 --> 01:56:40.479 middle of spring. And you want to be ready for that, 2127 01:56:40.760 --> 01:56:43.039 and you get ready for it by getting your soil ready. 2128 01:56:43.199 --> 01:56:45.640 My mantra on here is brown stuff before green stuff 2129 01:56:45.640 --> 01:56:47.520 with it, which is just a simple way I say 2130 01:56:47.560 --> 01:56:49.800 it to say, hey, get the soil right before you 2131 01:56:49.800 --> 01:56:53.359 put the plants in. That's what that means. Brown stuff 2132 01:56:53.359 --> 01:56:56.760 before green stuff. And if you will take care of 2133 01:56:56.800 --> 01:56:58.880 your soil, if you will get it right, you will 2134 01:56:58.880 --> 01:57:02.520 find that you have much better chances of success. Soil 2135 01:57:02.560 --> 01:57:05.680 as a foundation. I think about this. This is kind 2136 01:57:05.680 --> 01:57:07.359 of a corny analogy. But are you going to build 2137 01:57:07.399 --> 01:57:11.159 a house, you know, on sand where you don't have 2138 01:57:11.199 --> 01:57:13.119 a good solid foundation, or are you going to take 2139 01:57:13.159 --> 01:57:16.119 the tu bat fours that are the base frame of 2140 01:57:16.159 --> 01:57:17.800 your walls and things. Are you just going to set 2141 01:57:17.800 --> 01:57:19.600 them on the dirt, or are you going to put 2142 01:57:19.600 --> 01:57:21.920 a concrete foundation underneath them, or pure and beam or 2143 01:57:21.920 --> 01:57:25.520 something to hold them up. Foundation is everything, and when 2144 01:57:25.520 --> 01:57:30.520 it comes to soil and plants success, foundation is also everything. 2145 01:57:31.039 --> 01:57:34.279 And so getting that soil right and right is not 2146 01:57:34.399 --> 01:57:38.000 the same for all plants. You know, it's pretty much 2147 01:57:38.119 --> 01:57:40.520 the case that and I even tend to do this 2148 01:57:41.239 --> 01:57:43.279 is every time someone's going to plant a plant, I go, oh, 2149 01:57:43.279 --> 01:57:46.279 we'll mix some composts in the soil, and that, by 2150 01:57:46.319 --> 01:57:49.359 and large it's a good idea. But there are plants 2151 01:57:49.600 --> 01:57:53.199 like cactus that grow out in soils that are rocky 2152 01:57:53.800 --> 01:57:57.039 and clayey and don't have any compost in them at all, 2153 01:57:58.079 --> 01:58:01.319 and it's a dry, aired environment and so so obviously 2154 01:58:01.359 --> 01:58:04.319 they don't need that to grow right. But then most 2155 01:58:04.359 --> 01:58:06.399 plants are going to benefit from that. And if you 2156 01:58:06.439 --> 01:58:08.960 buy plants in the store, if you buy cactus in store, 2157 01:58:09.000 --> 01:58:11.840 it doesn't come in a container full of gravel, comes 2158 01:58:11.840 --> 01:58:14.520 with some organic materials in it. You can do that, 2159 01:58:14.600 --> 01:58:18.600 but just know this that whether you're planting blueberries and azaleas, 2160 01:58:18.640 --> 01:58:24.000 which love acid, acidic high organic matter soils and sands, 2161 01:58:24.920 --> 01:58:26.840 or if you're going to put in something like a 2162 01:58:26.880 --> 01:58:29.960 fig tree that can tolerate a very heavy clay. There's 2163 01:58:29.960 --> 01:58:33.000 a range there, and so getting the soil right, however 2164 01:58:33.039 --> 01:58:36.600 you do that is important. And just knowing that soil 2165 01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:39.680 structure and texture and all of that plays a part 2166 01:58:39.880 --> 01:58:44.720 in the success that you have with your plants. I 2167 01:58:44.760 --> 01:58:49.840 have become a big fan of backyard birding. I am 2168 01:58:49.880 --> 01:58:53.319 not the guy who puts on the safari hat and 2169 01:58:53.920 --> 01:58:57.800 the cargo shorts and runs around with binoculars stomping through 2170 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:02.119 the wood saying that sounds like a black, black striped 2171 01:59:02.680 --> 01:59:08.079 orange warbly whatever bird to me. Obviously, I don't know 2172 01:59:08.079 --> 01:59:12.319 what I'm talking about. And people love that, and that's fine. 2173 01:59:12.399 --> 01:59:15.439 That's a great hobby, awesome hobby, a bird watching. But 2174 01:59:16.000 --> 01:59:18.600 I'm the backyard bird guy. I want them to come 2175 01:59:18.720 --> 01:59:21.199 to see me. I will feed them, I will provide 2176 01:59:21.199 --> 01:59:23.600 them water and will have success. And by the way, 2177 01:59:23.840 --> 01:59:25.800 do you know that birds need water even in the winter, 2178 01:59:27.000 --> 01:59:29.840 if there's no water around, birds drink every day, just 2179 01:59:29.880 --> 01:59:32.319 like you do every day, even though it's winter, even 2180 01:59:32.359 --> 01:59:35.000 that it's cold, you drink less, but you drink. You 2181 01:59:35.079 --> 01:59:38.039 need that and birds need water too, So always have 2182 01:59:38.119 --> 01:59:40.640 fresh water available to them. And when we have a 2183 01:59:40.680 --> 01:59:43.199 freezing night, that water's gonna be frozen over. Go out 2184 01:59:43.199 --> 01:59:45.199 there and break it loose, put some warm water in 2185 01:59:45.279 --> 01:59:47.560 it or something to thaw that ice, and give the 2186 01:59:47.600 --> 01:59:49.720 bird something that they are able to get to and drink. 2187 01:59:49.760 --> 01:59:52.800 That's important. Bird needs shelter too. And by the way, 2188 01:59:53.479 --> 02:00:00.479 Wibirds Unlimited has awesome selection of bird nest boxes. Now's 2189 02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:03.479 the time to get your nest boxes ready because it 2190 02:00:03.560 --> 02:00:07.239 won't be long. Very soon the birds will start many 2191 02:00:07.359 --> 02:00:10.119 types of birds will start nesting. And while Birds has 2192 02:00:10.159 --> 02:00:12.840 got bluebird boxes that's a specific kind of box, a 2193 02:00:12.880 --> 02:00:16.880 certain size hole. They have boxes for Carolina wrens and chickadees, 2194 02:00:17.319 --> 02:00:20.479 a big old owl boxes, giant holes and big boxes. 2195 02:00:21.000 --> 02:00:24.800 Bat boxes are not a bird, but they fly. And 2196 02:00:25.239 --> 02:00:28.399 Purple Martins and Purple Martin houses are amazing. And they 2197 02:00:28.439 --> 02:00:31.279 got the big giant gord types, but it's a plastic 2198 02:00:31.279 --> 02:00:34.720 gord that's easier to clean. It's just designed better than 2199 02:00:34.920 --> 02:00:37.760 just hanging up a gourd. And they also have the 2200 02:00:38.159 --> 02:00:40.079 ones that look like little condos that are on a 2201 02:00:40.119 --> 02:00:42.199 pole that you know you can bring it up the 2202 02:00:42.239 --> 02:00:45.439 whole house down, so they dissemble in a way that 2203 02:00:45.520 --> 02:00:47.479 allows you to get in there and clean them really well. 2204 02:00:48.119 --> 02:00:51.520 They're all designed for the best results, and they're at 2205 02:00:51.600 --> 02:00:54.439 Wildbirds and now's the time to get started. Don't wait. 2206 02:00:55.279 --> 02:00:59.359 You want when the Purple Mountain Martin Scouts come looking 2207 02:00:59.399 --> 02:01:01.680 for a place, you want them to see your house 2208 02:01:01.960 --> 02:01:03.439 and you want to go tell us about, Hey, come on, 2209 02:01:03.520 --> 02:01:06.000 we're going to live here. This's a great place. They've 2210 02:01:06.000 --> 02:01:11.399 got houses that are designed right. They have proper ventilation 2211 02:01:11.720 --> 02:01:15.880 that's very important, especially in our Texas heat. They have 2212 02:01:15.960 --> 02:01:19.359 proper drainage so that it rains that the house strains 2213 02:01:19.520 --> 02:01:22.359 was not mucky and soggy and roddy and everything in there. 2214 02:01:22.520 --> 02:01:25.279 They've got the entrance hole size that's right for the 2215 02:01:25.359 --> 02:01:28.800 kind of birds you want. That's very important. And they 2216 02:01:28.880 --> 02:01:31.319 can help you protect your boxes from predator. Do you 2217 02:01:31.359 --> 02:01:33.600 know that a snake can climb a pole and get 2218 02:01:33.600 --> 02:01:36.840 into a birdhouse. There's stories about that getting up into 2219 02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:39.000 a birdhouse, up on a pole and there's a snake 2220 02:01:39.079 --> 02:01:42.479 inside for crying out loud. Well, wild birds can put 2221 02:01:42.520 --> 02:01:45.479 baffles and other things on poles to keep any kind 2222 02:01:45.479 --> 02:01:47.880 of predator, whether it's a snake or something else, crawling 2223 02:01:47.920 --> 02:01:50.439 up there to try to get to the eggs and things. 2224 02:01:50.680 --> 02:01:52.640 They can take care of that. It's all at Wildbirds, 2225 02:01:52.680 --> 02:01:55.239 and while you're there, check out their new product. It's 2226 02:01:55.279 --> 02:02:00.319 called Cardinal Confetti Blend. They also have a cardinal tube 2227 02:02:00.319 --> 02:02:03.159 feeder and a Good Evening Cardinal feeder, two new cardinal 2228 02:02:03.159 --> 02:02:06.960 feeders that go with that Cardinal Confetti Blend. And the 2229 02:02:07.000 --> 02:02:12.960 Cardinal Confetti Blend is really cool. It's got just this 2230 02:02:13.039 --> 02:02:16.600 makes me hungry. Most of it safflowers, black all sunflowers, 2231 02:02:16.640 --> 02:02:23.159 sunflower chips, nutrius, safflower bark, butter bits, peanut halves, and 2232 02:02:23.239 --> 02:02:25.760 here we go. Not so much on dried meal worms, 2233 02:02:26.119 --> 02:02:28.279 although that may be good. I may try them sometimes. 2234 02:02:28.399 --> 02:02:31.119 And striped sunflower all in there in that blend. It 2235 02:02:31.239 --> 02:02:33.079 is really cool. You just put in loose feeder. You 2236 02:02:33.079 --> 02:02:34.800 can get their cardinal tube feeder, you can get the 2237 02:02:34.800 --> 02:02:38.319 Good Evening Cardinal feeder. That are really cool cool, but 2238 02:02:38.359 --> 02:02:42.760 this blend is it's just awesome far bringing cardinals and 2239 02:02:42.760 --> 02:02:44.239 by the way, a lot of other birds will like 2240 02:02:44.319 --> 02:02:47.000 it too. It's brand new from Wildbird's gonna have it 2241 02:02:47.039 --> 02:02:48.600 all year. It's not just gonna be a spring thing. 2242 02:02:48.600 --> 02:02:51.319 They're gonna have it all year. Go to WBU dot 2243 02:02:51.319 --> 02:02:55.600 com forward slash Houston and find the Wildbird's store nearest 2244 02:02:55.840 --> 02:02:58.640 to you. They're six of them in the Greater Houston area. 2245 02:02:59.119 --> 02:03:01.600 Time for a break, I'll be right back with your calls. 2246 02:03:03.720 --> 02:03:07.520 All right, we're hopping. Let's do it. We got another 2247 02:03:07.560 --> 02:03:10.479 segment coming up here with your calls seven one three 2248 02:03:10.600 --> 02:03:13.319 two one two KT Right, what do you want to 2249 02:03:13.319 --> 02:03:14.840 ask about? How can we help you have a more 2250 02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:17.960 bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and more fun in 2251 02:03:18.239 --> 02:03:22.199 the process. That's what we'd like to do. I uh 2252 02:03:22.880 --> 02:03:25.399 was excuse me. I was out in the yard the 2253 02:03:25.439 --> 02:03:27.880 other day. We have a couple of a couple. We 2254 02:03:27.920 --> 02:03:31.359 have about three cypress trees in our yard which were 2255 02:03:31.359 --> 02:03:34.319 here before I got here. And uh, I have always 2256 02:03:34.319 --> 02:03:36.560 thought it was a beautiful tree. And now I have 2257 02:03:36.640 --> 02:03:40.359 a love hate relationship with cypress trees because mine producing knees. 2258 02:03:40.479 --> 02:03:42.680 There are types that don't have knees. If you're going 2259 02:03:42.720 --> 02:03:45.680 to plant a cypress, get one that doesn't produce knees. 2260 02:03:45.720 --> 02:03:47.359 A good tree grower, we'll be able to tell you 2261 02:03:47.439 --> 02:03:47.840 what that is. 2262 02:03:48.760 --> 02:03:48.880 Uh. 2263 02:03:48.960 --> 02:03:51.319 Anyway, I got knees all over the place. I dug 2264 02:03:51.359 --> 02:03:54.079 them all out with the I think three wheelbarrow loads 2265 02:03:54.119 --> 02:03:56.760 of cypress knees when I put in my new lawn 2266 02:03:56.800 --> 02:04:02.000 this past April, and now all the cypress needles drop. Now. 2267 02:04:02.239 --> 02:04:05.439 Cypress needles are attractive, they nice little. I use them 2268 02:04:05.479 --> 02:04:07.520 in my gardens as I was talking about earlier, for 2269 02:04:07.600 --> 02:04:10.680 walkways to step on, for mulches and things like that. 2270 02:04:11.600 --> 02:04:14.960 But when you have a golden retriever with big long 2271 02:04:15.000 --> 02:04:17.319 feathers and they go out in the yard and wrestle. 2272 02:04:17.359 --> 02:04:20.960 We have two of them and they come in and 2273 02:04:21.000 --> 02:04:24.680 they bring in about nine hundred thousand cypress needles to 2274 02:04:24.760 --> 02:04:26.920 drop on our floors, and we clean them up. And 2275 02:04:26.960 --> 02:04:28.239 I go outside and I try to get all the 2276 02:04:28.239 --> 02:04:30.399 needles up. I have to do that about ten times 2277 02:04:30.479 --> 02:04:32.760 during the fall, rather than rake once or twice like 2278 02:04:32.840 --> 02:04:37.560 most people, because of those dark, darn cypress needles being 2279 02:04:37.600 --> 02:04:39.920 out everywhere. So anyway, I was out there taking a 2280 02:04:39.920 --> 02:04:41.920 look at all the needles are officially off the tree. 2281 02:04:41.960 --> 02:04:44.359 Now some cold weather and some good rain and some 2282 02:04:44.439 --> 02:04:47.359 wind has taken them out, so at last I can 2283 02:04:47.359 --> 02:04:49.800 do a final cleanup and be good to go. I 2284 02:04:49.800 --> 02:04:52.159 still like those trees a lot. They have so many 2285 02:04:52.159 --> 02:04:55.119 good attributes. They can grow in areas where the drainage 2286 02:04:55.159 --> 02:04:58.720 is poor. They can also grow in areas you know 2287 02:04:58.800 --> 02:05:02.119 that aren't boggy at all. Just need to give them 2288 02:05:02.119 --> 02:05:03.760 a little bit of water in late summer if they 2289 02:05:03.800 --> 02:05:06.399 get a little bit dry, but other than that they're 2290 02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:08.840 really good tree. But I go out and do some 2291 02:05:08.960 --> 02:05:13.319 cleanup on those as well. And now my dogs can 2292 02:05:13.399 --> 02:05:15.680 run out and do what they want to do without 2293 02:05:16.119 --> 02:05:21.159 me having to go through the clean up stage as 2294 02:05:21.159 --> 02:05:26.319 they come through the door. So anyway that is happening 2295 02:05:26.359 --> 02:05:29.520 out there, I pretty much moved everything into the garden walkways, 2296 02:05:29.600 --> 02:05:32.560 all the organic materials, and I haven't been out gathering 2297 02:05:32.560 --> 02:05:34.920 neighbors leaves, but I usually do that. Try to beat 2298 02:05:34.920 --> 02:05:40.560 the bulk garbage trucks on that day, swing up, pick 2299 02:05:40.640 --> 02:05:42.960 up some good ones and their high quality. Got a 2300 02:05:42.960 --> 02:05:46.439 little grinder to grind it up, so that speeds the decomposition. 2301 02:05:46.520 --> 02:05:49.520 But the main reason I like the grinder is because 2302 02:05:49.640 --> 02:05:52.760 it makes it a better mulch leaves. I know the 2303 02:05:52.800 --> 02:05:57.039 forest is mulched with unground leaves, of course, but I 2304 02:05:57.199 --> 02:05:59.399 want it to be attractive and I want it to 2305 02:05:59.439 --> 02:06:01.319 not blow away. And so you get a big old 2306 02:06:01.439 --> 02:06:03.680 leaf like a red oak leaf or a sycamore leaf, 2307 02:06:03.720 --> 02:06:05.840 and you get a little breeze and pew takes off 2308 02:06:05.880 --> 02:06:09.439 to the neighbor's house, so you gotta run them through 2309 02:06:09.479 --> 02:06:12.000 the Some people use a lawn more And if you 2310 02:06:12.119 --> 02:06:15.079 want to recycle your leaves, you can do that. You 2311 02:06:15.279 --> 02:06:17.159 kind of make a window of leaves and mow over 2312 02:06:17.199 --> 02:06:19.680 it and add more leaves and over it, and then 2313 02:06:19.760 --> 02:06:21.640 rake that up and you got a ground up leaf. 2314 02:06:21.720 --> 02:06:24.960 You can use a bagging attachment on your mower after 2315 02:06:25.000 --> 02:06:28.000 you've run over them a couple of times and bag 2316 02:06:28.039 --> 02:06:30.000 them up and then just take them right to wherever 2317 02:06:30.039 --> 02:06:31.920 you want a mulch and put them in the garden beds. 2318 02:06:32.359 --> 02:06:34.720 Someone called me one time and they said, can you 2319 02:06:34.840 --> 02:06:38.800 use oak leaves as mulch? And I said, well, God, 2320 02:06:38.840 --> 02:06:42.439 does that means? Really? Think about it? An oak forest? 2321 02:06:42.479 --> 02:06:45.039 What does it get molched with oak leaves? A mixed 2322 02:06:45.039 --> 02:06:47.600 hardwood forest mulched with oak and a lot of other 2323 02:06:47.720 --> 02:06:49.359 kinds of leaves. Yes, you can use any kind of 2324 02:06:49.439 --> 02:06:52.680 leaves for malt. It's okay. Somewhere along the line, way 2325 02:06:52.720 --> 02:06:55.560 back when we decided we had to do things different 2326 02:06:55.600 --> 02:06:57.760 than nature does, used to be that you had to 2327 02:06:57.800 --> 02:07:01.000 bag your lawn. I gotta bag those clippings, bag those clippings, 2328 02:07:01.520 --> 02:07:06.960 and then someone named doctor Bill Canoop from Texas A 2329 02:07:06.960 --> 02:07:10.399 and M Turf Department created something called Don't Bag It, 2330 02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:14.800 the Don't Bag It program, which talked about recycling the leaves. Actually, 2331 02:07:14.840 --> 02:07:18.199 actually I wrote the Don't Bag it leaf management section. 2332 02:07:18.279 --> 02:07:20.079 It was don't Bag it for lawn clippings, and the 2333 02:07:20.079 --> 02:07:22.479 dope bag it leaf management and don't bag it compost. 2334 02:07:22.600 --> 02:07:26.479 I did the don't bag it leaf management anyway, Yes, 2335 02:07:26.560 --> 02:07:29.399 you can return. Do you know that? And this is 2336 02:07:29.479 --> 02:07:31.800 I know it's not mowing season, but while I'm talking 2337 02:07:31.800 --> 02:07:35.159 about it, do you know that your lawnmower puts out 2338 02:07:35.239 --> 02:07:39.600 more nutrients than your fertilizer spreader. If you get my 2339 02:07:39.680 --> 02:07:42.640 schedule and you fertilize every time. I say to fertilize, 2340 02:07:42.680 --> 02:07:44.560 I mean every time, even the spring green up time, 2341 02:07:44.600 --> 02:07:47.760 which is optional. If you do all of that, and 2342 02:07:47.800 --> 02:07:50.359 you look at how many pounds of nitrogen phosphors tasking 2343 02:07:50.399 --> 02:07:53.920 you put out, and then you take grass clippings and 2344 02:07:54.119 --> 02:07:56.680 you count all the mowings you do through the season, 2345 02:07:57.159 --> 02:07:59.199 you send those some clippings to the lab and say 2346 02:07:59.199 --> 02:08:02.600 what's the nutrient content? Your lawn mower puts out more 2347 02:08:02.680 --> 02:08:07.079 nutrients and your fertilizer spreader. So what's the take on 2348 02:08:07.920 --> 02:08:10.159 If you bag your clippings and throw them away, you're 2349 02:08:10.199 --> 02:08:14.359 renting fertilizer. You're not buying it. You buy it, put 2350 02:08:14.399 --> 02:08:17.479 it on the ground, grow grass clippings with it, and 2351 02:08:17.720 --> 02:08:20.640 haul away the nutrients. That's called renting fertilizer. You just 2352 02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:23.720 have it for a little while. I'm gonna let that 2353 02:08:23.760 --> 02:08:25.520 sink in for a second, because for a lot of 2354 02:08:25.520 --> 02:08:27.960 folks that's kind of like, whooh, never thought about it 2355 02:08:28.000 --> 02:08:31.039 that way, Well you should. It's a good way to 2356 02:08:31.039 --> 02:08:33.520 think about because it's the truth. That's how nature works. 2357 02:08:34.159 --> 02:08:38.239 But anyway, putting those leaves and stuff into the gardens, 2358 02:08:38.319 --> 02:08:41.479 running over them, using them as maults, letting them decompose naturally, 2359 02:08:42.279 --> 02:08:46.680 they moderate soil temperature. And you need mults in the winter, summer, 2360 02:08:46.920 --> 02:08:48.880 all through the year. There's not a month of the 2361 02:08:48.920 --> 02:08:51.760 year you don't need maltch. And the spring warm season 2362 02:08:51.840 --> 02:08:55.640 weeds are germinating early spring, late winter, and you got 2363 02:08:55.640 --> 02:08:58.039 to have malts to prevent them from getting started. In 2364 02:08:58.079 --> 02:09:01.439 the fall cool season weed you're germinating. That's when we're 2365 02:09:01.439 --> 02:09:05.199 talking about October, November, and even some in December. You 2366 02:09:05.319 --> 02:09:07.439 got to have multch down to prevent those from getting 2367 02:09:07.560 --> 02:09:11.199 established When the weather is hot and dry. Moultch helps 2368 02:09:11.319 --> 02:09:14.600 reduce water loss from the soil when the weather is cold. 2369 02:09:15.159 --> 02:09:19.039 Malt protects soil temperature, moderates salt temperature so that a 2370 02:09:19.079 --> 02:09:21.960 semi tender perennial you might lose in a hard phrase 2371 02:09:22.680 --> 02:09:26.760 is protected and you don't lose it. So leaves, leave 2372 02:09:26.800 --> 02:09:30.720 the leaves, leave the leaves, let them be. I know 2373 02:09:30.760 --> 02:09:32.920 you want to make it look pretty. That's okay, that's good, 2374 02:09:33.079 --> 02:09:37.239 of course, but just know that it's not a mistake. 2375 02:09:37.600 --> 02:09:41.880 It's a design that leaves drop off the trees, drop 2376 02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:45.640 off the grass plants and become part of building the soil. 2377 02:09:48.279 --> 02:09:52.319 That was your public service announcement for today. See I 2378 02:09:52.359 --> 02:09:55.000 wanted to spend a little bit of time today talking 2379 02:09:55.000 --> 02:09:59.760 about color and color changes in the spring. We are 2380 02:10:00.159 --> 02:10:02.960 still in the winter season and we have a number 2381 02:10:03.000 --> 02:10:06.439 of plants that do good for sprucing up our landscapes 2382 02:10:06.560 --> 02:10:10.119 and creating a bedding plant color That means a flower bed, 2383 02:10:10.159 --> 02:10:13.199 an annual plant that you put in, or a perennial plant. 2384 02:10:14.079 --> 02:10:17.079 The number one color plants in the cool season are 2385 02:10:17.119 --> 02:10:21.039 pansies and violas. That's number one lots of those that 2386 02:10:21.079 --> 02:10:24.960 we use. They are the hardiest flowering plants of the 2387 02:10:24.960 --> 02:10:28.359 winter time for our area. Then we have plants that 2388 02:10:28.399 --> 02:10:31.000 are hardy but not quite as hardy. That would be 2389 02:10:31.079 --> 02:10:35.720 things like, for example, a Lissum is a really nice plant. 2390 02:10:36.000 --> 02:10:41.119 Snap dragons are really nice plants. Dianthus that's probably maybe 2391 02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:43.640 number two. I don't know. I'd have to line them 2392 02:10:43.640 --> 02:10:46.399 all up that decide if that's number two. Dianthus is 2393 02:10:46.439 --> 02:10:50.520 a beautiful kind of a mini carnation looking little plant 2394 02:10:50.880 --> 02:10:55.239 that is really attractive. There are compact types that make little, 2395 02:10:55.279 --> 02:10:58.920 small amounts of color flowers, and then there's tall, upright 2396 02:10:58.960 --> 02:11:03.640 types like the Amazon series that just have neon colors 2397 02:11:03.720 --> 02:11:06.640 instead of you know, standard red. They just have this 2398 02:11:06.920 --> 02:11:11.800 neon I don't know what it is, some version of 2399 02:11:11.840 --> 02:11:17.399 a beautiful, beautiful red colors that are just kind of well, 2400 02:11:17.399 --> 02:11:21.039 they're neon. They're beautiful, and they're more upright taller stem 2401 02:11:21.079 --> 02:11:23.000 that can be used for cut flowers too, by the way. 2402 02:11:23.640 --> 02:11:26.119 And then we have other things. Colondula is a good 2403 02:11:26.680 --> 02:11:30.159 cool season plant that you can grow and have flowers here. 2404 02:11:30.319 --> 02:11:33.840 Nasturtiums pretty much as another good one that will bloom 2405 02:11:34.119 --> 02:11:36.439 some in the cooler times of the year, lots of 2406 02:11:36.479 --> 02:11:38.840 good options out there. Then we have cool season foliage 2407 02:11:38.920 --> 02:11:41.840 is probably the main one is Dusty Miller. It's a 2408 02:11:41.960 --> 02:11:46.199 silvery gray looking foliage. It looks really good with flowers 2409 02:11:46.239 --> 02:11:48.760 that are kind of in the blue range of colors. 2410 02:11:49.199 --> 02:11:51.479 It makes a good combo to have blue and silver, 2411 02:11:52.239 --> 02:11:54.920 kind of silver foliage along with the blue flowers that 2412 02:11:54.960 --> 02:11:56.960 looks really good. We have other plants that we can 2413 02:11:57.000 --> 02:12:00.920 plant in the cool season for color. We get into 2414 02:12:01.479 --> 02:12:05.199 the spring season and the freezes and frosts are behind us. 2415 02:12:05.720 --> 02:12:11.399 That's when the petunias are just outstanding, and you really 2416 02:12:11.439 --> 02:12:14.000 need to have petunias somewhere. We have so many new 2417 02:12:14.039 --> 02:12:17.800 types now that have been bred to be more floriferous. 2418 02:12:17.880 --> 02:12:21.640 They bloom and bloom and bloom. You get a petunia 2419 02:12:21.760 --> 02:12:23.439 like oh one that came out a few years ago, 2420 02:12:23.520 --> 02:12:27.119 bubblegum yellow, I mean, excuse me, pink flowers like pink 2421 02:12:27.159 --> 02:12:29.760 bubble gum. And there's so many blooms on that plant 2422 02:12:29.800 --> 02:12:31.359 you can't see the foliage. I don't know how the 2423 02:12:31.359 --> 02:12:34.279 plant survives catching sunlight, but I mean it is all 2424 02:12:34.319 --> 02:12:36.960 blooms over the top of it. And there are many 2425 02:12:37.000 --> 02:12:40.960 other kinds of attractive petunias. Now they have some called 2426 02:12:41.039 --> 02:12:44.319 supertunias that are a little smaller blooms, but they bloom blue, 2427 02:12:44.399 --> 02:12:48.800 bloom and just cover up with blossoms. That's a good one. Zenias. 2428 02:12:48.840 --> 02:12:51.600 I mentioned those earlier. That's a good warm season plant 2429 02:12:51.880 --> 02:12:54.800 for color. So if you want to start some plants 2430 02:12:54.800 --> 02:12:57.600 yourself for color later, you can begin to plant some 2431 02:12:57.720 --> 02:12:59.479 of the things you're going to plant later on. A 2432 02:12:59.479 --> 02:13:01.960 lot of people like Maragoles, put those out in the spring. 2433 02:13:02.359 --> 02:13:05.119 They cannot take any frost or anything close to frost. 2434 02:13:06.039 --> 02:13:09.479 Just wait, start a little transplant, plant them out when 2435 02:13:09.520 --> 02:13:11.199 it's time to go, or go to the garden center 2436 02:13:11.239 --> 02:13:13.840 and buy you some. Those are good ones. I sunflowers 2437 02:13:13.880 --> 02:13:17.119 like the warm weather as well. There's many other great 2438 02:13:17.239 --> 02:13:20.000 plants we can put out there. Caliber coas another good one. 2439 02:13:20.000 --> 02:13:22.640 I mean I can said they're just naming flowers all 2440 02:13:22.680 --> 02:13:25.159 the time. Your garden centers have the ones you need. 2441 02:13:25.560 --> 02:13:28.960 But in that transition, you want to improve your bed 2442 02:13:29.159 --> 02:13:32.520 for planting. And that's where I would get pull all 2443 02:13:32.560 --> 02:13:34.840 the old flowers out. When you're going to make that 2444 02:13:34.880 --> 02:13:37.600 transition from cool season to warm season, and it's coming 2445 02:13:37.680 --> 02:13:41.079 up not too far from now, pull the old ones out, 2446 02:13:41.239 --> 02:13:44.079 work about an inch of compost into the soil. That 2447 02:13:44.119 --> 02:13:47.880 would be good, and then you're ready to go and 2448 02:13:47.920 --> 02:13:50.840 plant your new plants. If there's going to be a 2449 02:13:50.840 --> 02:13:53.159 little break between the two, make sure and put a 2450 02:13:53.239 --> 02:13:55.760 mulch over the soil because otherwise every weed on earth 2451 02:13:55.800 --> 02:13:58.199 will pop up in there, and so you want to 2452 02:13:58.239 --> 02:14:01.000 make sure and keep that all covered with that, you 2453 02:14:01.000 --> 02:14:02.560 can pull the malts back when you want to go 2454 02:14:02.640 --> 02:14:06.319 and do your flowering. Then number one, well, number one, 2455 02:14:06.479 --> 02:14:08.800 one of the main mistakes people make when it comes 2456 02:14:08.840 --> 02:14:11.880 to color in their beds is they don't fertilize enough. 2457 02:14:12.920 --> 02:14:17.960 If you fertilize on a regular basis, you can produce 2458 02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:21.840 good color. You produce vigor. Vigor is important to make carbohydrates, 2459 02:14:21.880 --> 02:14:24.760 which make bloom buds, which make blooms, which makes beauty. 2460 02:14:25.520 --> 02:14:27.720 And so you always want to make sure and on 2461 02:14:27.760 --> 02:14:31.119 a regular basis provide small amounts of color or use 2462 02:14:31.159 --> 02:14:33.439 a product that is a slow release that's going to 2463 02:14:33.479 --> 02:14:36.279 give you a release over time in order to have 2464 02:14:36.359 --> 02:14:40.199 success with that. So when you're getting ready for the transition, 2465 02:14:40.359 --> 02:14:42.399 or if you're putting in a new flower bed this year, 2466 02:14:42.479 --> 02:14:45.800 make sure either buy a quality bed mix from one 2467 02:14:45.840 --> 02:14:48.239 of our local purveyors we talk about here on garden 2468 02:14:48.239 --> 02:14:52.359 Line and create a bed that is outstanding soil. Or 2469 02:14:52.399 --> 02:14:54.560 if you've got an existing bed, you can use the 2470 02:14:54.560 --> 02:14:56.520 same bed mix to spruce it up a little bit. 2471 02:14:56.640 --> 02:14:58.640 Or you can just mix in some composts as well 2472 02:14:58.920 --> 02:15:02.279 to get things right. Set yourself up for success, because 2473 02:15:02.279 --> 02:15:06.000 I'm telling you there is nothing like a gorgeous color 2474 02:15:06.039 --> 02:15:09.039 bed around your home. If you want to follow all 2475 02:15:09.119 --> 02:15:11.399 the rules of color, you can do that. You know, 2476 02:15:11.479 --> 02:15:12.960 you got to go to the opposite sides of the 2477 02:15:13.000 --> 02:15:15.520 color wheel and whatnot and all that stuff. Or you 2478 02:15:15.520 --> 02:15:18.359 can just plant what you like. Just remember all things 2479 02:15:18.359 --> 02:15:20.359 in the back short of things in the front, so 2480 02:15:20.479 --> 02:15:23.159 one beautiful plant doesn't hide another. 2481 02:15:23.199 --> 02:15:23.479 One. 2482 02:15:23.840 --> 02:15:25.880 Time for me to take a break the phone number 2483 02:15:25.920 --> 02:15:29.239 seven one three two one two kt r H. I'll 2484 02:15:29.239 --> 02:15:32.479 be right back, and feel free to grab a helium 2485 02:15:32.479 --> 02:15:39.079 balloon and sing along. All right, that's not of that. 2486 02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:42.640 Welcome back to garden Line, the show where we give 2487 02:15:42.680 --> 02:15:46.760 gardening advice and occasionally play weird stuff as music bumper music. 2488 02:15:47.119 --> 02:15:49.600 Our phone number seven one three two one two kt 2489 02:15:50.199 --> 02:15:53.279 r H. Let's head out to humble and we're gonna 2490 02:15:53.279 --> 02:15:59.640 talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, welcome to guard Line. Are 2491 02:15:59.640 --> 02:15:59.960 you there? 2492 02:16:00.479 --> 02:16:00.680 Rick? 2493 02:16:04.399 --> 02:16:07.239 All right? I don't know. Hope we lost him? Okay, 2494 02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:12.920 maybe Rock'll call back. Sound like he's on the road. Well. 2495 02:16:12.960 --> 02:16:15.239 I was talking about color in beds and things a 2496 02:16:15.239 --> 02:16:17.520 while ago and the importance of getting the soil right 2497 02:16:17.680 --> 02:16:20.479 round suftware green stuff. Part of the brown stuff is 2498 02:16:20.520 --> 02:16:23.560 also the nutrient levels, and mixing some stuff in the 2499 02:16:23.600 --> 02:16:25.880 soil is helpful. And you're gonna transplant plants, you could 2500 02:16:25.920 --> 02:16:28.159 sprinkle a little of the nutris tar genesis in there 2501 02:16:28.159 --> 02:16:30.560 by the way, that would be good. Just kind of 2502 02:16:30.560 --> 02:16:32.440 do it around the plants as you're mixing up the 2503 02:16:32.440 --> 02:16:35.319 soil and planting the transplants in there, give them a 2504 02:16:35.319 --> 02:16:37.559 good dose of it, and then get you some of 2505 02:16:37.639 --> 02:16:42.159 their color Star from Nelson and sprinkle that in to 2506 02:16:42.239 --> 02:16:44.680 provide the ongoing not sprinkle it into the soil, but 2507 02:16:44.760 --> 02:16:47.159 add it later as a top dressing and scratch it in, 2508 02:16:47.239 --> 02:16:50.120 water it in to continue about every three months. You 2509 02:16:50.159 --> 02:16:52.280 want to add some color story in to provide that 2510 02:16:52.360 --> 02:16:55.399 extra boost that's going on. Those are just two great 2511 02:16:55.399 --> 02:16:58.920 products again from the folks at Nelson. Plant food and 2512 02:16:59.120 --> 02:17:03.719 that extra nutrients extra nutrients. That is the key to 2513 02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:07.360 success with flowering plants. You know a lot of times 2514 02:17:07.399 --> 02:17:09.719 you look at fertilizers and a flowering furtlizer is going 2515 02:17:09.760 --> 02:17:12.520 to have higher phosphorus the middle number in it. And 2516 02:17:12.559 --> 02:17:18.280 that's true, that phosphorus. Each we oversimplify. We say, well, 2517 02:17:18.399 --> 02:17:21.920 like nitrogen makes more growth. Well, yes it does, but 2518 02:17:22.040 --> 02:17:26.559 nitrogen also does things inside the plants, the stems and 2519 02:17:26.600 --> 02:17:30.040 the roots that help with nutrient and water uptake as well. 2520 02:17:30.360 --> 02:17:33.159 So nutrients do a lot of things. And phosphorus, yes, 2521 02:17:33.200 --> 02:17:35.639 it does help root development, it does help bloom development. 2522 02:17:36.079 --> 02:17:38.920 But if you want a flowering plant to keep going, 2523 02:17:39.120 --> 02:17:42.760 it's got to keep growing. You've got to have new growth. 2524 02:17:42.879 --> 02:17:45.520 And those petunias I was talking about, they will flower 2525 02:17:45.600 --> 02:17:49.319 themselves into almost a stunted stage of growth. They will 2526 02:17:49.319 --> 02:17:52.360 overdo it. I'll take my petunias as getting way ahead 2527 02:17:52.399 --> 02:17:54.680 of the season, but just an FYI, I'll take my 2528 02:17:54.719 --> 02:17:57.200 petunias and after they've done their good bloom and they're 2529 02:17:57.239 --> 02:17:59.479 kind of waning a little bit, I will sheare mine 2530 02:17:59.559 --> 02:18:01.920 back and then I'll fertilize them and water it in 2531 02:18:02.120 --> 02:18:04.319 and get a new boost of growth. Because that boost 2532 02:18:04.360 --> 02:18:05.600 of new growth is going to have a whole bunch 2533 02:18:05.680 --> 02:18:07.719 of new growth on it, a new bloom's on it. 2534 02:18:08.360 --> 02:18:12.319 Same thing with Salvia greggy I. That's a perennial for summertime. 2535 02:18:13.120 --> 02:18:18.079 Wonderful salvia, wonderful native of the Southwest salvia. Your Salvia 2536 02:18:18.079 --> 02:18:22.280 gregye will become a sparse, woody subshrub if you never 2537 02:18:22.319 --> 02:18:25.600 fertilize it. If you will print it back by a bout. 2538 02:18:26.079 --> 02:18:29.600 I'd cut it back by about two thirds, maybe half, 2539 02:18:30.159 --> 02:18:33.120 at the end of winter. Put some fertilizer down, watered in. 2540 02:18:33.200 --> 02:18:34.840 You're going to get fresh new growth. By the time 2541 02:18:34.840 --> 02:18:38.600 we get to May, it's going to be still blooming. 2542 02:18:38.600 --> 02:18:41.159 It never quits blooming. It's always blooming. Gouind and shear 2543 02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:43.639 it again, this time only by about a third. Fertilize 2544 02:18:43.680 --> 02:18:46.639 it in water and watch what happens. The roses are 2545 02:18:46.639 --> 02:18:49.399 that way. You know, they have a big spring bloom. 2546 02:18:49.520 --> 02:18:52.920 April is beautiful and they kind of wane. Cheer them 2547 02:18:52.920 --> 02:18:55.600 back a little bit, fertilize them water and get some 2548 02:18:55.680 --> 02:18:58.079 new growth again. We do the same thing in August 2549 02:18:58.200 --> 02:19:00.719 for our roses. At the end of August, and also 2550 02:19:00.920 --> 02:19:03.600 for some of the other plants like Salvia grege you 2551 02:19:03.639 --> 02:19:06.600 can do it again. Just cheer it back, fertilize it. 2552 02:19:06.799 --> 02:19:10.799 You need growth to have good bloom production. And a 2553 02:19:10.840 --> 02:19:13.360 lot of times our plants bloom great at first, everything's 2554 02:19:13.399 --> 02:19:15.239 pretty in the spring, and then it's like, yeah, they're 2555 02:19:15.239 --> 02:19:18.000 not doing so good for a lot of plants. That 2556 02:19:18.120 --> 02:19:21.239 is a strategy to help solve that. We're going to 2557 02:19:21.280 --> 02:19:25.159 go now out to talk to k in Pearland. Hello, Kay, 2558 02:19:25.239 --> 02:19:26.399 welcome to garden Line. 2559 02:19:26.879 --> 02:19:30.479 Well, hi, thank you. I forgot to ask you yesterday. 2560 02:19:31.760 --> 02:19:33.920 Can you grow mayhaws here? 2561 02:19:35.920 --> 02:19:39.760 You can? You can mayhaws like a slightly acidic soil. 2562 02:19:40.520 --> 02:19:44.120 They can tolerate wet conditions. They're not. That doesn't mean 2563 02:19:44.200 --> 02:19:47.840 they have to be constantly soggy wet. It just means 2564 02:19:47.879 --> 02:19:52.200 they tolerate that. And there are a few varieties out 2565 02:19:52.239 --> 02:19:54.840 there that you can find. They're not easy to find. 2566 02:19:55.600 --> 02:19:59.680 Mayhaws are not a common fruit, but they are one 2567 02:19:59.719 --> 02:20:04.360 of the few Texas native fruits that we have. You know, 2568 02:20:04.399 --> 02:20:09.440 we don't have a lot of native fruits. So did 2569 02:20:09.520 --> 02:20:15.760 you grow up excuse me, did you grow up eating mayhaws? 2570 02:20:16.520 --> 02:20:18.600 Now you're growing up, did you have there? 2571 02:20:19.639 --> 02:20:25.840 I worked for of someone who did craft shows and 2572 02:20:25.959 --> 02:20:32.120 he made his own jams and jellies and sauces and 2573 02:20:32.159 --> 02:20:34.920 all that thing, and had a lot of people asking 2574 02:20:34.959 --> 02:20:39.559 for Mayhaw jelly and he didn't have a Mayhaw tree 2575 02:20:39.959 --> 02:20:44.440 and he couldn't find it anywhere. So I just I 2576 02:20:44.479 --> 02:20:47.639 was just curious if it, you know, if if they're 2577 02:20:47.719 --> 02:20:49.040 they are not prominent. 2578 02:20:49.159 --> 02:20:54.120 I know, so yeah, they're not. And I was recently 2579 02:20:54.719 --> 02:20:57.239 recently looking over the Arbigate list of fruits. I mean, 2580 02:20:57.239 --> 02:21:00.760 they have bazillion kind of fruit plants to get sent 2581 02:21:00.840 --> 02:21:03.719 up at Urbigate, and mayhous is not on that list either. 2582 02:21:04.360 --> 02:21:06.920 I don't know if they could get them, but there's 2583 02:21:06.959 --> 02:21:08.200 going to be a way to get a hold of them. 2584 02:21:08.239 --> 02:21:10.399 They're just they're just not in the trade. People don't 2585 02:21:10.399 --> 02:21:11.920 ask for them. People don't even know what they are. 2586 02:21:12.440 --> 02:21:14.719 But they're like a little miniature apples. If you look 2587 02:21:14.719 --> 02:21:16.559 at one growing looks like a little tiny apple. 2588 02:21:16.639 --> 02:21:20.159 I've never really even seen one. 2589 02:21:20.040 --> 02:21:21.159 Yeah, so I don't know. 2590 02:21:21.479 --> 02:21:25.840 I was just curious because they are people love the jelly, 2591 02:21:26.479 --> 02:21:29.719 and that just happened, you know, more than one year 2592 02:21:29.920 --> 02:21:33.840 that he's been doing this, So I was just curious. 2593 02:21:34.120 --> 02:21:35.159 But thank you so much. 2594 02:21:35.239 --> 02:21:39.840 There you go, Thank you, take care of you. Back, 2595 02:21:40.239 --> 02:21:43.239 appreciate the call. Take care. All right, we got Rick back. 2596 02:21:43.319 --> 02:21:45.600 Let's go to Humble and we're going to talk to Rick. Hey, Rick, 2597 02:21:45.680 --> 02:21:46.799 welcome to garden Line. 2598 02:21:48.680 --> 02:21:51.840 Hey, Skip, I got a question for you about by 2599 02:21:51.959 --> 02:21:56.399 high grass, like the various varieties. I've got a property 2600 02:21:56.399 --> 02:22:00.360 in San Ju Sano County and it's mostly sandy home 2601 02:22:00.559 --> 02:22:05.120 and it's acidic because it's mostly forested. As curious as 2602 02:22:05.520 --> 02:22:09.559 it is behind the proper choice for that, uh scenario? 2603 02:22:09.680 --> 02:22:11.920 Or is there better options? And tip that there is 2604 02:22:11.959 --> 02:22:14.639 anything available that's made him. I would I'd love to 2605 02:22:14.680 --> 02:22:17.600 have a you know, use that as well. 2606 02:22:17.680 --> 02:22:20.440 So I'll go ahead and yeah, let's go. 2607 02:22:21.079 --> 02:22:23.639 Well that's a that's a great question, Rick. And what 2608 02:22:23.719 --> 02:22:27.040 we what we uh refer to it as behea grass 2609 02:22:27.120 --> 02:22:35.280 b A h I A like the Labajea Mexican Texas. 2610 02:22:35.399 --> 02:22:42.680 What mission mission site? The hair grass is very good 2611 02:22:43.040 --> 02:22:48.440 in acidic areas, rainy area is a very tough grass, 2612 02:22:48.600 --> 02:22:51.680 very tough. I knew a guy that had a Christmas 2613 02:22:51.680 --> 02:22:53.680 tree farm in East Texas and he used the hair 2614 02:22:53.719 --> 02:22:55.280 grass as his parking lot. 2615 02:22:56.120 --> 02:22:56.239 Uh. 2616 02:22:56.360 --> 02:22:58.120 And it I mean it can take the wear and 2617 02:22:58.200 --> 02:23:02.639 tear and it was is good as a lawn grass. 2618 02:23:02.239 --> 02:23:05.159 It has a problem number one. It's a very coarse 2619 02:23:05.280 --> 02:23:09.319 textured grass. It's not pleasant to walk on. But in 2620 02:23:09.360 --> 02:23:12.520 Florida and other places they do have Behey lawns and 2621 02:23:12.559 --> 02:23:14.280 they manage them, they take care of them, and they 2622 02:23:14.319 --> 02:23:16.319 make a decent lawn out of it. The thing I 2623 02:23:16.319 --> 02:23:18.799 don't like about Behea is it sends up a seedhead 2624 02:23:18.799 --> 02:23:21.319 the day after you mow, and those seaedheads will be 2625 02:23:21.360 --> 02:23:23.479 on like one foot stalk sticking up. It's like you 2626 02:23:23.559 --> 02:23:25.959 mowed it and within no time, here's these seedheads coming 2627 02:23:26.000 --> 02:23:29.319 back up. And that that's kind of not such a 2628 02:23:29.520 --> 02:23:32.680 conducive to a pretty lawn. But it is a very tough, 2629 02:23:32.840 --> 02:23:35.319 easy to grow grass, not a problem at all to grow. 2630 02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:38.280 You just don't see it from sod farms and things. 2631 02:23:38.319 --> 02:23:43.719 Typically this is a property good no homeowners association, So 2632 02:23:43.879 --> 02:23:44.440 I don't know that. 2633 02:23:44.440 --> 02:23:47.520 That's kind of okay, there you go. 2634 02:23:47.399 --> 02:23:49.639 I gotta make mama happy. And other than that, I mean, 2635 02:23:49.959 --> 02:23:52.680 is there any like spring grass or anything else that's 2636 02:23:52.719 --> 02:23:56.040 like a native grass that would be good for a 2637 02:23:56.079 --> 02:23:58.000 place that gets about sixty inches a round a here? 2638 02:23:59.600 --> 02:24:04.479 Yeah, there are a number of different ones. Yeah, Okay, 2639 02:24:04.680 --> 02:24:06.719 if you want to hang on, let me run to 2640 02:24:06.760 --> 02:24:08.319 a break. I gotta go and let me come back 2641 02:24:08.360 --> 02:24:10.040 and try to answer this a little bit more for you. 2642 02:24:10.040 --> 02:24:12.360 If not, thank you for the call. All right, folks, 2643 02:24:12.399 --> 02:24:17.239 I'll be right back. All right, Welcome back to Garden Line. 2644 02:24:18.639 --> 02:24:21.440 We're gonna run back to the phones here in our 2645 02:24:21.520 --> 02:24:24.399 last segment of the day. By the way, we're gonna 2646 02:24:24.399 --> 02:24:27.399 go to Houston and talk to David. Hello, David, Welcome 2647 02:24:27.440 --> 02:24:28.200 to Garden Line. 2648 02:24:28.879 --> 02:24:30.239 Yes, sir, how are you this morning? 2649 02:24:30.280 --> 02:24:33.319 Good morning, I'm good, I'm good. 2650 02:24:33.799 --> 02:24:37.799 My daughter and Russy have got a Christmas President's a 2651 02:24:37.920 --> 02:24:40.920 garden light, and we just wanted to get something like, 2652 02:24:41.040 --> 02:24:44.399 something different, something special, And I don't know, I just 2653 02:24:44.680 --> 02:24:46.200 I just want to see what what you what would 2654 02:24:46.200 --> 02:24:49.120 you suggest that we get to put to start our 2655 02:24:49.159 --> 02:24:50.440 little growing venture together. 2656 02:24:51.920 --> 02:24:54.959 Okay, So is this one of the gadgets that is 2657 02:24:55.040 --> 02:24:57.600 hydroponic that has water in it? Or is it just 2658 02:24:57.719 --> 02:24:58.639 the light itself. 2659 02:24:59.600 --> 02:25:02.959 It's a it's a whole little kid, I guess. 2660 02:25:02.360 --> 02:25:04.719 Uh, yes, a. 2661 02:25:04.719 --> 02:25:08.959 Light and everything and a little containers. So I didn't know. 2662 02:25:13.559 --> 02:25:17.760 Okay, So it's probably sold to grow flowers and vegetables 2663 02:25:17.799 --> 02:25:21.760 and herbs and things. Do you think, yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, yes, okay, 2664 02:25:22.200 --> 02:25:23.760 all right, I just want to make sure we're on 2665 02:25:23.840 --> 02:25:28.159 the same page. Well, you know, it kind of depends 2666 02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:29.879 on what she wants to grow. If you have a 2667 02:25:29.920 --> 02:25:32.639 garden and you would like to start some tomato plants 2668 02:25:32.799 --> 02:25:36.239 or some pepper plants or or something like that, she 2669 02:25:36.280 --> 02:25:40.559 could start those under it for transplanting outside into pots 2670 02:25:40.680 --> 02:25:45.280 or into the soil later. If you're looking for, you know, 2671 02:25:45.399 --> 02:25:49.920 something that's kind of small and and uh, you can manage, uh, 2672 02:25:51.559 --> 02:25:54.000 whether it's you know, a little pat on the pot 2673 02:25:54.040 --> 02:25:57.120 on the patio or something. Basil is an excellent little 2674 02:25:57.120 --> 02:25:58.920 one that comes in a lot of different types, shoot 2675 02:25:58.920 --> 02:26:01.399 and grow like a lemon basil. You can grow a 2676 02:26:01.479 --> 02:26:05.559 tie basil. It's called thie basil does really well if 2677 02:26:05.559 --> 02:26:07.280 you want to put a plant in the garden to 2678 02:26:07.319 --> 02:26:11.200 attract bees and pollinators. There's one called African blue basil 2679 02:26:11.239 --> 02:26:15.040 that that's usually rooted from cuttings, but the basil would 2680 02:26:15.079 --> 02:26:18.000 be an option for that. If you're looking for flowers 2681 02:26:18.120 --> 02:26:22.239 that you can plant outside, starting some zenias inside would 2682 02:26:22.280 --> 02:26:25.639 be really good. They grow fast and pretty easy to grow. 2683 02:26:25.920 --> 02:26:27.920 As it warms up a little bit, you could start 2684 02:26:27.920 --> 02:26:30.879 a cucumber or a squash to plant it outside. If 2685 02:26:30.920 --> 02:26:34.040 you only just grow something underneath that, then maybe a 2686 02:26:34.120 --> 02:26:37.360 houseplant that's going to be a little more compact would 2687 02:26:37.360 --> 02:26:40.239 be a way to go. But I don't I don't 2688 02:26:40.239 --> 02:26:42.360 know what kind of plants she's interested in. 2689 02:26:43.319 --> 02:26:45.719 Yeah, this is our first time to do anything like this, 2690 02:26:45.840 --> 02:26:48.680 so we're just trying to do something to start off, 2691 02:26:48.719 --> 02:26:51.440 something special and just someone can do together. 2692 02:26:53.079 --> 02:26:56.360 Okay, well, yeah, that's a great idea. Congratulations on that 2693 02:26:56.440 --> 02:27:01.000 you're doing. You're doing a good thing there. I gardened 2694 02:27:01.000 --> 02:27:03.440 with all my kids and a lot of them still garden. 2695 02:27:03.479 --> 02:27:03.639 Now. 2696 02:27:03.639 --> 02:27:06.040 It's a good it's a good thing. Uh So yeah, 2697 02:27:06.040 --> 02:27:08.040 I kind of to find the things that you are 2698 02:27:08.079 --> 02:27:10.360 interested in growing. You know, I mentioned food, I mentioned 2699 02:27:10.399 --> 02:27:13.959 some flowers, I mentioned some herbs. You could even start 2700 02:27:14.000 --> 02:27:17.920 a little plant like like a time or a regano 2701 02:27:18.280 --> 02:27:21.959 or a rosemary underneath there, uh that later than could 2702 02:27:22.000 --> 02:27:24.559 be moved out. Most of those the light is so 2703 02:27:24.719 --> 02:27:28.479 close to the plants that you can't grow something really tall. Now, 2704 02:27:28.520 --> 02:27:30.399 if yours is different than that, you have to let 2705 02:27:30.440 --> 02:27:32.760 me know, like how how far is it from the 2706 02:27:32.840 --> 02:27:35.520 light to where your plants would be on that kit? 2707 02:27:36.639 --> 02:27:39.440 It's uh, it's really not not that big at all. 2708 02:27:39.520 --> 02:27:42.280 My uh uh hold on, let me, yeah, it's it's 2709 02:27:42.959 --> 02:27:46.280 it's just a little miniature one, just something that's going 2710 02:27:46.360 --> 02:27:50.440 to go on the hall kind of. It's really uh okay, 2711 02:27:51.840 --> 02:27:53.959 I mean, you know, it's a smaller one. It's nothing big, 2712 02:27:54.319 --> 02:27:54.959 you know at all. 2713 02:27:55.799 --> 02:27:58.520 Yeah, Yeah, you might want to go to a to 2714 02:27:59.000 --> 02:28:02.079 a garden center. I don't know what part of the 2715 02:28:02.159 --> 02:28:04.159 area you're in, but we've got a lot of good 2716 02:28:04.200 --> 02:28:09.040 garden centers that have some really small options with types 2717 02:28:09.079 --> 02:28:11.399 of houseplants that are very interesting that you might be 2718 02:28:11.399 --> 02:28:14.559 able to start in there. Of course, those garden centers 2719 02:28:14.600 --> 02:28:16.799 would also have seed. If you wanted to grow something 2720 02:28:16.840 --> 02:28:19.879 from seed, I would suggest starting with something that's easy 2721 02:28:19.920 --> 02:28:21.879 so you can have good success, you know, some of 2722 02:28:21.920 --> 02:28:25.399 the challenging things. Yeah, you don't want to probably dive 2723 02:28:25.440 --> 02:28:27.440 into that first, and that that was the nature of 2724 02:28:27.479 --> 02:28:31.680 your call anyway, So I would I would go with 2725 02:28:32.000 --> 02:28:34.600 the you know, zenias are easy, but you're not going 2726 02:28:34.680 --> 02:28:37.079 to grow the whole zenny out underneath that light. It 2727 02:28:37.120 --> 02:28:42.319 would be as starting it as a transplant for things. Yeah, 2728 02:28:42.440 --> 02:28:46.479 regano maybe time a regano would be pretty easy to 2729 02:28:46.520 --> 02:28:49.040 grow as an herb. If you had some chives and 2730 02:28:49.120 --> 02:28:51.639 you wanted to grow those, you could take scissors and 2731 02:28:51.799 --> 02:28:54.920 harvest them to put into like scrambled eggs as a seasoning. 2732 02:28:55.079 --> 02:28:57.840 Chop chives up in little quarter inch strips and or 2733 02:28:57.879 --> 02:29:00.440 sections and put them into scrambled eggs. So then you 2734 02:29:00.440 --> 02:29:02.440 get to kind of eat the thing that you're growing. 2735 02:29:03.360 --> 02:29:06.440 So those would be a few ideas well. 2736 02:29:06.479 --> 02:29:07.399 Thank you very much, sir. 2737 02:29:08.879 --> 02:29:11.799 We'll have fun with that. Good luck. And then she's welcome. 2738 02:29:11.879 --> 02:29:14.000 I've had kids call in the guardlane before, so she's 2739 02:29:14.000 --> 02:29:16.079 welcome as we go along, if she has questions, I'm 2740 02:29:16.079 --> 02:29:18.200 not too shy to do it. She's welcome to call 2741 02:29:18.239 --> 02:29:20.280 in and ask questions about it. As you get going 2742 02:29:20.319 --> 02:29:22.399 and run into things you want to visit about. 2743 02:29:22.479 --> 02:29:24.600 Okay, yes, thank you very much. 2744 02:29:24.639 --> 02:29:28.319 Have a great day you too, Thanks for the call, David. 2745 02:29:28.360 --> 02:29:31.879 I appreciate that. Yeah, get kids started early, you know. 2746 02:29:32.079 --> 02:29:37.120 The if you've got kids and you've you've not gardened, 2747 02:29:37.319 --> 02:29:39.959 you know, or anything, you ought to consider getting them 2748 02:29:40.000 --> 02:29:42.600 involved in gardening, and you know, goes someplace where you 2749 02:29:42.639 --> 02:29:44.520 can get all kinds of things that you might need 2750 02:29:44.559 --> 02:29:46.360 and get all set up for it. You know, you 2751 02:29:46.440 --> 02:29:48.360 go into an ACE Hardware store, for example, and you're 2752 02:29:48.360 --> 02:29:50.920 going to find the little soluble fertilizers that you would 2753 02:29:51.000 --> 02:29:55.360 use in uh an indoor garden. Of course it's outdoor 2754 02:29:55.399 --> 02:29:58.159 gardening as well also, but they're gonna have a wide 2755 02:29:58.239 --> 02:30:01.920 range of fertilizer and products like that do well. We 2756 02:30:02.000 --> 02:30:05.920 were talking about gardening in this I think it's probably 2757 02:30:06.000 --> 02:30:08.959 not a hydroponic system that David was talking about. But 2758 02:30:09.280 --> 02:30:12.040 if it's not, Ace Hardware is going to have the 2759 02:30:12.079 --> 02:30:15.600 putting mixes and things of the seed starting mixes that 2760 02:30:15.639 --> 02:30:17.319 you would want to have. Now you know when you 2761 02:30:17.360 --> 02:30:19.159 go to ACE, you're going to find everything you need. 2762 02:30:19.239 --> 02:30:21.719 This time of the year, we're looking at getting our 2763 02:30:21.719 --> 02:30:24.920 garages in order spring cleaning. You need shelving, you need 2764 02:30:25.040 --> 02:30:28.079 containers and storage, toats and things like that. They've got 2765 02:30:28.120 --> 02:30:31.639 all of that as well. Little tools for are you 2766 02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:35.600 in your gardening outdoor tools for things in the gardening. 2767 02:30:35.639 --> 02:30:38.200 Ace has got it anywhere you go. You can go 2768 02:30:38.280 --> 02:30:41.360 to acehardware dot Com, find the store locator. When you 2769 02:30:41.360 --> 02:30:43.719 find the store locator, you're going to be able to 2770 02:30:44.200 --> 02:30:46.799 find the stores more than one that are near you. 2771 02:30:47.360 --> 02:30:50.639 Acehardware dot Com stores near you. For example, Aspa ACE 2772 02:30:50.719 --> 02:30:54.200 up in the Woodlands, Lake Conroe, ACE up there, Montgomery, 2773 02:30:54.559 --> 02:30:59.360 Katie Ace Hardware is just another example of many dozens 2774 02:30:59.520 --> 02:31:03.280 of Ace Heart of stores in our region. Well that's 2775 02:31:03.319 --> 02:31:06.760 the skiptop. Stop talking music, and that means we are 2776 02:31:06.879 --> 02:31:09.520 done with the show for today. Thanks for listening, appreciate it. 2777 02:31:09.520 --> 02:31:12.200 I hope you've enjoyed it. I talked about a lot 2778 02:31:12.200 --> 02:31:17.079 of things today. Hopefully that was something along the lines 2779 02:31:17.079 --> 02:31:19.399 that was of interest to you. Thanks for being listener. 2780 02:31:19.520 --> 02:31:22.239 Remember our shows are available in this podcast at the 2781 02:31:22.319 --> 02:31:25.840 ktr H website if you go to my website Gardening 2782 02:31:26.079 --> 02:31:29.840 with Skip dot com. Right when you go to the website, 2783 02:31:29.920 --> 02:31:33.280 on that bar across below my picture is listen to 2784 02:31:33.799 --> 02:31:39.040 garden line. Listen line and listen to passion. Have a 2785 02:31:39.200 --> 02:31:41.639 fun week out there in the garden. We'll see you 2786 02:31:41.639 --> 02:31:43.399 next Saturday.