WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:05.080 Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skimp Richard. 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:24.800 It's crazy trip. Just watch him as well. 3 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:33.280 Us so many botis to supatasy not a sorry class gas. 4 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.240 Well, good morning. Yeah, it's me live. I uh. Isn't 5 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:44.880 been a low break here during the holiday season. I 6 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.679 hope you have had a wonderful time with family. Hopefully 7 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:51.439 got some rest. Here we go first guard Line show 8 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.759 of twenty twenty five. We will be here for your 9 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.240 calls as we always are. If you would like to 10 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:00.240 give me a call at seven one three two one 11 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.560 to ktr H seven one three two one two k 12 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.840 t RH. We'll talk about whatever is of interest to you, 13 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.319 what is pressing in the gardening world of your backyard 14 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.599 or your front yard. Right now, we will be having 15 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.640 a great season. I have determined, just decided by myself 16 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:20.680 that this is gonna be one of the best gardening 17 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:24.959 years ever. I mean it. I really am looking forward 18 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:27.599 to this gardening season. You know, every year throws us 19 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:31.159 its own curve. Some years it's awfully hot and dry. 20 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:33.680 Some years it just doesn't seem to want to quit 21 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.519 rain in some years it tends to give us a 22 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.359 pretty good coal snap. We got one of those coming 23 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.959 by the way, but not too terribly bad. We'll talk 24 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:44.480 about that a little bit as we go on through 25 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.760 the show today. But no matter what happens, there's a 26 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.599 lot that we are in control of when it comes 27 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:54.200 to gardening in the weather that once we understand how 28 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:57.599 to properly take care of plants, meaning get plants what 29 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.159 they want, that's kind of what it amounts to. We'll 30 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.439 talk about having a green thumb. A green thumb isn't 31 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:04.920 there's no such thing as a green thumb. I like 32 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:06.799 to put it that way because it makes a point, 33 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:11.400 and that point is that it's not like some people 34 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:13.560 just have a green thumb. And if you feel like 35 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:15.919 your thumb's been brown and every time you try to 36 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.719 grow something it doesn't work, you have these problems or 37 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.840 issues or things, don't worry about that. We will fix it. 38 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:25.960 Because a green thumb is i'll just say, a myth 39 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:27.520 And if you want to think of it as a 40 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.159 green thumb, well, let's do it this way. Then there's 41 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.080 no such thing as a brown thumb. There's just an 42 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:36.240 uninformed thumb. So we will inform your thumb and amazingly 43 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.039 it will start to turn green. That's how it works 44 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.639 garden line seven one three two one two kt r H. 45 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.159 I'm your host, skip Rictor and really looking forward to 46 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:50.879 twenty twenty five. Out in the garden. We are entering 47 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:55.000 that season where everybody gets gardening fever. You know, people 48 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.280 that aren't really even into gardening when spring comes here 49 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:03.360 and it's just on the doorstep. When it hits, people 50 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:06.840 get gardening fever. And gardening fever causes us to want 51 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.240 to go out and buy and plant and do all 52 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:11.840 kinds of things. And I think that's great. I think 53 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:14.840 that's great. But if you're going to do it, let's 54 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.719 do it in a smart way. How about that? What 55 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.360 does that mean? That means don't just grab a plant 56 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.439 that doesn't belong in the greater Houston area. Plant something 57 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:28.800 that wants to be here. Maybe you just move from Colorado. 58 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:31.159 I love blue spruce, they don't grow here. Maybe you 59 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:34.120 love that blue Colorado columbine. Yeah, I know, you went 60 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.560 ski in, you saw a seedbacket, whatever. Just put it 61 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:40.000 on the shelf and enjoy looking at it, because that's 62 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:42.280 as close to a Columbine flowers you're going to get 63 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:45.680 here in Texas. From the blue Colorado are the ones 64 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.240 that are. You know, all those multicolors that they'll sell 65 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:51.759 up there. We have two native columbines down here, the Hinkleys, 66 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.560 which is a yellow, beautiful columbine yellow. And then our 67 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.960 native that's in central Texas is a small red columbine 68 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.159 that's a native here. Plant those they'll grow. See what 69 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:05.879 I'm talking about. Maybe you move from the Midwest. Oh 70 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:10.240 my goodness, for cythia anywhere really, anywhere further north in 71 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.599 the country. Forsythia is gorgeous, the first harbinger of spring, 72 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.480 just about in the springtime. Don't plant it here, it's 73 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.959 not for here. Do you like lilax? You know that 74 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:25.600 fragrance of lilacs. Just let your memory tell you how 75 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:29.000 wonderful they smell. Because they don't belong here, but lots 76 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:31.720 of things do. And by planting plants that want to 77 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:35.639 grow here, you can have success. That is step one. 78 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.879 Plant something that wants to grow. Step two is prepare 79 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:42.079 the soil. Actually, that is step one. We always talk 80 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.040 about brown stuff or green stuff on garden line. Make 81 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.600 that your number one New Year's resolution this year. If 82 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.839 you want to be a gardener, number one resolution is 83 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.240 to choose things that want to grow, but plant them 84 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:57.800 in soil they want to be in. So for example, 85 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.720 we have native plants like Central Texas native, the Texas 86 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:07.720 Mountain Laurel, beautiful clusters grape like clusters of blooms that 87 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:13.160 have a gaudy grape, bubblegum, grape, kool aid, whatever fragrance 88 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.720 to them, a wonderful, wonderful plant. We also have plants, 89 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.399 excuse me, their native to the eastern parts of the state, 90 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.800 more acidic soils. Those two plants, even though they are 91 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:26.240 both Texas plants, don't want to be in the same soil, 92 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.360 and so you got to give them what they want. 93 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:33.079 And that makes it even easier to have success is 94 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:36.839 you're not trying to swim up stream. You're actually planting 95 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:38.839 things in the soil they want to be in. So 96 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.040 that's number one New Year's resolution. Get out there and 97 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:45.519 fix your soil. Now's the time to do it. Anytime 98 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:49.519 in the cool season, soil is dry enough to work, 99 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.120 it's a good time to do that. Raised beds are 100 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:54.720 always a good idea because you can always add water, 101 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.480 but you can't take it away when you have excess 102 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.560 soggy wet, which I've gotten some of my right now, 103 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.079 I've got an area I'm trying to redo and I'm 104 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.000 just having to wait on the soil to dry out 105 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.519 enough to be able to work it. But you can 106 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.480 always create raised beds, you can always amend the soil, 107 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:14.600 you can provide more organic matter for your soil. All 108 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.279 of that kind of stuff will help you have success. 109 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.879 And that's what we want you to have. I want 110 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.199 you to have success in your garden, and so we 111 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:26.680 will harp. I'll be a broken record on preparing the soil, 112 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:29.399 preparing the soil, taking care of the soil, getting it right, 113 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:32.439 making the plants feel at home, all of the above. 114 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.920 And when we do that, we will have success. It 115 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.000 just sets us up for success. Now, there's a lot 116 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:43.120 of different things that can happen that you know will 117 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.800 throw you curves and challenges. I don't mean just you know, 118 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:48.279 you prepare the soil and nothing goes wrong. Well, there's 119 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:51.399 a lot more to it, but seriously, that is step one, 120 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.360 and that's where most people go wrong. Most people go 121 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.279 wrong by not preparing the soil ahead of time. So 122 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:02.199 courage you to do that and I'll perhaps I'll spend 123 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:04.000 a little time on that today. I know I will 124 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:07.000 week by week. Here as we go through here on 125 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.480 Garden Line. Well, thanks for listening, thanks for rejoining us 126 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.240 here in twenty twenty five. We're coming up on a 127 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:15.879 little bit of a break here. If you'd like to 128 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.680 give me a call, get on the board. We can 129 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.879 visit with you about the kinds of questions you might 130 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.040 have seven to one three two one two five eight 131 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:26.040 seven four. That is seven one three, two one two 132 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.680 fifty eight seventy four. If you have a question that 133 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.360 might involve a photo, give my producer Jonathan a call 134 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:37.160 and get an email so you can send me a 135 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.319 photo and then call and we'll talk about it on 136 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.199 the air. Sometimes, you know, you're describing a weed and 137 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.240 what I'm picturing and what you're describing isn't the same thing. 138 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.439 Or maybe it's a flower or a fruit or something. 139 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:51.079 Go ahead and just let you know, send me a photo, 140 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:53.480 Let's let me look at it, then let's talk about it. 141 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:55.759 Because I guarantee you this other people will have the 142 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.759 same questions that you have. Well, I'll be right back 143 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.439 in just a moment with your questions and with more 144 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.560 a garden Line. Come back to Guarden Line, folks. Get 145 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.120 good to have you with us this morning. Welcome back 146 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:12.279 to We're welcome back. Welcome to twenty twenty five, the 147 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.160 best gardening year you will ever have experienced. This is 148 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:19.360 it being positive. Gardeners are optimists. We absolutely have to be, 149 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:22.279 because you know, we take these little dried pieces of 150 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:27.240 detritus that just look like, I don't know, just wood chip, 151 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:29.680 tiny wood chips, and we put them in the soil, 152 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:35.000 knowing that a tomato or a petunia is going to 153 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.120 come out of that thing. It's actually going to come 154 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.200 to life, grow and produce stuff that we really want 155 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:43.879 to see or eat or whatever. That's an optimist. We 156 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.200 believe in the future, and twenty twenty five is going 157 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:48.799 to be a great gardening year. I can just tell 158 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.600 you that we're going to start off by going straight 159 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:53.440 to the phones and this hour or segment, and we're 160 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.799 going to go to talk to Michael in Montgomery. Hello, Michael, 161 00:08:56.879 --> 00:09:06.639 Welcome to garden Line. Hello. Hello, I'm here, all righty, 162 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:07.720 Well there he is. 163 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.039 Hey Mike, how are we doing this morning? 164 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.320 Are you well? I'm good. I'm a little rusty. I 165 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:16.200 forgot to push the right button to get you on, 166 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:18.039 so I'm just talking to myself instead of you. 167 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:19.759 Good. 168 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:20.840 Have you got a problem. 169 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.200 I planted a six foot red maple last year in 170 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:30.840 place of my oak that died and its plant and 171 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:34.320 it's bloomed leaves and everything. But now with Paul, it 172 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.559 dropped its leaves and everything. And with this freeze coming around, 173 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:39.799 do I have to wrap it as a security? 174 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:44.879 You know, red maple is a hearty tree for our 175 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:46.960 area and we don't have to worry about it for cold, 176 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:51.000 but in your situation there I would. And here's why 177 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.639 we've We've been pretty warm these last few weeks, and 178 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.919 plants that can become very cold hearty when they hear 179 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.039 and off as the weather gets colder and colder gradually, 180 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:07.799 they can be very uncold, hardy when suddenly a freeze 181 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.879 comes and they're not ready for it. Now, nine chances 182 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.240 out of ten, youre tree's gonna be fine, but just 183 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.919 to be safe with it, I would wrap up the 184 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:20.200 trunk around the base of the trunk. There are some 185 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.159 some wraps that you can put around them to protect 186 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:27.399 the sun from warming up those trunk tissues. And what 187 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:29.639 happens is the sun will warm it during the day 188 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:32.240 and a brand new This is true with red oaks, 189 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:34.320 it's true with grape myrtles and several other kinds of 190 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:38.519 trees up. The sun shines on that trunk and it 191 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.519 warms up warmer than the air around it, Just like 192 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:44.279 if you stood outside on a cold, cold winter day 193 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:46.039 that you could feel the warmth of the sun on 194 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.879 your face. Well, that's what happens. Those tissues start to 195 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.240 flow sap a little bit, and then that night it 196 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:56.120 freezes and you get freeze damaged, typically on the southwest 197 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.639 side of the trunk. So normally I don't recommend trump 198 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.840 rock trunk wraps, but for that I would. You could. 199 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.639 You could use different things to do it, but there 200 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:08.200 are some papers you can wrap around to kind of crinkly. 201 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:10.679 There's some plastic wraps and things, but I like the 202 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:14.080 paper wraps. Just until that tree gets a year or 203 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:16.799 so on it, a year or two on it more, 204 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:21.120 and that trunk starts to get a little heartier. Then 205 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.759 the bark gets a little thicker and it's not so 206 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:28.519 likely to suffer that southwest injury on a freezing night. 207 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:32.519 Awesome, Thank you very much for your advice. 208 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.200 I'll get to work today. You bet all right. You 209 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.039 take care and fortunately this freeze is going to be 210 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:42.879 fairly mild. And so I'm I think if people that 211 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:44.639 are listening going, oh my gosh, I got to wrap 212 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:47.279 all my trees. No, you probably don't, but on a 213 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:50.639 brand new, thin trunk tree. Yeah, well thanks for the call, man, 214 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:55.919 I appreciate it. Thank you, all right. Yeah, for those 215 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:59.240 of you listening, just keep that in mind. You know, 216 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.480 it's like, you know, if you were to say, you know, skipped, 217 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:04.480 are we gonna get damage to all our tree trunks 218 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:09.960 this freeze? Well no, probably not not at all, but 219 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:15.039 there's a possibility. And when a tree is young, it's 220 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.039 it's a paper thin bark. I mean it's very very thin, 221 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.879 you know, it doesn't have those deep ridges. It's very smooth, 222 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.840 and a maple tree bark is not smooth normally, but 223 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:29.200 when a hung it is. I was in Atlanta, Georgia walking. 224 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:30.919 They have a I don't know what they call it. 225 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.120 It's like a beltway that goes around the city, but 226 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.320 it's a walkway. It's a big, giant wide sidewalk, you know, 227 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:40.039 maybe fifteen feet wide or something. It goes around the city. 228 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.440 You can walk the whole thing, and walking through I 229 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:47.440 just noticed every little tree had a wound. On the 230 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:49.919 southwest side at the base, I say, little tree. Now, 231 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.120 those things the first time I went there were probably 232 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.759 the size of a of a golf ball, and I 233 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.679 saw the wounds in. Now these things, I've been going 234 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.759 for several years, but probably a lot of them are 235 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:06.360 four to six inches thick, and when you look at them, 236 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:10.279 you can see that old wound where the southwest injury 237 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:13.919 occurred when they were a little thin trunk, thin barked 238 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:18.440 young trees. And that's exactly how it happens. People call. 239 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.000 When I used to work with the Agrove Extension Office, 240 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.320 people would call and go, so, I've got this split 241 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.159 near the bottom of my tree trunk, and I would say, 242 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.399 is it on the southwest side? And there would be 243 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:34.039 this pause where, you know, nobody knows off the hand 244 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.919 what size side of the trunk. They have to stop 245 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.039 and think, okay, this is north and suddenly they'd go, yeah, 246 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:43.600 like how did you know that? And who cares what 247 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:47.960 side it is. That's exactly what happens. A nice mild 248 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:51.840 winter day and the sun at the latest part of 249 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:53.480 you know, what's the hottest time of the day. Look 250 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.440 at the temperatures through the day. The hottest time of 251 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:58.080 the day is going to be around four o'clock, okay, 252 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.200 somewhere around there, depends on the day, in the coal 253 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.159 front coming through or something. But anyway, that's the warmest 254 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.200 part and it warms up and with the sun shining 255 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:10.440 on it, it warms up even more more than the 256 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.200 rest of the tree trunk around all the other sides 257 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.799 of the tree, and so that's where the sap starts 258 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.759 to flow. And so then a coal snap that night. 259 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:23.960 Typically that's going to happen when it gets down, you know, 260 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.120 mid twenties, lower twenties or even colder. That's where we 261 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:33.039 start to get that, even the teens, and you get 262 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.519 that damage and you don't see it right away, but boy, 263 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.120 you do see it when it starts to grow in 264 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.559 the spring. And will the tree survive, Yeah, the tree 265 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.279 will make it fine. But now you've got this big 266 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.559 wound that's got to heal over. Perhaps you get some 267 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.799 decay into the inner bark there is that splits open 268 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.279 and exposes the inner bark. So why not just avoid it. 269 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:53.720 It's easy to avoid. And the way we do it 270 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.320 is put a little wrap around the tree. I've known 271 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.600 people to paint the bases of their trees white. The trunks. 272 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.240 Parts of the trunk white to reflect some of that heat. 273 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:05.879 That helps a little bit. Looks kind of strange, although 274 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:08.919 you go to some places like in Mexico, it's very 275 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.279 popular even in large tree trunks and parks and stuff, 276 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:15.879 you know, painted white on the lower part. But there 277 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:19.120 is a place for that. I have known people to 278 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.440 put some aluminum foil around the trunk, just wrap it around, 279 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:24.240 just kind of crump it and so it stays there, 280 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.600 just to reflect that sunlight out to keep that trunk 281 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:31.200 cool rather than encouraging it to grow. Oh, let's see, 282 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:35.159 it was it two decembers, three decembers ago. Now, we 283 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.279 had a period where, especially for those of you up 284 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.120 in the northern part of the listening area. When I 285 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.120 say that, I mean you know, like Tomball up to 286 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.000 College Station in Huntsville and everything up as you go north, 287 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.240 A lot of crape myrtles got killed to the ground 288 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:53.639 for the same reason. It went down to the upper 289 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:57.519 teens in December, and they were not ready for it. 290 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:01.200 They were not hardened off, and some flat to the 291 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:03.480 ground and they came right back out. Of course, the 292 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.679 base survives that you lost the above gund growth and 293 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.200 it was the same principle going on there. They weren't 294 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:13.440 ready for it. Crepe myrtles grow much further north than here. 295 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:17.000 You know, the one of the major crate myrtle breeding 296 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:20.759 programs in the country for decades past has been up 297 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:24.200 in Beltsville, Maryland. That's a little further north than here. Well, 298 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:28.000 that's the USDA breeding program. And so if they can 299 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:30.360 grow up there, why are we having them killed to 300 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:33.000 the ground here for the reason I just described. So, 301 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.240 better safe than sorry is what I say. If I 302 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:39.080 flipped a coin and had to say is it going 303 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:41.759 to be needed or not? I would say no. But 304 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:45.360 I wouldn't risk my own trees if I wasn't sure. 305 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:49.120 So there you go. That's my advice. I'd rather spend 306 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.399 a little time going out there and protecting the trunk, 307 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:57.360 and then even if I didn't have to, Right, all right, Well, 308 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.720 we got some cold weather coming last time I we 309 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:06.640 were looking at temperatures down in the upper twenties for 310 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:10.279 those of you who are up north of the Houston area, 311 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:13.839 and for those of you that are down kind of 312 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:19.319 even horizontally even across you know, with Houston, sugar Land 313 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.839 and across there, we're looking probably down around thirty degrees 314 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.440 twenty nine degrees, and that'll vary. I can't predict the weather. 315 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:29.599 The people that predict the weather sometimes miss. But anyway, 316 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.039 so we've got to do a little protection for that 317 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.519 possibility of getting some pipe damage. You know, they say 318 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.240 the three peas or plants, pipes and pets, and you 319 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:41.039 got to take care of all three of those, of course. 320 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:44.000 And when it comes to plants, if you've got plants 321 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:47.720 that are very sensitive to cold, we have plants that 322 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.200 are perennials here and in a mild winter they'll just 323 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:54.160 come right through without being killed to the ground. And 324 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:57.359 in a hard winter than they could be killed all 325 00:17:57.400 --> 00:17:59.359 the way to the ground or killed out right, depending 326 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:04.519 on the plant. You know, Perennial is a geographical designation. 327 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.799 Let me give you an example. You know, yellow bills esperanza, 328 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:11.799 beautiful yellow blooms. Had those around for a good long time. Now, 329 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:13.920 those are a good tough plant. But you go up 330 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.480 the Dallas and they're not you go to Dallas, they're 331 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:18.480 gonna be killed the ground and could be killed outright. 332 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:23.839 Same with Pride of Barbados. Barbados Pride, some people call 333 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:28.200 it red bird of paradise gorgeous summer bloomer. But you 334 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.079 get cold enough and it's not a perennial kill it 335 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:33.519 out right. So you got to take care of your 336 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:35.680 plants depending on where you live and how cold it gets. 337 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:39.559 And Ace Hardware has got you covered. They have the 338 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:42.960 plant frost blankets to protect your plant. It's a thick 339 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:47.759 woven material spun bound actually material. They come in different forms, 340 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.039 but you put them over your plant and secure them 341 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.480 to the ground and that holds the warmth of the 342 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:57.960 soil rising up to protect that plant. It's very helpful, 343 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:02.200 especially for frost because frost can't form on the leaves 344 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.559 when you got that cover over it. They have fawcet 345 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:07.079 covers to go over your faucets. They have something called 346 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:12.359 the freeze miser fatt protection. It's a little short thing 347 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.039 you screw onto your faucet. You turn on the faucet 348 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.960 just wide open and no water comes out. But as 349 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:23.319 it gets cold, it starts to let water trickle through. 350 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.440 And when you have water trickling through, the water doesn't 351 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.079 just sit there to freeze. No, it's not going to 352 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:30.759 take you through tim below zero, but it'll take you 353 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:33.359 through the kinds of freezes typically that we have here. 354 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.079 They've got pipe wrap as a type of insulation to 355 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.519 go around your pipe. You plug it in, Well, there's 356 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:45.359 the insulation for your pipe, but there's also an insulating tape, 357 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:51.440 and there's wires that you can plug in that provide 358 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:53.839 just a little bit of heat to protect pipes and things. 359 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:57.240 In fact, there's a couple dozen different things that Ace 360 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.359 Hardware carries to help you prepare for the cold. So 361 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:02.240 I'm going to be talking about some of those other 362 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:04.359 things as we go through the morning, because we got 363 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.559 that coming up today, are coming up soon, the freeze. 364 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:09.799 Once you get through this weekend, I got a little 365 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:12.559 rainy weather ahead of it, and then sky's clear, and 366 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.480 when the sky's clear, the temperature can drop a lot further. 367 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.000 And that's what we're going to be experiencing all right. 368 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:19.640 Time for me to take a little break. I'll be 369 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:21.079 right back. If you'd like to give me a call 370 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.319 and get on the line seven to one three two 371 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:30.079 one two kt r H. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line. 372 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:34.119 You got a question we can help you with today, Well, 373 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:37.279 here's a number seven one three two one two kt 374 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:40.559 r H. Be happy to visit with you. About the 375 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:43.519 things you need to know to have success in your garden. 376 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:46.839 Gardening is fun. It's supposed to be fun, and I 377 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.400 want you to have success. I don't want you to 378 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:50.160 be discouraged. I don't want you to feel like you 379 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:52.920 have a brown thumb. You don't trust me. You do 380 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.839 not have a brown thumb. I promise you you don't. 381 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:59.000 All you need to do is get that thumb educated 382 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:03.240 with some good info, and you can absolutely have success. 383 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:06.480 Gardening is not rocket science. I don't even know what 384 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:09.559 that means, even the rocket science anyway. Nothing's rocket science 385 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.000 if you know what you're doing. Not even not even 386 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:16.640 rocket science. So just give us a call seven one 387 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:19.440 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you 388 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:21.480 want to send me a photo, I headed ahead of 389 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:25.160 the call. That's fine. Just call my number here seven 390 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:27.480 one three two one two fifty eight to seventy four 391 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:29.400 till Jonathan. You want to send a photo, He'll give 392 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:31.160 you an email. Send it to me, we can talk 393 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:33.680 about it. I'm not able to answer all the emails 394 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:36.960 by typing out the answers to them, but I do 395 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.359 appreciate when you can send a photo. Being able to 396 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.960 talk about the question that you have and having something 397 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:45.480 visual to look at so I can help you diagnose 398 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.240 or help you identify or whatever it is that you're 399 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:53.000 trying to do. Well, let's see here. I was discussing 400 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.319 the importance of coal protection in you know, someone's saying, well, 401 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:58.720 ACE Hardware, where do you? Where is my ACE Hardware? Well, 402 00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:01.160 they're all over the place. Just go Acehardware dot Com, 403 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:06.079 find the store locator and if there's all there all 404 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:07.960 over the greater Houston area, you can find one near you. 405 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:10.599 For example, you go up to Porter, Texas, j and 406 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.680 R ACE Hardware right there in Porter up in Willis 407 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:18.519 all seasons, ACE up in Willis, down in Clearly Kilgore 408 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:21.400 Lumber and Clear Lakes an ACE hardware store. And then 409 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.319 Cyprus says right there in Cyprus, Texas. Those are all 410 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:28.640 examples of ACE hardware stores that are near to you. 411 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:32.440 I was outside the other day looking at my bird 412 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:33.960 feeder and I hadn't seen a lot of birds come 413 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:36.480 into it, and I was going, you know, what's wrong 414 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:39.160 with that? And what happened is it's one of those 415 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:43.400 feeders that when something sits on it, if it's too heavy, 416 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:47.319 the bird feeder closes. It's it's the squirrel excluding feeder 417 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:49.880 from Wabbird's Unlimited. Squirrels can't get in because when they 418 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.839 sit down on it, it you know, closes the door. 419 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:55.200 They can't get to the food. But anyway, the food 420 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:57.240 had kind of gotten stuck up in there. I don't 421 00:22:57.279 --> 00:22:59.440 know if some moisture or whatever had kind of gotten 422 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:01.880 it stuck. And I kind of bumped on it a 423 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:04.119 little bit and it dropped right down, and it just 424 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.039 reminded me check those feeders out. I'm using Wildbird's Unlimited 425 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:11.160 Winter superb Blend in my feeders. I sometimes mix a 426 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:13.799 few other things in there. You know, depending on what 427 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:16.400 birds you want to attract, there's different kinds of seed 428 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:19.720 that are most attractive to them. But wibirds Unlimited Winter 429 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:22.079 Super Blend is important because it has the fat and 430 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:25.079 the protein that birds need for fueling. You know, the 431 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:27.720 days are shorter, the temperature a little colder. Sometimes the 432 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:31.839 weather's inclement, and they're not out able to do the feeding. 433 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:34.759 They're looking for a lot of those things that went 434 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:37.519 to seed in the fall have now been picked over. 435 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:40.480 The birds are getting hungry, So go buy Wildbirds unletit 436 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:45.000 me get you some of the Winter super Blend or 437 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:46.759 one of their other you know, just talk to the 438 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:50.559 folks there. They are so knowledgeable. I love going into wildbirds. 439 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:54.599 It's like you're going to visit a friend because you 440 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:56.079 talk to him and say, hey, I'm interested in this, 441 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:59.200 and they're enthusiastic. Listen, they've got the they've got the 442 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:03.079 wild bird bug themselves, and they feed at their houses. 443 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:05.359 They know what they're talking about and you can just 444 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:07.200 strike up a conversation and they can talk to you 445 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:09.359 about it. You know, it's not all about just buying 446 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:11.200 a product, it's about learning how to do it. They 447 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:15.119 want you to have success because birding in the backyard 448 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:17.079 is a lot of fun. You know, you may not 449 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:21.279 be the guy with the you know, the stereotypical birder 450 00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:23.839 that's got the little safari hat on and shorts and 451 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:26.759 these binoculars and walking around looking at birds in the 452 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.200 wild and songs that's fun, by the way, too. But 453 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:32.519 in the backyard you just feed them and you enjoy 454 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:35.119 the music. It's as simple as that, and warbirds can 455 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.640 help you do just that. Let's go out to the 456 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:39.680 phones now. We're going to head to pair Land and 457 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:42.400 talk to Belinda. Hey, Belinda, welcome, to garden line. 458 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:44.839 Oh, thank you, skip. 459 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:47.759 I have a big problem. I have two six trees, 460 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:52.880 two palm trees, two palmer ranit trees, and two citrus trees. 461 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:55.680 I have mult around them, okay, and I was going 462 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:57.680 to get the hay. But do I need to get 463 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:00.319 those big heavy covers that go all the way over 464 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:00.839 the turry? 465 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:02.640 No. 466 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:07.519 The most sensitive of those that you mentioned is your citrus, okay, 467 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:11.880 and those I would I would do. The primary protection 468 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:14.559 for that is one where if you can put a 469 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:18.119 cover over the whole tree, that's good. But a cover 470 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:20.720 needs to drape all the way to the ground and 471 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:24.559 be secured to the ground with soil or rocks or 472 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:28.400 bricks or boards or whatever holds it down securely, because 473 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:31.359 you want to create dead air space underneath it for 474 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:34.079 the warmth of the soil to rise up and make 475 00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:36.279 a difference on the kind of cold we're going to 476 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:39.480 Our cold is going to be pretty minor considering you know, 477 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:41.599 when we're just talking about you in the upper twenties, 478 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:45.640 that's minor freeze compared to when you get mid twenties, 479 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:48.680 low twenties and teens, and so that'll be enough. I 480 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:51.000 don't think your fig is going to need anything unless 481 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:54.480 it's a brand excuse me, your plum and palm granite. 482 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:58.599 Unless they're brand new trees, very very thin bark and stuff. Yeah, 483 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:00.160 you may want to protect them a little bit. Uh, 484 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:03.359 but they're probably going to be just fine. And then 485 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:06.160 the fig if it's in a growing state, can get 486 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:09.160 some cold damage. If not, it's going to come through 487 00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:13.759 just fine. I'm not worried about figs right now myself 488 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.240 on the kind of cold that we're about to have. 489 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:21.720 Okay, so just a sitress, I have one big enough 490 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:22.359 to cover it. 491 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:24.880 Okay, I'll do that. 492 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:26.759 Yeah, thank you. 493 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:32.720 Yeah, well, thank you, you know, even thank you very much. 494 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:33.599 I appreciate you call. 495 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:35.359 Hey, thank you. 496 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:42.400 So you know, this freeze is a I'm going to 497 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:46.240 call it a minor one. You know, last time I checked, 498 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:48.759 even heading all the way up to Huntsville, you're maybe 499 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.160 twenty eight something like that is what last was said 500 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:57.079 to be. That's a freeze. But remember there's there's freezes 501 00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:01.720 that they come and they stay frozen for a long time. 502 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:06.119 Each day. We're warming back up into the maybe forties 503 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:10.359 in most places, and so there's not a long period 504 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:12.440 of time where those plants are frozen, and that makes 505 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:15.559 a difference. And so this is a kind of phrase 506 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.920 where it's not maybe we're preparing and warming up for 507 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:22.319 a significant one later, but for right now this is 508 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:25.480 a moderate one. So still protect and just remember what 509 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:28.880 I'm saying about one plant doesn't apply to another. You know, 510 00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.920 you're talking about like figs or or more cold tender 511 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:38.519 than Belinda's plum, for example, or palm grantite. Those those 512 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:42.359 are not as cold tender as fig But just depending 513 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:44.559 on where you live, do what you need to do, 514 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:47.920 take care of it. Let's we're going to go, actually 515 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:49.160 I have to take a break here. We're going to 516 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:51.359 come to Marty in Fairfield right when we get back 517 00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.160 in the meantime, if you'd like to give me a call. 518 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:56.440 Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 519 00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:01.480 Welcome back to the Garden Line. Glad to have you 520 00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:03.880 with us today. Thanks for listening in. I'm your host, 521 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.200 Skip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. 522 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:07.920 Do you got a phone, You got a phone, you 523 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.559 got a question? Well seven one three two one two 524 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:13.519 kt RH. It's as easy as that, and let's just 525 00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:17.799 start by going straight out to Marty in Fairfield. Hello Marty, 526 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:19.319 Welcome to garden Rainski. 527 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:20.519 Happy New Year. 528 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:29.400 I have two spider lilies that are overgrown. They're about 529 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:33.440 four to five feet tall, and they're hanging against each 530 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.200 other in the middle of a walkway and I wanted 531 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:39.680 to see it. I called you a couple of weeks ago, 532 00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:44.359 and then you were on vacation. But is it okay 533 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:47.720 if I dig them up and before the freeze and 534 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.559 put them in some soil and some big pots, And 535 00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:56.359 just because they always tend to freeze back and I 536 00:28:57.160 --> 00:29:01.240 really want to separate them before they freeze back, and 537 00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:02.519 wondered if it would be okay. 538 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.359 You can do that or let them freeze back and 539 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:09.359 separate them at that time. Either way is fine, They'll 540 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:11.759 do fine. Let me just make sure we're talking about 541 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.680 the same plant. Is this a white blooming flower, shaggy 542 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:20.359 white blooms, yes, strappy petals, Okay. Sometimes people refer to 543 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:24.640 like a type of like chorus as spider lily too. Yeah, 544 00:29:24.759 --> 00:29:25.200 that one. 545 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:28.279 Looks like a big star. 546 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:33.400 It's it's it's a spider little not yeah, not like 547 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:38.480 a spider plant. A spider lily and big bulbs, Yeah, 548 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:43.960 big bulbs. Dig leaves long, dark green. It's beautiful when 549 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:44.519 it blooms. 550 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:46.119 But they have gotten. 551 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:52.160 Yeah, they've gotten really crowded, and I just I don't know, 552 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:57.599 I've been lazy about sending them out, so I wondered 553 00:29:57.599 --> 00:29:59.000 if it would be okay if I went ahead and 554 00:29:59.079 --> 00:29:59.279 did it. 555 00:29:59.279 --> 00:29:59.960 Before the freeze. 556 00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:05.119 You can do that now, just you know, bring them 557 00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:07.880 inside and don't leave the bulbs just sitting out and 558 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:11.240 cold for now. But they're just a little bit underground 559 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:13.759 when they grow. They're not super deep bulbs, but they 560 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:16.720 are protected by the soil. But yeah, you sure can. 561 00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:19.160 You can do that and guide them and then. 562 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.720 Plant some land. 563 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.559 You can put them right back in the ground if 564 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:29.799 you want. You know, in our warm climate, we don't 565 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.400 have to worry. If some further north they may plant 566 00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:35.039 them in the spring more. But you can plan them 567 00:30:35.079 --> 00:30:37.200 now if you like, and reset them, or you can 568 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:40.400 keep them inside. Just remember if they dry out then 569 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.759 it's kind of like you let them get frosted back. 570 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:45.960 Then they'll just have to come back out again. 571 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:47.440 Okay. 572 00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:54.920 Amarillis is the same way Amarillis. They are in their 573 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:58.119 cold weather state. I've got some that are still showing 574 00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:01.200 good strappy foliage. Or do you or your amarellas still 575 00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:02.039 have green foliage? 576 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:03.920 Yes, all of them do. 577 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:05.039 They're beautiful. 578 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:09.039 Yeah, yeah they are. And uh you know they're they're 579 00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:12.039 gonna balloom a little a little bit later when it 580 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.599 warms up. But if you, if you, if you can 581 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:19.160 keep them from getting killed back, I think they'll you'll 582 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:21.160 have a little bit stronger plant. They'll do a little 583 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:24.759 bit better for you. Either way. Those are both tough, 584 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:26.039 very tough plants. 585 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:31.759 Nope, all right, okay, thank you, all. 586 00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:33.839 Right, thank you. You know, the rule on guarden line 587 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.839 is our advice is free. But when you divide all 588 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:38.759 these bulbs, you just need to bring half of the 589 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:40.680 ones you dig up and leave them at the station 590 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:41.680 and we'll call it even. 591 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:44.559 Okay, you don't have any room in your garden, just 592 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:44.920 like me. 593 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:50.200 That's that true. That's the truth. Garden We don't ask 594 00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:52.279 that question. We just buy the plant, come home and 595 00:31:52.319 --> 00:32:00.400 figure it out. That's right, all right, folks. That is 596 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:03.359 so true of gardeners. 597 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:05.359 Oh bye. 598 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.160 That's why I say gardeners are plant collectors. A lot 599 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:10.599 of times. You know, there's some people that they do it. 600 00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:13.440 Let's just say, right, you know, they go out and 601 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:15.519 they they come up with a plan, They have a 602 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:18.279 designer design the landscape and do all that and it's 603 00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:21.240 beautiful as gorgeous. It's a showplace. And they've only put 604 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.440 the plants in. They're going to plant that need to 605 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:26.240 be there. They don't overcrowd them and things. And then 606 00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:29.279 there's the rest of us, the plant collectors. Our places 607 00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:31.559 look like a bomb went off in a garden center 608 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:35.079 and everything rooted where it landed. It's just we see 609 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.680 a plant we got to have there. You know where 610 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:39.519 am I going to put it? That's silly to worry 611 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:42.480 about that. Buy the plant, take it home, then figure 612 00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:45.720 out where to put it. But you know what, it's 613 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:48.759 your yard. It's toeing you and the hoa. So I 614 00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:50.880 guess in the backyard, you do what you want to do. 615 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.920 The hoa has an opinion about the front yard. Believe me, 616 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:59.039 they do well. As we're getting out there and taking 617 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:02.119 care of our plants. You know that the most important 618 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:03.960 thing is to build the soil. And one of the 619 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.319 ways that we improve our soil is with products from 620 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:12.400 microlife like microlife micro grow bioinoculant that is one that 621 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:15.839 is loaded with all kinds of good microbes, that are 622 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.920 part of keeping plants healthy. I actually a week doesn't 623 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.400 go by that I don't read some research article about 624 00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:27.920 what some microbe has now been discovered to be able 625 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:32.559 to do. There are microbes that cause roots to grow 626 00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:36.359 in certain directions. Can you believe that there are microbes 627 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.880 that get into the root system and cause the top 628 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:43.519 of the plant to be better at resisting disease? Can 629 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:47.599 you believe that there are microbes in this case the 630 00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:52.759 fungi that link one plant to another, that communicate from 631 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:56.720 one plant to another about hey there's a bug eating us, 632 00:33:56.839 --> 00:33:59.279 watch out, get ready for it, and all kinds of 633 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.839 other things. It's an amazing world. Microlife's built around those 634 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:05.920 kinds of things. It's taking advantage of what nature is 635 00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:08.360 already doing and helping you do a better job of 636 00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:13.360 that in your yard. Micro grow bioinoculant is a maroon bag, 637 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:17.639 a burgundy bag, very beautiful bag. Of course I'm biased, 638 00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:23.559 but anyway, it is loaded with sixty three different beneficial 639 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.360 micro organism strains. Now, all the microlife products are going 640 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.320 to have MicroB xenum. I mean they just do. They 641 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:33.599 keep them stocked with all kinds of good things. The 642 00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:36.360 micro grow biinoculant. Don't think of it as a fertilizer, 643 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.119 think of it as what it says, a bio inoculant, 644 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:42.599 those kinds of things that are helpful to your soils 645 00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:46.280 or your plant's root system. Now there's also micro grow 646 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:49.679 liquid AF. These are two different products. They both have 647 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.960 a dark kind of a burgundy colored label, a little 648 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:56.599 different in shade. But micro Grow liquid AF is loaded 649 00:34:56.639 --> 00:35:01.000 also with eight extremely dominating beneficial mica grobes that live 650 00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:04.079 in the soil and help your plans. Hey, where do 651 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:08.559 you get microlife? Everywhere? It's pretty much everywhere, feed stores, 652 00:35:08.679 --> 00:35:16.920 garden centers, hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer down Southwest Houston. Okay, well, 653 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.400 there's the first hour of twenty twenty five in the books. Boy, 654 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:22.840 we got a lot more to talk about. And I'm 655 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:26.079 telling you this is going to be your best garden 656 00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:28.760 you ever. Trust me on this one. Believe me on 657 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:31.880 this one. Just keep listening in. Don't forget my website too. 658 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:34.840 By the way, gardening with skip dot com. I remember, 659 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:36.519 I'm going to talk about some new things that are 660 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:40.920 up there on the website when we come back give around. 661 00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:48.320 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scared Director. 662 00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:58.679 It's just watch as. 663 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:19.239 Well. 664 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:23.159 Good Saturday morning, Good Saturday morning, and welcome to twenty 665 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:27.039 twenty five. Welcome the Garden Line. I'm your host, skip director, 666 00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.480 and we're here to answer gardening questions. That's what we do. Uh. 667 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:34.559 I guess we'll even allow some uh gardening bragging, you know, 668 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:36.559 if you want to, if you want to talk about uh, 669 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:39.760 I don't know. You just got through planning a whole 670 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:43.280 bunch of wonderful fruit trees for your backyard, or just 671 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.760 got a whole bunch of new bulbs in that you're 672 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.079 fixing the put out there. Yeah, we'll do that. By 673 00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:50.079 the way, for those of you who are not from Texas, 674 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:52.719 fixing is a word. Fixing is a word. It means 675 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:55.880 I'm about to I'm about to do it. If I 676 00:36:56.119 --> 00:36:58.440 sometimes I forget. You know, you grew up someplace and 677 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.320 use certain kinds of terms and lifeguage, and you recognize 678 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:03.679 other people don't always do that. I had a friend 679 00:37:03.719 --> 00:37:05.960 from New Jersey when I went to college. It lived 680 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:07.639 the same arm as Randy and I as a matter 681 00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:10.800 of fact, back in the day, and I remember the 682 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:13.440 first time he goes fixing, what do you mean fixing 683 00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:16.400 and it's like, I mean, I'm about to do something 684 00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:22.760 didn't realize. Not everybody talks like that anyway, just an observation. 685 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:26.400 But we are here to help you have a good success. 686 00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:28.719 And what I like to say is I'm here to 687 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:30.800 help you have a more beautiful garden and a more 688 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:34.480 bountiful garden and the same uh. At the same time, 689 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:38.760 gardening is fun, and gardening gives us a connection in 690 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:41.719 nature that we are made. We're designed for nature, we 691 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:44.920 really are. It is our happy place. It's where we 692 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:50.199 find relaxation. It's where we find a lot of reward too. 693 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:53.000 You know, there is something when you grow your own 694 00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:55.960 tomato and you picked that thing right off the vine 695 00:37:56.239 --> 00:38:01.280 and you enjoy that fresh, homegrown flavor that is so rewarding. 696 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.480 When you smell the fragrance of a wonderful flower, that 697 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.199 just I mean, it's just like nature's perfume that is rewarding. 698 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:13.320 When you esthetically look out there and you see a 699 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:18.039 well trimmed lawn and a beautiful landscape, there's something esthetically 700 00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:20.599 rewarding about all that. And gardening gives you all that 701 00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:22.960 kind of stuff. Now, how do you end up having 702 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:27.519 all that? Well? Number one. You start with the soil. 703 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:31.920 And I'm a broken record on this, but brown stuff 704 00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:36.360 before green stuff, meaning you fix the soil and then 705 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:39.920 you plant the plant. That's how it works. Brown stuff 706 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:42.440 before green stuff. And if you go into a garden 707 00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:44.559 center today, which I think would be a great thing 708 00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:48.079 to do it just come home with some soil bags 709 00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:51.280 some Maybe you're starting seeds and you need a seed 710 00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:54.239 starting mix. Maybe you are putting in a bed and 711 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:57.960 you need a quality bed mix. Maybe you need some 712 00:38:58.119 --> 00:38:59.920 multch to go on top of the soil to pert 713 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.280 tech the base of the plants. We're talking earlier about 714 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:05.159 some coal damage and some plants are very cold sensitive. 715 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.159 But when you throw a good thick layer of mulch 716 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:09.639 over the top of them, it's like putting a blanket 717 00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:13.679 over you. I mean it holds in the warmth of 718 00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.280 the soil and it protects the crowns of those plants. 719 00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:19.000 Where do you do that, well, Cianamal should be a 720 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.960 good place to do it. It's kind of the one 721 00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:25.760 stop shop for everything that's let's just say everything brown. 722 00:39:25.920 --> 00:39:29.360 When it comes to brown stuff, the composts for the soil, 723 00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:35.199 the soil blends like the vegionorbics from heirloom soils. They've 724 00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.800 got that there. They carry products from landscapers Pride to 725 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:44.079 they carry products from heirloom soils. Of course. They also 726 00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:46.599 are a place where you're going to find fertilizers from 727 00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:51.760 nitrofoss from Nelson, plant food from for example, azamide and microlife. 728 00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:55.400 They carry all of that, and then products from Medina 729 00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:58.199 as well. They deliver within twenty miles now. They're located 730 00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:01.119 down south of town on FM five point one, near 731 00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:04.199 where Highway six and two eighty eight are south of Houston. 732 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:09.039 Go to the website Sienna multch dot com Sienna mulch 733 00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:11.920 dot com. There you can find it where they're located. 734 00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:13.599 You can find it when they're open. By the way, 735 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:16.320 they're open today Saturday from seven thirty to two, So 736 00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.000 good day to get out and do that. Get that 737 00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:22.800 stuff at your house on the ground, in the soil, 738 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:24.719 on top of the soil, whatever you need to do 739 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:28.400 with it, and get ready because planting season is upon us. 740 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:31.320 It is still a good time to plant woody ornamentals 741 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:33.880 and perennials to give them a head start on the spring. 742 00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:38.000 Those spring gardens, whether it's flowers or vegetables or herbs. 743 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:42.400 Get the soil right, because whenever that's dry enough to 744 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:45.320 work the soil, there's a good time to work the soil. 745 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:49.400 It is, it's always good. You always amend and improve 746 00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:52.239 your soil. I don't care how good the soil is, 747 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.599 you're always in time going to be needing to do 748 00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:59.039 some amendments and improvements on the soil, unless you're just 749 00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:03.559 growing native plant in a soil that it's very adapted to. 750 00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:07.079 In that case, yeah, I get it. You get it 751 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.519 set up, and you forget it. But for a lot 752 00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:13.039 of things, including containers, you've got to keep improving the 753 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:17.639 soil in order to keep that at its top functioning ability. 754 00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.719 Because plants live in their roots they do. Quality soil 755 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:25.199 means it's got organic matter. It means it's got nutrients, 756 00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:28.639 and remember all of this is available cinemals. And it 757 00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:32.400 also quality soil means that it drains well, that excess 758 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:34.760 water runs right through it, but that it holds some water. 759 00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.079 It's not just like a sand that water runs right through. 760 00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.280 It holds water, but it also drains the excess water. 761 00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:43.760 Cinamals cannot You do all of that, and if you're smart, 762 00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.039 you will get that done because I'm telling you the 763 00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:52.800 the the wise gardener, I'll put it that way. The 764 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:56.360 wise gardener knows that you get the soil right and 765 00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:59.639 it makes you look good. It makes your thumb look green, 766 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.360 if you know what I'm talking about. All right, that's that. 767 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:06.639 Speaking of the animals and products and things, you know 768 00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:12.079 that cienumalch also carries Nelson plant food products. Now, Nelson 769 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:17.320 is a it's just a long term, outstanding purveyor of 770 00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:21.559 some quality blends of nutrients for your plants. You know, 771 00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:24.079 there's a Nelson plant food for just about every kind 772 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:27.800 of plant you want to grow, from lawns to things 773 00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:31.840 like let's say hibescas or things like plumeria or things 774 00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:36.360 like roses. Nelson has their color Star line, probably one 775 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:39.079 of the most popular lines now for almost forty years. 776 00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:41.960 Color Star is an all purpose plant food. So you 777 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:43.840 put it down on anything. Just think about this way. 778 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.400 If it gives you color, put color Star on it. 779 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.039 That's easy to remember. So all the flowering plants, annuals 780 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.159 of perennials, even shrubs and trees that can you can 781 00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:54.920 use it on that it acts quickly, but it also 782 00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.000 has organic nutrients sources to slowly release into the soil 783 00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:01.840 over time, so about every three or four months, put 784 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.039 your color Star down on your color beds. You can 785 00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:07.840 also get it with a funge side involved in a 786 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.840 mixed in call Colorstar Plus to help with the root 787 00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:14.400 issues that you might have. A color Star has been 788 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:18.559 popular for landscapers for a very long time, and even 789 00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:21.239 out of state. You know, they ship that stuff all 790 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:24.280 over the country to people that have discovered it and 791 00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:27.920 now they use it and again landscapers. Professional landscapers no 792 00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:31.599 to use color Star all from Nelson Plant Food. Nelson 793 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:38.880 Plant Food is a Houston area homegrown basically homegrown company 794 00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:42.559 that produces whatever kind of nutrients you need for the 795 00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:44.679 plants that you want to grow and have success with. 796 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.039 It's time for me to take a little quick break. 797 00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:48.079 I'll be right back. 798 00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:49.159 You know. 799 00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:53.119 They welcome back to guard Line. Glad to have you 800 00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:56.280 with us this morning on the first show of twenty 801 00:43:56.440 --> 00:44:00.199 twenty five. You're welcome to the best gardening year you're 802 00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.920 going to have that you've ever had. How about that? 803 00:44:03.320 --> 00:44:05.480 That's saying a lot, isn't it. I just think it is. 804 00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:07.760 That's how I look at it. I tell you what, 805 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:09.719 when I buy a seed. It's going to be the 806 00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:13.239 most bountiful harvest I've ever had. When I buy a 807 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.559 fruit tree, I can just already taste the fruit. I mean, listen, 808 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:18.960 you got to be an optimist as a gardener, and 809 00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.519 we do everything we can to have success. The bottom 810 00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.559 line is that's a fun part of gardening because you know, 811 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:28.760 even when things don't work out like you want, you 812 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.079 just adjust. You just adjust and you figure it out, 813 00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:34.960 and it's okay. If this year ends up being a 814 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.440 little hot and dry, that's all right. We know how 815 00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:39.800 to water plant if it gets a little cold. We 816 00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:41.400 know how to protect plants. I'm going to come back 817 00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:43.199 and talk about plant protection here in a little bit. 818 00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:45.360 Right now, I'm going to run out to the galleria 819 00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:47.840 and we're going to talk to Forest. Hey, Forrest, Welcome 820 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:48.400 to garden Line. 821 00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:50.400 Hey, thank you, Skip. 822 00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:54.440 I'm sure you'll cover a lot of these freeze questions. 823 00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:58.679 But I've been growing a couple of citrus trees, a 824 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:00.519 lime and a lemon that I picked up at a 825 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:06.519 Buchanan's Container grown, and my plan was to bring them 826 00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.320 in for this freeze we're about to have. But I 827 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:11.840 just wanted to get your thoughts on the rule of 828 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:16.000 thumb on growing citrus and chill hours and that sort 829 00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:17.440 of thing, how cold they can get. 830 00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:20.639 Yeah, that's a that's a good question for us. 831 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:21.559 You know. 832 00:45:21.599 --> 00:45:25.000 The bottom line is limes and lemons, especially limes, are 833 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:27.599 are not very cold hearty at all, and so it 834 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.280 went in doubt. I would bring them in just because 835 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:32.480 you know, you don't want to take a chance on it. 836 00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:32.960 Now. 837 00:45:33.639 --> 00:45:37.480 There there are variations on protecting a plant, from leaving 838 00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.039 it out there figuring it's going to be okay, to 839 00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:43.000 bringing it up close to the house. I've got some 840 00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:46.519 houseplants that are sitting outside my house underneath the eaves, 841 00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:50.719 right up against the house, and they're still looking good. 842 00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:53.239 And they haven't you know, we we haven't had a 843 00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:56.599 hard freeze, but we had a minor freeze, and so 844 00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:00.119 just that protected spot helped a lot. And then the 845 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:03.079 next step would be to bring them into protect a garage, 846 00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:05.639 or to cover them up and put some heat underneath them. 847 00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:08.840 I think any of those things would be fine. If 848 00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:12.719 it were mine, I wouldn't take chances on leaving them out. 849 00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:15.639 Once we drop below freezing, you're gonna get some damage 850 00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:18.000 to a lime and then probably to a lemon. Too. 851 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.880 Okay, great, I appreciate that, thank you, sir. 852 00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:26.119 Yeah, do you have a dolly you can strap them 853 00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:29.840 too and wheel them in real easily without hurting your back. 854 00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:34.079 Oh, I got a whole system set up because I 855 00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:39.800 also grow up plumeria in containers. I've been bringing plumeria 856 00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:42.320 inside for years, so I got I got the drill 857 00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:42.840 for sure. 858 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:48.039 Good, that's good. Yeah. But when I first discovered that 859 00:46:48.119 --> 00:46:49.840 you didn't have to pick plants up and carry them 860 00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:52.599 around and you could put them on a dolly, that 861 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:56.559 was good information. Right there. My dolly has a strap 862 00:46:56.679 --> 00:46:59.400 attached to it so that I just go up to 863 00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:01.639 the plant and the strap's already there to wrap it 864 00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:03.719 around the pot so it sticks, stays on the little 865 00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:05.639 dolly lip, you know, and you can move it around 866 00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:09.480 with you. Well, good luck with them, thank you, sir. 867 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:12.360 All right, yes, sir, you take care. Thanks for the call. 868 00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:13.000 Appreciate that. 869 00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:15.159 All right. 870 00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:17.119 You're listening to Garden Line our phone number if you'd 871 00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:18.840 like to give me a call seven one three two 872 00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:22.159 one two ktr H seven one three two one two 873 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:27.199 kt r H. I was talking about plant protection, and 874 00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:31.440 I do want to mention a couple things about protecting plants. 875 00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:36.719 First of all, when when you're wanting to protect a plant, 876 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.800 a cover over the top of the plant to create 877 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.960 dead air space is very important. Now, creating dead air 878 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.039 space means dead air space connected to the soil. So 879 00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:49.519 here's what I mean. Don't wrap the top of a 880 00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:54.800 plant like a landscape lollipop. Allow the cover to drape 881 00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:56.880 straight down to the ground, as if you put an 882 00:47:56.960 --> 00:47:59.480 umbrella over it, and where the rain would drip down 883 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:02.599 off the umbrella, that is where the cover goes straight 884 00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:05.000 to the ground. Secure it there so the warmth of 885 00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:07.559 the soil can rise up underneath that cover. You create 886 00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:11.000 dead airspace, and you make a difference in the cold 887 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:14.719 temperatures and the rate of cooling inside that cover. We're 888 00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:16.840 gonna have freezes coming up here that are going to 889 00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:19.760 be fairly brief. It may if you live far enough north, 890 00:48:19.800 --> 00:48:21.440 you're going to have two or three days of freezing, 891 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.960 but it warms up during the day into the forties, 892 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:27.880 goes back down again. All you need is a little 893 00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:30.440 bit of protection, slow the cooling and you're good. If 894 00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:33.800 you want to add one more measure of protection, you 895 00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:36.679 can put a clamp light underneath. Now, these are those 896 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:41.440 aluminum shielded light fixtures that have a clamp, so you 897 00:48:41.559 --> 00:48:44.400 can attach them to the side of a container. You 898 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:47.159 can attach them to the trunk of the plant, but 899 00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:50.320 don't shine the light on the trunk. Shine the light 900 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:53.960 down toward the soil and that it'll rise up underneath 901 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:57.480 that cover and make a huge difference and protect them. Now, 902 00:48:57.480 --> 00:48:59.840 if it's going to be seventeen degrees, no, not one 903 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:03.760 little incandescent bulb is not going to do that. But 904 00:49:03.960 --> 00:49:06.320 even just a bright one hundred and fifty watt bulb, 905 00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:08.280 you don't have to have a heat lamp in. Those 906 00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:12.920 will provide enough warmth to make a big difference underneath 907 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:15.960 the cover. If the cover is not secured to the ground, 908 00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:18.760 wind is going to blow. It's going to displace that 909 00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:21.360 air that you've warmed, or that the soil warmth that 910 00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:24.639 has risen up to warm the air, and you're gonna 911 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.360 be right back down just as cold as it is 912 00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:29.360 outside the cover. You gotta secure it to the ground. 913 00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:34.440 However you want to do that, soil, bricks, boards, whatever 914 00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:36.760 works for you. Make sure it's secure to the ground. 915 00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:38.639 You gonna have some breeze. You really need to make 916 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:41.960 sure that that cover stays down there on the ground. 917 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:45.519 And then that little addition of one heat lamp for 918 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:48.880 minor freezes like we're having now, is enough. I put 919 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:51.159 one hundred and fifty watt flood light bulb in mine. 920 00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:54.760 You can use a heat lap bulb. You're not going 921 00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:56.960 to need that much heat. Now, if you're trying to 922 00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:01.239 cover maybe a satsumetry that's a feet tall and you're 923 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:03.719 going to get heat under that, well okay, yeah, but 924 00:50:03.800 --> 00:50:06.440 we're not going to have satsuma freeze damage kind of 925 00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.119 weather in this particular type of freeze, other types of 926 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:11.199 a lot of other types of ceterric. Yes, we will. 927 00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:15.000 So anyway, provide that protection and you can make a 928 00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:17.199 huge difference, and you just have that on hand. I've 929 00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:19.719 got mine in the they're in the garage. If the 930 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.639 clamp light is clamped to the wall and the bulbs 931 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.360 in it, it's ready to go. And whenever I need them, 932 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:27.320 they just come right out and go straight out there. 933 00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:30.639 Make sure to protect those electric connections. If you were 934 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:33.280 to have rain, which we're not supposed to have rain 935 00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:35.960 with the cold that we're having, it's supposed to to 936 00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:39.159 get dry before we have the cold. But if you 937 00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:42.639 do you got to cover that connection. It's electrical connection there. 938 00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:46.719 Don't drop a connection into dry grass either. Should you 939 00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:49.039 have some sort of a spark or something like that, 940 00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:54.639 you can set grass on fire underneath there. So you 941 00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:56.559 got to you got to use your head on that stuff. 942 00:50:57.280 --> 00:51:01.159 But by the way, I've got a publication online at 943 00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:06.760 Gardening with Skip dot com. It's protecting plants from frosts 944 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:09.079 and freezes. It's a publication I wrote with one of 945 00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:12.599 our specialists at Texas A and M Horticulture Department a 946 00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:17.519 number of years ago, and I think it really covers 947 00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:23.039 well frosts and freezes, how they occur, the information about 948 00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:24.920 them you may not have been aware of, and that 949 00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:28.519 leads you to how to protect them correctly. And so 950 00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:30.599 I just gave you one little example of what's in 951 00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:33.960 the publication there. Just take it out, check it out. 952 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:36.880 It's like nine pages of color pictures and all kinds 953 00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:40.880 of Information's very good. Gardening with Skip dot com. Will 954 00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:43.880 you write that website down because I refer to it 955 00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:47.199 just about every show, because I'm always putting something up 956 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:50.880 there to help you to have success, and in this case, 957 00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:54.159 it's that publication. Go check it out. It's free. You 958 00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:56.840 tak me down on that price. It's free. You can 959 00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:58.719 download it, you can look at it online. You can 960 00:51:58.880 --> 00:52:01.119 send it to your cousin and Tim Buck too, who 961 00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:04.960 has a question about freezing just downloaded. Email it to him. 962 00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:07.400 Let them know about her. Just send them the link 963 00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:09.559 to it. If you want to go about that that way. 964 00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:15.000 Gardening with Skip, that's me gardening with Skip dot com. 965 00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:19.679 I'm gonna tomorrow, I'm gonna spend a little bit of time, 966 00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:23.760 a little more in depth talking about my predecessor in 967 00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:26.039 this chair, Randy Lemon. You know, garden Line has been 968 00:52:26.039 --> 00:52:28.519 around a long time, even before it was called garden Line. 969 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.559 Do he Compton probably the first in about five of 970 00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:35.480 us now that have had been hosts of garden Line 971 00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:39.079 through the decades, goes back to the nineteen fifties. Randy 972 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.159 was prior to me, was in this seat for over 973 00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:46.880 twenty five years, and Randy uh was well beloved and 974 00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:50.280 well known throughout the greater Houston area. A scholarship was 975 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:53.840 set up a while back for Randy at Texas A 976 00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:56.480 and M for a horticulture student. If you knew Randy, 977 00:52:56.599 --> 00:52:59.559 you knew how proud he was of our university, that 978 00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:03.159 he and I I went to. And also how proud 979 00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:05.800 he would be to know that a scholarship was set 980 00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:09.719 up in his name there for horticulture student. You probably 981 00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:14.119 are one of the many, many, many people that benefited 982 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.079 over the years from Randy's advice here on garden Line. 983 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:20.519 I'm gonna tomorrow talk a little bit more about the 984 00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:22.880 scholarship and about Randy, but I just wanted to mention 985 00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:27.320 it today. Tomorrow, I believe, is the two year anniversary 986 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:31.199 of Randy's passing. That came as a shock to all 987 00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:34.880 of us, everyone in the greater Houston area gardening world, 988 00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:41.960 and it's it's been something that well, like I said, 989 00:53:42.039 --> 00:53:43.920 it was just a shock. You know, you never you 990 00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:46.840 never would expect something like that all although we all 991 00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.599 know our time here on earth is is not infinite. 992 00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:53.760 But Randy was bigger than life. 993 00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:55.599 He was. 994 00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:57.760 He was quite a character. And I can tell you this. 995 00:53:58.119 --> 00:53:59.880 I didn't know him before college, but I knew him 996 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:03.360 in college and back in the day, and that'd be 997 00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:08.480 about nineteen a eighty eighty, maybe nineteen eighty, I think 998 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:12.800 it is when I first met Randy. Randy was a 999 00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:16.920 very special individual, a good friend and a good friend 1000 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:19.400 of the horticulture world here in the Greater Houston area. 1001 00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:22.880 If you would like to consider, I asked you, would 1002 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:26.119 you consider making a donation to the scholarship fund in 1003 00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:29.719 remembrance of Randy. It's really easy to do. First of all, 1004 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:32.519 the easiest way is just go to my website and 1005 00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:34.199 it tells you how to do it there. I'll tell 1006 00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:36.719 you briefly right now, but the bottom line is, just 1007 00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:38.199 go the website and I'll tell you. If you want 1008 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:41.280 to give online, you go to a website called Texas 1009 00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:47.800 A and M Foundation websites txamfoundation dot com. There is 1010 00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:50.639 a little more to the RL than that, but on 1011 00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:54.320 my website, I tell you how to find and send 1012 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:56.039 the money to the right place. If you want to 1013 00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:58.320 do it by check, you can mail the check to 1014 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:00.679 the Texas A and M Foundation. In the memo you 1015 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.280 gotta write Lemon Scholarship. Lemon has two ms L E, M, 1016 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.400 M O N Scholarship, but that's the Texas and M Foundation, 1017 00:55:08.519 --> 00:55:11.599 and the address for that is also on the website 1018 00:55:11.679 --> 00:55:14.360 Gardening with Skip dot com. It's the most recent thing 1019 00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:18.119 that I've put online on the Gardening with Skip dot 1020 00:55:18.199 --> 00:55:21.599 com website. Would you consider that? Would you join me 1021 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:26.159 in considering supporting that scholarship. Time for me to take 1022 00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:29.280 a quick break here. When we come back, I'll be 1023 00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:31.760 back with your gardening questions. If you'd like to call 1024 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:34.800 and get on on board with that, just kive Jonathan 1025 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.800 call seven one three two one two k t r. H. 1026 00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:39.880 We'll get you online. We'll talk to you about the 1027 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:41.880 things that are of interest to you, and I'm going 1028 00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:45.760 to continue to talk about cold protection for plants, how 1029 00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:48.239 to protect your plants from cold. We'll be right back. 1030 00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:53.559 All right, here we are. We're back with garden line. 1031 00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:56.840 We got your gardening questions is coming. You just got 1032 00:55:56.960 --> 00:55:58.800 to give me a call seven one three two one two, 1033 00:55:59.559 --> 00:56:03.440 Kate Age. I want to continue talking about cold protection, 1034 00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:08.559 cold protection for your plants, and just basically I'm giving 1035 00:56:08.639 --> 00:56:10.800 you some principles to think about. I talked a while 1036 00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:13.320 ago about covering a plant, how to cover them properly, 1037 00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:16.400 and the fast way to just say that is no 1038 00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:19.960 landscape lollipops. People that put a cover around a let's 1039 00:56:19.960 --> 00:56:22.559 say a little small tree or shrub, and they bring 1040 00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:24.519 it all the way and wrap it around the trunk. 1041 00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:28.280 That's like a lollipop, right, And that all that does 1042 00:56:28.519 --> 00:56:31.480 is keep the warmth of those branches in, but that 1043 00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:34.480 they're going to cool off too fast. It'll slow cooling 1044 00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:37.280 a little bit, but not much. Taking it all the 1045 00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:39.159 way to the ground and allowing the warmth of the 1046 00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:42.159 heat to rise up, or putting a heat lamp underneath it, 1047 00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:45.480 or a light underneath it. An incandescent bulb is a 1048 00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:47.880 heat lamp. They produce a lot of heat if you're 1049 00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:50.760 a touched one, you know what I'm talking about. Providing 1050 00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:54.679 that extra warmth underneath that helps a lot. Now, there's 1051 00:56:55.400 --> 00:56:59.280 several variables in how much protection you're going to need. 1052 00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:02.760 Number One, coals are going to get. The colder you get, 1053 00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:04.719 the more more heat you're going to have to produce 1054 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:07.960 in order to protect that plant. Number Two, how cold 1055 00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:11.320 hardy is the plant. Some plasts don't need protection at all. 1056 00:57:11.559 --> 00:57:13.519 There are plenty cold hardy they don't have to worry 1057 00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:16.360 about that. Some you know, you take a lime tree, 1058 00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:18.400 for example, it's going to get down twenty eight degrees. 1059 00:57:18.440 --> 00:57:21.920 You got a problem for sure, So you got to 1060 00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:24.920 protect those a lot. So it's the how colds are 1061 00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:28.639 going to get, How cold hardy is the plant? Another 1062 00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:31.320 one is what kind of freeze is it? Now, there 1063 00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:36.920 are several types of freezes too, specifically radiant and convective 1064 00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:40.519 freezes that I talk about in the publication that's online 1065 00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:42.960 at Gardening with Skip dot com. But one of them 1066 00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:46.760 is just a cold, still night and heat is radiating 1067 00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:50.079 up from the soil. It's radiating up off of the plants. 1068 00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:52.239 That's why we end up getting frosts on the leaves 1069 00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:56.000 of the plants. And those are easy to protect because 1070 00:57:56.039 --> 00:57:58.119 you cover them up, you provide some warmth, and you're good. 1071 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:02.840 The freeze where you get a cold blue northern wind 1072 00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:07.320 blowing through that just super chills things quickly, you know. 1073 00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:09.679 You know that when you walk outside and it's cold 1074 00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:12.480 and the wind is blowing, you cool off way faster. 1075 00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:16.719 And those we definitely have to create cold, dead air space, 1076 00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:21.599 and we definitely need extra warmth to provide the protection 1077 00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:25.960 for them. Some things that are important to consider when 1078 00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:29.880 you're protecting your plants. Now, dead air space is your friend, 1079 00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:34.679 use the warmth of the soil, and then finally provide 1080 00:58:34.760 --> 00:58:37.760 extra heat as needed. And I do that with clamp 1081 00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:42.039 on lamps. If I were if I had a Let's 1082 00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:45.559 they had a citrus tree, something a little bigger orange tree, 1083 00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:49.199 or even a setsuma. If it's gonna get cold enough, 1084 00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:51.559 I may put a couple of lamps under there, or 1085 00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:54.639 three lamps under there. I may use an actual heat 1086 00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:58.280 lamp bulb that generates a lot of radiant heat underneath there, 1087 00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:01.800 but don't shine it against the trunk. You can damage tissues. 1088 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:05.800 Those things get really hot. Turn all those on and 1089 00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:08.480 hold your hand about three feet away and just you know, 1090 00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:10.719 to the side, not above it, to the side, and 1091 00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:13.440 you can feel that radiant heat coming out. We're going 1092 00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:15.119 to send it down and warm the soil, and that 1093 00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:18.159 will rise up underneath the cover and provide a lot 1094 00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:20.960 of protection. Most of my freezes a little flood light 1095 00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:23.360 one hundred and fifty white bulb. I know people that 1096 00:59:23.679 --> 00:59:25.800 use little mechanic lights, you know, those little things that 1097 00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:27.760 are in a cage and you hang them up underneath 1098 00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:30.800 the hood. When you open the hood of your car, 1099 00:59:30.920 --> 00:59:32.599 you hang them up underneath there so you can see 1100 00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:35.239 down those mechanic dumber of lights. Something like that with 1101 00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:37.239 a hunter white bulb is good. If you just have 1102 00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:41.760 a little let's say, a small lime tree or something 1103 00:59:41.800 --> 00:59:44.360 in a container or in the ground that you want 1104 00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:46.199 to provide a little bit of protection when we're going 1105 00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:49.239 to get down to what twenty nine, twenty eight, someplaces 1106 00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.559 only thirty degrees depending on where you are in the 1107 00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:56.880 listening area. And that's enough. But it's a matter, it's 1108 00:59:56.920 --> 00:59:59.280 a relative thing, and so keep that in mind when 1109 00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.960 you're protecting plants. And do look at that publication online. 1110 01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:04.679 I took a lot of time to write that with 1111 01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:09.440 one of our anim specialists, very knowledgeable fellow, and we 1112 01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:13.880 put together a really helpful publication that you should just 1113 01:00:14.199 --> 01:00:16.280 have it printed out or at least save it to 1114 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:18.760 your computer so you can look at it. And it 1115 01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:21.360 reminds you of the different things. You know, what people 1116 01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:24.440 ask questions like what about water? I see people spray 1117 01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:27.480 plants with water, and the ice breezes and the ice 1118 01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:32.480 insulates the plant. And the answer bottom line is that no, 1119 01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:36.880 that's not true. That's not true. If you want to 1120 01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:39.880 get nerdy, I'll be very brief with this, but very briefly, 1121 01:00:40.599 --> 01:00:45.599 ice and water changes from liquid to solid. Each milli 1122 01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:48.880 liter of water cubic centimeter of water gives off one 1123 01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:53.679 calorie of heat. That's nerdy stuff. That's for your next 1124 01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:55.920 garden party. So you can impress people and bore them 1125 01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:58.840 to death. Okay, so one centimary. So as long as 1126 01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:02.800 there's liquid water freezing on the surface of the ice 1127 01:01:03.360 --> 01:01:08.039 around the plant, the interior temperature doesn't go below, not 1128 01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:12.360 much below thirty two degrees. But the minute you have 1129 01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:17.440 liquid water freeze, stop having liquid water freezing, and it's 1130 01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:21.440 just ice. That temperature plummets, just like the ice was 1131 01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:26.000 in there. Because ice does not insulate in the sense 1132 01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:30.360 of protecting the interior buds from going colder. The ice 1133 01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:34.079 gets colder, the buds get colder. So for ninety nine 1134 01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:39.000 percent of the home garden situations, putting ice putting water 1135 01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:41.320 on plants in a freeze is not a good idea. 1136 01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:43.480 Even up breaking limbs, you end up with all other 1137 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:48.000 kinds of issues, sometimes even worse, because all right here 1138 01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:49.960 we go, I said one nerd thing. We're gonna give 1139 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:53.679 you one more. Because when it switches and now you 1140 01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:58.199 have the ice thawing and changing from ice to liquid water, 1141 01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:02.559 it pulls a cat of heat out. When water goes 1142 01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:06.960 through that state, change from liquid to ice, solid to liquid, 1143 01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:10.440 you're either gaining or losing a calorie there. And so 1144 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:13.800 if you got to the morning, and let's say it 1145 01:02:13.960 --> 01:02:17.920 was thirty degrees thirty two degrees. It's starting to thaw there, 1146 01:02:18.880 --> 01:02:21.960 and you quit sprinkling, and that ice began to melt, 1147 01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:27.400 the interior would actually get colder. Now you're thinking that, 1148 01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:30.199 how can ice be melting on the surface and the 1149 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:33.159 interior getting colder. Well it does, And I'll give you 1150 01:02:33.320 --> 01:02:37.559 one quick example that suddenly making ice cream makes sense. 1151 01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:40.599 Remember when you had the old hand crank ice cream makers, 1152 01:02:41.320 --> 01:02:43.280 what did you do? You filled them with ice, and 1153 01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:47.000 then what did you put on the ice? Salt? Remember 1154 01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:49.559 that you had to sit on those things, so that 1155 01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:52.280 whole still while somebody cranked it, or you cranked it 1156 01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:55.280 while someone sat on it. Why do we put salt on? 1157 01:02:56.039 --> 01:02:59.400 Salt melts the ice? Why do we want to melt 1158 01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:02.719 the ice make an ice cream? Because when the ice melts, 1159 01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:06.079 it draws heat out of the ice cream on the 1160 01:03:06.199 --> 01:03:09.719 inside of that han crank ice cream maker. That's why 1161 01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:12.840 you put salt on, because it makes the ice cream colder. 1162 01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:15.760 See what I'm saying. You get ice on your plants, 1163 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.519 the sun comes up and you start to thaw, you're 1164 01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:21.519 not out of the woods. In fact, it can get 1165 01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:24.639 worse on the inside where those buds are all right, 1166 01:03:25.719 --> 01:03:27.800 I try not to do too much nerd stuff for you. 1167 01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:30.000 But chew on that one for a while. I think 1168 01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:32.199 it's pretty cool. Stop, pretty interesting. We're gonna take a 1169 01:03:32.199 --> 01:03:33.920 little break here. I'll be right back with your gardening 1170 01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:38.679 question seven one three two one two ktr H. All right, 1171 01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:43.280 welcome back to garden line. Hey, if you want to 1172 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:45.880 get me a call, talk about whatever's of interest to you. 1173 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:48.159 What are the kind of questions? Maybe you got a 1174 01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:52.239 gardening there's a good one, maybe a gardening resolution. What 1175 01:03:52.440 --> 01:03:54.920 do you want to do different in twenty twenty five 1176 01:03:55.039 --> 01:03:56.840 than you've done before? Now I'm not a big New 1177 01:03:56.920 --> 01:03:59.920 Year's resolution person. I know it's all that we think 1178 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.360 if we decide we're resolving something that therefore we're going 1179 01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:05.679 to do it, and it happens. And I mean, you know, 1180 01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:08.960 everybody knows what happens to New Year's resolutions by about 1181 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:13.119 the second or third week in January. But seriously, what 1182 01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:15.639 would you like to do different in gardening? What would 1183 01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:18.199 you like to grow that you'd never grown? Let me 1184 01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:22.280 encourage you to do something different, try something new. Have 1185 01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:26.239 you never grown vegetables? Okay, get you a five gallon bucket. 1186 01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:28.840 Drill holes in the bottom get you a tomato plant, 1187 01:04:28.960 --> 01:04:32.159 put it, fill it full of a quality of veggie 1188 01:04:32.199 --> 01:04:35.119 and herb mix from heirlooms, soils or something like that, 1189 01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:39.800 maybe a quality mix from nature's way, and grow you 1190 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:43.960 a small tomato plant in that bucket. You could do that. 1191 01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:46.280 You can do it with a klopenion pepper if you 1192 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:49.760 like calopenias. Maybe since we're in the cool season, how 1193 01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:52.840 about a broccoli plant. My wife just picked the first 1194 01:04:52.960 --> 01:04:56.199 broccoli from some plants she planted back in late fall 1195 01:04:57.000 --> 01:05:02.199 and brought it in yesterday. The fatted broccoli and enjoyed it, 1196 01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:05.320 roasted broccoli and the oh my gosh, that was good 1197 01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:06.360 last night. 1198 01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:07.199 You can do that. 1199 01:05:07.599 --> 01:05:09.320 Why not do it? You don't have to have a 1200 01:05:09.360 --> 01:05:11.599 whole garden to do it. You just need to, like 1201 01:05:11.719 --> 01:05:14.400 I said, just to make a point, a five gallon 1202 01:05:14.440 --> 01:05:16.559 bugget with holes drilled in the bottom of it. You 1203 01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:18.119 can do that. Or you can get you a really 1204 01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:19.800 nice container, or you can go all the way and 1205 01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:22.599 make a nice garden. Raise bed. I hope you go 1206 01:05:22.639 --> 01:05:27.159 all the way on it. But seriously, what is your resolution. 1207 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:31.079 Maybe it's to mulch and not be dealing with weeds 1208 01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:33.840 all the time, or here's a good one. This isn't 1209 01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:37.519 a fun one, but it's a good one. I'm gonna 1210 01:05:37.559 --> 01:05:42.159 not let nuts sedge show its face this year when 1211 01:05:42.199 --> 01:05:44.440 it comes up as three to five leaves. I'm gonna 1212 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:49.199 follow Skip's guide online Gardening Skip dot com the nutsedge 1213 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:51.800 guide and end depth the look, and they'll tell you 1214 01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:55.280 exactly how to shut nutsedge down before it proliferates and 1215 01:05:55.400 --> 01:05:58.440 gives you all kinds of headaches. Maybe that's a resolution 1216 01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:01.320 for you this year. Maybe I'm going to redo the 1217 01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:04.280 lawn and I'm gonna make it a nice, dense lawn 1218 01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:07.159 so I'm not constantly having to fight weeds all the time. 1219 01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:11.400 Maybe that's a resolution. Maybe it's to grow a new 1220 01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:15.920 kind of houseplant, something different, something beautiful. Perhaps it's to 1221 01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:19.360 put in herbs in your flower beds or your vegetable gardens, 1222 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:22.480 or to make an herb garden. Watch your resolution for 1223 01:06:22.559 --> 01:06:24.639 this year. How about a fruit tree? Oh my gosh, 1224 01:06:24.719 --> 01:06:26.800 those are so good. We have fruit trees that are 1225 01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:28.840 challenged to grow, and we have fruit trees that are 1226 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:33.280 easy to grow. I love citrus because citrus number one, 1227 01:06:33.280 --> 01:06:35.519 you get to eat the centrus. But number two, the 1228 01:06:35.719 --> 01:06:39.679 fragrance of the blooms is outstanding, and I'm planning a 1229 01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:44.199 satsuma this year right off of our patio. I've got 1230 01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:45.920 the spot already ready to go. I just need to 1231 01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:48.079 get out there and get it done. But I'm gonna 1232 01:06:48.079 --> 01:06:50.320 put a satsum in because I enjoy the fragrance of 1233 01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:53.159 citrus blooms in general. Some are more fragrant than others, 1234 01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:56.920 but they're all good and it's just fun to do. 1235 01:06:57.480 --> 01:07:01.679 What's your New year's resolution? If you will give me 1236 01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:05.119 a call seven one three two one two k t RH, 1237 01:07:05.199 --> 01:07:07.320 let's talk about it. Or if you just have questions 1238 01:07:07.360 --> 01:07:10.360 and things, we can visit about that too. You are 1239 01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:12.039 listening to guard Line and we're here to help you 1240 01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:14.559 have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and more 1241 01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:19.000 fun in the process. Bountiful garden, beautiful landscape, more fun 1242 01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:22.679 and the process. The cold is coming. We're gonna have 1243 01:07:22.679 --> 01:07:26.000 a little, our first significant, little coal snap of the year. 1244 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:28.440 For those of you who are used to living up north, 1245 01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:31.159 it's like, wait, it's not even going to get to 1246 01:07:31.239 --> 01:07:33.159 the mid twenties. What are you talking about? Well, okay, 1247 01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:36.360 it's cold for here, Okay, so what are we going 1248 01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:38.960 to do? We can grow things you can't grow up north, 1249 01:07:39.159 --> 01:07:42.760 you know. I mean, how many avocado trees and citrus 1250 01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:47.280 trees do you see even in northern Texas? None? Right, 1251 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:50.880 So we can do those, but we've got to protect them. 1252 01:07:51.239 --> 01:07:53.840 So go by Ace Hardware Store. They've got everything you're 1253 01:07:53.840 --> 01:07:55.159 going to need for it. You know, I was talking 1254 01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:57.960 about those clamp lights and the bulbs that you put 1255 01:07:58.000 --> 01:07:59.880 in them. Whether it's a flood light one fifty WI, 1256 01:08:00.199 --> 01:08:03.000 whether it's an actual heat lamp, you can get those. 1257 01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:07.840 You can also get the plastic covers, the tarps that 1258 01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:11.639 go over plants to make sure you create that dead 1259 01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:15.239 air space underneath. Now we've got to deal with water 1260 01:08:15.599 --> 01:08:17.520 protection too. Those of you are going to get into 1261 01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:19.239 a little harder freeze. You're going to want to have 1262 01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:22.319 something to cover your faucet, like a faucet cover or 1263 01:08:22.399 --> 01:08:25.720 maybe the freeze miser. That's right, freeze miser. It's a 1264 01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:28.279 whole the thing you screw into the faucet, then you 1265 01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:31.760 turn the faucet on. It doesn't allow any water through 1266 01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:34.840 until it gets cold, and then it starts to trickle 1267 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:40.039 water through, and moving water is it's much more reluctant 1268 01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:42.479 to freeze. Gotta get much colder to freeze moving water 1269 01:08:42.600 --> 01:08:45.520 than stagnant water, and so as a result, you get 1270 01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:48.600 your pipes through on a very very cold night. They've 1271 01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:53.680 got tape for wrapping pipes that they have, the foam 1272 01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:56.760 covers over pipes. They've also got the little wires that 1273 01:08:56.840 --> 01:08:59.600 you put around your pipes, like an electrical type of 1274 01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:02.439 a tape that just barely warms it enough to protect it. 1275 01:09:03.239 --> 01:09:05.920 They have everything else you need. You need some duct tape. 1276 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:10.960 Do you need something for maybe, you know, de icing 1277 01:09:11.199 --> 01:09:14.640 the windshield to your car if you've got the frost 1278 01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:16.520 freeze or whatever is on it, and it's not just 1279 01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:19.479 this freeze, it's the ones coming up as well. Do 1280 01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:22.079 you need to keep your hands warm. They've got some 1281 01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:25.239 really good gloves as well as handwarmers. Also in there, 1282 01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:30.399 fireplace logs, the firewood. Do you need a propane heater. 1283 01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:33.520 There's always a good kerosene for a backup or for 1284 01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:36.960 those kinds of heaters. Whatever you need is that ACE Hardware. 1285 01:09:37.199 --> 01:09:40.319 Remember it's the three p's that we worry about. Plants, pipes, 1286 01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:42.399 and pets. You got to take care of those, and 1287 01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:44.800 ACE Hardware's got you coverage. Just go to Acehardware dot 1288 01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:47.279 com you can find the ACE Hardware store near you 1289 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:51.319 that is going to be your source for everything when 1290 01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:53.600 it comes to cold protection, and that would include let's 1291 01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:56.199 say you're in Alvin, Patco East Hardware down there, up 1292 01:09:56.239 --> 01:10:00.720 in Brennam, Brenham Ace Hardware, Katie Ace Hardware west of town, 1293 01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:04.680 Hamilton Hardware off Highway six, your Bear Creek down south 1294 01:10:05.079 --> 01:10:07.720 off Highway six, Hamilton Hardware is an ACE store. And 1295 01:10:07.760 --> 01:10:09.640 then out in Orange for those of you, first of all, 1296 01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:13.760 thanks for listening out in Orange. Child's building supply ACE 1297 01:10:13.800 --> 01:10:18.279 Hardware out there in Orange, Texas. We're going to heading 1298 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:20.199 out of the phones and talk to Loretta out in 1299 01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:23.880 Texas City. Hello, Loretta, good morning. 1300 01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:30.439 Yes, I have always wanted a bird of paradise, so 1301 01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:33.880 I was wondering how easy or how difficult. 1302 01:10:33.479 --> 01:10:34.239 They are to grow? 1303 01:10:37.800 --> 01:10:41.279 All righty, you know what, Loretta, I am looking at 1304 01:10:41.319 --> 01:10:43.680 my clock and I just saw I'm running out of 1305 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:46.760 time here, so I'm going to start to answer you, 1306 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:49.000 but we're going to get some music here and then 1307 01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:51.720 I will finish your answer after the top of the break. 1308 01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:53.960 So I'll let you know that upfront. Are we talking 1309 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:56.880 about a bird of paradise? Is like the tropical type 1310 01:10:57.079 --> 01:10:59.159 that have the little kind of flower that comes up 1311 01:10:59.199 --> 01:11:01.720 and goes horizont or are we talking about the kind 1312 01:11:02.319 --> 01:11:08.800 that has big orange and yellow flowers in long, tall clusters. 1313 01:11:10.399 --> 01:11:14.760 A small one where it kind of goes all horizonal horizontal. 1314 01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:18.520 Okay, good, Yeah. Those are very cold tender. If they 1315 01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:21.560 if you get them in a protected place near a house, 1316 01:11:22.119 --> 01:11:25.359 they can do fine with very little protection except in 1317 01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:29.960 a very very cold freeze. You you can grow them 1318 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:32.159 in containers, or you can grow them in the ground. 1319 01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:35.920 They just need decent drainage. They're not that difficult to grow. 1320 01:11:36.279 --> 01:11:38.439 They like a lot of sunlight that they don't have 1321 01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:40.600 to be in the full sun. They just hang on 1322 01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:44.119 and when we come back we'll finish answering your questions. 1323 01:11:47.520 --> 01:11:51.520 Welcome to kt r H Guarden Line with scan Arcters. 1324 01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:17.039 Just watch it as so many SI. 1325 01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:25.119 Alrighty, already here we go. We are back with garden 1326 01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:28.439 Line and your phone calls, and we're gonna no delay 1327 01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:30.520 and head straight out to the phones. We were having 1328 01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:34.359 a conversation, uh with Loretta, and we were talking about 1329 01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:39.199 the bird of Paradise. Loretta, we're back. So I mentioned 1330 01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:43.199 you know that it is somewhat cold tender, but in 1331 01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:46.239 a protected spot you down in Texas City there, you 1332 01:12:46.279 --> 01:12:48.600 should be okay with it. If you want to do 1333 01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:50.079 a little covering up when we're going to have a 1334 01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:52.600 really hard cold freeze, that's good. I would use a 1335 01:12:52.720 --> 01:12:56.359 plumeria fertilizer on it. We have a number of good 1336 01:12:56.439 --> 01:13:01.479 quality primary fertilizer. I know that both Nelson and Nitroposs 1337 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:05.079 make a plumeria blend. It's got a lot of the 1338 01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:08.039 middle number phosphorus and a good amount of the potassium 1339 01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:10.399 in it, which is a good blend for that particular 1340 01:13:10.520 --> 01:13:11.079 kind of plant. 1341 01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:15.199 Okay, do they like a lot of water or just a. 1342 01:13:15.279 --> 01:13:22.199 Little consistent You know they don't. They're not a drought plant, 1343 01:13:22.319 --> 01:13:24.760 but they're not an azalea either, or a hydrangea that 1344 01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:26.800 you've got to just keep from drying out at all. 1345 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:31.399 They're pretty tough. I've seen some that you people planted 1346 01:13:31.439 --> 01:13:33.159 them under the eaves of their house and they kind 1347 01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:36.319 of got the water that rainfall provided and did pretty 1348 01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:38.840 good with that. But that was a kind of unique 1349 01:13:38.880 --> 01:13:41.720 situation where the demands were a little bit lower. But 1350 01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:43.840 I would just say moderate, a good soaking every now 1351 01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:44.800 and then ought to be enough. 1352 01:13:46.159 --> 01:13:48.560 Okay, you said they like a lot of sun, so 1353 01:13:49.159 --> 01:13:51.479 the west side of the house would be a good place. 1354 01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:55.840 The west would be fine. You may get a little 1355 01:13:55.880 --> 01:13:58.159 bit of a you know, the leaves may get a 1356 01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:00.800 little bit ratty on it, but they be okay there. 1357 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:04.119 I've seen them growing in kind of a half day 1358 01:14:04.279 --> 01:14:07.399 sun doing pretty good, and I've seen them growing in 1359 01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:09.399 more sun than that and doing pretty good too. 1360 01:14:11.119 --> 01:14:15.359 Okay, all right, that gives me something to think about. 1361 01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:16.159 I appreciate it. 1362 01:14:17.640 --> 01:14:19.760 Yeah, you bet well. Good luck with those. Those are 1363 01:14:19.880 --> 01:14:22.079 gorgeous plants. I wish you well and. 1364 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:25.039 I've always loved them. 1365 01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:28.840 You bet Thanks for the call. We're going to go 1366 01:14:28.920 --> 01:14:31.479 now to Mike and Bay City. Hello Mike, Welcome to 1367 01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:32.039 garden Line. 1368 01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:33.720 Good morning. 1369 01:14:33.960 --> 01:14:36.239 Yeah, I got a couple of little issues I'd like 1370 01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:40.319 to ask you about. One of them is wood ashes. 1371 01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:44.119 What I do with them, Like I've read things that 1372 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:47.119 he probably is not supposed to put it places because 1373 01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:50.119 it just builds up like an alkalinity or something, either 1374 01:14:50.199 --> 01:14:51.880 in the garden or yard or anything. 1375 01:14:52.479 --> 01:14:57.800 So is that correct anything, Well, it is partly correct. 1376 01:14:58.119 --> 01:15:01.479 Wood ashes are like any nutrient, you can have not 1377 01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:04.600 enough and you can have too much. They are high pH. 1378 01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:07.920 So if you were going to grow azaleas or blueberries 1379 01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:11.239 or camellias, I wouldn't put a wood ash anywhere near them, 1380 01:15:11.880 --> 01:15:15.800 for sure. If you've got plants you're growing that are 1381 01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:17.960 already in the pH range, they want to be in 1382 01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:21.039 a lot of vegetables and things want to be around 1383 01:15:21.159 --> 01:15:24.800 neutral to slightly acidic. I wouldn't use too much wood 1384 01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:26.600 ash is there. So if you have a soil test 1385 01:15:26.680 --> 01:15:29.840 and you know where you are on pH, that guides you. Now. 1386 01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:34.479 They do contain phosphorus, and they contain potassium and other 1387 01:15:34.640 --> 01:15:38.960 nutrients that can be helpful to plants. So a moderate 1388 01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:41.520 amount of wood ash is fine. You just have to 1389 01:15:42.359 --> 01:15:45.920 you know, it really starts with what's already in your soil, 1390 01:15:46.359 --> 01:15:50.199 and then you weigh them out and spread them accordingly. 1391 01:15:50.319 --> 01:15:52.960 There is information I don't have anything on my website, 1392 01:15:53.000 --> 01:15:55.319 but there is information out there as to how much 1393 01:15:55.920 --> 01:15:58.319 wood ash, like how many pounds per hundred or a 1394 01:15:58.359 --> 01:15:59.720 thousand square feet can you put? 1395 01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:00.880 Uh? 1396 01:16:01.239 --> 01:16:06.439 So so, but yes, and moderation, Yeah, what about in 1397 01:16:06.560 --> 01:16:07.199 a compost? 1398 01:16:07.359 --> 01:16:07.520 Yeah? 1399 01:16:07.600 --> 01:16:09.840 What about putting it in compost? The same thing you're 1400 01:16:09.880 --> 01:16:11.319 gonna you don't know how to mix it? 1401 01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:14.920 Yeah, same thing. You just you know, you're sprinkling a 1402 01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:17.079 little bit on there, but a little bit goes awful 1403 01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:20.399 long way because compost is a pretty small thing, and 1404 01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:23.399 so uh, just be careful that because you go too 1405 01:16:23.439 --> 01:16:25.640 far and you got real high pH and that creates 1406 01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:26.439 its own problems. 1407 01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:32.680 I got you, Okay, Well I got another question. Okay, okay, 1408 01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:34.720 go ahead if you got something else on that, but. 1409 01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:41.720 Go ahead, go ahead, all right. 1410 01:16:42.159 --> 01:16:45.079 Uh we can't get together here. But I got an 1411 01:16:45.159 --> 01:16:47.840 orange little orange tree. I'm trying to. It's still in 1412 01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:51.239 a pot and decided when to plant or whether I 1413 01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:54.479 want to. And it's got some problems on the leaves, 1414 01:16:54.680 --> 01:16:59.520 like they kind of are curling on the edge, which 1415 01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.680 makes me think it's a bug or something, but I 1416 01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:07.119 can't find any but it gets you know, like rusty, 1417 01:17:07.159 --> 01:17:10.560 well it dies in that curl in his rusty looking 1418 01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:14.800 you know color wife, And they're curling like that, and 1419 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:16.680 so I can't tell if it's I don't know if 1420 01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:19.920 it's a fungus or a bug. Are you able to 1421 01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:20.680 that's in that in. 1422 01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:25.359 Section I can. That's a common insect here for Centrius. 1423 01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:29.520 It's called a citrus leaf miner miner like coal miner, 1424 01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:32.399 and that's what it does. A little fly lays an 1425 01:17:32.399 --> 01:17:35.640 egg in the leaf and then the larva hatches out 1426 01:17:36.119 --> 01:17:39.039 and choose between the upper and lower surfaces, just like 1427 01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:41.600 a coal miner digging through a sema coal in the ground. 1428 01:17:42.359 --> 01:17:44.880 They chew through there and that causes the leaf. Sometimes 1429 01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:47.199 they get a little silvery. You usually see a little 1430 01:17:47.199 --> 01:17:50.039 bit of a squiggly trail, and it does cause them 1431 01:17:50.079 --> 01:17:53.880 to curl like that, and the if you've got a 1432 01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:56.840 small plant, it's worth treating them for Generally, as a 1433 01:17:56.960 --> 01:17:59.479 citrus gets older and tougher, you you don't have to 1434 01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:01.760 worry about them as much. They'll do a little damage, 1435 01:18:01.800 --> 01:18:04.920 but they're not going to affect production much. But if 1436 01:18:04.960 --> 01:18:07.479 you use a product called spin No said, it's an 1437 01:18:07.640 --> 01:18:12.119 organic that soaks into the leaves and kills the larvae inside. 1438 01:18:12.760 --> 01:18:18.159 It's s p I n O S A D. Spin 1439 01:18:18.279 --> 01:18:21.479 No said, yeah, And you spray the new flushes of 1440 01:18:21.640 --> 01:18:25.720 growth with those mic The old, tough, leathery leaves don't 1441 01:18:25.760 --> 01:18:28.680 get affected by citrus leaf minor. It's the tender new 1442 01:18:28.760 --> 01:18:31.239 flushes of growth. So when you get a little flush 1443 01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:34.319 of growth, just spray. I'm squirt them with SPO spinosaid, 1444 01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:37.399 and it'll it'll minimize any kind of damage that those 1445 01:18:37.439 --> 01:18:37.920 would cause. 1446 01:18:37.960 --> 01:18:41.119 You know, you know one thing about this, I didn't 1447 01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:44.079 see any leaf minor, any kind of leaf minor thing. 1448 01:18:44.279 --> 01:18:47.800 It's just the only o case. You know, you would 1449 01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:49.479 think you'd see some of that on some of the 1450 01:18:49.520 --> 01:18:53.239 other leaves, but ever about lack on maybe one leaf 1451 01:18:53.319 --> 01:18:58.000 on every third branch here. Okay, it's but it's just 1452 01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:02.239 rolled up and it looks like it's been eating underneath. 1453 01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:03.520 You know, in that role. 1454 01:19:04.239 --> 01:19:07.079 But no mind, let's do this, Mike, the same thing. 1455 01:19:07.359 --> 01:19:11.279 Yeah, well it may be something else. Take some pictures 1456 01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:13.840 of it, Uh, take it a picture of the rolled 1457 01:19:13.880 --> 01:19:15.840 up leaf, Take a picture to unroll them, kind of 1458 01:19:15.840 --> 01:19:17.600 show me underneath where you say it looks like it 1459 01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:20.439 may have been eating. Take some good, close up, well 1460 01:19:20.520 --> 01:19:23.199 focused pictures. I'm going to put you on hold and 1461 01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:25.800 Jonathan will give you an email and send me those 1462 01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:27.720 pictures and we'll take it from there. Thank you. I 1463 01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:31.039 got to run for a break here. Yeah, unfortunately, I'm 1464 01:19:31.199 --> 01:19:33.760 right on a break, so I just wanna let's see 1465 01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:37.039 Laura and Nan and Louis. We are coming to you 1466 01:19:37.159 --> 01:19:43.359 right when we get back from break, all right, welcome 1467 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:45.159 back to the Garden Line. Good to have you with us. 1468 01:19:45.199 --> 01:19:48.319 We're gonna get right to our callers here who are 1469 01:19:48.479 --> 01:19:52.760 patiently waiting online. We go to Laura. Hello, Laura, welcome 1470 01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:53.479 to garden Line. 1471 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:55.319 Thank you, sir. 1472 01:19:55.920 --> 01:19:59.600 I heard you speaking earlier about the Santa Suma bee, 1473 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:00.840 a very. 1474 01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:04.439 Whole, whole hardy orange tree. 1475 01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:08.760 But what do you recommend for the limit and the grapefruit. 1476 01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:12.600 You know, there is to protect when there's fall. 1477 01:20:12.640 --> 01:20:16.000 They're going to figure out something that's got to have 1478 01:20:16.159 --> 01:20:17.760 the best resistance to the cold. 1479 01:20:19.119 --> 01:20:24.840 Okay, Well, grapefruit trees and lemon trees are not super 1480 01:20:24.920 --> 01:20:29.239 hardy citrus, and so those as species themselves are not 1481 01:20:29.560 --> 01:20:33.680 as hardy. We got to give protection for them whenever 1482 01:20:33.920 --> 01:20:36.119 we're going to get good cold weather, when it's going 1483 01:20:36.199 --> 01:20:40.039 to get down, Oh, I don't know. You know, let's 1484 01:20:40.039 --> 01:20:45.840 say below the upper twenties for sure. You know, maybe 1485 01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:48.199 when you get around twenty nine, if it's just for 1486 01:20:48.239 --> 01:20:50.479 a short period of time, you're probably okay on those. 1487 01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:53.119 But it just depends on how long it is and 1488 01:20:53.239 --> 01:20:56.479 what condition the plants are in, you know, because plant 1489 01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:00.520 hardiness itself, even as a plant gets older, Laura, it's 1490 01:21:00.600 --> 01:21:02.560 a little better able to take the cold. You know, 1491 01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:05.520 you take a satsuma, which is cold hardy, pretty cold 1492 01:21:05.560 --> 01:21:08.840 hardy once it's established, but in the first three years 1493 01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:10.720 it's not as cold hearty as it is as it 1494 01:21:10.760 --> 01:21:14.199 gets older. So it's a function of all those things, 1495 01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:18.319 plant health, plant age, and then where it's located, and 1496 01:21:18.399 --> 01:21:22.279 how fast the temperature drops, for example, would be another thing, 1497 01:21:22.359 --> 01:21:27.359 and how long it stays cold. So when it comes 1498 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:31.159 to ponderosa lemon, that's a pretty hardy lemon as far 1499 01:21:31.199 --> 01:21:33.600 as lemons go. But it's a big, old, giant lemon. 1500 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:36.720 It makes a huge tree and for most people it's 1501 01:21:36.760 --> 01:21:40.239 just not practical. It's more of a novelty. But in general, 1502 01:21:40.439 --> 01:21:46.079 the grapefruit that you mentioned and lemon trees are going 1503 01:21:46.159 --> 01:21:46.960 to need some protection. 1504 01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:50.840 All right, sir, I appreciate your time. 1505 01:21:52.199 --> 01:21:54.920 Yeah, hey, Laura, before I'll let you go, where are 1506 01:21:55.000 --> 01:22:02.800 you located? It doesn't stay here on the board, Oh okay, helping, Yeah, okay, yeah, 1507 01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:06.159 all right, Well that you you can have some cold 1508 01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:11.119 weather there. Yeah, all right, we appreciate it, Thank you 1509 01:22:11.239 --> 01:22:14.319 very much, Thank you man. I appreciate that. Now we're 1510 01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:16.439 going to go to Galveston. Talk to Luise Hey Luise, 1511 01:22:16.479 --> 01:22:17.359 Welcome to garden Line. 1512 01:22:18.199 --> 01:22:22.640 Good morning Skip. Just a quick question, is there any 1513 01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:29.760 is there any benefits to adding coffee grounds to your lawn, 1514 01:22:31.239 --> 01:22:35.119 of which I'd been doing the past uh two week intervals. 1515 01:22:35.640 --> 01:22:40.239 I've been collecting spent coffee grounds, spreading him, adding a 1516 01:22:40.279 --> 01:22:43.119 little water after. But I'm not sure I'm seeing any benefit, 1517 01:22:43.199 --> 01:22:44.840 any difference in the grass itself. 1518 01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:51.479 Nothing fast. So coffee grounds are often used maybe in 1519 01:22:51.520 --> 01:22:54.920 a container or in a in a garden bed, you know, 1520 01:22:55.039 --> 01:22:58.239 where it's a smaller area. In a lawn, we like 1521 01:22:58.359 --> 01:23:01.119 to do things to the whole lawn other than just spots, 1522 01:23:01.239 --> 01:23:03.399 So if the coffee grounds made it green, you would 1523 01:23:03.439 --> 01:23:05.199 end up with green spots wherever you're put in the 1524 01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:07.800 coffee ground, right, They do have quite a bit of 1525 01:23:07.880 --> 01:23:11.880 nitrogen that can be released over time as they decompose, 1526 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:16.039 and they are slightly acidifying, so there's nothing wrong with 1527 01:23:16.199 --> 01:23:18.399 them as long as they're used in moderation. But I 1528 01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:20.479 don't think in a lawn you're going to see a 1529 01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:23.800 significant difference. Just to do the fact, you know, if 1530 01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:26.800 you had a couple of wheelbarrows of coffee grounds, well 1531 01:23:26.840 --> 01:23:31.520 maybe maybe so, but I would use them in smaller 1532 01:23:31.640 --> 01:23:35.199 planting bed areas where maybe they can make where you 1533 01:23:35.279 --> 01:23:40.479 can use a little higher quantity per square foot. Okay, 1534 01:23:40.760 --> 01:23:44.760 thanks very much, appreciating you. Bet good luck with that. 1535 01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:47.680 Good luck with that. All right, Now, we're going to 1536 01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:49.960 go to Jersey Village and talk to Dan. Hey, Dan, 1537 01:23:50.079 --> 01:23:51.520 Welcome to garden Line. 1538 01:23:52.279 --> 01:23:56.239 Good morning. I have questions about candy dullus. I'm saying 1539 01:23:56.319 --> 01:24:00.079 that right. But they're lilies in a general man and 1540 01:24:00.159 --> 01:24:03.680 sold them. Do I cut them back now? Or I've 1541 01:24:03.760 --> 01:24:05.600 done it in the past and the spring after the 1542 01:24:06.239 --> 01:24:08.560 cold weather cut them back and the colis come back. 1543 01:24:09.479 --> 01:24:13.600 What's the best way you can do that? You can 1544 01:24:13.640 --> 01:24:15.680 cut them back if you get a little ragged stuff 1545 01:24:15.720 --> 01:24:18.560 before the fresh spring growth comes out. They're really kind 1546 01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:20.880 of cool. They're kind of like BlackBerry lily is they 1547 01:24:20.960 --> 01:24:23.279 look candy lily and BlackBerry lily look a lot of 1548 01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:27.439 like little beautiful little flowers kind of in a oh, 1549 01:24:27.520 --> 01:24:31.159 I don't know, a coral orange yellow, sometimes a little 1550 01:24:31.199 --> 01:24:34.279 bit lavender direction, but with the spots on the petals 1551 01:24:34.319 --> 01:24:37.279 and things are very beautiful and they're not hard to grow. 1552 01:24:37.560 --> 01:24:41.760 So I've had them before where I didn't do anything 1553 01:24:41.880 --> 01:24:44.800 to them. I just I just put them out there 1554 01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:46.800 and let them do what they're going to do, and 1555 01:24:47.319 --> 01:24:50.000 they'll do just fine. They're they're real, They're real, easy, 1556 01:24:50.279 --> 01:24:50.960 easy plants. 1557 01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:51.720 Yeah they are. 1558 01:24:52.640 --> 01:24:54.479 I've got over one hundred foot of them, So I 1559 01:24:54.680 --> 01:24:57.760 just I love them. That create good privacy and everything. 1560 01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:01.199 But either cut them back, can mult over them, or 1561 01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:04.520 or just leave them alone? Or what kind of fertilizer 1562 01:25:04.520 --> 01:25:06.520 would you throw them to and enhance. 1563 01:25:08.039 --> 01:25:11.119 Just you know, just a moderate amount of a complete fertilizer. 1564 01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:13.279 You don't want to push them with too much nitrogen, 1565 01:25:13.640 --> 01:25:17.119 just a moderate amount. How taller? How tall are yours? 1566 01:25:18.720 --> 01:25:18.880 Oh? 1567 01:25:19.199 --> 01:25:20.720 Anywhere from four to six foot? 1568 01:25:23.520 --> 01:25:23.600 Now? 1569 01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:25.439 Are we talking about candy lily? Or are you talking 1570 01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:26.439 about a tiger lily? 1571 01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:28.039 Uh? 1572 01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:32.520 Well they have the orange flower. You're talking about candy 1573 01:25:32.600 --> 01:25:35.319 lily or cannae lily. I don't know how the what 1574 01:25:35.439 --> 01:25:36.199 they're actually called. 1575 01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:38.279 Okay, well let me ask let me ask you this. 1576 01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:44.399 Are the individual flowers about the size maybe a tennis 1577 01:25:44.479 --> 01:25:48.199 ball or less, or are the individual flowers more like 1578 01:25:48.359 --> 01:25:49.800 a baseball softball? 1579 01:25:51.319 --> 01:25:51.399 Uh? 1580 01:25:51.960 --> 01:25:54.840 They grow on to shoot, you know, they kind of 1581 01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:59.720 a whole bunch of flowers on it. They're not individual 1582 01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:01.680 fly it kind of on one. 1583 01:26:01.800 --> 01:26:06.000 Shoot, yeah, I get that. I'm just saying, like, if 1584 01:26:06.039 --> 01:26:08.039 you were to pick one of the flowers out of 1585 01:26:08.079 --> 01:26:10.640 the ones along the huote, one of the flowers, is 1586 01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:15.800 it more like, Okay, I think you're talking about a 1587 01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:19.800 tiger lily. I think you're talking about a tiger and 1588 01:26:19.880 --> 01:26:22.439 that's that's a little that's okay, that's that's all right. 1589 01:26:22.560 --> 01:26:25.840 That's that's just a little bit different of a creature. 1590 01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:34.000 And I'm assuming you're said they're orange, yes, is that right? Yeah? Okay, well, 1591 01:26:34.039 --> 01:26:37.920 those are very popular on tiger lilies. The petals tend 1592 01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:42.680 to curve backwards, with the little filaments and anthers sticking 1593 01:26:42.760 --> 01:26:45.560 out in the middle beyond them. But the petals sort 1594 01:26:45.600 --> 01:26:48.800 of curved back. Sometimes they almost look like a falling 1595 01:26:48.920 --> 01:26:54.159 star or something. It's very very unusual. But those those 1596 01:26:54.239 --> 01:26:57.960 are really uh, they're they're also not that difficult to grow. 1597 01:26:58.319 --> 01:27:01.239 You probably need some sort of port for the stems 1598 01:27:01.319 --> 01:27:04.640 on them. Have you noticed you're just producing little look 1599 01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:09.000 like black berries where the leaves and stems and flowers 1600 01:27:09.039 --> 01:27:09.479 come together. 1601 01:27:10.079 --> 01:27:15.680 They don't. They they're okay on a rod scents basically, 1602 01:27:15.800 --> 01:27:17.600 and they just kind of lean against that. When I 1603 01:27:17.680 --> 01:27:19.560 have twelve. I'd just tie them up a little bit 1604 01:27:19.600 --> 01:27:23.239 if a need to. Okay, they start leaning too much, well, 1605 01:27:23.319 --> 01:27:25.479 because they are pretty top heavy at times. 1606 01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:30.840 Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure you're talking about tiger tiger lily. 1607 01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:33.560 If you're going to fertilize them, you something with more 1608 01:27:33.840 --> 01:27:36.760 potas or phosphorus the middle number, but not a lot 1609 01:27:36.800 --> 01:27:39.800 of nitrogen. They're already kind of a lanky growing plant, 1610 01:27:40.439 --> 01:27:42.520 and you don't want to you don't want to push 1611 01:27:42.640 --> 01:27:47.600 them with a lot of nitrogen. So a food that's 1612 01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:53.319 made for plume areas would be a good choice for 1613 01:27:53.479 --> 01:27:57.119 your tiger lilies, or just a yeah, just not too 1614 01:27:57.199 --> 01:27:58.479 much nitrogen the first. 1615 01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:03.119 Number, gotcha, all right, thank you very much. 1616 01:28:04.520 --> 01:28:07.039 Yeah, and when they bloom, when you get blooms this 1617 01:28:07.199 --> 01:28:09.479 next year, take a picture or two and email it 1618 01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:10.680 to me. I'd love to see those. 1619 01:28:11.520 --> 01:28:13.359 Okay, I'll get them all going at once. It'd be 1620 01:28:13.880 --> 01:28:14.840 It's quite a sight. 1621 01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:19.199 It is quite a sight, that is true. Well, hy Dan, 1622 01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:21.880 thank you, thank you very much for the for the 1623 01:28:21.960 --> 01:28:26.399 phone call. Appreciate that you know Jersey Village. I lived 1624 01:28:26.439 --> 01:28:28.800 in Cypress for a number of years. When I was 1625 01:28:28.880 --> 01:28:36.600 in Houston area. In the Cypress area, rather, and one 1626 01:28:36.680 --> 01:28:41.159 day it dawned on me what Jersey Village was named for, 1627 01:28:42.039 --> 01:28:45.880 and it dawned on me what Darry Ashford Street was 1628 01:28:46.039 --> 01:28:48.399 named for, and so on. It finally is like what 1629 01:28:48.840 --> 01:28:51.560 the big dairy production area up do there. In fact, 1630 01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:53.960 if you got onto RCW Nurses, which is where two 1631 01:28:54.039 --> 01:28:59.159 forty nine comes into belt Way eight, the beautiful giant 1632 01:28:59.359 --> 01:29:03.399 sycamore on the property down there. David Williamson was telling 1633 01:29:03.439 --> 01:29:05.840 me that that used to be a dairy right in 1634 01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:09.600 that area. And I still have those giant, beautiful sycamores 1635 01:29:09.640 --> 01:29:13.039 there from back in the day. But I think Houston's 1636 01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:16.359 grown a little bit since then. So it's, you know, 1637 01:29:16.479 --> 01:29:19.319 as it's gotten bigger year by year, just a new 1638 01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:23.760 spreading ring around the city each year gets bigger. It 1639 01:29:23.920 --> 01:29:26.600 sort of ate the dairy industry as it grew out 1640 01:29:26.640 --> 01:29:29.079 from there. But that was kind of interesting to me. 1641 01:29:31.319 --> 01:29:33.479 Sometimes you think, well, I should I should have wondered 1642 01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:36.279 about that a long time ago. Jersey Village and Darry 1643 01:29:36.359 --> 01:29:39.960 Ashford all that kind of thing. All right, we're listening 1644 01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:42.359 to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richtor our phone number 1645 01:29:42.359 --> 01:29:43.840 if you'd like to give me a Cafinally got those 1646 01:29:43.960 --> 01:29:45.680 calls cleared out. I don't like people to have to 1647 01:29:45.720 --> 01:29:48.319 sit and wait very long if I can control it. 1648 01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:51.880 But we now have wide open seven one three two 1649 01:29:52.039 --> 01:29:54.399 one two k t R H. If you've got a 1650 01:29:54.439 --> 01:29:56.720 gardening question that we could help you with, we would 1651 01:29:56.760 --> 01:30:00.720 be happy to do that. You know, Southwest Fortal has 1652 01:30:00.840 --> 01:30:04.640 been around since oh gosh, I think nineteen fifty five. 1653 01:30:04.720 --> 01:30:06.640 In fact, I was just I was just the other 1654 01:30:06.760 --> 01:30:10.000 day looking into you know, garden line. We trace our 1655 01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:12.920 lineage back to the Dewey Compton days, which is in 1656 01:30:12.960 --> 01:30:17.119 the nineteen fifties, and it went on from there. But 1657 01:30:17.920 --> 01:30:20.960 Southwest Fertilizer began in nineteen fifty five and it's been 1658 01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:24.199 a guardline sponsor since those Dewey Compton days. It's in 1659 01:30:24.279 --> 01:30:26.560 Southwest Houston, as you would expect, it's a corner of 1660 01:30:26.600 --> 01:30:29.880 bus Net and Runwick. When you go into Southwest Fertilizer, 1661 01:30:29.920 --> 01:30:32.600 you're going to find every kind of supply you need 1662 01:30:32.720 --> 01:30:35.319 for anything you want to grow. And so we're talking 1663 01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:42.800 about controlling pests, controlling diseases, fertilizing plants, quality tools to 1664 01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:44.880 get the job done. They got a ninety foot long 1665 01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:48.119 wall of tools there at Southwest fertilizer for you to 1666 01:30:48.199 --> 01:30:51.760 choose from corner of Businet and runwick again. If you 1667 01:30:51.880 --> 01:30:54.560 want to just go to the website at Southwest Fertilizer 1668 01:30:55.039 --> 01:30:59.600 dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Do you need weed protection? 1669 01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:02.439 Do you want to kill existing weeds? Do you want 1670 01:31:02.439 --> 01:31:05.159 to prevent weeds? Do you want to get seeds? Great 1671 01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:09.159 supply of seeds, including a bulk seed bin where you 1672 01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:11.720 know that's one of the most economical ways to buy seed. 1673 01:31:12.119 --> 01:31:14.119 You're gonna plant beans or corner or something like that. 1674 01:31:14.560 --> 01:31:16.159 You just get your little scoop out of the bulk 1675 01:31:16.239 --> 01:31:18.840 seed bin, put in a little envelope and you're good 1676 01:31:18.920 --> 01:31:21.439 to go. And I mean, Bob carries a lot of 1677 01:31:21.520 --> 01:31:24.479 quality things like that, quality pruning tools. We are in 1678 01:31:24.640 --> 01:31:28.039 pruning season. Time to get going on the pruning. Stop 1679 01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:30.840 by there. Grab some of this fill coal with Barnel 1680 01:31:30.960 --> 01:31:34.720 and Corona, other quality selections. If you're an organic gardener, 1681 01:31:34.720 --> 01:31:38.640 you're not gonna find a bigger selection of products that 1682 01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:42.079 are organic in this Greater Houston area, then you'll find 1683 01:31:42.079 --> 01:31:45.439 a Southwest Fertilizer. If I endorse something on guarden Line, 1684 01:31:45.680 --> 01:31:49.239 it's gonna be at Southwest Fertilizer. They have great service, 1685 01:31:49.319 --> 01:31:52.640 they've got excellent advice, real friendly. And when you got 1686 01:31:52.840 --> 01:31:56.239 friendly service, quality products, and great selection, you're not gonna 1687 01:31:56.279 --> 01:31:59.800 do better. And that's exactly how I would describe the folks. 1688 01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:05.159 Southwest Fertilizer, corner of Bussinett and Redwick, Southwest Houston. Time 1689 01:32:05.199 --> 01:32:07.479 for me to take a little break here. When we 1690 01:32:07.600 --> 01:32:09.560 come back, we're going to go to spring Branch and 1691 01:32:09.720 --> 01:32:12.079 talk to HRDA. Look forward to doing that. You hang 1692 01:32:12.159 --> 01:32:16.079 on Hurda and we'll be right back with you. Hey, 1693 01:32:16.159 --> 01:32:19.319 welcome back to guarden Line. It's glad to have you 1694 01:32:19.399 --> 01:32:22.680 with us today. Well, let's say back out to the phones. 1695 01:32:22.720 --> 01:32:25.680 We're gonna go talk to hurt now in spring break. 1696 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:27.680 Hello Hurta, Welcome to garden Line. 1697 01:32:28.439 --> 01:32:33.760 Thank you, good morning. My questions about foxtail fern. 1698 01:32:35.319 --> 01:32:37.359 How cold tolerant are they? 1699 01:32:39.479 --> 01:32:42.000 Well, you get a good hard freeze and you can 1700 01:32:42.239 --> 01:32:44.119 burn them back to the ground, but they'll come right 1701 01:32:44.159 --> 01:32:45.920 back out of the ground, so they should be just 1702 01:32:46.039 --> 01:32:47.039 fine in our area. 1703 01:32:47.800 --> 01:32:51.079 Oh good, good, Well, I'm going to cover them when 1704 01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:52.560 I cover my cheffelera. 1705 01:32:52.680 --> 01:32:54.279 I know I have to cover that one. 1706 01:32:55.560 --> 01:32:58.399 By the way, A happy New Year. 1707 01:32:58.840 --> 01:33:01.359 And blessed to you, you and your family. 1708 01:33:02.680 --> 01:33:04.439 Well, thank you very much. We're gonna have a good 1709 01:33:04.520 --> 01:33:06.319 twenty twenty five, aren't we hurt. 1710 01:33:06.199 --> 01:33:09.680 To Yes, sir, we're looking for alrighty. 1711 01:33:10.840 --> 01:33:13.159 Well, thank you for colling, Thanks for being a listener. 1712 01:33:13.319 --> 01:33:18.560 You take care of alrighty, alrighty, bye bye, all right, 1713 01:33:18.680 --> 01:33:22.000 let's head out to Cypress. Now we're gonna talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, 1714 01:33:22.079 --> 01:33:30.000 welcome to garden Line. Alrighty. We're gonna see if we 1715 01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:31.920 can get Susan there back on the phone and put 1716 01:33:31.960 --> 01:33:34.239 her on hold here and we'll come back to Susan 1717 01:33:34.319 --> 01:33:38.119 here we get her back on the phone. There's a 1718 01:33:38.199 --> 01:33:42.319 number of different things that I promote when we're talking 1719 01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:44.680 about garden Line, and I want to I want to 1720 01:33:44.760 --> 01:33:47.800 just say something. I get to choose who is a 1721 01:33:47.880 --> 01:33:50.159 sponsor and is not a sponsor on garden Line. I 1722 01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:52.800 do so when you hear me talking about a company, 1723 01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:55.680 it's a company that I believe in. Either I've seen 1724 01:33:55.720 --> 01:33:58.880 the research on their product, or I've used and or 1725 01:33:59.039 --> 01:34:02.800 I've used their and I know that it works. And 1726 01:34:03.600 --> 01:34:06.800 a good example of that is Nature's Way Resources. You know, 1727 01:34:06.880 --> 01:34:10.760 John Ferguson years ago founded Nature's Way Resources as a 1728 01:34:10.800 --> 01:34:13.600 student of the soil. He knew how nature works, putting 1729 01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:18.600 the soil in place in a form, in a situation 1730 01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:21.119 with microbes and nutrients and drainage and all of that 1731 01:34:21.279 --> 01:34:24.600 that makes success. And he built his company around that. 1732 01:34:25.479 --> 01:34:29.560 Now his son in his CEO of Nature's Way Resources, 1733 01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:32.920 and nothing has changed in terms of doing things the 1734 01:34:33.039 --> 01:34:37.039 right way, creating soils that turn what would we would 1735 01:34:37.119 --> 01:34:40.359 be calling natural waste in some of the best composts 1736 01:34:40.359 --> 01:34:44.800 in Multius that you possibly can have. That team out 1737 01:34:44.840 --> 01:34:46.600 there has been doing this for years. They know how 1738 01:34:46.640 --> 01:34:48.680 to do it. They know how to make quality products 1739 01:34:48.720 --> 01:34:50.840 that help you have success. And if you want your 1740 01:34:50.920 --> 01:34:53.840 thumb to look green, go out to Nature's Way and 1741 01:34:53.960 --> 01:34:55.960 get some of the stuff they make. That's brown, and 1742 01:34:56.079 --> 01:34:59.479 that is compost and that is multius for on top 1743 01:34:59.520 --> 01:35:02.279 of the soil, and that is special bed mixes for 1744 01:35:02.479 --> 01:35:06.880 everything from acid living plants to vegetables and herb plants 1745 01:35:07.000 --> 01:35:10.880 to flowering plants. They've got a blend for everything you 1746 01:35:11.119 --> 01:35:15.319 possibly could need. Ian continuing his father's mission on creating 1747 01:35:15.359 --> 01:35:20.000 a healthy environment for generations to come, because all things 1748 01:35:20.079 --> 01:35:23.199 begin in the soil. I saw a quote one time, 1749 01:35:23.479 --> 01:35:29.479 That says mankind. Despite all our artistic pretensions and successes, 1750 01:35:29.640 --> 01:35:33.600 Mankind owes that success to a six inch lratopsoil in 1751 01:35:33.640 --> 01:35:36.159 the fact that it rains and in Nature's way. That 1752 01:35:36.479 --> 01:35:39.439 is the kind of quality mix that they make because 1753 01:35:39.479 --> 01:35:41.920 it does all begin in the ground. It is brown 1754 01:35:41.960 --> 01:35:46.199 stuff before green stuff. Sabi Nature's Way resources. They're up 1755 01:35:46.239 --> 01:35:49.439 on I forty five on the way to Conrod, just 1756 01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:53.600 where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia. You just 1757 01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:56.000 turn right if you're going north on forty five, cross 1758 01:35:56.079 --> 01:35:59.640 over the railroad tracks Sherwood circles right there. That's where 1759 01:36:00.039 --> 01:36:02.880 you will find Nature's Way resources. And that is where 1760 01:36:02.920 --> 01:36:04.960 you will go home with. Whether it's a trailer or 1761 01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:06.760 a bunch of bags in the back of your car, 1762 01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:08.960 you will go home with some of the best stuff 1763 01:36:09.239 --> 01:36:11.640 that you can have to set you up for success. 1764 01:36:13.479 --> 01:36:16.760 We're going to now head to Cyprus, Texas and talk 1765 01:36:16.800 --> 01:36:18.039 to Susan. Do we have Susan? 1766 01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:20.680 I hope, So how are you? 1767 01:36:22.439 --> 01:36:25.239 I'm good, Susan, Welcome to garden Line. 1768 01:36:25.359 --> 01:36:29.079 No thanks. I was lazy and never put down my 1769 01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:32.560 pre emergent in November. What should I do at this 1770 01:36:32.760 --> 01:36:35.439 point in December. In January, what should I do now? 1771 01:36:37.079 --> 01:36:39.479 Well, you should wait and watch if you see a bunch, 1772 01:36:39.640 --> 01:36:41.760 is this a lawn or what are we talking about? 1773 01:36:42.680 --> 01:36:45.239 It's a lawn and I'm already seeing weeds come up 1774 01:36:45.279 --> 01:36:46.720 that I didn't have last year. 1775 01:36:46.920 --> 01:36:51.600 So what should I do at this point? Okay, give 1776 01:36:51.640 --> 01:36:53.560 it just a little bit longer. Once we get a 1777 01:36:53.560 --> 01:36:57.239 little further into January and the weeds get a little larger, 1778 01:36:58.039 --> 01:37:01.960 you can use a post emergent urgent weed control product 1779 01:37:02.159 --> 01:37:06.720 on them. Those post emergent products kill existing weeds. Now 1780 01:37:06.800 --> 01:37:09.159 once the weather gets warm and we're up, let's even 1781 01:37:09.239 --> 01:37:12.399 the upper eighties, some of those products can be stressful 1782 01:37:12.399 --> 01:37:14.920 to your Saint Augustine, so we want to do it 1783 01:37:15.079 --> 01:37:17.239 before it gets too far along. You also want to 1784 01:37:17.319 --> 01:37:20.399 do it before those weeds begin to bloom and set seed, 1785 01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:23.079 because then they're they're more difficult to control, or in 1786 01:37:23.199 --> 01:37:27.119 some cases they've already made seed, which sentences you to another. 1787 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:27.239 Year of this. 1788 01:37:28.479 --> 01:37:31.600 So you know, make sure they're up and growing and 1789 01:37:32.239 --> 01:37:35.600 while they're still young. A post emergent weed control product. 1790 01:37:35.640 --> 01:37:38.840 There's a lot of different blends in the market from 1791 01:37:39.000 --> 01:37:43.039 various companies that you spray on your lawn and it 1792 01:37:43.159 --> 01:37:45.680 controls them. There are also some fertilizers that have a 1793 01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:48.479 post emergent in them that you can use. You just 1794 01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:50.199 need the If you're going to use one of those, 1795 01:37:50.279 --> 01:37:52.560 you need the weeds to be wet. So if it 1796 01:37:52.680 --> 01:37:55.439 hadn't rain, just rained, you need to sprinkle your lawn 1797 01:37:55.520 --> 01:37:57.920 to get just enough to get the weed surface wet 1798 01:37:58.319 --> 01:38:00.479 so those granules stick to the weed and you can 1799 01:38:00.520 --> 01:38:03.680 go about it that way. Also, you said to. 1800 01:38:03.680 --> 01:38:06.600 Be careful with post emergion in Saint Augustine. What about 1801 01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:07.920 post emergent in Bermuda? 1802 01:38:09.520 --> 01:38:12.439 Not as much, but I said, I was saying, be 1803 01:38:12.520 --> 01:38:16.119 careful if if the temperature, you know, is in the 1804 01:38:16.560 --> 01:38:20.039 upper eighties or above. So that's why we you know, 1805 01:38:20.159 --> 01:38:21.960 when you're in the heat of summer, it's it's a 1806 01:38:22.039 --> 01:38:27.079 difficult time for most post emergents to use, most post mergents. 1807 01:38:27.159 --> 01:38:30.079 So okay, okay, So I should wait for the weeds 1808 01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:31.800 to get a little I should wait for the weeds 1809 01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:33.960 to get a little more developed in January and then 1810 01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:35.920 put down post emergent as long as it's cool. 1811 01:38:37.279 --> 01:38:40.760 Yeah, yeah, because here's why, the more of a weed 1812 01:38:40.880 --> 01:38:44.239 you get, the more leaf area there is to get 1813 01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:47.279 the spray on, and you know you would if you 1814 01:38:47.319 --> 01:38:52.600 spray them all let's say spray them in late November 1815 01:38:53.039 --> 01:38:55.920 or December, Well you would have new seeds that come 1816 01:38:56.039 --> 01:38:58.319 up and then you do spraying again. So I'm kind 1817 01:38:58.319 --> 01:39:01.319 of waiting a little bit, but not too because those 1818 01:39:01.399 --> 01:39:03.800 weeds sit there as very tiny weeds, and all of 1819 01:39:03.880 --> 01:39:06.319 a sudden they take off growing and they're already starting 1820 01:39:06.399 --> 01:39:09.039 to grow a little bit. So just don't delay too 1821 01:39:09.119 --> 01:39:09.720 long on them. 1822 01:39:11.800 --> 01:39:15.119 Thank you very much, have a great day, all. 1823 01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:18.960 Right, Thank you, Susan, appreciate the call. Well, it looks 1824 01:39:19.119 --> 01:39:22.800 like I'm coming up here on another break that just 1825 01:39:22.920 --> 01:39:24.800 keeps sneaking up on me. But I guess they say 1826 01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:28.159 time flies when you're having fun. Kromit the frogcess times 1827 01:39:28.199 --> 01:39:30.960 fun when you're having flies. But that's a whole nother discussion. 1828 01:39:31.159 --> 01:39:32.640 We're going to take a break. When we come back, 1829 01:39:32.720 --> 01:39:35.159 Christine and Paarland, you will be our very first up. 1830 01:39:36.720 --> 01:39:41.119 All right, welcome back here. We are continuing on in 1831 01:39:41.199 --> 01:39:45.079 the garden line. Glad you're listening. Thanks for joining us. 1832 01:39:45.119 --> 01:39:47.840 Welcome to twenty twenty five. This is the best gardening 1833 01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:50.279 year you are ever going to have. Just stay tuned. 1834 01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:55.319 And let's do this together. Gardening is not rocket science. 1835 01:39:55.399 --> 01:39:57.720 I don't think rocket science is rocket science. If I mean, 1836 01:39:57.720 --> 01:39:59.960 if you know what you're talking about, well they say 1837 01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.560 it's not rocket science. Well, if you're a rocket scientist, 1838 01:40:04.039 --> 01:40:06.119 I don't think it's difficult at all because you already 1839 01:40:06.159 --> 01:40:08.119 know what you're doing about. That's the same thing with gardening. 1840 01:40:08.239 --> 01:40:09.640 We're going to help you out here. We're gonna help 1841 01:40:09.680 --> 01:40:11.960 you have success, and you're gonna have a good time 1842 01:40:12.039 --> 01:40:14.039 doing it, because that's what it's all about, is having 1843 01:40:14.079 --> 01:40:17.960 a bountiful garden, having a beautiful landscape, and having fun 1844 01:40:18.199 --> 01:40:22.600 in the process. So stick around here we go. We're 1845 01:40:22.640 --> 01:40:26.319 gonna go to Parland now and talk to Christine. Hello, Christine, 1846 01:40:26.359 --> 01:40:27.319 welcome to garden Line. 1847 01:40:28.119 --> 01:40:28.720 Good morning. 1848 01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:38.720 How are you today, I'm well, thank you. How can 1849 01:40:38.760 --> 01:40:39.079 we help? 1850 01:40:40.520 --> 01:40:44.000 Well, what you can do is we we had since 1851 01:40:44.079 --> 01:40:49.359 Bugsy leaved last year and my husband she breaked everything. 1852 01:40:49.079 --> 01:40:51.880 Out and down fertilizer. 1853 01:40:52.039 --> 01:40:55.840 We plugging on containment to see over the summer and 1854 01:40:56.760 --> 01:41:01.880 screening summer. Really Christmas decorations up and we're cleaning up 1855 01:41:01.960 --> 01:41:06.279 any founts, bugs all over Christmas decorations and. 1856 01:41:06.319 --> 01:41:09.359 We're like, oh my gosh, you can't bugs again. 1857 01:41:09.640 --> 01:41:13.560 If you put down the triathline treatments right be for 1858 01:41:14.680 --> 01:41:18.000 you know, so the winch started and fertilized, and we're 1859 01:41:18.039 --> 01:41:19.760 just trying to figure out what you can put down 1860 01:41:19.840 --> 01:41:23.000 on the line to stop this bugs from coming up 1861 01:41:23.239 --> 01:41:27.119 or at least get distinch bugs because it is slightly brown. 1862 01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:27.920 But not circular. 1863 01:41:28.239 --> 01:41:33.479 Okay, okay, well, so good news. Those are not chinchbugs 1864 01:41:33.520 --> 01:41:37.119 you're seeing around the Christmas decorations. Chinchbugs can't take the 1865 01:41:37.199 --> 01:41:40.439 weather we're having. They're not out in any numbers. But 1866 01:41:40.560 --> 01:41:43.560 there are a lot of bugs that look like chinchbugs. 1867 01:41:43.680 --> 01:41:45.800 So you're seeing some other kind of insect. But it's 1868 01:41:45.880 --> 01:41:49.279 not a lawn concern. Uh. If you will go online 1869 01:41:49.720 --> 01:41:54.079 to Gardening with Skip that's my website, Gardening with Skip 1870 01:41:54.199 --> 01:41:58.079 dot com. There is a lawn pest, disease and weed 1871 01:41:58.479 --> 01:42:01.800 management schedule and you can look at it online or 1872 01:42:01.840 --> 01:42:03.720 you can print it out. I'd suggest you print it 1873 01:42:03.800 --> 01:42:06.399 out as well as the lawn care schedule. If you 1874 01:42:06.479 --> 01:42:11.000 look on there and you it's a January through December schedule. 1875 01:42:11.119 --> 01:42:13.239 So you just go from you know, left to right, 1876 01:42:13.880 --> 01:42:17.159 it'll tell you exactly when chinchbugs typically appear, and that 1877 01:42:17.319 --> 01:42:21.560 is June through September. Okay, Now, by the time we 1878 01:42:21.720 --> 01:42:25.920 get in, you know, to September, they're already heading downhill. 1879 01:42:26.039 --> 01:42:30.800 But the summer months, especially as we go from July 1880 01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:34.119 to August, that's kind of the worst chinchbug season. But 1881 01:42:34.279 --> 01:42:36.439 that's when we do our treatments for them, and the 1882 01:42:36.520 --> 01:42:38.960 schedule tells you exactly when to treat and what do 1883 01:42:39.000 --> 01:42:42.239 you use, so if it comes back next year, you'll 1884 01:42:42.279 --> 01:42:42.920 be ready to go. 1885 01:42:45.720 --> 01:42:48.359 Okay, all right, thank you very much for your help. 1886 01:42:48.439 --> 01:42:49.399 We really appreciate it. 1887 01:42:50.720 --> 01:42:52.720 Well, thanks for listening to garden Line. And you just 1888 01:42:52.800 --> 01:42:54.880 keep your eyes out for those little boogers now that 1889 01:42:54.960 --> 01:42:57.000 you know what they look like, catch them early before 1890 01:42:57.039 --> 01:42:58.880 they do that much damage again, and you'll be in 1891 01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:04.119 good shape. Thanks Christine. We're going to go now to 1892 01:43:04.479 --> 01:43:07.920 Austin County and talk to Doris. Hello, Doris, welcome to 1893 01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:08.479 garden Line. 1894 01:43:09.640 --> 01:43:11.079 Thank you. How are you today? 1895 01:43:12.439 --> 01:43:15.479 Well, I'm good, I'm good. It's the best gardening year 1896 01:43:15.520 --> 01:43:17.560 I'm ever going to have, so I can't not be good. 1897 01:43:19.439 --> 01:43:23.159 Okay, what can I put on my crpe myrtles? 1898 01:43:23.399 --> 01:43:27.920 Because of the blacks stuck that's on the trunks. 1899 01:43:29.079 --> 01:43:33.439 Okay, this time of the year, there's about the only 1900 01:43:33.560 --> 01:43:36.000 thing that you can do would be to spray a 1901 01:43:37.119 --> 01:43:41.960 dormant oil on those trunks and branches. That's crape myrtle 1902 01:43:42.119 --> 01:43:45.600 bark scale that's causing that. The little white things that 1903 01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:49.359 are in and among the black stuff, that's the scale 1904 01:43:49.399 --> 01:43:54.960 insects or oil smothers scale. Now, having said that, crpe 1905 01:43:55.000 --> 01:43:57.479 myrtle scale is one of the scale that we have 1906 01:43:57.880 --> 01:44:02.960 more difficulty controlling with the oil sprays. Once the plants 1907 01:44:03.079 --> 01:44:07.079 begin to push, sap and grow, there are drenches that 1908 01:44:07.199 --> 01:44:09.319 you can put around the base of the plant. You 1909 01:44:09.520 --> 01:44:13.079 drench the soil and not just a spray, but literally 1910 01:44:13.159 --> 01:44:16.399 in like a watering can or a bucket, and the 1911 01:44:16.479 --> 01:44:18.880 plant takes it up and it gets in the plumbing 1912 01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:22.279 of the plant. And that way, when that scale tries 1913 01:44:22.359 --> 01:44:25.520 to suck the juices out of the plant stems, it 1914 01:44:25.640 --> 01:44:29.159 gets the poison and it kills the scale. But that 1915 01:44:29.640 --> 01:44:32.279 we're a little early for that because the plants aren't 1916 01:44:32.399 --> 01:44:34.640 actively taking up a lot of stuff right now. 1917 01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:37.760 Okay, what's the name of it. 1918 01:44:40.119 --> 01:44:43.640 Well, on the dormant oil would be the one that 1919 01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:45.800 I would use now, and you've got to get good 1920 01:44:45.920 --> 01:44:50.119 coverage all around the plant. In other words, every surface 1921 01:44:50.439 --> 01:44:54.159 of the branches, trunks and branches needs to be sprayed 1922 01:44:54.199 --> 01:44:58.119 with oil that would be dormant oil. When we get 1923 01:44:58.199 --> 01:45:03.960 into the drench, you're going to use a product. I'm 1924 01:45:03.960 --> 01:45:05.880 gonna do you have a pin or pencil handy there? 1925 01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:09.079 Yes, I do, okay. 1926 01:45:10.000 --> 01:45:14.279 The first there's two ingredients, and either one works. The 1927 01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:18.479 first one that I would suggest is called dino tepheron 1928 01:45:18.800 --> 01:45:22.640 and it's spelled d I n O like dinosaur d 1929 01:45:22.920 --> 01:45:28.399 I n O t e f u r a n 1930 01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:37.000 dino tef fern. The second option is in mid oh cloprid. 1931 01:45:37.359 --> 01:45:44.319 It's I M I d O c l O p 1932 01:45:44.640 --> 01:45:48.119 r I d em mid oh clo prid. Either one 1933 01:45:48.159 --> 01:45:51.000 of those, not both, either one. You're going to find them. 1934 01:45:51.039 --> 01:45:54.119 You go to a you know, a good quality garden center, 1935 01:45:54.279 --> 01:45:57.239 ace hardware stores out those fertilizer any of those kinds 1936 01:45:57.279 --> 01:46:01.279 of places, and just tell them I need something with 1937 01:46:01.439 --> 01:46:04.520 one of these two products in it, and that will 1938 01:46:04.560 --> 01:46:06.800 be what you use and follow the label. 1939 01:46:06.560 --> 01:46:10.239 Instructions and you do this what in the springtime. 1940 01:46:10.319 --> 01:46:14.159 Then in the springtime, when your crepe myrtles start to grow, 1941 01:46:14.319 --> 01:46:16.800 you know, maybe got six ten inches of new shoot 1942 01:46:16.840 --> 01:46:18.479 growth on them. That would be a good time to 1943 01:46:18.520 --> 01:46:19.600 go ahead and get those down. 1944 01:46:20.800 --> 01:46:23.680 Okay, And if I do it now, I use the 1945 01:46:23.800 --> 01:46:26.680 dormant oil and spray Dorman oil. 1946 01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:29.920 Now, yeah, that's what we do for scale in general. 1947 01:46:30.520 --> 01:46:34.119 We do the Dorman oil because it smothers the scale. 1948 01:46:34.199 --> 01:46:37.800 But Dorman oil you have to cover every surface because 1949 01:46:37.800 --> 01:46:40.079 any spot you miss with a living scale, it won't 1950 01:46:40.159 --> 01:46:41.840 hurt that that scale won't be controlled. 1951 01:46:41.840 --> 01:46:46.079 Okay, okay, all right, good luck, door, Thank you very much. 1952 01:46:46.640 --> 01:46:47.840 Have a great garden year. 1953 01:46:49.159 --> 01:46:51.600 All right you as well, thank you very much for that. 1954 01:46:52.159 --> 01:46:54.680 All Right, let's see here we are. We are now 1955 01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:56.960 going to go. I think I have time. We're going 1956 01:46:57.000 --> 01:46:59.720 to try to take a call here from Marie in Baytown. 1957 01:47:00.199 --> 01:47:01.960 We're running short on time, but let's see if we 1958 01:47:02.000 --> 01:47:02.680 can help you out. 1959 01:47:03.439 --> 01:47:05.760 Okay. I just have a quick question. I still have 1960 01:47:05.920 --> 01:47:09.119 about fifteen to twenty great fruits on my tree, and 1961 01:47:09.239 --> 01:47:11.199 I was just wondering do I need to pick those 1962 01:47:11.359 --> 01:47:14.560 now before it gets cold or can they stay on 1963 01:47:14.680 --> 01:47:15.800 the tree a little bit longer. 1964 01:47:18.079 --> 01:47:20.880 See you are in Baytown. I think you're going to 1965 01:47:20.960 --> 01:47:26.039 be okay, you know you're I think your temperature. What 1966 01:47:26.159 --> 01:47:28.560 are you looking at getting into about thirty or do 1967 01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:30.039 you know what your prediction is. 1968 01:47:30.119 --> 01:47:32.279 Down there they're saying about thirty. 1969 01:47:33.680 --> 01:47:36.520 Yeah, yeah, I think you'll be okay. I don't think 1970 01:47:36.600 --> 01:47:39.520 that it's going to be both thirty for very long. 1971 01:47:39.760 --> 01:47:41.439 And I think you're going to be okay on it. 1972 01:47:41.560 --> 01:47:45.000 If you want to pick a few, you could, but yeah, 1973 01:47:45.079 --> 01:47:47.560 that's my that's my best guess on it. I'm not 1974 01:47:47.640 --> 01:47:52.600 a weather man, Okay, all right, thank you, all right, 1975 01:47:52.680 --> 01:47:55.840 thank you very much. Appreciate you, Bet, I appreciate your call. 1976 01:47:56.279 --> 01:47:58.439 Cameraon up in Conrad. We're going to hold you till 1977 01:47:58.479 --> 01:48:00.319 we come back from break, so I'll have time to 1978 01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:03.880 uh properly answer your question. Just hang on with us 1979 01:48:03.920 --> 01:48:06.079 and we'll be right back, folks. Our number is seven 1980 01:48:06.159 --> 01:48:10.319 one three two one two five eight seven four seven 1981 01:48:10.359 --> 01:48:13.399 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Now 1982 01:48:13.439 --> 01:48:19.319 I mentioned my lawn care schedule and my lawn pest disease, 1983 01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:25.279 and we'd management schedule, folks. Timing is important on everything, 1984 01:48:25.680 --> 01:48:27.880 and so if you print these schedules out, they are 1985 01:48:27.920 --> 01:48:31.720 on my website. If you print them out, the schedule 1986 01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:36.960 is from January through December. It tells you, you know, 1987 01:48:37.119 --> 01:48:40.199 when does brown patch occur? When did chinchburgs occur? When 1988 01:48:40.239 --> 01:48:42.479 does sid webloms occur? When do I apply a pre 1989 01:48:42.560 --> 01:48:45.560 emerging harbs? It's all on the schedule. Gardening with Skip 1990 01:48:45.880 --> 01:48:46.359 dot Com. 1991 01:48:48.560 --> 01:48:52.399 Welcome to k t r H. Guarden Line with Skip Ricord. 1992 01:48:52.439 --> 01:49:02.720 It's so crazy than just watch him as. 1993 01:49:22.239 --> 01:49:25.319 All right, welcome back, welcome back to your guardline. Good 1994 01:49:25.319 --> 01:49:27.960 to have you with us. I don't know what happened, 1995 01:49:28.000 --> 01:49:30.680 but somewhere halfway through the show today somebody left the 1996 01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:33.079 gates open. So we're going to run back out here 1997 01:49:33.199 --> 01:49:35.680 to the phones and let's see. We're going to start 1998 01:49:36.079 --> 01:49:39.680 with Cameron up in Conroe. Hey Cameron, welcome to garden Line. 1999 01:49:41.000 --> 01:49:46.199 Hey morn Skiffer, you sir, I'm well, thank you good. 2000 01:49:47.479 --> 01:49:50.000 Just a real quick question I've got they didn't ignore. 2001 01:49:50.039 --> 01:49:53.079 You're growing out back of the house, probably the foot tall, 2002 01:49:55.159 --> 01:49:58.119 growing wild and I really don't have that green of 2003 01:49:58.159 --> 01:50:01.760 the thumb, but I'm I like to replant in another 2004 01:50:01.880 --> 01:50:05.079 location in my yard so that way you could grow up, 2005 01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:10.239 grow big. I'm on a heavy black gumbo soil. What 2006 01:50:10.680 --> 01:50:13.960 do you recommend for taking care of this thing this year? 2007 01:50:14.159 --> 01:50:14.640 In movement. 2008 01:50:16.479 --> 01:50:23.159 Yeah, you know, magnolia's are happiest in our acidic forest 2009 01:50:23.239 --> 01:50:27.319 soils of the southeast, and so when you put them 2010 01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:30.239 on a black gumbo, they may or may not do 2011 01:50:30.359 --> 01:50:32.680 pretty well. They need good drainage first of all, So 2012 01:50:32.920 --> 01:50:35.760 if it is a heavy clay like that, somewhat of 2013 01:50:35.800 --> 01:50:38.119 a mound to help the soil drain away from the 2014 01:50:38.199 --> 01:50:44.760 surface would be helpful. Anything that makes the soil, you know, 2015 01:50:44.880 --> 01:50:47.840 a little better drained is going to be beneficial to them. 2016 01:50:47.880 --> 01:50:49.920 They like it a little bit on the acidic side. 2017 01:50:50.359 --> 01:50:53.119 Although they can take higher pH they prefer it a 2018 01:50:53.159 --> 01:50:55.960 little on the acidic side. So adding a lot of 2019 01:50:56.039 --> 01:50:59.600 composted materials to the soil, loosening up that clay a 2020 01:50:59.640 --> 01:51:02.239 little bit, getting it on a good mound. You might 2021 01:51:02.319 --> 01:51:06.840 even see a benefit from putting some expanded shale in 2022 01:51:06.920 --> 01:51:09.359 a very large area around them. And it takes quite 2023 01:51:09.359 --> 01:51:11.039 a bit of shale to do that, but that helps 2024 01:51:11.119 --> 01:51:13.479 open up that clay soil provide a little bit better 2025 01:51:13.600 --> 01:51:16.279 internal drainage. But those are all be things in your power. 2026 01:51:16.840 --> 01:51:19.720 Keeping a mulch on the soil all the time. You know, 2027 01:51:19.800 --> 01:51:22.159 in the forest, the leaves fall on the ground, pile 2028 01:51:22.279 --> 01:51:24.960 up and just rot year after year after year, making 2029 01:51:25.000 --> 01:51:28.000 the soil better and better. So do that around your 2030 01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:30.239 magnolia tree and as wide of an area as you 2031 01:51:30.359 --> 01:51:33.600 can to try to make it as at home by 2032 01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:36.079 creating that forest floor environment as you can. 2033 01:51:37.600 --> 01:51:41.680 Okay, alright, perfect, and probably looking at an early spring 2034 01:51:41.960 --> 01:51:42.920 to do this, or. 2035 01:51:44.880 --> 01:51:47.760 Well, the sooner you move it, the better. Now, the 2036 01:51:47.840 --> 01:51:49.479 sooner you move at the better. Get as much of 2037 01:51:49.479 --> 01:51:51.319 the roots as you can. They don't like it and move. 2038 01:51:51.399 --> 01:51:54.479 But if it's still pretty small, you may successfully move it. 2039 01:51:55.399 --> 01:51:58.239 But you need to do it soon because summer's coming, 2040 01:51:58.800 --> 01:52:01.039 and the more months it has to get a root 2041 01:52:01.119 --> 01:52:04.880 system established, re established, the better off it'll be when 2042 01:52:05.000 --> 01:52:06.000 when the heat arrives. 2043 01:52:07.359 --> 01:52:11.000 Okay, perfect, Well, i'll all right after after this freezing 2044 01:52:11.079 --> 01:52:12.319 weather this week, I'll get to. 2045 01:52:12.439 --> 01:52:15.880 It, all right, sir. You take care, Thanks for the call. 2046 01:52:16.119 --> 01:52:19.119 We're gonna go now to Alvin and talk to Frank. Hey, Frank, 2047 01:52:19.319 --> 01:52:20.439 welcome to garden Line. 2048 01:52:21.399 --> 01:52:25.600 Morning, Skip. I was calling about grafting trees the time 2049 01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:28.239 of year. I just got a little kit from Amazon, 2050 01:52:29.039 --> 01:52:33.960 and uh, I'm waiting to get some wound dressing healing, 2051 01:52:34.279 --> 01:52:37.119 you know, wound dressing and also uh It says something 2052 01:52:37.119 --> 01:52:40.680 about having to like put some spray or clean up, 2053 01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:43.199 like anti microbes or whatever. I don't know if they 2054 01:52:43.479 --> 01:52:45.760 equipment or where you do the cut at, but I 2055 01:52:45.920 --> 01:52:48.880 was looking at the you know, the procedure, and is 2056 01:52:48.960 --> 01:52:51.000 it the good time of the right time? Should I 2057 01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:52.760 wait a few weeks a few months to grab the 2058 01:52:52.880 --> 01:52:55.239 con trees and uh some fig trees? 2059 01:52:56.520 --> 01:53:00.319 Okay? Well figs we yeah, figs, we are real. They 2060 01:53:00.319 --> 01:53:02.439 don't graft. You can take a fig branch, one of 2061 01:53:02.439 --> 01:53:04.960 those dormant little branches the size of one of your fingers, 2062 01:53:05.560 --> 01:53:09.039 cut off about an eight intersection of it, and stick 2063 01:53:09.079 --> 01:53:11.600 it in the ground a little root and grow. I mean, 2064 01:53:11.760 --> 01:53:15.840 they're very easy to do, figs. So you don't need 2065 01:53:15.920 --> 01:53:19.000 to graft the fig. I guess you could. I've never 2066 01:53:20.199 --> 01:53:23.079 I've never even heard of grafting a fig. I don't 2067 01:53:23.119 --> 01:53:26.000 know why you would, but most people just just stick 2068 01:53:26.039 --> 01:53:27.880 them in the ground and root them as far as 2069 01:53:27.960 --> 01:53:28.640 the pecan. 2070 01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:32.000 Very good. 2071 01:53:32.399 --> 01:53:32.960 I didn't know that. 2072 01:53:33.560 --> 01:53:38.520 No, yeah, say on the pecans. I would think about 2073 01:53:38.560 --> 01:53:44.680 this just a minute. The do you have an existing 2074 01:53:44.800 --> 01:53:48.680 pecan tree you're grafting them onto that? That's a large trail. 2075 01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:51.920 Describe to me what, yeah, what what you'd call the 2076 01:53:52.039 --> 01:53:56.199 root stock and I have one of those, and then 2077 01:53:56.319 --> 01:53:58.720 I have some other trees that are the paper shell 2078 01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:03.119 you know there that are a hybrid that's going to 2079 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:06.359 grasp some of those limbs onto my rootstock tree, which 2080 01:54:06.439 --> 01:54:08.680 is it's just a native picon. It makes a little 2081 01:54:08.680 --> 01:54:10.760 small one sometimes and and. 2082 01:54:11.520 --> 01:54:13.359 It does real paper. 2083 01:54:15.159 --> 01:54:17.800 Okay, so if you have a little seedling coming up 2084 01:54:17.920 --> 01:54:20.760 it's still small. Let's say the tree itself is the 2085 01:54:20.800 --> 01:54:24.039 size of your little finger, then you can you can 2086 01:54:24.199 --> 01:54:27.720 use a different kind of graft on that. Uh that 2087 01:54:29.680 --> 01:54:33.239 like a whip graft even on those as pecans get 2088 01:54:33.239 --> 01:54:35.600 a little bigger or as you're what we call top 2089 01:54:35.640 --> 01:54:37.359 working a tree, meaning you got a tree and you 2090 01:54:37.399 --> 01:54:39.760 got all these branches, you want to find a branch 2091 01:54:39.840 --> 01:54:41.920 it's about the size of a coke can, a soft 2092 01:54:41.960 --> 01:54:44.960 drink can, and cut it off there and do what's 2093 01:54:45.039 --> 01:54:49.439 called an inlay bark graft on those that that's the 2094 01:54:49.560 --> 01:54:52.960 best way to go about that particular graft. And have 2095 01:54:53.119 --> 01:54:54.760 you seen how to do those somewhere? 2096 01:54:55.880 --> 01:55:00.239 Yes, I've seen some YouTube videos about Okay, you've got 2097 01:55:00.359 --> 01:55:02.159 to make a little split and then you slip it 2098 01:55:02.199 --> 01:55:03.640 in between there and then wrap it. 2099 01:55:04.119 --> 01:55:08.119 Yes, yes, very very important to follow that carefully. If 2100 01:55:08.159 --> 01:55:10.960 you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, just do a 2101 01:55:11.000 --> 01:55:14.199 search for Aggi Horticulture. Go to the fruit and nut 2102 01:55:14.359 --> 01:55:19.760 resources page. There is specifically something for Texas inlay graft 2103 01:55:19.960 --> 01:55:23.159 and Texas four flap graft. Those are two different graphs 2104 01:55:23.920 --> 01:55:26.560 I said the whip graft. Actually the four flap would 2105 01:55:26.560 --> 01:55:28.359 probably be your better way to do if you have 2106 01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:31.239 very small stock, like the size of one of your fingers. 2107 01:55:32.039 --> 01:55:35.319 But anyway, those are the two that we primarily do 2108 01:55:35.439 --> 01:55:40.960 in Texas for pecans wrap. You want your graft would 2109 01:55:41.039 --> 01:55:43.600 to be You want your graft would to be dormant 2110 01:55:43.720 --> 01:55:46.239 with the inlay bark graft. But you want to wait 2111 01:55:46.600 --> 01:55:49.880 until the tree you're grafting it onto, the sap has 2112 01:55:49.960 --> 01:55:52.760 started to flow. Like right now, if you went out 2113 01:55:52.840 --> 01:55:55.760 and tried to peel back the bark on that existing tree, 2114 01:55:56.359 --> 01:55:59.680 the bark is firmly attached to the wood, but once 2115 01:55:59.760 --> 01:56:02.039 a app blows, the bark peels like you're like you're 2116 01:56:02.079 --> 01:56:05.079 peeling a banana. It just comes right off. That's the 2117 01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:07.319 stage where you do the inn lay bark graph. But 2118 01:56:07.600 --> 01:56:10.479 but the wood you're using needs to be dormant, stored 2119 01:56:10.520 --> 01:56:13.560 in the in the refrigerator to to stay. 2120 01:56:13.439 --> 01:56:19.159 Dormant, very good and regarding like wound dressing. And then 2121 01:56:19.640 --> 01:56:21.760 I don't know what it's like. An antiseptic that they 2122 01:56:21.800 --> 01:56:25.399 were talking about is just for the tools, yeah or yeah, 2123 01:56:25.439 --> 01:56:25.880 I would not. 2124 01:56:26.119 --> 01:56:29.199 I would not. I would not use worry about anterceptic 2125 01:56:29.279 --> 01:56:32.720 on the wound. Uh, I mean, you know it. I've 2126 01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:37.439 never for for printed pecans, I've never I mean, grafting pecans, 2127 01:56:37.439 --> 01:56:41.640 I've never uh, you know, dealt with antiseptic on the tools. 2128 01:56:41.640 --> 01:56:43.359 I mean, you could spray them with some life soil 2129 01:56:43.439 --> 01:56:46.159 if you want to do that, that'd be fine, but uh, 2130 01:56:46.239 --> 01:56:49.479 the main thing is making the graft properly. Uh you don't, 2131 01:56:49.720 --> 01:56:53.399 you don't. You can use things like grafting wax and 2132 01:56:53.479 --> 01:56:57.279 whatnot to it, but bottom line is just uh you know, 2133 01:56:57.520 --> 01:57:03.640 just get you, uh, a plastic bag to wrap around them, uh, 2134 01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:06.520 and you tie it to the branch and you tie 2135 01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:08.880 it up on the grafted piece so you create a 2136 01:57:09.000 --> 01:57:13.520 complete air tight section underneath there to hold the moisture 2137 01:57:13.560 --> 01:57:16.119 in and then wrap the whole thing with foil. This 2138 01:57:16.279 --> 01:57:19.199 is all in the publication that's on Aggie horticulture. Wrap 2139 01:57:19.279 --> 01:57:22.439 it in foil to reflect any sunlight outside of that 2140 01:57:22.560 --> 01:57:23.079 clear bag. 2141 01:57:24.840 --> 01:57:29.199 Okay, so we're not really in the season for doing that. Yeah, 2142 01:57:29.239 --> 01:57:31.279 we need to get other side of winter time. 2143 01:57:32.760 --> 01:57:34.119 Yeah probably what worried? 2144 01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:38.720 Yeah, get your get your graft wood now, but but 2145 01:57:39.000 --> 01:57:40.840 store it in the fridge and then do the graft 2146 01:57:40.920 --> 01:57:43.119 in spring when the when the sap starts to flow 2147 01:57:43.199 --> 01:57:46.079 and growth starts to appear. Hey, I got to run. 2148 01:57:46.399 --> 01:57:48.800 We're on against a hard break. But good luck with that. 2149 01:57:49.039 --> 01:57:50.880 And if you have any other questions on it, follow up, 2150 01:57:51.000 --> 01:57:53.439 just give me a call back sometime. All right, folks, 2151 01:57:53.520 --> 01:57:55.359 I've got to run to a break. When we come 2152 01:57:55.439 --> 01:57:57.800 back from break. We are going to talk to Dennis 2153 01:57:57.920 --> 01:58:03.840 and Gary after the break. Who can tell me the 2154 01:58:03.960 --> 01:58:09.439 name of the band? So send them that The Wonders 2155 01:58:09.800 --> 01:58:15.600 aka Theaters. You have to look that one. Ups. They 2156 01:58:15.680 --> 01:58:19.640 spelled Wonder O n E one was one, so when 2157 01:58:19.680 --> 01:58:23.199 people looked at Wonder it looked like okay, you heard 2158 01:58:23.239 --> 01:58:26.680 it here first on Garden Life. Let's go to Gary. 2159 01:58:27.359 --> 01:58:29.439 We're going to talk to Gary now on Guarden Line. 2160 01:58:29.479 --> 01:58:31.520 Welcome to the show. Gary, Good to have you with us. 2161 01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:34.680 Hey, good morning, Stip. 2162 01:58:34.720 --> 01:58:38.840 How are you doing. I'm well, I'm well, how can 2163 01:58:38.880 --> 01:58:39.199 we help? 2164 01:58:39.399 --> 01:58:39.560 Hey? 2165 01:58:40.720 --> 01:58:43.840 Yeah, So I've got some fruit trees I'm wanting to plant. 2166 01:58:43.920 --> 01:58:46.359 I picked them up at a box store there. Uh, 2167 01:58:46.479 --> 01:58:49.199 there's a couple of peach trees, a couple of plum trees, 2168 01:58:49.279 --> 01:58:53.039 and a big and pretty elementary question I guess is 2169 01:58:53.199 --> 01:58:55.079 when's the best time of the year to plant those? 2170 01:58:55.960 --> 01:58:58.920 Is it now or wait till we get closer to springtime? 2171 01:59:00.560 --> 01:59:00.720 Now? 2172 01:59:01.079 --> 01:59:03.680 Absolutely, now, get them in the ground. Yeah, sooner you 2173 01:59:03.720 --> 01:59:06.039 get them in the ground, the sooner they're able to 2174 01:59:06.119 --> 01:59:08.760 start put it producing the root system they'll need to 2175 01:59:08.800 --> 01:59:11.760 go through this first summer. So when you pull them 2176 01:59:11.760 --> 01:59:14.680 out of the container, if you see roots circling, if 2177 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:16.439 you can kind of tease them out of there and 2178 01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:19.479 dig a hold of to accommodate them. Don't wrap the 2179 01:59:19.600 --> 01:59:22.399 roots up in the hole. They don't unwind underground, of course. 2180 01:59:23.359 --> 01:59:24.800 And if you need to cut a root, go ahead 2181 01:59:24.800 --> 01:59:26.800 and cut the root. It's okay to cut it. Within 2182 01:59:26.880 --> 01:59:29.880 two weeks it'll be sprouting new side roots from behind 2183 01:59:29.960 --> 01:59:33.039 the cut, and it'll be a much better established tree 2184 01:59:33.319 --> 01:59:36.319 as a result. So don't if you've got circling roots, 2185 01:59:37.000 --> 01:59:39.119 unwrap them or cut them more likely going to have 2186 01:59:39.199 --> 01:59:39.640 to cut them. 2187 01:59:41.119 --> 01:59:43.800 So what about the frequency of water in them at 2188 01:59:43.840 --> 01:59:45.560 this time of the year, is it is it important 2189 01:59:45.600 --> 01:59:48.279 that you water them on a pretty frequent basis. 2190 01:59:52.039 --> 01:59:54.880 This time of year. A good watering in when you 2191 01:59:55.000 --> 01:59:57.399 plan them should be sufficient. They're going to be dormant 2192 01:59:57.960 --> 02:00:00.319 if they have mari lost their leaves, they will this week. 2193 02:00:02.000 --> 02:00:06.000 But you shouldn't have to water them until they begin 2194 02:00:06.119 --> 02:00:08.720 new growth, and then you can begin to provide some water. 2195 02:00:08.880 --> 02:00:12.239 Just always remember the first months, even the first summer 2196 02:00:12.800 --> 02:00:16.800 after planting, the roots are still quite confined. They haven't 2197 02:00:16.880 --> 02:00:19.920 fully stretched out into all the soil around them, and 2198 02:00:20.920 --> 02:00:25.279 so regular watering is a little more important for a 2199 02:00:25.399 --> 02:00:29.000 newly planted tree during its first two or even three years, 2200 02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:30.520 especially the first year. 2201 02:00:32.359 --> 02:00:35.760 Okay, And so I've got a mixture of soils out 2202 02:00:35.800 --> 02:00:38.439 there in my property. Some of it's clay and then 2203 02:00:38.479 --> 02:00:40.760 there's some of it's more loamy. I guess would be 2204 02:00:40.880 --> 02:00:45.479 better to plant and the loamy obviously, but that's something 2205 02:00:45.479 --> 02:00:46.199 I was wondering too. 2206 02:00:47.479 --> 02:00:50.840 Yeah, they like a sandy loam soil that is their 2207 02:00:50.920 --> 02:00:53.960 absolute favorite. Not everybody has that. And we can make 2208 02:00:54.000 --> 02:00:57.079 peaches grow and a lot of other things. But if 2209 02:00:57.439 --> 02:00:59.600 you were to if you were to say, what what's 2210 02:00:59.680 --> 02:01:02.119 the best soil for peaches, it's sandy loam. And that's 2211 02:01:02.159 --> 02:01:06.199 why the biggest peach producing regions of our country are 2212 02:01:06.319 --> 02:01:10.359 of our state. Excuse me, are up in the Mahaya 2213 02:01:10.479 --> 02:01:12.960 area where there's a band of sandy loam soil that 2214 02:01:13.079 --> 02:01:17.039 comes through there, and over in Fredericksburg and areas that 2215 02:01:17.159 --> 02:01:20.359 have sandy loam soils. That's their favorite. 2216 02:01:22.079 --> 02:01:25.399 Okay, well, appreciate your help and then answer my questions. 2217 02:01:25.520 --> 02:01:29.439 Thank you all right, Gary, thanks for the call. Appreciate 2218 02:01:29.520 --> 02:01:33.039 that you take care. Let's see we're going to go 2219 02:01:33.119 --> 02:01:36.199 now to Cove, Texas and talk to Dennis. Hey, Dennis, 2220 02:01:36.239 --> 02:01:37.119 welcome to garden Line. 2221 02:01:37.720 --> 02:01:41.279 Thank you skip my question. I have two red tip 2222 02:01:41.680 --> 02:01:44.960 shrubs that I prume once a year whenever the weather 2223 02:01:45.640 --> 02:01:48.159 gets cold and it's going to stay cold, so now's 2224 02:01:48.199 --> 02:01:52.479 that time. And I always tram the tops back to 2225 02:01:52.560 --> 02:01:54.720 the eve of the house. So that's that's at eight 2226 02:01:54.840 --> 02:01:59.520 feet and typically I'm taking off own average about a foot. 2227 02:02:00.239 --> 02:02:03.479 Usually get up, you know, about nine feet, and I 2228 02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:05.680 take that off and the width I don't really have 2229 02:02:05.800 --> 02:02:09.640 a set marker, but because i'm trimming from a step ladder. 2230 02:02:09.680 --> 02:02:12.720 I usually wind up trimming the width so that I 2231 02:02:12.800 --> 02:02:16.079 can reach the center on top, you know, and stay 2232 02:02:16.479 --> 02:02:20.000 safely balanced on the step ladder. And what I've noticed 2233 02:02:20.039 --> 02:02:23.479 this year is that the shrubs seem to have spread 2234 02:02:23.720 --> 02:02:28.000 width wise much more than they've ever grown before. And 2235 02:02:28.159 --> 02:02:31.239 while I still would I would estimate be taken off 2236 02:02:31.319 --> 02:02:35.199 about a quarter of the total wood of the tree. 2237 02:02:36.600 --> 02:02:41.720 Because the foliage is typically only on the outside of 2238 02:02:41.800 --> 02:02:44.920 the tree. On the interior branches aren't really any leaves, 2239 02:02:45.079 --> 02:02:47.399 I'll be taken off a lot more of the leaves 2240 02:02:47.520 --> 02:02:56.840 I think, percentage wise I normally do. Is that a problem, Dennis. 2241 02:02:56.800 --> 02:02:59.960 I missed the species of plant we're talking about. 2242 02:03:00.800 --> 02:03:03.640 Okay, so I don't know this is the real name. 2243 02:03:04.520 --> 02:03:09.760 We call them red red tips. It's the shrub. The 2244 02:03:09.840 --> 02:03:12.800 leaves are mostly green, but the ones on the end 2245 02:03:12.840 --> 02:03:14.079 of the branches are red. 2246 02:03:14.680 --> 02:03:19.920 Yes. Yeah, that's red tip fatinia. So you can print 2247 02:03:20.000 --> 02:03:22.119 that as much as you want and it'll come back 2248 02:03:22.159 --> 02:03:27.000 from it. What happens on all plants pretty much, especially 2249 02:03:27.840 --> 02:03:31.840 the shrubs than things. They tend to grow more outward 2250 02:03:32.159 --> 02:03:35.800 at the top and end up shading their base as 2251 02:03:35.840 --> 02:03:38.479 a result, you know, as the top gets whiter, think 2252 02:03:38.479 --> 02:03:41.399 of a capital V. It grows like a capital V, 2253 02:03:42.159 --> 02:03:45.399 and so the top shades the base and you lose 2254 02:03:45.439 --> 02:03:47.199 your foliage, which you want to have foliage all the 2255 02:03:47.239 --> 02:03:49.399 way down to the ground. So you kind of have 2256 02:03:49.479 --> 02:03:53.000 to work to keep the top at least vertical the 2257 02:03:53.159 --> 02:03:57.000 side's vertical, if not a little bit narrower at the top, 2258 02:03:57.760 --> 02:04:00.680 like I mentioned a capital V, think more toward to 2259 02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:03.560 capital A, not not like a Christmas tree shape, but 2260 02:04:03.720 --> 02:04:07.359 just get the top narrower and that allows good light 2261 02:04:07.720 --> 02:04:11.359 up and down all through that shrub, and as a result, 2262 02:04:11.479 --> 02:04:14.159 you have good foliage all through the shrub. So don't 2263 02:04:14.199 --> 02:04:16.319 be afraid to hack back as much as you need 2264 02:04:16.439 --> 02:04:19.279 to do that, because that shrub is constantly going to 2265 02:04:19.279 --> 02:04:21.640 be fighting you trying to be top heavy, and we 2266 02:04:21.800 --> 02:04:24.520 need it to not be top heavy for the aesthetics 2267 02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:25.960 of a nice full shrub. 2268 02:04:28.039 --> 02:04:29.520 Okay, that answers my question. 2269 02:04:29.720 --> 02:04:33.079 Thank you very much, Yes, sir, thank you for the call. 2270 02:04:33.319 --> 02:04:36.840 Appreciate that very much. Good good question, very good question, 2271 02:04:37.000 --> 02:04:43.319 good point. Earlier I was, you know, talking about the 2272 02:04:43.439 --> 02:04:47.000 importance of taking care of your plants, making sure that 2273 02:04:47.159 --> 02:04:53.960 you've got adequate soil, adequate nutrition, you know, adequate organic 2274 02:04:54.079 --> 02:04:58.079 matter content. It is important to when you take care 2275 02:04:58.079 --> 02:05:00.520 of a plant, to provide the roots what they need 2276 02:05:00.560 --> 02:05:02.840 because in a sense, plants grow in the root, They 2277 02:05:02.920 --> 02:05:04.760 live in their roots. I like to put it that 2278 02:05:04.880 --> 02:05:08.279 way because we sort of forget about the below ground part, 2279 02:05:08.840 --> 02:05:11.479 but keeping the roots happy is important. The Medina, the 2280 02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:14.399 folks at Medina makes something called humate humic acid. And 2281 02:05:14.479 --> 02:05:18.600 what is humic acid, Well, that's basically the final stage 2282 02:05:19.479 --> 02:05:23.279 of decomposing organic matter. So we have organic matter like 2283 02:05:23.439 --> 02:05:27.199 leaves and grass clippings and things. It decomposes into what 2284 02:05:27.319 --> 02:05:31.239 we would call compost, and then that decomposes into what's 2285 02:05:31.279 --> 02:05:33.920 called humus. It's the final stage, and the humic acid 2286 02:05:34.079 --> 02:05:38.279 is one of the natural ingredients that are in humus. Humus. 2287 02:05:38.520 --> 02:05:41.239 Uh does a number of good things for the soil, 2288 02:05:41.279 --> 02:05:44.319 and the humic acid helps with soil structure, It helps 2289 02:05:44.399 --> 02:05:47.640 with the way that the plant has access to nutrients 2290 02:05:47.720 --> 02:05:49.960 in addition to the fact that they're they're nutrients in 2291 02:05:50.079 --> 02:05:53.920 it in and of itself. But you make humatee I'm 2292 02:05:53.960 --> 02:05:57.359 having trouble saying. Humate humic acid from Medina is the 2293 02:05:57.479 --> 02:05:58.960 kind of thing you just mix a little in a 2294 02:05:59.079 --> 02:06:01.079 gallon of water, and when you plant a plant, you 2295 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:03.399 just pour it on the root ball. As you replace 2296 02:06:03.439 --> 02:06:06.119 the soil, apply it again, give it another good drench. 2297 02:06:06.800 --> 02:06:10.159 It is very helpful. I will soak seeds in humus 2298 02:06:11.000 --> 02:06:13.760 or humic acid rather, and all you have to do 2299 02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:17.159 is put about a tablespoon per gallon of water of 2300 02:06:17.239 --> 02:06:21.000 the humane humic acid and then soak the seed until 2301 02:06:21.479 --> 02:06:24.520 that penetrates the skin and the seeds swell up, and 2302 02:06:24.560 --> 02:06:26.600 then plant them right away. Don't let them set like that. 2303 02:06:27.039 --> 02:06:29.479 Plant them. So I'll typically do that the night before 2304 02:06:29.960 --> 02:06:31.439 I'm going to go out and plant. And that's one 2305 02:06:31.479 --> 02:06:34.079 of the quality products there from the folks at Medina. 2306 02:06:34.159 --> 02:06:38.399 Medina also produces something called has to Grow six twelve 2307 02:06:38.720 --> 02:06:41.439 six now has to Grow six twelve six is a 2308 02:06:41.520 --> 02:06:45.520 high quality products. Got the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent sassium, 2309 02:06:45.640 --> 02:06:50.159 six percent excuse me, twelve percent phosphorus six percent potassium. 2310 02:06:50.680 --> 02:06:54.279 That is very useful to a plant trying to develop 2311 02:06:54.319 --> 02:06:57.760 a root system, to a plant trying to produce blooms 2312 02:06:57.800 --> 02:07:00.920 and foliage. Phosphorus very important for that. And it also 2313 02:07:01.039 --> 02:07:03.720 contains Medina soil activator, which we know been around a 2314 02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:06.000 long time. One of the most famous products from Medina 2315 02:07:06.600 --> 02:07:09.960 there is also present in the Hastigro six twelve six. Again, 2316 02:07:10.159 --> 02:07:12.479 I will use it when I'm transplanting. I will use 2317 02:07:12.520 --> 02:07:16.479 it anytime that you're wanting to apply a drench into 2318 02:07:16.520 --> 02:07:18.640 the soils, even a folier spray. You're not going to 2319 02:07:18.680 --> 02:07:21.880 burn with that. Just two examples of quality products there 2320 02:07:22.239 --> 02:07:25.640 from the folks at Medina that are widely available here 2321 02:07:25.760 --> 02:07:28.600 in the Greater Houston area and have been for ages. 2322 02:07:28.680 --> 02:07:31.319 Do you know I was just reading about Dewey Compton 2323 02:07:32.000 --> 02:07:36.119 or earlier and he talked about Medina products that goes 2324 02:07:36.199 --> 02:07:38.840 back to the nineteen fifties. Medina's been around a while, 2325 02:07:38.880 --> 02:07:42.000 It's been proven for a very long time, and gardeners 2326 02:07:42.039 --> 02:07:44.199 already know that. Now it's time for me to take 2327 02:07:44.199 --> 02:07:47.960 a little quick break. For gosh, we're coming up. I've 2328 02:07:47.960 --> 02:07:50.600 got another minute or so, so I'll just go a 2329 02:07:50.640 --> 02:07:53.520 little bit longer. We'll come back to your call though. Hey, 2330 02:07:53.600 --> 02:07:54.960 by the way, if you'd like to give me a call, 2331 02:07:55.039 --> 02:07:57.359 the phone number is seven to one three two one 2332 02:07:57.439 --> 02:08:00.720 two KTR eight seven one three two one two KRH. 2333 02:08:01.279 --> 02:08:05.560 Earlier I mentioned that tomorrow we were going to talk 2334 02:08:05.760 --> 02:08:09.359 about more about Randy Lemon. The host of Garden Line, 2335 02:08:09.920 --> 02:08:11.760 Dean Nelson, is going to come on the show in 2336 02:08:11.840 --> 02:08:13.319 the morning and we're going to talk a little bit 2337 02:08:13.359 --> 02:08:17.079 about a scholarship for Randy and just some memories of Randy. Actually, 2338 02:08:17.920 --> 02:08:22.920 today is the anniversary of both Randy's birthday and his 2339 02:08:23.479 --> 02:08:26.600 passing two years ago. They came as a shock to 2340 02:08:26.720 --> 02:08:30.680 everyone in the gardening world here in Southeast Texas, and 2341 02:08:30.840 --> 02:08:33.479 we'll be talking more about that then. I just want 2342 02:08:33.520 --> 02:08:37.439 to remind you, though, one more time, that Randy's scholarship 2343 02:08:38.239 --> 02:08:40.199 is still around at A and M. They've got it 2344 02:08:40.399 --> 02:08:44.119 funded to a level now where there is some funding 2345 02:08:44.239 --> 02:08:48.760 going to New A and M horticulture students. New A 2346 02:08:48.840 --> 02:08:52.399 and M horticulture students can receive the Randy Lemon Scholarship. 2347 02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:55.279 We want to get it funded better. I just think 2348 02:08:55.319 --> 02:08:58.279 we can do better than this. You can go online 2349 02:08:58.600 --> 02:09:01.359 and you can donate on line toward it. You can 2350 02:09:01.479 --> 02:09:04.199 do it by mail if you'd like to. There's a 2351 02:09:04.239 --> 02:09:06.359 lot of details to that. I make it real simple 2352 02:09:06.399 --> 02:09:08.520 on my website. Just go to gardening with Skip dot 2353 02:09:08.600 --> 02:09:12.560 com Gardening with Skip dot Com. The top item on 2354 02:09:12.680 --> 02:09:15.800 there is the Randy Lemon scholarship. It tells you how 2355 02:09:15.880 --> 02:09:17.760 you can give. And if you're one of the folks 2356 02:09:17.840 --> 02:09:21.439 that listen to Randy for years that appreciated the help 2357 02:09:21.520 --> 02:09:25.079 that he provided you, why not consider making even a 2358 02:09:25.159 --> 02:09:29.239 small donation toward that scholarship. I know Randy would be 2359 02:09:29.279 --> 02:09:31.359 so proud to know that we were doing this now. 2360 02:09:31.479 --> 02:09:34.039 And thanks to Dean for getting that all set up. 2361 02:09:34.119 --> 02:09:36.319 By the way, all right, I'm gonna take a little break. 2362 02:09:36.359 --> 02:09:37.680 When I come back. We're going to go out to 2363 02:09:37.760 --> 02:09:41.720 Humble and talk to Gary. Hey, welcome back to the 2364 02:09:41.760 --> 02:09:45.640 garden Line. Welcome back. Good to have you with us. 2365 02:09:46.079 --> 02:09:49.119 You are listening to the first show of the year 2366 02:09:49.319 --> 02:09:51.560 twenty twenty five, and twenty twenty five is gonna be 2367 02:09:51.560 --> 02:09:53.399 the best year you've ever had in gardening. I'm just 2368 02:09:53.479 --> 02:09:55.399 predicting that right now. It's gonna be my best year 2369 02:09:55.439 --> 02:09:57.840 of gardening. You know, the fun thing about gardening is 2370 02:09:58.680 --> 02:10:01.039 gardening is like the old etch sketches. I've used that 2371 02:10:01.119 --> 02:10:04.319 analogy before, but how many of you remember an etch 2372 02:10:04.399 --> 02:10:06.279 of sketch? You know, you had two knobs, one went 2373 02:10:06.359 --> 02:10:09.359 up and down, one sideways, and you tried to draw something, 2374 02:10:09.520 --> 02:10:12.319 and inevitably you went left when you should have gone 2375 02:10:12.399 --> 02:10:14.399 right or whatever, and it messes up the drawing. What 2376 02:10:14.560 --> 02:10:17.399 do you do? You turn it upside down and shake 2377 02:10:17.479 --> 02:10:20.760 it and you get a blank slate. Again. That's gardening. 2378 02:10:21.239 --> 02:10:24.680 Every year is a blank slate. In fact, halfway through spring, 2379 02:10:24.760 --> 02:10:26.920 if you don't like the way that garden looks, you 2380 02:10:27.039 --> 02:10:30.560 can just get you your rototiller, the equivalent of a 2381 02:10:30.800 --> 02:10:32.960 shake in the edge of sketch. You get to start 2382 02:10:33.039 --> 02:10:35.720 over again. It's okay. You can't fail at gardening. You 2383 02:10:35.840 --> 02:10:37.720 only give up. We're not going to give up. We're 2384 02:10:37.720 --> 02:10:39.600 going to have the best year ever. And I really 2385 02:10:39.680 --> 02:10:41.199 believe that. I think it's gonna be a good year. 2386 02:10:42.359 --> 02:10:43.800 Right now, we're going to go out and talk to 2387 02:10:43.920 --> 02:10:47.079 Gary in Humble. Hello Gary, Welcome to garden Line. 2388 02:10:48.399 --> 02:10:54.640 Thank you sir. Good morning. Say. I planned a myer 2389 02:10:54.800 --> 02:10:58.960 limit about three years ago, and about a year and 2390 02:10:59.039 --> 02:11:02.359 a half ago or so, whatever it was, it froze back. 2391 02:11:03.640 --> 02:11:04.199 Completely. 2392 02:11:04.520 --> 02:11:08.880 And then I started seeing some new sprouts above the graft. 2393 02:11:10.159 --> 02:11:12.239 And now it's five and a half. 2394 02:11:12.119 --> 02:11:16.560 Feet tall and but no blossoms at all. And I'm wondering, 2395 02:11:16.640 --> 02:11:18.720 do I need to protect this or do I let 2396 02:11:18.800 --> 02:11:19.279 it freeze. 2397 02:11:24.000 --> 02:11:29.239 Well, let's see, you were an humble. It's gonna be 2398 02:11:29.239 --> 02:11:30.920 a little on the cold tide. I think I would 2399 02:11:30.960 --> 02:11:33.279 cover it up. I just protected a little bit at 2400 02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:40.119 the very least. If it's from above the graft, yes, 2401 02:11:40.279 --> 02:11:43.520 if it's above the graft, it will produce. It absolutely will. 2402 02:11:44.119 --> 02:11:46.439 From below, then you've got a rootstock. 2403 02:11:48.359 --> 02:11:50.920 Yeah, But it's like I say, it's five and a 2404 02:11:51.000 --> 02:11:54.520 half foot tall now and not a blossom anywhere all year, 2405 02:11:56.079 --> 02:11:57.319 and it's been that, and you're. 2406 02:11:57.279 --> 02:12:01.399 You're sure, okay, well it's all right? Are you sure 2407 02:12:01.439 --> 02:12:02.720 it's coming above the graph though? 2408 02:12:03.000 --> 02:12:06.640 Right, I'm pretty sure there. 2409 02:12:06.760 --> 02:12:08.000 I could see the line there. 2410 02:12:08.039 --> 02:12:11.800 It's about an inch above. But yeah, yeah, because it 2411 02:12:12.319 --> 02:12:16.520 did grow full and but there's no blossoms in the 2412 02:12:17.119 --> 02:12:20.359 all year. So I'm wondering is it worth. 2413 02:12:20.199 --> 02:12:20.680 All the time? 2414 02:12:21.960 --> 02:12:26.399 Even a rootstock is capable of blooming, but it just 2415 02:12:26.479 --> 02:12:32.399 doesn't produce quality fruit. Is the growth on it more 2416 02:12:32.600 --> 02:12:34.920 thorny than your mar lemon was? 2417 02:12:37.520 --> 02:12:41.000 It's about the same, But like I say, no blossoms, 2418 02:12:41.079 --> 02:12:42.159 there's a lot of leaves. 2419 02:12:49.479 --> 02:12:52.800 Yeah, I you know, if it's not a lot more thorny, 2420 02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:55.520 I still think it's worth waiting and seeing, unless you 2421 02:12:55.680 --> 02:12:58.239 just want to hurry out I didn't. 2422 02:12:58.439 --> 02:13:01.239 I don't think there's any thorn, so I don't recall 2423 02:13:01.319 --> 02:13:01.920 seeing thorn. 2424 02:13:02.039 --> 02:13:05.479 Okay, I think you've got a lemon tree that's going 2425 02:13:05.520 --> 02:13:09.000 to settle in and start blooming for you here before long, 2426 02:13:09.439 --> 02:13:17.680 I do, so I just stick with it system, Okay, okay, 2427 02:13:18.439 --> 02:13:22.399 I need to produce exactly that's it. You got it. 2428 02:13:23.960 --> 02:13:26.239 Good luck with that, And if it ever produces lemons 2429 02:13:26.279 --> 02:13:28.159 for you, you just bring me half the produce to 2430 02:13:28.279 --> 02:13:30.479 the to the radio station and we'll call it even 2431 02:13:31.079 --> 02:13:36.840 Thank you, thank you, sir, Bye bye. Someday that joke's 2432 02:13:36.880 --> 02:13:40.039 going to get old, but not to me. You asked 2433 02:13:40.079 --> 02:13:43.720 my kids. I think jokes are hilarious that have ceased 2434 02:13:43.760 --> 02:13:46.119 to be hilarious. You know when I when my kids 2435 02:13:46.199 --> 02:13:49.319 were like age six and under, I ruled the room 2436 02:13:49.520 --> 02:13:52.800 even maybe seven and under. Somewhere along the line, I 2437 02:13:53.319 --> 02:13:58.920 became less funny. Isn't that amazing how that works? Well, 2438 02:14:00.119 --> 02:14:01.600 the way I like to put it is, I'm gonna 2439 02:14:01.600 --> 02:14:03.640 tell jokes that make me laugh, even if they don't 2440 02:14:03.680 --> 02:14:05.800 make you laugh. One of us has got to have 2441 02:14:05.960 --> 02:14:09.319 fun here. Thanks for being a listener to garden Line. Hey, 2442 02:14:11.479 --> 02:14:14.079 you probably have noticed that here in the Houston area, 2443 02:14:14.199 --> 02:14:16.920 we have a heavy clay soil. We call it gumbo 2444 02:14:17.159 --> 02:14:20.119 soil because it's a thick black clay. Not everybody does. 2445 02:14:20.199 --> 02:14:22.640 You may have sandy soil or sandy loam where you live, 2446 02:14:23.159 --> 02:14:25.960 but by and large, our Houston black clay is predominant 2447 02:14:26.000 --> 02:14:28.600 in this area. And when you have a clay that 2448 02:14:28.760 --> 02:14:32.399 has a high shrink swell potential, what that means is 2449 02:14:32.520 --> 02:14:35.560 when it's wet, it swells. When it's dry, it shrinks. 2450 02:14:36.560 --> 02:14:38.960 When you have that, you'll notice in the summertime, when 2451 02:14:38.960 --> 02:14:42.000 it's dry, you get these big cracks in the yard. 2452 02:14:42.359 --> 02:14:45.359 You know, big old cracks open up in the soil 2453 02:14:45.359 --> 02:14:47.720 because it's dry and it's shrinking, and then it gets 2454 02:14:47.760 --> 02:14:50.399 wet and it closes back up again. Well, that wrecks 2455 02:14:50.439 --> 02:14:52.800 havoc on your sidewalk and on your driveway and on 2456 02:14:52.920 --> 02:14:55.880 your home foundations. And you may notice that your doors 2457 02:14:55.920 --> 02:14:58.279 are sticking. They didn't stick before and I was under 2458 02:14:58.279 --> 02:15:02.560 sticking again, or maybe there's a crack in the sheet 2459 02:15:02.680 --> 02:15:05.880 rock or there's a crack in the brick on the outside. 2460 02:15:05.960 --> 02:15:08.880 Typically goes see those at the base of a window, 2461 02:15:09.079 --> 02:15:11.079 kind of going from the back one corner of the 2462 02:15:11.119 --> 02:15:12.680 window down to the ground, but they can to curl 2463 02:15:12.720 --> 02:15:15.119 all over the place. Well, that's a sign that you 2464 02:15:15.199 --> 02:15:18.439 got a foundation issue, and Fix my Slab Foundation Repair 2465 02:15:19.000 --> 02:15:21.960 is the go to place for that. Ty Strickland is 2466 02:15:22.119 --> 02:15:25.399 a native Houstonian. He's a fifth generation Texan and he 2467 02:15:25.640 --> 02:15:30.039 knows our soils. 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Two 2490 02:16:37.360 --> 02:16:41.600 eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine. All right, folks, 2491 02:16:41.639 --> 02:16:45.159 We've got one more segment in the first show of 2492 02:16:45.200 --> 02:16:47.239 the year coming up, and I'll be right back with 2493 02:16:47.360 --> 02:16:51.120 your calls at five. Excuse me seven one three two 2494 02:16:51.159 --> 02:16:51.840 one two k. 2495 02:16:51.959 --> 02:16:52.479 T r H. 2496 02:16:53.319 --> 02:16:53.719 I love the. 2497 02:16:56.000 --> 02:16:58.520 Welcome back to guarden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rick here, 2498 02:16:58.559 --> 02:17:01.799 and we're here for our last segment of today, the 2499 02:17:02.040 --> 02:17:06.159 first garden Line show of twenty five, which is going 2500 02:17:06.239 --> 02:17:08.760 to be the best gardening year we've ever had. I 2501 02:17:09.159 --> 02:17:13.120 really really believe that. You know, nature throws us curves, 2502 02:17:13.200 --> 02:17:17.440 but that's okay, we just continue on. We were resilient. 2503 02:17:17.719 --> 02:17:20.159 Gardeners are resilient. You know, gardeners have to have faith. 2504 02:17:20.360 --> 02:17:23.280 First of all, I mentioned this earlier. But to take 2505 02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:27.000 take a handful of seeds, I mean they look like detritus. 2506 02:17:27.159 --> 02:17:29.639 They look like debris on the ground, little chips of 2507 02:17:29.719 --> 02:17:33.719 wood or whatever they are, and they look dead, and 2508 02:17:33.799 --> 02:17:35.840 you put them in the ground, you give water to them, 2509 02:17:36.000 --> 02:17:39.239 and a miracle starts to happen. Water soaks into the 2510 02:17:39.319 --> 02:17:43.799 seed and starts a chain of biochemical reactions that ends 2511 02:17:43.920 --> 02:17:46.479 up with you getting a tomato or a petunia flower 2512 02:17:46.799 --> 02:17:49.639 or whatever kind of seed it is. Is that amazing? 2513 02:17:49.920 --> 02:17:55.319 I mean, you know, someone once said that anybody can 2514 02:17:55.399 --> 02:17:57.520 count the number of seeds in an apple, but only 2515 02:17:57.600 --> 02:18:00.360 God knows the number of apples and a seed, and 2516 02:18:00.520 --> 02:18:02.760 that you know it's really true. I mean, think about that, 2517 02:18:03.000 --> 02:18:05.360 that one little seed in the case of an apple, 2518 02:18:07.079 --> 02:18:11.479 just countless, countless production from it. All right, I'm gonna 2519 02:18:11.479 --> 02:18:15.159 get a little This isn't nerdy, this is philosophical. But 2520 02:18:16.079 --> 02:18:19.040 somewhere years ago, you know, the guy Johnny apple seed 2521 02:18:19.120 --> 02:18:22.000 that went through the countryside just scattering seeds everywhere, and 2522 02:18:22.159 --> 02:18:24.479 all these apples came up here and there and yonder, 2523 02:18:25.200 --> 02:18:30.440 well people would find one. That's a haphazard, just genetic occurrence. 2524 02:18:30.600 --> 02:18:34.360 That's what seeds are. Just like people are all different genetically, well, 2525 02:18:34.760 --> 02:18:38.319 apples are all different genetically. Any kind of seed is 2526 02:18:38.399 --> 02:18:41.520 going to do that. So they would find one and 2527 02:18:41.559 --> 02:18:44.520 they would go, you know what, this is a really 2528 02:18:44.600 --> 02:18:48.399 special apple. Let's take cuttings and let's graft them, and 2529 02:18:48.559 --> 02:18:51.559 let's name it, and that way we can produce more 2530 02:18:51.600 --> 02:18:54.959 of it. That's how the first red Delicious apple occurred. 2531 02:18:56.040 --> 02:19:00.000 And many of the oldest apple varieties were just hap hazard, 2532 02:19:00.159 --> 02:19:03.399 same with pecans pecans years ago. Some day I'll tell 2533 02:19:03.399 --> 02:19:06.159 you the story of pecans, but that's a whole nother story. 2534 02:19:06.399 --> 02:19:12.120 But anyway, so red Delicious just and other varieties. Now 2535 02:19:12.280 --> 02:19:17.319 we breed varieties like that intentionally by crossing apple parentage lines, 2536 02:19:18.000 --> 02:19:20.079 but they just occurred and someone said, oh I like 2537 02:19:20.159 --> 02:19:22.639 that one. I'm gonna save that one. So think about this. 2538 02:19:23.280 --> 02:19:25.479 I don't know how many Red Delicious apple trees have 2539 02:19:25.559 --> 02:19:27.280 been created over the years. I mean, you know, we 2540 02:19:27.319 --> 02:19:30.840 don't grow those down here in Texas, but apple producing country. 2541 02:19:30.920 --> 02:19:33.239 That's kind of like an old standard variety that for 2542 02:19:33.399 --> 02:19:36.639 years ruled the roost because it was longer, and it 2543 02:19:36.760 --> 02:19:39.440 was darker red, and it just it just had features 2544 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:43.079 that were desirable. A seed sprouted, even if it was 2545 02:19:43.120 --> 02:19:47.239 an intentional collapse. Of course, one seed and one apple 2546 02:19:48.000 --> 02:19:51.159 produced the first red Delicious tree, and after that it 2547 02:19:51.280 --> 02:19:54.200 was a matter of grafting and grafting and grafting to 2548 02:19:54.280 --> 02:19:57.840 where there's thousands and thousands and thousands of acres of 2549 02:19:58.000 --> 02:20:02.559 genetically the same red delicious apples because in nature, one 2550 02:20:02.680 --> 02:20:06.879 seed sprouted and it had the superior qualities that someone 2551 02:20:07.200 --> 02:20:11.680 chose to select. So I just find that to be amazing. 2552 02:20:11.799 --> 02:20:14.120 I find plant genetics and just the you know, you 2553 02:20:14.239 --> 02:20:16.680 cross this, you cross that, and there are people that 2554 02:20:16.799 --> 02:20:18.000 do that as gardeners. 2555 02:20:18.319 --> 02:20:18.520 I do. 2556 02:20:18.680 --> 02:20:21.920 I do that with Okra myself, creating new varieties and things. 2557 02:20:22.000 --> 02:20:25.120 So it's kind of a fun fact something to think about. 2558 02:20:25.159 --> 02:20:28.200 Maybe get you excited about doing some plant crossing yourself. 2559 02:20:28.719 --> 02:20:32.000 We're gonna go out of Bay Cliff and talk to Sue. Hello, Sue, 2560 02:20:32.079 --> 02:20:33.000 Welcome to garden Line. 2561 02:20:34.840 --> 02:20:36.000 Hello, Skip, How are you? 2562 02:20:37.479 --> 02:20:40.680 I'm good? I'm good. How can we help? Well? 2563 02:20:40.959 --> 02:20:45.399 I have the long skinny egg plants and the black 2564 02:20:45.639 --> 02:20:51.440 beauty egg plants and they're just loaded with fruit. Are 2565 02:20:51.520 --> 02:20:53.479 they gonna be okay? Or do I need to try 2566 02:20:53.559 --> 02:20:54.200 to cover them? 2567 02:20:57.000 --> 02:21:00.159 Well, if it gets below freezing, they're gonna or if 2568 02:21:00.200 --> 02:21:02.799 it gets close to freezing, they can even have frost damage. 2569 02:21:03.559 --> 02:21:05.920 And so you're going to need to cover them. Anything 2570 02:21:06.000 --> 02:21:08.639 you put over them that drapes down to the ground, 2571 02:21:09.000 --> 02:21:10.840 secure it to the ground to kind of hold some 2572 02:21:10.959 --> 02:21:13.399 airspace underneath there. You ought to be able to get 2573 02:21:13.440 --> 02:21:17.280 them through this freeze. Okay. If your area drops below 2574 02:21:17.760 --> 02:21:22.600 let's say thirty degrees for sure, then you're probably going 2575 02:21:22.639 --> 02:21:25.879 to need some source of heat underneath there. But what's 2576 02:21:25.959 --> 02:21:28.239 going to happen in these coming freezes this week is 2577 02:21:28.280 --> 02:21:31.000 it's going to drop down below freezing and then it's 2578 02:21:31.040 --> 02:21:32.760 going to come right back up when the sun comes 2579 02:21:32.799 --> 02:21:34.760 out in the day. We'll be up in the forties 2580 02:21:35.719 --> 02:21:38.079 and so we don't have to survive for twenty four 2581 02:21:38.159 --> 02:21:41.879 hours below thirty two degrees. So we're just protecting them 2582 02:21:41.920 --> 02:21:45.600 a little bit, and that ought to get them through. Okay. 2583 02:21:46.360 --> 02:21:53.159 My second question the button. I have a calamandon that 2584 02:21:53.440 --> 02:21:56.600 is the chopped fruit all over it and they're starting 2585 02:21:56.639 --> 02:21:58.799 to turn orange. Should I go ahead and pick them? 2586 02:22:00.559 --> 02:22:02.280 I know nothing about this fruit. 2587 02:22:03.840 --> 02:22:04.040 Yeah. 2588 02:22:04.319 --> 02:22:07.120 Klamandan is a little it's an orange like thing with 2589 02:22:07.280 --> 02:22:13.159 very small orange choice on it. It's used. It's ornamental. 2590 02:22:13.319 --> 02:22:17.959 First of all, people people love, uh the just the 2591 02:22:18.079 --> 02:22:20.559 ornamental factor, but they're also edible. They're just not the 2592 02:22:21.559 --> 02:22:25.159 you know, the best tasting orange type thing that you 2593 02:22:25.280 --> 02:22:29.559 could have. But I think they're attractive and I would 2594 02:22:29.639 --> 02:22:32.760 cover them in the kind of cold weather that we're 2595 02:22:33.000 --> 02:22:36.920 we're looking at having. So I think that's I think 2596 02:22:36.959 --> 02:22:39.559 that's worthwhile. Is it in a container? 2597 02:22:40.479 --> 02:22:40.680 Yes? 2598 02:22:40.760 --> 02:22:41.079 It is? 2599 02:22:42.799 --> 02:22:42.959 Yeah. 2600 02:22:44.159 --> 02:22:44.520 Do you know. 2601 02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:51.600 Me get you a dolly or something like that. Kalamandan's 2602 02:22:51.639 --> 02:22:54.079 are actually pretty cold hearty, you know. The more I 2603 02:22:54.159 --> 02:22:58.959 think about it, I think in your area, I think 2604 02:22:59.319 --> 02:23:00.920 I don't think you're have to bring it in or 2605 02:23:01.000 --> 02:23:04.079 cover it now that I'm thinking about it. Because they're 2606 02:23:04.799 --> 02:23:07.600 they're one of their parentage is come quiet and come 2607 02:23:07.680 --> 02:23:10.680 Quiet are hardy down into the teens. I think Klimanda 2608 02:23:10.840 --> 02:23:14.280 is going to take it down pretty well down into 2609 02:23:14.319 --> 02:23:16.959 the twenties and be okay. So I think you're gonna 2610 02:23:17.000 --> 02:23:19.719 be all right with it. I'm gonna adjust my statement 2611 02:23:19.760 --> 02:23:20.879 a little bit as I think about that. 2612 02:23:21.200 --> 02:23:26.600 Klamanda, Well, I think it's confused because it's got flower 2613 02:23:26.680 --> 02:23:27.319 buds on it. 2614 02:23:27.440 --> 02:23:31.159 To you, oh, flower buds too, I don't know how 2615 02:23:32.120 --> 02:23:32.479 will be. 2616 02:23:33.600 --> 02:23:36.200 By And it's on the new growth. You had a 2617 02:23:36.280 --> 02:23:41.120 collar call while ago that had some new growth had 2618 02:23:41.200 --> 02:23:45.040 some curly leaves and stuff. You know, I never found 2619 02:23:45.079 --> 02:23:47.680 a leaf minor either, but I did find it like 2620 02:23:47.799 --> 02:23:52.079 a little web in there that I scraped out. But 2621 02:23:52.280 --> 02:23:55.239 that's where the new flower buds are at. I was 2622 02:23:55.399 --> 02:23:56.639 going to cut the tips off. 2623 02:23:57.799 --> 02:24:00.920 You know, those are nice plants. They stay kind of small, 2624 02:24:01.000 --> 02:24:03.559 especially in the container. You know, they stayed rosed and small, 2625 02:24:03.639 --> 02:24:06.399 and so people liked to grow the because they you know, 2626 02:24:06.520 --> 02:24:09.680 it's easy to it's easy to do. But calm kalamandin 2627 02:24:09.920 --> 02:24:12.079 is is pretty cold hearty. So I think you're gonna 2628 02:24:12.079 --> 02:24:15.040 be okay. As far as the blooms themselves, I've never 2629 02:24:15.680 --> 02:24:18.520 I've never looked into that, Like sometimes a plant will 2630 02:24:18.559 --> 02:24:20.920 be hardy, but the blooms are not. But I think 2631 02:24:21.040 --> 02:24:22.479 you're going to be all right. If you want to 2632 02:24:22.520 --> 02:24:24.719 be careful, just put them on dolly running in the 2633 02:24:24.799 --> 02:24:27.600 garage and bring it back out. But I don't think 2634 02:24:27.680 --> 02:24:30.520 that's needed for a Kalamandin in the freeze. We're about 2635 02:24:30.559 --> 02:24:30.799 to have. 2636 02:24:32.159 --> 02:24:37.040 Okay, because I just got it this past spring. You know, 2637 02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:39.760 it's fifty percent off. So I brought it home and 2638 02:24:40.680 --> 02:24:44.559 stuffed it in a container, and it immediately started blooming 2639 02:24:44.639 --> 02:24:48.000 and bearing these little fruits. And I was like Okay, 2640 02:24:48.760 --> 02:24:51.479 I thought, how do you like again. 2641 02:24:52.959 --> 02:24:54.760 How do you like the bloom fragrance? 2642 02:24:56.120 --> 02:24:56.239 Oh? 2643 02:24:56.319 --> 02:24:57.159 It smells good. 2644 02:24:58.559 --> 02:25:01.680 M yeah, a nice thing. The nice thing about a 2645 02:25:01.719 --> 02:25:03.799 container centrus like that is you can put it right 2646 02:25:03.840 --> 02:25:06.360 beside where you sit outside in the patio and just 2647 02:25:06.559 --> 02:25:08.920 it's like you have perfume just wafting over. 2648 02:25:10.920 --> 02:25:15.879 All my guarden is and jasmines, and and my citrus, 2649 02:25:15.920 --> 02:25:22.079 because I've got lemon, lisbon lemon and Orlando TAngelo also 2650 02:25:22.799 --> 02:25:23.360 in a in. 2651 02:25:23.479 --> 02:25:27.280 A my goodness to it. Well, you just got all 2652 02:25:27.399 --> 02:25:31.719 kinds of not so common fruit centrus fruit growing around there. 2653 02:25:32.159 --> 02:25:34.280 Send me a picture though sometimes when they're especially when 2654 02:25:34.280 --> 02:25:36.600 they're in blooming and things. I'd love to earn fruit. 2655 02:25:36.600 --> 02:25:39.040 I'd love to see that. Well, thank you for the call. 2656 02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:42.040 Make sure of the kalamando, but I'll get it to 2657 02:25:42.319 --> 02:25:43.120 tomorrow maybe. 2658 02:25:44.479 --> 02:25:46.520 Okay, Well, I'm gonna put you on hold and maybe 2659 02:25:46.639 --> 02:25:48.520 our produci will pick up and give you an email 2660 02:25:48.520 --> 02:25:49.959 where you can get that to me if you need that. 2661 02:25:50.399 --> 02:25:53.680 Thanks for the call. All right, folks. Music means I 2662 02:25:53.760 --> 02:25:56.239 gotta quit talking today. I'll be back in the morning though, 2663 02:25:56.319 --> 02:25:58.680 first thing, six o'clock. Hey, I'm gonna get up early. 2664 02:25:58.840 --> 02:26:01.040 So I can be on the air. You get up 2665 02:26:01.079 --> 02:26:04.399 with me, we'll talk by the way. Tip for the wise, 2666 02:26:04.559 --> 02:26:07.200 it's easiest to get through on phones earlier in the 2667 02:26:07.280 --> 02:26:10.639 morning when there was later on. All right, take care