WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.040 Success. And you know, it's easy to get excited about 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.400 a tomato plant because you can taste the tomatoes before 3 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.400 you even get the plant home. Right, It's easy to 4 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:11.759 get excited about flowers because they're gorgeous, maybe fragrant, maybe 5 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:16.960 attract butterflies or that's easy. But if you want to 6 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:21.320 realize those dreams and those hopes, you got to start 7 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:26.079 in the soil. Sometimes the brown stuff isn't so exciting. Personally, 8 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.839 I get excited about it. I mean I could lay 9 00:00:27.839 --> 00:00:30.320 in a polo composts and make compost angels and just 10 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.479 be happy as a clam. But for a lot of people, 11 00:00:33.479 --> 00:00:37.719 it's like, yeah, it's dirt, that's brown, that it's something 12 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:41.320 I have to do so I can have flowers. Okay, Well, 13 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:44.840 if I can't talk you into enjoying compost as an 14 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:47.320 end in and of itself, at least let me tell you. 15 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:49.159 If you want those flowers to look good, you got 16 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:51.840 to start with the foundation that the plants are going 17 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:54.000 to thrive in, because plants live in their roots. So 18 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:59.679 there we go. That is my constant every show, public service. 19 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.560 And then because that's where I see most people make 20 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.640 their mistakes. When the soil isn't right. The plants won't 21 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.879 be happy, and you won't be happy because you won't 22 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:13.000 be enjoying the things that you get to enjoy. Last 23 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:16.319 year was a hammering year when it came to storms. 24 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:19.239 We had two that knocked the power out for extended 25 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.319 periods of time. Family members in the area were out 26 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:27.359 of power for two about they've been two weeks, maybe longer. 27 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.840 And it's just crazy. And basically the reason the power 28 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.200 goes down is because the trees. That's one of the 29 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:40.200 single most significant factors is the fact that trees break 30 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.799 a limb, the tree falls over whatever, and it takes 31 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:45.879 power out on a storm. And you know, we don't 32 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.920 know when those storms are coming. They may come even 33 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:51.159 in the winter time with a nice storm or something. 34 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:55.719 They're unpredictable. But what you do have control over is 35 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:58.040 making sure your trees are as strong as they can be. 36 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.760 And I encourage you when you planted tree, start training 37 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:07.719 it from day one into a strong structural form. And 38 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:09.919 there's information out there. You can learn how to do it, 39 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:11.719 or you can hire somebody to come in and do it, 40 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:17.960 but start from day one. Because trees develop bad structural problems. 41 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:21.639 They just do It's kind of like people picking up 42 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.719 bad habits and they're harder to break later when you 43 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:26.840 don't when you allow yourself to pick them up and 44 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:29.599 establish them early on. And so if you let a tree, 45 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:32.479 a young tree, develop a real narrow branch angle, that 46 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:35.719 branch is going to get that situation's going to get 47 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:38.280 worse year after year after year, until someday you come 48 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.639 out and that branch is split off because it was 49 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:44.120 poorly attached. There wasn't as much strength in the attachment 50 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.240 as there could have been. You got to take care 51 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.960 of your trees. And unless you're a certified arbist, know 52 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:52.599 what you're talking about, a specialist in trees, just a 53 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:56.919 very experienced arbuss. Whatever you are out there, you're not 54 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.719 going to know how to do it right. And marnspoon 55 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.120 More knows how to do it right. Martin is with 56 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:05.280 Affordable Tree. That's his company. He and his wife Joe 57 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:10.319 run the company Affordable Tree Service. And if you've not 58 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.120 just listen to this. If you can't remember the last 59 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.159 time you had your trees pruned and evaluated for health, 60 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:21.879 now's the time. Get it done now. Uh You everything 61 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:25.840 that an experienced person like Martin can do to a 62 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.520 tree just helps build resiliency in it. Now, when we 63 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:32.680 get a hurricane come through, that'll blow a house over. 64 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.439 I mean you, you know there's things that are going 65 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:37.840 to happen to trees. But there's so much you can 66 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.240 do to increase the strength and to get you through 67 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.520 the storms. It should not be causing problems. Martin Spoon 68 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.479 more Affordable Tree Service. Here's the number seven one three 69 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:50.719 six nine nine two six sixty three. I'll say that again. 70 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:55.080 Seven one three six nine nine two six six three. 71 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.719 You can swing by the website at Afftree Service dot com. 72 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.919 But Martin come out and he evalue at your trees. 73 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:03.719 He can give you an estimate on what needs to 74 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:07.599 be done, including pruning, including things like deep root feeding. 75 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:11.960 For example, maybe you need some advice on you know 76 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.800 you're gonna put a trench in toward the house and 77 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.040 that's gonna take out a bunch of tree roots. Martin 78 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:17.879 can advise you on the best way to go about that, 79 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.319 what needs to be done. He is able to do 80 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.120 a lot of things from root barriers to you name it. 81 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.480 Just call him, have him come out, have him take 82 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.040 a look. He'll explain what's what's wrong. What's going on, 83 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:32.240 and maybe nothing's wrong. Maybe maybe it's fine. It just 84 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.839 needs a little support during the summertimes. But this is 85 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.959 pruning season, and don't delay on this. Just go ahead 86 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.279 and get it done. Martin Spoon More Affordable Tree seven 87 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.600 one three, six nine nine two six sixty three. All right, 88 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:50.399 that was my best effort at making you making sure 89 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.879 you have a long term success. You know, the most 90 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.279 valuable plant in your landscape is a tree. It is 91 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.399 a lot of other good, beautiful plants, but when it 92 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:08.079 comes to trees, you can't fix broken bad pruning practices 93 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.680 is what I mean by broken. Now, you can go in, 94 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:12.279 you can clean it up, you can try to make 95 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.079 the best of it. But when you allow somebody that 96 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.439 just happens to own a pick up a chainsaw and 97 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.000 sticks a business card in your door to train your 98 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.399 trees and they do a bad job, that is for life. Again, 99 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:28.319 there's things that a good tree person can do to 100 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:32.279 fix it a little bit, but the damage is for life, 101 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:36.120 and the weakening of the structural integrity is for life. 102 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:39.000 So don't let people touch your trees. Don't know what 103 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.920 they're doing, and don't delay. The longer you delay, the worse. 104 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:45.399 The problem gets We like to be ostriches and put 105 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:46.920 our head in the sand because we don't want to 106 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:51.759 deal with this right now. Well, I'm telling you delaying 107 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:55.160 makes it a lot worse, could make it more expensive, 108 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.720 but definitely takes away from the value of your home. 109 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.639 You know how much a tree add to the value 110 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.399 of your home. Now imagine that tree being split in 111 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.199 a storm, and now you're going to sell out the 112 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.120 same house and you got a tree that's half a tree. 113 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:11.120 You see what I'm saying. It's worth investing to take 114 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:13.639 care of things like that. All right, I'm gonna have 115 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.639 to run here, take a little break. I'll be right 116 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.360 back by the way. Our phone number ought to give 117 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.560 you that since this is a call in show seven 118 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.199 to one three two one two kt r H. Seven 119 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:27.079 one three two one two kt r H. We'll be 120 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:32.319 right back. All right, Good morning, and welcome back to 121 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.480 Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricker, and we're here 122 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:37.959 to help you have a more beautiful garden, a more 123 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:42.279 bountiful landscape. And this is very important more fun in 124 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.480 the process. Gardening is fun. Gardening should be fun. Let's 125 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:48.160 figure out how to make it fun for you. If 126 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:50.240 you've been struggling along with something, give me a call 127 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:53.600 seven one three two one two kt RH. We're going 128 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.800 to run now out to Meadows Place and talk to Girardo. Hello, Girardo, 129 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:10.199 welcome to garden line. Uh all right, hello Girardo. We'll 130 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:14.199 get Oh there we go. I got you, all right, 131 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:17.439 I'm well, I'm well. How can we help today? 132 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.199 Heard last on last week's show, you own a bunch 133 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.399 of peach trees back back in the day, And I 134 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.959 have a couple of peach trees? What do I need 135 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.319 to uh spray on them? Do I start spraying something 136 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.040 on them? I mean, because we just had the cold weather, 137 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.040 all the leaves fell off, so, you know, and dormant 138 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:39.000 and stuff to uh young, should I go ahead and 139 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.360 do a dormant spray? I figured you'd be the man asked. 140 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:43.240 Is you're like you owned a bunch of them? 141 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:45.040 Yep, yeah, I. 142 00:07:44.920 --> 00:07:49.120 Did so right now. The only spring we would be 143 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.959 doing is is dormant oil sprays. And you want to 144 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.120 do that before the new foliage comes out. But as 145 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:58.160 as you wait a little long, just watch the buds 146 00:07:58.160 --> 00:07:59.959 on them, and when the buds start to swell up, 147 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:02.879 you need to get that spray on. Once they start opening, 148 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:07.639 the spray will burn bloom petals and little tender leaves 149 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.800 coming out and whatnot, So you got to get done 150 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:13.360 ahead of time. Now that spray is primarily for scale. 151 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:17.120 That's the main thing the Dorman oil spray controls. So 152 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:20.399 if you don't have scale, then you may not need 153 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:22.759 to do it. Now, there's nothing wrong with doing it 154 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.079 just in case, but watch your trees. Scale will show 155 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.920 up in different ways. Usually on peaches it'll be a 156 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:33.000 white kind of flaky material, almost like kind of like 157 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:36.960 cigarette ashes, I guess, but white, very white. Or there 158 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.600 are some little scales that look like little flattened volcanoes 159 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:44.440 that are smaller than a typed o that lowercase o 160 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.840 that you would see along the branches. But look for 161 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.000 those things. If you see either of those, you definitely 162 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:52.279 need to do Dorman oil and get good coverage. Every 163 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:55.200 square inch of a branch needs to have oil on 164 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:01.399 it because it only once. 165 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:02.039 You just do it. 166 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:04.279 You just do it once, okay, and then and then 167 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:05.200 is there anything once? 168 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:10.879 Every winner After that, The next time you might spray 169 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.039 would be at the end of bloom, when you would 170 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:17.919 spray to protect the peaches from a little insect that 171 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:23.799 causes the worm inside the peach. Uh. Again, I tend 172 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:27.159 to go I tend to stay away from the spray 173 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.200 and all the time approach, you know, I try to 174 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.679 go with the avoid spraying. When you can't or don't, 175 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:33.879 don't waste your time and money spray. And if you 176 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.279 don't need to so like if you don't have scale, 177 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:40.600 well you don't really need to do a Dorman oil spray. Now, 178 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:42.679 if they start to show up, then you're gonna be 179 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.159 on a Norman oil schedule going forward. 180 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:46.000 Uh. 181 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.279 If you have peaches and they don't have a worm 182 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.159 in the fruit, you don't see any of that, Well 183 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:53.919 you can wait. And once those things arrive, then they're 184 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.960 going to be in your in your area. Uh and 185 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:00.879 you're gonna it'll be an annual thing to control them. 186 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.000 Okay, okay, thank thanks so much, sip. 187 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.279 Thank you you bet all right? 188 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.279 Good luck with that ot. You know, Gerardo, we don't 189 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.399 charge for advice on garden Line, but we do ask 190 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.000 for half of your produce because I figure it out. 191 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:19.200 You got peaches, all right? Thank you? 192 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:19.559 All right? 193 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.559 Bye bye our phone number seven one three two one 194 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.399 two k t r H seven one three two one 195 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:30.639 two k t r H. I have been in uh well, 196 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:34.120 I've got a flower bed that is needing to be finished. 197 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:36.679 I started it, I put some organic materials in there, 198 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:39.519 started working on the soil, got busy with other things, 199 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.120 and I'm going to get it planted. It's going to 200 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.639 have mostly some tropical types of plants, you know the 201 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.840 well I like what white butterfly ginger. I absolutely love 202 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.840 that plant, and so I'm going to be planting some 203 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:55.840 gingers in there, although they are perennial here with a 204 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.440 little malt, but i need to get that soil right, 205 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.360 and I've got a bunch more organic matter got to 206 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:01.960 put in. They're going to build it up good, make 207 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:05.279 sure it drains well right at the under the eaves 208 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:09.000 of a house, so that ginger is kind of happy 209 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.879 when it's not in the full brun of sun. So 210 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:15.120 I'm going to be getting that worked out. And anytime 211 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:17.000 you're building the soil, you want to make sure and 212 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:22.000 do the content of nutrients too. And there are a 213 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.879 lot of nutrients plants need, you know, they need nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. 214 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:29.120 That's the big three NPK, that's the three numbers on 215 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:32.480 a fertilizer bag. But they also need secondary nutrients and 216 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:38.639 micronutrients also called trace minerals, and Microlife products have the 217 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:42.159 trace minerals in them because they are made from organic 218 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:45.639 materials from things that were once alive. If you will, 219 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:50.159 you know, leaves that have been decomposed, whatever the organic 220 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:55.039 material is when when the plant is gone, or you 221 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.720 have the materials left the compost, the leaves, the whatever 222 00:11:57.759 --> 00:12:02.840 you have. Those materials contain everything a plant needs because 223 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:05.919 they came from that. So they don't just have the 224 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.840 three numbers. They've got all the other numbers as well. 225 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:13.039 And here's why, because to grow a plant you have 226 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.039 to have all the nutrients. You have to have, not 227 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:17.399 just the big sixteen we talk about, but even up 228 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:20.600 to twenty different or more different nutrients depending on the 229 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:24.159 plant and the stage of its life that are needed. 230 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:28.639 And so with Microlife, you're applying the whole nine yards 231 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.679 when you do that. And Microlife has They've been around 232 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:35.360 for a long time, over thirty five years now, well 233 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.320 over thirty five years. They're the number one organic fertilizer 234 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:44.080 in sales in the whole Houston area. And they're not 235 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.279 going to burn because they're organic they have. Again, I 236 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:49.919 said they have a lot. They have more minerals than 237 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:53.720 standard fertilizers because over one hundred minerals are in microlife, 238 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:56.879 because that's what's in the materials that Microlife's made of 239 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:59.639 that I have poultrymner in them. They're safe for humans, 240 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:04.960 safe animals. They are really designed to create success in 241 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.080 the soil. Each bag of Microlife has over seventy essential 242 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:12.759 nutrients and each bag contains billions of billions of beneficial 243 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:15.759 microbes that helping growing a stronger plant to help in 244 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.320 improving your soil. When you use that on a regular basis, 245 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.960 little by little, you are improving the soil, not just 246 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.720 adding nutrients. Because you're continuing to improve the soil. You 247 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:29.279 can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out where 248 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.600 to get them. They're widely available. Microlife products are all 249 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.039 over the place, so get out there, get some on hand, 250 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.759 and use them everywhere from your houseplants to your yard plants. 251 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.679 The stuffworks, and I say that because I've used it. 252 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.879 I've been using Microlife products for over ten years now 253 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:51.320 and they work. You are listening to garden Line if 254 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.000 you'd like to give us a call this morning, seven 255 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:56.120 to one three two one two KTRH will be happy 256 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.759 to help you have success. What's going on at your 257 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:01.879 guard gardener? What are you going to do at your garden? 258 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.519 This has been my theme all through January. Now I'm 259 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.759 just going to keep going in February here. What are 260 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.360 you going to do nude this year? What are you 261 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:11.639 going to do different this year? You're going to try 262 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.039 a new kind of gardening like herb gardening or vegetable gardening, 263 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:23.279 or flower gardening, or growing orchids indoors or making a terrarium. 264 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:24.720 Do you see what I mean? I mean they are 265 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.919 all kinds of ways to get involved with gardening. What 266 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:29.759 are you going to do new this year? What new 267 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:31.720 plants are you going to grow that you haven't grown before? 268 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:34.840 I just talked about white butterfly ginger or the butterfly gingers. 269 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:39.480 I love gingers, especially the butterflies, because they make great 270 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:45.279 cut flowers. Some of them have unbelievably heavenly fragrance. Just 271 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:49.080 if you like something like a gardena, the smell of 272 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:51.840 that will get you a white butterfly ginger and smell 273 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:57.279 that it's good. We had when my their daughter was born. 274 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.320 We were my wife and baby. We're in the hospital 275 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:05.639 and I brought a cut headachem from home, a white butterfly, 276 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.679 gender stuck it in a vase in the hospital room. 277 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.080 I'm not kidding you. Nurses were coming. They're walking down 278 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:14.480 the hall smelling something and followed their nose into that 279 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:18.399 hospital room. Wanted to know where that wonderful smell was 280 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:22.000 coming from. That is how wonderful that ginger is. Have 281 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.519 you grown that before? Why not try it this year? 282 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:29.120 That's just one of ten billion plants that you could grow. 283 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:32.519 How about a different way of pest control I mentioned yesterday. 284 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.399 Have you ever used garden mesh fabric? Think of something 285 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:41.080 super lightweight, super soft and pliable. But it is a 286 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:45.080 tiny little screen, a little smaller than screen on your 287 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:48.120 house and definitely softer, and you just put it over 288 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.399 your plants and bugs can't get in. So the question 289 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:55.519 is not you know what insecticide kills beetles or caterpillars. 290 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:58.360 The question is where do I get garden mesh and 291 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:59.759 just put it over the whole plant and they can't 292 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.360 get it in. The mots can't get into lay eggs, 293 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.480 and it's a screen porch over your plant. That's something 294 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:10.679 new That's just an example. Well, I was checking out 295 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.399 plants for all seasons the other day and stop by 296 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:15.320 and say, hey, talk to them, see what's going on. 297 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.440 I always like to see what's happening in the garden centers. 298 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:19.879 And if place looks great, they are loaded up. They 299 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.799 got all the fertilizer and soil stocked up. You know, 300 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:24.720 you can't get out of that place by what without 301 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.720 walking through the fertilizer and soil. I like that. You 302 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.360 know you got your plants. You're excited, all right. Don't 303 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.919 go to the checkout until you get your fertilizer and 304 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:36.200 your soil. That's very important, and they've got it. They 305 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:38.879 understand that because they are gardeners. They've been around since 306 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.759 nineteen seventy three. They're right there on Tombol Parkway two 307 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.679 forty nine, just north of Luata, and you can go 308 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:47.879 in there. You can take pictures, you can take samples 309 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.559 and ask them questions. You know, you're driving down the 310 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:53.519 road and you see this plant in somebody's yard, zoom in, 311 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.799 take a picture, go buy plants for all season? Say 312 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:57.279 I need one of these? Do you have them? Can 313 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.440 you get them? And the chances are they do You 314 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:03.440 can go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com, 315 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.160 or you can give them a call to eight one 316 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:10.000 three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three 317 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:14.960 seven six one six four six. Is it like to say, there, 318 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.720 get your green on it. Plants for all Seasons. I 319 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:21.200 don't care if you are a experienced gardener or if 320 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:24.319 you're a rookie gardener. They've got what you need and 321 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:30.079 they can help you to have success outside. Yesterday had 322 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.359 some little tiny birds that were coming along and I've 323 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:34.759 got my feeders out and they are really happy and 324 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:38.319 doing great. You know, wild Birds Unlimited has got everything 325 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.519 you need for your birds. They got the feeders right now. 326 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.319 The new thing, the exciting thing is the cardinal confetti. 327 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.960 That's a special blend of oh, just a lot of 328 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.960 different kinds of really great seed that bring the red 329 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:55.279 cardinals in just by the flocks. It is a really 330 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.920 cool seed. They also have a cardinal tube feeder and 331 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:02.480 a good evening cardinal feeder. It's called works really really well. 332 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:06.440 And while you're in there, check out their bark butter products. 333 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.880 This product has been documented to bring over one hundred 334 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:14.119 and fifty species of birds in go to WBU dot 335 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.880 com forward slash Houston to find the wild birds near you. 336 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:20.759 I'm taking a break. I'll be right back. Don't go away, 337 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:25.559 We'll be back with your questions. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back. 338 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:31.400 We're back with garden Line, talking gardening everything gardening. What 339 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:32.839 are you going to do new this year? What are 340 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:34.480 you going to do different? What are you going to 341 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.799 try out? There are parts of gardening you've never experienced 342 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.720 that you need to experience. They are fun and you 343 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:44.039 know what, if you don't like it, well, don't do 344 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:46.160 it anymore. At least you tried it. But I guarantee 345 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:49.240 you this your favorite tomato you have yet to eat. 346 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:53.200 I mean that there are tomatoes that are out there 347 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:55.759 you haven't tried, and there are tomatoes to come. As 348 00:18:55.799 --> 00:19:00.400 readers keep improving on things in various ways, that you 349 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.279 will never discover them if you don't try some things new. 350 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:06.319 Every year, when I'm in my vegetable garden, I try 351 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:10.359 to grow my standards, and then there's I have some 352 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:13.759 personal standards, and then I try to grow some new things, 353 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:21.359 some things that haven't grown before. For example, tomatoes celebrity 354 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.440 that is one of the few nematode resistant tomatoes. By 355 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:28.079 the way, it is. It is a Texas Superstar TEXA 356 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:31.680 and M Superstar Trial tomato. That is the standard. It's 357 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.559 been around a long time, but it is an awesome tomato. 358 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:34.920 Now. 359 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:37.240 I'll try new ones every year, two or three different 360 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:39.839 things I haven't grown, and who knows, I'll find my 361 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:44.200 new favorite sometime. But it's a standard contender. Green beans, 362 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:47.319 the old bush contender green bean is just a great 363 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:49.920 green bean, you know what. I was talking with Joey 364 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:52.599 out in China Gardens a while back, and he was 365 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.759 telling me the Valentino bean has just really impressed him 366 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:59.079 when he's grown it in the gardens. He loves that bean. 367 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.480 So guess what's on my list this year. I'm gonna 368 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.400 try Valentino. We're gonna throw it in there and see 369 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:05.119 how it does, see what I think about it. Who knows, 370 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:08.039 it may become my next new favorite. By the way, 371 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.079 Oh well, I mentioned Chenne Gardens. I'm going to be 372 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.480 audited in Chenne Gardens on Saturday, February fifteenth, So we've 373 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.079 got a couple of saturdays away here. I'll be there 374 00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:19.839 from twelve noon to one thirty and I'm going to 375 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.240 be talking about something I love to talk about, and 376 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:24.519 that is how do you get more from your garden 377 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:30.119 with less sweat and less ibuprofen. The title is Tips 378 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:33.200 from making Gardening Less Work and we're gonna have a 379 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:35.200 good time. I'm gonna give you all kinds of ideas 380 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.119 on ways to make your gardening easier, make it more productive, 381 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:41.240 and make it more fun. But anyway, I'll be there 382 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:46.839 two Saturdays from yesterday the fifteenth, twelve noon to one thirty. 383 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:48.759 Now add in Chenne Gardens if you haven't been out there, 384 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:50.920 They've got a whole bunch of ship They got a 385 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.400 whole shipment of the beneficial insects in you know, things 386 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:57.440 like the prank mount is, the green lace swings and 387 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:01.039 others that are out there. And you can beneficial nematodes, 388 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:03.960 that's another one. You can pick them up. But don't 389 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.119 delay because those are living creatures that need to find 390 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:09.319 a good home and they will. They'll be gone if 391 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:12.039 you delay going out to get them. If you're interested 392 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:15.279 in that, always good things out in Chanta Gardens. You 393 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.720 know you're always going to find an excellent supply of 394 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:24.119 all kinds of plants, from strawberries to right now. They 395 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:28.119 got some great herbs in they look awesome. Of course, 396 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.200 this is still the time to plant shrubs and trees, 397 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:34.000 and their supply of shrubs and trees is outstanding. It is. 398 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:39.039 It is roses also, roses also ceterus. Just keep naming 399 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:42.200 things and they've got them. That is in Chanty gardens 400 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:47.880 out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Let's see. I am 401 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:52.799 gonna be doing some traveling in the coming weeks, and 402 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:56.599 I love when I travel to go to botanical gardens 403 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:02.640 because every you know, every and also garden centers. One 404 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.519 of my stops will be Phoenix and Phoenix, Arizona. That's 405 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:09.359 not quite Houston, Texas, is it. It's a little more 406 00:22:09.400 --> 00:22:13.599 humid here, but Phoenix has a beautiful desert botanical garden. 407 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.279 I was out in West Texas, a big bend area, 408 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:19.200 at one of our botanical gardens out there at Saul 409 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:23.440 Ross State University, and it's just fun go into those 410 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:25.599 and then you go check out the garden centers in 411 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.519 that town and you always get to see something new. 412 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:31.160 And I call that horticultural tourism, and I think you 413 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:34.119 should do it too, wherever you're going. You know, if 414 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:36.519 you were going to go I don't know, Boston or 415 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:40.079 Kansas City or wherever. Find out what's local there that 416 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:41.839 you can go visit. And it's a lot of fun. 417 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:44.000 I'll tell you one thing you'll learn when you do that. 418 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:48.240 We are lucky to have all the garden centers we 419 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:50.400 have here in the Houston area. And when I say 420 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.799 garden centers, I don't mean a placing by plants along 421 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:55.880 with hammers. If you know what I'm talking about, I know, 422 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:59.920 I'm talking about a garden center that is mom and Papa, 423 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.559 I'm locally owned, that is filled with people that know 424 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.119 what they're talking about. You walk in, you ask them 425 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:09.359 a question, and you get an accurate answer, and you 426 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:12.759 get treated right. That is the kind of garden center 427 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:14.960 we're talking about. Someplace you can grab a bug and 428 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:18.079 put it in a bag and bring it in and say, Okay, 429 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.559 this is eating on my fill in the blank, and 430 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:23.680 how do I control it and what do I do 431 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.279 about it? That is the kind of garden centers. And 432 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.599 here in the Houston area, north, south, east, west, and 433 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:33.519 central there are great garden centers everywhere. And you need 434 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:35.839 to you need to make a gardening tour, you know, 435 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:39.279 like wouldn't wouldn't February be a great month for a 436 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:42.000 garden tour around Houston. Just go visit some of our 437 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:45.319 garden centers, go to the botanical gardens, go to any 438 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:50.160 kind of place where you can get inspiration. Because you know, 439 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:53.480 you're not a landscape designer, unless you're one of the 440 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:57.599 few that are landscape designers. I'm not a landscape designer. 441 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.680 But when I drive around and I a plant or 442 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.000 I see a plant used in a different way, it 443 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:04.920 gives me an idea. It's like I can do that 444 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:08.079 at home, take a picture of it and do that. 445 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:11.599 I think that is a good idea, and plus it's 446 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:14.119 a lot of fun. But I'm not kidding you know, 447 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:15.920 I'm not just saying that because I'm here on the 448 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.480 air in Houston. I've been to a lot of cities, 449 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:22.200 and that includes San Antonio and Dallas and Austin. Here 450 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.559 in our great state of Texas too. We're fortunate we 451 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.680 have more great garden centers than any place I've ever 452 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:35.119 been to. But I'll keep shopping around the country as 453 00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:40.960 a travel different places and learning more and having more fun. Well, 454 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:43.279 there you go. If you'd like to get a skull 455 00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:46.240 here on garden line. I'll be happy to visit with 456 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.279 you about whatever you're interested in. Related to gardening seven 457 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:53.480 one three two one two kt r H seven one 458 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:56.839 three two one two kt RH. This is a time 459 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:00.200 to get fruit planted. It is fruit planting seas and 460 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.759 the best time now a container grown fruit. You can 461 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:06.200 plant twelve months out of the year, but make it 462 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:09.200 easier on yourself. Get it done now so that tree 463 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:11.839 can get its roots down, and this summer will be 464 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:16.559 less touch and go. It'll be less difficult, less you know, 465 00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:19.440 touch and go constant maintenance. When you get your fruit 466 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:21.720 trees and get them in the ground, grab you some 467 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:25.319 nutri star from Nelson. That Nelson makes a nutri star 468 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:29.920 that is called citrus fruit and avocado. So if it 469 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:32.039 is a tree, shrub, vine, or bush that you're growing 470 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:35.640 to eat and eat stuff off of citrus fruit and 471 00:25:35.640 --> 00:25:38.920 avocado from Nelson is the one. It's got essential nutrients 472 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:41.799 that enhance the growth and fruit production. And as you 473 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:46.319 build a better leafy, healthy fruit tree, shrub or vine, 474 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:51.720 you're gonna have better tasting fruit. The flavor comes from 475 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:55.440 a lot of fat activities, but good healthy leaves in 476 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:58.519 sunlight is the big elephant in the room. When it 477 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:01.200 comes to good, big tasty fruit, you're gonna use it 478 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:03.720 about every three months. But every three months is enough 479 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:06.759 for that. And uh, I don't know whatever kind of 480 00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:08.839 fruits you got. If you have fruit and a container too, 481 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:12.680 Nelson's nutri star citrus fruit and avocado comes in a 482 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.680 little jar is good for container fruit, your container citrus 483 00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:19.480 as well. All right, got to take a quick break. 484 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:22.039 Don't go away. I'll be right back with your questions. 485 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:24.400 By the way, the phone number seven one three two 486 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:27.920 one two K t R H. A little bit of 487 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:35.400 the music. I love Toby Keith, late Toby Keith. Well, 488 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:39.920 if you want to hear a nice uh word about 489 00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:43.400 Toby Keith, uh, there's Stephen Colbert did a little thing 490 00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:45.359 on his show one time where he talked about him. 491 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:47.640 And you're not going to have two people that are 492 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:51.079 kind of polar opposites in many ways than Stephen Colbert 493 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:55.000 and Toby Keith. But talking about hearing it, hearing about 494 00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:58.640 Toby Keith from Stephen Colbert, that was a very interesting thing. 495 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:02.920 Quite quite quite a nice fellow. Good great music too, 496 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.480 by the way. Well, this isn't a music show, although 497 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:09.359 I do like to play music. On this show. This 498 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:11.720 is Garden Line, and if you want to talk about gardening, 499 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:13.799 we can do that. Just give me a call. Seven 500 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:17.440 one three two one two kt R H seven one 501 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.480 three two one two k t R h Okay, I 502 00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:22.559 got a quiz for you. I got a gardening quiz 503 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:28.039 for you. Where can you find a huge selections of 504 00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:33.640 seeds and seed starting supplies? Where can you get your 505 00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:39.640 lawnmower blades sharpened? Where can you get your small engine 506 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:44.960 weed trimmer repaired? If you're an organic gardener, where can 507 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.960 you go to have more organic choices than anyplace else 508 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.359 in the Houston area? Where can you go to get 509 00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:54.440 every product that you hear me talk about on Garden Line. 510 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:03.759 Southwest Fertilizer corner Bisnett and Renwick. Southwest Fertilizer's been a 511 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:06.880 Houston lawn and garden tradition since nineteen fifty five. I'm 512 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:12.279 the fifth host to speak for Southwest Fertilizer, the fifth. 513 00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:15.240 They've been around a while now. By the way, they're 514 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:19.000 celebrating their seventieth anniversary this year, So happy seventieth birthday 515 00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:23.240 the Southwest Fertilizer. You don't last seventy years if you're 516 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:25.599 not taking care of your customers, and they walk in 517 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.200 and they walk out with what they wanted. Not we 518 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:30.839 ain't got any on the shelf. Now they have it. 519 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.400 They carry everything I talk about on garden Line on 520 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:37.480 and on. I mean ninety foot wall of tools, quality 521 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:40.279 brands like Falco and Corona. The garden neil seat that 522 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:43.920 I keep talking about is there. Do you want to 523 00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:46.839 do a soil test? Well, go buy Bob's got a 524 00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:49.480 probe there. You can check out and take a really 525 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:53.240 accurate vertical core soil test samples to send in so 526 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:55.599 you can find out what's in your lawn. That's a loaner. 527 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.519 That's not a you know, you got to pay for it. 528 00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:59.759 You can't walk off with it. He makes youre a 529 00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.880 hold on a deposit. But bottom line is that's just 530 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.240 typical for the quality products, expert advice, and old fashioned 531 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:10.880 service that you get. A Southwest Fertilizer. You can go 532 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:12.920 to Southwest Fertilizer dot com or you can give them 533 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:16.400 a call seven to one three six nine nine one 534 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:20.799 seven four four seven one three six nine nine one 535 00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:26.079 seven four four. I talking about different things to be 536 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.440 doing this time of year. We are in the season 537 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:31.480 where if you are dealing with weeds. If you if 538 00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:33.559 you've got a weed problem that you're having to deal 539 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.039 with in your gardens and your lawn and whatnot, now's 540 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:40.920 the time when we get the things that prevent weed 541 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.200 problems down on the ground to stop the weeds from 542 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:49.240 sprouting from seed. Now, that's called a pre emergent. A 543 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:54.359 pre emergent means before the plant emerges from seed. Now 544 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.960 there are perennial plants that pre emergents aren't going to 545 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.599 control because they're not coming back from seed. Primarily, they're 546 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.759 coming back from underground storage roots and organs. Now there 547 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.200 are post emergents to kill weeds that exist. Now is 548 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.759 the time to do post emergents on cool season weeds. 549 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:13.720 So those weeds in your yard right now are cool 550 00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:18.240 season weeds. They are already growing. You see them. The 551 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:22.000 warm season weeds, you're not seeing them yet. The cool 552 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.799 season weeds. You spray with something for weeds. Controlling weeds 553 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:29.680 after I'm mostly hand pull mine because I don't have 554 00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:32.559 a lot of them. I tend to practice what I 555 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:36.000 preach a little bit and do as what they say, 556 00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:37.880 do as I say, not as I do. Well, I 557 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.240 try to do as I do. I mean, I try 558 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:43.240 to do as I say, but if you need to 559 00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:46.240 spray weeds, now's the time. And here's why. Those cool 560 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.240 season weeds, clover, handbit, chick weed, all of those things 561 00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:51.559 that are in your yard right now, they're about to 562 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:53.920 bloom and go to seed. In fact, I saw the 563 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.039 start of some chickweed or handbit ballooms just the other 564 00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:59.880 day on some weeds in the yard. And so if 565 00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:03.440 you wait, the products that kill them effectively don't work 566 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:05.960 as well. Once the weed becomes a reproductive it as 567 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:07.920 blooms and seeds, it's not going to work as well. 568 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:11.319 But if you get ahead of it now and do 569 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:13.319 it now, you will get good control. And you can 570 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:15.039 do a little spot treatments. You have to nuke the 571 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.440 whole yard, just little spot treatments to take them out. 572 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.839 As far as pre emergence, that's things that prevent weeds 573 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:28.519 from getting established. They prevent the weeds from even coming up. 574 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:31.400 The seeds try to sprout and the pre emergent is 575 00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:35.519 there and it cannot sprout. It shuts it down before 576 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:39.839 it even gets started. That's a pre emergent. And now's 577 00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:42.559 the time to get those down. For warm season weeds. 578 00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:45.119 Once we get later into February, and so if you're 579 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:47.640 way down in the southern part of the listening area 580 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.319 or up in March. Typically for a lot of the 581 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:54.519 listening area, that's when our warm season weeds like let's 582 00:31:54.519 --> 00:31:57.559 say crabgrass that's a prime example, and many other warm 583 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.920 season weeds. That's when their seeds are sprouting. A pre emergent. 584 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.839 You put down, You've watered into the soil surface. They're 585 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:08.480 made to stick to the soil, so they don't wash 586 00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:11.599 down and they don't wash off, and when that seed 587 00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:14.279 tries to come through, it's like a little barrier, a 588 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:16.400 little force field right there at the surface, and it 589 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:19.240 shuts it down. Now, if you wait too long, if 590 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.039 you wait until late March to do it, you're going 591 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.319 to already have a bunch of weeds. And that product 592 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.000 is not going to stop something that's already growing. It's 593 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:29.480 a pre emergent. So if you look at my schedule 594 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:33.400 on my website Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with 595 00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:36.440 Skip dot Com, there is a lawn care schedule and 596 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.880 then a lawn pest disease and weeds management schedule, and 597 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:42.319 that goes from January to December. It's like a little 598 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:46.319 calendar chart, and one row is insects, one row's diseases, 599 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:50.400 one row is preventing weeds pre emergent, one row is 600 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:54.039 killing existing weeds post emergent. You go down too the bottom, 601 00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:57.480 and for each of those rows, you've got your organic 602 00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:01.319 and your synthetic options for control. It's real handy. And 603 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:04.480 guess what, it's free. Can't talk me down on that price. 604 00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.519 It's free to download it and use it, print it out, 605 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.240 and take it with you when you go shopping. You 606 00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:10.599 can just point and go, hey, do you got one 607 00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:12.880 of those? You got one of those? That's what I need. 608 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:16.480 And it makes it really, really easy. But we are 609 00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:19.880 at this unique crossroads in spring where we need to 610 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.039 be doing both of those things. If you're going to 611 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.039 do them now. The long term way to control weeds 612 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:28.000 in your lawn for the majority of your weed issues 613 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:31.279 is to mow, water and fertilize properly all through the 614 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:34.039 season so that you make a dense lawn that chokes 615 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:36.599 out weeds and blocks out sunlight and prevents weed seeds 616 00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:39.799 from getting established. To the degree that your lawn is 617 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:43.480 struggling and thin, that's the degree to which you will 618 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:47.279 have a weed problem because wherever sunlight hits the soil, 619 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:52.599 nature plants a weed. All right, there you go download 620 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:58.079 those free publications on gardening with skip dot Com. I 621 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:01.279 in my yet, you know, I shouldn't have admitted on 622 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:03.599 the air that I allow weeds in my yard. But 623 00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:07.319 I don't allow them. They just they don't listen and 624 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.719 they tell them not to and they do it anyway. 625 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:14.920 But I actually enjoy getting out and doing a little 626 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:18.360 weed hand pulling. I know I'm weird like that, but listen, 627 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:19.960 there are a lot of things in life where you 628 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:21.960 can work and work and work to do something. Do 629 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:23.199 you have a job where at the end of the 630 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:25.840 day you kind of go I know, I worked all day, 631 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:28.480 but I have no idea really what I accomplished. I 632 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:31.960 pushed papers around and talk to people. And anyway, with 633 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.760 weed pulling, you sit down. I mean, maybe you got 634 00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:36.960 a garden bed full of weeds and you just get 635 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:41.559 your little garden kneeler bench from Southwest Fertilizer and you 636 00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:43.519 kneel down there and you just get to pull in. 637 00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:47.000 And after thirty minutes of that, you look back and 638 00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:50.000 you see this clean, beautiful bed. And there are a 639 00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.880 few things in life where you just have the satisfaction 640 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.559 of seeing wonderful results immediately. And so that's one reason 641 00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:59.800 I like I like to pull weeds. I also like 642 00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:02.360 to so I don't have to pull weeds. So there 643 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:06.960 you go. All right, Well let's see here. I believe 644 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.280 we're about to run out of time in this hour, 645 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:13.800 so I'll be uh, I'll be turning it over to 646 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:15.679 the news here in just a minute, and we'll be 647 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:18.159 back for our next hour of the show. You might 648 00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:20.559 want to We've got an open board, so if you 649 00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:23.440 want to call during the break seven one three two 650 00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:27.400 one two KTRH, Josh will get you or Josh Jonathan 651 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.199 will get you up on the Sorry I got that, Jonathan. 652 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:33.079 My brain is glitching. Get you on the board so 653 00:35:33.119 --> 00:35:35.639 we can talk to you one of the first calls 654 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:38.880 when we come right back. I want to remind you 655 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:43.039 that in two weeks I will be at in Chennick 656 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.880 Gardens down there in Richmond Rosenberg area, and Chenni Gardens, 657 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.239 by the way, is north of Richmond, like you're heading 658 00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:51.760 toward Katie, or if you're Katie, coming down toward Richmond. 659 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:55.320 So it serves that whole area really excellent place, easy 660 00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:57.719 to get to, so I hope you'll make plans to 661 00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:00.440 come out and see me. We'll look forward. We're gonna 662 00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:02.679 give a talk. I'm gonna be answering your gardening questions. 663 00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:05.199 If you want to bring samples in, uh, you know 664 00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:07.320 your weed sample? 665 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:07.840 What is this? 666 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:11.000 How do I kill it? A bug? A disease? Or 667 00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:13.360 maybe take a picture of your landscape and say, this 668 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:15.599 area right here is too shady? Everything does? What can 669 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.800 I plan there? We'll do that, have some fun, love shoulders. 670 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:23.519 You can even browbe about the tomatoes you thro one time, 671 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:26.079 and I'll pretend to believe you. I'll be right back. 672 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:32.119 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Richard's. 673 00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:38.760 Crazy trim. 674 00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:47.480 Just watch him as so many. 675 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:57.199 Things to set double again not a sign. 676 00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:09.440 Welcome back to garden Line. We are rolling this morning 677 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:11.840 early on. I hope you got at least one eye open, 678 00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:15.679 maybe a cup of coffee in your hand. We're here 679 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:18.400 to help you have a beautiful garden, a bountiful landscape, 680 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:20.599 or actually I usually say it the other way around, 681 00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:22.760 A bountiful garden a beautiful landscape, but I guess it 682 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:25.280 could be a bountiful landscape if you're talking about flowers. 683 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:29.159 You want plenty of floral bounty anyway, and more fun 684 00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:31.719 in the process. That's the last part of that that 685 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:34.519 is important. So I was talking earlier about right now 686 00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:38.880 we are in this huge important time to deal with 687 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:43.000 weeds in the yard. The long term weed solution is 688 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.440 to grow a healthy, dense lawn that chokes out most 689 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:49.239 of its weeds. The short term fix is either to 690 00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:51.280 prevent them or to kill ones that are growing. And 691 00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:54.639 there's different ways to go about that. But this is 692 00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:59.320 a crossroads this springtime that I would say probably the 693 00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:02.039 month of fabrusy. In general, we can do some weed 694 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:06.119 prevention back in January even But here's the thing. You 695 00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.480 got to get the with the pre mergent. You're wanting 696 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:10.559 to make sure you get there before the weed sprouts, 697 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:13.639 and they'll be sprouting over time that warm season. Weeds 698 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:17.400 can be sprouting way into the summertime too, but you 699 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.519 want to get ahead of the sprouting. And secondly, those 700 00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:23.000 products don't last forever. You know, you put down a 701 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:25.480 pre emergent product watered in could be a great product. 702 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.760 You like barricade from night Fross for example, put that 703 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:33.599 down and sixty days ninety days, you know, as you 704 00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:37.239 get off into the go forward from there into the season. 705 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:39.159 At some point just breaking down. You got to get 706 00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:43.920 another application downe if you want to continue that prevention, 707 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.880 that force field, if you will, that shell, that barrier 708 00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.280 over the surface of the soil. That's shutting everything down. 709 00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:52.840 But that's why our timing is important. You know, if 710 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:56.039 you put it on January first, well, it's going to 711 00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:58.159 play out sooner than if you had put it on 712 00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:02.239 in February, for example. So that's part of that's part 713 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:07.480 of the timing. I would like to just mention that 714 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:11.679 if you are planning on putting in some sort of 715 00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:15.039 an herb planting this year, go ahead and get you 716 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:21.719 a quality mix, one that is gonna provide drainage provide 717 00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:25.960 water holding capacity. And that sounds like, isn't that two 718 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:30.320 different things? Well, no, it's not. Water holding capacity means 719 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.440 the soil holds moisture. So compare broken glass to a 720 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.440 sponge which holds moisture more well, of course, the sponge 721 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:41.920 broken glasses sand, This sponge is organic matter. Okay, so 722 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:46.039 a highly organic mantrol that holds. But good drainage means 723 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:49.800 that the access water runs right out. It doesn't stay 724 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:55.599 a soggy, mucky mess, and so drainage is important. Quality 725 00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:59.440 soil and raised beds are what helps us have or 726 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:02.639 create good drainage in the soil. Now, Airloom Soils has 727 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:04.679 kind of got you covered on all that. They have 728 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:08.400 something called the Veggie and Herb Mix, and I use 729 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.559 it for a lot of things beyond veggies and herbs, 730 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:13.119 by the way, but that is what it's designed for. 731 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:15.679 And you can buy it by the bag. It's sold 732 00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:19.079 all over town. Lots of places carry heirloom soil bags. 733 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:23.960 Or you can go out to the Orange Rock and 734 00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:27.400 maultch In porter and pick it up right there, take 735 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:31.039 your truck, take your trailer whatever. They also have it 736 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:34.440 by the supersack. A supersack's a cubic yard. And let's 737 00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:38.199 say you're going to do some significant garden bed preparation, 738 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:41.280 putting in some new beds. You may need a supersacker 739 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:43.599 too to have enough to fill up what you're doing. 740 00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:46.559 Or you can have them just deliver it and dump 741 00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:48.360 it on the driveway if you to go that route. 742 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:50.199 They can do it anyway you want. Now, it's not 743 00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:52.639 just veggie and herb like that. I mean all their products, 744 00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:56.559 their leaf moll compost. They have a lawn mix, they 745 00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.119 have mulches and gravels and all kinds of things you 746 00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:02.159 can get from them. But the bottom line is just 747 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.079 do it. Just go out there and do it. If 748 00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:08.719 you want to check into having them deliver, go to 749 00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:13.119 this website rock inmoltz dot com slash delivery. I'll say 750 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:18.599 that again, Rock the letter in moltch rock in molts. 751 00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:22.320 That's one word, dot com, slash delivery. Just go there, 752 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:24.119 check it out. You can find out all about it there. 753 00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:26.159 Find out what they got, what the price is, you 754 00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:28.440 know what takes to get it here to your yard. 755 00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:33.000 But in the meantime, just do something because whether it's 756 00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:35.480 vegetables or herbs or flowers or whatever you're going to 757 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.679 grow fruit trees, getting a good quality mix in is 758 00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.000 really important. And Heirloom Soil has got you covered on 759 00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:46.119 all those things. I was checking out some of their 760 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.880 products in a local store the other day, one of 761 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.599 our garden centers and just looking at the different things 762 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:56.400 they were carrying from them, and it's nice stuff. There's 763 00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:59.920 such a thing as compass and molts that are not quality, 764 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:03.079 and there's ones that are quality. And there's a big difference. 765 00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:06.920 What are some of the differences. Well, cheap stuff typically 766 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:10.000 you should be nice fine texture and it's got big 767 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.119 old chunky wood chips in it. They don't screen it. Well, 768 00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:16.400 that's one. You rush it through real fast. You don't 769 00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:19.280 pay attention to the temperatures when you're composting, when you're 770 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:22.960 making it. You don't allow it to fully complete the process. 771 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.559 So what you're getting is we would call it a 772 00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:29.920 raw material. It hasn't fully cooked and become what it 773 00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:34.199 can be to become a quality product. And if you 774 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.400 hear me talk about a soil purveyor provider, it's going 775 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:39.639 to be one that takes the time and does that. 776 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:44.480 And I think that's very important. Just a tip by 777 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:48.360 the way, I have noticed in general that sometimes you 778 00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:50.239 put a new bed in and you put a good 779 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:54.599 fresh load of some type of a growing mix, a 780 00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.119 bed mix in it, and the first time you plant, 781 00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:02.119 you don't see success with the plants. They kind of 782 00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:05.079 sit there and powder about things and stuff. And that 783 00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:09.159 is a that is a natural process. Now bed molts 784 00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:12.360 can do that, but even with our soil, but even 785 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.800 with quality soils, sometimes there's a balancing out. You know, 786 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:19.360 there's nitrogen and carbon ratio that really affects plants and 787 00:43:19.400 --> 00:43:22.880 decomposition and everything. And I just be patient with it, 788 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:25.159 give it a little time to mellow out. And maybe 789 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:27.599 the first time you're using a new bed mix, you're 790 00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:30.239 putting in your brand new garden, you're all excited. Just 791 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:33.239 give it a little extra boost to nitrogen, a little 792 00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:37.519 extra boost to nitrogen because it's coming in typically with 793 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.360 a pretty high carbon ratio. And I have found that 794 00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:43.519 that extra boost to nitrogen early on, until that soil 795 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:46.880 has a season or so to mellow out, is helpful. 796 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:49.159 So that's just a little tip that you might want 797 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.440 to think about in order to have success with that. 798 00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:56.519 All right, well, let's see, I am going to take 799 00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:59.639 a break here in just one second, but I did 800 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.599 want to give you one more time our phone number 801 00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:05.639 seven to one three two one two kt r H 802 00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:10.000 seven to one three two one two kt r H. 803 00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:13.159 Also check out the website gardening with skip dot com. 804 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:15.239 Maybe that's a good thing to do during break and 805 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:17.679 see some of the material that's up there. We set 806 00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:20.039 it up to be helpful to you. I'll be right back. 807 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:26.559 Sure you made my speaker's going boom dots it on 808 00:44:26.599 --> 00:44:28.199 the tail get in the phone. 809 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:30.000 That kind of thing. 810 00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:30.559 Makes a man. 811 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:34.559 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. 812 00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:37.679 What do you want to talk about today? We've got 813 00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:39.199 lots of things. I mean, I can sit here and 814 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:41.159 talk about what's going on in my yard. Things you 815 00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:43.000 need to know about. Like I was talking about weed 816 00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.360 control stuff. I can do that, that's fine. But what 817 00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.119 are your questions? What's going on that you have questions about? 818 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.440 Maybe you want to try to grow something you haven't 819 00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:56.039 tried it before. You want some direction, advice on having success. 820 00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:58.320 You know, the best thing you can do is to 821 00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:01.360 ask the question first. Yesterday I I had a number 822 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:03.400 of questions, and each time they're asking them, I was 823 00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:06.440 saying it, thank you so much for calling first, because 824 00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.760 I'm glad you didn't just do that because they were 825 00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:12.119 about to do something that they shouldn't do or they 826 00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:15.360 were wondering about it. And we can see or save 827 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:18.880 you a lot of headaches and pain and suffering gardens, 828 00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:24.639 horticultural suffering. That's probably a category there. Anyway, that's what 829 00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:25.159 we're here for. 830 00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:26.159 I am. 831 00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:29.679 I've been talking about some different things like lawns and 832 00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:32.679 the importance right now we're in the crossroads a week 833 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:36.280 control fertilizing is coming up not long from now. We've 834 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.760 got a couple of options on fertilizing. If you go 835 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:42.639 to my lawn care schedule, that's one of the two 836 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:47.159 January December schedules that I have on the website. The 837 00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:50.559 lawn care schedule talks about when do you use your 838 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:54.599 synthetic fertilizers, when do you use your organic fertilizers, what 839 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:58.199 are the ones that you use, What about applying trace 840 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:05.320 mineral supplements, what about out doing aeration, correation, and so on. Well, 841 00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:08.760 it also goes into mowing, the proper way to mow 842 00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:10.960 and the proper way to water. And what I did 843 00:46:11.039 --> 00:46:14.199 is I took weather data from the last ten years 844 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.320 I think it's ten, maybe twenty years, and I looked 845 00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:22.880 at what is the historical average of rainfall per week 846 00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:26.559 that a lawn needs in the Houston area if it 847 00:46:26.599 --> 00:46:29.199 hadn't rained, if it hadn't rain. Okay, so we are 848 00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:33.719 in February. The average amount of needed rainfall per week 849 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:37.119 in February. When you look at what grass uses, we're 850 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:38.760 talking about the science of this now, We're not just 851 00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:43.480 talking about winging it here. What grass uses versus what 852 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:48.199 normally falls. It's zero that you do not need to 853 00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:51.559 be water in your lawn in February. Now these are averages. 854 00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:54.920 So yes, if we go through a weird year and 855 00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:00.400 it's eighty degrees in February and hadn't rained in six weeks, well, okay, 856 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:02.480 you can sell me. I'm put a little water down, 857 00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:05.400 but in general you don't. When we get to March, 858 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:08.199 it's only a half inch a week, roughly a half 859 00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:11.079 inch a week, and then April is three quarters. Then 860 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:14.280 we go to one inch a week from May through 861 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:17.880 September or through August, and then we back down to 862 00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:20.280 three quarters and we wind down in one half and 863 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:22.880 drop off. So it kind of gives you an idea 864 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.079 what generally we can expect. And I put that in 865 00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:27.280 there because a lot of people think you got to 866 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:31.039 set that thing to come on every week, and some 867 00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:33.239 people way too many times a week when we get 868 00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:35.960 hot in summer, and we'll talk about watering and miswatering 869 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:41.079 because most lawns are miss watered by applying too little 870 00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:45.000 too often. But anyway, it's on that schedule. It's right there, 871 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:47.719 and all the fertilizers are listed down there in products 872 00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:50.079 it's easy to it's easy to find what you need 873 00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:54.400 and just kind of guide you along. So download that again. 874 00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:58.719 It's another one that's free, help guide you as you're going. 875 00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:04.639 We are in a great time to be doing vegetable gardening. 876 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:07.400 In fact, you know I mentioned that what we control, 877 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:11.559 we're at this big intersection where we're killing existing weeds 878 00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.119 or we're preventing soon to come weeds, all in the 879 00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:17.320 same month. We got all of that happening right now. 880 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.719 When you look at vegetable gardening, we have a spring 881 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:24.480 what should we call it, a traffic jam in the 882 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:28.880 vegetable garden. And that is when all our cool season 883 00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:36.599 vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, carrots, things like 884 00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.960 spinach and lettuce and so on. The cool season vegetables 885 00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:45.159 they're going to be reaching harvest as we get here, 886 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:49.400 whether they already are reaching harvest, but in February and 887 00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:52.000 March and even a little bit in April, some of 888 00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.280 those are still going and reaching harvest. But our warm 889 00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:58.840 season vegetables need to go in when the last frostate occurs. 890 00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:02.039 And the last time I checked did the again research 891 00:49:02.199 --> 00:49:06.679 over a number of years of weather data. February eighth 892 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:12.320 was the last average freeze date at Hobby. March first 893 00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:16.719 was the last average freeze date at Bush Intercontinental. Did 894 00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:19.239 you how far apart those are? So to say the 895 00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:21.719 last freeze date in Houston on average is such and 896 00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:23.480 such date. What's where in Houston? 897 00:49:23.679 --> 00:49:23.840 You know? 898 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:27.920 Is it in Sugarland? Is it in Webster? Is it 899 00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.519 up in Gonro. I mean there's a huge difference, but 900 00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.280 just in the just the Houston itself. February the eighth 901 00:49:35.639 --> 00:49:42.960 at Hobby, March the first at Intercontinental. Now, average average 902 00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.800 is a misleading idea. If you stick one foot in 903 00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:48.719 boiling water and one foot in ice water on the average, 904 00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:54.199 you're comfortable. I love saying that. The point is that 905 00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.320 we never have an average year. It's always gonna you know, 906 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:02.679 I say February eighth for airport, Well, it's never gonna 907 00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:05.239 be February eighth, hardly. I mean, it's gonna be the 908 00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:08.880 last freeze date. Maybe January first at Hobby. Some years 909 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.920 it may you may have a freeze halfway into March 910 00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:15.440 at Hobby. Okay, So that the average just gives you 911 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.840 an idea what to go for. Then you decide how 912 00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:21.440 conservative do you want to be. You know, if you 913 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.280 like to run with scissors and live wild, well, then 914 00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:26.679 plant whenever you want and good luck, and you can 915 00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:30.440 just replant if it freezes. If you are super conservative, 916 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:33.239 the kind of guy who wears a belt and suspenders 917 00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:36.519 just in case, well then you're gonna want to look 918 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:39.960 at those averages and even go a little later than them. 919 00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:41.840 And when you put things in, but don't wait too long, 920 00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:44.239 because when it comes to vegetables, we on narrow window 921 00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:47.039 and spring to make hay. Well the sunshines, as they 922 00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:50.000 put it, because when it gets too hot, a lot 923 00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.679 of our vegetables play out and don't want to produce. 924 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:54.840 Let's head out the phones. We're going to go to 925 00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:59.039 Deer Park now and we're going to talk to Kim. Hello, Kim, 926 00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:00.360 welcome to garden Mine. 927 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:02.400 Hi, how are you. 928 00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:03.960 Well? 929 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:06.760 I'm doing great. How can we help you today? 930 00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:10.719 Well, I just sent you some pictures of what I 931 00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:14.760 believe to be a fungus that is growing in our grass. 932 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:20.559 We used to have three big old oak trees in 933 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:23.079 our backyard that we cut down about eight years ago, 934 00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:29.159 and since then we have these really tough, hard to 935 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:32.519 pull out kind of like it almost like a mushroom 936 00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:33.639 at times. 937 00:51:33.760 --> 00:51:37.440 But it's hard, and they're they're they. 938 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.199 Get entwined in the grass and and now they're so 939 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:43.719 plentiful that we're kind of tripping over them sometimes when 940 00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.360 we're mowing or walking in the yard. Would love to 941 00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:48.480 get rid of them. 942 00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:52.239 Okay, uh, well, uh, the good news is they're not 943 00:51:52.679 --> 00:51:57.119 they're not a problem to worry about disease wise. Okay, 944 00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:59.159 we're seeing and for those of you listening who aren't 945 00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:01.719 looking at the pictures, I see these are These are 946 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:05.000 called shelf fungi. And if you were to look at 947 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:08.039 a log in the forest laying on the ground, they're 948 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:10.679 the kind that grow flat straight out, and they have 949 00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:13.400 little stripes through them like they're you know how like 950 00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:18.280 a like a dartboard has consectric circles going out on it. 951 00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:21.400 They look sort of like that coming out from the wood. 952 00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.239 There's there's those little changes in color going out. That's 953 00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:28.519 a shelf fungi. It's a decomposer fungi. So its job 954 00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:31.360 in nature is to turn wood back into great dirt. 955 00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:32.119 Uh. 956 00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:35.239 And so where there was a little wood, that's why 957 00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:37.400 you see them sticking up. There's a little wood near 958 00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.960 the surface there. Maybe it was a root from a 959 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.119 tree that you cut, maybe it's a stump itself, but anyway, 960 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:48.159 that's just part of the decomposing process. They will go 961 00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:51.199 away as that would decomposees. Now, if you wanted to 962 00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:54.119 go in there, you could take a grubbing hoe and 963 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.599 just hit kind of come in horizontally like just below them, 964 00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:00.760 and pop them loose and kind of pull them out. 965 00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:02.800 We're not talking about digging a hole. We're just talking 966 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:06.840 about making a couple of chops not downward, but kind 967 00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:10.360 of down and mostly inward underneath them to pop them 968 00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:12.320 out of there and get that chunk of wood out 969 00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:14.079 of there. That's just part of nature. 970 00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:16.599 Yeah, okay, that's kind of what I thought. 971 00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:20.320 Yeah. Yeah, well, I'm glad you sent me the pictures 972 00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.840 because if you had tried to describe them, we probably 973 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:24.400 wouldn't have been picturing the same thing. 974 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:28.639 Right, So in several years we'll have some really good 975 00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:30.880 soil after it all decomposed. 976 00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:38.320 Yeah, you know, nature is constantly building soil. It is. Yes, 977 00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:41.440 as wood decomposes away, it becomes rich soil. The forest 978 00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:44.360 floor is the rich soil. And the way it got 979 00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:45.920 that way wasn't because we went through it with the 980 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:50.119 rotor to learn fertilizers and compost bags. It's because it's 981 00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.519 dropping leaves on the ground and they're rotting, and the 982 00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:55.400 roots live and die and slough off and rot. And 983 00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:58.440 in your yard, your grass root, each root on your 984 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:01.440 grass in your lawn, every single route lives about a 985 00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:04.239 year and then it dies and all of the organic 986 00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:06.840 matter of that root decomposes into the soil. So with 987 00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:10.320 every year that goes by, your soil is getting looser 988 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:13.199 and richer if you have a healthy grass stand So yeah, 989 00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:14.719 nature knows how to build soil. 990 00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:17.840 All right, Well, I thank you so much. 991 00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:22.320 Thank you for the call and for the pictures. Good 992 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:25.159 to help. All right, and got there, And now now 993 00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:27.280 you and I can go and worry about big problems 994 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:30.440 like world peace or whatever. We can check us off 995 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:39.280 of us to worry about. Thanks Kim, all right, ay bye. Yeah, 996 00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:42.800 nature knows how to build soil. You know, in the 997 00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:49.880 spring we see this a lot. But the types of 998 00:54:50.119 --> 00:54:55.280 decomposers that get on molts are really interesting too. Sometimes 999 00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:58.480 you have this nice woodchip mults bed or not woodchip, 1000 00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:01.119 bark chip, whatever kind you got, it doesn't matter, and 1001 00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:04.440 you look at it and it looks like scrambled eggs. 1002 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.639 Somebody dumped a plate of scrambled eggs on top. That 1003 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:13.679 is a decomposer fungi. Isn't that cool? And it goes away. 1004 00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:16.760 It goes away. You got in your yard and you 1005 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:19.960 look at those rings of mushrooms. Have you ever seen that? 1006 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.559 They call them fairy rings. All of a sudden, here's 1007 00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:26.079 this circle of mushrooms that pops up. Why and why 1008 00:55:26.119 --> 00:55:28.840 are they in a circle? What would cause that? Well, 1009 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:33.199 here's what causes it. A decomposer fungi starts to send 1010 00:55:33.239 --> 00:55:37.079 it's my celia, that's the fancy word of the day. 1011 00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:42.199 Decomposing through all the thatch of your yard. And it goes. 1012 00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:44.159 It lives for a certain amount of time and then 1013 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:46.079 it could be a change in the weather or just 1014 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:50.079 the maturing of it. It sends up its fruiting bodies 1015 00:55:50.199 --> 00:55:52.800 and that's mushrooms. And so you get this circle. Just 1016 00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:54.719 like if you put a match in your if you 1017 00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:56.599 had dragrass and you put a match in it, you 1018 00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:58.719 know how that fire would burn out. That's what that 1019 00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:02.159 fungi is doing, composing that that and then here comes mushrooms. 1020 00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:03.920 Then go up further and do another and do another 1021 00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:06.800 circle of it too. That is some pretty cool stuff 1022 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:12.039 right there. Anyway, you get the idea, if you live 1023 00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:14.960 in Kingwood, you are a fortunate person because you've got 1024 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:19.360 both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Centers right out there. 1025 00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:22.159 So that whole region Kingwood, humbold A Tesca Seed to Porter, 1026 00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.760 New Caney Valley Ranch, that that whole area out there 1027 00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:28.960 is served by these two awesome nurseries. Both of them 1028 00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:31.320 are open seven days a week. Warrens is on North 1029 00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:35.000 Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. And 1030 00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:37.039 when you go there, you're going to find the products 1031 00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:39.880 I recommend on garden Line like microlife and nitrofoss and 1032 00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:45.800 Nelson Turf Star, like heirloom soils, Nelson's plant food canisters 1033 00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:49.960 out there, Mosquito dunks and other products you hear me 1034 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.199 talk about are going to be carried out there. At 1035 00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:54.079 those garden centers. You're always going to find a good 1036 00:56:54.119 --> 00:56:56.840 stock of edgies and herbs. Citrus and fruit are in 1037 00:56:56.960 --> 00:57:01.119 right now, Roses are in right now, beautiful native plants. 1038 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:03.400 They have nice little greenhouse too where you can see 1039 00:57:03.400 --> 00:57:07.840 some plants. At Warn southern gardens. They can even design 1040 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:11.719 and make potted containers for you. You pick a container, 1041 00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:13.960 you pick some plants, they put it together. They have 1042 00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:16.960 full landscaping services for that area. Do you need to 1043 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:19.840 do something in your landscape, we'll talk to them. 1044 00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:20.159 You know. 1045 00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.079 They got the shrubs and trees there on site. They 1046 00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:23.719 can come out and do some of that work for 1047 00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:26.519 you if you want. And when you're at Kingwoich, I 1048 00:57:26.559 --> 00:57:30.400 got that gift shop there. It is absolutely amazing. They 1049 00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:34.719 just revamped it through the cool season and they are 1050 00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:40.519 creating a really nice new revamped gift shop. Clean got 1051 00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:43.280 some of the new products that are coming in. All right, 1052 00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:44.800 what's time for me to take a little break here. 1053 00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:51.960 Welcome back to the garden line, folks. We are here 1054 00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:56.719 to help you have success and to enjoy your garden more. 1055 00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:00.320 Gardening is the greatest hop there. 1056 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:01.000 It really is. 1057 00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:03.639 It's one of the number one hobbies and it gives 1058 00:58:03.679 --> 00:58:07.719 you things that very few other hobbies can do. For example, 1059 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:14.239 health benefits, mental health benefits and physical health benefits both 1060 00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:18.639 come from gardening. They can now it can stress you 1061 00:58:18.719 --> 00:58:20.960 if you if you let it, if you worry about 1062 00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:24.199 it and don't do things right, you know, but we're 1063 00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:27.039 here to help you have success. How can we help 1064 00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:29.639 you take it up a notch or how about take 1065 00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:32.960 it up ten notches because gardening is just too much 1066 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.920 fun to let it slip by and not enjoy it. 1067 00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:38.880 And I know, I know, we got these out there. 1068 00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:41.199 I was talking to by the other day. They've got 1069 00:58:41.519 --> 00:58:44.280 I call it plastic grass. It's we've moved past plastic 1070 00:58:44.320 --> 00:58:46.840 to better material. They are plastic grass in their yard 1071 00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:49.480 and here we are talking about that and whatnot. And 1072 00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:50.880 it makes me want to go out and get a 1073 00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:53.280 bunch of plastic weeds at night and go in like 1074 00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:56.000 a ninja and superglow them into their yard and deal 1075 00:58:56.039 --> 00:59:00.440 with that. But anyway, aside from the horticultural to terrorism, 1076 00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:02.840 it's a lot of fun. You know. Do you realize 1077 00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:07.320 your what your lawn contributes in terms of environmental benefits? 1078 00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:11.039 It number one, it protects the soil and prevents soil erosion. 1079 00:59:11.119 --> 00:59:13.079 That's one thing it does. Now, if it's a healthy 1080 00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:15.960 lin it does. If it's all dirt, you know, then 1081 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:18.159 it's not doing as good a job at that. It 1082 00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:22.079 moderates soil temperature. They can actually tell you and measure 1083 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:26.159 the term the number of bt us that a soil 1084 00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:30.039 that a good healthy lawn provides in terms of cooling. 1085 00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:33.639 If you look at a hard scape, even even plastic grass, 1086 00:59:33.679 --> 00:59:36.920 even a sidewalk, or certainly an asphalt members a kid 1087 00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:41.480 running barefoot across an asphalt in the summer not for long. Well, 1088 00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:45.559 lawns cool. They are a plant, so they're releasing water. 1089 00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:49.880 They are transpiring water. That's a cooling thing, okay, and 1090 00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:54.639 so that effect of that loss of water, it cools significantly. 1091 00:59:54.679 --> 00:59:57.360 It makes a much more cooler. Trees do the same thing. 1092 00:59:57.400 --> 00:59:59.880 Of course they shade you, but they're also doing a 1093 01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:03.320 cooling effect in the atmosphere is they release water. And 1094 01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:07.519 there's many benefits that are environmental that plants provide us 1095 01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:09.800 as well. All right, well that's just a little soapbox, 1096 01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:13.960 but yes, that's going on out there. By the way, 1097 01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:18.599 if you haven't joined ACEH Rewards, you really need to. 1098 01:00:18.719 --> 01:00:22.480 ACEH Rewards is a great program. ACEH Rewards. You sign 1099 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:24.320 up for it. It's painless. You don't even have to 1100 01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:27.000 carry the cart around if you don't want to, but 1101 01:00:27.800 --> 01:00:29.440 you can go in. Just give me a phone number 1102 01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:31.440 and they put it in when you check out, and 1103 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:34.760 that counts toward your rewards, and it builds up and 1104 01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:37.960 it matters. It also matters in other ways. For example, 1105 01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:40.039 let's see, you buy a barbecue grill at a lot 1106 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:42.639 of ace hardware stores. If you're an ASH Rewards member, 1107 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.519 they're going to assemble it. They will offer to assemble 1108 01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:48.440 it and deliver it right to your home. Now that 1109 01:00:48.639 --> 01:00:51.920 is amazing. And boy does Acever have barbecue grills. They've 1110 01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:55.079 got Traeger and Rectec and Big Green Egg and Weber 1111 01:00:55.119 --> 01:01:00.119 and those are some Cadillac stuff as well as all 1112 01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:03.920 the supplies you need. Right now, in my garage, I'm 1113 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.679 doing another revamp I've been. I'm always having to clean 1114 01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:10.280 it up. Have you ever noticed how you know, flat 1115 01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:14.440 spaces in your house tend to collect clutter. My garage 1116 01:01:14.559 --> 01:01:17.159 and yours two tends to get full. You get it 1117 01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:19.119 all cleaned out and beautiful and pristine, you want to 1118 01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:20.760 take a picture of it, and next thing you know, 1119 01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:23.199 you're having to turn sideways to get from the car 1120 01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:26.000 to the front door to the garage door to walk out, 1121 01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:28.920 walk in the house because it's so full of stuff. Well, 1122 01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:31.440 you need some bends, you need some shelving. Ace has 1123 01:01:31.480 --> 01:01:35.239 got you covered. Is your outdoor garbage can on wheels. 1124 01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:38.639 Is it looking bade, you know, wearing out? How about 1125 01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:42.880 a new rubber made thirty two gallon garbage can on 1126 01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:47.559 wheels for twenty six ninety nine. That's Ace Hardware. They 1127 01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:50.159 got a still tremor sale going on right now, thirty 1128 01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:55.840 dollars off starting this weekend. They also have garden pruners 1129 01:01:55.960 --> 01:01:58.000 power puners. You know, you buy one and you get 1130 01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:00.320 a free battery for it. And if you you haven't 1131 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:02.360 seen those, go to as show me show me your 1132 01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:05.039 power garden printers. I want to see that. Let them 1133 01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:07.400 show you that it is really really cool. Now there's 1134 01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:10.480 Ace Hardware All Seasons up in Willis. And by the way, 1135 01:02:10.519 --> 01:02:12.559 I'm going to be at All Seasons Hardware and Willis 1136 01:02:12.559 --> 01:02:16.800 on February the twenty second. What is that three one two, 1137 01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:20.840 three weekends or three saturdays from yesterday, So put that 1138 01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:23.800 on your calendar. I hope you come see me. Cyprus Hardware, 1139 01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:28.159 Ace Hardware and up in Porter j and r Ace Hardware. 1140 01:02:28.199 --> 01:02:31.039 I'll be there in March and then Kilgore Lumber down 1141 01:02:31.079 --> 01:02:34.400 in clear Lake. Lots of great Ace Hardware stores in 1142 01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:37.559 our area. If you haven't been in one, you need 1143 01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:41.920 to go because this isn't your father's hardware store or 1144 01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:45.800 your grandfather's hardware store like the old o'smobile commercial used 1145 01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:49.639 to say. It has all of that stuff. It still 1146 01:02:49.719 --> 01:02:52.599 has the old time service, and it still has the 1147 01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:56.039 great selection, but it has a whole lot more Ace. 1148 01:02:56.760 --> 01:03:00.199 ACE is a hardware store on steroids. I mean it 1149 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:02.920 is amazing the kinds of things that they have there now, 1150 01:03:03.079 --> 01:03:05.119 just you know, like power tools, Like I say, you 1151 01:03:05.559 --> 01:03:09.119 have still nuts, I said, still a well ago, what's 1152 01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:11.599 the one I'm trying to think of? Uh, any kind 1153 01:03:11.639 --> 01:03:13.880 of the big categories of power tools. They may have 1154 01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:17.079 a whole section, uh for that particular thing. I have 1155 01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:19.559 d Walt tools. Well, Ace stores that you've got a 1156 01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:22.199 whole section, you know, all the du Wault power tools 1157 01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:23.000 and things. 1158 01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:26.599 Pretty cool stuff. You're listening to Garden Line. 1159 01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:29.719 I phone number here is seven to one three two 1160 01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:32.039 one two k t r H seven one three two 1161 01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:34.039 one two k t r H. Give me a call. 1162 01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:37.440 Let's talk about the things that are of interest to you. 1163 01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:38.199 Uh. 1164 01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:43.480 If you've got outdoor metal equipment or ornament, you know, 1165 01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:48.000 like those those metal iron fixtures that hang on the 1166 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:50.960 wall for decoration. Those kinds of things uh. The uh 1167 01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:53.679 the metal chairs that have the cushions in them, but 1168 01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:56.480 basically the chairs metal bit the cushions and in time 1169 01:03:56.519 --> 01:03:59.599 those start to rust, they start to chip and lose 1170 01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:02.239 their coats and things like that. Maybe you've got one 1171 01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:04.719 of those old time remember the old time chairs they 1172 01:04:04.760 --> 01:04:06.639 were they had a metal back and a metal seat 1173 01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:09.159 and then a curved leg that kind of went forward 1174 01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:12.039 down and came underneath you. Those you could sort of 1175 01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:14.280 rock in them because they had a springiness to them. 1176 01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:17.880 How about having one of those that is like brand new. 1177 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:20.840 Maybe we have a stool in our house that was metal, 1178 01:04:20.880 --> 01:04:24.480 old time metal stool. Uh, and they start to russ, 1179 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:28.440 they start to have issues. Houston powder Coders one of 1180 01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:31.760 our new sponsor newest sponsors is the biggest powder coder 1181 01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:35.239 in the reason and they, I mean, this is a 1182 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:38.679 big operation and they can do a real quick turnaround 1183 01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:40.840 on quotes for you. All you got to do is 1184 01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:43.559 give me a call two eight one six seven six 1185 01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:47.440 thirty eight eighty eight. They can do some minor finishing 1186 01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:50.400 and repair. Maybe need a little weld to, you know, 1187 01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:53.360 stick something back together that's come loose. But they'll do 1188 01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:57.519 premium coatings on cast iron on wrought iron on aluminum 1189 01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:01.599 patio furniture. I've got an old bake shelf outdoors that 1190 01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:04.119 is starting to look pretty bad, and we stuck it 1191 01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:06.239 out there to stick plants on. They could do a 1192 01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:09.639 coating on that kind of thing as well. One hundred 1193 01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:12.639 plus colors, I'm telling you, any color. I saw something 1194 01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:14.880 in their shop and I thought, ooh, that's an old 1195 01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.599 iron rustic. I like that, has that been coated? You're 1196 01:05:17.639 --> 01:05:19.039 going to coat that? And they go, no, it has 1197 01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:21.199 been coated. I walked up to it and it was 1198 01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:24.840 a coating that looked like the old iron. But do 1199 01:05:24.880 --> 01:05:28.599 you want red or blue or one hundred different colors 1200 01:05:28.639 --> 01:05:31.760 to choose from. They'll do fixing the slings and the 1201 01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:34.039 straps and things. You just need to go go check 1202 01:05:34.039 --> 01:05:39.000 them out at Houston Powder Coats Houston Powdercoats dot com 1203 01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:42.960 two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight. 1204 01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:46.000 And if you live as far as this radio signal 1205 01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:49.559 goes almost to San Antonio and Austin employees wherever you 1206 01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:52.960 live and hear this, they service your area too. They 1207 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:55.199 just talk to them and they'll tell you about how 1208 01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:57.800 this works, and it is pretty cool. It was time 1209 01:05:57.840 --> 01:05:59.840 for me to take a little break and I'll be 1210 01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:02.480 right back with your phone calls at seven one three 1211 01:06:02.840 --> 01:06:08.039 two one two KTRH. Boy, I haven't heard that in 1212 01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:13.639 a while. All right, folks, we're back on guardline. Good 1213 01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:17.280 have you with us. I was talking about earlier. We're 1214 01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:20.639 going to be fertilizing our lawns soon. That's coming up. 1215 01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:23.679 It's on the schedule. But I want to remind you 1216 01:06:24.039 --> 01:06:27.079 that you can do azmite at any time. Really, I 1217 01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:31.039 mean it. It is not a it's a nutrients. You 1218 01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:34.800 could call it a fertilizer, but it's not the standard nitrogen, phosphorus, 1219 01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:37.639 potassium that we put on it certain amounts of time 1220 01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:41.119 according to plant growth. We're putting azamite down to build 1221 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:45.079 the soil bank account with trace minerals. There's seventy seven 1222 01:06:45.159 --> 01:06:50.000 known trace elementary micronutrients in azamite. It's a volcanic ash 1223 01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:54.360 and freshwater mineral mind substance down to the ground. Now 1224 01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:58.440 there there's a concept called Lee bigs Baryl Lee bigs barrel. 1225 01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:00.639 It's a law of Minimus. Here's what it means. Imagine 1226 01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:03.320 a barrel with those staves coming up, and you cut 1227 01:07:03.360 --> 01:07:06.239 off different staves at different heights. Right, one is a 1228 01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:08.599 full of top. One's halfway once a quarter of the way. 1229 01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:11.239 How much water can you put in the barrel. You 1230 01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:14.480 can only fill it to the lowest stave and then 1231 01:07:14.519 --> 01:07:18.199 it runs out. That's the concept of Liebig's barrel. That's 1232 01:07:18.239 --> 01:07:20.400 the concept of the law of the minimums. If you've 1233 01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:23.519 got some trace mineral that's limited, even just one little 1234 01:07:23.559 --> 01:07:27.920 tiny trace mineral, it's limited. That limits the production the 1235 01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:31.000 optimum growth of that particular plant, whether it's a lawn 1236 01:07:31.119 --> 01:07:34.760 or whatever. Asmite is a trace mineral supplement. A forty 1237 01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:38.079 forty four pound bag covers six to twelve thousand square feet. 1238 01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:40.239 If you've got a vegetable garden, about ten pounds per 1239 01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:42.639 thousand square feet. You can do it anytime of the 1240 01:07:42.719 --> 01:07:44.719 year you want to do it. If you want more information, 1241 01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:49.199 just go to azimite Texas dot com. I'm going to 1242 01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:51.000 head out now on the phones and we're going to 1243 01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:53.639 talk to Jerry and West Houston. Hey Jerry, welcome to 1244 01:07:53.679 --> 01:07:54.159 guard Line. 1245 01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:56.280 Hey Morner, how are you. 1246 01:07:57.880 --> 01:08:00.440 I'm well, Thank you well. 1247 01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:04.840 I got a little something here. My daughter got a 1248 01:08:04.920 --> 01:08:08.320 banana plant tree. I supposed to have blue bananas and 1249 01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:10.199 taste like ice. 1250 01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:10.480 Cream. 1251 01:08:11.119 --> 01:08:13.000 She don't have a green thumb, so I put it 1252 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:16.279 in my yard. She wants to see what the fruit 1253 01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:20.640 looks like. But anyway, because of the freezing temperatures, well, 1254 01:08:21.079 --> 01:08:25.520 the first year that banana plant just skyrocket is probably 1255 01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:29.039 it was about fifteen feet tall with about five little puffs, 1256 01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:32.279 but the freeze took care of that. I was just wondering, 1257 01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:35.439 I know, to cut it back, but how far back 1258 01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:37.760 do I cut it back? Do I leave a four 1259 01:08:37.800 --> 01:08:40.359 foot trunk or do I leave it cut it at 1260 01:08:40.399 --> 01:08:43.159 the base because it's about a ten foot diameter trunk 1261 01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:46.359 at the base and all right, puffs. 1262 01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:46.119 So. 1263 01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:53.319 Gotcha. So bananas are technically they're an herbaceous plant as 1264 01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:55.000 opposed to you know, we think of them as a tree. 1265 01:08:55.079 --> 01:08:56.800 We call them trees because they grow up like that. 1266 01:08:56.800 --> 01:09:00.960 They have a trunk. But that stem the degree that 1267 01:09:01.039 --> 01:09:03.800 it freezes down, it tells you whether you're going to 1268 01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:05.359 have a chance to make fruit on it or not. 1269 01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:07.000 So if it goes all the way to the ground, 1270 01:09:07.439 --> 01:09:09.680 the pups just take over. I mean, your banana can 1271 01:09:09.680 --> 01:09:11.359 turn to mush all the way to the ground, and 1272 01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:13.239 it's going to re sprout out at the base with 1273 01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:16.720 little pups. Like you're describing. If you can save some 1274 01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:19.680 of that trunk, what's going to happen is the new 1275 01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:23.039 growth is going to come unfurling out of the center 1276 01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:26.119 of that stumped off trunk at whatever height you cut 1277 01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.840 it off if it's alive. So I wouldn't automatically cut 1278 01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:32.000 it to the ground. We need to see how far 1279 01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:33.760 back gets killed, because you don't want to cut it 1280 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:36.439 further back then you have to because you may still 1281 01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:38.520 get some foliage on it, and by the end of 1282 01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:41.000 the season it takes them a long time, many months 1283 01:09:41.039 --> 01:09:45.439 to be able to set bananas. But I would probably 1284 01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:47.680 just kind of feel it if it's mushy and dark, 1285 01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:49.680 or maybe cut it off a little bit and then 1286 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:52.279 look at it a little bit more. As much as 1287 01:09:52.319 --> 01:09:53.760 you can leave of that trunk. Leave it. 1288 01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:57.880 Yeah, Okay, well, I know it's warm enough this week, 1289 01:09:57.920 --> 01:10:00.159 but I'm tempted to cut it, but I think my 1290 01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:03.199 better good until they just to leave it alone for 1291 01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:05.119 a little while longer before you cut it back and 1292 01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:06.000 wait till March. 1293 01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:06.880 Yeah. 1294 01:10:07.520 --> 01:10:07.720 Yeah. 1295 01:10:07.880 --> 01:10:11.199 The roll on post freeze damaged decisions is learned to 1296 01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:13.319 live with ugly And I think you got it there, 1297 01:10:13.399 --> 01:10:16.520 so thank you. Jerry I appreciate that call. Good luck, 1298 01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:19.840 good luck with that banana. Appreciate that. Have you been 1299 01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:22.760 to Buchanans Naty Plants in the Heights. That is an 1300 01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:26.800 awesome garden center. There's always something going on at Buchanans. 1301 01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:30.279 I mean, they have educational programs that are outstanding. They 1302 01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:33.920 are like the coming up here well actually today from 1303 01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:38.079 noon to one is something called the Gallantines Flower Workshop. 1304 01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:40.159 Just go to their website and you learn more about it. 1305 01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:46.279 Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. They have stone fruit 1306 01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:49.800 in lots of cool nectarines and apricots. Well, they have 1307 01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:54.000 everything in you know. The house plant greenhouse is gorgeous, beautiful, 1308 01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:59.159 certainly a well prepared section of native plants, a well 1309 01:10:59.199 --> 01:11:03.840 prepared section of shade tree plants, beautiful vines like the clemitists. 1310 01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:06.199 We don't we don't plant clemitis enough in a nice 1311 01:11:06.239 --> 01:11:08.920 area of the morning sun and afternoon shade ultra roots. 1312 01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:11.800 It does well here. Buganis can tell you all about that. 1313 01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:14.439 They're experts on this. Sign up for the newsletter if 1314 01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:18.079 Buchanan's Plants dot com. We're now going to go to 1315 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:21.720 Marty in Fairfield. Hey Marty, Welcome to garden Line. 1316 01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:23.800 Good morning Skip. 1317 01:11:24.319 --> 01:11:29.279 I have a blueberry, a self pollinating blueberry from arborgate, 1318 01:11:29.479 --> 01:11:31.880 and I've had it in a plot for years. It 1319 01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:35.800 just hadn't done anything since the first year. I was 1320 01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:38.560 going to think about finding somewhere to put it in 1321 01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:44.840 my yard garden, okay, and don't know what exactly, how 1322 01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:48.920 or when or what I need ye to do to 1323 01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:49.520 do that. 1324 01:11:49.640 --> 01:11:50.239 Can you help me? 1325 01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:55.039 Okay? Is it not growing or is it just not producing? 1326 01:11:55.319 --> 01:11:57.840 Or what is the symptom you're seeing on the thing? 1327 01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:03.279 Well, I think it's been water logged basically. Okay, I 1328 01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:08.159 haven't been I haven't been able to switch out the soil, Okay, So. 1329 01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:10.199 What you want to do is you want to create 1330 01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:14.000 an acidic soil for it. Now, there are soil mixes. 1331 01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:16.479 You know, you're probably going to be looking at a 1332 01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:19.239 bulk delivery, a supersac or something you go to. Heirloom 1333 01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:22.960 soils go up to Nature's way resources. Both of them 1334 01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:27.079 have a soil blend for acidic loving plants. In the 1335 01:12:27.119 --> 01:12:29.840 old days, we just took sand and peat moss and 1336 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:34.159 mixed them together to create a blueberry bed. But you 1337 01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:37.359 know for your area that just get one of these 1338 01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:40.720 quality soils. Always use an acidic plant food, something for 1339 01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:45.039 acid living plants. And again most of our fertilizer people 1340 01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:47.680 can provide you with that. I know Microlife has one 1341 01:12:47.680 --> 01:12:50.119 in kind of a pink bag that's for acid loving plant. 1342 01:12:50.560 --> 01:12:53.680 Just always keep it on the acidic side. As much 1343 01:12:53.720 --> 01:12:56.640 as you can use rain water. If you've got a barrel, 1344 01:12:56.920 --> 01:13:00.640 use it. It's better than tapwater, especially for blueberries. They 1345 01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:02.680 don't like high pH water and they don't like buy 1346 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:05.680 carbonates in the water, which some of our water supplies have, 1347 01:13:06.479 --> 01:13:09.439 So that would be the secret, along with a lot 1348 01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:12.720 of sunshine. Blueberries will take some shade. But the more 1349 01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:15.039 shade you get, the less blueberries you're going to get 1350 01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:15.960 to eat. 1351 01:13:17.800 --> 01:13:21.199 And how tall if I I hate to take up 1352 01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:26.119 my veggie garden, but how how tall and how wide 1353 01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:30.439 would they actually get? Should I put it in my 1354 01:13:30.760 --> 01:13:31.479 veggie garden? 1355 01:13:32.760 --> 01:13:34.640 Do you know if it's a southern high bush or 1356 01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:36.039 a rabbit eye by chance? 1357 01:13:37.520 --> 01:13:41.199 Yeah, it's the pollinating one she has. 1358 01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:50.159 Okay, I think it's well, uh, Southern high rabitie rabbit eye. 1359 01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:53.520 They get pretty large. I've seen rabbit eyes important many 1360 01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:56.439 years ago. They were probably ten foot tall. Now, I 1361 01:13:56.479 --> 01:13:58.560 had rabbit eyes adam and a container, and I kept 1362 01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:01.520 kept them at about five feet tall, you know, so 1363 01:14:01.600 --> 01:14:04.560 that that can be done, But they do get larger 1364 01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:07.279 in time. What with a blueberry, you always want you 1365 01:14:07.319 --> 01:14:11.479 want to prune every year, removing the oldest canes, so 1366 01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:14.159 you're kind of on a five year renovation of the 1367 01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:18.680 whole bush schedule. And that also avoids getting really big. So, 1368 01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:21.159 you know, a cane after it's about five years, it's 1369 01:14:21.199 --> 01:14:23.520 not very productive. It's woody, it's a trunk, it's got 1370 01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:25.520 growth way up high. Cut it off at the ground 1371 01:14:25.560 --> 01:14:28.319 to get fresh new canes coming out, and I think 1372 01:14:28.359 --> 01:14:31.520 you'll keep the height a lot lower that way as well. 1373 01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:35.680 Oh okay, that may be the problem then, because I 1374 01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:37.880 don't I haven't been prune yet. 1375 01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:43.840 Yeah, so the oldest canes the fun all right, Marty, 1376 01:14:44.119 --> 01:14:44.520 thank you? 1377 01:14:45.000 --> 01:14:49.199 Wait, okay, takes a lot skip all right, bye bye. 1378 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:54.159 Appreciate that if you want a quality landscape job, I 1379 01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:57.239 mean something that is gorgeous. Pierscapes is the place to go. 1380 01:14:57.359 --> 01:15:01.800 Pierscapes is our preferred provider. Pescapes dot com is the website. 1381 01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:05.479 Go there and look at what they do. 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Terms apply. 1444 01:18:17.439 --> 01:18:21.960 Welcome to kat r h Garden Line with skimp Rickard's. 1445 01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:32.159 Shoes trim just watch him as well. 1446 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:52.359 Thanks to Sun. 1447 01:18:53.880 --> 01:18:56.479 Welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to guard Line. If 1448 01:18:56.520 --> 01:18:59.840 you've been with us this morning. We have got two 1449 01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:02.920 more hours. Let's see one two Yeah, two more hours 1450 01:19:02.960 --> 01:19:06.119 a show this morning. It's flying by as usually does. 1451 01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:08.399 But if you've got a question you'd like to ask 1452 01:19:08.479 --> 01:19:11.680 seven one three two one two k t RH, we'll 1453 01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:13.439 be happy to visit with you about that. 1454 01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:14.000 Uh. 1455 01:19:14.119 --> 01:19:17.520 Let's head on out to Spring, Texas and we are 1456 01:19:17.560 --> 01:19:21.399 going to visit with Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line. 1457 01:19:22.479 --> 01:19:24.960 Hi Skip, thanks for having me on your on your show. 1458 01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:27.000 Listen to you all the time, appreciate us to work. 1459 01:19:28.520 --> 01:19:28.880 Thank you. 1460 01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:32.960 So he can help well, I. 1461 01:19:32.920 --> 01:19:37.039 Sent you a couple photos on Friday. One was my 1462 01:19:37.119 --> 01:19:41.239 front yard looking for some advice to replace some box 1463 01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:44.319 woods with something that would give us a nice little 1464 01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:46.880 head along our sidewalk leading. 1465 01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:47.439 Out to the street. 1466 01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:52.279 I'm trying to grow some box woods there for two 1467 01:19:52.359 --> 01:19:54.560 years now, and I've replaced them a number of times. 1468 01:19:54.760 --> 01:19:57.520 I don't know, you know, I've done everything I can 1469 01:19:57.560 --> 01:19:59.439 think and listen to you a lot. Anyway, they just 1470 01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:02.239 keep dying and they're not growing worth a corn. So 1471 01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:04.760 I'm looking for something else that I can put out 1472 01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:07.720 there that's kind of fast growing, grow up to maybe 1473 01:20:07.840 --> 01:20:10.359 you know around thirty thirty six inches high, and I 1474 01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:12.199 can keep it trimmed like that. 1475 01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:15.840 Okay, yeah, you had that height, and when I looked 1476 01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:18.079 at it, my first thought was, that's pretty tall for 1477 01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:20.399 an area like that, because you as you're coming up 1478 01:20:20.479 --> 01:20:23.159 and you're seeing the yard and the beds and everything 1479 01:20:23.199 --> 01:20:26.960 around the house, you have a nice place. I seemed 1480 01:20:26.960 --> 01:20:29.439 a little on the high side. But the first thing 1481 01:20:29.479 --> 01:20:33.479 that came to mind was was dwarf yopon. And now 1482 01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:37.760 dwarfy opon generally doesn't get that tall. In time. It can, 1483 01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:42.039 but we usually keep it at about a two foot 1484 01:20:42.319 --> 01:20:44.560 a height somewhere and around two foot. It could be 1485 01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:46.399 a little higher than that though it will get up, 1486 01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:48.720 but that would be a good one. It's a native plan. 1487 01:20:48.840 --> 01:20:52.000 It does well here, you know, not hard to grow, 1488 01:20:52.159 --> 01:20:55.920 easy to do. Then the other things, there are some 1489 01:20:57.239 --> 01:21:02.359 very dwarf types of hollies. Yes, why a you. 1490 01:21:04.079 --> 01:21:04.439 Huh? 1491 01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:08.840 Why a you p o n hy au p o n. 1492 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:11.000 You have seen them a lot as you driven around, 1493 01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:13.359 maybe not even thought about what they are. But yopan 1494 01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:17.800 it's a pronounced jopon uh. It's compact. There's some different 1495 01:21:17.880 --> 01:21:20.800 varieties of it. You know, you're down there, or just 1496 01:21:21.239 --> 01:21:24.600 you throw a rock from where you live to Ma's nursery, 1497 01:21:24.680 --> 01:21:28.760 so they they're going to have dorothyopon there when you're 1498 01:21:28.840 --> 01:21:31.119 when you're at Moss, though, ask them, ask them what 1499 01:21:31.279 --> 01:21:33.680 else they carry. You know, all our garden centers carry 1500 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:36.079 a variety of different things, and I can't keep up 1501 01:21:36.079 --> 01:21:38.000 with every plant and every one of them. But they 1502 01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:43.000 may have another suggestion that is in their group of plants. 1503 01:21:43.039 --> 01:21:44.880 But that would be the one that I would say 1504 01:21:44.920 --> 01:21:47.920 would be dependable. Simple. If you want to share it 1505 01:21:47.960 --> 01:21:49.800 and make a box out of it, you can. If 1506 01:21:49.840 --> 01:21:52.079 you want to let it grow into a natural mound, 1507 01:21:52.680 --> 01:21:53.520 you can do that too. 1508 01:21:54.159 --> 01:21:54.279 Uh. 1509 01:21:54.359 --> 01:21:55.880 It's a pretty versatile. 1510 01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:58.319 Plant, okay. And two foot would be okay. 1511 01:21:58.439 --> 01:22:02.239 I recognize that thirty thirty six inches is kind of 1512 01:22:02.279 --> 01:22:03.760 high for that for that area. 1513 01:22:03.840 --> 01:22:06.680 So yeah, that that'd be that'd be great. I'll check 1514 01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:10.359 out my local nursery. Good stuff. 1515 01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:13.920 The other one was I sent you with some follow 1516 01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:18.479 up pictures of some grasses that I have grown in 1517 01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:22.000 my backyard. They came last year and I seem to 1518 01:22:22.039 --> 01:22:23.800 manage to get rid of them, I don't know, by 1519 01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:26.640 luck more than by skill, and now they're back with 1520 01:22:26.720 --> 01:22:30.880 a vengees this year. So there are these tufts of 1521 01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:34.319 grass and they're very shadow They come up very easily. 1522 01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:36.880 When you pull one up, you pull up a mount 1523 01:22:36.920 --> 01:22:39.800 of dirt with them. I sent you too far off 1524 01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:41.960 the photo, and I hope. 1525 01:22:41.720 --> 01:22:43.800 Might give you a better idea of what it is. 1526 01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:45.800 But they're right. 1527 01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:48.479 They're just kind of popping up everywhere in my backyard. 1528 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:52.560 Okay, looking at the photos, it looks to me like 1529 01:22:52.640 --> 01:22:58.880 that's called dove weed. Dove Weed is a it's a 1530 01:22:58.960 --> 01:23:02.119 shiny leaf, I don't want to say rubbery, but it's 1531 01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:05.680 a thick, thicker leaf than normal grass. Normal grass almost 1532 01:23:05.720 --> 01:23:08.840 has a dryish feel to it. Doveweed you feel like, 1533 01:23:08.920 --> 01:23:11.399 probably if you pulled it open, it has some juice 1534 01:23:11.439 --> 01:23:14.600 inside or something like that. I think you've got doveweed there, 1535 01:23:14.600 --> 01:23:18.600 and doveweed is You got different options. It's not easy 1536 01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:21.520 to kill. It likes warm weather. Typically it doesn't want 1537 01:23:21.520 --> 01:23:24.319 to start growing a lot until we get into May. 1538 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:27.279 But it seems to be hanging around now. If it 1539 01:23:27.359 --> 01:23:31.880 is doveweed, a product called Celsius would be one of 1540 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:35.760 your best bets. Celsius like the temperature. It's not cheap. 1541 01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:38.600 You buy little packets of it. Makes a gallon and 1542 01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:41.039 that'll go a long way and spray in the doveweed. 1543 01:23:41.800 --> 01:23:45.760 So that's one another option for doveweed if you don't 1544 01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:49.760 have a lot of it is a cinnamon based product 1545 01:23:50.279 --> 01:23:54.720 called Agralon, and it literally it's ground up cinnamon. When 1546 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:57.920 the doveweed is wet, you sprinkle that powder on there 1547 01:23:58.039 --> 01:24:00.560 and it will just turn it black. Now, we comes 1548 01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:02.880 from seed, it can bounce back out of the base 1549 01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:05.800 of the plant, so the sentiment approach may not be 1550 01:24:06.520 --> 01:24:09.720 as long lasting as you want, and if it's a 1551 01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:11.640 large area, can get a little pricey to do it 1552 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:15.199 that way. But the other option would be there. Nelson 1553 01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:20.640 has a Nelson Plant Food has a fertilizer called we Donator, 1554 01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:24.319 and we Donator has an ingredient in it that is 1555 01:24:24.359 --> 01:24:28.600 a post emergent herbicide that is effective to some degree, 1556 01:24:29.359 --> 01:24:34.960 pretty decent against doveweed. Okay, uh, not not as good 1557 01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:37.760 as celsius, but but but it's pretty good. And it's 1558 01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:40.279 if you got any other broad leaf weeds in your grass, 1559 01:24:40.319 --> 01:24:42.960 it'll control those two. You just want to follow a 1560 01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:45.680 volabel very carefully. You want to make sure your weeds 1561 01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:48.760 are wet so when you put it out the granules 1562 01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:52.119 you're putting out stick to those weeds. It won't this 1563 01:24:52.159 --> 01:24:54.960 stuff won't hurt your grass, but you want it to 1564 01:24:55.039 --> 01:24:57.520 stick to the weed leaves and start there. It's gonna 1565 01:24:57.560 --> 01:25:00.319 some's going to fall onto the ground. That's fine. But 1566 01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:03.840 a turf star we donator and it'll last. It'll feed 1567 01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:06.279 for about six months. It's a little early now to 1568 01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:09.159 be fertilizing. So if you don't do that a little 1569 01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:11.520 bit later, or maybe you try something now and you 1570 01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:14.319 still got some dove weed, then just try that weedonator 1571 01:25:14.359 --> 01:25:17.079 is an option. See how that works for you. It 1572 01:25:17.760 --> 01:25:20.640 from what I've seen in research, that ingredient in there 1573 01:25:20.640 --> 01:25:21.039 should do. 1574 01:25:21.119 --> 01:25:25.680 Okay, okay, and that dove d ov dove weed. 1575 01:25:26.239 --> 01:25:29.039 Yeah, d o v E. Yeah, it's it's not a 1576 01:25:29.079 --> 01:25:32.840 grass really, it's more kin to wandering jew than it 1577 01:25:32.920 --> 01:25:34.159 is to grass. 1578 01:25:34.600 --> 01:25:39.319 Oh I got that all righty, Well, thank you very much. Skip. 1579 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:41.560 I'll look into this and and. 1580 01:25:41.920 --> 01:25:44.319 Get out my dove weed back here, because it came 1581 01:25:44.399 --> 01:25:45.800 last year and it just seemed to kind of go 1582 01:25:45.840 --> 01:25:49.439 away with the heat maybe in the in the later spring. 1583 01:25:49.640 --> 01:25:52.560 But this year it's it's back early with a vengeance. 1584 01:25:52.600 --> 01:25:53.319 It's I got it. 1585 01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:57.159 Everywhere, all right, all right, so we'll just check that out. 1586 01:25:58.039 --> 01:26:00.600 You bet you now that? Yeah, that's a turf star 1587 01:26:00.680 --> 01:26:03.760 weedon eator that I was talking about there. It also 1588 01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:09.720 does a really good job of it has an effect 1589 01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:11.880 on your grass where you gress didn't grow up straight 1590 01:26:11.960 --> 01:26:13.680 up as much, or you're not mowing as much, but 1591 01:26:13.720 --> 01:26:17.159 it still spreads. Well. That's a growth regulator type of 1592 01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:19.920 effect in the weed nator. Kind of interesting the way 1593 01:26:19.960 --> 01:26:21.880 that works. All right, I got to run to a break. 1594 01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:24.079 Doug and Seabrook, you are first. When we come back, 1595 01:26:24.119 --> 01:26:30.199 Mike in the Heights you will be next. Alrighty, let's 1596 01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:33.039 get this going again here on garden Line. We're going 1597 01:26:33.079 --> 01:26:38.039 to run straight out here and talk to Doug in sky. Doug, 1598 01:26:38.199 --> 01:26:40.079 welcome to guarden Line, and thanks for hanging on. 1599 01:26:41.760 --> 01:26:42.640 Good morning, Skip. 1600 01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:44.720 I really appreciate your program. 1601 01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:46.680 Thank you. 1602 01:26:48.560 --> 01:26:49.399 I had a question. 1603 01:26:49.479 --> 01:26:53.960 I recently moved from the Dallas area and up there. 1604 01:26:54.119 --> 01:26:58.560 I would put potatoes in the ground on Valentine's Day. 1605 01:26:58.640 --> 01:27:01.000 That was kind of my marker to do it. I 1606 01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:03.439 was wondering when is the best time to do it 1607 01:27:03.600 --> 01:27:04.359 in this area? 1608 01:27:06.199 --> 01:27:08.279 Right now? Right now? 1609 01:27:08.319 --> 01:27:08.600 Okay? 1610 01:27:09.960 --> 01:27:12.319 Any you could do it on Valentine's Day here too 1611 01:27:12.359 --> 01:27:16.800 as well, if you like. But really the primetime in 1612 01:27:16.920 --> 01:27:19.960 general for this region is going to be the first 1613 01:27:19.960 --> 01:27:23.680 three weeks of February. That's the prime time. If you're 1614 01:27:23.720 --> 01:27:26.359 further Let's see, you were in Seabrooks, so yeah, you could. 1615 01:27:26.399 --> 01:27:28.520 You could go a little earlier even than now and 1616 01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:33.239 be fine, But that right now is the fast answer. 1617 01:27:34.960 --> 01:27:35.880 That's what I figured. 1618 01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:39.119 Just love being in this area and learning the new 1619 01:27:39.199 --> 01:27:41.199 ropes of the horticulture world here. 1620 01:27:42.199 --> 01:27:44.039 My second time, you grow a lot of. 1621 01:27:45.800 --> 01:27:46.960 I was gonna say, you can grow a lot of 1622 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:48.800 stuff down here you couldn't grow in Dallas. 1623 01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:51.039 That's true. 1624 01:27:51.239 --> 01:27:55.119 Yes, I'm really looking forward to redoing some of the 1625 01:27:55.239 --> 01:27:57.680 flower beds and growing some new stuff down here. 1626 01:27:59.039 --> 01:27:59.319 Good. 1627 01:28:01.359 --> 01:28:04.279 My second question is has to do with the lawn fungus. 1628 01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:07.479 That's new to me as well, and didn't have to 1629 01:28:07.479 --> 01:28:10.800 deal with that before. I treated it in the fall 1630 01:28:11.279 --> 01:28:16.800 and that worked, but it came back right before the 1631 01:28:17.159 --> 01:28:20.439 big freeze with the snow, and I was wondering when 1632 01:28:20.520 --> 01:28:24.680 should I put down that another treatment to deal with 1633 01:28:24.680 --> 01:28:26.840 those few places that it came back. 1634 01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:31.239 Describe to me the symptoms you were seeing on the lawn. 1635 01:28:32.840 --> 01:28:37.720 It's kind of a round area the size of a 1636 01:28:37.760 --> 01:28:38.560 small car. 1637 01:28:38.640 --> 01:28:40.279 In the big areas, are. 1638 01:28:40.079 --> 01:28:43.840 Are smaller like a little tabletop in other areas. 1639 01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:49.319 Gotcha, Okay, So that is called large patch or brown patch. 1640 01:28:49.359 --> 01:28:51.720 Brown patches the old name for it. We still use that, 1641 01:28:51.840 --> 01:28:55.800 but it's also called large patch. Now now that you're 1642 01:28:55.840 --> 01:28:58.239 in the area, what you need to do is bookmark 1643 01:28:58.399 --> 01:29:03.319 my website gardening with skip dot com, Gardening with skip 1644 01:29:03.359 --> 01:29:06.920 dot com on there. I've got two lawn schedules. One 1645 01:29:07.000 --> 01:29:10.640 is the lawn care schedule, mowing, watering, fertilizing, things like that. 1646 01:29:11.159 --> 01:29:15.319 The other is the lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. 1647 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:17.680 So if you go to the pest disease and we'd management, 1648 01:29:18.079 --> 01:29:21.479 you will see on there that in October you were 1649 01:29:21.640 --> 01:29:25.159 and first three weeks in November you're treating for brown 1650 01:29:25.239 --> 01:29:28.000 patch because that's when it typically would arrive. So had 1651 01:29:28.039 --> 01:29:31.640 you treated in October, the circles that you saw would 1652 01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:34.399 not have been able to develop. We also start treating 1653 01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:36.199 again in late January, and we can go all the 1654 01:29:36.199 --> 01:29:40.039 way through mid March if we want to. But that 1655 01:29:40.279 --> 01:29:43.960 is that this whole time is when we would see 1656 01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:48.159 the reappearance of the of the brown patch circles now 1657 01:29:48.239 --> 01:29:51.279 because our weather is so irregular. I mean we can 1658 01:29:51.359 --> 01:29:55.079 have warm days in January and whenever you have mild 1659 01:29:55.079 --> 01:29:58.560 temperatures and moisture, brown patch is going to pop up 1660 01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:02.279 the circles or potential going to pop up. So the 1661 01:30:02.319 --> 01:30:06.319 other things you want to do, Doug, is avoid overfertilizing, 1662 01:30:06.439 --> 01:30:10.000 especially late in the season. The fall fertilizing does not 1663 01:30:10.159 --> 01:30:13.920 need to be as much nitrogen compared to like some 1664 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:16.760 of the other numbers as we do during the growing season, 1665 01:30:17.279 --> 01:30:20.840 So hold off on the nitrogen. Avoid wetting the grass 1666 01:30:20.880 --> 01:30:22.920 more than you have to, and you shouldn't have to 1667 01:30:22.920 --> 01:30:27.000 water much in the cool season here, but wet conditions 1668 01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:31.319 continually wet high nitrogen that all predisposes your lawn to 1669 01:30:31.439 --> 01:30:36.479 that infection. So the combination of those cultural advice along 1670 01:30:36.520 --> 01:30:39.279 with the schedule that I have it's right there on 1671 01:30:39.359 --> 01:30:42.199 gardening with skip dot comics pre to download, print out 1672 01:30:42.199 --> 01:30:42.720 and everything. 1673 01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:45.600 Thanks for the helping. 1674 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:48.960 Right now, I can treat for fungus, is what you're saying. 1675 01:30:49.479 --> 01:30:52.199 You can. You can just follow that schedule on what 1676 01:30:52.279 --> 01:30:55.880 to use. Okay, all right, thank you, Sar, appreciate your call. 1677 01:30:56.680 --> 01:30:59.319 Let's see here We're going to go now to Mike 1678 01:30:59.520 --> 01:31:02.159 in the high Hello, Mike, welcome to garden Line. 1679 01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:07.000 Good morning. It's my first call. I wanted to call 1680 01:31:07.039 --> 01:31:11.199 and asked Yeah, I listened to you as I can. 1681 01:31:12.159 --> 01:31:14.479 I wanted to call and ask you about my desert rose. 1682 01:31:14.520 --> 01:31:16.720 It's a potted plant. I've had it about ten years, 1683 01:31:16.760 --> 01:31:20.239 so it's very durable, it seems in spite of me, 1684 01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:27.840 and it's it's really took that that storm hard and 1685 01:31:27.880 --> 01:31:31.720 the leaves became really wilted and yellow and brown, not 1686 01:31:31.800 --> 01:31:35.479 all of them, you know, sixty And I wonder do 1687 01:31:35.560 --> 01:31:36.359 I cut it back? 1688 01:31:36.439 --> 01:31:36.760 Do I? 1689 01:31:37.159 --> 01:31:38.960 You know, it's like I say, it's ten years old. 1690 01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:43.479 It's it's had vibrant colors for months on end much 1691 01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:46.399 of the year, it seems, and really pretty. And I 1692 01:31:46.439 --> 01:31:47.840 don't want to lose it. I don't want to do 1693 01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:48.439 the wrong thing. 1694 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:50.279 Yeah. 1695 01:31:50.319 --> 01:31:53.359 Well, if anywhere you like, if you had stem damage 1696 01:31:53.359 --> 01:31:55.920 and it's mushy or anything like that, that's not going 1697 01:31:56.000 --> 01:31:58.720 to come back alive again, So I could be removed. 1698 01:31:58.760 --> 01:32:01.239 I would wait and kind of let's see what it's 1699 01:32:01.279 --> 01:32:01.760 gonna do. 1700 01:32:02.439 --> 01:32:02.560 Uh. 1701 01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:05.199 I like to be patient with plants and let them 1702 01:32:05.239 --> 01:32:07.920 tell me where to prone you know, we can scratch 1703 01:32:07.960 --> 01:32:10.960 them around and feel this stuff and try to decide 1704 01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:12.760 where to cut out. Or you could just wait and 1705 01:32:12.800 --> 01:32:16.239 when you see new growth, then something that's dead is dead, 1706 01:32:16.279 --> 01:32:18.199 and go ahead and remove it out of it. But 1707 01:32:18.800 --> 01:32:20.920 who knows, we'll see maybe that maybe that's going to 1708 01:32:20.960 --> 01:32:22.760 bounce right back and put new foliage on it. 1709 01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:26.560 Okay, all right, and maybe water it once a week 1710 01:32:26.640 --> 01:32:27.239 or so or. 1711 01:32:28.439 --> 01:32:31.239 Yeah, it needs water, but it doesn't need to be 1712 01:32:31.279 --> 01:32:34.960 wet all the time. It doesn't like poor drainage. Definitely 1713 01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:37.640 not poor drainage. So you shouldn't have to water it 1714 01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:40.840 a lot until the weather gets warmer than you're watering 1715 01:32:40.880 --> 01:32:42.920 a little bit more. But you know, right now, the 1716 01:32:42.960 --> 01:32:47.960 demands are almost nothing on that plant, right and so 1717 01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:50.560 so just just be careful that the worst thing you 1718 01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:51.439 can do is overwater. 1719 01:32:52.520 --> 01:32:56.239 Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm trying to about that. Well, Thank you, Skip, 1720 01:32:56.239 --> 01:32:56.880 I appreciate it. 1721 01:32:58.199 --> 01:33:01.199 Yes, sir, thanks for the call. I appreciate your call. 1722 01:33:01.800 --> 01:33:03.600 Let me ask you a question. Are you inserted in 1723 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:07.760 planning a rose this spring? This late winter and spring, 1724 01:33:07.840 --> 01:33:10.960 now's a great time to plant roses. What if I 1725 01:33:11.039 --> 01:33:13.880 told you you could go someplace and there are one 1726 01:33:13.960 --> 01:33:19.439 hundred and ninety three roughly different varieties to choose from. 1727 01:33:19.920 --> 01:33:23.520 That's RCW Nursery. That is the length of their rose 1728 01:33:23.600 --> 01:33:26.159 list of what they get in. Now, every day you wait, 1729 01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:30.279 there's roses going and varieties disappearing because they got bought out. 1730 01:33:30.760 --> 01:33:33.039 And so that you know that not one hundred and 1731 01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:35.359 three to pick from in March, I can guarantee you 1732 01:33:35.359 --> 01:33:39.119 that because they sell people go nuts on these roses. 1733 01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:42.680 But RCW is the garden center where about Way eight 1734 01:33:43.079 --> 01:33:46.760 comes together with Tomball Parkway, which is Highway two forty 1735 01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:50.399 nine northwest Houston, easy to get to. When you get 1736 01:33:50.439 --> 01:33:52.159 in there, you're have everything else. You know, they grow 1737 01:33:52.199 --> 01:33:54.520 their own trees and shrubs up in Plantersville, so they've 1738 01:33:54.520 --> 01:33:56.560 got one of the best selection of the trees and 1739 01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:59.079 shrubs that want to be here in our area. They 1740 01:33:59.119 --> 01:34:01.039 know what grows here. That's what they grow and that's 1741 01:34:01.079 --> 01:34:05.039 what they sell. You can buy smaller ones and planting yourself. 1742 01:34:05.079 --> 01:34:07.159 You can have RCW come out and plant them. So 1743 01:34:07.159 --> 01:34:09.159 they got some big ones. Unless you want to put 1744 01:34:09.159 --> 01:34:12.159 your chiropractice kids through college, you need you need to 1745 01:34:12.279 --> 01:34:14.960 let them do that. But they've got it all. R 1746 01:34:15.199 --> 01:34:22.600 cwnurseries dot com. Right now rows amazing. Can you imagine 1747 01:34:22.640 --> 01:34:25.960 a place that orders in I need three different varieties 1748 01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:30.319 of roses? That's RCW. Let's go out. Uh here, what 1749 01:34:30.359 --> 01:34:32.079 are we looking at on tower? We're good on time. 1750 01:34:32.279 --> 01:34:35.079 We're gonna go to Tomball and talk to John. Hey, John, 1751 01:34:35.239 --> 01:34:36.199 welcome to guard Line. 1752 01:34:37.880 --> 01:34:40.640 Want to skip right. A quick, easy question for you. 1753 01:34:41.760 --> 01:34:45.119 My daughter's planning some Sant Augustine grass because she's moving. 1754 01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:47.680 She wants to get things fixed up a little bit. 1755 01:34:47.720 --> 01:34:50.159 When's the best time to plant Saint Augustine? 1756 01:34:51.600 --> 01:34:55.279 Well, Saint Augustine. Really, all of our warm season grasses, 1757 01:34:55.439 --> 01:34:57.760 they're not really wanting to put out roots right now 1758 01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:00.560 much a little bit, but not much. But once it 1759 01:35:00.640 --> 01:35:03.520 starts to warm up a little bit, all the fresh 1760 01:35:03.600 --> 01:35:06.760 new roots system goes in. So when you're putting sawed out, 1761 01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:09.840 getting fresh roots in the ground. You can put sod 1762 01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:14.279 out every month of the year technically, but my least 1763 01:35:14.319 --> 01:35:16.520 favorite time is in the winter to put sod out, 1764 01:35:17.439 --> 01:35:19.720 just it's just not going to get the roots down 1765 01:35:19.800 --> 01:35:23.119 very fast. So if we can, if we can start 1766 01:35:23.159 --> 01:35:26.319 doing that in March, that would be okay. Starting doing 1767 01:35:26.359 --> 01:35:30.079 it in March April's even better. But if you you know, 1768 01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:31.640 like she's got to be out of there at the 1769 01:35:31.720 --> 01:35:33.880 end of February, we'll put something down on the ground, 1770 01:35:33.920 --> 01:35:36.199 get it watered in as best you can. You're not 1771 01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:39.000 gonna have to water as much or as often at 1772 01:35:39.000 --> 01:35:40.920 this time of year because the demands are so low. 1773 01:35:41.520 --> 01:35:43.760 But if you want the best looking lawn, wait a 1774 01:35:43.760 --> 01:35:44.439 little bit longer. 1775 01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:47.079 All right, thank you, Chip. 1776 01:35:48.359 --> 01:35:52.000 Yes, sir, thank you, appreciate that call. All right, folks, 1777 01:35:52.000 --> 01:35:54.279 we've got an open line here at Garden Line. It 1778 01:35:54.600 --> 01:35:57.159 cleaned it all out seven to one three two one 1779 01:35:57.279 --> 01:36:03.800 two kt RH seven one three two one two kt RH. 1780 01:36:03.840 --> 01:36:06.039 We love our feed stores here on Garden Line and 1781 01:36:06.199 --> 01:36:10.000 Spring Creek Feed up in Magnolia area. It's on twenty 1782 01:36:10.119 --> 01:36:12.800 nine seventy eight FM twenty nine seventy eight up in 1783 01:36:12.800 --> 01:36:15.119 the Magnoia area. It's just a few minutes away from 1784 01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:18.199 the Grand Parkway and Highway two forty nine, you know 1785 01:36:18.319 --> 01:36:23.039 that area. They carry the full line of the turf Star, 1786 01:36:23.239 --> 01:36:27.319 the Microlife, the nitroposs products for fertilizing your lawn. They 1787 01:36:27.359 --> 01:36:30.760 also have the products you need for controlling weeds or 1788 01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:33.840 dealing with diseases, or dealing with pests. They've got all 1789 01:36:33.880 --> 01:36:37.840 that excellent lawn, garden and even pond supplies for that matter. 1790 01:36:38.000 --> 01:36:40.720 Of course, they're a feed store, so livestock feed, pet 1791 01:36:40.760 --> 01:36:46.520 food like Victor by Victor and Purinea purina purina. Growing up, 1792 01:36:46.560 --> 01:36:49.279 I used to raise my livestock animals for the show 1793 01:36:49.359 --> 01:36:52.840 on Purina food. They got that there, and they also 1794 01:36:53.880 --> 01:36:57.560 perhaps most importantly of all, it is a wonderful You 1795 01:36:57.560 --> 01:36:58.960 walk in and you go, wait a minute, is this 1796 01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:01.760 a feed store, because there's all kinds of cool stuff 1797 01:37:01.800 --> 01:37:05.119 for the home and whatnot. But yes, it is absolutely 1798 01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:07.920 a feed store, and it's absolutely a garden supply store. 1799 01:37:08.520 --> 01:37:12.520 The friendly, courteous staff that greet you, that is it 1800 01:37:12.680 --> 01:37:14.399 just makes it a pleasure to go in there and 1801 01:37:14.439 --> 01:37:17.039 top if you're FFA or four h or military or 1802 01:37:17.039 --> 01:37:20.399 a senior citizen, there's discounts for you there. They will 1803 01:37:20.399 --> 01:37:23.359 special order products for you there, and they have a 1804 01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:27.119 delivery service at Spring Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM 1805 01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:33.239 twenty nine seventy eight twenty nine seventy eight. I love 1806 01:37:33.279 --> 01:37:36.760 going in there. I always I am amazed at the 1807 01:37:37.760 --> 01:37:40.880 various kinds of things that Boy, if you're into backyard chickens, too. 1808 01:37:40.920 --> 01:37:42.680 They've got you know, you can get everything from the 1809 01:37:42.680 --> 01:37:47.119 little feeders and the lights and waters and all the 1810 01:37:47.119 --> 01:37:50.279 supplies you need to have those backyard chickens. Backyard chickens 1811 01:37:50.319 --> 01:37:52.119 are cool. My daughter, I've got one of my daughters. 1812 01:37:52.159 --> 01:37:54.920 It has backyard chickens. And you go to our house 1813 01:37:54.960 --> 01:38:00.479 and look out the living it's actually kitchen slash dining 1814 01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:03.439 room door, and there's a bunch of chicken faces looking inside. 1815 01:38:03.479 --> 01:38:05.840 There are the nosiest little things you've ever seen in 1816 01:38:05.880 --> 01:38:10.880 your life, but they're cool. People that are into chickens 1817 01:38:10.920 --> 01:38:15.079 are into chickens, that's for sure. Well, you're listening to 1818 01:38:15.119 --> 01:38:16.439 garden Line. If you want to give us a call, 1819 01:38:16.439 --> 01:38:18.079 I'm abou to take a little quick break, But if 1820 01:38:18.119 --> 01:38:19.720 you'd like to be first up or one of the 1821 01:38:19.720 --> 01:38:22.560 first ones up, depending on how fast you don't, you 1822 01:38:22.600 --> 01:38:24.600 can give me a call at seven one three two 1823 01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:28.119 one two kt r H and we'll be back and 1824 01:38:28.399 --> 01:38:30.840 enter your calls as well as I've got things I 1825 01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:33.680 want to talk about, things that you might want to 1826 01:38:33.720 --> 01:38:37.319 be considering right now that are very timely in the 1827 01:38:37.359 --> 01:38:40.199 garden and the landscape. We're about to enter spring and 1828 01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:43.079 that is our crazy busy season. So let's get ahead 1829 01:38:43.079 --> 01:38:45.199 of it. Let's be ready to go so that you 1830 01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:52.119 can have success with what you're about to grow. All right, 1831 01:38:52.239 --> 01:38:57.319 welcome by, I got I got a lot of garden 1832 01:38:57.359 --> 01:39:00.520 talk left in me. I give me a all we'll 1833 01:39:00.520 --> 01:39:05.880 talk about it. Seven one three two one two ktr h. 1834 01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:09.079 Good to have you with us. By the way, I 1835 01:39:09.119 --> 01:39:12.720 love products that Medina carries. They have so many good products. 1836 01:39:12.760 --> 01:39:15.439 You know, Medina has been around since I don't know, 1837 01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:19.680 nineteen fifties, and their products are beloved by gardeners. Many 1838 01:39:19.720 --> 01:39:21.920 different options. You know, I've talked about over and over 1839 01:39:21.960 --> 01:39:24.319 the has to grow six twelve six. The fact that 1840 01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:27.039 it's got so many things in it. It's got the 1841 01:39:27.399 --> 01:39:31.439 course of the nutrients, the nitrogen phosphores, it's got Medina soil activator, 1842 01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:35.119 it's got hemic acid, it's got seaweed extracts. I mean, 1843 01:39:35.159 --> 01:39:37.880 you use it for drenching new transplants. You can use 1844 01:39:37.920 --> 01:39:42.319 it for folier feeding if you want. There's another product 1845 01:39:42.319 --> 01:39:44.399 that I like a lot too. It's called Medina Plus. 1846 01:39:44.600 --> 01:39:47.319 It's got a lot of micronutrients in it, fortified with 1847 01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:50.359 micro nutrients. It's got seaweed extract in it as well, 1848 01:39:50.439 --> 01:39:54.079 and it's a good all through the year folier feed 1849 01:39:54.359 --> 01:39:59.479 for plants, you know, trees, shrubs, lawns, vegetable gardens, flower gardens. 1850 01:39:59.479 --> 01:40:03.000 Over four different trace elements. Got some natural growth hormones 1851 01:40:03.000 --> 01:40:06.840 in it. That's Medina Plus. And the Medina Plus gives 1852 01:40:06.880 --> 01:40:11.600 you lots of benefits that Medina Soil Activator has plus. 1853 01:40:12.159 --> 01:40:16.600 They increased bloom and leaf growth support, increased fruits, set again. 1854 01:40:16.720 --> 01:40:20.079 Transplanting seed treatments. You got some seeds you want to transplant, 1855 01:40:20.159 --> 01:40:22.880 gets you Medina plus water. Mix it up, three seeds 1856 01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:25.520 in it, let them soak overnight and in the morning 1857 01:40:25.520 --> 01:40:27.880 when they're swollen up, or the next day, go out 1858 01:40:27.880 --> 01:40:30.199 there and plant them and look at the difference you're 1859 01:40:30.199 --> 01:40:33.319 going to see from that. That's from the folks at Medina. 1860 01:40:33.399 --> 01:40:37.279 They're widely available products, easy to find everywhere, and they work. 1861 01:40:38.840 --> 01:40:40.520 Let's go back to the phones now. We're going to 1862 01:40:40.560 --> 01:40:44.119 head to Houston and talk to Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl, welcome 1863 01:40:44.119 --> 01:40:44.760 to garden Line. 1864 01:40:44.840 --> 01:40:49.479 Hey, Hello, Skip, thanks for taking me call. I have 1865 01:40:49.880 --> 01:40:54.560 I have a question about mapcone trees. I have probably 1866 01:40:54.600 --> 01:40:58.359 ten to twelve trees and they're all full grown and 1867 01:40:58.439 --> 01:41:00.319 they all produce. 1868 01:41:01.880 --> 01:41:02.520 Pecans. 1869 01:41:03.239 --> 01:41:06.239 But I never get pecans, even if they turn black 1870 01:41:07.359 --> 01:41:10.199 and they're no good, or the squirrels get them, or 1871 01:41:10.279 --> 01:41:12.920 if they get ripe and they open and fall on 1872 01:41:12.960 --> 01:41:16.760 the ground and I crack them, they're dry and bitter. 1873 01:41:18.399 --> 01:41:23.439 All right, let's take that and backwards order squirrels. Pecan 1874 01:41:23.520 --> 01:41:26.199 fed squirrel is some You can make some of the 1875 01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:28.920 best dumplings you've ever had in your life with a 1876 01:41:28.960 --> 01:41:31.399 good pecan fed squirrel. So that's not a problem, that's 1877 01:41:31.399 --> 01:41:39.159 an opportunity. Seriously, I'm sorry about that. Yeah, seriously that 1878 01:41:39.279 --> 01:41:42.239 you know. The only way you can keep pecans squirrel 1879 01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:46.800 free is to have on the pecan trunk one of 1880 01:41:46.840 --> 01:41:50.439 those pieces of metal flashing that's up off the ground 1881 01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:53.159 so that the pecans cannot jump above it and they 1882 01:41:53.159 --> 01:41:55.399 can't climb through it because that flashing, they can't get 1883 01:41:55.399 --> 01:41:57.520 a little claws in that. So you just kind of 1884 01:41:57.520 --> 01:41:59.840 have to get at the right height, and then you 1885 01:41:59.880 --> 01:42:01.640 have have to trim all the lower limbs so they 1886 01:42:01.680 --> 01:42:04.399 can't jump from the ground. And then you got to 1887 01:42:04.439 --> 01:42:06.560 make sure there's not like a power line going through 1888 01:42:06.680 --> 01:42:08.800 or some other tree that they just jump into the 1889 01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:10.840 top of. And if you can have all of that, 1890 01:42:11.479 --> 01:42:14.680 you can keep squirrels out of a pecan. Otherwise we're 1891 01:42:14.760 --> 01:42:17.520 up a creek. The squirrels just love those things. Now, 1892 01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:20.279 as far as the what we call pops, that's the 1893 01:42:20.319 --> 01:42:24.319 pecan kernels that are pecan shells that are just empty, 1894 01:42:24.479 --> 01:42:28.800 called those pops, that's caused by one of two things. 1895 01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:32.439 If you have significant disease damage by the end of 1896 01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:37.000 the season when pecans are filling and finishing their kernels, 1897 01:42:37.800 --> 01:42:41.600 you will get hollow shells. Pecans up until about August 1898 01:42:41.640 --> 01:42:45.960 first grow the shell size and harden the shell and 1899 01:42:46.079 --> 01:42:50.560 inside their liquid. After August, first that liquid begins to 1900 01:42:50.600 --> 01:42:53.760 turn into dowe, and then even the hard then finally 1901 01:42:53.800 --> 01:42:58.520 the hard kernel. So that late season problems. Maybe webworms 1902 01:42:58.520 --> 01:43:03.000 defoliate the tree, maybe diseases decimate the leaves that affects spilling. 1903 01:43:03.359 --> 01:43:06.279 The other thing that affects spilling or diseases of the shuck. 1904 01:43:07.119 --> 01:43:09.119 And this isn't a disease, it's the thing on the 1905 01:43:09.159 --> 01:43:11.439 outside of the pecan, believe it or not. The nutrients 1906 01:43:11.439 --> 01:43:14.640 from the tree go through the shuck and then enter 1907 01:43:14.720 --> 01:43:18.000 the nut and fill the kernel. So if you kill 1908 01:43:18.079 --> 01:43:21.920 the shuck with diseases that turn it black before it's time, 1909 01:43:22.560 --> 01:43:24.920 then you're not going to get filling of the pecans, 1910 01:43:25.079 --> 01:43:27.479 so it's going to be Those are the two main 1911 01:43:27.560 --> 01:43:31.560 things that we run into, is the foliage disease and 1912 01:43:31.680 --> 01:43:36.720 the shuck diseases. As far as causing those pops, those hollow. 1913 01:43:36.439 --> 01:43:43.079 Kernels, Okay, I've never had a hollow kernel. Oh okay, 1914 01:43:43.600 --> 01:43:47.800 I've had them look like they're two years old whenever 1915 01:43:47.920 --> 01:43:50.439 I crack them, and they're dry and a bitter. 1916 01:43:52.439 --> 01:43:57.159 Okay, Well, if a pecan gets old, it does get bitter. 1917 01:43:57.199 --> 01:43:59.720 It's an oil, and oils go rancid, So if it's 1918 01:43:59.720 --> 01:44:02.359 not stored at a cool temperature, that will happen. But 1919 01:44:02.880 --> 01:44:07.000 anything that causes you know, a lack of that proper 1920 01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:10.319 filling process, you may it may go as far as 1921 01:44:10.359 --> 01:44:14.039 you have a kernel, but it's kind of shrivelly and black, 1922 01:44:14.199 --> 01:44:18.239 dark in its color and bitter. That that I still 1923 01:44:18.279 --> 01:44:20.319 think is the causes that I was describing. 1924 01:44:21.319 --> 01:44:25.600 Okay, But the biggest you know, the squirrels. 1925 01:44:25.640 --> 01:44:25.840 I can. 1926 01:44:25.960 --> 01:44:28.720 I have so many trees that the squirrels could probably 1927 01:44:28.720 --> 01:44:30.520 have a heyday, and I could deal with that. 1928 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:31.359 But the. 1929 01:44:32.920 --> 01:44:35.399 Kernel on the outside turns black. 1930 01:44:36.479 --> 01:44:42.000 What is that is? It? Is it? Healthy looking? Dense 1931 01:44:42.640 --> 01:44:45.600 nut meat? Underneath that black skin of the kernel. 1932 01:44:46.520 --> 01:44:49.840 Yes, if you crack it open, it's just not right. 1933 01:44:50.359 --> 01:44:52.800 But it's black and it looks pretty. 1934 01:44:55.439 --> 01:44:58.079 And we're not talking about little round black spots. We're 1935 01:44:58.119 --> 01:45:02.239 talking about the whole kernel skin in as black. Actually, 1936 01:45:02.319 --> 01:45:03.119 I've had both. 1937 01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:06.239 I've had both. I've had it for the whole shell 1938 01:45:06.319 --> 01:45:10.760 turns black on the outside, okay, and then i've had 1939 01:45:10.800 --> 01:45:11.399 it where it has. 1940 01:45:11.319 --> 01:45:16.079 Spot all right, well, shell black on the outside. That 1941 01:45:16.159 --> 01:45:18.720 is that is a shock disease. And you have the 1942 01:45:18.760 --> 01:45:20.600 spray for those, just like you have to spray for 1943 01:45:20.680 --> 01:45:24.319 leaf diseases. And in your situation that's probably not practical, 1944 01:45:24.640 --> 01:45:26.439 you know, to get a sprayer that can cover those 1945 01:45:26.479 --> 01:45:30.000 trees and do that. If it's little round spots, that's 1946 01:45:30.079 --> 01:45:33.279 stink bug damage or leaf footed bug damage. They stick 1947 01:45:33.279 --> 01:45:35.720 their little beak down there through the shock, through the 1948 01:45:35.720 --> 01:45:39.439 shell and they they cause those little black spots by 1949 01:45:39.479 --> 01:45:41.600 their feeding on the kernel. So it's gonna be one 1950 01:45:41.600 --> 01:45:43.880 of those. Hey, I tell you what this year, next 1951 01:45:43.880 --> 01:45:46.960 time you see that happen, take some pictures. Crack them open, 1952 01:45:48.159 --> 01:45:50.560 break a kernel open, show me the inside, let me 1953 01:45:50.560 --> 01:45:53.279 see the outside, and some photos. Let me take a 1954 01:45:53.279 --> 01:45:55.399 look at them. And maybe I'm seeing something that I'm 1955 01:45:55.439 --> 01:45:58.560 not picturing right now with your description. Okay, I think 1956 01:45:58.600 --> 01:46:01.960 I've given I've told you what. Go ahead. 1957 01:46:04.199 --> 01:46:07.119 If I sprayed momp this tree, they give me the most, 1958 01:46:07.239 --> 01:46:08.239 what do I spray them with? 1959 01:46:10.039 --> 01:46:10.880 For that part? All right? 1960 01:46:11.680 --> 01:46:14.000 There is I tell you what will you? I'm going 1961 01:46:14.079 --> 01:46:16.079 to put you on hold and my producer I will 1962 01:46:16.119 --> 01:46:18.119 give you an email. I want you to email this 1963 01:46:18.199 --> 01:46:20.199 question and I'm going to send you more information. I 1964 01:46:20.199 --> 01:46:22.119 got to run to a break. I'm over time here, 1965 01:46:22.439 --> 01:46:26.399 but I'll point you to the information you're asking for. Okay, 1966 01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:30.880 wonderful things and you're you're in Houston. Just run over 1967 01:46:30.920 --> 01:46:34.760 to Southwest Fertilizer. They have a wide variety of products 1968 01:46:34.760 --> 01:46:36.680 for spray pecans that you're not going to find most 1969 01:46:36.720 --> 01:46:39.279 other places. All right, Cheryl, here you go. I'm putting 1970 01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:44.239 on hold, folks. I'll be right back. All right, Welcome 1971 01:46:44.279 --> 01:46:46.159 back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. 1972 01:46:46.680 --> 01:46:49.439 We're here to answer your gardening questions. Looking forward to 1973 01:46:49.479 --> 01:46:51.520 doing that. Hey, when was the last time you're out 1974 01:46:51.600 --> 01:46:56.279 at Enchanted Forest? Enchanted Forest? They have got all kinds 1975 01:46:56.319 --> 01:46:58.960 of stuff going on this spring. They got a good 1976 01:46:59.079 --> 01:47:01.640 lineup of different talks coming in different events. You just 1977 01:47:01.680 --> 01:47:04.359 got to go to their website and check that out. 1978 01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:07.399 It's an easy one. Just remember this, write this down. 1979 01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:15.560 Enchanted Forest, Enchanted Forests. I'm trying to. I just went 1980 01:47:15.560 --> 01:47:21.760 blank on the website. It was okay, here we go. 1981 01:47:22.399 --> 01:47:30.199 Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX 1982 01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:33.520 dot com. They got good stuff going on all the time. 1983 01:47:33.520 --> 01:47:35.159 You need to go check it out. By the way, 1984 01:47:35.199 --> 01:47:37.880 they've got their potatoes. And we've been talking about potatoes today. 1985 01:47:37.880 --> 01:47:40.760 When do you plant potatoes? Now? Now, now, now, now, 1986 01:47:40.920 --> 01:47:43.640 now's the time. They got red milesoda. They got Yukon gold. 1987 01:47:43.680 --> 01:47:46.079 That one's cool. It looks like it's already been buttered. 1988 01:47:46.079 --> 01:47:49.760 It's golden inside. I red Pontiac and you know, they 1989 01:47:49.760 --> 01:47:51.880 just have a wide variety of Kennebec. They carry the 1990 01:47:51.920 --> 01:47:54.760 Kennebec variety two all great potatoes. Now's the time to 1991 01:47:54.800 --> 01:47:56.920 plant them. You haven't done it. You need to do it. 1992 01:47:57.560 --> 01:47:59.439 They've gotten so many plans on I don't even know 1993 01:47:59.439 --> 01:48:03.199 where to begin, but gorgeous foliage plants for sun and 1994 01:48:03.239 --> 01:48:07.520 for shade, beautiful flowering plants. You know it's the season. 1995 01:48:07.720 --> 01:48:10.920 Have you ever planted dahlias? Before you know. They have 1996 01:48:11.039 --> 01:48:13.800 their their little Personnicoty about going year round for us, 1997 01:48:13.840 --> 01:48:17.560 although that can be done, but they have got dalias 1998 01:48:17.560 --> 01:48:19.600 that you look at them and you're just going, I 1999 01:48:19.640 --> 01:48:23.359 didn't know that color existed in nature. It is so beautiful, 2000 01:48:23.840 --> 01:48:26.319 absolutely beautiful, and do real well for you too. By 2001 01:48:26.319 --> 01:48:29.560 the way, but in Chenny Forest Garden Center. It's the 2002 01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:33.479 garden center that is out there on FM twenty seven 2003 01:48:33.520 --> 01:48:36.199 to fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond Rosenberg, you're 2004 01:48:36.199 --> 01:48:38.520 heading towards sugar Land. It's off to the right down 2005 01:48:38.640 --> 01:48:42.520 south of fifty nine on twenty seven fifty nine. You 2006 01:48:42.520 --> 01:48:45.000 need to check it out. Let them help you create 2007 01:48:45.279 --> 01:48:48.399 a beautiful paradise at your place. By the way, they 2008 01:48:48.399 --> 01:48:51.560 have low chill varieties of apples and peaches and plums. 2009 01:48:51.600 --> 01:48:53.840 They even have some tree fruit trees that are three 2010 01:48:53.840 --> 01:48:57.520 and one. There are three grafted varieties on one tree. 2011 01:48:57.920 --> 01:49:00.640 So if you don't have room for like three trees, 2012 01:49:00.640 --> 01:49:03.159 and you want one tree, but you want three kinds 2013 01:49:02.680 --> 01:49:06.359 of three varieties on that tree, go by. I say, 2014 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:07.960 I want to see your three in one tree. Skip 2015 01:49:08.039 --> 01:49:10.960 was talking about on garden Line. They have citrus that 2016 01:49:11.199 --> 01:49:15.720 is an outstanding selection especially those satsumas that and I 2017 01:49:15.880 --> 01:49:18.520 like to promote those in our area because they were 2018 01:49:19.279 --> 01:49:22.399 We are a great place for satsumas. We're fully winter 2019 01:49:22.560 --> 01:49:25.800 hardy plants for our area. Now, if we have seven degrees, 2020 01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:28.359 how often does that occur? Almost never. Yeah, you got 2021 01:49:28.359 --> 01:49:30.600 to cover them up, but heat under them and all that. 2022 01:49:30.680 --> 01:49:33.600 But satsumas are good, tough, hardy trees. Once they're established, 2023 01:49:33.600 --> 01:49:36.279 they're gonna go down in the middle teens. Once they've 2024 01:49:36.319 --> 01:49:38.279 had a couple of two three years in the ground, 2025 01:49:38.279 --> 01:49:41.439 they're established and ready to go. But they're a great plant, 2026 01:49:41.560 --> 01:49:43.880 and they got all the tools and fertilizers and soils 2027 01:49:43.920 --> 01:49:46.600 you need for your little fruit orchard. Let them help 2028 01:49:46.640 --> 01:49:51.520 you create your own fruitful paradise right there to the chanted forest. 2029 01:49:54.239 --> 01:49:57.920 We're going to go to Sugarland now and talk to Pat. Hey, Pat, 2030 01:49:58.039 --> 01:49:59.039 welcome to garden Line. 2031 01:50:00.199 --> 01:50:03.520 Thank you. I appreciate you're taking my call. I have 2032 01:50:03.720 --> 01:50:08.000 the issues with our grass and we've been having issues 2033 01:50:08.039 --> 01:50:12.079 since the end of August, and we were thinking it 2034 01:50:12.119 --> 01:50:16.079 was chinch sprug and so we've been putting this micro 2035 01:50:16.279 --> 01:50:21.479 grow bio inoculant, which a local true Value person totis 2036 01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:24.880 to use but anyway, it started out like in the 2037 01:50:25.000 --> 01:50:28.319 circle and just grew and we can see new grass 2038 01:50:28.319 --> 01:50:32.319 coming where it originally started. But it just keeps spreading, 2039 01:50:32.560 --> 01:50:36.600 so we think it's changing. Bugs do have something, you think? 2040 01:50:36.680 --> 01:50:38.920 It's kind of hard to tell now with all the 2041 01:50:38.960 --> 01:50:43.279 frozen grass from the freeze and the snow, but it's 2042 01:50:43.319 --> 01:50:45.920 still there. We don't know if we should treat it 2043 01:50:45.960 --> 01:50:47.960 now or wait till springtime. 2044 01:50:49.640 --> 01:50:53.119 Okay, don't treat now, not right now. I don't know 2045 01:50:53.159 --> 01:50:55.520 what did it. If it's happening back, you know, in 2046 01:50:55.560 --> 01:50:57.720 August time, it could be chinchbugs. 2047 01:50:57.800 --> 01:50:57.880 Now. 2048 01:50:58.000 --> 01:51:03.239 Biinoculant. Micro Biinoculant is a quality product from the folks 2049 01:51:03.239 --> 01:51:08.319 at Microlife, but it's design to enhance the microbial activity 2050 01:51:08.359 --> 01:51:10.560 in the soil, which helps the plants in many many 2051 01:51:10.560 --> 01:51:13.960 ways and can help with some disease issues. But it 2052 01:51:14.039 --> 01:51:16.359 is not going to do anything for chinchbugs. It's not 2053 01:51:16.439 --> 01:51:20.399 designed or made for that. If it was chinchbugs, you're 2054 01:51:20.399 --> 01:51:22.359 not going to see them again until the weather really 2055 01:51:22.399 --> 01:51:25.159 heats up in summer. So let's see what's going on 2056 01:51:25.279 --> 01:51:29.680 with your grass going out of the winter time. If 2057 01:51:29.680 --> 01:51:33.399 you want to be extra careful, just you know, kind 2058 01:51:33.439 --> 01:51:36.039 of a just in case thing. I normally don't like 2059 01:51:36.119 --> 01:51:37.840 to send people out to spray if we don't know 2060 01:51:37.880 --> 01:51:40.920 what we're dealing with. But there is a product that 2061 01:51:41.079 --> 01:51:47.079 works pretty good on the brown patch also called large 2062 01:51:47.119 --> 01:51:49.680 patch and take all root rot, which is what you 2063 01:51:49.800 --> 01:51:53.119 may have been seeing when that lawn was not looking good. 2064 01:51:53.600 --> 01:51:57.880 And so if you're dealing with the take all, there 2065 01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:02.479 is a product in green called a zoxy stroban. Do 2066 01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:04.000 you have a pin or pencil handy? 2067 01:52:04.920 --> 01:52:07.560 Yes, my husband's right here. How do you spell that? 2068 01:52:08.840 --> 01:52:14.520 I will spell it azo x y A zoxy and 2069 01:52:14.640 --> 01:52:20.000 the second half is stroo b I N A stroban 2070 01:52:20.520 --> 01:52:23.600 A zoxy stroban. That's the ingredient. You're going to find 2071 01:52:23.600 --> 01:52:25.600 it in different products. But you go to a quality 2072 01:52:26.199 --> 01:52:28.920 you go to an ACE hardware store. Where are you located? 2073 01:52:29.039 --> 01:52:31.720 You're down and oh you're done. Surely you're just right 2074 01:52:31.760 --> 01:52:36.279 next to Southwest Fertilizer Bob. I know Bob has this too, 2075 01:52:36.960 --> 01:52:39.560 But tell them you need that ingredient and a long 2076 01:52:39.640 --> 01:52:43.840 product and what that will do. It works well against 2077 01:52:43.960 --> 01:52:47.159 a number of different diseases, but they take all especially 2078 01:52:47.159 --> 01:52:50.960 and I'm leaning toward my best guess being that probably 2079 01:52:51.000 --> 01:52:52.960 you were seeing take all based on what you said. 2080 01:52:53.439 --> 01:52:56.359 But if it's if it's, if you do that now, 2081 01:52:56.359 --> 01:52:59.000 it's kind of a preventative. And then let's watch your 2082 01:52:59.039 --> 01:53:01.079 lawn as you get in the season to start to 2083 01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:04.039 see issues. Take good pictures of it up close and 2084 01:53:04.079 --> 01:53:08.039 from a distance and email them to me, and we 2085 01:53:08.079 --> 01:53:10.520 will then give me a call on guardline and we 2086 01:53:10.640 --> 01:53:13.439 will have a more intelligent answer because we'll be able 2087 01:53:13.479 --> 01:53:14.399 to see what's going on. 2088 01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:18.640 So how often should we put this stuff on the lawn? 2089 01:53:19.720 --> 01:53:23.439 Just once? Now? If it turns out that take all 2090 01:53:23.640 --> 01:53:25.880 is the problem, you will do it again in the fall. 2091 01:53:25.920 --> 01:53:28.159 But let's not jump ahead to that. There's a lot 2092 01:53:28.159 --> 01:53:29.760 of other possibilities out there. 2093 01:53:31.199 --> 01:53:34.479 Oh, lots of different bugs. 2094 01:53:34.920 --> 01:53:37.960 Yeah, you mentioned ginger bugs. You know, there's there's other 2095 01:53:38.079 --> 01:53:41.720 diseases and the sideweb worms, and there's other things that 2096 01:53:41.760 --> 01:53:42.159 it could be. 2097 01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:47.920 So the take all actually the name of the product. 2098 01:53:50.159 --> 01:53:51.960 Take all is the name of the disease. 2099 01:53:53.039 --> 01:53:56.199 Take all is the name of the fungus, and the 2100 01:53:56.199 --> 01:54:00.119 fungus kills grass. So in spring, if you have areas 2101 01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:03.520 that are graining up and areas that are dead, that 2102 01:54:03.680 --> 01:54:07.479 probably was take All. It could have been chinchbugs, too, 2103 01:54:07.920 --> 01:54:10.560 but chinchbugs are not going to attack until next summer. Hey, 2104 01:54:10.560 --> 01:54:14.399 I'll tell you what. Write something else down Gardening with 2105 01:54:15.159 --> 01:54:20.039 Skip Gardening with Skip dot com. That's my website. On 2106 01:54:20.239 --> 01:54:23.159 there you'll find both my launch schedules and everything I'm 2107 01:54:23.199 --> 01:54:26.279 telling you in a calendar form from January to December. 2108 01:54:26.680 --> 01:54:30.520 You can see exactly the diseases the insects when they attack, 2109 01:54:30.680 --> 01:54:33.520 what you use for them both and organically. 2110 01:54:33.600 --> 01:54:37.600 Okay, all right, okay, all right, thank you so much. 2111 01:54:37.600 --> 01:54:40.479 You have a wonderful day. God bless you boy. 2112 01:54:41.359 --> 01:54:49.439 You as well take care bye bye. All right, folks, well, 2113 01:54:49.600 --> 01:54:52.399 we're gonna have to wait until the music stops and 2114 01:54:52.479 --> 01:54:56.039 we come back for our final hour of garden Line 2115 01:54:56.319 --> 01:54:58.520 to continue our discussions here. If you'd like to give 2116 01:54:58.600 --> 01:55:02.159 us a call and the waiting online. When you come back, 2117 01:55:02.239 --> 01:55:04.239 you'll be one of the first up that way. Seven 2118 01:55:04.279 --> 01:55:07.640 one three two one two k t r H seven 2119 01:55:07.720 --> 01:55:14.840 one three two one two k t r H. 2120 01:55:15.800 --> 01:55:21.560 Well we'll get a coffee. 2121 01:55:25.399 --> 01:55:29.119 Welcome to k t r H. Guarden Line with Skip Rictor. 2122 01:55:29.239 --> 01:55:45.399 It's crazy Trim, just watch m as so many. 2123 01:55:45.199 --> 01:55:48.039 Good things to set crazy. 2124 01:55:48.479 --> 01:55:51.000 All right, let's do this. We got an hour left, 2125 01:55:52.039 --> 01:55:54.479 one hour of garden Line left until next weekend. So 2126 01:55:54.520 --> 01:55:56.760 if you got a burning question, that's the time to 2127 01:55:56.800 --> 01:55:59.760 ask it. Seven one three two one two k t R. 2128 01:55:59.800 --> 01:55:59.920 Eight. 2129 01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:03.319 We're gonna go to George in clear Lake. Hey, George, 2130 01:56:03.479 --> 01:56:04.600 welcome to garden Line. 2131 01:56:05.279 --> 01:56:07.560 Hey, good morning, Thank you for kicking a call. So 2132 01:56:09.079 --> 01:56:11.720 I'm in a garden dude. I just hang out with 2133 01:56:11.760 --> 01:56:15.479 you guys on the weekends because my wife listens to 2134 01:56:15.520 --> 01:56:16.159 you all all the time. 2135 01:56:16.199 --> 01:56:18.439 I'm like, man, so where do you start? 2136 01:56:18.479 --> 01:56:23.079 Because I definitely after this freeze and everything got. 2137 01:56:22.960 --> 01:56:24.520 One that zone. 2138 01:56:24.560 --> 01:56:27.800 Man, it's like everything he's wiped out. Like we're gonna 2139 01:56:27.800 --> 01:56:29.920 start from the bathroom. Man, where do you start? 2140 01:56:31.600 --> 01:56:34.000 Good question? So tell me what you're seeing and what 2141 01:56:34.039 --> 01:56:36.479 you want to change. Why don't you what are you 2142 01:56:36.520 --> 01:56:37.479 seeing me? You don't like? 2143 01:56:38.319 --> 01:56:38.920 So? 2144 01:56:38.920 --> 01:56:42.319 So everything's in pots. I got a pool, I got 2145 01:56:42.319 --> 01:56:47.880 a level grass area. We're trying to to level out 2146 01:56:48.520 --> 01:56:50.560 the back because there's a lot of mounds and different 2147 01:56:50.600 --> 01:56:51.279 things going on. 2148 01:56:51.760 --> 01:56:52.720 Not not a lot. 2149 01:56:52.600 --> 01:56:54.960 Of grass area, but the pool takes up most of 2150 01:56:55.000 --> 01:56:57.039 the backyard, and so I want to take it out 2151 01:56:57.079 --> 01:57:00.279 of the pots and put it in the ground. But yet, 2152 01:57:00.319 --> 01:57:01.960 you know, we have a lot of fence problems in 2153 01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:05.000 Houston because hurricanes and stuff. So your fen's gonna come 2154 01:57:05.039 --> 01:57:07.039 down at some point. You're going to have to dig 2155 01:57:07.079 --> 01:57:09.520 that stuff out. And we just went through that. And 2156 01:57:09.600 --> 01:57:12.399 if there's a bunch of plants planted close to the fence, 2157 01:57:12.479 --> 01:57:14.960 you know how far away, you know, so just kind 2158 01:57:14.960 --> 01:57:17.119 of make it look like a I don't know, for me, 2159 01:57:17.199 --> 01:57:19.840 it's tropical. For her, it might be a different type 2160 01:57:19.840 --> 01:57:23.039 of setting. But I guess trying to identify the culture 2161 01:57:23.119 --> 01:57:25.399 that you want, I guess would be a start. I 2162 01:57:25.439 --> 01:57:28.600 don't know, you know, I think the thing to do. 2163 01:57:28.800 --> 01:57:31.079 What I would start this is kind of the big picture. 2164 01:57:31.239 --> 01:57:33.520 I would As you drive around town and see things 2165 01:57:33.520 --> 01:57:35.960 you like, take a picture of them. Just pull over 2166 01:57:35.960 --> 01:57:37.680 the curtain, snap a shot. Say I like the way 2167 01:57:37.720 --> 01:57:39.920 that bed looks, or I like I like that planner, 2168 01:57:40.119 --> 01:57:42.279 I like the way they did that there. Take some 2169 01:57:42.359 --> 01:57:45.199 pictures and get some inspiration from that. You can certainly 2170 01:57:45.279 --> 01:57:47.359 send me photos like that and say, hey, I like 2171 01:57:47.439 --> 01:57:51.319 this about it, any any thoughts, and maybe I could say, yeah, 2172 01:57:51.359 --> 01:57:54.199 that plant doesn't normally do well here, or yeah that's 2173 01:57:54.199 --> 01:57:58.479 a great one. Or one common thing is making beds 2174 01:57:58.520 --> 01:58:01.680 in a curve so that as you mow, it's easier 2175 01:58:01.680 --> 01:58:04.159 to mow. When you got a bunch of right angles, 2176 01:58:03.840 --> 01:58:04.920 it's it's a. 2177 01:58:04.880 --> 01:58:08.199 Pain to mow, and weedyed in there and everything. So 2178 01:58:08.600 --> 01:58:11.600 I would I would, you know, kind of consider aesthetically 2179 01:58:11.640 --> 01:58:14.560 how you want to design it. Getting the right plants 2180 01:58:14.640 --> 01:58:17.840 is important, you know. Now down in the area, you 2181 01:58:18.199 --> 01:58:22.520 don't live too far away from Moss Nursery and Seabrook. 2182 01:58:23.000 --> 01:58:26.640 That's an excellent option down there, and they can help 2183 01:58:26.720 --> 01:58:29.000 you with that. They look at photos and designs and 2184 01:58:29.039 --> 01:58:33.000 stuff and see the most important thing, George is getting 2185 01:58:33.000 --> 01:58:37.159 the soil right first, and that means buying a quality bed. 2186 01:58:37.239 --> 01:58:39.239 We call them bed mixes because they may have some 2187 01:58:39.359 --> 01:58:42.880 soil in them, or they may be just primarily organic materials. 2188 01:58:43.399 --> 01:58:45.560 Getting that build up so when it rains too much, 2189 01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:50.560 their plant roots aren't soggy, saturated, submerged kind of thing. 2190 01:58:51.319 --> 01:58:53.760 That's important. And then when you put plants in, they're 2191 01:58:53.760 --> 01:58:56.079 gonna they're gonna do better for you. Now you're containers. 2192 01:58:56.760 --> 01:58:59.720 If they were tropical, they're probably gone if they were 2193 01:58:59.760 --> 01:59:03.119 not protected, but give them a little bit, just wait 2194 01:59:03.159 --> 01:59:06.279 and watch and see how they're gonna do. In general, 2195 01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:10.640 larger containers rather than smaller and the reason that it 2196 01:59:10.760 --> 01:59:13.279 is so blazing hot here day and night in the 2197 01:59:13.319 --> 01:59:16.960 summertime that it's hard to keep them watered. And the 2198 01:59:16.960 --> 01:59:20.199 more soil volume you have, the easier it is to 2199 01:59:20.279 --> 01:59:22.920 keep them. And every time the plant gets drought stressed, 2200 01:59:22.960 --> 01:59:24.840 you know, let's say every day, it just it just 2201 01:59:24.960 --> 01:59:26.640 kind of shuts down for a little bit because it 2202 01:59:26.640 --> 01:59:29.399 gets too dry. That's going to affect their growth and 2203 01:59:29.439 --> 01:59:32.800 they're blooming or if they fruit, they're fruiting, and so 2204 01:59:33.239 --> 01:59:35.880 a larger container is always a good idea. And those 2205 01:59:35.920 --> 01:59:39.920 are a few of the things. Bookmark my website gardening 2206 01:59:40.079 --> 01:59:44.039 with skip dot com. There's helpful stuff on there, from 2207 01:59:44.079 --> 01:59:48.039 getting your soil tested to protecting plants against a freeze. 2208 01:59:48.920 --> 01:59:51.399 And then just keep listening to the guard line and 2209 01:59:51.479 --> 01:59:54.039 you can chime in anytime. If you got a something 2210 01:59:54.039 --> 01:59:55.680 in your yard, you know, you say there's a spot 2211 01:59:55.720 --> 01:59:57.399 in my yard, Well take a picture of it, show 2212 01:59:57.439 --> 01:59:59.279 me what that looks like, email it to me and 2213 01:59:59.319 --> 02:00:02.680 then call it and we'll discuss it. Photos are really 2214 02:00:02.680 --> 02:00:04.720 helpful because you know, right now I can't picture your 2215 02:00:04.760 --> 02:00:11.239 landscape or the issues that a kind of roamed how 2216 02:00:11.279 --> 02:00:11.920 far in the ground. 2217 02:00:11.960 --> 02:00:14.239 Do you go like to prepare your soil, you go 2218 02:00:14.399 --> 02:00:16.600 six inches and you do that all across where you're 2219 02:00:16.600 --> 02:00:18.600 going to plant your Yeah, you're your flower bend. 2220 02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:20.119 Yeah. 2221 02:00:20.119 --> 02:00:21.359 It kind of depends on what you want to grow. 2222 02:00:21.359 --> 02:00:23.880 If it's a if it's a shallow rooted plant like 2223 02:00:24.039 --> 02:00:28.439 an annual flower or a most vegetables beds are not 2224 02:00:28.760 --> 02:00:31.640 eating to be that deep. You don't have to dig 2225 02:00:32.159 --> 02:00:35.039 very deep. If you're going to do something that's very 2226 02:00:35.079 --> 02:00:37.520 particular about drainage and stuff, I would go a lot 2227 02:00:37.600 --> 02:00:41.920 deeper and improving it, But mainly it's going up upward, 2228 02:00:42.720 --> 02:00:46.640 because surface drainage is important. So if you had a spot, 2229 02:00:47.000 --> 02:00:49.000 let's say it was saturated, like you go to the 2230 02:00:49.039 --> 02:00:50.800 beach and you dig into the sand and there's a 2231 02:00:50.840 --> 02:00:54.520 water table a few inches below the surface. If that 2232 02:00:54.520 --> 02:00:57.119 that happens in our yards, and let's say you're going 2233 02:00:57.239 --> 02:00:59.439 planet a plant that that would kill. Well, you can 2234 02:00:59.640 --> 02:01:01.960 make a bed a foot high and it'll settle down 2235 02:01:02.000 --> 02:01:05.199 in time. But now your roots are primarily up in 2236 02:01:05.279 --> 02:01:09.000 well drained soil. So I would say going up more 2237 02:01:09.039 --> 02:01:12.199 than going down. Because if you picture a massive clay 2238 02:01:12.279 --> 02:01:15.800 soil and you dig a hole in that clay, and 2239 02:01:16.079 --> 02:01:19.159 I'm gonna exaggerate fill it full of potting soil. Well, 2240 02:01:19.199 --> 02:01:22.159 now you just have an underground bathtub, and when it 2241 02:01:22.279 --> 02:01:25.319 rains that potting soil, the water level is gonna come 2242 02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:27.000 up and it's not going to drain out of there 2243 02:01:27.039 --> 02:01:29.520 because there's clay all around it. You know, you've created 2244 02:01:29.520 --> 02:01:33.680 a clay bathtub underground. So that's why coming up helps 2245 02:01:33.720 --> 02:01:35.720 a lot on plants that are like that. 2246 02:01:36.560 --> 02:01:38.920 Yeah, and I have nothing but clay because we just 2247 02:01:39.000 --> 02:01:41.960 dug up our electrical line about twenty four inches. 2248 02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:46.199 Man, it's nothing but clay down there. Yeah, well that's normal, 2249 02:01:46.359 --> 02:01:48.800 normal in our area. Not a problem. If you have 2250 02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:51.640 clay soils and you have somewhat of a lift to 2251 02:01:51.680 --> 02:01:53.560 the clay where you know, you've gotten got to raise 2252 02:01:53.560 --> 02:01:56.760 bed a little bit to it. Adding expanded shale in 2253 02:01:57.119 --> 02:01:59.600 helps and you can do this a little at a time, 2254 02:01:59.680 --> 02:02:02.640 but it's going to take about three inches of expanded 2255 02:02:02.680 --> 02:02:05.239 shale to make a difference. You would mix it into 2256 02:02:05.279 --> 02:02:09.199 the top four to six inches of soil. Three or 2257 02:02:09.239 --> 02:02:12.600 four inches of expandede that's a lot, But that is 2258 02:02:12.720 --> 02:02:18.279 like LoVa rock. It's tiny, kitty letter sized particles that 2259 02:02:18.520 --> 02:02:21.960 are porous and they open the swell. They hold it open. 2260 02:02:22.520 --> 02:02:24.880 Compost breaks down over time, you have to add more. 2261 02:02:25.199 --> 02:02:27.800 Expanded shale tends to hold it open really well. So 2262 02:02:28.159 --> 02:02:31.159 when you're dealing with a yard full of clays, expanded 2263 02:02:31.199 --> 02:02:34.920 shale as your friend, and just use it profusely as 2264 02:02:34.960 --> 02:02:39.279 you're getting those beds right. Especially George, when you have something, 2265 02:02:39.319 --> 02:02:41.199 let's say like a rose bush that you can't just 2266 02:02:41.239 --> 02:02:44.000 dig up and redo the soil every year, you want 2267 02:02:44.000 --> 02:02:46.960 to get that right to begin with, because you're going 2268 02:02:47.039 --> 02:02:48.800 to have to live with what you've done for the 2269 02:02:48.800 --> 02:02:49.720 life of that plant. 2270 02:02:51.039 --> 02:02:54.399 Gotcha, all right, Well, thanks for your hall, appreciate it, 2271 02:02:54.439 --> 02:02:58.439 and I'll bookmark your website. 2272 02:02:57.920 --> 02:03:00.560 There you go. Call back anytime and if I'm gonna 2273 02:03:00.560 --> 02:03:03.039 put you on hold, and my producer will give you 2274 02:03:03.079 --> 02:03:05.439 an email that you can send photos to, but just 2275 02:03:05.479 --> 02:03:07.560 have to follow up with a call on those and okay, 2276 02:03:07.560 --> 02:03:12.239 talk about all right, folks, it is it is time 2277 02:03:12.680 --> 02:03:15.039 for me to take a break here and I'll be 2278 02:03:15.119 --> 02:03:17.840 right back with your questions, and Carolyn, you'll be our 2279 02:03:17.840 --> 02:03:18.359 first up. 2280 02:03:19.479 --> 02:03:19.920 Please. 2281 02:03:21.399 --> 02:03:26.000 All right, we're back in this here. We are moving 2282 02:03:26.039 --> 02:03:28.239 from a trot to a gallup here on garden line 2283 02:03:28.279 --> 02:03:31.159 as we as we finish out the show this hour. 2284 02:03:31.920 --> 02:03:35.159 If you are someone who has not had your trees 2285 02:03:35.199 --> 02:03:37.880 looked at now, you can't even remember when the last 2286 02:03:37.920 --> 02:03:39.960 time someone came out and took a good look at him, 2287 02:03:40.000 --> 02:03:42.680 someone who knows what they're talking about. Now's the time 2288 02:03:42.680 --> 02:03:44.560 to get that done, and you need to call Martin 2289 02:03:44.600 --> 02:03:47.079 Spoon Moore an affordable tree. It's as simple as that. 2290 02:03:47.520 --> 02:03:50.520 Martin knows what he's doing. He does good work. Tell 2291 02:03:50.600 --> 02:03:53.479 him you've heard about him on garden Line, and but 2292 02:03:53.640 --> 02:03:56.600 do it now because you wait a week or two. 2293 02:03:57.560 --> 02:04:00.800 Our prime time for pruning is now and you need 2294 02:04:00.840 --> 02:04:03.119 to get that done. You can print any time of 2295 02:04:03.119 --> 02:04:05.680 the year, but have him come out of value your trees, 2296 02:04:05.720 --> 02:04:07.680 and if something needs to be done, give you an 2297 02:04:07.800 --> 02:04:10.359 estimate that would include printing, that would include things like 2298 02:04:10.399 --> 02:04:12.760 deeproot beating and other stuff. He does it all. If 2299 02:04:12.800 --> 02:04:15.479 it's a tree, he takes care of it. Martin spoon 2300 02:04:15.560 --> 02:04:18.800 More Affordable Tree seven one three, six nine nine two 2301 02:04:18.840 --> 02:04:23.119 six sixty three seven one three six nine nine two 2302 02:04:23.239 --> 02:04:26.920 six six three. If you want to go to the website, 2303 02:04:26.960 --> 02:04:33.000 it's Afftree Service dot com. Aff Tree Service dot Com. 2304 02:04:33.199 --> 02:04:35.279 We're going to head out here now and talk to 2305 02:04:35.560 --> 02:04:38.680 Carolyn in southwest Houston. Hey, Carolyn, welcome to Guardline. 2306 02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:40.359 Thank you. 2307 02:04:41.079 --> 02:04:46.199 I have been successful in receding okra and basel, but 2308 02:04:46.399 --> 02:04:51.000 I'm curious about eggplant. The seeds are on the inside. 2309 02:04:51.239 --> 02:04:57.520 Is there any way to receive your egg plants? 2310 02:04:58.760 --> 02:05:00.840 Well, the okra you have to break pod open to 2311 02:05:00.880 --> 02:05:03.600 get to the seed and egg plants. What you do 2312 02:05:03.840 --> 02:05:09.960 is if your egg plant is not a hybrid variety, 2313 02:05:10.000 --> 02:05:12.600 it's just what we call open pollinated. And I'll come 2314 02:05:12.640 --> 02:05:14.880 back to that in just a moment. You can just 2315 02:05:14.920 --> 02:05:19.159 clear out the seeds. What I would do just kind 2316 02:05:19.159 --> 02:05:21.720 of smash them up as best you can and put 2317 02:05:21.760 --> 02:05:23.520 them in water. Sometimes I'll put them in like a 2318 02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:26.319 quart jar with some water in it, screw the top 2319 02:05:26.359 --> 02:05:28.840 down and just shake it really hard and try to 2320 02:05:28.880 --> 02:05:31.960 get all the try to separate the seeds from the 2321 02:05:32.000 --> 02:05:34.640 pulpy debris that's inside. It takes a little bit, but 2322 02:05:34.680 --> 02:05:37.039 you can do that and then spread those seeds out 2323 02:05:37.640 --> 02:05:42.399 to dry on a counter. And once they dry, you 2324 02:05:42.399 --> 02:05:45.199 can pick those little seeds up, let them fully dry, 2325 02:05:45.239 --> 02:05:47.479 separate them. There'll still be debris and them separate them 2326 02:05:47.479 --> 02:05:50.079 out and once they fully dry, store them in the 2327 02:05:50.159 --> 02:05:53.439 refrigerator in a sealed, air tight container like a jar, 2328 02:05:53.560 --> 02:05:56.560 one of those little plastic or glass containers with pop 2329 02:05:56.640 --> 02:06:01.239 down sealed lids, and you ready to go. Then you 2330 02:06:01.239 --> 02:06:04.520 can plan them. Now the difference between open pollinated and hybrid. 2331 02:06:05.520 --> 02:06:08.239 It'll tell you on the name of the variety the 2332 02:06:08.239 --> 02:06:10.520 seed packet, or if you go online to look at it, 2333 02:06:11.279 --> 02:06:14.079 whether it's hybrid or not. If it's hybrid, that means 2334 02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:17.640 it use two different parents to create this unique variety. 2335 02:06:18.119 --> 02:06:20.279 And if you take the seeds out of that variety, 2336 02:06:20.760 --> 02:06:24.359 they're gonna have children that are Duke's miss mixtures of 2337 02:06:24.399 --> 02:06:30.119 all kinds of variety characteristics. So hybrids don't come back 2338 02:06:30.239 --> 02:06:32.880 true to seed. They won't be like the mama plant 2339 02:06:32.960 --> 02:06:35.439 she took them off of. They may be very similar, 2340 02:06:35.439 --> 02:06:38.800 but they won't be identical. Seeds that are not hybrids, 2341 02:06:39.000 --> 02:06:40.920 you can save the seed and they'll be pretty much 2342 02:06:41.000 --> 02:06:43.760 just like the mama plant. 2343 02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:45.319 Wonderful. 2344 02:06:45.359 --> 02:06:49.600 I'll try it all right, and if it has success, 2345 02:06:49.960 --> 02:06:52.920 send me a picture of your eggplants. I'd like to 2346 02:06:52.920 --> 02:06:56.279 see that. Thank you, Carolyn, appreciate that. I appreciate your 2347 02:06:56.319 --> 02:06:58.720 call very much. I was talking about micro life products 2348 02:06:58.760 --> 02:07:03.239 earlier and I I wanted to mention we're getting close 2349 02:07:03.279 --> 02:07:06.359 to that spring fertilization season. But something you can do 2350 02:07:06.439 --> 02:07:09.439 then or now is Microlife hum mates plus. That's a 2351 02:07:09.560 --> 02:07:12.239 zero zero four. So although it has a little potassium 2352 02:07:12.239 --> 02:07:15.239 in it, don't think of it as a fertilizer. Think 2353 02:07:15.279 --> 02:07:18.079 of it as a soil condition or a soil amendment 2354 02:07:18.720 --> 02:07:21.840 because you put it down and that humus, the humate's 2355 02:07:21.960 --> 02:07:24.399 in it. That is part of what helps take a 2356 02:07:24.439 --> 02:07:27.079 clay soil and break it up so where it has 2357 02:07:27.079 --> 02:07:29.479 a better structure, it's looser. Think of a bul of 2358 02:07:29.479 --> 02:07:32.039 popcorn where air can get in and water can move 2359 02:07:32.079 --> 02:07:34.800 through between the particles. That's what we're trying to do 2360 02:07:34.880 --> 02:07:36.920 with those massive clays out there. And as you do 2361 02:07:37.039 --> 02:07:39.000 that year after year, adding that to you can do 2362 02:07:39.039 --> 02:07:41.560 it two times a year if you like, or more. 2363 02:07:41.640 --> 02:07:46.000 I guess it won't hurt anything. Microlifehu makes plus in 2364 02:07:46.039 --> 02:07:48.359 the purple bag is a product that is going to 2365 02:07:48.359 --> 02:07:49.960 improve your show. And you can do that and launch. 2366 02:07:49.960 --> 02:07:51.720 You can do that in flour bed, you can do 2367 02:07:51.800 --> 02:07:54.239 that any vegetable garden. Anywhere you got soil, you can 2368 02:07:54.319 --> 02:07:57.840 add Microlife hum mats plus and have success. It is 2369 02:07:57.960 --> 02:08:00.319 it comes in a jar, one of those plastic jars 2370 02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:02.359 of the screw top lids, and it also for larger 2371 02:08:02.479 --> 02:08:05.359 quantities comes in the bag, like if you wanted to 2372 02:08:05.399 --> 02:08:08.479 do your lawn for example. All right, now we're going 2373 02:08:08.520 --> 02:08:11.520 to go out to spring and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, 2374 02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:12.760 welcome to garden Line. 2375 02:08:14.479 --> 02:08:16.960 Good morning, Thank you for taking my call. Is it 2376 02:08:17.039 --> 02:08:18.239 too late to pre emerge? 2377 02:08:18.359 --> 02:08:23.039 Yes, sir, No, not at all. No, we are in 2378 02:08:23.119 --> 02:08:26.399 the big middle prime time for pre emerging. Now is 2379 02:08:26.479 --> 02:08:27.000 the time. 2380 02:08:28.039 --> 02:08:30.479 Well, hardware I have or anything I can use. 2381 02:08:32.000 --> 02:08:35.680 Absolutely Ace Hardware are going to carry barricade by Nitrofoss 2382 02:08:36.319 --> 02:08:40.159 and that's the one you need to get. Barricade by Nitrofoss. 2383 02:08:40.600 --> 02:08:42.880 They're going to have it. Follow the label carefully. It 2384 02:08:42.960 --> 02:08:48.399 is important anytime you apply something to control anything, weeds, diseases, insects, 2385 02:08:48.840 --> 02:08:51.760 to follow the label. Don't double the label it. The 2386 02:08:51.800 --> 02:08:55.119 amount on the label is the perfect amount for controlling 2387 02:08:55.159 --> 02:09:02.840 those weeds. Don't don't underdo it. Don't overdo it. You're 2388 02:09:02.960 --> 02:09:06.000 you're in the you're in the spring area. Excuse me, 2389 02:09:06.000 --> 02:09:10.680 you're in the spring area, right, Okay, uh so yeah, 2390 02:09:10.720 --> 02:09:13.520 there's spring branch and their spring and so I always 2391 02:09:13.600 --> 02:09:15.359 kind of have to figure out which one you're in. 2392 02:09:16.800 --> 02:09:18.800 All right, So if you're up in spring, like you're 2393 02:09:18.800 --> 02:09:20.000 close to ninety nine. 2394 02:09:23.760 --> 02:09:27.000 Right at night and forty five. 2395 02:09:28.199 --> 02:09:31.319 Okay, all right, good, all right, Well you've got some 2396 02:09:31.680 --> 02:09:32.840 you've got some close to. 2397 02:09:32.880 --> 02:09:35.760 You old spring cypress. 2398 02:09:37.239 --> 02:09:39.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. 2399 02:09:40.199 --> 02:09:50.119 Yeah, there's a there's a spring cypress, not unless they 2400 02:09:50.119 --> 02:09:52.800 have a wound on them. But they're not a typical 2401 02:09:52.920 --> 02:09:55.600 sap producing you know, like some trees have sap on 2402 02:09:55.640 --> 02:09:57.720 the outside rolling down. They're not that. 2403 02:10:00.079 --> 02:10:02.920 O good. I appreciate your help. 2404 02:10:04.880 --> 02:10:07.399 Yeah, yeah, And you're right, like I said, you're down 2405 02:10:07.439 --> 02:10:10.680 the hall, all right, you're just down from spring Ace Hardware. 2406 02:10:10.760 --> 02:10:13.399 So that's good. All right, Well, thank you very much, Mike. 2407 02:10:13.520 --> 02:10:15.880 Get that down, get it done. You have to water 2408 02:10:15.960 --> 02:10:17.680 it in with about a half inch of water because 2409 02:10:17.680 --> 02:10:20.000 you've got to move those particles, the stuff on the 2410 02:10:20.039 --> 02:10:22.279 particles that you put out. You want to move it 2411 02:10:22.319 --> 02:10:24.560 into the soil surface where it can do its work. 2412 02:10:24.600 --> 02:10:26.279 So don't forget to water it in, or if you 2413 02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:27.760 have a little bit of rain, that'll do it for 2414 02:10:27.880 --> 02:10:32.720 you too. You take care and thank you for your 2415 02:10:32.720 --> 02:10:37.560 call to garden Line. I appreciate that very much. Nature's 2416 02:10:37.560 --> 02:10:40.760 Way resources is up in the Conro area. In fact, 2417 02:10:40.760 --> 02:10:43.520 if you're heading up forty five, right where fourteen eighty 2418 02:10:43.560 --> 02:10:48.000 eight comes in from Magnolia, you turn right, the railroad 2419 02:10:48.000 --> 02:10:50.800 tracks are right there. Cross over the railroad tracks, turn 2420 02:10:50.880 --> 02:10:55.199 right on Sherbrooke Circle and you're there at Nature's Way. 2421 02:10:55.279 --> 02:10:57.640 Now you can call them and have them bring you stuff. 2422 02:10:57.720 --> 02:10:59.800 They'll dump it in the driveway if you want. You 2423 02:10:59.840 --> 02:11:02.800 can go around. Some places carry their bags around all 2424 02:11:02.840 --> 02:11:05.239 through the Greater Houston area. You can buy their stuff 2425 02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:07.159 by the bag. But the main thing is know this. 2426 02:11:07.840 --> 02:11:10.039 When you get something from Nature's Way, you're getting a 2427 02:11:10.079 --> 02:11:13.640 product that has been made right, whether it's one of 2428 02:11:13.680 --> 02:11:16.159 the products that was born at Nature's Way that's now 2429 02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:18.239 sold all over the place. Like did you know ross 2430 02:11:18.279 --> 02:11:22.079 soil was born there that leifmore compost was born there. Well, 2431 02:11:22.159 --> 02:11:24.680 it's one of those, or any of the other products 2432 02:11:24.760 --> 02:11:27.199 they have, they know how to make them right. John 2433 02:11:27.199 --> 02:11:30.399 Ferguson long ago became a student of the soil and 2434 02:11:30.439 --> 02:11:33.720 spent his life learning and learning and learning with experience 2435 02:11:33.880 --> 02:11:36.680 and with watching research and stuff. He knows how to 2436 02:11:36.720 --> 02:11:40.880 make soil. So now his son Ian is carrying the 2437 02:11:40.920 --> 02:11:44.520 same tradition on. They know what they're doing there. And 2438 02:11:44.560 --> 02:11:46.239 you go out to Nature's Way, you can take your 2439 02:11:46.279 --> 02:11:48.359 truck or pick up and they'll put some in the back. 2440 02:11:48.640 --> 02:11:50.640 They'll sell you some bags if you want to go 2441 02:11:50.680 --> 02:11:55.199 that route. While you're out there, check out their plant nursery. 2442 02:11:55.239 --> 02:11:57.479 They've got a lot of native plants and other types 2443 02:11:57.520 --> 02:12:01.239 of plants as well. But Nature's Sources is where you 2444 02:12:01.359 --> 02:12:05.239 get good stuff that you can depend on. I would 2445 02:12:05.319 --> 02:12:07.920 highly recommend that you go visit them just to see 2446 02:12:07.920 --> 02:12:10.640 what's out there and take part in that. Bring some 2447 02:12:10.680 --> 02:12:14.399 plants home, but also just call around. If you go 2448 02:12:14.439 --> 02:12:17.920 to the website, they will tell you you know where 2449 02:12:19.399 --> 02:12:24.640 their products are sold. Nature's Way is a one of 2450 02:12:24.680 --> 02:12:27.479 those companies that sells by the bag all through the 2451 02:12:27.520 --> 02:12:30.800 Greater Houston area, and that kind of makes it nice. 2452 02:12:31.119 --> 02:12:33.359 For example, if you if you go to the website, 2453 02:12:33.600 --> 02:12:36.000 they have a lot of information on all kinds of 2454 02:12:36.039 --> 02:12:40.039 stuff like that, including the where to buy from their 2455 02:12:40.079 --> 02:12:43.119 products all through the Houston area. All right, well, I'm 2456 02:12:43.119 --> 02:12:45.119 going to take a little quick break. No, I got time. 2457 02:12:45.199 --> 02:12:46.840 Oh my gosh, I thought I was out of time. 2458 02:12:47.600 --> 02:12:50.319 That's like saying I thought I was wrong. Once, but 2459 02:12:50.359 --> 02:12:54.960 I was mistaken. Debbie and Northwest Houston, welcome to garden line. 2460 02:12:56.000 --> 02:12:56.399 Thank you. 2461 02:12:56.800 --> 02:12:57.000 Hey. 2462 02:12:57.000 --> 02:12:58.079 I have a couple of questions. 2463 02:12:58.159 --> 02:12:59.960 Are is winter over with forests? 2464 02:13:02.119 --> 02:13:02.479 Uh? 2465 02:13:02.520 --> 02:13:04.840 Wait a minute, let me get my crystal? Oh dead, 2466 02:13:04.880 --> 02:13:06.920 gumm it it cracked. I can't read it. 2467 02:13:07.000 --> 02:13:10.600 Sorry, Fox and County feel saw his shadows, so they 2468 02:13:10.600 --> 02:13:12.000 said six more weeks of winter. 2469 02:13:12.119 --> 02:13:16.039 So anyway, Yeah, but that's a dad gum. That's a yankee. 2470 02:13:16.359 --> 02:13:18.640 That's a Yankee hedgehog. Debbie, we got to dig an 2471 02:13:18.720 --> 02:13:20.840 armadilla up around here to find out what's going to 2472 02:13:20.880 --> 02:13:23.479 happen here. All rights joking aside. 2473 02:13:24.039 --> 02:13:25.079 A couple of questions. 2474 02:13:25.399 --> 02:13:28.640 I'm trimming my crpe myrtles, and do I need to 2475 02:13:28.640 --> 02:13:30.199 wait till the end of February to do that? 2476 02:13:31.319 --> 02:13:31.800 Number one? 2477 02:13:31.920 --> 02:13:32.479 I need to wait. 2478 02:13:32.640 --> 02:13:35.279 You can do it right now, now, okay, it right now? 2479 02:13:35.880 --> 02:13:38.319 And then you put down the pre emergent Armyston. What's 2480 02:13:38.319 --> 02:13:40.439 the best time to air rate the yard? 2481 02:13:42.359 --> 02:13:44.520 I like to wait a little bit to air rate. 2482 02:13:44.680 --> 02:13:47.239 In the spring, our grass is waking up. It's putting 2483 02:13:47.239 --> 02:13:50.960 down some fresh new roots, and the aeration process, you know, 2484 02:13:51.079 --> 02:13:52.920 just in punching all those holes in the swat you're 2485 02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:55.520 gonna hit some grass runners and stuff. It's a little 2486 02:13:55.640 --> 02:13:57.600 and you don't want to catch your grass at a 2487 02:13:57.640 --> 02:13:59.920 time where it's trying to get going and do that. 2488 02:14:00.479 --> 02:14:01.840 Just let it get go on a little bit and 2489 02:14:01.880 --> 02:14:04.600 then you can technically narrate it in time of the year. 2490 02:14:04.680 --> 02:14:09.319 But it's better, it's it just works better. Just make 2491 02:14:09.359 --> 02:14:14.199 sure you get a good errator and up in your area. 2492 02:14:14.319 --> 02:14:17.279 Greenpro is the one you need to call. They service 2493 02:14:17.399 --> 02:14:17.960 your area. 2494 02:14:19.079 --> 02:14:21.800 Okay, all right, okay, well great, thank you so much. 2495 02:14:22.079 --> 02:14:22.840 I appreciate it. 2496 02:14:23.279 --> 02:14:25.680 All right, Debbi, you bet, thank you very much. I 2497 02:14:25.720 --> 02:14:28.640 appreciate that. Let's see here, we're going to go talk 2498 02:14:28.680 --> 02:14:31.319 to Rooster and Brenham. Rooster, I got about a minute left. 2499 02:14:31.359 --> 02:14:32.840 Let's see if we can get you taken care of 2500 02:14:32.880 --> 02:14:33.800 before we have to go to break. 2501 02:14:33.800 --> 02:14:37.720 All right, good morning. You had some time back by 2502 02:14:37.760 --> 02:14:43.560 Probly a month ago recommended door you found replacing Japanese 2503 02:14:43.640 --> 02:14:46.520 box woods that I had purchased twenty five of them 2504 02:14:46.520 --> 02:14:49.760 and planted. They lasted about eight months and died, and 2505 02:14:49.800 --> 02:14:53.279 you said that the door would work. To put in those, 2506 02:14:53.399 --> 02:14:56.960 increase the size bed, put malt on it, and they 2507 02:14:57.000 --> 02:15:01.000 look really nice. I'm hoping they will suc it's in 2508 02:15:01.079 --> 02:15:06.359 a sarebus shaded area. I got to think and I said, well, 2509 02:15:06.439 --> 02:15:10.119 this this mault that I put on top of my beds. 2510 02:15:10.159 --> 02:15:14.279 And I also did two really featured trees out in 2511 02:15:14.279 --> 02:15:17.159 my front yard, put a big bed around and brick 2512 02:15:17.279 --> 02:15:20.439 them in. Hang and it's, like I said, two to 2513 02:15:20.520 --> 02:15:22.800 three inches thick. And I got to worry about this 2514 02:15:23.039 --> 02:15:26.800 nipage under They say that Mike deplete the soil hub. 2515 02:15:27.319 --> 02:15:28.279 What can I put? 2516 02:15:28.439 --> 02:15:31.840 Hey, hey, rooster, I'm sorry, I might have to cut in. Uh, 2517 02:15:31.960 --> 02:15:33.680 I got to go to break. Hang on, we're going 2518 02:15:33.760 --> 02:15:35.319 to continue this. I want to help you with this, 2519 02:15:35.560 --> 02:15:37.399 but I just hitting a hard break right now. I 2520 02:15:37.520 --> 02:15:43.640 just want don't be back in just a bit, all right, folks, 2521 02:15:43.640 --> 02:15:47.159 we're back. We are back. Hey. By the way, have 2522 02:15:47.279 --> 02:15:50.359 you been to arbor Gate Nursery yet? If you want 2523 02:15:50.359 --> 02:15:52.600 to grow potatoes, you don't to swing by there. They've 2524 02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:54.279 got all the potatoes ready to go. You just take 2525 02:15:54.319 --> 02:15:57.199 them home, cut them open. They've got the wettable sulfur. 2526 02:15:57.319 --> 02:15:59.239 And what's that for. Well, when you cut a potato, 2527 02:15:59.279 --> 02:16:01.800 if you stick it right in the ground, it's gonna rot. 2528 02:16:01.880 --> 02:16:03.760 I mean, you're putting a fresh cut piece of vegetable 2529 02:16:03.760 --> 02:16:06.920 in the ground. If you will dust those fresh cut 2530 02:16:06.960 --> 02:16:10.640 surfaces with sulfur dust to stick to them, and sulfur 2531 02:16:10.680 --> 02:16:16.119 itself helps bend against some types of diseases. It's very acidic, 2532 02:16:16.159 --> 02:16:19.159 of course, and so that that is helping. Let those 2533 02:16:19.199 --> 02:16:21.000 cut pieces dry and then put them in the ground, 2534 02:16:21.000 --> 02:16:22.800 you're gonna do well. And Arbigate's got both of those. 2535 02:16:22.840 --> 02:16:25.960 They also have a little bag called a potato plant 2536 02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:29.640 or bag. So if you live and let's say you 2537 02:16:29.720 --> 02:16:31.399 live in a high rise in Houston, you got a 2538 02:16:31.399 --> 02:16:34.840 little patio outside hanging out over the over things, you 2539 02:16:34.879 --> 02:16:36.399 can get one of those bags, put it up there 2540 02:16:36.680 --> 02:16:39.600 full of soil and grow potatoes on the twenty ninth 2541 02:16:39.639 --> 02:16:43.079 floor of someplace downtown in Houston. Yes, those bags are cool. 2542 02:16:43.079 --> 02:16:44.760 So if you just have a patio in the yard 2543 02:16:44.760 --> 02:16:47.120 around you, you have to try one of those. They've 2544 02:16:47.120 --> 02:16:49.399 got some types of lavender. They do pretty good here. 2545 02:16:49.639 --> 02:16:51.239 As long as you get them in a good, well 2546 02:16:51.319 --> 02:16:54.879 drained bed, they will do well for you. Arbrogates got that. 2547 02:16:55.120 --> 02:16:59.239 And you know they always have a wide variety of everything. 2548 02:16:59.319 --> 02:17:03.200 I'm talking about fruit trees. You won't believe how long 2549 02:17:03.280 --> 02:17:06.719 their list of the fruit species and varieties they have 2550 02:17:07.000 --> 02:17:10.879 is it is outstanding. They also have shrubs and trees. 2551 02:17:10.920 --> 02:17:13.200 You know, someone wanted to door Field pH go to Arburgate. 2552 02:17:13.200 --> 02:17:15.440 They got door fieldpont. All you have to do is 2553 02:17:15.479 --> 02:17:18.079 swing by there. They are on twenty nine to twenty 2554 02:17:18.319 --> 02:17:21.719 west of Tomball, just outside of town on the left 2555 02:17:21.719 --> 02:17:24.200 hand side. Park in the back. There's a little road 2556 02:17:24.239 --> 02:17:26.600 called Trishel Road that takes you around to the back 2557 02:17:26.639 --> 02:17:29.280 of Arbigate. That's the best place to park when you 2558 02:17:29.319 --> 02:17:33.440 go visit there and allow some time. That place is 2559 02:17:33.600 --> 02:17:36.319 a wandering wonderland and you're going to want to spend 2560 02:17:36.319 --> 02:17:38.639 some time. Take someone with you so you both can 2561 02:17:38.760 --> 02:17:42.319 enjoy the trip. Let's go to Branham. Now we're going 2562 02:17:42.399 --> 02:17:45.760 to continue on with Rooster Rooster. Let's let's I don't 2563 02:17:45.799 --> 02:17:47.639 know where we stopped, but let's just pick it up 2564 02:17:47.639 --> 02:17:48.079 from there. 2565 02:17:50.440 --> 02:17:56.239 I put down i'll thick layer of malt around my 2566 02:17:56.920 --> 02:17:59.319 oak trees. Two oak trees in my front yard is 2567 02:17:59.479 --> 02:18:03.959 my feature trees. Also, you had advised me to get 2568 02:18:04.079 --> 02:18:08.840 the dwarf you find, which I'm real happy with right now, 2569 02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:12.159 and I put the vault around it. And I got 2570 02:18:12.200 --> 02:18:16.879 concerned about this mulch being maybe too sick or maybe 2571 02:18:17.000 --> 02:18:20.479 depleting the nitrogen and the soil which I read up 2572 02:18:20.559 --> 02:18:23.600 on said that might do that. So what can I 2573 02:18:23.719 --> 02:18:27.920 put maybe the like a spray on that would filter 2574 02:18:28.040 --> 02:18:33.040 down through the month the mulch and feed the trees 2575 02:18:33.200 --> 02:18:37.200 and the shrubs that I just planted. 2576 02:18:38.879 --> 02:18:41.680 Okay, so about a fertilizer for the trees and shrubs? 2577 02:18:41.760 --> 02:18:44.760 All right? Yeah, yeah, Well that's. 2578 02:18:44.639 --> 02:18:46.280 A lot of questions, and let's hit on them. 2579 02:18:46.280 --> 02:18:50.319 Here is really bad in this area. I don't know 2580 02:18:50.319 --> 02:18:53.559 if you're bad in Houston or not, but liking gets 2581 02:18:53.600 --> 02:18:56.239 these oak trees here over a period of time. 2582 02:18:56.479 --> 02:19:00.600 Yeah, it does. But liking didn't hurting anything. So ignore 2583 02:19:00.680 --> 02:19:04.120 the lichen. It's not. It's not a parasite. Lichen grows 2584 02:19:04.120 --> 02:19:07.280 on fence posts and rocks, and so it doesn't need 2585 02:19:07.719 --> 02:19:13.000 plant juice to live. So back to the moults and 2586 02:19:13.079 --> 02:19:15.840 questions you had. It's good to melt your plants like 2587 02:19:15.879 --> 02:19:19.200 you did. I wouldn't pile the mulch up against the stems, 2588 02:19:19.239 --> 02:19:21.120 like to put three or four inches of mult up 2589 02:19:21.120 --> 02:19:24.600 against the base of those iopon stems. Pull it back 2590 02:19:24.719 --> 02:19:27.200 just a bit, but have good mulch around them and 2591 02:19:27.280 --> 02:19:32.159 that works really well. Now there are ten million things 2592 02:19:32.239 --> 02:19:35.120 out there when people say, you know, give you gardening 2593 02:19:35.159 --> 02:19:39.360 advice that are wrong, that are based on truth. And 2594 02:19:39.399 --> 02:19:42.719 the idea that multch ties up nitrogen is based on truth, 2595 02:19:42.760 --> 02:19:46.319 but it's absolutely wrong from a practical standpoint. Here's why. 2596 02:19:46.799 --> 02:19:50.000 If you put a high carbon material into the soil 2597 02:19:50.239 --> 02:19:52.479 for the microbes to break it down, they need to 2598 02:19:52.520 --> 02:19:55.200 take nitrogen out of the soil to help break down 2599 02:19:55.239 --> 02:19:59.120 that carbon. That's how that works. But that would be 2600 02:19:59.200 --> 02:20:03.200 true if you rototilled sawdust or wood chips done in 2601 02:20:03.239 --> 02:20:05.760 your soil. But when you put a mulch on top, 2602 02:20:05.879 --> 02:20:08.520 there's this little line of interface where the soil and 2603 02:20:08.600 --> 02:20:11.719 malts come together and they'll be a little tie up 2604 02:20:11.760 --> 02:20:14.840 right there. But as those microbes do their work and die, 2605 02:20:14.920 --> 02:20:17.239 they release their nitrogen back in the soil, and so 2606 02:20:17.280 --> 02:20:19.639 you have a little circulating nitrogen pool up there at 2607 02:20:19.639 --> 02:20:22.639 the top and it's not affecting the phr your soil 2608 02:20:22.680 --> 02:20:24.680 down below where the roots are at all. So don't 2609 02:20:24.719 --> 02:20:28.760 worry about the malt and nitrogen. Yes, wood can do that, 2610 02:20:28.799 --> 02:20:32.280 but not sitting up on top of your soil. So 2611 02:20:32.680 --> 02:20:36.200 as far as fertilizers, you have some options. You know, 2612 02:20:36.239 --> 02:20:38.959 some people just use a turf type fertilizer around their 2613 02:20:38.959 --> 02:20:42.639 trees because turf types have more nitrogen in them, and 2614 02:20:42.719 --> 02:20:47.040 that works just fine. You certainly do that. The folks 2615 02:20:47.120 --> 02:20:51.200 at Nelson Plant Food if you go to the Nelson 2616 02:20:51.399 --> 02:20:55.239 Plant Food a story that carries the Nelson Plant Food 2617 02:20:55.239 --> 02:20:58.360 types of things, they've got a lot of really great 2618 02:20:58.360 --> 02:21:01.959 products that can be used for that, and specifically some 2619 02:21:02.239 --> 02:21:05.959 that work really well for your trees and shrubs. So 2620 02:21:06.559 --> 02:21:10.879 that's what I would suggest. The line is called Nutristar. 2621 02:21:11.559 --> 02:21:14.159 It comes in jars, so you're just doing a few 2622 02:21:14.200 --> 02:21:17.200 trees and shrubs. You can do Nutristar tree and shrub 2623 02:21:17.719 --> 02:21:21.399 and just sprinkle it around according to the label. That 2624 02:21:21.440 --> 02:21:24.319 would be a good one to use. There are other 2625 02:21:24.399 --> 02:21:28.200 brands that have tree and shrub fertilizers and they work well, 2626 02:21:28.239 --> 02:21:31.399 but typically they're going to look like a lawn fertilizer rester. 2627 02:21:32.120 --> 02:21:34.959 So the Nutristar, for example, is a twenty one six 2628 02:21:35.239 --> 02:21:38.479 eight that sounds like a lawn ratio to me, you know, 2629 02:21:38.600 --> 02:21:40.520 and so that would be a good one for use 2630 02:21:40.600 --> 02:21:42.200 on that tree or shrub. 2631 02:21:43.559 --> 02:21:49.040 What about Madina, When I put in those yo ponds 2632 02:21:49.559 --> 02:21:53.760 I had killed up the soil, dug theholes. I think 2633 02:21:53.840 --> 02:21:56.760 I put a little, but Medina it's not the has 2634 02:21:56.799 --> 02:22:00.159 to grow. It's the one that supposed to do something 2635 02:22:00.239 --> 02:22:03.159 to your soil and make it. I call it a 2636 02:22:03.159 --> 02:22:04.559 B twelve shot or something. 2637 02:22:06.319 --> 02:22:07.559 Yeah, no, all those. 2638 02:22:09.920 --> 02:22:10.360 Go ahead. 2639 02:22:10.479 --> 02:22:14.040 I'm sorry the timing of things makes me talk over you, 2640 02:22:14.120 --> 02:22:16.600 but sorry about that. But yeah, Medina products are great. 2641 02:22:16.639 --> 02:22:20.040 It could be Medina Soil Activator, it could be Medina Plus, 2642 02:22:20.680 --> 02:22:23.680 and it could you know, there's also the Medina has 2643 02:22:23.799 --> 02:22:26.399 to Grow six twelve six that's good to put in 2644 02:22:26.479 --> 02:22:30.719 the soil itself, and then afterwards, if you're going Medina, 2645 02:22:30.840 --> 02:22:33.760 they have one called growing Green that's typically used for 2646 02:22:33.840 --> 02:22:37.120 lawns that would be fine for trees and shrubs. They 2647 02:22:37.120 --> 02:22:40.559 have a couple of versions of the growing green, two 2648 02:22:40.600 --> 02:22:43.799 different ratios that would both be okay, any of those 2649 02:22:43.799 --> 02:22:44.920 would be fined as well. 2650 02:22:46.879 --> 02:22:50.399 Okay, well, I'm trying to do my best and give 2651 02:22:50.520 --> 02:22:54.760 life to my tree that really valuable and really start 2652 02:22:54.799 --> 02:22:57.680 taking care of these new points that I just put in, 2653 02:22:57.879 --> 02:23:01.639 and I really appreciate your help on get me started 2654 02:23:01.680 --> 02:23:02.000 on that. 2655 02:23:03.680 --> 02:23:05.399 Yes, sir, you bet. Let me give you one little 2656 02:23:05.440 --> 02:23:07.879 quick tip as we close down here. And that is 2657 02:23:08.639 --> 02:23:10.680 if you if you go up to a tree, look 2658 02:23:10.719 --> 02:23:13.200 at how wide, how thick the trunk is. Let's say 2659 02:23:13.200 --> 02:23:14.840 you had a tree the size of a Coca Cola 2660 02:23:14.879 --> 02:23:17.959 can that's about three inches. For every thumb with or 2661 02:23:18.000 --> 02:23:20.840 for every inch of tree diameter, give it one or 2662 02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:25.440 two cups of a synthetic fertilizer, or give it two 2663 02:23:25.520 --> 02:23:28.799 to four cups of an organic fertilizer, and you'll be 2664 02:23:28.799 --> 02:23:29.600 in the ballpark. 2665 02:23:30.079 --> 02:23:34.719 All right, sir, fantastic, Thank you, all right. 2666 02:23:34.479 --> 02:23:37.120 Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. You bet all right. Guys, 2667 02:23:37.120 --> 02:23:38.719 We got to run to a quick break here, and 2668 02:23:38.799 --> 02:23:41.440 I'll be back for the last segment of Garden Line. 2669 02:23:45.319 --> 02:23:49.120 We're bout with you. We're back for our last little segment. 2670 02:23:49.440 --> 02:23:52.120 I've you got time for a call, maybe two if 2671 02:23:52.159 --> 02:23:55.840 somebody wants to call in, but we are running short here, 2672 02:23:55.920 --> 02:23:59.120 so I wanted to talk about sianamultch again. You know, 2673 02:23:59.200 --> 02:24:01.879 they're the play I say, is the one stop shop 2674 02:24:01.879 --> 02:24:05.239 for the brown stuff, because my mantra is brown stuff 2675 02:24:05.239 --> 02:24:08.079 before green stuff. Get the soil, right. That means compost, 2676 02:24:08.159 --> 02:24:12.120 that means fertilizers, that means any kind of amendment that 2677 02:24:12.200 --> 02:24:16.360 improves the soil structure and drainage and nutrients and microbial 2678 02:24:16.399 --> 02:24:18.079 activity the animals. 2679 02:24:18.200 --> 02:24:18.360 Is it? 2680 02:24:18.760 --> 02:24:21.319 So if you've got a plant, that plant's gonna come 2681 02:24:21.319 --> 02:24:22.639 home and you're going to pick it up, you know, 2682 02:24:22.760 --> 02:24:24.879 about to plant, it's going to look at you and said, 2683 02:24:24.879 --> 02:24:26.760 wait a minute, have you put the animals in the 2684 02:24:26.799 --> 02:24:28.959 ground here yet? Because I'm not going in there. I 2685 02:24:29.040 --> 02:24:31.760 will kick and fight and throw up a fit if 2686 02:24:31.799 --> 02:24:33.479 you stick me in there, I'm going to report you 2687 02:24:33.559 --> 02:24:37.239 to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Plants if 2688 02:24:37.280 --> 02:24:40.079 there is one of those. All Right, I'm caricaturing a 2689 02:24:40.079 --> 02:24:42.680 little bit, but I'm serious about the about the fact 2690 02:24:42.719 --> 02:24:46.479 that soil. First, you go to see animalts. They're down 2691 02:24:46.559 --> 02:24:49.799 near Highway six and two eighty eight on FM two 2692 02:24:49.879 --> 02:24:52.879 or five point twenty one down south of Houston, and 2693 02:24:52.920 --> 02:24:55.879 they're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday 2694 02:24:55.959 --> 02:25:00.239 seven thirty to two clothes on Sunday. Close today. But 2695 02:25:00.360 --> 02:25:03.479 go by there, get a good bed mix, get if 2696 02:25:03.559 --> 02:25:06.000 you need compost, if you need you know, they carry 2697 02:25:06.079 --> 02:25:09.840 bulk of like landscapers, pride back, velvet, maltz. They carry 2698 02:25:09.920 --> 02:25:13.840 rose soil from airloom soils. They carry the the veggiean 2699 02:25:13.920 --> 02:25:16.600 herb mix from airloom soils they've got. They also, by 2700 02:25:16.639 --> 02:25:19.680 the way, have stone and sand and gravel and if 2701 02:25:19.719 --> 02:25:22.159 you know, I made a beautiful patio and those flat 2702 02:25:22.159 --> 02:25:25.520 stones are just gorgeous. They deliver about twenty miles for 2703 02:25:25.559 --> 02:25:28.200 a fee in their area. But also part of the 2704 02:25:28.239 --> 02:25:32.040 brown stuff. They've got microlife. They have azamite, they have 2705 02:25:32.120 --> 02:25:36.479 Nelson turf Star, they have airlooms soils products by the bag. 2706 02:25:36.920 --> 02:25:41.920 They've got nitrofoss products. They have Landscapers Pride, they have 2707 02:25:42.399 --> 02:25:46.440 the jars of Nelson plant food. They've got products from Medina. 2708 02:25:46.760 --> 02:25:50.040 I'm telling you you want to get the foundation set 2709 02:25:50.200 --> 02:25:55.719 for plant success. Ciena Moltch. Here's the website, Ciena Maltz 2710 02:25:56.000 --> 02:25:57.840 dot com. Simple as that. 2711 02:25:58.120 --> 02:25:58.319 There. 2712 02:25:58.360 --> 02:26:00.120 You can find a phone number there, you can on 2713 02:26:00.159 --> 02:26:02.000 a map how to get there. Everything you need to know. 2714 02:26:02.559 --> 02:26:05.120 You just need to know that it's time to get 2715 02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:07.200 that stuff, get it home, get it ready to go, 2716 02:26:07.360 --> 02:26:10.399 because it is time to beat planting, and we got 2717 02:26:10.399 --> 02:26:14.200 to get soiled right first. I don't know how to 2718 02:26:14.239 --> 02:26:17.760 make it any clearer than that. I have to work 2719 02:26:17.799 --> 02:26:19.959 on that thing about the plant. Arguing with you if 2720 02:26:19.959 --> 02:26:23.280 you're going to stick it and ground they haven't prepared first. 2721 02:26:24.239 --> 02:26:29.200 There's potential in that I had talking about Ace Hardware earlier, 2722 02:26:29.200 --> 02:26:31.319 in the fact that they got the great barbecue pits 2723 02:26:31.360 --> 02:26:34.319 of all kinds of brands, you know, all the top ones. 2724 02:26:34.879 --> 02:26:37.280 I had a friend that a while back, he was 2725 02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:39.840 into Big Green Egg, and oh my gosh, it's like 2726 02:26:39.879 --> 02:26:42.319 you couldn't cook, you couldn't eat food if it didn't 2727 02:26:42.319 --> 02:26:44.719 come off a Big Green Egg, and it Big Green 2728 02:26:44.760 --> 02:26:46.959 Egg is the best thing since sliced bread. And they are. 2729 02:26:47.079 --> 02:26:49.719 They're wonderful. I mean, they have a fuck cult following. 2730 02:26:50.399 --> 02:26:52.479 They got those days you can get a trigger at 2731 02:26:52.479 --> 02:26:55.360 a same thing quality Weber. I've got a Weber growing myself. 2732 02:26:55.399 --> 02:26:59.520 They got w rec tech and then all the debris 2733 02:26:59.600 --> 02:27:01.559 you need to cut with barbecue, and you know whether 2734 02:27:01.600 --> 02:27:04.239 you're gonna start charcoal and a little canister and get 2735 02:27:04.239 --> 02:27:07.040 it fired up for you put it in there, the spatulas, 2736 02:27:07.120 --> 02:27:11.680 the grow cleaners, the grow covers, the you know, little 2737 02:27:11.760 --> 02:27:15.440 baskets to put veggies in the end for if you're 2738 02:27:15.440 --> 02:27:17.799 gonna grill some veggies, which you ought to do too. 2739 02:27:17.920 --> 02:27:19.760 That that is a great way to go. They got 2740 02:27:19.799 --> 02:27:25.280 all that stuff. They also have really quality garden tools. 2741 02:27:25.280 --> 02:27:26.840 You know, you go in there and you're gonna find 2742 02:27:27.200 --> 02:27:29.840 skilled trimmers, for example, right now thirty percent off. They 2743 02:27:29.840 --> 02:27:33.120 even have a power garden pruner, where you buy one, 2744 02:27:33.159 --> 02:27:36.319 you get the battery for free. They've got fiberglass handled 2745 02:27:36.399 --> 02:27:38.680 yard and garden tools, and I've got some of that. 2746 02:27:38.680 --> 02:27:41.879 That is really good stuff. I love those fiberglass handles. 2747 02:27:42.639 --> 02:27:45.360 They're on sale for twenty one ninety nine at Ace Hardware, 2748 02:27:45.399 --> 02:27:48.879 and that's a good deal. Now, Where's Ace everywhere? Go 2749 02:27:48.920 --> 02:27:52.399 to Acehardware dot com, find the store locator, find the 2750 02:27:52.399 --> 02:27:55.799 ones plural near you. You can go to Paco Ace 2751 02:27:55.879 --> 02:27:58.000 up in Alvin. You can go to Brennam Ace Hardware. 2752 02:27:58.040 --> 02:28:00.399 You can go to Katie Ace Hardware. You can go 2753 02:28:00.440 --> 02:28:03.600 to League City Ace Hardware. You can go to Child's 2754 02:28:03.600 --> 02:28:08.920 Building Supply in Orange, Texas. All examples of the many 2755 02:28:09.040 --> 02:28:12.360 Ace Hardware stores that are around our area that have 2756 02:28:12.719 --> 02:28:15.920 everything you need to have a beautiful outdoor space and 2757 02:28:16.000 --> 02:28:20.879 a gorgeous lawn, a gorgeous landscape. Yeah. Ace is the place, easy, 2758 02:28:20.920 --> 02:28:24.639 easy to do, all right. I got time for one call. 2759 02:28:24.680 --> 02:28:27.399 If you can dialve fast, I got time for a call. Otherwise, 2760 02:28:28.639 --> 02:28:31.840 call it a day here on the garden line and 2761 02:28:32.440 --> 02:28:34.159 get ready for next year. I hope you have a 2762 02:28:34.159 --> 02:28:35.959 great week too. By the way, I always forget to 2763 02:28:36.319 --> 02:28:38.040 talk about that, but I hope you have a great 2764 02:28:38.079 --> 02:28:40.920 week out there in the garden. This is a time 2765 02:28:41.079 --> 02:28:43.559 to be doing a lot of things. But I would 2766 02:28:43.559 --> 02:28:46.959 say the front burner of the front burners right now 2767 02:28:47.239 --> 02:28:49.479 is if you've got a weed issue in your lawn 2768 02:28:49.760 --> 02:28:51.559 or you have had every year and you want to 2769 02:28:51.600 --> 02:28:55.000 prevent it. Now is the prime time to do that. 2770 02:28:55.799 --> 02:28:59.879 A post emergent killing an existing weed. That's the one 2771 02:29:00.520 --> 02:29:02.079 that you see if you look outside and you see 2772 02:29:02.079 --> 02:29:04.799 a weed that's a cool season weed. Now's the time 2773 02:29:04.799 --> 02:29:07.159 to do it. Once they start blooming and setting seed. 2774 02:29:07.639 --> 02:29:10.639 Even the good products at work don't work as well 2775 02:29:10.719 --> 02:29:12.399 on them, so you got to get it done now. 2776 02:29:12.639 --> 02:29:15.680 If you don't mind hand pulling, hand pull them now. 2777 02:29:15.760 --> 02:29:18.600 But now's the time now. As far as preventing weeds, 2778 02:29:18.760 --> 02:29:21.440 the best thing to do is to mow, water, fertilize, 2779 02:29:21.479 --> 02:29:24.280 and grow a dense, healthy lawn. When you don't have 2780 02:29:24.319 --> 02:29:27.200 a dense healthy lawn, you can put a pre emergent 2781 02:29:27.239 --> 02:29:31.719 herbicide down and that will when you watered in with 2782 02:29:31.760 --> 02:29:33.959 a half inch of water. When you watered in, it 2783 02:29:34.000 --> 02:29:36.600 goes to the soal surface and it's its own weights 2784 02:29:36.840 --> 02:29:40.360 for at least sixty days until a weeds he tries 2785 02:29:40.399 --> 02:29:42.520 to sprout and it says no, and it shuts them down. 2786 02:29:42.559 --> 02:29:44.319 You never see the weed in the first place because 2787 02:29:44.319 --> 02:29:46.959 it shut it down. But that has to happen before 2788 02:29:47.959 --> 02:29:51.120 the weed sprouts, which is why we're doing it now 2789 02:29:51.479 --> 02:29:53.440 as things warm up. In fact, you know you go 2790 02:29:53.520 --> 02:29:55.760 down south far enough right now, and we're going to 2791 02:29:55.840 --> 02:29:58.120 have a warm week. There're gonna be weeds sprouting this 2792 02:29:58.239 --> 02:30:00.799 week due to the temperatures we're going to be having, 2793 02:30:01.239 --> 02:30:04.040 So don't delay. Like crackgrass sprouts at about fifty five 2794 02:30:04.079 --> 02:30:08.079 degrees the soil temperature fifty five degrees, it starts to sprout. 2795 02:30:08.120 --> 02:30:10.680 So we're getting ahead of them by doing an early 2796 02:30:10.920 --> 02:30:14.959 primarily early to mid February application. You can do it later, 2797 02:30:15.479 --> 02:30:17.799 but again, the longer you wait, the more weeds are 2798 02:30:17.799 --> 02:30:19.719 already going to be up, and you're going to have missed. 2799 02:30:20.239 --> 02:30:24.000 The analogy I like to use that is baseball. If 2800 02:30:24.000 --> 02:30:25.959 you're standing of the plate with a bat in your hand, 2801 02:30:26.799 --> 02:30:28.879 you need to get ready to start that swing. After 2802 02:30:28.920 --> 02:30:32.000 that pitch first comes out of the pitcher's mound and 2803 02:30:32.000 --> 02:30:34.639 the ball's on its way, you better start swinging. Or 2804 02:30:34.680 --> 02:30:37.040 if you wait until it's in the catcher's mound, you 2805 02:30:37.040 --> 02:30:38.920 can swing all you want. You're not going to hit 2806 02:30:38.959 --> 02:30:42.000 the ball right. Well that's a silly analogy, but it 2807 02:30:42.040 --> 02:30:45.440 makes a point. If you wait until the weeds are sprouting, 2808 02:30:46.040 --> 02:30:49.040 the baseball's and the catcher's mint too late for a 2809 02:30:49.079 --> 02:30:53.200 pre emergent herbicide for most of them. And so get 2810 02:30:53.200 --> 02:30:56.079 ahead of time. Get it done. Go online to gardening 2811 02:30:56.319 --> 02:31:00.120 with skip dot com. Download those schedules. I say that 2812 02:31:00.239 --> 02:31:02.639 so many times ever showed that I think people have 2813 02:31:02.760 --> 02:31:05.360 got to. I don't need to tell you anymore, but 2814 02:31:06.520 --> 02:31:09.280 constantly talk to people who listen to garden Line that 2815 02:31:09.360 --> 02:31:13.079 haven't downloaded the schedules. Well, you know, I can't come 2816 02:31:13.079 --> 02:31:14.840 to your house and click on the computer for you, 2817 02:31:14.879 --> 02:31:18.719 But would you do that lawn care schedule and lawn 2818 02:31:18.760 --> 02:31:21.799 weed disease and pest management schedule, they're there. I spend 2819 02:31:21.799 --> 02:31:25.000 a lot of time researching those, putting those together. They're 2820 02:31:25.079 --> 02:31:28.360 very extensive, full color. They're even pretty, I think because 2821 02:31:28.559 --> 02:31:33.760 of colors. Download them, pin them to the refrigerator door. 2822 02:31:33.879 --> 02:31:36.079 You can take your kid's artwork down. That's not as 2823 02:31:36.159 --> 02:31:39.559 important as this schedule. Oh my gosh, I can't believe 2824 02:31:39.559 --> 02:31:41.840 that came out of my mouth. Put them on the frigerator, 2825 02:31:41.959 --> 02:31:43.799 or put them in the garage, stick them on top 2826 02:31:43.840 --> 02:31:48.280 of your fertilizerspread or in the garage. Where have you 2827 02:31:48.280 --> 02:31:50.479 got to put them? Have them ready to go because 2828 02:31:50.600 --> 02:31:54.639 timing is everything very important, and as you go through 2829 02:31:54.639 --> 02:31:56.399 these schedules, you're going to see the right time to 2830 02:31:56.479 --> 02:31:59.559 do it. Also, on the website Gardening withtheskip dot com, 2831 02:31:59.600 --> 02:32:01.920 you're going to find a lot of other helpful information. 2832 02:32:02.639 --> 02:32:04.879 So take a look at it. I see how it does. 2833 02:32:06.399 --> 02:32:08.520 See what you find up there that's helpful for you. 2834 02:32:08.719 --> 02:32:10.920 I've got plans for several of the things that I'm 2835 02:32:10.959 --> 02:32:15.079 working on, hoping to get on there really soon, so 2836 02:32:15.159 --> 02:32:18.840 check it out. It will definitely be helpful for you. 2837 02:32:20.200 --> 02:32:23.440 So as we get the music in here, I just 2838 02:32:23.520 --> 02:32:26.200 want to remind you that gardening is supposed to be 2839 02:32:26.319 --> 02:32:30.639 fun and it's supposed to be healthy exercise, Get out, 2840 02:32:30.879 --> 02:32:34.200 walk around and enjoy yourself. If you're not having fun, 2841 02:32:34.280 --> 02:32:37.680 you're not doing it right. I mean that you don't 2842 02:32:37.719 --> 02:32:40.239 panic over whether you can make a plant grow or not, 2843 02:32:40.479 --> 02:32:42.959 or if you're going to kill it or whatever. J. C. Ralston, 2844 02:32:43.000 --> 02:32:45.879 one of the best horticulturists in the recent history of 2845 02:32:45.920 --> 02:32:48.639 our country out in North Carolina, says, to be a 2846 02:32:48.639 --> 02:32:51.120 good horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants. 2847 02:32:51.239 --> 02:32:55.680 And he is right, absolutely right. So in other words, 2848 02:32:55.719 --> 02:32:59.200 you have permission to not do things perfectly. To lose 2849 02:32:59.239 --> 02:33:02.399 a plant, do is get another one. It's kind of 2850 02:33:02.440 --> 02:33:05.639 like etches, sketches or the use that example before turn 2851 02:33:05.680 --> 02:33:07.200 it upside down and shake it and you get to 2852 02:33:07.239 --> 02:33:12.639 start all over. That's what a road tells. Have fun 2853 02:33:12.680 --> 02:33:16.040 out there, good healthy fun. Go visit that garden center 2854 02:33:16.120 --> 02:33:17.799 this afternoon and all week